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Review: Florence Foster Jenkins – A Tragic and Hilariously Terrible Siren
Posted on 19th May 2016 14th September 2016 by The Gryphon Web Editor
The world couldn’t seem to get enough of Florence Foster Jenkins, a wealthy New York socialite often referred to over the years as ‘the worst opera singer in the world’. Even today, she remains unforgotten, with two films inspired by her life story appearing over the past two years; first the 2015 French film, Marguerite, and now – this year – the latest film from Stephen Frears (director of The Queen and Philomena), Florence Foster Jenkins. Starring Meryl Streep in the title role, the film is endearingly funny and simultaneously tragic. It is, of course, this cocktail of emotions that makes it such worthy viewing.
Set in New York City at the height of the Second World War, we meet Jenkins (Streep) and her charming and loyal actor husband, St. Clair Bayfield, played by Hugh Grant. Their marriage is one of mixed devotion, Bayfield (Grant) portrayed as an affectionate spouse supportive of Jenkins’ ambitions. Incidentally, their marriage remains strictly platonic, as Jenkins is riddled with syphilis. For these reasons, Bayfield keeps a mistress (played by Rebecca Ferguson) going by the name of Kathleen at the couple’s spare apartment. It is Jenkins’ desire, having been a patron of the arts all her life, to fulfil her dreams of becoming a great opera singer; Bayfield is supportive of this, despite the emerging truth of Jenkins’ ineptitude and lack of vocal prowess.
Image courtesy of Paramount Pictures
This makes for a chorus of laughter, both on and off screen, and is guaranteed to lift the moods of the audience, just as Jenkins’ ‘infamous’ concert at Carnegie Hall in 1944 was guaranteed to lift the moods of troops and their loved ones in a time of war. As far as performances go, Streep draws us to the character with her usual effortlessness, only this time her portrayal is more light-hearted than some of her austere portrayals of historical figures in recent years (such as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady and Emmeline Pankhurst in last year’s Suffragette), whilst maintaining an element of tragedy to a woman who fought to achieve her dreams, despite her crippling illness. Grant gives an unusually mature and admirable performance, perhaps finally finding himself as an actor in this period of his life, having survived his more trivial days as a romcom heartthrob. There is then Simon Helberg in his role as Cosme McMoon, who serves as Jenkins’ bemused accompanying pianist. His stifled giggles are contagious.
What remains so admirable about this film, besides its near-perfect production, is its bitter sweetness. Whilst it is undisputable that Jenkins’ voice was not of a professional standard, the vicious efforts made by her husband to shield her from the world’s opinion of her, so as to maintain an illusion of critical success, are hilarious in their desperation and heart-warming in what is, ultimately, a genuine measure of his love for her. What’s more, her illness reminds us that everyone has a struggle in their lives and we must not be too quick to ridicule others when they open their hearts to us, no matter how dreadful they sound.
Image courtesy of Nick Wall Photography
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Brexit: Two Things UK Prime Minister must do now to recover Investment and Confidence
UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson
The United Kingdom Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, faces an uphill battle to recover more than three and a half years of lost business investment and confidence, warns the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organizations.
The warning from Nigel Green, founder and chief executive of deVere Group, comes after Mr Johnson’s Conservative party secured an emphatic win with a pledge to ‘get Brexit done’ in the UK’s general election.
Investors welcomed the news. The markets jumped and the pound experienced its biggest rally in almost three years.
Mr Green says: “With a clear majority in the House of Commons, the grinding parliamentary Brexit deadlock that has had a stranglehold over the UK will finally come to an end.
“There is now a clear mandate for Britain to leave the EU with Mr Johnson’s deal on January 31.
“The lifting of some of the crippling uncertainty has been welcomed by the markets, the pound and business.”
He continues: “However, now that Mr Johnson has this ‘powerful mandate’, he must use the momentum and immediately begin to recover the more than three and a half lost years of business investment and confidence that the Brexit saga created.
“The Prime Minister and his new government need to do two things as a matter of urgency.
“First, they must set out firm and unequivocal assurances around a no-deal Brexit for the end of 2020. After the passing of the Withdrawal Agreement, they have a tight, 11-month deadline to secure a deal. As such, the UK could still leave the EU without a deal if trade negotiations are not concluded in a timely and successful manner.
“Another cliff-edge of no-deal Brexit would serve as another hammer blow for investment and economic growth.
“Second, Mr Johnson’s administration must actively seek to implement pro-business policies sooner rather than later to stoke enterprise and investment.”
Mr Green goes on to add: “Brexit has cost Britain many tens of billions of pounds. Brexit has inflicted reputational damage on the UK on a monumental scale, which has created unprecedented uncertainty and impacted economic and social progress.
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“For Boris Johnson to maintain the election bounce, he must act quickly and decisively to keep uncertainty at bay. There is much at stake.”
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Art empowers adults with developmental disabilities
Paul Morden
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Published on: October 8, 2018 | Last Updated: October 8, 2018 10:12 AM EDT
Sarah Kimberly Myers holds a painting she made in a Focus on Ability art program with Ruth's Place and Smith Homestead Farm. Myers and the other artists were part of an opening reception Friday for a show of their art running through October at the Lawrence House Centre for the Arts in downtown Sarnia. Paul Morden / /The Observer
Art can be surprising.
That’s something participants discovered during a Focus on Ability art program at Smith Homestead Farm.
Paul and Jan Smith host a horticultural therapy program at their St. Clair Township farm for adults with developmental disabilities who attend day programs run by Ruth Syer. It branched into art last fall.
Syer, who began Ruth’s Place in her home several years ago as a privately-run day program, said there were able to use a grant from Lambton County’s Creative County program, as well as Paul Smith’s background in graphic design, and the 17 adults involved produced 99 pieces of art over several months.
“They have created some beautiful artwork,” Syer said during an opening reception Friday for an exhibition of the Focus on Ability art program at the Lawrence House Centre for the Arts in Sarnia.
“It has just been empowering for them, just totally empowering,” Syer said.
She said the Smiths set up a room at their house on the farm for the art program with easels, canvasses, brushes and paint.
At first, her reaction was, “Oh my – I’m not sure.”
But, participants in three of her day programs learned to mix paint colours and plants, insects and pollinators at the farm became their subject matter.
“Under his guidance, it’s amazing what they’ve created,” Syer said.
She added the new artists were excited to display the work, and offer it for sale, in the Turret Room at the Lawrence House for the month of October.
“I know, sometimes, people don’t realize the abilities of the people I support,” Syer said.
“They are so able, they just need somebody to embrace them and teach them. Paul did that.”
Syer said one of the women talked about how she didn’t believe she could create art when the program began.
By the end, she was smiling and said, “Look at what I created,” Syer said.
“Seeing her be empowered was totally wonderful.”
It made Syer think of her brother who was born in the 1950s and spent half his life in an institution in the era before community-based programs.
“He wasn’t able to show people what he was capable, or able, to do,” Syer said.
Smith said the adults in the horticultural therapy program learn about plants that attract pollinators and other creatures needed for the farm’s gardens to thrive.
In the art sessions, “they go back and reflect upon what they’ve grown throughout the horticultural season,” he said.
As the program’s name says, it focuses on the participants’ can do, Smith said.
“We push aside the disability part of it, and we tap in and harness those energies of creativity.”
Seeing the results of their efforts at the exhibition is expected to be even more empowering, Smith said.
“They see their tangible hard work being displayed, and they see people interested in it, and admiring it,” he said.
“It inspires them to get to the next level – try different things.”
The Focus on Ability exhibition runs through Oct. 27 at the Lawrence House.
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Saskia Granton is intrigued by an invitation to visit her reclusive great-aunt Alessandra, who lives on the Scottish coast. It’s a chance to rediscover her lifelong love of the sea – and to forget, if only for a few weeks, the boring career her parents have mapped out for her…
Category: Older Readers / Adult Product ID: 1092
Silent streams of fish move in from deep water, seeking out their breeding grounds in a never-ending cycle…
Swept immediately into the rhythm of life in a fishing community, Saskia slowly begins to realize how little she really knows about her roots. Somehow, she needs to understand the past if she is to find the direction she needs for her future – a future that may or may not include her new friend Ben.
Just as the sea gives up its bounty, so too her great-aunt must reveal the secrets of the past – the terrible toll of lives lost, and the very personal tragedy that left Alessandra herself so isolated.
Only then can Saskia break free…
The Guardian – Critic’s choice
The novel opens as Saskia travels to the north-east of Scotland to stay with her Aunt Alessandra, after an absence of over a decade. The train’s coastal route enables Saskia to revel in the views of the sea, about which she feels an almost primal sensation. Her aunt’s house is literally built into the cliff-face, and although there is a definite awkwardness between two when Saskia first arrives, Saskia senses a genuine affection to which she responds, thrilled to be living by and observing the sea.
She determines to make the most of her time there, a few precious weeks between leaving school and beginning work in her father’s business, but as each day passes, she becomes increasingly anxious to place and interpret disparate memories she realises relate to the reason behind the abrupt cessation of a previously close relationship with Alessandra. She gradually comes to understand that the story her endlessly bickering parents have told her is one that suits their purpose – which gives no space to Allessandra’s story, the consequences of which have shaped her solitary life.
As with all Breslin’s writing for an older readership, there is an underlying force, in this case the rich life-cycles supported by the sea that dominates the lives of those who live by its shores. Lyrical reminders of the movements of vast shoals of fish and of the journeys of carpets of plankton are interpolated within the main narrative and, increasingly, throw the quiet, comparatively tiny drama of the story Saskia uncovers into painful relief. The scales fall from Saskia’s eyes, liberating her. This quiet novel packs a terrific emotional punch whilst highlighting the contemporary concerns of fishing communities under threat of economic extinction.
Each chapter of Theresa Breslin’s latest novel, Saskia’s Journey (Doubleday £10.99) opens with a brief notice of the signal given by a range of lighthouses. Their names – Lundy, Dungeness Southwold, Butt of Lewis – resonate with the history of the seas surrounding the British Isles and the families whose lives depended on those flashing light sequences The novel is interspersed with lyrical descriptions of the life cycles of the fish for whom crews risked their lives.
Against that backdrop. Breslin gradually, and with great poise, reveals the story of a family’s tragic dissolution. Saskia, its only beacon for the future, struggles to unpick the mess of half-truths with which her parents have stemmed her curiosity throughout her childhood. Dark references to the mental health of her aunt Alessandra. with whom she is spending the summer in a cliffside house in northeast Scotland, don’t ring entirely true for the girl who finds her aunt anxious, but acute. Gradually, Saskia uncovers the chilling genesis of the family rift. Alessandra’s story – of a generation for whom a dominant father could wreck female aspirations – is echoed contemporaneously in Saskia’s relationship with her own selfish and demanding father. Romantic notions of life on the high seas, and of loved ones returning after months chasing schools of whales, is shattered first by the realities and consequences of lost lives and loves, and subsequently by the death of hope. Stooped by the weight of her memories, Alessandra has become isolated.
A combination of Saskia’s zest for life and the freedom she is surprised to discover during her brief holiday liberates both women. Breslin’s delicately balanced narrative provides a haunting tribute to the beneficence and terrors of the seas, and of those communities currently under threat through what the author terms “insensitive legislation”. As with all her teenage novels, Breslin has a powerful point to make and, without telling readers what to think, leaves them in no doubt as to where she stands.
From cool-reads.co.uk
By Amy Wilson Age 14
How easy was it to get stuck into this book?
It was a really great book and it was easy to get stuck in, once I started reading it, I could hardly put it down.
Who are the main characters?
Saskia, her Aunt Alessandra, her parents, Neil Buchan the taxi driver and Ben, the marine biologist.
What’s the storyline?
Saskia’s dad convinces her to go and stay with her Aunt Alessandra in Scotland for a few weeks during her gap year. When she arrives she realises that she has stayed with her Aunt before, but she cannot remember it. When Saskia desperately tries to remember why she has blocked the previous visits to her Aunt out of her head, startling revelations about her family make her see her own life a bit differently. She learns about her family heritage, takes control of her life and meets Ben…
How’s it written?
It was written in the third person and is a great book for teenagers – I would definitely recommend it.
Other books by the same author that Amy Wilson knows about?
REMEMBRANCE and the DREAM MASTER books for young people.
The overall verdict
***** (5 stars)
From Books for Keeps
By VC
This is a story of Theresa Breslin’s love affair with the sea wrapped around the story of Saskia’s voyage of discovery into her past and thereby her future. Saskia is in transition; it is her gap year and going to stay with her great-aunt in a small fishing community in north-east Scotland seems like a good idea. Mystery surrounds Aunt Alessandra and her house with the staring windows, perched on the edge of a rocky escarpment. As the days go on Saskia comes to understand things hidden in her own head, in the minds of her father and her aunt and in the strange old house.
Saskia is escaping from disagreements between her parents and her father’s persuasive insistence that she study economics instead of marine biology. As she grows closer to her aunt and talks to the handsome Ben who is researching sea life in the locality, Saskia comprehends her maritime ancestry and the lure which the water has for her. The sea permeates the story; it is there as a backdrop, in its effect on characters and in an underlying plea for conservation of the fishing grounds. The interpolation of the occasional paragraphs describing the life cycle of fish and the chapter headings, each relating to one of 33 lighthouses around the coast of Britain, underlines themes of maturing and journey in a sensitive finely structured novel which unfolds as delicately as a ‘creamy purl of foam at the water’s edge.’
From The Herald
By Edward Hardy
The moral issue of Theresa Breslin’s SASKIA’S JOURNEY sits on the main edge of the plot. The issue in question is man’s relationship with the sea, and our exploitation of fishing stocks.
Saskia Granton travels from London to Aberdeen, where she intends to spend a simple holiday with her reclusive great-aunt, Alessandra, a woman haunted by her unresolved past. But Saskia has a more profound journey to make. The holiday uncovers disturbing childhood memories, of holidays past and questions unanswered. Why does Saskia’s father want her to return to Scotland? What is the truth behind Alessandra’s past? Why has she not visited her great aunt since early childhood? The answers are compelling and shocking, wrapped in a poetic narrative beautifully capturing the scent of the sea and of sea-faring life. Breslin skilfully unravels a tragic family history that has blighted the lives of its main characters. In unveiling the truth, Saskia makes her most important voyage, away from the blinkered comfort of childhood towards the harsh enlightenment and responsibilities of the adult.
What, you may ask, has this to do with the issue of herring stocks? Well, not a lot, especially as the marine environment themes are the obsession of the rather too worthy marine scientist and love interest, Ben. Frankly I didn’t care. The profounder human issues, of family secrets and their ensuing legacy, of personal responsibility and of a child’s shifting relationships with its parents are perfectly interwoven and dramatically explored. Saskia’s final discoveries of the deeply sad events and decisions that have crippled her family over generations had me gripped.
From The Bookselller
Breslin’s mesmerising descriptions of the sea and the people who depend on it captures all of the atmospheric beauty of north-east Scotland.
RECOMMENDED READ by Tracey, Children’s Manager, Ottakar’s Bookshop, Aberdeen
Buchan, Aberdeen and Peterhead all feature in this lyrical book.
Saskia is invited to stay with her great-aunt in the mysterious Cliff House… As the secrets of house and family unfold, so Saskia gets involved in local life.
A vivid eulogy of the threatened fishing way of life in the North-East.
From the Arts Show: Radio Scotland
This is an amazing book. It covers so many areas and subjects. The ongoing crisis in the fishing industry, marine biology, conservation, The history of the North East and the Doric language whilst also managing to focus on mental health issues and bereavement, growing up, abuse and family secrets.
… the sea is the driving force in the book – it’s omnipresent – an affect achieved by letting it have its own voice.
…a book about secrets and half truths…no-one is quite what they seem.
From School Librarian, Spring 2004
By Pat Williams
Saskia has a great love of the sea and is pleased to visit her great aunt Alessandra who lives in a large three-storey house, halfway down the cliff and facing the sea. She is especially pleased to be leaving her warring parents. Saskia has not been to see her great aunt for many years and is puzzled when her aunt says that she used to visit as a child with her parents. She asks her mother why they no longer visit her great aunt and is told that on the last visit when she was very young she made her mother promise that she would never take her there again.
Eventually memories of childhood summers are revived and the secrets of the past begin to unfold. Saskia grows close to her great aunt and learns about her sad past, the personal tragedy that left her so isolated and of the lives and loves that have been lost to the sea. Saskia also finds herself on a journey of self-discovery as she begins to love and understand the fishing community whose way of life and strange language is under threat. A very thought-provoking read, and thoroughly recommended for the library.
From Newmarket Journal, Suffolk
By Philip Daws
An outstanding children’s book and a worthy follow-up to the fantastic Remembrance. Saskia is a teenager who thinks a lot about everything – especially the environment and her troubled family. She also loves the sea and finds herself completely absorbed in its atmosphere and power when she goes to visit her great aunt in a remote Scottish fishing village. Saskia finds herself swept along an amazing tide of self-discovery in this brilliant story.
Saskia Granton is intrigued by an invitation to visit her reclusive Great Aunt Alessandra who lives on the north-east coast. It’s a chance to rediscover her love of the sea and to take time to think about the boring career her parents are mapping out for her. Although believing that she has never met Alessandra before, on arrival at the house something chimes in Saskia’s head. She is seized by a great uneasiness, especially when Alessandra tells her that she spent many childhood days with her in this house. Saskia wonders why she has no memory of this.
That night Saskia did remember.
And as Saskia remembered, she dreamed. Of strange sights and sounds, and of the days on the beach below the house. Gathering seashells and other treasures along the shoreline, bringing them into her great-aunt’s house, sorting out her collections, washing and polishing her ‘gemstones’.
Familiar now are those sensations, Sand between her fingers and under her feet, bare feet in open sandals. She looks down at her ten baby toes with their pink half-moon nails curled in her little leather sandals. Squirming and pressing down with her heels makes dry sand wedge up between her toes and spill over her feet. The warm gritty granules run out as she walks on towards the water. Smooth driftwood sculpted by the sea is in her hands. Striated stone by the breakwater scrapes her fingers as she pulls away periwinkles and limpets and drops them into her bucket. There are heaps of shells at the far end of the beach, cockles and clams and mussels piled near some huge rocks. They are cool, these pale shells resting in the shadow of the cliff overhang. She is choosy and selects with care, one for its colour, another for its shape, smooth or ridged for difference: her collection will have diversity. At the foot of the tallest rock she finds a real treasure – it is a giant whelk, Alessandra tells her, with a great ascending spiral and below this, a long fluted opening running down one side. Saskia grasps it tightly. It is almost four times the size of her hand – her small fingers cannot curl completely around it, but she holds it pressed into her soft palm. Then she brings it close to her face to study the single caramel-coloured conical whorl, the ever-diminishing circular stairway leading to a dizzyingly minute point. This shape, beyond her defining, beyond her imagining, intoxicates her with its intricacies and its secret places. Who lives within? Just around the curve where she cannot see? In her mind she creates a miniature world inhabited by an infinite variety of beings, all at her command. She breathes on the pink shadowed entrance. Today she will be a kindly giant, her breath soft and warm so as not to disturb the tiny inhabitants.
Then Alessandra stands in Saskia’s dream. Between the child Saskia and the shadowed rocks. Alessandra holds out her hand. ‘The sea is more magical than you or I can believe. There are places in the deep which will always be unknown.’
Salt water is on Saskia’s face, she can taste it on her tongue, but it is not sea spray.
Why is she crying?
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On White Women Who Pen Criticisms of Beyoncé and Serena When White Feminism Isn’t Enuf
Jenn M. Jackson
Filed to:Beyonce
Beyoncé, second from left (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
The phrase “whiteness gone white” rings all the more true every time a talented-beyond-measure black woman graces us with her presence and is criticized for it. And white women are continually leading this cause.
On Sunday, Feb. 12, a very pregnant Beyoncé graced our television screens as she levitated onto the Grammy stage with an ethereal, queenly performance of several of her hits from last year’s Lemonade album. She performed her now-iconic chair-tilt routine that had most of us on the edges of our seats while dressed as Oshun, a Yoruba deity of fertility and love. Her explicit nod to the African Diaspora resonated with so many who witnessed the performance. But apparently a white woman with a pen wasn’t impressed.
New York Post contributor Naomi Schaefer Riley was so unenthusiastic about Beyoncé’s performance that she attempted to undermine the entire idea that having a baby is a miracle, calling the routine a “pagan fertility worship ceremony.” She even described Bey’s performance as “self-indulgent,” alleging that Bey’s “endless Virgin Mary/Sun Goddess routine” gave the message that “Pregnancy is sexy. Motherhood is divine.” Oddly, Bey didn’t say either of these things Grammy night. In fact, she said little more than “Thank you so much,” even while being denied the much deserved award for Album of the Year that Adele attempted to split with her.
Just days after Bey’s performance, photos were released of Serena Williams—Bey’s Formation World Tour twerking partner and co-goddess, who slays our souls—for the 2017 Swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated. Williams bared her beauty in a thong bikini, sandy feet and scrumptiousness. The spread came after Williams expressed on record that she wants to empower more women to love their bodies through her #DoItForYourself campaign with sportswear producer Berlei.
In response, writer Sinead Kissane suggested that Serena’s baring of her flawless body was hypocritical because “it shows success doesn’t change some women’s desire to be validated for how they look.” Calling Serena’s prior images “sassy,” Kissane echoes Schaefer by finding no value in this sort of bodily display. For Kissane, Serena “taking her clothes off for a magazine” undermines her performance on the tennis court. It is as if she can only be one or the other: athlete or sexy woman. Apparently there is no room in this white woman’s mind for the two to exist simultaneously.
Taken together, these critiques suggest that when black women like Williams and Bey define their womanhood on their own terms, whether by taking racy images or floating across the Grammy stage like a reincarnated spirit, they are somehow breaching some unspoken contract that they should exist only on the terms set for them by others. To these women, Bey and Serena aren’t following the rules. And it comes as no surprise that white women are acting as the womanhood police.
On one hand, Bey and Serena are pushing back against forces that deny them the diversity of their experiences (like being sexy and talented and/or pregnant at the same time).
On the other hand, these reactions shine light on the ways that black women are unfairly censored and wrested from experiencing womanhood in their own complex and unique ways. It points to an ongoing issue with white women propping themselves up as images of beauty and sexiness. Their work in denying the fullness of womanhood to black women isn’t new.
White women have long positioned themselves as the enforcers of womanhood. From the denials of black women’s child-rearing rights in the era of enslavement to the exclusion of black women from early suffrage movements and women’s clubs in the early 20th century, these types of critiques are meant to control the behaviors of black women and have a long and ugly history. It’s still happening today.
What both of these writers fail to recognize is that both of these women are black entertainers who have, throughout their careers, faced incredible opposition to their mere existence. Serena has openly faced issues of racism, some that even drove her to boycott tournaments where she was booed and called “nigger.” Her body has been scrutinized, she has been called “masculine” and she has even been paid less than Maria Sharapova, a tennis star who was later suspended for doping.
Likewise, I assume, a large part of why Beyoncé has been so open with this pregnancy is that so many pregnancy-conspiracy theorists denied that she was ever pregnant with Blue Ivy in the first place. That these women have to push back against systemic racism and misogynoir just to do their jobs is bad enough. But for white women to extend the scrutiny into their expressions of womanhood is measurably worse.
Instances like these underscore the work of people like Mikki Kendall, who coined the term #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen. When white women ignore the uniquely marginalizing experiences faced by black women, they uphold white supremacy while making the possibility of larger feminist movements nearly impossible. For Bey and Serena, their complexity is political. Their embodiment of the fullness womanhood is political. Their actions should be treated as such.
Until white women begin to grapple with their complicity in the systems that harm and oppress black women, even highly successful women like Bey and Serena, we will continue to see “think pieces” like these. But when we begin to see more white women using their station and platforms to center and highlight the experiences of black women, we might have a chance at this solidarity thing.
I won’t hold my breath, though.
jenn is the Managing Editor at BlackYouthProject.com and Editor-in-Chief of WaterCoolerConvos.com. She's also a PhD student studying race and gender politics at the University of Chicago.
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Just days after announcing details of the 2014 CrossFit Invitational, HQ has now released the roster for Team Australia.
On November 9 at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, Team USA, Team Europe, Team Canada, and Team Australia will compete in back-to-back events during the two-hour competition.
Team Australia is the first roster to be announced so far. Here is who will be representing the Region:
Kara Webb
The three time CrossFit Games competitor was leading for the majority of the 2014 competition, before succumbing to an injury in the Midline March and withdrwing from the Games.
The two-time Regional champ is one of the most consistent performers south of the hemisphere and will be crucial to Australia causing an upset at the 2014 Invitaitonal.
Webb also has experience in the event, helping Team World beat Team USA 24-19 last October in the 2013 CrossFit Invitational.
Rob Forte
Forte is one of Australia’s most successful athletes having competed at four CrossFit Games, and finishing 12th in 2014.
He has dominated the Australia Regionals for the past two years and proved this year he can mix it with the best in the world.
Denae Brown
Brown has qualified for two CrossFit Games, but only competed at one, after falling pregnant just months before the 2012 competition.
This year, the new mother upset Webb to win the Australia Regional and placed 17th at the 2014 CrossFit Games.
Khan Porter
Porter made his Regional debut in 2013, and this year improved dramatically, finishing third in the region to qualify for his first ever CrossFit Games.
With a solid performance at the Beach Event on the Wednesday of the 2014 Games, Porter ended up finshing 27th overall, just ahead of regional friend, and three-time Games competitor Brandon Swan.
Chad Mackay – Coach
One of the biggest names in the Australia Region. Mackay has competed at three CrossFit Games, finishing inside the top 15 on all occasions.
Surprisingly he missed out on qualification in 2014 finishing outside the top 10 at the Australia Regional. However, he still went to the 2014 CrossFit Games as a coach of Lynne Knapman of the Masters 50-54 Division
Chad Mackay
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Chemtrail Geoengineering Lawsuit III – Need Your Support
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Joseph H. Marman, Esq.
Mr. Joseph H. Marman was born and raised in Montana, and graduated from the University of Montana. He finished law school in Sacramento, and moved to Los Angeles in 1985, where he worked, got married, and practiced law in the Los Angeles area until 1994. Joe moved back to Sacramento area in 1994, and manages his own law firm and has a satellite office in Orange County.
Marman practices primarily plaintiff’s civil litigation, but also handles medical malpractice, criminal defense, business disputes and litigation, construction defect litigation, debt negotiations, and general civil litigation. Joe is a Board member of the Capitol City Trial Lawyers, where he has assisted in putting on seminars, and he currently writes a series of interviews of legal pillars in the community for the Sacramento Trial Lawyers magazine. Joe also volunteers on the Executive Committee of the local chapter of the Sierra Club and acts as a Judge Pro Tem for Settlement conferences, and mediations, as well as being an Arbitrator on civil cases.
Joe previously volunteered for 13 years for the Placer County Search and Rescue Team in his community. Graduating number three in the 1985 class of the University of the Northern California School of Law (Sacramento, California) he moved to Los Angeles, where he acquired a broad range of litigation experience. In 1994, Joe returned to the Sacramento area, where he manages his own law firm as well as helping the Oak View Law Group. His areas of expertise inlcude personal injury, auto accidents, medical malpractice, civil rights, “lemon laws”, property rights warranty defects, insurance claims, contract disputes and criminal defense.
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About the Chemtrail Geoengineering Lawsuit from Global Action Network:
EVIDENCE DUE: MAY 15 2012…
BREAKING NEWS! Our California attorney has agreed with taking our case pro bono!
We seek additional attorneys and anticipate meeting them for consideration.
This group is for those interested in filing a lawsuit against Chemtrails and Geoengineering, whom have evidence of Chemtrail toxins such as: Barium, Aluminum, Strontium and other toxins in their blood or hair, urine, soil, rain water.
Armed with test information (among many other factors) we’ll implement the plan file a complaint in all (11) US Federal Courts and other Courts abroad.
As of May 15TH, we expect to exceed 2000 potential Plaintiffs. Awareness is spreading faster than ever! Expect to meet even more new members!WELCOME!! To all our new members! Remember to Take Action and get tested ASAP. As this becomes Global, we may expect to witness similar actions brought in other countries. Since the group was started, we have since done more testing… Rain water was tested and was high in Aluminum, Barium and Strontium.Beware the ongoing effort to discredit and placate THE PUBLIC by a select few, whom oppose what we’re taking action against.
Many doctors do not test for heavy metal toxicity on patients. If they don’t, I suggest a new doctor.
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WE HAVE ONE ATTORNEY ON BOARD AS OF 4-18-2012 IN CA AND SEVERAL MORE REVIEWING/CONSIDERING REPRESENTING US.
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Comics round up: After Darkness, August releases, timeline, and latest covers
Lots of comics new for you, starting with news of a new comic series tie-in to Into Darkness, Roberto Orci tweeted to confirm there will be a four-part prequel series exploring the character of John Harrison, coming in the fall:
Ask and ye shall receive. IDW Pubishing IS going to do a 4-issue John Harrison miniseries this fall!
Before then though, we're heading into events after the film. Here's a first look at After Darkness; the three-part comic sequel to Into Darkness, which will comprise issues twenty-one to twenty-three, of the Star Trek ongoing series. Wired posted these two preview pages (pages 10 and 13 from Part 1):
Wired also posted an interview with the series writer, Mike Johnson, where he gave a vague outline of where he'll be going next:
You’ll see immediately on the first page of [the story] that it’s very much a sequel in terms of plot. Things happen in the movie that can’t be ignored going forward, and we will see the repercussions play out over the months to come. It’s also a character-based sequel, as we see how the crew reacts to the events of the movie, and what it means for their relationships going forward.
I’m aiming for a combination of two things going forward. First, all-new worlds and stories that expand the galaxy as we know it, and second, a larger epic story about the clash of civilizations. And I’m not just talking about the Klingons vs. the Federation. The map of the Star Trek galaxy is divided into established empires and the great unknown. I want to explore both.”
IDW have also given us some idea of where what's next with the release of their August solicitations, which give us the first details of Star Trek ongoing issue twenty-four, a sequel to Star Trek: The Video Game:
Star Trek (ongoing) #24
Written by Mike Johnson. Art by Claudia Balboni. Cover by Tim Bradstreet, with retail incentive sketch and photo covers.
The adventures of Kirk, Spock and the Enterprise crew continue in an all-new adventure that follows the events of the hit film STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS and the new STAR TREK video game! A classic enemy returns in this story overseen by STAR TREK writer/producer Roberto Orci. Beware... THE GORN!
IDW have also released an interactive timeline, explaining the timeline divergence, and placing all the ongoing comics.
They suggest the following chronological order for the ongoing series:
2256: #20 - Red Level Down
#18 - Uhura origins
#19 - Scotty origins
#15 and #16 - Mirrored
#1 and #2 - Where No Man Has Gone Before
#3 and #4 - The Galileo Seven
#5 and #6 - Operation: Annihilate
#7 and #8 - Vulcan's Vengeance
#9 and #10 - The Return of the Archons
#17 - McCoy origins
#13 - The Redshirt's Tale
#14 - Keenser origins
#11 and #12 - The Truth About Tribbles!
Countdown to Darkness
#21, #22, and #23 - After Darkness
If you've missed the ongoing series so far, IDW are going to try and tempt you with their latest 100 Penny Press release (reprints of their comics for one dollar), which is Star Trek (ongoing) #1. Details of that and other upcoming reprints, after the jump:
IDW's August solicitations include two reprints, the 100 Penny Press release, and the new Best of Klingons omnibus, which includes an awesome new cover by the Sharp Brothers:
100-Penny Press - Star Trek (ongoing) #1
Written by Mike Johnson. Art by Stephen Molnar. Cover by Tim Bradstreet
The Hundred Penny Press returns! One dollar versions of crucial IDW books! First up, STAR TREK #1! The ongoing series that picked up where the blockbuster 2009 film left off! Featuring the new cast of the film, these missions re-imagine the stories from the original series in the alternate timeline created by the film, along with new threats and characters never seen before! With creative collaboration from STAR TREK writer/producer Roberto Orci!
Best of Klingons
Written by Scott Tipton, David Tipton, and Mike W. Barr. Art by David Messina, Tom Sutton, and Ricardo Villigran. Cover by The Sharp Brothers
Sharpen your bat'leth and prepare for war in this collection of unforgettable Klingon tales from the Star Trek universe. Including the original 4-part DC start to The Original Series as well as the 6-issue "Klingons: Blood Will Tell" series by Scott and David Tipton, this volume is fierce and loyal to the Empire. Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!
Pre-order: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp.
Meanwhile the UK version of the Countdown to Darkness omnibus, which has just been published by Titan Books, has also been released in a photo cover, using the Into Darkness international poster:
Purchase: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp.
Amazon have also updated their listing for the paperback omnibus of Star Trek/Legion of Super-Heroes, switching the cover art to Phil Jimenez's cover, originally from the fifth issue in the series:
Pre-order: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp, Forbidden Planet.
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Home Politics Primary Election Crisis: APC May Convene NEC Meeting Early November
Primary Election Crisis: APC May Convene NEC Meeting Early November
Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja
The All Progressives Congress (APC) may be compelled to hold an emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting early next month to address the issues arising from the primary elections, THISDAY has learnt.
THISDAY also gathered some powerful elements in the party are plotting to take advantage of the meeting to determine the fate of the embattled National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole.
However, a reliable source said that Oshiomhole’s loyalists are working hard to stop the meeting.
But the National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Isa-Onilu, has denied knowledge of any plan to convene NEC meeting.
He told journalists that he was not in the know of such plot.
Onilu said: “There is nothing as such, if it will happen we will actually make a formal announcement.”
A top party leader who confirmed the move to summon the NEC, said some elements are already lobbying for the replacement of Oshiomhole with “former governor of Cross River State, Chief Clement Ebiri or any other moderate fellow”.
It was learnt that those pushing for NEC meeting have been sending messages to party stakeholders and trying to convince them of the need to use the opportunity to review the outcome of the recently conducted primaries across the country.
The primary elections have generated much crisis with some governors and other party leaders openly calling for the removal of Oshiomhole as the National Chairman.
One of the governors who have openly expressed displeasure is Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, who in a statement on Wednesday, described the National Chairman as “incompetent.”
A NEC member, who pleaded anonymity, said: “unless the current National Chairman is removed, the party might be heading for a defeat in 2019.
When asked how feasible it is to force NWC to convene a NEC meeting, the source said “Yes but that Oshiomhole is trying to prevent it”.
He said: Majority of the NEC members can call for a NEC meeting; that is what our constitution says. We can force him to call for a NEC meeting. The meeting is due because after the primaries NWC has to brief us (NEC members) on the reports of the primaries across the country. The reports have to be reviewed and we have demanded for it through the National Secretary’s office.
“Normally, after the primary they are suppose to call for a NEC meeting so that they will present the reports of the primaries to the NEC, because some of these decisions they have taken and said NWC has decided, there is nothing like that because NWC is not the highest organ of the party, it is the National Executive Committee (NEC) which the president and the Vice President are members. NWC is just a policy-making body of the party.
“So, currently the NWC under Oshiomhole has breached the constitution, and I can tell you categorically that there is no leader in APC across the country that is happy with Oshiomhole”.
He said there were fears that about 20 House of Representative members are planning to defect to PDP because of the badly handled primary election.
He also accused the NWC of granting automatic tickets to some serving lawmakers without consulting the real stakeholders in the various states.
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CRNKN Expands His Sound With “The Clearing” EP
Johnny Cranston
Los Angeles based producer, CRNKN, absolutely delivers with a huge diversity for his first official EP “The Clearing” via Nest HQ. This six-track release enlightens us with wide-ranging sound that is new and different from what we are used to hearing from him. In CRNKN’s own words he explains what he was trying to do with the project by saying, “With ‘The Clearing’ I wanted to try and distance myself from whatever preconceived notions people had / have about the kinds of music that I make. It’s really important to have room to experiment and grow as an artist, so with this release I’m hoping to lay the groundwork for that. There are a lot of really cool kinds of music, and I like making all of them. Putting a qualitative label on creativity is like putting a square peg in a round hole. Just doesn’t work.”
I think CRNKN did a terrific job of establishing just what he wanted to with this debut EP release of his, it has got elements from all types of dance music. From some slow chill Flume/Cashmere-esque sounds for the intro to some experimental trap, electro chords and synths to some of that twerkin Miami bass sound. It’s got it all. “The Clearing” is a major step in CRNKN’s career, being innovative and creative by experimenting with different sounds of music that he enjoys himself. CRNKN give us a little description of each track in his SoundCloud as you go through the EP. So I’ll leave you here with the full EP and with the words of CRNKN on what he has to tell us about each piece to his masterpiece of a puzzle.
“Far, Hidden & Away”
“The bones of this track were written for a side project that I had wanted to start that was sort of more ethereal, relaxing stuff. But once I realized that this project was taking shape (and the story behind it) I knew that this should lead it off.”
“Enter An Exit”
“This and the next track are both older and both tracks I wrote around the same time. I had been listening to a lot of darker electronic stuff and was sort of in that mind space. This one I actually wrote in a couple of hours and just put it away for a rainy day and when I was looking for skeletons to work on for the EP I found this and knew that it fit exactly what I wanted to put out. So I went in and polished it up and tada!”
“This track is the oldest one on the EP, it’s a track that I originally called Deville and started working on almost a year ago. I love this song, and it’s gone through SO many iterations. I had a cycle of working on it every few months nonstop to the point of complete frustration, then putting it down again. When I started this EP, this was the first track I finished because I knew it had to be a part of the project. I couldn’t be more excited that I finally finished it and it’s at the level I knew it could be when I started it.”
“This song was one of the last ones written, and I sort of knew what pieces needed to come into place before the EP could be done. I knew that I wanted to write something that was sort of clubby but still had the same aesthetic as the rest of the songs and I think I wrote this in one session (which is always reeeeeeally cool to do) and was like, yeah. This fits nicely.”
“Similar to ‘Stumbling’ this song has taken me a while to write, I started it in September or October. It was the only song I wrote while I was on this bus tour with Bro Safari, and it was the thing that got me out of a creative slump that I was in at that time. It’s just sort of a roller coaster ride, and I remember playing it for a few people and had gotten some positive feedback so when I started the EP I knew that I wanted to bring this song in somewhere and try to fit it in.”
“The Clearing (Outro)”
“This track serves 2 purposes. On the surface it serves as the sort of cool down from the EP, in the same way that “Hidden, Far & Away” is an introduction. The second purpose is that it corresponds with the story behind my EP, and it is sort of a summative finale for the tale that I wrote to go along with the music.”
Check out this pretty amazing concept video for “The Clearing” EP release.
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Another piece of history along the Mission Reach of the San Antonio River is going to be restored and turned into a park.
Bexar County Commissioners Court has accepted a donation of the Hot Wells Hotel and Spa from local developer James Lifshutz.
Betty Bueche, Director of Bexar Heritage and Parks Department says the donation of nearly four acres includes ruins and land.
The Source: Texas Parks See More Funding, With Projects Already Waiting
By Paul Flahive • Jun 10, 2015
Low funding levels have for years left Texas Parks & Wildlife delaying maintenance on the state's more than 90 parks, but that is about to change.
A long-battled piece of legislation aimed at directing more sales tax from sporting goods purchases to Texas' parks passed and was signed by Gov. Abbott late last month.
City's Newest Park At the Mission Reach Designed For Environmental Learning
By Eileen Pace • May 18, 2015
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There’s lots of buzz about plans for a new park overlooking the Mission Reach. The $10 million plan for Confluence Park, to be situated at the confluence of the San Antonio River and San Pedro Creek, will focus on teaching responsible water use and landscaping practices.
Stuart Allen is the project manager.
“Well, it’s a 3-1/2 acre outdoor learning classroom. The intent of the project is to create a destination on the Riverwalk where students and river visitors alike can learn about native plant species and witness a large-scale water catchment system,” Allen said.
The Source: Should We Be Building Public Safety Into Our Expanded Greenway Trails?
By Paul Flahive • Mar 18, 2015
San Antonio has 46 miles of linear greenway trails for walking, jogging, and cycling on. The Howard W. Peak Greenway Trail system is getting bigger and before it does the city council may consider building more public safety aspects into it. Things like call boxes and cameras or perhaps more personnel to monitor and walk the trails are all being considered to ensure that safe trails stay that way.
Peek Inside Kronkosky State Natural Area, The Hill Country's Next Big Park
By Jack Morgan • Aug 20, 2014
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There’s a large state natural area north of town that’s being prepared for the public and on Tuesday I got to take a tour.
While Government Canyon is more than four times its size, the Albert and Bessie Kronkosky State Natural Area is still pretty huge: 3,757 acres.
James Rice is the superintendent, and at this point the only employee of Kronkosky, which is seven miles west of Boerne in a particularly hilly stretch of Hwy. 46.
“Albert and Bessie Kronkosky started buying up this property in 1946 and they wanted to preserve it,” Rice said.
The San Antonio Connection To New York City's High Line (Part 2)
Natalie Morgan
My wife and I were in New York on vacation, and as part of a hike, walked a portion of what’s called the High Line. The reason it’s called the High Line is that it runs way above street level.
“It’s an elevated railroad about 30 feet off the ground, and it runs for about a mile an a half right through the middle of Manhattan," said Robert Hammond, who was born and raised in San Antonio and now lives in Chelsea, the Manhattan neighborhood sung about by Joni Mitchell, and where those tracks are. Hammond jumps forward a bit in the story.
The San Antonian Behind New York City's Most Innovative Park
He’s a San Antonian who is responsible for one of the most fascinating aspects of a fascinating place, and it’s probably one you’ve never heard of. I had only recently heard of it, and decided to check it out. I took a short vacation recently to New York City and my wife and I went to the High Line, a park there unlike any other. Here’s the story of how that park came about.
Robert Hammond was born and raised in San Antonio, and went to Alamo Heights High School. He moved to New York after college, but still visits San Antonio.
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Survey examines how to expand campus mental health services
Written by Scott Jacobsen
May 25, 2015 · 2 min read
Friday, Feb 7 at 10 AM - Friday, Feb 21 at 7 PM
For May’s mental health awareness week, a UBC-founded mental health organization, Walkalong, surveyed students to find out what they wanted from the university’s mental health services.
Walkalong, which describes itself as dedicated to young Canadians' wellness through empowerment, posted a call for UBC students to take part in a research survey asking what they wanted from possible expansion of mental health services.
There is a pressing need for greater access to mental health experts given the demand for them, according to psychiatry professor and the survey's principle director Michael Krausz. The survey considered how best to expand resources given that current services aren't meeting the demand.
“[With] long waiting times and very limited resources we see an urgent need to build capacity,” said Krausz.
According to the most recent AMS academic experience survey, only 36 per cent of UBC students were satisfied with their experience at UBC counselling services while 35 per cent said they weren’t.
John Ward, project manager for the online survey, would not comment on the findings, saying that releasing preliminary results may contaminate them.
However, mental health services may expand to include a virtual clinic, according to Krausz. A virtual clinic would be a web-based platform that gives students the chance to connect with mental health experts via video conference, email or chatrooms.
"The idea is to provide access to any kind of mental health services and to add to the existing services,” said Krausz. “We hope that a virtual clinic component, and other components can help to build capacity to make it easier for students to access expertise.”
Web-based mental health services already exist elsewhere, both in Canada and internationally. Krausz calls the online services “much appreciated” by users and says there is a lot of positive feedback for the platform.
According to Krausz, users enjoy the virtual clinic because it offers an easy means of access to mental health experts while also giving users a sense of being in charge of their experience, as well as offering more opportunities for information on mental health and treatment options.
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Teen Spirit: How Grunge Music Gave Rock’n’Roll Its Balls Back
With Mudhoney, Nirvana and Soundgarden at the helm, grunge music exploded in the early 90s – and the world didn’t know what hit it.
Tim Peacock
Photo: Charles Peterson
When Nirvana’s signature hit, ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, first impacted in 1991, the music industry barely knew what hit it. After a decade during which popular music was dominated by synthesisers, big hair and excessive production techniques, deliverance had finally arrived in the shape of three outsiders from Seattle spearheading what the press had dubbed grunge music: a genre hell-bent on putting the balls back into rock’n’roll.
Listen to the best grunge music on Spotify.
The birth of grunge music
Historical revisions of rock music have continually cited grunge music as the unlikely, plaid-clad saviour of primeval rock’n’roll and the slayer of late 80s hair metal bands. There’s truth in this much-espoused hypothesis, and also in the fact that grunge lit the touchpaper leading to the 90s alt.rock explosion. Yet while grunge only hit commercial pay dirt with Nirvana’s Nevermind in ’91, the roots of this hard, heavy, yet sonically disparate Seattle-centric movement can actually be traced back to the US underground rock scene of the early 80s.
That grunge music will always be synonymous with North America’s Pacific Northwest is undeniable. Green River (later Mudhoney) vocalist Mark Arm is generally credited as being the first to use the term “grunge” in the genre-specific sense, when he described the music of his first band, Mr Epp And The Calculations, as “Pure grunge! Pure noise!” in Seattle fanzine Desperate Times, in 1981. Green River’s second EP, Dry As A Bone, from 1986, also became one of the earliest releases on the influential, Seattle-based indie Sub-Pop, whose promotional material described the contents as “ultra-loose grunge that destroyed the morals of a nation”.
Outside of the Pacific Northwest, though, US bands from the mid-to-late 80s playing raw, distorted and feedback-intensive rock, ranging from New York’s Sonic Youth to Boston’s Dinosaur Jr and Austin, Texas’ Butthole Surfers, deserve credit for influencing the course of grunge music. Much later, Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain admitted to Rolling Stone that acclaimed Bostonians Pixies were also a primary inspiration. “We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard,” he told writer David Fricke during an interview in January 1994.
However, while Seattle continued to spawn bands alchemising singular fusions of punk and metal, such as Mudhoney’s frenzied ‘Touch Me I’m Sick’ and Melvins’ sludgy, Black Sabbath-esque debut album, Gluey Porch Treatments, across 1987-88, the idea of obscure outfits from the remote Pacific Northwest challenging the hard rock hegemony and competing with colossal mainstream rock records such as Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite For Destruction and Metallica’s … And Justice For All still seemed wilfully absurd on paper.
Grunge enters the mainstream
During 1988, though, the international rock press first latched onto this exciting new music emerging from the Pacific Northwest. That year, burgeoning Seattle scenesters Nirvana released their first single, a hypnotic cover of Shocking Blue’s ‘Love Buzz’, which received the Single Of The Week accolade from UK rock weekly Sounds. Following the release of their critically-acclaimed Sub-Pop debut, Bleach, Nirvana were granted the cover of Sounds (along with their Seattle touring partners Tad) in October 1989, while Melody Maker journalist Everett True wrote an article covering the local Seattle scene.
There were also signs the mainstream was getting hip to Seattle when Soundgarden, fronted by the charismatic Chris Cornell, released their major label debut for A&M, Louder Than Love, in 1989, and the short-lived, glam rock-influenced Mother Love Bone – featuring future Pearl Jam stars Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard – recorded their lone album, Apple, for Mercury.
By 1990, the gloves were well and truly off, with Nirvana signing a major deal with Geffen and metal-inclined Seattle outfit Alice In Chains scoring Billboard chart success (and, later, a gold disc) for their Columbia Records debut, Facelift.
The dam broke in 1991, when grunge morphed into a bona fide global phenomenon. Not only did Nirvana irrevocably alter the course of rock with their iconic Nevermind, but the vital post-Mother Love Bone outfit Pearl Jam also tore up the mainstream with their multi-platinum-selling debut, Ten, while Soundgarden’s third album, Badmotorfinger (including the classic singles ‘Outshined’ and ‘Rusty Cage’), won a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance.
Grunge music’s legacy
Key grunge albums released during the next 12 months, meanwhile, demonstrated what a broad church grunge music had become. Their commercial breakthrough would come with 1993’s Siamese Dream, but The Smashing Pumpkins’ ambitious debut, 1992’s Gish, found Billy Corgan’s outfit flirting with prog, folk and psychedelia, while California’s Stone Temple Pilots released the hits-stuffed Core and Alice In Chains released the remorselessly heavy, yet critically acclaimed Dirt. The extent to which grunge had permeated mainstream culture, meanwhile, was reflected by Cameron Crowe’s popular Seattle-based Gen X movie Singles, featuring a highly desirable soundtrack including previously unreleased cuts from Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, The Smashing Pumpkins and Alice In Chains, plus solo Chris Cornell recordings under the name Poncier.
By 1993, grunge was even making its presence felt in the fashion world, with designers from Karl Lagerfeld to Marc Jacobs including elements of flannel shirts, ripped jeans and combat boots in their contemporaneous collections. Musically, scene spearheads Nirvana, Pearl Jam and The Smashing Pumpkins were all still releasing mandatory, critically-acclaimed titles such as In Utero, Vs and Siamese Dream, while earlier Seattle scenesters Mudhoney and Melvins were trying their luck with major-label deals with Reprise and Atlantic, respectively.
Received wisdom, meanwhile, tells us grunge died when Kurt Cobain tragically committed suicide, in April 1994. With hindsight, few would argue the toss, though luminaries from the Seattle scene have remained highly relevant, not least Nirvana’s Dave Grohl – whose Foo Fighters remain one of the contemporary rock scene’s biggest draws – and Pearl Jam, who regularly fill arenas while remaining involved with grass-roots environmental and political issues such as working with Seattle charities for the homeless.
The shockwaves from grunge are still easily detectable, too. Most obviously, the Seattle scene influenced a generation of post-grunge American pop-punk bands in the mid-to-late 90s ranging from Weezer and Blink-182 to Nickelback and Candlebox, while nu-metal bands from the early 00s, such as Korn, Limp Bizkit and Papa Roach, clearly absorbed much of grunge’s anger and intensity.
Fast-forward to the present day to check out vibrant new albums such as Black Moth’s Anatomical Venus, and offerings from recent Sub-Pop signings So Pitted and Pissed Jeans, and it’s all too apparent that grunge remains an essential element of rock’s ever-evolving DNA.
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Fidesz in Hungary won an absolute victory, DK and Momentum also overtaken MSZP and Jobbik, LMP came to the floor
By Matyas Benyik | 27 May 19 | Posted under: Hungary , Elections , European Union
The biggest losers of the 2019 EP election were probably the Hungarian public opinion polls, who basically signaled only the total success of the ruling parties (FIDESZ-KDNP) correctly, the results of the opposition forces were completely misled.
The biggest surprise of Sunday's European elections was not the total victory of FIDESZ, but the complete transformation of the power relations of the opposition space. As a result of the 43.36 percent Hungarian participation, the record voting of all previous EP elections in Hungary, the FIDESZ-KDNP coalition obtained 52.14 percent (1,777,757 votes) to destroy the complete opposition, which could send 13 members to the European Parliament.
However, the second and even third place could not be won by the two parties or party associations that most of the preliminary polls were expecting.
The second place went to the Democratic Coalition (DK) list led by Klára Dobrev, wife of Ferenc Gyurcsány's party president with 16.3 percent of the votes (554,286 votes). With this result, DK can send 4 MEPs to the European Parliament, two MEPs more than 5 years ago.
The third place is won by the Momentum Movement, which was surveyed by the poll researchers around the 5 percent threshold, at 5-7 percent, in the last research before the election. But the Momentum Movement not only got in, but with its 9.92 percent result (338,314 votes), two new MEPs, namely Katalin Cseh and Anna Donáth can be sent to the EP.
Making the Momentum's result even more interesting is the fact that the green party Politics Can Be Different (LMP) polled around around 4 to 6 percent by the public opinion polls has not even reached the threshold, but with its 2.2 percent result (with 74, 554 votes) it was brutally defeated. In addition, the green party LMP achieved the best results of its history at the last Hungarian parliamentary election just a year ago. Not to mention the fact that the LMP was preceded also by Our Homeland Movement (MHM) with 3.33 percent (with 113,529 votes). MHM was established from the membership of the far-right Movement for a Better Hungary party (Jobbik) just a year ago, reopening of racism to our public debate. Even the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party using absurd humor and community activism as an internal policy tool has got better results than LMP (89,635 votes, 2.63 percent). By the way, the public opinion polls company Median in its recent research measured László Toroczkai's MHM party at 2 percent and the Two-Tailed Dog Party at one percent.
Among the nine registered Hungarian parties the last place finally won by Thürmer`s Workers Party (Munkáspárt) with the acquisition of 0.42 percent of the votes (14,385 votes), which is very interesting in view of the need for the party to collect minimum 20,000 signatures for participation in the EP elections.
Although the coalition of the Hungarian Socialist Party and Dialogue (MSZP-Párbeszéd) at the yesterday`s EP election was slightly ahead of Jobbik. but their victory proved to be pyrrhic: only 6.68 percent of the votes (227,786 votes) were won by MSZP-Dialogue. The far-right Jobbik party also fell enormously, and received only 6.44 percent of the votes (219,539 votes), which made Our Homeland Party Movement very close to MSZP-Párbeszéd.
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Transparent House Creates First to Market AR Experience for Mountain Hardwear
. Published on February 7, 2019 .
At the recent Outdoor Retailer Snow Show in Denver, Colorado, Mountain Hardwear had high hopes for its show participation. There, company executives unveiled an innovative Augmented Reality (AR) experience, aiming to attract and engage young consumers while simultaneously addressing their retail partners’ needs to visualize forthcoming products.
To develop their forward-thinking AR project, Mountain Hardwear chose international award-winning, next-generation creative studio Transparent House. Not only did the overwhelming popularity of the project exceed Mountain Hardwear’s hopes, it also earned a “Best in Show” award, from the editors of GearJunkie Magazine.
In their show recap, GearJunkie wrote, “Try a tent before buying it by setting it up in your living room, getting inside, and filling it with other gear like sleeping bags and packs. Only this time, do all that from your smart device! Mountain Hardwear unveiled the next leap in online shopping with a proprietary augmented reality app that allows users to see true-to-size gear in an immersive environment.”
On the first day of the show, Mountain Hardwear’s news release emphasized the importance of photorealistic visualization for consumers. “We believe the ability to superimpose digital products and information on a user’s actual environment will change retail,” proclaimed the brand’s VP of Global Marketing, Snow Burns.
Jeff Brandon, the brand’s Associate Director of Brand Deployment, also weighed in: “This technology enables a more informed gear-shopping experience in a fraction of the time.”
News of the project quickly reached beyond the show. Michael Tchong – trend forecaster, principal of Ubercool Innovation and author of the forthcoming book “Ubertrends: How Trends and Innovation Are Transforming Our Future” – raved: “The development work of Transparent House in augmented reality heralds a new future of retail visualization – a mandatory feature in a world that caters to a surging wave of millennials and digital natives who demand more visually stimulating online shopping experiences.”
Mountain Hardwear is now set to continue rolling out additional assets to expand its virtual gear closet, reporting that retailers and consumers can expect to download a fully functional app later this year. In the meantime, executives from Transparent House are eager to shine more light on their work behind the scenes.
“Our company began working in the 3D graphics industry in 2004,” said Transparent House President Denis Krylov. “Over this span of time, our 3D expertise has grown to the point that we understand exactly how to optimize and integrate renders into different software. We are very proud of this particular application, which delivers an elegant, almost magical experience.”
Led by Krylov as Executive Producer along with David Scott Van Woert as Director of Business Development, TH’s other executives involved include Head of Production Hideki Kawata and Head of Development Denis Vasilev. Beginning last June with a briefing provided by Burns and Brandon, all aspects of this project came together just in time for the debut in Denver.
“After testing different technologies around components like lighting around a user, surface detection algorithms, different types of surfaces, the complexity of 3D models, materials, textures, and more – we selected Apple’s ARkit as the best solution,” Scott Van Woert explained.
Going into a bit more detail, starting from the brand’s 2D CAD drawings, Transparent House handled all of the production and technical development facets. A combination of industry-standard 3D programs was used to create high fidelity 3D models, and special texturing plugins were used to generate photorealistic shaders to output AR-ready assets.
“Optimization is one area where our experience was highly impactful,” Vasilev added. “AR integration presents some serious integration constraints. Addressing those involved adopting lightweight game asset production techniques to retain details in our 3D models.”
Vasilev continued, “The resulting high fidelity visuals surpassed everyone’s expectations, including all of those who tried the experience at Mountain Hardwear’s booth.”
Additional steps for Transparent House involved user interface and user experience (UI/UX) design, and design and development of promotional campaign assets.
See the first-generation Mountain Hardwear A/R Experience in action:
About Mountain Hardwear
Mountain Hardwear, Inc., founded in 1993 and based in Richmond, CA, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Columbia Sportswear Company (Nasdaq: COLM) that distributes its products through specialty outdoor retailers in the United States and 34 countries worldwide. We build essential equipment for climbers, mountaineers, and outdoor athletes and have supported expeditions on the world’s highest peaks. This level of technical precision continues to inspire everything we do. Our designers challenge every stitch and detail to continuously improve both function and comfort.
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Travel Blog » Asia » India » Maharashtra » Mumbai » Blogs » A chapter of accidents, farce, glamour a
A chapter of accidents, farce, glamour and controversy
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Published: October 26th 2010
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Weir travels
sunset over Malabar Hill
Ten days earlier, on my way through Mumbai en route to southern Karnataka, I had met Anna, the cousin of a friend back home. She was working in Mumbai for an international fashion magazine that had newly launched in India (we’ll call it Fashionzine). We chatted over a delicious but sanitised Western salad lunch, and decided to meet up again on my way north. Nearer the time, I emailed to confirm dates, and Anna wrote back, “Let me see if I can organise for a press pass for you for Lakme fashion week. The 9 pm show is Manish Malhotra so the auditorium will be filled with Bollywood stars. Always entertaining. Let me know if you are not interested.”
the Gateway to India
Late that Monday afternoon, much improved for a decent wash, scrub and brush-up after a whistlestop ten days on the road, Anna sms’d to say she’d managed to get me a press pass. Could I get to the Grand Hyatt near the domestic terminal of the airport for 8.15 pm where she would meet me in the lobby to give me my pass? No worries, I thought. I called down to reception to order an A/C taxi but was told that those cars wouldn’t take me such a short distance. Instead, I should just come downstairs about ten minutes before I was going to leave, and they would get me a regular taxi from the street.
Lesson no.1: it is physically impossible, when relying on wheeled transport to get to a daytime or evening event in Mumbai (and, no doubt, all other cities and towns in this country) to be early. I could not have gone downstairs too soon.
Lesson no.2: go with the guy getting you a taxi so as to speed up any fare negotiations required should the driver refuse to use his meter.
At 7.15 pm, I made my way
the University of Mumbai
downstairs. Sure enough, the receptionist dispatched a young lad to find a taxi for me. A few minutes later, he was back, reporting that, with the unlikelihood of getting a return fare, taxis were refusing to put the meter on. Rs.200 was the fixed fare for which they would take me, “Two hundred rupees,” he said in tones of incredulity at such a vast sum.
“No problem,” I said, “I don’t have a choice.”
Back he went. He was gone a while. I eavesdropped on a self-important businessman checking out, pulling an elastic-banded wodge of Rs.1,000 notes out of his pocket and peeing off the requisite number, leaving them to flutter in the fanned air on the desk. The receptionist batted around, trying to gather them all up before they scattered further. Such is the carelessness of money in this city of contradictions.
Junior came back. No taxis were prepared to take me. Would a rickshaw do? Again, I had no choice - so much for wanting an A/C taxi. This last resort would at least give me full-body air-conditioning, albeit with added flavour of Mumbai traffic and an occasional blast of extra-hot air from bus cooling
Jain Temple ceiling
systems… For a third time, he toddled off, and reappeared in a rickshaw.
Lesson no.3: make no assumptions about what the driver of a taxi/auto which has been obtained on your behalf in this manner has actually been told. Double-check that your exact request has been relayed, that the driver knows where he is going, and what the fare arrangements might be.
Thinking naively that the auto-driver knew where he was going, I settled back and let him do the hard work of negotiating Mumbai’s busy streets. I kept a weather eye on where we were going out of force of habit and lacking much else to do. We were, at least, heading in the right direction.
After ten minutes or so, the driver started to pull up beside a mess of taxis. Now, I don’t know whether he’d actually been told just to drive me to an appropriate taxi rank, or whether, in fact, he was simply checking where I wanted to go. I assumed the latter and reiterated, “Grand Hyatt Hotel” several times, but to a look of perturbingly blank incomprehension. Warning bells tinkled distantly.
“Domestic airport?” I tried.
“Domestic airport,” he repeated
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This sounded positive. After all, I started thinking, at least a taxi there would know where to go, and I could simply switch modes of transport.
Lesson no.4: go with your gut reaction. If a driver’s English is so limited he doesn’t understand your destination when you say it, either find someone asap who does and who can explain it to him, or switch to another vehicle with a more knowledgeable driver.
I was now more and more convinced that the driver had no idea where I wanted to go, and I began to have doubts that he knew where the domestic airport was. After our clarification, “Domestic airport” repeated several times, he swung right over a poorly surfaced road and through a slum neighbourhood, debauching onto main road where he turned left - still, essentially, going north - and then did a precarious U-turn at a break in the central reservation, regardless of the three lines of traffic looming down on us. Such are rickshaw drivers.
So, we’re heading south, I think. Just then, a deafening roar fills my ears: an aeroplane taking off. I am temporarily mollified. At least one of
evening light over Mumbai's Malabar Hill
the airports is close by and they are relatively close to each other, aren’t they? We carry on, turn left and then the driver makes such a dramatic right turn, so unannounced and unprepared for, directly into another three lanes of traffic, that I actually laugh. Another driver, coming from the opposite direction and forced to brake because of this manoeuvre, catches my eye and joins in, humour alleviating a potentially dangerous situation.
After a little while, my cool and my sense of humour begin to slip a little. It’s been a while since that aircraft went over and I haven’t seen any further hint of an airport’s proximity.
“Do you know where you’re going?” I ask the driver tersely.
“Yes, madam. Look! Highway!”
Sure enough, we’re emerging onto a main road underneath a flyover which could be the one my taxi took on the way into town eight hours’ earlier… (How many flyovers are there in this part of Mumbai?) The auto-driver joins another flood of barely-moving traffic and continues to dodge and weave to get through. At one point, we get free of the jam and I briefly enjoy the sensation of moving air
dhobi-wallah at Colabar
to cool me down. I’ve been carefully moving my skirt to try and reduce the severity of the sweaty, crumpled look, and leaning forwards to avoid a damp back. I’m still conscious, however, that my Body Shop White Musk perfume will be fighting a losing battle against eau de Mumbai.
The rickshaw lurches right and I see the familiar “1A” and “1B” signs for the different parts of the terminal. More importantly, I see uniforms at the police road blocks - road blocks which don’t so much stop traffic going into the airport as require it to do a little slalom around the barriers to get past. Technically, drivers should “Please low down the glass windows”, but this shift doesn’t look too bothered. I tap my driver’s shoulder and point to the uniforms. He understands and pulls over.
“Good evening, madam. Which airline?” the first cop greets me.
I try and explain the problem.
“Yes, madam. Which airline?” he repeats, still smiling politely.
“Not airline. Hotel.” I decide to condense the saga to the essentials.
The driver adds his bit. I catch some reference to “English”. Cop #1 decides this requires senior input, and
waves us over to his seated boss. I explain again. Cop #2 seems to understand and nods helpfully. He and the driver discuss directions, the driver surprisingly grumpy considering this is on a meter so additional distance will be compensated.
This process goes on awhile. I decide to check how it’s going. “Grand Hyatt - close to domestic airport?”
Blank look.
“I was told it was near domestic airport.”
“Yes, yes, madam. Not far.”
I am prepared to go with the flow. We seem to be back on track. The driver pulls the starter handle on the rickshaw and we head off, unavoidably delayed by the airport’s one-way system. Even a rickshaw driver won’t drive against a one-way system right in front of the cops… though he seems to consider the option briefly.
So, we’re back on the road. I’m happy - or happier. Driver knows where to go. Driver knows how to get there. Traffic’s heavy. It’s 8 pm, but Anna has just sms-ed to say the shows are running late - will I wait for her in the lobby. Sure. I don’t mention I’m probably running late anyway.
Hmm… we seem
old entrance to the Taj Mahal Hotel
(sadly this one has not been open to the public since the 26/11 bombings two years' ago)
to be heading towards… passing the signs for… the international airport, yet Anna had been emphatic the Grand Hyatt was close to the domestic airport. Sure in my mind that the uniforms knew what they were talking about, I mentally park this minor inconsistency… and heave a huge sign of relief when we draw up to the security-guarded gates of an opulent hotel. The word “Grand” catches my eye. At last. I’ve just missed a call from Anna. I try to call her back. No answer, so I concentrate on paying off the rickshaw driver (with an excessive Rs.50 tip on a Rs.150 fare - the tip reflective of my relief rather than his expertise). The guard looks at me inquiringly. “I’m here for Fashion Week.”
“Of course, madam,” and waves me in.
“You’re looking very beautiful, madam,” a female uniformed security guard compliments me as I walk through the airport-style security screening.
“Thank you,” I smile, back in my smart-clothes/smart-location voice, not feeling at all beautiful, but badly in need of a good splash of water and a comb through my hair. I walk into the delicious cool of the foyer and ring Anna. She comes
Fort area streetscene
to meet me.
A few minutes later, she’s back on the phone.
“Umm… where are you? What do you see around you? Did you go upstairs?”
No, no stairs, and I describe the enormous equine statues either side of the outside doors.
“I’ll tell you what,” she says in confusion, “I’ll meet you at the Grand Café. I’m standing in front of the Lakme poster on the right. Tell them you want Lakme Fashion Week.”
I approach the reception desk to ask where to find the Grand Café. Look of bemused incomprehension greets me.
“Oh God,” I say into the cell phone, Anna still on the end of the line, “I think I’m in the wrong hotel,” uncertain of the reaction I’m going to get, feeling responsible for this crass failure on my part - not even checking the name of the hotel when I was dropped off.
Peels of laughter come down the phone. “Oh that would be too funny!”
Thank goodness for Anna’s sense of humour - and for her keen awareness of how India works. We hang up while I find out where to go: the receptionist has told
"bad" linen, anyone?
me the Grand Hyatt is just across the road…
Outside, I meet my friendly female security guard and am immediately taken under the collective wing of her and her colleagues. No, the Grand Hyatt is not across the road but, maybe, in this traffic, 15-20 mins away. I call Anna back to report the added delay. We agree that, if I get there in time, great. If not, we’ll meet afterwards. Such is life.
“This is India,” I shrug, echoing the well-rehearsed excuse of another continent, “TIA, baby.” (This Is Africa.)
One of the guards gets me a rickshaw. This driver doesn’t have a rate card, so using the meter will be academic, but my new-found best friend advises me the fare should be about Rs.80 and I agree this with the driver - at least, I think I do. My final request of aforementioned best friend is to emphasise the urgency to the rickshaw driver, and this is translated.
Take #3. We drive off, though not as fast as I would like, and then those warning bells get exercised once more. Well, twice more.
The driver seems to spend a lot of time turning
Kotachwadi kids
round. Not wanting to catch his eye, I can only assume that he is turning round to stare at me. I don’t say anything.
“You want shop, madam?”
Ohmigod! Where did THAT come from? Didn’t he get the bit about urgency?
“No! I need to get there, quick-quick. More money for you if I get there…”
“No, madam. I give you good discount,” he smiles ingratiatingly, smarmily, at me. “Look at shop…”
“NO!” I shout, “I’m serious. Get me there quickly. Now. I’m late!” I fume in the back seat.
At last he seems to get the message and, on one part of the open road, really does seem to floor it, turning round to me proudly, “I go fast, madam!”
“Good,” I say abruptly.
He’s turning round less to gawp at me, but adjusts his rear-view mirrors as a substitute. At one point, he asks me to move over to the right hand side of the vehicle. I don’t know why. I’m not going to debate the point. If it keeps him happy AND GETS ME THERE, I’ll do it.
I text Anna, “Hey, if I were Naomi Campbell, there
ducks at Banganga Tank
would be a trail of dead bodies in my wake tonight!” She texts me back a smiley.
Finally, I see a familiar logo high up on a smart building. At last! Huge signs and a bannered marquee advertise “Lakme Fashion Week”. I’m definitely in the right place this time. Huge mental and actual signs of relief.
But there’s a final hiccup. The rickshaw driver asks me how much I want to pay when I ask him what the fare is. I hand over Rs.70. “No, madam. One hundred rupees,” he whines ingratiatingly.
“No. That’s too much. Seventy,” I insist.
He refuses to take the money. I put two notes down on the back seat, and get out. The driver reaches back hurriedly: a breeze is threatening to disperse my fare. I don’t see if he’s been quick enough; I’m already across the road and being directed inside by a security guard. This is definitely the right place: dozens of beautiful people are milling around inside; a tall woman fabulously attired in a bright red and gold sari smiles confidently at the cameras greeting her arrival and poses with her companion. I smile to myself at the
sunset over the Arabian Sea from Marine Drive
glamour and mayhem, and try to fade into the background while I call Anna.
A few minutes’ later, I see her: wavy blond hair around her shoulders, she’s dressed in a loose sleeveless black knee-length all-purpose cocktail dress - the must-have of any girl’s wardrobe. She gives me my pass and escorts me past the burly security guards and downstairs. In the corridor outside the auditorium is a further, but more crowded, milling of people. I’m conscious of a change in the women around me. For the first time since I left the UK, I’m surrounded by women whose average height seems much closer to, if not greater than, my own. The women are also, for the most part, much slimmer than average, and the vast majority are wearing either Western dress or Indian-inspired clothing, rather than more traditional saris or salwar kameez.
Anna greets a very tall Indian girl as we pass through. “You on in the next one?”
“No,” she replies, “I’m done.”
A model, I assume. Her height is almost unnatural.
We head outside and I am introduced to the “Fashionzine crew”, including a tall French girl, Marie, a diminutive, greying, gay
inside Haji Ali's Mosque
English guy in a striped blazer, James, the art director, here for two years and enjoying his first experience of living and working abroad (what a place to start!), and a cheerful rounded Indian guy in a blue T-shirt and jeans, a Mumbaikar called Mahesh. I think he has some technical role at the magazine. Within minutes, he and I are talking travel-in-India. I sip the white wine we picked up on the way outside, and relax. These are good people, easy to get on with. I’m having fun in my Alice-in-Wonderland way.
Although James tells me they usually announce the next show by way of a tinkle on a xylophone-type instrument, Manish Malhotra’s is heralded by word-of-mouth. “Follow me,” says Anna, whisking her way effectively though the crowds. “Press, we’re press,” she says to anyone who even thinks to question our credentials. I wave my day-pass - name-less and face-less, it simply has “Media” handwritten on it - and feel like a kid trailing in her mother’s wake. I glue myself to Anna, like an additional shadow.
The Fashionzine-allocated seats are taken - presumably by those who actually have to write something about the show - and
detail on the University of Mumbai buildings
we make our way to the back of the press seating section. Anna gets hold of Mahesh by phone and we try and get him and Marie to join us, squeezing four people into three seats, but the Lakme officials boot out the other two. They didn’t have passes and were arguing they were “press” on the basis only of their business cards. Their seats are barely vacated before they are taken by two young women. Anna and I shrug. We’d proved four could sit on three seats; now we were saddled with it, even if these weren’t our friends.
A stressed young woman appears, shuffling along our row, demanding to see our credentials yet again. She’s not Lakme staff, as one of our new neighbours points out: she has no right to do this. She starts to argue with each of us as to our right to be there, but we hold our ground. (I’m verbally sheltering behind Anna’s calm, confident tones.) Things get nasty between her and one of our neighbours. The argument ends abruptly, the invader moves sulkily off. Later we see from her microphone that she’s from TV9.
Anna points out where the Bollywooders
Mumbai municipal government building
are sitting. I stare unashamedly. No, no-one particularly familiar, although I think I’ve seen the dramatic-looking Kareena Kapoor before, long straight hair draped deliberately over her left shoulder. (I read later that Sylvester Stallone’s Bollywood debut involves her as the maid-in-distress: hopefully, they don’t have Sly doing a song’n’dance routine, do they?)
Suddenly, the lights dim, and a fast, urgent drum-beat starts. A dozen bare torso-ed male models appear, a Spartan army theme apparent. The show has begun.
And it was all over surprisingly quickly. For the most part, the men and women appear singly, sashaying quickly down the catwalk, pausing at the end for the turn before returning the way they had come. Large screens on three walls project the detail that we, at the back, cannot see. I am particularly taken by one semi-transparent, flimsy material-ed sari, the pallu of which the model carries in her right hand, the length perfectly adjusted so that, when she does the pose-and-turn at the end of the catwalk, she appears to be leaning on the excess fabric, like some delicate walking stick. That, and the gold tennis shoes which Manish seems to have each model wearing, regardless of the
rest of the outfit. All the girls are sporting high ponytails fastened by a wide band, allowing the hair to swing gracefully as the girls walk.
As a finale, all two dozen or so models reappear in their final outfits and parade the catwalk to widespread applause. They remain at the entrance/exit point and Anna whispers that this is usually when a Bollywood star appears to walk down the catwalk as an encore to the main show. We wait, the music pulsing. The chosen star really shouldn’t come as any surprise. Manish is designing the kit for his Indian Premier League cricket team, the Kolkata Knight Riders, and their cheerleaders. KKR’s colours are black and gold, the dominant colours in this evening’s collection. Sure enough, this is the one face I know well from his ubiquitous presence on billboards here and the panache of last year’s “Om Shanti Om”: Shah Rukh Khan. The audience erupts; young women in the press-pack scream. SRK knows his appeal and relishes every moment. He has the female population of the room wrapped around his little finger with every tongue-in-cheek pout and raised eyebrow. Arm in a sling - Malhotra is the first fashion
bonus lunch for the crows
designer to design a sling, SRK tells us later, and only on seeing news coverage about the KKR the next day do I realise that SRK must actually have broken his arm, as opposed to adopting a sling as an unusual kind of fashion accessory - SRK parades down the catwalk, pausing to pose several times on his return. At the entrance/exit, now alone, the models having evaporated in the pizzazz of SRK’s catwalk, SRK is presented with a microphone. Anna groans audibly. And so begins a bizarre rambling, the actor thanking his friends, blowing kisses to actresses, thanking his friends, telling us about the coaching he apparently received on how to “do” the catwalk (involving him pouting “like a sex-starved fish”!), thanking his friends, thanking his friends… He must have been drunk: that would be the only excuse for this quarter-hour or more of nothing and, as Anna points out, the one person he hadn’t yet thanked, is the designer whose clothes he’s modelling. I guess why: the minute he speaks Manish’s name, the designer will appear and SRK’s “moment” will be over. Sure enough, he finally mentions Manish, managing, somehow, to make it sound as if this was
mosque opposite Mangaldas Market
all his, SRK’s, event, Manish but a footnote. Still, the gorgeous designer does appear for a final parade down the catwalk with the models, Manish arm-in-arm with his buddy, SRK. (The photos of Manish really hadn’t done him justice - he’s better looking than most of the male models he was using.)
And now it really was all over. We made our way out, met up with the others in the corridor, and headed to the restaurant for dinner. I was deep in conversation with James by this stage, the art director apoplectic about Indian fashion’s reliance on Bollywood to promote its products. In the West, Hollywood and the like may turn up to fashion shows, but only in the front row, not even doing a lap of the catwalk. Maybe it’s because our “celebrity cult” extends to the supermodel, and it is their “endorsement” or, more like, the ability of the designer to enlist their appearance, which highlights that designer’s work. Here, by contrast, the actors parade the catwalk and now, if SRK’s “performance” is indicative of a new trend, use the show as an excuse to publicise themselves, the designer and his work now relegated to a
rook at the Hanging Gardens
very distant second place.
But the night’s adventures were not over. We split the dinner bill four ways, handed the waiter the exact amount, picked up our belongings and made our way out. James and I lagged behind, discussing the excitement of meeting a partner at the airport (his French partner, Claude, was arriving in the morning), when we were accosted by a manager of the restaurant who was brandishing five Rs.500 notes and, apologetically but emphatically, claiming they were forgeries; could we please provide alternatives or pay by credit card. We were incredulous. I pointed out that the chance of all five being forgeries was next to impossible: my notes had come from a Bangalore ATM, and the others had come from two people, Anna and James (who was also paying for Mahesh’s meal). The others saw we’d been held up, and came back to see what the problem was. Mahesh looked at the notes and said that, as Gandhiji’s picture was visible in watermark form on all the notes, they couldn’t be forgeries. The manager seemed to be basing his argument on the metal strip through the notes, though I couldn’t understand his point. He suggested we
drying fish
follow him to his office and he’d show us what he meant. On the way there, Mahesh pointed out another obvious problem: we had no way of knowing that these were our notes, the notes that we’d handed over. James’s cash had been folded in four, Anna’s and mine nearly flat. This collection had been nervously folded and re-folded by the manager. He disappeared into his office and emerged a few minutes later, saying it would take a while to confirm they were forgeries. I put Mahesh’s point; the manager said we’d have to take his word for it.
“So we have your word?” I asked, with several pounds of sarcasm in my voice.
He demurred, and then abruptly changed tactic, waving us away as if accepting the restaurant would bear the loss. We were flummoxed at our apparent and relatively easy win, but didn’t stop to argue the point.
We’d debated the logistics of getting back into town, and it seemed easiest if Anna and James’s cab dropped Mahesh and myself at separate, but defined, rickshaw ranks, so we piled into one taxi, Mahesh explaining our requirements to the driver. Then someone spotted a rickshaw that
sunset over Chowpatty Beach
seemed prepared to take me to Bandra. We unpacked ourselves and I said my goodbyes. Mahesh accompanied me to the rickshaw and confirmed the driver would take me to the Metro Palace Hotel. So far, so good, but I was left negotiating the fare.
“Five hundred rupees, madam.”
“Five hundred? No way. One hundred.”
“No, madam.” Pause. “Midnight rates.” Pause. “Two hundred.”
“OK,” I started to say, when Mahesh reappeared to find out what the problem was. I explained, and he told the driver to switch on the meter, and turned to explain to me the meter (which measures distance) and the rate card (which listed separate rates for after midnight). No worries.
We set off. “Hey! Meter!” I said, spotting the FOR HIRE sign was still upright. (It has to be swung downwards for the meter to start.)
“Madam, midnight rates…,” he started to whine.
“Meter!” I ordered, and made to move the sign round myself. Grumpily, he switched the meter on.
And so we made our way back, streets nearly deserted of traffic. This is a city that, its size notwithstanding, does get dark, the streetlights erratic
monkeys on Elephanta Island
in their functioning. It is eerie to drive through roads that only a few hours’ earlier were solid with traffic, motorbikes and rickshaws squeezing into every available - or potentially available - space between the larger vehicles, horns tooting as if in conversation or, rather, angry debate. Now, after midnight, there are only a few rickshaws, cars and taxis on the road. At the side of the road, in bursts, according to some unknown plan, taxis are lined up, going to sleep for the night. Some have their bonnets raised, whether to cool down or for inevitable tinkering. Drivers mill around, draw breath, or lie down in the backseat to sleep. Rickshaws equally congregate for the night hours, a few drivers still hovering in the hope of a final fare. We continue, stopping briefly to consult one such driver for directions to my hotel, the cab driver still grumpy at my Mahesh-fuelled insistence on the meter.
We finally reach the familiar side road from which Metro Palace Hotel is accessed, and I ask the driver to pull over.
“Now, how much?” I gesture at the meter.
“Midnight rates, madam…” This is becoming a refrain.
Mumbai pollution
the card,” I order.
He shrugs. He doesn’t have a rate card after all. A common problem, if 2/3 drivers in one night is a fair sample.
“Two hundred rupees, madam.”
“No,” I say definitively. “Here’s one hundred. I was told it would cost eighty.”
I thrust the note at him and get rapidly out of the rickshaw, scuttling across the road, uncaring of the two approaching rickshaws who toot angrily at me, and uncaring of another two rickshaw drivers pulled up on the other side of the road who berate me for something. I’d had Enough, with a very capital “E”. I walked rapidly into the calm, quiet reception area of the hotel and asked for my key. It had been one heck of a night…
And I didn’t even mention the extraordinary noise that emanated from the first rickshaw periodically. It sounded as if the driver was crunching the gears. Only very belatedly did I realise that this sickly noise was his vehicle’s best effort at a horn.
Or the young man on a moped with his six year old son riding in front of him, swerving through the traffic, neither of
shop sign near Mangaldas Market
them wearing helmets.
Or the sinking feeling of being driven along streets with shantytown-esque makeshift housing on both sides.
Or the effort of trying to sms in the back of a rickshaw, needing the sanity that a brief connection with the real world brings, but painfully aware that an unseen bump or slip could lose me the very same connection, the mobile crunched under-wheel by the next passing traffic.
Or the odd proliferation of tattoos amongst glamorous Indian women. Anna described a request from a colleague for an Indian model, specifying age range, general impression, and, specifically, “no tattoos”.
Or the non-stop conversation at dinner as we discussed food, travel, Bollywood and the fashion industry, travel companions, office meetings, the plus points of Washington, DC, my writing aspirations, Anna’s family (in response to a question from James as to how I knew Anna)… The instant, heart-warming camaraderie. The transience of the night. The secrets shared with strangers.
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The World Park is located in Dabaotai, Huaxiang, Fengtai District, Beijing. It is 16 kilometers from the city center and 8 kilometers from Beijing West Railway Station. It is a national 4A-level scenic spot and Beijing boutique park. It features open-air and open-air performances, zero-distance interactive participation and exotic singing and dancing performances. In 2014, it was designated as the theme park performing area of Beijing Cultural and Creative Industry Functional Zone by Beijing Municipal Government.
Beijing World Park opened in 1993, covering an area of 800 Mu and 76% of the greening area. It consists of open-air art theatre, Asia-Pacific grand stage, African small stage, Welcome Square in the gate area, Elephant Hall in Thai village, and Wuzhou Flower Car grand parade performance. It is composed of six performances, embellishing nearly 100 world-famous architectural landscapes. As far as possible, the building materials of scenic spots imitate the original materials, using copper carving, copper casting, gold, gold plating, wood carving, etc., to maintain the original style.
With the help of new coordinate positioning, Beijing World Park has changed from static miniature landscape to dynamic performing arts. It has launched a dynamic performance base of "Glamorous World-Global Folk Song and Dance Gallery", with original foreign folk song and dance performances as the highlight, gardening and gardening as the green new landscape, and architectural attractions as the basis.
With the launch of the "one belt and one way" summit in Beijing, the Beijing World Park has launched a large-scale historical dance drama, such as "Silk Road style", "Silk Road Song" (flower Car Parade) and "Kroraina ancient rhyme". All the performances in the park are free to watch.
In April 1991, Jiang Zemin, Li Peng and other party and state leaders visited the park site to plant trees and examined the sand table model of the park .
In April 1992, construction was officially started by breaking ground.
On September 25, 1993, President Jiang Zemin wrote the name of the garden in person and officially opened it to visitors on October 25. Vice Premier Qian Qichen, accompanied by Luo Gan and Li Qiyan, cut ribbons for the official opening of the World Park. Li Peng wrote the inscription for the World Park: "The park is big, the world is small, the scenic spots, have a full view" . Leading comrades Wanli, Tian Jiyun, Li Lanqing, Wei Jianxing, Liu Huaqing, Wu Xueqian and Hu Jintao visited the park one after another.
On the morning of September 21, 1995, a large-scale opening ceremony and folk March performance of "95 Asian Folklore Week" (one of the main activities of "Chinese Folklore Tour" were held in Beijing World Park. From September 21 to September 27, various folk art performances and handicraft production were held in Beijing World Park. The opening ceremony was grandly held in the World Park . Art troupes from Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Korea, Nepal, the Philippines, China and Hawaii from 11 countries and regions staged performances of songs and dances with rich national customs.
In 1996, the Russian Vladivostok Children's Art Troupe visited the World Park and performed classical and modern ballet in an open-air theater. Beijing Fengtai District Committee and District Government held a large-scale cultural evening celebrating "August 1" in the park. The World Park Art Troupe performed with Tianhua, Wang Kun, Liu Shuping, Zhang Shugui and other famous artists. From September 1st to 7th, the World Park launched a "future of love frontier" campaign to console outstanding teachers in Ali Tibet, inviting five outstanding primary school teachers in Ali Tibet.
In 1997, the Elephant Pavilion of the World Park was officially opened. Tourists can see Thai elephant performances in the World Park .
In 2000, on the basis of the original elephant training performance, more than 20 crocodiles from Thailand and Thai elephant trainers jointly performed wonderful performances for tourists. In October, he hosted the dragon dance competition of the Yanhuang Dragon Boat Dragon and Lion World Competition.
In 2001, the Fourth Beijing International Tourism and Culture Festival (Fengtai District) was held in the World Park. Actors from Italy, Britain, France, Mongolia, Greece and Vanuatu gave performances.
In 2002, the 5th Asian Art Festival with the theme of "Know Asia and Love Asia" was held here. Art troupes from Nepal, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Singapore performed foreign national songs and dances.
In 2003, the World Park hosted the "Century Travel of Chinese and Foreign Automobiles" Festival. From October 18 to 28, a 12-day automobile exhibition was held in Beijing World Park .
In 2004, the 4th Fengtai Branch Event of "Meeting Beijing" sponsored by the Ministry of Culture was held in the Art Theatre. The Karmal Folk Art Map, Bahamas Youth Dance Map and Fengtai Youth Palace Dance Troupe performed programs with national and regional characteristics. The National Hip-hop Competition was held at the Art Theatre of the World Park in Beijing. The 3rd National New Star Selection Show Competition and the 1st National Popular Singers Competition (Beijing Competition Area) finals of the Beiguang Daily Cup were held in the World Park.
In 2005, the 2nd "Double Star Cup" National TV Hip-hop Dance Competition was held in the Park Art Theatre, Beijing Sub-Competition Area and the 2nd Beijing Hip-hop Dance Competition . In October, the park opened the Golden Week with the theme of "Dynamic Africa". Actors from Ethiopia's Mutabe Black Band, Australia's "Grenda" Little Star Dance Troupe and Ukraine were invited to participate in the performance.
In 2006, the first Asian Spring Festival Folklore Tour was held in the World Park . In July, the closing ceremony of Beijing International Wind Festival was held in World Park. Nearly 30 excellent orchestras from 10 countries and more than 1000 people from home and abroad participated in the activities. In the same month, the World Park opened the Jamaican Cultural Week under the Eiffel Tower.
On August 3, 2008, in order to welcome the Chinese traditional festival Qixi Festival, Beijing World Park opened a "Chinese traditional culture experience area". More than 30 Chinese costume enthusiasts and nearly 100 visitors took part in Chinese traditional Qixi Festival activities such as "Douqiao". On September 14, Chinese young men and Russian girls arranged folk legends such as "Chang'e Running to the Moon", "Hou Yi Shooting Day" and "Wu Gang Giving Wine" into sitcoms in the World Park, and staged the "Western version" Mid-Autumn Festival story .
On July 15, 2009, Beijing World Park held an elephant Water-Splashing Festival in Thailand with the theme of "Cool World, Cool Summer". Thai elephants, actors from Uganda, Russia, Thailand, Wa and Dai nationalities participated in the festival.
On June 24, 2011, the interior decoration of the miniature landscape Guili Palace was completed, including tatami, Japanese screen, wooden door and other Japanese-style structures. The original Guili Palace was miniaturized in 1:2 ratio. Except for the size difference, the interior structure of the building is basically the same .
From April 2 to 4, 2012, in order to coordinate the activities of the Sino-Russian Cultural Tourism Year, a national song and dance performance with strong Russian flavor was performed in the open-air grand stage theatre. At the same time, a folk indigenous performing troupe from Uganda will present original ecological folk songs and dances .
From April 15 to the end of October 2017, the World Park held a grand tour of flower carts around the world. More than 100 Chinese and foreign actors dressed in colorful costumes formed eight parades. Foreign actors from Uganda, Ukraine, Russia, Cuba, Mexico, Armenia and other countries displayed the original exotic culture in front of tourists at zero distance .
Admission ticket
Off-season opening time: 8:00 a.m. - 16:30 p.m. (November 1 - April 14);
Opening time of peak season: 8:00 a.m. - 17:00 p.m. (April 15 - October 31).
Ticket: 100 yuan
Favoured policy:
Children: 1.2m or less free (accompanied by legal adults)
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In the FOX-televised card’s main event, Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone challenges for a UFC title for the first time when he battles lightweight champion Rafael Dos Anjos in a highly anticipated rematch, and in the co-feature, former UFC heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos battles Alistair Overeem.
A native of Georgia, Miller has long represented the American Top Team gym in Coconut Creek, Florida, and this December "Magrinho" will compete in the state for the first time since 2006 as he looks to pick up his third win in his last four fights. Fort Lauderdale's Alers has won nine of his last ten, including an April 2014 victory over Alan Omer in his UFC debut.
Stay tuned to UFC.com for ticket on-sale information and more fight card announcements.
Gastelum Injured, Out of UFC 195
Apply to Be a Fighter
Cruz Returns for Title Fight against Dillashaw
Fans voices come first
Favorite athlete? Fantasy match-ups?
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Doctoral Programme in Law
Doktorin/Doktor der Rechtswissenschaften (Dr. iur.)
ISCED-F 0421 Law
UC 796 200 xxx
Relevant diploma or master's degree or equivalent and Laguage Certificates
University of Innsbruck Bulletin April 3rd 2017, Issue 30, No. 401 (amendment of the curriculum)
University of Innsbruck Bulletin May 14th 2012, Issue 25, No. 272
Relevant bachelor's or diploma degrees at the University of Innsbruck:
Diploma Programme Law
Diploma Programme Business Law
Integrated Programme Law
Admission to the doctoral programme Law requires a university (diploma or) master's degree in a thematically relevant field. Master's or diploma degrees awarded by universities of applied sciences ("Fachhochschulen") are considered on an individual basis.
Research and Theoretical Core Competences
10 ECTS-Credits
Core Competences for the Legal Profession
Research and Core Competences in Fields Other Than the Field of Thesis Topic
Scientific Fundamentals
and Core Skills in the Field of Thesis Topic
Thesis Defense (“Rigorosum”)
The dissertation is a scientific piece of work which – in contrast to a diploma or master‘s thesis – serves to prove the student's ability to cope with scientific questions in an independent way (§ 51 Para 2 No 13 Universities Act 2002).
Contents will be updated shortly!
The student has to propose a team of supervisors, consisting of at least two people (dissertation committee) and to nominate one of them as the supervisor mainly responsible. It is permissible to propose supervisors (with the exception of the main supervisor) from subject-related fields. In justifiable exceptional cases it is possible for students to propose only one supervisor.
The student has to communicate the dissertation topic and names of the supervisors in writing to the Director of Studies prior to beginning the work. Topic and supervisors are considered as accepted, if the Director of Studies does not veto them by means of a decree within one month after the receipt of the proposal.
The Doctoral Programme in Law is grouped among the legal sciences. It serves to train academic researchers and professionals for high-level legal positions. The goal of the programme is to enable graduates to conduct original and methodologically sound scientific work independently, demonstrated by the achievement of the dissertation. The programme also serves as training for aspiring academic researchers, building on the foundations of diploma and master's studies. In addition to the acquisition and further development of scientific knowledge, the doctoral programme helps students acquire key qualifications, such as theoretical reflection, independent learning, scientific discourse, interdisciplinary and international dialogue, the presentation of research findings, and the tranfer of knowledge. Graduates acquire an awareness of legally and ethically problematic areas and their effects on society and its development. They are also able to present scientific findings and to discuss and critically analyze their own and others' findings, concepts and projects with colleagues, lay people and scientifically-aware audiences. The Doctoral Programme in Law meets international standards.
Graduates are qualified junior academics. They have mastered the methods applied in research in their area and are capable of critically discussing, analyzing, and further developing theories. Junior academics possess the competence to develop and conduct substantial research projects with scientific integrity, and they are qualified to reflect on these processes scientifically and theoretically. They are also aware of issues and questions in gender research.
Occupational fields include the classic legal professions as well as other highly-qualified careers at universities, in research and educational institutions, in diplomatic service, in European and international organizations, in national and international companies, and in key political positions.
Instructions on the PhD-Programme (organisation)
Information about the PhD- and Doctoral Programmes
Application of the Dissertations's Defense
Recognitions (in German only)
Doctoral Programme Law (2009W) => Doctoral Programme Law (2012W)
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Walter Obwexer
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UIN Jakarta Pressed MoU with Government of South Tangerang
by Buya Jilan | 2 April 2016 | News
Rector Building, UIN NEWS Online– UIN Jakarta and the government of South Tangerang City weave a agreement on human resource development (SDM). This signing is done in the main courtroom, Rector Building, 2nd floor, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Thursday (31/03).
Rector of UIN Jakarta, Prof DR Dede Rosyada, said, this agreement program is a continuation of UIN Jakarta program to being able to contribute for environment around campus and the whole community as the whole. “How could this campus be closer to the community. If we take a look at UIN mission, the current core business in the Islamic studies,†he explained.
He added, UIN Jakarta wants to make South Tangerang community to be more righteous and istiqomah. This agreement is built with the government of South Tangerang City and one ot UIN Jakarta’s support in realize the government’s vision and mission for the next five years.
“How can we promote righteous attitude to South Tangerang community with skill of technology and inovasion in the future. We will develop this alongside with the government’s program,†he added.
As an additional information, this year we have 500 lecturer sent to do reserches. The result not only will be documented as a reference, but also need to be studied and patented so it would become one of the innovasion in the future. “Later we will do the study to benefit the community so it would not just become a theory but also it could be developed in diciplines. We also would release certificate that could be recognized in the world of work, so after receiving this certificate, students is ready to be assigned anywhere,†he said.
In the same place, The Mayor of South Tangerang City, Airin Rachmy Diany, alongside with Regional Work Units (SKPD), said, this agreement is part of the city’s expectation in becoming civilized city which could compete in the world of technology. Meanwhile, to reach the goal there needs to be development on human resource.
“We stated this agreement with private parties, universities, and government, so it’s all connected. This agreement is already run for a while and needs to be developed if hasn’t improved and needs to be maintained if it has been gone smoothly,†he stated. (Translated by: Ihsan/Amanda)
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WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO
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Aagaard, Robert
https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U4890
OBE 1993
Born 27 June 1932; s of Villien Valdemar Aagaard and Florence (née Brooke); m 1960, Fiona Christine Drury; two s one d...
Text of WHO'S WHO and WHO WAS WHO copyright © A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. All other web site content copyright © Oxford University Press 2020.
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Posts tagged "furnishings"
Striking Out in Italian Design
Photo by Giacomo Maestri.
New design brand LATOxLATO, founded by the young architects Francesco Breganze de Capnist and Virginia Valentini, presents its first collection of furnishings and objects that strives to tell a story of true passion for Italian design. Exclusively made in Italy, LATOxLATO uses the finest materials and refined techniques, all built on a search for the best artisans and craftspeople.
“LATOxLATO comes from the wish of bringing the artisans’ knowledge passed down across generations to the public,” say designers Breganza de Capnist and Valentini, “and make people realize that in Italy we still have a great tradition of true masters of the art that mold one piece at a time with their hands … Our mission is to show the consumer everyday objects in a different way from the one they are used to seeing them, freed from the constraints of the usual trends through the constant dialogue between art, aesthetics and functionality.”
The duo is usually inspired by day to day life, taking their personal memories as well as the architecture of Italy and transposing generalized design concepts into household pieces. For those looking to outfit their home, both designers say that these pieces help to “tell a story about [the] owner.”
“Each product has a unique and recognizable identity and is meant to embellish its new home and also bring value to its new owner. The goal is to give the consumer the chance to own a very unique piece that tells a story about him, what he likes and what are his dreams.”
There are several pieces in the collection, varying in look and purpose. The Fourmosa storage chest draws on the clean formal lines of classic Italian design from the 1950s, updated for the modern age.
The piece is in varnished oak, with masterfully carved sharp edges bringing a sense of continuity to the surface. Designed to fit together in infinite combinations, these pieces create a dynamic, personalized piece that can even be expanded over time.
The trapezoidal modules easily lend themselves to various free combinations, without the use of joints.
Photo by Matteo Imbriani.
1950s design also provided inspiration for Aracne, an unconventional coffee table with an unexpected eight-legged silhouette. Its round glass top seems to float atop the elegant zoomorphic structure, solid and airy at the same time.
Its eight wooden supports, with rounded edges that allow the top to nestle into place with a natural elegance, create an evocative visual rhythm, interacting with its surroundings by projecting delicate threads of shadow into the light.
Precise woodworking and organic design make Aracne an elegant presence full of personality.
Candleholders, vases and a centerpiece are a tribute to the Italian art and architecture that inspires their form and character.
The Vestalia candleholder boasts the natural elegance of the most precious marbles, from Carrara White to Carnico Gray and Imperial Green.
A complex process of water-jet carving, entrusted to historic Venetian ateliers, brings out the stone’s edges and veining.
Their design, rich in tactile emotions and interactive possibilities, makes them objects of compelling sculptural presence.
The arched ceramic vases Marcello, Massimo and Vittorio offer a subtle allusion to Italy’s Palladian villas and palaces and to the perspectives of Metaphysical art.
The detailing in precious 24k gold or platinum creates reflections of light and motion in perspective.
The pure white of the surface showcases the precious glaze finish and the imperceptible differences in intensity that come from handmade artistry.
Left photo: Marcello; Right photo: Massimo
Both photos by Giacomo Maestri.
The beauties of artisanal ceramic return in the Sophia table centerpiece, inspired by the great piazzas of the città d’arte, Italy’s “Cities of Art.”
A meticulous study in proportion, Sophia presents itself as a scale model of the arches and porticoes of Renaissance architecture.
The result is an abstract geometric form, rich in sensory character and vibrant with luminous details that enrich the pure white of the ceramic.
Kettal’s outdoor decoration collection includes a wide variety of products, ranging from planters and fire pits to floor lamps and side tables.
Kettal, a designer and manufacturer of timeless outdoor furnishings for home and commercial uses, has developed a range of exterior decoration and design products in its new puff design and rope collection, Kettal Objects.
Kettal Objects is a range of outdoor decoration products, which includes puffs, planters, fire pits and oil lamps designed by Emiliana Design Studio. Emiliana Design Studio was set up by Ana and Emili in Barcelona in 1996 after they graduated from London’s Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Their work is characterized by its ability to give each project a fresh conceptual approach, experimentation with materials and for proactively involving the user without compromising functional, technical or production aspects.
Kettal has extended its new collection with the introduction of a new puff, constructed of aluminum and one of the ‘Bela Ropes’ 17-color rope range designed by Doshi Levien. Doshi Levien is an internationally acclaimed design studio founded by designers Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien. The two designers have been working together for more than ten years in their London-based design studio.
The Kettal Objects collection also includes a sideboard, room divider, floor lamp, parasols, side table and tray by Kettal Studio, an oil lamp and fire pit by Emiliana Design Studio, candleholders and outdoor rugs (200 x 294 cm) by Patricia Urquiola, rugs (200 x 300 cm and 300 x 400 cm), terrain cushions and geometrics fabrics by Doshi Levien and three models of lamp — floor, table and battery-powered — by Michel Charlot.
Photos courtesy of Kettal
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Le'Veon Bell: 'I’m here to win football games' amid reports Jets coach didn't want him
Andy Vasquez
NFL writer
The New York Jets' stunning move to fire general manager Mike Maccagnan, just weeks after letting him preside over one of the most important offseasons in franchise history has left a lot of questions.
One involves the team's prominent free-agent signing.
There have been multiple reports that coach Adam Gase, who is serving as acting general manager, and Maccagnan had tension over the signing of Le'Veon Bell: Maccagnan wanted him, Gase didn't think he was worth the money.
That leaves Bell in an awkward spot and threatens to damage the player-coach relationship before Bell even plays a game.
Bell seemed to take the news in stride Wednesday, responding to the situation on his Twitter account.
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"There’s been a BUNCH of false reports and speculation about me in the past about things I’ve said and done, so I’m used to this," Bell wrote. "I don’t jump to conclusions when I hear or see a story that may affect me. ... Even if reports are true, that won’t stop me from doing what I came here to do...everyone has a job to do, and I’m gonna do mine whether peopIe 'like' me or not. I’m here to win football games."
It seems as if Bell is going into this with the right attitude, but it bears watching.
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The Masters of Research qualifies individuals who apply an advanced body of knowledge in a range of contexts for research and scholarships and as a pathway for further research.
A research degree is an advanced study program that gives you an opportunity to deeply explore a topic of your choice and the expertise of their supervisors. To find an expert in your field of interest, see the Web Access Research Portal (WARP) site.
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Racism, Theology and the Institutional Church
General Assembly 2000 Event 243
Moderator: Rev. Susan Sochocki Brown
Panelists: Dr. James Cone, Rev. Dr. John Buehrens,
Rev. Jose Ballester, Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker
Dr. James Cone is still angry—angry that America is no closer to King's dream of a just society, angry at the appalling silence of almost all white theologians on racism and on religion's historical support of colonialism, imperialism, and segregation, and angry at today's continuing racism expressed in poverty, police brutality and the prison-industrial complex.
He asked whether theology can exist without being anti-black—and why white theologians aren't asking that question. After the Jewish holocaust, theologians seriously considered whether biblical theology can exist without being anti-Semitic. Feminists have challenged whether patriarchy and oppression of women are so ingrained into biblical theology that it must be abandoned, and gay and lesbian theology questions whether homophobia is so much a part of biblical Christianity that it cannot be rescued.
Is it, Cone asked, that white theologians do not know about genocide and colonialism? About the decimation of the indigenous population of the Americas? About King Leopold of Belgium's reign of terror and genocide in the Congo? About the centuries of churches, theologians and divinity school professors teaching the "natural superiority" of white over black?
Saying "There is no justice without memory," Cone suggested that silence is racism's best friend. "Most whites don't like to talk about racism because it makes them feel guilty, a truly uncomfortable feeling." But how uncomfortable does racism make its victims? When oppressive history is hidden, the victims are made the oppressors, and the oppressors, victims.
"No one can be neutral or silent in the face of this great evil. We are either for it or against it." Cone challenged the Unitarian Universalilsts (UUs) in the packed hall to develop an enduring race critique, embedded in our faith, and to make the analysis so explicit that no one can avoid talking about it.
Expanding on this theme, the Rev. Dr. John Buehrens, Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) President, noted that the UUA's Journey Toward Wholeness program requires that all UUs become theologians. "For some of us," he said, "engaging with the painful history of oppression makes theology possible again."
He recounted his own history, where direct experience of racial injustice in the 1960s had brought him to a new appreciation of biblical theology, and introduced him to Howard Thurman's theology of Jesus, as opposed to a theology about Jesus.
Buehrens closed his remarks with a warning against the temptations of a false universalism, projecting outward middle class economic success and scientific attainments that are not available to all people.
The Rev. Jose Ballester spoke, too, of his own experience from the 1960s (in his case, it was in New York as an anti-war activist and member of both the Young Republicans and the Young Lords) and his realization of the importance of not just reading and talking about acts, but doing action. He learned accountability, he told those attending, from his Puerto Rican community and family, both of which helped him see the individualism towards which he was drawn, and how it tended to look at why oppression happens, instead of what to do about oppression.
"Justice is what we need to establish," not a theory of justice, Ballester said. "We need to do justice, not talk about it." But he also cautioned that justice can never be achieved at the expense of others, and closed with a strong message to remember that nothing is more important than the community and the family. Only if we have right relationships can we work effectively in the community.
The Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker spoke of how black theology has made more space for other critical theology, including feminist theology, with a shared focus on personal experience as the basis for analysis. She spoke of the initiative in California to try more youth as adults and the foreseeable consequences of that, and about the color differences in who goes to prison, the way the prison-industrial complex uses unpaid prison labor in a kind of "neo-slavery," and the fast-growing rate of Latino women in prison.
She noted that the construction of identity as a white person is to become more ignorant, rather than seeing and understanding the world we actually live in. She quoted from James Baldwin that we do not know and do not want to know the world.
Using William R. Jones' concept of "white-ianity"—the idea that Christianity may be inherently about white racism—she noted that Christian theology defines ignorance and innocence as being in right relationship with God. To be in the Garden of Eden, the ideal state, is to be without the knowledge of good and evil. Acquiring the fruit of knowledge forces an alienation from God. The sacrifice of a human being restores right relationship with God, so Christianity blesses redemptive sacrifice and helps us not to recognize that the sacrifice of human life is a crime. "Christianity cannot tell the truth about a fundamental act of violence," she summarized.
Parker noted that theology can bless our ignorance, disconnect us from seeing reality and stand in the way of our doing justice. But, she also noted, theology can open our eyes. She drew from William Ellery Channing's theology of the wonderful array of human power as a reflection of our creation in God's image. Our whole being is divine, and unfolding our powers is our reason for being. Channing came to realize the social implications of that theology: anything that gets in the way of that unfolding is a way of killing God. Slavery, Channing came to see, was an evil because it kept slaves from coming into the fullness of divine living.
As UUs, Parker noted, we value those who stand against their culture with open eyes, people who see more clearly and who dare to say what they see. But she also noted that Channing's congregation had rejected his analysis of slavery, and she asked the institutional question: what would have transformed Channing's congregation? What the collective community knows and recognizes is also important, because people learn from and are supported in community. She shared a powerful story about a congregation on the West Coast faced with the government's intended internment of a Japanese family and the seizure of the family's farm during World War II. The leaders of the congregation offered to buy the farm for one dollar, preserve and maintain it until the family was released and then sell it back to them for the same dollar. This saved the family's farm, illustrating that when a community knows and acts and keeps faith, it can disrupt the power of ignorance and silence to destroy.
Knowledge, Parker closed by saying, allows us to disrupt injustice. To know is to love.
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There’s no place like home: Welsh welcome for ex-pats looking to go back to their roots
The couple were determined to get back to the green, green grass of home
Steve Owens
Alan and Christine Foster
The saying goes that there is no place quite like home…and when home looks out to sea and is surrounded by the natural beauty of Wales’ coastline, it’s not hard to see why.
For Alan and Christine Foster, a couple originally from South Wales, it was this very appeal of ‘home’ that convinced them to take the plunge and return to their roots once they retired, after spending more than 30 years living in Thame, Oxfordshire and working in London.
Moving to Oxfordshire from Cardiff in the 1980s to pursue his career in the city, Alan, 70, and wife Christine, had always longed to one day return back to Wales.
Retiring eight years ago marked the perfect opportunity to make the move and the couple, who will be celebrating their golden wedding anniversary next year, began the search for their dream coastal home.
Determined to live by the sea and to experience the fresh sea air that they remembered fondly from their childhood trips to the beach, Alan and Christine began looking into various locations across the UK including Devon, Cornwall and Dorset. But, despite uncovering many beautiful areas, they found that for them, nothing could quite compare to the green, green grass of home. Moving to Wales also presented Alan and Christine with the opportunity to get more for their buck as retirees. After all, even a top of the range luxury house in Wales was far less expensive than a regular property in Oxford and London, enabling them to upgrade and get better value for their money.
Having grown up in Ely, Cardiff, both Alan and Christine already had a close affinity with Wales, but after revisiting its coastline and seeing its beauty first-hand, the questions hovering over whether or not to return quickly dissipated.
Looking at a number of newbuild housebuilders across Wales to find their perfect home, Alan and Christine’s search was over when they came across a four-bedroom property set on the beachfront of Ogmore-by-Sea.
Located at leading housebuilder, Waterstone Homes’ Tusker’s Point development, the property boasts spacious open-plan, upside-down living, a stylish design and sea views. For Alan and Christine, it ticked all of the boxes.
Alan explained: “After living in Oxfordshire, we longed to be near the sea and scoured the Welsh coastline to find the right place for us. The moment we visited our new home in Ogmore-by-Sea, we were completely blown away. It’s a stunning house and is in a great spot on one of the most beautiful coastlines we’ve ever experienced. Ogmore beach is right on our doorstep, and Southerndown is just three miles away, perfect for long walks and watching the sun go down.
“On top of that, the travel connectivity is fantastic, so we can easily visit family members in Cardiff and travel down to our daughter and grandchildren who still live in Thame. It is great to come back home to Wales. I have some fantastic memories here.”
The couple's home at Ogmore-by-Sea
As well as finding their dream home, the grandparents also were fortunate enough to purchase the show home at the site, complete with all of the finest finishes.
Alan added: “As soon as we visited the show home, we fell in love. The property was stunning and we loved the design and interiors so it didn’t take us long to say ‘This is the one’. Buying the show home was a huge benefit – with it being fully furnished, we were able to move straight in.
“The property was more expensive than others in the area but it was worth every penny in terms of the location, quality and return on investment, which was an important consideration for us looking ahead to the future for our daughter’s inheritance. We are delighted to have found exactly what we were looking for.”
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Discounts and late payment fees could go under new rules for energy retailers
By Mike Foley
Gas and electricity retailers would be barred from profiting off customers in financial hardship under a new plan from the federal government.
Proposed rule changes to stop retailers charging energy consumers unreasonable fees for late payments would require retailers to limit the value of their discount offers to the cost savings they could reasonably expect to make if a customer met the payment deadline.
Discounts for paying bills on time could be limited under the new rules. Credit:Virginia Star
"For too long, the big energy companies have focused on their profits and not on their customers," Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister Angus Taylor said.
"This rule change builds on the work we've already done to help ensure a fair playing field for customers when negotiating their energy bill.
"The current rules are for the most part impacting customers who are already doing it tough, experiencing financial hardship."
People under financial stress are disproportionately impacted by the conditional discounts currently offered by energy retailers.
Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, Angus Taylor Credit:AAP
About 59 per cent of customers in this category cannot meet discount conditions and miss out on reduced bills.
The new rule would also mean customers who currently enjoy discounts for paying their bills on time, or using direct debit, would have their discount limited to the value of meeting those payment conditions.
Retailers would still be able to offer discounts on a non-conditional basis, such as sign-up offers, benefits for installing batteries and other energy equipment, discounts for bundling gas and electricity, or services like mobile phones.
The Australian Energy Market Commission sets the rules for electricity and gas retail markets. Acting chief executive Suzanne Falvi said while retailers would still be able to manage the risk of late payment by offering discounts or charging late fees, the draft rule would cap these to the reasonable cost incurred when payments are late.
"Unfortunately some retailers have used conditional discounts to profit from customers who struggle to pay their electricity and gas bills on time. This draft rule puts a stop to that," Ms Falvi said.
The AEMC has recommended the Council of Australian Governments Energy Council adopt new civil penalties to punish retailers $100,000 per breach if they fail to limit conditional discounts.
In July the government introduced a default market offer, which set a base power price for customers in South Australia, NSW and Queensland based on a set average usage amount.
The federal government in February introduced rule changes to improve conditions for energy customers, introducing deadlines for meter installation, requiring retailers to give advance notice of price changes, and allowing customers to read their own meters.
The proposed rule changes are open for public consultation until January 16, 2020.
Mike Foley
Mike is the climate and energy correspondent for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Six months in prison and $11,000 fine: racing's new inquiry threat
By Adam Pengilly and Chris Roots
September 6, 2019 — 8.00pm
Any person who fails to appear in front of a new racing tribunal faces up to six months imprisonment and hefty fines under proposed changes to NSW's racing legislation sparked by the controversial More Joyous affair.
Punters, former licensed people and other people not bound by the rules of racing could soon risk jail time and monetary penalties up to $11,000 for refusing to attend special inquiries under Supreme Court orders.
It’s part of plans tabled in the Racing Legislation Amendment Bill which, if passed, would allow the state's racing regulators to wield more power than ever before.
Controversial punter Eddie Hayson. Credit:Louise Kennerley
Controversial punter Eddie Hayson and former jockey Allan Robinson initially failed to attend and then comply with a stewards inquiry into the All Aged Stakes flop of More Joyous in 2013, which involved a bitter spat between Gai Waterhouse, her then bookmaking son Tom and owner John Singleton. Eventually, however, the pair attended the inquiry.
A reworked Thoroughbred Racing Act would give Racing NSW the power to escalate any hearing to a special inquiry if it poses a threat to horse racing, exposing racing's underbelly to integrity checks not previously in place.
That will then allow the governing body to apply to the Supreme Court to impose a range of measures on those being investigated, including compelling them to attend special inquiries and handing over mobile phones for forensic imaging.
Harness Racing NSW will also be granted jurisdiction to apply to the Supreme Court for the compulsion powers.
It is the most ominous sign the two racing regulators will now expand their breadth of reach in inquiries to people outside of traditional licensees, a power which could be soon enshrined in law.
Previously the maximum fine for not attending an inquiry was just $550.
High-profile bettor Steve Fletcher is currently wrangling with Racing NSW in the Supreme Court over a previous request for him to hand over his telephone in the inquiry into ex-Tabcorp trading manager Sally Snow, who was warned off by stewards after an investigation into betting activities.
Snow quit her role at wagering giant Tabcorp earlier this year after Racing NSW launched probe into the licensing of a syndication business run by her husband Nathan and professional punter John Kelton.
She has to date refused to co-operate with the investigation.
The Racing Legislation Amendment Bill is the result of recommendations from Racing Appeals Tribunal head David Armati, who is appointed by the NSW government.
And it could now see a range of people fronting stewards who previously could defy any instruction to appear.
“It’s a further safeguard for every day punters and the integrity of harness racing,” Harness Racing NSW chief executive John Dumesny said. “It will allow us in exceptional circumstances to get phones of people who sit outside the rules of harness racing.”
It will allow us in exceptional circumstances to get phones of people who sit outside the rules of harness racing
John Dumesny
Other changes to the Racing Legislation Amendment Bill will also provide Racing NSW with an explicit power to make rules in relation to horse racing and grant the Commissioner of Police the chance to exclude a person from a racetrack if it is in the public interest.
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INNOVATE NEBRASKA
It's Time For Bold Leadership
A LETTER FROM JUSTIN
Turning Our Vision
Into Reality
Now is the time for bold and assertive leadership. Nebraska is at a critical moment. I know that the future looks and feels deeply uncertain, especially with our divisive and polarizing political climate. However, it is exactly in moments like this we must be resilient and have a bold vision such as Innovate Nebraska 3.0 (I3). I3 seeks to encourage job growth by giving small business owners and emerging entrepreneurs the tools they need to expand. This plan creates good jobs, reduces poverty, strengthens our educational systems, gives families the security of health care, and preserves our communities for the next generation.
Over the last 30 years there have been countless plans for North Omaha—Omaha 20/20, North Omaha Dream, North Omaha Development Project, Village Zone, North Omaha Revitalization Plan, North Omaha Transformation Plan, North Omaha Redevelopment Plan, North Omaha Master Plan, Omaha 2000 and many more. With every family, the number of nonprofits have also continued to grow. In North Omaha specifically, the number of nonprofits has tripled over the last thirty years. Yet, as the name of the plans have changed and nonprofits have increased, the socio-economic conditions have not improved. In fact, we are entering 2020 much the same way we entered the previous six decades—as an improvised and neglected community.
The great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said: “Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.” In short, as long as we continue to respond to our socio-economic situation in the same old manner, we should expect to receive the same old results. North Omaha has never addressed our core issue—lack of economic opportunity. I3 seeks to change that. While the implementation will be challenging, the philosophy is simple; local jobs, build great communities, which generate income, that strengthens our State.
I3 is the roadmap by which I will integrate my campaign promises into Nebraska’s legislative agenda. It a courageous vision that builds on conversations we have had across our District, Omaha, and Nebraska. From speaking to constituents, I have learned that in order to build a Nebraska that works for all, we must insure that everyone has access to good paying jobs, safe and healthy neighborhoods, and to high quality education. We also know that residents who are physically, emotionally, and financially secure, are more connected to their communities and less likely to become offenders or victims of crime.
We know that change does not happen overnight and there is no single strategy or program that will solve every issue. We also know that innovative ideas, cannot be implemented without commitment to change and unwavering persistence. I have consistently proven that I am a leader who can take an idea from start to finish. I have also shown you that I am willing to work across the isle as long as the result moves Nebraska from Good to Great. As your representative in the legislature, I am ready to implement I3 and move us forward. Like the Phoenix, I believe it is time for us to rise up out of the ashes and create New Nebraska --Semper Nebraska.
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Arsenic Levels In Dan River Were Over NC Standard
By Duncan McFadyen • Feb 8, 2014
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Officials continue to monitor water quality near the site of a coal ash spill from a retired Duke Energy plant on the Dan River in northern North Carolina. WFAE's Duncan McFadyen reports arsenic levels exceeded a state standard earlier this week.
Crews Plug Dan River Coal Ash Leak
By Ben Bradford & Duncan McFadyen • Feb 7, 2014
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**UPDATE 2/8/2014 10:30 a.m.**
As of Saturday morning, Duke Energy workers have installed a permanent plug at the end of the wastewater pipe. A company representative says the "concrete-like substance" is curing. To keep pressure off of the plug as it cures, wastewater is still being pumped from the pipe and back into the coal ash pond. Crews are still trying to reach the broken part of the pipe under the ash pond. When they do, they plan to fill the full length of the pipe with the same concrete-like material.
Workers have temporarily stopped the flow of ash and water into the Dan River on the border of North Carolina and Virginia, and plan to permanently patch the leak overnight.
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By Ben Bradford • Jan 18, 2014
The state of North Carolina is suing the EPA. State environmental regulators are arguing that federal air quality standards are too stringent and should be loosened.
Court Orders EPA To Review Coal Ash Regulations
By Ben Bradford • Oct 29, 2013
A federal judge has ordered the EPA to decide whether the byproduct from burning coal is a hazardous material that must be regulated. That decision will have big implications for North Carolina.
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North Carolina’s environment agency has taken the unusual step of returning a federal grant to study streams and wetlands that could be harmed by hydraulic fracturing for natural gas.
The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources had itself recommended last year that baseline water-quality data be collected where drilling might occur. The information would help document any problems linked to drilling.
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If painting, like any other language, can be considered an abstract system of signs, there must be a pictorial vocabulary and syntactical rules which communicate meaning, however subjectively. When individual expression and personal in(ter)vention subsume themselves under a principle of order, they derive a new lawfulness and new formal possibilities. His paintings are not necessarily abstractions but through figurative symbols and external references are amenable of multiple connotations, even when there may be a stated object.
The ink on paper drawings featured here play on the talismanic power of language and the written word. Neither the provenance nor the purpose of the magical processes intimated by the drawings is stated: they could be at once apotropaic charms, the means of commanding supernatural forces or a baroque red herring.
Arising from an examination of (predominantly) British prehistoric funerary monuments, his current paintings might be styled a form of anastylosis: an attempt to inflect fragments of mid-20th century painterly language with a 21st
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Born in Leicestershire in 1960, Wayne Summers attended King Edward VI Grammar School, Stratford-upon-Avon before studying Art & Drama at the West London Institute and Visual Studies at Oxford Polytechnic (now Oxford Brookes). He has since lived on the North Staffordshire moors, in Bristol, Rotterdam and London and is currently based in the Welsh Marches. For the past 30 years he has worked primarily as a graphic designer whilst continuing to paint. In 2011 he mounted his first solo show in over 20 years at Llanover Hall Arts Centre, Cardiff. He was also invited to show work as part of Made in Herefordshire (2011) and the Three Choirs Festival (2012) at the Courtyard, Hereford. The latter was also the venue for An Upstart Crow, a solo show of 23 works on Shakespearean themes which ran from December 2014 to January 2015. He has subsequently shown at MOMA Wales; The Bohunk Institute, Nottingham; The Sidney Nolan Trust, Powys; Hereford Museum; and Ty Pawb, Wrexham. Having concluded an MA in Fine Art (Painting) at Aberystwyth School of Art in 2019, he is now a Doctoral Research student in the same discipline and at the same institution.
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All The Names Of God And His Angel
Fforest
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Susan Bleakley
Swirls In Pink
Paul Wadsworth
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Return To Isolation
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Sax Berlin
Stamp Out Racism. We All From Africa. 2019
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Starwood Energy to Acquire Greenleaf 1 & 2 Facilities from MUFG
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Greenwich, CT – APRIL 26, 2016 – Starwood Energy Group Global, LLC, a leading private investment firm focused on energy infrastructure, announced today that an investment affiliate has entered into an agreement with affiliates of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) to acquire Greenleaf 1 & 2, two 49.5MW gas-fired power plants located in California.
The transaction is subject to customary conditions and regulatory approvals, and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2016. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Both facilities—which MUFG acquired from Calpine Corp. in 2015—sell their capacity and energy under power purchase agreements with Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Greenleaf 2 also provides steam to Sunsweet Growers, Inc. under a steam offtake agreement.
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Starwood Energy Group is a private investment firm based in Greenwich, CT that specializes in energy infrastructure investments. Through its general opportunity funds Starwood Energy Infrastructure Fund I and II, and other affiliated investment vehicles, Starwood Energy Group manages total equity commitments in excess of $2 billion and has executed transactions totaling more than $4 billion in enterprise value. The Starwood Energy Group team brings extensive development, construction, operations, acquisition and financing expertise to its investments, with a focus on the natural gas and renewable power generation, and transmission sectors. Starwood Energy Group is an affiliate of Starwood Capital Group Global, L.P. Additional information about Starwood Energy Group as well as Starwood Capital Group can be found at www.starwoodenergygroup.com.
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What Is Cocol?
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Cocol is an authentic Mexican bread that dates back to the arrival of the Spanish in the New World during the 1500s. The indigenous Aztecs were unfamiliar with the types of breads that were important parts of European diets at the time, and the Spanish soon introduced them to the methods of mixing and baking bread dough. Early versions of cocol bread were made from wheat flour that the Aztecs initially did not use for their own meals but instead processed to feed the growing numbers of Spanish soldiers. Cocol bread has the distinction of being the oldest bread recipe in Mexico due to this meeting of the Aztec and Spanish cultures.
Some of the first cocol ingredients were simply water, wheat flour, and eggs. A later recipe was developed to honor an exiled Catholic priest named Father Miguel Pro who had such a special fondness for this kind of bread that he developed the tendency to sign all of his correspondence simply "Cocol." This recipe calls for the bread to be flavored with salt and sugar, as well as brewed anise tea in place of water. It is also one of the earliest sweet Mexican bread recipes that required the use of active dry yeast in order to get the bread to rise and reach the desired texture.
The process of dough-mixing for this kind of bread typically first involves combining the required amounts of yeast and flour. Many experienced bakers report that the best-flavored Mexican bread is made with the freshest active yeast possible, so newcomers to this kind of bread-baking should generally check the yeast expiration dates prior to purchasing. Once these dry ingredients are blended, the cooled anise tea is mixed in. The eggs are usually beaten into the dough last, and the bread dough is then kneaded until it reaches the required thickness. The average recipe for this sweet bread makes about 15 cocol servings in most cases.
One characteristic of this traditional Mexican bread is its unique finished shape. A rhombus-shaped loaf usually has four sides that may be equal or slightly elongated, depending on the baker's preferences. Cocol's shape helps distinguish this recipe from other types of Mexican breads, such as the round picon or the crescent-shaped bigote. This bread is often a favorite fresh-baked choice at family-owned authentic Mexican bakeries known as panaderias.
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Wittenborg Students' Elation at Awards Ceremony in Brighton, UK
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10 Wittenborg Students Graduated at Brighton Ceremony
There was a wonderful feeling of hope and elation in the air when 10 students from Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences graduated along with about 3,000 others from the University of Brighton, UK, last weekend. Brighton is Wittenborg's main education partner, offering joint bachelor's and master's programmes to Wittenborg students. All-in-all 18 Wittenborg students graduated from Brighton this semester, but only 8 managed to attend the ceremony.
The group consisted of graduates from both Wittenborg's Amsterdam and Apeldoorn campuses. They are Nadia Zaman (MSc in Event Management), Nathaniel Ukachukwu (HBA) and 8 BSc top-up double-degree students from Amsterdam - Rosemarijn van Reenen, Brisi Dimova, Olivia Kawuma, Nichola Addo, Andrii Chaban, Angelica Shamsurova, Nahla Hmeidi and Abdoul Mounirou Ouedraogo.
The group was supported by Wittenborg's Head of the School of Hospitality and Tourism, Esther Gitonga, and Myra Qiu, University of Brighton Programme Coordinator. The graduation ceremony was led by Brighton's Vice Chancellor, Professor Debra Humphris. She said: “I am incredibly proud of all of our students, proud of the diversity of nationalities that make up our institution and proud of our role in developing the much-needed professionals, innovators, and leaders of the future. I wish each and every student success in their chosen careers.”
Nathaniel was one of the students whose family came from afar to support him on his special day in the UK. In an emotional Facebook post he thanked them for their support, and said: "Thank God for giving me the courage to confront my fears and conquer all the challenges."
Qiu said: "The students were so excited at the ceremony - the cheerful atmosphere made everyone even more enthusiastic."
Wittenborg currently works with the Schools of Business, of Service Management & Sport and of Education at the University of Brighton, and also with the Centre of Teaching & Learning, for staff development and academic support.
WUP 9/8/2019
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Watch Fool's Gold
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Tess, who wants desperately to return to grad school, has taken a job as a steward on billionaire Nigel Honeycutt’s yacht. The yacht is anchored near the Florida Keys as they await the arrival of Honeycutt’s daughter, Gemma. Finn, spotting the yacht from the local bar, becomes determined to get onboard. He is in a world of trouble with Big Bunny D, a rapper and crook, to whom Finn is financially indebted. Finn finds the opening he needs, as Gemma loses her hat while in reroute to the yacht.
Honeycutt welcomes Finn onboard and discovers the connection between Finn and Tess. After a series of hostilities, Finn enlightens Nigel and Gemma about the shipwreck, Aralia. Tess, of course, interjects and they both complete the tale. Nigel in turn offers his financial assistance for the treasure-hunting venture. They soon discover Big Bunny D owns the portion of the ocean in which the Aralia sits, and he has hired Finn’s former partner, Moe to recover the treasure.
Finn and Tess follow a series of clues hoping to find the treasure. The journey leads them into familiar places where their love blossomed. It is apparent that the flame has been rekindled, as the ship that tore them apart may, in fact, bring them back together.
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V(D)J recombination-activating protein 1 - P15918 (RAG1_HUMAN)
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Catalytic component of the RAG complex, a multiprotein complex that mediates the DNA cleavage phase during V(D)J recombination. V(D)J recombination assembles a diverse repertoire of immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor genes in developing B and T-lymphocytes through rearrangement of different V (variable), in some cases D (diversity), and J (joining) gene segments. In the RAG complex, RAG1 mediates the DNA-binding to the conserved recombination signal sequences (RSS) and catalyzes the DNA cleavage activities by introducing a double-strand break between the RSS and the adjacent coding segment. RAG2 is not a catalytic component but is required for all known catalytic activities. DNA cleavage occurs in 2 steps: a first nick is introduced in the top strand immediately upstream of the heptamer, generating a 3'-hydroxyl group that can attack the phosphodiester bond on the opposite strand in a direct transesterification reaction, thereby creating 4 DNA ends: 2 hairpin coding ends and 2 blunt, 5'-phosphorylated ends. The chromatin structure plays an essential role in the V(D)J recombination reactions and the presence of histone H3 trimethylated at 'Lys-4' (H3K4me3) stimulates both the nicking and haipinning steps. The RAG complex also plays a role in pre-B cell allelic exclusion, a process leading to expression of a single immunoglobulin heavy chain allele to enforce clonality and monospecific recognition by the B-cell antigen receptor (BCR) expressed on individual B-lymphocytes. The introduction of DNA breaks by the RAG complex on one immunoglobulin allele induces ATM-dependent repositioning of the other allele to pericentromeric heterochromatin, preventing accessibility to the RAG complex and recombination of the second allele. In addition to its endonuclease activity, RAG1 also acts as an E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase that mediates monoubiquitination of histone H3. Histone H3 monoubiquitination is required for the joining step of V(D)J recombination. Mediates polyubiquitination of KPNA1 (By similarity). UniProt
S-ubiquitinyl-[E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme]-L-cysteine + [acceptor protein]-L-lysine = [E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme]-L-cysteine + N6-ubiquitinyl-[acceptor protein]-L-lysine. UniProt
Homodimer. Component of the RAG complex composed of core components RAG1 and RAG2, and associated component HMGB1 or HMGB2. Interacts with DCAF1, leading to recruitment of the CUL4A-RBX1-DDB1-DCAF1/VPRBP complex to ubiquitinate proteins and limit error-prone repair during V(D)J recombination (By similarity). UniProt
The NBD (nonamer binding) DNA-binding domain mediates the specific binding to the nonamer RSS motif by forming a tightly interwoven homodimer that binds and synapses 2 nonamer elements, with each NBD making contact with both DNA molecules. Each RSS is composed of well-conserved heptamer (consensus 5'-CACAGTG-3') and nonamer (consensus 5'-ACAAAAACC-3') sequences separated by a spacer of either 12 bp or 23 bp. UniProt
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Chromosome Location: chr11:36594854- 36597986
Other Gene names: RNF74
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E3 Hands-on: Dancing the day away with a bear and a hare in Hell Yeah!
By Nick Santangelo • 8 years ago
Once upon a time, the opportunity to play it was passed over in favor of speaking at length to the man behind it. A tough decision for sure, but one for which there are no regrets. But this is E3, with all its glitz and gaudiness, its bass and babes, its bombshells and busts — both on the babes and on the press conference stages. This is the show, and Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit might just be the game coming to Xbox Live Arcade. Abstaining from experiencing firsthand at The Big Show, one of the most promising upcoming games for XBLA, simply wouldn’t do. Even waiting just a wink longer until XBLA Fans’ scheduled time with the game later in the week arrived just wouldn’t do.
At first glance, Wrath of the Dead Rabbit looks like everything that was great about those sublime ‘tude-filled, blast-processed platformers that graced Sega’s Genesis. Pick up the controller, and you’ll discover that the game is that and more, so much more. The title’s intensity meter starts at 11 in the opening level and only cranks up from there. When a player-character’s preferred mode of conveyance is a circular saw with a rocket launcher mounted to it, vivid acts of violence are to be expected. Although studio co-founder Camille Guermonprez previously confirmed that there will be a number of other vehicles in the game, the wheel took center stage at E3, just as it had at PAX East.
As was soon discovered after picking up the controller, the titular rabbit Ash will be able to choose from more weapons than just the rocket launcher. His undead octopus buddy made an appearance and graciously offered a gift to Hell’s prince: a machine gun. Ash, as is perhaps befitting of his regal heritage, is easily bored, though. Nestor explained that it’s easy to swap between weapons and a number of empty slots for future tools of destruction were spotted. Rockets are fun and all, but the machine gun came in far more handy when it came to dispensing of everything in Ash’s path during the demo.
The slice of gameplay on display at Sega’s booth took place in a new level, one with a metallic theme to it and full of some rather angry mechanical monstrosities. Not the least of which was a 20-foot tall dancing robot bear that shot lasers out of what looked like Cyclops from X-men’s visor. It was easily the most amusing video-game adversary faced during a day filled with hands-on time with some of the biggest games of 2011’s second half, and it elicited a wide smile and several amused comments from onlookers. Getting nailed by just one of the laser blasts put Ash down for the count and brought about a subsequent respawn inside a coffin at a forgiving checkpoint.
Not knowing how easy it is for this dancing fool of a bear to kill the first son of Hell can cause some problems, then. Playing patiently and taking potshots from afar followed by moving in to inflict heavier damage when he dances the other way allows the player to make quick work of him, though, leading to a QTE minigame. The gaming public has soured on QTEs in recent years thanks to their oversaturation, but these ones are blessedly short and incredibly rewarding. Hitting four buttons in the proper sequence brought about a quick sequence in which Ash — sans circular saw — performed some unnecessarily complicated finishing maneuvers that were a blast to watch.
All of the minibosses in the game have had similar ingredients mixed into their batter by the deft hands of the Arkedo chefs that created these savory dishes. After the bear, came a delectable encounter with rocket-launching robot that ended by fingering its honey pot, so to speak. The challenge is to hold down a button to cause a finger to extend forth into the hole in a bee’s hive and steal honey away before the queen turns back around and spots the offending finger. It’s silly and wonderful, and the game is said to be filled with many other minigames of its ilk.
Aside from the crazy battles, platforming and world exploration are also major components of Hell Yeah!. The next stretch of the game involved carefully grinding through an iced-over area of the map that was liberally populated by mines of absurd proportions. Grind the saw in the wrong direction or just a tad to hard, and it’s game over. Speaking of which, the time to play the game was over shortly thereafter. For now, it’s back to impatiently waiting for a bear to ask for the privilege to dance later this year. Please keep the wait to a minimum, you dancing fool.
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Nick has been a gamer since the 8-bit days and has been reporting on the games industry since 2011. Don't interrupt him while he's questing through an RPG or watching the Eagles, Phillies, 76ers or Flyers. Follow Nick Santangelo on Twitter.
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Midnight Deluxe Review: Under par
Trover Saves the Universe Review: Get a Job!
Rift Keeper Review: Rifting It Up
The Bradwell Conspiracy Review: Creative Corruption
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Chef Mina Stone Is Cooking For Everyone at MoMA PS1
by Olivia Lindsay Aylmer
Courtesy of Flora Hanitijo
For Mina Stone, food and art have always paired well together.
She established herself as the go-to chef for artists when she started catering events for the gallery Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, then continued onward to cook for the artists Urs Fischer and Elizabeth Peyton in their studios, making family-style meals for their teams.
Working outside the traditional restaurant setting proved liberating: “Because I cooked for artists, I think I was allowed to express myself and find myself and nobody was breathing down my neck,” Stone says. Now, she has a brick-and-mortar home to do what she loves most, for anybody who is passing through. This time, everyone’s invited.
Mina’s spread. Photo courtesy of Flora Hanitijo.
Mina’s, the all-day café she’s concocted for MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, New York, opens this month. It’s her first restaurant, and an exercise in paring down a perfect meal to its most basic, foundational parts: slow-cooked, lived-in dishes, a loving homage to her Greek grandmother and early mentor; a considered natural wine and cocktail list; and airy, Athens-meets-Miami interiors designed by her partner, the visual artist Alex Eagleton, and Isobel Herbold.
Eagleton and Stone are both half Greek, raised by “super Greek moms” who brought their kids between their homeland and the States. (Stone went to school in Greece as a kid, and spent the year there when she was 28.)
“We both pull from this exact same place of nostalgia and exposure and experience,” she says. And although her heritage anchors the menu, she pulls from a spectrum of influences. “I think that my Greek food—and then, everything else I cook—is almost like a long journal entry of my life,” Stone explains, “mixed with everything I’ve been exposed to.” Think satisfying snacks (olives, feta) for those in-between hours, bookended by braised chicken with cinnamon and clove when you’re ready for something more filling.
Mina’s Interior. Photo courtesy of Flora Hanitijo.
Stone is refreshingly chill about the prospect of running a commercial operation. Despite how fateful it all seems—cooking full-time in a space dedicated to art—this full-circle project was nearly the one that got away. “Spiritually,” Stone tells me, “I was like, ‘What’s the next thing?’”
When PS1 came calling, Stone was pregnant, and weighing all the reasons to decline the invitation. Then, as any artist worth their salt would, she paused; looked at things from a different perspective, and took the leap. Ultimately, she says, “It seemed like a really great next step, and an opportunity for me to learn.”
As documented in Cooking for Artists, the book she published with Fischer in 2015, approachability and understanding is more than an afterthought for Stone. Rather, it's the very thing she’s after, whether she’s catering a swanky gallery dinner, cooking a quiet studio lunch, or in the coming months, cooking for folks from the world over (tourists, museum staff, Long Island City locals).
To wit: This past summer, Stone cooked meals for PS1’s “Warm Up” dance series, which brought in a completely different group of people every Saturday. “It felt like a new challenge to take it on: To make it make sense for everybody,” she says. On a conceptual level, Stone wants to keep things simple, and let the surrounding exhibits grapple with Big Ideas: “I think you should come into the space and have some delicious food, and that is the only concept to it.”
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Immigrant-rights activist busted as 'Mesh Mask Bandit'
'We always did things the right way. We preached on it. I don't know what happened'
By WND News Services
Published June 23, 2013 at 12:01am
(Dallas Morning News) An immigrant rights activist from Farmers Branch is suspected of being a prolific bank robber known as the Mesh Mask Bandit, the FBI says.
Luis de la Garza, 59, appeared in federal court Friday in connection with the armed robbery of a Wells Fargo bank in April. Authorities believe he has robbed at least 18 other banks in nine area cities.
De la Garza, who is in federal custody, could not be reached for comment, but his wife, Blanca Estrada, confirmed he had been charged. She said the allegations were a "shock and a surprise."
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How Trump can shut down the birth tourism scam
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THE DIN OF CELESTIAL BIRDS
stories by Brian Evenson
ISBN: 1-877655-24-4,
First trade edition. 152 pgs., 1997.
$10.95 plus s/h
Brian Evenson's second collection of short stories. Cover design by Brian C. Clark. #16 in the Wordcraft Speculative Writers Series.
PRAISE FOR THE DIN OF CELESTIAL BIRDSMAGIC DEER
These stories represent the early work of Brian Evenson, a writer of astonishing power. He has been compared to Poe, to Kafka, to other great writers whose vision was bleak and dark, and whose characters act out of appalling despair. Evenson is worth such comparison, but his work is different from these. His worlds are without any emotion at all. Neither cruelty nor pity, happiness nor misery, compassion nor suffering, hope nor despair exist in his tales of inexorable and inhuman logic. They are written too in a faultlessly efficient prose, so that we see these strange worlds in the clearest and coldest of lights. And, paradoxically, we become aware of life without a purpose, of laws without sense, of victims who do not know they are victimised and aggressors who act without aim or malice. Evenson is a moralist, telling us that our very humanity is at risk, and that we must defend it.
--Leslie Norris, winner of the Katherine Mansfield Triennial International Award and author of Sliding and The Girl from Cardigan
Evenson shows promise of becoming one of the most exciting new voices to come out of the Northwest in several years.
--The Sunday Oregonian
Like Kafka, Evenson casts a deadpan glance at a world of injustice, a world that seems even more bizarre and unnerving for the simple reason it seems so normal.
--The Deseret News
There is a talent here, oozing without remorse from the subconscious of the author...
--Los Angeles Times
Brian Evenson's collection of stories, Altmann's Tongue, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1994. In addition, Evenson has published two other works of fiction, One Thick Black Cord and Prophets and Brothers. He has lived in Central America and Europe. More information can be found on his website at www.brianevenson.com.
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Alabama student pleads not guilty to LSU bomb threat
ANOTHER STATE. NEW AT 5:00, POLICE NOW SAY AN ALABAMA STUDENT CALLED IN A BOMB THREAT AGAINST LSU’S STADIUM OVER A BET. OFFICIALS IN BATON ROUGE ALERTED UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA POLICE TO THE THREAT. FRESHMAN CONNOR CROLL WAS ARRESTED A SHORT TIME LATER. POLICE SAY HE ADMITTED TO MAKING THE THREAT IN HOPES OF INTERRUPTING THE GAME, BECAUSE A FRIEND WAS IN DANGER OF LOSING
A University of Alabama student has pleaded not guilty to calling in a bomb threat to Louisiana State University's stadium during a football game.The Advocate reports 19-year-old Connor Bruce Croll, of Crozet, Virginia, pleaded not guilty Monday. He was charged Friday with communicating false information, a felony with a max 20-year sentence.Booking records says Baton Rouge police received a call during the game between LSU and the University of Florida stating there was a bomb at Tiger Stadium.Records say the call was traced back to Croll and he was arrested by University of Alabama police.Police say Croll acknowledged making the threat in an attempt to interrupt the game because a friend was in danger of losing a "large bet."Croll's next court appearance is in January.
BATON ROUGE, La. —
A University of Alabama student has pleaded not guilty to calling in a bomb threat to Louisiana State University's stadium during a football game.
The Advocate reports 19-year-old Connor Bruce Croll, of Crozet, Virginia, pleaded not guilty Monday. He was charged Friday with communicating false information, a felony with a max 20-year sentence.
Booking records says Baton Rouge police received a call during the game between LSU and the University of Florida stating there was a bomb at Tiger Stadium.
Records say the call was traced back to Croll and he was arrested by University of Alabama police.
Bama student allegedly called in LSU bomb threat because friend was losing 'large bet'
Police say Croll acknowledged making the threat in an attempt to interrupt the game because a friend was in danger of losing a "large bet."
Croll's next court appearance is in January.
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Michelle Carter: Supreme Court will not hear appeal of woman convicted of encouraging boyfriend to kill himself
The Independent• January 13, 2020
The US Supreme court has said it will not take up an appeal brought by Michelle Carter, who was charged with involuntary manslaughter after encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself through texts and phone calls.
The case against the 17-year-old gained national media attention after text messages showed the young woman repeatedly urging 18-year-old Conrad Roy III to kill himself.
Mr Roy eventually died by suicide after multiple failed attempts in July 2014 when he filled his truck with carbon monoxide in a parking lot.
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Assam protests
Assam curfew will be completely withdrawn from Tuesday: Himanta Biswa Sarma
The Dibrugarh district administration informed that the curfew is being relaxed in the district from 6 am to 8 pm for today. The curfew in Shillong has also been relaxed from 6 am to 7 pm on Tuesday.
Pooja Mehta
Arun Kumar Chaubey
Guwahati: Assam Finance Minister and North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) chairman Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the curfew imposed in Assam will be completely withdrawn from Tuesday and broadband internet will also be restored. Sharma, in a tweet, added that mobile internet in Assam, however, will remain suspended in the wake of major protests across the state over the amended Citizenship law.
Assam ADG Law and Order, GP Singh, said that "Situation in Guwahati having improved substantially, the curfew is being completely withdrawn from 6 am tomorrow (December 17th) in the entire Guwahati city jurisdiction. God bless people of Guwahati for making this possible. The support of people of Assam in bringing back normalcy has given us the confidence to restore broadband Internet connection in the entire state of Assam from December 17th i.e. tomorrow."
Earlier on Monday, Himanta Biswa Sarma said that curfew imposed in the wake of major protests across Assam will be relaxed only during day time while it will remain in place at night until the situation is reviewed by the government.
Addressing a press conference, he said, "In Guwahati, we have withdrawn curfew and now there will be no curfew in the day time. However, night curfew will remain imposed until we review the situation and make a decision on this."
Sarma said around 136 cases of vandalism and other related crimes were registered since the protests erupted in the state, adding that police have arrested 190 persons in connection with recent incidents happening in Guwahati and in the entire state, so far.
He alleged that a "specific pattern" was noticed during the Guwahati mob violence incident, adding "In the Guwahati mob violence, we have witnessed a specific pattern. There is a huge involvement of people who are not citizens of Guwahati and who have come from the lower Assam districts."
He said it is yet to be identified by the government whether the protestors had come for participation in agitation or they were brought here by some design, adding "A proper investigation team will be conducted in a day or two."
Notably, protests had broken out in several parts of Assam following the passage of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 in Parliament on November 11 and it became an Act thereupon after the Presidential assent on November 12.
As many as 26 Army columns have been deployed in Assam to assist the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) to handle the situation.
Assam protestsAnti-CAA protestsCitizenship Amendment Act 2019Hemanta Biswa Sarma
Jamia protests: Delhi Police registers FIR against 15 people, crime branch to probe case
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Who’s Afraid Of Andrew Adonis?
We are constantly being told that people need more conviction politicians, those who don’t slavishly toe the party line, who are prepared to make their own choices and trust their own judgments. But when politicians stand on their convictions - as with the Commons rebellion recently on having a final say on the so-called “Brexit Bill” - all they receive in return is a tsunami of abuse. So it has been with Andrew Adonis.
Andrew Adonis
Adonis had been a member of Gordon Brown’s cabinet as Transport minister. His CV includes academy schools, railway electrification programmes, and the HS2 project (the last mentioned being subject to derision from across the political spectrum, usually by those who can’t bother to do their research, or who would rather others didn’t). And he has recently chaired the National Infrastructure Commission.
When he resigned recently from the NIC chair, he laid out his reasons for so doing. On some of them, this blog would disagree - the East Coast non-bailout being the obvious candidate. But on Brexit and its dangers to the UK economy he is spot on. And in any case, he is free to make those choices and speak to them.
Not all approved of his freedom to speak freely: the Mail called Adonis’ resignation letter “an extraordinary rant at Theresa May” and told readers “Brexiteers told MailOnline Lord Adonis was 'condescending' and had refused to accept the result of the referendum … A Government source made clear Lord Adonis was going before he was pushed”. Political pygmies Michael Fabricant, Jacob Rees Mogg, Andrew Bridgen (always on speed dial) and Iain Duncan Cough passed suitably adverse comment.
That many in and around politics have instead sought to denigrate Adonis’ choice, and his reasons for making it, shows exactly what they really think of conviction politicians. It shows an inability to come to terms with dissenting views and inconvenient thought, a real dislike of free speech, and a fear of those prepared to think clearly and then put their thoughts into words. The roll of shame is not a pretty sight.
The assembled silliness included failed hack and freeloading Kipper Patrick “Lunchtime” O’Flynn sneering “So Andrew Adonis decided to resign while on a skiing holiday in Austria. Possibly the most Remainery thing ever”. At the opposite end of the political spectrum, Owen Jones also disapproved of Adonis visiting Austria over Christmas: “Everything that is wrong with the ‘just pretend the referendum never happened and overturn Brexit’ summed up. Yeah, this is the sort of figure that'll convince the Leave-backing voters of Oldham, Burnley and Rochdale to change their mind. I mean, wow”.
While Jones considers the imperative of Healey’s Dictum, the perpetually thirsty Paul Staines and his rabble at the Guido Fawkes blog have opted for mental health smears, one of their favourite weapons. So Adonis is called a “Remaniac”, and readers are told of “Adonis’ Shouty Crackers Resignation Letter In Full”, “10 Bonkers Things Adonis Said About Brexit”, plus the totally untrue “Barmy Adonis: Farage Is PM”.
It was left to others to put the counter argument, notably Helen Lewis from the Staggers who told “Andrew Adonis is the son of a Cypriot immigrant whose mother left the family when was a toddler, and he spent years in a council children's home before getting a place at a boarding school (then Oxford). I'm … kinda ok with him going skiing?”
TUC National Organiser Carl Roper added “Confession time. I went to a Liverpool Comprehensive school in the early 80s and guess what? We went skiing on a school trip. #classtraitors”, and Michael Skapinker of the FT stressed “I worked with @Andrew_Adonis for 7 years. Utterly principled, ferociously intelligent, with an up-from-nothing life story most Labour hacks would kill for but which he wears lightly. We’re lucky to have him”.
With his considerable abilities, Andrew Adonis had no need to subject himself to the bear pit that is mainstream UK politics. That he did so will most likely benefit the country overall. Plus he has demonstrated that he is a conviction politician. Yet that quality supposedly admired by our free and fair press, and their hangers-on, is swiftly denigrated to the point of sneering and gratuitous abuse as soon as it does not accord with their agenda.
We are constantly being told that it is others who hate and abuse freedom of speech. It is not. Our Press and Pundit establishment has demonstrated in its crude and bellicose response to Andrew Adonis’ principled stand that it is no more tolerant of dissent than the Soviet Politburo of the past, or the clerics of Tehran in the present.
Some people cannot be easily pigeonholed. Others, in the tradition of John Maynard Keynes, change their minds when the facts change. Their views may be inconvenient to some of us. Well, that’s just the way it is. So get over it.
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Labels: Education, Environment, Europe, Politics, Press and Media, Rail Travel, Transport
Mail Tries To Bust Businesswoman
When the Daily Mail ran the front page splash “Questions over ANOTHER Yard contract … MET BOSS IN NEW ‘CASH FOR A FRIEND’ STORM” back in October 2008, the firm at the centre of the paper’s libellous claim was no longer run by the man they had targeted, businessman Andy Miller. Miller was a personal friend of then Met Commissioner Ian Blair; the Mail then concluded that the contract won by the company was therefore dodgy.
The obedient hackery of the legendarily foul mouthed Paul Dacre were wrong: Miller’s firm had won the contract fair and square. The subsequent libel action - Dacre declined Miller’s request to say sorry without going to court - took up several years and cost the paper around £3 million. But the Mail could stand that. Miller was sure that, had he still been in charge of the firm targeted, it would have been put out of business.
It may surprise those who believe the Mail titles to be pro-business, and especially in favour of all those small businesses up and down the country, to know that the inmates of the Northcliffe House bunker take such a callous attitude to the potential fate of those they choose to smear. Had that firm gone bust, several employees would have found themselves without a job. Yet the callousness endures today.
Zelo Street regulars will recall that, last week, the behaviour of Mail on Sunday hack Charlotte Wace passed before my inspection. She had used a hidden camera, in flagrant breach of the IPSO Editor’s Code, when visiting single mum Danielle Hindley, who is also the owner of a small business - a beautician’s in West Yorkshire. The resulting “story” has now been published. It is lame in the extreme. But it could be very bad for business.
Under the opening paragraph “Rogue beauticians are carrying out dangerous and illegal procedures which can leave women permanently disfigured, The Mail on Sunday can reveal”, Ms Wace eventually arrives at the complaint made by a former client of Ms Hindley. No evidence is ponied up to support the claim that a skin tightening procedure left her with “swollen eyes surrounded by a shocking array of burn marks”.
No medical practitioner has backed up the claim. The article carries no photograph in support of the inference of wrongdoing. And only grudgingly does Ms Wace concede that the procedure described is not illegal. But MoS readers are told “Ms Hindley, who has a conviction for a financial crime, said she had two days’ training earlier this year”.
Those who have unearthed the Mail titles’ business relationships with individuals who have rather more than the odd conviction - private investigators, purveyors of illegally gathered information, bent coppers and the like - may allow themselves a wry smile.
But the nastiest thing about Ms Wace’s article is that the power of the MoS’ megaphone - especially as the name and location of Ms Hindley’s business is spelt out in the article - is highly likely to have a severely adverse effect on trade. The way the Mail titles use the No-Smoke-Without-Fire nudge-nudgery is likely to prove harmful over the coming weeks and months. Even if IPSO find in her favour, any damage will by then have been done.
Danielle Hindley has done nothing wrong. The MoS has no evidence to suggest otherwise. Yet their guilt-by-association article could bust her business. And the Mail titles won’t give a damn if it does. That’s our free and fearless press for you.
Labels: Business, Legal, Press and Media
Margaret Thatcher, Terrorist Sympathiser
Many who venerate the memory of Margaret Thatcher are unable to admit that not all she did was ideologically pure, or based on the most noble of motives. So it is that her Bruges speech is remembered for criticism of a “European Superstate”, and the part about Britain being at the heart of Europe is forgotten. Similarly, the Brighton bombing is held out as her implacable opposition to terrorism. Except it wasn’t quite so simple there, either.
Mrs T’s Government was accused more than once of dabbling in a little terrorism of its own, notably over the allegations of a “shoot to kill” policy in Northern Ireland, and such well-publicised events as the Gibraltar shootings, which led to Thames Television being stripped of its franchise in an act of routine vindictiveness - as well as an avalanche of abusive press coverage smearing her opponents.
So it should surprise no-one that the release of previously secret information under Ireland’s Thirty Year Rule has thrown up yet another episode from the past which Thatcher devotees probably hope will soon be forgotten. Some will already have conditioned themselves to believe that what has been revealed is the invention of Rotten Lefties (tm) and can be explained away in a huff of righteous anger. It can’t.
The Irish Independent broke the news: “Charlie Haughey was warned by loyalist paramilitaries that MI5 ordered his assassination, declassified state papers have revealed … Records from his office while he was Taoiseach in 1987 reveal that the UVF wrote to him to tell him that British intelligence also launched a smear campaign against him … The loyalists claimed their organisation was used by MI5 and MI6, backed up by British Army special forces, from 1972 to 1978 and again in 1985”. And there was more.
Charles Haughey ((c) RTÉ)
“The previously secret letter, on UVF headed paper, showed the loyalists told Mr Haughey that the MI5 operative gave details of his cars, photographs of his home, his island, Inishvickillane, and his yacht, Celtic Mist … The paramilitaries also claimed to have been given details of Mr Haughey's trips to Farranfore airport in Kerry and photos of a plane he used”. And to whom do MI5, MI6 and British Army special forces ultimately report?
Fortunately, the UVF drew the line at bumping off the Taoiseach. “In the letter, the UVF said it had killed 17 men using information from British intelligence … Signed in block capitals ‘Capt W Johnston’, the name used by the UVF in all its formal statements, it closed with the line: ‘We have no love for you but we are not going to carry out work for the Dirty Tricks Department of the British’”. So who in the UK is reporting this story?
A more detailed version, including a claim that Gerry Adams was looking for ways to end the IRA’s paramilitary campaign back in 1987, has been published by the Guardian. The BBC has also carried the news. And some online newspaper sites have now run an item on it. But the issues raised by this revelation - the manipulation of Loyalist paramilitaries by UK security agencies, and what Mrs T knew and when - remain unaddressed.
And one conclusion can be drawn all too readily: when those on the right start calling “Terrorist sympathiser” on the likes of Jeremy Corbyn, they need to be reminded of exactly who the real terrorist sympathisers are. They aren’t in the Labour Party.
Labels: Policing, Politics
Top Six - December 31
So what’s hot, and what’s not, in the past week’s blogging? Here are the six most popular posts on Zelo Street for the past seven days, counting down in reverse order, because, well, I have New Year prep to do later. So there.
6 Nadine Dorries Defends Sex Pests The fragrant Nadine might have been better advised to read the article she cited in yet another ill-advised social media excursion.
5 Tory Royal Yacht Shame 50 MPs from The Blue Team decided, given current levels of homelessness, food bank usage and other deprivation, that awarding the Royals a trophy boat was a good idea. No. Just no.
4 Katie Hopkins Grenfell Smears WORSEN The pro-am motormouth saw all those families still without a place to call home and decided it was all about illegal migrants getting free stuff. She still hasn’t got a paid berth. I wonder why.
3 Sun Bacon Advertorial BUSTED A front page splash dedicated to plugging a posh hipster product that most of the paper’s readers can’t afford. When editor Tony Gallagher gets the boot, it won’t be soon enough.
2 Virgin East Coast Bailout WASN’T Back on the Top Six is the news that some in the press and punditerati got this one just a little bit wrong. There was no bailout.
1 Mail Harasses Single Mum Sending a hack with a hidden camera to snoop on an intended target is not only totally out of order - it busts the IPSO Editor’s Code. But don’t expect our sham press regulator to do any more than wipe the Mail’s backside over it.
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Katie Hopkins Grenfell Smears WORSEN
Many of the families rendered homeless by the Grenfell Tower fire spent the festive season in what is called temporary accommodation: bed and breakfast houses, nearby hotels, and if they were lucky, somewhere actually designed as housing. Many of them therefore had no cooking facilities, and so the cost to them of putting meals in front of their families increased dramatically. This change was covered by compensation payments.
Viewers may still want to look away now
In addition, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea committed a small sum to cover anticipated higher costs at Christmas: each person still without their own place to call home would receive £140. Few have begrudged the survivors these payments: they were, after all, burnt out of house and home in the most traumatic circumstances imaginable.
But one pundit out there on the right was desperate and bigoted enough to tell her devoted followers that these were non-white people getting something for which honest decent hard-working Brits (make that white Brits) were paying. To no surprise at all, that pundit was pro-am motormouth Katie Hopkins. The lies and smears began immediately.
“A Grenfell family’s cash for ONE week in December: £300 per week per adult. £150 per child per week £140 special Christmas payment All hotel accom / bills paid. Family of 5: cash in hand for one week £1750 (plus expenses covered). Surely I have got this wrong?” she ventured, and yes, she has (it’s £1,050, or £1,190 with the Christmas payment).
But that was enough for the false equivalence to kick in. “Do families / victims of Manchester, Rochdale Groomers, Westminster, London Bridge receive similar compensation for their loss?”. Did they get burned out of their homes? Ah, but this misses the point: in Katie’s world, the Scary Muslims (tm) are getting favourable treatment.
From that point, the smears were ratcheted up. First came the inference of not only favourable treatment, but undeserved payments. “Reality TV idea @channel5_tv: STRIFE SWAP - Grenfellers do work of honest Brits. Honest Brits live like Grenfellers”. People from Grenfell Tower were not “honest”, as opposed to “not white and Christian”.
Then came the clear suggestion that those who lost their homes in the fire were involved in some kind of ongoing illegal activity: “WIN 2 yrs free accommodation. Make like a Grenfeller, import your ‘cousins’ & live rent free till July 2019. Text FIRE to ‘0800 free shit’”. Six months’ compensation becomes two years in the retelling. And it gets worse.
So convinced has Hatey Katie become that those who lived in Grenfell Tower were not in the UK legally that she has now come out and said so, not that she can pony up any evidence to back up her smears. “CHRISTMAS BONUS: British pensioners / war widows £10 … Illegal migrants of Grenfell £130 per head”. Yes Katie, and if they really were “illegal migrants”, they wouldn’t be getting anything. Because you can’t if you’re here illegally.
This is hate speech, pure and simple. But to far too many out there, Katie Hopkins is just “telling it like it is”, another example like the propaganda of the Trump Gang in the USA - everyone else is lying, and the only bastion against Fake News is Katie News.
Except that she’s the one lying, and a racist bigot to boot. So no change there, then.
Labels: London, Policing, Racism
Daily Mail Stormzy Drug Howler
When it comes to currently illegal drugs, we know where the legendarily foul mouthed Paul Dacre and his obedient hackery at the Daily Mail stand. They are vehemently opposed to any move to ease off the so-called “war on drugs”, despite it having failed miserably, and served only to increase the number of those addicted, and their subsequent misery. The Mail also disapproves of people who are not white - although it’s usually deniable.
Stormzy - under press attack once more
So the hit-job on grime artist Stormzy - for which no-one has owned up to having written it - was predictable. So was the headline “Popular grime artists such as Stormzy are fueling [sic] the use of 'skunk' by treating cannabis as 'product placement' in their chart-topping songs, researcher warns”. Mail readers be warned - keep your kids away from drugs.
But then it became clear why no-one in the Northcliffe House bunker wanted to claim credit for the hit job, which told “Ian Hamilton, based at York University, warned the popular music genre [grime] contains hundreds of lyrics glorifying the use of the class B drug … Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, he described songs featuring mentions of weed, including those by Stormzy, Kano and Wiley, as 'essentially product placement’”.
Hamilton went on to assert “Lyrics can plant the seed of an idea, and it’s not an abstract idea, it’s something they do pretty quickly and at low risk … If the association, viewing it as a product placement, is cool and something that may enhance their status as a young person, then that becomes quite attractive”, but then digressed slightly: “The problem we’ve got in the UK is the way that cannabis is used with tobacco”.
Hamilton’s forte is to warn of the dangers inherent in mixing cannabis with tobacco, because the latter carries known cancer risks. Cannabis alone, as he points out, does not. So he’s not at the same place as the Dacre doggies, who are just trying to scare the crap out of anyone considering going near anything that is currently illegal.
Who's calling me a f***ing racist scare merchant, c***?!?
Consider conclusions from some of the research with which he has been associated - for instance “at a population level, an increased risk of psychosis from cannabis use is low, and those vulnerable to developing serious mental health problems is relatively rare”. The Mail titles are forever telling readers that cannabis means increased psychosis risk.
On top of that own goal, the response from Stormzy has been direct, as he told the Dacre doggies “White rockstars (and pop stars) have been sniffing coke and taking MDMA and singing about it since the beginning of music - just admit you’re anti-black … Imagine raising your child, loving and nurturing them. Sending them off to school and then uni for them to grow up and then get a job working for the fucking Daily Mail. Embarrassing”.
So there won’t be any converts to the Mail’s nudge-nudge nonsense from his fans, then. And “embarrassing” is spot on for an article where no-one wanted to have their name appear on the by-line. Going after Stormzy on the grounds that he’s doing what white artistes have done for more than half a century is beyond contemptible.
But it keeps the readers frightened and ignorant, so that’s all right, then.
Labels: Health, Music, Policing, Press and Media, Racism
Julia Hartley Dooda On Costa Moana
The hurt felt by tedious and intolerant Talk Radio host Julia Hartley Brewer when she found herself ridiculed earlier this year for having her washing machine in the kitchen - TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp had decreed this to be “disgusting” - has endured. Not even the gift of a well-remunerated article in the Super Soaraway Currant Bun whining about the Location, Location, Location star could dim the sense she was being looked down upon.
Yes thanks, we know who you are
So Ms Hartley Dooda has wasted no time taking to Twitter in order to inform anyone who will listen - so not many willing takers, then - that she is A Really Important Person. She is so important that she has done Christmas in Costa Rica. Moreover, she flew on a proper big aircraft. She booked with BA; none of this budget carrier or charter airline rubbish for her. She could hit the beach over Christmas. She was considerably wealthier than us.
But her public needed to be reminded constantly of her magnificence, so on Christmas Day, when most of us were chilling out, off she went. “It’s only 8am in Costa Rica but is there such a thing as a Christmas Mojito? Asking for a friend”. HELLO I’M IN COSTA RICA! THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT HOLIDAY!! And there was, unfortunately, more.
“Hope you enjoyed your turkey with all the trimmings. It’s not even drink-without-being-judged o’clock in Costa Rica yet but, on the plus side, there’s a beach with warm water & soft sand, which kinda makes up for the lack of soggy sprouts”. I didn’t have turkey or soggy sprouts, thanks, but I also didn’t have to put up with Ms Hartley Dooda.
Sadly, rather a lot of people in Costa Rica did, hence her Twitter poll “Just back from bodyboarding in Costa Rica and a Brit Remainobore sitting behind me on the beach is loudly explaining to his friends why Brexit is awful. Should I …” Ye-e-e-e-es. Note that none of the options on offer include “listening”, “understanding the counter-argument”, “appreciating freedom of speech”, or “cutting out the gratuitous abuse”.
And talking of gratuitous abuse, she had no problem in doling some out to Jolyon Maugham, who had the audacity to question the benefits of a Press Establishment owned by non-residents, and which routinely peddles falsehood and misinformation. “Little damages our nation more than the poison and lies of the Remoanabores denying the outcome of a free & democratic vote. None has the interests of our country at heart”. But hurling abuse at those who don’t agree with her is fine. Hey ho.
So out with the abuse once more, backed up by projection this time: “Remoaners don’t ever take a day off, do they? Spouting hatred, lies and bile all day, every day of the year. Even if they’re wrong in every conceivable way, at least they’re persistent. They’re a credit to the nation to which they claim they don’t belong”. Ms Hartley Dooda describes herself very well. She’s supposed to be on an idyllic holiday. But she spends the time whining.
All of which merely goes to confirm that those ideologically wedded to the idea of Britain leaving the EU are in such an insecure and fearful state that they can’t stop banging on about the issue, even when they’re supposed to be on holiday. In a very exotic and really upmarket location. Which beats anything Kirstie Allsopp said about washing machines.
Yes, she is in COSTA RICA. Which is VERY WONDERFUL. Everybody wants to be her. She has no feelings of inferiority. And if you believe that, you’ll believe anything.
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Labels: Europe, Politics, Press and Media
Milo Yiannopoulos Inadequacy EXPOSED
Those who suggest anyone in the public eye should not give away hostages to fortune, especially if they might be used against someone in the future, are issuing wise advice. As such, it was most unlikely to be taken on board by repellant man-baby Milo Yiannopoulos, who has thrown a mardy strop at having his book deal cancelled and is now suing the publishers involved for breach of contract. He should be so lucky.
The real Milo Yiannopoulos - an inadequate nobody
Simon & Shuster canned the deal after evidence emerged of Yiannopoulos apparently endorsing paedophilia. He was also unceremoniously sacked from his well-remunerated job with the convocation of the irredeemably batshit otherwise known as Breitbart. He was reduced to self-publishing his book, claiming initial sales of 100,000, only for the actual sales figures of fewer than 20,000 copies to be released, showing his pants well on fire.
But he was not undaunted, and in came the lawsuit, claiming $10 million from the original publisher. The problem has come now that Yiannopoulos’ manuscript has been released - along with the comments made by editors at Simon & Shuster.
The feedback given to The Great Man will not have been read with any sense of enjoyment: “You cannot say this is true of everyone … Not necessarily true … Not true … Don’t make fun of school shooters - and certainly don’t compare them to liberals … This entire paragraph is just repeating Fake News … Avoid gratuitous insults … Unclear, unfunny delete … Delete entire chapter”. And there was more.
Downfall of the fake Milo - and not for the first time
“The ‘Why Establishment Gays Hate Me’ chapter ‘needs a better thesis than the notion that gay people should go back in the closet’ … The feminist chapter needed a ‘stronger argument against feminism than saying that they are ugly and sexless and have cats’ … Delete irrelevant and superfluous ethnic joke … Let’s leave ‘cuck’ out of it here … I will not accept a manuscript that labels an entire class of people ‘mentally ill’”.
It gets worse. “The use of phrases like 'Two-faced backstabbing bitches' diminishes your overall point … This is not the time or place for another black-dick joke … Beauty regimen moved to box at end of chapter, after Nietzsche section”. Beauty regimen? What that?
Ah well. Here we encounter the real vanity and vacuity of this truly worthless being. “I have not drunk tap water since 2005 … My figure has improved dramatically from a year ago … Often I will remove my pyjamas and examine myself for a few minutes in the mirror … my body fat percentage is dropping … I can imagine finding myself attractive in a nightclub”.
Got the sick bucket ready? “In the shower I use a menthol and eucalyptus foaming gel … Because soap can be drying, I apply body butter or Kiehl’s moisturising cream … I use La Mer hand lotion … I use La Prairie skin cream … I enjoy kissing my boyfriend often, so I ensure my lips are plump and soft with a mint or mango lip balm”.
Christ on a bike, what a complete and utter tosser. Milo Yiannopoulos is either devoid of self-awareness, or begging to be laughed out of court. He can’t write competently. He’s got nothing of any interest to say. And he’s still a jumped-up con man.
Simon & Shuster are dead right to defend his worthless lawsuit. Because he’s going to lose the case. Then, perhaps, he might take the hint. And get a life.
Labels: Politics, Press and Media, Racism, Sexism, USA
Sun Bacon Advertorial BUSTED
When a paper runs the kind of “exclusive” that its competitors don’t enthusiastically follow up, it’s clear that it may well not be much of an exclusive. And when it’s the Murdoch Sun, and the author is the paper’s alleged “Westminster Correspondent”, the odious flannelled fool Master Harry Cole, a known fabricator of no known self-awareness, the thought enters that someone close to editor Tony Gallagher may come to regret not spiking it.
Someone missed ADVERTISING FEATURE off that one
So it is with today’s front page lead, as readers are told “Fry-Up Brits Rejoice … THAT’S SAVED OUR BACON … Rashers free of cancer chemicals”. This may look like a typical fun Sun splash, but in reality this is shameless advertorial copy, promoting a product from one firm that the vast majority of bacon consumers will not be going near any time soon.
Of course, in his usual inimitable style, Master Cole manages not to disclose this inconvenient fact to the Sun faithful, instead telling “Revolutionary bacon rashers free of cancer-causing nitrates hit Britain’s supermarket shelves thanks to technological breakthroughs”. This is total crap. The product hits Britain’s supermarket shelves thanks to the firm involved bringing it to the marketplace. But there is more.
“New Naked Bacon does not use potentially harmful chemicals during the curing process which can increase risk of bowel cancer”. So now we are told that this is a specific niche product, and not all bacon. Indeed, it will most likely not register as more than 3.5% of total bacon sales and consumption at best. Still, details, eh?
But do go on. “In 2015 the World Health Organisation warned there were significant increases in the risk of bowel cancer from eating processed meats such as bacon that traditionally have nitrites added as they are cured … UK sales plunged 11 per cent the following year as worried shoppers bought 25.4 million fewer packs of bacon”. No, sales declined as bacon became more expensive and less fashionable. And on the Sun’s figures, the new wonder bacon will cost twice as much as typical supermarket bacon.
One step nearer the exit, eh Tone?
How about owning up that this is advertorial? “Naked Bacon, produced by Northern Ireland food firm Finnebrogue, will be available at UK supermarkets from next month”. That’s as close as Master Cole gets to ‘fessing up to his deception. But he does have real MPs (allegedly) to sing the praises of this new product.
“And yesterday MPs and scientists hailed a breakthrough that could save the bacon sarnie - Britain’s much-loved hangover cure [hangover cure? F*** right off] … Tory Neil Parish, Chairman of the Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee [actually only one MP] said: ‘It’s a remarkable feat of food technology and a brilliant British success story … UK firms like Finnebrogue are producing some of the best food anywhere in the world’”. Yes, it’s advertorial. And pass the sick bucket.
Advertorial, used to back up the pretence that Britain is better than all those rotten foreigners and will beat the world at just about everything once we are free of the hated EU. Shameless propagandising. Selective disclosure so the readers think it’s news. And underneath it all, dishonesty about bacon. Which is just becoming less popular.
If the best the Sun can manage is to get Master Cole to cobble up advertorial, perhaps the time has finally come for Tony Gallagher to go. That would provide real seasonal cheer.
Labels: Business, Europe, Food, Politics, Press and Media
Tory Royal Yacht Shame
The last Royal Yacht, HMY Britannia, having seen more than 43 years’ service, was decommissioned at the end of 1997, with no replacement considered at the time, as this would have had to be resourced from a defence budget already under pressure - and subject to further cuts in succeeding years. Since then, campaigns to fund and build another Royal Yacht have come to nothing.
HMY Britannia - not coming back. Full stop
That thought did not occur to the remaining hacks and pundits at the increasingly desperate and downmarket Telegraph: ever ready to demonstrate their loyalty to the Crown, those at the paper have been campaigning for another Royal Yacht on and off since September last year, when they nicked the idea from the Sun’s alleged “Westminster Correspondent”, the odious flannelled fool Master Harry Cole.
Cole had invented a pack of lies about a new Royal Yacht; the Tel in its desperation took this up as a “campaign”. Now, a group of Tory MPs is equally desperate, and so the Tel’s Christopher “No” Hope has brought forth “Britannia to win the Lottery! Fifty Tory MPs back new lotto game to let public pay for new royal yacht”. This is crap, and going nowhere.
We can see this as the MP fronting the idea of a Boondoggle For The 21st Century is none other than Craig Mackinlay, now under investigation for, er, irregularities with his election expenses after the Tories called in supporters from all over the country to help him resist the challenge of former UKIP Oberscheissenführer Nigel “Thirsty” Farage in 2015.
No matter, the Tel has gushed “Using funds from a new national lottery game to pay for a new Britannia would allow ordinary Britons ‘the pride of having a stake’ in helping to fund the new yacht which would ‘showcase the best of British business and project our humanitarian role across the globe’, the MPs said”. But it’s still crap.
Britain does not need a Royal Yacht to showcase business, far less to negotiate and conclude trade deals. It does not need a Royal Yacht to “project our humanitarian role”. And we shell out quite enough on the Royal Family as it is. Also, the Royals already have access to whatever transport they need in order to carry out their duties.
But thanks to the Tel, we also now know that David T C Davies, Robert Halfon, Philip Hollobone, Jeremy Lefroy, Jack Lopresti, “Bonking” Bob Stewart, David Amess (no longer representing BASILDON), Andrew Bridgen, Philip Davies, Nigel Evans, Grant “Spiv” Shapps and many more prioritise a new Royal Yacht ahead of reducing food bank usage, homelessness, poverty, poor housing conditions, and much else.
We also have a superb example of how the Press and Pundit Establishment is totally out of touch with the world outside their hermetically sealed bubble, with Hope expressing surprise at the backlash to his idiotic suggestion: “What is wrong with asking people if they want to fund a new royal yacht? The only bills to the taxpayer would be the annual running costs”. Yeah, right. Britannia had a crew of 271. That’s around £15 million by itself.
You can at least double that with maintenance, fuel and the rest. How many nurses could that money fund? How many food parcels for the needy? How much in housing repairs?
The Telegraph and all those Tory MPs are living in Cloud Cuckoo Land. No change there.
Labels: Politics, Press and Media, Royalty, Transport, Travel
Is Paul Dacre Getting A Gong?
The moment of annual revelation is almost upon us: that time at the end of each year when the New Year’s Honours List is published. A few of the gongs have already been teased to a largely indifferent public, but one thing has been missing: the righteous and thundering denunciation of the whole thing by the legendarily foul mouthed Paul Dacre and his boot boys at the Daily Mail. It was not always like this.
Why the f*** shouldn't I get a knighthood, c***?!?
Indeed, the Vagina Monologue has serious past form in ordering attacks on the honours system. Six years ago, the Mail blasted “Tainted New Year Honours”, and the following year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours were dismissed as “Dishonours”. Two years ago, out came “Tainted New Year Honours” once again. Not so far this year, despite one well-known bête noire of the Mail being awarded a knighthood.
Former Lib Dem leader, and now former MP, Nick Clegg is in line for a K this weekend. And, although the Mail has told readers “Clegg gets a knighthood: Former Lib Dem leader to get a gong in the New Year's honours in recognition of his five years as deputy prime minister” and followed this with the sneering “But the knighthood is likely to be controversial given that Mr Clegg is an arch Remainer and that his party has been showered with honours in recent years”, the front page attack is missing.
The Mail has managed the obligatory digs “The Lib Dems have more than 100 representatives in the House of Lords despite their limited electoral success … Their peers will have considerable power over the course of the UK’s departure from the EU and Mr Clegg has called for a second referendum”, and the equally obligatory dig at his wife: “Miriam Gonzalez Durantez is unlikely to take up the title Lady Clegg after her husband is knighted … The Spanish lawyer does not use her married name and has never become a British citizen”. But the tone is almost restrained compared to some Clegg attacks.
All of which begs the question as to why Dacre, who detests Lib Dems with a passion and Clegg especially, has not gone in with both feet on the former MP, despite many from across the political spectrum voicing unhappiness at the award.
So why would Paul Dacre give one of his most despised hate figures a break? It’s an ideal target for unleashing the perfect storm of spite, all those hate objects coming together. But there is another reason for going easy on the honours system.
Paul Dacre saw his predecessor as Daily Mail editor, David English, get knighted. He saw his contemporaries, like Simon Jenkins and Max Hastings, get their Ks too. But the only Prime Minister to give him the time of day - Gordon Brown - didn’t do the dishing out of honours thing. And David Cameron did not meet with the Vagina Monologue’s approval. But Theresa May certainly does. And Dacre’s support for her has been absolute.
So the question has to be put: has the Empress Treeza given Dacre the knighthood he has craved for so many years? She’s given him the unique privilege among editors of one-on-one meetings, even hosting a dinner for him at 10 Downing Street. Yes, favouring the Mail’s editor sends the worst possible signal and legitimises some appallingly bad behaviour. But that hasn’t stopped some deeply unsavoury individuals getting gongs.
My Occam’s Razor says Dacre is getting a gong this time. Pass the sick bucket.
Labels: Politics, Press and Media, Royalty
Mail Harasses Single Mum
As if the obedient hackery of the legendarily foul mouthed Paul Dacre does not already have a grim enough reputation, it seems that they have sunk yet further by sending one of their number to snoop on a single mum - in direct and blatant contravention of the IPSO Editor’s Code of Conduct, which Dacre had a significant hand in devising and maintaining.
She's called Charlotte Wace. And she's bang out of order
The victim of this latest in a series of less than totally professional episodes is a young woman called Danielle Hindley, who has been approached by a representative of the Mail on Sunday. Yes, I know the excuses: it’s a totally different paper to the Daily Mail, with its own editor and often its own editorial line. But the editor-in-chief of the MoS is still Paul Dacre. And its hacks work for the same Rothermere press.
So let’s not have the “look over there” outbursts, just because they’ve been caught bang to rights with their hands in the proverbial till once again. Instead, let’s see who the MoS sent to do their dirty deed, and a little on their past form.
The hack identified as Ms Hindley’s unwelcome visitor is called Charlotte Wace, and her back catalogue includes a credit for the “Transgender lessons for 2 year olds” hatchet job. As Ms Hindley told, “This is the journalist that came in to my home, had a hidden camera on me & my little boy trying to write a story based on lies from a past client that harassed me and was issued a harassment order by the police”.
If the part about a hidden camera is true, the MoS has busted the Editor’s Code. When Ms Hindley Tweeted “Straight from the IPSO website ... Looking forward to getting a response”, she linked to an Instagram post showing the code’s Section 2: Privacy.
What happened then was worrying. “Update: Mail have been in touch with the source, told her to remove and adjust things on her social media that incriminate her as the source. It really is a little late for that now I already have screenshots of everything I need to back my case … @dailymailuk have blocked me too”. Why block her?
The MoS ought to be cooperating with Ms Hindley, not being evasive. The consequence of their participation was all too clear: “And the harassment continues. 6th report to police done tonight. As if the @DailyMailUK are aiding and abetting this nonsense. You tell her to adjust her fb to remove incriminating posts and she tells everyone. She then sets up fake fb profile and fake twitter to troll me”. And the effect on Ms Hindley was equally clear.
“Well had about 20hrs sleep in the last week. Haven't fallen asleep before 5am since the @DailyMailUK came into my home undercover and filmed me and my son based on lies from someone who has previously been issued a harassment order. Happy to say it’s midnight and I am SLEEPY”. So a complaint has been submitted.
This came complete with a “Merry Christmas” message. But so far there has been nothing more from the Northcliffe House bunker. After their clumsy intervention, that’s not good enough. The MoS has messed up big time and they now know it.
The least they could do is to say sorry. But the Mail titles aren’t big enough to do that.
Labels: Legal, Policing, Press and Media
Nadine Dorries Defends Sex Pests
Tis The Season Once More
Do Not Arise, Sir Nigel
Oxford - Daily Mail Loses It
Blue Passports - Less Freedom
Telegraph Whines At Taxman Doing His Job
Jess Phillips In Deep Trouble
Damian Green - Tories Deflecting
Sun Blue Passport Idiocy
Melbourne - Enter The Terrorism Ghouls
Tories Confess New Media Inadequacy
Uber London Lies EXPOSED
Damian Green - Got The Bastard
Uber And A £1 Billion VAT Bill
Tory Bullying Man Is Back
Press Bullies Threaten Labour Activist
Godfrey Bloom SACKED By Think Tank
Farage Leaflet Pants On Fire
Bercow Faces Down Dacre
Virgin East Coast Bailout WASN’T
Brexit Reveals Anti-Semitism
Murdoch In Sex Pest Mire
Theresa May HAS BEEN DERAILED
Monty’s Marr Show Paranoia
Diane Abbott Smear Is Out Of Order
Letts Ignore Two Million Deaths
Farage And Mail Lie Together
Ben Goldsmith Grenfell Smear BUSTED
Sun Victimises The Disabled
Mail Human Rights Fiasco ISN’T
Katie Hopkins Sick Grenfell Smears
Murdoch Sky Bid IS DEAD
Britain First Leaders BOTH NICKED
Nadine Dorries’ Brexit Meltdown
Brexit Vote - Dacre Loses It
Sun Edits Itself Out Of Rape Trial
Dan Wootton’s Boy Band Blunder
Nigel Farage Backed A Loser
Damian Green - Whitewash Coming
David Davis EU Foot In Mouth
Dan Wootton Wins Hypocrite Of The Year
Asian Men And Grooming - THE TRUTH
Daily Mail Rewards Failure
Telegraph’s Junior Doctor IS TORY ACTIVIST
Nigel Farage Backs Paedophile
Toby Young Momentum Paranoia
David Davis - Marr Show Pants On Fire
Gisela Stuart - The Myth Unravels
Nick Cohen Is Finished
Danczuk Pals Plot Rochdale Comeback
Tommy Robinson Dislikes Law And Order
Uber Sheffield Spin BUSTED
Press Brexit Delusion EXPOSED
Mail Backs Muslim Final Solution
United States Of Europe - FAKE NEWS
Brexit - We Surrender
Katie Hopkins Joins Apartheid Deniers
Corbyn Must Now Lead On Brexit
Latest Sun EU Scare BUSTED
Rupert Murdoch Discovers Climate Change
IDS Lies On Ireland
Stop Funding Hate - Abuse Now Official
David Davis Brexit Dishonesty
Sun Strictly Semi-Final Lies
Damian Green’s Quick Porn Blowback
Pizza Hut Apology - Liverpool Speaks
Theresa May Plays Brexit Chicken
The Day Brexit Died
Guido Fawked - Pizza Hut Giveaway
Legatum In Big Trouble
Nigel Farage Lies On Marr
Tories Get Opinion Poll Shock
Nadine Dorries Sells The Pass
Top Six - December 3
Bozza’s Stadium Hammering
Damian Green Fans’ Leveson Hypocrisy
Rees Mogg Meets Another Bigot
Tories Threaten Police
Zac Goldsmith Corbyn Smear BUSTED
Damian Green - One Hand On The Keyboard
Emma Dent Coad - New Smear Fawked
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286Blue helped Margin to set the relevant tone for all marketing materials, writing copy for all communications such as invitations and the exhibitor preview email newsletters. Professional yet sometimes irreverent to reflect the off-schedule nature of the event, the exhibitor preview email newsletters became eagerly anticipated by buyers and press as an indication of what to look forward to at the exhibition.
A major project that 286Blue wrote the copy for, as well as laying out the graphics for print, was the 10 Years of Margin London Book, a free publication distributed to press & buyers at the 10 Year edition of Margin in February 2012 as well as available for iPad from the Apple Bookstore. 286Blue designed and laid out the book, drawing on 10 years worth of information and photographs, as well as writing the content to convey the influence and effect the off-schedule trade event has had on the fashion industry.
Rather than producing a multitude of tradeshow videos, which are ultimately no more informative or engaging than a moving photograph with some backing music, Margin needed a more innovative way to feature video and interact with it’s audience of brands, buyers, and press.
As well as providing an affordable platform for independent new & young designers, the idea to help promote the core constituency of independent stores that regularly visit Margin was important.
Shop Tour Videos provided a window into diverse retail universes, from directional streetwear stores to elegant boutiques, and generated excitement amongst brands who could now see where their products were stocked (or where they wished them to be stocked) as well as helping to promote the boutiques themselves to consumers, via the Margin website, Facebook, YouTube, and Vimeo.
Savvy buyers from featured stores embedded the video on their website to give customers a taste of what their store has to offer. The Shop Tour videos were also featured on numerous blogs and websites, including Drapers, and shared heavily on Facebook & Twitter.
Block Headwear
Block Headwear,Branding & Identity,Clients,Content,Copywriting,Graphics,Press & News Releases
Established in May 2000 in New York, Block Headwear was aiming to fill an important niche in the accessory market with a unique take on men’s hats.
286Blue named the brand, created the logo & graphic identity, and produced the initial website & catalogues for the first five years, ahead of the company’s acquisition by a larger corporation who wanted to buy into the strong brand that had established itself in stores such as Fred Segal, Nordstroms, Selfridges, Urban Outfitters, Beams, and many others globally, and was worn by celebrities (on and off duty) such as Will.i.am, Tom Cruise, and Will Smith.
Block, the name, is all about headwear & it’s location. A New York city block of course, and a hat-block: the name given to the piece of carved wood that hats are moulded around with steam to give their shape (they are “blocked”). The strong simple logo echoes the piece of wood that is used to produce the hats – an uncomplicated graphic that proved instantly recognisable in it’s simplicity and has endured for over a decade to date.
To target the menswear market, 286Blue utilised a modern, masculine font that referenced varsity sports, and a clean & simple black & white scheme was used for the logo, swing-tags, and labelling. 286Blue created the artwork for the catalogue line-sheets (look-books) distributed to buyers and press, and graphics for advertising.
286Blue assisted in the crafting of press releases and copy for other promotional materials to promote the brand across the UK, Europe, Japan, and the USA.
Stradd
Branding & Identity,Clients,Content,Copywriting,Domains & Hosting,Graphics,Press & News Releases,Stradd,Video,Website
BRANDING, WEBSITE & VIDEO CONTENT.
Stradd is a mobile App for iPhone & iPad to help consumers find their nearest independent store and to help promote indie shops & boutiques. 286Blue named the new brand Stradd, essentially an abbreviation for STReet ADDress, created the brand identity, registered the domain and social network names, and hosted the site.
Stradd is the first App of it’s kind to help consumers find their nearest independent streetwear store or stylish boutique. The App features information about stores, such as which brands are stocked, along with their address location in Maps, and incorporates the use of Store Tour Videos for App users to watch in-App.
Using a solid, streetwear-influenced font, the Stradd logo is authoritative and recognisable. A striking shade of turquoise blue was selected to help the App stand out in the populated App Store, and was used for all elements, such as the App itself, the website, banner ads, and printed promotional materials.
286Blue.com created the website and branding, as well as registering the domain name and hosting the site. The website is formatted differently for desktop and iPhone so it’s easier to navigate and read on mobile devices.
www.stradd.com
Mappliqué
Branding & Identity,Clients,Content,Copywriting,Graphics,Mappliqué,Website
A local artist commissioned 286Blue to produce the brand identity, logo, and website for their new range of wall art. Mappliqué handcrafts maps from fabrics which are available as original fabric artworks as well as reproduction giclée prints.
286Blue created a logo with art-deco and “Ordnance Survey” influences to reflect the map background of the project and used a vintage-style functional typewriter font that referenced maps of the 1930s and the hand-made nature of the maps.
286Blue created a clean and stylish online store in classic black & white, with soft greys, which allows the colourful artwork to stand out as the star of the website. The web store is responsive, which means the layout adjusts to the size of the device the site is viewed on, to look good on all screens, from smartphones and tablets to desktops and laptops.
www.Mapplique.com
Corrigan Jewellery
Branding & Identity,Clients,Content,Copywriting,Corrigan Jewellery,Graphics,Website
An independent jeweller with a background in antiques commissioned 286Blue to create their new brand identity, as well as an online store to house their growing collection of fine antique and vintage jewellery.
286Blue created an elegant logo that reflects the luxurious curves of fine jewellery with a gold coat of arms to impart experience and authority.
286Blue produced a signature palette of battleship grey with touches of gold for use on stationery, business cards, and online, where elegant fonts are used in print and throughout the site to compliment the luxury offering.
286Blue assisted in securing Corrigan Jewellery’s presence on social networks as well as creating a compliant mailing list to gather subscribers via the website and Facebook.
286Blue created a clean and stylish online store with a responsive layout, which means the site adjusts to the size of the device it’s viewed on, to look good on all screens, from smartphones and tablets to desktops and laptops.
www.CorriganJewellery.com
AllGoodStore.com
AllGoodStore.com,Branding & Identity,Clients,Content,Copywriting,Domains & Hosting,Graphics,Website
BRANDING & WEBSITE.
A contemporary online store, AllGoodStore.com is a clean & simple e-commerce site that allows the product to take centre-stage. 286Blue.com created the website and branding, as well as registering the domain name and hosting the site.
Reflecting the current need for online stores to highlight specific products or brands, the home page of the site displays a large slider as well as smaller display graphics to drive shoppers quickly to the promoted items.
With the use of a mobile stylesheet, the website displays differently on mobile devices such as the iPhone, to enable better navigation and see the products more clearly without having to zoom in and out. Visit www.AllGoodStore.com on your computer and then your iPhone to see the difference.
Shoppers can browse by brand, Latest Goods, or product categories such as Accessories or Clothing, All Good Store is a stylish webstore with integrated shopper accounts, newsletter sign-ups, and quick share buttons on product pages (so shoppers can share items they like on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google Plus, and email).
286Blue can create an online store similar to AllGoodStore.com that can be customised with your branding, colours & logo (or we can help you to create these if you don’t have an established brand identity in place). Based on easily update-able software, adding a new product is as simple as writing an email and attaching a photograph.
The administration section of the online store provides all the information you would need to add products, track orders, stock, and site visitor numbers, and can be integrated with various different payment gateways such as Paypal, Worldpay, Amazon Payments, Sagepay, and many others.
www.AllGoodStore.com
My Vintage Affair
Branding & Identity,Clients,Content,Copywriting,Graphics,My Vintage Affair,Website
What started as a passionate appreciation for the craftsmanship and skill that was needed to create clothing from previous eras, has developed into a business for one lover of all things vintage.
My Vintage Affair organise fairs in London, and further afield, where they can display their global vintage finds from around the world.
The branding needed a refresh to accurately reflect the personality and product offering so 286Blue created a new set of graphics to strengthen the brand. My Vintage Affair travel the world to source vintage clothing & accessories so 286Blue created the strapline of “Global Vintage Finds” and incorporated an airplane into the logo, reworked in a vintage-style font.
286Blue will also be designing the business cards & company stationery, and providing design guidelines and artwork for future promotional materials.
286Blue has designed a new-look website reflecting the new branding, and will be developing the online store which My Vintage Affair plan to launch soon. The site is “responsive” which means it will display differently on mobile devices such as the iPhone or iPad, to enable better navigation and see the products more clearly without having to zoom in and out.
Shoppers will be able to browse by era, Latest Goods, or product categories such as Accessories or Dresses. My Vintage Affair will be a stylish webstore with integrated shopper accounts, newsletter sign-ups, and quick share buttons on product pages (so shoppers can share items they like on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google Plus, and email).
286Blue can create an online store similar to My Vintage Affair that can be customised with your branding, colours & logo (or we can help you to create these if you don’t have an established brand identity in place). Based on easily update-able software, adding a new product is as simple as writing an email and attaching a photograph.
Status Barbers
Clients,Content,Copywriting,Domains & Hosting,Status Barbers,Website
A simple & clean website for a newly-opened Barbershop, Status already had their branding in place but required an online presence that reflected their business.
286Blue created a stylish & informative site using elements of the shop decor, as well as helping Status get listed on Google Maps and other search engines to generate visitors from mobile & desktop searches.
With a Facebook “Like” button to gather fans for the already-established Facebook page, the site features a link to maps to help customers find directions to the location easily, and the build allows expansion of the site in the future.
www.statusbarbers.com
286Blue,Branding & Identity,Clients,Content,Copywriting,Domains & Hosting,Graphics,Website
It would be remiss of us not to include our own graphics, branding & website. We wanted a clean & simple identity that was instantly recognisable through a strong use of one colour; namely, Pantone 286.
Pantone is the leading colour authority globally that print and fashion designers use when specifying particular colours. There are many variations of the colour blue for example, so the Pantone system enables designers to specify the exact shade of blue required, such as number 286.
Naming our company after a Pantone colour number meant, of course, that we had to have our 286Blue business cards printed in the exact same shade.
We simply love the colour. It reminds us of elegant French street signs, Yves Klein’s saturated artworks, vibrant brushstrokes, Greek-island rooftops and wooden doors, Yves Saint Laurent’s Moroccan gardens, the Mediterranean Sea, sunloungers, Portuguese tiles, and the colour of beachfront railings and lampposts in Eastbourne, East Sussex, our home town.
The website has been kept clean & simple to allow the work we’ve created for clients to shine through, with an elegant use of Art Deco, graphic, and artistic fonts against a backdrop of clean white and deep blue brushstrokes. With the use of mobile stylesheets, the website displays differently on mobile devices such as the iPhone, to enable better navigation and see the work more clearly without having to zoom in and out.
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Netanyahu’s Facebook page chatbot suspended over hate speech
September 13, 2019 September 13, 2019 Asif Sipra Netanyahu’s Facebook page
California: Facebook has temporarily suspended a chatbot on the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official page for violating the social media giant’s hate speech policy.
This happened on Thursday, after messages appeared on Netanyahu’s official Facebook page, which is run by the right-wing Likud party, saying “Arabs want to annihilate us all.”
“After careful review of the Likud campaign’s bot activities, we found a violation of our hate speech policy,” a Facebook statement said on Thursday, adding, “We also found that the bot was misusing the platform in the time period allowed to contact people. As a result, we temporarily suspended the bot for 24 hours. Should there be any additional violations, we will continue to take appropriate action.”
A Likud spokeswoman later alleged that the post was a staffer’s mistake, claiming that 69-year-old Netanyahu – who chairs the party – had not seen or authorized the message.
She added that the freeze went into effect on Thursday morning, and would not affect Likud’s online election campaign.
Netanyahu also sought to disassociate himself from the anti-Arab content on Facebook, telling Israeli public radio that he was not responsible for the message.
“It wasn’t me. It was one of the workers at our election headquarters,” he asserted.
“That mistake was fixed quickly. Think logically: Do you think I would really write such a thing? I have friends in Arab countries … What is this nonsense?” the Israeli prime minister added.
Meanwhile, the head of the Arab Joint List coalition in the Israeli parliament, Ayman Odeh, has slammed Netanyahu for the chatbot.
“Netanyahu is a psychopath with no red lines and he wants to see blood,” Odeh wrote in Hebrew on his Twitter page, adding, “This despicable thug will continue to spill our blood as long as he believes it will help him escape prison.”
Odeh further noted that he had reported the automated popup message to Facebook “to stop Netanyahu’s racist and dangerous incitement against the Arab population.”
Arab people living in the occupied territories make up 21 percent of Israel’s population. Political commentators and Netanyahu’s critics have long criticized him for demonizing the community with his political rhetoric.
The development comes as Israeli settlers will head to the ballot box on September 17.
Arabs generally tend to vote for their own parties belonging to the Arab Joint List coalition, or for centrist and left-wing parties.
During legislative elections in 2015, Netanyahu used a similar anti-Arab tone to garner support, claiming in a video that an Israeli right-wing administration was in “danger” and that Arabs were going to polling stations “in droves.”
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Tuesday, January, 21, 2020 11:30:04
Patagonia sues AB InBev for selling beer that displays its name
Paroma Bhattacharya April 12, 2019 Headlines
AB InBev had availed a trademark to sell Patagonia beer in the United States in the year 2012
Patagonia has accused AB InBev (BUD) of trademark infringement for copying its brand name and aesthetic on its beer bottles
Clothing firm Patagonia has reportedly filed a lawsuit against Budweiser’s parent company alleging that it is selling a beer which resembles its name and evokes Patagonia’s environment-friendly, rugged brand and logo.
As per trusted sources, AB InBev had availed a trademark to sell Patagonia beer in the United States in the year 2012. However, it is being said that the brewer sat on the name until 2018 – the time it began selling beer with the brand name.
According to a report by UPI News, Patagonia has noted in the lawsuit that AB InBev has deliberately attempted to take advantage of the hard-earned reputation of the company which has been built over the last 40 years as an entity dedicated to environmental conservation. The statement further notes that AB InBev has done everything possible to make it appear as if Patagonia company sells the PATAGONIA beer.
Reportedly, an AB InBev spokesperson emailed a short statement to CNN which said that the company will fight the lawsuit. It further stated that AB InBev is aware of the lawsuit and believes it to be without merit and hence the company would strongly defend its trademark rights.
As per reliable sources, Patagonia has accused AB InBev (BUD) of trademark infringement for copying its brand name and aesthetic on its beer bottles. Reportedly, AB’s Patagonia beer packaging displays a silhouette of a mountain and the word Patagonia in bold letters.
For the record, Patagonia claims that their brand was created in the 1960’s and is registered in 90 nations.
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Andersonstown News February 25, 2014
Cops in bizarre Celtic outburst
By Francesca Ryan
The PSNI has been accused of insulting Celtic fans in the lower Falls after comments made by an officer about attacks on traffic from a Divis footbridge.
In an email conversation between a number of agencies about the proposed removal of unsightly barbed wire from the Cullingtree Road footbridge, a police officer laid the blame for attacks on Westlink vehicles on local Celtic fans.
“Historically,” the officer wrote in an email sent to officials at Belfast City Council and the Department for Regional Development, among others, “there has been an issue with local kids/teenagers climbing on to the top of the footbridge, running back and forward across the span and, if Celtic win a big match, dancing on the bridge. However, if Celtic lose, then they drop objects on passing traffic.”
The comments have caused outrage among residents in the lower Falls and one community worker says the remarks show a complete lack of understanding of local issues.
While acknowledging anti-social activity in the area surrounding th bridge, Mary McConville, who is standing in Court Ward for Sinn Féin in May’s local election, said the incidents described have never happened.
“I have been very concerned that comments like this can be made,” she said. “These comments are wholly inaccurate and do not reflect Celtic supporters in this area. To be honest, this has never happened
“Sinn Féin argued from the beginning for the extension of the wire to go across the bridge and we also got the barbed wire due to anti-social activity. To try to blame Celtic supporters is an insult and that’s how it has been taken by residents of this area.”
Terry Quinn of the Falls Residents’ Association said the officer has needlessly complicated what’s purely a crime and anti-social behaviour matter.
“This barbed wire has been up for over a year and was campaigned for by the MLA for the area, Fra McCann,” he said. “It was always designed to stop anti-social behaviour. To blame Celtic fans for this absolute nonsense shows a lack of knowledge of what actually happens in this area and is entirely miselading.
“The PSNI have branded Celtic fans as thugs and brought a sectarian element into what is a clear anti-social issue. If they are going to blame Celtic fans then they don’t understand the issues here. We would like an apology, as I’m sure would Celtic fans who have been insulted and branded in this manner.”
Police had not replied as we went to press.
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Darkest episodes
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 7:13 am Post subject: Darkest episodes
The Avengers has a reputation for being light, entertaining, charming and comedic at times, but fans will know it has its dark moments.
The Town of No Return, an entire village has been replaced, better not even contemplate what happened to all those villagers.
Man-eater of Surrey Green, man eating plant.
November Five, an nuclear bomb nearly detonated in London.
Take-Over, the tense atmosphere of a hostage taking.
there are of course more examples.
Season four stands out in the regard for all consuming threats for man kind.
Season three the harsh disregard of secret services for individuals in the pursuit of their goals.
Season five, was maybe to happy and naive?
When, in your opinion, did the Avengers get the most dark?
Dpn't Look Behind You - both figuratively and literally, as much of the action takes place in an old house with the lights out. Cathy Gale is psychologically terrorised in the dark by an old foe and his mad accomplice.
Brugeoise
Even more so, I guess, thanks to the fact that it was shot as live. I suppose that whole hour of recording must have been particularly stressful for the actors from a psychological standpoint. In spite of The Joker being a remake of Don’t Look Behind You, it doesn’t get as dark as the original: I love the episode but it seems to me that Emma just fails to feel frightened in the way Cathy did.
Man with Two Shadows and, specially, The Wringer are other two episodes I find to be rather dark.
I agree that season five is the merriest of them all, except perhaps for a few scenes in Murdersville: when Emma finds Paul’s corpse at doctor Haynes’ surgery, the scene in which she is tortured in the pond and I also find the atmosphere around major Crawford’s house to be quite unnerving.
mrspeel01
I agree with your points. What you say about how Cathy and Emma react in "Don't look behind you/the Joker "is very interesting. Honor Blackman has said she found it very difficult to keep her emotions in check during filming and felt she never quite managed it. We don't know how Diana Rigg felt but it seems she must have felt differently as she conveys more frustration about the goings-on rather than fear in the episode. (Though there are moments when you can see fear, such as when she sees the knife embedded in the kitchen door and in the final confrontation with Prendergast).
Perhaps, as Emma had told herself to "reason it out" in the previous "House that jack Built "story which has a similar premise-alone in a strange house, Diana Rigg felt that Emma shouldn't so easily succumb to fear. After all her character, as well as Cathy, were meant to be a departure from the all too-often "damsels in distress" type of female characters that had come before. Even though the Plots often place them in that kind of jeopardy (the finale of "The Gravediggers" and "Epic", come to mind) it's refreshing not to see them scream in fear, as was/is too often the case in Film & TV.
The Wringer is a good one, with its manipulation of the mind has that threatening aspect. Another one I'm reminded of is Dressed to Kill, with the country having narrowly escaped being bombed.
Don't Look Behind You is dark for the protagonist, but not much so in general. The level of threat for the country or humanity is probably not outdone by November Five and Man-Eater of Surrey Green, the latter one also for its high body count.
mrs_emma_peel
Location: North-East England
Warlock is a superbly atmospheric episode - perhaps a forerunner to A Touch of Brimstone with dark themes of black magic and devil worship.
I think The House That Jack Built and Murdersville are also brilliant dark Hitchcockian style psychological thrillers, dealing with threads of creeping insanity and murderous witchcraft respectively.
I think Don't Look Behind You and The Joker are both splendidly realized - two memorable performances by Honor and Diana and two fine villains.
For my money, The Joker just edges it, mainly because of the superb Ola, a wonderfully unhinged character, idolizing Prendergast and relishing his sadistic intent.
James/Mrs Emma Peel
The biological warfare agents in The Golden Eggs are quite terrifying and also the sickness is well-portrayed, not over-the-top but swift and deadly. Such agencies do not mess about, as we have seen during the recent chemical warfare attacks on British soil which the British government have been powerless to prevent or punish. Maybe such real-life dangers are too horrible for The Avengers' fantasy world but it was done well here.
mrspeel01 wrote:
I agree with your points. What you say about how Cathy and Emma react in "Don't look behind you/the Joker "is very interesting. Honor Blackman has said she found it very difficult to keep her emotions in check during filming and felt she never quite managed it.
Honor Blackman says she got into arguments with director Peter Hammond "because he wanted me to be very tough and ready to kill this man at the end, but I felt so sorry for the character. He moved me so much that I had tears running down my face. Peter was quite cross with me, but I couldn't play it any other way." (Honor Blackman speaking to Steven Eramo of Starlog Magazine)
Yes, I remember reading that interview. I can only imagine the director was saying that, because Cathy had been set up as a character who was meant to be "tough" and he didn;t want her to show vulnerabilty. But Honor felt differently. From the way Diana Rigg played it I feel it must have affected her in a different way. Thus two very different interpretations of the same situation.
While there were darker episodes during the monochrome days, there were a few surprisingly dark ones during the colour seasons. The Joker and Murdersville were not so light in tone as the rest of season 5. As much as I love Don't look behind you, I actually prefer The Joker and find it has a much more menacing tone than the original. Take over was the darkest of Tara's episodes, and really stood out among episodes that were generally lighter and often surreal at times.
I do so agree! Take Over goes even to the point of showing Steed in real danger, a situation where we rarely find him in the original series.
On The Joker, I think Emma looks more annoyed than frightened. I get the same impression from The House That Jack Built. Nevertheless, they are both terrific episodes -with The Joker being in my personal top 5.
The Tara King era feels in general to be more light tone, but it has its dark spots. The car sequence from Invasion of the Earthmen in which Steed and Tara enter Alpha Academy for the first time (“it’s like the other side of the Moon”) feels to me to be rather dark as well as some parts of Whoever shot poor George...
Episodes like Take-Over, The Joker, Don't Look Behind You stand out because they almost completely abandon the eccentricity and typical of the Avengers. Yet that episodes can vary so much in atmosphere is what makes the Avengers so worth (re)watching.
Perhaps The White Dwarf with the potential destruction of the human race from space....?
You really must have a word with that cleaning lady....
Mentioning "Don't Look Behind You", I was amused to see The Saint on TV this week and Maurice Good played almost exactly the same character, only this time his complicated terror-vendetta was against Simon Templar rather than Mrs Gale. But the denouement was very similar despite being made over 4 years later. Poor chap must've felt typecast!
Thanks for the tip-off, Franky. I just watched "The Time to Die" and it seems to be a pastiche of "You Have Just Been Murdered" and "The Joker" along with a few other plot ideas. So, was it Terry Nation being lazy and nicking other people's ideas, or Brian Clemens being lazy in the first place and nicking ideas from Leslie Charteris? I don't know how much of the plot comes from books of The Saint.
Thanks from me too! I'll look out for 'The time to die' episode. The title is almost the same as No time to die, the new Bond film. No time to die was also the title of a 1992 Columbo TV movie. I'm afraid I groaned when I read the title of the new Bond film at it's lack of originality. The Saint was never one of my favourite ITC series, but this episode sounds intriguing even if it also seems to lack originality.
According to thesaint.org the colour episodes of The Saint were original scripts which Charteris was contracted to suggest amendments to so it looks like Terry Nation's trademark laziness although he normally recycled his own scripts rather than stealing other peoples'.
Yes, cyberrich, it is worth a watch in my opinion. one of the better colour ones. Even my 11 year old watched it and commented on it, so it must've had something!
I watched The Saint colour episodes when I was eleven and loved it, that's where my love of 60s cult series started.
I actually think that "Return of the Cybernauts" is VERY dark. Beresford enters Emma's (and a jealous Steed's) life as a friend. At the end, what were Beresford's plans for a controlled Emma--look at him undoing her coat as he sends her out to get Steed. What else might he undo regarding her clothes? He was a sick man, and the under-current of controlling Emma and Steed turns this episode very dark and unsettling.
Luckily, Steed is super strong and got the watch put on the cybernaut's wrist. Otherwise...it's chilling to think about.
Fan of John Steed
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MICHELLE OBAMAS GRADUATION SPEECH AT SPELMAN COLLEGE
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Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here You are commenting using your Twitter account. They were planning to build a full-scale liberal arts college for African American women. When she was barred from flying out of segregated airports, she worked with her flying school classmates and instructors to build their own airfield. Now, that is sisterhood. And many of you will need that money to help pay off your student loans and support your families. Obama will inspire more than graduates to also leave their mark on the world when she delivers the commencement address to the Spelman College class of
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Find those folks who have so much potential, but so little opportunity, and do for them what Spelman has done for you. Now, that spark, that spirit, that odds-defying tenacity has defined the alumnae of this school from its very first graduating class. Underscoring the important contributions made by all the honorees, Dr. But already, they were planning to build something big, a college.
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And it is vitally important that you all rise to the highest ranks of every industry and of profession. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email. Leave a Reply Gradiation reply Enter your comment here But remember, if I die, I die for you and in a good cause.
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And with few advantages and long odds, with doors closed to them and laws stacked against them, still they achieved, still they triumphed, still they carved a glorious path for themselves in this world.
That way, if somebody had planted a car bomb, she had a chance of being injured rather than killed. But I woke up every morning with a sense of purpose and possibility.
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The curious case of corry evans
Thread: The curious case of corry evans
It would appear stoke city are chasing his signature.
We are holding out for 1.5 million,seems a bit cheap to me.
I never understand valuations, Robin.
All I know is, prices seem to go up and up, the closer you get to the end of the window!
If Evans goes - and Smallwood is surely bound to - I really hope players like Davenport and Buckley come good.
That's an awful lot of experience to replace, and it worries me that Johnson is so erratic.
I wonder if people like Mols and Lyons have any chance of making it in those central midfield positions. I often wish the U-23 games were televised. It would be good to get a regular sighting of the youngsters.
No chance. He wont go with you talent. He hadn't got an idea what to do with classy players. Or young talent.
He will stick with Johnson or Bennett, or Rothwell. ****e like that. No risk, not heading anywhere. And due to the fact these lads are left out, if we lose someone like Evan's, they haven't got the experience to step in. Because he chooses the easy option of picking Jonhson, or Downing etc. And we clearly aren't going anywhere with these players.
Under 23 football is not real football. And that remain untested while playing there.
I still think you're being odd about Downing, Champs.
I suspect that if you added up the ratings for every Rovers player this season, and averaged them out, he would be about equal top with Lenihan and Travis.
He has certainly been far more consistent than the vast majority of them.
And Travis and Lenihan are midtable Championship players.
Downing has always played the majority of his career for sides in the top half of the Prem.
Boro didn't want him for a reason Auks. Not because he was any good. We are not going anywhere for a reason.
Like Johnson wasn't wanted at Derby, for a reason. We did all get warned of him, by Derby fans. They were all correct, to a man.
Nobody is interested in players like Rothwell, for a reason.
This keeper we got on loan, has always had a question mark over his form, for a reason.
I'm sure Downing's stats stack up alongside a bunch of mid-table footballers not going anywhere. Who show inconsistent form at best. None of that equates to him adding anything. Or being any good.
There is a reason we are simply treading water, and going nowhere Auks.
You appear to be convinced I am saying ALL of that falls on the manager.
I don't think we are creating good enough players from our academy. I severely question the coaching at this club.
I rarely see us organised. I question what they do in a whole week to prepare for a game.
I feel we lack motivation.
I feel its all very nice, well paid and very easy. Nobody pushing to get to another level.
No real progression in players. Nobody really seems to improve.
It all feels very stale, all feels very safe and heading nowhere.
And the factors of how it is like this, are make up of different things.
I am not so single minded as to blame all that on one person.
All I know is, I have gradually over the season, just felt bored of it all.
Am I overjoyed with excitement at seeing Bradley Johnson tomorrow no. He can't be arsed. Neither can I.
Where I will never be able to change my opinion now, the end of Bury FC was pretty much the end for me with this modern football *******s. I am rapidly losing interest in it all.
Bury could survive for another season, off what Johnson earns in one season. We will be one of next to go, and its down to making these mistakes continually.
Or we sign some young kid, who is a great prospect. He never plays, visibly gets worse in his time here, and repeat.
I just don't want any part of this, it makes me feel uncomfortable. I feel no connection with this club, with its players, and the direction its all heading.
I just don't know what to say.
To be honest, I think we ARE - in terms of size, etc. - a mid-table Championship club, but you keep saying "We aren't going anywhere".
Nor are most of the other clubs in our Division, because only three get promoted. We have no special rights or privileges, Champs. I just don't believe there's a saviour out there, waiting to take us back to our "proper" place!
We might scrape our way back to the PL one day, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
I'd much prefer to watch game by game, and if the miracle happens, so much the better!
As it is, "Won 10, Drawn 6, Lost 10" doesn't strike me as disaster or a cause for depression.
On your broader point about modern football (and what it has done to Bury, for example), I totally agree, but we are powerless.
I played village cricket for many years and it was wonderful, but we had to join a league in the end because fewer and fewer clubs wanted to play "friendlies". I think that's just one small example of how sport has changed.
This is the "professional" and "commercial' era, and there is no going back.
Things change. I am a life-long Socialist. I am a member of the last generation that understands where Socialism came from and how it changed the lives of working-class people. Now, it is virtually dead - as the last UK election bruisingly demonstrated. My mum and dad must be turning in their graves at the sight of all those Northern towns voting Tory!
I have to move on. Now, I am looking to the creation of a merger between centre-parties, the old Labour parties and the Greens, in order to form some kind of Progressive Block. That is very hard for me, because of my far-Left background, but it's that or become a dinosaur.
In other words, what has happened to sport is just part of the massive changes I have witnessed during my lifetime in all aspect of society.
Bad luck yesterday with him.
Now we are stuck with Bradley Johnson in the centre and now nyambe has ANOTHER injury,the likely hood of Bennett back at right back.
Would love Davenport and Rankin Costello given a chance over the 2 mentioned but it will never happen.
It will be a very long afternoon against Sheffield Wednesday.
They are looking at Mick Rathbones son who plays for Rochdale for around £500k. Local lad aswell
Robin, I think Rankin-Costello, Butterworth and Annesley are still not fully fit.
The U-23 team has recently had a lot of U-18s in it (plus Smallwood!) because of that. We really are having a bad time of it with injuries at the moment.
Question is do we stick tosin at right back and put up with Williams alongside lenihan?or stick Bennett back at right back?neither appeal to me that greatly so let's see which wets Tony's whistle.
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Ag Committee Leaders Praise Bipartisan Budget Act
Dan February 12, 2018 Funding, Industry News Release
Senate Ag Committee Chair Pat Roberts says the Bipartisan Budget Act passed in both chambers of Congress benefits Americans in many ways. It avoids a government shutdown, raises military funding, contains disaster assistance for several states that were hit hard by natural disasters, and improves livestock assistance programs.
Roberts says, “In addition to disaster assistance for states hit hard by hurricanes, we’ve also improved livestock disaster programs to help producers recover from wildfires and other disasters.” More funds are available under the Emergency Assistance Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program. There’s also more money available under the Livestock Indemnity Program. There’s also a revision of the LIP program that lets producers who had livestock injured during a natural disaster and sold for a diminished value can qualify for a payment.
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House Ag Committee Chair Michael Conaway says delegations from the two hardest-hit states of Florida and Texas worked very hard to get something put together to help their producers. Conaway adds, “The relief includes vital improvements to standing disaster programs and addresses significant gaps in the safety net for cotton and dairy farmers.” He says they have more work to do on behalf of America’s farmers during the development of the 2018 farm bill.
From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting News Service.
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UPSC's Himalayan Blunder
The language war controversy in the Civil Services (Main) Exam in Lok Sabha recently, reflected on UPSC's failure in advising GOI in carrying out radical changes in the format and syllabus of Civil Services (Main) Exam 2013 purportedly to make it mor e relevant with the present day, global as well as internal scenario. The changes were recommended by a committee constituted by UPSC under Prof Arun S Nigavekar, former chairman, UGC. It gave more weightage to the two General Studies papers and the English language by making it competitive. Regional languages were totally ignored. Neither did the Committee nor the UPSC nor the GOI visualise the repercussions of the proposed changes .This smacked of intellectual bankruptcy with complete disregard for regional languages included in Schedule VIII of Constitution. The inclusion of regional languages is an emotive issue and needed to be handled carefully. The UPSC's suggestions were approved by the Prime minister in Feb 2013,as Cabinet minister for DOP&T, before being put in public domain by UPSC on March 5,2013. This is clarified in fairness to UPSC as in Lok Sabha debate, both PM and MOS (Personnel) drew blank face feigning ignorance about their close involvement.The Chairman UPSC became the fall guy to face MPs attacks in Parliament. For diffusing the crisis,the PM had no option but to put the notification on the hold. The civil services aspirants suffered the suspense they had to pass through. The March 5 notification has been put on hold by UPSC on the basis of PM's assurance to Parliament. The notification will not impact CS (Main) Exam, 2013. But, as it has not been withdrawn, the GOI is free to operationalise it from CS (Main) 2014. The arguments adduced by the MPs of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha would be relevant for all times and the GOI must learn lessons from history. The author served in UPSC on a sensitive portfolio and had handled the issues in the past.
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“HOLI IS NOT FOR FLIRTING”
I stay in a middle class colony of Delhi .My neighbours are a mix of different faiths. I am not a pseudo –secularist like the Congresswala. But, I follow the hindu way of life with respects for other faiths.
My co-operative housing society’s management is usually inactive. It is never co-operative.Come Holi, it turns pro-active. It is usually so,when it comes to spending from Society’s funds. I urged them not to celebrate the occasion from out of society’s funds which was a public fund and its utilisation on religious celebrations was inappropriate . Earlier, the demand for constructing a temple in the complex was given up only after the matter was reported to Delhi Police. There were secret murmurs of protest from the majority community. I was targeted as I did not join their ‘Mutual Admiration Club!
If you do not learn from history, the same is repeated. The same happened on the HOLI day. My protests turned more vehement as similar gestures were not shown during the celebration of Christmas and the Eid. The Management remained unconvinced, unconcerned and insensitive. The majority’s view prevailed in the ‘Number Game’. Celebrations started with fervour. The famous ‘Silsila’s “Rang Barse” song was on the air like the ‘National Song’ for HOLI ; males dancing with their neighbours’ wives, leaving others flirting furtively.
The tagline is : “Bura Na Maano, Holi Hai “. Does this give a licence to enjoy as you wish.
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Pardon me My Lord, I am emotional !
My emotional quotient is high.My heart bleeds for Sanjay Dutt. I can empathise with him and feel the pain.But, my empathy would be misplaced as emotions have no place in the verdict of the highest court of Justice.But, I am amazed at the sharp reactions of the bleeding hearts in the world of politics and filmdom.Not to lag behind,even Mr Markanday Katju ,former judge of Supreme court who besides being a citizen of India, also wears the hat of Chairman, Press Council of India. He is a public servant holding a statutary office.One wonders whether he is discharging his duties diligently? Is he being fair and just by appealing to the Constitutional head of Maharashtra to use his discretionary powers and grant gubernatorial pardon to Sanjay Dutt ?Has he visualized the sweeping repercussions, such an action would have on other cases,that are similarly circumstanced ?
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“Hamaam Mey Sab Nangey hain !”
The sting operation by a online portal exposed the executives of three private banks indulging in money-laundering activities.The story does not end here. Not to lag behind, even some public sector banks are allegedly indulging in the luxury of obliging mainstream political parties by receiving huge sums of of cash from them and
channelizing the same into investment schemes by creating benami accounts-holders.The RBI’s anti-money-laundering laws are being violated with impunity,both by private and public sector banks. While in govt service, I came across a case of a prominent political party flooding a government bank( two or three times a week)
with sacks of unaccounted cash running into hundreds of crores of rupees ( black money in common parlance) for money-laundering.The MOF was apprised of the details with documentary evidences. But, the matter was conveniently suppressed.The evil continues with vengeance, across the board, right under the nose of the
RBI. Names of political party and the psu bank, are being withheld for obvious reasons.
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“Forgive Ashraf , Punish Kayani.”
Let us not politicisize Pakistan PM’s private pilgrimage to Ajmer dargah. India’s foreign minister welcome to the dignitary was in keeping with India’s age old traditions and its conduct as a responsible Nation. This does not, however,take away India’s right to defend its border and protect its sovereignty, if necessary, by
carrying hot pursuits into POK and demolish terrorists’ infrastructure. Why blame Pak’s PM who heads a sham democracy that merely complies with the orders of Pakistan army,particularly the ISI? Instead of serving the interests of Pak’s army, let India issue orders to its Army Chief to teach a lesson to the former in the
manner and language it deserves. Gen Bikram Singh’s statement to lift the morale of our soldiers, alone ,does not suffice. Let indian army take action to defend country’s honour in the wake of beheading of two Indian soldiers and for merciless killing of the Kargil martyr, Capt.Saurabh Kalia.
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[Album] The Pineapple Thief - Someone Here Is Missing
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Artist: The Pineapple Thief
Album: Someone Here Is Missing
Label: K-Scope
Genre: Indie Rock / Progressive Rock / Electronica / Alternative
英國牛逼團「The Pineapple Thief」2010新作 《Someone Here Is Missing》
For the past nine years, The Pineapple Thief have been quietly building up a dedicated fan base across the globe, selling over 25,000 records and gaining huge critical acclaim in the process. The Somerset-based band’s ‘bittersweet’ progressive sound has been nurtured over their six previous albums. Founded by Bruce Soord (formerly with Vulgar Unicorn), The Pineapple Thief started out as a solo outlet for his music. The debut album, Abducting, was released on Cyclops Records in May 1999. The critical plaudits and small but fanatical fan base that grew around the release was enough to convince Bruce that perhaps TPT was here to stay and he returned to the Dining Room studios to work on the second, TPT album, 137. Following it’s the reaction to its release in the spring of 2002 and the growing demand from fans for live shows, Bruce felt the need to expand TPT to a full band. The band consisted of his close musical friends - former university band mate Jon Sykes on bass, Wayne Higgins on guitars, Matt O'Leary ..boards and Keith Harrison on drums. Wayne and Matt have since left but Steve Kitch (who co-produced and mixed 10 Stories Down) has joined to replace Matt and play the keyboards. The third album, Variations On A Dream (2004) gave TPT a further boost, reaching out to yet more people all over the world. Three albums followed, 10 Stories Down (2005), Little Man (2006), and What We Have Sown (2007), which was to prove to be the last album released via Cyclops. Having finalised a deal with K-Scope, an imprint of Snapper Records, The Pineapple Thief have just released their first album for the label, Tightly Unwound, in May 2008. In 2009 the band find themselves breaking into new territory in Europe and North America.
Pineapple Thief new album Someone here is missing out on May 24th 2010
01. Nothing At Best
02. Wake Up The Dead
03. The State We’re In
04. Preparation For Meltdown
05. Barely Breathing
06. Show A Little Love
07. Someone Here Is Missing
08. 3000 Days
09. So We Row
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Record $5.1M 1-day missions offering at Johnson Ferry
by Ann Lovell, posted Tuesday, November 12, 2019 (2 months ago)
Photo courtesy of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church
MARIETTA, Ga. (BP) -- Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Ga., received a record $5.1 million in a single day for Great Commission causes, collected to honor outgoing senior pastor Bryant Wright and his wife Anne for 38 years of service.
Receipts will be divided among the International Mission Board, the North American Mission Board and the church's ministry budget, said Clay Smith, Johnson Ferry's incoming senior pastor. Read More
SBC Digest: Audit reveals missions offerings error; GuideStone offers Secure Health for second year
by BP Staff and Roy Hayhurst, posted Tuesday, October 29, 2019 (2 months ago)
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Annie Offering totals record high $61.4 million
by Brandon Elrod, posted Tuesday, October 08, 2019 (3 months ago)
Photo by Greg Schneider/NAMB
SAN FRANCISCO (BP) -- For the third straight year, the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) for North American missions has hit a record high.
The 2019 offering total was announced at a Monday evening (Oct. 7) gathering with North American Mission Board (NAMB) trustees. Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee President Ronnie Floyd revealed the $61.4 million total in a video call. Read More
WEEK OF PRAYER: Sending Gospel into Miami's complex culture
by Brandon Elrod, posted Thursday, March 07, 2019 (10 months ago)
NAMB photo by Daniel Delgado.
MIAMI -- Full of color, life, beauty and disparity, Miami is a city where "you can lose yourself and find yourself all at the same time," said church planting missionary Muche Ukegbu.
Miami's spectrum of economic, ethnic and cultural diversity generates a complexity that Ukegbu and his family have been navigating since moving to the city to start their church, The Brook Church, which launched in the April of 2015. Read More
WEEK OF PRAYER: Sending hope to Chinese communities
by Brandon Elrod, posted Wednesday, March 06, 2019 (10 months ago)
NAMB photo by Daley Hake
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) -- While working on a doctoral degree in China, John* ardently sought to uncover the meaning of life. His homeland provided only a communist, atheistic worldview that yielded no sense of ultimate purpose or value for him.
Despite his academic success, John started wrestling with suicidal thoughts. Then his path crossed with American workers in China who encouraged him "to seek the satisfaction and strength from Jesus Christ," John recounted. Read More
TRUSTEES: Record AAEO, new VPs top NAMB agenda
by Mike Ebert, posted Thursday, October 04, 2018 (one year ago)
Photo by Hayley Catt/NAMB
NEW YORK (BP) -- North American Mission Board (NAMB) trustees meeting Oct. 1-2 in New York City were the first to hear that Southern Baptists gave an all-time record high to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions in 2018. Kevin Ezell, NAMB's president, announced the record $61.1 million offering to the group Monday evening (Oct. 1).
"We are so thankful to not only break $60 million but to break $61 million at the same time," Ezell told trustees. "We are indebted to you and to your pastors and what an incredible thing that is." See Baptist Press report on the record Annie Offering. Read More
Annie Armstrong Easter Offering tops $61 million
by Brandon Elrod, posted Wednesday, October 03, 2018 (one year ago)
NEW YORK (BP) -- Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board (NAMB), announced to trustees during their meeting that the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions broke the $60 million mark for the first time ever in 2018, with Southern Baptists giving $61.1 million.
"We are so thankful to not only break $60 million but to break $61 million at the same time," Ezell told trustees. "We are indebted to you and to your pastors and what an incredible thing that is."
Ezell, delivered the announcement to trustees at a dinner during their Oct. 1-2 meeting in New York City. Church planting missionaries, some NAMB staff and special guests were also in attendance. Ezell walked through previous record-setting years, recounting the victories Southern Baptists have shared through the years. Read More
At wedding, missions inspires creative gift
by Tobin Perry, posted Friday, March 16, 2018 (one year ago)
BLUEFIELD, Va. (BP) -- As Eric Mason and Amber Fowler put the final touches on their March 10 wedding, the couple turned their attention to what kind of favors they wanted to give guests who attended the reception. Maybe they'd hand out candies, candles or bubbles. But they didn't figure any of the traditional wedding-reception favors would last long. They'd be eaten, used or stuck on a shelf and likely forgotten.
The couple instead hoped to use the funds to do something that lasted a bit longer, an effort that would have eternal consequences. They began to look at a variety of charitable gifts that would make better use of the money they'd normally spend on the favors. Read More
WEEK OF PRAYER: Hope shining in East St. Louis
by NAMB Staff, posted Friday, March 09, 2018 (one year ago)
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EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- East St. Louis is the home -- and mission field -- of Kempton and Caryn Turner.
A native of East St. Louis, Ill., Kempton Turner grew up on the streets where he now serves as a church planting missionary and pastor of City of Joy Fellowship. The church was launched on Sept. 18, 2016, with one mission: restoring hope to the city through Jesus Christ. It currently rents space at the local Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center.
"Because I was raised here, I've got a real heart for the people," Turner said. "It's a small city. It's a dangerous, poor place, 85 percent fatherlessness. The houses, the buildings and the roads show the desperate place that East St. Louis is in. The people know struggle." Read More
WEEK OF PRAYER: Reaching the nations in small town Ga.
by NAMB Staff, posted Thursday, March 08, 2018 (one year ago)
CLARKSTON, Ga. (BP) -- More than 1,000 refugees come to Clarkston, Ga., each year. Send Relief missionaries Trent and Elizabeth DeLoach and the believers at Clarkston International Bible Church (CIBC) have made it their mission to help these men, women and children feel not only welcome but at home in their new country.
A U.S. refugee resettlement program in the 1990s opened the door of opportunity for people from around the world to start a new life in Clarkston. This suburb of Atlanta eventually became known as "the most diverse square mile in America." More than 60 countries and 100-plus languages are represented, and the population continues to grow. A place so rich in culture is exactly the kind of city the DeLoach family dreamed of finding -- however it was hard to believe such a place existed in North America, especially in Trent's home state of Georgia. Read More
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Interview with DNA director Molly Karrasch
Why did you chose to direct DNA?
There were so many things that excited me about this show. I love dark and tragic stories that are told with humor and DNA is exactly that. In some ways it is such a bare bones script. The playwright states that the genders and names of all the characters are flexible which is another thing I absolutely loved. At the same time, it moves so quickly and there is so much plot packed into this tight script but the playwright has also left space for more metaphysical musing and wonderment than you usually see in a play like this. It’s a philosophical comedic thriller. What more could I have hoped for?
When was the moment you got bit by the theatre bug?
While watching my dad rehearse musicals like Camelot, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Godspell. The rehearsal process is still one of my very favorite things about theatre. Rehearsal is my home and my church. Also, in second grade, I got my first adrenaline rush playing a character named Mr. Frog in our class play. My line was: “It’s going to rain, I can feel it in my bones.” I was very committed. That’s probably the moment I knew I wouldn’t turn back.
Who are some playwrights that you admire?
I absolutely love Greg Pierce who wrote SLOWGIRL, my favorite play. It has a tragedy very similar to the one in DNA, but is the story of just one high school girl processing her role in that tragedy and its consequences while her estranged uncle tries his best to keep up with her frenetic teenage mind and motor mouth. Working on FOOL FOR LOVE this year renewed my appreciation for Sam Shepard and his complex relationships. I also really love the British playwright Willy Russell, I think his stuff is hilarious and so poignant. And I very much admire Lauren Gunderson for what she’s doing with science and history and badass female characters.
Can you tell us a little about your background and studies?
I’ve been acting professionally in Austin for almost 10 years, I moved here shortly after college. I have a BFA in Theatre from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. Stephens is a small, liberal arts, women’s college with a huge theatre department where I did almost exclusively musical theatre. I mostly stopped doing musicals awhile after I moved to town, started doing mostly contemporary plays and have finally found my niche in the dead teenager genre.
What has the transition from actor to director been like for you?
It’s been very exciting, a little scary and very much worth the anxiety. I’ve been secretly wanting to direct for about 4 years so I had lots of time to think about what kind of director I wanted to be, but as soon as the process started all that was pretty much out the window. Casting was my first clue that this wasn’t going to be how I had imagined. I assumed my first directing gig would be a small show with actors I knew and just asked to act in it. Auditioning 90 actors in 4 hours was the opposite of that. Once rehearsal started though, it felt like a natural transition. I’m the kind of actor who can’t help but think about the play and the character I’m working on from the moment I wake up. I didn’t know that would multiply by 10,000.
What has it been like to work with these 11 actors?
It has been like a dream. No exaggeration. This is such a large cast and it’s actually 12 actors because we have a fantastic understudy who has been working alongside us the whole time. A couple of the cast members will be familiar to Austin audiences, but most of them are students and most of them are making their Austin debut. Odds were good that at least one of these kids was going to be less talented and/or less charming than they seemed in auditions. Nope. They are all tremendously talented and outrageously charming. I wish I could keep them all together as an acting company and produce plays with them forever. If there is a follow up program to New Directions that involves that scenario, I would be interested.
If you could direct any show here in Austin what show would you love to share with the Austin community?
I have a slight obsession with Keely and Du, so probably that. Or maybe one of those dark musicals like Assassins.
What has surprised you most about working on this play?
How much I love all these characters who are doing all these horrible things and how obsessed I became with the sound cues.
What’s next for Molly Karrasch?
I’ll be acting in the feature film MUSTANG ISLAND which is an expansion of the short film MOLLY that premiered at SXSW and played about 40 other film festivals last year. I wouldn’t be surprised if I acted in a play or two this year, but no firm plans.
What do you hope the audience is talking about when they leave DNA?
I hope they are talking about the outstanding performances from all this fresh talent and I hope they are a little shocked or stunned by the story.
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Catholic News | August 11
Kevin Nelson reports on Catholic news for January 26, 2018
Closing the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis presided at an ecumenical evening prayer service on the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul at Rome’s Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced Jan. 25 the U.S. delegates at a pre-synod gathering in Rome in March
Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life announced that starting Feb. 2, the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, organizers will be releasing a multimedia series of catechetical materials in five languages online
First Indiana March for Life in Indianapolis on January 22nd drew about 500 participants
Pope Francis ends pastoral visit to Peru with outdoor Mass in Lima, where an estimated 1.3 million people gathered
Police and security forces use violence to break up protests in Democratic Republic of Congo
Cardinal Seán O’Malley on incident with Pope Francis in Chile where the pope defended Bishop Juan Barros, accused of covering up abuse
Cardinal Timothy Dolan on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
USCCB “9 Days for Life” campaign
Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life appointed a Colombian bishop to be the trustee of a scandal-plagued Catholic movement based in Peru
Biennial Student Leadership Summit
New course at pontifical university on church management
USCCB president, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo statement recognizing the federal holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Catholic News | January 9
Kevin Nelson reports on Catholic news for January 9, 2018
Pope Francis gives speech on Universal Declaration of Human Rights to diplomats accredited to the Vatican
National Migration Week
Pope's Angelus on the feast of the Baptism of the Lord
U.S. Court of Appeals strikes down Baltimore ordinance that would have forced pro-life pregnancy centers to post signs stating they do not provide or refer for abortions or contraceptives
Vatican releases Pope’s calendar of liturgical services for January and February
Church leaders in Congo speak out against security forces that fired on Catholic protesters on New Year's Eve
Pope Francis emphasizes the importance of the Penitential Rite at Mass
Diocese of Burlington announces a "Year of the Family"
For New Year’s celebration of the World Peace Day and the feast of Mary, Mother of God, Pope Francis focuses on migrants and refugees and their yearning for peace
Speaking recently to members of the Italian Theological Association at the Vatican Pope Francis told them that theologians must communicate what is essential about life and help Christians proclaim God's merciful, saving grace
Rome has a 100 Nativity Scenes Exposition
As the year was coming to a close on December 30, Pope Francis had the Vatican Press office and Vatican media distribute a copy of a famous photo from the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan
Catholic News | December 29
Kevin Nelson reports on Catholic news for December 29, 2017
Pope Francis talks about Christ being the focus of Christmas at his weekly audience
Fides list of pastoral workers who died violently in 2017
Vatican nativity scene in Saint Peter’s Square gets mixed reactions
Christmas in Mosul, Iraq for the first time in three and a half years
Kevin Nelson provides Catholic news for December 26.
Pope Francis talks about the Mass at weekly audience
Pew research survey on Christmas
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Vatican launches new website
Pope Francis celebrates Immaculate Conception in Rome
Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich makes pastoral visit on behalf of Pope Francis to Puerto Rico
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Trinity Dome Mosaic at Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception blessed and dedicated
World Meeting of Families update
Catholic News | December 8
Kevin Nelson reports on Catholic news for December 8, 2017
Pope Francis expresses concern over President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel
New Archbishop of Mexico City
March for Life organizers announce 2018 plans
Vatican Tree lighting ceremony
Swedish Cardinal Anders Arborelius in Rome
Pope Francis focused his words on preparing for the Lord's coming during Angelus
Pope encouraged men and women considering vocations to not fear God’s plan for them and open their hearts to the voice of God
Papal press conference on the plane ride back from Myanmar and Bangladesh
University of Alabama study exploring link between faith and health demonstrated those with devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe had fewer negative health issues related to stress
Bishop Oscar Cantu, the chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, called for diplomacy and political engagement to resolve the differences between the U.S. and North Korea and avoid military conflict.
Catholic Relief Services has just released a film focusing on the need to do away with orphanages around the world.
At the end of July, Gov. Eric Greitens of Missouri signed Senate Bill 5, which some say could be the strongest pro-life legislation passed in many years.
In honor of the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and the Holy See, a unique theater show was brought to the Vatican.
Father David Hammond, a Navy chaplain who holds the rank of lieutenant, offered a Mass and prayers Aug. 6 for victims, survivors, and families of a Marine aircraft crash off the coast of Australia that killed three.
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Plasma DNA as a Prognostic Marker in Trauma Patients
Y.M. Dennis Lo, Timothy H. Rainer, Lisa Y.S. Chan, N. Magnus Hjelm, Robert A. Cocks
Y.M. Dennis Lo
Timothy H. Rainer
Lisa Y.S. Chan
N. Magnus Hjelm
Robert A. Cocks
Background: Recently, much interest has developed in the potential use of plasma DNA as a diagnostic and monitoring tool. We hypothesized that plasma DNA is increased in patients with trauma and may be prognostic in such patients.
Methods: We studied 84 patients who had sustained an acute blunt traumatic injury. We measured plasma DNA by a real-time quantitative PCR assay for the β-globin gene. Blood samples were collected at a median time of 60 min following injury. Blood samples were also obtained from 27 control subjects.
Results: The median plasma DNA concentrations in the control, minor/moderate trauma (Injury Severity Score <16; n = 47), and major trauma (Injury Severity Score ≥16; n = 37) groups were 3154 kilogenome-equivalents/L, 13 818 kilogenome-equivalents/L, and 181 303 kilogenome-equivalents/L, respectively. Plasma DNA concentrations in patients with adverse outcomes, including acute lung injury, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and death, had 11.6- to 12-fold higher plasma DNA concentrations than those who did not develop these complications. At a cutoff of 232 719 kilogenome-equivalents/L, the sensitivities of plasma DNA analysis for the prediction of acute lung injury, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and death were 100% (95% confidence interval, 100–100%), 100% (95% confidence interval, 100–100%), and 78% (95% confidence interval, 40–97%), respectively. The respective specificities were 81% (95% confidence interval, 71–89%), 80% (95% confidence interval, 70–88%), and 82% (95% confidence interval, 71–90%).
Conclusions: Plasma DNA is increased after trauma and may be a potentially valuable prognostic marker for these patients.
Posttraumatic organ failure is common after severe injury and is an important cause of mortality (1). The current hypothesis is that a systemic inflammatory response syndrome follows severe trauma and that the processes eventually lead to organ failure, including acute lung injury (ALI)1 and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) (1). Recently, models have been proposed for the prediction of multiple organ failure as early as 12 h after injury (1). It would be useful to develop new assays that may allow risk stratification to be made even earlier.
Recently, much interest has developed in the use of circulating cell-free DNA in the plasma for clinical diagnosis (2)(3)(4). In particular, circulating tumor-, fetal-, and graft-derived DNA has been detected in the plasma of cancer patients, pregnant women, and organ transplantation recipients, respectively (2)(3)(4)(5). Although the mechanisms by which cell-free DNA is liberated into the circulation of human subjects are unknown, one possibility is that DNA is released following cell death (6)(7). Along this line of reasoning, we hypothesized that DNA may be liberated from body tissues into the plasma after trauma and that plasma DNA may be a potentially useful prognostic tool.
The study was a secondary analysis of archival plasma samples obtained from 84 patients who had sustained an acute blunt traumatic injury requiring admission to the Emergency Resuscitation Room at the Prince of Wales Hospital. These subjects were recruited between April 1996 and September 1999, with informed consent from either the patient or a relative. The project was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Patients who were less than 12 years of age, pregnant, or were admitted because of drowning, thermal injury, hypothermia, and acute drug overdose were excluded. Two of the 84 patients had a systolic blood pressure <90 mmHg on admission. The Abbreviated Injury Score (AIS) for individual bodily regions was determined as described (8). The total extent of the injury was calculated using an objective Injury Severity Score (ISS) at the time of discharge or death, or at 28 days if the patient was still hospitalized (9). The definitions of ALI and ARDS were as described previously (10). Peripheral venous blood (3 mL) was collected from each patient into heparin-containing tubes after patients were admitted to the resuscitation room. The median time between injury and blood sampling was 60 min (interquartile range, 50–100 min). At the time of blood sampling, 39 patients had received between 500 and 1000 mL of intravenous crystalloids; the rest had received <500 mL. None of the patients had colloids administered before the time of blood sampling. The hematocrit was measured on admission as part of the diagnostic workup for each patient. Plasma creatine kinase and lactate dehydrogenase concentrations were determined using a Dade Behring Dimension® clinical chemistry system. The ISS values, AIS values, outcomes, and other clinical parameters were “blinded” to the researchers carrying out the subsequent plasma DNA analysis. Control blood samples were also obtained from 27 healthy volunteers.
processing of blood samples
Blood samples were centrifuged at 3000g, and plasma samples were carefully removed from blood collection tubes and transferred into plain polypropylene tubes. Great care was taken to ensure that the cell pellet was undisturbed when plasma samples were removed. The samples were stored at −80 or −20 °C until further processing.
dna extraction from plasma samples
DNA from plasma samples was extracted using a QIAamp Blood Kit (Qiagen) using the “blood and body fluid protocol” as recommended by the manufacturer (2). A 400- to 800-μL plasma sample was used for DNA extraction per column. The exact amount used was documented to enable the calculation of target DNA concentration (11).
real-time quantitative pcr
The theoretical and practical aspects of real-time quantitative PCR have been described in detail elsewhere (11)(12)(13). Real-time quantitative PCR analysis was performed using a PE Applied Biosystems 7700 Sequence Detector. The amplification and product reporting system used was based on the 5′ nuclease assay (14) (the TaqMan assay as marketed by Perkin-Elmer), in which the liberation of a fluorescent reporter is coupled to the amplification reaction. A typical analysis (including blood centrifugation and DNA extraction, followed by real-time PCR) took ∼3 h.
Plasma DNA was measured using a real-time quantitative PCR assay for the β-globin gene, which is present in all nucleated cells of the body (11). The β-globin TaqMan system consisted of the amplification primers beta-globin-354F (5′-GTG CAC CTG ACT CCT GAG GAG A-3′), beta-globin-455R (5′-CCT TGA TAC CAA CCT GCC CAG-3′), and a dual-labeled fluorescent TaqMan probe, beta-globin-402T [5′-(FAM)AAG GTG AAC GTG GAT GAA GTT GGT GG (TAMRA)-3′] (11). The TaqMan probe contained a 3′-blocking phosphate group to prevent probe extension during PCR.
When applied to serial dilutions of human genomic DNA, this real-time β-globin quantitative PCR assay was able to detect the DNA equivalent from a single cell. The imprecision of this system has been reported previously, with a CV of the threshold cycle of 1.1% (11).
The expression of quantitative results was as described previously (11). The unit “kilogenome-equivalents/L” was preferred to “genome-equivalents/mL” in accordance with SI unit convention. One genome-equivalent was defined as the amount of a particular target sequence contained in a single diploid human cell.
Descriptive statistics and nonparametric data comparison tests were carried out using the SigmaStat 2.0 software. ROC curve analysis was carried out using the MedCalc 5.0 software. The data files are available as a supplement from the Clinical Chemistry Web site. The file can be accessed by a link from the on-line Table⇓ of Contents (http://www.clinchem.org/content/vol46/issue3).
Plasma DNA concentrations in trauma patients stratified according to outcome, including ALI, ARDS, and death.
plasma dna and trauma severity
The median plasma DNA concentrations in the control, minor/moderate trauma (ISS <16; n = 47), and major trauma (ISS ≥16; n = 37) groups were 3154 kilogenome-equivalents/L, 13 818 kilogenome-equivalents/L, and 181 303 kilogenome-equivalents/L, respectively (Fig. 1⇓ ). The differences between these groups were highly significant (Kruskal–Wallis test, P <0.001). Pairwise comparisons using the Dunn method revealed significant difference between each constituent pair within these three groups (P <0.05). The direct comparison of individual ISS values with the corresponding plasma DNA concentration revealed a positive correlation, both including (Spearman rank-order correlation, P <0.0005; r = 0.756) or excluding (Spearman rank-order correlation, P <0.0005; r = 0.617) the control group (ISS = 0). Significant correlations were observed between plasma DNA concentrations and the AIS values for the head and neck region (Spearman rank-order correlation, P <0.0001; r = 0.440), the thorax (Spearman rank-order correlation, P <0.001; r = 0.520), and the abdomen (Spearman rank-order correlation, P = 0.0002; r = 0.418). No significant correlation was observed between plasma DNA concentrations and the AIS values for the extremities (Spearman rank-order correlation, P = 0.136; r = 0.165).
Plasma DNA concentrations in control subjects and trauma patients.
The subject categories are shown on the x-axis. Plasma DNA concentrations (kilogenome-equivalents/L) as determined by real-time quantitative PCR for the β-globin gene are plotted on the y-axis (common logarithmic scale). The lines inside the boxes denote the medians. The boxes mark the interval between the 25th and 75th percentiles. The whiskers denote the interval between the 10th and 90th percentiles. • indicates the 5th and 95th percentiles.
No significant correlation was observed between the plasma DNA concentrations and the admission hematocrit (Spearman rank-order correlation, P = 0.311; r = −0.111). The stratification of the patients into those who had received <500 mL of intravenous crystalloids and those who had received between 500 and 1000 mL by the time of blood sampling revealed no significant difference (Mann–Whitney rank-sum test, P = 0.25).
With regard to other biochemical markers of tissue injury, positive correlations were observed between plasma DNA and plasma creatine kinase (Spearman rank-order correlation, P <0.0005; r = 0.492) and lactate dehydrogenase (Spearman rank-order correlation, P <0.0005; r = 0.584).
plasma dna and clinical outcome
To determine whether plasma DNA analysis may be used as a prognostic indicator, plasma DNA concentrations among groups with different outcomes were compared. Outcomes that were studied included the development of ALI (n = 6), ARDS (n = 5), and death (n = 9). The plasma DNA concentrations in patients stratified according to each of these outcomes are shown in Table 1⇑ , which indicates that patients with adverse outcomes had significantly higher plasma DNA concentrations (11.6- to 12-fold) than those who did not develop these complications.
roc curve analysis
The ROC curve analysis for the use of plasma DNA measurement for predicting ALI, ARDS, and death is shown in Fig. 2⇓ . The areas under the ROC curves for ALI, ARDS, and death are, respectively, 0.882 [SE = 0.091; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.794–0.942], 0.877 (SE = 0.102; 95% CI, 0.788–0.939), and 0.822 (SE = 0.088; 95% CI, 0.724–0.896).
ROC curve analysis of plasma DNA analysis for the prediction of ALI (A), ARDS (B), and death (C).
The values indicated on the x- and y-axes are expressed in percentages.
For each of these adverse outcomes, a plasma DNA of 232 719 kilogenome-equivalents/L corresponded to the highest value for the sum of sensitivities and specificities. Using this cutoff, the sensitivities of plasma DNA analysis for the prediction of ALI, ARDS, and death were 100% (95% CI, 100–100%), 100% (95% CI, 100–100%), and 78% (95% CI, 40–97%), respectively. The respective specificities were 81% (95% CI, 71–89%), 80% (95% CI, 70–88%), and 82% (95% CI, 71–90%).
This study shows that circulating plasma DNA in the peripheral blood of trauma patients increases early after injury and that these increases are related to the development of posttraumatic complications. We have designed the study such that analysis was performed on a single sample obtained at a median time of 1 h after trauma, when the physiologic status of the patient was relatively uncomplicated by multiple therapeutic maneuvers, apart from a modest amount (up to 1 L) of intravenous crystalloids.
The mechanisms by which circulating DNA is increased after trauma are unclear at present. Theoretically, such an increase may be the result of increased liberation after cell death, or decreased efficiency of DNA clearance mechanisms after injury. In the former case, the cell types (e.g., myocytes and endothelial cells) primarily responsible for DNA liberation remain to be elucidated. It is likely that cell death as a direct result of trauma, or secondarily via hemodynamic compromise as a result of blood loss may lead to DNA liberation into the circulation. This possibility is supported by the positive correlation between plasma DNA concentrations and other biochemical markers for tissue injury, namely, creatine kinase and lactate dehydrogenase. The clearance mechanisms for circulating DNA are poorly understood at present, but it is possible that direct damage or hemodynamic compromise of the organ systems responsible for circulating DNA clearance may also lead to increased plasma DNA.
The comparison between plasma DNA concentrations and the AIS values obtained for the head and neck, thoracic, and abdominal regions revealed a positive and significant correlation between these parameters. However, there was no significant correlation between plasma DNA concentrations and the AIS values for the extremities. One interpretation of these results is that the extremities are not the predominant organ systems responsible for the increase in circulating DNA in trauma patients. On the other hand, the positive correlation between plasma DNA concentrations and the AIS values for the head and neck, thoracic, and abdominal regions support the hypothesis that organ systems in these anatomic regions are responsible for the increased plasma DNA after trauma. Candidate organ systems include the liver, spleen, and kidneys, which may have a role in both liberating and clearing circulating DNA. For example, evidence of the roles of these organs in circulating DNA clearance has already been demonstrated in animal experiments (15)(16).
The current study was focused on blunt trauma; therefore, it would be interesting to investigate whether other types of tissue insults, e.g., ischemic, infective, toxic, thermal, or radiation injuries, may be associated with cell-free DNA liberation into the circulation. These future studies may open up the possibilities that plasma DNA may be used as a general marker for monitoring diverse types of tissue damage. Further work would be required to elucidate the physicochemical characteristics of trauma-associated circulating DNA and to determine whether this type of plasma DNA differs in any fundamental aspects from other circulating DNA species, e.g., fetal DNA (4) and tumor-derived DNA (2)(3).
Clinically, our results suggest that plasma DNA may be a potentially useful marker for monitoring patients after trauma. The plasma concentrations of DNA were correlated with the severity of injury and with outcome. The diagnostic cutoff value of 232 719 kilogenome-equivalents/L established in this pilot study for prediction of outcome may need to be refined when results from larger scale clinical trials become available. Because these data were obtained using a single blood sample taken from the patients at a median time of 60 min after injury, plasma DNA analysis represents an advance over current prediction rules that are applicable from 12 h onward (1). The ability for rapid risk stratification may allow clinicians to make a more rational decision with regard to the type of therapy that is most appropriate for a particular patient.
Recent data indicate that human plasma DNA possesses a short half-life in the circulation (17). The rapid kinetics of plasma DNA suggest that circulating DNA analysis may be useful in monitoring the clinical progress of trauma patients. It is possible that evaluation of the patterns of plasma DNA variation may further enhance the diagnostic accuracy of this type of analysis for predicting adverse clinical outcomes in these patients. There thus is a necessity for future studies to focus on obtaining sequential data from trauma patients. Plasma DNA analysis may also be useful in studying the patients’ response to treatment, especially in trials aimed at testing new therapeutic modalities for these patients.
Our current protocol allows the provision of plasma DNA results within 3 h of blood sampling. This rapidity is achieved by the use of a simple column-based DNA extraction method and the utilization of real-time PCR analysis that does not require any postamplification manipulation. With the recent development of rapid capillary-based instrumentation for quantitative PCR analysis (18), this time could be further reduced to 90 min, thus further enhancing the potential clinical usefulness of this assay in accident and emergency departments.
Y.M.D. Lo is supported by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, the Industrial Support Fund, and the Direct Grants Scheme from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. We thank C.W. Lam, L.C.W. Lit, and S.M.H. Yu for help during the course of this project. The original data generated from this project are available as a supplement from the Clinical Chemistry Web site. The file can be accessed through the on-line Table⇑ of Contents (http://www.clinchem.org/content/vol46/issue3/).
↵1 Nonstandard abbreviations: ALI, acute lung injury; ARDS, acute respiratory distress syndrome; AIS, Abbreviated Injury Score; ISS, Injury Severity Score; and CI, confidence interval.
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Dean for Undergraduate
and Integrated Programs within the
Weatherhead School of Manage-ment
at Case Western Reserve Uni-versity
in Cleveland, Ohio, Previts
has made his impact on the profes-sion
through his research
on regulation and the
analysis of disclosure.
Equally inspired is his
work on the development
of accounting thought and
institutions.
President of the Academy
of Accounting historians in
1973-75 and more recently
co-convenor of the 10th
World Congress of Accounting
Hsitorians, Gary continues to be a
guiding force within the worldwide
accounting history community.
Previts Named to Accounting Today Top 100
List for Third Consecutive Year
Dr. Esteban Hernandez-Esteve of
Madrid, Spain, has twice been the
recipient of the Academy's Hour-glass
Award. He was host of the
2000 World Congress in Madrid,
and is now editor of Revista
Española de Historia de la Con-tabilidad
(The Spanish Journal of
Accounting History) http://
www.decomputis.org/. He is an
active scholar of high reputation
and a member of the Academy who
was elected to begin a term as
Trustee on January 1, 2005. The
appointment will be for a three-year
term, which is the limit that
any one person can serve. Esteban
earned his Ph.D. at the University
of Cologne, Germany. He was a
career senior financial officer of
the Bank of Spain, Madrid and re-tired
recently.
Title Academy elects new chair of trustees
Subject Hernandez-Esteve, Esteban
Academy of Accounting Historians. Board of Trustees
Abstract Dr. Esteban Hernandez-Esteve of Madrid, Spain, has twice been the recipient of the Academy's Hourglass Award. He was host of the 2000 World Congress in Madrid, and is now editor of Revista Española de Historia de la Con-tabilidad (The Spanish Journal of Accounting History) http:// www.decomputis.org/. He is an active scholar of high reputation and a member of the Academy who was elected to begin a term as Trustee on January 1, 2005. The appointment will be for a three-year term, which is the limit that any one person can serve. Esteban earned his Ph.D. at the University of Cologne, Germany. He was a career senior financial officer of the Bank of Spain, Madrid and retired recently.
Citation Accounting Historians Notebook, 2005, Vol. 28, no. 1 (April), pp. 01
Date-Issued 2005
Source Originally published by: Academy of Accounting Historians
Rights Copyright held by: Academy of Accounting Historians
Format PDF page image with corrected OCR scanned at 400 dpi (183 KB)
Collection University of Mississippi Library. Accounting Collection
Digital Publisher University of Mississippi Library. Accounting Collection
Date-Digitally Created 2014
Identifier Notebook April 2005-p1a
Description-Abstract The Accounting Historians Notebook, April 2005 1 Academy Elects New Chair of Trustees The Accounting Historians Notebook Vol. 28, No. 1 © Academy of Accounting Historians April 2005 Dr. Gary John Previts was recently named to Accounting Today’s list of “Top 100 Most Influ-ential People in Account-ing Today.” Previts, who is the only Academic on the list, was also listed in 2002 and 2003. Currently the Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Integrated Programs within the Weatherhead School of Manage-ment at Case Western Reserve Uni-versity in Cleveland, Ohio, Previts has made his impact on the profes-sion through his research on regulation and the analysis of disclosure. Equally inspired is his work on the development of accounting thought and institutions. President of the Academy of Accounting historians in 1973-75 and more recently co-convenor of the 10th World Congress of Accounting Hsitorians, Gary continues to be a guiding force within the worldwide accounting history community. Previts Named to Accounting Today Top 100 List for Third Consecutive Year Dr. Esteban Hernandez-Esteve of Madrid, Spain, has twice been the recipient of the Academy's Hour-glass Award. He was host of the 2000 World Congress in Madrid, and is now editor of Revista Española de Historia de la Con-tabilidad (The Spanish Journal of Accounting History) http:// www.decomputis.org/. He is an active scholar of high reputation and a member of the Academy who was elected to begin a term as Trustee on January 1, 2005. The appointment will be for a three-year term, which is the limit that any one person can serve. Esteban earned his Ph.D. at the University of Cologne, Germany. He was a career senior financial officer of the Bank of Spain, Madrid and re-tired recently.
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Response to the Paris Agreement Withdrawal
Earlier this month, on November 4, 2019, President Donald J. Trump informed the United Nations, that the United States would begin the year-long process to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.
The response from communities and industries across the nation who disagreed with this decision was swift; including from the higher education sector. Click here to read the joint response from Second Nature and We Are Still In, that also includes quotations from university and college presidents and chancellors.
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Do you want to know if your school received any MODs this year? You can find out that information here.
Second Nature Goes Global in November & December
While most may be ramping down for the Holiday Season come November and December, Second Nature is staying true to its mission of accelerating climate action in, and through, higher education, by participating in three global events.
As we speak, Second Nature's Director of Strategic Partnerships, Eric Howard, is in Budapest, participating in the World Science Forum (WSF). The purpose of the World Science Forum is to bring together members of the science community, policy-makers, society, and others, to focus on the challenges facing the scientific community. For more information, visit their website, and stay tuned for the December Implementer, as it will include a brief write-up about the event!
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To be taken to each case study described in the graphics to the left, click on each correlating graphic.
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The Higher Education sector, has always been a leader when it comes to climate action. However, over this past month there has been a tremendous acceleration of climate action on campuses across the nation. The following is a quick summary of November news stories about schools doing that work, that we highlighted on our social media during this past month. Note: The list below does not include college/university tweets that we retweeted about climate work if there wasn't a news story associated.
Want your school to be highlighted by Second Nature for the climate work that they're doing? Share a link to a news article about your school's climate action with our Communications and Marketing Manager, Amanda Belles, or be sure to tag us on social media (@LeadonClimate) if you share-out that work.
Colby College Climate Action Summit brings 124 students to Waterville to work on future of movement (centralmaine.com)
Sonoma State hosts first meeting of President’s Sustainability Advisory Council (Sonoma State University News)
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UC President Napolitano’s statement on White House exit from Paris climate accord (University of California Press Room)
Oregon Higher Ed Officials Respond To US Withdrawal From Paris Agreement (Jefferson Public Radio)
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EC Students and Faculty Join Global Climate Strike (Earlham College)
PCC President Mark Mitsui on the Paris Climate Accord (KBOO)
Higher Ed Leaders Slam Paris Agreement Withdrawal [We Are Still In] (College of the Atlantic News)
How to Study Climate Change in College (US News)
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"I’m very encouraged by what I saw on Friday!”
- Dr. Gary Mitchum
“Science, Strategies, and Solutions: Addressing Climate Change in Tampa Bay” – USF STEM Collaborate Climate Change Workshop
The University of South Florida STEM Collaborative was pleased to host an all-day workshop to discuss climate change resiliency in the Tampa Bay area. City and state officials, State University System of Florida researchers, scientists, experts, and the broader community convened in downtown Tampa on Friday, November 1st. The collaboration was targeted at brainstorming efforts in climate change assessment, adaptation, and mitigation strategies across Tampa Bay. With over 150 in attendance, workshop attendees listened to keynote speakers, Dr. Ben Kirtman of University of Miami and Representative Ben Diamond of District 68, along with four panels.
The panels throughout the day spanned topics such as extreme events, transportation, the built environment, and public health and social justice. Coordinators Dr. Peter Stiling—USF Professor of Biology and Assistant Vice Provost—and Dr. Gary Mitchum—USF Associate Dean and Professor for the College of Marine Science—designed the panels to represent a variety of backgrounds, maintaining a balance of both scientists and city officials. Active participation from the audience was standard for each panel.
The end result: successful discussion on resiliency efforts currently being done and plans for future collaboration between these groups to further build resiliency in Tampa Bay. It is rare for such a wide variety of experts to come together, but these are the necessary steps for actionable change at the local level. Dr. Mitchum says in a statement, “The aim of the workshop was to improve collaborations between scientists and experts, our elected officials, and the people in the government offices that need to merge science and policy to implement the best solutions. I’m very encouraged by what I saw on Friday!”
- Written and Contributed by the University of South Florida
December 2nd-13th: United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25), Madrid, Spain
The conference is an official meeting for the Conference of the Parties, however, it is also provides for a global gathering across all sectors interested in creating climate change solutions. As noted earlier in the Bonus Bulletin section, Second Nature will be leading a higher education delegation (two Second Nature staff members and three university/college presidents) to COP25, to represent the Climate Leadership Network, and the higher education sector in general.
December 3rd, 2019, 3pm-4pm EDT: How Buildings of All Shapes and Sizes Are Becoming Zero Energy Users
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December 9th-12th, 2019: Global Congress for Climate Change & Sustainability Professionals, Chicago, IL
Join hundreds of professionals and organizations - including Second Nature - in the sustainability and climate action industry at this summit. The focus of this summit will be on uniting forces to take action and increase the influence and urgency for climate action.
February 23rd-25th, 2020: Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit, Atlanta, GA
The Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit, presented by Second Nature and the Intentional Endowments Network, is the premier gathering of a select group of higher education leaders committed to driving our nation’s climate action. As the world looks to 2020 to update emissions reductions targets under the Paris Climate Agreement, the Summit will be an opportunity for the higher education sector to take stock of its own progress and explore ways to scale local climate leadership to meet the global goals by working across institutions and across sectors. Early Bird Pricing Ends December 16th!
In December, Second Nature's Cross-Sector Climate Action Manager, Gina Stovall, will be moving on from Second Nature to a new phase in her career; combining her passions for climate action and sustainable product design through her small business, Two Days Off.
If you have had the fortune to work with Gina, you will understand why this is bittersweet news; we are sad to see her leave Second Nature, however we are excited for her and this next part in her journey.
A tremendous THANK YOU to Gina for all of your work ensuring the growth and evolution of the University Climate Change Coalition (UC3) and a new hire will be announced soon.
Gina Stovall
Ruby Woodside
We are also excited to have Melinda Robinson on-board to serve as our Cross-Sector Climate Action Coordinator.
Melinda started as an intern with Second Nature, and we are thrilled to now have her on-board as a staff member.
Melinda has, and continues to provide tremendous support for UC3 during the transition, and she can continue to be contacted for all questions related to UC3. THANK YOU Melinda!
We are ecstatic to announce that our Innovative Services Manager, Ruby Woodside has been promoted to Senior Manager, Climate Programs.
In this role, Ruby will oversee the management and strategic direction of UC3, while continuing to build our portfolio of resilience resources and services for signatory institutions.
CONGRATULATIONS Ruby!
Melinda Robinson
From our Second Nature family, to you and your families, we wish you a safe and Happy Thanksgiving. While you gather with friends and family, you can still accelerate climate action through minimizing food waste at your Thanksgiving meal. Want to know how? Visit here.
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Illegal Alien Films Himself Raping Four Year Old Girl
An illegal alien raped a four year old girl while recording the dastardly act on his phone. One of his friends say the video and reported it to the police. When Donald Trump said that some illegal aliens are rapists, illegal aliens and liberals (Two groups that should be deported immediately) went crazy and called him a liar. Since that time, many cases have come out of illegal aliens raping mostly young children, yet illegals and liberals still claim it’s untrue.
A 23-year-old man from Las Vegas has been charged with raping a 4-year-old girl and capturing the sexual assault on his phone.
Julio Cesar Medrano, who also goes by the alias ‘Julio Rodriguez,’ was taken into custody on April 21 in connection with the incident that was said to have taken place on April 3.
According to arrest reports, Medrano was apprehended after a woman found a 30-second clip on his phone allegedly depicting the suspect raping the toddler and called police.
A tattoo on the man’s hand in the recording helped investigators positively identify Medrano as the suspected perpetrator, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
The Clark County Detention Center’s online database indicates that Medrano, who is lodged in the jail under his alias, Rodriguez, has been charged with seven criminal counts, including sexual assault against a child younger than 14; producing and possessing child pornography; child abuse or neglect; possession of a dangerous weapon and carrying a concealed knife without a permit…
…Online jail records show that an immigration detainer has been filed against Medrano, that there is no word on his status in the US, or his country of origin.
And when these vermin go to court, their liars for hire claim that it’s a cultural thing and that their client should be judged by what goes on in their home country and not what is considered morally and legally wrong here.
H/T The Gateway Pundit
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ANTHONY PHILLIPS – Private Parts & Pieces IX-XI
Voiceprint 1996-2012 / Esoteric 2018
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Private Parts & Pieces IX-XI
Final installment in singular aural artist’s most acclaimed “parallel” discography – incessantly fresh and with no signs of fatigue.
It’s been a journey which started as an outlet for odds and sods yet ended up as a sort of extracorporeal experience: existing on a tangent to Anthony Phillips‘ main body of work, the “Private Parts & Pieces” series includes not only sketches that didn’t fit his “proper” solo albums but proper albums per se, with unifying themes, and collaborations, too. Still, the volumes comprising this box set signal the veteran’s return to original concept of stitching a common context for cuts with various roots, and although Phillips’ latter-day creativity may seem more or less conventional in comparison to his earlier material, there’s solid maturity to give a mosaic wholeness to any collection of fragments.
Such a kaleidoscopic state suits 1996’s “PP&P IX: Dragonfly Dreams” quite well, the record being a suite in two parts which tie together tunes devised at different times, some as far back as the ’80s and a few done as duets with Quique Berro Garcia, his partner on “Antiques” – the series’ third installment. When Ant’s fingers scratch strings on the teasing “Openers” (note the use of plural form, a reflection of his multilayer approach to melody), they set an atmosphere that’s more than intimate and require an almost unprecedented level of trust to let the listener into the artist’s vulnerable reverie. While most numbers embrace elegiac, gypsy-tinged landscape, as suggested by the likes of “Melancholy Flower” and – stripped of words anchoring its demo recorded during "Invisible Men" sessions – “Something Blue” where the drift is bucolic, this serenity has quite a stormy undercurrent, Not for nothing brief yet playful “Quango” hints at somewhat more agitated action going on behind the scenes, and the beat of “Lost And Found” evokes a sense of urgency, especially once it’s devoid of the tune that’s attached to the cut’s alternative version on the bonus disc.
There are characters who inhabit the album, the upbeat “Luigi Palta’s Confession” and “Sarah Blakeley’s Evening” adding an obscure storyline to it all and contrasting “Under The Ice” – abstract but as intriguing as a scintillating organ oscillation that reveals spiritual solemnity in the ever-expanding scope of “Lostwithiel”: a tentative title of the musician’s first solo opus. Whereas “Chinese Walls” will offer a fleeting delight which should defy the composition’s epic ripple, gradually intensifying if always delicate, the haunting twilight ballad “She’ll Be Waiting” and the shimmering rapture of “Night Song” – delivered by eerie bel canto that’s absent from the track’s otherworldly mix on the extra CD in order to render tangible the swell of Phillips’ orchestration – remain in many a memory for a long time, and not because of their spectral vocals.
Released in 1999, “PP&P X: Soiree” has nothing ghostly about its Satie-esque vignettes, so riveting on fully-developed sonic paintings – one of these, “Creation,” was written in the perioid of “From Genesis To Revelation” – yet infused with promise on shorter cuts, memorable as “Venetian Mystery” or “Noblesse Oblige” whose unhurried roll sounds very dignified, as does the solemn, albeit secretly adventurous, “Summer’s Journey” which radiates jazzy excitement. The impressionist-styled poise of Ant’s piano, the record’s sole instrument, is perfectly sculpted on “Sad Ballerina” and is sweetly, almost painfully, sparse on “Sultry Leaves” where high notes get scattered across lower register à la autumn rain, with “Rain Suite” widening the panorama with gust-like dynamics. Here, the slightly sly and insistent “Scythia” and graciously stumbling “Cantilena” rub shoulders with the light and fluttering, but emotionally loaded, dances “Passepied” and “Passacaglia” while the bold strokes of “The Oregon Trail” make this number truly cinematic.
The last, eleventh, album in the series, issued in 2012, lives up to its legend from the very start, “City Of Dreams” – the title track split in four parts and scattered across the record, to be complemented by the three stations of the constantly oncoming, all-enveloping “Mystery Train” which shape a feel of perpetual motion and pass a latent chug to the gently groovy “Night Train To Novrogod” – glimmering with crystalline thrill. The momentum, outlined in “Piledriver” whose tight throb is urban in a retrofuturistic way, doesn’t let up even when new-age passages take hold, because only four of the album’s 31 pieces cross the 3-minute mark, some clocking in in less than a minute. Still, several of those – “Act Of Faith” that soars from silvery ivories, or “King Of The Mountains” that sees Ant’s majestic guitar reach for the tallest peaks, “Days Of Yore” with its Renaissance strum – are expansive enough to challenge their own brevity and contribute to the overall picture, and while “Sea & Sardinia” may resort to watercolor sounds to conjure up Mediterranean repose, “Doom Flower” would go deep within synthesizer waves whence come celestial voices carrying “Realms Of Gold” to paradise, toward “Anthem For Doomed Youth” where choir is equally angelic.
As for the aforementioned fourth disc in the box – titled “Private Parts & Extra Pieces III” – it contains arguably inessential yet extremely pleasant numbers, running from the unusually pushy, if still short, “Brand New Cadillac” to the amber-light depth of “Piano Drama” – a two-movement classic which failed to find home previously. There’s also the exhilarating, yet inherently sad, “High Roller” and elegantly suspenseful, with thunderous piano splashes, “Castles And Courtships”; the lyrical, sustained licks of “Sunset Drifter” and space-ripping “Lost Monolith” that Stanley Kubrick might have desired.
It’s impossible to desire anything else from Anthony Phillips after this collection – and Esoteric Recordings excelled in making “Private Parts & Pieces” as comprehensive as a series could be – so there can be a good reason for him to stop and not release any new music since the last album in the line was out. But it’s also impossible not to think that number “XII” has a magical ring and completeness to it…
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Revision tip from James Frey Part II: Appeal to All the Senses
We’re in part II of our three part revision series, using tips from How to Write a Damn Good Novel by James Frey to rework a passage as a group. As a reminder, we started with this:
Sarah arrived at school eager for the afternoon's Halloween party. As she sat down at her desk, she looked inside her bag for her costume. Most of her robot costume was there, but she couldn't find the helmet. She looked around but couldn't see it anywhere. She asked her teacher whether she had seen it, but the teacher said no.
By recess time, Sarah was very worried indeed. What would she do? She couldn't possibly be a robot without a helmet. Finally, she had an idea. She found the school janitor and asked him to open the supply closet. In the supply closet, she found an old bucket that fit perfectly on her head. Her costume was saved.
And last week’s tip was to be specific. I encourage you to check out the revisions in the comments of last week’s entry. There’s some good ones there, including one memorable one by Eric, who rewrote the passage as a science fiction piece.
Nate had a nice entry, which I've copied below. It's pretty amazing how much of a difference a few more details can make.
Sarah arrived at school eager for the afternoon's Halloween party. As she sat down at her desk, she looked inside her backpack for her costume. She found the box, plastic piping, and gloves, all spray-painted a metallic silver, but couldn't find the robot's helmet. She searched through both closets and in every cabinet at the back of the classroom, but didn't see it anywhere. Mrs. Brannigan hadn't noticed it, either.
By noon, when the rest of her class headed out to recess, Sarah was very worried indeed. What would she do? She couldn't possibly be Bender without his head. Finally, she had an idea. She found Mr. Hossburn, the school janitor, and begged him to unlock the supply closet. Beneath a stack of paper plates and a folded plastic tablecloth, she found what she was looking for: an old gray bucket that fit perfectly on her head. Her costume was saved!
So onto this week’s revision tip: appeal to all the senses. That one’s pretty self explanatory. So starting with Nate’s passage, can we rework it now to appeal to more senses?
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Jordan September 7, 2010 at 11:51 PM
I want to know what the inside of that bucket smells like!
Dawn Embers September 7, 2010 at 11:54 PM
The senses is one thing I have to work on when it comes to my writing. I can do one or two, maybe three without having to think too hard about it, but to get them all in takes focus for me.
Julian Ticehurst September 8, 2010 at 4:51 AM
Sarah arrived at school eager for the afternoon's Halloween party. As she sat down at her desk with a thump, she dug inside her backpack for her costume. She found the box, plastic piping, and oven gloves, all spray-painted a metallic silver, but she couldn't find the robot's helmet. She searched at full pelt, through both closets, and in every cabinet at the back of the classroom, but she didn't see it anywhere. The teacher, Mrs. Brannigan hadn't noticed it, either.
By noon, when the rest of her class headed out to recess at full volume, Sarah was very worried indeed and stayed behind in the quiet. What would she do? She couldn't possibly be Bender without his head. Finally, she had an idea. She jumped up and found Mr. Hossburn, the school janitor, and begged him to unlock the supply closet. It was dark, musty and smelt of disinfectant inside but beneath a stack of paper plates and a folded plastic tablecloth, she found what she was looking for: an old gray bucket that fit perfectly on her head. Mr. Hossburn's voice was echo-ey but she could hear him say 'A Robot!'. Sarah jumped for joy. She was going to be Bender! Now how was she to see? She had an idea..
muddleglum September 8, 2010 at 10:46 AM
Sarah arrived at school eager for the afternoon's Halloween party. As she sat down at her desk, she looked inside her backpack for her costume, the smell of paint sharp in her nose. Glittering at her from the darkness of her backpack, Sarah found the box, plastic piping, and gloves, all spray-painted a metallic silver, but couldn't find the robot's helmet. She even closed her eyes and felt throughout her backpack, just in case. She searched through both closets and in every cabinet at the back of the classroom, but didn't see it anywhere. Sarah asked her teacher, Mrs. Brannigan, in a plaintive voice, “Have you seen my silver helmet?”, but Mrs. Brannigan hadn't noticed it, either.
By noon, when the rest of her class headed out to recess, Sarah was very worried indeed. What would she do? She couldn't possibly be Bender without his head. Finally, she had an idea. She found Mr. Hossburn, the school janitor, and begged him to unlock the supply closet. As it creaked open, she saw a stack of paper plates and a folded plastic tablecloth, but beneath those, she found what she was looking for: an old gray bucket.
Sarah wondered if it would work. She put it on her head. The first problem she noticed was that it stank of old disinfectant. The second problem was the she could barely see out of some rust spots on the side of the bucket. The third problem was that the bottom felt gritty and uncomfortable to the top of her head. A few flakes fell on her lips. They tasted awful.
Sarah rinsed the bucket out a few times and sniffed inside. It smelled good and she could see that the grit was gone. Two problems were solved. Next, Mr. Hossburn got out a hammer. A few hammer blows to the rusty spots echoed down the halls, but also knocked the holes bigger and allowed Sarah to see out easily. That fixed the second problem. Then Mr. Hossburn put one foot into the bucket and pulled up on the sides. That made the bottom of the bucket round to fit Sarah's head. Sarah was excited. It looked like a good helmet now.
Mr. Hossburn gave Sarah a clean rag to put on the top of her head. He told her that the bucket would not feel too hard. Finally, Sarah placed the new helmet on her head. Her costume was saved!
Peta Jinnath Andersen September 8, 2010 at 10:58 PM
Sarah arrived at school eager for the afternoon's Halloween party. Long, thin streamers ringed the room, bright orange and spooky black. As she sat down at her desk, the thick scent of cotton candy tickled her nose. Digging around in her backpack for her costume, Sarah’s fingers brushed against the box and stinky plastic piping. When she touched the gloves, she pulled a face--the silver metallic paint had dried easily enough on the box and piping, but her gloves were still tacky, like frosting that hadn’t set properly.
Wiping her hands on her jeans, Sarah tried not to worry. Had she let the best part--the most important part!--of her costume at home? Tugging at her bottom lip, she searched both closets, made the class hamsters squee as she looked under their cage, and even poked her head under all the kids‘ desks. When she asked her teacher, a sweet old lady who loved sunflower hats and had pieces of liquorice stuck in her teeth, Mrs. Brannigan could only shake her head, and offer a condoling twizzler.
Come recess, Sarah was frantic. She had to have a head! Bender had a head, the Tin Man had a head...the Tin Man! Pounding down the hall, Sarah found Mr. Hossburn, the school janitor, and begged him to unlock the supply closet. There, hiding beneath an old checked plastic tablecloth (still spotted with grease and Coke) and a stack of paper plates, she found it: a slightly rusted, slightly damp-smelling grey bucket that fit perfectly on her head. Her costume was saved!
Eric M. Cherry September 9, 2010 at 3:40 AM
The straps on Sarah's backpack dug into her shoulders. By the time she arrived at school, still was more eager to get rid of her costume's weight than she was for the afternoon's Halloween party. As she settled the pack on her desk, heat pumped into her neck and shoulders. She massaged one side of her neck and unzipped the backpack with her free hand.
Vampires and werewolves darted up and down the narrow aisles. They jostled Sarah and knocked her desk askew, so she gave up on her aching muscles to hold her pack steady. She wouldn't have enough space to sort out her costume here, but she could at least check it out in all its silver-glinted glory. The box, plastic piping, and gloves all gleamed under fluorescent lights. She'd spent a woozy afternoon spray-painting it all before Dad forced her to open the garage door and turn on the fan. Now, there wasn't any smell or tackiness left to it.
Nor, she noticed, was there any helmet. All of the sound in the room faded with the headrush of panic. Bender's head was the masterpiece. She couldn't be Bender without the head.
She breathed in and out, counting to ten each way like Mom taught her Yoga clients. She reached into the backpack and counted off items. Box, piping for arms and legs, gloves and boots. Nope, no head.
It was okay, because now her hands weren't sweating and she could hear the din in the room. Mrs. Brannigan raised her voice to quiet the classroom, but none of the kids listened. They laughed at a boy in green tights. They giggled and crowed about rustling fairy wings and witches' hats.
Sarah tapped at Mrs. Brannigan's arm and shouted that she'd lost her head. The teacher smiled and called down to her, "Everybody has!"
Then the school bell rang, and that brought the noise down. Sarah tried again with Mrs. Brannigan, who said to her, "I'm sure it'll turn up," then shouted, "Everybody in your seats, and Kyle stop casting spells!"
Sarah sat without her costume on until noon, surrounded at all sides by kids dressed up as fantasy creatures. She stuck out without her costume on, but that was okay by her. She would stick out even more when she dressed up as a sci-fi robot and took the top prize! Assuming that Bender's head turned up like Mrs. Brannigan said it would, that was. The worry sat in her stomach like a wad of bad candy.
When the rest of her class headed outside for recess, Sarah sat with the remains of her lunch and fretted. Bender's head wasn't anywhere. What would she do? She'd lose, that was what. She couldn't dress up as a robot with a human head. Halloween was ruined, all because she'd overheard the adults talking about great costume ideas. No witch's rags for her! No princess gown! No, she had to have a robot costume, complete with helmet, like Mr. Hossburn said.
Then she got an idea. She left her ham and cheese sandwich behind, took the Granny Smith apple and bbq chips with her, and went hunting for the janitor, Mr. Hossburn.
He was in the lunchroom, just after the teachers were done. He had the same old, smelly liverwurst and onions that he always ate. His bushy eyebrows went way high when she held out the green apple and potato chips, and he said, "Eh? What?"
"I need a robot head, and it's all your fault, but I forgive you," she said, and felt her face flush as she got it all wrong. She stamped her foot and tried again. "I'll give you these if you help me. I need a robot head."
The bent old man leaned forward until all she could see was eyebrows and nose hair, and her entire world filled with onion stink. His crackling voice was all the hunger in the world when he moaned, "But I haven't got a robot head."
Sarah shrank from him. No head, no hope. She slumped, and she set the apple and the chips on the table. "You can have them anyway," she said. "I guess there's always next Halloween."
Mr. Hossburn's laugh was a thing of pure joy, and it did make her feel a little better about everything. Then a heavy, jangling bundle of keys smacked the tiles at her feet. A wet crunch of teeth on apple skin followed.
"Supply closet," he said around a mouthful of sour apple. "Under the paper plates and tablecloth. It's a bucket."
Sarah picked up the keys. "A bucket?"
"Bring it here. We put some holes in it, clean it up inside, it's a good ol' head." He grinned at her, took another bite of fruit, and winked a bushy eyebrow. "Best kind of robot there is, with a bucket head. You'll see."
He turned out to be mostly right: it fit perfectly on her head, and it saved her costume -- but no amount of cleaning got rid of the stink inside. She was woozy all over again when she won first place!
- emc
Her costume was saved!
Except...the bucket smelled like her dad's running shoes after he'd gone jogging through the cow pasture behind their house, in the rain. When she upended it on her head, a trickle of dirty water ran down the back of her neck to seep into her collar. Shuddering at the sudden chill, Sarah yanked the bucket off her head and stared in shock at the dirty brown stain in the bottom of it. She ran her fingertips through the wet spot on her hair. It felt slimy.
Eric M. Cherry September 12, 2010 at 11:27 PM
I have to say that I like the way everyone else hit on the bucket. For as important a dramatic element as it is to the story's ending, I seriously neglected it.
I've grown somewhat better at including multisensory details along the way, but I think I still fail to organize poignant details where they matter most.
Nate Wilson September 14, 2010 at 11:00 PM
So, I leave for my honeymoon and a bunch of people chip in to improve the passage I wrote last week? Wow, I should leave my unfinished novel out and head to Europe for three months.
This is a great exercise, Lidia! I like the variety of sensory elements everyone has added so far... though I think I'll stay well clear of Simon's bucket.
Looking forward to part III.
Daniel Smith October 12, 2010 at 3:36 PM
Sarah arrived at the old white-washed schoolhouse eager for the afternoon's halloween party. Her sneakers squeaked as she crossed the worn wooden floor to sit at her desk. Sarah then looked in her bag for her robot costume. Most of it was there - the bucket and spring-like metal arms - but she couldn't find the helmet. Thinking it had simply fallen out of her bag, she looked all around the old classroom from one paint-peeled wall to another but didn't see it anywhere. She asked her teacher whether she had seen it, but the teacher replied with a huff that meant no.
By recess, Sarah's body was tense from all the worrying. What would she do? She couldn't possibly be a robot without a helmet. First prize was one of mrs. Feeney's blue-ribbon strawberry pies! The crust was homemade shortbread filled with alternating layers of sliced strawberries and cream cheese. It was topped with grated white chocolate. The memory of the last time she'd had a piece made her mouth water now.
Finally, she had an idea. She found the school janitor and asked him to open the supply closet. The closet smelled of cleaning chemicals and old gym socks that the janitor confiscated for rags. Against the back wall was a broken-down bookshelf that looked like it would fall apart if Sarah looked at it sternly. There, on the bottom shelf under a pile of yellowing newspapers, she found a dusty old bucket that fit perfectly on her head. Her costume was saved though she'd be needing a bath before bed.
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The city of Rio de Janeiro has a wide range of sight-seeing to offer. Privileged by having many sunny days yearlong, its beaches, mountains and forests are an invitation for an outdoor promenade. A walk along the beach or in the Tijuca forest is a nice and relaxing experience. Visiting the Botanic Garden, founded in the 19th century by Don Joao VI, will show you many native species of plants from the Atlantic and Amazon forest as well as from other countries in the world. With some luck you will be able to see squirrels, monkeys, lizards, among other wild animals.
- Christ Redeemer
- Sugar Loaf
- Copacabana and Ipanema beaches
- Maracanã Stadium
- Urca district
- Tijuca Forest National Park
- Botanical Garden
- Prainha and Grumari beaches
The city of Rio de Janeiro also counts on a diversified arquitectural complex. With barroc churches, to be mentioned the Saint Benedict Monastery, historical buildings such as the National Museum at the Quinta da Boa vista, or other more modern constructions like the Municipal theater from the beginning of the 20th century or the Museum of Contemporary Art by Oscar Niemeyer, you will travel in time through its constructions.
- Praça XV and surroundings
- Saint Antony Monastery
- National Library
- Colombo Café
- Museum of Modern Art
- Saint John Fort
- Museum of Contemporary Art
The city has a number of theaters, cinemas and museums. Counts on a myriad of shopping malls with the most famous brands in the world, in addition to the Brazilian beach wear known worldwide. Here you also find jewelry and art craft stores, art galleries and many book stores. The city also has a wide range of good restaurants, from typical regional Brazilian food to international food from all around the world. In Rio de Janeiro it is possible to practice all sort of summer sports like: soccer, swimming, cycling, rowing, volleyball, track and field, tennis, hang gliding, diving, skate boarding, climbing, tracking, parachuting, surfing, wind surfing among others. This definitely influences in our people’s happiness and spontaneousness.
The city of Rio de Janeiro is located in a region of Brazil which is privileged by its natural resources. In a 1:30hr drive, you can reach Petropolis, a city developed in the mountains where the imperial Brazilian family settled, or the Green Coast, a bay filled with islands and History. In a 2:30hr drive you are in Armaçao dos Buzios, a small sea side city very charming and known for its paradisiacal beaches.
- Petrópolis
- Parati
- Búzios
- Ilha Grande
- Penedo
- Angra dos Reis
Consult us. Choose your sightseeing, call us and have fun.
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Mirror - Vol. 07, No. 20 - March 01, 1984
'The Image
Fairfield" MIRROR Nonprofit Organization
U.S. POSTAGE
Permit No. 32
Fairfield, Conn.
Volume 7, No. 20 Thursday, March 1, 1984 Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut 06430 Incorporated 1977
Policy Requires Professors
To Retain Students' Papers
by Christine Ryan
The future Frank Cechiles can breathe easier,
now that the University council unanimously ap-proved
a bill that requires professors to save writ-ten
tests and finals until the end of the next term.
Before an article in the Mirror two weeks ago,
Father Mooney, Academic Vice-President, and
the administration were under the impression
that there was an unwritten but understood policy
already in existence. "It became apparent that
many newer staff members were unaware of this
procedure of test saving," Father Mooney stated.
This uniform policy applies to any "final exam
blue books, term papers, and any other assign-ment
written by the student and not passed
back," stated Dr. Rice, who recorded the minutes
of the council meeting. "This will allow the ex-ams
to be available for the student's review."
The official wording of the bill provides for the
tests and term papers to be saved for "one term".
Dr. Rice emphasized "This is so the policy will
be uniform throughout the university, and can
apply to the Graduate Communication School,
which works on a tri-mester system." All tests not
passed back to the student are affected under
this new policy.
Lazaruk Levels Prejudice Plea
by Thomas P. Moore
Former professor Dr. William Lazuruk had a
public hearing held in Hartford on Thursday of
last week to begin the State Commission on
Human Rights and Opportunities inquiry based
on the charges that the university discriminated
against him when he was not rehired as a pro-fessor
of biology in 1976.
The basis of Dr. Lazuruk's charge lies in the
fact that when he was not rehired as a professor
at the university as he reached the age of 65. He
later found out that there were other professors
employed by the university who were over that
Earlier he filed with the Commission on
Human Rights and Opportunities on the basis of
age and nationality.
Later, Dr. Lazuruk filed a complaint with the
commission in 1977 alleging that he was denied
equal terms of employment on the basis that he
was an Episcopalian.
About a year later it came to Dr. Lazuruk's at-tention
that two professors were awarded con-tracts
who were over the age of 65. The former
Professor Lazuruk alleges that both of the pro-fessors
were Roman Catholic.
Dr. Lazuruk claims that he was also discrim-inated
against on the basis of his nationality. Dr.
Frank Rice, Professor of Biology and former
Chairman of the Biology Department (during Dr.
Lazuruk's term of employment at the university)
was said by Dr. Lazuruk to have used the term
"Bohonk" with regard to Dr. Lazuruk because of
his Eastern European origin. Dr. Lazuruk com-mented
on the matter, "It is a fact, it illustrated
his prejudice about me."
When asked for comment on Dr. Lazuruk's
case against the university, Dr. Rice said, "Any-thing
that I have to say about it will be said at the
hearing." He did not comment any further on the
Dr. Lazuruk, a Fairfield resident, felt that he,
"Contributed an awful lot to the betterment of
science at Fairfield." He continued by saying, "I
contributed so much to that school, I had the
deepest admiration for the Jesuits. It was such
a shock. They were so cold and calculated."
Stephen P. Jakab, Associate Provost and
Director of Human Resources at the university
commented on the accusations of discrimination
in the following way, "Fairfield University does not
discriminate on any basis." Asked to describe the
university's position at the hearing, he said, "We
made a motion to dismiss the charge based on
the fact that it was not made on a timely basis."
The delay in proceedings resulted from pro-blems
with the Commission. According to Dr.
Lazuruk, three different members of the Connec-ticut
state agency worked on or examined his
case before he was granted a hearing.
When asked why Lazuruk's contract was not
renewed Jakab said, "I think if I knew what direc-tion
the hearings were going in, I would be able to
comment. It would be a little premature to com-ment
Students relax, study and converse in the Campus Center Mezzanine, which will remain
undivided as a result of a Commuter club vote. [Photo by Remy Steiner]
Mezzanine Proposal Folds
Recently a proposal was made to move the
Commuter lounge area into the Mezzanine in the
Campus Center. The plan was defeated by an
overwhelming majority of the Commuter Club's
members, who voted on February 8.
Mr. James Fitzpatrick, Director of the Campus
Center stressed that, "It was only an idea. I
repeatedly told the members of the Commuter
Club that any time they wanted to call off the
discussions, it was their decision." the majority
of the club's members chose to keep their lounge
in the same spot, rather than to move to the mez-zanine.
They are currently located next to the
Stag-Her Inn.
The plan involved blocking off the mezzanine
area with partitions, and converting the present
Commuter lounge into new offices for Universi-ty
employees. The commuters are content with
their present location in a central part of the
campus.
SAT Scores Rise With '87 Freshmen
by John McConville
The Office of Admissions at Fairfield Univer-sity
will begin to review applications for the Class
of 1988 this week, according to David M. Flynn,
Dean of Admissions at Fairfield. Applications will
be handled by the College of Arts and Sciences,
The School of Nursing and The School of Busi-ness,
depending on the applicants choice of
The admissions process consists of complet-ing
an application for admittance to Fairfield Uni-versity,
completing a Financial Aid form and hav-ing
all high school transcripts forwarded to the
university by March first.
The average SAT. scores for the Class of 1987
were 521 verbal and 564 math. Flynn said that
the average for the incoming Freshmen class will
probably by slightly higher. He explained,
though, that the S.A.T scores are not the only
criteria for admission to the university. A strong
academic showing in high school and amount of
extra curricular activities are also taken into
While many of the applicants for the 1984-85
school year are from Catholic high schools, Flynn
pointed out that a larger number are from public
high schools. He said that their reasons for ap-plying
to Fairfield are the strong academic repu-tation
of the school, the Jesuit tradition, and the
location of the campus. More importantly, Flynn
said, "is the favorable impression made on the
applicants by the students here at Fairfield.
Everyone here is so friendly that they make the
visitors feel like they belong here."
Most of the applicants for 1984-85 are from
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Massa-chusetts.
This does not mean that these appli-cants
are the only ones considered. Applications
from 19 states were received last year, including
California. Students from foreign countries also
apply to Fairfield. Last year, applications were
received from 9 foreign countries. Currently there
are 55 students from foreign countries at Fair-field.
According to Flynn this is an average
number of foreign students as compared to other
Mr. Fitzpatrick stated that the issue was strictly
between the Commuter Club and himself, and
that the entire incident was receiving more atten-tion
than it warranted. It was simply a sugges-tion,
and he wanted some feedback from the club
as to their feelings. Trrerrratter is no longer under
discussion by either Mr. Fitzpatrick or the
The Commuters currently use their lounge for
temporarily storing their books and belongings
while they are in class. Commuters do not have
the luxury of keeping their materials in a central
dorm area. They also conduct Commuter Club
meetings there, and it provides a communal at-mosphere
for those who commute.
The commuters previously had their lounge in
one of the dorms, which was not convenient at
all. They have adjusted to this central location,
and their contentment with this spot was obvious
by their voting to remain.
The mezzanine is currently utilized by students
for studying, reading and socializing, and is con-sidered
by some to be valuable space. However,
converting it into offices or rooms in the future
would pose some difficulty, since people walk-ing
along the upper balcony section could view
whatever was inside the rooms. If ceilings were
to be installed, that would be quite costly. It is for
these reasons that it has yet to be developed in-to
anything more.
There are no plans by the administration or
faculty to convert the mezzanine into anything
else currently. Any plans to alter the mezzanine
now would meet with some student displeasure,
since most students polled prefer the mezzanine
to remain the lounge that it currently is. As for the
commuters, they seem to be content to stay
precisely where they are, and no one will be for-cing
them to leave.
Faculty Begins Investigation
David W. Flynn, Director of Admissions at Fairfield said that 1,000 more women than men ap-plied
to Fairfield this year. [Photo by Laura Mulligan]
Professors Gerald O. Cavallo, Edward J. Deak,
Laurence A. Miners and Robert J. Torello are
undertaking a study to determine the economic
effects of the university on the Town of Fairfield.
The results of the probe into the relationship bet-ween
the school and its adjacent municipality
should be calculated by the end of April.
Dr. Cavallo, Associate Professor of Marketing,
described the probe into the economics of these
two parties in the following fashion, "The pur-pose
is to determine that we make a positive im-pact
on the economy in the area."
When asked about the origin of the concept
to do a study such as this Dr. Cavallo said, "The
idea was first suggested by Dean Griffin of the
School of Business before he retired. It took a
while before it became a reality."
The process to gather the information neces-sary
to delve into the economic relationships will
be gathered by asking the students, faculty and
staff's cooperation in filling out questionnaires.
Dr. Cavallo commented that the study will ex-amine
the buying habits and the costs of what
they purchase.
The survey will approach the university com-munity
through the classrooms, mailboxes, and
cooperation with campus employees. The date
that the study commences is March 5.
When asked what impact the results would
have on the Town of Fairfield, Cavallo declared,
"The results will enlighten the town fathers of
Fairfield and show them that the university has
an impact on the area."
Results such as the ones that will be gathered
as a result of this study will be the first of their kind
in the area. According to Dr. Cavallo a study was
done in the past on a state wide basis regarding
Connecticut private colleges. Only gross figures
were generated through that economic probe.
The Marketing Club will assist the economic
study by setting up tables in the campus center
to collect the questionnaires.
Title Mirror - Vol. 07, No. 20 - March 01, 1984
Date March 01 1984
Description [PLEASE NOTE: There is apparently no issue titled Vol. 7, No. 19. The numbering on the newspapers jumps to issue No. 20. As far as we know we are not missing an issue. Since this does affect the indexing of this volume, we have left the numbering as is.] The Mirror (sometimes called the Fairfield Mirror) is the official student newspaper of Fairfield University, and is published weekly during the academic year (September - May). It runs from 1977 - the present; current issues are available online.
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SearchData THE FAIRFIELD 'The Image of Fairfield" MIRROR Nonprofit Organization U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 32 Fairfield, Conn. Volume 7, No. 20 Thursday, March 1, 1984 Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut 06430 Incorporated 1977 Policy Requires Professors To Retain Students' Papers by Christine Ryan The future Frank Cechiles can breathe easier, now that the University council unanimously ap-proved a bill that requires professors to save writ-ten tests and finals until the end of the next term. Before an article in the Mirror two weeks ago, Father Mooney, Academic Vice-President, and the administration were under the impression that there was an unwritten but understood policy already in existence. "It became apparent that many newer staff members were unaware of this procedure of test saving," Father Mooney stated. This uniform policy applies to any "final exam blue books, term papers, and any other assign-ment written by the student and not passed back," stated Dr. Rice, who recorded the minutes of the council meeting. "This will allow the ex-ams to be available for the student's review." The official wording of the bill provides for the tests and term papers to be saved for "one term". Dr. Rice emphasized "This is so the policy will be uniform throughout the university, and can apply to the Graduate Communication School, which works on a tri-mester system." All tests not passed back to the student are affected under this new policy. Lazaruk Levels Prejudice Plea by Thomas P. Moore Former professor Dr. William Lazuruk had a public hearing held in Hartford on Thursday of last week to begin the State Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities inquiry based on the charges that the university discriminated against him when he was not rehired as a pro-fessor of biology in 1976. The basis of Dr. Lazuruk's charge lies in the fact that when he was not rehired as a professor at the university as he reached the age of 65. He later found out that there were other professors employed by the university who were over that age. Earlier he filed with the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities on the basis of age and nationality. Later, Dr. Lazuruk filed a complaint with the commission in 1977 alleging that he was denied equal terms of employment on the basis that he was an Episcopalian. About a year later it came to Dr. Lazuruk's at-tention that two professors were awarded con-tracts who were over the age of 65. The former Professor Lazuruk alleges that both of the pro-fessors were Roman Catholic. Dr. Lazuruk claims that he was also discrim-inated against on the basis of his nationality. Dr. Frank Rice, Professor of Biology and former Chairman of the Biology Department (during Dr. Lazuruk's term of employment at the university) was said by Dr. Lazuruk to have used the term "Bohonk" with regard to Dr. Lazuruk because of his Eastern European origin. Dr. Lazuruk com-mented on the matter, "It is a fact, it illustrated his prejudice about me." When asked for comment on Dr. Lazuruk's case against the university, Dr. Rice said, "Any-thing that I have to say about it will be said at the hearing." He did not comment any further on the case. Dr. Lazuruk, a Fairfield resident, felt that he, "Contributed an awful lot to the betterment of science at Fairfield." He continued by saying, "I contributed so much to that school, I had the deepest admiration for the Jesuits. It was such a shock. They were so cold and calculated." Stephen P. Jakab, Associate Provost and Director of Human Resources at the university commented on the accusations of discrimination in the following way, "Fairfield University does not discriminate on any basis." Asked to describe the university's position at the hearing, he said, "We made a motion to dismiss the charge based on the fact that it was not made on a timely basis." The delay in proceedings resulted from pro-blems with the Commission. According to Dr. Lazuruk, three different members of the Connec-ticut state agency worked on or examined his case before he was granted a hearing. When asked why Lazuruk's contract was not renewed Jakab said, "I think if I knew what direc-tion the hearings were going in, I would be able to comment. It would be a little premature to com-ment now." Students relax, study and converse in the Campus Center Mezzanine, which will remain undivided as a result of a Commuter club vote. [Photo by Remy Steiner] Mezzanine Proposal Folds by Christine Ryan Recently a proposal was made to move the Commuter lounge area into the Mezzanine in the Campus Center. The plan was defeated by an overwhelming majority of the Commuter Club's members, who voted on February 8. Mr. James Fitzpatrick, Director of the Campus Center stressed that, "It was only an idea. I repeatedly told the members of the Commuter Club that any time they wanted to call off the discussions, it was their decision." the majority of the club's members chose to keep their lounge in the same spot, rather than to move to the mez-zanine. They are currently located next to the Stag-Her Inn. The plan involved blocking off the mezzanine area with partitions, and converting the present Commuter lounge into new offices for Universi-ty employees. The commuters are content with their present location in a central part of the campus. SAT Scores Rise With '87 Freshmen by John McConville The Office of Admissions at Fairfield Univer-sity will begin to review applications for the Class of 1988 this week, according to David M. Flynn, Dean of Admissions at Fairfield. Applications will be handled by the College of Arts and Sciences, The School of Nursing and The School of Busi-ness, depending on the applicants choice of school. The admissions process consists of complet-ing an application for admittance to Fairfield Uni-versity, completing a Financial Aid form and hav-ing all high school transcripts forwarded to the university by March first. The average SAT. scores for the Class of 1987 were 521 verbal and 564 math. Flynn said that the average for the incoming Freshmen class will probably by slightly higher. He explained, though, that the S.A.T scores are not the only criteria for admission to the university. A strong academic showing in high school and amount of extra curricular activities are also taken into consideration. While many of the applicants for the 1984-85 school year are from Catholic high schools, Flynn pointed out that a larger number are from public high schools. He said that their reasons for ap-plying to Fairfield are the strong academic repu-tation of the school, the Jesuit tradition, and the location of the campus. More importantly, Flynn said, "is the favorable impression made on the applicants by the students here at Fairfield. Everyone here is so friendly that they make the visitors feel like they belong here." Most of the applicants for 1984-85 are from Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Massa-chusetts. This does not mean that these appli-cants are the only ones considered. Applications from 19 states were received last year, including California. Students from foreign countries also apply to Fairfield. Last year, applications were received from 9 foreign countries. Currently there are 55 students from foreign countries at Fair-field. According to Flynn this is an average number of foreign students as compared to other Continued on page 4 Mr. Fitzpatrick stated that the issue was strictly between the Commuter Club and himself, and that the entire incident was receiving more atten-tion than it warranted. It was simply a sugges-tion, and he wanted some feedback from the club as to their feelings. Trrerrratter is no longer under discussion by either Mr. Fitzpatrick or the administration. The Commuters currently use their lounge for temporarily storing their books and belongings while they are in class. Commuters do not have the luxury of keeping their materials in a central dorm area. They also conduct Commuter Club meetings there, and it provides a communal at-mosphere for those who commute. The commuters previously had their lounge in one of the dorms, which was not convenient at all. They have adjusted to this central location, and their contentment with this spot was obvious by their voting to remain. The mezzanine is currently utilized by students for studying, reading and socializing, and is con-sidered by some to be valuable space. However, converting it into offices or rooms in the future would pose some difficulty, since people walk-ing along the upper balcony section could view whatever was inside the rooms. If ceilings were to be installed, that would be quite costly. It is for these reasons that it has yet to be developed in-to anything more. There are no plans by the administration or faculty to convert the mezzanine into anything else currently. Any plans to alter the mezzanine now would meet with some student displeasure, since most students polled prefer the mezzanine to remain the lounge that it currently is. As for the commuters, they seem to be content to stay precisely where they are, and no one will be for-cing them to leave. Faculty Begins Investigation David W. Flynn, Director of Admissions at Fairfield said that 1,000 more women than men ap-plied to Fairfield this year. [Photo by Laura Mulligan] by Thomas P. Moore Professors Gerald O. Cavallo, Edward J. Deak, Laurence A. Miners and Robert J. Torello are undertaking a study to determine the economic effects of the university on the Town of Fairfield. The results of the probe into the relationship bet-ween the school and its adjacent municipality should be calculated by the end of April. Dr. Cavallo, Associate Professor of Marketing, described the probe into the economics of these two parties in the following fashion, "The pur-pose is to determine that we make a positive im-pact on the economy in the area." When asked about the origin of the concept to do a study such as this Dr. Cavallo said, "The idea was first suggested by Dean Griffin of the School of Business before he retired. It took a while before it became a reality." The process to gather the information neces-sary to delve into the economic relationships will be gathered by asking the students, faculty and staff's cooperation in filling out questionnaires. Dr. Cavallo commented that the study will ex-amine the buying habits and the costs of what they purchase. The survey will approach the university com-munity through the classrooms, mailboxes, and cooperation with campus employees. The date that the study commences is March 5. When asked what impact the results would have on the Town of Fairfield, Cavallo declared, "The results will enlighten the town fathers of Fairfield and show them that the university has an impact on the area." Results such as the ones that will be gathered as a result of this study will be the first of their kind in the area. According to Dr. Cavallo a study was done in the past on a state wide basis regarding Connecticut private colleges. Only gross figures were generated through that economic probe. 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A self-healing membrane that acts as a reverse filter, blocking small particles and letting large ones through, is the “straight out of science fiction” work of a team of Penn State mechanical engineers.
“Conventional filters, like those used to make coffee, allow small objects to pass through while keeping larger objects contained,” said Birgitt Boschitsch, graduate student in mechanical engineering.
She and the research team, however, developed the exact opposite, a stabilized liquid material that screens out smaller objects while allowing larger ones to pass through. The research was published today (Aug. 24) online in Science Advances.
The team experimented with liquids for their unique properties.
“If you put your finger in a glass of water and take it out, the water’s surface self-heals,” explained Tak-Sing Wong, the Wormley Family Early Career Professor and assistant professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering.
This newly developed membrane does the same, but unlike conventional filters, this one does not separate objects by size. Instead, it responds to an object’s kinetic, or movement, energy.
“Typically, a smaller object is associated with lower kinetic energy due to its smaller mass,” Wong said. “So, the larger object with a higher kinetic energy will pass through the membrane, while the smaller object with lower kinetic energy will be retained.”
In addition, the membrane wraps around the object as it passes through, allowing the membrane to completely self-heal over the top of the object passing through it.
In its simplest form, the membrane can be created with water and a substance that stabilizes the interface between liquid and air, and has a structure similar to that of a biological cell membrane. To create the initial prototype, the team used a simple soap film. The components could then be modified and optimized to serve unique purposes, such as enhanced mechanical robustness, antibacterial properties, or odor-neutralization.
“You could add components that make the membrane last longer or components that allow it to block certain gases,” Boschitsch explained. “There are endless potential additives to choose from to tailor a membrane to the application of interest.”
Looking ahead, the researchers envision any number of creative, real-world applications for the membrane. If doctors need to perform open surgery without a clean operating room, a potential situation in remote areas or on military battlefields, this material could act as a surgical film to help replicate the clean environment needed to safely operate.
Not only could the membrane serve as a particle barrier, but the self-healing properties would also allow medical devices such as surgical tools to pass through while contaminants stay out.
“The membrane filter could potentially prevent germs, dust or allergens from reaching an open wound, while still allowing a doctor to perform surgery safely,” Wong said. “This membrane could make this possible.”
The research may also impact developing regions where there are sanitation concerns.
“One billion people in the world still openly defecate for many reasons, one being that latrines smell bad,” Boschitsch explained. “But if this could be applied to those toilets, it could allow solid waste to pass through the membrane, while the odor-causing gases will remain trapped.”
It is the potential for real-world impact that inspires the team.
“I’ve always been interested in developing technologies that can directly help people,” Boschitsch said. “Making something that can address a challenge facing humanity, in a developing country for example, is something I find meaningful.”
Looking to the future, the team plans to further develop the membrane with enhanced functions, and to collaborate with other researchers to test and adapt this membrane for practical applications. “The sky is really the limit,” Wong said.
Materials provided by Penn State. Original written by Erin Cassidy Hendrick. Note: Content may be edited for style and length.
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February 9, 2015 by David Anderson 2 Comments
Priests and ministers get calls from the local funeral home all the time. Someone has died. They may have been Methodist or Lutheran or Episcopalian, whatever the denomination of your church, but that’s the only, tenuous connection. Would you come and do a service?
I walked into the funeral home and met the two daughters. I took a moment to look at all the pictures displayed around the room, stopped to pray at the closed coffin. I met a sister from Vermont and two darling grandchildren. There were perhaps thirty people on folding chairs.
Then I put on a white stole, walked to a lectern and began the Prayer Book office for burial. “I am Resurrection and I am Life, says the Lord.” The daughters had asked if we might simply open the service to the gathered family and friends, inviting anyone who wished to stand and offer a brief story of how their mother had touched them. I opened the floor and the stories began to flow.
Here is the one I cannot forget.
A woman in her forties walked to the lectern, and asked the crowd to bear with her: she was a little nervous. The woman in the coffin was her aunt. Years ago she had brought her boyfriend home to meet her family, and her mother had rejected the young man. “My mother didn’t want me mixed up with an Italian from Staten Island—who had tattoos and ran a restaurant,” she said. The small congregation laughed. “But Aunt Janet didn’t care about any of that. She trusted me, and the truth of my love. She told me I had her blessing. And she told my mother to back off! Now we’ve been married twenty great years,” she said, pointing to a stocky man in a blue suit sitting in the second row of chairs. “Thank you, Aunt Janet,” she said, glancing back at the coffin, “for believing in me.”
Very often, in considering how best to live our lives, people say, “What do you want people to say at your funeral?” It is easy to be judgmental and controlling, to insist that we know best in the lives of our loved ones. I sat there and thought, “I wonder if that mother had any idea how her small-heartedness would live on for twenty years—and more.” (It’s ok for a parent to have reservations, but what the daughter remembered was not a mother who sat down with her and wanted to know more about this love, but a woman who could not see a human being beneath a tattoo or an ethnic label, a mother who sat in summary judgment.)
In the story of these two women, the mother and the aunt, we have a classic distinction. Do you want to be a judger or a blesser? I don’t mean that we ought never to question our loved ones when we think they may be headed in the wrong direction, or making a bad choice. But how we do it matters. We ought to speak our truth in humility (after all, it may turn out not to be true at all), say it once, and then return to unconditional love. That is, “I love you no matter what choice you make.”
Twenty years later you will be happy you did.
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“Say it once, and then return to unconditional love.” Love that. Will hope to live that.
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Israel in panic over losing their ‘dear’ ISIS & Al-Nusra terrorists in Syria – Assad
http://www.rt.com/news/428305-assad-israel-strikes-threats/
'Striking targets in Syria and threatening to assassinate the leader on the pretext of fighting Iranian influence is a sign that Israel is in “panic” after losing its “dear” terrorist assets, President Bashar Assad told RT.
Over the last couple of months, Israel has intensified its bombing of military infrastructure in Syria, arguing that the Iranian presence in the Arab Republic jeopardizes its own national security. However, Israel’s justification for its air strikes based on alleged Iranian assets is a “lie,” Assad told RT’s Murad Gazdiev in an exclusive interview. Spam_A Spam_B “We don’t have Iranian troops,” Assad said. “We always said that we have Iranian officers, but they work with our army, we don’t have [Iranian] troops.”
Some Israeli politicians have threatened to “liquidate” Assad and topple his government if Iran continues to operate in Syria and transfer weapons to the Lebanese Hezbollah. The Syrian president, however, has made it clear that he is not afraid of the threat.
“The Israelis have been assassinating, killing, occupying for decades now, for around seven decades, in this region, but usually they do all this without threatening. Now, why do they threaten in this way? This is panic, this is a kind of hysterical feeling because they are losing the ‘dear ones,’ the dear ones Al-Nusra and ISIS, that’s why Israel is panicking recently, and we understand their feeling,” Assad said.
Rejecting claims that Syria’s air defenses are practically useless against Israeli jets, the 52-year-old Syrian leader said the old Soviet weapons were capable of repelling numerous IAF strikes and the US-led bombardment in April, when the US, Britain, and France fired over 100 cruise missiles at Syria.
“Our air defense is much stronger than before, thanks to the Russian support and the recent attacks by the Israelis and by the Americans and British and French proved that we are in a better situation” than at the start of the civil war seven years ago, he said.
To protect the sovereignty of Syria, Assad vowed to “improve our air defense, this is the only thing we can do, and we are doing that.”'
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Re: Israel in panic over losing their ‘dear’ ISIS & Al-Nusra terrorists - Assad
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I guess this ends the streak of fake gas attacks that happened the last couple years Syria around the same time. Of course the Western Powers declined to be named for this article.
Syrian 'White Helmets' flee to Jordan with Israeli, Western help
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mideast-crisis-syria-israel/syrian-white-helmets-flee-to-jordan-with-israeli-western-help-idUKKBN1KC061
JERUSALEM/AMMAN (Reuters) - Hundreds of Syrian “White Helmet” rescue workers and their families fled advancing government forces and slipped over the border into Jordan overnight with the help of Israeli soldiers and Western powers, officials said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a brief video statement on Sunday he had helped the evacuation at the request of U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders - and there had been fears that the workers’ lives were at risk.
The group, known officially as Syria Civil Defence, has been widely hailed in the West and credited with saving thousands of people in rebel-held areas during years of bombing attacks by Damascus and its allies.
Its members, known for their white helmets, say they are neutral. But Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his backers, including Russia, have dismissed them as Western-sponsored propaganda tools and proxies of Islamist-led insurgents. There was no immediate response from Damascus on Sunday.
A Jordanian government source said 422 people were brought from Syria, over the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights frontier and into Jordan, down from a figure of 800 announced earlier by the foreign ministry in Amman.
The evacuees will be kept in a “closed” location in Jordan and resettled in Britain, Germany and Canada within three months, the source said.
A second non-Jordanian source familiar with the agreement said the original plan had been to evacuate 800 people, but only 422 made it out as operations were hampered by government checkpoints and the expansion of Islamic State in the area.
More at the link --> https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mideast-crisis-syria-israel/syrian-white-helmets-flee-to-jordan-with-israeli-western-help-idUKKBN1KC061
« Reply #2 on: Jul 23, 2018, 06:20:05 am »
Netanyahu: Trump & Trudeau asked Israel to evacuate White Helmets from Syria
http://www.rt.com/news/433958-netanyahu-trump-trudeau-white-helmets/
US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked Israel to evacuate the members of the controversial Western-backed White Helmets group from Syria, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed.
"President Trump and also Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, as well as others, requested us to help take out from Syria hundreds of White Helmets members,” Netanyahu said in a video address on Sunday.
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Several days ago @POTUS Trump contacted me, as did @CanadianPM Trudeau and others, and requested that we assist in evacuating hundreds of 'White Helmets' from Syria. These are people who have saved lives and whose lives were in danger. pic.twitter.com/mGzFCvPe1X</p>
— PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM) July 22, 2018[/size][/quote]
He described the White Helmets, who have been accused of cooperating with terrorists and faking chemical attacks, as “people who saved lives.” Spam_A Spam_B The members of the controversial group were “under life-threatening danger… I therefore authorized for them to be transferred through Israel to other countries as an important humanitarian measure,” the Israeli PM said.
Israel evacuated several hundred White Helmet staff and their families from the Golan Heights region in southern Syria to Jordan overnight on Saturday. The initial plan reportedly involved the evacuation of 800 people, but the Jordanian authorities later said that only 422 made it into the country.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, Emmanuel Nahshon, earlier wrote on Twitter that the Jewish state carried out the operation “upon request of the US, Canada and European states.”'
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Top militant commanders flee southern Syria to Israel: Report
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/07/23/568978/Israel-Syria-militant-commanders-White-Helmets
'Four top militant commanders have fled southern Syria to Israel after hundreds of Western-backed "White Helmets" did the same in the face of the Syrian army's imminent recapture of a strategic province.
According to pan-Arab news and commentary website al-Masdar News, the militants fled the Syrian province of Quneitra with their families and were secured by Israeli military once they got into the occupied Golan Heights.
It named the militant commanders as Moaz Nassar and Abu Rateb of Fursan al-Golan Brigade, Ahmad al-Nahs of Saif al-Sham Brigade, and Alaa al-Halaki of Jaish Ababeel. Spam_A Spam_B The website cited what it called as opposition sources revealing that the commanders had been recruited by the Israeli intelligence and remained in touch with Israeli officers for years.
Quneitra and the neighboring Dara'a province have been used for years to transfer injured militants into the occupied Golan Heights for treatment.
Israel transported several hundred "civil defense workers" known as White Helmets from southwest Syria to Jordan overnight Saturday at the request of the United States and European countries.
Military authorities said Israel engaged in the “out of the ordinary” operation due to the “immediate risk” to their lives as Syrian forces closed in on the area.'
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Syria: The White Helmets’ Final Performance
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-the-white-helmets-final-performance/5648513
'It is commonly known that when a ship is sinking, the crew does not board the lifeboats before the passengers. Most noble of all is when the captain and crew go down with the ship. Then with what level of ignobility should we assess the so-called “Syrian Civil Defense” more commonly referred to as the White Helmets?
We are told that Syrian forces backed by Russian airpower are brutalizing the remnants of “rebels” in southern Syria near the Jordanian border and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Surely now more than ever do the people of southern Syria need the “bravest of the brave” – as UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt described them on social media. Spam_A Spam_B Yet instead of rushing to where the cannons sound loudest, the White Helmets slunk across Syria’s borders with the aid of the Israeli Defense Forces, onward to Jordan, where the UN is working to relocate them – allegedly to Europe and North America.
It is a final act laying to rest once and for all a monumental lie – that the White Helmets were anything more than an extension of the foreign-funded proxy war aimed at overthrowing Damascus.
And now that overthrowing Damascus is no longer a possibility, the White Helmets are being evacuated to lie another day.
The White Helmets were never “rescuers,” but a public relations wing of Al Qaeda and its various affiliates. The US did not arm and funded terrorists for years to ravage Syria only to “also” fund groups to help save lives. Instead, the White Helmets’ only real mandate was to augment the proxy war, exploiting humanitarian themes similar to how the US and NATO justified and executed the destruction of Libya.'
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Kurds reach deal with Damascus to end Syria conflict
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/07/28/569493/SyriaKurdishSyrian-Democratic-Councilpeace-talks
'An alliance of Kurdish and Arab militants in Syria says it has come to an agreement with the Syrian government to develop negotiations to end violence in Syria.
The announcement was made after the so-called Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), sent a delegation to Damascus for talks with Syrian officials earlier this week. The SDF, itself, is a US-backed coalition of mainly Kurdish militants.
The SDC said in a statement Saturday that it had agreed with the government of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to form committees that would "chart a roadmap to a democratic, decentralized Syria.” Spam_A Spam_B The SDC delegation visited Damascus for the first time after President Assad said that he was “opening doors” for negotiations with Syrian Kurds that he said had "apparently become wary" of their unpredictable ally - the United States.
The Kurds then expressed readiness to hand over control of the Eastern Euphrates to the government after Washington withheld its support for the Kurdish militants in the northern Syrian cities of Manbij and Afrin.
The SDC's co-chair Riad Darar said on Friday the talks with Damascus were aimed at "working towards a settlement for northern Syria," as it was time to "solve our problems ourselves."'
Read More : Kurds reach deal with Damascus to end Syria conflict
Russia Swats Away Israeli Bluster On Syria
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http://orientalreview.org/2018/07/27/russia-swats-away-israeli-bluster-on-syria/
'The Russian version of the visit by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Chief of Staff General Valery Gerasimov to West Jerusalem on July 23 became available, finally, on Wednesday in the nature of a terse TASS report quoting a ‘military-diplomatic’ source in Moscow as saying that the visiting Russian officials “looked into the tasks of completing the anti-terrorist operation in Syria’s South.”
An unnamed Israeli official had earlier floated a story that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did some tough talking with Lavrov and “rebuffed” a Russian offer to create a 100-kilometre buffer zone adjacent to Golan Heights. Netanyahu reportedly insisted that he won’t be satisfied with anything short of Iran ending its presence in Syria conclusively.
The first indication that the talks didn’t go well came when Israel shot down a Syrian jet on July 24 in Quneitra bordering Golan. It was a calculated act of belligerence by Israel. (The Islamic State fighters who are present in the region have since released the photograph of the wreckage and the mutilated body of the Syrian pilot.) Spam_A Spam_B The TASS report on July 25 punctures the Israeli version that the two Russian officials were deputed by President Vladimir Putin specially to discuss with Netanyahu the future of Iranian presence in Syria. (It now transpires that the Russian officials were on a tour of Israel, Germany and France.) The Israeli bravado can only be seen as a desperate ploy to cover up its humiliating defeat in Syria with the terrorist groups that were its proxies surrendering lock, stock and barrel in Daraa and Quneitra to the Syrian-Russian forces – especially the hasty exfiltration of the controversial group known as the White Helmets to Jordan via Golan Heights with the logistical help from the Israeli military.
Quite obviously, Moscow does not want to get entangled in the Israel-Iran tensions. This is also the American assessment of the Russian thinking, as articulated by the Director of the National Intelligence Agency Daniel Coats on Thursday: “We have assessed that it’s unlikely Russia has the will or the capability to fully implement and counter Iranian decisions and influence (in Syria.) Russia would have to make significantly greater commitments [in Syria] from a military standpoint, from an economic standpoint. We don’t assess that they’re keen to do that.”'
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UK cuts funding for Syrian opposition group which the BBC accused of being under jihadist control
http://www.rt.com/uk/436384-syrian-opposition-defunded-idlib/
'The UK will finally end its support of a Syrian opposition group accused by the BBC of being under an Al-Qaeda proxy’s control, in a move that shows the UK realizes that “these groups have no real future” in the Syrian conflict.
Operational funding to the Free Syrian Police Force (FSP) is to stop in September, with government sources, cited in the Guardian, admitting the Access to Justice and Community Service (AJACS) program has become too difficult to deliver.
A former foreign correspondent for the Guardian, Jonathan Steele, told RT that while the group, largely based in the northern opposition-held Idlib province, was unarmed, they still carried out “patrols,” adding that “they got equipment and salaries from the British government.”
While humanitarian support is set to continue, all operation assistance will stop. Steele stated that the UK had provided the FSP with “training and tactical support,” adding that “some of the training was happening in Turkey.” Spam_A Spam_B Britain’s aid spending in 2017-18 has been estimated at £152 million (US$194 million), a third of which has been delivered to Idlib province, on the Turkish border. The area, where the FSP operates, is a stronghold of the Al-Qaeda proxy group Al-Nusra Front, now rebranded as Tahrir al-Sham.
The Foreign Office and the Department for International Development (DfiD) denied that the move had anything with the BBC’s revelations in December 2017 – that the FSP were under the control of Al-Nusra Front.
The BBC Panorama program, titled ‘Jihadis You Pay For’, claimed FSP officers in Idlib province had to be approved by Al-Nusra.
After the program’s broadcast, the Foreign Office suspended access to the AJACS scheme for the FSP. A DfID source, cited in the Guardian, stated that the defunding decision had nothing to do with Panorama's claims.'
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F R I S B E E F R E E S T Y L E B E G R I F F E T - U
The - This term started with Kevin Givens of the Modesto Mutants, like so many other terms and moves. Basically, it means "the" easiest catch. If someone says, "you caught a lot of the's," then they're accusing you of relying on too many easy catches.
Click here to read the history of "the" term
Thumber - a throw in which the thumb of the throwing hand is placed along Toejam's Recess on the underside of the disc and the fingers are wrapped around the outside rim. The throw uses the same hyzer release as a forehand throw.
Learn to throw a thumber
Tip - this probably seems self explanatory, but a tip is a percussive force applied to the flight plate of the disc. Normally, tips are done with the fingers forcefully striking upwards on the underside of the disc during a delay. If you think tips are too simple, then try doing ten to twenty consecutive restricted tips like the virtuoso Dave Lewis. Tips can also be done with the foot, the knee, the elbow, etc...
See Rick Sader do some tips, followed by a one hand turnover to a scarecrow catch
Jeff Soto's aerial chair tip (Foto: Bill Boyd for Frisbee Disc World) - Tipmeister Dave Lewis (Foto: Paul Kenny)
Toejam - the technique of delaying the disc on your toenail or a device attached to the tip of your shoe.
Dave Schiller toejamming (Foto: Jamie Chantiles) - Darryl Allen passing a toejam to Deaton Mitchell (Foto: Carlton Howard)
Toejam's Recess - the discontinuity point on the inside of a disc's rim. Normally, this is the point for rim pulls. Click here to see the parts of a flying disc. Oddly enough, this name predates the term toejamming. Check Stancil Johnson's book for more details about flying disc nomenclature.
Tommykick - a kickbrush that occurs with the player's back to the wind, which is unusual in that most airbrushes take place with the player's chest oriented into the wind. The disc actually passes by the line of the shoulders before the player reaches back with his foot to kick it tangentially back into the wind. This kick requires a light wind because the Mung angle is usually high, meaning the nose to tail angle of the disc is high. My favorite variation on this is a double pirouette prior to the kick. The kick is named after Tommy Leitner, since he made it a signature move.
See Dan Yarnell do a tommykick to Tristan Doshier's brush to Dan's gitis catch
See a spinning tommykick video
Dave Schiller doing a Tommykick (Foto: Jamie Chantiles)
Trap - a catch that normally involves pressing the disc against a part of the body. For example, catching the disc by trapping it against the top of the head with your hand. One of the most creative traps I remember was done by Darryl Allen: he would set the disc up in the air vertically, do a handstand and trap it between his feet, then do a graceful rollout. Another equally dramatic trap was the cooperative aerial foot trap done by Krae Van Sickle and Pat Rabdau at the end of their popular video tape "Zen and the Art of Frisbee Freestyle." Pat and Krae leap into the air and trap the disc between the sole of one foot from each player.
Triple Fake - a behind the back posture that requires the player to perform a half pirouette before catching the behind the back in a blind position. The name is derived from the idea that the player is faking three catches before settling with the blind behind the back catch.
See Tom Gleason do a series of legovers to a triple fake catch
Triple Leg - A Dave Schiller "slam it to the turf" combination creation. The triple leg requires three consecutive legovers without the benefit of an intervening handplant. For example: right leg out over right hand delay set, pirouette clockwise, right leg over the disc followed by left leg over the disc as it returns to the left hand delay.
Tron - a one legged catch that requires extreme flexibility to be done correctly. The disc should be caught under the lifted leg, but above the head. Take a look at the photo of Pipo Lopez above. Note that his foot is higher than his head. Peeps can do full Russian splits, so work on your flexibility with lots of stretching before you try a Tron. The catch takes its name from the movie Tron. There is a scene in the movie where Jeff Bridges plays a flying disc game against another human caught in the Tron cyberworld.
Pipo Lopez doing a Tron legover (Foto: Paul Kenny)
Interesting footnote on the movie : Tron was one of the first movies to use computer graphics and featured a villain called MCP (which stood for Master Control Program). MCP was a term used by the Burroughs Corporation's virtual memory operating system. Burroughs had the first virtual memory operating system that allocated memory in non-granular units. IBM also had virtual memory, but was scoffed at by longhair computer geeks like myself. Currently, Microsoft Windows is to Unix as IBM was to Burroughs Corp. This footnote rant brought to you by the open source liberation army.
Tunnel - form a circle with your arms by clasping your hands together and spreading your elbows apart as far as possible, now tell your buddy to throw the disc so that it flies through the circle formed by your arms...you've just done a tunnel. Invariably, frisbee shows involve an attempt to get spectators to participate in a group tunnel as in the above photo with "Crazy" John Brooks providing the throw. Crazy held the record for participants in a human tunnel at one time. The most visually stunning variation on a tunnel requires the player to leap into the air in a russian split, forming the tunnel with her arms between her legs. I haven't seen this type of tunnel done in a long, long time.
"Crazy" John Brooks throwing through a tunnel
Turnover - the act of changing the disc from a right side up spin state to an upside down spin state. This action simultaneously changes the spin direction, so that a right side up clockwise spin turns over to an upside down counterclockwise spin. This move was called "impossible" for a short period in the 1970's. The one handed variant is far more difficult and dramatic because the entire turnover process occurs under the control of one hand. The term is also used to describe the change of a disc's hyzer angle during flight. Discs that change hyzer dramatically during their flight are termed "understable." Cheap promotional discs are usually understable.
Joel Rogers doing a one handed turnover - Dave Murphy doing a one handed turnover pass to Arthur Coddington (Foto: Jamie Chantiles)
Twisting the neurons - a complicated combination starting with a twistoflex set to a behind the back one handed turnover. See twistoflex. Created by Bob Coleman and Dave Schiller.
Twisto (Twistoflex) - a rim pull transfer that starts with a rim pull in an indigenous posture to a behind the back pull out. A twistoflex with clock spin starts with a left hand delay, is pulled under the uplifted right leg (from the outside of the left leg to the inside of the right leg) to the right hand which is held behind the back. I believe this is a Don Rhodes invention. Once you see the move, you'll understand what I'm trying to describe. Describing the move is difficult, but not nearly as hard as trying to do the move.
UD - an abbreviation for upside down. A UD gitis is a gitis catch where the disc is upside down, not the player.
Underhand - this throw is sometimes called a "bowler's throw" because the delivery vaguely resembles the mechanics of a bowler's release. The throw is actually a backhand that is released from the contranatural side of the body. When I receive a backhand throw from a righthanded player, I see the disc come from the right side of the player's body. With an underhand from a righthanded player, I see the disc released from the left side of the thrower's body. Many players find the underhand release a more comfortable approach to a backhand throw.
UTL - an abbreviation for under the leg.
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In the 1400's, there began in Galway the rule of the 'Tribes', as the leading fourteen families were called. Their names were Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Browne, Darcy, Deane, Ffont, French, Joyce, Kirwan, Lynch, Martin, Morris, and Skerritt. Members of these families served as Burgesses, and as Mayors of Galway up to the capture of Galway by a Cromwellian army in 1652.
The city charter was presented in 1484 by King Richard III and, both prior to and since that time, Galway city has been a thriving centre of commerce and trade for the West of Ireland. There is scientific evidence of human habitation in this area dating back almost 10,000 years, where archeological digs discovered cooking areas in Gentian Hill on the coastal outskirts of the city. A paleolithic axe-head was discovered on the Aran Islands off the Galway coast and dated over 300,000 years old. However its arrival in this spot is unclear. The busy port area once saw large sailing ships bound for the Americas and was 'home' to the Spanish Armada during its western voyages. Galway was famous at that time for it's involvement in the wine trade, particularly Spanish wines, and the Spanish influence is retained in an area of the city called the Spanish Arch.
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The Claddagh Ring (above right) originated in the fishing village situated near the "shore" or "Claddagh" of Galway Bay. The Claddagh outside the City Walls, and further separated by the River Corrib, was exclusive community or fisher-folk forbidden to use spade or hoe and ruled by a periodically-elected "King" whose sole distinguishing mark was his right to use a white sail on his fishing hooker. The ring shows two hands holding a heart which wears a crown. This motif is explained in the phrase: "Let Love and Friendship reign", and ideal poesy for a wedding ring used by a small community for over four hundred years. This distinctive design is associated with one of the Tribes of Galway, the Joyce family. Margaret Joyce married Domingo de Rona, a wealthy Spaniard, who, when he died, left her his fortune, which she subsequently used to build bridges in the Province of Connacht.
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Floods in the Philippines
The recent deadly storms to hit the Philippines were an eye opener for the world. Ketsana and Parma resulted in widespread flooding, landslides, dams busting, houses and bridges collapsing and massive population displacement, and from what I understand over seven million people were affected. Yet to international news broadcasters this type of story is unfortunately becoming all too common day after day, month after month.
Within the Philippines the site of dead bodies being broadcast appears somehow to be acceptable; yet in Europe and America the networks work on the theory that such images might upset their viewers as they tuck in to their bowls of cornflakes over breakfast; so they edit out such awful scenes. And anyway with the constant coverage of bombs going off in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the reaction of loved ones screaming in anguish in front of the camera, you cannot just move straight into the latest football results without some “softer” news to counter the maimed and the walking wounded.
Indeed, to watch some of the international broadcasters such as BBC and CNN, you might be forgiven for thinking that this was a 48 hour wonder; that within a week the Phils would be back to its old self as the world moved on to yet more bloodshed in the Middle East.
But eschewing the big players and watching some of the smaller TV stations and web outlets gave a different perspective. Reading the blog reports describing the cleaning up operations – not just removing the mud, but allowing everything to dry out so as to prevent the build up of mould – I was moved by the amount of bloggers who were able to put things into perspective; who had lived through a tragedy but could, in the face of adversity, learn to be stronger and hopeful that their flood-damaged homes would once again be beautiful some day.
We were also able to gauge the reaction of the Filipino communities around the globe as the news came in about the extent of the devastation and the amount of people affected. Yet again the sense of community was there for everyone to see. Here in Dubai I can’t think of a single Pinoy friend – and I have several – who was not involved in some way with fundraising, awareness raising and garnering help in some way.
The local independent TV station, City7 which has many Filipinos on its staff, broadcast night after night in its news bulletins about the relief efforts being made across the UAE to send over to the Philippines. It was both touching and a lesson to the rest of the world as to how disasters can pull communities closer together – a bit like World War 2 brought communities together in the UK as everyone faced a common foe …. so we were taught in school, though such evidence is much harder to find now in the “developed West”.
Perhaps the most telling statistics that came from the UN are what so “little” money can achieve - $18 can provide a family with rice for 2 weeks. Weigh that against the obscene amount of money being poured into armaments in the Middle East and you start wondering what kind of a damned fool world we are living in.
Think of the amount of aid money being thrown into some of the countries of Africa where – dare one be so politically incorrect – many of the problems nations, such as Zimbabwe or Angola or Sudan or Nigeria etc etc, face are of their own making.
But Africa represents the new conscience of the West, whist the Middle East has its oil; so countries such as the Phils cannot hope to compete on such terms. Thank goodness they have a community spirit which is ready to be mobilised at a moment’s notice.
Yes, it’s a crazy world that we live in. And all in all, it does make you question what is news? And who decides?
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Teacher brings his love of dairy to school
Smithton teacher, Josh Smith, has traded the paddock for the classroom and brought his love of the dairy industry into the school.
Before turning to teaching, Josh was born and raised on a dairy farm near Tasmania’s Legendairy Capital, Smithton.
He has never lost his love for the land and wasn’t about to forget his dairying roots when he took up his new profession.
Now the Grade 9 and 10 coordinator and maths and science teacher at Smithton High School, Josh has integrated Dairy Australia’s Cows Create Careers program into the Grade 9 science program. Its success was one of the reasons Smithton earned itself the title of the Legendairy Capital of Tasmania.
The program is a hit with students and has inspired new respect for the local dairy industry.
As part of Cows Create Careers, students discover the various career opportunities in dairying, while learning about biology, by raising a calf, and science, from growing pastures.
The program is linked to priorities in the Australian education curriculum and has been highly successful in engaging students.
“It’s a huge success,” Josh said. “The practical component and the animal factor engage more students than would normally be engaged in our science program. An issue facing teachers is inclusion and catering for every student’s needs and this program fits that perfectly.
“It allows some students to shine where they might not normally,” Josh said. “Students off farms have that practical knowledge and feel like they’ve got more to contribute to class discussions.”
The program has also given students living in towns a better appreciation of farmers.
“I grew up on a dairy farm so I know that good farmers are extremely highly skilled people who are prepared to take on lots of risk,” Josh said. “I think most town kids under-value the type of knowledge needed to be a good farmer.”
Josh says community support, particularly from local farmer Leigh Schurring who has provided calves and professional assistance, has made the program a success.
“It’s difficult to get off the ground because not every teacher is suited to being responsible for calves, but it’s definitely worth it. It’s created something for Grades 7 and 8 students to look forward to; there’s a feeling of excitement that we’re doing something really cool and worthwhile at school.”
Josh says Smithton deserves its Legendairy Capital title.
“The community revolves around agriculture,” he said. “If agriculture didn’t exist there wouldn’t be a town here. My wife Renee and I both grew up on dairy farms 30 kilometres west of Smithton and still have a passion for the industry.
“You ask anyone: is dairy important to Smithton? And they’d say yes, of course it is. I don’t think I’d be the person I am today without my dairy background.”
Being named the Legendairy Capital has brought extra attention to the industry. “It’s created a buzz that we’re a bit special and we should respect our farmers,” Josh said.
“If I walk up the street and have a conversation about what’s going on in the school, Legendairy always comes up – and that’s nearly 12 months later. It’s done great things for the town and came at a really good time for the industry.”
Josh plans to continue playing his part in educating the broader community about dairy.
He introduced Cows Create Careers in his previous school at Circular Head Christian School in Smithton and knew it would work at Smithton High.
“Our school has embraced it,” Josh said. “Prior to this, there was no agriculture being taught here but now everyone sees the value in it.”
Although Cows Create Careers is officially a six-week program, the school has kept the calves and has expanded to include a new optional paddock-to-plate subject that brings a broader agricultural perspective.
“It gives students the whole picture,” Josh said. “You need to know where your food comes from.”
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DEFENSE STEPS UP AS MARAUDERS LOSE CLOSE BATTLE WITH SAN BERNARDINO
San Bernardino Valley
San Bernardino Valley (5-1) 0 9 3 8 20
Antelope Valley (3-4) 0 0 13 6 19
Pa: Tyler Selvig - 130
Ru: Tyler Selvig - 35
Rec: Errius Collins - 86
Pa: Jeremy Moussa - 248
Ru: Darrell Turner Jr. - 72
Rec: Tate Pringle - 103
AVC Football lost 19-20 in a thriller against SanBernardino Valley on Saturday.
The Wolverines came in with a top-ranked offense and a 5-1 record to prove it. The Marauders brought a 3-2 record into the first conference game and were in great position to pull off the upset as this one went down to the last minute.
Defense controlled the first quarter as three fumbles, four punts, and two failed field goal attempts resulted in a 0-0 score. San Bernardino Valley was able to get on the board first in early in the second quarter after a 6-play 19-yard drive resulted in a 30-yard field goal by Ben Falck. The Wolverines then scored again late in the second quarter off a Jaylen Miller fumble. Shaylan Lewis recovered and took it 33 yards for the touchdown. San Bernardino led 9-0 after missing a two-point conversion. The Marauders defensive line held the Wolverines offense in check for the rest of the half as Reginald Wright, Brannen Goodman, and Kalai Clark provided steady pressure.
Down 9-0 after the half, AVC's offense showed some life as they scored on their first drive in the third quarter. Davon Jones set up first and goal from the 9-yard line when he took a screen pass 34 yards before being pushed out of bounds. Kalai Clark then punched it in for the score to bring the Marauders with two.
San Bernardino responded with a 25-yard field goal extending the lead to 12-7. Antelope Valley's offense continued to move the ball on a 5-play, 75-yard drive. Errius Collins scored on a 45-yard touchdown pass from Tyler Selvig, giving AVC the12-7 lead after a missed two-point conversion. Selvig finished 7-10 with 130 yards passing and one touchdown. Collins led the Marauders in receiving with four catches for 86 yards and a score.
The Wolverines bounced back in the fourth quarter with a big 86-yard score. Jeremy Moussa connected with Latavion Staple, and the Wolverines were back on top 20-13 after a two-point conversion with 4:12 left to play. Antelope Valley then went on a 9-play, 3-minute drive setting up a potential game-winning situation. Tyler Selvig completed a 24-yard pass to Artell Marks, putting the Marauders at the Wolverine 1-yard line. Kalai Clark checked in again on offense and provided the 1-yard touchdown rush pulling them within one point, 19-20. Playing for the win, Coach Jehlicka's offense came out passing on the two-point conversion. Tyler Selvig's pass to Jaylynn Harvey drew a pass interference penalty, and the Marauders were a little closer. The Marauders appeared to be headed for the upset after Kalai Clark ran it in for the conversion, but offsetting penalties forced a replay of the down. Clark was then stopped just short of the goal line. The Wolverines ran out the remaining seconds after kick-off to get the win.
The Marauders (3-3) will travel to College of the Desert before returning home to face Mt. San Jacinto on November 2nd at 2:00 pm.
Photos by William Ortiz
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You are here: Home / *Articles of the Bound* / Nigerian Children Being Trafficked To Europe For Sex Slavery
Nigerian Children Being Trafficked To Europe For Sex Slavery
January 15, 2019, 9:22 am by Denise Simon Leave a Comment
Remember back in 2014 there was a devastating condition in Nigeria of abducted school girls? The Congressional Black Caucus back then demanded the girls be returned and the terror group be brought to justice.
Anyone wonder where the United Nations is on trafficking in Africa?
Anyway, at the time in 2014, Marcia Fudge (D-OH), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Barbara Lee and Karen Bass (both D-CA) all gathered to hold a press conference outside the Nigerian embassy in Washington, DC to make declarations and demands.
As of March 2018, most of the 276 school girls have been freed and returned to their hometown, Dapchi, Nigeria. An estimated 60 escaped and others were sold, then released by Boko Haram while a few others were rescued.
But now there is another nasty condition and it is trafficking. Hello Europe?
Highly organised Nigerian gangs are earning “extremely high profits” from trafficking children into 12 European countries, including Ireland, for prostitution, according to the EU police agency.
Europol said victims generate a smuggling debt of between €30,000-€60,000 each — and that paying off the debts can take years.
The agency said Nigerian criminal groups are organised into cells, typically run by females, known as “madams,” with men working in supportive roles.
The Europol report on the trafficking and exploitation of underage victims said southern EU countries, such as Italy and Spain, are the main entry points for trafficked Nigerians.
It said victims are then forced into prostitution in both the two entry countries and 10 other member states, including Ireland.
It said Nigerian organised crime gangs pose a “great challenge” to EU law enforcement. It said they were well organised, but not structured like most other crime networks.
“The typical Nigerian criminal group is not hierarchically structured but rather organised into cells, among which female suspects usually execute the core business [recruitment and exploitation], with male members having supportive roles,” said the report.
“Contrary to other criminal groups involved in human trafficking, where female members are generally employed as victim controllers, the figure of the ‘madam’, including acting as a ring leader, is central for the Nigerian THB [trafficking of human beings] business.”
The report said the cellular structure makes it easy to move victims and that if one cell is dismantled by police, the other cells can continue operating.
It said: “Nigerian networks generate extremely high criminal profits, as each victim is forced to pay back the organisation usually between €30,000 and €60,000.”
It said most victims of Nigerian gangs were aged between 15 and 17, though the reports documents children aged 11-15 and some aged six-10 and even under five.
The girls were often promised well-paid jobs. The gangs often involved family relatives to persuade the girls to move and in other cases use voodoo rituals.
It said victims are passed from trafficker to trafficker and are “frequently subjected to physical assaults” and subsequently sexually exploited.
So, where is the Congressional Black Caucus now? Well, they have moved on to water issues in Nigeria. Last July:
23 members from the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) issued a letter of solidarity to the Our Water, Our Right Coalition in Nigeria which is leading an ongoing struggle for water access that has been sidelined for years by government attempts to privatize the water system. The letter makes direct connections between the struggle of the people of Lagos and that of people in U.S. cities like Flint and Detroit, Michigan and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Read more here.
Now we understand that trafficking of children is a selective scandal for the Democrats… those from Central and Latin America and those in Africa. Has anyone in the CBC spoken out to the media about the new conditions in Europe and Nigeria? Anyone?
One last item, this is not a new phenomenon:
In an interview with Reuters at the end of May, Julia Siluyanova of Russian anti-slavery group Alternativa said: “We discovered that about 30 [Nigerian women] were brought to the Confederations Cup in Moscow last year… we expect to face the same problem during the World Cup this year.”
Law enforcement agencies across Europe and other regions routinely rescue young Nigerian women who have been smuggled out of their home country to work in brothels.
Many are put through juju voodoo rituals before being smuggled abroad, during which they are convinced that their relatives will suffer death or serious illness if they refuse to follow the instructions of their traffickers.
In February, police in the UK and Spain arrested 12 members of an international Nigerian sex trafficking gang who were said to have pulled out their victims’ fingernails and made them eat raw chicken hearts during juju rituals.
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Legislation, Licenses & Registration
OGEL again
By Ron, August 2, 2018 in Legislation, Licenses & Registration
Ron 20
Lieutenant-Colonel
Location: Poole UK
Someone posted on another forum that the OGEL registration is required again for France??? Anyone else know anything through IMPS or MVT tours for next year?
See page 10 of the 2018 information form.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-general-export-licence-historic-military-vehicles-and-artillery-pieces--3
Location: south yorkshire
This was mentioned in the last MVT Normandy tour up date but if read the above correctly there is an exmption regarding military vehicles over 50 years old used for historical activites on page 11 paragraph 3 which seams to cover France ,Belgium, and Germany but not the Netherlands of course everything may change again when brexit finally happens
Edited August 2, 2018 by landrover nick
AH yes thanks. Back to how it was then. What a load of Bollocks though!! In the beginning, I accidentally applied for a 'goods' licence instead of a 'vehicle' licence. What a palava trying to cancel it when they asked me for my yearly report😣 Ron
gas 44 12
I believe its quite clear there is already an exemption in place that covers our vehicles going to France next year.
PAGE 11 PARA 3, its VERY CLEAR
I think the MVT are asking people to get an OGEL because......well just because !!!!
I have asked the MVT why they believe an OGEL is now needed and they cannot give a sensible answer as to why.
Because we are coming out of the EU things may change of course BUT at this stage NO ONE knows how they will change.
Should we all get an MOT, Insurance GREEN card enough petrol in case the French wont sell us any,
I understand that the MVT have their own tour planned BUT IF THERE ARE NEW CONCRETE RULES THEN THEY SHOULD PASS THEM ON TO ALL PAID UP MEMBERS, not just the elite few.......
Yes I agree about the countries exempted and although I'm not going with the MVT tour, I have been speaking to the MVT organizer about it.
It's the gobbledygook that's confusing. For instance, it states that all licences that haven't been used within 24 months are automatically deleted from their files, so if you think you have one already. ...You probably haven't?
. It also states that the licence should be presented to a UK Border Force (If requested). How do they know you are not moving on to Belgium or Holland etc. once you leave these shore?
It makes me think (Like the MVT)........Best get one anyway.
On 8/27/2018 at 6:36 AM, Ron said:
Ron, its not only the countries, its the VEHICLES that are exempt due to age.
The wording on page 11 para 3 is QUITE CLEAR vehicles over 50 years old and travelling to the mentioned countries DO NOT NEED an OGEL. That's what it says.
Out of interest has the MVT organiser read the same paperwork ? if he has does he not understand what is written ?
If i he knows something other than that for a fact, why is it not being made public to all members.
In in fact they or he does know something are they keeping it to their selves so IF it goes belly up they can gloat and say "you should have travelled with the largest MV group in the world"
Gas I don't think any of your last comments apply. I'm sure to safeguard MVT members it's just a case of get a licence anyway as there is no fee involved. I expect the tour leaders would not want the embarrassment of answering questions if they had got it wrong. Especially regarding the different border rules that might apply after Brexit, which is likely before next June.
As a private individual traveling to Normandy next year, I'm quite happy to ignore the whole thing, but if I was in charge of a large tour I might want to be doubly sure.
I wonder why they saw fit to exempt France, Belgium and Germany and not also the Netherlands for instance?? The older than 50 historic vehicle doesn't come into play in other countries???
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The whole thing is a farce of course, especially as no other country is remotely interested in the movement of historic vehicles within the Schengen zone.
As far as I can tell, there is no scheme for the temporary importation of vehicles to the UK...and what happens if a visitor to W&P from Europe 'exports' his own vehicle permanently from the UK when he returns after a week ?
In terms of 'our' motorcycles, Ron...I'd be extremely surprised if anyone could show that some old side-valve clunker had been adapted for military use. They certainly wouldn't recognise a civilian-painted example.
MartinN 11
A friend has a Bedford MJ dated 1986 cargo truck. Ex military. Which is coming to Normandy next year. What OGEL does he need if anything.
Nick Johns 16
Only Historic Military vehicles over 50 years old are exempt from an OGEL visiting France so a 1986 MJ Will Need an Open General export licence, a UK requirment, apply online, ...French truck laws are different to UK if the MJ is a cargo truck body could mean it probably if not already fitted will need a working tachograph and required to use it to drive in France ...if its over 7.5 tons gvw it cannot travel on roads at week ends too, ...a Lot to check up on, and get everything correct especially after next years March Brexit, ..
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/open-general-export-licences-ogels
Edited October 15, 2018 by Nick Johns
monty2 12
Location: Heelsum near Arnhem
EU rule states any military vehicle with no wapeans build before 1946 can be export with in the EU without paperwork. Officially you need also paperwork with military radio(parts read bolt nut etc) even if they are build before 1900 and burnd out crazy but you can end up in court
Bob Grundy 12
Location: Ashton in Makerfield Lancashire
With all this EU caper I am glad I ain't going...........
Richard Farrant 35
19 minutes ago, Bob Grundy said:
It was quite different in 1944 ..........................
Surveyor 12
Location: FIFE
4 hours ago, monty2 said:
Does that mean ex mod land Rover from the 1980 will require the paper work
yes you need officially
Just now, monty2 said:
Thanks, plan B for next year then
but only if you export if you take her on holiday no problem
Ah makes sense, will do some more digging
But isn't the OGEL all about temporary export? ie going on holiday..... It's still a load of old bollocks to me. Ron
43 minutes ago, monty2 said:
taking the MV on holiday is a temporary export, the OGEL is required, it is a UK requirement, Not required for travel to France, Belgium & Germany for MV's Over 50 years old.....although no one has ever been asked to show one, ...But after Brexit???
1 hour ago, Nick Johns said:
.although no one has ever been asked to show one, ...But after Brexit???
Probably all done by number plate recognition, that is how I understood it to be.
3 minutes ago, Richard Farrant said:
Could be interesting, I had bird droppings on my number plate, changed 5 to 9,
4 hours ago, Richard Farrant said:
doubt if the ANPR cameras are programmed to read the older style pre 1974 non reflective white on black number plates, the LEZ and Congestion charge zone ANPR cameras in London can't read them
When this nonsense first reared its silly head, we were told that anyone who requires a licence (by nature of the type and age of the vehicle as laid down by the latest rules) Must register with SPIRE for the OGEL.
Once you are registered, there is no need to carry or present the licence at any port or destination. You must simply keep a log of your movements......To be presented to the authority on request........Probably sometime never!!! Ron
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McCarthy and Hoyer make fiery remarks prior to the house impeachment vote
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Two of the top lawmakers from opposing parties gave their last remarks to the House to transmit floor in front of a historic vote Wednesday night, the two articles of impeachment against President Trump to a Senate study.
House majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-MD., accused Republicans of “craven rationalization of the presidential actions,” and applauded his independent colleague, Justin Amash, I-MI, says he supports the charges against Trump, despite laying no claim to a party.
“y loyalty must have its limits,” Hoyer said.
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Earlier in the day, Amash its support for the impeachment Trump pressed says: “I don’t come on this floor, as a Democrat, not as Republicans, but as Americans, care deeply about the Constitution, the rule of law and the rights of the people.”
Hoyer builds on these statements, “we vote in the interest of the rule of law and democracy itself. Let us not forget the words of John Locke…” When the law ends, tyranny begins.'”
The second high-ranking lawmakers in the house drew applause from his Democratic colleagues when he is pushed back on notions that the prosecution’s efforts are a mere attempt to cancel trump in 2016 victory.
“There is a lot of talk about the 63 million people voted for Mr. Trump. Little talk about the 65 million people voted for Hillary Clinton,” Hoyer said, as members of the house cheered.
Still, house Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-CA, sharply criticized Democrats in his closing speech to say, “Because you lost him in 2016, you’ll do anything to stop him, in the year 2020.”
“This is not America. That’s not how the democratic republics of behavior. Elections Matter. The voters no matter,” McCarthy said. “Do you want to undo the results of the last elections to make influence on the next.”
In his final word before the house voted on the charges, the Trump abused the power of his office and obstructed Congress, McCarthy accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, the “undo a national election” and try to disqualify “our voice before the election in 2020.”
“We know that Democrats hate President Trump, his beliefs, the way he governed, and even the people that voted for him. So you say, day in and day out. In 2016, they rejected his followers, calls us ‘Deplorables.’ Now, you try to disqualify that said, our vote before the election in 2020,” McCarthy.
The bitter partisanship before the vote threatens to leak in to the start of a Senate trial, especially after majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, met with the White house about the strategy and the optics of the inevitable process.
Democrats complain that the GOP-led Senate, is not a fair process, and Hoyer suggested the idea of the delay of the submission of the indictment from the house in the Senate, in an effort to stall a dismissal of the action against Trump.
“Some think it is a good idea. And we need to talk about it,” Hoyer said early Tuesday.
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“There’s Hollywood Elsewhere and then there’s everything else. It’s your neighborhood dive where you get the ugly truth, a good laugh and a damn good scotch.”
(Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Super 8)
“Smart, reliable and way ahead of the curve … a must and invaluable read.”
–Peter Biskind
(Down and Dirty Pictures Easy Riders, Raging Bulls)
“He writes with an element that any good filmmaker employs and any moviegoer uses to fully appreciate the art of film – the heart.”
(The Revenant, Birdman, Amores Perros)
“Nothing comes close to HE for truthfulness, audacity, and one-eyed passion and insight.”
(Salt, Clear and Present Danger, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Dead Calm)
“A rarity and a gem … Hollywood Elsewhere is the first thing I go to every morning.”
“Jeffrey Wells isn’t kidding around. Well, he does kid around, but mostly he just loves movies.”
(Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire, Vanilla Sky)
“In a world of insincere blurbs and fluff pieces, Jeff has a truly personal voice and tells it like it is. Exactly like it is, like it or not.”
(Pan’s Labyrinth, Cronos, Hellboy)
“It’s clearly apparent he doesn’t give a shit what the Powers that Be think, and that’s a good thing.”
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Director (The Punisher), Writer (Armageddon, The Rock)
“So when I said I’d like to leave my cowboy hat there, I was obviously saying (in my head at least) that I’d be back to stay the following year … simple and quite clear all around.”
–Jeffrey Wells, HE, January ’09
“If you’re in a movie that doesn’t work, game over and adios muchachos — no amount of star-charisma can save it.”
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“Factory Girl” size-up
Radar‘s Jeff Bercovici (i.e., “Fresh Intelligence”) scans the “half-baked” Factory Girl Oscar-heat situation. My understanding is that the extra shooting was done in early to mid November, and that it’s not that much of a problem to insert new scenes into an already- constructed feature. Still, Harvey Weinstein and director George Hickenlooper need to get cracking.
November 29, 2006 4:05 pmby Jeffrey Wells
“Dreamgirls” rocks NYC
“With applause came a palpable exhalation of relief: This was not going to be another Rent or Phantom of the Opera train wreck. Dreamgirls, the movie, a quarter of a century in the making, the gay man’s Lord of the Rings, just might…yes! …live up to the hype.” — from Sara Vilkomerson‘s Dreamgirls story in the New York Observer.
Back in the jungle
I’m dying to say something about this, but the hour is not quite at hand. A savvy bearded Houston guy has a friend who’s passed along a very excited impression of a soon-to-open film. Meanwhile, back in the jungle…
Where’s Peter?
I’ve been putting this off for a while now, but the continued absence of presumed Best Actor contender Peter O’Toole is becoming more and more of a factor. By that I mean a kind of puzzlement. He almost didn’t accept his honorary Oscar in ’03 because he felt he was still very much in the game and wanted to win an acting Oscar for a particular performance instead. And now that his brilliant Venus performance as an aging but randy British actor has made this a real possibility, O’Toole is suddenly a non-campaigner and a no-show. Something isn’t right.
The decision by the 74 year-old veteran to not “make the rounds” at this critical juncture (between right now and Christmas is peak Oscar campaigning time — everyone is doing post-screening q & a’s and attending parties like mad right now — even the campaign-shy Meryl Streep is doing a couple of events next week) means one of two things: (1) O’Toole and his people are banking that he’s Roman Polanski and can take the prize without actively campaigning (a la Polanski’s Best Director Oscar for The Pianist) or (2) health issues are perhaps more of a factor that his people are letting on.
He bailed on visiting the Toronto Film Festival over health issues, and at the last minute. He didn’t show up for the Los Angeles Venus press junket, presumably for the same reason. He’s not attending next Monday’s big Oscar-push Miramax party. And he won’t be in L.A. through all of December, and he’s not even planning to visit here until mid-January, according to a 42 West publicist who’s working on the Venus campaign. So if he does anything in the way of parties and/or personal appearances, O’Toole will basically be doing of those “sorry I’m late but better late than never” Phase 2 routines.
Maybe less-is-more and later-is-better will turn out to be a brilliant move, but O’Toole is, let’s face it, not altogether a widely beloved figure and he could probably do with a little flesh-pressing and image-buffering. On top of the fact that reactions to Venus itself have been admiring and respectful, yes, but not 100% ecstatic. I’m only mentioning this because I’ve loved the guy and his work for years, and I’d hate to see him not win the Best Actor Oscar because he didn’t “work it.”
Anal horse sex
I don’t want to sound crude or lowball, but how can one review the just-announced films for the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and not at least remark that one of them is a feature-length documentary named Zoo, about a Seattle man who died in the summer of ’05 as a result of having anal sex with a horse? This is why the Islamic fundamentalists hate us so — because there’s no end to our interest in Godless perversity.
That aside, the Sundance team has revealed the films that will make up the Dramatic Competition, the Documentary Competition, the World Cinema Competion and the World Cinema Documentary Compeitition. Here are two stories about it — one from IndieWIRE and Variety. The at festival will run from 1.18 to 1.28, and I still haven’t locked a place down. There’s a decent-sounding place that I could rent that’ll be pretty reasonable if I can find the right person to share with. Interested parties?
I’ll get into the particular aromas down the road. Nothing looks terribly arousing, but then nothing ever does when you first read these generic announcement stories.
Clarifying the meltdown
Deadline Hollywood Daily‘s Nikki Finke did some actual calling about the Pamela Anderson–Kid Rock–Borat argument at Universal honcho Ron Meyer‘s home that resulted in her filing divorce papers. Wondering why “those two losers were included among the 20 VIPs on what’s supposed to be a triple-A screening list,” Finke is reporting, the following:
“Anderson is a friend of a Meyer neighbor, who asked the studio mogul if Pam and Kid Rock could come over for the screening because new hubby hadn’t seen new bride in Borat yet. The way ‘Page Six’ made it sound, there was a screaming match in the middle of Meyer’s screening room. Wrong. None of the guests knew anything happened — just that the couple left in the middle of the movie.”
Wait a minute: Anderson doesn’t appear in Borat until the the final third. Almost the very end, in fact. The marital meltdown fight was allegedly over Kid Rock ‘s reaction to Anderson’s appearance in the film, so they couldn’t have left “in the middle” of the film, right?
Meanwhile, here’ s another “Page Six” posting, a Kid-Rock’s-side-of-the-story thing. What am I doing puttng this crap up?
November 29, 2006 12:44 pmby Jeffrey Wells
Re-selling “Guilty”
In my 3.12.06 rave review of Sidney Lumet‘ s Find Me Guilty (Freestyle, 3.17), I wrote that the courtoom drama “is being sold the wrong way — the one-sheet and the trailer are telling you it’s a jaunty mob-guy comedy, a kind of farce, and the music toward the end of the film tries to convey this also, and this feels like a sell-out to the moron trade. Is everyone listening? The advertising is dishonest .”
And ineffective, I could have added two or three weeks later. The critically-hailed film only brought in less than $2 million worldwide.
But now, over eight months later, there’s a ninth-inning attempt by Guilty producers T.J. Mancini and Bob DeBrino to persuade critics and Academy voters to reappraise Lumet’s film as the superbly focused, well-layered entertainment that it is. They’re doing this intially by issuing a new one-sheet that represents what it actually is, as opposed to the light-hearted goof-off that distributor Bob Yari tried to sell it as. I’ll be posting the new art later this afternoon, but a piece by L.A. Times writer Bob Welkos says it “shows Diesel looking positively Perry Mason-like in a courtroom, and banners a number of rave reviews.'”
Mancini says he’d also like to send out screeners to Academy members as well as members of the various guilds, but he also says that Yari’s ongoing lawsuit with the Academy over his being elbowed off the list of Crash producers last year is interfering with this effort. Yari Film Group spokesperson Susie Hayasaka that the lawsuit is only preventing the mailing of screeners to Producer’s Guild (PGA) members. Otherwise, she says, “We are very supportive of Find Me Guilty…we’re very proud of it, and we want to do everything we can to remind people of its quality.”
November 29, 2006 11:37 amby Jeffrey Wells
Tavernier on Noiret
“He taught me so much, made me discover authors, painters — a certain art of living, with elegance and discretion,” the great Bertrand Tavernier has written about the late Phillipe Noiret. “He gave me a sense of actors and showed me that one could be exacting and passionate while remaining pleasant and gentle.
“He was a very generous actor who loved his co-stars — Michael Galabru in The Judge and the Assassin, Isabelle Huppert and Eddy Mitchell in Coup de Torchon, Fran√É∆í√Ǭßois Perrot and Sabine Azema in Life and Nothing But…Jean Rochefort, Claude Rich, Jean Vilar and Gerard Philippe.
“Listening to him talk of the old days, of Hitchcock and Gary Cooper, flooded you with warmth. He loved to love, and his admirations were contagious. You got the sense that they fortified him. We were always talking about the breadth of our admirations — for Gary Cooper, who we both wished we had known, for Hitchcock, Fred Astaire, Mario Monicelli, Marcello Mastroianni and Marco Ferreri.
November 29, 2006 9:06 amby Jeffrey Wells
Death spasms
“The Reeler” editor Stu VanAirsdale on the latest death spasms (or certainly downshiftings) of Manhattan’s elite downtown film culture establishment, as represented by the ending of annual Village Voice film critic’s poll. (The bottom-line Voice management guys probably decided it was too expensive to maintain or too pie-in-the-sky, or both.) But on the heels of interim film editor Allison Benedikt having officially assumed the duties of the deposed Dennis Lim “comes word that Lim is working with indieWIRE to revive a comprehensive year-end survey.”
Johnson on fed desperation
The bottom line is that the prosecutors of “Hollywood’s biggest scandal”, as New Yorker writer Ken Auletta once described the Anthony Pellicano wiretapping case, can’t nail anyone big so they’re after small fry in hopes of shaking something loose. And so, as L.A. Indie‘s Ross Johnson reports, they’re looking to nail a peripheral Anthony Pellicano wiretapping player named Joann Wiggin, who was acquitted on four of five perjury charges after a jury trial last September.
Box office fortunes = Oscar heat
Coming Soon‘s Edward Douglas and Box Office Guru‘s Gitesh Pandya riffing in The Envelope about what kind of impact box-office performance may be having on certain Best Picture nominees. The biggest benefits have gone to Little Miss Sunshine and The Queen. The opposite appears to have affected Flags of Our Fathers and, to a lesser extent, Babel (although it’s outrageous and stupid that the latter should be affected by “only’ making the money so far that 21 Grams did…gimme a break).
Bond as McQueen
“I caught Casino Royale on Sunday. Something kinda stirred in the back of my mind as I watched Daniel Craig do the moves, and about a half hour into it I realized what it was. Craig reminds me of Steve McQueen. In fact, he’s channelling him.
“Not that he absolutely looks like the guy (although he does, somewhat) but something in the Craig equation — the steely understated machismo that McQueen had back in the mid to late ’60s, and shot into a James Bond vessel — is why the movie works. Maybe. Just a thought.” — Jeff Burton, St. Paul , Minnesota, with slight augmentations from Jeffrey Wells.
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Based at Mettetal AIrport (1D2) in Canton, Michigan, near Plymouth. We are an equity-based club with two aircraft: a 1976 Cessna 177B Cardinal, and a 1975 Cessna 172 Skyhawk II.
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Titan Souls Deserves a sequel- But it Needs to be Careful
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There must come a time for any creative project, be it book, film or game, when the creator must finally give their work a name. For some they have a name planned from the start, for others the decision to call...
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REVIEW: Portrait de la jeune fille en feu [Portrait of a Lady on Fire] [2019]
Posted by Jared Mobarak on Saturday, December 14, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Score: 10/10 | ★ ★ ★ ★
Rating: R | Runtime: 121 minutes | Release Date: September 18th, 2019 (France)
Studio: Pyramide Distribution / Neon
Director(s): Céline Sciamma
Writer(s): Céline Sciamma
“Don’t regret. Remember.”
An eighteenth century Italian countess (Valeria Golino) still residing at the French estate of her late husband has decided she’d like to return home. The best way to accomplish this is marrying off one of her daughters to an affluent Milanese suitor since doing so would secure both their futures while also providing an excuse to travel east along the Mediterranean. Rather than hear what the young woman has to say about this fate set before her, however, it’s discovered through her actions instead. One untimely death of the body therefore leads to another of the soul as Héloïse (Adèle Haenel) is removed from her place at a convent to take her sister’s spot at the altar. All that still remains is a portrait to seal the deal.
Where sadness drove the deceased to suicide, it’s anger that drives Héloïse. So vehemently against what’s about to happen—not to mention the prison-style seclusion her mother has enforced as a means of protecting this future she’s constructed for them—Héloïse refuses to sit for the painting. The Countess must therefore think outside the box in hiring the daughter of the artist commissioned to create her own wedding portrait decades earlier. By tasking Marianne (Noémie Merlant) to paint in secret, Héloïse can be fooled into believing this stranger’s appearance is as a companion to keep a watchful eye while finally being allowed to walk outside. By day they spend time together under the sun so memory can supply the images necessary to put oil to canvas at night.
Writer/director Céline Sciamma has thus presented a rather straightforward reason to thrust two women into each other’s lives at the start of Portrait de la jeune fille en feu [Portrait of a Lady on Fire]. Héloïse is happy for the distraction and chance to leave her mother’s house for hours at a time considering she’ll more than likely be stuck to another’s four walls in Italy very soon. Marianne is grateful for the opportunity to work and takes pains to ensure her subject doesn’t uncover the clandestine assignment. The former seemingly has nothing to worry about because she’s yet to sit for anyone and the latter is only too obliged to continue her role (a male could never walk alone with Héloïse) under the promise of additional clientele.
Everything changes, however, when the moment of truth arrives. Héloïse knows exactly what to say to knock Marianne off-balance. She pushes the painter into a similar position as her own by explaining how the canvas has locked her into a man’s world too. Why was she hired? Because only a woman could get close enough to accomplish the Countess’ goal. Why must the portrait be so staid and lifeless? Because that’s the rule such things must abide by as enforced by men. So as one is ostensibly being sold into marriage, the other finds herself a passenger to a vocation she isn’t allowed to excel at without subterfuge. Rather than be a symbol of the woman depicted, the painting ultimately epitomizes the patriarchal norms they’re helpless to combat.
With the scrub of a cloth, Marianne ruins the piece in a bid to start fresh. Now that she’s just as angry as her subject, Héloïse even agrees to sit. Finally the two are on equal footing, their struggles and false sense of freedom made transparent. The Countess has no choice but to give them five days to complete a new commission while she’s abroad. This time they will get to know one another removed from the roles dictated to them. They’ll have the ability to interact with their servant Sophie (Luàna Bajrami) on a human level away from employers’ watchful gaze. And they’ll look into each other’s eyes with every shred of pretense dissolved to expose a shared desire for a love their gender is denied.
It’s from this desire that passion and romance enters the equation to give each woman that which she covets most (and wasn’t certain they could achieve) despite knowing there’s no way they’d be allowed to keep it within their grasp. Does it being forbidden stop it from being worthwhile? Does their having to part and possibly never meet again render their feelings any less powerful? This is a once in a lifetime love that frustration and resentment can risk destroying in hindsight as long as the memory of what was shared becomes permanent in their hearts. To claim even one solitary second of it together with nothing but a glance will be worth whatever sorrow might arise from knowing that the feeling would be lost forever.
That’s why art can be so enchanting. Paint traps emotions in its pigment to create a reminder of what was and can’t be erased. The portrait will hold a personal jolt of electricity simply by being the product of these two women. A sketch will provide a mirror onto the past that cannot be stolen even if its physical counterpart is. But the same holds true for a song’s melody able to touch you deeply enough to conjure tears or Sciamma’s own film as a representation of the figurative fire burning within this era’s women to break loose and live a life of their own without any connection to “duty.” Suddenly the anger that wouldn’t leave Héloïse’s face and in turn Marianne’s own emblematizes their devotion.
And we see it in Merlant and Haenel’s expressions whether looking at one another on the beach without love in their hearts or standing across a bonfire that itself becomes a metaphor for their desire. Claire Mathon‘s cinematography gorgeously captures the French countryside as wind gusts while also bringing us closer to these women indoors under hearth fire and candlelight. Sciamma even adds a subplot of abortion to display exactly how different Héloïse and Marianne are from the former’s mother as far as her allowing herself to be entrenched in this world as “lesser than.” This week beside Sophie gives Héloïse and Marianne the freedom to claim what they want for no reason but greed. Their Orpheus and Eurydice know one guaranteed moment is worth countless missed chances.
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1.A Narrow Bridge
We all know the folk song “Kol ha-olam kulo gesher tzar m’od v’ha-ikar lo l’fached k’lal" or “The whole world is a narrow bridge, and the essential thing is not to fear at all.”
On Sunday this was on display when 25,000 people crossed the Brooklyn Bridge in solidarity. No Hate No Fear was on everyone’s minds, in their hearts and there for all to see. Communities as far as Chicago, Ohio and Florida sent delegations. The story was prime time news on every major news outlet.
The march was organized by the Jewish Federation and Jewish Community Relations Council of New York and was attended by governor Cuomo, Senator Schumer and by Jews of all denominations and affiliations. Secular, Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, Chabad all banded together against hate. Anti-Semitic crimes were up 21% in New York last year. In the aftermath of the attacks in Monsey and Jersey City such “wall to wall” response is an inspiring first step.
I want to ask members of our community to join us on Sunday, April 26, at the Holocaust memorial in Buttonwood Park for our annual Yom HaShoah observance. This year more than ever our march from the monument to Tifereth Israel for the evening program has meaning. This year, that walk is our Brooklyn Bridge.
And finally, of the very many accounts of the march (and I read half a dozen or so), if asked to suggest one, I'd probably pick this one from the New York Jewish Week . See for yourself.
2.Arch Terrorist Gone, But What Now?
"Qassem Soleimani was an arch terrorist with American blood on his hands," tweeted former Ambassador Nikki Haley. "As a former State Dept. official your job is to find peaceful solutions, not start wars," someone wrote in response. True, and true.
The world is probably a better and safer place without Iran’s leading terrorist, but at what price? And will Tuesday night’s missile attack on the two bases in Iraq be the coordinated proportional response some have made it to be or simply the next move in the Potomac/Tigris two-step?
Time will tell. Like all things Middle East, it may take years to be able to truly measure. And let’s face it, it is only a matter of time before Israel is sucked into this equation with the Iran-backed Hezbollah in control of Lebanon. In the picture believed to have been taken in Beirut a couple of weeks ago, Soleimani is seen with Hezbollah’s chief Nasrallah.
3.Proportional? Not So Much
Pundits here argue that the Electoral College is an anachronism. Experts in Israel have their own grievances with politics as usual - specifically with proportional representation.
Check out this opinion piece from Tablet Magazine: "Want to save Israel from yet another meaningless election? Change the way the country votes."
When Tal Schneider, chief political correspondent for the daily Globes visits our community next month, I think anyone reading this will be even more prepared for what will be a fascinating evening.
"The chief advantage of proportional representation seems to be the warm feeling of every voter that their vote matters regardless of whether their neighbors lean a very different way. Yet in practice, PR typically leads to weak, chaotic, or non-existing governments" writes Neil Rogachevsky.
Will change come in the coming elections, the 3 rd in less than a year? Don’t bet on it.
4.Topical, Sadly
"Tragedy transformed Devorah Halberstam into New York City's most outspoken expert on anti-Semitic crime. Are we listening?" asks Tablet Magazine in the in-depth article "The Prophet."
From the piece: "In 1994, tragedy propelled Halberstam into a unique fate after her oldest child, 16-year-old Ari, was murdered in a brazen ambush on a van full of young Jewish boys crossing the Brooklyn Bridge. Ari’s death devastated Devorah, who at the time was working as a secretary in Brooklyn while raising five children. Her grief turned into an obsession when the authorities asserted that her son’s killer, a man named Rashid Baz, was simply beset by a random fit of road rage—and happened to have military-style weapons in his vehicle.
"Halberstam devoted herself to finding the truth. She discovered that Baz, a Lebanese immigrant, was motivated by an Islamist political ideology and a strong desire to kill Jews—both of which were amplified in his Brooklyn mosque. By giving up luxuries like sleep, she found time between work and taking care of her children to teach herself about counterterrorism, a field still so new in the mid-’90s that there were hardly any resources."
5.Daughter Knows Best
Letty Cottin Pogrebin has a way with words and … stuff. After a lifetime of adding without subtracting, the author had some hard choices to make when her daughter staged an intervention. Read the Moment Magazine article about "The Life-Changing Magic of Clutter." Can you relate?
"Because my daughter Abigail is a very clever woman, she first made it sound like a gift: 'Our friend Jane just started a personal organizing service. I’m buying you a wonderful all-day decluttering session.'
'No thanks.' My blood ran cold at the thought. 'I love clutter.'
Next, she made it sound like a mitzvah: 'I promised Jane some business. I’ll work along with her, empty out all your drawers and cabinets, and you’ll decide what you really need or love.'
'I need everything. I love everything.'
At that, she presented me with an existential imperative. 'Now’s the time to sort through everything while you’re still active and alert.'
I surrendered, for her sake. But it was a grueling ordeal, each object freighted with meaning and memories. Jews have a complex relationship with our things."
6.The Egg Salad Wizard of Oz
Her famous father is a heart health icon and Daphne Oz is busy making delicious (and not unhealthy) food for us to try in our own homes. Check out her Israeli egg salad. Why didn't I think of that?
FOR YOUR CALENDAR
Tuesday, February 4, 5:00-6:30 PM
Lecture: "Jews in Brazil" by Shirley Nigri
UMass Dartmouth, Claire T. Carney Library
Lecture: Tal Schneider, award-winning chief political correspondent of the Israeli daily Globes , will speak about Netanyahu and Trump's “reciprocal” politics and Israel’s third election in less than a year.
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Blizzard DL Junior Aumavae signs with the NY Jets
ogfredog
Cleans the Towels
Blizzard DL Junior Aumavae signs with the NY Jets Mar 1, 2013 14:05:34 GMT -5
Post by ogfredog on Mar 1, 2013 14:05:34 GMT -5
Junior Aumavae Signs With New York Jets
Blizzard Sign Three IFL Veterans
March 1, 2013 -
Green Bay, WI. - The Green Bay Blizzard are proud to announce that 2012 Defensive Lineman Junior Aumavae has signed with the NFL's New York Jets.
Aumavae (6'2,330) has received numerous NFl tryouts since the end of the 2012 Blizzard season including a tryout with the Green Bay Packers. Aumavae was a disruptive force on the Blizzard's defensive line last season as he accumulated 38 tackles, 2.5 sacks and two pass breakups.
"We are very excited to see Junior make it back into the NFL. He has made many sacrifices and worked so hard to put himself in the position he is in today,"said Head Coach Robert Fuller. "This is a proud moment for the Aumavae and Blizzard families. This is what it should be all about."
Aumavae becomes the second Blizzard player to sign with in an NFL team since 2010, when LB Maurice Simpkins signed with the Green Bay Packers. Aumavae is also the sixth Blizzard player to receive an NFL tryout since the end of the 2012 season.
Post by Banana Cat on Mar 1, 2013 19:24:36 GMT -5
Nice. I hope he gets playing time.
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1 - 20 of 25 Works in Lara Croft/Diana (Wonder Woman)
December Kisses by MadameBaggio
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (TV), Tomb Raider (Movie 2018), Wonder Woman (2017), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, The Originals (TV), From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), Kingsman (Movies), Gossip Girl (TV 2007), Teen Wolf (TV), IT (Movies - Muschietti), Stranger Things (TV 2016), Daredevil (TV), Batman - All Media Types, John Wick (Movies), Dredd (2012), The 100 (TV), Aquaman (2018), Supernatural, Wynonna Earp (TV), The Huntsman (Movies), Merlin (TV), Boondock Saints (Movies), Anna (2019), Transporter (Movies), Atomic Blonde (2017), Sucker Punch (2011), Priest (2011), Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), Hellboy (Movies 2004-2008), Maleficent (Disney Movies), Labyrinth (1986), Killjoys (TV), Arrow (TV 2012), A Discovery of Witches (TV), Constantine (TV), Conan the Barbarian (2011), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, Underworld (Movies), G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra (2009), Hitman: Agent 47 (2015), Brooklyn Nine-Nine (TV), Batwoman (TV 2019), G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013), Hobbs & Shaw (2019), Charlie's Angels (2019), The A-Team (2010), RED (Movies), Eleventh Hour (US TV), Triple Frontier (2019), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), King Arthur (2004)
Sansa Stark/Vortigern (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword)
Arthur (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword)/Robb Stark
Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel)/Tauriel (Hobbit Movies)
Miriam "Midge" Maisel/Napoleon Solo
Lara Croft/Diana (Wonder Woman)
Erik Lehnsherr/Susan Pevensie
James T. Kirk/Rey (Star Wars)
Klaus Mikaelson/Santanico Pandemonium | Kisa
Skye | Daisy Johnson/Gary "Eggsy" Unwin
Stiles Stilinski/Blair Waldorf
Eleven | Jane Hopper/Beverly Marsh
Selina Kyle/Matt Murdock
James "Bucky" Barnes/Lydia Martin
Natasha Romanov/John Wick
Darcy Lewis/Derek Hale
Octavia Blake/Joseph Dredd
Maria Hill/Merlin (Kingsman)
Loki (Marvel)/Thranduil (Tolkien)
Mera (DCU)/Steve Rogers
Wynonna Earp/Dean Winchester
Clarke Griffin/Daenerys Targaryen
Morgana (Merlin)/Ravenna (The Huntsman)
Connor MacManus/Murphy MacManus/Anna Poliatova
Lorraine Broughton/Frank Martin
Baby Doll (Sucker Punch)/Priest (Priest)
Gretel (Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters)/Nuada (Hellboy)
Margaery Tyrell/Roan (The 100)
Jareth (Labyrinth)/Maleficent (Disney)
Dutch | Yalena Yardeen/Leonard "Bones" McCoy
Felicity Smoak/Sam Winchester
Diana Bishop/John Constantine
Freya (The Huntsman)/Conan The Cimmerian
Leo Fitz/Roxy Morton | Lancelot/Jemma Simmons
Lucian (Underworld)/Tamara (Conan the Barbarian)
Katia Van Dees/Snake-Eyes
Rosa Diaz/Kate Kane
Darth Maul/Alison "Lady Jaye" R. Hart-Burnett
Faramir (Son of Denethor II)/Jon Snow
Hattie Shaw/Jane Kano
Templeton "Faceman" Peck/Han Cho Bai
Jacob Hood/Santiago "Pope" Garcia
Selene (Underworld)/Mina Harker
Brienne of Tarth/Dagonet (King Arthur 2004)
Vortigern (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword)
Arthur (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword)
Robb Stark
Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel)
Tauriel (Hobbit Movies)
Miriam "Midge" Maisel
Napoleon Solo
Diana (Wonder Woman)
Erik Lehnsherr
Klaus Mikaelson
Santanico Pandemonium | Kisa
Skye | Daisy Johnson
Gary "Eggsy" Unwin
Stiles Stilinski
Blair Waldorf
Eleven | Jane Hopper
Selina Kyle
Matt Murdock
Derek Hale
Octavia Blake
Joseph Dredd
Merlin (Kingsman)
Thranduil (Tolkien)
Mera (DCU)
Clarke Griffin
Morgana (Merlin)
Ravenna (The Huntsman)
Connor MacManus
Murphy MacManus
Anna Poliatova
Lorraine Broughton
Baby Doll (Sucker Punch)
Priest (Priest)
Gretel (Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters)
Nuada (Hellboy)
Margaery Tyrell
Roan (The 100)
Jareth (Labyrinth)
Maleficent (Disney)
Dutch | Yalena Yardeen
Leonard "Bones" McCoy
Felicity Smoak
Diana Bishop
Freya (The Huntsman)
Leo Fitz
Roxy Morton | Lancelot
Jemma Simmons
Lucian (Underworld)
Tamara (Conan the Barbarian)
Katia van Dees
Snake-Eyes
Alison "Lady Jaye" R. Hart-Burnett
Faramir (Son of Denethor II)
Hattie Shaw
Jane Kano
Templeton "Faceman" Peck
Han Cho Bai
Jacob Hood
Santiago "Pope" Garcia
Selene (Underworld)
Mina Harker
Brienne of Tarth
Dagonet (King Arthur 2004)
Fluff and Crack
crackshipping
Crackship Fleet
Multiple Crossovers
Crossover Pairings
Cross-Posted on Tumblr
The Crackship Fleet is back!
This time we have looooots of kisses.
Part 5 of The Crackship Fleet
Sharing Beds in November by MadameBaggio
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Killjoys (TV), Labyrinth (1986), Maleficent (Disney Movies), The Huntsman (Movies), Merlin (TV), The 100 (TV), Game of Thrones (TV), Supernatural, Wynonna Earp (TV), Dredd (2012), Marvel Cinematic Universe, John Wick (Movies), Daredevil (TV), Batman - All Media Types, Teen Wolf (TV), Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), Kingsman (Movies), From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, The Originals (TV), Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types, Tomb Raider (Movie 2018), Wonder Woman (2017), The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (TV), The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015), Atomic Blonde (2017), Transporter (Movies), King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), Gossip Girl (TV 2007), Boondock Saints (Movies), Anna (2019), Priest (2011), Sucker Punch (2011), Aquaman (2018), Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), Hellboy (Movies 2004-2008), Arrow (TV 2012), A Discovery of Witches (TV), Constantine (TV), Conan the Barbarian (2011), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, Underworld (Movies), G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra (2009), Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)
Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Priest (Priest)/Baby Doll (Sucker Punch)
Connor MacManus/Murphy MacManus/Anna Poliatova (Anna 2019)
Napoleon Solo/Miriam "Midge" Maisel
Freya/Conan the Cimmerian
Roxy Morton | Lancelot/Leo Fitz/Jemma Simmons
Lucian (Underworld)/Tamara (Conan 2011)
Katia Van Dees/Snake Eyes
Brunnhilde | Valkyrie/Tauriel (Hobbit Movies)
Tamara (Conan the Barbarian 2011)
Sharing a Bed
The Crackship Fleet is back once again. We have a few new ships and they’ll all be sharing a bed (platonic or not so much).
First Meetings in October by MadameBaggio
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Killjoys (TV), Labyrinth (1986), Maleficent (Disney Movies), The Huntsman (Movies), Merlin (TV), The 100 (TV), Game of Thrones (TV), Supernatural, Wynonna Earp (TV), Dredd (2012), Marvel Cinematic Universe, John Wick (Movies), Daredevil (TV), Batman - All Media Types, Teen Wolf (TV), Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), Kingsman (Movies), From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, The Originals (TV), Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types, Tomb Raider (Movie 2018), Wonder Woman (2017), The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (TV), The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015), Atomic Blonde (2017), Transporter (Movies), King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), Gossip Girl, Boondock Saints (Movies), Anna (2019), Priest (2011), Sucker Punch (2011), Aquaman (2018), Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), Hellboy (Movies 2004-2008)
Steve Rogers/Mera (DCU)
Maria Hill/Merlin
Blair Waldorf/Stiles Stilinski
Brunnhilde | Valkyrie/Tauriel
Joseph Dredd/Octavia Blake
Ravenna (The Huntsman)/Morgana (Merlin)
Leonard "Bones" McCoy/Dutch | Yalena Yardeen
Anna Poliatova (Anna 2019)
Originally Posted on Tumblr
We’re officially launching the October Fleet, talking all about how those bizarre, yet lovable ships came to be.
Cuddly September by MadameBaggio
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Aquaman (2018), The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), Game of Thrones (TV), The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (TV), Tomb Raider (Movie 2018), Wonder Woman (2017), Chronicles of Narnia (Movies), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, The Originals (TV), From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, Batman (Comics), Daredevil (TV), Teen Wolf (TV), John Wick (Movies), Kingsman (Movies), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), Gossip Girl, IT (Movies - Muschietti), Stranger Things (TV 2016), Dredd (2012), The 100 (TV), Wynonna Earp (TV), Supernatural, The Huntsman (Movies), Merlin (TV), Anna (2019), Boondock Saints (Movies), Atomic Blonde (2017), Transporter (Movies), Priest (2011), Sucker Punch (2011), Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), Hellboy (Movies 2004-2008)
Ravenna (The Hunstman/Morgana (Merlin)
Vortigern (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword)/Sansa Stark
Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel)/Tauriel
crackship
I am out of my mind
But I am fine with it
The Crackship Fleet continues its journey, but now it is bigger!
Snippets that are about that feeling you get when someone hugs you (even if you know they actually wanna stab you in the back).
The Crackship Fleet sets sail! by MadameBaggio
Fandoms: The 100 (TV), Game of Thrones (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), Merlin (TV), The Huntsman (Movies), Supernatural, Wynonna Earp (TV), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), Dredd (2012), Teen Wolf (TV), Daredevil (TV), Batman - All Media Types, IT (Movies - Muschietti), Stranger Things (TV 2016), Gossip Girl, The Originals (TV), From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), Tomb Raider (Movie 2018), Wonder Woman (2017), The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (TV)
Arthur (King Arthur:Legend of the Sword)/Robb Stark
Lara Croft/Diana Prince
James T. Kirk/Rey
Matt Murdock/Selina Kyle
Dean Winchester/Wynonna Earp
Daenerys Targaryen/Clarke Griffin
Crack Crossover
too many ships to tag it properly
To boldly go where I’ve never gone before, I’m setting 20 crackships loose.
These are all crackships that I’ve never personally tried, even though some of them are already out there.
I’ll be posting only snippets, and I might not work on them again.
Бамс! Прервали by Walter_K
Fandoms: Tomb Raider (Movie 2018), DC Extended Universe
Питание и насыщение by Walter_K
Hair Washing
боги одобряют тебя by Walter_K
Falling for The Godkiller by idontcarewhatbonniethinks
Fandoms: Tomb Raider & Related Fandoms, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (Movies 2001 2003), Tomb Raider (Video Games), Tomb Raider (Movie 2018), Wonder Woman (2017)
wlw
Lara finds herself stranded on an island searching for an ancient artifact
you and me and a silly little thing called fate by Skarias
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types, Wonder Woman - All Media Types, Tomb Raider & Related Fandoms, Portal (Video Game), Avatar: Legend of Korra, World of Warcraft, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II, Fallout (Video Games), Fallout 4
Ahsoka Tano/Asajj Ventress
Chell/GLaDOS
Korra/Asami Sato
Thalyssra/Outlander
Female Hawke/Isabela
Female Sole Survivor/Piper Wright
GLaDOS
Chell (Portal)
Korra (Avatar)
Asami Sato
Thalyssra (Warcraft)
Isabela (Dragon Age)
Hawke (Dragon Age)
Femslash
Tags Are Hard
Romantic Fluff
Collection of femslash one-shots.
I - Ahsoka/Ventress
II - Lara Croft/Wonder Woman
III - Chell/GLaDOS
IV - Korra/Asami
V - Thalyssra/Outlander
VI - Isabela/Hawke
VII - Piper/Sole Survivor
Of All Things by periwinklepromise
Fandoms: Wonder Woman - All Media Types, Tomb Raider & Related Fandoms
Femslash February 2019
Lesbian Archaeologists
Adventuring is more fun with your wife.
Part 23 of Femslash February 2019
Living Legend by pfangirl
Fandoms: Tomb Raider & Related Fandoms, Tomb Raider (Video Game), Wonder Woman (Comics), Wonder Woman - All Media Types
F/F, Gen
Lara Croft / Diana (Wonder Woman)
Hippolyta (Wonder Woman)
Artemis (Wonder Woman)
In her obsessive quest for truth behind the world's greatest legends, adventurer Lara Croft seeks out Themyscira, the long-isolated island home of the Amazons. There she meets a young princess desperately curious about Man's World. Set in the Can't Go Home/Easier to Run universe, pre- the latter's epilogue. Wonder Woman influences are George Perez, Gail Simone, Grant Morrison.
The Difference Between Surviving and Living by UntenableFutureGoals
Fandoms: Tomb Raider (Video Games), Tomb Raider & Related Fandoms, Wonder Woman (2017), Wonder Woman - All Media Types
The Amazons (Wonder Woman)
Omega Verse
Alpha/Omega
One thing Lara had learned best in her many adventures was how to fight and survive. When the chips were down and she was backed against a wall, that was when Lara Croft truly shone.
The tall alpha set her drink and plate on the table, and then scooted around the table towards Lara a little. Clearing her throat, she looked over at Lara and asked, "I am sorry, but I did not get your name before?" She smiled at the shorter woman inquiringly.
Swallowing the last bite, Croft hid a wince, wondering whether finding out who she was would make the other woman flee the table—suddenly she couldn't decide if that would be a good thing or bad. "Oh, it's Lara. Lara Croft." She quickly wiped a hand on a napkin and held it out to shake.
Lara Croft meets Diana Prince at the Louvre museum for an archaeology event. Lara of course isn't going to sit on the sidelines when her sworn enemy Trinity swoops in with a robbery attempt. Diana is completely blown away by this amazing but notoriously elusive woman.
The Golden Lasso by HostisHumaniGeneris for raktajinos
Fandoms: Tomb Raider (Video Games), Wonder Woman (Comics)
Light Bondage
Fucked with the hilt of a weapon
Sex After Battle
After seeing a demonstration of the unbreakable Lasso of Truth, Lara Croft inadvertently says exactly what she'd like to use it for. Luckily, Wonder woman is quite game for those plans.
you got the look the gods agree they wanna see by girlsarewolves for crookedspoon, northernstarwolf
Fandoms: DC Extended Universe, Wonder Woman (2017), Wonder Woman - All Media Types, Tomb Raider (Movie 2018), Tomb Raider & Related Fandoms
Community: femslashficlets
Any excuse to visit France is an excuse to visit Diana Prince - and those are Lara's favorite excuses.
Part 2 of dceu femslashficlets
Imbue by Rivulet027 for GlassesOfJustice
Fandoms: Tomb Raider (Movie 2018), Wonder Woman (2017)
Bathing/Washing
Double Drabble
Lara lets Diana wash her hair.
Banff, interrupted by Ashling for GlassesOfJustice
only an extraordinary sort of life
Girlfriends - Freeform
Diana will finish The Clue in the Jewel Box another time.
Hidden Treasures by Darkwishme
Fandoms: Wonder Woman, Lara Croft - Fandom, Tomb Raider - Fandom
Lara/Diana
blood/injury mentions
lara just needs a hug
"I got you. It's going to be okay, you're going to be okay just... Just hold on!" Blood bubbles at the young woman's lips, eyes locked on the figure above them despite growing tired and numb.
Said young woman's struggled to breathe properly, coughing and hacking almost as the other tried to lift her head slightly to clear her airway. The only sound that came from the injured woman was a low groan mixed with a gargle. Trembling some and desperately holding onto the strong arms wrapped around her. Finger tips numb (and tinged a light shade of blue) with her nails biting into tanned skin, face pale and the dark red only drew attention of the life slipping away.
But there was no help coming.
Wet coughs echoed in the dimly lit cavern... A life fading quickly..
Enthralled by thefutureisequalaf
Fandoms: Tomb Raider (Video Games), Wonder Woman (2017), Wonder Woman (Comics)
Lasso of Truth
Orgasm Delay
Top Diana (Wonder Woman)
bottom Lara Croft
Offering herself in submission to Diana, Princess of the Amazons, is Lara Croft's new favorite thing.
Part 2 of Femslash Kink Meme fills
The Chosen Huntress by Contevent
Fandoms: Wonder Woman (2017), Tomb Raider (Video Games), DCEU
Ἑρμης | Hermes (Hellenistic Religion & Lore)
Jane Doe (OC)
Ludovic Ferre (OC)
Action & Romance
Original Character(s)
Eventual Sex
Eventual extended universe
Look this was supposed to be porn alright
Then it was "ho but it must make sense"
And then it just blew up
If you end a chapter wondering what's going to happen next
Chances are me too
Lara Croft is both loved and hated by the archeological community, making incredible finds and more often than not leaving only ruins in her wake. So it was a surprise when she got officially invited to an exposition by Diana Prince, a discreet but influential individual in those closed circles. Set to be in the Louvre, in Paris, the exhibition is to be about the representation of Artemis throughout the ages, an event for which she has contributed by renting some items of her impressive personal collection. Little did she know that the interest of Diana was more than professional, and that it would the first steps in an adventure that would shake the very foundation of the world.
Explicit (4)
Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings (6)
F/F (19)
Wonder Woman (Movies - Jenkins) (14)
Tomb Raider (Movie 2018) (12)
Tomb Raider & Related Fandoms (8)
Wonder Woman - All Media Types (6)
Tomb Raider (Video Games) (6)
Merlin (TV) (5)
Game of Thrones (TV) (5)
Teen Wolf (TV) (5)
Diana (Wonder Woman) (24)
Dean Winchester (5)
Susan Pevensie (5)
James T. Kirk (5)
Blair Waldorf (5)
Erik Lehnsherr (5)
Napoleon Solo (5)
Maria Hill (5)
Matt Murdock (5)
Lara Croft/Diana (Wonder Woman) (25)
James "Bucky" Barnes/Lydia Martin (5)
Derek Hale/Darcy Lewis (5)
Loki (Marvel)/Thranduil (Tolkien) (5)
Erik Lehnsherr/Susan Pevensie (5)
Wynonna Earp/Dean Winchester (5)
Eleven | Jane Hopper/Beverly Marsh (5)
Klaus Mikaelson/Santanico Pandemonium | Kisa (5)
Selina Kyle/Matt Murdock (5)
Clarke Griffin/Daenerys Targaryen (5)
Crossover Pairings (9)
Femslash (3)
Originally Posted on Tumblr (3)
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<a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/21542377"><strong>Trippingly, on the tongue</strong></a> (8646 words) by <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/users/meals"><strong>meals</strong></a><br />Chapters: 1/1<br />Fandom: <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Anne%20with%20an%20E%20(TV)">Anne with an E (TV)</a><br />Rating: General Audiences<br />Warnings: Major Character Death<br />Relationships: Gilbert Blythe/Anne Shirley, Gilbert Blythe & Anne Shirley, Diana Barry & Anne Shirley, Roy Gardner & Anne Shirley, Gilbert Blythe & Sebastian "Bash" Lacroix, Sebastian ''Bash'' Lacroix/Muriel Stacy/Original Character(s)<br />Characters: Anne Shirley, Gilbert Blythe, Marilla Cuthbert, Diana Barry, Sebastian "Bash" Lacroix (Anne with an E), Delphine Lacroix, Royal "Roy" Gardner<br />Additional Tags: Utter foolishness, set after 3x09, About to become non-canon<br />Summary: <p> <i><br />“Oh, I’m so sorry miss – honestly I wasn’t paying any attention – and oh look, you dropped your – here let me – is there any way I can-” He might be a man now, but he still stammers and rambles when he’s embarrassed, head still bent as he tries to shake the dirt off her novel. She smirks at the sight.</i> </p> <p> <i>“Why, Mr Blythe, are all the Parisians as clumsy as you are?” Anne is relieved by the steadiness of her voice, even though her heart is thumping in her chest and her mind is whirling with questions as to why he is back, why now.</i> </p> <p> <i></i> </p> <p>Gilbert goes to Paris, Anne goes to Queens, and years later they both return to Avonlea and meet again. They should be older and wiser, but when neither of ever admits to their mistakes and misunderstandings, will they ever sort themselves out?</p>
Anne with an E (TV)
Gilbert Blythe/Anne Shirley
Gilbert Blythe & Anne Shirley
Diana Barry & Anne Shirley
Roy Gardner & Anne Shirley
Gilbert Blythe & Sebastian "Bash" Lacroix
Sebastian ''Bash'' Lacroix/Muriel Stacy/Original Character(s)
Marilla Cuthbert
Diana Barry
Sebastian "Bash" Lacroix (Anne with an E)
Delphine Lacroix
Royal "Roy" Gardner
Utter foolishness
set after 3x09
About to become non-canon
Trippingly, on the tongue
“Oh, I’m so sorry miss – honestly I wasn’t paying any attention – and oh look, you dropped your – here let me – is there any way I can-” He might be a man now, but he still stammers and rambles when he’s embarrassed, head still bent as he tries to shake the dirt off her novel. She smirks at the sight.
“Why, Mr Blythe, are all the Parisians as clumsy as you are?” Anne is relieved by the steadiness of her voice, even though her heart is thumping in her chest and her mind is whirling with questions as to why he is back, why now.
Gilbert goes to Paris, Anne goes to Queens, and years later they both return to Avonlea and meet again. They should be older and wiser, but when neither of ever admits to their mistakes and misunderstandings, will they ever sort themselves out?
(See the end of the work for notes.)
Anne has been back in Avonlea for nearly six months when she rounds the corner and walks headfirst into Gilbert Blythe.
She doesn’t realise who it is at first – it has been years since they were not-adult-not-children together, and although he hasn’t changed much (a thing she notices just as soon as she notices who it is), it’s not like they were every actually close enough physically for her to know the feel of his body as it stumbles against hers. His hand is warm, fingers wrapping around her elbow so that she doesn’t fall, and he smells like the forest.
“Why, Mr Blythe, are all the Parisians as clumsy as you are?” Anne is relieved by the steadiness of her voice, even though her heart is thumping in her chest and her mind is whirling with questions as to why he is back, why now. She is also relieved that he gapes at her in unabashed astonishment, and that for once her red hair doesn’t betray her and force colour into her cheeks. “And as mute?” She adds, cheekily, at his silence.
Blinking still, Gilbert straightens and whips off his hat – a fedora, rather than the soft caps that used to nestle in his dark locks. She watches his fingers work the rim nervously. “Anne!” He shakes his head in self-aware embarrassment, “I didn’t realise it was you. Here.”
The book passes hands, and Anne’s breath catches when their fingers brush. She laughs to cover her startle, and tucks a loose strand of hair behind her ear so that she doesn’t have to meet his eyes when she asks, “Have I changed so much?”
Gilbert is quiet, and Anne is abruptly very aware that they are standing on the corner of the post office, and that several women are huddled not too far away, eyeing them unsubtly. She turns, taking his forearm, “Shall we walk, and catch up?”
He seems to catch her meaning, because his eyes dart in the group’s direction momentarily. He meets her eyes again with a smile though, and adjusts her grip on his arm so that he is slightly supporting her, “Miss Shirley-Cuthbert, it would be a pleasure.”
They cut down out of the Avonlea main street, down a track that leads to the copse of trees between their two properties. Neither of them seems to choose this direction, and neither of them seems to be leading.
Anne asks about Bash, and Dellie, and Miss Stacey, and he laughs and tells her that he too can’t break the habit of calling their old teacher by that name, and before she knows it they have crossed the little bridge by the lake, and they have lost half an hour laughing and reminiscing about old times. She doesn’t tell him about Matthew’s illness, and he doesn’t talk about Paris, and neither of them ask how in the world they have managed to end up in this tiny little place, so far from where they set out for.
Gilbert has just told her a story about Dellie, who loves to ride with her father and is constantly trying to sneak out to take the horses by herself, though she is far too young. His impression of Dellie creeping across the kitchen floor has Anne doubled over, one hand clutching her stomach as she laughs fully.
Gilbert quietens first, and when she straightens he is watching her with a small smile on his face. He leans against the fence post, hands in his pockets, and he looks strong and sure in the afternoon light that scatters across the lake of shining waters. She is still giggling, and he watches her happily until they are both quiet. In her contentment, she does not feel awkward under his gaze – or perhaps there is too much history, too much fondness there for her to feel that way.
“What is it?” She asks at last, when he stays quiet.
Gilbert Blythe’s smile is as wide and genuine as ever, his brow furrowed in that familiar-but-forgotten way, “I was just thinking… You haven’t changed a bit, Carrots.”
After that, they see each other nearly every day.
He turns up at the end of the school day to walk her home, and she appears at his front door on the weekends with news from Rachel, and they sit and talk about nothing for hours on end. Bit by bit, the stories come out. She tells him about Matthew, how his heart stopped one day and though it restarted, he hasn’t really been the same since. Gilbert brings ginger, and chamomile to soothe his breathing and his sleep. She tells him that Marilla’s eyes are getting worse again, and Gilbert appears with an old text book full of diagrams so that he can sit with her and explain exactly what the doctors and oculists don’t tell her, and he answers her questions and comforts her fears. In turn, he tells her about Paris. He describes the city, how it felt to walk among all that architecture and beauty and history. He tells her about the food, and they laugh over Anne’s faltering French.
He still marvels over the progresses in medicine, and he doesn’t hold back from giving her the details of even the goriest things he’s seen. She drinks it up, peppering him with question after question until Marilla sticks her head into the kitchen and reminds them that even doctors and teachers need to sleep.
She makes him one of Mary’s old recipes, and he declares himself in raptures.
It takes them a while to get to the part of the story they share.
It is nearly winter, and the light is just failing in the late afternoon as they walk slowly across the fields towards Green Gables. The lights are on in the downstairs windows, casting long shadows. Anne huffs her breathe so that it appears as a cloud in front of her, and Gilbert copies, mocking her. Anne doesn’t realise that Gilbert has paused by the gate – it isn’t part of their normal routine; normally, they continue up to the house where Marilla has prepared two cups of tea for them to sit with on the porch.
Today, Gilbert has taken a moment to look up at the sky, and Anne waits patiently.
“I can’t wait for it to snow,” he tells her finally, still looking upwards. “Paris was so beautiful in the snow, but there’s nothing like these wide, open spaces where the snow lies like a blanket.” His lip quirks, and he looks down at her with a smile of self-aware cleverness, “A very cold blanket.”
Anne rolls her eyes, loops her hand through the crook of his arm to pull him towards the house. A thought trickles through her mind, nudging her. She has thought about it before – once or twice or semi-obsessively – and now with just the two of them and the sheltering heaviness of dusk, she steels herself and asks, “Did Winnifred like the snow?”
Gilbert nearly trips over his own feet, he stops so abruptly.
Colour floods into Anne’s face as he gapes at her silently. Panic and embarrassment bubble over, and she opens her mouth to babble anything, anything at all, but then Marilla opens the door and the golden light suddenly bursting over them startles Anne out of her shock. Gilbert too, as he blinks, shaking his head a little, and that little frown appears where he is trying to string the right words together. But Anne’s courage fails then, and she takes a step back towards the porch, “Coming Marilla!” She calls, though Marilla has not beckoned them, and she spins away from Gilbert, hurrying up the stairs. She manages to glance back at him as she steps over the threshold, tossing a “goodnight” out of highly-enforced common courtesy, and catches a fleeting glimpse of him still lit up in the light from the kitchen, hat askew, one hand raised as if he had planned to stop her running.
“Why, Anne!” Marilla comments in surprise when she turns to find Anne alone, back pressed to the coats and breaths coming in uneven pants, “Where did Gilbert go? I set out a scone for him.”
Anne meets her mother’s eyes, notes the amusement and exasperation on her face, and groans. She had thought she was done making a fool of herself in front of this boy.
“It was so embarrassing!” Anne covers her face in her hands, peeking through her fingers at Diana’s ceiling. Even the pale blue – as with all things Diana, so perfect – taunts her. Rolling onto her side, she gazes dolefully at the crib, plays absently with one of the many ribbons that cascades gracefully from the sides. “Dear Eliza,” she addresses Diana’s baby girl solemnly, “How lucky you are to not have discovered boys yet.”
Diana snorts, and scoops the girl up, “Please, you should see the way that this one plays her father.”
The man in question has just ambled into the room, a smug smile on his face as he observes his two favourite girls. “Don’t blame me because I’m her favourite, dear,” Fred admonishes his wife playfully, giving her a kiss on the cheek as he picks up his daughter. “I’m going to take Eliza for some air, so you two can have proper adult gossip time.”
He and Diana share a look full of secrets and pride, and Anne watches the couple. “It’s nauseating how perfect the two of you are,” she tells Diana, only half serious as she throws her legs off the sofa and sits up. But Diana is looking quite serious all of a sudden, taking a couple of purposeful steps and sinking down next to Anne. She picks up Anne’s hand, clasping it firmly, but she doesn’t say anything.
“What is it?” Anne asks immediately, worried for her friend, and her friend’s beautiful family. Diana has been well since Eliza was born but it was a difficult pregnancy and there are sometimes complications that aren’t immediately obvious and oh god if anything happens to Diana or Eliza or even Fred now –
“Anne,” Diana says gently, interrupting her best friend’s fearful mental rambling. She smiles, but it does nothing to quell the rush of worry in Anne’s heart.
“Diana if you’re not well, please just tell me quickly.” Anne blurts out, seizing her bosom friend’s shoulder.
Diana blinks owlishly at Anne, “Not well? Oh Anne, you’re always rushing to conclusions!” She shakes her head in fond exasperation, but her amusement quickly dies, “Actually, that’s what I want to speak to you about…”
When Diana fails to expound quickly, Anne goes as far to give her a little shake.
“You’re telling me,” Diana feels out the words tentatively, “That you, after having spent weeks in Gilbert’s company – often just the two of you, which had plenty of tongues wagging across Avonlea, I can tell you – just asked him about Winnifred?”
Anne feels the usual flicker of guilt in the depths of her stomach, swallows around the remorse she feels for not being a better friend, “I know, okay Diana. I know I should have asked him how he was doing when he first moved back to town, but I didn’t want to upset him and then it never felt appropriate and he just left his fiancé for heaven’s sake so how was I meant to – how on earth…” She takes a breath to calm herself, to recollect, and then says it flatly in a low voice, “I know I was a bad friend in not offering him support.”
But when Anne looks up at Diana, expecting reproach, all she finds is confusion: “Anne, what are you talking about?”
… “Well, Winnifred of course.”
Diana still looks confused, “For not offering him support when he broke things off with Winnifred?”
There’s a frisson at those words, but Anne wills it away shamefully – she had assumed, of course, that things had been called off, but hadn’t actually had it confirmed until now. The past three years, in fact, she had never once spoken of Winnifred (and only Gilbert himself in passing commentary until he returned), and this was the second time the other woman had come up within the same number of days. She is excited, and relieved, that Gilbert is in fact not engaged, but that is less important than making sure that he is okay. “Yes, exactly.” She confirms to Diana.
Diana’s eyes are still wide and uncertain, “Three years ago?”
“Yes Dia-” The air falls out of Anne, taking the end of her assurance with it. Something is constricting her windpipe, she is sure, and the same unknown adversary seems to be limiting her ability to understand what Diana has just said. “What?” She chokes out, finally.
Diana’s confusion matches her own, though they seem to be confused about different matters, “Gilbert and Winnifred? They broke things off years ago?”
Anne shakes her head, because there is no way that could be true, “No, because he went to Paris with her?”
“No, he-”
“He proposed, and got accepted into the Sorbonne-”
“No, Anne-”
“And they moved to Paris-”
“Anne-”
“He proposed, they were engaged-”
“No!” Diana actually jumps to her feet, hands on her hips, and Anne startles out of her trance.
“I don’t understand.” The red haired girl whispers, tortured eyes fixed on her best friend. Diana’s mouth opens and closes, her hands raise into the air in wonderment and then clasp together in vexation. She takes her seat, and a deep breath with her eyes closed.
“Anne,” she continues in a voice of forced calm, “I don’t understand how you don’t understand this. This is not news. Gilbert never proposed to Winnifred. He broke things off before then, but got into the Sorbonne anyway, and has been living in Paris by himself.”
Anne shakes her head, the old certainties turning her into a disbeliever, “No, remember, I wrote him a note” (here, her voice chokes a little, though neither of them will ever admit it later) “and then you said – you said¬ – at least he didn’t pick Winnifred over me.”
Diana looks at her dubiously, “Exactly? He didn’t pick Winnifred over you.”
“Because he picked his future. You know, the one he got from promising to marry Winnifred!”
The women sit then, both locked in their own world of silence as the truth settles around them, the stark reality finally sinking in as to what exactly happened.
“He got into Paris without Winnifred,” Anne starts.
“And no one wanted to hurt you by telling you he chose that future anyway,” Diana admits.
“And so I thought he went with Winnifred.” Anne finishes sorrowfully.
She grimaces. Diana leans forwards, eyes filled with tears in the swift and beautiful way only Diana manages to achieve – a thing Anne has always envied for its tragical drama, “I’m so sorry, Anne! I though you knew, and I just didn’t want to talk about it too much because you were so sad!”
Anne shakes away her bosom friend’s apologies, “No, Diana, don’t apologise, it’s not your fault – I didn’t want to talk to anyone about anything, then, and then we all went away to Queens…”
Diana smiles tearily, “Forgive me?”
Anne hooks their pinkie fingers together, “Always.”
She thinks back to that time, as Diana rubs her fingers over her eyes, remembers how bitterly sad she felt every time she thought about Gilbert, how everyone tread on eggshells around her, how she was so wrapped up in her own world that she didn’t understand what she could now see were people trying to tell her.
“I mean,” Diana bursts suddenly, “You live with Rachel Lynde, how could you not know!” They break into giggles, which the emotion of the moment pushes forward into cackles, and that is how Fred finds them a minute later, Diana leant forward over her knees, arms wrapped around her own stomach, and Anne leaning across her back, both of them out of breath from laughing so hard.
“Children,” he admonishes in jest, “Do try and be good role models to poor Eliza here.”
Anne leans back into the sofa, still giggling, “Oh Fred, guess what a fool I’ve made of myself this time.”
Anne half expects Gilbert not to be there the next time she leaves the school house. This is a lie that she tells herself, because it’s Gilbert, and of course he’ll be there, and she knows it because she is not surprised when she finally finishes tidying up the class and steps outside and he is there, sitting on the steps waiting for her.
His smile is guarded, but he takes the hand she offers to pull him to his feet, “Good afternoon, Anne.”
“Good afternoon, Gilbert.”
Gilbert takes his hat off, and runs his fingers briefly through his hair before he starts speaking. Anne suspects that he must have rehearsed, because he has such a look of determination about him instead of his usual endearing blundering. “I’m sorry,” he tells her simply.
Surprised, Anne cocks her head, “For what?”
Gilbert smiles abashedly, shrugging one shoulder, “In all honesty, I’m not entirely sure. But there was some kind of misunderstanding and it tends to be my fault when that happens, so…”
Anne clasps his forearm, “No, Gilbert, this time it is entirely my fault.”
The taunting look he levels at her is filled with amused affection, and she huffs a laugh at his implication, “And you better remember this moment because it’s the only time I’ll admit being wrong to you!”
They set off down the path, and Gilbert is quiet to allow Anne to gather her thoughts into coherence. In honesty, she has been thinking about it since she left Diana’s, so it does not take long, but she enjoys the silence as they trace the familiar route to Green Gables and above all fears the vulnerability her coming admission – however vague she makes it – will expose. “When you left for Paris,” she says simply at last, “No one told me – and I never asked – so I assumed you went through with the plan and went with Winnifred.”
Gilbert pinches the bridge of his nose, rubs the furrow in his brow, “It’s been three years,” he says in incredulity. “How has this not been cleared up in that time?”
Anne shrugs helplessly, “We all headed off to Queens, and you weren’t around, and it just never came up in proper conversation!”
“You live with Rachel Lynde!”
Anne laughs at that, though Gilbert seems quite serious, “I’m sorry, okay! I just didn’t know, even when you came back.” Gilbert can’t seem to wrap his head around that, and Anne doesn’t blame him because she had been so shocked yesterday to learn the truth, and Diana too, and she imagines Marilla and Matthew will be too. Not to mention Rachel herself, heaven forbid she find out.
“So you thought I was engaged this whole time?” Gilbert asks finally, stepping ahead to pull up a low hanging branch.
She smiles her thanks, “I thought that you must have called off your engagement when you left Paris.”
“You didn’t think we’d married sometime in those three years?”
Anne pulls a face. She’d thought about it, but dismissed it, “And not have Bash and Dellie there? Anyway, someone would have told me that I’m sure.”
She wants to ask him, now that she understands what there is to ask, why he ignored her letter. Why her confession hadn’t changed anything for him. Whether he had even read it. She wouldn’t blame him, if he hadn’t; she could still picture his earnest face, all that time ago, admitting that she was what made him doubt Winnifred, and how desperate he had seemed before the girls dragged her away. At the time, she had been angry he hadn’t responded, but with time came the perspective that as deeply as she’d been hurt when he left, so deeply he must have been hurt by her. Instead of dragging up a long futile discussion, she moves on, “Marilla made scones, will you come in for some tea?”
Gilbert assents, but the two young adults who enter the kitchen are both weighed down by questions unasked.
Matthew dies on a Tuesday, and they bury him that Saturday.
The wind is sharp, but other than that the day is beautiful – more so than Anne would have liked. If she had her way, the sun would cower in fear of reigning over a world that did not contain a Matthew Cuthbert, could never again hope to contain his like. The rain would poor, and the mud would pool and stick around people’s feet as a constant, clinging reminder of how awful everything was. Marilla could say that he was in a better place all she liked; Anne wanted him here.
More people than she expects turn out for the funeral: no doubt a mixture of the announcement in the newspaper and Rachel doing what Rachel does best. It is touching, to know so clearly that the way Matthew enhanced people’s lives was so widely felt and respected, but another part of her wishes she could keep even this small part of him to herself. Diana presses close, and Anne keeps Marilla’s hand clasped in hers, and that helps.
It is exhausting, to Anne, to play pretend. Even though pretending has long been her forte, even though she never thought the day would come when her imagination – her pride and joy – couldn’t while away even part of the despair she feels. Matthew would wrap a hand over her shoulder, and say something sweet in that gruff, embarrassed way he expressed emotions, and Anne would love him; but Matthew isn’t there and Anne still loves him, and that hurts more than she knew was possible.
She helps shepherd people into the drawing room, helps pass around the food and accepts people’s condolences with short smiles and sharp nods, but it doesn’t distract her from the screaming in her head.
“Anne,” Diana pulls her close for hug, in the privacy of a corridor.
“Anne,” Cole kisses the top of her head, and she inhales his perfumed, metropolitan scent.
“Anne,” Marilla sighs, and it sounds like a prayer.
Gilbert doesn’t speak to her, but he does seem to materialise between her and everyone she doesn’t want to talk to, and although she doesn’t formally register this as deliberate she still feels the gratefulness like a soothing balm on her heart.
And then, a week later, Roy appears.
He looks as Roy always looks: handsome, in that usual polished way of his. He wears black, but his clothes are still a fashionable cut, and he still smells like cologne when he leans forward to press his lips to Anne’s cheek. Anne is glad to see him, but surprised, because they hadn’t exactly left things as friends, and he had never been to Avonlea besides. It is this thought that she seizes upon, and within moments she has swept him out of the door for a tour of the town. They walk arm in arm and she points to everyone she knows house: some that he himself knows from Queens, and the others with a funny anecdote in hand so that soon his is fully apprised of the comings and goings and scandals of everyone in Avonlea. Rachel, Anne thinks, would surely be proud.
It is a kind distraction, especially so because Roy never met Matthew so she has nothing to remind her of him, but it is over all too soon because Roy turns as they walk over the bridge, pulling them to a stop and taking both her hands in his.
“Anne,” he says, uncharacteristically earnest, and she knows already what he will say, “I’m so dreadfully sorry about Matthew.” Part of her thinks of asking him to say Mr Cuthbert, because he wasn’t familiar with Matthew and now he never would be, but it is her own bitterness fuelling that, and Matthew wouldn’t have minded besides, so she pushes it down along with the familiar burn of pain. “I know how like a father he was to you.” Roy continues, and this time Anne actually feels angry.
“Thank you,” she says in clipped tones, when even the anger drowns in her sorrow.
Roy swallows, looking nervous for the first time. It is unfamiliar to Anne that she is confused for a moment, trying to think back to the last time that Roy looked at her with that uncertain expression on her face. It comes to her the same moment that he starts speaking again.
Roy Gardner begins sadly, “I know that we haven’t really kept in touch in the year since you left Queens. But that doesn’t mean that I haven’t thought of you, Anne – because I have, and often. I still do.” Anne closes her eyes, suddenly exhausted.
Does he really think this an appropriate time?
“Roy-”
“And I know,” Roy presses over her with an earnest look, imploring her to let him finish, “That you will be heartbroken right now, and that no offer could make you excited. But I hope you know that all I want is to take care of you, if you’ll let me.”
When he doesn’t speak for a few seconds, Anne tries her luck again, “Roy, you know how I care for you, and how touched I am that you’ve come to see me.”
He interrupts again, with a wry laugh, “Just to be clear: I’m not proposing.”
The relief that floods Anne is sharp, and she laughs with it, closing her eyes with a dramatic expression, “Oh thank God!”
Roy laughs too, though he elbows her side gently, “Oi! No need to be so happy about it!” Taking his arm again, Anne pulls him over the bridge, still smiling. “I just meant that I want to be here for you, if you need it.” Roy is saying, but Anne isn’t listening anymore because she can see what’s up ahead, and knows what it means.
“Anne Shirley-Cuthbert, there you are!” Rachel comes barrelling towards them. All in black still, she is quite terrifying, and Anne notices Roy’s arm tighten on hers with some amusement.
“Rachel, I didn’t know you were in town.” Anne greets smoothly, “Roy, this is my dear family friend, Mrs Rachel Lynde. Rachel, this is Mr Roy Gardner, a friend of mine from my days at Queens.” If Roy notices the way she tries to stress friend, he doesn’t show it as he shakes Rachel’s hand. Rachel certainly doesn’t notice, for she eyes Roy up with that particular look in her eyes that Anne has come to know intimately.
“Well, I shan’t keep you young folk from your fun!” Rachel says after introductions, and in a twirl of her skirts she has bustled off to find her next victim.
“A pity you didn’t propose,” Anne comments wryly, “Because Rachel will have half the town thinking you did before you’re even on the train home.” Roy laughs in disbelief.
But then: Roy doesn’t know Rachel.
Anne’s prediction – Anne’s fear – comes true sooner than she thought. She has only just taken off her hat, having arrived home from seeing Roy off on his train, when Marilla rounds the corner. Anne’s first thought is that Marilla has some colour in her cheeks for the first time since Matthew – But then Marilla’s hands fly to her hips, and Anne remembers.
“Anne Shirley-Cuthbert! What is the meaning of this? I’ve had no fewer than three – three – people stopping by this afternoon to congratulate me on your engagement!”
Anne laughs, because there is nothing else to do. The ghost of Matthew shakes his head at them from the other side of the room, trying his best to mind his own business, and she misses him fiercely for the solidarity he would show. “I’m not engaged,” she promises Marilla, unlacing her boots, “My friend Roy – remember Roy, from Queens? – came to offer his condolences, and as we were out on a walk we bumped into Rachel…”
Marilla understands instantly, “Honestly, that woman!”
Anne hums her agreement, considering the matter closed, but Marilla only turns half way before rotating back to face Anne with a puzzled expression on her tired face, “Roy was the one that proposed, is that right?”
The door thuds behind them loudly, and both women spin, startled.
Rachel beams back at them, her small hands wound tightly into the jacket sleeves of a very surprised Gilbert Blythe. “Well then!” Rachel wagged a finger, “I knew it! I was just saying to young Gilbert here – I saw it plain as day – that I’d just seen you about town with a fine young man.”
Gilbert’s eyes don’t leave Anne’s face. They are locked together in a silent battle of perplexed abandon, unable to leave each other’s eyes without an answer and unable to fully formulate the question. “Congratulations,” Gilbert croaks finally, after a suspiciously long pause.
Anne physically shakes herself out of her stupor, a tremor running up her spine and she takes a jerky step towards Gilbert, “No! – I mean, thank you, but it’s quite unnecessary.” Taking a moment internally to curse Rachel and her meddling, she places her boots by the stove and takes a step – surprisingly vulnerable, in her stockinged feet – towards one of her oldest and dearest friends. “I’m not engaged.”
Gilbert visibly exhales, and steps around her to pace the room, “Is it strange how often we seem to have this conversation?”
Anne laughs, “I’m glad you think so, too.”
Gilbert stops in front of the stove, warming his hands. He looks around, checking for Marilla and Rachel – who have vanished, mysterious but not subtle – before he says, “So, to confirm: neither of us is engaged.”
His voice is low, and his eyes pools of honey in the lamplight of the kitchen, and Anne finds quite suddenly that she can’t breathe. The easy, friendly atmosphere of just a moment ago has gone, replaced by something warm and inviting. “That’s right.” Her voice is barely a whisper, and her entire body trembles with the sudden urge to take the final few steps forward and press her lips to his. It is so strong that she nearly falls, lightheaded, and so strong that it distracts her from actually going through with it.
She has wanted Gilbert for so long – longer than she has ever admitted to, longer than she has ever known – that she thought the wave of need for him had become dull in its familiarity; but just then it washes over her with a force that she’s not sure she can hold back against. It is a surprise, and not a particularly welcome one, because although Gilbert once liked her in that way he did after all decide against it, and she values his friendship far too much to pursue the matter. She clenches her fists, and wills her arms not to rise so that she can bury her fingers in his curls the way she has imagined she would.
Oblivious to her inner turmoil, Gilbert looks at her with concern, noting the sudden tension in her stance. “Anne,” he murmurs, but he makes no move to go towards her, “How have you been?”
Slowly, Anne comes to feel the eyes on the back of her neck, the ever present presence of dear Matthew. At once, the moment has vanished, and she is cold again. As though he knew, Gilbert steps forwards then, wrapping both his arms around her shoulders and tucking her face into his chest. He is warm, around her, and his heart beats like a comforting drum under her ear. Of all the comfort Anne has been shown since Matthew died, Gilbert’s feels the most like home.
“He was such a kind man,” Gilbert murmurs in her ear, “And I’ll never stop admiring him for that.”
Pity, Anne has always found hard to deal with. She didn’t need their pity, because she had known Matthew and that was a thing to be celebrated. She didn’t need their pity, because it did no good. She didn’t need their pity, she needed her family back.
She didn’t know why she hadn’t realised that of everyone in Avonlea, Gilbert could understand this the most.
She twists in his arms, stretching up on her toes to press a lingering kiss on his cheek. Up close, she can see the gold around his pupils as they dilate, can marvel at how long his eyelashes are, at how soft his lips look.
Behind them, Marilla clears her throat suddenly. Anne supposes that the speed her and Gilbert leap apart must have been comical – he has to swerve from tripping over her boots, and her face blossoms into colour as she tries to smooth down her skirt – but that doesn’t excuse the delighted chuckles of Rachel as she observes. It’s all Rachel’s fault, really, anyway.
“Are you staying for dinner, Gilbert?” Marilla takes pity on the pair, smiling affectionately at the young man, “There’s more than enough.”
But this seems to remind Gilbert of something, for he straightens very suddenly, “Oh!” His voice has an edge of guilt, “I forgot! I came to invite you all to Sunday lunch tomorrow, after church. Dellie has taken up an enthusiasm in the kitchen and we’re all chipping in to teach her the little we know. I can’t promise it will be any good, but the more the merrier!” He glances at Anne, still blushing.
“My!” Marilla nods warmly, “How kind! We’d be delighted.”
Gilbert leaves not long after, and Anne instantly excuses herself to rush up to her room, and she pretends she can’t hear the laughter from downstairs nor feel the tingle in her lips where her mouth had met Gilbert’s cheek.
Gilbert hadn’t lied when he implied chaos at the Blythe-Lacroix household.
There seems to be flour everywhere, and there is a faint smell of burning, and Bash seems to singing more than he is helping, but the three guests are more than used to this by now and they fall naturally into the fold, lending a helping hand where they can and getting out of the way as quickly as they can when they can’t. As always, Marilla ends up doing most of the work, though Gilbert and Anne are always rushing to take over, while Miss Stacey – Muriel! – and Rachel try to entertain Dellie and Bash causes mischief. This particular day, Bash has just whispered to his daughter the delights of tying people’s shoelaces together, and she is creeping around under tables while the adults try to grab her.
Gilbert laughs loudly when Rachel gets down on all fours, and accidentally flicks the potato he had been mashing over his shoulder, where it lands in a minor explosion next to the stove.
“Gilbert Blythe!” Marilla admonishes without anger.
Anne mimics her silently, and Gilbert shakes his head in amusement.
“Lovebird!” Bash calls from the other side of the room, “Come and grab this little angel’s legs before she tries to assault anyone else!”
Gilbert blushes (Anne does too) but crosses the room, “I wonder who she got the mayhem gene from?” He teases Bash, and together they sling the giggling child over Bash’s shoulder.
“Save me!” Dellie screams in delight, but her erstwhile protector – Mrs Lynde – has had enough chasing about for one afternoon, if her collapse onto a chair by the table is any indicator.
Anne comes forward instead, brandishing a wooden spoon. “Away, beast! Release the fair maiden, and fight me like a man!”
Bash gives a yelp, and takes flight, vanishing through the kitchen door with his daughter over his shoulder and Anne jogging after them. Anne can hear the laughter from the kitchen, but she ignores it so that she can properly vanquish her foe. Soon, Bash falls to his knees and deposits Dellie on the ground, calling that he is defeated and tucking Anne’s wooden spoon under his arm as though it is a real sword.
“I think we need a doctor in here!” Anne calls merrily, as Dellie takes her hand and they dart through to another room.
“Quickly!” Dellie whispers, “We have to hide in case the dragon wakes up and takes me again!” This was very true, Anne agreed, and they crawled together beneath the living room table, round the back of the sofa, whispering a battle plan under their breaths. They are nearly to safety – the door outside, where they can go and collect some wildflowers that they will fashion into crowns to protect them from the evil dragon – when Dellie dares a victorious grin over her shoulder, mistimes a movement, and crashes into a side table. Anne moves fast enough to prevent any damage, grabbing the scanty items on top before they can fall over Dellie, but Bash has been alerted to their presence and charges with a roar into the room.
Screaming, Dellie abandons the plan and takes off down the corridor.
Anne does not – can not – move.
Taking a moment from his theatricality, Bash glances at her before leaving after his daughter, “Ah, Miss Shirley-Cuthbert, I’m afraid Gilbert’s pen is not actually mightier than the sword!” And then he leaps out of sight, and she is left with the sound of his footsteps, and her questions.
Gilbert’s pen, Bash had said.
Gilbert’s pen, but this was certainly not Gilbert’s pen, and Anne knew that for a fact because it was actually her pen. The pen she had given Gilbert after the schoolhouse had burned down. Then pen she had written him to ask it back for in the note she told him –
In the note she had left him.
She did not think he would have kept it, after all this time.
“Anne?” Still on the floor behind the couch, Anne jumped, and Gilbert – who had stuck his head into the room to look for her, but not seen her, hidden as she was, turned around again at the sound. “There you are,” he said cheerfully, and he swaggered in with his hands in his pockets. Anne got to her feet shakily, “I think Dellie is nearly worn out, which means we should be able to eat…” Gilbert’s voice trailed off. Now that Anne stood in front of him, he could see what she held in her hands. He rubbed his hand through his hair, tried for an embarrassed grin, but when he was met with her shocked silence his hand dropped to the side and he sighed.
“Why do you still have this?” Anne asked quietly.
Gilbert worried his lips between his teeth, not meeting her eyes, “I forgot about it, at first. And then it was a comfort-”
“You forgot?” Anne snaps, overcome by a wave of irritation. Tears spring to her eyes as she feels her humiliation all over again, and she is transported to being sixteen, and rejected. “I explicitly asked for it back, how could you forget?”
Gilbert blinks into the force of her anger with bewilderment, “You asked for it back?”
“Don’t you dare, Gilbert Blythe! I can’t believe you’ve actually forgotten – when it’s the most embarrassing moment of my life – and you’re just going to deny it!” Gilbert’s eyes widen like saucers, and she can plainly see that he doesn’t understand, but she also can’t see how on earth he couldn’t understand. She couldn’t have been any clearer in her note.
“I’m sorry,” he stammers, “I really didn’t understand-”
“Didn’t understand!” Anne seethes, “Which part was too unclear for you in my note? Was it “may I have my pen back?” or was it “I love you”?”
Now Gilbert’s mouth actually does drop open, and he gapes at her. Now, Anne curses her anger that makes her speak before she thinks. Now, in the quiet, Anne can almost hear the electricity crackling through the space between them.
Gilbert swallows, licks his lips, “What?” Anne flushes, overcome with embarrassment (why doesn’t she ever learn!) and tries to leave quickly, but Gilbert is faster, even half dazed. “What did you say?” He demands again. Anne tries to twist out of his grip, but it is firm around her arm and she is suddenly reminded of how much of a man he is now, as he spins her writhing form gently to face him. “Anne,” his voice is gentle, the threads of understanding in his mind coming together, as she knew they would when she said that – clever as he was.
“Anne, did you write me a letter telling me that you loved me?”
Anne closes her eyes, tears threatening to flood over, “You didn’t even read it?” She whispers. She has waited a long time for this knowledge; had given up on ever finding out. She had thought over and over again about which she would prefer: that he had ignored her in full knowing or ignored her through ignorance. Now, she thought she had been foolish to think that ignorance might have been the kinder of the options. Nothing could possibly be as excruciatingly humiliating as this moment.
“Anne,” Gilbert presses again, fingers tightening on her shoulders to match the increased desperation she can hear in his voice when she doesn’t open her eyes. “Anne, I never received your letter.”
In a moment, Anne stills. She opens her eyes, and she can read the honesty on his expression – as devoid of colour as hers is flushed. He looks as devastated and overwhelmed as she feels. “You didn’t get my letter?” She whispers, not trusting herself to speak louder for fear that she will shatter, so fragile she feels.
“I didn’t get any letter,” he whispers back, fervent as a promise.
There is a clatter from the corridor, and Bash’s big frame bounds into view. The world that had narrowed to just the two of them widens again, and Anne can suddenly hear the noise from the kitchen, smell the food. “Lovebirds!” Bash exclaims (part of each of them curdles when he calls them that, though both of them are too stunned to respond), “It’s time for-” Too late, his eyes inform him he is interrupting, and he cuts off suddenly. He babbles incoherently for a moment, points towards the kitchen with a jerky nod, and vanishes.
Anne clears her throat and steps away from Gilbert. Through Bash’s eyes, she can picture the scene: Gilbert’s strong hands at the base of her neck, tilting her head up towards him; the tears in her eyes; how very close their faces had come without them knowing. She rubs the tears, tries to pin back some of her hair that had come loose when she was trying to run away. She can feel Gilbert – now a respectable distance away – trying to rearrange himself similarly. “That’s twice in two days we’ve been caught in a compromising position,” Anne tries for a joke, but Gilbert’s answering laugh is choked.
Lunch is a merry affair, once Anne manages to imagine the conversation to the back of her mind. Gilbert is quieter than normal, and Bash keeps glancing between them suspiciously, but Dellie is enough of a combination of her father and mother to shine in centre stage, and before Anne knows it they are packing up some leftovers and saying their goodbyes.
Anne has just hugged Miss Stacey – Muriel! – when she hears Gilbert behind her. “Actually, Marilla, Rachel – if you don’t mind I was thinking I might take Anne on a walk down the lane: make the most of the sunlight before winter takes it away again.” Gilbert speaks charmingly, smoothly; Anne can picture the confident, easy smile on his face as he asks. She can also picture the knowing looks that all the other adults in the room are sharing, not so discreetly.
“Why, of course, Gilbert!” Marilla even sounds thrilled, and then her two allies are out of the door and Gilbert is holding Anne’s coat out to slip her arms into.
“See you soon!” He promises Bash with a smile, and holds the door open. The air is cold outside, but still, and the snow lies unbroken in the direction he leads them. Anne loves it like this: like a page that is still to be written upon; a story about to start. They don’t talk for the first ten minutes, taking the walk up lovers lane in silence until they reach the cliffs. Anne thinks it is suitable, because depending on what Gilbert says next, she just might have to throw herself off them.
Unfortunately, because Gilbert is a doctor, he might still save her, so maybe it wouldn’t be worth it after all.
“Anne.” Gilbert is firmer than she expects when he stops. With all the white on one side, and the unbroken horizon of the sea on the other, he suddenly looks very small, and very alone. He forgot to bring a scarf, Anne notes, but he doesn’t seem cold. He doesn’t fidget with nervousness either, or pace, as he is prone to, but stands still and meets her gaze head on. “Anne, I’m only going to say this now, and if you don’t want me to I’ll never speak of it again, because I value your presence in my life so much and I would never wish to do anything to harm our friendship, or your opinion of me.” He pauses then, as if asking for permission, and doesn’t continue until she gives a tiny nod.
“The way I understand it, it goes like this:” Gilbert takes a step towards her. “I asked you, by the bonfire that night – poorly timed and worsely executed, true – but I asked you if you loved me, and you said no.” Anne flinches, but Gilbert presses on, “And then, you wrote me a letter saying that you did in fact love me, right so far?” Anne’s lip trembles, but she nods again. If she loses Gilbert, she’ll be damned if she loses her dignity too. “But I never got the letter. And so when I moved to Paris, you thought I’d gone ahead and proposed to Winnie, and that I’d changed how I felt about you.” He seems to take her silence as assent, because he takes another step towards her, close enough that he could catch her if her legs gave out, as they felt like they would any second.
“But, Anne,” his voice is so soft it’s a whisper, “That means that I loved you, and thought you didn’t love me, and you loved me, and thought I didn’t love you.”
A tear drops down her face, and neither of them make a move to brush it aside, eyes met in torturous understanding – finally – of how much they had lost.
“It was all just miscommunication.” Gilbert realises, and he sounds so small and sad that this time Anne takes half a step towards him. He raises his hand then, cradling her face tenderly, thumb against her tear track. He is gazing at her with such heartbroken wonderment that she thinks she might blow away if the wind started, so enveloped by him is she. They stand like that, locked in a not-quite-embrace, each lost to their shared history.
Finally, Anne heaves a sigh, and turns her face away. To know that they had come so close, to not achieve what they both wanted because they were too young to be properly brave – it hurt more than she would have guessed. But it hurt slightly less, because now their friendship could continue without any questions, without her having to guess whether there was a chance for them.
It is just as Anne is formulating this opinion that Gilbert straightens, and she looks back around at him. He looks more determined, suddenly, and he winds his fingers through hers; who is grounding who she isn’t sure, but it doesn’t seem to matter. “In the spirit of no further miscommunication, then,” Gilbert Blythe says calmly, plainly, “I think it’s only fair that I tell you unequivocally: I am in love with you, Anne Shirley-Cuthbert.”
Beside the cliffs, in the snow, Anne finds herself lost for words. That Gilbert Blythe – Gilbert Blythe – should be saying these things, after so long and so many shattered hopes, and that he should be doing it so calmly. Well. How on earth was a girl meant to react to that? “Always have been,” Gilbert adds, just as she is about to find her tongue, “Always will be.” And she loses it again.
How long they stand, as Anne tries to collect herself together – she is sure that she’s actually physically spiralled to pieces, because her head is definitely in the clouds and her heart seems to have left her body entirely, because it is surely too big to still fit inside her chest – she isn’t quite sure, but Gilbert waits quietly, apparently trying to stay true to the cause of not complicating matters.
“Gilbert,” she manages finally, but that is all she can manage because she is laughing quite suddenly, and her legs have (quite without her permission) carried her forward so that she could fling her arms around his neck, and drag him down. She is still laughing when her lips meet his, and she has to shift a little so that they fit together properly, but she doesn’t care because she has dreamt and dreamt and dreamt about kissing Gilbert Blythe, and the silly man came out without a hat on which is quite enough invitation for her to slide her hands up and into his hair, finally.
Gilbert's hands are firm on her waist, lifting her up onto her tiptoes so that he doesn’t have to lean down so much, pulling her into him so that they are chest to chest, toe to toe, heart to heart.
Later, much later, they wind back down the lane, his arms around her shoulders and his sweet murmurs in her ears, trading stories of all the times they have loved each other and not been able to express it, commiserating over their shared foolishness. It takes longer than it should, because Anne cannot stop from twisting to press her lips against his – she will never get used to the thrum of his pulse under her thumb, she is sure – and he always responds with such enthusiasm that she laughs, and then he laughs, and his laughter makes her want to kiss him again, and it is a cycle that she hopes she will never leave. She tucks her nose under his jaw, breathing in the heady scent of him, when a thought occurs to her.
She pulls back, grinning up at him, and he winds her red hair around one of his fingers as he smiles back.
“What is it?” He asks with a chuckle.
She presses one, two, three chaste kisses to his lips, stepping back when he tries to chase them down and putting a firm hand on his chest, “Now then, Mr Blythe, if you’re quite done taking liberties…” She teases him, pausing so that he grins as he waits. “May I please have my pen back?”
Gilbert’s laughter echoes around the trees, and he catches her around the waist and spins her in the air. She screams in delight, wrapping her arms around his back and nestling in to the warmth of him, revelling on the feel of his chuckles. “You can have everything, Carrots,” he whispers into her hair.
So this is immediately going to become non-canon tomorrow, and I really should be sleeping, but I can't because I'm too worried about what they're going to do to our babies in the finale.
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annewithab Sun 24 Nov 2019 01:11AM EST
I’m. Screaming. How is this so good?? I fucking CRIED! I read the description and I was like nooooo this is gonna hurt!!! but then I read it and I was like YEEEEESSS THIS HURTS!!!!!! I seriously wouldn’t mind this being canon, it’s so well done. The way you’ve written their playful dynamic is something I don’t usually see and I absolutely love it. And when they finally- FINALLY- confess at the end? *Chef’s kiss* absolutely stellar, my dear. You really did that. I have been forced to stan.
Penguincake Sun 24 Nov 2019 02:04AM EST
You deserve all the metals that was amazing!
Hellonightmares Sun 24 Nov 2019 04:20AM EST
Oh god this is so fucking glorious
tifipants Sun 24 Nov 2019 10:57AM EST
this was divine. god this is the type of angst I long for and makes me actually feel the heartbreak and love and warmth that comes from being with someone special. you know that parks and rec meme, it’s all about the yearning? well this is like the embodiment of that and I’m so overwhelmed because this has such a satisfying ending with no unnecessary love triangles. I think I’m rambling now so ima stop and might go ahead and reread this again
Kg Sun 24 Nov 2019 11:43AM EST
I cried this was soo beyond amazing
arainyday Sun 24 Nov 2019 12:00PM EST
Beautifully written!! Absolutely loved this.
amqna Sun 24 Nov 2019 04:11PM EST
OMFG THIS WAS BEAUTIFUL OH HOW I LOVED IT IT WAS AMAZING OMFG U ARE TALENTED CAUSE I LOVED THIS SO MUCH HOLY CRAP
philthestone Mon 25 Nov 2019 12:56PM EST
I am overwhelmed ... this overwhelmed me ... don’t know if I’ll ever recover from this tenderness
lIli_Hades_daughter Mon 25 Nov 2019 05:29PM EST
SO CUTE !!! 😭😭😍🤧
b0n Tue 26 Nov 2019 10:12PM EST
This is pure poetry
I'm literally in love with this
Thank you so much for sharing your writing
I love everything about this
My favourite was when Anne was thinking about throwing herself off the cliff
how relatable.
thank you for your amazing and brilliant writing!!
darknessfalls1321 Fri 06 Dec 2019 01:51PM EST
The cutest!!
Flobbergasted Fri 20 Dec 2019 01:13AM EST
Beautiful! Truly.
Bellamy_is_life Sat 21 Dec 2019 06:46AM EST
I love them sooooo much
erikame Mon 30 Dec 2019 01:50PM EST
Loooooved this so much! I loved them getting constantly caught in a compromising position, and let’s be real everyone waiting for one of them to admit their feelings.
vvlshema2804 Mon 06 Jan 2020 08:48AM EST
I AM GRINNING LIKE A LUNATIC...... A TRAGICAL ROMANCE INDEED.... AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! MY HEART IS ABOUT TO BURST.....
suffice to say GREAT WORK!!!!
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