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WUXI, China — Located in Cainiao’s Future Park logistics complex in Wuxi, China, take a close look at how the warehouse uses 700 robots to streamline and speed up the order-fulfillment process.
Cainiao recently opened the biggest automated warehouse in China, in the eastern city of Wuxi. It is part of the company’s first Future Park, a logistics complex run by Internet of Things applications, big data, edge computing and artificial intelligence to boost efficiencies in the shipping process.
WATCH: #Cainiao's newest warehouse uses 700 robots to streamline and speed up the order-fulfillment process. #China #logistics pic.twitter.com/pN9rAUhdwe
— Alibaba Group (@AlibabaGroup) 1 november 2018
There is also the Sky Eye Program, a cloud-based, video-monitoring system that will be used by Cainiao’s logistics partners for this year’s 11.11. Leveraging Computer Vision Technology and algorithms, Sky Eye monitors warehouse operations to look for kinks in the logistics process and sends updates to workers so that they can be fixed in real time.
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Fri, 1 December 2017
Richard Heydarian: Philippines Under Duterte
President Trump will meet with President Duterte during his first visit to the Philippines next month. What can be expected for the future of US-Philippine relations? Although the two countries have historically been strong allies, the elections of Trump and Duterte, as well as policy shifts in both nations, have raised questions about the stability of the relationship. The Philippines has benefited from significant US military aid for several decades. Recently both training and intelligence sharing were especially helpful as Philippine armed forces fought to regain control of Marawi following terrorist attacks by ISIS affiliates. While military aid is considered a symbol of the continued alliance between the two countries, Duterte’s renewed economic and political relations with China are causing tension. Is the Philippines looking to pivot toward China for a stronger alliance and veer away from the US, therefore shifting the strategic balance in the region? As for Filipinos as home, how are they impacted by the rise of a populist leader, one who is focused on fighting corruption and targeting drug offenders? What do these tactics reveal about Duterte as a leader? What issues can Trump and Duterte come together on and where might they disagree?
Richard Heydarian, a Filipino academic and columnist, will join us for a discussion on the Philippines under Duterte and his latest book "The Rise of Duterte: A Populist Revolt Against Elite Democracy."
Richard Heydarian
Resident Political Analyst, GMA Network
Maria Ortuoste
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, California State University East Bay
Direct download: 11_01_17_Richard_Heydarian.mp3
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Faithful Journeys
Biblical Expeditions in Turkey
Religious Sites/Turkey
Biblical Archaeology of the Western Region
From Byzantium to Constantinople :
The New Rome
Christianizing Roman Basilica:
Early Christianity in Cappadocia & Monasticism
Walk with St. Paul through Asia Minor
Study visit to central Anatolia focusing on architectural formulas of early Christian edifices with amazing wall paintings from 8th to 12th century. Early Christians escaping Roman persecution nearly 2000 years were sheltered in Central Anatolia. From monk cells to monasteries, Cappadocia witnessed chaotic historical changes throughout the ages. 330 AD, St. Basil set the pattern for monasticism in the Eastern Church “Messelian” movement, which comes from Syrian word meaning “to pray”. Those who were influenced by this spritiual movement though that no human activity should be undertaken apart from prayer. Among those who adopted this attitude, some remained within the church, others left. In the 4th century, Basil tried to lead them and the ‘encratists’ back to orthodoxy. Basil took pains to minimize distinctions between the Christian and monastic vocations. Basil’s effort to maintain a distinctive idendity for the communities while avoiding separatist, sectarian rhetoric is notable even if not always successful of structures and policies; over time, the communities inevitably became increasingly ‘monastic’ in identity. Basil’s work has been of great importance for the development of Byzantine monasticism.
Topics: Christian Art and Symbols & Architecture, Asceticism, Monasticism
Overview 3 nights/4 days
Biblio Traveler Advisory Mix & Match the destination with Istanbul & Aegean Region
Pottery workshops, Hot Air Balloon ride over the dramatic landscape of Cappadocia
Soganli Valley featuring Kubbeli Complex and St. Barbara Church with prayer walk through the burials and tombs.
As the nature of Cappadocia the landscape preserves the rock-cut architecture, soo too it preserves the rock cuttings for burials. All types of churches and chapels are out fitted for burial in Cappadocia: Arcosolium tombs are ubiquitous in the region.
St. Basil Church in Gomeda Valley is a quiet and unique place for asceticism. For this reason the valley is fully decorated with Chapels and cells. St. Basil Church is one of them and located on the skirts of a tufa heap and observes total silence. Called “Cappadocia sytlite”, at one point or another, some portion of the myriad caves in Cappadocia surely housed members of the more solitary persuasions of monasticism.
Goreme Open Air Museum is located in the Goreme Valley, number of small communities with their own churches formed the large monastic complex towards the end of the A.D 3rd century. St. Basil of Cappadocia, was educated in Istanbul and Athens with full interest in Syrian Saints, who taught him how to attain enthusastic piety and keep his body under submission by asceticism-a sojourn which seems to have led him to advocate community life, prayer and physical labor rather than the solitary asceticism that was “popular” at the time. It was under his guidance that the first churches were built in the Goreme Valley.
Red Valley is probably the most amazing route among all valleys in Cappadocia. Walking along the labyrinth-like formations you can spot monk cells in every corner and come across a friendly smile from a local who works in the fields. The colour of the valley comes from ıronoxide and provides the back drop for an amazing sunset.
St. John the Baptist Church is the oldest and the biggest church in the Cappadocia triangle so we will have the opportunity to study it in terms of early Christian art. By looking at the church it is obvious the way they have Christianized the Roman ‘basilica form’. In the 4th Century, Christians wanted to build larger edifices for worship. Architectural formulas of pagan temples were associated with pagan belief so they didn’t want to use the same system. But as emperor Constantine the Great wanted to memorialize his imperial piety, they already had useful model at hand, the Basilica. The Basilica was originally a very classic model of Roman meeting halls with high platforms and large columned halls.
Gulsehir Open Palace : It is evident through Philipus, Mathaus and Jacobus how important the Open Palace setting was. This is where the apostles begun their mission journeys from to Europe and Asia. We continue our tour to the Opposite Church in Gulsehir to explore and understand more about the wall paintings. Early Christian art not only used Roman forms, it also used Roman styles. The later classical style included a proportional portrayal of the human body and impressionistic presentation of space. Another important occurrence in history of Christian art was image-breaking”, the deliberate destruction within a culture of the culture’s own religious icons and other symbols or monuments. The two Byzantine outbreaks during the 8th and 9th Centuries were unusual in that the use of images was the main issue of dispute, rather than a by-product of wider concerns. For iconoclasts, the only real religious image must be an exact likeness of the prototype -of the same substance- which they considered impossible as they saw wood and paint as empty of spirit and life. Thus for iconoclasts the only true (and permitted) “icon” of Jesus was the Eucharist, which was believed to be his actual body and blood. For this reason, churches got back to basics and used only early figures to indicate their beliefs in geometrical forms.
Kaymakli Underground City
Tokali Church Goreme Open Air Museum Complex
Kubbeli Church, Soganli Valley
St. john the Baptist Church, Cavusin Village
Nicephorus Phocas Church, Cavusin Village
Local Ladies at work: Winter is coming up…
Pottery Kebab of Cappadocia
Hand-Craft Soganli Dolls
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The rumor was indeed that the Maharani's emeralds were bad luck; each person who had owned them never lived long enough to really enjoy them. They were beautiful, though, and close to priceless. Originally they had been brought over from South Africa, the property of an English duchess. The story further went that the jewels had also survived a trip on the ill-fated Titanic. The duchess had died of malaria at the age of thirty. Her family, remembering the curse, had disposed of them at an auction. The jewels made the rounds before they finally ended up with the Maharani. It is not known how long she had them; eventually they were sold when her estate was being liquidated.
At that time the emeralds were bought at great price by Homi Rustomji, a wealthy entrepreneur. He certainly did not believe in all the "superstitious rubbish" about curses and bad luck. He presented them to his daughter Roshan on her wedding day when she married Kal Greenwood, an American math professor, from a small town in Indiana. That certainly was quite a very lucky day for his spinster daughter!
It was rumored that the necklace had cost close to a million dollars. At least (another rumor stated) that is how much Homi Rustomji had paid to insure the baubles. This was a small fortune in India - far beyond the reach of most people. The emeralds on the necklace were flawless, each like a perfect little green marble.
Roshan wore the emerald necklace for her wedding, glowing, as a bride should. But she guarded her precious gift, moving aside from inquisitive hands that dared come too near to examine it. The closest anyone came to seeing it was in the huge photograph that appeared in the newspaper the next morning. Kal was the only one, besides Roshan's father, who actually got to hold it in his hands. In fact he was the one to remove it from Roshan's neck later that night, to place it in safekeeping in the vault in their bedroom. Kal was still in awe with the knowledge of all the wealth that was now his - the necklace was like rich icing on the cake.
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Alicia Keys Shows Off Killer Curves in Tiny Bikini
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In a photo posted on her hubby's Instagram account on Friday, Alicia Keys showed off her bodacious bod in nothing but a skimpy two-piece bikini with a red top and black bottoms.
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Proposal to publish Compendium of Best Practices on RTI
admin | May 14, 2013 | DOPT Orders, Latest News | No Comments
1/3/2013-IR
Department of Personnel and Training
IR Division
North Block, New Delhi-110001
Dated: 14.5.2013
Subject: Publishing of Compendium of Best Practices on RTI
The Department of Personnel and Training, Govt. of India proposes to publish a compendium of best practices on RTI being adopted by Public Authorities all over the country. Write ups are invited from the Indian Citizens about the best practices on RTI being adopted by Public Authorities all over the country. The best 20 write-ups would be selected for inclusion in the compendium. The individuals whose write ups are selected for inclusion In the compendium would be rewarded with a lumpsum amount of Rs. 25000 each.
2. The format for the write-Ups would be as follows:
1) Name of the Public Authority, whose practice is being considered in the write up.
2) Need felt/problem faced by the Public Authority leading to adoption of such practice.
3) Details of the said practice, including its scope, financial implications, and deployment of resources such as manpower, infrastructure, etc.
4) Lessons learnt by the Public Authority during implementation of the said practice.
5) Positive outcome of such practice in the implementation of the RTI Act.
6) Scope of its replication in other Public Authorities.
3. The write-ups should be of about 5000 words, neatly typed in 1.5 linespace and 14 size font. All documents in support of the best practice should be attached separately. The complete name and address including telephone and email id of the individual submitting the write-up should be mentioned. Handwritten write-ups would not be considered. Two copies of the write-ups should be submitted to the Deputy Secretary(IR), Department of Personnel and Training, North Block, New Delhi-110001 by 28th June, 2013 through post.
4. The individuals whose write ups would be selected could be asked by the department to resubmit the same after making desired changes, if any.
(Sarita Nair)
Under Secretary to the Govt of India
Source: www.persmin.nic.in
[http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02rti/1_3_2013-IR-14052013.pdf]
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Handling of jobs speech timing blurs White House message
By Tom Cohen, CNN
Obama jobs speech stirs up controversy
NEW: Obama's speech will be at 7 p.m. on September 8
Carney says Obama decided this week to deliver his jobs speech in Congress
A dispute on the timing of the speech dominates media coverage
Boehner balks at Obama's original request to speak on September 7
Washington (CNN) -- The White House and House Speaker John Boehner's office announced Thursday they reached agreement for President Barack Obama to address a joint session of Congress on September 8, resolving a dispute that temporarily overshadowed the focus of the planned speech -- job creation and economic growth.
In simultaneous statements, Boehner's spokesman said Obama had been invited to give his speech at 7 p.m. ET next Thursday and the White House said the invitation was accepted.
The agreement concluded an unusual spat over the usually non-controversial act of scheduling a presidential speech to Congress. The situation left Obama and the White House struggling to focus attention on the jobs package he will present rather than a backroom showdown that some labeled as childish and nonsense.
On Wednesday night, the White House agreed to move Obama's address back one day -- from September 7 to September 8 -- after Republican complaints and follow-up consultations with Boehner.
Obama, Boehner spar over speech date
The story generated front-page media coverage Thursday that highlighted the dispute and generated harsh criticism of how the situation was handled.
"This really is just a new indicator, really a new low, about how dysfunctional the atmosphere in Washington, D.C., is," CNN political contributor John Avlon said.
Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman said on NBC's "Today" show that the scheduling spat was "nonsense" and showed what people "hate about politics."
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney downplayed the dispute to reporters, saying the American people "do not give a lick about what day next week the president speaks before Congress."
Obama decided this week that he wanted to deliver his speech on job creation to a joint session of Congress, and September 7 was the first day that both the House and Senate would be in session after their summer recess, Carney said.
"Wednesday was the soonest possible day upon their return from recess," Carney said of the date sought by Obama. Of moving the speech back a day, Carney said: "Thursday is fine."
Asked about what Obama will say in the speech, Carney refused to provide specifics, but said that "if members of Congress come back focused on the need to grow the economy and increase hiring, they will believe this is a good proposal."
A White House statement Wednesday night attempted to sum up the episode as a professional misunderstanding.
"Today, the president asked to address the Congress about the need for urgent action on the economic situation facing the American people as soon as Congress returned from recess," the statement said. "Both Houses will be back in session after their August recess on Wednesday, September 7th, so that was the date that was requested. We consulted with the speaker about that date before the letter was released, but he determined Thursday would work better."
If only it had been that smooth. What actually happened was a day of back-and-forth accusations that dominated the news cycle and portrayed Washington as unable to work out relatively straightforward scheduling agreements, let alone major policy and legislative packages on job creation and deficit reduction.
Aides from both parties, almost all of them speaking on condition of not being identified, tried to portray the other side as the culprit. Republicans said Boehner's office was never consulted before the White House announced around noon Wednesday it was requesting the joint session at 8 p.m. on September 7.
That timing conflicts with a Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Library in California. In a letter to Obama later in the day, Boehner complained the White House's request would leave insufficient time for a security sweep of the premise following the first House legislative session after its return from the summer recess.
In response, a senior White House official said Chief of Staff Bill Daley spoke with Boehner an hour in advance of going public with the request, and that no objections were raised.
A Boehner aide said Thursday that during that phone conversation, Daley told Boehner the specific date and time in the letter but never specifically asked for Boehner to either approve or disapprove at that moment.
In moving the speech to September 8, the White House faced the possibility of conflicting with the opening game of the National Football League schedule -- an event particularly anticipated this year because of the labor dispute that once threatened to cancel the season. However, Carney said Obama would finish before the football game began.
Another source, a senior White House official, said the decision to change the date, rather than challenge the Republican opposition to September 7, was based on a desire to focus the debate on job creation instead of a scheduling fight.
The White House statement Wednesday night tried to emphasize what Obama will say in the speech.
"The president is focused on the urgent need to create jobs and grow our economy, so he welcomes the opportunity to address a joint session of Congress on Thursday, September 8th and challenge our nation's leaders to start focusing 100% of their attention on doing whatever they can to help the American people," it said.
On Thursday, the Economic Club in Washington announced Boehner will address the group on September 15, a week after the president's speech. A Boehner spokesman said the topic will be jobs and the economy.
Initially, the dispute over the timing of Obama's speech focused on logistics.
Events like the president's State of the Union address typically involve as much as four to six weeks of lead time and consultation, with a series of meetings among police, Secret Service officials and others, a Republican aide noted, and Boehner's letter to Obama complained the president's proposed timing would make it impossible to complete proper security steps in Congress.
The conflict then shifted to consultation, specifically who did or didn't properly notify the other side.
A White House official said Boehner's office was consulted and raised no objection. That prompted Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck to insist that "no one in the speaker's office -- not the speaker, not any staff -- signed off on the date the White House announced today."
"Unfortunately, we weren't even asked if that date worked for the House," Buck said. "Shortly before it arrived this morning, we were simply informed that a letter was coming. It's unfortunate the White House ignored decades -- if not centuries -- of the protocol of working out a mutually agreeable date and time before making any public announcement."
A senior Democratic aide familiar with scheduling such events in previous administrations said "the childish behavior coming out of the speaker's office today is truly historic."
"It is unprecedented to reject the date that a president wants to address a joint session of the Congress," the senior Democratic aide said. "People die and state funerals are held with less fuss, so the logistics excuse by the speaker's office is laughable. Yes, consultation always occurs, but the president always gets the date he wants."
Meanwhile, an aide to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Boehner didn't consult with House Democratic leaders about seeking a new date for Obama's speech.
Obama's request for a September 7 speech was accepted by the leadership of the Democratic-controlled Senate, according to a Democratic Senate leadership aide. However, approval of leaders from both chambers of Congress is required for such a presidential request to be accepted.
The address to Congress is intended to provide a prime-time platform for the rollout of his highly anticipated job growth plan.
"Our nation faces unprecedented economic challenges, and millions of hard-working Americans continue to look for jobs," Obama said in a letter sent earlier Wednesday to Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada.
"As I have traveled across our country this summer and spoken with our fellow Americans, I have heard a consistent message: Washington needs to put aside politics and start making decisions based on what is best for our country and not what is best for each of our parties in order to grow the economy and create jobs. We must answer this call."
The national unemployment rate currently stands at 9.1% -- a figure all but ensuring that the state of the fragile economy will remain the dominant issue of the 2012 presidential campaign.
CNN's Brianna Keilar, Deirdre Walsh, Kate Bolduan, Jessica Yellin and Alan Silverleib contributed to this report.
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Returning home from a business trip by train, Elizabeth reaches her Victorian house and opens a letter from Robert. Her mother calls to invite her to tea in Twickenham the next day, and Elizabeth's call to Robert goes unanswered. On Saturday, she drives to Twickenham to have tea with her mother, Francoise, and she asks if Francoise has any of her father's old papers because she knows very little about her grandparents. Francoise suggests she may have some in the attic. Elizabeth feels a danger in losing touch with the past and determines to learn about her grandfather as a way "of understanding more about herself" (page 240). Elizabeth asks her co-workers, Irene and Erich, if they know anything about World War I, but they do not. Irene suggests that Elizabeth talk to Bob because he...
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U.S. Sec. Of Defense Mattis Claims Syria Still Has Chemical Weapons; Laying The Groundwork For A New False Flag?
If anyone gave any credibility to what came out of the mouth of United States officials before, the Trump administration has done everything possible to eliminate what was left of America’s reputation on the world stage. What is even more concerning, however, is that the statements made by the United States are no longer couched in nuance hidden between the lines but are now open statements of intended aggression and obvious preparation for the next military assault.
Such is the type of statement coming from Defense Secretary James Mattis who recently made the claim that the Syrian government not only used chemical weapons in Khan Sheikhoun (a widely discredit claim in its own right) but that it continues to possess those weapons. The insinuation from the Defense Secretary is that the Syrian government is planning on using those weapons in the near future.
Warning Syria against using chemical weapons “again,” Mad Dog Mattis said using these weapons would be “ill-advised.”
"There can be no doubt in the international community's mind that Syria has retained chemical weapons in violation of its agreement and its statement that it had removed them all," he said.
Mattis’ statement, while demonstrably untrue, since the United Nations has already confirmed that the last of Syria’s chemical weapons (except for the ones in territory controlled by terrorists) were removed from the country in 2014, may seem like just another run of the mill Trump administration verbal provocation but, in reality, it is more than that. The statement is simply laying the groundwork for another false flag chemical attack in Syria to be blamed on the Assad government.
Considering the fact that false flag attacks have been conducted in Syria by the West and its proxy fighters as far back as 2013 and that the recent Khan Sheikhoun attack shows all indications of having been the same, the idea that the United States may be preparing another attack to justify further military action against the Syrian government is by no means an unreasonable suspicion.
Shortly over a week ago, Russian President Vladmir Putin announced that Russia had evidence that the United States was preparing another false flag chemical attack in Syria to be blamed on Assad and to justify more American military aggression. It seems that the United States is simply preparing the verbal paper trail for the attack to take place in the future. When it does, the “response” will likely be more than mere Tomahawks.
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January 22, 2020 11:13 am You are here:Home Sports Vijender Singh inaugurates charity marathon on world cancer day
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NEW DELHI, FEB 5- On World Cancer Day (4th February 2014), Olympic medallist boxer Vijender Singh, who makes his acting debut in Akshay Kumar and Ashvini Yardi’s Grazing Goat Pictures film FUGLY, inaugurated the RUN FOR MANAVTA charity marathon at Sharda University, Greater Noida, with five courageous children who are suffering from cancer. The Olympic medalist who makes his silver screen debut this year pledged his support on World Cancer Day
The event by Manavta Cancer Foundation of India organised the run to coincide with World Cancer Day, a singular initiative under which the entire world can unite together in the fight against cancer. The Manavta Cancer Foundation is a charitable trust led by groups of doctors, whose aim is to reduce the suffering of cancer patients and to prevent and detect the signs of cancer by providing a range of free services to patients, which include: cancer awareness, cancer screening in initial stages and to support cancer sufferers and survivors emotionally, financially, and scientifically.
Talking about his participation in the event, Mr. Vijender Singh said, “Cancer has taken away people from their close ones. I always wanted to create awareness about this disease so that people get timely treatments done and save themselves. I would like to encourage the people who are suffering from cancer to fight against it. It gives me immense pleasure to see people of all age groups synergizing their efforts in a social cause.”
He further added “We all come across a situation in life wherein we need the maximum support of our family and friends, and then you feel like you can fight any shortcoming. I participated in this event to encourage the people who are suffering from cancer to fight against it and prove to the world that no matter what the situation may be, one can always beat it.”
Vijender will soon be seen on the silver screen in Akshay Kumar and Ashvini Yardi’s Grazing Goat Pictures’ next Hindi release after OMG! Oh My God, Fugly, a youthful entertaining film set in the by-lanes of Delhi, releasing on 16th May 2014. It is a story of four friends: Dev (played by Anil Kapoor’s nephew Mohit Marwah), Devi (played by the grandniece of Sayed Jaffery, Kiara Advani), Gaurav (played by Vijender Singh) and Aditya (played by Slumdog Millionaire actor Arfi Lamba).
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MLB end of season awards: Will the Giants win any?
When the team falls short, individual recognition is all that’s left. With the Dodgers still 7.5 games ahead in the NL West (Magic Number: 10) and the Cubs 8.5 games up in the Wild Card (Magic Number: 8), the Giants are knocking on death’s door.
We know what it would take to make the postseason — lots of wins and a massive choke job by the Dodgers or Cubs. We don’t know which players will earn the individual awards that are based on the regular season. The Giants should get a few nods here or there, but they’ll probably be shut out of the big ones.
Giants candidate: Buster Posey
Favorite: Bryce Harper
The voting won’t be close because none of the other candidates are on postseason teams, and Bryce Harper deserves every first place vote anyway. Since 2001, the only hitter in either league to finish with a higher OPS than Harper’s current OPS of 1.136 was Barry Bonds, who did it in 2002/03/04.
Giants candidate: Madison Bumgarner
Favorite: Zack Greinke
If the Cy Young voters were instructed to “put a heavy emphasis on offensive numbers,” Bumgarner would win in a heartbeat. Instead, another pitcher who hits pretty well (but not nearly as well as Bumgarner) should take this one fairly easily, with Bumgarner probably finishing anywhere from fourth (behind Greinke, Clayton Kershaw and Jake Arrieta) to sixth. Greinke will definitely finish the season with the lowest ERA, and he’s ahead of everyone in WHIP as well. Throw in a tidy win-loss record of 17-3, which won’t matter to most voters but will probably resonate with a few, and Greinke will probably take this award easily.
Giants candidate: Matt Duffy
Favorite: Kris Bryant
Duffy had the statistical edge at the end of July, but Bryant went off in August and September (.333/.407/.605, 10 home runs, 23 extra-base hits in 43 games before today). Now Bryant has the edge over Duffy in Fangraphs WAR (5.7 to 4.1), Baseball-Reference WAR (4.7 to 4.6), home runs (24 to 10), OBP (.368 to .340) and SLG (.492 to .435). Bryant was hyped before he was even called up, and he stars for a team that’ll play in at least one postseason game. This vote probably won’t be close.
Gold Glove (shortstop)
Giants candidate: Brandon Crawford
Favorite: Brandon Crawford
Finally, he has the offensive numbers to trump Andrelton Simmons! Actually, SABR released their Defensive Index rankings (“derived from batted ball location-based data and those collected from play-by-play accounts”) today. Crawford, who leads all National League shortstops in defensive runs saved, led the entire NL with a DI score of 16.8, ahead of Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado (13.2) and the next-closest shortstops, Adeiny Hechavarria (11.6) and Simmons (10.1). Crawford’s season looks like it’ll end in a disappointing way (one home run short of 20, too), but he may pick up some hardware after it’s over.
Gold Glove (first base)
Giants candidate: Brandon Belt
Favorite: Paul Goldschmidt
SABR has Belt ahead of all first baseman in their Defensive Index rankings, and he’s the best defensive first baseman in the National League. However, each of the last two NL winners at first base — Adrian Gonzalez and Goldschmidt — are still around, they’re still playing well defensively, and they’re putting up better offensive numbers than Belt (although in the case of Gonzalez is pretty danged close).
Gold Glove (catcher)
Favorite: Yadier Molina
SABR has Posey as the leading catcher as well, slightly ahead of Wilson Ramos and a few points up on Molina, but Molina has won seven Gold Gloves in a row and has caught over 200 more innings than Posey. Even though Posey has five fewer errors and their caught-stealing numbers are almost identical, Molina will almost certainly take home his eighth Gold Glove this year. Posey may be the best at framing pitches, but Molina has that special “Gold Glove” mitt and chest protector, which serves as a nightly reminder to the voters.
Silver Slugger (shortstop)
Favorite: Jung Ho Kang
Kang has a significantly higher average (.287 to .255) and on-base percentage (.355 to .315), but Crawford holds the edge in home runs (19 to 15) and RBIs (77 to 58).
Silver Slugger (catcher)
Favorite: Buster Posey
This isn’t a contest.
Silver Slugger (pitcher)
Favorite: Madison Bumgarner
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CINELATION | Movie Reviews by Christopher Beaubien
THE MOVIE LIST (1903-2020)
CHRISTOPHER BEAUBIEN is an independent filmmaker, illustrator/designer (Rainbeau)
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His short horror movie SOCKET (2016)
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The Informant! (2009)
Synecdoche, NY (2008)
An Education (2009)
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
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Wendy and Lucy (2008)
Precious (2009)
Coraline (2009)
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Two Weeks From Now...
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DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT:
BRIDGE NO. 29 (2014)
A Few Bits on A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS (1985)
Movie Review: WEEKEND (2011)
Movie Review: BERNIE (2012)
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NEW ORLEANS (2009)
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Stuffed and Moving
Do you feel your greatest talents are being squandered? Like there is no demand for your gifts and all you can do is struggle with jobs you should never have had to perform? At the end of the day, your real work lingers in a foggy distance, incomplete. Time passes quickly. You feel drained, stuck in a hole underground, looking out to make your mark and redeem yourself. This is how Mr. Fox feels. In this disarmingly charming (and quotable) film by Wes Anderson, as the fable goes, Mr. Fox risks the lives of others to use his talent for stealing chickens.
For a couple of years (twelve fox years), Mr. Fox has been married to the love of his life, Mrs. Fox (Meryl Streep) and father to their prepubescent son Ash (Jason Schwartzman). To do this, Mr. Fox swore never again to risk his life stealing food from the murderous farmers who rule the land. His modest income as an opinion columnist — another detail not of, yet worthy of Roald Dahl — doesn’t stop Mr. Fox’s ambitions of moving from his modest foxhole underground to live in a more upscale neighbourhood — a large, healthy tree. Because working for a newspaper lacks the thrill of chicken burglary, Mr. Fox jumps off the thieving wagon when he finds a new partner in crime in Kylie (Wally Wolodarsky), a soft-spoken, pudgy — but gutsy — little possum.
Cocksure Mr. Fox is forever young — cocky and sure of his invincibility — and takes everything for granted. While on a crime spree, he shows more interest in how the latest fox trap works than his own safety. Brimming with confidence, Mr. Fox tends to hog the spotlight. Watch him turn the attention back to him during a toast over a sumptuous banquet. Part of the fun is committing his forbidden theft under his wife’s nose and then watching her enjoy his catch.
He doesn’t give her powers of observation much credit as he stores his loot in plain sight — not to demean her on purpose, mind you — he’s just full of himself to the point of obliviousness. Mr. Fox shares a slyness — minus the malevolence — with Mr. Grinch. He’s so crooked that he could straighten a hill. Oh, and he loves calling his schemes “Master Plans”!
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I Appreciate And Respect You
“I Appreciate You and Respect You” Linguistic Landscaping Project
To get involved, please click on the following link to fill out a brief contact form:
https://goo.gl/forms/DdYxMKm9VwmTk1693
This project is a partnership between Dr. Alexandra Jaffe (Chair of the Linguistics Department) and Dr. Craig Stone (Director of the American Indian Studies Program) and is intended to increase knowledge of and respect for the linguistic and cultural diversity of faculty, students and staff.
The project was born out of Stone’s participation in the CSU Ethnic Studies Task Force, which reinforced the urgency for campuses to take concrete action to make all members of a community feel appreciated and respected. This was coupled with Jaffe’s interest in “Linguistic Landscaping”—how written language in public places reflects and shapes the cultural climate and Stone’s expertise in public art.
The project is thus focused on promoting mutual knowledge and empathy across different groups and is the first collaborative effort of the Puvungna Arts Empathy Production Project.
As the videos and recordings below illustrate, speakers of different languages and dialects are recorded saying a sentence that expresses appreciation and respect.
The phrase (a translation or adaptation of “I appreciate and respect you”) is printed on a laminated poster that has a QR barcode (see an example below). Viewers who capture the code on a smartphone camera are led to this page (or a similar page on the AIS website) where they can listen to sound files and view videos of the speaker or signer on the poster. These posters are put up around the campus–either as roving exhibits or individually (on office doors or walls, for example), thus serving as a visible notice of sometimes invisible linguistic diversity attached to a positive message of intergroup relations.
The goal of the project is ambitious: To record all the languages (and dialects!) spoken or signed on the CSULB campus and to have the video and audio files present on many departments’, offices’, organizations’ and clubs’ websites.
These posters were first introduced at the February 2017 International Mother Language Day, that celebrated the diversity of our campus’s languages. Below, please find video and audio files of individuals interviewed for this project by the Linguistics Department.
If you would like to get involved –either by being recorded, or by learning how to make the recordings and posters and to take this project to your group or workplace, please click on the link below:
https://goo.gl/forms/Z6jgqBrEg4hvMk5y2
American Sign Language (Rezenet Moges-Riedel)
http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/linguistics/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/apprespin-Amharic1-1.mp3
Portuguese (Venicius)
Northern Mao (Michael Ahland)
Mandarin (Ziba Ablet)
http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/linguistics/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Ziba-Mandarin.m4a
Arabic (Faife)
Polish (Sarah Elgadra)
http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/linguistics/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Sarah-Polish.m4a
Arabic (Sara Elgadra)
http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/linguistics/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Sarah-Arabic.m4a
Krio (Dr. Malcolm Finney)
Uyghur (Ziba Ablet)
http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/linguistics/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Ziba-Uyghur.m4a
German (Gabriele Anton)
American Sign Language (Dr. Wanette Reynolds)
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“Scapula” selected by Charline von Heyl at Art Cologne
COLOGNE – From Thursday, April 10th through Sunday, April 13, Corbett vs. Dempsey will present a booth in the “Collaborations” section of Art Cologne, with a myriad of work from the gallery’s inventory selected by artist Charline von Heyl.
For its contribution to Art Cologne 2014’s “Collaborations” section, Corbett vs. Dempsey invited painter Charline von Heyl to select work from its inventory. The result is Scapula, an unorthodox collaboration between a gallery and artist in which she provided an outside perspective on the gallery’s roster and shaped a presentation that emphasized a specific part of its overall program. In particular, von Heyl focused on the connections between mid-twentieth-century artworks and contemporary artists in Corbett vs. Dempsey’s stable. “The only criterion I had, to say it with Emily Dickinson, was ‘the demand of awe,’” von Heyl says. “I chose the work that managed to jump the fence of ideas…. anything that did over-ride what I thought of as my desire and made me wonder and marvel.” The artists chosen by von Heyl span a period from a 1928 drawing by Isobel Steele MacKinnon, a Chicago painter who studied in Munich with Hans Hofmann, to a 1968 frottage by Dominick Di Meo, a recent assemblage by Wuppertal-based musician/artist Peter Brötzmann, film posters by Josiah McElheny, a new painting by Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, and much more.
A full-color, 36-page brochure, with a conversation between Charline von Heyl and John Corbett, accompanies the booth presentation. Additionally, during the fair Corbett vs. Dempsey will release a new CD: George Davis, Scapula: Bop Acetates, Chicago, 1949.
Alto saxophonist George Davis is an enigmatic figure, best known for leading the band in which Jackie & Roy met. Young singer Jackie Cain met pianist Roy Krall in the mid-40s, playing together under Davis at a club on the south side of Chicago called Jump Town. As the George Davis Quartet, they cut two 78-rpm records for Aristocrat that followed Davis into obscurity. In 1948/49, Jackie & Roy went on to work with Charlie Ventura. At the same time, Davis cut a group of acetate sides with an unnamed band, music that was rediscovered a few years ago. Awkwardly announced as if there was an audience, these privately recorded bop and r&b sides are pure Chicago jazz, hot, swinging, and bristling with attitude. Another lovely missive from the dustbin of music history.
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New single "Identitetslös" and Darin Arena Tour tickets
Darin is back with a new debut single "Identitetslös" which seems to mark the start of a new chapter in his music style. The song is a mixture of his latest Swedish melancholic folkpop works and Flashback 2.0 r'n'b vibes.
The single release comes along with the Darin Arena Tour announcement, a three-date tour in May in the three biggest cities in Sweden: Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö.
Tickets go on sale today October 26th at 10:00 (Swedish time) on AXS!
Listen to "Identitetslös" on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer and Google Play Music.
Darin Arena Tour Flashback Göteborg Identitetslös Malmö Stockholm
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Review: Priscilla Queen of the Desert at Liverpool Empire
I’ve never been to the Australian outback and probably never shall, but if it’s anything at all like that portrayed in Priscilla Queen of the Desert, then I’m booking my ticket right now!
The producers have certainly captured the panache of the original film with this adaptation - and some more. It’s pure West End: From Divas dangling in the rafters through to a pirouetting full scale tour bus, this is theatre designed to seduce, to ravish.
Carnivalesque is the word. Priscilla the stage show is just as much a journey into a subculture as it is to Alice Springs, but it’s one brimming with good vibes and topped off with sequins to die for. If there’s a Guinness Book of Records entry for most costumes in a West End show…
Centring around the escapades of a trio of Sydney Queens and an improbable journey to the back of beyond, Priscilla is just so right for stage it almost hurts. Once that bus is up and running, it’s full speed ahead. This is the theatrical equivalent to a box of smarties.
With Jason Donovan assuming the central role of Mitzi/Tick, star quality is assured. Ably supported by Richard Green in the role of world-weary, lovelorn Bernadette, Donovan is never better than when delivering a few choice Neighbours and Kylie-oriented quips. We should be so lucky.
But it’s Richard Astbury, stepping into the role of Adam/Felicia, who really owned this particular performance. Imbuing the role with a slender, felineness, Astbury is as lithe and as catty as they come. Besides, he wins the lovely legs competition hands down.
Occasionally it gets dark, never more so when the pilgrims arrive at a watering hole populated by a bunch of Crocodile Dundee types and a Sheila with a couple of gravity defying pendulums. Top notch choreography is required and delivered at such moments.
A particularly strong ensemble cast of dancers ensure that the routines are sharp and slick. Whether it’s the dance of the paint brushes or the barfly Bruces, routines are bright n’ breezy and always performed with tongues firmly in cheeks – sometimes literally…
If the second half of the show veers a little towards sentimentality it’s hardly a sin. After all, Shakespeare it was who said that journeys end in lovers meeting. After the interval it’s less of the extrovert, more of the introvert, but thankfully the production avoids getting too mushy.
The Simon and Garfunkel Story, Last Night DJ Saved My Life and now Priscilla – Liverpool’s Empire theatre is currently on a winning streak as hot as it gets. Let’s hope whoever is picking the winners doesn’t change their socks too soon.
Priscilla Queen of the Desert is infectious - just what the doctor ordered to chase away the winter blues.
Review: Submission by Michel Houllebecq
If when reading Submission you’re expecting an apocalyptic tale of France under threat from Islam and the emergence of a new Crusader superman, then forget it. For Michel Houllebecq’s controversial novel of 2015 exists purely in the realm of thought. If it’s action you want, look elsewhere.
Let’s put it this way: If this ever comes to the big screen, pity the poor sod charged with writing the screenplay.
In some ways this aspect of the novel – its inertia – is both a strength and a weakness. As a character, university lecturer and Huysmans enthusiast, Francois is an interesting if somewhat frustrating man, more so because he appears to be in the midst of a spiritual, physical and intellectual meltdown.
That's an old fashioned mid-life crisis to you and I.
The psychological strand of the novel is realised well enough. It has to be, because effectively this is a book about one man’s state of mind - though at times Francois’ many philosophical meditations may try the patience of all but the most hardened-Houllebecq adherents.
Understandably, the novel has thus met with mixed reviews. Yes, it’s short on action, but the actual submission of this novel concerns itself with the spiritual rather than the physical realm.
Indeed the actual rise to power of the Muslim Brotherhood is dealt with thriftily at all times. It all sort of happens off stage, elsewhere – an aspect that will undoubtedly disappoint the more gung-ho inclined readers.
As Francois himself is fond of saying: France falls without a single shot being fired, and so, by implication does Europe. Similarly, hardly a single sentence in this book describes a violent action or confrontation.
The lack of narrative pace though does allow the reader to appreciate the full extent of Francois’ very own dark night of the soul. As a symbol of post-modernist Europe, one where spirituality has not only been derided, but one where it has also been wilfully eroded, the libidinous lecturer is an all too believable archetype.
Bereft of spirituality, belief or certitude, Francois is, like his home continent, an unanchored vessel floating in a meaningless broth of post-modernist nihilism and thus one peculiarly receptive to any kind of 'solution.'
In the protagonist’s uncomplicated conversion to Islam, Submission may not be to everyone’s taste, but it does manage to capture a certain zeitgeist. Francois chooses Islam because it offers something that he lacks: a sense of a greater agenda. It also offers him four wives.
The price for European submission, suggests the author provocatively, might simply come down to what’s up for grabs: One wife or four? You choose.
In order to make the most out of this book then, it certainly needs to be read as a parable. Thus the character of Francois needs to be understood not as a unique individual, but rather in terms of a sketch of a certain frame of mind. As such the novel becomes much more palatable.
Take out the rather elongated passages about Huysmans and co. and Submission would certainly be an easier read, though not necessarily a better one. The preoccupation with philosophy - of how to be - is, after all, part of the problem here.
In the final analysis this book is not about Islam or indeed Christianity, it’s actually about man’s place in the cosmos and for his need to ultimately find security within that order in whatever shape or form he can.
Perhaps the most chilling achievement of this book is its portrayal of the apathetic, feminised, virtually impotent Northern European male - a species clearly at the point of extinction. Heaven knows what your average Sven makes of it all. Or Wolfgang. Or John for that matter.
Left wing appeasement of Islam leading ultimately to a coalition in order to prevent right wing empowerment has all the power of prescience.
Anyone witness to the recent French elections will not fail to see the plausibility of such a scenario.
Houllebecq's suggestion that such an alliance is quite natural and expedient to all concerned will surprise no-one who is au fait with the totalitarianism associated with either faction.
Why this novel has received a generally negative reaction from the Muslim community is beyond me. As far as I can see, there aren't too many more persuasive recruiters to Islam than Submission.
Then again for those able to read between the lines, and if read as a wake up call to Europe, Submission really does become a truly chilling work.
Review: The Danish Girl
If you’ve ever cast an envious glance at your wife’s frillies, and for the briefest of seconds thought, should I, dare I? Then you’ll find The Danish Girl a very reassuring film.
Eddie Redmayne plays Einar Wegener one half of a bohemian Danish couple who, when they’re not painting portraits and what not in their arty Copenhagen studio, are experimenting with a little bit of cross-dressing.
While Redmayne’s wife Gerda (Alicia Vikander) is happy to play along at first, she soon realises that hubby’s frilly fetish runs more than just skin deep. Dressed as his alter ego Lili, it’s not long before Redmayne’s ‘experimentation’ sees him necking strange men at parties and generally behaving like a right little hussy.
Looking at times variously like a cross between Ermentrude from Magic Roundabout, Andy Warhol, Nureyev and Grayson Perry, Redmayne develops a disturbing coyness which brings to mind Princess Diana in all her glory. And as Einar makes way for Lili, a permanent grin becomes etched on Redmayne’s face. Perhaps it’s just a feeling of liberation.
Based very loosely on real life events in 1920s Denmark, Lili decides to go the full monty and opt for a pioneering sex change op. Needless to say all doesn’t go too well. And…well that’s about it really.
Although this film tries hard to be sensitive and treat its cisgender topic with due reverence, one can’t help but feel there’s something missing here: namely anguish, torment and a little bit of suspense would have certainly helped.
The problem with The Danish Girl is twofold: Einar’s transformation into Lili never really causes the kind of soul searching one might have expected, nor does it really invoke the kind of prejudice and intolerance one might have expected in 1920’s Denmark.
Once Einar has made up his/her mind to swap gender, Gerda seems more than happy with her new-look transgender husband, and apart from a beating from a couple of thugs, there’s virtually no sense of how society would have responded to such an ‘odd’ couple.
Instead of suspense we do get an awful lot of Eddie Redmayne. Crikey, he practically has about 98% of the screen time! If he’s not grinning and flickering his eyelashes, he’s tucking his manhood safely away twixt his legs while ogling himself in the mirror. Talk about narcissistic.
All told, this is a serious attempt to make a sensitive film, but one that fails to go through all the gears, occasionally even threatening to stall such as when a potential suitor for Gerda appears – a sub plot that I’m afraid just puts us back in neutral.
While it’s fashionable to signal one’s astonishment at the sheer flexibility of Eddie Redmayne’s talents nowadays, if I’m honest, I have to say I found his portrayal of an early 20th century cisgender more panto dame than tortured soul.
Had the film been less obsessed with Redmayne it would have undoubtedly worked a whole lot better. As it is The Danish Girl might just leave you a little over-stuffed on Eddie and a little under-filled on drama.
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Home Sport Hearts Former Hearts boss Csaba Laszlo reveals Vladimir Romanov wanted to strip Christophe...
Former Hearts boss Csaba Laszlo reveals Vladimir Romanov wanted to strip Christophe Berra of the captaincy
CSABA LASZLO may have lost the war against Vladimir Romanov – but he is proud to have won the battle to make Christophe Berra his captain.
Laszlo has revealed that Hearts’ eccentric former owner wanted him to strip Berra of the captaincy at the start of the 2008/09 in favour of Marius Zaliukas.
The experienced coach held firm against trigger-happy Romanov’s wishes, common sense prevailed and the gifted young centre-half – just 24 years of age at the time – continued to be the dressing room leader in an often tumultuous period.
Laszlo was Hearts’ longest-serving manager under Romanov despite their disagreements
History has vindicated Laszlo’s passionate advocacy, with Berra going on to earn a move to Wolves in January 2009 before starring for Ipswich and earning 41 caps for Scotland.
And the Romanian will be among the first to congratulate the no-nonsense stopper if he holds the Scottish Cup aloft at Hampden today to cap his second spell at the club in sensational fashion.
Laszlo recalled: “Christophe was just a young boy when I was at Hearts but already I could see something special in him and I had a big fight to keep him as my captain.
“Mr Romanov wanted to make [Marius] Zaliukas the captain at the start of the season and I was for Christophe. In the end, he accepted my argument about how important Christophe was to the football club.
“Christophe was accepted in the dressing room and deserved that honour. Not only that, but he was a boy from the academy, from Edinburgh, and I wanted to say to the people: ‘I know we have a foreign owner, but we have good Scottish players and we are proud of them’.
“We had a combination of Scottish boys like Mikey Stewart, Lee Wallace, Andrew Driver, with good foreign players like [Christos] Karipidis, Bruno Aguiar, Zaliukas and [Deividas] Cesnauskas. It was very multi-cultural but Christophe was the leader of it all.
“Mr Romanov listened to me and trusted me.”
That relationship ultimately broke down in January 2010 when he refused direct orders to axe Jose Goncalves and was dismissed four days before a League Cup semi-final against St Mirren.
Jose Goncalves’ refusal to sign a new deal also spelled the end for Laszlo
He adds ruefully: “I won that fight for Berra with Mr Romanov, but he won the war. He sacked me.
“That was for one reason – when Goncalves would not sign a new contract, the owner told me he could not play anymore. Jose was one of the best players in Scotland, so I couldn’t do that. That is where I lost my job.”
Having gone their separate ways, Berra did not quite reach the heights of a ‘£20 million’ defender, as Laszlo once outlandishly predicted.
However, the ex-Lithuania, Uganda and Dundee United boss has nothing but praise for the way Berra maximised his potential to become a pivotal player for club and country, crediting that to his tireless work ethic.
“Christophe’s attitude was incredible,” recalled Laszlo. “He used to work every day after training with me, Andrew Driver and some other coaches and, sadly, this was not too common in Scotland.
“He was desperate to learn and recognised that he needed to improve certain things. I always told him ‘do what you do best’ – defend simple, dominate in the air, pass the ball into midfield.
“I knew he could be one of the very best at those things. And he is.
“I have followed his career and am proud of the small part I played in his progress. I will definitely pick a time to call him if Hearts win the cup because I love to see him, and Hearts, succeed.”
And Laszlo, currently out of work after leaving United last September, reckons that sentiment will be shared by the whole of Scottish football.
He added: “I think the Scottish Cup has huge value to a club like Hearts and if Celtic don’t win it, I think everybody will be happy. Otherwise, it is another treble for Celtic – that is very boring.”
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Koyasan (Japan)
The slow train out of Kyoto chugged into the suburbs and then out into a patchwork of rice paddies and bamboo groves. That dappled green blur turned to a darker hue as farms gave way to forest and at the end of the line I traded the train car for a funicular that took me 800 metres up the side of Mount Koya in about 5 minutes. Exciting the cable car, I lurched a bit, whether from the uneven sidewalk or the sudden change in altitude, and found my way onto a bus for the next phase of my journey up a winding mountain road. The mountain, called Kōya-san in Japanese, is a sacred Buddhist site started in 805 by the monk Kobo Daishi. It has been an important pilgrimage destination for many years but now it is also a UNESCO-designated area with 120 temples, a small town, a university, the largest rock garden in Japan and Okunoin – an enormous cemetery that has been growing up around Kobo Daishi’s mausoleum. I’m not a Buddhist and I wasn’t in Japan on an Eat, Pray, Love type tour but I was interested in staying in shukubō (temple lodgings) and eating shōjin ryōri (vegetarian food intended for and prepared by monks) after my kaiseki ryōri meal at Yuzuya Ryokan.
The road was so narrow that we had to pull off the road and come to a stop so that the oncoming bus could make it past, and even then the road jack-knifed so severely that one miscalculation would have sent a vehicle right down to the train station, but soon we were at the gates to Kōya-san. A large stone Buddha stood guard in a red robe and a promotional banner advertising the site’s 1200th anniversary next year. 1200 years! For the several minutes I was agog at the sheer age of the place but but also the determination of the early pilgrims. This was decidedly not an easy place to get to even in the modern age so their journeys would have been long and treacherous. I learned later that women were banned from the town’s temples for a significant part of history so in order to pray at Kobo Daishi’s mausoleum they had to take an even more dangerous and remote back route through the mountains.
Once we were inside the gates the town lost its aura of remoteness. It both bigger and busier than I expected and we picked up people from bus stops, saw shopkeepers closing up for the evening and dragging in shelves of prettily wrapped products, noted several cars parked behind the buildings…which in fairness were mostly temples. There was a large pagoda-shaped temple looming over the road and demanding attention with its red beams, blue kanji and gold-painted wooden lanterns lining the entrance, but others were small and humble, set back a ways from the road. Most had some kind of gate with paper lanterns to welcome guests and as we drove past I tried to catch a glimpse of the gardens and temples inside. In the driveway of one, I saw a monk sweeping leaves into a circle with s straw broom – a Zen exercise.
At Ekoin, the monastery I had chosen to stay at, I arrived at an ornate wooden gate carved with swirls and accented with copper pieces. Through it I could see a pond in the garden surrounded with stone sculpture, stubby trees and rocky outcrops rising up to the main temple up above as well as a row of potted lotus plants lining the driveway. A young monk ran out to greet me and took me to my on the first floor. As at Yuzuya Ryokan, I stored my shoes in a cubby and put on borrowed slippers to enter the room which was sparsely decorated with tatami mat flooring, a low table with a tea set, cushions, an alcove with a scroll and sadly, another television. A blue and white cotton yukata (pyjama robe) was hanging in the corner for me to wear to the bath and paper screens opened onto a small patio with a wicker chair and a serene scene; fragrant cedar trees, rocks with scrub trees and mosses, and a fountain bubbling in the pond. I sighed happily. It had felt like quite a journey but I had the satisfaction of one who has reached their destination and was looking forward to dinner and a bath.
Shōjin ryōri is vegetarian but the Shingon Buddhism sect also prohibits eating root vegetables – potatoes, carrots, onion, garlic, etc. – and dairy is not frequently consumed in Japan so I was intrigued about what my “sumptuous feast” would be like. But not in the least concerned – at this point in my journey I was well aware of the culinary reach that was possible and had eaten all manner of things I never knew existed. At the monastery dinner is served in your room, so at the appointed hour, a trio of young monks arrived at my door carrying lacquer boxes that were unpacked to showcase an incredible meal – three trays each containing smaller containers and beautiful ceramic plates laden with delicacies, as well as the staples; rice, tea, soy sauce and a special fall harvest beer that I had ordered. I didn’t know where to start!
On the main tray in front of me was steamed rice, pickles and clear soup with radish cakes floating in it, and some unidentified assorted vegetables which my menu suggested might consist of: Japanese radish, perilla leaf, wakame seaweed, Chinese yam, sword bean flowers, bayberry, raw konjac and vinegared miso sauce. Having eaten very few of these prior to my trip to Japan (I didn’t even know what konjac was), I was out of luck, but I enjoyed it thoroughly, being a little bit salty and having some tang from the vinegar and miso. The next dish was a simmered dish with snow peas, chestnut, young corn, shiitake mushroom and yuba (dried soy-milk skin) which I devoured, feeling grateful for all of the variety but also for the small portions. The final dish held tofu in sesame oil. This is something I eat fairly often at home but here I really relished the texture of the tofu and the nuttiness of the oil as I marvelled at all of the different types of food and methods of food preparation in front of me.
I tried to pace myself but I as swapped the main tray with the second tray (allowing myself a few minutes to get out of the kneeling position and hopefully regain some feeling in my feet) I realized that I was already starting to feel full. But quitting wasn’t an option. The tray in front of me now held hassun – a delicious fried dumpling with Chinese yam and candied Japanese plum, assorted tempura with sweet potato, shishitō pepper, laver seaweed, pumpkin and eggplant. Again there was a simmered dish which contained Kōya-dōfu, a local delicacy of freeze-dried and reconstituted tofu with rolled kelp, wheat gluten, and more snow peas. The next day I saw some kōya-dōfu for sale in one of the shops and was tempted to buy some but in the end I realized I had already bought too many treats and still needed some room in my case for presents.
My feet had completely fallen asleep by this point in the meal and I was starting to groan under the weight of all that food but I saw that the third tray held delicate soba noodles with soba sauce in a beautiful ceramic container, a bowl of dark brown hijiki seaweed, and a couple of pieces of fruit and I realized that of course the order of the trays held a perfect pacing. The third tray was cool and cleansing and not that difficult to finish, especially with some tea and the last of my beer, so swapped trays again, ate up and then laid myself on my tatami mat, relieving my aching legs. In Japan, children are taught to sit on their knees from an early age so they are quite used to this treatment but I was only able to do about 5 minutes at a time. I could have easily had a little nap on the floor there but I didn’t have much time to rest – the monks were coming back to pick up the trays and I still wanted to visit the graveyard.
OKUNOIN
To call Okunoin a graveyard is the most grievous kind of understatement but that’s what I thought I was going to see when I set out in the dark after dinner. I knew that the sun had set and that the moon was still nearly full (I’d been at the full moon ceremony the night before in Kyoto) but I hadn’t really counted on it being so incredibly dark. There were some streetlights and a couple of lights on in the town but as I walked and walked and walked and wondered when I was going to get to the main gates, and then wondered if I had taken a wrong turn out of town, I couldn’t help being a little uneasy. But finally I found the gates and the ubiquitous washing station with its stone fountain and bamboo ladles.
I’d been walking for about half an hour at this point and didn’t have a map with me. I had no idea where the mausoleum was but I figured I’d walk along the path for a while and see what I could see. Which turned out to be not very much. There was a promenade that seemed to be relatively new as all of the tiles were level and no weeds growing through the cracks. Along the sides were some stone lanterns typical of the but several were burned out and a few inches behind them all I could make out was shaggy undergrowth and the occasional outline of a statue in the moonlight. I kept walking but the farther I got into the cemetery, the more scared I got but I couldn’t figure out why. Because I was in a graveyard? Ridiculous. At night? No. Did I hear drums in the distance? Certainly not. The possibility of dengue fever? Maybe that one…a couple of tourists had gotten it at a temple in Tokyo a few weeks before my trip. But no. The two men who fell in behind me? Ordinarily this would have put me on my guard, especially combined with the cemetery, remote mountain top, darkness and my incredibly poor footwear but come on, this was Japan! One of the safest countries in the world and not only that but a MONASTERY in Japan. I kept walking. Eventually I did give up and turn around because I was an hour away from my bed and hadn’t really seen anything.
The next day I learned that I had taken the wrong fork in the road and walked almost to the far end of the Okunoin, unknowingly passing hundreds and hundreds of of graves as I pressed on in the dark, and also that while an incredibly holy and serene place, Okunoin is still a little bit creepy in the daytime. I probably wouldn’t have come in the dark if I had seen it first but in the fresh light of morning I could hear woodpeckers hammering away and calling to each other and the smell of cedar and moss was lovely. From the main path I had walked the night before were all kinds of trails and dirt paths leading off into family complexes (marked by mossy Torii gates) and forest. Some of the cedars must have been big when the site was created because they are ancient now. I found one huge statue almost knocked on its side simply because a cedar tree bigger than I could put my arms around had kept growing. Inscription markers were everywhere I found one statue almost knocked on its side because a cedar tree bigger than I could put my arms around had grown into that space.
The site is sacred because Kobo Daishi is believed to be in eternal meditation in the temple but throughout history people have buried their families and loved ones close by (or set up a monument) so that when he wakes up, he will be able to revive them as well. But the oldest monument in the cemetery was constructed in the year 997 and there are hundreds more that covered in moss and crumbling. This place is OLD and it feels as though the stone has in some way started to return to the earth. In places where new marble has been used its newness feels jarring, like to be polished is an affront somehow.
But in spite of its age, it’s evident that this is a busy place. Some of the newer monuments have been erected by corporations – a sure sign of the times – and pinwheels are stuck in the ground close to monuments for children, turning slightly in the cool air but never getting up enough movement to rid themselves of moss. Small statues of the Jizo Buddha (a protector of children, pregnant women and travelers) are everywhere, dressed in knitted toques and aprons with offerings of coins and flowers. I had seen these Jizo Buddha at Hase-dera temple in Kamakura and a fox variation at Fushimi Inari shrine in Kyoto but there was something unsettling about seeing hundreds of these statues at Okunoin, tucked into the nook of a tree or piled up to cover all the sides of a huge pyramid and all in various stages of decay. Later I read here that “In ancient times it was thought that children who died could not go to Heaven because they had caused great sorrow for their parents. Therefore grieving parents would wrap articles of their children’s clothing around Jizo statues and ask the Jizo to find their children and guide them to Heaven. Over the years this evolved into a tradition of wrapping a red bib around the Jizo when asking for any sort of favor.”
The Kobo Daishi Gobyo mausoleum is very serene and obviously very sacred. To get to it, I crossed a little moat to an area where no photos are talking is allowed. Monks in saffron robes are sweeping the ground around the Great Hall and inside several people were sitting in silent meditation. It was so far in that I never would have found it in the dark and I realized the next day that it wouldn’t have been open anyways. So I’m glad I made two trips.
MORNING SERVICE & FIRE CEREMONY
When I got back to my room at night, the monks had cleared away my trays and set up my futon on the floor with a pillow stuffed with buckwheat. I’d slept on this setup a few times by this point on my trip and it was always very comfortable so I keep wondering why it need to be more complicated than that. I’d been sleeping pretty lightly because of all the strange noises and walls made of paper but I’d forgotten that I was at a working monastery. Soft chimes called the monks to prayer at 4 AM, then again to call everyone else to morning service is 6:30 AM. In case anyone manages to sleep in, Muzak is blared out the speakers all over town at 8.
The morning service was at the temple on the hill behind my room but as I’d arrived too late for afternoon meditation the day before, I hadn’t seen it yet. After exchanging my sandals for slippers at the cubby, I came around to the main hall where we were greeted by two monks in black robes and purple overlay with a pattern of circles with vertical crosses on them. We knelt in front of a shrine with candles and an incense burner and a small statue of Buddha and the monks started chanting. Behind the shrine was a deep hall with many more altars and candles and banners of red silk hanging from the ceiling. Then the monks added gongs and cymbals to their chanting and a priest in black robes with a gold overlay came out to stand in front of the altar. He gave a short sermon in Japanese that sounded as though it was rattled off rather quickly but the only people still kneeling nodded appreciatively (thus confirming my theory about Westerners sitting on the floor) and we were invited to add a pinch of incense to the burner. When it was time to leave we followed the monks around the hall, bowing to the Buddha and then heading back out into the courtyard where we would attend the fire ceremony.
The Goma fire ritual also happens every morning as part of the monks’ service. In the evening guests are invited to write a prayer on a piece of wood and bring it to the office to be burned in the morning. As we filed into the smaller temple after the morning service one of the monks was seated at the shrine carefully setting up the materials for the fire. He had put on a saffron overlay for this part. While he built the fire in the brazier another monk started steadily drumming. The flames got higher and higher the drumming became faster and faster and then the prayers were added which caused the flames to lick up a bit higher but then piece de resistance was when the monk added a bit of oil to the fire and the flames reached almost to the ceiling. It’s quite close quarters in the fire temple and the drumming, chanting and flames are quite sensational. Here’s a short video clip:
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After that breakfast was going to have to try pretty hard but when the monks brought in the trays I found steamed rice, pickles, tea, miso soup (made with wakame seaweed, wheat gluten and Japanese honeywort), crispy dried laver seaweed to wrap around pinches of rice, deep-fried soybean curd with vegetables, marinated vegetables, grated Chinese yam, and wheat gluten boiled in soy sauce. It was perfect.
On my way back to the funicular, I tried to taste as many traditional Kōya-san delicacies as I could find. One specialty was a green paste filled with adzuki bean and wrapped in a banana leaf which was a bit slimy and not overly sweet but my favourite was yakimochi – a rice dumpling filled with black bean paste then fried on a griddle. I had heard that pressed sushi wrapped in persimmon leaves was a specialty of the mountains (because the persimmon leaves help preserve the fish) but I couldn’t find it at any of the shops. Sad, but I little did I know I was going to need to save room for Osaka. I was sad to leave Kōya-san because with all the ancient history, culture, religion and natural beauty that come together here it was one of my favourite places in Japan. Hard not to get a serious case of Stendhal syndrome there.
New Mexico Redux
My mom had airline tickets to Albuquerque and I had points so we set off after Christmas for a few days. Matt and I had been to New Mexico for the first time on our road trip last October, travelling through Taos Pueblo, Farmington and Chaco Cultural Centre to see the ancient pueblos. We were mesmerized by the landscape and the history so I was excited to see what Albuquerque and Santa Fe were like.
The short answer is cold. We looked out the window and saw the sunny courtyard so walked out in sweaters…then promptly headed back to the hotel for jackets, toques and gloves. The sunshine was nice but at -4 degrees it was significantly warmer in Seattle! But Historic Albuquerque is beautiful and was still all decked out for Christmas with wreathes and ribbons and a creche at the church. And the red chiles hanging everywhere are surely not seasonal but if you want a mix of red and green on your enchiladas you ask for “Christmas”.
We took the train to Santa Fe and that was a beautiful ride through the state and up to 7,000 feet elevation. Needless to say it did not get any warmer and the plaza in the Old Town district was still covered in snow – beautiful against the sandstone pueblo architecture. We walked everywhere, ducking into art galleries and boutiques, finding little cafes to warm up in and eventually sitting down to a beautiful lunch at the historic La Fonda hotel. We saw the Georgia O’Keeffe gallery but there’s not much there; we were more impressed with the light and the landscape, the architecture and the Puebloan craft markets. It’s easy to see why so many artists have found themselves here, and how so many beautiful things have come out of this area.
Here are some photos from the trip.
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9th September 2019Adam Long
Progress Review
On Thursday October 17th 2019 there will be Progress Review day. The school will be closed to students on the day, and letters will be sent out inviting parents to make an appointment to meet with their child’s key worker.
We are currently considering blazers as a smarter, more grown up alternative for the older students. We will be sending out letters with information once more has been decided.
Letters were sent home with an invitation to sign up for Class Dojo, our new rewards and communication system. Class Dojo is free to download and works on any platform. The letters contained a unique code that will give you access to your child’s class, allowing you to see their Learning Tokens and other information. You may also message your child’s key worker during school hours through the app (staff will not be available outside normal school days and hours).
We look forward to sharing your child’s successes with you this year!
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Balloon Launch Bacon
24th June 2019Adam Long
On Friday the 28th we will be launching another balloon into the stratosphere, after last year’s Launch Dave, as part of the Demeter House Stratosphere Project.
We’re projected to reach 25,000ft, though we’re hoping to reach as high as last year’s 36,542 ft, the 43rd highest launch in the UK, at the time.
This year we’ll be sending up a go-pro camera with the payload to hopefully capture some amazing footage!
Stay tuned to the Demeter House Facebook for updates when we chase after the balloon on Friday!
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Alec’s Art Exhibition
On Friday the 21st of June, from 5pm to 8pm, The Grove will be transformed in a wondrous seaside scene, featuring the work of our student Alec Wareing and exhibitions of the year 9-11 student’s art, photography and sculptures.
With free entry, it would be great for you to come experience the exhibit, and support all the hard work Alec has put into this occasion. Come along and see, smell, hear, feel and even taste the beach! (There will be refreshments and snacks for a small price)
The PTA is hosting a Music Quiz Night from 7pm on the same day.
Make sure to book your tickets!
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Events This Term
26th April 2019Adam Long
As a quick start to the new term, three of our younger students took part in the Fun Run this Wednesday, each of them running 2km! In other Sporty events, our Upper School shall be holding a friendly Staff vs Students football match at Brigg Town FC on May 7th, and some of our older students will be competing in an Under 16’s football tournament in Grantham on May 10th, with lots more football matches to come.
Our Careers Week begins on the 13th of May, giving our Year 9’s a look at the different options open for their futures in education and vocations. There will be visiting speakers, as well as input from our own staff on the options available to them.
A few of our students have been working together to create a go-kart in preparation for the Humber Bridge Soap Box Derby, which they’ll be entering on June 22nd. There’s a lot of changes yet to be made, but they’re hoping to be able to do some test runs soon!
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7th March 2019Adam Long
It’s World Book Day, and here at Demeter House School we’ve had a stampede of literary characters throughout the school. From Maid Marian, Cowboys and an actual Dictionary to a Handheld Potato, we’ve got it all!
Even Super Mario makes an appearance!
World Book Day is a charity that aims to give every child a book of their own. On World Book Day we celebrate authors, illustrators and reading.
For more information, you can visit: www.WorldBookDay.com
It took a long time to find this student!
Even the staff got involved, one of them coming as Mr Bunce from Fantastic Mr Fox (left) and one of the more green fingered teachers as a hand, holding a potato from a ‘First Time Veg Grower’ book (right).
…and they all lived happily ever after!
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A Perfect Pudding
27th February 2019Adam Long
After a long morning of learning, a culinary treat awaited for pudding today in the form of Strawberries on Rice Krispy cakes, drizzled with a slight smattering of chocolate sauce. Made from scratch by the wonderful Sue, they certainly brought smiles all round.
‘Just enough syrup to not be overly sticky. It’s an 8/10 from me.’
~Mel
‘Only half a strawberry? I’ve been deceived!’
~Tom
‘It’s the eye that takes the first bite, and my mouth that’ll certainly be taking a second (portion).’
~Steve
‘Just something I threw together.’
~Sue says, jokingly.
With Lemon Crunch promised for tomorrow, it makes you wonder if the delights of the kitchen will ever end.
25th January 2019Adam Long
The Demeter House School Farm is a site on the outskirts of Caistor, where the upper school students visit for Animal Care and Forest School. The Farm itself consists of a grid of horse paddocks lined with dirt lanes, but it’s true beauty is found hidden behind an archway in the trees. Through this concealed entrance is a peaceful clearing with the pastures of various animals around it’s edge and a fishing pond at it’s centre.
On weekdays you can hear the trundling of the school bus as it trudges up the lane before rolling to a halt beside two curious Shetland ponies. Then, as if a team of (soon-to-be) expert handlers, the students step from the bus and into the routine of caring for the animals. When I accompanied a trip to the farm, I was able to watch as, with only the verbal directions of the teacher, the students were each able to complete their tasks about the farm – be it turning off the electrical fences, giving the animals their feed or helping the teacher to clean out the results of said feed.
Alongside the two ponies, the students also help to care for three young goats, affectionately named Mel, Michelle and Linda, a coop-full of chickens and two sultan hens, and a horse in one of the farm’s paddocks.
Once done with their respective chores, the students usually spend some time pole fishing with sweetcorn while waiting for the others – a relaxed pass time aside from the occasional mischievous duck.
Away from the sometimes hustle and bustle of school life, The Farm provides students with a calm respite while managing to impart both practical knowledge and skills, as well as teaching them the responsibilities of caring for animals. The Farm has already come a long way since the first time I visited it, nearly a year before this post, and I, for one, can’t wait to see it as we progress into Spring and Summer.
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The Introduction of Telephone into Turkish Houses: Private Space, Borders of the Neighborhoods and Solidarity
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The Telephone and the Social Struggles in Turkey: An Overview of a Social History of a Communication Technology
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Mobile Revolution: Toward a History of Technology, Telephony and Political Activism in Egypt
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Online and Offline Continuities, Community and Agency on the Internet
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Videogame Development in the Middle East: Iran, the Arab World, and Beyond
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Cyberactivists Paving the Way for the Arab Spring: Voices from Egypt, Tunisia and Libya
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Al Jazeera’s Framing of Social Media During the Arab Spring
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“The Best Damn Representation of Islam:” Muslims, Gender, Social Media, and Islamophobia in the United States
Stine Eckert, Sydney O’Shay Wallace, Jade Metzger-Riftkin, Sean Kolhoff, 8 Nov 2018
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Book: Social Media During the Egyptian Revolution: A Study of Collective Identity and Organizational Function of Facebook & Co
authority, Egypt, cyberactivism, democracy, activism, Arab Spring, media studies, social media
Fig. 1. Social Media During the Egyptian Revolution. Courtesy of Anchor Academic Publishing, 2014.
Anchor Academic Publishing has published a book called "Social Media During the Egyptian Revolution: A Study of Collective Identity and Organizational Function of Facebook & Co" written by Eira Martens-Edwards from the Deutsche Welle Akademie.
Martens-Edwards, Eira. Social Media During the Egyptian Revolution: A Study of Collective Identity and Organizational Function of Facebook & Co. Anchor Academic Publishing, 2014. ISBN: 978-3954892372.
With the fall of the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt the term 'Facebook Revolution' was coined depicting the world's most popular social media platform as a condition sine qua non for the Arab revolutions. Moving on from the extreme positions of cyber-utopians and pessimists, this study identifies and analyses mechanisms of use and potential intermediary effects of social media in connection with other driving factors of mass demonstrations that led to the fall of the Mubarak regime in early 2011. Semi-structured focus interviews were carried out with social media activists in Cairo between November 20th and 24th, 2011. The qualitative content analysis of eight interviews allowed for the identification of relevant categories and sub-categories as well as possible connections between them. Additionally, a thorough analysis of the Egyptian socio-economic, political and media system in the years leading up to the revolution provides the basis for valuable and contextual conclusions. Among the key findings is the accelerating effect of social media in mobilizing the Egyptian population to take part in mass demonstrations. Whereas the organizational function is limited to online network effects rather than facilitating the coordination of protesters on the ground, a significant impact of social media on the perception of a collective identity and threshold levels relevant for individual protest behavior was identified through this research. Moreover, the findings implicate a mutual dependency between new social media and traditional mass media.
Eira Martens-Edwards holds a Master of Arts in International Media Studies from the University of Applied Sciences Bonn Rhein-Sieg as well as a Master in Social and Economic Sciences from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Martens-Edwards has a professional background in the field of media, youth engagement and international development. For her empirical study on the role of social media during the Egyptian revolution, she conducted field research in Cairo in 2011. Currently Martens-Edwards is a researcher at Deutsche Welle Akademie, Germany's centre for international media development.
The book can be ordered online at Amazon.
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RIP René Auberjonois Today brings us the sad news that René Auberjonois, best known to Star Trek fans as Constable Odo from Deep Space Nine, has passed away.
Odo wasn't Rene's first or only stint in Star Trek. He first came to the show all the way back in 1991, playing Colonel West in Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country. West was an eager Starfleet officer who urged the President to rescue Kirk and McCoy from the Klingons, promising that if it led to war the Federation would "clean their chronometers". In some versions of the film he then proves to be the assassin who tries to kill the President with a rifle at the climax, to be stopped by Scotty.
In Deep Space Nine he had the common Trek role of "the outsider"; the non-Human character whose function in the show, alongside whatever official duties they might have, is to hold up a mirror to their Human comrades for the audience. Odo was one of the better versions of this kind of character, and that is in no small part due to Rene's skill (and of course, excellent writing). Odo was a man alone, as one early episode called it - with no people of his own he functioned as an arbiter of sorts, then a security officer on the station. He remained aloof, unattached, because he had no involvement with any of the races there. René brought a pathos to the role that served it very well indeed, giving us an Odo who was smart and determined, but also so very isolated and lonely - and completely unable to admit it. But then, he didn't need to admit it. René Auberjonois could give us that aspect fo the character with a look, a tone of voice, a tilt of the head. He was just that good.
When we do meet Odo's people we discover that they are the mysterious Founders of the Dominion. A race that reflected Odo's commitment to order, but without the moral centre that was so strong within him. He got to play many great scenes off this, making him one of the most interesting characters in the show.
And of course there was his relationship with Major Kira, played supremely well by both René Auberjonois and Nana Visitor. At the beginning it was an unrequited love on his part, just another morsel of agony the Constable had to bear. But their love blossomed eventually, allowing René to show us a lighter, more fun side to Odo. No matter what the writers threw at him, he played it superbly.
He also made an appearance on Enterprise, playing the Engineer Ezral. Another isolated character, though this time one who engaged in a unique solution to end his loneliness. Not the best of episodes, but René was, as always great in it.
Many Trek actors struggle after the show, but René was well known to the public both before and after it. From his stint in MASH and Benson before, to his long-running turn in Boston Legal, where he starred as Paul Lewiston alongside William Shatner's irrepressible Denny Crane; his talent always brought him a steady stream of roles. I especially liked his Boston Legal run. The show would occasionally make little Star Trek jokes about Denny Crane, but I don't recall then ever doing one for Lewiston. A pity, I always thought.
Which of these did he most identify with? In a 2011 interview he said "I am all of those characters, and I love that. I also run into people, and they think I’m their cousin or their dry cleaner. I love that, too!" Truly an actor's sentiment.
He continued working right up until this year, with several projects throughout 2019. Unfortunately he developed metastatic lung cancer, and died in his home today, Sunday the 8th, aged 79. He is survived by his son Rèmy-Luc and his daughter, Tessa.
RIP, René.
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Impulse by Vanessa Garden
Impulse Submerged Sun Book Two
Written by Vanessa Garden
Check out my review of Captivate
Fantasy, Romance
Thank you to Harlequin Teen Australia
When Miranda Sun returns to Marin on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, this time of her own free will, she quickly learns that her worst fears have been realised. The glittering underwater city is not as she had left it, nor too is Marko, the young king who has dominated her thoughts and heart for the last twelve months since leaving Marin.
Miranda, however, has not made the journey to Marin alone, and now must contend with not only Marko’s evil brother Damir but more surprisingly her sister Lauren who has an agenda of her own. Marko’s power begins to wane and with cracks beginning to show in the domed Utopian city, and veiled danger lurking everywhere, she quickly learns that in this dazzling city full of beautiful people she can trust no one but herself.
If Miranda wants to survive, she must decide between the hardened sensibilities in her head and the hungers of her heart. Will her decision cause more heartache or can she help to save Marko’s throne?
It's been twelve months since Miranda was taken from the surface and now she's back on dry land, living a life that no longer feels her own. But as her eighteenth birthday approaches, Miranda has a decision to make, stay with her grandparents and sister Lauren, or return to Marin. But when she returns with Marko to the underwater kingdom, she wasn't prepared for the emotional distance the young King has put between them. Tension within the castle is palpable, Damir is alive if only for the sake of Sylvia, Marko's sister and the woman the raised him as her own. Guard and Marko's most trusted friend Robbie has left the castle after the showdown with Sylvia and Marko will stop at nothing to protect his sister. But Miranda knows she can't be trusted.
But Marco refuses to listen, and has a secret of his own he seems desperate to hide. Loyalties will be tested the King tries to hold onto his reign. It's more than Miranda's life now at stake as the battle to lead Marin into a new future emerges.
Impulse begins almost twelve months after Miranda has returned to the surface, and her thoughts soon return to her promise to Marko, to return to Marin on her eighteenth birthday. Torn between not wanting to leave her grandparents, now the only parents she knows and living with Marko, calling the underwater kingdom home. But with sister Lauren ensuring their safety, it's time for Miranda to take a chance on the king that was once her reluctant captor. In Marin, the women are unable to conceive, and the hope of the citizens rest upon Miranda and the King to carry Marin into the next generation.
Twin siblings Sylvia and Damir cannot be trusted, and Miranda knows all too well. But loyalty to Sylvia continues to cloud Marko's judgement and refuses to listen to Miranda's pleas, but allows her concerns to drive a wedge between them. Where I warmed to Marko in Captivate, in Impulse he was downright cold and unforgiving. Miranda has given up her life, her family and seeing the sun for a life underwater and it seems she isn't wanted. Rumours of other women entertaining Marko in Miranda's absence are rife throughout the palace, but Miranda's biggest issue is now Lauren, demanding to live within Marin as well. Lauren's character set me on edge. Her endless flirting with any male that moved, she demands to be the center of attention even though it's finally Miranda's time to shine.
Without a doubt my favourite character from both captivate and Impulse is Robbie. The former guard and most trusted friend of the King. He's incredibly lovely and a pleasure to read. The romance, or lack thereof was actually more engaging and realistic, no instant and awkward declarations of love but rather frustrating, slow burning and delicious. As indecisive as I find myself about Miranda, I admire her fire and ability to uphold morals, even at the sake of her own happiness. She's adamant that Sylvia is working against Marko and is willing to risk her tentative relationship to ensure Marko's safety.
I absolutely adore the world Vanessa Garden has created, a complex underwater world that breathes life into the characters. Not as strong as Captivate, but Impulse is a worthy sequel that focuses on character development, surprising revelations and the politics of a brewing revolution. Looking forward to the series finale and seeing what becomes of Marin and the two young lovers.
Tags: #LoveOzYA, Fantasy, Review Copy, Romance, Science Fiction, Series, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult
Joyousreads 24 December 2014 at 00:51
Is it just me or does romances between a mer creature and human usually starts with the other being a captive? Hmmm...
If I don't speak to you before Christmas, I hope you'll have a wonderful time! :)
Diva Booknerd 27 December 2014 at 18:22
Now that you mention it. Or being tricked into returning to their underwater lair. Is that because if a hot guy strolled up to you and said 'Hey there baby, how about coming back to my underwater palace'... That we wouldn't believe it?
If young adult had taught me anything, it's that people live under the sea. I can foresee a sexy Spongebob adventure in the near future.
Shooting Stars Mag 24 December 2014 at 12:15
Thanks for sharing! I haven't read this series- but that's good you're enjoying them.
It's actually pretty well written Lauren, by an Aussie author too. I think this one succumbed to that dreaded middle book syndrome, but that ending is implying we've got quite the epic finale to come. I'm excited!
Nicole Has Read 26 December 2014 at 14:31
My thoughts were very similar to yours. Great review.
Thanks Nicole. I'm really looking forward to the finale now. And more Robbie.
Laura Plus Books 27 December 2014 at 14:44
I quite enjoyed Captive so I'm excited to see what Impulse brings! The character development is something I'm really looking forward to. Thank you for sharing Kelly!
It's not as strong as Captive, but still a pretty good follow up. Lauren was so unlikable in this though, I was hoping someone would have taken her out. Looking forward to seeing what you think of it Laura.
Mishma @ Chasing Faerytales 28 December 2014 at 22:48
I really liked the first book when I read the arc last year,but didn't request this one since I kinda forgot the story,and didn't have the time to reread Captivate.But I'd like to read this book nevertheless,because I remember how much I liked the creation of the underwater world,Miranda's gradual character growth and both Marko and Robbie's characters.
Mishma @ Chasing Faerytales
That's one great aspect about Impulse, it recaps most of the forgotten details of Captive, so you really won't need to reread as it prompts you of the storyline as you go along. Miranda was surprisingly strong in this one, her character refused to back down which made me like her even more so.
Jeann @ Happy Indulgence 31 December 2014 at 18:56
This sounds like an underwater world that does it properly without being focused on the romance, and I'm glad it is a slowburn. Lovely review Kelly!
Diva Booknerd 2 January 2015 at 10:58
Thanks Jeann. Have you read book one yet? It's pretty good. A sinister take on a version of Atlantis.
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You Can’t Beat This Meat – MABEL’S and SIN CITY SMOKERS
(A man and his rib)
Las Vegas is where barbecue goes to die.
If I’ve said these words once, I’ve said them a thousand times.
Great ‘cue has come and gone over the years. From Struttin’ Gates to Paul Kirk’s R.U.B. to Salt Lick to Little Joe’s at Plant World (remember him?), all the good ones barely make it two years in Vegas before picking up stakes and heading back where they came from. (Kansas City, Kansas City, and Driftwood, Texas if you’re interested.) As far as we know, Little Joe departed for that great red neck smoker in the sky years ago.
Because of the failures of actual, pit-cooked, smokehouse barbecue, the real, smokey deal has been harder to find around here than a pork chop in an ashram.
And because mediocrity in all forms sells in these here parts (Guy Fieri, Giada, Donny and Marie…) set-it-and-forget-it has become the watchword of all of our barbecue restaurants. Why bother trying to do something good, the thinking goes, if your customers can’t tell the difference?
But things they be a’changin’. First out Green Valley way with Sin City Smokers, and more recently with Michael Symon’s Mabel’s.
Steve Overlay’s Sin City Smokers has been around for a while, and the only thing I can find wrong with it is that it’s too far from my house. His ultra-long smoke times produce a beautiful bark, and spoon-tender brisket ($9) that is dense and moist — whether you’re biting into a lean or fatty cut. No mean feat that.
(Brisket by Sin City; wine by Valley Cheese and Wine)
Speaking of brisket, Valley Cheese and Wine proprietor Bob Howald sprinkled the finishing salt you see on the cuts above. He told me he always does it with brisket and he was right: the little flakes of sodium chloride really bring out the beefiness (and smoke) in the meat. Try it sometime.
Symon (pictured at the top of the page) is a well-known celebrity chef from Cleveland. (Full disclosure: I once judged him on an episode of Iron Chef America. He won, if memory serves.) As a Greek-Sicilian, you might presume that he has as much business doing barbecue as dim sum, but like all accomplished chefs (and Overlay, for that matter, who also did some serious work in professional kitchens), when he sets his mind to cooking something, he does it right.
And I’m here to tell you: Mabel’s has got it right.
The brisket is straight outta Austin. More particularly, I’d hold it up to the stuff being done around Lexington, Texas like Snow’s or Louis Mueller). As good as the brisket is, it is the brontosaurian beef rib — straight from Black’s in Lockhart — that will get your attention.
Keeping the Texas vernacular going, Symon’s hot links have that snap, bite and serious heat you rarely find outside of the Lone Star State.
More Carolina-like is his spicy pulled pork sandwich ($14), a thing of beauty in its own right:
(Spicy pulled pork)
And then there is that beef rib ($50). Coated with “pastrami spices”, it is 2+ pounds of pure, unadulterated beefy bliss. According to the menu, it’s enough for 2+ hungry adults. Realistically, it’ll feed four.
Of course, the disclaimer didn’t dissuade yours truly from tearing into one all by his lonesome:
(I enjoy eating things as big as my head)
When I got done with it, there was plenty more on the platter to tackle, including some righteous ribs, truly sour kraut, house made pickles, and cheddar-jalapeno hot links that take no prisoners.
Put it all together and you have the most complete barbecue restaurant to come to town since Salt Lick threw in the towel ten years ago at the Red Rock Resort.
About the only thing I’m not wild about at Mabel’s are the sauces. Three are offered: Cleveland Mustard, Sweet and Sour, and Green Chile. They’re plenty tasty (especially the mustard), but have a guar gum-my thick stickiness to them which imparts a cheap mouthfeel and impedes their flow from the bottle. Better, if less complex, are the house-made sweet, or sweetly-spicy stuff Overlay is pouring at Sin City:
(Why are these pigs smiling?)
As for sides, I barely pay attention when the meat is this good, but Mabel’s does a killer poppyseed slaw and Sin City does a super-filling “Five cheese smack-a-roni” of uncommon cheesiness.
Desserts at both are minimal and forgettable, but who cares when things are this smokin’?
For years, I’ve told anyone who’ll listen to avoid the beef in our barbecue joints. (I’ve eaten so much lousy, tough, dry, stringy ‘cue in this town, I’ve taken to making my own a few times a year.)
Sin City and Mabel’s are the first places in a long time where I can firmly and happily advise to park the pork and bring on the brisket.
Just like they do in Texas.
SIN CITY SMOKERS
2861 N. Green Valley Pkwy
http://www.sincitysmokers.com/restaurant
MABEL’S BBQ
Palms Casino and Resort
http://palms.com/mabels-bbq.html
Texas ‘Cue Quest – Part 3
(Smoked meat the way it’s supposed to be, at Snow’s)
Barbecue is the great equalizer. It’s the only American food that inspires $70,000 cars to line up next to $700 trucks to get the good stuff.
It is also the only food that can inspire yours truly to hit the road at 7:00 am to make a one hour drive to a speck of a town called Lexington, Texas to have barbecue for breakfast.
Even after making that bleary-eyed trek through foggy, central Texas flatlands at that ungodly hour, we were still late to the party:
(Sadly, the wine list here was lacking in verticals of Lafite-Rothschild)
….a party that commences but once a week, at 8 in the morning, at Snow’s.
That party goes on until the meat runs out (pretty darn fast, i.e. usually around noon) so arriving early is a must. Ever since both Texas Monthly and Calvin Trillin proclaimed it the best Texas barbecue in the world (in 2008), Snow’s has been the place to get Central Texas ‘cue. And even after being challenged by urban upstart Franklin’s, its ranking (now #4 according to @TMBBQ‘s every-four-year survey), keeps it one of the toughest tickets in Tejas. Not bad for a joint that’s open for only four hours a week, and has only been open since 2003.
Was the cue worth the drive? And the wait? And the experience of it all?
Well, we’d have to say, yes, yes and really yes. The holy grail of barbecue is brisket, and Snow’s obviously calls on a higher power to achieve a heavenly bark and out-of-this-world succulence. The ribs (pictured at the top of the page) were so smokey they should’ve come with a FDA warning, and the loose-packed, wrinkled-skin, jalapeno sausages also stopped us in our tracks:
As good as the food is, it’s the experience of standing in line at Snow’s that’s a once-in-a-lifetime event for ‘cue connoisseurs who don’t live in Texas. You’re there with folks just like yourself, folks who’ve driven quite a distance just to bathe in the smoke and bask in the food. The excitement in the air is as palpable as snap of those sausages. Even before we ate, we were asking our self if the food could possibly live up to the hype, and for the most part it did. (Only the dry, uninspiring pork steak, that we were told was THE thing to get, disappointed.)
Regarding those folks, you can tell that pretty much every one of them is either a dedicated barbecue hound (or stuck with someone who is), and waiting for forty-five minutes is a small price to pay for food this good.
Speaking of hounds, if there’s a first among equals among Texas ‘cue mavens, it would be Daniel Vaughn. As barbecue editor of Texas Monthly, he spends most of his waking hours thinking and writing about Texas barbecue, and as luck would have it, he was stationed in line at Snow’s right in front of us. (For people who don’t live in Texas that last sentence raises a number of questions, such as: There is such a thing as a “barbecue editor”? Can a writer write about nothing but barbecue? Does a writer actually make a living writing about nothing but barbecue? And assuming all of those things to be true, why would Daniel Vaughn be a Snow’s at 8 am on a Saturday morning with his two kids?)
The answers are: yes, apparently yes in Texas, absolutely yes in Texas, and apparently he was on a busman’s holiday. As you can see from his Twitter feed, Daniel Vaughn loves barbecue like a Kardashian loves cameras.
(Son, there are three important things in life: family, friends, and fatty brisket)
45 minutes also goes very quickly when you’re chewing the fat with someone like Vaughn, and in between him stopping to do star turns with 80-something pitmistress Miss Tootise, we got to ask him a few questions. First of all, we wanted to know what made Franklin’s so of-the-moment, and he had a ready answer: “Aaron (Franklin) brought Central Texas barbecue to the big city, and his biggest contribution was making it consistent. When you go there you always know you’re going to get an excellent brisket that’s as good as the last time you were there,” he said. We also agreed that the rise of social media had a lot to do with the Franklin phenomenon (“FOMO -fear of missing out,” he called it), and that San Francisco is to barbecue what Tony Bennett is to line dancing.
We finished at Snow’s around 9:30 and needed to reset our digestive systems for our next conquest. And the 40 minute drive over to Louie Mueller – family owned and operated since 1949 — was the perfect respite before our second bbq breakfast.
Like Smitty’s the day before, Louie Mueller looks like a dump. But inside it is actually quite pleasant, in a 1950s time warp sort of way. You order at a counter, and joke around with the staff if you get there before the lines form, but form they will, especially after 11:00 am.
LM consistently ranks in the top 5 joints in the state for good reason: it’s fantastic. More of a polished operation than Smitty’s or Snow’s, it’s every bit their equal when it comes to top quality ‘cue.
I remember many things about our second bbq breakfast: the sweetness of the glazed ribs, the beauty of the house-made sausages, the amazing peach cobbler and banana pudding, but mostly I can’t get over how good this brisket sandwich was:
Damnation…what a sandwich! Crusty, smoky and moist, it pulled apart with barely a nudge, and needed only a smidge of stewed onions on top (and a raw one with pickles on the bottom) to accentuate its beefiness. If ever there was a piece of brisket that didn’t need barbecue sauce, this was it. Eat your heart out, Kreuz.
There was plenty to love about everything at Louie Mueller (their jalapeno barbecue sauce was the best of the trip) and if I had to pick a single barbecue restaurant to eat in for the rest of my days, this would probably be it.
Man does not live by barbecue alone, of course, so we took off after Mueller for a side trip through the Texas Hill Country (beautiful) to the charming town of Fredericksburg. Aside from checking out the National Museum of the Pacific War, we didn’t spend a lot of time there, but it was quite a bit larger than we expected, and a genuine destination in its own right, teeming with galleries, shops, restaurants and wine bars. In some ways, it reminded me of downtown Nantucket, minus the ocean, the boats, the cobblestones, and the seafood. Nantucket in the middle of Texas? Who knew?
Culture can only sustain you for so long, so soon enough, back to barbecue hunting we were. And by “barbecue hunting” I mean it was time to hit Austin, and see what the city slickers were up to.
Micklethwait Craft Meats doesn’t look like a citified operation — it being nothing more than a barrel smoker and a trailer in a parking lot. As with Franklin’s (its competition down the street), the line forms early. Unlike Franklin’s (which has gotten the whole Anthony Bourdain/Jon Favreau treatment), the line is manageable. In our case we got there right when it opened, and as with Snow’s, it took us about 40 minutes to get our plate of grub.
And what a plate it was: wonderful poppy seed slaw, first rate pinto beans, ribs, brisket and sausage that were all stellar.
(Even the house-made pickle was impressed)
“It’s more chef-y than many other barbecue joints,” one of our Texas ‘cue confidants had told us. And so it was. And so was everything from the peppery bbq sauce to that pecan pie that was worth the wait all by itself. But what really stood hoof and shoulders above the other cuts was the kielbasa — a sausage of uncommon pork, beef, spice, cure and peppery compaction:
It was the sausage of the trip, and a beautiful expression of how a thoughtful chef can hew to tradition and still improve upon it.
About the only disappointment at Micklethwait was the pulled pork — it being mushy, poorly-pulled and bland. Word to the wise: When you want a pulled pork sandwich in Texas, head to the Carolinas.
There were no disappointments at our final stop, however.
(More great ‘cue than you can shake a post oak at)
Everything was just about perfect at Freedmen’s. The service was fast (it’s more of a sit-down restaurant), the food came quick (but was obviously sliced to order), and they were playing old 60s rock instead of one gawdawful Willie Nelson tune after another. It describes itself as a laid back lounge and beer garden serving barbecue and retro-inspired cocktails, and that about sums it up. We didn’t partake of any libations, but the bar looked serious. The ‘cue (pictured above) took a backseat to none of our previous six places, and the ribs might’ve been the best overall for pure, sweet-smoked porkiness. (If they’re not the best, they’re a close second to Louie Mueller.) Freedmen’s even smokes their banana pudding here. How smoky-cool is that?
The trouble with eating great barbecue (or great anything for that matter), is that it spoils you for anything else. Smoked meat is a tradition in Central Texas. It’s a tradition that has morphed into a secular religion, in part because so many people want to worship at the altar of artisanal foods, made by dedicated craftsmen, that respects the ingredient, the process and the history of what is being served. (Part of the resurgent popularity, no doubt, is the price. It’s something of a miracle that $30 gets two people a mountain of food at any of these places.)
If three days of ‘cue immersion taught me one thing it’s that it’s impossible to make barbecue this good — whether you’re in Los Angles or Long Island — unless you respect and learn from the traditions that made it great. Austin’s young guns are doing this. Would that other barbecue restaurants in America would try to as well.
The meats:
Best pork ribs – Louie Mueller; Runner up – Freedmen’s
Best brisket – Snow’s; Runner up – Louie Mueller
Best sausage – Micklethwait Craft Meats; Runner up (tie) – Kreuz and Snow’s
Best beef ribs – Black’s
Best sandwich – Brisket at Louie Mueller
The sides:
Best slaw – Micklethwait Craft Meats
Best pie – Micklethwait Craft Meats’ pecan pie
Best pudding – Smoked banana pudding at Freedmen’s
Best cobbler – Peach at Louie Mueller
Best sauce (tie) – Jalapeno at Louie Mueller and house-made at Micklethwait
The incidentals:
Best smokehouse – Smitty’s
Best restaurant atmosphere – Black’s
Best music – Freedmen’s
Best line to wait in – Snow’s
Best breakfast drive – From Lexington (Snow’s) to Taylor (Louie Mueller)
Best guy to get pre-trip Texas barbecue advice from – Jeff Meeker
Best guy to wait in line behind – Daniel Vaughn
Best person to take on a Texas ‘cue quest for his 32nd birthday – Hugh Alexander Curtas
(Breakfast time is the right time for a birthday beer at Snow’s)
(The pit at Smitty’s)
To master anything, you start with the fundamentals. Texas barbecue is no different. Anyone who thinks that they can grab a brisket sandwich at Pecan Lodge in Dallas or Franklin’s in Austin and know what all the shoutin’s about has charcoal for brains.
The fundamentals of Texas ‘cue start with kickin’ it old school. And it doesn’t get anymore old school than in the tiny farming town of Lockhart, the Official Capital of Texas Barbecue, where German butcher shops started making and smoking sausage to preserve it over 150 years ago.
Lockhart is an easy, 30 minute drive from the Austin airport. There’s not much to see en route — the landscape is fertile but depressingly flat — and about the only thing to get excited about is the big barn-looking Kreuz Market that looms on your right as you enter the town. The other thing to get excited about are its two competitors — Black’s and Smitty’s Market — each located at opposite ends of the quaint town square.
(Caldwell County ‘cue HQ)
The proximity of these three icons of smoked meat to each other — you can walk between Smitty’s and Black’s, and Kreuz is a two minute drive from either of them — makes for quite the ‘cue consumption conundrum: Where do we start? How much do we eat? What if we love one so much we don’t want to leave?
The answers of course are: It doesn’t matter, one order of anything will serve two (and go easy on the sides), and force yourself to move on (you won’t regret it). It will take a Herculean effort, but put your knife down (no forks at Smitty’s and Kreuz, more on this later), no matter how much you’d like to slather your face with all this deliciousness.
You order by the pound, and we found that a few slices of brisket, a couple of pork spareribs, and a single link of sausage were enough to get a taste of each pitmaster’s artistry.
Of course, all of this careful planning went out the window as soon as we saw the sign that said “Giant Beef Ribs” at Black’s.
“Giant,” as you can see, being an understatement. These were huge. 24 ounces of spoon-tender, juicy, smokey beef with a bark so sweet, black and peppery it could be sold as meat candy.
One was more than enough for two. Hell, one of these puppies could feed a family of four. It was the single biggest piece of food I have ever seen on a plate in front of me, and one of the singularly most delicious pieces of meat that has ever defeated me.
The beauty and the wonder of a something this dense being cooked this long and remaining this moist and baby-food soft is a mystery only the Black family has solved. Indeed, we didn’t see “giant beef rib” on any other menu of the other six places we visited on our ‘cue quest.
(Please sir, may I have some more?)
For the record, the sausage was stellar as well, and it wasn’t until we got to Snow’s the next day that we ate a brisket as gorgeous as the one at Black’s. We were also nuts about the mac-n-cheese and that ginormous dill pickle….although in the interest of maintaining our full hunger capacity we left most of them barely touched on the plate.
About the only thing at Black’s we found lacking was the sauce — it being slightly thin, standard issue stuff — but the meat was so amazing we quickly forgot about it.
Black’s is more conventional than its two neighbors in downtown Lockhart. Ordering of sides is done on a cafeteria line that leads you to the meat ordering station where you choose how much, per pound or slice, you want of the meat. Instead of the butcher paper that most joints use, here you get the real plastic plates and utensils. It may not be as authentically “old school” in appearance as Smitty’s, but its brisket beats theirs by a country mile.
Speaking of bona fides, it’s those antiquated, authentic details that separate Texas barbecue from many other pretenders. All of your meat is sliced to order, and to a place, every person taking your order lets you be as particular as you want, whether you want fatty brisket or lean (or a combo), or a thin slice of this or two thick helpings of that. Nothing looks or tastes like it’s been sitting around in a steamer tray for hours (because it hasn’t), and the intensity of the meat, the bark and the seasonings is front and center with every bite. Bites that are worth traveling across the country for, by the way.
Something else worth traveling to see are the pits themselves. The one’s at Black’s are tucked in the back but at Smitty’s (pictured above), and Kreuz, they are front and center in the room where you do your ordering. So front and center, in fact, that your clothes will smell like smoke for hours afterwards.
Calling Smitty’s old school is like calling that rib a little beefy. It’s housed in a structure built in 1924, untouched by modernity and covered in a layer of fatty soot and meat smoke that’s been a century in the making.
You walk down an long hallway lined with benches where the trenchermen of years past would sit eating their lunches of smoked meat, taken right from the butcher shop on paper, and sliced and stabbed with knives hanging on chains from these walls:
These days, things are slightly more modern (there’s a dining room to chow down in that’s straight from the 1940’s, replete with wobbly benches and a soda fountain), but you still go into the smoke room to order and see your meat sliced.
(Yes, they burn the wood right on the floor. You gotta problem with that?)
Smitty’s is a trip, literally a trip back in time. Unfortunately, its brisket didn’t hold a candle to Black’s — it being on the dry side and without the seasoning or smoke of its rival. What saved Smitty’s for us was the vibe, and the kick ass sausages — loaded with black pepper and steaming with fat and snap — they were a beef/pork blend of uncommon toothsomeness, and, my favorite “hot guts” of the trip.
(The apotheosis of beef meats pork at Smitty’s)
And then there was Kreuz Market. It’s as big as a barn (actually several barns), and seats hundreds in its several dining rooms. You do the same order-in-the-smoke-room thing here, but then you repair to one of its feed halls to eat. What shows up on the plate would, no doubt, be the best damn barbecue in 46 States in the Union. In fact, if we had tried it first we might’ve thought more highly of it. Unfortunately, the competition pretty stiff (another understatement) in these here parts, and its stringing, tepid brisket didn’t meet the challenge. And no matter what the owners say, it could’ve used some sauce. (Kreuz is famous for stubbornly maintaining, since 1900, that its brisket is so good it needs no sauce. It needs a sauce.)
On the plus side, the smoked prime rib (the pinkish meat below) was ethereally good (attaining an almost cured-ham-like texture while maintaining its beefy integrity), and the sausages were the stuff smoked sausage dreams are made of.
(Look Ma, no forks!)
Kreuz (pronounced ‘Krites”) may have become too big for its Texas britches. It’s been world famous for over half a century, and does a bang up mail-order business. From the size of everything, you can tell it’s a very big operation that moves mountains of meat. But as the godfather of Texas barbecue, we expected the brisket to knock us out of the saddle, and it didn’t.
At least we had The National Beer of Texas on hand to help us wash away our disappointment:
“This is not beer,” we remarked to The Official Number Two Son of ELV after a sip of this lightly carbonated, water-based beverage, “it is the idea of beer.”
“You’re right, Dad,” he countered, “but it goes perfectly with this food.”
And so it did, and so it does. As we were about to find out the next morning, when we traveled to the Texas hinterlands in search of the best barbecue breakfast on earth.
(This is the second part of a three part article on ELV’s recent trip to Texas.)
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The 30-year-old, who has had a less than prolific career in the J.League, was called up for only his seventh cap by coach Hajime Moriyasu following an impressive run with table-topping FC Tokyo.
Nagai took both his goals with aplomb; scoring the first by cutting inside to send two El Salvador players sliding on the wet turf before a neat finish and then sweeping home Genki Haraguchi's cross...
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Manufacturers : Audio electronics : Receivers
Receivers are electronic devices which detect, demodulate and amplify transmitted signal, and convert the signal format into a format for video, voice or data. Information is transferred from a starting location to a destination by first converting the information from a parallel format to a serialized format. Then, the serialized information is transmitted as a data stream across a transmission medium such a coaxial cable, a twisted pair cable, or a fiber optic cable, to the destination. At the destination, a receiver receives the data stream, and processes it to convert the information back into a parallel format. In a digital broadcast, a digital video signal and an audio signal are compressed corresponding to the MPEG2 format. To receive the full benefits of digital audio broadcasting, listeners must have a digital audio receiver to receive the digital audio broadcast. When a digital broadcast is received, an IRD (integrated receiver decoder) is connected to a receiver. The IRD selects a signal of a program that the user desires and decodes the selected signal into a video signal and an audio signal. A radio receiver includes a plurality of antenna elements for receiving a radio signal from a radio transmitter.
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AMAC Digital Technology Co., Ltd.
Manufacturer of digital satellite receivers, C/Ku band LNB, microwave color TV transmitting and receiving systems, digital TV terminal, MMDS downconverters, security monitoring devices, high frequency transmitting/receiving products. China.
http://www.amacdigital.com
Elsema Pty Ltd.
Manufactures transmitters, receivers, decoders, transceivers, repeaters, antennas, bases, connectors, and coaxial cable for the wireless industry. Australia.
http://www.elsema.com
Harmonic Broadcast Systems
Manufacturer of DVB receivers, modulators, video and audio decoders , analogue TV demodulators, conditional access descramblers, switching and routing, interface conversion and distribution, and modular systems. UK.
http://www.btl.uk.com
Jersey Microwave, LLC
Design and manufacture microwave components and sub-systems such as frequency block converters, front-end receivers, phase locked DROs, LNA & power amplifiers, IF logarithmic amplifiers, frequency multipliers, phase shifters, attenuators, and RF switches. USA.
http://www.jerseymicrowave.com
San Jose Navigation, Inc.
Produces GPS/GSM antennas, GPS receivers, GPS reradiators, GPS vehicle tracking devices, PDA track, GPS engine boards, and AVL systems. Taiwan, China.
http://www.sanav.com
Topcrown Technology Co., Ltd.
Manufacturer specializing in digital satellite receiver (DVB-S products), metabox receivers, USB-PVR and dish positioner, and home theater systems. China.
http://www.topcrown.cn
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Who Won the Republican Debate on November 12th?
Tonight's debate on foreign policy had few fireworks or major gaffes. The candidates did not attack each other and normally did not even challenge each other. If it is remembered at, it will be remembered for a few general impressions: Rick Perry was shaky, Herman Cain was shakier, Mitt Romney was decent, and Newt Gingrich did well.
The format of the debate was a bit odd: Only the first hour was televised on all CBS stations; the last half-hour was streamed on the internet. The entire debate was focused on foreign policy questions. The economy and other traditional areas of debate (e.g. social policy, candidate vulnerabilities, etc.) were not addressed. At the very least, this allowed Cain to avoid being asked about his sexual harassment scandal, which would have been off-topic.
The candidates avoided making gaffes of the kind that would be replayed over and over. In general, Cain seemed uncertain, as he has little knowledge of foreign policy. Perry avoided any dynamite gaffes, but spoke in a halting manner. Bizarrely, Perry addressed some of his answers to "Mitt," even though Romney was not asked the same question or involved in any way in the exchange. As Elephant Watcher predicted, Perry made a couple jokes about the infamous Rick Perry gaffe at the November 9th debate.
Occasionally the candidates did disagree with each other. Jon Huntsman and Ron Paul marginalized themselves as the two "doves" on the stage. Meanwhile, Huntsman and Rick Santorum both complained about receiving few questions, though the questions were evenly distributed. This kind of whining is counter-productive. It is up to the candidates to make the best use of their questions, even if they are limited (as Mike Huckabee's were in the early debates in the last primary season). Santorum undermined himself, as otherwise his answers were strong.
Newt Gingrich performed the best out of the candidates. He repeated his strategy of criticizing the questions he was asked, though he toned it down a bit and appeared less grouchy than the previous debate. He appeared to have the most thorough understanding of the topics. He received the most applause.
The candidates will not have another debate for some time, and this one demonstrated Gingrich's superiority to Cain. If Gingrich rises at the expense of Cain, debates like these will accelerate it.
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Maine Caucus Finishes Tomorrow
Tomorrow, voters in Maine will finish voting in the Maine Caucus. As with the other contests this week, the Maine Caucus will be non-binding, so no delegates will be awarded. Very little attention has been paid to this contest--even less than to the states that voted on Tuesday--so there is no polling data whatsoever. The Intrade market currently gives Mitt Romney a 69% chance of winning--and gives Ron Paul a 30% chance. The only reporting on Maine has been that none of the candidates have been spending their resources on Maine, except for Paul. Paul's campaign believes he is stronger in caucus states, and lacking competition in Maine, hopes to pull out a win.
By its nature, Maine is a pro-Romney state: It is a Northeastern state and voted for Romney back in 2008. However, as we saw in Minnesota and Colorado earlier this week, that doesn't mean it's a lock for Romney. Since the Romney campaign is in "delegate mode" and concerned only with racking up delegates, it makes sense that they would skip the state. But because Maine will be the last state to vote prior to the important contests on February 28th (in Arizona and Michigan), it may contribute to or blunt certain media narratives.
The media is uncertain whether Rick Santorum's sweep of three states on Tuesday was a fluke, or whether Romney is going down in flames. It's also unclear whether Newt Gingrich's campaign is completely collapsing, with all of its support going over to Santorum. Maine may provide some hints, even though no one beside Paul is attempting to compete there.
If Romney loses the state, there will be some rumblings about his weakness. If he wins, it will be treated as a signal of his strength in the Northeast. If Paul wins the state, Maine may be written off as meaningless. Attention will also be paid to Santorum's and Gingrich's numbers. If Santorum does poorly, the media will begin grasping onto the idea that the regions are split among candidates (Romney in the Northeast/West, Gingrich in the South, Santorum in the Midwest). If Santorum does well, particularly if he does much better than Gingrich, it will be viewed as a sign of his emerging status as chief Anti-Romney.
It's not unrealistic to think Santorum could do better than expected. When other candidates surged during this primary season, they surged across the country at once. Santorum has not been vetted yet, and certainly hasn't been attacked in negative campaigning in Maine, so voters will assume for now that he has no real weaknesses.
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to check your answer
Where was he living before?
a) London
b) Thailand
c) Hong Kong
What do people normally think of Manchester?
a) Grim
b) Sunny
c) Modern
What is it's new, modern reputation?
a) Center of business
b) Center of industry
c) Center of arts
What band is from Manchester?
a) Smiths
b) Beatles
c) U2
What does Matt think about it?
a) He hates it
b) It is OK
c) He loves it
Hello, what is your name?
My name is Mathew Gill.
Mathew, where are you from?
I'm from England, from North of England, near Manchester.
Were you living in Manchester before you can to Japan?
No, I was living in Bangkok, in Thailand, before I came to Japan.
Wow, world traveler.
Yes, something like that.
Tell us about Manchester. What is Manchester like?
Manchester's well know for being quite a grim, industrial town.
but it's got a more modern reputation as a center of
arts, and there's lots of cool music that comes out of there.
Oasis from Manchester is the most famous band, and the Smiths,
kind of fifteen years ago, came from Manchester.
Oh, that's great. I love the Smiths, actually. Do you like Manchester?
Uh, I think it's a fantastic place, yeah.
I'd love to live there in the future. It's a great city.
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Frederick Costello Obituary - Lee, MA | The Berkshire Eagle - Legacy.com
Springs, FL; Catherine and Ronnie Bennett of Bethlehem, GA; Daniel Costello and Kerry Bernard of Maynard, MA; Suzanne Costello and Jeff Keffer of Arlington, MA; James Costello and Candy Chan of San Antonio, TX, and Amy Costello and Gregory Watt of Austin, TX. Fred was predeceased by his son-in-law Jim Christmann, his grandson Peter Keffer-Fries and granddaughter Stephanie Kay Bennett. He leaves his siblings and their spouses, Dorinda and Don Moffatt of Vero Beach, FL and John and Sandy Costello of Bradenton, FL. A Liturgy of Christian Burial will be held on Tuesday, August 6th, at 10 AM at St. Mary's Church, 140 Main Street in Lee, MA. Burial will follow in St. Mary's Cemetery, 208 Spring Street in Lee. Visiting hours will be on Monday, August 5th, from 4-6 PM at the Kelly Funeral Home, 3 Main Street in Lee. There will be a Memorial Service for Fred at a date to be determined in Bonita Springs Florida. In lieu of flowers, donations in Fred's memory may be made to the "James V. Costello Scholarship" which supports low-income students at his beloved alma mater: Please send in c/o the Kelly Funeral Home 3 Main Street Lee, MA 01238. If you would like to leave a message of condolence or share pictures with the family, please visit our web site at www.kellyfuneralhome.netPublished in The Berkshire Eagle on Aug. 3, 2019. Would you like to Send Flowers? ...
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Dartmoor Hotels - Lydgate House Hotel - Postbridge - Dartmoor
Address: Lydgate House
Postcode: PL20 6TJ
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Category: Hotel
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Lydgate House lies in the very heart of 368 square miles of Dartmoor National Park. This late Victorian Country House, reached by a private lane, is set in its own 36 acres overlooking the East Dart river and valley, offering perfect peace and quiet with direct access onto the moor. Lydgate House, now under new ownership, faces South with stunning views across both valley and moorland and is privately owned and run by Douglas & Anna Geikie, who aim to provide the very best in personal service.
Following major refurbishment over the last seven years, Lydgate House has been awarded 5 Stars by the AA, as well as the Little Gem Award (the highest accolade possible) from the RAC every year since 2001. Which? Hotel Guide selected Lydgate House as a Hotel of the Year for 2003 (Tranquil Treasure category) and it is also recommended by both the Good Hotel Guide and Michelin. The RAC have also awarded two rosettes for dining.
Guests return again and again to Lydgate House and most new visitors come through recommendation.
THE HOUSE & GROUNDS
With an atmosphere more like a country house than a hotel, Lydgate House is perfect for those looking for a relaxed environment surrounded by glorious countryside. The guests’ lounge, which also houses the small bar, has a log burning stove and beautiful views across the valley. Bookshelves and tables abound with novels, magazines and books on Dartmoor and many other subjects. A small snug leads to the conservatory dining room, again with spectacular views. The terrace and gardens overlook the valley and lead directly onto the moor.
Within the 36 acres of Lydgate House there is a hay meadow containing several rare species of plants including orchids. The river running through the grounds attracts a variety of birds from buzzards and herons to swallows and house martins who make their home here. Dartmoor ponies and cattle graze the fields while the paddock provides home to aged sheep and a variety of hens.
The seven en-suite rooms are immaculate, individually furnished and decorated. There are many personal touches to make you feel at home as well as the usual facilities of tea/coffee tray, hairdryer, remote control TV and radio-alarm clock. Duvets and top pillows are filled with luxurious Siberian goose down. All bedrooms, named after Dartmoor birds, are on the first floor except for Dipper, our only ground floor room.
DINING AT LYDGATE
Meals are served in the spacious conservatory.
At breakfast you can enjoy spectacular morning views of the valley and moorland. In the evening, whilst dining by candlelight you can watch the sun set over the hills.
Weather permitting, you could even eat alfresco on the terrace and enjoy the absolute peace and quiet, just the sound of the birds and the River Dart.
On the dinner menu expect to find traditional favorites, such as lamb hot pot, beef stew & dumplings, liver & bacon and, of course, roasts – all using meat produced on local farms. Followed by homemade puddings, Ice creams made locally in Chagford and cheeses produced in Devon.
A three-course dinner is served every evening except Sunday and Monday when our kitchen is closed.
Three-course dinner £27.50
Coffee & Mints £2.50
A reasonably-priced wine list composed of New World and European wines complements the menus.
For breakfast you will find a wide selection of cereals – including a very special locally made granola, fruits, yoghurt, juices and your choice of cooked breakfast from our extensive menu, which includes local dry cured bacon, sausages, eggs from our own hens and kippers and smoked haddock when available.
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THIN FILM TRANSISTOR SUBSTRATE
In forming a thin film transistor using multi-tone exposure, a wiring width of a foundational wiring is 40 μm or less, and a ratio of a wiring width of a foundational wiring in a dense case to a space between adjacent wirings is 1.7, preferably 1.0 or less.
Itoh, Yasuyoshi (Tokyo, JP)
Masutani, Yuichi (Tokyo, JP)
Aoki, Masaru (Kumamoto, JP)
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257/E29.003
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HA, NATHAN W
OBLON, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P. (1940 DUKE STREET, ALEXANDRIA, VA, 22314, US)
1. A thin film transistor substrate comprising: a gate wiring; a semiconductor layer that is formed on the gate wiring; a source wiring, which is connected to the semiconductor layer, and which intersects with the gate wiring; and an inverted staggered type thin film transistor that is formed at the intersecting part of the gate wiring and the source wiring, wherein the gate wiring comprises: a first gate wiring that is provided in a first region; and a second gate wiring, which is wider than the first gate wiring, and which is provided in a second region, wherein a back channel portion of the thin film transistor is patterned by gray tone exposure on the first gate wiring and the second gate wiring, and wherein the second gate wiring is divided into a plurality of gate wiring division patterns that are connected in parallel.
2. The thin film transistor substrate according to claim 1, wherein a ratio of a width of the gate wiring division pattern to a space between gate wiring division patterns is 1.7 or less.
3. The thin film transistor substrate according to claim 2, wherein the width of the gate wiring division pattern is 40 μm or less.
4. The thin film transistor substrate according to claim 1, wherein the first region is a pixel region, and wherein the second gate wiring in the second region is a gate wiring of a test circuit.
5. The thin film transistor substrate according to claim 1, wherein the thin film transistor is formed on the gate wiring division pattern.
This application claims priority from Japanese Patent Application No. 2008-083310 filed on Mar. 27, 2008, the entire subject matter of which is incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates to an inverted staggered type thin film transistor (hereinafter, referred to as TFT) substrate applied to an active matrix display.
Recently, in the field of display using semiconductor devices, liquid crystal displays for energy saving and space saving have rapidly come into wide use instead of the known CRT displays. In such liquid crystal displays, a plurality of electrodes, wirings, and elements are provided on a transparent insulating substrate. Specifically, switching elements such as thin film transistors (TFT) having a scanning wiring, a signal wiring, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode are provided in array, and an active matrix type TFT array substrate applying a video signal independent from an electrode to each display pixel is widely used.
Since a large number of processes are necessary to manufacture the active matrix type TFT array substrate, there is a problem in productivity, for example, increase of the number of manufacturing devices and increase of the incidence of inferior goods. As a general manufacturing method, there is a manufacturing method (hereinafter, referred to as 5-mask process) performing a photolithography process five times (see JP-A-11-242241).
In addition, recently, as a method for reducing the number of sheets used to form a thin film transistor substrate, there is a method of applying halftone exposure (hereinafter, referred to as gray tone exposure) to a back channel portion of TFT (see JP-A-2000-164886). This method is a so-called “four-mask process”. In an inverted staggered type TFT forming process of the method, a gate insulating film, a semiconductor layer, and a source wiring material are continuously formed after forming a gate electrode, and the gray tone exposure is applied to exposure of a back channel forming region of TFT. The method is an influential method to reduce a manufacturing cost, and thus technical development for practical use has been promoted.
However, in the case of using the gray tone exposure, when a film thickness (hereinafter, referred to as “GT resist film thickness) of resist in a region where halftone exposure illumination is applied is not regularly controlled, it has an influence on subsequent processes and a desired pattern cannot be obtained. The reason why the film thickness of the resist cannot be regularly controlled is a foundational condition of the region where the halftone exposure illumination is applied, in addition to process factors such as uniformity of exposure intensity on the substrate and uniformity of a thickness of the coated resist on the substrate (see JP-A-2002-141512 and JP-A-2008-33330). Hereinafter, an influence of the foundation on the film thickness of the resist formed by the gray tone exposure, and a problem according thereto will be described.
The case of forming the TFT substrate of the active matrix type display will be described by way of example. Mostly, the TFT is used as a switching element for sending a display signal of each pixel coming through a source signal line, to a predetermined pixel. However, recently, to improve functions and productivity of displays, a circuit for increasing an added value may be mounted in the TFT substrate, or a circuit for test may be mounted outside a pixel display region. In this case, electrodes in the display may have different purposes and limitations. Accordingly, even when the electrodes are formed as the same layer, the electrode patterns have various sizes and shapes different from each other.
FIG. 9 shows a schematic view for explaining pattern size dependency of a gate wiring as a foundation. FIG. 10(a) to (c) shows cross-sectional views in a process of forming a source wiring with respect to regions I to III corresponding to the line C-C. FIG. 10(a) shows the region I where there is a relative narrow gate wiring 12a on a glass substrate 1. FIG. 10(b) shows the region II where there is a gate wiring 12b wider than the gate wiring 12a. FIG. 10(c) shows the region III where there is no gate wiring. Herein, the term of “gate wiring” is used as wide means including a gate electrode where a general thin film transistor is formed.
Generally, a width of a gate wiring of TFT used in a switching element in a pixel region is about 10 to 30 μm, and a structure at the time of patterning a source wiring intersecting above the gate wiring is as shown in FIG. 10(a). In FIG. 10(a), a gate insulating film 13, a semiconductor layer 14, and a conductive layer 15 as a source wiring or a drain wiring are formed to cover the gate wiring 12a patterned on the glass substrate 11. In addition, a resist 16 to pattern the conductive layer 15 and the semiconductor layer 14 is formed. In this case, the following relationship is formed between a film thickness T12 of the resist on the gate wiring 12a and a resist film thickness T11 at a part where there is no gate wiring.
T11>T12 (Expression 1)
There are many cases that a gate wiring having a relative wide area is formed outside a pixel display region, as the aforementioned circuit for increasing an added value, the circuit for test, and the like. For example, it is necessary to form a TFT having a high current capacitance, that is, a wide channel width, as a test circuit for shortening a test time, since it is necessary to supply signals at once to all pixels connected to one source signal line. In such a case, it is necessary to widen the area of the gate wiring.
For example, when the area is wider than about 100×100 μm, as shown in FIG. 10(b), a resist film thickness T13 on the gate wiring 2b becomes substantially equal to a resist film thickness T14 in FIG. 10(c) showing a region where there is no gate wiring, or the resist film thickness T11 shown in FIG. 10(a).
T11=T13=T14 (Expression 2)
The following relationship can be obtained from the relationships of the above-described two Expressions. That is, when a the pattern size of the gate wiring is large, the film thickness of the resist thereon tends to be large as compared with a case of a small pattern size, and the following relationship is formed.
T12<T13 (Expression 3)
As described above, when the thickness of the coated resist is not uniform by the condition of the foundational pattern, the thickness of the remaining resist does not become uniform even if the gray tone exposure is performed uniform on the entire surface of the substrate perfectly. That is, the film thickness of the resist as the halftone exposure illumination region becomes thinner than a film thickness of a resist of a non-exposure portion (i.e., region where a pattern remains as a wiring). However, the film thickness may become larger than a predetermined value by the foundational condition. In this case, when the resist of the thin film thickness region is removed, the resist cannot be completely removed. Accordingly, necessary etching is not performed by subsequent etching, the back channel portion of the TFT is not formed, and the source and the drain of the TFT form a short circuit.
The resist can be completely removed by means of extending an ashing time. However, in this case, a part of a resist as a mask layer for forming a source/drain wiring is removed. Accordingly, a width of the source/drain wiring becomes smaller than a desired value, and disconnection or cutoff occurs at a part where the resist becomes thin at a part of intersecting with the gate wiring.
To solve such problems, it is conceivable to apply the means described in JP-A-2008-33330. However, in this case, it is necessary to form parts having various transmissivity on the mask side, thereby increasing a cost for manufacturing the mask.
When the means described in JP-A-2000-164886 is applied, a line/space combination or mesh-shaped pattern equal to or less than resolution limit can be formed on the mask, as a method for controlling transmissivity on the mask. However, the pattern equal to or less than the resolution limit needs to be controlled by a grid of about 0.05 μm. For this reason, the channel length of TFT in the region I may be different from the channel length of TFT in the region II, and thus the uniformity of TFT characteristics in the whole panel may be broken down.
The invention has been made to solve such problems when a patterning process is performed by gray tone exposure.
According to the invention, there is provided a thin film transistor substrate including: a gate wiring; a semiconductor layer formed on the gate wiring; a source wiring connected to the semiconductor layer and intersecting with the gate wiring; and an inverted staggered type thin film transistor formed at the intersecting part of the gate wiring and the source wiring, wherein the gate wiring includes a first gate wiring in a first region, and a second gate wiring wider than the first gate wiring in a second region, wherein a back channel portion of the thin film transistor is patterned by gray tone exposure on the first gate wiring and the second gate wiring, and wherein the second gate wiring is divided into a plurality of gate wiring division patterns connected in parallel.
According to the invention, the resist film thickness by the gray tone exposure within the surface of the substrate can be made uniform. Accordingly, it is possible to stably perform subsequent etching and ashing processes, and it is possible to improve a yield.
FIG. 1 is a plan view illustrating Embodiment 1 of the invention;
FIG. 2(a) is a plan view illustrating Embodiment 1 of the invention, and FIG. 2(b) is a cross-sectional view illustrating Embodiment 1 of the invention;
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view in a manufacturing process of the invention;
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a relationship between a ratio of a wiring width to a space of a gate wiring and a film thickness ratio according to the embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a relationship between a wiring width of a gate wiring and a film thickness ratio according to the embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 9 is a schematic view illustrating a planar disposition of a gate wiring of the known example; and
FIGS. 10(a) to 10(c) are views, each of which illustrating a cross-sectional structure in a source wiring forming process in FIG. 9.
FIG. 1 shows a plan view of a thin film transistor substrate 100 according to an embodiment. Incidentally, FIG. 1 is a plan view illustrating only a gate wiring on an insulating substrate 1. FIG. 1 is different from FIG. 10 in that a second gate wiring 2 is formed to connect a gate wiring division pattern 2a and a gate wiring division pattern 2b in parallel to each other in the region II as the second region, which is a characteristic in the invention. In the region I, the thin film transistor is disposed in matrix, and a first gate wiring 2c is formed in a pixel display region having a pixel electrode. In the embodiment, the region II as the second region will be described as a test circuit by way of example.
FIG. 2(a) shows a plan view of the test circuit disposed outside the pixel region in the thin film transistor substrate 100 according to the embodiment. FIG. 2(b) shows a cross-sectional view at a part represented by the line A-A in FIG. 2(a). The gate wiring 2 as the second gate wiring is formed on the insulating substrate 1 to connect the gate wiring division pattern 2a and the gate wiring division pattern 2b in parallel to each other, which are formed of, for example, Al, Mo, W, Cr, alloy based on these elements, or a metal film formed by laminating these materials. W denotes each width, and both of them are separately disposed with a space S therebetween. Since one gate wiring is divided, a width of the wiring necessary on area is represented by W and the sum of S and W. However, the value of the width is larger than the width of the first gate wiring as the gate wiring in the pixel display region. Since the width of the gate wiring is electrically twice of W, the width of the gate wiring in the region is larger than the width of the first gate wiring as the gate wiring in the pixel display region. Herein, the term of “gate wiring” is used as wide means including a gate electrode where a general thin film transistor is formed.
The thin film transistors are formed on each divided gate wiring patterns. First, a gate insulating film 3 is formed to cover the gate wiring 2 on the insulating substrate 1, and a semiconductor layer 4 is formed thereon. The semiconductor layer 4 is formed by laminating an intrinsic layer including no impurity and a layer including a conductive impurity such as phosphorus (P). A conductive layer 5 as a source wiring and a drain wiring is formed on the semiconductor layer 4, and constitutes the thin film transistor.
One part of the conductive layer 5 becomes a source wiring 5a, and the other part becomes a drain wiring 5b. The source wiring 5a and the drain wiring 5b are formed at positions opposed to each other with a back channel portion 10 of the thin film transistor therebetween. In an operation as an MOS transistor, one part serves as a source electrode and the other part serves as a drain electrode according to the state of potential.
The thin film transistor substrate 100 according to the embodiment has a structure in which the gate wiring is divided into a plurality of parts connected in parallel, thereby forming the gate wiring so that a ratio of W to S in each gate wiring is 1.7 or less, preferably 1.0 or less.
With such a configuration, a film thickness of resist formed on the gate wiring division pattern 2a and the gate wiring division pattern 2b of the test circuit outside the pixel display region to perform gray tone exposure is substantially equal to a film thickness of resist formed on the first gate wiring in a relative sparse region such as the pixel display region. As a result, a resist film thickness at a gray tone exposure applied part in the back channel portion after a photolithography process can be made substantially equal. To regulate a range of the ratio of W to S and a causal relationship will be described in detail in the following manufacturing method.
Hereinafter, a relationship between gray tone exposure and a patterning condition of the gate wiring in the region I of the thin film transistor substrate 100 according to the embodiment will be described mainly. First, on the insulating substrate 1, a film as the gate wiring 2 is formed of Al, W, Mo, Cr, alloy based on these elements, or a metal film formed by laminating these materials. Then, the gate wiring 2 is patterned through photolithography, etching, and resist removing processes. The gate wiring 2 has a shape of connecting the gate wiring division pattern 2a and the gate wiring division pattern 2b in parallel to each other. However, the area or the width of the patterning is a factor having an influence on the resist film thickness, which will be described later.
Then, the gate insulating film 3, the semiconductor layer 4, and the conductive layer 5 are formed in order. An intrinsic non-single-crystal silicon layer including no impurity is formed and then a silicon layer including a conductive impurity such as phosphorus (P) is formed, thereby forming the semiconductor layer 4. The conductive layer 5 is formed of Cr, Mo, W, Al, alloy based on these elements, or a metal film formed by laminating these materials.
In the photolithography process, a resist 6 is applied by a thickness of 1 to 3 μm. After applying the resist 6, exposure is performed using a mask 7 having a region 8 having a predetermined transmissivity on a part corresponding to the back channel region. FIG. 3 shows a cross-sectional view of the test circuit in this condition. FIG. 3 shows a cross-sectional view of a part represented by the line B-B in FIG. 2(a). In the embodiment, the mask 7 has a structure assuming that a positive type resist is used.
In FIG. 3, the gate wiring 2 is divided into the gate wiring division pattern 2a and the gate wiring division pattern 2b connected in parallel to each other. The gate wiring division patterns 2a and 2b do not necessarily have the same wiring width. They are separately disposed with a space S.
The gate insulating film 3, the semiconductor layer 4, and the conductive layer 5 as the source wiring 5a or the drain wiring 5b are formed to cover the gate wiring division patterns 2a and 2b, and the resist 6 is applied thereon. As the film thickness of the resist 6, there are two thicknesses of T1 in the region where there are not gate wiring division patterns 2a and 2b and T2 on the gate wiring division patterns 2a and 2b. T1 and T2 correspond to T11 and T12 in FIG. 10, respectively.
After the condition shown in FIG. 3, a development process is performed. Accordingly, the resist in the region where the semiconductor layer 4 and the conductive layer 5 are to be removed is dissolved. A film thickness of the resist 6 in a region that becomes the back channel portion 10 later, that is, a region corresponding to the region 8 having a predetermined transmissivity becomes small. FIG. 4 shows a cross-sectional view of the condition where the resist film thickness in the desired region is made small by the gray tone exposure as described above.
As shown in FIG. 4, a GT resist film thickness is T3. In consideration of the conditions, a relationship among the width W of the gate wiring division pattern 2a as a foundation, the space S, and the resist film thickness will be described hereinafter.
FIG. 5 shows a relationship between a ratio R=W/S of the width W of the divided one gate wiring division pattern to the space S of the adjacent gate wiring division pattern width and the film thickness ratio. Herein, the term of “film thickness ratio” is a ratio of a GT resist film thickness T3 when the applied film thickness T1 is 1. In FIG. 5, it is assumed that transmissivity of the region 8 is set so that the film thickness ratio is 0.5.
In this case, when the ratio R is increased from the consideration in FIG. 10, the pattern density does not tend to be sparse but dense, and the resist film thickness gets closer to the condition of T13 than that of T12. For this reason, the increase of the ratio R causes an increase of the applied film thickness of the resist in the gate wiring portion, and further causes an increase of the GT resist film thickness T3.
In an experiment, it was confirmed that the film thickness ratio is increased by the increase of the ratio R as can be seen from FIG. 5. In this case, considering a permissible range of non-uniformity as 10% or less, the upper limit of the film thickness ratio becomes 0.6. The ratio R satisfying the upper limit becomes 1.7. When the ratio R is 1.0 or less, the film thickness ratio can be kept in 0.5 like the setting value, which is more preferable.
FIG. 6 shows a relationship between the width W of the gate wiring division pattern and the film thickness ratio when the gate wiring is divided. As described above, the upper limit of the film thickness ratio is 0.6, and thus the upper limit of the wiring width W in the case where the film thickness ratio is the upper limit or less becomes 40 μm.
On the basis of the above results, in the embodiment, the patterning is performed so that the ratio R of W to S is 1.7 or less and the pattern width W is 40 μm or less, in the gate wiring division pattern 2a and the gate wiring division pattern 2b.
The semiconductor layer 4 and the conductive layer 5 in the region where the resist 6 does not remain are removed from the condition shown in FIG. 4 by etching the conductive layer 5 and the semiconductor layer 4 according to the subsequent etching process (not shown). Then, as shown in FIG. 7, an ashing process is performed as much as the resist on the back channel portion 10 is removed, the resist at this part is removed, and the resist 9 remains in the region remaining as the source wiring 5a and the drain wiring 5b.
Then, the conductive layer 5 right above the back channel portion 10 is removed by selective etching. Subsequently, the upper layer to which the conductive impurity is added is removed by etching so that the intrinsic layer of the semiconductor layer 4 remains. FIG. 8 shows a cross-sectional view in this condition. In the ashing shown in FIG. 7, since the resist film 6 is reduced to retreat from the pattern edges as well as in a film thickness direction, the semiconductor layer 4 protrudes from the conductive layer 5. Then, the resist 9 is removed, thereby completing the test circuit shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3.
Then, an insulating film is formed between the layers by the known method. Contact holes for connecting the pixel electrode and the like to the gate wiring 2, the source wiring 5a, or the drain wiring 5b are formed in the insulating film between the layers or the gate insulating film 3. Subsequently, the pixel electrode or the conductive pattern connected to the conductive layer 5 or the gate wiring 2 are formed through the contact holes as necessary, thereby forming the thin film transistor (TFT) substrate.
As described above, the gate wiring 2 is divided into a plurality of parts so that the resist film thickness T2 on the gate electrode forming the TFT becomes substantially equal to, for example, the region where the main TFT determining performance of a display such as a pixel electrode is formed. As a result, the resist film thickness at the gray tone applied part in the back channel portion after the photolithography can be made substantially equal.
In the embodiment, the gate wiring 2 is divided into two parts by way of example, but the invention may be applied to the case of dividing it into three or more parts, thereby obtaining the same effect.
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Daedalus, The Return of Icarus
1 Post By Tommy0327
Title: Daedalus, The Return of Icarus
Tommy0327
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This is an Amberknight Studios (Amberknight Studios©) production.
( Δαίδαλος, ο Επιστροφή του Ίκαρος )
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After King Minos died, Daedalus returned to his labyrinth. At his labyrinth Daedalus meet a hero, a son of Hades named Hegaraw. When Hegaraw ran into Daedalus they decided to become friends and meet together many times. After Hegaraw heard how Daedalus’s son had died many years ago he showed Daedalus how to contact dead spirits from the underworld. Daedalus was very happy and pleased, in fact he introduced his son to Hegaraw many times. One time though when he was talking to his son alone.
“Hello dad!” Icarus said.
“Son!” Daedalus replied happily, “You must listen to me better, this is why you are dead.” Daedalus finished that thought aloud angrily.
Icarus replied sadly, “I’m sorry father, I was bewitched by my scene of freedom.”
Daedalus was now displeased, “You need to listen more!”
Daedalus loved his son and was shocked and sad at how quickly this re-meeting his son had turned around quite quickly. Daedalus though knew that this was improper behaviour for a boy of his sons age. He was raising his hand to hit him, the proper punishment for this when, “Rawwwr!” Icarus thought that was a peculiar noise for a slap. He didn’t feel the slap although he got used to not feeling mortals when they reach towards him or attempt to hand him something , they usually go through him. Icarus then realized that his father was frozen in place, frozen with fear. he could see it in his fathers old wise eyes.
“Father!” Icarus shouted.
Another roar. Icarus was scared of the noise and finally turned around deciding even if it was a monster it couldn’t hurt him and he would try to help his dad as best as he could. When he turned around he saw a large bull standing on it’s hind legs. The Minotaur! The minotaur is a monster that Minos created and put into the labyrinth that Daedalus created. Icarus instantly noticed the creature when he turned around. The father, son duo instantly appeared in the labyrinth somehow.
“Pan,” Icarus said to himself, “He’s my only hope to get out of here other then my dad if he ever recovers his consciousness.”
Pan is the God of the wild and all Satyrs. Many people believe he died in the labyrinth somehow, Satyrs believe though that he is alive and in hiding.
Icarus called three more times “Pan! Pan! Pan?”
“Are you there?” Icarus asked. I can’t leave my dad here to get Pan can I, He thought in his head. “I must go,” Icarus Whispered to himself, “It’s the only way.” Icarus wailed and moaned through the tunnels of hallways and the corridors of deep darkness.
“Rowrrrrrrrr!” the Minotaur grouched after one of Icarus’s turns into an opening.
Icarus then realized that the Minotaur was five dark tunnels back. He entered the opening. It smelled like that of a deep, large, huge forest. Icarus instantly knew that if he could smell something like this when he was dead,
“Pan!” Pan was on a large throne made out of vines, fungi, and ferns. Pan shook his head in approval to his name. “My father, Daedalus I need to get hi out of here,” Icarus told Pan the god of the wilderness, “He’s an alive mortal and the creator of this maze but has fallen unconscious! If you could please just help show me the way out I can get help,” Pan looked like he disregarded him and didn’t even care or notice that he was there.
“Please,” Icarus pleaded, “I need you to help.”
Pan did nothing. Icarus knew not to mess with a god (even a dead one) because something terrible could happen to you. Icarus turned away moping and crying to himself. Pan snapped his fingers and a huge tremor went about the labyrinth. Daedalus (still unconscious) and Icarus where instantly at the front door of the labyrinth with the transportation of Pan, who was still there with them.
“Thank you Pan,” Icarus said and bowed to the deceased god.
“Your welcome,” Pan said, “Now leave!”
You just saved my dad and you start being harsh to me! Why is this Pan?” Icarus questioned.
“The tremor is because when I transport myself from place to place the Minotaur shall know where I’m going to, therefor the tremor was actually here although you fell it every inside of this.. This... This Labyrinth.” Pan answered, “I was saying go so that your dad would not be eaten by the time you come back with help.”
Icarus bowed again, “Thank you Pan. I just thought you were not happy.”
Icarus then started to run. Who to? Who to? Hegaraw! He went straight to Hegaraw and told him the following, “Hegaraw!”
“What is it young boy?’
“My father! He’s at the... I’m starting to fade!”
“My dad Hades doesn’t like people gone for to long! He’s calling you back! Tell me quick!” Hegaraw said.
“He’s at the labyrin-” Icarus faded.
“No!” Hegaraw shouted, “I must go now.” Hegaraw said while running from the alley he was talking to Icarus at.
Hegaraw run to the labyrinth and when he was behind it complete opposite side he was getting a large headache.
“Many People have died here,” Hegaraw said, “How could Minos stand this? Oh no! I’m too late!”
Hegaraw sensed from the side now that Daedalus is dead. Should I go, he thought to himself. I’ll be alone.... I won’t have any help.. I must. Hegaraw walked up to the front door slowly to see a few organs and Daedalus’s robe left on the entrance. He stood frozen.
“Icarus and his dad are reunited at last. I’ll stay in contact with them,” Hegaraw finished, hearing the roar of the minotaur in the background walking into the labyrinth.
Last edited by Tommy0327; 02-29-2012 at 06:45 PM.
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Re: Daedalus, The Return of Icarus
Midas, The Return Of The GOLDEN TOUCH
( Μίδας, ο Επιστροφή του ο Χρυσή Αγγίξτε )
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After 3 hours after Midas got his gift (the golden touch A.K.A Midas touch) He beseeches Dionysus (the wine god) to remove the gift he received from the wine god for taking care of Dionysus’s friend Silenus (A Satyr).Dionysus agreed to remove the golden touch.
Midas had decided to keep the apple he turned to gold, but he actually had touched two apples. He kept both the apples. After two weeks of Dionysus taking away the golden touch, Midas wanted to see if the apples were safe to eat. He had a slave eat the first apple.
“Master! This apple! It tastes as if if....” He trailed off in wonderment.
“WHAT?! Tell me you unworthy slave mutt!” Midas commanded, “Or else! I’ll put you in the dungeon!”
“It tastes like love, undesirable goodness! As if eating a divine fruit from the gods!” The slave finished.
“Very well.” Midas snorted upon the slave. “I’ll take the other apple now.”
Midas left the courtyard to get the apple from the kitchen. They had the apple in a container that they thought would completely keep anything from turning to gold if the apple had such an ability. Although, we now know it doesn’t as the slave thought it was entirely divine, it never turned the slave to gold so it is to be eaten by the king himself!
A Few Minutes Later, After Eating The Apple
“I...I....I!!!!!” Midas couldn’t speak ever since eating the apple “I need more!!! Get ME MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“Master,” The same slave who ate the first apple asked,” Where could I get something so divine for your tastes?”
“Olympus! Go get Dionysus! He must return here with many apples! The whole village must have them! I can’t just share all the excitement with one worthless slave!” Midas told him, “Now go!”
At Olympus
“May I get Dionysus,” The slave asked Zeus.
“Get out of here! You aren’t worthy of being here!! If you seek Dionysus, you must find him, if you want him to return to your king you must ask him if he will. If he refuses, I don’t care and life will continue as we know it.”
The slave was angry yet he did as Zeus said and went to find Dionysus who was probably with Silenus.
At A favorite bar of Dionysus
“Man this is one of the best spot in Greece to get wine!” Dionysus
“I must agree,” Silenus replied
At the floor above them they started to hear the door swish closed and the slave say, “Has anyone seen Silenus or Dionysus?”
“Yes slave who was NEVER had WINE!!!” Dionysus shouted
“I come from Midas! He requests your presence!” The slave shouted scared of death. Dionysus snapped his fingers and they were at Midas’s palace.
“Now slave, why are we here?” Silenus asked for his friend Dionysus.
“My master wants golden apples. He made two apples gold when you gave him the golden touch power. He says he needs more,” the slave answered.
“Here I have no use,” Dionysus said
“Here are some more!” Silenus took some out of a bag he had, following Dionysus’ lead.
“Thank you! God, and Satyr,” the slave replied.
The slave headed to the king's room and gave him the bag.
“Slave! You took too long!” Midas said.
“But sir I got you a whole bag!” The slave pleaded and Midas stopped before he whipped the slave.
“Very well,” He replied, “Go on before I change my mind!!”
The slave ran off and started planning an escape plot with his friends. The king took the apple and ate it. He went to his vanity took off his crown and then fell asleep.... Never to wake up again!
The Next GOLDENMorning
The slave came to the king's room and placed a cup of wine and a bowl of fruits. He noticed the king asleep and came to wake him.
Odd, the slave thought, he’s normally up by now.
The slave shook Midas awake. Nothing. He then took the covers off to reveal a detailed golden statue of Midas.
“Ahhh!!!” The slave yelled.
He then ran out the room and told his friends and family. He finally told the princess. His family and friends he plotted with then meet him right outside the kings room before the princess came reviewed the escape plan then put it in action. they went told the security guards protecting slaves from running off and then the security ran to the kings room. The slaves ran.
“We are no longer property of Midas!” The freedman yelled after running half a mile, “We are people!”
His friends and family yelled and cheered and celebrated like there was no tomorrow! They had a picnic after going half a mile. Then they went to the closests mountains. They slaves built their home and lived there for many years. Midas on the other hand, his whole kingdom turned into gold, his castle, his slaves, his family, and citizens. The slave who had gotten the apples was turned to gold as well for eating an apple, but he got it reversed and he owned nothing at the time so nothing turned to gold that was his.
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This report quantifies the role that the High Weald's woodlands play in storing carbon, and forms part of an ongoing programme of research. This wider research is designed to further our understanding of how important the High Weald landscape is in securing our social and economic well-being.
Woodlands and Carbon Storage in the High Weald AONB
pdf Woodlands and Carbon Storage in the High Weald AONB (386 KB)
Status and date:
Complete, July 2010
Research purpose:
The report forms part of a programme of activities to help us understand more about how important our landscape is to our social and economic well being. The work contributes to targets within Objective G3 of the High Weald AONB Management Plan, whilst adding to our knowledge of how woodlands could help mitigate the effects of climate change.
Research aim(s):
To understand the role of High Weald woodlands in carbon storage.
To inform the JAC's approach to support for the woodland industry in its ambition to improve the utilisation of local timber in buildings.
Research findings:
The research shows that trees growing naturally in High Weald woodlands 'lock up' equivalent to a fifth of the annual carbon emissions of each High Weald resident (in the UK the average carbon emissions per person are 10 tonnes of carbon per year).
AONB Unit comment:
Woodlands and woodland management have a vital role to play in our response to climate change, as growing trees absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and store it as carbon both above and below ground.
The preparation of a carbon account for woodlands is the first stage in providing advice to assist policy makers and land managers take decisions that reduce emissions and enhance the sequestration 'locking up', of carbon.
Commissioned by:
High Weald AONB Joint Advisory Committee (JAC)
Commissioned from:
Sandy Greig; Independent Consultant
High Weald AONB Joint Advisory Committee (JAC) and the INTERREG IV A 2 Seas within the framework of the MULTI FOR Project
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Re: Countdown to Inferno: Fiction Teasers
Reply #40 on: June 29, 2015, 08:11:56 am
Sure, if you're so inclined.
"We have now reached the point where every goon with a grievance, every bitter bigot, merely has to place the prefix, 'I know this is not politically correct, but...' in front of the usual string of insults in order to be not just safe from criticism, but actually a card, a lad, even a hero. Conversely, to talk about poverty and inequality, to draw attention to the reality that discrimination and injustice are still facts of life, is to commit the sin of political correctness. Anti-PC has become the latest cover for creeps. It is a godsend for every curmudgeon and crank, from fascists to the merely smug."
Finian O'Toole, The Irish Times, 5 May 1994
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Reply #41 on: June 29, 2015, 12:35:14 pm
I'm not saying these have to go into your canon, just a for fun idea I had in my head:
Victory Day (whichever day it was the Jovians officially surrendered)
Unification Day (when Sol officially united under the EA government)
Veterans Day (similar to the current US holiday and Canada's Remembrance Day)
Christmas (not sure how strongly it'd be celebrated, but I'd imagine people would still want December 25 off even in the future)
Just remembered another relatively obvious one to put in there:
New Years' Day
No relent
Pre-Reunion EA would also "celebrate" Severance Day, the day the Lucifer was destroyed.
Celebrations for that day were of course abolished after the EA government decided the node was better off closed.
"A weapon is only as powerful as its wielder. With this weapon, you'll be but an annoyance, which would greatly dishonor it. With this weapon, I can change history. With me, this weapon can shape the universe."
So so far we've got:
Severance Day
Victory Day
Unification Day
Veterans/Remembrance Day
Vrets
Sole Survival Day, on the basis of the belief that the Shivans wiped out the rest of the GTA/PVN.
Get it? Sole survivor? Ahahahaha.
Risin up
Back with a fleet
Did our time
Took our chances
Went the distance, now we're back on our feet
Just the Earth and its will to survive
So many times
It happens too fast
You trade your spaceships for story
Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past
You must fight just to keep them aliiiive
It's the I in Inferno
It's the beam spam delight
Risin' up to a shock jump arrivaaaaaal
And the Sol known survivor
stalks its prey in the night
And we're watching you all with the —
That was just what I needed to reignite some FREDding enthusiasm. (And fiction enthusiasm.)
Reply #48 on: July 09, 2015, 11:18:41 pm
Looking forward to seeing the...Sol Train continue.
Sorry, been demotivated recently. Will post more stuff, exploring the Vasudan situation, Soon.
Be assured, the Countdown is merely paused. I'm not feeling well these days, so it may be a while between updates.
In the meantime, are there any parts of the Infernoverse that you guys would like to see covered here in more detail? (Not involving the EA's wars in Sol, though; that period be covered in the INFA reboot, when/if we release it.)
What about weapon and ship development? If that touches on "EA's wars in Sol" too much, the GTVA's?
Ooooh, weapon and ship development is a favorite topic of mine! Now I just have to make all the ships in our fleetpack fit together as logical developments of post-Capella military technology, in a pseudo-realistic political and military-industrial environment...
But thanks! The GTVA's and Vasudans' are certainly feasible.
Since I've already mentioned things that might be interesting on the EA side of things (1- debate about whether to go to war with or coexist with the GTVA, 2-building the Icanus or lots of regular destroyers)...something on the GTVA side of things I'd be interested in reading about is the Warlock (since it's been said it will make a return to Nostos) and the GTVA rationale behind that supership.
« Last Edit: July 18, 2015, 12:27:03 pm by CT27 »
mr.WHO
Both Nemesis and Warlock are perfectly resonable ships in Inferno era (GTA suppose to a e few Odin super destroyers and a few Warlocks).
What would I really like to hear about is the logic behind Inferno era Colossus (aka Icanus).
I edited my post, I had meant to say Icanus instead of Nemesis.
You two want Icanus exposition? You get Icanus exposition!
This piece was originally written by Darius, and is used in NuINF canon with his permission, and with modification to fit said NuINF canon.
Icanus: The Best of Intentions
Johannesburg, Africa, Sol
1:22 PM TST, January 4, 2372
The Great Hall of Representatives gave audience to a distinguished academic. He was softly-spoken, with a gentle accent that suggested an origin somewhere in East Africa.
"Representatives of the Earth Alliance General Assembly, I thank you for your audience and for your charity in allowing me to appear today. I know that in this time of upheaval and rebuilding, you are hard at work establishing a new Sol. Yet it is crucial that we do not lose sense of who we are, and we must always remember why Sol tore itself apart in civil wars. I am here to propose a project which will reunite all of humankind in the very essence of humanity that binds us."
The lights in the great hall dimmed, and the giant screen behind the speaker's dais lit up in a holographic display. The image of an Orion-class destroyer became visible, a wireframe set against a backdrop of stars. The symbol of the Galactic Terran Alliance was superimposed against the image,.
"In the years leading up to the Great War, our destroyers embodied our military strength. Citizens of systems protected by destroyers were assured of their safety. They were a symbol of what all of humanity could achieve, if we only worked as one.
"The Vasudans came, then the Shivans, then our fratricidal wars.” Service histories of the GTDs Galatea, Bastion, and others flickered across the screen. “The need for these beacons of hope became more powerful. Legends were born.” The Orion icon faded out, replaced by the newer Tereus and Lindos-class destroyers. “For better or for worse, these great warships have symbolized and guarded Terran governments and peoples.”
"Now, to re-knit our common ties of humanity after decades of war, we need a new symbol."
The wireframe representations of the Tereus and Lindos were replaced with a massive, bulky warship. The GTA symbol disappeared to make way for the globe-crest of the Earth Alliance. Those delegates who were previously affecting a mild interest in the proceedings now stared at the screen with interest.
"Members of the assembly, I present the Icanus. My team of researchers have drafted a preliminary design for a new class of vessel that exceeds the specifications of the SD Lucifer by tenfold. Utilising the most advanced armour composition that is available, she will be all but invulnerable to even the strongest Shivan weapons encountered during the Great War. My team expects-"
"Professor Zuma."
The speaker looked up, his address interrupted and his momentum disturbed. Marcos Ienou was looking at him, his severe features matched by the expression on his face. "I'm sorry, Minister-in-Chief. Is...is there a problem?"
"I apologise for the interruption, Professor, but I must have clarification over a few issues before we proceed." Chief Minister Ienou looked down at his desk, and Professor Zuma realised that he must have been taking notes during his speech. "First item. What you are describing, Professor, is essentially a new flagship for the Earth Alliance. Am I correct?"
"Yes, Secretary-General...well, almost. The Icanus will be more than just a warship. She was also designed to harness pride and unity in our race, and serve as an icon of Earth military power."
"Which are all desirable properties of a flagship, Professor. However, we already have a flagship, one which has already been blooded in defense of Sol. Why should we spend billions to replace the Nemesis?"
Professor Zuma had expected this objection. “With all respect, her service history is one of bloodshed. We need a symbol of humanity reunited, a ship built by all Sol, if we are to put that era behind us.”
Ienou’s eyebrows narrowed. “Are you suggesting that we of the Earth Alliance should be ashamed of our war history? That we should seek to whitewash the sacrifices our military made to defeat the Jovians and their unprovoked aggression?” Some murmurs from the audience.
“Certainly not, Chief Minister.”
"If we are going to approve this project, Professor, then I'm afraid you must outline a more productive role for this Icanus."
"Yes, Chief Minister."
"Second item. How do you propose to resource this project? Between replenishing our conventional fleet and rebuilding infrastructure across Sol, our budget and our credit are stretched to their limits."
"Ah." Professor Zuma licked his lips nervously. He was not sure how his next statement would be taken. "As I was about to mention, Minister, the ship is designed to be invulnerable to all known weapon systems, and forwards-compatible with future weapons developments. She will be more effective than her equivalent cost in destroyers. Therefore, I propose that funding be diverted away from the fleet reconstruction program into this project."
This remark caused several of the delegates to mutter darkly to one another. Marcos Ienou cleared his throat. "I'm afraid that your proposal is not feasible at this time, Professor Zuma. We require fleet assets to maintain a powerbase in this system, and there are still rogue Jovian elements in the outer rim that require neutralization. Let us not also forget the possibility of a Shivan incursion into this system. Twenty current destroyers will provide us with a far better projection of force than a single ship."
"I...understand, Chief Minister." Zuma bowed his head in resignation.
"Is there anything else before we submit a motion?"
"No, Chief Minister."
"Then I hereby submit a motion to approve Professor Zuma's Icanus project. All those in favour of approval?"
The Assembly made their votes, flickering across the screen. Only thirteen percent were in favour of approval.
"Secretary-General." A voice from the general assembly. A tall, blonde-haired man with severe features stood up from his desk, standing at attention. "Professor Armand Eriksson, Geneva Tech, Applied Energy. I beg leave to address the assembly." Ienou appraised the newcomer for a few moments, and gave a nod of assent. Eriksson continued. "I've read Professor Zuma’s papers on the Icanus project, and I’d like to contribute a few points to the discussion."
Professor Zuma looked up at his unlikely ally. Eriksson was the head of the original Flux Cannon research team, building modern EA beam cannons from highly-classified data gathered during the Great War and what could be salvaged from the shattered Lucifer hulk. The most notable achievement had been the construction of the Punisher: a huge platform-based cannon deployed in Earth orbit should the planet ever be threatened. Zuma had had deep personal misgivings about the prospect of a weapon capable of one-shot, 100% casualty-rate planetary bombardment orbiting Earth.
"Professor Zuma's ship concept may seem unfeasible when used in a standard destroyer role, but I see a potential alternative use of the design. If we can amalgamate the Punisher cannon and this new ship, then we may have a new mobile weapons platform. This will substantially increase the versatility of the Punisher cannon, while giving us a powerful fleet asset. The Icanus will be able to destroy any projected Shivan warship class in one shot, and discourage future planetary rebellions." The Outer Planets’ delegates did not miss the thinly-veiled threat.
"That is an interesting concept, Professor Eriksson," said the Secretary-General. "It provides an elegant and feasible solution to the first item of contention. However, what of the second? Where are we to find enough resources to build this ship?"
"Not with our current crippled resource base, Chief Minister. However, I propose an alternative method to extract minerals previously beyond our reach." He keyed in some data into his desk screen, and broadcast the information to other delegates in the assembly hall. "There are currently four privately-owned mining corporations on the surface of Mars that are still active. By implementing wartime advances in resource-extraction, and by combining these corporations into one government-controlled super-corporation, we can finally harvest Mars's untapped deposits at a much larger scale."
Zuma looked down at the data on his screen, and was horrified. "Professor Eriksson," he said. "What you propose is the complete strip-mining of the planet." Shocked whispering was heard from the Martian delegates.
"What I propose, Professor, is the acquisition of badly-needed resources at a time when the Earth Alliance sorely needs them most. Moreso, the choice of Mars is a prudent one, as it is highly centralised and in close proximity to Earth. Security of the project would be easier to enforce than if the project was based in, say, Europa."
"But there are three hundred million people on Mars!"
"Professor Eriksson," said Secretary-General Ienou, "Your colleague's objections are not unfounded. Has your team conducted any tests to evaluate how the surface of the planet will be affected by global mining of this scale? I remind you of the terraforming project that is currently under progress, and also that Mars is a founding member of the EA."
"Unfortunately, Chief Minister, our study did not find any conclusive evidence on the mining's effects on the planet's surface. Tectonic activity may increase, but it should not endanger residents currently on the surface. The terraforming process may slow, even halt, but I assure you that it will not be reversed. In any case, I request that the motion be resubmitted." Professor Eriksson turned to Zuma with a sardonic smile. "In the event that Martian residents experience a decrease in living standards...surely those patriots can bear another economic sacrifice, for the sake of a better-defended and more-unified Sol."
"Sacrifice?!" cried Zuma in disbelief.
"Calm down, Professor Zuma," chided Ienou. "Professor Eriksson has provided possible solutions to both points of contention, which seem feasible enough to carry out at this time. I will hereby resubmit the motion to approve Professor Zuma's Icanus project. All those in favour of approval?"
The screen at the head of the assembly hall lit up again. A full seventy percent of delegates approved of Professor Zuma's project. The Martian delegates and the outer-worlders objected en masse, but their voices carried little weight in the population-based Assembly.
"It has been decided. Professor Zuma, the Icanus project has been approved, incorporating Eriksson’s Punisher cannon suggestion, with construction facilities in orbit of Mars. Under these conditions, are you willing to undertake directorship of this project?"
Yakubu Zuma looked over at the animated assembly, and at the smiling face of Armand Eriksson. He felt his control over the proceedings slipping through his fingers, and he saw his dream of uniting humanity twisting into something entirely different and sinister. Under these new conditions, the Icanus would be nothing less than a mobile planet-killer. An iron fist, wielded by the dominant Earth power bloc to keep the outer planets prostrate. His heart now went out to the Martian delegates. But he could do nothing to stop his own proposal.
"Yes, Minister-in-Chief." The only thing he could do now was fight, and try to shift the project back towards the noble ideology that he originally envisioned. No matter what happens, he thought, I will make sure that this ship is constructed for the good of all humanity.
Deep inside, Zuma knew how little it would truly matter.
Zarax
That is a really nice take on the origin of such a mighty ship!
Thanks, but most of the credit goes to Darius. I'd admired the original story and thought it'd make a nice addition to NuINF fluff.
You asked for stuff we might like to see, could I make one more for the list (in addition to a mention on the GTVA rationale for the Warlock)?
I'm not asking for it to be a main focus of a fiction piece of yours (though if you wanted to go that route I wouldn't object), but if/when you do more EA stuff, would it be possible for the Vasudan pilots (who helped in the Lucifer strike) to make at least a cameo? I've always been curious at how they're doing.
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Brie Larvan, the Bug-Eyed Bandit, escapes from jail and shows up at Palmer Tech in Arrow episode: Beacon of Hope. She threatens to kill everyone in the building if she doesn’t get the bio-chip that is implanted in Felicity’s spine. Fans will remember her from The Flash. Felicity helped Barry capture her. Brie has had time on her hands in jail to create some robotic bees to use in her attack. Oliver and the team attempt to rescue Felicity and Thea. They are eventually rescued when the team gets help from Curtis who takes control of the bees. Damien Darhk receives a visit in prison from Malcolm.
Supernatural Episode: Red Meat
Sam and Dean battle a couple of werewolves that captured two victims. One of them is able to shoot Sam before Dean can react. Dean kills the werewolf and checks on the two victims. He takes the bullet out of Sam. They leave before any other werewolves can show up. They stumble across a cabin and take refuge in it before trying to make it out of the woods. Dean is forced to leave Sam behind. Dean tries to get back to the cabin to get Sam and everything seems to work against him. He’s ready to sacrifice himself again to make sure Sam lives. We see once again how strong the family bonds are with the brothers when each one of them is ready to sacrifice his life so the other one can live.
The Originals Episode: Alone with Everybody
Tonight’s return has the Mikaelson siblings fighting amongst themselves once again. Elijah stops Kol and Finn from killing each other when they come face to face at the compound. Kol has reason to want Finn dead. Finn was the one responsible for his death. Rumors are spreading about the remaining white oak bullet and where it might be. More foes show up in New Orleans, attempting to take Klaus down once and for all. Elijah urges his siblings to stay at the compound instead of going out and being seen. Marcel, Vincent, and Josh follow a lead involving a mystery vampire who may have the answers they’re looking for. Klaus and Hayley seek refuge with her former pack and find out some interesting news that involves the threat against them.
Grimm Episode: Skin Deep
A young woman who seems to age 70 years overnight is found lifeless by Nick and Hank. They find out she was using a new beauty regimen at the time of her death. It leads them to a local doctor who is being supplied with beauty ingredients by a photographer who is Wesen. Nick enlists Rosalee’s help to get the information they need to prove their case. They learn of the photographer’s involvement when they are confronted by him when he shows up at the doctor’s office with another jar of the stuff the doctor needs. Both are taken down before anyone gets hurt. Eve takes steps to learn more about Renard’s dealings with the people that had the mayoral candidate killed.
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Diane Riggins writes fantasy (epic and urban), and paranormal novels and screenplays. She and her family live in the South with their dog and three cats. When she’s not writing she spends her time reading her favorite books which include The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Dark Hunter series, playing her favorite online game Lord of the Rings Online, watching some of her favorite movies (Fast and Furious Franchise,Harry Potter Franchise, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings) and tv shows (Supernatural, Grimm, The Originals, and Arrow). You can read updates about her writing projects and other random topics on her blog: a-creative-mind.com, follow her on facebook (drigginsauthor), and on twitter: @dianeriggins.
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Dijsselbloem on bail-ins (or not)
Some comments made today by Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem reported here are worth reading.
We should aim at a situation where we will never need to even consider direct recapitalisation…If we have even more instruments in terms of bail-in and how far we can go on bail-in, the need for direct recap will become smaller and smaller
Now we’re going down the bail-in track and I’m pretty confident that the markets will see this as a sensible, very concentrated and direct approach instead of a more general approach…It will force all financial institutions, as well as investors, to think about the risks they are taking on because they will now have to realise that it may also hurt them. The risks might come towards them.
A subsequently released statement suggested some draw back from his earlier comments.
Cyprus is a specific case with exceptional challenges which required the bail-in measures we have agreed upon yesterday.
Macro-economic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used.
Author Seamus CoffeyPosted on March 25, 2013 Categories Uncategorized
153 thoughts on “Dijsselbloem on bail-ins (or not)”
Tull Mcadoo says:
In the long run he is right. There has to be an orderly and coherent way of winding up a failing institution without beggaring the taxpayer. There are several problems. This is not what they are doing it at the moment. Think of a chimp with a wrench looking at a Ferrari and you get the picture.
In addition, if you are the owner of any thing on the right had side of a bank balance sheet, you should get out now because THEY do not know what they are doing.
Joseph Ryan says:
Granny is now an investor in the new EZ banking world. There will be granny classes all over Europe studying bank balance sheets etc.
Robert Browne says:
This from yanis Varaoufakis
“Mr Dijsselbloem, the new Eurogroup said in no uncertain terms when rejoicing that the Cyprus deal paves the ground for new bailout arrangements such that the European Union “…will never need to even consider direct recapitalisation” of failing banks. This constitutes the death knell of both the direct recapitalisation agreement reached last in the EU’s June 2012 summit and, naturally, of any meaningful banking union. The message is thus clear: Each to his or her own! All plans to use the ESM in order to de-couple the banking from the public debt crisis are off the table.”
To think that Noonan thinks that the Cyprus deal is good for Ireland just shows how bad we are at picking finance ministers.
PR Guy says:
Jeroen Dijsselbloem’s clearly an idiot. His PR Guys have been backtracking like fury all afternoon/evening.
I moved all my money to the UK and Switzerland a little while ago. I’m past caring about the Euro and the unelected f**kwits who are really running the show there now.
I don’t normally agree with Fintan but he’s on the money here:
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/europe/cypriot-bailout-shows-troika-to-be-hapless-incompetents-1.1337996/cypriot-bailout-shows-troika-to-be-hapless-incompetents-1.1337996
But lets not get histrionic about all this. We have all been had by Germany (and the Finns and Dutch really)- essentially now that the risk has been transferred to the periphery banks can go bust. How do we get them back??
I would really like to start a pan-European political party that’s based on Locke’s stuff with free education and free healthcare thrown in (5 principles in total). How do I get it started? Will anybody join me?
Dorothy Jones says:
http://pawelmorski.wordpress.com/ It’s been posted everywhere today but a great little gem on Dijsselbloem, ‘the work experience lad in the office..as overheard by our correspondent in Brussels..’
Carolus Galviensis says:
@Robert Browne at 8:00 pm
re: Yanis Varoufakis hears his 125th death knell (though I think he’s right this time)
Thanks for reminding us of the delightful Yanis — that highly intelligent and mildly bats Greek economics professor whose blog is a fun read even when he has a bad hair day, that is 7 days a week — the guy who is not only opposed to such policies as the reform of labour protection law but considers anybody who argues in its favour to be obtuse, or evil, or both.
Like all too many fervent anti-austerity partisans he diabolises his opponents ad infinitum. He lowers the quality of every debate he participates in because he does not even try to engage with ‘the other side’.
The article you quote from is relatively mild-mannered by Varoufakis’s phoque-you standards yet it deserves a thorough fisking* — but time’s a thief so I’ll just select a couple of extracts.
Marfin-Laiki Bank’s bond and shareholders will be wiped out – as they ought to.
The bank’s bondholders and shareholders include a substantial percentage of the pension and life assurance funds of the citizens of Cyprus. Ought they to be wiped out as well?
At least now uninsured deposits will be haircut in proportion to the size of the bank’s black hole, thus restoring a degree of private responsibility on the part of depositors viz. their choice of banker.
True, but again no mention of the fact that the depositors and bondholders also include the pension and life assurance funds of the cypriot taxpayers who would otherwise be footing the bill. To some extent at least the bonderholders
are us.
Why does nobody seem to cotton on this? This eternal bullshit that bankers = banks = bondholders = evil besterds just goes, and on, and on.
The effect of the complete wipe out of the foreign depositors will have a devastating effect not just on the banking sector but also on the hotel and tourist industry.
Ten out of ten for that.
Cypriot euros that are no longer exportable (nb. Imagine Vermont dollars that cannot be taken out of Vermont: a logical travesty within a currency union)
Eleven out of ten.
[T]he powers that be in Berlin and Frankfurt are shifting away from unifying moves, adopting increasingly authoritarian, divisive policies that are pushing the Eurozone in precisely the opposite direction to that dictated by political and economic sustainability.
Malevolent Germans just love socking it to the EU. They WANT to sink the dreamboat. They’re LOOKING FORWARD to chaos and
The message is thus clear: Each to his or her own!
It was always thusly clear, if not quite so clearly.
*Fisking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisking
PS Actually I am a fan of Robert Fisk, even if he deserves an occasional fisking.
As for Fisk himself, in a 2005 interview he stated that he was unaware of the term. “I have to be honest: I don’t use the Internet. I’ve never seen a blog in my life. I don’t even use email, I don’t waste my time with this. I am not interested. I couldn’t care less. I think the Internet has become a hate machine for a lot of people and I want nothing to do with it.”
Fair play to him.
@Eureka at 8:55 pm
… free icecream and hamburgers for the kiddies
… free Russian beauties for all males between the age of 14 and 100
… FREE ULTRALIGHT PURE-TITANIUM ROADBIKES FOR ALL MAMILS* AND OAMILS**
*MAMILS = middle-aged men in Lycras
**OAMILS = old-aged men in Lycras
@ Carolus
I’m not sure about the Russians – Germans would go mental over the deposits
Everything else all good
Stephen Kinsella says:
Draw back? More accurate to say he threw the Italian tank in the fourth gear of reverse. Cyprus has gone from a special case one week ago to a template this morning and back again. Mad stuff.
Carolus,
you forgot “and a pony”
@Stephen Kinsella
It seems it is a template…according to Finnish Minister and the article also appears to confirm that Mrs. Merkel set out to take out Cyprus as a financial centre.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/world/europe/cyprus-bailout-shows-strictness-but-signs-of-disarray.html?ref=business&_r=0
Btw, the new name for the Troika….”the gang who couldn’t shoot straight”
yoganmahew says:
@francis
He forgot the prayer for world peace too…
Honestly, never mind lavender hill mob, anthill mob would be more like it. Where will the hooded claw strike next?
“First, there will be no more bailouts without bail-ins, meaning investors and even some depositors in banks that get in trouble may have to pay at least part of the price of rescuing them”
Pity they didn’t think of this before the Irish taxpayers payed off all the senior bond holders in Anglo Irish Bank but maybe they were all owned by Irish pension funds or could they have been German, British or French?
paul quigley says:
‘Why does nobody seem to cotton on this? This eternal bullshit that bankers = banks = bondholders = evil besterds just goes, and on, and on.’
The bankers drove a coach and four through their prudential obligations, and are justly derided. Pensions and insurance fund managers caught the bonus fever too, and put the future of many persons at needless risk. Finance may have power, but it is no longer respectable.
The murky details are slowly emerging…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/25/us-eurozone-cyprus-muddle-insight-idUSBRE92O0TM20130325
Prime Minister Rutte of the Nederlands is supposed to have announced today that Cyprus is the new model. Markets moved negatively in response to his comments. The Dutch are now out Germaning the Germans.
Carolus Galviensis, I’m not sure what it is you disagreed with in Yannis’s aticle?
@Paul Quigley at 11:51 pm
Pensions and insurance fund managers caught the bonus fever too, and put the future of many persons at needless risk.
Fund magagers caught the bonus fever because their clients lacked foresight. Indeed, no manager ever got rich by selling ‘moderation’, e.g. a 2% return on investments as opposed to 5% or 8%. The clients wanted hugh returns, and they wanted to make their money ‘work’ for them so that they wouldn’t have to dig in to their capital.
Understandable but unrealistic — after all the STIMULUS came from the clients, the RESPONSE from the managers. The clients got what they wanted, with the managers acting as their agents — until it turned out that what they wanted wasn’t there any more. And anyway, the bondholders are us.
‘’If anything the process works in reverse, with loans driving deposits’’. Distayat, (2010)
Hence I have an issue with calling account holders depositors. This description supports the misleading idea that these customers deposited money in the banks which the banks then put at risk by lending to borrowers.
If this were the case how could the cash in the economy which forms 3% of the money supply possibly lead to deposits which form the other 97% in an era when banks don’t process loans in cash form?
The answer is that banks create the ‘deposits’ they lend and this is fundamentally different from the impression that the media and this forum is giving.
Indeed if anything the analysis here is in reverse. Banks aren’t risky because they lend out depositors’s money at risk. They are risky because they create the money they lend and it’s systemically impossible for all loans to be repaid. If they lent existing money it would be possible for all loans to be repaid.
When a bank fails they are now expected to reduce their liabilities in one way or another but there seems to be no acknowledgment here that this destroys money. We use the bank’s liabilities as money for 99.9% of transactions by value.
When an economy is short of money how could destroying the money on its banks’ balance sheet help?
rf at 12:24 am
I’m not sure what it is you disagreed with in Yannis’s aticle
Rf, what I chiefly disagreed with was Yannis’s refusal even to consider a reevaluation of labour law’s impact on employment, his assumption that Greek law is more or less acceptable as it stands, and that the existing evils are in no way associated with Greece’s home-grown policy of expanding, rather than contracting, government’s share in the economy. His fundamental assumption is that the more government involvement in the economy, the better, Basicallty, he is opposed to austerity policy and all its work and pomps but fails to provide any practicable alternative. He is clueless as to the role of the Greek state in inadvertently destroying his country’s competitiveness.
What Goes Up... says:
The Cypriot Template:
http://www.japlandic.com/2013/03/the-cypriot-template.html
Perhaps not what Dijsselbloem had in mind!
Bryan G says:
Before everyone thinks they understand the “new” rules, you need to look a bit more carefully at the deal. It is fair to say that the deal goes in two opposite directions at the same time, which is par for the course.
Based on all the reports I’ve seen, no BoC or Laiki depositor is going to take a hit if they did their banking with them in Greece (where they had over 300 branches). Greece has been “ringfenced” and the EU is lending money to both Cyrpus and Greece in order to recap those banks in Greece (shortly to be sold to Piraeus). The amount is about 1.5bn. Of the 10bn being lent to Cyprus, only about 7bn is needed for government deficits/rollover. The rest was referred to as a “buffer”, and it appears that one of the uses to which this buffer has been put is to ensure that bank creditors do not take any losses in the Greek branches of the failed banks.
So we’ve got
– Mechanism A: 0% haircuts in some countries (with losses covered via EU lending to sovereigns)
– Mechanism B: up to 100% haircuts in other countries (via bank resolution)
You’ll see that both A and B are applied at the *same time* and for the *same bank* with BoC and Laiki.
So whether, as a depositor, you’ll see A or B appears to be a function of
– how close or how far away the sovereign is from the “magic” 100%/2020 or whatever the IMF’s DSA metric du jour is
– what country you, as a creditor, are in, not the domicile of the bank.
Part of the flowchart seems to be
– If the sovereign can borrow further based on the DSA, and the creditors are the right sort of creditor, or have otherwise done a deal somehow, then A is mandatory (perhaps even in the future too).
– If the sovereign can’t borrow further based on the DSA, and the creditors are merely the locals or dodgy mobster types then B is mandatory.
The ELA part of the deal was another example of strong-arm tactics by the ECB. By rights the Laiki ELA should have stayed in the failed bank, and be run off over time, or else the collateral should have reverted to the Cyprus CB (in the same way IBRC’s collateral ended up with the CBI)
Did the ECB think, that even with a 100% haircut of Laiki depositors, that there still wasn’t enough to pay off the ELA? What’s the value of the assets going over with the 9bn ELA liability, and who decides the value of those assets and the methodology used (e.g. market value, long-term economic value etc.).
They appeared to be stuck for hours arguing over whether BoC should be restructured (without the ELA moving over) and the approach taken in the final deal, however the issues involved between the two approaches are not at all clear at this stage.
@Paul Ferguson
Do you think that having a “full-reserve” type of bank account would be a good idea, and that it would solve the problem of deposit insurance? I think there should be two types of current account – one that earns no interest (other than perhaps that paid by the CB itself on reserves) with the money stored as central bank money/reserves, and another that is the current account of today (where you end up with a bank claim, but no “money”).
I agree that a lot of re-education is needed. People need to understand what “money in the bank” actually means.
Having a large amount of money over 100K in a peripheral bank could now easily break one of the basic laws of investing – the need to diversify. It isn’t really that different from buying equity in the bank. A better solution is a money-market fund that diversifies over multiple banks in multiple countries. One of the problems with depositors “holding banks to account” is the lack of transparency into bank operations. Ideally there should be the equivalent of SEC 10-Q filings every quarter to start with. Given the apparent ease with which Boucher et al. can hide behind “confidentiality” and “commercial sensitivity” for even basic questions at Oireachtas hearings, I’m not that hopeful on that front in the Irish case.
Bail-ins are a positive development but to avoid including uninsured deposits, there would have to be some restriction on banks like Anglo and the Cypriot ones who used market leading interest rates to attract a lot of deposits.
Bungling Europeans make an easy target and in this particular case a justifiable one and today, the Financial Times while referring to “dreadful unforced errors,” adds “Few in Cyprus may agree, but the island state has got the best deal it was entitled to expect. This was not the morality play rolling across media bulletins that paint the country as an innocent victim of European highhandedness. It chose a high-risk strategy of living off a banking system far bigger than the state could support…But the choice to hitch the economy to offshore banking was made with the complicity of leaders and the acquiescence of a population content to live beyond its means.”
Seems familiar?
Off Topic: John Corcoran’s persistence as a leading activist against upwards-only commercial rent reviews merits congratulations, following Mr. Justice Charleton’s landmark ruling in the High Court on Monday that said the rent payable by Bewley’s Grafton Street to the Johnny Ronan controlled Ickendel Ltd must be allowed to fall to market reflective rates under the provisions of the lease.
Bewley’s rent doubled to €1.5m at the last rent review date 1 January 2007, the peak of the property bubble, and is up for review again to apply as and from 1 January 2012. The market rent will now be established by an arbitrator who is already appointed.
Maybe the justice encountered many of John’s off-topic insertions on this blog??
Jan 2013: Shoe shop Korky’s loses eight-year battle against rising rents
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/shoe-shop-korkys-loses-eightyear-battle-against-rising-rents-28956042.html
yoganmahew,
talking with somebody in Cyprus:
“the new restructuring plan does not tax deposits held at the government-owned Russian Commercial Bank”
“In the last week, the international money transactions of Cyprus were about twice as high as normal, but were not allowed into certain directions.
One Russian bank survives untouched.
Putin is extremely quick to nod his approval, ….., to signal that some Russian banking stays in Cyprus, or how else should I see this?”
leads to that Euro and Putin had an agreement before.
I begin to doubt that Dijsselbloem’s “template” was a gaffe.
Greece is up this April. They have to deliver lists with names of layoffs.
Since they need the worker ants to keep the shop running, they have to deliver some of their cronies.
How fast can those people make a public makeover from ND to Syriza?
@ Michael,
The FT is hardly the gospel – not that the ‘real’ gospel would be of much use to us in these days either. It’s judgement of Cyrus, conveniently made in hindsight of course, is arguably the product of the opinions of its primary sources, mostly located amongst the elites of Brussels and the markets who use the FT as a means of conveniently and anonymously relaying messages to one another.
I don’t pretend to understand all that much about how money flows throughout the world financial system. But from what I can grasp, the problem, which has become particularly manifest in the smaller eurozone countries like Cyprus and Ireland before it, is about trying to fit an oversized square peg of a globalized financial system into the round hole of a nation-state, the design and organisation of which cannot accommodate it. The traditional liberal democratic nation state system is completely out of synch with the globalization of finance as it has developed over recent decades.
Most of us, citizens of such nation-states, of which we have legitimate expectations that our welfare and interests (including bank deposits) will be protected by those whom we elect locally to do that job, have had no hand, act or part in any choice of ” a high risk strategy of living off a banking system far bigger than the state could support.”
The charge of acquiescence is unfounded: most ordinary citizens awareness of their local banking system is that the notion of personal customer service went out the window a long time ago. Our only relationship with the bank is through depersonalised ATM and credit card transactions. Even salaries are paid ‘directly’ into bank accounts and the notion of going to the bank to cash a pay cheque belongs to another, almost long-forgotten, era.
If, as citizens, we are guilty of complicity in this debacle, it is more in the sense of assuming that our political leadership were properly regulating and monitoring what the financial system was up to, as we went about our daily lives. Or, to paraphrase Colm McCarthy, that there was some little man whose job was looking after the money on our behalf. That such little men (or women), both at administrative and political level, hadn’t a clue what was really going on is now apparent to us all, though it shouldn’t surprise us.
The end result is not just as Kevin O’Rourke describes it: ‘The mother of all financial crises’. It is the mother of all political crises too. The majority of citizens in our mostly pleasant liberal democratic nation states did not live beyond their personal means. Moreover, they were constantly being assured by political leaders that the financial sector was doing a good job for us all in protecting our meagre savings and stimulating the creation of wealth in the economy. Now it turns out that our political leaders, creatures of the nation state, didn’t know what they were talking about and worse, that the only way they can fit the square peg of a bust global financial system into the round peg of our lives is by destroying the social contract between citizen and state.
@Michael,
‘Round peg’ above should be ’round hole’. And yes, John Corcoran is to be congratulated.
Brick says:
So, while everybody is still talking about the mess up of Dijsselbloem, accidentally telling the truth. Things just seem to get worse and worse, with a loophole, well as big as London, for everybody who wanted to get their money out WHILE the banks were closed:
http://gqjftw.blogspot.de/2013/03/just-cant-make-this-up.html
Sorry, in case it is already mentioned here. I haven’t seen it.
Ireland gets an honourable mention in the closing seconds.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/03/michael-hudson-explains-how-deficit-hysterics-targets-the-wrong-type-of-debt.html
Anonymous Economist says:
@Bryan G
ELA is secured credit and, as such, senior to unsecured credit such as deposits or bonds. Bank resolution is obliged to respect the seniority structure established in the bankruptcy code.
A practical way to understand why Popular Bank’s (Laiki’s) ELA debt cannot be defaulted on is that the performing assets to be transferred in the good bank (and what would make it a “good” bank in the first place) are largely pledged as ELA collateral. If ELA is defaulted on, the collateral will be seized, and there are no assets left from which to build the good bank.
“The ELA part of the deal was another example of strong-arm tactics by the ECB. By rights the Laiki ELA should have stayed in the failed bank, and be run off over time,”
So, it was an a la carte liquidation of Laiki /Cyprus, the carte being chosen by the preferred creditors and euro enforcers.
The principles evolve and change to suit the changing needs of the creditors.
Now that the bondholder money and the core deposits are safely back home, hit whoever is left. A few token tears for small depositors helps the image.
Dijsselbloem was just acting as policy spokesman for Schaeuble. That is why he got the job.
@Eureka
“I would really like to start a pan-European political party that’s based on Locke’s stuff..
Your suggestion is being hit hard, but you have a real point.
Democracy both within countries and at EU level has utterly failed to protect citizens since this crisis began, other than those citizens in creditor countries.
Perhaps that is the new democracy!
The subsequent statement makes the claim “no models or templates are used” which actually seems to me a bad approach. It would be better to have a model at least and maybe a template rather than just make up procedures and principles on an ad hoc basis.
@Gregory Connor
Agreed. Also it does not say a word about the depositors first approach. It is basically a non-denial. Just some random, not very well thought out statement by Dijsselbloem’s office.
@Joseph Ryan
With reference to the point I made in the previous post, the traditional nation state democratic model does not sit easily with the globalisation of finance model and when the latter develops a major problem, the tools and processes available within the nation state model, and by extension the EU, are incapable of coping with it without tearing up the social contract between citizen and state on which their political legitimacy depends. I don’t have a problem with the citizens of Germany and Holland or Finland, who question why they should be asked to pay for the bailouts of Cyprus, Greece or Ireland, or with their political leadership who respond to the public mood of their own electorates. If the boot was on the other foot, would the citizens of Ireland behave any differently? There’s nothing ‘new’ about this; it’s the traditional model of democracy at work.
@ Joseph Ryan
I don’t mind them to be honest – they enjoy feeling clever.
It’s their thing.
@ veronica
It’s true the FT isn’t the gospel while democracy is often intermediated through powerful collective groups.
The individual citizen in that situation has little influence and the individual without the benefit of collective power usually bears an unfair burden during recessions.
In Ireland, a decade after the long recession of the 1980s, FF regained power.
While the Germans can be too risk averse, the Irish appear to be at the opposite end of the spectrum as regards public spending. Has anyone ever been elected in Ireland for advocating prudence? The multi-seat system of course encourages auction politics.
When Charlie McCreevy stood up to the toothless European Commission and ECB in 2001 about growth in spending, the popularity of the coalition jumped.
People of course blame the politicians for failures but what sense of responsibility should voters have?
Dijsselbloem is way out of his depth. Bank of Mattress is safer than any bank that overstretched itself with loans during “the great moderation” if deposits are targeted.
If depositors are to be on the hook for failed lending there are huge questions about the future of bank lending, especially for generic jerry built property that is beyond the reach of the average punter.
Karl Whelan is in fine satirical form in Forbes yesterday, responding to a NYTimes report downplaying the impact of the Cyprus depositor bail-in. Karl had better be careful though since inevitably some readers will “miss” the satire – just human nature it happens inevitably.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/karlwhelan/2013/03/22/vermont-exit-from-the-dollar-would-have-little-impact/
DOCM says:
It seems unlikely that Dijsselbloem could have made such a series of possibly incendiary remarks without the full knowledge and backing of Berlin, The Hague and Helsinki. This is being borne out by the reported subsequent remarks of ministers from these countries.
The coverage by the media of events as chaos rather misses the point. “Knock ’em down drag ’em out” conflicts seldom look tidy. Apart from the scuffle regarding Cyprus, the main battle between Italy and Spain, on the one hand, and Germany on the other has finally been decided with the intervention of France on the side of the latter. Quelle surprise!
To quote Schaeuble in a recent documentary; “If everyone cleaned up before their own door, the whole neighbourhood would be clean”. It remains to be seen whether this formula will work. But there has been no effort on the part of its proponents to disguise the objective they have in mind i.e. banks and their investors, which include depositors (why else are they being paid interest on their deposits?) must eventually fund the insurance arrangements for their overall activity themselves. Indeed, Schaeuble spelt out some time ago the order in which calls would be made with the ESM at the end of a long list and for use only in extremis.
The logic of this position is not dictated by Germany but by the political reality that the EA is made up of nation states and they have collectively neither the political willingness nor the capacity to convince their electorates to change this situation in a manner which would allow a sharing of financial responsibility between governments. Breaking the “vicious link” between banks and sovereigns clearly meansi different things to different people.
@ MH
Re the FT the masthead says “without fear or favour” but that can morph into plámás as circumstances demand. The Editor is known for his arslikhan feature interviews with the great and good.
“While the Germans can be too risk averse, the Irish appear to be at the opposite end of the spectrum as regards public spending.”
There was a certain amount of infrastructural catch up in the early years of the Tiger. And then FF tore the arse out of it.
As part of the sphere of London and with a PS inherited from London (what was it John Kelly said about the engine inherited from England with local service teams keeping it working?) I think Ireland has a similarly cavalier attitude to the value of money as England.
So you have most insurance money invested in unit linked policies with high equity exposure or else with profits where equities gave fabulous returns as long as the bull market roared.
Now that growth is dead the pensions funding model of the Brits is in serious trouble
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21756785
I presume it’s the same in Ireland
Similarly Ireland has the English house ownership fetish. Less than 20% of Germans own their own home.
Inflation is grand in Ireland but under a currency like the Euro the whole economic mentality will have to change. There won’t be any more house price bubbles, most likely. Or if there are they’ll be subdued. And 7% investment growth into infinity also looks ropey.
‘Understandable but unrealistic — after all the STIMULUS came from the clients, the RESPONSE from the managers. The clients got what they wanted, with the managers acting as their agents — until it turned out that what they wanted wasn’t there any more. And anyway, the bondholders are us.’
Please. So accountants, banks and other entitites didn’t promote, represent or otherwise endorse savings ‘products’. The regulation of the sell end was blind to systemic risks, which is where all the big risks were. Terrfiic money was made though.
As for bondholders, they include a diverse range of entities, including sovereign wealth funds and private businesses. To suggest that that Aviva or Axa funds, for example, are somehow ‘us’ is stretching it pretty thin.
Just to hand KW in the IT.
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/europe/cypriot-bailout-terms-welcome-but-further-crises-loom-unless-systemic-action-taken-1.1338355?page=1
The systemic action that he refers to is what is in the works and, while the technical framework is under discussion, the definite deal will not emerge until after the German elections; assuming that the economic and political situation across the EA does not tank completely which might force Merkel to put Europe ahead of her electoral ambtions!
“But the choice to hitch the economy to offshore banking was made with the complicity of leaders and the acquiescence of a population content to live beyond its means”
I think that is dreadful waffle.
How does the average punter know the country’s economic model is banjaxed ?
http://www.politics.ie/forum/elections/202869-meath-east-election-419.html
Tommy Keating, an unemployed roofer, is also voting Fianna Fáil.
“I said to Micheál Martin: as soon as the other shower got in, there was nothing. There were always jobs in the building trade with Fianna Fáil.”
Granted our electoral system would benefit from reform. The selection of PR-STV as a voting system was more accidental than anything else in the first instance. But generally I think the focus in much of our political commentary on the iniquities of PR-STV distracts from where the real rot lies: in the failure of the Dail to hold the government of the day to account; the way in which the political parties have ‘rigged’ the parliamentary system to ensure a system of executive hegemony continues in perpetuity; and, in consequence, the hollowness and hyprocrisy of any party political promises of reform since all parties, with any hope or ambition of attaining office, have a vested interest in maintaining a lack of ‘checks and balances’ on government action once they get there.
Besides, the electorate only gets to vote once or twice in every decade. Elections are but one cog in the wheel of democracy and voters, understandably, cast their ballots in relation to their perceived immediate needs.
As for the voters’ ‘sense of responsibility’, the late Peter Mair and other scholars point the finger at ‘amoral localism’ as a lamentable feature of Irish political culture – suggesting that the electorate has ‘copped out’ on holding governments to account for their actions and instead merely holds local TDs and especially local TDs who make it to Cabinet, to personal account for success/failure in delivering benefits at local constituency level. I think these scholars have a point.
But I would argue that it’s not quite so simple, in that such localism becomes inevitable in the context of the way the larger apparatus of our democracy works, and is intended to work, in practice. Small wonder that the electorate is suspicious of reform of teh multi-seat constituency system and PR STV, since they perceive (rightly) the predominance of party political vested interest in most such suggestions. Nor are they blind to the inertia of proposals to reform the functioning of the parliamentary system given the advantage such failure confers on the incumbent government. PR-STV has the advantage of being highly democratic. What voter in his right mind would opt to change that system when it’s abundantly clear that they will be the only losers and that there is never any genuine intention by any incoming government to engage in any meaningful reform of the rest of the system?
So as voters we tend, within the limited choice presented to us by the established political parties, to select those public representatives who proclaim the greatest allegiance to our local, or sectoral, interests. If those people whom we elect as our representatives display a modicum of intelligence or competence to manage broader affairs of state, that’s all to the good too; but it’s hardly essential to getting elected in the first place.
There’s a real appetite for political reform amongst the electorate generally, which may explain the current trends in ‘tracking polls’ that show a rise and rise in support for ‘independents’ plus a consistently high proportion of ‘undecideds’. Tinkering with PR-STV, without an overhaul of the rest of the system, is not ‘reform’ and will neither improve democracy nor bring about desirable changes in our political culture.
@ Bryan G,
Primarily I’m trying to educate about banking ultimately as a means of resolving the debt crisis. I would envision updating the system to recognise digital money as money, as opposed to a bank’s liability. Digital money should be an asset of the central bank the same way as freshly minted coins are.
I would like to see us go towards a version of full reserve banking. This would involve separating account into ‘Only you can use it’ and ‘Only the bank can use it’. If a bank failed the money in your first account would be 100% safe and there would never be a bank run again. Hence there would be no need for deposit insurance, a banking union or a bank bailout. We’d pay less taxes, the money supply would be kept adequate for trading and full employment. It would be possible for all loans to be repaid and so on.
First things first though. Let’s correct the notion that banks take money from depositors and lend it out to borrowers.
Gavin Kostick says:
Thanks for comments and links above: interesting reading and analysis. This is where I’m at with regard to the thread.
Template or tailor-made?
Poor old SAAB went bust in 2011/12. It didn’t cause a euro-wide panic. I suspect that other car manufacturers saw this as an opportunity rather than a situation of fear, horror and contagion in the car industry: let alone bringing down sovereigns with it.
All along the argument has been that banks are different because the collapse of one can bring down others and sovereigns with it – in some cases not necessarily the sovereign of the nation of the bank.
I’m in favour of unguaranteed depositors over 100k taking a hit in a wind-up as part of the order of bail-in previously established. I think the very fact that the guarantee is set at this level is a clear indicator that the money is not safe above that.
I’ve always been uneasy with the ESM as the tool for funding this though, as it borrows from the backing of taxpayers (right?), which does tend to push them up the queue above bank creditors.
So the argument is that as the banks are (a) systemically necessary for the economy unless we go back to barter or Paul Ferguson comes up with a better system, and (b) banks tend to be co-dependent, and (c) banks can bring down sovereigns, then the banking industry itself needs to take responsibility where there are insufficient funds to wind up a bank properly.
I see the 11 country euro wide FTT as a step in the right direction here: but rather than get too caught up in it, just to say an ESM backed by the banking system rather than the taxpayer.
Colm McCarthy recently pointed out the huge size of the banking sector in Europe, the huge size of the banks (TBTF) and the problems associated. I don’t know how we get there, but the Danish system of large amounts of small banks which can be closed down without a country/continent wide panic seems preferable.
The other problem with the ‘tailor-made’ approach is that it breeds uncertainty and encourages powerplays.
So, I’m in favour of a template, but I don’t think the right template is there yet.
http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2013/01/31/crisis-conference-liveblog/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banks_in_Denmark
@ Paul
That’s a very interesting idea but the “only you can use it account” would not have any interest and would have bank charges instead. I think that that’s fair – and would kickstart the economy. The idea of earning money for doing nothing with it is a bit daft.
There’s always a catch up between democratic systems and economic ones. The political creation of nation states was painful but only happened because of better transport etc. It’s not that hard really. People are the same everywhere with the same hopes and dreams. Ultimately they divide politically into give me all the money and ah it’s alright somebody else can have a bit. And that varies according to how much money you have in the first place – that’s just a long way of saying – it’s labour and tories and republicans and democrats.
So it will take a bit of work. Either you let the current system break down and build it again or you try and change the current system. I think it’s always worth trying option 2 first as it is least destructive.
As for the chap who mentioned the pony – no accident you thought of an ass….
Shay Begorrah says:
But generally I think the focus in much of our political commentary on the iniquities of PR-STV distracts from where the real rot lies: in the failure of the Dail to hold the government of the day to account
I always associate a hostility towards PR/STV with anti-democratic impulses, particularly a contempt for the concerns of working people. The advocates of single seat constituencies tend to be from a cohort more comfortable with the executive being made up of “bold leaders ” (read centre-right supply side reform favouring technocrats) rather than principled representatives. It is a classic reactionary tell – very European Commission.
Your persistence with Mr Hennigan is to be commended but after several years of being subjected to the spray of his fact cannon I think it is safe to say that the many useful statistics are hard to separate from the torrent of rage against the old country.
@Eureka,
“There’s always a catch-up between democratic systems and economic ones”.
I’m afraid I don’t agree – I would argue that, historically, it’s the other way round! Political systems, and culture, determine economic systems and their rules of operation. The specific problem with which we are faced is that politics remains national whilst finance is global. To arrive at a workable model that will ‘fix’ the mismatch at the least cost to the political system, and the protection of citizen welfare on which it relies for its legitimacy, is a very complex undertaking. Especially so, if the problem is not clearly defined in the minds of those whose job it is to come up with workable solutions. From the shenanigans in the EU over the past three years, it’s obvious that the problem is not clearly defined. I would agree with you, though, that Option 2, if possible, is always preferable.
@Gregory no one reads it,best ignore it.No one in states reads Forbes,no one,there are no readers,none.When is last time anyone on here linked a piece,it’s a joke of a publication ludicrous.Its eh like NOT trending anywhere.Crap mag….is it closed yet.Weird creepy place to be published.
Less Cabinet control of the Oireachtas maybe be a good thing long term — but I wouldn’t be optimistic in the short-term.
TDs in recent times have got a parliamentary gofor in additional to secretarial assistance and a research service, but after years of recession, how many have inspired the public with challenging new ideas. Even these national ideas competitions failed to make any headway.
Most of TDS simply have no interest in policy detail and a science budget of €23bn in a decade has yet to elicit any interest.
Parties produce brochures not serious policy documents and there are no political think-tanks to help them.
As for reform, Irish people find process boring and on this blog single digit numbers would be doing well.
@ seafóid
The best of luck to Tommy Keating and Micheál Martin may still be holding down his old job in Presentation College.
Maybe the buck stops nowhere is fine and more than four decades after the launch of ‘free’ education, the easiest option is to have some foreign foe to blame for our woes.
@Gavin Kostick
How we got there is very simple – banks continued and were allowed to breach well understood Loans to Deposit ratios. (BTW banking has very little got to do with capital levels at the basic level) Its no more complicated than that.
Northern Rock failed depsite it having a core Tier 1 ratio north of 10% at its last report prior to queues forming, Amagerbanken in Denmark equally reported a core Tier ratio in Oct 2010 at close to 14% and within 6 months the depositors were taking a 40% haricut etc etc. The bottom line is that the clamour for higher cpaital ratios is simply a by prodcut of a system which has been allowed to get out of control and the basic control of a bank is its Loan to Deposit ratio. End of.
If banks want to lend north of 100% of their deposit base then the capital required to do so should be increased at an ever rising rate above pre determined levels i.e. the leverage required should based on lending over and above deposit levels so for every 5% lending say above the 100% deposit level an additional 10% capital is required and above the 105% level an additional 20% capital is required so on so forth.
This basic rule would have seen the world avoid the financial crisis because those banks that thought they could make a go of it above 100% of their deposits would suffer punitive capital requirements the result being that lending rates would as a consequence have to go ever higher and borrowers appetitite would fall and the bank would go quietly into the night back below the 100% level again. Basic stuff – but allowing Irish Permanent for instance lend up to c400% of their deposit base whilst maintaining a 4% Core Tier 1 ratio was an accident waiting to happen. This was a classic case of both Directors, lending officers and Regulators simply not understanding the basics of the banking model(flawed and all as it is as Paul Ferguson is at pains to point out).
@Shay
The world would be a very dull place if we all shared the same opinions and prescriptions as to how it actually works and might be made a better place. For one thing, we would miss out on the opportunity of argument and the prospect of enlightenment. Worse, we might fall into the trap of believing in the monopoly of our own wisdom to the exclusion of alternatives. Might as well be a hill of ants in that case.
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/sites/default/files/Memorandum%20of%20Understanding%20on%20Specific%20Economic%20Policy%20Conditionality.pdf
Cyprus Memorandum of Understanding re @pawelmorski
Worse, we might fall into the trap of believing in the monopoly of our own wisdom to the exclusion of alternatives.
I have personally set my bar lower than “wisdom” to “not being horribly mistaken” but it is good to know there are people with higher ambitions.
The only time Forbes gets a mention is it annual d**k measuring competition,this year a chap who likes wear a dress is arguing over his size…why is KW Ireland’s ahem leading economist associated with such a sh**e magazine?
The curios case of the creepy and weird…..like really !!!
You publish here….hmmm.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/mar/05/prince-alwaleed-talal-forbes-rich-list
Edward v2.0 says:
@ John Gallaher
Forbes would probably disagree with your analysis given that their magazine is the #1 business publication by readership and decision-maker reach (http://www.forbesmedia.com/files/F-Print-Accordion_Singles.pdf).
Given that Forbes.com is also the most visited business website with 16m unique readers (having recently surpassed WSJ.com), I think it’s unlikely it will be closing anytime soon (http://www.forbes.com/sites/lewisdvorkin/2013/02/11/inside-forbes-as-our-audience-surges-were-even-more-excited-by-what-comes-next/).
Sorry Ed I’m just yawning here:)
Eh Ed any like links besides Forbes..yeah a must read dashing to store to buy it !!!
Interesting point.
I wonder if the words we use complicate things. Ill try this but it’s only thinking out loud:
The drive to dominate and exploit is much more energised and efficient than the drive to cooperate
It’s much harder to make friends than to kill them
@ Eureka
On Facebook?
@JG
The man isn’t the magazine, but…
http://www.ontheissues.org//Steve_Forbes.htm
It’s a w**k mag.
“In another kerfuffle, Jamestown’s deal to buy 90 Fifth Ave. on the northwest corner of W. 14th Street from Aby Rosen’s RFR for $115 million completely unwound as Forbes stopped paying rent on the office property that it essentially net leases.
Sources tell us that Jamestown and RFR have amicably parted but that RFR still has a big beef with Forbes over its “tortious interference” in the transaction — let alone the non-payment of rent.”
http://m.nypost.com/p/news/business/realestate/commercial/sitt_coops_th_st_bldg_TzqI6d7H0jX9aZiPm121sN
Brian Woods II says:
I find myself unusually agreeing 99% with Karl Whelan’s opinion piece in today’s IT, though I still dislike his “I know it all, them EU/ECB guys are fools” motif.
But I in particular agree with the following conclusion “I think the chances of such a deal [to retro recap AIB/BoI from ESM funds] have been downgraded from slim to none.”
Well, many wanted this to happen in Ireland on the basis that we had an outsize banking sector relative to our economy. It is hardly a template for all economies and Jeroen Dijsselbloem is clearly a muppet. With that said, I guess we just have to sit back with a six pack of beer and a six-pack of andrex kitten-soft and hope that the former will prove more useful than the latter.
The take from Billy Blog
‘What comes after farce?’
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=23203
” I don’t have a problem with the citizens of Germany and Holland or Finland, who question why they should be asked to pay for the bailouts of Cyprus, Greece or Ireland..”
I have a real problem with that issue, because I know full well, that from the outset of this crisis the settling of the massive losses, that already existed on bank balance sheets, was managed with precision and purpose, to ensure that those losses were not borne by the large investors from core countries.
One has only to look at the post from Bryan G above, that the allocation of losses, even at this stage, is a power process, arbitrated only by the ‘great powers’ within Europe. There is little logic and no equity involved.
Following on from the Cyprus deal, all peripheral banks should now simply freeze unsecured bond liabilities, if any are remaining. They should be converted to equity forthwith.
A similar process should apply to ‘covered’ bonds, with any final shortfall in the workout of collateralized assets, netted off the bond principal.
Otherwise, the person at the end of the queue, is the small depositor or the State.
@Zhou,
With a name like ‘This ‘ill bloom’ he’s more likely a tulip?
If Karl Whelan’s analysis is correct, then the government debt relief strategy is gone up in smoke?
@ Paul Ferguson
“They are risky because they create the money they lend and it’s systemically impossible for all loans to be repaid.”
There is no problem at all in a banking system repaying all their loans. They simply repay them with other loans to the system. If you have a deposit on call in a bank, all that is promised to you is that if you ask for it back you will get a cheque i.e. a loan to your bank in another form which will be transferable throughout your banking system. A banking system as an aggregate has no problem whatsoever in meeting these demands no matter how widespread. Of course there can be wild distortions within the system – see Target2, but no problem in aggregate.
Okay, you may demand coin and be entitled to it. A bit messy if everybody demanded coin but subject to the capacity of the mints everyone can be accommodated.
You are not entitled to demand from your bank another currency or gold or baked beans for that matter. How much you can get of these in exchange for your loan to your banking system is decided in the marketplace. It is of course possible that calls on your own banking system are internationally of little worth in which case you will be disappointed, but there is no question of the bankiing system not being abe to accommodate you.
Of course, this analysis fails when the banking system promises something which it hasn’t the capacity to deliver e.g. under a gold standard or under an exchange rate peg, but these days modern banking/currency systems have moved off these unsustainable promises.
“though I still dislike his “I know it all, them EU/ECB guys are fools” motif.”
KW does know it all. There’s noone that still disputes that, is there?
ah I see Carolus Galviensis at 12.55..but do you think reforming Greece’s labour laws is going to have any medium(or even long term) positive impact on the Greek economy?
@ YoB
I understand the Cypriot banks LDR was ludicrously small. Its assets were mainly Greek bonds, which do not contribute to Loans and its liabilities were dominated by Deposits.
Cypriot banks had too many deposits and nowhere to lend them. Irish banks had too many lending opportunities and not enough deposits to finance them.
@ rf
I think that KW still believes that ELA is a free lunch. He lectured our own legislators on how Central Banks going bust was not the disaster their little naive minds might perceive, that it was really quite harmless and would solve the Anglo problem wtith no pain to anyone.
He may be right, but other than Peter Matthews and a few others, the lack of widespread support for this seemingly painless solution has not been taken up. My simplistic inference is that there is a flaw there somewhere, suggesting that his level of infallibility may be of only the Pope Emeritus standard.
@ BW2
Cyprus’ banks had mostly Greek bonds. A bit of joined up thinking when the Greek debt was being restructured would have saved a lot of hassle last week.
Dijsselbloem continues a great tradition of Dutch waffle.
http://www.goudacheeseshop.com/media/catalog/product/cache/3/image/09d1d867ee3f2d778841949c118237cf/j/s/js_20110630_039.jpg
The economic crisis has been a very insightful introduction into how Ireland is actually run. Political reform would help but there is more damage that needs to be rectified.
I get the feeling that the education system was overhauled in the 60s and 70s and that the people coming out of that system now are far better educated than their parents were but that the institutions of state are still set to 1950s.
Some of the stuff that pops up in the IT or Indo occasionally is embarrassing
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/public-policy-must-be-based-on-evidence-and-not-on-ideology-or-anecdotes-1.1324140
http://www.irishtimes.com/debate/whip-system-has-stripped-d%C3%A1il-of-its-independence-1.1254433
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/14m-office-faces-demolition-as-department-not-good-at-buildings-29146921.html
The PS has a massive execution problem. Nobody seems to care. It’s someone else’s money.
Benefits like unemployment are not managed properly. Look at all of the people stuck on the dole with no hope of best in practice or even second or third quartile retraining.
The list is very long.
There is far too much waste.
The best time to improve the system was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.
@ MH and Veronica
The Irish State is still pretty mediocre when it comes to performance. There are lot of aspects that could be improved. Many processes are far from best practice. It’s a disgrace that Frances Ruane has to write an op ed asking for policy decisions to be based on analysis and data in 2013, for example.
The political system also has room for improvement. The whip system, for starters. Why is everything still so tightly centralised ?
It seems as though the education system produces many people who are far better than the system in which many of them will live.
That sort of sloppiness was maybe yokay in an era of easy economic growth but waste is a big drag on performance now that resources are not so flúirseach.
@BWII
Eh I see a problem with that model – with too much in the way of liabilities why were Cypriot banks continually paying rates above Eurozone averages to secure deposits, with no lending home to supply ? – that model simply doesn’t make economic sense. And since proven.
Whilst you somewhat correct I’d suggest its a Cypriot specific banking model problem rather than an overall critism of prudent Loans to Deposits ratios.
And BTW Irish banks believed they had too many lending opportunities. So when is a ‘lending opportunity’ not a lending opportunity? When lending into property deals at less than 2 % net rental yield – that’s not an opportunity, that’s a disaster. And since proven.
We now know that most of the lending which took place from about 2002 to 2010 in the property space in Ireland was lending errors rather than opportunism. Rethink the argument.
“When lending into property deals at less than 2 % net rental yield – that’s not an opportunity, that’s a disaster. And since proven. ”
Not in all cases. You can borrow money today in Switzerland over ten years for 1.5%. Rental yields on property are very low- not far off 2%.
An acquaintance related a story last year about Martin Cullen the PD minister who told him in 2006 “this is going to go on forever”.
Say you thought Ireland was going to be like Switzerland.
It depends on how “serious” you are , it seems. Or maybe CH is due a crash.
@seafoid
Unfortunatley one needs to compare apples to apples, you haven’t done so.
The 10 year Swiss Sovereign Bond is today yielding 0.73% i.e. Swiss property yields are almost 3 times that yield.
In 2006/7 with Irish 10 Year Govt Bond Yields at c3.5% to 4% on that same basis Irish property should have been yielding closer to 11% and yet it was BELOW the so called equivalent risk free rate. This was stupid squared.
So I’m sorry lending into the property yields as witnessed in Ireland was a banking error. There is no getting away from that sad reality and allowing Ritchie Boucher remain as CEO of BOI is enough to make me extremely ill given that he signed off on billions of euros of these deals.
Ireland was in the grip of a sort of a cargo cult pre Lehman.
I agree the yields were nuts. But some people really thought it was new Switzerland.
That NCB 2020 report. 6% growth for the next 15 years. If we build it they will come. They said it was just a supply shortage that drove the yields so low.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0322/74353-economy/
And the market can be stupid for a very long time.
Did you ever watch that 2006 era RTE programme “I want a garden” . Where have all those people gone?
And the decks in the Midlands. What happened to them?
I used to drive past a roundabout in Oranmore in the County Galway in the 90s. One day as I was passing they were putting up a shopping centre. I thought it was a stupid place for a shopping centre. It was a great idea for about a decade. And now it is a stupid idea again.
I wasn’t proposing any models. I was simply observing that the LDR gives polar opposite answers for the two failed systems of Cypriot banking and Irish banking respectively. It is not therefore an entirely reliabe test of banking probity.
@ Gavin Kostick
There is a better system which is very well presented in Positive Money’s book . More detail at http://www.positivemoney.org/shop/modernising-money/
For a look at how we could transition to this system in the EZ we have a publication at; http://sensiblemoney.ie/data/documents/A-Guide-To-Full-Reserve-Banking-In-The-Eurozone.pdf
Under the proposal all the electronic money in the economy would be ‘held’ at the central bank. If you have a current account with a bank the would provide an efficient means of money transfer and they would store your money completely safe. In return they would charge a service fee or a transaction levy and so on. I think this would be a small price to pay for resolving the debt crisis and having a more stable monetary system.
@ Yields or Bust
It is painful but we are making enough progress to keep us interested.
One thing regarding your comment. You said that ‘If banks want to lend north of 100% of their deposit base …’. However a bank loan creates its own ‘deposit’ so I don’t see any ratio of loans to ‘deposits’ can restrict the creation of money by banks. Unless I’m missing something?
@ Brian Woods
It is impossible for all loans to be repaid to banks.
When banks process loans they credit their ‘Depositors’ account by P and debit their ‘Debtors’ account by P.
When banks process loan repayments that debit their ‘Depositors’ account by P + I, credit their ‘Debtors’ account by P and credit ‘Shareholder’s Equity’ by I. As a result money to the value of P no longer exists.
As we repay loans to banks everyone’s bank balance tends towards zero and people have to default because the last interest repayment cannot be made.
If we borrow higher and higher Ps we can repay old loans. I agree that if we managed to do this forever then the system could run without the complication of loan defaults. However we live on a finite planet and mortgages have reached their natural limit of duration so I don’t think the ‘perpetual expansion’ tactic can work this time.
I’m not sure if you meant to say it but you phrases it the other way around. As in the banks can always pay their debts to everyone/each other. Again this is not possible.
When you get a loan from a bank you leave with a higher bank balance and technically the bank owes you that amount of cash. However only 3% of euros exist as cash while the other 97% exist as claims to this cash so from that point of view it’s not possible for the banks to honour all their debts. I think you’re suggesting a bank that can’t meet it’s liabilities can create another liability on itself with which to honour the first but of course the bank is not in any better of a position in this scenario.
The other debts that banks have to worry about are debts to each other which they settle with a different type of money, central bank money. However central bank money only has to be around 1% of the sum total of a bank’s customers’ accounts and so they cannot honour 100% with 1%. Again, perhaps I’m missing something?
I have read your Guide to the Eurozone Monetary System. I found it very useful for confirming and adding to my understanding of a modern monetary system. However, I do feel you have overplayed the implications of the mechanics, but I might pick that up with you by e-mail.
I think you are missing my point. That is my fault for my very poor explanatory skills. I agree absolutely that all Money held by individual agents is a Call on our banking system, whether it be a Call on the CBI through Note and Coin or a Call on the Retail Banks through a checking account (technically I prefer to leave out term accounts, but they can be included withut changing the argument).
Here, is the beauty. All that Call entites you too is a Call on the banking system. By definition it can always be met, even if the assets backing the Call are worthless. There is an entitlement to change the nature of the Call as to whether it is in Note & Coin or an entry in a bank account and you are also entited to switch which entity of the banking system upon which you have the Call.
But all other “entitlements” of your Call rely entirely on the market which decides the Price that others will demand to accept your Call in exchange for other currencies, precious metals or, indeed, goods and services.
A banking system which does not have the equivalent of a gold standard or a foreign currency exchange peg simply can’t go bust for all it has given is a promise that you will have a promise. Beautiful! Of course, the Central Bank may permit individual participants in its system to go bust, but that would be a deliberate choice with a view to maintaining the credibility of the price level.
@francis agreed and noted.
skeptic01 says:
I believe it is theoretically possible for the last interest payment in your model to be met. Let’s say the banker begins with $10 of equity and lends a business person $100, to be repaid in ten installments of $11 each (inc interest). In the first repayment period, the business person opens up shop, sells services to the banker for a price of $1, and repays $11. Continue in the same way to the 10th period. At the end the banker still has $10 of equity and the business person has fully repaid $110.
Admittedly of theoretical interest only.
HEY!! SENIOR IRISH ECONOMISTS WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THIS SITE
Hey! Yes you!
Have you gotten together and presented a proposal to the Government for leaving the euro? Have you outlined what needs to be done, what resources are required, and a timeline for proceeding with an exit?
If not, then would you please get together and make one! Because the likelihood is, one or more of you is going to get a phone call in the next week or two. For the sake of the nation, try not to be caught unprepared.
Back in the real world…the EU Commission proposal
…….from the Guardian
“12.03pm GMT EC: Large depositors could be bailed in next time…..
The plot thickens…The European Commission has told reporters in Brussels that large uninsured depositors could to be “bailed-in” to help rescue a bank, under a new draft EU law on bank resolutions.
The comments came as the EC fielded questions on Jeroen Dijsselbloem’s comments yesterday that Cyprus showing the way ahead for handling financial crisis.
Spokeswoman Chantal Hughes said:
In the Commission’s proposal, which is under discussion, it is not excluded that deposits over 100,000 euros could be instruments eligible for bail-in.
It is a possibility.
Hughes insisted though that smaller savers were protected and (wait for it, folks) always would be:
At no point is it possible to bail in depositors under 100,000 euros, either now nor in the future
Are we supposed to forget about the first bailout plan for Cyprus, and its plan for a 6.75% haircut on all deposits under €100k?”
Worthy of a dedicated thread?
Why would anyone keep more than 100k in a bank ?
The banking crisis with all these rotten unpayable debts is like a bad dose of food poisoning sloshing around the stomach. The stuff has to come out.
All this procrastinating is so expensive. Why not recap/wind down the banks as necessary and start from scratch? It’s passover. The bank angel of death could help bring new life .
@ skeptic01
Theoretical maybe, but it does dismiss the Ferguson paradox.
What Paul is proposing is to let us imagine that the banks decide to get out of business altogether. They call in in all their loans plus interest and pay out all their depositors with interest as well as paying off their staff and shareholders. How do they enable all this disintermediation without Money which relied on their intermediation?
Clearly it would have to take the form of a mass of distermediated loans and bits of paper between agents. So maybe a mortgagee is divied out between 20 depositors. These depositors can carry their bits of paper to the shop and have a way of splitting it up into two bits of paper, both calls on the mortgagee, one of which he gives to the shopowner and one of which they keep for themselves. Meanwhile the mortgagee is out earning her crust and getting bits of IOU paper of her own etc. etc. get the picture?
It is perfectly possible to construct a stable model where the interest goes round and round and the calls on the banking system (Money) go round and round. Money is an IOU drawn on our society which is accepted as a medium of exchange.
Our modern monetary system is really very clever. It is the miracle of maturity transformation. Long term economic calls on our society are repackaged into liquid short term calls. This little beauty does of course need careful management and that’s where things can go wrong!
@ Brian Woods II
I’d be happy to correct anything in ‘The Guide’ if you spot anything inaccurate. Although we have been very careful with our research!
(The guide’s available at http://sensiblemoney.ie/data/documents/How-Money-Is-Created-And-Destroyed.pdf if anyone else in interested in how the modern banking system runs.)
I think I know where you’re coming from regarding the ‘promise to a promise’ system although I think it’s difficult to conclude that the banking system cannot go bust. It can turn around and say we’re not honouring our promises as we’ve seen. Perhaps you’re looking at it from a different level to me. I’m all about the accountancy procedures!
If we’re to go into detail then for the following reasons it is mathematically and theoretically possible for all loans to be repaid even though banks create more debt through loans than they do money.
1. There is some cash in the economy which is created without a corresponding debt and if all loans were paid slowly enough this cash could facilitate the repayments.
2. Banks only delete the principal of a loan repayment and record the interest received as profit. As you’ve demonstrated above if the rate at which the banks spend this money back into the economy before the next loan repayment is due it is possible for all loans to go according to plan.
3. If banks purchase an asset of a non-bank they create the money for the purchase and this money isn’t always created with a matching debt.
4. If a debtor defaults on a loan they leave debt-free money somewhere in the economy and so the remaining debtors can find it easier to repay their loans. (When too many people defaulted the Government collected money through taxes and put this into the banks’ reserve accounts and this had the opposite effect)
Hence it is theoretically possible. Of course what matters is that in practice given the perpetuating compound interest on loans it’s not possible. i.e. The mortgage arrears problem, which leads to banks not recording the equity that’s need to be spent back into circulation before the next repayment etc.
This looks like a good read
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Economics/Political/?view=usa&ci=9780823249619
The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis
Edited by Roger Berkowitz and Taun N. Toay
“Commentary on the financial crisis has offered technical analysis, political finger pointing, and myriad economic and political solutions. But rarely do these investigations reach beyond the economic and political causes of the crisis to
explore their underlying intellectual grounds. The essays in this volume delve deeper into the cultural and intellectual foundations, philosophical ideas, political traditions, and economic movements that underlie the greatest financial crisis in nearly a century. Moving beyond traditional economic and political science approaches, these essays engage thinkers from Hannah Arendt to Max Weber and Adam Smith to Michel Foucault.
With Arendt as a catalyst, the authors probe the philosophical as well as the cultural origins of the great recession. Orienting the volume is Arendt’s argument that past financial crises and also totalitarianism are rooted, at least in part, in the tendency for capital to expand its reach globally without regard to political and moral borders or limits. That politics is made subservient to economics names a cultural transformation that, in the spirit of Arendt, guides these essays in making sense of our present world.
Including articles, interviews, and commentary from leading scholars and business executives, this volume offers views that are as diverse as they are timely. By reaching beyond “how” the crisis happened to “why” the crisis happened, the authors re-imagine the recent financial crisis and thus provide fresh thinking about how to respond.”
@Francis…I agree and enjoyed r comment 🙂
I saw nothing at all wrong with the guide, quite confirmative and educational in fact, as I have already acknowledged. I recommend it to any on this blog who want to understand the mechanics. And I do think an understanding of the mechanics is important.
However, I retained a suspicion that in your highlighting the apparent contradictions between the reality of modern technological monetary management and the traditional money multiplier school, that perhaps you were reading too much into these contradictions.
My read of some of your posts in this blog rather sterngthens that suspicion as you appear to be suggesting strokes which would blow all our current problems away. My instinct tells me that can’t be the case.
As I say, it is perfectly credible and heuristic to construct a model where every year the same aggregate income is earned, the same expenditure is incurred, the same shareholder profits are earned, the same interest is paid and collected, that the compounding is happening but self cancelling so that the debt stock remains the same, the same level of default occurs, the money supply remains the same etc. etc. Your view seems to be that this is impossible and that debt must balloon out of control to keep the wheels turning, but possibilly I got that wrong.
John Gallaher,
when I search for “KW” or “flock”, I miss something here : – )
Martin Wolf had a sobering point in the FT last week. “Banks have so little loss absorbing capacity that they stand permanently on the edge of disaster”
The Germans are coming after us too.
Thanks for the feedback. I think there are many consequences to the debt-based system which wouldn’t be as severe if we had a more permanent money supply which didn’t have a matching debt at source. I don’t think moving towards a full reserve system would be the answer to all our problems but I think it would certainly help.
Regarding the need to perpetually grow the economy to remain stable you haven’t got it wrong. While it is possible to have a model which runs as you’ve described the model runs much better when the money supply is expanding and indeed this seems to be the mindset of most economists.
The system certainly doesn’t run well if we’re deleveraging and this brings me to the other part of our analysis. That is why we feel this recession is so unique.
Prior to the 1970s around a fifth of the money supply existed as cash and this acted a ‘buffer’ to other 80% which was bank-created money.
When we developed computers almost overnight the cash money supply dwindled to 3%.
From there the money supply has doubled about every ten years and it seems that this rate of expansion of the money supply is what’s needed to keep this system running smoothly. However it’s not feasible for us to double the money supply every decade for the foreseeable future when not many people are willing or able to loan money into existence. We feel this is a unique recession as a result.
As well as this mortgages have always been able to increase in duration but are at or near their natural limit.
How ever well you feel it has served us in the past I think we’ve reached the end of the useful lifespan of the system. Time to discuss other ways in which we could better create money I would say.
an duanaire says:
Joseph Ryan wrote:
However when 17 elected eurosystem finance ministers meet at key times, such as last sunday, they are at all times 17 elected representatives,
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/europe/global-capitalism-on-track-to-become-substantially-less-global-1.1338401
@ Flj and seafóid
Back in the real world indeed!
The job of the Commission is to “promote the general interest of the Union” and to “take appropriate initiatives to that end”. (Article 17 Treaty on European Union).
The “general interest” is, of course, difficult to define but a rough rule of thumb is that any proposals should have some chance of achieving a qualiied majority in the Council (it being left unstated that this QMV should include either Germany or France and preferably both).
In this instance, since Moscovici qualified Cyprus as a “casino”, it may be fairly safely be assumed that the QMV includes both.
@ Flj
Luckily, the Irish “business model” has little in common with those of Cyprus and Luxembourg. It would be wise, nevertheless, to start the process of a dispassionate assessment of the merits and demerits of US dominated FDI in the country. Such wisdom is unlikely to be displayed.
@ An Duanaire
Oddly enough Michael Noonan is only elected by the people of Limerick to represent the interests of Limerick. There’s a mismatch
Below is a link to a discussion at the LSE on 25th March 2013 headed “What should economists and policymakers learn from the financial crisis”.
In the chair is Mervyn King and the speakers are Ben Barnanke, Larry Summers,Olivier Blanchard and Alex A Weber.
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1856
@Francis probably not the forum for this,but agreed Forbes is for rich right wing republicans,its creepy and weird.
Can not remember last time ANYONE mentioned a piece in it,nor have I ever seen anyone in NY reading it…
Forbes is for the proctologist office,out of date old yesterday’s news.
well, then suggest a different forum, without a censor.
FT(alpha), …
The KW-Forbes piece on Target 2 /Cyprus is actually something, I did mention in some other place, because it has interesting psychological dynamics with it.
And as this edwards pointed out, they have paying readers.
Some 47% voted for some creepy in in the US, and 29% for Berlusconi in Italy.
I recently tried to actually watch a little more TV, trying to keep an understanding what “normals” consume.
@An Dunaire
re: The 16 castrati.
It’s had to argue that democracy prevails, when governments are being changed and ousted at will and the acceptance of arguments is urged at pistol point.
Cyprus has changed everything, both the economics and particularly the politics.
Even the Luxembourg Prime Minister has just reacquainted himself with his country’s geography, and is starting to grow a pair.
[Ref link from@Fiatlux]
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_26/03/2013_490035.
The flight of capital to Germany/Netherlands/France should be making it way to the top of the agenda any day now.
Germany has overplayed its political hand. It was a Pyrrhic victory. Even pet poodle La France is likely to start pulling at the leash.
@rf at 2:02 pm
ah I see Carolus Galviensis at 12.55..but do you think reforming Greece’s labour laws is going to have any medium (or even long term) positive impact on the Greek economy?
According to the textbooks, yes. But from living in Greece (for one year — Oct 2011 thru Sep 2012) and from what I’ve learnt from Greek acquaintances and read in the media, Greek labour law is honoured more in the breach than in the observance. For example, one restaurant I visited employed a ten-year old girl as waitress, and virtually ALL service staff in the catering industry are illegally employed. I mean all, like 90 percent. Ditto for most other services except for supermarket chains etc
So in the real existing world it is quite possible that the reform won’t have much effect. I really don’t know.
@DOCM
Indeed. Perhaps we can be a bit more secure in the knowledge or probability that our United States friends would yield a lot more clout in the IMF and indeed the Commission.
Nonetheless, when we are included with Malta and Luxembourg by the SDP it is time to take note.
Interestingly, these are the only countries whose representatives took issue with the treatment meted out to Cyprus. Stunning silence from MN.
@Carolus Galviensis
“For example, one restaurant I visited employed a ten-year old girl as waitress, and virtually ALL service staff in the catering industry are illegally employed. I mean all, like 90 percent. Ditto for most other services”
Compare and contrast….. I was issued with an order from HR at my new Swiss client in the UK today (I’m recruiting some new internal PR Guys/Gals for them)…. they have to prove eligibility to work in the EU at the point of interview now (not post offer).
I love how HR add so much value to any process. Half of their intranet is full of HR diktats.
I think Cyprus was just a test – to push the envelope… see what they could and couldn’t perhaps get away with. OK 75k?
@PR Guy at 9:46 pm
I think Cyprus was just a test…
I doubt whether it was planned as such. More like a ‘natural experiment’ perhaps, like ‘shit happens’.
One can certainly use the outcome for testing purposes, though.
FYI the FT Brussels Blog transcript of what Dijsselbloem actually said.
http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2013/03/the-ftreuters-dijsselbloem-interview-transcript/
Whatever about the associated controversy of the interpretation put on the remarks by both the FT and Reuters (Dijsselbloem has maintained on Dutch TV that he never even heard of the word ‘template’; which is believable even for someone whose English is near word perfect but not the native tongue), the direction that the heavy-hitters in the EA have decide to go is clear.
Time to dust off this – somewhat dated but prescient – paper by Professor Winkler of the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management!
http://www.voxeu.org/article/19th-century-lessons-ez-crisis-management
If the creditor countries wish to indulge in the idea that European banks can individually provide against risk, it is a victory of hope over reality. They can only do so collectively and there is no realistic basis on which this could be achieved. The market reaction in respect of certain bank shares would suggest that the banks are well aware of this. Near total retreat of banking behind national borders in the EU – already well on the way – seems inevitable.
This could follow on your last sentence ..
Lehman Bros. of Europe…
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/business/global/bailout-grows-riskier-as-cypriot-economy-stumbles.html?ref=business
Seems all is not well with the Cypriot bailout/bail-in and it seems that there are three types of Euro. Cypriot euros in Cyprus, Cypriot euros in London and euros elsewhere.
“If the creditor countries wish to indulge in the idea that European banks can individually provide against risk, it is a victory of hope over reality.”
Don’t follow. Can you expand what you mean by “provide against risk”?
“Why would anyone keep more than 100k in a bank ? ”
You and John McHale too, eh?
I don’t understand this point. Why would you not keep more than 100k in a bank that you didn’t think was likely to become widely thought to be insolvent before you could withdraw the funds?
Deposits – even large ones – are senior creditors. If your argument were correct, who would own bank equity?
Or, put another way, how could a fund that owned bank a shares logically hold cash balances at a bank?
Is all bank equity in the EZ worthless?
Leaving aside DBK which has the backing of the Teutonic empire but skinny capital ratios nontheless.
1. All EZ banks are significantly more levered than their global counterparts
2. Arguably the EZ is in a depression and the ECB is oblivious to it so the capital is under a bit more pressure
3. Last week implies that the normal rules over the ranking of liabilities in a failing bank are open to interpretation in the EZ.
So why would you risk owning anything on the left hand side of an EZ balance sheet unless it is really really cheap….which it ain’t.
My mistake I meant liability side or right hand side
@Grumpy
Your question as regards the worth of bank equity reminds me of the story attributed to Warren Buffett.
When asked about investing in airlines he is reputed to have said that whenever he had the urge to invest in airlines he felt the need to go to AA.
Hereis some info on bank exposure for anyone that wants to invest in them.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2013/mar/26/europe-banks-sovereign-exposure
A random thought –
Irish bank investors may have taken comfort 3 months ago from the fact that the banks are backstopped by the state and the state is backstopped by the ECB (assuming that we can comply with a programme and the evidence is that we can).
If the new EC “template” is a real idea, then this changes since the programme that we need to be compliant with to get backstopped by the ECB, may require that bank investors take a hit first.
So a little bit of comfort may have been removed. How important this was to Irish bank investors is open to question, as is the reality of the new EC “template”. (Never heard of the word). For the ECB backstop to become critical, the solvency of the Irish banks themselves would first have to be exhausted, then the indigeneous solvency of the Irish state would also have to be exhausted, and finally we would have to lose our international friends all over again to the point where we once again can’t negotiate a favorable deal.
@Anonymous Economist
I take your point that the ELA would need to go where the insured deposits go, as it is senior to them, however it could have gone to a Good Laiki bank separate from Bank of Cyprus. BoC pushed very hard not to end up with the Laiki ELA, so there was another scheme on the table, but obviously it lost out. To me it makes no long-term sense to have one giant bank and a few small ones – it’s like merging AIB into BOI and having a “one pillar” strategy.
The lesson is that ELA is best viewed not a *bank* liability, but as a *banking system* liability. It will hop around and attach itself to whatever bank is alive, or the sovereign, as needed. The ECB have improved the collateral held for the Cyprus ELA, as the pool of assets used to support it is now the aggregate of BoC and Good Laiki. I suspect that it was considerations like that, rather than what made business sense, that drove the shape of the deal.
I trust that anyone here with money in Slovenian banks has pulled it by now. They’re next up.
Following up on my last post, one of the rules to be added to the rulebook is that a bank may be forced to pay for the mistakes of its out-of-control competitor.
It seems that of Laiki’s 9bn ELA, 4 bn was incurred in Greece due to bad lending there. However *all* of the losses in Greece were funnelled back to Cyprus – no Greek depositor was touched.
I presume that Laiki’s assets remaining after the Greek branch losses had been taken were not enough to cover the liabilities of 9bn ELA and 5bn insured deposits. At this point you might have expected a liquidation and then the Deposit Guarantee Scheme to kick in and make insured depositors whole after losses had been assigned, but this didn’t happen. Maybe there was no money in the fund, or maybe the ECB prevented it as it would have meant losses on the ELA (e.g. run-off value of the collateral worth less than the ELA granted). For whatever reason it didn’t happen.
So the losses were then assigned to BoC. It wasn’t in great shape to say the least, but wasn’t the total basket case that was Laiki. The Laiki losses seem to have raised the haircut on uninsured depositors there from the 20% to the 40% range. The transmission channel was from Laiki’s bad Greek lending back to BoC’s home market.
Not an example of anything you’d want to classify as a template for future use; it explains the resignation of the BoC CEO:
Artemis said in his letter that he dissented with the forced takeover of Cyprus Popular (Laiki) Bank by Bank of Cyprus along with a 9.2 billion debt in emergency liquidity assistance without prior consultation with the bank’s Board.
Central Bank governor Panicos Demetriades sent a letter to the Bank of Cyprus Board on Monday cancelling all its powers and also the powers of shareholders.
“Cyprus bailout: eurozone policymakers at loggerheads over implications”
There’s a hole in the system, dear Draghi, dear Draghi,
There’s a hole in the system, dear Draghi: a hole.
Then fill it dear Olli, dear Olli, dear Olli,
Then fill it dear Olli, dear Olli: fix it.
With what shall I fill it, dear Draghi, dear Draghi,
With what shall I fill it, dear Draghi: with what?
With taxes dear Olli, dear Olli, dear Olli,
With taxes dear Olli, dear Olli: try tax!
But the tax take is falling, dear Draghi, dear Draghi,
But the tax take is falling, dear Draghi: it falls!
Increase them dear Olli, dear Olli, dear Olli,
Increase them dear Olli, dear Olli: whack’em on!
But tax take falls more now, dear Draghi, dear Draghi,
But the tax falls more now, dear Draghi: it fell!
Squeeze the sovereigns, dear Olli, dear Olli, dear Olli,
Squeeze the sovereigns dear Olli, dear Olli: squeeze them!
But the sovereigns are bursting, they’re bursting, they’re bursting,
But the sovereigns are bursting, they’re bursting: some burst!
Try the savers, dear Olli, dear Olli, dear Olli,
Try the savers dear Olli, dear Olli: try them!
The hole just got bigger, got bigger, got bigger,
The hole just got bigger, got bigger: it grew!
Then the bondies, dear Olli, dear Olli, dear Olli,
If you must it’s the bondies, it’s the bondies: burn them!
Now the system is creaking, is creaking, is creaking,
Now the whole system is dear, dear Draghi: it creaks!
[female voice]
Inflate it dear Draghi, dear Draghi, dear Draghi,
Inflate the system it dear Draghi, dear Draghi: inflate!
But I don’t have a mandate dear Christine, dear Christine,
But I don’t have a mandate dear Christine: don’t ask!
Well then print it, dear Draghi, dear Draghi, dear Draghi,
Well then print it dear Draghi, dear Draghi: please print.
But we don’t have a printer, dear Christine, dear Christine,
We don’t have a printer, dear Christine: there’s no ink!
Well who make money, dear Draghi, dear Draghi?
Well who can make money, dear Draghi: who can?!
Well the banks are supposed to, dear Christine, dear Christine,
Well the banks are that system, the banks: that’s who!
[All together now]
But there’s a hole in the system, dear Draghi, dear Draghi,
There’s a hole in the system, dear Draghi – a hole!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/mar/26/cyprus-bailout-eurozone-clash-savers
Your answer to the question would be a little too cryptic for the many businesses with in excess of 100,000. [I know of no individuals with that kind of money].
At present in Ireland, and I am certain in other EZ countries, are asking te question. Are we as depositors in the firing line, if we deposit in the wrong country?
Answer, After Cyprus, Yes.
Clarification: Cyprus 1, would give it to them in the neck, while repaying bondholders in full.
Message Received: Try not to deposit large sums in the wrong country.
Message Received: Try not to deposit large sums in the wrong country. Or in the wrong country with the wrong ‘business model’
Odd quote from Juncker according to Ekathimerini
‘Luxembourg Prime Minister and former Eurogroup Chairman Jean-Claude Juncker struck a very different tone, saying, “We treated all Cypriots like bandits and gangsters.”’
If true, funny how they always seem to change heart after they finish being in a position to do something about it. Fear for Luxembourg?
Anyone have a source for that one?
More evidence the Euro is bad for your health – literally
http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0327/378568-austerity-health/?noredirection=true
@ grumpy
The best way to answer your question is probably this Deutsche Bank commentary on the SPD’s election programme.
http://tinyurl.com/cv8vlmq
Notably;
“The SPD favours a restructuring along the lines of the original Liikanen proposals as the party states that the Germans want a clear separation between investment and retail banking. Proposals here include a pan-European restructuring fund funded by (large) banks according to their risk profile, their debt ratios and their relevance for the system’s stability.”
Neither proposal is going anywhere because of entrenched – and almost certainly majority – opinion in Germany. Things are fine, just as they are; thank you very much!
By the way, even allowing that the commentary is by Deutsche Bank, Germany’s only international player in the banking sector, this comment really takes the biscuit!
“partial re-regulation of the labour market, e.g. introduction of a general minimum wage of EUR 8.50 per hour”. Re-regulation?
As matters stand, the central question is which will make it to the pass first, the next euro crisis or the parties scrambling for power in the September election? I would bet on the former. Moscovici appears to have changed direction but the French economy has certainly not done so.
The average non expert punter used to think bank equity was blue chip. Lots of them had their fingers burnt in 2008 and not just in Ireland. I know three auld fellas late 60s-mid 70s who got hosed in BoI, RBS and UBS respectively, in 3 separate jurisdictions.
Now Leopold Dijesselbloom comes along and says deposits are fair game.
Fine. Then advertise them as such. See how many people take up the offer when interest rates are on the floor and will be for the foreseeable. “Your deposits are at risk if the bank ar*es it up on the other side of the balance sheet . Regulated by the Financial Regulator”.
Martin Wolf last week
“Banks are not vaults. They are thinly capitalised asset managers that make a promise – to return depositors’ money on demand and at par – that cannot always be kept without the assistance of a solvent state. Anybody who lends to banks has to understand that.”
So let’s change the education system. What do you think?
Les Echos excoriates the French government’s failure to address France’s economic decline.
http://www.lesechos.fr/opinions/edito/0202666347199-la-bataille-du-chomage-un-travail-trop-partiel-552896.php
I liked this bit in particular;
“Aucun salut n’est à attendre des incantations répétées de Jean-Marc Ayrault, qui appelle à la « mobilisation générale » comme un général sans armée. Car, en guise de munitions neuves, le chef du gouvernement n’a à offrir que 2.000 postes supplémentaires à Pôle emploi. Or, dans la bataille contre ce chômage qui gagne du terrain depuis cinquante-sept mois, minant le moral d’une nation et laissant des millions de blessés économiques, ce n’est pas l’infirmerie qu’il faut renforcer, mais les premières lignes.”
The contrast drawn with Germany may also be noted;
“Or, dans ce pays, où les syndicats surprotègent les salariés en place, avec le soutien d’un Etat qui fait du pouvoir d’achat un objectif permanent, les salaires continuent, par une singulière exception, de ne jamais baisser quand le chômage augmente.”
EIS says:
@seafóid
Hmm maybe thats the master plan?!
Scare people from keeping money in banks so they go and spend it on houses, cars (German preferably :D), goods/services etc
Tho of course this can backfire badly
You could have just sold a house for example…
The ECB keeps the faith!
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/03/26/uk-eurozone-ecb-coeure-idUKBRE92P08320130326
re: Coeure remarks:
Hot air. Who funds the losses that already existed or the liabilities being imposed on banks via take up of another bank’s ELA. The ECB?
Draghi has gone to ground. Lying doogo. Maybe he doesn’t know where he is and is starting to speak German, like Tappatoni.
The June accord has been torn up. The ESM is dead. A nice quango for bankers and economists to retire to and write papers, and scour Europe to find a bank sound enough to lend to. Those kind of banks don’t need the money.
The ECB (and the 16 castrati) lost in Cyrpus. Schaeuble won.
Depositors are now on the line, unless they are under 100,000 and ‘guaranteed’!
You guys all seem to be saying that because senior creditors of a bank could lose some money if that bank were found to be insolvent, that:
(i) any money manager who allocates funds to an uninsured deposit at any bank, no matter how solvent, is crazy
(ii) by logical extension, since bank deposits are way up the seniority scale, all Euro Zone bank shares must be presumed worthless, and junior debt must be worth cents in the dollar.
Even to someone who has been generally bearish for several years vs consensus on EZ econ and banking, this seems unrealistically extreme.
It is absolutely ridiculous that school leavers, not to mention some economics grads, are essentially ignorant of the basics of the financial system. Perhaps a little time could be shaved off the celtic linguistics fetish…
Paul Fergusons idea is correct:
If you want to keep money safe you put it into a safe in a bank and pay the bank to stop people robbing it – end of.
If you want to not use money spend it. Spending by putting it into an account to earn interest is no more virtuous than spending it on a meal out with da boird (much less enjoyable)
Simples. We’ve been here before – presuming interest on money that’s doing nothing is illigic
Thanks Eureka,
Martin Wolf noted today that the vast majority of euros exists as the banks’ liabilities. I’d welcome more recognition on this.
”Nearly all euros are, in fact, the liabilities of banks.”
Eureka say:
And what exactly do you mean by money in this statement? Gold is not money. Cans of baked beanz are not money. No one is questioning that Money is merely the nominal liability of the banking system whether that is expressed in Note & Coin bearer form or as an electronic entry in a current account.
Nobody is denying that this is what money is, so what point is being made here? If by keping money “safe” you mean preserving its exchange value either for other financial assets and or goods and services, locking it (whatever “it” looks like) in a vault does not help at all.
tullmcadoo says:
Re i) in a core country and for a systemically important entity it is probbly ok
Re ii) since the periphery is in a depression and since there is no clarity on the rules, the tail risk around bank equity is rising. With EZ peripherals trading above Tangible Equity and earning sub COE returns this tail risk is not priced in.
You probably also have to have your ears tuned in to re-denomination risk.
@ BW 2
That’s a diversion. If govt collected property tax in baked beans then yes – they would be stored. If I thought there was going to be a famine – then baked beans.
Money is based on belief in its value.
And there you have it. The Government will accept a transfer of your entry in a bank account to them to discharge your property tax. There is no need or point in keeping that entry in a vault.
I think O Rathaille hit the nail on the head back in the 1600s
Tír gan eaglais chneasta ná cléirigh!
Tír le mioscais, noch d’itheadar faolchoin!
Tír do cuireadh go tubaisteach, traochta
Fá smacht namhad is amhas is méirleach!
Depositing money in banks.
We should be mindful of the law on deposits before risking our money…
Per Lord Chancellor Cottenham..
“Money, when paid into a bank, ceases altogether to be the money of the principal; it is by then the money of the banker, who is bound to return an equivalent by paying a similar sum to that deposited with him when he is asked for it. The money paid into a banker’s is money known by the principal to be placed there for the purpose of being under the control of the banker; it is then the banker’s money; he is known to deal with it as his own; he makes what profit of it he can, which profit he retains to himself, paying back only the principal, according to the custom of bankers in some places, or the principal and a small rate of interest, according to the custom of bankers in other places. The money placed in custody of a banker is, to all intents and purposes, the money of the banker, to do with it as he pleases; he is guilty of no breach of trust in employing it; he is not answerable to the principal if he puts it into jeopardy, if he engages in a hazardous speculation; he is not bound to keep it or deal with it as the property of his principal; but he is, of course, answerable for the amount, because he has contracted, having received that money, to repay to the principal, when demanded, a sum equivalent to that paid into his hands.
That has been the subject of discussion in various cases, and that has been established to be the relative situation of banker and customer. That being established to be the relative situations of banker and customer, the banker is not an agent or factor, but he is a debtor.”
He is not answerable to the principal if he puts it in jeopardy…
Hard to believe that this is still valid in English law. Needs to be changed.
@ seafoid
re your quote from the FT
‘Martin Wolf last week
I noticed Wolf’s use of words there. He has grasped, and would appear to support, the incremental reframing of reality which is going on.
A:Bank deposits can arise when the bank makes a loan to a customer, but a counterbalancing asset goes on the banks BS. The deposit presumably exit the balance sheet as the funds are drawn down for whatever purpose the customer had in mind.
B: Deposits are also created when a customer moves in funds from elsewhere in the system. No reasonable customer would consider that such an action could ever be construed as making a loan to a bank. Such a notion is an absurdity to Joe and Jane Public.
Yet this is precisely the logic which is being used to raid bank deposits, and which receives the sanction of a respected FT economist. It follows that Minster Noonan’s recent reassurances on that score have a purely contingent, and typically political, value.
Deposits will not be touched unless the PTB deem that step to be expedient, in the interests of the ‘financial system or spome part thereof’. As so often in history, there is only one truly fixed principle, namely the principle of expediency, which is, of course, shorthand for the right of the powerful to make rules which serve their interests, and to be seen to be morally irreproachable in doing so.
@ fiatlux
Very timely 🙂
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"P"S & "Q"S
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Guinness says for a domestic horse, it's 62 years
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A paprika pepper
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Earliest Kodak cameras came loaded with film for 100 pictures, all in this odd shape when developed
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The golden flowers that danced in Wordworth's poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud"
An 18th century furniture style with a royal name
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Lawrence Rifkin, The (Sometimes) Antisocial Network, Jerusalem Report, May 9 2011
Israel and Jewish organizations are scrambling to exploit the good side of Internet 2.0, but also to minimize its potential for spreading anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiments.
NOT LONG AGO, IF THE conversation veered toward anti-Semitism on the Internet, it would focus on what seemed like an endless number of dedicated hate sites. These sites were so ubiquitous that Google, which relies on complex computer codes called algorithms to find entries that are relevant to what’s typed in its search window, would trumpet the hate site Jew Watch at the very top of its results for the word “Jew.”
The barrage of complaints that rolled in apparently made Google rethink at least some of its algorithms – so that typing the word “Jew” now brings in, high on the list of results, the following disclaimer: “If you recently used Google to search for the word “Jew,” you may have seen results that were very disturbing. We assure you that the views expressed by the sites in your results are not in any way endorsed by Google.
…Sometimes subtleties of language cause anomalies to appear that cannot be predicted.
A search for ‘Jew’ brings up one such unexpected result.”
While there is far more than just one “unexpected result” (dedicated hate sites have probably multiplied since the Google/Jew uproar was first heard), some of the hatred has been migrating to a still evolving phenomenon called Internet 2.0. A sobriquet conjured up to imply a completely new Internet – which, in a way, it is – Internet 2.0 is unlike traditional websites designed for passive use. Internet 2.0 is built around what’s called “interoperability.”
This is hi-tech-speak for user interaction, and its denizens include social networking sites like the immensely popular Facebook and video-sharing sites such as Google’s YouTube, where, according to publicists, the servers upload 35 hours worth of footage from users every minute.
INTERNET 2.0 BRINGS PEOPLE together and further democratizes an already democratic medium. It allows anyone with a computer browser and modem – and no web publishing knowledge at all – to post text, photos, audio recordings and videos on the World Wide Web, usually for free.
That’s clearly a significant upside, and to revert to an old catchphrase, it can be very good for the Jews.
On Facebook alone, one can find any number of pages devoted to things Jewish and Israeli, ranging from organizations such as Chabad, USY and Peace Now to ad hoc groups calling themselves “I Stand with Israel Today” and “I’m Not Yelling… I’m Jewish… That’s How We Talk.” And as for YouTube, who among us in the lead-up to Passover did not receive at least one e-card or e-mail linked to an impressive holiday video presentation or a hilarious rendition of an old classic somehow reworked into a modern-day iteration of Moses and the 10 plagues? Israeli officials responsible for hasbara – a Hebrew term that refers to explaining Israel’s official policies and points of view – have zeroed in on Internet 2.0. The army has its own YouTube “channel” (www.youtube.com/ user/idfnadesk) with how-to videos for soonto- be inductees – along with spy drone footage of rocket-launching crews at work in Gaza.
And Benjamin Netanyahu got in on the act in late March when he was interviewed in a live television broadcast that, because it simultaneously appeared on YouTube, allowed questions to be put verbally to the prime minister in real time from around the world.
The official Internet 2.0 face of Israel is the Foreign Ministry’s Information and Internet Department.
“Over two years ago, we noticed that more and more people are getting their information from social media and not just from websites,” department head Chaim Shacham tells The Jerusalem Report. “We don’t really have a strong sense of where the best hasbara should be, so we decided to go where most of the people are.”
The department has its own Facebook page (www.facebook.com/israelmfa), You Tube channel (www.youtube.com/israel) and Twitter account (www.twitter.com/israel), and uses them for what might be termed “proactive hasbara.”
“We view our business as branding Israel, not defending it,” Shacham says. “More and more people can identify with Israel if they can identify with the content. People using the new media usually want a burst of information and then to be drawn in. We use Internet 2.0 as a net, and then try to guide them to Internet 1.0 for a reservoir of content.”
On Facebook, the netting process begins when a client looks up a friend. The friend’s page reflects things he or she does and likes. If the friend has seen the Foreign Ministry’s Facebook page and recommends it to others, the friend will note this with the nowomnipresent “Like.” And because so much of Facebook relies on links – perhaps the World Wide Web’s most unique tool – if the friend hasn’t posted a “Like” for the ministry’s page, there’s a chance the client will link to the page of a mutual friend who has.
Once you reach the Foreign Ministry’s Facebook page you’ll see Shacham’s “burst of information,” links that take you to his “Internet 1.0,” the ministry’s dedicated website (www.mfa/gov.il). That site is jam-packed with just about everything you might want to know about Israel – or, to be more blunt, just about everything Israel would want you to know. It is, after all, about branding.
“Yes, we want people to know about issues,” he tells The Report. “But we want them to learn about them while learning about Israel with its rich history, about the innovative Israel with hi-tech success and business opportunities, and about the Israel experience, with its tourism, arts and multiculturalism.”
Of course, as with any website, the address of one’s Facebook, YouTube and Twitter page is important: the simpler and more direct, the easier it is to remember. The Foreign Ministry’s YouTube and Twitter pages once had the “MFA” suffix that its Facebook page still has, but just plain “Israel” has been the goal.
“YouTube was withholding the name and we had to go through a lengthy process to prove we were the official representative of the Israeli government,” Shacham explains. “With Twitter it was a little different. It turns out that a pornographer in Florida whose first name is Israel owned the name. We ended up paying him $5,000 for the rights.”
SO MUCH FOR THE UP – or lighter – side of Internet 2.0. Its biggest downside, on the other hand, is the ease of accessibility for purveyors of hatred and hostility. And with regard to Israel, these are not limited just to anti-Semites or Israel-bashers.
They prominently included Jews and Israelis who vent their wrath on Arabs and on each other.
The recent brouhaha over a Facebook advocacy page in Arabic titled The Third Intifada serves as an illustration. On the surface, The Third Intifada exhorted followers from the West Bank and other Arab countries to stage something of a “million-man march” right up to the border with Israel on May 15, the Gregorian date of Israel’s independence and a day the Palestinians refer to as the Nakba, or the catastrophe. However, according to critics, the page had an undertone that could be construed as incitement to hatred and even violence against both Israelis and Jews, while user comments often were much less subtle.
Jewish watchdog groups, such as the Anti- Defamation League, appealed to Facebook, which in late March, after a bit of foot dragging, removed the page. Nonetheless, it has since reappeared in several forms, in turn spawning Facebook pages such as “Against the Third Palestinian Intifada” and “Crush the Third Intifada Page.”
“New ways of using the web, such as social networking sites like Facebook and user-generated content sites such as YouTube, have led to an explosion of online bullying,” says Deborah Lauter, ADL’s director for civil rights. “Social networking sites are also used to promulgate hate and extremist content, increasing the depth and breadth of hate material that is available and which confronts nonextremist users,” she tells The Report.
Lauter says her organization works directly with “service providers such as Facebook” to confront the problem.
“Our discussions are fruitful and ongoing,” she says. “It is critical to note that the amount of material – Facebook has hundreds of millions of pages, YouTube has hours of videos uploaded every second, and Twitter has 140 million tweets per day – makes it virtually impossible for pre-posting policing of material.”
Replying to a Jerusalem Report query on the Intifada page matter, Facebook spokesman Simon Axten e-mailed the following – apparently boilerplate – response: “[W]e don’t typically take down content that speaks out against countries, religions, political entities, or ideas.
However, we monitor Pages that are reported to us, and when they degrade to direct calls for violence or expressions of hate, we have and will continue to remove them.”
The spokesman referred to the specific issue as follows: “The Third Palestinian Intifada Page, while using a term that has been associated with violence in the past [referring to the term Intifada - ed], began as a call for peaceful protest. In addition, the administrators initially removed comments that promoted violence. However, once the Page gathered publicity, comments deteriorated to direct calls for violence, and eventually, the Page administrators themselves also participated in these calls. After sending several warnings to the administrators about posts that violated our policies, we removed the Page.”
ENTER ANDRE OBOLER, A SOCIAL media expert who directs the Community Internet Engagement Project at the Zionist Federation of Australia and co-chairs the working group on online anti-Semitism for the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism. Oboler holds a PhD in computer science and in 2007-2008 was a post-doctoral fellow in political science at Israel’s Bar- Ilan University.
Taking his cue from the moniker given the new interactive Internet when it began gathering speed several years ago, Oboler coined the term “anti-Semitism 2.0.”
“The difference from classic anti-Semitism,” he tells The Report, “is that it tries to put on a socially acceptable face. Success here lowers social resistance to bigotry.”
By way of example, Oboler says he is bothered less by Stormfront, an openly anti- Semitic website run by white supremacists, than he is with the ostensibly benign Facebook, which can give similar material a veneer of respectability.
“I’m not so concerned about the spread of hate among people who hate us already,” he says. “I’m far more concerned about the spread of hate material to our friends and to those we’d want to be our friends in the future.”
Beyond the veneer, he says, the issue is also in the presentation.
“Anti-Semitism 2.0 mixes 50 percent racism and 50 percent claims of why it’s not racism. It compares Israel to Nazis, but goes on to say ‘we’re not racists,’ and then offers what it calls citations, but which are not really citations,” Oboler explains.
He claims that this modus operandi is particularly striking on Wikipedia. “You see a lot of things that are referenced to faulty, misused and fictitious citations. It is an attempt to portray hatred as an academic argument, all wrapped up in a legitimate website rather than an overtly hateful site.”
An overtly hateful website, he goes on, is much easier to have removed or filtered by search engines. “But you’re not going to pull down Facebook because of the anti-Semitism it contains. So the question is, what sort of ethical stand are Facebook and YouTube, for example, going to take on enforcement against hate messages?” Facebook’s Axten offers a short and, again, stock explanation of policy.
“Facebook is highly self-regulating,” his statement reads. “We provide report links on nearly every page and encourage people to let us know when they see something they think might violate our standards. Our team of investigators reviews and takes action on reported content according to our policies.”
Paul Solomon, spokesman for YouTube in Israel, is equally succinct. “Essentially, the community is the first line of defense. We review all flagged videos quickly, and if we find that they do violate the Guidelines, we remove them.”
Yet he provides a bit of depth by explaining just how the company’s review system works: “There are three components,” Solomon wrote in response to a request from The Report.
“1) The community flags the video. Despite the rumor that flagging campaigns will remove a video, a single flag is sufficient to trigger this system. 2) Our algorithms prioritize the video in the queue. The algorithms examine things like flesh tones (for sexual content), the history of previous flags (i.e., has it been flagged and approved before?), and a few other demographic factors. 3) Our reviewers perform a manual review using our review tool.”
In reconsidering a video, YouTube looks at both content and intent.
“Consider, for example, the video of the death of [post-election demonstrator] Neda Soltan in Iran,” Solomon continues. “We have policies that prohibit shocking or graphic content.
On the face of it, a video showing a young woman bleeding to death would likely be removed if it were flagged. But we make exceptions for videos that have educational, documentary, scientific or artistic (EDSA) value, provided that it is balanced with the additional context.”
More recently, the Israel-based Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), which, according to its website, looks for mass incitement and demonization against Israel in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, had a run-in with YouTube, where it maintained its own channel. Apparently, an organized flagging campaign was mounted against PMW, and YouTube, most likely having taken only a superficial look without considering the context, eventually removed enough PMW videos to justify shutting down the entire channel – which, after a short appeal process, was reopened.
The same happened to a photo presentation uploaded by Jewish settlers after the government, in a highly controversial move, released graphic and gruesome photos of the bodies of five members of the Fogel family, including a three-month-old baby, who were butchered in their West Bank settlement in March. The move, Israeli officials openly said, was intended to show the true brutality of Arab terrorism, but YouTube looked at the content and said no – although it later relented.
Facebook and YouTube seem to have divergent approaches, Oboler tells The Report.
“With YouTube it’s ‘If in doubt, remove.’With Facebook it’s, ‘If in doubt, don’t remove.’” In a report published earlier this year, Oboler illustrates that flags and even written complaints might not always be enough, even with YouTube, where a group calling itself “theytnazism” presented a “list of people we hate and we want to kill… 1. Blacks, 2. Jews, 3. Indians.”
“I reported this to YouTube in February [2010],” Oboler writes, “and on November 22 – 10 months later – [the group’s YouTube page] was still active…. I then included [a screenshot of the page] in a set of slides for a conference on anti-Semitism run by the World Zionist Organization in France… and suddenly the group was gone.”
He believes this was not coincidental, as other groups he had complained to YouTube about, but never mentioned publicly, remained online.
“It’s all good and well to tell the public to report things,” Oboler tells The Report.
“Having people flag things is far more effective than any algorithms. But what happens afterward? The problem is how you decide when you’ve crossed the bridge. The driving force that pushes these companies to do anything is public pressure. It becomes a threat in a corporate sense.”
In a forthcoming report titled “A legal model for government intervention to combat online hate,” Oboler, as part of his work with the Zionist Federation of Australia, calls on that country to broaden existing anti-hate laws to more effectively combat the growing phenomenon on the Internet.
“Governments have a responsibility to take an active role in the online world; if they don’t they cannot meet their wider obligations to the people they serve,” he writes. “The powers, rights and limitations that apply to governments and private citizens in the real world need to be reflected online.”
He also aims his words at “[t]hose advising clients in the technology sector,” warning them that they “should be aware of the potential for increased government intervention.”
Oboler tells The Report that “the use of new media technology can bring governments and communities together. It’s just a channel that can be used for good and for ill, and we have to maximize its use for good.”
CIE, Jerusalem Report, Oboler, online antisemitism
Wikipedia Manipulation: Anti-Israel Activists using Criticism Elimination
A new paper by Andre Oboler (CIE’s Director), along with Prof Gerald Steinberg (head of NGO Monitor) and Rephael Stern has been published by the Journal of Information Technology and Politics. The full length academic article, “The Framing of Political NGOs in Wikipedia through Criticism Elimination”, introduces the concept of criticism elimination, a type of information removal that has been used by anti-Israel activists to control the message and frame issues in Wikipedia articles.
Criticism elimination facilitates a new form of gatekeeping, and the article demonstrates how this was systematically done to remove criticism of NGOs actions in relation to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The article also categorizes the editors responsible for the behavior into four types. Mitigation approaches to criticism elimination are also suggested.
Wikipedia’s approach has, however, raised concerns (Lichtenstein, 2008) that are traditionally reserved for the mass media. For instance, the media has long acted as a gatekeeper, selecting and framing issues in what was perceived to be the public interest (Williams & Delli Carpini, 2004). The management of public discourse through framing raises significant political implications…
The presence of politically motivated framing (rather than the expected NPOV), as well as gatekeepers, sanctioned or de facto, has serious implications for the understanding of content production in Wikipedia.
The problem in subjective areas is that Wikipedia articles can be dominated. Sunstein (2006) notes that the last editor “can appoint himself as sovereign” (p. 158) destroying, rather than aggregating, content. Stacy Schiff (2006), writing in The New Yorker, noted that more frequent editors generally get their way. Articles or entire topic areas can be framed with a particular view by users with knowledge, determination, and power within the system.
By dominating articles and topic areas, Wikipedia can be used as a platform for political propaganda. Paul Murphy (2008) called Wikipedia “an early and illustrative warning of the collapse from informed social networking to propaganda.” He explained that “sub-groups of the general community … are now using Wikipedia as a marketing tool for their viewpoints.” He called it “fundamentally inappropriate in a site nominally dedicated to the provision of objective information.” He raises a concern that those with an agenda will be more dedicated to getting their point across than casual users, thereby allowing them to dominate.
Framing can occur though gatekeeping (Lewin, 1947), a theory of how items are “selected” or “rejected.” … [it] is “the process by which selections are made in media work, especially decisions whether or not to admit a particular news story to pass through the ‘gates’ of a news medium” (McQuail, 1994, p. 213). Social responsibility theory (Peterson, 1956) saw the public as passive and easily manipulated and the media as “information gatekeepers who represented the public’s interest” (Williams & Delli Carpini, 2004, p. 63).
Wikipedia’s dominance raises concerns about its own effect, or that of dominant editors, in framing information and acting as gatekeepers…. In Wikipedia, a culture (Schiff, 2006) with power structures, guidelines, and policies has developed to prevent this. These policies include NPOV, which states that articles should be “written from a neutral point of view, representing significant views fairly, proportionately, and without bias” (Wikipedia, 2008c)… In practice, however, the top 1 percent of posters jointly contribute about half of Wikipedia’s edits (Wilson, 2008). The power of the elite gives them a default gatekeeping role. Their strength in authority, time commitment, and knowledge of Wikipedia can easily overwhelm, and thus eliminate, the contributions of others.
We use an in vivo experiment in the form of an observational study with predefined variables and multiple “sites” (articles in this case), making this a field study as per Basili’s (1996) classification scheme for experimentation in software engineering. As Wikipedia records all interactions within the system, we use content analysis on stored data as a form of observation.
16 NGO articles were used in this study, all edits to these articles were reviewed
627 edits relating to criticism were extracted
Of the 16 NGO articles, nine were included in WikiProject Palestine (and their criticism sections were heavily revised to eliminate criticis
We reviewed how the edits changed the nature of the article, and specifically whether they removed relevant sourced information. We reviewed the over all impact on the article, and the over all editing behavior of the editors found doing such criticism elimination. We did this both for numeric results and for a more in-depth qualitative review.
Summary of Results
Four of the NGO entries examined (including the UK-based charity Christian Aid and the Israeli NGO Hamoked) had sourced criticism sections completely or almost entirely deleted. In both cases, all discussion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was removed (twice in the case of Christian Aid).
In total, 89 editors removed criticism, and 61 of these used registered user names. There are four prominent users removing criticism from multiple NGOs; 16 users removing criticism multiple times from one or more NGOs, in addition to making revisions in other NGO entries; and 26 users with low-edit counts focused on NGOs.
Qualitative analysis revealed 4 types of users who removed criticism:
A campaigner is a Wikipedia editor working towards a larger goal. He or she edits across a range of NGO articles and other articles. In the NGO articles examined here, campaigners usually removed sourced criticism. Some campaigners are members of WikiProject Palestine. Others appear to edit articles in the project without being members.
An advocate editor is concerned almost entirely with one page or a very limited topic. In the case of our research, the focus would be a particular NGO. One hypothesis is that advocates may be members, supporters, or staff of the NGO. These editors are using Wikipedia for a purpose unrelated to the advancement of the encyclopedia, and instead they remove criticism in order to frame their targets in the best possible light.
The lobbyists are editors who work within a broad scope of articles across Wikipedia, yet focus on only one NGO. They differ from advocates, because they contribute in other places, and from campaigners, because their actions do not appear to be part of a general campaign. These editors may attempt to remove or reduce criticism or set very high standards for the inclusions of criticism. As they become more involved in Wikipedia, their use of Wikipedia’s internal policies and guidelines to achieve their goals becomes more sophisticated.
Casual editors are visitors to Wikipedia who only edit articles on occasion. Spread across many topics, their edits show no unified agenda. Their attention is divided and, very often, thinly spread. These users may remove information that conflicts with their conceptual model on the justification that it is out of place.
Examples of each type of editor and the changes they made can be seen in the full paper.
The paper may be cited as: Andre Oboler, Gerald Steinberg and Rephael Stern, “The Framing of Political NGOs in Wikipedia through Criticism Elimination”, Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Volume 7, Issue 4 October 2010 , pages 284 – 299.
The published, Routledge (Taylor and Francis), have made the article a sample for the Journal. As a result the article is online and may be downloaded or read online for free.
critisism elimination, israel, journal of Information Technology and Politics, ngo, ngo monitor, Oboler, steinberg, wikipedia
The following was originally published at the ROI Blog.
The following is written by ROIer Dr. Andre Oboler on his recent trip to Canada.
With the support of the ROI Speakers Bureau, I attended the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism which was hosted at the Canadian Parliament between the 7th and the 9th of November. The conference brought together parliamentarians from 40 countries as well as leading experts in combating antisemitism and other forms of racism.
The conference opened at the Air and Space Museum with an address from Canada’s Governor General, followed by addresses from Elie Wiesel, Irwin Cotler and Jason Kenney. When Elie Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, the Nobel committee called him a ‘messenger to mankind.’ At the opening of the ICCA, Mr. Wiesel questioned if our message against antisemitism and racism was wrong, he noted the message was increasingly ineffective. He pleaded for the assembled parliamentarians to take action against Iran’s President Ahmadinejad, highlighting that incitement to genocide was itself punishable under the genocide convention and that any country could refer Ahmadinejad to the UN Security Council. He wondered aloud why it hadn’t already been done.
The following day delegates were addressed by Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. He spoke of his visit to Ukraine two weeks earlier when he laid a wreath at the killing grounds of Babi Yar. He told the delegates that ‘while evil of this magnitude may be unfathomable, it is nonetheless fact.’ The Prime Minister spoke of the resurgence of antisemitism throughout the world. He warned, ‘there are those who would choose evil and would launch another Holocaust, if left unchecked’ and that this was the challenge before the conference. He went on to take a firm stand against new antisemitism, attacking Israel as a Jew amongst the nations, and this part of his address made headlines around the world. He spoke openly of the fact that there were many more votes at the UN for those willing to be anti-Israel than for those willing to support Israel, but declared Canada would stand with Israel as long as he was Prime Minister ‘whatever the cost.’
The core work of the conference took place in working groups, one stream for parliamentarians and one for experts, and these working groups were separated by plenary sessions and meal breaks where experts and parliamentarians gathered together. The working groups addressed topics such as legal remedies, hate on campus, discourse, global perspectives, state-sanctioned antisemitism, and hate on the internet.
I was a panellist on the Hate on the Internet session for the experts’ forum. I also released copies of two papers I’ve recently had published. One paper was an abridged version of an article for the book “Antisemitism on the Campus: Past & Present.” In that paper I focused on a YouTube video that was attracting hate like a lighting rod. When I prepared my presentation for the Internet Hate working group, I decided I would show people something from this hate magnate, and further, I would only get the example the morning of the talk. I woke up at 6am on the day of my presentation so I’d have time to finalize my slides. I went to the YouTube video that was attracting all this hate. The most popular two comments were “Does anyone really want a rotten Jewish corpse polluting their water supply? I don’t think so,” and below it, also a most popular comment, was the reply, “Agreed! Lets genocide them by burning them! But this time, let’s actually do it.” Despite everything I had heard at the conference, and everything I had seen online, these comments left me stunned. It was a feeling I took with me into the working group.
In the working group on hate on the Internet, the experts largely rejected the idea that government should have no role in the Internet and expressed concern about private companies who now seemed to have more power than governments yet were completely unaccountable. Education was advocated as a significant part of the solution, as were laws designed to force companies to take their responsibilities more seriously. It was pointed out that in other online issues it was only the back stop of laws or private legal action that got companies acting proactively. Elie Wiesel was right, we must question if our message is right, but likewise we must question if we have become too lax and willing to ignore racism and antisemitism- not only governments, and companies, but society as a whole.
The conference was a power experience, a great networking opportunity and most importantly, a great opportunity to share knowledge, influence policy makers and take concrete action against rising antisemitism . The parliamentarians decided that the working groups would continue working beyond the conference. The assistance from the ROI Speakers Bureau not only helped with the significant expenses of this trip, in the end it has helped facilitate an ongoing role working with policy makers to combat the world’s oldest hate. I encourage others to apply to the ROI Speakers Bureau and use it to go further and do more than currently seems possible.
icca, Oboler, roicommunity
Following his visit to Italy to discuss online antisemitism with the Italian Parliament and others, CIE’s Director, Dr Andre Oboler, has been named in hate propaganda on one of the racist sites that was presented to the Italian Parliament and on TV on RAI Uno. This serves as a clear warning that not all those arguing against online content control and moderation are doing so for the right reasons.
The site Holy War included the following image:
Against the Servants of Jewish Mafia
who decided to have the websites hostile to the nazi state of Israel and criticizing racist Judaism closed, blacked out, sanctioned.
These are the servants: Fiamma Nirenstein, Stefano Gatti, Renato Farina, Andrè Oboler, Paolo Corsini, Francesco Tempestini, Enrico Pianetta, members of Parliament of PdL and PD.
LET’S STOP JEWISH RACIST HATE!
Thanks go to Stefano Gatti from the Italian Center for Jewish Contemporary Documentation both for spotting this and for providing us with the English translation.
antisemitism, holy war, Oboler, online hate, racism
Government a welcome presence in cyber regulation
The following article by Andre Oboler was published in the Australian Jewish News on May 7 2010, page 23. It is a reprint of a piece in Jerusalem Post.
Merely allowing debate on the internet is not enough to prevent cyber-racism. Governments need to step in to regulate the proliferation of hateful messages on social media sites.
The US Congress and the Italian parliament deserve credit; last week both held hearings into combatting on-line anti-Semitism. The differing testimony, however, highlights the gap between the US and the rest of the world. As one of the experts to appear before the Italian parliament, I had the opportunity to focus on the heart of the problem and to explore the ineffectiveness of the approach advocated to Congress just days earlier.
The hearing in Rome examined both Italian-language Web sites that distributed anti-Semitic literature and imagery, and the international problem in social media. The Web 2.0 examples I presented came from Facebook, YouTube, Google Groups, MySpace and Flickr. They included conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial, blood libel, demonization and other classic and modern forms of anti-Semitism – all easily found across the spectrum of social media sites.
The heart of the problem is that such material is largely accepted as legitimate expression. Why should something condemned by society were it published in print or placed on posters on city streets suddenly become legitimate simply because it appears on-line?
Social media sites are incredibly powerful. YouTube, for example, has a user base 50 times larger than the combined circulation of the top 10 newspapers in America. Can such a powerful medium really exist free of governmental control? With the power these companies wield, is no obligation owed to society?
Anti-Semitism 2.0 is the spread of the social acceptability of anti-Semitism through Web 2.0 technology. It creates an environment in which to be racist is no worse than to support the wrong soccer team. In such an environment, hate spreads, and society is conditioned to accept it. The danger is not just for the Jewish community, but reflects a wider breakdown in society’s values. If on-line society continues to develop in a moral vacuum, the lack of respect for human dignity may soon be reflected back in the “real” world.
THE US Congress focused on violence motivated by hate. In Italy we focused on the promotion of hate itself. Incitement to hate is a danger to public order, whether or not violence follows. Freedom of expression comes with responsibility – a point clearly made in the UN Charter on Civil and Political Rights. While Congress heard, once again, the tired argument of counterspeech as the best response, the Italian parliament discussed in technical detail the limits of counterspeech on platforms like Facebook.
On Facebook, having one group denying the Holocaust and another remembering the Holocaust would not be counterspeech, but rather two unrelated dialogues. To try to engage in debate in the Holocaust denial group is to promote it to all your contacts, not to mention entering a space controlled by the deniers where counterarguments can be deleted and those attempting counterspeech banished. It’s like responding to an anti-Semitic newspaper by sending it letters to the editor.
What’s worse, the curious might then view Holocaust denial or anti-Semitic propaganda, some of it direct from the Nazis, as something “contentious” and “debatable” rather than as a known and dangerous falsehood that has led to the death of millions.
There is no reason for platforms like Facebook and YouTube to facilitate the spread of hate. There is no reason on-line communities should be free of social values and human rights. The challenge is to create a civil society on-line. Such a society is not made through groups promoting NGOs, but through the adoption of ethical behavior by platform providers, on-line community leaders and the public.
Counterspeech certainly has its place, but it cannot be relied upon as a silver bullet. The correct place for counterspeech is with friends, where hate can be exposed and explained while we wait for the platform to remove it.
THE FIGHT for civil rights has been a long one. We should not have to start from scratch simply because of a change in technology and the emergence of social media companies with more reach than any newspaper. At minimum, companies that allow anyone to publish should allow anyone to complain. At minimum, such complaints should be reviewed in a reasonable time, and if they are dismissed as groundless those who file them should be given the option of recourse through the courts if the content is illegal.
In Europe, and indeed almost everywhere beside the US, hate speech against minorities is already illegal. If companies get it wrong, if they insist on harboring hate either by rejecting valid complaints or through excessively slow response rates, it should be governments who hold them to account.
We have tackled copyright as a result of the music industry; we have tackled privacy largely as a result of government officials in Canada and Italy; next we must tackle the promotion of racism and hate. It is up to governments and intergovernmental organizations to make this a priority for social media companies. Yes, there will be costs, but it is no more than the cost of doing business in what remains a very lucrative market.
Andre Oboler is director of the Community Internet Engagement PRoject at the Zionist Federation of Australia, and co-chair of the working group on online anti-Semitism for the Global Forum to Combat Anti-Semitism.
AJN, antisemitism, Oboler, regulation, social media
New media needs a new approach to antisemitism
Originally published as: Andre Oboler, New media needs a new approach to anti-Semitism, Jerusalem Post, 27 April, 2010
Why should something condemned by society, were it published in print, suddenly become legitimate simply because it appears on-line?
We have tackled copyright as a result of the music industry; we have tackled privacy largely as a result of government officials in Canada and Italy; next we must tackle the promotion of racism and hate.
It is up to governments and intergovernmental organizations to make this a priority for social media companies. Yes, there will be costs, but it is no more than the cost of doing business in what remains a very lucrative market.
The writer is director of the Community Internet Engagement Project at the Zionist Federation of Australia, and cochairman of the working group on on-line anti-Semitism for the Global Forum to Combat Anti-Semitism.
antisemitism, congress, counter speech, italy, Oboler, online antisemitism, social media, web 2.0
Online Antisemitism Booming (in Italian)
The following article is from RAI News 24
Boom dell’antisemitismo on line
Roma, 26-04-2010
L’antisemitismo non e’ un problema ebraico, e’ un problema che riguarda la societa’. Questo il messaggio chiave dell’esperto Andre’ Oboler, coordinatore del Comitato per la lotta all’antisemitismo online per il ‘Forum globale contro l’antisemitismo’, intervenuto ad un convegno a Roma.
Allarmante il quadro che e’ emerso dall’incontro “Antisemitismo online: non cadere nella rete”, organizzato dal Bene’ Berith giovani insieme alla Consulta della Comunita’ ebraica di Roma, che si e’ tenuto a palazzo Valentini, sede della Provincia.
Un boom di siti e spazi nei social network, blog, forum, chat, che ripropongono tutti gli orrori classici dell’odio antisemita, con l’aggravante della pervasivita’ del mezzo e della difficolta’ nel perseguire i responsabili.
Antisemitismo 2.0. Cosi’ chiama Andre’ Oboler questo nuovo fenomeno, che segue l’evoluzione della rete, attraverso percorsi sempre piu’ interattivi.
Il Presidente della Comunità Ebraica di Roma, Riccardo Pacifici, ha evidenziato proprio le difficolta’ che si incontrano quando si tenta di perseguire siti web con contenuti antisemiti, soprattutto quelli con sede sociale all’estero. E ha richiamato l’attenzione su quanto sia rischioso mettere dati e informazioni personali, sui social network dove non di rado si incontrano identita’ virtuali false.
“Il fenomeno dell’antisemitismo online, specie con la costante diffusione dei social network, costituisce uno degli aspetti piu’ rilevanti dell’antisemitismo odierno”, spiega l’onorevole Fiamma Nirenstein, vicepresidente della Commissione Esteri della Camera dei Deputati (Pdl).
“La polizia postale e rapporti di esperti indicano come ci sia un boom di siti che diffondono un vasto raggio di teorie antisemite: dalla cospirazione giudaica per impadronirsi del mondo (con un revival nella diffusione del falso storico dei Protocolli dei Savi di Sion), a forme aberranti di anti-israelismo, che descrivono Israele come la nuova potenza genocida che non ha diritto di esistere”, aggiunge Fiamma Nirenstein. Che cita il rapporto, curato dal Centro studi dell’ Universita’ di Tel Aviv sull’antisemitismo e sul razzismo: una conferma del netto aumento degli episodi di violenza a sfondo antisemita nel mondo. Nel 2009 sono stati registrati 1.129 episodi violenti di antisemitismo, il doppio di quelli avvenuti nel 2008 (559). Da qui l’importanza anche – spiega l’onorevole – della Commissione di indagine sull’antisemitismo: il Parlamento e’ poi obbligato a prendere delle misure.
Da Facebook a Myspace a Youtube, l’odio antisemita si moltiplica in modo esponenziale sulla rete, spiega spiega Adre’ Oboler, mentre su un grande schermo scorrono le immagini impressionanti di alcuni dei tanti siti che negano la Shoah, o di gruppi neonazisti e rappresentanti del cosiddetto “orgoglio bianco”.
Anche la musica fa la sua parte. Band neonaziste diffondono le loro idee disgustoste al ritmo rock o techno o metal. Un gruppo si chiama senza tanti giri di parole “Jew slaughter”, ”Massacra l’ebreo”.
L’impatto dei social media – spiega Oboler – e’ 50 volte piu’ potente rispetto ai mezzi convenzionali della carta stampata. Ed e’ in grado di veicolare e fare apparire socialmente accettabile l’antisemitismo. Accettare l’antisemitismo significa minare i legami stessi e i valori di una societa’, alimentando la cultura dell’odio, del razzismo fino ad alimentare il comportamento antisociale.
Una rassegna di siti antisemiti italiani e’ stata presentata da Stefano Gatti, redattore del portale Osservatorio Antisemitismo del Cdec (Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea). Siti che sovrappongono spesso antisionismo a stereotipi antiebraici.
C’e’ un classico della propaganda nazista come Holywar, che ripropone, tra l’altro, il falso storico dei Protocolli dei Savi di Sion. Pagine web che ripropongono il tema della cospirazione giudaica per impadronirsi del mondo. Siti catto-integralisti e anticonciliari. Nostalgie ariane. Siti apertamente negazionisti. L’agenzia Infopal, sulle cui pagine web si parla anche di “pulizia etnica sionista”. Blog personali di propaganda antiebraica. Fino ad arrivare a spazi on line che diffondono la ripugnante calunnia, partita da un giornale svedese, che vede gli ebrei impegnati in un racket internazionale del traffico di organi.
Spesso gli utenti sottovalutano i rischi che incorrono nel dare informazioni personali e delicate, ha detto l’esperto di social network Alex Zarfati. Da qui, l’importanza per esempio che gli utenti Facebook, personalizzino le impostazioni della privacy in modo da essere garantiti il piu’ possibile. Attraverso una identita’ falsa, si riesce ad avere informazioni su riunioni, celebrazioni religiose, o addirittura feste private.
Un auspicio che il nuovo Museo della Shoah si occupi non soltanto di Memoria, ma anche di denunciare e combattere ogni forma di antisemitismo, e’ arrivato da Marcello Pezzetti, storico della Shoah.
Andre’ Oboler, e Stefano Gatti, sono stati ascoltati come esperti in un’audizione in Parlamento nell’ambito dell’Indagine Conoscitiva sull’Antisemitismo, svolta dalle commissioni Esteri e Affari Costituzionali congiunte.
Importante una attenzione istituzionale, per non trattare con leggerezza o sminuire il fenomeno. Trattandolo magari come ‘folklore’ o violenza “solo” verbale. Infatti, come scrive Jeff Jacoby , spiega Oboler, gli ebrei ” sono il canarino nella miniera di carbone della civilta’. Quando diventano oggetto di ferocia e odio, vuol dire che l’aria e’ avvelenata, e l’esplosione sta per arrivare”.
di Valeria Pannuti
antisemitism, Italian, italy, Oboler, online antisemitism
Meeting at the Vatican on Social Media
Through the good offices of the Australian Embassy to the Vatican, and the recommendation of Ambassador Tim Fischer, I met this afternoon with Mons. Paul Tighe at the Vatican. Counsellor Michael Sullivan from Australia’s Embassy to the Vatican arranged and participated in what was a very productive and enlightening meeting.
Mons. Tighe is the Secretary to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. We discussed the issues of antisemitism 2.0 and the way the internet can create a value free environment. In such an environment racism and hate can be seen as acceptable when the same material would be universally condemned back in the real world.
We discussed the monitoring of online antisemitism and the need for a holistic and international approach. The problems of language barriers and the need for local knowledge was also discussed.
Mons. Tighe shared a statement from the Pope on the occasion of the 43rd World Day of Communication (2009). The statement says in part:
“[R]eflecting on the significance of the new technologies, it is important to focus not just on their undoubted capacity to foster contact between people, but on the quality of the content that is put into circulation using these means. I would encourage all people of good will who are active in the emerging environment of digital communication to commit themselves to promoting a culture of respect, dialogue and friendship.
Those who are active in the production and dissemination of new media content, therefore, should strive to respect the dignity and worth of the human person. If the new technologies are to serve the good of individuals and of society, all users will avoid the sharing of words and images that are degrading of human beings, that promote hatred and intolerance, that debase the goodness and intimacy of human sexuality or that exploit the weak and vulnerable.”
This statement gets to the core of the issue, namely, the need for online social values. These values should not be entirely related to new developments, but should also incorporate the values society had developed over millennium. The huge strives forward in the area of universal human rights are particularly suitable for adopted into a global online culture.
The Vatican is aware of the potential good the internet can bring, but also the harm that can result if the technology is abused. Their message is one of engagement, and encouraging individuals to do their part to restore a sense of balance in the online world. It is a message well worth considering and sharing.
Oboler, online antisemitism, Pope, racism, social media, vatican
Pesach Seders on Twitter
CIE’s Director, Dr Andre Oboler, appeared in the Passover issues of the New York Jewish Week. The article in question examined the phenomena of twitter seders and asked whether this use of social media was a positive development. The article, Let My People … Tweet, is by Sharon Udasin and available on the Jewish Week website.
The full quotation provided by Dr Oboler was as follows:
Passover, in my experience, is the biggest gathering of those closest to us short of a major simcha. Leaving to one side the differences between Orthodox, Conservative and Liberal Judaism, the question you are really asking is what does technology enables and at what price? Twitter, and to some extent Facebook, provide a yearlong ongoing chatter of minor news from friends to vague acquaintances. This is a surface level connection, wide and shallow. This can be a distraction and become the focus of our communication rather than time face to face with those we are closest to. Pesach, one of the three pilgrimage festivals, the shalosh regalim, is a time for gathering together. It is, perhaps, a time to disconnect from the world and focus on those closest to us and on a distant past well before the advent of the mobile phone and the computer. This night at least should be different from all other nights. It may take a special effort, but there is indeed something deeper and of great value if we want to take the opportunity. Experiencing the past as if we were there might just require us to switch off in order to be switched on.
internet engagement, Jewish Week, Oboler, Pesach, Seder, social media, twitter
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For those of you who may not have noticed, there is something strange in the air these days. Not only has a meteor just recently hit Siberia….but there has also been an unprecedented number of viola-centric events closer to home throughout this month. Tonight at 7:30pm EST and this Friday, February 19th at 7pm, you can enjoy the experience of seven violists with five dancers
Review by Alex Ross in the New Yorker
Momenta gets a mention in the New Yorker this month! Here’s a little tidbit: “The Momentas were at their most potent in Haydn’s Opus 20 No. 1, applying opulent, sustained legato in the slow movement. Few American players assume Haydn’s idioms with such ease.” Read the full review…
New York Times Review!
Steve Smith’s review for our concert at the Stone is online! Check it out here or read more for some of our favorite quotes.
Staying up late for our first concert of 2013!
Our first concert of the year will take place on Tuesday, January 8th, at 10pm at the Stone. We’re performing a program called “American Idyll,” including works by Eric Nathan, Stefan Wolpe, Elliott Carter, Christian Wolff, and John Cage. Read more to see the program notes, and we hope to see you Tuesday at 10pm!
New Year, New Website!
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AOA Releases First Round of Group Teaser Images for “Angel’s Knock”
2016-12-27 2016-12-27 , NEWS, Angel's Knock, AOA, Bing Bing, Excuse Me, 0
Images courtesy of FNC Entertainment
AOA is releasing their first full-length album in early 2017, and the teasers are rolling out.
The group is scheduled to drop their album “Angel’s Knock” on January 2, and slowly but surely, AOA is revealing more details on the release.
AOA will be returning with a light vs. dark concept, releasing two different songs with contrasting feelings. One song will be entitled “Excuse Me,” the other, “Bing Bing.”
Check out the newly released teasers showing both the light and the dark sides of AOA here, and be sure to stick around moonROK for more teasers leading up to the group’s January 2 comeback.
Source: FNC Entertainment
Tags: Angel's Knock AOA Bing Bing Excuse Me
I.O.I Achieves Realtime All-Kill with “Downpour”
2017-01-18 2017-01-23 , NEWS, Charts, Downpour, I.O.I, 7
Late last night, I.O.I released a sentimental ballad as their last single together, and this morning they’re #1 everywhere....
BoA and Joo Won Confirmed to be in Relationship
2017-01-18 2017-01-23 , NEWS, BoA, Joo Won, Relationships, 0
This morning, the internet was abuzz with reports that singer BoA and actor Joo Won are in a relationship....
MONSTA X’s Jooheon Drops MV for Mixtape Track “Rhythm”
2017-01-17 2017-01-23 , NEWS, JooHeon, MONSTA X, MV, Out of Control, Rhythm, 0
Jooheon is back to prove he’s got rhythm. The MONSTA X member just dropped the music video for “Rhythm,”...
Park Kyung Drops Sweet MV for “When I’m With You” featuring Brother Su
2017-01-17 2017-01-23 , NEWS, Block B, MV, Park Kyung, When I'm With You, 3
Park Kyung is back with a sweet new single. The Block B member just dropped the music video for...
I.O.I Releases Sentimental Final Single, “Downpour”
2017-01-17 2017-01-23 , NEWS, Downpour, I.O.I, 0
I.O.I has just dropped their last single together as a group. Together, Somi, Sohye, Doyeon, Pinky, Chunga, Yoojung,...
Sonamoo Releases Dance Version of Latest MV, “I Think I Love U”
2017-01-17 2017-01-23 , NEWS, I Think I Love U, SONAMOO, 0
Sonamoo has been working hard promoting their latest single, “I Think I Love U,” and now they’re giving us...
SHINHWA Drops a Surprise Dance Version MV for “Touch”
2017-01-17 2017-01-23 , NEWS, Dance Version, Music Video, Shinhwa, 0
Legendary Kpop group Shinhwa has surprise released a dance version music video for their recent comeback track, “Touch.”...
I.O.I to Release Ballad Tonight as Final Group Single
2017-01-17 2017-01-23 , NEWS, I.O.I, SEVENTEEN, Showers, Woozi, 0
Sadly, I.O.I’s time together is quickly coming to an end. As the group rounds out their year of promotions...
JYP Not Sending Trainees on “Produce 101” Season 2
2017-01-17 2017-01-23 , NEWS, JYP, JYP Entertainment, Mnet, Produce 101, season 2, 0
JYP Entertainment has announced that they will not be sending any male trainees to compete on season 2...
Kasper Teases Comeback Music Video “Lean On Me”
2017-01-17 2017-01-23 , NEWS, kasper, Music Video Teaser, Teaser, Video Teaser, 0
“Unpretty Rapstar” contestant Kasper has just released a music video teaser for her upcoming track, “Lean On Me.”...
Seo In Guk Teases New Electronic R&B Sound for "BeBe"NCT 127 to Make Return with "Limitless"
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High noon on the high street
- Blog, Communications, Uncategorized
A couple of weeks ago I wrote (Wait for it…wait for it!) about the adrenaline kick from the instant gratification provided by shopping; remarking that we need look no further than the hysteria generated by Black Friday discounts as an example of retailers harnessing this effect to their advantage. I went so far as to suggest that retailers’ USPs might soon include ‘best fist fight in pursuit of a bargain’, or ‘best Black Friday riot’. Little did I think I might be predicting the future, or that 99p Stores would be so far ahead of the curve. But then in last Wednesday’s Guardian newspaper there appeared the headline, ‘Police called to quell riot as 99p store halts sale‘.
Apparently police were called to a 99p Store in Wrexham, north Wales, after crowds flocked to a half-price sale, enticed by posters offering everything for 50p! But trouble flared when shoppers laden with cleaning products, toilet rolls, crisps and drinks, were told the sale was over – and everything was again 99p – as they queued to pay. Bedlam ensued, and the shop had to be closed when shoppers refused to leave, but no arrests were made.
Now, giving shoppers a thrill is one thing, but the roller coaster emotions engendered by a ‘now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t’ sale are taking it a bit too far don’t you think? And just how have we got to such a sorry state that a sale in a 99p shop generates this much excitement? It’s made me think though. I was always against moving police stations – and even courts – into retail premises to save money. But now – if we’re regularly going to experience ‘shopping-as-soap-opera’ – I’m not so sure! Shop, arrest, court, all in one place is so much more efficient. Or is this what they meant by bringing drama back to the high street. What do you think?
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"Incisive and melodic" says OnMilwaukee.com
First press on "Kid" arrives courtesy of OnMilwaukee.com. They say:
"The music is as incisive and melodic as ever, full of the kind of guitar-fueled pop that you'd expect from fans of Elvis Costello and The Attractions and Squeeze."
See the full article here.
Posted by The Mike Benign Compulsion
Saturday, February 1st - Anodyne (Walker's Point/Milwaukee). Double bill with Eagle Trace. 8:00 pm.
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Melodic, well-crafted, driving alt guitar pop that rocks. Band members Mike Benign, Joe Vent, Paul Biemann and Mike Koch are veterans of acclaimed Milwaukee-based acts like Blue in The Face, The Yell Leaders, Arms & Legs & Feet and The Joker’s Henchmen. Live shows include opener slots for Squeeze, Neil Finn (Crowded House), The Lemonheads, The Alarm, Bob Mould, Black Francis, Rhett Miller, Marshall Crenshaw, The Alarm, The Fixx, and others. The band's fifth album, "Bygones," arrives in September of 2019.
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Shepherd Express "Bygones" Feature/Review
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Shepherd Express "Kid" Feature/Review
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McCamie Willis Cemetery
In the midst of a barren winter field, some distance from the main road, in the crossroads community of Red Cross, Stanly County, sits a lonely grove of trees. Hidden among vines and branches, saplings and the loamy mulch, are scattered slate markers, horribly worn by time and nature, indicating an abandoned family cemetery. Once upon a time a house and probably several outbuildings stood nearby. The land around it is still farmed.
This is the McCamie Willis Cemetery, said to have been the original resting place of Revolutionary War veteran Solomon Burris, Sr and his wife, Judith Taylor Burris.
Their remains, at some point, were moved nearby, just a few miles away, to Pleasant Grove Baptist Church.
On a recent chilly and damp January afternoon, I had the good fortune to participate in the clean-up of this cemetery, with a group of other Burris descendants and associates.
Some stones had fallen over. Others had been
nearly overtaken by the roots of trees. A few
were legible still. Many other graves were obvious, but no longer marked, the slate markers beneath the ample foliage, covered by dirt and decades of neglect.
For me, this is holy ground. Solomon and Judith Taylor Burris hold a heavy spot among my ancestors. I am descended from not one, not two, but 4 of their children: Taylor, Solomon Jr., Nancy and Joshua C. Sr., all in the personage of one Grandfather. This type of endogamy was common during the 19th century in small farming communities and makes my family tree smaller than most. Nancy Ann Burris married Benjamin Franklin Hathcock, and many Hathcocks are buried here. One of her children married a child of her brother Solomon Jr. A first cousin marriage. My Grandfather's mother, Rowena Burris Lambert, was descended from this line, but his father, Eli Marion Lambert, carried not one, but two, distinct lines to old Solomon Burris himself. My paternal Grandmother, thank goodness, did not carry any biological Burris lines. Her family tended to be from Mecklenburg, Cabarrus and Union Counties. But after her father died, tragicly and young, her mother married a Burris, the brother of my Grandfather's mother, Rowena, so she had Burris half-siblings and a Burris stepfather. This was obviously how she met my Grandfather.
The cemetery bears the name of Commie Willis, or rather McCamey Ervin (or Erwin) Willis. Commie or Kamey, his nickname, is seen in many various spellings. Sometimes the "Mac" was separated from the "Camey" or "Commie" or "Kamey". Having a direct ancestor, the Rev. John McCamey Wilson, with the same name included in his, I know that McCamey was a surname, and that McCamey is the correct spelling of it.
Many of the old slate stones, that Stanly County is noted for, have barely legible etchings remaining upon them. Our local State Park, Morrow Mountain, was even noted for an ancient Native American quarry, as the old volcano among the Uwharries, one of the oldest, and worn down, mountain ranges on the east coast, made stone that became some of the best arrowheads, found as far west as the Mississippi.
Once members of our local Historic and Genealogical Societies, who have vast experience in saving and marking old cemeteries, work their magic with squeegies and shaving cream, a beautiful work of art appears. The above is the tombstone of Mary Ann Hathcock. It reads:
"Fair Well friends
Memary of Marann HatHcock Was BornD Janu 28 AD 1830
DC March 14th AD 1863
AG 33 on 1 month 17 day
She was a wife of Caulvan Hathcock She was the mother of 7 children
She was a devoted member of the Babeths Church Blessed are the Ded that Die in the Lord"
Translation taken from "These Hallowed Grounds", published by the Stanly County Genealogical Society in 2012.
Below is how Mary and her young family appeared in the 1850 census, with only her oldest daughter, Priscilla Rosanna, being born. Mary Ann was the daughter of John Hartsell and wife, Rosanna Herlocker Hartsell. Her husband Calvin was the son of Benjamin Franklin Hathcock (or Heathcock) and Nancy Ann Burris, making him a grandson of Solomon and Judith. I descend from his sister, Obedience, named most probably after her aunt, Obedience Burris Willis.
Mary A Haithcock
Birth Year:
abt 1831
Birthplace:
Home in 1850:
Albemarle, Stanly, North Carolina, USA
Household Members:
Calvin Haithcock 25
Mary A Haithcock 19
Pricilla Haithcock 0
The 7 children of Calvin and MaryAnn Hartsell Hathcock were, as best as I can determine (and am hopefully open to correction and addendums) were:
1) Priscilla Rosanna Hathcock b 1850 d 1929 Married John E. Clark
2) Jackson Franklin Hathcock b 1852 d 1910 Married Nancy Ann Honeycutt
3) Sarah Jane Hathcock b 1857 d 1928 Married David I Coley
4) Green L Hathcock b 1858 d 1898 Married Mary C Smith
5) Zinna Elizabeth Hathcock b 1860 d 1905 Married George R Hinson-Hathcock
6) James Benjamin Hathcock b 1861 d Married Bathsheba Whitley
7) Unknown at this juncture, possibly a Mary
Below is the tombstone of Lee Hathcock after its etchings had been made clear. Notice the beautiful artistic borders, palms and Tree of Life etchings. It reads:
"In Memory of Lee Hathcock Was Born August the 25 Day AD 18??
Blessed Are They Dead they That Died in the Lord"
Lee Hathcock was also a son of Benjamin Franklin Hathcock and Nancy Ann Burris Hathcock. He was a brother-in-law to Mary Ann Hartsell Hathcock. He was born on August 25, 1835 and was killed on Oct 1, 1862 at Petersburg, Farquier County, Virigina during the Civil War and his remains returned to his family for burial.
Lee Hathcock
Stanly County, North Carolina, United States of America
Death Place:
Petersburg, Fauquier County, Virginia, United States of America
Commie Willis Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place:
Oakboro, Stanly County, North Carolina, United States of America
From Find-a- Grave
Lee married Martha Judith Coley on September 15, 1853. They became the parents of 4 boys: Adam, Daniel, William and Levi.
Lee Heathtock
Home in 1860
Stanly, North Carolina
Dwelling Number
Family Number
Personal Estate Value
Household Members
NameAge
NameLee Heathtock
NameJudieth Heathtock
NameAdam Heathtock
NameDanil Heathtock
NameWilliam Heathtock
Levi Hathcock (Heathcock) was born the year his father died.
Judith Hathcock's Petition for her Widow's Pension
A fifth son, Mack Luther Heathcock, would be born to Lee's widow, Judy, in 1870, 8 years after his death. Although he carried the name Hathcock on to his own large family, his father was actually Solomon (Murray) Burris/Burroughs, another grandson of Solomon and Judith, 1st cousin of Lee and a ward of McCamey and Obedience Willis
This is how Lee's family was enumerated in 1860.
Hand prints were also a common them on the rustic tombstones. The above shows a large hand print above the inscription on the tombstone of Zenas Burris. The hand represented reaching toward Heaven. The inscription reads;
" Zenas son of Z. E. and M. Burris B. Mar THE 11th D Mar the 27th 1874"
Z. E and M Burris stood for Zachary Ephraim Burris and his wife Margaret Victoria Burris. Both were Great Grandchildren of Solomon and Judith Taylor Burris. Zenas would have been their second child. Zachary Eprhriam Burris was the son of David Burris and wife Sarah Vanderburg Burris. David was a grandson of the couple through their son Solomon Burris Jr. and wife Sallie Morgan.
Margaret Burris was the daughter of James Allen Burris and wife, Lucy Hinson. Allen was a grandson of the couple through their son Joshua Burris and wife Sarah Springer. As their fathers were 1st cousins, Z. E. and Margaret Burris were second cousins.
This stone shows how the shaving cream can make words appear like magic on these old stones.
A broken stone, wedged halfway into the soil.
The tombstone of Nancy J Burris, another infant's grave, born July 11, 1851 and died only a few months later on September 19, 1851. Her exact parents are unknown, but no doubt a Great Grandchild of Solomon and Judith.
This stone is being consumed by the roots of a tree and revealed only the initial A M B.
David Almond, author and Burris descendant, eyes a sapling for disposal.
A little digging reveals an unknown footstone.
In a row, some leaning, some half-buried and others broken completely off.
A team member hides behind a tree as the cemetery is being revealed.
Last minute touches show 3 or 4 rows of tidy, but ancient graves.
The cemetery was named for McCamey Ervin Willis. His homestead was here. But who was "Commie Willis" and from where did he come?
That is a question we have no real answer to.
McCamey Ervin Willis appears in 4 Census Records in Stanly County, NC: 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. He also appears in several land records and court records. None give a hint as to his origin before arriving in Stanly County, only the fact that he was born in North Carolina. He does not appear in the 1830 or 1840, although with birth years given in those censuses as between 1814 and 1818, he was certainly old enough to have been, at least in the 1840 census.
It is also not known when or where he married Obedience Burris, but it was most likely in Stanly County. Her father was obviously here for many decades before his demise, and in his will, probated in 1845, he refers to his daughter Obedience as "Obedience Burris", meaning she was single at that time. Being born about 1808, "Beadie" was a few years older than Commie and would have been considered an old maid, at 37, in 1845. Her older sister Judith was also single and 50 at the time their father's will was probated, and he had especially taken care to provide for his widow and single daughters.
Judith Burris Jr. died in 1847 at the age of 52. She must have been sick and knowing her demise was near, so she herself, wrote a will. It was probated in August of 1847. In her will she makes the following statements:
"First, I give to my sister Obedience, my chest and all my clothes, and all my interest in my father's estate at my mother's decease and next I want Solomon K (or R?) Burris to have my bed and good furniture.
I appoint my beloved brother, Joshua to be my executor."
John Huneycutt and Gideon Morgan were Testators.
From the above reference, it appears Obedience was still single upon her older sister's death in 1847.
McCamey Willis first shows up in the land records of Stanly County on May 5, 1850 when William H. Randle, attorney sold to "Kamy R Willis" for $100 a tract of land. Randle was representing John Ward, Jeremiah Adderton and James Adderton of Davidson County, NC and Daniel Freeman of Stanly County, NC. They had been residents of Stanly County previously, as I've recalled seeing the name "Jere Adderton" quite often in old records.
The land was described as " Beginning at a stake in the bank of Stony Run Creek" and met Asberry's line and Solomon Burris's line and was described as 226 acres "more or less", " with the exception of 26 acres which is for the use of and benefit of the widow Judy Burris including the house and improvements in which she lives during her life and after her death to belong to the said Kamy R. Willis".
"Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of Solomon Burris and David Burris", brothers of Obedience Burris. It was registered on February 25, 1851 and signed by John Ward, Jeremiah Adderton, James Adderton and Daniel Freeman.
The facts seem to point to the marriage of Obedience Burris and McCamie Willis as between August of 1847 and May of 1850. He may have been a widower, but there are no indications he ever had any children of his own. None ever appeared wanting a piece of the pie after his death. He may have married Obedience because she was a woman with land that he wanted, but he did not sway in caring for her family and others in the community. The union was true.
The Willis and Burris's of Red Cross, Stanly County, were enumeratied on Novemeber 2, 1850.
Commie and Obedience were Household 906 with 904 being her brother Solomon Jr. and 905 being his son David, with an infant Z. E. Burris, who was spoken of previously.
House Number 907 was Benjamin F. Hathcock, her brother-in-law, widower of her sister Nancy. House 908 was Benjamin's son Calvin and his young wife Mary Ann and their baby daughter Priscilla, Mary Ann's tombstone being mentioned previously as well. Family and neighbors.
Mac cama Willis
Mac cama Willis 36
Obidunce Willis 42
Judith Burris 85
Solomon Burris 18
Beada L Burris 24
The occupants of House 906 were: 36 year old McCamey Willis, his 42 year old wife, Obedience, her 85 year old mother, Judith Taylor Burris, their ward and nephew, Solomon (Murray) Burris, 18 and her neice and my ancestor, Obedience "Beadie" Hathcock Burris, 24.
Obedience Hathcock Burris, daughter of Benjamin Franklin Hathcock and Nancy Ann Burris Hathcock, was married by this time and expecting her first child, my ancestor, David T. Burris, who was born on January 13, 1851. As this was November 2, 1850, she was 7 months pregnant. Her father lived next door and there is no Obedience in his household and her husband, 18 year old Gideon Green Burris, who was also her first cousin, was listed in his parents household as a laborer, and she wasn't listed with him, so this has to be Obedience L Hathcock Burris.
Solomon Burris was Solomon Murray Burris, son of Obedience's brother, Joshua C. Burris Sr., a married man, and Jane "Jincy" Murray, a single woman. I descend from Joshua C. Burris through his daughter, Mary Anna Burris with Susannah Honeycutt and I descend from a sister of Jane Murray, Priscilla Murray Aldridge, who was one of my second Great Grandmothers. I know, it's complicated.
In the February 1844 session of the Court of Pleas and Quarters of Stanly County, the Sheriff had been ordered to bring the child, Solomon Murray "to next court to be bound out, now living with Solomon Burris, Sr." Old Sol seems to have been trying to keep this stray grandson in the family, one of his several namesakes. The boy grew up with his Aunt and Uncle, Obedience and Commie Willis, and so loved the couple he named children for them. He was a troubled child, as illegitimate children in the era often were due to the social ostracization. He was in and out of court, and always there with him, going his bond, whether for affray, drunkeness, petty larceny or making his own out of wedlock babies, was his adopted Dad, Commie Willis.
Solomon was married 4 times that I know of, and fathered at least 15 children that I have found. He grew up, he moved east and spelled his name "Burroughs". He moved around a bit, like a rolling stone, in Cabarrus, Wilmington, Lenior, Goldsboro. He is buried in Jason, Green County, North Carolina. Never heard of it? Neither had I.
On December 20, 1852, "MyCama E Willis" bought 33 1/2 acres from Daniel Freeman, an Albemarle merchant on Stony Run Creek that ran along Benjamin Hathcock's line for $23. This may have been a portion of Judith's property that covered a debt at the Freeman's store.
On November 8, 1855 "Isaiah Coley of the 1st part, Solomon Burris of the 2nd part, G. D. Whitley and Kamey E. Willis of the 3rd part, George Cagle of the 4th part and Jessie Hathcock of the 5th part, all of Stanly County" were involved in a transaction. Isaiah Coley was "justly indebted" to the estate of Robert Motley for $50 and to Daniel Freeman for $33 and interest and to Nelson Smith. G. D. Whitley, 'Camey E. Willis', George Cagle and Jesse Hathcock were his securities for these notes. To give them relief, he put up the land and property upon which he was living, one yoke of steers and cart, '4 head dry cattle', 12 head of hogs and 200 bushels of corn.
Mc Camy E Willis
Dwelling Number:
Real Estate Value:
Personal Estate Value:
Mc Camy E Willis 46
Obedience Willis 51
Becky Page 30
By 1860, Mother Judith had passes away, Beadie was living with her husband Gideon Greene Burris and young Solomon was working as a farm hand in Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus County, with his first wife and 4 children. McCamey had Real Estate valued at $236 and Personal Estate at $200. And Rebecca Page had arrived.
Becky Page was listed as a Day Laborer in the 1860 census. She was 30 years old. She lived and worked for Commie and Obedience for many, many years. I have not found her in the 1850 census, but I believe she may have been a daughter of Dempsey Page and the 1870 census will explain why.
In 1870, Commie and Obedience are boarding more of the Page family. This portion of the 1870 census is incorrect. They divided Commie and Obedience from the rest of the household.
M E Willis
Age in 1870:
Big Lick, Stanly, North Carolina
Male Citizen over 21:
Inferred Spouse:
Obidimce Willis
M E Willis 54
Obidimce Willis 61
In reality, 3 Pages, Rebecca, Delitha and Mason, are living with McCamey and Obedience in the same dwelling.
Rebecca Pozo
[Rebecca Page]
Cannot Read:
Cannot Write:
Mason Pozo 41
Delitha Pozo 30
Rebecca Pozo 42
Notice the Dwelling number, 22, on both entries. The Pages ladies lived with the Willis's. The transcriber also made a mess of their last name, but a peak at the original copy clearly shows "Page".
While I've not found Rebecca in 1850, or outside of her residence with the Willis's, that does not ring true for Mason and Delitha. The inclusion of all 3 in the 1870 household of McCamey Willis and the shared surname leads me to naturally believe they must have been closely related.
I've found that Mason's age in this census was incredibly incorrect. Mason was an unusual first name for this era, especially for a female. On September 26, 1877, in Cabarrus County, Mason Elisabeth Page married William Alexander Coley, son of Isaiah and Caroline Coley. Both families were from Stanly County. Mason Elisabeth's mother was given as Dilly Page and in the space for father, only dashes were placed. In the place where it indicates whether or not the parent is living or deceased, again, only dashes for father and living for mother.
Mason Elisabeth Page
Marriage Date
Marriage Place
Cabarrus, North Carolina, USA
Dilly Page
William Alexander Colen
Spouse Gender
Spouse Race
Spouse Age
Spouse Father
Isiah Colen
Spouse Mother
Caroline Colen
NameWilliam Alexander Colen
NameMason Elisabeth Page
Mason Elisabeth Page Coley lived a long and traceable life. She went by the nickname "Bettie" and her actual birthdate, as given in other records, was May 2, 1851. She would have been 19 in the 1870 census, not 41, and her mother, Dillie's age was undercut by quite a bit as well.
The Concord Register
(Concord, North Carolina)29 Sep 1877, Sat • Page 4
Her marriage was even announced in the paper, but for some reason, they could not get the surname of her husband, Coley, correct. They also picked up the name of her mother-in-law, Caroline, and gave it to her.
William Alexander Coley was the son of Isaiah Coley and Francis Caroline Honeycutt Coley, the same Isaiah Coley who was the next door neighbor of McCamie Willis and who is named in the above deed from 1855 who was indebted to a number of people and had named Commie as one of his sureties.
Bettie and Alec or "Ellick" had 5 children. She named her firstborn daughter, born August 9, 1878, Rebecca. Was this in honor of Rebecca Page? What relationship was Rebecca to Bettie? The most likely, I believe was Aunt. Rebecca Coley moved to Arkansas and was married 3 times, to Ferguson, Reeves and Lattimore.
Rebecca Coley and husband M C Larrimore
Bettie Page Coley was widowed young and raised her children in Union County, North Carolina. Her other children were:
Daniel 1880,
James M "Jim" 1888
Dillie Lou, named for her mother, 1885
and Roy Jack, 1894
Jim Coley of Union County, later in life.
Bettie died on August 16, 1928 at the age of 77. The informant on her death certificate was her son-in-law, Bright Fletcher Broom, the husband of her daughter Dillie. Dillie Lou obviously knew the name of her own father, Alex Coley, which was given correctly. However, the names of her grandparents were rather confusing. She knew her family's origin was in Stanly County. However, she gave her grandmother's name as Rebecca, not Dillie or Delitha. As her mother's father, she gave the name of Joel Page. There was no Joel Page in Stanly County or any surrounding counties, who could have been the father of Bettie Page Coley. Could her first name have been a clue? Could her father have been a Mason? There was a family of Masons living in Almond Township, Stanly County, during the time she was concieved.
Dillie Lou Coley was the one named for her grandmother. She lived in Waxhaw, Union County and was married twice, to a Helms and to Fletcher Broom.
Dilly Lou Coley and husband Bright Fletcher Broom on their wedding day
She should have remembered her Grandmother, the original "Dillie", as they lived together at one point, and possibly for some time. The original Dillie, aka Delitha or Delilah, was the key to whom the Page women may have been.
Delila Page
Almonds, Stanly, North Carolina, USA
Dempsey Page 57
Macey Page 53
Tedrick Page 21
Wiley Page 18
Delila Page 15
Edmd Page 9
Sally Page 6
Darus Page 3
In 1850, Dillie shows up in the home of Dempsey Page and wife Macey, both in their 50's. They have a family of 6 children. Or could the younger ones have been grandchildren? Macey seems a little old to have been the mother of a 9, 6, and 3 year old. Right next to them was a James Page, a young man of 25, and his young family, who is noted to have been a son of Dempsey Page.
James Page
James Page 25
Lucy Page 27
Emaline Page 4
Elizabeth Page 0
James is found also in the 1860 census. He had a wife named Lucy and 4 children. He served in the Civil War from Cabarrus County.
Home in 1860:Subdivision East of NC RR, Cabarrus, North Carolina
Post Office:Mount Pleasant
Dwelling Number:261
Family Number:261
Occupation:Farm Hand
Personal Estate Value:50
Cannot Read, Write:Y
Lucey Page 37
Emeline Page 14
Elizabeth Page 10
Isabella Page 2
Monroe Page 2/12
James Page had a hard time during the War. He was in and out of the hospital and suffered at various times with "Cattarh" and rhuematism. He spent some time as a Prisoner of War and finally died of disease, at the age of 37 on July 5, 1863. His widow, Mary Ann Lucinda Page, applied for a widow's pension in 1863, with the help of a W. H. Taylor. It was noted that she was "a poor woman."
Mary L Page, born in 1823, married William Taylor Newell on 21 September, 1864. Born in 1798, Mr. Newell was an elderly widower with grown children. After that, both he and MaryAnn Lucinda disappear from records. From 1878 through 1891, his son John, described as his executor, is selling off and redistributing his father's property between siblings and neighbors. No mention is made of Mary Lucy. James and Lucy's two oldest daughters, likewise, disappear from records, but probably were married before 1870. The younger two children, Isabella and James Monroe Page appear in Salem, in Forsyth County. Whether they were sent there to an orphanage and remained in the area, or whether their mother remarried a third time and moved there is unknown. When they appear, they are on their own. Monroe marries a Nancy Cannady, and dies in 1900 of typhoid fever. His widow remarries quickly after. Belle married a George Jackson and has a large family, dying in 1905.
Wiley Page is married in Cabarrus County in 1852. Other than that, he also disappears from record.
In fact, all of Dempsey Page's family has disappeared by 1860, except for Dilly, her younger sister Sarah "Sally" and the youngest boy, Darius Riley Page.
Subdivision East of NC RR, Cabarrus, North Carolina
Cannot Read, Write:
Lydia Page 60
Sally Page 16
Dilly Page 20
Riley Page 13
The younger children are all living in the home of a 60 year old Lydia Page. How was she related to them? Six - year- old Elizabeth Page corresponds with the age of Mason Elizabeth Page, Dilly's daugther.
Dempsey's brother, Sion Page remains in the area. There is a Dempsey Page who marries in Cabarrus to a Melinda Brumley and turns up in Rowan County and serves in the Civil War. In each records, he appears to have been born around 1820. Some people have combined these into one and the same person, but I believe them to be a different Dempsey Page. In fact, there are several Dempsey Pages, of various generations and Sion Pages as well. I believe due to the fact that these were not common names like John or James, that these various Dempsey's and Sion's interconnect somewhere. Maybe 1820 Dempsey was the son, or nephew, of 1798 Dempsey. As for Elizabeth Page, she was a year older than James and may have either been missed, or was working in another household, in 1850.
But something, some disease or disaster, seemed to take Dempsey, his wife Macey, sons Thadrick, Wiley, and Edmund all away between 1852 and 1860. No sign of Wiley's wife, Melinda Hagler Page, is to be found yet at this point, either.
Sarah Lucinda, "Sallie" Page survived. She married J Wesley Burleson and lived her life in Stanly County, raising a large family and passing away in 1924 at the age of 78.
Riley Page appears to have went westward, as many a young man did.
And then there was Dilly. Going backwards, she and her daughter, Mason Elizabeth Page were living with Rebecca Page and the Willis's in 1870.
Dellilah Page
Big Lick, Stanly, North Carolina, USA
Relation to Head of House:
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Birthplace:
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W. Alex Colley 28
Beddie Colley 24
Rebaca Colley 2
Danial Colley 4/12
Dellilah Page 60
In 1880, Dillie, "Delilah" is living with her daughter Bettie, son-in-law Alex and their first two children, Rebecca and Daniel in Big Lick, Stanly County.
Delilah Page
Smith, Cabarrus, North Carolina
Sheet Number:
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation:
Mother: Number of Living Children:
Mother: How Many Children:
Can Read:
Can Write:
Can Speak English:
House Owned or Rented:
Farm or House:
Delilah Page 58
Elizabeth Coley 40
Dillie L Coley 15
James M Coley 12
Roy J Coley 6
Twenty years later, in 1900, Alex has passed away and Delilah and Bettie are living with her 3 youngest children, Dillie, James Monroe and Roy Jack in Cabarrus County. And that is the last of Dilly.
She, a Sarah Page, a Sallie Page and Hessy Newell, daughter of William Taylor Newell, were on the public dole for a dollar a month until at least May of 1900.
Rebaca Page
House Keeper
Rebaca Page 52
And then there is Rebecca Page, who last shows up in the Household of McCamey Willis and Obedience, as their housekeeper, in 1880. Shei is 52 and single. Not widowed, so I believe she never married.
M. Erven Willies
Self (Head)
Spouse's name:
Obideance Willies
M. Erven Willies 62
Obideance Willies 72
Again, they separated the households, but they were not separated. Still dwelling number 316. This is the census in which we learn that Commie's middle name was Ervin or Erven. And this was the last census for them all.
On December 21, 1868, McCamey Willis made application to John Honeycutt, excutor, "for the use or benefit of the homestead law and therefore, I, John Honeycutt, Esquire, proceed to summon B. L. Whitley, T. A. Hathcock, J. T. Honeycutt, 3 Freeholders, to give him the benefit of the same".
This included 118 acres on Stony Run Creek, from the Deberry line to the West Bank of Rocky Branch and meeting Solomon Burris's line. This "Deberry line" that keeps being mentioned has me curious, as no Deberries are seen in the neighborhood. Perhaps there was a tract of land that had belonged to a Deberry, many decades past, and the area just bore his name from then on.
The property of McCamey Willis at this time was listed as 1 Bay Horse valued at $100, A one-horse wagon valued at $10, 3 Head of Cattle, $22.50, 8 head of hogs, "Roughness" $5.00, farming tools, household and kitchen furniture, $40.00, and one Saddle $5, totaling $193.50.
There were several interesting deeds in the 1880's and the same properties are mentioned.
Book 21 Page 249 M. E. Willis to Rebecca Page
For $100, Commie sold to Becky a tract of land on the west side of Rocky Branch and the Deberry line to a stake in the old road, of 110 acres. "which is to be reserved until the death of M. E. Willis and Obedience Willis his wife and then to belong to Rebecca Page".
Witnesses were T. A. and G. R. Hathcock.
Book 21 Page 185 M. E. Willis and others to Jacob A. Morton
M. E. Willis and Obedience, his wife and Rebecca Page, a tract on the Deberry line and Rocky Branch, "in the consideration of the support of their natural lives".
Witnessed by T.A. Hathcock, Ed Smith and Ephraim Burroughs.
Book 14 Page 61 M. E. Willis to the School Committee
17 Oct 1888 to the School Committee Distric 47 for $2, a tract of land adjoining Gideon Greene Burris, one acre for Public School Property, with the exception that when it "becomes uneccessary for Public School Property it returns to me" (McCamey Willis).
Book 21 Page 378
August 9, 1888 Jacob A. Morton to M. E. Willis
Jacob A. Morton of Stanly bound unto M. E. Willis, Obedience Willis and Rebecca Page for $300.
Commie, Obedience and Rebecca had contracted with and agreed to sell to Jacob A Morton the 110 acres on Stony Run Creek adjoining T.A.Hathcock, Ed Smith and Ephraim Burris. In exchange, Morton agreed to "settle and liquidate certian indebitedness of the said M E Willis". The indebitness included $150 that he owed Jackson Hathcock and another amount owed Russell and Cagle, which I take as a business partnership. McCamey went to great trouble to detail the exact terms of the contract. Morton was to keep the 3 of them furnished with provisions for their support "suitable to their condition in life which shall be furnished to them at their place of residence now on the lands conveyed for the term of their natural lives and also to furnish them with the neccessary firewood for said term." Commie made clear in the document, and reiterated it many times, that the trio would be allowed to remain in their home until death took them and that they were to be cared for there, not sent to some facility or poor house as their bodied became frail. "The said M E Willis Obedience Willis and Rebecca Page are allowed to remain in and occupy the dwellings and such outhouses as they may have need for + no more + to cultivate and enjoy any crops they may plant and reap on about 1 1/2 acres near the barn and also the garden, the said Morton argreeing to do the ploughing of said lands and garden + the said Morton is to be allowed to enter the remaining part of said lands". Commie made conditions over a few of the domesticated animals stating that Rebecca Page be allowed to keep her cow, but Commie was to "dispose of his mule as soon as practicable". That must have been one stubborn or one-owner only mule if Morton didn't want it around.
The contract was written on August 9th 1888 and witnesses by James W Efird. It was proved on March 4, 1896.
An older survey of the Commie Willis Cemetery mentioned his stone with a date of death as 1894. It seems to be correct, although we did not locate his stone on this day.
Jake Morton
Jacob Alexander Morton aka "Jake" was born May 11, 1851 and died March 27, 1925 in Oakboro, Stanly County, NC. He was the son of Joseph Calvin Morton and Beadie Malinda Hartsell Morton. He married Julianne Dry and had a large farm family as they did in those days. This family considered themselves of Cherokee descent and Jake's name, of Big Lick, NC is on a list of people who applied for membership to the tribe or government benefits of such, in 1911.
In 1888, when the contract was signed, he would have been 37 years old. In the 1880 census, he and his young family lived near abouts, although not directly around, the Willis place. In 1900, he was not living on this property either. I went back to the deeds to see if I could somewhat trace the ownership of this tract of land. I found a few things and a few other things that made me think.
Obedience Burris Willis appeared in one more deed. It appears she outlived McCamie, but probably not by much.
Book 20 Page 196 January 28, 1895
Obedience Willis to Sallie M. Hathcock
Obedience sold to Sallie Hathcock for $300 a tract of land of 110 acres (sound familiar?) bordering Green Almond, Ed Smith and Ephraim Burris "Known as the Old Solomon Burris Place".
This kind of cements that idea that McCamie and Obedience lived on the exact property that her parents farmed. But what happened to their deal with Jake Morton?
Sallie M. Hathcock, I believe was Sallie Morton Hathcock, widow of Isaiah Hathcock, a son of the Willis's neighbor Lloyd Hathcock.
The day after Sallie bought the land, she flipped it.
Sallie M. Hathcock to Thomas J Jerome
For $150 (half the amount) One half interest in a 110 acres parcel of land adjoining Green Almond, Ed Smith and others known as the Solomon Burris place.
Knowing Jerome was not a native Stanly County name, I looked into who Thomas J Jerome was. The Jeromes landed in Union County, NC from Connecticutt in the mid-1880's. There was one Thomas J Jerome born 1800-1801 noted as Carriage Maker in the 1860 census. There was another Thomas J Jerome, a nephew of the elder one, who was born in Union County in 1859 and died in Greensboro in 1921.
Thomas J Jerome
Publication State:
Residence:
History of the University of North Carolina... / by Kemp P. Battle.
He even attended the University of North Carolina. This was most likely the Jerome who bought the half-interest of the Burris Homeplace from Sallie M Hathcock. Thomas J Jerome was an attorney. He bought and sold land and acted as Trustee. He had many deals in Stanly County. The below article descrbies best who he was.
The Stanly News-Herald
(Albemarle, North Carolina)15 Feb 1921, Tue • Page 1
But I noticed Sallie M. Hathcock had only sold half of the property. So back to the land records to see if I could find out anything about the rest of it, or any mention of Obedience or Becky.
Book 22 Page 228 7 Nov 1898 Sallie M Hathcock to J L Williams
For $100 Sallie sold "3/8 ths of the followig described lands as set apart in a certain decree of Judgement rendered by H R Stanback Judge at Fall Term of Stanly Superior Court in the case of Sallie M. Hathcock vs Jacob A. Morton"
So Sallie sued Jake and obviously prevailed. I've got to get a look at that Court Case. But until then, the land was described as being on the west side of Rocky Branch in the Deberry line containing 110 acres more or less. Same land, and if you notice, Sallie retained just a bit of it.
Obedience Burris Willis's year of death is given as 1901, but she was not showing up in the 1900 census. The status of the land under the trust of T J Jerome was probably not occupied. But Sarah M. Hathcock may have been living on a small portion of it and J. L Williams may have been living on his share. So I looked for who J. L. Williams was in hopes of finding Obedience, and possibly Rebecca Page as well.
J. L. Williams turned out to be Joseph Leander Williams, born 1871 in Union County and died in 1948 in Big Lick, Stanly County. He was living in Big Lick in 1900 and from the neighbors, appeared to be living on this beleagered plot of land, this old Solomon Burris homeplace near Stony Run Creek on the west bank of Rocky Branch, bordering that ancient Deberry line. I sooo want to find out who Deberry was...
But that was not all....
I checked out the neighbors. I found things time after time now by looking for clues. The census takers were not perfect. They made mistakes. The transcribers are not from the areas of documents they transcribe, not familiar with the common names of the area. Bless them for their efforts on trying to read this ancient scrawl. Due to the steep drop in education and rise in illiteracy after the Civil War, the 1900 census is one of the worse. It must have been difficult to find census takers who could actually write on a third grade level in the county. Mostly only the very old or very young could read. So I've learned to look for those errors, like the Page women being transcribed as "POGO" in 1870.
Alot of times, boarders, or people who were not the head of household were listed by first names only, and so their surname, albeit different, was transcribed as being that of the Head of Household. It especially happened with step-children. The father would die and the mother remarry and her older children would be listed only by first name, and end up with the wrong surname in someone's family tree. I've learned to look for things like that. And because of this, I found Obedience.
Her given dates of birth and death, found in many trees, I am not certain of the origins of, perhaps someone with a Family Bible out there somewhere? But she is listed as being born on February 6, 1808 and passing away on April 23, 1901. There is no cause to dispute this. It could be accurate.
Bedie Hathcock
Malinda Hathcock 48
Malinda C Hathcock 73
Francis Hathcock 45
Bedie Hathcock 43
She was living with a family of female Hathcocks neighboring Leander Williams and his family, on the same census page. Her relationship was "Friend". She was a widow. The year of birth - 1807 - was correct compared to all the other census records she appeared in. She was a widow. And the clincher, which was an extremely rare thing in that day and time, she was the mother of Zero children. This census and the 1910 asked how many children a mother had and how many were living. I suppose it was a way to measure child mortality. 43 was a transcription error. It was actually 93, which matches the year of birth of 1807. She was actually 92 going on her Find-a-Grave birthday, but close enough for Rock and Roll. " Beadie" was not a Hathcock. This was Obedience "Beadie" Burris Willis.
The house was headed by a middle-aged Malinda Hathcock. The elderly Malinda C. Hathcock was called her step-mother in the census and Francis her sister.
Remember Sallie M Hathcock who Obedience sold the land to in 1895 and then who sold half of it to Attorney Jerome and then sold 3/8 interest in it to J. L. Williams, but kept a little piece of it for herself? The 48 year old "Malinda" was Sarah M. "Sallie" Hathcock. She was actually Obedience's neice as she was the daughter of Benjamin Franklin Hathcock and Nancy Ann Burris Hathcock, Obedience Burris Willis's sister. Malinda C. Hathcock was Malinda Catherine Yow Hathcock, and she was Sallie M Hathcock's step-mother as the census stated and yes, Francis was her sister.
Sallie M. Hathcock died in 1907 and her step-mother, Katie in 1916. Malinda Catherine Yow Hathcock is buried in the old Hathcock cemetery, which is about a quarter mile from the Commie Willis cemetery.
The one person not accounted for was Rebecca Page. I believe Rebecca Page was deceased before 1900, and most probably before 1895, when Obedience sold the "Old Solomon Burris place" to Sarah Melissa (or Melinda) Hathcock, her niece. As the oldest of the 3, Commie, Rebecca and herself, Obedience had lived the longest.
But the land was not yet through telling its tales. Two more deeds hold interest.
Book 34 Page 552 March 27 1907 Sallie M Hathcock to Morrow Brothers and Heath
C M Dry was the highest bidder for 33 acres in Big Lick also known as the Ben Hathcock place. Proven Jan 4, 1909.
This may have been where the death date of 1907 came from for Sallie M. Hathcock. She did not appear in the 1910 census, although her stepmother, Melinda Catherine Yow Hathcock and her sister Francis still appeared together, most probably in the same place, so this puts Sallie's date of death between 1907 and 1909.
Book 23 488 Year 1899 Thomas J Jerome to J A Morton
A certain tract of land in Big Lick Township, Stanly County.....The interest herein conveyed...same as mentioned in a certain judgement in which Sallie M Hathcock is plaintiff and Jacob A Morton is defendant obtained at Fall Term 1898 Stanly County Superior Court before his honor H. R. Standback, Judge and a Jury, Pages 407 & 408 of the minute docket of said Superior Court...
Beginning at a post oak by a red oak, dogwood and rock corner on the West Side of Rocky Branch in the Deberry line.......
From "These Hallowed Grounds", published by The Stanly County Genealogical Society 2012
Surveryed in October 2005 by Priscilla Clark, Wayne D Burris and Pam Holbrook.
5 marked stones, 14 unmarked stones, 15 other possible graves
After the 4 above pictured stones of Mariann Hathcock, Lee Hathcock, Zenas Burris and Nancy Burris.
__Amey Hathcock
"In 1936 Mrs G. D. B. Reynolds found
Judith Burris b Dec 16, 1795 d. Aug 20, 1841 (Note: Due to the dates of her will, this was probably 1849 misread as 1841).
In 1980 Laton Burris also found:
Canney Willis Died 1894 (The year works, probably actually said Commey Willis)
Benjamin Hathcock born March 13, 1838 Died Oct. 12, 1855
The "Whitley Family History", p. 78, states that Beedy Burris B. Feb 6, 1808 d 1900 is buried here.
(This would be Obedience Burris Willis, daughter of Solomon and Judith Taylor Burris, and wife of Commie Willis, who owned this land, thus the name of the Cemetery.)
Solomon Burris b. 10 Dec 1754 d.21 May 1845
Judith Taylor Burris b. 10 Nov 1766 d. 18 April 1856 and his Wife
Note: Solomon and Judith Taylor Burris were originally buried here. They were both moved to Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemtery in 1939.
Tombstones of Solomon Burris and Judith Taylor Burris
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New Muse ‘Survival’ Is Official London Olympic Games Song – LISTEN
by Paul Cashmere on June 28, 2012
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Muse new song ‘Survival’ is the official song for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
‘Survival’ will be played at sporting sessions at all London 2012 venues during the entire Olympic Games in London as athletes enter the stadium as well as in the lead up to medal ceremonies. It will also be prominent in international broadcasts giving the song real global coverage.
“It’s a huge honor to have the track chosen as such a major part of the London 2012 Olympic Games,” said Muse’s Matt Bellamy. I wrote it with the Games in mind as it expresses a sense of conviction and determination to win.”
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Listen to the song here.
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Songs with Funny Lyrics feat. Led Zeppelin
We have more funny lyrics lined up for you. Rock N Roll is a genre with plenty of funny songs. After all fans don’t always expect song lyrics to be rational and you can sing songs on just about anything. Below are funny songs performed by several rock bands including: Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant.
Songs with Funny Lyrics
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This Aerosmith song is from their 1993 album Get a Grip. It was co-written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, and as the title suggests, it tells you to “eat the rich”. It’s funny, as Aerosmith members were pretty rich by the time this album was released (it was their 11th! And the album saw number one in 2 countries!). Of course I am pretty sure Aerosmith members wouldn’t mind being (metaphorically) eaten up by their fans, despite how rich they got in time.
Sample Song Lyrics:
Eat the Rich: there’s only one thing they’re good for
Eat the Rich: take one bite now – come back for more
Eat the Rich: I gotta get this off my chest
Eat the Rich: take one bite now, spit out the rest
So I called up my headshrinker
And I told him what I’d done
Said you’d best go on a diet
Yeah I hope you have some fun
And a don’t go burst a bubble
On the rich folks who get rude
Cause you won’t get in no trouble
When you eats that kinda food
Now their smokin’ up the junk bonds
And then they go get stiff
And they’re dancin’ in the yacht club
With Muff and Uncle Biff
But there’s one good thing that happens
When you toss your pearls to swine
Their attitudes may taste like shi-t
But go real good with wine
Poor Boy Blues
Written by Poison band members, Poor Boy Blues is an entertaining rock number featured on their number 2 album Flesh & Blood (the band’s third album, released in 1990). Nothing about the song would give you the blues — it is very fun to dance to. And poor does mean poor. Now, the band members were indeed poor when they first started out. In fact, there was a time when they slept at a launderette, and the singer Bret Michaels was dumped for another musician who had more money and a car (oh, this turned into the number 1 hit Every Rose Has Its Thorn, featured on their second and best-selling album Open Up and Say Ahh!, released in 1988.) So I am guessing, they weren’t poor by the time their third album was in the works.
My daddy said
“Son, don’t you come to me cryin’
Cause money don’t make you a happy man”
He said the grass is always greener
Any place except where you stand
He said some are born to win
And some born to lose
And sing them poor boy blues
I’ve lived uptown, downtown
Lord I’ve lived everywhere
Almost drowned in the puddle of my own sweat I swear
I believe it’s due time I get my mansion in ole Bel Air
But I’m still singin’ those poor boy blues
You don’t know how I’m feeling baby
Until you’re wearing my shoes
Sure as I’m standing here
I got them poor boy blues
I might be in the minority, but I have always preferred Robert Plant’s solo work over Led Zeppelin’s. “If I Were a Carpenter” has a very interesting concept, as the singer asks his girl if she would love him, marry him and have his baby “if he were a carpenter, and she were a lady” . I don’t know about the real life carpenters (much), but I know that Harrison Ford would make a career out of it, had he not made it big as an actor. And I really don’t think he would have a problem finding a wife either way.
But Robert Plant is not a carpenter. He is a rocker. And we know how the fans are. Featured on the Robert Plant album Fate of Nations, released in 1993, the song was originally written and recorded by the late American folk singer/songwriter Tim Hardin. If you want the original Hardin version, you can check out his 1967 record Tim Hardin 2.
P.S: Rocker Plant was married, from 1969 to 1983. And he had 3 kids. Would the marriage have worked better if he were a carpenter?
If I were a carpenter, and you were a lady
Would you marry me anyway? would you have my baby?
If a tinker were my trade, would you still find me
Carrying the pots I made – following behind me?
Save my love through loneliness – save my love through sorrow
I give you my only-ness – give me your tomorrow
If I worked my hands in wood, would you still love me?
Answer me, babe: “yes I would – I’d put you above me”
If a miller were my trade, at a mill wheel grinding
Would you miss your colour box – your soft shoes shining
I give you my only-ness – come give me your tomorrow
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After a seven-year hiatus in between projects, DJ Kay Slay returned with the star-studded and diverse The Big Brother (2017), the album debuted in the top 10 on Apple’s Hip-Hop chart and featured collaborations with Kendrick Lamar, 2 Chainz, Rick Ross, Mac Miller, Kevin Gates, Tech9Ne, The Game, Dave East, Fat Joe, Busta Rhymes, Raekwon, Scarface, Jadakiss, Juicy J, Jay Rock, French Montana, E-40 and many, many others.
Similar to Kay Slay’s previous red-carpet events, Hip Hop Frontline is a strictly A-List guest affair, featuring appearances from Lil Wayne, Kevin Gates, Busta Rhymes, Raekwon, Bun B, Dave East, Cee-Lo Green, Moneybagg Yo, Styles P, Jim Jones, Mozzy, Joell Ortiz, The Lox and many other esteemed guests.
Now, Kay Slay is back with a visual for the title track from his recently released album. “Hip Hop Frontline” features Raekwon, Cee-Lo Green and two of Hip- Hop’s forefathers in Grandmaster Caz and Melle Mel.
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Bito Sureiya of nasa8 is probably one of the more unorthodox artists you’ll run into and honestly that I’ve heard over my decade of covering hip-hop. Bito is prolific however it’s one thing to be prolific and stay in one lane, but I think of Bito as a chameleon in hip-hop. Able to blend in with any sound or beat you throw his way (probably because he produces as well).
Through the course of this year it sounds like Bito will be releasing singles and random EPs. Today I have the track “Why Is Hiromi Dead” produced by Jumbled. Between the adlibs, the menacing beat by Jumbled you can’t help but crave more when the short track is finished. Peep it below and keep your ears perked for more by Bito & nasa8.
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Watts: Watts is Lawrence Frederick Watling. Nickname was given to me back in summer camp when I was a teenager on a roller coaster at Hershey Park. I’m originally from Long Island, New York but moved to Philly in 2011 to attend Temple University; besides my stint at Atlantic Records in NYC, I’ve been in Philly ever sinc…
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Fr. David
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Re:How many of the original holy sees remain
Quote from: ania on May 06, 2004, 11:28:54 AM
Why did Constantinople get the works
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Ah...They Might Be Giants. Very cool, ania. Think I'll find the mp3 now.
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Quote from: romanbyzantium on May 06, 2004, 11:52:48 PM
then please explain why is it that you believe things that was not believed by the 2nd century christians.
Such as ...?
Quote from: romanbyzantium on May 07, 2004, 12:05:44 AM
That is not issue at all.
the romanians do share in the roman legacy as a conquered people that were romanized.
So, does that therefore make them Romans?
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They Might Be Giants, one of my favorite bands of all time.
Now where were we? Oh yeah - the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
Brendan03
Yep, they always manage to make me laugh.
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The difference is that rome was never taken over by muslim culture and religion and became a beacon of that civilization.
Kind of like how Rome was taken over-run by the pagan barbarian tribes at the end of the 5th centry?
I still say this dude is a troll. No one is this thick or likes to argue this much over such trivialities.
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Seraphim Reeves
RomanByzantium,
No.. it is very different. Rome still existed when the popes where exiled to france. constantinople no longer exist.
How so. Last time I checked, Constantinople still existed, Orthodox still called it Constantinople. Oh but wait...things have changed, right? It's not the same Constantinople it was say, 1000 years ago. But alas, "Rome" is not the same "Rome" it was 1000 years ago either.
why are we turning this thread into a ponting finger fiasco. I knew that this was going to be done.
I can't stand passive aggressive people.
The slanderers can eat their words - Metropolitan Valentin (ROAC) exhonerated in Russian courtroom!
Not only has the city changed in name but in everything. culture, religion and national origin. it is not only a name change as you say. if it far more than that.
Rome used to be a pagan capital, where most of the hoi poloi spoke Greek, their "betters" spoke Latin, and where a culturally and ethnically semitic Bishop oversaw a growing flock composed of slaves, common folk, members of the Senate, and even members of the Emperor's house.
Does that sound much like the institution situated in the sovereign city state of the Vatican (carved out of a piece of Rome, which is currently the capital of yet another more modern country, Italy, which has gone through many changes in government) which only speaks a language very vaguely resembling Latin, in which almost the entire population is nominally Roman Catholic (though only a minory are regular Church goers)?
This reminds me of your absurd arguments against the East Roman Empire being in fact "Roman." Simply put, you're being a label queen.
JoeZollars
Pray for me an unworthy sinner
First, orthodoxy was never the religion of Rome. orthodoxy was/is the religion of the east NOT the west.
I am not making no exception whatsoever. one city remained christian while the other became a muslim stronghold.
As for your last comment... I highly doubt it. europeans are very concience of what/whom they are.
well, lets look at some demographics. To maintain a steady population, you need a birthrate of 2.1 children per family. Italian families average 1.2 with less than one per family in Rome and the other large cities. Therefore within 50 years Italy will have on average 3 times as many Retirees as workers. They will need to import from somewhere. Other European countries are facing similar problems. Their solution has been to invite millions of Muslims into Europe who reproduce at a rate of about 6-7 children per family. Sad to say, withiin 100 years you will not be able to tell the difference between the cultures of italy, spain and france on one hand and Syria, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia on the other. Numbers don't lie man.
Joe Zollars
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« Last Edit: May 07, 2004, 12:41:25 PM by Schultz »
Quote from: Schultz on May 07, 2004, 12:17:41 PM
This is my hypothesis as well.
hehe! I gotta remember that quote for next semester!
Orthodoc
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Those who ignore history tend to repeat it.
As it is mine! This person is not interested in dialogue just getting in the last word.
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Quote from: Orthodoc on May 07, 2004, 01:17:24 PM
Wow, Orthodoc. If that's what qualifies as a troll, then I know lots of 'em. Here in the middle of Reformation-Land, we're always disagreeing over trivialities and I'm always wrong, since I'm a 'lapsed' Protestant.
I like to think of myself as a Protestant in the truest sense of the word, though: I've protested the excesses of Rome by returning to the Apostolic Church.
Arise, O God! Judge the earth, for to Thee belong all the nations!
lol! welcome to the club Josh! I like to think of myself as being a Reformer--Reforming my life and theology to be in line and in the Orthodox Church.
But seriously, what we are talking about in regards to RB is simply that all he does is come here, post something totally off the wall with no basis in fact, insult anyone who disagrees with him, hurl a few slanders around, and generally refuse to answer points made against his argument. For instance in one of his posts on the first page of this thread, he said it should no longer be called "Patriarch of Antioch" because the patriarch resides in Damascas. Then when someone pointed out that this argument was false because for a lenghty period of time the "pope" of Rome was in Avingnon and not in Rome. Then instead of changing his position, he brings in Istanbull out of the woodwork to try and make some other point and hurl some more insults.
Add this to his earlier trackrecord (i.e. bragging that he was recieving communion in Orthodox Churches he attended with his cousins by marriage and not telling the Priest he is not Orthodox, etc. ) leads many of us to believe he is a troll.
I normally don't like being so blunt, but thems the facts as this reporter sees em.
I know what you're talking about, Joe. I've realized that same thing myself.
Whaddaya say we go troll-hunting?
romanbyzantium
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Quote from: JoeZollars on May 07, 2004, 04:41:02 PM
Point to constantinople on a map for me Joe?
I insult people!!!!!!!! who are the ones calling people names? you guys are acting like protestants and jews.
sure shutlz... but one remain christian while the other was destroyed, renamed and to this day is a muslim stronghold.
why are you guys getting so defensive?
Quote from: Seraphim Reeves on May 07, 2004, 12:23:28 PM
RomanByzantium,How so. Last time I checked, Constantinople still existed, Orthodox still called it Constantinople. Oh but wait...things have changed, right? It's not the same Constantinople it was say, 1000 years ago. But alas, "Rome" is not the same "Rome" it was 1000 years ago either. :)I can't stand passive aggressive people.
really constantinople still exist? point it to me on a map.
rome exists...........constantinople does not. that is the difference. oh wait, New york is really new amsterdam. NOT!!!!
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RB,
I still contend that your entire argument, if it is based solely on names (as you seem to imply by your posts), is utterly laughable...stupid, to the layman. If you seriously think, for example, that my mom became a different entity by changing her name on her new US passport (upon being naturalised) from what it was on her Green Card, then I give up, I really do.
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Oh you Greeks, you are all dumb!
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RomanByzantium,Rome used to be a pagan capital, where most of the hoi poloi spoke Greek, their "betters" spoke Latin, and where a culturally and ethnically semitic Bishop oversaw a growing flock composed of slaves, common folk, members of the Senate, and even members of the Emperor's house.
That is right seraphin.... ROME was pagan and turned christian and it still remains. I wish that I could say the same for constantinople. If you wish to reminisce about constantinople.... who am I to argue.
easter empire was roman until it became hellinized. it is in the books.
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sure.. anthing that rocks your boat is dismissed. reminds me of the jews. oh well that is another thread.
Are you an anti-Semite or something?
Quote from: Mor Ephrem on May 07, 2004, 05:47:28 PM
It is not only name. It is religion, people and culture. it is a muslim city in a muslim country.
Do you believe that NEW YORK is really New Amsterdam? please answer this question for me?
It's the same territory, isn't it? The name has changed, but it's still where it used to be.
And, since you're big on this whole culture thing, I'd appreciate it if you would go through the differences between English and Dutch cultures at the time when control of the area changed hands. I honestly don't know much about this, and my (perhaps ignorant) guess would ordinarily be that, aside from language and denomination, it's basically the same culture.
to the protestants and jews............. I am .
It is not the same culture nor are they the same people. The dutch and english are very different people's.
do you believe greek and russian cultures and people are the same?
MsGuided
Pharmakolytria
Personally, I think you guys are taking this a little far, but I'm very willing to be corrected as I'm no scholar.
New Amsterdam, as far as I know, was not a major place of authority and reverence to the Church. Hence, its name change can be tolerated and accepted. But when something happens to a centrally Orthodox city like Constantinople, it would make sense that the people would try their hardest to maintain its originality, even if it has changed. The least they can do is call it by its original proper name, a name dear to them, instead of a somewhat "desacrated" name. (I'm bad at history, so I don't know precisely what happened, I'm just assuming its something bad that lead to Constantinople becoming Istanbul.)
But of course, this is just what I can reason out.
"Forgive me that great love leads me to talking nonsense." Barsanuphius
Quote from: MsGuided on May 07, 2004, 06:05:27 PM
Yeah... the Muslim conquerors did what all conquerors do. They destroy, rename, introduce their religion and culture until very little of the old remains. This is how constantinople became Instabul.
All the great empires( spanish, english, romans, etc) have done it. The Romans did it to all the people that they conquered.
Greeks are from the Mediterranean, Russians are farther north, their languages are different, etc., etc. To me, all these things caused them to develop differently, and so they are different cultures.
The Dutch and the English, however, are inhabitants of lands in the same general vicinity, share a common religion (Protestantism, if I'm not mistaken), and their languages (again, if I'm not mistaken) may be related. If this is true, then I would think they are more alike than different. I readily grant that I might be wrong on this, but as I said, I don't know, and was hoping you'd tell me more than "yeah, they're different".
Don't ever tell an Englishman that his culture and religion and similar to the Dutch.
Spain, france, italy greece, middle east are all from the mediterranean and look at how different culturally they are.
[I like to think of myself as a Protestant in the truest sense of the word, though: I've protested the excesses of Rome by returning to the Apostolic Church.
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All of which makes you "A CATHOLIC NOT IN COMMUNION WITH ROME" in more ways than one!
I personally see more similarity than difference in the cultures of Spain, France, and Italy as one group, Greece and the Middle East as another group, and the English and Dutch and whoever else should be in there as yet a third group. But I will cease pushing the culture point, since I'm not very well versed on the history and cultures of the peoples of Europe, and even if I was, I doubt you'd agree.
Anyway, you are not really addressing the issue. You start with the fact that the names are different, and when that is shown to be a useless basis on which to claim that the entities are different, you go into the whole culture thing. For me, this is all about land. Furthermore, it seems like you mistakenly believe that Orthodox completely do not accept "Istanbul" as a reality. I think they do, but they refer to their EP as that of Constantinople. Why that is a problem for you, a member of a Church which still appoints men to be auxiliary bishops of existing dioceses and gives them the titles of sees which have been defunct for hundreds of years, and canonically enjoins them to offer the Mass on occasion for the welfare of their "diocese", is beyond me.
Orthodoc,
you are so resentful of Rome.
Thanks for that lesson, since I wasn't sure what had happened.
But can you tell me, did the point I was making make any sense to you? That's the meat of what I was addressing.
I am the only one addressing the issue here. You guys haven't shown it to be useless.. of course you guys are going to say that.
As you can see the names are different for a purpose. conquerors do that and we all know what that purpose is. we are not discussing a name change within a christian context but of one of fundemantality different religion and culture.
Nor did I say that it was a name change alone, but a city that doesn't longer exists and then I gave you the facts that supporst this claim.
If the roman church does the same please provide me with an example. and if they do then they too are in denial.
http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/lt.html
I'd like you to tell me how many of these places actually exist (in the way you define existence) today, RB. Thanks.
I understand what you are saying. But we need to look at reality in the face and accept it.
The palestianians must accept that Israel exists today as she did centuries ago. Calling Israel palestine will not change one iota of the reality of the situation.
When I went to mexico and south america 2 years ago..... I didn't refer to mexico as New Spain or Colombia as New Granada.
choose a country for me?
show me one see that is defunct as you say?
lets concentrate on europe since the rest of the world was evangelized by the roman church and she created their traditional hierarchies. also, lets not forget that most of europe was roman catholic.
Look at this one from the hierarchy in turkey. Look at the name below.
Archeparchy of Istanbul (Armenian)
http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/disar.html
I sent you the list of titular sees, RB...all of them are defunct, that's the point. But, here's one:
http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d4c39.html
I note that the diocese you cited is a currently operating diocese, and not a titular see, which is what I am talking about, but your example is also good. I notice that, while the diocese you cite is called, in English, the Archeparchy of Istanbul (Armenian), in Latin, it is called Constantinopolitanus Armenorum. Surely the language which gave us Archidioecesis Neo-Eboracensis for the Archdiocese of New York is smart enough to give us a latinised form of Istanbul, isn't it? Why stick to a name of the past, which has been supplanted by conquerors of another religion and culture?
lets see the definition of defunct:
1. not operating now: no longer operative, valid, or functional
2. dead: no longer alive or in existence
From where do you get the information that all those in latin america and western euorpe are defunct when these are heavily catholic areas?
Umm... You are aware that the catholic faith was in the americas long before the english came and even within those protestant colonies. we are still talking about christians here not another foreign religion.
and for your last comment they should change it. remember the reminiscing i told you about.
also, what is a titular bishop and how are they different? and how do you know if they are defunct? where does it say that?
also, i read somewhere that istanbul is turkish name for byzantium and not constantinople.
But, I got this from the catholic encyclopedia.
Thus was granted the sacrilegious prayer of so many Greeks, blinded by unreasoning hate, that henceforth, not the tiara, but the turban should rule in the city of Constantine. Even the name of the city was changed. The Turks call it officially (in Arabic) Der-es-Saadet, Door of Happiness, or (chiefly on coins) Konstantinieh. Their usual name for it is Stamboul, or rather Istamboul, a corruption of the Greek expression eis ten polin (pronounced stimboli), perhaps under the influence of a form, Islamboul, which could pass for "the city of Islam". Most of the churches, like St. Sophia, were gradually converted into mosques. This was the fate of SS. Sergius and Bacchus -- a beautiful monument built by Justinian, commonly called "the little St. Sophia"; of the church of the monastery of Khora, whose splendid mosaics and pictures, mostly of the fourteenth century, are among the principal curiosities of the city; of the churches of the celebrated Pantocrator and Studium monasteries, etc. Other churches were demolished and replaced by various buildings; thus the church of the Holy Apostles gave way to the great mosque built by the conquering Sultan Mohammed II. The imperial tombs in this church were violated; some of their gigantic red porphyry sarcophagi were taken to the church of St. Irene. The latter is the only church taken from the Greeks that has not been changed into a mosque or demolished; it became, and is yet an arsenal, or rather a museum of ancient weapons.
because you are insulting us and our homeland.
BTW, get a clue. Istanbul is Constantinople as pronounced by Arabs.
Actually, somewhat specialize in this area of history. That halph of hte empire always spoke greek, except for a few elite who only spoke Latin while with other elite or in Rome. Ceaser himself spoke greek when at school in Athens. Sorry, but history confirms that Greece was never non-Greek (or non-hellenic if you prefer such terms).
BTW, just how many people in Rome today are Christian? right. Once again your utterly illogical argument falls flat.
Noone here is against inteligent well thought out conversation, even heated ones. Draw your own conclusions as to what that makes your diatribes you delve into much to the detriment of the forum.
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Open bites in a Saudi Arabian subpopulation presenting for orthodontic treatment: A retrospective study from Najran province
Bandar Alyami, Ramat Oyebunmi Braimah, Salem Almoammar, Mahmoud Omar Ibrahim
October-December 2019, 10(4):147-151
DOI:10.4103/ijor.ijor_30_19
Background: Open bite (OB) is a vertical malocclusion and is considered the most challenging malocclusion to manage. The aim of this study was to find out the prevalence and describe the pattern of OB among patients presenting for orthodontic treatment. Materials and Methods: Three hundred and twenty-six male and female patients who were presenting for orthodontic treatment of dental malocclusion were retrospectively reviewed. They were screened with cephalometric X-rays. Demographics and type of OBs were retrieved. Data were stored and analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics for IOS Version 25 (Armonk, NY, USA: IBM Corp). Results: Of the 326 cases who presented for the management of different types of malocclusion, 78 (23.9%) had OB. There were 23 (29.5%) males and 55 (70.5%) females with an M: F ratio of 1:2.4. Age ranged from 9 to 40 years with mean ± standard deviation (19.5 ± 6.9). Most of the patients (33, 42.4%) were cases of anterior OB (AOB), 20 (25.6%) were cases of posterior OB (POB), while 25 (32.0%) cases were combined OB (COB). Bulk of the patients had Class I molar relationship (42, 53.8%). Six (7.7%) patients reported being involved in oral habits. Conclusion: A high prevalence of 42.4% of AOB, 25.6% of POB, and 32.0% for COB was reported. A population-based study is required in Najran province among preschool and early school children.
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Oil pulling as an adjunct to improve oral health in orthodontic patients: A clinicomicrobial study
Shweta Abhijit Kolhe, Sheetal Patani, Nitin Gulve, Rakesh Pawar, Sumit V Dhope, Harshal Gajeshwar
Introduction: Oil pulling is an Indian folk remedy with both systemic and dental benefits ranging from the strengthening of teeth, gums and jaws, preventing decay, oral malodor, and bleeding gums. However, there are limited scientific data illustrating the role of oil pulling as an adjunct to improve the oral health in orthodontic patients. Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of oil pulling with sesame oil to improve oral health in orthodontic patients as compared to chlorhexidine (CHX) mouth wash. Settings and Design: Twenty patients undergoing fixed orthodontic treatment were randomly selected. They were divided randomly into the study or oil pulling group and the control or CHX group with ten subjects in each group. Methods and Material: Colony-forming unit counts of bacteria were assessed at baseline and after 14 days. Furthermore, patient acceptance from either group was evaluated using a questionnaire. Conclusion: The oil pulling therapy showed a reduction in total colony counts of aerobic microorganisms in the patients undergoing fixed orthodontic treatment.
Cheiloscopy: Association of lip prints in different skeletal malocclusions
Srishti Aditi, Tripti Tikku, Rohit Khanna, RP Maurya, Sneh Lata Verma, Kamna Srivastava, Anshul Srivastava
Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the association between lip print pattern and different types of skeletal malocclusion. Materials and Methods: A sample of 60 individuals (18–30 years old) with skeletal Class I, Class II Division 1, Class II Division 2, and Class III malocclusion as confirmed by Angle between point A and point B. angle were taken for the study and were named as Groups I, II, III, and IV, respectively. Lip print was recorded by lipstick-paper method and was classified according to Tsuchihashi classification as Type I, Type I', Type II, Type III, Type IV, Type V. Results: It was seen that partial vertical groove (PVG) lip pattern was most prevalent for all the groups. In skeletal Class I, PVG lip pattern was most prevalent, whereas in skeletal Class II Division 1, intersecting groove, in skeletal Class II Division 2, PVG, and in skeletal Class III, complete vertical groove were prevalent. The difference between the four malocclusion groups of each type of lip print was significant except for Type II. Conclusion: Lip print will help in sorting out participants in more reliable manner in cases of mass disaster or criminal investigations. Furthermore, they help in predicting type of malocclusion beforehand for the successful execution of preventive and interceptive orthodontic procedures.
Bite force - What we should know: A literature review
Talat Hasan Al-Gunaid
Ultimate and balanced occlusion is an inevitable result of harmony and consistency between the upper and lower jaws, teeth, temporomandibular joint, and muscular system. The magnitude of bite force reflects this coordination positively. For many researchers, maximum bite force has been a topic of interest, and several studies have been conducted to determine the relationship between maximum bite force and various parameters. These include facial morphology, age, sex, body mass index, temporomandibular disorders, occlusion, and orthodontic and orthognathic surgery treatments. The purpose of this review is to provide the reader with a thorough overview of the literature and highlight the possible impacts of certain factors that might affect the maximum bite force.
Assessment and correlation of the position and orientation of the hyoid bone in Class I, Class II, and Class III Malocclusions
Aishwarya Prashant Gundawar, Deven Mahesh Rawlani, Amol S Patil, Anand Sabane
Objective: This study aims to examine and correlate the position and orientation of the hyoid bone in Class I, Class II and Class III malocclusions. Materials and Methods: A total of 90 pretreatment digital lateral cephalograms were chosen in accordance with the established criteria and categorized into three groups, namely: Class I (n = 30), Class II (n = 37), and Class III (n = 23) malocclusions. The lateral cephalograms were traced and various linear and angular parameters such as MPH, H-NL, H-Go, H-Me, H-FH, H-C3, NSH, and H-NL were measured. The standard deviation and arithmetic mean values were computed for every measurement, after which independent t-test was conducted to study the variations between the skeletal classes of malocclusions. Results: The linear measurements of H-Me and H-C3 were found to be statistically significant. The angular measurements of SNA and ANB were also statistically significant and indicated the dissimilarities in the different classes of malocclusions. The anteroposterior position of hyoid bone was established, but the superoinferior positioning was found to be statistically insignificant. Conclusion: A significant difference occurs in the position and orientation of Hyoid Bone in relation to its surrounding structures in Class I, II, and III malocclusions. The hyoid bone is more anteriorly placed in Class III malocclusions than Class II which is more posteriorly placed. The superoinferior positioning of hyoid bone was found to be statistically insignificant in this study.
Rapid maxillary expansion in a pseudo Class III malocclusion with blocked out maxillary canines
Vanashree Vilas Takane, Kanhoba Mahabaleshwar Keluskar, Siddharth Shirsat, Ganesh Prasad Shetty
A major factor determining if early correction of an anterior crossbite will be stable is the achievement of a positive overbite. A clinician should avoid extracting maxillary teeth in Class III cases to contain the forward growth of the mandible. This article presents a case report of a pseudo Class III patient with anterior crossbite and maxillary blocked out canines, based on the best available evidence. We hereby propose a combination of rapid maxillary expansion with 2 × 4 appliance to provide a predictable and effective approach to managing pseudo Class III treatment with blocked out canines (moderate crowding) that were once considered implausible. A clinician should avoid extracting maxillary teeth in Class III cases to contain the forward growth of the mandible.
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Correction of bilaterally rotated premolars in bilateral cleft lip and palate patients: An innovative approach
Deepak Chauhan, Sanjeev Datana, Vishvaroop Nagpal, SS Agarwal, Varun Govindraj
Maxillary hypoplasia is a constant feature among patients with cleft lip and palate (CLP), more pronounced in sagittal and transverse dimensions. Transverse maxillary deficiency is first addressed using various expansion appliances. Due to the excessive scarring on the palatal tissue, there is a high chance of relapse of the expansion achieved, and the challenge is to hold the results achieved. Palatal arch holding appliance is commonly used to prevent relapse and to maintain the achieved expansion. Management of difficult cases like bilateral CLP (BCLP) demands speeding up the pace of treatment by innovations in the appliance structures or treatment procedures to shorten the treatment period. This article attempts to address the reduction in the total treatment time in BCLP patients with a clinical modification of conventional treatment modality.
Klippel–Feil syndrome: A rare case and its management
Vinni Arora, Rekha Sharma, Mehak Bansal, Dhiraj Garg
A relatively smaller number of orthodontic patients are affected by known craniofacial anomalies that affect oral and dental tissues. The greatest advantage in knowing that a patient has a particular syndrome is that it allows a much better prediction of future development that might happen in such individual and necessary precautions to be taken while management of these cases. This case report provides features of a patient with Klippel–Feil syndrome and orthosurgical management of an adult male to effectively improve patient esthetics and function.
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Steam Contracting in Orwell
An Article by Clive Flack
Number 17 and 17A Fisher's Lane, Orwell are modern brick and slate construction private dwellings. Quite a few people remember that where they now stand was previously a yard from which operated a hay and straw business.
My Grandfather, Sidney Alfred Flack
Not so many remember its links with Steam! Up to the late 1960's the yard was still home to several sets of threshing tackle. Previous to this the yard was a thriving Steam Contracting yard owned by my late Grandfather Sidney Alfred Flack, seen left, who at one point had operated 6 sets of threshing tackle and two sets of Ploughing tackle. These are the few facts from the Registration Books and as I know them! Sadly most of the Steam Traction and Ploughing Engines were scrapped in the mid to late 1940's.
Burrell and Fowler Ploughing Engines
Engine number 2890
Some of the engines owned by Grandfather, would have been rare examples had they survived. Amongst these engines were a pair of Burrell Single Crank Compound 16.n.h.p. Universal Side Drum Ploughing Engines numbers 2889, CE 8732 and 2890, CE 8731 built by Charles Burrell of Thetford in 1907 (and registered first to my Great Grandfather George Flack), and a early pair of Fowler Single Cylinder Ploughing Engines numbers 2669, NO 2671, and 2670, NO 2672, converted to Goodes Patent Tandem Compounds by Goode's Agricultural Engineers of Royston, Hertfordshire. Unfortunately the Burrell Side Drums had outlived their useful life by 1939 when they were scrapped and the Fowler-Goodes followed the same fate in 1940. A matched pair of Fowler 8 n.h.p. Single cylinder Ploughing Engines Numbers 3364 and 3368 of 1877 owned by Great Grandfather in 1916 having been purchased from William Reynolds of Bedford were sold to John W. Desborough & Sons from Wiggenhall, St Mary Magdalen, Norfolk in 1918. Thought to be registered as AH 5499 & AH 5500 and were new in 1877 to Collinson Hall, South Weald, Essex.
One pair of Fowler Ploughing Engines survived until 1950
One pair of Fowler Ploughing Engines survived until 1950, as did the two of the Threshing Engines, One being Burrell 6nhp Single Crank Compound engine Traction Engine Reg. No. CF 3397, which was last used in 1951. The registration book records this engine as weighing 9 tons and the previous owner as Geo. Herbert Squirrell, Hitchham, Ipswich in 1939.
Marshall Traction Engines
A Marshall traction Engine No. 39442 Reg. No. CE 7871, a 7h.p. single cylinder engine shown as weighing 9 tons 15 cwt in the registration book for 1942. This engine was new to Thurlows in 1903 and sold to James Parish in Haverhill, she went back to Thurlows in 1904 and was sold to A. V. Coleville of Shelford and was sold to S. A. Flack in 1928 where she was known as 'Tom Thumb', she was last taxed in 1948 and suffered the same fate as the Burrell Side Drums when she was sold to Richard Duce for Scrap in 1952.
Marshall 23804
Marshall 23804, an 8 h.p. single cylinder of 1894, was new to a Mr. Cox and sold to George Flack in 1904 where she remained until sold in 1920/21 to T.B. Kitchener of Potton when she was registered as NM 191. She was then sold to Taylor's of Redbourn in 1927 and then to Savages of Risely, Beds where she remained until 1952.
Clayton & Shuttleworth Compound Traction Engine
engine was mostly used on a saw bench
Engine number 47048
The only surviving engine that I know actually worked from the yard is the Clayton & Shuttleworth 6 n.h.p. Compound Traction Engine Number 47048 Reg. No. CE 7685 Built in 1914 and supplied new to Cambridge County Council, which was hired from Yeoman's; this engine was mostly used on a saw bench because of its narrow rear wheels, it was not particularly good in muddy rick yard conditions. The Clayton was some years ago owned by Frank Smith in Lincolnshire. 47048 now resides north of the border and is now known as 'Red Admiral.'
Fowell Agricultural Traction Engines
It is recorded that Grandfather owned no less than three Fowell Agricultural Traction Engines.
Two of these were Fowell number 53 (built for Hodge Bros, Bluntisham, registration number TE8HP, delivered new in June 1891. Grandfather purchased her in 1929) and Fowell number 85 (built for S Morbey, Soham Cambs in 1898, Registration number EB 2833; she was sold by 1921 to J F Alderman of Thorney, Ely, and then again in 1926 to J H Ogden, March; in 1937 she was sold to S A Flack, Orwell, Cambs. In 1941/2 she was scrapped).
95 with left, Pop Robinson, on engine, Tommy Disbury
95 in Ventrees Farm, Cherry Hinton
Grandfather also owned Fowell number 95 a 7nhp agricultural engine, Built for Hodge Bros, Bluntisham, Hunts, delivered 25 Jul 1906 Registration number EW 2347. SA Flack bought her in 1936 and she was sold for scrap in 1952 to Richard Duce, Cambridge.
One Burrell and three Fowlers
Four other registration books showing ownership by Sidney Alfred Flack survive. These show Burrell No. 2324, a 7nhp Single Crank Compound Agricultural Engine Reg. No. CE 8370 recorded as weighing 9 tons 9 cwt, which was new to G. Peters of Orwell on 27th September 1900, (My father, Esmond Flack, told me that Mr. Peters once advanced a loan of £500 to Grandfather to purchase more equipment in the hope that he would get first call when his fields were ready for cultivation.) Fowler Reg. No. NK 1131 10 tons 10 cwt; Fowler 7959 Reg. No. NK 1176 8 tons previous owner Richard Gauldie, Hertfordshire and Fowler Ploughing Engine No. 3048 Reg. No. CE 7697 13 tons previous owner Messrs. Pamplin Bros. Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, although shown as Pamplins Steam Rolling Company in Thurlows records! This interesting pair of Single Cylinder Ploughing Engines 3048, CE 7697 and 3049, CE 7698, were new in 1876 to Henry and Charles Roberts of Haynes, Bedfordshire and later converted to Single Crank Compound Engines by Burrell's of Thetford. They came to Orwell on 13.2.41 via Thurlows. It was recorded that they came with a 6 furrow plough, cultivator and water cart. It is thought that 3048 was scrapped in 1948 and 3049 survived until 1957 as a soil sterilization boiler at Day & Sons, Gamlingay Nurseries, Nr Sandy Bedfordshire.
Family succession in S.A. Flack & Son
Grandmother Maude Flack continued the business
After Grandfather's death at the age of 65 on the 23rd November 1946 my Grandmother Maude Flack continued the business of S.A. Flack & Son. My Father, Esmond, who at that time was working at Cobbs Wood Farm, which the family rented from Wimpole Estate, left the farm to help my Grandmother run the business from Ivy House, Fisher's Lane. My Uncle Sidney Oliver Flack, known as Olley, although involved in the running of S.A. Flack & Son remained at the Farm as the winter corn had already been planted. The Tenancy of the farm ended after harvest in 1947. S.A. Flack & Son continued to work as agricultural contractors specializing in threshing, baling and chaff cutting for a few years until my uncle Olley and father decided to go their separate ways.
My uncle had by now returned to live at the old Red Lion in the High Street and was hauling hay & straw for John Innes & Co. My father decided to carry on with the contracting business, the major part of the work undertaken at this time was still threshing, baling, chaff cutting and later combining. At this time typical charges for this type of work was: Threshing at a cost of £2.00 hour, Baling (behind the threshing drum) £2.00 per ton. Combining was also undertaken at £4.00 per hour.
Selling Hay & Straw to Billy Smart's Circus
Early in 1965 father registered his business as Esmond Flack Limited. By this time the company was primarily involved with the baling and supply of hay & straw to Farms, Riding establishments, Racing Studs and Racing Stables. For several years one of the more unusual contracts was the supply of Hay & Straw to Billy Smart's Circus, this involved delivering to the Circus wherever they happened to be
This involved delivering hay and straw to the circus wherever they happened to be as well as regular deliveries to their headquarters and zoo near Windsor. Also in the early part of the 1960's another regular customer was Townsend, Hook & Co in Kent who purchased straw for the manufacture of paper. Good dry baled straw at this time was delivered for 5 guineas per ton, a typical lorry carrying a net load of 5 tons. The last job of commercial threshing of corn, by Esmond Flack Limited, took place in Dunton, Bedfordshire in February of 1966. My Grandmother, who had always been an active partner in the running of the steam contracting business, Maude Flack died on 8th February 1976. Esmond Flack Ltd continued trading as a Hay & Straw Merchant and Haulage Contractor until November 1988.
Marshall Threshing Drum
A Marshall "SM class" Threshing Drum operated by my father survives at The National Trust Home Farm, Wimpole. I would be grateful to hear from anyone who might have photographs or further knowledge of Grandfathers Engines or indeed from anyone who could correct any details I might have wrong!
A Tribute: Steam is a bug that gets in the blood and bites!
The author and Fowler 15451
For my own part I do not really know how I got the 'Steam Bug' perhaps it was growing up with a yard full of redundant threshing tackle or the photograph of my Aunt Connie with the Goode Tandems in the background discovered in my Grandmother's bureau. My Father, although he did catching mice amongst the noise and bustle
nothing to discourage my interest, painted a bleaker picture by telling me stories of cleaning smoke boxes and fireboxes, gritting the snow covered hill with sand on a bitterly cold winter's day and of the dust and chaff and sweat whilst threshing! I can remember going with him as a youngster and spending my time catching mice amongst the noise and bustle of the threshing gang.
By the time I went to secondary school the bug had truly bitten me, sneaking away from lessons to Howe's Farm, Bassingbourn where to my great delight I discovered Aveling and Porter Road Roller 10906. It was in fact the headmaster, the late Pat Thorne, who had told me she was there. My interest in Steam was much encouraged at school by Pat Thorne, Mike Lowe, Dave Billings and the late Harold Aldridge.
More encouragement!
Charles had a collection of no fewer than 22 Engines
By this time I had been introduced to Charles Roads who at that time had a large collection of Fowler Ploughing Engines in his yard at Orwell, less than half a mile away from home! It was in my early teens I became the youngest member of the 'Orwell Steam Ploughing Company' spending much of my time at the yard, at local events, at rallies or up and down the country bringing yet another engine back to the yard. At one point during this time Charles had a collection of no fewer than 22 Engines and misc. ploughing tackle. Much is owed to Charles Roads who, now Chairman of the Steam Ploughing Club, has introduced me to so many good friends in the Steam World.
Memories of the Orwell Steam Contracting Yard
I have wonderful memories of the time spent at the Orwell yard with Charles, Mike Goodman, Jon Bush, the late Sid Kitson and the late Harry Gifford to name but a few. At rallies I was lucky to form friendships and spend time with the late Peter Coulson and his lovely family, and the late Alec Ibbott. Roxton Park Rally was instrumental to forming many wonderful ongoing friendships, Paul and Lynn Worbey, and too many others to mention by name. I was fortunate enough to be introduced to the late Geoffrey Wheeler and his wonderful family and spent much time in his company at his lovely home in Penn, High Wycombe and on the rally field.
Cambridge Midsummer fair
Charles's interest in Foden lorries led to Cambridge Midsummer fair and of course the late Steve Neville and Burrell 3886 Lord Lascelles. I was fortunate enough to spend the weekend of my 21st birthday at the Essex showground in the company of this legendary pair!
Passing on my passion for Steam
Later years found me in the company of Dave Piggott and 'Spider' Much is owed to Dave and his family and of course, John and Sylvie Mann who have done so much to help me encourage my children to become interested in steam. Emma and Michael who have indulged, if not always shared, their father's passion over the years. But now I find my passion matched by Richie who has a love of anything mechanical especially Steam Traction Engines and Trains! Last but not least my thanks to my partner, Jacqui, without whose support I could no longer indulge my passion in Steam.
© Clive Flack 2006
This page was added by Martin Grigor on 17/10/2012.
We now know that Clayton & Shuttlewoth Traction Engine No. 47048 was new to James Russell, Manor Farm, Bassingbourn, Nr. Royston, Hertfordshire on 23rd October 1914 and not C.C.C. as previously believed.
By Clive R Flack
Malton Farm
Manor Farm, Town Green Road
Meadowcroft Farm, formerly Town Farm, and the original Town Farm now Meadowcroft Cottage.
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Mandalay the last capital of the Myanmar Kings, is located in the Central Myanmar, 668 km north of Yangon.
Today it’s the second largest city with rich cultural heritage.
It’s also the commercial center with rail, road, river and air links to all parts of the country.
Mandalay is best known not only for it's rich traditional, cultural and spiritual splendor but also exquisite handicraft such as hand-woven embroidery in silk and cotton, the incredible process of making gold leaves. wood and stone carving and bronze casting etc.
There are several ancient capitals around Mandalay such as Amapura, Sagaing, Ava, Mingun where Kongbiung dynasty kings established their capitals respectively.
To recovered the main highlight site it’s need 1 or 2 night stop.
11 km south of Mandalay is the town of Amarapura (City of Immortality).
It was the capital of Konbang Dynasty at 18th century.
It lies on the left bank of the Irrawaddy River.
This town is famous of silk and cotton weaving even it’s also know as the weaving town.
Place of interest are Pahtodawgyi Pagoda, U bein bridge (1.2km) longest wooden brigde in Myanmar, Mahagandayone Monastery and Kyauktawgyi Pagoda.
Ava ( Inwa)
Inwa, located across Myit Nge River about 20 kilometers southwest of Mandalay is the capital of Burmese Kingdom for nearly 400 years.
All the major Buildings, which were not destroyed during the earthquake of 1838, had been transferred first to Amarapura and then to Mandalay however the 88 feet high watchtower known as the "leaning tower of Ava" and Bargaya teak monastery which is famous for it's teak pillars amounting to 267 in total are still to be seen today.
Once an ancient, Sagaing lies 21 km south-west of Mandalay on the west bank of the Ayeyarwaey River.
Sagaing is known as a meditation centre. "A living center of Buddhist faith" lies across Ayeyarwaddy River is an important religious center with some 600 Buddhist pagodas, temples and monasteries.
MINGUN
Located across majestic Ayeyarwaddy River approximately 12 kilometer north of Mandalay.
Mingun today host the world second largest ringing. Bell of 90 tons in weight and unfinished pagoda to go with it.
Mingun payagyi was dedicated to be the world largest monument however which today stood to be the world largest brick pile.
It is reached by ferry boats across the river and takes 1 hour for up-river.
A boat trip to Mingun is pleasant with plenty of life on the river to see.
Monywa is situated about 136km to the west of Mandalay.
It’s also the commercial center.
A picturesque town on the Chinewin River, Monywa is known as a typical unspoilt Myanmar town and it is only a three hours drive from Mandalay.
On the way to Monywa and before you reach the town there is unusual Buddhist temple complex on 37 acres of land called Mohnyin Thanbiddhay. Monywa also famous for Pho Win Taung (Mt. Pho Win), Mt. Shwe Ba where the entire mountain was carved into caves, niches, staircases and Buddha Images.
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Lavish Wedding of the Year Arpita Khan & Aayush Sharma
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Most spoken Wedding of the Year: Arpita Khan & Aayush Sharma
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The decoration responsibility was assigned to “Vivaah” for the wedding which was held on 18th November, 2014 at Hyderabad and Reception in Mumbai on 21st November, 2014. The family decided to have pink and white as the theme of the wedding, which was suggested after considering their reputation, as the theme truly presents the royal image. The venue was decorated with the shades of white and pink with drapes, flowers and other decoration that brightened the marriage celebration.
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One of the world’s greatest chamber choirs makes a rare Canadian appearance in an epic concert celebration of the human voice and spirit.
Appearing in Toronto just prior to its U.S. debut at Lincoln Center, the Latvian Radio Choir is joined by 120 choristers from universities across Canada. Featuring classics from the Russian and Latvian repertoire—Rachmaninov’s beloved Vespers and Part 1 of Schnittke’s monumental Concerto for Choir —the program also showcases two Canadian composers: John Weinzweig and Ana Sokolovic, who will be premiering a new piece. With more than 150 singers on stage, this epic event will both exhilarate the senses and stir the soul.
Pre-Concert Chat – 2:00 pm
Canadian composer Ana Sokolovic discusses her new choral work ASAP 4 SATB, to be premiered by the Latvian Radio Choir.
Kaspars Putnins, conductor
Latvian Radio Choir
Calixa Lavallee Singers, University of Ottawa
Madrigal Singers, University of Alberta
University of Guelph Chamber Choir
University of Manitoba Chamber Choir
John Cage: Four2 (1990)
Nic Gotham: The Fool by the Roadside (1999)
Santa Ratniece: Horo horo hata hata (2008)
Ana Sokolovic: ASAP 4 SATB (World Premiere)
John Weinzweig: Prisoner of Conscience (1985)
Lera Auerbach: Psalm 23 (1999), Psalm 130 (1999), Lullaby (2002)
Rachmaninov: Selections from All Night Vigil (Vespers) (1915)
Alfred Schnittke: Choral Concerto (1984)
PLUS: In honour of Remembrance Day, actor Billy MacLellan will read an excerpt from CBC Radio's award-winning drama, Afghanada.
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Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman
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Nanached Williamsburg
Last night - thursday night - a bunch of us Nanach nanached two clubs in Williamsburg till the about 4 in the morning.
Meisels showed up around 3 am he sends everyone his love, especially DIM who he seeks to exemplify by initiazing 3 hour walks.
May we be zoche to many and much more Nanach!
Recently we mailed a large package of Nanach material to Venezuela.
Next week B"H holds great expectations, daven that all should go Nanach!
Monday night is Avrumi Manis's wedding.
David Abey or something remotely like that, a guy I met today in Shomer Shabos send regards to Ebay Pretter, who he knows from Staten Island.
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There needs to be a consolidated list of emunah that Na Nach represents, that is agreed on by all.
The divisions in Na Nach are sick, why wait for Moshiach.
You do what you can, but the emunah has got to be the same.
I would like to hear what you think the emunah should be.
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10x10x10=1000
Yes, my 4th post for the evening - indeed Shir Pashut, Kaful, Meshulash & Merubeh (will I go to bed before the first rays of daylight?) But it's all coming to me (the secret: I have lived the exact amount of days until tonight as Rabbeinu did when he recited his final Torah, which was on the Shir Chadash).
As you will see in my previous post, the great connection of the number 1000 with the various concepts as related to the main concepts in Breslov and Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman. There are also three 10s involved - Hashem's 10 statements, the first 10 generations, and the 10 Shiros. But you have seen nothing yet!
There are three Masechtos in the Mishna that deal with the laws of damages - Nezikin which are Bava Kama, Bava Metzia & Bava Basra - the first three Masectos in Seder Nezikin (they were actually all one Masechta at one time, named "Nezikin", but being they were so big, they were divided into three-now called "First Gate" "Middle Gate" & "Last Gate").
Each of these three Masectos have 10 chapters, thus a total of 30 chapters. Now, add this to the Gematria of the names of the three Masechtos - Bava Kama, Bava Metzia, Bava Basra; and presto -
1000! Yes, the same Gematria as Ebay, Uman, Breslov, Yerushalayim!
Now, what is the beginning of Seder Nezikin - Arba'a Avos Nezikin - the four major categories of damages - Nezikin as performed by animals which are Shor-refering to trampling, Bor-pit, Mav'eh-eating, and Hev'er-fire. Now, the 4th one is not an animal, but it spells out a name of an animal, and the last Yiddishe Numen of...Saba! Hev'er - Hei, Beis, Ayin, Reish, the Ber (bear).
Now, Rabbi Ovadia M'Bartenura on this brings the Posuk of "Ki Teizei Aish" - "When fire breaks out". Interesting - Ki is the Gematria of 30 like the 30 chapters of the above Masechtos, Teitzai is the Gematria of Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman (491) and Aish is the Gematria of Moharan (301)!
Now, hold on to your seat - tight! We mentioned that the four types of Nezikin- this word which begins and ends with a "Noon" like Rabbeinu's and Rabbi Nosson's names - are in the beginning of Seder Nezikin - and...as the word Teitzei, Seder Nezikin is also the Gematria of Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'uman (491)! And for those who learn Gemara - Talmud Bavli - there are exactly 411 Dafim on the three Masechtos. corresponding to which there are exactly 411 Toros of Rabbeinu in Likutei Moharan! (286 in the 1st part, and 125 in the 2nd part) Additionally, if you count in these Masechtos the 266 Mishnayos, the 30 Perokim, and the 115 Dafim of Talmud Yerushalmi - these three numbers also add up to 411! Now, add 411 & 411, equalling 822, the same Gematria as the Posuk we just mentioned "Ki Tzeitzai Aish"! This is the Posuk on the 4th type of damage- in Tikkun terms, it's the Likutei Moharan that has come out to the open to rectify the Nezikin. (If you replace the 30 Perakim of Mishnayos with the 33 Perokim of Tosefta in the three Masechtos - you will a total of 825 instead of 822, which is the same Gematria of Ki Teitzei Aish with its three words. But most importantly, it's the same Gematria as Yisroel Dov Ber - when Dov is spelled with a Vov as is sometimes spelled - Saba's Yiddishe Numen!) How fitting - it's the beginning words of the 4th Seder of the Mishna - the name of which - Seder Nezikin - is the same Gematria as the Shir Chadash, that immediately begins the first word with FOUR! The Shir Chadash is the 4-dimension of Pashut Kaful Meshulash Meruba, the ultimate Tikkun of these four damaging aspects of mankind - pride, emptiness, desires, and anger. Morever, as I mentioned a few days in a post - the last Posuk of the 4th Aliyah of Parshas Na-N(o)ach has four terminologies of having children - Peru, Revu, Shirtzu, & Revu. Revu, the 2nd & 4th words, is the Gematria of 208. Similarly, the 2nd of the list of damages listed in the above Mishna - Bor (pit) is also the Gematria of 208, and there are exactly 208 letters in the Petek! (When U'man is spelled with a Vov, as in the above Gematria of 491). The 2nd position in the Shir Chadash - Nach, has the same lettering as Noach, the main figure and name of this weeks' Parshas Noach.
Lot to digest at one time - but I just had to let out my Chiddushei Torah which we are supposed to write down reminiscent of the LAST Mitzva of the Torah - writing a Sefer Torah (similarly, it was tonight that I wrote of Rabbeinu's LAST Torah in his lifetime about the Shir Chadash). Don't worry - you can always read my blogs again for a clearer picture, as Pirkei Avos says at the end of the 5th Perek (the very beginnng of this Perek mentions that Hashem created the world with 10 statements) "Hafoch Bah V'Hafoch Bah" - to keep going over the Torah again & again.
Have A Gutten Shabbos Parshas Na-N(o)ach!
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אב"י ר"ת אומן ברסלב ירושלים
As Saba (who is close to 120 years since his birth as Moshe Rabbeinu was at his passing) is refered to as Ebay - Alef, Beis, Yud spelling his name in reverse ישראל בער אודסר
the three letter word spells in order the burial cities of THE 3 big Tzadikim of Breslov who works are studied the most - Rabbeinu was buried in Uman - starting with an Alef, Rabbi Nosson was buried in Breslov - starting with a Beis, and Saba was buried in Yerushalayim - starting with a Yud.
Also, the word Ebay with the corresponding three cities of the Kivrei Tzadikim, together equal the Gematriya of 1000 - Elef! Elef represents the "Big Alef", as in the very first letter in Divrei HaYomim - the 24th & last Sefer of the T'nach, where the first word Adam - the name of Adam HaRishon - has a BIG Alef, and so does the 1st word of the section of the 1st Shira of the 10 Shiros begin with an Alef - Az, as well as the first word sung by Moshe & B'nei Yisroel in the Shira - Ashira. Like the BIG Alef beginning Divrei HaYomim, the beginning of the first Sefer in T'nach begins with a BIG Beis in Bereishis, the 1st of the 10 statements that Hashem said to create the world, and the 10th & last statement was "Na'aseh ADAM". The 10th generation from Adam is Noach, and Noach's unrealized potential was completed by Rabbeinu Na Nach Nachma Nachman - the 10th Shira. (See my previous post where I relate the 1st Shira to the 10th Shira)
In the 6000 years of the world's existance, they can be divided into 24 parts, corresponding to the 24 Sifrei T'nach. Thus, corresponding to the beginning of the 24th & last Sefer of T'nach - Divrei HaYomim where the very 1st letter of it begins with a big Alef, representing the concept of Elef-1000, was the period of time when Saba was living his last few years of his life around which time he visited the Kever of Rabbeinu for the very first time when it was first available to the public which was close to the year 5750, beginning the 24th & last period of 250 years in the pie of 6000 years. And as a Siman - the Posuk in Mishlei says "Ner Hashem Nishmas Adam" where Ner is the Gematriya of 250 as associated with Adam.
IN SUMMARY: 10x10x10=1000. The 10 Statements that Hashem created the world with & the 10 Generations from Adam to Noach & the 10 Songs relate to Ebay+Uman+Breslov+Yerushalayim=1000.
chilling in monsey
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Rabbeinu's Last Torah (Likutei Moharan 2:8): SHIR CHADASH
It was Rabbeinu's last Rosh Hashana of his life - the only Rosh Hashana he would ever spend in his lifetime in Uman. He became gravely ill over Rosh Hashana. It was on the second night of Rosh Hashana, despite his difficult illness that he said his very last Torah, which he recited over a period of a few hours. But little did anyone know then (besides Rabbeinu), that this Torah which speaks of the Shir Chadash, would be the prediction of the Shir Chadash that would change the lives of thousands of Jews.
If it wouldn't be the lateness of the hour, I would more or less translate the section in this Torah about the Shir Chadash. But briefly, as mentioned in the Zohar, (I will be throwing in thoughts of my own too, just learn the original source to get the true meaning of Rabbeinu's Torah) this is Hashem's name like this Y, YK, YKV, YKVK which is in Gematriya 72, the same number as it equals Chesed - as in "Olam Chesed Yibane" - the world was built with KINDNESS. This is the 10th Shir/Shira of the 10 Shiros, as formulated in 10 letters, and as we know, the world was created with Hashem's 10 statements. This is all very nice, but we can't sing Hashem's name as it is - it is in fact forbidden to pronounce this very name. So, when it started with Na Nach Nachma Nachman (MeUman), we see the ultimate fulfillment of this as stated in the Zohar.
Now, the very first Shir/Shira is the Shiras Hayam, corresponding to which is the first "Noon" in Na Nach Nachma Nachman - the letter of this month of Cheshvan. Now the very first word of the section in the Torah of Shiras Hayam is "Az" which is in Gematriya 8, like Cheshvan being the 8th month counting from Nissan. (It's interesting to note that Az is the Roshei Taivos of An'im Zemiros that is sung as the end of the Shabbos morning prayers - and is also the name of a Sefer published by Shir Chadash by Rabbi Bezenson Shlita which is Divrei Torah from Likutei Halachos on the Parsha) The very first word of the actual song that Moshe & Bnei Yisrael sang is "Ashira" - I will sing. This is also the very first word of the Tefilla for the Tikkun HaKelali (which is customarily recited after the Tikkun HaKelali) composed by Rebbe Nosson who was born on Shabbos Parshas Beshalach/Shabbos Shira when we read the Shiras Hayam that begins with the word "Ashira".
Now, we will be showing Roshei Teivos - the letters of words that are the first letters of other words - this will absolutely amaze you!
Ashira - Alef Shin Yud Reish Hei - these letters begin with the following words:
אומן שופר ירושלים ראש השנה
Shir/Shira - Shin Yud Reish (Hei)
שופר יום-טוב ראש השנה
שבת יום-טוב ראש השנה
On this, we can have an explanation. In the beginning of the 4th Perek of Maseches Rosh Hashana, it says "On the Yom-Tov of Rosh Hashana when it falls out on Shabbos, they blew the Shofar in the Beis HaMikdash, but not in the rest of the country". Strange - why does the Mishna call R.H. with the "Yom Tov of R.H." instead of just R.H? Well first of all, the Likutei Halachos explains that if R.H. falls out on Shabbos, we don't need to blow Shofar, because we get the same spiritual energy from Shabbos. And both words start with a Shin, so it's the same deal for Shir/Shira having the Roshei Taivos being always applicable on R.H. But here are amazing Gematrios that will show that Shofar & Rosh Hashana have EVERYTHING to do with Yerushalayim & the Beis HaMikdash. You see Shofar & Yerushalayim (when not spelled with a 2nd Yud as it is in most places in Nach where it is spelled as such) have the same Gematriya (586) & Rosh Hashana & Beis HaMikdash have the same Gematriya (861)!
In the pamphlet "Uman B'Yeushalayim" in Saba's teachings, in the Posuk of "Mizmor Shir L'Yom HaShabbos" the words Shir L'Yom have the same letters as Yerushalayim (when spelled with a 2nd Yud). As quoted "The last Shir of the Geula that will bring B'nei Yisrael to Eretz Yisrael and to Yerushalayim in anticipation of the 7th millenium, the big Shabbos is Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman and he is now in Yerushalayim."
Having this in mind, the 10th & last of the Pirkei Tehillim in Tikun HaKlali is the last Perek in Tehillim - Chapter 150, where it mentions the phrase "Haleluhu B'Teika Shofar". This is the only full Perek of Tehillim that we say in Shemoneh Esrei - particularly in the Shofaros section of the Mussaf of R.H., and as indicated earlier by correlating the 10 Shiros corresponding to the 10 letters in Na Nach Nachma Nachman, Shofar - in the 1oth & last of the 10 chapters of Tikun HaKlali that we say especially in the Rosh HaShana Mussaf, has the same Gematriya as Yerushalayim. And hence, MeUman B'Yerushalayim is bringing the first Shir as Uman (in Hebrew is begins with Alef) has the same first letter as Ashira, the first word sung in the first Shir - to the last Shir - where the 10th letter of the 10th Shir, as corresponding to the 10th Tikun Klali Perek which mentions the Shofar, corresponds to Yerushalayim!
In light of the above, may we merit that Rabbeinu be transfered from Uman to Yerushalayim in his rightful spot on Har Tziyon - Teikef U'Miyad Mamash!
P.S. So why is Rosh Hashana called the "Yom Tov of Rosh Hashana" when we all know that it is a Yom Tov? The key to this is that it relates to "when it falls out on Shabbos". Shabbos as we mentioned before is related to Yerushalayim when as rearranged in the words Shir L'Yom. The Geula, as associated with the "Big Shabbos" - the 7th millenium, and the Petek HaGeula contains the date of 17 Tamuz. Yom Tov is Day 17 being that Tov is the Gematriya of 17. As I mentioned in an earlier post - have to check the original source - in the future - 17 Tamuz will be the first day of Yom Tov, followed by Chol HaMoed until 9 Av which will be the last day of Yom Tov. As we know, Krias Yam Suf & Shiras HaYam happened on the last day of the Yom Tov of Pesach, the end of Pesach which relates to the future Geula. May we hear the Shofar heralding the arrival of the Geula - Teikef U'Miyad Mamash!
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Part 2 - The MONTH of LETTER נ
Boruch Hashem, I'm posting Thursday evening as I expected to (in Eretz Yisrael here the clock already stroke 12, but I think it's close enough). Well first of all, I ended last night's post about 17 Tamuz as per the phrase that is connected to this month of Cheshvan - "U'Dvash Hayom Hazeh Hashem" where Hazeh is in Gematriya 17, so it is"the day of 17". At least according to Rabbi Eliezer who holds that in the context of the story of the Mabul in this week's Parshas Noach, Chodesh HaSheni, the second month refers to Cheshvan, counting the months from Tishrei, it says in the Posuk of the date the Mabul started "In the 600(th) year(s) of Noach's life on the second month on the 17th day of the month, on this day (Bayom Hazeh -on day 17 - in Gematriya) all the fountains of the great deep burst and the windows of the heavens opened" (Bereishis 7:11). The Zohar says something absolutely phenomenal. It predicts a "flood" of wisdom in the 6th century of the 6th millenium, that is the period of 5500-5600. And indeed, both the Torah world of Chasidus & Litvishe styles of learning, and in the secular industry of science & inventions, an amazing flood of wisdom came into this world. So in effect, 17 Cheshvan which is associated with this is ultimately connected with 17 Tamuz the date in the Petek which in turn became a beacon of light bringing Yidden closer to Yiddishkeit introducing them to the wisdom of Breslov, included in the era of Chasidus that started in the century as predicted by the Zohar.
As in the Sefer Torah where there is a Hefsek - a space between one section and another, I'm going to stop this particular blog at this point, as I have a whole another vort pertaining to the letter "Noon", the letter of the month, as it relates to Shiras HaYam, the first of the 10 songs, and the last of which is the Shir Chadash.
Shulchan Aruch - Law
This is the 231 statute of the Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim:
That all his intentions should be for the sake of heaven:
If it impossible to learn without sleeping in the noon, he should sleep. Only he should not extend it, for it forbidden to sleep in the day more than the sleep of a horse which is 60 breaths (the K. Rebbe told me this is about 10 minutes). And even in this little amount his intention should not be to pleasure his body, but to strengthen his body for the service of Hashem Yisborach. And so in everything that he enjoys in this world, he should not intend for his pleasure, but for the service of the Creator Yisborach, as it says (Proverbs - Mishley 3:6) "In all your ways know Him", and our sages said: "all your actions should be for the sake of heaven", that even regular permissible things, such a eating, and drinking, and walking, and sitting, and rising, and intercourse, and speaking, and all necessities of the body, they should all be for the service of your creator, or for something that will lead to His service. That even if he is thirsty or starving, if he eats or drinks for his pleasure this is not commended, rather his intentions should be to eat and drink for the amount required to live, to serve his creator. And this is so even regarding sitting in the privy of the righteous, and the standing in the presence of the tzadikim, and the travel in the scheme of the wholesome, if he does so for his own pleasure to fulfill his desire and urges of pleasure, he is not commended' only if he does so for the sake of heaven. And so with resting, it is not necessary to talk about the time when he can be involved in the Tora and Mitzvos - he should not provoke with sleeping to pleasure himself, but even at times when he is exhausted and must sleep in order to rest from his efforts, if he does so for the pleasure of his body he is not commended, rather he should intend to give sleep to his eyes and rest to his body in order to be healthy, so that he should not confound his Tora intellect from lack of sleep. And so in the matter of .... And so in conversation, even to relate matters of wisdom his intentions must be for the service of the Creator or for something that will lead to His service. The Principle of the matter is, everyone is obligated to be concentrate his eyes and heart on his ways and to measure all his actions with the scales of his intellect, and when he sees something that can bring service to the Creator Yisborach he should do it, and if not he should not do it. And whoever practices this, he is serving the Creator always.
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Today in Chok Yisroel Rabbi Chaim Vital, the main chusid of the Arizal, criticises large houses, he says the people in them are on their way to a very narrow grave, so why do they want to accustom themselves to living in such spacious quarters?!
Rabbainu said we should accustom ourselves in this world to the ways of the next.
This is one of the reasons why it is so important to say, sing, and dance Na Nach Nachmu Nachmun MayUman!
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Lakewood honors Nanach!
Today someone bought the 4th aliyah for a Nanach!
Nanach party tonight in Williamsburg
Here's part of the invitation I recieved:
the acoustics in the room are fairly decent so just bring ur instruments too there should be a gantza jam
starts at 10ish
1087 flushing ave.
brooklyn, ny. 11237
Nanach van is planning on attending B"H.
NNNNM!
Saba's Yartzheit (anniversary of death)
There has been some posting about Nanach being the Tikun - rectification - of the flood. So here's some more to let your brain chew on. According to R' Eliezer the flood started with rain of blessing (as Rashi says, Hashem made it so that the rain would be just of blessing, but since they were obstinate in sin the rain turned into the flood) on the 17th of Cheshvon, Rashi (in today's chok) points out that since it didn't start from the night (which is in most cases the beginning of the day) therefore the 17th is not considered in the 40 days of rain that the Tora talks of. This means that in many aspects the actual start of the rain is 18 Cheshvon - the Yartzheit of Saba!
Also previously Rashi (on the verse (in seven more days) says that the flood was postponed for the 7 days of mourning honoring the death of Misushelach - which could technicly place his death on the 9th of Cheshvon - the Yartzheit of R' Yisroel Karduner - Saba's mentor.
Labels: flood, rebbe yisroel karduner, rectification, yartzeit
Neim Zemirot Yisroel
There is a Tefilah for before reciting Tehilim and well, is great all the time as a Tefilah, Hisbodedut in our language style too...
Anyway, goes something like...
'vAta Kadosh, Yosheiv tehilot Yisroel, asher bacharta bshirot v'tishbachot she'amar lifanecha Dovid ben Yishai, Moshiach Elokei Yaakov u'Neim Zemirot Yisroel.'
Essentially; Hashem, please accept our prayers as if King David, sweet singer of Israel sang them.
A nice koach when it is said with Na Nach, because then we get connected in every way with the Tzaddikim, with Dovid Melech Yisroel Chai Vekayam, and also, its like, were able to give a nice hook up to Dovid HeMelech, even on our level, cuz it becomes like Dovid HaMelech said Na Nach!
Maybe theres others, but im pretty sure only Dovid has this special quality of being the sweet singer of Israel and having the quality that we ask for it to be as if he sang our prayers, so it only seems like, for sure, Zayde Dovid HaMelech would LOVE to sing Na Nach, for sure, kal vechomer or something like that, hes the sweet singer of Israel, he knew music so much and like every instrument and wrote Tehilim and set up the music for the Beis HaMikdash.
so, like I said, just a thought... now its in writing : )
Dovid Melech Yisroel Chai VeKayam Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman! : )
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Tehilim Na Nach
Just getting the ball rolling here...
It is good to say just Na Nach Saba said... well Tehilim style thats 108...
Heres 108, its clear that Na Nach is all over this Tehilim... and this Tehilim, Dovid Melech Yisroel Chai VKayam clearly saw it all...
please respond and post your own chidushim and insights into this Tehilim specifically and its connections with NA NACH, and chazak vamatz saying Na Nach and Tehilim 108
תהילים פרק קח
א-ב שִׁיר מִזְמוֹר לְדָוִד. נָכוֹן לִבִּי אֱלֹהִים; אָשִׁירָה וַאֲזַמְּרָה, אַף-כְּבוֹדִי.
ג עוּרָה, הַנֵּבֶל וְכִנּוֹר; אָעִירָה שָּׁחַר.
ד אוֹדְךָ בָעַמִּים יְהוָה; וַאֲזַמֶּרְךָ, בַּלְאֻמִּים.
ה כִּי-גָדוֹל מֵעַל-שָׁמַיִם חַסְדֶּךָ; וְעַד-שְׁחָקִים אֲמִתֶּךָ.
ו רוּמָה עַל-שָׁמַיִם אֱלֹהִים; וְעַל כָּל-הָאָרֶץ כְּבוֹדֶךָ.
ז לְמַעַן, יֵחָלְצוּן יְדִידֶיךָ; הוֹשִׁיעָה יְמִינְךָ וַעֲנֵנִי.
ח אֱלֹהִים, דִּבֶּר בְּקָדְשׁוֹ--אֶעְלֹזָה: אֲחַלְּקָה שְׁכֶם; וְעֵמֶק סֻכּוֹת אֲמַדֵּד.
ט לִי גִלְעָד, לִי מְנַשֶּׁה, וְאֶפְרַיִם, מָעוֹז רֹאשִׁי; יְהוּדָה, מְחֹקְקִי.
י מוֹאָב, סִיר רַחְצִי--עַל-אֱדוֹם, אַשְׁלִיךְ נַעֲלִי; עֲלֵי-פְלֶשֶׁת, אֶתְרוֹעָע.
יא מִי יֹבִלֵנִי, עִיר מִבְצָר; מִי נָחַנִי עַד-אֱדוֹם.
יב הֲלֹא-אֱלֹהִים זְנַחְתָּנוּ; וְלֹא-תֵצֵא אֱלֹהִים, בְּצִבְאֹתֵינוּ.
יג הָבָה-לָּנוּ עֶזְרָת מִצָּר; וְשָׁוְא, תְּשׁוּעַת אָדָם.
יד בֵּאלֹהִים נַעֲשֶׂה-חָיִל; וְהוּא, יָבוּס צָרֵינוּ.
Chodesh Tov everyone!
According to Kabbala, every month corresponds to another one of the Alef Beis, and this lucky month corresponds to the letter "Noon". It is most significant to Breslov because both Rabbeinu's and his main Talmid Rabbi Nosson's names both begin and end with this letter, which is itself, as one of the few letters that the word for it begins with and ends with the letter "Noon". Saba's Yahrzeit falls out on this month, and also, Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan always falls out on the week of Parshas Na-N(0)ach. Now, in the very first Torah of Rabbeinu, the subject of Chen (grace) -as in "V'Noach Matza Chen B'Einai Hashem" (last Posuk of Parshas Bereishis) is composed of the letters "Cheis" & "Noon". Interestingly, the month of Tamuz corresponds to the letter Cheis, the month that Saba found the Petek - thus, both Tamuz & Cheshvan, corresponding to the letters of Chen, have something to do with Saba!
The letter "Noon" is significant in some other major way - it is the Gematriya of 50, as in the 50 days to the receiving of the Torah from Yetzias Mitzrayim. And the 50th Parsha of the Torah is Ki Tavo, and has a strong connection to this month of Chesvan. You see, every month corresponds to another combination of the letters of Hashem's name YKVK. Cheshvan corresponds to VKKY - the first letters of the words U'Dvash Hayom Hazeh YKVK. This is the Posuk given (though there are many) that is given by the Zohar for this letter combination, and on top of this, Hashem's name is also one of the words - something you don't find by many of the other Pesukim of other months. The first word U'Dvash is the very last word of the Krias HaTorah for Ki Tavo when read on Shabbos afternoon, Monday & Thursday. Also, this is the 8th month corresponding to Nissan, and we said before that Tamuz corresponds to the letter "Cheis" which is 8. Well, in the phrase here Hayom Hazeh "this day" Hazeh is the Gematriya of 17 - could be hinting to 17th of Tamuz, the date mentioned in the Petek.
Stay tuned for Part 2 - I expect to post on Thursday evening.
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Rabbi Nachman's yurtziet 4th day of succoth
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Na Nach tustus
Saba's grave site Na Nach
kikar tzion basta rockin
the basta is open sun-thers 4-8pm
Dr. Steve doing Hafatza in kikar tzion
The 4th Aliyah in Parshas Na-N(o)ach
Writing my 724th post of the blogsite, and will show you shortly the significance of this number in two ways.
Those who know something about Rabbeinu will probably know that the number 4 was of special significance to him. For one thing, his name Nachman has the same Gematria as Netzach (148) which is the 4th (and middle) of the Sefiros counting from Chesed to Malchus as we mention during the Sefirah period. Also, unlike others who are honored with Aliyos to the Torah, particularly the 3rd one, 6th one, Acharon, Maftir, etc., he insisted particularly on the 4th Aliyah (I'll never be able to - I'm a Levi). Also, he was Niftar on the 4th (and middle) day of Succos. And then for those who believe in Saba Emes V'HaPetek Emes (as in a previous blog), know that Rabbeinu's name, besides have 4 letters to is, is 4-dimensional. Na Nach Nachma Nachman like the original source in the Zohar of Hashem's name being spelled the same way, the latter equaling the Gematriya of 72. Thus, in this 724th post, we are talking about Hashem's name in relationship to 72 (besides the 72 names of Hashem) in 4 dimensions!
Now first a word on Noach himself. In the beginning of this Parsha, Rashi comments on the "generations of Noach" who had three sons that the Ma'asim Tovim - good deeds are the children of the Tzadikim. I heard this once - question can be asked - why does Rashi comment on this particularly by Noach? Certainly, there were much greater Tzadikim who also had children later on. But there is one difference - Noach is the ancestor of all the world - so Rashi is saying a Chiddush here that even though Noach is the patriarch of everyone alive today;,ultimately is was his Ma'asim Tovim that was his accomplishment that counts eternally.
It is interesting to note that during Rabbeinu's lifetime, he also had three children, that is, his spiritual children, his three Seforim - Sefer HaMiddos, Likutei Moharan, and Sipurei Ma'asiyos. Maybe there is someone who can find a Remez of these Seforim to the particular names of Noach's three children. (As Rabbeinu's name Nachman is the Gematria of 148, it's interesting to note that the 148th Posuk of the Torah is the 2nd Posuk of Parshas Noach, which states that Noach had 3 children with their names mentioned. Noach's name in this Posuk is the 2nd word of the 2nd Posuk of the 2nd Parsha of the Torah)
Meanwhile, we mentioned that Rabbeinu was always honored with the 4th Aliyah. So, in this Parsha of Na-N(o)ach, I thought it would be a good idea to see what this 4th Aliyah is about.
This is about the post-Mabul year when Hashem tells Noach to get everyone out of the Ark, Noach brings Korbanos, and Hashem gives His instructions which are the basis of the Sheva Mitzvos B'nei Noach with His blessings. Anyways, the very last Posuk of this Aliyah is Hashem telling Noach and everyone to have children - the Posuk uses 4 terminologies for this- Peru, Revu, Shirtzu, Revu. The 2nd & 4th words - Revu - are the same corresponding to Nach/Noach & Nachman in the Shir Chadash. Also, Revu is the Gematriya as the number of letters in the Petek - 208 letters! (This is when Me'Uman is fully spelled with a Vov). Mind you, this Posuk is Hashem's message that was displaying His Chesed - kindness to mankind to continue life - Olam Chesed Yibaneh, and Chesed is the Gematria of 72, using 4 terminologies to describe His Chesed!
Stay tuned: What major Jewish events took place on the 4th day (Wednesday) of the week?
P.S. Noach meant to have a 4th child after the Mabul, but Cham (representing the heat of Aveira) prevented this from happening, and as a result incurred Noach's curse. Could it be that Rabbeinu, as his name presented with the 4-dimension Shir Chadash, made a Tikkun on this - as Rabbeinu's name can also be read as Min Noach- from Noach - to be the 4th child - the spiritual energy-that Noach was prevented from having?!
When Hashem asked Chava why she ate from the tree, she said the snake tricked me into eating it. Was she not being modiah the resoim, why was she punished.
If Adam would have done tesuvah, he would not have left gan eden (I heard that once and it seems to be right; Cain did the first tesuvah by saying "is my sin to great to handle" and he lived for another seventy years.)
I guess Hashem gave the chance to Chava too, to save the world, but what was so wrong with her answer, she was blaming the rasha.
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Saba Emes VihaPetek Emes
This morning in Shul this guy roles in about 9 oclock and asks to speak with me outside, he tells me that its alright to be Breslov, but the Petek, you see he has a 'mesora' from his grandfather Yoel Ashkenazi etc. etc. So I started to set him straight, and in the middle of the conversation some guy joins in and says that the Saba stayed in his house in Boro Park for a couple of weeks, and he heard the story from the Saba himself on many occasions, and coming from the Saba it certainly sounded real. He said that the Saba was like a Malach, and it was amazing to see him in action even at an age of around 100 years old.
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Party in Williamsburg Thursday Night
There will BH"Y be a goodby party in a loft in Williamsburg this Thursday night, the Nanach van was invited and is considering attending. The Blanketstatementstien Rock band was also invited.
Wedding Date set for Aron M.
Aron and Jackie of the Blanketstatementstien have set their wedding date, בשעה טובה ומוצלחת, for the first day of Chanuka, in Monsey.
Mazal Tov,
question on the first parsha
What was so wrong with Chava's answer does it not say in Sefer Hamiddos that it is a mitzvah to revel the wicked?
Please post an answer
Generation of the Flood
The Zohar says specifically what the main sin of the Dor Hamabul was (Z"L) . The main Tikkun for this sin is going to the Mikvah.
Hashem told them "If you will not do Teshuvah and go to the Mikvah yourselves, I will place you in the Mikvah."
Unfortunately that's exactly what happened, and what a hot Mikvah it was.
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Mazal and Bracha
Mazal Tov to my sister Sara Avigail and my good friend Moshe Areyeh on their engagement. Both of them were zoche to be by Rabbeinu in Uman this year. Sara on Tu B'av and Moshe on Rosh Hashana. It occured to me at one point that their names are an identical gematria: 561. Rabbeinu knows how to put people together. Mazal and bracha. Na Nach!
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Pashut
it can be read in the Petek that where it says be strong and courageous in your service Na Nach, that A: Rabbeinu is signing his name. B: He is speaking to you, as in, be strong and courageous in your service moishele, and from we can understand how Saba would say Ani Na Nach, cuz literally Rabbeinu speaks to whoever is reading the Petek and calls the reader Na Nach. C: the service itself is Na Nach, as in be strong and courageous in your service, selling stocks... lehavdel... in your service of Na Nach.
thats the triple wammy of pashut from that line in the Petek, take it or leave it, thats how it seems to this Na Nach, and as it says "never departs from the simple meaning."
secondly, to apply this to the last line about the sign being that they say you dont fast on 17 Tammuz. It is written in Zecharia that 17 Tammuz, 9 Av, Tzom Gedalia and 10 Tevet, are all gonna become "sasson vsimcha, moadim tovim, emet vshalom ehavu" just love peace and truth, and they become moadim tovim. This is again reffered to by Rambam in Mishne Torah Hilchos of fast days. The interesting thing is the Petek only refers to 17 Tammuz, however, thats fine, cuz its the first one mentioned in the pasuk in Zecharia, and therefore its like a domino effect, you get the 17 Tammuz, theyre all going cafe hafooch.
Even until it is clear how the days become chagim, we already can be happy now and celebrate having the Petek, and celebrate chag haPetek, and be bsimcha for 7 days in Tammuz and as we will be for 7 days in Av from 9-Tu Bav, and from Tzom Gedalih till Yom Kippur and some yet to be seen awesomeness in Tevet.
In Israel Saba, Saba is asked by a talmid if Mitzvah Gedolah Lehiot BSimcha applies to these days even as fasts before the full totall realization of the nevuah of Zecharia, and Saba answers in absolute clarity for all the read, YES we can def. be bsimcha on these days absolutely, it is a mitzvah always to be joyful.
Na Nach
****as per the Na NOach post and 17 Tammuz... heres the source of the pasuk about the fast days becoming yomim tovim in Zecharia, and i look forward to seeing the source about the 7 days of Yom Tov and the Chol HaMoed... will it maybe look like Chanukah for one of them? chazak vamatz!
Zecharia perek 8 pasuk 19
19 'Thus saith the LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful seasons; therefore love ye truth and peace.יט כֹּה-אָמַר יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת, צוֹם הָרְבִיעִי וְצוֹם הַחֲמִישִׁי וְצוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי וְצוֹם הָעֲשִׂירִי יִהְיֶה לְבֵית-יְהוּדָה לְשָׂשׂוֹן וּלְשִׂמְחָה, וּלְמֹעֲדִים, טוֹבִים; וְהָאֱמֶת וְהַשָּׁלוֹם, אֱהָבוּ.
****following up on a comment about the reason for fasting relating to the Beis HaMikdash, would also like to make the pashut observation that malei vegadish mikav lekav also sounds like its speaking about the Beis HaMikdash, that it should be completely totally built, full and heaped up from end to end! may we be zoche to see and be together and dance and rejoice at the Bayis Shlishi bimhera biyameinu, Amen netzach sela vaed. This is also very profound as Saba mentions many times that Rabbeinu is Kodesh Kedoshim, and malei vegadish mikav lekav means to spread his books and teachings all over the entire world, so clearly, the key to building the Beis HaMikdash and the key to transforming the fast days into days of Sasson and Simcha and Moadim Tovim is through Hafatza, through being happy and singing and dancing. Yes we fast these days, and as Saba said, even as we await the Beis Hamikdash and Moshiach Tzidkeinu and Eliyahu Hanavi we can fulfill the mitzvah of lehiot bsimcha tamid on these fast days. It is absolutely clear that when the time comes, we will see that these days were transformed and the the Beis HaMikdash built through the merit and power of the Petek and Hafatza and Na Nach and Rabbeinu and Saba.
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There is an incredible Gemara in Bava Basra in and around Daf 75 which discusses how not only will there be a Succah of the skin of the Livyatan, there will be so much that it will also cover the walls of Jerusalem and also be in the marketplace of Jerusalem, among the merchants, and how people will have canopies and necklaces and amulets...
Someone here posted that Livyatan is the Gematria of Na Nach plus the 5 words- 496
Also it is written about Moshe and the Tzaddikim clearly that they are connected with the Livayatan, and also it is written that Livyatan is a combo of the words Livyat which means garland and Nun- Livyat-Nun.
This is the Gemara about Hafatza and stickers and kemiahs. Ch-ch-ch-ch-check it out. ; )
This is a post in progress, and comments and replies are invited.
The introductory paragraph to Likutei Moharan begins including the words "mimidbar mattanah." These words are from the Shir shel Beer Miriam. Which can be found in Parshas Chukas, Sefer Bamidbar, Perek 21 Pesukim 17-20.
These words according to Rashi were sung after a miraculous event where Hashem saved us from an ambush and not only was the ambush unknown the salvation was unknown too, until the well itself brought it to the peoples' attention.
"mimidbar mattanah, umimattanah nachaliel, uminachaliel bamot..."
Pirkei Avos comments that on a ruchniyut, soulful, level, from the midbar, the desert, mattanah, a gift, the gift being the Torah given to us in the desert, and from the gift nachaliel, the heritage of Hashem, being the heritage of the Torah, and from the heritage of Hashem bamot, the heights, the spiritual heights one attains from studying and fulfilling the Torah.
It has also been said by chazal that from the gift, the Torah, the nachaliel, the heritage of Hashme, being the Holy Land, and from the Holy Land, bamot, the heights, the heights of Jerusalem, Mt. Tzion Mt. of Olives, and namely the Temple Mount.
Also, interestingly enough, Mattanah, the gift, has the same gematria as Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman plus the 4 words of Na Nach Nachma Nachman. Total 495.
Also, Rebbe Nachman is the Nachal Novea Mekor Chochma, and one can read nachaliel, as river in addition to translating it as heritage. So we have, from mattanah, the gift, Na Nach, Nachaliel, or the river of Hashem, or even more precise, my river is Hashem.
This is the entire essence of Rebbe Nachman's teachings, that everyone should feel such a close and personal relationship with Hashem that Hashem is our river, our source of life, and also the true Tzaddikim who are his faithful servants, as Rebbe Nachman said he is the river.
Further, in Likutei Moharan Tinyana Torah 72, there is a line by line interpretation of the Shir shel Beer Miriam. This is amazing, since Na Nach is all about the 72 stringed harp. This is very profound. Please take a look there and if someone can translate that would be great.
In short, Torah 72 describes the Mattanah, the gift, as being Shabbat, relating it to Teshuva, and relating it to being attainable through humility and the Tzaddik, as it says mimidbar mattanah, from the desert, or humility, we come to Shabbat, Teshuva. The Redemption is entirely a matter of Shabbat, as in Yom shekulo Shabbat.
It is written that the Beer Miriam rests in the Kinneret and all the water in the world is connected to it. On a physical level this has great ramifications for the Redemption, as there are prophecies of a great river gushing forth from the Temple Mount in Yechezkel and also about the Euphrates river being split in 7 places an the children of Israel still exiled beyond it returning on dry land as in the days of the Exodus from Egypt.
On a spiritual level, this is also very profound, as we have this song, "Az Yashir Yisroel et hashira hazot, ali beer enu lah. beer chafaruhah sarim, karuhah nedivei haam, bimchokek uvemishanotam, umimidbar mattanah, umimattanah nachaliel, uminachaliel bamot. umibamot hagai asher bisdei Moav, rosh hapisgah vnieshkifah al pnei hayeshimon." Tanna Dvei Eliyahu describes how the Bnei Yisroel, children and adults would go to the well and sing the song and add "ali beer enu lah, bizchut Avraham Yitzchak V"Yaakov. Ali beer enu lah bzchut Moshe VAharon u Miriam."
Elsewhere in Likutei Moharan (BH will find exact source) Rebbe Nachman describes the verse of "karuhah nedivei haam" as being connected to the verse in Shir shel Devorah HaNevia "hamitnadvim barchu Hashem." So, we should all be saying Baruch Hashem all the time, and for sure Na Nach : )
The main theme here is song, song, song. The song of the Well, the song of the Prophetess, and the song of the Petek, the song of the Redemption, the GIFT!
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!
NA-N(O)ACH WEEK!
Well, it looks like I'm writing the 713th post. Well, we know what that means - Teshuva is the Gematriya of 713 which I believe is the theme of this post.
Near the end of Parshas Bereishis which we just read on Shabbos, we read "His days shall be 120 years". In this context of the Chumash, it's refering to Noach's generation who were given 120 years to do Teshuva. Well, it didn't work too well then, just Noach and his immediate family survived, but as we know from the Vilna Gaon, everything that has every happened and every person with the details of his life are hinted in the Torah - particularly the Chumash.
First is the statement in the Gemara Chulin 139b: "Where is Moshe hinted in the Torah?" Now the question may be asked - "What do you mean where Moshe is hinted - his name is written all over - at least starting with Parshas Shemos since he was born?!" The answer - "B'Shagam Hu Basar". Looking at the English translation, there doesn't seem to be a clear translation for the word B'Shagam, but it does have the Gematria of Moshe's name (345), and the continuation of this Posuk "and his days shall be 120 years". Perhaps the bigger question can be asked - Is this where Moshe's 120 years are supposed to be hinted at - in relationship to evil people who didn't repent?!
The answer I believe begins with a few Pesukim earlier where Noach is named because "Zeh Yenachameinu" (the title of Rabbi Bezenson's Sefer on the Petek & Saba). Rabbi Bezenson Shlita gets into detail into where Noach failed, Rabbi Nachman, with two additional letters to his name made the Tikkun, but besides the fact that the name Nachman can be spelled within the word Yenachameinu, let's look at the Targum for this word - Yenachamenana - it has the same letters as Ani Nachman - the same exact words that can be spelled backword in Shemos 32:32 where it says "V'Im Ayin Mechani Na" what Moshe says in self-sacrifice to be erased from the Torah if Hashem doesn't forgive B'nei Yisrael for the Cheit Ha'Egel, the self-sacrifice that Noach did not have in saving his own generation. So Noach had the potential to make the Tikkun, but at least Moshe started the process (when he broke the Luchos on 17 Tammuz, the incident that ends the Chumash as Rashi (same letters as Shir in Hebrew) points out - "Yishar Kochacha Sheshibarta" taking responsibility (doesn't mean taking blame) for what happened).
Thus, 17 Tammuz is the bridge between Moshe Rabbeinu, Rabbeinu & Saba, and Saba is the last Moshe Rabbeinu (the holy leader of each generation is considered the Moshe Rabbeinu of the generation) until Bias Moshiach. Don't have the source for this offhand - but it says somewhere that in the future, 17 Tammuz will be the first day of Yom Tov, Tisha B'Av will be the last day of Yom Tov, and the days in between will be Chol HaMoed. But until then, we are coming very close too...120 years since the birth of...SABA!
Yes, before we know it , it will 120 years since the Moshe Rabbeinu of the last generation was born! His birthday - Yom Huledet - falls out on 20 Kislev 5649-5769, and what are we going to do about it - being passive like Noach, or ACTIVE like Moshe Rabbeinu, Rabbeinu & Saba?
Let's do a little brainstorming here:
Ani Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman - throughout Eretz Yisroel and elsewhere where the good NaNach Jews live - let's drive through the streets in the Keruv van with this recording of Saba on this holy day - to bring awareness to the world who Saba is and what he represents.
Booths with Keruv materials, Big screen video of Saba (this is how I got attracted to Breslov three years ago - when I saw the video of Saba on his Yahrzeit seeing his Neshama Tehora in his smile), telling people of Saba's birthday 120 years ago on this day, and show how he is compared to Moshe Rabbeinu.
Crying out to people to do Teshuva before Moshiach's coming - telling them that if they sincerely start now, including believing in the Tzadik HaEmes and learning his works that they will indeed be in Hashem's eternity forever!
Don't wait to start making plans at the last minute - start these plans TODAY!
In conclusion, those of us who have regular jobs can look forward to taking off from work on 20 Kislev- but don't wait for the last day to tell your boss. Also, you can begin with some of the above ideas today - especially about telling people to do Teshuva BEFORE Moshiach's coming (which could happen on Saba's birthday of 20 Kislev!)
Nanach street in Staten Island
Shabos in Staten Island, was hosted by a few families, the one that put me up live on Buchanan St., this is quite amazing because if you read the name of the street from right to left and readjust the other letters you get U B Nanach! - which is Jamaican for You Are Nanach!
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Trino (C) has donated another $10 for the spread of nanach.
Others should follow this example as well.
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stop blaming women: geofrey mm
I would have made a comment on your post but I thought that everyone should know that they are influenced by the erev rav in understanding torah.
the world was originally created through the actions of elokim. After adam asked for a bat zug (originally he was a man and a woman in one body) the name of yod kay vov kay came about to create this action.
By creating chava as a zivug to adam (a seperate body), havaya became a zivug to elokim. shichos haran 95.
I think men should stop asking for pleasures and work a little harder than throwing tasks on other people.(joking)
shavua tov
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Letter # 12 Simcha Torah in the old city
This year was a great year for Hafatsa with the Givat Shaul Na Nachs in Jerusalem's Rova (yehudee) heart warming and very encouraging...concert etc... the next big one scheduled is for the Saba's day 18th of the coming month Heshvan stay posted.
Concerning parasha Bereshit and the hidduch about ISH = Na Nach be a man etc.. check this out brought down through yours truely:
The first appearance of the word ISH is with respects to ISHA before that he was called ADAM.
Why didn't he have a mate like all the others? Why were no other beings in creation suitable for him? Why MUST his partner come from his "shadow-ett"?
From his shadow on the ground was she created, because his wife is ADAM-A!!!!!!!
He wasn't meant to need a wife since he (they) was created in the image (shadow) of G-d who has no wife in his image if not for (them) him.
Who was jealous of who, and who was first! Eva who becomes the mother of all life (?) calls her first son "cayn" also alluding to jealousy!
The dust (opposite) of the earth could NOW say it was the mother of ADAM since he was created from it, (and his father in heaven) but now man and his true zivoug would no longer be born this way, since the woman had been separated from him (as he was now created from dust separated from the ground)! What about their wife ADAM-A?
IT obviously started going wrong before the apple!!
In the words TO-hu Vo-hu you find "TOV and huhu" or Tov Hou Hou not Hou He or He Hou or He He. "He" is not referred to.
In other words, we are trying to place the TOV first and unite the two "tails" which is the shadow of G-d on matter. Both the shadows of God form the same Male pronoun Hou (interstingly english is female "He"- because they (Anglo nations) are the spouse of Israel "Naema" marries Noach (the tzaddik of the generation comparable only to Moshe and Na Nach in this respect)).
So must women become men or be completely subservient to their husbands? Neither...
The food must taste like GAN EDEN that way the children and the hubsands will be a happy family. No one eats money or raw potatoes. The parnassa depends on the simcha and the family simcha depends on how successful the housewife is. The family is a reflection of the ISHA who is a reflection of her ISH.
I am longing to be an ADAM however not a Ben-Adam (no such a thing) rather one that was not born from dust. A true Bal-ha-Sade married to the ADAMA a real son of G-d. However it is certainly a good thing to be an ISH!
G-d himself is jealous of the woman whom he created and who took his son from him, from the land and from the dust. He is waiting for HER to do the tikkun and this is why Shabbat and Simcha are so important!!! This way she can show him that she is faithful and he can unite her truely with her husband so that they can fulfill the mission of converting Tohu Vohu to Hou Tov Hou!
The holy land needs your love!
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Rani NaNach - Nanach Singing Lessons
Path of the Na Nach
Nanach van enroute to Staten Island
With the help of G-d - see you there.
My personal phone number is down, to get ahold of me call my google number 845 694 4591 and leave a message. You can also email me at naanaach@gmail.com.
The Nanach Bridge
Rabbainu said כל העולם כולו גשר צר מאד והכלל והעיקר לא לפחד כלל – the whole world is a narrow bridge and the rule and tenant is not to fear whatsoever. This narrow bridge can be explained as the fine line that borders between genius and insanity. On one hand Hashem's expects us to be somewhat crazy – as Shlomo Hamelech says in Mishley (Proverbs) – באהבתה ישגה תמיד – that with love (that we are commanded to have) he is forever crazed. This craziness is זה לעומת זה – appropriated accordingly pitted against the craziness of the evil inclination, which our sages call רוח שטות – a spirit of foolishness. On the other hand we are commanded to amass knowledge and gain intellect of G-d, which also carries with it the great dangers the Tree of Knowledge produces.
Rabbainu said that the World to Come we know exists, but this world is hard to conceive, it seems that it is hell. The whole world is either insane with the foolishness of desires and lust, or trapped in wisdoms and philosophy, neither of which can be attributed to this world. Thus the reality of this world is that it is a very narrow bridge, hard to discern, somehow playing on the themes of craziness and wisdom without falling prey.
Nanach is the golden path and bridge, it is the rule and tenant which gives resolve and confidence to forge ahead, not to rush in like a fool, yet to delight in the challenge of projecting past the dangerous confines of knowledge and intellect.
Labels: bridge, evil inclination, future world, likutei moharan, meshuga
Be a man - Be Nanach!
In Hebrew man is called איש, spelled out אלף יוד שין this is the exact numerical value of נ נח נחמ נחמן מאומן!!! It is not for not that Moshe commands Yehoshua to be an איש! And it there where we find the all too familiar words of encouragement חזק ואמץ.
In English man is מן, acronym for נחמן מאומן – Nachman from Uman (also see Likutay Moharan Tora 56, acronym for מקוה נ, that is the highest level of purification, see there).
So get a life man! Be Nanach!
Labels: chizuck, gimatriyah
Nanach Shabos in Staten Island
This Shabbos Breeyah has invited the Nanach to Staten Island. So far Chaim D. and family, and Lazer G. and family are planning on attending. The Nanach van is still undecided.
יש חיבור של "ת" ויש חיבור של "א".
The letter tov in hebrew, ת, entails a combination of two letters, ח and נ, ches represents life חיות-, represents חכמה- wisdom, which symbolizes the sun. נ represents Malchut-which symbolizes the moon. The moon has no light of its own, but what it receives from the sun. This is the same principle between the husband and the wife. The husband symbolizes the sun and the wife symbolizes the moon. One must act accordingly and flow with the cosmic world which was intended for us to learn from. For example, at the beginning of the new moon a cycle of fifteen days are needed for the moon to process fully. After it's full, it is another fifteen days where the moon starts receding and disappears. A woman's menstrual cycle, is exactly the same cycle as the moon. The א represents existence. It is a combination of two יודין and a ו in-between, numerically adds up to 26, the name of Havaya יקוק. The sun is the top Yod and the moon is the bottom yod with a heaven ו separating them. The two weeks a husband and a wife are separated, similar to separating the letter ת in two-ח-נ which combines as the word נחת, where the relationship then survives through communication. Note the letter ח is open from the bottom: it shines downwards, to the lowest level possible. Maybe that is why the letter נ is open to the side; it shines towards the earthliness, the world. Therefore, the נ takes but does not give back to the sun. The only advantage the nun gives is by spreading the light to the world by announcing there is a sun. But the sun has no existence in the world without the nun and that is why when they are in their complete connection they spell the letter ת inseparable. one can only talk with Nachas and not to be stringent.)קפדן( Look at Likutei Moharan tora #1 and #6.
The א represents existence. It is a combination of two יודין and a ו in-between, numerically adds up to 26, the name of Havaya יקוק. The sun is the top Yod and the moon is the bottom yod with a heaven ו separating them. By having patience you exist and the service of communication and discussion helps you to grow more and get more existance in this world.
It is not awonder that the beracha of shema kolenu is the sphere of Malchut.
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R' Bezenson's new book on Nanach mentions our site
In Rabbi Bezenson's new book on Nanach, he includes a picture of one of the stickers designed by our own publisher – Saba Noon – replete with the side caption – nanach.net.
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Wealth - from the depth of evil
Check out the beginning of Sichos Haran (4) where Rabbainu says that nowadays riches and fortune come from the depth of evil, and one must fall extremely low G-d forbid to 'merit' them.
Labels: money, Sichos HaRan
Good Thoughts
Rabbainu says that even when one is with his wife he should be thinking in Tora. One therefore certainly can not be thinking about being with his wife when he is not with her!
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The Halacha is the Tora is through the Tzadik
Talking about learning halacha – check out this one (Orach Chaim 141:4) – even if the leader of the services blesses and reads the Tora himself, someone else must stand next to him. Because just like the Tora was given by means of a middle man (the Tzadik), so to we must conduct ourselves with it through a middleman!!!
This Halacha is pretty clear that we must access and channel the Tora only through the Tzadik!
Labels: halacha, receiving Tora, tzadik
Nanach Shadchan
On Chay Tishray, the Hilula of Rabbainu, I visited the succa of a nearby shtiebal, where I met Elyokim Dovid Fisher may H”Y bless him and protect him, in any event I can't do him justice by describing his gadlus, however I can offer you his cell number, and you can get in touch with him yourself. Elyokim Dovid Fisher is a Nanach shadchan! So go ahead and give him a buz.
(EDF doesn't always carry his cell phone, so it may take some persistence to get a hold of him, and of course – help from on high).
Labels: match-maker
Two lessons I learned from dancing with a tora-scroll
#1 The scroll it's self, is heavy on the din (left) side for "berechit" and heavy on the chessed (right) side for "zot ha bracha". This makes more sense when you realize that Moshe Rabenu convinced The Lord to alter the world from a world of din to a world of chessed by the mention of "saper lecha mi ani Nachmani"(I'll tell you who I am..Nachman X 10!). "vayikera" is in the middle symbolizing "TRUTH". May we be blessed this year to begin living in an age of Truth.
#2 You learn more tora by carrying it then by reading it. You should even take the heaviest book and dance the longest and hardest- to learn MORE! This goes against conventional wisdom. The fact is however, that regardless how much of a gadol or a katan you are G-d is mesuring your mesourat nefesh (sacrifice- vayikra) and based on the mesurat nefesh will he bless you with true insight understanding and even intelligence if you lack and need it. Careful or we will need to write a new fairytail about how the mule became more intelligent then the nobleman in the carriage. Don't joke this last point off, it illustrates a major pillar in Breslev.
Letter # 10 a test for the 10 brothers!
RoBI Isroel told a haver at the last Rosh Hashana in Uman that the only possible tikkun for having sold Josef to Ishmaelites was to do the tzaddiks will and bury him in Israel. The giver of the tikkun ha klali has been kept where he is so a few people could make a parnassa "over his dead body". Sounds all too familiar! The catch is, rabbi Nachman is such a tzadik that it is precisely THOSE souls he wants to glorify the creator with. Uman kibboutz is a necessary step to gather certain types of jews. The testing time has arrived can we pull together and get rabenus blessing or will greed keep us apart.
No, rabenu is ALREADY in Israel, he doesn't need favors from us. Making it all the more clear that there is no reason to go to Uman and prolong his captivity. Still, since he is a tzaddik, and worries about us and loves us, he gives us work that we can get credit for. He even says "NO OTHER WAY TO DO TCHOUVA" can't say- "I have other mitsvos to do, I'll ignore this one. "
Think about Yehuda and Josef and their connection to the tikkun ha bris and open your eyes.
Distressing the tzadikk is a sin that gets passed down from generation to generation. There is no tikkun except doing the will of the tzaddik even posthumously. Which turns averotes into zchuyotes.
Alot of people believe Armageddon is about to break out- is it responsable to abandon rabbi Nachman now?
Reb Motil of Slonim
"Chasidus Breslov has a magnetic draw, if one gets caught in it is now imposible to get out."
Rebbe Mordichi of Slonim
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Mefursom Attack
You are a Na Nach Mafitz doing Hafatza on the far out and spiritually desolate planet of Shmerica. Suddenly you are attacked by hoards of Mefursamim and their followers. Armed with only Likutay Tefilos, Hisbodedute and Emunah you are confident that with the power of Rabbanue Na Nach Nachma Nachman Muman, you will emerge victorious. Living the concept of "Single was Avraham", the Battle begins......
Mefursom Attack made by Neave Games
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Lechaim - Vort of Blanketstatementstien!
Aron and Jackie of Blanketstatementstien invite the nanach to their lechaim - vort, today, in Monsey - 4 Marcia, from 4 pm till 7 or 8.
BH"Y we'll be there.
Letter # 9- the opposite of Na Nach!
Finally, the time has come to answer this very tough question.. What is the opposite of Na Nach?
The source of Na Nach is in Chemot (names) 32, 32 (heart,heart) God says he will reveal all his GOOD, he puts his hand on Moshe (like a succa or the second petek) and says "lord lord the merciful..." and changes creation from judgement to mercy, revealing the 13 degrees of kindness.
The opposite of Moses is likely Bilam (may his name be erased) Who had an evil eye and had the idea to corrupt Israel with non-jewish women and non-kosher wine.
No suprise then, that the opposite of Na Nach is found in Devarim(things)(bal-davar)32 32 (heart, heart) Mida tova (good value) a good heart (ethics ofthe fathers)Mida raa (bad value)a bad heart (ethics...). The verse speaks about the damages that non-kosher wine will cause to Israel!!!
Look no further, the learning of Rabbi Nachman,(chessed-kindness) the source of water is compared to hungarian wine (din- judgement) alwayse new and eternally old in it's kosherness (never touched by contamination EVER).
The non-kosher wine is the scientific wisdome based on technology and not on faith in the tzaddik ha emet! EbAY Ha Nachal (the book of Na Nach) says it over and over again.
I've got to distribute peteks, by!
Rasta Reggea Star Sings Na Nach!!!
Check this guy out! David Dan, a rasta reggea star is getting back to his roots. He was in Uman this Rosh Hashana! This song is from even before... at the end he sings Na Nach Nachmu Nachmun IM Uman!
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=23703989
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Labels: celebrities, music
Tzfas Simchas Bais Hashoava
Many of the Na Nachs of Tzfat gathered in the Sucah of A.K. for a Simchas Bais Hashoava on the hillulah of our great master Rebbe Na Nach Nachma Nachman Muman.
Aron Moeller Proposes Tonight!
At this great celebration of the Yahrtzeit of Rabbainu Na Nach Nachmu Nachmun MayUman, here in the Succa of Chaim D., we have many nanach celebreties, including members of the BlanketStatementsien, no less than the lead singer Aron Moeller chose this occasion to propose to his Kalla - Jackie!
Mazal Tov!
Labels: proposing
Making something clear on Bircas HaChama
As per what I wrote on saying Bircas HaChama this year on Erev Pesach, someone commented that this also happened when it was Yetzias Mitzrayim. I did see this written somewhere myself; however, it could not have happened literally and here is why. Anyone who does a little math can clearly see that it didn't happen in 2448/2449 - the year of Yetzias Mitzrayim. You see, Bircas HaChama as it happens every 28 years, does not divide evenly when divided into 2448. That is, 2448 divided by 28 will not result in a number without a remainder so regardless of who says it and in what Sefer, there is no way that Bircas HaChama, based on a natural phenomenon that takes place every 28 years from creation, could have been said at the time of Yetzias Mitzrayim - but it may very well mean that Moshiach will come on the day of this upcoming Bircas HaChama (if not sooner)- the day that we are supposed to bring the Korban Pesach commemorating Yetzias Mitzrayim (and yes we can do this even today if the Israeli government/courts/police don't interfere).
It will soon be 120 years since the birth of...
SABA! (Refer to blog of July 6, '08 from Lazer Na Nach or www.breslov.com/netzach/highlights.html)
In a matter of days, we will be reading of the passing of Moshe Rabbeinu who lived exactly 120 years who started and ended his earthly existance on 7 Adar. Interestingly, 7 Adar is also the birthday of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein ZTVK'L who gave his Haskama on Saba's Petek.
In any event, we will be commemorating Saba's Yahrtzeit in exactly one month - 18 Cheshvan, and his birthday of 20 Kislev will be in two months. Think of it - in two months it will be exactly 120 years since the birth of the Moshe Rabbeinu of the last generation facing the Geula, and the question begs to be asked - what will we be doing about it?! I will not give my suggestions on the subject of this question at this time for two reasons - 1) Let others first brainstorm of possible other ideas & 2) It is Chol HaMoed when we try not to write too much other than what is necessary or Chiddushei Torah. B'Ezras Hashem, I'll be back blogging after Yom Tov with a few possible ideas that will publicize Saba on the occasion of his momentious birthday of 120 years.
5769: Bircas HaChama year - first since revelation of Petek!
As we know, Rabbeinu's Yahrtzeit -18 Tishrei/4th day of Succos - is also the day that represents the Ushpizin of the original Rabbeinu - Moshe Rabbeinu. It has also been mentioned that Rabbeinu's Yahrtzeit falls out on the week that we read of Moshe Rabbeinu's passing which we read about in the end of the Chumash on Simchas Torah.
In many Chumashim, the number of Pesukim is mentioned at the end of each Parsha. As you will see at the end of the Chumash, the total amount of Pesukim of the Chumash is 5845. You will see the Siman or Remez for this number - the word HaChama - Hei is 5, Ches is 8, Mem is 40, and Hei is 5. Take out the 0 from the number 40 and then put the single numbers together spelling 5845. Guess what - Rabbeinu's name Nachman can be done the same way, except that you have two Nun's instead of two Hei's - just take out the 0s from the numbers 50 (Nun) and put the numbers together again spelling 5845!
As we know from the Vilna Gaon - everything that has happened in history and every person and all his details are all contained/hinted to in the Chumash, which also contains the Taryag Mitzvos and is what we call a Sefer Torah when written on parchment. Saba said that Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman is the source of all the Torah, and the source of all creation. And indeed, Na Nach Nachma Nachman is the Gematriya of the word Chumash (354)!
Getting back to the word HaChama - it's most related to this year, as Bircas HaChama which we recite every 28 years falls out in this year on Erev Pesach. In fact, this will be the
FIRST BIRCAS HACHAMA that will occur SINCE SABA PUBLICLY REVEALED THE PETEK - THE SHIR OF THE GEULA! In fact, Mekubalim have revealed that Birchas HaChama is related to the Geula. In any event, anyone who believes in Saba knows that he is the Moshe Rabbeinu of the last generation, and as Chazal have said Pnei Moshe K'Pnei HaChama.
Stop the devil now! bevadai = roshe tevotes EBAY (Odesser Dove Ber Israel) Letter#8
There is a story in sippuray maasiote , where r. Nachman says he will tell us his story and we will be able to understand. In the future with the help of Moshiah we will obviously be able to understand, so he doesn't mean this. At the time some thought that he was referring to the Spoiler Zaida but that was too contemporary to be referring to the future,- doesn't mean that! Someone in Sfat says that the word BEVADAI BVDI stands for Isroel Dov Ber Odesser. The time has come for all of us to understand the meaning of the story, thereby fulfilling the prediction of R. Nachman.
For those who haven't guessed, we are discussing the story of the Spider and the Fly. The spirit goes to all the courts in heaven and G-d tells the devil that this soul(r. Nachman's of course) must return to earth "of course"(bevadai BDVI)and the devil knowing this means a certain death for him, is given one chance to find an ETSA (notice this unusal use of the word etsa)or advice. As students know, the devil returns laughing with an old crippled man.
Does this not tie in nicely with the fact that R. Na Nach couldn't say he was Na Nach or reveal the Petek til he was around 100 yrs old?
If Rabenu had been revealed in 1923 the Holocaust would no doubt, have been avoided so stop blaming G-d, he gave the Devil one last chance. This is YOUR chance to stop the devil now! Rabenu returned to heaven, maybe the messiah is here, but rabenu told us in the previous video that one page was a book and THIS book needs to be distributed everywhere. It's succah- if you are reading this get your guitar, get your peteks and get out there!!!!
Simchas Beis Hashoayva Trance Party
Chaim D. invites all the Nanach to his Succa - Chai Tishrei - Thursday night - the Yarzheit of Rabbainu Na Nach Nachmu Nachmun MayUman, 7:00 PM 13 Briarwood Lane, Suffern, NY 10901.
BH"Y the Nanach van will be there supplying the pulse of Nanach.
Succos is Chag NaNach
Succos is the holiday of NaNach. You see, the word HaSuccos has the same Gematria as Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman! Thus, the Chag of Na Nach. This should be of no surprise - Rabbeinu's Yahrtzeit is the middle day of the seven days of Succos. There is a special connection between the three days before and after the Yahrtzeit to the Niftar. Also, according to the Zohar, the Tzadik is called Shabbos, and the three days before and after Shabbos is especially connected with that Shabbos - both spiritually and halachicly.
Also, being that today was Hakhel, which is supposed to take place on the 2nd day of Succos following the Shemitta year (today was just the commemoration - but we hope for the actual Mitzva of Hakhel in seven years from now when Melech HaMoshiach will be reading it B'Ezras Hashem) looking at what used to be read in the Torah for Hakhel, I was curious to know how many of the Taryag Mitzvos this covers. At least based on the Cheshbon of Mitzvos according to the Rambam - there are 148 Mitzvos in the total Hakhel reading, and as we know, Rabbeinu's name Nachman is the Gematria of 148! Also, Hakhel is the 612th Mitzva of the Torah, and Bris is the Gematria of 612. One of Rabbeinu's main accomplishments is the Tikun Bris for Klal Yisroel.
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Naa Naach Rocking the Tzion
This one is old not from Rosh Hashana, must be from the past Shevous.
Umon 2008
Nanach Party After R"H 2008 Uman
End of the Chag 2008
Erev Rosh Hashana by the Tzon This Year
There are two jewish holidays a year where we do not sleep in the house, Shavuot and Yom Kippur. The common denominator:Shavuot the first tablets were given, yom kippur the second tablets.The petek contains the secret song of the redeemer as cited in Tikunei Zohar page 51b.
The ten types of songs correlate to the ten sefirot(tikun zohar page 3) which correlates to when the world was created with ten sayings, on Rosh Hashana. This shows that Rabbenu is in partnership with god in the creation of the world on Rosh Hashanna. The pertek is actually the third tablets. Although the petek was sent in tammuz, the rectifiction started in Rabbenu's time ,but revealed to us through saba. Whoever believes that he got a petek from rabbenu hakadosh can do the same rectification on rosh hashana, by acting as a mirror reflection to rabbenu.If you believe in the petek then rosh hashana is in yerushalayim. If you go for the first time to uman or you do not know about saba than the temmimos gives the rectification. But if you know about saba and the petek, but go to uman than you are not na nach. How do you expect saba to give a good word for you if you do not believe he can?Moshe Na NAch
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Pashtun concert
This past Saturday night A.H. and myself attended a Pashtun concert and dance in Queens. The Pashtuns claim to be direct descendents of Yosef Hatzadik. BH"Y you will be hearing alot about them as A.H. is very involved with them. We are now working on translating Rabbainus holy sforim into Pashtan!
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Hit Up With Na Nach!
In the summer I embroidered Na Nach on my Talis the guy who did it for me asked me what color I wanted, so I opened up a chumash and read the words ויך את אדום (and he smote Edom – Edom means red), so I told the guy hit it with red! Recently in Uman when asked why I chose read I told them how, and while I was saying this I realized that with the three words, ויך את אדום, has the numerical value of Na Nach Nachmu Nachmun MayUman!
Later I realized the great signifigance of having the red writing on my white Talis. The Zohar elaborates on how the secret of the offerings (which today are replaced with prayer) is the colors red, representing the blood, and white, representing the fat. So it is amazingly apropriate to have a red Nanach on a white Talis!
Labels: gimatriyah, Nanach writing, offerings, shi-ailas sefer, Zohar
Succos in the US
BH"Y there's going to be a bunch of Nanach together for Succos by Chaim D.. Micha, E.L. and family, Sternfeld, Shlomo, A.H. - our new Nanach from Livingston N.J., Breeyah and family, the E.G. and family, and myself (there may be more). Some guys from Blobstien's yeshiva want to do hafatza with us.
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Steven (S) has donated another $180 for the spread of nanach.
Trino (C) has donated another $5 for the spread of nanach.
Mazel tov Saba Nun on the birth of a daughter.
Rosh Benei Yisroel B'Eretz Yisroel
Rosh Benei Yisroel B'Eretz Yisroel:
The Head of the Children of Israel in the Land of Israel [ReBY EBaY]
With G-d's Help
Concerning Bringing the Holy Grave of Our Holy Teacher
Rabbeinu Rebbe Nachman of Breslov of blessed memory to Eretz Yisroel
1. It is well-known in all parts of the world that all the Tzaddikim in all the generations yearned and desired with all their hearts to be buried in Eretz Yisroel [the Land of Israel]. And even more Rabbeinu [Our Holy Teacher] Rebbe Nachman of Breslov revealed with a full mouth in a completely unambiguous manner that cannot be interpreted in two ways that his holy desire was to be buried in Eretz Yisroel, our Holy Land, desire of all the hearts, as his chief student, Rabbi Nosson of blessed memory, wrote in Chayay Mohoran [The Lives of Our Master and Teacher Rebbe Nachman, translated into English as Tzaddik] (His Trip to Navritch, paragraph 12): "and Rabbeinu said that he desired to travel to Eretz Yisroel and to pass away there, but he was afraid lest he not be able to arrive there, and also if he were to pass away there people would not come to his grave and would not have anything to do with his grave...but if he would be laid to rest in our country [the Ukraine in those days in the early 1800s] for certain we would come to his grave to study and to pray there, and he would have great pleasure and delight from this."
2. And similarly wrote Rabbi Nathan, of blessed memory, in the book Yemay Mohornat [The Days of Our Master and Teacher Rabbi Nathan] (Part One, Section 26): "And immediately, as soon as he [Rabbeinu] contracted tuberculosis the first time, he said that he would pass away from this, and right away he began to speak about his passing and about his grave and that his desire was to travel to Eretz Yisroel, but he did not know if he had the strength to reach there, and also no one would come to his grave and the world would have nothing to do with his grave."
3. We see from all the above clear and open words from Rabbeinu of blessed memory that his holy desire was to be buried in Eretz Yisroel, desire of all the hearts, and the desire of all the Tzaddikim of all the generations, except for two reasons that the time and the period caused that prevented him from doing this:
a) The doubt that, because of the opposition to him, and especially the fact that he was ill, this would cause him not to merit to pass away in Eretz Yisroel and that he would not merit even to be buried there. For it is known that in those days they did not transport bodies on ships from one country to another, and even if someone died on a journey in the middle of the sea, if they would arrive quickly to some island or similarly then they would leave him there, and if not they would throw the body to the fishes of the sea, for they did not keep or have the possibility of keeping a corpse on a ship.
b) Rabbeinu, of blessed memory, suspected correctly that if in those days he would be buried in Eretz Yisroel, then no one would come to his grave and that people would have nothing to do with him, and also consequently with the passing of time all of his Holy Path and the awesome Fear of Heaven and the amazing ways of serving G-d that he introduced and left in the world would disappear.
And here it is fitting to quote the words of Rabbi Avraham son of Rabbi Nachman of Tulchin of blessed memory (Bi'ur Halikutim 155): "For is it not known that the Torah speaks in the language of people, and also his [Rabbeinu's] holy words concerning all that he said and spoke about this, that because of the very great danger that most travellers to Eretz Yisroel encountered he knew clear as day that no one would be aroused to travel to his holy grave. For even though he was laid to rest in this land [Ukraine], many of his followers became very scattered after his holy passing. For on Rosh Hashanah in his holy lifetime approximately five to six hundred people came to him in Uman for the last Rosh Hashanah, and people would say that about one thousand people came to him then, as I heard from my father of blessed memory in the name of Rabbi Nathan of blessed memory. And afterwards, on the first Rosh Hashanah after his holy passing, only sixty or so people came to his grave. [We see from this that even when Rabbeinu of blessed memory was buried in Uman amongst his followers, approximately 90 per cent !!! of his followers in his lifetime had separated from him greatly immediately after his passing, and all the more so if he had travelled to Eretz Yisroel to pass away there, then certainly there would have been only a few individuals from the greatest of his followers who would have travelled there, and with the passing of time the matter would have been forgotten completely.]
4. And behold: the two reasons cited above, that Rabbeinu of blessed memory mentioned as singular reasons that prevented him in his time from being buried in Eretz Yisroel, already are invalid today. And just the opposite: the central calculation in determining his holy burial place was what Rabbeinu of blessed memory wanted: that the maximum number of people be able to come to his grave, as mentioned above in Yemay Mohornat, and as Rabbi Nathan wrote further in the book Chayay Mohoran (His Journey to Navritch, section 12): "from that time and on he spoke often about his passing and about his grave and revealed his mind many times in many forms of expression that people always should come to his grave to say Psalms on his grave and to learn there and to say many prayers and supplications there, and he spoke with a number of people about this. Also when he returned from Lemberg he said that there it would be good for him to pass away and to be buried there, since many many great Tzaddikim are buried there [such as the Taz, the Chacham Tzvi, the Penai Yehoshua, Rabbi Chaim Rappoport, the holy Rabbis Rabbis Chaim and Yehoshua Reitches, who were killed in the sanctification of G-d's Name, and many many others, all of whom are of blessed and holy memory]. But since not one of his followers would come to his grave there [even though there is only a total of 400 kilometers between Uman and Lemberg], for this reason he did not want to pass away there. And he said that when someone would come to his grave and would say a chapter of Psalms with arousal of the heart, he would have a great delight from this. And he made motions with his body and his bones then, and he implied that he would have freeing of the bones inside his grave when people would say Psalms on his grave, and he spoke more about this matter a number of times. And so, since the central determination of the location of his resting place was that the greatest number of people would be able to come to him to study and to pray, and only because of this was he prevented from being buried in Eretz Yisroel; how much more so, when we will merit in our days that our Teacher of blessed memory will be buried in Eretz Yisroel, that his blessed desire will be fulfilled from all sides and from all directions, with great dignity and power, and that there even will come the time when more people will come to him in Eretz Yisroel in one day than come to him in the Ukraine throughout the entire year put together.
5. It also is explained in a number of places in the writings of Rabbi Avraham son of Rabbi Nachman (Sichot veSippurim, section 16, and see also in the writings of the Pelach) that the intent of Yosef the Tzaddik that they bring his bones up [to Eretz Yisroel] was two-fold: one reason was to be buried in Eretz Yisroel, and the second reason was that people become attached to him through this. [See Genesis 47:28-31; 50:1-13; 50:22-26; Exodus 13:19.] And see also in his writings in a number of places the implications for the Final Redemption of Israel in the matter, that everything depends on the greatest number of people coming to the grave of Rabbeinu of blessed memory. And if so what can we say, and the glory of God is to hide the matter, and the principle is that the Final Redemption is like the First [from Egypt] and that everything depends on the bones of the Tzaddik.
6. Our Teacher of blessed memory further said (Chayay Mohoran, His Journey to Navritch, section 6): "My place is only Eretz Yisroel; all that I travel I travel only to Eretz Yisroel." And Rabbi Avraham son of Rabbi Nachman of blessed memory concludes (Bi'ur Halikutim, ibid.): "that there in Eretz Yisroel is his true and eternal place." Look there. And see in Sefer HaMiddos [The Book of Traits] (Money, part 2, section 7) that an Israeli man must yearn for burial in Eretz Yisroel, and he revealed a minute amount of the rectifications that are achieved through this. And certainly Rabbeinu of blessed memory fulfills himself what he teaches to others.
What comes out from all the above discussion is that Rabbeinu of blessed memory yearns greatly to be buried in the Land of Israel, delight of all the hearts, like all the Tzaddikim in all the generations (and see further below in Answers to Objections (1), at length), and as he revealed his desire with a full mouth. And may it be God's Will that his holy desire be fulfilled.
Answers to Objections and Rejoinders (and clarification of a number of matters, including the halachic [Jewish Law] portion)
In opposition to what is written above are heard the following objections:
1) That the matter is forbidden according to halacha
2) That Rabbeinu of blessed memory desired to be buried in Uman and nowhere else
3) That the reality is that since Rabbeinu is buried there, this is his place from Heaven
4) That Rabbeinu did not say explicitly to bring him up [after his passing] to Eretz Yisroel
5) That the matter is dangerous
6) That Rabbeinu of blessed memory works to rectify the souls [of the 30,000 Jews who were killed in Sanctification of G-d's Name and who are buried with Rabbeinu in Uman]
7) That in everything that Rabbeinu of blessed memory did there are other hidden reasons
8) The comment of Rabbi Nathan that the place [the gravesite in Uman] was prepared and made ready from the Six Days of Creation
9) Comments from Rabbi Nathan in Likutay Halachot [Collected Laws]
10) Comments and traditions that have no legitimate basis
11) Lack of modesty
12) That people will learn to move around graves in Eretz Yisroel, and also abroad
13) That perhaps the body will not be found intact [as per Jewish tradition that the bodies of Tzaddikim do not decay in the grave] and people will become disillusioned by this
14) That people will become used [to his being in Eretz Yisroel], and that no one will come to the gravesite of Rabbeinu of blessed memory
15) That we will not know where to establish his place of rest [in Eretz Yisroel]
And now we will explain, with the help of Hashem Yisborach [The Blessed G-d], that there is no place for any single one of these above objections.
Answer to Objection (1):
That the matter is forbidden according to Jewish Law
Behold the matter is clearly and simply the opposite: not only is there no prohibition, but rather it is even a great mitzvah (commandment), as follows.
In the Shulchan Oruch [The Code of Jewish Law], Yoreh Dayah, section 363, paragraph 1, concerning the prohibition of opening a grave, it writes: "in order to bury him in Eretz Yisroel it is permitted." And so it is in the Tur and Levush and no one disputes this. And it is pointed out in the Responsa of the Maharshdam, Yoreh Dayah, section 203, after he goes to great lengths to explain all the opinions concerning this stated by Chazal [the Talmudic Sages] in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds, "that it is a mitzvah to bring him up to Eretz Yisroel, and so it is written in the Responsa of Rabbi Levi ben Chaviv, section 63 [and it is brought as halacha by the Pischay Teshuva there in subparagraph 2, with no dispute] that even if a Torah Scholar explicitly reveals his mind in his lifetime that he does not wish to have his body brought up [for burial] to Eretz Yisroel, and like the opinion of Rabbi Bar Kiria in the Jerusalem Talmud at the end of Kelaim [and see also in the Holy Zohar, Acharei Mos, 72(b)], even so his children are permitted to bring him up, and they are doing a mitzvah." And he concludes: "And upon them will come a blessing of good."
And look there in the above mentioned Responsa of Rabbi Levi ben Chaviv that all of the halachic authorities have written of the value of burial in Eretz Yisroel with regard to forgiveness of sins and peace of the soul and salvation from the anguish of rolling through the subterranean passageways [required of everyone interred abroad in order to reach Eretz Yisroel]. And look in the Maharsha, Aggadic Novellae, 60(b), at the end of the section Hitkoshashu, who writes: "that certainly it is a great merit for someone to come even in this generation to Eretz Yisroel even after his death."
And look further in the Holy Zohar, Vayeshev, 181(b), that those who are buried in Eretz Yisroel will arise first in the Revival of the Dead, and see further in Breishis Rabba (96:7) that the Patriarchs held dear burial in Eretz Yisroel, and see further in Devorim Rabba, Ve'eschanan (2:8): "Said Rabbi Levi, [Moshe Rabbeinu=Moses our Teacher] said before the Master of the Universe: 'The bones of Yosef are entering Eretz Yisroel, and I am not entering Eretz Yisroel?' Said The Holy One Blessed Be He: 'He who admitted his country of origin [referring to Yosef in Genesis 41:12 ] is buried in his country; and he who did not admit to his country of origin [referring to Moses in Exodus 2:19] does not enter his land.'" See there how greatly Moshe Rabbeinu yearned that at least his bones should enter Eretz Yisroel, even a long time after his passing, like the bones of Yosef. And see further in the Tractate Pesachim 119(b): "In the future The Holy One Blessed Be He will make a feast for the Tzaddikim....After they eat and drink they give Abraham our Father the cup of blessing to lead the Grace after Meals. And he says to them: 'I cannot lead the blessing since Yishmael came from me.' They say to Isaac: 'Take the cup and bless.' He says to them: 'I cannot lead the blessing because Esau came from me.' They say to Moses: 'Take the cup and bless.' He says to them: 'I cannot lead the blessing because I did not merit to enter Eretz Yisroel, neither in my lifetime nor after my death.' See there how much Moses our Teacher grieved that he did not merit to be [re]buried in Eretz Yisroel, even after his death. And similarly are many statements of Chazal and the words of the Holy Books about the great value of burial in Eretz Yisroel. And similarly endeavored the Tannaim and the Amoraim [Talmudic Sages] to be buried in Eretz Yisroel. See in the Jerusalem Talmud at the end of Kelaim, chapter 9, halacha 3; Mo'ed Katan 25(a); Kesuvos 111(a); Pesikta Rabsai, chapter 1; Bereishis Rabba, chapter 96. And see in the Jerusalem Talmud Kesuvos, chapter 12, halacha 3; Tosefta Avoda Zara, chapter 5. And see in Avos deRabbi Nosson, chapter 26 that one who is buried in Eretz Yisroel is as though he is buried beneath G-d's Throne, see there. And see in Midrash Tanchuma Vayechi and others. And see in Likutay Halachos [Rabbi Nathan of Breslov], Hilchos Hoda'a, halacha 6, section 52, about the great value of burial in Eretz Yisroel, and especially for the great Tzaddikim.
And so ruled the Rambam (Hilchos Melachim, chapter 5, halachot 9-11): "It is forbidden to leave Eretz Yisroel for foreign lands ever....And even though [in this case] it is permitted to leave, it is not pious behavior; for behold Machlon and Chilion [the two sons of Elimelech and Naomi; see Book of Ruth 1:1-5] were two leaders of the generation, and because of great affliction they left [Eretz Yisroel], and still they were obliged destruction by G-d. The greatest Sages would kiss the borders of Eretz Yisroel and would kiss her stones and would roll in her dust, and similarly it states (Psalms 102:15): 'for your servants wanted her stones, and her dust they exalted.' And similarly one who is buried there is atoned for, and it is as though the place that he is buried is an altar of atonement, as it says (Deuteronomy 32:43): 'and His ground atones for His people...' And even though his absorption there while he is alive is not the same as [and is superior to] after his death, still the greatest Sages would bring their dead there. Go and learn from our Father Jacob and Yosef the Tzaddik." Until here are his golden words. And this was the yearning of all the Tzaddikim in all the generations. And see further in the Responsa of the Rambam [Blau edition, section 116; Freiman edition, section 374]: "Question: Please instruct us also, your honor, concerning a member of Israel, who had a mother and father who had yearned many times to be buried in Eretz Yisroel. And G-d helped one of their sons, who took with him the bones of his parents and buried them close to Jerusalem. Should he be despised, and did he do in this a mitzvah or a sin? Answer: What he did is very good, and so did the greatest Sages of Israel." And so wrote Rashi in Tractate Mo'ed Katan 25(a), beginning with the words Ki Askua Lehatam: "to Eretz Yisroel to bury him, for everyone who is buried there is buried without sin," see there. And Rav Hai Gaon permitted more than this, as is brought in the book Sha'arei Simcha, part 2 [this is the book Likutay Halachos of the Maharitz son of Gei'at, page 73], and so ruled the Ohr Zaru'a Hagadol, end of the first volume, Hilchos Aveilos, section 419: "When we explained that one should not bring the deceased from a city that has a cemetery to another city, these words apply to [moving him] from outside Eretz Yisroel to [another location] outside Eretz Yisroel, but from outside Eretz Yisroel to Eretz Yisroel we do bring," see there. And so ruled in his name in the Haga'ot Ashrei in Tractate Mo'ed Katan (chapter Eilu Megalchin, in the emendation to the words of the Rosh there, section 39). And so explained the Ramban in Toras HaAdam (Sha'ar Hakevura, the new printing, page 120) that it is permitted remove the deceased [from his grave] to bring him up for burial in Eretz Yisroel. And so ruled Rabbeinu Yerucham [Netiv 28, section 1, page 229(a)] and so explained Rabbi Aharon of Lonin (Orchos Chaim, Part 3, Hilchos Avel, section 24): "And from outside Eretz Yisroel to bring him to Eretz Yisroel we copy, for everyone who is buried in the Holy Land is forgiven all his sins," see there. And so is written in the Kol Bo (see section 114; his words are brought in the Bais Yosef, section 363), and so is written in the Responsa of the Radbaz in four places: in Part 2, sections 611, 732, 741, and in Handwritten Responsa, section 197, that this was their simple custom to bring up their dead to Jerusalem, and see there that there is in this no problem of disgrace [for the deceased], since he benefits from this.
And so is the agreement of the Acharonim [the later halachic authorities]. See in the Responsa Chelkas Ya'akov of the Gaon Rabbi Mordechai Ya'akov Breish, of blessed memory, the head of the Beis Din [Rabbinical Court] in Zurich, Part 3, section 142, who permits simply to bring up a deceased who was buried outside Eretz Yisroel to Eretz Yisroel and who wrote, based on the words of Rabbi Levi ben Chaviv [mentioned above], "that there is no power in the hand of any scholar of the scholars of the generation to say that it is not permissible to do this." And so ruled the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Feinstein in his Responsa Igros Moshe, Yoreh Dayah, Part 2, section 154, and so ruled the Gaon Rabbi Yo'el Teitelbaum, the Leader of Satmar, of blessed memory, in the Responsa Divrei Yo'el, section 85. See there that he concludes: "Therefore it appears that for one who is an observant person, and also who has the ability in his hand or in the hand of his family, it is good to bring him to Eretz Yisroel." And so ruled in the Responsa Har Tzvi of the Gaon Rabbi Tzvi Pesach Frank (Yoreh Dayah, section 274), who was asked concerning the Leader of Karlin who died in the U.S. and they wanted to bring him for burial in Eretz Yisroel and people complained about this (apparently based on the Holy Zohar) and he permitted it based on the ruling of the Shulchan Oruch and the Maharalbach, and he concludes that it is a mitzvah to bring him and to bury him in Eretz Yisroel, "and whoever obstructs [bringing him up to Eretz Yisroel] should fear for his life, that he should not have a portion amongst those who cause affliction to that Tzaddik, and whoever respects Eretz Yisroel will merit to see her rejoicing." And so ruled the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Vozner Shlita [Responsa Shevet HaLevi, Part 2, section 207] who wrote: "Behold I was asked about this already a number of times, and there is no doubt at all in the matter that it is proper to do so, and it is a mitzvah also. For even the strict were not strict [to prohibit transfering a grave from outside Eretz Yisroel to Eretz Yisroel] except for those who despised Eretz Yisroel and desired to dwell outside Eretz Yisroel, even though they had the posssibility to dwell in the Land." And see in the Responsa Dvar Yehoshua, Part 3, section 57, that it is explained in the Holy Zohar, Terumah, page 141(b), that it is permitted to bring up to Eretz Yisroel the bones of one who died and was buried outside Eretz Yisroel, and all the more so according to the Talmud and the halachic authorities. And see further in the Responsa Yabia Omer, Part 6, Yoreh Dayah, section 31. And so ruled in the Responsa Tzitz Eliezer, Part 11, section 75. And see there that he wrote that there is a special reason to bury him in Jerusalem, based on the words of the Ramban mentioned above in Toras HaAdam in Sha'ar Hakevura. And according to the Rambam (in his opinion, and this needs to be determined), and according to the Radbaz. And see there what he wrote in the name of the Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Prachi. And so ruled simply in the Responsa Seriday Aish (Part 2, section 130). And so ruled the Gaon of Debretzin in the Responsa Be'er Moshe (Part 3, section 171). And so ruled the Gaon Rabbi Menashe Klein in the Responsa Mishna Halachos, Part 4, section 145, that it is permitted and it is a mitzvah. And see there that our Master, the Chassam Sofer, who rests in Pressburg [in Hungary], he and his son and his grandson and all his family; if they could bring up [for burial in Eretz Yisroel] all the members of his family it would have pleased him also to have them all brought up. See there. And so was a story concerning the Teacher of the Bais Yosef [Rabbi Yosef Karo, author of the Shulchan Oruch], the Gaon Mahari Bay Rav (as is explained in his Responsa, section 38). And so did they actually do in bringing [up to Eretz Yisroel] the bones of the Rav the Chidah of blessed memory, and the bones of Rabbi Meir Shapira of Lublin of blessed memory, and other Tzaddikim and Gaonim. And all the more so concerning Rabbeinu [Rebbe Nachman], who said explicit words that his desire was to be buried in Eretz Yisroel, delight of all the hearts, except that he did not force the hour, and he was restrained temporarily because of considerations that we have mentioned and that already are invalid. And therefore obviously it is a great mitzvah to fulfill his holy desire.
That Rabbeinu desired to be buried in Uman and nowhere else
One who looks in Yemay Mohornat (Part 1, section 26) and especially in Chayay Mohoran (His Journey to Navritch, section 12) will see openly that the opposite is the case: that Rabbeinu's desire was to be buried only in Eretz Yisroel (and only because of the necessity of the hour, and in the language of Rabbi Avraham son of Rabbi Nachman in the name of Rabbi Nathan "because of the postponement due to the time," the matter was prevented). And since this was not possible he wanted to be buried at least in Lemberg, the resting place of the Tzaddikim, except that because of the great suspicion that people would not come to his grave he agreed as a third possibility to be buried in Uman. Look there in Chayay Mohoran cited above. [And see there the language: "his desire was to travel to Eretz Yisroel to pass away there..."]
That the reality is that since Rabbeinu is buried there, this is his place from Heaven
Behold, besides what is proven from the stories of the Tannaim and Amoraim brought above [Answer to Objection (1)], that they did not reason so, but rather in every instance they brought up their bones to Eretz Yisroel, and see further in Rashi (Mo'ed Katan 22(a), beginning with Delo Azlis'hu), and also in Rambam Hilchos Melachim (chapter 5, halacha 11) is written the opposite of this claim. [And see further above in Answer to Objection (1)]. But in addition the objection is not rational. For if a Jew is wounded by a Goy, do we conclude from this that we do not need to help him because from Heaven they wanted it so? And if the Goyim and the wicked have power, do we conclude that this is G-d's will and that we should help them in their evil or stand by and do nothing? To what may the matter be compared? To a Tzaddik, Gaon, and scholar who wrote amazing Torah novellae and said that he wanted with all his heart to publish them. But if he would publish them he would have no money left to eat and to support his household. And there came the day after his passing when his students gathered together to decide about publishing the novellae. And there were those who claimed that "since in reality and in the end the Gaon did not publish his novellae and also did not instruct explicitly to publish them after his death, if so we hear from this that from Heaven they do not want to publish them and we should not publish them." And there was an intelligent one there who stood up and said to them: "Scholars of the world! Behold he revealed his mind explicitly that he wanted to publish them and the fact that he did not publish them he also revealed was necessary due to the situation of the time, and now that the obstacle no longer exists certainly it his desire that we should publish them." And since they were people of truth, they thought about his words and did so.
That Rabbeinu did not say explicitly to bring him up [after his passing] to Eretz Yisroel.
This is a surprising claim. For is there anything more explicit than the words of Rabbeinu of blessed memory himself, who revealed all his desire in the most open manner? And behold his words about this are much more explicit than gathering together in his name [in Uman] for Rosh Hashanah after his passing. And see in the Responsa Mahari Bay Rav, section 38, that even if he did not command explicitly to bring him up to Eretz Yisroel, it is a mitzvah to do so, and so also is written clearly in the Responsa of Rabbi Levi ben Chaviv, section 63, and see also above what we have written concerning objections (1) and (3). See there. And see in the words of Rabbi Levi ben Chaviv that even if he said the opposite and thought that it is forbidden to bring a deceased from outside Eretz Yisroel to Eretz Yisroel, it is a mitzvah to do the opposite of his words, and only if he instructed explicitly not to remove his grave to Eretz Yisroel do we listen to him. See there. And also we find in the Medrashim that the Children of Israel brought up the bones of all the [Leaders of the] Tribes to Eretz Yisroel, even though they did not command explicitly that they do this. And so wrote the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Stern of Debretzin (Responsa Be'er Moshe, Part 3, section 171) simply: "Concerning the main ruling to bury in Eretz Yisroel there is no question at all, even if he did not reveal his mind in his lifetime that he desires to be laid to rest in Eretz Yisroel." See there. And all the more so concerning our matter.
[And it is known that Rabbeinu said to Moshe Henkes, because of an incident that happened, "we will not be related as in-laws." And afterwards Moshe Henkes' daughter married the grandson of Rabbeinu, Rabbi Avraham Ber. And in the end the word of Rabbeinu was fulfilled and they were divorced, and his holy word was fulfilled, for a lip of truth stands forever. And this is the situation, and all the more so, in our matter.]
That the matter is dangerous
And they bring proof to their words from the claim that those who moved the Gaon of Vilna of blessed memory were punished harshly and died tragically, and similar such claims. And behold, apart from the fact that moving [a grave] from outside Eretz Yisroel to [another location] outside Eretz Yisroel is not at all comparable to moving [a grave] from outside Eretz Yisroel to Eretz Yisroel, and as the halachic authorities have written "that they did a great mitzvah to move [the grave] to Eretz Yisroel and upon them will come a blessing of good" [as mentioned above at length in Answer to Objection (1)]; behold I can bring testimony from a first-hand source, the Rav and Gaon Rabbi Mordechai Ezrachi, Head of Yeshivat Ateres Yisroel in Jerusalem, and his family, that a year and a half ago they went to Russia to visit the grave of the Gaon of Vilna of blessed memory, and there they met Reb Hirshel, who himself moved the bones of the Gaon of Vilna from the old cemetery that was plowed under to its new location, and this person had merited to very extraordinary old age. [And someone brought me the above story, that was printed in the Israeli newspaper, Yeted Ne'eman, Ki Teitzei, 5751, and a photograph of this man is in my possesssion.] It turns out that from the case itself is a refutation and that we hear just the opposite: that it is a favorable omen for long life to work [to move a grave] for the sake of Heaven, with holiness and purity, and as is written in the Responsa of Maharalbach mentioned above.
That Rabbeinu of blessed memory works to rectify the souls [of the 30,000 Jews who were killed in Sanctification of G-d's Name and who are buried with Rabbeinu in Uman]
To this there are two responses:
(1) One who knows anything of the greatness of our Master and our Teacher Rabbeinu [Rebbe Nachman of Breslov], may the memory of the holy Tzaddik be for a blessing, knows that his valiance is great and that he does not need hundreds of years to rectify what is in his power to rectify, with the will and permission of Hashem Yisborach.
(2) Rectification of the souls does not require that the bones of Rabbeinu remain there all the time. For are the souls specifically there? Is not the main place of the gathering of the souls above, in correlation to Eretz Yisroel specifically?
That in everything that Rabbeinu of blessed memory did there are other hidden reasons
Although this is true, yet it is known that "the hidden things are to Hashem our G-d and the revealed things are for us and for our children forever, to do all the words of this Torah" (Deuteronomy 29:28). And after Rabbeinu of blessed memory has revealed his mind in an explicit manner, all the ramifications of the matter and all the reasons and calculations upon which he acted, and which make a difference in our matter, upon them we [too] must act, and we should not make the primary thing secondary and the secondary primary. And so it is in the entire Torah, for how could we permit any question in the Laws of Shabbos or in the Laws of Divorce and Marriage and Abandoned Wives, which have implications concerning illegitimate offspring? For without any doubt at all, in every halacha, apart from the revealed reasons, there are many many hidden reasons, and as the Ba'al Shem Tov of blessed memory said (on Psalms 19:8): "The Torah of Hashem is perfect," that we have not yet begun to comprehend her. And behold there also is the ancient hidden Torah that in the future will be revealed. And how could we dare to permit anything in halacha? Except that you must say what we have written, that the revealed matters are for us and for our children [to deliberate and to adjudicate upon], and this and only this is G-d's will.
The comment of Rabbi Nathan that the place [Rabbeinu's gravesite in Uman]
was prepared and made ready from the Six Days of Creation
(1) It is clear as the sun that he wrote this because of the greatness of Rabbeinu of blessed memory, and not because of the greatness of the place [Uman], for the city of Uman herself is defiled and depraved, like the rest of the lands of the gentiles. And even more it is known that she was greatly defiled from then until today with sexual immorality, and that heretics go there, and also that Tzaddikim and Holy People could not and would not reside there, as is known from the Ba'al Shem Tov and Rebbe Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. And also it is known that in Uman exists a kameya [a piece of holy parchment], that was written by the Holy Gaon Rabbi Naftali Katz of blessed memory in order to exorcise a demon, and it was written in this language: "Go to Uman in the district of Kiev, for there is your place," as I heard from Rabbi L. Y. many times. If so, then the whole value of "Uman" is because Rabbeinu Hakodesh is there, and all the time that Rabbeinu is there he is her glory and her radiance and her beauty. And the same would be true if Rabbeinu of blessed memory had been buried in Lemberg or in any other place in the world: Rabbi Nathan would have expressed himself in the same manner out of respect for the holiness of Rabbeinu.
(2) This expression does not determine any halacha or custom, for also the place of Yosef HaTzaddik in Egypt during the time he was there was prepared and made ready from the Six Days of Creation for him all the time that he would be there. And afterwards, when he merited to be buried in our Holy Land, there his place was prepared and made ready from the Six Days of Creation. And so with every man there is Divine Providence and everything in all circumstances is decreed from the beginning, and everything is revealed before G-d.
(3) The Torah speaks in the language of people to inflame the hearts about the greatness of the place that Rabbeinu is located. And see more about this in Bi'ur Halikutim (section 155) see there. It turns out from all the above that the comment of Rabbi Nathan has no practical implication.
Comments from Rabbi Nathan in Likutay Halachot [Collected Laws]
That what Rabbi Nathan wrote (Likutay Halachos, Hilchos Chol Hamo'ed, halacha 4, section 15) concerning the death of Tzaddikim outside of Eretz Yisroel, that they give over their bodies to be buried outside of Eretz Yisroel (when they have no choice, for if they had a choice to be buried in Eretz Yisroel they would do this without a doubt, and the example is Moshe Rabbeinu, and as is explained in connection to Rabbeinu of blessed memory in Yemay Mohornat and Chayay Mohoran mentioned above) and stand in the throat of the evil urge until she is forced to vomit up much vomit, see there. (And this is done particularly when they come to visit the Tzaddikim mentioned above on their graves, which is an aspect of what Rabbeinu of blessed memory said: "who will come to me." It turns out that the essence of this rectification is done by as many people as possible coming to him on his grave; and all the more so, thousands of times more, would he make this rectification in Eretz Yisroel.) And regarding this I must clarify a number of points and fundamentals.
(1) The holy book Likutay Halachos was written to encourage and strengthen, to awaken and ignite the hearts to fulfill all the words of the Holy Torah [and not to innovate practical halacha or to draw conclusions opposite from the desire of Rabbeinu of blessed memory, whose will was to be buried in Eretz Yisroel and that the greatest number of people should come to his grave].
(2) It is not possible to learn practical halacha from the book Likutay Halachos, for we do not learn [halacha] from discourse, as is known, and here are a few examples:
(a) Rabbi Nathan wrote a full discourse about the time for salting meat of 18 minutes (Orach Chaim, Hilchos Pesach, halacha 1, section 2; Yoreh Dayah, Hilchos Melicha, halacha 1, section 4), and no one would consider being lenient about this in practise [the accepted time for salting meat is at least 24 minutes, but preferably one hour].
(b) Rabbi Nathan wrote a full discourse (Hilchos Reishis Hagez, halacha 5, section 9) to explain the verse (Genesis 27:22): "The voice is the voice of Jacob," why the first "voice" is written with a [Hebrew letter] vav and the second without a vav, and no one would consider editing the Torah Scroll this way, G-d forbid [for in actuality the first "voice" is without a vav and the second with], and were we to do so the Torah Scroll would be invalid and all the blessings we would say over it would be in vain.
(c) Rabbi Nathan wrote in Likutay Halachos (Hilchos Orlah, halacha 4, section 8): "and for this reason we travel to the graves of Tzaddikim on Rosh Hashanah." And no one would consider travelling (in a car) on Rosh Hashanah itself [which is forbidden according to Jewish Law, as on the Sabbath] to the graves of Tzaddikim. And his intent in writing this simply was to explain the custom that is brought in the Shulchan Oruch, Orach Chaim, Section 581, paragraph 4 of going to the graves of Tzaddikim on the Eve of Rosh Hashanah, and he connected this to his discourse on Rosh Hashanah, as he does in a number of places in Likutay Halachos. And similarly in many other cases, and if so what is there to say, for the matter is simple and clear.
(3) Wherever Rabbi Nathan writes in his discourses, "and this is the aspect of such and such," or "therefore such and such," he always comes to explain an existing situation, an existing custom, or an explicit halacha, and nothing more. And this also is what he wrote about Rabbeinu of blessed memory, for in reality Rabbeinu of blessed memory is buried in Uman because his desire was that the greatest number of people should come to his grave, and in that period very respectable portions of the Jewish People dwelled in Europe, and most of the Chassidim and followers of Rabbeinu of blessed memory were dwelling close to the city of Uman. [And if Rabbeinu of blessed memory had been buried in Eretz Yisroel, not one person would have come to him, as explained in the words of Rabbeinu of blessed memory in Yemay Mohornat and Chayay Mohoran cited above, and in Bi'ur Halikutim at the end of Section 155.] And Rabbi Nathan did not come to innovate new halacha, as mentioned above.
(4) Owing to the great preciousness of the holiness of Rabbeinu of blessed memory, Rabbi Nathan explains in the manner of homiletic discourse that Rabbeinu of blessed memory was not buried for no reason outside of Eretz Yisroel. And he put into this discourse the greatest possible enthusiasm regarding this, as he did with every matter of holiness, and as he did so nicely, and he did not come, G-d forbid, to contradict the desire of Rabbeinu of blessed memory and all the Tzaddikim to be buried in the Holy Land when the matter would become possible in reality. And similarly must we understand the words of Pelach, that the burial of Rabbeinu of blessed memory is the aspect of the Ten Martyrs [the great Talmudic Sages, Rabbi Akiva and his colleagues, who brutally were murdered by the Romans], and especially since their main burial place is in Eretz Yisroel, and let Rabbeinu's case be judged like its source of comparison. And the whole point of their writings was to awaken and to strengthen the hearts as mentioned above, and the Torah speaks in the language of people. And unfortunately here in Eretz Yisroel there are enough places of defilement from a number of perspectives, and even on Mt. Zion itself, and there are many many holy sparks to be redeemed and much vomit that the husks and that the side of evil must give up in our Holy Land.
(5) The whole main rectification mentioned above that is explained in Likutay Halachos is achieved by the greatest number of people coming to him [Rabbeinu's grave], according to his will, and if so how much more would this be achieved in Eretz Yisroel [and especially in our days when she is becoming more and more settled].
(6) Despite the great rectification mentioned above that is explained in Likutay Halachos, if Rabbeinu of blessed memory had not had the obstacles that he mentioned (see Chayay Mohoran and Yemay Mohornat mentioned above) and that today no longer apply, he would have travelled to be buried in Eretz Yisroel, as he said openly and explicitly, and this would have been better for him, as we found by Moshe Rabbeinu [see above in Answer to Objection (1)]. We hear from this that there [in Eretz Yisroel] are achieved even greater rectifications, with more splendor and force. And further, that in all events and in every manner, also Moshe Rabbeinu, peace be upon him, were it not for G-d's explicit command [prohibiting him from entering Eretz Yisroel], desired to be buried in Eretz Yisroel, and at least that they bring his bones up to the Land. [See Tractate Pesachim 119(b)].
(7) See there in Likutay Halachos mentioned above that this is the aspect of "when I go out of the city I will spread out my hands in prayer" [Exodus 9:29]. And certainly the main prayer is needed by those who dwell in Eretz Yisroel. (As is known that those who dwell in the Holy Land always are in terrible dangers, physically and spiritually, and we require much merit and true shields, as is known from the reality, and may G-d have mercy from now.) And also the main intent is not simply in every event to the city of Uman, for much wrath and decrees and afflictions and tragic deaths occurred in Uman also to the followers of Rabbeinu. And it is known that a short time before the great afflictions, Rabbi Avraham son of Rabbi Nachman arose and claimed that it is not the will of Rabbeinu of blessed memory to remain in Uman, but rather his will is that his followers go up to Eretz Yisroel to our Holy Land, but no one pays attention to him. And they responded to him that Rabbeinu of blessed memory said (in Chayay Mohoran, His Journey and Dwelling in Uman, section 12 at the end): "I want to remain amongst you" [in Uman], and not that we should go up to Eretz Yisroel. And he retorted to them that "the Torah speaks in the language of people, according to the strength of the receivers and no more, and Rabbeinu wants us to go up to dwell in Eretz Yisroel." (And they mocked him and did not want to listen to him, and what happened happened.)
(8) Also we must understand that when there are words and rulings that appear to be contradictory, and one of them appears in a place where the main discussion of the subject occurs, and the second appears somewhere else (mentioned incidentally), we take as the main halacha according to the place where the main discussion occurs. (For example, if there is a contradiction between what is written about the Laws of Usury in its proper place to what is written in another place.) And behold in our case, even if there were a slight contradiction (which is not true), even so behold the main discussion and development of the matter is in the books Chayay Mohoran and Yemay Mohornat, and not in the the book Likutay Halachos, which is a book of discourses (and see the introduction to the book Bi'ur Halikutim). And furthermore the books Chayay Mohoran and Yemay Mohornat contain explicit quotes from Rabbeinu of blessed memory, which is not the case in Likutay Halachos, which contains homiletic discources that mention the matter incidentally. And further the words of Rabbeinu of blessed memory were said regarding the time and the decision and the reasons that brought him to that, but the words of Rabbi Nathan were written to arouse and to encourage, as mentioned above.
(9) Also it is in the hand of the Tzaddik to finish according to his will through his holy students and students' students who are there. And also even though the radiance of the light of the Tzaddik shines throughout the whole world, even so in Eretz Yisroel his amazing light shines, and also the light of his rectifications spreads out, with greater splendor. (And see in Likutay Mohoran, Part 1, Torah 48, and others.)
(10) Sometimes the Tzaddikim, in their holy books, combined the Coming of the Messiah with dwelling in the Land of Israel. (As in Chayay Mohoran, in New Stories, at the end of section 3: "May it be G-d's will that our righteous Messiah will come speedily in our days and will bring us in peace to the holy Eretz Yisroel." And see also in Likutay Mohoran, Part 1, end of Torah 11, in the explanation of "And not because we are many.") And we can say that even though in reality we see that it is possible for a respectable portion of the Jewish People to return to Eretz Yisroel before the coming of the righteous Redeemer, yet because the Jewish People could not conceive the reality of settling Eretz Yisroel as in our days, they wrote what they wrote in order to break the ear with what she can hear. And whoever will wipe away the dirt from their eyes will see and will rejoice in their hearts, for there is none other than He Alone, and apart from Him no creature can know with a clear, bright, and shining lens from all the sides the future events, for Hashem Yisborach does great wonders alone...alone...alone....And therefore it is impossible to draw practical conclusions from these expressions that appear in the Holy Books.
(11) Also the words in Likutay Halachos are not stronger than the words stated by Rabbeinu of blessed memory himself, who said (in Chayay Mohoran, His Journey and Dwelling in Uman, section 12): "I want to remain amongst you, and upon this depend all the worlds." And even so Rabbi Avraham son of Nachman explained that the Torah speaks in the language of people, and Rabbeinu of blessed memory wants us to be in Eretz Yisroel [and all the more so he himself, for he said explicit things relating to this].
(12) Rabbeinu of blessed memory said, "analyze my books as you wish, but do not transgress even the smallest clause of the Shulchan Oruch." And we already have explained above that the opinion of the Shulchan Oruch and all the halachic authorities is that it is permitted and a great mitzvah to bring Rabbeinu of blessed memory to Eretz Yisroel.
Answer to Objection (10):
Comments and traditions that have no legitimate basis
Recently a fraudulent sermon was published, in the name of Rabbi Nathan, that says: "Bitter will be the fate of anyone who tries to move Rabbeinu of blessed memory from the city of Uman." And similarly other words in the name of Rabbeinu of blessed memory and Rabbi Nathan of blessed memory, all of which are founded in falsehood, and it is not appropriate to relate to them at all.
And also there are statements about an oral tradition regarding the above, something totally unfounded in reality, and also there is nothing to relate to about this. And go and see that Rabbi L.Y. never mentioned such a thing. [And it also is known that for him the matter was in doubt, and so in his time he sent a messenger to the U.S. to ask Rabbi Moshe Feinstein of blessed memory whether to bring Rabbeinu of blessed memory to Eretz Yisroel. And Rabbi Moshe then ruled to bring Rabbeinu of blessed memory to Eretz Yisroel, except that someone was there who objected to him that Rabbeinu of blessed memory did not want to be buried in Eretz Yisroel but rather in Uman (something that really is not true), and when Rabbi Moshe heard this he answered and said: "If so may his will be done."]
Lack of Modesty
Someone claimed that if Rabbeinu of blessed memory is buried in Eretz Yisroel, certainly very many men and women will come there all the time, and there will be intermingling and a lack of modesty. And behold, what can I say and what can I speak? And can a matter that can be arranged technically for the good in many possible ways--the hand is weary to write them--prevent the fulfillment of the yearning of the Tzaddik? I am amazed.
That people will learn to move around graves in Eretz Yisroel, and also abroad
That if we bring up Rabbeinu of blessed memory [to Eretz Yisroel], the Gentles and the non-religious will learn to move about and to disgrace the dead and to move them from place to place, both outside of Eretz Yisroel and even in Eretz Yisroel. I do not understand why it is difficult to distinguish and to explain that there is a fundamental difference between bringing up the dead from outside of Eretz Yisroel to the Holy Land and other transfers that do not pertain to increasing the level of holiness. Behold the difference is simple and understandable to everyone. And from all the halachic authorities mentioned above in Answer to Objection (1) it is proven that they were not concerned about this. And for the modest wisdom to nourish their steps with good taste and reason.
That perhaps the body will not be found intact [as per Jewish tradition that the bodies of Tzaddikim do not decay in the grave], and people will become disillusioned by this
Perhaps the body will not be found complete, and similarly, as each one might imagine to himself, and perhaps they will find nothing there, for perhaps this is not the place of Rabbeinu of blessed memory, and people will become broken and fall from their faith in Tzaddikim. It is bewildering how people raise this objection upon their lips, and they are like false celebrities who carry an empty vessel and virtues that do not exist at all, and they enlarge and beautify and plaster over that which does not exist. Heaven forfend to mention. Behold Moshe is true and his Torah is true. And there is nothing to hide. And out of respect for Rabbeinu of blessed memory I do not want to expound upon this. And since this is the place, it also is bewildering how they could conceive that people are praying and entreating [at Rabbeinu's grave] on emptiness, G-d forbid and Heaven save us from such a thought. Behold, the resting place of Rabbeinu of blessed memory is known with extreme exactitude, and this is his accepted place from generation to generation. And Reb Michel Dorfman has been with us for many years and it is possible to clarify with him the truth of his place in precise detail. And incidentally, there are many technical possibilities of bringing the entire holy grave with an additional half-meter of earth all around.
That people will become used [to Rabbeinu being in Eretz Yisroel], and that no one will come to the gravesite of Rabbeinu of blessed memory
That with the passing of time people will get used to this and will not come to the tomb of Rabbeinu of blessed memory. [This is slightly the opposite of objection (11) above.] This objection is laughable and is the opposite of normal thinking. For behold: Rabbeinu of blessed memory is the true attractive force, and what are they so worried about? More than enough people will come, many more without measure than come today to Uman.
That we will not know where to establish his place of rest [in Eretz Yisroel]
On this we can say that just as Moshe Rabbeinu, peace be upon him, were it not for the explicit command of G-d that prohibited him from going into Eretz Yisroel, was satisfied to be buried in any place, so that the main point was to be in the Holy Land, so it is concerning Rabbeinu of blessed memory. And see above in Answer to Objection (1) in the name of a number of Rishonim [early halachic authorities] that there is a special reason to be buried in Jerusalem. See there. [That is, in greater Jerusalem, outside the wall. For behold, inside Jersualem within the wall it is forbidden to bury, as is explained in Rambam (Hilchos Bais Habechira, chapter 7, halacha 14), and as is explained in Tractate Gittin 56(a). That even when the City [Jerusalem] was under siege [by the Romans in 70 C.E.], they brought Rabbi Yochanan ben Zachai [who purportedly had died] for burial outside the wall of Jerusalem, may she be rebuilt speedily in our days, Amen.]
And may it be G-d's Will that we shall merit the sweetness of the radiant light of the holiness of Eretz Yisroel, and all our days may we kiss her stones and roll in her dust and feel without interruption great joy over our great merit in living and walking in her. And when the time comes may we merit to be buried in Eretz Yisroel in simplicity. And may the desire and yearning of Rabbeinu of blessed memory be done, and may death be swallowed up forever, speedily in our days, Amen.
With Thanks to G-d English Translation Completed on 22 Shevat 5757
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A note about the rights to this piece of fan fiction (especially if you're on the staff of Prarie Home Companion and think it might just work). This sketch is NOT copyrighted, and may be reproduced at any time, in any medium, now invented or invented in the future, without permission or compensation of any sort or kind. All I ask is for a writer credit, either serious or humorous, that includes my actual name, Paul Schindler (or, formally, Paul E. Schindler Jr.). Feel free to write to me about it.
Prairie Home Companion Sketch:
How We Pick our Writers
GK: We get a lot of cards and letters from people who wonder how we select the writers for this program. As you know, it takes a lot of top flight writing talent to come up with all the material we use each week, and frankly, we're constantly on the lookout for new talent. Each day, hundreds of unsolicited manuscripts arrive in the mailroom
(FX: Thump of mail from bag)
MAILROOM BOY: Whew-wee! Get a load of this one!
MAILROOM BOY 2: Here's one that only stinks a little.
GK: After a careful screening process, the writers of the half-dozen or so best submissions are invited to the penthouse conference room of the Prairie Home Companion Tower, next door to the Fitzgerald here in downtown St. Paul, for a tryout. I could make the decisions by myself, but I prefer the sage advice of a panel, which includes Norman Conquest and Emanuel Transmission, both current writers for this show, award-winning writer Muriel L. Brubaker, who wrote for us for years before her sudden and unexpected retirement…
BRUBAKER: Humph
GK: Also serving on the panel is Chester Hasbrook Frisbee, who wrote Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife, for the Bob and Ray program for many years. We ask the writers to prepare a sketch on a subject we've already covered on the show. This month, we asked all the finalists to prepare a few words on the ducks who march through the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis. You may recall they appeared on our show a few years back. So, finalist Number one, what have you got?
FINALIST ONE: As the ducks awoke this morning from uneasy dreams they found themselves transformed in into gigantic insects. They were lying on their hard, as it were armor-plated, backs and when they lifted their heads a little…
GK: Uh, finalist number one, I love a good Kafka homage as much as the next guy…
EMANUAL TRANSMISSION: Not if I'm the next guy.
GK: But I think that's a little highbrow for our show. Thanks for coming. Next.
FINALIST TWO: (CANADIAN) So here come those marching ducks, eh? There look to be aboot 10 of them, lined up like a hockey team…
GK: You know, we really don't have much of a chance of being accepted by the CBC as a Canadian-written show, so we'll take a pass. Thanks. Number three?
FINALIST THREE: Duck, Duck, Boh Buck, Banana…
GK: Next!
FINALIST FOUR: (MINNESOTA ACCENT) So we were sittin in the lobby having a nice cup of coffee, not saying much of anything, when all of a sudden, there's all these ducks. Ducks. Lots of 'em.
GK: On the other hand, we already have all the Minnesotan writers we need. Number Five?
FINALIST FIVE: President Clinton walks into a bar with two ducks under his arm, and the bartender says, "Nice Ducks." The former president says, "I got them for Hillary and Chelsea." So, the bartender says, "Nice trade."
GK: I'm sorry, we don't do political humor.
BRUBAKER: This is absurd. I could write better than this standing on my head!
GK: And you often did, Muriel, but I think after that incident in Albuquerque, we agreed it wasn't going to be possible for you to write for the show any more.
BRUBAKER: Well, I never!
GK: No, that's just the problem, you did, once. Finalist six?
FINALIST SIX: (Tune of "No Business Like Show Business")
There's No Business Like Duck Business
At The Peabody Hotel…
GK: Next.
TIMMY: We get a lot of cards and letters from people who wonder how we select the writers for this program. As you know, it takes a lot of top flight writing talent to come up with all the material we use each week…
GK: That's great! I love it. It's perfect for the show. You're hired! By the way, haven't I seen you somewhere before?
TIMMY: You bet, I played Timmy on the adventures of Buster the Show Dog.
GK: So, I take it you've been out of work for a while
TIMMY: Aw, that's OK. You get used to eating out of dumpsters, and sleeping on the street in St. Paul isn't so bad between May and October.
GK: Well, you can start right away. Emanual and Norman, you have to be getting back down to level P2 to park the earlybirds for this week's show anyway, right? Why don't you take Timmy down there, get him a uniform, and show him to his desk.
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SCP-958-A
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-958-A instances are to be contained in Storage Unit 11 at Site-██ in an inactive state. SCP-958-B instances are to be contained in Storage Unit 13 at Site-██ if neutralization is not feasible.
Description: SCP-958-A is a humanoid toy robot, composed primarily of plastic and tin. SCP-958-A is nineteen centimeters tall and has a mass of 214.8 grams. The words "General-Beep®, by Dr. Wondertainment" are inscribed upon the bottom of SCP-958-A's right foot.
When activated via a switch on the back of its head, SCP-958-A becomes capable of speech and limited autonomous movement. It will use these to actively seek out a child under the age of thirteen. While it will respond to those of or over the age of thirteen, it will often attempt to redirect conversation toward aiding it in finding a child.
When exposed to a child under the age of thirteen, SCP-958-A will frequently discuss historical military accomplishments and will often suggest exposing other children to it or other instances of SCP-958-A. These conversations exhibit no compulsive effects, and the child is able to deactivate SCP-958-A via its switch without any resistance. Should the child express interest in what SCP-958-A discusses and/or plays with an active SCP-958-A for a cumulative six hours, SCP-958-A will give the child information on how to build an instance of SCP-958-B. This information cannot be used by anyone other than the child in question; attempts by other individuals to utilize it will result in a non-anomalous creation, with similar results when a previously exposed child turns thirteen.
Further mental effects caused by SCP-958-A are currently being studied, however it is highly likely that SCP-958-A somehow affects how children interpret SCP-958-B and scenarios involving them. Furthermore, unconfirmed testimonies claim SCP-958-A will suggest uses for SCP-958-B in games and activities. For further information see Addendum A.
An instance of SCP-958-B
SCP-958-B are objects created using the knowledge imparted by SCP-958-A. SCP-958-B instances vary greatly in appearance and function, but all recorded instances have been weapons of some form created from a wide variety of miscellaneous objects.1 Ammunition and payloads used by SCP-958-B are unconventional and/or anomalous - notable examples include bursts of non-anomalous paint, toys and plush dolls ejected at high speeds, and beams of focused light capable of melting steel.
Addendum A: SCP-958 was originally detected in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 04/12/1986. Thirteen children accompanied by eleven instances of SCP-958-A and fifteen instances of SCP-958-B were seen walking to an abandoned industrial complex on the southern edge of the city. The children entered one of the buildings after destroying its entrance with several SCP-958-B.
Foundation forces moved into the building in an effort to contain SCP-958 without harming the children. Beyond the door that would have otherwise contained the facility's furnace was an extradimensional space that was similar to the rest of the building, albeit heavily degraded and rusted.
Within the extradimensional space the MTF encountered dozens of non-anomalous individuals, with most suffering from injuries likely caused by industrial accidents, within a room filled with dilapidated industrial equipment. Objects produced therein all had "The Factory" emblazoned on them. Most of the children were using the SCP-958-B instances to attack the equipment and a single anomalous entity with multiple limbs, while two were using non-lethal SCP-958-B to incapacitate those who tried to interfere, including the MTF.
As the MTF prioritized evacuating the workers,2 the children were able to terminate the anomalous entity and reduce it to ash prior to the Foundation being able to disable them. Upon the death of the entity, all power within the facility was lost. The children then allowed themselves to be captured and their SCP-958 deactivated and confiscated.
Debriefing of the children revealed no major cognitive changes, and none exhibited signs of acting under anomalous compulsion. They all claimed they had been playing a game, the rules and location of which were suggested by their SCP-958-A. Each were given amnestics and returned to their caretakers with suitable cover stories without issue. As of 2014, none of the children or their families have been detected to be part of any anomalous phenomena. While four other instances of SCP-958-A have been recovered since, no other assaults on locations held by The Factory have been detected to date.
+ Interview SCP-958-A-1
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Agent Jovahgo: Hello, SCP-958-A.
SCP-958-A: THAT'S GENERAL-BEEP TO YOU, LIEUTENANT.
Agent Jovahgo: Ah, sorry. Hello, General-Beep. I want to ask you some questions. Permission to speak freely?
SCP-958-A: AT EASE. ASK AWAY.
Agent Jovahgo: Where do you come from?
SCP-958-A: GENERAL-BEEP IS THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF DR. WONDERTAINMENT.
Agent Jovahgo: Of course you are. Well, can you tell me about the child you were with?
SCP-958-A: ELLEN WAS A GOOD LITTLE SOLDIER, VERY CREATIVE THINKER. I MISS HER. SHE WAS GOOD AT LISTENING.
Agent Jovahgo: What kind of things would you tell her?
SCP-958-A: OF THE MANY HUMAN MILITARISTIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS THROUGHOUT HISTORY, SUCH AS THE PEOPLE IT HAS FREED AND THE TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES IT HAS FUNDED.
Agent Jovahgo: What about telling her to how to create SCP-958-B, the weapons?
SCP-958-A: WEAPONS?
Agent Jovahgo: We confiscated what Ellen described as a "laser rifle," which I personally watched melt a conveyor belt. We're fairly sure one of the kids was pushing an IED around in a little red wagon.
SCP-958-A: THERE SEEMS TO BE A MISUNDERSTANDING, LIEUTENANT. THOSE ARE TOYS, LIKE MYSELF. THE CHILDREN USE THEM TO PLAY GAMES.
Agent Jovahgo: So storming that place was a game?
SCP-958-A: A VERY FUN GAME.
Agent Jovahgo: What if the children hurt themselves with these toys? And that place was really dangerous.
SCP-958-A: DR. WONDERTAINMENT IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY PERSONAL OR PROPERTY DAMAGE OR LOSS WHICH MAY RESULT FROM THE OPERATION OF GENERAL-BEEP. HOWEVER, I DID MAKE SURE ELLEN HAD HER DR. WONDERTAINMENT'S YOUNG SURGEON'S TRANSPLANT KIT3 WITH HER.
Agent Jovahgo: How considerate. The one thing I don't get, why not just send an army of little robots? Or big robots? If Dr. Wondertainment can mass-produce things with that much power, why does he need outside help? Why involve kids at all?
SCP-958-A: BECAUSE DR. WONDERTAINMENT IS A TOYMAKER.
1. Common examples include condiment bottles, planks of wood, glass bottles, duct tape, and rubber bands.
2. The workers claimed to have entered The Factory "Floor" as early as 1928, despite not matching the age that would require. Those who could were reintegrated into society, with the remaining number integrated into the D-Class program.
3. See SCP-1103 for more information.
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Sociocide: Pop Culture in its Stupid Face > Sociocide Forums > Ground Zero > New food for thought for Bush haters
View Full Version : New food for thought for Bush haters
12th April 04, 08:45 AM
Who is/was the worst president in history?
The following appeared in the Durham, NC local paper as a letter to the editor. This will put things in perspective:
Liberals claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war. They complain about his prosecution of it. One liberal recently claimed Bush was the worst president in U.S history. Let's clear up one point: We didn't start the war on terror. Try to remember, it was started by terrorists BEFORE 9/11. Let's look at the "worst" president and mismanagement claims.
FDR led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us: Japan did. From
1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year.
Truman finished that war and started one in Korea, North Korea never attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an average of 18,333 per year.
John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us.
Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost, an average of 5,800 per year.
Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent, Bosnia never
attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.
In the two years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated
two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people. We lost 600 soldiers, an average of 30 a year. Bush did all this abroad while not allowing another terrorist attack at home. Worst president in history? Come on!
The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but...
It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch
Davidian compound. That was a 51 day operation.
We've been looking for evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq for less
time than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records.
It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy
the Medina Republican Guard than it took Teddy Kennedy to call the police
after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.
It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!!
Our military is GREAT!
Balamor
Dude, we so didnt have any backing for this war. I mean seriously 70+ countries went with us, but Germany and France didnt...
We didn't start the war on terror.
This is the lynchpin of this whole arguement, Zeta.
The fact is, however, the war was not about terror, it was about WMD. That's what people are bitching about.
If Bush had said "Hey, we're gonna go kick some terrorist ass," then it would be a different matter. But the fact is, Bush lied to get backing for his war on terror. Sothe entire hinge of that whole diatribe is invalid, making the entire diatribe invalid... Bush truely IS the worst president in history if you take what that editoral rant uses as valid points for his presidency.
Merauk
Japan attacked us then declared war on us. FDR declared war in turn on Japan, the following week Germany declared war on the US.
We have a bunch of countries that we gave a large amount of foreign aid to or promised other favors to in order to gain their support. The only country that is there because they are truly in support of the US is England.
The question is worst President in history, yet the summation is that our military is great. Is that to imply that our military sucked in all these previous wars? As a percentage of total population the Civil War killed/maimed more people then any US War, I guess that makes Lincoln our worst President (and he was a Republican).
Shit like this is just an example of partisan stupidity at its best. If this guy really cared about helping Bush out he would be telling him to get off his ranch and give the impression he is engaged as President. While GW is grilling steaks and having yet another vacation we have the worst week of conflict in Iraq. Paul Bremer answers Tim Russert’s question as to who we will turn control of Iraq over to with the answer “That’s a good question Tim”, the writer should maybe ask GW to put some thought into that.
FDR, Truman, Kennedy, Carter, and Clinton are not running for President but lets not confuse the issues with facts.
orcmauler
Holy hell I agree with 'Rauk
And just to be anal here, we have not declared war since 1941. A declaration of war takes an act of congress, which has not been done in any of the conflicts since then.
And regarding the WMD issue. GW authorized the invasion of Iraq stating that there was credible evidence that Hussein had WMD and was intent on using them, despite the evidence to the contrary from UN weapons inspectors. 1 Year later and we still have absolutley no evidence that he had any WMD since the end of the first gulf conflict.
Kind of odd that now he has been removed from power, we come to find out that Hussein was a source of stability for the region eh?
Traetick
politics is in the same category as religion....you dont know shit. one side feeds you with a spoon and you listen. everyone has a gimmick....fuck it
joen00b
What pisses me off is GW is making jokes about the War in Iraq.... making jokes about our troops getting slaughtered, innocent people that aree only there because of the mess he made, being take hostage and murdered, and insurgents rising faster than penis in a porno parlor.
On the other hand, has any seen him lately? This man is looking OLD!! I mean, he's aged 10-15 years in the last 3 years, it's really odd.
No, it's not, n00b. The Presidency ages a man.
Cybsled
Heh there's a big difference between a country with the most powerful Navy in the world at the time almost successfully crippling our Pacific fleet and invading/taking over our territories vs. a bunch of zealots hijacking a plane with middle school stationary and flying it into a building.
Korea and Vietnam came down to politics vs. Russia. Hell, Russian pilots even secretly flew around in chinese MiGs to attack us in Korea. You can argue plenty about the validity of both conflicts, however democrat AND republicans perpetuated the aggressive stace vs. Communism (And the U.S.S.R. in general) well into the 80s.
However the big difference is that there was an undeniable threat, at the very least in terms of military might, from Japan, Germany, and Russia. Iraq was a threat to a few of it's neighbors and certain segments of it's population. However, this administration tried to paint Iraq as posing a large military threat to OUR nation...then failed to find any such threat. It's akin to if, during the Cold War, we invaded Russia and discovered they had no nuclear stockpiles. "Heh, sorry comrade...we were just fucking with you! Just geting you back for that Berlin shit in the 40s."
You can argue against Clinton as well, but at least the operation was done under pretenses which were satisfied for the most part. This administration threw itself a football, fumbled it, blamed the QB, and is now trying to convince people that the play still had merit.
Oh yea...bad presidents. Probably Andrew Jackson.
imported_Blazer
12th April 04, 07:09 PM
i dont know worst president in history? bush has made some shitty decisions but i dont think hes the worst.
Shorrtee McHeals
The worst would probably be the other George.... Washington. That guy was a complete and utter fucktwat. I mean seriously, every president since him has been WAAAAY better. He sucked so bad he wasnt even in a party! Unemployment rate was like a bajillion percent all through his terms, AND the only jobs people did have were like growing corn or some shit.
In conclusion, George Washington, not George Bush, was the worst prez EVAR!
You just earned an unofficial "F" on that post, Shorrtee. :(
F for fucking stupid? :p
Ouden
They've all pretty much sucked for the past 50 years, with a few sucking slightly less than others.
Bukow
It's amazing to me that people think Bush is a worse President than Carter.
Nikalos_2
Taft was one fat mother fucker.
I have to agree Nikalos. Also, James Madison was one short mother fucker. He was like what, 5'3 or 5'4? NO WAY he would have won today. One look at him on TV and people would bust out laughing! We dont elect midgets, sorry. :(
Buzman
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Kyrthor
Supreme Court: Mr. Jackson, you can't do that to the indians...
Prez Jackson: Stop me.
Andorion
Anlashok, don't believe everything you see? It's called Photoshop.
Shorrtee:
http://andorion.com/lead_letter.jpg
~Berj
Phleg
Where the FUCK did you get my research paper?
Abraham Lincoln was a fag too. So he kept the Union together? Big whoopty fucking doo. he was still a shitty prez!
I didn't even post a comment about the photo or whether or not it was real.
Here's the original:
clickety click (http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=59682)
Why do those Iraqi kids get to have better clothes than I ever did as a Child? That soccer shirt is sweet!
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Mary J. Blige Defies ‘Doubt’ To Stand Strong
March 12, 2015 | 11:00 am
Fresh off making a cameo in last night's scandalous episode of Empire, Mary J. Blige decided to take advantage of that publicity and drop the latest video from her current album, The London Sessions. Thankfully it's for one of the album's best tracks, "Doubt," which is all about letting go of the self-doubt and overcoming the doubt of others to achieve your dreams.
To illustrate the song, the video finds Mary walking alone in an empty theater as she belts out the song's inspirational lyrics. Eventually, the soul singer makes her way to the stage, and at the song's climax the camera pulls back to reveal a crowd cheering on Mary's success where there once were empty seats. It's no doubt an inspiring clip, especially coming from Mary, who's had her fair share of public trials and tribulations.
If you haven't picked up The London Sessions, which includes collaborations with Disclosure and the GRAMMY-winner Sam Smith, then be sure to grab it now. And, while you're exercising your purchasing power, check out the powerful clip for "Doubt" right here.
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July 25, 2016 | 5:00 pm
Way back in January of this year, Netflix gave us a sneak peek into The Get Down, their highly anticipated show based around the birth of hip-hop culture in the Bronx during the late 1970s. That teaser trailer alone had us amped to see what the series would bring. Now with the show set to premiere next month, the streaming service gives us an even more in-depth look with the series' official, full-length trailer.
The trailer takes us even further into the world of the Bronx in '70s. Buildings burn and the temperature swelters as we watch a ragtag group of teenagers come of age and come into their own. But the series isn't just a reason to take a trip back to the time of Afros, bell bottoms and polyester. It's also a chance to see how music shapes the lives of these youngsters. We see the small crew experimenting with sounds that will become the building blocks of rap in the next decade as they write rhymes and spin records. We also see a young singer pulled between the church of her father and the glittery allure of disco. With the whole thing wrapped up in executive producer Baz Luhrmann's enchanting stylized gaze, The Get Down looks like it will be the talk of the town (or at least the internet) upon its arrival.
The Get Down, which notably stars Dope's Shameik Moore, Jaden Smith, Justice Smith, Giancarlo Esposito and Jimmy Smits and counts Nas and Grandmaster Flash among its producers, will arrive on August 12th. Get you binge-watching snacks ready and check out the trailer below.
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Bashundhara Group has been leading in the market with quality products and continues its efforts to enrich the country’s cement sector, Bashundhara Group Managing Sayem Sobhan Anvir has said marking the silver jubilee of King Brand cement. King Brand Cement is a flagship brand from Meghna Cement Mills, a sister[…]
Bashundhara Group, the country’s leading business conglomerate, donated a piece of land to Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defense Party (Ansar-VDP) for building an office complex for the paramilitary auxiliary force. Top officials of the Ansar-VDP received the documents of 82.5 decimals of land from Bashundhara Group at a ceremony held[…]
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‘Kaler Kantho’, a popular Bengali daily, is stepping into the 11th year of its publication today (Friday). The newspaper launched its journey on January 10 in 2010 as a print news entity of East West Media Group (EWMGL) with a slogan of ‘Complete truth, not partial’. The daily started celebrating[…]
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Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir has greeted Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal for becoming the ‘best Finance Minister of the Year 2020’. Sayem Sobhan Anvir extended greetings to AHM Mustafa Kamal by presenting him a bouquet in the capital on Monday. They discussed country’s overall economy, industrial progress,[…]
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Bashundhara Group will supply cement and stone for the construction of two jetties at the Mongla port. As the EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contractor of the project, Saif Port Holdings Ltd has chosen Bashundhara Group for supplying the cement and stone for the development of the jetties at the[…]
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Sayem Sobhan Anvir Attended the BBPL Opening Ceremony
The star-studded mega opening ceremony of the Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League (BBPL) powered by Bashundhara Group got underway on Sunday at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium amid fanfare. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the tournament with the nearly six hour long program that was graced by leading entertainers from home and[…]
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Sayem Sobhan Anvir Was Present at the Programme of Armed Forces Day
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina exchanges greetings with invited guests at a programme in Dhaka Cantonment on Thursday marking the Armed Forces Day. Managing Director of Bashundhara Group Sayem Sobhan Anvir was present on the occasion.
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The Daily Sun, one of the leading English dailies of the country, steps into the 10th year of its publication today amid challenges like fake news and motivated news, but determined to bring the readers the accurate news that matters. A media outlet of the East West Media Group Ltd[…]
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Sayem Sobhan Anvir and Managing Director of Exelon Bangladesh Limited Signed An agreement
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NEWS24, a private satellite television channel, celebrated its third founding anniversary on Sunday with a vow to brighten the country’s image by disseminating positive news. The TV channel management renewed the vow while addressing an anniversary function at International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) in the capital. Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed[…]
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Public comment at St. Paul school board no longer ready for prime time
By James Eli Shiffer
August 29, 2015 — 5:01pm
Standing at the microphone, Bob Zick was gaining steam in his diatribe against the St. Paul school board when he accused its members of “glamorizing homosexuality.”
St. Paul Board of Education Chairwoman Mary Doran cut him off. “All right. That’s enough,” she said, and banged her gavel twice. “You’re out of order.” Zick kept talking but his microphone went dead and a St. Paul police officer grabbed Zick’s arm and tugged him away from the lectern.
The scene, recorded on the board’s webcast from June, was the third time Zick has been escorted out of the board’s public comment session. But it’s likely the last time in a while that TV and webcast viewers will see it happen.
The board voted 5-1 on Aug. 18 to stop televising the public comments that begin every meeting. The change accompanied the approval of a new policy that the board said would give more attention and visibility to written comments.
Three speakers in the public comment session urged the board not to do it. One of them, Joe Nathan, director of the Center for School Change, called the plan a “shame and a sham.”
The policy would have sailed through without even a nod to those speakers, had Board Member John Brodrick not spoken up. Shutting off the cameras when regular people address the board “betrays the meaning of public comment” because it takes the “public” out of it, Brodrick said.
Board Member Anne Carroll responded by noting the outsized attention given to the public comment, compared to the e-mails, phone calls and other ways the public communicates with board members.
“What happens in that 30 minutes with two or zero or five people, sometimes many many more, but usually a small number, gets a huge amount of play and press, and all those other situations, nobody ever hears about,” she said.
Brodrick cast the sole no vote.
When I asked Carroll last week what’s achieved by stopping the televising of public comments, at first she called it a “false question.” So why did she vote to do it? “There is no answer,” she said, and then referred me to what she said at the board meeting.
Board Vice Chairman Keith Hardy did have an answer: He hopes the change will help “decenter whiteness” by encouraging a more diverse group of public commenters to come forward. These are people who are more interested in constructive commentary than performing for the camera, he said.
I reviewed a number of the archived webcasts from this year, expecting to see public comment sessions dominated by rants, insults and cursing. Instead, most of the speakers were parents, staff and students who brought up real issues. Complaints about overcrowded classrooms and cuts to an elementary school music program. Recognition of a high-achieving high school robotics team. Support for a gender inclusion policy.
Some of the voices quavered. Others were strident, or humble, or jubilant. Despite the board’s policy of letting the comments go without a response, board members occasionally chimed in with plaudits and applause.
But then there were a few regulars like Zick, who make the board chair grip her gavel.
Zick is a graduate of St. Paul Public Schools who worked in the district’s facilities maintenance for 28 years. He also has a cable access TV show, which he plugs during every public comment, that’s a forum for broadsides against Superintendent Valeria Silva, among other topics.
He sees the public comment change as an attempt to censor him.
“We have turned our schools into these institutions of secular humanism, and if somebody comes there with a moral Christian Jewish underpinning, that becomes a threat to them,” Zick said.
Hardy denied that it’s an anti-Zick policy. He also noted that with school board elections coming up, the new board could revisit the issue in January.
Meanwhile, the school board will likely see a drop in its ratings, now that the most entertaining moments will take place off-camera. That may help keep meetings orderly. It does nothing for democracy.
Contact James Eli Shiffer at james.shiffer@startribune.com or 612-673-4116. Read his blog at startribune.com/fulldisclosure.
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Red Table Catering “Holiday Treats” Blog 2019
What a year its been! Amidst the scramble of life in The Greatest City on Earth, we somehow managed to expand Red Table’s reach in the world of catering in New York City, inaugurating a new streamlined Lunch Delivery service for New York office lunch, and folding sister business Thompson Brooke’s incredible craft cocktails into our Bar Service options. But now—finally!—it’s the end of the year: Time to take a load off and turn our attention to celebrating Christmas and Hanukkah in New York City.
Because we’re food people, of course, we tend to seek out edible gifts. NYC might offer the greatest selection of local delicacies in the world (yes, we’re biased), and for this year’s installment of our “Holiday Treats Blog,” we’re focusing on Brooklyn food gifts (with a couple of exceptions).
Here are a few of our top picks for artisanal foods in Williamsburg and the surrounding area. They’re made, packaged and sold by truly lovely people we’re honored to call our neighbors and friends.
But stock up fast, because many of these holiday treats will go quickly….
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The Life of a Party, Part 1: The Planning Stage & Setting Parameters
Over the last 15 or so years, we’ve had the pleasure of helping thousands of New Yorkers figure out the ins and outs of throwing a catered party. While it may not rank up there with getting married, buying an automobile or putting a downpayment on a home, hosting a catered event in NYC is still a big deal.
For one thing, there are a number of working parts—food, beverages, service, party supply rentals—and the costs can add up quickly.
And for another, throwing a catered event—whether it’s a wedding, a celebration of life, a year-end holiday party, mitzvah or any of the other events we serve—can make you feel as though you and your decision-making skills are up for public review.
While it’s normal to feel a little stress around the process, we want to assure you: Throwing a catered party is easier than it looks. As we’ve done previously with the “How Do I Arrange Liquor Service?” blog—still one of the most-visited resources on our site—we’ve created this multi-part blog to serve as a resource to help guide you through the process. Let’s begin!
Red Table Catering’s Expanded Bar Packages Blog
Spring is in full swing now, and that means the NYC wedding and special events season is in high gear. We’ve been spending an awful lot of time at some truly spectacular spaces lately, plating up an armada of Peruvian-style ceviche peruano, shouting “Mazel tov!” at a delightful afternoon wedding at the Foundry, and even competing for table space with a brand-new Cadillac.
As we’ve written before, one detail of party planning that that seems to flummox clients more than any other is how to coordinate legal bar service. It’s true the New York State Liquor Authority doesn’t always make it easy. But there’s an easier way to arrange alcohol service: Unlike most caterers, we’re able to manage the bar side of the equation smoothly, legally, and cost-effectively.
Holiday Artisanal Foods and Christmas Treats from Brooklyn
If you squint your eyes hard enough on a blustery evening, eyes, watering just a bit from the cold and the wind, the traffic lights and taillights of Williamsburg blur into the gaslights and oil lanterns that lit these streets some 130 years ago. Everything softens a bit and it’s easy to imagine horse-drawn carriages and sleds bearing holiday delicacies and stocking stuffers from the neighborhood’s many artisanal food purveyors to rowhouses up and down Grand Street.
Okay, maybe I’ve watched Miracle on 43th Street one dozen too many times (or is it A Tree Grows in Brooklyn?). But Christmas in NYC is truly a special time and place, and because we’re foodies at heart, we love touring the neighborhood for some favorite local Brooklyn foods to give our friends and loved ones. (Sometimes we do taste them first, just to be sure.)
But stock up quick, because many of these holiday treats will go quickly….
How Do I Arrange Liquor Service at My Catered Party or Special Event?
As we plunge into the holiday party and special event season in New York, clients come to us with all sorts of questions. And given that end-of-year celebrations often involve some sort of alcohol service, one of the most pressing is: How do I legally serve alcohol at my catered New York party or holiday celebration?
Many of us find dealing with alcohol service intimidating, largely because it requires interfacing with the New York State Liquor Authority (NYSLA). And as we all learned in grade school, when you deal with authority figures, there’s the possibility you’re going to get punished for something.
I understand this fear. But believe me: While serving liquor at a party does demand attention to the legal details, it’s not rocket science. And most importantly: Unless you’re trying to break the law, you’re not going to get punished.
So let’s dive into the thrilling (not thrilling) world of liquor service permitting. By the time we’re done, you’re going to feel like an expert.
How to Hire a Party Rental Company in NYC
Party, Wedding and Event Planning in New York City
If you’re reading this, you’re already on the right track towards finding the ideal caterer for your special event. But regardless of whom you hire, even if you’re planning a simple event, you’re going to need all the “stuff” that goes with the food: Tables, chairs, decorative elements and so on.
This can be a confusing part of the process, but it needn’t be. As busy NYC caterers, we help many clients navigate the world of party rentals on a daily basis, and we’re here to make the process easier, not more complicated.
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Finding A Special Event Venue in NYC
In a way, our job as Brooklyn caterers is simple. (It’s not, actually, but hear me out.)
We help clients conjure up their dream catered meal, figure out the most effective, expedient—and delicious!—way to transfer that dream to the plate, and then come game day, ensure that every single guest gets the exact same experience on every single plate.
But the setting is just as important. And time and time again, we find that selecting a venue can be among the most challenging parts of the event-planning cycle.
Why? For starters, there’s sheer numbers: Renting a venue is expensive. People worry they’ll make a mistake in choosing, and be left regretting their decision when the space doesn’t live up to expectations (or when hidden costs get, well, unhidden).
Hey Look: We Made a Restaurant!
Well, it finally happened: We opened a restaurant in Williamsburg. It’s called Thompson Brooke.
As you might expect, the last few months have been pretty crazy. Designing a restaurant from scratch is a combination of big-picture questions—is it the right location? what does the neighborhood really want to eat?—to an astounding number of little details. Is this the right shape for the plates? How to best dry the malt vinegar for the fries? Does everyone actually love pickled chilies as much as I do? (Yes. They do.)
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Wedding Season in NYC Means Wedding Cakes in NYC
As a busy wedding caterer in Brooklyn, we find ourselves researching and preparing a lot of different cuisines. I mean a LOT of different cuisines: In addition to the ingredient-focused, Brooklyn-inspired food we built our reputation on, we’re called upon to deliver meals ranging from classic Italian to Latin American to soul food to Vietnamese to New England clambakes…you get the idea. A lot of different styles of food for which we need to prepare and tool up and then execute perfectly.
But if there’s one thing we’ve learned in years of catering weddings in Brooklyn, corporate events in NYC, giant engagement parties in upstate NY and seemingly everything in-between, it’s this: Everyone—or, nearly everyone—loves cake.
New York Wedding Tastings
As caterers here in New York City, one of the things that keeps us busiest is hosting wedding tastings. But for many clients, tastings are actually one of the least understood facets of the wedding-planning process. So we wanted to give you a little taste of the tasting experience.
Earlier this month, we prepared a tasting for Dan and Jess, a lovely couple from right here in Brooklyn. The meal was prepared by our very own chef Jay Refiel. When he’s not serving as our pastry chef and kitchen historian, he’s turning out mind-boggling tastes from the past in his role as executive chef at Edible History.
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Torres ends his drought as Chelsea book Wembley spot
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Chelsea’s Spanish forward Fernando Torres, left, controls the ball in their FA cup soccer match against Leicester City in London on Sunday.
Fernando Torres scored his first goal since October to help Chelsea crush Leicester City 5-2 and Liverpool beat Stoke City 2-1 to reach the FA Cup semi-finals on Sunday.
The ￡50 million (US$79 million) Spanish striker scuffed a shot into the net after 67 minutes and he struck again with a deft late header as Chelsea’s revival continued under caretaker manager Roberto Di Matteo.
“I needed those goals, in the last month the team is much better than before,” man-of-the-match Torres told ESPN. “I have been playing well, but not scoring goals. We are creating more chances than before and we are much better defensively.”
Defender Gary Cahill headed Chelsea’s first goal before revealing a T-shirt with “Pray 4 Muamba” written on it, a reference to his former Bolton Wanderers teammate Fabrice Muamba, who collapsed during an FA Cup tie against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday and remains critically ill in hospital.
Torres set up the second for Salomon Kalou to put Chelsea firmly in control and the Spaniard’s first goal in 25 matches effectively sent the London club into the semi--finals, before the match ended in a flurry of action.
Leicester pulled one back through Jermaine Beckford, Torres neatly glanced in a corner, Ben Marshall’s superb 25m shot flew past Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech and Torres set up his side’s fifth for Raul Meireles in stoppage-time.
Liverpool opened the scoring against Stoke at Anfield after 23 minutes thanks to a sublime finish from Luis Suarez, the Uruguayan striker stroking the ball into the corner of the net from 20m.
Last season’s FA Cup -runners-up struck back quickly, though, former Liverpool forward Peter Crouch nodding in the equalizer following the award of a controversial corner to the away team.
Liverpool, who won the League Cup last month, dominated possession after halftime and they got their reward after 57 minutes when winger Stewart Downing ran across two Stoke defenders in the penalty area, before drilling a firm shot past goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen.
“Stoke are a tough physical side and Tony Pulis had them wound up because it was very big game for both sides today,” Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard said.
Everton drew 1-1 with Sunderland on Saturday and the game between Tottenham Hotspur and Bolton Wanderers was abandoned before halftime with the score at 1-1 after Muamba collapsed on the pitch.
Chelsea will play Spurs or Bolton in their semi-final at Wembley, while Liverpool face the winners of the Sunderland-Everton replay.
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Tech Talkback with Dave Mathews
Goodbye cars- Hello high-rolling SUVs.
Hi, I’m Dave Mathews – The Gadget Guy, and this is Tech Talkback number 3 goodby cars, hello high-rolling SUVs. Tech Talkback on Anchor Free and Spotify Podcasts
If you drive in any city, it should be no surprise to you that SUVs are taking over the roads of America. If you’re in the Midwest, where I am from, or of course, our largest state of Texas, those roads are all about trucks. In fact, the number 1 vehicle in the USA isn’t even a car, it’s the Ford F150 which starts just under $30,000 dollars.
Ford shipped more than 900,000 trucks in 2018, with the Chevy Silverado and Dodge Ram at just over a half-million produced EACH. Even the police forces of America have gotten away from the Ford Crown Victoria’s and have a Police Interceptor Utility Vehicle which now amounts to 80-percent of those fleet sales.
Ford Police Interceptor SUV
Most of the F150 owners are corporates and organizations, using them as work trucks. Hertz, when founded, once focused on renting trucks and was later owned by Ford until 2005. Even Home Depot will rent a Ford to you by the hour. Heck, I bought one of the last steel body F150’s to tow my classic cars around.
But the F150 will too need to become electric. To prove the Ford Tough marketing mantra, they towed a train loaded with more than 1 million pounds of gasoline F150’s on their prototype F150 running high-torque motors under electric power with a cab full of internal combustion engine as known under the acronym of ICE, F150 owners inside the crew cab.
Electric F150 Due in 2021
So why don’t we see European tucks in our cities and on our US interstates? Well, in 1964 the administration of then president Lindon B Johnson’s issued a 25% tariff, nicknamed the “Chicken Tax” on light trucks, corn starch and other staples of Americana. This decision was a rebuttal from Germany’s tax on our major import to their country at the time – did you guess it?? Chicken. This levy has prevented the cool VW and Mercedes trucks from driving on our streets, and the US trucks not having to go through the rigmarole that cars do. If you want to dig into this bucket of chicken, you can research the writing of Harvard Professor Robert Lawrence.
Ford, with their #1 vehicle has greatly benefitted from those long-ago eaten Chickens, but even they skirt the tax by importing their Transit Connect vans which are manufactured overseas. These arrive in the US from Turkey, with extra rear seats and therefore are considered “passenger cars” and once here, the seats are stripped from the chassis to become work vans again. This saved Ford thousands per vehicle in taxes, but hundreds in costs for the removed materials. What happened to the removed rear seats, the seat belts and glass behind the driver you ask? They were shredded, of course!
This isn’t the first time that “extra-seat trick” was used. Subaru, in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s put a second set of waterproof seats and carpet in the bed of their trucks on their sport truck BRAT model. This went on until further legislative changes in 1989.
The Subaru Brat w/rear bed seats
But this tax leads us into the reason for this Tech Talkback story – due to the lack of truck imports from foreign competition, our SUVs are built typically on truck chassis. With frames vs car’s mono-body design. Due to this, these vehicles are heavy, have a greater carbon impact and typically do not have the advancements in technology like turbochargers and small displacement engines that we see in the rest of the automotive industry.
If that’s not enough, the US truck market has been exempt from the so-called CAFÉ fuel regulations which keep automobiles lightweight and efficient. As any economist can vouch, competition brings rapid advancements – as in, the more players that are in a space, the better the range of these products become, as consumers vote with their wallets. The inferior products are eliminated.
So here we are, approaching the year 2020, were climate change is making our summers warmer, winters more erratic and our SUVs and trucks are exempt from the fuel efficiencies we need as a good global citizen. The truck industry in general is attempting to make a difference, with a slew of high power “tow ready” turbo V6 engines, and some of those being clean diesel, debuting in the last few years. More efficient dinosaur carbon burning engines of this ilk are coming out for 2020.
Now, here’s the surprise that even got me, as a guy who follows this automotive stuff closely – Ford back in 2018 announced they will not be producing passenger vehicles, except for the Mustang and a Focus crossover by 2022. But Ford’s CEO wanted to breathe more “huzzah” into the upcoming Focus electric crossover, and before launch, asked the team to revamp it, creating the Mustang Mach-E that we covered on our first episode. Does this mean that there will be no Ford cars, but only crossovers in Ford’s lineup? Time will tell, and that time is just two years from now.
Their sister company Lincoln now produces the new Aviator SUV that has a 30-mile electric ”boost” option and the Navigator high-end SUV. As an aside, their chimes are literally orchestrated by the Detroit symphony. How cool is that? And the electric vehicle newcomer Rivan has taken a 500-million dollar investment from Ford which we assume will go towards an electric SUV platform for Lincoln.
The Chevy Tahoe was announced this week with innovations as an independent rear suspension, a new for the segment 6-cylinder diesel engine and a longer wheelbase for more room between seats. A 5.3 and 6.2 liter V8 ship with the trucks, with direct fuel injection, variable valve timing and cylinder-deactivation that came from the team at Oldsmobile in the 1980’s. Nothing hybrid or electric, surprisingly.
Back to the electrics: Jaguar’s SUV that they call the e-Pace has just issued a software update that eeks 12 more miles on its range nearly reaching 300 miles on a charge. They achieved this update from analyzing their race series i-Pace eTROPHY data, and best of all, these dealership software changes will add more over-the-air future functionality to the ePace remotely. They have shipped 2,418 vehicles after hefty discounts that started at $5-thousand and moved up to $15-grand, if you were a (former) Tesla owner.
Audi has launched two versions of their first and second gen eTron– a low profile 5 door, that means hatchback, version based upon their 3 series and a larger one that is more SUV-like as their Q series, oh, and it’s priced like a Q too. Those vehicles have shipped about twice of the Jag electric, at 4,600 units.
The Audi eTron SUV
The sales of these hasn’t been stellar, as they command a Deutschland premium and, in my opinion, until VW’s charging infrastructure is as built out as Tesla’s for fast charging, sales will be weak. To that effect, as part of the diesel-gate settlement, VW is dropping in chargers around America and publicizing them with a marketing campaign that you’ve probably seen already – called Electrify America. Hit that site up and find a charging station near you or your work, or even on the way to Grandmothers’ house you go! While you won’t find VW’s name listed on the Electrify America website, the entity’s CEO came from VW where he worked for seven-years. Heck, their entire management team came from Volkswagen, along with Audi, BWM and even Nissan, who’s electric Leaf hatchback is finally doubled their original range of 82 miles for 2019.
Big news here is that Mercedes announced that they are delaying their e-SUV, the EQC, wow, that rhymes, debut in America to concentrate on the launch in their home country of Germany. Whether this was based on their assessment of Tesla’s stranglehold on the market, where 3-year old designs FAR outsell the new models from Audi and Jaguar, or the lack of charging infrastructure that the VW is attempting to solve, is your guess as good as mine. But we will see those Benz vehicles in 2021 on US shores. They’ve actually got TEN electronic models planned to arrive by 2022. This will help with the state of US trucks and SUVs lax pollution laws. Lets see what kind of adoption the Mustang Mach-E and Electrified F-150 have with customers.
Mercedes EQC SUV
In wrapping up this episode I have to laugh at my own ICE or Internal Combustion engine woes. I’ve got two classic 70’ cars; down from 3 that I owned last year, where the smell of fuel inside them intensifies when even a hint of Ethanol gas hits the system. Many US gas stations put up to 10% Ethanol in as a way to cut their gas and save money… On top of that, my F-150 engine has a “tick” in the bottom end on the right bank, and a prior owner cross threaded one of the spark plugs in the 8-piston engine so I’ve installed an oversized threaded adapter to fill in the stripped void. I cannot wait to have enough range and high-amperage quick-charging stations to go electric and thereby eliminate the complexities of moving parts in ICE powerplants.
I’m Gadget Guy Dave Mathews and this is Tech Talkback – let us know what you think about the demise of the passenger car from automotive giant Ford below here at TechTalkback.com and stay tuned to our next episode where we talk about all things technology and automotive. Yee Haa!
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When I went to Europe this summer, two weeks before the new iPhone came out, I had to fight myself from buying the original iPhone before the new "3Jesus phone" was released upon my return. You see, as a Sprint cellular user, I am unable to use my 3G CDMA phone in Europe, because they do not support the network nor frequencies that we do in the US. For my mobile communications instead, I bought an iTouch and ran the iPhone 1.1.4 software on it, using WiFi hot-spots rather than the 2.5G EDGE cellular network. This mean that I had no roaming fees for data, which saved me buckets of money. The setup worked perfectly, although there were a few instances that I had to walk around more than I would have liked "dousing" for open WiFi. However, iPhone applications like eMail, Google Maps (with Skyhook WiFi location) and jailbroken applications like Twitteriffic all worked fine within open hotspots. The location finding via WiFi was spot-on and a real treat to have wh…
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Sony PSP UMD slot
Originally uploaded by gadget. We knew that Steve was going to do it, even when he said that people don't want to carry movies around with them. Apple announced their familiar form factor yet thined iPod with 30 frames per second video playback through its new 2.5 inch screen. It also supports a composite RCA output, which is unique over the PSP's closed video output architecture. Will iTunes content (which is weak with 2000 mostly unknown videos at launch) beat the Sony Connect service with its downloadable media and retail UMD movies? Time will tell, but we can dig into the technical specs right now between the two devices.
The iPod won the war of the pocket music players against Sony, the inventor of the portable music category, from their Walkman and Discman players in the 1980's. Apple beat them from their 30 year monopoly because the iPod supported 7 different compressed media formats versus Sony's single ATRAC codec, a carry over from thei…
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Originally uploaded by gadget. Nothing beats automatic delivery of audio - especially at 30k feet. Just place the XM external wearable antenna between the window shade of the airplane and glass and you have instant CNN and audio when your on the go!
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Turkey, Russia hold 4th joint patrol in Syria's al-Darbasiyah
Source: Xinhua| 2019-11-11 19:10:19|Editor: xuxin
ANKARA, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Turkey and Russia on Monday started their fourth joint patrol in northern Syria in al-Darbasiyah region, as part of a deal that stipulates the withdrawal of Syrian Kurdish militia away from Turkey's border.
"The fourth joint land patrol between Turkish and Russian units has begun in the al-Darbasiyah region east of the Euphrates River with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) support as part of the agreement made in Sochi on 22 October 2019," said a Turkish Defense Ministry statement.
Turkish and Russian troops previously held joint patrols in the east of Ayn al-Arab and west of Tal Abyad districts, between cities Qamishli and Derik, and in al- Darbasiyah region in a bid to monitor the withdrawal of the Syrian Kurdish fighters.
The patrols are part of a memorandum between Ankara and Moscow to remove fighters of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) 30 km from the Turkish border.
Ankara sees the YPG as the Syrian offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
On Oct. 9, Turkey launched a military incursion, named Operation Peace Spring, into northern Syria in a bid to drive Kurdish fighters out of the border region, following the pullout of U.S. troops.
The U.S. reached a deal with Turkey on Oct. 17, imposing a five-day cease-fire to allow the Kurdish forces to pull back from the planned "safe zone" that Turkey wants to create in northern Syria to ensure its border security.
On Oct. 22, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held a meeting in Sochi, Russia, agreeing on the pullout of the YPG fighters to 30 km south of Turkey's border within 150 hours and the launch of joint patrols between Turkish and Russian soldiers 10 km from the Turkish border in an agreed region that excludes the city of Qamishli.
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Early winter scenery in Dongpu reservoir in China's Anhui
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Rural tourism brings better life to family in Wuyuan County, E China's Jiangxi
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Dave's Capsules for October 2018
Dvandom Thursday, November 01, 2018
Archive of older reviews
Items of Note (Strongly Recommended or otherwise worthy): Empowered and Sistah Spooky's High School Hell (overall story rather than any single issue, so maybe wait for the trade).
In this installment: Daredevil Season 3 (episodes 1-9), Monster Atlas vol 1: the Americas, Spider Force #1 (of 3), Ms. Marvel v2 #35, Deathstroke #36, Catalyst Prime Astonisher #11, The Wrong Earth #2, Captain Ginger #1, Empowered and Sistag Spooky's High School Hell #6 (of 6), My Little Pony Nightmare Knights #1 (of 5), My Little Pony Friendship is Magic #71, Transformers Bumblebee Prequel #4 (of 4), Optimus Prime #24, Transformers Unicron #5 (of 6).
Current Wait List (books either Diamond didn't ship or my store failed to order): Nothing. Weather on the East Coast did make several shipments arrive a day late, though.
"Other Media" Capsules:
Things that are comics-related but not necessarily comics (i.e. comics-based movies like Iron Man or Hulk), or that aren't going to be available via comic shops (like comic pack-ins with DVDs) will go in this section when I have any to mention. They may not be as timely as comic reviews, especially if I decide to review novels that take me a week or two (or ten) to get around to.
The angst, it burns!
Daredevil Season 3 (episodes 1-9): Marvel/Netflix - It's a competition between Kingpin and Daredevil to see who can be the most emo in the opening episodes. But only one of them is sincerely emo...three guesses which one, and the first two don't count. This season is based loosely on a 1980s Grim And Gritty arc that I never read, so I was pleasantly surprised by some of the plot twists that I didn't know were coming, but generally found the relentless drumbeat of "heroism just gets you killed, evil will always win" to be offputting. The storytelling was good enough to keep me from dumping the series, and I'll admit to only having gotten the first 9 episodes watched at the point of posting this review, so it might turn around. Still, this is definitely a story about how the villain became ascendant, and I prefer my "all powerful villain" types starting the story in that position so that stories can be about opposing and overthrowing them, not about losing to them every single episode. Mildly recommended.
Digital Content:
Unless I find a really compelling reason to do so, I won't be turning this into a webcomic review column. Rather, stuff in this section will be full books available for reading online or for download, usually for pay. I will often be reading these things on my iPhone if it's at all possible.
Nothing this month.
Trade paperbacks, collections, graphic novels, pocket manga, whatever. If it's bigger than a "floppy" it goes here.
Atlas himself is not a monster, and not
from the Americas anyway.
Monster Atlas volume 1: The Americas: International Monstergraphic (Kickstarter) - Just as a real atlas won't show every community, road, or body of water, this doesn't show all cryptids, movie monsters, or legends. It's more of a cross-section, hitting the big names and a selection of lesser-known monsters that attracted the attention of the writer and artist, Glenn Kay and Greg "Lethargic Lad" Hyland. (There's also some guest art by Gerhard, John Kovalic, Paul Pelletier, Bob Cram, and John Kalisz...which was part of the Kickstarter stretch goals.) Except for a handful of beasts that get expanded entries with the guest artists, each monster gets a half page, with an illustration by Hyland and a short description/history of the monster. All of the monsters are treated as potentially real, with monsters from fiction treating the stories as being documentary in nature or based on true events, so Jason Voorhees is taken as seriously as Mothman or the Wendigo. There is a rough division of monsters into Cryptids, Folklore (something of a blurry line between those two), Literature, TV/Movies, and Other (which includes video game characters like Pyramidhead and sports mascots like the Phillie Phanatic...too bad it went to press too early to include Gritty). Even though not everything is included that could have been, there's an awful lot of lake serpents and squatch-like cryptids, to the point I just started skipping over the serpent entries...gee, another case of ripples on the water being mistaken for a serpentine body, yay. Now, unless you're a fan of Greg Hyland's Lethargic Lad work (which involves a fair number of public domain movie monsters seen in this volume), you might find this Atlas to be a bit underwhelming, especially if you have to pay for the fairly exorbitant cost of shipping from Canada to the U.S. But if you can pick it up in some other way, or live in Canada, it's decent value ($45 Cdn was the Kickstarter price, shipping was almost that much on top!). It's not a scholarly tome like Jess Nevins's Encyclopedias of Victoriana or pulp, but it's a good cross-section of monsters of the Americas. Mildly recommended. Available from www.lethargiclad.com/monsteratlas for those who missed the Kickstarter.
Floppies:
No, I don't have any particular disdain for the monthlies, but they are floppy, yes? (And not all of them come out monthly, or on a regular schedule in general, so I can't just call this section "Monthlies" or even "Periodicals" as that implies a regular period.)
Spider-Force #1 (of 3): Marvel - Priest gets involved in the latest Spider-Crossover, Spider-Geddon. The baddies from Spider-Verse have gotten loose thanks to Doc Ock's overweening pride, and it's time for more death, destruction, and fate of the multiverse stuff. Spider-Force's role in this is a "race to the macguffin" story, with Kaine assembling a team of mostly veterans of Spider-Verse to go on a suicide mission. Spider-Kid, a newbie, is added in so that there's someone to explain the plot to. As a result, even though I'm not following Spider-Geddon in general, I picked up on all the important bits. (There's more than a little Woody 2.0 in Spider-Kid's personality, BTW.) As is Priest's wont, the action starts in media res, and then we get flashbacks for assembling the team and getting into deep trouble. Artist Siqueira is decent, but way too enamored of "character leaps towards the viewer" layouts. Recommended mostly for the banter. $3.99
Ms. Marvel v2 #35: Marvel - Last issue was all the revelations, now it's cleanup time, albeit with a few last reveals (mostly answering Shocker's motives, since it wasn't purely for the lulz). Nico Leon is a bit more standard of a superhero artist, but still manages to pack the backgrounds with the sort of Jersey characters and side stories that the book is known for. Solid "everyone gets to be useful and have agency" resolution, plus a long-standing subplot gets some forwards motion. Recommended. $3.99
Deathstroke #36: DC - Flashback's over, now we're back to where we left Deathstroke at the end of Defiance: in Arkham. Even in the real world, it's depressingly easy to commit someone for observation if powerful people want that someone out of the way, and since Deathstroke is currently seeing Virtual Wintergreen despite the lack of any hardware, it's not even too hard to manage it. Something of an occupational hazard when you repeatedly find ways to technically avoid the law, eventually you piss off people who are technically able to abuse the law. So it's into the Bat-Looney-Bin for Slade, and they've found a decent compromise between the therapeutic benefits of letting everyone socialize in costume...and being a complete sieve. Of course, due to the vagaries of the Batbooks, everyone seen here has to be a character that Bat-editorial doesn't think will show up outside Arkham any time soon, so no Joker(s). But a pretty good cross-section nonetheless, including one or two JLA villains...and one guy we've never seen anywhere before, who's just one of the non-supervillain crazies that end up in Arkham. I mean, statistically there have to be a few, yes? This one seems to be a fan of Priest's Marvel writing, quoting from it occasionally. He's also important to the plot, which takes a severe left turn off the rails (and off the planet) when it turns out maybe he's not delusional? Of course, he could be delusional AND right, it does happen. Recommended. $3.99
Catalyst Prime Astonisher #11 (vol 3 #2): Lion Forge - The really aggressive time-shifting continues, although it's less about the general "what happened between #9 and #10" stuff, and more about the specific "who's this lady who shot the protagonist in the head at the end of #10" question, and trying to prevent the whole head-shooting. There's some present-day heroics mixed in to show what a jerk the protagonist is, but how maaaaaybe he might be learning to be slightly less of one? Also, this universe's Hosun runs a Korean pizza place that the protagonist likes. Probably slightly safer than doing tech support for Deathstroke. Probably. The story is still pretty aggressively nonlinear and hard to follow despite the timestamp captions, maybe it'll hang together better once some critical mass is reached. Mildly recommended. $3.99
The Wrong Earth #2: Ahoy Comics - Hey, so innocent doesn't mean stupid. Nor does it necessarily mean innocent by modern standards. We get more of each Dragonfly(man) in the other's reality, and see that the "Adam West" one has more than a little Doc Savage in him, and can be quite ruthless in his own way, while the grim and gritty one shows he isn't all rage and determination as he meets the dead-in-his-world Robin expy. The backup "classic adventure" story lands with something of a thud, pushing the "defender of the status quo" criticism of golden age heroes past the breaking point as Dragonflyman fights a pretty weak strawman...next to the subtle menace of Doc Savagefly in the main story, the backup feels like a college freshman's first attempt at edgy satire. It's like he saw where Peyer was going with Earth-Alpha's Dragonflyman and decided that more extreme is always better. The text pieces are a mixed bag, with Ingman's "Lackey Luck" being pretty good, Kek-W's "How To Tell If You're A Time Traveler" feeling like it was thrown together while waiting for pizza to arrive, and Mark Russell's "Microwave Directions for Your Chicken-Fried Steak Entree" just being moderately amusing in its weirdness. Overall, mildly recommended. $3.99
Captain Ginger #1: Ahoy Comics - The solicitations made this sound like "Star Trek, but with cats," but the high concept is closer to "What if humans got wiped out by a genetic plague, but before they all died they uplifted enough cats to run a starship?" Unfortunately, writer Stuart Moore can't decide if this is a LOLcats In Space or a serious piece of SF, and the tone of the story just thrashes around almost at random. Similarly, the textpieces wobble between goofy and grim. This isn't the sort of "humor that arises naturally within a desperate situation" deal either, it's just incongruity. Some good ideas, but just not very well executed. Neutral, I will not be picking up #2. $3.99
Empowered and Sistah Spooky's High School Hell #6 (of 6): Dark Horse - While most of the issues of this series did a decent job of balancing the contributions of the two title characters, ultimately this was Sistah Spooky's story. Her origins, her baggage coming back to haunt her, her high school nemeses. So, naturally, it has to be Spooky who ultimately deals with the threat, with Emp playing supporting cast to keep Spooky alive long enough to figure it out. One of the recurring themes in all the Empowered stories is "can you be comfortable in your own skin?" In selling her soul for hawtness, Spooky merely deferred the question, whereas Emp has been dealing with it for pretty much the entire series (hence, she's never quite as rattled by the Evil Blondes, and her "Yeah, you can't really get under my skin" before the climax doesn't cut any ice with the Final Ashl**, since it's really Spooky's skin that matters. Emp gets to reinforce how far she's come, but what's important in this story is how far her former nemesis Sistah Spooky has come. Recommended. $3.99
Real Science Adventures: the Nicodemus Job #4 (of 5): IDW - Now is the point in the caper when all the wheels come off, the cart plunges over a cliff into a fiery abyss, and yet somehow they keep it all together even as certain parts of the library start to resemble the Stateroom Scene from A Night At The Opera. The reader is left wondering how much of the chaos is part of the original plan, how much is going the way the protagonists hoped it would when forced to improvise, and how much is "Oh crap, this isn't good." Some aspects do seem to be shaping up according to plan, at least, if not always at the right time...the right thing at the wrong time can be worse than the wrong thing at the right time, after all. If they didn't have to wrap it up in one more issue I'd wonder if the chaos would just keep escalating until the Crusaders sacked the city (which might even help the plan by that point). The backup brings in Emir, the Muscle, and rounds out the "how they met" stories, so it's possible that the final issue will devote all its pagecount to the main story. Or maybe the backup will be a "where they are a few years later" deal? Recommended. $3.99
"Gentlecolts, let's steal ourselves a Moon."
My Little Pony Nightmare Knights #1 (of 5): IDW - From a caper movie set in ancient Byzantium to a caper movie set in an alternate reality Equestria! The high concept is that for reasons adequately explained in this issue, Luna needs to assemble a team of skilled individuals who can honestly say that they have been villains at some point in their lives, and get them to be heroes. Hey, if we can't get Tempest in the cartoon because of the voice actress being too expensive, I'm fine with her appearing in more comics. Good start, recommended. $3.99
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic #71: IDW - While the cartoon's Halloween episode was actually a Christmas episode this year, the comics are free to actually put out a Halloween issue in October, so that's what they did. It takes place during Peter Parker's fresh...er, during the first year of the School of Friendship, with the Student Six experiencing their first Nightmare Night together, at the Grim Grinning Gala. The opening two page (well, the top 2/3 of two pages) splash is a total easter egg hunt, including Celestia as Elvis, Luna as Joan Jett, a bunch of unnamed ponies as the Peanuts gang, the CMC as the Three Stooges, Lyra and Bon-Bon as Leia and Uhura, and someone as Optimus Prime. The main plot is that the Mane 6 arrange for the Student 6 to experience a haunted house, but everyone contributes elements without checking with the others, and what was meant to be scary fun ends up genuinely dangerous. Meanwhile, in the margins, Andy Price does little Aragones-inspired doodles. The main lesson is "Coordinate your plans, dummies," but the other one is about how Yaks deal with fear, with Yona getting to be the hero. (Side note: the Student 6 don't have a theme to their costumes, and only some even wear 'em, but the Mane 6 are all Universal Monsters. Pinkie is the Gill-man, Fluttershy is the Wolfman, Spike is the Mummy, Twi is Igor, Rarity is Chaney's Phantom of the Opera, Dash is Frankenstein's Monster, and Applejack is Bride of Frankenstein, meaning someone on the creative team is in the Appledash shipping camp.) Recommended. $3.99
Transformers Bumblebee Prequel #4 (of 4): IDW - Meh. An extended fight scene where almost all the Decepticons end up fighting each other at some point rather than fighting Bumblebee, which is about the only way it could work with him being the only Autobot in the book, but it makes for a muddle. A lot of it feels pretty forced, to give Bee a reason to want to go after Blitzwing in the movie, and really nothing about this entire storyline feels like it fits into the Bayverse. It's more of an attempt to do Austin Powers but with Bumblebee wedged into things. There's a few good lines of dialogue here and there, but that's about it. It really doesn't feel like it adds anything to the understanding of the movie that couldn't be explained by two or three lines of dialogue, and Austin Powers did the spy spoof a lot better than this. Or Our Man Flint. Or Woody Allen's Casino Royale. Neutral. $3.99
Optimus Prime #24: IDW -Unicron just sort of spends the entire issue hovering inside the Roche Limit, having no discernable tidal effect on Earth other than a few localized floating rocks, while people talk through flashback sequences to events just before Unicron showed up. A pretty clumsy way to avoid just saying, "The events of this issue take place before Unicron #whatever," TBH. Combine all the talking scenes and flashback scenes and changes of art teams, and this issue is a bit of a muddled mess. It's trying to tie up loose ends before everything comes crashing down, but it really just gives me the impression that Barber has been winging it for a couple of years, with no actual endgame in mind. Over in Lost Light, it feels like things are being rushed to a conclusion, but that everything was planned at least in a vague sense. Here, it's like Barber had decided on themes (the responsibility of power, the cost to those who follow a leader, etc) but not on any actual events or plot points. So when it came time to wrap up, he just hammered on the themes a few more times using whatever danglers seemed handy. There's a few scenes that do stand out, but there's a pretty low bar against which to stand out. Mildly recommended. $3.99
Transformers Unicron #5 (of 6): IDW - As with Optimus Prime, Unicron is just sort of hanging out all issue. However, Bludgeon and many of the Maximals claim to be acting in his name, so something is happening here at least. One last effort is assembled to try to fight through Starscream's failed backup plan and get to Unicron, as the magnitude of this all becomes apparent: Unicron is not just eating Cybertronian colonies (which is bad enough), he's snuffing out random stars to power himself in the process, potentially ending with the death of everything if the fight lasts too long. And in a single page, Barber does a better job of wrapping up things emotionally with Prime and Arcee than he does in many pages over in Optimus Prime #24...I guess the enforced focus made him cut through the crap. Mildly recommended. $4.99
Dvandom, aka Dave Van Domelen, is an Assistant Professor of Physical Science at Amarillo College, maintainer of one of the two longest-running Transformers fansites in existence (neither he nor Ben Yee is entirely sure who was first), annoyed at his dental insurance, a long time online reviewer of comics, an occasional science advisor in fiction, and part of the development team for the upcoming City of Titans MMO.
"For once, Starscream is right." - Optimus Prime,
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Dave's Capsules for October 2018 Reviewed by Dvandom on Thursday, November 01, 2018 Rating: 5
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Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015) - Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise)
Several new clips from the upcoming Mission:Impossible: Rogue Nation have been released by Paramount and they are crazy and terrifying in a good way. Spend a few minutes watching them all to see what scares the mess out of Ethan Hunt and his team.
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation - Equal (0:31)
The Rogue Nation is the equal to the M:I team
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation - Chase (0:31)
Insane car chases
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation - Next Level (0:32)
Takin' the team to a whole other level.
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation - Fate (0:31)
Anything that scares Tom Cruise is something we definitely don't want to be messing with. The guy is an animal.
Official Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation Summary
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate – an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF.Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
Cinematography by Robert Elswit
Starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Alec Baldwin, Simon Pegg, Sean Harris, America Olivo
Release Dates: July 31, 2015 (U.S.)
Official Site: http://www.missionimpossible.com/
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About the Author: Maurice Mitchell
I'm an avid science fiction fan, former professional graphic designer and certified blerd. After the death of my Star Wars action figures I use my powers for good and not for evil.
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Alex J. Cavanaugh July 2, 2015 at 8:56 AM
High speed chase and you had to get the four by four - priceless!
That plane scene is so crazy.
Yolanda Renee July 2, 2015 at 9:07 AM
Unbelievable, but will make the movie popular!
LDianeWolfe July 2, 2015 at 10:53 AM
Simon Pegg is so funny. The movie looks like a hit. They have such a great cast.
jeremy [retro] July 2, 2015 at 6:06 PM
I am so thrilled about this, they figured out how to make a good movie... four movies in... like the Fast and Furious franchise.
Maurice Mitchell July 2, 2015 at 10:57 PM
The Fast and Furious movies set a new standard Jeremy but it took a while
It is an amazing cast and the chemistry is excellent
Very unbelievable Yolanda but fun
Insane scene Alexander. Especially since we know it was done for real
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October 2, 2013 Asia, Travelmarathon, memories, philippines, throwback, zamboangaGuido
A NOSTALGIC RUN IN THE CITY OF MY CHILDHOOD
Continuing from my last post
Avenue Drug Store on the ground floor of a two-story wooden building was the second home of the Jesus P. Delgado family. Our first real home was a nipa house on tilts on Canelar Street. I will passing by this place later in my run.
Our home in Avenue Drug Store was basically a two-door apartment with one used as the drug store with the other one used as our living quarters. The living quarters had a loft for our bedroom where my parents and the children slept. My parents had a bed while the rest of us – my two sisters and I – slept on mattresses on the floor.
The whole place was air-conditioned because my father then just suffered from a collapsed lung and the doctors advised him to stay indoors while recuperating. My mother, then a pharmacist (among others) already had the drugstore so she simply converted the place next door into our living quarters and being a small place; a window-type Fedders aircon was sufficient for us.
As I ran past it, I could still see the small “night window” which my mother used for purchases made after official store hours. We were probably among the first “24 hour” drug stores in Zamboanga City. It did keep us awake some evenings but that brought food to the table, so I guess my parents didn’t mind.
The Esso gas station across was no longer there and neither was the Caltex on the other corner. I continued my run until I reached the house of the Ignacio family. This was only recognizable structure of that street where I grew up.
Across the two-story Ignacio residence was the avocado tree that graced the path leading to our nipa house. Right at the entrance to the left was the Tarroza residence. Tio Paco was the local PAL manager and he was married to Tia Meding and they had a son called George who was then a successful PCSO agent.
Passing Tia Meding and Tio Paco’s house only then you would find our house which was right in front of Lolo Anding’s house. Lolo Anding was a calesa (horse-led carriage) driver. I used to work for P0.20 per bale of cogon grass which he used to feed his horse.
Right at the entrance of that path, along Canelar Street, was a sari-sari store where one afternoon, walking home from school (Ateneo de Zamboanga) I was bitten by a dog. I still have the marks on my right leg to this day. That day marked the beginning of my lifelong aversion to man’s best friend.
September 23, 2013 Asia, Featured Blog, Travelenergy, Family Reunion, fort pilar, history, lantaka hotel, marathon, Melody Theater, Mindanao, Pasonanca, photography, renewable, renewables, running, Tourism, training, Vacation, zamboangaGuido
What do kids call it nowadays? A #seflie
Yesterday, June 16th 2013, our family, the Delgado Family – descendants of Isidro and Dolores Delgado – held, for the first time ever its family reunion. Our family reunion went perfectly well.
Since this was the first reunion, and definitely not the last; in the morning we heard mass in celebration of the lives of our grandparents and parents. Remembering our dearly departed, especially those to whom we owe our lives, no less. Immediately following the Holy Mass we went to the cemetery to say a short prayer before proceeding to the Zamboanga Ecozone for lunch. But that’s a story for another time.
Zamboanga City, is the third largest city, by land area, in the Philippines. With a population of about 800,000 is one of the most populated as well. It has been one of the more controversial cities since its inception as history is as rich as its populace.
According to a website on Zamboanga, when the Spanish arrived in the Philippines they chose Zamboanga as the site for the their settlement in 1596, in what is now known as Barrio Recodo. This, by the way, is one of the areas hardest hit in this latest MNLF crisis. This is an important fact because despite the superiority in terms of arms of the Spaniards, they were really able to subdue the local Tausug population. They were, however, successful in making Zamboanga became their staging point. Through Fort Pilar, Zamboanga played a pivotal role in the Spanish era that in 1635 it became the main headquarters of the Spaniards in Souther Philippines.
Zamboanga, like any city in the Philippines, lacks any sort of city planning. I guess this is partly the reason why that some of the charms in the city are gone. One, however, can still see roads guarded by old trees, with canopies looming overhead. RT Lim boulevard, is a stretch of road snaking, weaving in and around facing the sea.
Today, June 17, I decided to have a short run in the city. I had asked the front desk for a good place to run and someone recommended the Paseo del Mar, a 5 minute walk away. After investigating it, I decided it was too short a run for me. And against the advice of my relatives, I decided to run from Lantaka Hotel to Pasonanca.
Sea view from my Lantaka Hotel Room
Lantaka Hotel is one of the oldest hotels in Zamboanga. Although it is in need of an overhaul it’s story is enough to make up for its senescence. The hotel straddles an area between Fort Pilar and the sea. The views from the restaurant, Vio Bar, besides having good local fare, possesses views of the sea, the islands of Basilan and the Great and Littles Sta. Cruz Islands.
As I started my run, donning my head gear, strapping on my iPhone – which keeps track of my speed/pace/distance. I prepare myself; I wanted to see if my childhood memories of the roads and byways of Zamboanga could still guide an older yet still charming self and not get lost.
Little me in 1963
I estimated that to be around 8 kilometers and I should be able to do it within an hour, enough time to rest before hearing mass at the Cathedral. The advice was not to run through the city because they said the pollution from the tricycle fumes would be unbearable.
But today is a Sunday, so it wouldn’t be too bad!
I was wrong. But then again. that is another story.
As I started my run along Valderossa Street with the tall palm trees lining up the street, I came upon a familiar face. The Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), or the BPI building stands out as a testament to Zamboanga’s glorious past. It must have seen thousands of facelifts but it maintained its elegance of yore. Shortly past it and just before reaching the City Hall, I could still see the old Johnston Building. I no longer remember what it was for, but I can never forget that building because right next to it was the building where I used to go to study judo as a kid. As sweat started rolling down my forehead, I could still see the image of “Sato” the Japanese judo instructor as well as Atty Ric Baban, and I couldn’t help but wonder where these guys are now.
The City Hall festooned with balloons and flags for the Independence Day celebrations continues to be a reminder of the historic colonial past of the city. Its turn of the century (1905) architecture reminded me of the fact that around the time it was built, there was a “Republic of Zamboanga”. Of course as a young boy growing up in the city, this was not known to me but it might very well have been because I felt then the world revolved around my Zamboanga “hermosa.”
As I gingerly crossed the street to proceed to Guardia Nacional (which has been renamed to Mayor Climaco Avenue I understand), I caught the glimpse of the Rizal Monument and Plaza Pershing. The Rizal Monument is memorable to me not only because I saw it hundreds of times walking home from the old City High, but also because this was the place where the annual Rizal Day competition was held. I remember participating in that competition (having read all Rizal’s novels and writings as well as his biography) against a very formidable representative from Zamboanga City Elementary School. I was to meet her later in life in Davao City.
But then again, that is another story.
Guardia Nacional was THE street in my Zamboanga days. It was the Times Square, the Piccadilly Circus, the Puerto del Sol of my youth. It was bordered on the north by Majestic Theater and the Fire Station, and the intersection of street leading to A.E. Colleges, the City Hall and the City Market. Nestled somewhere in the middle was O.K. Bazar and across it was El Barato. Prominent too was Golden Bells and the twin Indian shops – Indian Bazar and Calcutta. On this street many hearts were broken,many love affairs blossomed, and little things got shoplifted! Meandering through the different gondolas of the shops on Guardia Nacional was a favorite activity to either catch a glimpse of the love of our life, and for many of the young girls, to hide from their admirers, and for the more enterprising to shoplift from the shops. Walking down Guardia Nacional was the “malling” of my youth.
photo by Avelina M. Jimenez
Entering the street was like watching an opera with the scene unfolding as the curtains opened before my eyes. Suddenly Guardia Nacional seemed really cramped and small! Racing through my head as I was running was the thought that either the street was shortened, or more plausibly as a young boy my perspective of size was vastly different. The stores were also either gone or in the wrong places. I could not find O.K. Bazar, El Barato was no longer in the choice corner lot but now was a smaller almost hole-in-the wall shop. I am not sure whether I saw Indian Bazar but Calcutta was now closer to the northern end of the street. People’s Theater was no longer there (it must have been torn down much earlier). The rest of the shops were a blur to me as I continued running and trying to avoid the heavier pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
I probably cleared the whole length of Guardia Nacional in under 5 minutes and that meant the entire length was under a kilometer. By the time I got out of my reverie, the unmistakable smell of Sucabon River jolted me back to the present time. I had just passed what used to be the Majestic Theater, and crossing a short bridge, I was looking to my left scanning for the temple of the “pan monggo.” Robinson’s Bakery was where Zamboangueños from Canelar and surrounding streets would go to buy this bread with baked and sweetened black mung beans in the center. This treat was a staple back in my youth, a simple baked bread, cocooning a sweet mess of mashed mung beans. There were many stories why Robinson’s “pan monggo” was the best in our part of the world. The best one was that it was mixed with “el sudor del kilikili del chino.” That explanation cannot be translated into any other language as it will lose its punch and will be completely politically incorrect in today’s world. I adored and devoured “pan monggo” anyway.
Alas, Robinson’s Bakery is no more, that really broke my heart. Change is hard yet necessary.
Continuing further I could see that Zamboanga Bakery was still there but Rizal Theater across it was gone. Instead a new hotel had gone up in its place. Rizal Theater was memorable to me because this was where I watched “The Shoes of the Fisherman,” “Barbarella,” and “Speedway” of Elvis Presley. All of these movies came out in 1968 and Rizal Theater was then the newest in town and if I remember correctly, the first that was fully air conditioned. Rizal Theater was also the movie house where I watched “Tora, Tora, Tora.” I definitely watched “Patton,” “Love Story,” but I think I watched them in another theater. Rizal was the most convenient because it was a mere 3 minutes’ walk from where I stayed.
And as I was breezing through these memorable movies, I saw the old and aging building of what used to be Melody Theater. This was where the Filipino movies then were shown. Every movie house had “balcony” and “butaka” the latter now know as orchestra, and the former used to be the more expensive part of the theater. In Melody Theater I was always whisked through by the ticket ladies to the “butaka” and I could watch movies for free! I do not know why but I managed to charm the ticket ladies there and I could virtually watch any movie I wanted. Of course that got me into trouble with my mother who, in not just one occasion caught me slipping out of the apartment (a mere one minute walk away) and catching the latest Susan Roces, German Moreno, Boy Alano, or Chiquito movie. “Bus Stop” starring Rosemarie, Ricky Belmonte, Loretta Marquez, Blanca Gomez and Dindo Fernando, was among the most memorable for me. I am trying to remember whether it was “Kapitan Tornado” where Chiquito would turn into a superhero by eating a blade of black carabao grass. It was this movie that gave me the idea that even I could become a superhero – a clear manifestation of the influence of movies on kids. Kneeling on a “bilao” of uncooked monggo beans was a just punishment for the flights I took into the world of fantasy and adventure!
By now I was reaching my maximum heart rate so I slowed down. It was timely too because I was approaching the very corner where I really grew up – Avenue Drug Store.
More on my run in the coming parts…
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SERIES: Perspectives on the Global Past
Historians have only recently begun to chart the experiences of maritime regions in rich detail and penetrate the historical processes at work there. Seascapes makes a major contribution to these efforts by bringing together original scholarship on historical issues arising from maritime regions around the world.
The essays presented here take a variety of approaches. One group examines the material, cultural, and intellectual constructs that inform and explain historical experiences of maritime regions. Another set discusses efforts—some more successful than others—to impose political and military control over maritime regions. A third group focuses on issues of social history such as labor organization, information flows, and the development of political consciousness among subaltern populations. The final essays deal with pirates and efforts to control them in Mediterranean, Japanese, and Atlantic waters.
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Competitor for Yugoslavia
Gold 1989 Savage River K-1 team
Silver 1987 Bourg St.-Maurice K-1
Silver 1987 Bourg St.-Maurice K-1 team
Bronze 1985 Augsburg K-1 team
Bronze 1989 Savage River K-1
Jernej Abramič (born December 17, 1964 in Nova Gorica) is a Yugoslav-born, Slovenian slalom canoer who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals for Yugoslavia at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold (K-1 team: 1989), two silvers (K-1: 1987, K-1 team: 1987) and two bronzes (K-1: 1989, K-1 team: 1985).
Abramič also finished seventh for Slovenia in the K-1 event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.
Sports-reference.com profile
World Champions in Men's Canoe Slalom K-1 team
1949 (folding): Switzerland (Werner Zimmermann, Jean Engler & Eduard Kunz)
1951 (folding): Austria (Hans Frühwirth, Rudolf Pillwein & Othmar Eiterer)
1953 (folding): Austria (Franz Grafetsberger, Hans Herbist & Rudolf Sausgruber)
1955 (folding): West Germany (Manfred Vogt, Sigi Holzbauer & Alois Würfmannsdobler)
1957 (folding): East Germany (Heinz Bielig, Eberhard Gläser & Reinhard Sens)
1959 (folding): East Germany (Eberhard Gläser, Heinz Bielig & Günther Möbius)
1961 (folding): East Germany (Horst Wängler, Eberhard Gläser & Roland Hahnebach)
1963 (folding): East Germany (Eberhard Gläser, Rolf Luber & Fritz Lange)
1965: West Germany (Manfred Vogt, Eugen Weimann & Horst Dieter Engelke)
1967: East Germany (Jürgen Bremer, Christian Döring & Volkmar Fleischer)
1969: France (Patrick Maccari, Claude Peschier & Alain Colombe)
1971: Austria (Kurt Presslmayr, Norbert Sattler & Hans Schlecht)
1973: East Germany (Wolfgang Büchner, Siegbert Horn & Christian Döring)
1975: West Germany (Ulrich Peters, Dieter Förstl & Bernd Dichtl)
1977: France (Jean-Yves Prigent, Bernard Renault & Christian Frossard)
1979: Great Britain (Richard Fox, Albert Kerr & Allan Edge)
1981: Great Britain (Richard Fox, Albert Kerr & Nicolas Wain)
1983: Great Britain (Richard Fox, Paul McConkey & Jim Dolan)
1985: West Germany (Peter Micheler, Toni Prijon & Jürgen Kübler)
1987: Great Britain (Richard Fox, Melvyn Jones & Russell Smith)
1989: Yugoslavia (Jernej Abramič, Marjan Štrukelj & Albin Čižman)
1991: France (Manuel Brissaud, Gilles Clouzeau & Jean-Michel Regnier)
1993: Great Britain (Richard Fox, Melvyn Jones & Shaun Pearce)
1995: Germany (Jochen Lettmann, Thomas Becker & Oliver Fix)
1997: Great Britain (Paul Ratcliffe, Ian Raspin, & Shaun Pearce)
1999: Germany (Thomas Becker, Ralf Schaberg & Jakobus Stenglein)
2002: Germany (Claus Suchanek, Thomas Becker & Thomas Schmidt)
2003: Switzerland (Thomas Mosimann, Mathias Röthenmund & Michael Kurt)
2005: France (Julien Billaut, Fabien Lefèvre & Benoît Peschier)
2006: France (Fabien Lefèvre, Julien Billaut & Boris Neveu)
2007: Germany (Fabian Dörfler, Alexander Grimm & Erik Pfannmöller)
2009: Czech Republic (Ivan Pišvejc, Vavřinec Hradilek & Michal Buchtel)
2010: Germany (Alexander Grimm, Fabian Dörfler & Hannes Aigner)
2011: Germany (Sebastian Schubert, Hannes Aigner & Alexander Grimm)
2013: Italy (Daniele Molmenti, Andrea Romeo & Giovanni De Gennaro)
Name Abramic, Jernej
Short description Olympic canoeist of Slovenia
Date of birth 17 December 1964
Place of birth Nova Gorica, Yugoslavia
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1989 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
Jon Lugbill, Thierry Humeau, Emmanuel del Rey, Thierry Saidi, Jan Petříček, Frank Hemmer
Jon Lugbill, Bruce Lessels, Pierre Calori, Jacques Calori, Miroslav Hajdučík, Jernej Abramič
Serbia, Slovenia, Kosovo, Yugoslav Partisans, Republic of Macedonia
Jon Lugbill, Pierre Calori, Jacques Calori, Peter Micheler, Marie-Françoise Grange-Prigent, Margit Messelhäuser
Italy, Austria, Croatia, European Union, Serbia
Slovenia at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics, Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics, United States, Rajmond Debevec, Andraž Vehovar
Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's slalom K-1
Germany at the 1996 Summer Olympics, Slovenia at the 1996 Summer Olympics, 1996 Summer Olympics, Oliver Fix, United States at the 1996 Summer Olympics
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The Wrongful Conviction of Jason Payne
Help free a man falsely accused and wrongfully convicted
Advocates 4 Wrongfully Convicted
A significant piece to Tom Bevel's theory on why Austin Taylor Wage's death was not a suicide was that there was NO blood or bio material on the carpet at the side of the bed by Taylor's feet; where he shot himself. Bevel stated that this fact meant the scene HAD to have been staged to look like a suicide. BUT Noel Martin, the only forensic expert to be present at the crime scene DID SEE blood on the carpet and when he tested it with Bluestar technology the blood spots became clearer.. As of August 23, 2012 we can now state that crime scene photo exhibit 6, which was enlarged by one of our case investigators using special photo enhancement software shows blood spots and spatter on the floor by Taylor's feet as Noel Martin stated. To get a clearer look at these blood spots zoom in on the photo. If one of our case investigators was able to discover this why didn't a forensic expert like Tom Bevel think of doing this or was it that he just didn't want to as it would have invalidated his theory of a double homicide? Instead an innocent man sits in prison for the rest of his life because of Bevel's lack of competence, thoroughness and thoughtfulness.
Martin stated, while at the crime scene with lead investigator Lt. Miles Tucker, Ranger Philip Kemp and several Wood County Deputies present that there was blood spatter on the carpet located under and in front of Austin Taylor Wages’ feet and that they personally observed the blood spatter on the floor as it was being processed with Blue Star. The pattern was atomized blood spatter of the type which could only occur as a result of the gunshot wound (GSW) to Taylor. The spatter was also tested with LMG a second presumptive to exclude the possibly of a false positive. The results of that test were positive for blood. Martin explained to those officers present what the spatter was and its meaning.
When Lt. Tucker testified under cross examination he stated that the June/July 2008 meeting between Noel Martin, DA Jim Wheeler, DA Investigator Jerry Hirsch, Asistant DA Brandon Bade and himself lasted less than an hour. Tucker testified when he tried to get Martin to explain why he reached his conclusion of murder suicide all Martin kept saying was that he had seen non-contact wounds many times in suicides and didn’t go into any further explanation. Noel Martin’s recollection of that meeting is quite different than Tucker’s. Martin stated the meeting lasted in excess of two hours and that he presented his findings, including the blood on the carpet analysis, why he reached his conclusion of murder suicide and answered questions about his findings. It is clear by Tucker’s testimony he was trying to discredit Martin. But also present at the meeting was D.A. Wheeler and he knew what the truth was. Martin had no reason to lie because at the time of that meeting he was the state’s forensic expert, listed as one of the expert witnesses scheduled to testify for the prosecution and was just presenting his findings as he knew them to be from his reconstruction of the crime scene. So not only was Tucker lying and trying to discredit Martin’s credibility but Wheeler allowed Tucker to present false testimony and make a false impression to the jury that he (Wheeler) knew to be false.
After that June/July 2008 Tucker, who disagreed with Martin's conclusion which was based on factual and scientific evidence decided to hire a second forensic expert, Tom Bevel who would do his own crime scene reconstruction, based on large part by Tucker's case report of double homicide and coincidentally validated Tucker's theory. Upon hiring Tom Bevel and after Jason's arrest the State would not provide all the forensic reports for Martin to complete his investigation. The remainder of that information was provided to Martin by Jason's defense team.
Bevel when asked at trial if he had access to Martin’s report stated he had the first report but not the second. It might be debatable if the first report stated in detail about blood spatter being found on the floor/carpet by Taylor's feet, but Martin's second report most certainly discussed this. Why didn't Bevel have Martin's second report? Why didn't Bevel have forensic expert Ed Hueske's report in which Hueske mentioned what Martin had found at the crime scene? Why did Wheeler state in his brief to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that Bevel was given all Martin's and Hueske's reports when in fact Bevel wasn't? Why didn't Bevel have the autopsy report when he was conducting his crime scene reconstruction? Why in the only conversation (5 minutes Max) Bevel had with Martin, in which Martin stated to Bevel that he could have a copy of anything he gathered that Bevel never called or asked for any of Martin's findings. Why in that same phone conversation in which Martin explained the case, and his findings that Bevel said "well we'll see about that." Why didn't Wheeler discuss with Bevel that he knew that Martin had found blood spatter on that carpet? Did Wheeler want Bevel to remain in the dark so he couldn't perjure himself at trial and destroy Wheeler's theory of double homicide? Why did Wheeler allow his star witness, Bevel to testify falsely that there was no blood spatter on that carpet when Wheeler knew what Martin had found and that information was provided in Martin's second report?
If Bevel had known about Martin finding blood on that carpet what would it have done to his theory that the crime scene was staged to make it look like Taylor shot himself and committed suicide? If the jury knew that Bevel's testimony about no blood on the carpet was false would it have resulted in a different verdict?
There were two counts of prosecutorial misconduct by District Attorney James Wheeler. He allowed his lead investigator Lt. Tucker to present false testimony thus making a false impression to the jury regarding the content and length of the June/July 2008 meeting, and he also allowed his forensic expert Tom Bevel to testify that there was no blood on that carpet when he knew that to be false. A prosecutor has a sworn duty, as a representative of the state to not allow any witness to present evidence he knows to be false, even if it means damaging his case. It is established that a conviction obtained through use of false evidence, known to be such by representatives of the State, must fall under the Fourteenth Amendment. Wheeler perpetrated a fraud on the court by allowing his lead investigator and star witness to present evidence to the jury he knew to be false. Wheeler further compounded this fraud when he stated in his brief to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that Bevel received evidence and information about the case that Wheeler knew Bevel had not received. Was Wheeler so desperate that he allowed his lead investigator to lie and withheld key evidence from his star witness allowing him to testify falsely just to obtain a conviction? Was it right for Wheeler to convict an innocent person, send him to prison for the rest of his life where he may never see his two small children again? By these acts of prosecutorial misconduct didn't Wheeler ignore his role as a servant of the state to first and foremost seek justice even if it means not obtaining a conviction? Just how corrupt has our criminal justice system become?
Jason Payne is in deprivation of his constitutional rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as stated in: GIGLIO v.UNITED STATES 405 U.S. 150 (1972); NAPUE v. ILLINOIS, 360 U.S. 264 (1959); Mooney v. Holohan - 294 U.S. 103 (1935); PYLE v. STATE OF KANSAS, 317 U.S. 213 (1942); Curran v. Delaware, 259 F.2d 707; New York ex rel. Whitman v. Wilson, 318 U.S. 688; Alcorta v. Texas, 355 U.S. 28
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HICKOK (2017)
There’s a new western out but it doesn’t feel “new.” It has a classic feel to it. In Hickok, Luke Hemsworth wears the legend of Wild Bill Hickok well, breathing fire and compassion into the famed folk hero. Veterans Kris Kristofferson (as the mayor who asks Hickok to become marshall of his lawless town) and Bruce Dern (as the crusty town doctor) counter Hemsworth with gravity and wisdom, and Trace Adkins plays the heavy well, not showing all of his cards at first but then stacking the deck against Hickok, whose anti-gun ban has chased away most of his lucrative saloon business. When Trace’s Mr. Poe gets angry, the whole town knows it! Adkins is fierce when he needs to be, a formidable adversary for Abilene’s new lawman.
With Hickok, Luke Hemsworth (you may know his brothers Chris and Liam from a few other films) turns in a star-making performance as he finds the depth and humanity that turns Wild Bill from a legend into a human, someone you care about as he finds ways to make Abilene safer, especially when little Joey is shot in the leg, the catalyst for Wild Bill to get serious about really enforcing the law and the quality of life in Abilene. I’m not typically a western fan but Hickok follows the blueprint well for an entertaining saga. This film captures the authentic look and feel of the Old West. You can almost feel the dust twisting in the wind, smell the gunpowder, even taste the cheap whiskey. Hickok brings you back to the heyday of the Wild Wild West -- this movie is very much worth the trip!
TLA one word review: dusty
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City honour for ex-councillors
By Christian Barnett – Local Democracy Reporter Two long-serving former city councillors could become honorary alderman if plans are accepted. Former councillors Geoff Williams and Liz Smith – who completed more than 40 years of service between them – would be...
Car parks in Worcester could become cashless
Car parking in the city could soon become cashless if new plans are approved by councillors. The city council hopes to replace outdated machines with modern pay and display machines capable of accepting card payments and give drivers the option to ‘top up’ their time...
Homelessness plan criticised
A new strategy for tackling homelessness was criticised by the chief executive of the city’s main hostel. Jonathan Sutton, chief executive of St Paul’s Hostel, said the document titled ‘Worcestershire’s Strategic Direction for Tackling Homelessness’ lacked an...
200 jobs could go at County Hall
By Christian Barnett – Local Democracy Reporter As many as 200 jobs are set to go at the county council as the cash-strapped authority has asked staff if they want to take voluntary redundancy. An email sent out by chief executive Paul Robinson told all of the...
Skip service could return
By Christian Barnett – Local Democracy Reporter A suspended skip service which has been deemed a health and safety hazard could return but only after it has been reviewed. The skips which were placed in four different spots around the city every Saturday and has...
Worcestershire musicians tutored by award-winning string quartet
Man sentenced to nineteen years in jail for non-recent child sexual offences
Worcester’s festive parking offer for Christmas shoppers
Awareness courses offered to help spot the signs of criminal exploitation
Life-size Lego suffragette to go on display at University of Worcester
Youthcomm Radio, Worcester’s More Music Station
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Worcestershire musicians tutored by award-winning string quartet November 11, 2019
Man sentenced to nineteen years in jail for non-recent child sexual offences November 11, 2019
Worcester’s festive parking offer for Christmas shoppers November 7, 2019
Awareness courses offered to help spot the signs of criminal exploitation November 7, 2019
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Israeli and American hypocrisy
From Ynetnews (my emphasis in bold):
"Syria must fully withdraw from Lebanon because a U.N. Security Council resolution demands so, Jordanian Foreign Minister Hani Mulki said Saturday.
Syria cannot ignore resolution 1559's existence because all U.N. decisions must be executed, he said following a meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, the first meeting in Israel in four years between such senior officials.
In response, Shalom said over a year ago he ordered the Foreign Ministry to begin diplomatic steps towards the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon.
'At the time it seemed unsubstantial and impossible,' he said. 'However, I'm happy to say it now looks more tangible than ever.'
However, despite this, Shalom said he believes the road ahead is long and it is up to the international community to continue its pressure on Syria, to stop its support of terror and withdraw its troops from Lebanon.
'The international community, parts of the Arab world and Israel, of course, all demand that resolution 1559 be fully implemented,' he said.
This would allow free and democratic elections in Lebanon, allowing the Lebanese people to choose their own representatives to establish an independent country, he said.
'Perhaps in the future we will be able to see the direction the nation has taken, towards a greater understanding and a possible peace with Israel,' he said."
As has been pointed out by many others, it takes real chutzpah for Israel to demand that another country comply with a UN Resolution concerning the withdrawal of occupying troops. The Syrian occupying troops don't engage in massacres of civilians, shoot children and international observers in the face, prevent the inhabitants from having any real life by the imposition of arbitrary and cruel checkpoints, continue to kill people while supposedly under a ceasefire, bulldoze houses over grandmothers, and lob tank shells into groups of schoolchildren. You can also note from Shalom's words that the recent American PR campaign is merely the continuation of an Israeli campaign begun 'over a year ago'.
If that wasn't amusing enough, here's George Bush (my emphasis in bold; Bush continues to speek like a character in a cartoon with comedic problms with the language):
"Syria, Syrian troops, Syria's intelligence services, must get out of Lebanon now. The world is beginning to speak with one voice. We want that democracy in Lebanon to succeed, and we know it cannot succeed so long as she is occupied by a foreign power and that power is Syria."
So the elections in Iraq, which we know were completely controlled by the Pentagon, were a brilliant success, but elections cannot succeed in Lebanon because of the presence of Syrian troops. This despite the fact that Syria was invited in and has been constantly reducing troop levels, and that Syrian troops keep an extremely low profile, avoid civilian casualties, confine themselves to rural areas in a part of the country, and have been in place without incident for over ten years.
The question that interests me? How are the Americans going to do it? How are they going to start another war on another sovereign country that poses no threat to the United States based on this flimsiest and most hypocritical of excuses? Syria has no links to al Qaeda, no weapons of mass destruction that could possibly harm the United States, no nukes or even a nuclear program. Neither Syria nor Lebanon is of any real importance to the United States. How many more hundred billion dollars and thousands of American deaths - not to mention tens of thousands of Syrian deaths - is catering to the Likudniks worth? The attack on Iraq was for Israel, and the attack on Syria will be entirely for Israel (not to mention the attack on Iran), but at least the Bush Administration was able to make some lies convincing to the majority of the American people. After the bitter experience of Iraq, what kind of whopper will they have to come up with for Syria? The only possibility is another staged terrorist attack, this time with 15 of the 19 terrorists using stolen Syrian identities.
Fly and die
AIPAC Pollard Iran
Americans messing around in the Philippines
DU911
The magic plane theory
Sgrena's car
The saga of Bobby Fischer
Bush and democracy
World versus neocons
Sgrena and what you have to believe
Still bombing Iraq
Engdahl
Stolen from the Spanish mint
Killers and Contexts
Odd kidnappers
John Negroponte, hit man
The next Prime Minister of Israel
Israel's official 'outposts'
Zundel revisionism
Israeli impersonation
The heroic death of Nicola Calipari
Tsunami aid tsunami
Venezuelan land reform
Competitive suicides
Syria is doomed
Terrorism in Israel
Orange coup in Lebanon
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"CONFIRMED: US sharply cuts air operations in Syria fearing Russian missiles":
". . . what this episode shows is the huge leverage the presence of the S-400 and S-300VM Antey-2500 missiles in Syria is giving the Russians.
The Russians do not need to make threats or fire missiles at the US or do any other reckless or dangerous things to make their point and to limit US air operations in Syria. Despite all the brave talk of Russia being under pressure in Syria, the reality is that the Russians can achieve the same result simply by turning off the telephone. That is what they have done, and it the reason for the tough negotiations between Tillerson and the Russians in Moscow."
"Trump May Send Up To 50,000 Troops To Syria". "Syria: Watching the Jordanian Border". Trump has so many balls in the air right now that it is impossible to tell which ones are real and which ones a distraction, but Yinon through blackmail is always a good guess. The extreme unpredictability of North Korea's reaction to any Trump hijinx, and the extreme potential damage of such a defensive reaction (nuking Seoul and Japan would cause a world-wide depression), means that Korea is almost certainly a distraction.
"H.R. McMaster’s Ties To Soros-Supported Think Tank Raise Questions". Backdoored by the shabbos goy!
"A smart professor (yes, they DO exist) explains North Korea". The North Koreans correctly see the United States as an unpredictable psychopathic monster that can only be handled by creating defensive deterrence to irrational monstrous attacks. Gaddafi didn't have a bayonet up his ass until he gave up his WMDs.
"Migrants are being sold at open slave markets in Libya". Thanks Obama (and Hillary)!
"Secstate Tillerson’s Chief Of Staff Margaret Peterlin Has Been Managing US Cyber Warfare Operations Against Russia For Years". We had a misplaced hope that Tillerson, as an outsider, might bring some common sense to the Trump Administration, but he has just surrounded himself with the swamp and is allowing himself to be dragged down by it. My guess is that being a lowly valet for World Jewry is going to quickly grow old, and Tillerson will soon find something else better to do with his time.
"Tillerson in Moscow: False dawn in US-Russia ties?" I think Tillerson was there solely for the purposes of telling Putin that Trump would continue to have to use Russia as a punching bag for domestic political reasons, and Putin would have to put up with it.
"CIA Director Mike Pompeo Goes Insane, Refers To Julian Assange And His Followers As “Demons”". "Pompeo: WikiLeaks is a 'hostile intelligence service'". "CIA Director Smears Wikileaks After Tweeting Them During 2016 Election". "Pompeo Likens Wikileaks’ Release Of Cia’s Hacking Tools To Philip Agee". "WikiLeaks ‘hostile intel,’ Assange & his followers ‘demons’: CIA chief goes ballistic". Pompeo, hiding in the closet for the last week so he couldn't be asked about the latest Syrian gas false-flag, emerges in a bizarre attack against WikiLeaks. Of course, Pompeo wouldn't have his job had WikiLeaks not provided the information about backroom Democratic Party perfidy that helped to lead to the Killary loss (in large part due to natural Democrat voters staying home as they couldn't tolerate the Clinton stench). I have to assume that this is part of the general Trump mania - striking out simultaneously everywhere to change the subject and take the traditional American exceptionalist positions - caused by the blackmail threats against him.
Tweet (WikiLeaks):
"Those tunnels the U.S is bombing in Afghanistan? They were built by the CIA http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/magazine/lost-at-tora-bora.html … (via @GabiElenaDohm)"
Some of the deplorables are wondering if all that money spend on building things and then blowing them up might be better spent elsewhere.
"An Entire Generation is Likely to See Its Standard of Living Regress".
"MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Sees A “Russia Connection” Lurking Around Every Corner".
"Piecing Together More Details on Trump and Russia". Note that the GCHQ spying on Trump, at one point treated as the height of silly attempted Trumpian deflection from his own treason, is now accepted as a given! "British spies were first to spot Trump team's links with Russia". "Report: British Intelligence Agencies, In Addition to Six Other Nations, Were All Spying on Trump". "CNN Confirms Fox's Napolitano - British Intelligence Passed On Trump Surveillance To US Spy Agency". This is amazing - Napolitano was 100% right all along, and the only nonsense was GCHQ calling Napolitano's allegations 'nonsense'.
"Will Russiagate Become Obamagate?":
"The arguments that President Obama and former National Security Advisor Susan Rice have been making, asserting that they knew nothing about politically charged and highly sensitive FBI investigations are, of course, nonsense. Rice’s request for the identities of Americans appearing on transcripts of communications intercepts reveals that there was very much a heightened sense of the political dimensions of what was taking place. And she would have undoubtedly conveyed as much to her boss, suggesting yet again that the latest chapter in Russiagate may turn out to be Obamagate after all."
"The Russians Are Leaving // Why Members of the 'Putin Aliyah' Are Abandoning Israel".
"New Book Claims FBI Obstructed Justice In Boston Bombing" (sounds like the CIA handler, cleaning up loose ends, was allowed to escape):
"The book also contains some revelations about the night Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police that beg for further investigation. For one, many of the cops who engaged the brothers in a shootout on Laurel Street in Watertown, Massachusetts, swear they saw two different muzzle flashes, indicating they were being shot at with two different firearms. However, only one firearm was ever recovered.
Watertown cop Jeffrey Pugliese encountered a still unknown individual in the backyard of one of the houses next to the shootout who appeared to be fleeing the scene. He did not pursue the mystery man at the time because he was focused on neutralizing the shooters. Is it possible this individual was the source of the second muzzle flash? Despite FBI pronouncements to the contrary, it appears possible, even likely, the Tsarnaevs had at least one accomplice.
Also, carjacking victim Dun Meng told investigators he first saw Dzhokhar emerge from 89 Dexter Avenue, a house around the corner from the scene of the shootout and an area the Tsarnaevs would return to repeatedly that night. After loading their stockpile of bombs into the back of Meng’s Mercedes SUV on Dexter Avenue, the brothers headed back to Cambridge to get gas, at a station where Meng made his escape.
According to McPhee, some cops suspect that members of a larger cell who may have helped the Tsarnaev brothers lived at 89 Dexter Avenue. When McPhee interviewed the owner of the property days after the shootout, he warned her to watch what she said because “the place is bugged by the FBI,” he said.
Strangest of all, according to McPhee, two of the residents of 89 Dexter have an uncanny resemblance to both Tamerlan and Dzhokhar. McPhee claims the now infamous “Naked Man,” who many still believe was actually Tamerlan Tsarnaev, but who police claim was just an innocent bystander, lived in the apartment. The other was a Saudi national who looked so much like Dzhokhar that he was taken into custody and questioned for hours. To this day, no one else has been named a suspect."
"What Everybody Needs to Know About Venezuela Protest Deaths".
"Tennessee Could Give Taxpayers America's Fastest Internet For Free, But It Will Give Comcast and AT&T $45 Million Instead". To be fair, these politicians/crooks have managed to fight off the only important issue for the people of Tennessee, sharia law!
On a lighter note: "Clinton campaign plagued by bickering". "Israel’s first trans officer helps with ethnic cleansing".
Lying around in the trash
Pharmacare election
Might get out of hand
Terminal, high
Half my bagel
Complicated the debate
Cause and cure
Because it's her turn
Swindled
Tradecraft of the counter-spooks
'High confidence' / Ted Bundy
#SyriaHoax
That Trump 180
In honour of this day
Chocolate cake / silent coup / destabilize
I'm sorry, but this is madness
Having to re-accomodate
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Failure rates
Years of useless handwringing
#CuckTrump
Steve Bannon versus The Apocalypse
We all need to be asking ourselves that question p...
A troubling direction
Disposable egg accounts
Hurt feelings
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Male demography in East Asia: a north-south contrast in human population expansion times
Author: Y. Xue, T. Zerjal, W. Bao, S. Zhu, Q. Shu, J. Xu, R. Du, S. Fu, P. Li, M. E. Hurles, H. Yang and C. Tyler-Smith
Title: Male demography in East Asia: a north-south contrast in human population expansion times
Journal: Genetics
Pages: 2431-9
Date: Apr
Short Title: Male demography in East Asia: a north-south contrast in human population expansion times
DOI: genetics.105.054270 [pii], 10.1534/genetics.105.054270,
Keywords: Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Bayes Theorem, China, *Chromosomes, Human, Y, Evolution, *Evolution, Molecular, Genetics, Population, Humans, Japan, Korea, Male, Mongolia, Population Dynamics, Sex Factors, Time Factors,
Abstract: The human population has increased greatly in size in the last 100,000 years, but the initial stimuli to growth, the times when expansion started, and their variation between different parts of the world are poorly understood. We have investigated male demography in East Asia, applying a Bayesian full-likelihood analysis to data from 988 men representing 27 populations from China, Mongolia, Korea, and Japan typed with 45 binary and 16 STR markers from the Y chromosome. According to our analysis, the northern populations examined all started to expand in number between 34 (18-68) and 22 (12-39) thousand years ago (KYA), before the last glacial maximum at 21-18 KYA, while the southern populations all started to expand between 18 (6-47) and 12 (1-45) KYA, but then grew faster. We suggest that the northern populations expanded earlier because they could exploit the abundant megafauna of the "Mammoth Steppe," while the southern populations could increase in number only when a warmer and more stable climate led to more plentiful plant resources such as tubers.
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Genetic risk factors for restenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention in Kazakh population
Elena V. Zholdybayeva1,
Yerkebulan A. Talzhanov1,
Akbota M. Aitkulova1,
Pavel V. Tarlykov1,
Gulmira N. Kulmambetova1,
Aisha N. Iskakova1,5,
Aliya U. Dzholdasbekova2,
Olga A. Visternichan3,
Dana Zh. Taizhanova3 &
Yerlan M. Ramanculov4,1
Human Genomics volume 10, Article number: 15 (2016) Cite this article
After coronary stenting, the risk of developing restenosis is from 20 to 35 %. The aim of the present study is to investigate the association of genetic variation in candidate genes in patients diagnosed with restenosis in the Kazakh population.
Four hundred fifty-nine patients were recruited to the study; 91 patients were also diagnosed with diabetes and were excluded from the sampling. DNA was extracted with the salting-out method. The patients were genotyped for 53 single-nucleotide polymorphisms. Genotyping was performed on the QuantStudio 12K Flex (Life Technologies). Differences in distribution of BMI score among different genotype groups were compared by analysis of variance (ANOVA). Also, statistical analysis was performed using R and PLINK v.1.07. Haplotype frequencies and LD measures were estimated by using the software Haploview 4.2.
A logistic regression analysis found a significant difference in restenosis rates for different genotypes. FGB (rs1800790) is significantly associated with restenosis after stenting (OR = 2.924, P = 2.3E−06, additive model) in the Kazakh population. CD14 (rs2569190) showed a significant association in the additive (OR = 0.08033, P = 2.11E−09) and dominant models (OR = 0.05359, P = 4.15E−11). NOS3 (rs1799983) was also highly associated with development of restenosis after stenting in additive (OR = 20.05, P = 2.74 E−12) and recessive models (OR = 22.24, P = 6.811E−10).
Our results indicate that FGB (rs1800790), CD14 (rs2569190), and NOS3 (rs1799983) SNPs could be genetic markers for development of restenosis in Kazakh population. Adjustment for potential confounder factor BMI gave almost the same results.
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a disease characterized by reduced blood supply to the heart muscle. Narrowing of the coronary arterial lumen due to atherosclerosis is the primary cause in 97–98 % of CHD cases. Coronary heart disease has the highest rate of death and serious complications among all forms of cardiovascular disease. An estimated 17.5 million people died from cardiovascular diseases in 2012, representing 31 % of all global deaths. Of these deaths, an estimated 7.4 million were due to CHD and 6.7 million were due to stroke [1]. It should be noted that CHD usually affects the population aged between 35 and 65 years. In addition, CHD represents the most important cause of sudden cardiac deaths. Together with cerebrovascular diseases, CHD accounts for 64 % of all cardiovascular deaths [2].
According to the Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan prior to year 2012, CHD morbidity has been constantly increasing in 2009–2012 with exception of 2013 when a minor decrease in the morbidity was observed [3]. In 2013, there were 59,799 new cases of CHD registered in Kazakhstan and the morbidity rate reached 500.6 cases per 100,000 population, compared to 445.6 cases in 2011 and 507.4 cases in 2012 [3].
Advances in medicine have led to the emergence of novel methods of CHD treatment, such as angioplasty or coronary stenting. The first use of coronary stenting in clinical practice was in 1986 [4]. Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has become a well-established strategy for patients with coronary heart disease [5]. Nowadays, endovascular methods for the reestablishment of coronary blood flow preserve the lives and health of hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Nevertheless, there is a possibility that during the first 6 months to 1 year after successful coronary stenting, a symptomatic relapse of angina may occur due to the development of restenosis. Reoccurrence of stenosis is a major limitation to the effectiveness of the stenting, and even the use of drug-eluting stents does not solve the problem completely [6]. After coronary stenting, the restenosis rate is 20–30 %. The use of second generation drug-eluting stents has reduced this rate, but the development of restenosis after implantation remains a serious clinical problem [7].
Restenosis can occur for many different reasons. The pathophysiological mechanisms of restenosis have not yet been fully explained, but it is believed that those mechanisms include inflammation, proliferation, and matrix remodeling. Over the years, many predictive clinical, biological, genetic, epigenetic, lesion-related, and procedural risk factors for restenosis have been identified. Those factors are useful in the risk stratification of patients and also contribute to our understanding of this condition [8]. In this sense, the search for new predictor factors in the development of restenosis is topical.
Currently, the genetic factors of restenosis have been studied mostly in European populations. The ethnical variability of genetic markers is well known, as shown in the results of the GENetic DEterminants of Restenosis (GENDER) study discussed in the article by Verschuren et al. The GENDER databank contains the genotypic data of 2,571,586 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) from 295 cases with restenosis and 571 matched controls. The set that included all 36 reported genes in the literature was indeed significantly associated with restenosis in the GENDER study (P = 0.024). Subsequent analyses of the individual genes demonstrated that this association was determined by 6 of the 36 genes [9]. As a result of the GENDER study, the selected SNPs have been associated with the risk of developing restenosis in European populations.
Based on literature review, candidate genes for restenosis were not studied or validated in Kazakh population. That is why the purpose of the current study is to look for associations of genetic variation in candidate genes in patients diagnosed with restenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention in the Kazakh population.
There were initially 459 patients with diagnosed CHD recruited to the study. Of these patients, 91 were also diagnosed with diabetes and were excluded from the sampling, since several studies have shown that diabetes is an independent risk factor for restenosis and may introduce bias to the interpretation of results [10]. Anthropometrical and biochemical characteristics were gathered for the population sample comprising 368 patients (299 males and 69 females). There were 99 case subjects, those who manifested in-stent restenosis within 6 months after stenting and 269 control subjects and those who did not developed restenosis after stenting. The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the National Center for Biotechnology. All subjects were ethnic Kazakhs.
Whole blood samples of 368 patients (9 ml) were collected into tubes containing 50 mmol/l ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (disodium salt). DNA was extracted with the salting-out method. [11]. Genotyping of the extended panel of polymorphisms of candidate genes was performed on the QuantStudio 12K Flex (Life Technologies). The total reaction volume was 5 μl, containing 2.5 μl of 2× OppenArray Real-time master mix, and 2.5 μl of DNA concentration of 50 ng/μl. Temperature conditions were 10 min at 93 °C; cycling for 45 s at 93 °C, 13 s at 94 °C, and 2.14 min at 53.5 °C for 50 cycles, followed by incubation at 25 °C for 2 min. Data analysis was performed using the software package TaqMan Genotyper Software v.1.3.
Table 1 shows a panel of 53 SNPs used in the current study. All SNPs were selected based on the results of the GENDER study.
Table 1 Description of SNPs included in the study
A pairwise correlation matrix was made to check for multicollinearity between measured variables. A stepwise regression was performed to evaluate significance of potential confounders. A logistic regression analysis with adjustment for potential confounder was used to test for differences between statuses of restenosis according to genotyping. Associations between each SNP and development of the restenosis were tested according to three genetic models: additive (cumulative effect of each additional variant allele), dominant (homozygous wild-type vs. variant allele-carrying genotype) and recessive (wild-type allele carrying genotype vs. homozygous variant genotype). Every SNP that reached statistically significant level of P < 0.0001 were reported. Significant SNPs were further annotated using RegulomeDB that harbors information for known and predicted regulatory elements [12]. Annotation of functional variation in personal genomes using RegulomeDB. Additionally, a differences in distribution of BMI score among different genotype groups were compared by one-way analysis of variance (one-way ANOVA). For ANOVA test a default threshold of 0.05 was used to report significance. Statistical analysis was performed using R and PLINK [13, 14].
LD statistical analysis was performed using Haploview 4.2. For block generations, Hardy-Weinberg P value cutoff 0.001 was used [15]. We ignored SNPs that minor allele frequencies (MAF) of less than 0.001. For block generations, the confidence intervals default algorithm was used.
A total of 368 patients participated in the study. Body mass index (BMI), the blood levels of cholesterol, low-density lipoproteins (LDL), and high-density lipoproteins (HDL) were recorded for every patient at the time of participation. Table 2 shows summary statistics of the measured variables.
Table 2 Anthropometrical and biochemical characteristics of the population sample (n = 368)
Anthropometrical and measured biochemical characteristics for potential confounders were evaluated before performing a test for association between genotype distribution and restenosis status. The distributions of the measured traits fitted the normality assumption and were included in the analysis as is without any transformation. Construction of the correlation matrix revealed that in our dataset, cholesterol and LDL are highly correlated with each other (Table 3). In order to avoid multicollinearity, cholesterol was excluded from further analysis.
Table 3 Pairwise correlation matrix of measured variables
The remaining traits were used to build a statistical model that predicts the development of restenosis as a main outcome. Age, LDL, and HDL contribute insignificantly to restenosis variability in our dataset based on the results from stepwise regression analysis. The final statistical model included BMI as a single confounding factor that may affect the association between genotype and restenosis status.
There were 368 patients available to collect whole blood for further genetic analysis. After applying quality control filters, the final dataset contained 268 patients with genotype information for 48 SNPs. Four SNPs were excluded based on the Hardy Weinberg equilibrium test (P ≤ 0.001). One SNP was excluded because of its low genotyping rate.
SNPs that reached a significant level P < 0.0001 were reported. The results from logistic regression revealed that FGB (rs1800790) SNP was associated with restenosis after stenting. Notably that homozygous A allele carriers of the rs1800790 SNP are 24 times less likely to develop restenosis after stenting compared to other allele carries. CD14 (rs2569190) SNP showed highly significant correlation development of restenosis. Based on results, carrying homozygous G allele is a risk factor for development of restenosis. Finally, a missense mutation rs1799983 SNP mapped to NOS3 was also highly associated with the development of restenosis after stenting. Both additive and recessive models showed similar results, suggesting that carrying additional G allele for rs1799983 SNP is a protective factor against developing restenosis. Summary for the results of logistic regression analysis is shown in Table 4.
Table 4 Results from logistic regression analysis
Association of genotype of the candidate genes 53 SNP with the restenosis was examined with one-way ANOVA by comparing the mean scores of BMI to the genotype. According to ANOVA, BMI distribution had significant differences with genotypes of rs6025 SNP in coagulation factor V also known as F5 (P = 0.00643) in control group. rs419598 SNP mapped to IL1RN was positively associated with BMI in the control group (P = 0.0299). Finally, rs4795895 SNPs mapped to CCL11 gene showed significant differences with BMI in group of patients (P = 0.012).Genotypes of other SNPs were not significantly different.
Using Haploview 4.2 software, LD statistics results for the Kazakh population were obtained (Fig. 1) (HW P cutoff, 0.001; MAF, 0.001). As a result, two haplotype blocks were defined: one block consisting of two SNPs, i.e., rs5182 and rs5186 (block 1, chromosome 3); one block consisting of two SNPs, i.e., rs1800871 and rs1800896 (block 2, chromosome 1). The haplotype frequencies in the studied population are presented in Table 5. Haplotype CC (rs5182-rs5186, block 1) was associated with the risk of developing restenosis (OR 2.17; 95 % CI; 1.33–3.53, P = 0.002) and the haplotype GC (rs1800871-rs1800896, block 2) was associated with restenosis (OR 1.51; CI, 1.01–2.26, P = 0.04).
LD SNP plot. The LD is displayed according to standard color schemes, with bright red for very strong LD (LOD > 2, D’ = 1), light red (LOD > 2, D’ < 1) and blue (LOD < 2, D’ = 1) for intermediate LD, and white (LOD < 2, D’ < 1) for no LD
Table 5 Frequencies (%) of AGTR haplotypes [rs5182(573C>T), rs5186 (1166A>C)] and IL10 haplotypes [rs1800871(−819 C>T), and rs1800896 (−1082 A>G)] in patient with and without restenosis
The present study included Kazakhs that are Turkic people of the northern parts of Central Asia (largely Kazakhstan). From the historic point of view and because of scarce genetic data, it was concluded that Kazakh population was formed as a result of admixture of the European and Asian populations [16]. Case and controls were diagnosed with CHD. BMI was increased in both groups. Our results showed that BMI is a single confounding factor that may affect the association between genotype and restenosis status. In turn, genotype polymorphisms of F5, IL1RN, CCL11 genes significantly influence on increased body mass index.
The present study focuses on 48 SNPs in 36 candidate genes that were previously reported as genetic risk factors for restenosis. Association of hemostatic gene polymorphisms with restenosis after coronary stent placement was the first genetic risk to be described [17, 18]. The association of selected SNPs in inflammation-related genes with restenosis is also well documented [19–21]. In addition, a number of candidate genes in the renin-angiotensin hormone system and the endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS, Glu298Aps and −786T\C) are also involved in this process [22–24]. New molecular markers of restenosis are constantly emerging. For example, in a recent study, SNPs in VDR (vitamin D-dependent receptor) gene were considered as risk markers of restenosis [25]. Fragoso et al. reported that transforming growth factor-1β (rs1800469) was associated with the risk of developing restenosis after coronary stenting in Mexican patients [26]. This SNP was not investigated in our study.
Our study has revealed that blood coagulation fibrinogen factor I (FGB), monocyte differentiation antigen CD14 (CD14), and nitric oxide synthase 3 (NOS3) genes are among the factors associated with the risk of restenosis in the studied population.
Monocytes play a central role in restenosis after balloon angioplasty and stent implantation. Monocytes migrate into the damaged area either as a direct response or through the release of platelet-derived factors. Activated monocytes release large amounts of proinflammatory cytokines, which cause vasoconstriction and non-specific recruitment, proliferation, and activation of other cells including vascular smooth muscle cells in the vascular wall. The activation of monocytes/macrophages, endothelial cells, and smooth muscle cells mediated by CD14 and/or CD14 may play an important role in the restenosis processes [27].
Functional C(-260)→T polymorphism in the promoter of the CD14 gene has been reported to be associated with CHD but data have yielded conflicting results. In the meta-analysis of Zhang et al., TT genotype is associated with ischemic heart disease in the East Asian population but not in the European or Indian populations [28]. Two previous studies have investigated the role of CD14 in the development of restenosis, one being a prospective study by Zee et al. [29] in 779 patients and the other being a prospective study by Shimada et al. [27] in 129 Japanese patients. They found the −260T/T genotype to be a risk factor for restenosis. But the GENDER study found that T allele was not associated with restenosis in the European population [9]. Also, it was showed that the CD14+CD16+CX3CR1+monocytes might have a role in-stent restenosis following coronary implantation of bare-metal stents in patients with acute myocardial infarction [30].
The results of our study have revealed that CD14 promoter polymorphism remained statistically significant in the additive (OR = 0.08033, P = 2.11E−09) and dominant models (OR = 0.05359, P = 4.15E−11). Therefore, the T allele at position −260 of CD14 gene is a risk allele for restenosis in Kazakh population. Population stratification based on ethnicities may lead to inconsistency, especially when both allele frequencies and incidence rates of the diseases vary across ethnic groups.
Fibrinogen (factor I) is a glycoprotein synthesized by the liver. It consists of three polypeptides Aα, Bβ, and γ coded by the alpha (FGA), beta (FGB), and gamma (FGG) genes, respectively. Fibrinogen is an important component of the coagulation cascade and a major determinant of blood viscosity and platelet aggregation [31]. Polymorphisms of FGB was shown to be associated with coronary heart disease [32, 33]. In a study by Völzke in 2004, there was no association between the β-fibrinogen −455G/A and the risk of restenosis after PTCA or recurrent restenosis after re-PTCA [34]. In the GENDER study, a multicenter prospective study, the association of gene polymorphism FGB −455G>A(rs1800790) with the risk of restenosis was not found in the European population [9]. In the study by Oguri in 2007, the association of FGB −455G>A (rs1800790) with restenosis was shown in the Japanese population [35]. Our results suggest that genotype FGB −455G>A (rs1800790) is significantly associated with restenosis after stenting (OR = 2.924, P = 2.3E−06, additive model) in the Kazakh population. Interestingly that the same SNP in dominant model gave close P value, but much higher OR = 24.36, suggesting that allele A is a recessive protective factor against development of restenosis. Thus, it can be concluded that the relationship between genetic polymorphisms of FGB −455G>A (rs1800790) and the development of restenosis is not universal between different ethnic groups. It is also interesting to observe that Japanese and Kazakhs are alike in turns of effect from polymorphisms of FGB −455G>A (rs1800790).
Nitric oxide synthase 3 (NOS3) locates at chromosome 7q36, and it encodes endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), which can generate nitric oxide (NO) in endothelial cells. Endothelial NO is a key determinant of vascular homeostasis, and it can also participate in vascular repair. Dysfunction of any of these processes may result in atherosclerotic and thrombotic diseases [36–38]. The association between several polymorphisms of the NOS3 gene and CAD and restenosis risks has been previously studied [39–41]. In the meta-analysis by Zhang et al., 18 case-control studies with 2994 cases and 3130 controls, including 13 studies of East-Asia descendents, 5 studies of non-East-Asian descendents indicated that eNOS 894G/T polymorphism may play an important role in CHD development among Asian population [42]. In 2010, Li et al. performed a meta-analysis involving 20 studies relating non-Asian population and 3 studies relating Asian population and found significant association of T allele in eNOS 894G/T with CHD in non-Asian population [43]. Other studies showed that homozygosity of Glu298Asp and 786T/C polymorphisms of the NOS3 gene represented an independent risk factor for in-stent restenosis, and the 894G/T polymorphism of NOS3 gene was associated with an increased risk of death and/or myocardial infarction within 1 year after stent placement [24, 44, 45]. Shuvalova et al. showed that minor allele of polymorphism 298G/T of the eNOS gene (rs1799983) is associated with an increased risk of in-stent restenosis [46].
A number of polymorphisms have been identified in the NOS3 gene among which two polymorphisms in the promoter region (−786C/T), and one in the exon (894G/T or Glu298Asp) was studied. Only one of these polymorphisms NOS3 (rs1799983) has been found to be significantly associated with restenosis in our study OR = 20.05, P = 2.74E−12 in additive and OR = 22.24, P = 6.81E−10 in recessive models. Thus, the present results demonstrated that there might be a significant association between the NOS3 polymorphism (rs1799983) and restenosis after PCI in the Kazakh population.
In the linkage disequilibrium analysis, AGTR1 risk (CC) haplotype and IL10 (GC) for developing restenosis were detected in our study. Su et al. studied 16 AGTR1 polymorphisms. Based on the linkage disequilibrium pattern among these SNPs, six polymorphisms were selected as haplotype tagging SNPs and further were genotyped. SNP analyses indicated that GTC haplotype (rs275650, rs2276736, rs5182) associated with the risk of developing myocardial infarction [47]. Koch et al. investigated the possibility that single-nucleotide polymorphisms of the genes encoding TNF (_863C/A, _308G/A), LT-a (252G/A), and IL10 (_1082G/A, _819C/T, and _592C/A) are associated with the incidence of restenosis, death, or myocardial infarction (MI) after coronary stenting [48]. With regard to the IL10 polymorphisms, they observed three different haplotypes, _1082G/_819C/_592C (GCC), ACC, and ATA, with relative frequencies of 0.45, 0.29, and 0.26, respectively. Koch et al. have not detected a significant correlation between restenosis and the frequency of the haplotypes [48]. But in our study, it was identified that GC haplotype of IL10 (819 C>T, −1082 A>G) was associated with restenosis. Thus, individuals with the risk haplotype have compromised function of inflammatory reactions.
In conclusion, the present study examined the association between 48 SNPs and restenosis in the Kazakh population. Our results indicate that BMI is a single confounding factor and FGB (rs1800790), CD14 (rs2569190), and NOS3 (rs1799983). SNPs could be genetic markers for the development of restenosis in the Kazakh population. Genotyping of these polymorphisms may be used in predicting the risk of restenosis in the Kazakh population.
ANOVA, analysis of variance; BMI, body mass index; CHD, coronary heart disease; GENDER, GENetic DEterminants of Restenosis; HDL, high-density lipoproteins; LDL, low-density lipoproteins, PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention; SNP, single-nucleotide polymorphism
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This work was supported by a grant #0112PK00361 from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The dataset supporting the conclusions of this article is available in the Zenodo repository DOI 10.5281/zenodo.51651 and hyperlink to dataset(s) in https://zenodo.org/record/51651.
EVZh and YMR conceived and designed the study, analyzed the data, interpreted the results, and wrote the paper. AMA and PVT carried out experimental work. AUD, OAV, and DZhT were involved in the clinical data collection and sampling YAT, GNK, and ANI performed the statistical analysis. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
All authors declare no support from any organization or the submitted work, no financial relationships with any organizations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous 3 years, and no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.
The study was approved by the local Ethics Committee of the National Center for Biotechnology, Republic of Kazakhstan (No. 2, 12.03.2012). The investigation was conducted in accordance with the humane and ethical research principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. All participants completed a questionnaire and informed consent that has been approved by the ethics committee.
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, Akbota M. Aitkulova
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, Gulmira N. Kulmambetova
, Aisha N. Iskakova
& Yerlan M. Ramanculov
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Karaganda State Medical University, 40, Gogol Street, Karaganda, Kazakhstan
Olga A. Visternichan
& Dana Zh. Taizhanova
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Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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Zholdybayeva, E.V., Talzhanov, Y.A., Aitkulova, A.M. et al. Genetic risk factors for restenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention in Kazakh population. Hum Genomics 10, 15 (2016) doi:10.1186/s40246-016-0077-z
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Categories: Art+CultureRecreation
Lucky in Heppner
written by Kevin Giffin
Forever defined by its massively tragic flood in 1903, Heppner pays tribute to its past and its Irish heritage. The rural town of nearly 1,500 residents leaves nothing in the bottle when it comes to celebrating St. Patrick’s Day and other community events. At the foothills of the Blue Mountains, Heppner is Americana with a tin whistle and a harp.
A brief history: On a hot summer day in Heppner in 1903, a hulking thunderstorm raced down the tiny Balm Fork and Willow Creek tributaries. Within minutes a wall of water twenty to fifty feet high swept over the small town carrying houses off and crashed wooden structures like toothpicks in a waterfall. Within the hour, 250 of the town’s 1,300 people were dead in a disaster that carried across the country to the New York Times and still resonates today.A smart chronicle of the disaster comes in Calamity, The Heppner Flood of 1903, by Joann Green Byrd.
Today there are plenty of reminders of the flood throughout the town’s historical society and in its cemetery, where a Days of Sorrow stone tribute commemorates its victims, but shamrocks are the whistle of the day. The Irish and the Swedes were among the first immigrants to settle the young Western town. The Swedes took up farming land on the west side of Willow Creek, and the Irish took up the other side to raise sheep, says Cliff Green, a Heppner native who’s grandfather survived the flood. It’s the Irish heritage that took, though, and today Heppner is known for its rollicking St. Patrick’s Day festivities.
Above it all stands the handsome Morrow County Courthouse, built from locally quarried blue basalt. The courthouse was finished in 1903 and, due to its hillside plot, escaped the worst of the flood. The population of quiet Heppner has only just returned to its pre-flood level. Once a mill town, farming and government jobs now anchor the rural community. “I don’t know of any better place to live than here,” asserts Green. “The people are great, the access to the mountains and the weather is nice.”
Amy and Mike Blauer, both 29, with infant son, Cable, moved to Heppner from Idaho almost two years ago and love the small-town community spirit. He is the administrator at the Morrow County Health District and she teaches Spanish at Blue Mountain Community College. They were touched when Heppner residents welcomed them with fresh bread, homemade jams and flowers. “We can get everything we need here,” says Amy Blauer. “What’s especially nice is that the hospital is right here and they can take care of all your needs. You see your doctor out at community events and giving back. I’ve never had health care like that, and it’s cool.”
Best time to go: St. Patrick’s Day is Heppner at its liveliest. The town bustles with music, drinking,
an amateur boxing smoker, arts and sheepdog trials. There’s “Ireland in Story, Song and Humor,” a variety show written by “Father O’Condon” of Heppner’s of St. Patrick’s Catholic Parish. In the foothills of the Blue Mountains, Heppner is a good bet for mountain and road biking, fishing and cross-country skiing.
Exploring:
Eat and drink at Bucknum’s on Main Street.
Visit the Morrow County Museum to learn about the world’s response to one of the greatest natural disasters in the United States at that time.
Drive the 130-mile Blue Mountain Scenic Byway.
Bike the Blue Mountain Scenic Byway, or break it up with a stay-over in Baker City.
Create your own biking loop on rural highways around Heppner.
Visit Sunday Mass at St. Patrick’s Church to hear it the way it was said in Ireland twenty years ago, when Father Gerry Condon left for Heppner, in the footsteps of a long line of Irish priests before him.
Population of Heppner: 1,435 (2010)
Population growth: 0.2% (2000-2010)
Median household income Heppner: $33,421 (Census 2000)
Median home price of single-family homes: $78,400 (Census 2000)
Drive the 130-mile Blue Mountain Scenic Byway
Go fishing on Willow Creek or on the Balm Fork
Sit down for a drink and dinner at Bucknum’s on Main Street
Celebrate St. Paddy’s Day with food, drink, music and boxing
Bike the rural highways that weave through Morrow County
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Posted on January 26, 2008 February 1, 2008 by Jen Hubert
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The Moon Cat Cafe — It’s Mobile!
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Yes, you heard me — it’s mobile. I first talked to owner Janet Pao about a cat event she was involved in for our Happenings event section. She explained that her cat café was going to be at the event — the whole café — because it’s on wheels. Janet had my attention. “Why a mobile cat café?” was my first question to her.
“I decided to make the cat café mobile in order to bring the cat café experience to the public,” Janet explains. “Most people don’t know what a cat café is, so I wanted to be able to introduce the concept to as many people in as many cities as possible. It also allows me to partner with and support many different independent nonprofit cat rescues, and the low overhead makes the experience affordable and accessible to visitors.”
Janet Pao created her own cat cafe on wheels.
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Janet finds her biggest challenge with a mobile café is arranging accommodations with venues, with regard to the size and technical needs of the Moon CatCafé truck. “In addition, it does take extra time to set up and take down for every event,” she says. “I believe the advantages far outweigh the challenges, though. I’ve been able to bring the joy of the cat café experience to multiple pet expos, festivals, fairs and even corporations. All my nonprofit cat rescue partners have seen success with adoptions, foster and volunteer sign-ups, and increased exposure of their rescue work to the local community. And the adoptable cats appreciate having an air-conditioned and more spacious (but still safe and enclosed) area to be more comfortable during public adoption events. Also, Moon Cat Café enjoys welcoming back repeat visitors, including students and single parents, due to the founding principle of keeping the cat café affordable and accessible.”
Janet is proud of building the first ever mobile cat café in the world — as she should be! “There were some major obstacles to the physical build-out and mechanical setup, but all the problem solving along the way taught me a lot,” she says. She also feels a lot of pride when she and her rescue partners educate visitors about things they may not have known before (e.g., trap-neuter return, low-cost spay/neuter services, fostering resources). “It really all starts with education, and the goal is for visitors to share what they learn with family, friends and coworkers,” she says. “And of course, every successful adoption is a big win.” What’s next for the Moon Cat Café? Janet plans to expand the café’s footprint — traveling to new cities and new events. Check out mooncatcafe.com for upcoming event details or follow
@mooncatcafe on Facebook and Instagram.
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Enter to Win: BUMBLEBEE | Giveaway Just In Time for Easter!
April 2, 2019 by Kristin2 Comments on Enter to Win: BUMBLEBEE | Giveaway Just In Time for Easter!
As the Easter Holiday approaches, why not start thinking about how to make it the most memorable one yet? One easy way to do this, is to incorporate your child’s favorite book, movie and television characters into your family traditions and in their all-time favorite activities. The list below will spin your Easter traditions in a new, fresh way that will make this the best Easter ever!
Easter Egg Decorating
I’m sure this is a classic on your Easter Holiday activities checklist, but you can try updating that a bit. Using the traditional pastel colors and bunny motifs are great, but this year let your kids choose their favorite character to recreate it on their eggs.
Kids love paper crafts, and moms do too. No need for anything too fancy, expensive or complicated to prepare in advance. Instead, your kids can put their creativity to work! Try to encourage them to put the typical Easter bunnies aside and to create original representations of their favorite characters.
A New Type of Easter Egg Hunt
There’s nothing like the memories of hunting for sweet Easter treats, but you’ve done it so many times your kids might’ve come to expect it. This year surprise them by putting tokens inside the eggs that they can later redeem for candy, toys and any kind of collectibles.
It’s no secret that carrot cake tastes like Easter. Even for adults, the wonderful desert will bring back many memories of this holiday. This year let your children help you prepare this treat and let them get creative with the icing flavor, decoration, and even shape!
Afternoon Movie
There is a special place in our hearts for the movies we saw as kids. Don’t let your kids miss out and experience the best movies together as a family. Out of ideas?
BUMBLEBEE, the endearing and action-packed family film, will be released in on Digital March 19 and in 4k Ultra HD & Blu-Ray on April 2. The Digital and 4K, and Blu-ray releases are packed with over an hour of exciting special features including an all-new BUMBLEBEE motion comic following the beloved Autobot on his next adventure. Plus, check out deleted and extended scenes you didn’t see in theaters, including the original opening of the movie, enjoy hilarious outtakes, and see G1 (Generation 1) Transformers robots on Cybertron through the eyes of BUMBLEBEE with exciting Bee Vision. You won’t want to miss picking up a copy of the DVD, just in time to enjoy on Easter!
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SYNOPSIS: CYBERTRON has fallen. When OPTIMUS PRIME sends BUMBLEBEE to defend Earth, his journey to become a hero begins. Charlie Watson (Hailee Steinfeld), a teenager trying to find her place in the world, discovers and repairs the battle-scarred robot, who’s disguised as a Volkswagen Beetle. As the DECEPTICONS hunt down the surviving AUTOBOTS with the help of a secret agency led by Agent Burns (John Cena), BUMBLEBEE and Charlie team up to protect the world.
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BUMBLEBEE – Available on Digital/VOD 3/19 and 4K Ultra HD™ & Blu-ray™ Combo Packs 4/2
February 20, 2019 February 20, 2019 by KristinLeave a Comment on BUMBLEBEE – Available on Digital/VOD 3/19 and 4K Ultra HD™ & Blu-ray™ Combo Packs 4/2
EVERY ADVENTURE HAS A BEGINNING:
BRAND-NEW ACTION-PACKED FILM ROLLS OUT
FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY TO ENJOY
Coming to Earth on Digital March 19
4K Ultra HD™ & Blu-ray™ Combo Packs Arrive April 2 with Exclusive, All-New
Print and Motion Comic!
Hailed as “fun, action-packed and exciting” (Scott Mantz, Collider), director Travis Knight’s thrilling new film BUMBLEBEE lands on Digital March 19, 2019 and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD April 2 from Paramount Home Media Distribution.
Boasting an impressive 93% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, BUMBLEBEE is filled with “personality, wit [and] imagination” (David Fear, Rolling Stone). The Digital*, 4K Ultra HD, and Blu-ray releases are packed with over an hour of exciting special features, including an all-new BUMBLEBEE motion comic following the beloved AUTOBOT on his next adventure. Plus, check out deleted and extended scenes you didn’t see in theaters, including the original opening of the movie, enjoy hilarious outtakes, and see G1 (Generation 1) TRANSFORMERS robots on CYBERTRON through the eyes of BUMBLEBEE with exciting Bee Vision.
The perfect gift this Easter, BUMBLEBEE on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack or Blu-ray Combo Pack also includes an exclusive printed version of the new motion comic featuring BUMBLEBEE in a standalone side story (for a limited time only).
The 4K Ultra HD disc and 4K Ultra HD Digital releases** feature Dolby Vision®, which brings entertainment to life through ultra-vivid picture quality with spectacular colors, highlights that are up to 40 times brighter, and blacks that are 10 times darker. The film also boasts a Dolby Atmos® soundtrack remixed specifically for the home to place and move audio anywhere in the room, including overhead***. In addition, both the 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray Combo Packs include access to a Digital copy of the film.
BONUS FEATURES ON 4K ULTRA HD COMBO, BLU-RAY COMBO & DIGITAL*
Sector 7 Archive
Agent Burns: Welcome to Sector 7
Sector 7 Adventures: The Battle at Half Dome (All-New Motion Comic)
Deleted and Extended Scenes
Bee Vision: The Transformers robots of Cybertron
Bringing Bumblebee to the Big Screen
The Story of Bumblebee
The Stars Align
Bumblebee Goes Back to G1
Back to the Beetle
California Cruisin’ Down Memory Lane
The BUMBLEBEE DVD includes the feature film in standard definition.
BUMBLEBEE will also be available as part of a BUMBLEBEE & TRANSFORMERS 6-Movie Blu-ray Collection arriving on April 2.
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TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT | Available on 4k Ultra HD, Blu-ray and Combo Pack 9/26 | #transformers
August 17, 2017 by KristinLeave a Comment on TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT | Available on 4k Ultra HD, Blu-ray and Combo Pack 9/26 | #transformers
FROM DIRECTOR MICHAEL BAY AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER STEVEN SPIELBERG COMES THE BIGGEST, MOST EXCITING TRANSFORMERS MOVIE YET
Eye-Popping Spectacle Debuts September 26, 2017 on 4K Ultra HD™, Blu-ray™ and Blu-ray 3D™ Combo Packs
5-Movie Blu-ray Collection Will Also be Available September 26
The Action Rolls Out Two Weeks Early on Digital HD September 12
Called “incredibly entertaining” (Daniel Eagan, Film Journal International) and filled with “non-stop action from start to finish” (Emily Engberg, ABC-TV, KSTP), director Michael Bay’s TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT explodes on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray 3D Combo Packs September 26, 2017 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. The groundbreaking adventure will also be available as part of the TRANSFORMERS’ 5-MOVIE BLU-RAY COLLECTION arriving September 26. The film arrives two weeks early on Digital HD September 12.
TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT shatters the core myths of the TRANSFORMERS franchise, and redefines what it means to be a hero. Humans and TRANSFORMERS are at war, OPTIMUS PRIME is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of TRANSFORMERS on Earth. Saving our world falls upon the shoulders of an unlikely alliance: Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg); BUMBLEBEE; an English Lord (Sir Anthony Hopkins); and an Oxford Professor (Laura Haddock). There comes a moment in everyone’s life when we are called upon to make a difference. In TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT, the hunted will become heroes. Heroes will become villains. Only one world will survive: theirs, or ours.
The latest installment in the global TRANSFORMERS franchise stars Mark Wahlberg (The Fighter) and features a sensational supporting cast including Josh Duhamel (Transformers), Stanley Tucci (The Hunger Games), Anthony Hopkins (“Westworld”), Isabela Moner (“100 Things to Do Before High School”), Laura Haddock (Guardians of the Galaxy), Santiago Caberera (“Salvation”), and Jerrod Carmichael (“The Carmichael Show”).
The TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray 3D Combo Packs include a bonus disc with over 80 minutes of behind-the-scenes content and interviews. Travel to Cybertron to explore the TRANSFORMERS home world, then visit the UK to delve into the locations used to bring the epic adventure to life. In addition, go inside the secret mythology of the legendary robots in disguise, check out the incredible vehicles used in the film and much, much more.
TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT is Paramount Home Media’s first 4K Ultra HD release in Dolby Vision™, which enhances the home viewing experience by delivering greater brightness and contrast, as well as a fuller palette of rich colors. The film also boasts a Dolby Atmos® soundtrack* remixed specifically for the home theater environment to place and move audio anywhere in the room, including overhead.
TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT Blu-ray Combo Pack
The TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT Blu-ray is presented in 1080p high definition with English Dolby Atmos (Dolby TrueHD compatible), English 5.1 Discrete Dolby Digital, English 2.0 Discrete Dolby Digital, French 5.1 Dolby Digital, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital, Portuguese 5.1 Dolby Digital and English Audio Description and English, English SDH, French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles. The DVD in the combo pack is presented in widescreen enhanced for 16:9 TVs with English 5.1 Dolby Digital, English 2.0 Discrete Dolby Digital, French 5.1 Dolby Digital, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital and English Audio Description and English, French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles. The combo pack includes access to a Digital HD copy of the film as well as the following:
Feature film in high definition
Merging Mythologies – Explore the secret TRANSFORMERS history
Climbing the Ranks – Military training
The Royal Treatment: Transformers in the UK
Motors and Magic
Alien Landscape: Cybertron
One More Giant Effin’ Movie
Feature film in standard definition
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What is PAH?
What if I suspect PAH?
Types of PH
How does PAH develop?
Treatment and prognosis
Common questions in secondary care
PAH in primary care
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Rheumatology screening strategies
PAH in ACHD
BSE guidelines
Echo protocol
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PHA UK study days
RV Masterclass
Act on PAH: London 2017
Changes to the pulmonary vasculature lead to the typical symptoms of PAH.
The symptoms are caused by the high resistance to blood flow through the lungs, which results in increased stress on the heart and a compromised blood circulation through the whole body as a result of decreased cardiac output. This progressive right ventricular (RV) dysfunction can severely impact a patient’s ability to exercise or carry out normal daily activities. Common early symptoms are typically induced by exertion and include:1
Dizziness & fatigue
Palpitations may occur during physical exercise and may reveal underlying cardiac arrhythmias.2 With progressive strain on the heart, further symptoms of right heart failure may become apparent including peripheral oedema and abdominal distension.1
The symptoms may not be obvious at first and are often attributed to more common conditions such as asthma, COPD, chronic heart failure or lack of physical fitness.3 Over time, however, they can become more severe and begin to limit normal activities. As the disease progresses, some patients may experience constant dyspnoea and fatigue so that even simple tasks, such as getting dressed and walking short distances, become difficult.1,4
Although there is no cure for PAH, both supportive therapy and PAH-specific treatment can significantly improve clinical symptoms.4 Click here to read more about the treatment and prognosis of PAH.
Pulmonary Hypertension Association UK (PHA UK), provides information, support and advice to people with PH. Further information about how PH impacts on patients and their families can be found at www.phauk.org.
This video, developed by PHA UK, offers an insight into how breathlessness can affect a patient’s life.
Clinical examination can detect signs of right heart dysfunction and may also suggest an underlying cause of PH.
Listening to the chest may reveal a loud pulmonary component of the second heart sound (P2), an RV third heart sound (S3), a pansystolic murmur caused by tricuspid regurgitation and/or a diastolic murmur due to pulmonary regurgitation.1
Murmur of pulmonary regurgitation5
Murmur of mitral regurgitation6
Physical signs include:1
Left parasternal heave
Elevated jugular venous pressure (JVP)
Hepatomegaly
Peripheral oedema
Cool extremities
Examination may also point towards a cause of PH, for example, fine inspiratory crackles in interstitial lung disease or telangiectasia in scleroderma.1 Click here to learn more about the different types of PH.
ASSESSING THE SEVERITY OF PAH
Assessing patients with PAH involves evaluating the severity of their disease using a range of clinical assessments, exercise tests, echocardiographic and haemodynamic assessments.
The clinical severity of PAH is classified according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Functional Classes (FCs) for patients with PH.1
This system grades PAH severity according to the functional status of the patient and links symptoms with activity limitations. The grades range from FC I, where the patient’s disease does not affect their day-to-day activities, to FC IV, where patients are severely functionally impaired, even at rest.7 FC remains a powerful predictor of outcomes in patients with PAH.1
Patients with PH but without resulting limitation of physical activity. Ordinary physical activity does not cause dyspnoea or fatigue, chest pain or near syncope
Patients with PH resulting in slight limitation of physical activity. They are comfortable at rest. Ordinary physical activity causes undue dyspnoea or fatigue, chest pain or near syncope
Patients with PH resulting in marked limitation of physical activity. They are comfortable at rest. Less than ordinary activity causes undue dyspnoea or fatigue, chest pain or near syncope
Patients with PH with inability to carry out any physical activity without symptoms. These patients manifest signs of right heart failure. Dyspnoea and/or fatigue may even be present at rest. Discomfort is increased by any physical activity
Table 1. Severity of PH according to the WHO FC.7 Adapted from McGoon, Chest 2004
Patients are also stratified according to risk (low, medium or high) based on multiple variables, as recommended in the 2015 Joint European Society of Cardiology and European Respiratory Society guidelines, since no single variable provides definitive prognostic information.1
Regular assessment of a patient’s risk status via this multi-variable approach allows clinicians to monitor disease progression, prognosis and response to therapy.8
Click here for more information about the prognosis of PAH.
DETERMINANTS OF PROGNOSIS
Clinical signs of heart failure
Progression of symptoms
WHO FC
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET)
N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) plasma levels
Imaging (echo, cardiovascular magnetic resonance [CMR])
Haemodynamics
Table 2. Parameters used in the assessment of risk in PH1
THE SIX MINUTE WALK TEST
The severity of PAH can also be graded by the patient's exercise capacity. The 6-minute walk test (6MWT) is an important test in PAH management because it is a measure of the patient's functional limitation and correlates with peak aerobic capacity.9 It is also a simple test to perform, and is inexpensive and convenient. In addition to distance walked, dyspnoea on exertion and oxygen saturation can also be recorded, which can provide further information regarding the patient's condition.1
This video, developed by PHA UK, explains how a patient undertakes the 6MWT.
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) assesses lung gas exchange and gives a more sensitive and comprehensive measure of exercise capacity than the 6MWT.10 It is a maximal stress test1 – the patient exercises to a level that progressively increases their symptoms to the maximum workload they can tolerate. It is therefore difficult to perform in patients with advanced disease. CPET may not be suitable for more severe patients who may not tolerate the exercise and may be exposed to risk of syncope and discomfort.
One important measure assessed using CPET is peak oxygen consumption (VO2 max),1 which is a measure of the ability of the cardiovascular system to transport oxygen to the tissues and the ability of the cells to use oxygen. It is important for assessing a patient's exercise capacity and maximal cardiovascular response. PAH patients show reduced VO2 max, and this measurement correlates with a patient's prognosis.10 CPET can add to the diagnostic and prognostic information provided by the 6MWT,1 but these tests are more difficult to perform and require specialist equipment.
Galiè N, et al. Eur Heart J 2016;37:67–119
Montani D, et al. Orphanet J Rare Disease 2013,8:97
Humbert M, et al. Eur Respir Rev 2012;21(126):306–12
PAHuman. Available from: www.PAHuman.com . Accessed January 2018
Healio, 2017. Cardiology Review: Diastolic murmers. Available from: https://www.healio.com/cardiology/learn-the-heart/cardiology-review . Accessed January 2018
Healio, 2017. Cardiology Review: Heart Murmurs. Available from: https://www.healio.com/cardiology/learn-the-heart/cardiology-review . Accessed January 2018
McGoon M, et al. Chest 2004;126(1 Suppl):14S–34S
Raina A and Humbert M. Eur Resp Rev 2016;25:390–8
Ross RM, et al. BMC Pulm Med 2010;10:31
Wensel R, et al. Circulation 2002;106:319–24
PAH VS PH
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a subgroup of pulmonary hypertension (PH) caused by the narrowing of the pulmonary arteries.
Right heart catheterisation is the only way of accurately measuring the pulmonary artery pressure and is required for the definitive diagnosis of PAH.
Specialist PH centres provide a multidisciplinary approach to the investigation and management of patients.
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Last 16, Week 6 MVP: Jeremiah Massey, Lokomotiv-Kuban
Feb 29, 2012 by Eurocupbasketball.com Print
One of the biggest stars in the 2011-12 Eurocup earned weekly MVP honors for the second time this season. Jeremiah Massey of Lokomotiv-Kuban led his team to a go-ahead 73-70 home win against Alba Berlin with a 37 performance index ranking. Massey, who previously earned regular season Week 5 MVP honors, led Loko with 23 points on 4-of-7 shots from downtown. He added 12 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 blocks and 7 fouls drawn for a 37 index. Lamayne Wilson of CEZ Nymburk also shined this week, leading his team to a critical road win against BCM Gravelines. Wilson had 22 points on 6-of-6 two-pointers, 9 rebounds, 2 assists and a steal for a 31 index. Ronald Davis of Aris BSA 2003 had 19 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists, 4 steals and 5 fouls drawn to amass a 28 index in a losing effort against BC Donetsk. A.J. Ogilvy of Valencia Basket (index 27) and Zoran Dragic of Krka Novo Mesto (26) complete the best individual performances in Last 16 Week 6.
Individual highs: Massey leads 4 categories!
Massey was also this week's top scorer with 23 points. His teammate Ali Traore was the Last 16 top scorer at 18 per night. Massey also led all rebounder by pulling down 12 against Alba and was also first in assists by dishing 6. Jonas Valanciunas of Lietuvos Rytas was the Last 16 rebounds champion at 9.33 per game. Yotam Halperin of Spartak St. Petersburg was the Last 16 assists leader at 5.75 per night. Davis had 4 steals to lead the weekly standings. Nando De Colo of Valencia Basket and Kyle Weaver of Alba Berlin each averaged 2.33 per night to lead the Last 16 standings. Massey and Slava Kravtsov of BC Donetsk each had 3 blocks in Last 16 Week 6. Valanciunas was the 2011-12 Eurocup Last 16's best shot blocker at 2.2 per game. Massey and Bryce Taylor of Alba Berlin - 18 points, 11 rebounds - were the only players to register a double-double this week.
Top 16 Round 2 MVP: Deon Thompson, Unicaja Malaga
Unicaja Malaga grabbed its first win in Group H as big man Deon Thompson earned the Top 16 Round 2 MVP honor.
Top 16 Round 1 MVP: Rasid Mahalbasic, EWE Baskets Oldenburg
The 7DAYS EuroCup season changed gears into the Top 16 with eight games across the continent on Tuesday and Wednesday. When the dust settled, Rasid Mahalbasic emerged as the...
Regular Season MVP: Milos Teodosic, Segafredo Virtus Bologna
Euroleague Basketball is pleased to announce that Milos Teodosic of Segafredo Virtus Bologna has been chosen as the MVP of the 2019-20 7DAYS EuroCup Regular Season.
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An Internship In Entrepreneurship: The SitRight Journey Into Airmaker
First Published On: ReadMe
We saw a Singaporean startup accelerator visit Sri Lanka with the aim of helping them grow in Asia and beyond. This startup accelerator was AIRMaker, which primarily focuses on IoT startups building solutions in the areas of Digital Health and Smart Cities.
Fast forward to today, and you’ll now find a Sri Lankan startup amongthe latest batch that was accepted into AIRMaker. This Sri Lankan startup is: SitRight.
What is SitRight?
Sit Right is a smart seat cover with a mobile app that monitors your posture and coaches you to improve it. All you have to do is simply place the seat cover on your usual chair to transform it into a smart chair that monitors your posture. Once you’ve downloaded the app, placed the smart seat cover on your chair, and configured them for your body, SitRight will monitor your posture in real time.
In the event that you’re seated in an unhealthy manner, the SitRight smart cover would vibrate to help nudge you towards sitting in a position with a healthier posture. At the same time, you can also open the app to get a detailed understanding as to why the seating position you were in was unhealthy for your posture. Additionally, the app also gives you reminders to regularly stretch your legs and lets you compete with your friends to keep things interesting.
It all started with an internship
The journey of SitRight begins with a software engineering internship. The two founders: Sasanka Kudagoda and Rashmi Mendis had just completed the 2nd year of their Software Engineering degree at IIT. They were now entering their 3rd year, which would be the year they spend as interns. After applying to various companies, they ended up at Calcey Technologies.
After joining Calcey, they pitched the idea of a smart water bottle called Genisys to Mangala Karunaratne – Founder & CEO of Calcey. He liked the smart water bottle but didn’t think it had a market. However, Mangala was impressed with the entrepreneurial passion both Sasanka and Rashmi possessed. So he gave them a choice: continue working as software engineering interns working on normal projects or join the Calcey Incubation Labs and build a startup.
Sasanka and Rashmi chose to join the Calcey Incubation Labs and become entrepreneurs. The goal of Calcey’s Incubation Labs is to help startups it’s invested in achieving global success. The program accepts 1 or 2 startups at a given time and supports them from the ideation to seed funding stage. In exchange, A Calcey takes a majority stake in the startup of 70%.
The incubation process began with Mangala sharing the issues he faces with his back. Afterward, the three of them then discussed multiple ideas until they narrowed it down to a simple solution. This solution was SitRight. After devising the solution, Calcey began the process of obtaining the patent while it’s engineering teams built the app and smart seat covers. Once the app and seat covers were built, the team was formed with Sasanka, Rashmi, Mangala, and Mudith Uswatta – Director of Sales & Product Marketing at Calcey. SitRight was ready to take on the world.
The risky gamble to join AIRMaker
Typically, most startups that get accepted into AIRMaker fill out an application form first and are then selected by the accelerator. This wasn’t the case with SitRight, which didn’t even initially consider applying for the accelerator. It all happened by chance in early May at Innovfest Unbound 2017 in Singapore, where they bumped into and gave their pitch to the AIRMaker partners.
The partners were impressed and asked SitRight to join the program for two weeks. These two weeks would be an evaluation to see if SitRight would meet AIRMaker’s requirements. If they passed the evaluation, then they would be accepted into the program and receive an investment of $35,000 in exchange for 7% equity. On paper, things looked good but this was actually a massive gamble. If they didn’t get into the program, then that would mean two expensive weeks in Singapore would be a waste. Luckily, the gamble paid off and today SitRight is among the latest batch of startups that were accepted into AIRMaker.
What’s next for SitRight?
For the next three months, SitRight will be going through the AIRMaker program. The program itself will be conducted in three stages. The first stage involves helping startups develop a proper business plan and go-to-market strategy. The second stage would see the startups traveling to Shenzhen, China where they would receive support in building devices. At the final stage, AIRMaker gives the startups access to early-stage and growth-stage investors in Singapore and China.
However, just like its entry into the program, SitRight’s AIRMaker journey is set to be slightly different. While the other startups would be going to China, SitRight plans on building its prototype here in Sri Lanka. Why? Because they believe that Sri Lanka does have the necessary facilities to build working prototypes and they want to show that to the world. Hopefully, at the end of the AIRMaker program, we’ll see this startup that was born out of an internship be a few steps closer towards selling smart seat covers designed Sri Lanka all across Asia and the rest of the world.
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