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New Horse Health Research Funded
Using acoustoelastography to monitor SDFT injury healing is one of the studies being funded by the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation.
Elaine Pascoe
Credit: © AMY K. DRAGOO Using acoustoelastography to monitor SDFT injury healing is one of the studies being funded by the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation.
Over the past 30 years the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation has funneled nearly $20 million into studies aimed at improving horse health. This year the effort continues with funding for a dozen new projects in fields ranging from laminitis to lameness diagnosis. A sampling:
-Detecting lameness at the gallop: Kevin Keegan, DVM, of the University of Missouri, is developing an objective method (using a calibrated instrument) for detecting obscure, subtle lameness in horses at the gallop. The goal is a low-cost method that can be used in the field to increase understanding of lameness in racehorses.
-Deworming and vaccines: While it’s not unusual to deworm and vaccinate horses on the same day, recent findings have raised concerns about possible interactions. Martin Nielsen, DVM, of the University of Kentucky and Gluck Equine Research Center, is investigating whether deworming causes an inflammatory reaction that affects vaccination.
-Imaging injured tendons: Horses recovering from tendon injuries are often put back to work too soon and suffer re-injury. Sabrina Brounts, DVM, of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is exploring a new method developed at the university to monitor healing in the superficial digital flexor tendon. The technique, called acoustoelastography, relates ultrasound wave patterns to tissue stiffness: Healthy tendon tissue is stiffer than damaged tissue.
-Detecting laminitis early: Hannah Galantino-Homer, VMD, of the University of Pennsylvania, is investigating possible serum biomarkers (molecular changes in blood) that appear in the earliest stages of laminitis. The goal is to develop tests for these disease markers so that treatment can start when laminitis is just developing, before it’s fullblown and damages the foot.
Other new studies include evaluations of a rapid test for salmonella; investigation of how neurologic and non-neurologic equine herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1) spreads cell-to-cell in the body; an effort to map the distribution of stem cells after direct injection into veins; and more.
This article originally appeared in the June 2013 issue of Practical Horseman.
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Victor Ehighale Ehihkamenor is a prolific award-winning Nigerian visual artist, writer, and photographer, once described as "undeniably one of Africa’s most innovative contemporary artists" and one of "42 African Innovators to Watch".
Education, work, and influence
Ehikhamenor was born in Udomi-Uwessan, Edo State, Nigeria. He was educated in Nigeria and in the United States. He returned from the United States in 2008 to work in Lagos. His work is strongly influenced by work done by villagers especially his grandmother who was a cloth weaver. His uncle was alsoa photographer, his maternal grandfather a blacksmith, and his mother, a local artist. He is also inspired by wall paintings and installation arts, mostly in community shrines. This has been an enduring feature of his work, which is abstract, symbolic and politically motivated; and influenced by the duality of African traditional religion and the interception of Western beliefs, memories and nostalgia.
Ehikhamenor's art and photographs have been used for editorials as well as cover art on books by authors such as Chimamanda Adichie, Helon Habila and Chika Unigwe. They have also been illustrated on fabric and exhibited at international fashion parades.
He has held numerous solo art exhibitions across the world. In 2016, he was one of 11 Nigerian artists invited to join twenty three Indonesian artists in the grand exhibition at the Biennale. At the Jogja National Museum, he showed an installation titled "The Wealth of Nations."
Ehikhamenor has published numerous fiction and critical essays with academic journals, mainstream magazines and newspapers from around the world including The New York Times, CNN Online, Washington Post, Farafina, AGNI Magazine and Wasafiri. His short story, "The Supreme Command", won the Association of Commonwealth Broadcasters Award in 2003. His debut poetry collection, Sordid Rituals, was published in 2002.
His second book, Excuse Me! (2012), a satirical creative non-fiction view of life as an African both at home and abroad, is a recommended text in two Nigerian universities.
Selected book cover designs
2003: Feeding Frenzy by Jonathan Luckett
2004: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie
2005: Sky High Flame by Unoma Azuah
2005: English In Africa Journal of the English Department, Rhodes University, South Africa
2007: Measuring Times by Helon Habila
2008: Jambula Tree and Other Stories Anthology of Caine Prize winners and shortlisted writer by Cassava Republic, Abuja Nigeria
2008: One World Anthology of short stories by New Internationlist Publishers, UK
2008: Of Friends, Money and Greed Anthology of three stories and a play by Hodders Publishers, UK
2009: Songs of Absence and Despair, collection of poems by Toni Kan
2009: Salutes without Guns, collection of poems by Ikeogu Oke
2010: Christopher Okigbo: Thirsting for Sunlight by Obi Nwakanma
2013: Oil on Water by Helon Habila
2014: frica in Fragments: Essays on Nigeria, Africa and Africanity by Moses Ochonu
2014: Half of a Yellow Sun (Movie Edition) by Chimamanda Adichie
2014: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2015: Story Collection for Caine Prize for African Writing, 2015
Awards and residencies
1999: Finalist for "Palace Dwellers" The Artist’s Magazine Art Competition
2000: 1st Place, Arts Club of Washington Juried Exhibition. Juror, Dr. Kimberly A. Jones, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2003: Highly Commended Award for “The Supreme Command”, Commonwealth Broadcasting Association, London
2006: Familiar Streets Writing Contest Award for “A Beautiful Freedom” by Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival, Washington, DC.
2008: Leon Forrest Africana Scholar Award
2014: Norman Mailer Fellowship for Writing
2015: Casa Zia Lina, Elba, Italy
2016: Greatmore Residency, Cape Town, South Africa
2016: Nirox Foundation Residency, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016: Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Africa in Residency programme
"Announcing Bellagio Center Residency Award Winners", Africa Center. 11 May 2016.
2000: “Beyond The Surface” Utopia Art/Grill, Washington, D.C.
2000: “Spirits In Dialogue” The Brazilian-American Cultural Institute Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2001: “Discovering the gods” Monroe Gallery, Arts Club of Washington, Washington, D.C.
2004: “Songs and Stories: Moonlight Delight” Utopia Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2005: “Talking Walls” BB&T Bank, NW Washington, D.C.
2005: “Divine Intervention” Howard University A J Blackburn Center Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2005: “Body Language” Utopia Art/Grill, Washington, D.C.
2006: “Beyond The River” Grenada Embassy, Washington, D.C.
2007: “Labyrinth of Memories” Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria.
2007: “Rocks & Roses” Victoria Crown Plaza, Lagos, Nigeria.
2008: “Invasion of Privacy” Jennings Gallery, Washington, D.C
2009: “Mirrors and Mirages” Terra Kulture Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria
2010: “Roforofo Fight: Painting to Fela’s Music” Bloom Gallery, Lagos Nigeria
2011: “Artist Experience” Whitespace, Ikoyi Lagos
2011: “Entrances & Exits: In search of not forgetting, CCA, Lagos Nigeria
2012: "Crossing the Line" Bloom Gallery, Lagos
2013: “Amusing The Muse” Temple Muse, Lagos
2014: “In The Lion’s Lair: Photographing Wole Soyinka” Ake Arts and Books Festival, Abeokuta, Nigeria
2014: “Chronicles Of The Enchanted World” Gallery of African Art, London
2015: “Paperwork: Works on paper” Constant Capital Gallery, Lagos
1999: National Geographic Society Staff Show, Washington D.C. ,USA
2001: “Same Tree, Different Roots” Howard University AJ Blackburn Center Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
2001: Patuxent Art League Members Juried Show, Laurel, MD, USA
2002: Home of African Concepts Gallery, Kent, WA, USA
2003: “Symbols and Metaphors” Underwood Studio, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
2004: “Memories: 2Griot” Joy Smith Gallery, Memphis, TN, USA
2007: “Rhythms & Blues” Sarah Silberman Gallery, Montgomery College, MD, USA
2008: “Black Creativity” Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL, USA
2012: “Post colonial photo studio” Action Field Kodra, Thessaloniki, Greece
2013: “Nigeria Now” Ake Arts & Book Festival World Bank Exhibition, Nigeria
2014: “ARENA” Center of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland
2015: Biennale Jogja XIII, Equator #3 2015, Indonesia
2015: “Displacement” Fiction and drawings in collaboration with Toby Zielony for German Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, Italy
2016: “A Place In Time” Nirox Foundation Sculpture Park in collaboration with Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016: Dakart Biennale Curated by Simon Njami
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Petition Hawaii
Petition Hawaii the platform to make a difference
A Petition for a Native Hawaiian Corporation
The Need For Economic Sovereignty
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Native Hawaiian people have excelled in various personal and professional ways but as a group they continue to be treated as incompetent to take care of their own assets. Both OHA and DHHL are controlled by “Trustee’s” giving the impression that native Hawaiians are in a perpetual state of infancy.
Sadly this has been an accepted norm for generations. While DHHL has assets (such as the 80,000 square feet of prime real estate at 820 Isenberg Street) sitting idle and abandoned for decades, native Hawaiians wait endlessly, not to be owners of their own home, but tenants on a 99 year lease. Why only potential tenants when DHHL has at least 300 square miles of land and OHA has over six hundred million dollars in assets is a question that must be addressed?
Clearly OHA and DHHL have land and financial assets that by smart development would become a permanent source of revenue to enrich native Hawaiians for generations. Both the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) and the Department of Hawaiian Homelands (DHHL), if they were privately held entities, would be highly profitable engines of opportunity for those their tasked to empower (shareholders).
Native Hawaiians either ignore OHA and DHHL as they pursue their own course or in turn give far to much leeway to these agencies which are both poorly managed and unable or unwilling to achieve the highest good their asset base could attain. Hawaiian culture can only be perpetuated by having land and financial assets and no state program, grants or endowments can hope to equal the power of a secure Land Base.
100 years of misinformation and mismanagement caused the loss all native land assets in Hawaii and it’s time to reawaken both the innovation and determination exhibited by Hawaii’s mighty leaders of the past. We should also support leadership in agencies like OHA and activist in the community who have a long term vision of prosperity and empowerment for native Hawaiians not the perpetuation of Democrat (or Republican) governing agendas.
Native Hawaiians Must Refuse to be Just Tenants When They Are In Fact the Rightful Owners of Extensive Hawaiian Island Resources!
They have assets and with determination and leadership native Hawaiians can innovate to EXPAND THEIR OWNERSHIP for greater Hawaiian economic and cultural prosperity.
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Probabilistic detection and tracking of motion boundaries
Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J.
Int. J. of Computer Vision, 38(3):231-245, July 2000 (article)
We propose a Bayesian framework for representing and recognizing local image motion in terms of two basic models: translational motion and motion boundaries. Motion boundaries are represented using a non-linear generative model that explicitly encodes the orientation of the boundary, the velocities on either side, the motion of the occluding edge over time, and the appearance/disappearance of pixels at the boundary. We represent the posterior probability distribution over the model parameters given the image data using discrete samples. This distribution is propagated over time using a particle filtering algorithm. To efficiently represent such a high-dimensional space we initialize samples using the responses of a low-level motion discontinuity detector. The formulation and computational model provide a general probabilistic framework for motion estimation with multiple, non-linear, models.
Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J. Probabilistic detection and tracking of motion boundaries Int. J. of Computer Vision, 38(3):231-245, July 2000 (article)
Design and use of linear models for image motion analysis
Fleet, D. J., Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Jepson, A. D.
Int. J. of Computer Vision, 36(3):171-193, 2000 (article)
Linear parameterized models of optical flow, particularly affine models, have become widespread in image motion analysis. The linear model coefficients are straightforward to estimate, and they provide reliable estimates of the optical flow of smooth surfaces. Here we explore the use of parameterized motion models that represent much more varied and complex motions. Our goals are threefold: to construct linear bases for complex motion phenomena; to estimate the coefficients of these linear models; and to recognize or classify image motions from the estimated coefficients. We consider two broad classes of motions: i) generic “motion features” such as motion discontinuities and moving bars; and ii) non-rigid, object-specific, motions such as the motion of human mouths. For motion features we construct a basis of steerable flow fields that approximate the motion features. For object-specific motions we construct basis flow fields from example motions using principal component analysis. In both cases, the model coefficients can be estimated directly from spatiotemporal image derivatives with a robust, multi-resolution scheme. Finally, we show how these model coefficients can be use to detect and recognize specific motions such as occlusion boundaries and facial expressions.
Fleet, D. J., Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Jepson, A. D. Design and use of linear models for image motion analysis Int. J. of Computer Vision, 36(3):171-193, 2000 (article)
Robustly estimating changes in image appearance
Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J., Yacoob, Y.
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 78(1):8-31, 2000 (article)
We propose a generalized model of image “appearance change” in which brightness variation over time is represented as a probabilistic mixture of different causes. We define four generative models of appearance change due to (1) object or camera motion; (2) illumination phenomena; (3) specular reflections; and (4) “iconic changes” which are specific to the objects being viewed. These iconic changes include complex occlusion events and changes in the material properties of the objects. We develop a robust statistical framework for recovering these appearance changes in image sequences. This approach generalizes previous work on optical flow to provide a richer description of image events and more reliable estimates of image motion in the presence of shadows and specular reflections.
Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J., Yacoob, Y. Robustly estimating changes in image appearance Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 78(1):8-31, 2000 (article)
Estimating optical flow in segmented images using variable-order parametric models with local deformations
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 18(10):972-986, October 1996 (article)
This paper presents a new model for estimating optical flow based on the motion of planar regions plus local deformations. The approach exploits brightness information to organize and constrain the interpretation of the motion by using segmented regions of piecewise smooth brightness to hypothesize planar regions in the scene. Parametric flow models are estimated in these regions in a two step process which first computes a coarse fit and estimates the appropriate parameterization of the motion of the region (two, six, or eight parameters). The initial fit is refined using a generalization of the standard area-based regression approaches. Since the assumption of planarity is likely to be violated, we allow local deformations from the planar assumption in the same spirit as physically-based approaches which model shape using coarse parametric models plus local deformations. This parametric+deformation model exploits the strong constraints of parametric approaches while retaining the adaptive nature of regularization approaches. Experimental results on a variety of images indicate that the parametric+deformation model produces accurate flow estimates while the incorporation of brightness segmentation provides precise localization of motion boundaries.
Black, M. J., Jepson, A. Estimating optical flow in segmented images using variable-order parametric models with local deformations IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 18(10):972-986, October 1996 (article)
On the unification of line processes, outlier rejection, and robust statistics with applications in early vision
Black, M., Rangarajan, A.
International Journal of Computer Vision , 19(1):57-92, July 1996 (article)
The modeling of spatial discontinuities for problems such as surface recovery, segmentation, image reconstruction, and optical flow has been intensely studied in computer vision. While “line-process” models of discontinuities have received a great deal of attention, there has been recent interest in the use of robust statistical techniques to account for discontinuities. This paper unifies the two approaches. To achieve this we generalize the notion of a “line process” to that of an analog “outlier process” and show how a problem formulated in terms of outlier processes can be viewed in terms of robust statistics. We also characterize a class of robust statistical problems for which an equivalent outlier-process formulation exists and give a straightforward method for converting a robust estimation problem into an outlier-process formulation. We show how prior assumptions about the spatial structure of outliers can be expressed as constraints on the recovered analog outlier processes and how traditional continuation methods can be extended to the explicit outlier-process formulation. These results indicate that the outlier-process approach provides a general framework which subsumes the traditional line-process approaches as well as a wide class of robust estimation problems. Examples in surface reconstruction, image segmentation, and optical flow are presented to illustrate the use of outlier processes and to show how the relationship between outlier processes and robust statistics can be exploited. An appendix provides a catalog of common robust error norms and their equivalent outlier-process formulations.
Black, M., Rangarajan, A. On the unification of line processes, outlier rejection, and robust statistics with applications in early vision International Journal of Computer Vision , 19(1):57-92, July 1996 (article)
The robust estimation of multiple motions: Parametric and piecewise-smooth flow fields
Black, M. J., Anandan, P.
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 63(1):75-104, January 1996 (article)
Most approaches for estimating optical flow assume that, within a finite image region, only a single motion is present. This single motion assumption is violated in common situations involving transparency, depth discontinuities, independently moving objects, shadows, and specular reflections. To robustly estimate optical flow, the single motion assumption must be relaxed. This paper presents a framework based on robust estimation that addresses violations of the brightness constancy and spatial smoothness assumptions caused by multiple motions. We show how the robust estimation framework can be applied to standard formulations of the optical flow problem thus reducing their sensitivity to violations of their underlying assumptions. The approach has been applied to three standard techniques for recovering optical flow: area-based regression, correlation, and regularization with motion discontinuities. This paper focuses on the recovery of multiple parametric motion models within a region, as well as the recovery of piecewise-smooth flow fields, and provides examples with natural and synthetic image sequences.
Black, M. J., Anandan, P. The robust estimation of multiple motions: Parametric and piecewise-smooth flow fields Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 63(1):75-104, January 1996 (article)
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DFS Edinburgh
DFS Edinburgh – A New Beginning
Furniture giant DFS is ready to embark on a new chapter for the brand with the rollout of a new retail concept. Unveiled at its Edinburgh showroom with a soft launch in October 2016, the new concept was created through a collaboration between by je+1 and Nottingham based creative agency, True Story and was given an official opening earlier this year.
With a strong reputation for creating compelling interior retail designs, je+1 was the perfect choice to lead DFS in this new direction. Working alongside them on this particular project to implement their vision was Rotherham-based shopfitter Foers Contracts Limited. Westminster Project Services then acted as the project manager of the overall work.
Located in the west of the city, easily accessed via the A1, DFS Edinburgh totals 28,500 sq ft with 17,000 sq ft of this occupied by the main showroom. The rest of the 11,500 sq ft is divided between a DFS Bedroom and Dining concession, a DFS Clearance section and a new ‘Dwell’ store with access and customer flow between all spaces. Also making its debut in Edinburgh is a Sofa Workshop which stands apart with its own entrance and a 2,500 sq ft floor space.
The new concept on show in the main showroom was developed in conjunction with new range and merchandising principles being introduced by DFS. At the heart of the new design is a commitment to embracing the digital side of retail to help communicate more effectively with customers. The new store is an evolution on what was present previously and reflects key brand messages throughout.
Central to this digital overhaul is the 3×3 video wall which engages with customers along with an interactive table. These two features complement each other with the ability for information to be transferred from one to the other.
Before work could begin to implement the new design, the old store had to be stripped back to its shell then be re-configured so the two new DFS group brands – Sofa Workshop and Dwell – could be incorporated. The new layout also sees the division of the main DFS store into a dedicated bedroom and dining furniture section and a clearance section.
To help complement and enhance this new layout and the products in the store, new floor and wall finishes have been selected bringing a fresh approach. Colour has been injected in carefully chosen locations to help enhance the brand message.
Obviously at the heart of any showroom, and central to its success, are its displays, which showcase the best of the products currently available. At the DFS Edinburgh showroom, a large amount of space has been allocated for this function to once again enhance the brand message.
Having worked with DFS for a number of years, je+1 have an excellent understanding of what the brand needs. Speaking in the April edition of Premier Retail, je+1 Managing Director John Evans outlined the importance of the working relationship with DFS:
“We are proud to have worked with our longest running client, DFS Furniture Group for over 40 years. We have supported them on their journey from three small stores in Yorkshire right up to the present day where they stand as a nationwide, market leaders with 113 stores across the UK & Ireland, and more significantly, as they took their first steps into mainland Europe, where they now have a further 7 stores across The Netherlands and Spain.
“In 2014 DFS acquired ‘Sofa Workshop’ and ‘Dwell’. We produced new store concepts for both brands and have been involved in rolling these out successfully across their existing and growing estates since.
“Having retained DFS as a client through many different management structures and a change of ownership, is something we are very proud of. Over the years we have been fortunate enough to have been involved in a varied, and wide range of design and creative work for them and have enjoyed seeing their success grow.”
To learn more about je+1 and their continued work with DFS, please visit jeplus1.com.
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Males, Friendships, Season 5,
Toby Cavanaugh, Ezra Fitz, and Caleb Rivers
Kind of Pairing:
Friendship/Bromance
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Group)
Band of Ex-Boyfriends (Themselves/Formerly)
“ Us band of ex-boyfriends have to stick together! ”
— Toby about the three boys
Cobra is the relationship pairing between Caleb Rivers, Toby Cavanaugh, and Ezra Fitz. The guys often help The Liars to figure out who A is and stop him/her. The three are good friends who have formed an interesting and close dynamic over the years.
Crash and Burn, Girl!
Caleb Rivers and Toby Cavanaugh are first seen working together in "Crash and Burn, Girl!" to find out who Red Coat is, who burned down The Thornhill Lodge and where A is in all of this.
For more information about The Incident at Thornhill Lodge, click here.
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Ezra joins the team in "Welcome to the Dollhouse" to find the missing van that A stole, with The Liars in, with no luck. After Caleb talks to Tanner at the police station, he gets access to a police computer where he later tracks the missing van. They find the van's location, and where 'A' is watching the girls, but have no luck in finding the girls.
Game On, Charles
In Game On, Charles the guys get together again to find the girls. This time, Alison helps them. While Alison is at her home with the police, Caleb and Ezra call Alison to make it look like it's A. While Alison is locked inside a room (so that she's safe), the police try to find 'A', who is revealed to be in the house. Even though it's all just a trap set by Ezra, Toby, Alison and Caleb, Alison manages to escape and gets into Caleb and Ezra's car. Alison then gets out and is lured, by A, to A's dollhouse, while Ezra and Caleb trail behind her. They end up finding the girls and they escape.
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Watch The Weeknd's First Official Music Video "The Knowing"
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The Latest Quick Fix for the Housing Crisis? Granny Flats
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This quick, affordable housing solution could avoid the political scrum.
By Carly Stern
The Daily Dose OCT 02 2019
For years, Steve Vallejos felt like he was shouting into a void. He owned a company that specialized in building small homes — accessory dwelling units, or ADUs — on people’s properties. He was convinced they offered a path to building affordable homes fast, yet red tape made the construction of such units painfully difficult for builders.
That dam opened in early 2017, when his state of California passed legislation that loosened rules to build ADUs — also cheekily called granny flats, in-law units or casitas. Today, Vallejos has built nearly 200 units in the Bay Area and runs a company that expects to assemble 1,400 prefabricated, off-site “kits” for ADU construction across Northern California next year. They’re a quick fix that Vallejos calls the “low-hanging fruit” of affordable housing policy. It’s one that’s now catching on across a country that faces an estimated shortfall of 7 million rental units for low-income renters, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
Developers argue that complicated regulatory processes make construction of traditional houses onerous, costly and lengthy. In some California cities, for instance, it can take four years to secure permits and costs more than $150,000 per unit in development fees alone. In several cities, single-family zoning laws only allow for the construction of detached, single-family homes on residential land — preventing the building of apartment buildings, senior housing, student housing and multiunit low-income housing. Those with a “Yes in My Backyard” (YIMBY) philosophy argue for boosting building density in cities with skyrocketing rents and swelling homelessness counts, while NIMBYs (“Not in My Backyard”) oppose reforms they worry could erode neighborhood character and decrease local autonomy.
But more cities are now turning to these granny flats as a quick housing solution that avoids the political scrum. Because ADUs can be legal within a single-family zone, homeowners and builders can bring new units onto the market without the need to fight zoning rules. At the same time, community members retain control and don’t need to purchase additional land to convert a room or build from scratch.
California’s 2017 reform allows for the construction of one ADU per single-family home, without earlier regulations that builders viewed as roadblocks. Oregon similarly passed a bill in 2017 requiring qualifying cities and counties to enable the construction of these units, while Washington, D.C., relaxed requirements in 2016. In June, the Seattle City Council approved legislation to streamline the ADU building process.
It’s one of the few kinds of housing that everybody can agree on.
Debra Sanderson, urban planning expert
The rise in ADU permit applications since these changes points to pent-up demand. More than 10,000 permits have been filed in Los Angeles since 2017, compared to just a few hundred each year before the new regulations, according to the city. “The places where we’ve seen the most strident opposition to changes in zoning … are nevertheless seeing a huge uptick in applications for ADUs,” says Matthew Lewis, director of communications for California YIMBY, a pro-housing advocacy organization.
Granny flats offer a steady income stream for homeowners who can’t afford to maintain their properties and face pressure to sell, says Debra Sanderson, a retired urban planner in Berkeley, California. They appeal to those caring for an aging parent, to seniors who need to downsize but don’t want to leave and to adults with disabilities who can live independently while remaining close to family members.
Investors too are diving into this uncharted terrain: Companies like Los Angeles–based Cover, launched in 2014, design and build backyard homes. ADU Builder constructs units at no cost to homeowners and finds a tenant in exchange for a portion of the rent. AddUp, a D.C.-based startup, helps homeowners navigate the whole process, while Symbium Build offers a visual platform similar to a Google Earth for ADU rules.
Even proponents of granny flats acknowledge that ADUs are a Band-Aid solution for a pervasive national housing shortage. But it’s a fix that’s attracting an unlikely but powerful coalition of potential beneficiaries: homeowners and those experiencing homelessness, millennials and the elderly, governments and businesses. “It’s one of the few kinds of housing that everybody can agree on,” Sanderson says. And it’s still in the early adoption phase, says Vallejos. “We’re on the first few footsteps on this path of where we need to go.”
Megan Kellogg and her husband, Kenneth, with their daughter Amara. Photo Sean Culligan/OZY.
As cherry blossoms bloomed in spring 2016, Megan Kellogg was homeward bound. Kellogg hadn’t planned to return to Richmond, California, after living in the D.C. area with her husband. As opera singers with a young child, putting a down payment in the spandex-tight Bay Area housing market wasn’t in the cards.
But Kellogg’s 73-year-old mother, Sandy McQuillin, was struggling to maintain her house. Multiple surgeries had taken a toll; the yard across the 6,100-square-foot lot had become tangled and overgrown. The family pooled resources to build an ADU there, which McQuillin moved into, while Kellogg and her family settled into the house — rent-free.
Theirs is no one-off instance. A rapidly expanding number of empty nesters on fixed incomes live in houses bigger than they need but can’t afford to relocate or enter nursing homes, says Lewis of California YIMBY. Sure, those living in areas where real estate prices have jumped exponentially could sell their properties for more than a million dollars. But the national median cost of a private room in a nursing home was roughly $8,400 per month in 2018, according to Genworth’s 2018 Cost of Care Survey, whereas home health aides cost $4,000. For those who don’t need intensive care, downsizing nearby involves paying an untenable 2019 market rate. “What do you do when people have too much house, but either can’t afford to move,” Lewis says, or “are really committed to their community and want to stay there?”
That’s why some are designing ADUs that cater to the needs of aging adults and people with disabilities. Features could range from an entry without steps to lever-style door handles, says Fred Buzo, a housing expert with AARP California. States focused on climate change also view these units as opportunities to build environmentally conscious housing, as they require less energy, water and building materials than typical homes.
A construction process of less than one year makes them attractive to cities, given how fast housing and land prices are rising, says Bob Wieckowski, a California state senator who has authored several ADU bills. Land costs rose by nearly double the inflation rate between 2010 and 2016, while building a 100-unit affordable project in California rose from $265,000 to nearly $425,000 per unit between 2000 and 2016, according to the UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation.
That’s not to say that building an ADU is easy. The permitting process varies across cities and can take several months. While some people now breeze through in less than a month, Kellogg — who applied before legislation changed — waited for 10. And one-size-fits-all statewide laws are creating unintended consequences, says Keith Gurnee, a board member of Livable California, a nonprofit that pushes for local control over urban development.
“What the state is doing is trying to shoehorn them into single-family residential areas without any local review,” says Gurnee, who lives in San Luis Obispo, California, a college town that’s home to more than 20,000 undergraduate students at California Polytechnic State University. Removing requirements for parking spots there, for instance, could create congestion and infrastructure problems in a residential community where as many as six students might live together in one house.
ADUs, while cheaper to build than housing from scratch, are also still out of reach for many. Building a basic ADU costs between $100,000 and $200,000, according to a survey released in 2017 by the Terner Center. For those living paycheck to paycheck, a long-term income stream from renters could be a compelling reason to front those costs. But without regulations to keep ADUs affordable, homeowners could charge high market-rate rents to tenants, escalating housing pressure in their communities rather than easing it.
For Kellogg though, building the ADU for her mom has meant eliminating her own housing anxiety. She was able to move home when most of her old friends have either been priced out or have delayed having children, and she can lean on her mom for help with the kids.
This proximity has allowed the relationships between her mother and her two children — she had a second child after moving back — to blossom in a way that would have been impossible coast to coast, she says. And for McQuillin, it has meant not having to say goodbye to the home where she shaped her adult life while watching her grandchildren grow up before her eyes.
Dan Tenenbaum and his partner, Kim Sherman, in front of their newly constructed 125-square-foot home. Photo courtesy of The Block Project.
In October 2017, Dan Tenenbaum and his partner, Kim Sherman, welcomed Robert — a 77-year-old man of Cree and Métis ancestry — into a newly constructed 125-square-foot home on their residential Seattle property. The three of them hit it off, finding common ground in their introverted demeanors and love of gardening. Robert walks their 8-year-old Goldador while they’re at work, and they took a road trip together this summer to the Oregon coast.
Tenenbaum and Sherman are the first hosts of the BLOCK Project, an initiative managed by Seattle-based nonprofit Facing Homelessness. Volunteers lease spaces to the organization, whose architects and volunteers build detached ADUs at no cost to homeowners or residents. Case managers at local social service providers screen and refer clients to the BLOCK Project, which facilitates matching processes for hosts and residents to determine if they’re compatible. Nine Block Project homes will be completed by the end of 2019 and more than 100 homeowners have expressed interest, says Jennifer LaFreniere, an architect involved with the project.
For Tenenbaum, becoming a host was one way to contribute to addressing a crisis that’s ballooned since he moved to Seattle in the 1980s. Today, a half-hour stroll will almost certainly include clusters of tents, wheelchairs and baby strollers belonging to those living outside. “We’re just ordinary people and we didn’t know what to do,” Tanenbaum says. “All we have to do is provide some space and be a good neighbor to Robert.”
Hosts aren’t compensated and tenants don’t pay rent in this arrangement, but other initiatives have experimented with attaching financial gains. In 2017, Los Angeles County approved a limited 18-month pilot project in which qualifying homeowners could receive as much as $75,000 in incentives to build an ADU. They faced a streamlined permitting route in exchange for renting units at subsidized rates, including to those who have experienced homelessness.
But offering short-term incentives could create long-term problems, suggests LaFreniere, pointing to a program launched in 2018 in which Multnomah County, Oregon, is offering to build detached ADUs for free. After five years of housing someone who experienced homelessness, homeowners can purchase and rent the ADU at market rate, potentially making it unaffordable for those the program is meant to serve, she argues.
Megan Kellogg and her husband, Kenneth, talk with Megan’s mother outside of her home. Photo Sean Culligan/OZY.
To be sure, supporters and skeptics alike agree that ADUs at best address symptoms — rather than treat the root causes — of housing insecurity. Even so, supporters and developers believe granny flats could make a dent in America’s housing woes. California passed a law in September that allows for two ADUs per property rather than one. Meanwhile, cities like San Jose are introducing reforms to make it faster to build ADUs, says Vallejos, who lists Austin, Atlanta, Salt Lake City and Chicago as other cities to watch.
Ultimately though, it’s not just cities but also those who feel disturbed by the sight of homelessness who have the power to do something about it, in Tenenbaum’s eyes.
“All people need is a break, a chance and a place to stay until they get on their feet.”
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Published: 10 March, 2010
NSK's experience of the petrochemical industry was pivotal recently in solving a recurring bearing problem, which was resulting in unacceptable downtime at a UK refinery. The problem concerned a centrifugal pump that was critical to the refinery operation. The pump was failing on average three times a year; and with breakdown costs running at €1.500 per hour, this was resulting in losses of €27.870 per year.
The problem with the centrifugal pump centred on a cylindrical roller bearing, which was failing inexplicably following the transition from belt drive to direct drive on the pump - a modification undertaken to simplify the drive train and improve the overall efficiency of the pump drive.
Faced with this continuing problem, the refinery operator called in NSK to provide a solution. NSK has a wealth of experience, globally, both of the petrochemical industry in general and of centrifugal pumps in particular; the company has introduced many new bearing products which provide improved efficiency, reliability and life in centrifugal pump operations.
This experience was deployed in an investigation of the operating parameters of the pump; in particular to ascertain the reason why the problem began after the change from belt drive to direct drive. NSK engineers studied the inner raceways of the failed cylindrical roller bearings and also calculated the radial loads that were exerted on the bearings under both forms of drive: belt and direct drive.
What they concluded was that the change from belt to direct drive had drastically reduced the radial load on the cylindrical roller bearing. This reduction in applied load was causing the bearing rollers to skid on the bearing"s inner raceway, resulting in progressive damage that eventually caused the bearings to fail prematurely.
The solution proposed by NSK was a simple one: replace the cylindrical ball bearing with a lower friction deep groove ball bearing. This solution was adopted by the refinery, and has proven to be successful, with not a single failure since the bearing substitution was implemented.
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Marissa Mayer gives a hedge fund four seats on Yahoo’s board, clearing the way for a sale
By Mike Murphy April 27, 2016
Yahoo announced today that it has reached an agreement with the hedge fund Starboard Value, a shareholder that has been calling for a massive overhaul of the company’s board. It will add four directors nominated by the fund, including its CEO, Jeffrey Smith, in a move that will likely ensure that Yahoo is either sold or broken up.
In March, Smith wrote a letter to Yahoo investors saying that management and the board have “have repeatedly failed shareholders” in running the company and in deciding its fate as a standalone public company.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, in a press release, called the agreement a “constructive resolution.” Smith echoed the sentiment, adding: “We look forward to getting started right away and working closely with management and our fellow board members with the common goal of maximizing value for all shareholders.”
Starboard previously pressured Yahoo to not spin off its stake in the online retailer Alibaba, when it became unclear as to whether a sale would have tax consequences. Starboard has also been leading the charge for Yahoo to sell its core business, and with four of its hand-picked directors now sitting on Yahoo’s board, that seems a likely outcome for the struggling internet giant.
Starboard won’t have the majority in Yahoo’s board—which will now comprise 11 members—but it’s brought on people with history in large-scale mergers and acquisitions.
Starboard has a history of this kind of activism: It has waged similar battles against companies like AOL, Staples, and Darden Restaurants. According to FactSet, Starboard has battled for 105 board seats across multiple companies, and has won 66.
Yahoo in March also added two other board members with deal-making experience, according to The Wall Street Journal (paywall).
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Black Dots Bildband in limitierter Ausgabe
We are proud to announce that Nicholas White’s photo exploration of British Bothy culture, Black Dots, supported by Rab, has been converted into physical form with the release of a 48 page photobook, printed on Fedrigoni & GF Smith paper with a 350gsm Colorplan cover by Another Places Press.
Fascinated in our relationship with landscape and the ways in which we interact with our natural spaces, Nicholas documents the places and people that make up a truly iconic feature on the landscape of the British Isles. Due for release in January 2018, you can pre-order your copy here now.
“Far from civilisation and mostly accessible only by foot, bothies are secluded mountain shelters scattered across the British Isles and tirelessly maintained by volunteers from the Mountain Bothies Association. Unlocked and free to use, they provide a refuge from the vast terrain that surrounds them and have become an iconic feature of the British landscape over the past fifty years. Bothies are synonymous with the outdoor experience in the UK and from day trippers to mountaineers, the growing community of bothy-users is hugely diverse”. Nicholas White
“‘Black Dots’ is the result of almost three years spent traversing our most remote landscapes in an attempt to better understand what these buildings are, where they’re located and the culture that surrounds them. Drawn not only by the primitive beauty of the bothies and the landscapes they sit within, the work also investigates the human element to the bothy story, capturing the faces of those who trek for hours to temporarily inhabit these spaces, many miles from the nearest settlements”. Nicholas White
Nicholas has been featured in numerous publications internationally as well as being included in notable photographic competitions such as the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward, Royal Photographic Society IPE, Landscape Photographer of the Year and the World Photography Organisation ZEISS Photo Awards. In 2017 Nicholas was awarded the Royal Photographic Society Under 30’s Environmental Bursary in association with The Photographic Angle.
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The Joy of November in Provincetown
November brings to Provincetown one of the biggest and best for our historical little village, Thanksgiving.
November brings to Provincetown one of the biggest and best for our historical little village, Thanksgiving. With the Pilgrims landing here first, the Mayflower Compact signed in our harbor, streets named Bradford, Allerton, Brewster, Howland, and Carver to name just a few, we are the very seat of history. We ARE Thanksgiving. This is the time to really dig in to Provincetown. The weather is cooling, and there’s a feeling of hunkering down, preparing for the winter.
But there’s still so much to do. We light up the darkening sky with the annual Lighting of the Pilgrim Monument, and we light up Lopes Square with the annual Lighting of the Lobster Pot Tree. These two festive events have morphed into whole celebrations, and they bookend that wonderful holiday, Thanksgiving. Locals come home to their families; visitors gather for meals. It’s a wonderful time to come to Provincetown!
Friday, November 8 kicks off a special Provincetown Men’s Weekend (formerly called Single Men’s Weekend but now all men are welcomed), which will feature a meet-and-eat buffet, disco night, leather night, an underwear party, and a piano bar, to list just a few features. It runs all weekend.
Another draw for men, Mr. New England Leather Weekend, begins Friday, November 22. Contestants compete, and the winner gets to represent this region at the International Mr. Leather Contest in Chicago in May. Click here for more information.
The following week ushers in Thanksgiving, with the Lighting of the Pilgrim Monument on Wednesday, November 27. Perched on the top of High Pole Hill Rd., the largest all-granite building in the country proudly commemorates the landing of the Pilgrims, and on this night, Provincetown lights up 3,100 individual lights, strung from the top of the monument, which continue to shine until January 6. It is a sight to behold, and there is always a big party, with light refreshments and entertainment.
Another lighting is the Lighting of the Lobster Pot Tree in Lopes Square, which happens Saturday, November 30. This year the family of Julian Popko will create the tree, using over 100 stacked lobster pots, complete with ribbons and lights. It’s another festive event, and it happens right in the center of town.
It’s a cozy time. Provincetown boasts over 100 bed and breakfasts, over 30 of which have fireplaces. Come down, cozy up, and celebrate Thanksgiving in the seat of the Pilgrims’ first landing!
“You’ve got sand and water and beautiful light and you feel like you’re on an island. It’s just magic.”
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Peat Bog Ecosystems: Weathering, Erosion and Mass Movement of Blanket Bog
Lindsay, R., Birnie, Richard and Clough, Jack 2014. Peat Bog Ecosystems: Weathering, Erosion and Mass Movement of Blanket Bog. Edinburgh International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Lindsay, R., Birnie, Richard and Clough, Jack
When the protective living layer of the acrotelm of a peat bog is lost as a result of human activities, the catotelm peat beneath becomes subject to weathering and erosion. As much as 3 cm thickness can be lost in one year. More spectacular losses can occur if mass movement of the peat occurs because the stability of the peat on a hill-slope is compromised by the same factors as those which trigger erosion. With the recent reduction in human pressures on blanket bog landscapes, there is evidence of natural re-vegetation across many areas, although very extensive areas continue to erode.
This briefing note is part of a series aimed at policy makers, practitioners and academics to help explain the ecological processes that underpin peatland function. Understanding the ecology of peatlands is essential when investigating the impacts of human activity on peatlands, interpreting research findings and planning the recovery of damaged peatlands.
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Restoration of Freshwaters: Principles and Practice
Sayer, Carl, Bennion, Helen, Gurnell, Angela, Goodyer, Emma, Kotze, Donovan and Lindsay, R. 2018. Restoration of Freshwaters: Principles and Practice. in: Hughes, Jocelyne (ed.) Freshwater Ecology and Conservation: Approaches and Techniques Oxford University Press. pp. 378-403
Peatlands: the challenge of mapping the world’s invisible stores of carbon and water
Lindsay, R., Ifo, A., Cole, L., Montanarella, L. and Nuutinen, M. 2019. Peatlands: the challenge of mapping the world’s invisible stores of carbon and water. Unasylva: An international journal of forestry and forest industries. 70, pp. 46-57.
Supplementary material for An overview of the patterned fens of Great Sandy Region, far eastern Australia
Fairfax, R. and Lindsay, R. 2019. Supplementary material for An overview of the patterned fens of Great Sandy Region, far eastern Australia. International Mire Conservation Group and International Peat Society. doi:10.19189/MaP.2018.OMB.369
An overview of the patterned fens of Great Sandy Region, far eastern Australia
Fairfax, R. and Lindsay, R. 2019. An overview of the patterned fens of Great Sandy Region, far eastern Australia. Mires and Peat. 24 (22), pp. 1-18.
Eyes on the Bog: Long-term monitoring network for UK peatlands
Lindsay, R., Clough, J., Clutterbuck, B., Bain, C. and Goodyer, E. 2019. Eyes on the Bog: Long-term monitoring network for UK peatlands. International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
A synthesis of evidence for the effects of interventions to conserve peatland vegetation: overview and critical discussion
Taylor, N.G., Grillas, P., Fennessy, M.S., Goodyer, E., Graham, L.L.B., Karofield, E., Lindsay, R.A., Locky, D.A., Ockendon, N., Rial, A., Ross, S., Smith, R.K., van Diggelen, R., Whinam, J. and Sutherland, W.J. 2019. A synthesis of evidence for the effects of interventions to conserve peatland vegetation: overview and critical discussion. Mires and Peat. 24 (Art. 18).
Conserving Bogs: The Management Handbook
Thom, T., Hanlon, A., Lindsay, R., Richards, J., Stoneman, R. and Brooks, S. 2019. Conserving Bogs: The Management Handbook. IUCN UK Peatland Programme.
Identification and classification of unmapped blanket bogs in the Cordillera Cantábrica, northern Spain
Chico, G., Clutterbuck, B., Lindsay, R., Midgley, N.G. and Labadz, J. 2019. Identification and classification of unmapped blanket bogs in the Cordillera Cantábrica, northern Spain. Mires and Peat. 24, p. Art. 2.
Peatland afforestation in the UK and consequences for carbon storage
Sloan, T.J., Payne, R.J., Anderson, A.R., Bain, C., Chapman, S., Cowie, N., Gilbert, P., Lindsay, R., Mauquoy, D., Newton, A.J. and Andersen, R. 2018. Peatland afforestation in the UK and consequences for carbon storage. Mires and Peat. 23 (1), pp. 1-17.
The ecosystem approach in ecological impact assessment: Lessons learned from windfarm developments on peatlands in Scotland
Wawrzyczek, Joanna, Lindsay, R., Metzger, Marc J. and Quétier, Fabien 2018. The ecosystem approach in ecological impact assessment: Lessons learned from windfarm developments on peatlands in Scotland. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 72, pp. 157-165.
REF 2014 Portfolio: Peatbogs and carbon: a critical synthesis to inform policy development in oceanic peat bog conservation and restoration in the context of climate change
Lindsay, R. 2014. REF 2014 Portfolio: Peatbogs and carbon: a critical synthesis to inform policy development in oceanic peat bog conservation and restoration in the context of climate change. University of East London.
The peatland map of Europe
Tanneberger, F., Tegetmeyer, C., Busse, S., Barthelmes, A., Shumka, S., Moles Mariné, A., Jenderedjian, K., Steiner, G. M., Essl, F., Etzold, J., Mendes, C., Kozulin, A., Frankard, P., Milanović, D., Ganeva, A., Apostolova, I., Alegro, A., Delipetrou, P., Navrátilová, J., Risager, M., Leivits, A., Fosaa, A. M., Tuominen, S., Muller, F., Bakuradze, T., Sommer, M., Christanis, K., Szurdoki, E., Oskarsson, H., Brink, S. H., Connolly, J., Bragazza, L., Martinelli, G., Aleksāns, O., Priede, A., Sungaila, D., Melovski, L., Belous, T., Saveljić, D., de Vries, F., Moen, A., Dembek, W., Mateus, J., Hanganu, J., Sirin, A., Markina, A., Napreenko, M., Lazarević, P., Šefferová Stanová, V., Skoberne, P., Heras Pérez, P., Pontevedra - Pombal, X., Lonnstad, J., Küchler, M., Wüst - Galley, C., Kirca, S., Mykytiuk, O., Lindsay, R. and Joosten, H. 2017. The peatland map of Europe. Mires and Peat. 19 (Art.22), pp. 1-17.
Peat forming process and restoration management
Lindsay, R. 2003. Peat forming process and restoration management. in: Meade, Roger (ed.) Proceedings of the Risley Moss Bog Restoration Workshop 26-27 February 2003 English Nature. pp. 23-38
In the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) Matter CON/93/2012, William Sinclair Horticulture Ltd (1) and the Boothby and Penicuik Peat Company Ltd (2) v Natural England - Land at Bolton Fell Moss, Cumbria - Rebuttal Report of Richard Aidan LINDSAY of University of East London
Lindsay, R. 2014. In the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) Matter CON/93/2012, William Sinclair Horticulture Ltd (1) and the Boothby and Penicuik Peat Company Ltd (2) v Natural England - Land at Bolton Fell Moss, Cumbria - Rebuttal Report of Richard Aidan LINDSAY of University of East London. Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber).
In the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) - Matter CON/93/2012, William Sinclair Horticulture Ltd (1) and the Boothby and Penicuik Peat Company Ltd (2) v Natural England, Land at Bolton Fell Moss, Cumbria - Expert Report of Richard Aidan Lindsay of The University of East London.
Lindsay, R. 2014. In the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) - Matter CON/93/2012, William Sinclair Horticulture Ltd (1) and the Boothby and Penicuik Peat Company Ltd (2) v Natural England, Land at Bolton Fell Moss, Cumbria - Expert Report of Richard Aidan Lindsay of The University of East London. Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber).
Lindsay, R. and Andersen, Roxane 2016. Peat. in: Finlayson, C. Max, Milton, G. Randy, Prentice, R. Crawford and Davidson, Nick C. (ed.) The Wetland Book: II: Distribution, Description and Conservation Springer Netherlands.
Blanket Mires of Caithness and Sutherland, Scotland’s Great Flow Country (UK)
Lindsay, R. and Andersen, Roxane 2016. Blanket Mires of Caithness and Sutherland, Scotland’s Great Flow Country (UK). in: Finlayson, C. Max, Milton, G. Randy, Prentice, R. Crawford and Davidson, Nick C. (ed.) The Wetland Book: II: Distribution, Description and Conservation Springer Netherlands. pp. 1-17
Peatlands and Windfarms: Conflicting Carbon Targets and Environmental Impacts
Lindsay, R. 2016. Peatlands and Windfarms: Conflicting Carbon Targets and Environmental Impacts. in: Finlayson, C. Max, Milton, G. Randy, Prentice, R. Crawford and Davidson, Nick C. (ed.) The Wetland Book: II: Distribution, Description and Conservation Springer.
Peatland Classification
Lindsay, R. 2016. Peatland Classification. in: Finlayson, C. Max, Everard, Mark, Irvine, Kenneth, McInnes, Robert J., Middleton, Beth A. and Davidson, Nick C. (ed.) The Wetland Book: I: Structure and Function, Management, and Methods Springer Netherlands.
Peatland (Mire Types): Based on Origin and Behavior of Water, Peat Genesis, Landscape Position, and Climate
Lindsay, R. 2016. Peatland (Mire Types): Based on Origin and Behavior of Water, Peat Genesis, Landscape Position, and Climate. in: Finlayson, C. Max, Milton, G. Randy, Prentice, R. Crawford and Davidson, Nick C. (ed.) The Wetland Book: II: Distribution, Description and Conservation Springer Netherlands.
Lindsay, R. 2016. Mires. in: Finlayson, C. Max, Milton, G. Randy, Prentice, R. Crawford and Davidson, Nick C. (ed.) The Wetland Book: II: Distribution, Description and Conservation Springer Netherlands.
Lagg Fen
Lindsay, R. 2016. Lagg Fen. in: Finlayson, C. Max, Milton, G. Randy, Prentice, R. Crawford and Davidson, Nick C. (ed.) The Wetland Book: II: Distribution, Description and Conservation Springer Netherlands.
Blanket Mire
Lindsay, R. 2016. Blanket Mire. in: Finlayson, C. Max, Milton, G. Randy, Prentice, R. Crawford and Davidson, Nick C. (ed.) The Wetland Book: II: Distribution, Description and Conservation Springer Netherlands.
Blanket Bogs
Lindsay, R. 2016. Blanket Bogs. in: Finlayson, C. Max, Milton, G. Randy, Prentice, R. Crawford and Davidson, Nick C. (ed.) The Wetland Book: II: Distribution, Description and Conservation Springer Netherlands.
Lindsay, R. and Clough, J. 2017. United Kingdom. in: Joosten, Hans, Tanneberger, Franziska and Moen, Asbjorn (ed.) Mires and peatlands of Europe: Status, distribution and conservation Stuttgart Schweizerbart Science Publishers. pp. 705-720
Peatland conservation ‐ the Cinderella Syndrome
Lindsay, R. 1992. Peatland conservation ‐ the Cinderella Syndrome. in: Bragg, O.M., Hulme, P.D., Ingram, H.A.P. and Robertson, R.A. (ed.) Peatland ecosystems and man: An impact assessment Dundee University of Dundee/British Ecological Society. pp. 331-344
Peatland conservation — from cinders to Cinderella
Lindsay, R. 1993. Peatland conservation — from cinders to Cinderella. Biodiversity & Conservation. 2 (5), pp. 528-540.
SESSION 1: More than just Heather TALK 3: Mires
Lindsay, R. 2016. SESSION 1: More than just Heather TALK 3: Mires. in: Alonso, I, Underhill-Day, J and Lake, S (ed.) Proceedings of the 11th National Heathland Conference Natual England. pp. 8-11
Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report No. 925: A review of the influence of ombrotrophic peat depth on the successful restoration of bog habitat
Lindsay, R. and Clough, J. 2016. Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report No. 925: A review of the influence of ombrotrophic peat depth on the successful restoration of bog habitat. Edinburgh Scottish Natural Heritage.
Peat Bog Ecosystems: Tracks across peatlands
Lindsay, R., Birnie, Richard and Clough, Jack 2016. Peat Bog Ecosystems: Tracks across peatlands. International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Peat Bog Ecosystems: Peatland Restoration
Lindsay, R., Birnie, Richard and Clough, Jack 2016. Peat Bog Ecosystems: Peatland Restoration. International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Peat Bog Ecosystems: Atmospheric pollution
Evans, Chris, Woodin, Sarah and Lindsay, R. 2016. Peat Bog Ecosystems: Atmospheric pollution. International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
The Flow Country – battles fought, war won, organisation lost.
Stroud, D., Pienkowski, M.W., Reed, T. and Lindsay, R. 2015. The Flow Country – battles fought, war won, organisation lost. in: Thompson, D., Birks, H. and Birks, J. (ed.) Nature’s Conscience – The life and legacy of Derek Ratcliffe. Peterborough Langford Press. pp. 401-439
A Letter to Derek Ratcliffe
Lindsay, R. 2015. A Letter to Derek Ratcliffe. in: Thompson, D., Birks, H. and Birks, J. (ed.) Nature’s Conscience – The life and legacy of Derek Ratcliffe Peterborough Langford Press. pp. 441-452
Initial insights on the biodiversity potential of biosolar roofs: A London Olympic Park green roof case study
Nash, C, Clough, J., Gedge, D, Lindsay, R., Newport, D., Ciupala, A. and Connop, S. 2015. Initial insights on the biodiversity potential of biosolar roofs: A London Olympic Park green roof case study. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution; special issue "Integrating ecology into green roof research". 62 (1-2), pp. 74-87.
Lindsay, R. 2014. Americas. in: Cris, R., Buckmaster, S., Bain, C. and Reed, M. (ed.) Global Peatland Restoration demonstrating success Edinburgh IUCN UK Peatland Programme. pp. 55-57
Galloping Gertie and the Precautionary Principle – How is Environmental Impact Assessed?
Lindsay, R. 1995. Galloping Gertie and the Precautionary Principle – How is Environmental Impact Assessed? in: Science for the Earth: Can Science Make the World a Better Place? Chichester Wiley. pp. 197-236
Lewis Wind Power (LWP) Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) 2004 and 2006 - a Critical Review
Lindsay, R. and Freeman, Jamie 2008. Lewis Wind Power (LWP) Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) 2004 and 2006 - a Critical Review. London University of East London.
Peat Bog Ecosystems: Key Definitions
Lindsay, R., Birnie, Richard and Clough, Jack 2014. Peat Bog Ecosystems: Key Definitions. Edinburgh International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Birds, bogs and forestry: the peatlands of Caithness and Sutherland
Stroud, D.A., Reed, T.M., Pienkowski, M.W. and Lindsay, R. 1988. Birds, bogs and forestry: the peatlands of Caithness and Sutherland. Nature Conservancy Council.
Strategy and Action Plan for Mire and Peatland Conservation in Central Europe: Central European Peatland Project (CEPP)
Bragg, Olivia and Lindsay, R. 2003. Strategy and Action Plan for Mire and Peatland Conservation in Central Europe: Central European Peatland Project (CEPP). Wageningen, Netherlands Wetlands International.
Lindsay, R. 2014. Asia. in: Cris, R., Buckmaster, S., Bain, C. and Reed, M. (ed.) Global Peatland Restoration demonstrating success Edinburgh IUCN UK Peatland Programme. pp. 41-49
The peatland vegetation of Lewis
Goode, D. A. and Lindsay, R. 1979. The peatland vegetation of Lewis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Section B. Biological Sciences. 77 (Jan79), pp. 279-293.
Bogs: the ecology, classification and conservation of ombrotrophic mires
Lindsay, R. 1995. Bogs: the ecology, classification and conservation of ombrotrophic mires. Edinburgh Scottish Natural Heritage.
Ombrogenous mires in Islay and Mull
Lindsay, R., Rigall, J. and Bignall, E. M. 1983. Ombrogenous mires in Islay and Mull. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Section B. Biological Sciences. 83 (Jan), pp. 341-371.
An inventory of lowland raised bogs in Great Britain
Lindsay, R. and Immirzi, Philip 1996. An inventory of lowland raised bogs in Great Britain. Perth Scottish Natural Heritage.
IUCN UK Commission of Inquiry on Peatlands
Bain, C. G., Bonn, A., Stoneman, R., Chapman, S., Coupar, A., Evans, M., Gearey, B., Howat, M., Joosten, H., Keenleyside, C., Labadz, J., Lindsay, R., Littlewood, N., Lunt, P., Miller, C. J., Moxey, A., Orr, H., Reed, M., Smith, P., Swales, V., Thompson, D. B. A., Thompson, P. S., Van de Noort, R., Wilson, J. D. and Worrall, F. 2011. IUCN UK Commission of Inquiry on Peatlands. Edinburgh IUCN UK Peatland Programme.
Towards the development of a UK Peatland Code: Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) Pilot Research Project
Reed, M. S., Bonn, A., Evans, C., Joosten, H., Bain, B., Farmer, J., Emmer, I., Couwenberg, J., Moxey, A., Artz, R., Tanneberger, F, von Unger, M., Smyth, M., Birnie, R., Inman, I., Smith, S., Quick, T., Cowap, C., Prior, S. and Lindsay, R. 2013. Towards the development of a UK Peatland Code: Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) Pilot Research Project. London Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs.
Peat Bog Ecosystems: Structure, Form, State and Condition
Lindsay, R., Birnie, Richard and Clough, Jack 2014. Peat Bog Ecosystems: Structure, Form, State and Condition. Edinburgh International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Peat Bog Ecosystems: Peat Bogs, Climate and Climate Change
Lindsay, R., Birnie, Richard and Clough, Jack 2014. Peat Bog Ecosystems: Peat Bogs, Climate and Climate Change. Edinburgh International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Peat Bog Ecosystems: Impacts of Artificial Drainage on Peatlands
Lindsay, R., Birnie, Richard and Clough, Jack 2014. Peat Bog Ecosystems: Impacts of Artificial Drainage on Peatlands. Edinburgh International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Peat Bog Ecosystems: Grazing and Trampling
Lindsay, R., Birnie, Richard and Clough, Jack 2014. Peat Bog Ecosystems: Grazing and Trampling. Edinburgh International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Peat Bog Ecosystems: Ecological Impacts of Forestry on Peatlands
Lindsay, R., Birnie, Richard and Clough, Jack 2014. Peat Bog Ecosystems: Ecological Impacts of Forestry on Peatlands. Edinburgh International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Peat Bog Ecosystems: Domestic peat extraction
Lindsay, R., Birnie, Richard and Clough, Jack 2014. Peat Bog Ecosystems: Domestic peat extraction. Edinburgh International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Peat Bog Ecosystems: Commercial peat extraction
Lindsay, R., Birnie, Richard and Clough, Jack 2014. Peat Bog Ecosystems: Commercial peat extraction. Edinburgh International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Peat Bog Ecosystems: Burning
Lindsay, R., Birnie, Richard and Clough, Jack 2014. Peat Bog Ecosystems: Burning. Edinburgh International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
An Historical Survey of Lowland Raised Mires, Great Britain
Bragg, O.M., Lindsay, R. and Robertson, H. 1984. An Historical Survey of Lowland Raised Mires, Great Britain. Peterborough Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
The Flow Country: The peatlands of Caithness and Sutherland
Lindsay, R., Charman, D.J., Everingham, F., O'Reilly, R.M., Palmer, M.A., Rowell, T.A. and Stroud, D.A. 1988. The Flow Country: The peatlands of Caithness and Sutherland. Peterborough Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
The use of small-scale surface patterns in the classification of British Peatlands
Lindsay, R., Rigall, J. and Burd, F. 1985. The use of small-scale surface patterns in the classification of British Peatlands. Aquilo Serie Botanica.
Wind Farms and Blanket Peat - a report on the Derrybrien bog slide
Lindsay, R. and Bragg, Olivia 2005. Wind Farms and Blanket Peat - a report on the Derrybrien bog slide. Gort, Co Galway, Ireland Derrybrien Development Cooperative Ltd.
Peatbogs and carbon: a critical synthesis to inform policy development in oceanic peat bog conservation and restoration in the context of climate change.
Lindsay, R. 2010. Peatbogs and carbon: a critical synthesis to inform policy development in oceanic peat bog conservation and restoration in the context of climate change. University of East London, Environmental Research Group.
University of East London: the biodiversity evidence‐base
Freeman, Jamie, Lindsay, R., Marr, Melissa and Connop, S. 2010. University of East London: the biodiversity evidence‐base. London University of East London.
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Groups are available on Arena only!
Sometimes, you have a set of clips that work particularly well together. You know, those two or three clips that, with just the right blend mode, melt together to become a completely new piece of content. Wouldn't it be great if you could control those clips with one fader, apply effects on them if they were one clip, and could even move them around and scale them like they were one clip?
That's where groups come in.
Groups are essentially little sub-compositions. You can use them to group layers together, and treat them as one big, new layer.
You create a group by selecting the first layer you want to add to the group, right-clicking it and selecting Group > New.
This will put the layer in the group. You will see this reflected in the interface, by the layer being slightly indented, and the newly created group will 'hug' its new baby. Also, the group panel will appear next to the layer panel.
Adding and Removing Layers
At this point, adding and removing layers to and from a group is very easy. You can simply drag them by the layer name handle, and either drop em in, or throw them out.
Keep in mind! A group can never be empty, as this would mean the group disappears and you could lose all its effects and settings. So when you drag the last layer out of the group, Resolume will create a new empty layer in its place.
If you're more of a menu type of person, you can also use the layer menu to move layers out of groups.
Group x - If another group is available, selecting it will move the selected layer there directly.
None - This will remove the selected layer from the group.
New - This will create a new group and put the selected layer in it.
You can create as many groups as you like.
What Happens in the Group, Stays in the Group!
Groups are a hybrid between a little sub composition and a layer.
They have a lot of the same functionality that the composition has. Groups have their own little column trigger, their own little master speed slider and playback controls, as well as their own master bypass, solo and eject buttons.
Of course, you can apply transforms, effects and masks on the group level.
Groups also borrow some functionality from layers, like Ignore Column Trigger and Lock, which are applied on all layers in that group.
The only difference is that what happens in a group, never leaves that group.
On the one hand, this means obvious things like that group column triggers won't affect layers outside the group, and pressing the group eject button, only ejects layers in the group.
But it also means less obvious things.
For instance, you can't route layers to a Layer Router outside the group, and you can't crossfade to a layer in a group if the group itself is on another crossfader bus. This prevents you from accidentally tearing a hole in the space time continuum. Because that's what will happen when you start doing weird things like that.
And no, you can't put a group in another group. You are not Leonardo Dicaprio and you are not asleep in a van falling from a bridge in Paris.
Group Blending
Groups start you out with a blank canvas.
Regular layers will blend with the layers beneath them, depending on their blend mode and opacity. Layers in a group only blend with the other layers in the group.
The first layer of a group is first rendered on a transparent black background. It doesn't blend with the layers underneath it. The other group layers are blended on top of this first group layer.
The final result of this is then blended back in the composition. The group has become a single flattened layer at this point. You can use the group's blend mode and opacity to control how it's mixed with the rest of the composition.
Groups default to Alpha blend mode with 100% opacity.
Group to Slice Routing
Groups are also available as input for slices in the Advanced Output. This will let you route multiple layers to a single slice.
Keep in mind that you can no longer use the group blending mode at this point. Also, routing a group to a slice means you bypass all composition effects.
Basic Vocabulary
Difference between Avenue and Arena
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Home » Student » Policies & Regulations » Petition an Academic Regulation
Academically suspended students are not eligible to utilize any of the services of the university unless they are academically reinstated.
The Academic Standing Committee
The Academic Standing Committee addresses requests for exception to Academic Regulation 22. Suspended students who are considering filing a Petition for Exception to the Reinstatement Regulations form (provided by the Office of the Registrar) should meet with the head advisor of their college to discuss their options. The preparation process generally requires several days; students should allow sufficient time before the ASC meeting to gather and prepare all materials. Students with specific questions should contact their college head advisor, or the Office of the Registrar.
The Committee on Academic Standing will consider requests for exceptions to the Reinstatement Rules only in rare situations in which all four of the following conditions are met:
The poor academic performance was the result of extraordinary circumstances that have been demonstrably corrected or substantially addressed, and should no longer adversely influence the student's academic performance. Documentation of these circumstances should be provided (i.e., medical records, obituaries or death certificates, etc.)
The head advisor of the student's college, or the student's academic advisor, in consultation with the head advisor, is willing and able to argue convincingly that the student has a strong probability of completing the degree program to which the student would be reinstated.
In addition to the poor academic performance, there is also evidence in the academic record of an ability to succeed academically and make timely progress toward completion of a degree program.
The student provides a proposed schedule for the next three terms and a detailed plan to foster academic improvement, which have been reviewed and endorsed by the head advisor, or academic advisor, in consultation with the head advisor. Academic Performance Agreement.
The committee recognizes that there may be cases which require review and merit exception. Exceptions are imaginable where the term or terms of poor performance are somewhat isolated, and clearly linked to an extraordinary occurrence (such as a health problem) that has been ameliorated, or to unusually challenging circumstances whose impact on the student has been substantially relieved. It must be made clear, however, that exceptions will be granted only rarely. To warrant exception, the academic record should contain evidence that, in the absence of the problem asserted by the student as responsible for the poor performance, the student can succeed; more simply, there should be on record at least one term in which the student performed successfully in courses that contribute to progress toward a degree. Furthermore, the student must present a clear plan of action, endorsed by the head advisor, which includes a program of contact with recognized academic support staff. Finally, advocacy, and not mere "approval," by a head advisor, or by an academic advisor in consultation with the head advisor, is a crucial necessary condition for an exception. Students also may submit evidence of support from other representatives of recognized university support services in addition to, but not in lieu of, letters from departmental and college advisors.
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Meetings are held in the Registrar’s Conference Room, B102 Kerr Administration Building, unless otherwise noted.
The Academic Standing Committee will meet with all students who initiate their appeal by submitting their Petition for Exception to the Reinstatement Regulations form (provided by the Office of the Registrar) to the Office of the Registrar by the appropriate deadline to initiate an appeal indicated below. Students also must submit a complete packet of materials by the deadline specified for each meeting. Students may request an appointment with the ASC only when they have submitted a complete packet of documents (the packet includes the Petition, the student's letter, the advisor's letter, three terms of projected schedule, the Academic Performance Agreement, and any supplementary documentation).
See the ASC Meeting Schedule (see link above) for available meeting times. Students must choose the term for which they intend to request reinstatement and view the the meeting dates and filing deadlines. If they initiate an appeal after this deadline, and if all of the meeting dockets are filled, they must wait for a meeting later in the term. Students must file a complete packet by the deadline indicated for each meeting.
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Advanced Methods of Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Systems Analysis
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Development of a Fiber Optic Sensor for Detection of General Anesthetics and Other Small Organic Molecules
Sabina Merlo
Paul Yager
Lloyd W. Burgess
We have demonstrated a fiber optic sensor for general anesthetics and other small organic molecules based on the sensitivity of the phase transitions of phospholipids to the presence of such molecules. An aqueous dispersion of phospholipids that exhibit a phase transition near the desired operating temperature is used as a transducing element at the end of two optical fibers. Agarose gel is used to immobilize liposomes labeled with a fluorescent dye sensitive to the phase state of the bilayer in which it is embedded. The ratio of the fluorescence intensity at two wavelengths exhibits a nearly linear dependance on clinically relevant concentrations of volatile anesthetics over a physiological range of temperatures. The probe has been tested in both gas and liquid phases, and should operate in blood and tissue, allowing development of a practical device for rapid in vivo monitoring of general anesthetics.
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Reticulon protects the integrity of the ER membrane during ER escape of large macromolecular protein complexes
Yu-Jie Chen
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI
Jeffrey M. Williams
Peter Arvan
Division of Metabolism Endocrinology and Diabetes, Comprehensive Diabetes Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI
Billy Tsai
Correspondence to Billy Tsai: btsai@umich.edu
J Cell Biol (2020) 219 (2): e201908182.
https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201908182
Yu-Jie Chen, Jeffrey M. Williams, Peter Arvan, Billy Tsai; Reticulon protects the integrity of the ER membrane during ER escape of large macromolecular protein complexes. J Cell Biol 3 February 2020; 219 (2): e201908182. doi: https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201908182
Escape of large macromolecular complexes from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), such as a viral particle or cellular aggregate, likely induces mechanical stress initiated on the luminal side of the ER membrane, which may threaten its integrity. How the ER responds to this threat remains unknown. Here we demonstrate that the cytosolic leaflet ER morphogenic protein reticulon (RTN) protects ER membrane integrity when polyomavirus SV40 escapes the ER to reach the cytosol en route to infection. SV40 coopts an intrinsic RTN function, as we also found that RTN prevents membrane damage during ER escape of a misfolded proinsulin aggregate destined for lysosomal degradation via ER-phagy. Our studies reveal that although ER membrane integrity may be threatened during ER escape of large macromolecular protein complexes, the action of RTN counters this, presumably by deploying its curvature-inducing activity to provide membrane flexibility and stability to limit mechanical stress imposed on the ER membrane.
Membrane and lipid biology, Virology
© 2020 Chen et al.
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Prizes and Heroes: Lagging and leading indicators
Kuan-Teh Jeang1
What are the purposes of prizes and recognitions? Are they lagging indicators of past achievements or leading indicators of things to come?
Every October there is a flurry of Nobel prize announcements (see e.g. [1]). In reflecting on Nobel and other prizes, one can ponder a couple of questions. Why are prizes given? And why are certain recipients chosen preferentially?
From a common sense perspective, prizes seem to be disbursed for two categories of purposes. In the first category, a prize is given to recognize past achievements of high significance. Here, many prize-givers benefit from "gilt by association". By choosing big-name winners, the luster of the awardee adds to the prestige of the prize. Thus, the selection for these prize recipients may subscribe to a sociological "halo" or "Matthew" effect [2] whereby prominent scientists tend to be more favorably evaluated, and these individuals gather more and more peer recognition while less prominent peers tend not to be accorded similar credit for what they do. Not uncommonly, a pattern emerges whereby only a small circle of names garner the lion's share of prizes.
In the second category, prizes are awarded with the intention to motivate future achievements. CNN's Hero of the Year http://www.cnn.com/heroes is an example of this prize category. For example, Efren Peñaflorida of the Philippines was recognized as a 2009 Hero for creating mobile pushcart classrooms. By receiving this recognition, Penaflorida was able to leverage the award to create more visibility and more pushcarts for his program. Thus, this category of prizes rather than being a lagging indicator of past achievement serves a leading predictor of hope for future progress. While most Nobel prizes do highlight past work, the Nobel Peace Prize is frequently given with the intention of galvanizing change, as was the case for last year's award to President Obama.
Retrovirology has discussed that equitable means for highlighting scientific achievements are difficult to achieve [3, 4]. Each year, Retrovirology awards a Prize to recognize a worthy mid-career scientist (e.g. [5, 6]). The intention of the Retrovirology Prize is to marry the concept of past achievements with the potential for further accomplishments in retrovirus research. As we open the nomination period for the 2010 Retrovirology Prize, we are mindful of the need to prospectively evaluate our past winners to see how they may have fulfilled and will fulfill hopes of post-prize achievements.
Lever AML, Berkhout B: 2008 Nobel prize in Medicine for discoverers of HIV. Retrovirology. 2008, 5: 91-10.1186/1742-4690-5-91.
Merton RK: Matthew Effect in Science. Science. 1968, 159: 56-10.1126/science.159.3810.56.
Jeang KT: H-index, mentoring-index, highly-cited and highly-accessed: how to evaluate scientists?. Retrovirology. 2008, 5: 106-10.1186/1742-4690-5-106.
Jeang KT: The importance of individualized article-specific metrics for evaluating research productivity. Retrovirology. 2009, 6: 82-10.1186/1742-4690-6-82.
Saib AF, Benkirane M: Endogenous retroviruses: Thierry Heidmann wins the 2009 Retrovirology prize. Retrovirology. 2009, 6: 108-10.1186/1742-4690-6-108.
Jeang KT: The 2008 Retrovirology Prize: Ben Berkhout and his RNA world. Retrovirology. 2008, 5: 113-10.1186/1742-4690-5-113.
I thank Mark Wainberg and Ben Berkhout for reading this editorial.
The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Kuan-Teh Jeang
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Correspondence to Kuan-Teh Jeang.
KTJ wrote this editorial which reflects his personal opinion and does not represent the views of KTJ's employer, the US National Institutes of Health.
Jeang, K. Prizes and Heroes: Lagging and leading indicators. Retrovirology 7, 87 (2010) doi:10.1186/1742-4690-7-87
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POETIC AESTHETIC
flash fiction by RF Brown
Poetry reading in a gallery—refined? I didn’t prepare anything, but I dressed well and caught a bus downtown.
In a converted shopfront, tiny canvases barely occupied stark white walls. There was a table on which someone had placed bottle of wine (one) and no corkscrew. A busy woman arranged cookies from a box. Plotting an indirect scheme at the unopened wine, I asked first about the canvases. She pushed her glasses up. “Another group. We’re poetry,” was her tiny prosody.
I loitered in the margins with strangers, all of us shy. When it seemed pertinent, I situated in one of the chairs which were arched in rows facing the front door. A gray-bearded man two chairs parenthetical inclined in my direction. “I’ve never come to one of these thingies,” he said, “but now I’m a poet.”
The woman from the cookies, also the evening’s symposiarch, introduced a young woman from a list. The young woman stood before us. She wore considerable makeup and read free verse from a smartphone she held in front of her face like a mirror. Her poem was about emotional abuse from a despicable man. I was sympathetic to her unhappiness, annoyed she finished each line intoning a question mark. The front door opened behind her, bringing in street noise, cigarette smell, and a man dressed all in denim. He apologized to the room for being a distraction and I missed what befell the scoundrel in the poem.
Next the bearded man went to the front. From type-written pages he recited a rhyming fable about a wife who forbade guns until the day her house was invaded by immigrants. Many among the audience were incensed. Returning to his chair, he leaned near me again. “That’s the last time I read poetry to a room full of lezzies.”
The symposiarch next asked the be-denimed man to present. He held up a weathered paper pad. In his epic, an order of Buddhists took LSD and fell united into a chasm. Metaphors continued page after scribbled page, but the falling pilgrims never reached the bottom.
I looked to the symposiarch, who looked to her watch, which inspired me look at mine. There would be a bus at the end of the block in minutes. While people continued to fall down a scribbled page, I gravitated to the door. I opened it and felt free. Although behind me l sensed the eyes of every poet analyzing the symbolism of my departure.
RFBrown
ATTABOYCHIK (A Tennis Parable) – by RF Brown
[short story first published in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, XXXII:1, Fall 2014/Winter 2015]
In my estimation, Oz Feldman, may he rot in Hell, is a tall asshole and an over-ranked yutz. Can I beat him in this match? In my judgment, yes, should I be blessed to survive all three sets. The Lord, may he guard my end of the court, knows I’ve beaten every other boy at Chazak Tennis Camp. So, today it’s Oz versus Benji, the last survivors of the sweaty summer’s end tournament. Also the last day of Chazak for me or Oz, ever. The old men don’t allow you back after summer of 11th grade. Why? I don’t know.
People are watching from benches outside the fence, my father and the other camp coaches, all the camp boys. Even Mama, may God protect her, got the afternoon and is standing along the opposite fence in her TJ Maxx uniform. Under her headcovering she’s smiling at me. I can’t remember the last time I saw her doing that. She’s as far away in the park as she can be from Father, may a tree fall on him.
Oz looms over my opposite baseline, the destroying angel with a black kippah and colorless eyes. He has a one hundred-ten foot arm span and a one hundred-ten mile an hour serve. It’s true, because Father measured. As Oz and I warm up the ball the humidity makes wet mittens of my hands around the racket. I’m remembering what Father, may he choke on his tongue, instructs me on how to play Oz. The ugly giant’s all serve. Don’t allow this dull nephilim Oz to drag me at his advantage into set tiebreakers. Prove to Father I’m not afraid of a big-serving bully.
Some camp boy’s gray-bearded grandfather just climbed up into the seat of the chair-umpire.
“Maysters ready? Play!”
May God murder my enemy.
I didn’t wake up this morning with a plan to rely on God to win. I heard it raining and I waited awake with my eyes closed willing the rain to stop. Guess what? It worked. Then I listened for an alarm of rap music from my computer tablet. I had a plan to beat Oz. I repeated the plan in my head.
Estimate the course of his serve at first racket contact. Position myself far behind the baseline. Bounce on my sneakers a little. Shift my weight to the incoming ball side. Don’t try too much on his firsts, just block the ball back. Judge the weight of his over-ranked serve. Attempt a short slice to his backhand, low. Imagine hitting it to the serpents Oz has for shoelaces.
I toggled snooze on my tablet when rap came on and listened for my older sister turning off the shower. I told myself to stop plotting the match because too much would make me meshugah in the head. Instead I thought about Jazmine, the girl on the bus and her big pair of black-girl kishkas. I started to jerk off. For a moment, I thought of how Rabbi back in B’nei Mitzvah class used to say, “Zis iz a zin!” I stopped touching myself when I heard my sister, may she broil from rug burn, close her bedroom door. After I got up from bed I made sure the hallway was clear between my bedroom door and our bathroom for getting there only in my underwear. I skipped shaving because Oz Feldman has a narrow line of a beard that outlines his donkey face. It’s a line that makes him look like he’s passing for twenty. When I went back to my bedroom I put on tallit kattan, which is Hebrew for a Gentile undershirt with tzittzit tassels hanging off the corners. I picked a t-shirt to wear over with a design of Drake. Who is Drake? He’s the black-Jewish rapper and someone I hoped black girls on the bus would think under-ranked. I tied on the coolest sneakers there are from TJ Maxx and I sprayed on Midnight Rooster men’s body spray, which Mama agreed to get me for Hanukkah if I promised don’t wear it on Shabbat.
When I went to the kitchen I discovered that Mama left a skillet of blintzes stuffed with quark. What is quark? It’s kosher type cheese in which we Jews leave out any flavor. In my judgment, Mama should have been in the kitchen on the day of my championship match to make me something better, like she used to. I left all the cold blintzes on a plate for my sister, in case she’s just wicked enough to love the taste of dreck. Only then did I find Mama’s Post-it note left on our kitchen doorpost – May G_d help my boychik hit the yellow ball with all his heart today. Attaboy-chik! Upon review, I ruled I’d been a mean judge toward Mama. Long live Mama! She’s under-ranked.
I knocked on my sister’s bedroom and asked through the door if she could give me money. She said, “Fuck no, Benji,” and I said, “May God be as sweet to you, Bitch!” Back in my bedroom I put a kippah on my head, one with a Red Sox ‘B’ in back, and clipped it to a clump of my curls. In the mirror I judged how much the day’s humidity was making my bristly hair platz out around the kippah. I considered Oz Feldman, may he shake hands with a vise, and how he could probably wrap his long fingers all the way around my skinny neck. Then I wondered if girls think boys who play tennis are sexy, followed by realizing I couldn’t name any famous Jewish tennis stars.
Yesterday, driving me home from tennis camp, Father, may he steer off a cliff, said at seventeen he was horny for Steffi Graf and Chrisy Evert-Lloyd. Being seventeen myself I named Father several girls in pro-tennis I’ve seen on tv who are beautiful. But the girls I named happen to be black girls and Father ignored me like I didn’t say any names at all. I judged right there in the car that Father has chutzpah. In my estimation, only a man with chutzpah would go to the honor of nicknaming himself Great Jewish Philosopher of Tennis, especially if all he knows about tennis is instructing high school boys to play. Said the Great Jewish Philosopher of Tennis, may a yellow ball get lodged in his throat, that when two good tennis players are fairly paired, not strength wins, but reflexive instinct. Father said at Benji versus Oz in the Chazak camp championship I should play like a fox versus a bear in a cage. Do you know what he meant? I didn’t. Then he asked me if I thought my instinct for the subtleties of tennis were strong enough. He asked if I thought I had practiced the right things. But he didn’t wait for me to answer either of those questions. Instead Father kept talking. Said the Great Jewish Philosopher of Tennis, may a bee sting him on the tonsils, that a true tennis champion is master of reflexes, learning to repeat the correct techniques correctly time after time. I wondered if it’s honest for me to love the advice and hate the advisor. Then Father said what works in tennis is the same as in life with our religious rituals, that repetition itself defeats distractions.
This morning I looked on my dresser at the blue, velvet bag containing my tefillin – tiny handwritten pieces of Torah in two small, black boxes. I’m expected to tie the boxes to my arm and forehead every day. Tefillah were a gift from my parents, both of them, on my Bar Mitzvah. Guess what? I skipped strapping on black boxes and reciting Shema this morning, just like most mornings this summer. I didn’t do tefillin, which is bullshit, just to make parents happy, like I did when Father still lived at home. Instead I ruled that repeating an over-ranked blessing doesn’t do bubkes. God, like a chair-umpire in tennis, takes no side between me and my enemies. I decided instead to keep calling my own shots. When my sister went back into the bathroom, I went into her bedroom. On her bureau was a pink charity box she made when she was little in Hebrew school. I stole change for McDonald’s breakfast and left our apartment.
I shoved an empty sausage McGriddle box in my tennis bag. Yes, every Jew already knows that McGriddle is forbidden treyf, but this morning I called it good. I then used the tennis bag to block the aisle side of my bus bench. I pulled out my tablet on which I had an email that the new issue of Black-lete Sports Magazine was up for me to read during the bus ride.
Everyday this summer my bus to Chazak stopped at West Boston Boulevard where a facacta lady named Cynthia got on. All of us on the bus had to wait the rest of our lives while Cynthia paid her bus fare in small change.
“Hello, Benny!” Cynthia said, excited like she hadn’t seen me for ten years instead of a day. Her crazy hand wiggled like her plastic rain bonnet in the wind. Have I made it clear that I had previously ruled there would be no more rain today? I waved back barely in Cynthia’s direction making it clear to her I was concentrating on a post in Black-lete. Cynthia sat her fat tochis in an empty bench across from me and pulled out her leather-bound Bible. “I like that you’ve been riding my bus every day, Benny.” A couple weeks earlier she introduced herself, without me ever asking. That day I felt sorry for her and surrendered Benji, but she heard it wrong. No point in ever trying to fix her. She took off her rain bonnet and wrapped gray hair pigtails around her craggy neck. “A boy at the T-stop stole my bus pass, Benny. He looked Chinese.” As I’ve mentioned, I judged Cynthia to have been facacta and weird. She smelled moldy, like the boiler room of my apartment building. She had a thin nose like a butter knife and she wore big, lepish glasses that made it look like I was seeing her eyes through a microscope. “My daddy gave me a roll of nickels to pay the bus driver, Benny. Last night I prayed to Jesus to forgive the Chinese boy.”
“So, good for you.” Why did I say anything at all? I don’t know.
“You’re a sweet-pea, Benny. In my prayers I told God you stare at big-booby black girls on your computer. My daddy says white boys should only date white girls. I like that smell of perfume you wear everyday, Benny.”
I happened to be studying a picture of black women volleyball athletes in sexy sports-bras. “My parents instruct me only date Jewish girls,” I said.
“Jesus was Jewish,” Cynthia said.
“So, good for Jesus.”
The bus stopped in front of the pawnshop on Washington Avenue. Beautiful Jazmine and her two girlfriends stepped on, all of them black, and making a head-turning racket down the middle of the bus. The three of them wore matching, red, collared-shirt uniforms everyday, some office supply store logo on their left tits. I had never overheard names of the other two, just Jazmine. I judged the girls to be loud, mean and fucking gorgeous. Two of them bounced down in the bench behind Cynthia. In the bench behind me, Jazmine put her sneakers up and lounged against the window. Her red shirt collar stood up to her gold hoop earrings and she held her phone so close to her face she swabbed the surface with her long eyelashes.
“Hey, Skinny Jewish Boy,” one of twosome called out. She could only have been asking me, “Don’t your mother feed you? You look like my toothbrush is wearing a yamaha.”
“What do you know about wearing Drake on your shirt, Boy?” the other girl teased. “Hasn’t nobody told Jewish people yet that Drake is gay? You must be gay!” Her benchmate almost toyted-over it was so hilarious.
“Don’t be mean, girl,” the second one laughed. “Maybe Jewish Boy’s not gay. I mean, everyday he sits in the seat across from his retarded girlfriend.” Cynthia just sat smiling and pressing her gigantic eyeglasses against the words of her Bible.
“Hey, Old White Lady, have you and your Jewish boyfriend done the nasty yet?”
“Girl, I bet these two want to have a threesome with Drake in between!”
Maybe Cynthia was happy being an oblivious, Bible memorizing idiot, but the two sexy anti-Semitic girls pissed me off. I turned around in my bench at them and shouted back, “May you both fall in the ocean and float away on your big, black tits!” This riled those two girls up, but not Jazmine.
Never looking up from her phone, Jazmine said her first indirect words to me, ever. “You three all just shut up, please. Let’s not have a race riot here on the freaking city bus.” Jazmine’s friends followed her orders and made less loud gossip of people. Then Jazmine said to me, “If it matters, I doubt Drake is gay, McGriddle.” She estimated me confused and pointed over the back of my bench at the empty breakfast box, which was poking out of my tennis bag. “Just ignore those two hookers, but be careful what you say about a black girl’s boobs. We take them seriously.”
I judged Jazmine’s advice to be good, but couldn’t think of what to say back. Was it a miracle of God that she kept talking to me?
“I’ve seen you before on the bus with your tennis racket. You play every day?”
“Everyday in summer,” I answered. “Camp Chazak.”
“Oh, boy, I could never learn to play tennis there because I could never learn to pronounce it.”
I laughed a little. “You could never play tennis at Chazak because they only allow boys.”
“Excuse me on your religion, but that’s old fashioned and fucked up.”
May God bless Jazmine. She’s so pretty. “You’re judgment is accurate on that,” I said.
“You any good at tennis?” she asked me, also texting on her phone.
“Playing the summer championship today. I’m best at it.”
“Okay, Boy,” she said, “don’t be too all that, now.”
Don’t misjudge me. I meant to tell Jazmine that tennis is the best thing I can do. It’s the one thing I judge myself to be opposite a klutz. I’m told that back in the good old days my father was a teenage tennis champion as well as the top student in his class at Greater Boston Modern Orthodox Day School. Who did I hear that from? My father, of course, and he doesn’t let people forget. In the worse new days, at the exact same school, I’m not on the top of anything. But, at tennis camp? Almost no one can beat me, and I’m not letting you forget either. Tennis is the thing about which I give a shit that certain people such as my father are impressed.
Jazmine stared out the bus window and I stared at her soft looking neck, perfect as the pumpernickel my Mama used to make.
“So, where do go in your life to meet Jewish girls, McGriddle?”
“Oh, they allow girls in Post B’nei Mitzvah Club. We meet on Kosher Taco Tuesdays.”
“That’s the girls you date?” Jazmine’s huge brown eyes stared straight at me. “Which ever ones show up on Taco Tuesday?”
Was Jazmine making fun of me in a more professional way?
“Come on now, McGriddle.” Her fingers summoned me. “This bus is moving slower than my grandma walks. I need some boring conversation. Talk to me.”
“So far I haven’t been on many dates.” Don’t ask me why I volunteered such an embarrassing fact to Jazmine because I don’t know. Upon review, I suppose she made me feel okay telling her anything, instead of feeling like an asshole. “I’ve never been on a date with an African-American girl.”
“You don’t like black girls?”
“No, that’s not what I mean,” I said. “I don’t judge. Like when my Father was backhand drilling me yesterday, he’s also one of our tennis camp coaches, a couple of really pretty African-American girls were walking through the park along the court. My father noticed me noticing them instead of paying attention to his drills. He said his son should forget coming to like svartza girls.”
“Svartsa? That word sounds like I don’t want to hear what it means.”
“My Father said he thinks it’s okay to friends with you, but he’ll never give blessing to marry one.”
“Excuse me. If you want to marry a black girl, how are your parents going to stop you?”
“It’s just not done. Which I rule ridiculous, because my Father’s the most over-ranked role model of halahkah.”
“Okay, beg your pardon?”
“Halahkah means, like, religious way of life,” I explained. “In addition to being all knowing about tennis, my father talks like he’s a professional on the practice of all religious rituals. Meanwhile, last year he moved to a different house and he has his own blonde lady now, who he says is half-Jewish.”
“You got a mom?”
“I got one. She used to stay home. Do you know a guy named TJ Maxx? Now she takes care of him all day. Mama says my father met his blonde half-shiksa when he was still living with us. My father tells me and my sister, no, he didn’t meet her until after he moved out. He says he tried to get my Mama to stay on her medicine and stop being negative all the time. He says sure, a man honors his wife by keeping her happy, but not so much that he has to always be depressed. And, under halahkah, the wife’s not divorced until the husband is nice enough to give her a piece of paper that says You are hereby free of me. Father says he already gives Mama all his his money and she just wants to take away his children, to punish him for wanting to end their marriage in which she refused to be happy. In my judgment, Mama is sadder now. She says my father’s being a bully. She’s taking him to religious court, but in my estimation the odds are against whatever she wants, Jewish law seems like an even bigger bully. I say mazel tov to my father’s new happiness and his over-ranked half-shiksa. May they be buried alive together.
Jazmine nodded her head. “If we’re keeping it real, McGriddle, I’d say the same thing to my mom. Mine used to beat up on me every time she was drinking. Then, when I got big enough to kick her ass back, she started beating up on my little brother. Finally, I was just like, bye, we’re leaving. I took my brother and we went to my grandma’s house for good. The other day my mom text me, ‘You have to come back, Jazmine, because I say.’ I told her, ‘Hell no.’ She can’t make me do anything. You know, last Sunday in my grandma’s church, the pastor was talking about David and Goliath. I heard that story about a million times growing up, but I realized Sunday they’ve been telling it wrong.”
“What’s to get wrong? The kid kills the giant with one smooth rock served out of his sling. Then David cuts Goliath’s head off, and all the Jews learn God will always protect them from their enemies.”
“That’s like what they always taught me in Sunday School too, McGriddle, but I started thinking David and Goliath means something else.”
“The Bible says it right here in First Samuel,” Cynthia chimed in across the aisle. She was already on the exact page. Maybe I was wrong and Cynthia was hearing everything people were saying. She followed the scripture with her pointy witch nose and read it loud enough for the whole busful to hear. “The Lord, who delivered me out of the paw of the lion and out of the paw of the bear, will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine, Goliath.”
“I guess your girlfriend knows her Bible,” Jazmine said.
“Then you should guess again,” I argued, “because she’s not my girlfriend,”
“Come on, McGriddle, I’m just joking with you.” Jazmine’s smile was so sweet, but I untrusted her a little. “Besides, we’re friends now.”
“What do you mean David and Goliath means something else?” This was me defending Jewish tradition. Imagine.
“I’m just saying, when you think about it, why was David so gung-ho to step up and take on Goliath?”
Cynthia read aloud, “I will go and fight with this uncircumcised Philistine, who hath taunted and defied the armies of the living God. Then, Benny, To the man who kills this giant, the king will give his daughter in marriage and make his house free of taxes in Israel. That’s what the white Bible says.”
Jazmine rolled her priceless eyes. “There aint no white Bible and black Bible, Lady.” Then she turned back to me. “Goliath was talking trash about the Israelite’s army, right? He’s all – Come try it David, I’ll tear you up and feed you to chickens. But then it turns out Goliath’s really just slow and stupid. I mean, he stands there while David kills him with one rock. Sitting there, bored, in church I started thinking maybe David was the only one who saw something about Goliath that wasn’t so scary. Same as I saw with my mom. She drinks and beats up my brother, but beating on her children doesn’t make her strong. It’s her weakness. I’m not going to let her hit us anymore. Once you take away her beating people up, she’s got no powers left.”
“I think I know what you mean,” I said, my faith in Jazmine returning, “but say it again, maybe.”
“What I’m saying is maybe David was so freaking brave because he figured out the giant wasn’t really all that. Maybe he figured out Goliath was all talk and David was going to get the girl and the money. Maybe Goliaths are only Goliath because people keep thinking they are.” Then Jazmine’s nose wrinkled up. “Boy, somebody on this bus smells like a lot of rachet perfume.”
Our bus crossed over the three girl’s last intersection with me. On repetitive reflex Jazmine reached up and pulled the overhead cord for the bell. “This is our stop, hookers. See you tomorrow, McGriddle.”
The three girls stood up and tussled off the bus. I wanted to ask Jazmine exactly how she planned to see me tomorrow. There wasn’t time left to tell her I don’t usually ride the bus on Saturdays, on Shabbat. Also, today was last day of tennis camp. Yes, I’d like her to see me again, but couldn’t think so fast of where or when. See her again? I’d like to will that to happen. Maybe then I’d tell her she’s sexy. I also would tell her how I underestimated how many brilliant things she has to say. Long live Jazmine!
Cynthia’s nose ran across her Bible page and she read out loud, “Do not be slothful in zeal, Benny.”
Maybe Cynthia’s was under-ranked too. Jazmine was already gone.
Do you know Brookline Park? That’s where I got off the bus, where Chazak is. Sure, the sun was hot as Hell but the tennis courts were still wet from overnight rain. Father and another coach got there early with battery-powered puddle blowers. We camp boys followed after them with long squeegees. Soon the gray-bearded amateur umpire proclaimed our green, hard surfaces looked dry enough for play. A bunch of bearded father and grandfather types took positions as shot judges on the court lines. Then the gray umpire clambered up behind the stirrups of the tall chair.
Oz Feldman, may he be struck by lightning, and I are now hitting the little yellow ball back and forth, the mandatory ten-minute warm up. More people are here today watching me play than ever before. What’s more nervous making than possibly losing is going down the drain while all the world watches, coaches, other boys, parents, my parents. I’d still like to beat this white-eyed creep Oz, but the watchers make me feel suddenly less sure. By all sense Oz is a better tennis player. I can’t hit the ball over him, he’s too tall. I can’t hit the ball past him, he only needs one or two steps to cover the whole court. His giant serve helps him win a lot of free points. Plus he has a better angle and can fire the ball flat over the net, direct past me.
I hate to pray to God for help, and, as much as I hate listening to my father, his damn advice is the best. Don’t be intimidated, Oz is over-ranked. Serve into his body to jam him up. Remember Oz is better at overwhelming opponents with speed on the ball than he is at placing the ball. He lacks precision for the lines. I must use topspin to make the ball dip down to his feet. Wrong-foot him. He’s slower than sour cream. Trap him into changing direction, against momentum. Move him up the court with drop shots. Slice him. Reduce him to what he really is, a big yutz clomping after my sexy, short angles. Sure, I’m not as tall, but I have my own moves.
And, said the Great Jewish Philosopher of Tennis, don’t lose to the watchers. Father’s accurate about that. I estimate fifty percent of these people are praying I flop. Ignore such distractions. Ignore strangers walking dogs through the park, a noisy lawnmower, a helicopter, bugs, little kids roller skating on empty courts, the sun, humidity, shvits dripping into my eyes, hunger, thirst, white lines still slippery after the rain. Still, what Father never taught me is how to turn off the biggest distraction, the voice of a man inside my head always judging, always asking, What if you can’t get to Oz’s serves? What if you choke on every one of your own serves and keep double faulting? Have you ever tried to not think about something? Part of me has to think about what not to think of in order to remember what not to think about. Maybe a true tennis champion knows how, under pressure, to not think at all.
Off the old chair-umpire’s coin toss, Oz gets first service privilege. Of course his first serve is a mortar, and not where anyone else would put it, to my forehand! Plus there’s a crazy inside slice. Probably over a hundred miles per hour. My feet don’t think that fast. I jump left while planting my right sneaker at the same time, and my foot slides on the wet, white line. Then my right knee cocks in and twists as I go down. Where did I land? On the green asphalt, where else, with the inside of my knee.
I roll onto my back and grab my God damn knee. Lying there I cry for the worst pain in the history suffering. For a moment I want to ask God for mercy, but remember how I didn’t tefellin this morning? That’s right, I didn’t say Shema because tefellin is supposed be bullshit. This twisting of my knee is God’s kareth, his penalty for thinking I can do it myself when it was made clear I should reflexively repeat. Today I have underestimated the conditions of God and slippery white lines. When I close my eyes I see nothing but pain. I Shema outloud, “Love the Lord your God with all your soul and might! These words I command you today shall be upon your heart!”
Praying with my eyes shut, I sense a shadow between me and the sun, a shadow dark as the ninth plague of Egypt. When I open my eyes I see the shadow is cast by a leaning skyscraper who has a forehead broad as the Wailing Wall, and a gargoyle face with the thin beard of young rabbi. His dangling shirt tzittzits point towards me on ground. Oz Feldman has rushed to my side from the other end of court, his white, devil eyes full of me. He got over here before the alterkocker umpire, may his dry-court proclaiming bones crumble, and before Father or even Mama.
I can’t stand up on my twisted knee, but Oz bends over like a drawbridge, stretching one giant arm under my neck, the other under my knees, and holds them safe together. Then he lifts my whole body in his arms and carries me like the smooth stone in David’s sling. Yes, Oz Feldman, may no shame come to him, carries me from the green asphalt to outside the fence. There he lies me down across the sideline bench, out of harm’s way. Long live Oz! Today it’s God who is my enemy. Oz Feldman is such a big asshole, he’s been easy to underestimate.
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MEET ME UNDER THE WHALE, commentary on Brian Selznick’s novel “Wonderstruck”
Wonderstruck is a six-hundred plus page juvenile fiction novel that might only take kids an hour an a half to read. That is because much of it is told in picture book form (Although, I found myself revisiting the artwork again and again.). Wonderstruck is two stories. Ben, a ten year old deaf boy runs away to New York City, following a trail of clues to find his abandoner father. Ben’s story is set contemporarily and told via traditional paragraphs. In the companion story, Rose is a ten-year-old deaf girl in 1927, who runs away to New York City to find her distant mother. However, Rose’s adventure is told entirely through the author’s mimetic pencil illustrations. The two journeys lead both characters to explore and hideout in The American Museum of Natural History. Eventually their timelines cross. Ben and old age Rose are united through their mutual interests in the same animal habitat diorama – a means of storytelling weaving art and science, life and imagination. Likewise in the last section of Wonderstruck, words and pictures, become interwoven.
Maurice Sendak once said, ““I don’t write for children. I write–and somebody says, ‘That’s for children!’” Wonderstruck is a fun, intertextual odyssey for the mind and the eye. There are also difficult circumstances of disappointment and death that the characters confront together. It is life illustrated for child and adult.
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REBLOG: SUCKER LIT MAGAZINE: Rookie Guide to Good Self-Editing
Sucker Literary Magazine Issue #1
A Rookie’s Guide to Good Self-Editing by Allie B.
Editing is important. It goes hand in hand with writing and publishing. You can’t publish a story without editing it, and you can’t edit a story without writing it…
But what is an editor?
Believe it or not, they are regular people, with regular interests and regular lives.
link: http://suckerliterarymagazine.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/guest-post-from-allie-b-on-self-editing/
Editors don’t live in ivory towers, they aren’t out to destroy your career, and they aren’t heartless monsters. They are business professionals, and they are interested in a quality story.
Having a good story, a complete story, is the most important part of getting published. The second most important is telling that story with great writing.
So how do we make sure we accomplish these things before we send our work to an editor?
We edit it.
Yes, you read that right. We must edit our work BEFORE we send it to an editor.
Editors and writers are busy people so sending an editor a mess of a story with plot holes, inconsistent characters, and no understanding of grammar is a waste of time for BOTH of you.
You don’t learn anything as a writer by getting an automatic rejection based on the first or second sentence of your story.
The goal of sending a story to an editor is to have them read it—the whole thing. We do this by self-editing.
On my own blog, Allie B Books, I take you through a rigorous and sometimes painful step-by-step description of my own process, but today we get the cheat notes on the importance of self-editing.
TEN STEPS TO A GOOD SELF-EDIT
1. Keep a fresh mind.
Once you rip through your first draft, it is important to rest. Separate yourself from the work by taking a break, working on something else, or focus on your “real” life. Do whatever you need to do to get your head straight and make sure that you have taken enough time so that when you come back to the story, you are seeing it with new eyes.
2. Read it like you didn’t write it.
When you read over your story for the first time, do so as if someone else wrote it.
Keep this question in mind and ask it frequently as you self-edit: ‘What would I expect from this story if I hadn’t written it?’
3. Perfect the concept
I was told that if you can’t describe your entire story in one sentence, then it is too complicated, or you have not figured out the focus yet.
My first reaction to that was “Whatever, that’s just what agents tell you so you don’t ramble for hours.”. But now that I have decided to set my first novel aside due to self-diagnosed plot complications I retract all former snark and doubt. It’s true. I had no focus because I didn’t take the time to really think about my concept and perfect the base of my story, and it showed.
Write a one-sentence summary for your story; write it a hundred times in a hundred different ways if you have to. This is your concept and the stronger and more compelling the sentence is, the stronger your story is. If you cannot, for the life of you, come up with something, then there is something wrong with your story or your focus.
4. Write a review
To find out what is lacking in your story, refer back to the question “What would I expect from this story if I hadn’t written it?” Write a review of your story, and not one of the goofy reviews found on Goodreads with the gif’s of dancing cats. I mean rate your piece seriously and write a real review. It is here where you will find out if there was too much/not enough romance, if the characters were too flat, if the tension needs to be boosted etc. Remember: What would you expect from the story if you hadn’t written it?
5. The five R’s
Once you’ve focused your concept and decided the story’s strengths and weaknesses, you can go through the story scene by scene and make changes based on the five R’s.
Review what you’ve written and make notes about what you could do to make it better.
Refer to your one-sentence summary.
Revise the scene based on your review notes.
Rewrite it if there are too many problems with it.
Refresh your mind by stretching, taking a break, napping, checking your email or whatever activity time permits.
6. Don’t be scared to CUT CUT CUT
Here are two of the most important questions to ask yourself for every scene, paragraph, sentence and word:
a) Does this advance the plot?
b) Does this develop the characters?
If the answer is “no” to both of those questions, CUT IT! Never hold onto something because you think it’s clever or funny or smart because chances are it’s not. As they say in the biz, “Kill your darlings!”
I wrote a newspaper article with a finishing line that I thought was the best line of the whole feature, and you know what? The editor cut it… it was the ONLY line that was cut from the piece. If it doesn’t help tell your story or bring your characters to life, get rid of it.
It’s easier said than done but divorce yourself from the work and remind yourself it’s not about you: it’s about the story.
7. Tighten up
Now that the story is complete, focused, and clear, it’s time to get into the POWER of the writing. Time to focus on the pacing, tension, emotion, and language of your story. Go through every scene, paragraph and sentence and ask yourself:
a) “What am I trying to convey here?”
b) “Am I achieving the desired effect?”
c) “Is there a better way to convey what I want?”
If the scene you are reading is a fight scene and you have massive paragraphs and sentences, loads of description and babbling characters telling backstory, chances are it’s a boring fight scene.
Fight scenes are fast. High tension. Clanging swords. Thundering hearts ringing out over short breaths. Fear. Short sentences. That’s how to speed it up.
Did you do that?
Can you do it better?
I dare you.
There is nothing worse than reading a story with inconsistencies in it. Nothing. I can deal with the odd spelling mistake but POV head-hopping, character inconsistencies, setting flubs, and an all over the place voice is THE most annoying thing about poorly edited stories.
Some questions to consider as you read through:
a) Is my character clear and believable in their actions and dialogue? (Keep your character sketches handy for reference).
b) Do I head-hop or is the scene from one POV? If I’m head-hopping, is it intentional? Is it clear and obvious who’s POV it is? Are the transitions from one POV to another clear and smooth?
c) Are my descriptions engaging? Are they consistent with other descriptions I’ve made about similar places? Are they vivid and clear?
d) Is the setting obvious and well-developed? Or do I just have talking heads with no clear idea of where they are, what they are surrounded by and the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of the environment? Is my setting alive or do I have characters in a bubble?
e) Is the voice consistent? Am I staying true to the character’s voice (if first person)? Is the distinction between different character’s POV voices and narrator clear and effective?
9. Proof of quality is in the proofread
For the proofread I suggest three things. First, read this post on revisions by Sucker Literary Magazine and familiarize yourself with the common errors writers make.
Second, read your story out loud as if you were reading it to a hall of people. Project your voice and point to each word as you read it. If the sentence is not grammatically correct and/or well written, you will stumble over the words. Well-written sentences will flow off your tongue beautifully. The reason I say to point to the words as you read them is because as writers, we spend a lot of time with our stories and after a while we start to see what we THINK is there not what is actually there. Pointing to the words forces you to read what is written.
Last, check for clichés and over used words. I have a secret love for the word slightly. I use it ALL the time. It’s a toxic relationship, and I’m almost over it… almost. Slightly. I do searches of random words to see how many times I’ve used them in the story. For example: I’ve used the word ‘story’ 35 times in this post. I should find other words to use…
10. Be honest
The final step may well be the most important in the self-editing process and that is being honest with yourself.
I know you are excited and you want to send that story out and you want editors to love it and you want to get that letter that says you’ve been accepted for publication, but if the story is not ready, it is not ready.
If you don’t think the story is ready than go back to step one and refresh. Work on something else for a while then come back, take another look and decide if this story is worth fixing or if you are better off breaking up and moving on to stories that make you happier!
END NOTE: You are going to miss things. In every step you will miss something but that is OKAY! This is the self-edit! You CANNOT edit your own work to perfection, but the better you self-edit the more your editor will love you… and the better your writing will be, because the less time your editor spends rolling her eyes at your all-over-the-place character descriptions and your non-existent knowledge of comma splices, the better s/he can help you improve your story and your writing.
Happy Editing from Allie B!
I am not an editor. I am a writer that hates editing but knows how truly vital it is on the journey to publication. I developed a self-editing method that works for me and share it in hopes that it may help someone else. I value the hair on my head and my sanity and suggest if you also value these things that you take the time to do things right. It may take a bit more time and seems more painful, but in the end it will save you worlds of hassle.
That I promise you.
Allie B, an emerging Young Adult writer fascinated by the joys and tragedies that come with growing up. She grew up loving all things fantasy and all her work reflects that love. She currently lives and works as a Graphic Designer in Yukon Territory, Canada. When she is not writing or hibernating, she spends most of her time outside being inspired by the majestic northern landscape. Follow Allie B on Twitter at @alliebbooks and check out her blog alliebbooks.wordpress.com and visit her on Goodreads at http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6963769-allie-b
Allie B’s Urban Fantasy short story will be featured in the upcoming issue of Sucker Literary Magazine, so stay tuned!
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SEA SWALLOW ME and OTHER STORIES by Craig Laurance Gidney
my notes on Sea Swallow Me (2008), RF Brown
A young Japanese monk, yielded to a life of prayer and ministering to the poor is marked for love by a mischievous yosei, a shimmering male fairy with a fetish to tempt mortal chastity and piety. This chassis supports many of Craig Laurance Gidney’s stories: a young character in the ordinary toils of earthly existence, crosses paths with a metaphysical experience. As in the case of the monk, “He who was studious and practical had caught the eye of something supernatural.” More often Gidney’s protagonists are young black and/or gay men in modern settings. A bored club kid unwittingly keeps psychokinetically murdering his sex partners. A lonely, island tourist pulled in by over-curiosity is dragged to the floor of the ocean and given physical wholeness from a benevolent, giant serpent. A nebbishy, underachieving artist chases off the cloying ghost of his racist mother by deliberately having sex with a black man on her antique bed [respectively: “Etiolate”, “Sea Swallow Me”, and “Her Spirit Hovering”].
Gidney’s visionary universe exists in a literary dimension somewhere between James Baldwin and The Twilight Zone. The author’s imagination is alternately funny, melancholy, and fantastic and there is the consistent thread in this collection of his expressive narrative voice. He has dazzling skill at painting amorphous scenes with tangibility- colors are carnal and smells are emotional. It’s never explicit whether the bizarre experiences of these characters are something truly supernatural, or if these phenomena are the delusive manifestations of their broken black and gay souls. Are they cursed or crazy? The character lives are humdrum, but not normal. Whose life is?
I have a couple of quibbles with the actual publication of Sea Swallow Me. First, the book was put out by an indy press and there are frequent typos. I know some readers for whom mistakes are maddening and others who would regard it as bohemian charm. I seek the noble path on the presence of typos because ideally it should be easier for a great writer like Gidney to find a big-six publishing deal that pays for unlimited editorial resources. But readers dropping $13 bucks on this book should be aware there are errors. Writers who are constantly encouraged to go indy or self-publish can take a sip of reality here: even a brilliant writer can get sandbagged with a sloppy book. Second, two of Gidney’s stories, “The Safety of Thorns”, about a young American slave who finds out the Devil is an apathetic drunk, and “Strange Alphabets”, a transcendental roman à clef about French poet Arthur Rimbaud in Jail, are pleasant guests here but otherwise foreign to the rest of the collection. In my editorial opinion they would be at home someplace else. It’s feels weird to launch this criticism given that these two stories in particular are each excellent standing alone, perhaps my two favorite in the book. If there is a collection of historical fiction somewhere in Gidney’s future canon he certainly has the background, discipline, and command of voice to put one together. Those two problems aside, Sea Swallow Me is a magnificent and mysterious body of work.
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REBLOG: CLAYTON DIGGS’ DISTINCTIVE RAY BRADBURY OBIT
“The boy was good! Was he actually a Martian? We’ll never know.”
Ray Bradbury Dead at 91, Martians, and Sci-fi Man-juice
by claytondiggs
link: http://claytondiggs.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/ray-bradbury-dead-at-91-martians-and-sci-fi-man-juice/
You ever just sit around and think about Ray Bradbury? I did, yesterday when I heard that that great American writer had made his final journey to the Martian landscape that lies beyond the great beyond. No, that’s,not quite it… He got cornered by imaginary lions in a virtual reality who tore him into worm food…No, still not right…He morphed into a heap of books, heated toFahrenheit 451, turned to ash, and blew into little bits of cosmic dust to then descend on some Red Planet at the edge of the Universe. Yeah, that’s a little more like it. Hot damn! I’m sorry. I’m not. I really am!
I am sorry that we’ll no longer share airspace with a guy who, to my mind, was one of the most original and gorgeous voices in our American literary canon.
Old Ray was born in Waukegan, Illinois, in 1920. He grew up during that tonic for the restless imagination, the Great Depression, a time when the future seemed not only bleak and depressing as shit but, well – unimaginable. But imagine it Ray did, and with a visionary zeal that always took our collective breath away. The boy was good! Was he actually a Martian? We’ll never know.
But we do know that his stories sprang from the deep and potent well of his childhood fears. In an interview on Fresh Air he once said: “As soon as I looked up, there it was, and it was horrible,” Bradbury remembers. “And I would scream and fall back down the stairs, and my mother and father would get up and sigh and say, ‘Oh, my gosh, here we go again.’ “
Childhood was indeed an important time for the budding author. Ray read and read and read everything he could get his grubby little alien hands on. He dug on Jules Verne and H.G. Wells and dreamed of outdoing them, and so, between frenzied bouts of cranking out adolescent sci-fi man-juice (to pics of big-boobied Martian chicks no doubt), he also managed to crank out a short story a week. Lesson: the only way to (re)produce is through consistency!
Great American sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury dead at 91
When the Bradbury fam up and moved to SoCal, little Ray took to hiding out in the dank, scary basement of the UCLA library, where, for 10 cents a half-hour, he could rent a typewriter. Said Ray years later: “I thought, my gosh, this is terrific! I can be here for a couple hours a day. It’ll cost me 30, 40 cents, and I can get my work done. Also, it’s awesome to spew sci-fi man-juice in a public venue. Much more exciting than at home.”
Ray hit it big with his 1950 collection, The Martian Chronicles. Then, while that fat old cow masturbator, Joe McCarthy, was looking to anally violate anyone evenly remotely aligned with anything Red, planet or otherwise, Ray did a right ballsy thing — he shot a FUCK YOU ray-gun at censorship in general with his best known work, Fahrenheit 451, and did so in a FUCK YOU kind of way, having the story that would become his signature novel first printed in Playboy.
Have you read that fine, fine book? If not, put down whatever you’re doing, go out and get a copy, and sit the hell down. It’s about a future society in which McCarthy-like fat old cow masturbators have firefighters burn books for the purpose of keeping folks dull and ignorant. There’s never been a revolution without there first being a revolution of ideas, goes the theory. In practice, the only trouble comes when the firefighters become curious about what exactly it is they’re being made to burn. Then all hell breaks loose! Shit fire! Hot damn! Great book.
People the world over and even those in outer space loved old Ray. The crew of Apollo 15 so totally dug Bradbury’s novel Dandelion Wine that they named a lunar crater after the it. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second guy on the moon, and the man forever-and-a-day frustrated by the fact that he scores way less poon than Neil Armstrong, had this say: “Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.” Hey, it would have been better if pussy-champ Neil Armstrong had said it, but novelists can’t be choosers, right?
Amazingly, despite his visions of the future, Ray never got into using computers. He even once told The New York Times that the Internet was pointless. Well, buddy, on that point at least, we’ve gotta say: FAIL!
It’s okay – nobody’s perfect!
Old Ray finally settled down to family life right here on Earth in 1947, when he married a gal named Maggie, and the happy couple had four little Martian girls. Ray suffered a stroke at age 80 and, sadly, couldn’t write anymore. He did, however, keep having his strange visions of things to come. He felt sure we’d be landing on Mars right soon and asked that his ashes be buried on that vast and vacant red planet.
We’ll sure miss you, old buddy, old Ray, venerable imaginer of humanity’s many possible destinies. We’ll sure miss you. I raise my cup of Dandelion Wineto you, Sir. I truly do.
GET RAY’S ASHES TO MARS: A FUND
If you’d like to help Ray complete his dying wish, shoot me an email: me (at) claytondiggs (dot) com.
It’s gonna take a lot of dollar bills to make it happen, but if Ray taught us anything, it’s that every dream has got to start somewhere.
“I’m so fucking cool. How big will penises be in the future? THIIIIS BIIIIG!”
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REBLOG: SUCKER LITERARY MAG: Which Sucks Worse? My Story or Your Feedback?
On Giving Feedback
link: http://suckerliterarymagazine.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/on-giving-feedback/
We writers are very sensitive about…well, everything : ) But mostly, we are sensitive about our work. And that’s why when we give one another feedback, we need to choose the kindest approach.
I prefer a certain approach when giving feedback. This approach was further reinforced by Meg Kearney to me when I was a student at Solstice: When faced with having to criticize another writer’s work, choose kindness over harsh criticism. What this really boils down to is tone, use a kind tone when responding to a writer’s work.
I think that sometimes when we read a piece and are asked for feedback, our own mood is really the determining factor in our tone and approach. My advice is this: if you find yourself irritated with the writer’s work, take a breath and walk away before you compose your feedback; you might choose harshness as oppose to kindness.
Helpful Versus Hurtful
Recently I read a feedback sheet from one of the Sucker Staff Readers (don’t worry, I’m not naming names). Anyway, this feedback sheet was very useful, and I agreed with all of the commentary, including that, ultimately, we have to reject the piece. What I made me pause while reading was the tone of some of the criticism.
For me, there is a helpful way to tell someone their piece isn’t very good, and then there’s a way that will just result in a writer getting defensive, which means they won’t “hear” the feedback.
It’s About The Delivery
While I think it’s helpful to tell a writer that their piece, well, bored me, I don’t think it’s helpful to add insult to injury in the form of an added metaphor or hyperbole: “Your story bored me out of my mind…The story was so long winded, I prayed for the end to come soon.” Or, “this story is SO pointless” and “the characters were SO poorly developed, that I actually hated them”. Other cringe-worthy comments I’ve seen are: “The writing in this story is VERY corny and VERY lazy.”
There’s nothing wrong with any of the above criticism…except the tone is kind of mean. The very’s and so’s in all caps could be interpreted as yelling, so this writer might feel reprimanded rather than constructively criticized. The use of the phrases “your story bored me out of my mind” and “I prayed for the end to come soon” are borderline cruel. : ( A better way to say the same thing is: “I didn’t find myself turning the pages quickly while reading. Some of the paragraphs of description seemed too long, and I wanted to get to the action faster.”
Doesn’t that sound nicer? Isn’t that more helpful?
Antidote: BE SPECIFIC (and, yes, I’m yelling : )
Being specific in your feedback actually can change the tone from harsh to helpful because you are providing the writer with concrete evidence to support your opinion. If you just say that the piece was “filled with corny language and lazy writing”, the writer will probably take that to mean the whole thing plain sucks. If you tell the writer what parts were corny or even just provide an example of the corny writing, than they might just feel empowered to fix the problem: “The dialogue was corny because it used words like “golly” and “gee whiz”. Likewise, if you say the writing is lazy, point out exactly what parts were lazy, and, furthermore, explain what lazy means: Do you mean there’s an over use of certain words? That the writer chooses to “tell” rather than “show”? Does the writing have too much clichéd language or need more careful and exact word choice?
Bottom line, when you give feedback, be specific and point to the writing to support your comments, that way your commentary comes across as based on evidence in the writing and not a more subjective place…like your mood.
Encourage Rather Than Discourage
Ultimately when you read someone’s work and provide criticism, you want to encourage rather than discourage. Tone is what really makes the difference with this; constructive tone rather than destructive tone is crucial.
Our staff of readers are doing the very best they can to be kind and encouraging to our submitters, but sometimes I think we all forget or don’t notice our tone…Tone is subtle but super important in any form of communication and especially in writing. We don’t have inflection of voice or facial expressions to assist us in conveying our intended tone, so you have to choose your words very, VERY carefully. : )
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Fr. Rick and Robin Updates Jan 14th
Fr. Rick as he assess post-earthquake damage.
After driving by night to Kennedy Airport January 12th, and flying to the Dominican Republic January 13th, Conan and I arrived to Haiti this morning in the helicopter of the President of the Dominican Republic. This ride was due to the reputation of NPH in the Dominican Republic, NPH Italy, a reputation enhanced in the DR by Andrea Bocelli not long ago.
Our first tasks were the medical evacuation of one of our American volunteers, the medical evacuation of one of our Cuban doctors and the evacuation of the body if one of our American visitors. The search still continues in the rubble for another missing American volunteer, Molly.
We also had 18 funerals today. One for John who works at our St Luke program. We miss John very much. He often stopped to at my door to tell me the milestone of his developing baby, which delighted him no end. John ran our computerized language lab. Another was for Johanne’s mother. Joanne is one of the Directors of the St Luke program. All the others were of unknown people who were sadly rotting by the wayside.
Other sadnesses…the death of Immacula, our only physician assistant, who worked at our huge outpatient side of our hospital. The death of ALL but one of Joseph Ferdinand’s brothers and sisters, the death of the husband of Jacqueline Gautier as he was visiting a school which fell and all the students (all died), the death of our ex-pequeno Wilfrid Altisme who was in his 5th year of seminary for priesthood. Other stories of deaths of people who are dear to us keep coming in.
We spent the rest of the time managing the countless people with serious and severe wounds, coming to our hospital. We are doing our best for them, under trees and in the parking lot with ever diminishing supplies. We will work throughout the night and beyond. No stores are open, no banks are open. Diesel is running out. Will be out in two days if we don’t find a solution, which will mean no power at all. The hospital is without water since there is some broken line between the well and the water tower.
Structural damages to the hospital seem superficial at first glance, but about half the outer perimeter walls have fallen. The old hospital in Petionville is in ruins, and teams of workers, led by Ferel, have been digging for Molly non-stop around the clock.
Please continue to pray for us. We pray for you too.
Fr. Rick Frechette
Hospital workers carry an injured patient in front of the hospital on a makeshift "stretcher"
I want to thank you on behalf of Fr. Rick, NPFS, the St. Luke team and our entire family here in Haiti for all your prayers, concern and especially support during this most difficult time. At this time there is no regular internet, electricity for internet or for computer or phone charging. Fr. Rick is at spending most of his time at the hospital and organizing search/rescue teams with Nebez and Augusnel (of St. Luke). The phones lines are also not yet reliable.
This morning Fr. Rick, Dr. Pilar Silverman, Conan, Vern Conaway and I arrived in Haiti via special helicopter
Vern Conaway using arriving in the only seat available. A special thanks is called for for Mr. Conaway for all his tireless assistance these past two months.
arrangements made by the First Lady of the Dominican Republic and by Vern. The state of the country is beyond words. The past few years of hurricanes were nothing compared to the scope of damage done with this earthquake. The government has advised no one stay inside as aftershocks were still hitting the country today. People are literally sleeping, well really just sitting in groups, on the streets tonight. Electricity is cut, Water is running out and so is food. We are almost out of medical supplies.
The pediatric patients at St. Damien Hospital in Tabarre are all outside on the grass under makeshift canopies and we are hoping to get tents soon. Two emergency centers have been set up in the driveway of the hospital – one for children and one for adults. The other hospitals are also overloaded and running out of supplies as well. We are almost out of supplies and we have many offers of donations that can be sent if people confirm it with me first.
The roof of the six-story Father Wasson Center the night of January 12, 2010. The neighboring two-story administration still stands and can be seen in the background.
The children and staff in the orphanage are all fine. They were together outside on the basketball court during the earthquake, slept outside last night and probably will continue to do so until we know its safe for them indoors. The children who live in our rented houses in the St. John Bosco program (formally the extern program) are okay. We are not yet sure of all the ex-pequeños (hermanos mayores) and all of the children living with family. We have lost several people so far including John our know-how-to-do-anything-electronics man from St. Damien, an ex- pequeños Solita Badio and her baby, two younger brothers and one sister of Joseph Ferdinand our Intranet Projects Manager, many extended family members and I fear the list will continue to grow as the days go on. Fr. Rick already did 15 funerals this afternoon and I’ve been told there are just bodies lying in the streets in Port au Prince. Our Father Wasson Center has indeed collapsed and it’s a very sobering experience to stand next to it. Our volunteer Erin Kloos has been evacuated to the US after being pulled from the Fr. Wasson Center rubble after a 12 hour search and rescue. A visitor Rachel has been evacuated to the US with a broken arm and we are still searching for Molly Hightower. Please pray for Molly and please pray for the countless men who have been searching non-stop for almost 56 hours now.
With lots of prayers for God’s peace here in Haiti.
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Eulogy for Gerri Frechette
Two Months Later – By Erin Kloos
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Giants Bullpen Falters In Blowout Loss To Cubs
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Nate Schierholtz #12 of the San Francisco Giants misses a catch in shallow right field against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
CHICAGO (CBS/AP) – Ryan Dempster struck out a season-high 11 and snapped a six-game Wrigley Field losing streak to help the Chicago Cubs beat the San Francisco Giants 11-4 Friday.
Dempster (2-4) allowed two runs and six hits in six innings and the Cubs ended San Francisco’s six-game winning streak.
Reed Johnson went 3 for 5 and drove in four runs, three on a bases-loaded triple in the seventh. Darwin Barney was 3 for 5 with 3 RBIs and Starlin Castro also had three hits, and drove in two runs.
Giants left-hander Madison Bumgarner (0-6) gave up two earned runs on five hits through six innings, struck out six and walked two. He hasn’t won since Sept. 30, 2010.
Cody Ross hit a two-run homer in the eighth that cut the margin to 8-4. But in the bottom half, Chicago added three more runs on Castro’s double, Barney’s single and Johnson’s two-out blooper to left field.
Barney’s RBI double off Jeremy Affeldt in the seventh kicked off a five-run outburst. Affeldt then hit Marlon Byrd with a pitch to load the bases before departing.
Jeff Baker singled off Guillermo Mota and Johnson followed with a two-out triple.
Aubrey Huff drove in the Giants’ first two runs, on a single in the first inning and a double in the fifth.
In between the Cubs scored three runs in the bottom of the second. Koyie Hill had a sacrifice bunt, and then came home on Castro’s single with two outs. Barney added a single.
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In Review: Big Finish: Torchwood: Made You Look
Matthew Gravelle’s Darkness was a marvelous cross between the Ghostmaker in “From Out Of The Rain” and Sutekh. He did Gabriel Woolf proud.
by Raissa Devereux August 4, 2016
Synopsis: In ‘Made You Look’ Talmouth is dying.
“It stalks you. It whispers. It wants you to turn around. It wants you to look. But if you do… If you see it…”
Talmouth is a lonely seaside town. No-one has heard from it for days. No-one who goes in comes out. Something has happened to Talmouth. Has it been taken over by aliens? Or is it something far, far worse?
Gwen Cooper’s come to Talmouth to find out. What’s happened has to be seen to be believed. But by the time you’ve seen it, you’re already dead.
Torchwood contains adult material and may not be suitable for younger listeners.
Review: “Made You Look” was an exercise in atmospheric horror. Writer Guy Adams borrowed a page from Peter J. Hammond’s book. Matthew Gravelle’s Darkness was a marvelous cross between the Ghostmaker in “From Out Of The Rain” and Sutekh. He did Gabriel Woolf proud.
Gravelle didn’t carry the villainy on his own, however. Big Finish’s always top-notch audio effects were dialed to eleventy-one. My favorite manifestation of Talmouth’s terror was the mummy-drag of Darkness’s limbs. It was probably the closest listeners will ever get to Hammer horror for radio.
Because these kinds of stories tend to be driven by the Big Bad. Eve Myles and Marilyn Le Conte had the thankless job of conveying psychologically unraveling exposition. Fortunately, they had enough character beats to compensate for the tedium of plot requirements.
Overall, “Made You Look” was excellent. I did wonder, though, how Gwen thought she was going to contain Darkness. Unless Big Finish plans a sequel, I guess listeners should assume that hunger made it submissive enough to capture.
You can purchase “Made You Look” Here
Written By: Guy Adams
Directed By: Scott Handcock
Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper), Matthew Gravelle (Darkness), Marilyn Le Conte (Mrs Rhodes), Ross Ford (James)
Produced by James Goss
Script edited by Steve Tribe
Big Finish: Torchwood: Made You Look
Story, Performances, Audio Production
A Little too much exposition
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In Review: Killjoys – Dutch And The Real Girl
by Ian Cullen - Aug 4, 2016
Supergirl: Merlin’s Katie McGrath as Lena Luthor
by Raissa Devereux - Aug 5, 2016
Raissa Devereux
Raissa Devereux became a life-long genre fan at the age of four when she first saw The Wizard of Oz at a screening at Arizona State University. Years later, she graduated from A.S.U. as an English major, History minor, Whovian, and Trekkie. Now a Florida transplant, she loves the opportunity Sci-Fi Pulse has given her to further explore space travel, time travel, masked heroes, gothic castles, and good yarns.
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September 1, 2018 Scormus
I love it when I’m right
I’ve been playing Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games (MMORPGs) for many years, and in all that time, I have been screaming from the rooftops that this whole debate about Casual vs Hardcore gaming is stupid, because only one side of that debate really matters in the long run: The Casuals. And while I have been excoriated time and again for that opinion over the last 15 years or so, it always warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart when I am yet again proven right.
Before we get into the details of this most recent victory, how about I explain my thesis on this issue first?
Let’s put it simply: Very few people play MMOs in a Hardcore manner, by which I mean doing the most challenging content in Raiding and organized PvP, but everyone – everyone single player – plays the Casual content to some degree, e.g. Questing, Leveling, Crafting, and other non-Hardcore content. So game designers should focus on producing Casual content that everyone can enjoy, and which tends to be Evergreen (repeatable or easily added to), rather than focusing on constantly producing new Raids and PvP content, for the 5-10% of the playerbase that enjoys that content.
Anyway, like I said before, I have been laughed at for this opinion for years, but the simple truth is I keep getting proven right, over and over again. Most recently, it was Trion Worlds who proved me right, in their game “Trove”. This voxel-based hybrid of “Minecraft” and a classic MMORPG is extremely casual in its gameplay, with dungeons that are easily soloable and extremely brief, making them perfect for a quick run for busy people who don’t have time for raiding or organized PvP. The game also leans heavily on Housing, Building, Crafting, and informal social play, which makes for a nice way to kill time when you have some to spare in-game. It is colorful and simple enough for children to enjoy – thus making it suitable for family play – but also enjoyable by adults.
But how does “Trove” prove my theory right? Well, look at the popular MMORPGs that focus on more Hardcore play. For example, let’s look at “World of Warcraft”. Last I saw, it was sitting around 10 million players after their most recent expansion, “Battle for Azeroth” launched a few weeks ago. That’s pretty good, right?
“Trove” boasts about 17 million players.
Seventeen. Million. Players.
So, yeah, that’s a bit better than WoW is doing, even with a big boost from their most recent expansion coming out in mid-August. Usually, WoW sits around 5 to 7 million players, and will likely return to those average numbers, once the shine has worn off of BoA. Meanwhile, “Trove” is packed with players all of the time, regardless of whether they have new content or not.
There you have it. A hardcore game – arguably the most popular Western MMORPG which focuses on Hardcore content at endgame – currently has about 2/3rds of the playerbase of perhaps the most Casual MMORPG on the market this side of “Hello Kitty Online, and usually sports less than half the players, on average. Why exactly do you think that is? Do people just prefer voxel-based games? Maybe. Is it perhaps because “Trove” is Free-to-Play? Not likely, because otherwise Trion Worlds would be chasing that same Hardcore content at endgame, right?
No, the simple truth is that games which cater to the Casual player will succeed over those that do not. Period.
So, if that is true, then why aren’t all game developers chasing that sweet, sweet Casual money? Well, they are, actually. But they are also stuck with the mindset that Hardcore players are necessary for a game to succeed, and that Casuals are stupid enough to play damn near anything, even if it is a game that doesn’t work for their playstyle, in the end. And some companies, such as Trion Worlds, are starting to figure out they were incredibly wrong in that opinion, and are trying to focus on Casual play now. This doesn’t mean they are disregarding Hardcore players, nor should they, just that they recognize it is Casual money that pays the bills, and as such, they need to keep Casuals happy all they way through their games.
With a greater focus on Casual play – Questing, Crafting, Housing, Social play, etc – maybe the MMORPG genre will turn things around, in time? We’ll see, but it gives me hope.
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The WRP Regional Strategy 2018 articulates long-term goals and specific implementation strategies to guide the efforts of the WRP and its partners. Building on a decade of new research data and tools, and a growing momentum to address climate change and to protect and restore resilient and dynamic ecosystems, the WRP has updated the Regional Strategy that was developed in 2001.
The 2001 Regional Strategy was developed through a multi-year planning process involving all the WRP partners, including the Science Advisory Panel and County Task Forces. As such, the Strategy articulated a shared vision that each partner – at the federal, state, and local level – could turn to for guidance in how to manage staff effort, direct resources, and measure progress. However, the original Regional Strategy did not include climate change science or quantitative objectives that could be tracked for success overtime.
The Regional Strategy 2018 will guide wetland restoration for the WRP over the next few decades using scientifically-based, quantitative objectives that will improve wetland resilience to climate change and other stressors. These objectives will help guide all levels of stakeholders in the wetlands community from resource agencies to funders to restoration practitioners in designing projects, reviewing project proposals, and making funding decisions.
This effort is funded by the California State Coastal Conservancy, the U.S. EPA Wetland Program Development Grant, the USFWS Landscape Conservation Cooperative program, and NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Center, Ecological Effects of Sea Level Rise Program.
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Appendix 12: The Channel Islands
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THE RACONTEURS SHARE VIDEO FOR HELP US STRANGER HIGHLIGHT "SOMEDAYS (I DON'T FEEL LIKE TRYING)" -- WATCH HERE
The Raconteurs - Jack White, Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler - have shared a new video for "Somedays (I Don't Feel Like Trying)" -- watch HERE. The video was directed by Ben Chappell and prominently features the iconic House On The Rock in Spring Green, WI. The 7-inch vinyl single for "Help Me Stranger" b/w "Somedays" (Alternate Version) is available for preorder now.
The Raconteurs are currently touring in support of their long-awaited new album, HELP US STRANGER (Third Man Records), which has already seen the band perform across much of the US and will include dates in South America and Hawaii before the year's end. See below for the full list of tour dates.
November 7: New Orleans, LA - The Fillmore NOLA #
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November 13: Teatro Coliseo - Santiago, Chile
November 15: Popload Festival - São Paulo, Brazil *
November 17: Corona Capital - Mexico City, Mexico *
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December 5: Portland, OR - KNRK December To Remember at Crystal Ballroom (SOLD OUT)
December 7: San Jose, CA – ALT 105.3’s Not So Silent Night at SAP Center at San Jose *
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Emma Kunz – Visionary Drawings: An exhibition conceived with Christodoulos Panayiotou
This catalogue accompanies the first solo exhibition in the UK of Swiss healer, researcher and artist Emma Kunz (1892–1963) at the Serpentine Galleries, London (23 March – 19 May, 2019) which was conceived in collaboration with artist Christodoulos Panayiotou. The exhibition will tour to Muzeum Susch, Switzerland (26 July – 10 November 2019). Kunz discovered her gifts of extra-sensory perception at an early age and dedicated her life to researching the restorative energies of plants and minerals. From 1938, with the aid of her diving pendulum, she began making large-scale, abstract and geometric drawings. These were made primarily to support her divination and healing practice, yet Kunz predicted that her legacy of over 400 drawings would be seen and appreciated by future generations. Illustrating over 65 works this book designed by Roland Brauchli includes texts by Dawn Ades, Bice Curiger, Desmond Morris, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tabita Rezaire and Ali Smith.
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Critical Week: Odd couple
One nice thing about the films I've seen this week is that I haven't needed to write long reviews for each one. So here are shorter comments on the movies I've caught up with over the holidays so far, starting with the one pictured above (that's Will Smith with, yes, Joel Edgerton)...
dir David Ayer; with Will Smith, Joel Edgerton 17/US *.
Perhaps there was something interesting in Max Landis' script for this fantasy cop thriller, but director David Ayer brings his usual sledgehammer approach, obliterating any character nuance or plot intrigue with a barrage of bullets, explosions and relentless machismo. The one decent twist in the tale is badly telegraphed from the start, and it's all so blunt that it leaves the actors lost. Smith can survive this kind of thing with his wits, but Edgerton's excellent acting chops are swamped by his excessive makeup. This eliminates any chance of proper camaraderie as they play human Ward and orc Jakoby, cops partnering in a parallel reality Los Angeles in which a psychotic elf (Noomi Rapace) is plotting to resurrect a dark lord, but first needs to track down her missing wand, which can only be touched by a bright like the young Tikka (Lucy Fry), whom Ward and Jakoby have rescued. Along with endlessly dull mythology in the dialog, scenes are packed with incoherent chases, shootouts, fights and lots of magical nonsense. Even the solid cast, which includes Edgar Ramirez, Jay Hernandez and Margaret Cho, can't save this one.
dir-scr Julia Ducournau; with Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf 16/Bel ****
A chillingly original take on the coming-of-age story, this French drama takes a series of almost outrageously gruesome twists and turns. There's a dark undercurrent of meaning here, but writer-director Julia Ducournau seems mainly interested in freaking out the audience with some extreme femininity. It's the story of teen Justine (Marillier), who is enduring a particularly painful week of hazing as she starts veterinary school, following the footsteps of her big sister Alex (Rumpf). A strict vegetarian, the worst thing for Justine is being forced to eat a bit of raw meat. And she's horrified to discover she now has a craving for meat, including the human kind. Ducournau kind of taunts the audience with unfinished scenes and lots of waking up unaware of what happened the night before. But the film is gleefully grisly and darkly provocative. A true original.
dir-scr Kleber Mendonca Filho; with Sonia Braga, Zoraide Coleto 16/Br ***.
Brazilian filmmaker Mendonca isn't terribly subtle with this over-long drama about the clash between old-world humanity and present-day commercialism, but the film has a loose energy that makes it worth a look. And Sonia Braga shines in the central role. She plays retired journalist Clara, a woman who has had a long, full life then finds herself the last occupant of the seaside apartment block in Recife where she raised her children with her late husband. Now she's the only thing stopping the developers from knocking down the building so they can construct a gleaming tower in its place. But she has no intention of going, so simply gets on with her life, spending time with her friends, children, grandson and a favourite nephew, continuing her lifelong bond with housekeeper Ladjane (Coleto) and enjoying her extensive, eclectic music collection. All of this meanders a bit, and the final act feels both heavy-handed and oddly unfinished. But watching Braga is sheer joy.
dir-scr Brett Morgen; with Jane Goodall, Hugo van Lawick 17/US ***.
Using a treasure trove of unseen footage from the early 1960s, this documentary traces the life and pioneering work of Jane Goodall. It's fascinating to watch her as an untrained 26-year-old head into the wilds of Tanzania with only her innate curiosity and patience to work with. She was specifically selected for those qualities - and for her lack of scientific education - and as a result her observations of chimpanzees told the world things no one ever knew, in the process changing the definition of what it means to be human. This may not be a particularly original observation, but filmmaker Brett Morgan assembles this doc beautifully, making the most of the footage skilfully shot by Goodall's husband Hugo van Lawick. And since it's narrated by the luminous 83-year-old Goodall herself, it's full of pointed personal commentary. Her life journey is moving and important.
dir Jairus McLeary, Gethin Aldous; with Brian, Charles, Dark Cloud 17/US ***.
There's rather a lot of navel gazing in this involving documentary about a group of men working through their deep-seated issues in a California prison support group. Intriguingly, the film follows several non-inmates as they join the prisoners in Folsom and find themselves right in the middle of the cathartic experience. All of these men have serious issues with their fathers, expressed through their lives in a variety of ways. And how they confront them varies from man to man, sometimes through baring the soul and sometimes through making the struggle a physical one. Each of them is in tears at some point. It's all rather intense, and extremely over-serious. But it's also a remarkably honest look at the way masculinity is expressed in American culture. And it's shot in a strikingly observational way that gets very, very personal. It's a view of male identity that's rarely if ever seen on-screen.
I also watched the superb Irish drama Sanctuary and the acclaimed German thriller In the Fade starring Diane Kruger, as well as a couple of Christmas films, including the Victoria Christmas movie, Sarah Jessica Parker in The Family Stone (2005) and Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays (1995), which I'd never seen before.
And there are a few more films I need to see this coming week, before the final round of voting in a couple of awards, and also just to wrap up my year - things like Angelina Jolie's First They Killed My Father and the British dramas Lies We Tell and Journey's End. If I have time....
Posted by Rich Cline at 20:07
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Superheroes may have hit the big time for the rest of the world starting in the 2000s (witness X-Men, Spider-Man, The Incredibles, and the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe, for example); but Mexico has had its own living, breathing superheroes ever since El Santo stepped into the wrestling ring wearing his legendary silver mask back in 1942. Thus began the tradition in lucha libre of masked wrestlers, who have become Mexican folk heroes, representing the battle between Good and Evil in the ring as well as on the silver screen and in comic books, video games, and beyond.
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While Mexico’s freewheeling freestyle pro wrestling characters have both entertained and inspired multiple generations of Mexicans for over half a century, lucha libre has also been making its mark on the wider world on a number of fronts – and that’s what this article is here to celebrate.
Lucha Libre in the United States
The US audience was not exposed to lucha libre until the When Worlds Collide event in 1994, which is billed by the WWE Network as “The best pay-per-view you’ve never seen.” Nowadays, folks in the United States can watch weekly broadcasts produced by el Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre on Galavisión and LA TV Spanish language cable networks.
Lucha Underground also continues to promote events in the United States, in addition to the four seasons of the TV series they have produced so far.
And if you’re up for the ultimate spectacle, there’s LA-based Lucha VaVOOM, joining burlesque, comedy, and Mexican wrestling together into one high-energy extravaganza.
El Hijo de Santo vs. Blue Demon Jr.
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Lucha Libre Cinema in English
Although there were many lucha libre films produced in the 1960s and early 70s, only four of the 52 movies starring El Santo, “the John Wayne of Mexican cinema,” were dubbed into English and distributed in the United States:
Santo contra los zombis (1961), a.k.a. Invasion of the Zombies
Santo contra las Mujeres Vampiro (1962), a.k.a. Samson vs. the Vampire Women
Santo en el museo de cera (1963), a.k.a. Samson in the Wax Museum
Santo contra el doctor Muerte (1973), a.k.a. Santo Strikes Again, The Masked Man Strikes Again
El Santo statue in Tulancingo, Hidalgo
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Then, in tribute to the fabulously campy original lucha libre films, a trilogy of movies starring another renowned Mexican luchador was produced in English, starting with Mil Mascaras vs. the Aztec Mummy (Mil Mascaras: Resurrection) in 2007, followed by Academy of Doom (Mil Mascaras: Academy of Doom) in 2008 and Aztec Revenge (Mil Mascaras: Aztec Revenge) in 2015 – thus introducing the drama and fun of lucha libre to whole new audiences around the world.
Mil Máscaras
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More Lucha Libre in American Pop Culture
You know you’ve achieved true success when you’ve reached cartoon status; and indeed, the ethics of the lucha libre hero have been illustrated to children across the English-speaking world through the El Santo inspired animated TV series ¡Mucha Lucha!, where nearly everyone in the town of Luchaville has their own mask, costume, and signature wrestling move.
For adults, there’s the book trilogy and FX series by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan called The Strain, which follows a retired luchador known as Angel de la Plata.
And finally, we can’t talk about the effect lucha libre has had on the American psyche without mentioning the movie Nacho Libre, starring Jack Black as a priest-turned-luchador. The movie was inspired by a real-life Mexican priest who wrestled under the name Fray Tormenta.
Photo by Joe Hernandez on Unsplash
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Young founders and entrepreneurs aspiring to start companies while at school or college have considerably more resources that exist for them. Students willing to learn how to build companies from scratch can get necessary training from fast-track programs that let them gain valuable early-stage experience.
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With many opportunities accessible for them, student entrepreneurship is incredible these days. Student founders have a space for them in the startup ecosystem. Among the most inconic student entrepreneurs, we have Bill Gates of Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and others. They dropped out to build their companies into tech giants.
That said, check out these 10 most valuable tech startups founded by students that have grown into big companies from Inc.com.
Microsoft (US)
Founders: Bill Gates, Paul Allen
Total Funding: €10.9 million
Valuation: $48 million to $72 million
Founded year: 1975
Why its hot: Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen from Harvard University to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. In the 1980s, the company progressed to dominate the personal computer OS market with MS-DOS followed by Microsoft Windows. The organisation has made a number of corporate acquisitions over the years with LinkedIn being the largest one in late 2016.
Facebook (US)
Founders: Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Mark Zuckerberg
Funding: €1.9 billion
Valuation: $230.0 billion
Why its hot: Facebook is an American social media company founded by Mark Zuckerberg and fellow students from Harvard University. It is one of the big tech companies in the world. Initially, it was meant for the internal communication of Harvard students and later expanded to become a popular social network. Facebook held its initial public offering (IPO) in 2012.
Yahoo! (US)
Founders: David Filo, Jerry Yang
Funding: €6.2 million
Valuation: $4.5 billion
Why its hot: Yahoo! Is an American web services provider. The company as founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo from Standford University. Yahoo! carries the credits of being one of the pioneers of the early internet era. Since the late 2000s, the company started declining and most of its internet business was acquired by Verizon Communications. The company was widely used as a news and media website with over 7 billion views per month in 2016.
Reddit (US)
Founders: Alexis Ohanian, Steve Huffman
Funding: €500 million
Why its hot: Reddit is a social news aggregation, web content rating and discussion website founded by Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman from the University of Virginia. Registered members can submit content to the site in the form of images, text posts, and links. The posts are organised into user-created boards called subreddits as per the subject. Reddit has numerous administrators, who spend resources on moderate the site. In July 2019, Reddit was ranked the 5th most visited website in the US and 13th in the world.
WordPress (US)
Founders: Matt Mullenweg
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Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Funding: €64 million
Valuation: $689 billion
Why its hot: Google specialises in internet-related services and products including cloud computing, software, hardware, search engine, and online advertising technologies. The company is one of the Big Four technology companies along with Facebook, Apple, and Amazon. It was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Standford University. The initial public offering (IPO) took place in 2004 and became a leading subsidiary of Alphabet in 2005.
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Founders: Shawn Fanning
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Valuation: $60 million – $90 million
Why its hot: Napster is a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing internet software emphasising on digital audio files, especially audio songs in MP3 format. After facing legal difficulties due to copyright infringement, the company ceased operation and was acquired by Roxio. In 2011, it became an online music store and was acquired by Rhapsody from Best Buy. Napster was founded by Shawn Fanning from Northeastern University.
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Founders: Michael Dell
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Home News Global Events SEALNG Launches LNG Bunker Navigator Tool
SEA\LNG Launches LNG Bunker Navigator Tool
SEA\LNG, the multi-sector industry coalition aiming to accelerate the widespread adoption of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine fuel, today announced that it has launched a new free-to-access online tool to improve understanding of the current, and rapidly evolving, LNG bunkering infrastructure landscape.
Launched from the 6th LNG Bunkering Summit currently taking place in Amsterdam, the new Bunker Navigator Tool utilises member, marine information services, and publicly available data to provide easy access to the latest developments in the global LNG bunkering infrastructure. SEA\LNG’s map-based tool, provides an overview of key LNG bunkering developments and how this growing infrastructure relates to major global shipping routes, traditional oil bunkering ports, and the bulk LNG infrastructure which will provide the foundation for future bunkering services.
As the 2020 0.5% global sulphur cap edges ever closer, shipowners must make decisions that remain viable into the future – and choose between a limited number of options; LNG, scrubbers, or low sulphur fuels. SEA\LNG believes that demonstrating – through the newly launched Bunker Navigator Tool – that LNG bunkering infrastructure is available globally and is continually developing will support ship owners’ investments in LNG-fuelled ships.
Peter Keller, SEA\LNG chairman and executive vice president, Tote said, “The coalition’s mission since inception has been to further the shipping industry’s knowledge of the viability and sustainability of LNG as a marine fuel. A key barrier has been a general lack of understanding of current and forthcoming LNG bunkering infrastructure. What we sought to achieve with the Bunker Navigator Tool is a quick, easy-to-access platform that includes relevant, up-to-date, and free-to-access information on LNG infrastructure and bunker development.”
Today, LNG is readily available in bulk at circa 150 locations worldwide, and there is a huge bulk LNG infrastructure of regasification terminals and liquefaction plants globally. Of the world’s top oil-bunkering ports, nine of the top ten offer LNG bunkering, or will do so by 2020. However, it is the movement of LNG from bulk facilities to the ships, more commonly known as the ‘last mile’, where efforts are being concentrated to enable easy access to LNG as a marine fuel.
As well as an overview of key LNG bunkering developments, the map-based tool enables access to case studies which describe the bunkering projects being developed by SEA\LNG members at specific locations, with more added as they become available.
By addressing the core compliance issue for owners – the fuel their vessels are burning – LNG provides a viable solution for the long term. LNG emits zero SOx, virtually zero particulate matter, and – depending on the technology used – 90% fewer NOx emissions. LNG’s greenhouse gas (GHG) performance represents a major step forward when compared with traditional marine fuels. Utilising best practices and appropriate technologies can result in realistic reductions of GHG by about 20%.
Keller concluded, “A collaborative approach to understanding the opportunities – and then tackling the associated commercial barriers – to LNG is crucial to fulfil its potential as an alternative to traditional bunker fuels. The reality is that LNG bunkering infrastructure is expanding at pace, and with the launch of the Bunker Navigator Tool, SEA\LNG hopes to raise awareness of, and build industry confidence in, the rapidly growing global availability of LNG bunkering.”
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Topic Health IT conferences
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New at HIMSS: Cybersecurity, 3D printing in healthcare and more
With HIMSS just weeks away, SearchHealthIT wanted to know what new features conference attendees have to look forward to. Among them, 3D printing in healthcare and cybersecurity.
Kristen Lee, News Writer
The HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition, one of the largest health IT conferences in the industry, is fast approaching and there are a lot of new features to the conference this year.
In a press webinar, Joyce Lofstrom, senior director of corporate communications at HIMSS, noted that this year there will be two keynotes in one session with Sylvia Mathews Burwell, HHS secretary, and Michael Dell, CEO of Dell, as the speakers.
"That's a highlight, I think, of this year," Lofstrom said.
Other highlights at HIMSS this year include new technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) and 3D printing in healthcare. Also highlighted will be the EMRAM, an eight-stage model that measures healthcare organizations on their progress towards Journey to Stage 7, which will address "how hospitals and ambulatory practices [can] reach stage 7," Lofstrom said, and the SANS Cybersecurity session, which will address cybersecurity and how to secure patient health information.
On the exhibition floor, Kelly Wagner, coordinator for corporate communications at HIMSS, said, "Some things you might want to stop and see are the Intelligent Health Pavilion, University Row, Population Health Knowledge Center and the Revenue Cycle Knowledge Center."
The Intelligent Health Pavilion
We're trying to wake up the industry and say, 'This is where it's going. Are you ready for it?'
Harry Pappasfounder and CEO, Intelligent Health Association
This year, the Intelligent Health Pavilion will showcase a nine-room, working demo hospital, Harry Pappas, founder and CEO of the Intelligent Health Association, said.
"We're building out a complete operating room, an ICU, labor and delivery, pharmacy, outpatient pharmacy, ED, physicians exam room [and] patient office," Pappas explained. "[On] the other side of the pavilion we built out an iHome, a smart home with layers of consumer-oriented technology, medical technology and clinical technology."
The goal of the pavilion, Pappas said, is to educate the healthcare community on the new and upcoming technologies in the industry.
Attendees can stop by the pavilion and learn how to use barcodes throughout a hospital or how to use biometrics, RFID or RTLS, for example. They also can learn how to weave all these technologies into the EHR and also how to then integrate this technology into the "wireless backbone of the hospital," Pappas said.
"We demonstrate in a vendor neutral manner to our visitors," he added.
Pappas explained that visitors will be given headphones to listen to pre-recorded audio as they watch "actors and actresses" move equipment around, set up alarms and demo the various technologies. Pappas said there also will be a monitor for visitors to watch as the presentation is happening. "[It's] a multimedia presentation," he said. Adding that, "during these presentations [we] do not name the vendors."
IoT, 3D printing in healthcare to be demonstrated
Of the technologies that will be showcased at the Intelligent Health Pavilion, Pappas said he thinks 3D printing in healthcare will be a "big wild factor" for a lot of people.
At the pavilion, Pappas said that companies specializing in 3D printing technologies, along with physicians from medical schools, will be demonstrating this technology by printing out human body parts.
In addition to 3D printing in healthcare demonstrations, the Intelligent Health Pavilion will also be demonstrating Internet of Things in healthcare and IoT in the home.
For example, a Stryker iBed will be demoed at the pavilion, Pappas said. He explained that as a patient lies in this bed, the bed is able to read a person's bio data and it can then transmit that data through the wireless connection in a person's home to the caregiver or a family member.
"We're trying to wake up the industry and say, 'This is where it's going. Are you ready for it?'" Pappas said, adding that taking an educational approach has been successful "because people come in, C-suite executives from all the major hospitals in Europe and in the United States make an appointment to come in and take a tour because they want to see what's going on."
The Cybersecurity Command Center
Also new at HIMSS this year is the Cybersecurity Command Center (CSCC) where HIMSS attendees can not only learn about healthcare cybersecurity but also test to see how prepared they and their healthcare organizations are for an attack.
"Visiting the CSCC is an immersive experience," Lee Kim, director of privacy and security of technology solutions at HIMSS North America, wrote in an email. "Not only [will] the look and feel of the booth take you into the realm of cybersecurity, but so will the interactive challenges."
For example, the Cylance "Find the Cyber Threat" challenge will test participants' ability to identify the points of compromise that may exist in an operating room or doctor's office, Kim wrote. "After you take this challenge, you may be surprised to learn all of the potential attack surfaces which are out there."
Or the Intel interactive challenge that will help participants identify their healthcare organization's security maturity level compared to other healthcare organizations.
And last, the FairWarning "Catch Me If You Can" challenge will test participants' healthcare cybersecurity expertise in terms of detecting advanced threats to protected health information that exist today.
"The challenges are upon us in healthcare cybersecurity," Kim said. "Healthcare organizations are quickly ramping up their cybersecurity programs to stay ahead of the ever evolving, sophisticated cyber threats."
Kim added that healthcare cybersecurity experts will be on hand at the command center to offer advice and different perspectives on how to stay ahead of threats -- whether internal or external -- to the healthcare organization.
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Topic Applications and infrastructure
Enterprise mobile app strategy
Data and infrastructure
The secrets to cheap, easy and successful wireless apps
Wireless applications can seem to magically improve workforce productivity, but simply waving a wand won't ensure a successful deployment. Experts explain why availability matters more than air interfaces, how to determine ROI and why it's important to understand the differences between a wireless application and a mobile one.
Jim Rendon, TechTarget
For enterprises, deploying wireless applications to employees often means confronting a long and daunting list of concerns. But experts say that keeping an eye on the business case and remaining practical can help ensure successful deployments.
Stephen Poppe, chief information officer with Roto-Rooter Services Inc., a subsidiary of Cincinnati-based Chemed Corp., knows all about the problems that can crop up in a wireless deployment. He recently launched a wireless service for Roto-Rooter's 1,500 field technicians, who are spread across 70 locations in the U.S. and Canada.
The key, Poppe said, is keeping the project well defined during the research stage.
That means determining whether a wireless application is needed, or whether a mobile one would do the job just as well, said Phillip Redman, research director with the Stamford, Conn., research firm Gartner Inc.
Redman said that, often, project managers think they need a wireless application, when in fact they only require devices that workers can use in the field to input data that can be synced up at the office later. Choosing this latter route, as opposed to one that requires supporting full-fledged wireless applications, will make a deployment easier and less expensive, he said.
Making the leap
For those enterprises that truly need wireless connectivity, the key is to keep the applications simple and focused on the company's business requirements, Redman said.
Some wireless devices come with lots of bells and whistles, such as color screens and a range of other capabilities. However, the ability to deliver pertinent, real-time information to users is much more important. Wireless connectivity is about giving people the information that they need when they need it, Redman said.
One of the first wireless deployment issues that crops up is how to provide wireless service, particularly among the muddle of air interfaces in the U.S. Today there are at least a half dozen in use. General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and 1xRTT have emerged as the most popular specifications. These are 2.5 generation air interfaces, meaning they are packet-switched, always-on networks that are geared toward data transfer. 1xRTT, part of the CDMA family, is faster right now, but GPRS is the standard for most of the world.
But the air interface is much less important than the availability of the service, said Peter Firstbrook, senior research analyst with Stamford, Conn.-based research firm Meta Group Inc. The newer technologies, such as GPRS, are less likely to have a large footprint. They may offer higher speeds, but the service area is likely to be small. Often, older, slower technologies such as CDPD have much better coverage, but the drawback is that they are slowly being phased out, he said.
In addition, Firstbrook said, you can't rely on a carrier to be accurate about its quality of coverage.
"The carriers are really bad; they do everything they can to make it sound like they have good coverage," he said.
The best way to determine the quality of coverage is to simply drive around the coverage area and see whether the service works where it is needed, he said.
Poppe used a similar approach to determine the best carrier to go with. His technicians used wireless service from Nextel Communications Inc. for voice. Since the company's data service is laid over its voice service, he knew that data coverage would be as good as voice.
Managing the journey
Device management for mobile applications is also a challenge, particularly for field force applications like Poppe's. Since his technicians only visit the office once a week, updating software through syncing was a bit risky. Any problem updates would not get fixed for a full workweek. By working with Nextel, he was able to set up a system that updates software wirelessly during off-hours, when phones are most likely in a coverage area.
Mobile devices are also much more likely to be lost or stolen than desktop computers, and theft can put important data at risk, Firstbrook said. Vendors such as Hewlett-Packard Co. have developed encryption software for Microsoft Corp.'s Pocket PC device that helps to secure data, he said.
Perhaps the most important consideration, especially when budgets are tight, is accurately determining the return on investment. Wireless e-mail alone can cost as much as $1,000 per year per user, said Firstbrook, and it is not easy to estimate a dollar figure for the gain in productivity.
Some companies may be able to justify a wireless application implementation to management by claiming a boost in productivity but, for many, that is not enough. Poppe knew his company's rigorous accounting department would need more proof. Though his field service workers were able to save time -- and often able to make more stops in a week than before -- that was not considered a "hard" return. He had to look elsewhere to make his case.
Soon, he realized that one of the benefits of the wireless service was moving from a paper record system to an electronic system. With fewer hands on the data, there are fewer errors, and less time spent on data entry.
Another boon was the implementation of a mobile credit card swiping system. With that, the company saved on the increased commissions that the credit card company takes for old-fashioned carbon copy credit card receipts. As a result, he could point to hard dollar gains from the application.
The key with calculating ROI, he said, is to avoid raising expectations too high. There are plenty of futuristic possibilities with wireless but, he said, if an enterprise focuses on those and they do not deliver, a perfectly good application will look like a failure.
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Opel GT X Experimental Dimensions
Future Opel GT X Experimental Preview- The Best Of Simplicity – Through this concept of urban SUV, the fourth brand of the French group PSA raises a corner of sailing on the style and technology of its future models.
A new life begins for Opel, become the fourth brand of the PSA group in the course of 2017. Faced with many challenges, the German brand must first reinvent itself to change its image damaged by decades of procrastination and misplacement. After restoring order in the industrial tool and purchases and ending waste, the manufacturer can now focus on affirming a new identity and building a new generation of models. The concept of a concept is still the best means of communication to effectively convey its messages to the general public. This is the meaning of the Opel GT X Experimental concept presented today and announcing the style and technology of the next generation of models. According to the terms of the communiqué,
Opel GT X Experimental Concept design
Packed in an urban SUV body barely larger than a Corsa, it measures 4.06m long, 1.83m wide and 1.52m high, the new Opel style gains in simplicity and elegance. Like at Peugeot, the flanks are dug to give the impression of a controlled mass, guarantee of a better efficiency. The GT X concept, however, retains a few twists of the current style, starting with the contrasting color roof and the frame of the rear window to the Adam. The new style that the design team likes to call detox is based in particular on a new grille. The GT X Experimental thus inaugurates the face of future Opel called Vizor. It is characterized, behind the glass plexiglass, by a black banner highlighting the “blitz”, the logo with the flash symbol of the mark, and the wing-shaped LED matrix projectors.
Long live the detox also in the cockpit really reduced to its simplest expression. The dashboard is reduced to a large digital panel and curved reminiscent of the grille Vizor. It integrates all the features of the vehicle. Rid of all orders, the steering wheel is also greatly simplified. The hub incorporating the blitz remains fixed, regardless of the angle adopted by the steering wheel. The bias of a refined interior contributes to Zenitude and well-being. Determined to renew the pleasure of travel, Opel has equipped the headrests with removable speakers.
The GT X Experimental concept is not just a style manifesto. Its urban SUV look is destined to know a destiny in series. The manufacturer is betting that SUVs will represent 40% of its sales volumes in 2021. Following the current trend, this prototype salon receives an electric motor. In keeping with its PACE! The program, Opel has made a commitment by 2024 to offer an electrified version of each model in its range. The technology will be shared with all models of the PSA group. The German manufacturer keeps the secret on the electrical technology embedded in the concept GT X, limiting itself to announce a capacity of 50 kWh for the lithium-ion battery.
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Posted on October 31, 2019 by swkaseberg
A Settlement Called Celilo with John Brookhouse & Sherman Historical Society, Nov. 3
Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society Meeting & Program, Nov. 9
North Central Public Health District Executive Committee, Nov. 12
The Cascade Singers Present “A Parker-Shaw Christmas,” Dec. 7 & 8
Sherman County Senior & Community Center November Meal Menu
Links: Things to Think About & Things to Do
1. A Settlement Called Celilo with John Brookhouse & Sherman Historical Society, Nov. 3
Please join us at the Pavilion in Grass Valley, Oregon, for our Sherman County Historical Society Fall Program and Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon at 1 p.m. Doors open at 12:30 p.m. and after lunch the Wasco County Pioneer Man of 2019, John Brookhouse, will give a program on the history of a local section of the Columbia River. A small settlement or town called Celilo was located in an area between the mouth of the Deschutes River and Celilo Falls. This small town was known for the construction of steamships that navigated the upper part of the Columbia River. Lunch is $12 and our active volunteers eat for free! Please RSVP by October 31, at the Sherman County Historical Museum or by calling 541-565-3232. We look forward to seeing you at the Grass Valley Pavilion on Sunday, November 3rd at 1pm! ~Sherman County Historical Society Board of Trustees.
2. Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society Meeting & Program, Nov. 9
Linda Colton will be teaching a class on “DNA: Whys, Hows and What to Do With Your Results.” This class will briefly touch on why testing your DNA is helpful, the various companies and tests available, but mostly the class will focus on what to do with your results and how you can boost your research using DNA cousin matches. Come and learn how to figure out those hundreds of cousin matches and see the latest awesome tools from the testing companies to help you find more relatives!
Our meetings and programs are held in the downstairs classroom at the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center on the second Saturdays of each month. Public is welcome; bring a friend! Questions? Contact Georga at 541.296.2882 or georga.foster@gmail.com.
3. Notice. North Central Public Health District Executive Committee, Nov. 12
The North Central Public Health District Executive Committee will be holding a meeting on Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 at 3:00 p.m. at North Central Public Health District located at 419 E. 7th Street, in the main Meeting Room, in The Dalles, Oregon.This meeting is open to the general public.
4. The Cascade Singers Present “A Parker-Shaw Christmas,” Dec. 7 & 8
The Cascade Singers Present “A Parker-Shaw Christmas,” the title for the Cascade Singers’ December 7 and 8 holiday concert. Performances take place at Zion Lutheran Church, 10th and Union Streets, The Dalles. Saturday’s concert begins at 7 p.m. and the Sunday concert starts at 3 p.m. The late Robert Shaw was one of the preeminent choral directors of the second half of the 20th century. Alice Parker was Shaw’s student who began her own career arranging music for the Robert Shaw Chorale. She later led her own choirs and continues to compose and arrange music at age 94. The Parker-Shaw collaboration produced a rich body of choral music, often based on folk tunes, hymns, and in the December event, Christmas carols. The concert will also include J.S. Bach chorales and a piece for organ and choir from the romantic era. Admission is by donation at the door.
5. Personal Power
What do the words “personal power” make you think of? These two words together could be perceived as either positive or negative. So, the question for today is, do you see yourself as a powerful person?
What you think about personal power will influence your ability to claim it and exercise it in your life. If you believe that power means either control or loss of control, without knowing why, you will hesitate to claim it.
If you think, even subconsciously, that power is bad, negative, angry, manipulative, abusive or intimidating, you won’t be motivated to empower yourself or others. Too many people have been conditioned to believe that “power” means “having power over,” but it is really not about that at all. Rather, it is about having the power “to” – to act, influence, cause or make happen, to create and to do.
Most importantly, power is not an external force. Instead of coming, as so many people believe, from economic or social status, education, successful careers or material wealth, power is first and foremost internal.
It comes from feeling that you have the final accountability and authority for your own life. It comes from feeling a strong, vital and respectful connection to others – family, friends, community and, in fact, all life on the planet. And this kind of personal power benefits others as much as it benefits you. And if you work it right, it benefits others more.
So, take some time to think about personal power. Then ask yourself, “Do I feel powerful?” If not, why not? If you do, then the next question becomes, “How do I use my power?” There are a great many answers to that question, and each reveals a facet of our personalities, and perhaps, our souls. ~The Pacific Institute
6. Sherman County Senior & Community Center November Meal Menu
Sherman County Senior & Community Center Meal Menu
We serve lunch at 12:00, noon sharp. First come, first served. If you have a group of 2 or more, please let the Kitchen staff know at #565-3191, the day before to ensure that we make enough food to serve! MEAL PRICING: Under 60 Yrs. Is $7.00 ~ 60 Yrs. & UP $4.00 suggested donation!
Chicken & Dumplings
Salad Bar & Dessert
Eggs Benedict Quiche Spaghetti w/ Meat Sauce Shepherd’s Pie Mac & Cheese w/ Ham Baked Salmon
Muffins Garlic Bread Biscuits Veggies Rice Pilaf
Veggies, Salad & Dessert Salad Bar & Fruit Veggies, Salad & Dessert Salad Bar & Fruit Veggies, Salad & Dessert
CLOSED FOR Beef Burritos Beef Stew Lasagna Soup Cheeseburgers w/Bacon
VETERAN’S DAY Refried Beans Homemade Rolls Garlic Knots Tater Tots
Salad Bar & Fruit Veggies, Salad & Dessert Salad Bar & Fruit Veggies, Salad & Dessert
Baked Potato Bar Chicken Strips Hamburger Gravy Zucchini Beef Casserole Oriental Chicken
Chili & Cheese Potato Wedges Mashed Potatoes Veggies Chow Mein
25 26 27 Thanksgiving Lunch 28 29
Chicken Tetrazzini Oven Fried Chicken Roast Turkey CLOSED CLOSED
Veggies Mashed Potatoes & Gravy Mashed Potatoes & Gravy FOR FOR
Salad & Dessert Veggies, Salad & Dessert Veggies, Salad & Dessert THANKSGIVING THANKSGIVING
Menu subject to change due to availability. ATTENTION: For those who have food allergies, be aware that a large variety of foods are prepared in the kitchen. Therefore, meals may be prepared with ingredients and food service equipment may come in contact with ingredients to which you may have an allergic reaction, such as nuts.
7. Links: Things to Think About & Things to Do
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1.Notice. Tri-County Hazardous Waste Collection Event, Friday, Nov. 1
The Tri-County Hazardous Waste & Recycling Program will be offering a free hazardous waste collection event for households, small businessnes and ag producers this Friday, November 1. Load up your leftover chemicals and paints, and come to the Wasco Event Center between 10am and 2pm.
Businesses and agricultural producers: Mandatory pre-registration is required. To get an appointment, please contact contractor, John Pitman – Stericycle Environmental Services representative at (360) 772-2838; John.Pitman@stericycle.com. This ensures that proper supplies are ready for your load.
2. Notice. Sherman County Court Session, Nov. 6
The Sherman County Court session scheduled for Wednesday, November 06th, at 9:00 a.m. This session will be held in the Commissioners Meeting Room at the Sherman County Courthouse, 500 Court Street, Moro, Oregon, 97039. The agenda, including updates, will be posted on the Sherman County Website at www.co.sherman.or.us.
3. Notice. Wasco County Solid Waste Advisory Committee Meeting, Nov. 8
The Wasco County Solid Waste Advisory Committee will meet Friday, November 8th at 3:00 p.m. in North Central Public Health District’s meeting room located at 419 East Seventh Street in The Dalles, OR. The public is encouraged to attend.
4. Notice. Employment: Temporary Instructional Assistant for the 2019-20 School Year
Sherman County School District, 65912 High School Loop, Moro, Oregon 97039
Sherman County School is seeking a Temporary .94 FTE highly qualified Instructional Assistant candidate with preferred previous experience working in an educational setting. The successful candidate will work under the direct supervision of the school administration to support activities as assigned. This position will start on or close to November 12. This is a temporary position for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year.
Criminal record check and pre-employment drug screening required. For information and application materials please email or call Wes Owens at wowens@sherman.k12.or.us or 541-565-3500.
Application Method/Materials Required
Please submit a letter of interest, application (available from the school district), resume, and letters of recommendation if you are interested in the position to:
Wes Owens, Superintendent
65912 High School Loop
Moro, Oregon 97039
wowens@sherman.k12.or.us
This position will remain open until filled.
Sherman County School District is an equal opportunity employer.
5. Expressing the Purpose Within
If your life has an important purpose, does that make you a more valuable human being?
If you are a regular receiver of the Winner’s Circle Network, or if you are familiar with the work of The Pacific Institute, you know that we believe a strong sense of purpose is important – in fact it is vital to fulfilling the promise of the potential that resides in all of us.
Purpose, or contribution beyond self – often for the good of a community of others – provides a not-so-subtle boost to our self-image or self-worth. It’s an internal boost, because we are not relying on others to validate our purpose. So, the challenge becomes to not make the mistake of confusing purpose with worth, as many do who are continually looking outside themselves to feel worthy.
When you determine your personal worth by your job, career, family, social position, income or appearance, you create a dilemma for yourself. The dilemma is that you must constantly work for approval, love, acceptance and control, in order to feel worthy.
If you lose your job, or your children grow up and leave home, or you retire and begin to look and feel older, you may find yourself feeling worthless or even depressed. You can spend a lifetime looking outside yourself to feel worthy. The truth is, all we really need to do is look within.
Every human being is worthy, simply because we exist. And because we exist, we have opportunity in every second of every day to find and fulfill the promise of purpose. You see, we want to look within to find our purpose and then look outside for ways to express it.
A sense of purpose will help you live a more satisfying life, but always remember that you give meaning to what you do – what you do does not give meaning to you. ~The Pacific Institute
6. History Tidbits: Pennies for the Pool, 1974
Engineering Fund Report. [with illustration: Goal $1500, $500 received as of April]
A special Sherman County weekend, May 6-7, entitled, “Pennies for the Pool,” is being planned to raise money for the county swimming pool.
Saturday, May 6, from 9:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. the popular group, Mobley’s Sundowners, will provide live western music to dance by at the Grass Valley pavilion. Refreshments will be provided by the Sherman High students and the grade school students will assist in decorating and concession sales.
Sunday, May 7 at 7:00 p.m., the Best of ’72 will be presented at Sherman High School. The entertainment, provided by all six schools as well as adults from the community, will consist of singing selections from the schools’ spring program, one-act plays, gymnastics, ballet and band numbers.
The Sherman County Swimming Pool Committee again wishes to thank everyone who has contributed or pledged to date. A huge thank you goes out to the Sherman High School students for their large donations. Their great enthusiasm makes the attempt worthwhile and could do wonders towards getting the pool.
The Pool Committee wishes to remind all registered voters to respond to the letter sent out even if you don’t feel you can donate. This is important that it be done now. If you did not receive the letter, please contact the chairman, Shirley Blaylock, or the treasurer, Irving Hart.
~ Sherman County Journal, April 13, 1974
7. Book: The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America
A rare, insider’s look at the life of Donald Trump from Bill O’Reilly, the bestselling author of the Killing series, based on exclusive interview material and deep research
Readers around the world have been enthralled by journalist and New York Times bestselling author Bill O’Reilly’s Killing series—riveting works of nonfiction that explore the most famous events in history. Now, O’Reilly turns his razor-sharp observations to his most compelling subject thus far—President Donald J. Trump. In this thrilling narrative, O’Reilly blends primary, never-before-released interview material with a history that recounts Trump’s childhood and family and the factors from his life and career that forged the worldview that the president of the United States has taken to the White House.
Not a partisan pro-Trump or anti-Trump book, this is an up-to-the-minute, intimate view of the man and his sphere of influence—of “how Donald Trump’s view of America was formed, and how it has changed since becoming the most powerful person in the world”— from a writer who has known the president for thirty years. This is an unprecedented, gripping account of the life of a sitting president as he makes history.
As the author will tell you, “If you want some insight into the most unlikely political phenomenon of our lifetimes, you’ll get it here.”
https://www.billoreilly.com/p/The-United-States-of-Trump/The-United-States-of-Trump/52904.html
Brilliant Maps: Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
Initiative supporters make a new push to repeal driver’s license law
John Day biomass plant preparing for production
Lower John Day Basin Current & Future Water Needs Report Public Review & Comments Needed
Sherman County 4-H Clover Buds
Now Is the Time to Get Your Flu Vaccine
Travel Centers of America/Biggs Petroleum LLC at I-84, Exit 104
History Tidbits: Sherman County Farm Products 1900
Oregon Capital Insider: This week, by the numbers
“You can’t run a free society if you have to hate everybody you disagree with.” —former President Bill Clinton speaking on October 25th at services for Elijah Cummings.
1. Lower John Day Basin Current & Future Water Needs Report Public Review & Comments Needed
The Lower John Day Working Group Place Based Planning group has drafted the Step 3 Report: Quantifying Existing and Future Water Needs and Demands. We are now in the public review phase of this effort and are asking the community to give us their thoughts and comments on the draft report. This is a locally led, voluntary, and non-regulatory water resource planning effort. Become a part of the process and have your voice heard by providing your input.
PICK UP A COPY: Call or stop by the office of your local Soil & Water Conservation District
Gilliam SWCD: 541-384-2672 234 S. Main St. Condon, OR 97823
Sherman SWCD: 541-565-3216 123 S. Main St. Moro, Oregon 97039
Wheeler SWCD: 541-468-2990 40535 Highway 19 Fossil, OR 97830
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Comments due by November 22, 2019
To submit comments and for questions, contact:
Hannah Fatland
Gilliam – East John Day Watershed Council
541-384-2672 x.111
2. Sherman County 4-H Clover Buds
Have a child aged 5-8 as of September 1, 2019? Invite them to join the new Sherman County 4-H Clover Buds! An informal educational program designed for younger youth, with a variety of fun activities and exposure to the 4-H program, group centered, no large animals, non-competitive. Just like regular 4-H (for youth 9-19), Clover Bud 4-H has enrollment forms and a $30 fee to cover project materials, insurance and state fees. Stop by the Sherman Extension Office to learn more and mark your calendar for the November 13 4-H Open House 6pm at the Sherman Fairgrounds. The youth enrollment packet can be found here: https://extension.oregonstate.edu/4h/sherman/get-involved
Cindy Brown, Educator
OSU Extension Service – Sherman County
P: 541-565-3230 | C: 541-993-5291
extension.oregonstate.edu/sherman
3. Now Is the Time to Get Your Flu Vaccine
The most effective way to avoid catching the flu is vaccination. Please visit your primary care provider or pharmacy today! This will help protect you AND help stop the spread of this contagious illness.
The CDC recommends everyone aged 6 months and older should receive an annual influenza (flu) vaccination. It’s especially important for those with chronic medical conditions, those who are pregnant, those caring for babies six months of age and younger, and those over the age of 65. When you get the flu shot, you help protect those that are most vulnerable by stopping the spread of the disease.
The preventive measures listed below will also help stop the spread of flu, but because people infected with the flu may infect others 1 day before they become sick, vaccination is still the best way to avoid catching and spreading the flu:
Cover your cough and sneeze.
Wash your hands often, using soap and warm water.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth.
Limit close contact with those that are sick.
Stay home when you’re sick. Protect others at school and work by staying home at least 24-hours after a fever (100+ degrees) subsides.
Clean surfaces. Flu germs can live for hours on hard surfaces. Make sure your home and workspace are wiped down frequently, especially where children are playing.
Flu symptoms include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, runny or stuffy nose, headache, chills, fatigue, and sometimes nausea (more often in children than adults). Many respiratory viruses have similar symptoms, but influenza tends to be more severe. Having the flu is NO fun and can lead to hospitalization and sometimes death.
The good news is flu vaccine is available at your clinic and pharmacy! There may be a charge for the vaccine, but it’s often covered by insurance. Please contact your primary care provider, clinic, or pharmacy today for more information and to make an appointment. Many accept walk-in clients as well.
North Central Public Health District currently has flu vaccine available only for uninsured/ underinsured adults, and children covered by the Oregon Health Plan or who are uninsured/ underinsured. Vaccinations are available during our walk-in clinic hours of 8:30 a.m. to noon, and 1:00 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. For more information, guidance and materials please visit: CDC http://www.cdc.gov/flu/consumer/.
Do you ever feel jealous? Most of us do every so often, but it is jealous behavior, not feelings, that causes us trouble. The feeling of jealousy in a relationship is normal, but the behaviors that can result are often irrational and destructive. If we want to avoid the trouble jealousy can cause, we can start by accepting responsibility for it.
Blaming others, for what they feel, usually is a mistake, because jealousy is most often a product of our own insecurity and low self-esteem. It happens because we see ourselves as having less to give than the object of our jealousy.
Soon, we become unable to see our own strengths and good points, which leads to feeling devalued, depressed and worthless. The tendency to “act out” in our behaviors becomes too easy to give in to, and others suffer. We forget the simple fact that because another person may not choose or be able to meet the conditions that have been agreed to in our relationship, our inner value as a person is not lessened, nor is theirs.
Jealously ceases to be a problem only when we regain a feeling of worth and self-respect, and when we remember that loyalty in relationships can only be offered, never demanded. When we demand loyalty, it becomes a “have to” situation, and humans automatically push back, when we feel we are being pushed. The other option to pushing back, of course, is to simply walk away.
Learning to let go of demands in any relationship, when we believe that love or affection is based on “holding on to,” is difficult but extremely worthwhile. When we conquer the extremes of jealousy, we emerge as better, stronger, happier people and our relationships inevitably improve. Our health does too. And it all starts with taking accountability for our own view of relationships. ~The Pacific Institute
5. Travel Centers of America/Biggs Petroleum LLC at I-84, Exit 104
WESTLAKE, Ohio–(BUSINESS WIRE)–TravelCenters of America Inc. (TravelCenters) (Nasdaq: TA), has signed a franchise agreement with Biggs Petroleum LLC to add a new TA Express in Rufus, Oregon. A newly-constructed building will sit on a five-acre site located on Interstate 84, Exit 104, at 91464 Biggs Rufus Highway. An opening date is planned for late 2019.
“The addition of this site strategically adds a location in northern Oregon to our network, where our customers can refuel, replenish and refresh,” said Barry Richards, president and COO of TravelCenters. “We’re proud to have Biggs Petroleum join our team.”
“Aligning with TravelCenters of America is the best solution for our growth strategy and our customers,” said Tony Singh of Biggs Petroleum. “As part of TA, we’ll be able to offer our customers many more amenities and options, including fleet fueling. We’re proud to be associated with such a highly-regarded brand in the industry.”
About TravelCenters of America Inc.: TravelCenters of America Inc. (TravelCenters), headquartered in Westlake, Ohio, conducts business in 44 states and Canada, principally under the TA®, Petro Stopping Centers® and TA Express® travel center brands. For more information on TA, TA Express and Petro, please visit www
6. History Tidbits: Sherman County Farm Products 1900
Wheat 2,400,00 bushels
Oats 300,000 bushels
Rye 160,000 bushels
Barley 240,000 bushels
Potatoes 25,000 bushels
Apples 8,000 bushels
Small fruits 5,000 bushels
Hay 282,000 tons
Live stock 27,000 head
Butter and cheese 12,000 pounds.
In 1900 the population was 3,500.
~Columbia Southern Railway Company Homeseekers’ Guide | 10,000 Free Farms | April 1902.
7. Oregon Capital Insider: This week, by the numbers
Created: 24 October 2019 | Written by Oregon Capital Insider
Here are 10 numbers that illustrate some of this week’s big, and small, Oregon news stories.
2: State agency directors who have stepped down since Gov. Kate Brown was reelected last year.
$1.4 billion: Amount of damages 14 timber counties are seeking in a lawsuit over the state’s timber management practices, according to OPB. The trial began this week.
$35 million: Amount in annual timber revenue the counties say they aren’t getting because the state doesn’t harvest enough timber on its land.
20: Percent of Oregon 11th graders who use marijuana, according to the Oregon Health Authority.
44: Percent of those who use e-cigarettes or a vape pen to get high, up from about 11 percent just two years ago.
14: State police workers, including 10 troopers, that Oregon State University contracts with the Oregon State Police for campus security, according to OPB. The university is terminating its contract with OSP effective June 3, 2020, due to what OSP said was a shortage of workers.
21: Age of a black, female OSU student who was reportedly biking on the wrong side of a street and was stopped by an OSP trooper Oct. 13. She declined to provide her ID and was subsequently arrested, prompting an outcry from civil liberties organizations. The local district attorney did not charge her, saying that there is no state law requiring cyclists to present a driver’s license.
43: Number assigned to an initiative petition that would repeal House Bill 2015, which will allow undocumented immigrants to get Oregon driver’s licenses. The Oregon Secretary of State rejected the petition this week, saying the way it was written was not constitutional.
$13 billion: Amount Oregon spent on public assistance programs last year, according to The Salem Reporter.
$510 million: Expected cost of an ongoing information technology project to consolidate benefits enrollment.
Great Big Story: Ancient Windmills Built Over 1,000 Years Ago
Oregon law puts small towns in a bind when big tech demands huge tax breaks
USPS tightens rules on stamped parcels and letters
Quantum entanglement, science’s ‘spookiest’ phenomenon, achieved in space
Our Finite World | How Renewable Energy Models Can Produce Misleading Indications
Video. Rare look into Hopi reservation shows tribe struggles and triumphs
PERSI – The Periodical Source Index | FindMyPast
PERSI provides a simple way to access articles, photos, and other material you might not find using traditional search methods. This can help to build the historical context around your personal research, and the world your ancestors lived in. $$
1. SPIRITUAL MATTERS
Sherman County eNews welcomes participation by our faith communities in Spiritual Matters. Published on Friday mornings, inspirational spiritual voices are important to our county communities. The current rotation opportunities:
1st Friday: Wasco Church of Christ, Christian & Moro Community Presbyterian
2nd Friday: Grass Valley Baptist & Wasco Catholic
3rd Friday: Baha’i & Kent Baptist
4th Friday: Wasco United Methodist, Rufus Baptist & Grass Valley Catholic
5th Friday [to be determined by the Editor or proposed by a participant].
2. CLASSIFIEDS (new or corrected)
THANK YOU & CONGRATULATORY NOTES:
THANK YOU! Janet Pinkerton and I would like to thank everyone for their kind remarks and interest in our 150 year history of Sherman County education timeline. Granted, it was time consuming but proved fascinating to learn about the journey of education in this county. We had heard bits and pieces from our fathers but it was interesting to put the whole story together. Words cannot express our gratitude for the hard work and dedication of the entire community to realize the school system we have today. We want to recognize Julie Triebelhorn Fong, Lloyd Henrichs’ granddaughter, for donating her creative genius. She took an idea drawn on a napkin and created this eye-popping timeline. Clearly, this presentation would not have happened without Julie’s skill and ingenuity. She told us that she gives her clients two opportunities to review and alter before she starts charging. Janet and I lost count of the number of changes but at least 25, all without a charge or a hint of frustration. ~Nancy Henrichs Simpson and Janet Pinkerton.
THANK YOU from Wasco School Events Center! Due to the generosity of so many talented Sherman County people, Wasco School Events Center hosted another very successful fund raiser. This past Sunday, “An Afternoon of Sherman County Talent” saw more than a dozen artists showing and selling their creations in our auditorium, and over 50 items were donated to our silent auction — everything from paintings, jewelry, photos on canvas, metal work, quilts and wall hangings, vinyl signs, solvent transfer prints, cross stitch, wood carving, cut & polished rocks . . . the list goes on. There are too many participants and donors to name personally here, but know that the Board of Directors greatly appreciates all of you who participated and donated so that we may continue to make improvements to our building. Sherman County people are the best!
THANK YOU! The Sherman County Senior Center would like to extend a very special thank you to Chris & Carrie Kaseberg of Wheatacres Ranch in Wasco, for their incredibly generous donation of 160 pounds of ground beef. Donations like this allow us to serve good quality meals to seniors, using local beef, which is very helpful with our monthly food budget. We cannot thank Wheatacres Ranch enough for this donation! Thank you so very much for your generosity!!
CONGRATULATIONS, CINDY! 1st Place Western Region Winner for a Communications Written Press Release at the National Extension Association of Family & Consumer Sciences conference in Hershey PA. The award was accepted on her behalf by OSU Extension attendees. Her article titled “Picky Eaters? Eat Your Peas, Louise” ran in The Dalles Chronicle’s Extension Cord column April 2018. Brown is a 4-H Youth Development & Healthy Living Educator serving Sherman County. ~Larry & Sherry
CONGRATULATIONS & THANK YOU! It was a splendid evening with Sherman County School District’s 2019 Hall of Honor inductees Deron Kaseberg, Mike S. Macnab, Ron Townsend, the 1989 OSAA State Football Champions and, posthumously, Grace (May) Zevely, and their families and friends! Old friends, new friends, memories, stories and information! The Sherman Booster Club fundraiser, a tri-tip dinner, was served by FFA members. The Sherman County School Concert Band entertained under the direction of John Gronberg. Superintendent Wes Owens welcomed a large crowd in the event center (gym) and made introductions. Jeremy Lanthorn took photographs. The designated speakers on behalf of the inductees were Jean (Zevely) Anderson, Kyle Blagg, Kevin Coelsch, Joe Justesen, Brett Kaseberg, Twila Kaseberg, Linda Krafsic, Bill Macnab, Nancy McCoy and Ron Townsend. Gary Shelton read the plaques that were presented by Wes Owens. Equally important is the graphic timeline and presentation made by Janet Pinkerton and Nancy Henrichs Simpson, “From One-Room Schools to One-Campus / 150 Years of Education in Sherman County.” They described their valuable research on the 150 years of county education and outlined changes and challenges, decade by decade, recognizing school board members and county school superintendents. Their important research is presented in information graph form on a wonderful large wall installation. The newly-formed Sherman County Education Foundation introduced information at their display table, the result of their vision, mission and thoughtful planning. It’s off to a running start and worthy of our support. That said, we are mindful that a special occasion such as this requires a great deal of planning and attention to detail, hard work, inspiration and many volunteers! Yes, it was a delightful evening, and even more — it was a gift to all of us… the inspiration and wisdom that comes from knowing what others achieve, over time, individually and as members of teams and boards of directors. Thank you, Sherman County School District, Booster Club, FFA, Janet Pinkerton and Nancy Henrichs Simpson and volunteers for this impressive annual event! First class! Well done! Congratulations! ~The Editor.
Appreciation can make a day – even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. ~Margaret Cousins
CONGRATULATIONS! Sunday afternoon, another splendid event in Sherman County, An Afternoon of Sherman County Talent was a benefit for the Wasco School Events Center! We were pleased to see significant support by local artists, showing their work and donating to the silent auction. Artists showing their work were Anna Alley, Cathy Brown, Vonda Chandler, Nancy Drinkard, Martha Flatt, Dan Hochstetler, Doris Hubbard, Tyson Huckins, Jeanney McArthur, Kathy McCullough, Clint Moore, Roy and Debbie Shafer, Dick Voll and Jessica Wheeler. The generous and talented silent auction donors of paintings, button-craft, greeting cards, gift tags, metal art, photographs on canvas, books, bracelet, quilts, wall hangings, seasonal signs, barrel stave bench, wood bowls, wine bottle holder, wood flag, and cut & polished rocks were Anna Alley, Debbie Bird, Stacy Bird, Keith Blaylock, Cathy Brown, Karla Chambers, Vonda Chandler, Penny Eakin, Martha Flatt, Shirley Fritts, Jessie Fuhrer, Dan Hochstetler, Doris Hubbard, Amy Huffman, Cam Kaseberg, Kevin Kaseberg, Linda Krafsic, Patti Moore, Kaleb Lavine, Carol MacKenzie, Gail Macnab, Jeanney McArthur, Kathy McCullough, Clint Moore, Patti Moore, Janet Pinkerton, Roy & Debbie Shafer, Kathy Thompson, Pat & Clarence Turner, Dick Voll, Jessica Wheeler and Jane Root Winter. Thank you, everyone! Well done! ~The Editor
THANK YOU to the local history and art enthusiasts who photographed public art in Sherman County for a photo essay series for Sherman County: For The Record. The project expanded to Public Art categories – Itinerant Sign Painters and Artists; Local Government; Businesses and Organizations; Murals, Mosaics and Mascots; Heritage and Monuments. Two categories have been suggested: Stained Glass and Farm & Ranch Signs… good ideas for another volunteer! ~Sherry Kaseberg
JOYFUL NEWS!
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION FUND-RAISERS:
GRASS VALLEY PAVILION. The 8th Max Nogle Dinner-Auction-Dance will be held at the Grass Valley Pavilion on Saturday, November 16 beginning at 5 pm. Proceeds will go toward continuing improvements to the pavilion. Come and enjoy an evening of good food and fun. AND get a look at the upgraded kitchen!
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:
“Being a trustholder of the community means serving as would a good steward. The good steward views the community as a gift from previous generations, but a gift with strings attached. One is obligated to pass the gift to future generations in a better state than that in which it was received…. The community is both our inheritance and our legacy.” ~National Association of Community Leadership, Taking Leadership to Heart (1996)
Sherman County: For The Record Calls for Stories: AFS Exchange Students! Editor Gladys Wesley is working on the next issue of Sherman County: For The Record and needs your stories. She would like to receive stories from AFS exchange students about where they were from, their time in Sherman County, life after Sherman County and what they are doing now. She has one from Penny which was on FB and is a good example of what she is looking for. Please send the stories to Gladys at the email address info@shermanmuseum.org with subject line FTR Story. ~Sherman County Historical Society
COUNTY COURT ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT. Sherman County is accepting employment applications for the position of County Court Administrative Assistant. This is a permanent, part-time position, 32hr/wk. or 0.80 FTE, Monday-Thursday, salary range $21-$28/hr. dependent on experience. Applicant must be knowledgeable in the operation of modern office equipment including computer systems and programs, possess effective written and oral communication skills, and make decisions independently using effective time management. For job description and/or application, contact the office of the Sherman County Court at 541-565-3416 or go online at http://www.co.sherman.or.us under “Jobs/contracts”. Submit completed application and resume to the Sherman County Court, 500 Court Street, P.O. Box 365, Moro, OR 97039 no later than Tuesday, November 12, 2019 by 5:00 pm. Interviews will be held Friday, November 15, 2019. Successful applicant must pass a criminal history background check. Sherman County is an equal opportunity employer. 11/8
SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS. Mid-Columbia Bus Company Seeks Bus Drivers. Do you know someone with time to spare, who loves to drive, and help others? Refer them to Mid-Columbia Bus Company! Once the person you refer becomes certified and drives a full route for at least 30 days, we will donate $1000.00 to a school organization of your choice. What we offer: $13.60 an hour; $500 Sign on bonus; Paid training; Flexible schedule; Dental, Vision, Medical Plan; 401 K … And more. Qualifications: Pass a criminal history check; Have a good driving record; Have a valid Oregon driver’s license; Ability to obtain Class B CDL with training Contact Mid Columbia Bus Company and tell us where to make a donation today. Amberlena Shaffer, Recruiter. OFFICE: (541) 303-5093Email: amberlena@MidCoBus.com Website: www.MidCoBus.com
SHERMAN COUNTY BUSINESS DIRECTORY https://www.co.sherman.or.us/businesses/
The Times-Journal – a weekly serving Wheeler, Gilliam & Sherman counties, P.O. Box 746, Condon, OR 97823 | Ph. 541-384-2421 | Fax 541-384-2411 timesjournal1886@gmail.com $37.50/year; $47.50 for beyond this area.
Wheeler County News, P.O. Box 190, Spray, OR 97874 wheelercountynews@gmail.com | wheelercountynews.com $30/year outside Wheeler County. Ph: 541-468-2112 | Fax: 541-719-8003
The Dalles Chronicle. http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/subscribe/
The Goldendale Sentinel. 117 W. Main St., Goldendale, WA 98620 (509) 773-3777 | info@goldendalesentinel.com | http://www.goldendalesentinel.com/
The Oregonian – Delivery. The Dalles Oregonian, P.O. Box 1367, The Dalles, OR 97058; 541-296-3600 thedallesoregonian@gmail.com
USA TODAY. Home delivery. Contact The Dalles Oregonian, P.O. Box 1367, The Dalles, OR 97058; 541-296-3600 thedallesoregonian@gmail.com
City of Wasco http://www.wascooregon.com/
City of Moro http://www.cityofmoro.net/
City of Grass Valley https://www.grassvalleyoregon.com/
City of Rufus https://rufuscityhall.com/
Eastern Oregon https://traveloregon.com/places-to-go/regions/eastern-oregon/
John Day River Territory https://traveloregon.com/places-to-go/regions/john-day-river-territory/
Journey Through Time Scenic Byway https://traveloregon.com/things-to-do/trip-ideas/scenic-drives/journey-through-time-scenic-byway/
Oregon Raceway Park, Grass Valley http://oregonraceway.com/
Sherman County https://www.co.sherman.or.us/visitors/
Visitor Info Center | Moro http://www.shermanmuseum.org/ May-October
POSTERS. SHERMAN COUNTY EDUCATION TIMELINE. The 150 years of Sherman County Education; One-Room Schools to One Campus Timeline was dedicated on 10/19/19. The timeline will hang permanently in the school outside the cafeteria. Posters of this timeline are available for purchase. The posters are 16 x 36 and are $30/poster. There are only seven left. You may purchase them by calling the Sherman School 541-565-3500 and asking for Kim McKinney.
SHERMAN COUNTY CLASSIFIEDS, FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/groups/1680690712181261/
SHOP LOCALLY! SHERMAN COUNTY BUSINESSES https://www.co.sherman.or.us/businesses/
FOR RENT OR LEASE:
ROOMS FOR RENT. 2 rooms for rent at the Just us Inn in Wasco. Completely furnished with internet and cable TV. Room 7 private entrance private bathroom two bedroom single bed and king size in Main. Use of common areas Kitchen and TV area. — 1 queen size bedroom with shared bath on second floor. Use of common areas TV room and kitchen. Please contact Ron at 503 – 957 – 6114. 11/29
Freestanding basketball goal (it could use a new net but has one and works just fine). It’s heavy as the bottom is weighted, of course. Free – You haul and it’s yours. Call Jeanne at 541-714-5740. 10/25
Antique Sewing Machine in original wood cabinet – unusual Craftsman style cabinet- great shape I believe it is from the early 1900’s, original book and accessory box included. It’s heavy – you arrange to pick it up and it’s yours- originally from a local Sherman county resident. Call Jeanne 541-714-5740. 10/25
LOST OR FOUND:
PHOTOGRAPH. Copy of pre-1950 photo of the east side of the Barnett-Crosfield brick general merchandise store in Wasco for a photo essay on itinerant sign painters and artists. ~Sherry Kaseberg sherryk@gorge.net. 10/25
3. CALENDAR (new or corrected)
SHERMAN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT EVENTS CALENDAR https://shermancountyschooldistrict.weebly.com/scsd-event-calendar.html
25 Trunk or Treat 6-7 Senior Center Parking Lot, Moro
28 Sherman County Photography Club 6 OSU Extension Bldg., Moro
3 DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME ENDS
3 Sherman Historical Society Volunteer Lunch & Program 1
3 Dewey Thomas’ 105th Birthday 2-4 The Springs at Mill Creek, The Dalles
4 Grass Valley City Council 7
5 ELECTION DAY
5 Moro City Council 7
6 All County Prayer Meeting Kent Baptist Church social 6:30, prayer 7:00-8:30
6-10 American Agri-Women Convention in Tigard
7 Sherman County Fair Board 7
7-10 American Agri-Women Convention, Portland
8 Community Renewable Energy Association (CREA) Board Meeting 10-1
11 VETERANS’ DAY
12 Sherman Soil & Water Conservation District Board Meeting 8:30
12 Tri-County Mental Health Board of Directors Meeting 11-2 The Dalles
12 North Central Public Health District Board Meeting 3 The Dalles
13 Rufus City Council
13-16 Tri-State Grain Convention, Spokane
15-17 Young Farmers & Ranchers Leadership Conference, Portland
16 8th Annual Max Nogle Dinner, Auction, Dance 5 Grass Valley Pavilion
17 Antelope Community Harvest Dinner 2-4 Antelope Community Center
19-21 Association of Oregon Counties Annual Conference
20 Sherman County Court 9
21-23 Oregon Cattleman’s Association Convention, Bend
23 Moro Community Presbyterian Church Thanksgiving Dinner 5
28 THANKSGIVING DAY
2 Lower John Day Area Commission on Transportation 10-12 Sherman County
4 Sherman County Court 9
4 All County Prayer Meeting Wasco Methodist Church social 6:30, prayer 7:00-8:30
5-14 National Rodeo Finals, Las Vegas, Nevada
7 Country Christmas Bazaar 10-2 Grass Valley Pavilion
9 Mid-Columbia Housing Authority Board Meeting 10
10 Sherman County Watershed Council Board Meeting 8
10 Sherman County Soil & Water Conservation District 8:30
10 North Central Public Health District Board Meeting 3
10-12 Oregon Farm Bureau Convention, Gleneden Beach
11 Sherman County Senior & Community Center Advisory 12:30
11 Rufus City Council 7
12 Mid-Columbia Economic Development District Board 4 White Salmon
13 Community Renewable Energy Association (CREA) Board Meeting 10-1
17 Wasco City Council 7
23-31 Sherman County School Christmas Break
31 NEW YEAR’S EVE
11-13 Columbia River Circuit Rodeo Finals, Yakima, Washington
Nominate Now for STEM Education Leader, Tech Leader of the Year
Finding a Way
History Tidbits: Sherman County School Superintendent’s Report, 1903
Governor Brown Announces Committee to Address Rising Health Care Costs
1. Nominate Now for STEM Education Leader, Tech Leader of the Year
The Gorge Technology Alliance (GTA) is seeking nominations now through November 8 for its 2019 annual awards program recognizing the Tech Leader and the STEM Education Leader of the Year, with the latter receiving a $1000 award. The Gorge Tech Alliance is the regional industry association that supports, connects and develops the technology community of the Columbia River Gorge. For almost 15 years, the GTA has been supporting the growth of our regional tech industry and encouraging strong science, tech, engineering and math (STEM) education opportunities.
The GTA’s awards are given in December with two categories. Tech Leader of the Year recognizes the outstanding achievement over the last year on the part of an individual or company that principally provides technology products, services, or support in the Columbia River Gorge. The 2018 winner was Maza Brady for her volunteer leadership of the Gorge Women in STEM initiative.
STEM Education Leader of the Year recognizes an individual for outstanding contributions to STEM education in the Columbia River Gorge over the last year. The 2018 winner was Lu Seapy of Wasco County 4-H. The winner of this category receives a $1000 contribution from the GTA towards their STEM education program.
Nominations must be received by 5pm on November 8, 2019 to be considered. The GTA defines the Gorge as the five-county area including Hood River, Wasco, Sherman, Skamania and Klickitat Counties. Nominees need not be a GTA member or otherwise involved with the organization. Nomination forms and more details are available on the GTA website at http://crgta.org/about/awards.
2. Finding a Way
When you are presented with a serious challenge, how do you respond? When you have been dealt a difficult blow by life, what do you tell yourself? These are important questions that all of us are going to want to answer as we develop our personal and organizational philosophies.
Thorny issues have been around since the beginnings of human history, and the power to overcome them has been celebrated in song and story almost from the beginning. (Human beings are inveterate story-tellers. In fact, we learn best, and remember best, when stories provide the foundation.)
Take the nearly 2700-year old story of Homer’s “Odyssey” as we talk today about the power of optimism. Odysseus’ son is worried that his father will never come home from the wars. But Pallas Athene, the heroine of the story, gently reassures him by saying, “Your father will not be exiled much longer… trust Odysseus to get free. He always finds a way.”
This is an excellent description of option thinkers: No matter how tough the problem, no matter how great the odds, the option thinker always believes there is a solution. Option thinkers keep trying, experimenting, and looking. And eventually, one of their efforts bears fruit. They just refuse to give up when things get tough.
When Odysseus finally does make it home, in time to drive away his wife’s suitors and reunite his family, it is one of the great homecoming scenes in all literature.
So, what do you tell yourself when you are up against a wall? What do you say when you have been knocked down by life? Instead of looking for someone or something to blame, instead of falling silent in defeat and depression, why not remember Odysseus and tell yourself, “There is an answer, a solution. No matter what, I will find a way!” ~The Pacific Institute
3. History Tidbits: Sherman County School Superintendent’s Report, 1903
Annual Report, Sherman County School Superintendent, W.H. Ragsdale, for the year ending 15 June 1903:
School population – 1,303
School enrollment – 1,205
Teachers – 45.
4. Governor Brown Announces Committee to Address Rising Health Care Costs
(Salem, OR) — Today, Governor Kate Brown announced the membership of a committee to control the cost of health care for Oregonians. The committee will set an annual target for health care spending growth and recommend enforcement tools to hold the health care system accountable for meeting the target.
“All Oregonians should have access to the health care services they need to live healthy and productive lives,” said Governor Brown. “Oregon’s community-based approach to health care, which covers 94 percent of adults and 100 percent of Oregon children, is a model for the nation. But if we do not control the rising costs of health care, too many Oregon families, particularly those in historically underserved communities, will again find the care they need is beyond their reach.”
Research shows that Oregonians pay more for health care and have higher deductibles than residents in other states. Between 2010 and 2016, Oregon household income grew by 15 percent, while employer-sponsored health care premiums grew by 25 percent and deductibles for families grew by 77 percent. Oregon has the third-highest health insurance deductibles in the country and is in the top ten highest states for family budgets spent on out-of-pocket hospital costs.
Oregon has already established a 3.4 percent growth rate for public programs, but there isn’t a similar target for the private market, where almost half of Oregonians get their health insurance.
“Rising health care costs mean less money for wages, retirement, and other public investments like housing and education,” said Jeremy Vandehey, director of health policy at the Oregon Health Authority. “A critical step in containing health care costs is bringing everyone to the table to set a common cost growth target that all insurance companies, hospitals, and health care providers have to stay within.”
This citizen and stakeholder led implementation committee, selected by Governor Brown and under the supervision of the Oregon Health Policy Board, was established by Senate Bill 889, passed during the 2019 legislative session. In addition to setting an annual target for costs, the committee will also provide recommendations for the Legislature to adopt in 2021 on how entities with unreasonable cost increases will be held accountable.
The Sustainable Health Care Cost Growth Target is modeled after a program in
Massachusetts that has saved $5.5 billion for consumers between 2013 and 2016. Rhode Island and Delaware have also adopted similar programs.
Implementation Committee for Oregon’s Sustainable Health Care Cost Growth Target program:
Patrick Allen, Director, Oregon Health Authority
Kraig Anderson, Senior Vice President and Chief Actuary, Moda Health
Kathryn Correia, President and CEO, Legacy Health
Angela Dowling, President, Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon
Kevin Ewanchyna (Vice-Chair), Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Samaritan Health Services; President of the Oregon Medical Association Jack Friedman (Chair)
Jessica Gomez, CEO, Rogue Valley Microdevices
Felisa Hagins, Political Director, SEIU Local 49
Ruby Haughton, State Director, AARP Oregon
K. John McConnell, Director, OHSU Center for Health Systems Effectiveness
Mark McMullen, Oregon State Economist, Office of Economic Analysis, DAS
William Olson, Chief Operating Officer, Providence Health and Services
Jordan Papé, CEO, Papé Group
Ken Provencher, President and CEO, PacificSource Health Plans
Shanon Saldivar, Chamness Saldivar Agency; Vice-Chair Marketplace Advisory Committee
Cameron Smith, Director, Department of Consumer and Business Services
Jenny Smith, Chief Financial Officer, Kaiser Permanente Northwest
Jenn Welander, Chief Financial Officer, St. Charles Health System.
~www.governor.
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WANTED: Three for the Sherman County School Football Chain Gang, Oct. 26
Posters for Sale: 150 Years of Sherman County Education
Kids’ Gym Begins, Nov. 8
Editorial: Sherman County Talent at Wasco School Events Center
Child Abuse Hotline Report Highlights First Year of Operations
Learning to Take the Risk
History Tidbits: Moving to Rufus, 1896
1. WANTED: Three for the Sherman County School Football Chain Gang, Oct. 26
Sherman County School is short 3 people to help with the Chain Gang on Saturday(10/26) at noon for our final football game here against Gilchrist. It should only take a couple hours and is a very easy job. If anyone is willing to help, please contact Mike Somnis @ msomnis@sherman.k12.or.us or the School @ 541-565-3500.
2. Posters for Sale: 150 Years of Sherman County Education
The 150 years of Sherman County Education; One-Room Schools to One Campus Timeline was dedicated on 10/19/19. The timeline will hang permanently in the school outside the cafeteria. Posters of this timeline are available for purchase. The posters are 16 x 36 and are $30 each. There are only seven left. You may purchase them by calling the Sherman County School 541-565-3500 and asking for Kim McKinney.
3. Kids’ Gym Begins, Nov. 8
Wasco School Events Center will again be hosting “Kids’ Gym” on Fridays this winter. This is an opportunity for parents/care providers and their pre-school child(ren) to play inside for a couple of hours.
Kids’ Gym begins on November 8, and will be held on Fridays through March, except when there is no school due to holidays or inclement weather. It begins at 10 a.m., and last until noon. Cost is $5 per week, or free if you are a member of the WSEC Fitness Center. This is not a babysitting service; children must be accompanied by a parent/care provider.
Feel free to bring toys, trikes, etc. for your kids to play with. Contact WSEC Director, Melissa Kirkpatrick, with any questions.
4. Editorial: Sherman County Talent at Wasco School Events Center
Sunday afternoon, another splendid event in Sherman County, An Afternoon of Sherman County Talent was a benefit for the Wasco School Events Center! We were pleased to see significant support by local artists, showing their work and donating to the silent auction.
Artists showing their work were Anna Alley, Cathy Brown, Vonda Chandler, Nancy Drinkard, Martha Flatt, Dan Hochstetler, Doris Hubbard, Tyson Huckins, Jeanney McArthur, Kathy McCullough, Clint Moore, Roy and Debbie Shafer, Dick Voll and Jessica Wheeler.
The generous and talented silent auction donors of paintings, button-craft, greeting cards, gift tags, metal art, photographs on canvas, books, bracelet, quilts, wall hangings, seasonal signs, barrel stave bench, wood bowls, wine bottle holder, wood flag, and cut & polished rocks were Anna Alley, Debbie Bird, Stacy Bird, Keith Blaylock, Cathy Brown, Karla Chambers, Vonda Chandler, Penny Eakin, Martha Flatt, Shirley Fritts, Jessie Fuhrer, Dan Hochstetler, Doris Hubbard, Amy Huffman, Cam Kaseberg, Kevin Kaseberg, Linda Krafsic, Patti Moore, Kaleb Lavine, Carol MacKenzie, Gail Macnab, Jeanney McArthur, Kathy McCullough, Clint Moore, Patti Moore, Janet Pinkerton, Roy & Debbie Shafer, Kathy Thompson, Pat & Clarence Turner, Dick Voll, Jessica Wheeler and Jane Root Winter.
It’s heartwarming to join in the support for nonprofit fundraisers – the groups that provide services … Sherman County Child Care Foundation, Little Wheats Daycare, Sherman County Athletic Foundation, Sherman County Historical Society & Museum, Wasco School Events Center and the Grass Valley Pavilion-Max Nogle Dinner. We can imagine the people-power required to produce these events! We’re grateful! Thank you! Well done!
5. Child Abuse Hotline Report Highlights First Year of Operations
(Salem, Ore.) – Since it launched in August 2018, the statewide Oregon Child Abuse Hotline has made significant progress in protecting Oregon’s children by implementing a system that ensures the best possible safety decisions, that calls are handled consistently, and callers are respected and responded to in a timely manner. Dropped call rates have decreased, average call waits have gotten shorter, and 98,404 calls reporting concerns of child safety were screened by hotline staff.
This data is available in the recently released Oregon Child Abuse Hotline Annual Report.
“As the Hotline reflects on progress made during its first year, we also acknowledge that there is still much room for improvement,” said DHS Director Fariborz Pakseresht. “We will continue to use data, customer feedback, predictive analytics, and training to better serve and protect the children in our communities.”
The statewide hotline resulted from the centralization of 15 previously independent, regional hotlines in order to improve consistency in how rule and procedure were applied, including screening reports of child abuse. When someone calls the Hotline, a screener gathers sufficient information to assess whether the allegation meets the criteria of suspected abuse and whether there is imminent danger to the safety of the child. Calls can remain anonymous.
Over the last year, DHS partnered with Action for Child Protection, Portland State University, and other community partners to develop a 56-hour training for DHS screeners. This training, along with the centralization, has increased screening consistency, decreased the potential for bias, and integrated robust and intentional data in the Hotline’s efforts to keep children safe. Along with predictive analytics and access to past reports from multiple sources, screeners now have more information in assessing safety for children at their fingertips.
The management consulting firm hired to assist DHS through Governor Brown’s Executive Order on Child Welfare performed significant work to track and analyze hotline call data to improve screening outcomes. The Hotline will also soon be adding an additional queue for more general child welfare questions, so that screeners can focus on calls that require immediate attention.
Screeners also can now receive reports of child abuse and neglect in multiple languages. By adding an additional queue for Spanish speakers to speak with Spanish speaking screeners this summer, more children are now represented and protected.
Other highlights of the hotline’s first year include the final hiring and training phase of 18 staff expected in November and newly created advanced screener training modules on Tribal Engagement, Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Substance Abuse Disorder, and Domestic Violence.
While great progress has been made, the Hotline is still facing challenges. For example, in September as children returned to school and interfaced with more mandatory reporters, the Hotline saw average wait times increase to approximately 7 minutes. Still, even with the spike in September, more than 60 percent of the calls were answered within 2 minutes. The maximum wait time in September was 100 minutes, an outlier in the month’s average data, and an issue DHS is addressing.
Report child abuse to the Oregon Child Abuse Hotline by calling 1-855-503-SAFE (7233). This toll-free number allows you to report abuse of any child or adult to the Oregon Department of Human Services, 24 hours a day, seven days a week and 365 days a year. You can also report child abuse by calling a local police department, county sheriff, county juvenile department, or Oregon State Police.
6. Learning to Take the Risk
Do you consider yourself a risk-taker? For a great many of us, the answer would be, “No!” In this day and age, that isn’t an unreasonable response. In myriad places around the world, taking a risk, and failing, sometimes requires the ultimate price to be paid. However, today, let’s take a slightly different look at this question regarding risk.
In one of his many books, Leo Buscaglia wrote that, “To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose feelings is to risk exposing one’s true self.
“To place your ideas and dreams before the crowd is to risk their loss, to love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk dying, to hope is to risk despair, to try is to risk failure.
“But all risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
“The person who risks nothing also does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. If we avoid risk, we may avoid suffering and sorrow, but we simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love or live.”
By now, you are probably agreeing with Leo Buscaglia. If, out of our fears, we refuse to risk, we also forfeit our freedom because only a person who risks is truly free. Only a person who risks can grow, because all personal growth involves risk.
If you stay focused on the benefits of the risk, instead of putting all your energy into worrying about what could go wrong, and if you consistently affirm and visualize what achievement will look and feel like, it will be much easier for you to take the risks you need to take, in order to grow and to be the best you can be. ~The Pacific Institute
7. History Tidbits: Moving to Rufus, 1896
The Dalles Daily Chronicle, Saturday, January 11, 1896:
“Moving to Rufus. Ever since the flood of 1894, which almost obliterated the town of Grants, there has been a three-cornered rivalry for the chief town of Sherman County touching the railroad. When the waters receded and dry land appeared, some patriotic citizens began the work of re-building; others who figured out a better location, chose Murray Springs as the site of a new town, while the remainder pinned their faith to Rufus. All three of these towns line the railroad within the space of two miles, and each one has set up claims to be the shipping point of Sherman county. The struggle proves to be unequal and Mr. R.C. Wallis, who was in The Dalles today, informs us that the buildings at Murray Springs are to be removed to Rufus. Mr. Wallis has the contract for moving the large general merchandise store of J.W. Smith, and the stable of George Crosfield and the McDonald Hotel are to take up their beds, so to speak, and walk. Rufus has already become the largest of the towns, and with the consolidation of Murray Springs will be placed in the lead. Of the three sites that of Murray Springs is the pleasantest for a town, but the channel of trade has been diverted elsewhere, and the people must go to meet it. The starting of the distillery again will give Grants a boom and the vigor of the contest between Seattle and Tacoma may be repeated in our neighboring towns.”
Sherman County Photography Club Meeting, Oct. 28
Sign up for Veterans’ Day Parade by Nov. 8
Turkey BINGO/Dinner/Veterans Appreciation, Nov. 11
Letter to the Editor: Oregon Funeral Laws
Sherman County Health District Seeking Candidates for Board Vacancy
Sherman County School Hall of Honor
Energy and Enthusiasm
History Tidbits: Grant Personals in The Observer, 1903
1. Sherman County Photography Club Meeting, Oct. 28
Sherman County Photography Club meets this Monday, October 28 at the OSU Extension Building at 6pm. The club will work as a group on retouching straight out of the camera photos. Everyone is always invited to join the meeting.
2. Sign up for Veterans’ Day Parade by Nov. 8
Entry forms for the Veterans Day Parade are available at The Dalles Area Chamber of Commerce, VSO office and the Columbia Gorge Veterans Museum located at 205 E 2nd Street, The Dalles, Oregon. Entry forms need to be returned by November 8, the Friday before the parade. The parade takes place Monday Nov. 11, 2019, beginning at 11a.m. There is no entry fee. Patriotic decorations are welcome. A community Potluck will follow the parade at the Oregon Veterans’ Home. Bring your favorite Potluck food and deserts to share with all. This will be hosted by the VFW Post and Auxiliary 2471. To kick off the parade starting at 11 a.m., the Parade Committee asks that the Churches and Public Buildings with bells, sirens, chimes etc., sound them showing honor and respect to our men and women who have put on the United States Military Uniform in service to this Nation. This Veterans’ Day our intent is to honor all Veterans in The Dalles, OR, and all Veterans from surrounding areas in the Columbia River Gorge. PUT THIS ON YOUR CALENDARS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES. ~Mid Columbia Veterans’ Memorial Committee
3. Turkey BINGO/Dinner/Veterans Appreciation, Nov. 11
Join us Monday, November 11 at Wasco School Events Center for BINGO and dinner. A pulled pork dinner with all the trimmings will be served beginning at 5 p.m. Cost is $6 per person ($5 with a donation of a non-perishable item to the Food Bank, canned veggies & soups preferred), $3 for 6 and under, and a family for $20. In honor of Veterans Day, all veterans eat free. Beginning at 6 p.m., we will begin turkey BINGO. Ten games, ten frozen turkeys given as prizes — just in time for Thanksgiving! Kids BINGO will be held in the library and is free. Thank you to our sponsors: Tribeca Transport for providing the frozen turkeys, and Jeff Baunach from Bob’s Texas T-Bone for donations to the dinner. ~Wasco School Events Center.
4. Letter to the Editor: Oregon Funeral Laws
I live in Wasco County, on Bakeoven Road. Since the death of my son Max in February 2018, I’ve become involved in advocacy work to inform all Oregonians of their right to care for their own dead. Working with several other women we’ve created a website http://www.oregonfuneral.org. I want to share this important information with my neighbors since I don’t know who will want to exercise their rights. You can find my story here – https://www.oregonfuneral.org/maxs_story.html.
Keelia Carver
Bakeoven Road, Wasco County, Oregon
5. Sherman County Health District Seeking Candidates for Board Vacancy
Sherman County Health District is accepting applications to fill one open position on its board of directors. The appointee will serve the remainder of the current term, which expires June 2023.
The Sherman County Health District Board of Directors is comprised of 5 board members. Each member is elected by the registered voters of the district to serve a 4-year term. Applicants for the vacant position must be registered voters who reside within the district’s boundaries.
Interested candidates can request an information packet, which includes information about the district, position, and application/selection process, from the district office by contacting Caitlin at 541-565-0536 or by email at admin@shermancountymedicalclinic.net. You may also visit our office located at 110 Main Street, Moro, OR 97039 during regular business hours (Monday -Thursday 8am-5pm, Friday 8-12:30).
This position is open until filled.
About Sherman County Health District: Sherman County Health District operates Sherman County Medical Clinic. The purpose of the Sherman County Health District and the Sherman County Medical Clinic is to provide responsive, preventative, high quality primary health care services to people without regard to social or economic status.
The Sherman County Medical Clinic is a Rural Health Clinic committed to enhancing the quality of life for the residents of Sherman County and Eastern Oregon. We seek to serve the needs of the rural community by providing affordable, comprehensive and accessible medical services in a safe, professional, and caring environment. We believe that by putting the needs of the people first, we will gain trust, respect and compassion for each other. We will work to improve the health of our patients by promoting collaboration and education. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.shermancountymedicalclinic.net.
6. Editorial. Sherman County School Hall of Honor
It was a splendid evening with Sherman County School District’s 2019 Hall of Honor inductees Deron Kaseberg, Mike S. Macnab, Ron Townsend, the 1989 OSAA State Football Champions and, posthumously, Grace (May) Zevely, and their families and friends! Old friends, new friends, memories, stories and information!
The Sherman Booster Club fundraiser, a tri-tip dinner, was served by FFA members. The Sherman County School Concert Band entertained under the direction of John Gronberg. Superintendent Wes Owens welcomed a large crowd in the event center (gym) and made introductions. Jeremy Lanthorn took photographs.
The designated speakers on behalf of the inductees were Jean (Zevely) Anderson, Kyle Blagg, Kevin Coelsch, Joe Justesen, Brett Kaseberg, Twila Kaseberg, Linda Krafsic, Bill Macnab, Nancy McCoy and Ron Townsend. Gary Shelton read the plaques that were presented by Wes Owens. We all learned a thing or two!
Equally important is the graphic timeline and presentation made by Janet Pinkerton and Nancy Henrichs Simpson, “From One-Room Schools to One-Campus / 150 Years of Education in Sherman County.” They described their valuable research on the 150 years of county education and outlined changes and challenges, decade by decade, recognizing school board members and county school superintendents. Their important research is presented in information graph form on a wonderful large wall installation.
The newly-formed Sherman County Education Foundation introduced information at their display table, the result of their vision, mission and thoughtful planning. It’s off to a running start and worthy of our support.
That said, we are mindful that a special occasion such as this requires a great deal of planning and attention to detail, hard work, inspiration and many volunteers! Yes, it was a delightful evening, and even more — it was a gift to all of us… the inspiration and wisdom that comes from knowing what others achieve, over time, individually and as members of teams and boards of directors.
Thank you, Sherman County School District, Booster Club, FFA, Janet Pinkerton and Nancy Henrichs Simpson and volunteers for this impressive annual event! First class! Well done! Congratulations!
7. Energy and Enthusiasm
A couple of questions for this week: First, what do you absolutely love to do? And secondly, how well do you do it?
Now, whatever your answer to the first question may be, the answer to the second question will be somewhere between, “very well” and “superbly.” Because, if you love doing something, you are probably good at it.
Do you know anyone who has achieved tremendous success by doing something he or she hates? Most likely, no. Mark Twain once said, “The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation,” and that is exactly what successful people seem to do.
Workaholics who dislike their work tend to get ulcers, and spend the weekend resting up so they can go “do battle” again on Monday. But, workaholics who love their work get ahead. It makes their lives richer and more satisfying, and they have tremendous energy for what they do.
Neuroscientists have determined that when you do something with enthusiasm it only takes one-tenth the energy that it takes to do the same thing with reluctance. When we don’t want to do something, we expend a lot of time and energy mentally running down paths that have nothing to do with what needs to be accomplished. (Formally, this is called procrastination, and some of us are experts at it.)
Let’s face it, some jobs are easier to love than others. The key for you is to work toward getting those jobs that you love. And if you can find creative ways to do what you are doing now, it will make the climb toward your goal of “love-the-work” faster and easier. People in charge will notice your skill, and especially your attitude.
So, bring the same energy and enthusiasm to your work as you do to your play, and watch what happens! ~The Pacific Institute
8. History Tidbits: Rufus & Grant Personals in The Observer, 1903
Notes, not quotes unless so indicated, from The Observer town columns for Rufus and our long-gone town of Grant on the Columbia River…
Rufus 8 May 1903:
C. Wallis to build new porch on hotel
John Coates hauling lumber for addition to his house
Rufus 29 May 1903:
R. Fowler struck water on wheat farm, putting up windmill
Baseball – Rufus 7- Wasco 5
Joe Morris planted 4,000 strawberry plants
Rufus 5 June 1903:
Tom Striker purchased Wm. Oehman’s interest in the threshing machine
Ben Hailey’s 1500# 4 year old colt killed by train
& Mrs. Joe Morris, T. Smith, Wm. Oehman, R.C. Wallis & wife and Ben Hailey fishing on the Deschutes
Frank Medler hauling wood from Goldendale
Grandma White very ill.
Rufus 12 June 1903:
Columbia River still rising
Calves have black leg
Wheat looks good since rains
Rufus school election… directors John Sinknecht & J.P. Linderman, clerk Chas. Hoggard.
4th of July ice cream picnic at Murray Springs
Immense lot of drift ice in the river
Grant surrounded by water
Shay, section boss at Grant, using sand bags to keep river from washing out the grade, 6 men filling sacks
“Trainload of Japs” sidetracked at Rufus working on keeping waves from washing out the grade.
Grant 27 November 1903:
Miss Ethel Blackburne returned from California visit.
“The Grant Japs have returned from Bingham Springs.”
Grant Ferry Co. has a new steamer enroute from Portland to replace the NELLIE which burned last Tuesday.
Steamer COLUMBIA making regular trips from upriver to Grants loaded with wheat to be shipped below.
Dingle is repairing and papering his home on the Graham place intending to move his family there.
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Each pedal has its own adjustable spring tension, height, spacing and angle to suit racing styles of any player. And thank god, because the 105th edition of the race features something that’s been painfully absent from the past five editions of the race: intrigue. Some would view this as an entry level top shelf racing wheel. Sure, it’s flawed genius, but it does get right to the heart of what motorcycling is about. The main potential downside i see to the stock scott genius lt plus setup is the tires. Being an average married 30 year old, my wife controls every aspect of my life, and thank god she let's me have an office where i can play video games with her permission, but she wasn't going to let me add a big non collapsible sim rig to the room. He was picking sesame seeds out of his butt for days. 5kg build is this one-piece bar and stem from syncros. She only weighs 27kg, so none of the commercially available elastomers would work. Everything about joe huffaker’s approach to indianapolis was different.
Start small, build your bankroll, and in just weeks the. (almost as stupid as autonomous race cars) as far a range goes it seems 500 miles is a full day at truck speed so the next price jump in diesel fuel might change perspectives. Find a huge selection of discount rims, car accessories. The game was the first to allow drivers outside pre-set tracks in simulated real-life environments. Throw something similarly sized and shaped but faster rolling on the rear and you'd be cooking with gas. Topping everything off and sort of integrating most of the other features found on all the other wheels on this particular list, we have microsoft’s sidewinder force feedback wheel. Twinloc helps manage the sag effect in several ways. John britten was a revolutionary motorcycle designer whose home-brewed machine won international plaudits with its stunning design and performance.
There’s a decent amount of resistance and the brake is slightly progressive (it gets harder to press through its travel). Exact record, so that he may discover the relation of cause and effect in his. Using the speed wheel for extended periods of time can be tiring because you're holding the gyroscopic controller straight out in front of you with no natural way to relax your arms. Paddy power is a complete enigma and does his own thing. Like all small-capacity racing engines, the single is extremely peaky and. That said, the big rotors ensured that there was ample braking power at hand when needed, and the exchange for the lack of authority at first squeeze was a more moderate feel that was easy to modulate when traction was sketchy. Clark jones: clark jones the genius behind the v-shock has been around motocross at the highest level for over 40 years.
Otherwise, for the first few days, the student may even imagine that he. The new genius gets a supportive four-bar suspension layout, which could hardly feel more different to the old design. Click to download injector videos (400kb - 1. , or even about being smart. years later, trev suggested that jim would have won that race had he also started in a 24. The solution was to give the traveling signal periodic boosts of power. The player wins a relic by beating the time indicated on the screen. With the growth in popularity of these off-road endurance races "the adk 80k" is sure to be a success. Horse racing systems are capable of performing highly accurate prediction of horse racing results or lay down a minimum risk betting plan, usually in the form of a spread betting scheme. You’ll definitely want to play around with the settings and go for a few test laps before heading into races, but once you’ve tweaked these you shouldn’t really have to go back to them except for the occasional fine tuning.
Let us try a final definition. So we maybe blew it by choosing 1967 (for gpl). Direct drive is the best racing wheels currently have to offer. We have gone from initial sketches on the backs of napkins to cad modelling and numerous prototyping iterations and experiments with different kinds of motors and sensors. 0 race, the extra travel and less progressive suspension gave it a super-low dynamic bottom bracket height that was just amazing in the corners.
By rod from united states. The front wheel is so far raked out that the bars feel floppy and the front wheel remote. Racing genius is a proven product that has a little or no negative feedback. What about the trek slash. This is what makes the quail so special: even if you’re a nobody there, it . Rotate the knobs to loosen the clamps, slip the racing wheel on your desk or table, and rotate the opposite direction to tighten. Throttle your engines to its full speed and power with the logitech g29’s responsive floor pedal units and swiftly maneuver through the curvy racing tracks by getting the actual steering controls in your hand. For some setups, sitting 6′ away from a 106″ screen is overkill.
Vf: riders will be asking themselves, "should i go with the 650b genius or the 29er genius. 5″ wheel on a downhill bike. Car rims & wheels by brands. ) hmx refers to a special high-modulus carbon with a custom resin system that scott uses to reinforce key areas of the lt 10’s front section. Force feedback is what stops a racing wheel from feeling like a plastic toy.
It helps, obviously, that it’s a show bike that’s ready to race. Pint-sized geniuses will begin to recognize repetition at an early age but it’s not just simple color or shape patterns that catch their eye. For example, four-fifths of the air is composed of nitrogen. When you purchase something from them you have register it online on the mavic site and pay a percentage of the cost of the product for insurance. I am having a similar problem with my thrustmaster tx racing wheel on my windows 8 laptop. Thrustmaster tmx racing wheel for xbox one and pc. Into contact with every atom in the universe all at once," is the description. A growing number of people are calling bullshit on. I guess in a marketplace littered with games having no feedback support at all (hot pursuit, blur, split second), things could be much worse.
As being solely a branch of athletics. You want a racing seat and do not have much storage room or even a gaming basement. And when racing, if the wheel isn’t stable, neither is your driving. Trio racer ff setup problem. Carmen cooper, clinical nutritionist calls it, “the ‘mattress phenomenon’ of pitting, bulging and deformation of the skin. By studying the notebooks, correspondence, conversations and ideas of the world's greatest thinkers, they have teased out particular common thinking strategies and styles of thought that enabled geniuses to generate a prodigious variety of novel and original ideas. In this case the celebrated "cammy" ajs introduced in 1927.
Oem truck wheels don't always offer the extra oomph you need to tackle the terrain. How does the racing genius system works well. Thus, get ready to experience a real time racing game full of excitement and thrill with the help of this racing wheel. Even though it has a forza badge, it does work for ps3 and pc which is a plus. A bushing is used in the chain stay pivot to save grams. The game considered the pioneer in simulation racing was revs, released in 1986. For individuals who enjoy playing simulation games, having a fun and decent quality game pad or controller is a must. Everything is individually packaged in its own plastic bag, with tons of cardboard partition to ensure everything stays in its place unharmed.
Having driven a pirelli formula one simulator, we can say that the aggressive but smooth nature of the csr elite's feedback is the closest we've come to that feeling when using a commercially available wheel. Racing genius is being sold from vendorâs web site, that you can visit via this link: racing genius. By eddie from united states. Another impressive feature of this racing seat is that it can accommodate a driver between 4 feet and 7 feet tall. The way i see it, the ferrari wireless gt cockpit 430 scuderia edition is a racing wheel for anyone who doesn’t want to waste time, who doesn’t want wires and cables everywhere, and who doesn’t need every bell and whistle other wheels have. Direct replacement for spit diff -. After years of focusing its efforts elsewhere, scott has re-entered the boot market with a brand-new concept on protective footwear. Overall, racing genius is highly recommended. Wheel slightly trembles, when the speed grows, trembling becomes. Click the photo below that best matches your eyelet hardware setup to view its service procedure.
5 wheelset is plenty wide enough for the rotund 2. However, i’m still trying to get my head round why scott mismatched the travel and compromised the geometry on this particular model, especially when rockshox offers a 150mm sektor. This is heaven for fans of la scuderia. That manifested with a dangerous shove at the 1988 portuguese grand prix. The playseat challenge has raised my fun level to the max when i am racing on my xbox.
I would have expected to see a fox 34, especially in the presumably race-ready tuned version, but scott said that weight was a priority and the introduction of the genius lt for heavy-duty terrain lessened the load on the genius 700. For example, we find in the shiva sanhita that "he who daily contemplates on. The experts at filthy motorsports and king racing have the knowledge and experience to get your shocks valved very close to your exact needs the first time, it is important to know that the only way to fine-tune your suspension is through trial and error. it has a new motor that promises better response and feedback force and feel. The film also is being shown at a few other festivals, including the toronto international film festival. No problem, use a shoe. Just click the button below to own your racing genius and order as a discounted price after the payment and claim your bonuses.
The distributor was part of the prestolite performance package that included a special coil, control module (mounted under the dash) and mechanical tach drive distributor. Dont have $13,500 to spend on forks. While there are loads of races where the post position has small importance, there are diverse events and places when the place your steed begins from can have a critical effect on the consequences of the race. Go below to download racing genius:. The rgt force feedback pro clutch edition wheel and pedal set gives you the features and customization tools you want for a realistic racing experience.
The game makes possible to feel the whole power of the feedback,. I’ve a fair bit of experience with shocks coming from a mbk background, everything from the first manitous through to the most recent cane creeks etc, but i’m stumped with these to be frank. ” is his quest to conquer space, or the auto industry, quixotic or egocentric. Until the photon genius there wasn’t anything much you could do except stay clothed…not much fun swimming in your clothes. This allows the tire to hold. Shimano hydraulic brakes offer power and control and are a good choice if you regularly ride in wet weather. The 700c size rim found on the raven has been the most common racing and touring size for a few decades. Start and use your speed wheel. It is an excellent bike and i am not looking forward to the day when i part ways with the genius.
[2] the organ refrain references "it's my life", a song by the animals that springsteen has revered since adolescence. It feels like genius kept costs down and made everything with rather thin plastic that feels cheaply made. " these are very insidious -- one may go on for a long time without. 1-inch ventilated rear rotors that are 0. The frame is pretty obviously modelled on the new scott genius, that was unveiled to the public last week, except the downtube has been beefed out to incorporate an integrated battery and motor. Our hub centric wheels will ensure a smooth, vibration free ride for your smart fortwo.
The fork is also connected to the twinloc lever via its compression adjuster.
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With a central clamp for perfect stability. + quite comfortable, i use it not only for racing, but also for other gaming and general pc usage. Far, far away from us. While the ferrari gt experience wheel and pedal kit looks custom made for the ps3, it actually works the best on pcs. It’s already given full 22-episode orders to new comedy. clark even describes the build-up to his famous shunt in the race of champions that year, when he won the first heat, seemed assured of overall victory, yet unaccountably ran wide at bottom bend under pressure from dan gurney. "i think there were a number of factors that led to papyrus' closure.
The rc (for racing concept) model line, specifically the scott spark rc 900 world cup, is one of the premier xc bikes. The cooling system was a minor challenge compared to the electronics—which were needed for the fuel injection system and ecm. So it’s long and slack enough to be on trend when it comes to crunching the geometry numbers. 5 podium qs3 shocks featuring remote reservoirs and simplified 3-position compression adjustability, its a suspension package that delivers the ultimate big-bump control, 14 inches of ground clearance and a significant handling advantage in the most demanding conditions. On a more positive note, we loved the shimano slx brakes, and really appreciated the larger 203mm rotor on the front; it made all the difference. That’s also cause a cyclist to missed important events. Choosing the best pc racing wheel. The aurora trike transmission is fairly simple, using mostly standard bicycle components and a pair of machined parts that adapt the bicycle parts to the rear axle.
Racing genius is very much in the preview stage at the moment and so it is important to note that there isn’t a whole lot of information available. Playseat challenge fit racing needs perfectly. Crash team racing feel more interactive and involving than older kart-racing games. As they have probably been modified endless times, and the dry clutch, exposed. This review is designed to help you by showing you real customer reviews of the racing genius which will give you the peace of mind that you are making the right choice, or possibly persuade you to go with another product. i told him that i wanted above all to work in motor sport – perhaps as a journalist. Whoa’, i think to myself, and grab someone else to take over the test riding. [50] jeff gerstmann of gamespot wrote that while the music and sound effects "push the game's cartoon theme," the themes were not too "over the top" or incessant.
Entry level full suspension mountain bikes (up to approximately £1300) may come supplied with a fork & rear shock supplied by sr suntour, x-fusion or rockshox. Pushed the limits of technology with his innovative designs for cars. Thomas was the only guy in the lead group using a full suspension bike to tackle the demanding course and the only one seated and pedalling up the 22% gradient of the alpe davrosio whilst the rest of the field were off the bike and pushing. Be the first to review “racing genius review”. Logitech g920 driving force racing wheel.
Internally, all of the major components of the wheel and its housing are made of nylon parts. Sidi sticks with a tried-and-tested multi-strap system to ensure the best possible fit. boost will eventually be the defacto standard for all mtbs. Dennis said his father's red hair had turned snow white, and he was "never the same. All you’ll get is an elastic band-like resistance when the wheel is turned. It includes a d-pad and four action buttons for advanced control as gaming software requires, such as direction controls or horn and view change.
Footnote: however, in saying a mantra containing the word "aum,". The shocks are custom valved and are able to be rebuildable so that you can custom tune for different applications as well as ensure that your shocks always perform to the same level as the day they were built. The news that he is suffering from severe depression is a desperately sad way for things to end. Dick’s suspension mods were stiff yet plush. Only available as a 29er. Excellent for a reasonable price.
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Furthermore, rookies were once again able to take advantage of a now-standard array of driver's aids such as auto-braking and auto-shifting. Some models include brakes and gas pedals while others have the additional clutch pedal. He tried to help in the best way he knew how, and i commend him mightily for it. you rarely saw under- or oversteer with clark. According to stevens, changing to the progressive setting provides an increase in the force required to hit bottom-out by 50%, so it’s a pretty decent change.
If you get within 5% of the actual number it’s fine. All parents want to believe their children are special and unique, and they are. Santiago, bobby and ronnie anne's mother, who works as a nurse. Sure, a high-end garmin is costly, but if it bounced off the bike or got waterlogged in a storm (neither of which has ever happened to me, by the way), at least i wouldn’t be losing my daily access to work and communications. Saitek’s fps feature programs the gamepad with the proper keyboard and mouse commands that functions in fps games. I ended up going with a large and a shorter stem. Maintaining an internet business is expensive, and the more fruitful you’re, the pricier it seems to get.
Thanks to its discreet appearance this herb pipe can be kept inside any bag, jacket, or even trouser pocket. Some tipsters back everything under the sun regardless of conditions, quality of racing or prices available. You only need linear mode if you have a very fancy wheel, per iracing. While this may seem like a long time, it really wasn't, and the belt system used to suspend/adjust position makes this seat extremely custom fitting. You can also meditate on "your dreams. It will require a good deal of determination to persist day after day, for. The instructions were extremely easy to follow but in all honesty you could put it together without them as there are just a few pieces to slot together.
driving was so easy for him, so natural, that his mind was always on other things. The icon on the show posters for. Pedal, and there is a string under the pedal. Arriving home, lincoln puts the egg down, and begins to relax. if you look at the front of the wheel, logitech has loosely designed it to look like a car. $500 was pricey, but you got a wheel that worked with everything—xbox, ps3, and pc. Do you have a number i can reach you at for questions aboyt rfy shocks. Worrying about clothes, food, money, what people may think, how and why, and. For the test track, we chose the pino morto trail (as we did for our 2014 ews enduro bike group test). Smart is constantly pushing the envelope of automotive design.
*please note, you are responsible for a safe keeping and handling of the order that is under our fitment guarantee policy. There is, however, a very much higher state called shivadarshana, of which. The best way to time the breathing, once some little skill has been acquired,. Make sure you adjust your twinlock cable tension on the shock as you ride the bike more. The first is the ability to provide a reliable, non-plate release system. With a manic drive to succeed, ayrton senna was a slightly unbalanced man whose life could’ve gone many ways, but his karting hobby quickly became an all-consuming passion, for which he would dedicate his life entirely. It has a dual belt mechanism that delivers the force feedback. With dynafit inserts the boot can be held at the toe with a 2-pin tech binding.
Tor claims it has the most horsepower for a naturally-aspirated (non-turbo) engine in the class. Itching to get on the wheel yet. The right equipment can certainly make all the difference here. One of the very first racing sims to fully support 3d graphic accelerator cards, f1 racing simulation visually toyed with everything that had come before. With alzou as such i've spokojeny. Power is what causes rubber to lose its important bond with the pavement. By gerardo from united states.
And let me just say that you should get. I always figure that the longer the travel the more important suspension performance becomes and 140mm is smack-bang all mountain / enduro-ish territory. Sources close to pitt claim he is 'absolutely smitten' with his new squeeze and the 'their chemistry is off the charts. The tread pattern is moderately aggressive, but the shape of the carcass is overly round, so it's difficult to feel the edge of the tyre and therefore judge when you're liable to start drifting. And it is therefore not surprising that semi-educated stutterers wallow in oceans. Genius speed wheel 6 mt vibration feedback racing wheel review.
Were another's, and you will avoid ninety-nine percent. Physicist niels bohr believed that if you held opposites together, then you suspend your thought and your mind moves to a new level. I remember jeremy clarkson talking about, i think, the lamborghini gallardo years ago, and how stupid it was that the paddles were attached to the wheel instead of the base. Toronto/montreal & toronto/windsor fall well within the tesla’s range. Genius twinwheel f1 set for pc/ps2. Its games were so realistic that professional drivers often use their games to train for real life races. anyone that has pre-ordered the v2 units will be getting upgraded to the v2. Yeah the wheel is good. With that in mind, i saw that genius had a press release for their new racing wheel. Frame was lowered and the 1971 version has a ‘letter box’ oil cooler slot in the fairing nose.
But also the symbolism of the rosy cross. In case you’re keen on adapting all the more in regards to the numerous points of interest connected with horse racing epsom and even horse training ayr, you should consider visiting our site. Frater perdurabo is the most honest of all the great religious teachers. Genius brings forth a new racing wheel to the market and at a great price. Yes i said just in games. Each of them, perfectly silent up to the time of the disappearance, came back. Valve clearances are simple enough to set, but late model ball adjusters used to fall apart. Ppg cup championship, teaming with. The best way is to tinker around between 8% and 20% until it feels about right to you.
Balancing the life of a shock with the potential for fade is a constant undertaking. Let’s take a look on the reasons that will help y. Argentina must lift game for 'genius' messi against france. We spoke with scott, and they attributed this issue to incorrect cable tension between the twinloc remote and the shock. I had the chair assembled and ready for an initial shakedown in about 10 minutes. Geniuses prepare themselves for chance.
this is a great racing wheel for under $50. This obsessively engineered digital system means more reality, more bumper to bumper thrills down the back stretch plus raw lane change section activation.
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Here is the low down on the bikes your asking about. My wife has a scale, it's very nice, i've taken it out on a few rides when she wasn't looking. My options are scott scale 30(carbon frame/hardtail), scott genius 30 (carbon frame/full susp) and specialized epic comp (alu frame/full susp). If we sit down quietly and investigate. Travel tips for finale ligure.
I've never owned a seat to use with my xbox. The one absorbing the other. Whoever the genius is who commissioned aston martin to create this one-off beast deserves a gold model, aston should really get him/her a build allocation for their brand hypercar the valkyrie. The shifter has a decent physical action, and the unit also includes a plastic clamp for attaching it to your set up. There are no guarantees in horse racing, but there are edges.
The bike is very efficient climbing. Insert two new aa (lr6) batteries with their positive (+) and negative (â) ends positioned as shown on the battery compartment. The search for a system like racing genius which offers a perfect combination of user-friendliness and excellent quality would definitely take you to racing genius. Even the tires are tough and the suspension system gives has great shock absorption capacity thereby letting the rider have a smooth riding experience even while they are riding in the rough terrain. And the comfort, oh how comfortable it is. A simulator gives you the ability to switch between a vast range of vehicle types however, each with their own steering wheel types. There was a burgess-style for the beauty kit bikes too. it’s a real winner, plus since the move to fox rear shocks last year, they just got more favourable in our books. The percentage of primaries and secondaries will diminish, even though the total.
This will also play a role when storing the seat away since the csp are quite heavy and i need to use a couple of extra velcro strips to keep everything in place. Can someone tell me why those pesky sometimes unaligned potentiometers only have so many teeth on them rather than going all the way around. This racing genius system software will show you how to finally get on the fast track to bringing in a consistent flow of cash into your bookmaker accounts using a very simple, but powerful service with real-time life and proven results. It is our belief that industries and nations stand strongest when they best utilize and inspire their youth. For 2018, scott has simultaneously simplified and added to their road bike lineup. Next, plug the power adapter into the underside of the racing wheel, and slip it into another one of the cable grooves (again, logitech recommends one of the outer ones). Thank you playseat for providing an alternative to larger more fixed racing simulator chairs. Fans of racing games on the pc are always looking for ways to make the experience that little bit more authentic and immersive. He’s also 33 and only won last year’s race by 54 seconds. The company is also promoting the fact that not only should its system boost passenger comfort and safety, but that boats using the technology should be able to go faster while using less fuel.
Gives the cycle of creation. He moved the family to gaithersburg, md. When it needs to do with transforming into a stallion proprietor, you can pick between racing genius system a scope of decisions. 3 degrees, with a corresponding shift to a 14. While dirt rally is yours to tinker with we donât want to. I am constantly moving for my job from one apartment to another apartment. Who should buy the playseat challenge. He claimed one of the biggest victories of his training career earlier in 2011 when julienas won the royal hunt cup at ascot.
After an adequate orientation period, the lt 10 rider will discover that using the twinloc’s shock and talas fork modes is nearly a requisite to riding the bike. It also helps that the 430 is not a motorized racing wheel.
In february 2009, microsoft released another update to the sidewinder line, the sidewinder x8 gaming mouse. I made the mistake of not doing any research first but those of you who are smart, i say no to driver genius. His civic vision was that it would become a focal point of christchurch, the building to be designed locally, artistically themed, and craft orientated in a design he called . The step by step instructions makes sure that you are free from the burden of bearing the expense of high-priced professional assistance in setting up or mastering racing genius. Thrustmaster tmx force feedback racing wheel (recommended).
How we review your order:. As he told me, “those were a purely selfish feature we included just so i could use one boot to ski alpine or tele. 5″ wheel across their entire range of mountain bikes. 200 is the normal setting for this game. Endeavour to make the breathing very slow and very regular. Wheels we sell are with in 30 day money return gaurenteed and carry the manufacturor's warranties agianst defects in workmanship based on the warranty lenght. This group test aims to find out if it has kept up with the competition. • shift gears easily with two wheel-mounted paddles.
Forza motorsport was an outstanding racing experience. And because it took full advantage of 3d acceleration, the pixeled appearance of prior nascars was gone and frame rate hassles were no longer the issue they once were. The scott’s laid-back seat angle, designed to stretch the cockpit for taller riders, becomes much too set back when riding with the seatpost extended. Given that scott had been boasting about the 2. But with the match race rivalry that mcewen built with prudhomme in the 1960s, he was confident the sport was prime to take national, and hot wheels cars were the vehicle. And all that popularity began when mcewen one day had an idea that at the time was so far out of the box that some of his fellow racers thought he was, shall we say, crazy like a fox. On the trail, the genius doesn’t ride like a lot of the other 150mm bikes, like the trek slash, lapierre zesty, or a giant trance sx for example. The trial files and horse racing genius: dodgy dealings. We did not want to be just another “tipping” service as we aimed at educating and explaining our process rather than providing numbers.
How to open racing genius following all local rules and regulations. Genius wheels are available in staggered applications for 15'' and 17'' wheel sizes, which facilitates the use of wider tires on the rear of the smart car and aides in traction. Stable and comfortable; the bigger wheel – especially up front – gave us a reassuring feeling that there was more between us and the ground than with the 27. Unless you want to be splayed out on the floor with your girlfriend laughing at you. These are average sized pedals, but there is only an accelerator and brake pedal, there is no clutch pedal with this kit. The newly-designed frameset features an asymmetrical layup that seeks to balance pedal and disc brake loads for a more durable and stiffer bike. Scott genius mountain bikes have lots of suspension travel and lots of cool technology. In 1976, intermittent wipers that used a mechanism similar to kearns' showed up on a mercedes-benz.
Direct drive steering systems are generally used in professional racing/training simulators which cost a lot. “they built a carbon fiber seat pan which is paired with top quality leather. " another person "can make gold, discover. 5, and the increased diameter of the wheel took the sting out of the rowdier sections. Joe barron gets to grips with some of the best wheels from logitech, thrustmaster, and fanatec.
Of racers like ted havens. Once the standard radiator and 'u'. Racing genius is new and different. For riders who have feet narrower than ee, the genius 7 carbon fits a men’s d (the most common foot width for men), and the narrow version fits a men’s b. Typically, we think reproductively, that is on the basis of similar problems encountered in the past.
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Completing a touch of research racing genius scam before putting down a wager and watchful for designs in steeds exhibitions may offer you a clearer picture on which stallions to pick. American racing wheels and american racing rims. Cons: quite pricey, i wonder about long term durability. The next thing is i would ditch those nobby nics and put any other tires on the market on the bike. Racing genius review-does it’s really works or scam.
There aren’t too many custom rods on the scene that have turned negatives into positives during their construction, but we’re glad that kirkham motorsports was able to make clever use of what was once a factory for building fighter planes. (for the sake of this discussion, we are excluding some of the rare designs like the earles fork or telelever fork that uses a swingarm in the front as well as in the rear. You don’t need to be a horse racing expert to use the vhm©. Plus, the shifter gears mounted under the wheel for fast brake and. It also provides better traction and control through braking over rough terrain. I packed them along with my jimmy clark gloves and the cream with red striped dunlop driver’s suit that my grandfather gave me as a graduation present. Still, it wasn't the earth-shattering total for which papyrus had wishfully longed.
The lever itself is easy to work with, and although it does not outright mimic the movement of a shifter, it is intuitive in use. 5- and 29-inch offerings, however scott says all genius frames can switch between both by flipping a chip in the shock mount. Research suggests, that cycling is fast growing as the most popular leisure activities. In the trailer version, the scenes take place in the park, rather than in jimmy's backyard, while sheen is replaced by nick dean. The new 2018 wildcat xx from textron off road (tor) unleashes professional-level, big-bump performance for side-by-side enthusiasts who want to ride over everything. 8″ – scott managed to keep the weight of the wheel + tire around that of a 29″ x 2. If you're coming from a road background, i'd go ahead and get the xc race bike. Self taught, britten started with a blank canvas in what was then little more than a garden shed—the first incarnation of the britten design, engineering and speed laboratory.
This company has provided me with excellent customer service and a high quality product. so i decided that we should split the championship, regardless of what happened in the last race. According to in-depth analysis, we can responsibly tell you that racing genius is not a scam. They also issued a response and it is available below. Its less rigid than my previous betting methods and has worked like an absolute charm. In fact, you won’t find any leather on these kicks. I know they might be good somewhere(i wish i knew where somewhere was) but for colorados varied terrain they suck.
It’s not always the most prudent guidance, but i’ll let you decide for yourself. The veteran and racing products ceo quickly injected racing back into baker’s veins by offering him a position with his company. "standing in the same footsteps so many people have been through, i'm not going to give it up. Quality construction - race-ready materials that can handle it all. For example a 28mm long bar will have a max angle of twist of 32.
“as it happened, the car then hit a bank at about 60mph. The conclusion of our racing genius review is that this product stands above all other similar products in terms of both quality and value, as well. That we’re the human race. Building a suspension that can handle these various terrains is no small feat. Nfs shift returns to the track-based racing of old (and prostreet) rather than the open-world stuff seen in most of the modern titles. And while in the latter it seems. Vastly more capable on choppy terrain, the 36 steers with absolute precision and really allows you to take advantage of the genius lt’s superb geometry. In 2007, honda began installing their pgm-fifuel injection system for the honda cubs in the japanese market for lower smog-forming emission.
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The most exciting thing is the driver disk which you have to use since genius does not host the driver on their website. It's also very heavy, almost 18 pounds (8. The carbon series sb5 with a sram gx build offers a nice balance of performance and price with its mix of sram x01 eagle and gx eagle parts. It doesn't feel like a "portable" rig, but the fact that it folds out of the way is a major bonus. Consider this a bonus feature--just a little something extra to chew on if you're still hungry for information after you've watched our video reviews and flipped through the bible of bike tests. However, there is the other side to fallon, too, where, if you like, he just couldn't help himself, hence all the dramas and all the negative headlines over 20-plus years. I'm still working the suspension out. The researchers suggest there may be two distinct groups of people with the condition – high achievers, in whom mania raises their game – and low achievers, especially those with low scores in sport and handicrafts indicating poor motor skills, who may have "subtle neurodevelopmental abnormalities". The team will find themselves in the rarified air of the proverbial professional mountain top of the racing world. 040-inch thick, about half the weight of the stock part.
5 and run it alittle more so guess i'm looking for the adjustability ability to change when. Born in the rugged race environment of baja and refined in partnership with off-road racing legend robby gordon, the rg pro rear suspension features massive wishbone-style trailing arms delivering 18 inches of travel with true wheel tracking and no unwanted scrub that hurts handling performance. The scott genius has been around since 2004 and it’s changed a heck of a lot since then. The genius wheels are perfect for fast driving. It will be a bit harder to transport then most 20”x26” lwb recumbents. It's more than a carefully scripted mission statement. This does not include disruption too retail by more online stores delivering to your home, the need for less cars when they can do multiple jobs during the day. even though he only did that one race with them he came over to our boys and gave them a bottle of champagne.
Stars and crosses, chrome rims and matte black wheels, and any color pattern you want, including green, red, and blue - the only limit is your imagination. We cycled the suspension under tug-truck to determine bumpstop placement and measure for limit straps. It is the responsibility of the customer to verify that this information is correct prior to placing the order in order to qualify for fitment guarantee. A version of this article appears in print on , on page b12 of the new york edition with the headline: at 66, a brainstorming trainer returns to the scene. Run over two 125-mile legs at los angeles’ 3. Footnote: it is rather a breach of the scepticism which is the.
I was super excited to review this racing wheel when i first got it. The rocker link is forged in thin-wall halves and then welded into a single piece to ward off flexing. I was like millions of other boys – and a few racing-crazy girls – who reveled in each new colorful, four-wheeled piece of metal that we’d get for birthdays, christmas, or just because our parents wanted to do something nice for us. I really like the seat and in my opinion it's a great and really affordable model, i've less space at home and when i'm done, i plug it out, fold it and place it in the corner. It has been about 4-years since i put them under the car. – fixed – by modifying bottom stops we are now using 90% of available shock travel with a little bit of buffer top and bottom. Compared to the t300 rs or my old logitech driving force pro, it is an absolute great feel. Suzuka, the feud came to a head. These are all just a fraction of what you will find in racing genius. If one particular style of thought stands out about creative genius, it is the ability to make juxtapositions between dissimilar subjects.
That's part of what makes this rig's overall design cool because it's solid as a rock when you're sitting in it. Design: the guys at playseat actually did a pretty good job designing this seat considering the value you get for it. This means you turn it half a turn and it’s maxed out, you can’t turn any more than that.
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The genius pipe, brought to you here by everyonedoesit, is the last word in herb pipe innovation, even at this cheap price. Trying to forget any pre-existing opinions of the wheel size debate, we approached it like it was our first time. The mohammedan insists that god is, and did really send gabriel with messages. As the world watched, musk had the brilliant idea to build a little submarine that could be used to transport the children out of the cave. The base features two pedals – an accelerator and a break, and here is the first sign that the manufacturer really doesn’t know much about racing wheels. - supplied as standard on the gt3, lmp3 and carbon fibre formula steering wheels. This is the fundamentally supple yet supportive ride that genius gives. Back up and restore: driver genius can back up and restore drivers automatically. Flitz metal polish, fiberglass & paint restorer is a perfect choice.
Which are both controlled by scott's twinloc lever), and the aforementioned dropper post. Great if you wish to commute in the week, then unlock the rear end ready for some off road fun at the weekend - effectively two bikes in one. So does it make it less exciting. Probably what you should do is find the specs on your shock, or measure them yourself. Not only is he good but he’s humble and quite friendly, don’t tell him i said that that. Than similar brushes to give you greater access to the deep recesses of the. And if your car didn't feel right for one reason or another, you could head to the game's garage facility to enact modifications. V3 fx steering wheel for ps2. In its racing history the britten has been placed in nearly every event that it has raced in.
The success of the film led to a spin-off television series,. The optional conical rubber brake mod is also included, allowing for an authentic feel with ultra-progressive resistance at the end of the pedal’s travel. The shocks are also still designed by scott and made by fox racing shox (except for the base model, which will come with an x-fusion o2 shock), but on the higher-end genius models, there are two entirely new shocks; the nude t and the nude tr. Still further from our present purpose would it be to criticise the innumerable. Dickinson sent them to race only when he was convinced they were in top condition — a sentiment that the horses might have appreciated more than owners who expect purse money to offset their investments. The first grade in their system is that of. Is it better than a desk chair. The wheel has a simple plastic mount. the only issue, and it is a glaring one, is the lack of an affordable setup based on their designs.
The di2 levers were programmed the wrong way round as well so the top lever shifted down and the bottom one shifted up, but we've been told this is something that can be adjusted using the app. Owgkxcusjay:true:true:110 (videoid:autoplay:loop:endtime). The winner of the premier 500cc class, leslie graham rode a telescoping fork-equipped ajs. You draw the electricity from the batteries at night during the peak period and overall result is that you don't burn as much coal. “for a long time jim and colin always shared a twin-bedded room at races. The specialized epic is the brandâs flagship full-suspension race machine.
Powers; or so he says. Why you need a racing genius. The car is fast and we keep getting better and we want to build on it. Entirely different set of part numbers. So, download this software and also enjoy with it.
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The prices were kind of ridiculous and i wanted to be able to store it easily when not in use. You’ll discover that our wheels are as remarkable for their uncompromised quality, precision engineering, advanced materials and revolutionary manufacturing processes as they are for their stunning designs. Fingers crossed the voltage will land on our shores one day, as we’d love to hit up some freeride lines and big jumps on the downhill tracks over here. Back in the ’60s tire technology still had a long way to go, and racers would try anything to get some traction. That no position is comfortable, though we never noticed it before in all our. It doesn’t have to appear off-the-assembly-line new, but you want to make it look like you at least made an effort.
The mad catz pro racing force feedback wheel and pedals continue on the mad catz tradition of making quality console accessories. Soon, however, the control will improve faster than the observation. Discretion seems to have gone out the window these days," another said. Used with a quality wheel cleaner, the clean. The house component brand for scott is syncros. If you are a casual gamer interested in some racing titles, pick up a genius speed wheel 6mt and don't worry too much about your next credit card bill. But price did not want to talk about his hand in the win. I was a little bit worried at first after a slow start. That, if you just put a bunch of engineers into a room, then voila.
The genius twinwheel f1 racing wheel is an entertaining dual-functioning. Of comparative religion the identity is certain. Out back, a smooth-boy fox shock was used in conjunction with bds leaf springs. It is one of the best racing wheels for the xbox/pc and hits a home run on pretty much all of the categories. Well, if the folks at australia's nauti-craft have anything to say about it, we soon will. He says, "asana is that which is firm and pleasant. When he and prudhomme went to hot wheels headquarters in southern california to pitch an idea to use the colorful little cars to boost drag racing prominence, his genius brainstorm of an idea was quickly recognized by company officials – and the rest is drag racing and toy making history. Foyt and white had a heated, on-track, battle going. “this is my hobby, not my living.
The factory manual that the european. Csl elite series, expanding their product range priced below their high-end clubsport series. Side marker plint (rubber holding. 5” wheels and notably have ceased using the term “plus”, simply considering wide tyres as standard. It features force feedback for vibrations when you bump competitors or crash. Yes it should have some parts welded. We never felt awkward either way, the bike remains quite agile and it is definitely fun to ride in both versions. Module is a standard hei 4 wire.
It has few moving parts, few pivot points, is relatively easy to design and has good small bump compliance. [24] johnny liu of game revolution concluded that the controls "feel very natural, with an emphasis on maintaining speed rather than fighting lousy controls. The 17 inch wheels, in comparison to the typical 10 inch wheels of a scooter, were more stable, particularly on rough roads, and psychologically made the motorcycle more familiar, having an appearance closer to a bicycle than a small-wheel scooter. Doesn’t make any difference who they are. Racing genius review-does it’s really works. From the flowers to the favors, we strive to bring an extra dose of flair, elegance, sophistication to each event we touch--from an intimate dinner party to a wedding for 300. What can we learn from them. For example this 1950 olds driven by buck baker, one of the first race cars to really demonstrate what air lift’s technology could do.
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General: if applicable, be sure you have your wheel powered in addition to usb cords. Wish the guys of the old papyrus would get back together and do a new one. If cross-country racing is your passion, the epic is designed for you. Red dials on each can are the rebound adjustments. His involvement with the racing side of his carburetor business led first to repairing and then building race cars. Wheel genius: racing to improve data collection. If the budget is a real concern, there are still reasons to consider the logitech g29 instead. Lionel messi when they look to seal a. From that in which a man goes about saying he is tired of life, he could manage.
Someone over a playseat did came up with a genius design for this chair. It’s a shame this boost valved shock isn’t shared with all bikes that utilize the twinloc feature. 3 comments to wireless xbox 360 steering wheel price and launch date revealed. A move to sevilla didn't work out and after a brief stint at newell's old boys, he finished his career at his beloved boca juniors. The features of this wheel and pedal kit are strong. It’s not a good feeling. I've been a console lap racer for years, all the way back to the ps2. In the flightstick department i agree with you completely. That’s probably what this truck represents for them, the beginning of the end. Choose from specialist suspension kits, exhausts, air filters, engine tuning, brakes, clutches and more.
So, ok, some people say, "big deal, experience is what matters. You have to reapply these products weekly, but its better than scrubbing your wheels every two days. This will not only save you money but if you or friends have devices they need charged, all that’s needed is it’s usb cable. It's available in a range of builds and with two wheel sizes: choose either 27. ,which can be purchased at your local store, or check out what is available on amazon. With the tacx trainer software 4.
Hele knew that norton wouldn’t be able to afford to embark on a triple project, and its move south to plumstead towards the end of 1962 was his cue to accept a job offer from hopwood at triumph. Are progressing; but as the practice teaches you what you are doing, you will. Match except for the mounting holes. Expedited return service/shipping available at extra cost. Specialized epic: one of the world's most popular xc race bikes. The blue propedal-esque lever selects the ctd setting that best suits the trail, while the black half-round knob determines which of the three levels of compression damping are used when in the trail mode. It is, then, difficult to overrate the value that such an experience has for. Our first ride with the genius was during an off-road jaunt and the initial reaction was not as positive as we had hoped for.
I think that it is very fair to say that they are impressive looking. Tesla is apparently burning through 4 times my figure/hour. " although he maintains the nascar series was not in itself a problem, he also says it represented a very small slice of the overall racing experience--which was a much bigger pie that he wanted to more fully explore. This wheel is a nice wheel. When i connect my genius trio racer ff usb racing wheel to my computer it understands that i connected something but my racing wheel still doesn't work.
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Tag Archives: Chapbooks
Publishing Poetry and Prose: A Faculty and Student-Curated Exhibition
October 12, 2016 History NewsChapbooks, Teaching with Primary Sources, Top NewsMargery Sly
–by student Duncan R. Copeland
In Fall 2015, the Special Collections Research Center partnered with Richard Orodenker and his Intellectual Heritage class to exhibit commonplace books created by the students alongside examples of commonplace books and related materials from the SCRC. This year, we are happy to continue our faculty and student exhibit collaborations with an exciting display of poetry and prose chapbooks created by students in Kathryn Ioanata’s Honors Creative Acts class.
–by student Keri Klinges
The term chapbook is used to describe the printed literature of two distinct moments in the history of printing in the West. In Europe in the early modern period, a chapbook referred to the cheaply printed and simply illustrated popular literature distributed widely and often sold by travelling booksellers called chapmen. These pamphlets contained abbreviated texts, such as fairy and folk tales, ballads, histories, or moral tracts. In the modern context, chapbooks refer to publications of shorter length, 40-50 pages or less, that are simply bound. They often contain either poetry or prose on a single theme or subject.
During the Spring 2016 semester, Professor Ioanata brought her Honors Creative Acts (ENG 926) students to the SCRC to see a selection of modern chapbooks from our various print collections, including the Contemporary Culture Collection and the Rachel Blau DuPlessis collection. Professor Ionata describes the connection between the visit and the students’ final projects: “This assignment asked students to take their best writing from the semester, revise it, and arrange it artfully into a chapbook. In working on this project, rather than a simple portfolio of work typed on plain paper and stapled together, it became necessary for students to consider the book as a work of art. Using the chapbooks in the Special Collections Research Center as an example, I encouraged students to think about not only their writing itself, but its placement on the page, in the book, and the aesthetics of the book itself.”
Student Nick Stanovick with Professor Kathryn Ionata
Special collections and archival materials are regularly used by students as inspiration for their own creative endeavors. Featuring these student projects in our library exhibits demonstrates the impact that the Libraries’ resources and instructional outreach can have on student success. The exhibit process also creates opportunities for faculty, student, and staff collaboration. Professor Ionata and Nick Stanovick, a student in the class, both participated in the selection of materials for the exhibit, including determining which page(s) of each chapbook would be featured.
Many of the chapbooks created by the students, featuring their own prose and poetry writing, and a selection of chapbooks from the SCRC will be on display on the first floor of Paley Library in the main lobby throughout the fall semester.
–Kim Tully, Curator of Rare Books, SCRC
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sophiawakens
Seeking the Sacred in an Awakening Universe
Category Archives: Journey of the Magi
Allurement in the Universe, Christmas Rebirth, Journey of the Magi, Sophia as Archetype of Spiritual Wisdom, TS Eliot
Epiphany of Sophia
January 8, 2019 amclaughlin2014 Leave a comment
A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.
(T.S. Eliot “The Journey of the Magi”)
The Christmas Story holds an allurement for the human heart that never seems to fade. It is deceptively simple in its plot and characters: a young couple, exhausted, make a long journey by decree of a far-off Emperor. Unable to find lodgings in an inn, they take shelter in a stable, warmed by the breath of animals. And there the young woman gives birth to a son. They are visited by shepherds who have been minding their flocks in the fields nearby. Suddenly the story takes on mystery: these shepherds tell a tale of wonder: angels have appeared in the fields singing to them of the child’s birth, urging them to go to find him….
And then, sometime afterwards, a trio of guests arrives. These are men of royal bearing from the Far East, and they tell a stranger tale: “We have seen his star in the East and have come to pay him homage.” Opening their bundles, they lay gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh before the Child. The story adds this line: “As for Mary, she treasured all these things and pondered them in her heart.” (Luke 2:19)
As with so many ancient powerful tales, the truth of this story is within, and our hearts recognize its truth without having to seek proof of external elements. Great myths, like the dreams that sometimes appear in our sleep, carry treasures that we can unpack for ourselves, as we ponder them in our hearts. To do this, we must enter into the tale, find ourselves within the story, experience it as though it were happening now with us part of the tale.
In “The Journey of the Magi”, the poet T.S. Eliot offers us an intimate look within the hearts of these three mythical Eastern Kings, describing their journey in the “very dead of winter.”
Where might we find ourselves today within their part of the Christmas Story? For those of us now in the icy grip of a North American winter, the weather is familiar, as are the hazards of travel at “the worst time of the year.” If our December journeys were made to celebrate the Feast of Christmas with family and friends, we might say even our purpose is aligned with theirs…. But let’s go deeper.
Before the Feast of Epiphany, I happened to wake in the deep heart of the night. Some sound drew me to my window. Looking out, I saw a starlit sky shimmering with such brilliance in the absence of moonlight or city glare that my breath stopped in pure wonder. Though I could recognize Orion’s belt and the Big Dipper, the uncountable number of bright stars made me ask HOW those ancient travellers identified the one they were meant to follow….
And that question has become my own question: the one so many of us are asking at this crucial time in our planet’s history when there are so many paths opening, so many possible routes…
Somewhere in the Universe my question was heard. Since then, stars have been separating out from the overall pattern, placing themselves in my path. I spent much of January 6th, Feast of the Epiphany, recording these gifts of light:
By chance, on Friday, I had come across these words of Joseph Campbell:
If you are going to act on the basis of what you know, you cannot just hold onto your knowledge. You have to translate it into a movement.
That same evening, on CBC radio, I heard an interview with a researcher and teacher of English Literature at an Independent University in Barcelona. She has just received a two million euro grant to study forgotten writings of women from past centuries. Asked about emerging themes, she said the writings “demonstrate a very keen understanding and search for spiritual meaning in life”: Why are we here? What is our relationship to divinity? The women writers were convinced of the connection between their life and spirituality. “They have an understanding of spirituality which is very intimate.”
Joseph Campbell’s words stayed with me sparking ideas, raising questions:
“What is the knowing I act on?” The answer came that we each carry within us a guiding star, as does all that exists in the universe (guided as Dante says by the Love that moves the sun and all the other stars). Our task is to learn to recognize and follow this inner star. This requires time, intention, deep listening and grace.
I knew with greater clarity that this is the purpose of my work: assisting people to find and follow that inner star within them. For my own journey, guidance has come through a deepened relationship with a Sacred Presence, a true co-creative partner in all that I do. This mysterious Friend is an aspect of the Sacred Feminine, the Sophia Presence of the Hebrew Scriptures. In dialogue with her, I have been shown the pathways to choose. This story is still unfolding for me, and it is my deep desire to invite others to find their own Star within and to follow it into joy and wisdom.
We must follow it with courage as well for Eliot’s poem has a less-often quoted ending:
But set down
This set down
This: were we lead all that way for
Birth or Death? There was Birth, certainly,
We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and
death,
But had thought they were different: this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people, clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.
Yes, we must be prepared for radical change on our journey, for loss of comfort
“in the old dispensation”.
From the glimpse I have had so far of the journey to new life, I promise you it is worth the cost.
awakening to the sacred feminine presence in our lives
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EVANS, REGINA M. was born 07 April 1925, received Social Security number 485-22-1325 (indicating Iowa) and, Death Master File says, died 23 February 2013 50,790,370
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EVANS, REGINA M. was born 07 February 1909, received Social Security number 279-22-9848 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 14 January 1993 50,790,371
EVANS, REGINA M. was born 12 June 1908, received Social Security number 197-12-4030 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 21 May 1989 50,790,372
EVANS, REGINA M. was born 14 November 1912, received Social Security number 295-20-8072 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 12 April 2000 50,790,373
EVANS, REGINA M. was born 23 November 1967, received Social Security number 510-88-2283 (indicating Kansas) and, Death Master File says, died 21 September 2007 50,790,374
EVANS, REGINA M. was born 24 April 1921, received Social Security number 548-20-5291 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 28 October 1988 50,790,375
EVANS, REGINA M. was born 27 July 1935, received Social Security number 567-54-5144 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 13 May 1998 50,790,376
EVANS, REGINA M. (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named CODY ALLEN EVANS on 23 May 1984 in Bell County, Kentucky, United States of America. 50,790,377
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EVANS, REGINA R. (bride) of Christian County, Kentucky, who was 18 years old, Black, with no previous marriage, and BRYANT O. QUARLES of Christian County, Kentucky, who was 19 years old, Black, status 1 (Never married) had a wedding ceremony 1 April 1988 on a license issued in Christian County, Kentucky, United States of America (Certificate number 07855) with the intention of residing in Christian County, Kentucky. 50,790,380
EVANS, REGINA R. was born 22 July 1949, received Social Security number 302-46-8731 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 23 December 1995 50,790,381
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EVANS, REGINA R. (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named REKESHIA NICHOLE EVANS on 21 June 1989 in Kentucky, United States of America. 50,790,386
EVANS, REGINA S. (bride) of Lewis County, Kentucky, who was 22 years old, White, with no previous marriage, and RICKEY E. BRYANT of Lewis County, Kentucky, who was 19 years old, White, status 1 (Never married) had a wedding ceremony 27 May 1977 on a license issued in Lewis County, Kentucky, United States of America (Certificate number 11186) with the intention of residing in Lewis County, Kentucky. 50,790,387
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EVANS, REGINA S. was born 28 August 1954 to DOLLY LEWIS (possibly her maiden name) in Lewis County, Kentucky, United States of America. 50,790,388
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EVANS, REGINA V who was 24 (born ABT 1958) married 11 JUL 1982 in WICHITA COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named J C JR ALLEN who was 29 (born ABT 1953). 50,790,391
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EVANS, REGIS was born 18 September 1888, received Social Security number 190-09-5596 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died April 1966 50,790,400
EVANS, REGIS T. was born 03 December 1934, received Social Security number 190-24-1864 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 09 December 2001 50,790,401
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EVANS, REGNA was born 13 April 1905, received Social Security number 532-32-4036 (indicating Washington) and, Death Master File says, died March 1979 50,790,402
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EVANS, REHARB was born 12 May 1926, received Social Security number 427-32-0544 (indicating Mississippi) and, Death Master File says, died August 1980 50,790,403
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EVANS, REID was born 01 July 1888, received Social Security number 260-58-0290 (indicating Georgia) and, Death Master File says, died March 1964 50,790,404
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EVANS, REID was born 08 May 1906, received Social Security number 331-01-0047 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died October 1972 50,790,405
EVANS, REID was born 13 March 1905, received Social Security number 703-10-9110 (indicating Railroad Board) and, Death Master File says, died July 1983 50,790,406
EVANS, REID was born 17 September 1918, received Social Security number 258-50-7603 (indicating Georgia) and, Death Master File says, died October 1974 50,790,407
EVANS, REID was born 21 October 1910, received Social Security number 240-03-7497 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died October 1979 50,790,408
EVANS, REID was born 25 May 1908, received Social Security number 508-10-7234 (indicating Nebraska) and, Death Master File says, died 18 February 1997 50,790,409
EVANS, REID A who was 20 (born ABT 1968) married 30 JUN 1988 in EL PASO COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named TINNIE J GAMBLE who was 18 (born ABT 1970). 50,790,410
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EVANS, REID A who was 29 (born ABT 1968) married 4 APR 1997 in EL PASO COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named ADINA A VALLEY who was 27 (born ABT 1970). 50,790,411
EVANS, REIDA J. died 15 September 1930 at age U/1 in Franklin County, Kentucky, United States of America. 50,790,412
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EVANS, REIDA J. was born 26 February 1930 to LAURA CAREY (possibly her maiden name) in Franklin County, Kentucky, United States of America. 50,790,413
EVANS, REIDA M. was born 12 October 1934, received Social Security number 200-36-9118 (indicating Pennsylvania) and, Death Master File says, died 11 December 2002 50,790,414
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EVANS, REID G. was born 4 July 1902, died 10 September 1957, and was buried in Section X Lot 90 Space 1 of Edgewood Cemetery in Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S.A. 50,790,415
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EVANS, REIKO was born 05 July 1932, received Social Security number 023-34-3659 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died 04 December 2004 50,790,416
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EVANS, REIKO was born 23 January 1925, received Social Security number 395-38-2838 (indicating Wisconsin) and, Death Master File says, died September 1978 50,790,417
Evans, Reiko, wife of Donald Eugene Evans, was born 5 July 1932, died 4 December 2004, and was buried in Section BA, Row E, Site 371 in Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California, United States of America. 50,790,418
EVANS, REIS was born 12 February 1899, received Social Security number 540-10-3778 (indicating Oregon) and, Death Master File says, died January 1970 50,790,419
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Evans, Reita Mason, wife of David S. Evans, was born 13 July 1904, died 11 May 1952, and was buried in Section D, Site 1122 in Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale, New York, United States of America. 50,790,420
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EVANS, REKESHIA NICHOLE was born 21 June 1989 to REGINA R. EVANS (possibly her maiden name) in Kentucky, United States of America. 50,790,421
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EVANS, REKISHAN L who was 21 (born ABT 1972) married 15 MAR 1993 in DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named DALTON JR WILSON who was 27 (born ABT 1966). 50,790,422
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EVANS, REKISHA T. was born 27 July 1977, received Social Security number 240-31-7302 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died 01 March 2007 50,790,423
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EVANS, RELAND S. was born 25 September 1903, received Social Security number 380-48-0411 (indicating Michigan) and, Death Master File says, died 19 June 1996 50,790,424
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EVANS, RELDA L. was born 06 August 1932, received Social Security number 234-86-8989 (indicating West Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died 09 March 2004 50,790,425
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EVANS, RELDON was born 22 August 1916, received Social Security number 500-18-0349 (indicating Missouri) and, Death Master File says, died 11 May 1991 50,790,426
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EVANS, RELINKE B who was 29 (born ABT 1970) married 27 MAR 1999 in WICHITA COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named MICHAEL A COBURN who was 33 (born ABT 1966). 50,790,427
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EVANS, RELIUS was born 20 December 1888, received Social Security number 225-09-3713 (indicating Virginia) and, Death Master File says, died April 1983 50,790,428
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EVANS, RELLA was born 11 July 1878, received Social Security number 487-50-3367 (indicating Missouri) and, Death Master File says, died March 1972 50,790,429
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EVANS, RELLA was born 19 June 1930, received Social Security number 422-38-2922 (indicating Alabama) and, Death Master File says, died 13 January 2007 50,790,430
EVANS, RELLA was born 26 March 1895, received Social Security number 573-26-1108 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died March 1985 50,790,431
EVANS, R ELLEN was born 14 July 1939, received Social Security number 488-40-1415 (indicating Missouri) and, Death Master File says, died 27 December 1997 50,790,432
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EVANS, R ELOISE was born 27 July 1922, received Social Security number 297-18-3406 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 14 September 2007 50,790,433
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EVANS, RELUS was born 31 January 1889, received Social Security number 347-12-4732 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died July 1966 50,790,434
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EVANS, REMA was born 19 January 1900, received Social Security number 526-03-2410 (indicating Arizona) and, Death Master File says, died August 1979 50,790,435
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EVANS, REMA L. (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named WESLEY PAL FRANCHER on 12 August 1962 in Daviess County, Kentucky, United States of America. 50,790,436
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EVANS, REMBERT E. was born 19 September 1931, received Social Security number 251-50-1128 (indicating South Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died 06 July 1998 50,790,437
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EVANS, REMELL M. was born 23 July 1949, received Social Security number 335-42-2260 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 03 November 2005 50,790,438
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EVANS, REMES was born 24 January 1915 to ELIZABETH COMBS (possibly her maiden name) in Fayette County, Kentucky, United States of America. 50,790,439
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EVANS, REMIA (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named WENDELL GLASS on 24 November 1923 in Barren County, Kentucky, United States of America. 50,790,440
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EVANS, REMICK M. was born 24 July 1917 to IDA LAWRENCE (possibly her maiden name) in Warren County, Kentucky, United States of America. 50,790,441
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EVANS, REMONA L. (bride) of Pulaski County, Kentucky, who was 18 years old, White, with no previous marriage, and ANTHONY W. TAYLOR of Pulaski County, Kentucky, who was 24 years old, White, status 1 (Never married) had a wedding ceremony 23 February 1990 on a license issued in Pulaski County, Kentucky, United States of America (Certificate number 09697) with the intention of residing in Pulaski County, Kentucky. 50,790,442
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EVANS, REMONA LEE was born 11 February 1972 to BETTY L. DAULTON (possibly her maiden name) in Pulaski County, Kentucky, United States of America. 50,790,443
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EVANS, REMONA L. (possibly her maiden name) had a baby named JORDAN DWAYNE TAYLOR on 13 September 1990 in Pulaski County, Kentucky, United States of America. 50,790,444
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EVANS, REMUS of Fayette County, Kentucky died 21 May 1968 at age 53 in Fayette County, Kentucky, United States of America. 50,790,445
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EVANS, REMUS H. was born 6 December 1925 to FLORA DAUGHERTY (possibly her maiden name) in Ohio County, Kentucky, United States of America. 50,790,446
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EVANS, RENA married 17 May 1913 in Garvin County, Oklahoma, U.S.A. a groom named DON FREEMAN. 50,790,447
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EVANS, RENA married 21 Apr 1893 in VERMILION COUNTY, ILLINOIS, U.S.A. a groom named JAMES S GOODPASTER. 50,790,448
EVANS, RENA was born 01 August 1896, received Social Security number 443-68-4751 (indicating Oklahoma) and, Death Master File says, died March 1986 50,790,449
EVANS, RENA was born 02 June 1923, received Social Security number 299-16-3367 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 02 October 2001 50,790,450
EVANS, RENA was born 03 March 1961, received Social Security number 516-92-0348 (indicating Montana) and, Death Master File says, died June 1980 50,790,451
EVANS, RENA was born 04 March 1938, received Social Security number 242-64-0649 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died 06 January 2003 50,790,452
EVANS, RENA was born 05 April 1901, received Social Security number 295-20-3713 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died January 1984 50,790,453
EVANS, RENA was born 09 January 1901, received Social Security number 016-14-0935 (indicating Massachusetts) and, Death Master File says, died March 1977 50,790,454
EVANS, RENA was born 12 December 1922, received Social Security number 292-12-4732 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died 26 August 2010 50,790,455
EVANS, RENA was born 15 July 1891, received Social Security number 268-07-5712 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died June 1987 50,790,456
EVANS, RENA was born 17 June 1895, received Social Security number 359-12-2590 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died December 1983 50,790,457
EVANS, RENA was born 17 September 1878, received Social Security number 415-84-7910 (indicating Tennessee) and, Death Master File says, died January 1978 50,790,458
EVANS, RENA was born 18 August 1893, received Social Security number 249-16-2061 (indicating South Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died October 1983 50,790,459
EVANS, RENA was born 20 December 1908, received Social Security number 448-26-2857 (indicating Oklahoma) and, Death Master File says, died January 1987 50,790,460
EVANS, RENA was born 20 January 1928, received Social Security number 401-32-2392 and, Death Master File says, died 05 May 2001 50,790,461
EVANS, RENA was born 20 September 1908, received Social Security number 410-40-5010 (indicating Tennessee) and, Death Master File says, died July 1985 50,790,462
EVANS, RENA was born 22 August 1904, received Social Security number 246-26-3111 (indicating North Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died January 1983 50,790,463
EVANS, RENA was born 22 January 1898, received Social Security number 402-28-5534 and, Death Master File says, died August 1985 50,790,464
EVANS, RENA was born 22 July 1908, received Social Security number 268-46-8412 (indicating Ohio) and, Death Master File says, died October 1981 50,790,465
EVANS, RENA was born 22 June 1904, received Social Security number 457-62-8633 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died January 1986 50,790,466
EVANS, RENA was born 23 October 1911, received Social Security number 252-82-7087 (indicating Georgia) and, Death Master File says, died 29 June 2005 50,790,467
EVANS, RENA was born 24 October 1900, received Social Security number 433-56-0363 (indicating Louisiana) and, Death Master File says, died December 1975 50,790,468
EVANS, RENA was born 24 September 1904, received Social Security number 249-02-9746 (indicating South Carolina) and, Death Master File says, died October 1974 50,790,469
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8 Nutrients and 16 Foods to Boost Your Mood — What to Eat to Increase Happiness
Self-Care Nutrition Wellness
As it turns out, what you eat can have a massive impact on your mood. Making a few simple changes to your diet can make a difference for your mental health. Discover the stunning power of mood-boosting foods and nutrients.
Can you remember a time when you weren’t in a good mood?
At a Food Revolution Network retreat, I asked team members to say three words about how they were feeling. When it was my turn, one of the words I used was sad.
Looking at me, you would have never known that’s how I felt. On the outside, I looked happy — I was even laughing not long before we started the exercise. But how I looked was a far cry from what was going on in my heart and in my mind.
Can You Boost Your Mood Naturally?
The truth is, we’ve all felt sad or even “down in the dumps.” And sometimes, no matter how hard you try, it’s hard to turn that frown upside down.
If you ever feel down, or lonely, you’re hardly alone. We live in a world where depression is at an all-time high. Worldwide, depression affects 322 million people.
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7 Tips To Help You Survive Christmas Healthily
Kimberly Parsons
Christmas is upon us! As well as being a joyous time of eating, drinking and being merry, for many the festive season can also be one of the most stressful and unhealthy times of year. So what can you do to survive the season and come out the other end actually feeling you have had a break, rather than feeling in desperate need of one?
I have compiled my top 7 tips to ensure you get the most out of the festive season and make it through relatively unscathed…
Christmas Health Nutrition Wellness
De-stress During Seasonal Chaos
Maharishi Ayurveda Staff
Ayurveda Wellness
With looming to-do lists, invite lists, gift lists, wish lists, and grocery lists, the most wonderful time of the year can quickly become seasonal chaos. It’s no wonder that many of us feel so stressed out during the holiday season!
The expectations of holiday shopping, hosting or visiting family, having so much to do and so many decisions to make, may cause Prana Vata, the subdosha of Vata that governs mental functioning, to go out of balance. Aggravated Prana Vata can cause excessive worry, occasional feelings of anxiety and trouble sleeping — thus making it difficult to remain calm and stay happy during one of the best times of the year. If we become more and more stressed, we enjoy the holidays less and less.
The holiday season does not have to be stressful. Ayurveda empowers us to balance our lives, in body, heart (emotional) and mind. We can utilize healing ayurvedic herbs to stay calm, balanced and de-stressed during the holidays. The experience of holiday chaos is inversely proportional to our state of balance; the more balanced we are, the less we feel that life is chaos. Nothing may change on the outside, but how we experience our world can change — for the better.
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Nutrition Takes Another Spin - Why Can't the Experts Get It Straight?
Nutrition Wellness
Fad diets come and go, but officially the subject of nutrition is guided by science. The public stubbornly thinks in terms of "good" foods and "bad" foods, so when the government's nutritional experts issue scientifically based advice, any attempt at a nuanced picture generally gets lost. Recently there were headlines when the highest board for dietary protocols, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Council, reversed a government warning about avoiding foods high in cholesterol, which has been in place nearly 40 years.
The public is likely to shrug off this about-face, or else decide that eggs, the most common food high in cholesterol, is no longer a "bad" food but has moved into the "good" column. This ignores the council's message, which weighed one thing against another. For people in a normal state of health, saturated fats from animal products pose a higher risk than high cholesterol. This finding is more a shift in focus than an about-face. It's still unhealthy, the majority of nutritionists agree, to eat too much red meat as opposed to eggs, but eggs are high in saturated fat, too, so you shouldn't overdo them, either.
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Part 1 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us
Meditation Spirituality
Anxiety and the fear of failure is a pervasive suffering around the world. It is also increasing—along with the pace of life, over-consuming, addiction, noise, polarization and fears for our planet. How do we calm ourselves in a way that brings inner freedom and serves the healing of our larger world? These two talks explore the power of awareness in evolving ourselves beyond the anxiety that grips and confines our lives.
“Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.
Flow down and down in always
widening rings of being.”
Excerpt From: Coleman Barks. “The Essential Rumi – reissue.”
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Should You Eat Organic Foods to Reduce Your Cancer Risk? A New Study Says Yes
A 2018 study examined the link between organic food and cancer. And it came to some remarkable conclusions. Researchers found that eating organic foods can help cut overall cancer risk due to the reduced exposure to dietary pesticides.
By Charles Benbrook • A version of this article was originally published on Environmental Health News
More than 1.7 million Americans will be newly diagnosed with cancer in 2018, and 35% of these cases will prove fatal.
A little less than $150 billion was spent fighting cancer in 2017.
Imagine the excitement that would accompany the discovery of anything — a new drug, therapy, diet, or lifestyle change — that promises to cut overall cancer frequency by 5%.
Every year, such a discovery would spare 87,000 people this most-feared diagnosis and reduce deaths by 30,000 and cancer-related health care costs by around $7 billion.
Such monumental benefits would justify major investments and significant policy change.
Well, not necessarily.
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Give Thanks for Your Digestion!
Ayurveda Nutrition Wellness
The holiday season brings feasts, parties, merry-making and heavy foods. Big meals complete with turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy leave us sleepy and ready for an afternoon nap on the sofa in front of the fireplace. If you're concerned about increasing your immunity during the flu season, you'll want to avoid overeating.
Instead, take time to savor each bite and stop eating when you are satisfied. Before each meal, pause for a moment and be thankful for your digestive system, the food, the cooks and the Creator. Digestion is the process of taking in and assimilating Intelligence from the universe to feed and nourish our own Inner Intelligence.
Through our digestive tract and our senses, we digest and metabolize our food and our experiences. If we digest well, we maintain good health. If we don't digest so well, ama is formed (ama is the ayurvedic term for impurities, the sticky stuff that clogs the srotas, or the channels of flow). Ama is defined by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as, "the product of unripe digestion of food and experiences." Ama is fertile ground for viruses and bacteria to multiply and cause disease.
Welcome Faces
Self-Care Life Wellness
What do their faces say to you?
The Practice:
Welcome faces.
As our ancestors evolved over millions of years in small bands, continually interacting and working with each other, it was vitally important to communicate in hundreds of ways each day. They shared information about external "carrots" and "sticks," and about their internal experience (e.g., intentions, sexual interest, inclination toward aggression) through gestures, vocalizations - and facial expressions. Much as we developed uniquely complex language, we also evolved the most expressive face in the entire animal kingdom.
Stress Relievers for the introvert
Renee Singh
Life Stress
If you know how to deal with your own emotions, you will naturally respect the other person's boundaries.
Am I shy of being myself or am I wary of projecting who I am truly from within?
Is social acceptance such a huge issue with me that it makes me wear a mask all the time?
Keeping up appearances does inevitably take a toll on us. These are questions we need to constantly keep asking ourselves. There are answers we are constantly seeking. We need to first and foremost accept our ourselves, if we are seeking true happiness. We need to not be embarrassed about feeling differently from the crowd.
SOCIAL CONFORMITY
We normally just remain in an agreeable mode, just going along with the tide.
We can sense an inner sense of rebellion but we tend to quieten that voice as a sense of social conformity exists at a very high level within us.
This can actually be explained as an ability to express oneself, to not allow our inner selves to be inhibited. To be appropriately open and honest. To project one's own persona objectively.
This feeling also comes to us with an increased feeling of self awareness, due to honest self acceptance.
To some people assertiveness comes naturally, but with some, those who are more shy and inhibited, it can be a learned skill.
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Plant-Based Protein: Here’s What You Need to Know
Protein is a buzzword these days, but what is protein? And how much protein do you need? What are the ideal plant-based protein sources? Can you have too much protein? And what is protein deficiency? Here’s what you need to know about this critical nutrient.
“But where do you get your protein?”
Anyone who adopts a plant-based diet or even considers going vegetarian is likely to hear this question with alarming frequency.
You don’t have to look far to see what can sometimes border on something of a protein obsession. From protein shakes, bars, and powders to cereals, cookies, and protein-focused diets and meal-delivery services, attention to protein seems to be just about everywhere.
But what is protein? How much protein do our bodies really need? Is more always better? Or is it actually possible that some people could be getting too much?
Plan Protein Nutrition Wellness
Intuitive Self-Care: A List Of My Favorite Steps For Cultivating Self-Care And Wellness
Self-Care Wellness
Intuitive Self-Care
Many of us are juggling so many responsibilities and challenges in life that our own health and self-care ends up on the back burner. From long workdays and endless obligations to putting others’ needs before our own and ignoring our inner voice and intuition, we’re like robotic race cars racing around on the verge of running out of electricity. (Mind you, our cars are at least environmentally friendly.) We don’t want to pull over to allow our engines to recharge because we might get behind in the race. Yet, if we stop to think about it, we aren’t quite sure what the race is ultimately for in the first place!
I’ve had so much going on lately it’s got me thinking about self-care and healing. Many of us are struggling with something these days—whether exhaustion, illness, allergies, pain, depression, anxiety, or a cold that doesn’t want to go away. Beyond those more obvious symptoms, so many of us just feel stressed and out of balance.
What Do You Need To Weigh In On?
Kelley Kosow
Mental health Wellness
Most of us have blind spots -- situations in our life that we can’t see clearly or, consciously or unconsciously, choose to avoid. Whether we realize it or not, on some level, we even fight to keep our avoidance alive. We justify our excuses and buy into our rationalizations of why we should or should not do something.
On a daily basis I hear stories from people who, despite what they say they truly want in life, remain in the cage of their comfort zone. They validate their justifications by telling themselves that they should:
Not get into a relationship because they might lose themselves it,
Avoid looking at their bank balance because it might impact their feelings of security,
Or if they are like me, they convince themselves that they should not get on the scale because it may trigger their body and eating issues from the past.
Transformation life Mental health Wellness
The Placebo Effect Goes Through the Wringer
By now there's widespread acceptance and abundant research to show that the placebo effect is real. In fact, every drug gains some of its effect with many patients by dint of placebo--expecting to get better makes the drug work better. Subtract the placebo effect, and many drugs have little efficacy.
This fact has stared medicine in the face since 1962, when the Food and Drug Administration demanded that every new drug prove its clinical benefits. To subtract the placebo effect, a typical drug test involves giving the control group a sugar pill while the other half of the trial take the new drug. In the area of painkillers--placebos are at their most powerful with pain--more than 90% of new drugs cannot pass the test of working better than a sugar pill. Among those drugs that do pass, the gap that separates them from sugar pills, which was once 27%, has narrowed to an average of 9%.
medicine MindBody Wellness
6 Science-Backed Reasons to Drink Matcha Tea
Alternative Health Nutrition Wellness
Edited by Ocean Robbins • A version of this article was originally published on Pique Tea.
Is matcha tea good for you? How is it different than other green teas? And are some types of matcha better than others? Get answers and discover some incredible health benefits of drinking matcha tea.
Matcha tea comes from the same plant that originates all green, white, and black teas: the camellia sinensis bush. The name “matcha” literally means “powdered tea.”
The process of turning tea leaves into a powder is not new. Matcha was the primary way to consume tea in China during the Tang Dynasty (600-900 AD).
In the 1100s, a huge transfer of knowledge and culture from China to Japan occurred, and that’s how matcha made its way across the ocean. Matcha and Zen Buddhism flourished together, and the two were often considered inseparable.
By the 1500s, matcha took hold as part of the formal Japanese tea ceremony, which celebrated stillness and simplicity. It grew in popularity in Japan, even as it lost its appeal in China.
Matcha Tea Alternative Health Nutrition Wellness
Golden Broth Rice Noodles + Favorite Natural Cold Remedies
Anya Kassoff
Vegan Recipes Cooking
It seems like everyone around has been sick with a cold recently, so we thought it our duty share another recipe involving our favorite golden broth formula that’s helped numerous friends and family fight so many colds. The broth is infused with all kinds of anti-inflammatory and mineral-rich ingredients that are said to be immunity powerhouses – think ginger, turmeric, black pepper, garlic, kombu, shiitake, bay leaf, and more. It also tastes deeply nourishing and delicious, and has the most beautiful color. There are so many ways it can be served, too. Drink it on its own, use it as a base for dahl or curry, or very simply pour it over noodles and top with some seasonal vegetables, like in this recipe.
Today we are also sharing some natural cold remedies that we find to be powerful, especially when employed during the very first signs of a scratchy throat.
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Ayurvedic Strategies for Healthy Holiday Eating
‘Tis the season to be snacking! From Thanksgiving through Valentine’s Day, the holidays present an extended string of festive gatherings that center around food and drinks. While living it up with friends, family, and colleagues can be fun, it can also be a bit stressful — especially with travel, gift buying, hectic schedules, and easy access to rich and sugary foods.
“When there’s stress involved, our choices can become more reactive, rather than coming from a grounded place and connected to the self,” says Sankari Wegman, an Ayurvedic consultant at The Raj who also teaches Ayurvedic cooking classes. Moreover, Wegman tells us, it’s particularly easy to feel stressed during Vata season, which falls in autumn. “Vata by nature is light and airy, and it gets thrown out of balance when there’s any kind of irregularity.”
holiday eating ayurveda Wellness
The Human Body Is Starting to Make Sense
Wellness Medical
The complexity of the human body has fascinated medical science, and every new discovery leads to a new level of complexity. Now it is no longer possible to talk about depression, for example, as a general disorder or cancer as a single disease. It may be that the brain of each depressed patient is depressed in its own unique way, and the leading research on cancer is heading towards personalized drugs targeted to each patient's highly specific genetic variation of cancer.
Does increasing complexity actually clarify things? The traditional disease models taught when I was in medical school are fraying around the edges, and some disorders, such as schizophrenia, have no localized cause. There is no known cause for schizophrenia. The general public thinks that you catch a cold because of exposure to the cold virus. But in fact direct contact with the cold virus gives only a 1 in 8 chance of catching cold.
Medical healing lifestyle Wellness
14 Top Foods to Boost Your Immunity Now So You Can Stay Well During Cold and Flu Season
As temperatures get cooler, do you want to know how to boost your immune system? Discover some of the best foods to boost your immune system and which supplements you might want to take. The right foods can help you avoid falling victim to colds and flu this year!
Do you sometimes get colds or the flu, particularly in the colder winter months? If so, you’re not alone. In the U.S., the average adult gets sick two to four times per year, and the average child between six and eight.
You probably know the basics of cold prevention, like practicing good hand washing and avoiding contact with sick peers. But have you ever wondered why two people could have exactly the same exposure to a sick friend — and one of them gets sick, while the other doesn’t?
The difference is often their immune system.
So how can you boost your immune system? It turns out that one of the most powerful tools for a strong immune system can be found right inside your own kitchen: the food you eat.
Let’s take a look at what your immune system does and how to boost your immune system with food, so it can protect you from nasty, cold-weather bugs.
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When time expands: creating a life that’s full and rich and meaningful!!
Rebecca Katz
Wow! Am I ever intrigued with a recent article in the New York Times entitled, Why Following Your Passions Is Good for You (and How to Get Started). This features a 2015 study published in The Annals of Behavioral Medicine which found that pursuing your passion both lowers stress and contributes to greater happiness overall. My dears, this is RIGHT up my alley!
In the article, Laura Vanderkam, a productivity expert and author of Off the Clock: Feel less busy while getting more done, advocates finding time for yourself as a means to greater happiness overall. “Life just feels better when you have things in your hours that you want to do,’ Ms. Vanderkam said. ‘There’s moments where time almost has no meaning because we’re so happy about what we’re doing. The more time you can spend in that zone, the better life feels...
Maybe you can carve out a few hours of really fun, cool stuff per week. That will make the other 165 hours that are in a week feel a lot more doable,’ she explained.”
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The Ayurvedic Take on Paleo, Keto, Vegan, and Raw Diets
The caveman diet. Going keto. Eating raw foods and juicing. Does it seem like there’s a trendy new diet cropping up every time you turn around? If so, you might be wondering how to keep up—which one to choose and whether you can still follow your Ayurvedic diet.
"There’s going to be a new diet literally every month, if not sooner," says Robert Keith Wallace, author of Gut Crisis. "The value of Ayurveda is that it gives you kind of a filter. It’s a long tradition. It’s not just a fad, and it gives you an idea of how your individual, mind-body type will respond to one of these new diets."
Below, we’ll give you a rundown of the Paleo, keto, vegan, and raw diet regimens, along with some Ayurvedic insights on how each diet relates to the dosha types.
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Author: Joe Resis Published Date: August 30, 2019 2 Comments on White Sox Minor League Update: August 30, 2019
Timely hitting: Luis Basabe got three hits and drove in a pair to help the Barons squeeze out a tight victory. (Michael Wade/Birmingham Barons)
Norfolk Tides 2, Charlotte Knights 0
Matt Tomshaw (SP): 4 IP, 5 H, 1 R (1 ER), 1 BB, 2 K (3.93 ERA) *MVP*
Danny Mendick (3B): 0-for-3 (.280 BA, .815 OPS)
Luis Robert (CF): 1-for-4 (.299 BA, .982 OPS)
Nick Madrigal (2B): 0-for-4, (.292 BA, .763 OPS)
Zack Collins (C): 0-for-2, 2 BB (.291 BA, .972 OPS)
Daniel Palka (DH): 0-for-3, BB (.265 BA, .912 OPS)
There was very little offense to be found in this game. Only Luis Robert, Damek Tomscha, and Ramon Torres got hits for the Knights, and all of them were singles. The Knights reached base a few more times via walk (one by Daniel Palka, one by Yermín Mercedes, and two by Zack Collins). But, the Knights finished 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position, as they failed to cash in on any of the few scoring opportunities they had.
Knights starter Matt Tomshaw was the losing pitcher, but he pitched well enough to earn MVP. Tomshaw put the Knights in a good position to win, as he induced a lot of weak contact in his four innings of work, and he only issued one walk. However, his start went to waste, as the bats could not provide run support. One of the few highlights was this great catch by Danny Mendick in short left field.
Danny Mendick plays wide receiver in his spare time, probably. @KnightsBaseball @whitesox
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Charlotte’s four-game lead in the wild-card race just … four days ago … has evaporated, and with three games left in the season the Knights have fallen back into a tie with the Durham Bulls.
Birmingham Barons 6, Biloxi Shuckers 5
John Parke (SP): 1 IP, 5 H, 5 R (0 ER), 1 BB, 1 K (2.70 ERA)
Luis Basabe (CF): 3-for-4, 2B, 2 RBI, 1 SB, 0 CS (.244 BA, .663 OPS) *MVP*
Blake Rutherford (RF): 1-for-3, 2 BB, RBI, (.262 BA, .676 OPS)
Luis González (DH): 2-for-3, 2B, 2 BB, 2 SB, 0 CS (.253 BA, .686 OPS)
Gavin Sheets (1B): 0-for-4, HBP (.271 BA, .765 OPS)
Joel Booker (LF): 2-for-3, BB, RBI, 1 SB, 0 CS (.255 BA, .646 OPS)
The first inning was quite chaotic, with both teams putting up a big, crooked number. In the top half, after the Shuckers had a runner on first (due to a fielding error by Laz Rivera) and two outs, the floodgates opened. The next six Shuckers reached base safely, as they scored five runs to take a big lead early on. However, the Barons answered in the bottom half. The Barons got three runs after two hits, a hit by pitch, and three walks. Two of those walks occurred with the bases loaded and two outs, and Joel Booker and Alfredo González drew those walks.
After his RBI double put the Barons on the board in the first, Luis Basabe had an RBI single in the fourth to reduce the Barons’ deficit to one. The following inning, Alfredo González tied it with a sacrifice fly to drive in Zach Remillard. In the sixth, an RBI groundout by Gavin Sheets put the Barons in front, 6-5. Despite finishing the night 2-for-16 with runners in scoring position, the Barons escaped with a close victory. The bullpen allowed zero hits and issued only one walk in eight innings of work. Hats off to relievers Kodi Medeiros, Tyler Johnson, and Danny Dopico, who did their jobs and then some.
Winston-Salem Dash 5, Lynchburg Hillcats 1
Taylor Varnell (SP): 5 2/3 IP, 5 H, 1 R (1 ER), 3 BB, 5 K (3.38 ERA)
Craig Dedelow (LF): 1-for-4, HR (.246 BA, .749 OPS)
Steele Walker (CF): 1-for-4, (.272 BA, .777 OPS)
Jameson Fisher (1B): 1-for-4, HR (.241 BA, .716 OPS)
Johan Cruz (SS): 2-for-4, 2B, 3 RBI (.242 BA, .632 OPS) *MVP*
Mitch Roman (LF): 2-for-4, 2 SB, 0 CS (.280 BA, .681 OPS)
This game got off to a fast start, as Craig Dedelow hit an inside-the-park home run in the top of the first to give the Dash a 1-0 lead. The home run was Dedelow’s 18th of the year, all with the Dash. It also gave the Dash a lead that would remain until the bottom of the sixth.
In the sixth, the Hillcats got back-to-back hits to open their half of the inning, and a sacrifice fly by designated hitter Gavin Collins drove in the tying run. Fortunately, that was the only run the Hillcats scored against starter Taylor Varnell, or any Dash pitcher, for that matter.
The Dash took the lead for good in the top of the eighth. With the bases loaded, shortstop Johan Cruz sliced a double to right field that cleared the bases and put the Dash up, 4-1. The Dash would tack on one more in the ninth on a solo home run by Jameson Fisher. That was Fisher’s ninth home run of the season, all with the Dash.
Kannapolis Intimidators 4, Delmarva Shorebirds 3
Davis Martin (SP): 6 IP, 7 H, 3 R (3 ER), 0 BB, 6 K (5.04 ERA)
Michael Hickman (C): 2-for-4, 2B (.208 BA, .620 OPS)
Ian Dawkins (CF): 0-for-4, BB (.298 BA, .756 OPS)
Alex Destino (RF): 1-for-5, (.295 BA, .843 OPS)
Cameron Simmons (LF): 2-for-4, HR, 4 RBI (.253 BA, .726 OPS) *MVP*
Tyler Osik (DH): 1-for-4, 2B (.271 BA, .888 OPS)
The Shorebirds put a big, crooked number on the board in the fourth to break a scoreless tie. In that innings, Intimidators starter gave up four hits (three singles and a triple), as the Shorebirds took a 3-0 lead. During the earlier part of this game, the Intimidators squandered a few scoring opportunities, and it appeared to be one of those games. However, things changed in a big way in the sixth inning.
After hits by Lenyn Sosa and Tyler Osik, Corey Zangari drew a walk to load the bases with two outs. That brought Cameron Simmons to the plate in a high-leverage situation, and Simmons delivered in a huge way. He launched a grand slam to put the Intimidators in front by a score of 4-3, and the score remained that way for the rest of the game. Relievers Lane Ramsey and Austin Conway pitched very well to shut things down in the latter part of this game.
Great Falls Voyagers 6, Billings Mustangs 4
Jason Morgan (SP): 8 1/3 IP, 4 H, 4 R (2 ER), 1 BB, 3 K (4.58 ERA)
Lency Delgado (3B): 1-for-5, RBI (.277 BA, .723 OPS)
Caberea Weaver (CF): 0-for-3, BB (.252 BA, .689 OPS)
Kelvin Maldonado (SS): 0-for-4, 3 K, 2 E (.260 BA, .611 OPS)
Sam Abbott (1B): 1-for-4, HR, 2 RBI (.230 BA, .809 OPS) *MVP*
Both teams’ starting pitchers got off to very strong starts, as there was a scoreless tie entering the bottom of the fourth. That ended when Sam Abbott launched a two-run homer to break the ice. The home run was Abbott’s ninth of the season, and all nine have been with the Voyagers. Abbott had the only multi-RBI performance for the Voyagers in this close victory. This is also Abbott’s second straight MVP award from SSHP.
With the game tied at two in the sixth, the Voyagers put together a huge, four-run inning to take the lead for good. They used three hits, a hit by pitch, and an error to put themselves up, 6-2.
After an excellent performance through eight innings, Voyagers starter Jason Morgan ran into some trouble in the ninth, though his defense did him no favors. Two unearned runs crossed the plate, and Morgan missed out on a complete game, but he got the victory. Reliever Allan Beer came on in relief and shut the door, as he struck out Mustangs second baseman Jonathan Willems to end the game.
Joe graduated in 2018 with a degree in economic consulting from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, also minoring in Japanese and studying abroad in Nagoya for a semester. He grew up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, but moved to Indianapolis after graduation. The White Sox are his favorite team in all of sports, and he considers it a blessing to have the opportunity to write about them on this great platform. He squeaked by with the 2018 #SoxMath championship despite intense competition from colleague Ashley Sanders. That experience helped put him on the map, as he started contributing to South Side Sox shortly afterward. Joe looks forward to delivering all sorts of content about our team.
Tagged Birmingham Barons, Cameron Simmons, Charlotte Knights, Great Falls Voyagers, Johan Cruz, Kannapolis Intimidators, Luis Basabe, Matt Tomshaw, Minor League Update, Sam Abbott, White Sox Minors, Winston-Salem Dash
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Charlotte lost, Durham won!
If the Knights lose and Durham wins today, Charlotte is out of the playoffs and the season is over. Then, Hahn has to give Robert his “rest” or call him up. Either way, he doesn’t get to hide behind the International League playoffs.
Go Durham!
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How to Create a Drop-Down List in LibreOffice 4.1
by Ashley Poland
Excel 2007 tables can organize spreadsheet data and make it easier to read.
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In LibreOffice the drop-down list is called a "combo box." When you a create a form, the combo box draws a drop-down menu on a single line, from which users select from a series of preset values. You cannot write in these values when you create the combo box. Combo boxes derive their content from a source table within a database. These tables are created with LibreOffice Base, which is included in the LibreOffice suite. However, LibreOffice allows you to create a form in any of its core programs, not just Base.
Open LibreOffice Base. If you have not already created a database, follow the prompt to do so. If you already have a database you want to work with, open it up.
Create a table to act as the content source for the drop-down list, if you do not already have one set up. Select "Tables," and then choose "Use Wizard to Create Table." This option gives you several preconfigured table fields to work with, such as Model Number or Category. You need at least one field in the table; the drop-down list only pulls content from one field.
Click "Finish" after selecting the field types you want to use; the only reason to run through the whole wizard is if you want to change the default settings for the fields. For your basic drop-down menu, this is not necessary.
Enter the values for your drop-down list in the appropriate column. Each row needs a unique ID number; enter any number you want. Every row will correspond to an item in your drop-down menu. If you have five rows, you will have five items in the menu. Click "Save" when done, and then close the table.
Save your database. To create the form in Base, click "Forms," and then select "Create Form in Design View." For creating the form in another document, such as Writer, open that document.
Enable the Form Controls toolbar, if it is not already visible. Click "View," select "Toolbars," and then click "Form Controls." If design mode is not automatically enabled, click the icon to enable it -- it looks like a finger cursor pointing to the word "OK," and is the second button on the toolbar.
Click the Combo Box icon, which looks like a drop-down menu. Click-and-drag the cursor to draw the shape and size of the drop-down menu. When you release the button, the Combo Box Wizard opens.
Click the "Browse" button, and then choose your database as the data source for your drop-down menu. Select the correct table from the "Table/Query" box if more than one table is preset in your database.
Click "Next," choose the same table again for the Control, click "Next" again, and then select which field you want to use for the drop-down menu content. The field corresponds to a column in the table you created.
Click "Next," and then choose whether you want to save the value chosen for the drop-down box to a field on the table. If yes, select which field you save it to; if no, select "No." Click "Finish."
Disable design mode to test your drop-down menu. If you made the form in Base, save and close the form design mode, and then double-click the form title to open it.
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Ashley Poland has been writing since 2009. She has worked with local online businesses, supplying print and web content, and pursues an active interest in the computer, technology and gaming industries. In addition to content writing, Poland is also a fiction writer. She studied creative writing at Kansas State University.
Poland, Ashley. "How to Create a Drop-Down List in LibreOffice 4.1." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/create-dropdown-list-libreoffice-41-79238.html. Accessed 22 January 2020.
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How to Hire a Bilingual Employee
by Flora Richards-Gustafson
Enhance your customer services by hiring bilingual employees.
1 Switch Language on a Dell Laptop
2 Run an Interview
3 Ask Someone to Endorse You on LinkedIn
4 How do I Find Biliginual Employees?
Hiring a bilingual employee can help you expand your company's niche markets, reach ethnic communities and improve productivity. Bilingual staff members are cheaper than interpreters, and they have a better understanding of your business' goals and the inner workings of your company than a contracted individual. When you have a diverse staff, your business culture will have a better understanding of your customers, which can help increase customer loyalty. With the global market increasing in your own backyard, it makes sense to hire bilingual individuals.
Advertise the need for a bilingual employee. In the classified ads you post, indicate that you seek a bilingual individual, and make fluency in the language a job requirement. Additionally, include the level of fluency you seek; some bilingual individuals can fluently speak another language, but may not be able to read and/or write in it. To test the literacy skills of bilingual candidate, state that interested applicants should write the cover letter in the foreign language.
Review candidate applications and resumes. Select the applicants who have the skills, experience and language capabilities you require.
Hire a bilingual job recruiter. If you are not bilingual or do not have a bilingual employee who can assist you with the interview process, a bilingual job recruiter can help you conduct an interview in English and the language you desire.
Interview the job candidates. In addition to asking your regular job interview questions, ask each candidate about her level of proficiency in English and the foreign language sought. It is also a good idea to conduct a conversational test during the interview. Part of the interview should include written exercises to test literacy levels. Bilingual job recruiting agencies can sell you written tests and answers, if you do not have any.
Offer the position to the bilingual candidate who meets the qualifications you seek.
To help weed out candidates, advertise in a job announcement that you will conduct an oral and written examination.
Bear in mind that an applicant's first language may not be English, even if she speaks the language without a foreign accent. Therefore, it may be a good idea to have candidates complete written tests in English and the foreign language.
While you can ask how an individual learned a language, do not ask a job candidate about her country of origin or ethnicity. A candidate may deem such questions as violations of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, which states that you cannot base a hiring decision on an individual's race, country of origin, gender, age or family background.
The Fordyce Letter; Bilingual Preferred: Tips for Recruiting...; Astrid Rial; November 2006
Duke University Medical Center; Pilot Project Calls for Hiring Bilingual... ; Megan Bode; April 2007
Flora Richards-Gustafson has been writing professionally since 2003. She creates copy for websites, marketing materials and printed publications. Richards-Gustafson specializes in SEO and writing about small-business strategies, health and beauty, interior design, emergency preparedness and education. Richards-Gustafson received a Bachelor of Arts from George Fox University in 2003 and was recognized by Cambridge's "Who's Who" in 2009 as a leading woman entrepreneur.
Richards-Gustafson, Flora. "How to Hire a Bilingual Employee." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/hire-bilingual-employee-18214.html. Accessed 22 January 2020.
Richards-Gustafson, Flora. (n.d.). How to Hire a Bilingual Employee. Small Business - Chron.com. Retrieved from http://smallbusiness.chron.com/hire-bilingual-employee-18214.html
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Meteor causes hundreds of injuries, panic in Russia’s Urals region
Written by VOANews on February 15, 2013 in Europe, News, World - No comments
Russian officials say a meteor streaked across the sky above Russia’s Ural Mountains Friday morning, causing explosions and shattering windows.
Officials say more than 400 people in the Chelyabinsk region were injured, many of them hurt by broken glass.
Local authorities say a wall and the roof of a Chelyabinsk zinc factory were damaged in the blast.
Authorities say mobile phone service is working intermittently.
The meteor hit just hours before an asteroid known as 2012 DA14 is set to have a close encounter with Earth. The U.S. space agency NASA says the 45-meter-wide asteroid could come as close as 27,000 kilometers above Earth. The agency insists, however, the asteroid is not in danger of crashing to Earth.
The European Space Agency in its Twitter feed says the meteor above Russia Friday has no connection with the asteroid.
Source: VOANews.com
(Photo of Chelyabinsk: Nico Kaiser)
Meteor causes hundreds of injuries, panic in Russia's Urals region
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Pleuritic chest pain with or without dyspnea is one of the most frequent presentations of this disease.
Syncope or shock are the hallmark signs of central pulmonary embolism and usually result in severe hemodynamic repercussions.
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Is this Swedish sleep trend the best way for couples to share a bed?
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January 25, 2018, 11:17 PM UTC
People are pretty used to their bedding looking a certain way: There’s a fitted sheet, a top sheet (at least in the United States), and then a large duvet. But IKEA is trying to get people to rethink that concept.
The inexpensive furniture giant has launched something called the TOG-ether bundle, which is essentially two single duvets that are made to be used on one bed. The idea behind TOG-ether, is that both people in the bed can sleep better (and not fight over blankets). At present, the bundle is only available in the U.K.
According to an IKEA press release, “Almost two-thirds (61%) of people in the U.K. are feeling fatigued from routinely sleeping badly.” The release also says that people who share beds have it the worst: “Bed-sharers seem worst off, with 50% losing out on the battle of the bedsheets by having covers stolen or being too hot or cold so their partner remains the perfect temperature.”
IKEA’s new bedding bundle claims to help couples sleep better. (IKEA)
IKEA’s solution to these sleep problems is the TOG-ether bundle, which is inspired by the Swedish practice of sleeping with two duvets on the bed. “The individual is able to choose preferred weight and warmth, be as tucked in as needed, and not have their duvet stolen, therefore helping people to sleep better together when bed sharing,” IKEA says in the release.
“I love it,” says W. Christopher Winter, MD, of Charlottesville Neurology and Sleep Medicine, and author of the book, The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It. He tells Yahoo Lifestyle, “I think this would certainly help people sleep better.” Winter says he thinks the idea is a good one, largely because it helps keep one person’s nighttime movements from interfering with their partner’s sleep. And, of course, you get to have your own set of covers.
In fact, Winter says he sees no downside to this, other than the fact that it might look a little weird on your bed. As for concerns about price — and whether or not buying two duvets will be more expensive than buying one — the cost of the TOG-ether bundle is £40, or roughly $57.
Of course, one of the perks of sharing a bed with your partner is physical closeness and being able to snuggle together under a warm duvet; having two duvets definitely makes that more complicated. Sleeping under separate blankets has the potential to create more distance at a time when you can have intimacy, even if it’s unconscious, licensed clinical psychologist Ramani Durvasula, PhD, author of Should I Stay or Should I Go?, tells Yahoo Lifestyle. But, she says, “anything that can help quell partner differences is great.”
Having two duvets may help address common sleep problems that couples face, licensed therapist David Klow, founder of Skylight Counseling Center in Chicago and author of You Are Not Crazy: Letters From Your Therapist, tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “Many healthy couples end up sleeping in separate beds,” he says. Sleeping in separate rooms isn’t great for intimacy, he points out, so separate duvets may be a good in-between solution.
Still, this sleeping practice is not for everyone. “I do not think this is a solution for all couples, many of whom benefit from the skin-to-skin contact that bedtime brings,” Durvasula says. “But for those for whom sleep and temperature conflicts can cast a pall on bedtime, two duvets may be better than one.”
There are currently no plans to bring the TOG-ether bundle to the U.S., IKEA press officer Starr Mclean tells Yahoo Lifestyle. So, if you like the idea, you may just need to buy two single duvets to recreate it on your own.
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28/02/2015 by Sri Lanka Brief
Hon’ Governor, Hon’ Minister Gamini Jayawickrama Perera, Hon’ Minister D.M.Swaminathan, Hon’ Deputy Minister Mrs.Vijekala Maheswaran, Hon’ Ministers of the Provincial Council, officers of the Northern Provincial Council, other officers, my dear brothers and sisters,
The change in Government is showing favourably in the number of visits by VIPs from Colombo last few days. We welcome all of them. Earlier the point of contact of the Ministers from the Central Government was a Minister who ran his Establishment from a Theater close by a theatre building to which rent was not paid for a considerable number of years or never paid. Now fortunately our Ministers are reaching out to us and to our officers. We are thankful to them for showing tremendous understanding with regard to our plight. There are a number of matters Hon Gamini Jayawickrama Perera and his officers would be speaking to us today. Let us take cognisance of them and bring about better understanding with the South. Quicker and cheaper marketing of our produce is one area the Hon’ Minister is very much interested in. He has suggested the use of the Railway in this regard.
There is a specialty in Hon’ Minister Gamini Jayawickrama Perera. He has been a Chief Minister of Wayamba Provincial Council soon after the Indo – Sri Lanka Agreement and the 13th Amendment. Thus he is one of the pioneers in working out the 13th Amendment. He was then my neighbor at the Summit Flats in Keppitipola Mawatha, Colombo. It is nice to renew our friendship after such a long time. The Hon’ Minister is very enthusiastic about greater co-operation between North and South. His special area of interest is the creation of a vibrant co-operative movement. Lots of rights have been plucked from us since the time Hon’ Minister was Chief Minister. We lost some during the Presidency of Mr.Premadasa, some due to Supreme Court decisions and so much under the Divineguma. The 13th Amendment today is a much emaciated document.
We have in Hon’ Minister D.M.Swaminathan a pragmatic and practical Minister. He had been a Governor of the Western Province for some time. He too is familiar with the working of the Provincial Council. He has come over to put into effect the promise he gave us when we went and met him in Colombo a few weeks ago. At least the process of handing over of land unwanted by the Army to its lawful owners is now starting. Areas have been identified and earmarked. Within three weeks let us hope that our suffering and deprived dear brothers and sisters would be able to go back to their own lands. Though we are very happy that an area of 1000 acres is being handed over, it must be recorded here that we have asked for at least 5500 acres to be returned. Around 6500 acres of land have been arbitrarily taken over by the Army in the Valikamam North area only since the end of the war in 2009 and not returned. These are mostly fertile agricultural lands to which the owners have proper deeds. I pointed out to the Hon’ Minister the other day in Colombo that a maximum of 1000 acres is all what the Army needs to protect Palali Air Port and K.K.S Port. Anything more is excess land arbitrarily retained.
The balance 5500 acres can be returned to their lawful owners. The Army must not be allowed to be parasitic on us. They are cultivating our fertile lands for their benefit; they are using our good water and depriving us of our water in an area where water is precious. They are polluting our areas with their waste; they are a source of irritation and fear in our midst. Recent public pronouncements that even a single Army Camp would not be withdrawn even if it was for the consumption of the Southern Electorate could have been avoided. It had the effect of our response by passing a Resolution on Genocide. Please remember we feel very strongly against the continued stay of the Armed Forces in our areas. Until they are removed except in areas of strategic importance we would feel threatened.
Yet we are happy that this Government is taking positive steps to improve the quality of life of our people. We are equally aware of the fact that a proper resolution of our problems could not be achieved merely by giving back what we are already entitled to. Because the previous Government deprived us of our legitimate rights, the handing back of what is legitimately ours might seem a great boon to us. In a practical way these handings over however limited in scope they may be, are no doubt helpful to us. The change of the Governor and the Chief Secretary are no doubt in the right direction. But they were legitimately already our rights. Deprived rights. Politically deprived rights!
May I also point out to this august assembly of Ministers and officials that there is a 67 year old ethnic problem still hanging fire. We have not solved that yet. When we were voted to power it was on the basis that we would strive to bring about a settlement within a united Sri Lanka, that we would ensure the recognition of our individualism in the North and East and that we would strive for maximum devolution by the Central Government.
This settlement is essential so that none would put us back into the Sea of turmoil and despair again. While expecting a permanent solution to our innumerable problems, we do welcome the concern of the Central Government and its Ministers in the welfare of our people. As we go on you would recognize our concerns and needs. Please do not indulge subtlety in exercises which the earlier Government engaged in openly. If our concerns and fears are understood this Country could rise up to its pristine glory.
[Dialogue with Representatives of Co-operatives’ Movement and Farmer Organizations at Jaffna Public Library Auditorium
28th February 2015 at 9.30 am Chief Minister’s Speech ]
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It’s not called the Big Easy for nothing — the city embraces its laid-back vibe, especially during brunches, long coffee breaks, and impromptu beignet stops. Café du Monde is legendary and worth the long lines. For signature Creole cooking, stop at Commander’s Palace, which has been serving up Southern favorites since 1880.
Enjoy a hurricane in any of the bars on Bourbon Street, the epicenter of NOLA’s nightlife. It’s where you can snag a set of the city’s trademark beads and take in street parades, live music, and find voodoo shops. Take in a Saints game from the city’s numerous watering holes, or see the Mercedes-Benz Superdome for yourself. Make sure to check the city’s festival lineup – New Orleans hosts over 100 events a year, including Mardi Gras, the French Quarter Fest, and the Essence Music Festival. There’s something happening no matter when you visit.
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Jack Turner October 17th 2019 6:55 am
A new phishing scam is making the rounds within businesses, and threatens to expose private and personal details of those that fall victim to it, as well as potentially costing companies a fortune.
Potential victims receive an email that claims to be from the company's HR department, requesting that an appraisal form is filled in. In actual fact, the user's details, including company passwords, are being sent straight to the scammer.
The knock-on effect could have disastrous implications for a business. We take a look at how to recognise and avoid the scam.
How the HR Email Scam Works
Phishing emails are almost as old as the internet itself. Yet, you can always rely on some scammer to dream up a new twist on it. The way that all phishing emails work, is by masquerading as an official communication that drops into your inbox. Because the email appears to come from a trusted source, the recipient may readily click on it, and usually be whisked to an external site where they are asked to enter personal details such as passwords and banking information.
According to Kaspersky, who have highlighted this new scam, this one works in a similar vein. But what's particularly risky is how it targets company employees.
The email purports to be from human resources or a similar department within the company, and asks for the users to submit an appraisal form. The email includes a link to this form, which should the recipient click on and fill in, will then harvest the users username and password which scammers can then utilise to access the company's private data. They may also be able to access other personal accounts too, if the user is using the same password for other sites – which is a distressingly common practice.
The page that the email links to is surprisingly bare bones, as you can see from the screen grab below. While typical phishing links go out of their way to replicate the look of a banking or social media site, mirroring them identically, the primitive look of this back end style company portal, could well work in its favor, adding to the air of legitimacy, as most company intranet sites are relatively basic.
The effect of the scammer getting hold of this information could be disastrous for the company and the individual. Sensitive corporate information, access to financial records and personal ones could well deal a huge blow to a company, large or small. The scammer may even use this information as leverage in blackmail negotiations or could even lock up internal systems.
An example of the phishing site, courtesy of Kaspersky
How to Avoid the Scam
There are a few key ways to protect yourself from falling foul of this scam:
Check a link before clicking on it – Whenever you are prompted to click on a link, be vigilant. Hover over the link and check out the URL – does it seem legitimate? Is it one you recognise? If not, don't click on it and report the email to your IT department
Check the email address – Double check where the email has come from. Not just the name of the sender, which is easy to fake, but the actual email address itself. Has it come from inside the company?
Don't act too soon – Many scams get us to make a bad decision by pressuring us to act quickly. In the case of this scam, most employees will want to be seen to fill in an appraisal form quickly, and they may also think that it is linked to a pay rise, another reason to get it done sooner than later. Don't jump in. Think it through first.
Use a password manager – Password managers remember all your login details, saving you the hassle of juggling multiple passwords at once. There are two upsides to this. Firstly, you won't replicate your passwords across various sites, leaving them all vulnerable, but also, when a phisher tries to get you to log into a dubious site, your password manager won't auto-fill the fields. This should set off alarm bells.
Invest in performance management software – To stop employees falling for suspicious links, provide them with professional and reliable performance management software. Having a dependable central point for such tasks will make employees much more suspicious of strange links they don't recognise, or unprofessional-looking HR portals.
Tell others – As well as reporting suspicious emails to IT, tell your colleagues, too. They might not be as savvy, and could click on a link before IT have had a chance to send a company-wide warning.
Update your security software – More one for company owners, but if emails like this are making it through security systems, make sure they are up to date, and of course blacklist the originating email.
Jack Turner
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PayPal Enables Bitcoin Transactions For Merchants Selling Digital Goods
Kim-Mai Cutler 5 years
Bitcoin’s momentum among key merchants and platforms on the web keeps accelerating.
After hinting at it a few weeks ago when Braintree enabled Bitcoin-based transactions for PayPal developers, the company is now enabling Bitcoin across the PayPal network for merchants of digital goods.
The company has expressed interest in bitcoin for a while, with eBay CEO John Donahoe saying in the past that it would play an “important role” in the company’s future. Now that large players from Overstock to Wikipedia are now relying on the cryptocurrency for a part of their transactions or donations, PayPal is stepping in.
Through partnerships with BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin, PayPal will let its merchants accept bitcoin for digital goods transactions. They decided to go with a handful of launch partners instead of a single one, as PayPal’s Braintree did with Coinbase earlier this month. To be clear, this isn’t about adding Bitcoin to PayPal’s digital wallet and it’s only in North America for the moment. These are baby steps for now.
“This is a huge endorsement to the digital currency community,” said GoCoin CEO Steve Beauregard.
PayPal will earn transaction revenue through referral fees, which are pretty common throughout the payments world.
“PayPal is playing the role of the intermediary, but the cost will be left up to the merchant and the payment processor,” said Scott Ellison, who is PayPal’s senior director of competitive intelligence and corporate strategy.
A few weeks ago at TechCrunch Disrupt, Braintree CEO Bill Ready said that it was adding Bitcoin as a payment to its SDK.
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Why is BBC Wales reporting terror of English county lines gangs in Scotland but BBC Scotland is not?
Posted byjohnrobertson834 September 6, 2019 Posted inUncategorized
From BBC Wales yesterday:
Police forces across north Wales, Merseyside and Scotland have launched a series of dawn raids targeting “county lines” drugs gangs. Searches were carried out at 24 properties at 07:15 BST in Flintshire, Conwy, and Anglesey in north Wales, and in Liverpool and Scotland. North Wales Police said more than 300 officers from three forces have taken part in the operation.
Police Scotland reported the problem as early as January 2019:
The charity Crime-stoppers is today 14th January 2019 launching a campaign to highlight the pain and suffering that criminals from English cities are inflicting on vulnerable people in Scotland’s rural and coastal towns. The campaign aims to raise awareness of County Lines, which is when criminals from major cities such as Liverpool, Manchester, London and Birmingham are expanding their drug networks to other areas, bringing with it serious criminal behaviour such as violence, exploitation and abuse. The term County Lines refers to the use of a single telephone number to order drugs, operated from outside the local area. This is having a massive impact on rural communities and also on vulnerable children and adults who are being recruited in cities such as Manchester and Liverpool.
https://www.scotland.police.uk/whats-happening/news/2019/january/campaign-launched-appeal-for-help-tackling-county-lines-drug-networks
Only the Sunday Post reported this at the time though the Times newspaper had a story of arrests in the previous October:
So, a Police Scotland announcement and clearly some media aware of it. Why have BBC Scotland not considered it in the public interest when it sounds eminently so? Are they worried it would seem anti-English?
Suicide rate in Scotland NOT highest in UK and is falling!
Scotland: 8% of the population but more than 13% of the exports and soaring!
4 thoughts on “Why is BBC Wales reporting terror of English county lines gangs in Scotland but BBC Scotland is not?”
We are not told because it’s a need to know senario, BBC Scotland has decided it’s not news so we don’t need to know , ring any bells ? .
A giant gasfield in 2014?
Legerwood says:
Not reported because the ‘official’ position ie MSM and opp politicians, to be followed at all times is that Police Scotland, an SG construct, is not working.
Yes a proxy war against SG as with NHS Scotland.
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Should I Go To The Meeting? No – that’s the short answer
Now let’s start with the basics: this is not a meeting, it’s an interview. Former tax inspector Simon Sweetman said: “I have worked with Inspectors who thought it a victory if the taxpayer cried [in the interview].”
Phil Berwick, Director at Berwick Tax Limited, said that in one case he knew of an unrepresented taxpayer who went to a meeting that ended up lasting five hours, “The individual was so upset and aggrieved at being subjected to this ordeal that they thought it would be easier to agree with the inspector [rather] than resist further.”
HMRC employ a carrot and stick approach to interviews: the carrot is that the investigation may be resolved quickly if the investigator has the chance to meet the taxpayer and talk directly. The stick is that refusing to attend can be interpreted as non-cooperation and a penalty may be applicable.
The carrot and the stick are both fake.
A meeting – certainly in the early part of an investigation – will not speed up an investigation. As you would logically expect, investigators use meetings to gather information in order to open up avenues of investigation and to test known facts – i.e. to see if you are lying.
So now we know that the carrot is fake, what about the stick?
Expert Consultation
Well, there is no debate about one thing, which is that there is no legal obligation to attend an interview. Stephen Camm former Inland Revenue investigator and now head of the tax disclosure team at PwC said: “Importantly taxpayers should know that an interview is voluntary – most don’t realise this and feel compelled to attend.”
As for a penalty, HMRC states, “In calculating the amount of the penalty, we will take into account the extent to which you have been helpful…” But if you answer written questions in full and on time – within 30 days – then it would be reasonable to argue that full co-operation had taken place and no penalty for non-attendance should be levied.
Accountant Ken Frost of the www.hmrconline.com blog says, “Under no circumstances should anyone attend an interview with HMRC personnel without appropriate representation. HMRC staff are incentivised to maximise the tax take, therefore it’s in their interests to skew records of meetings in their favour.”
Need more convincing that early interviews are for the benefit of HMRC and nobody else?
Here is what the HMRC manual tells investigators about how important the interview is to them, and it’s just one word: ‘vital’.
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Celebrate space with a fun family event, featuring classic sci-fi films on the big screen, followed by a fascinating presentation and discussion on how space is depicted in cinema with Astrophysicist Dr Rachael Livermore (The University of Melbourne). Rachael will separate the plausible from the bizarre, present science facts and take audience questions.
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." - With this in-mind we present CATCH-UP AT NOVA; your chance to see select mainstream hits on the cinema screen once they've started to disappear from the multiplexes. Showing on Friday and Saturday nights, late, rediscover the fun of a late night trip to the movies at Nova!
Cinema Fiasco is a comedy show showcasing bad movies on the big screen with hilarious live commentary by film buff comedians Geoff Wallis and Janet A. McLeod. The movie plays as per usual with the soundtrack intact, Geoff and Janet just chip in at salient points. Sounds fun? It is. Bad movies are a guilty pleasure and one that should never be enjoyed alone. You'll laugh! You'll scream! You'll wonder who put up the money to make this crap. But best of all you'll realise how important nudity, explosions and gorilla suits are to the world of cinema. And what a joyful sight to behold they are. Please note: Janet and Geoff talk all the way through the movies they present, but the movies are so bad that you’ll be glad, for once, that there are people talking in the cinema.
Espresso Cinema and Cinema Nova present a bi-monthly hit of cinema on an Italian theme
Meet the people behind new films showing at Cinema Nova. Get an early look at some of the most anticipated titles of the year at our advance screenings. Join us for special events that celebrate films in a whole new way. If you love movies, we'll be seeing you soon at Nova.
The MDFF showcases the most thought-provoking, passionate, eclectic and diverse docos from Australia and around the world. TICKET INFORMATION Opening Night, Friday July 19: 6.15pm session and 8.45pm session, Closing Night, Sunday July 28: 8.45pm - $25 adult / $20 concession FESTIVAL PASSES (Not valid for opening or closing night) 5-film pass (Mini-Pass): $75, 10-film pass (Festival Pass): $150.
Return to where it all began when MONSTER FEST comes home to Cinema Nova from November 22-25 for MONSTER FEST VII: THE HOMECOMING. From its humble beginnings in 2012 with single screen sessions to present day with satellite events nationwide, Monster Fest has grown to become Australia's premier genre film festival, and 2018 promises to be our biggest fest yet! All sessions 18+. CLICK HERE FOR FESTIVAL PASSES, conditions apply.
Join Nova for our monthly advanced screenings, with themed morning tea provided and an in-cinema discussion hosted by Jan Epstein. Tickets at regular prices.
Captured live in high definition at London's National Theatre, NTLive presents the greatest performers, directors and productions to come out of the British theatre scene.
Join like-minded cinephiles for an advance screening of an upcoming release, followed by an informal hosted discussion about the film in the Nova Bar & Kitchen. If you need more film discussion in your life, Nova Film Club is the perfect event to come and make new friends with fellow Novaphiles.
A carefully curated line-up of essential and important cinema, digitally restored and presented in high definition. Showing at Cinema Nova for limited seasons, revisit past favourites and discover new masterpieces on the big screen with NOVA ICONIC.
The Palestinian Film Festival Australia is a social impact initiative dedicated to promoting Palestinian arts and culture in a multicultural Australian context. Please join us at this year's festival for a cinematic journey of unforgettable imagery and creative, thought-provoking storytelling. for further info please visit: palestinianfilmfestival.com.au
Animated features and events from the home of Anime; Japan!
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JUST FOR FUN: See what was in and what’s out as we head into 2020
Bryan McGonigle bmcgonigle@wickedlocal.com @GtownRecordChris Stevens marblehead@wickedlocal.com @MheadReporterSteven Ryan @maldenobserver
Impeachment, impossible burgers and Lizzo what else is there to say -- find out
Our annual guide to what’s hot and what’s not in news, entertainment, lifestyle and life in general.
OK, let’s get this out of the way right off the bat: Impeachment is in: Whether you agree or disagree, deal with it.
The president has found himself in hot water after reports surfaced he allegedly tried to extort campaign help — dirt on potential political opponent and former Vice President Joe Biden’s son — from the Ukrainian government.
Until that is settled, President Trump is still in, well still in office anyway, but the ever growing line of Democratic presidential wannabes trying to unseat him is also in. Unless you’re Beto O’Rourke who is out after failing not only to win a Senate seat (losing to another presidential loser Ted Cruz) but also failing to break through an already crowded field of Dems chasing Trump (that should be new board game!). Then there’s Sen. Kamala Harris, who was in when she came out in January as the darling nominee-to-be, but is now out since she’s run out of steam or more to the point — campaign funding.
It briefly looked like Washington was going to run low on former New York City mayors now that Rudy Guiliani is the subject of a criminal investigation by federal prosecutors, and Bill de Blasio, who never got out of the kiddie pool of candidates and into the deep end of the debates folded his campaign for president in late November, but fear not: We can all breathe a sigh of relief now that former Michael Bloomberg has sailed in on his overblown ego to announce he will run for president because, well, don’t we need just one more white, middle-aged male billionaire who understands the plight of the non-existent middle class? Of course we do.
Former NYC Mayor David Dinkins is just waiting in the wings.
The Democratic teeter-totter was also out of balance after the North Shore’s own congressman, Seth Moulton, closed out his ill-fated presidential bid, but former Massachusetts Gov. Deval “Who?” Patrick stepped in to take one for the team.
That said, men are still out, and women are in. In the bid to let someone else try and run things for awhile, the mid-term elections of 2018 resulted in the largest number of women in history — 127 in total — sworn into Congress in January. Another 25 were sworn into the Senate.
Speaking of women in Congress: Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has represented San Francisco since 1987, is most definitely back in.
The 79-year-old rose to national fame in 2006 when she was elected the first female House speaker in history. And in January, Pelosi took the speaker’s gavel once again, becoming the first former speaker re-elected to the role since Texas Congressman Sam Rayburn in 1955.
Now her fame is much centered on spending every waking moment of 2019 battling President Trump, which has culminated in the aforementioned impeachment.
Global warming will soon be out because Greta Thunberg, the modern-day Joan of Arc from Sweden and, much to Trump’s chagrin, Time’s person of the year is in (despite the president of the United State’s relentless mocking of her on Twitter). The slight 16-year-old spitfire grabbed the globe’s attention when she called out world leaders for living like there is no tomorrow — because, as she pointed out, there is a tomorrow and most of us would like to enjoy it without some wrath-of-God weather phenomenon going on around us. So get it together grownups.
Criminal news was big this year. For starters, Jeffrey Epstein is out — way out. The convicted sex offender, who first went to prison in 2008, was charged again in 2019 on charges of sex trafficking of minors. Shortly afterward, he was found dead in his prison cell, supposedly the result of suicide. There was no vigil.
Mass shootings, sadly, are still prevalent. Pearl Harbor, Pensacola, El Paso, Dayton and Odessa to name a few. As of Dec. 1, there were more mass shootings reported than there were days of the year, according to Gun Violence Archives, which tracks all mass shooting reports in the country. Let’s not top that in 2020.
Lying to get your kids into college is out, thanks to the college admission scandal that will likely end with Aunt Becky, otherwise known as actress Lori Loughlin, doing time in the slammer. Felicity Huffman wisely pulled a Martha Stewart, confessed, paid her fine, did her time and will likely have a quiet comeback by mid-2020.
In the music arena, 2019 was the year of Lizzo. The fearless hip hop artist’s music — with themes addressing sexuality, body image and race — accompanied by her unapologetic twerking (and while playing the flute, no less) has caught the world by storm.
The Jonas Brothers are back in, because, frankly, we’re a “Sucker ” for those guys. The harmonious trio released their comeback album, “Happiness Begins,” with a single by the same name that has since been played on the radio about 700 times a day.
Taylor Swift is in, being named Artist of the Decade at this year’s American Music Awards. However, a nasty legal battle between the 30-year-old pop sensation and her former label, Big Machine, over the rights to her earlier music has left her on the outs with some. But it’s safe to say there are no teardrops on her guitar because she’s fearless!
The always colorful Nicki Minaj is out. She announced earlier this year that she was retiring from music.
R Kelly is out, currently awaiting trial for allegedly sexually abusing seven victims, a few of whom were minors. If that didn’t get him into the “out” category, his bizarre interview with Gayle King on CBS sealed the deal.
And Billie Eilish is in, having stormed the charts with her catchy tune, “Bad Guy.” Everyone seems to be in love with the 17-year-old who NPR calls a “weird overachiever.”
For television, "Game of Thrones" is out. HBO’s biggest show aired its epic — and controversial, depending on which fans you talk to — eighth season in 2019, setting the sun on Westeros, the Starks, the incestuous Lannisters and Daenerys Targaryen and her dragons.
“Thronies” need not despair too much, though. HBO is working on a "Game of Thrones" prequel. There is talk that it will focus on the ancient Targaryen family, which means more dragons.
“The Crown” is still very much in, but when season 3 launched in 2019, the young, regal Claire Foy as Elizabeth II was out and older, regal Olivia Coleman was in.
Superheroes are in for TV, as well. Sure, the CW cancelled “Arrow,” but the network added “Batwoman” to its lineup of superhero-themed shows.
And HBO premiered its critically-acclaimed drama, “Watchmen,” based on the 1986 graphic novel of the same title and starring Regina King, Don Johnson and Jeremy Irons, this fall.
In the movies, The Avengers had their endgame, putting them on the outs for 2020, but Spider-Man is always in. Tom Holland became one of the most tweeted about actors in 2019, thanks to his turn in the Spidey tights.
Daniel Craig is out as 007, but his southern drawl in “Knives Out” is deliciously in.
Mr. Rogers is most definitely in (as if he ever went out) as is Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers (as if he could ever go out) and the two together — could we love anyone more?
"Frozen 2" is in, which means your sanity will be out once the new “Let it Go” song starts running on a loop in your house, your minivan, your SUV and your nightmares.
Dolly Parton, the Queen of Country, who recently launched her own Netflix anthology, is totally in. Making fun of Dolly Parton is out. Being Dolly Parton for Halloween is in because it requires no “sexy” version of the costume unlike the sexy Mr. Rogers costume, which was neither in nor out — it was just plain wrong.
After the New England Patriots sent the LA Rams flying in Super Bowl LIII they are absolutely in, much to the annoyance of the rest of the country. Say it all together now … “they hate us ‘cause they ain’t us.”
But not all Patriots are in. Tight end Rob Gronkowski is out, retiring in March at age 29. The three-time Super Bowl champion has not dropped the ball in retirement, though. He recently joined Fox Sports as an analyst.
Antonio Brown of the Patriots was in, but then was out. The 31-year-old wide receiver showed promise when he signed with the Patriots, but the team cut him after allegations of sexual assault surfaced, which is always out.
The Boston Red Sox are way out. The team followed its championship victory in 2018 with a swing and a miss this year, finishing third in their division. The team’s president of operations, Dave Dombrowski, was subsequently fired and replaced by Chaim Bloom. Here’s hoping better luck blossoms in 2020.
Down the road, however, the Washington Nationals were in, digging their way out of a rough season start to clinch their first World Series victory in history and giving DC something legit to celebrate.
Lumberjacks are in and we don’t mean those Paul Bunyon types. We’re talking Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks (is that even a real college?) located in Nacogdoches Texas (is that even a real place?) or more specifically, Nathan Bain who scored at the buzzer giving his team the win over the much favored and much shocked and (not) Number 1 (anymore) Duke University.
In tennis, Venus Williams is still in because, well, she’s Venus Williams, but it was 15-year-old phenom Coco Gauff who took the advantage and unseated Williams at Wimbledon in 2019. Gauff went on to win her first Women’s Tennis Association title about a month later and is now the youngest player ranked in the WTA’s top 100 making us cuckoo-for-Coco Gauff.
This may not seem sporting to some, but Fortnite has gone mainstream and is in as an official sport/Esport. Out is sitting around your parents basement gaming for fun because now the pressure is on to compete for real, win $3 million like 16-year-old Kyle Giersdorfwin did and get a basement of your own.
Pete Frates, the former college baseball player is sadly out, after losing his battle with ALS on Dec. 9. Frates will leave a legacy that includes raising unprecedented awareness for the illness also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease and cash after convincing people worldwide to voluntarily pay to dump a bucket of ice water over their own heads.
Outrage is definitely in. If you aren’t angry about something and telling the world — loudly — you are simply living wrong.
Apologizing for causing outrage is also in. Feel free to shoot from the hip, say something hurtful even and when people get outraged, and they will, just apologize and move on because being your authentic self is only in when you’re not being a jerk.
By the way, Generation X would like an apology from both Baby Boomers and Millennials because frankly they are tired of being the neglected middle child. That said, “OK boomer” still in, but lecturing your mini-me-Millennials is out. It’s time to cut them some slack, even they have come to realize how annoying they are.
Baby Shark is so 2018. This year was all about Baby Yoda. The big-eyed, big-eared little green character in the new Star Wars franchise series “The Mandalorian” on Disney+ that was released recently — captured the hearts of millions online and became a viral meme sensation overnight.
Oh, and Disney+ is in as is every other streaming entity on the Internet. Remember when you cut cable to save money?
With the rising popularity of food delivery, grocery shopping and cooking are out. From Blue Apron to GrubHub, who needs to actually think about what they’re eating anymore?
Yet oddly, cooking shows are still in. Just look how popular “The Great British Baking Show” is. It seems people prefer watching someone cook over actually cooking.
Don’t feel bad about not cooking, though, because apparently we can’t eat well either. Self-control is out and intuitive eating is in. We asked the same question. Intuitive eating is about making food choices without guilt (said no one ever) or ethical dilemma, it “honors hunger” and “respects fullness,” which means no more Fourth of July hot dog eating contests or nachos because be honest, when was the last time you stopped eating nachos because you were full?
The Impossible Burger is in if you’re looking for a plant based alternative to a Burger King hamburger, but not so much if you’re looking for an actual healthy alternative. Turns out you sometimes need a lot of carbs, salt and fat to make beets taste like beef. Go figure.
Oatmilk is in. Almond milk, still in, and then there is also coconut milk, cashew milk, rice milk and hemp milk. Sorry, Elsie, everything milk related seems in except actual milk.
White Claw Hard Seltzer was so in, stores were running out and a potential shortage was feared. We almost had to resort to going back to Mike’s Hard Lemonade (not that we ever really left you, Mike).
CBD/Hemp is so in it’s in everything from hand cream to chocolate bars to honey.
Which leads us to the obvious: Marijuana, still in. As of today, marijuana is legal in 33 states for medical use and 11 states for recreational use. That means that in two thirds of U.S. states, marijuana is legal in some way and yet, intuitive eating is still a thing — go figure.
Vaping, however, is out. After hundreds vaping-related illnesses and deaths nationwide, including more than 80 in Massachusetts, Trump has suggested a nationwide ban on vaping products, but Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker beat him to it ,imposing a moratorium on all vaping product sales and even a ban on all flavored tobacco.
Retail stores on the way out. Dress Barn hung it up, people decided they didn’t want to Payless and Gymboree ... we got nothing for Gymboree because frankly, we can’t believe they lasted this long and the same could be said for Charlotte Russe (raise your hand if you know anyone who ever shopped at Charlotte Russe) and Things Remembered (how much engraving can one person do?), all going the way of K-Mart and betamax.
Which makes online shopping more in than ever and also makes package theft more in than ever. One would think with all this these packages being left on doorsteps only to be stolen, someone would invent a magical place where you could rent space and have packages shipped there for safe, easy pick up. A postal emporium — or something like that.
Baby Archie, so in. Meghan Markle is only in if you live in the United States. If you’re British, then it’s totally OK to hate her — a lot. Prince Andrew is out in the U.S. and with the Queen Mum, but Fergie is graciously standing by her man. Sure, kick the guy when he’s down.
Lastly, bugs are in and not just bees but spiders and beetles and all sorts of insects, namely because they provide a whole lot of free services. From aerating the soil (worms and ants) to dung beetles cleaning up what your dog left behind and you won’t (you know who you are) to pollinators (like the butterfly) bugs got it going on and some naturalists think they might be the protein of the future. So again, don’t worry about not cooking — just set an ant trap and serve. Elsie will thank you.
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Ten crazy things you wish you knew about CR7
Leave a Comment / How to's, top tens / By admin / 25/09/2019 02/10/2019
Cr7 is arguably the best footballer in the world, an outstanding individual with proffesional traits and a unique personality. His true fans support him because of his realness and the fact that he shows what he feels. Well, there is more to cristiano ronaldo than majority know. He has lived a turbulent and sophisticated life up till now so in this post we will tell you all about angry cr7, kind cr7 and the most unexpected things you never dared to imagine about this legendary winger.
1. CR7 101
Did you know cristiano ronaldo is being studied, “CR7 101” is a course offered at the university of Britain Columbia in Okanagan. His life, career and achievements are brought under the microscope. This make football lovers and ronaldo admirers to move a step closer to the football legend. Fourth year sociology students are given the incredible opportunity to examine the life and works of the legendary cr7. Although the course focuses more on the career aspect rather than his celebrity lifestyle but it is still astounding to learn that cr7 101 exists.
2. His Heartwarming Gestures
Another feat cr7 has achieved is that no matter how bad critics talk of him today, he always finds a way to shut them up. Amidst allegations about his arrogance and pride cr7 is a natural helper. Cr7 has sold his awards and has given out them money to charity. On a particular occasion cristiano ronaldo sent out his signed jersey and a cheque of 83,000 usd to a sick ten month baby. Whose mother had previously asked for help online. The player was initially asked to donate shirts and boots but he went the extra mile of including a whooping sum of 80,000 usd which for sufficient for little erik’s surgery. He might be a beast on the pitch but off the pitch he is just one super lovable person.
3. A Fan Lover
This prayer is exceptional on so many levels, ronaldo is absolutely a figure to love because of the amazing amount of love he shows in response. Ronaldo stood up for a japanese fan who was laughed at for trying to speak english, he apologize for a pitch invader who was eventually spared a jail time and even on professional levels, he would stop fans from booing players although he doesn’t hesitate to shut critics up when they chant the wrong name. Ronaldo is a fan lover and he goes to the extreme even for a single one.
4. Little CR7 Threw A Chair At His Teacher
Cristiano ronaldo dos santos aviero was expelled at the tender age of fourteen. Turns out you don’t want to mess with little ronaldo. He did this because the teacher made a joke about him and his family as it turned out the little guy had no chill and reacted. This act got him expelled from school at the age of fourteen. His mum then, advised him to focus only on football. This advice made the man we know today, majority can’t even picture him doing something else.
5. He Had A Surgery At The Age Of Fifteen
Like his main rival “lionel messi”, cristiano ronaldo isn’t the only one with troubles growing up. At the age of 15 a year after he was expelled. Cristiano ronaldo was diagnosed with a major heart condition. This made his undergo surgery but he was out of action for a brief period and made a speedy recovery. According to his mother, the surgery was to correct an irregular heart beat. Have you ever imagined a football world without cr7? Well, Don’t.
6. His Amazing Physique
Ronaldo is 6 foot 1, lightning quick and jumps as high as a cheetah. He has over 100 header goals, a feat that is achieved due to his incredible jumping reach. He can attain vertical heights of over 2 metres. Public challenges are everywhere challenging me and you to jump as high as him and take home substantial amounts of money Amazing, isnt it? In addition to this, this super striker can cover 25 metres in just 3.6 secs, well you have seen him run. Another mind blowing fact about his body is that he has less body fact than most fashion models. All these is achieved by being the most hard working player we know of.
7. He Is An Absolute Workaholic
Back at manchester united and sporting cp, it was said that cr7 was the first to arrive and last to leave. While in sporting he stayed in the academy sharing a room with one of his best friends today. He spends about 3-4 hours training, he does this five days a week. The hours might have been longer in his earlier years which has of course paid off and made him who he is today. Also cr7 stays away from fatty, sugary or basically anything that might reduce his performance on and off the pitch.
8. A Wonderful Friend
This world legend has been tagged for doing so many good deeds around the world, countless donations to the needy and helpless. But he doesn’t just stop there, he is an absolute wonder to people around him, his friend at the academy who created cr7’s breakthrough and never had any formal career. Lives a life of luxury also his roommate at sporting cp whom they tour the world together. Sporting cp were ready to have him dropped but ronaldo insisted that if his friend is dropped then they would have to release him too. Thanks to ronaldo he got a start to a formal career.
9. His Amazing Freekicks
This player has a freekick speed of about 130kmph which is flabbergasting. He has no weaker foot, some of his goals confirm that. His amazing shot power might have broken arms and faces but its still an amazing sight. He has more free kick goal than most including dead ball magician “lionel messi”.
10. His Amazing Relationship With Marcelo
You might have learnt about marcelo and cristiano’s friendship, but there is more to it than it meet the eyes. The duo are literally inseparable, even their families have taken a liken towards one another so much that it caused a major stir when ronaldo asked to leave real madrid. They might have won the champions league but marcelo had a breakdown. He even left an emotional message for him on his instagram page prior to his exit. He is also very fond of james rodirguez buh reports say he had a fall out with the real madrid captain sergio ramos prior to his exit.
Another scintillating fact about cr7 is the fact that he owns his own personal museum where all his trophies are kept. It is also equipped with an extra room to keep his future trophies.
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An open letter to journalists who don’t give a shit
June 1, 2015 chrisscullion The games industry 111 comments
Bear with me here, things are going to get a bit rambly and train-of-thoughty. Yes, it’s a phrase.
This morning I went to a Rock Band 4 press event, where I got to try out the game.
I wrote up this preview article detailing my thoughts. Long story short, my opinion was that at this stage it didn’t seem to be revolutionising things by any means, but that was fine because it was still Rock Band and that’s good enough for me.
Contrary to popular belief, it’s completely fine to be negative in a preview. Some believe that publications are scared to badmouth a game at preview stage because they might be denied review code, but as long as the publication is fair about it then publishers are actually usually okay with it.
In reality, the reason most of us don’t go too hard on games at a preview stage is because they’re just that: previews. The game isn’t finished yet, and much of the stuff that gamers like to read about and discuss – the graphics, the frame rate and so on – aren’t really finalised until the eleventh hour of development.
Slamming a game at preview stage for having a bad frame rate is like saying someone’s three-year-old won’t end up going to university because they draw on the walls: that shit needs a chance to get sorted out and, in time, it usually is. Of course, sometimes it isn’t, and that’s why we have both prisons and Ninjabread Man. But you have to give the benefit of the doubt.
Oh, Ninjabread Man. You’re so adorably shit
In general though, criticising a game at preview stage can be fine and I’ve done it plenty of times in the past. What isn’t fine, however, is the article I read today. Now, this is probably massively unprofessional of me but, strictly speaking, I’m not a professional any more so to hell with it.
Before the Rock Band 4 event which took place in London today, there was one in California. As is often the case, American press events are more lavish than British ones: for Rock Band 4 we were in the basement of a pub, whereas the Americans were on the rooftop of an expensive hotel. In terms of metaphors you can’t get much stronger than that.
I can’t comment on whether this leads to a difference in media ethics between American and UK press: having never worked for a US publication it would be ignorant of me to suggest otherwise. That isn’t my point though. My point is this.
Imagine you’re on a website. Polygon, say. Imagine you’re looking forward to Rock Band 4. Imagine you see an article on the site offering a preview of Rock Band 4. Then imagine clicking it and having the following presented to you. Go ahead and read it and decide on your own conclusion before reading mine.
http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/1/8687867/rock-band-4-preview
Interesting, no?
“Pardon? You actually want me to PLAY it? Oh no, I couldn’t possibly” (this isn’t him, by the way)
Here’s my take on it. Simply put, if you’re covering a game and you care so little about the game that you don’t even have the decency to pay attention to it, then – and pardon my vernacular here – fuck directly off.
The sheer contempt this article has for the game in question is breathtaking. Bear in mind here, it’s this person’s job to report on video games. On this particular day he has been sent to cover Rock Band 4. It doesn’t matter if he couldn’t care less about it or, as his writing implies, thinks it’s beneath him. It’s his fucking job.
Sometimes we do things we don’t want to do. Do you think sewage workers adore wading through shite? Can you imagine an estate agent putting up an ad for someone’s flat and writing “personally I don’t care for this apartment at all”?
It has always been my opinion that when a journalist makes themselves the story instead of the game they’re supposed to be covering, they’ve failed at doing their job.
Even when they write articles about how games affected them personally, the best writers still make sure the focus is directly on the games themselves. This amazing piece Christian Donlan wrote about how games are helping him through multiple sclerosis is as personal as you can get, and yet despite how much he opens up and shares so much about his private life with us, the overriding message is still “games are amazing”. When you finish reading it you’re more in love with this wonderful hobby than ever.
And in case you weren’t completely convinced, here’s Night Trap
Then you’ve got this Rock Band article, in which the writer tells us how instead of checking out the game we clicked a link to read about, he instead chose to be “standing at a safe distance, drinking fizzy water, eating puff pastry canapes and chatting to another colleague about politics in the Philippines”.
Well, I couldn’t give a seventeenth of a fuck about what you have to say about politics in the Philippines. I clicked your link on your site, which is paying your wages, to read about the game you were sent to cover, and instead you have the gall to not only not bother doing so, but also go out of your way to essentially tell me “mate, I don’t like the game you’re interested in, so I’m not going to waste my time looking into it for you”.
“Before I give you your bargain bucket, let me show you a video of how we kill our chickens”
I get it. You don’t like Rock Band. Hey, to each their own. One man’s Super Mushroom is another man’s Poison Mushroom. But when I go to McDonalds because I feel like eating something unhealthy I don’t expect the guy behind the counter to tell me “Big Macs are shit” and lock up his till.
It isn’t just the writer who makes me angry here (though let’s be clear: he definitely does). It’s the entire process.
Here’s a story. A few days before I was due to start at CVG my editor-to-be Andy called me up. “Mate, there’s a press trip to Sweden next week to look at some Paradox Interactive games”, he told me. “Do you fancy going and covering them for us?”.
Now, considering I hadn’t even started yet and I was looking to impress my new boss, it would have been in my best interests to accept his request and dig out the passport. But here’s the thing: Paradox Interactive specialises in strategy games. Not just standard turn-based efforts like your Fire Emblems, but enormous grand historical efforts. I know some people adore that sort of thing but frankly, I can’t think of anything worse.
So I turned Andy down. “To be honest mate, those games aren’t really my kind of thing,” I told him. “I’d be a bit out of my depth.”
Rather than think “this prick isn’t a team player”, Andy understood because he realised, as any good editor should, that sending someone who isn’t even remotely interested in a game is essentially a waste of time. We’re called ‘specialist press’ for a reason, and if you don’t send a specialist who knows the genre enough to not only report on a game but also analyse it and comment on it, you might as well just ask for a press release.
I’ll be honest, I have no fucking clue what’s going on here
What stuns me about this article is the triple dose of bad decisions surrounding it. Firstly, whoever commissioned this didn’t sufficiently check that the writer cared or knew enough about the game’s genre to be the right person to cover it. I find it very hard to believe that nobody at Polygon cares about Rock Band: they’re hipster, but not that hipster.
Secondly, there’s the obvious issue of the article itself: a pretentious pile of bumwash about a nonplussed writer’s experience at a shit rooftop party which happened to have some sort of music game or something playing in the background, I dunno, I wasn’t paying attention.
And finally, this article was actually submitted, approved and published without anyone saying “wait a minute, this isn’t good enough, you didn’t put a shred of effort in here”.
The cynic in me thinks the article was posted just to rile people up and get hits. And by posting this article moaning about it, I suppose if that’s the case then I’ve fallen for it. But the optimist in me hopes there was just a breakdown in communications somewhere and it went up unchecked.
I don’t even know who these pricks are and look how excited I was to meet them anyway
What annoys me most of all, though, is how little appreciation this writer seems to have for the fortunate position he finds himself in.
There are likely tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of people around the world who would kill to be a professional games journalist. For all the moaning about media ethics and GamerGate and all that shite, there are an enormous number of gamers – including those who give the industry constant abuse – who would give anything to do this job.
It may be stressful at times (as I detailed in a previous article) and it may be low-paying, but it’s still getting to play the newest video games before anyone else and getting paid to do so. It’s still the dream job.
As I keep boring people by telling them, I’ve been doing this for nine years now. This morning I still hopped out of bed with a smile on my face because I was getting to see a new game today.
I’ve always said that the day I stop caring about this job is the day I stop doing it. But ultimately this was a decision that was taken out of my hands when CVG closed down and I was made redundant.
Sleep well, sweet prince of quality news reporting
And that’s why this article really infuriates me: because while countless people – now including me again – are writing stuff like this entirely unpaid because we love doing it and would kill to make it our job (again, in my case), there are writers like this guy who are being paid to show a complete disregard for this dream job so many are desperate to get just a taste of.
So this is my open advice to all games journalists who don’t give a shit: quit. Go drink your fizzy water and talk about Filipino politics elsewhere, and give up your job for someone who has a passion for this and wants to share that passion with others. If you feel that events like the one you attended are wasting your time, then stop fucking wasting ours.
Here on Tired Old Hack, I am committed to positive coverage of video games. Too many sites are putting a negative, cynical spin on this incredible industry (the above being one of the most blatant examples) and I refuse to go down that route.
This site is a celebration of gaming. My aim is to have you leaving my site with a smile on your face and an urge to play more games, not a frown and a feeling that your favourite hobby is going down the toilet. Because it really isn’t.
We live in a time where there are more fantastic games than ever before, many of which can be bought for only a handful of quid, or sometimes not even that.
We have games where we can turn into squids and cover arenas in paint, or jump into massive robots and destroy cities, or explore a beautifully accurate representation of the Nostromo from Alien, or race go-karts up a waterfall.
And yet many of us spend our times moaning and whining about DLC and resolutions and free-to-play gaming.
Well, not on here.
On here we celebrate.
For more about Tired Old Hack, who I am and my background, check out the site’s About FAQ.
Alternatively, if you’d like to read more of my thoughts on the games industry, here’s Part 1 and Part 2 of my article on the corrupt* world of games reviews. Which, sorry folks, isn’t actually as corrupt as you’d think.
Finally, are you a developer? Want someone to actually play your game rather than simply stand in the same room as it? I’m guaranteeing coverage of your game (note: this will be a review, so may be either positive or negative), regardless of the scale of your project. Enter the Tired Old Hack Developer Open Invitational if you’re interested.
Update: I’ve seen a lot of people tweeting this article along with a GamerGate hashtag. Let me be clear: I do not support a movement that calls into question the credibility of the job I spent nearly a decade doing. Numerous GamerGate members in the past have directly accused me of corruption with absolutely no evidence, purely because of what my job was. My comments on this article are in no way an indication of widespread corruption in the games media. One poorly written preview does not industry-wide shadiness make.
I also refuse to give my blessing to a group of which a proportion of its members harass women. I politely ask that you respect this: I am not going to get involved in any arguments about it. I’ve already wasted enough of my life being lectured by the illiterati on how feminism is apparently the worst thing ever, and I’m not prepared to indulge any more.
Apologies if you support the movement and the above disclaimer offends you in any way, but try to deal with it. Arguing with me about it is fruitless: I won’t be swayed.
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Michael Beckwith says:
Got to feel sorry for a guy who’s being paid to go to hotels and play videogames for free. Oh wait no you don’t. I’m not a fan of games like Rock Band myself but if someone said “Hey, wanna go play this game at a fancy hotel with free food with a bunch of people and write a preview on it,” I’d frigging do it because that sounds like a fun experience at least. I lost interest in reading that article after the first couple of paragraphs and it angers me how little this guy seems to care for his job. Where I work, I have to be enthusiastic whether I feel like it or not. It can’t be hard to do that when your work consists of you playing videogames.
I wouldn’t recommend even given Polygon a second glance. Back when Mario Kart 8 came out, someone on that site wrote a whole article about how Mario Kart is, like, one of the lowest selling franchises ever or some BS (I’d also like to add they later reported how Mario Kart 8 broke sales figures and STILL stuck to what they wrote).
ellectricmayhem says:
I absolutely fucking love you, Chris.
In this case, you get to say ‘fuck professionalism’ in my opinion, this Colin dipshit didn’t write a professional article (professionalism is more about attitude than getting paid – trust me, I know, I’m a musician) and so doesn’t deserve your professionalism. Part of a handful of games journos who I believe are deluding themselves that they’re Hunter Thompson and writing ‘Gonzo’ journalism, when all they are is self obsessed bores (hunter was both interesting and funny and made it seem effortless).
Anyway, been loving the blog since the demise of the best game site/mag ever and just had to poke my head out of my lurkey corner to say thanks for writing this. More please.
Chis this is an excellent article. You said it much better than I could’ve concerning everything wrong with where the industry is headed. To call out Polygon (the worst mainstream culprits of being cynical dickheads) I really don’t think their writers actually enjoy video games or devs at all. in fact I wonder if maybe their writers actually hate them. However, I know they do love having an open place to talk about how much they dislike everyone and everything.
I often feel like many modern gaming journalists tried to emulate Matt Casamassina and his work for N64.com, but they forget that in his prime as a writer how positive and how much Matt actually loved games for the shear joy of what they were.
Well, things sure have changed. No wonder Nintendo is having trouble finding audiences nowadays as the gaming “journalists” have become too angry and cynical to appreciate Nintendo’s zany enthusiasm.
God help us all
Peter Skerritt says:
The Polygon piece was an exceptionally disappointing read, and your well-stated reaction mirrors my own thoughts.
I’m sorry, but nobody cares that the writer here isn’t a fan of the series, or the music, or anything else. Nobody cares about his struggle with being tabbed to cover a game that he obviously couldn’t care less about if he tried. It comes off as a punishment piece that a school-age child had to write because he cheated on a test. It does zero service to the reader and zero service to the website– unless drawing in traffic to see how criminally awful the article is happens to be a service.
Some days, we don’t like our jobs. As professionals, though, we understand that it’s a private feeling. We don’t go making a public event of it, as the Polygon piece does. I lose a lot of respect for the writer and for the place that publishes such material when stuff like this happens. He’s not covering a war or how waste water treatment plants operate. It’s a video game. A GAME.
Definitely not Kate Gray says:
MATE. Come on now. Games are utter shit these days.
If they’re not 59fps, which LITERALLY makes my eyes ooze with pus, then they’re only, like, 900p, and QUITE FRANKLY that’s not what I pay £50 for. £50! And probably HOURS of my time.
I mean, everyone knows that developers just spend all day swimming in their pools of molten gold and sipping mimosas or some shit. The LEAST they could do is add another frame per second. I don’t know anything about computers or software but I’m PRETTY SURE you just have to write “+1 frame per second” in the code. DUH.
Anyway, you’re wrong, and as a well-informed and very, very smart man (definitely not a lady, they only pretend to like games to make manly men like me think they aren’t lizard people in skin suits) I will have to say that I am disappointed in you for even CONSIDERING that journalists have a job to do, and that the very NATURE of their job is to fucking do what they’re asked to do. I work in a bank, and all the bosses say “don’t steal all the money and put it in your pocket please” but I BLOODY DO IT ANYWAY. So there.
chrisscullion says:
You have outmatched me, ‘sir’.
Robert W Kingett says:
I was inspired to apply at Polygon https://blindjournalist.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/i-applied-to-polygon-with-this-cover-letter/
Sir, I tip my hat to you for saying so eloquently what we have all been thinking.
Matthew Jones (@mwjones99) says:
I don’t have much to add, other than that I completely agree with this. I’ve long given up on my dream of working in games writing. Maybe I wouldn’t have done if it weren’t for the cynical pricks who seem to be rising to the top.
jerobolod says:
Excellent article. Sums up my feelings perfectly, probably better than I could have done myself. As you say, I would have killed to be at that party, paid or not. So thank you. I’m off to hit that follow button up there.
abu dave says:
There’s nothing wrong with the Polygon article.
Why do we need to be told how “good” Rock Band 4 is? In the grand echelon of gaming, Rock Band is a thing of the past. There are more exciting, interesting innovative music games out there (Rocksmith). Rock Band 4 offers nothing new or interesting. Which is why that article is good. It shows the perspective of a outsider who has no passing interest in it, and confirms that Rock Band 4 is nothing more than just more Rock Band. Which is okay if you like Rock Band.
It’s like the Twisted Metal game for PS3. It’s more Twisted Metal. That’s good for Twisted Metal fans, but for anyone who was looking for a evolution or something new and innovative in car combat games, it offered nothing. Which is what Rock Band 4 is. It doesn’t do anything exciting. It’s just more Rock Band.
Smug political awareness aside, the article was totally fine. In fact, i’d take more issue with this article. The writer pulls the “But I do it for free and unappreciated!” card, which is unacceptable if they ever want to be seen as a serious writer. If you’re a fan of something, the gaming companies will exploit you to write about how great their product is. That doesn’t help ANYONE. Instead of a look at the merits of the game and new perspectives it becomes just another example of the gaming press fellating the gaming developers. What critical and analytical perspective are you going to provide for a game series you already have a interest in? And a vested one at that.
Polygon didn’t invite you to cover the event because they knew you’d eat up every word that Harmonix would give out. You’d pass over the technical problems and facade of playing because you “get along with Harmonix PR people.” Polygon did a brave thing. They didn’t let the gaming publishers manipulate the gaming press. I say bravo to Polygon.
With respect, I believe a lot of that is nonsense. Polygon didn’t invite me to cover the event because 1) It was based in the US and I live in London, and 2) I have never made myself known to Polygon’s editors.
Also, if you read the preview article I wrote on Rock Band 4 based on the UK event I attended today you will see that I did not in fact “pass over the technical problems” and made a point of mentioning them. I object to the insinuation that I am not suitable for covering games because I may somehow be an ‘easy’ journalist and too willing to write blindly positive articles. I pride myself on telling it like it is.
And, frankly, we need to be told how good Rock Band 4 is because the article is a preview of Rock Band 4. If the game offers nothing new or interesting then Polygon shouldn’t have sent anyone to cover it and should instead have assigned the writer a game they felt deserved coverage. If the message of the article was simply “Rock Band is no longer new or interesting” then there was no need to attend an event for that: such an article could have just been written in the office.
As for me “pulling the ‘I do it for free and unappreciated’ card”, I did this job paid for nine years and continue to do it unpaid because I love writing about games. I don’t do it for appreciation, otherwise my articles would be similar to the Polygon piece. If my articles only get ten hits each I’ll still write them, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be sore that someone who seemingly doesn’t enjoy doing it is getting paid for it.
But how would they know Rock Band 4 offers nothing new or exciting to new players without attending the event?
How much more self congratulatory can the gaming public withstand from game journalists and developers? Preview events aren’t preview events; they’re wankfests for the developers to be told how great they are. It’s like the american system of everyone gets a award. Polygon had the balls to spin it on it’s head and call out the event for what it is.
Why was Harmonix pretending their game is some kind of superstar simulator? Why was the game shown on a rooftop with high quality expensive pastries other than to elicit feelings from the gaming press and to court biased opinion on their pre-alpha gameplay? I didn’t mean to direct the finger solely at you, but you also fell hook line and sinker into their marketing. This Polygon author didn’t; he realized how inane the event was and that the game is nothing new or fancy.
I covered Liverpool FC for a LONG time for a major paper. If Liverpool had even thrown a press event about the unveiling of the pre-production pencil drawings of their newest kit on top of the Empire Theatre with expensive pastries it would’ve raised a few eyebrows. The gaming press is disgusting in it’s tactics and even more when people like yourself like to shine the “But we live the dream! Gamer cred!!!” card to justify it. You think I deserve to write articles about how great Liverpool is even when they lose because I “have the best job in the world and love the club”? No.
There’s a avenue for those kind of articles, and it’s Liverpool TV.
I’ve had enough of the circle jerk in gaming.
This is also in addition to the fact that you literally retweeted the main marketing and publishing person of a major corporation who gains more by positive previews than negative ones as a sign of “a job well done.” Disgusting. How do you justify that Chris?
I strongly object to your suggestion that I “fell hook line and sinker into [Harmonix’s] marketing”. If you have evidence that my opinion of the game was swayed by the conditions of the event then kindly present it.
With respect, you seem to be implying that no games journalist is capable of forming their own opinion: that somehow by having a pastry waved under their nose that instantly makes them the puppet of the publisher. That’s complete nonsense and frankly insulting to my intelligence.
I have written plenty of previews in the past where I haven’t liked what I’ve seen and said so. I happened to like what I saw of Rock Band 4. You have no right to tell me my own opinion was wrong.
As for me retweeting Major Nelson’s praise, I was happy to receive recognition from a notable member of the games industry and was happy to share it. I’m not sure how that’s anything other than transparent – would you rather it was a secret handshake out of sight from the public? Only when that tweet leads to me blindly promoting something Xbox-related can you then draw an association with corruption, but I warn you: you’ll be waiting a hell of a long time.
Sorry friend, but if you’re trying to find corruption or unethical behaviour from myself, you might as well be looking for bacon in a synagogue.
I’m not looking for corruption, I’m looking for you to be smarter and realize that his entire existence is to further the brand of Xbox and one aspect of that is getting good previews to drive preorders. Of course he doesn’t want negative previews. If you honestly think he’d ever say otherwise as someone who receives a check from any major corporation in the video game industry is silly; equally so on a corporate account.
I’m sorry to say your opinion of Rock Band is wrong; I didn’t mean to imply it that way, but I think you’re wrong to imply the Polygon’s writer opinion is any less valid than yours. If he didn’t like the game, then he’s the PERFECT person to send to a preview event. He’s not going to see the game with rose tinted glasses that a fan of the series would. He’s going to be even more impressed if they managed to do more with it.
Yes, his nonsensical political flamboyancy was off putting and un-needed, but it’s embarrassing to have you put personal insults at him because he “doesn’t appreciate the job”. I’m sure he enjoys it just as much as you. He probably wanted to be wowed by Rock Band. He wasn’t. His title of his article was what all previews boil down to. “More of the same.”
Look, you aren’t getting what I’m saying here. Had the Polygon writer played the game and delivered a negative opinion, that would be completely fine. Like I say, I have no problem with negative previews: I’ve written plenty in the past.
My issue is that he didn’t even have an opinion on the game, because he freely admits he didn’t play it and instead stood in the corner drinking and talking politics. When your job is to write a preview of the game, you’re expected to play the thing and give an opinion based on what you played.
My issue is not that he may have disliked the game, it’s that he didn’t even give it the courtesy of his attention when his job requires him to do so.
All this stuff about press events swaying journalists and him breaking the trend by being honest is complete nonsense – he didn’t do his job by checking out the game and as such didn’t give a valid opinion on it, be that positive or negative.
You say: “If he didn’t like the game, then he’s the PERFECT person to send to a preview event.” It’s exactly this negative attitude that I hate. People read games publications because they’re fans of gaming and want to be excited about upcoming games – sending someone who explicitly dislikes a game to cover it is just a terrible way of doing things.
Yes, he might be pleasantly surprised and we’ll end up with a lovely article on how someone saw the light. But 19 times out of 20 you’ll get exactly what you’d expect: them saying “yup, I still hate it”. Meanwhile, the readers who actually do care about the game or genre are left none the wiser.
And kindly don’t tell me I need to “be smarter” – I know how this business works. I didn’t spend four years getting a journalism degree and taking various media law and ethics courses to be lectured on how to handle relationships with PRs.
Hoya Mutsberger says:
“Why do we need to be told how “good” Rock Band 4 is? In the grand echelon of gaming, Rock Band is a thing of the past. There are more exciting, interesting innovative music games out there (Rocksmith).”
Yes, I absolutely adore getting all of my friends around to play Rocksmith. Oh wait…it’s a single-player game. Sorry, learning tool.
In short, do fuck off. You have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about, and you make that abundantly clear from your very first chicken-pecked sentence: “There’s nothing wrong with the Polygon article.”
To say “Polygon did a brave thing. They didn’t let the gaming publishers manipulate the gaming press. I say bravo to Polygon.” is a lovely piece of comedy. You’re saying that this writer, who wouldn’t have written ANYTHING about Rock Band 4 was it not for the rooftop party and the puff pastries (provided by the publisher) was not manipulated into writing about the game by the publisher’s rooftop party and puff pastries? That’s what you’re sayng? He went from a point of no interest to a point of writing an article entitled “Rock Band 4 is doing a lot of the fun things you want it to do” BECAUSE of the publisher’s “manipulation.”
And Rock Band 4 actually does quite a lot of exciting things. Things that will be appreciated by fans and those who haven’t played the game before. If you’d played any of the RB titles, you’d realise that the changes are actually quite significant in places.
You’re an absolute imbecile, sir. Blinded by the absolute trash that Polygon come out with on a daily basis. You keep on telling yourself that you’re sat with the cool kids. We’ll just sit here and laugh at you.
I’m saying he went to the event and saw it for the farce it was; a company trying to pretend their pre-alpha gameplay was anything more than what it was; just more of the same. But continue with the personal insults instead, i’m sure that’s really helping you out in your career.
Michael Miller says:
The issue with the Polygon article, which I read first, before being directed here by some comments on that article, is not that it offers a unique perspective on a possibly tired trend in gaming. The issue is that the article was presented to the readers as a preview of the game, and instead almost entirely focused on the authors own dislike for the genre and game which he was sent to preview.
I wouldn’t have minded one bit if he had spent his time discussing why this particular iteration of the Rock Band franchise provided nothing new beyond the novelty of “playing” popular music on a plastic guitar. In fact, I would have loved for him to have outlined some of the new features coming in Rock Band 4, and explained why he, as someone who doesn’t generally enjoy this type of game, felt that these features didn’t make the game any more worthwhile.
The issue is that people like myself frequent Polygon as a source for news about upcoming games that we’re excited about. I personally can’t wait to get my hands on Rock Band 4, because I loved all the first 3, and am just about ready to drop another 100 bucks or so on the new version. I clicked on that article excited to hear some new tidbits of information about the game, and instead read a very sad story about a man who went to a party he didn’t enjoy where people were exhuberantly playing a game he didn’t like. Simply put, Colin didn’t do his job. Had the piece been labeled as Opinion, there wouldn’t have been a problem. As it stands, it was supposed to preview the current state of Rock Band 4, and it didn’t do that in the slightest.
Krankes Hirn says:
“There’s nothing wrong with the Polygon Article”
Well, that’s a bit of an exageration, specially since it’s more of a self-congratulatory piece for the author rather than something that gives any insight on the game or even the industry which it is a part of.
I get it, in theory an additional perspective is good for us all, hooray! But a perspective from someone who doesn’t care about the subject is about as useful as the perspective of a surgeon on Mars’ climate. It might make for somehting never seen, but once you get to it you’ll realize it is something devoid of substance and more of a gimmick.
And besides that, I think the perspective of an outsider who hasn’t cared much about the game is of dubious value. For starters, people who don’t care about the game (such as myself) won’t read an article about it, they just can’t be arsed. And if there’s something I would care less about rockband, is whatever other people who don’t care have to say about it. You have to be a petulant man to think there’s something worth reading there, but “hey!, let’s bring up politics in the Phillipines because I do have some great insights on the politics of a country who elected a professional boxer into their house of representatives.
mcmax3000 says:
We don’t necessarily need to be told how good Rock Band 4 is. If it’s not very good, he should tell us that it’s not very good, and give us reasons why it’s not very good.
Instead, he talked about how much he doesn’t care about the genre, and then, while not actually saying it in such words, he heavily implied that he never actually played the game that he’s writing a preview of, choosing instead to sit, and engage in unrelated conversations with other people at the event.
As someone who is looking for information about the new Rock Band, that article failed spectacularly on every single level. I learned absolutely nothing about the game.
If he wants to write an opinion piece about why he doesn’t care about music games, go right ahead, but don’t write that piece, and pass it off as a preview of a new game in the series. That’s disrespectful to your readers, and Polygon should be ashamed of even posting the article in that manor.
Mark Kéy-Balchin (MarkKB) says:
Okay, I didn’t see these thoughts in the replies above, so here goes:
You said “[Mr. Scullion]’d pass over the technical problems” (I doubt that’s true, but whatever), but the thing is, that’s exactly what the Polygon article did. It did not contain enough detail to do that – in fact, it passed over describing the new Rock Band in any detail at all. I didn’t learn anything except for Mr. Campbell’s disdain for Rock Band and that he was too busy chatting to his friend to care about the event. (Mr. Campbell didn’t even tell us the details of his conversation beyond the general category, which would have at least made the article a bit more interesting.)
It barely even criticised the game or genre as a whole, let alone this version of it. Well, it briefly talked about the ‘pressing coloured buttons in a rhythm’ thing, which is a bit like critiquing Bejeweled for its reliance on swapping algorithmically-generated coloured gems to get rows of four. It might not be for you, but lots of people find it entertaining, cathartic, and, yes, fun. And there was that jab at Activision and their policy of ‘burn out both the developers and customers in the pursuit of money’, which is something everyone is already against and something that, hopefully, publishers are realising the badness of. But I digress.
The point is that if this is that if these are the problems the writer chooses to talk about – vague, ethereal things with little detail – rather than problems with the game itself, how this version works, here and now? If the key takeaway from the piece is not “here’s what’s in this version of Rock Band, good or bad” but “Mr. Campbell doesn’t really like Rock Band and wishes he was elsewhere”? Well, it’s not a very good preview at all, is it?
Kerry-Lee Copsey says:
It had to be said, and you’ve said it all too well, Chris. So disheartening to see articles written with zero effort which are completely irrelevant to the topic at hand becoming more and more frequently featured on huge publications such as Polygon. Like thousands of others, I’d give anything to attend press events and cover upcoming games for a living, so shite like that is just sickening to read. Just outrageously unacceptable and unprofessional journalism.
Mark Richard says:
I don’t think treating the job as sacred is necessarily a good thing (that can lead to terrible pay and conditions), but there’s no denying it’s highly regarded and something thousands of people do for free.
That preview… is baffling. The writer outright says he doesn’t want to be there.
“I don’t care about rock music. I dislike crowds and I dislike loud noises.”
“Look, sometimes in this job you gotta cover games you don’t really give a stuff about.”
Who do we feel more sorry for – the publisher/developer that brought this guy to a ‘pricey hotel’ only to have him give precisely zero shits about covering their product despite that being his job? The readers who gained nothing from this non-article but an excessive amount of personal information about the writer? Or the writer himself, who displays a total lack of enthusiasm for such a sought-after job?
tudsworth says:
I always say on Twitter, whenever somebody throws a Polygon article my way, that their writers -hate- video games… because they really do, and nowhere is it clearer than articles like this – being so disinterested in a product you are paid (no matter how poorly) to cover should be career suicide in a field as openly contested as games journalism – one where enthusiasts do the same job as the professionals for free or as-good-as-free, out of their love for the medium. The fact it isn’t is a big problem, much bigger than some nebulous approximation of ethical standards in the enthusiast press, the framerates of the latest Codfield Warfighter shooty bang shoot shoot; or games shipping unfit for purpose, crashing or bricking your expensive games system.
But that’s all beside the point I want to make here. I’m fed up of “cynical” games journalism becoming the new “angry” gaming journalism, the plague of Youtube webshows and gaming blogs circa 5 years ago; it devalues the increasingly rare people who manage to pull it off, and it merely contributes to this “the entire industry’s fucked” air that sites like Polygon like to perpetuate for precious clicks. The industry’s far from fucked – 40 hours spent playing a game about squidkids I’ve owned for maybe four days says otherwise, as does the absolute wealth of cracking games that have been released in the past 6 months alone, not to mention the future, looking brighter than ever with a boatload of great stuff to look forward to, both big budget and indie. The fact these people are getting paid, and the fact we’re technically giving them lip service by even discussing them, is more harmful to the industry than any mediocre preview article more concerned with the political climate in the Philippines will ever be.
Neowarden says:
Reblogged this on neowarden.
Haha Time For Truth says:
> I also refuse to give my blessing to a group of which a proportion of its members harass women.
Man, that’s like every politically active group. Even some feminists harass some women for being the wrong kind of feminist or otherwise not feminist enough.
And that’s why I don’t really give my blessing to any polticially active group. I believe in what I believe in and don’t wish to be seen to be endorsing any movement.
C.P. Dalton says:
This kind of attitude is why solidarity is dead, and all politics is controlled by cabals of monied interests nowadays.
If you reduce everything to an atomized, individual decision, existing hierarchies & power structures win, perpetuating their dominance over governance.
Because your individual opinion is meaningless & powerless without the force multiplier of an organizational platform, as you yourself are similarly meaningless & powerless as an individual human being, considering how economies of scale (which affect absolutely every aspect of our lives) operate.
Still though, at least Rock Band 4 is decent
defektiv says:
“I also refuse to give my blessing to a group of which a proportion of its members harass women.”
#Gamergate is not a group, it is an idea. The idea that journalists should be ethical, and by extension, that the games industry should be free to make the games they want to make without ideological bullying coming from the press that is supposed to be fairly covering the games. That’s it. If someone does things that support those ideas, then they support #gamergate. If they do something that hurts those ideas, such as harassing women, then they are trolls or false flags from ideological opponents trying to derail the revolt. Please don’t buy into the corrupt media’s narrative. Yes, not all games media is corrupt, but a large swath of the major sites are and have been for quite some time, and they have used that corruption to push false narratives of misogyny in order to deflect attention from their own bad behavior.
I’m sorry if you’re expecting a similarly large reply, but I’ve argued this countless times with others in the past and don’t want to go through the same arguments over and over again. Life’s too short. I disagree with you, please accept this so we can get on with our lives.
NinjaMic (@NinjaMicWZ) says:
Yeah, I just read that article and this. What an amateur attempt at being Detroit Rock City for games events. I guess that’s the new direction now? Writing about the elbows being rubbed and the vision quests you went on with the dev team in a sweat box in the desert? If only that guy could’ve even mustered that, but instead, he wrote about himself and his oh-so-interesting/meaningful apathy because there was no “band” experience to convey, and even if there was… he would have kept his distance because that’s not his scene, and he’s got to talk to the ticket taker about Victorian era architecture.
Meowmix says:
As much as I agree with this article, weren’t you also producing reviews for ONM that were completely devoid of any real opinions and were just tiny placeholders about a game that you needed to shove a review out for?
Examples please? I’ve never written a review that was “completely devoid of any real opinions”. Every game I reviewed on ONM – from the big-name first-party titles to the DSiWare and so-called shovelware games, was treated with the same initial respect.
Granted, some of the reviews may have been in a smaller ‘capsule’ format but that was more due to space limitations in the magazine. It makes sense that when you have a limited number of pages you’ll give four pages to a review of a Mario game but maybe a quarter of a page to a smaller eShop title.
But I always ensured that whether my review was 2000 words or 200 words, my opinion on whether the game’s worth buying took priority.
“being lectured by the illiterati on how”
Are you proud of that one? You should be, because damn, it’s 10 out of 10.
stevenperkins says:
Yeah, but IGN only gave it a 9.7/10, which was an OUTRAGE, etc.
UnSubject says:
And only 7 out of 10 from Polygon.
Dominic Brady says:
Good article ruined by confirming your mangina status at the end.
Think that comment says more about you than me, man. Keep it classy.
lambo says:
Disappointing to hear your opinions on GamerGate.
Refreshing to hear your opinions about enthusiast press.
Sorry man. Thanks for the kind words though.
It’s fine buddy. We can disagree on issues and agree on others, that’s what adults do.
For what it’s worth, you seem to be a journo who is passionate about what I’m passionate about, and that’s good enough for me.
Neecal says:
This is the same guy who wrote a very similar article about Just Dance 2014, calling it the lowest point in his career. So, the staff should have known he wouldn’t give a fuck about Rock Band 4, seeing as how it is also a rhythm game that requires the player to have fun (and he seems to want to avoid having fun so). I don’t get how he can admit that he doesn’t care about doing his job and still have said job.
I have yet to see that article, but as a journalist myself, my editor would have me booted if I handed that kind of article in
Monster says:
Hello. I’d just like to do a quick comment, on the addendum at the end; Here’s some statistics;
https://i.imgur.com/z2kfbyx.png
Would you say, more than 0.66% of journalism is corrupt? If yes, then I do believe there is no problem in me saying, as you would,
“I also refuse to give my blessing to a profession of which a proportion of its practicioners are corrupt. I politely ask that you respect this: I am not going to get involved in any arguments about it. I’ve already wasted enough of my life being lectured by the illiterati on how ethics is apparently the worst thing ever, and I’m not prepared to indulge any more.”
I believe you would also not give your blessing to black people because more than 0.66% of them might be criminals, yes?
Wow. That’s some pretty special logic there.
Both cases are “I condemn this group where less than 1% of the participants allegedly did bad things”. Please do explain how the total size of said group makes one case of libel acceptable, and the other not.
Selective evidence is not evidence. Taking 9000 or so examples and ignoring everything else is just flawed. You can’t tell me that what you’re presenting to me is fact when there are reputable articles stating the opposite of what you say: http://www.newsweek.com/gamergate-about-media-ethics-or-harassing-women-harassment-data-show-279736
I’m not discussing this further. Your “statistics” don’t hide the evidence I’ve been shown by women harrassed in the past. If even one person harrasses a women in the name of GamerGate, I don’t want to support it. I’m trying to be polite about this so please pack it in.
You see, this is all what I wanted you to say.
“If even one person harrasses a women in the name of GamerGate, I don’t want to support it. ”
Also how you say harassing women is bad, but if it is anyone else then it is acceptable.
I will pack it in as you put it. But here’s just some food for thought, if you would care to further give it any:
Your first response, instead of answering the question or explaining yourself, was an ad hominem “I will now avoid you by implying you have special needs, and therefore your argument is invalid”. That does not seem “polite”. Nor does “you, your friends and family are all woman-hating harassers because the media said this person – who posted a twitter hashtag you used once – said unpolite things to this woman”.
As you say, if even one person did something, then the entire group condones it. What else will you not support if a single person within that sphere was said by the media to have done something wrong? Because if you were to not have double standards, and applied this same standard to anything else, you’d be living as a hermit in the mountains, I feel.
An apology or at least an explanation for libeling thousands was all I hoped, that was it, nothing more. I fully expect you to delete everything, close the comments section and pass this off as it never happened, however, as per the norm in these cases.
First of all, I take enormous exception to your implication that I said you had special needs. In no way whatsoever was I saying that and that’s pretty low to put those words in my mouth. ‘Special’ in the context I used it means irregular or atypical, not disabled.
Similarly, as for the “you, your friends and family are all woman-hating harassers” bit – putting something in quote marks doesn’t suddenly make it a quote. At what point did I say anything about you, your family or your friends?
A proportion of GamerGaters harass women. That can’t be argued. The link I gave you showed this. I don’t care about the percentage: if it’s 1% or 90% it’s still more than 0% and so I don’t support it. End of story.
You will not get an apology from me, I libelled nobody, and I will delete nothing because I don’t believe in censoring people’s opinions, no matter how objectionable I find them.
Please stop jumping to conclusions, putting words in my mouth and criticising me in advance for things I never planned to do. You’re only making yourself look worse.
For someone who agreed to pack it in, you’re doing it in an interesting way.
Jonny Monroe (@GilgameshOnBass) says:
Couldn’t reply lower in this thread. I assume you’ve turned off discussion on the subject but I Would like to think that if you’re going to post statistics from that newsweek article you would conceed that it be fair that an analysis of those statistics also be posted.
https://medium.com/@cainejw/a-statistical-analysis-of-gamergate-utilizing-newsweek-data-e2bada31ea7e
Aside from posting a questionable newsweek article, making statements and then refusing to defend those statements in the same paragraph? this article summed up my thoughts succinctly. Polygon’s reviewer is interpreting his own disillusionment of the industry as a failing of the industry. After I read it, I just had this feeling that the writer was in the wrong job. Then I went and read some other rock band 4 coverage because his article had none.
As I said earlier I’m done with arguing about this, but to clarify I haven’t turned off discussion. The structure of the WordPress commenting system only allows up to three replies. Annoying but can’t be helped. As I said in another reply, I do not believe in banning or deleting comments unless it’s spam or something inappropriate.
can’t edit my other post in this thread? Damn, poor commenting system. It ate the link I was going to provide. Lets see if it does so again.
1st of all, you cannot find any large group of any kind where you do find at least 1 person ding bad stuff, let’S say in this case harassment.
what matters is how the group itself threat such people claiming to be one of theirs.
Gamergate has always condemned harassment, and even actively seek out and exposed some of them. while the opposition supported each others even when they said such thing as GG being worse that ISIS, or MRA nuts, or any accusation under the sun.
also while we’re at it, Gamergate favorise discourse, when someone come into our hubs to challenge us in good faith, we have good exchange, when we are divided on an issue, we discuss it.
while the other side has a hard line, and we seen many people that as soon they started disagreeing with some things, being thrown under the bus. now here’s a mob mentality right there.
in fact a member of the Society of Professional Journalism is setting up a debate about gaming, ethics, and ideologies. and we are really looking forward having a proper debate.
Rikuo says:
What the other person is saying here is correct. Your statement there, as quoted, logically means that you then don’t support ANY group if even just 1% of them harass women. Every group has its lunatic fringe, every group has people who harass men, women, children, racial minorities, etc.
I understand the spirit of what you’re saying, but just the way you word it makes you come off as if you have a zero tolerance approach and are hypocritical. I’m pretty sure that there are groups you do support (I have no idea who, this is the first article from you I’ve read, I’ve literally never heard of you before today) who have 1% women harassers.
Look. Give up. We know it isn’t 1%. Let’s not argue semantics. I’m trying my best to be firm but fair here – I’m not interested in being associated with it. Even putting the harassment of women aside – which I remain firm on – this is a group that calls into question the profession I was in for nine months. Not just select individuals but the entire profession. The number of times I’ve seen “games journalism is corrupt”, as if it’s some sort of card we all carry, is ridiculous. No matter how you try to spin it, I’m not supporting a group that used to call me and my peers into question with such ridiculous blanket accusations. Enough, please.
somedude says:
Tbh, I read both your and his review, and the only relevant bit about the actual *game* you provided that he didn’t, was basically stating the fact that it’s still the same game as rock band 3 with minor tweaks and that the alpha is buggy. Which is okay, since nothing more needs to be said about it, quite frankly (and you don’t need to play the game to know this). So *both of you* wrote about something else. The polygon guy wrote about the actual event he visited, his personal stance regarding games like that, and how he sees the experience of playing that game. You wrote about something we could call meta-information (history of the genre, stuff about the dev, game should be ready at E3, competition with guitar hero). (I did not watch the interview)
Not saying there’s anything wrong with either approach, but the information about the actual gameplay experience of *either* article could probably be condensed in like 3 tweets. At best. If there are any significant changes to the core games (like one of your commenters here is mentioning), neither of you journalists managed to notice them.
And btw (sorry for double post), I don’t think there’s anything wrong with him admitting that, as a gamer, he couldn’t give a flying fuck about sodding Rock Band 4. Because anything else would have been a lie. Games are very diverse, I personally enjoy arena fps like quake or reflex, and I am part of the communities playing these games. In my opinion, I should be able to state that I hate party games without being accused to be completely without passion for the entirety of videogames (*or writing about games*).
He also made it very clear that, from the experience he had watching other people play, the previewed game is apparently good at its promise, since people who enjoy that kind of thing are clearly able to have fun with the alpha.
There’s nothing wrong with him not caring about Rock Band, but if he cares so little about the game/series/genre that he wrote that article, he should’ve just never bothered writing a preview in the first place.
Like you say, you didn’t watch the interview. The interview was part of the preview, in which the contents of the game are discussed for a solid ten minutes. That’s significantly more useful than had I just stood in the corner watching.
wheresmymonkey says:
As someone who has spent the best part of three years as basically an unpaid games jounalist. Writing hundreds of articles for nothing. Liasing with PR reps and pubs, going through the whole song and dance to get review copies, email interviews and if I was really lucky an invite to the occasional press event in the vain hope of getting noticed enough to either a) be offered a gig at a paying ste or b) build up enough of a following so the blogs I currently write for can go pro so to speak, the actions of this gobshite at Polygon, fuck me off and then some.
I could quit at any time, in some respects my life would be a lot easier if i did. I still have a full time job on top of helping to run a game’s site and doing the mountains of work that entails, but i just can’t!
I love it far too much, and i love the medium too much to stop.
I have mixed thoughts about the article. On one hand, I’m in total agreement with Chris in that it’s disrespectful, and I simply don’t understand how on earth Polygon could have picked him to attend the event. It’s also extremely unprofessional, and is akin to a sports writer writing about how much he hates the team he’s covering rather than writing about the game like he’s supposed (and paid) to.
On the other hand, I’ll also admit that I found it entertaining and somewhat refreshing. While it didn’t give any information about the game itself, I do feel like I’ve gotten a bit of a glimpse into an oft-unlit corner of the gaming industry, even if the author did come off like a douchebag. And let’s face it – if I want to read about the features in the new Rock Band, there are plenty of places to do that just a click away.
mattducz says:
Well said. I couldn’t get more than a few sentences into the article in question. “I this, I that…” Nobody cares about you, they care about Rock Band 4, which is why they’re on the site. To vent on a personal blog is one thing (case in point), but to use Polygon’s (usually pretty decent) platform to do this is just a slap in the face to the gaming industry. I would kill for that job. And I actually know about the gaming industry because I don’t focus on politics in other countries (let alone this one). Sad state of affairs when a guy gets a dream job and still complains about it.
Cori Myers says:
Chris, I adore this on so many levels and this very thing is why I have had my site offline for about 2 years while I watch what’s happening in the industry. It’s not just the journalists who are Shite (I’m an American and this is one of my FAVORITE non American swear words) it’s the publications and in some cases even the developers themselves. No one had any respect for games journalism any more. We had a developer actually STALK us to tell us how they hated our review of a finished game. We’ve had some refuse to give us copies of games to review because of the tired old ‘You’re women’ excuse, just everything under the sun. I read this and I had to stand up a chear. Fuck Fizzy Water and polygon, I’m drinking coffee and we’re coming back online. (Sorry shameless plug here, lol) Rock on Chris, you’ve got new fans in us.
Yessssss! Give me a link when you go back online, would be nice to have a look at the site. Chris
And I swear I can spell the word Cheer, damn fizzy water.
Pete S says:
Friend of mine pointed me to this post; hadn’t heard of your site before.
Adding you to Feedly; so nice to read someone who still appreciates how amazing games are.
(And sorry for the fawning, off-topic comment.)
I swore off Polygon a while ago and I’m glad I did. This was my first visit there in a while and it just re-affirmed my decision.
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Charles Kay says:
Great blog – but I vehemently disagree!
I loved this guy’s article – he gave me a short and welcome insight into the banality of reviewing a game that he had no interest in – without trashing the game. Hardcore gamers DON’T buy Rockband in sufficient numbers – ‘Average’ gamers do. Average gamers don’t read Polygon. Ergo – no foul and I as a hardcore gamer am still open to RockBand being worth reading about when it hits review time.
I imagine his editor let it run because it was well written and had insight – not necessarily the insight you might be looking for – but valid nevertheless.
That’s fine, but don’t run it as a preview piece for the game. Anybody clicking on a preview of Rock Band 4 is looking for insight into Rock Band 4. If the article is going to provide insight on something else instead, run the article with a different title, and scope.
Run an opinion piece, or an editorial titled “What it’s like to go to a preview event of a game you don’t care about”, or something like that. Do that, and this article is fine. Run it as a preview of Rock Band 4, and it becomes an insult to your readers that are clicking on that article expecting to find out about Rock Band 4.
lewism109 says:
I am a GamerGate supporter and I would never accuse you of corruption, unless of course if there is evidence. But getting onto this article, Chris you are right, when I read articles about gaming, I expect it to be about gaming, nothing else. There has been many articles and reviews that should be talking about the game but somehow also contain gender politics bullshit that I don’t care about. Why are some journalists caring about for example, how there is no female protagonist in a game so they call it misogynistic? Personally I couldn’t give a rats ass of what’s my character’s gender because all I care about is the game any good?
With respect though, some women do want to have their gender represented more fairly in games and personally I think they should have the right to campaign for this without being criticised for it.
fair enough, but you can’t have a game that appeal to everyone, it’s about target audience. and you can create games to fit any of those audience, wide and niche. The problem arise when a game is being shat upon because it don’t cater to a specific sub-group. if a game does not have a woman protagonist, it does not make the game misogynistic. Even more, a game is a story, you can well have an NPC in it that’s say racist againt elves, that does not make the game racist.
what happen is that creative freedom is attacked. shaming developers into being “inclusive” for the sake of pleasing the easily offended. and it never end well, you get a game with a scandinavian setting getting bad review cuz they is no token minority. at the same time, if they include it they get shit on for having a token minority instead of 50/50, and it just get worse.
Developers should be allowed to create the story they want, with the characters having the flaw that best serve the story, if it’s needed.
if enough womens start playing video games, game companies WILL create games for them. But since
ATM it’S still mainly a male audience, you will have proportionately more game aimed toward them.
Also, if a company create a game for a woman, I won’t play it, but I sure as hell won’t whine about the game not being aimed for me. I might even recommend it to friends if I know it’s in their tastes.
pantalaemon says:
If you dont give a rats ass you will be ok with 80% of main charas in games with fixed main chara being not male, not white and not openly heterosexual?
If yes, great, but you arent allowed to say how much you dont care(and imply that everyone else should do it too? I hope not. That’d be a bit rude.
Polygon is interesting in that they’ve gone from their original longform and deeper gaming pieces into a lot more articles on general nerd pop culture plus related clickbait. I think the recent nadir was giving Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” video clip a space at the top of the page because the clip vaguely (and badly) referenced a number of geek films.
They’ve become Kotaku 2.0. And it seems to be working given their apparently viewer number keep rising.
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Mikel E. Crawford says:
Great opinion piece on the Polygon Article, though you might want to write about your stance on the GamerGate controversy; it seems you remain neutral on this, despite acknowledging the fact that many women were harassed because of it.
I’d like to keep my true stance on it to myself for now, if that’s okay. Truth be told I get enough hassle from some members as it is so were I to stoke those flames any more it would get ridiculous. It should hopefully be clear based on this and my previous articles that I don’t support it and have no intentions of ever doing so. I’m certainly not neutral, then, but at the same time I’d much rather write about games than give it any more publicity. Hope you understand man.
True, but at least you didn’t outright condemn it to be a hate mob against women in gaming.
That’s because I’m sure there’s a proportion – big or small though it may be – that genuinely believes it’s about media ethics. Though it’s clear to me that there are strong anti-woman undertones there, to paint every single one of them with that brush would be hypocritical of me considering my disapproval of the way they paint the entire games journalism industry as corrupt. That said, there IS an anti-woman element there, which I have seen evidence of, and for that reason I can’t support it no matter how many ‘friendly’ types try to convince me otherwise with tales of charitable donations and the like.
Harry Ticonderoga says:
If you’re talking about the TFYC donation which spawned Vivian James, I’ll just flat out say it here.
That donation was from 4chan’s videogames board. It’s a place where even most users of the site hate with a passion, and that is a place which regularly adopts the “cynical, everything is terrible forever” attitude internet tabloid sites like Kotaku and Polygon love to espouse. And to top it off, those guys are so rabidly anti-gaming it makes most users of 4chan look bad. Mind you, the place is usually called “the anus of the internet”, and for very good reason. I speak from experience and being a regular user of the place in question.
And yes, there is a core minority that is genuinely interested in media ethics and the like, but when a portion of the movement dons a bloody tinfoil hat and goes on about conspiracy theories, it’s not a very good sign.
It’s not like I don’t sympathize with them, seeing as I live in Singapore, but a portion of their movement hates gaming and wants to see it die a bloody, painful death, and then you have the crazing woman-hating portion…
There’s a good reason why a lot of devs don’t speak up.
Also do keep in mind that the movement is a largely American phenomenon, where the media culture is very, very different from journalism in Britain. I can’t exactly speak for either, but America doesn’t seem to have a very good grasp of ethics while Britain has the BBC at least.
Many of the people I follow and support in regards to gamergate are actually english… a few polish… those are just the people who have an audience, who knows for the silent majority. All I know is I’ve dealt with a more diverse group of people that support consumers and gamergate then I have ever seen writing for a game website. Just my two cents.
You do realise games journalism extends beyond the US and UK, don’t you? Eurogamer alone has eleven different national sites with journalists from France, Sweden, Holland, Italy, Belgium and the like. They’ve even got a non-European site in Brasilgamer.
Either way, your point is completely ridiculous. I don’t care if you know some English people and a couple of Poles who support GamerGate. I don’t care if the fucking United Colours Of Benetton support it. I will never support something that calls me and my peers corrupt by default – as you yourself have admitted you do. It’s just common sense.
Honestly its disappointing, you seem like a reasonable person so I expected better.
I wont try to change your opinion as you seem set in your ignorance, however I will tell you how this article made me feel, it gave me hope. Hope that there were and are still good people who love video games in your industry, and just want to report on them.
So tired of being told I’m part of a hate group because I stand up for my rights as a consumer against a product I do not want, and a specialist media that for years has excluded me and seems to despise the hobby I have loved for so long.
That hope was pretty quickly crushed however… you clearly aren’t corrupt… and I still think you are likely a decent person… but your choice to side with ignorance and put your industry ahead of your consumer is a poor choice to make.
I’m glad you keep writing about a hobby you love even unpaid, still doing a better job at it then most who are… but you aren’t what we need. A dedication to the truth is just as important as your love of the hobby and your effort you put into your work.
Also as for people calling you corrupt without cause or reason, I will say this. My default position when interacting with someone who is a game journalist is that they are corrupt until proven otherwise. Now as unfair as that may seem I am not the system… I am not restrained by any standards… I am your consumer. It’s a pretty sad day when the relationship between a producer and it’s consumer is so toxic. While again I don’t believe you are corrupt, you have done nothing but reinforce that animosity and rift between us. I know you probobly don’t care… but you should.
I’m sorry but can’t you see the breathtaking hypocrisy in what you just said? Your default position is that every single games journalist is “corrupt until proven otherwise”. That means, until two days ago when I wrote that article, if you’d encountered me you’d have decided I was corrupt without absolutely any evidence whatsoever. And yet in your other comment you say you’re disappointed that I’m too ignorant to back your cause? Do you seriously think for a second I’d back something where some of its members (including you, as you admit) start with the default opinion that myself and all of my peers are corrupt? What in the world makes you think I’d nod and say “yup, fair enough, I must be then”? Try to see this from my point of view – or, even better yet, just don’t bother pointing widespread accusations at people.
At no point do I “put my industry ahead of my consumer”, but at the same time I greatly object to being called ignorant just because I’ve seen no evidence of the so-called widespread corruption you claim my peers are guilty of. I’m not about to magically invent some wrong-doing just to support your message.
Zac Davis (@thatzacdavis) says:
I pretty much wholeheartedly agree with everything you wrote, especially the stuff you added to the bottom.
eastx says:
I absolutely agree with this piece as well. Collin’s story at Polygon is the worst piece of professional gaming journalism that I’ve ever seen. He does his fellow journos (and the readers, and Rock Band 4) a disservice.
Err, Colin. Shame we can’t edit our comments.
Larry Bundy says:
Lol, I know plenty of journos who only go to these events for the free drinks and stuff, to the point they badger others on Facebook to be their +1’s.
Then again I know publisher PR people that don’t give a shit either and use the company’s card to buy booze for their mates and do nothing on the games whatsoever. A certain PR woman from a certain publisher that bought the rights to another certain publisher that went bankrupt immediately comes to mind. >:)
But to be honest, they’re gaming journalists, there’s no actual “journalism” above having to reiterate press releases or do interviews that are essentially the same thing. No one is going to read their piece anyway as some clueless 20 year old Minecraft Let’s Player on YouTube gets a hundred times the views they do. Hanging around with their cliquey friends is one of the few perks for them once the veneer of getting to play games all day wears off.
I don’t know, Larry. The actual writing and interview processes are both a lot of fun and improve the journalist’s craft, whether or not the content produced differs dramatically from another outlet’s.
We all have to write about games we don’t care about sometimes. We’re just not usually dicks about it.
I respectfully disagree. To some (like me) these events are a way to play upcoming games and tell readers how they’re coming along. I’m tee-total, so if the events were just for free drinks I’d never go to any of them. I also disagree that gaming journalism isn’t “actual journalism” – I think you’re falling into the usual trap of deciding investigative journalism is the only type that exists.
Well that’s what events are supposed to be, I see a few people who are genuinely there for the games, but there are a few bad eggs that ruin it and those are the people I’m really talking about.
My “actual journalism” is really aimed at people who just re-word press releases, more so that try and make them click bait articles and/or put in misleading titles, Just last week I came across at least two articles about the rumour that Microsoft had bought the rights to Silent Hills and made it an XB1 exclusive and rephrased it like they had the exclusive conformation that it was actually true. That’s the junk that really peeves me off.
Am I right in assuming that the certain PR woman left to work for an online publication with a provocative and awkward name, and has now been sent to an echo chamber off world? 😉
I get the impression this analysis applies more to the American game journo “scene” than the British one. I’m not denying that certain writers do see the career path as an excuse for free booze and swag the world over, but the culture and the little clique that have built around it seems to have its roots more in sites like Polygon, Kotaku and the other indistinguishable clickbait farms; and you’re 100% right – they’ll plumb the depths of obscurity while their target audience gets their gaming news elsewhere or ignores it all outright to watch some Swedish bloke forget that “indoor voices” are a concept. Meanwhile, the people who are there because they want to write about the games, the ones who bring their own little flair to the content to make it a more worthwhile, interesting or funny read will survive the awkward phase games journalism seems to be in right now, and that makes me incredibly happy. Now, we can only hope the clickbait farms choke on their own bile or something to quicken that process.
devinvaldivia says:
You’ve earned yourself a new follower, sir. Very good response to a very frustrating piece of writing.
:V says:
“I do not support a movement that believes my profession is largely doing a poor job. I feel offended. Also some of those people harass women and don’t like more extreme feminists. So obviously they are all scumbags. My mind is closed.”
You know, putting something in quote marks doesn’t mean I said it. You’re literally putting words in my mouth, words I didn’t say. Grow up and stop twisting things.
issueskid says:
Great article Chris, I used to follow you when you worked for the Official Nintendo Magazine so I’m pleasantly surprised I’ve stumbled on this site. Keep up the great work 🙂
Cheers! Hope you keep reading my stuff now you’ve found me again 🙂
Yeah, I’m following you now!
Good luck finding a new job too, I’m a games developer for a UK studio and although I haven’t been made redundant I’ve seen many friends come and go. This industry has never been the most stable of places to work and we all have bills to pay so it’s never nice to learn of media outlets or developers having to let people go.
Normie says:
IT’S YOUR JOB TO PLAY THE VIDEO GAMES!
Don’t like the games? Too bad! You signed up for this job!
Did you specifically sign something in your contract that said “I will only play the games I find interesting, some other hacks can deal with the rabble for normies.”
No, you signed up to play every game that you were sent to experience. You don’t see guys from IGN writing huge whinefests on their blogs about having to play Imagine Party Babiez or Catz 6. They play the games, and write about it.
You’ll probably moderate my comment or just not post it, but I really only care that you think about this for ten additional seconds to realize the absurdity of what you’re saying.
Oh, whoops. that last part was something I copy+pasted from my same comment in the polygon article.
Joshua Madoc says:
Mate, whatever stance you have with GG, that’s all irrelevant in the face of my agreement that Colin Campbell is full of shit. You may not like this idea, but I would gladly punch that twat until his nose exits the back of his skull for writing such infuriating monkeytalk.
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blibblab says:
This type of stuff needs to be called out. I feel this way on anything, games, politics, etc. Completely agree with your article
Polygon banned me because I called them out on their new star citizen post (don’t go to them or the verge, every click supports them)
Going to start by saying, I am excited to see this game succeed. It is a huge game and has so much hanging in the balance for success. I do understand it’s taking longer than they thought it would, don’t really care. Happens to games all the time, prefer them to do it right. Also don’t care that people are uncomfortable with the games progress and want a refund. Surprised they got it, but that’s another issue. My problem is the fact that these news outlets are twisting words to make a headline, but interestingly enough twist them in a positive light for other games. There should be no twisting and a simple error like this should of been rectified immediately. The article as it is, is inaccurate and seemingly bias.
So I made a reply to their post and I will admit, I was taking stabs at them. This click baiting and possibly mud smearing tactics of theirs and all the gaming news outlets, hell news outlets as a whole should always be called out. It is suspicious and why haven’t they updated their post to accurately represent the situation?
There was poster above me that nailed it in a extremely professional manner, calling them on their fact checking and proper reporting. He was very polite and made polite suggestions, no stabs, he got banned as well as many others that opposed their research. All their posts were removed and only up for less than an hour.
This is the response they gave me(might need to break it up into a few replies :P:
POLYGON:
Instead of possibly refutinganarticle’s content and offering a correction, you made comments that were less like arguments, and more like attacks, comments like these:
ME as quoted by this polygon moderator:
“Wonder how much money Polygon is making from said publishers”
“Is Polygon getting paid by some publisher to continue to post these inaccurate headlines? You guys have had your fair share of editors involved in some fairly questionable events lately. So is this a smear campaign against a possibly successful fully community backed project? I would think that at least after making one erroneous quote of this refund nonsense in your previous article, you would learn to fact check a bit more.
Star citizen has a long way to go and has many hurdles ahead of it, but these types of articles seem to be blowing something fairly trivial completely out of the water and in doing so seem like they are meant to destabilize the games progress. Could bust out the tin foil hat, but really don’t need to; This is just sloppy reporting.
Hope all the swag you’re getting(from activision/destiny?) is worth the loss of your credibility.”
Not sure what Activision has to do with any of this, but according to our Community Guidelines:
Complaining about coverage: We cover a wide array of topics, not all of which are easy, comfortable, or reflective of your personal views and may touch on issues normally considered ‘outside’ of gaming such as feminism, sexual assault or religious beliefs. While we’re not against discussions of our coverage, comments containing plainly stated accusations of bias, complaints about the frequency of articles on a topic, and complaints about whether something is newsworthy are usually an indication that you’re not trying to be a productive member of the community. We’ll have words and remove posts to get conversation back on track. This also applies to review scores.
Site bashing: Whether it’s Polygon, or another website – don’t bash them or their staff. It’s not cool and it’s disrespectful to a lot of people. Be the better person here, please.
Personal attacks: Don’t attack or insult another user. It’s not helpful and it doesn’t make Polygon a friendly place. This includes calling other members trolls, fanboys, sheep, white knights, etc. If you’re thinking of using a specific term such as a racial or derogatory insult, think again about why that’s a bad idea, and don’t do it.
As a result, we’re banning you from posting on Polygon.
Polygon Mod Team
You can read, but not participate on Polygon. You must acknowledge your banned status by pressing the button below.
So I can’t tell them they are a bias, sure, I was harsh, a little.. not really. That doesn’t explain the post before mine that was very respectful and suggested improvements being removed along with many others that disagreed with the article. All that is left is the anti-kickstarter, anti-star citizen post, which should be banned too because they constantly call star citizen fans “Fanboys” which is also against their policies. These news sites are a load of crap. They deserve a boycott.
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Soujanya Bhumkar
Rick Martin 2013.12.13
Occasionally the folks from Palo Alto-based Cooliris swing through Tokyo as part of efforts to promote their photo sharing service in Asia. Our readers may recall that we spoke with them back in March, when they were making good progress in China with an early partnerships with social service Renren. So I was curious to see how Cooliris has progressed since then, both in China and Japan, and in surrounding Asian regions. CEO Soujanya Bhumkar tells me that China has seen particularly solid growth, with a 30% increase in downloads in the last quarter making the Middle Kingdom their number two install base after the US. They’ve made significant localization efforts in China, now with Sina Weibo on board as a connected service. Users can browse Weibo photos using the slick Cooliris interface, diving deep to explore pictures from various users, as well as those from people they follow or are followed by. Tencent Weibo and Baidu Yun are now also supported Cooliris services, having been added over the past year. Interestingly, India has been a new growth market for them thanks to increased smartphone adoption there, now suddenly a top ten country for Cooliris. Japan, which previously was Cooliris’s…
Occasionally the folks from Palo Alto-based Cooliris swing through Tokyo as part of efforts to promote their photo sharing service in Asia. Our readers may recall that we spoke with them back in March, when they were making good progress in China with an early partnerships with social service Renren. So I was curious to see how Cooliris has progressed since then, both in China and Japan, and in surrounding Asian regions.
CEO Soujanya Bhumkar tells me that China has seen particularly solid growth, with a 30% increase in downloads in the last quarter making the Middle Kingdom their number two install base after the US. They’ve made significant localization efforts in China, now with Sina Weibo on board as a connected service. Users can browse Weibo photos using the slick Cooliris interface, diving deep to explore pictures from various users, as well as those from people they follow or are followed by. Tencent Weibo and Baidu Yun are now also supported Cooliris services, having been added over the past year.
Japanese interface
Interestingly, India has been a new growth market for them thanks to increased smartphone adoption there, now suddenly a top ten country for Cooliris.
Japan, which previously was Cooliris’s second biggest market, still remains one of their top five markets. But with the latest update of the Cooliris iOS app, Japanese localization has been added. I understand that the company isn’t going to be making significant marketing efforts, but the localization at least makes it more accessible here. They’ll continue to try to serve Japanese users in later versions.
Considering that Cooliris now supports integration with so many social services, the missing puzzle piece for the company here in Japan is obviously Line. The team couldn’t tell me too much on this point, but obviously users here would definitely like to see such an integration. So Line users should keep their fingers crossed, and stay tuned [1].
The Cooliris app has a few other significant changes recently, as Soujanya and his VP of business development Sebastian Blum (he’s the guy in the video above) inform me that the app’s group function is now the number one driver of user acquisition and user retention. Groups could be as small as just two people sharing photos privately, or it could be many more. Groups can be based around certain activities like weddings, vacations, with discussion happening on Cooliris even before that event takes place.
As I was speaking with Soujanya, I happened to have Yammer open on my Mac, as that’s one of the collaborative tools that we use here at The Bridge. He pointed out to me that while there are many corporate collaborative tools like this, there are few collaborate options for consumers. People’s photo experience is typically fragmented across multiple service and multiple friends, and Cooliris gives people a chance to bring them together in one place.
In total they have seen over 3 billion photos brought into the Cooliris app, and over 1 billion photo engagements [2]. And for those who share photos in many different online places, it will continue to be a useful service. Whether it can pick up some more steam in photo-crazy Japan remains to be seen, but this new localization is an encouraging first step.
I confess, I used Cooliris for a while this year, but eventually drifted away from it. My mobile photo use is primarily restricted to Notabli, a family-focused photo app. I use Flickr as storage for pictures taken with my DSLR, but the majority of them are private. But I can see the potential of Cooliris for people more social than myself. ↩
I understand that an engagement is when you tap on a photo and view it in higher resolution. ↩
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Yesterscape
Readers may recall a few months back when we wrote about Kyoto-based startups Qooq, and its very clever augmented reality app Yesterscape. At the time, we saw a brief bump in our incoming traffic when science fiction author William Gibson happened to re-tweet the article. I recently had a chance to speak with the creator of Yesterscape, and CEO of Qooq Inc, who goes by the name of ‘Hide Nu’. While chatting with me in his Kyoto office, he mentioned estaticly that he’s a huge fan of Gibson, saying he’s read all his novels, pulling one off the office shelf to show me. For those unfamiliar with the app, Yesterscape lets you take pictures and save them virtually in a specific location. Then, if you return to that location later, you can revisit your memory using your smartphone. The app surpassed the 100,000 downloads mark earlier this month, and they continue to build and improve it. The most recent additions to the service include the ability to get a notification when a picture of someone you know is posted nearby, as well as the option to let others see your photos using AirDrop or Line. They also hope to implement…
Readers may recall a few months back when we wrote about Kyoto-based startups Qooq, and its very clever augmented reality app Yesterscape. At the time, we saw a brief bump in our incoming traffic when science fiction author William Gibson happened to re-tweet the article. I recently had a chance to speak with the creator of Yesterscape, and CEO of Qooq Inc, who goes by the name of ‘Hide Nu’. While chatting with me in his Kyoto office, he mentioned estaticly that he’s a huge fan of Gibson, saying he’s read all his novels, pulling one off the office shelf to show me.
For those unfamiliar with the app, Yesterscape lets you take pictures and save them virtually in a specific location. Then, if you return to that location later, you can revisit your memory using your smartphone. The app surpassed the 100,000 downloads mark earlier this month, and they continue to build and improve it. The most recent additions to the service include the ability to get a notification when a picture of someone you know is posted nearby, as well as the option to let others see your photos using AirDrop or Line. They also hope to implement markerless AR in the future as well [1].
Nu tells me that they do plan to promote this service outside of Japan, and to that end, they will be headed to SXSW next year.
I also had a chance to meet with the company’s CTO, Mexican-born Oscar Peredo. He’s a very enthusiastic personality, with a deep love for Japan, and development skills to match. He told me that what they are trying to do is make entirely new products:
We try to create things that have not been created before. We specialize in developing things that are useful for daily life, that people can enjoy using. We also try to surprise them.
Initially, while I was a big fan of the idea of Yesterscape, I was skeptical about its business potential. But after speaking with Nu, it seems to me that a service like Yesterscape is almost certain to be a fixture in our future. When he mentioned that it could even be used by conventional digital cameras, I started thinking about how easy it would be for even wi-fi enabled compacts and DSLRs to implement something like Yesterscape. Ideally it could manifest itself as a hardware ‘Yesterscape’ switch on a camera, but more realistically it would be more like a social share to the web.
Personally, I really admire this project, especially the idea of executing it here in Japan where the elderly demographic is so huge. The possibility of old people’s memories dying as they die can be thought of as a sort of cultural crisis. And I really think that governments should be on board sponsoring something like this, getting their own archives transferred into Yesterscape.
Markerless augmented reality uses parts of our environment as a tracking target, rather than some black and white graphic as we typically see in traditional AR. ↩
Yesterscape app augments your present reality with photos of your past
Capitalizing on culture: Can new $60M fund help make Kyoto an innovation center?
Kaori-san: A new virtual assistant for busy people in Japan
Japanese photo app Qtiie boasts impressive make-up enhancement features
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Qtiie
Yukari Mitsuhashi 2013.11.14
With so many photo decoration apps available on the market, the hardest part for consumers may be choosing the best one to use. One recent trend among popular photo apps here in Japan is ‘purikura’ (or photo booths) features, such as whitening of skin and enlarging eyes. Qtiie, is a photo decoration app for iOS that was just released by a Japanese system integrations company Fujimic, a subsidiary of Fuji Media Holdings [1]. The app was developed to respond to the growing demand for Kawaii Japanese pop-culture from both inside and outside the country. The photo app comes with the obvious common features like stamps, frames, and brushes, but with a twist in ite design themes, or ‘tastes’ as the app calls them. These include location themes such as ‘Harajuku’, ‘Shibuya’, ‘Akihabara’, as well as themes like ‘Hime’ (or ‘princess’), Natural, Urban, and ‘’Wa-fu’ (Japanese style). One impressive feature of Qtiie is its make-up enhancements. Resizing the size of your eyes, changing the colors of your eyes and lips, smoothening of skin, and even changing your hair color. Many photo apps have these purikura features, but this app makes them especially easy to use, and the finished photo is pretty…
With so many photo decoration apps available on the market, the hardest part for consumers may be choosing the best one to use. One recent trend among popular photo apps here in Japan is ‘purikura’ (or photo booths) features, such as whitening of skin and enlarging eyes.
Qtiie, is a photo decoration app for iOS that was just released by a Japanese system integrations company Fujimic, a subsidiary of Fuji Media Holdings [1].
The app was developed to respond to the growing demand for Kawaii Japanese pop-culture from both inside and outside the country. The photo app comes with the obvious common features like stamps, frames, and brushes, but with a twist in ite design themes, or ‘tastes’ as the app calls them. These include location themes such as ‘Harajuku’, ‘Shibuya’, ‘Akihabara’, as well as themes like ‘Hime’ (or ‘princess’), Natural, Urban, and ‘’Wa-fu’ (Japanese style).
One impressive feature of Qtiie is its make-up enhancements. Resizing the size of your eyes, changing the colors of your eyes and lips, smoothening of skin, and even changing your hair color. Many photo apps have these purikura features, but this app makes them especially easy to use, and the finished photo is pretty high quality with an authentic look. Some designer themes and certain eye colors can be purchased within the app for 100 to 200 yen (about $1 to $2).
Decorated photos can be shared with friends on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and of course Instagram. As its tagline says, Qtiie brings Kawaii to the plam of your hands.
The app is available for free on iOS.
This unusual name is an example of what my colleague Rick Martin is talking about in his previous post titled “What’s in a name?”. Qtiie is intended to be pronounced as ‘cutie’. ↩
Fun Chinese photo app boasts 70M users, all without any marketing
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Gateway to a ‘kawaii’ ecosystem: Japan’s Decopic has 30M downloads worldwide
decopic
Ryosuke Matusmoto
The purikura photo app ‘Decopic’ is one of the many apps that has won hearts of young ‘kawaii-hunters’ in Japan (‘kawaii’ meaning ‘cute’ in Japanese). Readers may recall that we previously put this app on our popular list of Japan’s Cutest Mobile Apps. Community Factory, the company behind the app, has just announced that it has reached the impressive milestone of 30 million downloads worldwide. That’s a whopping 20 million downloads in the span of about a year, since it was acquired by Yahoo Japan back in last September. In addition to Decopic, the company released six more apps this year alone. Our ultimate goal is to take over our user’s homescreen with our apps. Community factory describes Decopic (available on both iOS and Android) as “so cute that it makes you happy just to have it.” It’s super easy to use with no need for instructions. Many users of the app are from Asia such as Korea, Taiwan, China, and Thailand. There is a growing fan base in these countries, especially a strong community in Taiwan. According to Ryosuke Matusmoto, the CEO of Community Factory, many of their apps are downloaded by users outside of Japan even when only…
The Community Factory team, creators of Decopic (photo appropriately decorated with Decopic!)
The purikura photo app ‘Decopic’ is one of the many apps that has won hearts of young ‘kawaii-hunters’ in Japan (‘kawaii’ meaning ‘cute’ in Japanese). Readers may recall that we previously put this app on our popular list of Japan’s Cutest Mobile Apps. Community Factory, the company behind the app, has just announced that it has reached the impressive milestone of 30 million downloads worldwide. That’s a whopping 20 million downloads in the span of about a year, since it was acquired by Yahoo Japan back in last September. In addition to Decopic, the company released six more apps this year alone.
Our ultimate goal is to take over our user’s homescreen with our apps.
Community factory describes Decopic (available on both iOS and Android) as “so cute that it makes you happy just to have it.” It’s super easy to use with no need for instructions.
Many users of the app are from Asia such as Korea, Taiwan, China, and Thailand. There is a growing fan base in these countries, especially a strong community in Taiwan.
According to Ryosuke Matusmoto, the CEO of Community Factory, many of their apps are downloaded by users outside of Japan even when only provided in Japanese. This is likely due to their simple user interface which effectively removes the language barrier. All the apps share the common qualities of being cute as well as offering many fun designs within one application, so users of one app by Community Factory are likely to download another.
Ryosuke elaborates on the recent milestone:
In addition to our growing user base in Asia, we saw younger Japanese girls, as young as middle school downloading our app. They probably got their first mobile phone, which is now almost always a smartphone and not a feature phone. We continue to focus on girls, and how much of their mobile time we can take up. We released six new apps this year, and plan to develop more in different categories. Our ultimate goal is to take over our user’s homescreen with our apps.
Decopic reaches out to many female users, and then other apps such as calendar or battery-efficiency apps provide utilities that enhances the app’s retention. Their collage app Petapic had five million downloads after eight months of its release, and Petat Calendar had one million downloads as of May of this year.
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Line Camera
Line Corporation announced today that its Line Camera application has surpassed 50 million users as of yesterday. That application was initially released back in April of 2012, and like all of Line’s other apps, it has ridden the popularity of the Line chat platform (or Line Channel) to reach a number of app markets around the world. To date Line camera has done very well, becoming a top 10 iOS photo app in 20 countries, and a top 10 Android photo app in 14 countries – primarily in Asia and South America. The app supports the main languages in those regions, including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, as well as Thai and Spanish which were added in the 5.0 update in August. The company will apparently be targeting female users with new beauty features are coming in early October to Line camera, including capabilities to adjust skin brightness and smoothness, fix skin blemishes, as well as functions to make your face smaller and eyes bigger. You can see these functions in screenshot below provided by Line. If you look closely there is also an ‘volume’ button with what looks like a breasts icon too. I’m not yet sure how I feel about…
Line Corporation announced today that its Line Camera application has surpassed 50 million users as of yesterday.
That application was initially released back in April of 2012, and like all of Line’s other apps, it has ridden the popularity of the Line chat platform (or Line Channel) to reach a number of app markets around the world.
To date Line camera has done very well, becoming a top 10 iOS photo app in 20 countries, and a top 10 Android photo app in 14 countries – primarily in Asia and South America. The app supports the main languages in those regions, including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, as well as Thai and Spanish which were added in the 5.0 update in August.
The company will apparently be targeting female users with new beauty features are coming in early October to Line camera, including capabilities to adjust skin brightness and smoothness, fix skin blemishes, as well as functions to make your face smaller and eyes bigger. You can see these functions in screenshot below provided by Line. If you look closely there is also an ‘volume’ button with what looks like a breasts icon too. I’m not yet sure how I feel about this last feature.
For more information on the history of Line to date, check out our interactive Line timeline.
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Forget food photos. Japan’s ‘Instapaper for Interiors’ raises $1M
Takeshi Hirano 2013.09.20
See the original story in Japanese. Tokyo-based Tunnel is the startup behind RoomClip, a photo sharing service that lets you show off your room. The company announced today that it has raised 100 million yen ($1 million) from Femto Growth Capital. Coinciding with this funding, the investment firm’s general partner Tetsuya Isozaki will join the board of the startup. Tunnel was founded back in November of 2011. Previously it received seed investment of 10 million yen ($100,0000) from Samurai Incubate and Cyber Agent Ventures back in 2011. According to the startup’s CEO Masahiko Takashige, the service’s main userbase are females in their 20s and 30s. He observed many people sharing interior photos on Mixi and other social networking services even before launching the startup back in May of 2012. To date the RoomClip mobile app has seen 130,000 downloads and over 100,000 photos posted. I asked Takashige about what motivates users sharing those photos. For some users, they may not be so proud to show the inside of their home to others. So sharing such photos of your room can be a good excuse to clean up a little. Other users say it can be sort of addictive. In terms…
See the original story in Japanese.
Tokyo-based Tunnel is the startup behind RoomClip, a photo sharing service that lets you show off your room. The company announced today that it has raised 100 million yen ($1 million) from Femto Growth Capital. Coinciding with this funding, the investment firm’s general partner Tetsuya Isozaki will join the board of the startup.
Tunnel was founded back in November of 2011. Previously it received seed investment of 10 million yen ($100,0000) from Samurai Incubate and Cyber Agent Ventures back in 2011.
According to the startup’s CEO Masahiko Takashige, the service’s main userbase are females in their 20s and 30s. He observed many people sharing interior photos on Mixi and other social networking services even before launching the startup back in May of 2012. To date the RoomClip mobile app has seen 130,000 downloads and over 100,000 photos posted. I asked Takashige about what motivates users sharing those photos.
For some users, they may not be so proud to show the inside of their home to others. So sharing such photos of your room can be a good excuse to clean up a little. Other users say it can be sort of addictive.
In terms of user behaviors, 90% of users are viewing other user’s photos, and refer to interiors posted by the service’s most frequent users. This tendency leads to some monetization potential with e-commerce opportunities.
For typical interior fanatics, they hope to discover and buy items they really want. We see many furniture and specialty stores in town. But you select items and place them in your room very much according to your own preference. Our service lets you share this experience online.
The startup expects to add product details and links to e-commerce sites in the app, and examine how these efforts can help drive user traffic for monetization.
The company aims to eventually reach 2.5 downloads for its mobile app and acquire 2 million users.
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Cute Japanese Apps
Kawaiit
Kawaiit is a fun, social application from Japan that lets you submit, browse, and vote on kawaii (cute) pictures. It was launched just yesterday from the folks over at Jig.jp, so we thought we’d take a look. In the same spirit as Hot or Not, the application presents you with a stream of photos that you can approve with the ‘Kawaii’ button, or vote against with the somewhat strangely named ‘dis-kawaii’ [1]. There is a ‘top ranking’ area too where you can see the cutest photos from around the world. With a predominantly pink and pastel color scheme, the app is most definitely targeting a female demographic, with user-submitted photos organized into categories like Fashion, Nails, Hair & Beauty, Make[up] & Cosmetics and more. A Jig.jp representative told us why they think this app will appeal to users all over the world: We think most girls like cute stuff. Our app is for them. Without any language, they can communicate on the app through kawaii photos. She added that the app is based on the team’s experience developing communication apps and apps about Japanese culture. Their jigbrowser+ was previously released internationally, so they will build on that experience in order…
Kawaiit is a fun, social application from Japan that lets you submit, browse, and vote on kawaii (cute) pictures. It was launched just yesterday from the folks over at Jig.jp, so we thought we’d take a look.
In the same spirit as Hot or Not, the application presents you with a stream of photos that you can approve with the ‘Kawaii’ button, or vote against with the somewhat strangely named ‘dis-kawaii’ [1]. There is a ‘top ranking’ area too where you can see the cutest photos from around the world.
With a predominantly pink and pastel color scheme, the app is most definitely targeting a female demographic, with user-submitted photos organized into categories like Fashion, Nails, Hair & Beauty, Make[up] & Cosmetics and more. A Jig.jp representative told us why they think this app will appeal to users all over the world:
We think most girls like cute stuff. Our app is for them. Without any language, they can communicate on the app through kawaii photos.
She added that the app is based on the team’s experience developing communication apps and apps about Japanese culture. Their jigbrowser+ was previously released internationally, so they will build on that experience in order to help push this one abroad.
Despite my aversion for so much pinkness, I gave the app a quick test run, which you can see in the video above [2]. I uploaded a picture and within a few minutes there were already a bunch of people who had given it some Kawaii votes. There are handy photo decoration and filter options available as well if you’d like to enhance your picture’s cuteness.
If you’d like to give Kawaiit a try for yourself, you can download it for free over on the App Store.
This is part of our cute Japanese apps series (RSS), examining a trend of ‘kawaii’ apps and services emerging from Japan’s mobile space.
I motion that this button be renamed as ‘Not so Kawaii’ ↩
I should point out that the initial sign -in process was somewhat difficult due to an invisible username field on the sign-in page (to the right of the pencil icon). But I’m told by a rep that they’re looking at it, and it may be addressed in a future update. ↩
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Japan’s Snapeee to host fashion event in Taiwan
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snapeee
Junya Mori 2013.08.20
See the original story in Japanese. Snapeee is a Japanese photo-sharing app serving more than five million users worldwide. Mind Palette, the startup behind the app, announced today it that it is planning to hold a promotional event featuring runway shows and music live performances for its fans in Taiwan. The event is called Snapeee Fes and it will take place on September 14th at ATT Show Box, Taipei, Taiwan. In addition to serving individual users, the service has set up corporate accounts for apparel brands and fashion magazines. According to the startup, one of the most popular users has so far earned 1.3 million followers on the platform. The event will be the first chance for the startup to promote their service, which has a very distinct Japanese ‘kawaii’ flavor. They will invite popular Japanese models like Tina Tamashiro and Yuka Mizuhara, as well as prominent Japanese fashion brands like Vivi, Peach John, and WeGo. 70% of Snapeee’s users comes from Japan, Taiwan, and the rest of the Asian region, and they tend to be mostly female. In Taiwan in particular, the user base includes many fashion bloggers or models who are conscious about the Kawaii fashion trend. The startup…
Snapeee is a Japanese photo-sharing app serving more than five million users worldwide. Mind Palette, the startup behind the app, announced today it that it is planning to hold a promotional event featuring runway shows and music live performances for its fans in Taiwan. The event is called Snapeee Fes and it will take place on September 14th at ATT Show Box, Taipei, Taiwan.
In addition to serving individual users, the service has set up corporate accounts for apparel brands and fashion magazines. According to the startup, one of the most popular users has so far earned 1.3 million followers on the platform.
The event will be the first chance for the startup to promote their service, which has a very distinct Japanese ‘kawaii’ flavor. They will invite popular Japanese models like Tina Tamashiro and Yuka Mizuhara, as well as prominent Japanese fashion brands like Vivi, Peach John, and WeGo.
70% of Snapeee’s users comes from Japan, Taiwan, and the rest of the Asian region, and they tend to be mostly female. In Taiwan in particular, the user base includes many fashion bloggers or models who are conscious about the Kawaii fashion trend. The startup expects to keep organizing such kind of events in order to establish a solid brand image in the region.
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Mixi spins off popular photobook printing service as wholly-owned subsidiary
Nohana
One of my favorite made-in-Japan mobile applications is Mixi’s Nohana photobook printing service. Of course, being a new dad I’m somewhat biased towards applications like this. But still, the service has enjoyed some popularity in Japan lately, briefly becoming the number one free iOS app having been recently featured on national television. And now it looks like Nohana is being granted a little bit of room to maneuver from its parent company Mixi, as was announced today that it is being spun off as a wholly-owned subsidiary this coming September, to be known as Nohana Co., Ltd.. Mixi noted in its announcement that because Nohana has many customers right now, this change was made to ensure that the venture can operate and make decisions rapidly as it continues to grow. The incorporation will also mean that Nohana’s staff will expand from its current total of four to 10 or 15 [1]. For those not familiar with the service, the Nohana app lets you upload photos from your smartphone, assembling them into 20-page photo-booklets which are then printed and sent to your door. The first book you order in a month is free (except a shipping fee of 90 yen, or…
One of my favorite made-in-Japan mobile applications is Mixi’s Nohana photobook printing service. Of course, being a new dad I’m somewhat biased towards applications like this. But still, the service has enjoyed some popularity in Japan lately, briefly becoming the number one free iOS app having been recently featured on national television.
And now it looks like Nohana is being granted a little bit of room to maneuver from its parent company Mixi, as was announced today that it is being spun off as a wholly-owned subsidiary this coming September, to be known as Nohana Co., Ltd..
Mixi noted in its announcement that because Nohana has many customers right now, this change was made to ensure that the venture can operate and make decisions rapidly as it continues to grow. The incorporation will also mean that Nohana’s staff will expand from its current total of four to 10 or 15 [1].
For those not familiar with the service, the Nohana app lets you upload photos from your smartphone, assembling them into 20-page photo-booklets which are then printed and sent to your door. The first book you order in a month is free (except a shipping fee of 90 yen, or about $1), but subsequent copies cost 525 yen. It seems the company is hoping that many parents will input their grandparents address as place to send second and maybe even third copies [2].
Mixi noted in the announcement that to date there have been more than 100,000 photobooks published by over 200,000 people, with a total of 3.8 million photos uploaded.
Nohana was originally launched back in February of this year as a product of Mixi’s internal Innovation Center.
I had a chance to pop my head into their office when I visited the DeployGate team over at Mixi. It’s not a big room, so I expect they’ll be given a little more space as well. ↩
As a new parent, this is a feature I plan to use frequently. ↩
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RoadMovies creates cool retro videos, is now Japan’s top iPhone app
RoadMovies
Here’s another intriguing addition to our growing list of Japanese camera apps. This time it comes courtesy of the folks at Honda, and despite the name of the app, RoadMovies, it’s not just for use while driving. Originally launched late last year, the app has been climbing the iOS charts ever since, and is now the top free app in Japan. It also tops the photo and video category in Korea right now too. The app allows you to shoot a collection of very short video clips – either 24 x 1 second, 12 x 2 seconds, or 8 x 3 seconds – which are then stitched together to create a composite 24 second clip. Of course, this sort of function would work especially well while driving on a long road trip, and there’s an interval camera function that can automate the entire process if you don’t want to press the shutter button manually. You can set the interval settings to record a short clip every minute, or every 60 minutes, or any value in between. There’s also a handy distance interval function that lets you record clips after you’ve moved a specified distance, although you’ll need a GPS enabled…
Here’s another intriguing addition to our growing list of Japanese camera apps. This time it comes courtesy of the folks at Honda, and despite the name of the app, RoadMovies, it’s not just for use while driving. Originally launched late last year, the app has been climbing the iOS charts ever since, and is now the top free app in Japan. It also tops the photo and video category in Korea right now too.
The app allows you to shoot a collection of very short video clips – either 24 x 1 second, 12 x 2 seconds, or 8 x 3 seconds – which are then stitched together to create a composite 24 second clip.
Of course, this sort of function would work especially well while driving on a long road trip, and there’s an interval camera function that can automate the entire process if you don’t want to press the shutter button manually. You can set the interval settings to record a short clip every minute, or every 60 minutes, or any value in between. There’s also a handy distance interval function that lets you record clips after you’ve moved a specified distance, although you’ll need a GPS enabled device for this (i.e. it won’t work with an iPod Touch).
After you’ve shot your 24 total seconds of video, you can then opt to add one of eight available filters to give your composite clip some extra pop. The next step is perhaps the most fun, as you can choose one of 14 available background music tracks included in the app, all of which are pretty snazzy.
The overall effect is super retro, especially if you apply a filter. For a preview of the end result, you can see many examples of videos created with RoadMovies over on YouTube. Or you can check out Honda’s own promo video above which demonstrates how it works, with a sample video at the end.
If you’d like to check out RoadMovies, it’s available as a free download over on the App Store. From what I’ve seen of it so far, I recommend you pick it up.
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New Video! "She Still Shines"
Check out our brand new video for our song, "She Still Shines" from our latest album, River Rollin'!
The performance was filmed and edited by the amazing, Bridget Schaefer at 189 Burger in East Aurora, NY.
Be sure to check out more of Bridget's work at https://www.meccay.co/
Fall 2019 Festivals!
We had a great time this summer playing gazebos near and far. It was a hot one! We're eagerly awaiting a string of appearances at Fall Festivals including Kettle Fest, Borderlands, The Fall Down, AppleUmpkin, and Folkfaces Fest! Photo by Kyle Sackett.
New Album, "River Rollin'" For Release May 16!
The Brothers Blue will release their third studio album, River Rollin' on May 16th, 2019. The album features eleven brand new original tracks along with a spirited performance of The Rolling Stones', "Factory Girl" and the classic sounding waltz, "Sunday's Well" by Irish button accordion player, Caitlin Nic Gabhann. River Rollin' was recorded, engineered and mixed by Will Russell at Electric Wilburland Studio in Newfield, NY. The album was co-produced with the band by lap steel guitar player, G. Elwyn Meixner who appears along with drummer and keys player, Mike Brown. Join The Brothers Blue at Rohrbach Beer Hall in Rochester, NY on Thursday, May 16th for the official album release party! More info can be found on our "Shows" page
Cross the Pond 2019!
Following a hugely successful event last year, The Dady Brothers, Crikwater, and The Brothers Blue return once again to Sportsmens Tavern for "Cross the Pond: A Celebration of Irish and Appalachian Music!"
Join us as we explore the common roots of these two traditions in a celebration of the culture and spirit of folk music. What a great way to get the St. Paddy's season started!
Show at 8:00, doors at 7:00
Tickets available at https://www.showclix.com/event/cross-the-pond
To learn more about the bands, please visit:
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www.crikwater.com
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Friendsgiving 2018!
We hope you can join us for our annual gathering of gratefulness! All proceeds go to folks in our community who are experiencing homelessness and hunger.
2018 New York State Summer Tour!
We'll be playing all over the Empire State this summer! Where will we see you?
Cross the Pond
Start the St. Patrick's Day season the right way at Buffalo's Sportsmens Tavern on Saturday, March 3rd! We'll be joined by our good friends, The Dady Brothers and Matt and Charlie's Buffalo based Irish folk group, Crikwater. It will be an incredible night of music and friendship that we hope you'll share! Doors at 7:00 $10 at the door
SAMF Presents Buffalo's "The Last Waltz" Live
We are THRILLED to be a part of Sportsmens Americana Music Foundation's "SAMF Presents Buffalo's The Last Waltz Live" at Asbury Hall on Friday, 11/17/17! If you're a fan of The Band, you won't want to miss this very special reenactment of their 1976 epic final concert. We are among a line up of some of Buffalo's best musicians including: Doug Yeomans, Jim Whitford, Ron Davis, Pete Holquin and Jim Ehinger.
Tickets: $35 advance, $40 day of show at Ticketweb, Babeville Box Office (M-F 10a-5p), Sportsmen’s Tavern, or charge by phone 866-777-8932
7pm Doors 8pm Show
The Brothers Blue at the 2017 Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival!
We are excited to announce that are on the bill at the 2017 Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival! We will perform on the "Creekside Stage" the morning of Thursday, July 13th opening day (Time: TBA) as a part of their Emerging Artists Showcase. We are totally honored to be performing at this amazing festival and the 2017 lineup looks incredible!
We hope you'll join us for this weekend of singing and dancing. Order your tickets today at https://greyfoxbluegrass.com/festival/tickets/
"Big Eyed Rabbit" Album Release: June 2nd
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Duende at Silo City, 85 Silo City Row, Buffalo, NY
Hollerhorn Distilling
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How the UPA robbed us of Rs2,80,795 crore
Filed under: Congress,Corruption,Elections '09,Indian Politics,Nehru,Rahul Gandhi,Sonia Gandhi,UPA — thecandideye @ 6:00 AM
Tags: Congress, Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram, Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, UPA
An excellent article by R Jagannathan appeared on DNA.
The number in the headline is the amount of money looted by the UPA government from taxpayers and investors since 2004. And all this is from just one sector: petroleum.
The only difference between a Ramalinga Raju, who raided Satyam’s cash chest to bankroll his infrastructure dreams, and the government, which dipped into public sector assets to finance its re-election, is this: Raju cannot legislate away his crimes. Government can.
Let’s go back to the first number: Rs2,80,795 crore. I owe this piece of info to my colleague Mayank Aggarwal, who had put in an RTI query to the ministry of petroleum and natural gas asking them how much money was transferred from profit-making oil companies to loss-making ones to fund the subsidisation of kerosene, cooking gas and diesel (among other things).
The answer he got was frightening. Between 2004-05 and 2009-10, the three most profitable oil and gas companies (ONGC, GAIL and Oil India) were summarily asked to hand over Rs1,12,592 crore to three loss-making oil marketing companies.
That’s nearly three times the current year’s central outlay for NREGA, the flagship social security scheme of the UPA. But even Rs1,12,592 crore wasn’t enough to staunch the bleeding of Indian Oil, BPCL and HPCL. Over and above the robbery of three profit-making oil companies, the government had to raid the taxpayer’s chest for another Rs1,68,203 crore over 2005-10 (paid through oil bonds) to ensure the marketing companies stayed afloat.
Now, let’s restate the full extent of the skullduggery. To ensure that oil prices did not rock its electoral boat, it transferred Rs1,12,592 crore from publicly-listed profit-makers to the loss-makers, but there’s a procedural complication here.
Politicians & Corruption
Cartoon Source: http://lifesacomicstrip.blogspot.com/2009/09/politicians-and-money.html
The government itself owns majority stakes in these profit-makers, so the real extent of money transferred from private investors is equal only to the level of public shareholding in these companies.
Since the public shareholding is 25.86% in ONGC, 21.57% in Oil India and 42.18% in GAIL, private investors were cheated of Rs29,991 crore in the process. That’s their share of profits in ONGC, Oil India and GAIL that got transferred to the marketing companies. Investors in these three companies can approach Sebi and ask it to take action against the promoter (the government) for corporate misgovernance and misappropriation of shareholders funds.
To be sure, this is not a point that has not been made before. What we are now clear about is the exact extent of the government’s bad politico-economic decisions that investors and taxpayers finally ended up paying for.
Misgovernance and fraud is built into the public sector primarily because politicians use public assets for private ends, including financing their own re-election.
Let’s also remember, the Rs2,80,795 crore scandal is only the tip of the iceberg. If we add up the subsidies handed over to fertiliser companies, farmers and the Food Corporation of India (a substantial part of the grain mountain that is now being fed to rats), the losses will be truly stupendous.
The best thing the UPA did recently was thus to move towards oil price deregulation, but we are going to continue to pay for past follies. A case in point is the Direct Tax Code (DTC) that was recently cleared by the Union cabinet. Originally touted as a big deal for taxpayers, it has been reduced to a minor concession, thanks to past overspending.
The original idea behind the DTC was to move to a tax system that was transparent and easy to administer, but the UPA cannot afford it anymore. A mountain of work has, thus, yielded a mouse. After producing two draft codes for public discussion, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has more or less opted for incrementalism rather than radical change.
The initial proposal was simple enough: give taxpayers a large dose of tax relief, lump all exemptions into one package, and make the tax system less complicated. If Mukherjee had stuck to that goal, taxpayers would have surrendered small reliefs here and there and gained big on tax slabs and choice of tax-free investment avenues. But now Mukherjee’s DTC is a pale shadow of its former self.
Under the original draft proposal, taxpayers in the higher brackets would have saved more, as the idea was that the lowest rate of 10% would cover incomes upto Rs10 lakh. The middle rate of 20% would apply to incomes in the Rs10-25 lakh bracket, and the top rate of 30% to incomes above Rs25 lakh. As things stand now, the tax-free bracket merely moves up from Rs1.6 lakh to Rs2 lakh.
The 10%, 20% and 30% brackets also shrink to Rs 2-5lakh, Rs5-10-lakh and Rs10 lakh plus.
This is incrementalism at its worst, and Pranab-da has missed a golden opportunity to empower taxpayers. Having robbed them in the past, he cannot play Robin Hood now.
The 10%, 20% and 30% brackets also shrink to Rs 2-5lakh, Rs5-10-lakh and Rs10 lakh plus. This is incrementalism at its worst, and Pranab-da has missed a golden opportunity to empower taxpayers. Having robbed them in the past, he cannot play Robin Hood now.
Fatwa wrong, Vande Mataram right: Khurshid
Filed under: Congress,India,Indian History,Indian Politics — thecandideye @ 6:00 AM
Tags: Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband, Deoband, Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind, P Chidambaram, Salman Khurshid, Vandemataram
Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Salman Khurshid on Thursday criticised the endorsement of a fatwa against the singing of Vande Mataram by Muslims, saying some people were trying to create problems by raising the issue again.“Does this country not have enough problems that some people want to create more problems? I don’t know why this issue is being reopened,” he told reporters in Hyderabad.
Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind, an organization of clerics, at its national convention at Deoband this week had endorsed an earlier fatwa issued by Islamic seminary Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband.Khurshid said the issue was resolved over 50 years ago by treating some stanzas of the song as the national song. He said there was no need to take a fresh look after every 50 years.
“During the independence movement, all national leaders, including leaders of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind Hind sat together and resolved that some stanzas of Vande Mataram would be treated as the national song and would be sung voluntarily. Nobody was forced to sing it and this is something which was there in the resolutions of both Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind and the Congress party,” he said.
“People had faith in the song. It inspired people. It was not treated as a song of one particular religion. It was treated as part of India’s ethos and part of the independence movement. I don’t know why this issue is being raised again,” he said.
“Fifty years ago it was agreed that two stanzas will be sung and that is what we sing today. There are two to three other stanzas that are not sung. Somebody has a problem with them is a hypothetical question because we have taken only two stanzas and this was done by our ancestors, freedom fighters and national leaders, including Muslim leaders,” he said.
He defended Home Minister P Chidambaram addressing the Jamiat convention saying he could not be blamed for the resolution passed during the meeting after he had left it.
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Vandemataram
Maoist leaders speak to Sri Sri Ravishankar, ready for negotiations
Tags: Art of Living, Lalgarh, Maoists, P Chidambaram, Sri Sri Ravishankar
Maoist leaders at Lalgarh in West Bengal are willing to come to the negotiation table if the government agrees to accede to their demands.
“Maoists in Lalgarh have few basic demands like water, electricity, local language medium schools, compensation for deaths in the ongoing violence and cases against them to be withdrawn”, a release said on Saturday quoting Sri Sri Ravishankar, Founder of Art of Living Foundation.
“As many as 118 Maoists are willing to come to the negotiation table if the government can agree to these terms”, the release said.
According to the release, the spiritual leader had a talk with Maoist leader Chakradhar Mahato on Friday and persuaded the group to lay down their arms.
Ravishankar has conveyed the willingness of Maoists (to come to the negotiation table) to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi, it added.
According to the release, the spiritual leader had a talk with Maoist leader Chakradhar Mahato on Friday and persuaded the group to lay down their arms.Ravishankar has conveyed the willingness of Maoists (to come to the negotiation table) to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi, it added.
One more Potential Academy Award Winning Film from India!!
Filed under: Indian Politics,Kandhamal,Karunanidhi,Satire — thecandideye @ 3:00 AM
Tags: Hunger Strike, Karunanidhi, LTTE, P Chidambaram, Tamilnadu
When India is celebrating the victory of Slums and Dogs and its award winning music director AR Rahman’s incredible music,here comes another film with well thought out,pre planned,fascinating story line.The movie name – ‘Nutritious Hunger Strike ‘, directed/enacted/screenplayed by Karunanidhi.You need to watch this wonderful movie,beautifully enacted by the hero Karunanidhi, if you have not seen already.One fine day,Hero Karunanidhi after finishing his breakfast followed by fresh juice decides to go on hunger strike.The reason – People of Tamil Nadu are so worried and agitated about the plight of Srilankan Tamils.So our hero being a Tamil,needed to do something dramatically to grab their attention.His dramatic decision to go on hunger strike drama,indeed grabbed people’s attention.For the people who have missed this, here below is one of the scenes in the drama.Infact it is the only scene as far as I remember.Click here for the scene.
Here is the chronology of scenes of our Karunanidhi in the drama ‘Nutritious Hunger Strike’.
6AM : Getting up
6AM : 7AM – Getting Ready
7AM : Hot medium spicy Soup is being served to our Karunanidhi
7AM – 7.15AM : Drinking the warm medium spicy soup
7.15AM – 7.45AM : Reading Newspapers and Recollecting what he had said to the press the previous day so that he can lie based on the previous one.
7.45AM – 8AM : Arcot Veerasamy calls up Chidambaram and confirms whether he would call our hero at 11.45AM sharply.
7.45AM – 8AM : At the same time,Dhayalu Ammal,Karunanidhi’s wife calls up the family doctor and asks him to come to Marina beach directly
8AM – 8.10AM : Goes to Dining area.Yes he doesn’t want to waste the energy,which he wants to use while sleeping aka hunger strike
8.10AM – 8.30AM : Takes breakfast – Hot Idlies with Sambar and Chutney.Doctor has advised him not to take anything other than Idlies as break fast.After packing Fresh Apple juice and ground nuts,our ‘Nutritious Hunger Strike’ crew sets out for Marina beach.
8.30AM – 9AM – In the AC car,Karunanidhi drinks Apple juice and binges on groundnuts for sometime.
9AM : Arriving Marina beach.The stage is set by this time.
9AM-9.15AM : Goes to the stage,waves his hands and starts sleeping on the couch.
The crew was getting worried on seeing the suffering that our Karunanidhi was going thru in the Air conditioned couch.They were crossing their fingers all the time during the shooting of the drama.
11.45AM : Chidambaram calls up Karunanidhi and tells him that Strikes on Tamils in Srilanka have been stopped.Karunanidhi on hearing this sighed relief and declares that war has been stopped by his hunger strike.
The next day, Sri Lankan ministers had once again said they will not stop the strikes and is not interested in evacuating the 2 lakh Tamils from the war zone.When Karunanidhi was asked to give a clarification on this statement,he promptly replied ‘Even though the rain stopped, still there will be some winds and drizzle’.
Shoes Galore in Elections!!
Filed under: Congress,Indian Politics — thecandideye @ 10:08 PM
Tags: 1984 Sikh Genocide, Congress, Delhi, Jarnail Singh, Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram, Sonia Gandhi
Jarnail Singh aiming at P Chidambaram in a press meet:
He doesn’t seem to have done his practice.He should have taken training like these people.
P Chidambaram & Puppet Mohan Singh might like this branded one instead of ordinary shoes.
Designed & Manufactured by/for Congress!!
PS: People who want to try it out,may have greater success if they use this branded one.
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1984 Sikh Holocaust – A complete report
Kandahar Issue – What really happened?
Filed under: Terrorism — thecandideye @ 12:47 AM
Tags: Amritsar, IC814, Jaswant Singh, JKLF, Kandahar, Kidanpping, NSG, P Chidambaram, Ransom, Rubaiya Sayeed, Sonia Gandhi, Taliban, Terrorism
One of the issues that Congress leaders(??) take up nowadays against BJP is Kandahar plane hijack.But what really happened?More information on this is available here.The NSG commandoes were not on time and a passenger Rupin Katyal was killed while the flight was in Amritsar.Later it took off and landed in Lahore where it was refuelled.Pakistan as usual did not help India on getting the hostages out of the plane.Finally the flight landed in Kandahar.Now just think of those 200 passengers as hostages in Kandahar and their families back in India.An emergency meeting was called for and the decision to release 3 terrorists was agreed unanimously by ruling and opposing party members.Even P Chidambaram supported this decision.Please see here & here. Atleast in this case PC has spoken the truth and against Sonia’s accusations on BJP for Kandahar isssue.Later on April 15th, he said something else which is totally different from the previous version of his speech.Does PC suffers from Selective amnesia as Sanjay in Ghajini movie?If so, PC, who is your Kalpana?It is to be noted that the flight was in Taliban controlled area.Nobody would dare to go there.P Chidambaram has gone one step further and says “If I was the homeminister, I would not accept”. What would you have not accepted PC?Going to Kandahar at the risk of your own life?Definitely, you wouldn’t have accepted that.Jaswant Singh was right in doing so,because you did not know what would happen if all the terrorists reached safely and the hostages got killed.To ensure a fair exchange between Taliban, a responsible shrewd leader is needed from government.Compare this act with your Sonia Gandhi’s escape to Rome with Rajiv Gandhi during 1971 war fearing she might get hurt.P Chidambaram proves time and again that he is a sycophant of Sonia.Why PC and Sonia are silent on union minister, Mufti Muhammed’s daughter Rubaiya Sayeed Kidnapping drama in 1989 and subsequent release of 5 deadly terrorists.How come lives of 200 people is not so important than one Union minister daughter’s?1 Rubiya Sayeed = 5 deadly terrorists.Compare this with “200 innocent Indians = 3 deadly terrorists”.Is this not a better deal than a previous one,though it is not a right one?
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President Trump and First Lady Melania Visit Ramstein Air Base, in Germany…
Posted on December 26, 2018 by sundance
President Trump and First Lady Melania stopped at Ramstein Air Base in Germany en-route back to Washington DC. The president took the opportunity to talk directly with key military generals and leaders aboard Air Force-One:
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More photos!!!
Pres. Trump, first lady Melania Trump pose for pictures with U.S. troops in Ramstein, Germany, following earlier visit to al-Asad airbase in Iraq – his first visit to an overseas military installation. https://t.co/BCo9FW7KYJ pic.twitter.com/F8YofdE6AJ
— ABC News (@ABC) December 27, 2018
President Donald Trump takes a selfie with military members during a refueling stop at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, during an unannounced trip, Dec. 27, 2018. #TrumpTroopsVisit pic.twitter.com/FFU6G9yxSX
— Al Drago (@Al_Drago) December 27, 2018
Trumps Ramstein AB, Germany pic.twitter.com/FEMVL3EdrW
— The TRUMP PAGE (@MichaelDelauzon) December 27, 2018
Shoes!!!!
pic.twitter.com/AnMBaBYKbJ
Happening Now – President @realDonaldTrump and @FLOTUS meet with Troops at Ramstein Air Base. pic.twitter.com/myDcyFIQde
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) December 27, 2018
pic.twitter.com/Bo34zHfprn
National Security Adviser John Bolton spotted in the background where POTUS and FLOTUS are thanking troops for their service. pic.twitter.com/oerAO27Qoz
This went straight to “moderation” because of the number of links. )I think our limit here is 5.) Next time just post as two separate comments. 😉
Sorry about that Ad rem I didn’t know. 🙂 Thanks for the heads up!!! Will do next time.
GGHD says:
Excellent post, kea. There are readers here that enjoy seeing pictures of the fashionable clothing belonging, to the ~beautiful First Lady of the USA. … There’s a picture in your links, where the First Lady is wearing~Stylish Black Tennis Shoes. (It’s the link with the word ~Shoes under it.) ….. Plus, I saw a picture elsewhere, where it appeared the First Lady of the USA was wearing tan hiking boots. The boots didn’t look like Military Combat-Boots.
It’s good to know, that our ~beautiful First Lady may said to her husband, ‘Let’s take a trip, where I can wear some comfortable shoes.’
It’s taught in Church, ‘Preparation for Marriage Courses’ ~ The wife wants to hear from her husband these words: “Yes Dear!, with follow through!”
May God Bless our President, his family, and May God Bless America!
I spotted those tennis shoes right off. She makes everything fashionable.
Remington says:
I actually hate those shoes on adults. ‘Never take your fashion lead from 14 year old skate borders. However, POTUS is the only adult that makes these things look good. Every time I see her, she takes my breath away…They are such an amazing couple.
Lillie Belle says:
They are called sneakers and ‘skateboarders’ don’t wear the type FLOTUS is wearing.
Kokanee says:
Those look like Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Basketball shoes….”Chuck’s”… a classic! And FLOTUS ROCKS them! My 24 year old son wears them too and some old guys I work with in IT. Very popular now!
Attorney at Law says:
I have to disagree with you respectfully. I like the shoes and don’t think once one turns a certain age clothing, shoes should be off limits. It’s what one likes and feels comfortable in. Thank goodness most adults don’t care what others think about them or their style choices. That’s the beauty of getting older I suppose, you just don’t care. Happy Holidays and a blessed and successful New Year!
lanahi says:
I don’t understand all the comments here. POTUS and FLOTUS pay a visit to our combat soldiers and all we can talk about our her SHOES???
It was started by the lovely ever corrupt lying media, an attempt at tearing the stunning Melania down as they continue to grasp for straws. Epic fail as usual.
Carrie2 says:
What always impresses me is the eagerness of our military men and women wanting to be close to our President and those selfies with him. They respect and love our President because he has shown them they are valued! FLOTUS is just whipped cream for any visit.
“Shoes!!!!” – That cracked me up, ha! It’s understandable to get in a rush to bring us pics of such things.
Ready Steady Go says:
I like her shoes!
🙂 LOL I know. I think its because we never get cover photos which is why.
Subsequent to my original comment to kea, I’ve seen on the Internet, how the Fake New is ‘mocking’ the beautiful First Lady for wearing Timberland Hiking boots. The articles seem to indicate, she has used them previously. … The Fake News has no mercy. = The Fake News has brain wave problems.
If the beautiful First Lady of the USA discovered a universal and inexpensive cure for cancer, the Fake News would still ‘mock’ her for something. = ‘She wears tan boots with a white lab coat!
nats1mom says:
Thank you Kea!
Just wonderful for those troops to have a visit by a POTUS and FLOTUS who truly appreciate their service and sacrifice.
mikeyboo says:
And THIS President doesn’t begin every sentence with “I”.
President Trump meets with military leaders at Ramstein Air Base in Germany after his surprise trip to Iraq (photo via pooler @SBHarmon) pic.twitter.com/6sgO9DWTkT
— Elyse PG (@elysepg) December 27, 2018
#BREAKING | President Trump has landed at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany for refueling and to meet with stationed troops
Watch: https://t.co/Xtx5FGPl9H pic.twitter.com/xnXhFjofHb
— 10News WTSP (@10NewsWTSP) December 27, 2018
Though it's 2:30AM there, Pres Trump steps off Air Force One at Ramstein Air Base to greet and thank US military personnel. pic.twitter.com/GkKkzI62vr
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) December 27, 2018
About 2:30 a.m. local time, President Donald Trump and Melania Trump greet servicemembers at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, pic by @stripesktown. pic.twitter.com/FYasOz9OPc
— Erik Slavin (@eslavin_stripes) December 27, 2018
Geoff Goedde says:
At that hour, from the pic above, it looks as if thousands turned out to greet POTUS & FLOTUS. Nobody ordered those troops to show up.
This tweet by a fellow Treeper says it all!
I served during a time when we were treated with much less respect.
You never heard "thanks for your service". Instead, we were harassed when in uniform to the point of not wanting to wear it in public.
President Trump now makes me feel proud again, as evidenced in this video. https://t.co/TSUmrOXukf
— Golden Advice (@RichardStiller4) December 27, 2018
spoogels says:
Remember when p**fter Obama’s minions made the soldiers wear red high heels?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/21/army-rotc-program-allegedly-pushed-men-wear-high-h/
To humiliate them publicly
https://twt-thumbs.washtimes.com/media/image/2015/04/21/Temple_ROTC_c0-0-700-408_s885x516.jpg?f7c7cb081d808dc43729ee6077273da885ffde4d
Ughh!
Above link wouldnt show pics
Elric VIII says:
At least they were wearing OD wool socks to make them more comfortable. But, SHEESH! I would have refused, even if it meant a court martial.
jbrown says:
So would I.
notfaded1 says:
That’s just wrong… anyway you slice it!
And therein lies the portion of that military mind-set that is so dangerous – that proportion of professionals who will follow any directive from POTUS, or in particular members of his staff, no matter how openly ridiculous or nonsensical – or dangerous. If these guys would do this, what other nonsensical commands might they obey?
Oh, and before anyone raises the hue and cry – I was raised by a combat vet; I spent time in the US military; my son is a combat vet in a bad way due to his service in a combat zone.
redridge45 says:
Red shoes mean something too; not sure what, but connected to Podesta, pedophiles, satanists and Popes… One can only guess the level of sickness of the individual/group that came up with this, especially if it was meant to humiliate our brave service members.
Red shoes are part of occult rituals.
nimrodman says:
Surrender Dorothy
Absolutely sickening!
Spoogels – why? What was this all about? I don’t remember this at all, but then, I tried to blank out most of Obozo’s years as president.
It was a “walk a mile in her shoes”(TM) stunt to let “mens” understand what “womerns” go through in life. I think they did short hash runs in red pumps.
It’s the kind of “feelings” and “awareness” pap that’s rampant in the corporate world, I guess “management” is the common denominator, whether private sector or military.
There are consultants who are brought in to give these seminars and exercises and they rake in a ton of dough having people close their eyes and fall backward and see if their co-workers will catch them.
That and droning, droning lectures about diversity and womerns in the workplace(TM), and all sorts of human resources department stuff that just drones on and on and is just trite and useless.
I worked in a science agency and we’d have human resources presentations prodding and prodding that “don’t you think there should be 50% women in your profession since women make up 50% (actually more) of the population?
Uh … no.
Women didn’t study for science professions at a 50% ratio. They were in dance and drama classes, if I’d taken more of those and less science and differential equations I’d probably have gotten way more skirt in college.
But yeah, if you’ve ever had to sit thru these kinds of human resources dirges you know what I’m talking about.
They’re really big with upper management, your supervisors go off to these well-fed retreats and conventions at the Radisson and lap up these presentations in conference rooms.
“Ok, let’s break up into small groups for the next exercise … yada yada”
Shoot me now
… but hey, don’t get me started
wyntre says:
Sounds just like the Propaganda – er – Mandatory Mis-edu-cama-cation Teacher training Seminars where a$$wipes in desperate need to justify their paychecks develop the most cringe-worthy sensitivity/diversity topics imaginable – like the ones you cited.
Bureaucracy is the same everywhere – whether it’s in the DMV where tenured personnel work at the pace of molasses or deep in the bowels of the DS where requests for FOIA info can take decades if it’s the wrong info requested by the wrong people.
There is also a cya component to the training. Most big orgs have agreements with insurance to mediate and settle complaints. One way the org mitigates the damage is proving employees have been trained in diversity, gender, etc. it’s a huge business. Big money.
7delta says:
I worked in a science agency…
Well, there’s your problem, Nim. Science and logic are the antithesis of thinking that putting on a pair of shoes magically enlightens and conveys someone else’s larger life experience. If we employ the hypothesis of “Experience Transference by Shoe”, we can put on a pair of combat boots and know what it was like to storm the beach at Normandy on D-Day or experience the cold wetness permeating disintegrated boots and the stiff, icy rag-foot coverings at Valley Forge.
I’m kind of sorry the exercise doesn’t work. Experiencing the combat boots’ “mile” would do a world of good for people who have the time and resources to wallow in extreme silliness, courtesy, in large part, of the combat boot that protects their freedom from collectively living in a poverty-stricken country, under a tyrannical government that allows them no possession of resources or choice, but to devote every second of their lives to serving their “betters”, while trying to produce, by their own hands, the barest of necessities to merely survive.
IOW, the people who think this junk up are spoiled, arrogant, ignorant, self-centered, soft, perfumed ingrates with too much time on their hands and plentiful resources to wear expensive leather shoes, of their choice, on their feet. It’s hard to get much dumber, but these people are devoted to the effort.
swissik says:
I worked at a major research university in the Silicon Valley, CA. for 28 years. Our HR department organized training sessions, sensitivity workshops and all kinds of panel meetings of which I don’t remember the titles, but it was always for a cause du jour. Participation was mandatory. I was the lone employee refusing to take part in the fall backward and be caught exercise. Fortunately I had the support of a reasonable boss. The diversity panels usually failed to include a Caucasian member.
That’s because “diversity” is a code word that means “fewer white people”
Ba-dum chishhhhhhh
Plain as day
“Well, there’s your problem, Nim.”
The widely beloved Dixie Chicks had a song “There’s Your Trouble”
I liked it, it was catchy and the girls’ voices were purty
paper doll says:
“and we’d have human resources presentations ”
There’s scene in “The Natural” when the team is not hitting and they bring in a quakeadoole shilling some mind f consultant and the the Redford character says” I’m not putting up with this carny crap”….there you have it
Oh, Nim – you kill me – thanks for the explanation. Crazy shizzz, for sure…..
I’ve been thru the wars, wiser. Not actual military service but the PC wars.
kaste668 says:
My husband was in Vietnam 1970-72 (drafted). When he was coming home, they told them NOT to wear their uniforms. It was a hard couple years because no one wanted to hire a Vietnam vet…they were crazy people, baby killers, druggies, etc etc. I am so very proud that our POTUS recognizes the commitment of our military and law enforcement.
eagledriver50 says:
Came home to San Diego Airport and hari-krishna met me with “Baby Killer”, starting to go after the guy and the cops stepped in and formed a wedge. Thank you husband for his service – Vietnam ’71-’72.
Leftys argue with me that this never happened. Returning Viet Vets weren’t hectored or spit on.
So I greatly appreciate your first-hand account.
Yes indeed Viet Vets DID experience this harassment. I witnessed it first hand.
nimrod, it was horrible how they were treated and for a long time. On the other hand my brother was in the Korean conflict (Congress members like to come up with names to wars which wind up killing our military) and when he came home no nastiness but he did suffer from what we now call PTSD which ruined his marriage but he did live until age 75 having slowly but surely gotten back to calmness and caring.
in the Korea – WWII – WWI eras I think they called it “shell shock” – later to be named PTSD
I returned from Vietnam in July ’72.
My family was waiting for me when I arrived, some woman ran beside me with a fresh load in a pampers and flung it up side my head. Quite a mess to wipe up.
We were very quiet about my service for years.
Now I am stepping up to every Vet wearing a hat to thank them for their service.
Thank you for your service, Bill. I know our MEN won EVERY battle there: the politicians [spit] let you down and bugged out.
As for that broad who attacked you, I hope she’s sitting in her own unchanged pampers in some human warehouse. Just sayin’.
wow, Bill, that’s a helluva thing
thanks for the first-hand account, I’ll be able to tell these maroons to step off next time
Lots of love for POTUS and FLOTUS. We can be proud again of our nation and its leadership.
Your Tour Guide says:
To this day, I can always tell who REALLY fought in
Vietnam. For awhile in the mid 80s, there were some
nuts running around claiming false valor for being there.
Would go on endlessly about battles fought, and where.
The biggest offender among these jerks outed himself
by describing in detail the lake where my family had a
summer place. Went into long detail, and was wrong in
every aspect. Had 18 years worth of memories to refute
The ones that went to Vietnam NEVER talk about it.
Except if they run into someone else that was there. Then
they go off into a corner and talk. Kaste668 and
eagledriver can correct me on this one if I’m wrong.
Indeed vets NEVER talk about it, unless maybe if they meet up with another vet who served with them and then it seems they are speaking in code…..those who know don’t go blabbing about it.
hoghead says:
No one forced to be there for optics. A friendly, enthusiastic group.
delighteddeplorable says:
Precisely! Try as they will, the MSM cannot successfully diminish all those happy faces. We see it, clearly. How awesome is this, first Iraq and then Ramstein. Very happy surprises and what a day! Proud to be an Always Trumper.
lemmus1 says:
‘Always Trumper’ …I like that 👍
NC Patriot says:
You know, don’t you that as a young man, PDJT met Reagan on several different occasions?
This is in response to treehouseron below.
BC says:
‘Trumpenkreiger’
Timmy- the-Ute says:
At a time when the Fake news is talking about bone spurs. The troops show it’s appreciation toward the Commander and Chief.
So that is why that story about bone spurs is suddenly in the news! So transparently desperate!!
I was amazed that the daughters of the doctor, in their frantic zeal to get Trunp, did not grasp that they had FOEVER tarnished the reputation of their own father by pointing out his glaring lack of integrity.
Or that they illegally and immorally disclosed records OR that these anti-trump tramps made up the whole thing.
Lee, Trump’s problems were real and thus denied military service. On the other hand they never said anything about Bill Clinton’s 5 times ducking the service and he had no physical problems (except for one and we all know that is). We have been blessed to have Trump and Melania as down to earth, caring, and actually showing those caring for not only the military but for all of us. Eisenhower, I liked, and Reagan was also very good, but with Trump he is down to earth and touchable.
logger says:
Many Americans have not served, and that’s okay, as we have a volunteer army. That may not always be the case. No one can dispute that Trump is serving the country now.
I'll say it. We are living in the best timeline ever. We have not had a Potus that loves this Country as much as him in at least 150 years. Prove me wrong. He's showing it more and more everyday. And we're very.. very lucky to be alive during this time. Beautiful stuff, folks..
— Snake Plissken (@MrWyattEarpLA) December 27, 2018
treehouseron says:
I can’t speak about anybody before Kennedy because honestly i’m just ignorant of it, but the only thing keeping most people from admitting President Trump is the greatest ever is their great admiration (and deservedly so) for Reagan. I think Reagan would have loved Trump though. Reagan had a fire in him like Trump’s, just a little less crass but no where near as effective and powerful as Trump either. I’ll take crass over ineffective any day.
You can’t get over the feeling practically all presidents since Herbert Hoover – with the exceptions of Eisenhower and Reagan – viewed the military with scorn, or at least suspicion, and very definitely as a very desirable prop to have in the background after being elected. Doesn’t matter what half of the Uniparty, they both did it. Kennedy, even though a combat vet himself, developed a suspicion of the military after the Bay of Pigs and then the Cuban Missile Crisis – viewed many of them as warmongers, helped along by Robert S. McNamara.
jbowen82 says:
Both the Bushes were veterans who went out of their way to honor those who serve and especially the fallen.
jbpwem82, and this I admire in Geo. W with his gatherings with military men every year. Honoring our military, and especially our current millitary who are ALL volunteers, is so needed by everyone. That they are willing to lose their lives and suffer horrible injuries always brings tears to my eyes.
YvonneMarie says:
But Mr Trump is not crass.
The enemy is.
I couldn’t have put thoughts to print, as the above did so well. We all are living in historical times where we are witnessing something so phenomenal and great. President Trump is out of this world, literally. What an incredible human with passion for his country and honour towards those that rightly deserve the recognition and respect. Long Live Trump!
Jack is Back says:
@Snake,
“… as much as him in at least 150 years…”
I understand the sentiment, Snake, but Reagan, Eisenhower, Coolidge, JFK. Heck, even Bush 41 & 43, despite their blue-state bigGov version of little-D republicanism, loved our country.
DJT is definitely the most consequential President in the past 50 years, though… God Bless him.
The JG
stg58animalmother says:
To all the whiners and complainers…
Would you rather he go visit them, or bring them home?
Of course, we know they aren’t arguing in good faith.
They are so happy to see him and FLOTUS! CNN is seething!
President @realDonaldTrump and @FLOTUS meet with Air Force Generals at Ramstein Air Base aboard AF1. #TrumpTroopsVisit pic.twitter.com/u6Bz3ORUz3
Air Force One is probably a SCIF. Imagine you cant have a confidential talk anywhere on base because of 5 Eyes spying
‘probably’? …one of the most secure places on the planet
It certainly should be, but I wouldn’t put anything past the prior crew.
It’s a SCIF… the MSM media has been harping lately that one thing they want to investigate is the conversations and Mara Lago… because it’s not a SCIF. Let’s face it the MSM is grasping at straws now. It’s a sad state the country is in because of this one sided media we’re living with…
It’s possible to transform any location into a SCIF, since there are published guidelines covering running of communications access to a hardened space, plus the basic construction of the facility, along with access controls – which can be built anywhere – and Trump has the money to finance one of these things anywhere he wants to have it. Or the gov can pay for it to be done. Point is, it’s more than possible to install a SCIF where there isn’t one now.
Te Mockingbird Media is 100% CIA. CIA is still rogue.
What will it take to disinfect?
YEP…THEY (newsies) are SUCKING A GIANT VACUUM. Pretty soon their little minds will explode due to no air being up in the nether regions!!! Happy New Year!!!
One sided and 2 faced.
CNN is irrelevant, as it should be.
Very true. CNN and others are doing the impossible to bring Trump and Melania down.
Expect Melania’s sunglasses when they landed in Washington to be the subject of a full day’s criticism.
She trolls them too! That’s the funny part!
Mo says:
Happy Happy Happy ! Big Smiles All!
Thank You President Trump and FLOTUS Melania for caring so much for Us.
donna kovacevic says:
I love your President and FLOTUS they are amazing. How depressing when reality hits and I have to see Justine’s face and hear his stuttering voice. God Bless them both!
MSM: “Trump FINALLY goes to a war zone after being criticized for not having been… blah, blah, blah…”
Oh, shut up MSM, just shut up. You’re making fools of yourselves.
I refuse to believe the American People are stupid enough to fall for that.
You can fool some of the people all of the time …
Nope2GOPe says:
You can fool some of the people some of the time …
But you can’t fool some of the people all of the time …
But if you can fool them just once …
It’s good for four years! …
To the MSM I say Ko vas jebe!
Yeah! What she said!!!
cmcallm says:
STAMINA!!!!!! REMEMBER THAT WORD?!
Sherri Young says:
Was thinking about Trump’s first trip abroad right at the start of his presidency. The MSM drooled all over themselves while opining that he would have to take things more slowly and would need extra rest because he could not be expected to hold up under the strain of international travel.
Hello? Who put out the talking points for that trip?
Yeah, and remember all the reporters were dragging a** the next day while he was jet setting to the next stop.
Little Bessie says:
I know the President doesn’t drink, but if he did, at least he and the troops could have some beers together there in Germany, unlike in Mohammedan Iraq and Afghanistan, without the native residents going jihad “insults to Mohammad” crazy.
delmarvajim says:
President Trump is my fourteenth president. Without a doubt, the greatest president in my lifetime.
I hope there may be consideration of transferring these great people to Poland! If not home to the USA!
Melania changed her shoes, just to piss off the haters 🙂
NJF says:
He, he.
Now THATS an idea!
Kek Louboutins!
The trademark for Loboutins is that they have a RED sole
That is why Melania wears them!
Pepe Pumps!
purpleibby says:
LOL! Top kek!
I’d like to say outloud, that one of the JOYS of this presidency, is seeing a young, beautiful, intelligent, wholesome, and wonderful woman like Sarah Sanders get to take part in all of this alongside the President. She clearly enjoys every moment of it, and is having the time of her life meeting and seeing things that a country girl from Arkansas probably never thought she’d get to see.
I cannot wait for Sarah’s memoirs. It will be a joy to read in six years.
warrprin1 says:
Sarah is brilliant!
pnj01 says:
POTUS generally seems to like to spend time with hard working people. My cousin, a NYC Construction Trades Electrician (Local 3, IBEW), met THE Donald a number of times on construction sites and was always impressed with how friendly he was and how knowledgeable Trump was about construction issues. He seems to have passed on that natural friendliness to his kids. I recently attended a wedding at a Trump Golf Course and Eric Trump slipped in to wish the bride and groom well. That is why his rallies work.
They say Charisma is the combination of power, and empathy. The Trumps are very powerful people, and everywhere they go they show empathy to people whether it’s just a pat on the back or a joking comment the President’s probably told 10,000 people. When someone that powerful just takes the second to NOTICE that you’re there, it’s incredibly charismatic, almost irresistible.
Every single person in the family is charismatic, down to Tiffany! Not sure about Barron yet he’s so private.
President Trump is so charismatic congressional Democrats refuse to even meet with him anymore. He’s almost irresistible in person, he can schmooze anybody. That’s why you’ve got losers like Trudeau and Macron who snuggle up to him in private, then wait to talk trash about him when he’s left the room. When they’re in his presence they can’t overcome his charisma.
I call him Micron
I call IT Trudope!
Wai cheah says:
I call him little potato
or Moron.
Phil Free says:
What chu’ said. Charisma — this man has it.
Along with being an Alpha-Male/Apex Predator, he is also empathic. One-in-a-trillion, our POTUS!
The flip side is someone like Hillary. Power…. but no Empathy. = No Charisma.
Now that you mentioned Trudope can’t tolerate that creep, but his father Pierre was a lot like PDJT, fuddle duddle was his saying when pissed off, however very charismatic he was loved. Justine’s name got him elected to a YUGE disappointment. I did Not vote for him.
813.52Ran says:
Pierre Trudeau was hated here in Alberta.
And he did not use the term “fuddle-duddle” when pissed off. He outright told an opposition member to “F##k Off” in The House of Commons and when questioned by reporters, charmingly lied that he used the term “fuddle-duddle.”
Communist POS was nothing like President Trump.
Ugh!!!
rvsueandcrew says:
I can easily believe this is a real, un-photoshopped picture, which says a lot.
in 2 years!
Air Force One is wheels up from Ramstein for last leg of flight back to DC from Iraq. It's a 4,043-mile flight. This was Pres Trump's 10th foreign trip. And Iraq is the 21st nation he's been to as president.
TMonroe says:
And he’s managed not to make bowing a thing
SouthernTrumpette says:
” It’s time for us to start using our head. We don’t want to be taken advantage of any more…
We’re spread out all over the world. We’re in countries that most people have never heard even about and.frankly, it’s ridiculous. That’s the story, it’s very simple.”
It’s good that Trump is making it known that several times he gave the generals 6 month extensions in Syria. Mattis and crew have tried their hardest to spin it that the President pulled out of Syria on the spur of the moment.
fred5678 says:
Brit Hume a Trump fan??
https://preview.redd.it/7sumtg01mp621.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=9b3defc6fef9c6bf2ff80998673413e847c420b1
Time Traveling Trump….. Brit Hume … Master Of The ShitPost… from The_Donald
Sick burn Brit…..You rocked that one!
I actually miss the old days of Brit instead of Bret on FOX.
Kris Langley says:
And the best part, as Dan Bongino tweeted, trips for POTUS have to be set-up (security, logistics, etc.) well in advance of the travel date.
It isn’t as if he can drive over, walk up to a bird Colonel, and say “Hey. You know what? I feel like flying overseas tonight”
wisdomtravelletstalkconservative says:
The media claiming that BHO visited military bases at Christmas is truly laughable. So what he stopped by the base in Hawaii while on vacay! POTUS never tried to claim a visit to military bases in FL as a “holiday visit”. Not to mention that Pres. Trump has been far better at visiting hurricane sites than BHO was.
Just sickening the way the doggone media-rats cover for Dems.
Direct your ire at the rogue CIA. Mockingbird media is run by the agency.
Too many rogue agencies and departments. What will it take to clean out the nests?
These people are doing the Devil’s work!
Trump flag (she dropped it after she saw me taking a photo) pic.twitter.com/LhPwUNdEK3
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) December 27, 2018
Oh I dunno Jen, it might be because you and your ilk are threatening to have them all court marshalled over it. Go get bent.
Rileytrips says:
Email the White House. Tell them about this Jennifer Epstein from Bloomberg News, who accompanied the President on Air Force One – on this trip to Iraq and Germany to visit our troops during Christmas week. Let them know that Miss Epstein posted photos of our soldiers on her social media pages – wearing MAGA hats and holding a Trump flag – so that her raid Trump-hater followers could doxx these soldiers and try to do them harm. Miss Jennifer Epstein needs to be banned from all future trips with the President.
Rabid…not raid.
Honestly Riley if you think about it, this is one of the most despicable things the media has done in the past 4 years. And that’s saying something.
It’s not enough to attack the President, attack his wife, attack his ex wives, attack his lawyers, attack his friends, attack his children…. now they’re trying to snitch out female members of the army who happen to support their boss.
Lets never say we haven’t seen evil walking the earth, because we’re watching it right now. These people are sub-human.
@PressSec @realDonaldTrump @FLOTUS This reporter has absolutely no business being on a trip like this. She decided that she would stand up for the Resistance. Please have @jeneps removed from covering the White House. https://t.co/Tkkq4SZvMu
— Baba97 (@Baba9773) December 27, 2018
Julia Adams says:
I have a better idea…find a judge to force her into military service. Tell her her basic training is in Paris….as in an Island,
We don’t want her
G3 says:
She dropped the flag….Seems oddly of out character.
Jennifer Epstein didn’t post any pictures of that.
Maybe, she put it away when she heard Jennifer shirking & pointing.
Thank you for exposing her!
Lil’ Jane Fondastein
abigailstraight says:
POTUS and First Lady sure know how to turn the lyin media spin, while the Dems stumble all over themselves finding a pathway to adding his autographing ‘red hats’ to their fictitious list of “high crimes and misdemeanors” to be presented to the Congress January 3rd, 2019.
Give me a Break!!!
Deplorable_Infidel says:
“while the Dems stumble all over themselves finding a pathway to adding his autographing ‘red hats’ to their fictitious list of “high crimes and misdemeanors””
I can think of about 40+ dem congresscritters that should be rounded up for real crimes relating to the Anwan scandal. Speaker Ryan should have had them expelled, too – but that is another sad chapter in politics for the 2010-2019 decade.
Speaker Ryan needs a metak in head.
“Hat crimes and missed manners” will be enough for Mad Maxine.
Ryan’s ramping up for another Vice Presidential run with Romney.
Bet on it!
The only thing he is ramping up is the security around his home.
Wow! Talk about a losing ticket!
Anywhere President Trump travels, he is embraced by patriots. Most especially in the U.S. military services.
oldfatredneckcracker says:
LMAO !!—>Wasn’t the Democrat talking points all day yesterday : Trump has never visited the Troops that are in a Combat Zone ?
~Remember when Hildabeast Clinton said : “We had to duck and run due to all the “Sniper” Fire–>Zip, Zip, Ping, Ping.~ 🙂
And today their talking points will be “it was just a political stunt and photo opp.”
Oh this is amazing! Are those Converse Chuck Taylor’s on our FLOTUS! May God bless our patriot First Family!
woodstuff says:
I didn’t notice any secret service. Seems like they weren’t needed around troops who loved President Trump.
I am Australian and I am on the Trump train. I never miss a beat. Every day my heart swells with pride. I asked Catallaxy Files to add The Last Refuge to their list of recommended sites. They said they would.
Love Australia^ literally just got back, had the pleasure of spending a lot of time all over Sydney, Melbs and other areas. Have family and friends there, such an amazing place, minus the airports. 🙂 Best food I’ve ever had, and woke up every day to my morning view of the Opera House and Harbour bridge.
Good luck. The Cat is for effete political libertarian wankers who desperately want to believe that there is some significant difference between Lib and Lab and themselves.
teeheeman says:
God bless POTUS, FLOTUS and our TROOPS. Love Melania’s “kicks” as my kids would say.
And here are the top three CNN headlines about the trip. You can’t make this stuff up!:
Don Lemon slams Trump’s ‘lie’ to troops
Troops bringing Trump hats to sign may violate military rule
Lawmaker calls Trump’s comments in Iraq ‘inappropriate’
I’m militarily ignorant so someone will be able to tell me why the US runs large USAF bases in Germany and England and Italy? All within spitting distance. To my limited commercial mind that’s duplication.
Having multiple bases in Europe made a considerable amount of strategic sense when the Soviets would be able to come through the Fulda Gap with armor and short range missiles. And, for aircraft with shorter ‘legs’, no need to deploy vulnerable air-to-air refueling resources.
Spar Harmon says:
If you have a mind for analysis, Reality, you might try collecting information on what is taught as standard, baseline, operating knowledge a graduate of West Point is supposed to possess. The basic stuff is common to all branches, all large corporations, and the nuts and bolts support structures of all cities,counties, states, and Fed agencies.
Then set yourself the task of implementing the deployment of our military in Europe, circa post WWII for purposes of stabilizing the geopolitical situation, especially with regard to containing Soviet aggression. Be sure to check your aspirin supply and take frequent cold showers to cool your overheated brain.
Or try assuming there are good reasons those bases were established, initially. Construct a timeline of establishment. Look for evolving mission changes. Realize that all of Europe is within “spitting distance” of all of Europe. Set some scrambling senarios. Remember the institutional chaos left by the German occupation. Check your aspirin supply, etc.
We are all pretty ignorant of the organic development of the outcomes with which our country now contends and participated in.
So don’t feel bad personally for your ignorance, we all suffer from it. I have been struggling to minimze mine since 1962, when I left the military, and I make no claims of exraordinary succcess.
But I love being an American and I am proud to be from a family which has participated from our founding in what that means.
Right….alas, the days of the USSR as a Communist expansionist threat to Europe and the world are over. Now Russia is a sort of crony oligarchy, an elite mafia state with a GDP of around Spain’s (hard to believe that).
No doubt there was sufficient reason for the massive number of US bases in Europe during the Cold war. “Was” being the operative word.
Military living in the past is a clear and present danger to the US taxpayer. The US military is being funded by deficit spending.
‘The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire’ is salutary. But no-one reads any more.
“check your aspirin supply and take frequent cold showers to cool your overheated brain”.
Interesting reaction to non cheer squad info that understandably disturbs you.
Tell me, does your passive aggression stem from knowing deeply, at your resistant core, that unless the US ceases all but vital overseas imperial military reach, our military will absolutely, certainly bankrupt the nation? Do you have any, even minimal, understanding of the eventual consequences of a $22 trillion Federal debt on the $US?
I fear another well meaning, simpleton, boy scout……
Enjoy your fear, “reality”.
I suspected that was the limit of your argument.
Argument has it’s limits.
Trump Declares End To U.S. ‘Policeman’ Role During Surprise Visits To Troops In Iraq, Germany
https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-surprise-visit-u-s-troops-iraq/29678078.html
Is that like the ephemeral Wall promise? Or different?
… the use of the word ephemeral, reality, signals an immersion in poor information sources, analytic skills skewed by biased presuppositions, and simmered in a sour disposition.
Is your aspirin handy?
‘ephemeral: lasting for a very short time’.
You do see the obvious connection with PDJT’s genuine campaign promises re the Wall and how they lasted a very short time, don’t you?
Year 2, a trivial amount of Wall exists. QED.
Correction, my mistake….
“Year 3 (three), a trivial amount of Wall exists. QED.”
Facts are often painful.
Instant pudding is in ailse 11 at the supermarket. You don’t need Congress or anyone in the Exec Branch to buy it.
My understanding is the C in C can designate the Wall as defence expenditure, which it genuinely is, and organise the existing defence budget to cover it?
…….if you’re a serious Wall builder that is.
You seem a bit shy…let me try again….
“You don’t need Congress or anyone in the Exec Branch to buy it.” Correct the Don doesn’t.
Pyrthroes says:
Some eras back, the “Happy Warrior” was New York State’s Democrat Governor and 1928 Presidential candidate Al Smith, 1873 – 1944. As of June 2015, that cheerful, generous title has found a most worthy successor.
“This is the happy Warrior; this is he
That every man in arms should wish to be:
… who, if he be called upon to face
Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined
Great issues, good or bad for human kind,
Is happy as a Lover; and attired
With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired;
And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law
In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw …”
Wordsworth, 1806 – “keep(ing) the law” is both a sacred and a secular concern.
Jayke says:
You won’t see this on CNN. I work at a place called Aberdeen Proving Ground. The Burger King on the installation only runs CNN all day long and at a loud volume. Every time I eat there I wind up getting indigestion and saluting with my middle finger as I rush out the door. I once complained to the BK staff and they informed me that the Senior Commander ordered it. Fortunately, there’s another BK a couple of miles down the road in Aberdeen.
I went there as a kid for an open-house to the public, late 50s or so.
They put on exhibitions for the folks sitting in bleachers, the coolest one to me was a tank traversing left to right along a field a football-field’s length at a pretty good clip and firing its main gun downrange perpendicular to its traverse direction at targets and knocking them down pretty consistently.
Pretty impressive to a kid of 6 or 7, I still remember it vividly.
I can imagine! They don’t do public exhibitions here anymore but if you live nearby you’ll hear and feel them all the time.
I still remember an open-house that I went to at about that age. Maybe a year/so older.
The difference was that Dad was a retired AF bird Colonel, and was provided VIP passes for us, to go to Edwards AFB. It was pretty awesome to walk around the sole remaining XB-70 Valkyrie, some X-series a/c (some of which Dad had been involved with during second tour at HQAF) – as well as a number of then-contemporary active a/c. As I recall, there was also a B-58 Hustler on the flight line.
montanamel says:
I, too, remember those “open house” days at Edwards AFB, CA… The early ones were awesome beyond belief… (I learned to fly at Santa Paula, CA – 1959/1966) It seemed like they just ‘opened the hangers’ and shoved everything out on the line back then… They actually flew the RB-70 at one I remember!… and, at a later one, the SR-71 / YB-12 … dripping and stinking all the way to the runway end…Seeing the Sled fly was just down right unbelievable!…
I can still remember driving up the night before…parking in the long line in front of the gate house and swapping stories with other folks there in line…most years they let us in about 8 AM and we got the close-in (behind the hangers) parking…just walk thru to the flight line area. Chuck Yager was there many years and Bob Hoover walked around in his straw hat as well… 51D was with him…
ANYONE with a love for flight, needs to see the SAC museum over in Nebraska – right along I-70, about 15 mi west of Omaha (of course)…watch for the signs! Check-6
TwoLaine says:
https://sacmuseum.org
You might have gotten the “Bush river blues”. I swam in that toxic stew as a young kid cause I didn’t know any better. Wait , that explains a lot
No matter how the press and the commies try to belittle him …
… he just looks BIG
…. and they look small.
Sanj says:
I’m in India for a couple weeks and the only source of info, other than cricket scores, is The Treehouse. You wouldn’t believe how much happier I am not having antiTrump crap 24/7 thrown in my face.
Where in India? Hubby and I were born in the south! But I came here to US in my teens! Enjoy!
Kerala this trip, it’s been awesome so far
Here is the part of the President’s speech to the service members in Iraq that is not well reported:
“It’s time to get our young people out,” Trump said. “And I’ve been signing plenty of letters and I don’t like sending those letters home to parents saying that your young man or your young woman has been killed.” “I don’t like doing it. We’ve been doing it long enough.”
In my opinion, when your spending time and resources defending US soldiers from “green on blue” attacks, it’s time to come home.
My fave, from the dailymail.uk article
click to enlarge then click again
love those boots!
Changes the whole “Your mama wears [Army] boots” meme – doesn’t it.
Hmmmm. Seems relevant to post this article again. At least one leading voice in the argument to leave Syria came from the head of the US European Command. Getting a face-to-face with some like minded generals? Job interview? (“You can’t come here. I’ll come to you.”)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/trumps-decision-to-leave-syria-was-no-surprise/
More on the Red High Heels mind set:
I am putting this excerpt from the 133 page FOIA document obtained from the Department of Defense entitled: AFSS 0910 EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND TREATMENT INCIDENTS (EOTI) LESSON PLAN
It helps those with too little time to wade through the whole document obtained by Judicial Watch.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-defense-department-teaching-documents-suggest-mainstream-conservative-views-extremist/
This part I found… eye opening:
D. Extremist Ideologies
• As noted, an ideology is a set of political beliefs about the nature of people and society. People who are committed to an ideology seek not only to persuade but to recruit others to their belief. In U.S. history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and movements. The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern states are just two examples.
• While not all ideologists are violent in nature, it is characteristic of ideology to be action-oriented and to regard action in terms of a military analogy. How often have you heard words such as struggle, resist, march, victory, and overcome when reading about or talking to ideologists about their beliefs?
2. Ideologies
a. Nationalism – The policy of asserting that the interests of one’s own nation are separate from the interests of other nations or the common interest of all nations. Many nationalist groups take it a step further and believe that their national culture and interests are superior to any other national group.”
LESSON EMPHASIS
This lesson will focus on awareness and current issues requiring the attention of future Equal Opportunity Advisors. It will also provide information that describes sources of extremism information, definitions, recruitment of DoD personnel, common themes in extremist ideologies, common characteristics of extremist organizations, DoD policies, and command functions regarding extremist activities. ……
Seven Stage Hate Model, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin March
The following references are additional sources for current extremism information:
• Anti-Defamation League – http://www.adl.org [The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people ]
• Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism – [The Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino is a nonpartisan research and policy center ]
• Know Gangs –
• Political Research Associates –
• Southern Poverty Law Center – http://www.splcenter.org [SEE attacks on Catholic Church and shooting target from their list http://cnsnews.com/news/article/southern-poverty-law-center-our-hate-map-doesn-t-cause-anybody-attack. also DHS employee behind website promoting race war on paid leave ]
• Teaching Tolerance –
Todd’s American Dispatch: Feds forced churches to get baptism permits
C. Extremists Traits
1. What type of person belongs to an extremist group or follows an extremist ideology? The terms extremism or extremist are almost always applied by others to a group rather than by a group labeling itself. People within an extremist group will deny that they practice or advocate violence; instead they would more likely call themselves political radicals.
2. According to George and Wilcox, there are a number of specific traits or behaviors that tend to represent the extremist style. As a caution, we are all fallible human beings, and some of us may resort to these behaviors from time to time without bad intentions. With extremists, these lapses are not occasional; rather, they are habitual and a strongly established part of an extremist’s character.
a. Character assassination
Extremists often attack the character of an opponent rather than deal with the facts or issues raised. They will question motives, qualifications, past associations, alleged values, personality, looks, and mental health as a diversion from the issues under consideration.
b. Name calling and labeling
Extremists are quick to resort to taunts (e.g., pervert, racist, and crackpot) to label and condemn opponents and to divert others from listening to their arguments.
c. Irresponsive sweeping generalizations
Extremists tend to make sweeping claims or judgments with little to no evidence, often confusing similarity with sameness. That is, they assume that because two or more things are alike in some respects that they are alike in all respects.
d. Inadequate proof behind assertions
Extremists tend to be very fuzzy about what constitutes proof for their assertions and tend to get caught up in logical fallacies where they assume that a prior event explains a subsequent occurrence simply because of their before-and-after relationship. They tend to project wished-for conclusions and exaggerate the significance of information that confirms their prejudices and discredit or ignore information that contradicts them.
e. Tendency to view opponents and critics as essentially evil
Extremists feel that their opponents hold differing views because they are bad, immoral, dishonest, hateful, cruel, prejudiced, etc. and not merely because they simply disagree, see matters differently, or are mistaken.
f. Dualism worldview
Extremists tend to see the world in terms of absolute good and evil, for them or against them, with no middle ground or intermediate position. All issues are ultimately moral issues of right and wrong, good or bad, with the right and good positions coinciding with their interests. Their slogan is often “Those who are not with me are against me.”
g. Tendency to argue by intimidation
Extremists tend to frame their arguments in such a way as to intimidate others into accepting their premises and conclusions. To disagree with them is to ally oneself with the devil or to give aid and comfort to the enemy. They tend to be very judgmental and moralizing, allowing them to define the parameters of the debate by keeping their opponents on the defensive.
h. Use of slogans, buzzwords, and thought-stopping clichés
For many extremists, shortcuts in thinking and in reasoning matters out seem necessary to avoid troublesome facts and compelling counterarguments. Simple slogans substitute for more complex abstractions.
i. Assumption of moral superiority over others
The most obvious assumptions are claims of racial or ethnic superiority—a master race. Less obvious are claims of ennoblement because of alleged victimhood, a special relationship with God, or membership in a special or elite class and a kind of aloof high-minded snobbishness that accrues because of the weightiness of their preoccupations, their altruism, and their willingness to sacrifice themselves (and others) to their cause.
j. Doomsday thinking
Extremists often predict dire or catastrophic consequences from a situation or from a failure to follow a specific course, and they tend to exhibit a kind of crisis- mindedness. It can be a Communist takeover, a Nazi revival, nuclear war, earthquakes, floods, or the wrath of God. Whatever it is, it is just around the corner unless we follow their program and listen to their special insight and wisdom, to which only the truly enlightened have access. For extremists, any setback or defeat is the beginning of the end.
k. Belief that it’s okay to do bad things in the service of a “good” cause
Extremists may deliberately lie or otherwise distort, misquote, slander, defame, or libel their opponents and/or critics; engage in censorship or repression; or undertake violence in special cases. This is done with little or no remorse as long as it is in the service of defeating the Communists, Fascists, or whomever. Defeating an enemy becomes an all-encompassing goal to which other values are subordinate. With extremists, the end justifies the means.[…]”
Broseph McGee says:
We left the Kurds, but we’re stilling protecting Europeans. Something is wrong with that equation.
Broseph, the equation you are working from is the post WW2 new world order that has become the FP plaything for the establishment elites in the EU and America. There are many tentacles and agendas but none actually benefit the average American overrun by illegals, refugees and sliding from the middle class the last 20 years.
The GCC has a pretty good coalition because there are now ME players who are looking past oil and to do that must eradicate terrorism and reform Islam. How they do this will not look like how we would do it. Neither do the Kurds. And there is the rub for us being involved with many boots on the ground. The ME, sans Israel, does not have our values or our laws. It’s Chinatown, Jake. So far, none of the countries we have spilled blood in have Taken democracy seriously. We went into Afghanistan when my daughter was born and she has turned 18. To what end? Usually, at this point, our military has turned into a bureaucratic quagmire onthe ground. Policing. It’s untenable. But they can police our borders. I am shocked at how many people do not know that.
The EU and establishment elites here have a stake in mass refugee resettlement and arms dealing to create chaos. It’s easier to control people in that venue. And they have done a great job with it so far.
I don’t really have a problem with bases in Germany for the simple fact that Germany is now in bed with Putin, big time. Eventually they will be totally dependent on Russia for heat. Merkle was, Schroeder was and Hillary with Putin’s oligharchs. If anything, we have better access to information for Eastern Europe’s sake. But I suspect they had best pay their NATO bills, in any event.
What’s happening is good —Even though you are going to hear horrendous news coming from that area. It’s a new paradigm. And it won’t be perfect but it’s common sense. Let the ME sort it out. We have Israel’s back.
We get nothing from Europe. If we didn’t subsidize their defense the EU wouldn’t even exist. Europeans think we’re trash. They look down on us and mock us whenever they get the chance. I know that’s not a strategic factor, but shouldn’t that count for something? They are playing us like fools. We have more in common with Japan or South Korea than these morons. The Kurds actually admired us and were trying to copy us. Why now with the Kurds? No consistency. Trust me. I’m for Trump’s domestic agenda, but this was not necessary to do!
We do not have to be in Syria to protect the Kurds. Saudis are there Israel is thee the Russians are there and we are not far away in emergency. We do not want to rebuild Syria and Syria and the Middle East needs to learn to protect each other than all the years of fighting.
Europe was build by US and it is in our interest for us to be in Europe.
Found you in the bin…. 😦
Then we should just get out of Afghanistan now. I’m in favor of that. We should certainly leave Europe. How about some consistency. The Kurds were the only people in the middle east besides Israel that took a cue from us and reformed. I’m not buying the selective non-intervention. We either stick by the good guys or countries that have don’t have the same values as us; Germany, Eastern Europe, and Afghanistan… pay and die for their own defense!
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A Tuareg at the Festival au Désert near Timbuktu, Mali, January 12, 2012. Image: Alfred Weidinger/Wikimedia/CC BY 2.0
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Seven Niger Tuareg leaders killed by Islamic State since April
Staff Writer July 17, 2019
Islamic State insurgents have killed seven leaders of the Tuareg ethnic group in southwestern Niger in less than three months, as part of a strategy to create a political void in the region, officials said on Tuesday, July 16.
Three traditional Tuareg chiefs and four senior Tuareg officials have been killed since late April by Islamic State in the Greater Sahara in the volatile region of Niger on the Mali border, they said.
Arrisal Amdagh, a Tuareg chief in the rural district of Inates, was shot dead at his home in late April, and his son Almoubacher Ag Alamjadi, who succeeded him, was killed on Monday, a Niger security source said.
Their deaths were confirmed to AFP by Defence Minister Kalla Moutari on Tuesday.
Four senior members of the tribe were killed by a roadside bomb as they were heading to the father’s funeral, their relatives said last month.
In a separate incident in June, a traditional Tuareg leader in Bankilare district was kidnapped and killed, a local source said.
“The ISGS strategy is to kill traditional chiefs in the border areas,” a security source told AFP. “It’s a way of voiding the area of an effective state presence, enabling you to move in and impose your law.”
One of the world’s poorest countries, Niger lies in the heart of the fragile Sahel region.
Niger faces insurgency on two fronts: the southeastern Diffa region near Lake Chad is increasingly frequently hit by Nigeria-based Islamic State West Africa Province insurgents, while militants based in Mali, including al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters, are active in the west of the country and the wider Sahel.
Attacks carried out by ISIS-affiliated militants in the Sahel have previously been attributed to Islamic State in the Greater Sahara but since May, Islamic State has attributed insurgent activities in the Mali-Burkina Faso-Niger tri-border area to ISWAP, rather than ISGS.
On July 1, 18 Nigerien soldiers were killed when insurgents attacked an army camp near Inates, according to the defense ministry. Islamic State later said fighters from its West Africa Province affiliate carried out the raid.
In June, 18 Islamic State militants were killed in during the joint Operation Aconit by French and Nigerien troops near Tongo Tongo to the east. The 13-day Operation Aconit also involved a joint Mali-France commando operation that killed 20 ‘terrorists’ in Mali’s Menaka area.
The recent unrest in the Sahel began in Mali in 2012 with a Tuareg separatist uprising that was exploited by Islamist extremists linked to al-Qaeda who took key cities in the desert north.
France began its Operation Serval military intervention in its former colony early the next year, driving jihadists from the towns, but the militant groups morphed into more nimble formations operating in rural areas, and the insurgency has gradually spread to central and southern regions of Mali, and across the borders into neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger.
The French mission evolved in August 2014 into the current 4,500-strong Operation Barkhane, which has a mandate for counter-terrorism operations across the Sahel, and other nations including the United Kingdom and Estonia have deployed troops and aircraft to the mission. Troops deployed to Barkhane work alongside other international operations, including the roughly 14,000-strong U.N. MINUSMA mission in Mali, and the regional G5 Sahel joint counter-terrorism force that aims to train and deploy up to 5,000 personnel from the five members.
Last week, the European Union said is to give €138 million ($155 million) more to support the G5 Sahel Joint Force, comprised of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.
On July 5, Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou again called for called for sustainable U.N. funding for the force under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter, noting that “Niger will use its position as a non-permanent member of the Security Council, from 2020, to promote this position.”
Many Security Council members have called called for “predictable” U.N. funding for the Joint Force, but the United States has opposed this, opting instead for bilateral assistance.
Niger hosts an estimated 800 U.S. troops, the largest American deployment in Africa. The U.S. is building a large and controversial drone base known as Niger Base 201 in the northern city of Agadez, and Niger recently gave the Americans permission to arm their drones.
Issoufou also proposed “an international coalition of countries to fight terrorism in the Sahel, just as there was a coalition against Daesh in the Middle East,” if Chapter VII funding cannot be agreed.
Sahel states need more support to fight extremism, UN chief Guterres says
With reporting from AFP
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Vannamei Shrimp Key to Export Growth in India
Politics Economics Post-harvest
by Lucy Towers
INDIA - Introduction of exotic vannamei shrimp into Indias coastal aquaculture system has significantly contributed to maintaining the momentum in the countrys marine product exports, according to MPEDA.
“Indian marine product exports are doing quite well over the last few years. Major factor that contributed to the increase in exports was the introduction of vannamei shrimp variety into our coastal aquaculture systems,” Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) Chairman A Jayathilak told PTI, TheHinduBusinessLine reports.
“As the shrimp production saw a surge, our exports also grew accordingly, given frozen shrimp is the major item of export from the country,” he said.
Indian marine products are principally supported by frozen shrimp, which is mainly sourced from the coastal aquaculture farms. India farms mainly two varieties of shrimp — ‘Pacific White Leg Shrimp’ (Litopenaeus vannamei) and ’Indian Black Tiger Shrimp’ (Penaeus monodon).
Black Tiger Shrimp is mostly farmed in the traditional ponds of West Bengal, Odisha and Kerala, whereas the exotic vannamei variety is farmed mainly in states like Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Odisha, he said.
India has produced 4.09 lakh tonnes of vannamei shrimp during 2015-16. The broodstock of vannamei variety is imported from abroad right now. The import quarantine facility for vannamei broodstock is located at Chennai and is operated by the MPEDA’s subsidiary organisation, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture (RGCA).
Shrimp seeds
MPEDA has also developed high health shrimp seeds for farmers so that crop failures can be minimised.
“It has also developed technology for seed production and farming of variety of species such as Tilapia, Seabass and Mangrove crab. Many farmers in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Odisha have taken up the farming of those varieties. MPEDA is hopeful that those varieties also will substantially contribute to the country’s export production in the near future,” he said.
“However, we have utilised just 11 per cent of our potential area suitable for coastal aquaculture. It is important that the governing bodies shall identify and notify specific aquaculture zones, which will give a fillip to the long standing demand of farmers to augment production with least social conflicts,” he said.
Good demand
Indian shrimp especially enjoys very good demand in all major overseas markets. Despite prevailing anti-dumping duty on frozen shrimp, India remains the largest supplier of the item to the US market, he said.
The bigger sizes of shrimp offered by India at very reasonable rate is much enjoyed by the US and European buyers alike. It is also a leading supplier of frozen shrimp to Japan and Europe as well. Indian Black Tiger shrimp from traditional farms enjoys a niche market in Japan, he revealed.
Lucy Towers
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Why A Life Made Easier By Technology May Not Necessarily Be Happier
April 7, 2014 May 28, 2019 ~ L. M. Sacasas
Tim Wu, of the Columbia Law School, has been writing a series of reflections on technological evolution for Elements, the New Yorker’s science and technology blog. In the first of these, “If a Time Traveller Saw a Smartphone,” Wu offers what he calls a modified Turing test as a way of thinking about the debate between advocates and critics of digital technology (perhaps, though, it’s more like Searle’s Chinese room).
Imagine a time-traveller from 1914 (a fateful year) encountering a woman behind a veil. This woman answer all sorts of questions about history and literature, understands a number of languages, performs mathematical calculations with amazing rapidity, etc. To the time-traveller, the woman seems to possess a nearly divine intelligence. Of course, as you’ve already figured out, she is simply consulting a smartphone with an Internet connection.
Wu uses this hypothetical anecdote to conclude, “The time-traveller scenario demonstrates that how you answer the question of whether we are getting smarter depends on how you classify ‘we.’ This is why [Clive] Thompson and [Nicholas] Carr reach different results: Thompson is judging the cyborg, while Carr is judging the man underneath.” And that’s not a bad way of characterizing the debate.
Wu closes his first piece by suggesting that our technological augmentation has not been secured without incurring certain costs. In the second post in the series, Wu gives us a rather drastic case study of the kind of costs that sometimes come with technological augmentation. He tells the story of the Oji-Cree people, who until recently lived a rugged, austere life in northern Canada … then modern technologies showed up:
“Since the arrival of new technologies, the population has suffered a massive increase in morbid obesity, heart disease, and Type 2 diabetes. Social problems are rampant: idleness, alcoholism, drug addiction, and suicide have reached some of the highest levels on earth. Diabetes, in particular, has become so common (affecting forty per cent of the population) that researchers think that many children, after exposure in the womb, are born with an increased predisposition to the disease. Childhood obesity is widespread, and ten-year-olds sometimes appear middle-aged. Recently, the Chief of a small Oji-Cree community estimated that half of his adult population was addicted to OxyContin or other painkillers.
Technology is not the only cause of these changes, but scientists have made clear that it is a driving factor.”
Wu understands that this is an extreme case. Some may find that cause to dismiss the Oji-Cree as outliers whose experience tell us very little about the way societies ordinarily adapt to the evolution of technology. On the other hand, the story of the Oji-Cree may be like a time-lapse video which reveals aspects of reality ordinarily veiled by their gradual unfolding. In any case, Wu takes the story as a warning about the nature of technological evolution.
“Technological evolution” is, of course, a metaphor based on the processes of biological evolution. Not everyone, however, sees it as a metaphor. Kevin Kelly, who Wu cites in this second post, argues that technological evolution is not a metaphor at all. Technology, in Kelly’s view, evolves precisely as organisms do. Wu rightly recognizes that there are important differences between the two, however:
“Technological evolution has a different motive force. It is self-evolution, and it is therefore driven by what we want as opposed to what is adaptive. In a market economy, it is even more complex: for most of us, our technological identities are determined by what companies decide to sell based on what they believe we, as consumers, will pay for.”
And this leads Wu to conclude, “Our will-to-comfort, combined with our technological powers, creates a stark possibility.” That possibility is a “future defined not by an evolution toward superintelligence but by the absence of discomforts.” A future, Wu notes, that was neatly captured by the animated film WALL•E.
Wu’s conclusion echoes some of the concerns I raised in an earlier post about the future envisioned by the transhumanist project. It also anticipates the third post in the series, “The Problem With Easy Technology.” In this latest post, Wu suggests that “the use of demanding technologies may actually be important to the future of the human race.”
Wu goes on to draw a distinction between demanding technologies and technologies of convenience. Demanding technologies are characterized by the following: “technology that takes time to master, whose usage is highly occupying, and whose operation includes some real risk of failure.” Convenience technologies, on the other hand, “require little concentrated effort and yield predictable results.”
Of course, convenience technologies don’t even deliver on their fundamental promise. Channelling Ruth Cowan’s More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave , Wu writes,
“The problem is that, as every individual task becomes easier, we demand much more of both ourselves and others. Instead of fewer difficult tasks (writing several long letters) we are left with a larger volume of small tasks (writing hundreds of e-mails). We have become plagued by a tyranny of tiny tasks, individually simple but collectively oppressive.”
But, more importantly, Wu worries that technologies of convenience may rob our action “of the satisfaction we hoped it might contain.” Toward the end of his post, he urges readers to “take seriously our biological need to be challenged, or face the danger of evolving into creatures whose lives are more productive but also less satisfying.”
I trust that I’ve done a decent job of faithfully capturing the crux of Wu’s argument in these three pieces, but I encourage you to read all three in their entirety.
I also encourage you to read the work of Albert Borgmann. I’m not sure if Wu has read Borgmann or not, but his discussion of demanding technologies was anticipated by Borgmann nearly 30 years ago in Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry . What Wu calls demanding technology, Borgmann called focal things, and these entailed accompanying focal practices. Wu’s technologies of convenience are instances of what Borgmann called the device paradigm.
In his work, Borgmann sought to reveal the underlying pattern that modern technologies exhibited–Borgmann is thinking of technologies dating back roughly to the Industrial Revolution. The device paradigm was his name for the pattern that he discerned.
Borgmann arrived at the device paradigm by first formulating the notion of availability. Availability is a characteristic of technology which answers to technology’s promise of liberation and enrichment. Something is technologically available, Bormann explains, “if it has been rendered instantaneous, ubiquitous, safe, and easy.” At the heart of the device paradigm is the promise of increasing availability.
Borgmann goes on to distinguish between things and devices. While devices tend toward technological availability, what things provide tend not to be instantaneous, ubiquitous, safe, or easy. The difference between a thing and a device is a matter of the sort of engagement that is required of user. The difference is such that user might not even be the best word to describe the person who interacts with a thing. In another context, I’ve suggested that practitioner might be a better way of putting it, but that does not always yield elegant phrasing.
A thing, Borgmann writes, “is inseparable from its context, namely, its world, and from our commerce with the thing and its world, namely, engagement.” And immediately thereafter, Borgmann adds, “The experience of a thing is always and also a bodily and social engagement with the things world.” Bodily and social engagement–we’ll come back to that point later. But first, a concrete example to help us better understand the distinctions and categories Borgmann is employing.
Borgmann invites us to consider how warmth might be made available to a home. Before central heating, warmth might be provided by a stove or fireplace. This older way of providing warmth, Borgmann reminds us, “was not instantaneous because in the morning a fire first had to be built in the stove or fireplace. And before it could be built, trees had to be felled, logs had to be sawed and split, the wood had to be hauled and stacked.” Borgmann continues:
“Warmth was not ubiquitous because some rooms remained unheated, and none was heated evenly …. It was not entirely safe because one could get burned or set the house on fire. It was not easy because work, some skills, and attention were constantly required to build and sustain a fire.”
The contrasts at each of these points with central heating are obvious. Central heating illustrates the device paradigm by the manner in which it secures the technological availability of warmth. It conceals the machinery, the means we might say, while perfecting what Borgmann calls the commodity, the end. Commodity is Borgmann’s word for “what a device is there for,” it is the end that the means are intended to secure.
The device paradigm, remember, is a pattern that Borgmann sees unfolding across the modern technological spectrum. The evolution of modern technology is characterized by the progressive concealment of the machinery and the increasingly available commodity. “A commodity is truly available,” Borgmann writes, “when it can be enjoyed as a mere end, unencumbered by means.” Flipping a switch on a thermostat clearly illustrates this sort of commodious availability, particularly when contrasted with earlier methods of providing warmth.
It’s important to note, too, what Borgmann is not doing. He is not distinguishing between the technological and the natural. Things can be technological. The stove is a kind of technology, after all, as is the fireplace. Borgmann is distinguishing among technologies of various sorts, their operational logic, and the sort of engagement that they require or invite. Nor, while we’re at it, is Borgmann suggesting that modern technology has not improved the quality of life. There can be no human flourishing were people are starving or dying of disease.
But, like Tim Wu, Borgmann does believe that the greater comfort and ease promised by technology does not necessarily translate into greater satisfaction or happiness. There is a point at which, the gains made by technology stop yielding meaningful satisfaction. Wu believes this is so because of “our biological need to be challenged.” There’s certainly something to that. I made a similar argument some time ago in opposing the idea of a frictionless life. Borgmann’s analysis, however, adds two more important considerations: bodily and social engagement.
“Physical engagement is not simply physical contact,” Borgmann explains, “but the experience of the world through the manifold sensibility of the body.” He then adds, “sensibility is sharpened and strengthened in skill … Skill, in turn, is bound up with social engagement.”
Consider again the example of the wood-burning stove or fireplace as a means of warmth. The more intense physical engagement may be obvious, but Borgmann invites us to consider the social dimensions as well:
“It was a focus, a hearth, a place that gathered the work and leisure of a family and gave the house its center. Its coldness marked the morning, and the spreading of its warmth the beginning of the day. It assigned to the different family members tasks that defined their place in the household. The mother built the fire, the children kept the firebox filled, and the father cut the firewood. It provided for the entire family a regular and bodily engagement with the rhythm of the seasons that was woven together of the threat of cold and the solace of warmth, the smell of wood smoke, the exertion of sawing and of carrying, the teaching of skills, and the fidelity to daily tasks.”
Borgmann’s vision of a richer, more fulfilling life secures its greater depth by taking seriously both our embodied and social status. This vision goes against the grain of modernity’s account of the human person which is grounded in a Cartesian dismissal of the body and a Lockean conception of the autonomous individuality. To the degree that this is an inadequate account of the human person, a technological order that is premised upon it will always undermine the possibility of human flourishing.
Wu and Borgmann have drawn our attention to what may be an important source of our discontent with the regime of contemporary technology. As Wu points out in his third piece, the answer is not necessarily an embrace of all things that are hard and arduous or a refusal of all the advantages that modern technology has secured for us. Borgmann, too, is concerned with distinguishing between different kinds of troubles: those that we rightly seek to ameliorate in practice and in principle and those we do well to accept in practice and in principle. Making that distinction will help us recognize and appreciate what may be gained by engaging with what Borgmann has called the commanding presence of focal things and what Wu calls demanding technologies.
Admittedly, that can be a challenging distinction to make, but learning to make that distinction may be the better part of wisdom given the technological contours of contemporary life, at least for those who have been privileged to enjoy the benefits of modern technology in affluent societies. And I’m of the opinion that the work of Albert Borgmann is one of the more valuable resources available to us as seek to make sense of the challenges posed by the character of contemporary technology.
For more on Borgmann, take a look at the following posts:
Low-tech Practice and Identity
Troubles We Must Not Refuse
Resisting Disposable Reality
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9 thoughts on “Why A Life Made Easier By Technology May Not Necessarily Be Happier”
Wu does have some valid points but “one will never know it all.”For that reason, it is important to know where to get the right information. As for the weight gain and suicide. I would ascribe that to the processed food industry and the lack of political will to stimulate a failing economy. As long as our governments are aligned with big business the unfulfilling jobs (if there are any jobs at all) will persist. We have to revive the creativity from within and come up with some new ideas that aren’t quashed by red tape and bureaucratic nonsense.
elcioronaldo57 says:
Com certeza o processo de ganho de peso e de suicídio se relaciona com a falta de objetividade. Tudo está pronto e a mão de forma que eu não preciso fazer nenhum esforço. Recebo tudo e não me preocupo em dar, assim como não me preocupo com meu semelhante. A Tecnologia vem facilitar nossa vida, mas não podemos deixar que ela designe o que devemos fazer e como devemos viver. Precisamos resgatar o dialogo com o semelhante. Dessa maneira, crescemos.
O ganho de peso eo suicidio sao subjetivos, e verdade.
A vida e subjetivo. Mesmo a forma como lidamos com a tecnologia e subjetiva. E quando olhamos para o objectivo que encontramos, talvez, a melhor saída vem com a tecnologia.
Excellent post. Thank you for the reading and, more, the inspiration to action regarding technology. I’m reminded of Edward Mendelson’s foreword to W. H. Auden’s Selected Poems; regarding Auden’s purpose for leaving England and coming to America, Mendelson writes, His departure from England proved not to have been a rejection of all public roles, as he thought at the time, but a rejection of the wrong ones. He now became an interpreter of his society, not its scourge or prophet (xvi).
A Tecnologia vem mudar nossa vida. Mas devemos manter o controle sobre essa mudança. Sempre haverá uma nova oportunidade de me reciclar e aprender a fazer coisas diferentes. Aí, sim, estarei utilizando conscientemente a Tecnologia.
godawarenessdaily says:
I enjoyed reading your blog — makes me want to go back and re-read Emerson’s “Walden.” Yes, I tend to agree that mankind as a whole is seeking to do less work and be more comfortable. Yet hopefully there will remain enough discomfort and dis-ease that we will be motivated to create and solve problems. When we stop seeking and think we have found everything we need, we are in big trouble.
“We have become plagued by a tyranny of tiny tasks, individually simple but collectively oppressive.”
I tend to agree.
Although I like the exemple of the wood fire and how such daily tasks put us in an organic relationship with nature and our human basic needs, these tasks were also time consuming and often gender attributed.
Thank you again for another thought-provoking post.
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Flames Transactions
Testing Treliving Telepathy: Three Trades to Improve the Flames
By Colin Mills June 7th, 2016
The NHL draft floor is where trade talks reach a frenzy
The Stanley Cup Finals are almost complete and the off-season is right around the corner. There have already been a couple of deals leading up to the draft on June 24th and expect a floodgate to open in the next few weeks. With the salary cap looking rather stagnant and expansion draft details leaking out slowly, expect a very active trade front for the next month. Look for the Flames to be in the middle of those trade talks with the inevitable extensions to Gaudreau & Monahan preventing them from filling holes through free agency. In an attempt to read Brad Treliving’s thoughts, below are three trades to improve the Flames for next season using their most expendable trade chips.
1. Emile Poirier + 2nd + 6th for Frederik Andersen
Why Calgary does it:
They get their #1 goalie – enough said. Though they will likely have to compete with the Leafs to land Andersen, which will drive up the price (especially considering the Flames are division rivals with Anaheim). While there are a handful of options for the Flames to address their goaltending issues, there is no better choice than Andersen when looking at age, contract, and the price of acquisition.
Frederik Andersen should be Calgary’s main target this off-season.
Why Anaheim does it:
As stated above, Anaheim might be hesitant to deal their prize goalie within the division, but they could have their hands tied in a saturated goalie market. They need to create cap space to re-sign key RFAs in Lindholm & Vatanen, and with John Gibson in the fold they cannot afford the luxury of Andersen. A trade involving Andersen will most definitely be in exchange for futures and Calgary has picks to spare. Add a promising forward prospect ready to get a shot at the NHL level and these teams look to make good trading partners.
If not Andersen? Varlamov or Fleury
2. Dennis Wideman for Jarome Iginla
Jarome Iginla would add the scoring touch and leadership Calgary desperately needs.
The prodigal son returns! While Iginla is not the player he once was, the move gives Calgary a legitimate offensive source with a right-handed shot – something they severely lack. It’s unlikely he will be able to play up with the big boys (Johnny & Monny) all year but he should be able to log third line minutes and improve a powerplay that finished 22nd in the league last season. The salary is a wash in the deal and with their depth on defense, the Flames will not miss Wideman.
Why Colorado does it:
At this point it seems almost inevitable that the Avalanche move Tyson Barrie. Depending on the return, they will still be in need of adding a puck moving defenseman. With Rantanen and potentially Radulov on the right side, surely the Avs would rather use Iginla’s cap space to improve the back-end.
There are a lot of important factors when examining the likeliness of this deal. First and foremost, both Iginla and Wideman have no movement clauses (NMCs) which mean they could nix any deal before it happened. However, things have not gone as planned for Iggy in Colorado and his former teammate and close friend Craig Conroy is currently the Assistant GM of the Flames. This could be the deciding factor as it would be an easy transition for the future Hall of Famer. If this is truly Iginla’s last season, it’s only fitting that he rides into the sunset as a Flame.
Wideman might be trickier. If the Flames approached Wideman and asked him to waive his NMC he could provide a list of teams that he would accept a trade to, or he could decline a trade outright. As a pending UFA after this season it’s not far-fetched that he is ready to move on, though he might want to go to a contending team. In any case, the Flames will want to ship him somewhere for another unfavorable contract in the form of a winger who can play top six minutes.
If not Iginla? Lupul or Gionta
3. Joe Colborne + Pick #53 (FLA) for Pick #15 (MIN)
It appears the Flames are not willing to pay Colborne what he might earn in arbitration after a career year. With a number of young forwards looking to make a permanent jump to the NHL, Colborne could be the odd man out. Calgary currently has the second round picks, and with pick #6 & #15 the Flames could potentially package the two to move up into the top 5 to get a forward who could make the jump immediately. At worst, they bolster the prospect pool with two picks in the top 15.
Why Minnesota does it:
Another pick that is in play is Minnesota’s pick at No. 15 if they can get good, young player who can contribute right now.
— Craig Custance (@CraigCustance) June 3, 2016
Even though they only have 4 picks to their name in the upcoming draft, it appears the Wild are open to moving their 1st rounder. The Wild are small down the middle and Colborne will add size and depth to that position. They also pick up a late 2nd rounder so that they keep a pick in the first three rounds.
If not Minnesota? Carolina or Detroit
It’s important to note that these trades could be made in sequence with each other or as stand alone deals. Either way, they all aim to fill a hole in the Flames roster. The moves leave the Flames roster with one empty hole at forward and just over three million in cap space if Andersen inks a deal $5.5M/season. This gives them room to go after an additional free agent depth forward like Trevor Lewis or Jamie McGinn, or sign a depth defenseman to make up for Wideman’s absence.
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If I died and came back as a cheese it would definitely be a smoked cheddar.
Banh Mi Up, Scotty.
April 27, 2014 May 10, 2014 thelittleredchicken7 Comments
The mayor says the snow in March was unexpected. The snow in March was unexpected. Let me just write that one more time to see how it looks. The snow. In March. Was. Unexpected. It was unexpected??? That’s like saying Vladimir Putin is one chilled out, cooperative dude who had like, the best Olympics ever with no stray dogs and lots of hot water and curtains in all the hotel rooms. Bless him, I don’t know what Dennis O’Keefe is on, but I would like a truck load of it dumped on my doorstep next winter, along with the metric shit-ton of snow that usually falls. IN MARCH.
I’m sick of writing about comfort food. I’m sick of eating comfort food. Ok, that’ll never be true, but it would be lovely to take off my snowsuit and put on a pair of flip-flops. It would be lovely to ease up on the dumplings and maybe sit outside on the back step in bare feet and have a beer. The Wednesday before Easter was so bittersweet, with its sunshine and heat and everyone sitting outside drinking coffee. And then it turned into February again. One of my favourite spring pastimes in St. John’s is to see how many people refuse to go back into winter mode after that one day of hope. It was -6 on Good Friday and I saw people with no hats on having picnics. I was horrified by all the children I saw on bicycles with unmittened hands, their parents behind them eating ice cream cones. April in this city makes people legitimately crazy.
Spring in St. John’s is glorious or completely shitty, and I like to make food that makes me feel hopeful. Shoulder season food. I want hard and comfy carbs but I want a burst of something fresh that will get me through that last snowstorm. You know, in July. How much of a surprise would that be? Not a very big one this year. I saw The Day After Tomorrow, I know how this shit works. If an abandoned Russian freighter ship floated past my house with Jake Gyllenhaal fighting off a pack of wolves I’d barely look up from my bowl of dumplings.
Banh mi was what I thought of a few weeks ago during that huge snowstorm we had to usher in April. You know, the one where Sheila hid her March brush for a while and then took out her April sledgehammer, that one. The one that made the whole city throw its collective hands in the air and give up. The one where people started donning crampons and ice picks to walk around downtown. There is no better time to play the “Let’s Eat Something That Makes Us Forget Where We Live” game than April in St. John’s. Well, any month that falls between October and May qualifies, really. But it seems like this year in particular, April is the month we need comfort food the most. Personally, I’m still on the soups, stews and curries, and I might be until July to get the cold of this winter out of my bones. And that’s why banh mi – a Vietnamese baguette sandwich – is so perfect for “spring” in Newfoundland. It’s meaty, it’s bread, but it tastes like a vacation. Like eating outdoors at a cafe somewhere warm and sticky.
Weirdly, I ate just as much bread as I did rice when I travelled around southeast Asia. The French were in that neck of the woods for a long time, and while food in places like Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia is still fiercely traditional, they’ve sort of made French baguettes their own. And if I may be so bold…they may even be a little better. Smaller, a little fluffier, crispy but not crunchy. I ate them every morning for breakfast with butter and jam, or with eggs. One time I was sitting in the back of a pick-up truck/taxi in Laos and bought one from a woman selling them to the passengers. It was filled with a mystery pâté and I was terrified of getting dysentery, but more terrified of looking like an asshole in front of the locals. I ate it, I survived, and it was delicious. You will never, ever eat better bread anywhere.
Banh mi are filled with whatever’s on the go. Mostly meat, sometimes eggs, but the ones we see over this way are usually filled with meatballs or satay, and topped with things like pickled carrots, cucumber, coriander, chillies, and daikon – a kind of pickled radish. On storm day I had everything but the daikon, and knowing that was something I couldn’t pop around the corner to get at Needs, I figured I had enough of the other ingredients to get by. I was in the mood to make my own bread and had a recipe for Mexican bolillos that I was wanting to try. Bolillos are mini-baguettes so hey hey I thought, perfect.
Don’t be scared by the homemade baguettes, the “homemade” sausage, the pickled carrots. Everything here is easy to make and will be completely worth it in the end. As far as Vietnamese flavours go, these recipes are pretty basic and not necessarily one hundred percent authentic. But the sausages and baguettes freeze like a dream and the pickled carrots take two minutes to make, so think about it. You can have banh mi supplies on hand all the time. Suitable for any season, and maybe if you’re lucky you might be able to eat one outside in a month or three.
3 1/4 to 4 cups all-purpose flour
1 pkg active dry yeast
1 1/2 cups warm water (120° to 130°F)
1 tbsp milk or water
(I activated my yeast first in 1/4 cup warm water and a tsp of sugar. Proceeded as normal with recipe but reduced the 1 tbsp sugar to 1 tsp.)
In a large bowl combine 1 1/2 cups of the flour, the yeast, sugar, and salt. Add the warm water and beat with an electric mixer on low to medium speed for 30 seconds, scraping sides of the bowl. Beat on high for 3 minutes. Using a wooden spoon, stir in as much of the remaining flour as you can. Turn out dough onto a lightly floured surface. Knead in enough of the remaining flour to make a moderately stiff dough that is smooth and elastic (6 to 8 minutes total). Shape dough into a ball. Place in a lightly greased bowl, turning once to grease surface of dough. Cover and let rise in a warm place until double in size (about 1 hour).
Punch down dough; turn out onto a lightly floured surface. Divide dough into six portions and shape each portion into a 6-inch-long loaf. Pull and twist ends slightly. Lightly grease 2 baking sheets; sprinkle with cornmeal. Transfer dough portions to baking sheets. Use a sharp knife to make a 1/4-inch-deep cut lengthwise downy the centre of each roll. In a small bowl combine egg white and milk. Brush some of the egg white mixture over tops and sides of dough portions. Cover and let rise until nearly double in size (20 to 45 minutes).
Meanwhile, preheat oven to 375°F. Bake rolls for 15 minutes. Brush again with some of the egg white mixture. Bake about 10 minutes more or until golden brown. Remove rolls from baking sheets. Cool on wire racks. Makes 6 rolls.
(From Better Homes and Gardens Mexican issue, March 2014)
Homemade Sausage
450g ground pork
2 tsp fennel seeds
1 1/2 tsp garlic powder
1 1/2 tsp brown sugar
1/4 chili flakes (optional)
Pound your fennel seeds with a mortar and pestle or zing to a powder in a spice grinder. Stir all ingredients in a bowl. Divide into 2 portions. Roll each portion into a log about 7 inches long. Wrap tightly with wax or parchment paper, followed by some cling wrap. Twist the ends and secure with twist ties. Freeze at least 2 hours or up to 3 months. To use, remove from freezer and let stand for 20 minutes. Use a serrated knife and cut into 1/4 inch rounds. Pan-fry in 1 tsp of olive oil in a non-stick frying pan over medium heat, a few minutes on each side until the rounds are golden crispy and cooked through.
Stir 2 cups shredded carrots with 3 tbsp rice vinegar, 1 tbsp vegetable oil, 1 tbsp sesame oil, 1 tsp sugar, and 1 clove of minced garlic. Season to taste with salt.
(Both recipes from the Chatelaine Special Edition Magazine: Dinner in 30)
To serve the banh mi, spread the buns with mayonnaise (and Sriracha sauce for an extra kick if you like). Top with sausage rounds, pickled carrot, sliced cucumber and chopped coriander. Serve with a wedge of lime.
My bolillos were hilarious and way too pointy, but were perfectly crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. And also, huge. A half one of these would have been fine for a meal, but it was stormy and I was feeling entitled. I bet bolillos are perfect for pulled pork sandwiches too. And let me tell you something about these sausage things, they will change your life. Imagine a pile of them in the freezer, ready for subs, pasta, breakfast rounds. So many spice combination possibilities, and ground turkey or chicken might be nice too if you’re in the mood to lighten things up a little. Just be sure not to thaw the sausages too much and cut them as soon as they have a bit of give. That way, they’ll keep their shape nicely in the pan. You’ll need more meat if you plan on using all six buns; one sausage roll fried into rounds filled two buns perfectly. I’d suggest making extra sausage meat to keep in the freezer, and extra buns too. Once you realize how easy these are to make, you’ll want the ingredients on hand so you can eat them all week like I did.
See, now you’re prepared for another few weeks of misery until flip-flop season begins. Or you’ll have something to feed the Russian ship-wolves during that snowstorm in July. Whichever comes first.
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Reports from the life of a city, from 1951 to now, compiled by David Secombe
About The London Column
Dmitri Kasterine’s portraits.
Posted: November 26, 2013 | Author: thelondoncolumn | Filed under: Artistic London, Bohemian London | Tags: Anthony Powell, David Niven, Dirk Bogarde, Dmitri Kasterine, Francis Bacon, Germaine Greer, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, Michael Caine, Paul Theroux, Roald Dahl | Comments Off on Dmitri Kasterine’s portraits.
Martin & Kingsley Amis, London, 1975. © Dmitri Kasterine.
David Secombe:
There are too many photographers. Far, far too many. As the truism goes, these days everyone with a mobile phone is a photographer. Not only that, but everyone who’s been photographed is a celebrity. Current devalued concepts of achievement in the public sphere mean that the ever-increasing number of portrait photographers are faced with a chronic shortage of real, vital personalities worth photographing. (Celebrity chefs, boy bands, soap stars and their ilk – really?)
Dirk Bogarde, London, 1981. © Dmitri Kasterine.
David Niven, Hertfordshire, 1979. © Dmitri Kasterine.
Major cultural figures are in short supply. Perhaps more to the point, the ones we’ve got don’t occupy the same space that they might have done 30 or even 20 years ago. Artists, writers, and thinkers used to be listened to as public figures; we’ve got no time for that now. For an ambitious portrait photographer, there are forums for the dissemination of photographic portraits as art, but such well-meaning, prize-giving endeavours seem culturally marginal and a more than little academic, when you compare them to the oracular power of a photograph that everyone was going to be looking at, of a person everyone was listening to.
Roald Dahl, Great Missenden, Bucks., 1976. © Dmitri Kasterine.
Enter: a portfolio of limpidly beautiful portraits by Dmitri Kasterine, derived from his career as an editorial photographer in London and New York from 1960 to the 1990s. Looking at these pictures now, it is hard not to think, a little bitterly, that Dmitri was fortunate to be working before the internet, the population explosion, and a thousand TV channels splintered our attention forever; but it is also clear that he has the rare ability – it is genuinely rare – to photograph any human being with sovereign insight. His portrayal of everyday English life may be seen in this series of posts we ran in 2011; today, we are showing a selection from his chronicle of London’s intellectual life during the 70s-90s.
Germaine Greer London, 1975. © Dmitri Kasterine.
Part of Dmitri’s shtick (it almost looks like a shtick, these days) is an unassuming method: unobtrusive lighting, plain backgrounds, tones in the middle register … With simple means and an instinct for the essential, he penetrates his subjects’ defences far beyond the remit of a magazine portrait. Take the portraits of the actors on this page. There is genuine pain in his study of David Niven; Dirk Bogarde was reportedly unhappy with Kasterine’s portrait, its piercing honesty too much for the old matinee idol; and Michael Caine, denied his usual opportunity for Bermondsey charm or gangster menace, is revealed as a shrewd tycoon in ‘70s eyewear. Roald Dahl poses jauntily enough in summer gear, but his reptilian stare flatly contradicts his clothes’ carefree attitude, and forbids the viewer to find anything amusing. Paul Theroux, on the other hand, appears as if playing the part of a novelist: dominated by his accessories, he seems uncomfortable with the costume that wardrobe has assigned him.
Michael Caine, London, 1973. © Dmitri Kasterine.
Paul Theroux, London, 1974. © Dmitri Kasterine.
Dmitri’s portrait of Kingsley and Martin Amis is a forensic document of English letters’ most awkward dynastic double act – Kingsley in his proto-Thatcherite pomp, the broken arm a possible souvenir of a drunken bender, and Martin exhausted by the sheer effort of trying to write better novels than his father. Anthony Powell determinedly maintains his aristocratic poise in the face of encroaching age, but the price is a whiff of camp – by contrast, Francis Bacon defiantly shows us the youthful hustler he once was.
Anthony Powell, Somerset, 1984. © Dmitri Kasterine.
Francis Bacon, London, 1978. © Dmitri Kasterine.
Dmitri moved to America in 1985 and continued his career in New York: his Stateside subjects range from Saul Bellow to Cindy Sherman, Johnny Cash to Jean-Paul Basquiat, Steve Martin to Mick Jagger. Like Irving Penn, he captures his sitters by stealth. Now 80, he lives in Newburgh, New York, where he has been photographing the city and its inhabitants since 1992.
So many photographers are called to the profession with the burning desire to document the world, and that’s a noble thing. The gift is actually to be able to see it.
… for The London Column.
On the South Bank. (5)
Posted: August 10, 2013 | Author: thelondoncolumn | Filed under: Artistic London, London Music | Tags: London's South Bank, Royal Festival Hall | Comments Off on On the South Bank. (5)
Before a concert, Level 3 terrace, Royal Festival Hall. Photo © David Secombe 1988.
In the years since The Royal Festival Hall opened in 1951, people have sat in this foyer waiting to hear:
Claudio Abbado, Laurie Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Burt Bacharach, Dame Janet Baker, Sir John Barbirolli, Daniel Barenboim, Count Basie, The Bee Gees, Luciano Berio, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Sir Adrian Boult, David Bowie, Alfred Brendel, John Cale, Maria Callas, Ornette Coleman, Elvis Costello, Sir Colin Davis, Miles Davis, Neil Diamond, Christophe von Dohnanyi, Nick Drake, Jacqueline Du Pre, Bob Dylan, Electric Prunes, Duke Ellington, Fairport Convention, Marianne Faithfull, The Fall, Ella Fitzgerald, John Eliot Gardiner, Valery Gergiev, Carlo Maria Giulini, Goldfrapp, Benny Goodman, Bernard Haitink, Herbie Hancock, Tony Hancock, Jimi Hendrix, Vladimir Horowitz, Keith Jarrett, Jethro Tull, Elton John, Tom Jones, Herbert von Karajan, Rudolf Kempe, B.B. King, Carlos Kleiber, Otto Klemperer, Radu Lupu, Humphrey Lyttleton, Lorin Maazel, Wayne Marshall, Steve Martin, John Martyn, Johnny Mathis, John McLaughlin, George Melly, Modern Jazz Quartet, Thelonius Monk, Pierre Monteux, Motorhead, Riccardo Muti, Evgeny Mvravinsky, Randy Newman, New York Dolls, The Nice, Jessye Norman, Murray Perahia, Pere Ubu, Oscar Peterson, Pink Floyd, Maurizio Pollini, Lucia Popp, Simon Rattle, Lou Reed, Buddy Rich, Sviatoslav Richter, Mstislav Rostropovich, Artur Rubinstein, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Saint Etienne, Andras Schiff, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Ronnie Scott, George Shearing, Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone, Soft Machine, Georg Solti, Patti Smith, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Leopold Stokowski, Igor Stravinsky, Jack Teagarden, Klaus Tennstedt, T-Rex, Richard Thompson, Arturo Toscanini, Stan Tracey, Tricky, McCoy Tyner, William Walton, Brian Wilson, Yes, Frank Zappa, Krystian Zimmerman . . . amongst others.
This entry is the 200th post on The London Column. Thanks to all our contributors and readers … D.S., K.E.B.
Posted: August 6, 2013 | Author: thelondoncolumn | Filed under: Architectural, Artistic London, Monumental | Tags: london civic space, southbank skate park, The Southbank Centre | Comments Off on On the South Bank. (1)
National Theatre. © David Secombe 2010.
Brutalist architecture has never been popular in Britain. The garden, the milk float, the net curtain, all work to alienate the British sensibility from the modernist, and especially the Brutalist, vision. We don’t care how pure its aesthetic is. We like things Nice.
Maybe the one exception is the good old South Bank. For some reason, despite decades of controversy, two murders, and several refits and remodellings, this complex of buildings is that genuine thing, beloved of the people. Unpromising as one may think it looks (though it is now dotted all over with bright structures, a giant yellow stairway, a turquoise Mexican place in shipping containers, pink things, green bits; they do certainly brighten it up). This is by accident as much as design. Maybe familiarity. Maybe proximity to Tate Modern. Maybe the development of Gabriel’s Wharf and that whole stretch of the river into something a little more friendly. Partly the skateboarders, who just seem to exist alongside everything else, whose thwack thwacks have followed us along that path by the river since the seventies. Certainly the restaurants: people always want something to eat, and the current proposed redevelopment is essentially an opportunity to expand on this.
At just that point, it stops being accident and becomes something more sinister. The space, rejuvenated as it is, has felt increasingly managed (that is, filled with things to be bought) for the past span of years. This is in keeping with a trend, as civic space becomes more and more tied to retail; we are forgetting how to occupy a city without buying, without being told what to look at. If this plan goes ahead, the stretch of river we love most will end up like the renovated Brunswick Centre, with added Thames.
But the Brunswick doesn’t incorporate two of Britain’s most important cultural venues – or the Thames. There is a debate that Londoners (particularly; but also the whole country) need to have about what kind of shared space this complex is supposed to be – who is it for? what is it for? what do we value about it? what do we want it to be like? And, if nothing else, we appear now to be beginning to have that debate (this link is the most informative article we’ve seen on the subject).
The South Bank is important on a personal level. Many of us – most of us, in London – have played out our lives with it as a backdrop. Much as it pains us to admit it, Richard Curtis got that much right; every new relationship seems to have a South Bank moment, and serendipity multiplies there. You meet people, you see things, you get some space to contemplate the sky, you feel the proximity of the physical river, suddenly London feels open and mysterious. But serendipity only happens if you’re left alone to find it. The existing Southbank Centre has more than enough cafés, about 2000% more than ten years ago, and we liked it even then. (Very fond memories of the unassuming old canteen, going back further.) It has been that rare thing: a public space where one can feel private.
These shop-heavy proposals – necessitated by the desperate need for funding to maintain ever-growing levels of activity – will transform the area into yet another crowdfuelled, corporatised zone (art needs people; corporations need crowds). They will gut the Festival Hall embankment in the way that the Royal Opera House extension (also paid for by shiny shops) eviscerated Russell Street. No one can argue that the Royal Opera extension didn’t effectively kill the life (as distinguished from the shopping and eating) of the eastern end of Covent Garden Piazza; and you only have to look at what has been done to Spitalfields and Borough markets in the past few years to be afraid for the South Bank.
Aside from which, everyone seems to have forgotten a principle that was voiced by the influential architect Cedric Price (who designed a radical overhaul for the South Bank in 1983, complete with giant ferris wheel). He said that cities and buildings should never be empty, but nor should they ever be full. For all the recently-added ‘lifestyle opportunities’, this stretch of embankment has been one of the few areas left in London that retains some of this balance; and it’s going.
This is a big thing to say, and it is the crux of the debate the nation needs to have about the South Bank. (And indeed London.) The Southbank Centre has apparently got all kinds of educational remits to fulfil, and outreach, and developing the audiences of tomorrow, and family-friendly holiday activities to lay on, and tourists to first attract and then cater for, and the developments are partly to enable all of this. They’re also, to create badly-needed space for existing facilities: the Poetry Library, for one. Billy Bragg wrote compellingly the other day about the needs of performers, and the projects he describes that are going on at the Southbank Centre are inspiring. Itislovely to go there and have a roof garden. Both of your correspondents here love the South Bank: we use the centre constantly and depend on it hugely. But none of that means the developments in their current form – new shops and restaurants, an obstructive building in the middle, an even more ruined skyline over the river, a giant glass box squatting on top of everything, put through at speed and not consulted on – look like improvements to the actual city. (Sir Nicholas Hytner may have a point.) It’s time to stop, take a breath, have the conversation. This has been as good as said by architects who could have pitched for the contract, but didn’t. As the Architect’s Journal reported:
Bennetts Associates had already withdrawn from the competition, claiming that it had too much work and that it had ‘reservations about the brief’ (see AJ 20.09.2012). Rowan Moore, writing in the Observer, also raised concerns about the ‘commercially-led’ plans which he said could ‘make the Southbank Centre resemble Terminal 5 or Canary Wharf or any moderately upmarket shopping mall.’
After the Tories won the 1951 election, they prioritised the destruction of the Festival of Britain site, for ideological reasons. The current government’s attitudes both to the arts and to public space, similarly ideological, have put institutions large and small under pressure to prove they have a right to exist (you earn the right by making money). The current proposed Southbank scheme is thus about to act out the contemporary version of this philistinism, and the fact that it is presented in the language of ‘inclusivity’ makes it more chilling.
This idea of inclusivity is being underpinned by branding, some of it quite subtle, and the brand seems increasingly personality-driven. Artistic Director Jude Kelly is the driver of these developments, and indeed of the whole ongoing ‘revitalisation’ of the centre. She has made herself admirably available to defend the proposals, and her vision, but the danger is that the whole vision for the South Bank feels like a personal vision. If one wants an ice cream in the interval at the Festival Hall, one even buys a ‘Jude’s Ice Cream’! (The franchise is Minghella.) ‘Southbank Centre’, having already joined up the words South and Bank, has now dropped ‘The’ from its name – turning it from a place into a brand – Southbank Centre – rather as if it were a restaurant or shop. It begins to feel like a sort of Boden or Orla Kiely cultural space, where middle class people (because we are all middle class now) are safe to consume culture en masse along with our pizzas, noodles, and extra-large caramel lattes. But where’s the space for the genuine, austere surprise ? The one no one could plan for you?
We know times have changed – we certainly do know it – but if this blog post is anything, it’s a plea for a deep breath and a deep look at what things really mean. And we’ve barely even mentioned the skateboarders.
We’ll be posting the rest of the week with pictures and impressions – poems, not polemics – of the South Bank and the people who use it.
© Katy Evans-Bush
Hoarding opposite National Theatre. © David Secombe 1982.
Sweet Toof.
Posted: March 7, 2013 | Author: thelondoncolumn | Filed under: Artistic London, Graffiti, Public Art | Tags: Haggerston, London graffiti, London street art, Regent's Canal, sweet toof | Comments Off on Sweet Toof.
Sweet Toof artwork, Regents Canal, Haggerston. © David Secombe 2010.
From Wikipedia entry ‘Sweet Toof’:
Sweet Toof is the pseudonymous name of well-known United Kingdom graffiti and street artist.
Meaning of Mouth, Teeth and Gum imagery
According to an account by Olly Beck, Sweet Toof looked at himself in a looking glass “in crisis after a messy break-up”, with the enlarged and distorted imagery of the “crescents of teeth”, the “visible part of our skeletal frame” as a reminder of mortality. Beck relates Sweet Toof’s concerns and imagery with the 16th Century Northern European “Vanitas” tradition of reminding of the transience and vanity of life, and to the Mexican celebration of skull imagery to accepting, honouring and celebrating death as part of the life trip.
Sweet Toof’s own comments seem to uphold this interpretation, in which the artist comments, “To get one’s teeth into things, before it’s too late.” Elsewhere he notes, “Teeth can be really sexy, or aggressive, but they’re also constant reminders of death. They’re how we get recognised by police when there’s nothing else left.”
Jeremy Ramsden.
Posted: January 30, 2013 | Author: thelondoncolumn | Filed under: Artistic London, Bohemian London, London Labour, Vanishings | Tags: Brian Griffin, Harry Borden, Jeremy Ramsden, Labyrinth Photographic, Tim Walker | 3 Comments
Jeremy Ramsden in his darkroom at Labyrinth, Bethnal Green. © David Secombe 2011.
One of the things that is being lost in our back-lit, screen-bound digital world is the texture associated with older forms of image-making. As someone who became a photographer because I liked the idea of making something, of leaving something tangible behind me, I mourn the gradual passing of the physical photograph: the transparency, the negative and the print.
Traditionally, the relationship between photographers and their printers was not always easy; not every photographer could print their images like Eugene Smith or Don McCullin, and even if they could, they couldn’t always spend hours in the darkroom when they were busy shooting. Some printers would – justifiably – resent having to fix their clients mistakes or deal with photographers who didn’t really know what they wanted their prints to look like. But others took a more lenient view of photographers’ foibles and would, where necessary, give them an informal technical training to go with their prints. And from the mid-1980s,advances in reproduction technology and an increasing acceptance of colour negative film as a serious format for serious photography ushered in a new era of image-making. Professionals were liberated from the unforgiving tyranny of the transparency – more room for manoeuvre after the shoot, more latitude of exposure and expression, a level of freedom previously available only to those who shot black and white. It was in this arena that colour printers like Brian Dowling and Jeremy Ramsden reigned supreme.
Jeremy Ramsden, who died last week, was one of the finest colour printers of his generation. Jeremy could take a frame of anyone’s film and turn it into a work of art on paper. The quality of Jeremy’s work is only partially discernible on a website, because the sheer physical beauty of his prints, their intensity and almost holographic clarity, can only be experienced by personal appointment. Jeremy’s fanatical attention to detail was apparent in the way he would, as a matter of course, produce a variety of prints from the same frame, with each print having its own distinct mood and character. Variations on a theme, if you like, the creation of totally different images from a single piece of film. And when you got your negatives back, you’d see his meticulous notes written on little strips of masking tape affixed to the protective sheets. Jeremy went to these lengths because he cared, because he was an enthusiast for photography. And when you consider the names on his client list – which included the likes of Tim Walker, Elaine Constantine, Harry Borden, Brian Griffin – the breadth of his achievement becomes clear.
Jeremy was Australian (not for nothing was his erstwhile lab in Shoreditch called Outback) and he arrived in London as a merchant sailor in the early 1970s. He knocked around London’s photo scene in a variety of capacities – studio assistant to the likes of Brian Duffy and Angus Forbes, freelancing as a photojournalist (he was a very fine photographer in his own right) and mastering all aspects of the arcane art of colour printmaking. His experiences of the glory days of Soho in the advertising boom of the 1970s and 80s would have made a very interesting book. Jeremy had a stereotypical Ozzie enthusiasm for travel, people and a good story – but, above all, he liked sharing his enthusiasm for the world and how we see it. He was generous with his time and, like our friend John Driscoll, who died last year, he was a champion of photographers. Having Jeremy or Brian or John in your corner was like having a secret weapon; if you had the nod from them, you could breathe a little easier. They knew the score. I always thought it was important to earn the respect of the people who handled my pictures, and I think most photographers would agree – although there were some ‘celebrated’ photographers who relied a little too heavily on the expertise of darkroom staff to produce their meisterwerks. But Jeremy spoke of his clients very warmly, and this was because he was reluctant to print for anyone he didn’t respect; so an unsolicited compliment from Jeremy was worth far more than one from almost any picture editor.
It is hard to write a piece like this without sounding nostalgic or merely old; but it seems to me that apart from the loss of the tactile aspect, the ubiquity of digital imaging has led to the erosion of a social element within photography. I’m not the only one who misses that. It is hard to think of Jeremy not being there to work his magic on a print, to offer his take on it, see the potential of a negative fully realised – and then discuss the competition and swap stories over a pint. A couple of years ago, Jeremy co-founded Labyrinth, a darkroom in the East End which has become a mecca for new and established photographers. Jeremy was full of excitement for the young talents who were bringing their pictures to him, the brave ones who had chosen to render their images on film rather than as pixels on a chip. He was rejuvenated by the challenge and, apart from anything else, it is a tragedy that he will not see his fledglings develop and mature.
He gave a great deal and asked for very little in return. Personally, I owe him a huge amount – and the shock of his sudden passing still hasn’t sunk in. I can’t quite believe it. The industry will feel a lot colder without him. The world will too.
Licensed Victuallers’ Asylum. Photo & text: David Secombe.
Posted: December 7, 2012 | Author: thelondoncolumn | Filed under: Architectural, Artistic London | Tags: Asylum, Old Kent Road, The New Hoxton, YBAs | Comments Off on Licensed Victuallers’ Asylum. Photo & text: David Secombe.
Victuallers’ almshouses, Caroline Gardens, Peckham. Photo © David Secombe, 2002.
From Georgian London, John Summerson, 1945/1969:
There were plenty of other institutions, some educational, some charitable, some newly-born, some perhaps half a century old, which housed themselves with some grandeur. Almost all were Greek, with good, simple fenestration, and a portico – Doric or Ionic – to mark the status of the institution. Some of these buildings still stand. There is the pleasant, spacious courtyard and porticoed chapel of the Licensed Victuallers’ Asylum at Peckham, built about 1831. Others were damaged in the war and have disappeared since.
As Sir John pointed out, the Licensed Victuallers’ Asylum at Caroline Gardens – almshouses built for retirees from the brewing trade – is a rare survival in the unsentimental city. The Asylum is pretty enough to make one wonder at how it has managed to avoid the wrecking ball, as its very elegance must have been a goad to generations of developers and civic engineers. It is an oasis of Grecian calm just a few steps away from the bleak, business end of the Old Kent Road, and in its present context its charm seems positively defiant, even heroic: an assertion of a charitable ideal in architecture that is both grand and humane – and a welcome corrective to the lurid, day-glo Toys ‘R’ Us shed across the road.
The Old Kent Road remains one of the strangest of all London roads, as well as one of the oldest; it incorporates part of Watling Street, the Romans’ highway from Dover to London and far beyond, to the wild Welsh Marches. A walk along The Old Kent Road today – between New Cross and the Bricklayers’ Arms roundabout – is impressive by virtue of the vast contrasts in tone and scale. On the one hand you have the massive gas works, the acrid colours of the new retail sheds, the abandoned or decommissioned pubs, the unwelcoming wasteland of Burgess Park, the brutalist road scheme and the endless stream of traffic thereon … yet on the other you can see repurposed evangelical churches in former office units or light engineering premises, occasional glimpses of Georgiana subsumed into offices for tyre warehouses, and little runs of genteel villas and terraces which form tributaries off the churning thoroughfare. (The Victuallers’ Asylum is on Asylum Road, one of the most architecturally interesting streets in south London.) On a summer evening, the Old Kent Road has a strangely foreign quality; one could be in a dodgy suburb of Miami or Los Angeles. This may have something to do with its untended nature; even the Holloway Road doesn’t look this abandoned by civic authority. Perhaps any road in any city, left to its own devices, ends up looking slightly American.
With the repurposing come the artists, and it is no surprise that the ragged districts which line the Old Kent Road are increasingly hip areas for ambitious young artists to set out their wares. I have heard both Peckham and New Cross being described, with varying degrees of conviction, as ‘The New Hoxton’ – a statement which ignores the fact that Goldsmiths’ College has been churning out YBAs for decades, so one might say that New Cross was the ‘old Hoxton’. The Victuallers’ chapel was disused for many years but it has recently been adopted as an arts space by a group that calls itself ‘Asylum‘. Tomorrow, Saturday 8th December, it will be hosting a performance of ‘Christmas Mysteries’, a ‘musical adaptation of the nativity from the traditional Medieval Mystery Plays’. An atmospheric venue for it… photos of the interior of the chapel may be found here.
Incredible Londoners. Photo & text: David Secombe.
Posted: May 18, 2012 | Author: thelondoncolumn | Filed under: Artistic London, London Music, Pubs, Vanishings | Tags: incredible Londoner, Jerusalem Tavern, Johno Driscoll, Thomas Britton | 4 Comments
Jerusalem Tavern and Jerusalem Passage, Britton Street, Clerkenwell. Photo © David Secombe 2010.
This week’s sad news has prompted some of us to remember pub crawls with John on his patch, and the names of the hostelries we’d encounter on the way: The Horseshoe in Clerkenwell Close, The Crown on Clerkenwell Green, The Coach and Horses in Ray Street, The Marie Lloyd in Hoxton, The Eagle on Farringdon Road, the Sekforde Arms on Sekforde Street – and, now and again, The Jerusalem Tavern on Britton Street. As this week we have been remembering a great Londoner and champion of art, it seems oddly fitting to add this nugget about an artistic promoter who operated in the same area 300 years ago, and who is now buried in Clerkenwell churchyard. D.S.
From Without the City Wall, Hector Bolitho and Derek Peel, 1951:
Britton Street was named after an incredible Londoner of the late 17th century who walked the streets by day “in his blue frock coat and with his small coal-measure in his hand”, and who by night gave concerts in his humble abode next to Jerusalem Tavern, in what is still Jerusalem Passage. In The London Magazine we read: “On the ground floor was a repository for small coal; over that was a concert room, which was very long and narrow. … Notwithstanding all, this mansion attracted to it as polite an audience as ever the opera did.. … At these concerts Dr. Pepusch and frequently Mr.Handel played the harpsichord.” When passing along the streets with his sack of small-coal on his back, Thomas Britton “was frequently accosted with such expressions as these: ‘There goes the famous small-coal man, who is a lover of learning, a performer in music and a companion for gentleman.’”
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Let it be a Dark Roux: New and Selected Poems
By Sheryl St. Germain
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These are the books I have been reading since the year 2018 began. Seven novels, five books of poetry, three short fiction collections, three nonfiction, one art book.
1. Let It Be a Dark Roux: New and Selected Poems by Sheryl St. Germain
Sheryl’s a body poet, embracing her own first, then the world’s, with all the complicated feelings of love and loss that must come with it.
2. The Given World by Marian Palaia
A novel about a young woman who ventures into postwar Vietnam in search of her lost brother and her own innocence. Lyric moments that leave one breathless.
3. Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir by Jean Guerrero
A terrific page-turner of a memoir, part gothic mystery, part parapsychological trek in which the author comes to terms with her father’s special madness.
4. The Animals by Christian Kiefer
A masterful novel about a man trying to rebuild his life taking care of lame and wounded animals in a wildlife sanctuary.
5. There There by Tommy Orange
A superb new work that upends everything we ever thought about the Native experience in this country. Fierce, volatile, building on the memory of massacres past and present.
6. I’m Not Missing by Carrie Fountain
If this is a “young adult” novel, then I’m young all over again, getting caught up in this New Mexico story of a young high school girl trying to cope with her friend’s sudden disappearance.
7. Twenty-One by Katherine Swett
How does one write so truthfully of a woman’s pain at losing her daughter? Like this. A moving cycle of the sparest poems about hurt and loss.
8. MyOTHER TONGUE by Rosa Alcalá
Tremendous collection of new verse in which the poet navigates the shoals of grief and love as she loses her mother even as she herself gives birth to her daughter. The lyric umbilicus threading through three lives is beautifully explored.
9. Doc/Undoc: Documentado/Undocumented Ars Shamánica Performática
MacArthur Genius Guillermo Gómez-Peña and award-winning book artist Felicia Rice create a multi-media border-crossing hybrid: the book as performance art.
10. The Immigrant’s Refrigerator by Elena Georgiou
A stirring collection of stories about the immigrant experience, spanning nationalities, cultures, genders, and sexual preferences.
11. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
I realized late that I’d seen the film adaptation of this heartbreaking story, and still I got caught up in these young peoples’ tragic utilitarian lives.
12. Meatballs for the People by Gary Soto
Odd little maxim, homilies and saws from one of my favorite poets. Quirky and comical at times, but always wise.
13. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
A ripping historical account of one of the most heinous and almost completely forgotten series of murders in American history.
14. Spy of the First Person by Sam Shepard
A spare how-to manual on witnessing your own slow death. Sam’s final elegiac musings on a world that is slipping away.
15. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
Denis’ final collection of stories. ‘Nuff said!
16. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Required reading for anyone maneuvering through our dangerous world today. Mr. Coates’ open letter to his son is a brutal assessment of American racial politics. Wise, beautiful and powerful.
17. My Father Was a Toltec and Selected Poems by Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo’s proto-feminist poetry collection from 1988 resonates even more strongly today.
18. Edgar and Lucy by Victor Lodato
A thoroughly engaging novel about a young boy who finds magic and fellowship in the company of a mysterious stranger.
19. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
I lived in England during the late 70’s, which is roughly when this novel takes place. Utterly recognizable working-class neighborhood undergoes a crisis when a house fire results in a death and only young Grace is willing to piece together the clues.
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Site-Specific Art at The New Schoolssa-gradient Works The book About this project
Site-Specific Art at The New School
History of the Commission
Agnes Denes (American, b. Budapest, 1931) is the author of six books and since the 1960s has participated in more than 450 exhibitions worldwide. Investigating philosophy, linguistics, mathematics, geography, psychology, history, poetry, and music, she is a pioneering figure in environmental art, earthworks, and Conceptualism. Her ritualistic Rice/Tree/Burial was installed in Sullivan County, New York, in 1968, and over a four-month period in 1982, she produced Wheatfield–A Confrontation, a field of wheat planted and harvested on two acres of rubble-strewn landfill in Manhattan, at what is now the site of the World Financial Center. Denes continues to produce such monumental interventions. In 1996, for Tree Mountain–A Living Time Capsule, a bio-reclamation project in western Finland, Denes enrolled volunteers to plant more than ten thousand pine trees in a pattern derived in part from the golden section; the site will remain legally protected for four centuries. In 2015, a twelve-acre version of Wheatfield was planted in Milan.
Agnes Denes with Pascal’s Perfect Probability Pyramid & the People Paradox—The Predicament (PPPPPPP), 1980/2016. Photo by Silvia Rocciolo, Courtesy The New School Art Collection
Invited by the curators Silvia Rocciolo and Eric Stark and members of the New School Art Collection Advisory Group to propose a site-specific work for the University Center dining room, Denes chose to re-envision a work titled Pascal’s Perfect Probability Pyramid & the People Paradox—The Predicament (PPPPPPP), a drawing made in 1980. The original work, on silk vellum, measured just 32 by 43 inches yet had taken nearly two years to execute, depicting thousands of unique figures—some of which are portraits of the artist’s friends and acquaintances—each rendered with the finest-gauge silver-tip pen. Scaled up electronically in a process closely monitored by Denes and transferred to the wall as vinyl cutouts, the figures in the mural remain individually legible.
John McGrail, Wheatfield—A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan—with Agnes Denes Standing in the Field, 1982. © Agnes Denes, courtesy Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
The pyramid form has been consistent in Denes’ art since the 1960s. In 2000, contemplating this sustained engagement, she wrote:
There are real pyramids and exotic ones, imaginary and philosophical. They represent logical structures, architectural innovations, and society building…. They can be stone, etched glass, plantings, and even silk. They can be invisible as thought processes, logic and mathematics; trees when they form a forest; conceptual, shaped like a nautilus when a future city; in motion when they seem to awaken; birds when they fly; history when they probe the ancients.1
In 2017, Denes added a dedication and exhortation to the wall text for the dining-hall site at The New School:
I dedicate this work to the refugees of the world, the homeless, misplaced and unwanted whose wellbeing depends on human kindness and compassion.
It is also a gift to the students. Read the figures, they are you.
Agnes Denes, “A Short History of the Pyramids” (2000), in The Living Pyramid (New York: Socrates Sculpture Park/Socrates Publishing, 2015). See https://socratessculpturepark.org/digital/catalogue-agnesdenes/ (accessed June 4, 2018).
Agnes Denes
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall 66 West 12th Street
Arnhold Hall 55 West 13th Street
University Center 63 Fifth Avenue
America Today, 1930–31
Call to Revolution and Table of Universal Brotherhood
(The New School Mural Cycle), 1930-1931
Camilo Egas
Ecuadorian Festival, 1932
Gonzalo Fonseca
Martin Puryear and Michael Van Valkenburgh, Vera List Courtyard, 1997
Dave Muller
Interpolations and Extrapolations, 2002-2003
Extensions (Interpolations and Extrapolations), 2008
Wall Drawing #1073, Bars of Color (New School), 2003
Event Horizon, 2005
Brian Tolle
Threshold, 2006
Rita McBride
Bells and Whistles, 2009–2014
Searching for Africa in LIFE, 1996/2014
Glenn Ligon
For Comrades and Lovers, 2015
Pascal’s Perfect Probability Pyramid & the People Paradox – The Predicament (PPPPPPP), 1980/2016
Andrea Geyer
Anemoi, 2019–2020
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Malcolm Turnbull becomes 29th Australian Prime Minister
Sep 15, 2015 by janelsaouma 1 Comment
Malcolm Turnbull (Right) and Julie Bishop leave the leadership ballot victorious on Monday night. Source: ABC/AAP
JANELSA OUMA
Malcolm Turnbull has become Australia’s 29th Prime Minister after successfully winning a leadership ballot against Tony Abbott.
After only two years in the job, Tony Abbott officially stepped down from the position as Prime Minister on Monday night.
Winning the ballot by a clean margin of 10 votes the former Communications Minister is determined to get his party on the right track with the 2009 defeat of the same ballot now officially behind him.
Earlier in the day Turnbull addressed the press confidently announcing his resignation as Communications Minister and challenged Mr Abbott for leader of the Federal Liberal Party after ‘consulting with many, many colleges’.
“It is clear enough that the government has not been successful in providing the economic leadership that we need,” Mr Turnbull said.
In his first address as designated Prime Minister, Mr Turnbull set the course to be run by the Liberal Party
“We need to have in this country and we will have now; an economic leadership that explains the great challenges and opportunities that we face,” Mr Turnbull said.
“We are seeking to persuade rather than seeking to lecture. This will be a thoroughly liberal government,” he said.
A thoroughly liberal Government committed to freedom, the individual and the market.”
Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop was elected as the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party and sealed the deal with great praise for the new PM and her ‘very dear friend of many years’.
“I am confident that he has the passion, the energy and the vision to lead this country at this very challenging time,” Ms Bishop said.
The Foreign Minister was successful tonight retaining her Deputy leader position over Defence Minister Kevin Andrew 70-30 win.
However Bishop did not fail to recognise Tony Abbott’s contribution to the Liberal Party, despite his downfall in confidence.
“I thank Tony Abbott for his service as the leader of our party and particularly for the effort that he put in the 2013 election when the Australian people knew they could not afford another moment under the Rudd/ Gillard- Rudd government.” she said.
“I’m excited about continuing to serve as the Deputy under Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership and I am thrilled at the prospect of continuing to serve the Australian People as the Foreign Minister.”
Turnbull did hint at a party reshuffle with hope that the Liberal Party would win the seat of Canning in the seats by-election next week.
“Inevitably, there will be changes to ministerial arrangements, I’ll be meeting with the Ministry tomorrow morning,” he said.
Throughout the leadership ballot, social media became animated from all sides of the political spectrum:
Journalist waited upon the first address from the 29th designated PM:
Waiting for the PM elect in the blue room … without air conditioning #auspol pic.twitter.com/U8u5FupQ4J
— James Glenday (@jamesglenday) September 14, 2015
History making announcement:
Government Whip @ScottBuchholzMP announces @TurnbullMalcolm voted new leader of Liberal party #libspill http://t.co/9Ok4ICwPf5
— ABC News (@abcnews) September 14, 2015
Sad to see such a decent man as Abbott toppled. Now Turnbull needs a November election before Labor sacks Shorten.
— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) September 14, 2015
Challenge for change:
.@TurnbullMalcolm "The Liberal party is the broadest & most diverse …" So we're heading for a 50/50 Cabinet? @JulieBishopMP @UNWomenAust
— Virginia Haussegger (@Virginia_Hauss) September 14, 2015
Ex-Prime Minister of the Labor Party, Julia Gillard gave her approval:
Congratulations to Malcolm Turnbull on becoming Prime Minister – a great honour and responsibility. JG
— Julia Gillard (@JuliaGillard) September 14, 2015
Despite their conflicting views on marriage equality, Tony Abbott’s sister expressed her regards:
Australia has lost a Prime Minister who is honest, decent and ALWAYS put the country's interests first #auspol
— Christine Forster (@resourcefultype) September 14, 2015
And the jokes…
Prime Minister-designate @TurnbullMalcolm says the hour is very late and "everyone should go to bed … cheerio!" http://t.co/mIgAIJThWS
Even through loss of confidence in leadership, Turnbull says Australia owes a debt to former leader Tony Abbott:
“I want to say at the outset what a great debt the nation owes and the party owes, the Government owes to Tony Abbott and of course, to his family Margie and their daughters,” he said.
Leaving the Cabinet meeting, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott left with head down and refused to talk to the media.
Tony Abbott had a short term of being a Prime Minister compared to his time as being the leader of the Liberal party. The past three Prime Minister’s have been removed by their own parties.
Designated Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull is confident that the Liberal Party will make it through another term of office with himself at its forefront.
“My assumption is the Parliament will serve its full term,” Mr Turnbull said
“There has never been a more exciting time to be alive than today.”
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'I just want them to feel safe in a home': Mom, four daughters lose everything in Corman Park house fire
A young Saskatoon family is starting over after they escaped a house fire on Monday with little more than the clothing on their backs.
Thia James, Saskatoon StarPhoenix
April Kingfisher saw ash falling from the roof of her house when she looked outside.
April Kingfisher’s brother-in-law James Brittain and his daughter Ari. Kingfisher credits Brittain with getting her daughters out of their burning home on Feb, 4, 2019. Photo courtesy of April Kingfisher. Courtesy of April Kingfisher / Saskatoon
She had shot out of bed early Monday morning after she woke to the smell of smoke, worried that something had gone wrong with one of the space heaters in the house. Her brother-in-law, James Brittain, who had babysat her four daughters and was staying at the house with his daughter Ari, helped investigate the source of the smoke.
After she saw the soot, Kingfisher looked inside for the source and noticed it was coming from her roommate’s room. She could see a glow through his cat door. She went into the room.
“It was the closet. I could see the closet, around the door was, like, shining,” she said in an interview on Wednesday.
“I opened the closet door, because I thought — I don’t know why I even did it. It made it worse. And it shot all out at us.”
Kingfisher grabbed the fire extinguisher she kept beside her bed. Brittain, in a Facebook message, said he remembered that the first extinguisher, pointed at the base started to bring the flames down but the extinguisher emptied.
Kingfisher then went for a second one from the kitchen. The fire only seemed to get worse, she said.
Brittain helped get the children out of the house.
“If James wasn’t there, I don’t think I’d have my kids with me today,” she said.
Once outside, she realized her dog, Bruno, a chihuahua/Pomeranian mix, was still inside. She called to him and tried to save him, but Brittain got her to leave for her own safety.
Brittain wrote that he had to stay as calm as he could because he wasn’t just thinking for himself and made sure the kids were in the car and away from the fire before going back to the house.
Although he is happy he got the children out, he said it’s sad they couldn’t get everyone — Bruno and the cats — out.
Kingfisher said she doesn’t remember what happened after that. Within minutes, the fire destroyed the Strathcona Avenue house in Corman Park.
When Saskatoon firefighters arrived at the scene after 5 a.m., they found the family already outside and thick smoke and flames shooting from the burning structure. A half-full tank of diesel at the side of the house was a cause for concern, so they set up a collapse zone.
Water tankers shuttled in water, while technicians shut down the utilities. Crews were rotated out and additional trucks sent because of the bitterly cold conditions.
A home on Strathcona Avenue in Corman Park is destroyed by a fire on Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. The family that lives in the house escaped. Three pets did not survive. Saskatoon Fire Department photo Saskatoon Fire Department / Saskatoon
Kingfisher said she has been back to the scene to call out for Bruno, but only the foundation of the house, the deck and one empty outdoor freezer are left. Another outdoor freezer, which she had filled with food in the days before the fire, had melted.
The family of five lost irreplaceable items: blankets handmade by Kingfisher’s great-aunt for each of the girls, embroidered with their names; ultrasound images; hospital cards and photos. Her late grandmother’s dresser, full of childhood memories, is gone.
Kingfisher was renting part of the house and had no renters’ insurance. She said her roommate, a musician, lost his instruments.
Her daughters — Madison, eight, Makenzie, five, Mikayla, four and Mya, one, are now staying with their father at his parents’ house in Prince Albert.
April Kingfisher’s four daughters: Madison, 8, Makenzie, 5, Mikayla, 4 and Mya, 1. Courtesy of April Kingfisher. Courtesy of April Kingfisher / Saskatoon
The Red Cross gave Kingfisher a Walmart voucher, which she used to buy her daughters clothing. The organization also gave her diapers for the baby and a three-night hotel stay, but they will have to check out by 11 a.m. Thursday.
She’s working on what happens next.
Her mother is moving from Debden to an apartment in Saskatoon, but it’s too small for six people.
One of Kingfisher’s friends launched a GoFundMe campaign, which by Wednesday afternoon had raised $140 of the $5,000 goal to get the family back on their feet. Phoenix Promotions has turned its Feb. 15 Anti-Valentine’s event at PABCO in Prince Albert into a fundraiser for them.
Kingfisher said the one thing she wants more than anything is for her children to feel safe.
“It’s so traumatizing for them. They’re scared. I just want them to feel safe in a home.”
On Monday, fire destroyed a house in Corman Park where April Kingfisher and her four daughters were living. Matt Smith / Saskatoon StarPhoenix
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SMCSD calls on community for help with desegregation plan
By Benjy Wall-Feng
As it seeks to merge its two schools, Bayside Martin Luther King Jr. Academy in Marin City and Willow Creek Academy in Sausalito, the Sausalito Marin City School District has reached out to the community for input.
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At 6:25 p.m., on the corner of Princess and Bridgeway in Sausalito, a fire erupted in the alley between Starbucks and Sausalito Jewelers. Within five minutes of the ignition, the fire quickly engulfed the alley, sending a plume of smoke into the air. “The cause of the fire is yet to be determ...
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Sausalito police and city employees continue to engage in a city council-sponsored cleanup of marine debris in the Sausalito waterfront area. The cleanup focuses on the anchor-outs, a handful of boats anchored in the Sausalito waterfront used as housing for a slim minority. Many of the boats are currently...
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A countywide election was held to determine various positions in each local district across Marin County, on November 7, 2017. Townships across the county opened their polls for both individual candidates, as well as different measures. While Mill Valley had nothing on the ballot, a position on the C...
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Sausalito Ferry Renovations Confirmed
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After three years of debate and multiple lawsuits, the city of Sausalito has approved a plan to renovate the downtown ferry dock. On October 14 the city council unanimously approved a renovations plan that would repair a 50-year-old dock to fully comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act requirements....
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The Best Phones From ASUS You Need To Know About
By Bethwel Njore on Feb 12, 2016 - Featured
In the past few years, ASUS was associated with the release of phones capable of docking into tablets which in turn were able to dock into tablets. But since 2014 the Taiwanese company has moved towards making of standard Android phones, with 2015 being the year they managed to gain a stamp of approval in the Android market with different range of smartphones with competitive prices. There are a variety of ASUS models available, with some being restricted to certain regions, they all resemble each other in a number of ways. Here are some of the best Android phones from ASUS you should consider buying:
ASUS ZenFone 2 was unveiled to the world at the 2015 CES event held in Las Vegas, becoming the successor of the initial ZenFone series of Android phones. ZenFone 2 was the second and more successful smartphone from ASUS partnering with Intel to manufacture mobile products. The handset was also the first Android phone to launch featuring a 4GB RAM option, with its camera being praised for its capabilities especially in low lit areas. The phone proved value for money, with the high-end version offering an internal storage of 64GB backed by a 4GB of RAM at a price US$300. A cheaper version was also available with 2GB of RAM with the same experience but at an affordable price of US$199.
The ASUS ZenFone Zoom was highly anticipated since the launch of its predecessor at the CES 2015. Though it was launched in January 2016, we are still excited to soon see it hit most markets. If you are into smartphone photography, then ZenFone Zoom is going to be something you need to consider. Its camera is complemented with 3x optical zooming, without requiring a physical revolving lens. ZenFone Zoom’s metal frame makes it quite attractive, with its Zen UI software promising the same reliable experience as you’d get from any ASUS series at a cost saving price.
Announced in the summer of 2015, the ZenFone Selfie is pretty much a different version of the ZenFone, though its outstanding feature is in its name. The phone’s front selfie camera offers a matching 13MP set up similar to the rear camera, which means exceptional quality and high resolution selfies. The ZenFone Selfie comes in a range of colors such as pink and a greeny blue. In addition, the phone provides a few more accessories to boost your photo capturing experience. For example, for hands free snapping, you can take advantage of the efficient Selfie Swing, which propels the device at the right angle to capture your pose.
ASUS ZENFONE LASER
ASUS has so far announced the ZenFone Laser twice, with the first in Asia and the latest launch arriving in North America with a few minor hardware improvements compared to the original. Once again, the ZenFone 2 resemblance is seen on most ASUS handsets, featuring the same design, hardware as well software functionalities. Its primary feature however is its main camera which embodies a laser autofocus technology. This feature that was once only spotted on high end LG’s G lineup, makes the mid-range ZenFone Laser smartphone technically brilliant.
If you are looking for a massive battery life then ZenFone is your best bet. What it lacks compared to other devices on the list, it makes up for it with extended battery power. Equipped with an astounding 5,000 mAh battery capacity, the phone runs on a Snapdragon 410 processor with display resolution of 720p, the phone offers a battery longevity that is hard to find. Also, if you need to, the ZenFone Max can be used to charge other devices packing lesser battery capacities. Which ASUS smartphones do you think fits your needs? Let us know in the comments.
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Is ‘Metal Gear Solid’ Creator Hideo Kojima Leaving Konami? Internet Sleuths Say Yes.
by: Nathan BirchTwitter March 19, 2015
Uh oh, it may be time to stuff the corpse of once-proud video game publisher Konami in a locker. It looks like Metal Gear Solid mastermind Hideo Kojima may have left the company.
Internet sleuths have have dug up all sorts of information to support this. Konami released a new list of company executives, and Kojima is no longer on it. The Metal Gear Solid V website has removed “A Hideo Kojima Game” from the game’s title, and Kojima Productions logos have been removed from the site. Kojima Productions’ website now redirects to the Metal Gear Solid homepage, and the Kojima Productions Twitter account is encouraging fans to follow the Metal Gear Solid V account instead.
All of this combined would seem to point towards Kojima leaving Konami, and Kojima Productions possibly dissolving. Kojima has been saying that Metal Gear Solid V would be his final game in the series, but nobody really took him seriously (he’s said that many times before), and most people didn’t think he’d leave Konami and Kojima Productions behind…
“With Metal Gear Solid 5, I’m finally closing the loop on that saga. In that sense, this will be the final Metal Gear Solid. Even if the Metal Gear franchise continues, to me, this is the last Metal Gear.”
Konami has issued a very carefully worded statement on the situation…
“Konami Digital Entertainment, including Mr. Kojima, will continue to develop and support Metal Gear products. Please look forward to future announcements.”
Not exactly a straightforward “Kojima isn’t leaving” denial. Note, they don’t say Kojima Productions will be working on future Metal Gear Solid stuff, and while they say Kojima himself will work on future games in the series, there’s no mention of his role. It’s possible he could just be a freelance consultant or something.
By the way, this is Kojima’s most recent tweet…
Heading off. pic.twitter.com/JWyh4DbeIY”
— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) March 16, 2015
Heading off to where, exactly? I suppose we’ll see.
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Jericho's alternate senses that compensate for his blindness are supposedly a secret that very few are aware of. Except he regularly translates on behalf of Razorback. Who only speaks in sign.
He has a jack that implants images directly into his brain, which he connects to a video camera. Among other things
The school segregates the LGBT students to a separate dormitory, then asks them to stay in the closet, despite the fact that their being in the LGBT dormitory would give them away.
Except that the LGBT dorm is one big closet, and is protected by magical and psychic wards, preventing people from figuring things out. It's not like they're handing out pamphlets bragging about it. There's also a very good reason for the segregation — In the backstory, a transgender girl's illusion failed after she saved the school, only to have her bigoted/squicked boyfriend murder her in front of a crowd... which did nothing but watch.
It's worse than that. They have a Day of Remembrance for all the transgender mutants who died because of their being transgender, and Phase notes that there's dozens of them. There's also a number of gay bashers who'd love to go after all the Poesies if they were outed. Phase also says that if the secret got out, it'd probably result in a huge battle that would end with a lot of dead people and destroyed buildings.
Keep in mind, the Day of Remembrance is a REAL day every year in November for remembering transgender people who died in the last year.
Poe also has a cover story as the not-so-secret "secret" Dorm for students with severe psychological problems, so most people who suspect something just dismiss it as part of the crazy. And there are just enough known and out LGBTI kids (mostly GSD cases) among the other students to allay suspicion
Whateley Academy is supposedly a secret school, kept that way to protect the students. This is so important that students are punished for any actions that might expose the location of the school (such as engaging in superhero-type activity anywhere in the tri-state area.) This has been very effective... it's location is completely unknown, except to the staff. And the students. And the students' families. And the thousands of former students, including all the ones who went into villainy. And every branch of law enforcement, right down to the beat cops in nearby cities. And the super-crime syndicate. And the MCO. And the shopkeeps and housewives in the small town down the road. And the intelligence agencies of every nation in the UN, who routinely send agents there to hide in the bushes and either spy on the students or throw recruiting leaflets at them as they walk by...
The ban on superhero antics is more to protect the students on leave themselves both from getting in over their inexperienced heads and from running into trouble with the law, in whose eyes they usually are after all only teenagers with legitimately dangerous superhuman powers and no official sanction. But it's true that Whateley's secret is kept poorly enough that the existence of an entire established superhero team that's never heard of the school (in the 'Silver Lining' stories) comes a bit out of left field.
Fridge Horror
In Sara's opening story, she meets with an orphan boy named Gary who gets shot. She has a very touching conversation with him as he's dying about the afterlife and how she hopes to meet him there, then she kisses him and he dissolves into dust as did the targets of her attacks. Very touching, right? Except that later stories showed that her powers consumed the soul of their target, preventing them from ascending to the afterlife.
Fridge Brilliance: Sara is a Goddess. Her consumption of Gary's soul - accidental or not - means that he went to her afterlife - and she does meet him again later. She also plans to reincarnate him as her son, when she decides the time is right. She wants to be a good mommy, after all, and her dance card's a little too full to give him enough attention right now.
In 'Tennyo Goes To Hell', we learn that Gary ended up in the same, well, hell as Sara's other victims, albeit with considerable protection against the local threats. It's still not a place for most sane humans, and the real Fridge Horror sets in once one considers what his previous life on Earth must have been like for him to be coping as well as he does...
Read 'Triple Threat' and 'The Kodiak In Winter'. Now imagine that Freya is still around when Team Kimba arrive. Given what she allowed Songbird to do to Loophole, what would have happened to Fey or Chaka? If she'd turned Lancer or Tennyo or Phase into enforcers, how twisted would they have ended up?
Kate's jealousy over Jadis and Ayla talking in ''Afternoon Tea With The Devil's Daughter" wasn't just typical 'my friend is spending time with someone else' jealousy- it's quite likely that Jadis is the only friend that Kate's ever had.
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Chess originated in India, and evolved on its spread to the Middle East and southern Europe. The 20th century chess scene was totally dominated by the Soviet Union. But these days, thanks to Viswanathan Anand, one might say that India has finally become the best at its own game.
And the version Anand plays is a Spanish variant of Shatranj from the late 15th century.
The game Reversi or Othello was invented in England, but its modern reinvention was in Japan, and as seen in the link, a number of World Champions in the game have been Japanese. This might be attributed to its similarity with the Asian game Go.
Mahjong is originally a Chinese game, but in America has most of its association with (now) old Jews (mostly women).
It found a new audience with Akagi fans.
Scrabble, a game invented by an American architect, is very popular in Senegal.
Similarly, a Scrabble clone for Android and iOS devices called Wordfeud is absurdly popular in Sweden, with its userbase there estimated at 6 percent of the population.
That Chutes & Ladders board game you remember from when you were a kid? It's actually from India, where it is known as "Snakes & Ladders" and has a much more religious/supernatural flavor (it's intended to teach children about the Hindu concept of karma).
It's still called Snakes and Ladders in some places, even if most of the moral symbolism has been quietly dropped.
Settlers of Catan did okay in Germany and is still one of the best known creations of its author (who was a household name among German board game enthusiasts before that, however), but it is perhaps even more well known and has had more lasting cultural impact in the United States.
The Game of Life is arguably more popular in Japan than the United States. Japan has been making its own versions of The Game of Life for decades, oftentimes releasing multiple new versions per year.
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Lakeway Indoor Garage Sale
Lakeway Activity Center - 105 Cross Creek, Lakeway TX 78734
Time: 8 a.m. to noon - Booths may be set up as early as 6 a.m.
The Lakeway Activity Center hosts a City-Wide Indoor Garage Sale. This unique community event is fun for collectors, families and bargain hunters. You will find everything from children's clothing, furniture and toys; to housewares, collectibles, tools and much more!
There is no admission fee, but the Activity Center gladly accepts donations of non-perishable or canned food items in the lobby which will be donated to local food banks and charities. Sales are on five Saturdays out of the year from 8 a.m.-noon.
Space is limited and Lakeway Activity Center members get to sign up early! The 10' x 10' space fee is $25 for Activity Center members and $35 for non-members and includes one 6 foot table and 2 chairs.
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January 30, 1940 11:00PM PT
Film Review: The Grapes of Wrath
It took courage, a pile of money and John Ford to film the story of the dust bowl and the tribulations of its unhappy survivors, who sought refuge in inhospitable California. Picture is "The Grapes of Wrath," adapted by Nunnally Johnson from John Steinbeck's best-seller. It is an absorbing, tense melodrama, starkly realistic, and loaded with social and political fireworks. It is off to a smash boxoffice career, hot on the heels of "Gone With the Wind," which precedes it by a few weeks into the first runs.
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It took courage, a pile of money and John Ford to film the story of the dust bowl and the tribulations of its unhappy survivors, who sought refuge in inhospitable California. Picture is “The Grapes of Wrath,” adapted by Nunnally Johnson from John Steinbeck’s best-seller. It is an absorbing, tense melodrama, starkly realistic, and loaded with social and political fireworks. It is off to a smash boxoffice career, hot on the heels of “Gone With the Wind,” which precedes it by a few weeks into the first runs.
Here is an outstanding entertainment, projected against a heartrending sector of the American scene. Through newreels and rotogravure, the public is familiar with the ravages of drought over a wide agricultural area in Oklahoma, Colorado, the Texas panhandle and western Kansas. The film interprets the consequences of national disaster in terms of a family group–the Joads–who left their quarter-section to the wind and dust and started ‘cross country in an over-laden jallopy to the land of plenty.
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Considering the rumpus caused by the book, Darryl F. Zanuck’s decision to film the yarn could not have been reached without complete realization of the inevitable repercussions. It is not a pleasant story, and the pictured plight of the Joads, and hundreds of other dust bowl refugee families, during their frantic search for work in California, is a shocking visualization of a state of affairs demanding generous humanitarian attention. Neither book nor film gives any edge to citizens of California who are working diligently to alleviate suffering and conditions not of their origination. Steinbeck offers no suggestion. In this respect the film ends on a more hopeful note. Someway, somehow, Ma Joad declares ‘the people’ will solve the unemployment riddle.
First the plow, which stripped the buffalo grass from the great plains. Then the days of broiling sun and hotter nights, the drought which consumed crops and left withered leaves on sickly stems. Came the wind, relentless and dust-laden. Red topsoil in swirls, dry throats and smarting eyes. Dead cattle, waterless wells and an empire laid waste. Then the westward fIight from misery and starvation.
It is all on the screen – everything except the unpalatable Steinbeck dialog, and such other portions of the book which ordinary good taste exclude. The characters are there, and under Ford’s direction a group of actors makes them into living people, whose frustration catches at the heart and throat. There is humor, too, but the film as a whole scores as a gripping theatre experience.
Nothing is more difficult in direction than to create tense dramatic scenes in outdoor settings. Ford succeeds in this throughout, and he does it by every known (and some new) trick of camera and microphone. In a few hundred feet, through a series of cutbacks, he shows the whole dreary account of the dust bowl tragedy, when a half-crazed fugitive (John Qualen), backed into the corner of a deserted room, relates the story of the disintegration of an Oklahoma farm home. In successive shots, the audience sees the parched land, the notification of dispossess, the futile resistance against the land company’s tractors and the wrecked farm buildings. By such means of terse storytelling, Ford zips along at a fast pace. There is unceasing movement during the overland trek. A camera shot through a windshield shows the desert Joshua trees in the background, and reflected close-ups of light, courageous faces of the travelers. There are vistas of distant mountains and gorgeous western skies. More than all else, however, Ford has caught the secret thoughts of the characters, the strong-willed determination of Ma Joad to hold the family together, the fears which grip the men and the rebellion which burns within Tom and Casy.
Views within the California ‘Okie’ camps uncover depraved conditions, and a yell may be expected from that quarter when the film moves into general release. There is nothing sunkist about the way state troopers and local constables push around the unwelcome visitors. Resentment and bitterness are the natural consequences of such behavior. Herein lie the social angles of the film, which makes no pretense to preach but unfolds a story with ruthless skill. Throughout the weird odyssey of the Joads’ it is only in one spot, a U. S. Department of Agriculture camp, that they find sympathy and kindliness. And yet a hundred such camps could not accommodate the army of refugees. A shower bath is not a substitute for a job and food.
In the casting, effort was made to type the characters consistently with preconceived ideas of thousands who have read the book. Henry Fonda does a swell job as Tom and John Carradine is excellent as Casy, the reformed preacher. Jane Darwell gives the family strength and leadership in the mother part. Charley Grapewin’s grandpa is rich in humor and tragedy. Russell Simpson, Dorris Bowden, Zeffie Tilbury and Frank Darien complete the roster.
Gregg Toland’s camera heightens the incidents, and the production generally meets most exacting standards.
“Grapes” is far removed from conventional film entertainment. It tackles one phase of the American social problem in a convincing manner. It possesses an adult viewpoint and its success may lead other producers to explore the rich field of contemporary life which films long have neglected and ignored.
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1940: Best Director, Supp. Actress (Jane Darwell).
Nominations: Best Picture, Actor (Henry Fonda), Screenplay, Editing, Sound
Production: 20th Century-Fox. Director John Ford; Producer Darryl F. Zanuck; Screenplay Nunnally Johnson; Camera Gregg Toland; Editor Robert Simpson; Music Alfred Newman (dir.); Art Director Richard Day, Mark-Lee Kirk. Previewed at the Normandie, N.Y., Jan. 23, '40.
Crew: (B&W) Available on VHS, DVD. Original review text from 1940. Running time: 129 MIN.
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Rihanna loses Chris Brown to Karrueche Tran again
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It appears that Chris Brown has kicked Rihanna to the curb for good in favor of Karrueche Tran. According to multiple news reports on May 28 from Enstarz, EntertainmentWise, Hollywood Life and others, Chris is done with Rihanna, and the two former lovers are no longer on speaking terms. Chris has even moved Karrueche Tran into his Hollywood Hills home.
Chris and Karrueche Spending Quality Time Together
According to Hollywood Life, The Sun, and the Christian Post on May 28, Rihanna is completely out of the picture now and Chris and Karrueche have been inseparable for the past few weeks. In fact, they were spending so much time together that Chris asked Karrueche to move in, and they are reportedly living together now. Karrueche has moved most her clothes and personal belongings into Chris’s home, but has kept her own apartment, just in case. Chris and Karrueche were spotted together in Las Vegas over the Memorial Day weekend partying with mutual friends, and have rarely been apart since Chris split from Rihanna earlier this month. Karrueche was even with Chris when he had a car accident last week.
Rihanna’s Million Dollar Birthday Gift to Chris Couldn’t Keep Him in Her Life
Despite a report from Entertainmentwise last month that Rihanna spent $1 million dollars on a custom made car for Chris Brown as a display of her love, it was Karrueche, not Rihanna, whom Chris spent his 24th birthday with.
Though Rihanna’s lavish gift – a limited edition 2009 Mercedes-Benz SLR Stirling Moss with Chris Brown’s initials on the red leather seats – was impressive, it apparently was not enough to keep Chris Brown in her life and away from Karrueche Tran.
Chris Brown’s Father Did Not Want Chris and Rihanna Back Together
To make matters worse for Rihanna, Chris Brown’s father said in a recent interview, that although he liked Rihanna and had nothing against her, he did not approve of Chris and Rihanna getting back together.
“I personally really didn’t want him and Rihanna back together.
“You have to have a balance in a relationship. You have to have someone who is spontaneous and whimsical but you also have to have someone who is grounded and logical.”
It’s possible that his objective assessment of the situation influenced his son.
Friends Say Rihanna Doesn’t Stand Much of a Chance
There are unsubstantiated rumors that Chris Brown has bought Karrueche Tran a multi-million dollar diamond ring and wants to build a future with her because Karrueche has proved herself loyal to him despite his on-again off-again relationship with Rihanna the past six months.
Sources say Chris is over the constant drama with Rihanna, the breakups and makeups, and is ready to settle down.
Rihanna’s friends have advised her that it’s hopeless to try to intervene since Chris’s mind is already made up.
Has Rihanna lost Chris Brown for good?
It certainly appears that way. But we’ll have to keep a close eye on the situation and see how things work out.
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Republican Undersheriff Donald Barnes (left) and Los Angeles District Attorney Investigator Duke Nguyen (right), a Democrat, are vying to replace retiring Sheriff Sandra Hutchens on Nov. 6.
By Thy Vo | November 2, 2018
Republican Undersheriff Donald Barnes and Los Angeles District Attorney Investigator Duke Nguyen, a Democrat, are vying to replace retiring Sheriff Sandra Hutchens on Nov. 6, in a contest that will test whether years of scandal and controversies have affected how voters view the embattled department.
Barnes, who has worked for the Sheriff’s Department for 29 years and touts his experience as the department’s second-in-command, emerged from the June primary election just shy, at 49.4 percent, of the majority of votes he needed to win the seat outright.
Nguyen, a Vietnamese refugee who came to the United States in 1981, earned 31 percent of votes in the primary despite relatively little campaigning or spending at the time. He is currently an investigator for the LA County DA, and before that, was a Santa Ana police officer.
A third candidate, Republican Aliso Viejo Mayor and former Sheriff’s sergeant David Harrington, received 19.5 percent of the primary vote.
Hutchens announced in June 2017 that she would not seek re-election, immediately endorsing Barnes as her successor. He’s since been the public face of the department and has benefited from an outpouring of support from elected officials and more than half a million in outside spending by the sheriff’s deputies’ union.
Barnes’ campaign has spent more than $646,000 so far this year, compared to more than $134,000 by Nguyen’s campaign. Barnes has also benefited from more than $561,000 in spending by the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs (AOCDS).
The challenge for Barnes will be defending a department that in recent years has been the subject of heavy criticism over the illegal use of jailhouse informants, treatment of inmates in county jails and a dramatic jail escape by three inmates who weren’t captured by law enforcement until eight days later.
The election comes amid pending investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice and California Attorney General into the illegal use of jailhouse informants by county law enforcement,.
Recently, the department has come under fire over recordings of jail phone calls between inmates and their attorneys, which the Sheriff blamed on an error by its contractor, Global Tel Link. Defense attorneys, however, raised questions about how Sheriff’s management did not know about the phone calls – which should be kept confidential because of attorney-client privilege – when their deputies and investigators were listening to some of the calls.
Election Day could result in dramatic changes for county law enforcement. In addition to the race for Sheriff, District Attorney Tony Rackauckas is facing his toughest re-election bid yet against county supervisor Todd Spitzer, a former protégé-turned-foe of the incumbent DA who has been preparing to run for the seat for years.
The Sheriff’s Department, Barnes included, has disputed media reporting and criticism of the department over the jailhouse informants scandal. While a trial court and the Fourth District Court of Appeals have issued rulings saying the department has long-standing, “systemic” issues with illegal informant use, Hutchens and Barnes cite an Orange County Grand Jury report that attributes the misconduct to a few “rogue” deputies who largely acted on their own.
When legitimate criticism arises, the department has been responsive to criticism and fixed those problems, Barnes has said.
Nguyen has said that simply hasn’t been true, pointing to voluminous evidence of informant use, and written memos between supervisors about it.
“I don’t buy that management didn’t know because this has been going on for an extended period of time. If management doesn’t know, they’re not doing their job,” Nguyen told Voice of OC earlier this year.
The Sheriff’s approach to immigration issues has also mobilized progressive groups behind Nguyen.
In March, the department began posting inmate release dates online to circumvent the “sanctuary state” laws in California that limit cooperation between local law enforcement and immigration officials.
Barnes is a vocal opponent of the sanctuary state law – known as Senate Bill 54. Nguyen, who says he would work to end “systemic corruption, racism, and disenfranchisement” by count law enforcement, supports the sanctuary state law.
One group, KRC in Action, a political arm of the Korean Resource Center that receives funds from billionaire Tom Steyer’s NextGen America and the Service Employees International Union, has focused on turning out Asian American and Pacific Islander voters, focusing on issues like immigration and policing by the Sheriff’s Department. The group has endorsed Nguyen.
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Papadopoulos given 14-day sentence as part of the Mueller investigation
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The former Trump campaign adviser’s crime, his plea, and his falling out with Mueller’s team, explained.
George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, was sentenced Friday afternoon to 14 days of incarceration and a year of supervised release.
It’s a milestone for special counsel Robert Mueller. In July 2017, Papadopoulos was the first person to be arrested as part of the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 presidential campaign. He then struck a plea deal, which Mueller’s team unsealed in October.
That plea deal shocked the political world. In it, the ex-Trump adviser admitted that nearly two months before news broke that leading Democrats’ emails had been hacked, he was tipped off that the Russians had “dirt” on Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails.” After that, he talked extensively to three foreign contacts (two of whom were Russian) to try and set up a meeting between Trump and Vladimir Putin, and kept several top Trump campaign aides in the loop on his efforts.
It was not clear whether Papadopoulos told other Trump aides about that email tip. But this connection arguably was (and remains) the closest Mueller has come to establishing collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia involving the illegally hacked emails. When this news came out, many thought this would be a turning point in the probe.
But we’ve since learned that Papadopoulos played a much smaller role in the Mueller investigation than many thought — in part because he couldn’t keep his mouth shut.
“The defendant did not provide ‘substantial assistance,’” Mueller wrote in a recent court filing — and explained that after learning Papadopoulos was talking with the media last December, his team canceled all further planned questioning of him.
After that came another twist: Papadopoulos and his wife Simona Mangiante have lately tried to align with Trump again. Simona in particular, who once said Papadopoulos would be the “John Dean” of the Russia investigation, has recently been talking extensively to the press, denouncing Mueller’s probe as a witch hunt, and voicing Trump-friendly talking points. She even said Papadopoulos was considering revoking his plea, and asked Trump to pardon him.
In the end, Papadopoulos decided to stick with his plea. He argued that he should only get probation, but Mueller’s team recommended “a period of incarceration” of up to six months.
On Friday, then, Judge Randolph Moss sentenced him to 14 days of incarceration, a year of supervised release, 200 hours of community service, and a $9,500 fine, Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports.
What George Papadopoulos did during the Trump campaign
In early 2016, the Chicago-born Papadopoulos was a 28-year-old energy consultant with an interest in foreign policy. Though he was living in London at the time, he hoped to land a US government job, and got a gig advising Ben Carson’s presidential campaign. After Carson quit the race, Papadopoulos applied for a gig with Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner whose toxicity to the party establishment made it tough for him to land traditional advisers.
In early March, Papadopoulos got the job — he’d be an unpaid foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, working under campaign co-chair Sam Clovis. And very early on, his plea documents state, Clovis told him that improving relations with Russia would be a key goal of the Trump campaign’s foreign policy.
Then, over the next few weeks, Papadopoulos met and began to establish regular contact with three foreign nationals who he understood to have connections to the Russian government. They are:
Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor then based in London. He met Papadopoulos in Italy shortly after Papadopoulos agreed to join the Trump campaign, and (per the plea) said he had substantial connections with top Russian government officials.
Olga, a Russian national who Mifsud claimed was a relative of Vladimir Putin’s with ties to top Russian officials. Mifsud brought her to meet Papadopoulos in London.
Ivan Timofeev, a Russian academic who Mifsud said had connections to Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Much of the contact, which continued for months, was focused on efforts to arrange a meeting between Trump and Vladimir Putin. Indeed, at a meeting with Trump and his foreign policy team on March 31, 2016, Papadopoulos offered to set up such a meeting.
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Papadopoulos (third from left) attends the March 31, 2016 Trump campaign foreign policy meeting.
In the months afterward, Papadopoulos emailed Clovis, Corey Lewandowski, Stephen Miller, and Paul Manafort to update them on his efforts (which did not, in the end, result in any meeting between Trump and Putin).
In the midst of all this, on April 26, 2016, Papadopoulos heard a bombshell from Professor Mifsud. He had just returned from meeting top Russian officials in Moscow, he said, and he’d learned that the Russians had “dirt” on Clinton. Papadopoulos later told the FBI that Mifsud specifically said Russia had “thousands of emails.”
The timing of this is crucial — because there was zero public indication that Russia had hacked top Democrats’ emails at this point. News of the DNC hack wouldn’t become public until June, and the Podesta email hack wouldn’t leak until October.
Though we still don’t know whether Papadopoulos told others in the Trump campaign about the Russian dirt on Clinton — in a recent court filing, his lawyers said he told Mueller he doesn’t “recall” doing so — we know he told some people, including the foreign minister of Greece. Most infamously, Papadopoulos told Australian diplomat Alexander Downer in a London bar in May.
After the DNC leaks began two months later, Australia tipped off the US government that Papadopoulos seemed to know what was coming. So Papadopoulos is why the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign’s Russia ties — the very investigation that Mueller now oversees.
Now, Papadopoulos wasn’t only involved with Russian matters in the campaign. He helped set up a meeting between Trump and the president of Egypt, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. He was in frequent contact with Greek officials (Papadopoulos is of Greek ethnicity). He even accepted $10,000 in cash from an Israeli-American consultant he thought was tied to Israeli intelligence. It was, in short, an action-packed year.
Papadopoulos was charged for lying to the FBI
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Papadopoulos’s mug shot after his July 2017 arrest.
By January 27, 2017, Trump was the new president, and Papadopoulos was in the midst of trying to land a job in his administration — maybe in the NSC, or the State Department, or the Department of Energy, per his lawyers. That’s when two FBI agents showed up at his door in Chicago, asking to talk to him regarding an investigation they were conducting.
In the two-hour interview, the FBI later said, Papadopoulos lied repeatedly about those foreign contacts during the campaign:
When pressed, he admitted that Mifsud told him about Russian email dirt on Clinton, but repeatedly insisted that happened before he joined the Trump campaign, which he called a “very strange coincidence.” (In reality, Mifsud only met him after he got the Trump gig, and told him about the email dirt after they’d been in contact for more than a month about campaign matters.)
He also claimed he met Olga, the Russian national, before the campaign and had only inconsequential contacts with her. (Again, they’d actually talked extensively over months about setting up a Trump/Putin trip.)
He left out that Mifsud had introduced him to Ivan Timofeev, the Russian academic with MFA connections, and didn’t mention their extensive efforts to set up a Trump-Putin meeting.
Hours after that interview with the FBI, Mueller’s team now says, Papadopoulos submitted his biography and a description of his Trump campaign work to an administration official, in hopes of landing an Energy Department job.
FBI agents interviewed Papadopoulos again a few weeks later, on February 16. After that interview, he appears to have panicked. The next day, he deactivated the Facebook account he’d had since 2005, which he had used to exchange some messages with Mifsud and Timofeev. He also changed his cell phone number.
Finally, on July 27, Papadopoulos flew into Dulles Airport in Virginia — where FBI agents in the investigation now headed by special counsel Robert Mueller arrested him. Over the next few months, Papadopoulos had proffer meetings, in which they discussed a potential plea deal. And eventually, they struck such a deal, in which Papadopoulos agreed to plead guilty to making false statements to the FBI.
But Papadopoulos fell out with Mueller’s team after his plea
Simona Papadopoulos (left) on Capitol Hill for closed door testimony in July 2018
Mueller dramatically unsealed Papadopoulos’s plea on October 30, 2017 — the same day Paul Manafort and Rick Gates first appeared in court to face separate charges in the special counsel’s probe.
It was a bombshell. This little-known Trump foreign policy aide was now admitting that he was told Russia had gotten Clinton-related emails — “dirt” they could use to hurt her campaign — long before that news was publicly known.
Trump allies tried to attack and dismiss Papadopoulos as unimportant and inconsequential to the campaign, with one ex-campaign aide famously calling him a “coffee boy.” But his apparent flip stoked rampant speculation about who else in the Trump campaign he might be incriminating.
But we’ve since learned that, behind the scenes, Papadopoulos’s cooperation was far less important to Mueller than many assumed — as Mueller’s team argued in a positively scathing sentencing memo. They wrote:
The defendant did not provide “substantial assistance,” and much of the information provided by the defendant came only after the government confronted him with his own emails, text messages, internet search history, and other information it had obtained via search warrants and subpoenas well after the defendant’s FBI interview as the government continued its investigation.
Mueller’s team also said that, after Papadopoulos’s four proffer sessions, he was scheduled to return for further questioning in late December 2017. But “upon learning that the defendant had participated in a media interview with a national publication concerning his case, the government canceled that meeting,” they wrote. They never questioned him again.
The following month, January 2018, Papadopoulos’s then-fiancée Simona raised eyebrows by talking to the Washington Post. “I believe history will remember him like John Dean,” she announced, referring to the White House counsel who famously flipped on President Nixon. “There’s a lot to come,” she added. In context, it now seems she may have been trying to get Mueller’s team’s attention again, after they canceled his questioning.
But by March, the Papadopouloses seem to have found different people to talk to.
That’s when Chuck Ross, a reporter for the Daily Caller, published a detailed story raising questions about the efforts of Stefan Halper — a Cambridge professor — to contact Trump campaign officials in 2016. Halper would eventually be revealed as an FBI informant, and over the next few months, President Trump, his allies in Congress, and conservative media outlets would try to drum this up into a scandal they dubbed “Spygate.”
Ross’s first Halper story mentions Papadopoulos 36 times, describes specific emails and interactions between Halper and Papadopoulos, and extensively relies on an anonymous “source” he describes as “familiar with Papadopoulos’s thinking.”
Whether that source is Papadopoulos himself, Simona, or a third party they’d authorized to speak for them isn’t clear. What did become increasingly clear in the ensuing weeks, though, is that Papadopoulos and Simona were now trying to align themselves with Trump — and against Mueller.
In a new series of interviews, Simona all of a sudden began voicing Trump-friendly talking points — that the Russia investigation was all bogus, that the charges against her husband were trumped up, that the FBI played dirty, and that George was used as “a target to infiltrate the campaign. She even outright asked Trump for a pardon.
This drama continued over the summer in a series of cryptic tweets by George and Simona. In August, Simona publicly declared that her husband was thinking about withdrawing his guilty plea and suing the government.
I can’t wait for the truth to come out.
— Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos (@simonamangiante) August 17, 2018
George meets all the conditions to be considered the “sacrificial lamb” of the #WitchHunt. He has been the target of Western intelligence & Clinton’s allies #halper #downer #tawil #mifsud. Nobody deserves a #PARDON more the he does.
It is, however, enormously risky to withdraw a guilty plea — Papadopoulos is on record admitting he committed a crime. So in the end, he decided to stick with the deal. And that deal now means he’ll be incarcerated for two weeks.
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Ravens to host Saturday prime-time game in divisional round
Posted on 30 December 2019 by Luke Jones
The Ravens will begin their playoff march to Super Bowl LIV in prime time.
After finishing a franchise-record 14-2 regular season with a 28-10 win over Pittsburgh on Sunday, top-seed Baltimore will host an AFC divisional-round tilt at M&T Bank Stadium on Saturday, Jan. 11 at 8:15 p.m., a game that will be televised on CBS. The Ravens will play the lowest remaining seed of Houston, Buffalo, or Tennessee, who will all compete in the AFC wild-card round this Saturday.
This marks the first time since the 2011 postseason that the AFC North champion Ravens will host a divisional-round game after enjoying a first-round bye for just the third time in team history. The Ravens won their only playoff meeting with the Texans in the 2011 postseason and are 2-1 in playoff encounters with the Titans, an old AFC Central rival. Baltimore has never faced the Bills in the playoffs.
A win in the divisional round would allow the Ravens to host the AFC Championship game for the first time in franchise history. The city of Baltimore last hosted the conference championship game on Jan. 3, 1971 when the Colts defeated Oakland at Memorial Stadium on their way to winning Super Bowl V.
After securing the No. 1 seed in the AFC and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs for the first time in team history, the Ravens will aim to win their third Super Bowl in their 24-year history.
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Twelve Ravens thoughts following Week 11 win over Houston
Posted on 19 November 2019 by Luke Jones
With the Ravens winning a sixth consecutive game for the first time since 2000 in a 41-7 demolition of Houston, I’ve offered a dozen thoughts, each in 50 words or less:
1. The debate over MVP continues, but I don’t know how anyone could objectively watch the Ravens win their last four games — three against playoff contenders — by a combined 101 points and not say they’re football’s best team. They look like they’re playing a different sport than everyone else right now.
2. I had to laugh at overreaction from the few remaining critics about Lamar Jackson’s 1-for-6 first quarter before he completed 13 straight passes and finished the day with four touchdown passes. Four other quarterbacks threw four interceptions in Week 11, one shy of Jackson’s season total.
3. Jackson ranks 11th or better in completion percentage, passing yards per attempt, touchdown passes, QBR, and passer rating. He’s fifth in Pro Football Focus’ passer grading. Yes, his rushing ability is what makes him special, but he’s made an obvious statement as an above-average passer this season.
4. Matthew Judon was a game wrecker with two sacks, an additional tackle for a loss, four quarterback hits, a forced fumble, and seven total tackles. We can debate to what lengths the Ravens should go to extend him, but Judon is going to get paid very handsomely.
5. His role predictably changed with the Mark Ingram addition, but Gus Edwards had a 63-yard touchdown and 112-yard rushing day against a Houston run defense that hadn’t allowed a 100-yard rusher in the regular season since 2017. He could be the best short-yardage back in the NFL.
6. Seth Roberts caught his first touchdown of 2019, but wide receivers combined for just five catches for 51 yards. That’s not a stat line you typically associate with a 34-point victory, but this group works hard as blockers and doesn’t complain about the lack of involvement in the passing game.
7. There was plenty of bravado from Marcus Peters when he matched up against All-Pro wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins. Peters’ play has been excellent, and his preparation and professionalism have been praised since his arrival. Regardless of what happens with his free agency, this trade was outstanding.
8. Watching Ingram’s second touchdown made me wonder if Jackson is giving his teammates pointers for when they’re in the open field. This offense is something else to watch, scoring on seven straight drives — not counting the kneel to end the first half — after a slow start.
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9. Jackson targeting Miles Boykin on two of the first three pass plays seemed like a deliberate attempt to get the rookie more involved. There was optimism that Boykin might be turning the corner after his 50-yard catch in Seattle, but he hasn’t registered a catch since the bye.
10. We didn’t see many wrinkles from Houston coming off the bye as I expected Bill O’Brien would at least use more of an up-tempo attack to offset Baltimore’s frequent substituting. I was disappointed Deshaun Watson, a terrific quarterback, didn’t hold up his end of the anticipated showdown with Jackson.
11. The Ravens are six touchdowns shy of the single-season franchise record (47) set in 2009. We’re still a week from Thanksgiving. This is the most impressive regular-season team we’ve seen in Baltimore since at least 2006, a team often forgotten because of the crushing playoff loss to Indianapolis.
12. I try to tread carefully with attendance since I haven’t paid to go to a Ravens game since 2010, but I was surprised over the number of empty seats at the stadium. There was much buzz for a matchup between two young stars at quarterback and two 2018 playoff teams.
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Latest signings once again pay off for Ravens defense
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Nose tackle Michael Pierce’s absence didn’t stop the Ravens defense from turning in its best performance of the season in Sunday’s dominant 41-7 win over Houston.
Thanks in part to general manager Eric DeCosta’s latest in-season signings of veteran defensive tackles Domata Peko and Justin Ellis, Baltimore held the Texans to 57 rushing yards on 15 carries through the first three quarters before giving up a Carlos Hyde 41-yard touchdown run long after the outcome had long been decided. Peko and Ellis had yet to play in the NFL this season, but the pair combined to play 43 snaps and make five tackles.
“Both of those guys stepped right in there, and you have to give them a lot of credit,” head coach John Harbaugh said. “To step in there like that, off the street, so to speak, they hadn’t been playing for the last few weeks. To be in that kind of shape, that’s not easy to do. They had over 20 plays apiece out there and did a heck of a job.
“It’s really good for our team. It gives us depth. It gives us top-level depth, starter-type level depth across the board.”
Peko and Ellis were two of six Ravens players who were not part of the organization in Week 1 to play 20 or more defensive snaps on Sunday. Those roster additions — headlined by last month’s acquisition of two-time Pro Bowl cornerback Marcus Peters — and the healthy post-bye return of cornerback Jimmy Smith have helped Baltimore improve from 27th in total defense and 23rd in points allowed after Week 4 to a respectable 14th in total yards allowed per game and seventh in scoring defense entering Monday. The Ravens allowed a season-low seven points and just 232 total yards against the Texans, the lowest yardage total they’ve surrendered since the season-opening 59-10 win at Miami.
Despite how pleased he was with the performance of Peko and Ellis, Harbaugh remains hopeful that Pierce can return in time for Monday night’s road game against the Los Angeles Rams. The fourth-year defensive lineman hasn’t played or practiced since injuring his right ankle early in the Week 10 win at Cincinnati.
“He had a chance for Sunday. I was told he had a chance for Sunday. He didn’t make it,” Harbaugh said. “If you start trying to predict things and you don’t know — I’m told he has a chance. I assume he has a better chance for this Sunday, and I’m kind of counting on him right now. But you just never know how healing is going to go.”
Special-teams standout and reserve wide receiver Chris Moore is also a possibility to play in Week 12 after missing the last two games with what Harbaugh confirmed to be a broken thumb. Moore has continued to practice on a limited basis, but he hasn’t been cleared for contact while practicing with a cast on his left thumb.
“We can protect it,” Harbaugh said. “He just has to feel good running and doing the things he has to do with his hands. He has a real good shot, but it’ll be really up to him and how it feels.”
The 8-2 Ravens will make their first appearance on Monday Night Football in two years as they play at the historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, but it will mark the 12th time in 14 Monday games under Harbaugh in which Baltimore has been the away team. The Ravens have gone 8-5 despite that extreme road disadvantage.
The bigger challenge could be the quick turnaround in flying home Tuesday morning and immediately beginning preparations for the Week 13 showdown with NFC-leading San Francisco.
“We’ve been everywhere on Monday night. It’s like Johnny Cash,” said Harbaugh as he laughed. “We’ve been everywhere, man, on Monday night — just not in Baltimore. Everywhere but Baltimore. I’m not complaining.
“It’s just something that you deal with, and we’ll be excited.”
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Ravens-Texans: Inactives and pre-game notes
BALTIMORE — The Ravens will try to win their sixth straight game in a season for the first time since 2000, but the AFC South-leading Houston Texans stand in their way in Week 11.
Baltimore will have to do it without standout run-stopping defensive tackle Michael Pierce, who is inactive after missing practice all week with the right ankle injury sustained early in last Sunday’s win at Cincinnati. Head coach John Harbaugh described Pierce as a game-time decision on Friday, but the fourth-year defensive lineman did not go through an on-field workout, suggesting he wasn’t particularly close to playing.
Pierce’s status prompted the Ravens to sign veteran defensive tackles Domata Peko and Justin Ellis, who are both active for Sunday’s game. Second-year defensive lineman Zach Sieler is a healthy scratch after failing to impress in Pierce’s absence against the Bengals last week.
For the second straight game, wide receiver and special-teams standout Chris Moore was deactivated as he continues to deal with a substantial thumb injury. Rookie cornerback Iman Marshall is also inactive despite being activated from injured reserve earlier this week.
On Saturday, Houston downgraded starting wide receiver Will Fuller (hamstring) and starting cornerback Bradley Roby (hamstring) to out after both practiced only on a limited basis this week, but left tackle Laremy Tunsil (shoulder) and starting safety Tashaun Gipson (back/wrist) are active for the Texans after missing time prior to their bye week.
The Texans also deactivated cornerback Vernon Hargreaves, whom they claimed off waivers this week.
Sunday’s referee is Alex Kemp.
According to Weather.com, the Sunday forecast in Baltimore calls for cloudy skies and temperatures reaching the mid-40s with winds 10 to 15 miles per hour and no chance of precipitation.
The Ravens are wearing their purple jerseys with white pants while Houston dons white tops and navy blue pants for Week 11.
Sunday marks the 10th all-time meeting between these teams in the regular season with the Ravens enjoying a 7-2 advantage. The Texans have never won a game in Baltimore, which also includes the 2011 divisional playoff meeting at M&T Bank Stadium.
Below are Sunday’s inactives:
DT Michael Pierce
WR Chris Moore
QB Trace McSorley
WR Jaleel Scott
CB Iman Marshall
G Ben Powers
DT Zach Sieler
WR Will Fuller
CB Bradley Roby
CB Vernon Hargreaves
WR Steven Mitchell Jr.
LB Tyrell Adams
OT Chris Clark
DE Joel Heath
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Ravens-Texans: Five predictions for Sunday
The Ravens and Houston are both eyeing significant goals beyond leading their respective divisions entering Week 11.
That makes Sunday’s clash that much more important as the winner would hold no worse than the No. 2 spot in the AFC as well as a critical head-to-head tiebreaker approaching Thanksgiving. The urgency could be greater for the Texans, who trail Baltimore by one game and are currently scheduled to play teams .500 or better in five of their last seven contests. Houston also holds just a one-game lead over Indianapolis in the AFC South while the Ravens currently enjoy a cushion of 2 1/2 games in the AFC North.
It’s time to go on the record as these teams meet for the 10th time ever in the regular season with Baltimore holding a 7-2 advantage as well as a win in the only postseason encounter between these teams. Counting that playoff win, the Ravens are 6-2 against Houston in the John Harbaugh era.
Below are five predictions for Sunday:
1. Lamar Jackson will throw for 300 yards for the first time since Week 1. The Houston run defense is the best the Ravens have faced and is led by breakout defensive tackle D.J. Reader. That’s not to say Baltimore’s top-ranked ground game won’t be productive, but there may not be much room between the tackles, which will put more on Jackson’s legs and arm. Of course, that isn’t a bad thing as the 22-year-old is coming off his second perfect passer rating game and faces the NFL’s 29th-ranked pass defense. Jackson exceeding 35 pass attempts for the first time since Week 3 wouldn’t be surprising.
2. Deshaun Watson will become the first 300-yard passer and the third 60-yard rusher against Baltimore since Week 4. That prediction alone reflects how much the Ravens defense has improved since September, but Watson is having his own MVP-caliber season and is backed by a ground attack averaging more than 140 yards per game. The Texans won’t kill Baltimore with the run, but the expected absence of Michael Pierce could compromise Wink Martindale’s preference to use the dime, potentially leaving more linebackers on the field who won’t be able to catch Watson in space.
3. Jimmy Smith will register his first interception of 2019. You’d anticipate Marlon Humphrey traveling with All-Pro receiver DeAndre Hopkins and we’ve all seen what Marcus Peters has done since becoming a Raven, but Smith has quietly played well since returning from the knee injury sustained in Week 1. Hopkins is obviously Watson’s go-to guy, but Kenny Stills is a viable deep threat and Houston could potentially welcome back Will Fuller from a hamstring strain. The Texans are superb using the no-huddle attack, something with which New England had success against the Ravens a couple weeks ago.
4. Tight ends will combine to catch four touchdowns in this high-scoring game. We all know how important Mark Andrews, Nick Boyle, and Hayden Hurst are to the Ravens’ passing game as the three have combined to make up 45 percent of the team’s receiving yards, but Houston tight ends Darren Fells and Jordan Akins have caught eight of Watson’s 18 touchdown passes this season, meaning you can’t sleep on them. The Ravens clearly have the superior position group here, but a key to this game will be how each defense handles the opposition’s tight ends as both blockers and receivers.
5. Justin Tucker’s late field goal will secure a 34-31 victory for the Ravens. You can’t ask for much more on paper than two MVP candidates at quarterback squaring off in what could turn into a shootout reminiscent of their classic Louisville-Clemson showdown three years ago. The Texans coming off their bye week is a red flag working against a Baltimore team that is probably in line for a bit of a market correction after making its current five-game winning streak look so easy. However, Houston has a quick turnaround for a Thursday game against AFC South rival Indianapolis, which likely exhausted some of the coaching staff’s extra time to prepare for such an unconventional Baltimore offense. In a high-profile game like this, I’ll pick the team with the best player, who is Jackson at this very moment. Of course, Watson and Hopkins could have something to say about that on Sunday afternoon.
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Defensive tackle Pierce listed as doubtful for Ravens-Texans game
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Ravens defensive tackle Michael Pierce is listed as doubtful to play in Sunday’s AFC clash with the Houston Texans.
The run-stopping defensive lineman missed practice all week as he continues to recover from a right ankle injury sustained on the first defensive play of last Sunday’s win in Cincinnati. Head coach John Harbaugh said Pierce will be a game-time decision, but he appears likely to miss his first game of the season after starting each of the first nine contests.
Baltimore signed veteran defensive tackles Domata Peko and Justin Ellis earlier this week to boost its run defense with Pierce’s expected absence. The Texans own the NFL’s fourth-ranked run offense.
“I feel good about them to contribute Sunday,” Harbaugh said. “They both practiced well. They practiced hard. They’re in good shape. It’s not the most complicated thing to understand. They have to figure out where to line up on the different calls. There are certain checks that they need to understand, but they’re good at that and they know how to play the techniques that we play. That’s why we signed them.
“Yes, they have a chance to play on Sunday if the circumstances work out with Michael.”
Wide receiver Marquise Brown (right ankle) returned to practice on a limited basis Friday and is expected to play despite being listed as questionable on the injury report. Wide receiver Chris Moore (left thumb) is also questionable after practicing on a limited basis all week and missing last Sunday’s game against the Bengals.
Safety Earl Thomas (knee) was not listed on the final game status injury report after practicing fully on Thursday and Friday.
The Texans listed four starters as questionable to play coming off their bye week. Wide receiver Will Fuller (hamstring) and Tashaun Gipson (back/wrist) missed Houston’s final two games before its Week 10 bye while cornerback Bradley Roby (hamstring) has missed the last three games. Texans left tackle Laremy Tunsil missed the Week 9 win over Jacksonville.
According to Weather.com, the Sunday forecast in Baltimore calls for cloudy skies and temperatures reaching the mid-40s with winds 10 to 15 miles per hour and only a slight chance of precipitation.
Below is the final injury report for Sunday’s game:
DOUBTFUL: DT Michael Pierce (ankle)
QUESTIONABLE: WR Marquise Brown (ankle), WR Chris Moore (thumb)
QUESTIONABLE: WR Will Fuller (hamstring), S Tashaun Gipson (back/wrist), CB Bradley Roby (hamstring), OT Laremy Tunsil (shoulder)
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Marquise Brown absent from Thursday’s Ravens practice
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Ravens wide receiver Marquise Brown didn’t practice Thursday as he continues to receive occasional rest for the residual effects of a right ankle injury that sidelined him for two games prior to the Week 8 bye.
After not practicing on each of the last two Fridays before playing in that week’s game, Brown not taking part Thursday does break the recent pattern of managing his workload, making his status worth monitoring for the week’s final practice. However, the rookie first-round pick was present for the morning walk-through and even lingered on the indoor field to throw some passes at the goalpost, not looking like a player in danger of missing Sunday’s game against Houston.
Meanwhile, defensive tackle Michael Pierce (right ankle) missed his second straight practice and is looking less likely to play against the Texans. Defensive coordinator Wink Martindale offered high praise to general manager Eric DeCosta for the acquisitions of veteran defensive tackles Domata Peko and Justin Ellis earlier this week.
“Eric should get Executive of the Year with as much help as he’s given us,” said Martindale of the most recent of several in-season additions made to the Baltimore defense. “I know [late Ravens defensive line coach Clarence Brooks] is looking down happy as heck for us because we have two run-stoppers we just brought in here. As far as how fast we can put them in there right away, we’ll see. But that’s really going to be a good addition. I know [Brandon Williams] wishes that they were there for Cincinnati.”
Williams received a veteran day off from Thursday’s practice, which was deserving after the veteran defensive tackle played a season-high 57 defensive snaps against the Bengals.
Safety Earl Thomas (knee) was a full participant after sitting out Wednesday.
Two days after rookie cornerback Iman Marshall was officially activated from injured reserve, the Ravens used their second and final designation to return from IR on veteran safety Brynden Trawick, who practiced for the first time since being placed on IR with an elbow injury on Oct. 3. The 2017 Pro Bowl special-teams player won’t be eligible to return to action until the Dec. 8 game at Buffalo.
“I’m fired up about that because he makes us better,” special teams coach Chris Horton said. “We’ve taken a hit over the past couple weeks, but just getting some guys back [and] a player like him and his style — he makes us better.”
No other Baltimore player currently on IR will be eligible to return this season.
The Texans’ injury report from Wednesday remained unchanged with six players listed as limited participants coming off their bye week.
Below is Thursday’s full injury report:
DID NOT PARTICIPATE: WR Marquise Brown (ankle), DT Michael Pierce (ankle), DT Brandon Williams (non-injury)
LIMITED PARTICIPATION: WR Chris Moore (thumb)
FULL PARTICIPATION: CB Brandon Carr (non-injury), RB Mark Ingram (non-injury), CB Jimmy Smith (non-injury), Earl Thomas (knee)
LIMITED PARTICIPATION: LB Dylan Cole (knee), WR Will Fuller (hamstring), S Tashaun Gipson (back/wrist), OL Tytus Howard (knee), CB Bradley Roby (hamstring), OT Laremy Tunsil (shoulder)
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Jackson, Watson renew college rivalry as superstars at next level
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Lamar Jackson and the Ravens have already played quite the slate of quarterbacks from a storyline perspective this season.
Jackson has faced off against fellow Heisman Trophy winners (Kyler Murray and Baker Mayfield), the reigning league MVP (Patrick Mahomes), one of the most accomplished dual-threat quarterbacks in NFL history (Russell Wilson), and arguably the greatest quarterback of all time (Tom Brady). But Houston’s Deshaun Watson might be the closest contemporary to the one-of-a-kind Jackson in terms of skill set, making Sunday’s showdown between the AFC North-leading Ravens and the AFC South-leading Texans — currently the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds in the conference respectively — that much more exciting.
These former ACC rivals met once before in one of college football’s best games in recent memory in which Watson and No. 5 Clemson edged Jackson and No. 3 Louisville in a 42-36 shootout in 2016. Watson threw for 306 yards and five touchdowns and rushed for 91 yards in that instant classic while Jackson passed for 295 yards and a touchdown and ran for 162 yards and two touchdowns.
“He was just dicing us down the field,” recalled Jackson, who lamented his Cardinals offense falling one yard shy of a first down inside the red zone on the final drive. “Our defense did great, don’t get me wrong. Our defense played a great game, but he was just doing Deshaun Watson things — scoring touchdowns, making incredible throws. They came out with the victory.”
Watson would lead Clemson to a national championship by season’s end while a 19-year-old Jackson became the youngest player to ever win the Heisman Trophy that December. And after proving wrong a list of doubters that included multiple quarterback-needy teams passing on them in their respective drafts years, Watson and Jackson meet again as MVP candidates in what Ravens defensive coordinator Wink Martindale is calling “one of those NFL history games” in this new age of dual-threat quarterbacks.
That’s not to say Watson and Jackson are the same exact player, of course.
The 24-year-old Watson only fell to 12th overall in the 2017 draft and threw an amazing 19 touchdowns in his first seven games before an ACL tear sustained in practice cruelly ended his rookie campaign. Jackson, 22, faced much harsher scrutiny a year later with some even suggesting he change positions and virtually every team in the league passing on him — including the Ravens — before Baltimore traded back into the first round to select him 32nd overall. While Watson was an overnight sensation whose only hiccup over his first three years has come via injury, Jackson intially had to wait his turn behind longtime starter Joe Flacco as a rookie and has shown eye-opening improvement as a passer in his second year, making his loudest doubters look very foolish.
Thanks in part to a higher volume of opportunities and an all-world wide receiver in DeAndre Hopkins, Watson maintains the edge as a passer in terms of both conventional numbers and ESPN QBR’s pure passing expected points added metric, but Jackson owns a better passing grade from Pro Football Focus through Week 10. In terms of yards per attempt, Watson’s 8.1 barely edges Jackson’s 8.0, reinforcing the gap being smaller than you’d think when looking only at completion percentage and counting numbers.
We know Jackson has no equal as a record-setting rushing quarterback in today’s game, but Watson surprisingly has a slightly better PFF run grade entering Week 11, which needn’t be taken as a contrarian viewpoint as much as a reflection of his own ability to make plays with his legs — even while lacking the same speed or penchant for running as the Ravens quarterback. Jackson leads the NFL at a whopping 6.6 yards per carry, but Watson ranks fourth at 5.4 yards per rush among those with at least 50 carries.
Watson’s impressive consistency over 32 career games and Jackson’s tremendous leap in his second season have essentially left the two on a level playing field in the present. One can make the “Coke or Pepsi” pick in terms of preferring a more polished passer with very good mobility or the lesser — but rapidly improving — thrower with transcendent rushing ability.
Either way, there’s nothing fair about it for defenses having to account for their kind of dual-threat ability that’s changing the NFL.
“Peyton Manning was extremely hard to defend. Tom Brady is hard to defend. But neither one of them could run a 4.3 [40-yard dash],” ninth-year cornerback Jimmy Smith said. “You don’t have to worry about tackling them on any given play. There’s nothing more backbreaking for a defense than to keep an offense at third-and-10 or third-and-15 and a freaking quarterback just takes it with his legs and gets a first down and extends a drive. It just hurts. These types of quarterbacks can do that now days.
“It’s just basically the whole college offense transitioning to the NFL. It’s kind of great to see actually.”
Three years after squaring off as the two best players in college football, Jackson and Watson will again be starring on the same field. This week, Jackson referred to Watson as “Brodie” — a term of endearment — while the Texans quarterback described himself as a “proud friend” watching the quarterback who edged him out for the Heisman Trophy silence his critics, speaking to their affection for one another. On Thursday, both were nominated by their teammates for the 2019 Art Rooney Sportsmanship Award, a reflection of their character and leadership ability at such young ages.
Jackson and Watson are changing the game, making you believe what they did in their first meeting at the collegiate level three years ago was only scratching the surface. Whoever comes out on top this time around could be making a loud statement in the MVP race.
“We’re just doing our thing,” Jackson said. “We’re just playing ball, having fun, doing what all of us have done since we were kids, doing something we love. That’s all.”
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Ravens defensive tackle Pierce “day-to-day” with ankle injury
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Little went wrong in the Ravens’ blowout win over Cincinnati, but an ankle injury to defensive tackle Michael Pierce could loom large with AFC South-leading Houston coming to town Sunday.
The run-stopping lineman hurt his right ankle on the first defensive play against the Bengals and tried to return on the following drive before exiting the game for good after only two more snaps. Sunday’s X-ray was negative, but Pierce could miss some time, which would be significant for a run defense currently ranking eighth in yards per game allowed but only 18th in yards per carry surrendered.
“I would say he’s day-to-day right now. Nothing serious,” head coach John Harbaugh said. “It won’t be a long-term injury, which is good news based on the MRI today. There’s a chance he’ll play on Sunday. We’ll just have to see how he does.”
With Pierce missing all but three defensive snaps on Sunday, the Ravens struggled to stop the Cincinnati run game, allowing 102 yards and 5.7 yards per carry in the first half before settling in to give up just 55 yards on 22 carries over the final two quarters. Baltimore allowed a season-worst 6.7 yards per carry in the Week 4 loss to Cleveland in which Brandon Williams sat out with a knee injury, making it clear the run defense isn’t the same without the two hulking defensive tackles in the middle.
With Pierce out, Williams made a season-high seven tackles and played 59 defensive snaps, the fifth-highest total of his career. Second-year defensive lineman Zach Sieler played a career-high 24 defensive snaps while third-year defensive end Chris Wormley picked up a sack and played 47 defensive snaps, the second-highest total of his career.
“Zach fought in there and got better as the game went on. He played well in the second half,” Harbaugh said. “‘Worm’ fought through there and had a lot of good plays. And like anything, probably plays he’d want to have back too and improve upon.
“But Brandon was a force. Brandon kind of took it upon himself to get that run stopped, especially in the second half. He played a lot of plays, played super hard, very physical in there. We needed him to, and he did a great job with it.”
Fullback and defensive lineman Patrick Ricard was impressive in just 12 defensive snaps with a strip-sack and three other tackles, but his role on offense will make it challenging to manage his workload if Pierce can’t play against the Texans in Week 11.
Harbaugh confirmed rookie cornerback Iman Marshall could be activated from injured reserve as soon as this week. The fourth-round pick from USC has been sidelined with toe and hamstring injuries since early in the preseason, but he was designated to return from IR on Oct. 28, which triggered a 21-day window in which he can practice and the coaching staff can evaluate him. The Ravens would need to make a decision by early next week whether to active him to the 53-man roster or to leave him on IR for the remainder of the season.
Given the depth of the secondary, Marshall’s path to a game-day role would be on special teams, an area that’s taken some significant hits in recent weeks.
“We plan on bringing him up,” Harbaugh said. “Whether he’s active or not just kind of depends on how the roster shakes out. He has practiced well. He looks healthy, and hopefully he can contribute to us. … That’s an area that could use some bolstering, personnel-wise, so that’s one option for us.”
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Waiting the hardest part in earliest stages of Orioles’ rebuild
Posted on 17 January 2019 by Luke Jones
FanFest is a week away and pitchers and catchers report to Sarasota in less than a month with the Orioles’ biggest offseason player acquisitions to date being Rule 5 infielders Richie Martin and Drew Jackson.
That’s not all that unusual if you recall the snail’s pace at which former head baseball man Dan Duquette proceeded over the last several offseasons, frequently waiting until February — even March — to sign a veteran free agent or two at a market-friendly rate.
But we know this winter is different. Very different. It needs to be when you’re coming off a franchise-record 115-loss season and your major league roster — and in many ways, the entire organization — was reduced to rubble last year. The possibility remains for a veteran signing or two before Opening Day, but mostly with the thought of flipping that player this summer for more prospects to continue building for the future.
Realistically, the Orioles couldn’t have done any better than hiring Mike Elias as general manager and Sig Mejdal to lead their analytics department after the two were integral parts in building the Houston Astros into World Series champions. New field manager Brandon Hyde — the former bench coach of Joe Maddon in Chicago — made a good first impression at his introductory press conference last month and possesses the kind of versatile baseball background most front offices prefer these days.
Their arrival creates reason for hope and a legitimate belief that better days are ahead — just not in 2019. As the 36-year-old Elias has already said more than once, this process has no shortcuts or a fast-forward button to when the Orioles will be competitive again. Probability and history may tell us the Orioles are unlikely to match their .290 winning percentage from a year ago, but avoiding 100 losses would likely qualify as a minor miracle when you examine the current 40-man roster.
No, the coming season in the American League East isn’t going to be fun. The new regime is essentially still surveying the wreckage, and waiting will be the hardest part as the Orioles work from the ground up.
The present is about building infrastructure for amateur and international scouting, analytics, and player development with gains unlikely to be noticeable for some time. Elias is still more than four months away from making his first amateur pick for the Orioles. As it relates to players already in the organization, the new regime is seeking those individuals possessing the proper talent as well as a growth mindset, a trait discussed at length in Ben Reiter’s “Astroball.”
In the same way future All-Stars Jose Altuve, Dallas Keuchel, and George Springer — all part of the Houston organization before the arrival of current general manager Jeff Luhnow — accepted recommendations from Mejdal’s “Nerd Cave” to make improvements early in their careers, the likes of Dylan Bundy, Mychal Givens, and Trey Mancini as well as countless minor leaguers already in the system will be exposed to new data and methods that weren’t previously available. What players do with that information can help distinguish viable assets from the many placeholders we’ll be watching over these next few seasons.
But short-term gains with major league players not far from free agency such as Bundy, Givens, and Jonathan Villar are likely to result in more trades for more prospects, an exhausting proposition for fans already enduring the 2018 fire sale. It remains to be seen whether even Mancini or projected starting center fielder Cedric Mullins — players much further away from free agency — will still be in Baltimore by the time the Orioles are contending again.
For the most part, we’ll be watching too many players who don’t belong in the majors in 2019 and the year or two after that. Even the arrival of talented prospects will be calculated as the organization cannot rush the development of Yusniel Diaz, Ryan Mountcastle, D.L. Hall, and others — and won’t want to start their service clocks anyway — just because there’s no one better at the major league level.
If that leads to more losses, well, that’s not the worst thing for the future. It will be Hyde’s job to make sure the major league club plays hard on a nightly basis, of course, but we know the organization’s endgame here. The Orioles aren’t wasting resources trying to assemble a team that still wouldn’t be close to being competitive this coming season. Manny Machado spending 3 1/2 months on last year’s club should remind us that Baltimore is years away from being “one player away.”
Picking first in three consecutive drafts brought the Astros All-Star infielders Carlos Correa and Alex Bregman, though the latter came by way of the Brady Aiken pick. A similar scenario playing out for the Orioles wouldn’t be easy, but it’s all about keeping faith in the process — and waiting. If you need a deeper perspective on the new regime, reading a copy of “Astroball” wouldn’t hurt.
To say next week’s FanFest will be a tough sell is an understatement. There are only so many Billy Joel concerts and bobblehead giveaways and ticket promotions to try to mask what will be a ton of losing in the foreseeable future, but those kinds of things will be needed more than ever. Marketing a club with an over-under win total of 59 to a fan base that wasn’t exactly showing up in droves when the Orioles were still competitive a couple years ago will be the most difficult job in the entire organization.
The Orioles will try to sell a promising future, but the wait to get there won’t be easy.
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Influential fashion designers
Hi guys! I’ve been looking at quite a lot of fashion shows clothing designs, and while studying postmodernism in my class I was curious to know how the postmodernism in the fashion industry works and what kind of designs are out there. Let’s get in to it!
Fashion, especially catwalk shows, has always been considered a bit weird. The truth is anything postmodern can be considered a bit out of the box because it defies its traditional conventions and creates its own style. Postmodernism in fashion and design has developed mainly over the last 20 years with designers such as Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen demonstrating its key elements.
For example, the relationships between art and popular culture have been revised, as art is no longer just a painting on a wall, but an abstract garment that is available for the public to wear. Fashion designs which were previously only available for the very rich with cash to splash are now being brought into popular culture, for example contestants on the X factor are often seen wearing high fashion labels such as Valentino. The collections are constructed products and designers are influenced by the postmodern element of using a mix of the old designs and conventions with new ideas and create an entirely new design, for example a 60’s hippy influence mixed with 80’s grunge.
It’s the most obvious example of style over substance for example the intensely ripped jeans from a collection from Maison Martin Margiela. Celebrities can be seen sporting similar styles, which aren’t at all practical for everyday life yet people buy into this celeb-obsessed culture, even though there isn’t actually a lot of clothing for the money you may pay. But that’s ‘FASHION’.
Now let’s take a look at some of the famous influential designers
Vivienne Westwood found her place in fashion during the rise of the 1970s Punk movement, helping to set the tone for new wave music and creative freedom. Donning tartan checks and her go-to leather jacket, Vivienne Westwood maintained her punk spirit which she claims she adopted because she “was upset with what was going on in the world”. Living in a world where the older generation failed to make changes, Vivienne found the punk scene her calling. She continued to push the boundaries of fashion with her then trademark bleach blonde bedhead hair style. This type of exhibitionism evoked the exact type of reaction she anticipated, she is a pioneer for using fashion to provoke emotions and shock her audience with her candidly wild life.
In 1965 with all her creativity, she discovered the role fashion could play in politics. It was then that she truly realised the influence her work could have on the way British people saw the world.
Her Autumn/Winter 1993-1994 collection, shown at Paris Fashion Week, was quintessentially British and some say her most famous catwalk show. The entire affair was an exhibition of all things 90s, for which Vivienne worked alongside Scottish craftsmen to create her own tartan pieces. She layered plenty necklaces and even had Kate Moss fronting the show along with her best friend Naomi Campbell.
These days you can find Vivenne Westwood commenting on International politics, campaigning for Nuclear Disarmament and marching on the streets of London for The People’s Climate. She does so alongside activist models and friends she has made in the industry that share her devoted approach to using fashion as a political voice. She is known to have donated more than £1,000,000 to the Cool Earth charity, protecting endangered rainforests, and is openly dedicated to others like it. Her attitude towards sustainable fasion is projected in her work with the Ethical Fashion Initiative, whom she has worked with since 2013 developing her “handmade with love” collection usingrecycled materials collected from Nairobi’s biggest slum. The collection includes patchwork bags and hand-beaded clutches.
McQueen is most known for his theatrical designs and powerful runway shows. His runway shows were always anticipated and would leave a trail on controversy afterwards. He is one of the few designers who are bold enough to present collections that shocked spectators and held qualities that other refer to as “disturbed and raw.” He has brought many elements that impacted the fashion industry with things like his bumster pants, skull print, theatrical runway shows, and extreme silhouettes. Burton is doing a magnificent job today keeping these elaborate elements of McQueen’s designs but it can honestly be said that the extreme factor is not the same.
Many events in the 1990’s brought along controversy and chaos. At this time, the gay-rights movement was going on which fought for the protection of civil rights for homosexuals. Scandals happened during this decade various times including the Bill Clinton scandal and the Heaven’s Gates cult took the lives of thirty nine people through a mass suicide. It is within all of this that McQueen found inspiration. Each collection he presented and runway shows were based off a certain theme with a deep meaning.
The last runway show he did which was his Spring/Summer 2010 line where he introduced his famous “armadillo shoes.” The runway show properly named “Survival of the Fittest” featured models walking in elaborate and dangerously high-heels that resembled an armadillo. Many thought it was just part of the design, but these shoes are actually part of the moral of the show. These models are fighting to walk on the runway with these glamorous but potentially harmful shoes and putting on an incredible exhibition. In other runway shows, he uses different themes that relates to current times, such as political, fantasy, theater, and much more. McQueen looks at anything for inspiration. Whether it be people like stylist Isabella Blow, or events that occur at the time. He also like to mix in elements to his designs like nature. He has one catwalk show based off on water and futurism, and another based off of moths.
McQueen is iconic because he was not in the fashion industry for long but for the time he was, he managed to blow everybody away. His gift for tailoring allows him to create the imaginative designs he is known for and to construct breathtaking runway shows. He has set new trends not just in the clothing itself, but also on how designers present their collections. He is the first to use models who do not fit the stereotypical mold. He once even used a former Paralympian, Aimee Mullins, to wear a pair of hand carved wooden prosthetic legs on his catwalk. He never cared for working with supermodels and when he does, he often enjoys messing with them and getting them out of their comfort zone. His mixture of extreme silhouettes on theatrical catwalks truly put on a performance you would never forget. This “wow” factor in McQueen is what made him stand out and is one of the main reasons why he is so missed. You can always expect the unexpected from McQueen and that is why he is an icon.
We can say that both McQueen and Westwood had amazed everyone with their outstanding and out of the ordinary imagination that they’ve turned it into fashion, they are not afraid to create something new and doesn’t care if people would look at it as being weird because fashion is art, and art has no boundaries.
Trendy beauty products in Korean series!
Hello again and well come back! It’s been a while since my last blog upload but now I’m here with a little bit of change 🙂 My previous blog post mainly focus on beauty and make up stuff but now I’m adding more content to my blog! (even with my newer contents they will be connected to beauty)
Recently I’ve been watching quite a lot of korean series, I was able to finish 4 series in the past month (I’ve got about a month holiday so that give me loads of free time!) I usually watch some series from time to time and after watching for a few years I’ve noticed a lot of trends going online, but what I see a lot especially on social media is all the make up trends, beauty trends, what clothes and hairstyles does the actor or actress wearing which I find has grown A LOT through out the years.
People tend to get all hyped up with what product do the actor and actress use in their series and often went out and by the same product (I’m also one of them haha) so after seeing this different brands would come a sponsor series so they can use the brands product in the series with people using more and more internet and social media this is a pretty smart move for the brands.
We could see that they would normally promote the product while the series are airing, this is how they make a HUGE impact on their sales and often use social media to promote as well.
I’ve gathered up some of my favorites k0rean dramas and different make up looks and products that the actresses use in the series
Everyone must have heard about this series, this is one of the biggest hits in 2016. With the huge budget production (which paid off really well) and great cast. The main actress Kang Mo-Yeon played by Song Hye Kyo, played as a doctor in this series and with her fresh yet minimal looks has made eveyone wanted to do the same make up look as she did.
One of the main sponsor in this series is Laneige, personally I’ve known Laneige for quite a long time now and really like their skincare products but after seeing this series I’ve become more and more interested in their make up lines. The biggest hit has to be the two tone lip bar which contains 2 lipstick colors – a light shade and a darker shade. The shade that Song Hye Kyo uses are No.11 Juicy Pop and No.14 Dear Pink and to be honest… this is also the reason why I got the lipstick too..yes I ended up buying it because of this series and so did my friends and many girls out there! XD
2. You who came from the stars
People who watch this would know about the To manager fever, but let’s be real the actress (Jun Jihyun) in this movies is so stunning! She looks great with any kind of clothes she wears and not to talk about the make up in this series, she plays as Cheon Songyi who is a superstar in the series (in real life too) so we know that the hair and make up will definitely be on point.
This was a really big hit back in 2013 and people were going crazy about the make up looks, for example the YSL Rouge pur couture No.52 was sold out every where including in Thailand people had to ordered from ebay which the price had doubled up but in the end the real brand who sponsored the series is actually from Amorepacific, this just goes to tell you how things can get really hyped up and become a huge trend just from people talking about it online.
The actual lipstick is from a brand called IOPE which is a part of the Amorepacific corporation and there are 3 shades that she uses in this series No.44 forever pink, No.18 classic red and No.23 violet pink.
3.Legend of the blue sea
This series had just aired their last episode a few weeks ago with 2 big star cast, Lee Minho and Jun Jihyun you guess it.. the feedback is great!! With Jun Jihyun playing as a mermaid in this drama and with her acting skills it’s just what I need. From my research this series also has a lot of sponsors including Dolce & Gabbana, Lanvin, Ysl and so on, but the make up that she actually uses in the series is Hera.
I remember watching one of the episode and while she was getting ready the shots shows us how she uses different product from the brand…smart move again! It includes the Hera UV mist cushion, Rouge Holic lipstick in 147 Supreme pink and sensual lip serum glow in No.1 Love blossom and a few other skincare products.
and last but now least let’s talk about hairstyles! The trending hairstyle for the main actress has to be the see through bangs, from descendant of the sun to Doctors.
With it feminine yet natural look it gives an appearance as if you had just woken up with this beautiful effortless bangs which in reality takes some time to style it 🙂 It had become a big trend that now eveyone is rocking bangs and thanks to the power of social media where we are all able to keep up with all the trends going on..and maybe even make one! But seriously these see through bangs is now getting so popular that even my friends also decided to have one too 🙂
From watching a lot of series and looking up online about these things I can tell you that TV series or actors have a very big impact to the society, they can influence a wide group of audience which is great way of marketing your products and branding in general, that is why we see a lot of famous people in ads or as a brand ambassadors because they know that they will be able to gain a lot of customers from these celebrity.
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Wargaming Warrior Women
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Wargaming Adventures
The best introduction is the historical overview by Linda De Pauw, Battle Cries and Lullabies, which is based on academic research and avoids the uncritical rumor-mongering of some other popular works.
The Female Soldier (Tumblr gallery of fighting women)
‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative (Hugo Award-winning essay by Kameron Hurley)
Amazons Ancient and Modern (Facebook group)
Medieval Women in War (annotated bibliography by Valerie Eads)
Some of these book lack references and a critical discussion of sources, so caution is advised. They do, however, provide a first introduction and overview.
Addis, E., Russo, V.E., Sebesta, L. (eds.): Women soldiers: images and realities, Basingstoke: Macmillan 1994.
Cook, Bernard A. (ed.): Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present, Santa Barbara, Ca.: ABC-Clio 2006.
De Pauw, Linda G.: Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1998.
Forty, George and Anne: Women War Heroines, London: Arms and Armour 1997.
Fraser, Antonia: Boadicea’s Chariot. The Warrior Queens, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1988.
Hacker, Barton C. (ed.): A Companion to Women’s Military History, Leiden: Brill 2012.
Jones, David E.: Women Warriors: A History, Washington, D. C.: Brassey’s 1997.
Miles, Rosalind and Cross, Robin: Warrior Women, London: Quercus 2011.
Newark, Tim: Women Warlords. An Illustrated Military History of Female Warriors, London: Blenford 1988.
Pennington, Reina (ed.): Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women, Westport CT: Greenwood 2003.
Porath, Jason: Rejected Princesses: Tales of History’s Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics, New York, NY: Dey Street 2016.
Salmonson, Jessica A. (ed.): The Encyclopedia of Amazons: Women Warriors from Antiquity to the Modern Era, St. Paul, Mn.: Paragon House 1991.
Samuel, Pierre: Amazones, guerrières et gaillardes, Grenoble: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble 1975.
Trévisi, Marion (ed.): Les femmes et la guerre de l’Antiquité à 1918, Paris: Economica 2010.
Wheelwright, Julie: Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Dressed as Men in Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness, London: Pandora 1989.
Chrystal, Paul: Women at War in the Classical World, Barnsley: Pen & Sword 2017.
Clarke, John H.: “African Warrior Queens,” Journal of African Civilizations 6 (1984), 123-34.
Davis-Kimball, Jeannine: “Warrior Women of the Eurasian Steppes,” Archaeology 50 (1997), 44-48.
Hingley, Richard and Unwin, Christina: Boudica. Iron Age warrior queen, London: Hambledon and London 2005.
Jordan, A.: “I Am No Man: A Study of Warrior Women in the Archaeological Record,” Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology, 1 (2009), p. 94-111 (available online).
Lebedynsky, Iaroslav: Les Amazones. Mythe et réalité des femmes guerrières chez les anciens nomades de la steppe, Paris: Éditions Errance 2009.
Linduff, Katheryn M. (ed.): Are all warriors male? Gender roles on the ancient Eurasian Steppe, Lanham, MD: Altamira Press 2008.
Loman, Pasi: “No Woman No War: Women’s Participation in Ancient Greek Warfare,” Greece & Rome 51 (2004), 34-54.
Mayor, Adrienne: The Amazons. Lives and legends of warrior women across the ancient world, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press 2014.
McCullough, Anna: “Female Gladiators in Imperial Rome: Literary Context and Historical Fact,” Classical World 101 (2008), 197-209.
Pringle, H.: “Gladiatrix,” Discover Magazine 22 (2001), pp. 48-55 (available online)
Sebillotte Cuchet, Violaine: “The Warrior Queens of Caria (Fifth to Fourth Centuries BCE): Archaeology, History and Historyography”, in: Women and War in Antiquity, ed. Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press 2015, pp. 228-246.
Jansone, Santa: “Ladies with axes and spears. Female Viking warriors around the Baltic Sea,” Medieval Warfare IV.2 (2014), 9-12.
Jesch, Judith: Women in the Viking Age, Woodbridge: Boydell Press 1994.
Jochens, Jenny: Old Norse Images of Women, Philadelphia: Penn. University of Pennsylvania Press 1996.
Gardela, Leszek: “Amazons of the Viking World. Between Myth and Reality,” Medieval Warfare VII (1) (2017), 8-13.
Gardela, Leszek: “‘Warrior-women’ in Viking Age Scandinavia? A preliminary archaeological study,” Analecta Archaeologica Ressoviensia 8 (2013), 273-309 (available online)
General Medieval
For a quick introduction into the topic, have a look at issue IV.2 of Medieval Warfare Magazine – Medieval women as warriors.
Blythe, James. M.: “Women in the Military: Scholastic Arguments and Medieval Images of Female Warriors,” History of Political Thought 22 (2001), 242-269.
Bossy, Michel-André: “Arms and the Bride: Christine de Pizan’s Military Treatise as a Wedding Gift for Margaret of Anjou,” in Christine de Pizan and the Categories of Difference, ed. Marilyn Desmond, Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press 1998.
Cassagnes-Brouquet, Sophie: Chevaleresses. Une chevalerie au féminin, Paris: Perrin 2013.
Chibnall, Marjorie: “Women in Orderic Vitalis,” The Haskins Society Journal 2 (1990), 106-121.
DeVries, Kelly: Joan of Arc: A Military Leader, Phoenix Mill: Sutton 1999.
Dunn, Diana: “The Queen at War: The Role of Margaret of Anjou in the Wars of the Roses,” in War and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Britain, ed. Diana Dunn, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2000.
Eads, Valerie: “Means, Motive and Opportunity: Medieval Women and the Recourse to Arms,” paper Presented at The Twentieth Barnard Medieval & Renaissance Conference ‘War and Peace in the Middle Ages and Renaissance’, December 2, 2006 (available online)
Hay, David: The Military Leadership of Matilda of Canossa, 1046-1115, Manchester: Manchester University Press 2008.
Illston, James M.: ‘An Entirely Masculine Activity’? Women and War in the High and Late Middle Ages Reconsidered, MA thesis, University of Canterbury 2009 (available online)
Lourie, Elena: “Black Women Warriors in the Muslim Army Besieging Valencia and the Cid’s Victory: A Problem of Interpretation,” Traditio 55 (2000), 181-209.
McLaughlin, Megan: “The Woman Warrior: Gender, Warfare and Society in Medieval Europe,” Women’s Studies 17 (1990), 193-209.
McMillin, Linda A: “Women on the Walls: Women and Warfare in the Catalan Grand Chronicles,” Catalan Review 3:1 (1989), 123-136.
Nicholson, Helen: “‘La Damoisele del chastel’: women’s role in the defence and functioning of castles in medieval writing from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries,” paper presented at the University of Extremadura, 14 November 2010 (available online)
Nicola, Bruno de: “Women’s Role and Participation in Warfare in the Mongol Empire,” in Soldatinnen. Gewalt und Geschlecht im Krieg vom Mittelalter bis heute, ed. K. Latzel et.al., Paderborn: Schöningh 2010, 95-112.
Solterer, Helen: “Figures of Female Militancy in Medieval France,” Signs 16 (1991), 522-49.
Truax, Jean A.: “Anglo-Norman Women at War: Valiant Soldiers, Prudent Strategists or Charismatic Leaders,” in The Circle of War in the Middle Ages: Essays on Medieval Military and Naval History, ed. Donald J. Kagay and L.J. Andrew Villalon, Woodbridge: Boydell 1999, 111-125.
Verbruggen, J.F.: “Women in Medieval Armies,” Journal of Medieval Military History 4 (2006), 119–36.
Weatherford, Jack: The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire, New York: Crown Publishers 2010.
Caspi-Reisfeld, Keren: “Women Warriors during the Crusades, 1095-1254,” in Gendering the Crusades, ed. Susan Edgington and Sarah Lambert, Cadriff: University of Wales Press 2001, 94-107.
Evans, Michael R.: “‘Unfit to Bear Arms’. The Gendering of Arms and Armour in Accounts of Women on Crusade”, in Gendering the Crusades, ed. Susan Edgington and Sarah Lambert, Cadriff: University of Wales Press 2001, 45-58.
Firth-Godbehere, Richard: “Women and Crusading. A Brief Examination,” (available online)
Geldsetzer, Sabine: Frauen auf Kreuzzügen 1096-1291, Darmstadt: WBG 2003.
LoPrete, Kimberley A.: “Gendering Viragos. Medieval Perceptions of Powerful Women,” in Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women, vol. 4: Victims or Viragos, ed. Christine Meek and Chatherine Lawless, Dublin/Portland: Four Courts Press 2005, 17-38.
Mazeika, Rasa: “’Nowhere Was the Fragility of Their Sex Apparent’: Women Warriors in the Baltic Crusade Chronicles,” in From Clermont to Jerusalem: The Crusades and Crusader Societies, 1095-1500, ed. Alan V. Murray, Turnhout: Brepols 1998.
Nicholson, Helen: “Women and the Crusades,” paper presented at the Hereford Historical Association, Friday 22 Feb. 2008 (available online)
Nicholson, Helen: “Women on the Third Crusade,” Journal of Medieval History 23:4 (1997), 335-349.
Hacker, Barton C.: “Women and Military Institutions in Early Modern Europe: A Reconnaissance,” Signs 6 (1981), 643–671.
Lynn, John A.: Women, armies, and warfare in early modern Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Sandberg, Brian: “‘Generous Amazons Came to the Breach’: Besieged Women, Agency and Subjectivity during the French Wars of Religion,” Gender & History 16 (2004), 654–688.
Watanabe-O’Kelly, Helen: “‘Damals wünschte ich ein Mann zu sein, umb dem Krieg meine Tage nachzuhängen.’ Frauen als Kriegerinnen im Europa der Frühen Neuzeit,” in Erfahrung und Deutung von Krieg und Frieden, ed. Klaus Garber, München: Fink 2001, 357-368.
Wilson, P.H.: “German Women and War 1500-1800,” War in History 3 (1996), 127-160.
17th/18th Centuries
Martino-Trutor, Gina M.: ‘Her Extraordinary Sufferings and Services’: Women and War in New England and New France, 1630-1763, PhD Dissertation, University of Minnesota 2012 (available online)
May, Louise-Anne: Sino-western historical accounts and imaginative images of women in battle, PhD Dissertation, University of British Columbia 1985 (available online)
Pilkington, Colin: To play the man. The story of Lady Derby and the siege of Lathom House, 1643-1645, Preston: Carnegie Publishing 1991.
Steinberg, Sylvie: “Un brave cavalier dans la guerre de sept ans, Marguerite dite Jean Goubler,” Clio 10 (1999), 145-154 (available online)
Young, Alfred F: Masquerade. The life and times of Deborah Sampson, Continental soldier, New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2004.
French Revolution/Napoleonic
Boisvert, Jayne :”Colonial Hell and Female Slave Resistance in Saint-Domingue,” Journal of Haitian Studies 7 (2001), 61-76.
Brice, Raoul: La Femme et les Armées de la Révolution et de l’Empire, Paris: L’Édition moderne 1913.
Cardoza, Thomas: Intrepid Women: Cantinieres and Vivandieres of the French Army, Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2010.
Cère, Emile: Madame Sans-Gêne et les femmes soldats, 1792-1815, Paris: Plon/Nourrit 1894.
Cyrus, Hannelore: “Von erlaubter und unerlaubter Frauenart, um Freiheit zu kämpfen. Freiheitskämpferinnen im 19. Jahrhundert und die Freie Hansestadt Bremen,” in: Grenzgängerinnen. Revolutionäre Frauen im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert, ed. H. Grubitzsch et.al., Düsseldorf: Schwann-Bagel 1985, 19-69.
Durova, Naděžda A.: The cavalry maiden. Journals of a Russian officer in the Napoleonic wars, Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1988.
Esdaile, Charles: Women in the Peninsular War, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 2014
Hagemann, Karen: “`Heroic virgins’ and `bellicose amazons’: armed women, the gender order and the German public during and after the anti-Napoleonic wars,” European History Quarterly 37 (2007), 507-527.
Hopkin, David: “The World Turned-Upside-Down: Female Soldiers in the French Armies of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars”, in Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the French Wars, 1790-1820, ed. A. Forrest, K. Hagemann and J. Rendall, Palgrave: Basingstoke 2008, 77-98.
Girard, Philippe: “Rebelles with a Cause: Women in the Haitian War of Independence, 1802–04,” Gender & History 21 (2009), S. 60–85.
Godineau, Dominique: “De la guerrière à la citoyenne. Porter les armes pendant l’Ancien Régime et la Révolution française,” Clio 20 (2004), 43-69 (available online).
Hennet, Léon: “Femmes Soldats dans les armees de la révolution”, La Nouvelle Revue Francais 40 (1919), 341-353.
Martin Jean-Clément: “Travestissements, impostures et la communauté historienne. À propos des femmes soldats de la Révolution et de l’Empire,” Politix 2 (2006), n° 74, 31-48.
Sutter, Marie Thérèse: La vraie Madame Sans-Gêne. Les campagnes de Thérèse Figueur, dragon aux 15e et 9e régiments 1793-1815, Paris: Guillaumin 1894.
Tone, John L.: “A Dangerous Amazon: Agustina Zaragoza and the Spanish Revolutionary War, 1808-1814,” European History Quarterly 37 (2007), 548-561.
van der Pol, L.C.: “Republican Heroines: Cross-Dressing Women in the French Revolutionary Armies,” History of European Ideas 10 (1989), 353-363.
General 19th century
Alpern, Stanley P.: Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey, London: Hurst & Company 2011.
d’Eaubonne, Françoise: L’Amazone sombre. Vie d’Antoinette Lix, 1837-1909, Paris: Ed. Encre 1983.
Graves, Dianne: In the Midst of Alarms: The Untold Story of Women and the War of 1812, Montreal, Canada: Robin Brass 2007.
Jerosch, Rainer: The Rani of Jhansi, rebel against will. A biography of the legendary Indian freedom fighter in the mutiny of 1857-1858, Delhi : Aakar Books, 2007.
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{{Specs-Card|code=mig-9_ussr}} {{About | about = Russian jet fighter '''{{PAGENAME}}''' | usage = the early version | link = MiG-9 (Family) }} == Description == <!-- ''In the description, the first part should be about the history of and the creation and combat usage of the aircraft, as well as its key features. In the second part, tell the reader about the aircraft in the game. Insert a screenshot of the vehicle, so that if the novice player does not remember the vehicle by name, he will immediately understand what kind of vehicle the article is talking about.'' --> [[File:GarageImage_MiG-9_L.jpg|420px|thumb|left]] {{break}} The '''{{Specs|name}}''' is a rank {{Specs|rank}} Russian jet fighter {{Battle-rating}}. It has been in the game since the start of the Open Beta Test prior to Update 1.27. Much like many of the early jet fighters, they looked different, much different than their propeller-driven cousins. Now with jet engines driving the aircraft and the ability for them to go faster than before, aerodynamics needed to be reworked to accommodate leaving many of the first fighters ungainly looking. Not being left out of the mix, one of the USSR’s first jet fighters to roll out into production was the straight-wing, tricycle landing gear, short engine MiG-9. Early on, Mikoyan-Gurevich’s prototype the I-300 was tested with captured German BMW jet engines. The I-300 was envisioned to be a bomber interceptor and thus was built around the idea to get the fighter to bomber altitudes as fast as possible and then unload on the enemy bombers. Armed with a 37 mm cannon and two 23 mm cannons this fighter was meant to reach 5,000 m within four minutes. The engines were mounted on the underside of the aircraft in hopes that the hot exhaust could be vented away and not damage the aircraft. This new all-metal aircraft with slotted flaps and Frise-type ailerons was ready for testing in 1946. Early tests showed that the fighter flew well and responded to the pilot’s input without fighting back. Heat shields from the engine exhaust continued to be a problem but were quickly rectified after the redesigning of the tail section. In early 1947 the I-300 was renamed the MiG-9 and began to start rolling off the production floor. The MiG-9 is a stout little fighter and is flown best as a Boom & Zoom fighter or a bomber hunter. While a stable fighter, the MiG-9 lacks manoeuvrability to compete in turn fights as it tends to haemorrhage energy when making turns. Instead, it is best to get this fighter up to altitude to either focus on bringing down bombers with its three large cannons or to set up for diving attacks on the enemy below. It is critical to maintain speed in this fighter as, without it, it becomes an easy target for other enemy fighters. After completing a diving run, whether it was successful or not, this fighter should have its nose lifted and zoom back up to its place in higher altitudes to set up for another run. Staying low and slow only puts this fighter in a vulnerable position and if being used for ground or naval attach, should only be done if no enemy fighters are in the area. When attacking a MiG-9, aim your ordnance for the middle of the aircraft, there, in a tight compact area, you will find the pilot, huge fuel tanks and the engines. While the fuel tanks may be self-sealing, the engine and pilot are not and critical damage in this area of the aircraft will most likely bring it down. == General info == === Flight Performance === <!--''Describe how the aircraft behaves in the air. Speed, manoeuvrability, acceleration and allowable loads - these are the most important characteristics of the vehicle.''--> When looking at this fighter, a pilot may complain at the lack of ordnance options available, being only limited to a single 37 mm and two 23 mm cannons with what seems to be only a handful of ammunition rounds between them. Without the addition of suspended ordnance, the flight model will not change due to added weight of bombs, missiles, rockets or gun pods, since none are available and the aircraft wasn’t designed to use them. As such, this fighter was built almost like a rocket, needing to get to bomber altitude as fast as possible and intercept inbound bombers. The limited ammunition prevents the pilot from just ‘’spraying-and-praying’’, but instead requires trigger control to maximize rounds on target. This is especially important in realistic and simulator battles where after the ammunition is expended, the pilot must return to base to reload. The MiG-9 has enough speed to get to 5,000 m within about 4 minutes, however once there, it is best to either target bombers and go higher if needed (13,500 m is maximum altitude for the fighter) or to then turn the MiG-9 into a diving fighter and going for quick hits before zooming back up. Immlemans and Split-S manoeuvres are recommended to change directions as this fighter is a very slow turner, taking about 30 seconds to make a complete circle. It is important to keep the speed up on this fighter due to when it becomes slow, it then becomes an easy target for enemy aircraft. {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- ! colspan="8" | Characteristics |- ! colspan="8" | ''Stock'' |- ! colspan="2" | Max Speed<br>(km/h at 1,000 m) ! rowspan="2" | Max altitude<br>(meters) ! colspan="2" | Turn time<br>(seconds) ! colspan="2" | Rate of climb<br>(meters/second) ! rowspan="2" | Take-off run<br>(meters) |- ! AB ! RB ! AB ! RB ! AB ! RB |- | 916 || 890 || {{Specs|ceiling}} || 27.2 || 27.9 || 22.8 || 21.5 || 800 |- ! colspan="8" | ''Upgraded'' |- ! colspan="2" | Max Speed<br>(km/h at 1,000 m) ! rowspan="2" | Max altitude<br>(meters) ! colspan="2" | Turn time<br>(seconds) ! colspan="2" | Rate of climb<br>(meters/second) ! rowspan="2" | Take-off run<br>(meters) |- ! AB ! RB ! AB ! RB ! AB ! RB |- | ??? || ??? || {{Specs|ceiling}} || ??.? || ??.? || ??.? || ??.? || 800 |- |} ==== Details ==== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- ! colspan="5" | Features |- ! Combat flaps ! Take-off flaps ! Landing flaps ! Air brakes ! Arrestor gear |- | X || ✓ || ✓ || X || X <!-- ✓ --> |- |} {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- ! colspan="5" | Limits |- ! rowspan="2" | Wing-break speed<br>(km/h) ! rowspan="2" | Gear limit<br>(km/h) ! rowspan="2" | Combat flaps<br>(km/h) ! colspan="2" | Max Static G |- ! + ! - |- | {{Specs|destruction|constructions}} || {{Specs|destruction|chassis}} || 480 || ~11 || ~4 |- |} {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- ! colspan="4" | Optimal velocities |- ! Ailerons<br>(km/h) ! Rudder<br>(km/h) ! Elevators<br>(km/h) ! Radiator<br>(km/h) |- | < 550 || < 600 || < 720 || N/A |- |} {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- ! colspan="3" | Compressor (RB/SB) |- ! colspan="3" | Setting 1 |- ! Optimal altitude ! 100% Engine power ! WEP Engine power |- | 0 m || 800 kgf || N/A |- |} === Survivability and armour === <!--''Examine the survivability of the aircraft. Note how vulnerable the structure is and how secure the pilot is, whether the fuel tanks are armoured, etc. Describe the armour, if there is any, and also mention the vulnerability of other critical aircraft systems.''--> * 55 mm bulletproof glass - canopy windscreen * 12 mm steel plate - just in front of the pilot, between the instrument panel and the 37 mm magazine * 12 mm steel plate - just in front of the 37 mm magazine The MiG-9, unfortunately, is not built like a tank and as a bomber interceptor, it had to be constructed like one, sacrificing weight for speed. The aircraft does feature 55 mm of bulletproof glass on the canopy windscreen and two 12 mm steel plates on both sides of the 37 mm ammunition magazine, but that is it for aircraft protection. All the protection is in the front which is meant to offer defence from any defensive gunners on enemy bombers. From the front profile, the armour plates and glass do a good job of shielding the critical components, however, from just about any other angle, the pilot, engines and fuel tanks are clustered in the centre of the aircraft and are all vulnerable from machine gun, cannon, missile and rocket damage. The MiG-9 (I) does have a little more of a weight issue that the standard [[MiG-9]] in that it has fuel pods at the end of the wing-tips which both add more weight and slightly decrease manoeuvrability. == Armaments == === Offensive armament === <!-- ''Describe the offensive armament of the aircraft, if any. Describe how effective the cannons and machine guns are in a battle, and also what belts or drums are better to use. If there is no offensive weaponry, delete this subsection.'' --> {{main|N-37D (37 mm)|NS-23K (23 mm)}} The '''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' is armed with: * 1 x 37 mm N-37D cannon, nose-mounted (40 rpg) * 2 x 23 mm NS-23K cannons, chin-mounted (80 rpg = 160 total) To fulfil the role of a bomber hunter, the best weapons for mid to late 1940s aircraft was rockets and cannons. Bombers were typically large aircraft and machine guns would not do the job. Bomber interceptors needed to get to the target and spend the least amount of time on target not only for their own safety but to be able to intercept multiple targets before needing to return to base to refuel or rearm. The N-37D and NS-23 cannons centrally mounted on the MiG-9 virtually nullify the need for messing with convergence, allowing the pilot to sling both ammunition types at bombers at 690 m/s. In a high speed pass only so many rounds could be fired off before the MiG was zooming past and needed to set up for another run if they missed. Having the 37 mm and 23 mm cannons helped ensure if the critical areas are hit, only one pass is needed. Without rockets or missiles to provide backup or alternative weapon options, proficiency with the cannons is a must. Air Target ammunition belts provide a good mix of armour-piercing, fragmentary and high-explosive rounds which can devastate a bomber or even fighter if the rounds connect with the target. == Usage in battles == <!--''Describe the tactics of playing in an aircraft, the features of using vehicles in a team and advice on tactics. Refrain from creating a "guide" - do not impose a single point of view, but instead, give the reader food for thought. Examine the most dangerous enemies and give recommendations on fighting them. If necessary, note the specifics of the game in different modes (AB, RB, SB).''--> The {{PAGENAME}} requires altitude to be most effective in either of its two main roles. While flying full afterburner into the middle of the map may seem like the noblest thing to do, it may end your piloting career faster than you care for, not allowing you to reach your full potential during the match. Best bet for this fighter is to start side climbing on the map or working on gaining altitude away from where the main group of aircraft are flying as this provides you with a relatively safe area to climb and allows you to see any enemy aircraft which may be gunning for you and give you enough time to respond or dive away. It is important to begin your side climb at an angle of about 8-10° until the fighter reaches speeds of about 400-500 kph when the climb angle can be increased to about 15°. When you reach an altitude of where the bombers are at, you can then begin to patrol and set up for any attack runs. Typically it is best to have some altitude over the bombers as this will allow you to gain more speed when driving and make it that much more difficult for the defensive gunners to hit you. Flying towards the rear of the bomber is the worst angle to come at, while it makes it easy for you to line up the target, you will actually be flying into bullets fired at you causing them a chance for deeper penetration into your jet than if you came from another angle. Due to the limited amount of ammunition, controlled bursts are best especially when aimed at engines, cockpits or fuel tanks. Carefully aim at these critical components and let the ammunition do the rest for you. It is best not to linger around a target, instead, add full power and zoom away until you are at least a kilometre or two away and outside of the range of any defensive turrets before manoeuvring for another run. If there are no bombers to attack, either because they have all been destroyed or waiting for more to spawn (in arcade battles, some pilots tend to leave their attackers/bombers as late match reserves), then when at altitude, you can patrol and look for unsuspecting fighters or you can work to lure aircraft up into a stall fight. From your perch, you can start to dip down towards a fighter as if you are going to pounce on it, if they take the bait and climb to meet your {{PAGENAME}}, then pull up as if you ‘’chickened-out’’ and are running, begin a moderate climb with your speed and watch as they follow up, especially watch for the condensation trails coming from their wings, this is a good indication that they are beginning to stall and are an easy target. The {{PAGENAME}} has a rather larger rudder and can make use of it for a wing-over manoeuvre which will put you in line with the stalled out target allowing for you to get a quick shot off before returning to your patrol altitude. <!--=== Manual Engine Control === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- ! colspan="7" | MEC elements |- ! rowspan="2" | Mixer ! rowspan="2" | Pitch ! colspan="3" | Radiator ! rowspan="2" | Supercharger ! rowspan="2" | Turbocharger |- ! Oil ! Water ! Type |- | Not controllable || rowspan="2" | Not controllable<br>Not auto controlled || rowspan="2" | Not controllable<br>Not auto controlled || rowspan="2" | Not controllable<br>Auto control available || rowspan="2" | Combined || rowspan="2" | Not controllable<br>1 gear || rowspan="2" | Not controllable |- |} ==-->= Modules === {| class="wikitable" ! colspan="1" | Tier ! colspan="2" | Flight performance ! colspan="1" | Survivability ! colspan="1" | Weaponry |- | I | Fuselage repair | Compressor | | Offensive 23 mm |- | II | | | Airframe | New 23 mm cannons |- | III | Wings repair | | | Offensive 37 mm |- | IV | | Engine | Cover | New 37 mm cannons |- |} === Pros and cons === <!--''Summarise and briefly evaluate the vehicle in terms of its characteristics and combat effectiveness. Mark its pros and cons in the bulleted list. Try not to use more than 6 points for each of the characteristics. Avoid using categorical definitions such as "bad", "good" and the like - use substitutions with softer forms such as "inadequate" and "effective".''--> '''Pros:''' * Powerful armament for bomber hunting * Somewhat cheap initial repair cost * All armour is in the front of the aircraft to protect against defensive weapons * Engines do not overheat at 100% throttle '''Cons:''' * Two different trajectories for both guns * Limited ammunition of 160 (NS-23) and 40 (N-37D) * No access to bombs or other payload options * Underwhelming acceleration * Unimpressive climb-rate * Control lock starts at around 800 km/h * Loses a lot of speed during turns * Very bad turn rate even compared to some jet bombers * Difficult jet for beginners (hard to use due to its weapons and flight characteristics) == History == <!--''Describe the history of the creation and combat usage of the aircraft in more detail than in the introduction. If the historical reference turns out to be too long, take it to a separate article, taking a link to the article about the vehicle and adding a block "/ History" (example: <nowiki>https://wiki.warthunder.com/(Vehicle-name)/History</nowiki>) and add a link to it here using the <code>main</code> template. Be sure to reference text and sources by using <code><nowiki><ref></ref></nowiki></code>, as well as adding them at the end of the article with <code><nowiki><references /></nowiki></code>. This section may also include the vehicle's dev blog entry (if applicable) and the in-game encyclopedia description (under <code><nowiki>=== In-game description ===</nowiki></code>, also if applicable).''--> During the 1930s, the turbojet engine was developed in both Germany and Great Britain and began the prototype jets of the day. In the early 1940s test aircraft now flew built by Gloster, Heinkel, Messerschmitt and Bell aircraft companies. At this point, the USSR was still ambivalent towards the turbojet engine and focused on other technologies. It wasn’t until 1944 when all of the Soviet aircraft design teams were brought together and were tasked with producing a ‘jet air force’ with early designs coming from prominent companies at the time like Mikoyan-Gurevich, Yakovlev and Sukhoi. It wasn’t until later in 1945 that pressure was put on both Mikoyan-Gurevich and Sukhoi do design and develop a single-seat jet fighter utilizing two captured German BMW 003 engines. These BMW engines are the same type which was utilised in the HE 162 and the Ar 234C. The Soviet military had seized the blueprints to the engines in Germany and had been in the process of building them to use with their new jet fighters. Initially, Mikoyan-Gurevich was tasked to develop a single-seat fighter, however, in attempting to build it around the BMW engines; they came up with a pod and boom prototype in which the pod housed the cockpit and engines with a single tail boom. The pod did not run the entire length of the boom but instead terminated as short as possible as not to lose any unnecessary pressure or thrust. To accommodate this unusual configuration, MiG designed the fighter with tricycle landing gear which allowed for both better visibility during takeoff and landings but also maintained better airflow through the air intakes at lower speeds. Though the aircraft was all metal, there were constant issues for years where the metal plating after the engines constantly warped and buckled causing vibrations and other problems during flight. The wings were upswept, however, they were outfitted with Frise ailerons and slotted flaps to help with manoeuvring much like the American F-86D bomber interceptor. Initially, the MiG-9 was configured with two 23 mm NS-23 cannons and a single 57 mm N-57 cannon, however, due to the off-gassing when firing the 57 mm cannon, many times it choked out the jet engine and caused it to flame out. Later the 57 mm was replaced with a 37 mm cannon which did not produce as much off-gassing and did not cause problems with the engine. The weapon configuration of the MiG-9 was simple, as a bomber hunter, it maintained its cannons in the centerline of the fighter, therefore the pilot did not have to worry about the convergence of the weapons when lining up his shot. Test pilots noted that the MiG-9 was a very stable and easy jet to fly and was very responsive to the pilot’s input. While the rate of climb and cruising speeds were average at best, the aircraft maintained manoeuvrability in a dive, however, difficulties with the aircraft’s heat shielding, lack of ejection seat and an unpressurized cockpit continued to plague its early production. By 1947, the MiG-9s which were rolling off the assembly line had some of their problems taken care of such as a improved lateral stability due to a larger and reinforced vertical tail and reworked rear fuselage contoured to smooth the flow of air from the engine exhausts and help prevent the overheating and skin buckling problems experienced on earlier aircraft. By the end of 1947, 243 MiG-9 fighters had been produced and by the end of 1948 another 302 were constructed. Unfortunately, at this time, the MiG-15 which began to fly in late 1947 was easily outperforming the MiG-9 in all aspects causing its obsolescence. While the MiG-9 was no longer the front runner jet in the Soviet air force, it remained in service and was subjected to further tests. In the 1950s, the Soviets transferred 186 MiG-9 fighters to China to defend its cities against the Nationalist Chinese and train Chinese pilots who were new to jet aircraft operations. When training was complete, all of the MiG-9 fighters were handed over to the People’s Liberation Army Air Force. === In-game description === An all-metal, single-seat cantilever monoplane with two turbojet engines, mid-mounted wings, and retractable tricycle landing gear. It was clear by the end of World War II that the piston-engine-and-propeller combo had reached the limit of its potential. Soon it would be necessary to switch to new engine types. Jet aviation in the USSR changed for the better at the very end of the war when captured German turbojet engines, particularly the BMW-003, arrived in the Soviet Union. The aforementioned engine was studied in the shortest time possible, and a Soviet copy, the RD-20, was launched into mass production. In the end of 1945, the Mikoyan Design Bureau began the development of a jet fighter with two BMW-003 engines (producing 800 kg of thrust). On 24 April 1946, test pilot A.N. Grinchik first flew the prototype I-300 (F-1), the first Soviet fighter with a turbojet engine. The plane reached a speed of 920 km/h and had powerful armament: a 57mm N-57 cannon and two 23mm NS-23 cannons. In 1946, the I-300 began full-scale production and was accepted for service with the Air Force under the designation of MiG-9 (Product FS). Before producing it on a full-scale basis, the designers of the Mikoyan Design Bureau reworked the fighter's construction (particularly its fuselage) from scratch to adapt it to production in large quantities. The power unit of production MiG-9s consisted of two RD-20 turbojet engines producing 800 kg of thrust apiece. At first, planes of this model had RD-20A-1 engines, with a service life of 10 hours. Actually, these engines were captured BMW-003s, reassembled in the USSR. Subsequently, MiG-9s featured only Soviet-produced turbojet engines: the RD-20A-2, with a service life of 25 and 50 hours, and later the RD-20B, with a service life of 75 hours. The armament of the production planes differed from that of the prototypes. The MiG-9 (Product FS) had one 37mm Nudelman N-37 cannon with 40 rounds and two 23mm Nudelman-Suranov NS-23K cannons with 80 rounds each. In 1947, it was decided to equip the MiG-9 with RD-21 uprated engines producing 1,000 kg of thrust. The engine was uprated due to increased gas temperature and turbine revolutions. A prototype I-307 (Product FF) aircraft was built and tested with these engines in 1947. The testing showed that the I-307 had higher flight characteristics than production MiG-9s. The I-307 remained a prototype, since in March 1948 a decision was made to start the full-scale production of the more advanced MiG-15. The last production aircraft were handed over to the Air Force in December 1948, and in factories they were supplanted by a new plane from the Mikoyan Design Bureau, the MiG-15. A total of 602 MiG-9 fighters were produced. The MiG-9 was the beginning of the jet MiG's history. The success of the MiG-15 fighter all over the world would have been impossible without the experience gained in the processes of design, building, testing, mass production, and operation of the first Soviet jet fighter, the MiG-9. As new fighters were received by the Air Force, some MiG-9s would be delivered to China. 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November 18, 1967: Williams 14, Amherst 10
Posted on November 10, 2017 by Eph68
Here’s Jeffrey Brinn’s recollection, with focus on Jack Maitland (see accompanying short video)
Feel free to add your own memories via the Comments section below
It was seasonable weather – overcast, but dry and not particularly cold. In those days, for some reason, Williams sat on the west side of Weston Field, which was generally colder than the east side, which had the benefit of the sun. (This has long since been reversed). I was sitting near mid-field about one-half way up in the stands. Myra, my wife to be, was with me and some other class or housemates – I can’t recall who. It was a low scoring game – I think we got the first score – a touchdown and the conversion was good, kicked by our outstanding place-kicker, Mark Vinick ‘69. Amherst answered with a touchdown and conversion and a field goal – I don’t remember which came first. The score continued at 10-7 well into the fourth quarter. The class of ‘68 lost to Amherst each of the three prior years, including a 42 – 8 drubbing on Weston Field, when we were sophomores. This was our last chance. I remembered it as a punt return, but the you-tube video clearly shows that it was a half-back sweep to the left, with Jack Maitland ‘70, wearing number 40, (which I clearly remember) running through and around Lord Jeff (mascot name since changed to something equally dumb or dumber) defenders on his way into the north end-zone. As we were sitting on the west side of the field, we had a perfect view of the side-line run, maybe fifty yards or so. Vinick converted and the game ended shortly thereafter with the Ephmen on top by a score of 14-10. At the final whistle, we all ran out on the field in celebration of our glorious victory.
We could be 0 and 7 before the game, but if we beat the book-thieves, the season was a success. Conversely, a record of 7 and 1 – if the 1 was Amherst, the season was a disappointment.
Post-script: Jackie went on to star for us his last two years and was drafted by the Baltimore Colts of the NFL in May 1970. In the January 1971 Super Bowl, the Colts defeated the Cowboys, if memory serves by a score of 16-13, with Joe Namath correctly predicting the margin of victory as a field goal.
In addition to winning a Super-Bowl ring, Jackie made a solo tackle on the opening kick-off. This Super Bowl is the only one in the fifty-one that have been played where the Game MVP was on the losing team, line-backer Chuck Howley.
When I completed my Williams six-year plan and graduated with the Class of 1970, Jack was one of the two marshals of the class and got to wear a really cool purple renaissance hat.
Jack’s three-year varsity career included many rushing records, since broken, but on November 18, 1967, he was the conquering hero!
From our time at Williams
Jeffrey M. Brinn ‘68
Well, I mis-remembered quite a few details, previously not having listened to Mrs. Maitland’s audio on the you-tube video, but I got the essentials correct. It was the fourth quarter with Williams trailing by three when Jackie caught a swing-pass to the left and took it all the way down the west side-line into the north end-zone for the final score and winning touchdown. I am sure all of the subsequent narrative about Jack was correct. I hope to see him tomorrow to reminisce.
Jeffrey Brinn’68
Amherst 24 – Williams 31
Amherst: You can keep the books!
Bill Drummond
During the ’67 Williams Amherst game, Jack Maitland was extraordinary. Proceeding Jack’s heroic late touchdown run with only minutes left in the fourth quarter our offense faced 4th down and long deep on our side of the field. Coach Navarro then made an incredible and very uncharacteristic play call. Our tallest player on the field (Sandy Smith) as the punter was to fake the punt and throw a pass to our shortest player (Randy Dygert). They both made “clutch” plays with Randy making a tough catch and then deftly dodged several Amherst defenders for the first down. It critically turned the momentum. There was also heroic play after Jack’s late TD. With time still left on the clock, our superb defense led by Brooks Bragdon and others stopped a desperate Amherst offense.It was a great game by a Williams team stopping a 10 year Amherst win streak and allowing Williams to finish with an undefeated season.
Bill Drummond ’68
Edit to my comments: The 67′ Amherst game saving defense was led by the excellent linebacker, Ross Wilson.
Jeffrey Brinn
Edit to Cruiser’s edit:
Our excellent linebacker (and wrestler, if memory serves) Ross Wilson, was also affectionately known to all who
him as Ross “Anvil Brain” Wilson.
Denny Kelly
Jeff and Mrs. Maitland, whoever posted the video of the biggest little game in college football, thank you. This was really a treat to see at the end of a sightseeing day with family in Paris. Adding in the email my cocaptain Bill Drummond sent me made this a threefer day. My daughter took a little joy out of it by referencing something about the middle ages 😉 Bill Drummond would never toot his own horn but he was a talent level above most of us and as a tight end was a force to be reckoned with by the Lord Jeff’s in a very tight game. No opponent was going to have an easy day with him. Lowell Davis led the defensive backs making it a long day for the Amherst receivers. I forget who the Amherst QB was. Jack Maitland, incredibly talented and a Gale Sayers type running tailback, always humble and a terrific guy, was the photo star of the game as the video shows. Our own Charlie Bradbury, QB for the Ephs, was on the starting end of the winning touchdown andq led us to an undefeated season. I have great admiration for Charlie who was a Division 1 football recruit, e.g., U. Nebraska, out of Woodberry Forest who discovered him as a high school phenom in Shelbyville, KY. Lucky for all of us Charlie had the patience to hang in there until his senior year before he started as the Williams QB. (Hard to believe!). Like others in our class he went on to a great medical career, in his case in Louisville. Beating Amherst senior year was a moment i have savored all my life and it certainly has been an advantage whenever i get into a repartee with an Amherst colleague or acquaintance around Novembertime. Cheers to all my ’68 teamates; looking forward to celebrating with you at our 50th. Denny
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