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Eurovision 2017: The Drama!
Adam May 3, 2017 April 26, 2017 TV
It’s that time, with competition is in the air, when nations face off against each other in an ancient tradition. It’s time for the Eurovision Song Contest! And this year is especially special. Still relatively new to US audiences, with Logo broadcasting it in the states for the first time, Eurovision is a glorious, glamorous, gaudy Super Bowl of Song. Will it be show stateside again this year? Who knows, as Logo only announced their plans in 2016 less than two weeks before the event. But I’m here to tell you of the glory, and remind you to seek it out if possible.
Semi-final 1: 9 May 2017
Semi-final 2: 11 May 2017
Final: 13 May 2017
Hopefully they will grace the air with the contest again, and even if you don’t get the channel, I believe they had the live stream up on their site. If it’s not shown on Logo, or it is but you don’t have access to it, there’s not many other local legal methods to see it. There’s also the BBC, if you have a proxy or remote service subscription. There’s also the official YouTube channel, although I have been getting intermittent issues with region locking on certain videos.
But how do you get into Eurovision?, you may ask. Like many competitions, there are little rules a newcomer can utilize in order to grow investment. In the Super Bowl, for example, I generally root for the underdog team. That, or whichever team has the fewest number of accused rapists and abusers. In Eurovision, like the Olympics, you always have the option of going by country. This can be by locality, although that’s a bit hard for US fans as we’re not represented and England is always pretty terrible. Our household like a bit of local flavor and so performing, in whole or at least partially, in their country’s language get them bonus points from us. English is almost painfully ubiquitous in Eurovision, and this year only Portugal, Hungary, Croatia, Belarus, Spain, Italy, and France have non-English or partially English performances. That’s seven performers out of forty-three. Of course, you can also do it by politics, which is especially apt this year. You probably haven’t heard, but there’s already been a bit of an international hubbub between the Ukraine and Russia. Would you like some drama?
Last year Russia seemed prime for a win. Sergey Lazarev, with You Are The Only One, had an impressive, if sterile, stage show that heavily utilized projection and recessed steps. The Ukraine came from behind to win with Jamala performing “1944”. What was particularly sharp about Russia’s loss was that the winning song was that it was about the Crimean deportations carried out by the Soviet Union in the 1940s. And now for the 2017 competition, the Ukraine has barred Russia’s performer from entering the country. That’s because she toured in Crimea and the Ukraine’s security and travel laws state that entering Crimea from Russia is illegal. that puts Russia’s Yulia Samoylova under a three-year travel ban that runs from her entry in 2015 into 2018. Russia’s response to this is to pull their broadcast of the entire competition.
All of this shows what a strange beast the Eurovision Song Contest is, especially to an outsider. It’s campy and full of glam, but that means it’s not taken as seriously as something like the Olympics. That weird balance of international competition and, well, pageantry opens the door to things like this international incident. It’s important enough for countries to get their hackles up, but not enough so that the Ukraine will make an exception to their travel bans for a border crossing.
Our next Eurovision post will have our highlights of the semi-finals performers.
Have any favorites? Rooting for or against Russia? Let us know in the comments.
Croatia, drama, Eurovision, international intrigue, Russia, Ukraine. Bookmark.
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Adam is a Jewish American who's sick of the white Christian male being America's "default" setting. For money he works in a public library because free books and information access are wonderful things. For love he writes here for his pet project, The Chaotic Neutral, which is always looking for more writers. You can follow him on Instagram, Goodreads, and at his oft neglected Twitter where he will try to post more, and probably live-tweet the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Video assistant referee set for Champions League this season
By ROB HARRIS , AP Global Soccer Writer, Associated Press
DUBLIN (AP) — Video review is being fast-tracked into the Champions League this season.
People with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press that UEFA's executive committee is set to approve video assistant referees from the round of 16 in February. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss UEFA's plans publicly ahead of Monday's meeting in Dublin.
European soccer's governing body had originally only intended to introduce VAR from next season, starting in the the Champions League qualifying playoffs in August.
Video review can help referees overturn clear errors in game-changing situations. This means incidents involving goals scored, the award of penalty kicks, red cards, and cases of referees showing cards to the wrong player.
Without VAR this season in the Champions League group stage, Cristiano Ronaldo was sent off for Juventus after a disputed decision and Manchester City's Raheem Sterling won a penalty for tripping on the turf.
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News From The Front
CRI : Misleadingly ‘soft’ on Roman Catholicism
CHRISTIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE: Misleadingly ‘soft’ on Roman Catholicism
In the early years after my conversion and, with a growing interest in ‘apologetics’, I soon became aware of the work of the Christian Research Institute and its ‘leading light’, its founder and director, the late Dr. Walter Martin. Over a number of years I regularly subscribed to and received their ministry magazine that contained many helpful articles on various cults and non-Christian religions.
However, I was saddened, disappointed and dare I say it, even shocked, by a series of articles they published in 1993 (some 4 years after the death of Dr Martin) on the subject of Roman Catholicism. Whilst their analysis of that religion was at times helpful, the eventual conclusions that they reached seemed to me to be dangerously misleading and evidenced a ‘soft’ approach to the subject under consideration.
As you will see the series made the front cover of their magazine which featured a photo of the then Pope, John Paul II, and a ‘monstrance’, used to house the consecrated host believed to have been transubstantiated into the body, blood, soul and divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The series of articles can be viewed on the following links –
http://www.equip.org/PDF/DC170-1.pdf
It is said that the road to a certain location is ‘paved with good intentions’ and in the wake of the publication of those articles I had given thought to writing a response to them but I never quite got round to doing that and with the passing of time that idea eventually ‘dropped off my radar’.
I was really pleased then that in the latter part of last year, my good friend and fellow contender, ROB ZINS of ‘A Christian Witness to Roman Catholicism’ told me that he was going to write a review/analysis of these articles. When Rob and his wife Nancy were here with us in Ireland in December 2015 he showed me the first part of what he had written and promised to send on the remaining parts when he had finished them. That he has done, and, with his kind permission, I’m now going to share them with you. For those interested in Rob’s ministry, the web site address is –
http://www.cwrc-rz.org/
It is all about the gospel! (Part One)
Christian Research Institute (CRI) has an extensive web site. We find this promise from CRI on their home page:
“The Christian Research Institute exists to provide Christians worldwide with carefully researched information and well-reasoned answers that encourage them in their faith and equip them to intelligently represent it to people influenced by ideas and teachings that assault or undermine orthodox, biblical Christianity.”
Given this promise, we are interested in how CRI might handle the question of Roman Catholicism. CRI does indeed address the issue of Roman Catholicism. It does so in a five part series entitled WHAT THINK YE OF ROME (WTYOR).
After reading this five part series one would have to conclude that CRI thinks very highly of Rome. While not accepting all of Roman Catholic beliefs and practices, CRI sheds the best possible light on Rome. At times CRI scolds evangelicals who disagree with their assessment of Rome with a great zeal. We wonder why the same zeal and energy is not applied to arriving at the right conclusions given the fatal deficiencies of Rome. But alas Roman beliefs are given the benefit of the doubt again and again. But before getting into specifics of the CRI’s appraisal of Rome let us step back and a take a broad view of the qualifying language enlisted by CRI to describe Rome in general.
CRI explains that:
“Catholicism possesses a foundational orthodoxy reflected in its affirmation of the crucial doctrines expressed in the ancient creeds.” (WTYOR Part Two)
Having said this from the start CRI will consistently soften their criticism of Roman doctrine. Notice the phraseology used in CRI’s initial evaluation of Rome. CRI says that “Protestants detect serious problems.” CRI claims that Rome affirms teachings “that are extraneous and inconsistent with its orthodox (Christian) foundation.” “These doctrinal errors are of such a serious nature that aspects of orthodoxy are undermined.“ In summary CRI concludes, “These divergent views, however, do not warrant classifying Catholicism as a non-Christian religion or cult.” (Emphasis ours)
We observe at the outset that the entire analysis of Roman Catholicism is framed by CRI in the context of an intramural discussion (i.e. the singular establishment being considered is for them ‘Christianity’). According to CRI there are “Catholic Christian” scholars who have things to say about justification, religious authority, Mary, Pluralism, forgiveness of sins, and salvation. But then there are “Protestant Christian” scholars who also have something to say about these things. In other words this is nothing more than an in-house interesting conversation between two branches of Christianity. According to CRI, no matter how severe these distinctions may be, Rome must never be classified as a non-Christian religion. For CRI Roman Catholicism is a different sort of Christian religion. For CRI Rome may in many respects be a peculiar Christian religion. But it is by no means a cult or a non Christian religion. Or so CRI avows.
We begin our investigation into CRI’s evaluation of Rome by noticing that CRI presents us with a ten point criteria for what constitutes a real cult. Using these criteria Roman Catholicism is said to be disqualified from being labeled a cult. CRI bends over backwards to give us an elaborate standard that justifies the use of the word “cult” for a religious organization. But the criteria used by CRI are far too simplistic and terribly misleading. For instance if we say that a religion is Christian and not a cult simply because it believes in salvation by “grace” we could be making a terrible mistake.
If “salvation by grace” means doing things to get grace, or buying grace, or punishing our bodies to get grace then it is actually possible to give a pass to a radically antiChrist religion and so promote a real cultic heresy. Without defining the nature of grace and the means to secure grace we have done nothing to truly investigate the claims of any religious organization. We believe CRI has done just this! To prove our point we have lifted from the CRI web site their criteria for cults and compared them with what we know to be true of Roman Catholicism. Here are the results of our finding based upon some examples:
CRI: “Cults, generally speaking, are small splinter groups with a fairly recent origin. Most American‐based cults, for example, have to a greater or lesser degree splintered off from other Christian groups, and emerged in the nineteenth or twentieth centuries. Catholicism, on the other hand, is the largest body within Christendom, having almost a two‐thousand‐year history (it has historical continuity with apostolic, first century Christianity), and is the ecclesiastical tree from which Protestantism originally splintered.”
RESPONSE: CRI puts the cart before the horse by claiming that Catholicism is the largest body within Christianity. By this one statement CRI is committed to defending the Roman religion as a Christian religion rather than analyzing whether Rome actually is in fact Christian. Secondly the very heart of Roman Catholic theology and practice has zero historical continuity with first century Christianity other than recognition of some historical realities about Jesus Christ. Thirdly an “ecclesiastical tree” is hardly the same as orthodoxy. If the Reformers were right (and all Christians believe they were right) then they were leaving a cult or a non-Christian religion, take your pick. Fourthly when the argument is framed as a battle between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism the real issues of genuine Christianity are minimized and marginalized as a difference of species rather than what they really are – a difference of kind. Fifthly each category of Romish teaching must begin with the Council of Trent (1545-1563) and move forward to later Roman Catholic Councils. Christians believe that Rome disqualified herself as a Christian religion by affirming heresy at Trent. This mid-sixteenth century council is ample proof that Rome is either a cult or a non-Christian religion. Subsequent councils and papal decrees only add more Romish cultic practices and beliefs which serve to further establish this truth.
Here are some more examples of CRI accommodation to Rome
CRI: “Cults are usually formed, molded, and controlled by a single individual or small group. The Catholic church, by contrast, has been molded by an incalculable number of people throughout its long history. Catholicism is governed by creeds, councils, and the ongoing magisterium.”
Response: There is no cult leader in the world afforded more control than the Pope at Rome. He is said to be infallible when he speaks from the chair of Peter on matters of faith and morals.
Furthermore, based upon this reasoning, the Mormon religion qualifies as Christian since Mormonism “has been molded by an incalculable number of people throughout its long history.”
CRI: “An appropriate description of a cult is “a religious group originating as a heretical sect and maintaining fervent commitment to heresy.”
RESPONSE: Rome has been fervently committed to heresy since the council of Trent and has added even more with the advent of Vatican I and Vatican II. This is 474 years of “maintaining a fervent commitment to heresy.”
CRI: “Cults (when defined as heretical sects) are classified as such because of their outright denial or rejection of essential Christian doctrine. Historically, this has principally been a denial of the nature of God (the Trinity), the nature of the incarnate Christ (divine‐human), and of the absolute necessity of divine grace in salvation (the Pelagian controversy). While Protestants have accused Catholicism of having an illegitimate authority and of confusing the gospel (two serious charges to be examined later), Catholicism does affirm the Trinity, the two natures of Christ, and that salvation is ultimately a gift of God’s grace (a rejection of Pelagianism).”
RESPONSE: Here in a nut shell CRI brings us to the heart of the matter. Evidently the essence of belief within Christianity is defined by CRI as the nature of the Trinity, the nature of the incarnate Christ and of the necessity of divine grace in salvation. This may be likened to a three legged stool. But if one leg is missing the entire stool falls over and is worthless. While we would agree that Rome declares a belief in the nature of the incarnate Christ. We also believe that Rome undermines and emasculates the essence of the incarnation of Christ with her doctrine of transubstantiation and the bloodless sacrifice of her false “christ” on her altar. While we agree that Rome declares a belief in the nature of the Trinity. We also believe Rome demeans and denigrates the entire doctrine of the Holy Spirit through her sacrament of confirmation and her ongoing heresy of asserting that her Pope is the Vicar of Christ instead of the Holy Spirit.
It is however the third leg of the stool where subtle deceitfulness trumps reality! In the first place to deny Pelagianism is not to affirm the gospel of salvation by grace through faith alone. Secondly Rome does not define grace in the same way as Christianity. For Rome grace comes through her sacraments starting with infant baptism. Through her doctrine of ex opera operato (the thing done brings about the thing signified) Rome teaches that the performance of a religious ritual brings down the grace of God to the individual involved in the ritual. For Rome grace is an infusion designed to clean up and restore a person to holiness in order to qualify that person for entry into Heaven, albeit, the Romish Purgatory is the hope of most. For Rome grace is dispensed by an earthly priesthood committed to the Romish sacraments. If we were to say that so and so religion was Christian because it affirmed “salvation by grace” only to find out that “grace” was gained and merited by crawling through a lifetime of religious rituals what would be thought of it?
For CRI to boldly state, “Catholicism does affirm the Trinity, the two natures of Christ, and that salvation is ultimately a gift of God’s grace” brings into question the legitimacy of trusting CRI. Clearly Rome believes in salvation by grace earned through faithful attendance at the altar of her heretical sacraments. This is not the grace of God known to Christians. Furthermore Christians know of no Christ who transubstantiates himself into a wafer of bread and re-presents his one and only sacrifice on a bloodless Roman Catholic altar!
CRI: “Cults frequently have a low view of the Bible, replacing or supplementing it with their own so‐called “sacred writings.” In fact, cults often argue that the Bible has been, to some extent, corrupted and therefore their writings are needed to restore the truth. While Catholicism’s acceptance of non-canonical writings (the Apocrypha) and placing of apostolic tradition on par with Scripture are fundamental problems to the Protestant, Catholics nevertheless retain a high view of the Bible (inspired and infallible) and see it as their central source of revelation.”
RESPONSE: This assertion by CRI is almost too fantastic to believe. But when one is committed to protecting a cult rather than exposing a cult this is what we get. In reality, there could be no lower view of the Bible than in Rome. Rome reserves the right to be the only capable interpreter of the Bible on earth. Rome adds non-canonical books to the Bible and builds doctrine from them. Rome adds something they call Holy Tradition right alongside the Bible and puts her tradition on an equal footing with the Bible. This is done despite the fact that no one in Rome can adequately define Holy Tradition. Yet time and time again it is called upon to trump the Bible. Rome adds to the Bible every time a full council meets and makes a declaration (witness the sinlessness of Mary and her Assumption in Heaven).
Finally Rome declares that her Pope speaks for Christ and therefore his word is Scripture when spoken on matters of faith and morals from the chair of Peter. Not one Roman Catholic theologian knows exactly how many times the Pope has spoken ex cathedra. There is no infallible list of infallible proclamations. In spite of all this CRI has the audacity to say that Catholics “retain a high view of the Bible.” Only those who wish to oblige Rome fail to see how astonishingly wrong their assessment of Rome really is.
CRI does everything in its power to minimize and trivialize the vast differences between Roman Catholicism and historic Christianity. CRI fails to tell us that Roman Catholic practice has little or no contact with the Bible. The Scriptures were the only word of God for the early church and they remain the only Word of God for all Christians today. CRI fails to tell us that the early church knew nothing of a huge monolithic block governed essentially by one man acting as the Vicar of Christ on earth head quartered in Rome.
Leading up to and concluding with the so-called infallible decrees of the Council of Trent there is no doubt that Rome is an anti-Christ, non-Christian religion, and remains so to this day. Her doctrines “typed and filed” in 1542 have only gotten worse and more cultish over time.
Let us take one more look at the deception of CRI in dealing with Rome. We notice when it comes to the cultish pattern of rigid control CRI views Rome’s practices as “unhealthy in times past” but moderated today due to Rome’s “broad diversity.” Here is the logic of CRI that once again, according to CRI, dismiss all fears of Rome actually practicing cultish control.
CRI: “Cults typically exercise rigid control over their members and demand unquestioning submission, with disobedience punished by shunning and/or excommunication. While Catholicism has exercised a triumphalism and an unhealthy control over its members in times past, this is far less true today, especially since the Second Vatican Council. Contemporary Catholicism’s broad diversity as illustrated in Part one of this series certainly proves this point.”
RESPONSE: Despite the fact that for hundreds of years Rome brashly asserted that outside the Roman Catholic Church there is no salvation, CRI does not think Rome has been guilty of shunning or excommunication. However, excommunication might be the middle name of Rome. Rome is responsible for the heresy of Purgatory, indulgences, confession to a priest, and earthly penances administered by the Romish priests. On top of that is the requirement to attend Mass and to follow the rigid requirements Rome’s sacramental system. Instead of pointing out Roman control over her adherents from the cradle to the grave, CRI placates Rome by calling her practices “triumphalism”. This is simply bizarre.
However it gets worse. CRI wishes to dispel cultish Roman control over her people by citing the advancements made in Rome since Vatican II. The trouble with all this is that Roman Catholicism after Vatican II has added a deadly pluralism in her quest for diversity. While still retaining control of her followers, Rome has completely undercut the gospel of Jesus Christ by declaring that non-Christian religions have a pathway to Heaven. So whether it is the cradle to grave domination over her devotees, or a broad latitudinal approach to non-Christian religions, Rome continues to manipulate her adherents and finds progressive ways to manipulate the gospel as well.
Dipsuchos
Double-Minded (Part Two)
We have found, in our investigation into the Christian Research Institute, attempts to exclude Roman Catholicism from being categorized as a cult or a non-Christian religion, to be a failure. CRI fails because of two primary errors. The first is the apriori (before the fact) assumption by CRI that Roman Catholicism is a wing of Christianity. The second is CRI’s failure to convince us due to a superficial and misleading understanding of the fatal differences between the gospel of Rome and the gospel of Christianity.
We now turn our attention to the very heart of the matter. In our first article we concluded that CRI is capable of pointing out some differences between Roman Catholicism and Christianity but is incapable of seeing that these differences are incurable and so lethal to the gospel of Christianity that Rome deserves to be marked as a cult or non-Christian religion.
In part five of their series on Roman Catholicism CRI begins with a summary statement.
“The Protestant Reformers recovered the biblical view of forensic justification, that a person is legally declared righteous by God on the basis of faith alone. In so doing, their principle of “salvation by faith alone” gave a more biblical specificity to the common Augustinian view of “salvation by grace alone” held by Catholics and Protestants alike. For although Rome has always held the essential belief in salvation by grace, its view of justification ‐ made dogma by the Council of Trent ‐ obscures the pure grace of God, if not at times negating it in practice.”
This summary statement is followed up by an introductory sentence which launches CRI into a 10 page article on justification. Here is the introductory sentence.
“Roman Catholics and evangelicals share a common core of beliefs about salvation.”
We notice that CRI uses the same kinds of accommodating words in this article as their previous article. Protestant reformers are said to have given “a more biblical specificity to the common Augustinian view of ‘salvation by grace alone’ held by Catholics and Protestants alike.” CRI explains that “Rome has always held the essential belief in salvation by grace…” However Rome’s view of justification “obscures the pure grace of God, if not at times negating the gospel.” These soft sell assertions are then summed up by CRI insisting that Roman Catholics and evangelicals “share a common core belief about salvation.” (Emphasis ours)
Let us be perfectly clear. Salvation by “grace alone” has nothing to do with the Roman Catholic concept of grace procured through religious rituals by Roman Catholic priests. This is not the glorious grace of God or the gospel of Jesus Christ. Furthermore, if left undefined, this catch phrase “salvation by grace alone” becomes a wax nose that can be misshapen to forge deceptive, ambiguous, confusing, and disingenuous expressions of unity! CRI is guilty of doing this very thing. Furthermore, salvation by faith alone is not a mere “biblical specificity” as though it were some kind of add on to a gospel already shared by Protestants and Catholics. Salvation by faith alone in Christ alone is the only gospel that guarantees the integrity of what the Bible means by “grace alone.”
The Roman Catholic ruinous and fatal misunderstanding of grace serves only to obliterate the true gospel of the grace of Jesus Christ. CRI compromises the gospel and grants Rome entry into the Christian community by claiming that Rome has always held the “essential” belief in salvation by grace.
But CRI fails miserably to tell us that Rome does not hold to an essential belief in biblical grace! Rome’s grace is held hostage by Rome’s notorious and anti-Christ system of grace begetting sacraments and rituals which is governed by a priestly caste formed to dispense grace. This is not “salvation by grace” but rather grace held hostage by the Roman Catholic religion.
The subterfuge continues with CRI as they almost begrudgingly admit that Rome’s view of justification “obscures the pure grace of God.” There are two things wrong with this kind of admission. The first is that it leaves the impression that there is a grace of God that saves even though it obscures. Rome has this kind of grace. CRI gives the impression that there is a “more pure” kind of grace that somehow has eluded Rome but is not fatal to Rome.
The second is this idea of obscuring. To obscure is to muddy and muddle. It is to shroud or veil. CRI is deliberate in using this kind of language and it is deceptive. Rome does not “obscure” the grace of God. Rome re-defines the grace of God by distorting both the meaning of grace and the way God’s grace is bestowed. By the time Rome is finished with the concept of grace it has no relation whatsoever to the real grace of God found in the gospel.
Lastly, in so far as CRI’s introduction to justification is concerned, we would have you notice that, despite CRI’s protest to the contrary, Roman Catholicism does not share a common “core belief about salvation.” It is not even close. Rome denies justification by faith alone, forensic justification, Christ’s righteousness as the only ground of justification, eternal security while affirming infant baptismal regeneration, incremental justification, increase and decrease of justification, meritorious justification, loss of salvation, and Purgatory just to name a few of the diametrically opposite core beliefs that evangelicals find heretical in Rome.
One would think that a cursory reading of Roman Catholic theology and doctrine which trumpets her way to gain heaven would convince anyone that Roman Catholicism is simply not Christian. However CRI is not of this breed. For mystical reasons that defy biblical exegesis, common sense, historical analysis, and observance of ongoing Roman Catholic practices CRI presses on, always warding off and forestalling the obvious. CRI is bound and determined to convince us that Roman Catholic dogma and practice (no matter how contrary to evangelical and biblical Christianity) is really just a bit different.
We turn now to CRI’s list of “common soteriological roots.” By this list CRI announces that any differences we have with Rome must be viewed through the lens of some sort of common root system. We shall enumerate their list and comment.
CRI #1 “A soteriological survey of both the leading Roman Catholic theologians and Protestant Reformers reveals a number of commonalities. First, both believe salvation is affected through historic, divine intervention”
Comment: By this CRI wants us to keep in mind that Catholics and Protestants believe that some sort of salvation is by God’s action in the person and history of Jesus Christ. It would be nice to think that Protestants agree with Roman Catholics on something significant concerning the planning, reasoning, nature, and accomplishment of God’s action in history through Jesus Christ. However, after agreeing only that Jesus Christ really is God’s Son incarnate it all breaks down from there. In short there is no commonality whatsoever on the nature and execution of God’s plan of salvation. Divine intervention by God in Christ? “yes.” Any agreement on what this divine intervention means? “not a hope.”
CRI #2 “Both evangelicals and Catholics believe salvation is moral and spiritual. Salvation is related to a deliverance from sin and its consequences.
Comment: Could someone possibly be broader than this? CRI might as well have said that, “evangelicals and Catholics believe in some sort of moral and spiritual salvation.” Or, “evangelicals and Catholics believe that 2 plus 2 equals 4 and that there are stars in the sky.” How about, “Roman Catholic men and evangelical men both put their pants on one leg at a time?” To say that Catholics and evangelicals believe in a moral and spiritual salvation and this proves common soteriological roots is literally grasping at straws and missing!
CRI #3 “Salvation is eschatological for both Catholics and evangelicals.”
Comment: By this CRI means that both Catholics and evangelicals await the fullness of salvation at some point in the future. How does this illustrate common soteriological roots? It only shows that two different religions are awaiting their totally opposite views of salvation to ultimately unfold at some time in the future.
CRI #4 “The grace of God is absolutely necessary for salvation. And, initial justification is based on grace alone, apart from all works.”
Comment: As we have already treated this misuse of the term “grace” above so we shall be brief here. When Rome speaks of the grace of God it means that which comes from God through man-made religious rituals. Regardless if it is “grace” bestowed in her infant baptism or in her sacramentalism Rome butchers the biblical concept of grace. Rome professes a grace called down by a priestly class and infused into the recipient to improve character that he/she might qualify for heaven. Christians believe the grace of God is God’s undeserved favor that brings both spiritual life and secures eternal life for all those in Christ secured by faith alone.
In #4 of their alleged common root system we notice again that CRI is trumpeting Rome’s claim of “grace alone” in her infant baptismal grace. Does CRI want us to think that Rome’s infant justification through her baptism is likened to Christian justification by grace alone through faith alone? Does CRI want us to fantasize that Rome’s claim of infant justification through her infant baptism is somehow like Christian justification because Rome claims her first sacrament is by grace alone apart from works? We think that this is precisely what CRI desires.
Obviously the awful truth for Rome and CRI is that there is no such thing as an ‘initial justification”, via infant baptism, followed by an ongoing incremental justification in Christian soteriology. So how can the Christian concept of grace and Rome’s concept of grace, which cancel out each other, be illustrative of a common soteriological root? One begins to ask what motive might drive this distorted and deformed thinking of CRI.
CRI and the Roman Catholic Council of Trent
We shift our attention now to CRI’s presentation of the Roman Catholic water shed doctrines on justification articulated at the Council of Trent. Session VI of the Council of Trent devotes 16 Chapters and 33 Canons to the question of justification. The Roman Catholic community speaks loudly and clearly about the justification of the ungodly. We find CRI’s treatment of the dramatic statements on justification decreed by the Council of Trent to be complicated, drawn-out, longwinded, and erratic.
Here is CRI’s first paragraph with the corresponding footnote that is supposed to present the teaching of the Council of Trent on justification.
“On January 9, 1547, the Council participants agreed on a final formula for justification: First, although several Council members recognized an extrinsic element in justification (thereby approaching the Reformers on this point), the consensus view was that “the opinion that a sinner may be justified solely as a matter of reputation or imputation…is rejected.” And so, “justification is thus defined in terms of a man becoming, and not merely being reputed as, righteous…” (Emphases added).” 24
Footnote to the above: “24 Ibid. 72. The words “solely” and “merely” in these quotes indicate that Trent did not reject forensic justification as such.”
We find this kind of muddying to be terribly misleading and a smokescreen that allows CRI to hide away the true teachings of the Council of Trent. Why not be direct and straightforward? Rome certainly is clear-cut and uncomplicated. CRI mixes concepts and definitions in a tossed salad that would fatigue even the most experienced pastor/teacher let alone the common man who wishes to know what the Roman Catholic religion really believes. With a bad mix of quotations and bad conclusions CRI forces us to wade through CRI written rhetoric to finally arrive at where we began in our first article. CRI does everything humanly possible, behind the mask of fairness, to diminish and shrug off the real import of what Rome really teaches.
Is it true that “Trent did not reject forensic justification as such” claimed by CRI in the footnote above? Let’s try to set the record straight. Contrary to CRI, Rome is 100% against forensic justification at all levels at all times. Forensic justification is the correct understanding that God declares the ungodly justified or acquitted from their just punishment on the basis that Jesus Christ died a substitutionary atonement for their sins.
The righteousness of Christ is imputed through faith alone in a legal sense to sinners. The divine is that the ungodly are now justified before God and do not pay the penalty of sin they deserve. Hence the rally of the Reformation was “justification by faith alone.”Rome rejects this concept of justification. We can all read exactly what Rome believes without having to find our way through a maze of smoke contributed by CRI.
CANON IX.-“If any one saith, that by faith alone the impious is justified; in such wise as to mean, that nothing else is required to co-operate in order to the obtaining the grace of Justification, and that it is not in any way necessary, that he be prepared and disposed by the movement of his own will; let him be anathema.”
CANON XI.-“If any one saith, that men are justified, either by the sole imputation of the justice of Christ, or by the sole remission of sins, to the exclusion of the grace and the charity which is poured forth in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, and is inherent in them; or even that the grace, whereby we are justified, is only the favour of God; let him be anathema.”
CANON XXIV.-“If any one saith, that the justice received is not preserved and also increased before God through good works; but that the said works are merely the fruits and signs of Justification obtained, but not a cause of the increase thereof; let him be anathema.”
CRI seems intent on matching Rome’s sacramental infant baptismal regeneration/ justification with Christian forensic justification. CRI then explains that Rome understands justification in two senses. The initial sense is “by grace alone” in Rome’s infant justification. This somehow corresponds to Christian grace alone/faith alone justification. But CRI is quick to elucidate that in Rome there is a second sense of justification corresponding to Christian sanctification.
“… Trent understands justification in two senses (the second corresponding to the Reformed doctrine of sanctification); good works are required in the second sense as a condition for ultimate justification. Therefore, it is possible and necessary (in this second sense) to keep the law of God.”
Christians reject Rome’s initial infant baptismal justification. The New Testament knows nothing of justification based upon infant baptism. CRI should have dismissed this heresy immediately. But CRI lets it linger because they wish to link it to Christian justification by grace alone through faith alone since Rome omits “works” from their initial infant justification. Shame on CRI. When we once see that there is in fact only one justification and it is grounded upon the righteousness of Christ imputed to poor lost sinners through faith alone we can clear the air on Rome’s second sense of justification. This so called second sense justification is pure myth and nonsense. Again CRI should have shut this down as heresy from the start. But instead they give credence to such a fiction. But wait, CRI gets in deeper by not only failing to expose the heresy of Rome’s second sense justification but by likening it to Christian sanctification!
Rome’s fictitious second sense requires good works as a condition for ultimate justification. Evidently CRI thinks Christian sanctification requires good works for ultimate sanctification. Rome’s fictitious second sense makes it possible and necessary to keep the law of God. Evidently CRI thinks that Christian sanctification entails the possibility and necessity of keeping of God’s law. CRI is wrong at every turn!
We need to close with one more illustration of CRI’s masterful diversions and decoys. Notice how “favorable” Rome looks to the misguided eye in CRI’s summary given below:
“Trent states that our initial justification must be seen as a “gift.” Thus, it comes as a surprise to many Protestants that Roman Catholics believe that “if anyone shall say that man can be justified before God by his own works which are done…without divine grace through Christ Jesus: let him be anathema.” Further, “none of those things which precede justification, whether faith or works, merits the grace of justification. For if it is by grace, it is no more by works; otherwise, as the apostle says, grace is no more grace.”
The Bible does not teach an initial justification wrought by infant baptism. Hence there is no such thing as a “gift” of “initial” justification as taught by Rome. It simply is not the truth. It is Roman Catholic heresy. CRI then stupidly swallows the Roman Catholic bait. Without any stipulation that ‘initial” justification references the radical heresy of infant baptismal justification/regeneration, CRI comments that it comes as a surprise to Protestants that Catholics believe no man can be justified by his own works without divine grace! CRI overlooks that divine grace is called down by a priest in infant baptism. CRI omits that the infant is passive and hence no works can be included. CRI only slips in that this is Rome’s “initial justification.” CRI continues the mockery by adding a quote from the Council of Trent that nothing preceding justification, whether faith or works, merits the grace of justification. CRI ignores that these words are reserved for Rome’s first sense of “initial” infant baptismal justification.
Here is what CRI should have said to be honest and upfront.
“Trent states that Rome’s initial Justification found in her sacrament of infant baptismal justification/regeneration/salvation must be seen as a gift.”
CRI should have then remarked how clever Rome is in trying to include such a charade as the equivalent of the true grace alone justification, without works or merit cherished by all Christians. CRI instead continues the absurdity!
What does Rome really believe about justification? What is the nature of justification that really qualifies Rome’s devotees for heaven? How does one gain eternal life in Rome? Trent is explicit and unambiguous. Here is Trent with CRI muddying the waters.
“And, for this cause, life eternal is to be proposed to those working well unto the end, and hoping in God, both as a grace mercifully promised to the sons of God through Jesus Christ, and as a reward which is according to the promise of God Himself, to be faithfully rendered to their good works and merits” (Trent Chapter XVI). (Emphasis ours)
“…we must believe that nothing further is wanting to the justified, to prevent their being accounted to have, by those very works which have been done in God, fully satisfied the divine law according to the state of this life, and to have truly merited eternal life, to be obtained also in its (due) time, if so be, however, that they depart in grace:” (Trent Chapter XVI). (Emphasis ours)
Double-Minded (Part III)
In our previous two articles we endeavored to show the emptiness of CRI’s attempts to carefully articulate the differences between the Roman Catholic gospel and the Christian gospel. We have been careful to declare the distinctions as they really need to be stated. At the end of the day the Roman Catholic religion needs to be contrasted with Christianity. But CRI misses this mark by portraying the dispute as an in-house struggle between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
As we shall see this falls far short of the mark and ultimately devastates the gospel.
Furthermore CRI lumps Roman Catholicism together with Christianity by building a case that both believe in salvation “by grace” in some sense. We have labored to show that this sort of lumping together can only be done when biblical definitions are either ignored or shattered in favor of ecumenism.
In this article we will enlist the help of CRI to actually prove our case against Rome. We will essentially show you how CRI systematically reveals the lifeless no hope gospel according to Rome. We will also sadly demonstrate to you exactly how CRI annihilates the very foundations of the Christian gospel. CRI does so by maintaining that one can disbelieve the essence of the gospel, construct a contradictory religion, and yet have it still deemed to be Christianity.
We have already specified why it is impossible for CRI to convince us that Roman Catholic theology and doctrine is Christian. Here we shall essentially, by way of analogy, show you how CRI proves to us that 2 plus 2 equals 4 and that this is certain, pure, exact, correct, and true math. However CRI will also tell us if 2 plus 2 equals 5, in the view of others, that this too is ‘good enough’ math but simply less pure, less truthful, less accurate but nevertheless perfectly reliable arithmetic.
We begin this segment by scrutinizing the conclusions CRI arrives at in their attempt to categorize Roman Catholicism as Christian. CRI has to do this while at the same time dealing with the fatal dissimilarities between Roman Catholic doctrine and Christianity. CRI starts out well enough. This is their opening statement. One would think the conversation would be over, based upon this one statement of CRI. But CRI will not let it be over and done.
“With all due recognition of the common Augustinian core of salvation by grace, there are some important differences between the Roman Catholic and evangelical Protestant views of justification. Unfortunately, the well‐intentioned but unsuccessful recent statement, “Evangelicals and Catholics Together,” lacked precision in these very areas, speaking of a common belief that “we are justified by grace through faith.” What it failed to note, however, is what the Reformation was fought over, namely, that Scripture teaches, and Protestants affirm, that we are saved by grace through faith alone (sola fide). Since this was the heart cry of the Reformation, many evangelicals refuse to sign the statement, believing it would betray the Reformation.” (Emphasis ours)
We have already analyzed CRI’s propensity to make “nebulous grace” the core of salvation. They stay consistent here as well. At the risk of repetition, we would remind the reader that “grace” undefined is grace abused and void of any relationship to the gospel. Also we take note that the battle is once again stated to be between evangelical Protestants and Rome. It should be between Rome and Christianity. This error is a common theme throughout CRI writing.
Now we stand amazed that CRI can state boldly that “Roman Catholics and evangelicals share a common core of beliefs about salvation” on page 1 and on page 7 that “there are important differences between the Roman Catholic and evangelical Protestant views of justification.” Evidently the doctrine of justification, according to CRI, does not qualify as part of the common core beliefs about salvation!
The important “difference” with respect to justification, according to CRI, is salvation by grace through faith alone! We must ask the question, “If we reject salvation by grace through faith alone are we not rejecting the Christian gospel?” And Rome, since they do reject salvation by grace through faith alone, are they not rejecting the Christian gospel? And so how can a religion be Christian that rejects the Christian gospel?
Remarkably at this point CRI builds a solid and biblical case for the true Christian gospel. CRI is aware that justification is a declarative act of God wherein the guilty party is declared acquitted based upon the righteous fulfillment of all debts to the law by another. This is forensic justification based upon the imputation of the righteousness of Jesus Christ in the declaration of justification. This status is gained by faith alone. The Roman Catholic religion rejects all of this.
As we have seen the Roman Catholic religion has two senses of justification and redefines grace as infused righteousness, etc. So, Rome denies and rejects justification by faith alone. Rome also repudiates that the righteousness of Jesus Christ is the only ground of forensic justification. Hence Rome renounces, and disavows the Christian gospel! Here is the case built by CRI against Rome!
“Turning to the New Testament, the Greek verb translated “to justify” is dikaioó. This word is used by Paul in a forensic or legal sense; the sinner is declared to be righteous (cf. Rom. 3‐4). As Anthony Hoekema observes, “The opposite of condemnation, however, is not ‘making righteous’ but ‘declaring righteous.’” Therefore, by dikaioó, Paul means the “legal imputation of the righteousness of Christ to the believing sinner.” When a person is justified, God pronounces that one acquitted ‐ in advance of the final judgment. Therefore, “the resulting righteousness is not ethical perfection; it is ‘sinlessness’ in the sense that God no longer counts a man’s sin against him (II Cor. 5:19).”37 Thus we find in the New Testament that “justification is the declarative act of God by which, on the basis of the sufficiency of Christ’s atoning death, he pronounces believers to have fulfilled all of the requirements of the law which pertain to them” (emphasis in original).”
What is absolutely mind boggling is that Rome repudiates all of the above proof of a biblical definition of justification and salvation. Rome thus renounces the very heart of Christianity. We ask, “What is more important than this when it comes to categorizing an entity as a non-Christian religion?”
CRI sensing that Rome is the polar opposite of what they now affirm about the gospel pounces upon Rome’s concept of merit and grace. Here is their summary.
“Much criticism of the Catholic view of justification revolves around the concept of merit that was elevated by Trent to the status of infallible dogma. While Catholics wish to remind us that the whole doctrine of merit should be viewed in the context of grace, they overlook the fact that Scripture teaches that grace and meritorious works are mutually exclusive (e.g., Rom. 11:6). The New Testament clearly speaks against obtaining salvation (whether justification or sanctification) as a “reward” (i.e., wage) for work done. For the Scriptures insist that gifts cannot be worked for; only wages can (Rom. 4:4‐5). Grace means unmerited favor, and reward based on works is merited. Hence, grace and works are no more coherent than is an unmerited merit! Eternal Life Is a Gift That Cannot Be Merited” (Emphasis ours)
CRI informs us that Scripture teaches clearly against Rome’s view of justification, salvation, eternal life, and Rome’s view of works. CRI offers us subtitles like, “Eternal Life Is a Gift That Cannot Be Merited”, and Christians Work from Salvation, Not for It.” CRI articulates with exactness and clarity the slander of Roman Catholic theology. CRI even takes the time to correctly quote the Council of Trent to divulge the true nature of the Roman Catholic gospel. All of this is communicated to us under the general subtitle: “A PROTESTANT CRITIQUE OF TRENT.”
One would think that all of this deserved criticism and exposure of Rome’s defiant rejection of salvation by grace through faith alone would easily put Roman Catholicism in the league of non-Christian religions. But we are reminded of the conclusions expressed in our first article. CRI clearly states that “These divergent views, however, do not warrant classifying Catholicism as a non-Christian religion or cult.”
Defying all reason CRI concludes this section with the following:
“We conclude by noting that Protestants, following the clear biblical distinction between forensic justification and practical sanctification, make the way of salvation much clearer and preserve the doctrine of grace (which Catholics also claim) in a much purer form. For once believers know they have right standing before God (=’s are justified) by faith alone apart from works, then their minds are not cluttered with works they must perform in order to know all their sins are forgiven (past, present, and future) and they are on their way to heaven. While Catholicism acknowledges that there is an initial act of justification (which some even admit includes a forensic act), nevertheless, it also maintains that one must work to faithfully avoid mortal sin in order to achieve final justification before God. Thus, works are ultimately necessary for salvation. But this is contrary to the biblical teaching that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone, based on Christ alone. And, despite Catholic protest to the contrary, this is not conducive to the assurance of salvation by which we “know… [we] have eternal life” (1 John 5:13), and by which we are connected to God by His inseparable love (Rom. 8:1, 36‐39).” (Emphasis ours)
Before we summarize let us consider what CRI really is saying about the dogma of Roman Catholicism at this critical juncture.
Protestants (deliberately avoiding the use of the word Christians) merely make the way of salvation much clearer and merely preserve the doctrine of grace in a much purer form.
The advantage of Protestants is that their minds are not cluttered with works they must perform in order to know all their sins are forgiven.
Catholics must believe that works are necessary for salvation.
This is contrary to biblical teaching that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone.
The Catholic view is not conducive to the assurance of salvation
Bottom line is that CRI gives the impression that despite rank heresy and utter disregard for the grace of God and the foundation of Christianity Roman Catholics are only to envy Protestants because they make salvation clearer and grace clearer! Protestants unlike Catholics do not have minds cluttered with works salvation. Catholic beliefs are contrary to biblical teaching. Catholic beliefs are not conducive (could CRI be more euphemistic?) to the assurance of salvation.
We submit that here in capsule form is a microcosm of all that is wrong with CRI and all other organizations of their ilk. The evangelical world is always subject to scandals of one kind or another. High profile leaders and movements that start strong often fall and bring disgrace to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Sin is not eliminated from the Body of Christ and the fall-out is sometimes painful to bear. But perhaps the biggest indignity of our day is the scandal of deceit and cowardice fueled by fear and a desire to be accepted broadly. We think that CRI has undermined all things sacred and torn asunder the foundation of Christianity. We think CRI has deliberately encouraged others to close their eyes to their own evidence and turn their back on the obvious conclusions that are right in front of them. This has resulted in an atmosphere whereby the entire gospel of Christianity is relegated to a subjective choosing of one’s whim.
With CRI leading the way Christianity is whatever anyone wants it to be. Dispense with faith alone? No problem. Pass over distortions of grace? No worry. Mangle and mutilate the essence of justification? No big deal. Build a bizarre religion based upon eating Jesus who has been transformed into a wafer and selling the whacky lie of purgatory? Relax! Declaring a human being as the Vicar of Christ on earth? Chill out. But most importantly, build your own gospel replete with man-made grace, an army of priests performing voodoo like religious rituals, and duping people out any hope for heaven? Whatever, it’s all Christian in the end.
According to CRI all that the Protestant Reformation really did was make the way of salvation much clearer and preserve grace in a much purer form. May God help us! Is this what thousands of Christians gave up their lives for? Call home the missionaries to Italy, Mexico, Central and South America along with Spain and France. Rome is now proclaimed to be OK. Rome simply does not have as pure an understanding of salvation or grace. No problem.
Those who rely on CRI for direction in this matter are stepping into the world of Oz. Despite stating emphatically that Roman Catholicism believes in a works salvation CRI maintains that it is a Christian religion. Could the disgrace be more devastating to the gospel? We think not.
A Note of caution: In reviewing the data presented in these three articles it appears that the fundamental mistake of CRI is to think that “salvation by grace” is the gospel. We have spent significant time on this already. However we caution the reader that the use of the word “grace” and perhaps the word “baptism” in religious circles have become clueless catch phrases used to dumb down and essentially replace biblical Christianity. There are many who are comfortable with religious rituals and mindless ceremonies. When infatuated by such outward religious trappings the fence protecting an honest investigation of the truth from the Bible alone gets higher and higher with each new generation.
Rob Zins
I hope that these three well thought-out and well-presented articles by Rob Zins will clearly illustrate the misleading and spiritually dangerous ‘verdict’ passed upon Roman Catholicism by the Christian Research Institute.
As I mentioned in the second paragraph of this article CRI published their articles in 1993, some 4 years after the death of Dr Martin in 1989. Prior to his death Dr Martin had publicly debated on the John Ankerberg show with Jesuit priest, Mitchell Pacwa on the subject of ‘Purgatory’.
In 1991 CRI included in their ministry magazine an article by Mitchell Pacwa giving information on ‘The Enneagram’ – many of the factual/historical details in the article are informative but I would seriously question whether Dr Martin would have approved of such a publication, particularly in the light of his public debate and rejection of the views of Mr Pacwa, not only on purgatory, but also on the crucial issue of ‘justification’.
It seems to me that perhaps the seeds of compromise by CRI on the subject of Roman Catholicism were sown with the publication of that article by Mr Pacwa in 1991 and then came to ‘full-bloom’ with the articles they then published in 1993.
Perhaps the moral of this story is for God’s people to check out every such publication, from whatever source, because past reputation is not something to be totally relied on – and I encourage similar ‘scrutiny’ when it comes to any article put out in the public domain by ‘Take Heed’.
Cecil Andrews – ‘Take Heed’ Ministries – 2nd April 2016
This entry was posted in Assorted Articles, CRI, Current Concerns, Papacy, Rob Zins, Roman Catholicism, Take Heed Ministries on April 2, 2016 by takeheed.
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Spry will be sworn in at the next meeting and will serve until the seat is up for election in April.
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January 11, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: Preview
SDE’s annual tradition is upon us. A chance to take a peak into the future and examine what the next 12 months might hold for music fans who enjoy reissues and box sets.
What follows – spoiler alert – is a look at reissues-yet-to-come. Both confirmed releases for the early part of 2019 and then a look at what is likely to happen or what could happen later on. Enjoy!
Okay, we’re a bit into January already, but the Paul Young CBS Singles Collection 1982-1994 box is almost due and I’m delighted with it, having worked on this for Demon Music… as others have commented this kind of CD single box which gathers up all the single-related rarities and remixes is very much regarded as the ‘dream’ box set for whoever-your-favourite-artist-may-be. This month the Buzzcocks anniversary vinyl is released and of course there’s much sadness in the fact that Pete Shelley is no longer with us. The Vangelis album is probably worth a punt and Demon Records are also busy with a couple of ‘spoken word’ sets… I’m particularly looking forward to the Alan Partridge vinyl box.
Reissues, box sets and albums of interest in January include:
Vangelis / Nocture (new album)
Juliana Hatfield / Weird (new album)
Knowing Me Knowing You Alan Partridge (3LP vinyl box)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy / Tertiary Phase (3LP)
Paul Young / The CBS Singles Collection 1982-1994 (19CD+DVD box)
Buzzcocks / 40th anniversary deluxe vinyl
Steve Hackett / At The Edge Of Light
No vinyl announced as yet for Trevor Horn‘s album, which is rather usual, although some people might regard that as refreshing, given just how much vinyl is on offer in February. There are also still signed copies available from his site, which is a bit of a no-brainer if you want to pick this title up, although do remember a special Japanese 2CD edition with a disc of instrumentals is also available for a premium. Some class acts listed below including Prince, David Sylvian and The Cardigans. The fact that those Prince albums have NEVER been pressed on vinyl before definitely adds to the excitement and of course they are purple vinyl pressings (yes, it’a bit cliched, but then most people buy a red Ferrari).
Reissues, box sets and albums of interest in February include:
Trevor Horn… Reimagines The Eighties (CD)
David Bowie / ‘Loving The Alien’ remasters
The Cardigans / Remastered vinyl
David Sylvian / deluxe vinyl reissues
Dead Or Alive / Nude limited coloured vinyl
Prince / Musicology, 3121 and Planet Earth purple vinyl
Gary Crowley’s Lost 80s (4CD or 3LP compilation)
Phil Collins / Serious Hits Live
Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient & New Age Music 1980-1990
Queen / Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack on 2LP vinyl
Elvis / The Best of The ’68 Comeback Special
U2 / No Line On The Horizon vinyl reissue
Josef K / vinyl reissues
Prefab Sprout / I Trawl The Megahertz
Reissues, box sets and albums of interest in March include:
The Yardbird / Live and Rare 4CD+DVD
Snow Patrol / When It’s All Over We Still Have To Clear Up (vinyl)
Steven Wilson / Home Invasion:Live at the Royal Albert Hall (5LP)
Alphaville / Forever Young super deluxe
Leo Sayer / The Hollywood Years
APRIL 2019 & BEYOND
There will definitely be Pink Floyd releases this year. A second pressing of the Wish You Were Here SACD is already out and The Dark Side of the Moon is getting the same treatment. But what we’re really waiting for is Animals. The 5.1 surround mix has already been confirmed by Roger Waters, so I’m expecting to see that during 2019.
So what on earth is happening with Tears For Fears? For the last three years I’ve been saying we might see a Seeds of Love reissue and it has conspicuously failed to arrive. As a reminder, like The Hurting and Songs From The Big Chair reissues – which were issued in 2013 and 2014 respectively – I was involved in helping to compile The Seeds of Love reissue, and research bonus material back in 2015. I know what’s on it and it’s amazing! Steven Wilson completed the 5.1 mix in that same year. The work has been done but the band have been working on a new album for the best part of FIVE YEARS and it seems they can’t decide what gets priority. Things were looking great at the end of 2017 with the Rule The World greatest hits, the Royal Albert Hall show and some new material (particularly I Love You But I’m Lost ) but the momentum was somewhat lost with last year’s postponed dates. Another tour is due to start in February, but worryingly Curt has tweeted some messages in the last few days that suggests all is not happy in the TFF camp right now. I don’t know what’s going on, but I do know that 2019 is the 30th anniversary of The Seeds of Love and if the box set doesn’t come out this year, then we should all just pack up and go home.
2018 was also a disappointing year for INXS fans. The Kick re-re-reissue of 2017 was excellent and it seemed like that was laying the foundations for a wider archival campaign that would deliver deluxe editions for other great albums like Welcome To Wherever You Are. We actually know that this is going to happen at some point, because in late spring last year it was announced that Giles Martin would be INXS’s ‘executive music director’ and role which amongst other things involved overseeing “the reissue of their studio albums, which will be repackaged, remixed and expanded for release through Universal Music Group (UMG) in partnership with Petrol Records.” Well, if we get one album every two years this is going to take an age. Perhaps they will reissue a batch together, as was done for Crowded House in 2017. The thing is, Giles Martin has only got so much time; he is already ‘Head of Audio & Sound’ for Universal Music Group and ‘Head of Sound Experience’ for Sonos. That’s two ‘heads’ straight off the bat. If we’re not careful, someone will shove a broom up his arse as he’s wandering around Abbey Road Studios and give him a ‘Head of Sweeping the Floor’ title! The reality is that with Universal as his paymasters, The Beatles will always get priority over INXS. Surround sound fans should be pleased though, because Martin is an enthusiast and he has lots of influence.
Talking of the Fab Four, after consecutive years with excellent expansive 50th anniversary reissues (Sgt. Pepper and ‘The White Album’) I expect this to continue in 2019 with a similar look at The Beatles‘ 1969 album Abbey Road. A release in September is likely with an announcement perhaps around June time and maybe in 2020 we’ll finally get the Let It Be reissue everyone has been waiting for.
Paddy McAloon’s I Trawl The Megahertz becomes a Prefab Sprout album in February but more reissues are rumoured for 2019. This is very exciting news of course, since the band’s catalogue is LONG overdue for reissue, although to be clear, we don’t want acoustic versions of all the albums as bonus material, Paddy! (see the Steve McQueen two-CD set in 2007). We want would like is a comprehensive selection of B-sides, remixes, rarities, demos and video content.
The Police vinyl box that emerged late last year was welcome but also acted as a reminder that, like Prefab Sprout, we really need expanded deluxe editions of the individual albums (or some kind of rarities box). The good news is that while unboxing the vinyl set recently, drummer Stewart Copeland said “pretty much everything on there has been heard one way or the other, so it’s not new. For new, unheard tracks there’ll be more coming down the pipe”. Reggatta De Blanc is 40 years old this year, so watch this space.
When it comes to his own back catalogue, Sting has also been rather negligent. While we’d all love to see an expanded The Dream of the Blue Turtles, or Nothing Like The Sun, what we are going to get in 2019 is an album of ‘reimagined’ (posh word for re-recorded) versions of some of his songs. This ties in with his ‘My Songs’ tour and a new version of 1999’s Brand New Day is already available to stream and download.
What we do know we’re getting is a Blondie box set, because Universal have already told us! We even know the details: all six albums remastered and two bonus albums with rare tracks and “previously unreleased curiosities”. Thankfully this will be released on CD as well vinyl. This set is expected in the autumn.
2018 was the seventh consecutive year where Duran Duran didn’t reissue any album or put out any kind of archival box set project and I’m not expecting that to change in 2019. The band continue to destroy their legacy and alienate their fanbase by ignoring their past and fussing over new albums, which take an age to record and often try, in vain, to keep the band sounding ‘hip’ and current (the disappointing Paper Gods included collaborations with Mr Hudson, Kiesza, Janelle Monáe and Jonas Bjerre). I still love some of their music, but personally I’ve really gone off the band. They are so out of touch and would do well to remember that their fans are 40 and 50-year olds many of whom still enjoy buying physical music and reissues. The band have issued nine albums since (and including) 1990’s Liberty and none of them have been reissued or remastered. These includes wilderness years flops like Pop Trash (2000), big hits like ‘The Wedding Album‘ (1993) and the still-unreleased-in-the-UK Medazzaland (1997) What are they doing?!
As reported last year, ABBA have recorded two new songs – something Benny and Bjorn described as “an extremely joyful experience” – but these have now been delayed and won’t be made available until probably the summer of 2019. How these tracks will be delivered is the interesting question. Will they record a few more and come up with ABBA’s first studio album of new material since 1981’s The Visitors (yes, please), or will they be tacked onto an updated greatest hits (no, thanks).
The stall appears to have been set out by Parlophone and David Bowie‘s team already for 2019 with the announcement about the Spying Through A Keyhole box set. This year looks to be about 50th anniversaries; the ‘Space Oddity’ single, the David Bowie/Space Oddity album. Maybe they are taking a break from the ‘era’ mega boxes that we’ve enjoyed for the last four years.
I expect we’ll see some more Paul McCartney archive reissues around October time, perhaps Flaming Pie or maybe Paul will ‘finish off’ the 1970s with a London Town / Back To The Egg pairing. We have been promised an Egypt Station super deluxe so we should hear more on that in the next few months. We may also get some more of those ad hoc coloured vinyl reissues in the summer.
Having worked through their catalogue (very successfully) on vinyl, do Sony have further plans for Eurythmics? The only obvious anniversaries are the 30th for We Too Are One (no one wants to start there) and the 35th anniversary for 1984 (For The Love Of Big Brother). Universal own the latter but didn’t even bother issuing a proper black vinyl edition after the RSD red vinyl last year, even though Dave Stewart said he would “campaign for it” when I spoke to him last year. So that’s currently out of print.
Although non-tory-voter Kate Bush appears to have been relatively busy of late (Before The Dawn, live album, reissues) it has actually been over seven years since her last studio album, 50 Words For Snow. This gap is beaten only by the 12 years between The Red Shoes and Aerial. Only a fool would predict when a new Kate Bush album will arrive, but I have a sneaky suspicion (not a prediction!) that something could emerge in the next 12 months. There’s obviously LOADS of things she could do in terms of archival projects, such as issue a blu-ray of promo videos and TV appearances, start a Kate-in-5.1 surround sound campaign, put out an updated and revised Whole Story compilation, restore and reissue her Live at Hammersmith Odeon video (the ‘Live On Stage’ EP was noticeable by its absence on the reissues). Anyone for a 30th anniversary Sensual World super deluxe?
Lloyd Cole is currently mixing a new album in Berlin, and Howard Jones will also release a new long-player called Transform in May. It’s quite likely that we will see further HoJo (as nobody refers to him) reissues from Cherry Red in the second part of 2019, while Lloyd has been making noises about a possible vinyl set for a while, but I don’t think Universal want to do it, so he needs to find a label that will license it from them.
a-ha are back on tour in 2019 playing the Hunting High and Low album in full. After the 2015 super deluxe, there’s not much more to do with that record (save for a possible 5.1 mix, if the tapes are still available) but ‘Take On Me’ is 35 years old this year – it was issued in 1984 before it became a hit in 1985 – and we may see some kind of limited physical release around that. In terms of other albums, we are still waiting on the deluxe reissues (likely to be 2CD) of 200o’s Major Earth Minor Sky and Lifelines (2002). Although they are basically done, I’ve asked Paul Waaktaar-Savoy about these twice and he refuses to commit to a date!
If Neil Young is to be believed then we will finally see volume two of his fabled archives series in May, although this is not one you want to hold your breath over, because Mr Daryl Hannah isn’t the most reliable witness. I said last year that I didn’t see much happening with George Michael and/or Wham! reissues and that proved to be correct – nothing happened. I would love to say that the control-freakery and missed opportunities of the past (see: “For The Loyal” on ’25’) will be left behind but I fear not. I am the ghost of GM reissues-to-come and taking AGES over things and then not getting them right is what I foresee.
Paul Sinclair. Editor, SuperDeluxeEdition.com.
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Ryk says:
In addition to the aforementioned anticipated new album releases (The Cure, Cheap Trick, Jeff Lynne) and my hopes of new material this year from some other favourites (OMD, Tears for Fears, the 1975), there are now confirmed first-half-of-2019 new album releases for more of my favourite artists (Marianas Trench, Howard Jones, Alan Parsons, and Jimmy Barnes), and it’s not even March. This is gonna be awesome!
Julian H says:
Status Quo should also continue with their deluxe edition series – Perfect Remedy, Rock ‘Til You Drop and Thirsty Work are being worked on.
You didn’t correct the Yardbirds typo… and what is this supposed to mean? “We want would like is….” I can understand what you’re saying but proper grammar it ain’t! ;-)
As always, thanks for all the work you put into your articles!
Martijn says:
Some good Janet Jackson remasters and deluxe edition are very, very overdue.
God, I laughed out loud when I read that comment about Giles! Well done Paul! XD
Too bad about TFF, they are starting to frustrate me a bit.
You wrote “Yardbird” btw, minor typo but still, one that stuck out to me ;-)
Gman says:
Thats what i am quite some Years hoping for a CD Release:
The Sundays – all Albums + Singles, etc. in a Box Collected.
Sade – all Albums + Singles, etc. in a Box Collected. (80`s Stuff).
Wham! – all Albums + Singles, etc. in a Box Collected.
The Police – all Albums + Singles, etc. in a Box Collected.
Tears For Fears – The Seeds Of Love (We all know it here…!!!)
Chris & Cosey – Allotropy.
Blank & Jones – So80s 12
Rainbirds – Call me easy, say i`m strong, love me my Way, it ain`t wrong Deluxe Edition.
Burial – All Stuff collected so far…
Prince – Parade Deluxe Edition
Being dissappointed with Erasure – Wild! RM Tracklist comes out in March!!!
Reuben Kranz says:
Haven’t read the 400+ previous comments and replies but I would personally love to see some kind of KLF / The JAMMs reissue campaign. Deluxe editions? Comprehensive sets of remixes and b-sides for each single? Pure Trance? Space? Chill Out?
A plethora of great and obscure material that deserves to see the light of day once more. Who’s with me???
Funny you should mention the JAMMs as I have just rescued an old tape of “1987 – What the Fuck is going on?” and listening to it now all I can hear is David Tennant on speed ranting away like a good lunatic. Then when Julie Andrews kicks in, well, perfection.
High on a hill was a lonely goatherd
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo…..
Neil Kelly says:
I have a prediction for 2019…
Madonna forgetting her back catalogue as usual. Why not a 4 CD complete singles collection with all UK single mixes? Such a crying shame!
I don’t know why Duran Duran haven’t issued a proper 2 CD singles collection which includes all UK singles in their single mixes. I bet the excellent ‘Burning the ground’ sounds pretty crap now and doubt many have heard it. Think it only appeared on CD single (and the other poorer formats). Another shame.
Burning The Ground is on The Biggest And The Best released in 2012.
Sasch says:
Ok, I’m a little late but nonetheless here’s my wishlist for reissues/remasters on CD (!) in 2019 :
First of all : The Cure picking up their reissue campaign with “Wish”.
Modern Eon – Fiction Tales + Singles + B-Sides
Siglo XX – Flower for the rebels
Siglo XX – Fear and desire
Siglo XX – Antler Tracks I & II
Balaam & The Angel – Sun Family
Sex Gang Children – Song and Legend
Exces Nocturne – 86-06
Mecano – The Half Inch Universe
Little Nemo – Vol.1 & Vol.2
Current 93 – Christ And The Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow
Obviously, my choice lays on the dark side of the moon. ;)
What do I expect in 2019 ?
Of course, NONE of this.
Cherry Red, do something !!!
Forgot to mention some poppy tunes :
Blue Zoo – Somewhere in the world
Real Life – Heartland
Real Life – Flame
Madness – The Madness Deluxe
Madness – Mad not mad Deluxe
Mad not mad came out as 2 CD 1 DVD i know it’s not rare. Gutting really as i note i purchased mine online at HMV as a pre-order. It was only 8.99
Aevion says:
Mad Not Mad was already remastered and expanded in 2010 along with the albums before it and Wonderful. Would love to see The Madness done though (the set looks so wrong without it!).
psykomyko says:
No major band needs a proper reissue campaign more than Oingo Boingo.
Maybe ABBA will finally finish “Just Like That”?
Oingo Boingo….???
I remember them from Rodney Dangerfield’s film “Back to School”…!!
The Misnomers says:
Oingo Boingo is one of the most underrated bands ever! I totally agree they need remasters and reissues!
Violent Femmes are also very underrated and they could do with some reissues.
Saw an interview with Danny Elfman online and he was asked about remasters and he said there was no need to remaster them… Would be great to get them out on multi-CD sets including the original 10″ with all the non-LP edits/remixes/soundtrack contributions etc.
Oh and now that I’m off my soapbox, here’s some stuff I would love to see/I’m really looking forward to:
Smashing Pumpkins – Machina/machina II massive box
The cure – wish (hopefully it’s 3 discs and is the exact same format as all that has come before!!)… personal gripe: why do bands/labels start making a bunch of sets and then change the physical presentation midway?! Main culprits: U2 (beautiful books in hard case until JT and then AB doesn’t even have an option that matched!); REM; Depeche Mode (awesome sets all identically and then they put out PTA in that freaky 2disc pile jewel case… but at least they kept up surround mixes until they didn’t in the last release… still hoping 5.1 for Spirits in some form in 2019!!!)
Cure – wild mood swings deluxe
Cure – bloodflowers deluxe
Cure – self titled deluxe
Cure – 4:13 Dream deluxe (with unreleased second album – 4 discs?! At least 3)
Depeche Mode – Spirits 5.1
Coldplay – box set of all b-sides and remixes so far would be amazing. Include everything.
Beatles – 5.1 mixes in affordable sets
The Briefs – 2 disc set of all sides and eps!
The Creatures – complete box set in same fashion as the Siouxsie budget boxes or the Siouxsie bbc box!
Foo Fighters: bsides box. Rare meat is too rare and too many versions without darling Nikki. Give us everything!
Morrissey – low in high school deluxe on CD!
Verve – forth super deluxe like all the other albums!!
Here are a couple that are way less likely but someone needs to say it:
Glass Tiger – 5.1 mix and complete output box!!
OMD – pacific age 5.1
Seahorses (John squire of Stone Roses): complete box including the lost album and all bsides
Falco – 3: 5.1 mix and for the love of all things holy include the freakin salieri mix in all its glory remixed in 5.1!!
Easyworld: complete output box + blue ray
Kooks – bsides collection
Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon collie box in same format as all the others!!!
U2 – achtung baby box in same format as first 6 boxes
U2 – rattle & hum in same format but 3-4 discs for all bsides, rarities and blu ray of film
U2 – pop; atyclb; htdaab; nloth; and combined songs of innocence/experience all in same format!!
Until December – 5.1 mix!
The Misnomers – complete box… this is very unlikely but it would include the total output because the demand is so high for that!
stephen gilmour says:
Not that most of us don’t have diverse music tastes and I’m all in favour – but was there really a poster here claiming they’re looking forward to the upcoming Crimson boxes AND also looking forward to Bronski Beat reissues………
bertielego says:
Excellent click bait, to which I won’t resist.
Yes, my collection embraces various styles and artists – from Bronski Beat to King Crimson, from experimental Cabaret Voltaire to commercial Cabaret Voltaire, from Mike Oldfield to The Prodigy, from 70’s Donna to 80’s Donna, from one David Bowie phase to another, from the Rolling Stones to Layo & Bushwacka!, From Clan Of Xymox to Xymox and back, from Jean-Michel Jarre to Seal, from Kraftwerk to Everything But The Girl, From The Beatles to Bananarama, from Yes to Nouvelle Vague, from Jane Birkin to Daft Punk…
…yet they are all confined to one overarching cluster, popular music. I have yet to get into other genres, such as classical and jazz, two worlds on their own.
So I would like to say I love this site and I love deluxe box sets, sometimes. Sometimes, though, I wish there could be more attainable versions of some of these sets. Specifically, the Beatles sets are massive and quite frankly I don’t need 39 demos of the same song but I would love to hear the albums in surround. Shame they make a 2 disc version but it includes a bunch of versions instead of the surround as the 2nd disc! I would buy many more sets if the bonus included the 5.1 mix and if I didn’t have to shell out $150 for for it! That’s what I’m hoping for in 2019!
Alejandro Araujo says:
Eric Clapton “Journeyman” 30th Anniversary
As a huge Blondie fan, I’m excited about the box set and it made me realise how much I’d love to see Debbie Harry’s solo output get a similar treatment. Her solo career is undoubtedly overshadowed by Blondie’s success, which is a pity because her material is pretty damn good. A box set of albums with bonus material (remixes, b-sides, etc), or a reissue campaign focusing on each album would be welcomed by me. A singles box would be awesome too.
I’d also love to have a DVD of videos, performances, etc. There are a few DVDs of Blondie videos, but AFAIK there’s never been an official home-video collection of Debbie’s clips. The closest thing we have is “The Complete Picture”, but that’s nearly 30 years old, only on VHS and mostly Blondie clips. Perhaps it’s time for a complete “Complete Picture” DVD – a 2 disc set featuring all Blondie videos on one disc and all Debbie’s videos on the other.
Perhaps 2019 will be the year that Deborah Harry and Kate Bush update ‘The (in)Complete Picture’ and ‘The (never was) Whole Story’
Plus 2019 would be the 30th Anniversary of “Def, Dumb And Blonde” – a good excuse for a Super Deluxe Edition!
I tried to do a Blondie/Debbie Harry Remixes & Rarities for Cherry Red…
Oh man, that would be the best!
I heard the band were having ownership issues with their material. Disputes with record company/ies over control/rights/etc. I think they only recently sorted them out which is how the forthcoming box set was finally able to happen. They have had a few remix albums in the past so hopefully they would be open to your idea.
Michael J says:
Nancy, cheers for the comprehensive anniversary dates!
Curious if anyone knows or has thoughts around which anniversary triggers the most SDEs. Granted there are only a few 50s, a growing number of 40s and several 30s on down. Are there more 20th celebrations or do more wait for the 25th? Outside of those artists that seeming put out new editions every 5 years post the 10th, it’d be trivial, but interesting to know. Thoughts?
You’re welcome, Michael J!
I can do the 25th, 35th and 45th anniversary lists as well, as they are the most common ones among the reissues if you and all other SDE readers want.
Also, I forgot to mention the same titled second David Bowie album in my “Classic” Albums Turning 50 in 2019 section as well.
Simple Minds – Street Fighting Years 30th Anniversary
With the Verona EP and the Ballad of the Streets and something from the tour. I don’t ask for much. :)
Albums turning 10 in 2019:
White Lies – To Lose My Life
Bruce Springsteen – Working On A Dream
Franz Ferdinand – Tonight : Franz Ferdinand
Lily Allen – It’s Not Me It’s You
Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream
Morrissey – Years Of Refusal
Prodigy – Invaders Must Die
U2 – No Line On The Horizon
Taylor Swift – Fearless
Pet Shop Boys – Yes
Doves – Kingdom Of Rust
Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
Depeche Mode – Sounds Of The Universe
Noisettes – Wild Young Hearts
Bob Dylan – Together Through Life
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
Maximo Park – Quicken The Heart
Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers
Simple Minds – Graffiti Soul
Paolo Nutini – Sunny Side Up
Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Black Eyed Peas – The END
Little Boots – Hands
Placebo – Battle For The Sun
Jack Penate – Everything Is New
La Roux – La Roux
Florence & The Machine – Lungs
A-Ha – Foot Of The Mountain
Calvin Harris – Ready For The Weekend
Simian Mobile Disco – Temporary Pleasure
David Guetta – One Love
Jamie T – Kings And Queens
Muse – The Resistance
Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
Pixie Lott – Turn It Up
Dizzee Rascal – Tongue N’ Cheek
Pearl Jam – Backspacer
Paramore – Brand New Eyes
Editors – In This Light And On This Evening
Shakira – She Wolf
Cheryl Cole – 3 Words
Robbie Williams – Reality Killed The Video Star
Snow Patrol – Up To Now
Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
Rihanna – Rated R
Alicia Keys – The Element Of Freedom
Derek Langsford says:
Thanks Nancy for all the anniversary lists, not only this year but past years. Really tells me a lot about how well I have kept up with music which is to say not very well at all. I am familiar with most 30th and 40th anniversary albums, have heard of most 50th, but the 20th and 10th anniversaries are albums and artists I am mostly not familiar with with just a few notable exceptions.
“Classic” albums turning 60 in 2019:
Elvis Presley – Elvis (Rock ‘N’ Roll No. 1)
Cliff Richard & The Drifters – Cliff
Buddy Holly & The Crickets – The Buddy Holly Story
Frank Sinatra with Billy May & His Orchestra – Come Dance With Me!
Duane Eddy – Have Twangy Guitar Will Travel
Elvis Presley – A Date With Elvis
Frank Sinatra – Look To Your Heart
Duane Eddy – Specially For You
Cliff Richard & The Shadows – Cliff Sings
Russ Conway – Time To Celebrate
Beatles featuring The George Martin Orchestra – Yellow Submarine
Diana Ross & The Supremes – Love Child
Ten Years After – Stonedhenge
Mary Hopkin – Postcard
Cream – Goodbye
Bee Gees – Odessa
Scott Walker – Scott 3
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin
Leonard Cohen – Songs From A Room
Moody Blues – On The Threshold Of A Dream
Bob Dylan – Nashville Skyline
Frank Sinatra – My Way
Who – Tommy
Original Soundtrack – 2001 – A Space Odyssey
Val Doonican – The World Of Val Doonican
Ray Conniff – His Orchestra, His Chorus, His Singers, His Sound
Tom Jones – This Is Tom Jones
Elvis Presley – Elvis Sings Flaming Star
Jim Reeves – According To My Heart
Jethro Tull – Stand Up
Elvis Presley – From Elvis In Memphis
Blind Faith – Blind Faith
Nice – Nice
Beatles – Abbey Road
Ten Years After – Ssssh
King Crimson – In The Court Of The Crimson King
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin 2
Original Soundtrack – Easy Rider
Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed
Hey Paul, can you do this topic sticky for a while, please?
Torsten Moehling says:
I would like to have a deluxe treatment of „Celebration“ by Savage Progress, released in 1984.
smokin.joe says:
Really like to see the Jay Ferguson catalog back in print, even if a regular release.
My wish list for 2019 (not in any particular order; not a comprehensive list):
King Crimson (1) – The “Heaven And Earth” multi-format box set covering studio and live output from 1999 to 2008. Planned to come out in May, the cover alone looks amazing!
King Crimson (2) – The next yearly 2xCD volume in the “Elements (Tour Box)” series.
Pet Shop Boys – Time for a remix program, now that the “Further Listening” program is complete. Such remix program could take various forms.
First option: a series of 3xCD sets, with discs one and two containing vocal remixes, and disc three containing instrumental/dub mixes. A chronological approach similar to the “Further Listening” would be much appreciated; although each set should revolve around two albums, for a varied listening experience. Not all remixes would necessarily need to be there; but the previously unavailable on CD ones should be first choice!
Second option: a series of singles box sets, containing all mixes, a la Bananarama. PSB put out 50 singles on Parlophone, a series of three box sets would then be ideal.
Grace Jones – It’s been a while since the last box set… I would love to see another classic album get a multi-CD treatment, as well as a multi-LP treatment. “Slave To The Rhythm” preferably; although I would get very happy with “Living My Life” or even “Inside Story”.
Xymox – After this year’s excellent 2xCD and 2xLP reissues of 1989’s “Twist Of Shadows”, I am expecting 1991’s “Phoenix” to get a similar treatment.
Erasure – Planned for March, the 2xCD reissue of “Wild!” is something to look forward to, as it’ll contain about 5 previously unreleased tracks.
Soft Cell – Looking forward to receiving my copy of the limited edition “To Show You I’ve Been There” Book + 7inch EP, planned for April. The EP will feature four previously unreleased versions/tracks.
David Bowie – Looking forward to see two box sets come out, one side project dedicated to Tin Machine, and as the fifth in the DB series, a box set covering 1990 to 1995, including “Sound & Vision” live album, “Black Tie White Noise”, “The Buddha Of Suburbia”, “1.Outside”, a previously unreleased album made of Outside outtakes, a compilation of remixes (including ‘Fame 90’, ‘Sound & Vision’, ‘Real Cool World’ and mixes from singes from BTWN and Outside), and Re:Call 5.
David Bowie – I am also dreaming of a collection of 80’s mixes for RSD, those we didn’t get on “Dance”. Reissued a couple of month later on CD.
The Art Of Noise – The “Art Of Noise Adventure Series” is most likely going to provide us with great releases. The third volume, “Kiss”, and the fourth volume “Below the waste” are the next titles I both expect for 2019.
Orbital – Although that’s most likely not what’s in preparation for their 30th anniversary, I would love to see a 4xCD box set, covering 1989 to 1992. CD1: their first album, remastered. CD2: “Mutations” (both EPs). CD3 and CD4: all tracks, mixes and B-sides from the period singles (‘Chime’, ‘Omen’, ‘Midnight’, ‘Choice’…).
Simple Minds – The nice box sets series should continue with “Street Fighting Years”, for its 30th anniversary.
Jimmy Somerville – This month will see the Cherry Red release of a 3xCD expanded reissue of 1999’s “Manage The Damage”, boosting a lot of period remixes.
Bronski Beat – I wish Cherry Red would release an expanded reissue of (post Jimmy) Bronski Beat’s “Truthdare Doubledare”. It is not hard to imagine, since they released the latest album “The Age Of Reason”. Unless that’s something for Edsel to do…
Underworld – It is about time for a new reissue box set. I hope “Everything, Everything” won’t be skipped because it is a live album. Picture this: an extended 2xCD version of the album, with live tracks gathered across multiple dates; a CD of studio remixes from 1999-2000 including “Cowgirl” and some mixes that were featured on the previous box set; and a DVD and/or BD reissue of the original period video… Otherwise, a 4xCD set of “A Hundred Days Off” will do of course!
Blank & Jones (1) – A follow up to “#Whatwedoatnight” would be more than welcome… This amazing electro house album from 2017 is what I played most in my car in 2018. Amazing stuff that needs some follow up, badly.
Blank & Jones (2) – And what about “So80s” volume 12? Always a pleasure to get a new volume from that series…
Alphaville – Even if I own both the “Dreamscape” box set and “So80s Presents Alphaville”, I would love to get a copy of the “Forever Young” SDE, as it is a true 80’s classic.
Basement Jaxx – 2019 will mark the 20th anniversary of their first album, “Remedy”. A 3xCD+DVD box set would be very welcome to celebrate it.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – After the complex ways to get hold of their output across multiple reissues, compilations, and various artists collection, I believe it is time to get FGTH’s singles, B-sides and mixes onto a nice CD singles box set. Two discs per single. Or Three.
Moby – His landmark “Play” came out 20 years ago. A 5xCD+DVD box set is what I am looking for, including all B-sides and remixes (many unavailable on CD to this day).
Cabaret Voltaire – Some years have passed since the “#8385 Collected Works” box set came out. I hope Mute will follow it up this year with “#8691 Collected Works”, a box set collecting their Parlophone, including albums, singles, B-sides, remixes and period live material; as well as perhaps the preceding and following EPs, respectively “The Drain Train” and “Colors”.
The Cure – In 2018, The Cure finally delivered a new release in their Deluxe Edition series. I hope Robert Smith will stay focused and give a 2xCD version of “Wish” in 2019.
Mike Oldfield – Deluxe 2xCD+DVD reissues of “Islands” and “Earth Moving”, with 5.1 audio, to continue the series.
TWO new albums this year just confirmed by the incredible Foals – ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost’, ‘Part 1’ and ‘Part 2’ – 8th March, then Autumn 19. YEAH!!!!!
Stephen K says:
Heaven 17 need to do the 35th Anniversary deluxe edition of How Men Are.
And though Scritti Politti and Prefab Sprout reissues might already be in the works (sometime?), I’ll go down on record to add my support to that idea.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Armed Forces
Chic – C’est Chic
Bee Gees – Spirits Having Flown
Motorhead – Overkill
Roxy Music – Manifesto
Supertramp – Breakfast In America
Art Garfunkel – Fate For Breakfast
Police – Outlandos d’Amour
Abba – Voulez-Vous
Donna Summer – Bad Girls
Gerry Rafferty – Night Owl
Ian Dury & The Blockheads – Do It Yourself
David Bowie – Lodger
Tubeway Army – Replicas
Electric Light Orchestra – Discovery
Ramones – It’s Alive
Dire Straits – Communique
Earth Wind & Fire – I Am
Who – The Kids Are Alright (OST)
Rainbow – Down To Earth
Tubeway Army – Tubeway Army
Bob Dylan – Slow Train Coming
Led Zeppelin – In Through The Out Door
Talking Heads – Fear Of Music
Gary Numan – The Pleasure Principle
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Join Hands
Boney M – Oceans Of Fantasy
Michael Jackson – Off The Wall
Sham 69 – The Adventures Of The Hersham Boys
Stranglers – The Raven
Who – Quadrophenia (OST)
Blondie – Eat To The Beat
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Survival
Police – Reggatta De Blanc
Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
Motorhead – Bomber
Boomtown Rats – The Fine Art Of Surfacing
Madness – One Step Beyond
Specials – Specials
Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette
Jam – Setting Sons
Public Image Ltd – Metal Box
Clash – London Calling
Human League – Reproduction
Bobby Brown – Don’t Be Cruel
Lou Reed – New York
Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians – Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars
Original Soundtrack – Cocktail
New Order – Technique
Roachford – Roachford
Roy Orbison – Mystery Girl
Fine Young Cannibals – The Raw And The Cooked
Simply Red – A New Flame
De La Soul – 3 Feet High And Rising
Texas – Southside
Madonna – Like A Prayer
S-Express – Original Soundtrack
Deacon Blue – When The World Knows Your Name
Paula Abdul – Forever Your Girl
Cult – Sonic Temple
Soul II Soul – Club Classics Volume One
Pixies – Doolittle
Cure – Disintegration
Simple Minds – Street Fighting Years
Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
Inner City – Paradise
Richard Marx – Repeat Offender
The The – Mind Bomb
Queen – The Miracle
Neneh Cherry – Raw Like Sushi
Paul McCartney – Flowers In The Dirt
Prince – Batman (OST)
Tom Petty – Full Moon Fever
Transvision Vamp – Velveteen
Cher – Heart Of Stone
London Boys – The Twelve Commandments Of Dance
Gloria Estefan – Cuts Both Ways
Alice Cooper – Trash
Adeva – Adeva
Martika – Martika
Aerosmith – Pump
Elton John – Sleeping With The Past
Eurythmics – We Too Are One
Rolling Stones – Steel Wheels
Janet Jackson – Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814
Tina Turner – Foreign Affair
Tears For Fears – The Seeds Of Love
Bob Dylan – Oh Mercy
Tracy Chapman – Crossroads
Kylie Minogue – Enjoy Yourself
Liza Minnelli – Results
Erasure – Wild!
Kate Bush – The Sensual World
Beautiful South – Welcome To The Beautiful South
Billy Joel – Storm Front
Wedding Present – Bizzaro
Chris Rea – The Road To Hell
Robert Palmer – Addictions Volume 1
Lisa Stansfield – Affection
Phil Collins – But Seriously
New Kids On The Block – Hangin’ Tough
UB40 – Labour Of Love II
Blondie – No Exit
TLC – Fanmail
Underworld – Beaucoup Fish
Stereophonics – Performance And Cocktails
Blur – 13
Orbital – The Middle Of Nowhere
Catatonia – Equally Cursed And Blessed
Eminem – The Slim Shady LP
Tom Waits – Mule Variations
Suede – Head Music
Basement Jaxx – Remedy
Texas – The Hush
Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
Moby – Play
Groove Armada – Vertigo
Original Soundtrack – Notting Hill
Travis – The Man Who
Pavement – Terror Twilight
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
Jamiroquai – Synkronized
Original Soundtrack – The Matrix
Super Furry Animals – Guerilla
Beta Band – The Beta Band
Chemical Brothers – Surrender
Limp Bizkit – Significant Other
Macy Gray – On How Life Is
Jennifer Lopez – On The 6
Destiny’s Child – The Writing’s On The Wall
Mary J Blige – Mary
Death In Vegas – The Contino Sessions
Gomez – Liquid Skin
Ocean Colour Scene – One From The Modern
Leftfield – Rhythm And Stealth
Supergrass – Supergrass
Sting – Brand New Day
Tom Jones – Reload
David Bowie – Hours…
James – Millionaires
Pet Shop Boys – Nightlife
Charlatans – Us And Us Only
Gabrielle – Rise
Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left To Lose
Rage Against The Machine – The Battle Of Los Angeles
Ian Brown – Golden Greats
Savage Garden – Affirmation
Dr Dre – 2001
Beck – Midnite Vultures
William Orbit – Pieces In A Modern Style
Blink 182 – Enema Of The State
Appropriate that you wrote “Classic” in inverted commas! A few good ones but only one classic album on your list.
Henry K. says:
Steely Dan – back catalogue remastered on vinyl, how about a vinyl box set 72-03 like Cheap Xmas, Donald are you reaching ?
Bee Gees – back catalogue remastered on vinyl
Bee Gees – Odessa 50th Anniversary Edition in red suede box
UFO – Chrysalis Years albums with M. Schenker on Vinyl
Ten Years After – more reissues plus unreleased stuff from the 60’s and 70’s, open the vaults!
Caravan – back catalogue remastered on vinyl
Zappa – more Zappa reissues on vinyl
Brand X – back catalogue on vinyl
Marko says:
Any news about Depeche mode Spirit tour BD/DVD or something??? Or Cd box singles????
Apologies! I realise my recent post is out of place in a super deluxe box set wish list – but thought squeezing in a cheeky question is always worth trying :)
Paul – since you are best mates with Phil and Andy, and word on the Roxy deluxe set ‘For Your (Added) Pleasure’? I was expecting / hoping some news about this by now.
When I was down the pub with them the other night they said there was no news ;)
Ha ha love it! Scratchings all round!
hendry doran says:
Unlikely to happen but would love to see a SDE of Gerry Rafferty be it City to City or his combined Stealers Wheel/solo output
Here here Henry! Now you’re talking….
Hi Paul – thanks for this preview – I’ve enjoyed reading through yours and everyone else’s predictions and wish-lists. Do you know if Jimi Goodwin from Doves is working on anything new? It’s gone a bit quiet since his brilliant solo album Odludek in 2014. Every year I’m hopeful for his next one (or even a return from Doves’ hiatus!!!) – any news you have would be most welcome! Elsewhere, I read somewhere recently that Noel Gallagher is starting work on a new album this year. I’m really looking forward to that as his last one was excellent.
Paul M says:
Doves are back for the following 2019 tour dates:
29 March London Royal Albert Hall (Teenage Cancer Trust) SOLD OUT
25 May Bearded Theory Catton Hall, Derbyshire Tickets
07 June Manchester Heaton Park Tickets
16 June Dublin Malahide Castle Tickets
I’m hopeful for more dates to be announced soon although I did manage to get a ticket for the London show
deceased says:
I think Doves have announced a return, some live dates, possibly with Noel Gallagher if memory serves…
Mark Nicolson says:
Regatta de Blanc is 40 this year. A deluxe edition of this classic would be fantastic. The Police at their best.
Freek Kinkelaar says:
I would like to point out that I massively enjoyed the acoustic bonus tracks by Paddy on the Steve McQueen album. And I certainly wouldn’t mind more of that :-)
Skippy O'Nasica says:
An expanded “Tattoo You” was rumored a couple of years back, but nothing seems to be happening. A shame, since the Stones still have tons of good unreleased tunes from the 1972-1981 period covered by that album. And at this late date – especially given the unlikelihood of there ever being expanded versions of “Undercover”, “Dirty Work” etc. – they might as well make “Tattoo You” a three-disc set and clear out EVERY half decent tune that remains in the vault, right to the end of the Bill Wyman / Chris Kimsey era. (A lot of the Stones’ unreleased songs from the ’80s are more fun that the ones that actually went on the records!)
On the topic of Sparks’ 50th anniversary, it would be great if someone would issue a comprehensive roundup of their pre-Island material. Only one of their four Urban Renewal Project recordings from 1969 has been released (“Computer Girl”). Their 1970 Halfnelson demo album has never been officially released, apart from one song on Morrissey’s “Under the Influence” compilation. There is at least one unreleased song from the sessions for their first Bearsville album (a Jim Mankey number, called something like “I’m an Old Man” IIRC). Side two of their second album, “A Woofer In Tweeter’s Clothing” has never been issued on CD at the correct speed, AFAIK. Post-second album, they supposedly recorded not only “I Like Girls” as a potential single, but other material as well. And who knows what other outtakes, demos and live curiosities might exist.
As others have mentioned, B-52s reissues would be great. It would be especially nice to hear an expanded “Mesopotamia” which included all ten of the songs recorded at the time, along with the alternate “Party Mix” versions that were more lively than the original mixes. Also the debut album could be expanded with the “Rock Lobster”/”52 Girls” single versions and whatever outtakes are in the vault.
A lot of this will have been mentioned before but just in case the label execs are lurking and want to see more interest, here goes!
FIRST OF ALL – THE CD ISN’T DEAD. I don’t buy straight vinyl album reissues and have no desire to start. I hope the New Order ‘Movement’ reissue isn’t a sign of things to come. Very unhappy about that one. Shocked that there hasn’t been a “where are the CDs?” furor over it like there was with Yazoo.
The B-52s – Just the other day I was wondering why their catalog has been so frustratingly ignored. At the very least the debut surely deserves some sort of landmark/anniversary release.
Eurythmics – ‘Boxed’ was nice but imperfect. I’d love individual releases for each album with at least the album and complete b-sides/edits/remixes similar to the BRILLIANT Tears For Fears boxes. I am desperate for a ‘Savage’ set with a DVD/BD of the ‘Savage’ video album. For such a video-based era, a lot of 80s bands seem to neglect their visual output.
Talk Talk – Doubt it’ll ever happen with Mark Hollis being such a curmudgeon but those albums all deserve individual deluxe boxes. I don’t know how much else there is to compile that hasn’t been released before but complete album plus b-sides/PERIOD remixes/edits would be beautiful.
Siouxise and the Banshees – I think a complete ‘Once’/’Twice Upon A Time’ set including a complete videos set on DVD/BD is in order.
Catherine Wheel – They deserved SO MUCH MORE than that botched Cherry Red reissue of the first album. I’d love deluxe sets for each album including all b-sides, some of which were country-specific or released and then quickly withdrawn and therefore quite rare.
Pet Shop Boys – I’d love complete album deluxe sets a la the TFF boxes (album/complete b-sides/edits/remixes). They really missed an opportunity with the 30th anniversary of ‘Please’ in 2016.
Wire – Their 80s output is terribly overlooked, though the band has been playing some of those songs live in recent years. I would LOVE deluxe editions of those records similar to the ones which just came out for the first three.
Marc and the Mambas – Since everything Marc-related seems to be getting a revisit a complete Mambas “everything put to tape” set would be AMAZING. Seems like a long shot though.
Throwing Muses – Deluxe album sets are a huge dream of mine and will likely never happen. Ditto Kristin Hersh’s debut solo ‘Hips & Makers.’
Stereolab – I’d love deluxe album reissues (complete including period EPs/b-sides/odds and ends of which there are many).
The Smiths – Further album box sets are VERY welcome. I have seen a record company A&R CD of unreleased alternate versions, some of which have leaked to YouTube, etc. I know they exist. Would be nice to see them released officially. It would also be nice to have an official Troy Tate sessions album released as well as a complete BBC sessions album released. Surprised that never happened.
Peter Gabriel – Hate what he did with ‘So.’ I would love good deluxe editions of at least the first six records. And include the b-sides/edits/odds and ends for the love of god!
Scott Walker – I doubt he’d be interested but deluxe editions of his first four records would be amazing if there’s anything else to add to them.
Looking forward to the Mansun ‘Six’ set, Erasure ‘Wild!’ set (shame that the packaging is changing back to the book and that there will only be two discs), and the OMD anniversary release(s).
Would LOVE Madonna deluxe editions, more Prince deluxe editions, further Grace Jones deluxe editions, further Bauhaus Omnibus Editions, further Donna Summer deluxe editions. Lovely things could be done with the Lamb, Broadcast, and Goldfrapp records.
And last, but not least, a friend of mine always joke about what we would put out if we ran a boutique reissue label regardless of money considerations. We’d do complete deluxe sets of the two gorgeous, practically unknown Geneva records. After that, we’d do Catherine Wheel. :)
This ended up being quite long!
With regards to Stereolab, they are about to begin re-issuing the back-cat on vinyl to tie in with the reunion gigs.
Personally, I’ve no real interest in the re-issues, but would love a comprehensive ‘Stereolab Live’ box on a scale to the Velvets or Suicide sets that were released years ago. The albums up to (but not including Dots and Loops) are all magnificent, but they were an astonishing live band when ‘switched on.’ I’m sure there are dozens and dozens of shows in the vaults.
I live Geneva. Especially their second album Weather Underground. I hope somone will find a way to reissue their 2 albums and don’t let them fall into amnesia valley.
“Stereolab – I’d love deluxe album reissues (complete including period EPs/b-sides/odds and ends of which there are many)”
Remastred versions of Switched On, Refried Ectoplasm and Aluminum Tunes were reissued on vinyl alongside a CD box set a couple of months ago.
Mark Goring says:
What a brilliant article & array of comments with great suggestions.
First up, I offer Neneh Cherry’s ‘Raw Like Sushi’ 30 Year Anniversary box set, whether it be over 2-3 cd discs plus a picture disc / book package. Because the whole era was high in sonic and visual art & should be celebrated that way. Please!
It’s high time that those still employed within labels go all out this year. Seriously, it’s not hard to look up a labels roster on discogs to see what is out of print & what fetches high prices to consider a reissue. I’m glad Be Here records licensed the Roisin Murphy ‘Overpowered’ 2LP for its January reissue as the original pressing was fetching over $300 au last year.
And legacy artists such their labels should tie up loose ends…example: Per of Roxette really has pushed & succeeded in preserving the Roxette catalogue. But what has been neglected has been the extended & remixed tracks. They could compile a 3cd release easily. Tap into the fan base first with physical pre orders & then just do a worldwide digital release. Same with the inxs back catalogue of vintage mixes. A lot of early extended mixes & dubs haven’t been made digital and are essential!
Many of us outside the UK have grown frustrated with the sainsburys vinyl exclusive model, inflated eBay panic and also local panic to even find a sainsburys that sticks the vinyl (in 2017, whilst in London, I asked a London sainburys staffer where their vinyl selection was to receive a ‘what is a vinyl’ response). So either labels stop giving supermarkets access to highly sought after product and giving them to music retail. It pains me to know hmv is in the state that it is and labels need to take some blame for a lackluster 2018 regarding releases. Sales are down because product is less in volume & less enticing than past years.
I fear we are going to experience so many different vinyl colour variants that it will just not be financially sustainable as a fan. There were 2 coloured Madonna ray of light’s last year, same with Billy idols Rebel Yell (red – urban outfitters & then blue – sound of vinyl).
So labels who still have product knowledge & power to manufacture. Fill in the many gaps. Realise that yesteryear pop still has a dedicated fanbase (why girls aloud’s album discography hasn’t been issued on vinyl is beyond me…can you imagine if their chemistry bonus Christmas album had been issued on coloured vinyl for Christmas? Would have sold out quickly!)
I’m looking forward to the Kim wild reissues / rarities. It’s still a shock that her videos haven’t been compiled for DVD/blu ray.
I’m hoping that Kylie’s Impossible Princess gets a first time vinyl issue & that a singles box set is done properly (I still shudder at the lame 1 track per 3″ disc mushroom records did many years ago). And for all the wishes for a Wham! Singles box set, I’m wishing hard too, wouldn’t it just be perfect?!
Before I stop thinking of more because we could be here all day. The many live concert vhs’ released back in the day from legacy artists have not made it to DVD / blu ray form (take that, Madonna, etc) a simple fan club or web store reissue on those formats would not be hard. And then make them digitally available on Netflix?! Back to Kylie, we need official releases of the Enjoy Yourself, Rhythm Of love & Anti Tour tours!
Joel Ivins says:
Looking forward, mostly, to the Erasure WILD release in March…too bad the tour video was released on the Moscow to Mars set…also not hugely excited about the second disc…wish it had the “normal” versions of the b-sides… will still get it…also looking for the Innocents deluxe… my original got left at an X’s house…sigh…note to self… always know where your music is
My expectations/wishes for 2019.
EXPECTATIONS:
THE BAND – s/t brown album 50th anniversary SDE + brown vinyl
BEATLES – Abbey Road SDE
McCARTNEY – Red Rose Speedway red vinyl (but PLEASE not 30% more expen$ive than the black vinyl)
McCARTNEY – London Town & Back To The Egg Archive Collections
PINK FLOYD – The Wall 40th anniversary something or other
ROLLING STONES – Let It Bleed 50th anniversary something or other (but I hope ABKCO does better by this than they did with Beggars Banquet)
DONNA SUMMER – Bad Girls 40th anniversary something or other
WISHES:
ALICE COOPER (band) – SDE’s. This year is the 50th anniv. of Pretties For You, so it’s a good time to start
BEATLES – Magical Mystery Tour SDE (I know…but I’m still miffed they skipped over it)
GRAND FUNK RAILROAD – SDE’s/coloured vinyl/R&R HOF induction. This year is their 50th anniv., so let’s GO!
JETHRO TULL – Thick As A Brick book set corrected reissue + Benefit book set
MOTT THE HOOPLE – A Columbia years box set as thorough as Mental Train was to the Island/Atlantic years.
STONES – Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971-2016 individual releases (preferably coloured vinyl)
THE WHO – Tommy 50th anniversary coloured vinyl (black/blue splatter or split?)
YES – further Panegyric CD+BD SDE’s: preferably Drama and the Rabin era albums.
Andy b in the place 2 b says:
One word – Japan. Bout time this back cat was looked at.
pinkfloyd says:
Totally! Japan 2cd deluxe of all 5 albums + oil on canvas! dvd is a bonus!
Quiet Life is 40 this year!!! make it happen David!
Tcf says:
That would be a dream! But I fear that there is not much left. Also Steve Jansen wrote that the original masters of Tin Drum are lost/destroyed…. But I would by them just for the Original Version of „Some kind of fool „ and the „Venus in furs“ Outtake. And there also should be live rehearsal Versions of „Life without buildings“ and Tsuchiyas „Rice Music“. And what about the Penguin Café Soundtrack…….?
Wishes for 2019:
-Climie Fisher both albums “Everything” and “Coming In For The Kill”. No brainer for Cherry Pop
-China Crisis – “What Price Paradise”. The first 3 and the 5th album have been reissued but not the 4th.
-Chic – “The Chic Organization 1980-1983”
-Duran Duran – We need box sets of their albums with 5.1 and the Wedding Album needs to be reissued badly!!!
-Jean Michel Jarre Albums in 5.1. Ridiculous that hasn’t been done yet.
-Ramones – “End Of The Century”. That’s the one next in line.
-George Michael – “Older”
-Nik Kershaw – “Radio Musicola” & “The Works”. Shoe in for Cherry Pop
-a-Ha – “Minor Earth Major Sky”
-Tears For Fears – “Seeds Of Love” at some point in my lifetime!!
-The Beloved – “Happiness”
-Break Machine – “Break Dance Party”
-Bruce Springsteen – “Born In The USA”. USA is no fun now but that album rocks. He still hasn’t released “Protection” on CD (Donna Summer sang it on the “Donna Summer” album.
-Dan Hartman – “I Can Dream About You”
-Eurythmics – Box sets of their albums including 5.1
-Frankie Goes To Hollywood in 5.1
-Grace Jones – “Living My Life”
-Japan – All albums in 2xcd and 5.1
-Lenny Kravitz – “5”. The first 3 have been done and “Circus” sucks so lets move on to “5”
-Malcolm McLaren -“Waltz Darling”
-RAH Band – First 4 albums
-OMD – “Sugar Tax” 2xcd with all remixes
-Prince – “Sign Of The Times” Best album ever
-Rolling Stones – “Undercover” including the Arthur Baker remix of “Too Much Blood”. Never gonna happen but one can dream
-Roxy Music – “Stranded” should be next in line
-Scritti Politti – “Cupid & Psyche” and “Provision”
-Simple Minds – “Street Fighting Years”, not as good as New Gold Dream or the other previous ones but still good enough for a reissue like the previous albums
-The Smiths – “Strangeways Here We Come” My favorite Smiths album
-Space Monkey – “On The Beam” shoe in for Cherry Pop
-Spandau Ballet – “Heart Like A Sky”
-Terence Trent D’Arby – “The Hardline According To…”
-Thompson Twins – CD Singles box w ALL remixes
-Tina Turner – “Break Every Rule”
What Price Paradise is supposed to be happening according to Gary Daly at some point. Regarding OMD i would imagine Crush and The Pacific Age would come before Sugar Tax though at the rate their reissues come out i think Sugar Tax might appear sometime in 2030
Thank you Neil. Great news about China Crisis. OMD reissues so far are not much to write home about. Mostly a few expanded single cds and of course the disastrous 2cd reissue of Junk Culture with all its mistakes. Not impressed with any OMD reissue so far.
Andy Hapeman says:
I just wanted to say can we please, please, please see remastered sets of Stevie Wonder albums…”Talking Book”, “Innervisions”, “Fulfillingness’ First Finale”, “Songs In The Key of Life”. Every one of those albums should be SDE!
I agree, but…
Not unless Stevie allows the master tapes to be used. There’s really no point in further reissues or hi-res releases if they’re gonna continue to come from 2nd or 3rd generation copies.
Queen full album box set on CD would be a dream come true. The did it in a fantastic way for vinyl it seems (looking at SDEs coverage) – why on earth would we not get it on CD?
Hans lindskog says:
Hello, it actually exist. I bought a complete set of all Queen albums issued as 2 cd sets in 2014
See Island Records – 278 971 3. Best regards, hans
alan hansen says:
regarding the Prefab Sprout catalogue, Paul – well said! it seems Paddy himself has lost the key to his own treasure-trove of aural delights.
Oops sorry about that!!!
Here’s the link below!!! LOL
https://www.dgmlive.com/news/King%20Crimson%20-%20Celebrating%2050%20years
Just announced!!!!
For all you KING CRIMSON fans!!!
Get ready it’s going to be a VERY EXPENSIVE $$$ year for you!!
Click on link below
Michel D. says:
The live Soft Cell gig they did at the O2 is due in May.
For King Crimson fans:
https://www.dgmlive.com/news/King%20Crimson%20-%20Celebrating%2050%20years?fbclid=IwAR0ioegFvybIkKL4PcViNCPjhRPMvMvJiEFL6h9yGiVRmchicK974psDmgE
Iain Probert says:
Paul, any encouragement that you can give to whichever company now owns the rights (EMI originally had them) to Private Lives (John Adams) excellent one and only LP release Prejudice and Pride, to finally get it out (at a minimum) on CD. I’d love to see the original album, which was released in 1984, expanded to include the (non album single) Memory of your name. I did reach out to Cherry Red a couple of years ago, but nothing came of it. Ta.
Don’t know if this has been mentioned, but Heaven 17 have a 5 album box set called Play to Win out on Demon each on a different colour 180gm covering the releases originally released by Virgin (advert in this month’s Record Collector.
Also there was an interview with Green Gartside of Scritti Politti in the October issue of RC when it was mentioned that the 3 Virgin albums would be released at the end of November on Rough Trade. Unfortunately it didn’t mention which November.
Do you have a link to that Heaven 17 box set please Alan?
T e y o somewhere from the Netherlands says:
Malcolm McLaren: Duck Rock, Deluxe. An Essential!
The original album, single edits, 12″ mixes, B-sides , the Would Ya like some more Scratchin’ mini-Lp, Swamp Thing, outtakes, and not to forget: the sublime artwork and the Duck Rock movie. More then enough material for a stunning compilation, make it a Superdeluxe!
Hope it will see daylight soon.
Neville Godwin says:
That is a great idea. They should make this happen
Blakey says:
With an Ian Brown album imminent, it would also be nice if there was some sort of Stone Roses activity. The debut album era has been done to death though. A deluxe ‘Second Coming’ would be great. With Paul Schroeder’s original mix of the album, demos and suchlike included. Or maybe a full DVD/CD of Heaton Park 2012 or Madison Square Garden 2016.
The Small Faces ‘Autumn Stone’ deluxe has still yet to see the light of day…
On a concerning note I’ve noticed the prices on amazon for pre order music and film is being ratcheted up now HMV can’t get any new stock. Cds that we’re on for 9.99 a few weeks ago now up to 12.00 and 13.00
Amazon have been price-matching HMV up the way for months now. I’ve seen stuff that started off lower suddenly jump e.g. Ian Dury, Transvision Vamp & Simple Minds box sets. As you say with no competition they’ll be able to charge what they want
@Paul Taylor:
Yes and no. Of course they can charge what they want but it’s up to you if you pay it.
Several years ago, in the pre-streaming age, there was an interview with a guy who was a record company manager at the time, saying that the goal for his company price-wise was to charge about 50 EUR (currently about 43 GBP) for each newly released cd-album, sounding quite sure that they would get away it. I swore to myself that i would stick around to not paying more than 15 EUR (about 13 GBP) for any single cd and ever did so since then, not missing much i wanted.
Sometimes i have to wait a while, but there’s lots of good music out there to shorten the wait.
Ross Baker says:
Underworld will hopefully be doing a super deluxe A Hundred Days Off. Karl posted a subtle teaser last year with a picture of the cover on the Underworld instagram (not the kind of content we normally get there), and the original plan was to do an expanded version of all their albums, so hopefully that’ll be along later in the year. An unfairly overlooked gem (along with its follow-up, Oblivion With Bells).
It’s Orbital’s 30th anniversary and they’re planning what looks like a 3CD box set, with a disc of remixes, a disc of live-in-studio versions of classic tracks (to show how far they’ve developed over decades of live performances), no word on the third disc’s contents – hopefully new material, or maybe a DVD with their many excellent videos.
Possibly out of the purview of your average SDE reader, but Steven Stapleton is continuing his frankly excellent Nurse With Wound reissue campaign (the ordering is fairly arbitrary – in his words ‘when I realise something hasn’t been in print for a while’, but the content is always superb) – a 5CD Automating box set is due, containing volumes 1-3 of the series and who knows what on the other discs (hopefully the leftover material from the More Automating digital compilation and the vinyl exclusives of tape-only tracks on Flawed Existence). His collaborations with David Tibet as Stapleton/Tibet are being reissued as a 5CD boxset including some unreleased material – pre-orders are now on the NWW website. There’s an unreleased late ’90s album called Die, Flip and Go to India on its way at some point. There’s not that much left after that, although hopefully From a Tiny Girl and Merzbild Schwet will get much-needed remasters soon.
Cherry Red are doing a proper CD reissue of Martin Newell’s The Greatest Living Englishman at some point. There was a short re-pressing late last year that sold out in a couple of weeks, so Martin and the label have decided to do a bigger scale reissue, particularly given the success of the LP version that Captured Tracks put out recently. I’m hoping reissues of his other Cherry Red albums follow, as A Summer Tamarind and (particularly) The Spirit Cage go for ludicrous prices in the second hand market. Captured Tracks should be doing a second volume of his Teatime Assortment series, collecting tracks from recently self-released albums.
Not sure what Mike Oldfield’s up to – I knew he was ill, and the Tubular Bells IV website went offline, so it’s maybe not too drastic to fear the worst. But if he’s well and back doing music then I’m really hoping he gets back on the reissue campaign – not that I’m particularly excited about the Islands or Earth Moving sets (I can’t help feeling his low opinion of these albums has been a stumbling block) – although it’d be nice to have an Islands set with Wind Chimes on DVD – but so he can get onto Amarok in the near future. Hopefully that should yield some interesting results. I’m also wondering if he’ll continue the campaign into his Warner material. And if TBIV does come along, I’m sure it’ll be interesting – he was initially promising big things like an interactive version and broadcasting it from space!
I’m guessing we’ll get a Moody Blues On the Threshold of a Dream box this year, although – much as I love the album – I can’t picture too many spectacular contents forthcoming.
After last year’s very popular Lifeforms 2LP reissue, I know Universal are keen to do more with The Future Sound of London, hopefully we’ll see something come from that. And on a similar note, I really, really hope Universal re-press the Orb 2CD sets from a few years ago, as they still go for daft prices. And on another similar note, I imagine Biosphere will be continuing his absolutely flawless reissue series – I’m hoping we get both Autour De La Lune and (particularly) Dropsonde this year.
Pipe dreams… more James and Idlewild reissues; Kraftwerk first three albums box; Lightning Seeds sets with b-sides discs; Wire, 1986-1991.
hamicle says:
Would love to see some reissues of Wire’s Mute releases!
I was just listening to Wire’s “80s records” the other day and thinking how much I would LOVE reissues in the same format as they just did their first three… A boy can dream.
Never Enough says:
Forgot Sinead O’Connor – The Lion and the Cobra deluxe
YES YES YES this is long overdue!
Deluxe versions of:
INXS – X, Welcome to Wherever You Are
Men Without Hats – Pop Goes the World, The Adventures of Women & Men…
Bruce Springsteen – Born in the USA
General Public – All the Rage, Hand to Mouth
Tears for Fears – Sowing the Seeds of Love
Shakespear’s Sister – Sacred Heart, Hormonally Yours
Prince – 1999
Cats Can Fly – Cats Can Fly
Images in Vogue – In the House, The Spell
Some OMD is due this year as it’s their 40th anniversary.
I’m expecting a new best of with a couple of new songs.
We’ve already had a double live album with the Liverpool Philharmonic which was magnificent as well as the book.
Last year we had reissues of the first 4 albums on vinyl so I’m hoping for the next four this year too!
2019 wishes:
With a new Madonna album in March/April, would be great to also have a “Like A Prayer” anniversary remaster with bonus tracks/remixes/demos.
I hear rumours that Prince “1999” & “Parade” remastered/extended/rare tracks are either in the works or actually completed.
And with Morrissey’s covers album, “California Son” out in March (and a new studio album that starts recording in February), I would also like to see a nice remastered box type of release for either “Strangeways, Here We Come” or “Meat Is Murder”
Some R.E.M. “Monster” remaster action would be VERY welcomed, especially a nice vinyl release…and maybe George Michael “Older” remastered/box set :)
Benny Andreasson says:
Here Is My Wish List 1979-1983t:
Susan : Falling In Love 1979 (Rock Candy)
Nick Gilder : Frequency 1979 (Rock Candy)
Blind Date : Blind Date 1979 (Rock Candy)
American Noise : American Noise 1980 (Rock Candy)
Axe : Axe 1979 (Rock Candy)
Axe : Living On The Edge 1980 (Rock Candy)
Laurie And The Sighs : Laurie And The Sighs 1980 (Rock Candy)
Hilly Michaels : Calling All Girls 1980 (Rock Candy)
Sue Saad And The Next : Sue Saad And The Next 1980 (Rock Candy)
Spy : Spy 1980 (Rock Candy)
Gary O’Connor : Gary O 1981 (Rock Candy)
Prism : Small Change 1981 (Rock Candy)
Small Talk : Small Talk 1981 (Rock Candy)
The States : Picture Me With You 1981 (Rock Candy)
Taxxi : Day For Night 1981 (Rock Candy)
Bentwood Rocker : Take Me To Heaven 1982 (Rock Candy)
Clocks : Clocks 1982 (Rock Candy)
Conductor : Conductor 1982 (Rock Candy)
Arcangel : Arcangel 1983 (Rock Candy)
The Automatix : Night Rider 1983 (Rock Candy)
The Breaks : The Breaks 1983 (Rock Candy)
Alex Call : Alex Call 1983 (Rock Candy)
HYTS : HYTS 1983 (Rock Candy)
Donnie Iris : Fortune 410 1983 (Rock Candy)
Ellen Shipley : Call Of The Wild 1983
Brock Walsh : Dateline: Tokyo 1983 (Rock Candy)
Wildlife : Wildlife 1983 (Rock Candy)
Hi! Top of my list would be a cd box set edition of The Band Capitol Years vinyl set from 4-5 years ago. I doubt I will see it though. Happy 2019 to all
I think The Stranglers could do with a decent reissue programme/box set.
We got The Raven a couple of years ago and apparently there’s a coloured reissue of the underwhelming Gospel coming this year. I’d even welcome Demon doing a coloured box of UA albums!
DaveM says:
Looking forward to Joe Jackson’s new album next week. Also the Mercury Rev in February (thanks @RJS, I didn’t know about that one).
Reissue wise I really hope there is a Wings 77 – 79 box with an exclusive live album like 71 – 73, which was last years SDE of the year for me. Stunning!
I have given up hope of any Elton or Van reissues. Hugely dissapointing as well that the proposed Japanese Elton mini-LPs were cancelled last year.
Would also love to see an SDE of The Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin.
James Pigg says:
The dreadful state of the Wham! back catalogue angers me more than your gripes with Duran Duran, Paul.
It’s 2019 and there are still a whole host of remixes, promo mixes, and rarities that have never had a digital release.
Why can’t the record company look at what a brilliant job you did with Paul Young and commission you to do a similar Wham! box, ensuring everything goes on.it?
If record executives are reading this – come on pull your finger out and make this your priority for 2019. But most importantly, make sure it is done properly!
Thanks James. The same label controls both catalogues, too! Although I don’t blame Sony at all, they are great to work with, but to give you an idea of what George Michael’s team are like (this was before he died) I compiled CD 3 of the Listen Without Prejudice reissue and they refused point blank to give me a credit. Not so much as a ‘thanks’ in the booklet. Like it costs them anything to do that.
Kevin Galliford says:
Paul, if the team behind Bowie’s back catalogue can manage a fully comprehensive boxset of his albums to be released regularly, it beggers belief that the George Michael estate take eons to release / repackage one album. What are they doing that takes so long? Unless it’s a deliberate plan to prolong everything to add to the “legacy”.
I for one look forward to a “Older” reissue on par with the “Listen…” one. “Older” is a brilliant album.
I think George’s default position was basically that he never wanted to do any reissues. Sony would take years to warm he up to doing something, like Faith in 2011. It then took another six years to see the LWP reissue and there were so many delays – not to do with Sony – that George didn’t even live to see it. Just like Faith, there was also nothing unreleased on it at all. Even Kate Bush gave us an unreleased track on her recent reissues!!
George was a supreme talent but I fear his ‘team’, which seems to be his family (sisters in particular) and David Austin, aren’t going to approach the catalogue in a way that satisfies collectors and enthusiasts but rather will come up with random/ad hoc projects aimed at a fairly mainstream market designed to build and enhance George’s legacy. For example I could examine something like a new Wham! greatest hits with a bonus disc of artists George loved covering Wham songs (Adele, etc.) which ties in with some TV special. Not some kind of anthology with loads of cool new-to-CD rarities. I really hope I’m wrong.
Deluxe/vinyl releases by A-Camp, George Michael, INXS, Lloyd vinyl (don’t get weird over 2 LPs), Terence Trent, Madonna, Paul Weller (vinyl release of 22 Dreams etc), Lewis Taylor vinyl.
New release by Foals, Friendly Fires, Jame Blake, Jenny Lewis (Beck/Ryan Adams producing), Lewis Taylor comeback (I wish!), Lloyd Cole, Peter Gabriel (keep dreamin’ eh? isn’t he teaches monkeys how to talk?), Ed Harcourt.
Charlie Waffles says:
Here is my wish list:
1: Bruce Springsteen – Born in the USA box set
2: Tears for Fears – The Seeds of Love box set
3: The Beatles – Abbey Road
4: INXS – cd deluxe sets. The Swing turns 35 this year! Great album!
5: Duran Duran – Get your @$**! together and give us more physical product.
6: The Police – cd box set of last year’s vinyl
7: Sting – buy a new bass guitar. The same one you have been using is looking nasty.
8: Queen – Jazz box set or Live Killers box set. Jazz is their best album hands down.
9: Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense turns 35! We need the original nine track remastered. There is a HUGE difference between the original album mix and the dreadful 1999 Special Edition with sixteen tracks. My original cassette purchase in 1984 came with a book that some wanker threw away (it was not me). I would pay big bucks for a Stop Making Sense box set.
10. The B-52’s – long ignored. Warner needs to address their catalog and Talking Heads.
Speaking of Talking Heads, I listened to the sound bites of last year’s True Stories release. Awful.
11. Tom Petty – Wildflowers box set. 25 years old and still terrific!
Morris Deutsch says:
My wish list for 2019:
First three Danzig albums
Ozzy’s Bark at the Moon through Down to Earth
Complete Type O Negative catalog
Complete Badlands catalog
Megadeth’s Rust in Peace box set like they did for Peace Sells a few years ago
More Grace Jones reissues, Tin Machine should be in the next Bowie box, and Pet Shop Boys should do a Disco remaster/box set.
I know everyone digs the American Recordings stuff, but I don’t understand why Mercury hasn’t done an exhaustive box set of Cash’s records. Some of those records are really good. We’ve got Sun and Columbia covered.
Johan E says:
A Texas – Southside 30th anniversary deluxe would be most welcome. As would a Simple Minds Street fighting years box to sit beside the others.
Dire Straits – Alchemy
The Strawbs- Grave New World
Sarah Brightman – Symphony
All reissued on vinyl.
But most of all The Beatles Let it Be including the film on BLU Ray!
MFG says:
The Dire Straits album reissues in 2000 were good, but basic. Would like to know if there are enough non-album tracks to justify new reissues (2 CD or longer) for each studio album. The SACD reissue of Brothers In Arms had no bonus material, and the dynamic compression was a bit too hard on the ears.
Most importantly, would love to hear the entire Alchemy concert without any edits. Was this recorded over multiple nights, or only one night? Also, the video could use a new edit & remaster. The DVD looks like a straight transfer from the original VHS tape, complete with stray hair in the camera lens near the end of the show.
So yes, DS could definitely use a reissue campaign. Guessing that Mark Knopfler doesn’t like to look back much, so not counting on it. But would be nice, if done correctly. CDs and vinyl, of course, plus the full Alchemy show on Blu-Ray.
@MFG There definitely is worthwhile bonus material for some of the Dire Straits albums! For a start, there are the two EPs which never made it to the reissues. Then there are some non-album b-sides, and demos from the 1st album period. Most interesting for me would be live shows from each tour, given that many great songs such as “In the Gallery”, “Industrial Disease” (which you can hear being cut out on “Alchemy”!), “One World” or “Planet of New Orleans” never got official live versions.
So yeah Mark, we do like what you did in those years. Your new album is great, but please do remember that there is a legacy out there waiting to be cherished.
Terence Trent D’Arby i die for…
Uncle Meat says:
Oh, I forgot PINK FLOYD. What I want is Atom Heart Mother SDE. The album (1970) is a masterpiece and their absolutely greatest achievement although the band members seem to slam it every time they go public.
Paul Trotman says:
I completely agree – I Love AHM, the first truly great PF album to my ears, better even than Meddle, it seems to me to be the first album when phase2 properly clicked. If is wonderful (the first great RW dark internal song), Fat Old Sun is glorious, and of course AHM itself. Realistically though, I think no chance.
But really, isn’t that really what the Devia/tion box from the early years set is? The deluxe material for Atom Heart Mother?
andyscott@blueyonder.co.uk says:
Let’s cut to the fruitcake – the world really could do with a reissue of Van Morrison’s album ‘Saint Dominic’s Preview.’ One of Van’s best, way out of print, and if you can find a cd issue of the album now then you’ll find it to have a horrid boom-boom sound.
I know there’s been several Van Morrison reissues in recent years, mostly connected to the ‘classic’ Warner Brothers period, but after that particular era i simply can’t see any further Van reissues from ‘Into The Music’ onwards, ever happening.
A couple of months back I wrote that “so far the LED ZEPPELIN 50th anniversary campaign has been a disaster”. It sure was. Jimmy Page always spoke with great pride that the mighty Zep were at their best on stage. How about a couple of huge live bootleg box sets this year, then? Undoctored. From the early years, thank you very much.
FRANK ZAPPA and THE BEATLES. Keep them coming.
Somebody mentioned MOBY GRAPE and THE B-52´S. Agreed.
HOODOO GURUS: Nice.
And a new set from Bristol´s THE HEADS. Whoa!
Would absolutely love new material from OMD and any old unreleased they may have. I really love listening to Navigation and added some other b-sides from that era to my playlist. They have a lot of excellent songs that could have made that a double CD. Props to these guys and Simple Minds for still putting out good music.
On the other hand, TFF is really a joke. Get it together guys or finally retire the name. The long gaps between material tarnished their legacy.
Would also be interested in any a-Ha or INXS unreleased material on their own (like Crowded House’s Afterglow) but doubt they would ever really do that.
Kevin Wollenweber says:
Wow, where do I begin? I’m delighted with news that the Who are actually going to reconfigure with their remaining two members present, but please, let’s do more reissues similar to the fantastic MY GENERATION package and MAXIMUM A’s and B’s–perhaps A QUICK ONE or, even better, THE WHO SELL OUT, with the original mix in mono and stereo *AND* the great reimagining by John Astley since it so deftly “finished” the grand finale of the album where there was damage in the original recording during the original sessions! TOMMY will be 50 years old this year, and I know that fans would love to see that acknowledged, but SELL OUT gave us an idea of what that rock opera would sound like with all the musical chances it took…and, hey, I just have to ask Warner Brothers/Rhino what the hell ever became of the Stephen Stills reissue campaign. I was psyched after hearing the CARRY ON box set, but all we got was a sadly skimpy disk of half-realized jam sessions…and, although it was given a reissue years ago which did not get much publicity, I’d love it if the current holders of the original masters would reissue the one and only Crabby Appleton album. I’d heard it on You Tube and rather like it a lot!…and I have to echo the Tears for Fears desires; why not at least give us a completist box set of all their albums as two disk sets, similar to the Queen reissues a few years back. I don’t need bombastic reissues on each album, just good sound on all their albums…and wouldn’t a major Iggy Pop box be in order! I like the Bowie-era Iggy albums, and they have never been given a major upgrade all at once, although RAW POWER got such a treatment, amping up the mix a little. I just want to hear the original mixes sounding as good as they can sound, and if there are worthy bonuses for each album, so be it. I know there was a box set years and years ago, but that was so limited and seemed to dissolve too quickly…I’d like to see a box of some kind on Ringo Starr. The other three have all seen deluxe treatments that satisfy, but where are Ringo’s Apple label recordings?…I’d also like to own expansions of Al Kooper’s solo albums, with some interesting session material, and Kooper himself has suggested that there are some interesting vault items but no one has given him the chance to make this happen. There are skimpy boxes of his first five Columbia albums, but Mr. Kooper has said that he is dissatisfied with the mixes. I’m not usually satisfied with an artist going back in and tampering too much with original mixes, but at least give him the chance…How about a box set comprised of solo albums by Yes members, past and present? There are some already available, either too deluxe or not deluxe at all, but at this point, I’d just like to see a comprehensive set, similar to the APPEL BOX set of recordings from the Beatles’ label, around solo albums from various Yes members, especially the missing Alan White solo and Rick Wakeman’s SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII. I realize this could be a bit large, but look at the box set that was released around one Yes tour!…Since Elton John has decided to retire from touring, how about a completist box set around his entire back catalog. I realize that there have been double disk digipack expansions of some of his earliest albums, but it stopped at one point and I don’t know why, unless the artist himself may have disliked an album or two…and I expected something big to come from a possible reissue campaign from Leon Russel, including live albums and so many releases since I’d lost touch with his music. I am definitely on board with the first group of albums, on up through WILL O’ THE WISP…Oh, and about Stevie Wonder, a reissue of all of his albums really *SHOULD* be done, especially if there really are major bonuses to come out of those classic sessions! I keep hoping that a new edition of TALKING BOOK will be issued, complete with braille on the cover like the original official vinyl; when I lost my sight in 1976 and had to learn braille, I immediately went to a record store to seek out that record so I could read what he wrote on the cover. Now, that added attraction no longer exists! Such a tragedy…and, as far as Beatles releases go, while I realize that ABBEY ROAD is due for the SDE treatment, I’d so much rather hear such a treatment for REVOLVER since there is that alternate mix of “I’m only Sleeping” in stereo that exists and was originally reissued here in the States on YESTERDAY AND TODAY, whichever version and cover you bought. We got that proper mix in mono on the MONO RECORDINGS box, but its stereo counterpart is still missing and I’m sure that your readers could point out to me other missed opportunities found either as bootlegs or actual releases in other parts of the world…and a version of “It’s All Too Much” exists with an extra lyric, so perhaps an expanded PAST MASTERS really *IS* in order…I can’t believe the news that masters to the XTC album, ENGLISH SETTLEMENT have been lost or damaged beyond repair! I hope that is not true and that further searches bring up those masters! I’d hate to see that album ignored since there were some good cuts from RAG AND BONE BUFFET that apparently came from those sessions. At least give us an expanded RAG AND BONE BUFFET if ENGLISH SETTLEMENT is not an option. Having said that, I’d love to see a Steve Wilson remix/remaster on MUMMER or even BIG EXPRESS which was also another of those transitional albums that doesn’t get heard all that often. Even the box known as COAT OF MANY CUBBARDS had some terrific little bits and pieces, and let’s not ignore the earliest albums that Wilson could only improve upon, like WHITE MUSIC and GO TO. Sorry to have gone on for so long, but those are my Holy Grails of the moment. Please pass those along, Paul, if you can.
Jarmo Keranen says:
Has someone read this whole comment through? I didn’t have enough time to do it!
Some paragraph breaks wouldn’t have gone amiss :)
Martin Dudley says:
https://www.theonion.com/nation-shudders-at-large-block-of-uninterrupted-text-1819571366
Stupidactingsmart says:
Well Kevin, I agree with you about Stevie. Journey Through The Secret Life of Plants has Braille on the cover of the vinyl as well, I seem to remember. I appreciate the tactile nature of it, while I can’t read it myself.
Neil Partridge says:
I hoping but not holding my breath for the following reissues in 2019 –
The Adventures – Trading Secrets With The Moon – come on Cherry Red you know you want to !
Heart – Capitol era Albums remastered with bonuses
Slade – Live Anthology (to include the full 1980 Reading Festival set)
The Outfield – Rock Candy remasters of the CBS and MCA albums
Gun – Gallus remastered with bonuses
Steve Winwood – Back In The High Life Box
Totally agree on The Adventures and Gun. Brilliant albums worthy of remastered reissues.
PAUL MINKKINEN says:
Totally agree with Neil about STEVE WINWOOD’S ‘s Back In the High Life. There were some great 12″remixes from that period, a Westwood One live USA broadcast, and bootlegs of the actual demo’s exist including the unreleased “This Guns For Real”, co.written with The excellent Viv Stanshall. I reckon that’s a decent box set, with maybe a blu-ray 5.1 disc with added promo video’s.
Having been editor of “Coloured Rain” (Winwood / Traffic fanzine for many years I’d also say a TRAFFIC box set is well overdue, and in that domain there’s some incredible live material available.
Off on another tangent whatever happened to the re-issue of the BLUE NILE’S : HIGH, flagged up on their web-site 2 years ago as having been re-mastered , but as yet no show.
mattNYC says:
Wham! everything box.
Gareth Pugh says:
Looking forward to Howard Jones’ new ‘Transform’ album – wouldn’t be surprised if some box set or deluxe format came out for that and he’s said there definitely will be vinyl this time. I’m also crossing my fingers for Cherry Red to tackle at least the next couple of Warners-era albums as super deluxe sets. One to One, whilst not bad, isn’t my favourite his major-deal years but Cross That Line most certainly is (and his management team have said that one is getting the treatment). I think there’s a fair chance all 5 studio albums will get expanded if enough demo and unreleased stuff exists.
One wild-card wish lister for me – just as a bit of fun, but related to Gen X – would be to see some nice, maybe 2-disc casebound expansions of Westworld’s 3 albums, including B-sides and their often short but always really good fun 12″ takes. Something maybe Cherry Red, SFE or Demon could go for?
Adam Goldfinch says:
I’d love more Prince reissues,
Queen Latifah,
Like a Prayer,
Janet Jackson,
Throwing Muses,
B-52s,
Machina,
SST artists (Husker Du etc),
Jungle Brothers,
Moss Side Story remaster,
Pastels, Mekons, Overkill, Testament, Louder than Love,
American Music Club – California!!
Ry Cooder remasters
Muses reissues would be so welcome but I can’t really see it happening. :/ 4AD would rather reissue Surfer Rosa for the fiftieth time.
Joe T. says:
Whatever became of the Scritti Politti deluxe reissues from Rough Trade? Cupid & Psyche 85 would benefit from a remaster at the very least, and seems long overdue. Also, I remember reading in 2016 that deluxe editions of the two albums from Living In A Box were being done…but they seem to have fallen off the map, too.
I read somewhere related to that Living In A Box that Go west were supposed to be getting the same treatment. It’s annoying that those Scritti Politti reissues haven’t appeared as you say Cupid and Provision are in desperate need of remastering.
Joe T – I was looking at a 3CD deluxe reissue of Living In A Box’s debut album in HMV just yesterday.
Alastair says:
I’d go along with many of these suggestions, and add:
Simple Minds Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call SDE please
Definitely Grace Jones Slave to the Rhythm SDE
Bowie box BTWN/Buddha/Outside/Earthling + live material
separate Tin Machine set
Elton STILL waiting for 17.11.70+ CD
ANY Sting deluxes or SDEs
How about a lovely series of Joni Mitchell casebound CDs, really well remastered, with more of her artwork contemporary to each album
Remastered versions of Bob Seger’s Reprise albums
McCartney SDEs of Press To Play with Return to Pepperland unreleased album, Off the Ground with The Complete Works tracks, and/or Flaming Pie
Thanks for setting up this always entertaining annual thread, Paul
Sets for Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call and Empires And Dance, please!
andrew r says:
Isn’t about time the Bee Gees were honoured with some kind of major collection
when you think about the length of the career plus sheer amount of songs written
there must be scope for multiple box sets ala Bowie covering 60’s 70’s 80’s and 90’s .
Anybody at Polydor listening?
Mark Fernandes says:
very true about the Bee Gees, andrew r.
Their marketing is pretty poor, given their hefty catalog.
There should be box sets that continue what they started in 2006 with their fantastic Studio Albums set 1967-1968 and Odessa.
As its 30 years on from 1989,
Soul II Soul Club Classics vol 1 expanded
A much better Queen The Miracle set
Batman and Like A Prayer, haha never…
But personally,
Any Living In A Box or new Climie Fisher sets
Any Terribly Trendy D’Arby, long long overdue and really could crystallize his genius recognition
Any INXS
And would love Duran’s Liberty, despite earlier comment, to show what a great album it could have been despite its obvious flaws.
Ian Harris says:
Some of these have been mentioned already but I’ll add my votes too!
The Human League – Reproduction SDE
For the 40th anniversary, the League finally creaked the door open on their archive with the (ludicrously overpriced) Anthology a few years back. I’d love to hear more demos from this album. I think a 5.1 Martyn Ware remix was mooted at one point. No doubt whoever owns Dare will eek out a pathetic 40th anniversary set in 2021, but it would be nice if all the HL albums could be overhauled in proper deluxe versions. Octopus could also do with an overhaul sound wise.
Eurythmics Catalogue – yes with DVDs / blu-rays and the tracks missed off the previous remasters as a bare minimum. Anything unreleased would be great too.
Fun Boy Three – Waiting. Long out of print, sounds awfully thin on the EMI Gold CD. Enough material for a full disc with b-sides and 12″ mixes. Cherry Red issued the first album but didn’t do this one oddly.
Kissing The Pink – Certain Things Are Likely. This may be a safe bet; Cherry Red have issued the first two albums. Plenty of bonus tracks / remixes around from this era for a double disc but a single would do.
The B-52’s Catalogue. Came out in Japan a couple of years ago, but no bonus tracks. Deluxe upgrades of all their albums would be welcome. I’d also like some decent live material from 1978-1985 on CD, especially the 1982 or 1983 tours. It is the 40th anniversary of their first album too.
The Smiths CD Singles Volume 2…still waiting!
Heaven 17 – How Men Are deluxe
Dana Gillespie – Weren’t Born A Man / Ain’t Gonna Play No Second Fiddle – STILL never on CD for her glam era albums.
More OMD remasters for Crush onwards.
Thirty years since Kaleidoscope World by Swing Out Sister. A deluxe for the summer would be gorgeous with all the string/instrumentals and a few b-sides like Taxi Town added.
malc says:
A John Renbourn 6CD 1965-68 set is in the works (incorporating the two rare albums with Dorris Henderson), pending permissions.
Expect a complete-as-possible Bonzo Dog Band at the BBC set too.
Mark H says:
We are suppose to be getting some Kim Wilde unreleased stuff confirmed by RAK also we have the big Blondie box set this year. Can’t wait
There will be a Wishbone Ash 1994-2019 set (multiple discs) at the end of the year, marking their 50th anniversary.
Also, next month RPM/Turtle records release a superb 2CD set of entirely unreleased studio material by the Fat John Sextet, recorded in Pye Studios, London in 1963 – featuring future British jazz greats such as Peter Lemer, Danny Thompson and Tony Roberts. It comes with a fabulous booklet essay by Tubby Hayes biographer Simon Spillett, unpublished photos and period press cuttings, and the only three tracks released by the band at the time (from a 1963 Decca live compilation) as bonus tracks.
Thilo says:
German punk rock band “Die Ärzte” released a box set with all of the records entitled “Seitenhirsch” (33Cds). In radio interview I heard a speaker saying that there would be a a 3Cd set with demos, outtakes, so that everyone already having all the albums could get the previously “box set only” material without buying stuff they had alrady paid for.
Babs Chippy says:
Cher 80’s/90’s album remastered and mixes!
Janet Jackson back catalogue remastered and mixes!
Kim Wilde post Close album remasters!
Whitney Houston album remasters!
Isaías says:
I just love to see Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick and Benefit updated release (the same treatment This Was received) and the reissue campain up to at least Rock Island album
Actually, THICK AS A BRICK has already been given the super deluxe treatment; BENEFIT is the only one of those truly classic albums that hasn’t been given anything more than a 3-disk edition in a typical digipack.
Re TAAB, the corrected version is impossible to find and, in any case, there were hardly any extras on it.
Galley says:
All I need are the two remaining Monkees Super Deluxe Editions for Headquarters and Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.
Mark Levy says:
How about a 50th anniversary release of Abbey Road?
colm47 says:
The Distractions box set from Hidden Masters label is long promised.
Hopefully they will finally release it this year.
The Go Betweens second box set ( as others have mentioned) would be great too.
granata says:
The Distractions project is on-hold for the moment, but it *will* happen eventually.
“age+geography charts the on-off, three-decade, stop-start career of Manchester’s The Distractions. Rare photos, exclusive candid interviews – as well as never-before-heard music (live and studio recordings) – together with the band’s only Island LP, Nobody’s Perfect, issued on CD for the first time. age+geography is due soon.”
Michel Banen says:
Grace Jones – Slave to the rhythm SCREAMS for a deluxe edition…. and most of all a 5.1 surround mix…..
xymox970 says:
Well……Fiat Lux have been on hold for the last 35 years with a proper album release, so I really hope that happens while some of us are still around…..:)
…..and a damn shame that that pledgemusic Space Monkey superdeluxe did not happen due to last of interest……maybe have another go ?
WILLIAM ENGLAND says:
i’d go for:
NEU – ‘complete’ box set
MANDINGO – ‘complete’ box set
STEVEN TIN TIN DUFFY – second album (I wish I still had the Japan only cd)
DOCTOR CALCULUS – ‘complete’ box set
MARC AND MAMBAS – ‘complete’ box set (there were LOTS of out-takes/rehearsal cassettes in the Coil archive) hopefully with no “we’ve shortened these tracks, but you don’t mind do you” abberations of the SC box
the new WAH! album – ‘Pete Sounds’ (finally)
an INEVITABLE records box (to mop up all the early DOA singles)
CANDY original 1968 soundtrack in mono & stereo
BEE GEES – remasters (from where they left off ie, Trafalgar, 2 Years On, Life in a Tin Can etc)
LEE PERRY – Cloak and Dagger – both version on 1 disc(?)
Marc and the Mambas cassettes in the Coil archive? Good luck getting them out, given that we can’t actually get Coil music reissued legitimately :(
Well, I suppose it has been a while since the Neu! vinyl only box went out of print. There is a new Michael Rother box set coming out on cd and vinyl this February! Forgot to mention that before. I will be going for the cd set, which has one new album of soundtrack material. There is a bonus record on vinyl. But the rest is just his first four post-Neu! solo albums.
I would love to see his later works anthologized, more… but hopefully down the line.
Now…….there is an idea I would like to second…..
Inevitable Records has some amazing releases indeed, though DOA arent the first that come to my mind, but rather the excellent Brian Atherton projects Box Of Toys and especially the amazing The Light with one of best singles of the 80s – Contrasting Strangers.
Given the BBC have a huge and diverse archive I’d like to see a series of cd/dvd/blu ray combos
“The Complete (insert artist) at the BBC”
stevieb says:
They’ve just issued Gerry and the Pacemakers Live at the BBC…although sadly, the 1963 and 1964 sessions have mostly not survived
Much of my wishlist has ben covered, yet this is what I d really would like to see released:
Roy Harper complete box set (looking like the recent wishbone ash/ sateve Hillage sets). Roy Harper has Done so much Classic recordings from the 60´s to the 2000´s.
Roger mcquinn – a complete kompilation of all 70´recordings leasing up to mcguinn- clark- hillman.
Gene clark- complete solorecording- This would be an absolute must.
Talk talk – a complete set of all recordings remastered.
Television – marquee moln and adventure and several live recordings from, 1975-1978
Moby Grape – complete set of all recordi ngs from the 60´s at least
Ronnie lane – yes please and sets by Julian cope and teardrop explodes. Best regards, hans from sweden.
The Golden Age Of Agreement says:
What Hans said ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Woodstock Festival 50 years young this year so maybe we might get the massive 30 CD set that was talked about in the booklet with 40th anniversary 6 disc set…?
Also one of the very few albums to really deserve the epithet “work of genius”, hits the big 5-0 this year. That record being Captain Beefheart’s mighty Trout Mask Replica. Do hope that something will happen for that.
A set of live Zeppelin would also be very very welcome. Are you reading this Jimmy?!
Did you see that Jack White issued TMR last year in his Vault series. It looked like it was a real labour of love, but not the full SDE treatment.
And finally a New Album by No-Man is on it‘s way. That will have a Limited Special Edition for sure!
Phil Morris says:
Previous albums have not had any particular “super deluxe” treatment, although reissues have had second discs of demos etc, and there was an (initially) exclusive 7″ with the original Schoolyard Ghosts vinyl. I expect there will be a CD/DVD (5.1) and vinyl release. And probably a Burning Shed exclusive coloured vinyl. I’m surprised there’s no 5.1 (or at least extra tracks) with the new Bowness album.
Bjarne says:
And what about some Beatles Capitol albums on vinyl?
Yrs, and with the original Capitol mixes as well…oh, and a standalone of the 1964 Capitol Beatles Story spoken word album, (vinyl and CD). Never gonna happen though is it!
Fredpostman says:
I know her name is rarly mentioned him but when will a rarites collection come from Donna Summer?Since her passing all that there has been is that godawful remix album [where one track doesn’t even have her vocals!],and a few box sets featuring her 80s material [why Demon couldn’t license ‘She Works Hard For The Money’ though…!]…and a few expanded versions of her albums.Plenty of unreleased material does exist.
And if Universal is reading this [Paul i know record companies do]i would love a complete 1970s single collection with all the original [and correct] versions [to my knowledge the UK single version of ‘Could It Be Magic’ has never appeared on cd]
And finally as the years roll on ‘I Feel Love’ sounds more breathtaking and futuristic..
Scott T. says:
Yeah… Donna’s Casablanca catalog has been shamefully neglected. Love to see expanded editions of those recordings while Georgia is still available for input.
Michael E. says:
Red Flag “Naive art” Expanded Edition is coming in January
Marxisn't says:
I have tickets for Tears For Fears…. Nobody knows what’s going on, although I expect ‘management’ are earning their coin! I know that Roland had an auction sale of equipment from 1996’s tour to the tune of £40000 in November. Is the tour going to be cancelled again? Is Curt out? Is someone else playing bass and singing, are rehearsals going ahead? Has Roland’s madness have him been sectioned… Make your own story…. I believe anything right now.
The new album ‘The Tipping Point’? and The Seeds of Love box set has all but been postponed… They are starting to turn into the new Fleetwood Mac = perhaps they should consider themselves for a reality (or lack thereof) reality show
Curt Smith on Twitter:
“See you in Europe” :)
R.E.M. are definitely putting out a Monster SDE and I would expect vinyl as well (since the origins vinyl is now quite sought after). Expect studio work in progress, and live material possibly an Atmos mix of the album. I really enjoyed the Atmos version of AFTP and its my go to version now if I’m listening in my man-cave. There’s a chance of video material in the box given this was them at their peak rock-godliness I think they are looking for exciting new stuff rather than rehashing Roadmovie, though it would be nice to get a nice clean version of Rough Cut in this set. As usual I think it will be out in Nov. Monster is an album that has always divided opinion, so it will be interesting to see how much love they put into it. It is a fine record and I think it really stands up well after 25 years, so here’s hoping that they do a good job.
The Golden Age Of .... says:
I`ve been a fan of REM since 1981 (Radio Free Europe) and believe their golden period was Murmer through to Document. I enjoyed Green through Automatic.
I really didn`t like Monster, not played it in over 20 years. Thought Hi-fi was OK…but. I really enjoyed Up through to Collapse Into Now, the critics wrote their usual bollocks about those albums. They were wrong, yes the fans weren`t over impressed but most of those were of the Johnny Come Lately type.
However Mark has convinced me to re-assess Monster, I`m not hopefull but will listen with open ears.
Good luck, I think maybe Monster will still polarise opinion – which is a good thing really. It is totally different to usual REMness which I think makes it a great and refreshing one to come back to, when I’m worn out listening to Reckoning.
I think could still live without Around The Sun, it’s almost impossible ask for any artist to have flawless output over such a long career. Still, the ATS tour was brilliant and I got see them loads of times (which more than made up for not being able to see them at Wembley Arena on the Monster tour) and made my contribution to the world of REM live bootlegs with help from some enterprising and trusting American fans who loaned me a DAT recorder and mics.
Side note: Are you a MOTH fan perchance??
Andy Haines says:
I’m looking forward to the vinyl release of Aphrodite’s Child 666 on red vinyl and Siouxsie and the Banshees Peepshow re issue.
I’d love a proper Talk Talk ultimate reissue on 200g or half speed remaster with 5.1 surround mixes as well. A good reissue of Talking Heads back catalogue. Roger Waters 5.1 and vinyl reissues I’d like. A proper deluxe reissue programme of Tangerine Dream as well.
Peter Nicholas says:
@ Andy Haines, Siouxsie and the Banshees – Peepshow vinyl was reissued on 14 December 2018
Yes I realised that after I’d posted this. Doh!
The Golden Age Of Presidential Impeachments says:
The BIG anniversary this year is the 50th of Woodstock. Rumoured complete (as can be) multi-disc set of the full audio and an expanded film. The anniversary is also being celebrated with a 3 day event at Watkins Glenn I believe, the original site now housing a 15,000 seat (not big enough) outdoor amphitheater.
The anniversary sets from ’69 I’m looking forward to, just one really and that predictably is ‘Abbey Road’. I don’t think Nick Drake’s first LP will be re-issued. What could they add to it that hasn’t already been released.
Good ole Shakey is giving us ‘Ragged Glory II’, as someone has already said ‘Oceanside/Countryside’ would be good. That however will be included in ‘Archives II’ which is a certainty for this year…………isn’t it???
Be nice to see ‘Seeds Of Love’ getting released at last. If R.E.M. release a S.E. of ‘Monster’, it’ll be the first R.E.M. S.E. that I give a miss.
Zimmie’s ‘Rolling Thunder’ documentary is going to be released. Hopefully with a ’75 tour box ‘brick’ similar to the ’66 tour box. Bootleg 15 will be good whatever it is.
2019 reissue/SDE wish list:
Age of Change Crush Collision
The Alarm cont.
Tori Amos cont.
Anything Box Peace
Big Audio Dynamite cont. (without editing the 12″ mixes)
Book of Love (more complete sets than prior reissues…)
Camouflage Methods of Silence
The Cure Wish
Dance Craze (2 Tone) on DVD…
Electronic debut redone without tracks related to other albums…
Erasure cont. after the Wild! release on Mar 29
Fine Young Cannibals Raw and The Cooked major label SDE with all mixes/DVD etc
Housemartins People Who Grinned…
Information Society’s first album
Grace Jones cont.
Howard Jones cont.
‘The Madness’ album to round out the prior reissue set…
Ziggy Marley Conscious Party and One Bright Day
Men Without Hats early albums
Metallica Black Album
George Michael Older
Peter Murphy cont. of 2CD sets
New Order cont. (with all 12″ tracks in CD sets)
Sinead O’Connor Lion and the Cobra
Oingo Boingo (saw an interview where Danny Elfman said no need to remaster them…)
OMD cont.
Pet Shop Boys full SDEs (all mixes etc.)
Psychedelic Furs (there was news of something planned a year ago…)
REM cont. (Monster planned for Oct. as per their manager)
The Smiths cont.
TFF Seeds of Love box
UB40 cont. (I know other releases were being worked on…)
U2 cont. (Rattle and Hum, Zooropa and Pop yet Pop would likely be next)
XTC cont.
Xymox Phoenix
Roel Glas says:
Still waiting (and waiting) and hoping for:
Deep Purple’s Made In Europe Super Deluxe [legal issues]
Free’s mega 19CD box [Paul Rodgers issues]
and wishing for:
Elton’s Don’t Shoot Me (I’m only the Piano Player) SACD
Elton’s continuation of the 2CD deluxe editions for “Madman”, Honky Chateau & Don’t Shoot Me. (might as well update the To Be Continued set as well)
and long overdue, a Bob Seger career box set.
If even half of what everyone has confirmed/speculated/wished for here happens it’d make for a pretty decent year. Agree with another Bowie box. I’m one of those strange ones who actually liked the Tin Machine albums, so wouldn’t mind if it were dedicated or rounded out with a Sound & Vision tour compilation. A blu ray of a full show would be a welcome addition to the series.
I’d really like to see vinyl, deluxe reissues or boxes for Mega City Four, Senseless Things, The Seers or even Cateran, Edsel Auctioneer…
Cheap Trick Dream Police turns 40. A box with blu ray audio and live shows would be something I’d trade cash to have.
Jesus and Mary Chain’s Automatic is 30. It gets a lotta flack for the drum machines but it’s my personal favorite LP from them.
Finally, New Model Army’s masterpiece Thunder & Consolation is also 30. Would like to see them celebrate that somehow.
In general I really hope that we finally see the shift from DVDs to blu rays in super/deluxe editions and that they take advantage of all the capacity the format has to offer!
J T says:
I’ll second Cheap Trick Dream Police.
Alt-pop maestros Imperial Teen have a new album in the bag to be unleashed sometime this year also. (Roddy Bottum from Faith No Mores other band.) Hoping it will be as great as their last effort Feel The Sound.
Here’s to reissues from Van Morrison and B-52’s and like so many others I wish for 2019 to be a Seeds of Love year!
Also time for a new Patti Smith album!
Would really love to see a 30th Anniversary SDE of Malcolm McLarens ‘Waltz Darling’ album.
Corey Hart’s first album since 1998 is out early-mid 2019
Agree on both. Loved Corey’s ‘Attitude & Virtue’ from 92. ‘Love and Money’ feat. Terence trench is a gem.
David Hartley says:
Given Paul’s mentioned the possible “Animals” 5.1 release, I’m also expecting a Blu-ray/CD set of Waters’ “Us+Them” tour. I read that the Amsterdam gig(s) were filmed, and having caught the show in Oz, it’s definitely one to view/listen to all over again.
I’ve got my fingers crossed that Massive Attack might try and put something together for the 20th Anniversary of Mezzanine – last year! It would be very silly to completely miss that one wouldn’t it??? ;)
Seriously, if this band can’t EVER stick to a release schedule then don’t bother having one! Current release date for Mezzanine 20 is now 19th April – this year? Next year? Some time? Never? Only 6 months behind schedule! They do this with every single release! And it’s extremely frustrating.
(The only thing I can think of is they’re back to having legal issues with those wretched samples – specifically the Manfred Mann one – which I thought was now permanently excised.)
I have 5 words for Universal.
GRACE JONES LIVING MY LIFE
Cornelius says:
Good choice. It’s been out-of-print for ages.
imsparky4u says:
INXS is the band I have most wanted deluxe editions of all of their albums, and I am absolutely stoked about the possibility! Also very much looking forward to the a-ha reissues.
What I would MOST like to see soon are deluxe versions of Nik Kershaw’s Radio Musicola and The Works!!
Feeling a bit pessimistic about the year ahead. Screw Brexit – i want to see some more properly done Superdeluxe box sets. We’re all getting old and physical media is a dying breed. This should be the last chance for the record companies to give us everything we want (and to actually pay for it).
Why should I buy the New Order Movement superdeluxe when it has one last disc than was previously released on CD. This does not complete my CD collection; it just merely complicates it by having to get the new reisusue for the demos (and then retain the original reissue for for the mixes and non-album tracks). I’m not fussed by the inclusion of vinyl (read: don’t want) as this just makes the new set hard to store.
Erasure have finally announced the 30th reissue of Wild. Excited to get a remastered album, but the second disc leaves a lot to be desired. Some great remixes, mixed in with some “exclusive live tracks”. Why can’t we get a Superdeluxe 4 CD of everything? I suspect also the physical sleeve format will not match the Innocents 25th anniversary card packaging or the reissued Wonderland and Circus’s maxi cases. Can we please get some consistency.
And last years PSB reissue campaign could easily have been extended to include bonus discs of all the remixes. Surely a lot more people would have bought them, right?
What’s the alternative in 5 years time for the record companies? CD sales will be obsolete and we will get everything free on Spotify. Doesn’t make sense to me.
So, please record companies – make the reissue campaigns complete whilst physical media still exists. Sorry for the moan.
On a side note, is anything planned for The Beloved and the 30th anniversary of Happiness? I see all the old singles, remixes and US imports are now on Spotify. One can wish for a 5cd superdeluxe of the album, blissed out, the remixes and the unreleased Flim Flam LP. Here’s hoping!
Deano, regarding Erasure’s CD reissues, March’s Wild! 2-disc set is in a hardback book pack – you can see a pic on the news page of their official website, it was uploaded shortly before Christmas. That’ll put it consistent-ish with 2009’s Innocents 21st anniversary set, but no, it won’t be coming in the ‘fatboxes’ used for Wonderland and The Circus. I share your disappointment a bit about the content – I’d happily have paid more for a more ambitious/expanded (3 or 4 disc) set. In fairness, the asking price is very reasonable.
A Chorus expanded reissue is also in the works, I would guess for later this year, most likely Autumn. Manhattan Clique has done one or two new mixes for that, and Vince Clarke has done a new remix of Turns the Love to Anger for it. He tweeted about having a meeting about the Chorus package in December.
Thanks for the heads up re Chorus Gareth. Can’t wait to get a remastered version of that album.
I think Wild should have included the live DVD they put in the Moscow to Mars box set recently. That seemed and odd way to reissue that concert at the time and now with Wild! coming out seems even less timely. Will be the first in the series of album reissues to not include a DVD.
Mr. Phrack says:
Not surprised Paul didn’t mention Dream Theater or the Green River re-issues out in a couple of weeks. Or Bryan Adams in early March.
An d who gives a phrack about Duran Duran and INXS.
N Halls says:
If any record company is reading,
1. Enya (please Enya, Kate Bush has remastered her albums)
2. The Corrs
3. A-ha
4. Simple Minds
5. The Human League
6. INXS
7. Stevie Nicks
8. Mike Oldfield
9. Roxy Music
10. Adam Ant
11. Kylie Minogue
12. Meat Loaf
13. Tears For Fears
14. Roxette
If any of the above did a SDE, “that would be grand gromit”. Even one of them, just to drown out out what will come later in the year, Spice Girls this, Spice Girls that
Agree on comments about Duran Duran. I left them behind a few years ago along with Spandau Ballet
Hi Paul we will get a George Michael reissue this year. The Christmas letter from his family & David Austin confirmed it. I hope it’s something more exciting than a duets album or the cover to cover live album. (I’m not crazy for live recordings but that might just be me). Personally I would love the 3 Wham! albums remastered & expanded. Plus the Foriegn Skies film. Fantastic & Make It Big we’re both number one records & The Final number two. With 7 number one singles on them. That’s where I’d start anyway. And a photography book. A lot of the affection & loyalty people hold toward George Michael & his music started with the Wham! years.
They didn’t confirm that at all. I read the statement before doing the preview. What they said was: “We are very excited about a couple of the first ever official projects to come in the following years, don’t worry, we’ll let you know what they are and when they’ll arrive….” which is about as vague as you can get!
Rich P says:
New Pet Shop Boys album due in all its finery!
.. With stuart price as producee… Again… Disappointed !
Stephen Duffy was hinting on his Instagram that he will be releasing in 2019 the original version of the 1985 album called “Cocksure” that he completed with producer Stephen Street, before everything got messed up and ended up released by Virgin back in the day as the album “Because We Love You”. Think “Red Rose Speedway Reconstructed”.
Oh that would be immense. BWLY is the best album to not sell one single bloody copy. It tanked worse than Houdini. By the way, Stan, you wouldn’t be the Mr. H who used to produce the original TUAD fanzine? There aren’t many original Duffy fans about and even fewer called Stan. If so, thank you for the T-Shirt. I wore it to death back in the day.
There must be a ton of unreleased / rare stuff of the 1982 – 1986 era, from She Loves Me / She Loves it to Baby Impossible and beyond. Bob Lamb studios must have something tucked away in a drawer and Stephen’s old school desk has already come up trumps once, maybe it could do so again.
David Rose says:
Julian Cope island years box set
Housemates deluxe “people who grinned……”
Chills box set
Go betweens deluxes
Big audio dynamite deluxe reissues
Would be nice
Anniversary wishlist/predictions:
Toni Halliday – Hearts and Handshakes (30th)
The Human League – Reproduction (40th)
The Lightning Seeds – Pure (30th, their first single)
Mega City Four – Tranzophobia (30th)
Mudhoney – Mudhoney (30th)
Muse – Showbiz (20th)
Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine (30th)
Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile (20th)
Simple Minds – Street Fighting Years (30th)
The Cure – Wish
Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul (unfairly ignored)
The Smashing Pumpkins – Machina/Machina 2
U2 – Rattle and Hum
U2 – Pop
Feels like a ‘Gold Against the Soul’ deluxe is just never going to happen, doesn’t it?
John Lloyd says:
Pure was not the first single from (the) Lightning Seeds – Joy was.
Paul, any chance of a Tears For Fears Hurting SDE reissue? The box is super hard to find these days….thx
It would be great to see the BBC stuff on vinyl.
Paul I agree with you wholeheartedly about Duran Duran – for a long time one of my favourite bands, but they continue to ignore their legacy and long term fans. I’ve gone off them as a result and rarely listen to them anymore. I did think All You Need Is Now was great, a successful reinvention of their sound, but Paper Gods was ordinary save a few tracks. They need to stop labouring over average new material and embrace proper reissues. And while I’m at it, please tour Australia!
I think people are being very harsh on “Paper God’s” here. Whilst not as good as AYNIN it certainly had more than enough good / great songs for me. Quite a few of the songs are “growers” though there are 1-2 fillers but even the best albums have those. I would’nt expect anything this year, they”ll keep all the big guns for the anniversary year next year. I would hope for in the very least some special concerts, a serious round of boxsets / reissues & hope for a decent photo book & maybe even an exhibition. A well done special CD single with some new songs & rare old stuff done for the fans would be exceptional. It won’t chart but the fans would seriously love it!!! Pay attention anyone connected to the band!
Psper Gods was good but too long with some tracks trying too hard to sound current in forced ways. But that has been a problem for them for a while. Still, I like all their albums not named Red Carpet Massacre.
John 79 says:
I was wondering if you have heard on the grapevine wether or not Beggars Banquet are re releasing any of the following, Tubeway Army “REPLICAS” or Gary Numan’s THE PLEASURE PRINCIPAL special releases / Boxset this year because it’s both of those albums 40th anniversary of their release this year both of which reached the number one spot(both albums are classics of their genre)
Any information would be gratefully received.
Ps, Thanks Paul for running a really special website and all the best for the coming year.
Unless Beggars Banquet are sitting on a lot of unreleased material (unlikely) we’ve seen all the available extra stuff for these albums with the Replicas Redux and TPP 30th Anniversary sets.
While boxed sets could be made of these and the rest of his BB albums, there may not be enough material. Replicas TPP, and Telekon could be boxed with the Living Ornaments ’79, ’80 and ’81, live sets respectively, but there’s no live material for the others.
I would love to have his BB catalogue remastered in 5.1 but Steve Malins of BB has previously said it would be too costly for the sales to recoup. That would be the only reason for me to purchase these albums again.
There is still a number of mixes,edits ,demos , outtakes and rarities from those albums floating about in serious fan circles,they have come from somewhere,just one example,ditp single edit &I don’t mean the fan made mixes that are available.
There is also the rarities CD that has been talked about for years?
I would also like to the 5.1 mixes released from the machine music era,I didn’t know Steve Malins worked for Beggars Banqett,do you mean Steve Webb?
Being realistic I fear the 5.1 mixes will never appear, sadly.
I can only hope that BB give Gary Numan & Tubeway Army’s albums a 40 th anniversary release that they deserve.
My error, it was Steve Webbon of BB not Malins who managed Gary for a few years after Gary ‘s relationship with his dad faltered. I emailed with Steve many years ago when I oversaw the Gary Numan Digest and BB were issuing the album remasters with bonus tracks. I recall him mentioning a potential rarities CD back then.
Unless a 5.1 mix can be done very cheaply, I can’t imagine it happening. Have to suffice with a 5.1 or 7.1 process on your home amplifier but its not as good as a discrete mix.
With a 30th Anniversary TPP and Replicas Redux already done, I doubt anything new will come out this year. Maybe next year for Telekon?
James W says:
Since both were recorded in 1969, I expect this year’s Beatles super deluxe edition box to include sessions from “Abbey Road” and “Let It Be”. To my knowledge, there aren’t many worthwhile unreleased demos and sessions from “Abbey Road”, certainly not enough to make a big multi disc box set on it’s own. I think sessions from both albums will be on it. I can’t see an “Abbey Road” box set being more than 3 CD’s, but a combined set could easily be 5 CD’s and 1 or more DVD’s or Blu-Rays.
Doubt they would be released together, the music industry bottom line dictates they come separately!
Interesting developments in the Duran camp in 2018, they seem to have been removed from Warners artist list and are more interested in releasing perfume than records. I dont expect any reissues, as they simply do not appear interested. Agree with all that Paper Gods is rubbish.
Yes, my understanding is that they are not on Warners anymore. One album, and that’s it! If they have fallen out then that is a problem because Warners own most of the back catalogue now, of course.
Paul, it’s so disappointing! They had a great follow up to “Pressure” with “last night in the city” & the video followed the remixes by months & I’m sure many fans were like me thinking WTF are you doing & co-ordinate everything properly & this is Sony, an established label who should know what they are doing so who is f**king things up? So many lost opportunities. They cocked up as well on AYNIN with “Leave a light on”, one of the best songs in their back catalogue let alone that album which deserved to be listened to by the masses let alone be a hit when you look at the shite which makes a hit these / those days. They want to be “Current” & don’t even plug / promote their best songs in the deserving manner. Makes you wonder ( I’ve been a fan since 1982 & I sincerely love their stuff ) why the fuck do they bother! Someone somewhere is fucking too much up for that group! It ‘s frustrating when it should’nt be!
They’re always on bloody tour when these albums come out and appear to let other people make various ill-conceived decisions. They spent all that money on the Girl Panic video but apart from one 7″ in the USA it never even got released physically anywhere. DD don’t appear to know who their fans are anymore, that’s the heart of the issue. They appear to want them to be cool groovy teenagers from America, when they’re actually old farts in the UK, Germany and Italy :)
Thanks Paul! Awesome column and interesting responses!
David Murrie says:
Top of my wish list is a vinyl reissue of the wonderful Optimist LP by Turin Brakes. I know there was a vinyl box set cancelled by Universal in 2017 but this album is essential.
Others I long for are…
In Sides by Orbital
Swagger by Gun
Passengers to finish the u2 collection.
Monster by REM
Madonna new album and all I want is the TEARS FOR FEARS sowing remastered on vinyl !!! Please!!!!
what about Sparls island records ? Is peter Gabriel still alive?
erasure’s wild is coming in april i think
Alan Blevin says:
Multi disc versions of
Jethro Tull Stormatch
Porcupine Tree Deadwing and/or In Absentia
I’m with you regarding cynicism about Neil Young Archives Volume 2 however we are getting 2 disc version of Ragged Glory with second disc having 38 minutes of unreleased music
REM Monster.My understanding is that while there may be a vinyl rerelease this year the box set won’t be appearing until 2020 for the 26th anniversary!
Dylan Bootleg Series.Based on Rolling Thunder tour.There is a Scorcese film to be shown on Netflix,a big box with multiple full shows(think the 36 disc 66 tour box) and a 2cd set with no duplication from Bootleg Series Volume 5-Live 1975
And of course 13 new Springsteen concerts.
Paul Kent says:
“WE ARE THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE ROCK APOCALYPSE. LEADERS AND SAVIOURS OF THE WILD RIDE TO OBLIVION AND ECSTASY! GOOD… NIW WE FOUR ARE MET, LET US SAVE THE UNIVERSE WITH OUR OWN PECULIAR BRAND OF HEAVY METAL!”
…in other words, both Bad News albums are being reissued, with “Bootleg” featuring a second disc of an unreleased concert recording. There’s a Pledge Music campaign with various bundles and a deluxe 32nd Anniversary box set available.
That aside, everything else I want has been covered: Simple Minds SFY, TFF Seeds, Prefab Sprout, Jethro Tull, Bowie, The Residents, new Who, new ABBA stuff, new Lynne/ELO, and so on and so forth.
Looking forward to the continuing Marillion booksets and also Fish’s “Vigil” and “Internal Exile” deluxe sets. Any new XTC Surround Sound release is welcome, as would be some long-overdue new music from Mr. Partridge. The next Def Leppard album box should be due, I’d wager. Deluxes for Lenny Kravitz’s “Circus” and “5”…
And finally, please can we have the deluxe of “The Madness” that was dropped from Salvo’s Madness reissues a few years back… I still find the missing S on my shelf aesthetically abhorrent!!
I contacted Salvo re the ‘The Madness’ reissue around the time of the other reissues and they responded that it was an issue getting the rights from the label. A bummer for sure.
Lee Carson says:
I think it was released on Spotify just before Christmas so maybe it will be issued now?
So good to see that I’m not alone getting psyched by the missing Madness number 7 deluxe on the shelf! Bring it on!
RichardB says:
A super, super deluxe of PSBs ‘Please’ would be amazing. *All* the remixes, b-sides and videos in one gorgeous box, please!
They really should have done that in 2016
Peter Muscutt says:
Hanging on for Muse’s boxset covering the era from their beginnings to their second album coming out hopefully this year…they’ve not reissued any albums as deluxe editions to my knowledge so this will be a great way to hear some demos, work in progress recordings and other goodies. No release date mentioned though! What with their latest album tour it’s be odd to release it in the first half of 2019 so I’d expect an autumn/winter release.
Is this something that has been said to be in the works? (Why wouldn’t Paul have mentioned it?)
For their first three albums I spent a bajillion dollars tracking down all the singles and Japanese thises and Australian thats, and THEN getting the box sets once I found out about them (Showbiz and Absolution boxes, not the Origin Of Symmetry box but I think I have pretty much all those tracks on the individual singles), so I hope if there is one coming it offers tracks I don’t already have.
On the other hand, the albums after that it became harder for me to get all the remixes et al, what with HMV then Tower then Virgin closing in the states, so it would be nice to have SDEs to compile those.
Wayne Olsen says:
Paul, I can’t thank you enough for this site. I have learned so much!
I hope that the Moodies do 50th anniversary issues of the third and fourth albums of the 7.
It’s also an opportunity to celebrate first albums by Elton, Faces, Crimso, Blind Faith
As for 40ths, London Calling, Remain in Light and Armed Forces could always get reboots.
Brian Stanley says:
I know it’s petty nitpicking, but “first” albums from Blind Faith ?!?
I’m not ruling out a second album just yet. Eric Steve and Ginger are still friendly. They just need a bass player. Nice potential for a reality show!
Looking forward to Unloved’s follow up to their 2106 debut on 1 February:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heartbreak-UNLOVED/dp/B07HGNRJ2H
Mecury Rev’s ‘Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited’ with its Tango In The Nightesque cover released the following week looks interesting:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bobbie-Gentrys-Delta-Sweete-Revisited/dp/B07KKLL9ZS
Nothing I would particularly like to be reissued.
My BIG wish is for more Roxy Music deluxe box sets, with “For Your Pleasure…” being the next album to receive the royal expanded box set treatment. Also looking forward to “Abbey Road” “London Town” and “Back to the Egg” SDEs, which hopefully will be coming out in 2019 — and fingers crossed for more vintage Frank Zappa vinyl releases.
Timothy Harrison says:
Paul, you still haven’t told us what tracks are exclusive to the upcoming Paul Young boxset…
Does anybody know about the 2-CDs Uriah Heep back catalogue program started in 2017? Nothing happened in 2018! Fingers crossed in 2019. Can someone say a word?
The Cars also!
Still missing the first album and the last one in remaster edition, I mean The Cars and Door To Door.
Black Sabbath also, Tony Martyn era!
The Black Sabbath Tony Martin stuff is starting to happen. Tony Iommi is remixing “Forbidden” at the moment. Let’s hope it signals the start of the reissues of these last few Sabbath albums.
Peter C says:
Eurythmics – still holding out that Savage gets the deluxe CD & Blu Ray treatment. Finally putting together the album plus the VHS only companion video album. There’s such a feast of audio & visual material around this era that pulling everything together in one package would be amazing. Lots of scope for putting out all the versions of the video clips, any archive material and so on.
One does wonder what unreleased stuff they found on the tapes when preparing the vinyl remasters.
Justin Bryant says:
Thanks Paul – hopefully a lot to look forward to. I’m eagerly awaiting the Pail Young box set I ordered from you…
Any thoughts on what U2 might be up to? I’m hoping for a ‘Pop’ special edition and still hoping for something to be done with ‘Rattle & Hum’. Will the Joshua Tree Anniversary Tour get a Bluray release along side a Songs Of Experience Tour Bluray?
And yes – Seeds Of Love by TFF would be great!!!
U2 are rumoured to be doing a theatre release for Joshua Tree Anniversary tour film in the spring, they filmed Berlin last year so would assume that both will come out at some point on bluray. But no dates for either.
There is no chance of anything happening relating to Pop or Rattle and Hum
Darren Linklater says:
Tom Petty Wildflowers looks likely and would be great.
Roping for something from the Harrison estate but might have to wait for an All Things Must Pass 50th with demos and remix?
Kate Bush tour of life full show on CD and DVD would be a awesome. The EP was left off the recent reissues so maybe still hope.
NYA vol 2 hopefully……
Macca Flaming Pie SDE?
Immersion box of Animals with live concert and 5.1?
Better get saving up!
claudio oliveira says:
siouxsie videos
Thomas Staudt says:
According to the Art of Noise’s “In Visible Silence” Deluxe edition booklet, the next set is “Kiss (Adventure Three)”.
Since “Below the Waste” from 1989 is “Adventure Four”, I assume this set will be Kiss in all of its variations and a ton of 1988 outtakes.
No idea if this will come out in 2019 already, though.
Michael Fowler says:
One of my favourite articles of the year – here’s my wish list for 2019:
1. Street Fighting Years – Simple Minds
2. The Seeds of Love – Tears for Fears
3. London Town and Back to the Egg – Paul McCartney and Wings
4. Major Earth and Minor Sky and Lifelines – A-Ha
5. Lost Souls – Doves
6. Rattle and Hum – U2
7. Wish – The Cure
8. Standing on the shoulders of giants – Oasis
9. Live Magic – Queen
10. Flood – They Might Be Giants
Take my money now thanks!
I’m sure the Bowie boxsets will keep coming, ‘You Belong in Rock & Roll’ would be a fitting title for the 1989-1994 period. Then they could also put out a 50th anniversary ‘Space Oddity’, although I don’t know what else they could stick in since we already have the 40th anniversary 2CD set, and the album itself got the remaster treatment in 2015. Another sure reissue is a 20th anniversary edition of Suede’s ‘Head Music’.
Joni At 75 concert coming out on cd/dvd soon also. Would be surprised if no other Joni Mitchell releases came out too…
korova says:
Be great if we could see a 40th anniversary set of The Jam’s All Mod Cons in the same format that the super deluxe edition of Setting Sons was done. Anybody heard any rumours about this happening?
I’d like to see a CD reissue of the Jerry Goldsmith score for the film “Chinatown.” Of course, a big super-duper box would be great but, for me, a straightforward CD issue would be more than welcome.
Wasn’t it released by Intrada a few years ago?
It was issued as a standard cd but is now hard to get. Prices starting at around £30.
mkr says:
Didn’t see Rain Tree Crow in the March section. Is that still on?
motte says:
Does anyone know if the Ramones will continue their 40th anniversary series with End Of The Century?
And any news on Frankie Goes To Hollywood? The Last 36 Inches for RSD?
Ian D says:
Certainly would like some more Eurythmics remixes and rarities for sure. The recent 2018 remasters sounded great but – as I discovered when I bought the Savage album from HD Tracks as a 24 bit/96kHz hi res download – it was in fact a 16 bit file upscaled – so really no better than a normal CD! Disappointing really.
Hope to finally see expanded reissues of all the early American Music Club albums (Restless Stranger through to United Kingdom) which have been out of print for years. The masters are being transferred as we speak!
I saw that Dinosaur Jr’s major label albums are getting deluxe reissues from Cherry Red as well
Paul Fitzgerald says:
The amazing King Crimson are celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2019.
David Singleton from DGM mentioned to me before their Amsterdam concert last summer that their are plans for a new extensive box set for the majestic album “In The Court Of the Crimson King” plus several other releases that will have fans salivating. Should be an amazing year!
Led Zeppelin will open the vaults for the 51st band birthday ;-))
Is your surname Plant by any chance?:-)
On 25 january, cherryredrecords will release expanded versions of Bananaramas albums VIVA (2 CD) and DRAMA (3 CD).
In may, there will be the release of several deluxe editions of “Back to earth” from Cat Stevens (you can order them on pledge music or on his home page)
What price a Stevie Wonder box? Not for remastering’s sake, but for unreleased gems from the vaults. There are bound to be hundreds, particularly if you believe Malcolm Cecil and Bob Margouleff. There are a couple of snippets of delicious out-takes on YouTube, but not much.
wesley mc dowell says:
Albums that I will be looking foward to are as follows in no particular order. New Titles by Sade,Fish,Its Imaterial,Steve Hackett,Fiat Lux,Prefab sprout,The Pearlfishers,Robert Forster,Tim Bowness,Tiny Magnetic Pets,Empathy Test and hopefully Tears For Fears.It would be nice to see a re-issue of Curt smths debut solo album Soul on Board .
I think you are being a bit hard on Duran Duran though!! I think Nick Rhodes would be the man to talk to on the subject of re -issuues etc.
John Archbell says:
Paul already confirmed (in another article) that Nick has said that physical releases are no longer the way forward and that there’s no demand for the format..especially CD.
I have had a long battle with the management – the band are not interested. We may get something for the 40th but it’s not nearly enough.
From The Duran Duran Homepage :
Those Special Edition CD/DVD’s that the band put out for the first five albums were amazing! Do the boys plan to release these same Special Editions for their remaining albums?
“Hello, we have always tried to meticulous about our packaging and especially re-packaging wherever we do control the releases. Regarding CDs, as the format is now fading, it is unlikely that record labels will do many special editions. In fact, vinyl is much more likely at this stage. Personally, I still love beautiful products. Even though the world consumes most music digitally now, there is nothing quite like a records so I am at least happy this format is growing in popularity again , particularly amongst audiophiles. Nick”
Easy to say. They have ‘owned’ Medazzaland for decades and can do what they like with it. What have they done? Nothing.
Exactly Paul! It’s PR Bullshit. I’ve read it before. Michael, It says nothing in that reply about Duran actually doing something about it.
The band and their market are not singing from the same song book.
I am hoping for a less expensive 2019 than 2018 and so am happy that not a lot grabs my attention among the listed releases. Also glad I don’t collect vinyl as that would bust my budget. Of course some sets/releases will be no-brainers:
Beatles Abbey Road Boxed Set
TFF – Seeds of Love SDE (if not this year, then when?)
OMD 40th Anniversary Boxed Set
Anything from Kate Bush
Blondie Boxed Set
Any 5.1 mixes of artists I like as long as not within a set with more than one vinyl disc.
Happy collecting everyone!
Much though the Bootleg Series cause one to salivate like Pavlov’s dogs, a new Dylan-written album is now waaay overdue [7 years since ‘Tempest’ this September, the same gap as between ‘Under The Red Sky’ and ‘Time Out Of Mind’].
Adding to the list of artists who seem determined not to delve into their back catalogues, one still hopes that Elton’s florist bill will come in a bit early one month and he will, at the very least, give us some 2-CD Deluxe Editions of the post-GYBR years.
Regarding the debate about a Tin Machine box this year/at all, and the paucity of material [although there are plenty of TM concerts in the can], limiting a release to just the group provides the estate with the problem of where to place any Sound + Vision concert release, and the ‘Fame 90’ and ‘Real Cool World’ releases, the various mixes of which would fill a CD/2-LP. I haven’t seen any title-guessing going on yet, I’d reckon ‘Heaven’s In Here’ or ‘Under The God’ would look nice.
Normand says:
Let’s dream a lot: a super deluxe edition of the lost album GET BACK from The Beatles for its 50th anniversary in April or May (plus a vinyl for Record Store Day). The Glyn Johns album haunts me for so long… -Please, go ahead, Giles Martin!
1994 was quite a landmark year in alternative/pop in the UK and US. 25 years on, I don’t think most of these have been anniversary’d before – what chance of deluxification?
Portishead – Dummy
Prodigy – Music For The Jilted Generation
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Let Love In (would love to hear outtakes from this)
Johnny Cash – American Recordings
Green Day – Dookie
Massive Attack – Protection (although they will be already retrospectively touring Mezzanine won’t they…?)
Pavement – Crooked Rain Crooked Rain (they are rumoured to be reforming, right?)
Also, I think Demon putting out another reissue of Suede’s Dog Man Star for the big 25 is almost guaranteed. Aping this year’s anniversary of their debut and his memoir, Brett will be bringing out his second biography/book around the time of the anniversary of the original DMS album in the autumn so the two releases could piggyback on each other. An RSD vinyl of the album and associated B-sides also a decent bet.
I would love to see Universal start a new Pulp reissue campaign starting with collating Intro: The Gift Recordings and His’n’Hers with the unreleased demos and live/sessions from that time (they did a couple of great BBC radio sessions around 1993/94, with Marc Riley on Hit The North and Evening Session with his mucker Mark Radcliffe).
A bit of Shampoo/Whigfield/Ace of Base would be great too, thanks…can leave out those fellas that did Cotton Eye Joe though…
Crooked Rain Crooked Rain and His’n’Hers have both already been reissued with plenty of unreleased material – CRCR in particular was expanded to a full 50-song 2CD set. There can’t be anything left in the cupboard.
50 songs…blimey, fair enough.
Plenty of Pulp demos from 1992-93 unreleased though, they’ve been officially documented. They demo’d Lipgloss with Stephen Street and the final version was also remixed by Ian Broudie which hasn’t been released although a DAT copy went for £60 on eBay last year!
Marc Riley and Mark Radcliffe we’re both on Hit The North, as I recall. The Evening Session was Mark Goodier (and later Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley). Mark Radcliffe later had his own show which featured bands in session, but it wasn’t the Evening Session; it was informally called the Graveyard Shift but it was just two hours under his own name. Boring… but true.
You’re right, Nov’93 on Radcliffe’s own show but not the Evening Session – which I believe that very month saw Lamacq and Wiley replace the old guard and usher in Britpop.
Not much more to add to Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain beyond the LA’s Desert Origins reissue from Matador (2004). Same for Let Love In – Mute’s 2011 reissue scooped up the handful of bonus tracks worth issuing.
Speaking of 1994, Beck’s Mellow Gold could use a reissue. REM’s Monster almost certainly will, as others have noted. Maybe: Bee Thousand by Guided By Voices? Waiting for the Love Bus by The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy?
Pavements’s Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain got the deluxe treatment in 2004 with the two disc Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA’s Desert Origins.
Jez Stamps says:
I know that Paul Humphries of OMD has mixed 22 ‘lost’ songs as part of a 40th Anniversary tie-up via Universal, following the ‘Pretending To See The Future’ book and 2 disc live show with The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. I hear a new song may be added as well….
Jez Stamps, that would make sense – Andy McCluskey tweeted at Christmas about special releases including ‘a new single’ coming for 2019, which tallies with rumours dating back to 2017. Vince Clarke has also tweeted a week ago about completing a remix for OMD – of the upcoming single or a golden oldie, I wonder?
Michael Davies says:
I’d very much like to see Pet Shop Boys continue the ‘Further Listening’ campaign with reissues of their post-Parlophone albums; and a 2/3/4(?) disc ‘Further Listening’ compilation of outstanding remixes not included on the reissues (which basically focused only on their own remixes).
Beyond this, a dream which won’t happen (but still a dream!) is an exhaustive Madonna back catalogue super-deluxe reissue campaign. But Madge won’t play ball!
Maybe a little too soon to reissue the last few PSB’s albums.
Rodolfo Martin says:
On the Beatles albums, I think Abbey Road will happen for consistency. I will not care much about Let it Be if the movie is not included (also remastered, restored and expanded). All the songs that were only single songs (later the Past MAsters Vol 1 and 2) will have to have the right treatment someday, same thing the songs from Magical Mistery Tour. Revolver is a dream too.
I hope to live enough to see a SDE of Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. I know there are a lot of CD bootlegs, so the material is somewhere waiting to be treated as it deserves.
The Police albums, with outtakes or demos, could be a good idea. Steward’s brother (I forgot the name, sorry) once said that they had a lot of material in the vaults. I think he said that at the time that the DVD made out Steward 8 mm movies done during an early US Tour was released). Expanded Sting albums could be a good plan.
Peter Gabriel expanded albums, as he did with SO (which was a little bit disappointing for me) have to happen some day.
More Lennon SDE would be very welcome too.
It has been said. Thanks Paul for your article.
Around the time The Police did their reunion tour I remember Miles Copeland saying that the ‘Police Around the World’ video would be reissued on DVD. Assume that is what you are referring to. Would love to see that released…
Wessex char says:
Wondering if a deluxe and remastered edition of the Housemartins final album ‘The people who grinned themselves to death’ will ever appear. Would be great to have b-sides such as ‘Rebel without the airplay’ and ‘Paris in flares’ back out there.
Their debut album was reissued as a 2cd package over 10 years ago!
Maybe it didn’t sell, hence the lack of any more in that format.
I fear the same fate may have befallen Supergrass’ I Should Coco deluxe, would love to hear a warts-and-all version of their second album, In It For The Money.
Weird how they just gave up on Supergrass. I really like the I Should Coco deluxe, despite no notes and basic packaging etc.
The Housemartins complete works could/should be brought together in a 4 or 5 CD set. THAT would be something.
+1 for the rest of the Supergrass albums to recieve the same treatment, the tracklisting was very thorough for that era & i would love to see it replicated across their other albums ending with them finally releasing their final lost album ‘Release The Drones’…
Matthew Green says:
Hopefully Metallica’s ‘Black Album’ later this year which will be a behemoth- but worth every penny!
And maybe a set of vinyl from the Tyr back catalogue- their new album is out soon and not much of their back catalogue is available on vinyl…
My wild wish is SOMETHING from Van Halens huge vaults- but I’m not holding my breath!
Tom A. says:
Metallica released the black album in 1991, so I assume that they won’t release the box set for that album until 2021.
Metallica have done great with their back catalogue. I hope they keep it up! I think Van Halen would have some cool stuff in their vaults but I’m not familiar with how much there is…
patjoller says:
Nice things to come.
I’m hoping for more…. Simple Minds’ Street fighting years deluxe set and REM’s monster.
As a professional of such things and as you have contacts with the Dave Stewart himself, do you think there’s a possibility to see the spiritual cowboys vinyl boxset that was teased on his website a few years ago ?
The new Ex Hex album in March, and THREE albums by Ryan Adams this year. Not to mention a new Wildhearts album, and watch out for an Irish band called The Murder Capital who will make rawk great again.
Alun says:
A career-spanning, all the singles, 2 disc/3cd Deluxe Kate Bush Best Of (including the videos on DVD/BluRay) would be amazing… What I *really* hope comes out, though, is a 30 year special edition of The B-52’s Cosmic Thing. And where’s that Bryan Ferry solo boxset he mentioned aeons ago? The singles, outtakes, rarities, B-sides… it’s about time.
Lenny Kravitz stops the reissue deluxe editions… I Think it’s the right time for 5 ( 21st anniversary ) as “Are you gonna go my way” few years ago.
The Blue Nile – Hats 30th Anniversary reissue would be a good idea. Was reissued 2013 on vinyl but difficult to find.
Passengers (U2) LP reissue would also be welcome. Ahead of its time that.
At the heavier end of the spectrum, Tony Iommi has recently(ish) said that he has finally started remixing Black Sabbath’s 1995 “Forbidden” album, long held by fans to be the “worst” Sabbath album, largely because of the dreadful production (worse even than “Born Again”). So it seems likely that this will be released in 2019 and hopefully it will signal the start of the reissue of their last batch of albums, those featuring singer Tony Martin, as they have done the Ozzy and Dio albums (nearly ten years ago now!) and the above-mentioned Born Again, Seventh Star (with Glenn Hughes) and Tony Martin’s first Sabbath album “Eternal Idol”.
This year is Led Zeppelin’s 50 th anniversary
does anybody know why this milestone is being celebrated
solely by a book ? (and not a very good one at that)
Zep fans can only look on and weep when we see what beatles
and mccartney fans get!
Gert says:
Still hoping for a deluxe reissue of David McComb’s solo album Love of Will. Why not with the never released Costar tracks ?
Hopefully the Super Furry Animals reissues continue on…Guerrilla should be next…
Would also like to finally see The Smashing Pumpkins MACHINA reissue wrangle it’s way out of legal hell…
Soren says:
Rumours said that Depeche Mode will re-record a new compilation with songs from the 80s and 90s in a new sound like their latest albums
That sounds dreadful, really hope that’s not true.
……if that turns out to be true, I hope someone close to them has enough sense to help them see how wrong and unnecessary that really is…..
Why not……for example release a nice compilations of instrumentals from back in the day ? There is certainly enough to choose from…..
Steve Xyron says:
I’d love them to release their albums as deluxe editions 2/3 disc sets.
thefax says:
I believe that Depeche Mode rumor stems from an April Fool’s Day joke.
I would love to see a couple of sets this year. First a Donna Summer box of the Casablanca albums, I know they are on Japanese CD individually but a box would be great.
I’d also like to see something decent done with the Hall and Oates albums archive, maybe a complete album set with bonuses. They have been going nearly 50 years so would be well deserved.
Having purchased the Blondie albums vinyl box a few years back (the one its impossible to get the albums out of) am happy their new one will be in two versions. Also, as a super ABBA fan i want no new albums. Have no faith they will be up to their legacy. None of their recent outings is anything to write home about. So if they must, pile it on the 36th Gold reissue. Maybe a semi-limited 7″ before.
Craig Hedges says:
None of their recent outings????? They last recorded together in 1982.
For fans of John Wetton and iCon, Geoff Downes said on his site in June of last year that in addition to the reissues of the iCon albums that have already come out we can also expect this…
“For fans of the whole iCon legacy, a box set is being planned out featuring these albums and all the other recordings of the iCon duo, including previously unreleased material.”
No date given back in June, so who knows if it will be 2019. But I would imagine, given the reissues we got last year, and the live album, it’s not a huge step to package the studio albums up with the unreleased material into a box set.
Most looking forward to the 2000-era King Crimson with Belew which I had heard was spring, and the 50th anniversary edition of the first album toward the end of the year.
Fingers and toes crossed for McCartney to finish off the 70s, and that if Rush do another resissue, they’ll do a better job of tempting me with an amazing package.
I unexpectedly fell in love with the Eye In The Sky box from The Alan Parsons Project and wondering if there’s another title in the works for this year.
And I’ve got to believe we’ll start seeing stuff from Tom Petty each year in deluxe packages. As someone already mentioned, Wildflowers seems to be a given as the next non-Best Of release.
Will be a reissue of some of the iCon live albums before the box set also. The 4 studio album reissues were excellent!
I LOVE Asia, that first album remains one of my all-time favorites. I have picked up a few of his solo and side projects, but I never got any of the Icon stuff; I would be interested in that box.
I see Asia’s debut got a lavish 30th anniversary in Japan, but apparently nothing in the way of lost studio tracks from the period?
Also, sooner rather than later I would expect Depeche Mode to restart reissuing their back catalogue resuming with “Playing with the Angel”. They did a really great job with all the earlier albums, especially with the DVD documentaries they did but I hope the extra tracks go on a Separate CD rather than the DVD like before.
William Darlington says:
A lavish box set of Ronnie Lane’s complete solo work is due out sometime in the first half of the year. It was postponed from 2018.
Jim Vandegrift says:
Let us hope. A superb back catalog that is very overdue for reissue
A new Who album is coming before the year is out too, I hear today via Rolling Stone!
G S Cleere says:
Awww no –Pete – give it up. It’s you & Roger – and that’s just fine. If something happens to Daltry, are you going to release solo records as “The Who’?
David Aldridge says:
Any news on when the Tanita Tikarum releases will be despatched by SDE? Thanks.
They went before Christmas. Send an email to orders@shopsuperdeluxe.com if there is a problem. Ta.
I’m really hoping the ABBA delay is down to them recording more new tracks. The fact that we’ve got two new songs to look forward to in 2019 is amazing but a whole new album would be the stuff dreams are made of. I never ever thought any of this would happen. Hopefully they’ll resurrect Just Like That and add some finishing touches to it. Exciting times!!
Dag says:
I’m curious if there is any update on Re-Flex politics of dancing 2cd and also the first 3 Berlin remasters that were for sale and then abruptly pulled.
Robert Baldwin says:
I contacted cherry red about the Re-flex 2cd reissue only to be told “we hope to return to this at a future date”, so don’t hold your breath I think means
Yes! I’d love to buy all of those!!!
Don’t forget Freiheit’s second English album Fantasy and Jimmy Somerville’s third album Manage The Damage are getting SDE reissues in the next two months.
Not much love here for Duran Duran so far. Hardly surprising with the management’s totally ignorant stance by continuing to, as you say Paul, alienate their faithful fans. You may not know this but I was part of a committee that compiled a survey of 500 plus fans. It was in relation to the upcoming, so-called, 40th Anniversary celebrations. Proposals were put forward on what fans would like to see materialise, whether that would be physical releases or a tour featuring previous band members’ Andy Taylor and Warren Cuccurullo. Resulting from our own passion, we put a lot of effort into it. We submitted a very professional report to Wendy Laister at Magus (Duran’s Management) and the reply we got back was basically ‘thanks but we can’t make any promises’.
I’d just like to put on record my thanks to Jeff Bistline who was an integral part of the cog at getting our project out there. However, I do feel our efforts were all in vain as we heard nothing more from Magus.
John Taylor, the band’s joint founder and bassist, did refer publicly to something about 40 special surprises that would happen, although that was about 18 months ago. Can we count the recent perfume launch as one of those? I do fear a repeat of their insistence at charging ridiculously inflated amounts of money for the OTT Vinyl Factory Box Set releases like they produced for All You Need Is Now and the below par Paper Gods albums.
One suggestion from our survey was a ‘Duranthology’. I mean, what a cracking title! The potential is limitless – it could have been the mother of all box sets: Unreleased Demos, a 5.1 Blu-ray of Wembley ‘94, Strange Behaviour/ Big Live Thing tours on Vinyl, Books in a similar vein to Bowie’s, an acoustic show from 93’ on vinyl – the list is undefined.
I have noticed that when somebody does voice an opinion, they are then judged as being ‘negative’ and those people never hear from ‘DDHQ’ again. I could be speaking from experience! They seem to be more happy plodding along on an endless tour of the USA, working on a Duran Duran musical or on this new album – which I hope has a lot more guitar and a lot less EDM than Paper Gods. Good luck to them.
Moving on, I’m very much looking forward to a box set from Blondie as I missed the last one. I’m very happy about the 2 extra albums of unreleased tracks / demos. I’m a massive fan!
As for The Police, I bought the recent box set as I didn’t have any of the albums on vinyl and I found it hard to find any in a condition that I would be pleased with – they got very well played back in the day! The included hard back book of photos was a lovely bonus!
Finally, I’m very much looking forward to receiving the Paul Young set! Other than that, there’s really nothing coming up on the horizon that takes my fancy.
Have a great weekend all!
Interesting… Duran Duran need to look at a band like Manic Street Preachers. They tend to produce a new album every 2-3 years, have nice 2CD deluxe sets of the new albums with demos and then in between nicely done reissues, with signed sets available via their store. A healthy balance between new and old and a great relationship maintained with their fans (and their record label, sony). Duran have a detoriating relationship with their fans due to a lack of activity in terms of physical product (no singles) and reissues, and they fall out with EVERY record label they work with. Says it all.
I think Simon and Nick and the rest must have some figure in mind that they wish to earn a year to maintain their lifestyle and the sole goal is to get to that figure. ‘Curating’ and putting together box sets is REALLY interesting, especially if it is YOUR material, but they either have no motivation to do it (weird) or aren’t willing to take a big pay cut to do it (more likely). I guess the only thing that comes remotely close to delivering this income is constant touring, private/corporate gigs etc. So that’s all they do.
Never thought I’d say this, but I honestly don’t know why they bother to record new music. 95% of their fans are there to hear ‘the hits’ and all the new music does is disappoint diehards. I thought Paper Gods had literally one or two good songs on it and the rest was vapid, horribly produced ‘modern’ nonsense.
I agree about MSP. Simple Minds are another band who play to their strengths & mix the old & new releases to great results & give the fans what they want!. I think Duran Duran suffer ( if that’s the word ) from wanting to remain current. I completely understand that but in a world of diminishing fans & difficulty getting AirPlay etc etc, how long can this go on for? We the fans want a long overdue “Wedding album” boxset inc CD’s please!!!! That would be more of a success than any new album & May even generate more new fans than a new album, A Residency at say the Royal Albert Hall playing any of the early albums or Wedding album in full would be an amazing success & shake it up for the fans who are used to the traditional December Arena tour every few years.
Mark Sinclair says:
Totally agree here. AYNIN was a very good album but that was because Ronson kept them focussed and got them back in a “Rio” creative mindset. They need a producer for the entire album.
If you look at their website though in the ‘Ask Katy’ section they do talk about remastering/reissuing all the albums on vinyl (not CD) in their “original form” and they say they are trying to do this. I think the problem is that their royalty deal is awlful up to this period and they felt ripped off by EMI. I remember a court case a few years back here that they lost here.
I would love a DD album box set (like The Police set) with half speed flat/uncompressed mastering by Miles Shovel containing all the studio albums, a couple of disc of non-album singles (MOW, Reflex remix, WB and AVTAK) and studio B sides and perhaps even the Powerstation and Arcadia albums. I can happily go without the nightversions and live albums or live B sides.
Dean Taylor says:
New unkle album announced.. the road part 2. Get in quick for limited triple coloured viny from selected stores..
Mounir IDIR says:
What about the 40th anniversary of Donna Summer’s Bad girls album ?
My BIG prrediction is that The Sisters Of Mercy will celebrate 29 years since the release of their last studio album, Vision Thing, in the same way as they celebrated 28 years, 27, 26, 25…. by releasing absolutely nothing new! Yay! I can hardly wait for this continued absence! ;)
Seriously Mr Eldritch – it’s been nearly 30 years!!! New record please!!!
I don’t think the Bowie camp will go without a fifth box in the Autumn, but deciding where to split the remaining albums could prove tricky – especially if they decide to bring Tin Machine into the fold (after all Tin Machine I was included in the previous main Remaster series so is acknowledged as FitzBowie, but – according to my memory – not II or Oy Vey). There’s clearly too much left for one box – 8 ‘solo’ studio albums + 2 TM studio. The obvious split would be between Reality and The Next Day – but that would only leave 2 studio albums, stage show (?), and the final EP for the last box – unless they packed it full of all the 40th anniversary picture discs’ b-sides, bringing it right round back to the start! With the addition of the TM stuff that would require a split in the 95-03 run (which always feels like a sort of era to me – probably for no good reason). Concentrating on 6 studio albums would match the first box – but would make a far less popular era far too expensive once attendant lives and Re:call discs were added. And would VH1 and Reality Tour get included? Who knows? Perhaps it’ll be a Tin Machine only box! ;)
As for Kate Bush, I’ve thought for several years ‘The Whole Story’ was looking increasingly misnamed! ‘The Partial Story’? ‘The Holed Story’?
Am I right in thinking many people are not fans of The Sensual World? I always loved it and would be rather happy with some kind of expanded edition.
I would not put it past the Manic Street Preachers to get some sort of Anniversary edition out – of something – no matter how tenuous, low- or strangely-numbered that anniversary might be (and in a shape and size package that completely fails to match the space that people created for This Is My Truth 20 or Tigers 10th). I would not be remotely surprised at a (pointlessly remastered) 10th anniversary ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’, but would be staggered at a 15th anniversary of ‘Lifeblood’, or, perhaps most likely, that perennial reissue favourite: ‘The Holy Bible’ 25th Anniversary Edition – complete with previously unreleased audio of some bloke sneezing when he walked past the studio ‘cos we literally have nothing left from this period in the archive’! It’s a great album and I wouldn’t be surprised that the milestone silver anniversary would be marked but will yet another large box be plausible or necessary? And in true Pavlovian manner… I’d rush out an buy it! ‘Cos I’m conditioned that way’. Yikes!
I’d like & definitely buy:
1, Simple Minds “Street fighting years” boxset.
2, Duran Duran “Wedding album” proper boxset. I doubt we will see anything this year as they will doing a lot next year for their 40th anniversary of the most successful line up. Nick Rhodes has recently hinted their will be only vinyl reissues which is bad news for people like me who don’t buy records. Let’s wait & see but nothing that group does happens quickly.
3, U2 “Pop” All singing all dancing boxset. The last album where they creatively pushed the boat out for.
4, Bryan Ferry “ Boys & girls” boxset. See above for Duran Duran, nothing happens quickly & depends if the focus is going through the Roxy stuff in chronological order or not.
That’s just for starters…
In the category of “easiest predictions to make”, Van Halen will, once again, NOT do anything this year to mark the anniversary of one of their awesome albums from the David Lee Roth years. 2019 is the 40th anniversary of their second album (Van Halen II), but of course they won’t do anything to commemorate it after they did nothing last year to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their incredible debut album.
As always, Eddie Van Halen is Lucy to the fans’ Charlie Brown, holding the football and pulling it at the last second before Charlie has a chance to actually kick it.
Judging by last year’s 50th anniversary releases The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and Moody Blues albums from 1968 were released with 5.1 surround mixes.
Of the albums released in 1969, I assume we’ll get another Beatles 5.1 album in Abbey Road. Any others worthy of an SDE release?
Crosby, Stills & Nash – Crosby, Stills & Nash
Dusty Springfield – Dusty in Memphis
Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left
I would love deluxe editions of Prefab Sprouts Langely Park, Jordan and Andromeda Heights if there was b-sides and quality takes on the 12” mixes.
The I Trawl The Meghertz album is fantastic, basically imagine a Prefab Sprout album produced by Eno and you’re in the ballpark.
Paul Bakewell says:
Revolver ?
Cherry Red are expected to start a reissue campaign for The Fall shortly, having acquired a hefty chunk of their catalogue before Mark E Smith’s death last January. It is whispered that their first two albums will be back on the racks to coincide with their joint 40th anniversary.
I wonder if Beggars will finally do the Omnibus Edition of ‘Bend Sinister’? It was mentioned in their plans a year or two ago.
Over the past decade Beggars seems to alternate between launching an ambitious new reissue program, abandoning said reissue program because they feel physical media is dead, and then launching another ambitious new reissue program. I’m hoping last year’s excellent Peter Murphy set marks the beginning of a new program. In addition to Bend Sinister Omnibus they had Bauhaus’ Sky’s Gone Out omnibus in the pipeline.
Also Beggars: Wolfgang Press, Dif Juz, and Xmal Deutschland are the last 1st-gen 4AD bands without comprehensive reissues.
You know what I kinda hope McCartney doesn’t go with London Town/ Back To The Egg this year… as that might spell the end of the series. As much as I love those 2 albums I’d love to see Broad Street, Press to Play &Tripping before them!!
I think there will definitely be a Bowie set this year and maybe s stand-alone Tin Machine set if they are not included.
Will definitely be a couple of Neil Young archive releases this year… Ragged Glory II and one other.. heard rumour of Alchemy a live Crazy Horse which was meant to come out a couple of years back but didn’t.
Might see another Johnny Cash American Recordings album…been a while since the last one and there is plenty available.
Also meant to be some Yes stuff coming out. I know there is at least a best off called Quintessentially Yes. Plus hopefully new album from at least one of the 2 Yes bands!!
Would love a James Taylor box set of unreleased stuff or a deluxe edition of Sweet Baby James. Won’t happen but you can dream.
How about another Harrison demos set…been years since Vol 1.
David O'G (Dublin) says:
Love your site and updates here on FB. Pretty sure I read in either Long Live Vinyl or Record Collector (both have Paddy McAloon interviews) that there’s a new Prefab Sprout album in September too !
Keith Brittain says:
The Yoko Ono reissues seem to have stopped. Any chance of “Seasons of Glass”, “It’s Alright” and “Starpeace” reissues in 2019?
I absolutely agree. Could be legal style issues but i would love to see those three Yoko albums reissued.
Gorni says:
Looking forward to 40 years of 2-tone records this year! Hopefully at last jerry dammers will open his archives for fans with unreleased material from his vaults. Would be nice to have some live-recordings from the more-specials-album or an extended release of the dance craze soundtrack with all tracks from the movie , even more recordings of that era plus DVD in 5.1…
Dreaming is allowed already…. cheers from Germany, Gorni.
I can’t see any lack of momentum with the Bowie Boxes, there should be a 1989-1994 box this year I reckon covering Tin Machine, the Sound and Vision Tour, BTWN and Buddha albums. This is an era that is ripe for rediscovering for the less committed Bowie fan. Tin Machine gets a bad rap, but it is just Bowie in a different wrapping. Tin Machine 2 has never had a proper reissue since it first came out except for a limited mini vinyl replica CD in Japan about 13 years ago. This single box set is looking like it will be a records store day release, with the promise of a more manageable package later on (maybe one LP, or CD).
Parlophone own the rights to everything up to and including Hours at the moment and I think in the next licensing deal, the Columbia tracks will be bundled into the main catalogue too. That is how it has gone for a good while now.
bigeyedfisher says:
I’m waiting for Paul McCartney’s Off The Ground. Aside from Flowers, that’s my other favorite!
Cal says:
All i wish for is Uh! Tears Baby by Win to be re-issued, not bothered with loads of extra tracks etc, just a simple cd for this one simple man !
All I want is a a Super Popioid Groove!
Took me 2.5 years in the 90s to track down a copy of the CD via a friend of someone on a Usenet newsgroup!
Cherry Red reissued their second album (Freaky Trigger) on CD in 2010 with a boatload of bonus tracks but that album was originally released on Virgin.
A track (Unamerican Broadcasting) off the original London/Swamplands label’s Uh! Tears Baby appears on Cherry Red’s Big Gold Dreams: A Story Of Scottish Independent Music 1977-1989 5CD Boxset which raised hopes that the album hasn’t been consigned to the depths of obscurity for evermore. But apparently Cherry Red were dissuaded from reissuing Uh! Tears Baby and those who have a say in it are not working hard to make it happen. Such a shame.
The 12″ mix of Super Popoid Groove would be an essential bonus track on any reissue but there are other 12″ mixes and b-sides that could easily fit on a single CD with the album to make a great companion to Freaky Trigger.
I too am hoping that it will happen someday before CDs are, or I am, completely dead.
I only recently picked up a vinyl copy of ‘…Uh! Tears Baby’ having been convinced for years that I had it! Would be interested in a reissue.
Similarly, a fresh pressing of Scars’ album ‘Author Author’ on CD would be very much appreciated!
Erasure – Wild! – 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (2cd) will be released 29th march
Gerd says:
Unfortunately with a disappointing tracklist…
There will be a remastered Michael Rother (Ex-Neu! /Harmonia) Solo Box Set on Feb. 22 in Germany with 5 LPs or 5 CDs, released on Groenland-Label.
The Michael Rother vinyl box is even 6 LPs.
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/-/art/michael-rother-solo/hnum/8889901
Really looking forward to the Bryan Adams album. Saw him this Summer and he previewed a couple of new songs I’m hoping will be on it.
Also, I’d be surprised if we didn’t get another Rolling Stones Vault release this year. Atlantic City ’89 is a strong rumour.
I felt a sort of pain in the chest watching Stewart Copeland brutalizing the Police vinyl box and throwing around the records… laughing like a mad scientist… If he was asked to promote the box, well I guess his heart wasn’t really in it, was it?…
The box didn’t have anything new, but talking about sound, it is gorgeous, one of the best reissues I heard the whole year…
I read one comment that the box is a bit too snug for the contents — that it is very difficult to remove the contents and re-insert them. Anybody here have any thoughts on whether that’s true?
I agree completely. I already have all five original albums, but the Abbey Road treatment tempted me to part with the cash. Worth every penny, especially when you’re getting their entire original output (apart from the first single or other Henri Padovani contributions) in one package.
The Cure is in the studio recording a new album. There was talk of Cheap Trick recording another album recently. And OMD “accidentally” recording a new single in 2017 gave me hope that a new album would be in the works by now. Great news about Jeff Lynne/ELO recording as well, as the hiatus of new music there for so many years was disappointing.
OMD’s “accidental” new single is part of their 40th anniversary singles issue. They will also be touring
I have checked OMD’s website and only see the book, the first 4 album LP set, and the live CD/LP sets (that include the new instrumental “The Daughter of the Minotaur” recorded specifically for the movie “Female Human Animal.” Trolling the web gives no information regarding other anniversary releases. Do you have any more information about the 40th anniversary singles issue? I am curious to know what the new single’s title is.
Greg K says:
Interesting thoughts on the acoustic tracks from Prefab Sprout, Paul. Personally, I’d love to hear more of these as I thought the Steve McQueen tracks were excellent with some real thought (and talent) put into them. Desire As, for example, is better than the original in my humble opinion.
Steve Miller says:
Seconded. That acoustic disc is basically a new album and I probably listen to that as much as I do the original disc.
To be fair it is quite interesting… my ‘beef’ is that we got it instead of the usual bonus material not as well as.
Would love to hear more acoustic versions of his songs, especially from the Swoon era!
(Plus a ginormous box set of unreleased material obviously….)
A 5.1 mix of Pink Floyd’s Animals would be most welcome and I would love to see Prefab Sprout’s catalog remastered and reissued. I know there’s a wealth of unreleased material B-sides and videos that could accompany each release. Like Paul,I could live without acoustic versions of each album as bonus material!
I believe Morrissey has a new album called California Son coming in March, a ‘Pin-Ups’ style cover album. Don’t think there will be a deluxe version but expect BMG to produce a dozen vinyl releases of many colours and perhaps a cassette version.
Andrew D says:
Any hope of a deluxe reissue of The Verve’s Forth, after their first three albums got the treatment in 2016-17?
Henrik Kirkegaard says:
Thanks paul
Great as always
Simple minds streets boxset
Rem monster Box
U2 live From two yours boxes
And live ep for record store day
New springsteen
Maybe new level 42
And agree with tears for fears
Let have that realease
Exciting 2019
lets Meet on sde
Agree with Paul on the TFF comments- absolute shambles and if Inonly get to see half of the band next month I’ll be fuming. I’ve waited 20 years to see them and will now miss out again.
Seems clear Roland effectively runs the show. I did see a video of them live last year and their on stage chemistry was non existent but still.
Icicle Works/Ian McNabb box set is being worked on
They were very, very good at the Royal Albert Hall.
Also Very very VERY good at Newmarket a few years back. I live near Ipswich so it was a no brainer to go – with all the shenanigans going on at the moment with messrs Orzabal and Smith I’m so glad I did go! I’m booked for Birmingham next month but I’m expecting the gig to be cancelled – add that to the very likelihood that the new TFF album will be shelved, with Smith slapping an injunction on it, 2009 is already not looking like a great year for the band and their fans.
I’m a big Prince fan, though not-so-much of those particular albums. I’d much prefer the long touted reissue of Diamonds & Pearls on vinyl which I believe was promised but never materialised?
What will come next after the Purple Rain set…?
JVN says:
Michael Cretu has lately obtained the rights back to both his solo stuff(Cretu/Enigma) and the Sandra material he produced. Both his solo album ”Legionnaires” and Sandra’s first albums have disappeared from Apple Music (at least here in Finland). I hope this means there are reissues on their way.
Thanks for the information ! I hope so !!! ;-)
John Bott says:
Jethro Tull’s Stormwatch is 40 years old in 2019. So expect the usual high caliber box set for this one. As an aside, was really hoping for the deluxe treatment of their live Bursting Out in 2018 given it was released in 1978.
Fingers crossed for a deluxe version of Lou Reed’s New York. I recall an article in the last year of his life where commented on the remastering of his catalog.
Kevin Brown says:
I thought Bursting Out had been more or less done with the Heavy Horses box set last year, except with more tracks than original release back in 1978.
I’d really like to see a box set released of Talk Talk, I know there has been a lot of compilation and the albums have been reissued but their out put should be pulled together inc live material and remixes.This is a band who are worthy of a good documentary especially the influence they have had of other artists.
My wish box set i.e. it won’t happen, is of producer and remixer Patrick Cowley, along with his original album a lot of material has been unearthed in the last 10 years which was really ahead of its time 70s and early 80s. His output needs to be brought together to tell his tragically short story and show the huge influence he has had on music.
Paul Harvey says:
A reissue of the Mark Hollis album on vinyl would be nice too!
A new Lilac Time album has been on the cards for a while, so that will, as always, be a treat for these ears. Being happy and content is never good for these musical types.
I am hopeful of something more from the Kate Bush Camp. It’s the right time and there is a lot to bite on. An SDE of at least the first 5 albums is nothing less than those albums deserve and let’s face it, la Bush was on a lot of people’s wish list this time last year and even what we got was a massive surprise, so who knows.
I do hope Mike Oldfield continues his excellent re-issue series with Islands and Earth Moving, skipping The Complete for which there is absolutely no need of a re-visit. I love Earth Moving and hope there is something wonderful done with this album….
For new music I hope the second album by The Struts is even half as good as “Everybody Wants” then I will be happy.
Snotaap says:
Those 3 Prince albums have been released on vinyl before. I have them here. Although there is still a bit of mystery about the Planet Earth album being official. Just sayin’.
None of them have been officially released on vinyl before.
I’d love to see TFF Seeds box this year but I’m not sure now after reading what’s above although its release happened 30 years ago.
I just loved what was said about Duran Duran not to release remaster editions anymore. We fans are getting old and the new generations do not mind about fisical music so the time is now. Unfortunately they (Duran Duran) do not mind about it too. At least it’s what it seems!
Two big names rumoured to be finishing up new albums: Jeff Lynne and Sade. It seems likely we’ll get new albums in 2019 from one, if not both.
Possibly 2 king Crimson boxes
Construktion through to power and
In the court… is 50 this year.
David Johnson says:
Simple Minds – Street Fighting Years 30th anniversary and box due in the Summer.
Reworkings – Andy Wright has teamed up with various Croatian DJs and mixers to create reworkings of 12 classic hits DYFAM, A&K, glittering prize, PYAM and also 12 x 12″ extended mixes so 24 songs.
The clips I’ve heard don’t sound great if I’m being honest but difficult to judge off a ten second snippet!
Dan T. says:
@ David Johnson: If you’re not sure about “Street Fighting Years,” I will be deeply upset. That’s one of my favorite albums from that entire era. And a must-have for those with powerful systems.
Despite being a raving Pink Floyd-iac, I’m not sure I care about SACD versions, unless somebody is going to mix them again. I don’t want another master. (Never really understood the point of that format anyway… The math underneath it is so bizarre vis-à-vis other hi-res formats, it makes me wonder what they were thinking upon making it).
I would love to see more TFF material. Thanks for the update, Paul.
I’ve grown tired of anticipating anything Kate Bush.
More INXS please!
Paul, any word on continuing Jethro Tull sets?
DJ Salinger says:
‘Street Fighting Years’ SDE has apparently been ready to go for some time, but I assume Universal delayed for the 30th anniversary tie-in.
Also a new live album likely from Simple Minds this year.
Meanwhile, in the ‘Languishing in Obscurity’ dept: what about a Virginia Astley box set? Her output’s long overdue some decent curation.
And… still hoping for deluxe back catalogue reissues for PJ Harvey, American Music Club, and that still missing-in-action Edwyn Collins solo years box set.
A lot to forward to on that list. Thanks Paul. One I would add is ‘Machine/The Machines of God’ reissue by The Smashing Pumpkins. The expansive sets of their output up to the ‘Adore’ album have been spectacular but legal issues with Machina derailed the campaign and there has been nothing since 2014. Hopefully they get back on-track.
JasonC says:
Is it too early to start speculating about Record Store Day 2019? I’ve seen some hints (or maybe just wishful thinking) of a 3LP live album from Bowie’s 1990 Sound+Vision tour. If I was in charge, I’d do a 50th anniversary 7 inch of The Ballad of John & Yoko (with the 1+ mix, and a new mix of Old Brown Shoe). Maybe this year might see a 25th anniversary reissue of Tom Petty’s Wildflowers, announced via an RSD release. I’m saving already!
I believe there will of course be a Grateful Dead box this summer
Bobby Dylan tends to get a Bootleg series out each year, I would expect we will see that
The next Bowie box in October? Maybe even get a Tin Machine in there this time?
The rumour mill claims that McCartney will issue London Town and Back To The Egg this year to clean up the 70’s
Supposedly Springsteen is readying a new album(which has been completed for five years now) and a new box. He has to deliver both a Nebraska box and a Born In the USA box. Hopefully it will be Nebraska as it is rumoured that there is a full band version of that album on the box
Finally Tom Petty Wildflowers box. Supposedly Tom had nearly completed it and Rick Rubin does not deny it is there.
Sorry nothing definitive here, but this is a best guess on my part
Mister Stick says:
Petty’s Wildflowers box must certainly be coming this year. I really don’t think his family and band would ignore the project he was working on when he passed. But Campbell and Tench have also both teased a live album from their 1997 San Francisco residency, already well-bootlegged. The Who are now promising a new album, and the word is that Pete’s songs are mostly too obtuse for Rog and he has to shove them down his throat. Good.
But, my question for Paul (or anyone with an idea): What happened to the Ronnie Lane box set?
A “Beatles Abbey Road” Deluxe Box Set would be amazing! There are not a lot of Bootlegs out of that album. I would be much more amazed about a “Abbey Road” Box Set than a “Let It Be” Box Set.
And I still hope there will be a Cardigans Box Set or a Japanese Mini LP Box Set by the Cardigans.
Diego Garcia says:
I don’t think Parlophone will pause/end the David Bowie career box sets for the 50th anniversary demos release(s)—they can perfectly maintain both and the rest of series (picture disc 7″s, RSD releases, one-offs à la Glastonbury…) as they have been doing so far. A career-spanning series that leaves an album behind and ends before ELEVEN are issued would be a sad joke.
Jim Breeds says:
Well, that’s another thirty-something quid I just spent! This time the SACD wish you were here. Fron Amazon USA, saving a tenner over the price in their UK corner shop. Thanks Paul, damn you! :) If I stop reading your blog maybe one day I could afford a Red Ferrari. I wonder how that idea just entered my head?
Thanks Paul, always look forward to your preview.
As New Order Movement box set is due, anyone know of anything for Joy Division Unknown Pleasures 40th anniversary ?
What I would love is a vinyl box set of The Only Ones.
Paul Weller Live album of True Meaning
U2 Joshua Tree Live dvd, hopeful of live cd of the tour as well
Ryan Adams , three albums this year
R.E.M Monster deluxe in September/October
Bruce Springsteen solo album maybe, Born In The USA Box Set
István says:
I’m still hoping that Warners will someday start releasing super deluxe editions of all the classic Madonna albums and they could begin this year with a 30th anniversary Like a Prayer reissue. Or at least continue the japanese vinyl replica sleeve CD reissues that they started a few years ago!
Per Z says:
Oh, what a wonderful thing THAT would be! Improved sound, all radio edits, some remixes. A DVD with the videos in MUCH better quality than that dreadful Celebration, and maybe a concert here and there.
Maybe even the 5.1 surround mixes that some guy at Warner Canada mentioned in 2007… :)
There’s some sort of Generation X box due out soon, still no details released, been ongoing for about 2 years since Tony James tweeted picture of a stack of early cassettes. Was originally meant to be 40th anniversary re-issues of the albums but those anniversaries were last year.
Ton D says:
From the list looks like my wallet will stay closed.What lame titles!
Andre Denis says:
Yes there is a Tangerine Dream box set with Steven Wilson remixes on its way in the spring.
In Search Of Hades – The Virgin Years (16 cd’s + 2 bluray Box Set / Steven Wilson Remixes / Book & More.
Not more exact details are published yet.
Foxee says:
Many thanks for this Paul – brilliantly informative and very thought provoking as ever.
I suspect we will be getting a half-speed vinyl remaster of ‘Voulez-Vous’ from Abba as it’s the 40th anniversary and continues the campaign of treating their studio albums (at least since ‘Arrival’) this way on vinyl. I further predict an RSD super duper limited 7″ of ‘Gimme Gimme Gimme’ – also a 40th anniversary of that stand-alone single, plus I do wonder if we might see some kind of reissue of Greatest Hits Vol.2 – also celebrating it’s ruby anniversary this year – any chance of a limited edition double red vinyl perhaps??? As for a new album, that would top the treats pile for 2019 worldwide…..!!!
Kate Bush – yes, we all wish but never hold your breath…….. perhaps a RSD single of ‘December Will Be Magic Again’ as that is 40 years old this year (in terms of original recording), or the Live on Stage E.P? What about a complete live album of the Tour of Life show?
Bowie – the next big boxset to cover everything after Never Let Me Down? Plus, what about demos and rarities for 77 to 88? The Loving the Alien boxset was spectacular but there was a lack of truly rare stuff in there…..
The B-52s – 40th anniversary of their debut album – and when oh when will we see decent remasters of their catalogue released??????
Siouxsie and the Banshees – vinyl release of ‘Nocturne’? Plus what about the singles collections? And where the hell is the next solo album from Siouxsie?????
Toyah – 40th anniversary of ‘Sheep Farming in Barnet’ – also high time her back catalogue (especially the Safari years) was revisited, remastered and reissued.
The Buggles – The Age of Plastic turns 40 this year – that could be a fantastic vinyl deluxe reissue.
Finally, I wonder aloud about the ever marvellous Sparks celebrating 50 years of genius this year, as we anticipate the forthcoming Edgar Wright documentary. Potentially a new studio album, plus the ongoing Repertoire reissues?
plasket says:
For people whose tastes run a bit more eccentric, The Residents are continuing their “pREServed” reissue series. January 25 will see deluxe versions of arguably their two most (in)famous albums, 1979’s “Eskimo” and 1980’s “Commercial Album.”
Cherry Red’s writeups on the new installments mention that the next installment will be a box set devoted to the “Mole Trilogy.” This will most likely include the albums “Mark of the Mole” (part one, 1981), “The Tunes of Two Cities” (part two, 1982), and “The Big Bubble” (part four, 1985; there was no part three) and the 1982 EP “Intermission.”
These are the group’s first releases following the death of founding member (and only officially confirmed member) Hardy Fox, a/k/a Charles Bobuck, on October 30.
Mr P says:
i so need me some remastered “Act of Being Polite”
Thanks Plasket, I’ve recently bought the expanded Fingerprince album and plan to get most of the others that came out last year, so Mole, Eskimo and Commercial will go on my list.
“Mole Box: The Complete Mole Trilogy pREServed” has been announced for April 5 and will include the three albums and the EP, two live shows (“The Mole Show Live at the Roxy” and the unreleased “Uncle Sam Mole Show: Live in Washington, DC”), and a ton of bonus stuff.
And next up are “American Composers Series” and “God in 3 Persons.”
Frank Zappa – Zappa In New York 40th Anniversary 5-CD and 3-vinly sets
Kai Roen says:
Hopefully we will get the Machina boxset by Smashing Pumpkins in 2019 as well. The first teaser was published in late 2018
Finally, please, Pet Shop Boys, do an all bells, all whistles full catalogue release. One release per single, with all mixes etc…. The uber collectors collection.
I would also very much like PSB b-side compilations Alternative and Format to come out on vinyl formthe first time as far as i am aware….
Alternative came out on triple vinyl at the time in a lovely lenticular sleeve, with a track by track commentary in a gorgeous full size booklet.
Unfortunately, as you have pointed out, Format didn’t receive a vinyl release, which is a huge shame considering how impressive the Alternative set was.
Also put me down for a comprehensive PSB singles box set like the Paul Young one.
For a start a special edition of Discography with the extended editions would be nice.
Or at least a singles box set like Dominic suggested, like Bananarama’s. THAT I would buy in a heartbeat!
The only way to get some of their 80’s remixes is to either buy a record at a second hand store, or download it from some site.
No, give us proper box sets, so we can get all these remixes and songs without breaking the law! Please. :)
I would love to see the promised SDE of Scritti Polittis „Cupid & Psyche 85“ at last!!!
Yesss!
Was scrolling down to post that it’d be nice to see the Scritti re-issues that were due in 2018!
Rare Glam says:
I am very much up for a Sowing The Seeds of Love SDL, so fingers crossed. I wonder also if any of the Julian Cope / Teardrop Explodes / Psychedleic Furs SDL box sets rumoured last year might happen? Personally, I would love a CD box set of remastered The The albums. Not the later film music or occasional vinyl reissue. A nicely presented CD box with Everything from Burning Blue Soul to Hanky Panky at least.
the seeds of love…
30 this year…
sad sad sad
Gerbrand says:
Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder revue is the subject of a new Martin Scorsese documentary due this year which would neatly tie in with an new Bootleg Series box at the end of the year. Category rumours obviously.
Van Morrison’s The Healing Game 3CD 20th Annoversary Edition falls in the Tears for Fears category. Advertised for over 2 years, with artwork and all, yet to be released. An official release of “Live in Boston 1968” (online last year for a few hours for copyright reasons) would be nice too.
Bruce Springsteen’s second albums box on cd ?
The Cure Wish DeLuxe ?
Talk Talk rarities ? The The b-sides and rarities ?
Here’s hoping !
Hey Gerbrand. Bruce’s second album box set is already out on CD (I have Japanese copy but I believe it quietly got an American pressing)
Muscum says:
No, it didn’t get a release outside of Japan.
I probably say this every year but The Go-Betweens “G Stands For Go Betweens” Volume 2 Box Set should be coming out in the first few months of the year.
Now that would be very welcome!
I hope so! How times change, I was put off by the pre-order price of Vol 1, only to change my mind a little later. Was about to buy a copy from Canada at nearly double when I lucked out on a sealed copy for around (maybe less than) the Domino price.
Won’t be taking that risk again!
Andy Partridge has been tweeting about the next, as yet unnamed, XTC Steven Wilson remixed which should be out soonish. Lots of speculation that it is going to be Mummer.
Expect the same high standards as all the other sets. Hurrah!
It should be ENGLISH SETTLEMENT!!! My favorite XTC album, and one of my favorites of all time by any artist. Unfortunately, I’ve read that Andy Partridge has said before that the tapes for that album are lost.
colinthebruce says:
On the ABBA front as well as heavily rumoured more than two new songs are in the offing so who knows – after all TheVisitors only had 9 tracks…. On the reissue front though surely we will be expecting a 40th anniversary Voulez Vouz half speed and singles box set like they did with Arrival and the Album. Even without the new stuff that is something I was looking forward to this year.
Nothing I know about, but I continue to be bewildered by Madonna’s ambivalence about preserving her legacy work. An imminent new studio album is unlikely to change that, as she continues to be an artist who looks forwards. That said, 2019 is the 30th Anniversary of “Like A Prayer” and no studio album of hers is crying out more for a proper remaster and expansion. There’s the rare Cherish b-side Supernatural to include, a raft of different single mixes and remixes that aren’t readily available… she could earn more money from a proper reissue than she will from physical sales of her new work. I’d be surprised, but if any album of hers merits proper retrospective attention it’s arguably this one.
You’re absolutely right, but Like A Virgin turns 35 this October, and I read somewhere that Nile Rodgers will supervise a remastering of that album this year, so who knows what might happen? :)
I’d be super happy if they finally released a deluxe box set of ANY Madonna album.
I couldn’t agree more …IMHO Madonnas best album
RJD says:
Possible:
Neil Young – Oceanside/Countryside and/or Ragged Glory II
Not holding my breath:
Led Zeppelin – live set
Sting ought to get his finger out and start thinking of his true fans again instead of just cashing in from the masses on the same old gag.
Jakob says:
I’m hoping that instead of a Sting box, they do a CD version of the Police albums box. Though I’d also be happy with a series of 2CD reissues if there is actual a bunch quality unreleased material “coming down the pipe.” I just hope it’s not two demo versions and three 12″ mixes tacked onto the end of disc 1 and a slightly better than dodgy concert recording for disc 2. But I’ll stop complaining about things that don’t exist yet.
Speaking of complaining about things that don’t exist yet… I’m still hoping for the Tom Petty albums box on CD. Which—when the vinyl box came out I lamented a CD version didn’t exist and I remember people poo-poo’d my complaint saying there’d definitely be a CD version coming—still hasn’t materialised.
Also OMD are supposed to have some multi-disc retrospective with singles, unreleased stuff and a new track in the summer I believe. I do hold out hope for Duran Duran to do more this year with their 40th anniversary and a new album in the works. As for TFF, it sounds a bit dire. Too bad.
A five-disc 40th anniversary edition of Frank Zappa’s Live In New York is coming, possibly in March: https://www.recordstore.co.uk/recordstore/Coming-Soon/Zappa-In-New-York-40th-Anniversary-CD-Boxset/60UE0E3I000
Stuart Ansell says:
Yes!!!!! Brilliant stuff, I love that album.
PaulL says:
You forgot the deluxe edition of MOVEMENT by New Order.
Jeff D says:
Hopefully we will finally see the long rumoured Queen Live Killers boxset this year. It supposedly is being planned. Would make sense since June is the 40th anniv of the original album’s release. I say strike now while they are hot.
I second that! Live Killers desparately needs reissuing whilst the Queen name is sailing strong!
Althepo says:
Queen at Hyde Park 76 would do it for me. Plus a Springsteen Born in the USA 35th anniversary box with full live set from Wembley Stadium. And not forgetting the new Whitesnake opus in May.
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But in two out of three categories, it’s better than beef
Dr. David L. Katz for Heated
You have undoubtedly encountered the new wave of meat alternatives, whether online, on a plate, or both. As a result, people are asking questions about Impossible Burger, Beyond Meat, and related innovations: Are they good for you? Good for the environment? Overall, are they reliably better in important ways than the meats they might replace? Although the new incarnations are heralded as radically different, there have always been plant-based meat alternatives: tofu and tempeh, made from soy, are staples in Asian cuisines, and have become popular elsewhere. Texturized vegetable protein, or TVP, also made from soy, has long been available to home cooks looking to mimic the taste and texture of meat. More recently, Quorn makes available a fermented fungus product that can be used in home cooking; they have their own extensive line of ready-to-eat products as well.
Although the new incarnations are heralded as radically different, there have always been plant-based meat alternatives: tofu and tempeh, made from soy, are staples in Asian cuisines, and have become popular elsewhere. Texturized vegetable protein, or TVP, also made from soy, has long been available to home cooks looking to mimic the taste and texture of meat. More recently, Quorn makes available a fermented fungus product that can be used in home cooking; they have their own extensive line of ready-to-eat products as well.
Of course, for those who know how to cook — something, if not everything— replacing meat was an option before any major food industry advances. Assuming you don’t need your veggie burger to bleed, the artful assembly of whole-food plant ingredients can achieve delightful wonders.
Those content to avoid meat and eat plants all along have little need for the new wave of meat alternatives. But they have obvious appeal for people who like consuming meat but would prefer — always or sometimes — to avoid its liabilities: ethics and the treatment of our fellow creatures; environmental impact; and direct human health effects.
There is little legitimate doubt or debate regarding the benefits across all three of these broad questions of simply eating whole plant foods in the place of meat: most notably, beans and legumes, the world’s most important protein sources. There is little legitimate doubt or debate regarding the expanse of benefits when whole plant foods are used as ingredients to make patties or burgers. No animals are harmed; the environmental impact is considerably lower; the provision of protein is more than ample; and beans are prominent staples in the world’s most healthful diets.
For better or worse, such approaches to meat substitution seem like yesterday’s news. How, then, do the products of advanced food processing fare with regard to animal treatment, environmental impact, and health effects?
Ethics and the treatment of our fellow creatures
Since both Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger are vegan, absent any beasts of burden lugging baskets of components, we may safely conclude that these products are a whole lot kinder and gentler to our fellow creatures than meat.
That said, there is at least one notable caveat in this category. Soy — commodity, GMO soy at that — is a primary ingredient in the Impossible Burger, and, as a product of monoculture (i.e., large expanses devoted to a single crop), industrially produced soy displaces and disrupts rich ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest, as well as formerly rich ecosystems like the American Midwest. So while these products reliably spare domestic animals, implications for wildlife are less definitive. Still, we may reliably give meat alternatives a huge advantage in the animal ethics column.
The environmental footprint of foods and dietary patterns is subtle and complex, encompassing land use, water consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and ecosystem incursions that impact biodiversity, to name just the most salient components. None of these is simple: For example, water consumption matters a lot where water supplies are overused and waning, but much less in regions where water is bountiful.
But despite subtleties, we know beyond a reasonable doubt that beef has an outsized footprint relative to every alternative. To the extent that meat alternatives are actually alternatives to beef, it benefits the environment.
What else could they be than alternatives to beef? Among those already committed to beans rather than beef, the new meat alternatives could conceivably invite a move from whole and minimally processed plant foods to an ultraprocessed counterpart. In those cases, the environmental footprint might grow rather than shrink. But unless the new offerings were taken up almost exclusively by devoted vegans — pretty unlikely — an overall benefit is highly likely. Again, a big overall advantage to meat alternatives, even ultraprocessed ones, in the environmental impact column.
In this area — direct human health effects of new meat alternatives — we know just about nothing. There have been no randomized trials, let alone large and long-term trials suitable for detecting health consequences of diets comparable but for meat versus Beyond or Impossible.
Meat (and especially processed meat) is an established health hazard, partly because of the animal protein and saturated fat it adds to the diet and partly because of the plant foods it displaces. But ultraprocessed foods(both Beyond and Impossible qualify as such on the NOVA scale) in general are implicated in all the same assaults on well-being and waistlines. This can occur even when all of the ingredients are deemed safe in isolation, because their combination may be a goad to appetite and overeating.
Accordingly, we can’t safely assume a net health benefit of the new meat alternatives versus meat. A health benefit is more likely when processed meat alternatives are replacing meat that is itself rather highly processed, as is apt to be the case with burgers, hot dogs, sausage, and most fast-food offerings. A benefit is less likely if the meat being replaced is unprocessed and from lean, well-fed, pasture-raised animals or game.
Perhaps here the best precedent is precautionary: When vegetable oils were “processed” (i.e., partially hydrogenated) into trans fat, they wound up far worse for health than the animal fats they were intended to replace. All of the ingredients in the new meat substitutes are generally recognized as safe (i.e., GRAS) by the FDA — but partially hydrogenated oils were in that category, too, before they were convicted of crimes against our coronary arteries and banned. Widely used sugar substitutes are cataloged as GRAS, too, but doubt persists about their putative health benefits, and the latest research rekindles concerns about potential harm.
Whenever making food from anything other than established food, the precautionary principle should apply. Therefore, the new meat alternatives don’t get a plus 1, but they don’t get a minus 1 either. I’ll call it undecided.
With allowance for doubt, precedent, and the follies of history, my dietary advice is to stick with the fundamental truths of eating well: Eat food, not too much, mostly plants; and limit your exposure to both meat and ultraprocessed foods. Alternatives to meat as an ingredient in home food preparation are an option, too, as are artful assemblies of simple, time-honored ingredients.
If you’re reluctant to forswear meat, however, and tempted by its newest incarnations, then my final tally on that topic is a solid 2 out of 3. Perhaps these products are better for your health than some of the meat you’ve been eating, but we aren’t sure. They are certainly kinder and gentler to our fellow creatures overall, and softer on the environment.
As with everything in the food space, that conclusion is much dependent on the question we neglect all too often, and inevitably to our detriment: instead of what? Processed meat alternatives are trading up from processed meat. They are almost certainly trading down from whole plant foods.
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Chinese Yuan Ranks Among World Currencies
IMF has decided to rank a Chinese Yuan among capital world currencies. The Decision is a milestone for integration of Chinese economy into a world financial system, according to Christine Lagarde, head of IMF. Yuan will become a part of a currency basket from October 2016 and will be stand by US dollar, euro, Japanese yen and British pound.
Yuan will become a part of a currency basket from October 2016
According to Reuters agency, the decision is a victory for Beijing in a battle for recognition of China as a global economic power. China is the second largest economy in the world after USA.
Based on a constitution of its currency basket, IMF derives a value of its monetary and account units called special drawing rights. The Basket was last changed in 2000 when German and French Mark was replaced by euro.
Yuan has fulfilled all necessary criteria to be ranked into the basket of key international currencies. “It´s a step of recognition of progress which Chinese offices have done when reforming a Chinese monetary and financial system,” Lagarde reported.
Some economists mean that ranking Yuan into a basket of key international currencies will support Chinese economy because it will succeed to make foreign participation on Chinese financial markets stronger.
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Bands and entertainment in NELA
Nightlife Bands and entertainment in NELA Check out this story on thenewsstar.com: http://tnsne.ws/1RlCNAx
accent@thenewsstar.com Published 2:18 p.m. CT March 23, 2016
Nightlife listings are published free in Thursday’s To Do section. The deadline for updates is 5 p.m. Monday. Email band name, time, date, location and cover charge to accent@thenewsstar.com with “Band Listing” in the subject line. For assistance, call 362-0279.
SQUARE DANCING — 7-9 p.m. Mondays. Join Ouachita Squares Dance Club at Lea Joyner Memorial United Methodist Church, 4390 Old Sterlington Road, Monroe. Main stream and plus called by Tommy Hankins. Contact 366-6022 for info.
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VAPA’s Black Bayou Brass recital Thursday at ULM
40 OAKS LOUNGE — 2500 Arkansas Road, West Monroe. 4 p.m. - 11 p.m. Monday - Thursday; 4 p.m.-midnight, Friday and Saturday.
103 RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE – Exit 103 off I-20 west, Calhoun. Saturday: Karaoke with Wayne Farmer Jr., 7:30 p.m.-midnight.
APPLEBEE’S – Pecanland Mall. Thursdays: Karaoke with Wayne Farmer Jr., 10 p.m.-1 a.m.
AMERICAN LEGION POST #51 – American Legion Post #51-2324 E. Madison Ave., (Mer Rouge Road), Bastrop. Check Facebook/American Legion Post 51 Dance Information each week for dance listings. Largest dance floor in NELA. Happy hour: 6-9 p.m. Wednesday and Friday: 8 p.m. to midnight, karaoke. Saturday: Saturday Dance, 8 p.m. with Renegade Band.
AMERICAN LEGION POST #149 — 501 Underwood St., Farmerville. Saturday Dance: The Country Accents Band featuring Hank Jett, Bob Kelley, Larry Caldwell and Jimmie Martin. Hours are 7-10 pm. No drinking or smoking. Dance is open to all ages.
AMVETS POST 66 — 2915 Armand St., Monroe, 322-1938.
COPES SENIOR DANCE — The second and fourth Thursday of each month from 6-9 p.m. at the Carolyn Rose Strauss Senior Center on Ferrand Street. Live music performed by the Classic Country Band, $5. Drinks provided. Bring snacks, no children.
DAD’S – 1705 North Washington St., Bastrop – Friday: 8 p.m.-midnight, karaoke with Wayne Farmer Jr.
DOWNTOWN LOUNGE – 221 Trenton St., Antique Alley, West Monroe, 388-1934. Happy Hour 5-7 p.m., Monday-Friday. Tuesday: Free pool all day. Wednesday-Thursday: Ladies Night half price drinks. Friday: Karaoke with Amy, 8 p.m.-midnight, no cover. Coming soon: Wednesday and Saturday pool tournaments and acoustic open mic.
ED’S LOUNGE — 1260 New Natchitoches Road, West Monroe. Hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-til Friday, 11 a.m.-midnight Saturday. Saturday: 7:30 p.m.-midnight Karaoke with Sue or Donna; 1:30 p.m., pool tourney, $1 entry. 355-7437, no cover.
ENOCH’S IRISH PUB AND CAFÉ — 507 Louisville Ave., Monroe. Luck of the Irish Happy Hours 4-7 p.m. daily. Monday: Vinyl or Movie Night. Tuesdays: Two-for-one burgers, dine-in only. Wednesdays: Happy Hour All Night. Thursday: Lee Yates Alone Man Band, 7 p.m. Friday: Paul Sanchez (founder of Cowboy Mouth, Threadhead Records). Saturday: Kenny Bill Stinson. Coming soon: March 31: Josh Love Band. April 1: Josh Madden. April 2: Frank Night, Crooner Cocktails. All shows 9 p.m. unless otherwise noted. (318) 388-ENOC, enochsirishpub.com.
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HARVEY’S DANCE HALL — 500 DeSiard St., Monroe, 325-5026. Thursdays: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Mary Kate Tolar teaches line dancing. Mixed dancing follows, $5. Call 325-5026.
HIGH COTTON – 1224 Harrison, Rayville, 728-7268, Facebook/High Cotton.
JEWEL’S PLACE – 3399 New Monroe Road, Bastrop.
JMAXX SPORTS BAR – New Orleans Style, 228 Trenton St., West Monroe, 651-0059, 8 a.m.-til. New golf machine, dart machine, pool table. Free food and music Friday and Saturday night. Seven plasma TVs, come watch all sporting events.
THE LANDING — 6130 White’s Ferry Road, West Monroe. Hours 4 p.m.-midnight, Wednesday-Saturday. Daily drinm specials. Wednesday: Karaoke and entertainment with Wayne Farmer Jr, 8 p.m.-midnight. Saturday: Smackwater, 8 p.m.-midnight.
LIVE OAK’S BAR AND BALLROOM — Corner of Olive and North Third streets, Monroe. Thursday-Sunday: Open at 7 p.m. Thursday: Acoustic Jam hosted by Tito and Ben. Friday: Ladies’ Night. Saturday: Josh Madden. Sunday: Karaoke. Wednesday: Corey Smith. Doors open at 8 p.m., shows start at 10 p.m.
MILETELLO’S SPORTS CITY GRILL — 2105 N. Seventh St., West Monroe, 387-1700. Hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Monday-Saturday. Daily specials.
MIKE SULLIVAN DANCE STUDIO — 203 Parkwood Drive, West Monroe. Call 608-1923. Dance classes: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 6:30-8 p.m.
MUSTANG SALLY – 207 Olive St., 388-3393, Facebook/Mustang Sally-Monroe.
NEAT — 515 N. 3rd St., Monroe. facebook.com/NeatMonroe.
OUTLAW WILLIE’S — 202 Old Bastrop Road, Monroe.
PEPPERS — 1620 Arkansas Road, West Monroe. Open Monday-Saturday, noon-midnight. Thursday: Karaoke with Mudcat Entertainment. Friday: Karaoke with Jeff Elliott, 8 p.m.-midnight. Saturday: Mike McKenzie Band, cover $5. Tuesday: free pool. Wednesday: Karaoke with Mike McKenzie, 7 p.m.-11 p.m.
THE RIVER GRILLE — 2538 River Landing, Monroe, 812-0412. Wednesdays: Karaoke with Wayne Farmer Jr., 6:30-10 p.m..
ROYAL DAIQUIRI AND BAR — 722 Sterlington Hwy., Farmerville.
SAL’S SALOON — 3221 Louisville Ave., Monroe. 322-7100. Thursday: Otonana Trio; No Ramen, No Peace! feat. Ian Quiet Band, 9 p.m. Friday: Karaoke Khaos, 9 p.m. Saturday: Breaktime for Francis, Knurling, 8 p.m.
VFW POST 1809 — Louisiana 594, Monroe (corner of U.S. 80 and Love Road). Friday: The “Saturday Night Special” Band (Johnny, Ronnie, David, Will, Wayne, Becky, Boyce), 7-10 p.m. $7, everyone invited.
WEST MONROE MOOSE LODGE — 1875 New Natchitoches Road, W.M., 322-0475, facebook.com/westmonroemooselodge1723. Tuesday: Pokeno, 6 p.m. Wednesday: Quarter bingo, 5:30 p.m. Thursday: Phase 10, 12:30 p.m. Friday: Steak night, 5:30 p.m. followed by seven-card stud poker, 6:30 p.m. Saturday: Texas Hold ’em, noon. Saturday Night Dance with Jeff Elliott, 7:30 p.m.
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NORCAP, WFP, NECSOB Organizes Workshop on Lake Chad BasinCapacity Development Project, Solicit For Support, Synergy Among Stakeholders
By Sadiq Abubakar, The Nigerian Voice, Maiduguri
NORCAP, WFP, NECSOB has organized a joint Workshop on Lake Chad Basin Capacity Development Project with a theme, "Localization" soliciting for Support from development partners, governments, NGOs and CSOs in responding to people's needs in the Lake Chad Basin.
This followed the 10 years Humanitarian crisis in the area that has displaced over 2.4 million and destroyed property worth billions if naira, particularly, Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states of Nigeria and neighbouring countries if Chad, Cameroon and Niger Republics.
They also called for synergy among all the stakeholders towards actualizing the goals and objectives of the Lake Chad Basin Capacity Development Project which is an outcome of the Oslo Conference and efforts to strengthen capacity and Coordination of the civil society organizaions network in the Lake Chad Basin.
The NECSOB Corrdinator who doubles as the Regional Coordinator, Lake Chad Basin Civil Society Organizaions Newtwork, Ambassador Ahmed Shehu said the workshop was organized and tagged, "Localization" Lake Chad Basin Capacity Development Project for CSOs, NGOs, CBOs for developmental and technical knowledge as well as professionalism on the project from the donors.
He lamented that the Lake Chad crisis has provoked significant movement of population and is still affecting about 1.7 million people in the Lake Chad Basin, a region comprising of Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger Republics.
The Regional Coordinator described the crisis as a complex Humanitarian crisis that originated from an eight year old insurgency in North east, Nigeria by Boko haram, an Islamist militant group and has destroyed lives and livelihoods as well forced more than 2.4 million people to flee their homes.
" Where majority of the displaced are sheltered by communities who are among the poorest in the world and the displacement has exxabeeated the already dire situation in countries characterized by weak governance, structures and limited access to public goods and services across the affected countries.
"Across the region, one in three families is insecure and malnutrition rates have reached critical levels. One in every two people needs Humanitarian assistance", Shehu said.
According to him, in response to what has been described as a protracted crisis, Norway, Nigeria, Germany and UNOCHA hosted an international donor conference in Oslo on 24 February 2017.
He said the Confab was later followed by another confab in Berlin on 4 September 2017 to raise awareness about the deteriorating Humanitarian crisis in the Lake Chad Basin and ensure donor pledges and commitments to alleviate human sufferings through scaling up of Humanitarian interventions.
Shehu noted also that in line with the Localization Agenda and commitments made through the Grand Bargain Process, the people's voice at the Oslo confab was represented by Civil Society Organizaions (CSOs) and Non-Governmental Oraganizatiins (NGOs) from the Lake Chad region.
He said, the Lake Chad Basin CSOs and NGOs formulated a statement entitled "Seven Steps To Saving Lives and Assisting People in Nigeria and Lake Chad Basin".
" Therefore, as an outcome of the Oslo Conference and in an effort to strengthen capacity and coordination of civil society organizaions in the Lake Chad Basin, NORCAP was invited to support a network entitled," Regional Civil Society Network for the Lake Chad Basin".
"Whose members assist crisis affected population in Nigeria, Niger, Cahd and Cameroon Republics. The Civil Society Network has also requested support to it's NGO members with technical Capacity Development and coordination in Humanitarian as well as recovery development Programming.
"The project will be implemented in close collaboration with the UN agencies and RCHC offices that will host deployed experts with the goal of enhancing the institutional capacity of members of the CSOs in the areas of organizational planning, financial management and transparency,.
"It will also enhance resource mobilization, project development and management, monitoring and evaluation, human resource management s sustainability, planning, communication and Humanitarian coordination.
"The project enbale members of the CSOs in their Humanitarian mission and strengthen their resilience in responding to diseases and crisis brought capacity development. The project will contribute to the increased accountability to the affected people", Shehu said.
Ambassador Shehu further said that the workshop is expected to groom, shape, improve and expand the knowledge and technical know how of the CSOs, NGOs and others on the project among others.
Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator, UNOCHA, Yassin Garba in his Goodwill message assured the CSOs, NGOs and other partners the willingness of. the field office to coordinate and monitor properly the activities of all the development partners imoblved or participating in the Project
He pledged to ensure smooth execution of the project and prompt as well as strict evaluation of performances of the iNGOs and others with a view to enhance performance and attain the mandate of the project.
Head of Office, WFP, Abdulrahim Saddiqu in his remark thanked the organizers and participants for their individual contributions while pledging to support the CSOs and NGOs in the North East achieve their desired goals and objectives.
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Election 2019: Public finds Labour pledges unrealistic and unaffordable
Oliver Wright, Policy Editor | Francis Elliott, Political Editor
November 27 2019, 12:01am, The Times
An omelette cooked by Matt Hancock, the health secretary, was given Prue Leith’s seal of approval at Southampton General HospitalSTEPHEN LOCK/I-IMAGES
Voters are deeply sceptical about both main parties’ key manifesto pledges but are particularly doubtful about Jeremy Corbyn’s plans for government.
Only 17 per cent of the public think Labour’s proposals to spend an additional £82 billion are affordable and 18 per cent believe them to be realistic, according to a YouGov survey for The Times, the first survey since the manifesto launches.
Although the Conservatives’ more modest spending commitments fared better, Boris Johnson’s key NHS pledge was believed by only two in ten voters.
Nearly four in ten (37 per cent) believed that Mr Johnson’s plans were affordable and 35 per cent that they were realistic. Only 21 per cent, however, believed that a future Johnson administration would increase nurse numbers by 50,000…
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California Gun Collection Startles Cops, Media
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The Internet’s alight with the story of a California man found Beethovening (a.k.a., decomposing) in a car outside his Pacific Palisades home. “The man had more than 1,200 firearms and two tons of ammunition stashed in his home and garage,” dailymail.co.uk reports. “Many of the guns had never been fired and some still had their price tags attached.” Needless to say, the media trotted-out the A-word: LA police discover arsenal of 1,200 guns in dead man’s home. Nope. It was a collection.”Police have found no evidence the man, who has not been identified, was involved in criminal activity.” But that hasn’t stopped both the cops and the press from getting their collective proverbial knickers in a twist . . .
Detectives want to find out why he had so many guns and are examining the weapons to determine if they have been linked to any crime.
Cdr Smith continued: ‘We have a lot of work to do. Running the background, history and legality of these weapons is going to require a tremendous amount of time.
‘It’s not a crime to have a large number of weapons so long as they were legal to own and legally obtained. We want to make sure that’s the case.’
Nice of the cops to throw the firearms in a huge pile dontchathink? What’s going to happen to them now? More indignity, I’m sure. Anyway, I chose the U.K.’s Daily Mail for my source in a search for the most and best anti-gun comments. Found one!
Jesperado Terrifyingly, the U.S. is still living in this bizarre wild wild west mentality, much to the horror of us sensible ones. Never, absolutely ever, should it be legal for a person to obtain & hoard 1,200 guns & 2 tons of ammo!!! England, will you have me? Please get me out of this madhouse!!!
Kickstarter?
And yet it would appear that not a single one of those 1,200 firearms was the weapon in an assault or murder. Huh.
Pencotron says:
Oh sure, they will check these weapons for criminal activity but if these guns were turned in for Best Buy gift cards …….
Icabod says:
My thought also. You run the serial number of a u fired gun still in its original box instead of a pistol obtained through a “buy back” event. Odds are much better the later was used in a crime or is stolen.
working4change says:
thats just the start of a good collection.
DrewN says:
If you left them tagged in their boxes there would be no excuse for an incorrect inventory. This is just the cops covering up their cherry picking of this guy’s hoard. No way to tell what’s gone missing in all that mess. If this guy has any heirs they just lost a whole bunch of money.
Danny Griffin says:
This is just the cops covering up their cherry picking of this guy’s hoard.
Yep, I’d bet on it.
MarkPA says:
Just for the sake of argument, let’s suppose that all the guns and ammo were moved to a secure police locker and then properly inventoried. Now, under that assumption, why would the police fail to secure the site, allowing only a limited number of specifically-identified officers to collect and tag the guns and ammo under a limited set of details? E.g., get a couple-thousand serial-numbered tags and tag each gun and each pallet of ammo. We have 123 rifles, 234 shotguns, 456 handguns. One pallet of 45 cases said-to-contain 5.56 ammo; . . .
Once such a control inventory is completed, a larger number of officers under close supervision could load the cache into trucks which would be sealed until they arrived at the police locker. Working from the initial inventory they could identify that tag # 1 is a Colt Revolver Model Super-Shooter Serial 123456; if any gun disappeared they would know this absolutely and that it was a rifle/shotgun/handgun.
What did the police actually do to inventory the cache? Nothing? Why should we believe, then, that the officers on-site didn’t pick-through the inventory looking for trophies? If the police won’t document the guns they come into possession of why should we submit to National Registration? Because they are “Only-Ones” while we are mere subjects?
Lone Ranger says:
Guns for me, not for thee. Guaranteed that these guys are pawing through his hoard and plucking out all the choice bits.
AhClem says:
Yeah, just like the cops always have the best pot…..
Ed Rogers says:
Adrik says:
A friends father was a high ranking officer in the local, major city PD when he retired. Never purchased a gun in his life beyond his duty weapon but ended up with over 20, mostly rather nice handguns when he retired. You do the math.
Cherry picking is a thing, it was more common back in the 70’s and 80’s but it still happens. If this guy has no heirs, who is going to say if he had 400 handguns, or 367?
Fat Al says:
It is an “improvement” over the days of “Gangs of New York”. With clear jurisdictional lines they don’t have to fight over the spoils.
https://youtu.be/y-vBJ8cS08U
DoomGuy says:
Oh jeez, no laws broken but let’s make him look like a criminal just because he owned guns, I’m glad this is America and not the Soviet Union where even things that were legal got you thrown in the gulag…
Oh wait. Nice to see the KGB is alive and well in the LAPD.
I hope the man’s relatives get his collection back. And all the ammo!
John L. says:
Even if they do, the dings, dents and scratches will reduce the overall value.
Not to mention the outright breakage … I see at least one nice big scope in the pile’o’rifles. Modern optics are robust, but I don’t think being tossed randomly into a pile is something most non-mil-spec manufacturers assume will happen.
Otherwise they’ll charge the dead man.
notalima says:
Rather let’s say they ‘find’ one gun in the pile that just happens to have some criminal element associated with it.
They would then use that to ‘seize’ the entire lot as part of a criminal enterprise. Win!
thewiz says:
you already know thats done and done. his heirs will never see any of those guns. cops will have some nice ones though
Gunr says:
String him up!
DrewR55 says:
Well, I guess we know where the .22 ammo has vanished to.
Winner, I LOL
I would like to make a suggestion . If someone can obtain this information and publish it here on TTAG I’m sure there would be a large viewership here on TTAG . Find out what ‘ Make and Caliber ‘ of guns this guy collected . I would love to know what every gun was , a complete list of all 1200 . I may be the only one that would like to see this but I suspect I’m not . This guy probably had some real nice stuff . I’m curious .
DV says:
That’s not fair , I’m busy . QUIT ! Mom , make him stop . He’s looking at me . I’m telling .
Hey NSA …… How’s the weather there in Utah ?
NSA Special Agent Smith says:
What do you think, smartass?
It’s Utah. In July.
Yeah, it’s hot.
OOPS ! Sorry Mr. Smith , I don’t really follow the weather patterns there in the great state of Utah , I hope I didn’t offend you . I was only trying to be polite , sir . I was truly concerned for your comfort . I am ignorant and silly but you probably already know all that . Please don’t be angry with me , I love all you guys .
I thought there were like 30 thousand air conditioners in that place . See , I told you , I’m a dumbass .
Under what statute, I wonder, did the police come in and do … that … to the collection? Or did the relatives agree to it? (Assuming of course the guy didn’t leave them like that himself, in which case I’d call it a hoard, not a collection.)
Under what statute, I wonder, did the police come in and do … that … to the collection?
Law enforcement has done worse. There was a collector here in Michigan who had all of his guns taken (unlawfully) by law enforcement. As I understand it most were valuable antiques as that is what he collected. When he got them returned to him, someone from the ATF or Michigan State Police had taken an engraving tool and etched serial numbers on all the old, original guns, thereby destroying their original value!
Mark N. says:
They found a dead guy parked out front, cause of death unknown, so they went in to investigate. apparently this guy claimed all kinds of things about being a secretive operative (highly unlikely), and he was probably a hoarder with a lot of money, given the amount of unfired ammo and number of unfired guns. According to one neighbor, the boxes of ammo were stacked up behind his garage eight feet high!
secretive operative (highly unlikely),
Like the CIA is going to admit it. ‘Cmon, man!
Markarov says:
“…we can neither confirm nor deny that /X/ was ever in our employ…”
So the Free(?) Press can print whatever they want and the Gestapo can paint the deceased with the most vile brush their PR Dept can think of to present him in the worst light possible with no fear of being corrected. Thereby further villianizing gun owners in the minds of the Subjects of Kalifornia, Comrade!
As an aside; Excellent idea to start a Kickstarter to buy Jesperado a bus ticket to his Workers (Paki) Paradise across the pond!
If I had a crazy neighbor like the one they interviewed I would avoid him too. The news crew must have been “fist bumping” over finding a crazy guy to slander the neighbor on camera, a neighbor they appeared to not ever talked to.
Stuki Moi says:
So, IOW, what we have here is a stark raving madman, crazy enough to think he’s a secret agent, in possession of more guns and ammo than some national armies. Yet he somehow manages to live his life and die entirely peacefully, without harming a soul….. If that’s not a slamdunk argument against “background checks” and “psychiatric evaluations” and whatever other nonsense the well indoctrinated progressive dimwits likes hiding behind, I don’t know what is.
Nothing wrong so far. Better to own 1200 guns and be a saint, than to own just 1 gun and be a criminal.
“England, will you have me?”
Likely not, Kickstarter fund or no.
Most countries are pretty selective about which emigrants they will accept, except as required by treaty (e.g. politically oppressed classes). Unless you’re rich, or have a highly valuable skill, you’re probably out of luck, “Jesperado.”
But by all means, please try. Besides, who knows, England might just recognize “gunpression” as a valid reason for emigration. Nice if we could trade them one-for-one for Brits who want to have their firearms (and other) freedoms.
Wiregrass says:
Is terrifyingly even a word?
Stinkeye says:
APM mobile says:
Yeah, that count is going to be revised downward shortly.
Jonathan - Houston says:
I bet the 1,200 figure is already the revised downward figure. Reminds me of Mel Brooks announcing the Fifteen..er…Ten Commandments.
S*#T!
Dammit! And I just cleaned the screen, too!
Now THATS a decent collection.
Steve in MD says:
Meh. It’s a good start.
Sixpack70 says:
Yeah, I’m sure they have probable cause to check all of the serial numbers, because guns!
Biff Baxter says:
A law-abiding citizen hoards guns, like women hoard cats.
classic says:
No doubt the remaining low value arms will be publicly shredded so as to give a false sense of security to the community that the LAPD took 1200 guns off the streets, you can breath easy now CA, feel free to walk around at night.
Like watching a pile of classic cars get crushed.
They make them every day, guns will be replaced, the classics will be lost.
I have ZERO doubt that if they all turn up clean (now a somewhat reduced number due to spoilage) that some Calif. politician will go ballistic and try to stop such a large sum of death machines being released back into the hands of his heirs.
1200 (ooops, uh, 937) let loose back into the wild! Unthinkable!
/Kevin De Leon (etc.)
“The Wild West” was never really ” wild” just west ……
CTstooge says:
How many guns puts you over the “Kook Threshold” in order to receive decent local news coverage? I might be slackin’ off.
Marcus (Aurelius) Payne says:
7, from some of the stories I vaguely recall.
Boxilar says:
Depends. In California, New York, Massachusetts, a half dozen guns are an arsenal and the sign of mental illness.
In Alabama, Texas, Arizona the owner of 1200 guns would be described as “that lucky bastard.”
Geoff PR says:
Or a good poker player.
Mad Max says:
I don’t know why anyone has a problem with an old guy having a large quantity of guns. He only has (had) two hands.
dph says:
Time line.
Call to police, There’s 3000 guns and 4 tons of ammo at this house.
Responding officers, There’s 2000 guns and 3 tons of ammo at this house.
Media, There’s 1200 guns and 2 tons of ammo at this house.
Official police report, There were 600 guns and a ton of ammo at that house.
Ha! So true.
Ammo is still more expensive than it was.
This is the age of Gunbroker dot com.
‘We were mistaken in our original estimate; most of the ammunition recovered were either blanks or so corroded that the bomb squad was called in to detonate it in place…’
BDub says:
The LA Times comments were pretty out there as well. A drinking game based on the word “Ammosexual” would have killed you.
GreatScott says:
Man, if I was an heir, I would have a lawyer there and be all over those Cops about destroying my inheritance. There’s some nice stuff in that pile. I think I see a couple/few pre-lock SW’s, some potentially expensive 1911’s, I even see my Ruger Mk II Target Competition Model Slabside over there just getting banged around. UGH, you bastards, have some respect for people’s property!
ninjaTED says:
Damn, that’s a lot of bang.
A few random thoughts.
1200 guns is too many guns. Not because they’re guns, but because 1200 of anything is probably too many. I’m a musician, and if I had 1200 violins, that would be too many violins. This is just my personal opinion, though, and if some dude thinks 1200 is the right amount of guns, God bless.
As far as the police taking the guns, once the media picked up the story it had to happen. Advertising 1200 guns and tons of ammo in a dead guy’s house is an invitation to theft. Sadly, as many have already written, the man’s heirs (if any, see below) probably won’t get 1200 guns back.
This story keeps getting weirder. Apparently, this dude told people he worked for some covert-ops-ish agency, and his girlfriend- who was with him when he died- didn’t tell anyone because she assumed the agency was tracking him and would take care of it. AFAIK, they still haven’t positively identified the man, so if there are any heirs, they may not know yet. See this story: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-guns-20150720-story.html
Yeah, if I had 1200 guns, I’d be looking to pare that collection down to maybe my 80 or 90 favorite. Not gonna ever say nobody needs that many guns, but yikes. Sell some of those and start collecting swords or something.
Now that may change if some were truly collectible, but if they were, they aren’t now after being unceremoniously tossed in a pile and mishandled by police.
Maybe he got great deals on them at gun buy-backs.
“I’m a musician, and if I had 1200 violins, that would be too many violins.”
If you were a rocker and had that many guitars, you’d just be ‘Cool’…
Chip in Florida says:
These are Police Officers, right? The ones that have firearms assigned to them by their armories. That they have to take care of and return in the same condition as when they were assigned. People that should know better than to just throw a bunch of guns into a pile on a tarp like that. So what the hell, guys… why are you just tossing all those guns onto a tarp like that? Have a care once in a while. You could at least lay them out sort of neatly in rows or something.
“These are Police Officers, right?”
Yup. As in tax feeders. Happily enforcing whatever nonsense the kleptocrats currently deems beneficial to call laws. IOW, not someone one should reasonably expect much in the way of anything positive from. I have no doubt there are good ones out there, but no less doubt that those decent ones are being ruthlessly squeezed out by others less so, and hence more fitting of government employ.
B-Dub says:
Curious under what legal authority the cops seized these guns. Last I heard, the 4th Amendment required probable cause that a crime was committed or that the items were contraband in order for the government to seize property. The photo shows a bunch of revolvers, semi-autos, bolt rifles, and one M1A, none of which are contraband even in the People’s Republic of California. The guy was found dead outside his home, not in it where the guns were, and the story doesn’t cite any concern he was murdered with a gun. So long as the property remained secured inside the house, I believe the cops should have left it there for this man’s lawful heirs. The government’s mere curiosity as to whether a gun they encounter is “linked to a crime” is insufficient to justify the seizure of that gun. I question whether the rights of this man’s heirs were violated not only by the reckless handling of the deceased man’s valuable property but by the seizure itself.
Apparently, the man’s identity is proving a little tricky to verify.
You’d think they’d easily be able to do that with his multitude of commiefornia weapon registration forms but I dunno.
It is Calif…. I assume that some random ‘in the name of public safety’ pretty much covers:
Seizing guns
Killing your dog
Beating you half to death on the roadside
Inserting plunger handles in your rectum
You know, those little deaths of liberty that no one should worry about…
Deng says:
At least they weren’t cats. That would be weird.
That… is a sh!tload of cats…
William B. says:
So, in Cali., ‘It’s not a crime to have a large number of weapons so long as…YOU DON’T DIE IN YOUR DRIVEWAY. THEN THEY’RE OURS.”
I think had the LAPD known the man had 1200 firearms he would have gotten a visit and his collection taken anyway.
Let’s be honest, he must have been mentally defective to have such a large number of guns and it would have been in the name of public safety. For the children, you know.
WileyE says:
“We don’t think the weapons are illegal. We are taking them for public safety,” said Sgt. David Craig of the LAPD’s gang and narcotics division. He said investigators removed the weapons to ensure the ammunition and guns wouldn’t be stolen from the home.
After unboxing them and chucking them in a big pile for a photo-op.
Better safe than sorry. You never know how many armed robberies and other crimes of violence are committed with guns that still have factory tags hanging from the trigger guards.
On the street, a crime committed using a gun with the tag still on it is referred to as a “Minnie Pearl”.
When Jay Leno dies, are they going to throw 100 cars and 100 motorcycles in a big pile in front of his house?
Timmy! says:
If the anti-car wackoes have their way, yes.
I’ve worked with the folks in the Public Administrator’s office in a populous county in the Southwest. While I am certain there are differences in law, it is normal to collect the belongings of the deceased where no heirs can be identified, and there is a theft risk. (Don’t flame yet!)
That said, there is NO CALL to damage the decedent’s property by chucking all of the guns in a large pile. The PA’s office here would have logged the items and had them safely and securely stored until the decedent’s heirs were found (assuming he had such). I’ve personally seen a (much smaller) collection of guns turned over to heirs once they were finally identified.
The LAPD had no call to treat the decedent’s property in this manner and any damage caused by the rough handling of the property should be paid out by the department (but that will never happen).
I agree, except I’d like to see any damage paid for by the individual officers responsible. I know that’s even less likely than the department paying out for damage, but there’s no reason the taxpayers should have to foot the bill for cops being disrespectful assholes.
”Police have found no evidence the man, who has not been identified, was involved in criminal activity.” But that hasn’t stopped both the cops and the press from getting their collective proverbial knickers in a twist . . .
”Police have found no evidence the man, who has not been identified, was involved in criminal activity.” But that hasn’t stopped the cops from trying to STEAL legally acquire all his assets for their monetary/ budgetary gain.
You better fvcking believe it. They want to exercise their ability of “asset forfeiture” granted to them. They want to steal his stuff and they are going to keep looking until they find the smallest law broken to make that happen. He’s dead – and they want his money. As simple as that.
That’s bullsh!t. The guy is already dead. A conviction is impossible. They need to find a way to tie his “collection” to a crime – particularly a drug crime, so they can STEAL take his stuff, sell some of them, keep some of them, use the money to buy a new cappuccino machine in the police break room, new gear, new equipment, and larger budget injection. They do not want to provide those firearms to the man’s living heirs. They want to take it!
Those are not cheap guns – they are expensive. Those firearms are very valuable. I saw what looked like a Barrett 50 cal. M14s, glocks. His collection and ammunition are likely valued near a million dollars or more, and police want it!
styrgwillidar says:
And anything that CA would define as an assault weapon had to have been registered at the date specified in the law– or they’re gone. Not sure if standard capacity magazines are transferable. Registered ‘assault weapons’ as defined by the law can be inherited, but, there are four choices
– Destroy them
– Turn them into an FFL
– Take them out of state
– File for a permit. Which is a may issue kind of thing requiring listing intended use of the weapon etc.(…. and directed at machine guns not assault weapons, but it’s the process directed to be used to inherit AWs and keep them in the state. It includes annual inspection of storage as well as the weapons themselves by the state Doj. Which doesn’t make sense since there are no such requirements for folks who registered AWs on time ).
Joe ker says:
Geeesus guys – did you have to beat them all to shit like that??? Let me guess – because California, right?
Yellow Devil says:
The difference between an arsenal and collection? It depends on how many and when the firearms were used at least once.
Phil LA says:
You’re only allowed to have 1200 of something if they’re cats. And 51% of them need to be alive.
Matt in Maine says:
First, what is the legality with regards to inspecting this personal property? If they can do this without a warrant doesn’t that mean they can rifle through any property of a deceased person looking for a crime that may have been committed? Upon death this should belong to the heir of the estate and just like money or jewelry, should not have to be proven legitimate before possession is taken by the beneficiary.
BigBoy says:
Very good question. Deliberate destruction of the value of seized guns, even if known to be recovered stolen property, is almost as much fun as punching a handcuffed suspect. And done as often.
Interesting question, but I’m no lawyer. This started with them finding the dead man, so what was their justification for entering his home? I’m assuming trying to find contact information or evidence regarding his death if they deemed it suspicious. Why did that grow into them seizing property from the dwelling? Are they citing just the number of weapons as being reasonable grounds for suspicion? Would the same thing have applied for other collectibles– art, coins, stamps etc. Would they seize those and then investigate whether they’re stolen. OR— claim they were associated with drug crime, in which case they seize, sell and don’t even have to charge anyone with anything.
If I were the next of kin, that’s what I would be worried about, a police claim that these were associated with drug activity. Then the kin have a much harder time trying to get the property back.
Could be that the proper authority over the estate is not immediately apparent.
Obviously, if a man dies leaving a widow or a son the police are in a position to ask about the decedent’s heirs and lawyer. Is there a will? Who is the executor? Who has custody of the property (e.g., surviving relative, room-mate, etc.)
In the absence of an immediate answer – e.g., within a few hours – then there is a reasonable excuse for NOT seeking authorization to search the house.
Now, then, we wouldn’t accept the police randomly picking a house and searching it after there was no answer to a knock on the door. But, this isn’t the case here. There is a body in a car. No autopsy yet; but a body is a body and sitting in an unattended car is probable cause to inquire into the matter.
Once you determine that the deceased is the owner of some piece of property, then there is an obvious question as to whether that property is secure. Are the doors locked? Are the premises vulnerable to burglary? Is there a pot boiling on the stove? A pet or vulnerable person in the house?
Reason would lean heavily to enter and secure the house; I suspect the law would support such reasoning.
Our point, here, ought to be generalized. Whenever the government seizes property it assumes a duty of stewardship to care for that property. Would a “reasonable man” have collected these guns and dumped them in a pile? I think not. Yet, this point would be equally applicable to a person’s china collection.
Imagine, for example, if the deceased were a dog breeder. Reason compels that the police would enter upon the deceased’s kennels. Now, then, what duty would the State impose upon it’s police employees in such a case? Would the police be empowered to shoot the dogs in their kennels? Could they release the dogs from their kennels in order to set-up the pretext to shoot them for their own protection?
Alternatively, would the State’s laws impose a duty upon the police to call animal control agents to take custody of the dogs until an executor of the estate could be identified? Admittedly, it’s not far-fetched to imagine that animal control agents might wind up euthanizing many or all the dogs absent any more viable alternative disposition. Even so, it ought to be a duty of the State – and its employees – to preserve property to the extent feasible. Allowing the police to shoot the dogs for their own amusement violates this common-sense conclusion.
We are far more likely to get a State legislature to pass appropriate legislation (to protect the property of its citizens upon seizure by State agents) if we use an illustration of – e.g., dogs – vs. a less sympathetic object – guns.
JQPub says:
Wow, 1200 guns and somehow not one of them jumped up and killed anyone.
This was an illegal gun grab by the police, as the deceased hadn’t, or was suspected of, committing a crime. The premises should have been secured until next of kin could be notified. I think when this is all over, it will be found that the guy used to own a gun store. Regardless of that, the Constitution was not respected this day.
gsnyder says:
1200 cars in a collection. Very likely many were involved in hit & runs and stolen.
Bobiojimbo says:
If we’re lucky, these guns will end up on a police auction block, and many people may be able to get a good deal on a decent firearm. Most of them appear good, and there are some interesting choices there.
Too bad it’s Cali, and there’s an equally good chance they’ll be destroyed.
Roy H says:
Lol. Vulture much? What pisses me off about this story is this guy most likely had heirs to give those too and the police just came and snatched $1million+ of their inheritance for no reason at all.
What a bunch of assholes. They should have secured the house and let the descendants take care of the collection that’s worth in excess of $1million. There was no reason to believe the guns were used in a crime and so seizing them was unconstitutional.
I hope the estate sues LAPD for negligently tossing around the private property and scuffing up the value of the assets. For no reason.
James69 says:
Former Water Walker says:
I wish I was a relative…
Survivordude says:
God damn. 1200 guns? I’d cap it off at around ten. One semi auto mag fed rifle, one semi auto full size handgun, a pump action 12 gauge, a 10/22, a bolt action rifle, one concealed carry hand gun, a 357 magnum revolver, one lever gun, a high quality 1911,and finally a m1 garand. That would cover all my bases. But 1200!? Damn…
Sounds like you haven’t capped yours off yet . It will be a nice one when or if you do . The semi auto mag fed , as you put it , has so many choices in caliber and design . I would go with a mini 14 or mini 30 but since you are limiting yourself from the get go I would chose one that accepts standard AR magazines , a Bushmaster would be a pretty good choice . Your bolt could be a Mossberg MVP since it accepts standard AR magazines and is a nice shooter , I’m not sure what you meant by a full size hand gun , Ruger , S & W and Glock all make fine reliable pistols and if you like a 1911 , well , go shoot some . Benallie makes the finest shot guns but Mossberg is a lot of bang for the buck . I would also consider getting a 20 gauge , semi auto . You can’t go wrong with 10/22 . Your conceal carry should be light and have maximum capacity , any thing between a 22 magnum PMR 30 to a S & W XD 40 . Ruger makes a very nice .357 revolver for the money , Lever ( Henry ) ??? . Your 1911 choices are beyond comment and finally , The M 1 , go get a BAR in 30.06 and never look back .
We gun people also have to consider supplying our friends , families and neighbors , that don’t have the resources , sense or fortitude to be acquiring guns and ammo now . If SHTF , the people who think we are all a bunch of stupid fear spreading retards , will be needing us later or at least they will need some of the fire power we’ve acquired . You can sell it , loan it , trade it or give it . We are our brothers keepers .
Well so far I have four. I’ve got a VEPR Kalashnikov in 308.Was also my first gun ever bought. Might not of been the best choice but I was new to the gun thing. Next I’ve got a Glock21SF, a Mossberg 590A1 9 shot w/ ghost rings, and a Ruger 10/22. I’m looking into buying a 1903A3 for my blot gun. I have a thing for iron sights and war-proof ruggedness. For my concealed carry I thinking a Berreta Nano, a S&W Shield or Glock 19. Revolver I’d want a Ruger GP100. Lever gun I kinda want a Marlin in 45-70. Handy little brush gun that can kill anything in North America. And the 1911 and Garand are simply my “America as Apple Pie and Baseball” guns. They would collectable/nostalgic/etc, but could still serve a purpose.
At last that’s how it stands as of right now. Might change in the future if I move out of the state Iive in. Which limits my current purchase options anyway.
Real nice start , only 1195 more to go . I love that Marlin . NICE !
I’d bet dollars to donuts that once you cover all those bases, you’ll find another gun you really like and will have to invent a new base for it to cover. 😉
Such stories, such as this one, inspire me to wonder . . .
What would happen if the average gun-owner ordered an average of 1 80% receiver and 1 barrel in a suitable calibre?
In a country with an inventory of 300 million guns and 50 million gun owners, that would add 50 million ghost guns to the inventory. What percentage of these 50 million would represent completed projects? 10%? 90%? Who could know?
I’ve purchased 3 completed lower receivers and 3 or 4 80% receivers and 5 barrels. I’ve completed 1 build; maybe 2. But who knows how many I might complete by next year or the year after that.
I suspect that the volume of production of “interesting” industrial output is tracked by the Commerce Department; or, if not, that ATF keeps an eye on whatever information might be available to them. E.g., the Commerce Department probably knows how many barrels are produced and the ATF knows how many guns are produced. The difference between the barrel production and the gun production is some index on the production of ghost guns.
The Antis will never get the message. Congressmen, however, will probably be sensitive to the handwriting on the wall. The prospects of ever getting any handle on who owns what guns is likely to appear to be an evermore unlikely prospect. The faster Congress beats the drums of gun-control, the faster we buy barrels and 80% receivers. Go ahead, knock-yourselves-out.
Every gun owner can do their part by completing an 80 pct. lower and give it to someone they deem deserving who will complete it.
Isn’t it technically illegal to give or sell a completed 80% firearm to someone else? I thought the legality of the 80% thing hinged on it being for your own personal use.
You are correct in your suspicions , but who will ever know , right ?
GOOD MORNING UTAH !!
Scottlac says:
What about all the knives in the kitchen? Did the officers secure those also? How about the silverware? What about the couch? Did they shake it down for loose change? As long as legal investment assets are being stolen why not simply burglarize the whole house?
Just think if you were this guys son. Not only did you lose an interesting father, you lost a significant inheritance.
Alfonso A. Rodriguez says:
The guy was just a hoarder. I see in the picture an M1A (civilian M14 version), 1911’s, 22lr SW Model 41, an Anschutz 22lr in a bench rest stock etc etc. If the man hoarded more than collected is unlikely that the weapons saw much use if any, and not likely to have been used in any crime. The LAPD is as usual, going Hollywood for the press release and as usual, they are going to fuck up everything. It is, alas, Kalifornia (as in People’s Democratic Republic of). Many people hoard ammo and then they have no time to shoot it or do not care to shoot it, it does not mean they are planning anything nefarious. Anyone with a collection of more than a dozen weapons more than likely will shoot only occasionally unless they are serious competitive shooters; hoarders are not, they just hoard compulsively for reasons they do not know. By the wya, I do not think that the man kept his weapon as shown in the picture, that was probably the police doing (very stupid) so imaging if they had done that with the ammo. SNAFU and FUBAR (situation normal all fucked up, and WWII GI bastardization of the German word FURCHTBAR meaning that something is awfully wrong)
I always see these photo’s of guns sitting in a large pile, and I can’t help but cringe a bit. They should be laying them out, back to back…not on top of each other, now they all will have scuff marks, scratches, dings, etc. Treat someone else’s property like it’s your own……….although I guess in this case, they probably did just that, wrapped it up in a soft cotton towel, and bring it to their trunk.
One other reason we dont want registration. I have no were near that kind of collection.
But that does not mean I want the Cops digging through my stuff.
My Kids know were every thing is and have instructions.
Blue collar gold.
As a side note: Why were they digging around in his house??? Was he not found out side?
What was the pretext to enter? Warrant??
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A master at work: Celebrating Marcus Intalex's 27-year career as a musical visionary
By Mark O'Donnell Posted: Thursday June 8 2017, 4:50pm
When news started to surface recently about the incredibly sad passing of Marcus Intalex, it was hard to believe. Just the night before he’d played a set at his Soul:ution club night in Manchester, where, by all accounts, he’d absolutely destroyed it on the decks – something he’d been doing since I first saw him at the Music Box in the mid-‘90s. It came as a seismic shock, one that friends, family and fans are still trying to get their heads around.
It’s no wonder tributes have subsequently flooded social media. Marcus commanded respect in every corner of the industry – from being revered as an uncompromising pioneer of forward-thinking drum and bass to seamlessly switching to producing quality house and techno under his Trevino alias in more recent times, Marcus has left a back catalogue and legacy that puts him among the greats of electronic music. And he did it all while supporting artists he believed in through his Soul:r label, by sticking to his vision and never letting the quality control dip below excellent, by being a straight talker and humble, and by taking his signature soulful sound from the streets of south Manchester to every corner of the world (fitting in a cheeky game of golf or two along the way).
In 2011, Marcus released his debut album ’21’, marking over two decades in the game. Now, six years later, we celebrate 27 years of a true master.
Having spent his teenage years getting the bus from his hometown of Burnley into Manchester to hang out in record shops and soak up the heady acid house vibes at the Hacienda, before taking up his first DJ residency at the Angels nightclub in Burnley, by the ‘90s Marcus could be found marshalling the drum and bass section in the basement of the Eastern Bloc record shop. To give you an idea of how militant he was with punters, when I was a youth, he once gave me grief for listening to Lemon D’s ‘Going Gets Tough’ and not buying it, which, looking back, was actually fair enough.
Da Intalex
Don’t get it twisted: reppin’ jungle and drum and bass in the north in the ‘90s was an uphill battle. Manchester was a city dominated by the house music Sasha represented, but scene stalwarts like Marcus, Mark XTC and Sappo (and later Future Cut and Sonic & Silver) kept the fire burning. Marcus’s earliest forays into production were alongside Mark XTC as Da Intalex, and ‘What Ya Gonna Do’ and ‘I Like It’ (remix) sent out a clear signal that jungle was spreading and showed it was possible for producers in the north to shape the future.
'What Ya Gonna Do'
'I Like It' remix
Mark XTC reflects on the early days: ‘We knew each other from Angels in Burnley in the very early ‘90s, where Marcus was resident and I played there with the Mix Factory. We had a lot of things in common – from growing up with just our mothers to our love of acid house, techno and hardcore breakbeat.
‘I was already managing Spin Inn, in the underground market of Manchester, and Marcus began working in Manchester Underground, a rival record store near Victoria train station. Marcus was always in my shop buying his tunes so I offered him a job to come and work with me and he started the week after.
‘We decided to start making tunes together and made a track called “Soul Thunder”, which remains unreleased. We then spoke with L Double who wanted us to put a track out on the new label he was starting called Flex. We went up to his house in Huddersfield and he helped to engineer our first tune, “What Ya Gonna Do”. To hear the likes of Mickey Finn play our tune on the mixtapes we used to get in the record shop, which was now Eastern Bloc as we’d moved to run the jungle/D&B counter there, was amazing for us.
'We then had the opportunity to start our own labels, Intalex Productions and Jump Up Records, with the help of Pete Waterman who owned Eastern Bloc. We released quite a few tracks on these labels such as the huge “I Like It” remix with ST Files.'
As well as producing, DJing and working at E Bloc, Da Intalex had it locked down with a weekly show on Kiss FM, which was essential listening back in the day. A showcase of the very best drum and bass, Marcus honed the dry humour and self-deprecation that later became a feature of his Red Bull Music Academy and Soul:ution radio shows, while regularly supporting Bristol beats and Dillinja’s punishing rhythms, showcasing a producer at the peak of his powers.
Ill Figure
As Da Intalex wound up as a production duo, Marcus and ST Files put a few things out under this alias. This wasn’t a productive time studio-wise; releases were few and far between compared to their later work. There were stirrings of great things to come for the city, though, with the duo joined by Perfect Combination, Future Cut and Accidental Heroes (Sonic & Silver) in the city’s New Mount Street studio complex.
Their biggest track at the time was ‘Untouchable'/'Style’ on Suburban Base, which was caned on One In The Jungle. ‘Style’, in particular, was a Manchester anthem, with ravers slapping the walls of clubs in appreciation when it dropped; its bass was so wobbly it made jelly look stiff. The lesser known ‘Nimrod’ on Double Zero is well worth a listen too.
'Style'
‘Guidance, my brothers and sisters, Guidance’, as resident MC Mad Rush used to say on the mic. It felt like a church for Manchester’s drum and bass community at the time, albeit a dodgy one where you had to be on your guard when it kicked off, which it did on numerous occasions, or anyone tried taxing you in the bogs. Yes, really. At this time Marcus used to appear under his actual name Marcus Kaye, and like all the best residents, his sets held their own against the big-name regulars including long-time comrade Doc Scott. Nights that live in the memory include this Radio 1 broadcast and the Wormhole tour, a night where Marcus finished up rewinding Ram Trilogy’s ‘No Reality’ before Ed & Optical went on to create history with one of the best sets ever seen in Manchester.
Marcus Intalex & ST Files, ATM Magazine, 1999
Marcus & ST Files
After trying (and, as he later admitted, failing) to make a track that got played at the seminal Metalheadz club night at the Bluenote, Marcus and Files hit the motherload in the late ‘90s with 'How You Make Me Feel'. Around the time he told me during an interview for ATM Magazine that ‘we were trying to get a few tracks in Scotty’s box, do you know what I mean?’ Not only did Doc Scott snap up the track for his 31 Record imprint, but Fabio absolutely hammered it on Radio 1. Its importance isn't lost on Goldie: 'I remember it was such an unbelievable record. It really made him. But the same could be said with ‘What You Gonna Do’. If you listen back to them, the early makings of 'How You Make Me Feel' were on that record ('WYGD').'
'How You Make Me Feel'
The remix years
Marcus and Files had the Midas touch when it came to remixing at this time. Every track had its own unique flavour and groove and added a much-needed injection of soulful vibes to the dance which were dominated by the darkside at the time. Crucially they received support from all corners of the scene. A tasteful reinterpretation of MJ Cole's 'Be Sincere' was joined by two stone-cold classics for Reinforced, ‘Better Place’ and ‘9x9’, and one of the greatest remixes of all-time, ‘Just A Vision’ for Renegade Recordings. Then came a mix of ‘Midnight’ that Andy C still plays in his sets to this day. Listen back and you’ll hear the sound of masters at work.
'Just A Vision' remix
'9x9' remix
'Midnight' (MIST VIP remix)
Over to Jenna G: ‘Me and Marcus were in college together. I’ve known him from the beginning of my D&B career. In fact, he was the beginning of my D&B career, release-wise. He let me sing at Guidance, got me on my first D&B release for Soul:r. He introduced me to Darren and Tunde (Future Cut), Goldie, even DRS in Midem on a college trip! We hadn't made music together since the early days mostly ‘cause I was a happy-to-have-a-go-at-anything Charlie and he ever the perfectionist. It never bothered me, though. Marcus was my friend, a very old friend, a really good friend, and I'm gonna miss him a lot.’
'Universe'/'Lose Control'
In the same way Marcus and Files had wanted to get in Scotty’s box years before, they most certainly wanted to have a release on Goldie’s Metalheadz – and they saved something very special for the occasion. ‘Universe’ is a prime example of drum and bass that stirs a deep emotional response (Goldie maintains it's Marcus's best tune to this day), while the flip did a lot of damage on the dancefloor; its second drop sending ravers into raptures. This link with Metalheadz carried on throughout his career, with the mighty 'Wastelands' and 'Riots' following as solo productions.
'Universe'
'Dreamworld'
Is this the greatest b-side to a drum and bass record of all-time? It’s certainly up there. The duo’s Detroit influences ran deep on this one, with its futuristic, cinematic intro that switches into trademark rumbling bass and razor-tight beats. As Marcus later said about their production values: ‘We build a dancefloor element first, without being cheesy, and then put a musical element on top. The beats and bass – they’ve got to have impact.’
The Soul:r years
It’s easy, some 16 years later, to forget just how much of a game-changer Soul:r was when it launched. Marcus and Files had been planning on starting a label since the late ‘90s but bided their time until they had the sound (Calibre, Marky, Sonic & Silver and D Kay were among the early signings), the look and feel that they wanted. Not only did the music stand out as distinctly original and of exactingly high standards (the first release 'Play On Me' was an instant classic), it was visually different too, with the label’s artwork looking more like something Jazzanova would put out then the prevalent drum and bass sci-fi aesthetic.
Marcus later reflected on the launch: ‘I wanted it to encompass the word soul, it had elements of soul samples in there… And I didn’t want it to look like the usual drum and bass futuristic, spaceship, kind of techno name. I wanted it to be a bit more thoughtful, more mature sounding.’
Mist:i:cal
The stories about Dominic Martin’s (aka Calibre’s) prolific studio output were the stuff of dancefloor legend around this time (2001–2002). 'He’s got 300 unreleased tracks' was a common one – and it was true. Having made a few trips over to Manchester from his native Belfast, Calibre’s alliance with Marcus and Files became one of the defining partnerships of the era. The dub-infused ‘Mist:i:cal Dub’ was one of their stand-out early collabs, and follow-up 'Memory Jog' confirmed that this was a trio who were producing audio alchemy.
'Mistical Dub'
Soul:ution
The Soul:ution club night quickly followed the launch of the label. The very first event took place at Sofa Central (aka Joshua Brooks, now Versions) on Thursday March 7, 2002, with residents Calibre, Marcus, Files, MD and DRS alongside special guest Marky. It later moved to the iconic Band on the Wall for a ten-year stint before taking up its current residency at Soup Kitchen. It's also flown around the world with events in Berlin, LA, New York and its annual residency at Sun & Bass in Sardinia.
Jim Bane followed in Marcus's footsteps by working at Eastern Bloc and he partied at the event since the early days before Marcus asked him to become a resident in recent times. Below, he explains just how important the night has been.
'Soul:ution has been successful for so long purely down to the quality of the music being played and the quality of the DJs being booked. Right from the very beginning Soul:ution has been on the cutting edge, perfectly balancing the more forward-thinking, experimental side of D&B, whilst maintaining that raw dancefloor energy.
'I can wholeheartedly say that there is nothing else that compares to this night. The regulars who attend are the most loyal, friendly and devoted music fans. They embrace music they have never heard before and want to dance from when the doors open until the lights come on at 3am. They are also ready to catch DRS when he decides to get on an impromptu crowd surf. It is a family vibe, attitudes are left at the door, and lifelong bonds are made.
‘On Saturday May 27, 2017, Marcus played his last set at Soul:ution. The club was packed and rocking, all of the regular heads were there (front right as standard), and there were plenty of new young faces. LSB, Escher, Galvini and Sense MC were on the line-up, and they all delivered superb selections. As usual, Marcus stole the show and absolutely destroyed the place. Marcus's set was packed full of Soul:ution classics and brand new material. At the peak of his set he dropped “International”, a fresh release from Spirit. Rewinds were called for, and of course Marcus obliged!’
Revolve:r
Set up to showcase a tougher, darker style than Soul:r (and even different tempos), Revolve:r was an instant hit: ‘Barracuda’ absolutely tore the roof off of early Soul:ution parties. It also gave Marcus the chance to sign a track from Spirit, a producer he’d long admired, and later gave a platform for the mad skills of Martyn from Eindhoven.
'Outerspace'
With a big nod to their musical roots, ‘Outerspace’ came about after Marcus heard DJ James Holroyd playing a Bobby Konders acid house record called ‘Nervous Acid’ at Sankeys. This provided the seed of an idea, which was watered with a touch of inspiration from Kevin Saunderson’s bass patterns, resulting in one of drum and bass’s greatest ever rhythms.
'Temperance'
By 2004 Soul:r was already leading the way when it came to innovative drum and bass, and this double-header by Marcus paid homage to his Hacienda years – Zumbar and Temperance were nights at the club. Like on ‘Universe’, there’s a timeless emotional quality to ‘Temperance’ that transcends the genre.
Fabric/FabricLive
One thing you’ll hear people say time and time again about Marcus is that he supported their work and introduced them to like-minded individuals. On his recent show, Benji B paid tribute to him by saying he intro’d him to the Fabric staff when he ‘was a kid’. Soul:ution was a regular fixture at the club, and Marcus went on to record a fabricLive mix that's widely regarded as one of the best in the series. The club has recently made it available over here.
'Refreshed'
Having already set drum and bass on a fresh trajectory in the past, Marcus switched it up once again in 2007 with this solo release, which channelled his techno and electronic influences into breathtaking new forms. Listening back, there’s an increasingly assured maturity to his studio work that confirmed his standing, alongside the output of dBridge and Instra:mental, as one of the key innovators in the drum and bass scene.
'11th Hour'
Marcus railed against the misconception that drum and bass wasn’t as credible as other forms of dance music since his early days in Manchester (it was something that pissed him off no end and a subject he'd regularly bemoan). In an interview around the time of the ‘11th Hour’ LP launch, Marcus, Calibre, Files and MC DRS became increasingly vocal about their dissatisfaction with the scene's state of affairs. DRS said the title track was intended as a 'wake-up call for the producers to get back on it.’ The lyrics left you in doubt: 'Most producers these days, I think you’re cowards, same old samples, same old bullshit, when did you care no more?’
The best pound-for-pound lyricist in the drum and bass game, Del had been holding down the mic all night at Soul:ution events since it started and had long accompanied Mr Intalex around the world. This mutual appreciation lead to two DRS albums being released on Soul:r. Tracks like 'Count To Ten' feat. Enei, 'The View' feat. Tyler Daley and LSB and the all-star Manc collab (including Strategy, Chimpo, Fox and Skittles) on 'Bun Ya Too' ushered in a new era for the Soul:r sound.
'Bun Ya Too'
On his relationship with Marcus, DRS has since paid this tribute: ‘I lost my brother and the first person who truly believed in me and my art uncompromisingly. The first person I ever MC’d for in a club, the only person to offer a helping hand when the whole Good Looking Records thing went bad for me. He introduced me to my brothers Calibre, Marky, Goldie, Scotty and most of the artists that I now call family. I have never compromised my art or passion for status or monetary gain. You taught me that lad!’
Marcus, Lynx and DRS
Photo: Chelone Wolf
21 years in the game
Marking 21 years in the music industry, Marcus’s debut album ('21') was worth the wait. Featuring collabs with DRS, Lynx, Zed Bias and S.P.Y, it showcased his increasing range in the studio (check ‘TB or Not TB’) alongside his continued ability to construct drum and bass with heart and soul, exemplified by the heart-stirring sound of ‘Celestial Navigation’ with S.P.Y.
'Celestial Navigation'
Providing a platform for talent
Among the many tributes paid to Marcus since the news broke, many people have said he was instrumental in their careers – whether as an inspiration to make music or by getting played in his DJ sets or being released through his label. The roll-call is like a who’s who of drum and bass: Sonic & Silver, Jenna G, Zero T, High Contrast, Marky, Martyn, Lynx, Alix Perez, Klute, Break, dBridge, Icicle, Phil Tangent, Skeptical, Lenzman, S.P.Y, Bungle, LSB, DRS, Dub Phizix, Strategy, Fox, Skittles and Chimpo. As Jim Bane sees it: 'Marcus has always represented new music and new talent that he believes in. Straight up. No nonsense. No bullshit. Real.' Zero T agrees: 'He changed the direction of the whole music and was a figurehead for many artists coming through at that time. When Marcus drew for your tune, you knew you were onto a winner! It's hard to accept I'll never have that unique pleasure again, but the legacy of the man and his music will inspire forever.' And LSB echoed these sentiments on his Facebook page: 'For Marcus it was never about protecting what he had, it was about sharing it with others, bringing others along with the journey with him and taking delight in watching them fly.'
Strategy summed it up beautifully on Instagram:
Words are supposed to be our craft but in times like this what do u say. Biggest compliment I could pay Marcus is that he was genuine. Genuine guy, genuine music, genuine intentions. Everything that people love about the north west was in him. I went into his studio yesterday as it seemed like the perfect place to take a moment to pay my respects and as sad as it was I felt so proud for him..the effect he has had on people worldwide is obvious and he did it all with zero compromising and kept it classy as fuck. If you ever made Marcus genuinely laugh it felt like it meant something. One of my proudest moments in music was seeing my name next to the Soul:r logo on vinyl it meant I'd fuckin done something with life. We are all his legacy. The outpouring of love for him from across the world is staggering but not surprising and he will be sorely missed. Thoughts and love go to his many many friends and close family. This is not the end of Soul:r or Soul:ution. How could it be? My favourite Marcus quote? Being interviewed in Manchester one night straight after the set the interviewer asked him 'what was it like playing back to back with Goldie?' Without any hesitation Marcus looked and him and said 'easy' ....fuckin love u mate God bless x
A post shared by ŠTRÅTËGŶ STraTS (@strategyyeah) on May 29, 2017 at 5:14am
The Trevino years
For a man who had such an obsessive, deep-rooted passion for house and techno, it shouldn’t have come as a surprise that he so effortlessly switched to producing at that tempo under his Trevino moniker. The name came from golfing legend, Lee Trevino, and the name of his label Birdie reinforced his love of the game. It wasn’t long before the big players in those scenes embraced his work with open arms – Ben Klock and Craig Richards released his work, and his old apprentice Martyn returned the favour by supporting his music on 3024.
In a case of serendipity that Factory Records would have been proud of, Marcus recently started making techno with Roberto from the Fossil Archive label, a producer and DJ who spent his formative years attending the early Soul:ution parties in Manchester. Below, Roberto takes us through a few of his favourite Trevino cuts.
'Forged'
‘A haunting track that was released on Ben Klock's label. I know Marcus worked his arse off to finish that EP. It was definitely worth all the effort.’
'Another Lifetime'
‘A really emotional track released on Fabric resident Craig Richard's The Nothing Special label. Somehow a fitting soundbite to the tragic loss of Marcus.’
'Blackcat'
'One of my favourite tracks from the Trevino album, which was released on his own Birdie label in 2016. You can really hear the Detroit techno influence here.'
Roberto - 'Dreams of a Solo' (Trevino remix)
'When Marcus agreed to remix my track “Dreams of a Solo” I was immensely excited about what he could come up with. He didn't disappoint. I will cherish this forever.'
Straight down the middle
Outside of music, Marcus's biggest passion was golf, and he always tried to fit a round in when he travelled around the globe DJing. Only recently he posted on his Instagram account that he’d made the first hole in one of his career – a proud day to remember.
The scene of the crime. I struck it sweet, one bounce then out of sight she went. My first ever hole in one, at this yon hole on this yon day Friday 6th May 2017. I have been playing this game on and off for 30 years. Let's hope it dont take that long to get another. I'm off for a pint or two..
A post shared by Instralex (@marcusintalex) on May 5, 2017 at 11:29am PDT
'Angels Fall'
Along with the outpouring of tributes that followed the news, DRS and LSB released a beautiful, poignant track on Bandcamp to help raise funds for his family and funeral. Donations are still very welcome. If you can contribute, please do so here.
Love from the drum and bass family
The response from the D&B community has been nothing short of incredible. Such was the love and respect for Marcus, tributes have been sent from all over the world. In the UK, all of the industry has come together to celebrate his legacy, including an all-star get together at Rinse FM. Hosted by Fabio, a whole heap of people turned out including Randall, Storm, Zero T, SP, Zinc, Spirit, GQ and DRS. You can listen back to the four-hour show here.
Marcus Intalex Tribute Show, Rinse FM, June 2017
Credit: Randall
A word from Goldie
'His thing for me was the humbleness of his music. He was so humble. Marcus really didn’t give a fuck. He had no fear. There were tunes he wouldn’t like, he would just say, ‘I don’t like it, it’s a load of shite.
'We laughed a lot. I remember him leaving a club early because he had to travel to another event and Andy (C) said something like, ‘You going already? I’ve got tunes you know?’ And he replied, ‘Heard ‘em all,’ as he left.
‘There are people, like myself, who will make conceptual tunes for the rest of our lives. People like Calibre and Marcus. They make tune after tune after tune because they’re seasoned. They’ve got massive consistency with huge dynamic. To me, Marcus is as impactful on this music as J Dilla is to hip hop.’
'A Better Place'
Putting this tribute piece together was a labour of love, and it confirmed just how incredible Marcus’s legacy is. I could have included dozens more tunes, that’s how much of a genius he was. Not that he’d ever see himself in that light. For someone who dedicated his life to creating quality, forward-thinking drum and bass, and more recently did the same in the house and techno worlds, Marcus’s contribution to Manchester and drum and bass puts him up there with the Detroit techno pioneers he was inspired by. I’ll leave you with this one below, as that’s where he deserves to be right now. Marcus, we salute you.
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By Mark O'Donnell
Mark DJ'd at practically all of Manchester's best clubs (and the duff ones too) between 1998-2008. These days he's UK head of digital for Time Out and gets out of bed when he used to get in. Follow him @markodonnell1
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Published On: Mon, Jul 22nd, 2019
General | By Manish Sen
FM to launch taxpayer e-assistance campaign at ‘Income Tax Day’ event Wednesday
New Delhi: A country-wide ‘taxpayer e-assistance campaign’ will be launched on Wednesday by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to mark the 159th ‘Income Tax Day’, officials said on Monday.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
The campaign has been conceptualised by the CBDT and it will be launched across all regional offices of the Income Tax Department, they said.
The taxman will hold camps to help taxpayers in e-filing of their returns and this “hand-holding” will be done to enable them understand the recent changes in the forms, laws and utilities (softwares) of the direct taxes regime, a policy plan accessed by PTI stated.
The campaign was planned after the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), that frames policy for the department, received representations from taxpayers and stakeholders, like chartered accountants and banks, that they require more assistance and support in enabling them in filing returns electronically and in discharging other IT related obligations under the tax laws, they said.
Among other events, all regional offices of the Income Tax Department will celebrate the day by honouring those assessees who file their taxes diligently.
The main event will be held in Delhi which will be attended by Sitharaman and Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur, sources said.
The Union minister is expected to unveil the new campaign and award the best-performing Indian Revenue Service (IRS) and other officials of the tax department during the event, they said.
All officers from the rank of Assistant Commissioner and above posted in Delhi, have been asked to mandatorily attend the event that will be held from 10 am at Ambedkar International Centre on Janpath Road, a source said.
July 24 is celebrated as the ‘Income Tax Day’ as this tax was first levied as a duty on this day in the year 1860 and the authority to levy it came into force on July 24 of that year.
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Who the Green Bay Packers may select in the 2019 NFL Draft
By: Phil Pinarski
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The Green Bay Packers find themselves in an unusual position: having two first-round picks at Nos. 12 and 30 in this year's NFL Draft.<br/>
With the NFL Draft on Thursday, the Green Bay Packers find themselves in an unusual position: having two first-round picks at Nos. 12 and 30.
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Not only that, the Packers also have 10 picks during the draft, which concludes Saturday in Nashville, Tennessee.
So, who will they select? Here are just a few names that may become future stars for the Green and Gold:
Rashan Gary, DE, Michigan: One of the biggest needs for Green Bay this season will be pressuring the quarterback. Gary is the perfect combination of size and speed to bring added pressure to quarterbacks. Now that star linebacker Clay Matthews is gone, the Packers will need more help in that area. Insert Gary and you may have solved that issue.
Brian Burns, OLB, Florida State: Another top pass rusher in the draft, Burns would fit right in for the departed Matthews. Burns is expected to be picked early, so Green Bay may use one of its first-round picks on him.
Johnathan Abram, S, Mississippi State: Once the pass rushing issue is filled, the Packers may want to continue building up their secondary. Green Bay picked two cornerbacks in Jaire Alexander and Josh Jackson in last year's draft. Select Abram and the Packers have a young group of talent that can keep opposing quarterbacks holding the ball for too long.
Darrell Henderson, RB, Memphis: Aaron Jones provided a decent run game to support Aaron Rodgers last season, but a second running back would do wonders for the offense. Henderson led the nation with 2,328 all-purpose yards last season. He is the running back of the future; a guy who can run, catch and return kicks starting Day 1.
Marquise Brown, WR, Oklahoma: With longtime Packer Randall Cobb heading to the Dallas Cowboys, the Packers may be more desperate for a receiver to pair with Davante Adams. If Green Bay wants a playmaking wideout, look no further than Brown. His nickname is "Hollywood" for a reason. He will be a future star in the NFL.
While there is no clear way to guarantee any of these picks, these names are ones that could fill needs for the Packers immediately.
The first round of the 2019 NFL Draft starts Thursday at 7 p.m. Rounds 2-3 will start Friday at 6 p.m. Rounds 4-7 will air 11 a.m. Saturday. ABC, ESPN and the NFL Network will air the draft all three days.
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Oh, She’s Good All Right … Mayor Mullet Neatly Switches From Baffling With Bullshit To Bullying With Belcarra
In a classic, text book case of turning adversity to advantage, Mayor Mullet’s minders (its way too clever for her alone) have come up with a doozy – the new Belcarra laws as a re-election campaign weapon. The Magpie dives in behind the scenes to explain the creation of the Belcarra Bludgeon.
But while all that’s going on, the question so oft asked around this bend in the river … what the hell is our beloved mayor up to now with the on-again, off-again and apparently on-again Council Development Corporation?
… Astonisher iditor Jenna Cairney makes an honest woman of herself … sort of. And is there a subtle message in a hdurieeadline betraying the paper’s council election stance?
…and why Clive Palmer isn’t the only villain in the Yabulu job losses saga.
(Bentley’s on another break, lucky bugger)
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Queensland’s half-arsed new rules on developers political donations in Queensland … known as the Belcarra laws after the inquiry in the issue … has suddenly presented our embattled mayor with an unexpected weapon in her panicked efforts to remain in her cushy job.
Jenny Hill has launched a scare campaign about the laws putting councillors … and herself … in jeopardy of transgressing the legislation.
She has been featured in several blame-shifting stories pushing this line, hinting at the personal risk that councillors may face if they ‘inadvertently’ break the new conflict of interest laws.
Let us put aside for the moment the fact that the basis for the laws is sensible but incomplete, and should include other businesses besides developers if the logic of influence is to be followed.
At first it seemed Mayor Mullet was up to her usual tricks of declining to make decisions demanded of her council in case they were electorally unpopular, and giving potential electorally dangerous decisions to the CEO. But maybe not, perhaps the motive was a little more cynical (yes, hard to believe I know, but there ya go …).
It seems Jenny had a light bulb moment, recognising the value of making the job of a councillor appear financially perilous personally, subject to dastardly ruinous entrapment by hazy new rules in the this area …’there so easily goes the house, the car and next year’s European holiday’ was the unspoken suggestion. But this strategy wasn’t to boost the heroic status of Team Hill … it was an ideal way to scare off ordinary decent people who may have been contemplating a run for Walker Street, to replace her and her tired arm-lifting aerobics class of councillors.
The greater the risk from ill-defined laws, the greater the chance potential candidates would not be game to risk it.
That latest tissue thin example of those ‘dangers’ was the ‘potential conflict of interest’ withdrawal by the entire council on the matter of a Strand development.
Although a developer seeking approval for a project on The Strand was not a political donor to Team Hill, an uninvolved third party (Craig Stack) who made a submission simply saying the project was a good idea, was a donor, having donated the princely sum of $900 or so to Team Hill last election. On this one ground alone, Jenny Hill said she received legal advice that there could be a conflict of interest problem, and hand-balled the decision to CEO Mike Chiodo. She and civic bus conductor and deputy mayor Les Walker moaned on and on about the hazards they faced from Belcarra.
The ‘ville’s idiot, Les Messagebank Walker
In fact, Les Walker, being the ‘ville’s idiot, gave the game away by being as subtle as a grenade in a bowl of porridge when we read in the Astonisher:
Cr Walker said the law reforms, which has imposed strict rules on councillors tied to harsh penalties, would make the landscape difficult for new entrants. “It shouldn’t be an issue, anybody and everybody should be able to nominate without having to think of any potential handicaps or conflicts of because of where they used to work or what they’re interested in or what their family might be involved in,” he said.
Even Jenny probably shook her head at that smack-forehead effort, but was glad that it was Les who said and not her. Plausible on the face of it but that seemed all way too convenient, until The Magpie realised the real intent was to create what we shall call the Belcarra Bludgeon, a handy political weapon to scare off any potential opposition by making public office a perilous, undesirable occupation. It’s one of her more clever cons, so much so that one wonders if occasional Mullet whisperer Dolan Hayes is back on board, such is the artful and subtle Belcarra scare campaign.
Too far fetched? She’s done worse, and if this conspiracy theory by The Magpie is incorrect, he will eat his hat … the tin foil one he borrowed from Peter Newey to write this piece.
That Unicorn Battery Factory Is Looking Rarer By The Day
It was inevitable really. No, not the regulation typo in the headline … don’t they know it’s spelt lie it’s said … it’s ‘gumminint’.
Consider this … tiny wannabee big company Magnis Energy Technologies, a private company, asked the gullible galoots in George Street for $3.1million of Queensland taxpayers money for a feasibility study to see if this battery factory project is a goer. A rare way for a private company to finance the feasibility of a blue sky venture, a weird blend of socialism and capitalism, but damnation, would you believe it, they’ve done the $3.1million worth of numbers and, according to the latest in a long line of Magnis snake oil salesmen, MD Marc Vogts, ‘ …our feasibility study indicated the project is financially sound.’ Well, to quote a gay expression of surprise, I’ll be buttered on both sides. Whodda thort?
But wait, Mr Vogts told the paper he had some more voltage with which to shock the taxpayers hip pockets. He is looking at a Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility loan to kick start the venture, because as he told the Astonisher that sucke … sorry … investors are hard to come by in these times.
Mr Vogts said the next major stage of getting the battery plant started was securing finance. “There’s a couple of challenges for us, and probably the most significant one is raising the finance,” he said. “But we’ve put ourselves in the best position to do that.”
So we’re only three construction stages and $3billion away from happy days being here again. And we wonder if this staged project will be like others in struggling vainly towards fruition … such as the stage two of the stadium/entertainment/convention centre.
And What The Hell Is This, Pray Tell, Madam Mayor?
This little snippet turned up this week, which makes one wonder if there are dots to be joined.
There is still not explanation of why the original council Development Company EA2 is being wound up without having done a thing, but it is even stranger that a new council company suddenly pops up, without explanation or any publicly announced purpose. Something to do with the battery factory maybe? Or the council’s Lansdown Industrial Park at Woodstock, where The ‘Pie has noticed something else that hasn’t been mentioned but may cost further council funds. Have a look at this map.
Note the bottom right hand corner, a 15km or so blue line labelled ‘planned water pipe’, which clearly is to service the Industrial Precinct.
The question is whether have funds already been allocated for this multi-million bit of infrastructure and who pays for it, and when? Under normal circumstances, it would be the industrial park tenants, one way or the other, but Mayor Mullet has gone to great lengths to plead, beg, wheedle and flog the idea to various groups (the unicorn battery factory is on a promise of free land), some of the other businesses water intensive operations (like the proposed hydrogen gas idea). So is she going to chuck in gratis multi-million dollar branch pipeline? If so, where’s the dough coming from? There doesn’t apear to be a mention of this anywhere The ‘Pie can find. Happy to be enlightened.
These are only questions but rather interesting ones, to which we folks ultimately footing the bill deserve transparent answers – hahahah, oh, The Pie does crack himself up sometimes. Possibly all sorted, all thought through, all above board, and The ‘Pie is being an old silly.
The Adani Airstrip Deal: Mystifying Many More.
An interesting observation from a Magpie chum who knows about these things sent in this view of the secrecy surrounding the deal around the proposed Adani airstrip to be built by the Townsville and Rockhampton councils. Adani is currently in court opposing the Right To Information Commissioner’s ruling that details of the deal must be released to the public.
Magpie mate wrote:
I’ve just been reading your coverage of the airport debacle. That OIC ruling is a good find – and the language is very strong. It’s odd the ABC hasn’t reported it, but I’m not completely surprised, given the political sensitivity.
The thing that really puzzles me is what could possibly be in that document that is worth this fight – particularly given the airport seems to not be part of Adani’s immediate plans now. You’ll notice that one of the parties to application to oppose the Term Sheet release is Wagners, who were supposed to be building the airport. That tells me that the term sheet would have mentioned them in some way. And by extension, the terms sheet would have awarded them the construction contract.
Now check out s226 of the local government regulation. Note “large sized contractual arrangement” is defined as anything worth more than $200,000…
226Large-sized contractual arrangement—tenders needed first
(1)A local government cannot enter into a large-sized contractual arrangement unless the local government first invites written tenders for the contract under section 228.
(2)This section is subject to division 3.
There are some exceptions, but none seems applicable here. I see that Mayor Hill has claimed that since the council(s) would not own the airport, no tender process was necessary. That statement, if true, opens up a whole new set of questions about responsibility, accountability and possible corrupt behaviour.
This is clearly a unique situation – the law probably didn’t envisage a council handing $15m to a private company, outside its area, to build a private piece of infrastructure which, to boot, it would not own and apparently have to lease back! But at the very least I think signing a term sheet to hand over $15m to Adani to pay Wagners would be argued a way of dodging a local government’s procurement responsibilities. It’s the sort of arrangement that local government could use for corrupt purposes, to funnel money / work to favoured businesses.
So, what are they hiding? Perhaps we’ll never know until and if a Supreme Court judge tells them to comply.
The Astonisher Goes Rogue … And Not Before Time
It seems reality has descended in a rush upon the Townsville Bulletin. All of a sudden, after nibbling around the edges of issues that should’ve have long ago been filed under ‘The Bleedin’ Obvious, Dept of:’ , the paper has gone full frontal on some of the issues The ‘Pie has been predicting all these years. This weekend, it was virtual blitzkrieg.
But there are some major problems with reality for some folk featured in the Bulletin, like this bloke …
… politician turned acadil and boofademic Paul Williams.
Talking about next March’s election and the current lack of opposition to Mayor Mullet, his prize goof quote:
‘It is possible there isn’t a “burning desire” to get rid of the Mayor. Cr Hill had emerged from difficult circumstances like the floods and an economic downturn as an “enhanced leader”.
Do me a bloody favour FCS! As the saying has it, not all the nuts are in Brazil.
Why Palmer Isn’t The Only Villain For Townsville Jobs
The ill-thought out, incomplete Belcarra legislation fits in neatly with the history of this Queensland’s government. The following needs not only to be told, but remembered.
Among The Palaszczuk government’s list of damning legacies will be its uncanny ability to draft legislation that are so poorly thought through that it ends up being totally counter productive. And massively damaging for the employment prospects of hundreds of Queenslanders.
Go back a few brief years and take the last minute ramming through of laws that related directly to Palaszczuk’s headlong chase to nail arch political opponent Clive Palmer. After exhaustive months of negotiations, a deal was just a signature away between all parties for Palmer to sell his Queensland Nickel interests to a giant Japanese industrial concern. and thus keep the staff at Yabulu in their jobs.
Then this bumbling, spite-driven government stepped in at the eleventh hour. Although advised that the deal to save more than 800 Townsville jobs could be put in jeopardy by some controversial clauses in planned land remedial laws, a vindictive Palaszczuk government barged ahead heedless and although their target was clearly aimed at punishing Palmer, the framing of the laws was an instant deal killer, by putting an open-ended financial burden on any buyer.
And that was that. The Japanese suddenly had no yen to be involved, took their bat and ball and went home, and more than 800 jobs in Townsville couldn’t be rescued.
What do Palmer and Palaszczuk have in common? Both put self-interest and personal spite ahead of the public good. And what’s the difference between Palmer and Palaszczuk? One’s smart, the other as dumb as a post. You choose.
HEALTH WARNING: This Item Includes An Image That May Be Harmful To Peter Newey’s Stability And Well-being.
Why wouldn’t she be smiling?
TEL had its AGM the other day, with some interesting little factoids emerging. It would seem PT Barnum’s dictum about suckers born very day is just as true today as ever, with Little Patty O’Callaghan assertion that ‘membership has increased’.
And the Annual Report made some more ponderable points, given that revenue was down 20%. It tells us that ‘executive remuneration’ (sounds better than ‘those with both front trotters in the trough’) for the four main management positions went up from $697k to $718k – seems no winds of recession buffet them down there at the new Wishing Well House –but as a percentage of total staffing costs, this self generosity went from 39% to 42%, so it would seem the troops below didn’t fare too well. And just to add a sour cherry on top, one of the four executives has been sacked and is under police investigation, and another has now left. On that investigation, surely one would’ve expected the auditors to make mention about the potential or real theft by McMillan on the bottom line. But not a word.
And are we to assume that TEL got the Bulletin to sub and proofread the report… it state’s that the auditors charged $17,500 for their services … up from $500 last year. An auditor for a tangled organisation like TEL charging $500 for an annual audit? … purleeese.
And now the disturbing bit for Pete Newey … a colourful and very positive pamphlet was printed out and placed on all the chairs at before the meeting started. The fact that the positive message was a project with which TEL has not had one iota of original or useful input is besides the point.
Get the heart pills out, Pete, and stay calm until help arrives.
Wank Of The Week
Shit, not those old guanciale furls again. So passe, dahling. From the Good Food Guide Annual Awards just announced.
Clearly not a Hasty Tasty.
Hah! That Nuthin Next To The Trump Chump
The Agent Orange prez has increased his wrestle with language and logic now that impeachment proceedings are underway (which, as a fearless Magpie prediction, will end up nowhere and Trump will not leave office until he is defeated by Elizabeth Warren in next year’s election).
Silver tongue he is not, but thank heavens he isn’t a doctor.
But it was his slow disintegration caused by the impeachment issues that dominated the week in America.
And The ‘Pie is well aware that there are those of you think the old bird is a bit insistent with his reporting on Trump, and that its all a dastardly plot by evil forces. Well, perhaps your right, he’s just a loving family man, making a crust to keep his nearest and dearest from the cold, cold world.
And when was the last time you EVER heard a President of the United States use this kind of language publicly? A president incidentally, who got more than three million votes less than his opponent, but got home because of the loopy electoral college rules. This bloke just makes things up.
And Finally, …
… a visual depiction of how The Magpie feels every Saturday night, when he has just finished this weekly missive. Like about right now.
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Spooka says:
TEL, a tool and a trough since it’s inception.
Mike Douglas says:
The Astonishers focus on stalled projects around the stadium aims directly at the incompetence of team Hill and their inability to achieve timelines on small projects .What could you expect when the Mullet is multi skilling as a director of LGAQ, deputy chair Tel , running her 2020 re-election campaign , overseas excursions and blocking f.o.i requests , legal action from developers and laying smokescreens like Jamie Durie $800k . It’s simple to see why cbd landlords have no confidence in T.C.C . . It’s a dogs breakfast over at trrash with the editor so anxious thinking he found another conspiracy theory on Council he posted about a new development at Jensen with possible gate excluding residents to be advised by the owner it was an old development and please remove the post as it was “false news “ . Yesterday’s Trrash post was suggesting that donations for team Hill in the 2020 election could come from an Oriental flavoured background . I gather from Traash xenophobic posts in the past they don’t support the $2.5 bil Singapore defence deal or the $100 mil abbatoir in Hughenden as well as Korean Zinc etc . It’s embarrassing traash fb page think they represent the interests of Townsville residents and ratepayers .
The Magpie says:
This is unexamined, populist and plain ignorant journalism from the Astonisher (surprise, surprise!) So much for investigative journalism.
The plight of Townsville’s CBD is not much different from downtowns across regional Australia and the world for that matter. It’s been propped up by dubious rates holidays, developer charges subsidies and various marketing schemes. Despite all this, over at least 2 decades, commercial vacancy rates continue to hover around 30%. Headline rents don’t drop, which leaves many lay observers scratching their heads. So-called market forces should see rents drop until the vacancies are filled.
One of the main reasons why rents haven’t dropped is because the value of the commercial properties is tied to rent levels, and a whole range of corporate loans are leveraged against headline asset values. A drop in rent will drive down valuations, and cause all sorts of concerns in the loan-to-Value front. This runs the risk of cascading effects on corporate balance sheets as lenders get nervous and call in loans. That’s what happened in the GFC, incidentally, but mainly (though not exclusively) in the residential market.
The hope has always been that through some miracle of one concession after another, or one public boondoggle after another, the CBD will experience a turnaround without a major impairment event. This doesn’t seem remotely likely. How much has been poured into the CBD in the last 20-odd year’s? Flinders St East $40m. Ripping up the Mall $70m. Poor old Palmer St who knows. The stadium $250-300m. The Ergon and State Government-tenanted buildings …. tens of millions of public sector-underwritten construction. The list goes on.
High quality spaces will always win out, which is why the best buildings remain occupied while the B grade space can’t find a tenant. Robbing Peter to pay Paul has been the order of the day. That’s what happened with the Ergon and State Government Officer buildings. Deckchairs were shuffled.
There are no easy fixes. Sadly one suspects that only a major and protracted impairment event can catalyse the emergence of a new set of uses. Phoenixes only ride from the ash, so to speak. For the Bully to now plea for landlords to do something is just too cute. The Bulletin’s own downsizing of office needs should tell itself what the underlying problems are.
Trevor C says:
Looks like there has been some serious thought put into the interaction of that country club project with the community/industry by that diagram, Magpie.
I don’t know heaps about it, but a quick check at the Co-Ordinator Generals website just showed it’s terms of reference for its EIS have been recently announced (something missed there TB? No need of a positive news story that week???). I hear there is a lot of support for it tourist operator wise though, many of whom are TEL members. I see it has also turned up here under TEL’s banner too in this month’s Success Magazine: https://lnkd.in/f6vGmsm.
Maybe rather than alleging secrets deals and drama, all we are seeing is a developer just quietly getting on with the process needed to get approval for a good idea, without the front page pretty picture BS, master plans and promises, demanding handouts and help from one and all. Shocking. How could they? What type of (smart) people are they running it???
All in the face of wild and wandering xenophobic racist slurs from one person who takes the name of the Townsville resident and ratepayers name in vain …. and has the potential to damage the economic well-being and image of this city. It is all being manipulated by a small time big dreaming little real estate urger, who has turned on those who rebuffed his toadying up to them. At the moment, fortunately though, everyone is having a laugh about the poor deluded mutt’s foaming and spittle-flecked outbursts, and his pissant little handler.
Fair go says:
I’m struggling with the idea that a publicly listed company not only got $3.5m from the public purse to do a battery factory feasibility, but now has its hand out for more public money on the basis that the business case says “all good to go”. If the case is so good, why not raise the $ on the market?
Precisely. Why not indeed? This crowd knows a sucker when they see one, a common enough ability clearly not shared by the Townsville electorate last time around.
Cantankerous but happy says:
Yep, another first class loser lured to Townsville by the Mullet, no money , just his hand out for taxpayers money to try and bolster their shrinking share price so he doesn’t do his arse on upcoming share options, it’s just a con job.
Fu Manchu says:
Hot tip, Pie. Saw a van parked on Flinders St yesterday painted up like a tourist van. Claimed to have started on a 7 continent Guinness book of records thing back in 2013, from Shanghai. I Reckon it’s a dastardly clever trick. It’s actually a highly sophisticated Trojan horse, masquerading as an innocent traveller, but is really beaming back to some Bunker in Beijing. No doubt it’s casing the joint for nefarious purposes. Hush, hush. Now you see it, now you don’t. The yellows aren’t coming, they’re here already. Where’s Old Mate Pete when you need him? Maybe Pete’s onto them already.
Why is it so? says:
Has any level of government learnt from the waste of millions of taxpayer dollars into the car industry, all for naught? It is time to get rid of the local level of government, they seem to just indulge in self promotion and self interest. They have forgotten their role is to put their employers, the rate payers first. Rate payers can’t afford their poor decisions any more. Ratepayers are sick of paying for Team Hill’s re-election campaign. How do we stop the rot?
Parson Blossomnose says:
Reckon a visit from the Workplace health Safety wallahs along with the Health Inspector might be due for the chef of the year. Mr Hastie seems to have a bit of a problem with cleanliness in the kitchen, and open fires are generally regarded with great caution by the rest of the industry. But then, that might not be grime or worse he’s smearing on himself, maybe one of those squid took great exception to being ‘barely cooked and reassembled’ and had a natural reaction of revenge. Well, that’s what I ink, anyway.
OW says:
Think Mr. Hastie should be more worried about a visit from the PC Nazis rather than the Health department. “Blackface’ is not very popular these days. Just ask that Canadian fellow.
Critical says:
The question that I ask myself and the community should be asking is “If Mullet and her councillors were legally and ethically governing this city before the Belcarra legislation, why are they reacting to Belcarra the way they currently are?”
A very reasonable point … up to a point. All local government councillors and mayors have been saddled with these laws after the fact and in mid-term, any donations covered by the Belcarra laws were made when they were legal. As said in the blog, this busted arse government couldn’t competently draft a request for a cup of coffee without fucking it up. When legislation raises more questions than provide answers for guidance, it should stay on the drawing board until they get their act (literally, their Act) together.
Memory Man says:
Which reminds us of the stadium move to the CBD.
One can only hope the stadium will result in a major boost to Palmer St businesses. But why would it? The stadium will have its own eatery and various food outlets. A day out at the football won’t be cheap, so can’t see how people will suddenly open their wallets in numbers that will work any meaningful magic. Palmer St is close to 650m+ from the stadium. City Lane is 550m. In any case, 12 games a year + say 2 concerts. That’s 14 events, with say a bump-in / bump-out of 2 hours either side … we are talking 4 x 14 = 56 hours of dining / drinking time … barely a drop in the ocean, I’m afraid.
Peddling totally unexamined or investigated false hope is misguided at best, cruel at worst, but when it is done in venal self-interest, as the Bulletin does, it is hateful. But at least this report shows people are starting to suspect they’ve been massively conned.
Westie says:
And of course, any gain at Palmer Street will be balanced by a loss to the eateries at Cannon Park.
Boy-oh-boy, you can’t fault the Daily Astonisher iditor Jenna Cairney for chutzpah … she’s got more front than Clive Palmer doing a belly flop.
Ms Cairney has the ingenuous gall to prissily ask in another addled iditorial ‘ … one has to wonder what has the council been doing for the two years the stadium has been under construction?’
A much more pertinent question for the Townsville community is where the hell has the Townsville Bulletin been – NOT JUST during the construction phase but during the prior bulldozing manipulations to foist this white elephant on both Townsville and the state taxpayers.
Unalloyed and totally unexamined praise and stifled debate is EXACTLY where this busted-arse uncaring and irresponsible Murdoch rag has been.
To the greatest degree, you and the Holt Street counting house masters wanted The Bulletin to be a player, rather than a responsible observer leading community debate, so you consistently filled your pages with bum kissing the likes of Lancini and Mayor Mullet in the cowardly interests of trying to back a winning horse for your advertising department.
Well, Jenna, you and your immediate predecessors have backed Fine Cotton, a donkey painted up to look like a winner.
And now, as ever a day late and a dollar short, you trot out sanctimonious drivel about the council not doing anything about the parlous state of Palmer Street (and the CBD). There’s not much they could’ve done in actual legal by-laws, which aren’t the doddle to enact you stupidly suggest they are.
BUT THERE SURE IS A LOT YOU COULD’VE BEEN FUCKING WELL DOING IN THE INTERESTS OF THE COMMUNITY WHICH YOU CONSISTENTLY LIE ABOUT ‘BEING ALL FOR.’
First the Bulletin claimed that the stadium would catalyse all manner of miracles. It hasn’t and won’t, but that’s besides the point. In this nonsensical editorial it ponders what council has been doing for the past 2 years, during Stadium constriction, while Palmer St faded away ….
It’s fading away in large part because households are under financial stress, and aren’t spending like they used to. Total disposal income in Townsville is way below what it was during the city’s last boom (2011), add to which is high household debt (and probably a relatively large proportion of negative equity), and you’ve got a situation where people just aren’t spending on restaurants.
Councils can’t really do much for Palmer St. The decades of failure on the cbd is a case in point.
The editorial also paints an unrealistically rosy picture of Palmer St’s past, suggesting that until recent times it was a restaurant and boutique Mecca. Nonsense. Restaurants never really went past the first roundabout, and only had to be adequate to survive – none were or are ‘amazing’, what tosh – and while a little more vibrant than today’s sad case, Palmer vStreet’s woes have been caused because households in the past were living it up on credit-fuelled good times.
Yep, easy to make money when lots of $$ floating around, but Townsville has a very low level of business talent so doesn’t take long for that to show when things change. Council have done nothing but most of the businesses themselves were piss poor operators with no fundamentals in business, they merely leveraged equity in real estate to fund a poorly run business and lost the lot when things get tough. Even now I don’t think many in the city area would have worked out how to leverage the stadium patronage through their front door, they simply don’t have the talent, what a wasted opportunity.
No More Dredging says:
‘Pie, I read in Crikey today some economic and unemployment numbers which make the stadium seem like an even bigger elephant:
“Our rate is much higher than economies like Germany, the US, UK and New Zealand, where sub-5% and even sub-4% unemployment is the norm.
Worse, our jobs growth is now being driven entirely by the public sector, fuelled by government spending in education, health and social care: in the three months to August, ABS data shows, the economy put on a net 64,000 jobs — including 64,600 health and social care jobs and 82,000 education jobs. Major private sector employers like retail and construction are shrinking, and manufacturing is in freefall. It lost 37,000 jobs in the August quarter alone, seasonally adjusted, despite a bipartisan revival of Australia’s traditional protectionism in areas like anti-dumping and defence manufacturing.”
And yet, the tourism sector in Townsville is a little bright spot with Magnetic Island businesses, including the ferries and barges, so busy they don’t have time to count their money – if the TBully is to be believed.
Always a question, that last one.
Alahazbin says:
Did you see the estimation on the number of people that will use the bus service to the stadium?
450 to 900 people. Out of a crowd of 25,000 – WOW!
No, where was that? Not doubting, just asking.
I think that was in Saturday’s Astonisher tucked away in small piece. I went looking for you, but I had thrown the rag out.
Can anybody help the Pie on here?
fwyp says:
Hi Pie,
Re TCC Workplace Health and Safety. As an oldie whose legs are getting a touch rusty, I was visited by two very active teenage granddaughters from Down South recently. To accompany them on one of their usual forays around the city, I had to follow them around the “goat track” which winds around the top peak of Castle Hill, at night.
What a scary event. There is no direct lighting, the concrete steps, where there are any, are of differing heights and widths, there is quite a lot of track over exposed rocks, etc which are difficult to negotiate. But the worst is the fence, which in some cases is just a single pipe with nothing at the lower levels to stop any kids from falling through.
If someone in authority was to conduct a risk analysis, my guess is that it would be immediately shut down pending upgrading.
In the meantime, would be advising people with teenage granddaughters to not go near the track … and at night! What were you thinking?
But your points on safety are valid, although a strong measure of personal responsibility and risk aversion should be expected from sensible folk..
Achilles says:
How times have changed, my granddaughters should be able to access any location in TSV, without fear nor apprehension.
I used to not lock my doors; and now new police to capture and lock up the vermin parading as victims, wont be here for another year.
Radiohead says:
Yep there health and safety department are not very smart or really care about there staff either. My comment last week about the TCC employee from 2020 vision department who whinged enough to change the rubbish collection in Ogden st because she wants her sleep, didn’t even go to a risk assessment. Now trucks have to block the whole street off to empty bins at heron st. Only after 7am when it’s peak time for the busses and people going to work in that bottle neck street. Can’t wait for sunbus to get revenge for mayors comments early this year and wanting to get rid of them.
Dave of Kelso says:
Signs throughout WA national parks:
“Your safety is our concern, but YOUR responsibility. ”
I think that is the correct approach.
For some strange reason “they” or someone has consistently tried getting the goat track shut for years for at least 10 years. It’s part of operation “shut down australia” , if it’s not trying to actively shut down local places its trying and successfully shutting international destinations such as ayers rock or mount warning in NSW.
They successfully shut the road across Townsville common recently so that was a massive victory against the tourism industry , huzzah! Castle hill is a major tourist destination in Townsville, why is there this consistent push to close it ?????? No doubt there will be calls to shut the strand to the public for ” safety concerns “.
First we’ve heard of calls for Castle Hill to be shut down. Vaping the wrong stuff again, Guy?
Some time ago, 5 years maybe, in a fit of righteousness, the cyclists and walkers actually called for cars to be banned on the Castle Hill road, mornings and evenings when these lycra clad Bolsheviks would take their exercise.
It was in the Asstoisher.
Pauline (The Plagiarist) Pants Down says:
Lycra clad bolsheviks, Mr Kelso? Please explain!
I regret that the phrase ‘lycra clad Bolsheviks’ has nothing to do with those who frequently Hernando’s Hideaway, and the excitement that may follow.
It refers to those pricks on their pushbikes, who expect all to keep well clear of them while they cycle in the middle of the carriageway or thereabouts. These pricks have no concept of, “keep left .”
Enough of that Pauline, now back to Hernando’s and the things that excite………..right now it is Tom Lehrer’s The Masochism Tango.
Ducks Nuts says:
Well the Strand has been shut due to shark sightings, goat track must be next…
Due to goat sightings I presume.
Le petit fromage says:
Rumour has it that TCC currently has no one dedicated in the crucial roles of chief procurement officer and chief safety officer. Both are being done by others with different substantive roles.
Are you stating fact or rumour … your second sentence is a statement.
If its a fact, stop being cute, leave the tired old literary conceits to The ‘Pie.
And I’m told that the City Safe Officer position in the beleaguered Community Development section is vacant also, not that this probably matters as the City isn’t any safer after a person was appointed to this position. Another one of Mullet’s 2016 election commitment which doesn’t seem to have had any viable outcomes except spending ratepayers money.
Just on Mullet’s 2016 election commitments, has anyone looked at them to see how many have been kept and what their outcomes on the City have been.
Wow wonder how much tcc spent on advertising that stupid hard rubbish collection in the very first ad break in play of grand final tonight. Let’s advertise at a premium rate to tell everyone to make your kerbside your own rubbish dump. Wonder if Jamie durie will be in next set of ads???
Lev says:
Full disclosure, I think Jenny Hill will win the next council election. But is any serious challenger going to step forward? Assuming most of December and January are viewed as a write off, that leaves the rest of October and November or February, which seems too late. Anyone have some educated guesses or even insight?
Fishframe says:
I have it on (good?) authority that a local business operator backed by some very well heeled non party aligned chaps will be making an announcement very shortly. This local business identity is extremely well known and I was surprised to hear that they would even contemplate the hassle of being a Mayor considering what this person is worth. Would be nice to have a option to vote for someone who knows what they are doing and doesn’t have any skeletons in the cupboard.
And why won’t you share?
Could someone please explain why with all this striking for climate change by the young looking for a holiday, do we still have carbon emissions producing Fire in the Sky and Townsville must take the crown for the most unsynchronised traffic lights in Australia.
Well, that seems to cover everything.
Good old Rugby League, proving itself to be the amateur hour, chicken shit run game many think that it is, what an embarrassment.
Woodduck says:
Well they did hire Peter Beattie, NRL may never recover from his stupidity.
Duckie, Peter Beattie is chairman of the ARL. I don’t think the NRL had anything to do with his selection.
Although I agree with you on his qualifications.
He is a ‘post turtle’
Al, this is what I was on about. Biography:
Mr Peter Beattie was appointed Chairman of the Australian Rugby League Commission in February 2018.
Pretty obvious isn’t it?
It’s MONTY.
Peter Cattaneo says:
That’d be the Full Monty of course.
What ever happened to the money owed by Jamie Durie’s Company, JPD Media and Design, after going into Voluntary Administration? Before Townsville rate payers hand over hundreds of thousands of dollars to him shouldn’t we do our due diligence and make sure he is a fit and proper person for the job?
The Styx River says:
Belcarra (Irish: Baile na Cora, meaning “town of the confluence”) is a village in County Mayo, Ireland about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) south-east of the county Town of Castlebar. Confluence; means an act or process of merging, or ‘the junction of two rivers’. So, could the term Belcarra actually mean two rivers of shit (State and Local Government) that meet at the one junction, in Brisbane? Who knows, but at least it is fun watching the shonky Councillors and Mayors running around shitting themselves, and rightly so. Most of these grubs have had it too good for to long and many have become very rich by rorting the system. Hopefully some of their wings have been clipped.
When Jenny comes marching home again, hurrah, hurrah,
There’s many a man wakes up at night
And thinks to himself in a terrible fright,
Is his name in the book or will he be all right?
When Jenny comes marching home.
When Jenny first sat in the mayor’s chair, hurrah, hurrah,
When Jenny first tried out the mayor’s chair,
She never seemed to really care
But her eyes and her ears were everywhere
Now Jenny’s come marching home.
Now when Jenny finds all the money’s spent, hurrah, hurrah
Jenny looks after her friends even if they’re bent, hurrah, hurrah
When Jenny finds all the money’s spent,
She’ll wonder where all the people went,
It’s a hell of a life for a president
When the people go marching home.
Frequent flyer says:
Went to Cairns over the long weekend and made a point of walking around its CBD and eating street (esplanade) to see how it compares to Townsville. Could find only one vacant shop, the restaurants were doing a roaring trade, and there was construction and redevelopment going on everywhere. Cairns is booming while Townsville slides further into the mire. And to think, they haven’t got Jamie Drurie to help them spruce up the place. Up there trees the council plants are actually watered regularly and cared for, unlike Townsville where the council plants trees, then leaves them to die, before planting new ones. Our rates at work.
Did you see the flying fox colony outside the old Cairns City Council chambers on Lake St.
No, not a single fox in sight.
If that’s the case, then TCC & CTRC better ring CRC and find out how the got rid of them. I was there first week of September and there was a whole colony with signs warning the public not to pick any up that fall out of the fig trees that they roost in.
Well we made it in the top 10.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/motoring/motoring-news/the-australian-suburbs-where-your-car-is-more-likely-to-be-stolen/news-story/788fe26a3b438128c8871481fd220f51
Old Tradesman says:
Good to see that Federal initiatives with defence are creating jobs, jobs, jobs especially in relation to the Singapore Deal in the Townsville region, all we get from our local and state reps is more crime and artistic impressions of things like unfunded battery factories.
The (Mostly) Civil Engineer says:
Spluttered through my cornflakes at Mayor Mullet being widely interviewed and commenting on the ASMTI facility, along with the corresponding images of fellow Council types and all the QG hangers-on.
This project is a federally-administered one, using Singaporean cash and has absolutely nothing to do with TCC and only peripherally (due to a few minor approvals) within the remit of the State.
It’s hard enough to have Jenny pretending that the stadium and Haughton pipeline are in some way TCC projects – admittedly the State and Federal $ for the pipeline are sloshing through Council and a vast amount is sticking to the walls before the remainder washes out to the poor bastards who actually have to deliver it – but she and the local QG MPs have reduced themselves to mongrel camp dogs chasing after anything tasty.
If we stop for a moment and look at what TCC has actually paid for and delivered it is an incredibly short list. There’s the fantabulous CBD bus stop, some tacky and already dying gardens on Nathan Street, and not much else.
Would it be too much to ask the Chamber of Commerce, TEL or the Bullsheet to start a full list?
That is what makes me think the stench in this town is much much deeper than any of us realise.
Why is the Mullet at this event, who was the grovelling organiser that invited her to what is a federal Govt project and why did the LNP allow her to attend, rank amateurs, wake up Phillip Thomson, you are in Govt, start acting like it.
Mundingbird says:
Did you see her Radiance on the news bleeting ‘the reason there is no TSV-SIN flights is due to a lack of aircraft’ ? Really???
Simple word dyslexia – she meant passengers. And Her Radiance? Don’t think so, not by a long shot.
One up for the Townsville City Council. One down for Bazza Taylor’s Enema … sorry … Emanate Legal.
The Mater Hospital has failed in its attempt to overturn Townsville City Council’s approval for a new 22 bed private hospital and health facilty on the site of the old state school on the corner of Ingham Road and Sturt Street.
Delivering her decision in Cairns today, Planning and Environment Court Judge Tracy Fantin was emphatic that the project by developer Lautaret Pty Ltd should proceed on a number of grounds, which means The Mater will no longer have a monopoly on private overnight hospital care in Townsville if the plans go ahead.
Here is how Judge Fantin summarised her decision, which comes after almost a year’s deliberation.
. “In conclusion, there are a number of “relevant matters” pursuant to s 45(5)(b) that support approval of the proposed development:
1. There is a need for the proposed development;
2. It facilitates the protection of a place of cultural heritage, in the form of conservation and re-use of the magnificent heritage building which has been vacant and unused for many years;
3. It facilitates and encourages investment into new health facilities and provides for anticipated growth in health and professional services;
4. It encourages economic resilience and economic diversity;
5. It improves the relationship between buildings and the street, and provides an improved visual amenity along Ingham Road and Sturt Street; and
6. It provides more intensified development close to the principal centre (CBD) and supplies health infrastructure in a coordinated, efficient and orderly way.
. [ In doing so, it also advances the purposes of the Act. Conclusion
. [407] The proposal has substantial merit. It is for a well designed building to accommodate a development of a kind and at a location which is generally consistent with the relevant planning provisions. It would facilitate the restoration and adaptive reuse of a significant heritage building. It would deliver greater access to health services to the people of regional Queensland. It would result in increased competition, choice and convenience, in the provision of hospital services for the Townsville region. It would provide a needed, state of the art medical facility in an appropriate location.
. [408] There are no relevant matters which warrant refusal. There are a number of relevant matters that strongly support approval. Indeed, the public interest would be considerably advanced by approval of the proposed development.
. [409] The proposed development should be approved subject to conditions. I will hear from the parties as to orders effecting these reasons and conditions of approval.”
And The ‘Pie found it interesting the perennial proce gouger Bazza Taylor’s Emanate Legal (Enema Legal to all his friends on the Magpie blog) represented the Mater. The determination of costs, which which will be eye-watering since the Mater’s appeal against the Council and Lauteret has involved six barristers including three QCs, will be of added interest. Looks like Bazza’s losing streak continues.
What a great decision, and a great outcome, except for Bazzz of course.
NQ Gal says:
I’m still baffled as to why the Mater with 200 odd beds, wanted to shut down a facility that will have 22 beds!
Speaking of medical facilities, wasn’t there one slated for the Stuart Drive/Bruce Highway corner some time ago? Given the amount of water that was flowing through there in February, it was wise that it didn’t proceed.
Frequent flyer one major difference between Cairns and Townsville is that the Cairns Region Council actually has a difined Parks and Gardens Section which has the responsibility of maintaining all of the Councils parks, gardens and open spaces from Mirriwinni in the south to Ellis Beach in the north and this section is staffed by fully qualified horticulturalists and trained gardeners with a dedicated budget.
A number of years ago under Mullet’s rein, the TCC Parks and Gardens Section was merged with the Infrastructure Services. Most horticulturalists and gardeners left council in disguist as untrained Infrastructure Services staff who basically maintained infrastructure, roads etc were suddenly also maintaining gardens, parks and open spaces etc. Since this occurrence and the maintenance of a large section of the cities parks, gardens and open spaces being contracted out, the cities parks etc have steadily died and become one bloody great mess.
I’ve been told that the private contract isn’t even overseen by a council officer so it’s a matter if the grass is mown, it’s OK and payments continue. If the contract was supervised then why are the gardens at the end of Victoria Bridge dead, Central Park garden beds and lawns barely surviving, median strips on Bowen Rd, Charters Towers Rd (outside Carmichael Ford and Railway Station) and Railway Avenue dead or near to.
All major entries to the City and CBD, oh what welcome to visitors.
I’m certain that Councillors must drive around the City with massive blinkers on and if not, then they just don’t bloody care about the cities appearance but more about the oversized salary cheques.
Recently my car got showered in stones when one idiot was mowing the weeds poking through the edges of the artificial grass on a traffic island on Charters Towers Rd. No idea.
Yes! And Parks staff were not allowed to use the term ‘black & green” when referring to people within the new department.
Jenny Wren says:
Critical, thank you, that explains a lot of the lamentable changes in Anderson Gardens I have seen in the last few years. The garden people seem obsessed with trimming all low branches up to knee height so the poor bower birds have no low growth to shield their bowers and the little birds no where to hide. The water levels in the ponds are sometimes much too low or else the water runs all weekend. For some reason they are not refilling the lake in the Palmetum either.
When newly planted mango and citrus trees started showing signs of disease nothing was done, a gardener of any type would have been in there cutting out the bad branches to stop it spreading.
Street plantings seem to be left to die without watering, what a waste. Then there are the contract mowers running around in Mindham Park floodway mowing the dust.
As for artificial grass full of cigarette buts, don’t get me started. The whole town looks so shabby it is heart breaking.
Jenny Wren, we are now in the third 5yr cycle of private contractors replacing the Parks Dept doing the ground maintenance in Annandale. It started with Spotless (P&O group) then Citiwide (a division of Melbourne City Council). Now we have Fulton Hogan (a road construction company). If you walk around the bikeways and see the quality of their work, it just reflects what the rest of the town is like.
Don’t start me on the potholes.
Didn’t see any in Cairns.
Mullet should get her group of stooges back to what council is supposed to do rather than spending our rates on entertainment events and celebrity tv gardners.
The Townsville Eats events are a good example. Staged in the CBD, these pop-up feasts are popular with the public but take business away from the CBD and Palmer St eateries. Then there’s the Jazz (and seafood) festival. It used to be staged along a closed section of Palmer Street (where the few remaining restaurants are situated) allowing diners to enjoy the music. But this year it moved to the dead end of Palmer St, providing little or no benefit to the permanent eateries on the eat street.
Is council he’ll bent on driving the existing restaurants out of business?
Another TCC fail, in my opinion, is the long gone Riverfest. Over time the festival had less and less to do with the Ross River, and what might be possible, and finally ditched to make way for the V8 Super Pests.
Polythene Pam says:
My I remind you all that today is John Lennon’s birthday – he would have been 79.
You may not.
Kingswood says:
Was outside the Dakota building in NY 2 years ago, saw the laneway and looked up at Yoko and his apartment (she’s still there) and wondered what other songs he’d have made had he survived. Didnt think much of him as a person but the music was great.
J.B says:
Today in 1988, “Dark Side Of The Moon” by Pink Floyd fell out of the US Billboard’s Hot 200 Album Chart after a record 741 weeks.
Speaker of dark, I read that “ dark Tourism” is a big thing nowadays, Chernobyl tours, that sort of thing, people can’t get enough of it, might be something the Dudley’s could look into for Townsville and it’s struggling tourism sector.
Brain Damage says:
Dark Side Of The Moon – in my humble opinion is the best album ever made. I’m my late 50’s and I still play it weekly. Sadly the old days of smoking a spliff to accompany said Album is no longer ‘acceptable’ in society. Not that I give a shit about that.
P.S Another legend, Ginger Baker from Cream kicked the bucket this week. Brilliant musician. R.I.P
Dutch Reverend says:
I believe it is incumbent on the many Climate / Extinction activists to lead by example instead of demanding that everyone follows their lop eyed mantra and just do as they say, they should immediately, ditch their mobile devices, computers and have the power disconnected from their homes. They should then follow this up by never owning or commuting in a gasoline or diesel fueled vehicle. The list goes on.
Steve, Belgian Gardens says:
You might not have heard, but you can power mobile devices, computers, homes and cars with renewable energy these days.
Silly argument by both of you. FFS.
I agree. The point being made is the other extreme. How dare I. I would bet my bottom dollar though that the activists don’t throw out a solar panel to charge all their devises.
Why not? 30% of Queensland households and growing have solar. Who’s more likely to be included in that number than someone concerned about the climate?
Ummm, perhaps, or perhaps just as likely is someone who is concerned about the price gouging of the power companies. In fact, a rough guess would have that as the primary motivation of maybe 95% of solar installers (with the considerable installation outlay justified by environmental virtue signalling.)
And change the world with virtue signalling!
J. B says:
Hey Pie. I emailed a couple of photos taken from maiden hair track this morning of the fire at sun metals.
Probably a warranty claim for RCR.
Yup received those, pretty rough quality, but thanks. Two questions: what is maiden hair track, and what in this instance, is a solar fire (as you say in your email)?
Yeah. Sorry. Taken with my phone.
Looked like a tire fire to me but apparently it was a transformer oil fire for the solar farm.
Lot’s of chatter on fake brag about backpacker’s pulling in and terminating cable’s for the solar power. RCR have gone belly up of course.
Maiden hair is the southern part of the goat track. I’ve always liked that name. Can’t put my finger on what it means though..
Pie , smart old bird , breaking the 200 comment barrier weekly would that now label you as an “ influencer “?. Based on what I have picked up from reading your blog for a few years would AFL, wine, resturants, amusing anecdotes, be your forte ?.
Perhaps, but we have many a repeat performer in the comment section and indeed, among the 200 is a large number of Magpie replies. So the Bulletin need not quake just yet, while it enjoys its small tight knit group of repeat offenders in its letters/text pages.
If there is ever an award for shoddy journalism, a contender of the past week would be the appallingly bad reporting of the death of a five year old child, accidentally run over a by a car.
Any child’s death is a tragedy in any community, but a reporter’s job is to present the facts alone to let each reader react appropriately. Surely there should be some dignity for the family in the most terrible hours of their lives. And it is certainly no place for florid pathos such as we have been treated to in this instance.
The Magpie does not wish to pillory the reporters, but rather the penny-pinching lack of oversight and restraint which once would have been brought to such stories by an experienced sub editor. The use of language used in this instance is sub-Facebook level, with its juvenile adjectival overkill such as ‘tragically killed’ – as versus what? – and ‘sadly died’ (same question) and the statement that the police were ‘meticulously investigating’ the circumstances, as versus what? An earlier report by the same writers said the driver (who had been turning out of a parking lot at the time of the accident) ‘did not flee the scene’. That is just plain silly, and also hints at the possibility of fault. And the lack of sensitivity by quoting the local Imam’s description of an hysterical, grieving mother’s frenzied words in the face of the loss of her child is also a question that a good sub would have at least pondered.
The Bulletin clearly believes that readers need sign posts to register their emotions, which in truth will vary from ‘deeply affected’ to ‘noted in passing’, so iditor Jenna Cairney backed up the paper’s usual grasp of unreality by stating that the boy’s death ‘has broken Townsville’s collective heart’. What??? And a lot of other rambling tosh pandering to what she fancies is city-wide recreational grief. No wonder reporters don’t have any sense of proportion at the Bulletin, when they follow the example of the editor herself so lacking any sense of proportion.
And the ‘puff piece’ on page 3 advertising subscription to the paper.
“which allows you to enjoy Townsville’s best journalism”
Well, not exactly a stellar field in which to compete. Local TV and the financial restraints thereupon sure ain’t anything ton write home about either. All staffed by hair-tossing girlies and wannabe metrosexual hair slickers.
J jones says:
Collective heart? You don’t speak for me lassie – at any time
Grumpy says:
Hyperbole!!
Best thing ever!!
Isn’t that where they play football?
I’ll be plucked says:
Pie, in case you missed it – the Trumpet did it again, making comment on the Turkey military action against the Kurds. Now that US troops have been ‘taken out of harms way/withdrawn’, (the Kurds were a US ally and US troops were moved without any consultations with the Kurds) Turkey is in attack mode.
In his press conference Trumpet said that if Turkey did not act in a ‘humane way’, they would be hit with US sanctions. When pressed on what ‘humane’ was, in a war conflict situation, he said we would all have to see how it all played out!!! Pluck me this a is very, very dangerous man making equally dangerous decisions………our Govt had expressed ‘deep concerns’, whatever that means….,
Hey, Just to make sure The ‘Pie has got it out there, in case …. if/when Trump is impeached, the evidence may be enough to turf out the bible bashing hypocritical VP Mike Pence as well …. so guess what under the rules …. welcome Acting President …. Nancy Pelosi.
That would make a few heads explode on the right over there. They’d better tighten the wingnuts.
MickNQ says:
Is this an option for Maggie https://bbc.in/35eFgvn
Sorry Scott Stewart , new office estimated $100,000 a year rent and $223,456 fit out when nearly 2,000 Townsville families are still displaced and many residents and business can’t get insurance doesn’t pass the pub test and is abhorrent . To simply say “ I don’t know the costs because other Queensland Government departments are paying for it “ is a cop out and playing the electorate as mugs .
Private Cupcake (aka ALP state ‘member’ for Townsville) has well and truly run his course. By election time we will have endured 6 years of his head nodding behind others, decreases in property prices, investors abandoning the city in droves, out of control crime, totally failed ‘bail houses’ (more like kiddy kids play-pens) etc. and now he ‘says’ he knows nothing about this new office, which has come at great and disgraceful high cost to us mug taxpayers while others in our community continue to do it tough with no end in sight.
Well, he really knows ‘nothing about nothing’, evidenced by his inept performance, his failure on numerous occasions to stand up for our community, preferencing the ALP party line – we don’t need another 4 years on top of what we have already endured.
I wonder if the project (office move) stacked up
“Financially & Environmentally”
The Stockman says:
Dolan Hayes must have had the day off yesterday.
Brisbane firm carries out fit out of Private Cupcakes new office, that is how you create local jobs, jobs, jobs.
But to be fair, that really is nothing to do with Cupcake, but his feigning ignorance of details in this matter says it all about this political hole in the air.
City dweller says:
I’m assuming you have read the front page today. What a load is shit. Firstly the useless waste of money for an MP that not to many people know who he is little own know what he’s done for the city, then our labor mayor “NEEDING” to move on the parkies because the stadiums opening soon. 200k plus to build an office???? And we people and families still waiting for accommodation from state government. Of course he knows how much it costs. Now for the mayor! How many years now have these parkies been there? And how many years have councils tried to move them? I’ll tell you exactly, it’s the same time the mullet has been in public life. Mooney and Tyrell tried, unsuccessfully, the tsv first tried, no results. Now all of a sudden a plan is needed. Just like the climate protesting idiots she’s completely out of touch. She is only trying to re elect herself. The only way to stop them coming back is to demolish the outreach centre there in Dean park. Or chop there legs off. Sorry but to late jenny, 25 years on council and 8 now as mayor. How many other high flyers in the city are you trying to keep happy???
As if by clockwork, the Bulletin continues its campaign to soften up the populace for the stadium underperforming on exaggerated (false hope-inducing) claims. This time, the stadium will fall short because of a handful of parkies….. this was never mentioned when the stadium was peddled as the only snake oil the joint needed. Yet, if it was such a big risk, you have to wonder where the Bulletin was 3 years ago?
You forgot about Captain Snooze’s ’10 Point Plan’ when he was mayor.
All the elites who live in metro queys apartments are the ones the mayor is looking after now. I’ve been told that staff who enter the 2 streets, Ogden and henron, now face disciplinary action from management if it’s before 7am to empty rubbish bins apparently. I thought the bylaws is 6am. Be an interesting hearing in court if anyone was sacked because they did there job. Why are these people given special treatment? So question is who are the elites and how is the TCC meant to do there job anywhere else if everyone gets there way like these knobs.
Sorry to have to say this, but The ‘Pie simply does not believe that, but certainly will if you or anybody can produce email or any other documentary evidence that this is so. And if it can be produced, don’t just send it into the Nest, the CCC or an associated agency would be greatly interested.
Considering 7am AEDT time is 6am AEST (Townsville) time it may become a complex legal case if anyone challenged it. Especially if the dump truck drivers allege they live south of the border and just visit here for work. The TCC has already set a precedent with a FIFO employee – chief procurement officer, in the past.
Hmmm, weekend recreational consumption started already, mate?
A touchy situation coming up by the looks of it, how to move the homeless people away from sitting around under Jonathan Thurstons statue, sounds like a job for Jenny Hill, decked out with baseball bats and pepper spray.
If the stadium is only used 14 times year (give or take – and don’t quote me, I read it in a local rag) who cares who is sleeping in the park down the road on the other 351 days?
The ‘Well Duh’ answer to that, NMD, is that we should ALL care about who is sleeping down the road on the other 351 days, and not for any reasons to do with the stadium, more to do with the responsible addressing of a very complex and sad problem. Absolutely nothing to do with stadium, and surprised that someone of your far left advocacy and extremism would suggest such a callous ‘let them eat cake’ view.
‘Pie, I know about the “sad and complex problem”, I acknowledge the many attempts over decades to “move the homeless people away from sitting around” (as Cantankerous has put it) and I can see that tut tutting and hand wringing have no effect whatsoever. I just don’t see that the construction and grand opening of the stadium should or will herald the beginning of a new campaign to move the ‘parkies’ along. And I don’t pretend to know about anything that will change the situation. So, no moral high ground here and no virtue signalling necessary.
The ‘Pie’s point was the conflation of two separate issues that are wholly discrete … stadium and homeless.
Droopy draws says:
And a mat.
WTF, Freya Nolin, 21, from WA, appealed her sentence of $10000 imposed by a Bowen magistrate, after she stopped rail traffic for 3 hours. Judge Ian Dearden said the magistrate erred and ordered the police to pay her $1800 and reduced her fine to $1000 which was referred to SPER, so after all this she is now $800 in the black.
Mangrove Jack says:
Correction OT, the $1800 was for QPS to pay the Appellants costs.
But it does raise the question of why a 21year old WA Student on a Youth Allowance was in Bowen taking part in the protest.
I would wonder exactly how many of the protesters are on some form of Taxpayer funded allowance, whether it be youth allowance or social security of some sort.
One legged tap dancer says:
Here’s an idea. Why not move the Dean Park homeless out to the former old people’s home at Pallarenda, which I understand is owned by Lozza Lancini?
After all, he was the one who put pressure on government to fund the new stadium.
Not sure OLTD, but that could be crown land that the Methodist church was granted a lease in the mid 1960’s.
NQGal says:
Here’s another idea – how about the clans stop their in fighting and actually build some housing and support services at the Cranbrook reserve?
Nope! Too far from the pub.
Did anyone else spot the screaming midget back in town during the week? What unfinished work would see him grace us with his presence?
Yes I see his posted pics on social media with the usual Labor lackies around town, guess we will see more of him as the election draws closer, going to be a long 169 days by the looks of it.
Droopy, maybe he needs to attend a mediation re his alleged bullying at the TCC? Or perhaps he was on leave from his position and is back now, or……….
Maybe he’s done a Durie and has been recalled for a bullying ‘how to’ tour.
Been thinking about the Bully’s recent coverage about CBD projects falling behind and the lack of life on Palmer Street, and I’m increasingly of the view that it’s all about setting up the argument that when the stadium opens and there’s no meaningful impact on CBD and Palmer St business, the Bully can claim it’s all because of the delayed boardwalk etc rather than the more obvious (and accurate) explanation – namely that the expectations of significant boost were always based on dubious assumptions and wishful thinking.
Hmmm, been crystal-balling again ‘Memory’??? Can you have a quick look and tell me the winner of race 3 in Sydney today? Thank you, Plucker.
Surprising no one has paused to wonder why the really simple enabling infrastructure – like walkways and pedestrian bridges – for the stadium and CBD have not been started?
Our glorious CEO at council has deemed them not to be a priority.
Surely not building this access facilities in tandem with the stadium construction itself is like building a sub-division with no road entries. Perhaps we should re-introduce the debate about the appropriateness of this city’s name. Maybe a bit unwieldy but Clusterfucksville would be about on the money.
Over this Hill mob says:
If only this council had any people looking at the bigger picture. Then we mightn’t have traffic detours scheduled to be in place during school days, but not in place in school holidays. Or food trucks in the same place and same time as ratepaying restaurants. Talk about Bogansville.
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Hillebrand, Franz
December 19th, 1920 (Bozen/South-Tirol, Austria)
January 8th, 1944 (Winnyzja/Ukrain, Soviet Union)
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Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes
Oberjäger (Corporal)
Gruppenführer 1. / Gebirgsjäger-Bataillon 94
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The following press article, taken from a Berlin newspaper of the date 22.06.1944, describes the Knight’s Cross action of Oberjäger Hillebrand as follows…
“East of Vinnitsa the Bolsheviks launched an attack with two battalions against the positions of the 1./Gebirgs-Jäger-Bataillon 94, in which Oberjäger Franz Hillebrand commanded a squad. The enemy concentrated their efforts on Hillebrand’s squad. 2 T-34s and 3 assault guns, followed by 400 riflemen, turned towards Hillebrand’s resistance nest. Despite the almost comically bad odds stacked against them, Hillebrand and his squad took up the fight. After the last man of his squad had fallen, he himself took up the machine-gun and engaged the Bolshevik attackers all on his own. He was able to hold them in check until, with the greatest devotion to duty, he became the last to die a heroes’ death. The fearless Oberjäger, who helped to secure a decisive victory for his Württemberg-Baden Gebirgsjäger-Division through his grim determination and courageous actions, was later awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross by the Führer.”
Awarded posthumously.
Ehrenblattspange des Heeres und Waffen-SS
Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse
- FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.
- THOMAS, FRANZ & WEGMANN, GÜNTER, Die Ritterkreuzträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht 1939-1945.
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Trade unions and radical right-wing populism
Peter Scherrer | 01 Oct 19 | Posted under: Ακροδεξιά , Συνδικάτα και κοινωνικά κινήματα
Facing a strengthened extreme and populist right in Europe, the trade unions can play an important role.
By Gerrit Burow CC BY 2-0
The summer break is over, political Brussels resumes parliamentary operation. We, the trade union movement, were spared any great shock from the elections to the European Parliament in May this year. The election result was noticeably behind what was feared in the camps of the democratic parties and also of the unions. The gains of the populist and far-right parties in the European elections are essentially the result of the “Lega” of Italian Matteo Salvini, the “Rassemblement National” of Marine Le Pen in France, the “Fidesz” party of the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the ruling party in Poland “Prawo i Sprawiedliwość” (PiS), the German “AfD” and the “Brexit” party of Nigel Farage in the United Kingdom. At present, the right wing extremist, populist and anti-European parties represent about a quarter of all MEPs. At national level, the last tentative success story for a far-right populist party was the German AfD, which did gain substantially in the regional Parliament of the state of Brandenburg (23.5%) and of the Saxony free state (27.5%). The recent general elections in Austria were a noticeable setback for the extreme right FPÖ but not a fundamental disaster.
Once again, migration and asylum policy, support for the “forgotten regions”, unemployment (especially among young people) and the fear of the negative effects of globalisation were the dominant themes in the election campaigns. The losers of the election nights, as so often across Europe, were the social-democratic / left-wing parties. It has been noted that significantly more men than women give their votes to right-wing populist parties.
Populists of the "little people"
Populist parties equate globalisation with the loss of national sovereignty (very visible during the Brexit debates), the liberalisation of the economy and the deregulation of industrial relations. Populism is directed in particular against the “elites benefiting from globalisation”. For populist parties, these elites find themselves in the ruling establishment, in the “Brussels bubble”, in the established parties, in the business elite, in the “mainstream media” and also in the “union bosses”. Populists present themselves as the lawyers of the “little people”.[1] To counter these threats, they are offering to retreat into the narrow confines of the nation, which guarantees solidarity through a supposed national identity. Xenophobia and more or less open racism are the propagandist/rhetorical glue that keeps their suggested solutions together.
Populists of all stripes have long since identified the European Union as a common enemy across Europe: it presumably triggers and reinforces national and regional disadvantages. The anti-European similarities are clearly visible in the elections to the European Parliament. It is claimed that the European Union needs to be reformed. In truth, however, populists want to downsize the Union and threaten even with exit. The shift of basic political, economic, social and financial skills back to the nation state unites populists across Europe. They reject the basic EU treaties on the single market and currency.
Significantly, populism also affects parts of the middle class. This makes it clear that it is not social decline and impoverishment that are the fuel of populism, but rather the fear of change and possible descent. In many questions of wealth distribution, infrastructure and participation, criticism of populist movements undoubtedly addresses real problems.
Role of The Trade Unions
Trade unions must lead the discussion on the future shape of the European internal market and globalization more openly and assertively. We see not only threats but also opportunities. Fair and sustainable globalisation can lead to a socially equitable increase in wealth among trading partners and in the countries of the European Union. But for that we need a fundamental policy change. The European Union, and in particular the European Parliament, as the legitimate representative of European citizens, has the task of setting rules for economic and social fairness and sustainability and demanding their enforcement across Europe.
The “prosperity promise” of the European Union must apply to all, not just the strong ones. In Germany, too, we have to admit that we are only well if our European neighbours are doing well too. There cannot be a lasting split in the Union between globalisation winners and globalisation losers. The project “justice in distribution” must start now, here and today. For example, campaigns such as the ETUC campaign “Europe needs a pay-rise” must be set up again and more decisively supported by national trade union organisations than ever before.[2] An excellent example on the sectoral level is the recently launched campaign „Togehter at Work“ of „industriAll“, the umbrella organisation of the manufacturing/raw material industries trade unions in Europe.[3]
Rural areas need special attention and help. Public services of general interest, access to education and participation in social developments must be available to all citizens, no matter where they live. An efficient and well-functioning public service is an indispensable pillar for a democratic society. Digitalisation can make many things easier. Access to modern means of communication has to be accessible for everybody. The objectives of regional policies must be set with the broad participation of stakeholders and actions implemented quickly – and their fulfillment must be monitored transparently. This transcends the framework of traditional regional policy, because it covers both the fields of action and of the actors as a whole. Trade unions need to readjust and strengthen their regional presence. Especially in the regions trade unions must be at the forefront and by this trade unions (and democracy in general) can build lasting credibility.
Because union members are not immune to xenophobic and nationalist propaganda, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and its institute (ETUI) have recently explored the question why “attractiveness” in particular right-wing populist parties has grown.[4] The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has very recently published an interesting study on EU Trade Union Strategies to address trade union members’ and workers’ growing propensity to vote for right-wing populists and nationalists.[5] It clearly underlines the need for trade unions to be more active and in direct contact with their members regarding the means (i.e. racism, xenophobia, exclusion…) populist parties apply to gain attraction.
Various Strategies
Looking at the strategies and actions that trade unions apply to counteract the rise of Popular Radical Right (PRR) parties, we see considerable differences among the workers’ organisations. Some concentrate on counteracting populist parties’ social and economic policy, which is often extremely hostile to the working population. Others follow the “defining limits and open door” strategy, which means that there is a defined red line of “no cooperation whatsoever” (regarding xenophobia/racism), but at the same time an open door for the ones who demand serious solutions for existing problems. In order to be effective and successful in the effort to push back populist right-wing extremist parties, all trade union levels must be networked. In order to operate such a network, European trade union structures are of particularly great importance. Both sectoral and cross-sectoral organisations are required to cooperate with each other and with their respective membership. The European Trade Union Institute can provide well-researched information and could serve as an organisation providing a discussion platform.
Despite social media, personal and face-to-face contact are of the utmost importance. It goes without saying that trade unions must address the media, public rallies, demonstrations and protests against xenophobia, racism and nationalist politics. At the same time, trade unionists, organisers, militants and works councils must take sides in the workplace, in companies and administrations against the exclusionist and misanthropic policies of right-wing populists.
Trade unions need to clarify their position on fair and sustainable globalisation and on a thorough political reform of the European Union. This must be the subject of daily trade union debate, education and public relations. It is not just about enforcing a “Social Europe”. Trade unions bear the responsibility for a proactive dialogue process for a new reform for Europe and its institutions. The 14th Congress of the ETUC (May 2019 in Vienna) provided an excellent platform for the discussion on a structural and fundamental overhaul of Europe. The political/social manifesto (ETUC-Manifesto 2019-2023), approved by the European trade union movement, is a solid foundation for our political action both at European but also at shop floor level. Let’s make freedom, solidarity and equality happen for all human beings in Europe!
First published at europa.blog
1] See: Philip Manow, in „Die Politische Ökonomie des Populismus“, Edition Suhrkamp, 2018.
[2]https://www.etuc.org/en/campaigns
[3]https://news.industriall-europe.eu/Article/366
[4] Internal Workshops and public conferences serve information and experience exchange, see: https://www.etui.org/News/Back-to-the-future-Trade-unions-need-a-positive-new-narrative-to-win-back-workers-votes
[5]https://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/our-work/publications-other-work/publications/trade-union-strategies-eu-address-trade-union-members-and-workers-growing-propensity-vote-right-wing-populists-and
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Large, mossy oak trees as far as the eye can see. Rooted firmly in two strict rows, yet their branches are free, gently arching over the simple dirt road between them.
This is what greets us upon arriving at the Wormsloe Historic Site.
It’s a scene that always comes to mind when I envision The South. And to think, we almost missed out on this classic view.
When I was planning our 3 day trip to Savannah, the Wormsloe plantation was not on my radar. I hadn’t heard of it at all until our tour guide at Bonaventure Cemetery recommended we go there.
It’s worth a visit for the alley of oaks alone, but if you’re looking to learn a little more about the history of Georgia, Wormsloe is a great place to spend an hour or two.
About Wormsloe Historic Site- A Brief History
The Wormsloe estate was the home of Noble Jones, an English colonist who arrived to the Georgia colony with James Oglethorpe in 1733.
In 1736, Jones leased 500 acres of land on the Isle of Hope from the colony’s trustees. He called his estate “Wormslow”, a name that was common back in Jones’ English homeland (the spelling was later changed).
Around 1737, Jones began building a fortified tabby house from which he could patrol the major waterway that flowed past his property, guarding against possible attacks from the Spanish.
Ruins of Noble Jone’s tabby house, the oldest standing structure in Savannah.
Jones later attempted to turned his estate into a productive plantation, planting a variety of crops. He had mixed results due to the sandy soil.
Besides developing the Wormsloe plantation, Noble Jones played a key role in the colony’s development. He commanded Georgia’s Northern Company of Marines, patrolling the waterways south of Savannah. Jones also served the colony as a constable, surveyor, treasurer and member of the governor’s council.
After Noble Jones’ death in 1775, Wormsloe was left to his daughter, who later passed it on to her brother. Over three centuries, ten generations of Jones descendants have lived at the Wormsloe plantation. To this day, the family still resides in a private residence built on the property in 1828.
In 1972, Jones’ descendants donated 822 acres of their property to the Nature Conservancy, which then sold the property to the State of Georgia. About 80 acres of the original plantation are still owned by descendants of Noble Jones.
Our Visit to Wormsloe Historic Site
Our visit to the Wormsloe Historic Site started the way most others do- by standing at the end of the avenue of oaks, staring down the path in awe.
I love oak trees, especially ones that are so old and big that they have grown to form a canopy. It’s always such a picture-perfect scene!
We could have just snapped a few photos from the end of the road and been on our way, but we decided to venture down the path to see what waited at the other end.
So, I attached my GoPro to the roof of our car and off we drove down Oak Avenue!
We slowly passed by more than 400 spectacular live oak trees, their Spanish moss draped branches shading the dusty road.
On and on the trees went, much farther than we were expecting. I can easily say this was the longest path of oak trees I have ever seen!
After passing through a white gate, it wasn’t much further until we reached the small museum, the starting point for exploring Wormsloe Historic Site.
A guided tour was just about to start, so we decided to join in since we didn’t know anything at all about Wormsloe.
The first place our guide took us to was the ruins of Noble Jones’ 5-room tabby house. Hardly anything remained but there were a few pieces of wall where you could get a close look at the tabby used in its construction.
Tabby is a mixture of oyster shells, lime, sand and water that was used as a type of concrete by Spanish settlers in North Carolina and Florida. Later, English colonists began using tabby in South Carolina and Georgia.
Close up view of the tabby mixture.
After visiting the ruins, we had a little nature walk along the shoreline of Jones’ Narrows, past the Jones family gravesite and on to the observation deck overlooking the narrows. Back in the 1700s, Jones’ Narrows was the main waterway for ships passing through the area.
The last stop on our tour of Wormsloe was the Colonial Life Area where we got to see a small wattle and daub house and learn about what was life was like here during colonial times.
And that was our visit to Wormsloe! While it was different than I expected (I was hoping to see an elegant plantation home), it still was a relaxing place to enjoy a walk in nature, while discovering a bit of local history along the way.
Tips for Visiting Wormsloe Historic Site
Wormsloe Historic Site is located on Georgia’s Isle of Hope, 8 miles southeast of Savannah’s historic district on Skidaway Road.
Admission to Wormsloe is $10.00 for adults, $9.00 for seniors (62+), $4.50 for youth (6-12) and $2.00 for children (under 6).
Wormsloe is open from 9:00 am- 5:00 pm, Tuesday-Sunday (closed Monday, except holidays).
Guided tours of Wormsloe Historic Site are at 10:00 am, 11:00 am, 2:00 pm and 3:00 pm.
If you love the oak trees at Wormsloe, we recommend visiting the Majestic Oak, an incredible tree not far from the Isle of Hope.
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It was a sad moment handing back the key
by Andy Leuterio | Jul 31, 2017
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For one week, Toyota Motor Philippines let me experience what it’s like to live with an 86 as a daily driver. I’ve driven this car several times in the past, and still consider it as a keeper. Most cars you just own for several years, others you keep and pass on to your kids one day.
It was a bit of a sad moment turning over the key to their company driver, and over the next 24 hours I went through the following withdrawal symptoms.
1. Wow… my own car feels so soft. And slow. And imprecise! Even in stock trim, an 86 is a hard-charging athlete compared to the average family car. The suspension is firm, the sidewalls are about as thick as a deck of cards, and the racing bucket seats really help you get that 'driving by the seat of your pants' sensation. And if you know what you’re doing, you can carve up some empty roads pretty quickly. The drivetrain is responsive without overpowering, the chassis feels hardwired to your brain. It would be almost criminal to own such a car and never even once bring it to the track.
After long stints in an 86, going back to a 'normal' car is like being hugged by mommy.
2. You really miss the sound. If I ever meet the engineers who designed the 86 exhaust system, I'd like to buy them a round of drinks. Not just the handling and performance characteristics but also the overall vibe are what define a sports car. With the 86, floor the throttle past 3,000rpm and the exhaust note changes. The throaty growl at low rpm turns into a husky bark that’s addictive, making you want to keep exploring the engine’s upper range. For a generation raised on the mythical sound and fury of vaunted Webber carbureted engines, the 86's thoroughly modern, flat-four engine (thanks, Subaru!) is a throwback to the good old '80s. It’s an aurgasm that can't be matched by an ordinary rice rocket no matter how much money you throw into the project. Aftermarket kits can make an 86/Subaru BRZ sound even burlier, but the stock setup is perfectly fine for setting the mood on the road.
3. Why is my stick shift so easy to use? Even though my daily driver is a manual, it takes patience and skill to master the 86's manual transmission. The close ratio transmission and stiff linkages are meant for track use, so it's not the easiest system to manipulate in stop-and-go traffic. Downshifting takes a concerted effort to time the revs just right so you don’t end up jerking the drivetrain. I frequently double clutched for smoothness, but also because it was more fun. The naturally aspirated boxer engine revs quickly and cleanly, and before you know it you’re getting a mild workout doing the hands-on-stick-feet-on-throttle-and-clutch dance any time you're presented with a clear road.
4. You never notice how roomy your own car is. Until you spend time cooped up in an 86, that is. The only thing tighter than an 86 in its price bracket is a Mazda MX-5. That said it's still a selfish car. Trunk space is just adequate for a small cooler and several soft bags if you fold down the vestigial rear seatback. The cockpit is bereft of shelves, cubbyholes and places to put your sunglasses, phone, and miscellaneous junk. My wife gave me the evil eye when I suggested she place her bag on the floor. This was after she successfully contorted herself into the shotgun seat; good thing she does yoga. To the uninitiated, you don’t so much sit down in an 86 as you attempt to gracefully fall into it.
5. I miss it already. Yes, the average family car is probably twice as comfortable, twice as practical, and twice as roomy as Toyota's quintessential sports car. It's also still a highly desirable machine. Even though I didn’t have the luxury of time to take it out for a long road trip, a week slugging it out in the city was not nearly as unpleasant as I thought it would be. Even a grocery run was a treat. It’s the type of car you go look for excuses to drive.
Plus, there's always some interesting detail to admire with the body or the cockpit, some quirk that endears itself despite the many compromises you have to take in the name of #tiispogi. I love how you can (just) barely make out the swell of the fenders from the driver's point of view, or how the chunky dashboard with its economy of lines and curves evokes the Spartan simplicity of its '80s era descendant. It almost sort of makes me wish Toyota would spring for the piece-of-crap radios they had back in the day instead of the touchscreen Pioneer that’s such a glaring inconsistency.
Now in the equivalent of its automotive half-life, and sporting several visual upgrades(?) that likely won’t be missed by all those who snapped up this gem when it first bowed in 2012, the Toyota 86 continues to enthrall with its balance of performance, style, and character.
Should I sell my cars and buy a Toyota FJ Cruiser?
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MIAA and LTFRB to impose stiffer penalties for “colorum” and abusive taxi drivers at NAIA
admin • August 8, 2017 • 6019
MANILA, Philippines — “Colorum” taxis and abusive taxi drivers are the common problems passengers face at the terminals of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).
Based on the figures of the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA), the airport police apprehend about 400 abusive cab drivers and two colorum taxis every month.
This prompted the MIAA to coordinate with the Land Transportation Franchising or Regulatory Board (LTFRB) in stopping the illegal activities that taint the image of the Philippines.
Through an agreement signed by the two agencies, the LTRFRB and MIAA will tighten the monitoring of taxis conveying passengers from NAIA.
Taxi drivers found contracting passengers, as well those driving colorum cabs will face heavier penalties.
From the previous P1,000 fine on drivers of colorum taxis, it will now increase to P120,000 and three-month suspension, similar to what the LTRFRB imposes on other areas in Metro Manila.
In the past, cab drivers were banned from entering NAIA if found contracting fares from passengers. This time, violators will be prohibited from operating in the entire vicinity of the airport.
“So that when our compatriots or tourists arrive here, they would see that our airports are really show windows. I hope this abusive taxi drivers would stop, because we will not tolerate them,” MIAA general manager, Eddie Monreal said.
Earlier, the LTFRB deployed eight traffic law enforcers at NAIA and immediately inspected all the cabs parked at the airport.
The LTFRB and MIAA appealed to passengers anew to stop patronizing colorum and abusive taxi drivers operating at NAIA.
When encountering such drivers, authorities advice passengers to immediately report them to LTFRB or to the airport police and traffic law enforcers deployed at the airport.
LTFRB chairman, Atty. Martin Delgra III said, “When your rights are being abused, assert your right so the abusive cab driver will also be shocked. Because many of those who have been victimized have not asserted their rights.”
For any complaints or information about the matter, the public may coordinate with transport and airport authorities via the hotline numbers or social media accounts of LTRFB and MIAA. — Joan Nano | UNTV News & Rescue
TAGS colorum, LTFRB, MIAA, NAIA, taxi
Liquid marijuana worth P700k seized from warehouses at NAIA – BOC
Robie de Guzman • January 22, 2020
MANILA, Philippines – Some 330 cartridges of liquid marijuana were seized from various warehouses at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), the Bureau of Customs (BOC) said.
In a statement issued Wednesday, the BOC said the drug cartridges, which were confiscated from air cargo parcels, were estimated to worth P700,000.
Customs personnel examining the air parcels initially discovered a total of 11 packages containing liquid marijuana.
The bureau said it coordinated the seizure of drugs with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the NAIA Inter-Agency Drug Interdiction Task Group.
The cartridges of liquid marijuana were then turned over to PDEA for further investigation of its consignees and senders.
The BOC stressed that the importation of “hempseed” and “Cannabidiol” is still considered illegal and may be subject to seizure pursuant to the provisions of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act, and the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act.
TAGS liquid marijuana, NAIA, Ninoy Aquino International Airport
BI braces for heavy congestion at airports during Chinese New Year
A thermal scanner monitors all arriving passengers inside Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in Pasay City, south of Manila, Philippines, 10 September 2014. EPA/DENNIS M. SABANGAN
MANILA, Philippines – The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Monday said it is expecting a heavy volume of passengers in the country’s airports, especially at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), during the celebration of the Chinese New Year.
BI port operations division chief Grifton Medina said they are expecting a 10 to 15 percent increase in departures during the Chinese New Year which will be celebrated on Saturday, January 25.
“Last year we saw a 14% increase in departures, this year the increase might be more or less the same,” he said in a statement.
“We are expecting a surge of Chinese residents in the Philippines who wish to spend the Chinese New Year abroad. It may result to heavy congestion of our airports, which could be avoided if they process and pay their fees before heading to the airport,” he added.
The BI said the Philippines is host to tens of thousands of Chinese immigrants and non-immigrants. In 2018 alone, a total of 1.3 M Chinese citizens were recorded to have entered the country.
In order to avoid long queues at immigration counters in NAIA, the bureau urged foreign travelers to process their re-entry fees at any of its offices before proceeding to the airport.
Under Philippine immigration policies, foreign nationals who are registered holders of valid immigrant and non-immigrant visas are required to pay exit and re-entry permits every time they leave the country.
Official receipts of their re-entry permit fees should be presented before they are cleared for departure.
“We expect that the surge could congest our immigration cashiers, hence we are appealing to registered aliens to pre-pay their fees to avoid the congestion,” Medina said.
The BI said that reentry fees can be paid at its main office in Manila and at immigration field, satellite and extension offices nationwide.
“The BI has almost 60 offices nationwide that may cater to this need. It’s a very quick process, which will only take a few minutes. We also have offices located in malls and other convenient locations,” he said.
“Coming to the airport with the receipt at hand makes processing faster, allowing departing aliens to avoid the rush and relax before their flight,” he added.
TAGS Bureau of Immigration, Chinese New Year, NAIA, Ninoy Aquino International Airport
MIAA, CAAP announce partial operations at NAIA
Aileen Cerrudo • January 13, 2020
The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) and the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) has announced resumption of partial operations at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) on Monday (January 13).
Departure operations already resumed at 10:00 a.m. while arrival operations resumed at 12:00 p.m.
Authorities say separation time between flights will be longer, in order to give MIAA and CAAP better capability in managing terminal and runway capacities.
“Priority will be given to departure flights, so that the NAIA ramps may be cleared of planes parked thereat since last night. Second priority will be given to regular scheduled flights for today,” the statement reads.
MIAA General Manager Ed Monreal appealed to passengers to continue coordinating with the airlines to confirm their updated flight schedules.
“We request the passengers to make sure that their flights can leave before proceeding to the airport,” he said.
MIAA began clearing the runways, taxiways and ramps of ash fall since 4:00 a.m. on Monday.—AAC (with reports from Joan Nano)
TAGS Manila International Airport Authority, MIAA, NINOY AQUINO, taal eruption
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Solihull Tudor Grange Kumon Tuition Centre
Tudor Grange School, Dingle Lane
http://www.kumon.co.uk/Solihull-Tudor-Grange/index.htm
Kumon is suitable for students of all ages and abilities; currently our youngest student is 3 years old. As Kumon is not age specific students progress at their own and therefore do not loose faith in their work. The Solihull Tudor Grange Kumon Tuition Centre attracts students from a wide area through the development of a fine reputation, we currently assist students from the following areas; Solihull, Dorridge, Knowle, Bentley Heath, Hockley Heath, Olton, Cheswick Green, Monkspath, Shirley, Hillfield, Dickens Heath, Solihull Lodge, Balsall Common, Birmingham, Hall Green and Yardley Wood. All newly enrolled students are guided through the class process by the classroom assistants who ensure they are welcomed, find their work quickly and swap completed homework for the work set for the following week. Students work under close supervision initially to settle into their new routine and receive guidance to help establish their new study skills. The time spent in class is invaluable in understanding a child''s needs and how best to support and develop them. This observation time ensures work set can be individualised by the Instructor to support their development and maximise their potential. New topics are generally tackled in class, enabling a student to ask questions and feel confident prior to receiving further work to practice the subject at home. Once the class work has been completed, students take part in supplementary activities such as the "numberboard challenge" (a magnetic board game designed to develop hand eye co-ordination and number sequencing skills), reading from our library or testing mental Maths skills such as "times tables" practice. Once marked, any errors are corrected by the student assuring a positive outcome with all work completed as correct. This encourages greater confidence and boosts self-esteem as well as addressing any misunderstandings or careless errors to ensure the child is in the best position to tackle their homework. At all times students are observed working but may choose to ask for help themselves as needed, particularly as they begin to develop self-learning skills and are able to work with less dependency and intervention. Students receive feedback during class for personal achievements and good attitude but are also able to take responsibility for their own learning by being able to discuss their own development and goals where appropriate. Children wishing to collect the reward stickers do so at the end of class, which can be exchanged for prizes or retained to receive a book token on completion of their completed record card. For those students taking the end of level Achievement Test, a certificate is awarded together with a report for parents on the results achieved and the plan and content of the forthcoming level. This information is also discussed with the student to encourage motivation and progression throughout the programme. We also have lots of Kumon competitions and quizzes throughout the year, including the holiday Quests and prize winners are awarded to a selection of students. Award ceremonies take place once a year to recognise the progress of students. Certificates are awarded to students working at a higher level than their peers and those who have made significant progress in their study skills. These award ceremonies are just one of a number of ways that we recognise student achievement and encourage motivation throughout the programme and to completion. The Kumon Maths Programme Whatever path your child takes in life, a solid understanding of mathematics will be crucial to their success. Kumon originated as a Maths programme back in 1954. Today, the programme still leads our students from the very basics of counting to calculus and beyond, all without the use of calculators. The core programme is divided into 21 levels, each containing 200 worksheets. Completers of the core programme have the option to go on and study an elective course, level X. Core Programme Levels Contents 7A-5A Counting and developing fine motor skills 4A The numbers up to 220 and writing numbers up to 120 3A-A Mental addition and subtraction B-D Vertical addition and subtraction, mental and long multiplication and division E-F Four operations with fractions G-J Linear and quadratic equations, simultaneous equations, factorisation, line K-L Maxima and minima, derivatives and integrals of polynomial functions M Trigonometric functions, equations of lines and circles N Sequences and series, limits of functions O Calculus, differential equations Elective Course Levels Contents X Triangles, vectors, matrices, mappings, probability, statistics The Kumon English programme The ability to process written information is essential in our everyday lives. And the more accomplished your child is at this, the better they will do at school and the more opportunities they will have in the future. Our English programme has two central aims: � To develop each child''s ability to read and understand a wide variety of language � To nurture in each child a life-long habit of reading for both education and enjoyment The English programme has 18 levels, containing either 200 or 400 worksheets. Our popular Recommended Reading List also motivates students to develop their skills and expand their interests by encouraging a wide range of reading. Core Programme Levels Contents 7A-6A Pre-reading skills 5A-2A Letters of the alphabet, vowel and consonant combinations; spelling patterns; basic grammar A-C Punctuation, simple sentences; grammar, sentence structures; synthesising information D-F Complex sentences, direct and indirect speech; paragraph structures; clauses, paraphrasing and concision G-I Text structure, persuasion, interpretation and summarising J-L Elements of critique, text analysis Opening Times Tuesdays: 5.00pm-7.00pm Saturdays: 10-Noon Students are usually in class for approximately 35 mins per subject We are also contactable at any point during the week either by email or by phone. Special Offers The Solihull Tudor Grange Kumon Tuition Centre is pleased to be able to offer a FREE Assessment in English and Maths, this can then be used to see where on the programmes they would begin their Kumon journey. Please call us to book in for your appointment. The Solihull Tudor Grange Kumon Tuition Centre also offers a �10 discount should both subjects be required. Our unique programmes complement the UK school curriculum and cater for your child''s individual needs, allowing them to study at a rate that is just right for them and will eventually allow them to take responsibility for their own learning. Our English and Maths programmes have been developed over the last 55 years by dedicated instructional teams working across four continents. Content is revised and honed by academics and professionals with postgraduate qualifications in Maths and English. Attendance is on a "drop-in" basis during class times as each child works on their own individual development plan. Children take approximately 35 minutes per subject and attend class once or twice a week. We also offer a correspondence service which means we can offer our services to students from any location, for more details on this please contact us. The Kumon Maths and English programmes complement the national curriculum and work in a logical, sequential way to develop mathematics and English skills to "A" level topics. All children are able to work at the most suitable pace for themselves meaning it is suitable for children that are struggling at school through to those that are being held back by school and require additional challenges to school work. Our aim is to ensure that all students are studying above their school level within 12 months. Over 75% of our children study at 6 months above their school level, 25% of which are currently studying at 2 years above their age this is due to the development in potential that the programmes encourage.
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What is Area 51?
Now for those who don’t know Area 51 is a military base of United States Air Force located in Lincoln Country Nevada 83 miles from Las Vegas. The base has been a spot for many controversies regarding secret weapon making, making Aliens hostage and using them for experiments. Its original name is Groom lake according to the Central Intelligence Agency. The Officials had been silent about the base until 2013 when according to an act of 2005 called Freedom of Information Act obliged them to open about the secrecy.
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Storm Area 51 petition
For the past few days, Area 51 is all over the internet, with memes, posts, etc. So it started with a post by a page, the job was first in a joking manner but unexpectedly took turn when people started taking it seriously. The post said “ lets storm Area 51, see them aliens” further added they will run like naruto so that the officials can’t fire bullets on them. Naruto is a fictional character of Anime Series and by running like him means running with arms outstretched backwards.
Over 6,00,000 people signed the petition, and they even planned to meet Nevada and enter at 3 am. And within no time Memes mocking them filled the Internet.
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What was the official’s statement?
The Air Force Spokesperson Laura Mc Andrews released a warning statement stating that “ the United States Air Force always stands ready to protect America and its assets” and “ Area 51 is an open training range for the United States Air Force, and we would discourage anyone from trying to come into the area where we train American armed forces”. This indicates they definitely won’t consider any such activity.
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Why Riding Bikes In New York City (Still) Sucks
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Thrillist speaks with Steve Vaccaro in their in-depth look at the persisting perils of cycling in NYC.
In 2014, Bicycling Magazine named New York the country’s best city for biking. It makes a lot of sense. That year, 3,982 bikers were injured on the streets, and 20 were killed — almost double 2013, when a mere dozen died. Without a protected bike lane network, riders are still in the streets, elbow-to-bumper with cars that can crush them at the slightest slip of the steering wheel. Socially, cyclists remain the scourge of New York, hated by pedestrians and drivers alike, even as NYPD crackdowns have racked up bike tickets in record numbers.
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15th Field Artillery Regiment
The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
as at 5 October 2018
31st Field Battery, RCA
68th Field Battery, RCA
Band of the 15th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA
Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Captain-General, Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Major-General H.A. Sparling, CBE, DSO, CD
Senior Regular Gunner
Brigadier-General G.R. Coffin, CD
Director of Artillery
Colonel D.H. Gunter, CD
Regular Support Staff
Regular Support Staff Officer: Captain DB Harrison
Regular Support Staff Warrant: Warrant Officer Fred H Rossi
Appointments and promotions this year
Lieutenant-Colonel Gary J Bailey CD promoted Lieutenant-Colonel and appointed Commanding Officer.
Chief Warrant Officer Brian Philip Cormier CD promoted Chief Warrant Officer and appointed Regimental Sergeant Major.
11 May 1972 Colonel Graham F Blyth CD appointed Honorary Colonel
1972 Lieutenant Robert (Bob) E Mugford promoted Captain.
1 Oct 1972 Gunner Leon Jensen promoted Bombardier.
Fall 1972 Gunner Glenn Patterson promoted Bombardier.
The Canadian international Tattoo of 1972
The event featured a troupe from the Fijian Army, the Band of the 15th Field Artillery Regiment RCA and the Pipes and Drums from both the Canadian Scottish Regiment and the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada.
Commanding Officer's Parade
The parade included the change of Regimental Sergeant Major from Chief Warrant Officer Raymond Guttridge CD to Chief Warrant Officer Brian Philip Cormier CD. The Commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Gary Bailey CD is shown presenting CWO Cormier with the RSM's sword.
Gunner Greg James is inspected by the Commanding Officer escorted by the Battery Commander, Major William T. (Bill) Wickett. The entourage includes the Honorary Colonel Graham Blyth and the Second in Command Major Ian Whitelaw. The inspection moves down to Sergeant Don Friedsam. That's Captains? Martin Casey and ? Preston.
The final part of the inspection takes in the Regimental Band with the Band Master, Chief Warrant Officer Peter Erwin leading the CO past Sergeant Richard Van Slyke. In the back can be seen the Adjutant? Captain? Stuart McDonald. The CO takes the salute with the Honorary Colonel.
13 Oct 1972 Bombardier Keith Laing is struck off strength (SOS) due to work commitments.
Band of the 15th Field Artillery Regiment 1972
Top Row - 1 , 2 , Sgt Cy Greaves, 4 , Sgt George Mapson , Dave Levien , 7 , John Renforth , Sgt Richard Van Slyke, 10
Middle Row - 11 , 12 , 13 , Rob Nybo, 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , Pte Clive Walton
Bottom Row - 21 , Pte Ian Petrie , 23 , CWO Al Sweet, CWO Peter Erwin, MWO Jimmy Hamilton CD, Sgt George Watson ,Sgt Ernie Walsh , 29
Canadian Forces' Decoration
The Canadian Forces' Decoration is awarded to officers and Non-Commissioned Members of the Canadian Forces who have completed twelve years of service. The decoration is awarded to all ranks, who have a good record of conduct.
The decoration is awarded to the regular forces, reserve forces, officers of the Cadet Instructors Cadre (CIC), Canadian Rangers and holders of honorary appointments in the CF.
Lieutenant Robert (Bob) E. Mugford awarded Canadian Forces Decoration.
Reserve Officers Staff Course
4 August 1972 - Major William (Bill) T. Wickett CD
Trade Qualification 1 Artilleryman Course - 1 Apr 1972
Private (R) Don Burkett
Private (R) Leon Jensen
Junior Leaders Course
Albert Head, BC - 9 Jul - 25 Aug 1972
Gunner Don Burkett
Gunner Greg James
Gunner Leon Jensen
Gunner Glenn Patterson
Gunner Craig Stewart
Driver Wheeled (Arty)
Bombardier Richard Van Slyke
Senior NCO Course
Artillery Detachment Commander
Military Drivers' Licence
Chilliwack Weekend - 1972
Let's see who's who in the photo!
Back Row - 1,2,3,4,5, Private Doug Storey, 7, Master Warrant Officer Eric Tyldesley-Gore, Private Weston, Private Alan Edward, Private Roy McCracken, Private Claude Elezam, 13, 14
Front Row - 1,2,3,4.
Dry Deployments - Chilliwack
The recce party arrives at the new gun area in a somewhat murky, wintry day in Chilliwack.
The Recce officer, Lieutenant Bill Basaraba sets up the gun markers .
Directions are given by the Recce Officer to the recce party Bombardier Brown?, Bombardier Leon Jensen? and Sergeant Dave Strebe. The Troop Sergeant Major, Warrant Officer George Wood runs off to fetch the guns from the Gun RV. See more...
Fort Lewis Easter 1972
There's a lot of work to do before the main party arrives when the decision is made to set up a field bivouac. Trucks to be unloaded, tents to be set up. I'm sure that Sergeant Gordie Wright has stood up countless tents in his time.
Flags to be flown and bell tents for accommodation. When all is said and done there's even time for a Black Label stop. See more...
Recruiting Presentation
Recruiting has always been important for the Regiment in order to bring in new people to take the place of those that have moved onto other endeavors. These photos were part of our slide presentation that could be given while we also handed out the black and white information sheet run off on the Gestetner machine.
"What are you doing this weekend?" was the theme and the pay rates was the hook. Who could refuse $6.20 a day! Of course a day was anywhere from 6 hours to 24 hours long, so your pay was either $1.03 an hour or a lowly 25 cents an hour. Mind you, if you were on the job for 24 hours we would also feed you 3 meals a day! See more...
Airborne Regiment - Jamaica
How can you possibly turn down an opportunity for a Class B callout to Jamaica? Sunny skies, hot beaches, palm trees...
That's where Bombardier Brian Harmon and Gunner Brian Hill ended up when they applied for the callout. From the frigid wastes of Edmonton, they traveled to the steamy jungles of Jamaica.
The cuisine was varied and the bivouac area was unlike any other.
Range Qualification - Nov 1972
National RCA(M) Summer School
Captain DA Lockridge
The past summer provided two novel experiences. The first was the establishment of the National RCA(M) Summer School. The second, a summer tasking in CFB Shilo near our dependents (finally!).
The School, commanded by Major W.M. Scott, CD, was staffed by 120 members of 3 RCHA. The School consisted of an administrative element, a four gun Firing Troop, and training cadres for five distinct courses: See more...
MILCON 72
The sudden flurry of activity around the “Q” lines did not herald the imminent arrival of the Germans. It did however represent a major success for both 3 RCHA and the Artillery Militia units of Western Canada. It was a success in many ways. ........ Secondly and more important, was the intensive training and the positive results shown by the Militia units. Undeniably, the calibre of the Artillery Militia units in the last few years has improved and Milcon 72 has been largely responsible for the continued progress of militia units from Kenora to Victoria.
Salute Troop Commander - Captain Wayne Davidson
Assistant Troop Commander - Lieutenant Bill Basaraba
Salute Troop Sergeant Major - Master Warrant Officer Eric Tyldesely-Gore
#1 Detachment Commander – Sergeant Don Friedsam
Student Youth Employment Plan 1972
I'm still looking for confirmation on the date. Were you on the course?
SYEP was brought in to alleviate the high youth unemployment over the summer. Jobs were provided by several industryies and the Department of National Defence offered a summer course package for students. They did not have to sign up as members of the military until after the summer when Militia units would offer them positions in the unit. Hence the longish hair at the beginning of the summer which gradually gave way to a more military style.
New Equipment - Olive Green 107 Combat Clothing
Combat Clothing was adopted for service in 1963 but it was not until the late 1960s that it had been issued to all of the Regular Force soldiers. Even at that time it was on a restricted basis. There was no wearing of it in public and the bush uniform was still the primary garrison dress. There was a thriving business in surplus stores and many a reservist acquired their initial set in that manner. In 1972 it was rolled out to the Army Reserve with 1 cap, 1 shirt, 1 trousers, 1 pr of combat boots. If dispatched on a course longer than one week duration you were entitled to a second set on temporary issue. See more ...
FOREWORD BY THE DIRECTOR OF ARTILLERY
THE CANADIAN GUNNER 1972
In his foreword to the 1971 edition of The Canadian Gunner, Colonel D.W. Francis said good-bye to the Regiment as Director of Artillery. As his successor I would like to take the opportunity, in the foreword to this edition, to thank him, for all Gunners, for his service to the Regiment. In his three years as Director, he ably represented us during a period when such a dedication was very much needed.
Equipment News - The Gun Alignment and Control System
Major C.A. Moogk
During the months of September and October 1972, La Batterie X augmented by the rest of 5e RALC conducted the L5 portion of the Canadian forces Trial of the Gun Alignment and Control System (GACS). Without pre-empting the Trial Officer’s report it is felt that our readers may be interested in some of the features of this system which may well become part of the Gunner’s tool kit in the near future. Apologies are offered in advance to our TSO’s and other space –age brothers for a lack of technical detail. This article is only intended to convey a “Mud gunner’s” view of the system.
Something is missing from the Battlefield - Does Anybody Care?
Captain DA Gronbeck-Jones
Time once was (and not too long ago), that when a Gunner spoke to a non-Gunner about locating devices, survey, or artillery intelligence, he was greeted with blank looks and the old “another black box-thing” attitude. Outside the Royal regiment, few people were aware of anything that the artillery did, other than service the guns and save the lives of not a few companies of infantry during the war with some pretty impressive firepower. But times are changing, and the other arms still have not any better knowledge of our craft than before. To make matters worse, a whole new breed of Gunners is evolving that also thinks of artillery only in terms of close-support guns.
Sergeants' Mess
The Brigadier DuMoulin Trophy
This trophy is awarded to the most efficient member of the Sergeants’ Mess as determined by the displayed rating system.
Sergeant George R Wood was presented the trophy at the Sergeants Mess’ Annual Dinner for his performance during 1971.
Coronation Ball
The Annual Coronation Ball was a BC Militia District formal event open to all Warrant Officers and Sergeants. A different unit was tasked to be the host each year and was responsible for the planning and the organization of the event. The photos show Warrant Officer Yelland sitting at the head table with the gavel which would indicate that he was the PMC for the dinner and that 15th Field Artillery Regiment RCA was the host unit. Unfortunately the photos are taken off of a sample negative print and the photos are not he clearest. There is also not a date on any of the photos and therefore the year may be a bit off.
Sergeants' Mess Dinner
It's time for the annual gathering of the Warrant Officers and Sergeants for dinner. (ed note - The photographs were not marked, so it is only by analyzing the photos that I arrived at 1972 - did I get it correct?) Sergeants Allen, Orr and Ray Wilson are in deep discussion about the latest regimental affairs. Warrant Officer Al Yelland, Major Ron Abbott and Captain Chilton enjoy a beer together.
Honorary Colonel (Brig ret) James Crossley Stewart CBE DSO CD
17 February 1891 - 11 June 1972.
A native of Kingston, Ontario and graduate of the Royal Military College, Brigadier General Stewart commanded a Field Brigade in World War I and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He was appointed Commander Royal Artillery 1st Canadian Division on 15 December 1939, Commander Corps Royal Artillery VII British Corps 19 Jul 1940, Commander Corps Royal Artillery I Canadian Corps on 24 Dec 1940. After the Second World War he retired to Vancouver and was appointed Honorary Colonel 43rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment RCA on 26 July 1949. During his career he was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE)
and an Officier de Leopold II Croix de Guerre.
The following pages contain additional information relating to the 15th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA
Commanding Officers and Regimental Sergeants Major
Battery Commanders and Battery Sergeants Major
Guns of the Regiment
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The 17 Best Pop Songs of 2017
Cardi B, Kendrick Lamar, and even Taylor Swift produced antidotes to the worst year ever.
By DJ Louie XIV
Future, Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, Cardi B and Selena Gomez all produced antidotes to the worst year ever.Photo Illustration by Lauren Margit Jones; Photos, clockwise from left, by Paras Griffin, by Paul Marotta, by Larry Busacca, by Angela Weiss/AFP, by Neilson Barnard, by Fin Costello/Redferns (background), all from Getty Images.
Joy was elusive in 2017, in everything from politics to Hollywood to the isolated cultural bubbles where most Americans now look for shelter. The one exception? Pop music.
In 2017, pop established a true counter-narrative: cross-pollinating, democratic, and often as buoyantly unbothered as it has ever has been. Genres melded and sometimes combusted completely. An almost entirely Spanish language reggaeton track by two relative unknowns was the year’s biggest hit. And with Spotify and YouTube further entrenched at the center of music consumption, the year’s best and biggest songs underscored a new kind of egalitarianism, allowing the public to directly drive the conversation and charts, and giving the artists room to take risks.
This year in pop can ultimately be boiled down to one emblematic moment, when a stripper-turned-Instagram-star-turned-reality-star-turned-hip-hop princess dethroned the biggest major label superstar of her generation at No.1, with nothing but a freestyle rap and a whole bunch of streaming clicks.
So with that spirit of radical inclusivity in mind, here’s a sampling of some of the best songs of 2017. Like great pop should, these songs united, delighted, made us feel, think, and sometimes provided hope, even if just for four minutes while rapping “Bodak Yellow” with 100 strangers at 3 A.M. Let’s dive in.
Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)”
While “Bodak Yellow” was the most surprising hit of 2017, its ascension now seems inevitable for how effortlessly it distilled Cardi B’s iconic, irreverent, and irrepressibly charming Instagram persona into a bombastic trap jewel.
As with her famous social-media riffs, nearly every line of “Bodak” is quotable. Just to recap: our heroine gets paid to party, her nether regions are gold-plated, and bank tellers are completely exhausted by her frequent deposits. But even if your rhymes haven’t made you wealthy or made your privates shimmer, you’re powerless against Cardi’s exceptional knack for conveying authenticity. “Bodak” ’s rapturous celebration of self-actualization—and the fact that it knocked Taylor Swift’s most self-indulgent single to date off the top of the charts—made it the most universal song of the year.
Demi Lovato’s “Daddy Issues”
Demi Lovato always seemed like a workhorse pop star, diligent but never quite expanding past middle management. That changed this year on her sixth album, the excellent Tell Me You Love Me, and its crowning achievement, “Daddy Issues.” “Issues” obliterates the very concept of lyrical subtly as Demi explores the cross-section of her challenging relationship with her father and her destructive romantic choices. “Lucky for you” blares the chorus, “I’ve got all these daddy issues!” That the track does psychodrama atop triumphant synthetic horns, shimmering major-key melodies and palpable delight at one’s shortcomings makes what could have been a maudlin overshare feel ebullient instead.
Sampha’s “No One Knows Me (Like the Piano)”
Sampha’s spare ode to the powers of family and music as salvation suggests that the simplest experience—returning to your childhood home and picking up the instrument through which you first expressed your feelings—can pack a gut-wrenching punch. His celestial voice doesn’t hurt either.
Charlie Puth’s “How Long”
In what may have been 2017’s most unsuspecting about-face, Charlie Puth charged from guy-whose-name-no-one-can-pronounce-and-sung-the-hook-on-that-Paul-Walker-in-memoriam-song-and-also-some-other-stuff right to the head of the overcrowded male pop starlets pack. This was evident on his very good hit single “Attention,” but it’s the self-produced “How Long”—a devilishly slinky slice of blue-eyed funk—that solidifies Puth as a true contender and is, simply put, the best Maroon 5 song of the decade.
Paramore’s “Forgiveness”
Paramore excels at big, brash, emotional calls to arms. “Forgiveness,” with it’s dreamy guitar loop and delicate rebuke of a partner who’s finally messed up for good, takes the opposite tack. Stripped back, tender, and ultimately tragic, the push and pull between singer Hayley Williams’s desire to absolve and the knowledge that she can’t is as beguiling as it is heartbreaking.
Lorde’s “Homemade Dynamite”
The wide-eyed debauchery of “Homemade Dynamite” serves not only as a thematic centerpiece of Lorde’s superb second album, Melodrama. This clattering cacophony also captures both the adventure and impending regret of night out with a new lover as only Lorde, pop’s ultimate millennial savant, can. “Our rules, our dreams, we’re blind,” she pants, “Our friends, our drinks, we get inspired.” For the 21-year-old, parties and flings are electrifying and novel but also menaced by an imminent emptiness usually registered by revelers well beyond her years.
DJ Khaled’s “Wild Thoughts,” Future’s “Selfish,” Kendrick Lamar’s “Loyalty,” and N.E.R.D.’s “Lemon,” all featuring Rihanna
Rihanna didn’t release any new music of her own this year, but like most years, she didn’t let that stop her from owning radio anyway. Her scene-stealing features culminated with “Lemon,” where she raps with the best of them about blunts, Bugatti Veyrons, and, inexplicably, the Fonz. It’s a verse that gleams with the ice-cold passivity that only Rihanna can make pass for elation.
Selena Gomez’s “Bad Liar”
An unexpectedly quirky single, “Bad Liar” marries the bassline of the Talking Head’s “Psycho Killer,” conversational vocals that recall Britney’s most adventurous work, and lyrics that equate the sometimes unsettling rumblings of lust and the Battle of Troy. It’s Gomez’s deft use of her relatively thin voice that’s the revelation here—an alluring murmur that hints at a slightly more left-of-center pop career than one might expect from a former Disney star.
Future’s “Mask Off”
“Mask Off” is the perfect Future song: drowsy, textural storytelling over slyly menacing production, this time featuring, of all things, a baroque flute sample. This hypnotic combination gives the song—a tale of reckless robbery on opiates—it’s sheer, bleak elegance.
Taylor Swift’s “Delicate”
Even at her most publicly beset, Taylor Swift possesses a secret weapon that separates her from the competition: truly unimpeachable songcraft. On “Delicate,” a spacious trop-pop confection, Taylor meets a Nike-adorned new lover in a dive bar and wonders aloud about the micro-anxieties we all might have in that situation: “Is it cool that I said all that? Is it chill that you’re in my head? Is it too soon to do this yet?” Her “reputation's never been worse,” but Swift's uncanny gift for taking the commonplace and rendering it thoroughly mythical—here, the moment where a crush might become something more—remains pristine.
SZA’s “Drew Barrymore”
SZA’s CTRL is the best album of the year, messy yet nourishing, familiar, refreshing, cool, and brazen, all in equal measure. On “Drew Barrymore,” SZA uses the movie icon as a metaphor for her own struggle with self-worth in the twilight of a relationship. The track—where sunny strings barely mask the narrator’s angst— showcases the genre-melting singer-songwriter’s singular ability to turn the sloppiness of the human condition into profound pop magic.
Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble”
It’s as lean as they come: a looping four-note piano line, a basic drum pattern, and a hook that repeats the same, prescient line in seeming perpetuity: “Be humble. Sit Down.” “Humble” exemplifies Kendrick Lamar’s ability to take a sticky idea—the conflict between self-belief and humility—and boil it down into something simple, anthemic, and in this case, his catchiest and most accessible single to date.
Kesha’s “Praying”
In a year of gut-wrenching revelations of sexual assault in the entertainment industry, Kesha’s “Praying” felt completely necessary. Tracing her own experiences with her once collaborator and alleged abuser, the super-producer Dr. Luke, “Praying” is not only Kesha’s most stirring vocal performance to date. It’s also downright devotional. Here, Kesha revels in painstaking honesty, then offers proof—with the whistle note that launches its final chorus—that rebirth and redemption are the cathartic byproduct of that candor.
Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Cut to the Feeling”
No song title more plainly represents what Carly Rae Jepsen does: She cuts straight through the crap and injects you with that raw, uncut feeling. No artifice. No posturing. “Cut to the Feeling”—which, like most of Jepsen’s work, trades in the rush of first falling in love—is so ecstatic in its celebration of boldly “canceling your reservations” and diving in headfirst with a new guy (or girl) that you can almost see the song itself smiling. It was the smile we all needed in 2017.
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Photograph by Art Streiber.
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IN THE LIMELIGHT
Inside Selena Gomez’s New York Fashion Week Adventure
Also on this week’s In the Limelight: Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, and George Clooney in Toronto.
By Julie Miller and Josh Duboff
Grammy Nominations 2018: Jay-Z Could Avenge Beyoncé by Winning Album of the Year
Meanwhile, Kendrick Lamar, Bruno Mars, and “Despacito” are also having a big year.
By Yohana Desta
Taylor Swift Is Taking Reputation on the Road
Is America ready for it?
By Hilary Weaver
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Willie Gaston Jr.
Mr. Willie Gaston Jr. was born Aug. 2, 1938, to Verila and Willie Gaston, Sr. in Freestone County. He was the seventh of fourteen children.
Willie attended Dogan High School in Fairfield. He attended church service at COGIC Fairfield Number One, where he accepted Christ at an early age.
Mr. Gaston passed away on Dec 30, 2019.
Willie moved to Hobbs, N.M., where he met and married Bonnie Hicks. This union was blessed with two children: daughter Sharron Lynn and son Bandele Ajini.
The family resided in Albuquerque until 2007.
Willie is preceded in death by his parents; brothers Aubrey and Tyree; sister May Pearl; and grandson Christian Alexander Johnson.
He leaves to cherish his memory his wife of 62 years, Bonnie; daughter Sharon Johnson (Joe), of Chantilly, Va.; son Bandele Gaston, of Albuquerque; granddaughter Brandi Johnson, of Manassas, Va.; sisters Excel Griggs, of Dallas, Mary Joyce Manning, of Fairfield, and Lanetta Turner, of Dallas; brothers Maurice Gaston, of Fairfield, Lindberg Gaston, of Calif., Melvin Gaston, of Dallas, Alvin Gaston, of Dallas, Walter Gaston, of Fairfield, and Daniel Gaston, of Fairfield; along with a host of nieces, nephews and friends.
Service was to be held Jan. 4 at 1:30 p.m. at Mt. Zion Church in Fairfield. Arrangements entrusted to Pearly Gates Funeral Home.
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Coolpad Cool 9 goes official with 5.71-inch HD+ display and Android 9 Pie
By: The Mobile Indian network, New Delhi Last updated : June 03, 2019 12:24 pm
Coolpad N10 Pro smartphone’s banner has been spotted on the company’s official website.
Coolpad has launched a new smartphone dubbed as Coolpad Cool 9. The Coolpad Cool 9 is now available for pre-order on JD.com for 599 Yuan which is approx. Rs 6,027. Aurora and Star Blue colours are available for pre-order on the Chinese retailer website.
The Coolpad Cool features a 5.71-inch HD+ display (1520 x 720 pixel) with 90.3% screen to body ratio and a 19:9 aspect ratio. It is powered by a quad-core 2GHz Helio A22 processor. The smartphone runs on Android 9.0 Pie operating system with COOL UI 9.0 on top. It has 4GB RAM, and 64GB of internal storage and a microSD expansion slot up as well. For security, the Coolpad Cool comes with a fingerprint sensor at the back.
Coolpad Cool has a dual rear camera setup with a combination of 13-megapixel primary sensor and 0.3-megapixel secondary sensor. For the front, the phone has a 5-megapixel selfie camera for selfies and video calls. The smartphone comes packed with 30000 mAh battery. This dual SIM device offers 4G with VoLTE, WiFi (802.11 ac/a/b/g/n), Bluetooth, GPS, and micro USB. It measures 148 x 71 x 8.2 and it weighs 138 grams.
Meanwhile, the company will also launch Coolpad N10 Pro soon. The smartphone’s banner has been spotted on the company’s official website.
As per the banner, the Coolpad N10 Pro will come with a waterdrop notch display with thin bezels on the sides and top. It will feature a vertically stacked triple camera setup in the top-left corner. Along with the phone’s design, the banner image also revealed some of the phone’s key specifications.
The phone will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 octa-core processor. It will be backed up by a 4000 mAh battery and it will run Android 9 Pie operating system out of the box, with a layer of the company’s own COOL UI on top. Apart from this, no more specs are known of Coolpad N10 Pro
Coolpad last launched Cool 3 in India for Rs 5,999 in February this year. The smartphone features a 5.7-inch HD+ display and 90 percent screen-to-body ratio. On the camera front, the phone features a dual-camera setup at the back with a combination of an 8-megapixel primary lens and 0.3-megapixel secondary shooter. For the front, there is a 5-megapixel shooter for selfies and video calling.
The Coolpad Cool 3 is powered by an octa-core Unisoc processor clocked at 1.3GHz. The phone is backed by a 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage. It runs on Android 9.0 Pie and runs on 3000mAh battery. It is equipped with Face Unlock and there is a fingerprint sensor at the back panel.
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We welcome applications from councils to build and maintain shared user pathways on VicTrack land.
Applications will be assessed against our policy principles and guidelines. If approved a lease is issued to allow installation and ongoing maintenance.
This guideline explains how to apply, what our process is and what the application considerations are.
You can apply to build or maintain shared user pathways in four easy steps. Read more about the steps in the application process below.
Step 1: Read important information first
We only consider applications to build or maintain shared user pathways from local councils.
Understanding roles
Our role in the approval process is landowner.
If your application relates to unused land then it can be leased or licenced directly from us.
However, sometimes land is used for transport operations. We lease land and infrastructure to the Department of Transport (DoT) who sub-lease it to private transport operators (franchisees) e.g. Metro Trains
Because of this relationship - we often have to consult the transport operators about shared user pathways.
Shared user pathway applications are assessed against our policy principles and guidelines.
In summary, the policy principles are:
Shared user pathways must be located a safe distance from operational rail corridors
Shared user pathways must be in a location that does not interfere with access to key infrastructure necessary for the safe operation of public transport.
The design must meet VicTrack and the franchisee’s standards to ensure public safety.
The design may be required to go through a risk assessment with representatives from VicTrack and the franchisee’s (note: this may incur a cost).
Design must be approved by VicTrack and the franchisees before works commence.
Shared user pathways must not fall into disrepair or become a public safety issue. If a shared user pathway becomes an imminent risk or Council is negligent in maintenance of the pathway, the pathway will be removed at the expense of the Council.
Council will be responsible for ongoing maintenance of the pathway and associated licenced land. This includes but is not limited to removal of graffiti, litter, weeds and vegetation management, and keeping the area tidy and safe for public access.
Following an internal review, your application will be referred to the Department of Transport and the relevant Franchisee to seek land clearance, a licence term and any requirements to confirm if the land is available for use.
This process can take 3-6 months.
During the review and clearance process the applicant may be required to submit additional information to ensure both VicTrack and the relevant Franchisee’s requirements are met.
If approved a licence is issued to allow installation and ongoing maintenance.
Step 2: Apply online
Step 3: Prepare your documentation
Your application must be supported with documentation that outline your plans. We require plans, design drawings and supplementary documentation.
A set of plans showing the alignment of the shared user pathway.
The plans should address the policy principles and council responsibilities stated in step 1 above.
The plans should be colour concept plans that clearly identify:
VicTrack property boundaries (read how to do this in the resources section below) the extent of pathway on VicTrack property (including width and type of path – e.g. concrete, asphalt, gravel etc. if known at the time of the application).
Offsets from nearest rail or tram track
Any major constraints, such as under bridge crossings, clearances, drainage, infrastructure and vegetation
Existing utility and other services including railway communications and signal cabling.
Design drawings
In preparing your design drawing the following criteria must be taken into consideration:
Avoid disturbance of and protect significant flora and fauna and native vegetation
Avoid disturbance of and protect Aboriginal cultural heritage values and heritage (including Aboriginal and archaeological or built heritage) sites
Appropriate interface with commuter car parks
Access for inspection and maintenance of railway infrastructure including track, signalling and drainage infrastructure.
Pathways cannot cross the railway tracks unless there is an existing crossing point (i.e. roadway or pedestrian crossing)
DDA compliance
Fencing on the trackside:
The type of fencing will be determined by the Franchisee.
Fencing shall not encroach within 3.0 metres of the track.
In high risk areas 1.8 metre-high chain wire fencing may be required to reduce safety risks and prevent trespasser access and shall extend 30m beyond trespass point.
At a bridge a standard trespassing fence (non climbable 1.5m high) must be erected on both sides of railway lines at the toe of the embankment that extends from the bridge walls either side of the shared pathway for a distance of at least 30 metres.
Extent of proposed landscaping. Landscaping will be approved on a case-by-case basis.
Appropriate signage for wayfinding and safety.
Show all services and utilities in the vicinity of the shared user pathway and their clearance from the pathway. Relocation of any services must be in accordance with relevant asset owner requirements and at the applicant cost.
May be required to go through a risk assessment with representatives from VicTrack and the Franchisees, this may incur a cost.
Constructability of the shared user pathway. For example, if excavations are proposed in close proximity to a railway bridge, the applicant will be required to undertake a structural engineering review by a suitably qualified engineer to ascertain whether or not there will be any impact to the bridge.
Consider how any required soil excavation will be undertaken, including the handling and disposal of surplus soil generated from the construction works
The design must comply with all laws, including those relevant to safety, environment and heritage. Council will be responsible for obtaining all required permits and approvals for the shared user pathway under local, State and Federal legislation.
Supplementary documentation
Photographs, if available, along the proposed route of the pathway and of any of the above constraints.
An engineer’s report, if available, confirming the structural integrity of the installation
Relevant environment and heritage reports, including when vegetation removal is required
Resources to help with your documentation
RailMap is a online resource that we provide. It displays property and lease boundaries, buildings and platforms, third party utilities, tracks and bridges, title references and aerial imagery. RailMap is a useful resource for transport operators, local councils, government departments and utility companies
Apply for access to RailMap
Log on to RailMap
Read more about RailMap
We are a state-owned organisation with an independent Board. We are the owners of Victoria’s transport assets, and work alongside
Department of Transport
Yarra Trams
V/Line
Most of our railway land, assets and buildings are leased to the public transport operators, and they are responsible for maintaining the assets leased to them.
Read more about our role
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We are delivering the design for Ballarat Station’s new bus interchange.
The project is part of plans to redevelop the Ballarat Station precinct.
We have developed a reference design for Ballarat Station's new bus interchange.
The interchange will bring local buses closer to the station, making it easier for commuters to access the station precinct, and making it safer to change between transport services.
It will see the removal of bus bays from nearby residential streets with 12 new bus bays to be contained within the Ballarat Station precinct.
The new bus interchange will improve comfort and safety for station users with pedestrian crossings, CCTV, lighting, shelters and seating.
Wayfinding signage and landscaping will also be provided to finish the project.
The reference design is the result of consultation with expert engineers and architects, transport stakeholders and the Ballarat community.
In February 2018, we held a community information session for the Ballarat Station bus interchange concept design. The session was held at Ballarat Station and provided information on the concept design and the opportunity to provide feedback.
An online survey was also available at Get Involved between 15 and 25 February 2018.
We heard ideas and suggestions from local residents, businesses, community groups and commuters.
In response to community feedback, an additional pedestrian crossing was added in the reference design to improve connectivity to the station building, and the shelters now include windbreakers to provide improved weather protection.
The reference design was used to seek heritage and planning approvals to ensure the design for the interchange is sensitive to the unique heritage values of the precinct. Heritage approval was granted by Heritage Victoria in November 2018. The reference design is also used to inform the detailed design.
Expression of interest open for Melbourne Markets site
The Victorian Government has opened an expression of interest process to lease the former Melbourne Markets site on Footscray Road in West Melbourne, which is owned by VicTrack.
Finding our old trains a new home
The Victorian Government has started the process of finding new homes for the more than 800 train carriages, locomotives and trams that have been retired, or will be retired in coming years. The Expression of Interest process is the first step in helping to repurpose retired trains and trams once they are no longer needed by transport operators.
Wyndham community given chance to name local bridges
The Tarneit Road bridge over the rail line near Tarneit Station has officially been named John Sweeting Bridge.
We are naming five other nearby bridges with a similar appearance through our Bridge Naming Competition.
Better rail signalling and improved facilities for Bendigo
To improve accessibility and comfort at Bendigo Station, a contractor will be appointed to upgrade the station’s waiting room. To make it easier for people to access public transport in the growing suburbs north of Bendigo and use the more frequent services in the future, works are underway to upgrade the car park and forecourt at Eaglehawk Station.
Expression of interest open for Treasury Square site
The Victorian Government has announced an expression of interest process to develop vacant transport land in Melbourne’s CBD, which has the potential to create jobs and attract new businesses.
Tender open for Hurstbridge Station car park construction
Improved car parking is on its way for Hurstbridge passengers, with a tender now open to identify suitably qualified organisations to upgrade the station’s car park.
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The Grand Hotel Excelsior is ideally placed right on Valletta's waterfront, offering panoramic views of Marsamxett Harbour
It's an ideal place for relaxing and exploring the City of Valletta - a UNESCO World Heritage Site full of history, culture and architectural gems.
Our members can enjoy a Superior Sea View Room with daily breakfast.
This hotel won the Travellers' Choice Award, the highest award bestowed by the world’s leading review website. This annual award reflects "the best of the best" for service, quality, and customer satisfaction from hotels & accommodations.
Book Now, Pay Later —
Booking 35 days in advance and spending over £500 per person? No need to pay in full today! Just select the 30% deposit option on our payment page (terms & conditions apply)
Grand Hotel Excelsior’s prime location is perfect for relaxing by the water or exploring the UNESCO World Heritage site of Valletta.
Sixteenth century fortifications embrace the hotel and its olive gardens, so you will be immersed in histroy form the moment you arrive,
Valletta offers a wealth of sights to explore, from grand Baroque architecture to over 25 churches, all intertwined with quaint cafes and pretty cobbled streets.
Marsamxett Harbour is the northern of Valletta’s two natural harbours on the island of Malta, separated from the southern one – the Grand Harbour – by the Valletta peninsula. The harbour is dedicated to yachting and sailing and also hosts the Msida Yacht Marina. The Grand Hotel Excelsior offers its own yacht marina which is exclusive, to its hotel guests and is home to Malta’s Annual Boat Show.
However if you fancy sightseeing of a different kind, back at the hotel you’ll find a water sports centre - a must for diving enthusiasts.
If you're after a laid back break, simply sunbathe on the pool deck, or take a short boat ride to Gozo, Malta’s beautiful sister island.
Grand Hotel Excelsior 5* —
This acclaimed Valletta hotel boasts a premier waterfront location in Valletta, offering breathtaking sea views of Marsamxett Harbour and Manoel Island.
All rooms and suites enjoy a blend of classic and contemporary design, with modern 5-star facilities, some with breathtaking sea views.
The Grand Hotel Excelsior’s facilities include a private 30-berth marina, large outdoor and indoor swimming pools, health & beauty centre and four sophisticated restaurants and bars.
Private marina
Some services may incur additional charges, payable locally
Rooms —
This offer is based on Superior Room with Sea View
Superior Rooms are located from the 8th to the 10th floor and feature a king bed and a furnished balcony overlooking Marsamxett Harbour and Manoel Island.
Size: 33 – 38sqm.
Please note: The bed for the 3rd guest sharing is likely to be a camp bed or sofa bed
Your Board Basis —
This offer is based on a bed and breakfast stay.
Spice Island - Main buffet restaurant specialising offering a wide variety of cuisines including Mediterranean, South-East Asian, Middle Eastern and Caribbean Cuisine.
Admirals Landing - Enjoy International dining in a relaxed ambience at this all day eatery.
Yacht Club - For light dining outdoors, The Yacht Club is ideal. It is centrally-located in the external ‘Piazza Marina’ just outside the main hotel block on the harbour side, and adjacent to the swimming pool.
Harbour View - A delightful place to linger over a coffee or enjoy drinks with your friends at any time of the day. A range of selected light foods are also served.
Tiki Bar & Restaurant - This casual Mediterranean Diner is on the very edge of the shore, giving it truly unobstructed views of the Harbour and Manoel Island. It’s the ideal spot to watch the water sports activities taking place around the city.
Your Time —
The Le Grand Spa at the Grand Hotel Excelsior offers an indoor pool (open 24 hours a day), a state-of-the-art fitness centre and relaxing treatment rooms for indulgent massages.
Scuba diving and other watersports are available nearby.
Your Journey to Grand Hotel Excelsior —
Transfers: Can be added at the next stage of booking for an additional fee
The distance between Malta airport and Grand Hotel Excelsior is approximately 8 km / 15 mins
Travel Documents —
• For further information on passport & visa requirements visit http://www.iatatravelcentre.com/passport-visa-health-travel-document-requirements.htm
• Please note that the location shown on our map is to be used as a guide only and the actual location of the property may differ
• Although we endeavour to provide up to date information we cannot guarantee that all hotel facilities and services will be available during your stay, especially when travelling out of the main holiday periods
• Star rating standards may differ to that of the UK, depending on the country of travel
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Author: Sheldon Li
October 25, 201700
Aquarium of the Bay deployed VUTAGS cloud-based voice tour
NEW complimentary foreign language self guided audio tours are available at Aquarium of the Bay at PIER 39 using your Apple or Android smart phone and scanning a QR Code. Audio is available in Spanish, Korean, Mandarin, Japanese and English. Foreign language audio tours by VUTAGS. https://www.vutags.com/en/aq2/ Aquarium OftheBay PIER 39 Vutags
By Sheldon Li
August 6, 201700
David Becker on Chinese outbound tourism in the US
CEO of Attract China David Becker share his thoughts on Chinese outbound tourism to the US. Join us for the interview to learn about trends inChinese outbound tourism and how you promote and present your business to tap into the market.
May 6, 201701
Attracting Chinese Tourism with QR Codes
Unlike Americans, most Chinese leave their wallets at home. In its place is WeChat, an app that has become woven into Chinese life. WeChat is used by almost 900 million Chinese on a daily basis.
A byproduct of WeChat’s ubiquity in China is the rise of the QR code, its importance exemplified by a recent
Chinese Tourist Spending power
Chinese travelers are spending a higher share of their income on international travel and intend to spend even more in the next year despite a slowing down of the Chinese economy.
This is a reflection of the growing importance of travel to Chinese travelers as a means of self expression and for relaxation. Travel
This startup wants to modernize the hotel industry
Calling for room service is kind of annoying, though it’s one of the most first world-type of problems one could have. But that’s just to say the hotel industry is behind, technologically speaking.
Startup AavGo is trying to fix that by bringing iPads into hotels to enable hotel staff to communicate among themselves, as well as enable
QR codes in China
Interest in QR codes may be dwindling in the West but the technology is going strong in China, and increasingly popular in India too.
Their success has been helped by tech giants such as Tencent and Alibaba pushing the concept to consumers, with Alipay (presently China’s most popular online payment method) adopting the tech in
The iPhone’s camera app can now read QR codes
Remember when QR codes were the next big thing? In the U.S. you used to be able to find them on billboards, business cards — you name it. They were supposed to change the way we use our devices. Remember CurrentC? But the technology never really caught on stateside, mainly because users had to download a totally
Making Chinese tourists feel at home in your business
As Chinese tourists choosing to visit the United States has increased, the number of potential issues has also increased. It is imperative that businesses catering to these travelers understand the problems they may face when they come to the United States.
Employee education is the most important factor in providing a positive experience for
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Adventures > Winter Fun
Adam Zeeman has a blast sledding in fresh winter snow, photo courtesy Paul Gerow.
Michigan is draped in beauty when the winter months come calling. Alpena is a popular location for winter sports such as snowshoeing, ice skating, cross-country skiing, ice fishing, and snowmobiling. More than 100 miles of groomed trails and more than 13,000 acres of State managed forest land offer peace and tranquility for those who love to bundle up and head out into the refreshing outdoors.
The Alpena Snowdrifters Club is under contract with the MDNR to sign, brush and groom 93 miles of snowmobile trail in the Alpena area. There are presently three staging areas for snowmobilers to park and ride from. In addition to the Devils Lake, a series of trails in a state forest, there are three other trails in the system. For trail conditions, a map and more visit the Alpena Snowdrifters Club. Riders can also bring their sleds into town near the NEST trail and stop for bite and a brew! But, please drive responsibly. Check out our blog, The Beginners Guide to a NEST Trail Snowmobile Adventure for a step by step, and trail by trail riding description.
Alpena Snowmobile Map
Northeast Michigan Snowmobile Map
Snowshoeing at Rockport State Recreation Area, photo courtesy Jason Lampel.
Our Sanctuary of the Great Lakes is home to 5 country-side trails, each one is unique and offers the most tranquil and peaceful snowshoe experience. Getaway for an adventure that is the Pure Michigan experience this winter by snowshoeing through Alpena. See The Powder of 5: Snowshoeing the Sanctuary of the Great Lakes for a complete description of our trails and snowshoe experiences.
Alpena is home to a state-of-the-art indoor ice skating facility, Northern Lights Arena. Built in 2003, this arena offers two first-class official NHL sized skate rinks for hockey tournaments, figure skating, and open skating to the public. These skate rinks are open year round so whether you are feeling the wintery Michigan spirit in July or December, come down and skate your cares away as you make Pure Michigan memories right here in Alpena! Find out more about Northern Lights Area in our blog, The Ice is Nice at Northern Lights Arena.
Multiple cross-country ski trails are groomed throughout the season in the Alpena area. Photo courtesy, Casey Stutzman.
With a variety of trails ranging from rugged to smooth terrain, cross-country skiing is a favorite winter sport amongst Alpena locals and tourists to the area. You can find a list of our trails >>HERE<< and pick which terrain is best suited for you. Everything from novice to expert is only a few miles distance from town in the Sanctuary of the Great Lakes.
A winter tradition on Alpena’s inland lakes, providing some of the best ice fishing around! Long Lake, Grand Lake, and Hubbard Lake are ice fishing hot spots in the Alpena area for walleye, perch, several species of pan fish, bass, and pike. Bundle up and set up your tip ups on the inland lakes of Alpena, where the ice is nice and the fish are plenty!
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Chapel Hill Transit
chtransit.org
Chapel Hill Transit provides public transportation throughout the Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and UNC community. The system is fare-free.
Chapel Hill Transit also operates the Monday-Friday Route 420: Hillsborough-Chapel Hill which serves north Hillsborough, downtown Hillsborough, Durham Tech Orange Co. Campus, downtown Chapel Hill, and UNC Hospitals. Plan your trip on gotriangle.org.
Office is open Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm. 919.245.2008. Transit options include public bus routes, pick-up and drop-off for the disabled and elderly, and transportation to senior centers. The Orange Bus provides transportation to locations within and outside Orange County.
Hillsborough Circulator Bus
The Hillsborough Circulator Bus provided by the Town of Hillsborough and Orange County, runs Monday-Friday, 8am––5pm, with 23 stops around town.
Triangle Transit
https://gotriangle.org/
919-485-7433 (RIDE)
Triangle Transit operates regional bus and shuttle service, paratransit services, ridematching, vanpools, provides commuter resources, and an emergency ride home program for the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area. Plan your trip on www.gotriangle.org.
Tar Heel Express
Bus service is provided by Chapel Hill Transit to UNC home basketball and football games, and other major events on campus. The round-trip fare is $5, and a one-way ticket is $3.
Park & Ride Lots to and from Kenan Memorial Stadium:
Friday Center (off NC Hwy 54 East): 3 hours before and 45 minutes after games
103 Airport Drive/UNC Facilities Lot:): 3 hours before and 45 minutes after games
Jones Ferry Rd: 90 minutes before and 45 minutes after games
Southern Village (off US Highway 15.501 South): 90 minutes before and 45 minutes after games
Park & Ride Lots to and from the Dean E. Smith Center. All shuttle buses run 90 minutes before and
45 minutes after games:
Those listed under Football
Downtown Chapel Hill at Carolina Coffee Shop (no parking provided)
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3 hydration rules everyone should follow
by Erin Magner, June 19, 2017
Photo: Stocksy/Michela Ravasio
“The first thing people usually say to me is, ‘Oh my God, your skin is really nice,’” says wellness guru Shannon Vaughn. Her secret to a clear complexion? “I attribute that to water intake.”
Shannon Vaughn. Photo: Pursoma
Vaughn’s love of H20 runs deep—after all, she founded the bath-based detox line Pursoma—fueled in large part by her hydration-related studies at some of the top centers for Ayurvedic and alternative medicine in the world, including New York City’s Natalia Rose Institute and the Vedic Foundation of the Himalayas in India. She says the one thing both traditions have in common is an emphasis on water as a natural filter for impurities both inside and out.
So how much fluid is Vaughn consuming on the reg? “My body knows that it needs at least 100 oz. of filtered water a day,” she says. (That’s the equivalent of about a dozen eight-oz. glasses.)
Volume is only part of her hydration equation, however—the former model’s created an entire daily ritual around it, taking timing and temperature into consideration. Her system ensures she stays topped up 24/7, which can help with mental sharpness and sustained energy levels—and those perks are reason enough to reach for your Nalgene bottle.
So, just what goes into Shannon Vaughn’s skin-quenching protocol? Keep reading for the Pursoma founder’s 3 brilliant hydration rules.
Photo: Stocksy/Studio Firma
1. Drink warm water
Vaughn subscribes to the Goldilocks approach—in order to stomach all that fluid, she doesn’t drink water that’s too hot or too cold. “Ice water shocks the system, and I can only drink so much of it,” she says. “I also don’t want coffee or tea that’s not comfortable to swallow.” (Yes, she does drink herbal tea and the occasional half-caf brew in addition to those three liters of agua.)
While Vaughn prefers room-temperature water simply because it’s easier to drink, Ayurveda and Chinese medicine both recommend the same. Cold water, in particular, is said to douse the digestive fire, and warm (but not scalding) drinks are believed to be beneficial. So be sure to let your matcha cool off for a few minutes before sipping on it.
Photo: Stocksy/Lumina
2. Have the majority of your water before lunch
Even if you have the best hydration intentions, it’s easy to fall off the water wagon when your day gets busy. That’s why Vaughn finds it best to have designated drinking times, and to get most of her hydration in early.
“You’ve really got to get used to drinking water, and I think the easiest thing to do is create a habit,” she says. “I drink the first liter on an empty stomach when I wake up. Then, I drink another liter 30 minutes before lunch; a half-liter 2 hours after lunch; a half-liter 30 minutes before dinner; and a small glass 2 hours after dinner and right before bed.”
Another benefit to this system? It’ll give you a sounder night’s sleep—seriously. “You don’t want to dehydrate yourself all day and then get home and chug a bunch of water, because you’ll be running to the bathroom all night,” Vaughn says. Point taken.
Photo: Stocksy/Good Vibrations Images
3. Don’t drink water with meals
You may have noticed that Vaughn’s schedule doesn’t include any liquids with meals—just 30 minutes before, which studies have shown can help prevent overeating. In fact, she considers water off limits for 2 hours after lunch or dinner.
One reason for this: Some experts believe water interferes with digestion by diluting the enzymes used to breakdown food, though, mainstream medicine doesn’t agree with this theory. Vaughn has, however, pinpointed another benefit to a dry dinner that makes sense even if there’s no science to back it. “If you don’t have any water at the table, you’ll realize you need to chew your food better in order to swallow it,” she says. “You’ll slow down the way you’re eating.” And really, a few more mindful moments in the day would be enough to make anyone look a little more glowy, right?
As if these tips weren’t genius enough, check out the hydration hacks that power Rachel Zoe and Nikki Reed through their mornings.
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Fans eager to see golf greats at Whistling Straits
Updated: 2:41 PM CDT Aug 13, 2015
Tee times began just after sunrise at Whistling Straits, leading to a moment golf fans have been waiting for all year."As you walk here, you just become aware it's a bigger thing than you realize," fan Paul Dekker said.Dekker and his son were first in line to get onto the course Thursday morning, and they know who they'll be following."For a week now, all we've talked about is to see Tiger (Woods)," he said.Crowds gathered to watch Woods sink a few puts on the putting green before walking up to his 8:15 a.m. tee time.Woods was certainly a favorite amongst the crowd, but names like Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth and Ricky Fowler were also mentioned often."I want to see Rory," said Cheryl Mortensen, of Rice Lake. "I was excited he was going to make it after his sprained ankle."Parker Marriott is attending his first golf major, and he has some big names on his list."I want to see Ricky Fowler and Jordan Spieth," he said.A game of inches, being played by all ages, in front of an international audience -- all being played along the Lake Michigan shore.Tickets for Friday's second round are still available for $100. To get tickets, click here.
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Tee times began just after sunrise at Whistling Straits, leading to a moment golf fans have been waiting for all year.
"As you walk here, you just become aware it's a bigger thing than you realize," fan Paul Dekker said.
Dekker and his son were first in line to get onto the course Thursday morning, and they know who they'll be following.
"For a week now, all we've talked about is to see Tiger (Woods)," he said.
Crowds gathered to watch Woods sink a few puts on the putting green before walking up to his 8:15 a.m. tee time.
Woods was certainly a favorite amongst the crowd, but names like Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth and Ricky Fowler were also mentioned often.
"I want to see Rory," said Cheryl Mortensen, of Rice Lake. "I was excited he was going to make it after his sprained ankle."
Parker Marriott is attending his first golf major, and he has some big names on his list.
"I want to see Ricky Fowler and Jordan Spieth," he said.
A game of inches, being played by all ages, in front of an international audience -- all being played along the Lake Michigan shore.
Tickets for Friday's second round are still available for $100. To get tickets, click here.
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This Disney Star's Second Marriage Is Sparking A Ton Of Heated Debate
What do you think of her post?
By Rosy Cordero
Jeffrey Mayer/Getty Images
There's no doubt love is hard to find. So to be lucky in love twice is incredibly, well, lucky. This is the case for former Disney star Tiffany Thornton, who married Josiah Capaci on Saturday, nearly two years after the tragic death of her first husband, Chris Carney.
Tiffany, who had two young sons with Chris, got tons of negative backlash on social media after announcing her new relationship with Josiah. Many people who criticized her nuptials took issue with the fact that she remarried so soon after losing Chris to a car accident in December 2015. Some even questioned whether she had ever loved her deceased husband at all. One commenter wrote, "So wait... he husband/father of her kids that just died like a year ago isn’t the best thing that’s ever happened to her? Makes me really sad.”
Tiffany responded with an Instagram post featuring a photo of her special day. “This. This is love,” she wrote. “That all encompassing, enduring, accepting, near perfect love. The kind that trumps my need to snap back at people who have the audacity to comment on my Instagram about whether I loved my first husband or not.”
But that post also included an opinion about marriage that rankled many.
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This. This is love. That all encompassing, enduring, accepting, near perfect love. The kind that trumps my need to snap back at people who have the audacity to comment on my Instagram about whether I loved my first husband or not. But let me take a moment to explain something to you. There is no timeline for grief or for when God moves in your life in undeniable ways. There are a lot of people who think it isn't good to be transparent on social media but I say forget that. I'm going to be open and honest because God wants me to. It's part of my testimony and it needs to be said. I was a mess yesterday during our wedding ceremony. So many emotions flooded my heart as I walked down those balcony steps to the arms of my gift from God. I thought of Chris watching us and knowing he would have loved the choice I made, for me and for the boys. I thought of Chris's amazing parents sitting front row and how much of a blessing they have been and will forever be in our lives. How happy they are for the boys and I and how much they already love Josiah. I am so completely humbled by the love I receive from this man. Jo came along EXACTLY when God knew I needed him. It wasn't my choice to fall in love so quickly after chris passed but I was growing so comfortable with being alone that it was becoming unhealthy. Looking back now I think God saw that if I went too long without love that it would become increasingly difficult for me to submit to the authority of a husband after being set in my own ways. When I say "Jo is the greatest thing that's ever happened to me" that in no way indicates that I didn't love my first husband with all that I had. How dare any one of you judge me and say that on a social platform. It doesn't make you any better of a person to cast judgment on others and sit in the seat of mockers. I will always love chris and jo knows that. And I will always love Jo. The beautiful thing about love is that it multiplies as new blessings come into your life. I don't have to share one bucket of love with the special people in my life. Each one has their own bucket. Get it? Isn't that amazing?? God's timing is not our own. And I praise Him for that. You should too.
A post shared by Tiffany Thornton (@tiffthornton) on Oct 8, 2017 at 6:49am PDT
Related: Lady Gaga Just Opened Up About Having Her Heart Broken By Taylor Kinney
In her post, Tiffany also writes: "Looking back now I think God saw that if I went too long without love that it would become increasingly difficult for me to submit to the authority of a husband after being set in my own ways."
Many commenters were NOT about this. While some jumped to her defense, noting her religious beliefs, others said: "It's not 'unhealthy' to be comfortable being alone. And it's quite unhealthy to 'submit' to the authority of anyone. Mutual respect is one thing. Submission is another."
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While many of the comments on Tiffany's post were positive, congratulating her on finding happiness again and standing up for what she believes in, clearly, her fans are clearly still divided.
What do you think of Tiffany's post?
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A Project for the World
Welcome to the Human Capital Project (HCP), a global effort to accelerate more and better investments in people for greater equity and economic growth. Why should countries invest in human capital (HC)? Can early health care and education prepare children to succeed and prosper as adults in a rapidly changing world? What are the barriers to nurturing individuals and how can countries overcome them? Find out why the World Bank, countries, and partners are coming together to try to close the massive HC gap in the world today. Check out our videos, data visualization, frequently-asked-questions, and more so you too can help those around the world to #InvestinPeople.
WHAT DID THE HCP ACCOMPLISH IN YEAR 1?
Videos: The HCP Playlist
Blog: Happy Birthday to the Human Capital Index: Looking back and moving
Story: The Pacific Islands and Papua New Guinea Invest in People
Video: Building the Foundation of Human Capital
Blog: To close Vietnam’s HC development gap, look to ethnic minorities
Blog: HC for all: are we there yet? Five things to know about gender
About the HCP
This effort is about investing in HC in all countries. In order to get there, we must work on several levels. You can learn more in the descriptions below, by visiting our About page and by visiting our Frequently Asked Questions page.
The Human Capital Index (HCI)
The HCI provides a new definition of human capital and quantifies the contribution of health and education to the productivity of the next generation of workers. Countries can use it to assess how much income they are foregoing because of HC gaps, and how much faster they can turn these losses into gains if they act now.
Learn more about the Index and the definition of Human Capital
Measurement & Research
Credible measurement of education and health outcomes is critical locally, nationally, and globally. Within countries, measurement leads to insights into what works and where to target resources. It also increases policy makers’ awareness of the importance of investing in human capital, creating momentum for action. Globally, comprehensive measurement sheds light on the differences between countries, and spurs demand for investments in human capital.
The HCP will help countries tackle the worst barriers to peoples' development, using a “whole of government” approach. As of November 2019, the HCP counts 70 countries as part of its network of committed governments who have expressed interest to invest in human capital at the highest levels. In addition, a number of “Human Capital Champions”—world leaders, thought leaders, celebrities, and others—have signed on to advocate for the next generation.
Visit our About page to learn more
What is the HCI?
HCI: Country Briefs and Data
Download Full HCI Dataset
Download 2-page briefs that put country data in perspective, and specialized Excel files that report detailed data, data sources, and methodology. These files are available for 157 countries that had sufficient data to calculate a HCI value in October 2018.
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Iran, Islamic Rep.
More Human Capital Index Data
Metadata and resources
Key Reports
Insights from Disaggregating the Human Capital Index
This report quantifies inequalities in human capital and particularly focuses on socioeconomic and subnational spatial differences. The authors discuss 50 low- and middle-income countries with comparable data and highlight the potential of detailed disaggregation for the design of well-targeted policies.
HCP : 2019 Annual Progress Report
Read what countries have accomplished during the first full year of the HCP.
Middle East and North Africa Human Capital Plan
On October 16, 2019, The World Bank launched a new plan for MENA countries to invest in human capital by focusing on early childhood development and improving learning outcomes.
Whole-of-Government Approaches
This series of four briefs explores strategies that governments have deployed to overcome barriers to investing in human capital: (i) sustaining effort across political cycles, (ii) coordinating across government, and (iii) designing policies according to evidence.
The Human Capital Project Brief
This brief provides a definition of human capital, describes the HCP goals and theory of change, and presents evidence of the importance of investing in people, economies, and societies. The HCI methodology is detailed in the appendix.
World Bank Africa Human Capital Plan
The World Bank is gearing up support to African countries to improve investment in people and lift survival, health, education, social protection and women empowerment by 2023. This regional HC plan explains how.
The Human Capital Project in Sub-Saharan Africa: Stories of progress
Investing in Africa’s people is central to ensuring the continent’s future prosperity and full participation in global markets. This overview explains how some countries in Africa have already advanced the agenda and what the Human Capital Project will do to support outcomes.
The Changing Nature of Work (World Development Report 2019)
Fears that robots will take away jobs from people have dominated the discussion over the future of work, but the World Development Report 2019 finds that on balance this appears to be unfounded. This report suggests investments in human capital and social protection can lead the way to the skills needed in a changing labor market.
Learning to Realize Education’s Promise (World Development Report 2018)
The best way to equip children and youth for the future is to place their learning at the center the education system. The 2018 World Development Report explores four main themes: 1) education’s promise; 2) the need to shine a light on learning; 3) how to make schools work for learners; and 4) how to make systems work for learning.
The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018: Building a sustainable future
This report covers national wealth for 141 countries over 20 years as the sum of produced capital, 19 types of natural capital, net foreign assets, and human capital. New data substantially improves estimates of natural capital, and, for the first time, human capital is measured by using household surveys to estimate lifetime earnings.
HC Project News Map
World Bank Group Executive Directors Reiterate Support to Egypt
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World Bank Group Executive Directors Visit Djibouti to Discuss Country’s Development Prospects
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Bold education reforms can lift Ukraine’s economy
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Empowering women and girls is at the heart of our work
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The Road to the HCP
Spring Meetings 2019: Highlights
Summit: A Global Call to Action
Summit: Comitting to Action to Drive Economic Growth
Summit: Investing in the Early Years for Growth and Productivity
Q&A: World Bank HCI gathers momentum
Blog: How is the HCI prompting action?
News: Letter to the World from HC Champions (Financial Times)
Story: "I’m a Human Capital Champion"—Video Statements
Infographic: What does the HCI say about the future productivity of children globally?
Website: Investing in the Early Years
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The White House just got scammed. Here’s how to avoid phishing scams
A British prankster has tricked White House officials and a Homeland Security Adviser into opening fraudulent emails. But what are phishing scams?
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While Donald Trump is busy telling everyone he is the subject of “the single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history”, stirring his administration into a frenzied witch hunt of its own to track down, publicly humiliate and oust potential leakers, some gaping holes in that administration’s ability to function have become visible. We’re not talking about its inability to get legislation passed through Congress. Or to retain key members of staff for longer than ten days. We’re talking about basic security. Because self-proclaimed ‘lazy anarchist’ and ‘email prankster’ @SINON_REBORN from the UK has managed to strike at the heart of the most powerful office in the world with a simple phishing attempt.
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“White House – FYI I won't be pranking you any longer, point made. I'm just a dude with a iPhone, you need to tighten up IT policy. love x x,” @SINON_REBORN tweeted the morning after it became clear the White House had been the victim of a spear phishing attack. The prankster has shared screenshots of apparent correspondence with the former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci on email, where, posing as former chief of staff Reince Priebus, he told the ‘Mooch’ exactly what he thought of his antics. Less humorous and somewhat more serious, @SINON_REBORN also contacted Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert from a fake account pretending to be the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and was rewarded with the employee’s private email address.
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I think what I said to @Scaramucci when I was playing the part of @Reince was actually quite an accurate summary of his behaviour pic.twitter.com/9dPyNwYvUX
— james linton (@SINON_REBORN) July 31, 2017
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Spear phishing is an incredibly simple, but effective form of hacking known as social engineering. It essentially involves tricking people into opening emails or clicking on content that looks harmless – in this case, because it seems to be presented by a reliable source and peer. This could lead to malware being downloaded on a victim's system, or in the case of the Trump administration, a healthy dose of humble pie.
While the White House says it is taking the incident “very seriously” and looking into it, @SINON_REBORN has provided some insight into their motivation, tweeting: “I targeted @Scaramucci as i've suffered from mental health problems all my life, and he seems to think paranoid schizophrenia is a put down.” The tweet refers to the extraordinary rant Scaramucci delivered to a New Yorker reporter in July about his colleagues Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon, in which he referred to the former as a "fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac".
But don’t worry. Trump, via the magic of Twitter, has assured his country “No WH chaos!” and, just after the spear phishing story broke: “A great day at the White House!”
An excerpt of what I emailed to @Scaramucci whilst playing the part of Jon Huntsman Jr. Apparently this didn't seem out of the ordinary?! 😂🤡 pic.twitter.com/6INHJi3KCD
— james linton (@SINON_REBORN) August 1, 2017
This is not the first spear phishing scam of its kind, and will not be the last. Last year, the number of attacks targeting businesses and individuals rose to its highest to date, surging 250 per cent in the first quarter of 2016 compared to the previous year. Unlike @SINON_REBORN, many people launching phishing attacks use them for malicious purposes to scam businesses and informations out of money, intellectual property and more.
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What are phishing attacks?
Phishing attacks take many forms – malicious emails, fake web forms, pharming – but the ultimate aim of each is to gain access to private information.
At the heart of phishing attacks is deception. Each attacker is attempting to convince you they are a person or brand you are familiar with. "Any contact like this is designed to convince you to hand over valuable personal details, your money, or download something that infects your computer," the UK's ActionFraud organisation says.
This type of contact and phishing can result in emails, texts or phone calls appearing to be from a recognised source, but subtle differences exist. Attackers buying fake domain names is one way to start a phishing attack.
For example, an email address purporting to be from WIRED could be displayed as w1red.co.uk. Once a domain name is purchased, emails can be set up and the names of official staff members could be put ahead of the URL – e.g. matt@w1red.co.uk.
"Phishing relies on social engineering," David Emm, principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab, tells WIRED. Emm explains that there will always be new ways those running phishing attacks will try to trick people, so "it’s best to adopt a security culture that will keep you safe in any situation," he says.
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What types of phishing are there?
Security firm Tripwire recently identified six types of phishing attacks.
Deceptive phishing involves being targeted with a fake link that tricks you into entering your login details so information can be taken from accounts.
Spear phishing attacks, which have been used to target UK startups, involve personalisation. A spear attack will often involve the creation of an email address that looks genuine and is in the name of a colleague. A message will then be sent to the target and appear to be real.
"Fraudsters customise their attack emails with the target’s name, position, company, work phone number and other information in an attempt to trick the recipient into believing they have a connection with the sender," Tripwire says on its blog.
CEO fraud is another type of phishing. This involves impersonating a CEO or a person of power to ensure payments are made quickly. It's similar to spear phishing but aims to leverage the power of senior members of staff.
One of the most technically sophisticated phishing attacks involves changing an IP address of a website. The DNS servers of a website are targeted and, if successful, this will redirect users of that website to a completely fake page.
Lastly, there's Google Document phishing, where fake pages are sent to to contacts disguised as real files. This type of attack is becoming increasing sophisticated. Dropbox phishing is also used by those carrying out attacks.
Who are the victims of phishing attacks?
The beauty of phishing is that they can be used to target everyone with an email address, and it's possible anyone could fall for a convincing one. In April 2016, in the US, the FBI warned business email scams are on the rise.
Between October 2013 and February 2016, law enforcement around the world saw reports of 17,642 victims losing money, the FBI added. This amounts to more than $2.3 billion (£1.79bn) in losses, and since January 2015 the agency said there has been an increase of 270 per cent.
Leoni AG, an electronics manufacturing company in Europe, is said to have lost £33m in one incident; Mattel almost lost £2.7m; and reports say £77m was taken from Google and Facebook in phishing incidents.
How do you spot a phishing attack?
"The obvious ones are noticeable to the seasoned eye," Richard Neale, a senior consultant at SpearSec, tells WIRED. Neale, whose firm spoke at WIRED Security 2016, added that most corporate companies will block the most obvious phishing attempts.
Beyond this, the majority of advice around spotting phishing emails involves common sense and diligence. Checking an email more than once is recommended by security experts.
"The key, over-riding rule is ‘Think before you click’," he says. "You have to be cynical about every mail. Read the mail, twice. Maybe even three times." This critical eye includes looking, in detail, at email addresses and also the links within emails.
If you hover the mouse over a link and it doesn't appear to be genuine, it's more likely the email is a phishing attempt.
"Banks and other organisations never send e-mails asking for confidential data; so, if you receive such an e-mail (and not just from the bank), assume it’s phishing," Kaspersky's Emm says. "Remember, if it looks important, and you’re not sure, you can always call the bank to check".
Emm's firm has also produced an online test to help people identify whether emails are genuine.
What's the best way to respond to phishing emails?
Despite there being simple ways to avoid phishing attempts, the evidence of firms' losing money points to the fact the methods work. Inevitably, people will click on links in phishing emails.
"If you have disclosed confidential data (e.g. a username or password), go to the real site and change it immediately, to stop the criminals hijacking your online account," Emm says. You can also report emails to your email service provider.
While Neale adds that if you see a phishing email at work, the best approach is to forward it to an IT department or report it in via internal company systems. "If it appears to come from a colleague, but it does look and feel 'phishy,' don’t reply in the mail, call them or go to see them to confirm the validity of the mail and the contents," he says.
"Never reply to the message, even if you fancy taunting the 'phisherman,' you would only be confirming your email address is valid and live."
If you do click on a phishing link, it's also worth reporting the incident to Action Fraud.
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Some Mary Lake residents are voicing concerns about a plan to develop more lots in their neighbourhood. (Joel Krahn/Yukon News file)
Mary Lake residents fret over infill
‘They paid top dollar’
Lori Fox
Stuart Young sat with one hand on his iced tea and one hand on a stack of papers spread across the table. He held a pen between his fingers, flicking it back and forth thoughtfully, tapping it against his knuckles.
“I don’t usually have time for things like this,” he said, patting the manila folder. “Now I have a whole file on this stuff.”
Young is a business consultant with a background in environmental science and is a resident of Mary Lake subdivision. He has major concerns surrounding the city-proposed infill lots in his neighbourhood, he said.
Young produced a map from the file and pointed at a space shaded in blue along Fireweed Drive representing one of the proposed infill sites.
“This is a deadly one,” he said. The road there is very narrow, in the winter time especially, with a sharp curve and hill he said, which would make building there very dangerous. “They’d have to put in a side access road there to make it safe and I don’t think they’re going to do that.”
Acting manager of planning and sustainability Mike Ellis has said that these infill sites are designed to need no additional roadways built in the subdivisions they have been selected for.
Loss of greenspace is also a major concern for Young — a concern which has been expressed by other people publicly multiple times, both in the media and in various council meetings. Young says there is a wildlife corridor in the area, and that there are trails — which city council and staff have said are not protected from development because they are not recognized as part of the official trails plan — which are used by snowmobilers, mushers and berry pickers from both within and outside of the Mary Lake community.
“Our concern is, you’re going to take away the wilderness, you’re going to have conflict (with wildlife),” he said. “When you have to put an animal down or someone dies because they spooked a bear and her cubs, who’s responsible? You’ve changed (the animals’) habitat.
“They’re not respecting their own OCP.”
Presently, the city’s 2010 Official Community Plan states that “green space retention, important recreation areas, wildlife habitat, and movement corridors within the City are important to the vision developed by residents and thus need to be protected.”
Lois Johnston, head of the Mary Lake Community Association, said that, while she “doesn’t speak for everyone,” that she had heard many of Young’s complaints echoed by other residents.
“Those trails are very important and people use them every day — we have poor lighting on Fireweed Trail and people use the (unofficial trails) to walk with their kids. It’s dangerous to walk on the road,” she said.
“People bought with the understanding no one would ever build (on these greenspaces) — and they paid top dollar,” Young said.
Safety and greenspace issues aside, Young said — as many before him have also said — that he has concerns about water quality and pressure should these new lots go in.
The city eliminated three of the initial 13 sites it was considering based on a result of consultations and physical assessments of the sites. Young said the report the city used to determine the feasability of the remaining 10 proposed sites was “just a tabletop study,” and the type of testing they used to determine the potential water pressure does not produce “real” applicable results.
Young said that, when another house went in behind his, the pressure in his own well dropped by 35 per cent.
“If you stick 10 more houses down the road,” he said, “then what?”
Greg Bull, an engineer and resident of Mary Lake, said he reviewed the report and found that it was sound, but he finds the way the city has interpreted and applied someone of the results troubling. If developed, he said, some of the proposed infill lots might not be able to have on-site water, due to the structure of the water table and the risk of drilling “dry” wells.
“There’s nothing wrong with the technical report,” he said. “The issue I have with it is that … there is a high risk of not being able to drill successful wells on the property…. People may have to drill more than one well to hit water, or (possibly) not hit water at all.
“I personally wouldn’t want to take that chance.”
Bull said it can cost between $17,000 and $22,000 to drill one well.
“If you have to drill two, that’s costly.”
“Drilling of wells in the granite of the igneous bedrock aquifer will likely be ‘hit or miss,’ and there is the potential to install dry wells as well as successful wells,” the report report reads. “The cost of well drilling may constrain residents’ ability to drill additional wells should initial wells not provide adequate yield. Even if multiple wells are drilled on a lot, it may not guarantee that required yields are met.
“Wells completed in granite have the potential for water quality concerns such as hard water, concentrations of iron and manganese above the … aesthetic objective (AO) and uranium concentrations … may require treatment.”
“My big issue,” said Bull, “is that it goes against what they said they wanted in the OCP.”
The OCP mandates that country residential areas, “ shall be maintained, where possible, on the basis of on-site sewage disposal and potable water sources.”
More than anything, Young said he objects to what he calls a lack of consultation. Public consultations have been held by the city at various stages in the selection process, including an online survey.
“I’m not against the development — I’m against the process,” Young said. “We’ve asked a lot of questions and haven’t got bugger all for answers.”
Letters regarding the development were sent out in May, informing residents in affected areas that their neighbourhoods were being considered for development. These letters read, in part, that while Whistle Bend has been “the major focus of development for the City” over the past few years, the city was considering the infill development because there are “very few lots currently available.”
New lots in Whistle Bend are expected to become available in spring 2018.
“I get it,” Young said. “I get that you don’t have room for everybody…. But don’t make us pay because you screwed up Whistle Bend.”
Contact Lori Fox at lori.fox@yukon-news.com
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Ernest Gellner and The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason and the Cunning of Freud
28 September 2011 / David Auerbach / 4 Comments
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Finishing off the examination of Ernest Gellner and his well-meaning but somewhat pig-headed Enlightenment Fundamentalist Rationalism, we come to his attack on psychoanalysis, The Psychoanlaytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason. This book was published in 1985, 35 years after Words and Things, his attack on Wittgenstein and ordinary language philosophy.
Like Words and Things, it is a centaur, half-sociology and half-philosophical critique, and just as ill-tempered. It is a better book than Words and Things, because the game is much bigger. Here, Gellner is going after an intellectual and social movement a million times more successful, and at least several times more dubious.
The attack is successful, but as with Words and Things, the centaur form of the book makes it a mixed success. I will try to separate the threads and pick out the book’s vital core from the sometimes shaky surrounding membrane.
Because it is so much more an inviting sociological target, and because the sociology of psychoanalysis is that much more mixed in with its underlying philosophy (i.e., the patient-therapist relationship), psychoanalysis is in many ways the perfect subject for Gellner, ripe for the sort of attack that ordinary language philosophy didn’t seem to merit.
The danger is his being too obvious or unoriginal. Adolf Grunbaum has carefully critiqued the theoretical work of psychoanalysis, while George Makari’s Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis showed the bizarre evolution and personal flaws of the movement’s leaders. Both are books Gellner would not have bothered to write. Gellner’s task rather is to place a quicker critique of that sort into a larger sociological framework.
Consequently, there is a sense at times that Gellner is struggling to make more out of the material than there is. Having identified the endless flaws of psychoanalytic theory and how they yielded a hegemonic power structure in the psychoanalytic community, Gellner has to walk a line between the dangers of (a) restricting his critique to Freud and his direct scions and thus letting the larger societal trend get away, and (b) extending his critique to psychotherapy in general and thus reducing the theory to mere therapeutic practice in all its myriad forms.
Gellner’s solution is to approach things genealogically. By showing how Freud’s initial paradigm caught fire and appealed to the bourgeois masses, he can indict both Freudian psychoanalytic theory as well as its less-direct consequences today, which are the polluted offspring of a manipulative intellectual charlatan. This is his goal, anyway. Ultimately, the minute particulars of psychoanalytic theory and practice seem to fall away in favor of a sociological exploration of psychotherapy in general, which is still heavily influenced, as are we all, by Freud’s ideas.
In some ways Freud is an easier target than a more obscure thinker like Austin or Ryle because a good chunk of his thinking has been absorbed into the common argot. His tripartite psyche, repression, the unconscious, and assorted other concepts have become ubiquitous cultural abstractions even if they aren’t metaphysical entities. So what’s left over seems even more objectionable because we take the less objectionable stuff for granted.
And yet just as Wittgenstein eluded Gellner’s grasp, Freud dodges Gellner’s shots better than the rest of the psychoanalytic community. This is not because Freud’s theory is so very defensible, but because Gellner is attacking it on grounds on which it has never been seriously judged. By 1985 psychoanalysis was definitely not seen as the sort of science that you’d find in the DSM (however dubious that might be), yet its therapeutic children continued unabated.
The story that George Makari tells in Revolution in Mind is that of psychoanalysis emancipating itself from the empirical sciences and going into pure speculation and mythology, often excessively so. Yet if anything this probably aided in its success. As Gellner says:
A purely hermeneutic psychoanalysis would not sound like science, confer no power, and few men would turn to it in distress; a purely physicalist or biological psychoanalysis would have been too much like a science, and no fun. But the plausible-sounding fusion of both is very different, and most attractive.
Ernest Gellner, The Psychoanalytic Movement
Yet as the “science” is quite loose, it’s rather pointless to attack the ideas for not being scientifically grounded, at least in 1985. It’s akin to criticizing Hegel for misunderstanding Sophocles or, indeed, criticizing Freud for misunderstanding Sophocles. It doesn’t teach us anything about their success.
No matter what ridiculous claims Freud made for his theory being “scientific,” psychoanalysis was never even provisionally held to the sort of rigorous standard to which Wittgenstein held his own thoughts, or else it would have collapsed. The scientific rhetoric was necessary, as Freud well knew, to getting his project off the ground and initially accepted in the medical and psychological community, but it became secondary once success was assured. The interesting story is not psychoanalysis pretending to be a science, but psychotherapy’s underlying Freudian groundwork surviving the debunking of those scientific claims.
As the Freudians are still fond of quoting:
if often he was wrong and, at times, absurd,
to us he is no more a person
now but a whole climate of opinion
under whom we conduct our different lives . . .
W. H. Auden, In Memory of Sigmund Freud
Freud was an incisively creative mind, which Gellner acknowledges, and in conjunction with his brilliant self-marketing, he managed to gain an astonishing amount of traction for some of his psychological metaphors and models. That his theories were held to be science among several influential groups for quite some time is one depressing measure of his success.
Gellner succeeds, however, when he tries to understand the success rather than attacking the theory.
Two stories emerge, related but distinct. First there is Freud the empire-builder, who keeps reins on psychoanalysis and jealously guards the keys to his process and movement. Freud was indeed autocratic, though not quite the tyrant Gellner makes out. Makari shows Freud as a self-doubting genius (albeit one who is careerist, unethical, narcissistic, and a plagiarist) who had good reason to keep control, as most of his followers are far from his intellectual equal. Of the Freudians, Ferenczi and Melanie Klein acquit themselves without too much damage but do not impress, while Carl Jung and Anna Freud come off very badly indeed.
Makari’s book is far more successful than Gellner’s in showing the poison that went around in these circles, and his lack of a blatant axe to grind allows the twisted process to emerge organically. Gellner is right to see Freud as a demagogue of a sort, but he really can’t be bothered to do the background.
Yet this does not prove fatal to Gellner. The second story, and the one Gellner is more effective in telling, is the large scale story of the success of psychoanalysis and consequently psychotherapy in general. Here Gellner can deal with the received ideas of psychoanalysis in general and try to figure out its place in society.
Somewhat ironically, Gellner must consequently credit Freud with having pulled off something amazing in selling his wares to the public. But what did he sell? A secular mythos and practice.
One way of seeing the ideological achievement of Sigmund Freud is to understand that he has constructed a solid, non-conjectural, support-providing world, something that had disappeared from our life; that he invented a technique for supplying this commodity made-to-measure for individual consumers; and that he had erected it using exclusively modern, intellectually acceptable bricks.
Freud’s achievement, then, was appealing to a societal neurosis (I use that term ironically) in an instinctive, brilliant way, and offering a solution that was less an idea than a ritual. It is a cutting of the Gordian knot of modernism, of God-is-Deadism, as Gellner points out in a fairly compelling comparison with Nietzsche.
Gellner sometimes puts it as the need for an authority (the therapist), but the better way to put it is the need to find a stable, validated frame narrative for one’s existence. The accomplishment of psychoanalysis is to turn this process not into a one-time fix (which would never work), but into a repeated ritual to shore up the authority.
Again, the irony. By identifying a neurosis that requires ritual treatment, Gellner very nearly excuses the psychoanalytic requirement for potentially unending treatment. He points out a number of problems of modernity which Freudian practice claims to solve, two of which are particularly spot-on:
The Weberian problem of a ‘disenchanted’, cold, impersonal world. The modern world is in fact bound to be such: cognitive growth goes jointly with specialised, single-strand cognitive inquiry, which inevitably separates the intellectual exploration of the world from personal relations, values, and the hierarchical ordering of society. Freud restored a form of cognition which, while articulated in an impeccably modern idiom, and seemingly part of medicine and science, was firmly locked in with a hierarchical and comforting personal relation, and with values and the hope of personal salvation. Thus a reality is reenchanted, and its enchantment is permanently serviced, albeit at a price.
The Durkheimian problem of reuniting cognition, ritual, and social order. Psychoanalysis has or is an astoundingly effective ritual, adapted to an individualist age, engendering all those affective consequences which Durkheim associated with ritual, and indeed separating the sacred and profane with all the neatness which that theory postulated.
To offer a persuasive solution to so fundamental a set of problems, and to offer them in a way that the solution is lived out rather than merely thought, ratified by both ritual and an intense personal relationship, and generally not consciously thought out at all, is an astonishing achievement.
I find this extremely compelling, not least because it seems so obvious after reading it that Freud provided one very dominant mythos of our age. (Others helped out too, as did amorphous cultural processes.) Foucault and others had already been here, but this is the best summation I have read, and a testament to Gellner’s intuitive thinking.
Those philosophers today who ask for a reenchantment of reality to brighten our supposedly cold, industrialized world do not realize that we have already reenchanted our mental frameworks as much as any past culture, albeit in a more tenuous and somewhat neurotic way. But any further reenchantment would require religious dogmatism, so I’m not complaining.
I think Paul Ricoeur’s Freud and Philosophy does a good job of explaining in depth what Freud contributed in this direction. If Freud was a philosopher, he is best thought of as hermeneutic.
Gellner’s statements about the analyst as shaman, the analyst as mystic, the analyst as deity, are interesting and sometimes compelling, but they detract from his more powerful point that the raw practice itself is what’s successful, not the particulars of the relationship. Hence why psychotherapy continues even as classical psychoanalysis has waned.
Core elements of the original framework remain, of course, which is why Freud survives even if psychoanalysis mostly does not. Gellner points out that one key technique is providing a safe space for the externalization of one’s inner demons: that is, treating them as demons, not one’s conscious self.
The flaw of the Freudian Unconscious is not that it constitutes a scandalous inversion of conscious proprieties, but that it remains far, far too close to them. Freudianism is a kind of animism. It projects (rightly or wrongly), on to forces outside our consciousness, the kind of trait or attribute which our culture had habitually attributed to our conscious activity. As in other forms of animism, this is combined with the claim that these spirits of the deep can be understood, conjured up, appeased and rendered harmless only by certain practitioners of mysteries, members of a restrictive guild with specialised initiation rites.
Yet the guild has opened up now, and the process remains, with whatever bits of the theory have been appropriated by the collective societal consciousness. Not surprisingly, most of these do come from Freud himself rather than his less brilliant followers.
Consequently, Gellner’s position is weakened a bit. Because psychoanalysis qua theory proves to be a bit of a red herring (you don’t need the Oedipus Complex and the Death-Instinct for psychotherapy to be successful), the therapist doesn’t come out looking too bad. An expensive luxury? Certainly. A disingenuous practitioner? Perhaps. But having acknowledged the contemporary human’s unstinting desire for a healthier structure/mythos for understanding–or perhaps more accurately, simplifying—one’s own life, Gellner is too quick to assess that the result is unavoidably meaningless.
There is a pragmatic evaluative process, albeit not a terribly scientific one, which is the practical terms of the individual patient’s life. This was the process that slowly killed off psychoanalysis proper. Today, in the absence of a proper theory, evaluations are now performed ad hoc. Such case-by-case evaluations guarantee mixed results at best and gross abuses of power at worst, but psychotherapy is not the self-validating closed system that psychoanalysis-the-theory was. Such systems survive only by opening up, and I think that Freud laid the groundwork for that himself by reversing and revising his positions over the course of his life.
So oddly, Gellner makes the case that psychotherapy was more or less an inevitable coping mechanism that needed to arise given the conditions of modernity. If Freud had not existed, society would have had to invent him. (And, indeed, society did invent its version of him, throwing out the psychosexual and anthropological esoterica it could not use and keeping the basic model and method.) Gellner would like it if we could shrug off those needs and abandon the enchantments that psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic metaphors provide, but since he’s made such a powerful case for why they’re so appealing, it doesn’t seem very likely. Genuine science is never enough. Something always gets piled on top, and frequently it’s called science too.
The grave issue remains that Freud’s absolutist claim to truth for his theory was necessary if psychoanalysis were to gain purchase, so that it could then, under some duress, shrug off its claims to absolute knowledge in favor of a more humble, pragmatic stance and then live on more deftly as psychotherapy. Alas, though, this is the paradox of all of the human “sciences”: we only ever hear about the ones that started with absurd hubris.
Uncharitability
On the topic of uncharitability, here’s a pretty good example from mythology expert G.S. Kirk:
If I am right, then, the belief in mythical thinking directed to visual and figurative objects is a hangover from the crude psychology of the late eighteenth century and the unworldly epistemology of the early nineteenth.
The detailed understanding of myths and their possible relations to philosophy has been seriously distorted by those learned Hegelian speculations–as well, of course, as by the primitivism of Sir Edward Tylor and Lucien Levy-Bruhl, the naive comparatism of Sir James Frazer, the sociological exaggerations of Durkheim, Jane Harrison, and the early Cornford, the ponderous neo-Kantian epistemology of Cassirer and the romantic functionalism of Levi-Strauss. Deprived of support from dreams (not a form of thought) and primitive mentality (a chimaera), ‘mythical thinking’ can be clearly seen for what it is: the unnatural offspring of a psychological anachronism, an epistemological confusion and a historical red herring.
G.S. Kirk, The Nature of Greek Myths
Jung and Snell also get criticized, though Vernant shockingly gets a pass.
Now, I like Kirk and he has a lot of great stuff to say on the subject, but it’s hard not to be put off a bit by a sweeping dismissal like this, as well as the implication that finally, with Kirk, we have got it right. There’s a place for his grouchy English empiricism that refuses all blatant superstructures, but that’s its own sort of superstructure. Walter Burkert, of whom Kirk approves, is far more charitable to even the most dubious of his predecessors.
On the other hand, Cassirer, Snell, and Levi-Strauss make it into Kirk’s Suggestions for Further Reading, as does, inexplicably, Jung and Kerenyi’s Introduction to a Science of Mythology. (I can just imagine Kirk putting “[sic]” after every noun in that title.)
Forces at Work in Wittgenstein
I’ve generally been impressed by David G. Stern‘s careful and extensively-researched work on Wittgenstein. In responding to a comment from T.P. Uschanov, I mentioned Stern’s paper on the debate over the transitions in Wittgenstein’s philosophy, “How Many Wittgensteins?” In addition to making the intriguing case that the Philosophical Investigations have a distinctly more Pyrrhonic flavor than Wittgenstein’s other later writings, Stern also gives this general summation of what really is shared across Wittgenstein’s work, as well as a comment on how the technique of the Philosophical Investigations goes about achieving it.
What is really interesting about both the Tractatus and the Philosophical Investigations is neither a metaphysical system, nor a supposedly definitive answer to system-building, but the unresolved tension between two forces: one aims at a definitive answer to the problems of philosophy, the other aims at doing away with them altogether. While they are not diametrically opposed to one another, there is a great tension between them, and most readers have tried to resolve this tension by arguing, not only that one of them is the clear victor, but also that this is what the author intended. Here I am indebted to the wording of the conclusion of David Pears’ Wittgenstein: “Each of the two forces without the other would have produced results of much less interest. … But together they produced something truly great”. However Pears, a leading exponent of the “two-Wittgensteins” interpretation, and the author of one of the canonical metaphysical readings of the Tractatus, only attributes this to the later philosophy. In the case of the Tractatus, this tension is clearest in the foreword and conclusion, where the author explicitly addresses the issue; in the Investigations, it is at work throughout the book.
The Investigations is best understood as inviting the reader to engage in a philosophical dialogue, a dialogue that is ultimately about whether philosophy is possible, about the impossibility and necessity of philosophy, rather than as advocating either a Pyrrhonian or a non-Pyrrhonian answer. This result is best understood, I believe, as emerging out of the reader’s involvement in the dialogue of the Philosophical Investigations, our temptation into, attraction toward, philosophical theorizing, and our coming to see that it doesn’t work in particular cases, rather than as the message that any one voice in the dialogue is conveying.
David G. Stern, How Many Wittgensteins?
I am still fairly enamored of the metaphysical reading of the Tractatus, but as a pithy statement of Wittgenstein’s overall philosophical character, I find this pretty compelling.
As a footnote, here is David Pears’ excellent and very different original context for the phrasing Stern uses above, which also goes a way to summing up the distinction between Wittgenstein and the Ordinary Language Philosophers like Austin and Ryle:
But it is only one half of the truth to say that his resistance to science produced his later view of philosophy. There was also his linguistic naturalism, which played an equally important role. These two tendencies, one of them anti positivistic and the other in a more subtle way positivistic , are not diametrically opposed to one another. But there is great tension between them, and his later philosophy is an expression of this tension. Each of the two forces without the other would have produced results of much less interest. The linguistic naturalism by itself would have been a dreary kind of philosophy done under a low and leaden sky. The resistance to science by itself might have led to almost any kind of nonsense. But together they produced something truly great.
David Pears, Ludwig Wittgenstein
And not only great, but far more wide-ranging than many of those who have picked up on either of the two elements in isolation.
Ernest Gellner on Words and Things: Wittgenstein and Ordinary Language
18 September 2011 / David Auerbach / 11 Comments
(Gellner is the bowling ball. Wittgenstein is the 7-10 split.)
Ernest Gellner’s Words and Things was Gellner’s scathing attack on ordinary language philosophy. It caused a fuss in 1959 and made Gellner’s name after Gilbert Ryle refused to review it and Bertrand Russell angrily defended it. How valid was the critique?
This is not just a historical exegesis, but an object lesson in the hopes that older disputes no longer quite so relevant to us can guide us to principles useful in current debates where we lack the benefit of distance. In short, Gellner is right on sociology and wrong on the philosophy, especially Wittgenstein. But the reasons for that are complicated.
Ordinary language philosophy was the mid-century movement represented nowadays by J.L. Austin and Gilbert Ryle, though it’s telling that Gellner quotes some of the lesser-known lights of that scene to make his most scathing attacks. In addition to Austin and Ryle, he rips on the far more obscure G.J. Warnock and John Wisdom, who do give Gellner some of his juiciest material. I haven’t read either of the latter two, but it seems entirely possible they were strident, less than brilliant exponents of the linguistic turn.
Ryle doesn’t offer up such foolish statements, so Gellner’s critique is broader there: Ryle has drawn the focus away from science and toward trivialities by wanting to analyze the concept of mind rather than mind itself. And Austin is simply a knight-errant whose obsession with the most quotidian of conversational gambits is theological angel-counting.
Gellner has generally kind words for logical positivism and A.J. Ayer and Bertrand Russell, who wrote the preface, again putting him dangerously close to the movement he is attacking. And he ignores perhaps the strongest and most wide-ranging mind to be associated with the movement, P.F. Strawson, as well as Americans like Quine. So it is a bit of a chimera that Gellner is attacking, in that he attributes to a collective a dogma that perhaps even its most strident members didn’t fully adhere to.
One could accuse Gellner of cherry-picking, and I think it’s a fair charge, but I think it’s more enlightening to see that Gellner was criticizing a culture, not a philosophy, one that existed at Oxford in the 1950s and that Gellner experienced first hand. Gellner was a social scientist more than he was a classical philosopher, and his rage is less about ideas per se than about the people who hold them and how they hold him. As an avowed disciple of what he termed Enlightenment Fundamentalist Rationalism, he was guided, more than anything else, by the idea of fallibility and the need for constant doubt:
There are no privileged Sources or Affirmations, and all of them can be queried. In inquiry, all facts and all features are separable: it is always proper to inquire whether combinations could not be other than what had previously been supposed. In other words, the world does not arrive as a package-deal—which is the customary manner in which it appears in traditional cultures—but piecemeal. Strictly speaking, though it arrives as a package-deal, it is dismembered by thought.
Cultures are package-deal worlds; scientific inquiry, by contrast, requires atomization of evidence. No linkages escape scrutiny. Empiricist theory of knowledge claimed that information actually arrives in tiny packages (which is false as a descriptive account); but the lesson learnt was that it should be treated as if it was so broken up. Such breaking up of clusters fosters critical revaluation of world-pictures.
This reexamination of all associations destabilizes all cognitive anciens règimes. Moreover, the laws to which this world is subject are symmetrical. This levels out the world, and thereby ‘disenchants’ it, in the famous Weberian expression. This is the vision. Note again, it desacralizes, disestablishes, disenchants everything substantive: no privileged facts, occasions, individuals, institutions or associations. In other words, no miracles, no divine interventions and conjuring performances and press conferences, no saviours, no sacred churches or sacramental communities. All hypotheses are subject to scrutiny, all facts open to novel interpretations, and all facts subject to symmetrical laws which preclude the miraculous, the sacred occasion, the intrusion of the Other into the Mundane.
But what is perhaps absolutized and made exempt is the method itself. And the method leaves its shadow on the world: it engenders an orderly, symmetrical Nature. The orderliness of inquiry leaves its shadow, and appears as an orderly, unique nature. This is the proper sense which is to be attributed to the Kantian doctrine that we ‘make’ our world: an orderly, systematic, law-bound Nature is really the shadow of our cognitive procedure.
Ernest Gellner, Postmodernism, Reason, and Religion: I Choose You, Bachelorette #2
[Okay, I made up the subtitle.]
What Gellner could not stand were closed systems of thought that were not vulnerable to evidentiary invalidation: religion, Marxism, and psychoanalysis being three popular forms. Behind Gellner’s sociological description of the maneuvers employed by his nemeses lies his true frustration:
There is an undeniable element of truth in Polymorphism, both logically and empirically. As a matter of simple fact it is true that languages are complicated and consist of a variety of activities. It is also, perhaps, a necessary truth that any language that does anything worth while has to contain elements or tools of radically different types, and so cannot be internally entirely homogeneous and simple. Nevertheless, the exaggerated use of Polymorphism * by Linguistic Philosophy is disastrous and unjustifiable. Its weaknesses are similar to those of the three fallacies outlined previously with which it is closely associated. It is an attempt to undermine and paralyse one of the most important kinds of thinking, and one of the main agents of progress, namely intellectual advance through consistency and unification, through the attainment of coherence, the elimination of exceptions, arbitrarinesses, and unnecessary idiosyncracies. It in effect tends to underwrite all current concepts, however useless, anachronistic, inconsistent. For linguistic philosophers conceive their philosophical thought to be the undermining of general models and of models as such, as models-only the actual ungeneral description of an usage is philosophically “aseptic”, and commendable.
*The “57 Varieties” way of doing philosophy, as it has been wittily described by Professor S. Kömer.
Ernest Gellner, Words and Things
He no doubt saw ordinary language philosophy as another, as it “dissolved” one problem after another as linguistic rather than real. This for Gellner is cowardice. Making G.E. Moore into a Chance the Gardener figure, he compares him to Wittgenstein’s ideal:
Some philosophers have considered the deliberate suspension of belief, of the natural attitude, to be of the essence of philosophy. Husserl called it the epoche, a kind of putting-of-the-world-in-brackets and suspending judgment so that one could have a better look.
The essence of Moore is a kind of inverted epoché. He refused to put the world in any brackets.
Moore’s inverted epoché, his conviction or principle that things in general were substantially as they seemed, reappears in Wittgenstein and in Linguistic Philosophy proper with a rationale –namely, that assertions to the effect that things are radically other than they seem are always misuses of language. In brief, Moore displayed many of the characteristics of Linguistic Philosophers, without being led to them by the ways and reasoning of Wittgensteinianism. He did by nature that for which Wittgenstein’s Revelation found reasons.
One might say that G.E. Moore is the one and only known example of Wittgensteinian man: unpuzzled by the world or science, puzzled only by the oddity of the sayings of philosophers, and sensibly reacting to that alleged oddity by very carefully, painstakingly and interminably examining their use of words. . . .The philosophical job is to persuade us of the adequacy of ordinary conceptualisations. It is the story of Plato over again–only this time it is the philosopher’s job to lead us back into the cave.
For Gellner, this “adequacy” is synonymous with complacency and cultural conservatism. I.e., it is the attempt of the Oxford don to keep the world as the comfortable place that it is.
I am a bit sympathetic to this critique, as I suspect the ordinary language orthodoxy of the 1950s genuinely was overbearing and vexing to those upstarts who wished to pursue a less linguistic direction. Yet of course anything can serve as a closed system, if its believers are sufficiently recalcitrant, and any orthodoxy can be and often is overbearing and vexing to upstarts. You don’t need Duhem, Quine, and Kuhn in order to believe that people generally are hesitant to lose faith in the systems to which they have pledged themselves. People are apt to overextend their systems as well. (See C.D. Darlington and, time and again, David Hume and xkcd.)
Nevertheless, Marxism and psychoanalysis, among others, have attracted somewhat more cult-like followings than other systems. It’s probably a good thing Gellner didn’t spend too much time around Heideggerians, otherwise we would have gotten a book on them. Gellner limits himself to a single dismissive remark:
On the side of Continental philosophy, a greater and greater cult of paradox and obscurity, an appetite which feeds on what it consumes and, as with a galloping illness, hardly allows the imagination to conceive its end: who can outdo Heidegger?
The issue is to what extent this cult-like environment is entailed by the system at hand. The criterion that Gellner uses to judge the level of closure of philosophical systems, which I think is a good one, is that of mysticism. At one end is the scientific method by which everything is (supposedly) falsifiable; at the other end is wholly unjustified religion. These two quotes, both of which invoke the phrase “curiously reminiscent,” should give some idea of where ordinary language philosophy stands for Gellner on that spectrum:
The doctrine that philosophy must wither away as we become acquainted with the patterns of our use of words is curiously reminiscent of the Marxist view that the State will wither away.
This main fallacy of Wittgenstein’s which remained with him throughout his life can indeed be expressed more dramatically as the notion that there is such a thing as “seeing the world rightly”. Thus Linguistic Philosophy, the doctrine that philosophy is an activity, is a spiritual exercise that confirms the faith which calls for the exercise to begin with. It is in this respect, as in others, curiously reminiscent of psychoanalysis.
The ultimate bounty of Words and Things is Wittgenstein, whom Gellner would go after in other books as well. There is no question that Wittgenstein is an arch-enemy for Gellner just as much as Russell is a comrade-in-arms. I think Gellner saw Wittgenstein’s abandonment of the semi-reasonable (yet still too mystical) logical atomism of the Tractatus as a betrayal of the human obligations of doubt and secular progress, in effect a turn to religion.
Wittgenstein and his ordinary language followers represent, to Gellner:
The abandonment of serious, relevant issues for conjured, spurious ones.
The unquestioning faith of a mystic and the corresponding influence on blind followers.
These are two different charges, which I’ll call Charge (1) and Charge (2). Gellner co-mingles them but especially with Wittgenstein they need to be separated. My own view is that the first charge is ungrounded but that the second one is at least somewhat legitimate.
As to Charge (1) of spuriousness, Gellner overlooks the internal developments within logical positivism, and the difficulties that Carnap’s Aufbau and other attempts to regiment the world had faced. In fact, he does attack logical atomism as an early example of Wittgenstein’s faith-based reasoning, with Wittgenstein assuming that there are logical simples out there but not needing to go to the trouble of finding any. But Gellner doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge the implications of the failure of logical positivism and verificationism.
In addition, Gellner gets Wittgenstein wrong on a number of points, a problem that persists when he treats Wittgenstein’s later work. This is probably the most damning aspect of the book and the one that still causes people to dismiss it. I can’t defend Gellner here: he felt the need to go after the substance as well as the context, and he couldn’t be bothered to give it a fair shot. To be fair, Wittgenstein is seriously difficult and many of his adherents got him wrong too, and many still aren’t sure if they’re even right; but in general, the closer Gellner gets to Wittgenstein’s philosophy, the less convincing he is.
But in separating language philosophy from all other philosophical problems, Gellner also ignores the more general continuum that was being set up. Language, reality, and logic were not coalescing in the way that was promised, and it was not producing an “orderly, unique nature.” Godel’s blow to systems of logic showing them to be necessarily incomplete was perhaps the most crushing inner defeat, but language itself was refusing to conform as well. In this way Gellner was very similar to Russell, who saw the problems Wittgenstein raised with his Theory of Knowledge, but could not bring himself to reject the general empiricist basis behind them. (See David Pears’ The False Prison for more on this.)
Because syntactic or indeed semantic theories of language haven’t really worked out, and pragmatics have become more and more important, you can call Austin et al. naive, dogmatic, boring, or just plain sloppy, but you can’t quite call them wrong, at least not in the way one would call logical positivism wrong.
The problem is that Gellner’s Enlightenment Fundamentalist Rationalism sets up very strict criteria by which one can make sweeping statements about things like the worthlessness of a school of philosophy, and human languge is such a mess that Gellner’s attempt to hold the fort on reasonably simple, naive theories of meaning cannot clear the bar that his own principles have set for him.
That leaves Gellner other avenue of attack for Charge (1), his objection to Pyrrhonistic and therapeutic attitudes of ordinary language philosophy. I do not see this attack as sufficiently grounded either, as science has offered similar prescriptions. The healing of our “folk psychological” ideas is just one of the more prominent recent examples of “seeing the world rightly.” Hence why Dennett’s Consciousness Explained was dubbed Consciousness Explained Away, Consciousness Ignored, etc. These attitudes may be better grounded scientifically, but the attitudes remain similar.
And Pyrrhonic and therapeutic attitudes are hardly new: Epicurus, Nagarjuna, Sextus Empiricus, Lucretius, and many others have always offered the claim that truth would set us free from at least some of our worries and obsessions. These attitudes, when deployed pathologically, are an offense to knowledge and curiosity, but Gellner simply slams the attitudes in toto without allowing for their inevitable presence in all domains. They can never be stamped out. I’m sure Gellner knew this, but his enthusiasm got the better of him.
Onto Charge (2), of the mythification of Wittgenstein. Everything I have read suggests a strong degree of truth to the veneration and almost deification of Wittgenstein. He had an aura of remote brilliance about him and people speak of attending his classes as they would of attending the speeches of a prophet. I think Gellner is very psychologically keen about Wittgenstein.
This main fallacy of Wittgenstein’s which remained with him throughout his life can indeed be expressed more dramatically as the notion that there is such a thing as “seeing the world rightly.”
Wittgenstein was indeed driven by a need for certainty, for clarity, for indisputable assertions. There is no doubt this was a pathological need, and it informs the less attractive aspects of his philosophy: a general arrogance and an unwillingness to accept, even momentarily, provisional or partial measures in explanations and analyses. Both of these are present in his demand to see the world rightly.
Wittgenstein’s brilliance and integrity prevented him from taking easy solutions, however, and Gellner does not seem to have realized this, presumably because he did not take Wittgenstein’s project seriously. Wittgenstein’s stubbornness and general refusal to accept criticism except from within does not make it any easier, but the fact remains that Wittgenstein could not allow himself to do what he continually said he wanted to do, which is give up philosophy. He wouldn’t stop until he knew he saw the world rightly, and I’m pretty sure he never would have believed he did. Gellner has made an accurate diagnosis but has misstated the symptoms.
Yet Wittgenstein’s personality did engender a more rigid orthodoxy, which was not helped by the stridency of Ryle. Again, however, Gellner goes too far in conflating philosophy and culture. The orthodoxy of computational linguistics was just as strong for many years, yet it did not arise from any particular mysticism of beliefs, just from a remarkably charismatic and brilliant founder.
Wittgenstein was an exceptional case, however, and the combination of his gnomic discourse and his yearning, spiritual frustration was captivating to some and toxic to people like Gellner. (I don’t believe Gellner ever met Wittgenstein, but that he formed an idea of him based on interacting with his acolytes, an idea perhaps even more mythic and titanic than the reality.) It is right to be wary of any such elevation, and it is here that Gellner gets closest to explaining the cultural etiology of the more mediocre language philosophy he is attacking, and the blind faith that does play a part in it.
It’s a curious error to conflate ideas (Charge (1)) and culture (Charge (2)), and particularly curious when a keen social scientist like Gellner makes it. It’s not the only time he did it: The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason indicts Freud and his followers on similar grounds, though with far more success. Freud, like Wittgenstein, was a near-demagogic bringer of truth who also suffered from acute self-doubt and revised his own theories repeatedly, while bridling at the slightest criticism from others. In both cases, Gellner ties the figures and their followers too rigidly to the ideas in play, as though there was an exact parallel correspondence between the sociological power dynamics at work and the underlying theories themselves.
It produces a peculiar sort of alienation: people are expressing and asserting themselves through ideological systems and forms of argument rather than through emotional dynamics. My own belief has generall been that this gets it the wrong way round: ideological reconstructions are post hoc justifications for personal and emotional conflicts that owe little (but not nothing) to the intellectual matters at hand. The ideas coyuld have easily been different; the emotions and games of power are so often the same.
The Accident by Mihail Sebastian
16 September 2011 / David Auerbach / 1 Comment
I have a new review up at the Quarterly Conversation about Mihail Sebastian’s first novel to be translated into English, The Accident. Sebastian’s remarkable Journal 1935-1944 was published in English ten years ago. His novel, which bears some resemblance to contemporaneous works by the Hungarian writers Antal Szerb and Sandor Marai, is significant when compared against his journal entries of the same period.
The Accident arrives as something of an appendix to the massive Journal of Mihail Sebastian (1907-1945), a record of his life as a Romanian Jewish writer from 1935 to 1944. Though Sebastian is known in Romania for his plays and, to a lesser extent, his novels, to my knowledge nothing of his appeared in English until his Journal was published in 2000, chronicling the horrors and fears of life in Romania during World War II. The Accident is his first translated work of fiction.
Next to the immediacy of the Journal, The Accident initially disappoints….
The greater import of The Accident reveals itself only against the background of Sebastian’s Journal, which described in some detail his writing of the novel. But the greater context is crucial as well. The Journal was not published until 1996 (it was translated into in English in 2000), when its portrayal of Romanian complicity in the Holocaust caused controversy. Over 300,000 Romanian Jews died during World War II, a large percentage by death squads set up by Romania’s own aggressively anti-Semitic government. Sebastian was fortunate to live in Bucharest, which was spared the worst of Romania’s policies, but he witnessed the virulent anti-Semitism and deportations and heard firsthand accounts of the government’s massacres carried out on the orders of Prime Minister Ion Antonescu. Sebastian sensitively, painfully chronicled details of the Holocaust as it was happening that many would not know until after the war. Sebastian survived the war, only to be killed in an auto accident in 1945.
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In these new audiobooks, great tales are matched with great narrators
By Katherine A. Powers
December 17, 2019 at 12:01 PM EST
'Agent Running in the Field'
John le Carré, master of espionage and gifted voice actor, gives an outstanding performance narrating his 25th novel, a spy thriller set in England’s torrid summer of 2018. As Brexit and a visit from the American president create havoc, spy handler Nat has been relegated to heading British intelligence service’s substation for has-beens and screw-ups called “Haven.” Nat, a champion badminton player, is challenged to a match by a young, Brexit-hating, Trump-loathing man named Ed, another of le Carré’s passionately idealistic innocents. One thing leads to another, and the rest of le Carré’s distinctive ingredients come sifting in: queasy loyalties and disillusion, enemy agents’ unholy infatuation with on another, and cynical, high-level scapegoating. Cryptic, exciting, and witty in its portrayal of mannerisms, the novel is further enhanced by its author’s delivery. His rich, woodwind baritone mutates effortlessly into arrogant old-boy bray, industrial Midlands clunk and the brittle tones of “one of those upper-class girls who grew up with ponies.” The plot does execute a few improbable maneuvers, but that is more than compensated by the perfect unity between story and narrator. (Penguin Audio, Unabridged, 9½ hours)
[John le Carré’s new thriller takes aim at Trump, Brexit and the Russia mess]
'The Big Book of the Dead'
Marion Winik’s reminiscences of dead family members, friends and occasional others is as much a memoir as it is a salute to those who have lived. There is sadness here but also humor and wit and an overall feeling of engagement with life. Set in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, New Orleans and finally Baltimore, the 125 pieces evoke changes in social milieu and way of life, from Bohemianism and drug use to motherhood, widowhood and purpose. Winik narrates the book herself in a bold, pleasantly low-pitched voice, her delivery exceptionally expressive of the emotions her fine, concise writing conjures. Each person — and, in some cases, animal — is captured in an eloquent vignette, at times high spirited or melancholy and moving. Among her subjects are her mother, the golf champ; her first, much-loved husband, who lost his battle with AIDS; her stillborn baby; a philandering hookup (who actually may not be dead); Rocco, a cat; Leslie, a personable goldfish; and the man whose life taught her that it’s “necessary and gorgeous to be who you are”— which could be the central message of these marvelous portraits. (Tantor, Unabridged, 5 hours)
'The Man That Got Away'
This is Lynne Truss’s second novel starring Constable Twitten. It is summer 1957 in the English seaside town of Brighton and young Twitten has become a devotee of Nancy Mitford’s “Noblesse Oblige,” in which the elements of “U” (upper-class) and “Non-U” (not upper-class) locutions were set before a class-obsessed English public. Twitten insists, unheeded, that the book could be a valuable forensic tool in identifying criminals — and so it turns out to be. But that vindication comes long after the madcap plot has wended its way through the town’s seedier holiday attractions and bumped up against a ragtag selection of miscreants, among the police-station charlady and “criminal mastermind,” Mrs Groynes. Matt Green narrates this deft caper with a fine selection of voices and infectious enthusiasm for its many about-turns. He sounds as baffled as we are by where this is all heading — and as pleased, too, when we find that a group of supposed musicians are, unknown to each other, operatives from Interpol, New Scotland Yard, MI5, Brighton Police and Mrs. Groynes’s gang. (Lamplight Audiobooks, Unabridged, 7½ hours)
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Hundreds of rape kits untested despite Wisconsin law that required DNA analysis
Wisconsin lawmakers wanted to make sure rapists were caught. But a 2011 law has not prevented more than 300 assault kits from being shelved.
Hundreds of rape kits untested despite Wisconsin law that required DNA analysis Wisconsin lawmakers wanted to make sure rapists were caught. But a 2011 law has not prevented more than 300 assault kits from being shelved. Check out this story on wausaudailyherald.com: https://post.cr/2I0emfx
, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 8:10 a.m. CT April 26, 2018 | Updated 11:57 a.m. CT April 26, 2018
Tamara Grigsby, shown in a 2009 legislative hearing, has died at the age of 41 after battling cancer.(Photo: Journal Sentinel files)
Wisconsin lawmakers took a break from their fierce fight over union bargaining rights in 2011 to craft a law with bipartisan support: They ordered police to swiftly submit rape kits for DNA tests if the evidence could help identify a suspect.
Republicans and Democrats were alarmed by reports that investigators in other states had ignored such rape kits — which contain skin, saliva and other samples collected from assault victims.
"We don’t want (untested kits) sitting at the police station or office forever," former state Rep. Tamara Grigsby, D-Milwaukee, said at the time. "It’s a public safety measure."
But a USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin investigation has found that for years after that law took effect in 2011, police agencies all over the state shelved hundreds of untested rape kits with no known suspect. The law didn't require police to send in DNA samples when they already had a suspect, because legislators were most concerned about rapists who were unknown and on the loose.
Testing rape kits can help investigators find or exonerate suspects by matching DNA with national offender databases. It can also help link together cases from different places, revealing serial offenders.
A state Department of Justice spokesman estimated last year that a "small number" of untested kits since 2011 have involved unknown suspects. On Wednesday, after USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin questioned the accuracy of that estimate, the department said about 400 untested kits since 2011 have involved unknown suspects.
By then, the news organization had obtained public records revealing:
► Milwaukee police collected and left untested 200 kits involving unknown suspects after lawmakers approved the 2011 mandate.
► Madison police didn't send 83 such kits to state labs for testing after the law.
► In northeastern Wisconsin, police in Appleton, Green Bay and Fond du Lac each collected and left untested eight kits involving unknown suspects. The Fox Crossing Police Department shelved one kit.
► Police in Stevens Point, Janesville and Kenosha each shelved a handful of kits, and the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department left one in storage for about two years before shipping it to state labs. The victim in that case was a 17-year-old girl.
Department of Justice spokesman Johnny Koremenos pledged Wednesday that every post-2011 kit with an unknown suspect will be tested as part of an ongoing effort to analyze thousands of old rape kits from across the state. He also said state officials are working with police to ensure evidence is submitted to crime labs as required.
USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin contacted police agencies that didn't send in kits after 2011, and officials either brushed aside questions about the evidence or said they believed they had complied with state law. Only Green Bay police said their kits should've been tested. Some agencies said it had been unclear until recently which kits must be sent to crime labs under the mandate.
Vic Wahl, an assistant police chief in Madison, said the new law didn't clearly define a sexual assault case and what step should trigger testing.
"If the DA’s office declined to prosecute a case I think there arguably has not been a sexual assault," Wahl said. "Or if a victim is tested but then declines to cooperate (or) provide a statement, the same could be true. This lack of clarity was shared by police agencies across the state."
Koremenos said the state is working on a "legislative overhaul" of how rape kits are handled to better account for the wishes of survivors, but didn't elaborate. The agency has received millions in federal grants since 2015 to study and test rape kits and improve Wisconsin's response to sexual assault.
"It has become clear, as a result of this project, that we need significant reform of our laws to ensure that this initiative is not necessary again," Koremenos said.
Green Bay police Lt. Jeff Brester said his agency’s eight rape kits with unknown suspects “technically by law we should’ve sent them in." He also said it remains unclear when officers are supposed to send kits for testing, so his department now sends all kits. He said officers need more guidance from the state.
"I don’t know what the heck to do," Brester said.
Last-minute law
Wisconsin's first and only rape-kits-testing law came as a surprise to advocates for sexual assault survivors as well as law enforcement officials.
Democratic legislators proposed the mandate during the final stages of the state's budget-writing process in 2011. The idea had received no public hearing or input from crime lab officials, and initially drew concerns about cost.
But two influential Republicans — Sen. Alberta Darling and Rep. Robin Vos — both backed the mandate and it landed in the final state budget. Vos, who now holds the state Assembly's top post, called it a "reasonable idea."
Grigsby first urged the mandate by describing shelved rape kits in Illinois that led police to track down suspects after DNA tests. She raised concerns that Wisconsin might be ignoring evidence and missing offenders, too.
The scope of untested rape kits in Wisconsin was unknown at the time. It would take a state-led team of sexual assault experts about three years to discover more than 6,000 kits were sitting in police and hospital storage rooms.
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Earlier this month, Attorney General Brad Schimel's Department of Justice released an update that found that in 33 cases so far, kits have helped authorities pinpoint suspects who were previously unknown to investigators.
State authorities have not said if any of the 33 cases involve rape kits collected after state testing became mandatory. The details of only two cases are known because prosecutors have filed charges: an Eau Claire man is accused of sexually assaulting a Menasha woman in 2008, and a Marion man was charged just this week with assaulting a 17-year-old girl nearly six years ago.
Debate over victim choice
Among the hundreds of rape kits involving unknown offenders that USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin found, police records and interviews suggest many were shelved years ago as a result of victim decisions.
Often police records describe the kits as involving victims who were uncooperative or declined to pursue charges. Appleton Police Sgt. Dave Lund said his agency's eight kits came from hospitals with no patient information.
"Without a complainant (or) victim to interview, we are unable to determine whether the kit meets the requirement (to submit)," Lund said.
Milwaukee police spokeswoman Sgt. Sheronda Grant said most of that agency's 200 untested kits also came from hospitals, and victims didn't wish to report a crime. The kits were stored in case victims later wanted to file a report.
"There were no guidelines in place regarding how hospitals should handle rape kits for victims who did not wish to report to law enforcement," she said.
However, the single-sentence mandate lawmakers wrote in 2011 does not contain any exemption based on victim choices.
The law requires sending kits "whenever a Wisconsin law enforcement agency collects, in a case of alleged or suspected sexual assault, evidence upon which (DNA) analysis can be performed, and the person who committed the alleged or suspected sexual assault has not been identified."
Looking at the language, state Department of Justice authorities have adopted the position in recent years that allpost-2011 rape kits collected by police and involving unknown suspects must be tested under state law — whether or not victims consent.
With the Waukesha County rape kit involving the 17-year-old victim, police records show the girl and her mother were adamant in 2014 that they didn't want to pursue charges. The girl agreed to provide a statement saying she was sexually assaulted, but she refused to provide details or file a crime report.
When the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department collected her rape kit, the situation appeared to meet the state's testing mandate: A person had alleged a sexual assault and authorities had no known culprit.
Sheriff's Capt. Patrick Esser said the 17-year-old's rape kit was submitted in a timely manner — echoing language in state law — even though he acknowledged the evidence remained in storage until state Department of Justice officials requested it two years later in December 2016.
"That was not an oversight," Esser said. "I can't discuss details of the case."
Attorney general's pledge
Attorney General Brad Schimel (Photo: File/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Ian Henderson of the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault said his organization supports the rape-kits-testing mandate from 2011, but the law made it difficult for advocates to communicate with survivors about their rights during a public awareness campaign that launched last year.
"We couldn’t really say, 'No kit will be tested without your consent' because if a kit fell into this (law) and was post-2011 and it was an unidentified suspect, the law says that has to be tested," he said. "We don’t want to make a promise to a survivor that we can’t keep."
To further complicate matters, Wisconsin's attorney general, Schimel, has recently and publicly pledged to victims that no old rape kits will be tested without their consent.
"We should never, never go forward and test things taken from a person’s body without their consent — unless we get a warrant from a judge telling us to do it because they committed a crime," Schimel said during a budget hearing last year.
Behind the scenes, Department of Justice officials have moved to create a system for handling rape kits that fulfills Schimel's pledge. Hospitals are no longer supposed to send kits to police when survivors don't want to pursue charges. These kits are now sent directly to state facilities for up to 10 years in storage.
Henderson said his organization would support incorporating the state's new system for handling rape kits into state law.
Lawmakers suggest changes
Last year, state Rep. Melissa Sargent proposed expanding the 2011 mandate so police agencies would be required to submit all rape kits to crime labs for testing or storage within 30 days of collection. The idea never gained traction.
"We need to make sure that these (kits) are being tested and being tested in a timely manner," the Madison Democrat said in February, when it became clear Republicans wouldn't take up the proposal this year. "Folks deserve closure. They deserve to be able to get on with their lives."
GOP lawmakers have been satisfied leaving rape kits policy to Schimel, a fellow Republican who in his role as attorney general controls the state crime labs and works with local police agencies to guide submission practices.
Schimel is campaigning for re-election this year and has touted himself as a champion for testing rape kits. He is being challenged by Democrat Josh Kaul, a Madison lawyer and former federal prosecutor, who has made a campaign theme out of what he believes is Schimel's slow testing of old rape kits.
Darling and Vos, the two Republicans who backed Wisconsin's 2011 mandate, did not return messages seeking comment. Grigsby, the Democrat who first urged the mandate and defended it under GOP questioning, died two years ago after battling cancer.
Jennifer Shilling, who joined Grigsby in proposing the mandate and now holds the Democrats' top seat in the state Senate, said she supported modifying state law to clarify any confusion among law enforcement about its requirements.
"If there is some vague language or it's too broad, then we certainly need to make a correction," she said. "We need to make sure that the testing of these rape kits is a priority."
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Can You Really Recover From Autism?
Karen Weintraub
Until this week, autism researchers generally steered clear of the word "recovery." If tests showed that someone diagnosed with autism no longer had symptoms, doctors assumed they never really had the condition in the first place.
Now, a new study confirms that some children who once had the communication difficulties, social challenges and repetitive behaviors of autism can reach a point where they are virtually indistinguishable from their more typical peers.
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“For the parents of young kids this is not a likely outcome, but it’s a possibility,” said study author Deborah Fein, a professor of psychology and of pediatrics at the University of Connecticut.
The study, published in the February issue of The Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology, does not indicate what percentage of children are likely to recover from autism, though Fein said she thinks it is now a small minority of children.
For families with a relatively new autism diagnosis, the fact that recovery is possible offers hope at a time when many are overwhelmed with anxiety.
For families whose children are older and still have symptoms, though, it may suggest that this goal is now out of reach. Most of the children who are going to improve dramatically do so within the first few years of beginning intense behavioral therapy, Fein said.
The study didn't detail why some children improve and others do not. But the new research does support the idea that early, intensive and well-done behavioral therapy is crucial, regardless of whether the child eventually loses an autism diagnosis. Still, parents shouldn’t feel guilty if their older child hasn’t lost the diagnosis, Fein said. Biology may determine which children grow out of autism and which don’t.
“I’ve seen hundreds, possibly thousands of kids who got excellent therapy, excellent parenting and they all made progress, but this is a minority that reached this stage,” Fein said about those who no longer met the criteria for autism. “If the parent has a child who did not reach this outcome, it doesn’t mean they did anything wrong.”
“It really fuels the urgency for early diagnosis and early intervention,” said Sally Ozonoff, professor-in-residence at the UC Davis MIND Institute, which specializes in autism research.
But entirely getting rid of autistic characteristics may not be the right goal for families, according to Ozonoff, and Michelle Dawson, an autism researcher at the University of Montreal who is also autistic.
Both Dawson and Ozonoff reject the notion that people will be better off if they are no longer autistic. Some autistic traits provide distinct advantages in adulthood, said Dawson, whose research has shown that most people with autism have average to well-above-average IQ’s.
Because successful outcomes were never seen as a possibility for a child with autism, there has been almost no research into what “success” might look like or how to get there.
Dawson said in an e-mail that even in Fein’s study, having any autistic trait is defined as “suboptimal.” “Even having atypical friends is suboptimal,” according to the study, Dawson said. “This should give anyone pause, with respect to both science and ethics.”
The study looked at three groups of people, ages 8 to 22: one group had developed typically, one group had autism and the third, dubbed the “optimal outcome” group, was made up of people once diagnosed with autism who no longer met the criteria.
Earlier studies have left doubts about whether children who recovered ever had autism in the first place. Fein and her colleagues took pains to confirm the validity of the initial diagnosis and the change. While participants in previous studies might have improved just a little – from being only slightly autistic to being mostly typical – the people in the “optimal outcome” group were shown to have changed substantially rather than incrementally.
In earlier research, Fein said she has found that the children most likely to change are those who show the fewest motor control problems in early childhood. Her 40 years of clinical experience, Fein said, leads her to believe that most children who are going to achieve “optimal outcomes” will show substantial progress by around age 8.
Autism varies significantly from person-to-person, which is why it is referred to as a “spectrum,” but it is defined by deficits in social interactions and communications, and by repetitive behaviors like rocking, arm flapping or obsessing over specific topics. Many people with autism also have physical problems, such as epilepsy, digestive issues, lack of coordination, and mood disorders like anxiety.
Fein’s study looked only at the three central characteristics; it’s possible, according to the research, that participants still had anxiety or other mood, attention or executive function issues even though they are no longer autistic.
In a related study, Fein and colleagues show that even people considered to have had an “optimal outcome” still perform worse than neurotypical peers on tests where they are required to generalize information.
Fein said she plans now to look at brain scans of people in the “optimal outcomes” group to see if their brains “normalized” when their behavior did, or somehow compensated for the autism.
Researchers will also now pay more attention to the recovery process, Ozonoff said, trying to figure out ways to help many more children improve or recover.
Ozonoff said she sees the new research as a paradigm-shifter for scientists who study autism. Researchers have always carefully avoided talking about “recovery” from autism, and even this week the word caught in her throat. Now, she said she looks forward to the day when she can “laugh and say ‘remember when we didn’t like to use the word recovery’?”
Karen Weintraub, a Cambridge-based health/science journalist, is the co-author of "The Autism Revolution."
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A Year in Sports - 2019
By Taylor Curet | December 31, 2019 at 1:00 AM CST - Updated December 31 at 1:00 AM
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - The 2019 calendar year began like every other – a fourth straight girls soccer state championship for Sacred Heart – the sixth under coach Joe “Poppa” Falla in seven years.
And for the first time since 2013, the boys team took home a gold ball as well.
The Pine Belt was treated to some good basketball in March. After 21 years of coaching, Calvin Brown finally led East Marion to its first state title. Bay Springs followed suit with its second state championship.
Three straight state and region titles for coach Missy Bilderback and company sent the Lady Bobcats back to the NJCAA tournament - while Chris Oney led the PRCC men to its first region 23 title and national tournament berth. Both schools fell in the second round.
The number 13 proved to be a lucky one for coach Steve Knight. His 13th appearance at the NAIA tournament turned into the school’s first semifinal appearance.
The Crusaders’ magical run ended against top-ranked Georgetown College.
The month of rebirth - April - brought about a changing of the guard at Southern Miss. After Jon Gilbert left his post as athletic director, USM president Dr. Rodney Bennett called upon Jeremy McClain.
And just a week after being hired, McClain was put in task of finding a new basketball coach.
Doc Sadler left for Nebraska after five seasons including a 20-win mark in his final campaign. Just six days later, Hattiesburg native Jay Ladner took the reigns of his alma mater.
Local high schools jump-started a string of postseason baseball in May. Five local schools advanced to the state championships, but West Jones the only school to come away with a crown. The Mustangs led by third-year coach Trey Sutton, USM’s all-time leader in hits.
Pearl River’s remarkable 41-win season came to a bitter end in the NJCAA World Series - its first berth since 2002.
A roller-coaster season for Southern Miss still found the Golden Eagles in a familiar place. Scott Berry’s crew captured its second straight Conference USA tournament, clinching a fourth straight NCAA regional.
It gave USM one more chance to put on a show. Facing elimination, the Eagles scored seven runs in the final two innings. Gabe Montenegro’s walk-off single the final dagger in a 13-12 win over Arizona State.
Southern battled LSU, but ultimately fell to the host-Tigers 6-4 in the regional championship.
A scorching summer gave way to a football season full of heated battles.
Jones College won five straight to reach the postseason, but came up just short of a second straight state title game - while Mississippi Gulf Coast grabbed its fifth national title with a perfect 12-0 season.
PRCC began a new era as former East Central coach Seth Smith returns to his alma mater.
One of the more competitive high school slates in the Pine Belt ended with six local schools competing for state championships at the Rock – juggernauts Taylorsville and Jefferson Davis walked away champions.
Saturday’s were scintillating with Laurel grad Omar Bayless wrecking Sun Belt records at Arkansas State. The Braves grabbed their second straight SWAC title but moved to 0-3 at the Celebration Bowl.
Oak Grove’s John Rhys Plumlee ran wild in Oxford, his 1,023 rushing yards a freshman record at Ole Miss.
The Rebels were rebellious in an Egg Bowl loss to Mississippi State. Head coach Matt Luke would later be fired, opening the curtain for the Lane Kiffin era.
First-year offensive coordinator Buster Faulkner and quarterback Jack Abraham found some chemistry at Southern Miss, putting together Conference USA’s most prolific passing attack.
The Golden Eagles won five of their first six conference games, but a two-game stumble down the stretch relegated them to the Armed Forces Bowl on January 4.
However, the new year brings about an old rivalry. Southern Miss meets Tulane for the 31st time when the calendar turns to 2020.
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At least 12 dead as severe storms sweep southern US
Deadly severe weather slams Southeast, Midwest
BENTON, La. (AP/Gray) - A potent outbreak of severe weather has claimed lives in Louisiana, Alabama, Texas and Iowa after severe storms swept across parts of the Gulf Coast and Southeast U.S.
Officials say a police officer and a firefighter in Lubbock, Texas, have been killed Saturday and another is critically injured after being hit by a vehicle while working the scene of a traffic accident.
The officer and firefighter who died have been identified as 27-year-old Nicholas Reyna with the Lubbock Police Departement and 39-year-old fire Lt. and Paramedic Eric Hill, KCBD reported.
In Nacogdoches County, Texas, authorities said one person died when a tree fell on their home, KTRE reported. Another person in the home escaped with only minor injuries.
Two people in Louisville, Kentucky, were rescued by fire crews Saturday morning after a tree fell on their home, WAVE reported. The couple has been hospitalized. The extent of their injuries is unknown.
A couple in Kuykendahl, Texas, evacuated their home with their 10-month-old daughter when a neighbor’s tree crushed their roof late Friday, KTRK reported. The tree damaged their kitchen, causing a gas leak, which was later stemmed by emergency crews.
Dallas police said one person died Friday night when a car flipped into a creek west of downtown Dallas.
Three people are confirmed dead from a tornado near Carrollton in Pickens County, Ala., WBRC reported. The victims were identified as 51-year-old Tyrone Spain, 85-year-old Albert Barnett and his wife, 75-year-old Susan Barnett.
Damage and flooding is being reported throughout north and central Alabama.
WOW this gas station sign snapped!! Plus trees down along the the side of the road for at least a mile along I-20 East near Minden, LA. #lawx #ksla @KSLA pic.twitter.com/jW16Wh5Pga
— Jessica Moore KSLA (@JessMooreWX) January 11, 2020
Authorities in Louisiana say three people have died.
One man died when a tree fell on his house at about 1 a.m. Saturday, KSLA reported. His wife was not hurt even though she was with him at the time.
The Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Office said the bodies of a couple were found near their demolished trailer by firefighters early Saturday, KSLA reported.
This is the site on Davis Road, where an elderly couple was killed. There’s an eery silence as the rain falls. @KSLA pic.twitter.com/0y21lAgHIh
— Christian Piekos (@ChristianPiekos) January 11, 2020
Storm damage has also prompted closure of Interstate 20 in northwest Louisiana.
Tornadoes have destroyed homes in Arkansas and Missouri and also caused damage in Oklahoma amid severe storms.
A man drowned near Kiowa, Oklahoma, after he was swept away in floodwaters, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Saturday. Randall Hyatt, 58, of Wardville, was overwhelmed by rushing water while getting out of his stalled truck.
Another photo of damage in @CityofDecaturAL at McDonald’s on the Beltline. @waff48 pic.twitter.com/dNPzMCBVTm
— Elizabeth Gentle (@newsgirl448) January 11, 2020
The storms also unleashed downpours that caused widespread flash flooding.
Firefighters rescued a woman Saturday morning after her car washed away near the James River east of Springfield, Mo., KYTV reported. Emergency personnel also performed other high-water rescues in the area.
The roof was torn off of Benton Middle School in Louisiana after deadly storms barrelled through the area. (Source: Jessica Moore KSLA/Twitter)
At least one death in eastern Iowa has been blamed on the powerful winter storm.
Television station KCCI reported that a westbound semitrailer on Interstate 80 crashed just after midnight Saturday in Cedar County, east of Iowa City.
The Iowa State Patrol says roads were completely covered in ice when the semitrailer left the road and overturned, killing a passenger in the truck.
The victim’s name was not immediately released.
Earlier Friday afternoon, a tornado destroyed two homes near Fair Play, Missouri. Tornado watches Friday night covered parts of eastern Texas, northwestern Louisiana, southern Missouri and much of Arkansas.
Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power from Texas to Ohio, sections of flooded highways were closed in Oklahoma and Arkansas and hundreds of flights were canceled at Chicago’s airports.
Copyright 2020 Associated Press. All rights reserved. Gray Media Group, Inc., contributed to this report.
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Mike has seen a lot of changes in the world over the past 50 years, but none moreso than in the world of aviation.
Back in 1967 he trained as an Air Traffic Controller (ATC) in Ottawa - a difficult program which saw a high dropout rate. After obtaining his license, he headed to Edmonton briefly before becoming the first controller at the Springbank (YBW) Airport in 1969.
Fifty years ago, the runway was a levelled farmer's field, and Mike's workspace was pretty primitive as there were no buildings on site.
"The control tower was a glass dome that sat in the back of a truck," he explains, "and there were two of us cramped inside with no radar, a bunch of radios and the two of us giving out wind speeds, runways in use and altimeter readings. We always had to have a mental picture in our head of what was happening around us."
With no runway lights the airport only operated in daylight hours, and a port-a-potty served as the only washroom facilities. With it being a new airport, Mike and his co-workers had to set up and establish procedures "on the fly" (pun intended).
One of his favourite memories at YBW was okaying a "touch and go" landing of a DC-4 on a test flight out of Calgary. With the runway obscured by the farmer's field, many Calgarians didn't even know it exists, and as the DC-4 dropped out of the sky to land there were some fender benders on the TransCanada highway as confused drivers looked up.
"I got in a bit of trouble for that one," laughs Mike.
After a short stint at YBW, Mike spent the remainder of his career in Calgary. Despite it being a stressful job, he says he got great personal satisfaction from safely "moving the tin". A self-professed aviation geek, looking at planes all day was a joy to him.
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Mike spends his time these days volunteering as an airport White Hat Volunteer, at an air museum and at the bird sanctuary.
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Portland's Residential Infill Project
program of City of Portland, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS), 2015 to present.
2 Projected impact
2.1 Johnson Economics study: 24,000 new infill homes viable
2.2 BPS internal analysis: 4,000 of projected 123k new homes by 2035 would occur as infill
from Residential Infill Project Summary: Recommended Draft" (August 2019).
"In order to meet the demands of our growing city and ensure that future generations of Portlanders can live and thrive here, we need to take advantage of our entire housing area. Single-family zones make up 43% of our housing land supply while multi-dwelling zones cover 8%. Our single-family neighborhoods can provide housing options that improve the quality of life for current and future residents – our teachers, bus drivers, retail clerks, construction workers and students. We believe that RIP is one tool to achieve that vision. The Residential Infill Project has been amended by the Planning and Sustainability Commission to deliver even more smaller scale, less expensive housing in Portland’s single-family neighborhoods. By offering homeowners and home builders the opportunity to create up to four units on a single-dwelling lot (at a smaller scale and height than is currently allowed), the Residential Infill Project allows the return of attractive, popular and more affordable middle housing types to Portland’s residential neighborhoods."
One piece of the larger housing affordability puzzle
City and regional leaders are addressing the housing crisis on many other fronts, including:
A $258 million affordable housing bond passed on the November 2016 ballot that will create 1,300 newly affordable homes over the next several years.
Newly created revenue streams for affordable housing, such as the construction excise tax and the accessory short-term rental fund.
Affordable housing incentives for multi-family housing projects through the MULTE program.
A collaborative effort to address homelessness through the Joint Office of Homeless Services by connecting thousands of people with housing, employment, health and emergency services.
An inclusionary housing program that requires affordable housing units in new multi-family residential development and provides additional incentives for creating affordable housing units.
New tenant protections, including relocation costs for no-cause evictions or large rent increases.
Projected impact
Johnson Economics study: 24,000 new infill homes viable
Johnson Economics. "Economic Analysis of Proposed Changes to the Infill Development Standards." November 29.
Summarized by BPS in [Tracy 2018]:
"The economic analysis is based on a predictive model that looks at the real market value of parcels against a series of housing prototype proformas to determine the relative likelihood that a parcel will develop. For example, when the real market value (RMV) of a parcel is less than the residual land value (RLV) of a development type, then that parcel is assumed to develop." [Tracy 2018]
BPS internal analysis: 4,000 of projected 123k new homes by 2035 would occur as infill
based on Comprehensive Plan assumption of 123k new housing units by 20135
"Portland planners started with the assumption that the city would add about 123,000 housing units by 2035 -- a number already vetted and used in the city’s comprehensive zoning plan. Most of those are projected to be built in high-density areas like downtown or busy commuter corridors. Portland’s single-family neighborhoods would get 16,000 new units, according to the comprehensive plan. "With the adoption of the infill proposal, planners shifted some growth from apartments along corridors into single-family neighborhoods. They now project about 20,000 new households in residential neighborhoods – a 4,000-home net increase in those areas. "The planning bureau considers the 4,000 tally a “more realistic view” of projected infill growth, said Oliveira, the spokesman, though planners say the differing forecasts are intended to complement rather than compete against one another. “They’re both valid in terms of providing a range of what the outcomes could be,” said Tyler Bump, a senior economic planner for the city. [Schmidt & Njus 2019]
Johnson Economics. "Economic Analysis of Proposed Changes to the Infill Development Standards." November 29. 2018. https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/711669.
Njus, Elliot. "Portland seeks to address worries about infill housing plan with anti-displacement push." The Oregonian. Sept 04, 2019. https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2019/09/portland-seeks-to-address-worries-about-infill-housing-plan-with-anti-displacement-push.html.
Portland, City of, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS). "About the Residential Infill Project."
Portland, City of, BPS. "Residential Infill Project Summary: Recommended Draft" (August 2019).
Portland, City of, BPS. "Residential Infill Project: An Updated to Portland's Single-Dwelling Zoning Rules." (Revised Proposed Draft, February 2019). https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/711691.
Schmidt, Brad and Elliot Njus. "Portland trumpeted rosy numbers for controversial infill plan while burying a dimmer forecast." The Oregonian. Mar 11, 2019. https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2019/03/portland-trumpets-rosy-numbers-for-controversial-infill-plan-buries-dimmer-forecast.html.
Tracy, Morgan, and Tyler Bump. "Memo: Residential Infill Project Economic Analysis for the Revised Proposed Draft." 5 December, 2018. https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/711669.
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OP-ED: The shame of Dixie dress-up
I can’t cast any stones at Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. Like him, I committed the sin of making a shameful costume choice in my youth. My regrettable behavior occurred at UC Berkeley in 1982, when I attended th
OP-ED: The shame of Dixie dress-up I can’t cast any stones at Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. Like him, I committed the sin of making a shameful costume choice in my youth. My regrettable behavior occurred at UC Berkeley in 1982, when I attended th Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/opinion/contributors/2019/02/20/op-ed-shame-dixie-dress/39085407/
Sharon Rosen Leib, Los Angeles Times Published 10:08 a.m. ET Feb. 20, 2019 | Updated 10:11 a.m. ET Feb. 20, 2019
FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2018 file photo, Virginia Gov.-elect, Lt. Gov Ralph Northam, center, walks down the reviewing stand with Lt. Gov-elect, Justin Fairfax, right, and Attorney General Mark Herring at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. The political crisis in Virginia exploded Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, when the state's attorney general confessed to putting on blackface in the 1980s and a woman went public with detailed allegations of sexual assault against the lieutenant governor. With Northam's career already hanging by a thread over a racist photo, the day's developments threatened to take down all three of Virginia's top elected officials. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) (Photo: Steve Helber / AP)
I can’t cast any stones at Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. Like him, I committed the sin of making a shameful costume choice in my youth. My regrettable behavior occurred at UC Berkeley in 1982, when I attended the Kappa Alpha Order’s Dixie Ball.
How did a native Southern Californian Jewish girl like me end up at a frat party wearing an antebellum ball gown complete with hoop skirt in celebration of antiquated Southern values? Back then, I was a 19-year-old sophomore casually dating a sweet blond-haired, blue-eyed Kappa Alpha guy. He invited me to be his date for Dixie Ball, a weekend event in Monterey capped by a Southern Confederacy theme dance. My sorority elders informed me that an invitation to Dixie Ball was an honor bestowed upon the lucky few.
One of my sorority sisters drove me and a few other “lucky” gals to a San Francisco costume shop to rent our elaborate Southern belle gowns. I remember thinking this all seemed weird and expensive. But as I gazed at myself in the costume shop mirror dressed like a comely Southern maiden, I fantasized about Clark Gable breaking a door down and lifting me into his arms.
We donned our “Gone with the Wind” satin get-ups for the ball and danced the night away with our dates, who wore rented blue-gray Confederate soldier uniforms. Plenty of photos documenting the event exist in private fraternity/sorority collections — a mortifying thought because Dixie Ball proved to be as regressive as its name suggests. No African American students attended the festivities. If they had, I doubt we would have behaved so thoughtlessly.
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According to Kappa Alpha bylaws in effect then, “Dixie Ball has evolved since 1920 as a traditional social function of the Order with the purpose to celebrate and to perpetuate the social attributes of courtesy, graciousness, and open hospitality, which are values of the Old South and were prominent in Virginia when our Order was founded in 1865.” The bylaws fail to mention that this leisurely “graciousness” was built on the backs of African American slaves.
In 1982, Berkeley’s Kappa Alpha chapter house on Piedmont Avenue, founded in 1895, still had the reproduction of a Civil War cannon outside its front door and a Confederate flag hanging in the living room. The fraternity had no African American members, nor did my sorority. UC Berkeley’s student body was 5.6 percent African American and, with few exceptions, the Greek system self-segregated.
Has Greek system racism improved since then? Consider this: In February 2010, a group of UC San Diego students held an off-campus “Compton Cookout” party to mock Black History Month. The hosts encouraged partygoers to dress the part of Compton rappers by wearing baggy clothes, fake gold teeth, etc.
In March 2015, a video surfaced of University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity members aboard a party bus singing, “There will never be a (racial epithet) SAE.” This horrid clip exposed frat boys run despicably amok.
I bear my own shame. After imbibing a few drinks at Dixie Ball, I joined in singing “Way down south in the land of cotton” from the Southern folk song. I can’t imagine now what we were thinking. Bottom line: We were ignorant, insensitive and wrong.
We weren’t thinking as individuals. We engaged in thoughtless Greek-system groupthink, casually and carelessly reenacting racist traditions. Since then, Kappa Alpha Order has banned the display of Confederate flags (in 2001), the wearing of Confederate uniforms (in 2010) and any references to Dixie Ball, Old South or other Civil War-period nomenclature (in 2016). Better really late than never.
Education, maturity and time enable aging baby boomers like me to understand where we went wrong and atone for our mistakes. I’ve shared my stories of the bad old days with my three daughters (ages 24, 23, and 19), who are shocked their progressive mama could’ve been that stupid. Raising awareness lays the groundwork for banishing racially offensive costumes and appalling party themes from campus social life.
As for Gov. Northam, I cast this advice in lieu of stones: Whether or not it was you wearing the KKK garb or blackface in the medical school yearbook photo, use your moment in the national spotlight to help heal our nation’s racial wounds.
As a physician, you took an oath to do no harm. Please stop equivocating, acknowledge slavery’s excruciating legacy and help lift us out of the Dixie muck we’ve been stuck in far too long.
— Sharon Rosen Leib is a freelance journalist and contributing writer to the San Diego Jewish Journal.
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Masterclass: ORCH 103 - SAXOPHONE WRITING
By Maarten Bauer, August 13, 2017 in Masterclasses
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What a beautiful and interesting work!
It's funny how the baroque feeling in the beginning blends well with the following parts. The solo soprano (with background) is amazing. I love the sound of this kind of quartet.
Maarten Bauer 176
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1 hour ago, Luis Hernández said:
The Quartet that performs this piece is the Pornic Sax Quatuor.
#6 Mark Watters - Rhapsody for Baritone Saxophone and Wind Orchestra (2001).
This Rhapsody is probably one of the most virtuosic pieces in the Baritone Saxophone repertoire. Mark Watters is next to a composer a saxophonist. In the recording below, he is the soloist.
The saxophone writing is so fluent that one can only expect that the composer plays this instrument: the music is hard, but still playable.
Unfortunately, there is not very much Baritone Saxophone music, except the Saxophone Quartets. This composition explains why contemporary composers should write more for this specific instrument.
NOTE: Only the score of the Baritone Saxophone is shown, but this still gives a very clear impression of the characteristics of the instrument.
Mark Watters - Rhapsody for Baritone Saxophone and Wind Orchestra (2001).
#7 Iannis Xenakis - XAS (1987)
The following piece is considered as a member of the extremely 'avant garde' saxophone repertoire. Xenakis not only leaves the tonality, but rhythm, playing in tune and other techniques are very complex too.
Description by James Harley:
Iannis Xenakis was not known for his attraction to woodwind instruments, and certainly not to the saxophone. In fact, he wrote for this instrument but once. XAS, however, is a highly successful piece, and has entered into the repertoire for saxophone quartet. This composer was attracted to string instruments, and if one omits the vibrato from the sound, the pure tone of the saxophone can sound remarkably similar to a cello. In any case, after persistent requests from the Rascher Quartet, Xenakis penned his saxophone quartet, exploring a range of sonorities and extended techniques, and explicity forbidding the use of vibrato! One effect he scrupulously avoids is the glissando, perhaps to avoid any connotation of blues or jazz. He does evoke more far-reaching cultures, though, through the use of an original mode that sounds Oriental, and in fact is adapted from the five-note scale of the Javanese gamelan. XAS is an episodic work, flowing smoothly from one section to another. There is a tendency in the piece to focus on the high register, no mean feat for the poor baritone and tenor players, but the close-voiced harmonies are quite beautiful. Xenakis explores the possibilities of multiphonic sounds, where one player produces more than one tone simultaneously, to provide a raucous contrast to the sweet modal harmonies of other passages. The occasional use of microtones enhances the exotic resonances of the music.
Iannis Xenakis - XAS (1987)
I knew this piece because of my inclination to XX century music. But I didn't know the details (as the non vibrato feature). No wonder it is in the repertoire.
7 minutes ago, Luis Hernández said:
Well, Harley tells that the (lower) saxophone can sound like a cello, but this is mostly caused by the same vibrato. Funny is that Xenakis forbis vibrato with the result that the whole cello effect is quite gone.
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#8 Mozart / Arr. Niels Bijl - String Quartet No.15 in D minor, Kv. 421a
Another beautiful compositions, this time an arrangement of one of Mozart's String Quartets. Note that the sounds and timbres of the four instruments blend extremely well. At some places the ensemble sounds like a pipe organ and sometimes it really sounds like string instruments.
This arrangement caused my to leave my aversion for the sax. I have yet to write for it, but I certainly will!
Mozart / Arr. Niels Bijl - String Quartet No.15 in D minor, Kv. 421a
20 hours ago, DirkH said:
The Aurelia Quartet is a Dutch saxophone quartet, which played an important role in introducing this ensemble to more people.
Of the four saxophonists, three of them are professors on conservatoria in The Netherlands: Johan van der Linden (Soprano); Arno Bornkamp (Tenor); Willem van Merwijk (Baritone). I talked with these three about saxophone and I had some lessons with Van der Linden.
The alto saxophonist is Niels Bijl.
Dirk, I will restate your post to keep the structure of this topic. Thanks for sharing!
#9 Paul Creston - Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano, Op.19 (1939)
Creston's Saxophone Sonata belongs to the standard list for saxophone repertoire. The music perfectly suits the instrument and Creston knows how to create a fine balance between the saxophone and piano. Furthermore, the melodies are beautiful and Creston develops these in many inventive ways.
Mind the large amount of vibrato, especially in the first part of the first movement. The amount of vibrato is normally left to the performer, but the 'taste' of performers about how much vibrato is wanted has varied through decades: in the time of Glazunov vibrato was considered as something that needed to be present. After a while, performers began to play less vibrato, because they wanted a clearer sound. After a few decades, the vibrato again came up and so forth...
In my opinion, this piece is one of the most beautiful pieces ever written for saxophone. The second movement reminds me me of Bozza's Aria, which will be shared in this topic as well.
*The score is in concert pitch.
Paul Creston - Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano, Op.19 (1939)
#10 Erwin Schulhoff - Hot Sonata (1930)
This is one of these saxophone pieces that really inspire me for writing for saxophones, but also other instruments accompanied by piano.
The thematic material and rhythms are very inventive.
In my opinion the saxophonist uses too much vibrato, but de gustibus non disputandum.
Note the glissando effects.
Erwin Schulhoff - Hot Sonata (1930)
This is a real fusion. The piano is not only a background. All the time is rhythmically active (and lots of linear harmony, which I like). And those cluster chords sound so smooth, wonderful.
Great techniques in Mov III.
19 hours ago, Luis Hernández said:
This piece reminds me of the rhythm in the Samba Lenta from the Cinq Danses Exotiques by Françaix.
It has the same power and lively atmosphere.
The harmonics are very nice too!
In my opinion, Schulhoff could have used the lowest register more effectively.
My interpretation of the peice is that it has to imitate the arabic musical sounds (therefore 'hot sonata').
#11 Carter Pann - The Mechanics for Saxophone Quartet (2013)
(Description by Gianopoulos, 2017)
The Capitol Saxophone Quartet
I. Hoist is bold music that lifts itself upward and never falls down. The texture is very thick and replete with churning counterpoint.
II. Drive Train is fast music consisting of running eighth notes and quick turnabouts. It is almost always driving forward in a pseudo-Baroque frenzy.
III. Belt (to S.R.) is slower music set on a minimalist plain. As the movement matures the intervals get larger and the volume gets louder until a calm repose near the end.
IV. Flywheel is fast and angular jazz-jump music showcasing the baritone saxophone as a soloist accompanied by the other three players. When all four instruments come together in several places throughout the movement they play music that rolls forward on wheeling rhythms.
V. Balance is a slow, lyrical song. Every player takes the lead somewhere in this movement, singing beautifully over the texture. There are halted moments in this music that require the utmost balance in volume among all four saxophones together.
VI. Trash is straight-up turbo blues music. The theme upfront resembles that of a certain TV show from the 70s about a father/son garbage men duo. The music in the middle is more subdued call-and-response ragtime with a cheeky feel – all of it hanging on a texture of counterpoint about to boil over.
Note how bright the saxophones sound and how perfect the articulations and rhythms are played.
Advanced articulations and rhythms are very suited for all saxophones and Pann knows this and he uses this to achieve perfection.
Preceding videos showed how a saxophone quartet can sound like a string quartet or even an organ, but this is a great example of a piece for saxophone quartet that really sounds like a saxophone quartet: the sound and timbres are unique.
Carter Pann - The Mechanics for Saxophone Quartet (2013).
#12- Pedro Iturralde - Pequeña Czarda (1929)
This is a beautiful example of modern Spanish / Latino music for saxophone. It appears that
Although the music might sound easy, it certainly is not. Particularly, the last section, when the saxophonist needs to play a melody in the altissimo register and glissandi.
Intonation can be hard too. Note that there is almost always legato when a saxophone needs to play a fast passage, because this is much easier than staccato or 'normal' playing ways.
Note the beautiful cadenza, in which the performer plays with different fingerings, which slightly change the pitch of the note. Furthermore, the saxophonist uses key clicks, which also produce pitches in the form of the melody.
Pedro Iturralde - Pequeña Czarda for Alto Saxophone and Piano (1929)
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By T.K. Thorne
Cappuccino Books, 2015
$22.50, Hardcover; $7.99 eBook
Reviewed by Don Noble
Birmingham author T. K. Thorne, a retired police captain, is writing hard. Her Last Chance for Justice, an extended commentary on the trials that finally brought the 16th St. Baptist Church bombers Bobby Frank Cherry and Thomas Blanton to account in 2001 and 2002, was informed by her intimate knowledge of Birmingham and twenty-two years in law enforcement.
Noah’s Wife, a novel published in 2011, could not have been more different. Set in northern Turkey, near the Black Sea in 5500 BCE, this is the story of Na’amah, a young woman with unusual powers. Perhaps she is a kind of “Asperger savant,” or she may be secretly a priestess of the goddess at a time when her tribe is moving toward monotheism. In any case she marries an older man, Noah, definitely a man with a plan, who is not a seismologist, but just knows that there will be a geophysical catastrophe. And so it happens; the Mediterranean bursts through a natural wall of stone and raises the Black Sea a devastating amount.
Now we have Angels at the Gate, much more modern, set in 1748-49, BCE, the Bronze Age, practically yesterday.
Thorne has done, once again, a prodigious amount of research in Jewish and Islamic texts. The novel convincingly recreates the dwellings, utensils, food, business practices, and religious beliefs of the age. We learn about the smells from the neck glands of the male camels in rut. “Another source of the stench comes from the bulls beating their manhoods with their tails and then flicking the scent onto their backs,” she writes. The female camels, the cows, find all this irresistible.
Although based on a few Bible verses people are familiar with, this tale is fully imagined and takes great liberties with the Bible story. Lot, for example, is not the virtuous fellow Genesis makes him out to be, not at all.
Adira, Thorne’s heroine and narrator, is the daughter of Zakiti, of the tribe of Abram, a caravan master and business nomad, moving constantly, trading between Egypt in the southwest to Babylon, present day Baghdad, in the east.
Adira is disguised as a boy for several reasons, but mainly to keep her safe. She has a dog she loves, a Saluki hunter named Nami, and a “pet” donkey. Ishmael, son of Hagar, second wife to Abram (Sarai is number one), is her buddy.
She likes it: “This is a fine arrangement, as I prefer the freedom of being a boy.”
Later, now “out” as a woman, Adira realizes that with men “[y]ou are always watched, and there is always conjecture churning behind the eyes of those watching. Women are not safe alone in the world.”
She also comes to realize that where the goddess is still worshipped, in Egypt and in the north, women have rights. They can own land and businesses and pass on their wealth to their children, but among her own people women’s contributions are deemed “less worthy.”
Her father, a cunning merchant, schools Adira: negotiate; listen closely to people; observe strengths and weaknesses; learn to tell what they really want. A gifted natural linguist, her nomadic life gives Adira the opportunity to become multilingual, a skill which will save her more than once, and even affords some lost-in-translation humor.
Although there are feminist parallels to the present and this novel is in a sense a retelling of the story of Lot’s wife—which Adira, to her regret, becomes—and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the corrupt cities of the plain, Angels at the Gate’s greatest strength is as an adventure novel: comparisons could be made to Tolkien or C. S. Lewis.
Adira and her family fight desert raiders, endure drought and earthquake. She becomes involved, in every way, with Raph and Mika who are, perhaps, the angels of El, the new God.
There is a long and fascinating trip to Babylon, where Adira serves Tabni, High Priestess of Ishtar, and Samsu-iluna the king.
The climax is, as you might expect, in Sodom, which is a thoroughly rotten city, geophysically and culturally. The Dead Sea, undrinkably salty, is spewing up pitch, sulfuric fumes and even flames. More importantly, Sodomite culture is bizarre, and not just in the ways you may have heard about. They have massive city-fest style orgies, true, but worse, it’s a paranoid society, xenophobic and selfish: they even forbid beggars and giving alms is a crime. As Thorne describes it, destruction is well-deserved.
Chapters of Angels at the Gate begin with epigraphs, usually from Genesis. It is a religious novel, set in a period of violent flux, with cultures leaving polytheism and goddess worship for the constraints of monotheism.
Although it’s set in Southern Canaan, depicts obsession with forms of religious worship, and contains the occasional genetic surprise—who is secretly related to whom—this is not actually a Southern novel and, as a break from my usual reading, I found that very attractive, a refreshing change.
Don Noble is host of the Alabama Public Television literary interview show Bookmark and the editor of A State of Laughter: Comic Fiction from Alabama. This review was originally broadcast on Alabama Public Radio.
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WSR Rail Renewal appeal passes halfway point
The West Somerset Steam Railway Trust have received a large donation towards the 2019 Rail Renewal appeal, that takes the total over the half way point. Together we have so far raised 51% of the targeted £250,000 for this winter’s track works. Work has already begun on the Doniford section of the track and will continue over the winter period.
Working together to secure the future of the West Somerset Railway.
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/railrenewal2019
Hobson Charity offers grant towards cylinder block machining
WSRA Fundraiser Kate Williams has secure an offer of a grant from the Hobson Charity of up to £2000 towards the cost of machining the cylinder blocks for 4561.
WSR Rail Renewal fund tops £100K
The latest figures reveal that the WSR Rail Renewal Fund 2019 has tipped over £100,000.
Included in that figure is a donation of £20,000 from The Fairfield Trust. The WSRA Trustees wish to express their sincere gratitude to the Fairfield Trust for supprting the WSR Rail Renewal 2019 fund. This very generous donation takes the total charitable funds held for this project to just over £103,000. There are still more gift aid pledges to recover and when those funds are received we expect to be approaching half of the required amount for this winter’s agreed works.
The Trustees, Directors, staff and volunteers on the railway would like to express gratitude to everyone who has so far donated to this fund. The work will begin next week with the relay of some 328m of track at the Doniford Curve and some of the donated funds are now being released to pay for the necessary materials for that work to begin.
The fund will remain open for donations until the end of the year and you can donate online at https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/railrenewal2019 or go to https://www.wsra.org.uk/railrenewal/ for more information and other ways of donating and supporting the project.
WSRA contributes to cattle dock restoration at Stogumber Station
On Friday 4th October the WSRA was thrilled to hand over a cheque for £1150 towards the cost of the second phase of restoring the cattle dock at Stogumber Station. This is the only remaining cattle dock on the WSR and is therefore an important heritage item for restoration and preservation. The second phase of the restoration involved the reconstruction of pens based on GWR standard cattle pens. The station team hope to complete the pens under phase III and also carry out brick paving repairs. The WSRA also contributed to the first phase of the restoration to reinstate the steps to the cattle dock.
The WSRA invites bids for funding for heritage projects from all stations and other special interest groups on the west somerset railway.
Photo shows WSRA Trustee Robin White handing over the cheque to Stogumber Station Master Bob Preston on 4th October 2019.
Steam & Scream Spooktacular at Watchet
The WSR Community Engagement Officer is busy organising a Steam and Scream Community Event at Watchet Station and town Esplanade.
In a puff of steam it’s wickedly wonderful Halloween fun during Half-Term week at the West Somerset Railway!
The event will run from Tuesday 29th to Thursday 31st October 2019
6pm – 10pm (Whole Event) 7:15pm – 9:15pm (Steam & Scream Ghost Train Experience)
During the evenings of 29/30/31st October there will be a walk-through ghost train experience at Watchet Station. Dare to enter a specially created series of ghostly carriages where you will be greeted by hilarious haunters, giggling ghosts and ghouls galore!
You will come face-to-face with ghosts from the past who used to use the West Somerset Railway, as on certain nights during October they are to be known to still travel on it and haunt it!
There will also be some interesting characters on our station platform!
Spooky tales will be taking place on the station and there will be creepy craft activities for children.
Visitors are encouraged to attend the whole event as historical ghosts in period costume dating from the Victorian period to the 1960’s, as well as the usual wizards, witches and other spooky characters you meet on such occasions!
Visitors are also encouraged to bring a carved pumpkin (with battery tea lights) to display on the station platform.
PRICING FOR STEAM AND SCREAM GHOST TRAIN WALK-THROUGH EXPERIENCE (payable at the station on the night)
£10 Family of 5 (Children under 3 go free)
£2.50 per person
£2.00 Concessions (Senior Citizens (over 65) /Disabled – Carers go free)
WATCHET TOWN CENTRE ENTERTAINMENT
Watchet Coastal Communities Team will be hosting the following to combine with the West Somerset Railway’s Steam & Scream experience on all three evenings:
Tuesday 29th – Evening Steam & Scream Ghost Train Experience
Wednesday 30th – Daytime Street Market (Watchet Esplanade)/Evening Steam & Scream Ghost
Train experience
Thursday 31st (Halloween) – Evening Steam & Scream Ghost Train Experience/Afternoon and
Evening Street Fair on the Esplanade with frighteningly good themed
food and refreshments /Themed Costumed Competition and Town
Parade 6:30pm/Photo booth opportunity/Street entertainers/Pumpkin
Carving/Painting/Themed Children’s disco/Mystery Walking Tour with
‘The Bell Man of Watchet’ 6-8pm (£5 per person – bookable through
Watchet Visitor Centre)
For more details please contact:
Catherine Dance
WSR Community Engagement Officer
Email: catherine.dance@wsra.org.uk
Donations to WSR Rail Renewal Appeal exceed £70,000
The WSRA and WSSRT are pleased to announce that donations to the WSR Rail Renewal Appeal have now exceeded £70,000. Individual donations vary range from £5 to £8000 and the railway is very grateful for all of them. There are also donations from groups and commercial enterprises, demonstrating the important part the West Somerset Railway plays in the life of the local community as well as the wider heritage movement.
We’d like to especially acknowledge the donations made by friends and family in memory of Michael John Gay. Michael Gay was a steam and railway enthusiast and a long-standing supporter of the West Somerset Railway from its very early days. He retired to Loxton, near Weston-super-Mare, after a lifetime in the newspaper industry, finally becoming Managing Director of the then Bristol United Press, publishers of the Western Daily Press and Evening Post. His friends and family have made their donations to the WSR Rail renewal appeal in his memory.
The figures quoted for the appeal here and elsewhere on this website are donations received to date. Associated Gift Aid forms part of the original gift (unless otherwise specified by the donor) and will be added to the Rail Renewal Fund as and when it is recovered.
Please follow the link to our online donations page to make your donation https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/railrenewal2019
GWR Hawksworth Pannier Tank 9466 to appear at WSRA Steam & Vintage Rally, 3 & 4 August 2019
GWR 0-6-0PT no 9466 will be a surprise operating guest exhibit for the West Somerset Railway Association’s Steam and Vintage Rally at Norton Fitzwarren on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 August 2019, As a red route engine, no 9466 is restricted to the Norton – Bishops Lydeard section of the WSR but is likely to head the empty stock of the evening Somerset Coast Express from Bishops Lydeard to Norton Fitzwarren on Friday 2 August 2019. The Somerset Coast Express is a special excursion for those folks involved in the Rally. The loco will then bank the excursion from Norton to Bishops Lydeard, then cut off and return to Norton.
Over the Rally weekend, the loco will spend some time on static display and footplate visits, plus will also share duties with Barclay 0-4-0ST no 1219 on brake van duties on the Barnstaple Branch section of the Norton Triangles helping to raise more funds for the WSR’s current £250,000 track appeal.
Download the full press release HERE
Two pieces of good news
The WSRA has two pieces of good news to share with supporters.
Firstly, we are very pleased to announce that on Friday Locomotive 9351 was handed back to the WSR plc in Minehead. After a little more gentle running-in the loco is expected to return to traffic within a few days. The overhaul of this locomotive was a truly collaborative venture. The boiler was overhauled at LNWR Crewe and the bottom end was overhauled at Minehead. The re-assembly and refurbishment of a suitable tender were then completed at WS Restoration in Williton. The total cost of the re-assembly and tender work was just short of £30,000, which has been funded by donations from supporters and by the WSRA.
Our second piece of good news relates to our own locomotive, Small Prairie 4561. On Friday we received a cheque for £20,000 towards the cost of the restoration of the loco, from Garfield Weston Foundation. This is a result of the work of our Trusts and Foundations fundraiser Kate Williams. Kate has also sourced £5,000 from the Veronica Awdry Charitable Trust and £15,000 from the Pilgrim Trust for this project and the total now held in donations and pledges for restoring 4561 is over £120,000. We still need more, but we are well on the way and now that 9351 has been returned to Minehead the team at Williton will be able to turn their attention to 4561. More details on the restoration of 4561 can be found at https://www.wsra.org.uk/restoring4561/
12th July – The Final BLOG post
9351 resting at Minehead after delivery ready to enter service after some more loaded test runs.
Ryan and Liam Pope with 9351 as they wait in Williton station to collect the token for the light engine return trip to Minehead, with driver Colin Henderson and fireman Liam Pope.
FINAL PREPARATIONS FOR RETURN TO MINEHEAD
Regulator rod with handle removed to allow additional gland packing to be added behind the oval flange to cure the leak shown below flange
9351 being weighed on equipment provided by the South Devon Railway. This allows the whole engine to be “floated” on hydraulic load cells that are bearing on the rail head and lifting the wheels clear of the rail head (just). At this point reading the pressure gauges on pump units provides a pressure reading that as the bore of the load cells is known, the weight of each wheel on the rail head can be calculated. Thus the engine can be weighed, the spring bolts adjusted balance the weight across the locomotive on each axle as well as bringing axle loads for each wheel set to the required weight front to back.
Application of clear coat prior to delivery
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U.N. Urges Probe Of Reported Hacking Of Jeff Bezos' Phone By Saudi Arabia
By Avie Schneider • 4 hours ago
Updated at 1:18 p.m. ET
In 2018, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sent a WhatsApp message to the world's richest man. That message was behind a high-profile hack of Jeff Bezos' phone, according to a report commissioned by the Amazon CEO and reviewed by United Nations human rights experts.
Google Founders Sergey Brin And Larry Page Step Down From Top Roles
By Avie Schneider & Shannon Bond • Dec 3, 2019
Ending an era at the Internet's biggest search company, Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are leaving their leadership roles and CEO Sundar Pichai will become chief executive of both Google and its parent company, Alphabet.
Page is stepping down as CEO of Alphabet, while Brin is resigning as its president. They will remain board members of Alphabet, a company that oversees not just Google but also research into artificial intelligence and self-driving cars.
Twitter To Halt Political Ads, In Contrast To Facebook
By Avie Schneider & Shannon Bond • Oct 30, 2019
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that his social media platform will stop running political ads, citing online ads' "significant risks to politics." Facebook has been criticized for allowing deceptive political ads.
"We've made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought," Dorsey tweeted late Wednesday afternoon.
He explained his reasons in a long thread of tweets.
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Twenty-three U.S. senators are calling on the nation's top consumer protection agency to investigate a loan servicer for its role in a troubled student loan forgiveness program. The program is designed to help public service workers like teachers and police officers.
The loan servicer, the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, better known as FedLoan and PHEAA, is one of the entities that handles the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
WeWork CEO Steps Down As IPO Stalls
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No police search at home of man who shot self by White House
Updated: 6:19 PM CST Mar 6, 2018
WEBVTT IAN: TONIGHT WE CONTINUE TOCAMERON BURGESS, A GRADUATE OFHIS ROOMATES IN GAINSVILLE HADIT’S STILL UNKNOWN WHY HE SHOT
Four days after he fatally shot himself outside the White House, an Alabama man's apartment sat untouched by investigators and his roommates had no idea he had died.An open, empty handgun case sat on the bed of 26-year-old Cameron Ross Burgess on Tuesday in the Gainesville, Florida apartment he shared with two others. There were nine rounds still inside. Burgess' roommate Justin Ford was distraught when told of Burgess' death by a reporter, saying he has been texting him for days about rent. He said he hadn't heard of the shots fired outside the White House. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were in Florida at the time of the shooting. Neither Metropolitan Police in Washington nor Gainesville Police responded immediately to requests for comment.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) —
Four days after he fatally shot himself outside the White House, an Alabama man's apartment sat untouched by investigators and his roommates had no idea he had died.
An open, empty handgun case sat on the bed of 26-year-old Cameron Ross Burgess on Tuesday in the Gainesville, Florida apartment he shared with two others. There were nine rounds still inside.
Burgess' roommate Justin Ford was distraught when told of Burgess' death by a reporter, saying he has been texting him for days about rent. He said he hadn't heard of the shots fired outside the White House.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were in Florida at the time of the shooting.
Neither Metropolitan Police in Washington nor Gainesville Police responded immediately to requests for comment.
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Girl receives letter from Ruth Bader Ginsburg after dressing as justice for ‘Superhero Day’
Ginsburg noticed the picture, sent the personal note
Updated: 6:17 PM EST Jan 9, 2017
Little girl dressed as Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The 8-year-old girl who dressed up at Ruth Bader Ginsburg for “Superhero Day” at her school received a special letter from the justice herself. Michele dressed as Ginsburg and her mother posted a picture of her outfit with the caption, “Michele has been reading the heck out of ‘I Dissent” and decided to dress as Ruth Bader Ginsberg, because she fights prejudice and injustice.” Later the original post was edited to reveal that Michele received a letter from Ginsburg that read, “Dear Michele: You look just like me! May you continue to thrive on reading and learning. Every good wish, Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” as originally posted by the Huffington Post. According to Michele’s mother, Ginsburg noticed the photo and sought her address to write the personal note. Michele’s mother said, “I would really to thank Justice Ginsburg for being such an inspiration to all of us, and for being so committed to fighting for equality. This wouldn’t have gone where it has if she weren’t such an admirable person. I also want to thank her for taking the time to make a little girl really, really happy.” Michele reportedly took the note to class, said Huffington Post, and inspired her fellow students to dress as “real superheroes,” such as entrepreneurs or politicians, for next year. The family plans to send Ginsburg a thank you note for her message to Michele.
The 8-year-old girl who dressed up at Ruth Bader Ginsburg for “Superhero Day” at her school received a special letter from the justice herself.
Michele dressed as Ginsburg and her mother posted a picture of her outfit with the caption, “Michele has been reading the heck out of ‘I Dissent” and decided to dress as Ruth Bader Ginsberg, because she fights prejudice and injustice.”
Later the original post was edited to reveal that Michele received a letter from Ginsburg that read, “Dear Michele: You look just like me! May you continue to thrive on reading and learning. Every good wish, Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” as originally posted by the Huffington Post.
According to Michele’s mother, Ginsburg noticed the photo and sought her address to write the personal note.
Michele’s mother said, “I would really [like] to thank Justice Ginsburg for being such an inspiration to all of us, and for being so committed to fighting for equality. This wouldn’t have gone where it has if she weren’t such an admirable person. I also want to thank her for taking the time to make a little girl really, really happy.”
Michele reportedly took the note to class, said Huffington Post, and inspired her fellow students to dress as “real superheroes,” such as entrepreneurs or politicians, for next year.
The family plans to send Ginsburg a thank you note for her message to Michele.
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The laughter and joyous chatter streaming out of Yio Chu Kang Chapel rang through the night. It came from the hundreds of guests who were all dressed impeccably in their finest and the sumptuous food that kept everyone in high spirits. It all looked like a typical scene from a wedding banquet.
Except that it was as atypical as any wedding banquet could be.
In Singapore, where young people would chalk up thousands of dollars for their wedding, newlywed couple Abraham Yeo, 37, and Peng Cheng Yu, 24, had chosen to invite their friends from a homeless outreach ministry which Abraham himself started with a friend—Homeless Hearts of Singapore—to be part of their celebrations.
Instead of splurging on a lavish wedding package with professional photographers and expensive gowns, the couple spent most of their money on the buffet catering and throwing a carnival for their guests.
Scenes from the wedding banquet and carnival held at Yio Chu Kang Chapel.
Cheng Yu explained: “We wanted the banquet to resemble a heavenly feast for our guests and to offer them a sense of abundance.”
The idea behind this “heavenly feast” came from Luke 14:12-14:
Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
The couple’s original plan was to hold their wedding in Chinatown, where most of their friends from Homeless Hearts would congregate every day. The idea was to “bring the wedding to where the people are,” said Cheng Yu, but this did not materialize as the venue was already booked for the chosen date.
To emulate a community setting, the couple then decided on having long tables instead of the usual Chinese-style roundtables seating—with only their parents and close relatives sitting at four small round tables. Their 25 friends from Homeless Hearts were seated at long tables along with pre-selected befrienders, while the other guests were not assigned any seats so they could freely socialize with everyone else. The couple also meticulously included Christian hymns sang in Bahasa Melayu during the solemnization service so that their Malay-speaking friends would not feel left out.
Abraham and Cheng Yu with some of the guests that attended their wedding—including their friends from Homeless Hearts.
Experiencing God’s Provision
Indeed, for the couple, their greatest concern during the wedding preparations was their friends from Homeless Hearts feeling out of place. They recalled a particular incident as they were handing out wedding invitations, where a few homeless friends were hesitant to attend despite repeated assurances to come in whatever outfit they felt comfortable in.
“They still felt quite embarrassed, and for us who never had to experience having a lack of clothes, we will not understand how they truly feel,” said Abraham, shaking his head as he remembered how he had overlooked his friends’ feelings at that point.
However, the couple’s wedding budget was already stretched to its limits and they were at a loss over how to resolve this matter. But God answered their prayer in the form of a sister-in-Christ who offered to pay for the guests’ wedding clothes, and a brother skilled in fashion styling went with them to shop for outfits.
Added Abraham: “It was such a sight during the wedding, the ‘uncle’ was looking all dapper and everyone was so well-dressed. You will never be able to tell one apart from the other.”
One of the couple’s friends from Homeless Hearts all decked out in a brand-new outfit.
“This is exactly how God’s kingdom would look like, no divisions and everyone coming together as one,” he said.
Throughout their wedding preparations and even on the wedding day itself, Abraham and Cheng Yu witnessed God’s kindness and providence. Their friends volunteered to double up as photographers and carnival helpers. The couple had also burst their budget as the catering was costlier than expected. However, they decided to go ahead with it to give their guests a “heavenly feast”. In turn, they received every single cent back through the red packets* gifted by their guests.
“God provided in such an amazing way,” summarized Cheng Yu. For the registered nurse, inviting friends from Homeless Hearts had always been part of the plan. She did not think much about her simple wedding dress that she got off a shopping website, or her makeup which she kept to a bare minimum.
After all, the couple noted that a wedding is intended to reflect God’s generosity and to showcase His heartbeat.
“How we spent our money is also a testimony of how we steward our resources for the Kingdom’s sake,” added Abraham, who pointed out that middle-class Christians in Singapore need to wean off the “scarcity” mindset when it comes to giving—the idea that they don’t have enough to give to others.
Instead, he hopes that the wedding will encourage others to “be generous and trust that God will always provide in abundance even if we give up the little that we have.”
The wedding was inspired by some of their friends who have invited the homeless to their own birthday parties and dinners and opened up their homes to them. “We really want our fellow Christians to consider how they can live their lives in view of eternity, and we hope and pray that our wedding can be a gentle and joyful reminder that obeying Christ is a wonderful thing to do—and that we will experience God’s abundant grace as we choose to follow Him.”
The wedding also challenged the couple’s understanding of what it looks like to bring ministry beyond the four walls of the church. For instance, a Malay friend from Homeless Hearts had come up to the church altar to offer the couple his wedding gift, in keeping with customary Malay tradition. While it was a surprise to the couple, it signified to them that this friend held them in high esteem. Both of them were pleasantly surprised as they did not recall doing much to help him except to spend time chatting with him during outreach activities.
“I realized that it is not always about the doing, but about building a relationship with others for them to see Christ in us,” said Cheng Yu.
Likewise, for Abraham, the most touching moment was seeing his guests across all ethnicities and social classes mingling and enjoying the feast together. Quoting Psalms 68:5-6a, “A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families”, Abraham added that he got a glimpse of the Father’s heartbeat that day for those who are fatherless, whether physically or spiritually.
Catching God’s Heart for the Homeless
There is also a special significance to having wedding guests from Homeless Hearts at the wedding, as the couple first met in December 2017 during the ministry’s outreach activities.
Abraham founded the ministry in 2014 after a sobering trip to Japan where he encountered God’s love for the homeless Japanese. About the same time, God laid in Cheng Yu’s heart a burden for the poor and needy, and led her to volunteer at Homeless Hearts.
Abraham candidly spoke about his years of struggle with singlehood before meeting Cheng Yu. A long-time Christian by then, he was heavily involved in mission trips and outreach activities to places like Japan. Nonetheless, he could not shake off the deep sense of loneliness he felt, especially during nights alone in a foreign land. He remembered the countless times he shook his fist at God asking “why” and “when”.
“I was very real with Him, but that’s the period when I also felt closest to God,” said Abraham, who felt that his singlehood experiences made him more sensitive to the feelings of other singles.
Miraculously, the darkest time of his life also led to the birth of Homeless Hearts in Singapore. During one particular mission trip to Japan, Abraham had encountered homeless people in the back alleys of Tokyo. He was moved to feed them but was already running low on cash, as he had only changed S$500 for the two-week trip. To his surprise, during a meeting with a Japanese pastor the next day, he was given a bag of freshly baked bread. The following day, he received a huge box of cake.
Both times, he brought the food to the back alleys and distributed them alongside other volunteers. And even with little grasp of the Japanese language and just simple bread and cake to go around, Abraham could never forget the sight of twos and threes gathering to make simple conversation in the back alleys, hidden from the glitzy streets of Tokyo.
“It debunked my idea of what church and cell group is. Right there, by giving a hand and extending friendship to the homeless, this was church,” said Abraham.
The incident stayed with him and upon returning to Singapore, he was stirred to find out what Singapore churches were doing for the homeless. When he found out that little was being done, he decided to start something himself and eventually founded Homeless Hearts of Singapore.
Little did he know that this would lead him to meet his future bride. Cheng Yu found Abraham to be mature and a man after God’s heart. In turn, Abraham was attracted by Cheng Yu’s gentleness and love for God and people. They eventually grew closer as ministry activities provided them with opportunities to converse and learn about their shared burden to serve the needy—and decided to embark on a life together.
After the wedding, Cheng Yu and Abraham headed off to their honeymoon in Japan. Even then, God’s kingdom was never far from their minds, and their itinerary featured visits to slum areas in Osaka as well as the back alleys of Tokyo to visit the homeless.
The couple shared that Japan is a mission field that they are considering for the longer-term. But for now, Abraham and Cheng Yu are considering starting a house church for their friends from Homeless Hearts, some of whom have become Christians over time. Meanwhile Cheng Yu is also leveraging on her nursing skills to bring nursing aid to needy people in the community.
Abraham and Cheng Yu during their honeymoon in Japan.
“I do not consider what we are doing as radical as it is really going back to the Great Commission to obey Jesus’s call to love God and love His people,” said Abraham.
One of their plans include starting a social enterprise called Abba’s House, which will model what a missional community could look like—which Abraham described as a place where “everyone can walk in, rich or poor, and eat a warm family-style dinner together at a long family table”. Abraham and Cheng Yu also hope to disciple their homeless friends so they may become disciplemakers, and maybe even pastors, themselves.
As singles, the call to obey God guided Abraham and Cheng Yu’s lives. Now as a married couple, they are looking to continue holding fast to this principle to work out the next phase of their shared lives.
“We can all start by being faithful in the small things,” he added.
*Red packets are red-colored envelopes used by guests to hold money gifts during weddings or special occasions like birthdays and the Chinese New Year.
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Posted on July 21, 2015 by Zareth
Take a look at the video below.
Can you tell me what’s wrong with the video? No? Well I’ll tell you. I was not impressed. Maybe it’s because I’m an emotionless robot but the video failed to hit that sentimental mark. The idea was there, but when it came to executing the idea, it fell flat.
“But Zareth,” you say, “This video is about a 13-year-old boy sacrificing his childhood to run the household while still scoring top marks in a nation-wide examination! And it has a piano driven background music! How is this not sentimental? Stop being such a cold-hearted asshole.”
True… it has all the makings of a sentimental video, but still…
Let’s analyse the video, shall we?
So the video begins with a voiceover from the 13-year-old teen. He proclaims that basketball was his first love. With that, the protagonist of the story (and his ‘first love’) is established.
The obstacle is also introduced early in the video. So now we’ve got a hero (13-year-old teen), his first love (basketball) and an obstacle (his mom’s stroke) preventing him from being united with his love.
Classic hero storytelling structure. But we’re still missing something. Something that adds a bit of a spice. Something, or more accurately, someone who is a counterpart to the hero. That’s right, we need a motherfucking villain. Enter the dragon.
A coach so evil that he is willing to kill 13-year-old boys who miss basketball practices. A coach so evil that our hero has a thousand yard stare from the many painful memories. Well, those memories will be painful when your coach is this guy:
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“Do you know how to bounce the ball? Do you fucking know how to fucking bounce the ball??? ANSWER ME!”
Now we have our hero, his first love, his obstacle and the villain. All of which are established within twenty seconds of the video. So far so good. The question now is how will our hero overcome all the adversity to be reunited with his one, true love (i.e. playing basketball so that he doesn’t get killed by Terence Fletcher)?
The next few scenes are montages of our hero grocery shopping, buying lunch for his disabled mother, and managing the household finances. In the voiceover, the hero said that he “had to learn to run the family”. At least we’ve now established that our hero is being dragged away from his one, true love by the time-consuming task of taking care of his family at a young age.
We’ve also established that our hero is a filial son, which is the premise of the entire story. It’s also the title of the video.
Which brings us back to the main question, how will our hero overcome this adversity while still keeping his moral core intact (being a filial son)?
This is where the story starts derailing.
After the household montage, the video cuts to a scene showing a new dawn on the horizon:
Is this it? Is this where they show how our hero overcome his adversity??? Will we get awesome training montages with Terence Fletcher screaming abuses at him? OMIGOSH!
Nope. Trololololol.
Instead it’s another household montage. But what irrationally pissed me off is when the hero said this in the voiceover:
WHAT THINGS??? WHAT THINGS??? AND WHAT OTHERS???
To be fair, ‘some things’ implicitly refer to taking care of his mother and running the household. But that was already established in the first 20 to 30 seconds of the video, so why repeat them? I’m more confused by the ‘others’. You mean our hero has more than one love besides basketball? Man, Terence Fletcher is gonna be more than pissed.
BASKETBALL IS NOT YOUR FIRST LOVE! IT’S YOUR ONLY LOVE, YOU FUCKING INGRATE!
So after the second household montage, we get another soft-focus shot of the sunlight:
This must be it. It definitely must be it. We just got another sunlight shot, people. It’s coming. The training montage. I can even hear the Rocky music with Terence Fletcher screaming over it.
Annnnndddd scene:
A homework scene?
But that’s not the weirdest part. No, what’s weird about this scene is that our hero’s friends are pissed that he’s missing training. After introducing the villainous coach at the beginning, I was expecting the basketball coach to kick down the door and drag our hero away from his home.
Image credit to TwitchFilm.com
RARRRR! THIS IMAGE IS COMPRESSED AS FUCK!
Instead of watching the door get kicked into splinters by a sociopathic coach, we get a bunch of passive aggressive Whatsapp message from some angsty school kids.
By now it’s nearing the end of the video. And we still have not answer the main question of how our hero will overcome the adversity of his mom’s stroke to play basketball again while still remaining filial.
In fact, the question never gets fully answered. Because these are the next couple of scenes:
Our hero looking longingly at a basketball game.
Our hero getting rewarded with a basketball for scoring top marks in the nation-wide examinations.
And the end scene.
I was also irrationally pissed off by this scene. The problem with this scene is that there’s a huge gap between “Some things became more important than others” and “But I guess it was worth it”. Both sentences are crucial in showing that our hero willing sacrificed his love for basketball because nothing is more important than his mother (Terence Fletcher might dispute that).
Yet, both sentences are separated by more than a minute of filler montages. So when the last line “But I guess it was worth it” appears, it sounds like a non sequitur.
Ultimately, my biggest gripe is, you’ve guessed it, the non-appearance of the coach.
Image credit to USAToday
Look at those steely blue eyes.
So at the end, I’m not feeling what the video wanted me to feel (i.e. reaching for the tissues). Instead, I’m left with a case of sentimental blue balls (i.e. not reaching for the tissues).
“Now, Zareth,” you say, “it’s easy to criticize another person’s work. I bet you can’t do this. So just shut up and sit down.”
Now don’t get your underwear in a bunch. I’m not mindlessly criticizing this video. The story has a lot of potential. Done well, it could actually be a very heart-wrenching video despite its very common concept.
The problem with the video is that it makes the rookie mistake of trying to squeeze in too much within a short timeframe. There’s something called ‘Chekhov’s gun’. Everything in a short narrative must be essential. So if you introduce a hardass coach, you better be sure that coach makes an appearance. As a result of not keeping the story ‘tight’, the video feels aimless and does not really tug at the heartstrings.
“So, Zareth,” you say, “what could you have done better?”
Well, I would have remove all mention of basketball. (And the two useless shots of the sun).
Oh no you fucking didn’t.
“But, but, but”, you stammer, “isn’t basketball central to the story? And Fletcher is making me shit my pants.”
Nope, it’s not. The problem with the video is that there were two competing narratives: basketball and achieving top marks in the nation-wide exams. So either the video concentrates on basketball or on being studious. In this case, the narrative of being studious won. So basketball is out.
Image credit to CinemaBlend
So why did the narrative of being studious won? Well, it’s because there was nothing at stake in the basketball narrative. What do I mean by that? If basketball was central to the story, then there should be more at stake. It means that our hero would have to quit the top national basketball team and lose his basketball scholarship just to take care of his mother. But there was no mention about any of that. So if our hero stops playing basketball, the most he suffers is an abusive physical, emotional, and psychological beating from Fletcher.
Image credit to Ricky’s Film Review
On the other hand, there is everything at stake in the studious narrative. If our hero get top marks in the nation-wide exam, he can get into a good secondary school. And if he gets into a good secondary school, he can receive a stellar academic education. And if he receive a stellar academic education, he can get into a top university, graduate with honours and get a good job. And with that job, he can look after his mother.
If he fails at the nation-wide exam, well, given Singapore’s education system, he’s kinda fucked.
See, not only is there more at stake, it’s also playing to the Singaporean audience’s psyche. And if you read the comments on POSB’s Facebook page about the video, quite a number mention about our hero’s filial piety (and to a certain extent, his academic achievements). Basketball, and sports in general, just does not have a big presence in the Singaporean’s mind.
It seems that basketball was shoehorned into the story. It is as if the writer or filmmaker is embarrassed of showing our hero as some nerd and introduced the basketball motif to make our hero seem less nerdy.
“Maybe it’s not that,” you say, “maybe basketball represent our hero’s childhood and the loss of it.”
Okay, then why even talk about basketball as our hero’s first love or even mention the coach? There’s better ways to do that. Maybe show a shot of our hero watching kids having fun through his bedroom window. It’s a lot more effective than establishing an entire useless backstory about basketball.
In short, the story structure failed. There’s a beginning but no middle (conflict) and no climax (conclusion). Everything just kinda died down.
The video should have just stuck closely to the source story. It was a lot more focused.
Look, I’m not shitting –
Image credit to Pictureland
Shut your shit spewing mouth.
Thanks Fletcher.
As I was saying, I’m not shitting on the video. With some rewrites, revisions, and attention to the story structure, the video will definitely be a tearjerker. And a good example is this tearjerker ad by NTUC Income:
BUT SHE JUST WANTED TO GO TO POLY. Sniffs.
I know, kiddo, I know.
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Washington floral artist’s freedom firmly rooted in federal, state constitutional law
ADF attorneys file reply brief with Washington Supreme Court on behalf of Barronelle Stutzman, targeted for her beliefs.
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Related Case: Arlene’s Flowers v. State of Washington | Arlene’s Flowers v. Ingersoll
OLYMPIA, Wash. – Alliance Defending Freedom filed a brief Friday with the Washington Supreme Court that answers arguments the state and the American Civil Liberties Union have made in favor of government discrimination against a floral artist, whom they sued for acting consistently with her faith.
ADF attorneys asked the state high court to take up the case in June of last year after a lower state court ruled that Stutzman, owner of Arlene’s Flowers in Richland, must pay penalties and attorneys’ fees for declining to use her artistic abilities to design custom floral arrangements for a long-time customer’s same-sex ceremony. Rather than participate in the ceremony, Stutzman referred the customer, whom she considers a friend and had served for nearly 10 years, to several other florists in the area who would provide high-quality arrangements and wedding support.
“Barronelle and many others like her around the country have been more than willing to serve any and all customers, but they are understandably not willing to promote any and all messages,” said ADF Senior Counsel Kristen Waggoner. “No one should be faced with a choice between their freedom of speech and conscience on one hand and personal and professional ruin on the other.Americans oppose unjust government actions that strong-arm citizens to create expression against their will.”
As the ADF reply brief explains, “The case boils down to this question: is there room in our tolerant, diverse, and freedom-loving society for people with different views about the nature of marriage to establish their ‘religious (or nonreligious) self-definition in the political, civic, and economic life of our larger community…?’ The trial court’s and [the state’s and the ACLU’s] answer is ‘no.’ Their view is that those who seek to establish their self-identity based on the millennia-old view that marriage is solely between a man and a woman may be coerced by law to express different views or be silenced. This is contrary to the best of our historical and constitutional traditions, which mandate that citizens who hold non-majoritarian views be given room to express them and not be coerced, punished, and marginalized through force of law.”
“The trial court’s and [the state’s and the ACLU’s] view—that there can never be a free speech exception to public accommodation laws—endangers everyone,” the brief continues. “If correct, then the consciences of all citizens are fair game for the government. No longer could a gay print shop owner decline to print shirts adorned with messages promoting marriage between one man and one woman for a religious rally. Nor could an atheist painter decline to paint a mural celebrating the resurrection of Christ for a church. Indeed, no speaker could exercise esthetic or moral judgments about what projects to take on where a customer claims the decision infringes on his or her rights under the WLAD [Washington Law Against Discrimination].”
“People in creative professions regularly have to make decisions about where they lend their artistic talents and the events in which they will participate,” Stutzman said. “For me, it’s never about the person who walks into the shop, but about the message I’m communicating when someone asks me to ‘say it with flowers.’ The government should respect everyone’s freedom—including our artistic freedom and core religious beliefs about marriage—and not force us to create expression that violates our conscience.”
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Akosua and Osman
by admin · June 21, 2017
Title: Akosua and Osman
Author: Manu Herbstein
Genre: Fiction / YA / High School
Publisher: Techmate Publishers, Accra, Ghana
Akosua Annan is a confident and fiercely intelligent student at a posh Cape Coast school. There she comes under the influence of a charismatic feminist teacher. Osman Said's background is very different. Upon the death of his parents, a police sergeant and an unschooled market trader, immigrants to Accra from the North, he is adopted by a retired school teacher, Hajia Zainab. After a spell as an apprentice in an auto workshop, he returns to school. There, finding the teaching inadequate, he becomes an avid reader and educates himself.
Akosua and Osman are thrown together by chance in the course of a school visit to the slave dungeon at the Cape Coast Castle. Their paths cross again as finalists in the national debating competition where the subject is "The problem of poverty in Ghana is insoluble." They meet for the third time as students at the University of Ghana and as we leave them, it looks as if their relationship might develop into something permanent.
This novel tells a story of these two young people from these disparate backgounds brought together as if by an unseen hand; in a process that teaches us about our history or common humanity despite ethnic differences, the need to pursue our ambitions, the strength of human sexuality, and the need for self-discipline and above all the power of love. "Publisher
Akosua and Osman is the story of two young adults navigating social, academic and family life in high school in Ghana. The story is told through Akosua in every other chapter and Osman through the alternating chapters. Akosua begins and ends the book, which is key because strong female voices are central to the stories of both Osman and Akosua. Osman is born into a poor Muslim family and later loses both of his parents. He is separated from his sister, who must move to the distant north with an uncle she has never met, while he is adopted by a female, middle-class retired school principal and stays in the city. Osman works as an apprentice mechanic until he can get into school. While in school he supplements his subpar education by studying outside of class and reading often. Akosua is born into a highly educated, middle class family and attends a prestigious boarding school for girls. She is mentored by a feminist teacher who nurtures her love of literary arts. Akosua and Osman’s lives intersect during a school field trip to Cape Coast Castle. In a slave dungeon, they meet one another in an intense, awkward moment. Years later their paths cross again when they are finalists in a national debate competition. The debate topic is “the problem of poverty in Ghana is insoluble.” Akosua argues for and Osman argues against.
I really enjoyed reading this book. It was a fast read and full of interesting secondary characters like Akosua’s school mates, Osman’s work mates at the mechanic shop, and their parents. Their stories were realistic and portrayed one of the best things about Ghana- the secondary school system, which was promoted by Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president and prominent Pan-Africanist. Entrance to schools is based on merit and young people often travel to schools outside their region. They end up living with classmates from all over the country with a variety of ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. Some say this is one of the reasons ethnic groups in Ghana do not have fierce hatred toward one another and have maintained a healthy democracy. They see themselves as sisters and brothers who ate, bathed, played and studied together during those school years. We get to know the characters through their different class, religious and ethnic backgrounds. We watch them move in and out of different social circles- Osman visits a church for the first time, Akosua visits a friend in the hospital.
Another interesting feature of the story is how Akosua and Osman receive sex education. Teen readers should reflect on their own experiences receiving sex ed and think about the pros and cons of different approaches.
I loved the strong female characters and the focus on literary arts as an academic discipline for young Africans. I thought the ending was too abrupt and it felt out of place. The Glossary and Map at the end of the book were very helpful. Highly Recommended.
Reviewed by Anastasia Shown, MSW, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice
Published in Africa Access Review (June 21, 2017)
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SPB-Cooperator 21 Mar 19 - 12:33 PM
Iains 21 Mar 19 - 01:37 PM
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Steve Shaw 23 Mar 19 - 05:59 AM
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 21 Mar 19 - 12:33 PM
Got my confirmation email 1,119,676...... and counting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL8TJsM86x0&list=RDjiUFPjulTW8&index=3
A method of stopping a no-deal is if a suitable amendment is made to MV3. One sure way of stopping that approach is to put in a series of different amendments where the 'arcane methods' of Parliament mean that, in many cases, if an earlier amendment is passed, there is no vote on yours. It looks very likely as a result of the meeting with May that all the opposition parties excluding Labour could put in a jointly agreed amendment.
But it looks as if Labour would not support it. They want to have their own Brexit version, which the opposition would not support.
For all May's madness, it could end up being Labour that gets us into a no-deal.
Nope. No spreading the blame, please. She is the prime minister and she has taken charge of all this, sidestepping Parliament whenever she can, keeping secrets and refusing to bend and acting at every single turn in the interests of her party, never the country, and letting her rabid backbenchers and a sorry sectarian bunch call all the shots, bungs no object. Opposition parties ultimately have no real power. Whatever happens in the near future, history will rightly put one hundred percent of the blame for this on the Tories, Cameron and May in particular. I've said it before and I'll say it again: there are no principled Tories. If you vote Tory you are either woefully ignorant or you are riddled with self-interest. Know the enemy.
I agree we are 100% in this mess because of first Cameron and then May. There is no doubt of that. But if Labour are offered a chance to stop it and don't take it then they share the blame in my opinion.
Nope. I'm a member of the Labour Party and no bugger presiding over this shambles is going to pass the buck to me, thank you very much. We are where we are because of the Tory disaster that's unfolded over at least three years. Her deal is a bloody rotten deal and must be discarded. Everything else to follow that is one hundred percent Tory blackmail. God, Question Time should be good tonight...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL8TJsM86x0
I don't think blame and guilt add up in that way, Steve, but we will agree to differ, I hope.
I watched the first two Question Times under new management, but haven't since because I found it just wild shouting. However, I may face it this evening..
Incidentally, Steve, is the thread title "Brexit #3: A futile gesture?" a particularly prescient comment on MV3?
No, it was because I thought the mods might shut down an attempt to reopen a discussion they'd already shut down twice. Thanks, Maggie.
From: KarenH
I note reports that suppliers are stockpiling toilet rolls in case of a no deal Brexit. I am old enough to remember lavs with squares of newspaper rammed on to a nail. If you scrunched up the newspaper, it softened it. This may be a helpful tip for youngsters in the event of a shortage.
A million signatures on the 'Revoke A50' petition a few minutes ago.
Around 900,000 of which have been since May's speech. I could see it passing 2 million before the weekend is out.
Well, I was wildly pessimistic about that. It is significantly over 2.1 million already.
Gosh, Karen, just eat lots of popcorn and you'll get a "clean break." Failing that, find a grassy slope in a quiet spot to slide down legs akimbo, slightly damp if possible. A second slide down a clean bit leaves one spotless. I promise not to watch. Exhilarating, I promise, and I'm an expert, though I'll not disclose my locations. There's always a way. Other no-deal advice available, for a small fee, of course. Preferably in euros.
From: Donuel
Happy May day.
From: robomatic
Did I understand the news today that Europe assented to the requested time extension? Who rules what the official Brexit departure date should be anyway?
The whole affair is my go-to example of what FUBAR is all about.
A FUBAR is to a SNAFU as a Catastrophe is to a Disaster.
Date: 22 Mar 19 - 01:32 AM
Re history: this depends on who writes it. On the assumption that history decides that Brexit was a disaster, maybe it will blame the voters who wanted to come out of the EU? Or the British Empire, which appears to be the favoured target of a great deal of blame on these boards. Myself, I think William the Conqueror has to share much of the blame, together with the Ancient Romans, who, after all, foisted Christianity on the world, to the extent that a major sect is still based in their home base, running a close second. Or maybe the Celts, those dastardly incomers! They were Europeans too, of course!
"Did I understand the news today that Europe assented to the requested time extension?"
They have cut the leaving time from June to the previous month I think - symbolic, given the name of the head lemming leading Britain over the cliff
They have cut the leaving time from June to the previous month I think - symbolic
If you bothered to follow the narrative you would realise that an extension until June necessitates the UK participating in the European elections.
They will offer entertainment in their own right without the UK adding further divisive icing on the cake.
Do try to keep up!
Re History: This was an amusing snippet amonst everything going on last night -
#HannanIrishHistory was trending after pro-Brexit Tory Mr Hannan used Ireland to make a point about the EU in a comment article.
In particular, he suggested Fianna Fail had won every Irish election between 1932 and 2008, when in fact the liberal-conservative party Fine Gael was in power on six occasions during the period.
When the accuracy of his article was questioned, Mr Hannan said "historians necessarily have different takes on the same event", adding: "Please try to accept that yours is not the only interpretation."
Another example of the unrelenting search for accuracy and understanding we have come to expect from some of the leading Brexiteers, like Hannon and "Dover" Raab.
"If you bothered to follow the narrative you"
If oyu read what I wrote, you insecure ill-mannered moron, you would notice I didn't comment on the reasons for changing the date
You pollute every thread you post to with your childish nastiness - time to grow up
Can a mod please do something about tis appalling behavior please ?
Only you can do something, Jim. As suggested many times before, just ignore him.
robomatic wrote Did I understand the news today that Europe assented to the requested time extension? Who rules what the official Brexit departure date should be anyway?
Not quite, robo. The EU agreed to an extension but not the one requested. As to who rules the date, because it is a joint treaty, it is quite complicated. The EU has offered a date, but it is not legally binding on the UK because they have not formally accepted it. Last night Teresa May agreed to it, which in effect makes it government policy, but in law nothing has changed, to use her favourite phrase. It is not until Parliament formally accepts the offer and amends the law that that happens. Parliament could in principle do that now, but in practise will almost certainly wait until after MV3 because that enables them to accept one of the two alternative dates rather than have to build the alternative dates with their conditionality into the law.
Jim - From Mudcat FAQs. You might like to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest...then do as suggested here and elsewhere, Don't. Feed. The. Troll.
"Dealing With Flamers and Trolls
Here are some definitions from Netlingo.com:
To send nasty or insulting messages, usually in response to someone's having broken the rules of netiquette.
An intentionally inflammatory posting in a newsgroup or discussion group designed to elicit a strong reaction thereby creating a flame war.
When an online discussion degenerates into a series of personal attacks against the debators, rather than discussion of their positions. A heated exchange.
"Troll" is a bit more subtle, and I had a harder time finding it. Here's what I found in the Jargon Dictionary:
troll v.,n. 1. [From the Usenet group alt.folklore.urban] To utter a posting on Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or flames; or, the post itself. Derives from the phrase "trolling for newbies" which in turn comes from mainstream "trolling", a style of fishing in which one trails bait through a likely spot hoping for a bite. The well-constructed troll is a post that induces lots of newbies and flamers to make themselves look even more clueless than they already do, while subtly conveying to the more savvy and experienced that it is in fact a deliberate troll. If you don't fall for the joke, you get to be in on it. See also YHBT. 2. An individual who chronically trolls in sense 1; regularly posts specious arguments, flames or personal attacks to a newsgroup, discussion list, or in email for no other purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a discussion. Trolls are recognizable by the fact that the have no real interest in learning about the topic at hand - they simply want to utter flame bait. Like the ugly creatures they are named after, they exhibit no redeeming characteristics, and as such, they are recognized as a lower form of life on the net, as in, "Oh, ignore him, he's just a troll." 3. [Berkeley] Computer lab monitor. A popular campus job for CS students. Duties include helping newbies and ensuring that lab policies are followed. Probably so-called because it involves lurking in dark cavelike corners.
Some people claim that the troll (sense 1) is properly a narrower category than flame bait, that a troll is categorized by containing some assertion that is wrong but not overtly controversial. See also Troll-O-Meter.
I have to say that I have become a bit cynical about people who make a big show of leaving the Mudcat because of flamers - many of these people might warrant the title of "trolls." The people who attract flamers are often quite obnoxious themselves, especially those who leave with a long farewell message that usually generates a hundred "don't go" responses or more. I am concerned about those who quietly slip away, or those who never even start to participate because of the nastiness. Those who make a show of making martyrs of themselves are every bit as bad as the flamers, I think. They prey on the sympathy of good people.
I've said it before, and I'm sure I'll say it many times more: the best way to deal with both flamers and trolls is to ignore them. Give them silence, and they'll go away. They feed on attention - don't give it to them.
There is another problem that occasionally arises here - people who are threatening in their behavior. It is of utmost importance that you do not try to deal with these people. If you ignore them totally and inform Joe Offer or Big Mick about them quietly with a personal message or e-mail, we can quietly make them disappear (to an extent).
PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO DEAL WITH THESE PEOPLE YOURSELVES?
If people seem dangerous, LEAVE THEM ALONE."
Lesson learned - got up the wrong side of the bed
But Jim your bed is against the wall?!
Well UK, you will always have May
to sing and dance and play
but a very hard Brexit
will likely condemn it
to turn all your blue skies to grey
"But Jim your bed is against the wall?!"
Shit - that's where the headache came from !
Must make sure I make different sleeping arrangements next time I quiz a woman (an obscure folkie joke - but quite clever, even if I say so myself)
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Rafael Behr socks it to May:
From The EU knows it, so do our own MPs: Theresa May is finished
Continental leaders have granted an article 50 extension, but not the one requested by the prime minister... Does May like this plan? It doesn’t matter. She wasn’t in the room where it happened. The summit conclusions were handed down to the petitioning nation as it paced around an antechamber. This is the power relationship between a “third country” and the EU. Britain had better get used to it.
The terms of the extension are not drafted for the prime minister’s benefit. They contain a message from the EU direct to the House of Commons. In crude terms: piss or get off the pot. If you want to leave with a deal, vote for the damned deal. If you are foolish enough to leave without a deal, do not blame us. Have a couple more weeks to think about it. But if you want something else, a referendum or a softer Brexit, work it out soon. And then send someone who isn’t May to talk to us about it.
The point of no return was the summit in Salzburg last September. May was invited to make the case for what was left of her “Chequers plan”... and instead of speaking candidly, persuasively, passionately or even just coherently, the British prime minister read mechanically from a text that was, in substance, no different from an op-ed article already published under her name in a German newspaper that morning. It was embarrassing and insulting. Many European diplomats say that was the moment when Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and others realised they were dealing with someone out of her depth, unable to perform at the level required for the job...
A similar story is emerging from last night’s summit. May was asked about backup plans in the event that parliament rejects her deal a third time. She had nothing. She restated her determination that the deal should pass. This infuriating obtuseness is grimly familiar on this side of the Channel...
On Wednesday night... the prime minister went on television to berate MPs for obstructing her deal. The spirit was demagogic, even if the style was typically charmless. Here was a besieged leader, emerging from her bunker, presenting herself as the champion of her people against a rotten parliament. This did not go down well with MPs... [It didn't go down well with the public either - whom she tried to rope in as being allied with her stance. I have never been so instantly, totally, utterly, reduced to incoherent rage by a pronoun in my life. - BS]
Wednesday night’s performance exposed something that many of May’s colleagues find uncomfortable to acknowledge: ...a single fatal flaw. She is unable to communicate with others because she... lacks the introspection necessary to take responsibility for the mess made by her obstinacy. She has crossed a line from stubbornness into megalomania.
That leads to a conclusion that Britain’s continental neighbours reached long ago. Even if the UK ends up leaving the EU on the terms outlined in the prime minister’s deal, her part in the story will very soon be over. She is finished. The problems with Brexit are much bigger than Theresa May’s failings as a leader. But those failings disqualify her from being part of a viable solution.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/22/eu-mps-theresa-may-finished-brexit
Amen to all of that, BS.
What a Poile o'Shoite this once proud nation has been dumped into by 17.4 million thick-tards and a clueless, arrogant, obstinate opportunist.
From: McGrath of Harlow
MPs should go for a vote of censure against Theresa May. It would be a very fair response to her attack on them on Wednesday.
Those who detest her on the Tory benches won't vote for a no confidence motion because they are running scared of triggering the Fixed Term Act. But a personal vote of censure wouldn't risk that, since it wouldn't have the magic words required in the act. But with an overwhelming vote of censure from across the house even with her trying to hang on to her office it would be very questionable constitutionally.
Isn't it a bit daft using the term "Meaningfull Votes" for votes that are ignored by the government, and are as meaningless as could be?
Jim Carroll - PM
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 02:57 PMMake up your fucking mind you mad fascist
You really are the Full Monty as far as right wing extremism goes
Date: 26 Feb 17 - 06:56 PM
Try not to talk to people and remember you are a mental midget Iaians
People with far more knowledge and experience have had their fingers burned on this forum by forgetting their place.
Insulting someone's intelligence is, in my opinion, worse than insulting them personally. "
Date: 27 Feb 17 - 03:33 AM
Will you kindly fuck off with your arrogant ranting - it impresses nobody.
Are yuo a racist or what (rheororical question - of course)
you seem to just exist up your own arse and you're not even good at it, having stolen most of it from elsewhere, like your claimed knowledge of socialism
Piss off you pair of racist pricks
At present, you are displaying all the belligerent thuggery and potential menage I associate with the racism you are displaying.
From: Jim Carroll - PM
"I think only you respond to his nonsense now, Jim."
Had enough of allowing an abusive poster fucking up threads
I have gone out of my way to be as polite as possible on these threads - all the personal abuse has come from elsewhere
and just what point is rattling roaring jimmie trying to make??
The sour little scouser needs to look in a mirror!
Remainiacs are seriously sick puppies!
https://order-order.com/2019/03/22/sick-remainers-produce-commemorative-tea-towel-dead-brexiteers/
EU is asking the wrong questions. if they are competent, then they should have realised by now that May is not a fit and proper person to negotiate on behalf of the UK, and likewise the members of party she belongs to are putting self-interest before that of their country.
EU shoud be making far more of an effort to find out what the people of the UK want. If it is not pratical to consult with the entire UK population indiviually, then to at least talk to each elected representative.
For the last two and a half years the outcome of the referendum has badly affected my personal well-being, particularly that neither party (EU or UK) have made a legally binding guarantee that there will be no impact on the ability of my long-term partner from Prague and myself to continue to enjoy our long-distance relatkonship, and make a decision in the future to live together without having to satisfy racist conditions. I resent us being discriminated against in favour of those who have been able to reside previously and not be entitled to the same opportunities. I resent that people who have benefited from the right to study, work, retire in other EU states are selfishly denying others the same right on the future. I resent those that have benefited from funding from cohesion and structural funds to improve their lives are denying the same for people who are individually disadvanteged, or live in socially and economically deprived communities. All this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Could someone please link to the article in the Guardian entitled 'Secret Cabinet Office document reveals chaotic plannning for a no deal Brexit'
I cannot be alone in finding this deeply concerning.
That manages to disturb me in two quite distinct ways simultaneously. It is disturbing it is being done at all, though I expect to hear a casual "we need to prepare for all eventualities" as if this was not important.
But it also disturbs me in the diametrically opposed way. If you seriously think the risk of rioting or worse is real, and presumably there is little reason to think one urban area will differ greatly from another, 3500 staff will go nowhere. I am not sure how exactly you would define a small town, but that the UK has 350 or so seems plausible. So that's ten each. So it manages to be too many and far too few at the same time, depending on your point of view.
They do not call them remainiacs for nothing. It appears the instigator of the revoke article 50 petition is a raving loony.
https://order-order.com/2019/03/22/revoke-article-50-petition-creator-threatened-may-discussed-buy-legal-guns-take-commons/
"The creator of the petition is a certain Margaret Anne Georgiadou, who went on LBC to discuss the petition this afternoon. Now Guido can reveal a series of shocking posts from her on Facebook where she makes repeated death threats against Theresa May. She even discusses in detail with fellow Remainers how to purchase “legal” guns and go to the House of Commons.
In January, Georgiadou wrote about how she hoped that May would kill herself. In two further comments that now appear to have been deleted, she described May (or possibly Andrea Leadsom) as a “creature” that “needs putting down” and threatened to shoot May “point blank”.
I wonder what Mr Plod makes of all this?
The leftards keep strange company!
I don't remember the referendum voting slip consenting to allow the goverment any emergency powers in the event of civil unrest.
Leave means Leave march
It is heartening, in its way, that "Leave"'s style of setting off and doing things with minimal planning has not deserted it. I particularly liked
On its second day, plans to cross the River Tees by the famous Transporter Bridge had to be abandoned when the group arrived only to find the bridge did not operate on Sundays.
The identity of the person who originates an online petition is not too significant. It's worth remembering that the biggest ever online petition in the UK back in 2016 was set up before the referendum was held. It called for a second referendum to give people a chance to think again, if the winning side failed to reach 60% in a turnout of 75%.
The petition got 4,150,260, even more than the Revoke Article 50 one (though with 3,885,883 already this could easily get more before it's through.
And the person who originated it? A leaver, one Oliver Healey. He set it up before the vote, on the assumption that the Brexit option would be rejected the first time through. In the event of course Leave left, though with only 52% of a turn out of only 72%. He complained that the petition had been hijacked after the referendum by leave voters, who shared what on the face of it was Mr Healey's understanding of how democracy should work.
@ SPB: I can see where you are coming from, but the problem with asking the people of the UK what they want is that they are divided, as the close referendum result shows. Not only that but EU sceptics are not an undivided set, and split on the basis of what they hope to get out of leaving. Here's hoping that your relationship survives whatever happens.
Some hoped (foolishly) for an end to the welfare state cutbacks imposed by this government funded by a reduction in EU paymentsm, whereas others don't much like the welfare state.
I should think that if the government seriously felt there was a chance of revoking Article 50 it would have plans to deal with social unrest caused by that, as suggestions have been made that this would cause some leavers to react.
I don't see any way to a happy ending at the moment.
What got me about Theresa May's speech to the nation was her statement that she understood that 'I' was worried about the NHS and the state of schools. I am, but mainly because of the tax and welfare state and educational policies of her government.
To back up what I said about potential civil unrest, there are reports of tailbacks on motorways deliberately caused by Brexiters.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6840679/Furious-Brexiteers-cause-traffic-chaos-country-organise-lorries-block-motorways.html
One thing easily overlooked in that article, KarenH, is the numbers of drivers involved :
Devon and Cornwall Police said it had stopped the convoys on the A30 and M5 and prosecuted the two lead drivers of both convoys for careless and inconsiderate driving.
or again
he Nottinghamshire Brexit go slow protest along the M1 this evening - eight vehicles took part flanked by police cars
We all know how a single breakdown on a motorway can lead to very long tailbacks. So while the disruption may be very significant for any such action, it only takes a handful of people to cause it. Yet, because of the way media works, it is likely to get as much attention as today's march with hundreds of thousands of attendees.
Some good news from the brexit fiasco. The tories are going to break with centuries of tradition and field a candidate against the speaker come the next election. I suspect no peerage on his departure either! How sad!
It is just possible, you know, that a person might care more about Parliament working to the rules of centuries than whether he or she gets a peerage.
More good news for the Brexit fiasco
The US have now stated that there will be no free trade agreement if Britain opts for a hard border
Chew on that one folks
Huh. Devon and Cornwall Police. Nicked two people for driving too slow after they nicked ME for driving too fast a couple of weeks ago. Make your minds up, plod! :-(
Care to show us all where Britain has suggested a hard border? Is it your acute anglophobia showing or simply an inability to understand simple text?
"Free trade" deal with the US? This is the protectionist Trump we are talking about. Even under Obama, who wasn't quite as bad, the terms of trade deals looked bleak, this was one reason some wanted to come out of the EU, the TTIP deal. Bad news for many decent domestic policies.
It's partly I think to do with US dislike of European social models. They prefer tea parties and so on.
Of course not all US citizens think alike, I should have made this clear.
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Matthew Oliveira Receives XL Catlin Scholarship
XL Catlin announced today that the 2018 XL Catlin Scholarship has been awarded to Warwick Academy Deputy Head Boy Matthew Oliveira, who is also well known as one of the island’s top cyclists.
The XL Catlin Scholarship is a four-year full scholarship open to students who are Bermudian or hold Permanent Resident Certificate status and are working toward a degree in [re]insurance industry related studies.
Pictured with Matthew Oliveira is Patrick Tannock, Managing Director, XL Catlin Leadership Council & Chief Executive Officer, Insurance, XL Bermuda Ltd and Jonathan Gale, Managing Director, XL Catlin Leadership Council & Chief Executive Officer, Reinsurance, XL Bermuda Ltd.
Eighteen-year-old Matthew, the son of Cathie and Cesar Oliveira of Southampton, was selected from a list of close to 30 eligible applicants for the scholarship.
Matthew will be attending Loughborough University in the UK this September. He will be studying Business and Finance as he plans to obtain a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Management and to pursue a career in the [re]insurance industry.
Describing himself as “as one who aims to achieve the highest standards” and “incredibly driven”, Matthew’s academic and athletic achievements to date reflect this. His academic achievements include scoring an A* in Mathematics at International General Certificate of Secondary Education [“IGCSE”] level when he sat the examination ahead of schedule.
At Warwick Academy, Matthew received the International Baccalaureate Scholarship for both the 2016/17 and 2017/18 academic years and was on the Principal’s List throughout high school including in the Sixth Form. He also earned the highest IGCSE grades in Year 11 at Warwick Academy.
In addition to this, Matthew is one of Bermuda’s top junior cyclists. He has won numerous local and international races, including gold medals in the Junior Caribbean Cycling Road Race Championship in Barbados and the Youth Commonwealth Games Cycling Time Trial in Bahamas last year.
His local accomplishments include winning the Bermuda Bicycle Association’s Male Cyclist of the Year Award in 2016 and 2017, the Bermuda Government Youth and Sports Junior Male Cyclist of the Year Award in 2015, 2016 and 2017, the President’s Cup Race in cycling last August, the Bermuda Junior Male Road Race last June, the Sinclair Packwood Memorial Race in 2016 and three years in a row [2015 to 2017] he was crowned Bermuda Junior Male Time Trial Champion in cycling. Recently Matthew, who competes overseas for Hot Tubes – a top junior development cycling team in the US, achieved several top finishes in the Junior Tour of Ireland.
Besides cycling, Matthew enjoys competing in local triathlons, lionfish hunting and helping to protect Bermuda’s coral reef system.
Despite his busy schedule, Matthew also finds the time to participate in community service activities in Bermuda. They have included volunteering at the annual PALS Fair and raising funds for the Bermuda Sloop Foundation via the Pirates of Bermuda event.
XL Catlin Scholarship Committee Chairperson, Carol Parker Trott, said: “We are proud to have Matthew as our 2018 XL Catlin Scholar. He is the epitome of what this scholarship is all about.
“It is not just about rewarding someone for academic achievements. It is an investment in well-rounded students who demonstrate their commitment to excellence in and outside the classroom and convince the Committee that they have what it takes to honourably represent the scholarship, the company, their community and the industry now and well into the future. Given his performance so far, we have no doubt that Matthew will accomplish this and much more.”
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Marjorie Barber says:
Well done Matthew, we are oh so proud of you,
Congratulations, Matthew! What an all rounder you are!
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Big Brother 18 Power Rankings Week 4: Who’s On Top?
By: Miss Blogger on July 21, 2016
Our Big Brother Power Rankings are in for week four, and we’ve had some interesting shuffling around in our ratings since our last report. There certainly has been a lot going on, and with the Battle Back competition and special Friday episode coming up, things are only going to get even more entertaining in the days ahead.
The past week in the Big Brother 18 house has been truly golden for those watching the Big Brother Live Feeds. So much drama! Enemies buddying up, former allies at each other’s throats. This season is more and more like a good soap opera drama every day. Just can’t wait to see what happens when the Battle Back winner gets thrown back into the mix Friday night. But before that, let’s get to this week’s Power Rankings, shall we?
1. Paulie Calafiore – I had doubts after winning his second HOH that he would screw it all up, but so far so good. Paulie has put himself into a strong showmance pact with Corey, Nicole and Zakiyah. These four are completely in control of the game and have had 3 HOH’s plus a POV under their watch. Paulie’s social game is what really keeps him at the top of the list and it’s identical to his brother Cody.
2. James Huling – James may not be the most strategic player, but he has found himself in a great position this season. He is playing almost the same game from Big Brother 16, but there’s no Vanessa this season. He is not on anyone’s radar and I do not expect him to be soon. You have to expect he’ll win an upcoming competition with an endurance comp. likely coming up, you know he’s the favorite.
3. Natalie Negrotti – I am not sure if sh’s even playing the game, but she’s safe. Natalie is one girl to watch in this game because she’s not perceived as a threat and she’s quiet. I think her only weakness is her showmance with James because the showmance pact and Michele have decided to try to break them up. The others could try to weaken James by voting her out, so they should downplay their showmance.
4. Zakiyah Everette – Social game, social game, social game. It’s her best game move that she is playing right now and it will be the key to her surviving on the block. Zakiyah hasn’t really had to play hard considering her alliance members have won three HOH’s this season. She’s destined to go far in this game, good news for her is that if she and Paulie end up on the block together, she’d likely survive against him. She’s the weakest in the showmance pact, ut that’s the reason she will likely outlast Nicole, Corey and Paulie.
5. Michelle Meyer – Michelle’s gameplay is one of the poorest all season, but she is not someone I expect to see targeted soon. She’s currently the 5th wheel in the showmance alliance and they are likely to protect her. I have no idea why anyone would want to go to the end with two showmances, but here we are. Maybe her strategy is to hide behind the showmances and then start to make her move. Either way, I do not see any danger for her game in the next few weeks.
6. Corey Brooks – Corey’s playing a pretty good game and he should feel good about winning the power of veto to save himself. I think Corey has set himself up nicely with the showmance pact to make it far in the game. He’s playing a pretty decent social game and no one is strongly targeting him. I have no idea why the houseguest are letting him slide based on his body build, but good job, Corey!
7. Paul Abrahamian – Paul is one of the most improved gamers, but he is not top five because many view him as a rat. He does expose everything to Paulie and the others are noticing those two as becoming close lately. The only thing that can hurt Paulie is a Jozea or Victor returning because he would land on the block right next to them. But Paul has put himself in the showmance pact and it has done him wonders.
8. Nicole Franzel – I think there’s a possibility that Nicole could be in danger next week. It just depends on who wins HOH because she’s pretty good socially and in competitions. I could see someone like Bridgette or Frank making a move to target her. But other than that, Nicole is in an average position, but she should hope Da’vonne should not be HOH. Her hate for Da’vonne is really harming her game moving forward.
9. Bridgette Dunning – Bridgette has been safe in the game due to Category four winning HOH’s recently. But she hasn’t lowered that target on her back and after a blindside boot of her ally she’s struggling. The house really doesn’t like her outside of Frank and I could see a scenario where she goes home. If Frank wins POV, then you’re looking at a Bridgette boot and there’s no doubt they will be sitting next to each other. The house is against Frank and they want to weaken him at all cost.
10. Da’vonne Rogers – Day is still suffering from running her mouth in the game from early on. The sad thing is she was 100 % safe during those weeks, but all the paranoia and game she spilled to others is haunting her. The showmance pact does not trust her because information has been given back to them that they only told her in confidence. Just like Frank, she’s a ticking time bomb.
11. Frank Eudy – His game has been tanking for the past week or two, but he didn’t help himself this week either. He aligned with Tiffany, fought to keep her and it made people suspicious of him. Barring a Bridgette or Frank HOH, he’s likely to be nominated this week and will go home if he loses power of veto. Everyone considers Frank a threat and he’s just not long for this game.
12. Tiffany Rousso – Likely the boot this week, barring a major flip in the house. I think she did not herself no favors in the game by being anti-social in the beginning. The girls did shun her, but she did not help herself by being very quiet in rooms and staring them down. I was shocked she did not leave last week, so her going this week is not a surprise and now that she’s clearly working with Frank she has to go.
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Baseball League is rolling again
Worldwide News Sources...not a good source
When is a religion actually a religion
Stylistic changes may be coming here
Website and podcast changes
Twins leave WCCO, move to KSTP
Quiet MLB trade deadline, busy for Dodgers
Iran says no way...Why it is WWIII
Breastfeeding Cover Controversy
MLB 2006 Comeback Player of the Year Finalists
This was announced yesterday via the mlb.com wire...the 2006 Comeback Player of the Year Finalists have been announced. (Yes, I was a little slow to actually post it...sorry.)
The American League finalists are...
1. Magglio Ordonez - Detroit Tigers
2005: .302 AVG, 8 HR, 46 RBI, 17 2B, 38 R
2006*: .296 AVG, 16 HR, 77 RBI, 22 2B, 57 R
2. Corey Patterson - Baltimore Orioles
2005: .215 AVG, 13 HR, 34 RBI, 15 2B, 47 R
3. Curt Schilling - Boston Red Sox
2005: 8-8 W-L, 5.69 ERA, 87 K, 22 BB, 1.53 WHIP
2006*: 14-4 W-L, 3.78 ERA, 142 K, 20 BB, 1.14 WHIP
4. Rafael Soriano - Seattle Mariners
2005: 7 G, 2.45 ERA, 9 SO, 1 BB, 7.1 IP
2006*: 43 G, 2.06 ERA, 58 SO, 17 BB, 52.1 IP
5. Frank Thomas - Oakland Athletics
2005: 34 G, .219 AVG, 12 HR, 26 RBI, 19 R
2006*: 88 G, .259 AVG, 24 HR, 67 RBI, 45 R
6. Jim Thome - Chicago White Sox
2005: 59 G, .207 AVG, 7 HR, 30 RBI, 26 R
The National League finalists are...
1. Carlos Beltran - New York Mets
2005: .266 AVG, 16 HR, 78 RBI, 83 R, 17 SB
2006*: .281 AVG, 33 HR, 97 RBI, 84 R, 14 SB
2. Joe Borowski - Florida Marlins
2005: 43 G, 4.47 ERA, 27 SO, 12 BB, 0 SV
2006*: 46 G, 3.20 ERA, 43 SO, 20 BB, 22 SV
3. Johnny Estrada - Arizona Diamondbacks
2005: 105 G, .261 AVG, 4 HR, 39 RBI, 31 R
2006*: 86 G, .317 AVG, 9 HR, 57 RBI, 37 R
4. Nomar Garciaparra - Los Angeles Dodgers
5. Edgar Renteria - Atlanta Braves
2005: .276 AVG, 8 HR, 70 RBI, 100 R, 36 2B
2006*: .311 AVG, 11 HR, 45 RBI, 73 R, 25 2B
6. Scott Rolen - St. Louis Cardinals
When will we know who won?
The American League and National League winners will be announced during the 2006 MLB postseason. To further involve fans in the selection process, Viagra will conduct an online sweepstakes in conjunction with the "Major League Baseball Comeback Player of the Year Award Presented by Viagra® (sildenafil citrate)." As part of the program, one lucky sweepstakes winner will have the opportunity to throw out a ceremonial first pitch at a 2006 MLB World Series® game.
OK, I can try to make it sound like it is exciting, but honestly it is right there in excitement with the Silver Slugger Awards. But still, it is interesting. And it gives me a chance to use some more of those profile shots.
(Profile pictures courtesy of mlb.com)
Labels: MLB, MLB-ARI, MLB-ATL, MLB-BAL, MLB-BOS, MLB-CHG, MLB-DET, MLB-FLA, MLB-LA, MLB-NYM, MLB-OAK, MLB-SEA, MLB-STL
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Tag: Arctic
After the Clouds
[Image: A cloudless day in the Alabama Hills of California; photo by BLDGBLOG].
The Earth could lose all its clouds according to a feasible runaway greenhouse scenario, modeled by scientists at Caltech.
“Clouds currently cover about two-thirds of the planet at any moment,” Natalie Wolchover writes for Quanta. “But computer simulations of clouds have begun to suggest that as the Earth warms, clouds become scarcer. With fewer white surfaces reflecting sunlight back to space, the Earth gets even warmer, leading to more cloud loss. This feedback loop causes warming to spiral out of control.”
Or, she warns, as if channeling J. G. Ballard’s novel The Drowned World, “think of crocodiles swimming in the Arctic.”
Author Geoff ManaughPosted on February 26, 2019 Categories BLDGBLOGTags Arctic, Atmospheric Chemistry, Climate Change, Clouds, Earth, J. G. Ballard, Landscape Futures, Natalie Wolchover, Sky, The Drowned World3 Comments on After the Clouds
Many Norths
[Image: Many Norths: Building in a Shifting Territory].
Architects Lola Sheppard and Mason White of Lateral Office have a new book out, Many Norths: Building in a Shifting Territory, published by Actar.
The book is something of a magnum opus for the office, compiling many years’ worth of research—architectural, infrastructural, geopolitical—including original interviews, maps, diagrams, and historical analyses of the Canadian North. Or the Canadian Norths, as Sheppard and White make clear.
[Image: A spread from the book, featuring a slightly different, unused layout; via Actar].
The plural nature of this remote territory is the book’s primary emphasis—that no one model or description fits despite superficial resemblances, whether they be economic, ecological, climatic, or even military, across massive geographic areas.
“For better or for worse,” they write in the book’s opening chapter, “if nothing else [the Norths are] a shifting, multivalent territory: culturally dynamic, environmentally changing, and socially evolving. Digital and physical mobility networks expand, ground conditions change, treelines shift, species hybridize, and cultures remain dynamic and cross-pollinating.”
Exploring these differences, they add, was “the motivation for this book.”
[Images: Spreads from Many Norths].
Their secondary point, however, is that this sprawling, multidimensional region of shifting ground planes and emergent resource wealth is now the site of “a distinct northern vernacular,” or “polar vernacular,” a still-developing architectural language that the book also exhaustively documents, from adjustable foundation piles to passive ventilation.
There are Mars simulations, remote scientific facilities, schools, military bases, temporary snowmobile routes (snowmobile psychogeography!), and communal utilities corridors.
The book is cleanly designed, but its strength is not in its visual impact; it’s in how it combines rigorous primary research with architectural documentation.
The interviews are a particular highlight.
Among more than a dozen other subjects, there are discussions with anthropologist Claudio Aporto on “wayfinding techniques and spatial perception” among the Inuit, with “master mariner” Thomas Paterson on the logistics of Arctic shipping, with historian Shelagh Grant on “sovereignty” and “security” in the far north, and with Baffin Island native whale hunter Charlie Qumuatuq on seasonal food webs.
While the focus of Many Norths is, of course, specifically Canadian, its topics are relevant not only to other Arctic nations but to other extreme environments and remote territories.
In fact, the book serves as a challenging precedent for similar undertakings—one can easily imagine a Many Wests, for example, documenting various modes of inhabiting the American Southwest, with implications for desert regions all over the world.
[Image: Spread from Many Norths].
In any case, I’ve long been a fan of Lateral Office’s work and was thrilled to see this come out.
For those of you already familiar with Lateral’s earlier design propositions published in their Pamphlet Architecture installment, Coupling, Many Norths can be seen as an archive of directly relevant supporting materials. The two books thus make a useful pair, exemplifying the value of developing a deep research archive while simultaneously experimenting with those materials’ speculative design applications.
(Thanks to Mason White for sending me a copy of the book. Vaguely related: Landscape Futures and Landscape Futures Arrives).
Author Geoff ManaughPosted on March 27, 2017 Categories BLDGBLOGTags Actar, Anthropology, Architecture, Arctic, Canada, Geography, Geopolitics, Governance, Infrastructure, Lateral Office, Lola Sheppard, Many Norths, Mason White, Navigation, North, Research, Snowmobile Psychogeography, Sovereignty, Speculation, Terrain, Territory, Typologies
Offworld Colonies of the Canadian North
[Image: Fermont’s weather-controlling residential super-wall, courtesy Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art, McGill University].
An earlier version of this post was published on New Scientist back in 2015.
Speaking at a symposium on Arctic urbanism, held at the end of January 2015 in Tromsø, Norway, architectural historian Alessandra Ponte introduced her audience to some of Canada’s most remote northern mining towns.
Ponte had recently taken a group of students on a research trip through the boreal landscape, hoping to understand the types of settlements that had been popping up with increasing frequency there. This included a visit to the mining village of Fermont, Quebec.
Designed by architects Norbert Schoenauer and Maurice Desnoyers, Fermont features a hotel, a hospital, a small Metro supermarket, and even a tourism bureau—for all that, however, it is run entirely by the firm ArcelorMittal, which also owns the nearby iron mine. This means that there are no police, who would be funded by the Canadian government; instead, Fermont is patrolled by its own private security force.
The town is also home to an extraordinary architectural feature: a residential megastructure whose explicit purpose is to redirect the local weather.
[Image: Wind-shadow studies, Fermont; courtesy Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art, McGill University].
Known as the mur-écran or “windscreen,” the structure is nearly a mile in length and shaped roughly like a horizontal V or chevron. Think of it as a climatological Maginot Line, a fortification against the sky built to resist the howling, near-constant northern winds.
In any other scenario, a weather-controlling super-wall would sound like pure science fiction. But extreme environments such as those found in the far north are, by necessity, laboratories of architectural innovation, requiring the invention of new, often quite radical, context-appropriate building types.
In Fermont, urban climate control is built into the very fabric of the city—and has been since the 1970s.
[Image: Fermont and its iron mine, as seen on Google Maps].
Offworld boom towns
In a 2014 interview with Aeon, entrepreneur Elon Musk argued for the need to establish human settlements on other planets, beginning with a collection of small cities on Mars. Musk, however, infused this vision with a strong sense of moral obligation, urging us all “to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilization.”
Humans must go to Mars, he implored the Royal Aeronautical Society back in 2012. Once there, he proposed, we can finally “start a self-sustaining civilization and grow it into something really big”—where really big, for Musk, means establishing a network of towns and villages. Cities.
Of course, Musk is not talking about building a Martian version of London or Paris—at least, not yet. Rather, these sorts of remote, privately operated industrial activities require housing and administrative structures, not parks and museums; security teams, not mayors.
These roughshod “man camps,” as they are anachronistically known, are simply “cobbled together in a hurry,” energy reporter Russell Gold writes in his book The Boom. Man camps, Gold continues, are “sprawling complexes of connected modular buildings,” unlikely to be mistaken for a real town or civic center.
In a sense, then, we are already experimenting with offworld colonization—but we are doing it in the windswept villages and extraction sites of the Canadian north. Our Martian future is already under construction here on Earth.
[Image: Fermont apartments, design sketch, courtesy Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art, McGill University].
Just-in-time urbanism
Industrial settlements such as Russell Gold’s fracking camps in the American West or those in the Canadian North are most often run by subsidiary services corporations, such as Baker Hughes, Oilfield Lodging, Target Logistics, or the aptly named Civeo.
The last of these—whose very name implies civics reduced to the catchiness of an IPO—actually lists “villages” as one of its primary spatial products. These are sold as “integrated accommodation solutions” that you can order wholesale, like a piece of flatpak furniture, an entire pop-up city given its own tracking number and delivery time.
Civeo, in fact, recently survived a period of hedge-fund-induced economic turbulence—but this experience also serves as a useful indicator for how the private cities of the future might be funded. It is not through taxation or local civic participation, in other words: their fate will instead be determined by distant economic managers who might cancel their investment at a moment’s notice.
A dystopian scenario in which an entire Arctic—or, in the future, Martian—city might be abandoned and shut down overnight for lack of sufficient economic returns is not altogether implausible. It is urbanism by stock price and spreadsheet.
[Image: Constructing Fermont, courtesy Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art, McGill University].
Consider the case of Gagnon, Quebec. In 1985, Alessandra Ponte explained, the town of Gagnon ceased to exist. Each building was taken apart down to its foundations and hauled away to be sold for scrap. Nothing was left but the ghostly, overgrown grid of Gagnon’s former streets, and even those would eventually be reabsorbed into the forest. It was as if nothing had been there at all. Creeks now flow where pick-up trucks stood thirty years ago.
In the past, abandoned cities would be allowed to molder, turning into picturesque ruins and archaeological parks, but the mining towns of the Canadian north meet an altogether different fate. Inhabited one decade and completely gone the next, these are not new Romes of the Arctic Circle, but something more like an urban mirage, an economic Fata Morgana in the ice and snow.
Martian pop-ups
Modular buildings that can be erased without trace; obscure financial structures based in venture capital, not taxation; climate-controlling megastructures: these pop-up settlements, delivered by private corporations in extreme landscapes, are the cities Elon Musk has been describing. We are more likely to build a second Gagnon than a new Manhattan at the foot of Olympus Mons.
Of course, instant prefab cities dropped into the middle of nowhere are a perennial fantasy of architectural futurists. One need look no further than British avant-pop provocateurs Archigram, with their candy-colored comic book drawings of “plug-in cities” sprouting amidst remote landscapes like ready-made utopias.
But there is something deeply ironic in the fact that this fantasy is now being realized by extraction firms and multinational corporations—and that this once radical vision of the urban future might very well be the perfect logistical tool that helps humankind achieve a foothold on Mars.
In other words, shuttles and spacesuits were the technologies that took us to the moon, but it will be cities that take us to new worlds. Whether or not any of us will actually want to live in a Martian Fermont is something that remains to be seen.
Author Geoff ManaughPosted on February 21, 2017 Categories BLDGBLOGTags Alessandra Ponte, Archigram, Architecture, Arctic, Canada, Cities, Economics, Elon Musk, Extraction, Fermont, Housing, Industry, Logistics, Mars, North, Offworld Colonization, Oil Field Services, Olympus Mons, Quebec, Russell Gold, Urbanism, Weather ControlLeave a comment on Offworld Colonies of the Canadian North
Northern Sonic
[Image: Canada’s Fury and Hecla Strait, source of the “ping”].
The “mysterious ‘ping’ sound” occurring beneath the waters of Canada’s Fury and Hecla Strait is now under official investigation.
“Hunters in a remote community in Nunavut are concerned about a mysterious sound that appears to be coming from the sea floor,” the CBC reported back in November. “The ‘pinging’ sound, sometimes also described as a ‘hum’ or ‘beep,’ has been heard in Fury and Hecla Strait—roughly 120 kilometres northwest of the hamlet of Igloolik—throughout the summer.” One of many concerns is that, “whatever the cause, it’s scaring the animals away.”
To find out exactly what it is, the Canadian military has sent “two acoustic specialists to investigate the sound.” Oddly, however, “the specialists will not be visiting the actual area of Fury and Hecla Strait, but rather spending a week in Igloolik to gather information about the sound.”
In any case, if this was a novel, I wish I had written it—with slight variations. Two acousticians, carrying sensitive recording equipment and some personal baggage, are sent at short notice up to a tiny fishing hamlet in the far north to investigate a mysterious sound in the water.
No one has any idea of what it is or what’s causing it. It could be a unique natural effect of changing undersea currents, oceanographers suggest; it could be an adversarial foreign power sonar-mapping the strait for future navigation, a military advisor warns; it could be, one of the acousticians quietly begins to fear, supernatural; but the two of them continue researching nonetheless, engaging in sometimes eerie nighttime conversations with locals about a wide range of northern folklore, of vast Lovecraftian things waiting in the ice to thaw and stories of now-vengeful, thousand-year-old revenant hunters lost at sea.
[Image: The hamlet of Igloolik, Canada, visible on the left].
The acousticians return to their spartan accommodations every evening—an old creaking building whose sole resident passed away the year before, although no one will tell them how—where they put on headphones and listen back through their daily recordings, this weird lurch of aquatic noise, as if they’ve wiretapped the drain of the world.
One of them becomes convinced he can hear something—a signal amongst the reverb—but the other can’t hear it, and, either way, it’s almost time to head south again.
A day before they’re set to leave, however, there is a commotion outside near the jetty as three people are rushed into the village. They are hypothermic and dehydrated—and, strangely, carrying U.S. passports despite the fact that one of them has been babbling in Russian. They were found in the strait, half-drowned, their fishing vessel sinking.
And so on. If you want to read the rest, buy me a coffee some time.
(Via Atlas Obscura).
Author Geoff ManaughPosted on January 19, 2017 July 9, 2018 Categories BLDGBLOGTags Acoustics, Arctic, Canada, Fiction, Folklore, H. P. Lovecraft, Hecla and Fury Strait, Hypothermia, Igloolik, Landscape, Noise, Nunavut, Oceanography, Sound2 Comments on Northern Sonic
Sovereign Flocking Algorithms
[Image: Flocking diagram by “Canadian Arctic sovereignty: Local intervention by flocking UAVs” by Gilles Labonté].
One of many ways to bolster a nation-state’s claim to sovereignty over a remote or otherwise disputed piece of land is to perform what’s known as a “sovereignty cruise.” This means sending a ship—or fleet of ships—out to visit the site in question, thus helping to normalize the idea that it is, in fact, a governable part of that nation’s territory.
It is, in essence, a fancy—often explicitly militarized—version of use it or lose it.
Last summer, for example, Vietnam organized a private tour of the Spratly Islands, an archipelago simultaneously claimed by more than one nation and, as such, part of the much larger ongoing dispute today over who really owns and controls the South China Sea [sic].
Vietnam’s effort, Reuters reported at the time, was a strategic visit “to some of Asia’s most hotly contested islands, in a move likely to stoke its simmering dispute with Beijing over South China Sea sovereignty.”
It made “little attempt to disguise its political flavor, and comes as Vietnam pursues a bolder agenda in pushing its claims in the face of China’s own growing assertiveness.” Indeed, the cruise was apparently just the beginning, a mere “trial run ahead of Vietnam’s tentative plans to put the Spratlys on its tourism map, including scheduled passenger flights, possibly this year.”
Bring the people, in other words, and you bring evidence of governmental control.
Against this, of course, we must place the construction of entire islands by China, including the recent installation of a new primary school there, on an artificial island, a school whose opening lecture “was a geopolitical class that focused on China’s ownership of the sea.”
These sovereign games of Go taking place in disputed waters could sustain an entire blog on their own, of course, and are a topic we’ll undoubtedly return to. (Briefly, it’s worth noting that the sovereign implications of artificial islands were also part of a course I taught at Columbia a few years ago.)
Surprisingly, however, another region seen as potentially subject to future disputes over sovereignty is the Canadian Arctic. As such, arguments over such things as whether or not the Northwest Passage is an “international strait” (open to use by all, including Russian and Chinese military ships) or if it is actually a case of “internal waters” controlled exclusively by Canada (thus subject to restricted access), are still quite active.
Add to this a series of arguments over indigenous political rights as well as the specter of large-scale terrestrial transformation due to climate change, and a series of intriguing and quite complicated political scenarios are beginning to emerge there. (Who Owns The Arctic? by Michael Byers is an excellent introduction to this subject, as is Mia Bennett’s blog Cryopolitics.)
With all this in mind, consider a fascinating report issued by Defence R&D Canada back in 2010. Called “Canadian Arctic sovereignty: Local intervention by flocking UAVs” (PDF), and written by Gilles Labonté, it opens stating that “the importance of local intervention capability for the assertion of Canadian Sovereignty in the Northwest passage is recognized.”
However, Canada presently lacks the ability to deploy at any northern position, on demand, assets that could search a wide area for rescue or surveillance purposes. This fact motivated the exploration we report here on the feasibility of a rapid intervention system based on a carrier-scouts design according to which a number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) would be transported, air launched and recovered by a larger carrier aircraft.
In other words, if Canada can’t send actual Canadians—that is, living human beings—on aerial “sovereignty cruises” by which they could effectively demonstrate real-time political control over the territories of the north, then they could at least do the next best thing: send in a flock of drones.
Doing so, Labonté suggests, would require a particular kind of flocking algorithm, one with an explicitly political goal. “In the present report,” he adds, “we propose a solution to the remaining problem of managing simultaneously the many UAVs that are required by the vastness of the areas to be surveyed, with a minimum number of human controllers and communications.”
Namely, we present algorithms for the self-organization of the deployed UAVs in the formation patterns that they would use for the tasks at hand. These would include surveillance operations during which detailed photographic or video images would be acquired of activities in a region of interest, and searching an area for persons, vehicles or ships in distress and providing a visual presence for such. Our conclusion is that the local intervention system with flocking UAVs that we propose is feasible and would provide a very valuable asset for asserting and maintaining Canadian Sovereignty in the North.
There are “formation patterns” and flocking algorithms, this suggests, that would specifically be of use in “asserting and maintaining Canadian Sovereignty in the North.”
Hidden within all this is the idea that particular flocking algorithms would be more appropriate for the task than others, lending an explicit air of political significance to specific acts of programming and computation. It also implies an interesting connection between the nation-state and behavioral algorithms, in which a series of behavioral tics might be ritually performed for their political side-effects.
For some context, the report adds, “the Canadian Government has had serious considerations of establishing a presence in the north through purchasing nuclear submarines and ice-breakers.” But why not side-step much of this expense by sending UAVs into the Arctic void instead, reinforcing nation-state sovereignty through the coordinated presence of semi-autonomous machines?
Simply re-launch your drones every two or three months, just often enough to nudge the world into recognizing your claim, not only of this remote airspace but of the vast territory it covers.
A halo of well-choreographed aerial robots flocks in the Arctic skies before disappearing again into a bunker somewhere, waiting to reemerge when the validity of the government appears under threat—a kind of machine-ritual in the open three-dimensional space of the polar north, a robotic sovereignty flight recognized around the world for its performative symbolism.
Read the rest of Labonté’s paper—which is admittedly about much more than I have discussed here—in this PDF.
Author Geoff ManaughPosted on September 5, 2016 December 4, 2016 Categories Afterstate, BLDGBLOGTags Afterstate, Algorithms, Arctic, Canada, China, Computation, Drones, Gilles Labonté, Mia Bennett, Michael Byers, Nation-States, Northwest Passage, Politics, Rituals, Sovereignty, Sovereignty Cruises, Sovereignty Flights, Territory, UAVs, VietnamLeave a comment on Sovereign Flocking Algorithms
To Reach Mars, Head North
[Image: An early design image of Fermont, featuring the “weather-controlling super-wall,” via the Norbert Schonauer archive at McGill University].
I’ve got a new column up at New Scientist about the possibility that privately run extraction outposts in the Canadian north might be useful prototypes—even political testing-grounds—for future offworld settlements.
“In a sense,” I write, “we are already experimenting with off-world colonization—only we are doing it in the windswept villages and extraction sites of the Canadian north.”
For example, when Elon Musk explained to Ross Anderson of Aeon Magazine last year that cities on Mars are “the next step” for human civilization—indeed, that we all “need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilization”—he was not calling for a second Paris or a new Manhattan on the frigid, windswept plains of the Red Planet.
Rather, humans are far more likely to build variations of the pop-up, investor-funded, privately policed, weather-altering instant cities of the Canadian north.
The post references the work of Montréal-based architectural historian Alessandra Ponte, who spoke at a conference on Arctic futures held in Tromsø, Norway, back in January; there, Ponte explained that she had recently taken a busload of students on a long road trip north to visit a mix of functioning and abandoned mining towns, including the erased streets of Gagnon and the thriving company town of Fermont.
Fermont is particularly fascinating, as it includes what I describe over at New Scientist as a “weather-controlling super-wall,” a 1.3km-long residential mega-complex specifically built to alter local wind patterns.
Could outposts like these serve as examples—or perhaps cautionary tales—for what humans will build on other worlds?
Modular buildings that can be erased without trace; obscure financial structures based in venture capital, not taxation; climate-controlling megastructures: these pop-up settlements, delivered by private corporations in extreme landscapes, are the cities Elon Musk has been describing.
Go check out the article in full, if it sounds of interest; and consider picking up a copy of Alessandra Ponte’s new book, The House of Light and Entropy, while you’re at it, a fascinating study of landscape, photography, mapping, geographic emptiness, the American West, and the “North” as a newly empowered geopolitical terrain.
Finally, don’t miss this interesting paper by McGill’s Adrian Sheppard (saved here as a PDF) about the design and construction of Fermont, or this CBC audio documentary about life in the remote mining town.
Author Geoff ManaughPosted on March 19, 2015 December 30, 2015 Categories BLDGBLOGTags Alessandra Ponte, Architecture, Arctic, Canada, Colonization, Elon Musk, Fermont, Gagnon, Mars, Offworld, Weather-Controlling Super-wall1 Comment on To Reach Mars, Head North
Military Cave Logistics
[Image: “Humvees are stored inside the Frigaard Cave in central Norway. The cave is one of six caves that are part of the Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway, which supports the equipping of Marine Expeditionary Brigade consisting of 15,000 Marines and with supplies for up to 30 days.” U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Marcin Platek].
Norwegian caves are being stuffed full of U.S. military equipment, including armored Humvees, tanks, and cargo containers full of weaponry, all part of a vast and semi-subterranean supply chain maintained to help wage future wars around the world.
The Marines have “stashed weapons and equipment in the Norwegian countryside since the 1980s,” War is Boring explains, in sites that include artificially enlarged and fortified caves. It’s all about logistics: “With this setup, Marines can fly in and be ready for a fight in no time.”
[Image: “Rows of front loaders and 7-ton trucks sit, gassed up and ready to roll in one of the many corridors in the Frigard supply cave located on the Vaernes Garrison near Trondheim, Norway. This is one of seven [see previous caption!] caves that make up the Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway facility. All the caves total more than 900,000 sq. ft. of storage space, full of enough gear to outfit 13,000 Marines for up to 30 days.” U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Matt Lyman].
These facilities are commonly described as “supply caves,” and they hold warfighting gear in a state of indefinite readiness, “reserved for any time of crisis or war.”
Marines can simply fly in, unlock their respective caves, and grab the keys to one of hundreds, if not thousands, of combat-ready vehicles, all “gassed up and ready to roll in one of the many corridors” of this subterranean empire on the edges of American influence.
Among many other points of interest, the Marines identify six such supply caves in the caption of one image and seven caves in the caption of another, as if—assuming this is not just a minor clerical error—the Marines themselves don’t even know how many caves they have.
Instead, there’s just Norway, some faraway land of underground voids we’ve stuffed full of combat gear, like emperors stocking our own tombs in advance of some future demise—the actual number of caves be damned, for who will be left counting at the end of the world?
[Image: “Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacements, High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles and trailers, which belong to Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway are staged in a storage cave at Tromsdal, Norway, Feb. 24, 2014. Marine Corps began storing equipment in several cave sites throughout Norway in the 1980s to counter the Soviets, but the gear is now reserved for any time of crisis or war.” U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Sullivan Laramie].
On one level, I’m reminded of Marcus Trimble’s old joke that France has been constructing a back-up version of itself in China. It is a frenzied act of “pre-emptive preservation,” led by the cultural ministers of that sclerotic nation of well-tended chateaux who realized that la belle France could only survive if they built immediately ready copies of themselves elsewhere.
Only, in France’s case, it wasn’t willful self-burial in Norwegian caves, but in the real estate free-for-all of urban China. After all, Trimble suggested, that country’s “construction industry seems perfect for the task of backing up bricks rather than bits—cheap and powered by the brute force of sheer population. Copies of places may be made in a fraction of the time that it took to create them. If, in the event of a catastrophic episode, the part of France in question could be restored and life would go on as it was before.”
[Image: “China: ample space for a spare copy of France”; image by Marcus Trimble].
Militarize this, secret it away in a cave in Scandinavia, and you have something roughly approximately what’s called the Marine Corps Prepositioning Program.
However, I was also reminded of a recent paper by Pierre Belanger and Alexander Scott Arroyo at Harvard’s GSD. There, Belanger and Arroyo describe the U.S. military as a kind of planetary logistics challenge. (A PDF of their paper is available here courtesy of the U.S. Department of Defense).
Specifically, it is the problem of building and often violently maintaining “logistics islands,” as Belanger and Arroyo describe them, that now characterizes much of the U.S. military’s global behavior, an endless quest for finding and protecting “a secure staging ground adjacent to the theater of operations,” in an era when adjacency is increasingly hard to define. As they explain:
While logistical acquisitions are managed by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), logistical operations in the field are predominantly coordinated by USTRANSCOM. On average, the command oversees almost 2,000 air missions and 10,000 ground shipments per week, with 25 container ships providing active logistical support. From October 2009 through September 2010 alone, USTRANSCOM flew 37,304 airlift missions carrying over 2 million passengers and 852,141 tons of cargo; aerially refueled 13,504 aircraft with 338,856,200 pounds of fuel on 11,859 distinct sorties; and moved nearly 25 million tons of cargo in coordinated sea-land operations. DLA and USTRANSCOM and their civilian partners are responsible for the largest, most widespread, and most diverse sustained logistics operation in history.
The largest, most widespread, and most diverse sustained logistics operation in history.
The obvious and intended resonance here is that military operations perhaps now most closely resemble complicated UPS deliveries than anything like actual ground combat. However, we can also infer from this that establishing new and ever more convenient logistics islands is vital to U.S. national security.
A literal archipelago of shipping hubs is thus key to the country’s global military activities, and this not only requires sites like Diego Garcia, which Belanger and Arroyo specifically write about, or even the “mobile offshore bases” they also describe, where the pop-up urbanism of Archigram has been inadvertently realized by the U.S. military, but artificially fortified caves near the Arctic Circle where truly daunting amounts of military materiel are now kept on hand, as if held frozen in some imperial freezer, awaiting the day when global tensions truly heat up.
Read a bit more at War is Boring.
(This is more or less irrelevant, but you might also like Kiln, earlier on BLDGBLOG).
Author Geoff ManaughPosted on August 18, 2014 January 1, 2016 Categories BLDGBLOGTags Arctic, Caves, Infrastructure, Logistics, Military, Norway, Storage, Subterranean, Underground, War9 Comments on Military Cave Logistics
Infrastructural Opportunism
[Image: From Coupling: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism by Lateral Office/InfraNet Lab].
Going all the way back to the fall of 1997, my own interest in architecture was more or less reinvigorated—leading, by way of a long chain of future events, to the eventual start of BLDGBLOG—by Mary-Ann Ray’s installment in the great Pamphlet Architecture series, Seven Partly Underground Rooms and Buildings for Water, Ice, and Midgets.
To this day, the pamphlet format—short books, easily carried around town, packed with spatial ideas and constructive speculations—remains inspiring.
The 30th installment in this canonical series is thankfully a great one, authored by Lateral Office and InfraNet Lab, a design firm and its attendant research blog that I’ve been following for many years.
The premise of the work documented by their book, Coupling: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism, is to seek out moments in which architecturally dormant landscapes, from the Arctic Circle to the Salton Sea, can be activated by infrastructure and/or spatially reused. Their work is thus “opportunistic,” as the pamphlet’s title implies. It is architecture at the scale of infrastructure, and infrastructure at the scale of hemispheres and ecosystems—the becoming-continental of the architecture brief.
In the process, their proposed interventions are meant to augment processes already active in the terrain in question—processes that remain underutilized or, rather, below the threshold of spatial detection.
As the authors themselves describe it, these projects “double as landscape life support, creating new sites for production and recreation. The ambition is to supplement ecologies at risk rather than overhaul them.”
[Images: From Coupling: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism by Lateral Office/InfraNet Lab].
One of the highlights of the book for me is a section on the so-called “Next North.” Here, they offer “a series of proposals centered on the ecological and social empowerment of Canada’s unique Far North and its attendant networks.”
Throughout the twentieth century, the Canadian North had a sordid and unfortunate history of colonial enterprises, political maneuverings, and non-integrated development proposals that perpetuated sovereign control and economic development. Northern developments are intimately tied to the construction of infrastructure, though these projects are rarely conceived with a long-term, holistic vision. How might future infrastructures participate in cultivating and perpetuating ecosystems and local cultures, rather than threatening them? How might Arctic settlements respond more directly to the exigencies of this transforming climate and geography, and its ever-increasing pressures from the South? What is next for the North?
Three specific projects follow. One outlines the technical possibility of building “Ice Road Truck Stops.” These would use “intersecting meshes,” almost as a kind of cryotechnical rebar, inserted into the frozen surfaces of Arctic lakes to “address road reinforcement, energy capture, and aquatic ecologies.”
The mesh is installed at critical shorelines just below the water’s surface, serving to reinforce ice roads during the winter and invigorate lake ecologies during warmer seasons. As trucks travel over the ice road, a hydrodynamic wave forms below the ice, which the mesh captures and converts to energy through a proposed buoy network.
There is then a series of “Caribou Pivot Stations”—further proof that cross-species design is gathering strength in today’s zeitgeist—helping caribou to forage for food on their seasonal migrations; and a so-called “Liquid Commons,” which is a “malleable educational infrastructure composed of a series of boats that travel between the harbors of eleven adjacent communities.” It is a mobile, nomadic network bringing tax-funded educational opportunities to the residents of this emerging Next North.
Here, I should point out that the book has an air of earnestness—everything is very serious and technical and not to be laughed at—but the projects themselves often belie this attitude. It’s as if the authors are aware of, and even revel in, the speculative nature of their ideas, but seem somehow rhetorically unwilling to give away the game. But the implication that these projects are eminently buildable—shovel-ready projects just waiting for a financial green light to do things like “cultivate” ice in the Bering Strait (duly illustrated with a Photoshopped walrus) or “harvest” water from the Salton Sea—is a large part of what makes the book such an enjoyable read.
After all, does presenting speculative work as if it could happen tomorrow—as if it is anything but speculative—increase its architectural value? Or should such work always hold itself at an arm’s length from realizability, so as to highlight its provocative or polemical tone?
The projects featured in Coupling have an almost tongue-in-cheek buildability to them—such as recreational climbing walls on abandoned oil platforms in the Caspian Sea. This opens a whole slew of important questions about what rhetorical mode—what strategy of self-presentation—is most useful and appropriate for upstart architectural firms. (At the very least, this would make for a fascinating future discussion).
In any case, the book is loaded with diagrams, as you can see from the selections reproduced here, including a volumetric study (above) that runs through various courtyard typologies for a hypothetical mixed-use project in Iceland. For more on that particular work, see this older, heavily-illustrated BLDGBLOG post.
Essays by David Gissen, Keller Easterling, Charles Waldheim, and Christopher Hight round out the book’s content. It’s a solid pamphlet, both practical and imaginative—made even more provocative by its implied feasibility—and a fantastic choice for the 30th edition of this long-running series.
Author Geoff ManaughPosted on April 26, 2011 March 27, 2017 Categories BLDGBLOGTags Architecture, Arctic, Bering Strait, California, Charles Waldheim, Christopher Hight, David Gissen, Design, Hydrology, Iceland, Infrastructure, Keller Easterling, Landscape, Landscape Futures, Lateral Office, Lola Sheppard, Many Norths, Mary-Ann Ray, Mason White, Maya Przybylski, Neeraj Bhatia, Next North, North, Pamphlet Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, Salton Sea, Speculation, Typologies, WaterLeave a comment on Infrastructural Opportunism
Books Received: Climate Futures List
A rash of recent books about the geographic implications of climate change have crossed my desk. In this themed supplement to BLDGBLOG’s ongoing Books Received series, I thought I’d group them together into one related list.
[Image: Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal].
What many of the books described in this post have in common—aside from their shared interest in what a climatically different earth will mean for the future of human civilization—is their use of short, fictionalized narratives set in specific future years or geographic regions as a way of illustrating larger points.
These narrative scenarios—diagnostic estimates of where we will be at some projected later date—come with chapter titles such as “Russia, 2019,” “China, 2042,” “Miami Beached,” and “Holland 2.0 Depolderized.” Among the various spatial and geopolitical side-effects of climate change outlined by these authors are a coming depopulation of the American Southwest; a massive demographic move north toward newly temperate Arctic settlements, economically spearheaded by the extraction industry and an invigorated global sea trade; border wars between an authoritarian Russia and a civil war-wracked China; and entire floating cities colonizing the waters of the north Atlantic as Holland aims to give up its terrestrial anchorage altogether, becoming truly a nation at sea.
“Will Manhattan Flood?” asks Matthew E. Kahn in his Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future. What will Greenland look like in the year 2215, with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels at 1300 parts per million, according to Peter Ward’s The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps? Will a “New North” rise as the Arctic de-ices and today’s economic powerhouses, from Los Angeles to Shanghai, stagnate under killer droughts, coastal floods, and heat waves, as Laurence C. Smith suggests in The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization’s Northern Future?
[Image: Modeling sea-level rise in Florida, courtesy of Penn State].
However, climate change is only one of the world-altering forces under discussion in each of these six books. Demography, oil scarcity, natural resources, public hygiene, and accelerating globalization all play roles, to different extents, in these authors’ thinking. In one case, in particular—Float!: Building on Water to Combat Urban Congestion and Climate Change, the most practical book described here—new construction technologies, with immediate implications for architectural design, also take center stage.
In all cases, though, these books offer further evidence of an irresistible popular urge to discuss the future, and to do so through what can very broadly described as fiction. The recent speculative tone taken by much of today’s architecture writing is only part of this trend; from “design fiction” to speculative foreign policy blogs, and from “the world without us” to future food, a compulsion to understand what might happen to human civilization, in both the near and distant future, using fictional scenarios and speculative hypotheses seems to be at a high point of trans-disciplinary appeal.
As Heidi Cullen writes in The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet, there is something inherently difficult in comprehending the scale of climate change—what effects it might have, what systems it might interrupt or ruin. She thus imports lessons from cognitive psychology to understand what it is about climate change that keeps it so widely misinterpreted (though a hefty dose of media criticism, I’d argue, is far more apropos). It is interesting, then, in light of the apparent incomprehensibility of climate change, that fictional scenarios have become so popular a means of explaining and illustrating what Cullen calls our “climate-changed planet.”
This emerging narrative portraiture of climate change—exemplified by most of the books under discussion here, whether they present us with Atlanta running out of freshwater, frantic Chinese troops diverting rivers on the border with India, or a governmentally-abandoned Miami given over to anarchism and mass flooding—offers an imperfect but highly effective way of making a multi-dimensional problem understandable.
After all, if stories are an effective means of communicating culturally valuable information—if stories are pedagogically useful—then why not tell more stories about future climate change—indeed, why not tell more stories about architecture and buildings and emerging technologies and the spaces of tomorrow’s geopolitics?
Perhaps this is why so much of architecture writing today, both on blogs and elsewhere, so willfully crosses over into science fiction: if architecture literally is the design and proposal of a different world—one that might exist tomorrow, next year, next decade—then it is conceptually coextensive with the genre of scifi.
The current speculative turn in architecture writing is thus both unsurprising and highly appropriate to its subject matter—something worth bearing in mind by anyone hoping to find a larger audience for architectural critique.
[Image: “London as Venice” by Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones, based on a photo by Jason Hawkes (part of an image series well-critiqued by the Guardian)].
An obvious problem with these preceding statements, however, is that we might quickly find ourselves relying on fiction to present scientific ideas to a popular audience; in turn, this risks producing a public educated not by scientists themselves but by misleading plotlines and useless blockbusters, such as The Day After Tomorrow and State of Fear, where incorrect popular representations of scientific data become mistaken for reports of verified fact.
In a way, one of the books cited in the following short list unwittingly demonstrates this very risk; Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats would certainly work to stimulate a morally animated conversation with your friends over coffee or drinks, but there is something about its militarized fantasies of Arctic tent cities and Asian governments collapsing in civil free-fall that can’t help but come across as over-excitable, opening the door to disbelief for cynics and providing ammunition for extreme political views.
Indeed, I’d argue, the extent to which contemporary political fantasies are being narratively projected onto the looming world of runaway climate change has yet to be fully analyzed. For instance, climate change will cause the European Union to disband, we read in one book cited here, leaving Britain an agriculturally self-sufficient (though under-employed) island-state of dense, pedestrian-friendly urban cores; the U.S. will close its foreign military bases en masse, bringing its troops home to concentrate on large-scale infrastructural improvements, such as urban seawalls, as the middle class moves to high-altitude safety in the Rocky Mountains where it will live much closer to nature; Africa, already suffering from political corruption and epidemic disease, will fail entirely, undergoing a horrific population crash; and China will implode, leaving the global north in control of world resources once again.
It is important to note that all of these scenarios represent explicit political goals for different groups located at different points on the political spectrum. Perversely, disastrous climate change scenarios actually offer certain societal forces a sense of future relief—however misguided or short-term that relief may be.
Elsewhere, I’ve written about what I call climate change escapism—or liberation hydrology—which is the idea that climate change, and its attendant rewriting of the world’s geography through floods, is being turned into a kind of one-stop shop, like the 2012 Mayan apocalypse, for people who long for radical escape from today’s terrestrial status quo but who can find no effective political means for rallying those they see as forming a united constituency. Climate change thus becomes a kind of a deus ex machina—a light at the end of the tunnel for those who hope to see the world stood abruptly on its head.
Indeed, we might ask here: what do we want from climate change? What world do we secretly hope climate change will create—and what details of this world can we glimpse in today’s speculative descriptions of the future? What explicit moral lessons do we hope climate change will teach our fellow human beings?
[Image: “London-on-Sea” by Practical Action].
Of course, the six books listed below are by no means the only ones worth reading on these topics; in fact, the emerging genre of what I’ll call climate futures is an absolutely fascinating one, and these books should be seen as a useful starting place. I would add, for instance, that Charles Emmerson’s recent Future History of the Arctic clearly belongs on this list—however, I covered it in an earlier installment of Books Received. Further, Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley by Stephan Faris is a commendably concise and highly readable introduction to what global climate change might bring, and Elizabeth Kolbert’s Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change has become something of a minor classic in this emerging field.
So, without further ado, here are six new books about climate futures.
—The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization’s Northern Future by Laurence C. Smith (Dutton). Smith’s book is a virtuoso example of what I would call political science fiction, extrapolating from existing trends in demography, natural-resource depletion, globalization, and climate change to see what will happen to the eight nations of the Arctic Rim—what Smith alternately calls the New North and the Northern Rim. “I loosely define this ‘New North,'” Smith writes, “as all land and oceans lying 45º N latitude or higher currently held by the United States, Canada, Iceland, Greenland (Denmark), Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.”
I should point out that the book’s cover art depicts downtown Los Angeles being over-run by the cracked earth of a featureless desert, as clear an indication as any that Smith’s New North will benefit from negative—indeed, sometimes catastrophic—effects elsewhere.
In an article-slash-book-excerpt published last month in the Wall Street Journal, Smith wrote: “Imagine the Arctic in 2050 as a frigid version of Nevada—an empty landscape dotted with gleaming boom towns. Gas pipelines fan across the tundra, fueling fast-growing cities to the south like Calgary and Moscow, the coveted destinations for millions of global immigrants. It’s a busy web for global commerce, as the world’s ships advance each summer as the seasonal sea ice retreats, or even briefly disappears.” Further:
If Florida coasts become uninsurable and California enters a long-term drought, might people consider moving to Minnesota or Alberta? Will Spaniards eye Sweden? Might Russia one day, its population falling and needful of immigrants, decide a smarter alternative to resurrecting old Soviet plans for a 1,600-mile Siberia-Aral canal is to simply invite former Kazakh and Uzbek cotton farmers to abandon their dusty fields and resettle Siberia, to work in the gas fields?
Being an unapologetic fan of rhetorical questions—will speculative Arctic infrastructure projects be, in the early 2010s, what floating architecture was to the mid-2000s?—the overall approach of Smith’s book maintains a strong appeal for me throughout. The final chapter, in which, as Smith writes, we “step out of the comfort zone” into more open speculation, caps the book off nicely.
—The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps by Peter D. Ward (Basic Books). Ward, a paleontologist, has produced a disturbing overview of how terrestrial ecosystems might be fundamentally changed as sea levels rise—and rise, and rise. Ward has the benefit of calling upon data taken from extremely distant phases of the earth’s history, almost all of which becomes highly alarming when transposed to the present and near-future earth. “This book is based on the fact that the earth has flooded before,” he writes, including phases in which seas rose globally at rates of up to 15 feet per century.
Ward successfully communicates the fact that the stakes of climate change are urgent and huge. Indeed, he writes, “The most extreme estimate suggests that within the next century we will reach the level [of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere] that existed in the Eocene Epoch of about 55 million to 34 million years ago, when carbon dioxide was about 800 to 1,000 ppm. This might be the last stop before a chain of mechanisms leads to wholesale oceanic changes that are not good for oxygen-loving life.” That is, a cascade of terrestrial side-effects and uncontrollable feedback loops could very well begin, ultimately extinguishing all oxygen-breathing organisms and kickstarting a new phase of life on earth. Whatever those future creatures might be, they will live, as Ward has written in another book, under the specter of a “green sky.” Brief fictional scenarios—including future bands of human “breeding pairs” wandering through flooded landscapes—pepper Ward’s book.
—The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet by Heidi Cullen (Harper). Cullen’s book is the one title listed here with which I am least familiar, having read only the opening chapter. But it, too, is organized by region and time frame: the Great Barrier Reef, California’s Central Valley, the Sahel in Africa, Bangladesh, New York City, and so on. The shared references to these and other locations in almost all contemporary books on climate change suggests an emerging geography of hotspots—a kind of climate change tourism in which authors visit locations of projected extreme weather events before those storms arrive. Cullen’s book “re-frightened” Stephen Colbert, for whatever that’s worth; I only wish I had had more time to read it before assembling this list.
—Float!: Building on Water to Combat Urban Congestion and Climate Change by Koen Olthuis and David Keuning (Frame). When David Keuning sent me a review copy of this book he joked that “offshore architecture has been relatively depleted of its novelty over the last few years”—an accurate statement, as images of floating buildings bring back strong memories of the architectural blogosphere circa 2005.
However, Keuning and Olthuis needn’t be worried about depleting the reader’s interest. A remarkably stimulating read, Float! falls somewhere between design textbook, aquatic manifesto, and environmental exhortation to explore architecture’s offshore future. Water-based urban redesign; public transportation over aquatic roadways; floating barge-farms (as well as floating prisons); maneuverable bridges; entire artificial archipelagoes: none of these are new ideas, but seeing them all in one place, in a crisply designed hardback, is an undeniable pleasure.
The book is occasionally hamstrung by its own optimism, claiming, for instance, that “Once a floating building has left its location, there will be nothing left to remind people of its former presence,” an environmentally ambitious goal, to be sure, but, without a clear focus on maritime waste management (from sewage to rubbish to excess fuel) such statements simply seem self-congratulatory. Having said that, Float! is an excellent resource for any design studio or seminar looking at the future of floating structures in an age of flooding cities.
—Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future by Matthew E. Kahn (Basic Books). Kahn’s book is at once hopeful—that cities will energetically reconfigure themselves to function smoothly in a decarbonized global economy—and cautionary, warning that whole regions of the world might soon become uninhabitable.
Kahn’s early distinction between New York City and Salt Lake City—the former considered high-risk, due to coastal flooding and extreme weather events, the latter an example of what Kahn calls “safe cities”—is useful for understanding the overall, somewhat armchair tone of the book. Climatopolis is not hugely rigorous in its exploration of what makes a city “climate-safe,” and it overestimates the descriptive value of using “Al Gore” as a personality type, seeming to cite the politician at least once every few pages, but if your interests are more Planetizen than Popular Science, this is a useful overview of the urban effects of climate change over disparate cities and regions.
—Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats by Gwynne Dyer (Oneworld Publications). Dyer writes that his awareness of climate change was kicked off by two things: “One was the realization that the first and most important impact of climate change on human civilization will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply.” The other “was a dawning awareness that, in a number of the great powers, climate-change scenarios are already playing a large and increasing role in the military planning process.” Putting two and two together, Dyer has hypothesized, based on a close reading of military documents outlining climate-change contingency plans, what he calls climate wars: wars over food, water, territory, and unrealistic lifestyle guarantees.
Dyer’s book utilizes the most explicitly fictionalized approach of all the books under discussion here—to the extent that I would perhaps have urged him literally to write a novel—and he is very quick to admit that the outcome of his various, geographically widespread scenarios often contradict one another. For those of you with a taste for the apocalypse, or at least a voyeuristic interest in extreme survivalism, this is a good one. For those of you not looking for what is effectively a military-themed science fiction novel in journalistic form, you would do better with one of the titles listed above.
All Books Received: August 2015, September 2013, December 2012, June 2012, December 2010 (“Climate Futures List”), May 2010, May 2009, and March 2009.
Author Geoff ManaughPosted on December 12, 2010 December 30, 2015 Categories Books ReceivedTags Architecture, Arctic, Books, Climate Change, Design, Energy, Geopolitics, History, Infrastructure, Landscape, Landscape Futures, Sovereignty9 Comments on Books Received: Climate Futures List
The Annals of Weather Warfare
[Image: Kurt, the Nazi weather station, via Beachcombing].
My morning began with the fascinating story of Kurt, a forgotten Nazi weather station installed on the coast of Labrador during World War II that was only rediscovered in 1981. From a long article by Murray Sager:
Wetterfunkgerat Land 26 (code name “Kurt“) consisted of ten canisters, one for the recording instruments, another for the 10-metre antenna and the others for the world’s first Ni-cad batteries. There was a second mast for an anemometer and wind vane. These automatic stations were designed to broadcast temperature, wind speed and direction, air pressure and humidity in coded 120-second broadcasts every three hours and were designed to operate for six months. The Germans had also developed automatic weather buoys which were normally submerged but surfaced to record and broadcast before re-submerging. They had a designed “life” of nine months, and some were still operating into 1946. “Kurt” however had a short life, falling silent after only a couple of broadcasts. The Germans were unable to return to repair it or to place a planned second station on Labrador.
From here, it becomes something out of a Jules Verne novel:
The station’s existence might have remained unknown. However, the son of the meteorologist attached to the U-boat [that originally installed Kurt], while going through his lather’s papers after his death, found photographs of a barren rock and snow covered coastline that he could not identify. He contacted Franz Selinger, a retired Siemens engineer who was writing a history of the company (Siemens had built the automatic stations). The photos were tentatively identified and on a Canadian Coast Guard patrol along the coast of Labrador they were used to match the present day shoreline, and the remains of the station were found.
The blog post where I first read the story suggests that weather warfare would make for an amazing book—as it happens, much of James Fleming’s recent Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control is about exactly that.
In a fantastic paper called “The Climate Engineers,” for instance, originally published in the Wilson Quarterly, Fleming quotes General George C. Kenney, former head of the Allied Strategic Air Command: Kenney once declared that “the nation which first learns to plot the paths of air masses accurately and learns to control the time and place of precipitation will dominate the globe”—first-strike meteorology, perhaps. Fleming goes on to describe hallucinatory military visions of a “perfectly accurate machine forecast combined with a paramilitary rapid deployment force” that could annihilate all enemies—a Global Weather Corps, so to speak, flying ahead of the storm winds that it itself would generate.
In any case, read Beachcombing and Murray Sager for more about this abandoned Nazi weather station in the Allied Arctic.
Author Geoff ManaughPosted on November 19, 2010 January 1, 2016 Categories BLDGBLOGTags Arctic, History, James Fleming, Weather, Weather Warfare1 Comment on The Annals of Weather Warfare
On the art of drinking ice cores
[Image: From the 2006-2007 U.S. ITASE expedition to Antarctica].
Edible Geography has a fun interview up this morning with glacial scientist Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. The interview is remarkable not only for its descriptions of the technicality of drilling, shipping, preserving, and studying ancient ice cores removed from landscapes as far afield as Greenland and Tibet, but also for Mayewski’s confession that unneeded ice cores are sometimes melted down and drunk by the scientists.
“But, you know,” he clarifies, “it’s not as if we have a lot of ice lying around and we drink the water on a regular basis. We are pretty careful to restrict it to pieces that we know we don’t need for any measurements, and that come from places where they could be repeated if need be. We have to be sure that they’re not valuable to anybody. And we only use them for special events—we don’t drink it very often.”
[Images: From the 2006-2007 U.S. ITASE expedition to Antarctica].
These special events include wedding receptions, where shavings of ancient ice, dropped into water, bubble and pop like champagne, Mayewski explains:
Probably the most exciting thing about it is when you have real ice—that’s where the snow has been gradually compacted and eventually formed into ice, and the density has increased. When that happens, if the ice is old, it will often trap air bubbles in it. Those air bubbles can contain carbon dioxide from ten thousand years ago or even a hundred thousand years ago. And when you put an ice cube of that ice in a glass of water, it pops. It has natural effervescence as those gas bubbles escape. You get a little a puff of air into your nostrils if you have your nose over the glass. It’s not as though it necessarily smells like anything—but when you think about the fact that the last time that anything smelled that air was a hundred thousand years ago, that’s pretty interesting.
Atmospheres trapped for a half-a-million years suddenly freed, as wedding guests inhale these vaporous paleoarchives.
The whole interview, though long, is a quick and good-spirited read.
Author Geoff ManaughPosted on October 8, 2010 January 4, 2016 Categories BLDGBLOGTags Antarctic, Arctic, Bottled Water, Glaciers, Ice, Nicola Twilley, Water3 Comments on On the art of drinking ice cores
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Friends of CTE Blog Series: CMT Goes Back to School
Lucia Folk is the Senior Director of Public Affairs for CMT (Country Music Television), a cable television network distributed in 92 million homes across the country.
Lucia Folk, Senior Director of Public Affairs for CMT (Country Music Television)
I’m lucky enough to have my dream job, which is utilizing CMT’s media platforms—television, radio, digital, etc.—to encourage our viewers to give back in their communities. So when our parent company, Viacom, partnered with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation a few years ago to launch the Get Schooled Foundation with the goal of empowering young people to take charge of their education, I was excited to have a role in helping CMT support that mission.
In 2010, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) redesigned all 12 of its zoned high schools into smaller learning communities, enabling students to learn through the lens of a career or academic theme. CMT immediately saw the connection between this new initiative and our parent company’s ongoing mission, and we were one of the first business partners to step forward and offer our support. The Academies of Nashville* is an innovative approach to school redesign which engages the business community to help drive change in our public schools. We partnered with McGavock High School’s Academy of Digital Design & Communication, and over the past three years this relationship has been transformational, not only for the school, but also for our employees.
In the business world, we’ve heard for years that “our schools are failing and we need your help.†The only ways we knew to help were to throw money at the problem or do occasional volunteering that may impact small numbers of children. The Academies model provides a way for business partners to work alongside those on the frontlines educating our youth—our teachers and our school administrators—to make systemic change in our public schools. Business partners support the Academies by providing knowledge, support and experiential learning opportunities for our students, teachers and administrators.
You in the Career Technical Education (CTE) world have been connecting with businesses for years. In fact, the second principle of the CTE Vision is to actively partner with employers to design and provide high-quality, dynamic programs. You know the power of connecting education and industry. The Academies model is an especially innovative example because it utilizes business engagement at all levels, from working one on one at the grassroots level with individual Academies, all the way up to working alongside administrators in the school district.
At the school level, the Academies encourage and, frankly, require connectivity between what you teach in your CTE classes to the curriculum in the academic subjects. This is achieved through common planning among all disciplines, reinforced by business partnerships relevant to each Academy’s pathways. At the district level, business partners belong to partnership councils, which bring together employers in similar fields to ensure that what is being taught in the Academies directly relates to workforce needs. This partnership and shared accountability at all levels makes the Academies of Nashville unique, especially because this structure has been implemented “wall-to-wall†in all of our zoned high schools, providing every student access to these opportunities.
CMT is starting year four of our partnership and although we still have much work to do, McGavock has made tremendous progress since 2010: They have seen a 10 percent increase in the graduation rate; doubled the number of students who attend from outside of their zone; increased the composite ACT score by 5 percent; and made AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) for three years in a row (which they had not achieved for the 10 years prior to 2010/11). In addition to quantitative results, the real magic of the Academies structure is that it is community-building at its core. McGavock is our school and we share the challenges and successes with our teachers, administrators, fellow business partners, and most importantly, our students.
One of the proudest moments of my professional career was having the honor of standing on stage alongside our McGavock colleagues at this year’s commencement ceremony to congratulate the first graduating class of the CMT Academy of Digital Design & Communication. That’s what makes this my dream job: I, as well as my colleagues at CMT, have the privilege of partnering with McGavock to help our students find their dream jobs.
*If you want to learn more about the Academies of Nashville, there is a study visit planned for October 2-4, 2013 . There will also be another study visit offered in the spring of 2014. You can also learn more about the model on which the Academies are based at the Ford Partnership of Advanced Studies Next Generation Learning.
The Friends of CTE Guest Blog Series provides advocates – from business and industry to researchers and organizations – an opportunity to articulate their support for Career Technical Education. The monthly series features a guest blogger who provides their perspective on and experience with CTE as it relates to policy, the economy and education.
Are you interested in being a guest blogger and expressing your support for CTE? Contact Melinda Findley Lloyd, Communications Consultant, at mlloyd@careertech.org.
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Amazing Banner Drops Following the Student Strike! (english)
by Sturdy Squirrel
Email: evan (nospam) pgan.apan.org 06 Mar 2003
Modified: 11 Mar 2003
A small crowd gathered at Copley Square on Wednesday. Police payed no heed, as they obviously had nothing planned. Before the night was out, however, large banners found their ways onto T-Stops, the Statehouse Doors, a public bus, and the wall of the parking garage at Alewife T-station.
Neither the rain nor the small turnout dampened spirits at the Copley Square Protest this past Wednesday, following a day of student strikes and moratorium. About 25 students, most members of the People�s Global Action Network, and several from the affinity group �Ninja-Pirates for Peace,� (NPFP) gathered in front of the Copley Square T-stop at around 5:30pm, beating on drums and chanting, �War is a tragedy, not a solution!� and �Exxon, Mobil, BP, Shell, Take your war and go to hell!�
Before leaving Copley Sq., two young men scaled the slippery brick incline and, perching atop the 15 ft. high T-stop, dropped a large banner homemade banner. The 12-foot by 6-foot banner, spray-painted on a pink bed sheet, covered the entirety of an S.U.V. advertisement placed over the T-station�s entrance. The banner read, �$1 Billion Every Day is For War! Why?� and also had the People�s Global Action Network�s website at the bottom: http://pgan.apan.org. The two activists secured the banner in place using duct-tape (naturally) and slid down the incline while reporters from the Boston Globe and Associated Press snapped pictures. One of the activists was later heard to say, �That is the sexiest thing I�ve ever seen.� A PGAN member reported that the banner was still there at around 7:00pm.
No police intervened, or even saw the event, but it caused a slight disturbance among rush-hour motorists in the area, many of whom beeped their horns in support. After admiring their work for a few minutes, the group of 25 exploded onto Boylston Street, keeping tightly packed behind their flagship banner, which decried �NO WAR! The Rich Lie, The Poor Die.� With the banner as �protection,� they blocked the right lane of traffic as they marched towards the Statehouse, beating on drums, chanting, and singing.
A few students fled to the sidewalk when a police cruiser passed, but the majority of the group paid no heed, and the cruiser returned the favor by ignoring the protest. They maintained their hold on the street, and turned left onto the four lanes of road dividing Boston Common. They occupied the leftmost lane as they approached their destination.
Upon arriving at the Statehouse, the entire group stepped beyond the metal barricades to rally on the steps in front of the wrought-iron gate. The same two young men that had executed the banner drop at Copley Sq., joined by a thirteen-year-old girl, jumped the 10 ft. high fence and ran up to the statehouse�s well-lit front door, where they duct-taped a large banner. Once again, they went undetected and made it safely back to the original protest area, where they left a rag with the letters PGAN, hanging from the arch of the gate. A final banner was later attached to the back of a public bus, after hagglers removed it once.
The group dispersed around 8:00pm, but members from NPFP returned to Alewife T-Station. They had one large banner left in their arsenal, and gained access to the roof via the service elevator. With rope, lack of regard for safety, and, of course, duct tape, the group of five hung the twenty-foot banner off the side of the parking garage, facing Route 2. Cars below beeped in response, and the banner was still there as of this morning.
For more information about the People's Global Action Network, go to http://pgan.apan.org
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Pic will be up tomorrow. (english)
evan (nospam) pgan.apan.org (unverified) 07 Mar 2003
Sorry about that guys, I'll get that picture working as soon as possible.
FYI (english)
by IMC volunteer
(No verified email address) 07 Mar 2003
Pictures (especially big ones like this) take a long time to appear on the site. Many times when you see a broken link it doesn't mean that your picture needs to be re-posted. It usually takes about 10-15 minutes to show up.
Thanks, and help? (english)
Thanks for the tip. Is there any way to make that picture smaller? Unfortunately I don't have photo-shop on my computer, so I couldn't shrink it myself. It's pretty ridiculously large.
RESIZED FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE (english)
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Irish Rail Trip to Co. Mayo—Part 3
March 29, 2014 brian solomon
Ok, so this was really a detour into County Roscommon.
After photographing Irish Rail’s Ballina Timber, Noel and I cut cross-country via Knock and Ballyhaunis, to Castlerea, County Roscommon, to intercept the train a second time.
I hadn’t paid a visit to Castlerea in several years, but I recalled a visit to the old signal cabin before the Mini-CTC was installed (in 2007). Back then, mechanical semaphores and electric train staff instruments had been the rule.
Castlerea’s premier railway enthusiast, Sean Browne. The old signal cabin survives, but it no longer controls train movements on the line. Lumix LX3 photo.
Through careful planning and expeditious driving, Noel and I were able to catch the Ballina timber a second time. It is seen here approaching Castlerea station on March 13, 2014. Canon EOS 7D with 100mm lens. I also exposed a series of colour slides of the timber passing the signal cabin with my Canon EOS 3. The structure at the left is the old water tank, a vestige of the steam era.
While waiting for the timber, Noel phoned Castlerea’s foremost railway enthusiast, Sean Browne. Sean’s Hell’s Kitchen railway themed pub is a local attraction.
Sean dropped down to Castlerea station and we caught up on old times. Then, following passage of the Ballina timber train, we went for an impromptu visit to Hell’s Kitchen that Sean opened specially for us.
This claims to be ‘the only pub with a train in the bar.’
This ‘train’ is, more precisely, a locomotive. Irish Rail’s A55—one of the surviving 1950s-era Metropolitan Vickers-built diesel electrics—is the Hell’s Kitchen center-piece display.
Sean has collected an impressive collection of railway memorabilia, most of it from Ireland. A Conrail hard hat on display impressed me! Every item of historical value comes with a story, so we had a good visit with Sean.
This was interrupted, when Noel learned that the IWT liner from Dublin to Ballina was getting close. We said farewell to Sean and went back trackside to find a suitable photo location! (As you do).
Hell’s Kitchen of Castlerea.
This shunt signal is among the displays that caught my eye. Lumix LX3 photo.
Irish Rail’s A55 is the locomotive on display in the Hell’s Kitchen pub. Although the pub was closed, owner Sean Browne opened the doors for Noel Enright and I.
Steam gauges, old badges, photos, and signaling apparatus and diagrams are among the many items on display.
Mixed in with ephemera from Irish lines is a Conrail hard hat. Hooray!
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Irish Rail’s Dublin-Ballina works west of Ballyhaunis on March 13, 2014. Canon EOS 7D photo.
Irish Rail Freight April 25-26, 2013
1860 – Birth in Castlerea, Co. Roscommon, of Douglas Hyde, playwright, folklorist, founder of The Gaelic League and the first president of Éire
The Fire-Engine of Castlerea
Irish Rail September 3, 2005; 185 and 134 work the Ballina Branch.
Dublin’s Heuston Station, April 9, 2013.
Heuston Station Lit For St Patrick’s Day – Part2 – Tracking the Light Daily Post
Tracking the Light in Review
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As a fan of the original Universal Soldier, and the 2009 sequel, Universal Soldier: Regeneration, when I first saw this one, I hated it. Shut it off halfway through and stomped out of the room angrily. For some reason, I revisited the movie today and was completely blown away. Most action franchises ask us to believe that good guy Joe Policeman will just HAPPEN to run into a fresh batch of terrorists with each new sequel, and nobody will bat an eyelash. Hollywood logic. But, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning leans hard into the grotesque backstories of its characters, and places them at an uncomfortably logical place in this sordid world that director John Hyams has created.
Reanimated corpses, cloning and government cover ups? That's... well... that's pretty dark material. John Hyams knows. For every punch thrown and bullet fired in Day of Reckoning, Hyams is fashioning not just an action movie... but a horrifying, testosterone fueled, psychological, conspiracy thriller with very muddied morality. It is perhaps the most logical latterday sequel to an old action movie that there will ever be. Another Universal Soldier movie? Luc Deveraux back again? How many times has Andrew Scott died? How long can they keep this up? Scientists in the movie, or filmmakers in the real world- the question applies to both.
Day of Reckoning feels less like a Roland Emmerich thrill ride, and more like a David Cronenberg thriller. The distinction is important. This movie is a cerebral and psychological head-trip, and its emphasis on bloody violence is never cheered on, or set to a bass thumping techno beat. To the contrary, Day of Reckoning has a haunting music score which leaves its raw violence and brutal action scenes feeling grimy and disturbing. Is Luc Deveraux the bad guy? That's not the question to ask anymore. Are there even any good guys? There you go. "It never ends" Deveraux says to Adkins' character, John. "There's always another John." Very rarely do action movies even attempt to be so meta, let alone pull it off.
With Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning- you get to have your cake and eat it too. The movie is both a chilling deconstruction of action-sequels, and a full bore action flick in its own right. Star Scott Adkins is more than fit to carry the franchise from here on out. The fight scenes in the movie are impressively choreographed to the nth degree. Every punch and kick hits with a vicious impact, every camera angle is meticulously chosen. When Adkins' character goes full out and has his 'beast mode' moment, it's one of the most stunning action scenes I can remember seeing in maybe the past five years or more even.
If you're looking for a breezy and uncomplicated latterday follow-up to the original movie, you'll be sorely disappointed. But genre fans with more than a narrow interest in film should be able to appreciate this bloody, cerebral and nightmarish little tale full of twists, turns, and trippy visuals. It's inspirations range from the films of Gaspar Noe to David Lynch, but you'll find very little of the genre's trademark red blooded machismo here. John is a desperate character, not a heroic one. He's out for revenge, but the deeper he digs, the more surreal things become and the more questions he has. Day of Reckoning isn't a simple movie, and I'm hesitant to call it a smart one, but it has a lot going on under the hood.
If the previous movie, Regeneration, could be seen as a vague commentary about how we keep resurrecting our old heroes, Day of Reckoning explores the consequences of doing just that. It's funny to me that this movie is probably the first one in the franchise good enough to warrant a sequel, but is also the first one that seems vehemently against that very idea- as if sequels to movies like Universal Soldier can only become darker and uglier with each installment, until in the end they no longer resemble a 'good time', but rather something morbid, unsightly and abstract instead.
That's fine with me. Day of Reckoning is kind of brilliant.
Reviewed by Joseph Sheldahl at 8:16 PM
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'"Richard Pearce"' in Person
BBC Radio Collection
Jeremy Mortimer
Jenny Bardwell
Radio broadcast of Hamlet. Michael Sheen as Hamlet, Kenneth Cranham as Claudius, Juliet Stevenson as Gertrude and Ellie Beavan as Ophelia. Introduced by Richard Eyre.
Hamlet (1999 Audio, Radio)
aka: BBC Radio Collection: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Sunday Play, The
Radio production of the play adapted and directed by Jeremy Mortimer, starring Michael Sheen as Hamlet, Kenneth Cranham as Claudius, Juliet Stevenson as Gertrude and Ellie Beavan as Ophelia. Timothy Spall...
Taming of the Shrew, The (1998 Audio)
Arkangel Complete Shakespeare
Clive Brill
Tom Treadwell; Bill Shepherd
The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with Frances...
Thackeray (1995 Radio)
Glyn Dearman
Detective drama written by Olwen Wymark and Barbara Clegg. Landscape gardener-cum-detective Jim Thackeray needs to combine his skills when a murder takes place in the Shakespeare-themed garden he has...
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Shaun MacLoughlin
Radio playwright Alick Rowe’s take on Hamlet which, as the title suggests, pays homage to Tom Stoppard’s stage play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. According to Radio Times programme notes, this...
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Aida Ziablikova
The story in an animated version. All the lines spoken by the characters are Shakespeare’s own.
Romeo and Juliet (1993 Audio)
The Renaissance Theatre Company production of the play with Kenneth Branagh and Samantha Bond in the title roles.
Romeo and Juliet (1993 Audio, Radio)
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Full text radio version of the play. A co-production between Radio 3 and the Renaissance Theatre Company directed by Kenneth Branagh and Glyn Dearman. With Kenneth Branagh and Samantha Bond in the title...
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Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play produced and directed by Clive Brill. With Emma Fielding as Puck and Tony Armatrading as Bottom. The music is composed and directed by Dominique Legendre; Carol...
Taming of the Shrew, The (1989 Radio)
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The Labour Code on Industrial Relations Bill 2015: Tough times ahead for labour in India
Sharit Bhowmik
Headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as of May 2014, the right-wing government has been in talks of increasing jobs by restricting workers’ rights. The government has categorically stated that, in the past, too much protection was given to workers in the formal sector. Subsequently, this is the main hurdle for expanding employment. If job protection is removed, job creation (it was argued) will peak when the employers have the power of hiring and firing. In keeping with its objectives, the government has decided to amend and amalgamate the existing laws that provide protection to labour. The Factories Act has been redefined to exclude all manufacturing units that employ less than 40 workers. In other words, nearly 75% of factories in the country will be exempted from regulating working conditions. Similarly four acts relating to wages and bonuses have been merged in one code. However the approval of parliament will be required before they become laws.
The latest bill is the Labour Code on Industrial Relations that merges two major acts, namely, Industrial Disputes Act and Trade Unions Act into a code. This bill is likely to be introduced in parliament in the oncoming monsoon session (July-August 2015), unless the trade unions are able to thwart it. This bill has been opposed by all trade unions; including Bharatiya Mazdur Sangh (BMS) (Indian Labour Council). The BMS has the largest membership, around 8 million and among the existing 12 central federations, this union has close relations to the ruling party. The BMS has been very vocal in opposing this bill and has joined the alliance of other federations to oppose the anti-working class moves of the government. This bill has very serious effects on trade unions and the working class movement in the country. Though it deals will a gamut of activities, we will focus on its repercussion for of trade unions and workers.
Strikes and lockouts
The chapter on Strikes and Lockouts (Chapter 5) starts with the presumption that they are illegal, mainly because the first section in the chapter (Section 71) is titled, “Prohibition of Strikes and Lockouts”. In both cases, the concerned parties must give the other side six weeks’ notice before striking or having a lockout (or after 15 days of giving the notice). Moreover, there are conditions that both sides must follow before declaring a strike or lockout. It is indicated that there will be no strike or lockout when conciliation proceedings are in progress. Management cannot declare lockout when a strike is on. Similarly a strike cannot be declared during lockout.
Penalties for illegal strikes and lockouts
When examining the bill we find that the most important sections are those on penalties and fines. Chapter 12, Section 103 details the fines and penalties to be imposed for violating the provisions of this bill.
The penalties for illegal strikes and lockouts are the same but in both cases the workers bear the brunt. Sub-sections 14 to 17 of Section 103 deal with penalties for illegal strikes and lockouts. Out of the four sub-sections, only one covers punishment for lockouts. Sub-section 15 notes that “Any employer who commences, continues, or otherwise acts in furtherance of a lock-out that is illegal under this Code, shall be punished with a fine which shall not be less than rupees twenty thousand (US $ 333) but which may be extended to rupees fifty thousand or with imprisonment of one month or both.” However no relief is provided to the workers who are deprived of their wages during the duration of the lockout.
The punishment for an illegal strike is the same. In addition, Sub-section 14 says that all workers who participate in a strike that is declared illegal will get the same punishment (rupees 20,000 to 50,000 plus imprisonment of one month). The employer however is treated as one entity and will pay the penalties if the lockout is illegal. In other words there will be a single fine imposed on the company in case of an illegal lock out but there will be multiple fines on the workers if their strike is declared as illegal. Besides this, Sub-section 16 states that any person instigating or inciting others to take part in strikes will face the same punishment. This has obvious reference to trade union leaders who are not workers in the industry.
Sub-section 17 states that the same nature of penalty will be imposed on any person who lends monetary support to an illegal strike or lockout. It is doubtful if monetary support will be provided to a company for helping an illegal lockout, but the same does not apply to workers and illegal strikes. The sub-section basically says that when workers are engaged in a strike that is declared illegal, they should not be provided any monetary or other support from outside. Let them starve! Would this include spouses, kinsfolk, friends and other workers who lend monetary support to striking workers? In letter the sub-section includes them.
Penalties on Trade Unions
The anti-worker/ union approach of the bill can be seen in another sub-section, namely Section 103, Sub-section 7. This relates to non-submission of returns to the Registrar by trade unions. This reads: “If default is made on the part of any registered trade union in giving any notice or sending any statement or other document as required by or under any provisions of this Code, every office-bearer or other person bound by the rules of the trade union to give or send the same, or, if there is no such office bearer or person, every member of the executive of the trade union, shall be punished with a fine which shall not be less than rupees ten thousand but which may be extended to rupees fifty thousand. The continuing default would attract an additional penalty of rupees one hundred per day so long as the default continues.” (emphasis added).
The next sub-section (8), mentions that if any false entry is made in the returns submitted by a trade union or a rule is altered, the person will be fined rupees five thousand. Sub-section 9 states that any person who tries to deceive a member of a trade union by giving her/him false information or tries to convince workers that an unregistered trade union is registered will be punished by paying a fine up to rupees twenty five thousand. The bill does not specify what the term ‘false information’ means. This ambiguity can be another handle to kerb trade unions by branding any information provided by them as false information.
The above penalties relate to the section on filing returns of trade unions (Section 33). The offences are not very significant but the penalties imposed are disproportionately high. The prescribed fines are higher than the average monthly wage of a worker in formal employment and several times higher for those in informal employment.
In all cases involving workers, fines are imposed on individuals but in the case of lapses by the employer the fine is imposed on the collective entity. For example, Sub-section 8 imposes a fine on each member of the executive of a trade union; whereas in the case of the employer the fine is imposed on the company and not on each director or other officials. This shows the bias of the bill.
As mentioned earlier, all trade unions have opposed the bill. The central (national) trade unions met on 26 May 2015 in Delhi decided to have a nation-wide strike to protest against this bill. However, so far, the resistance from trade unions hover around registration of unions. Newspaper reports convey that trade unions have opposed the minimum number for registering a union. They have protested that having 10% membership or minimum of 100 members was too high and would restrict formation of unions in many industries. These are minor criticisms against the bill. If one looks at the chapter on registration of trade unions one will find that it is more or less similar to the existing rules and laws. The main problem lies in the stiff penalties imposed on trade unions and workers for violating even seemingly minor aberrations.
Trade unions in most countries are facing hostility from their respective governments. This is more so in developing countries that have adopted liberalisation and the market economy. The governments are backing private sector and corporates as the main means of developing their economies. The rights of labour on the other hand are trampled. All too often the demands of labour and trade unions, for decent working conditions, are viewed as impediments to development and economic growth. However, in India, under this new regime, has surpassed most of these countries by adopting an aggressive stand in depriving the working class of its rights by violating most of the ILO conventions. It will be seen during the next few months if trade unions are united in fighting this proposed anti-working class bill. Only a united and sustained working class movement can challenge the government’s anti-working class decisions.
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Sharit Bhowmik is a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences and is based at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
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dr kango bhalchandra says:
Modi govt's pro corporate agenda on the premise of expanding employment, call for"make in India' not for made for India! logically leads to lower wages , lack of security and deterioration of working condition, but will not yeild desired result of increase in employment as other countries are much better in reducing labour standards and wages. It is race to the bottom for labour. This development vision is being opposed by ALL Trade Unions in India . United call to observe all India strike on 2nd september is being planned.
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From Colorado State: Musings during the closed part of Rams’ practice
By Terry Frei
Garrett Grayson (Karl Gehring, Denver Post)
FORT COLLINS — Colorado State is back into the regular-season mode, tightening up on the amount of time scribes are allowed to be on the fields to watch practice. So after watching the start of practice, we’re back in the Moby Arena media room for a bit until we’re allowed back in when they’re done.
That’s typical and I’m not complaining, and in fact harken back to arguing to Denver Nuggets coach Doug Moe that he needed to close practice and having him respond: “If I have to watch this —-, you do too.” That was when closing practices, thanks to Pat Riley, was starting to become more popular and our writers’ association (I’m not sure why) was complaining about it to the league.
Anyway, I have time for a few musings about the Rams as Rocky Mountain Showdown week opens: Read more…
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CSU’s Larry Eustachy expects Chane Behanan to declare for NBA
By Tom Kensler
The Louisville Cardinals’ Chane Behanan goes up for a shot against the Michigan Wolverines in the second half during the 2013 NCAA Men’s Final Four Championship at the Georgia Dome on April 8, 2013 in Atlanta. (Streeter Lecka, Getty Images)
It appears Colorado State fans will not get to see Chane Behanan after all.
Behanan, a 6-foot-6 senior forward and former Louisville star, likely will declare for the 2014 NBA Draft, CSU coach Larry Eustachy told me Thursday during a phone interview.
Behanan was voted to the 2013 all-Final Four team after helping Louisville win the national championship. He was dismissed from the Cardinals program in December for what Louisville coach Rick Pitino described as repeatedly violating university policy.
In January, Colorado State announced that Behanan had enrolled in CSU online classes and would be eligible to play his final semester of college basketball with the Rams beginning in mid-December, following the conclusion of the fall semester.
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Talk about a UConn family: Everybody on the staff is an alumnus
Connecticut head coach Kevin Ollie (The Associated Press)
ARLINGTON, Texas — Not only is second-year Connecticut head coach Kevin Ollie a former Huskies player, everybody at the top level of the basketball department has UConn as their alma mater.
That’s associate head coach Glen Miller, assistant coaches Karl Hobbs and Ricky Moore, director of basketball administration Kevin Freeman and graduate assistant David Sevush.
That is a rarity for a major-college program.
“To my coaching staff, I tell them they’re the best in the country because they’re young and they’re all UConn guys,” said Ollie, a point guard at UConn in the 1990s before embarking on a successful NBA career. “They all got their degrees from UConn.
“It’s a beautiful synergy that we have because we all have that common denominator. We know what it takes to put that jersey on, and the pride that we are playing for each and every night.”
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Just like Shaq: Kentucky’s John Calipari says opponents swarming Julius Randle
Kentucky coach John Calipari (Andy Lyons, Getty Images file)
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Speaking Friday during Final Four interviews, Kentucky coach John Calipari said his star inside player, 6-foot-9, 250-pound Julius Randle, is being played defensively like NBA great Shaquille O’Neal did while at LSU.
“He’s got three guys on him,” Calipari said of Randle, who averages a double-double of 15.1 points and 10.7 rebounds. “You have teams after the game that said, ‘I want six sets of eyes on him when he drives.'”
Randle, who played high school ball at Prestonwood Christian in Dallas, said the it gets frustrating at times.
“It’s definitely hard,” Randle said. “But I think when you win, it kind of takes the place of that. It’s frustrating, but you can’t put too much into that. The biggest thing is, you try to learn how to affect the game in different ways. … Just try to help my teammates out.”
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Path of Wisconsin senior guard Ben Brust differs from Kentucky’s fab frosh
Ben Brust and Josh Gasser of the Wisconsin Badgers take the floor before the NCAA Men’s Final Four Semifinal against the Kentucky Wildcats at AT&T Stadium on April 5, 2014 in Arlington, Texas. (Jamie Squire, Getty Images)
ARLINGTON, Texas — In the way he got to this level, Wisconsin senior guard Ben Brust couldn’t be more different than Kentucky’s starting freshman guards, Aaron and Andrew Harrison.
While Kentucky is starting three freshmen in the Final Four, Brust played sparingly as a first-year player, averaging three minutes and less than a point game.
Brust said he never got down on himself or his situation.
“I knew there (eventually would be) an opportunity,” Brust recalled of his freshman year Thursday during Final Four interviews at AT&T Stadium. “I just had some learning to do and some growing up to do.
“I definitely brought it every day in practice and I did what I could do to make my teammates better. I thinmk that experience really helped me grow as a person and as a player, led me to where I am today.”
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Final Four 2014: Managing the moment, surroundings a key, coaches say
ARLINGTON, Texas — It’s not only about shooting and turnovers at the Final Four. It’s also about managing the surroundings and the moment, coaches of participating teams said Thursday during Final Four interviews at AT&T Stadium.
“We all know our guys are going to get in front of 75,000 (fans), look around and think, ‘Oh, my. It’s going to be that way,'” Kentucky coach John Calipari said.
“The (coaches) will try to settle down our teams and try to get them to stay focused on basketball, lose themselves in the game and just play a basketball game. But if you think these 18- and 19- and 20-year-old kids are going to not be cognizant of what’s going on around them, they will be.
“So our whole thing right now is to stay in the moment,” Calipari added. “Don’t worry about Saturday (and the national semifinals); let’s worry about today. We try not to overload them with stuff and go from there.”
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April 2, 2014, 11:06 am
Brandon Jefferson of Metro State named NABC D-II Player of the year
By Joe Nguyen
Metro State basketball player Brandon Jefferson was chosen as the RMAC player of the year, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Metro State, the top-ranked Roadrunners, get set to host regionals. (RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post)
Metro State guard Brandon Jefferson keeps accumulating accolades.
Jefferson was named the National Association of Basketball Coaches NCAA Division II Player of the Year Wednesday after leading the Roadrunners to the D-II Final Four.
The 5-foot-9 senior averaged 21.6 points — a school single-season record — 3.1 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 2.4 steals this season, leading Metro State to a 32-2 record.
He was also named the Division II Bulletin National Player of the Year on Monday, and the Daktronics Ron Lenz National Player of the Year, according to Metro State.
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Denver’s Verne Harris among officials selected for Final Four
Referee Verne Harris talks with San Jose State coach George Nessman in 2011. (Isaac Brekken, Associated Press)
Denver resident Verne Harris is among 10 game officials selected to work the Final Four, the NCAA announced Monday.
Harris has the most Final Four experience among the group. He will officiate his seventh Final Four.
The Final Four begins with two semifinal games Saturday night at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the home stadium for the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys. Saturday’s winners advance to the national championship game Monday night.
“The 10 men selected to officiate in this year’s Final Four have been evaluated after every game in the tournament,” said John Adams, the national coordinator of officiating. “All of them graded out as excellent in play-calling accuracy, communicating with coaches and players, and officiating the games according to the rules as written.”
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Florida coach Billy Donovan: Dayton’s ball movement “exceptional”
Florida coach Billy Donovan (Getty Images file)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Following a Jan. 4 home loss to Dayton, Mississippi coach Billy Kennedy told reporters that Dayton’s ball movement may be the best he had seen since the Florida teams that won back-to-back national championships in 2006 and 2007.
During South Regional interviews Friday, Florida coach Billy Donovan was asked if there are similarities in the styles of play between Dayton and his Gators specific to ball movement.
Florida (35-2), the overall No. 1 seed, will face No. 11 seed Dayton (26-10) at 4:09 p.m. Saturday in the South Regional final at the FedEx Forum. The winner punches a ticket to the Final Four.
Ball movement has helped Dayton reach the “Elite Eight” for the first time since 1984.
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March 27, 2014, 11:37 pm
Scottie Wilbekin’s poise under pressure lifts Florida to Elite Eight
Florida guard Scottie Wilbekin shoots over UCLA forward Travis Wear on Thursday in Memphis. (Mark Humphrey, The Associated Press)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Some college basketball players tense up in crunch time. Florida senior point guard Scottie Wilbekin just smiles.
Wilbekin, the Southeastern Conference player of the year, hit big shots down the stretch and the Gators (35-2) advanced to the Elite Eight for the fourth consecutive year late Thursday night with a 76-68 victory over fourth-ranked UCLA at the FedEx Forum.
“I just try to keep attacking, and stay aggressive,” Wilbekin said during postgame interviews. “I just take what they give me.
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Colorado State lands Louisville basketball transfer Chane Behanan
Louisville forward Chane Behanan dunks against Michigan during the first half of the NCAA Final Four tournament. (Associated Press file)
Colorado State men’s basketball coach Larry Eustachy announced Monday that former Louisville forward Chane Behanan has transferred to CSU.
A 2011 McDonald’s All-American, Behanan will play his final semester of college basketball for the Rams — beginning at the conclusion of the 2014 fall semester next December.
Behanan, 6-foot-6 and 250 pounds, averaged 12.5 points and 10.5 rebounds during victories over Wichita State and Michigan at the 2013 Final Four in Atlanta, helping Louisville claim its first national championship since 1986. Behanan was named to the all-Final Four team.
Behanan averaged 9.8 points and 6.5 rebounds in 2012-13 as a sophomore. His 59 dunks tied the Louisville single-season record.
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DU Pioneers depart for Philadelphia, Final Four with experience and health on their side
DU junior goalie Jamie Faus is scheduled to play the second half Saturday against Syracuse in an NCAA semifinal game at Philadelphia. Sophomore Ryan LaPlante is the scheduled starter.
The University of Denver men’s lacrosse team is as healthy as it’s been all year, coach Bill Tierney said, with junior midfielder Jeremy Noble close to 100 percent. That’s great news for a team making its second Final Four appearance in three years. In 2011 the Pioneers made history; this year they are primed to contend for the championship.
Noble has been limited to nine games (eight starts) with multiple lower-body injuries. He played sparingly in the NCAA opener against Albany but significantly more last week against North Carolina. He had a goal against the Tar Heels, after clanging two shots off pipes. Tierney said Noble, a Canadian speedster, should play as much as he has all season on Saturday against Syracuse (15-3).
The Pioneers (14-4) were scheduled to depart for Philadelphia this afternoon, and plan on staying through Monday, after the NCAA championship game against Duke (14-5) or Cornell (14-3). Tierney said sophomore Ryan LaPlante, who was pulled late in the first quarter against UNC, will start Saturday and continue to platoon at halftime with junior Jamie Faus, who took the 14-8 loss against Virginia in the 2011 national semifinal in Baltimore.
“Last time we were kind of caught off guard with all the activities we had to do — the Thursday banquet, meet-and-greet with the fans — and now that we’re leaving a day earlier, we can lay low and relax for one night and really get our minds right,” DU senior midfielder Cameron Flint said. “Having people that have already been there is really going to help. We’re already prepared for it. We know it’s going to be hectic and I don’t think we’re going to be in such awe.”
Look for a feature story about DU leading scorer Eric Law from Arapahoe High in Thursday’s paper and online.
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State of lacrosse: Denver advances to NCAA Final Four; Colorado State beats Colorado for club national title
DU coach Bill Tierney. (AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post)
Coach Bill Tierney and the Denver Pioneers have turned Colorado into huge lacrosse news nationally, but the Colorado State Rams and Colorado Buffaloes should also take credit for creating this Rocky Mountain wave. CSU won its second straight Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA) Division I championship Saturday night by beating Colorado 7-2 at Sirrine Stadium in Greenville, S.C.
CSU was the No. 1 seed in the 16-team national tournament and finished 21-0. CU was seeded No. 2 and finished 18-3, with all three losses to the Rams. According to the MCLA website, Division I club lacrosse features exactly 100 schools, mostly big state schools like those in Fort Collins and Boulder. CSU beat Purdue, Sonoma State and BYU en route to the title game. CU beat Texas, Michigan State and Arizona State before losing to the Rams.
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Colorado’s Tad Boyle just isn’t a fit for UCLA coaching job
By John Henderson
Listen to talk radio around Denver and Colorado basketball coach Tad Boyle could be condo hunting in Venice Beach any minute now.
The debate isn’t whether he’ll be considered for the UCLA job. It’s whether he’ll take it. It’s whether Colorado should be insulted if he leaves.
Take a deep breath, Colorado. Now exhale. Just because UCLA has an opening and Boyle sent Colorado to a third straight 20-win season for the first time doesn’t mean UCLA AD Dan Guerrero is jetting to Boulder wearing a trench coat and a fedora.
Think about it. If you’re Guerrero, how are you going to sell Tad Boyle to Westwood? “HE LED COLORADO TO THE NCAA TOURNAMENT TWO YEARS IN A ROW!!!”
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Three-time Olympic gold medalist Dawn Staley coaching in Boulder this weekend
BOULDER — With the University of Colorado playing host to first- and second-round games in the Norfolk Region of the NCAA women’s tournament this weekend, and with the fifth-seeded Buffaloes set to face No. 12 Kansas Saturday, the “other” first-round game won’t get as much attention.
But the 2:10 p.m. game Saturday will have one of the top players in the history of the American women’s game on the bench. South Carolina coach Dawn Staley, whose fourth-seeded Gamecocks play No. 13 South Dakota State in the opening game of the session at the Coors Events Center, has a stunning list of accomplishments. Read more…
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CSU-Pueblo’s John Wristen on Buffs’ Jon Embree, and Damon Runyon’s having a big season
My Monday commentary is on coach John Wristen and the CSU-Pueblo ThunderWolves, the nation’s top-ranked Division II team heading into the final week of the regular season. It’s in the paper and here. I haven’t been able to see the ThunderWolves in person yet this season, but I’ve made several trips to Pueblo to write features on the program during its amazing progress since beginning play in 2008. I’ve always enjoyed myself on those excursions, and not only because any trip that includes a Slopper burger, Pueblo’s delicacy, is a good trip.
Here’s something I didn’t get in the Monday piece: I also asked Wristen about the situation at Colorado, where he was a graduate assistant in 1990-91 and the tight ends coach on Gary Barnett’s staff from 1999-2005. For the final four seasons, Jon Embree also was on the Buffaloes’ staff, so Wristen knows CU’s second-year head coach.
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Could a bowl game still be in CSU Rams’ future?
By Christopher Dempsey
FORT COLLINS – In this hair-pulling, eyebrow-raising, frustrating, patience-testing Colorado State football season, there remains one hard-to-believe and, yes, harder to achieve goal that given the circumstances is crazy to think about but is out there nonetheless.
Bowl eligibility.
As disappointing and adverse as the on-field results have been for the Rams through eight games, 2-6 with four games remaining, they have not been mathematically eliminated from qualifying for a bowl. With victories in all four of those contests, CSU would finish the season .500 and those six wins would make the Rams – gulp – bowl eligible.
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CSU QBs healing, and other injury updates headed into Saturday’s game at Wyoming
FORT COLLINS – The Colorado State injury list is long, to be sure.
But it is shrinking.
And that’s more than welcome news to its coach, Jim McElwain, and to a team looking to make big strides in the final four games of the season.
First up is quarterback Garrett Grayson, who is listed as probable for Saturday’s game at Wyoming. He’s missed three straight games and four weeks total since breaking his clavicle against Air Force on Sept. 29. Yet, there’s still enough uncertainty about how he’ll fare in a game that he will not start on Saturday. Redshirt freshman Conner Smith will.
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Point guard Stalzer from power Mater Dei signs with CU Buffs
So much for the catchy nickname “The Tad Five” regarding the incoming recruiting class signed by Colorado coach Tad Boyle.
After signing five players during the November signing period, CU added a sixth signee — 6-foot-3 point guard Eli Stalzer of famed Mater Dei High School in Orange County, Calif. — today, the first day of the spring signing period.
Stalzer averaged just 5.8 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.3 assists as a senior but played on a talented team that won the California big-school state championship and featured early CU signee Xavier Johnson, a high-flying, 6-6 forward. Also, Stalzer was slowed by a mid-season illness.
Initially, Colorado expected to sit tight with its five-man class of 6-9 Josh Scott of Lewis-Palmer High School, 6-8 Wesley Gordon of Colorado Springs Sierra, 6-1 Xavier Talton of Sterling, 6-6 Chris Jenkins of Detroit Jesuit and Johnson.
But, with the departure of seniors Nate Tomlinson and Carlon Brown, Buffs coaches decided the roster was in need of another freshman ballhandler to join Talton.
“I’m very excited to be a part of this program,” Stalzer said in the CU news release. “It was really fun watching CU in the (Pac-12) playoffs and the (NCAA) Tournament. I think with the coaching staff, the talent on the team and the class coming in, CU has the ability to make it to the Final Four and I want to be part of it.”
Boyle spotted Stalzer while recruiting Johnson.
“Eli is a player our staff kept coming back to in our evaluation process,” Boyle said. “He is the epitome of what we consider a ‘complete player’ to be. His ability to pass, dribble and shoot, as well as his ability to defend mulitiple positions, will allow him to be a valuable player for the Buffs.”
According to the Colorado sports information office, Stalzer and Johnson are the first pair of signees from a CU recruiting class to hail from the same high school since Jay Humphries and Vince Kelley arrived for the 1980-81 season from Inglewood High School in Los Angeles. That duo couldn’t have worked out much better: Humphries is still CU’s all-time assists leader and ranks 14th in career scoring; Kelley ranks 19th among all-time CU scorers.
Colorado may not be stopping there. Michigan transfer Evan Smotrycz, a 6-9, 235-pound sophomore forward, tweeted that his final three choices are Maryland, Providence and Colorado, and that he intends to take official visits to all three. Smotrycz must sit out next season per NCAA transfer rules and then will have two remaining years of eligibility.
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Mulkey — Chemistry better this season
This Baylor team that’s going for an unprecedented 40-0 record isn’t much better than the squad that lost to Texas A&M in last year’s regional final. This team, however, is better in intangibles.
“Team chemistry was a missing link last year,” Baylor coach Kim Mulkey said during Saturday’s press conference at the Pepsi Center, “not that we didn’t have a team that didn’t get along but we had a freshman trying to lead a basketball team to a Final Four. We had our best player just a sophomore. We had our senior, our captain, our glue, playing with one eye.
“The timing of Melissa Jones’ injury honestly cost us.”
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Colorado Symphony marijuana concerts pass with regulars thanks to cash potential; media overuses puns in reports
By Ray Mark Rinaldi
A&E Critic
The CSO, with DeVotchKa, at Red Rocks. (Photo provided by Heather Browne)
One of the more surprising things about the Colorado Symphony Orchestra’s recently announced “Classically Cannabis” concerts is just how easily the concept seems to be going down with its long-time supporters.
The CSO’s frontline fans tend to be older, 60-plus, even 80-plus, and they’re as traditional as fine arts fans come. They dress up for concerts and follow a code of conduct that includes guidelines for everything from the unwrapping of hard candies to the appropriate moments for applause.
But they’re not so strict when it comes to introducing marijuana into the experience for some concert goers, especially when it might bring in badly needed revenues for their beloved orchestra.
“If these people want to pay $75 and go to a concert and smoke, that’s great. This is going to help the symphony,” said Deanna Leino. She’s had season tickets for 55 years running and is a veteran with the Colorado Symphony Guild, an organization of 300 culturally and socially connected women and men who provide the thrust for the orchestra’s major fund-raising events.
Categories: Artmosphere, Classical Music, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Music
| May 6, 2014, 10:05 am
Spinelli’s Market sold, but founders still feeling saucy
Chris Rogers and Jerry Spinelli are behind Spinelli’s Sauce Co. (Photo courtesy Rae Lapporte)
Spinelli’s Market, a beloved family-owned grocery that has served the Park Hill neighborhood for 20 years, was sold in April, but founders Jerry and Mary Ellen Spinelli have not exactly retired.
Spinelli’s Sauce Co. will continue in partnership with co-owner Chris Rogers, who apparently also has marinara in her veins. The market will continue operating under the new leadership of John and Ted Moutzouris, who grew up in another family-owned Denver food outlet, Pete’s Fruit and Vegetables.
The decision to leave the grocery wasn’t an easy one, Jerry Spinelli says. “Age” was the big driver, he says with a laugh. “I’m 66 and my wife is 63. We’ve been there 20 years. It was an opportune time.”
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Chambers Family Heritage
Antione Louis DESCOMPS DIT LABADIE [Parents] was born on 19 May 1732 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He died on 17 Dec 1807 in Assumption, Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. He was buried in Assumption, Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. He married Angelica CAMPAU on 26 Feb 1759 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan.
MANNON, Marie
BARTHE, Charlotte
I found this posting at the Labadie Family Genforum which Lynne Steele had copied from the book "Early Days in Detroit" by Palmer. She had taken the book out of the Burton Collection of the Detroit Public Library.
"The name of LABADIE was borne in France 1732, by Alexander Etyenne Ravielt Claude LABADIE, colonel of an infantry regiment. A descendant of his came to Detroit about 1747 and immediately took a foremost rank in the affairs of the colony. His son was Louis (Badichon) LABADIE, married, 26 February, 1759, Angelique CAMPEAU, who died in the parish of l'Assumption (Sandwich, Ont.), 11 December, 1767. She left six young children. Louis (Badichon) LABADIE then fell in love with the daughter of an Indian chief. Though no record can be found of his marriage to this Indian woman, yet it is known that he lived with her seventeen years, and when she died she left seventeen children. He was then married, in St. Anne's Church, Detroit, October 18, 1784, to Charlotte BARTHE, widow of Lieutenant Louis REAUME, of the British army. By this marriage he had ten children, so as he had thirty-three children by his three wives, he may claim to have aided materially in populating Detroit and its vicinity. One of the children of Louis LABADIE married John HALE, an extensive merchant here until into the forties (Hale & Bristol). One of his daughters (Antoinette) married Joseph LANGLEY, then of New York, but now of Chicago; the other (Lizzie) married William S. DRIGGS of Macey & Driggs, real estate, etc. Her son is an officer in the United States navy (he invented a gun). Another daughter of Louis (Badichon) LABADIE, Eleonore, married first, Mr. J. REID, who was one of the editors and proprietors of the old 'Detroit Gazette' (Sheldon & Reid); second, in 1806, Jean Baptiste PIQUETTE, son of John Baptiste PIQUETTE and Francoise ARCHEVEQUE DE ROUEN by whom she had two sons, John Baptiste and Charles; third, in 1825, Thomas C. SHELDON, by which marriage she had three children, Thomas P. married Winnie CLARK, niece of Governor FENTON of Michigan; Rose married A. Henry GUISE, of a distinguished Philadelphia family, an estimable man and courteous gentleman. Her daughter Nellie married Mr. Orville ALLEN, of Grosse Ile. She died some years ago. One of the sons (Thomas GUISE) possessed a fine voice and is now on the operatic stage; another son (Richard) is also upon the operatic stage; another son (Philip) was a bright young man of scholarly attainments, he was at one time engaged in newspaper work and was on the 'Evening News', and bid fair to become a success in that line, but unfortunately he has been the victim of rheumatism for years to such an extent that it has almost totally incapacitated him from attending to any business that requires much out-door work. Alexandrine MACOMB, another daughter of Thos. C. SHELDON, married first, Barnabas CAMPAU, son of Barnabas (L'Abbie) and Archange MCDOUGAL, by whom she had three children; Charlotte died in infancy; Thomas S., and Albert, two bright, promising young men who attained majority. Thomas died after a brief illness in Yokohama, Japan, where he had gone for his health. Albert studied medicine under Dr. E. L. SHURLY of Detroit, was admitted to practice, with the prospect of a brilliant career before him, but from some cause became a hopeless invalid and died at the Catholic Retreat, Dearborn. These two young men were quite celebrated for their courteous and elegant manners. Alexandrine M. CAMPAU married a second time to Mr. R. Storrs WILLIS, brother of the poet, N.P. WILLIS."
Angelica CAMPAU [Parents] was born on 16 Sep 1742 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. She died on 10 Dec 1767 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. She was buried on 11 Dec 1767 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. She married Antione Louis DESCOMPS DIT LABADIE on 26 Feb 1759 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan.
F i Mary Angelica DESCOMPS DIT LABADIE
F ii Catherine DESCOMPS DIT LABADIE was born on 20 Oct 1761 in South west coast of Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. She died on 7 Dec 1762 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. She was buried on 8 Dec 1762 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan.
M iii John Baptist DESCOMPS DIT LABADIE
M iv James Philip DESCOMPS DIT LABADIE was born on 22 Sep 1765 in South west coast of Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. He died on 21 Aug 1770 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. The cause of death was kicked by a horse. He was buried on 22 Aug 1770 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan.
F v Elizabeth DESCOMPS DIT LABADIE
Antione Louis DESCOMPS DIT LABADIE [Parents] was born on 19 May 1732 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He died on 17 Dec 1807 in Assumption, Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. He was buried in Assumption, Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. He married Charlotte BARTHE on 18 Oct 1784 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan.
CAMPAU, Angelica
Charlotte BARTHE was born on 17 Jul 1763 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. She died on 11 Feb 1849 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. She was buried on 11 Feb 1849 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. She married Antione Louis DESCOMPS DIT LABADIE on 18 Oct 1784 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan.
F i Cecilia DESCOMPS DIT LABADIE
M ii Anthony DESCOMPS DIT LABADIE was born on 5 Aug 1787 in Assumption, Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. He died on 5 Aug 1787 in Assumption, Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. He was buried on 6 Aug 1787 in Assumption, Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada.
M iii Louis DESCOMPS DIT LABADIE
F iv Euphrasia DESCOMPS DIT LABADIE
F v Eleonora Heliodore DESCOMPS DIT LABADIE
F vi Felicity DESCOMPS DIT LABADIE
F vii Elizabeth DESCOMPS DIT LABADIE
F viii Margaret DESCOMPS DIT LABADIE
M ix Peter DESCOMPS DIT LABADIE was born on 21 Aug 1800 in Assumption, Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. He died .
M x Nicolas DESCOMPS DIT LABADIE
George THORNBURN was born 1 in Scotland. He died . He married 2 Victorine Josephine NANTAIS on 29 Aug 1916 in Essex County, Ontario, Canada.
Victorine Josephine NANTAIS [Parents] 1 was born 2, 3 on 28 Sep 1898 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She died on 9 Jul 1962 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She was buried in Heavenly Rest Cemetery, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She married 4 George THORNBURN on 29 Aug 1916 in Essex County, Ontario, Canada. She was baptized on 2 Oct 1898 in Assumption, Sandwich, Essex, Ontario, Canada.
Mother listed as Mary Vandelinder on Birth Registration.
F i Mary Victoria E. THORNBURN
F ii Dolly THORNBURN 1 died .
F iii Grace THORNBURN 1 died .
F iv Josephine THORNBURN 1 died .
F v Living THORNBURN
William NANTAIS [Parents] was born in Apr 1908. He died on 13 Sep 1989. He married Stella DUPUIS.
Stella DUPUIS died . She married William NANTAIS.
U i Living NANTAIS
U ii Living NANTAIS
U iii Living NANTAIS
U iv Living NANTAIS
U v Living NANTAIS
U vi Living NANTAIS
U vii Living NANTAIS
Charles Dennis NANTAIS [Parents] was born on 10 Dec 1900 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He died on 2 Dec 1991 in Strathroy Hospital, Strathroy, Ontario, Canada. He was buried on 5 Dec 1991 in St. John's Catholic Cemetery, Sombra, Ontario, Canada. He married Rose "Marie" KAVANAUGH about 1923 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Rose "Marie" KAVANAUGH was born on 8 Jul 1906 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She died on 30 Nov 2003 in Watford Quality Care Centre, Watford, Ontario, Canada. She was buried on 3 Dec 2003 in St. John's Catholic Cemetery, Sombra, Ontario, Canada. She married Charles Dennis NANTAIS about 1923 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
NANTAIS
With joyous celebration of her life, the family of ROSE "MARIE" NANTAIS, Age 97, announce her death on Sunday, November 30, 2003, at Watford Quality Care Centre. Born Rose Marie Kavanaugh in Windsor on July 8, 1906. She lived 10 years in Tecumseh and many years on the farm in Courtright with her late husband Charles Nantais (1991). Beloved mother of the late Russell (1997) (Elsie), Mooretown; Raymond (Ruth), Brigden; late Ronald (1991) (Terry), Windsor; Grace Trombley (late Louie) (1993), Tecumseh; Gerald (Sharon), Sombra; James (Jean), Corunna; Michael (Linda), Miller Lake; Patricia Pageau (Gerald), Mississauga; Dennis (Mary) Idaho, U.S.A. and Carol Murphy (Richard), Alvinston. Dear sister of Mabel Boutette, Dearborn, Michigan; Florence Poupard (Gordon), Windsor. Predeceased by her sisters
Violet, Lottie, Doris, Shirley, Louise and brother Arvan, one grandchild and one great grandchild. Loving grandmother of 36 grandchildren, 76 great grandchildren and 13 great-great grandchildren. Friends will be received at STEADMAN BROTHERS FUNERAL HOME BRIGDEN
on Tuesday, December 2, 2003 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Mass will be held at St. Charles Roman Catholic Church, Courtright on Wednesday December 3rd at 11 a.m. Interment St. John's Cemetery, Sombra. Steadman Brothers 864-1193.
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Poem on inside of Memorial Card
Don't grieve for me now I"m free, I'm following the path God laid for me. I took his hand when I heard Him call, I turned my back and left it all .I could not stay another day, To laugh, to live, to work or play. Tasks left undone must stay that way ,I've found my peace at the close of the day. If parting had left a void, Then fill it with memories of joy. A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss, Ah yes, these things I too will miss. Be not burdened with times of sorrow, I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow. My life's been full, I've savored much-Good friends, good times, a loved one's touch. Perhaps my time seemed all too brief Don't lengthen it now with undue grief. Lift up your hearts and share with me, God wanted me now, He set me free. I'm free now!!
M i Russell NANTAIS
M ii Raymond NANTAIS
M iii Ronald NANTAIS
F iv Living NANTAIS
M v Living NANTAIS
M vi Living NANTAIS
M vii Living NANTAIS
F viii Living NANTAIS
F ix Living NANTAIS
M x Living NANTAIS
Ralph GROVER died . He married Marie Elise Marcelline NANTAIS.
Marie Elise Marcelline NANTAIS [Parents] 1 was born 2, 3 on 17 Mar 1897 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She died before 1990. She married Ralph GROVER.
Mother listed on Birth registrations as Catherine Vandelinder.
John MORNEAU died . He married Marie Florence Alice "Flossie" NANTAIS.
Marie Florence Alice "Flossie" NANTAIS [Parents] 1 was born 2, 3 on 27 Dec 1903 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She died after 1990. She married John MORNEAU.
M i Jack MORNEAU 1 died .
M ii Joe MORNEAU 1 died .
F iii Sylvina MORNEAU
F iv Living MORNEAU
Benjamin NANTAIS [Parents] was born on 25 May 1802 in Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. He died 1, 2 on 20 Sep 1881 in Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. He was buried in St. Anne Cemetery, Tecumseh, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. He married 3 Julie RAYMOND DIT TOULOUSE on 19 Apr 1825 in Assumption, Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. He was baptized 4 on 26 May 1802 in Assumption, Sandwich, Essex, Ontario.
Household: 1881
Name Marital Status Gender Ethnic Origin Age Birthplace Occupation Religion
Denis O'KEEFF M Male Irish 58 Ireland Farmer Catholic
Euphrasine O'KEEFF M Female French 58 Ontario Cathol
Jane O'KEEFF Female Irish 25 Ontario Catholic
Emelie O'KEEFF Female Irish 23 Ontario Catholic
John O'KEEFF Male Irish 20 Ontario Farmer Catholic
Denis O'KEEFF Male Irish 18 Ontario Catholic
Emma O'KEEFF Female Irish 16 Ontario Catholic
Helen O'KEEFF Female Irish 14 Ontario Catholic
Benjamin NANTAIS M Male French 83 Ontario Catholic
Julienne NANTAIS M Female French 79 Ontario Catholic
Census Place Sandwich East, Essex, Ontario
Family History Library Film 1375917
NA Film Number C-13281
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Page Number 95
Household Number 420
Julie RAYMOND DIT TOULOUSE [Parents] was born on 8 May 1807 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. She died on 16 Sep 1892. She was buried in Our Lady of the Lake Cemetery, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She married 1 Benjamin NANTAIS on 19 Apr 1825 in Assumption, Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada.
M i Peter NANTAIS
F ii Euphrosine NANTAIS
M iii Apollinaris Denis Leo NANTAIS was born on 8 Apr 1829 in Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. He died . Apollinaris was baptized 1 on 11 Apr 1829 in A, S, E, Ontario Sponsors: David Nantais Euphrosine Pitre.
M iv Benjamin Francis Xavier NANTAIS
F v Mary Geneveva NANTAIS
M vi Alexis Leander NANTAIS
F vii Archange Elizabeth NANTAIS
M viii Rudolph NANTAIS
F ix Marie Clemence NANTAIS
F x Victoria NANTAIS was born on 3 Mar 1844 in Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. She died . Victoria was baptized 1 on 13 Mar 1844 in A, S, E, Ontario Sponsors: Francois Gelina Emilie Gelina.
M xi James NANTAIS was born on 22 Apr 1848 in Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. He died . James was baptized 1 on 3 May 1848 in A, S, E, Ontario Sponsors: Jacques Nantais Monique Langlois.
M xii Francis Xavier NANTAIS was born on 22 Feb 1849 in Sandwich, Essex County, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He died on 25 Apr 1851 in Assumption, Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. He was buried on 27 Apr 1851 in Assumption, Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. Francis was baptized 1 on 25 Feb 1849 in A, S, E, Ontario Sponsors: Francois Nantais Fresine Nantais.
M xiii Edward NANTAIS was born on 30 Mar 1851 in Sandwich, Essex County, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He died 1 on 26 Apr 1855 in Assumption, Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. He was buried on 28 Apr 1855 in Assumption, Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. Edward was baptized on 31 Mar 1851 in Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario.
James NANTAIS [Parents] was born on 7 May 1824 in Assumption, Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. He died . He married Nancy MAGILL.
Nancy MAGILL died . She married James NANTAIS.
M i William Francis James Benjamin NANTAIS was born on 4 Nov 1847 in Assumption, Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. He died .
F ii Flavia NANTAIS was born on 22 Jul 1850 in Assumption, Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. She died .
M iii Isadore NANTAIS was born on 26 Jul 1853. He died .
John NEWBEUR died . He married Marie Louise Elizabeth NANTAIS.
Marie Louise Elizabeth NANTAIS [Parents] was born 1, 2 on 23 Nov 1895 in Essex County, Ontario, Canada. She died before 1990. She married John NEWBEUR. Marie was baptized on 24 Nov 1895 in Assumption, Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario, Canada.
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Cubs Nearing Decision Time To Get Addison Russell
The deadline for teams to tender contracts for arbitration-eligible players will be on Monday, December 2 at 8 pm ET, and the Chicago Cubs have seven that qualify. They will have important choices to make with the likes of Kris Bryant, Javy Baez, and Willson Contreras, but one name on that record is a possible candidate to become non-tendered: Addison Russell.
MLB Trade Rumors estimates that Russell is going to be expected for something in the area of $5 million in 2020. That’s close to double what he earned this year, and also for a team seeking to trim payroll, non-tendering Russell is an easy way to work toward acquiring a slightly leaner budget.
Away from the field, Russell was the topic of serious domestic violence allegations, the majority of that came to light from 2018. Those were sufficient for him to function a 40-game suspension that began at the conclusion of their 2018 season and ran before early May 2019.
Even though the Cubs front office voiced want a year ago to help Russell by becoming a part of the solution, there are a couple reasons why the song in Chicago this year will probably differ.
First, there is the aforementioned price. The Cubs are proposed by Roster Resource to be about $10 million under the luxury tax threshold in 2020, however they have many players eligible for arbitration and roll up holes to be addressed. An added price of almost $2.5 million for Russell is one that they do not require.
And whatever the cost for Russell could be, he still has not proven that he respects it. In 2019, Russell was worth half a win above replacement, and he has been in steady decline since 2.6 and 3.3 fWAR seasons his first couple of years at the majors in 2015 and 2016. He was essentially relegated into platooning and coming in as a defensive replacement at this season.
Along with that, there were instances when Russell made serious mistakes about the area, for example after in July when he admitted that he didn’t understand the team’s indications . His play at the plateon the area, and also on the basepaths — is increasingly bad.
Between these issues and also the off-the-field troubles, Russell has not made a particularly strong case for the Cubs to maintain him. At this time, he provides some depth at second base and shortstop, however involving Baez, David Bote, a potential yield from Ben Zobrist, and the development of Nico Hoerner, the necessity to maintain Russell from the depth chart isn’t there.
There have also been rumors that the Cubs could be in play to trade with the Royals for second baseman Whit Merrifield, according to MLB.com’s Jon Morosi.
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Russell was a centerpiece of this July 2014 trade together with the Athletics that famously comprised Oakland vice president Billy Beane telling Cubs president of operations Theo Epstein that he had simply traded him Barry Larkin.
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Since the dawn of the 20th century, the Federal Serum Therapy Institute – now Fiocruz – has gathered and maintained archives, libraries, biology and iconography collections, and instruments and equipment, all housed in the unique architectural and urban setting built especially for the institution. The collections trace their roots to scientific expeditions, public health missions, and the activities conducted at the institute’s laboratories, departments, and hospitals.
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In consonance with national and international concepts and practices in preventive and integrated conservation, risk management, and sustainable preservation, the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz drew up its “Preservation and Management Policy for Cultural Collections in Science and Health” in 2013. This innovative policy defined guidelines and principles that apply to a wide variety of collections (architectural, archival, bibliographic, and museological). It also stipulated research and education as the strategic building blocks in the formulation of preservation policy.
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Utility Tunnel Design Guidelines
1, Eralp, O. Key ingredients to successful, long distance hard rock and mixed ground utility tunnel installations will be discussed. Design the dam to ensure that water levels in Long Pond do not exceed those associated with the limiting flow. Obtain required. Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities. Our goal was to identify key cost drivers, compare international. On-campus design professionals and Physical Plant personnel can provide. Steam Tunnels Near Central Utility Plant Existing utility tunnel infrastructure is limited to short runs. Project environmental and engineering summaries, memos, analyses and other documentation related to the California high-speed rail project. Utility Services Transport National and Local Concept design for a multi-utility tunnel To evaluate the accuracy of current design guidelines for shear. Custodial Services; Facility Management; Maintenance Requests; Operations and Maintenance; Services Contacts; Site Map Currently selected; Technical Resources. Sep 01, 2005 · Read "Indoor atmosphere hazard identification in person entry urban utility tunnels, Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology" on DeepDyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. However, this information would be beneficial for the installation of a “utility” tunnel and would be very much applicable. , Reno, NV T. 3 a) Crossing the right of way of any county, municipality or utility upon which there exists pavement or other features that may not be disturbed. The main compressed air distribution system in the utility tunnel is steel. The design of the cross-section of road tunnels has to consider road traffic aspects, operational equipment and the tunnel structure. 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Approach Manual for Landowners and Developers; CADD Standards; Context Sensitive Solutions; Guidelines for Preparing Utility Plans; Right of Way Design Manual (see Right of Way & Utilities below) Bridge Design; Bridge Design Standards; Functional Classifications Map; NHS Route Segments; STP Route Segments; Montana Structures Manual - Part 1. ft2 * Utility tunnel sprinkler systems design based on 10 psi available. 1 Codes and Standards The latest edition of the codes, standards, orders, and guides referred to in this section will be followed, with a reference point of August 2008 being the anticipated design completion date. 7mm Aluminum transformation into, further improve product quality productivity. SPECIFICATION STANDARD OPTICAL FIBER BACKBONE CABLING 27 13 23 The University of New Mexico, November 17, 2010 Page 2 of 16 C. Yau and Dennis C. 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The goal of 'Whole Building' Design is to create a successful high-performance building by applying an integrated design and team approach to the project during the planning and programming phases. Utility Services Transport National and Local Concept design for a multi-utility tunnel To evaluate the accuracy of current design guidelines for shear. Steam and chilled water piping shall be run in utility tunnel unless otherwise approved by University Project. Tunnel Projects Some Examples of Tunnelling Projects (Acted as Specialist Consultant and Expert Witness) Design of Don River and Central Waterfront tunnel systems - 26 km tunnels of 7 m diameter (2014-ongoing) Clients: RV Anderson | Black and Veatch. PURPOSE OF THE DOCUMENT This document, titled "Steam and Chilled Water Utility Design Guidelines (SCUDG)", shall be used by Yale employees and all engineers providing design and installation work for Yale. 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Determining Applicable Standards. Report Date September 2002 6. Finally, the seismic design guidelines for tunnel are suggested. The review includes: the theoretical analysis, numerical simulation and experimental research on the utility tunnel under earthquake wave excitation. IESNA guidelines based on the latest IESNA Lighting Handbook 3. The main compressed air distribution system in the utility tunnel is steel. Report 4149-1 10. Interpretation of their results is dependent on the relevant scaling laws and model scale results may not have a general validity in relation to the full scale case. The Caldecott Tunnel section, through the Berkeley Hills, is a single bore and does not contain a separated utility tunnel. Nov 04, 2005 · Tunnel ventilation is an option available to producers constructing new facilities that might have a compromised natural ventilation system or to those with existing facilities that currently have natural ventilation challenges that cannot be overcome. These guidelines are written for City staff and consulting engineers involved in road design as a part of road works projects. The 2001 Plan called for expansion and improvement of the existing distributions systems. SCRRA GRADE SEPARATION GUIDELINES SCRRA Page 1 April 2016 1. 14: Infrastructure 2. Typically, these areas will be at station excavation sites to facilitate access to the tunnel. The objectives of the review are to present a view of current state of utility tunnel and to examine trends in the future. [email protected] All Utility Tunnel to Building door hardware shall include a door closer and the hardware identified above. SCRRA GRADE SEPARATION GUIDELINES SCRRA Page 1 April 2016 1. The project included the addition of a 200-ft underground utility tunnel which permitted the flow of supplied and materials through the use of robotic material handling equipment. Facilities and Services Presentations and Reports. Installation of water line, gas line, and electric duct bank. Manholes and Covers: Covers shall be heavy duty ductile iron, 36" minimum diameter. 2 Scope (a) All utility facilities approved under highway occupancy permits, pursuant to N. A utility will be deemed as non-responsive if notifications have been made by the NCDOT and reasonable time given for the utility to respond and relocate as needed and either no. Cooling tower process is generally related with vapor pressure of water and humidity. This project is an integral part of the utility production/distribution improvements and includes; 1. Question: My client has a utility tunnel with a soil floor. 01 Revised 3/23/16 Page 1 of 4 Division 03 This section applies to all building system concrete work and cast-in-place site structural. Guidelines for the Design of Buried Steel Pipe July 2001 i Acknowledgments The following people (with their affiliations) contributed to this report. E-19-001: 06/20/2019: Inspection of Structural Members for Design of Bridge Preservation Project. Phase 2 requires new 2. The NTIS would require the proper safety inspection and evaluation of all Federal-aid highway tunnels on public roads. Report on Design and Construction of Fiber-Reinforced Precast Concrete Tunnel Segments Reported by ACI Committee 544 Corina-Maria Aldea Emmanuel K. These aims are achieved by the adequate illumination of the tunnel interior, which allows drivers to quickly adjust to the light within,. The User Guide is organized into seven sections: 1. Wrought copper solder joint fittings and 95/5 solder. Please give your opinion on:. Advantages of Tunneling. 01 Revised 3/23/16 Page 1 of 4 Division 03 This section applies to all building system concrete work and cast-in-place site structural. Design Requirements and Guidelines Level 2 Chapter 21 (6. University of Houston Master Construction Specifications Insert Project Name. 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Short version about the project; it's a precast utility tunnel adjacent to the ocean for a Navy shipyard. This chapter discusses the design of cross-section of different tunnels, including rail tunnels, road tunnels, underground railway tunnels and underground tram tunnels. The work described in this document was conducted as part of NCHRP Project 20-68A, the U. These guide-lines include requirements for the standard cross-section, the structure or vehicle gauge. Technical Manual for Design and Construction of Road Tunnels — Civil. Marafeq’s Design Guidelines for the Connection of ETS to the DC System V. The Port of Seattle Aviation Utility Department, in cooperation with other Port departments, manages the provision of many utility services at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport including: energy, water, wastewater, solid waste, and television services. This paper discusses the design procedures related to frost action. 01 Revised 3/23/16 Page 1 of 4 Division 03 This section applies to all building system concrete work and cast-in-place site structural. Take appropriate. Tunnel-boring machines (TBMs). PURPOSE OF THE DOCUMENT This document, titled "Steam and Chilled Water Utility Design Guidelines (SCUDG)", shall be used by Yale employees and all engineers providing design and installation work for Yale. Introduction to Tunnel Design and Construction Seminar Instructor David G. As SP is increased, HP increases and CFM decreases. 9694 Global Engineering Service Provider Energy. 3 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Landscape architecture is a synthesis of arts, sciences, technical philosophies and practices that seek to care for these guidelines attempt to address all of the philosophies and practices to some degree, the 'tool kit' emphasizes the design of the urban environment in regard to the health,. New finishes will allow for a back-up drainage system as a second line of defense to any possible water migration through the tunnel structure. Author(s) Beverly Kuhn, Debbie Jasek, Robert Brydia, Angelia Parham, Brooke Ullman, and Byron Blaschke 8. Current Infrastructure Design Manual (IDM) (effective July 1, 2019). Perform designs for utility infrastructure using subsurface utility engineering (“SUE”)guidelines. All Utility Tunnel to Building door hardware shall include a door closer and the hardware identified above. The criteria established in this. This tunneling on-demand seminar includes the selection and installation of tunnel lining, the construction of shafts, key aspects of design, specification, cost, and construction and risk management during tunnel design and construction. We have designed a randomized controlled trial nested within a cohort study. Two cross-island cable tunnels will be constructed 60 m underground to provide a long. 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Future budget, scope, and design approval actions by the Board of Visitors highlighted in blue (TBD until contract awarded) Schematic Architect/ Address Design Contractor/ Address/ Contract Date Scope Working Budget Project Approval Concept/ Site/Design Guidelines Architect/ Engineer Selection Awaiting State General Fund Approval in Gold. This document is intended to provide this information to industries and ractorConts with varying degrees of experience in the design and construction of private tracks. Drainage, Ventilation and Utility Tunnel Systems We offer a full range of galvanized, aluminized or polymer-laminated Hel-Cor™ Corrugated Steel Pipe for virtually any drainage, ventilation or utility tunnel requirement. My former AHJ that reviews and approves the construction of several health care facility complexes that use utility tunnels and they all were protected by a building's automatic sprinkler system per NFPA 13. Utility Services Transport National and Local Concept design for a multi-utility tunnel To evaluate the accuracy of current design guidelines for shear. Acknowledgments. Pro CONNECT Edition. 5, the range commonly encountered for. A new network, the South Campus Utility Tunnel, is nearing completion. Always had a baggage conveyance /utility tunnel guidelines Operational in 2010. guaranteed at the the point the utility enters the building are defined in U-M Design Guideline 4. The Design and Build of Storm Water Drainage System, is connected to the Public Works Authority at three locations, and is built partially as "cut-and-cover" and. In the facility the steam is reduced in pressure as required and distributed to the point of use. 7mm pointed 1. The 7x7 square metre utility tunnel has electrical and communication cables, water supply and irrigation lines, firefighting services and electric substations. The information as required has been modeled from the latest publications of the. NIH Facilities & Research Services Directory; Project Tools; Property Management. installing utility tunnels and conduits by thrusting pipes through the ground as controlled excavation is undertaken at the face. SCRRA GRADE SEPARATION GUIDELINES SCRRA Page 1 April 2016 1. Gannett Fleming is an industry leader in the areas of tunnel inspection, evaluation, rehabilitation, and design. INTRODUCTION 1. The tunneling method chosen depends on the ground conditions, the water table level, the tunnel drive length and the diameter, the tunnel depth, final utility requirements, the shape of the tunnel and the risk of construction. PART 2 - GENERAL DESIGN REQUIREMENTS A. A guide for beginners, by a beginner. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Diagnosis and Treatment Trial The primary goal is to study the effectiveness of surgery for patients with mild to moderate carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Key ingredients to successful, long distance hard rock and mixed ground utility tunnel installations will be discussed. The Sentinel site was a pre-War military facility that was working to make the air-dropped'Mk. Facilities Services Design Guide Organization and Use The Facilities Services Design Guide provides architects and engineers with the information for each phase of the project from technical programming through construction documents and commissioning. These guidelines are intended to provide information and guidance for the design and specifications for the construction of private railroad tracks and their supporting roadbeds. City council officials have little or no knowledge about the utility infrastructures. installing utility tunnels and conduits by thrusting pipes through the ground as controlled excavation is undertaken at the face. DESIGN STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES The Design Standards and Guidelines manual was initiated in June of 1997 to establish uniform guidelines and practices to be followed by engineers in designing street lighting systems. Sustainable Design Guidelines. Our goal is to convert every residential overhead utility line in San Diego to underground service. ) CROSSING The Bird Road crossing is a unique opportunity to build upon the Miami-Dade County Parks and Open. 7mm Aluminum transformation into, further improve product quality productivity. PAPER COPIES OF THIS ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT ARE. Rolf has 3 jobs listed on their profile. Phase III of the tunnel will be constructed under this project and represents the final connections between the CUP and SUP. Installation of water line, gas line, and electric duct bank. DESIGN STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES The Design Standards and Guidelines manual was initiated in June of 1997 to establish uniform guidelines and practices to be followed by engineers in designing street lighting systems. Introduction 2. 1 Design Criteria 6. ASTM B88 seamless, hard copper tube, Type L piping. The Introduction (Chapter 1) for these design data collection guidelines contains additional information concerning: preparing a design data collection request, design data collection requirements, and coordinating the design data collection and submittal. General Map(s). Bridge Conceptual Design Guidelines 3 5/3/2016 Foreword These guidelines cover all aspects of bridge conceptual design, also referred to as bridge planning, including bridge location, sizing, geometrics, and river protection works. , should be designed as tunnel structures with 120 years of design working life. Anticipated EPB drive with segmental concrete lining. the engineering design HVAC team re-ceives the kitchen equipment informa-tion from the kitchen designer (equip-ment supplier). These guidelines are written for City staff and consulting engineers involved in road design as a part of road works projects. WMU OIT should be consulted very early in the project design to help in determining the best means of access to existing facilities. 1 Codes and Standards The latest edition of the codes, standards, orders, and guides referred to in this section will be followed, with a reference point of August 2008 being the anticipated design completion date. 3 walkways 3. Yau and Dennis C. Please give your opinion on:. and stuck it in the utility tunnel at the. We have designed a randomized controlled trial nested within a cohort study. This “Marafeq’s Design Guidelines for the Connection of ETS (s) to the District Cooling System” (Document No LUS-CPAA-MAQ-SPE-UT-004) identifies the general principles and technical requirements to be applied to the design andconstruction of energy transfer stations. Addressing each major subsystem, we summarize our assessment and design intent as follows: 1. The Chen building will serve as the Institute's hub for neuroscience research. 1 Development of the Project must be carried out generally in accordance with the “West Gate Tunnel Project Development and Urban Design Plans” dated May 2017 which includesand in accordance withthe Environmental Performance Requirements included in Appendix A of those plans. GREELEY MEMORIAL LABORATORY Reviving a modernist landmark CWA and our project partners have been working with Yale’s School of Forestry to complete comprehensive phased renovations to their Greeley Memorial Laboratory; a Paul Rudolph designed, 24,000 sq ft International Style building that was completed in 1959. Steam and chilled water piping shall be run in utility tunnel unless otherwise approved by University Project. Motor efficiency – motors shall be premium efficiency. PAPER COPIES OF THIS ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT ARE. 1 Functions The ITER tokamak is located in a single large building. Small Race Boat Plans. Building Details: 150,000+ square feet. These aims are achieved by the adequate illumination of the tunnel interior, which allows drivers to quickly adjust to the light within,. Performing Organization Code 7. Nov 20, 2019 · How to Build a Tunnel. In this case, the. The work consists of replacing steam pits 17/11 and 120 LF of concrete box conduit with an accessible utility tunnel from steam pit 17/11 to the north terminating at a location suitable for connection to the Chemistry Building Addition and Renovation project currently under construction. The 7x7 square metre utility tunnel has electrical and communication cables, water supply and irrigation lines, firefighting services and electric substations. The tunnel makes a "T" shape, with the stem of the T being approximately 200 feet, and the top of the T being approximately 370. Nov 30, 2017 · GIFT City has been included in Government of India’s Smart City Mission Statement and Guidelines as Model City in Greenfield category for development of 100 Smart Cities in India. Dec 05, 2018 · MACKINAW CITY, Mich. , should be designed as tunnel structures with 120 years of design working life. require that quality control inspections must be conducted by the licensee, the design engineer or an independent firm accountable to the licensee, and must not be performed by a construction contractor or firm accountable to the construction contractor. These design issues should be carefully considered by consultants, contractors and vendors. Telegraph Road and Holmes Run Trail Tunnel Study Telegraph Road Tunnel Location The Telegraph Road tunnel is located between Duke Street and Mill Road paralleling the east side of Telegraph Road. com Frank DE WILD, KEMA Consulting (Netherlands), Frank. 5km of EPB twin bored tunnel alignment, 6 underground stations, 1. A highway grade separation is a bridge that carries vehicular traffic over vehicular traffic. During the design of these systems, the Electrical Discipline staff performs condition surveys and prepares master plans, conceptual designs, contract drawings, specifications, construction staging, cost estimates, etc. the preliminary guidelines and aspects from commencement till occupancy stage to be followed as (Utility)Tunnel UDAS Urban Design and Architectural Sheet. Oct 31, 2012 · In 2001, Austin Water Utility awarded Parsons a contract for the Downtown Wastewater Master Plan that progressed to a contract to perform design and construction support services for the tunnel. Please follow these guidelines when posting on this site. Proposed design comfort levels must be approved by MSU University. The goal is to provide and distribute high quality, reliable high voltage electricity, steam, natural gas, compressed air and potable water to the University Park campus. E-19-001: 06/20/2019: Inspection of Structural Members for Design of Bridge Preservation Project. A utility will be deemed as non-responsive if notifications have been made by the NCDOT and reasonable time given for the utility to respond and relocate as needed and either no. City council officials have little or no knowledge about the utility infrastructures. • 1 mile long underground Utility Tunnel, which • Event Guidelines • Plant-wide Replacement of Electrical Cables & Utility Tunnel Bulkheads • Design. Site lighting shall be designed to reduce night sky light pollution. 7mm whole 7. Vaughn & Melton's water and wastewater system experience spans more than 35 years. Tunnel construction takes a lot of planning. 5, the range commonly encountered for. maintained by the UPE – Tunnels department. Examples: Was it constructed principally as a pipe / utility chase to allow easy access to the protected utilities? Are there operable features of the various utilities located in the tunnel area that require periodic manual manipulation or are the utilities simply straight runs with no operable features?. 1 Design NOC Design NOC is a permission given to consultant to proceed to the proposed project as indicated on the Tender Design Drawing which indicates the approximate locations and clearance of all the existing transmission underground cables and overhead lines. Structural road design is the science of designing a road for its environment in order to extend rock by digging or blasting, construction. It was the first time in Austria that full sets of tender documents for two design alternatives have been provided by the client. Design Guidelines, Studies and Reports Structural Integrity Study for NMSU Utility Tunnel. The main should be placed outside the paving (existing and proposed) if possible and practical. division 0 usu general design criteria the criteria are general guidelines based on past experiences and. Facilities Services Design Guide Organization and Use The Facilities Services Design Guide provides architects and engineers with the information for each phase of the project from technical programming through construction documents and commissioning. Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. > Some experts questioned whether the Boring Company had even succeeded at improving the cost of tunnel boring. We design buildings for people and consult closely with building developers, owners and users to fully understand the purpose of each building. In the facility the steam is reduced in pressure as required and distributed to the point of use. -Detail design of Pile Load Test, settlement analysis and construction impact assessment. maintained by the UPE – Tunnels department. In addition, we can supply all of the necessary elbows, couplings and access port accessories. Report Date September 2002 6. • Upgrade HPER Mall utility infrastructure with new utility tunnel to resolve existing reliability and capac-ity issues, and to support future infill development. LANSING, Mich. Feb 13, 2014 · Space Policies and Guidelines; NIH Drinking Water Program Changes; Project Resources. The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, or MUTCD defines the standards used by road managers nationwide to install and maintain traffic control devices on all public streets, highways, bikeways, and private roads open to public travel. Ground freezing has been used extensively in the last ten years for the construction of transit tunnel cross passages and SEM tunnels, as well as short adits for utility tunnels. Aug 13, 2017 · It allows space plan and utilization based on by size, type, and even proximity of the facilities for equipment's and university staff. The results indicate that the installation of electrical cables in utility tunnels is more economically sustainable than cable trench projects, but less cost-effective than overhead line projects. Short version about the project; it's a precast utility tunnel adjacent to the ocean for a Navy shipyard. As SP is increased, HP increases and CFM decreases. These guidelines are written for City staff and consulting engineers involved in road design as a part of road works projects. Water and Sewer Utility Design Standards 4. Service Limit State Design for Bridges (R19B). Provide dielectric fittings at point of connection. Box 217, 7500AE Enschede, The Netherlands; PH. Space Policies and Guidelines; NIH Drinking Water Program Changes; Project Resources. This area may consist of a shoulder, a recoverable slope, a non-. The utility tunnel or utility bridge structure shall conform in appearance, location, cover, earthwork, and markers to Mn/DOT’s standard culvert and bridge practices and shall be referenced by a bridge number obtained from the Mn/DOT Bridge Office. [email protected] 17-008A-8040 in Austin, Texas, with a motion made by Commissioner Jones and a second to approve the motion made by Commissioner Perry. This “Marafeq’s Design Guidelines for the Connection of ETS (s) to the District Cooling System” (Document No LUS-CPAA-MAQ-SPE-UT-004) identifies the general principles and technical requirements to be applied to the design andconstruction of energy transfer stations. , Reno, NV T.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - For China's Hikvision, the world's largest purveyor of video surveillance systems and a vendor to Xinjiang police agencies, a moment of reckoning may be at hand. Hikvision CCTV cameras. Hikvision Delivers Security Technology for Commercial Real Estate: Releases Brochure Outlining Solutions for Safer Tenants, Smarter Buildings and Better Efficiency. Surveillance Cameras Made by China Are Hanging All Over the U. Government A House bill, which requires Senate approval before it can become law, prohibits the U. 8 to 12 MM Lens, 128 GB, 24 VAC/12 VDC 17 Watt, PoE. DVS is an authorised UK distributor of Hikvision, one of the worlds leading authorities CCTV and IP Cameras, DVRs, NVRs, and HD-SDI. 26 Hikvision launches new modular 2-wire IP video intercom 9. The action. The latest Tweets from HIKVISION Italy (@HIKVISIONITALY). State and Local governments can now save both time and money when purchasing surveillance equipment from surveillance-video. “Hikvision has plans for significant investment in the UK and particularly in its UK-based manufacturing, with plans to dramatically expand operations. If you want to access the Hikvision IPC/DVR/NVR with Firefox browsers, you need to tweak the browser's config settings, therefore to solve the displaying image problem of the camera. Buy Hikvision 8-Channel 1080p Triple Hybrid Turbo HD DVR with 2TB HDD featuring Uncompressed 1080p via HD-TVI Inputs, Record in Real-Time on All 8 Channels, Up to 16-Ch Synchronous 1080p Playback, Send IP-Quality Signals over Coax Cables, Retain Existing Coaxial Infrastructure, Dual-Streaming, HDMI, VGA, and CVBS Outputs, Self-Adaptive Ethernet Interface, Supports 4 SATA HDDs, Up to 24TB Total. 92 billion for the first half of 2019, representing a year-over-year (YoY) growth of 14. CHANG-ČOU, Čína, 5. 555 Qianmo Road, Binjiang District, 310052 Hangzhou, China - Rated 4. Got a confidential news tip? Hikvision grew out of China's military surveillance wing and the Government retains a 42 per cent stake in the company. Unfortunately, Hikvision also rebrands cameras and video recorders for other companies. Prama Hikvision, a joint venture between Hikvision and an Indian company, inaugurated India's largest and first manufacturing facility located at Vasai near Mumbai. Hikvision and Dahua were suspended from trade at the companies' behest. Hikvision AcuSense technology distinguishes people and vehicles from other moving objects with automatic alarm triggering and accurate image searching. In-depth security news and investigation. ADVERTORIAL. How to solve the "Please click here to download plug-in". News & reviews; Softpedia > Windows > All in all, Format Converter is a simple, yet effective tool that can help you convert recordings captured with your Hikvision devices to more popular. government agencies from purchasing Dahua and Hikvision products, including their OEMs. Their shares had been suspended from trading after news that the U. 26 Hikvision launches new modular 2-wire IP video intercom 9. China has named Huawei Technologies and Hikvision Digital Technology as new national champions in AI, among the latest batch of companies tasked to spearhead efforts in that field. 265/HEVC compression, extending the limits of ultra-HD video surveillance applications. The Hikvision IP Camera Backdoor is a magic string that Hikvision secretly included that easily allows backdooring the camera, regardless of the strength of the password. Its products are used in public places in China, from Beijing to Xinjiang. 6 per cent in Tuesday trade. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Hikvision, the world's leading. Saraswat (Member, Niti Aayog and former Director-General of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and former Chief Scientific Advisor to the Indian Minister of Defence) and Dr. Hikvision Moves Toward a Bright Future in 2016. Neeraj Sinha (Adviser. News provided by. Hikvision Europe Dirk Storklaan 3, 2132 PX Hoofddorp, The Netherlands News. 15-10-2019 Enhancing the thrill of the race. John Honovich, founder of surveillance video research company IPVM, said Hikvision and Dahua both use Intel Corp , Nvidia Corp, Ambarella Inc, Western Digital and Seagate Technology as suppliers and that the impact on the Chinese companies would be "devastating. All content is posted anonymously by employees working at Hikvision. US News is a recognized leader in college, grad school, hospital, mutual fund, and car rankings. action "is going to be awkward for the Chinese. Hikvision made products for the video surveillance market. AL SHIRAA is extremely proud to work with Hikvision, a world leading authority in CCTV surveillance technologies. As a result, the terminals have a high success rate - the face-capture rate can hit 99% accuracy at less than 0. Browse through Hikvision's best IP cameras for sale online below. With this app, you can watch real-time surveillance video or play it back from your home, office, workshop or elsewhere at any time. Got a confidential news tip? Hikvision grew out of China's military surveillance wing and the Government retains a 42 per cent stake in the company. Welcome to iCCTVUK. DVS is an authorised UK distributor of Hikvision, one of the worlds leading authorities CCTV and IP Cameras, DVRs, NVRs, and HD-SDI. Investors welcome news but remain cautious. Hikvision Views is designed to make it easy to select Hikvision products and check important Hikvision technical bulletin. 9 based on 52 Reviews "Quiero felicitarlos por el excelente. Hikvision has received the most global news reporting of any video surveillance company, ever, ranging from the WSJ, the Financial Times, Reuters, the NY Times, SCMP and more. Investors on Wednesday dumped shares of the world’s top two security camera makers – Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology and Dahua Technology – after Australia’s ABC News reported that. October 2019. In the span of a little more than a week, 66 of the world's wealthiest. Hikvision Latam - No. Seeks to Ban Chinese Surveillance Cameras Hikvision and Dahua, two major surveillance-systems suppliers, could be nixed from any U. You can change your mind at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the footer of any email you receive from us, or by contacting us at marketing. Hikvision and Dahua were suspended from trading Tuesday but. Our specialized H. The World Lost 66 Billionaires In 8 Days Amid The Stock Market Tumult. Hikvision and Dahua were suspended from trade at the companies' behest. CCTV camera Price List in Nehru Place market Delhi for 2019 is listed along with Hikvision, CP-Plus DVR Price, NVR Price and Surveillance system price in Nehru Place Computer Market India. 264/MJPEG, 3072 x 2048 Resolution, F1. Hikvision has announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2019. This September marks Hikvision Europe's 10th year since the establishment of the European head office in the Netherlands. This year marked the second anniversary of Hikvision's AI Cloud. move to blacklist the firm, saying the decisionhas no basis in fact. Overview iVMS-4500 (Android) mobile client software, which is designed for mobile phone on the basis of Android OS (Version 4. 4 Motorized Varifocal 2. Discover a large selection of Hikvision CCTV cameras and other video surveillance products on Jumia Ghana. Stock analysis for Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co Ltd (002415:Shenzhen) including stock price, stock chart, company news, key statistics, fundamentals and company profile. Entity List of companies restricted from doing business with American companies. During Q3 of 2019, Hikvision generated a revenue of RMB 15. Product News Hikvision launches professional monitor range. The Hik-Connect app is designed to work with Hikvision series DVRs, NVRs, Cameras， Video intercom devices and Security control panels. Also VALE + Ajax Alarm Distributors. The IoT solution provider with video as its core competence. 92 billion for the first half of 2019, representing a year-over-year (YoY) growth of 14. Hikvision Digital Technology Co. This year marked the second anniversary of Hikvision's AI Cloud. An overview of the Intrusion product categories. 92 billion, having achieved a year-over-year (YoY) growth of 23. 66 billion) in 2017, with 29% coming from overseas. 1 al mondo nella security Hikvision nasce. These robots are ultra-efficient at tasks like sorting packages, moving pallets, and parking cars. BEIJING: For China's Hikvision, the world's largest purveyor of video surveillance systems and a vendor to Xinjiang police agencies, a moment of reckoning may be at hand. In the span of a little more than a week, 66 of the world's wealthiest. Hikvision and Dahua were suspended from trade at the companies' behest. Hikvision is the world's leading provider of CCTV & Video Surveillance products and solutions. The roadshow will kick off in Frankfurt, Germany on September 18th and travel to seven cities throughout September and October, including Oslo, Copenhagen, Helsinki, and four cities in the Netherlands. BEIJING: For China's Hikvision, the world's largest purveyor of video surveillance systems and a vendor to Xinjiang police agencies, a moment of reckoning may be at hand. Hikvision, based in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, is the latest Chinese company that the US has sought to ban from selling products to the government because of security worries. Hikvision Moves Toward a Bright Future in 2016. Unfortunately, it's also one of its smallest segments and represents just 10% of total revenue, so it's not a vpn hikvision business the 1 last update 2019/09/24 company can stake its future on. Company 42%-owned by the Chinese government sold devices that monitor U. Hikvision now has 35 branches in mainland China and 21 overseas subsidiaries with more than 18,000 employees. On August 1st, the US Senate passed the conference report for the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act. Surveillance Cameras Made by China Are Hanging All Over the U. com, the complete industry guide - Find any electronic security product by Hikvision and others from the extensive 20,000 products in the database, make sales enquiries, order literature requests, download datasheets and make full use of SourceSecurity. news on SecurityInformed. 1 day ago · This year marked the second anniversary of Hikvision's AI Cloud. The latest Tweets from HIKVISION UK&Ireland (@HIKVISIONUK). The US Commerce Department on Monday placed 28 Chinese public security bureaus and companies - including video surveillance company Hikvision and seven other companies on a US trade blacklist over. United States News -US officials said the announcement was not tied to this week's resumption of trade talks with China. Hassle-Free Exchanges & Returns for 30 Days. By Identiv Government Team Latest Developments Updated: September 19, 2018 As reported by the the NY Times, the global opposition to Hikvision is rising, and the Trump administration is considering sanctions against Hikvision and Dahua. The IoT solution provider with video as its core competence. government and will strive to get the ban lifted, its general. com, the complete industry guide - Find any electronic security product by Hikvision USA Inc. Router, Hikvision camera plugged into the router and a Dahua NVR also plugged into the router with a Trendnet camera plugged into the NVR's PoE port. Its products are used in public places in China, from Beijing to Xinjiang. The latest Tweets from HIKVISION UK&Ireland (@HIKVISIONUK). We are showcasing our sophisticated products and solutions such as. 555 Qianmo Road, Binjiang District, 310052 Hangzhou, China - Rated 4. Hikvision Product Specifications. United States News -US officials said the announcement was not tied to this week's resumption of trade talks with China. supplier Ambarella fell 12% in after-hours trading on Monday. The move against Hikvision would mark another step to counter China's economic ambitions, and the first time the administration punished a company for China's detention of Uighurs. Hikvision AI Cloud is a distributed structure incorporating cloud computing and edge computing. Online Shopping market for the latest CCTV cameras , home appliances,electronics, services, solutions and more for best price in Sri Lanka. 6 per cent in Tuesday trade. ADI is the leading global wholesale distributor of security and low voltage products with more than 200 worldwide locations to serve you. Want to keep yourself abreast with the latest news and developments from Hikvision USA Inc. Both the New York State Teachers. Stream Any Content. We have noticed an increasing number of Hikvision cameras being hacked over the last few weeks. HikVision製PoE·PoE+対応リンクポート付24ポートマネジメントスイッチ。DS-3E1326P-E【10/100Mbps PoE+対応24ポートマネジメントスイッチ】 【スイッチングハブ】 【IPカメラ】 【ネットワークカメラ】【監視カメラ】 【防犯カメラ】 【HikVision】 【送料無料】. Ambarella, a manufacturer of system-on-chips (SoCs) for surveillance. Genetec surprised the industry with its announcement last year that its customers would be required to sign a waiver if they wanted to use Hikvision products with its management platform. plunged as much as the daily limit after the New York Times said the Trump administration was considering curtailing the flow of American technology to China's top maker of video surveillance gear. Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. 29 View All News. At GSX 2019, Hikvision launched its new Performance Thermal Series, ColorVu and AcuSense technologies, in addition to its online product selector. Reuters reported that in August Hikvision, officially known as Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co Ltd, with a market value of about US$42 billion, receives nearly 30 per cent of its US$7 billion in revenue from overseas. The IoT solution provider with video as its core competence. “Hikvision has plans for significant investment in the UK and particularly in its UK-based manufacturing, with plans to dramatically expand operations. However, popularity alone cannot be the deciding factor. The restrictions would limit Hikvision's ability. put them on a human rights blacklist.
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Review: The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told
La'Charles Purvey December 20, 2013 La'Charles Purvey, Reviews No Comments on Review: The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told
Can I be honest? There were two reasons why I wanted to see Oklahoma City Theatre Company’s production of “The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told”: 1) A friend of mine was in it; and 2) I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Any show that can draw protestors is a must see for me. The production was held at the Civic Center’s City Space Theatre (A cozy space with approx. 88 seats.) After making my way down two flights of stairs I was greeted by friendly Ushers who took my tickets. I went into the theatre and was met with perky Christmas music and the quiet chatter of the audience. At 8pm the lights faded…at the command of the Stage Manager/God (Jackie Smola) who call the “creation cues”. Then we get to the creation of man….Adam (Fabrice Conte) who is wide-eyed, optimistic, and innocent. One of Adam’s first lines were “Who am I? What am I? Am I gay….yes!” We are then introduced to Steve (Josh Bonzie) who is a level-headed, logical realist–a perfect foil for Adam. Adam is the first man and Steve is the first boyfriend. A critical moment in the first scene is when Adam has to decide if he wants to leave the garden of Eden. He decides in favor of getting out and seeing what else is in the world. Adam and Steve then meet two lesbians….Jane and Mabel (Rachel Morgan & Krissy Jones). Together these four take us on a smart, bawdy, and comedic journey through some Bible stories….from Noah’s Ark (aka the S.S. Noah) to the Pharaoh Story, to the birth of Christ. Act II finds us in Modern Times where the bright comedic thread of the show is beautifully woven with some dark, dramatic issues.
Fabrice Conte and Josh Bonzie carried the dramatic weight of the show on their shoulders with stunning honesty, and bravery. Rachel Morgan and Krissy Jones were perfectly cast, and are very capable actresses. Rodney Brazil…stole the show with his effortless gift for delivering gut splitting one-liners. Paul Mitchell, Jackie Smola, Lana Henson, and Jessica Carabajal should also be noted for their solid performances. Director Kory M. Kight-Pagala did a wonderful job in leading this cast to make this story come to life.
The show was well crafted by playwright Paul Rudnick (who in spots reminds me of writing from the television hit Will & Grace). He touches on some deep issues such as religion and faith. The biggest thing I took away from the play was that everyone should discover their faith and what they believe for themselves….and with that said,…kudos to the cast and crew because truly….this is one of the most fabulous stories ever told!
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Stranger in a Strange Land – Book List
Books that are insightful portrayals of cultures seen through the eyes of someone not from those cultures, or books that represent an interaction of contrasting cultures due to immigration, colonization, travel, and other experiences.
Compiled by Patti Digh, with input from members of the Intercultural Insights list serve and others…
"Small Island" by Andrea Levy. (set before and around 1948. It is written from different view points, Jamaican and British and is a very enjoyable and insightful read.)
”The Zulu and the Zeide,” a short story by Don Jacobson, from a collection of the same name published in 1959. (An amazing piece about a young man arriving in Johsannesburg from his village and becoming the servant of an elderly Lithuanian Jewish man in apartheid South Africa. Two strangers lost in the same strange land who can't even communicate with each other. Excellent and heartbreaking on many levels.
A Blessing On The Moon by Joseph Skibel
A Martyr’s Crossing by Amy Wilentz (American Jew marries an Israeli Jew and finds herself crossing the border between Israel and Palestine with a desperately ill son while her husband is in prison for political activity.)
A Street in Marrakech by Elizabeth Fernea (an anthropologist who lived in the Arabic quarters of Marrakech for a year. Wonderful insights into women in an Arabic country.
A Year in Provence, Toujours Provence and French Lessons – all by Peter Mayle
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou (About her pilgrimage to Ghana and her experience there as an African-American)
Peripheral Visions Learning Along the Way by Mary Catherine Bateson
The Best American Travel Writing edited by Pico Iyer
Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris by Sarah Turnbull (a light-hearted and insightful look at the experiences of an Australian reporter who goes to Paris to live with a
Frenchman she met on holiday.)
An American Brat by Bapsi Sidhwa. (An adolescent is sent from Pakistan to the US for an education & confronts US values, etc.)
Audrey Hepburn’s Neck by Alan Brown (unique perspective into modern Japan and its wartime past, also a shrewd study of cross-cultural obsessions, and of erotic, romantic and familial love.)
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott (published in 1880, imagines a two-dimensional world inhabited by sentient geometric shapes who think their planar world is all there is.)
Becoming American: Personal Essays By First Generation Immigrant Women by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
Blindness by Jose Saramago (A grim but incredible story about what happens when a man becomes blind and the blindness becomes contagious.... A different culture, living without sight -- but also fascinating in what people do when they fear they, too, may become blind).
Ciao Pratola, Hello America by Elsa S. Cavallaro (A family of Italians in the U.S.)
Cousins by Patricia Grace. (Three Maori women negotiating in different ways the modern world and their Maori heritage).
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb (European Woman in Japan)
Giphantie by de la Roche (1720)
Global Soul by Pico Iyer
I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson (Describes his return to the U.S. after 20 yrs in the U.K.)
American Chica by Marie Arana
True North by Jill Ker Conway (Includes her move from Australia to the US to study and then to Canada. She observes particularly gender and academic cultural differences.)
The Shadow of the Sun, by Ryszard Kapuscinski (Polish journalist who spent his career in Africa)
A Poet's Bazaar by Hans Christian Andersen (His travels in Turkey and up the Danube in 1840.)
Edge of Daylight by Eddie Askew. (His memoirs of years he (a Brit) spent with his family working with a leprosy mission in India.)
The Devil that Danced on the Water by Aminatta Forna. This book is many things: a daughter's search for the truth, a family's memoirs, a history of Sierra Leone, a political science lesson on Africa, a story.
Gulliver’s Travels by Dafoe
Heaven Lake by John Dalton (Young missionary in Taiwan and China)
House of Sand & Fog by Andre Dubus III (Each chapter told from culturally influenced perspectives on the same situation).
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahri (Indians living in the U.S.)
La Davina Comedia by Dante Alighieri
Land Below The Wind by Agnes Newton Keith
(The story of American born Agnes and her British, Parks Department husband. It covers the first years, pre-WW2, of their life in Sabah, Borneo - her two subsequent novels: 'Three Came Home' and 'Return of the White Man' are also wonderfully compelling).
Metropolis by Fritz Lang
Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen (Chinese in America)
Nein by Walter Jens
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Rhodesian girls caught between two cultures)
Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody, William Hoffer (An American woman marries an Islamic Iranian and her and her daughter fight to get out or Iran (illegally). Not uplifting—and could reinforce stereotypes about fundamental Islam so would use it carefully.)
Ourika by Claire de Duras (Set in France during the French Revoluation, published in 1923. Based on a true account of a Senegalese girl rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family.)
Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (Russian immigrant to the U.S.)
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (Southern Baptist missionary family in the Congo in 1959)
Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures by Kyoko Mori (Japanese woman in U.S. culture)
Postville by Stephen Bloom (a Kosher slaughterhouse run by ultra-religious Jews sets up shop in the middle of Iowa - true story
R.U.R. by Karel Capek (a play - introduced the word "robot" into English and looks to a future in which all workers are automatons. They revolt when they acquire souls (i.e., when they gain the ability to hate) and the resulting catastrophe make for a powerful and deeply moving theatrical experience.)
Second Class Citizen by Erica Bauermeister (An autobiographical novel, Second Class Citizen follows its main character, Adah, through her years in Nigeria and England.)
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan (Biographical story by a professor at Colby College about living life in a man's body, but feeling that s/he is really a woman inside - a different angle of immersion in another culture)
The Aleph by Jorge Borges
The Bend in the River by V S Naipaul (Indians in Africa)
The Chosen by Chaim Potok (Orthodox Jews living in the U.S., where their religious ways clash with the ways of other American Jewish communities, e.g. the Reform and Conservative Jews).
The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul (a journey across cultural borders, a journey from one of the more marginal outposts of a former empire to the once-imperial center)
The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It by Mark Twain. Also by Mark Twain: "Tom Sawyer Abroad: By Huck Finn", "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur)", "A Tramp Abroad", and “Following the Equator”
The Inscrutable Americans by Anurag Mathur (Indian student in the U.S.)
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel (thought provoking prose on a different cross cultural experience that can occur in our own minds)
The Names by Don De Lillo (The book that seemed to me the most realistically intercultural – at least with regard to US expatriates. Also a curiously rambling mystery in a mystery and, as the title indicates, a reflection on language, languages and identity. None of this is too explicit but it’s all there. The novel also contains a nice and suitably ambiguous mix of business and politics. Places concerned: Greece, Israel and India.)
The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer (White African woman/Black African man. She picks him up and their worlds collide…)
The Stranger by Alfred Schutz
Time Machine by Jules Verne
Typical American by Gish Jen (Chinese in America)
Utopia by Sir Thomas More
A list of 80 books that portray cultures in fiction from Marcella Simon
(www.peraltaassociates.com/resources)
African American/ Caribbean American
1. Terry Mc Millan, Mama
2. Marita Golden, A Long Distance Life
3. Nathan McCall, Makes Me Wanna Holler (memoirs)
4. Gloria Naylor, Mama Day
5. Breena Clarke, River Cross My Heart (family in DC)
6. Bebe Moore Campbell, Brothers and Sisters (interracial relationships)
7. Toni Cade Bambara, These Bones Are Not My Child (Atlanta child murders)
8. Eric Jerome Dickey, Milk in My Coffee (interracial romance)
9. Nelson George, Urban Romance (Buppies in NYC)
10. Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy (West Indian immigrant to US)
Latino-American
11. .Sandra Cisneros, House on Mango Street
12. Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban (Cubans in NY, Miami)
13. Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Dominicans in US)
14. Ana Castillo, So Far From God
15. Daniel Revelez, Salsa and Chips
16. Francisco Jimenez, The Circuit: Stories of a Migrant Child
17. Marcos McPeck Villatoro, The Holy Spirit of My Uncle’s Cojones
18. John Nichols, The Milagro Beanfield War (SW US)
19. Gus Lee, China Boy
20. Gish Jen, Mona in the Promised Land
21. Maxine Hong Kingston, Warrior Woman
22. Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
23. John Okada, No-No Boy (Japanese WWII era)
24. Cynthia Kadohata, The Floating World (Japanese)
25. Chang Rae Lee, Native Speaker
26. Emily Benedek, Beyond the 4 Corners of the World (Navajo)
27. Michael Dorris, Yellow Raft on Blue Water
28. Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
29. Frank Waters, The Man Who Shot The Deer
30. Susan Power, The Grass Dancer
European American
31. Catherine Temma Davidson, The Priest Fainted (Greek-American goes to Greece)
32. Frank McCourt, ‘Tis (Irish immigrant in US)
33. Ursula Hegi, The Vision of Emma Blau (German immigrants in US)
34. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (Nigerian classic)
35. Buchi Emecheta, The Moonlight Bride
36. Ben Okri, The Famished Road (Nigeria)
37. Mark Mathabane, Kaffir Boy or Kaffir Boy in America (S. African student in US)
38. Maryse Conde, Segu (historical drama, pan-Africa)
39. Nazipo Maraire, Zenzele: A Letter for my Daughter (Zimbabwean student in UK)
40. Naguib Mafouz, Midaq Alley (Egypt)
41. Ahdaf Soueif, In the Eye of the Sun (Egyptian student in UK)
42. Yashar Kemal, Memed, My Hawk (Turkey)
43. Gina Barkhordar Nahai, Cry of the Peacock (Jews in Iran)
44. Hilary Mantel, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (Saudi Arabia)
45. Abdelrahman Munif, Cities of Salt (Saudi Arabia)
46. Amos Oz, Don’t Call It Night (Israel)
47. Batya Goor, Murder on a Kibbutz (Israel)
48. Miyuke Miyabe, All She Was Worth (Japanese detective novel)
49. Haruki Murakami, The Windup Bird Chronicle
50. Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen (younger generation in Japan)
51. Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills (Japanese in UK)
52. Jung Chang, Wild Swans (4 generations of Chinese women)
53. Timothy Mo, Sour Sweet (Chinese immigrants in UK)
54. Yang Gang, Daughter
55. Han Suyin, Till Morning Comes (US-China Romamce)
56. Anthony Burgess, The Long Day Wanes: Malayan Trilogy (last days of empire)
57. Pramoedya Ananta Toer, House of Glass (Indonesia under Dutch rule)
58. Jessica Hagedorn, Dogeaters (Philippines)
59. Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (Pakistani immigrants to UK)
60. Bapsi Sidwa, An American Brat (Pakistani student in US)
61. Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine (Indian immigrant to US)
62. Bharti Kirchner, Sharmila’s Book (Indian-American goes to India)
63. Bhargavi Mandava, Where the Oceans Meet
Australia/ New Zealand
64. Keri Hulme, The Bone People (Maoris in New Zealand)
65. Alan Duff, Once Were Warriors (Maoris in New Zealand)
66. Alice Nannup, When the Pelican Laughed (Australian natives)
67. Jill Ker Conway, The Road From Coorain (memoirs from the outback to the US)
68. Ariel Dorfman, Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey (memoirs of a playwright)
69. Harriet Doerr, Consider This Senora (US Americans in Mexico)
70. Tony Cohan, On Mexican Time (US Americans in Mexico)
71. Francisco Goldman, The Long Night of White Chickens
72. Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
73. Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
74. Isabel Allende, House of the Spirits (Chile)
75. Jorge Amado, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
76. Manlio Argueta, Little Red Riding Hood in the Red Light District
77. Roberto Quesada, The Big Banana
78. Andrea Levy, Never Far From Nowhere (West Indians in UK)
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Curt Warner
Curt Warner was a standout at Pineville High School in Pineville, West Virginia, graduating in a class of only 90 students. He would lead Penn State in rushing in 1980, 1981 (All-American), and 1982 (All-American), and help the Nittany Lions capture their first national championship in the 1983 Sugar Bowl. When his collegiate career was over, he owned 42 Penn State records (he left PSU as the #1 overall rusher with 3,398 career rushing yards, and a record setting eighteen (18) 100-yard rushing games.
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Blog | Sep 11, 2017 | David Wang, D-Lab UGC Fieldwork Grant Recipient
“The summer in Taiwan and Beijing flashed by, but what we accomplished seemed like it should’ve taken years: we established a Taiwan-based community workshop, built 20+ bamboo bicycles in Beijing, and taught 400+ students how to assemble their own bikes!”
“Guess what is the primary use of industrial bamboo in Taiwan?” Teacher Chen asked. As one of the leading experts of bamboo in Taiwan, Teacher Chen had initially earned his renown as an artist carving beautiful designs into the sides of bamboo crafts. Over the past 20 years, he established and developed The Bamboo Culture Park in Zhushan Village (literally meaning “bamboo mountain village”). His bamboo center hosts hundreds of species of bamboo, several bamboo buildings (designed and made locally), and every bamboo product you can imagine. From architecture to light fixtures to beds to sheets to shampoo to ice cream to back scratchers – if you could imagine it, Teacher Chen probably has it at his Bamboo Culture Park. However, today we had left his bamboo compound to explore the neighboring bamboo companies, and looking around the bamboo stockyard we were standing in, I had no idea which product was the primary product of Zhushan.
With the help of the MIT Undergraduate Fund and a D-Lab UGC Fieldwork Grant, our Bamboo Bicycles Beijing team had arrived in Taiwan to set up a bamboo bike workshop in this village and to learn more about bamboo crafts. Bamboo Bicycles Beijing has been a project client for students in two MIT classes, D-Lab: Design and D-Lab: Mobility, and we were working on how to not only make better bicycles but also how to help set-up community bamboo bicycle workshops. David Wang (MIT 2018), Karen Lee (Stanford 2017), Andrea Zhu (Brown 2017), and Marshall Cao (Hampshire College 2019), had spent a time researching how to set up bamboo bike workshops so that it would help feed back into the community. This was our chance to give it a shot in Zhushan, Taiwan before we headed to the Beijing workshop.
For this to be the primary market for Taiwan’s bamboo seems quite incongruous with its past. Taiwan has a vast tradition of bamboo industry which has included all kinds of crafts, architecture, and foods. Yet, in recent decades, both the market and national policies have pushed the material to the fringe of the economy. Zhushan Village has suffered as its craftspeople struggle to keep up with an increasingly online marketplace, production of metals and plastics offers easier standardization for mass production, and the cultural aesthetic has moved away from this fast-growing grass. While recently bamboo has been heralded as a highly-renewable, carbon-negative material, Mr. Chen and his organization face a considerable challenge to upgrade their “bamboo mountain village” into a production and cultural center that is immediately relevant to today’s consumers and manufacturers. With 20 years of dedication to bringing bamboo back to the forefront, Teacher Chen has not yet overcome this challenge.
We hoped that we could use the summer working with The Bamboo Culture Park working to develop a new strategy for the village that would begin to resonate with the younger generation of both consumers, designers, and employees. After taking stock of the immense intellectual assets in Zhushan, it became clear the challenge was to change the paradigm by which these assets create value for the community. Whereas previously local craftspeople closely guarded their fabrication techniques, today’s economy requires openness and agile communication. Rather than having closed workshops that discourage people to visit and follow Zhushan, we developed a strategy that would make this bamboo mecca more visible and open to the rest of the country.
We developed a social media strategy that catered to a younger generation that is interested in “DIY” and experiential consumption by teaching bamboo bicycle making. With their decades of bamboo craftsmanship, they learned to make a bamboo bicycle extremely fast. With their expertise, we began setting up an open DIY bamboo bike workshop at the Bamboo Culture Park. Mr. Liu would be responsible for teaching people to make bamboo bicycles. The team planned to build 30 bamboo bikes and begin involving local materials, craftspeople, and tools to see if this could turn into a community spark that would spur more opening up about the village’s abundant resource and depth knowledge. We left Taiwan feeling optimistic that bamboo will be used for more than banana tree poles as the community begins opening up to a new kind of market.
After establishing the workshop in Zhushan, the team traveled to the client’s base workshop in Beijing where everyone made their own bamboo bicycle and participated in leading bike mechanic workshops for youth in the countryside outside Beijing. In addition, we held regular bamboo bicycle community events in which we helped to share how bamboo bikes are made by individuals using a local material, not by factories using carbon-intense materials from far away. Andrea spent a great deal of time interviewing Beijing’s diverse bamboo bicycle community makers and published an anthology through BBB. Karen spent time developing a “How to Pack You Bike” guidebook for the many bamboo bike makers in Beijing who want to take their bikes on planes. And, David and Marshall spent most of their time helping school children learn to assemble their own bikes. The summer in Taiwan and Beijing flashed by, but what we accomplished seemed like it should’ve taken years: we established a Taiwan-based community workshop, built 20+ bamboo bicycles in Beijing, and taught 400+ students how to assemble their own bikes!
We’re very appreciative to MIT UGC and MIT D-Lab for allowing the whole team to have these adventures, and we look forward to returning as soon as possible!
The core team at Bamboo Culture Park Summer 2017.
Learning about the bamboo curing process to remove sugars and pests from the culms.
Teaching bike mechanics to middle school students in the countryside outside of Beijing.
Teaching Teacher Liu to make his own bamboo bicycle. The Bamboo Culture Park plans to make 30 bamboo bikes for visitors to bike around the village and surrounding area.
Karen with her flashy bamboo bike she made for herself in Beijing. Karen will continue onto Japan where she will teach English and possibly run a bamboo bike workshop on Awaji Island.
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Hadith Recital | Sahih Muslim – Damascus 2007
Recital of Sahih Muslim by Sheikh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi in Damascus, Rajab 1428 (July 2007) ختكت بحمد الله جامع مسلم *** بجوف دمشق الشام جوف الإسلام The book of Muslim has been completed, praise be to Allah * in the heart of Damascus of Sham, the heart of Islam. Those who regularly attend the classes of al-Sayyid al-Sharif Sheikh Abul Huda Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Yaqoubi in the Mosque of Sheikh Muhuy al-Din Ibn al-Arabi in Damascus, will have heard him mentioning time upon time: “The recital of the books of Hadith is a tradtion ...
4 Pages from Salihiyyah
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Damascus, July 2005 – At the foot of the Qasioun mountain, north of the ancient nucleus of Damascus, lies the green dome covering the grave of Muhyi al-Din ibn al `Arabi. Next to it is a mosque, surrounded by pulsating market streets. To the East is the historical Hanabila-mosque, built by those who were driven ...
Ramadan in Sham 1427
Damascus 2006. Praise be to the One who guides us to His Way, and salutations on His Messenger, the Noble Family and Tribe, and those who follow their paths. – Thanks to whom thanks are due first and foremost, our host, the erudite scholar and exemplary guide, the lighthouse of Damascus and the whole world, our revered teacher and beloved sheikh al-Sayyid Muhammad Abul Huda Al-Yaqoubi and his family. May Allah Most High protect them, as they opened for us the doors of their home during the blessed month in which Allah opens the doors of Paradise. Those ...
Studying in Damascus
Damascus 2003. – “Damascus is commonly acknowledged by the local and foreign inhabitants as a very safe place to live. Crime is minimal, and rarely exceeds petty theft. Rape, murder, grand theft, are all virtually unheard of. It might be difficult to believe, and it was for me too when I first arrived, but after nearly five years of living there, I have to admit that Damascus is one of the safest places Ive even been to.”
Book | Yaqoubi: In the Shade of the Levant – في ظلال الشام للشيخ محمد اليعقوبي
“In the Shade of the Levant” is a collection of thirty-one poems on Syria and the Syrian people; they were written over the span of thirty-five years between 1980-2015. As a Syrian living in Syria and then having to leave Syria, Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi describes his country, how it was and how it is, making his words a vessel not only to his own feelings, but to the feelings of the Syrian people and their on-going suffering under the Assad regime for forty years. The poems of “In the Shade of the Levant” present a series of unique and original ...
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Bio: `Abd al-Malik b. Marwan `Abd al-Malik b. Marwan b. 25 H. in Madinah – d. 86/7 H. in Damascus أبو الوليد عبد الملك بن مروان radiya Allah anhu Tab links: English | عربي | Burial Place | Refs Umawi ruler, faqih with wide knowledge and great piety. Abul Walid `Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (the caliph) ibn Al-Hakam (the Sahabi) ibn Abil`As ibn Umayya al-Quraishi. The one of the seven fuqaha of Madina, and the fifth Umawi caliph. Ibn Khaldun stated that “`Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan is one of the greatest Arab ...
Bio: `Abd al-Rahman al-`Ayni `Abd al-Rahman al-`Ayni d. 893 in Damascus, Salihiyya radiya Allah anhu Buried in MîTûr Jami`al-Jadid in Salihiyyah Damas Cultural Society © 2007
Bio: `Abd Allah b. Ja`far al-Sadiq `Abd Allah b. Ja`far al-Sadiq (“al-Aftah”) d. 149 H. in Damascus radiya Allah anhu Tab links: English | عربي | Burial Place | Refs From onemilegrads.blogspot.se Abdullah al-Aftah ibn Ja’far al-Sadiq was the eldest surviving son of Ja’far al-Sadiq, and the full-brother of Isma’il ibn Jafar. Abdullah’s title “al-Aftah” derives from the Arabic words “aftah al-ra’s” (broad-headed) or “aftah al-rijlayn” (broad-footed) used to describe his appearance. During the lifetime of his father, Abdullah al-Aftah had supported the revolt of his relative Muhammad ibn Abdallah An-Nafs ...
Bio: `Abd Allah b. Ja`far b. Abi Talib `Abd Allah b. Ja`far b. Abi Talib “al-Tayyar” “عبد الله بن جعفر بن أبي طالب “الطيار d. ~100 H. in Damascus radiya Allah anhu Tab links: English | عربي | Refs He is the son of Sayyiduna Ja`far b. Abi Talib, and the newphew of Sayyiduna `Ali ibn Abi Talib, as well as his son-in-law: he married Sayyida Zainab bint Ali b. Abi Talib. When sayyiduna`Ali established his caliphate in Kufa, he and his family went to join him there. Sayyida Zainab bore him four ...
Bio: Abu Darda Abu Darda أبو الدرداء الأنصاري الخزرجي d. 32 H. (653 CE) in Damascus (sahabi) radiya Allah anhu Tab links: English | عربي | Hadith | Burial Place | Refs `Uwaymar (or `Amir) ibn Zayd, known by his kunya Abu Al-Darda’, a companion of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) from the ansar. A great scholar, imam, ascetic and hadith narrator. He was originally trader in Madinah who converted from Judaism to Islam after hearing the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (s). He became a great scholar and hadith narrator, known ...
Bio: Abu Dharr al-Ghafari Abu Dharr al Ghafari أبو ذر الغفاري d. 32 H. in Rabdha, near Madina radiya Allah anhu Tab links: English | Türkçe | عربي | Maqams | Refs He lived in Damascus during the caliphate of Sayyiduna ‘Uthman. He has a maqam in al-Shaghur Abu Dharr al-Ghafari Scanned from “Companions of The Prophet”, Vol. 1, By: Abdul Wahid Hamid. View on sunnah.org | damas Jundub ibn Junadah, nicknamed Abu Dharr, was a member of the Ghifari tribe that lived in the Waddan valley outside Makka. He was known ...
Bio: Abu Muslim al-Khawlani Abu Muslim al-Khawlani “the inburnable” الإمام أبو مسلم الخولاني radiya Allah anhu Tab links: English | عربي | Burial Place | Refs Prominent religious figure in Damascus, Syria. He was one of the ‘Eight Ascetics,’ who included Amir ibn Abd al-Qays, Abu Muslim al-Khawlani, Uways al-Qarani, Al-Rabi ibn Khuthaym, al-Aswad ibn Yazid, Masruq ibn al-Ajda’, Sufyan al-Thawrt ibn Said and Hasan al-Basri. It is recorded by Sheikh ‘Aa’id Abdullah al-Qarni that Al Aswad al `Ansi, a man in Yemen who claimed prophethood, asked Abu Muslim ...
Bio: Abu Shamah al-Maqdisi Abu Shamah Shihab al-Din al-Maqdisi b. 599 – d. 665 in Damascus (1202-1267 CE) الإمام عبد الرحمان بن إسماعيل بن إبراهيم عثمان المقدسي ثم الدمشقي، المعروف بأبي شامة radiya Allah anhu Tab links: Brill entry | عربي | Burial Place ﷽ Grammarian and muhaddith He was the third head of Damascus Dar al-hadith after Imam al-Nawawi Abū Shāma Shihāb al-Dīn al-Maqdisī Abū Shāma Shihāb al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿUthmān b. Abī Bakr b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Maqdisī (599–665/1203–68) was a scholar of seventh/thirteenth-century ...
Bio: Abu Sulayman al-Darani Abu Sulayman al-Darani أبو سليمان عبد الرحمن بن عطية الداراني (d. 215 H. in Dara near Damascus) radiya Allah anhu Tab links: Bio in English | عربي | Svenska | Burial Place | Refs Biography in Al-Risala al-Qushayriyya – t.b.d. Biografi Abu Sulayman al-Darani ur al-Qusayri’s Risala, övers. Göran Ogén t.b.d. t.b.d. Biografi ur al-Qusayri’s Risala Biografi Abu Sulayman al-Darani ur Al-Risala al-Qushayriyya Övers. Göran Ogén 12. Abū Sulaymān cAbd al-Rahmān bin cAtīya al-Dārānī(1) 1. kom från Dārān(2), en av byarna kring Damaskus, och dog år ...
Bio: Sh. Ahmad b. Badr al-Din al-Hanafi Shaykh Ahmad b. Badr al-Din al-Hanafi d. 934 أحمد بن بدر الدين الحنفي radiya Allah anhu Buried in the Hamriyyah graveyard – بمحلة الشويكة – Reference: Damas Cultural Society © 2007
Bio: ‘Amr ibn al-‘As ‘Amr ibn al-‘As عمرو بن العاص d. ? H. in Egypt radiya Allah anhu Tab links: English | Türkçe | عربي | Maqams | Refs A sahaba … Abu Dharr al-Ghafari Scanned from “Companions of The Prophet”, Vol. 1, By: Abdul Wahid Hamid. View on sunnah.org | damas Jundub ibn Junadah, nicknamed Abu Dharr, was a member of the Ghifari tribe that lived in the Waddan valley outside Makka. He was known for his courage, his calmness and his far-sightedness … … During the caliphate of Uthman, he ...
Bio: `Awf ibn Malik al-Ashja´i Sayyiduna `Awf ibn Malik al-Ashjari عوف بن مالك بن أبي عوف الأشجعي d. 73 H. in Damascus radiya Allah anhu Tab links: English | عربي | Burial Place | Ref’s Sahabi, witnessed the opening of Makka, settled in Sham and was buried in Damascus. He narrated hadith. t.b.d. From al-eman.com عوف بن مالك الأشجعي عوف بن مالك بن أبي عوف الأشجعي، يكنى أبا عبد الرحمن، ويقال: أبو حماد، وقيل: أبو عمرو. وأول مشاهده خيبر، وكانت معه راية أشجع يوم الفتح، وسكن الشام. روى عنه من الصحابة: أبو أيوب الأنصاري، وأبو ...
Bio: Bilal ibn Ribâh al-Habashî Bilal ibn Ribâh al-Habashî al-Qurashî al-Taymî بلال بن رباح الحبشي القرشي التيمي d. 20 or 18 or 19 H. in Damascus radiya Allah anhu Tab links: English | عربي | Burial Place | Location | Refs Sahabi, buried in Maqbara Bab Saghir in Damascus Freed slave of sayyiduna Abu Bakr, mu’adhdhin of the Prophet (s). He came to Sham as a mujahid during the caliphate of Sayyidina `Umar and stayed there until he died. After the passing of the Prophet (s), he never gave the ...
Bio: Ibn `Asakir al-Dimashqi al-Shafi`i al-Ash`ari Ibn `Asakir al-Dimashqi al-Shafi`i al-Ash`ari b. 499 – d. 571 in Damascus radiya Allah anhu Tab links: English | عربي | Burial Place | Refs The famous historian and greatest hadith scholar of his time. He travelled and heard hadith from over 1000 narrators. Authored several encyclopedic works, among them Tarikh Dimashq. By Dr. G.F. Haddad `Ali ibn al-Hasan ibn Hibat Allah ibn `Abd Allah, Thiqat al-Din, Abu al-Qasim, known as Ibn `Asakir al-Dimashqi al-Shafi`i al-Ash`ari (499-571), the imam of hadith masters in his time and ...
Bio: Nur al-Din b. Zanki Nur al-Din b. Zanki b. 511 – d. 579 in Daamascus radiya Allah anhu – السلطان أبو القاسم نور الدين محمود ين أبي سعيد(أبو سعد) زنكي بن سيف الدين – Just ruler of Damscus, first in history ot build a Dar al-hadith, gave many books as waqf, built schools and mosques and institueted many awqaf, loved and honored the pple of din; strong in warfare, a good archer, he would only consume out of wealth he gained by buisineness or spoils of ...
Bio: Sh. `Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza’iri Al-Amir Sheikh `Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza’iri al-Hasani al-Idrisi b. 1222 H. in Algeria – d. 1300 H. in Damascus radiya Allah anhu Tab links: English | Poetry | عربي | Photos | Burial Place | Refs ﷽ He was `abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din ibn al-Mustafa ibn Muhammad, from a family of nobles, originally from al-Maghrib al-Aqsa (Marokko), then they migrated to Algeria. He was born on Friday the 23rd of Rajab year 122 H. in the village of al-Qaytana (القيهطنجة) in the region near Ma`askar (معسمكر) ...
Bio: Sh. Muhammad Abul Yusr `Abidin al-Husayni Al-Sayyid al-Sheikh Muhammad Abul Yusr `Abidin al-Husayni الشريف الشيخ محمد أبو اليسر بن محمد عابدين الحسيني b. 1307 – d. 1401 H. in Damascus (1889–1981 CE) radiya Allah anhu Tab links: Bio English | Lineage | Relation to Yaqubi family | From Imgrum | عربي ﷽ Mufti of Syria, and one was one of the greatest scholars of the 14th century H. He combined mundane and sublime knowlege, practicing the profession of medicine while teaching Islamic sciences in his home, in mosques, and in ...
Bio: Sh. Ahmad al-Tabrizi al-Hanafi Ahmad al-Tabrizi al-Hanafi d. 735 in Damascus, Kafar Susa أحمد بن عبد الكريم بن عبد الصمد التبريزي الحنفي radiya Allah anhu Great Hanafi scholar, who used to witness (i.e. veryfy legal writings) in front of al-Madrasa al-Masmariyya in Qaymariya. Died in Kafar Susa and was buried there. Damas Cultural Society © 2007
Bio: Sh. Ahmad Habbal Shaykh Ahmad al-Rifa´i al-Habbal al-Dimashqi الشيخ أحمد الرفاعي الحبال d. 1430 H. (2009 CE) in Damascus Tab links: English | عربي | Relation to Yaqoubi Family | Photos Sayyid Shaykh Ahmad al-Habbal al-Rifai was one of the Abdal and a protector Saint of Damascus. He was a student of Shaykh Badr al-Din al-Hasani, and a servant and companion of Shaykh Sharif al-Yaqoubi. – He was a businessman, he made and sold Ropes. A few days before he passed away he donated half a Million ...
Bio: Sh. `Ala al-Din bin Muhammad`Abidin Sheikh `Ala al-Din bin Muhammad `Abidin al-Hanafi al-Husayni الشيخ علاء الدين بن محمد بن عابدين الحنفي الحسيني الدمشقي b. 1244 – d. 1306 H. in Damascus radiya Allah anhu Tab links: Abidin family tree and lineage | English | عربي | Burial Place | Refs ﷽ `Umar (d. 1237) | | Muhammad Amin (d. 1252 H.) sahib al-Hashia | `Ala al-Din (d. 1306 H.) | `Abd al-Ghani | Ahmad (d. 1307 H.) | Muhammad Abu Khayr (d. 1345 H.) | Muhammad Abul Yusr (d. 1401 H.) Lineage of `Umar ‘Abidin: He was `Umar b. `Abd al-`Aziz b. Ahmad b. `Abd al-Rahim b. Muhammad Salih al-Din (known as Ibn `Abidin because of his rightousness) b. Najm ...
Bio: Sh. Badr al-Din al-Hasani Shaykh Badr al-Din al-Hasani محدث الشام الأكبرالشيخ محمد بدر الدين بن يوسف الحسني المغربي الاصل الدمشقي b. 1267 – d. 1354 H in Damascus (1850-1935 CE) qaddasa Allah sirrahu Tab links: Bio English | عربي |
Bio: Sh. Ibrahim al-Yaqoubi Sayyidi Shaykh Ibrahim al-Yaqoubi al-Hasani al-Idrisi الشيخ السيد إبراهيم اليعقوبي الحسني d. 1406 H. / 1985 CE in Damascus qaddasa Allah sirrahu Tab links: Bio | What Ulama said about him | Works | Miracles | عربي | Photos | Burial Place | Ref’s Shaykh Ibrahim al-Ya’qoubi was one of the greatest scholars Syria saw in the past 50 years. He succeded Sheikh Muhammad al-Makki al-Kettani as the Maliki Mufti of Syria. He was also the Imam and teacher of the Omayyad Mosque. He ...
Bio: Sh. Ismail al-Yaqoubi Sayyidi Shaykh Ismail al-Yaqoubi al-Hasani al-Idrisi الشيخ السيد إسماعيل اليعقوبي الحسني d. 1380 H. / 1960 CE in Damascus qaddasa Allah sirrahu Tab links: Burial Place | Love’s Pilgrim (Qasida) He was the grandfather of Sheikh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi, a great Wali known for his miracles. His khalwa was under in the Sinaniyya mosque in Damascus. He is buried in the cemetery of Bab Saghir in Damascs, near the tomb of Sayyiduna Shaykh Ibrahim al-Yaqoubi – may Allah be pleased with them both. Sayyiduna Shaykh Muhammad ...
Bio: Sh Muhammad al-Hashimi Shaykh Muhammad al-Hashimi al Hasani al-Shadhili b. 1298 – d. 1381 H. (1880–1961 CE) in Damascus (CE) Tab links: Bio in English | عربي | Photos | Burial Place Sh. Muhammad al-Hashimi View article on Damas Cultural Society © 2007 | View article on damas View article from shazli.com From albwhsn.net ترجمة سيدي الشيخ محمد الهاشمي التلمساني رحمه الله تعالى ولادته رحمه الله تعالى: ولد سماحة الأستاذ المرشد الكبير سيدي محمد بن الهاشمي قدس الله روحه من أبوين صالحين، كلاهما من آل بيت النبوة، يرجع نسبهما إِلى الحسن بن ...
Bio: Sh. Muhammad al-Mubarak al-Hasani Sayyidi Shaykh Muhammad al-Mubarak al-Hasani al-Idrisi الشيخ السيد محمد المبارك الحسني d. 1330 H. in Damascus qaddasa Allah sirrahu Tab links: Biography | Burial Place | References He was Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Mubarak ibn Muhammad al-Dillisi al-Qayrawani, whose lineage goes back to Mawlana Idris (radia Allah-u `anhu). He took the Shadhili tariqa from his brother, Shaykh Muhammad al-Tayyib, and was his khalifa He was born in 1263 H. in Beirut, during his family’s migration from Algeria to Sham – this was the first migration, ...
Bio: Sh. Muhammad al-Tayyib al-Hasani Sayyidi Shaykh Muhammad al-Tayyib al-Hasani al-Idrisi الشيخ السيد محمد الطيب الحسني b. 1255 H. in Algeria – d. 1313 H. in Damascus qaddasa Allah sirrahu Tab links: Biography | Burial Place | References He was Muhammad al-Tayyib al-Dillisi al-Maliki ibn Muhammad al-Mubarak ibn Muhammad al-Dillisi al-Qayrawani, whose lineage goes back to Mawlana Idris, the founder of the city of Fas and great grandson of sayyiduna al-Hasan Sibt Rasul Allah (sall Allah-u `aleyhi wa sallam). He took the Shahdili Tariqa from Sayyidi Shaykh Muhammad ibn ...
Bio: Sh. Muhammad Amin `Abidin (Ibn `Abidin) Al-Sayyid al-Sheikh Muhammad Amin`Abidin al-Hanafi al-Husayni سيدي الشيخ محمد أمين بن عمر بن عبد العزيز عابدين الحنفي الحسيني الدمشقي b. – d. 1252 H. in Damascus radiya Allah anhu Tab links: Abidin family tree and lineage | Burial Place | Refs ﷽ Author the Hashya, known as Ibn ´Abidin `Umar (d. 1237) | | Muhammad Amin (d. 1252 H.) sahib al-Hashia | `Ala al-Din (d. 1306 H.) | `Abd al-Ghani | Ahmad (d. 1307 H.) | Muhammad Abu Khayr (d. 1345 H.) | Muhammad Abul Yusr (d. 1401 H.) Lineage of `Umar ‘Abidin: He was `Umar b. `Abd al-`Aziz b. Ahmad b. `Abd al-Rahim b. Muhammad Salih al-Din (known as Ibn `Abidin because ...
Bio: Sh. Muhammad ibn Yallis Shaykh Muhammad ibn Yallis al-Tlimsani al-Shadhili b. 1264 – d. 1346/7 H. in Damascus (1847–1927) Tab links: English | عربي | Photos | Burial Place | Diwan Sh. Muhammad Ibn Yallis b. Shawish al-Tlimsani al-Maliki al-Shadhili. He was the Khalifa of Sh. Ahmad al-´Alawi. He appointed as his khalifa his brother Sheikh Ahmad, and after him his student Sheikh Muhammad al-Hashimi. They migrated to Damascus in 1329 H. Shaykh Muhammad ibn Yallis al-Tlimsani by bmk – from Damas Cultural Society © 2007 He is Muhammad Ibn Yallis ...
Bio: Sh. Rislan al-Dimashqi Sayyidi Sheikh Rislan al-Dimashqi d. ~540 H. in Damascus radiya Allah anhu Tab links: English | Español | عربي | Burial Place | More ﷽ One ohe greatest walis of Damascus. His chain goes back to al-Sari al-Saqati. View original article on damas-original.nur.nu Excerpt from Risalat f’it Tawhid Concerning the Affirmation of Divine Oneness by Shaykh Wali Raslan ad-Dimashqi translation by Muhtar Holland © Baz Publications View | Download Excerpto de Risala fi’t-Tawhid de Sheikh Rislan al-Dimashqi: View | Download Article in At-Tabaqat al-Kubra of Imam al-Sha’rani (PDF) – View ...
Bio: Sh. Sharif al-Yaqoubi Sayyid Shaykh Sharif al-Yaqoubi al-Hasani al-Idrisi الشيخ السيد شريف اليعقوبي الحسني b. 1282 – d. 1362 H. (1865–1943 CE) in Damascus qaddasa Allah sirrahu Tab links: Biography | عربي | Photos | Burial Place | Ref’s Sayyid Muhammad al-Sharif b. Muhammad as-Siddiq al-Yaqoubi, brother of Sh. Ismail al-Yaqoubi and granduncle of Sh. Muhammad Abul Huda al-Yaqoubi, was a great scholar, wali and leader of Sham in the 14th CH. He was appointed by Shaykh Muhammad al-Mubarak to take his place in the Shadhili Zawiya ...
Bio: Sh. Shukri al-Luhafi Shaykh Shukri Luhafi al-Shadhili b. 1338 – d. H. (2015 CE) in Damascus Tab links: English | عربي | Relation to Yaqoubi Family | Photos His Shaykh in the Shadhili tariqa was Shaykh Muhammad al-Hashimi He used to say: “Shaykh Abul Huda (al-Yaqoubi) must be the leader of us all.” – may Allah be pleased with them all. The erudite scholar, the Gnostic and Zāhid the noble Shaykh Shukri Luhafī al-Hanafī ash-Shadhili from Damascus. t.b.d. From ulamaofdamascus.wordpress.com الشيخ شكري بن أحمد اللحفي هو شكري بن أحمد لحفي: فقيه، ...
Bio: The Yaqoubi Masters The Yaqoubi Masters Tab links: English | عربي | Ocean of Awlia | Pictures | Family tree | Lineage | Ref’s Sheikh Sharif Al-Yaqoubi d. 1362 H./1943 CE Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Yaqoubi d.1406 H./1985 CE Sheikh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi b.1382 H./1961 CE Sheikh Isma`il Al-Yaqoubi d.1380 H./1960 CE Sheikh Muhammad al-´Arabi Al-Yaqoubi d. H. / 1965 CE Click on photo to go the article | Yaqoubi family diagram | Burial places in Damascus An Ocean of Awlia The Legacy of the Al-Yaqoubi Family in Damascus By His Eminence Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi View PDF | Download Yaqoubi Awlia From cb.rayaheen.net بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام ...
Damascus History History of Damascus and its Scholars
Damascus: Dar al-Hadith Tab links: English | Photos | Location ﷽ Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyyah And in Dar al-Hadith there is a subtle meaning On carpets where I incline and take refuge: Perhaps I might touch with my very face A spot touched by al-Nawawi’s foot.” Quoted by Taqi al-din al-Subki in Tabaqat al-Shafi`iyyah al-Kubra, see The first Dar al-Hadith was founded in Damascus by the Zengid ruler Nur al-Din (al-Malik al-`Adil Nur al-Din Mahmud ibn Zanki (r. 662-671 H). The Dar al-Sunna school (subsequenty renamed Dar al-Hadith) was built with ...
Education in the Era of Imam al-Nawawi THE STATE OF EDUCATION IN DAMASCUS DURING THE ERA OF AL-NAWAWi’S From a PdD thesis by Abdoullah al-Zouebi (Glasgow Univ. 1999) The Educational field enjoyed revival and progress during the lifetime of al-Nawawi, despite the political changes and the major events in the region. Tth/ 13th Century, in which al-Nawawi lived was an era that witnessed an Increase in the number of scholars and publications in the various fields of knowledge. Damascus had a multitude of various schools and the four schools ...
Hadith about Sham | أحاديث حول الشام Hadith about Sham | أحاديث حول الشام Tab links: English | عربي أحاديث حول الشام Hadith about the merits of Sham From ulamaofdamascus.wordpress.com بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم أحاديث حول الشام ____________________________________ عن زيد بن ثابت الأنصاري رضي الله عنه قال: سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول: يا طوبى للشام! يا طوبى للشام ! يا طوبى للشام!قالوا: يا رسول الله وبم ذلك ؟ قال: ( تلك ملائكة الله باسطوا أجنحتها على الشام ) صحيح / فضائل الشام ودمشق ____________________________________ عن عبد الله بن حوالة: قال رسول الله صلى ...
Damascus, Salihiyya: Sh. Muhyiddin Ibn al-´Arabi Tab links: Englsih | Photos ﷽ Maqam of Al-Sheikh al-Akbar Muhyiddin Ibn al-`Arabi Al-Sheikh al-Akbar Muhyiddin Ibn al-`Arabi lived the last years of his life in Damascus and passed away there in 638 H. / 1240 CE. He is buried at the foot of the Qasioun mountain overshadowing Damascus from the north-west. In his honor, the Ottoman sultan Selim II built a Mosque by the side of his tomb in 1516 CE. By his side are buried: two of his sons, and his ...
Bio: Sh. Muhammad al-Yaqoubi His Eminence Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi al-Hasani al-Idrisi العلامة الشيخ السيد محمد أبو الهدى اليعقوبي الحسني الإدريسي Hafizhahu Allah – May Allah preserve him Tab links: Bio in English | عربي | Svenska | Français | Pictures | References | Poems | Books ﷽ Biographies in English One of The Wolrd’s Most Influencial Muslims Sacred Knowledge 2012-2015 2004 Shorter More Bio’s: remembrancepublications.co.uk Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi – one of he wolrd’s most influencial Muslims From Sacred Knowledge Al-Allamah Shaykh as-Sayyid Muhammad al-Yaqoubi is one of the greatest scholars in the world today. ...
The `Abidin Family The `Abidin Family Tab links: English | Lineage | Relation to Yaqubi family | عربي | Burial Places The ´Abidin family is a family of scholars and nobles, whose lineage goes back to Sayyiduna al-Husayn, the grandson of the Prophet ﷺ. They came to settle in Damascus in the 4th century H. The most famous member of the family is probably Sheikh Muhammad Amin b. Umar `Abidin (d. 1252 H.), the author of the famous Hashia. Family tree View `Umar (d. 1237) | | Muhammad Amin (d. 1252 H.) sahib al-Hashia | `Ala al-Din (d. ...
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[Manuscript copy of letter from Thornton & Yates to Messrs. Samuel & William Vernon]
Manuscript copy of letter dated October 5, 1774, from Thornton & Yates of Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Samuel and William Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island. Followed by letter dated October 9.
[Unsigned letter to Messrs. Adams & Griffin]
Unsigned letter addressed to Adams & Griffin from Newport [Rhode Island, in William Vernon's hand].
State of 87 Slaves, Othello's Cargo John Duncan, Master
Account record for the sale of 87 slaves from the cargo of the Brig Othello sold in Richmond, Virginia, by Adams & Griffin [for Samuel and William Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island. Includes one notable sale that states, "1 boy sold himself."
Messrs. Saml. & Wm. Vernon in acct. with Adams & Griffin
Account record by Adams & Griffin [of Richmond, Virginia] for expenses related to the sale of 66 slaves aboard the Brig Othello on behalf of Samuel and William Vernon [of Newport, Rhode Island].
Messrs. Saml. & Wm. Vernon for their Brigg Othello's Disbursements & Cargo
Account record for disbursements of cargo from the Brig Othello in Richmond, Virginia, [by Adams & Griffin] including expenses for the care of slaves to be sold on behalf of Samuel and William Vernon [of Newport, Rhode Island]. Includes names of vendors from whom provisions were purchased.
[Letter from Adams & Griffin to Messrs. Saml. & Wm. Vernon]
Letter dated September 1, 1769, from Adams & Griffin of Richmond [Virginia] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island regarding the slow sale of slaves shipped on the Brig Othello, citing their poor condition. Followed by a letter signed by Adams & Griffin to that the remaining slaves had been sold. Includes list detailing the "state of the market."
Letter from Adams & Griffin of Richmond [Virginia] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island regarding shipments of corn and slaves on the Brig Othello, owned by the Vernons. Includes mention of the inferior quality of a recent slave shipment with "too great a proportion of children & the grown ones rather too old."
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CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT
Tuesday evening, officers from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department established a
traffic check point at the intersection of State and Gesco Streets. Several shootings and robberies
have taken place near this location in recent days. It is also a known corridor used by people
buying and selling drugs in near-by neighborhoods.
Eight Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officers were taking part in the traffic check point about 10
PM when a white Chevrolet Corsica approached. The driver, 55 year-old Robert G. Lundy, Sr.,
of West Columbia, South Carolina refused to obey officers' instructions to stop and continued
through the check point. Officers Donn Belz and Shannon Jordan were a short distance from the
check point with another motorist when they were radioed to stop the car. QfficerJordan stepped
intojhe street to attempt to stop the car. Thecar accelerated and swery-ed-towards Officer Jordan
who told investigators he feared the car^was about to run over him. Both officers drew their
weapons and fir^l a combined 22^bots as the car sped toward them and attemptejilaflce-
Officers pursued Lundy to DrunTXvenue where he ran from the car. It has since been learned
the car was stolen from the Raleigh area. Inside the vehicle was an unidentified black female
who had been shot once in the back of her neck. She died about 3:30 AM at Carolinas Medical
Center. Identification of this woman is pending. Officers, with the aid of a tracking dog, found
Lundy a short distance from where he stopped his car. He has since been hospitalized from an
apparent drug overdose. Cocaine was found in Lundy's mouth, and additional cocaine was
found in his stomach where a small package that had been swallowed burst.
Robert G. Lundy, Sr. faces numerous charges. Lundy has an extensive arrest record in North and
South Carolina. Previous charges include auto theft, possession of cocaine, armed robbery,
forgery and passing fraudulent checks.
Officer Donn Belz - 33, has been employed by the police department since 3/31/93 and is
currently assigned to the Street Crimes Unit of the David Two District. Officer Shannon Jordan -
25, was hired on 3/23/94. Jordan is also assigned to the David Two Street Crimes Unit. Both
officers have been assigned to administrative duties pending review by the District Attorney of
the criminal investigation, and a departmental review of the internal investigations.
Keith Bridges
Community Education Coordinator 336-3695
Tom Barry
Public Information Officer 336-2338
Building Partnerships To Prevent The Next Crime.
Police Department • 601 East Trade Street • Charlotte, N.C. 28202-2940
Title Press releases and Act-So committee
OCR Transcript POLICE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT Press Release 4/9/97 Tuesday evening, officers from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department established a traffic check point at the intersection of State and Gesco Streets. Several shootings and robberies have taken place near this location in recent days. It is also a known corridor used by people buying and selling drugs in near-by neighborhoods. Eight Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officers were taking part in the traffic check point about 10 PM when a white Chevrolet Corsica approached. The driver, 55 year-old Robert G. Lundy, Sr., of West Columbia, South Carolina refused to obey officers' instructions to stop and continued through the check point. Officers Donn Belz and Shannon Jordan were a short distance from the check point with another motorist when they were radioed to stop the car. QfficerJordan stepped intojhe street to attempt to stop the car. Thecar accelerated and swery-ed-towards Officer Jordan who told investigators he feared the car^was about to run over him. Both officers drew their weapons and fir^l a combined 22^bots as the car sped toward them and attemptejilaflce- Officers pursued Lundy to DrunTXvenue where he ran from the car. It has since been learned the car was stolen from the Raleigh area. Inside the vehicle was an unidentified black female who had been shot once in the back of her neck. She died about 3:30 AM at Carolinas Medical Center. Identification of this woman is pending. Officers, with the aid of a tracking dog, found Lundy a short distance from where he stopped his car. He has since been hospitalized from an apparent drug overdose. Cocaine was found in Lundy's mouth, and additional cocaine was found in his stomach where a small package that had been swallowed burst. Robert G. Lundy, Sr. faces numerous charges. Lundy has an extensive arrest record in North and South Carolina. Previous charges include auto theft, possession of cocaine, armed robbery, forgery and passing fraudulent checks. Officer Donn Belz - 33, has been employed by the police department since 3/31/93 and is currently assigned to the Street Crimes Unit of the David Two District. Officer Shannon Jordan - 25, was hired on 3/23/94. Jordan is also assigned to the David Two Street Crimes Unit. Both officers have been assigned to administrative duties pending review by the District Attorney of the criminal investigation, and a departmental review of the internal investigations. For further information: Keith Bridges Community Education Coordinator 336-3695 Tom Barry Public Information Officer 336-2338 Building Partnerships To Prevent The Next Crime. Police Department • 601 East Trade Street • Charlotte, N.C. 28202-2940
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Three Reasons I’m Excited About Blockchain
October 29, 2019 Helen Mackenzie
Blockchain – is it the answer to procurement and supply chain’s prayers? Or is it over hyped, another ‘technological innovation’ that promises much and delivers little?
Photo by Mert Guller on Unsplash
I must admit I was leaning towards the pessimistic camp – when were those great use cases really going to happen? I signed up for the Procurious webinar to find out more about how this new technology is impacting supply chains – and what I learned was very exciting:
Blockchain Lets You Focus on What Is Important
One of the pieces of work we all wish would disappear from the day job is the time-consuming process of supplier onboarding.
Webinar guest IBM Sterling’s Shari Diaz told us about a blockchain-enabled onboarding process that would “give the procurement professional all that time back”.
Describing immutable records that the supplier would update themselves and third-party validation of accreditation, Shari encouraged us to think of a world where master data management had transferred from the buyer to the supplier.
Imagine what you could do if you didn’t have to worry about more mundane tasks within your role and could instead give more focus and energy to strategic projects!
A New Way of Measuring Value
One way that Professor Olinga Ta’eed is taking forward the development of a blockchain is through the not for profit Transnational Transaction Procurement Foundation. Since its launch earlier in 2019 the TPP foundation has grown to over 165,000 members, impressive numbers!
Olinga set out the goals of the TPP as being practical – to “fathom out” use cases like how we can capture and report things like intangible assets using blockchain to give a broader picture of an organisation’s true value.
Olinga thinks this new reporting will be liberating for procurement professionals allowing a more strategic focus to the role.
How much more value could we demonstrate if we could capture and record it?
A Re-Alignment of Values for the 21st Century
Both webinar guests thought that the greatest potential for blockchain will be the ability to articulate the alignment of values. As we move into a world where values are becoming more important, blockchain is going to provide the traceability and trackability that consumers demand.
As Shari observed “there’s a huge trend for supply chain to be able to demonstrate their values and consumers are starting to speak with their dollar”.
Shari also stressed that blockchain can enable our eco systems to work together. “Enterprises [typically] depend on partners for 65 per cent of the value they deliver to their customers. The more collaborative and connected we are – the more efficient and effective we’re going to be”.
So, blockchain technology is ready to give us time back, new ways of measuring value and for our values to be realigned.
Our webinar guests have given procurement and supply cause to remain optimistic and in fact licence to dare to dream big.
I’ll leave the last words to Professor Ta’eed,
“Blockchain will light up the path for procurement to align with mankind – making procurement and supply chain the single greatest instrument to change the world”.
A recording of the Procurious-IBM Webinar – Blockchain Supply Chain’s 21st Century Truthsayer – with panel members Shari Diaz, IBM Sterling, Professor Olinga Ta’eed and host Tania Seary, Procurious is available here
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The One Thing Everyone Keeps Getting Wrong About Digital Transformation
August 26, 2019 Alice Sidhu
While digital technologies have made the pathway to digital transformation the opportunity that every organisation is seeking to capitalise on, what many organisations get wrong is the focus on the technology…
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There’s no doubt that we have been in the digital revolution for a while now. It may have been a slow start as we came to terms with the power and capability of our smartphones that precipitated the customer centric, anywhere-anytime shift.
Futurists pre-empted the transformation that was coming by positioning a future of mobility, IoT and artificial intelligence, while tech savvy organisations made some early investments and experimented with analytics and automation, learning very quickly how to capitalise on technologies many of us were still trying to define.
Fast forward 10 years and we surely must have everything worked out and locked down. After all, we have had enough time to observe those who have gone before and experiment ourselves, both as consumers and as leaders in organisations, irrespective of our role or industry. It should be the very definition of a no-brainer.
The Current State
Taking a look at the current state, things seem to be a little different. Yes, there have been tech-savvy organisations like John Deere who have managed to leverage digital capabilities and redefine their business model to open up new revenue streams. And we are all familiar with the digital disruptors coming from digital natives like Google, Amazon, Uber and Tesla.
And we have all heard the catch cry of Disrupt before you are disrupted. Indeed, it has probably been the opening for many a workshop on digital transformation initiatives making their way into the leadership programs of organisations.
Is it a money question then? There’s no doubt that the global financial crises, combined with the impact of increasing customer expectations and global competition have exacerbated financial pressure on organisations.
The internet has proven to be a double edged sword for many; enabling access to markets of consumers that would have previously been impossible, while also giving the very same consumers access to competitors, feedback and reviews of others, and pricing transparency that has not previously been possible. Everyone has had to up their game.
All About the Money?
With spend in digital initiatives estimated in 2018 at $1.3 trillion, it’s a tough position to advocate that the investment and focus has not been there. Digital initiatives are defined as any digital capabilities aimed at improving customer value, new growth and monetization opportunities and driving improved efficiencies.
So the categories are pretty broad, and the digital capabilities equally so. Moving from a spreadsheet to a web based form could be loosely termed digital, as could automating a process flow, experimenting with RPA, or enabling customers to order from a website. In essence, there are a multitude of different options before we even get to chatbots, customer preference insights, predictive asset maintenance and hypotheses generation.
So why do we keep hearing about how hard it is to execute effectively with consistent research telling us that 70 per cent of transformation efforts fail?
While digital technologies have made the pathway to digital transformation, the opportunity that every organisation is seeking to capitalise on, what many organisations (70 per cent of them as noted above) get wrong is the focus on the technology.
As an innovator in the early stages of the digital era, that may have been understandable. Working with the unknown, and by definition and nature, first-of-a-kind initiatives, it was important to understand what the technology could do and its limitations.
But in 2018, why does this still account for such an overwhelming focus of an organisations digital transformation agenda? The best way to deal with that question may be by taking a look at what the organisations that are in the 30 per cent who achieve success actually do.
People and culture matter
Watching my 10 year old nephew master the iPad with a skill and confidence I can only aspire to is an exercise in amazement and humility; amazement at all the functionality he is able to access to expedite what he is doing, and humility knowing that I am not ever going to come close.
Taking the ego aside, it reflects the very important point that the technology being used has degrees of perceived value generation and productivity firstly, only when it is used and secondly, with an increasing value the greater and more extensive the use.
So when we say people matter, what we really mean is digital transformation is a change to the way a company works and for the intended value to be realised organisations must incorporate education, training, and adoption strategies that help employees understand why the transformation is happening, how it will impact them, and how accepting and adapting to the initiative will enhance the way they work and the business performs.
It’s very easy to dismiss the process of any function or model as the thing that happens behind the scenes. It’s not usually the subject of an extensive marketing campaign and the people in many process areas may not even have a line of sight to the end customer.
There may be an instances where consumers may complain about steps in the process that they may need to navigate to get something resolved. I need to admit at this point to being one of those annoying customers that will challenge how something works if I am caught up in a cycle of bureaucracy with some unfortunate contact centre assistant.
But process matters because so many organisations will deploy a technology solution and not or re-engineer a process to reflect the new way of working that the technology should enable. As a result teams end up complaining that they are stuck with a new technology which does not work at best, and creates more work at worst.
The criticism then gears towards the technology not the implementation strategy that supported it.
Challenging Fundamentals
Business models matter: How organisations arrange themselves in a digital transformation matters. Traditional models are hierarchy based and decisions are made on positional authority. Team and role structures define who does what, and everyone’s role is clear and supported by a position description. Digital transformation challenges many, if not all of these fundamentals.
Implementing change on this scale, for at its essence this is what digital transformation is, requires different ways of working and different mindsets. It requires acknowledging that your nephew may have more experience even at 10 years old, then you do, irrespective of a long career as an executive.
It’s about who knows what, not credentials that may be impressive, however not best suited to that particular piece of work. And it involves understanding that teams are dynamic, decisions need to be made differently, and a shared focus on outcomes is how digital value is generated and how digital transformations succeed.
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How Prepared Is Procurement For The Arrival Of The Tech Disruptors?
August 20, 2019 Abby Vige
If A.I. can’t tell the difference between an apple and an owl, can it really take over our jobs?
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The future has arrived. Technology trends have moved from being forecasted, to disruptors to being, well…here! But how prepared is procurement to step up to the challenge? Will procurement evolve to incorporate and embrace these technologies or will we miss the opportunity to be the next Spotify or Uber.
In this article we take a look under the hood at some of the “it” crowd and see how tech disruptors can be repositioned to be enablers.
Automation has often been referenced as the reason for mass job losses and replacement of people in the workforce. Is this a realistic view of what automation is?
Automation refers to the systemisation of processes to create efficiencies. It is a programme that executes a particular task that is typically something that is repetitive and monotonous (as opposed to A.I. which is mimicking multiple tasks and is attempts to apply causation responses).
Automation can be used to replace menial tasks and ultimately release people to do other things that are more worthy of their time. Automation can help people to repurpose their time and spend it in other areas of their job that can add more value to the business, like stakeholder engagement for example. This repurposed time enables people to focus on the strategic aspects of their role rather than being purely reactive and task orientated.
Blockchain is effectively a filing cabinet in the cloud. It records transactions (a “block”) and each block forms part of a chain. The chain becomes a valuable information source and creates a collective environment where everyone can access everything. It is this network that can revolutionize how we experience things as it can connect previously unconnected parts of a supply chain.
Some examples include customers being able to trace coffee beans used in their morning brew from plantation to cup. Or the ability to trace the cacao plant to a single chocolate bar. Procurement could utilise this technology to link supply chains like never before and provide true customer centric solutions (be it internal or external customers).
The applications are endless, but are we ready for it? What steps are procurement taking to ready themselves for potential new ways of working?
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)
This is perhaps the biggest tech taboo of all, the ultimate fear mongering scenario. The term A.I. can imply to some people that technology will be able to create its own intelligence and that the intelligence may keep on evolving – ruling humans obsolete. This is not correct! A.I. technology requires humans to tell it what the world is. Humans are required to create the codes, algorithms and software that make it work.
There are many things that A.I. automation algorithms can’t always get right, like the infamous owl vs apple fail. A.I. requires a human to tell it what is an owl and what is an apple but there are certain subtleties of being human that simply can’t be trained.
While this provides a hearty belly laugh at the expense of the technology, it helps to demonstrate the gulf that exists between A.I. being able to realistically replace humans. A.I. is not a threat to all people in the workforce.
A.I. can be used to enhance the customer experience for example chatbots. It can also be used to programme population of key contract information instead of someone having to manually type it out. The application for A.I. in procurement would create huge efficiencies to enable us to get on with the real work.
The advent of bitcoin changed the basic concept of how we view money. It combined an old world concept with new wave technology. It didn’t burn out or fade away it is still going strong.
The advent of cryptocurrency helps to pose the question of what could be the bitcoin of the future?
Will procurement be able to trade online for goods and services? Why not! It was impossible to imagine bitcoin taking off many years ago and look where it is now. Will contracts for goods and services be required? If the divide between the supply and buyer side of the fence is dissolving then what purpose will contracts serve in the future.
Sore head?
If you have tech overwhelm, don’t worry. This is all you need to remember:
Humans won’t be replaced any time soon
Technology is here and if you haven’t noticed, you’re probably about to be bypassed
Procurement needs to up its game with the incorporation of technology and see it as an enabler
Creative thinking is the precursor to adopting and utilising technology effectively. Release people from menial tasks and engage them in different areas of the business
But wait, the blockchain action doesn’t stop here! Join us on October 15 with blockchain experts Shari Diaz, Innovation Strategy and Operations Program Director, IBM Watson Supply Chain and Professor Olinga Ta’eed, Director of the Centre for Citizenship, Enterprise and Governance in this webinar brought to you by IBM and Procurious. Click here to register for Blockchain: Supply Chain’s 21st Century Truthsayer.
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Supplier-Enabled Innovation Is An Opportunity To Add Value
July 9, 2019 Procurious HQ
Businesses are tapping into the expertise of their supplier network to bring new products to market faster and streamline their processes.
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Where do new ideas come from? For many organisations, the answer is research and development. But imagine if the R&D department included not only your own people, but those from hundreds or even thousands of your suppliers too.
This is the promise of supplier-enabled innovation (SEI), which enables companies to tap into the expertise of their supplier network to develop new products and services or refine existing ones.
It’s not exactly a new idea, but according to David Rae, head of the Supplier-Enabled Innovation Center, it is an underutilised one. “If you have thousands of suppliers and a portion of them have R&D divisions focused on your sector, then you’d be mad not to tap into that resource,” he says.
Companies that combine their innovation efforts with those of their suppliers typically bring products to market faster, giving them a competitive advantage. The inevitable risks and costs of developing new products or services are also spread among a wide network of stakeholders. And due to their specific expertise, suppliers are often able to suggest product improvements that are unlikely to occur to internal teams.
It makes sense to partner with companies specialising in a particular area, says Omer Abdullah, co-founder and managing director of The Smart Cube, which provides procurement, analytics and research expertise. He uses the example of a packaging supplier to illustrate the point. “They’re the ones who have a vested interest in knowing what the latest packaging types are, what the latest packaging sizes are and what are consumers demanding,” he explains.
That’s certainly true in the case of Bayer, which works closely with suppliers such as Schott to find the best packaging for specific drugs. By collaborating early in the ampoule or vial selection process, with Schott contributing its expertise in how certain active ingredients interact with different types of containers, new medication can be brought to market in a quick and safe manner.
The procurement team are ideally placed to drive the innovation partnerships behind SEI, acting as the link between internal R&D, sales and marketing teams, and suppliers. Johnson & Johnson, for example, has focused on turning procurement into a team of “innovation scouts”, seeking out suppliers who understand emerging trends and plan their business accordingly.
This is one of the vital elements of SEI: if you can’t find innovative suppliers to work with, then the whole concept quickly falls apart. If you’re interested in using SEI to improve your R&D function, for example, “you need to take into account things like what percentage of their [the supplier’s] revenue they are putting towards R&D, their strategic goals and where they’re actually headed as a company”, says Mr Rae.
It can be tempting to focus on the current supply chain when selecting SEI partners, but this may not offer the kind of cutting-edge innovation that will really expand internal capabilities, says Simon McGuire, health systems leader for Philips UK and Ireland. “I believe a good procurement team will ensure any supplier activity is initiated with clear alignment and agreement on capability gaps and unmet customer needs, together with an ability to secure the required technology and skillsets from the marketplace,” he says.
An awareness of market trends and shifts, competitor moves and the company’s own patent pipeline is also a key part of an informed view of what suppliers might be able to offer. “For me the most essential element of a good supplier partnership that will deliver is the strong alignment of goals and visions, with clear definitions, responsibilities and objectives from the start,” says Mr McGuire.
Online platforms are a relatively common way of communicating innovation challenges to supplier networks. Philips, for example, has an open innovation portal called SPICE, which allows suppliers, companies and individual inventors to collaborate to both view Philips innovation challenges and suggest ideas of their own. But the success of these platforms depends upon suppliers receiving relevant, timely feedback on their ideas and transparency around the development of any proposals.
Indeed, the trust at the heart of any good partnership flows both ways. “Surprisingly, suppliers do not always take their innovation first to their largest or even their most profitable, highest-margin customers,” says Clive R. Heal, a procurement innovation expert who leads Voicinn, a group of global innovation keynote speakers, and founded and led the Roche Innovation Center of Excellence. “They target customers with whom they have the closest relationships and see the best longer-term growth opportunities.”
Both companies should also be clear about who will own the intellectual property (IP) for any new products or services before embarking on a partnership. For instance, would a licensing approach, with the company granted exclusive rights to use a particular technology or service for an agreed period, work best? Or is a joint IP model the better option? Many innovation partnerships fail to clear this hurdle due to competing interests, Mr Heal points out.
Regardless of which ownership approach is agreed, successful SEI initiatives nearly always follow a long-term approach to innovation, focusing on mutual benefits for both customer and supplier. In other words, a true partnership that runs counter to the “not invented here” syndrome still found in many businesses.
“Overcoming this is difficult,” says Mr Rae. “But with the disruption now happening – the platform business models cropping up, the growth in startups, the fact that innovation is taking place everywhere and not just in R&D labs – companies will have to change, otherwise they’re going to get disrupted too.”
This article, edited by Peter Archer, was taken from the Raconteur Future of Procurement report, as featured in The Times.
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After A Slow Start, AI Is Starting To Make Its Mark
June 27, 2019 Procurious HQ
Procurement has traditionally lagged behind when it comes to technology, but does AI offer an opportunity for things to change?
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is going to make business better, at least that is what the solutions providers would have us believe. Businesses will be more agile, more efficient and, importantly, more profitable. Yet it still feels procurement is behind the curve when it comes to AI adoption, despite those that have implemented things, such as machine-learning and AI-driven data analysis, seeing the benefits.
Simon Geale, vice president of client solutions at transformation procurement services provider Proxima, says: “It is early days. On the procurement side of things, we are seduced by the hype over practicality. Most of what we are seeing is either aggregating data or speeding up a process, so far.”
That is not to say that businesses are shunning AI. A recent survey by McKinsey found 47 per cent of companies have embedded at least one AI function in their business processes, up from 20 per cent in 2017.
McKinsey’s research showed that while most companies were adopting AI in areas such as service operations, marketing and product development, a significant number have started to use the technology in managing their supply chains.
Some sectors, such as retail, are adopting the technology far more rapidly in supply chain management than others.
It may be time for those businesses on the long tail of adoption to speed things up. Of those that have adopted AI in supply chain management, McKinsey reports 76 per cent have seen moderate or significant benefits.
AI Focus on Efficiencies and Productivity
So how are companies using AI? A survey by RELX Group late last year shows a focus on using AI and machine-learning principally to increase efficiencies or worker productivity (51 per cent), to inform future business decisions (41 per cent) and to streamline processes (39 per cent).
There are those in procurement who believe AI will destroy their jobs. Yet not all are convinced of this nightmare scenario.
Trudy Salandiak of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply says: “Unlike many professionals, we think procurement will be future-proofed from being completely taken over by technology due to the human interaction and relationship management required.
“What it will do is provide much more visibility over supply chains to manage risk and seek out opportunities for innovation. It will also take away the process back-office side of the role to allow procurement teams to focus on more strategic areas.”
Ms Salandiak sees a role for AI in quicker and more accurate fraud detection, intelligent invoice matching and categorising vendors to rank their strategic importance in the supply chain.
Chatbots for Procurement?
AI chatbots have started to be used to help businesses articulate their needs with procurement, instead of completing lengthy requests on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. This echoes the voice experience consumers get through the likes of Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.
Turkish telecoms company Turkcell has implemented a procurement chatbot, which learns continuously and simulates interactive procurement professionals’ conversations with business partners and vendors by using key pre-calculated user phrases and auditory or text-based signals. The chatbot interfaces with the company’s ERP system and it has enabled procurement professionals to cut out non-value-added activities and allocate their time to more strategic topics.
Meanwhile, Ireland’s Moyee Coffee has been working on a project in Ethiopia where farmers, roasters and consumers can access data as beans are moved from farm to cup. Consumers are able to use QR codes on the back of coffee packs to see where the beans have been sourced and how much the farmers have been paid, bringing unprecedented transparency to the supply chain. The project uses Bext360’s Bext-to-Brew platform with AI, blockchain and internet of things technology.
AI Procurement Policy
As consumers demand more authenticity and transparency, this trend is likely to continue.
The forecast value of AI to the global economy is being recognised by the World Economic Forum (WEF). In September, the WEF’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution unveiled a plan to develop the first AI procurement policy.
The work is being done in conjunction with the UK government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. A pilot starts in July and it is hoped it will be rolled out in December. This will include high-level guidelines as well as an explanatory workbook for procurement professionals. A further eight countries have expressed interest in extending the pilot globally.
The reason for putting together a policy now is that “regulation tends to be too slow”, says Kay Firth-Butterfield, WEF’s head of AI.
“From the procurement perspective, it’s drawing a line in the sand, saying this is how we expect AI to be produced in our country and we will not accept AI products that do not meet these criteria. It is agile governance,” says Ms Firth-Butterfield.
Reorganising Time for Strategic Tasks
The technology will also allow public sector employees to do more strategic work. “In government, there are back-office gains to be had to free up civil servants to do more,” she says, adding that work on AI procurement in the public sector is expected to transfer to the private sector.
“Governments want their citizens to be at forefront of developing and using this tech, and benefiting from the economic gains,” says Ms Firth-Butterfield. “Governments’ significant buying power can drive private sector adoption of these standards, even for products that are sold beyond government.”
The 53 per cent of companies that have not started implementing AI may like to start thinking about it now.
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What Can Yoda Teach Us About The Kraljic Matrix?
June 18, 2019 Bertrand Maltaverne
The Kraljic Matrix revolutionised Procurement in 1983. Now the world looks very different. Is it time for an upgrade?
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The year was 1983. This was the year that the Internet was created. Bill Gates unleashed Microsoft World on the market. Star Wars Return of the Jedi was playing in the cinema. I was nine. And a director at McKinsey in Dusseldorf wrote an article that would change Procurement forever. The author was Dr. Peter Kraljic. The article, published in the Harvard Business Review, stated: “Purchasing Must Become Supply Management“.
A Procurement Transformation
Kraljic recognized that the world was changing fast. He saw that if Procurement continued business as usual, it would expose itself to competitive pressure. If it was to survive, it would have to move into strategic supply management. This was the dawn of the Kraljic matrix. It would have a transformative effect on Procurement. The philosophy (that remains valid today) is that not all spend, all suppliers, all customers & are the same. So, Procurement needs to build tailored and differentiated strategies, notably taking into account profit impact and supply risk.
Fast forward to 2019. A lot has changed. The Cold War is history, and the Internet dominates the globe. The iPhone in my pocket has way more computing power than my first computer, a Commodore 64, also from 1983. Since Kraljic published his famous article, world trade has quadrupled and globalization has exploded. Procurement is operating in a much faster, bolder world than it was in 1983. It faces new challenges like Corporate Social Responsibility and ethical supply chains. In short, our current environment today is more “VUCA” (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) than it ever was.
The Next Evolution Of The Kraljic Matrix
“Since the early 1980s, pioneering individuals and companies such as Peter Kraljic, Michael Porter, and A.T. Kearney have pushed procurement professionals to think more strategically about the art and science of strategic sourcing. […] But times have changed. Today’s environment is more dynamic and is filled with greater uncertainty. The tried and true tools and tactics adopted over the last 30 years as the “gold standard” are not as effective as they once were.” Strategic Sourcing in the New Economy: Harnessing the Potential of Sourcing Business Models for Modern Procurement by Bonnie Keith, Kate Vitasek, Karl Manrodt, and Jeanne Kling
In some ways, the Kraljic matrix still works well. The segmentation at the heart of it remains valid. But the world is so complicated now, the matrix becomes more like a Kraljic Rubik’s cube. There are many more dimensions and parameters to take into account than there were back then.
Procurement now needs to win the Holy Grail of strategic supply management: value. Take Total Value of Ownership (TVO), for instance. Before, sustainability and risk were considered as nice-to-have, but not necessary. The TVO model places non-price information firmly within calculation of cost. This is a concept of sourcing in which the buyer has all the cards in their hand. But more than that, TVO enables the buyer to create bonus-penalty systems. In effect, it is a calculation of value that enables Procurement to identify how they can increase value after the award has been made.
Evolve Or Stay In The 80s
“My colleagues developed [the matrix] further and experimented with a nine-box version that allowed more flexibility. But always it must be adapted to the characteristics of the company where it is being used.” Dr. Peter Kraljic
The evolution of strategic supply management is challenging. Seeing the Kraljic Matrix as a Rubik’s cube is one thing. Solving the cube is something else entirely. Collecting the enormous amount of information and data that you need for this is almost impossible on your own. However, the change that makes the world so complicated also gives us the tools we need to keep pace: technology. Procurement must have a digital transformation strategy.
Also, and beyond tools like Purchasing Portfolio Analysis matrixes (that needs to evolve to be subtler), it is critical for Procurement organizations to look beyond the technical aspects of the profession. Procurement activities encompass more “soft” activities that require interpersonal skills. It is all about relationships and, even if tools help in defining the right type of relationship to build in a specific context, they fall short in delivering the “human” dimension. Also, that same dimension should be integrated in the tools and models we use.
The “experience” of working with procurement (for suppliers and for stakeholders) is as essential. Procurement delivers a service in a human-to-human context and becoming the supplier/customer of choice requires more than just tools. Digital transformation is not just about tools!
Therefore, just like Yoda “burns” the Jedi Books in “The Last Jedi” to teach Luke a last lesson by symbolizing the need to be able to move forward while being mindful and even respectful of the past, it may be the time for Procurement professional to “burn” the matrix.
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Transparency In Supply Chains And Blockchain: What Is The Most Common Trap?
May 9, 2019 Bertrand Maltaverne
Becoming aware of blockchain’s weak spots is an important first step towards taking full advantage of what the technology really has to offer.
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Is Blockchain coming of age in 2019?
Judging by the first half of 2019, it seems that the blockchain hype is finally deflating and there is an overall consensus that it will not save the world (at least not this year…). The growing trend towards pragmatism, which is now beginning to temper people’s expectations, is the best thing that could happen to blockchain. . . A more down-to-earth approach is welcome because, like any technology, blockchain is not perfect, nor the solution to all problems. It is important to be realistic about its potential and limitations.
In particular, blockchain has limitations that threaten to jeopardise many recent high-profile initiatives to increase traceability and visibility in the supply chain. Despite seeming like the ideal technology to address growing concerns about these aspects, most (if not all) blockchain implementations have an Achilles’ heel: the initial digitisation of data to bridge between the physical and the digital world.
Becoming aware of these weak spots is an important first step towards taking full advantage of what blockchain really has to offer. Blockchain’s real value proposition
There are many potential and valuable use cases for blockchain, especially in Procurement and Supply Chain Mgmt.
“If you talk to supply chain experts, their three primary areas of pain are visibility, process optimisation, and demand management. Blockchain provides a system of trusted records that addresses all three.” Brigid McDermott, vice president, Blockchain Business Development & Ecosystem, at IBM (source Blockchain and Supply Chain Finance: the missing link!, Finextra)
The most valuable characteristic of blockchain is that it serves as a backbone for “convergence”:
For better insights and actionable intelligence: Blockchain is the missing link in Big Data initiatives and the convergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and blockchain represents a breakthrough.
From an integration perspective: Blockchain-based supply chains allow three different supply chains (physical/informational/financial) to converge into a single digital one.
“Blockchain has the potential to converge the two main ecosystems involved in trade finance — the financial ecosystem, which includes banks and suppliers, and the supply chain ecosystem. At the same time, the technology can provide a unified platform for multiple stakeholders, potentially avoiding difficulties that slow down operations” Béatrice Collot, Head of Global Trade and Receivable Finance at HSBC quoted in Blockchain’s Main Strengths Are Transparency and Instantaneity on Cointelegraph
While these features will certainly contribute to improved supply chain transparency, there is still a critical challenge that needs to be addressed: the digitisation of data at the beginning of the process. This crucial step constitutes a fundamental weakness of many current digital supply chains.
Blockchain’s Achilles’ Heel: Mind the Gap!
Traceability and transparency along the supply chain, from raw materials to final products, is a growing concern for organisations. New regulations from governments & institutions, customer expectations, and company’s self-interest in issues like sustainability, incident management, and efficiency, have created the need for an infrastructure to track, trace, and store data in the supply chain.
At first glance, blockchain may seems like the ideal solution. It creates a permanent record of all transactions at all levels of the supply chain, guaranteeing full traceability and establishing trust. So, many companies started to provide blockchain-based means of collecting information in their supply chain with the goal of making it accessible to customers as irrefutable proof about the origin of products and components.
A typical story goes like this: “Thanks to our application, you can take a picture of the QR-code on your product and view the entire supply chain of all components/elements that contributed to the final product you have in your hands.”
This sounds great in theory, but there is an important caveat:
“At the interface between the offline world and its digital representation, the usefulness of the technology still critically depends on trusted intermediaries to effectively bridge the “last mile” between a digital record and a physical individual, business, device, or event. […] And if humans […] manipulate the data when it is entered, in a system where records are believed ex-post as having integrity, this can have serious negative consequences.” What Blockchain Can’t Do, Harvard Business Review
The use of blockchain technology gives people a false sense of security because it relies on cryptography and various mechanisms to ensure that information stored on it can be trusted (identity, immutable record, etc.). But, as illustrated above, the digitization step when the information is recorded (a block added) is not protected by this same “guarantee.”. So, it is not because blockchain technology supports and enables a better transparency that it should be blindly trusted by customers or by procurement or supply chain pros.
It is undeniable that blockchain is a form of digital trust. Much of the hype surrounding it has been driven by a broader trend in society: the erosion of trust in people and institutions. Blockchain is playing a major role in shifting that trust to technology and software. This explains, in part, why compliance and transparency are the use cases that are priorities for procurement and supply chain pros.
However, it is important to remember that blockchain’s reputation as “trustworthy” can be misleading, especially in the case of supply chain transparency. Manual operations are still part of the initial process of digitizing the data. Therefore, trusting data stored in the blockchain also means trusting that initial step that relies on human activities.
For this reason, building trust in business partners will continue to be a vital part of the procurement function’s role in the future. Introducing digital initiatives will not entirely remove the human element of the job, and Procurement practitioners will need to continue working on establishing trust and nurturing it with suppliers and stakeholders.
Also, from a technology perspective, there are already initiatives to close the gap between physical and digital as much as possible. Interestingly, they focus on physical objects (crypto-hardware) and not just on software. These objects are the child of RFID, connected devices, and blockchain, with the intent to create a convergence between the Internet of Things and the Internet of Value (blockchain) to create the Value Internet of Things (VIoT).
In addition to the human and technological answers that will both contribute to creating a truly integrated supply chain (physical + informational + financial), a third component will remain essential: critical thinking.
Trust and verify!
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Food, Glorious Factory Food! – Challenging the Tech Status Quo
February 17, 2017 Paul Blake
If procurement continues to accept the technological status quo as some kind of given, we’ll continue to be fed the same poor diet. Paul Blake explains why it’s time to challenge the hard-and-fast rules we’ve adopted for so long without question.
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Have you ever wondered why food made in factories is so awful?
Please don’t assume this is going to be a rant about organic carrots and the danger of the shop-bought cake. Let me reassure you that it’s on the contrary.
There’s nothing quite like a home-cooked meal
Modern living and demands on personal time mean that conveniently available, ready-to-eat food is a fact of everyday life. Everything from jam to lasagne is made in factories, often with minimal human interaction. This can be a very good thing in many ways.
So, if we accept that industrially manufactured food is a thing, one question still remains. Why is it just not as good as the homemade or handmade equivalent? Again, we should allow for the dependency on precisely whose hands are involved. But, all things being equal, a dish made by a competent cook, from scratch will out-score a factory-made one.
At first glance, it might seem obvious. Factory products resource lower cost raw ingredients, preservatives and flavourings for longer shelf-life. No wonder your canned chilli ain’t a patch on your own efforts. This is basic profit-driven economics. And, it’s true, you get what you pay for.
But there is another, more subtle reason, that factory food doesn’t quite hit the mark. A reason that is in no way immediately apparent. And it has to do with our relationship with technology.
Robots that POUR!
For a dish to be easily manufactured in a factory, in large quantities, on a production line, it is crucial that the components, from raw ingredients to part finished elements, are able to be pumped.
How do you get the meat sauce for your lasagne from its cooking vat to the line where it’s assembled? The sauce, the pasta and the béchamel must be sent through a pipe, and often for a considerable distance. The pumping of certain traditional ingredients, such as butter, is impossible. As such, the food industry has had to identify, develop and sometimes engineer alternatives.
The infrastructure, the routing process has had such limitations that it has defined the very nature of the outcomes that are possible. But, as the presenters of the great BBC technology show of the 70s and 80s, Tomorrow’s World, used to say “that is, until now!”
The food factory of the future will be populated, not by machines that pump – but by robots that POUR. And with that simple change, a whole new world of possibilities opens up.
By analysing how a chef systematically puts a dish together, and replicating that, with industrial upscaling, into a robotic process – and eradicating the notion that the conventional wisdom of “pumpability” was some kind of hard-and-fast rule. This new paradigm in food production could forgo the need for chemically-altered shortening agents. You know those ones that taste terrible (requiring added salt as a mask), have dubious health impacts but which, can at least, be pumped along a pipe.
Limitations in procurement
In business, and without doubt in the procurement business, we have precisely that same relationship with the technology available to us. We’ve been limited in the quality of the results we can produce because of how the tools and technologies we use are built.
Until recently, the software used in procurement has restricted the procurement professional to working in ways determined by how the software was written, and not by what is best for the outcome. This means procurement has become attenuated to these limitations and now accepts them as hard-and-fast rules.
A good example of this is the notion of “best of breed”. This uses the most sophisticated software tool available for each step in the source to pay process. We’re indoctrinated to see lists of features and functions as the sole measure of suitability of software.
Dividing up the entire spend management process from strategy planning to invoice payment into a set of silos, and then equipping each step with the best tool for that task might at first seem to be a sound approach. But this is only if you look at the steps in isolation. That’s just the same as looking at each ingredient in your recipe and only considering whether you can pump it around your factory.
How can tech make procurement processes more palatable?
In procurement, the separation of sourcing from contract into entirely different systems does nothing to promote positive outcomes and the isolated software components actively compound the difficulty of realizing savings and value.
However, technologies are emerging that are permitting us to look at the entire source to pay process as a single business requirement. This allows us to consider how the various “ingredients” interact and work with each other to create the optimum result.
In the future, we will no longer be restricted to working the way the software dictates. Whilst a good part of the process may be run automatically, we will get to determine the ideal set of inputs and outputs to suit us.
The emergence of AI founded on big data, mobile, always-on connectivity and, crucially, the unification of strategic procurement and day-to-day purchasing into a single operational environment are changing the effectiveness of the procurement operation.
Challenging the status quo
By accepting the technological status quo as some kind of given, we will only continue to be fed the same poor diet.
Returning to the analogy, we don’t have to reject the notion of manufactured food entirely. Not if we can see that technology can actually make it better, possibly even better than we can do ourselves. There’s a thought!
The same applies completely to the idea of the automated supply chain. It needn’t (and won’t) be the death of Procurement. The smart use of new technology will actually give our industry new lease of life. As long as we stop adhering to the outdated technology rule book.
There is another way. The time is now.
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Are You A Procurement Starter Or A Finisher?
Are you a starter or a finisher? According to IBM’s Barry Ward, you’d better be both! Barry discusses the key skills most critical to procurement in the coming years.
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Barry Ward, Procurement Brand Manager, Global Business Services at IBM is a keynote speaker at Big Ideas Summit 2017. He’ll be explaining the big ideas behind Watson and the opportunities that cognitive tech presents to procurement. When we spoke to Barry ahead of the event he was keen to remind us that, despite rapid tech developments, traditional procurement skills are far from being made redundant.
How do you stay productive and current in a world of fast-paced innovation?
Collaborating with colleagues
Networking with others – using social media and other channels
Building and nurturing an ecosystem of organisations that are leading or developing solutions that may have or will have an impact in your function
What key skills are critical for procurement in the next 5 years?
We will always need traditional procurement skills such as the ability to be a strong negotiator, to communicate well internally and externally, to be a starter and a finisher. But, on top of this I think the importance of an open mind and curiosity in terms of the role that technology can play in the future is going to be more important than ever.
There will be an increasing need for project management skills, change management, relationship management skills. This is on top of the usual and still critical traditional procurement skills such as category expertise or negotiation skills. I can also say that there is a growing importance in soft skills: communication, teamwork and collaboration and problem solving.
How has technology, the Internet of Things and e-Procurement affected IBM?
Technology has placed a key role in IBM’s transformation over the past 20 years or so. Its importance is perhaps more critical in the the current phase of our procurement transformation. Understanding how digital technology can transform the supply chain and our source to pay activities is critical in terms both driving our efficiency and effectiveness but also to showcase how procurement can drive value throughout our organisation.
This positions Procurement in a much more strategic role than ever before. Procurement data is much more visible than ever before. Insights through combining unstructured and structured information augment our knowledge, with alerts being posted to mobile devices instantaneously means that buyers can have much better assurance of supply continuity, of being able to understand price opportunities and to focus their time and energies on higher value activities than ever before. Lower value work will become automated or systems-driven. This is all good news for Procurement.
One clear impact of this transformation is that our key stakeholders now have very high expectations of high performance from Procurement personnel, perhaps more so than ever before, but the rewards are clearly evident in terms of the value that individuals can bring as well as the procurement organisation as a whole.
How valuable have mentors been in your career?
Mentoring is a highly personal thing. Some people need to have guidance and direction particularly in an organisation that may be widely spread and fast-moving, and if you are looking to move around different functions. Similarly for those who are in a smaller organization, mentors can bring an external, broader perspective.
Others are confident of their own abilities in charting a course for their own development and progression. I have had mentors in the past, particularly when I was in the early stages of my career. The more confident you are of your attributes and ambitions the less I have found that I needed mentoring. I spend time mentoring others mainly from within IBM and mainly from other geographies.
How did you first become interested in procurement?
I didn’t know very much about Procurement in my time as an undergraduate. It was not a profession that had much coverage when I was at University, unlike Finance or Engineering.
My first job as a business graduate was as a Purchasing Analyst running Bill of Material queries in a MRP system for a large manufacturer. This brought me into contact with many parts of the organisation including procurement. The procurement manager at the time was quite an intellectual and gave me a broad view of the role that procurement can play in an organisation.
Clearly he influenced me as I have spent my subsequent career in procurement and supply chain roles!
How will cognitive technology impact procurement professionals?
Cognitive technology will transform the role of the procurement professional and the impact that he or she can make for their organisation. It will be able to remove some of the more prosaic parts of the procurement role, such as data gathering and analysis, together with augmenting a buyer’s knowledge thus enabling them to spend more time on higher value tasks and ultimately make better decisions and be more effective.
Procurement professionals will need to understand how cognitive technology works – so they can be alert to potential mistakes that can happen from cognitive solutions, so that data input from these solutions is relevant and accurate. It will eventually help, and force, them with their career progression as well as developing their expertise.
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A Decade In Review: Procurement In 2020
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Har Halutz - we feel like pioneers for Reform Judaism
"Anu banu artza livnot u'lehibanot ba"
"We have come to this land to build and
to be rebuilt"
Folk song of the Second Aliyah, by Menashe Rabinah,
Israeli writer and composer (1899-1968)
We feel like pioneers
for Reform Judaism
By Debra Sagan
It is hard to believe that it has been two years since this picture was
taken...and what an incredible journey it has been so far! My decision
to make Aliyah did not come easily, as leaving my friends and family
in the States was extremely difficult. However, I was "bitten" by the
Israel bug ever since I was on the NFTY teen tour in 1987. After years of
coming back to Israel for trips, seminars, volunteering and studying,
I decided that the bitterness I felt when getting on the plane to leave
Ben Gurion needed to stop. Luckily for me, I met Oren, (who had
made Aliyah with his family when he was 12 years old and was in the
U.S studying). Our mutual desire to live in Israel was a strong basis for
our marriage. We both wanted our lives to be guided by the Jewish
calendar, to speak Hebrew, and to be able to celebrate holidays and
Shabbat together. (Since both of us are Jewish educators, we had
found that to be a challenge in the U.S.!). Our decision to move to
Israel was also very much influenced by the belief that we would be
providing our son with a wonderful childhood - where he is naturally
immersed in Judaism and feels a strong connection to the land.
Oren and I made a conscious decision not to live in a large city in
Israel. We wanted to find a place to live that has easy access to the
outdoors and would enable us to simplify our lifestyle. This decision
also challenged us to figure out exactly what it means for us to be
Reform Jews in Israel. We surely don't fit in with the secular majority
in the country, but we cannot define ourselves as "Dati/Orthodox".
Therefore, we sought out the pockets of Reform Jewish communities
throughout the country and discovered Har Halutz (The Mountain of
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part of Israel. It was established 20 years ago by a garin (seed group)
from North America and is affiliated with the Reform movement. Both
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Diversity of Characters
It looks like I will be spending the day trying to coordinate character sets for my database conversion. Both programmers (and computer users for that matter) should be aware of the encoding that they use for their writing. The ecoding is the process that maps the characters that you see on your computer screen into the bits stored on the computer.
Joel on Programming has an interesting read on unicode. Joel seems to have an extremely low opinion of American programmers in general and of PHP in particular. (PHP is maintained by the Zend corporation in Isreal.)
I happen to have a positive view of both PHP and American programmers.
If anything, I am more apt to question the people trying to stuff Unicode down our throat, than to question the people who are in the trenches trying to make programs work.
Back to to Unicode. In the early days of computer programming, processing and storage capacity was expensive. Programmers encoded data in CAPSLOCK because computer space was too valuable to waste on inconsequential details like case.
In the early days, computers were so expensive that if a county wanted to have a computer for their own character set, the natural choice would be to design machines and software from the ground up. It was really not until the '80s that the price of computer capacity dropped to the point where people could start thinking of cheap machines that had the capacity to process the complexity of different languages.
The natural impulse of computer science was to handle the diversity of languages through parallel evolution of different operating systems and character sets. This was accompanied by the coevolution of technologies to translate between the different operating systems.
As a student of languages and linguistics, I was actually hoping that different language groups in the world would end up developing their own approaches to software. I was hoping that the parallel evolution of computer science in different language groups would lead to a diversity of operating systems.
Of course, there were powerful interests who wanted to see one operating system dominate the entire world.
Since the existence of different character sets was leading to parallel evolution of operating systems in different cultures. Powerful multinationals wanting to dominate the world had to act. They did so by stuffing down our collective gullet a new standard called unicode.
The goal of the Unicode effort was to stomp out this natural evolution of computer science by encoding the diversity of the known languages of the world into a single character set. The first hope was that we could do this with a 16bit number. That was too small to encode all of the subtleties of Chinese and other symbolic languages. There was some hope that use 32 bits would suffice. Each character you typed on the screen would be a number between 1 and 4294967296. With a 32bit character set, each character that an English writer used would be 33818640 times larger than what is actually needed to record the character.
A good writing application doesn’t just record the written word. An application might also record revision history, etc.. An implementation of a universal character set means a great deal of wasted space for English writers.
A 32bit character set is so overbearing, that no-one really wants to use it. The current group think is to push an idea called UTF8.
UTF8 uses 8bit characters for Latin languages and a point set scheme for other languages. You can directly translate ASCII to UTF8. Letters from other alphabets would just be bigger.
Unfortunately, the existence of variable length characters is problematic for many languages and database applications that assume that the binary representation of all characters is the same size. By adopting UTF8, you actually end up precluding the use of primitive fix length databases. Which is sad because primitive fixed length databases are fast and easy to program.
Since UTF8 gives precedence to English by making our letters the smaller at the top of the chart; I actually see UTF8 is more imperialistic than the paradigm where Americans used ASCII and allowed other linguistic groups to evolve their own character sets.
In some ways, I see the debate over character sets as a reflection of the overall debate between the classical liberal world view and progressive world view. The classical liberal view would have Americans continuing to pursue the development of operating systems and character sets that best allow the expression of what Americans want to accomplish while people in other linguistic traditions develop character sets and operating systems that best express their desires.
Parallel evolution leads to greater diversity.
Since we are interested in communicating with the world, there would be a natural coevolution of schemas for translating ideas between cultures.
The classical liberal approach to the diversity of languages would be to allow for the parallel evolution of different ideas and character sets. The progressive approach is to try to create a single universal character set and to force everyone to use that one universal character set.
BTW, you may notice that writers favoring Unicode often take a very condescending attitude to traditional coding techniques.
My thoughts on this issue are that programmers should store information at a cardinality that best matches the data. For example, if you are making shoes, you might have 5 colors, 10 sizes and 4 widths. There are only 200 permutations of this shoe description. Ideally, the character set in your shoe database would not require too much more wasted space than what is needed to express these 200 permutations. The wasted space may not look like a lot when you are talking about 1 or 2 shoe orders. But when you are talking about a database recording on millions of shoes, the inefficiencies add up.
Storing this data in ASCII format is already inefficient. Storing data on shoe orders in Unicode multiplies that inefficiency by 4. When ordering one pair of shoes, the fact that you wasted some space doesn't really matter. When you start talking about hundreds of millions of shoes, the space starts to matter.
I am not completely dimissive of unicode. The shoe company may want to sell its shoes in every country. The sales department is likely to want to have a database that contains the name of their shoes (along with sales text) in every language (including Klingon for the big push at the Star Trek convention). A database might encode the attributes of the shoe in ASCII, and the names of the shoes in Unicode.
Having a mix of character sets is both more efficient and allows for greater diversity than trying to force one universal character set at the operating system level.
In most cases, the cardinality of the information you are collecting is quite low, while the quatity of items that you are recording is large. For example in DNA analysis, you might have 20 or so nucleotides. Human chromozone #1 has 220 base pairs of nucleotides. If you are doing DNA analysis, you will want to encode the nucleotides with the smallest symbol possible so that you can analyze the complexity of the DNA string.
Analysis of things like protein folding, you add the complexity of space and time to your analysis. Much of the really interesting computer science these days pushes the limits of information theory.
Even though I've been condemned in life to work on less interesting programs, my sentiments lie with those programmers pushing computer science to its limits. The design of data should be driven by the structure of the data under analysis and not by the anti-American sentiments of the "progressives" in the sociology department of the university.
IMHO, real diversity comes by allowing the free evolution of different approaches to the problems of the world. The grand schemes that are supposed to force diversity upon us tend to be inefficient and become overbearing. Forced conformity does not create real diversity.
Joel on programming smuggly notes at the end of his article that his company stores everything in two byte UCS-2. I think that the better approach is store data in the most compressed format possible and to have translation tables that let you expand as needed. Joel's programming style may be appropriate for small web publishing firms that are trying to reach a universal audience. However, it is not appropriate for the interesting program questions that involve tons of data and computer capacity.
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Being a programmer, I found this post very interesting. My company grapples with the issues of producing a broad variety of data that works both for our vendors and customers. It is sometimes cheaper to buy more capacity to achieve uniformity than to try to translate everything.
You might find the writings of Paul Graham to be interesting. Torn between his love and training in art and in computer languages, he ended up making it big in the run-up to the dot com bubble burst. He's now a venture capitalist, but he has a deep love of computer languages and espouses more pure languages as being the most efficient in the long run.
"It is sometimes cheaper to buy more capacity to achieve uniformity than to try to translate everything."
I sympathize with the sentiment that it is just easier to use an inefficient protocol and to buy more equipment. Equipment is cheap.
For that matter, I agree with RFC 2277 that requires all Internet protocols to identify the encoding used for character data with UTF-8.
I am not sure if taking the easy out really is the best route. It seems to me that the method where you simultaneously develop systems that work with different character sets and protocols will ultimate be more robust and faster than one developed with a one size fits all protocol.
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Find ratings, reviews, and where to find beers from this brewery. Axiom Strategies announces the formation of Remington Research Group. 3 discusses two voting methods in which the voters may have different levels of influence on the group decision. In a move aimed at avoiding the sluggish retail demand that has blighted recent initial public offerings in the Gulf region, Axiom Telecom said Sunday that its 35% share sale, the first in the. ” — President, International Manufacturing Company “Without Axiom’s assistance, we could not have had our valuable program in Noblesville this past summer. Nov 06, 2016 · Axiom Strategies Poll Compare to 4 days ago: FL Was DJT +4 NV was DJT+4 NC was DJT+2 OH was DJT+5 PA was HRC+2 VA was HRC+4 WI was HRC+4 10 replies 42 retweets 42 likes Reply. Due to the fundamental changes brought to humanity under their Creator Nanashi and their mother Goddess, this strongly advocates transhumanism. You will have a review and experience form here. Millions of people are searching for jobs, salary information, company reviews, and interview questions. As a political consulting company, Axiom plans campaigns, designs voter targeting campaigns, conducts polling and analysis, and performs opposition research. Apr 27, 2018 · Axiom Centre £1. I believe Tim is very committed to Axiom and I doubt > whether my haranguing him about his intentions to replace boot > with lisp will have much affect on that. Note When you render a report through the Reporting Services Web service, the Reporting Services Web service obtains the MemoryLimit setting from the Machine. You have to to selected and acquired from reliable store. Updated weekly, so check back to. May 12, 2019 · Choosing The Right Pool Cue For You. Opened in March 2012 with support from Invest Northern Ireland and the Department for Employment and Learning, the centre employs over 20 staff and is on schedule to increase that number to 104 by 2014. 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Former first lady Michelle Obama repeatedly has stated there’s "zero chance" she would run for president in 2020 -- but a new poll in New Hampshire, the state holding the first primary in the race for the White House, suggested that if Obama changed her mind, she would enter the race as the front-runner. But high potassium levels can lead to health problems. Which is the right way to pronounce the word Axiom Pronunciation poll by HowToPronounce. : You can create polls. A week on Florida’s Sanibel and Captiva islands is guaranteed smooth sailing—even when you’re traveling with a persnickety eight-year-old dubbed Captain Picky. Free quotation. " Angelo Codevilla, The Lost Decade. Jul 26, 2016 · Adage Axiom Tuesday, July 26, 2016 has the highest rates of teen marijuana use in the country, but these are based on federal statistics that only poll 400 kids. CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles, Pradeep Teregowda): A number of combinations of theorem proving and computer algebra systems have been proposed; in this paper we describe another, namely a way to incorporate a logic in the computer algebra system Axiom. The Commons Proper is a place for collaboration and sharing, where developers from throughout the Apache community can work together on projects to be shared by the Apache projects and Apache users. 01 December 2019 Task Manager implemented with Vue using the Solid protocol. Apr 19, 2017 · Howa Axiom Rifles. If this is true, you could look for examples of Sobolev spaces that require Zorn's lemma for a basis, and then invent a PDE using that space. Axiom Strategies is celebrating its ten year anniversary this year. The master-slave relationship (Eph. The PC regularly collects data from each WAC, and also schedules polling and discharge tests. 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Nov 07, 2018 · NBC News Exit Poll results find Hawley doing particularly well with voters who say immigration is a top issue. The list included some of the ones that lost in the Axios poll: Joe Manchin (D-WV), Jon Tester (MT), and Claire McCaskill (MO). The metal edges of the phone are a straight silver color, but despite having black bezels on the front, silver metal edges and a shapeshifting mauve back panel, the phone never feels like a mishmash. Conjure by Jason Kao Hwang, Karl Berger, released 01 October 2019 1. You have reached the place you need to be -the LG Gulf Official Facebook Page is here to make sure you. FREE Woodworking Tips for Woodworkers. It is snug and the barrel is completed free floated within the stock. News With New Investor, Axiom Stays Private, Trump Tax Cases in Slo-Mo, #MeToo Backlash Abounds: The Morning Minute Here's the news you need to start your day. CHAPEL HILL, N. With a motive of spreading the charm of mathematics, Axiom organized its first edition of an event denominated as ‘FlashFire’. 's album - Pullin' No Punches, was a successful video and was nominated for a Grammy Award. Analysis of today’s news and popular beliefs dispelling myths, dogma, and superstition, which are the causes of most social ills and suffering around the world. Shop quality fishing gear and supplies from Berkley Fishing. This site has been published for residents of: AZ, CA, CO, FL, IL, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, OH, SC, TN, TX & WI ONLY. • Rapid enclosure entry • performance or maintainability. The concert is a return to the Fort Smith area for the group. ” “Aggression” is defined as the initiation of the use or threat of physical violence against the person or property of anyone else.
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