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Section-33. Furnishing details of inward supplies
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(1) Every registered taxable person, other than an input service distributor or a nonresident
taxable person or a person paying tax under section 9, section 46 or
section 56, shall verify, validate, modify or, if required, delete the details relating
to outward supplies and credit or debit notes communicated under sub-section (1) of
section 32 to prepare the details of his inward supplies and credit or debit
notes and may include therein, the details of inward supplies and credit or debit
notes received by him in respect of such supplies that have not been declared by
the supplier under sub-section (1) of section 32.
taxable person or a person paying tax under the provisions of section 9,
section 46 or section 56 , shall furnish, electronically, the details of inward
supplies of taxable goods and/or services, including inward supplies of goods or
services on which the tax is payable on reverse charge basis under this Act and
inward supplies of goods and/or services taxable under the IGST Act, and credit
or debit notes received in respect of such supplies during a tax period after the
tenth but on or before the fifteenth day of the month succeeding the tax period
in such form and manner as may be prescribed:
PROVIDED that the Commissioner may, for valid and sufficient reasons, by
notification, for such class of taxable persons as may be specified therein, extend the
time limit for furnishing such details:
PROVIDED FURTHER that any extension of time limit approved by the Commissioner
of [Central/State] Goods and Services Tax shall be deemed to be approved by the
Commissioner of [State/Central] Goods and Services Tax.
(3) The details of supplies modified, deleted or included by the recipient and
furnished under sub-section (2) shall be communicated to the supplier concerned
in the manner and within the time as may be prescribed.
(4) The details of supplies modified, deleted or included by the recipient in the return
furnished under sub-sections (2) or (4) of section 34 shall be communicated to
the supplier concerned in the manner and within the time as may be prescribed.
(5) Any registered taxable person, who has furnished the details under sub-section (2) for
any tax period and which have remained unmatched under section 37 or
section 38, shall, upon discovery of any error or omission therein, rectify such
error or omission in the tax period during which such error or omission is noticed
in such manner as may be prescribed, and shall pay the tax and interest, if any,
in case there is a short payment of tax on account of such error or omission, in
the return to be furnished for such tax period:
PROVIDED that no rectification of error or omission in respect of the details
furnished under sub-section (2) shall be allowed after furnishing of the return under
section 34 for the month of September following the end of the financial year to
which such details pertain, or furnishing of the relevant annual return, whichever is
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Melbourne Airport continues to improve passenger services with a recent trial that has included self-service boarding with global travel technology provider SITA. The airport is focusing on using technology in new ways to improve processes to make the journey smoother for its passengers and the airlines that serve them.
Melbourne Airport’s passenger improvements are underpinned by SITA’s common-use platform, which has successfully delivered self-service check-in kiosks and automated bag drop throughout the airport. The self-boarding gates are the next step in delivering a highly efficient self-service passenger experience and reducing the cost of operations for the airlines using the airport. This is one of the six areas of a passenger’s airport journey in IATA’s Fast Travel program which aims to save the industry up to US$2 billion annually.
Over a three-month period, SITA worked with the airport to analyze the potential improvements that self-boarding gates can provide. Together, SITA and Melbourne Airport have implemented a self-boarding gate in T2 International which allows passengers to simply scan their boarding pass to gain access to the aircraft. Speed of processing, passenger perception and accuracy will be measured as the airport evaluates the benefits that self-service boarding offers passengers, airlines and Melbourne Airport.
Ilya Gutlin, SITA President, Asia Pacific, said: “SITA is committed to our technology partnership with Melbourne Airport which allows us to explore the potential benefits of services and plan the ideal solution implementation with the airport team. Moving forward, we are exploring how technology and innovative services can further improve the passenger experience and operations at Melbourne Airport.”
Initial results of the self-boarding trial are positive with passengers showing strong interest and approval of boarding the aircraft by scanning their own boarding pass. The final results will now be analyzed by the SITA and Melbourne Airport teams.
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New iPad launch: Fans sleep on street to get 3rd gen Apple tablet
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Fans spend up to five days sleeping in the street outside UK Apple Store
Apple stores around the world besieged
Woman in New York offers her place in queue for $1000
‘Teardown’ specialists iFixit flew to Melbourne to open up new machine and look at technology inside
‘Oh my goodness – it’s so beautiful’ say component experts
Tech reviewers are unanimous: The screen is a revolution
By Eddie Wrenn and Ted Thornhill
Apple fans have finally got their hands on the new iPad – bringing to an end a five-day queue for some eager buyers.
The queues stretched around the block on London’s Regent Street this morning as people wait to snap up the gadget.
Zohaib Ali, 21, of Uxbridge, was the first in a queue of 600 people after waiting patiently for five days – and finally, after 141 hours, the wait was over.
He said: ‘I’m so happy. I’m really tired but it was worth it.’
First! 21-year-old Zohaib Ali from London celebrates getting his hands on the first iPad 3
Ali’s 141-hour wait: The 21-year-old ate, drank and slept at the front of the queue
Eager for a bite of the Apple: People sit in the queue for the new iPad 3 outside the company’s flagship store on Regent Street in London
Blanket coverage of the iPad launch: Fenella Barnes and Harry Barrington-Mountford, from Upminster, sit in the queueJubilant fans emerged from the Covent Garden store included Dipak Varsani, who was first in the queue.The 21-year-old student, from Neasden, north-west London, started queuing at 1am yesterday.
He said: ‘I am very excited, I have been following this since it was announced, all the rumours and everything.
‘Being able to finally have it in my hand is really an experience.
‘It is better than the other iPads because of the HD resolution – you’ve got clearer movies and clearer games – I use it as a multimedia device.’
Christof Wallner, 23, from Austria, was the first new iPad buyer in Germany
Cashing in: Amanda Foote, left, waited with her friend in the line outside New York’s main Apple store
Ooh la la: People wait to buy a new iPad in front of an Apple store in ParisAnjum Malik, 38, a leather goods salesman from East Ham, east London, added: ‘I got here at 3am yesterday and I spent all night here. I want to give the iPad to my wife.‘I love everything by Apple. The cost doesn’t matter, I just love Apple products.’
Craig Joppins, 24, from Romford, Essex, who was third in the queue, said: ‘I bumped into two people I’d met at a previous Apple event.
‘This is my fifth time in an Apple queue and this has been my best experience so far without a doubt.
‘You really need to join a queue to discover what different things go on during an event.
‘It’s well worth waiting all that time.’
Eager: People line up to enter a branch of M1 Limited in Singapore
Joy: Zhuo Hanling with his wife Seah Swee Kheng and their daughter look at one of their third generation iPads after being first in line to purchase the tablet computer in Singapore
Patient: Dai Shimazaki folds his sleeping bag after waking up on a street in front of an Apple store in Tokyo
Keen: Apple fans snooze in the queue in Toyko, wrapped in tin foil to stay warm
Sell me the new iPad, please 🙂 Murat Omarov, 26, of Kazakhstan, holds up his iPad with a messagefor Apple store staff at the company’s shop in Hong Kong
Mr Ali suffers from autism and his mother, Rahat Ali, believes that Apple products have helped him overcome his disability.
She said: ‘Apple products are very good for autism. They are very easy to use and he is relaxed when he is using them. Usually he doesn’t want to go out in a crowd but he is very happy queuing here.’
The tablet computer, which has a higher resolution screen than previous models and a five megapixel camera with auto focus and auto exposure, ranges in price from £399 to £659.
Despite competition from cheaper rivals the iPad remains the most popular tablet computer. Apple has sold more than 55 million iPads since its launch in 2010, including 40 million last year.
Mr Ali’s friend, Ali Tarighi, 18, of Acton, has been queuing with him since Saturday morning. He said of the new iPad: ‘I wanted to be one of the first to get my hands on it really.’
He added: ‘It can be hard at times, especially at nights. It gets really cold but it’s going to feel great when I hold the iPad up in triumph.’
Waiting: Avid Apple fans were lined up around the block eight hours ahead of the iPad’s 8am launch
Camping out: Those who had been in line for days were seen napping on Thursday night
A Japanese iPad fan shows off her new purchase
Chuffed: Japan’s first new iPad buyer Ryu Watanabe poses after purchasing the tablet in front of the Apple Store Ginza in Tokyo
He’ll remember this: Staff clap for a customer who bought the new iPad at an Apple store in Hong Kong this morning
First! Construction manager David Tarasenko gets the first-ever retail iPad – but admits it was the hype that made him open his wallet
I can see clearly now: A close-up of the display, courtesy of The Verge, shows what a difference the pixels make to the iPad 2’s already sharp screen
iFixit – a site which specialises in tearing open and analysing the innards of new Apple products – flew to the Telstra store in Melbourne and were the first customers in line to buy the new iPad
A new iPad logic board is removed in Melbourne, Australia MApple Inc’s new iPad went on sale in Australia early on Friday, greeted by throngs of fans hungry to get hold of the U.S. consumer giant’s latest, 4G-ready tablet computer
A new iPad 3 4G is opened using heavy-duty suction cups
The new iPad is opened using a heat gun and a plastic tool
The ‘teardown’ – a ritual part of any tech launch – revealed innards that iFixit described as ‘gorgeous’ – particularly the ‘shimmering’ screen
The new iPad display LCD is removed using guitar picks
Suction cups complete the destruction: iFixit.com staff flew to the Telstra store in Melbourne and were the first customers in line
Those waiting were handed free food and drink by companies they had contacted through Twitter.
Harry Barrington-Mountford, 22, of Upminster queued to buy the iPad 2 with his girlfriend Fenella Barnes, 30, and is now waiting for the newest model.
He said: ‘We had such a great time queuing last time that we decided to do it again. People always stop to talk to us. I am exhausted though, I have only had about 45 minutes of sleep.’
Miss Barnes is not intending to buy an iPad for herself but is queuing up to buy one for a friend. She said: ‘I have been tempted to get one but I haven’t been tempted enough. If I had a spare £500 then maybe I would consider it!’
Noah Green, a 16-year-old student from Stanmore had been fourth in the queue but was paid £300 to move back in the line. He said: ‘It is worth it. I am still 18th in the queue so I will be one of the first to buy an iPad. I am going to sell it though and earn some money.’
Customers have also been queueing overnight in other countries including France and Singapore.
But the very first customer in the world to buy the new device was 34-year-old construction manager David Tarasenko, who grabbed one at the stroke of midnight at a Telstra store in Melbourne, Australia.
Point of sale: A local telecoms company stole a march on Apple by opening at midnight
This is it: Fans in Australia can now walk out of shops as proud iPad owners
What you’ve been waiting for? After months of speculation, and a week of anticipation, the iPad hits the shelves
He said he could not wait for the device, ever since Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed the device last week.
First buyer Tarashenko said: ‘When Tim Cook announced it, it sounded like such a magical tool. I just got hyped into it, I guess.’
The new iPad is going on sale in ten countries on Friday, including the United States, Canada, Singapore, France and United Kingdom.
Eagle-eyed shoppers may see that, due to exchange rates and pricing, Australians are paying less than UK residents, who shell out £399 for the most basic model.
The clamour for the device is intense – among those in the queue outside Sydney’s flagship Apple Store was Stephen Parkes, who was paid more than £600 to wait in line for four days by the founder of an odd jobs website.
Another man, student Ryan Han, also queued for hours. He said: ‘I get a high waiting in the line and picking up one of the first products being retailed.
‘I did that for iPad 1, 2 and will do it for 4 as well.’
As the countdown continues outside Australia, early reviews of the new iPad are arriving – and there is only one word on everyone’s lips: Screen, screen, screen.
While the new ‘pad is more of an evolution than a revolution in most areas, it is not hyperbole to refer to the display as a revolutionary jump, and it appears to be love at first sight for every single person who gets a glimpse.
Reviewers are gushing over the 3.1million pixel screen, comparing the experience to that first moment of putting on prescription glasses after years of poor eyesight.
While Apple are notoriously clever at pre-launch PR, and cherry-pick their review outlets, even the most unbiased of reviewers, such as the highly-regarded Walt Mossberg of AllThingsDigital, can’t help but fall in love with the crystal-clear display.
Dwarfed by the screen: The new iPad lands tomorrow, following the unveiling of the device by Apple CEO Tim Cook last week
The over-riding theme is: If you take just one look at the screen, you will never view any kind of screen in the same light again. Even the iPad 2’s stunning display begins to look like a 1990s television.
Criticisms center around Apple’s usual closed-shop approach. As usual, there are no standard computer ports, such as HDMI connections or USB ports.
While nearly every other device has moved towards the micro-USB standard, Apple insists on a lack of ports and its own propriety connections.
So what does the tech-world make of it?
AllThingsDigital is a well-respected tech site, the off-shoot of tech conferences formed in 2003. They regularly get top guest speakers such as Bill Gates and the now-deceased Steve Jobs in for informal, personal chats.
Founder Walt Mossberg, a respected commentator over the last few decades, was all about the screen.
He said: ‘Using the new display is like getting a new eyeglasses prescription – you suddenly realise what you thought looked sharp before wasn’t nearly as sharp as it could be.
‘It has the most spectacular display I have ever seen in a mobile device. The company squeezed four times the pixels into the same physical space as on the iPad 2 and claims the new iPad’s screen has a million more pixels than an HDTV.
‘All I know is that text is much sharper, and photos look richer.
‘My epiphany came when I placed my iPad 2 next to the new model, with the same text on the screen. Letters and words that had seemed sharp on the older model five minutes earlier suddenly looked fuzzier.’
Macworld said: ‘You’re left with the same sort of typographic excellence you’d expect in a printed book.
‘The effect is even more dramatic with photos and video. Pictures reveal small details that simply weren’t there before. A photo that looks just fine on an iPad 2 looks almost undefinably better on the new iPad.
‘It’s the same image, but all of a sudden, there’s much more information there – small textures and tiny details that were previously omitted.
‘The videos look great. Watching an HD movie or TV show on the new iPad is like having a home theater in your lap.
‘Well, assuming you’ve got some good headphones, of course. The iPad’s mono speaker seems to be unchanged from the previous model.
‘Users of the iPad 2 shouldn’t fret: Their iPad investment is certainly good for another year. But they might not want to look too closely at the new iPad’s screen. Once you get a load of that Retina display, it’s hard to go back to anything else.’
Sharp: Pictures become more vivid, and the details and crispness shine through on the 3.1m pixel screen
SlashGear was impressed by the battery life: ‘A four hour loop of HD video continuously playing – with email, Twitter and other updates being pulled in over the background – saw the new iPad’s battery drop from 70-percent to 51-percent. Extrapolating from that rate, the tablet could last more than 20 hours.’
A tribute to Steve Jobs: SlashGear said this was the epitome of the Apple founder’s dream
They added: Steve Jobs would have approved of the new iPad. With its focus on the holistic experience rather than individual boasts around its constituent parts, it’s the epitome of the Post-PC world the Apple founder envisaged.
‘No lag or delay; no frustrating cloud settings or arcane minimum software requirements. Simply pick up, swipe, and you’re immersed in a joined-up ecosystem.
‘Apple doesn’t need another revolution, it has already started one, and the new iPad brings a fresh degree of refinement to a segment in which it is undoubtedly the king.’
TechCrunch followed Walt Mossberg with the eye analogy: ‘Even if you have perfect vision, indulge me here for a second.
‘You know when you go in for an eye exam and you’re asked to look at a combination of letters and numbers on a chart against a far wall? You read the first few lines, then realize you actually can’t go any further.
‘Then you get prescribed glasses (or contacts) and you can all of a sudden read every letter and number. And even the ones you could read before are now so much clearer.
‘It’s weird because I was never one of those people who thought the original iPad’s and the iPad 2′s screen was poor (but there were plenty of those people in the post-iPhone Retina world).
‘I guess it’s just like a pre-glasses world – you never realize how blurry things are because that’s just how you’ve always seen everything. And then you put the glasses on and you wonder how you ever managed without them.
Once you see and use the new iPad, there will be no going back.’
However on the downside, TechCrunch warned to choose your storage space wisely: ‘The one downside of the new Retina-ready apps is that they’re going to take up more space.
The Verge said this was not hyperbole: ‘The display is outrageous. It’s stunning. It’s incredible’
‘And you should think about this storage requirement if you’re considering the 16 GB version of the new iPad.
‘Another thing to consider: with the new iPad, you’ll obviously want HD versions of movies and TV shows and those tend to be twice the size of the standard definition versions. Apple adding movies as a part of iCloud (they previously added TV shows) mitigates some of this, but it’s still something to note.
‘On the iPad I’m testing out, I have three pages of apps, a few hundred photos, one HD movie, and one music album. It’s really not that much stuff, but it takes up over 20 GB of storage. The apps alone are over 10 GB of that.’
They also expressed surprise about the lack of Siri, Apple’s disital personal assistant: ‘For some reason, Apple has chosen not to do that, at least not yet (the popular theory is that they’re still working on scaling issues with the product in beta).
‘One key component of Siri did make the jump however: Dictation. Clicking the microphone button on the virtual keyboard allows you to talk rather than type wherever there is a text input box. It works well.
‘I would not be shocked to see Siri come to this version of the iPad in a software update somewhere down the line.’
The Verge praised Apple’s iconic style: ‘Much like the classic Dieter Rams Braun products most modern Apple devices are aping, one feels that 50 years ago or 50 years from now, this product won’t look too out of place. In the world of industrial design, that’s a rarity.
However they criticised the placement of the headphone jack (on the upper left-hand corner): ‘I feel like it would make a lot more sense on the bottom of the device.
‘Secondly, it would be nice to be able to dock the iPad in landscape mode, but that would require a second 30-pin dock connection on the side of the tablet. I reported long ago that a version of the iPad which functioned like that was in play at some point at Apple, and I wish they’d kept it around.
‘Minor gripes aside, the iPad remains best in breed when it comes to design and materials. Other tablets may have more ports or larger screens, but few can match the elegance, sleekness, or solidness of this device.’
The reviewers added: ‘Yes, this display is outrageous. It’s stunning. It’s incredible. I’m not being hyperbolic or exaggerative when I say it is easily the most beautiful computer display I have ever looked at.
‘There’s something almost bizarre about how good this screen is. After the launch event, I described the screen as “surreal,” and I still think that’s a pretty good fit.’
‘Surreal’: The glassy, glossy, crystal-clear screen is described as a revolution in technology
On whether to purchase, they opined: ‘For owners of the iPad 2, this isn’t necessarily a slam dunk. While the updated features are a boon to the new iPad, it doesn’t offer an experience that is significantly different from the previous version.
‘If your screen never bothered you, and you never wanted a faster cellular connection or a better camera, there’s not a great argument to upgrade (especially considering many of you just shelled out for a new tablet less than a year ago).
‘However, if you’re in the market for your first tablet, or upgrading from the original iPad or an Android device, do not hesitate. The new iPad is the most functional, usable, and beautiful tablet that any company has ever produced.’
The Mail Online’s verdict?
If you are taking the plunge for the first time, or upgrading from iPad 1, this is a worthy if pricey purchase. If you already have an iPad 2, the benefits may not be worth the cost.
However the screen really is a thing of wonder, and must be experienced in person to see just how vivid the screen is – particularly with apps built to take advantage of it, such as the new version of sky-watching app Star Walk, which can show 300,000 stars on screen at once.
Even on the home screen, though, icons are stunningly crisp – and printed words in iBooks are so sharp it almost hurts to look at them.
With Full HD video, there’s a cinematic feel like watching a big flatscreen TV set – except the screen is in your lap.
Photos really pop out of the screen – and even ones taken on the device’s 5-megapixel camera are crisp enough to zoom right in.
Overall, the device doesn’t feel a huge amount faster, though – the new processor clearly has its work cut out just keeping the screen going.
And despite Apple’s boasts, the games still don’t look a patch on titles on Xbox 360 or PC – but as developers get to grips with the new hardware, that will change.
If you do take the plunge, you may as well do it sooner rather than later, as iPads generally don’t drop much in retail price until the annual cycle starts again.
If you are interested in the competition, the best Android tablets have matured to a point where they offer an experience comparable to Apple, with the benefits of features such as standard ports, drag-and-drop file transfers, and more flexibility within the OS.
The innovative and smooth tablet/netbook hybrid ASUS Transformer Prime is probably the one to try out, as it is the best Android experience out there to date.
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Ben Abraham shares cover of Björk’s “Hyperballad”
Posted by 1inMusic on 16 Feb 2016 in News, Releases | 215 Views
Ben Abraham shares cover of Björk’s “Hyperballad” on 20th anniversary of original release
Not just that,
!!!FIRST UK HEADLINE DATES IN MARCH!!!
AND His debut album, Sirens, is being released on the 4th of March as we have told you before on label Secretly Canadian
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Björk’s release of her classic “Hyperballad” single, Australian artist Ben Abraham is sharing a cover of the song today—listen HERE. In addition, longtime collaborator Tim Shiel has remixed the track, which is also shared today—listen HERE.
“I approached some friends of mine to help me work on a cover of “Hyperballad” to celebrate the anniversary—composer Luke Howard and producer Tim Shiel. We emerged with two very beautiful versions,” says Abraham. “I love how Luke’s lush string arrangement, with his subtle electronic instrumentation, highlights the timelessness of Björk’s writing and that Tim’s remix shows how compelling and fresh the song feels in today’s musical landscape. It’s daunting to cover such a celebrated work, but here we are with the utmost respect, and we hope you like it.”
Abraham’s debut album, Sirens, is out March 4 on Secretly Canadian. Preorder the album on all physical formats here and digitally via iTunes here. Zane Lowe recently premiered the debut single “You And Me” on Beats 1, praising his “Beautiful songs from a debut album [written] whilst working in a hospital.” Watch the Oh Yeah Wow-directed video for the track here.
Abraham brought his live show, which Tone Deaf calls “disarming” and “truly stunning,” to the U.S. for the first time at last year’s CMJ. Abraham backs up his voice with only guitar and harmonium, in the vein of “Cat Stevens, If Donny Hathaway and Cat had a baby and he hung out with Sufjan Stevens and Feist,” Abraham says. Abraham was recently featured in an installment of the acclaimed British Mahogany Sessions series—watch him perform “Speak” here.
Ben Abraham tours the UK in March at the following venues:
Mon 7th MARCH LONDON, SERVANTS JAZZ QUARTER
Tue 8th BRISTOL, The Old Bookshop (in-store)
Tue 8th BRISTOL, The Gallimaufry
Wed 9th GLASGOW, The Hug & Pint
Thu 10th MANCHESTER, The Castle Hotel
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Since he began writing songs while working in a Melbourne hospital, Abraham has written and recorded an album while collaborating on other projects with Ta-ku, Wafia, Gotye and more. The son of Indonesian folk-pop stars, he has risen to prominence in his hometown of Melbourne and throughout Australia through his much lauded live performances, where his voice and talent has consistently blown audiences away.
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Throughout the world, religion is one of the most central commonalities that humans share. Whether we choose to follow a religion or not, every culture has one if not many religions woven through everyday life. Considering the importance of religion in human social life, we should all have a very clear understanding of why it exists, but we don’t.
“Religion is one of the least studied and most misunderstood aspects of human life, despite its central role in society,” says UBC Faculty of Arts Professor Edward Slingerland.
From an academic perspective, there’s no denying that religion has seen much less study than fields like science and mathematics. And it’s in the context of this gap that Slingerland has created an opportunity to do some potentially groundbreaking work.
Slingerland is leading UBC’s new project on religion and morality being pursued by the Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium (CERC). The world’s largest study of its kind, CERC’s study will involve more than 50 researchers from across North America, Europe and Asia and across such diverse fields as religious studies, anthropology, psychology, history, economics, biology, mathematics, philosophy and linguistics.
“Recent literature tends to view religion as something dangerous or disposable,” Slingerland says. “In contrast, our hypothesis suggests that religion is key to the evolution of large-scale societies. By bringing together such a large, multidisciplinary team, we will be able to investigate crucial issues surrounding human religiosity in much more depth than has been previously possible.”
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Ian Hilton October 2, 2013 at 6:09 pm Permalink
While religions have provided enormous impetus to human organization, they also have and do serve every nefarious purpose imaginable. I suggest that this study of the belief systems of religion include serious consideration of the following article. : http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/30/how-do-religions-die
How do religions die?
Do they waste away, or get conquered by something better? Perhaps it is easier to think in terms of gods dying, rather than religions
J.S. October 3, 2013 at 7:33 pm Permalink
“[…] our hypothesis suggests that religion is key to the evolution of large-scale societies”.
Hmm. To me that sounds like treading dangerously close to historicism. (See K. Popper.)
mondo moose November 5, 2013 at 6:53 am Permalink
I am trying to find out what the opposite of chronological means; in trying to understand I think it could mean when looking at a detailed event there are two ways of seeing it one is seeing it unfold before your eyes step by step, or as a package in the case of John the Revelator. The way He sees it makes a difference in the interpretation of the whole event Could you help me to understand?
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The Esoteric Meaning of The Fountain (2006) – Jay Dyer
July 21, 2017 By Jay Dyer Leave a Comment
The Fountain is one of Hollywood’s more difficult esoteric films: The failure of the film to achieve at the box office can be chalked up to this heavily mystifying plot and symbolism.
To decode the film requires some familiarity wth cabalism, alchemy, Mayan mythology, Genesis and creation and Zen philosophy. Combining all these motifs in a menagerie of metaphysical midrash, as with most Darren Aronofsky films like Noah or Black Swan, the key is found in the speculation of the cabala.
The film opens with Genesis 3:24, that man was banished from Eden by a Cherub with a flaming sword, sending the fallen couple East of Eden. As a result, death and corruption entered, not just the human race, but the entire created order became subject to corruption, decay and death (Romans 8). In our film, the narrative takes place in three time periods, each some 500 years apart, with the oldest being Hugh Jackman as Tomas Verde, a Conquistador in love with Queen Isobella of Spain (Rachel Weisz), imprisoned within her own palace at the behest of a Spanish Inquisition in league with Rome and hell-bent on seizing power from the cabalistically-influenced Queen.
Isobella is regaled in tree-like dress, encased in her throne room behind a tree-like fence, hinting ahead of time she is mystically linked to the Tree of Life (understood here in the cabalistic sense as the metaphysical structure of creation). Tomas, commissioned by Isabella and a Franciscan, is told to seek the source of immortality within the Mayan Legends that also foretell the story of the Tree, which Isobella understands must be united with the power of the Tree of Knowledge. These two trees will make up one of the important themes in the film – the unification of logical, analytical and left-brain masculine reasoning with intuitive, emotional, right-brained feminine approaches. This is why modern-day Tom (Jackman) finds himself consumed with a different quest to save the life of Izzy (Weisz) from cancer. As a cutting-edge neuroscientist, Tom is on the verge of curing cancer by synthesizing an extract from a tree in Guatemala – the same tree mystically linked to Izzy and the Tree of Life.
Mayan Tree as the Life-giving Fountain.
Under the veils of Roman Catholicism and Mayan religion, the esoteric philosophy of the film slowly emerges: the ancient Mayan priest’s flaming sword that beheads Tomas is a re-enactment of the ancient Edenic tale of Adam and Eve’s banishments. Now, the secrets to both immortality and life are under the guardianship of a pagan priesthood of death. The religion of human sacrifice and cannibalism, which is likely why the images of hair and flesh appear in reliquaries. In other words, Roman Catholicism is interpreted to be a cover for the perennial philosophy of cabalism, now veiled by the symbols of various religions and cultures. The dark secret, however, is buried within the darkest path of black magic and sorcery, including the “enlightenment” purported to come from the astral realm of “Shibalba,” the Mayan Underworld.
Isobella is the Garden, the Tree, the Fountain and Sophia.
Tom is also seen 500 or so years in the future traversing the galaxy in an enclosed bubble craft that also contains the tree where Izzy was buried (that mystically links with both Izzy and the Tree of Life) in order to deliver this tree to Shibalba, which we learn is a dying star. The Mayan religion was an astrotheology which linked the stellar heavens with various regions and locales on earth. In fact, the actual entrance to the Mayan Underworld was actually discovered to be the source of a vast system of underwater lakes and streams, called “Shibalba” by the Mayans. The Guardian explains:
“The director of archaeology for the National Institute of Anthropology and History, Pedro Sanchez Nava, said the theory makes sense in light of other pre-Hispanic peoples such as those who lived at Teotihuacan, near Mexico City, where another water tunnel was found.
“In both cases there was a water current present,” said Sanchez Nava. “There is this allegorical meaning for water … where the cycle of life begins and ends.” The dig began in 2012, when researchers become concerned about underground anomalies detected with geo-radar under the area in front of the pyramid’s steps.”
The deliverance of the tree to the dying star will presumably bring life to the dying system, as Tom’s synthesizing of the tree extract will save Izzy and as Tomas’ reaching the tree of life atop the Mayan Temple. In each era, Tom’s selfish choice based on attachment and prolonging life results in the cycle starting all over again (presumably). This is why the film consistently shows circular and cyclical imagery, until the climax.
“After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side[a] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.” -Gen. 3:24
It is only at the end of the age, when Space Tom finally decides to embrace death, recalling the words of Isabella that death is the path to immortality and eternal life. Here, as with the astrotheology and reincarnation, the film links to Platonism (and cabalism), in presenting Tom’s “enlightenment” as flashes of memory of his past lives. Recalling Isobella’s words of acceptance of death, the Tom of each age determines to choose differently, accepting death. As a result, each Tom reaches the Tree, and understands the mystery, eventually transforming into a new, “spiritual” Adam (and Izzy, a new Eve).
The One Ring of Eternal Return and Mystical Union.
Reunion with Izzy, however, can only be achieved in the final stage, when Space Tom can actually travel to the astral Shibalba, and offer both himself and the tree in death, with love overcoming death. Zen ideas are obviously present, such as detachment from life and possessions, while Tom’s full enlightenment is revealed to be apotheosis – by reaching the star gate to the Underworld, Tom becomes “First Father,” and recreates a world in his image from a point of light.
A new world is born, as Tom achieves a mystical marital union as Father with Sophia, his feminine principle. Thus, a Zohar-style cabalistic narrative is the key to decoding the entire film, with an alchemical wedding of masculine and feminine principles, of inner and outer worlds, and reason and intuition, of myth and scientific fact. Mystically, it is the Americas that are the source of the secrets of immortality, which come through scientific gnosis and the eventual overcoming of the limitations of time and space (much like Starchild in 2001: A Space Odyssey).
Beyond the Infinite.
In fact, the choice of Spain was consciously done, as 13th century Spain is the origin of the cabalistic works known as the Zohar, which specifically treat of this gnostic doctrine of divine union, where the male and female archetypes of “god” are fragmented and need to be re-unified. Professor Israel Shahak in his Jewish History, Jewish Religion writes:
“From the First Cause, a first male god called ‘Wisdom’ or ‘Father’ and then a female goddess called ‘Knowledge’ or ‘Mother’ wee emanated or born. From the marriage of these two, a pair of younger gods were born: Son, also called by many other names such as “Small Face,” or the “Holy Blessed One,’ and Daughter, also called ‘Lady,’ ‘Shekinah,’ ‘Queen,’ etc. “
Shahak goes on to explain various secret sexual rites that would go on to influence various occult orders, including the perversions of Crowley and Kenneth Grant in the notion of the Nightside of Eden. For The Fountain, Tom must eventually write the “Divine Words” that complete Izzy’s story which is actually her past life as Queen Isobella. Man becomes the new creator, and Thomas becomes God the Father. Like the Renaissance cabalists and Neoplatonic magicians, all the way back to Egypt, the doctrine of pantheism and reincarnation (aspects of cabala) are found to be the hidden meaning of the pseudo-biblical traditions and teachings. Man’s apotheosis is the Gnostic secret doctrine, and man his own God and Savior. The key to this mystery is revealed to be sexual magic and transhumanism, all of which have their modern origins in medieval cabalistic doctrines of scientism and the transfiguration of “dead matter.”
Tree of Life, Tree of Knosis.
While the Fountain is a fascinating presentation of symbolism and imagery unheard of in most films, the unfortunate doctrine is essentially Luciferian. The enlightenment offered is that of salvation through the scientific attainment of immortality through scientism and occult mythology, combined with the left-handed path association of taking on all possible evils and defilements. As a result of this occult version of dark theosis, one comes to the Abyss of the galaxy (as Tom does) and if successful in crossing and not going mad, one returns divinized. Just as the Serpent promised in the Garden, if man would partake of the Tree of Knowledge, he would attain godhood, apart from God.
Tree of Life of hermeticism and cabala.
Instead this brought death, but in the film, death is presented as merely a stage in occult initiation, indeed as the very embodiment of the alchemical philosopher stone project (hence the golden imagery at the close of the film). Isn’t it odd that the occult realm will posit all manner of esoteric possibilities about Genesis and Eden, God and even the possibility of Man incarnating God through sorcery, but never the actual presentation of Genesis or the Incarnation of God as Man. It’s almost as if there is a plan to mock the biblical message as ridiculous, yet at the same time take a philosophy far more outrageous and inane and prop it up as the highest enlightenment.
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Silver announced today a historic agreement by signing a letter of intent to renew and expand its fleet with up to 50 new ATR-600 series aircraft. This is a significant strategic accomplishment for the airline and a transaction valued at up to $1.1 billion. The initial order is for 20 ATR-42-600 aircraft and the agreement also provides Silver the ability to upgauge to the larger series ATR-72-600s. With this deal, Silver becomes the first fully independent U.S. regional airline in more than 20 years to sign a new aircraft deal of this magnitude. The firm 20 aircraft will be lease financed by Silver.
“Thanks to our incredibly dedicated and hardworking team, this aircraft acquisition is a monumental leap forward for Silver, our team members, and our passengers, and will allow us to expand our network with greater reach, including further into the Caribbean and the Southeastern United States,” said Jason Bewley, Silver Airways’ President and CFO. “As the world’s leading regional aircraft, new ATRs will provide Silver’s passengers unparalleled experience and reliability and our pilots the industry’s most advanced cockpit. Silver is honored to partner with ATR as its North American launch customer for these technologically advanced aircraft.”
Christian Scherer, ATR’s Chief Executive Officer declared: “Our thanks and congratulations go to our new customer Silver Airways. Silver’s detailed evaluation vindicates our belief that the ATR42-600 is the obvious aircraft of choice to upgrade older 30-50 seat regional fleets. We are excited that the travelling public in the U.S. will discover that, when they are onboard an ATR -600 series, flying on a modern prop-jet bears no comparison to the regional aircraft of yesteryear – it is as comfortable and affordable as regional flying gets!”
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New Leadership
Concurrent with the announcement of its upgraded fleet, Silver also has named Steven A. Rossum as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective August 7, 2017. Mr. Rossum replaces Sami Teittinen, who has decided to leave Silver for personal reasons. In addition, Jason Bewley, presently Executive Vice President of Commercial and CFO, has been promoted to President and Chief Financial Officer of Silver in recognition of his valuable contribution to bringing the company to this stage of development.
“Although it was a very difficult decision to leave Silver as it enters this exciting new phase of growth, it has been a privilege to lead Silver for these past four years and to see many tangible results of our efforts,” said Silver Airways President and CEO Sami Teittinen. “I leave knowing that Silver is in the right place both strategically and tactically to continue to execute its plans under the leadership of Steve, Jason, and the team. Most importantly, I have complete confidence that the Silver brand and our 700 team members will continue to grow and thrive as the Company enters this exciting new chapter.”
Mr. Rossum, who most recently served as a Partner at Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP, and as the Chief Executive Officer and a Managing Director of that law firm’s aviation consulting business, is an experienced aviation executive with a proven track record of leading improved operational and financial performance at regionally focused airlines. He has been serving as Silver’s external general counsel and fleet transactions advisor and he was a senior executive at Pinnacle Airlines in connection with its successful restructuring and emergence as a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines. He also was General Counsel of AirTran Airways, Reno Air, and DHL Airways and held Chief Financial Officer and other senior financial management positions at AirTran, National Air Cargo, and ASTAR Air Cargo. He holds B.A. and B.S. degrees from the State University of New York at Binghamton and a J.D. degree, with distinction, from Emory University School of Law.
“Silver is at an exciting and very promising point in its ongoing strategic plan, and I am very pleased to have the opportunity to join this excellent team of aviation professionals,” said Mr. Rossum. “The momentum of our airline – as demonstrated by the order for new ATR-600 series aircraft, the potential for Caribbean expansion, and our amazing team members – were key reasons I decided to join Silver. The Company has made great strides over the past year, and we have more good things in store as we continue to upgrade our company across the board for the benefit of our passengers, employees and stakeholders. I look forward to working closely with the Silver team that works so hard for our passengers.”
“We want to thank Sami for his leadership and wish him the best with his future endeavors,” said Gregory Segall, Silver Airways Chairman and CEO of Versa Capital Management, LLC, whose affiliates own Silver. “And we welcome Steve to the team. He has been an important contributor to Silver’s recent accomplishments in a key advisory capacity, and he’s the right person to lead the company forward. Working in partnership with newly named President and CFO Jason Bewley and the rest of Silver’s management, we have a great team for the future.”
Potential Expansion into the Caribbean
Finally, Silver announced today that it has entered into negotiations with Seaborne Airlines (“Seaborne”) to explore commercial cooperation including potentially a combination in support of its long-term goal to become a major U.S. airline. Seaborne is a San Juan, Puerto Rico-based air carrier serving destinations throughout Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and other countries in the Caribbean. Seaborne provides connections throughout the Caribbean via the carrier’s hub in San Juan, while also serving as the most critical link between St. Croix and St. Thomas with the carrier’s seaplane operation. Versa Capital is the largest creditor of Seaborne as well as its majority owner.
Seaborne’s experienced and dedicated employees, portfolio of markets, and business partnerships could help facilitate Silver’s route network’s expansion into a variety of highly attractive flight destinations. Further updates will be provided as the evaluation of Seaborne progresses.
Mr. Rossum concluded: “My new colleagues and I are fully focused on safety, reliability, growth and working toward fulfilling Silver’s promising future. I am looking forward to working with the hardworking men and women of Silver as we take delivery of our new ATR-600 series aircraft, explore opportunities with Seaborne, and execute on a number of other strategic growth initiatives across the Company. This is truly an exciting time for our employees, passengers, and the communities we serve – I’m confident we’ll have more good news to share down the road.”
Consummation of the ATR fleet upgrade and certain transactions involving Silver with Seaborne remain subject to certain conditions including receipt of requisite regulatory approvals.
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José Andrés’s ThinkFoodGroup has announced the launch of the chef’s newest outpost of Fish by José Andrés at the Cove at Atlantis on Paradise Island, slated for a 2018 opening. Read an excerpt from a recent article by Hospitality Design.
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By Kris Kosaka Ballet Around the World, What's coming May 10, 2012
Béjart’s Kabuki: A Preview
Honor and revenge in the samurai code culminating in a stunning mass suicide: in the aftermath of that bloody night in 1703, the facts of the actual 47 ronin incident became clouded by creative conjecture. Bunraku, Kabuki, and Noh theatre offered their own versions, collectively called the Chushingura. This collection of fictional interpretations leading up to the actual event when 47 leaderless samurai unite to avenge their master’s betrayal has enthralled Japanese audiences for centuries.
Mika Yoshioka and Kazuo Kimura in Béjart's The Kabuki Photo: © Kiyonori Hasegawa. Courtesy of NBS.
The fascination continues today, in Japan and abroad. A film based on the 47 ronin, starring Keanu Reeves, will be released later this year, while Maurice Béjart, French choreographer and frequent collaborator with The Tokyo Ballet, offered his own interpretation with The Kabuki, his 1986 full length ballet. Invited to perform at Palais Garnier, Tokyo Ballet presents one of Béjart’s most beautifully enigmatic works to a sold-out audience in Paris next week.
In the creative hands of Béjart, Chushingura assumes metaphysical complications, to be expected from a philosopher’s son. Although the ballet looks like a narrative piece, audiences should not expect a straightforward account of revenge. Béjart was more concerned with the layers of time, unfolding like the delicate sleeve of a draped kimono. With a little explanation, his vision unfolds as a stoically beautiful portrayal of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s ‘eternal recurrence’.
Artists of The Tokyo Ballet in Béjart's The Kabuki Photo: © Kiyonori Hasegawa. Courtesy of NBS.
The curtain opens on the techno-squeal of knife blades slicing across a Tokyo street. A surreal city scene encompasses all that evokes modern Japan – from flat-screened televisions to baseball swings – breakdancing and hip hop slide alongside the steps of one central modern Tokyo-ite, the leader of a group of young men, Yuranosuke.
When Yuranosuke finds an ancient Japanese sword, the strains of the shamisen, the echoes of traditional narrative chants (gidayu) waft across the stage and modernity dissolves through the flimsy fabric of time, heading back to the Edo Period and the 47 ronin.
Naoki Takagishi and Artists of The Tokyo Ballet in Béjart's The Kabuki Photo: © Kiyonori Hasegawa. Courtesy of NBS.
Béjart’s The Kabuki unfolds as Morono, the governor of Kamakura and a high ranking official to the Shogun makes advances towards Lady Kaoyo, the wife of Enya Hangan, while many samurai are gathered to honor the Shogun’s brother, Ashikaga Tadayoshi as he returns to the city bearing a helmut used successfully in battle. Hangan has been charged with entertaining Tadayoshi, but the insults of Morono against his wife drives him to violence. Drawing a weapon against a high official (Morono) during an official visit shows disrespect to the Shogun, and Hangan is commanded to commit suicide.
With Hangan’s death, all the samurai under him become ronin. Ronin literally means the man who is the ocean wave, signifying the ronin’s unstable place, adrift from society. 47 of Hangan’s retainers join together, determined to gain revenge for their master’s seppuku. The story of Kampei and Okaru plays out, two young lovers caught in the wave of betrayed loyalties and lost honor. After the 47 ronin successfully achieve vengeance with the murder of Morono, they commit ritual, mass suicide – accepting the inevitable, acknowledging the triumph of their retribution.
Yui Nikaido and Artists of The Tokyo Ballet in Béjart's The Kabuki Photo: © Kiyonori Hasegawa. Courtesy of NBS.
For Béjart, the art form of kabuki itself is a time portal, culture that straddles the divide of five hundred years. Béjart deliberately mixes elements of this traditional art form that started in the seething societal change of the Tokugawa shogunate. Within the ballet, kabuki music, movements, and chants weave throughout various narratives in the sprawling stories of the Chushingura.
While The Kabuki play alone is over 10 hours long, the ballet tips in at just two. Although much of it takes place in the past recounting the events leading up to the mass suicide, modern time flows back on stage repeatedly through various modern characters, reminding the audience that all will be repeated in eternal return. Nietzsche’s philosophy also surfaces in amor fati, or ‘love of one’s fate’ as the entire ballet celebrates the inevitability of events. Béjart himself said of the production: “We are all ronins, orphans of time.”
Haruo Goto (left) and Mizuka Ueno (right) in Béjart's The Kabuki Photos: © Kiyonori Hasegawa. Courtesy of NBS.
Béjart captures the essence of Japanese aesthetics and cleverly connects his themes of eternal return and amor fati by using a well-known Japanese Buddhist poem, the Iroha uta, as a backdrop on stage. The poem, dated from the late Heian period, is a perfect pangram, containing each character of the Japanese syllabary exactly once: thus, 47 syllables. Typically used in Japanese schoolbooks as a memory device for hiragana, the poem and its ideas on time unite ancient Japan with the present day, the 47 ronin with every man.
There are many and varied translations out there, but here is a simple one, courtesy of Wikipedia:
Even the blossoming flowers will eventually scatter. Who in our world is unchanging? The deep mountains of vanity –we cross them today and we shall not see superficial dreams nor be deluded.
To fully enjoy Béjart’s ballet, abandon expectations of traditional Western narrative. Don’t let yourself be frustrated by seemingly unrelated diversions. Each scene acts as a vignette of time, a single moment encapsulating some essence of humanity. Like an etegami painting or a haiku, the unexplained incompleteness is part of the beauty. Exalt in the now on stage: the gorgeously dripping kimono and elegance of Lady Kaoyo; Béjart’s tribute to the pleasure districts of Gion, the floating world of ukiyo in the Edo period; the brash exuberance of Morono’s spy, Bannai; the final expression of love for his fate in a beautifully choreographed solo by Yuranosuke.
Rui Yoshikawa and Artists of The Tokyo Ballet in Béjart's The Kabuki Photo: © Kiyonori Hasegawa. Courtesy of NBS.
Go if: You appreciate abstract merged with narrative or respect Japanese aesthetics of beauty, time, and gorgeous kimono.
Skip if: “Beige Art” turns your traditionalist’s stomach.
See also: Kris’s previous feature on Béjart.
The Tokyo Ballet performs Béjart’s Kabuki at the Palais Garnier from 18 to 22 May 2012. For further information & booking visit the Paris Opera’s official website.
Kris writes from Hokkaido, Japan where she recently moved after 15 years on the main island, mostly in the small town of Kamakura. She writes frequently for Japan Times, and teaches Japanese history and literature at an international school.
BéjartFriedrich NietzscheHaruo GotoKazuo KimuraKris KosakaMaurice BéjartMika YoshiokaMizuka UenoThe KabukiThe Tokyo BalletYui Nikaido
A week of dance movies in San Francisco
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An Interview with Royal Ballet Principal Nehemiah Kish
We’ve been busy guest blogging this month! Here is an extract of a recent interview with the Royal Ballet’s newest Principal dancer Nehemiah Kish…
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MY CITY, MY SM
Philippine Daily Inquirer (January 17, 2010) — IN EXPLORING CEBU CITY, ONE ENCOUNTERS a rich historic past, as well as a bustling metropolis, which serves as a focal point of growth and development in Southern Philippines.
Many national and global businesses have had their beginnings in Cebu, as we can see from the diverse businesses of the Aldeguer brothers, which range from tourism to fashion to sports. Here, Jay Aldeguer, president of the Islands Group; Michael Aldeguer, president of ALA Gym Promotions; and, Chris Aldeguer, president of the Loalde Group share with us their thoughts on booming Cebu and the spirit of entrepreneurship it inspires. This is their Cebu. This is their SM.
Many families who are into business usually focus on the one started by their fathers, but you have chosen to take different paths and have been successful in each of them. What inspired you to do so?
Jay: I started engaging in business during my college days in Ateneo when I would go around selling T-shirts and other stuff to my classmates to augment my allowance.
Right after college, I started backpacking around Europe and collected T-shirts and other mementos from the different places I would visit. I decided to do the same thing when I arrived back in the Philippines, but discovered that there weren’t many attractive souvenir items.
This served as an inspiration to put up a souvenir store to provide practical and fun souvenirs for both local and foreign tourists. Just a few months after thinking of the concept, I set up shop in Cebu with the Islands Souvenirs brand.
Now, the Islands Souvenirs Group is composed of different divisions—retail, adventure, design and media. The Retail Division carries the Islands Souvenirs, Pasalubong Center, and the new Islands and More brands.
Michael: I got into boxing through my father, Antonio, who is a boxing enthusiast. We started our training gym ALA Gym in 1984 and the promotions company, ALA Promotions in 1990. Here, we train and develop young boxers, some of the most famous of which are AJ Banal, Ray “Boom-Boom” Bautista and Z Gorres, who had to retire recently because of his injury.
We also do promotions and tie-ups with international promoters like Top Rank and Golden Boy promotions for international events.
I also dabble in the garments industry with our Bisaya Ispisyal products, which have been carried in SM for quite sometime.
Chris: My parents, Antonio and Lou Aldeguer, have been in the garment business for the last 30 plus years. Loalde started as a production and manufacturing company, but as the retail industry boomed in the Philippines, we were able to adapt to the change and we now have 12 stores.
When we were growing up, we were exposed to the garment industry, so it was very natural for myself to manage such a business.
Why do you think Cebu has such a vibrant spirit of entrepreneurship?
Jay: The business environment in Cebu makes Cebuanos very forward-looking and bullish. I would consider Cebuanos visionaries, well-balanced and very well-grounded. We are also very resilient, as the past years have shown.
Michael: Cebu is the 8th most progressive city in Asia, and a lot of investors are coming in because of its potential.
Chris: Cebuanos are very talented, have good instincts and entrepreneurial skills. Being around this environment has inspired me to be more innovative and aggressive with new ideas, especially in the retail and fashion business.
What do you love most about Cebu?
Jay: It is very hard to leave Cebu, it is only there where you can have a progressive city life with the charm of the province. Here, you can do your business in the metro, and after a tiring day, drive within minutes to where the beaches and the mountains are. I particularly love Bantayan Island and Malapascua.
I also love the food here as well, especially the barbecue and the puso.
Michael: Cebu has both urban and rural settings—it has everything in one place. I like the versatile lifestyle here—you can be in the beaches in 30 minutes, then if you want to go malling, you can be there in another 30 minutes.
I also like Cebu’s mangoes and barbecues.
Chris: I love the beaches, which I consider the major attractions in Cebu.
What do you love about SM?
Jay: SM has made the Cebu business landscape even more exciting, providing us with a new place to do business in. In our store’s third year, Henry Sy loved the concept and immediately installed Islands Souvenirs stores in SM’s Manila mall.
I love going to SM to attend events, shop at ACE Hardware and take my kids to the movies.
Michael: SM has helped the Cebu economy, and our company as well. We have promotional tie-ups with SM City Cebu for our boxing matches, which have brought the sport closer to the people. We have done our awareness programs by doing public workouts, where boxers train, as well as the weigh ins in SM for the past three years.
We also had a recent tie-up with Smart and Manny Pangilinan for the Bakbakan sa Sinulog last Jan. 14 at SM.
Chris: SM has played a very significant role in our business, and most of our stores are located at SM malls nationwide. We have Loalde stores in SM supermalls in Cebu, Bacolod, Iloilo, and Davao in the Vismin area, as well as stores in SM City North EDSA and SM City Fairview in Metro Manila.
More than that, it’s a great place to shop, eat, and have fun with the family.
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New start for ‘value-chic’ hotels
Cebu Daily News (March 25, 2011) — The Islands Group, known for its cool, patriotic T-shirts, banca cruises and souvenirs, is entering a new sector with the opening next month of a hotel chain.
The first branch of the Islands Stay Hotels is envisioned as part of a chain of “value-chic” hotels that the group plans to operate in Cebu, Manila and Davao, said Jay Aldeguer, chief executive officer.
A P60 million to P72 million investment will jump-start the operation of at least five outlets in Cebu, another one in Manila or Davao within the year, he said.
The first hotel, along Archbishop Reyes Avenue, is right across Cebu Business Park’s commercial center–Ayala Center Cebu.
“The first outlet will have 35 rooms and will still carry our brand’s color, which is orange,” Aldeguer said in an interview at the sidelines of the Philippine Retailers Association Cebu Chapter membership meeting.
Another outlet with 60 rooms will open on May in Lapu-Lapu City across Marina Mall.
Each hotel involves a P10 million to P12 million investment.
Aldeguer described the Islands Group entry in the accommodation sector as offering “more of a value hotel” where they have “stripped those features that aren’t really that important and just put in those that are really expected.”
The hotels cater to people who check in to leave their bags and then go out the whole day to wander around the city, Aldeguer said.
“Basic amenities and services like WiFi connection, hot and cold bath and cable television sets in each room are available,” he said.
“Breakfast is not included but we have a cafe where you can order sandwiches and more.”
Rates start at P950 for a small room, P1, 450 for medium rooms, P1, 950 for a large room and P2, 250 for an extra large room.
Aldeguer said they are looking at other areas in Cebu where they can open three more hotels and another outside Cebu, where two are franchisable.
The hotels are a new business that forms part of a long-term plan to make the Islands Group responsible for “making travel in the Philippines an unforgettable experience.”
“All of what we are doing now is synergized and part of a whole strategy to achieve our goal of becoming known as a brand trusted by anyone for their travel needs,” Aldeguer said.
To date, Islands Group has seven subsidiaries including Islands Souvenirs, Philippine Islands, Islands and More, Talima Adventure and Waterpark, Islands Banca Cruises, Islands Magazine, and Islands Stay Hotel.
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews/enterprise/view/20110325-327537/New-start-for-value-chic-hotels
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Bucks County man faces up to 15 years after admitting to wife's 1981 death
By Walter Perez
DOYLESTOWN, Pennsylvania -- A man faces 7 1/2 to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the death of his wife in suburban Philadelphia almost four decades ago.
Seventy-six-year-old Wiliam Korzon also pleaded guilty Wednesday in Bucks County Court to forgery related to the 1981 death of Gloria Korzon.
Gloria Korzon went to work in Horsham on March 6, 1981, and was never seen or heard from after that. She was 37.
Police said William Korzon told her manager to terminate her due to poor mental and physical health, then he took her belongings and requested her final paycheck. She was declared dead in 1997 but her body was never found.
Korzon denied killing Gloria Korzon after his arraignment in April, telling reporters "she went to Florida."
Police reports detail Korzon's history of beating his wife dating back to the late 1960s. But during a court hearing on Wednesday, he told the court that he killed Gloria in 1981 after she shot at him inside their home, but missed. He then supposedly grabbed the gun and shot her in the head in self-defense.
"No one was there except for Mr. Korzon and Ms. Korzon and only one of them is around, and he told us his side of the story," William Korzon's defense attorney, Keith Williams, said.
The (Doylestown) Intelligencer reports that investigators alleged that he continued to forge her signature on documents and other materials for years to make it appear she was still alive, but a former girlfriend found her license, social security card, medical insurance card and voter registration at his home in 1986.
Authorities also said various police departments had investigated alleged assaults of the victim, many of which required hospitalization. The abuse was documented in letters from her to her attorney.
Williams said his client has shown remorse and wanted to unburden his soul after living with this for more than half of his life.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
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Stuart Hall interviewed by Zoe Williams in the Guardian | 2012-02-11
// oAnth:
(W)e arrive at the riots of the summer, the place where the austerity, these so-called "failures" of multiculturalism, the absence of politics, all meet, in Foot Locker, of all places. "The riots bothered me a great deal, on two counts. First, nothing really has changed. Some kids at the bottom of the ladder are deeply alienated, they've taken the message of Thatcherism and Blairism and the coalition: what you have to do is hustle. Because nobody's going to help you. And they've got no organised political voice, no organised black voice and no sympathetic voice on the left. That kind of anger, coupled with no political expression, leads to riots. It always has. The second point is: where does this find expression in going into a store and stealing trainers? This is the point at which consumerism, which is the cutting edge of neoliberalism, has got to them too. Consumerism puts everyone into a single channel. You're not doing well, but you're still free to consume. We're all equal in the eyes of the market."
And this is the most pessimistic of all his ideas: that three decades of neoliberalism have got into people's consciousness and infected the way young people respond to poverty just as they have neutered the way politicians express themselves. "I got involved in cultural studies because I didn't think life was purely economically determined. I took all this up as an argument with economic determinism. I lived my life as an argument with Marxism, and with neoliberalism. Their point is that, in the last instance, economy will determine it. But when is the last instance? If you're analysing the present conjuncture, you can't start and end at the economy. It is necessary, but insufficient."
In this present conjuncture, though, he sees everywhere the hangover – indeed, the ongoing orgy of an essentially economic agenda. The left is faltering because it can't realistically say it didn't continue what Thatcher started. The institutions of the old welfare state have already been "hollowed out. This is what Blair discovered – you don't need to have a fight about privatisation, you just have to erode the distinction between public and private."
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Four short links: 7 November 2013
Learn to Search — cheeky but spot-on help for people running conferences.
Offline First — no, the mobile connectivity/bandwidth issue isn’t just going to solve itself on a global level anywhere in the near future. THIS!
10 Things You Should Know About AWS — lots of specialist tips for hardcore AWS users.
The League of Moveable Type — AWESOME FONTS. Me gusta.
Tags: Uncategorized @fourshort amazon design devops events fonts gender performance web events-2
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Subs Español) - Les Blank (1980)
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6e-1aZ8yj4
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe is a short documentary film directed by Les Blank in 1980 which depicts director Werner Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven. The film includes clips from both Gates of Heaven and Herzog’s 1970 feature Even Dwarfs Started Small. Comic song “Old Whisky Shoes”, played by the Walt Solek Band, is the signature tune over the opening and closing credits.
The film features Herzog cooking his shoes (the ones he claims to have been wearing when he made the bet) at the Berkeley, California restaurant Chez Panisse, with the help of chef Alice Waters. (The shoes were boiled with garlic, herbs, and stock for 5 hours.) He is shown eating one of the shoes before an audience at the premiere of Gates of Heaven at the nearby UC Theater. He did not eat the sole of the shoe, however, explaining that one does not eat the bones of the chicken. There are also clips of short interview of Herzog discussing the destructive capitalistic effects of television and mankind’s lack of adequate imagery.
Blank went on to direct Burden of Dreams (1982), a feature-length documentary about Herzog and the making of Fitzcarraldo. Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe is included as an extra on the Criterion Collection edition of the Burden of Dreams DVD.
#cinéma #films #documentaire #performance #télévision #réflexion #capitalisme #publicité #interview #werner_herzog #les_blank
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Four short links: 6 August 2013
White Hat’s Dilemma (Google Docs) — amazeballs preso with lots of tough ethical questions for people in the computer field.
Chinese Hacking Team Caught Taking Over Decoy Water Plant (MIT Tech Review) — Wilhoit went on to show evidence that other hacking groups besides APT1 intentionally seek out and compromise water plant systems. Between March and June this year, 12 honeypots deployed across eight different countries attracted 74 intentional attacks, 10 of which were sophisticated enough to wrest complete control of the dummy control system.
Web Tracing Framework — Rich tools for instrumenting, analyzing, and visualizing web apps.
CoreOS — Linux kernel + systemd. That’s about it. CoreOS has just enough bits to run containers, but does not ship a package manager itself. In fact, the root partition is completely read-only, to guarantee consistency and make updates reliable. Docker-compatible.
Tags: Uncategorized @fourshort china devops ethics open source performance security Velocity web open-source velocity
Four short links: 23 July 2013
Canary (IndieGogo) — security sensor with video, motion, temperature, microphone, speaker, accelerometer, and smartphone remote control.
Page Speed is Only The Beginning — 73% of mobile internet users say they’ve encountered Web pages that are too slow. A 1 second delay can result in a 7% reduction in conversions.
Rate Limiting and Velocity Checking (Jeff Atwood) — I was shocked how little comprehensive information was out there on rate limiting and velocity checking for software developers, because they are your first and most important line of defense against a broad spectrum of possible attacks. It’s amazing how many attacks you can mitigate or even defeat by instituting basic rate limiting. (via Alex Dong)
Self-Assembling Multicopter (DIY Drones) — The true accomplishment of this research is that there is not one robot in control – each unit in itself decides what actions to take to keep the group in the air in what’s known as Distributed Flight Array. (via Slashdot)
Tags: Uncategorized @fourshort drones mobile performance security sensor network web mobile-2 sensor-network
Hans-Peter Feldmann: Kunstausstellung / Johnen Galerie, Berlin
Johnen Galerie participated in Gallery Weekend Berlin 2013 with a solo show with works by German conceptual artist Hans-Peter Feldmann. The exhibition Kunstausstellung represents the methodology the artist has developed within the last years. The show includes two installations: Dreigruppen (Trianda); mostly forgotten or unknown artists, mainly paintings from the 19th and early 20th century. Feldmann arranges three images of different traditional subject-matters and techniques. Each viewer may perceive and interpret these constellations in his or her own way. Thus images of clearly defined theme and content are integrated in a network of open and complex relationships. Furthermore the exhibition includes works where the author actually remixes portraits, scenes with small interventions: red noses, crossed eyes and black eyes add a strikingly modern and humorous accent to the dusty and solemn images.
In this video, gallery owner Jörg Johnen introduces us to Hans-Peter Feldmann’s and oeuvre and the artist’s current exhibition.
Hans-Peter Feldmann was born in Düsseldorf in 1941. His works have been shown in numerous exhibitions, lately at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2013), Serpentine Gallery, London (2012), Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York (2011), Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2010), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2010) and Konsthall Malmö (2010). He lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Hans-Peter Feldmann: Kunstausstellung at Johnen Galerie Berlin (Germany). Interview with Jörg Johnen, April 26, 2013. Video by Frantisek Zachoval.
PS: Watch Hans-Peter Feldmann’s solo presentation within the framework of the exhibition The Endless Renaissance at Bass Museum in Miami Beach.
Hans-Peter Feldmann: Links | Videos | Images | More Images | Books
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Richard Hughes at Anton Kern Gallery, New York
This video provides you with a walkthrough of British artist Richard Hughes’ solo show at Anton Kern Gallery in New York. Hughes was born in 1974 in Birmingham. He studied at Staffordshire University and Goldsmiths College London. Hughes lives and works in London. The current show at Anton Kern Gallery is Richard Hughes’ third solo exhibition at the gallery. It’s dominated by large sculptures that recall insect legs and seem to be made of lamp posts. The show runs until May 18, 2013. A Richard Hughes monograph was launched at the opening. More information is available after the break.
Richard Hughes. Solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, New York. April 12, 2013. Video: Shimon Azulay.
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Exhibition text:
For his third solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, UK-based artist Richard Hughes has turned the gallery into a stage for a magic dance performed by a street gang of enchanted lamp posts, ice-cream-wafer-like garden walls and broken memorial statues found in the most dilapidated and dark corners of (British) suburbia. With his first artist monograph freshly published by JRP Ringier and two recent solo exhibitions at Tramway Art Space in Glasgow and Firstsite in Colchester, England, Hughes’ work is at the center of public attention.
Richard Hughes is known for his exceptional skill to turn ordinary, sometimes slightly repulsive objects that might be found in a hovel of a rooming house or unceremoniously dumped by the side of the road — bleak monuments to abused domestic or public spaces — into narrative sculptures. Their placement in a gallery space instantly invites questions as to its recent history, use, and function, or imminent action. Upon closer inspection, all objects reveal themselves as casts, meticulously crafted replicas of every-day things injected with an element of fantasy. The beauty within this ostensibly abandoned world lies in the moment of surprise when materials reveal themselves as “fakes.” This is the moment when hidden images and cultural memories become visible and intelligible, when the vernacular becomes a universal language. Hughes’ sculptures are not ready-mades. As facsimiles of common objects it’s not the object that is transformed but its reappropriated meaning and ability to reconfigure the object for the viewer. Gradually, these objects-turned-sculptures reveal their inherent capacity to tell stories, to evoke narratives that are charged with everyday-life experience and humor.
Richard Hughes has had solo exhibitions at Tramway, Glasgow (2012); Sculpture Court, Tate Britain (2006); The Showroom, London (2004); and is currently presented at Firstsite, Colchester, UK, in an exhibition entitled Time is over, time has come. His work has been exhibited internationally, including presentations at the François Pinault Collection, Punta della Dogana, Venice (2009); the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2008); and the Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany (2006). Hughes was selected for the 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh (2008); the fourth Liverpool Biennial (2006), and the British Art Show 6 (2005). He was nominated for the Beck’s Futures award in 2006 and was the recipient of the EAST International award in 2003.
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Lita Albuquerque and Mollie McKinley at Spring/Break Art Show 2013
In this video, the artists Lita Albuquerque and Mollie McKinley talk about their collaboration for Spring/Break Art Show 2013 in New York. Their project is curated by Natalie Kovacs.
Interview with Lita Albuquerque and Mollie McKinley at Spring/Break Art Show 2013. New York, March 5,2013.
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Four short links: 6 March 2013
High Performance Networking in Google Chrome — far more than you ever wanted to know about how Chrome is so damn fast.
Tactical Chat — how the military uses IRC to wage war.
http-console — a REPL loop for HTTP.
Inductive Charger for Magic Mouse — my biggest bugbear with Bluetooth devices is the incessant appetite for batteries. Huzzah!
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Spring/Break Art Show New York 2013: New Mysticism
Spring/Break Art Show in an old schoolhouse in Mott Street, New York, is a curator-driven art fair. The fair is in its second year. For 2013, the title is New Mysticism. 22 curators show work by more than 80 artists, who, according to the organizers, explore how digital semiotics, the internet and technology at large, combined with the old relics of 20th century visual culture, inform a new formal intuition. This video provides you with a walkthrough on the occasion of the preview on March 5, 2013.
Spring/Break Art Show: New Mysticism. Preview, March 5, 2013.
PS: Coming soon: Interview with the artists Lita Albuquerque and Mollie McKinley.
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Steve Turner Contemporary: Proyecto Basurto
Proyecto Basurto is an exhibition project conceived by the Los Angeles-based gallery Steve Turner Contemporary. Proyecto Basurto is a pop-up exhibition in Mexico City, featuring works by seven artists: Parker Ito, Edgar Orlaineta, Sarah Rara, Pablo Rasgado, Javier M. Rodriguez, Rafaël Rozendaal and Fabiola Torres-Alzaga. The exhibition is held in the historic Edificio Basurto, a landmark 1944 art deco apartment building in Colonia Condesa.
Steve Turner Contemporary: Proyecto Basurto. Interview with Steve Turner, February 22, 2013.
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How Do I Look? Group Show at Roots & Culture Contemporary Art, Chicago
The group show How Do I Look? at the art center Roots & Culture in Chicago presents drawing, photography, video, and sculpture by the artists Edie Fake, Erin Leland, Aay Preston-Myint, Michael Sirianni, Latham Zearfoss. The press release explains that “the five artists in this show are together concerned with the physical construction of interiority, the confinement to oneself that nevertheless has a public appearance, and among other things, the richness of erotic encounters and their spatial dynamics. Employing sidelong glances, coded gestures and secret language, both in tactics of display and in attitude, the artworks of How Do I Look? continue both the feminist project of de-neutralizing domestic space and the queer project of de-pathologizing promiscuity. As a collection of encounters, How Do I Look? elicits desire from fluid erotics enacted relative to public disclosure, through the evocative interplay formed in moving from the openness of light to the cloaking of darkness. How Do I Look? is at once a self-obsessed trifle and an ever-prescient interrogation: “How do you see me? How do I see everything else?”. The exhibition runs until March 23, 2013.
Roots & Culture is a nonprofit contemporary art center. The mission of Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center is to provide exhibition opportunities for leading-edge emerging artists and to develop the city of Chicago’s cultural community as a center for art production and a destination for artistic discourse.
How Do I Look? Group Show at Roots & Culture Contemporary Art, Chicago. Opening reception, January 22, 2013. Video by Francisco Cordero-Oceguera.
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Michelle Grabner: DRAFT / Autumn Space, Chicago
DRAFT is the first exhibition of artist Michelle Grabner’s work at Autumn Space Gallery in Chicago. In this show, Michelle Grabner presents five large scale works and an edition. Included in the exhibition are a monochromatic woven gesso relief and a collaborative sculpture with Michelle Grabner’s husband Brad Killam.
Michelle Grabner is a Professor and Chair of the Painting and Drawing Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is represented by Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago and runs The Suburban and The Poor Farm with her husband Brad Killam. She will co-curate the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her work is included in the permanent collections at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Luxemburg; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Daimler Contemporary, Berlin; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Michelle Grabner: DRAFT / Autumn Space, Chicago. Opening, February 23, 2013. Video by Francisco Cordero-Oceguera.
PS: Watch also: Brad Killam and Zach Cahill: Five Drills / Performance at NADA Cologne 2012.
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Gutai: Splendid Playground. Retrospective at Guggenheim Museum, New York
Splendid Playground is the title of a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York that highlights the work of Japan’s avant-garde collective Gutai. Gutai (具体) was founded by Yoshihara Jirō in 1954. From 1954 until 1972, the Gutai group totaled 59 Japanese artists, who explored new art forms combining performance, painting, and interactive environments. The name “Gutai” literally means “concreteness” and stands for the direct engagement with materials its members were experimenting with. One of the major works on display is Motonaga Sadamasa’s Work (Water) (1956/2011), a large scale sculptural installation made of polyethylene tubes filled with brightly-colored water that the artist recreated for the rotunda of the Guggenheim museum. This video provides you with a walk through the exhibition. More information on the exhibition is available after the break. The exhibition Gutai: Splendid Playground at the Guggenheim Museum in New York runs until May 8, 2013.
Gutai: Splendid Playground. Retrospective at Guggenheim Museum, New York. Opening, February 14, 2013. Video by Shimon Azulay.
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Excerpt from the press release (English):
(NEW YORK, NY – February 11, 2013) — From February 15 to May 8, 2013, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present Gutai: Splendid Playground, a retrospective of the Gutai Art Association (1954–72), the radically inventive and influential Japanese art collective whose innovative and playful approaches to installation and performance yielded one of the most important international avant-garde movements to emerge after World War II. Based on fifteen years of research, Gutai: Splendid Playground provides a critical examination of both iconic and lesser-known examples of the collective’s dynamic output over its two-decade history and explores the full spectrum of Gutai’s creative production: painting, performance, installation art, sound art, experimental film, kinetic art, light art, and environment art. Gutai: Splendid Playground is the first North American museum exhibition devoted to the Gutai group and offers a comprehensive interpretation of the convention-defying movement.
Comprising approximately 145 works by 25 artists and spanning two generations of Gutai artists, Gutai: Spendid Playground is organized into six chronological and thematic sections presented along the Guggenheim ramps:
Play: An Uninhibited Act
Concept: Can a Piece of Cloth Be a Work of Art?
Network: To Introduce Our Works to the World
The Concrete: The Scream of Matter Itself
Performance Painting: Pictures with Time and Space
Environment: Gutai Art for the Space Age
The exhibition also includes documentary films of the group’s historic outdoor exhibitions and stage events and offers a focus on their eponymous journal as a platform for international artistic exchange. A centerpiece of Gutai: Splendid Playground is a site-specific commission of Work (Water) (1956/2011) by the late Motonaga Sadamasa. Prior to his death in 2011, Motonaga reimagined his iconic early Gutai outdoor installation, made of plastic tubes filled with colored water, for the Guggenheim rotunda.
Gutai: Splendid Playground is co-curated by Ming Tiampo, Associate Professor of Art History, Carleton University, Ottawa, and Alexandra Munroe, Samsung Senior Curator of Asian Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Assistance was provided by Asian Art Curatorial Fellow Lyn Hsieh.
Gutai: Splendid Playground is supported in part by the Henry Luce Foundation.
Additional funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Japan Foundation, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas), the W.L.S. Spencer Foundation, Tokio Marine Holdings, the United States–Japan Foundation, and the Dedalus Foundation, Inc.
The Leadership Committee for Gutai: Splendid Playground is gratefully acknowledged for its support: Hauser & Wirth, Yoko Ono Lennon, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Rachel and Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Cindy and Howard Rachofsky, Tina Kim and Jae Woong Chung, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Richard Roth, and those who wish to remain anonymous.
The Gutai Art Association was founded in 1954 by the influential artist, teacher, and critic Yoshihara Jiro in the town of Ashiya, near Osaka. The group spanned two generations, totaling fifty-nine artists over its eighteen-year history. The name “Gutai” literally means “concreteness” and captures the direct engagement with materials its members were experimenting with around the time it began.
Against the backdrop of Japan’s World War II militarism and defeat, the American Occupation, and Japan’s postwar reconstruction as a democratic state, Yoshihara directed Gutai as an experimental environment for his protégés to explore the potential of their creative free will. Yoshihara’s call “Do what no one has done before!” pushed Gutai to break through borders between painting and performance, object and process, and between art, the ordinary public, and everyday life. He championed art making as an act of freedom, a gesture of individual spirit, a rite of destruction to create something new. Unbridled invention led the Gutai artists to experiment with new methods and materials: they painted with watering cans, remote-control toys, homemade cannons, and bare feet; made ephemeral site-specific works using the sky, water, sand, lightbulbs, and torn paper screens; and staged exhibitions in public parks, on the beach, and in bombed-out ruins. Gutai artists gained critical attention for their use of the body and for their experimentation with technology and nature.
The Gutai group grew out of both a rich local cultural context and critical engagement with international contemporaries. The local context, arising from the cosmopolitanism of the Kansai region, included prewar modernism, theater design, traditional Japanese festivals, children’s art education, and avant-garde calligraphy. The international context included Abstract Expressionism, Art Informel, Gruppe Zero, Happenings, and environment art—all movements with which Gutai intersected both at home and abroad. Gutai: Splendid Playground seeks both to examine Gutai’s aesthetic strategies in the cultural, social, and political context of postwar Japan and to further establish the group in an expanded, transnational history and critical discourse on modern art.
Gutai artists perceived early on that the canvas had become a contested arena internationally, and inspired by Yoshihara’s ethic of originality and individualism, they literally leapt through the picture plane in their search for new forms of art. During their first phase (1954–61), Gutai constructed self-expression as an assertion of the individual against the mass-conformist legacies of wartime totalitarianism. Not only did they lead by example, performing powerful acts of self-expression, but they sought to develop the autonomy of others—of their audience, the general public, and especially of children—by provoking them to think, create, and imagine for themselves. The exhibition features Tanaka Atsuko’s interactive sound-art installation Work (Bell) (1955 [refabricated 1993]), where visitors activate a cacophony of bells ringing sequentially across the Guggenheim’s Ramp 2; and “performance paintings” by Murakami Saburo, Shimamoto Shozo, and Shiraga Kazuo. For Shiraga, painting with his feet enabled an unmediated encounter with the material and a direct bodily form of artistic expression, seen in such paintings as Untitled (1957) and Wild Boar Hunting II (1963) and in his performance Challenging Mud (1955), where the artist “painted” with his entire body in a pile of grit, directly engaging with raw matter.
During the group’s second phase (1962–72), Gutai assessed and experimented with new technologies, seeking ways to counter the perceived dehumanization caused by Japan’s rapid growth and evaluating its cultural impact. The exhibition highlights artists from this later period of Gutai production, who have long been neglected in scholarship, such as Imai Norio, Imanaka Kumiko, Kikunami Joji, Matsuda Yutaka, Matsutani Takesada, Mukai Shuji, Nasaka Senkichiro, Nasaka Yuko, and Yoshida Minoru. Exploring the relationship between art, its environment, and the viewer, Gutai’s intermedia works incorporate optical illusion, light projection, and movement. Artists frequently motorized their sculptures, turning exhibition spaces into dens of screeching, pulsing, machinelike organisms. Yoshida‘s erotic machine-sculpture Bisexual Flower (1970) mines the psychedelic effects of this approach.
During the group’s lifetime, Gutai artists showed on four continents and distributed their magazine, the Gutai journal, to contacts around the world. In 1962, Yoshihara established the Gutai Pinacotheca, which became the center of the group’s activities, functioning as an exhibition space and a site for international engagement. In 1958, the Gutai group was featured in their first exhibition in the United States, at the legendary Martha Jackson Gallery in New York. It was not until 1965, however, when Gutai was included in a show at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam on the Nul and Zero movements that Gutai’s role as a pioneer of intermedia experimental art was fully recognized. Long misunderstood abroad as a painting movement by virtue of the group’s 1957–65 collaborations with French Informel critic Michel Tapié, the full spectrum and historic contexts of Gutai’s highly innovative cross-genre approaches to art making within an international context have remained understudied.
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Ferdinand Hodler at Fondation Beyeler
Ferdinand Hodler is considered as the best-known Swiss painter of the 19th century. Hodler is known for his portraits and nature and landscape images, especially those of the Swiss mountains and lakes. Hodler’s paintings had a major influence on Switzerland’s picture and perception of itself. At the same time, he was one of the most important representatives of the transition from the 19th century to modernism. The Fondation Beyeler in Riehen (Basel, Switzerland) currently presents a comprehensive exhibition of the late work of Ferdinand Hodler. The show has been organized in conjunction with the Neue Galerie in New York and is curated by Ulf Küster (Fondation Beyeler) and Jill Lloyd (Neue Galerie). In this video, Ulf Küstler provides us with a guided tour of the exhibition. He presents highlights of the show and talks about the life and work of the artist. (This video is an excerpt. The full-length versions in English and German language are coming soon on this page. They are already available on Fondation Beyeler’s YouTube channel.).
The exhibition at Fondation Beyeler, which focuses on the late work of the Swiss painter Ferndinand Hodler, comprises some 80 works and includes loans from renowned Swiss and American private collections and major national and international museums. The show is complemented by a extensive supporting program such as lectures, readings, and a dance performance.
Ferdinand Hodler at Fondation Beyeler. Tour with curator Ulf Küster, February 6, 2013.
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Jake & Dinos Chapman: Chicken / PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv (Ukraine)
The exhibition Chicken by Jake & Dinos Chapman at the PinchukArtCentre in Kiyv (Ukraine) presents the specially produced new installation The Sum of all Evil, that represents a synthesized reflection upon the central themes such as the Holocaust, violence, and death. The Chapman brother’s fascination with sharp subversive humor and unbridled aggression is apparent throughout their work. The Sum of all Evil is an enormous miniature scenery, which is composed of four encased dioramas. It is a continuation to Chapman’s’ earlier epic nine-part installations, Hell (1999-2000) and Fucking Hell (2008). Jake & Dinos Chapman: Chicken brings together many of the artist’s most celebrated works: early iconic sculptures such as The Chapman Family Collection (2002), Sex I (2003) and From the Blackened Beyond (2011). In this video we attend the opening reception of the exhibition, and Eckhard Schneider, (General Director of the PinchukArtCentre) provides us with an introduction to the exhibition. Finally, Jake & Dinos Chapman talk in detail about the work The Sum of All Evil. The show runs until April 21, 2013.
Jake & Dinos Chapman: Chicken at PinchukArtCenter, Kyiv (Ukraine). Interview with Eckhard Schneider, Jake & Dinos Chapman, February 15, 2013. Video by Frantisek Zachoval.
PS: Watch also: Tony Oursler: agentic iced etcetera. Solo Show at PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Eckhard Schneider, General Director of the PinchukArtCentre:
“Jake and Dinos Chapman’s work continually verges on the breaking of taboos. It can be extremely offensive in its use of black humor and subversive jokes, addressing issues of violence, war, the Holocaust, genetic manipulation and death in all their inhumanity. It seems they are always ultimately concerned with generating a moral panic. The selection of work in this case fulfills such claims in a very specific manner, in that they will be premiering a new work, Sum of All Evil, which references the Babi Yar massacres in Kiev.”
PinchukArtCentre is an international center for contemporary art of the 21st century in Kyiv, the capital and largest city of Ukraine. It was opened in 2006 by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. Jake Chapman was born in 1966 in Cheltenham and Dinos Chapman in 1962 in London. They live and work in London. They have exhibited extensively, including solo shows at the The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (2012); Museo Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare (2010); Hastings Museum (2009); kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (2008); Tate Britain, London (2007); Tate Liverpool (2006); Kunsthaus Bregenz (2005); Museum Kunst Palast Dusseldorf (2003); Modern Art Oxford (2003) and the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2000); upcoming in November 2013 will be a solo show at the Rudolfinum, Prague. Group exhibitions include the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2011); the 17th Sydney Biennale (2010); Meadows Museum, Dallas (2010); Rude Britannia, Tate Britain (2010); Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2010); Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art, S.M.A.K, Ghent (2010); the National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2009); Kunstverein Hamburg (2009); British Museum, London (2009); Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille (2008); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2008); ICA, London (2008); Annenberg Courtyard, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2007); Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (2006) and the Turner Prize exhibition, Tate Britain (2003).
PinchukArtCentre представляє першу персональну виставку в Україні Джейка та Діноса Чепменів під назвою «Курча». Проект побудований довкола нової масштабної інсталяції художників «Усе зло світу» (2013), що формує цілісний погляд на головні теми творчості братів – Голокост, жорстокості та смерть. Також, виставка включає в сеье відомі арт-об’єкти Чепменів, гостре почуття гумору та неприборкана агресія яких провокують конфлікт та піддають сумніву табу, що існують у сучасному світі.
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Lichtenstein. A Retrospective. Tate Modern, London
With the exhibition Lichtenstein. A Retrospective, the Tate Modern in London currently presents a full-scale retrospective of one of the great American artists of the 20th century. The show brings together 125 of Roy Lichtenstein’s most definitive paintings and sculptures. Lichtenstein is known for his works based on comic strips and advertising imagery. His paintings are colored with his signature hand-painted Benday dots. Lichtenstein. A Retrospective showcases key paintings such as Whaam! (1996), Drowning Girl (1963), and Look Mickey (1961). This video takes you on a walk through the exhibition on the occasion of the press preview.
Lichtenstein. A Retrospective. Tate Modern, London (UK). Press preview, February 18, 2013.
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Tony Oursler: agentic iced etcetera. Solo Show at PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv, Ukraine
Tony Oursler’s exhibition agentic iced etcetera at the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv, Ukraine is the first major solo exhibition by the artist in Eastern Europe. Tony Oursler: agentic iced etcetera presents specially produced new works, including a Ukrainian speaking installation, as well as some of the most iconic pieces of the artist. The New York–based artist has been a pioneer of New Media and video art. Tony Oursler is especially known for projecting moving images onto objects. In this video, Eckhard Schneider (General Director, PinchukArtCenter) talks about the mission of PinchukArtCentre, Bjorn Geldhof (Deputy Artistic Director, PinchukArtCenter) speaks about the significance of Tony Oursler’s work. Finally Tony Oursler talks in detail about the specially produced new works. The show runs until April 21, 2013.
As Eckhard Schneider, General Director of the PinchukArtCentre states:
“Tony Oursler (born 1957) is one of the pioneers of the genre. For Oursler video is a medium comparable to water in its extreme fluidity, one that had remained imprisoned within television for fifty years. He has not only succeeded in liberating video from the screen, but also in developing it into video sculpture. His works are introspections on the human psyche under the influence of mass media. The majority of the work that will be on show has been created especially for the PinchukArtCentre – a dramatic labyrinth of sensations.”
PinchukArtCentre is an international centre for contemporary art of the 21st century in Kyiv, the capital and largest city of Ukraine. It was opened in 2006 by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
Tony Oursler: agentic iced etcetera at PinchukArtCenter, Kiev (Ukraine). Interview with Eckhard Schneider, Tony Oursler and Bjorn Geldhof, February 15, 2013. Video by Frantisek Zachoval.
PS: Watch also our 2009 coverage of Tony Oursler: Cell Phones Diagrams Cigarettes Searches and Scratch Cards at Metro Pictures, New York
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Oursler is today among the most important as well as the most influential artists of the present day. Formally, Oursler has developed a wide-ranging use of materials such as resin, glass, fabric, steel and various found objects, which are kaleidoscopically overlaid with projection, light and sound, forming a unique embodiment of his themes.
Projecting moving images onto objects, Oursler moves beyond traditional uses of media such as cinema, television and the computer and creates something akin to “living” sculptures. The scenarios he devises are often full of poetic and humorous performances, incorporating all manner of physical and auditory representations of the human form.
Tony Oursler graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 1979 and is currently based in New York. Oursler’s works have been widely exhibited internationally, including solo shows at the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum (2012); Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan (2011); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010); Kunsthaus Bregenz (2009); Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen (2006); Musee d’Orsay, Paris (2004) and many more. Group exhibitions include the Museum of Art and Design, New York (2012); Cincinnati Art Museum (2011); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2010); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008). 1 Elizabeth Janus, “Talking Back – A Conversation with Tony Oursler”, in Tony Oursler: Introjection (Williamstown: Williams College Museum of Art, 2010).
The PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine) presents the first major solo exhibition by Tony Oursler in Eastern Europe entitled “agentic iced etcetera”. The exhibition combines specially produced new works, including a Ukrainian speaking installation, with some of the most iconic pieces of the artist. Themes within the exhibition include chance in everyday life, endorphin fuelled relationships, and the tendency for magical thinking to name a few. The human face and the way it simultaneously communicates and masks emotions is also a key theme in Oursler’s work.
Eckhard Schneider, General Director of the PinchukArtCentre: “Tony Oursler (born 1957) is one of the pioneers of the genre. For Oursler video is a medium comparable to water in its extreme fluidity, one that had remained imprisoned within television for fifty years. He has not only succeeded in liberating video from the screen, but also in developing it into video sculpture. His works are introspections on the human psyche under the influence of mass media. The majority of the work that will be on show has been created especially for the PinchukArtCentre – a dramatic labyrinth of sensations.”
From his earliest videos and installations, the mutability of human nature has been the central theme of Tony Oursler’s work, fuelled by his fascination with the inner workings of the psyche and belief systems . The resulting sculptures, videos and installations challenge the viewer’s preconceptions of rationality, schizophrenia and culturally constructed notions of good and evil.
Formally, Oursler has developed a wide-ranging use of materials such as resin, glass, fabric, steel and various found objects, which are kaleidoscopically overlaid with projection, light and sound, forming a unique embodiment of his themes. Oursler’s work invites viewers to question their relationship with mass (multi-) media and reaches from an examination of television (and its surrounding structures) to a questioning of the psychological effects of digital communication tools like mobile phones and the Internet.
Projecting moving images onto objects, Oursler moves beyond traditional uses of media such as cinema, television and the computer and creates something akin to “living” sculptures. The scenarios he devises are often full of poetic and humorous performances, incorporating all manner of physical and auditory representations of the human form. The works incorporate a spectrum of voices reflecting numerous performative and literary approaches – florid poetics, interior monologues, tortured fragments or scientific jargon. Viewers are invited to complete the script as they move through the exhibition and confront open-ended, often existential constructs.
Oursler also explores the interaction between sculpture and spectator. He is aiming for a conversational structure in which the object not only speaks but also provokes the viewer’s imagination.
The human face reoccurs as subject in “Caricatures” (since 2002), works in which biomorphic sculptural objects become caricature-like forms literally brought to life by videos of eyes and mouths that take over the unnatural proportions of the sculptural object. These works explore the viewer’s empathic relationship and echo the history of caricature, ranging from early sculptural forms such as the Venus of Willendorf to the ubiquitous smiley face.
The artist’s so-called “micro works” are almost like living embodiments of thought structures. Oursler’s interest in memory, construction and new scientific discoveries and ontological systems form the basis of these wildly imaginative microcosms. Landscape, architecture, found objects and amorphic materials are overlaid with tiny projections which complete the surreal, microscopic world. Elaborately edited looping structures cover these small forms and upturn the relationship with the spectator. Each micro-world is displayed at eye level and mirrors the scale of the human cranium.
On the other hand, the overwhelming scale of “Lock” (2011) semi-forces the viewer into a total, physical experience of image and sound. Viewers are dwarfed by the three enormous characters who make up the work and as they pass through the maze of this projected world, they experience three layers of interlocking characters: the first representing free will and agency; the second representing the status quo and human error; the third representing mathematical symmetry and death. This monumental installation involves key performances by artist/filmmaker Tony Conrad, vocalizations by singer/performer Chanique Rogers, a sound collaboration with Dan Lloyd (Brownell Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College, Hartford) and musical compositions generated from functional MRI (Magnetic Resonating Image) readouts of psychological test subjects. The installation has the appearance of a secretive yet familiar system, loosely divided between the mind, body and environment, in which synchronized images shift to form a colourful game.
Finally, the exhibition features a screening room of music-themed video. The screening includes numerous collaborations, including those with Sonic Youth, Beck, Kim Gordon, Stephen Vitiello and Glenn Branca as well as featuring Oursler’s recently released music/video collaboration with David Bowie.
The exhibition will be open from February 16 till April 21, 2013 in the PinchukArtCentre. Admission is Free.
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Yoko Ono. Half-A-Wind Show. Retrospective at Schirn Kunsthalle
Yoko Ono: For most people she is just the widow of John Lennon, or even the woman who broke up the Beatles. What most people don’t know is her work as an avant-garde artist. With the large retrospective Yoko Ono. Half-A-Wind Show. Eine Retrospektive, the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt am Main in Germany wants to highlight her pioneering role as an artist, as a groundbreaking protagonist of the early conceptual, film and performance art. This video provides you with an exhibition walkthrough, an introduction by curator Ingrid Pfeiffer, and an excerpt of Yoko Ono’s statements at the press preview. In this excerpt, Yoko Ono emphasizes the importance of the artist, and talks about politicians, the search for truth, and what she believes the individual can do to make this world a better place.
The retrospective Yoko Ono: Half-A-Wind Show at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt presents around 100 objects, films, installations, photos, drawings, and text based work. The exhibition focuses especially on Yoko Ono’s works from the 1960s and 1970s. On display are installations and objects such as Half-A-Room (1967), Air Dispensers (1971), Water Event (1971), Danger Box (1971), and Amaze (1971); films such as Film No. 4 (Bottoms) (1966), Fly (1970), and Film No. 5 (Smile) (1968); and Yoko Ono’s music, presented in a special music room. Among the newer works on display are Franklin Summer Drawings (1995-), Vertical Memory (1997), En Trance (Revolving Door Version) (1998), Touch Me (2008/2009) – and a work that Yoko Ono has developed specifically for the exhibition in Frankfurt, the installation and performance Moving Mountains. The exhibition runs until May 12, 2013.
Yoko Ono. Half-A-Wind Show. Retrospective at Schirn Kunsthalle. Press Preview, February 14, 2013.
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David Choong Lee: Organic Updates / 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
This video provides you with a walkthrough of artist David Choong Lee’s current solo exhibition titled Organic Updates at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. David Choong Lee presents large altar-like wall sculptures. The multidimensional murals combine abstract and figurative elements. He’s been influenced by such diverse sources as Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Sukdo, and underground music DJ scenes. His own artistic style that is a combination of graffiti, collage, portrait, and classical realistic skill with bold graphic elements. The exhibition Organic Updates at 111 Minna Gallery runs until February 23, 2013.
David Choong Lee was born in 1966 in Seoul, Korea. He moved to the USA in 1993. In 1997 he graduated from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He has been teaching figurative art at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco from 1998. David Choong Lee lives and works in San Francisco.
111 Minna Gallery is located in the SOMA district of downtown San Francisco in walking distance from SFMOMA. The gallery’s space is an urban industrial warehouse. Established in 1993, 111 Minna Gallery features exhibitions of contemporary art, life performance, film screenings, and DJ’s.
David Choong Lee: Organic Updates. Solo exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco.
Opening Reception, February 1, 2013. Video: Ross Stanley.
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President’s Young Talents and The Collectors Show: Weight of History at Singapore Art Museum
Singapore Art Week in January was packed with art events: the international art fair Art Stage Singapore 2013, a myriad of exhibition openings in art institutions, private galleries, and art centers such as Gillman Barracks. The Singapore Art Museum contributed even two highlights to the arts calendar: the President’s Young Talents show, featuring Singapore’s most promising artists under the age of 35, and the much anticipated Collectors Show: Weight of History.
Now in its third year, The Collectors Show presents contemporary art from private collections in Asia. The 2013 edition is titled Weight of History. Curated by SAM curator Michelle Ho, the exhibition features more than 20 works that show how artists perceive, and re-conceive the multiple facets of history in the Asia-Pacific region. The exhibition runs until May 5, 2013.
The President’s Young Talents show was inaugurated by Singapore Art Museum in 2001. Its aim is to feature Singapore’s most promising artists under the age of 35. The artists are selected by an independent curatorial committee of local art professionals and are mentored through the entire process of art creation. This year the selected artists are Boo Junfeng, Liao Jiekai, Zaki Razak, Grace Tan, Ryf Zaini and Robert Zhao Renhui. The exhibition runs until September 15, 2013.
In this video, we provide you with an exhibition walkthrough on the occasion of the opening reception of both The Collectors Show: Weight of History, and President’s Young Talents on January 24, 2013.
Coverage of last year’s shows is available in our archive: The Collectors Show: Chimera at Singapore Art Museum and The Singapore Show: Future Proof at Singapore Art Museum at 8Q
Featured artists in The Collectors Show: Weight of History are Tony Albert, Jumaldi Alfi, Montien Boonma, Kawayan de Guia, Sakshi Gupta, Shilpa Gupta, Gonkar Gyatso, Aisha Khalid, Li Songsong, Morimura Yasumasa, Francis Ng, Chatchai Puipia, Sudarshan Shetty, Shahzia Sikander, Tang Da Wu, Yuken Teruya, Tu Wei-Cheng, Vertical Submarine, Xu Bing, Yee Sookyung, Zulkifli Yusoff, and Zhang Huan. The works come from the collections Hady Ang, Apeejay Surrendra Group, Mimi Brown, Disaphol Chansiri, Aliya & Farouk Khan, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art Seoul, Lekha and Anupam Poddar, Michelangelo and Lourdes Samson, Tatsumi Sato, Peggy Scott and David Teplitzky, Mike Tay, Tay Yu Jin, The Rose Trust, and other private collections.
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Spartak Saint Petersburg 88
Neptunas Klaipeda 75
Local time: 20:00 SPARTAK ARENA
Spartak St. Petersburg beat Neptunas Klaipeda 88-75 to return to the race for a spot in the next stage in the Eurocup. Steve Burtt Jr. starred with 21 points and 9 assists, Yaroslav Karolev scored 19 and Donnie McGrath tallied 17 points and 8 assists to lead the home team, which improved to 2-3 in Group H. Spartak stormed ahead with a 12-0 second-quarter run, led 44-32 at halftime and had an answer for every Neptunas move afterward. Jared Homan added 15 points and 9 rebounds and Andrey Koshcheev posted 12 and 7 for the victors. Vytautas Sarakauskas scored 15 to lead Neptunas, which dropped to 1-4. Marius Runkauskas added 13 points and Justas Sinica scored 12 of 4-of-5 three-point shooting.
Homan scored twice as Spartak jumped in front 6-2. Sarakauskas answered as Neptunas tied the score at 8-8. Burtt got going with a layup and an assist to help the hosts grab an 18-13 lead after one quarter. Mindaugas Girdziunas nailed a three-pointer to tie it again at 18-18 early in the second quarter. Spartak took charge at that point with a run of 12 unanswered points; Burtt scored half those points and McGrath assisted twice in that run. Karolev heated up and extended the lead to 40-23 with 7 points in a row. Neptunas got within 10 on a pair of Edgaras Ulanovas free throws, but Burtt hit 2 from the line to make it 44-32 at halftime. The visitors drew close again at the start of the second half; Sinica nailed a three and Valdas Vasylius jumper brought the visitors within 48-44. McGrath took charge with 7 of his team’s next 9 points and later dished an assist to Homan to leave Spartak with a 60-52 lead through three quarters. With a block on one end and a bucket at the other, David McClure kept Neptunas within 63-56. But Burtt dished to Koshcheev to quickly restore a double-digit advantage. Neptunas made one last run and closed to 64-69 on an Ulanovas triple. A pair of buckets from Burtt and a steal and slam from Korolev ended the game with time to spare, 75-64, and the hosts cruised to a crucial win.
Referees: LOVSIN, ANDREJ; TOMOV, MIROSLAV; MILOJEVIC, ALEKSANDAR
Spartak Saint Petersburg 18 26 16 28
Neptunas Klaipeda 13 19 20 23
Spartak Saint Petersburg
5 McGRATH, DONNIE 36:19 17 4/6 3/4 4 4 8 1 7 2 1 2 2 21
7 KOSHCHEEV, ANDREY 32:28 12 6/7 1 6 7 3 1 2 4 16
11 BURTT, STEVEN 30:33 21 6/7 2/3 3/3 4 4 9 1 3 4 32
15 KOROLEV, YAROSLAV 30:52 19 6/7 2/5 1/1 6 6 2 3 2 2 1 27
17 IAKOVENKO, ARTEM 14:04 2 1/3 0/1 1 3 1 -4
19 FIDII, EVGENY DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
20 POPOV, ILYA DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
21 NESTEROV, KONSTANTIN DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
27 PERSHIN, YURY 12:49 2 1/1 1 2 3 1 3 1 4
35 VOITIUK, EVGENII DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
51 HOMAN, JARED 33:21 15 7/12 1/4 1 8 9 4 1 3 1 2 2 17
55 TKACHENKO, MAXIM 9:34 0/1 1 1 1 1 1
Totals 200:00 88 31/43 7/14 5/8 3 31 34 28 8 17 4 2 18 11 114
Head coach: VETRA, GUNDARS
Neptunas Klaipeda
7 MAZEIKA, MARTYNAS 25:00 2 1/6 0/2 1 1 2 2 4 2 3 4 -6
8 GIRDZIUNAS, MINDAUGAS 5:24 3 0/1 1/1 1 1
9 MC CLURE, DAVID 15:49 5 1/2 1/2 2 2 1 2 1 1 8
10 SINICA, JUSTAS 24:51 12 0/2 4/5 2 2 4 2 1 2 1 3 16
13 EITUTAVICIUS, ARVYDAS 25:14 4 0/3 0/2 4/4 1 1 2 1 2 3 2
15 SARAKAUSKAS, VYTAUTAS 24:53 15 6/9 1/3 3 2 5 1 1 1 1 1 16
22 RUNKAUSKAS, MARIUS 22:35 13 5/7 1/3 4 4 4 3 1 2 2 19
31 ULANOVAS, EDGARAS 14:32 7 1/5 1/2 2/4 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 5
42 VASYLIUS, VALDAS 26:42 8 3/6 0/1 2/3 1 3 4 2 2 1 2 12
44 SMITH, ANDREW 15:00 6 3/6 0/1 1 1 1 1 1 4
Totals 200:00 75 20/47 9/21 8/12 10 18 28 15 11 12 2 4 11 18 79
Head coach: MAKSVYTIS, KAZYS
VETRA, GUNDARS
"This game was very important for us because only victory gave us a chance to fight for qualifying for the next round. So the actions of my players maybe sometimes were nervous, but it’s because of a lack of confidence in their forces. We lost a series of games including some of them where we could have won. But today the players were one team on the court and 27 assists says something about this fact. The players tried to look for each other on the court, help each other and find good situations for attacking. On defense we played according to our plan not all the time, but in some periods and the game wasn’t bad."
MAKSVYTIS, KAZYS
"We seriously thought about victory here. But the first half wasn’t good for us. In the second we returned to the game twice and reduced the difference up 4-5 points. But these efforts needed a lot of our forces and we lost the end of the game. So we’ll try to take revenge at home."
KOROLEV, YAROSLAV
"We don’t want to be an outsider and we don’t to hurt our fans. It’s only our second home game in the season, and the first in the Eurocup. So our goal is to win all the home games and try to win as many as possible games away. Up to now we have done that."
Artem Yakovenko - Spartak St. Petersburg vs. Neptunas (photo Spartak)
Donald McGrath - Spartak St. Petersburg vs. Neptunas (photo Spartak)
Jared Homan - Spartak St. Petersburg vs. Neptunas Klaipeda (photo Spartak)
Martynas Mazeika - Neptunas Klaipeda vs. Spartak St. Petersburg (photo Spartak)
Steven Burtt - Spartak St. Petersburg vs. Neptunas (photo Spartak)
Andrey Koshcheev - Spartak St. Petersburg vs. Neptunas Klaipeda (photo Spartak)
REGULAR SEASON LAST 32 EIGHTHFINALS QUARTERFINALS SEMIFINALS FINALS
Artland Dragons 70
FoxTown Cantu 86
Le Mans Sarthe 71
Telenet Ostend 80
Elan Chalon 65
Bilbao Basket 86
Banco di Sardegna 94
Belgacom Spirou 78
Asvel Villeurbanne 79
Paris Levallois 66
Cimberio Varese 77
CAI Zaragoza 67
Belfius Mons Hainaut 57
Virtus Rome 75
Telekom Baskets Bonn 85
CSU Asesoft 72
Pinar Karsiyaka 81
Igokea 86
Nizhny Novgorod 87
Khimik Yuzhne 84
Buducnost Voli 76
Alba Fehervar 92
Aykon TED Ankara 84
Unics Kazan 85
MZT Skopje 61
Kalev Cramo 64
Maccabi Haifa 68
Spartak St. Petersburg 88
Neptunas 75
Panionios Athens 74
Bisons Loimaa 62
Radnicki Kragujevac 70
Besiktas Integral Forex 77
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Sound of Memory
Jung Tu
University College of London
what am i interested in
what is the question i am going to ask
how am i gonna answer it
Music, when sweet voices die, Vibrates in the memory . . .
Sound has always been associate with human’s activity, from a person’s foot step to a whole city construction, sound also became an element to defining an atmosphere in which people live. Since the revolution of the industrialisation, soundscape have been change to a modernity level to motor, elevated, steeldrill, engine, subway and airplane which was only horses, drums, lutes or songs. Throughout the years, the transformation of soundscape combined to create a culture that became a defining element. There was an American composer, George Antheil(1900-1959), made a piece called ‘Ballet Mécanique’ when he settled in Paris after moved to Europe in 1920 to make his name. Once after he performed his pieces at the Theatre des Champs-Elysées, the audience later exclaimed “George had Paris by ear!” (Thompson, 2008) There was no doubt that sound could also defined a space, a city’s voice. The reason we could link our thought to historic imagination such as this case, the Paris, is because sound is a significant trigger to memory. It is easy for people to recall some historic events by listening to the sound that had been played during that occasion.
Sound could be a language that can communicate and evoke memories. The reason is the part of storing emotional memories in the brain is also responsible of processing our hearing senses. There are four main parts in human’s brain: the brainstem, the cerebellum, the cerebral hemispheres and the limbic system. (Rettner, 2010) Each has the unique function to control the phases body. The limbic system however are involved in memory with two represent function, the amygdala and hippocampus. There were some researches tried to treat dementia by the used of old music recordings. Sound is no doubt is the most important element to unlock this potential. (Street, 2015)
Therefore the question appears: Is there any key element of sound of a sound that could trigger a shared memory? What kind of sound could represent a city? To answer this question first is to collect lots of data of a city in some specific locations and find out what could be highlighted and more easier to recognised.
what can i do to answer the question
Everyone has their own individual memories while listening to a certain sound or music. However, how do people remember a sound and link them to some specific memories? Walter Murch, an American film editor and sound designer, once had recalled how he had had an experienced a strange sound that was outside his own imagination in Michel Chion’s book, Audio Vision: Sound on Screen.
To remember the sound, first is to imaginatively captured by a sound before understand it. It is more likely to remember if we understand through imaginative engagement. Especially to those who have experienced the wonder process, it became a true understanding. (Street, 2015)
After hearing the voice recordings that had been recorded in some specific location in London, I found out some influential elements that could defined the place of where I were. I closed my eyes while listening the recordings and tried to recall what had happened with not only my memories but also the sound that could be recognised. I could tell whether I were inside a building or not while walking thought Westfield by hearing the change of a muffled sound to a clear and open sound with a wind noise in the background. Or I could hear the speed changed in the tube to tell whether we were closed to the station or not. Furthermore, I could also imagine what store I had passed by while walking in Regent street by noticed the change of the music which had been played by different store etc. Also, there is no doubt some specific elements of sound affect individuals differently from one to another. Bell ring, dog barking, raven cawing or even Christmas songs. Sound could not only be a indicator but also the tigger to memory. Every year the city of Bournemouth, seaside resort on the southern coast of England, will paced an air festival along the coast. Different kinds of aircraft will holds its ability to the crowds. Wingwalkers and warplanes or other display team will thrill the holiday crowded of the season. There were a organisation, a local care home, took some of the male resident to the event. At first it seems to be a great idea, to let the resident especially the elder men to take a look at the splendid show. Then everything went wrong when a aircraft fly past: a Lancaster bomber. Everyone expect elderly men who served in the military during the war were panicked, distressed by the sound of the aircraft. The sound trigger the memory and placed them back in to the black memory of danger. Even thought not all memory is healthy, the connection between sound and memory is very deep and profound.(Street, 2015)
To be more precisely of defining which sound could be more easily to trigger the memory in London, sound words need to be classified. In general, some sound experts tried to classify the element of acoustic environment in the modern soundscape. R. Murray Schafer, for example, who wrote the book: “The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World.” Once classify the sound in seven category: Natural Sounds, Human Sounds, Sounds and Society, Mechanical Sounds, Quiet and Silence, Sounds as Indicators. However, the catalogue somehow is built up empirically and headings are arbitrary, I tried to pick up 3 to 4 of each part only except Quiet to represent the sound of London.
I. Natural Sound:
II. Human Sound:
III. Sounds and Society
IV. Mechanical Sounds
Constructive sound
3. Bus
4. Train
V. Sounds as Indicators
(Schafer, 1994)
To me, tigger the memory present is varying from one and another. This is also the most appealing factor of sound, more imaginative. Everyone could hear a sound and link to a different memory. Therefore to recall the collective memory need to be an indicator or a signal that could link all the memories in the same position. For example from big to small: hearing the Big Ben chimes near Thames river, hearing ferry horn beside London bridge or hearing free evening standard man yelling outside the underground stations.(Yelmi, 2017) Also to be more details in traffic signal: the green traffic sign sound for pedestrian, the passing sound when entering the bus or tube station by Oyster card, or the warning sound of the closing door in the tube etc. All the signal sound in daily life is a direct and clear indicator to trigger memories and reminds people of London.
what have i learnt?
what is the next step?
After collecting all the data base of these trigger elements. The next step is to figure out what could a collective memory do? And why is it important?
Collective memory, is a concept once written in a book by a French philosopher Maurice Halbwachs in which present to be a shared knowledge or information in the memories of a certain social group.(Henry L. Roediger and Henry L. Roediger, 2016) And in order to inherit knowledge, first is based on social interaction and group consciousness. The power of a collective memory is about the profound meaning of inherit emotions and value orientation and this is really important of group cohesiveness. Therefore, to me the next step is to focus on how the the sound could not only trigger the collective memory but also how do people feel about it: emotions. What would people feel while hearing the sound of Big Ben chimes?
Imagination of the finished project:
Imagine walking inside a installation which have to pass through a really dark canopy with the sounds source playing in the background which could trigger the collective memory. Then make the participants tried to dig inside the memory of which emotion could represent the sound. In each emotion there will be different kinds of colour to represent it. In memory part, I tried to think of several elements that could represent a flash existence which could only last for a really short time affect. For examples: bubbles, candle, spray etc. And make the colour lights project on the item.
The purpose of building a such installation is not only making people notice of how profound the relationship between sound and memory is but also hoping to create a new memory of the sound source after walking inside the installation.
1. Aiello, L., Schifanella, R., Quercia, D. and Aletta, F. (2018). Chatty maps: constructing sound maps of urban areas from social media data. online Royal Society Open Science. Available at: http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/3/150690 Accessed 7 Jan. 2018.
2. Thompson, E. (2008). The soundscape of modernity. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, Page 142.
3. Rettner, R. (2010). Brain’s Link Between Sounds, Smells and Memory Revealed. online Live Science. Available at: https://www.livescience.com/8426-brain-link-sounds-smells-memory-revealed.html Accessed 7 Jan. 2018.
4. Street, S. (2015). memory of sound : preserving the sonic past. New York: Routledge, Page 23.
5. Schafer, R. (1994). Our sonic environment and the soundscape. Rochester, Verm.: Destiny Books, pp.p138-144.
6. Yelmi, P. (2017). Sounds of London – Sound and vision blog. online British Library. Available at: http://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2017/09/a-soundscape-of-london.html Accessed 7 Jan. 2018.
7. Henry L. Roediger, K. and Henry L. Roediger, K. (2016). The Power of Collective Memory. online Scientific American. Available at: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-power-of-collective-memory/ Accessed 7 Jan. 2018.
8. Street, S. (2015). memory of sound : preserving the sonic past. New York: Routledge, Page 28?29.
9. Chion, M., Gorbman, C. and Murch, W. (1994). Audio-vision. New York: Columbia University Press, Page XIV.
10. Bulldozia.com. (2010). Adventures Close to Home: Adventures Close to Home > Keynotes, Signals and Soundmarks. online Available at: http://www.bulldozia.com/adventures/index.php?id=601 Accessed 7 Jan. 2018.
11. Schroeder, S. (2016). Explore the sounds of New York, London and Barcelona in these gorgeous maps. online Mashable. Available at: http://mashable.com/2016/03/24/new-york-london-sound-maps/#wPI0cfVWjsqq Accessed 7 Jan. 2018.
12. Jung Tu, 2107. bubbles digital image viewed 29 December 2017.
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Lola Cartoon on Facebook Memorial Pages
Today’s Lola cartoon is instructive for Facebook users!
Lola is reading a newspaper while sitting on a bench in the park with a friend. Her friend has a laptop computer. Lola says, “Wonder how old Ned Gunderson is doing? I know he’d been ill.” Her friend says, “Maybe there’s something on his Facebook page.”
The next panel her friend says, “He updated his status to ‘deceased’.” Lola quips, “He always was thorough.”
Okay, here’s the question – would anyone in your family know how to change your active Facebook page to a Memorial Page?
Our lives are now lived in both the real world and the virtual online world. When someone dies, their bodies are disposed of, but their online presence remains. Those Facebook profiles, Twitter feeds, blogs and other online accounts are still out there, a virtual life after death.
Facebook allows groups to set up pages and contribute postings to honor someone who has died. Each group has an officer and administrator, and friends or admirers can post comments, photos, videos, and links related to the deceased. Some of these sites have hundreds of members, others just a few dozen.
The deceased’s full name, date of birth, account email addresses and other information is needed to either delete a Facebook account or change the page over to a free Facebook Memorial. You also need some proof of the death, such as an online obituary. Memorializing the account removes contact information, online group memberships, and personal information, such as favorites.
You can report a death and memorialize or remove Facebook profiles at this link: www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=deceased.
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More News on the Frozen Dead Guy
Who says you can’t make news when you’re dead? Bredo Morstoel, the body at the center of the Frozen Dead Guy Days festival, has been in the headlines this past week.
Bredo, who’s been preserved in a Tuff Shed that houses his crypt of dry ice, has been there since 1993. It was the grand scheme of his grandson Trygve Bauge to put the 89-year-old in a deep freeze after he died of a heart condition in 1989. He’s been paying Bo “The Iceman” Shaffer to deliver and install the dry ice for nearly 20 years. Bauge, who is preserving his grandfather’s body in the hopes of reanimation through future science, was deported to his native Norway in 1994.
Now, because of a contract dispute with Shaffer, Bauge is threatening to move Grandpa to the Cryonics Institute, a membership-based non-profit located in Clinton Township, Michigan. The institute currently holds more than 100 patients in a state of “cryonic suspension,” stopping tissue decay by cooling their bodies to the temperature of liquid nitrogen in hopes that future technology will allow for revival and restoration.
Shaffer’s been asking for a raise for over two years, and Bauge’s been refusing. Bauge tells a slightly different story, citing communications problems and saying Shaffer has not been adding enough dry ice to the freezer holding his grandfather’s sarcophagus.
Morstoel was aware of his grandson’s interest in cryonics, Bauge says, but did not know that he himself would be frozen — “though he once expressed a gut feeling” that he wouldn’t be getting a regular burial, Bauge wrote in an email to reporters.
Freeze The Day for Frozen Dead Guy Days!
The 12th annual Frozen Dead Guy Days, scheduled for March 8-10 in Nederland, includes live music, coffin racing, ice turkey bowling, a parade of hearses and more. Organizers say the festival can live on without him, but unless Bauge and Schaeffer resolve their differences, Frozen Dead Guy Days may lose its star attraction.
Nonetheless, it may not happen until 2015. I participated in 2011 and 2012, bringing The Newly-Dead Game™ there as part of the festivities. More info about The Newly-Dead Game!
Here are some of the top stories:
Boulder Daily Camera (the original story on September 25): Grandson looking to move Nederland’s Frozen Dead Guy to Michigan
CBS News (national): Frozen Dead Guy May Move To Michigan
Michigan Live: Famous ‘frozen dead guy’ may be headed to Michigan, but festival will stay in Colorado
Huffington Post: Colorado “Frozen Dead Guy” Festival To Go On With Or Without Corpse
NY Daily News: Colorado ‘Frozen Dead Guy’ festival to go on with or without corpse
Here’s video from one of the installments of The Newly-Dead Game at Frozen Dead Guy Days 2012:
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A Life Of Populence
Film. Television. Music. Pop Culture.
The convenient destruction of hard work
December 10, 2015 January 6, 2016 / Steph Bateman
Image: Touchstone Pictures
I’m not sure when we stopped listening to albums.
I suspect it was somewhere between the emergence of Napster and the legitimising of music downloads on iTunes. I started thinking about this recently when I complimented someone on their playlist. I thought about it a little further and considered that it might have been a kind of dumb thing to say because since when should someone get credit for arbitrarily selecting some songs to play? I think what I really meant to say was ‘I’m into this band and I love that you have at least one of their songs’. Chances are it was probably on shuffle anyway and there wasn’t even any ‘craft’ in creating the playlist.
I am equally as guilty of this as the next person. Spotify is one of my favourite things and I have created a playlist that I’ve named ‘infinite playlist’ because I just add all the random songs of bands and artists I like but obviously don’t like enough to look a lot further than one or two tracks. I like it because I’ve been adding to it over the past couple of years and it serves at a bit of a journey of what has pressed my musical buttons in that time, outside of the artists I love and bother to listen to more than one song of.
Once upon a time kids, if you wanted to make a ‘mix’ it was very time consuming, and had the potential to be relatively costly unless you friends were kind enough (and had decent enough taste in music) to lend you their CDs or records. You then needed to sit there actually listen to the songs you were going to add to the ‘mixed tape’, consider their order, length etc. Mixed tapes took effort and held meaning.
Time moved on a little and we could then make mixed CDs by ripping music from our existing CDs to our very slow Windows 98-2000 based PCs and then burn them onto a blank disc. And whilst this was a slightly simpler process, it was still pretty time consuming and could be passed off as thoughtful.
There is nothing remotely thoughtful or romantic about a Spotify or similar playlist. “Babe, I told Pandora that you like Dance With Me by 112, and it gave me 50 other songs from that decade you forgot you pashed your first boyfriend to at party. Hope you love it”. Said no one ever.
The other part of this of course, is the artistry that goes into creating an album. Even albums you hate by bands you think are awful were lovingly put together by the people that wrote and produced the music. They carefully selected tracks, and cut others that might have been just as good but didn’t flow, they put them in an order that they intended you to listen to them in. And then we go in there and vandalise their hard work by creating a fucking playlist.
It’s no secret that streaming services do pretty much nothing for an artists back pocket, but I’d rather pay Spotify, who at least give a tenth of a cent, than acquire an album through illegal means. That’s not to say I haven’t done that, of course I have, but having the ability to pay for it now means I don’t really need to steal. But I hate buying albums on iTunes. I have nothing against iTunes. Aside from the fact that their software is less than awesome. I just think if I’m going to fork out $20 for something I’d like to be able to touch if it does exist in a physical form. I don’t necessarily feel this way about TV/movie streaming, although I still buy my favourites on blu-ray. I like cover art. I like liner notes. I care about that stuff. And you can be sure if it’s available on vinyl and I love it, I’m going to buy it, I’m that much of a tragic hipster tosser.
So my resolution moving forward is not to stop making playlists, and enjoying the freedom of being able to satisfy that urge that says ‘I JUST NEED TO LISTEN TO THIS ONE SONG AND MY LIFE WILL BE OK AGAIN’ without rifling through a CD wallet as I would have in days gone by. But it is to listen to more albums beginning to end, side one to side two, as it were.
The next part of this is to start recommending albums, not songs, no just artists. Nope, I’m going to tell you the album that I am loving. And I want you to do the same – I want album recommendations! I always struggle with the ‘High Fidelity’ list thing of top fives etc – I’m not very a good at it, but I do enjoy the challenge of creating them so I’m going to have a crack at giving you my top 5 favourite albums of all time, and then my top 3 albums of the last year or so that I have, and continue to listen to start to finish.
Top 5 Albums of All Time
1. Love is Hell pt 1 & 2 – Ryan Adams (2004)
Technically a two part EP, but later released as one full length album once Lost Highway realised it was the best work he’d ever done. This album is going to take you a full roller coaster of emotions. It sounds like it should be pretty one dimensional but trust me, you’re going to feel it all.
Stand out track: English Girls Approx.
2. August and Everything After – Counting Crows (1993)
The album that launched the career of this incredible band. 22 years later ‘Mr Jones’ is still on regular rotation on commercial radio, and deservedly so. This album tells a really powerful story, something that Counting Crows have been masters of for many years.
Stand out track: Anna Begins
3. Black Market Music – Placebo (2000)
During my teenage years, I lived for this band. I was in love with Brian Molko (still am kind of) and I wailed and sobbed my eyes out the year they toured Sleeping With Ghosts and they played an over 18s venue in Melbourne and I couldn’t go. My consolation prize was my parents let me take the day off school to go to their signing at HMV Bourke Street. Eventually I did get to see them perform live, and the songs from this album were my favourite to scream my teenage heart out to (and still are).
Stand out track: Days Before You Came
4. Destroyer – KISS (1976)
Get the Destroyer Remixed version if you can. Bob Ezrin is a master producer but when this album received the 2012 treatment, it was like polishing up a beautiful diamond that age had taken some shine off of. It’s very hard for me to select just one KISS album; this band have soundtracked my entire life, but when it comes down to it, Destroyer is the masterwork.
Stand out track: Shout It Out Loud
5. Born and Raised – John Mayer (2012)
I don’t want to call this a come back album, because he never really went away, but it definitely has that feeling to it. It’s an album that documents that maturation of John Mayer, that place that (hopefully) we all get to one day where we can make peace with some of the stupid things we’ve done, and move on with our lives, knowing we’re all just people doing out best to be good at this thing called being human. It was something of a musical departure for John, but one that makes perfect sense if you have ever followed his music journey.
Stand out track: Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, January 1967
The top 3 albums I loved the most this year:
1. Something More Than Free – Jason Isbell (2015)
I can’t say enough things about how incredible this album is. Jason Isbell is a master song writer, and the 2 Grammy nominations the album received this week are incredibly well deserved. Jason Isbell has a way with lyrical specificity that no one else can touch. I can’t wait to see him live again next April.
Stand out track: Palmetto Rose (a beautiful song about civil rights in America, so very appropriate right now, not to mention it’s killer tempo change.)
2. Transgender Dysphoria Blues – Against Me! (2014)
I was a little late to the party on this one, but if you don’t know Against Me! or the story of their incredible singer Laura Jane Grace then I thoroughly recommend a little research. This album was obviously incredibly personal for Laura, and the raw emotion throughout this record goes to show. From a sweet ballad for her daughter, to the angriest thrashing punk track directed squarely at the hypocrites within our society, it’s a killer ten tracks start to finish. I wish that more people knew the story of Laura Jane Grace and her life. I think she has just as much to offer (probably more) than Caitlin Jenner.
Stand Out Track – Two Coffins
3. Jeckyll + Hyde – Zac Brown Band (2015)
I was lucky enough to see this wonderful group of musicians play live for the first time this year, and it was one the greatest live shows I have ever seen. This album was about to be released and at the show Zac noted that there would be something for everyone on it. And he wasn’t wrong! From a catchy little swing tune with Sarah Bareilles to an alt rock radio-friendly single featuring Chris Cornell, this was by far their most diverse offering to date.
Stand out track: Dress Blues (incidentally, written and originally performed by the aforementioned Jason Isbell)
So there it is. There’s so many more albums that hold a special place in my heart, honourable mentions to The Living End’s self titled album, Enema of The State – Blink 182, Americana – The Offspring, Tea For The Tillerman – Cat Stevens, East – Cold Chisel…as I said, the list goes on! But I want to hear your recommendations, hit me with albums that have spoken to you over the years, I’m keen to hear some new stories.
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Sentencing Council
Fighting back and winning
July 11, 2019 Alison Chabloz11 Comments
Musical extracts ~ me playing keys over backing tracks of jazz standards, Taking a chance… and Gee, baby…
Please find links to my donation pages on the right hand side bar. Thanks to everyone for your ongoing support and encouragement.
Unfortunately, owing to tech issues, I am unable to upload the documents cited but will keep trying and update as necessary.
Alison. X x
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Our corrupt System needs community payback
October 11, 2018 October 11, 2018 Alison Chabloz
According to the British Sentencing Council’s definitive guidelines on the imposition of custodial sentences:
• A custodial sentence must not be imposed unless the offence or the combination of the offence and one or more offences associated with it was so serious that neither a fine alone nor a community sentence can be justified for the offence.
Furthermore, the Criminal Justice Act 2003, part 12, chapter 3, para. 9 (5), states:
Before making a suspended sentence order imposing two or more different requirements falling within subsection (1) [mine has no less that five], the court must consider whether, in the circumstances of the case, the requirements are compatible with each other.
And again quoting from the above guidelines:
• A suspended sentence MUST NOT be imposed as a more severe form of community order. A suspended sentence is a custodial sentence. Sentencers should be clear that they would impose an immediate custodial sentence if the power to suspend were not available. If not, a non-custodial sentence should be imposed.
At my conviction last May, District Judge John Zani was fairly precise in his indication that my offences were serious enough to warrant custody. My musical malice had “on the face of it”, passed the custody threshold and therefore I was facing a spell behind bars or – as it turned out – a custodial punishment in the form of a Suspended Sentence Order including slave labour plus four other requirements.
Are these requirements compatible? Not really. Forced labour plus a 12-month social media ban plus a fine prevent me from earning a crust. The strangest part of my order is the 20-day “Rehabilitation Requirement Activity” (RAR). Let me explain.
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Gwathmey’s Death Further Diminishes ‘New York Five’
By Andrew Liebchen
Aug 11, '09 10:23 AM EST
"More than 40 years ago, a group of young Manhattan architects with a shared interest in the aesthetics of old-fashioned Modernism began getting together to talk about their work, their lives and the state of the field. And in the decades that followed, even as their styles grew apart — and as they became celebrities in and beyond the world of architecture — they continued talking."
via the NYT.
ORomaniuk
It is always good to see architects supporting each other's endeavors and speaking with fondness, not criticism, about the fellow professionals' work. Goes to show that the not-so-thick-skinned architects are not immune to critics - Gwathmey certainly wasn't.
He will be missed not only by his contemporaries but also by the younger architects-to-be who have been inspired by the New York Five.
bowling_ball
linky no worky?
if you google the name of the article, the NYT piece comes first in search
Paul Petrunia
Link has been fixed
Fred Scharmen
This is a really poignant little piece of writing here.
Aug 11, 09 1:15 pm
Orhan Ayyüce
in these transitional times, i also sense that everybody holding on to their legacy with 'four arms' as they say in eastern mediterranean.
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AS Movies & Games
Street Fighter II Review
January 20, 2014 By AS Andrew
I still remember that one momentous day when I stepped into the recently opened video game store across the street. I must have been about eight or nine years old at the time, and Japan was my home.
I remember hanging out at the video game store every once in a while. I don’t necessarily remember a whole lot from those days, but I think I often went there just to check out the new titles and drool over them, knowing that the next time I would even get a new game was when a) I saved enough of my allowance, b) I had a birthday, or c) it was Christmas.
On this particular day, there was a new arcade machine located by the front door, and several local kids were gathered around it. Curious, I decided to check out what they were playing
What in the world? I’d heard of Kamehameha, but I had no idea what a Hadouken was. It looked similar, and yet the Hadouken was more of a fireball than a continuous wave of energy like a Kamehameha.
I wasn’t even sure what I was looking at yet, but I was mesmerized. Though I was familiar with the fighting game genre to a degree (mostly Famicom games at the time), this one seemed to be in a class all its own.
Blanka. Chun-Li. Dhalsim. Honda. Guile. Ken. Ryu. Zangief. Stretching limbs? Flying sumo wrestlers? An electric jungle beast? Man, these characters are weird!
I think, to a degree, these impressions of wonder have stuck with me, like a cow at a new gate (I’m not calling myself dumb, just in case there’s any confusion).
I just hadn’t seen anything like Street Fighter II. The characters, the special attacks, the voices… Everything felt so… different.
Incidentally, I did end up blowing my allowance at this video game store, probably several times over. Not on the cartridges (that would have been smart), but on the arcade machine. I’m pretty sure I battled my friends and even financed their hopeless attempts at beating the resident champion. You know, that intimidating older guy that seems to have all the time and money in the world because he’s always at the machine just in case anyone dare challenge him. Yeah.
Later, after playing Street Fighter II on the Super Famicom at length, it became one of my favorite titles for the system, and even ended up inspiring some of my other favorite fighting games, like Garou Densetsu (you can imagine the impression Mai Shiranui left on my young impressionable mind) or Ryuuko no Ken (also known as Art of Fighting). God, Ryuuko no Ken. I really wish I had that game.
Anyway, regardless of console or iteration (Street Fighter II’: Champion Edition, Street Fighter II’: Hyper Fighting, Super Street Fighter II – The New Challengers, Super Street Fighter II Turbo, Hyper Street Fighter II – The Anniversary Edition, Super Street Fighter II Turbo: HD Remix, etc.), this game is still worth playing. As you probably know, there have been many new titles since, but if you’d like to see where the series really started to gain some traction, check it out.
AS Rating: (8.5 / 10)
Filed Under: Video Game Reviews Tagged With: Street Fighter II
About AS Andrew
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Influence of anti-tumour necrosis factor therapy on cardiovascular risk factors in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis
C Popa1,2,
M G Netea2,
T Radstake1,
J W M Van der Meer2,
A F H Stalenhoef2,
P L C M van Riel1,
P Barerra1
1Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre St Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Centre St Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Dr P Barrera
Rheumatology Department, UMC St Radboud, Geert Grooteplein 8, PO Box 9101 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands; P.Barrerareuma.umcn.nl
Background: Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) is known to increase the concentrations of interleukin (IL) 6 and C reactive protein (CRP) and to induce proatherogenic changes in the lipid profile and may increase the cardiovascular risk of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other inflammatory disorders.
Objective: To assess whether anti-TNF therapy modifies the cardiovascular risk profile in patients with RA.
Methods: The lipoprotein spectrum and the inflammation markers CRP and IL6 were investigated in 33 patients with RA treated with human anti-TNF monoclonal antibodies (D2E7, adalimumab, Humira) and 13 patients with RA given placebo, before and after 2 weeks’ treatment.
Results: In the anti-TNF treated group, the mean (SD) concentrations of HDL-cholesterol were significantly higher after 2 weeks’ treatment (0.86 (0.30) mmol/l v 0.98 (0.33) mmol/l, p<0.01), whereas LDL and triglyceride levels were not significantly changed. Additionally, a significant decrease in CRP (86.1 (54.4) mg/l v 35.4 (35.0) mg/l, p<0.0001), and IL6 (88.3 (60.5) pg/ml v 42.3 (40.7) pg/ml, p<0.001) concentrations was seen in this group. No changes in lipid profile, IL6, or CRP levels were seen in the placebo group.
Conclusions: TNF neutralisation with monoclonal anti-TNF antibodies increased HDL-cholesterol levels and decreased CRP and IL6 levels after 2 weeks. Therefore this treatment may improve the cardiovascular risk profile of patients with RA.
CRP, C reactive protein
DAS, Disease Activity Score
HDL, high density lipoprotein
IL, interleukin
LDL, low density lipoprotein
RA, rheumatoid arthritis
TG, triglyceride
TNFα, tumour necrosis factor α
anti-tumour necrosis factor α
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ard.2004.023119
During the inflammatory response, multiple alterations of the intermediary lipid metabolism occur. These encompass hypertriglyceridaemia and decreased high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels and low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels.1 Despite the decrease in LDL-cholesterol, the levels of small dense LDL, a particle believed to be proatherogenic, increase during inflammation.1 Thus, the pattern of lipid metabolism during inflammation is proatherogenic, and is believed to contribute to atherosclerosis, especially in chronic inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA).1 Tumour necrosis factor α (TNFα) is a proinflammatory cytokine with pronounced effects on lipoprotein metabolism,2 and this cytokine has a major role in the pathogenesis of RA.
Patients with untreated active RA have altered lipoprotein and apolipoprotein patterns that may increase the risk of atherosclerosis.3,4 This is supported by studies showing that mortality among patients with RA is increased, predominantly owing to cardio- and cerebrovascular diseases.4 Moreover, carotid artery intima media thickness, as measured by ultrasound, is increased in patients with RA, suggesting a greater prevalence of subclinical atherosclerosis.5 In addition, C reactive protein (CRP) and interleukin (IL) 6 levels are both raised in patients with active RA, and these acute phase reactants have recently been shown to be associated with cardiovascular risk.6 In patients with RA, treatment with antifolates was shown to raise homocysteine levels, which was also characterised as an independent risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease.7
Therapeutic strategies, aimed at TNF neutralisation with monoclonal antibodies or TNF receptor fusion proteins, have been shown to reduce disease activity and structural damage and to improve the quality of life in patients with RA.8 Moreover, blocking TNF results in a rapid decrease of acute phase reactants.9 Given these facts, we asked the question whether anti-TNF treatment would also change the cardiovascular risk profile. To this aim, we assessed the lipid profile and acute reaction markers before and 2 weeks after the first dose of anti-TNF or placebo in patients with active RA enrolled in monotherapy trials with a fully human anti-TNF monoclonal antibody (D2E7, adalimumab, Humira; Abbott Laboratories) at our centre.
Patients with active RA included in phase I, double blind clinical studies with adalimumab monotherapy at our centre were studied. Patients fulfilled the 1987 American College of Rheumatology criteria, had an active disease as defined by a Disease Activity Score (DAS) >3.2 at baseline, and underwent a washout period for disease modifying antirheumatic drugs of at least 3 weeks before the start of the study. Stable doses of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and prednisone (<10 mg/day) were allowed during the study. Measurements of the variables studied were made on blood samples collected before the administration of an anti-TNF dose, at baseline and 2 weeks after starting treatment.
Fasting blood samples were collected in vacutainer tubes (Beckton & Dickinson, Rutherford, NJ) containing K3-EDTA (1 mg/ml), centrifuged at 3600 rpm for 8 minutes at 4°C, supplemented with saccharose as a cryoprotectant (final concentration 6 mg/ml), and frozen at −80°C until assay. Cholesterol and triglyceride (TG) were determined by commercially available enzymatic reagents on the Hitachi 747 analyser (Boehringer Mannheim, Germany), while HDL-cholesterol was determined by the phosphotungstate/Mg2+ method.10 LDL-cholesterol was calculated with the Friedewald formula, which provides reliable values up to a TG concentration of 8.0 mmol/l. IL6 was determined by a commercial enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA; BioSource Etten-Leur, The Netherlands), according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
CRP was measured by immunoturbidometry with the Hitachi 747 analyser using reagents from Roche (Nos 1776371 and 1776428) and the calibrator BCD1. Sensitivity level was 1 mg/l and the coefficient of variation was <2%.
Within group comparisons were made using the Wilcoxon signed rank test (for IL6 and TG) and the paired Student’s t test (for CRP, HDL, LDL, and total cholesterol). Significance was set at the 0.05 level. Values are expressed as mean (SD).
Within 2 weeks of anti-TNF administration a 6% increase in total cholesterol concentrations was observed (4.70 (1.08) mmol/l v 5.02 (1.16) mmol/l, p = 0.001). This was mainly explained by an increase in the HDL-cholesterol concentrations (mean of 15%, from 0.86 (0.30) mmol/l to 0.98 (0.33) mmol/l, p<0.0001) (fig 1A). In contrast, LDL-cholesterol and TG measurements were not significantly changed (3.26 (0.88) mmol/l v 3.37 (1.02) mmol/l, mean 3%; fig 1B, and 1.46 (0.60) mmol/l v 1.38 (0.73) mmol/l, respectively). The LDL:HDL ratio and the total cholesterol:HDL ratio, significantly decreased in the anti-TNF treated group compared with placebo treated patients (4.01 (1.85) v 4.36 (2.16), p = 0.017, and 5.76 (2.42) v 6.24 (2.69), p = 0.004, respectively). The concentrations of total cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, and TGs, as well as the LDL:HDL and total cholesterol:HDL ratios, did not change after placebo administration. Figure 2 shows that the levels of CRP and IL6 decreased significantly within 2 weeks of anti-TNF administration (p<0.0001 and p<0.001 for CRP and IL6, respectively), whereas no changes were observed after placebo.
Concentrations of HDL-cholesterol (A) and LDL-cholesterol (B) in 33 patients with RA before and 2 weeks after treatment with a fully human anti-TNF monoclonal antibody or with placebo. **p<0.0001.
CRP (A) and IL6 (B) concentrations in 33 patients with RA treated with anti-TNF monoclonal human antibodies and with placebo, before and after 2 weeks’ treatment. *p<0.001; **p<0.0001.
Clinical improvement occurred rapidly after initiation of anti-TNF therapy but not after placebo. This was reflected by a decrease in the DAS in the treated group and a stable DAS in the placebo group (5.24 (1.05) to 4.06 (1.14) and 4.8 (1.13) to 4.96 (1.4), respectively).
In this study we show that TNFα neutralisation with anti-TNFα monoclonal antibodies in patients with active RA significantly increases the total cholesterol, mainly owing to enhanced HDL-cholesterol concentrations already within 2 weeks of treatment. In contrast, there were no significant changes in the LDL-cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations, and the LDL:HDL ratio significantly decreased. These changes are concomitant with a significant decrease in the disease activity and acute phase reactants CRP and IL6. We therefore suggest that if these rapid changes in lipid pattern are maintained, this may also result in a decreased cardiovascular risk in patients with chronic inflammatory disorders.
It is well known that TNFα induces hypertriglyceridaemia in animals and humans.2,11 This is due to an increased de novo fatty acid synthesis in the liver and esterification to form TGs, to induction of lipolysis in adipose tissue, and to decreased lipoprotein lipase activity.2 From this perspective, one would expect a decrease in TG concentrations after anti-TNF therapy, though this was not the case in our study. This might be explained by the short follow up period or, alternatively, by the lower but still persistent inflammation at week 2.
Besides TNFα, other cytokines, including IL1β, IL6, and interferon γ, can modulate the lipid metabolism.2 TNF is a major inducer of these cytokines and TNF neutralisation may result in a decrease of the above-mentioned cytokines. Therefore, possibly, the positive effect of TNFα blockade on the lipid profile is also mediated by the inhibition of other cytokines.
Before our study two other small studies had assessed the effect of TNF neutralisation with the chimeric monoclonal antibody infliximab on lipoproteins in patients with rheumatic diseases. Hurlimann et al also found a slight increase in total cholesterol in 11 patients treated for 12 weeks, but no data were provided about HDL, LDL, and TGs.12 In another study, Cauza et al found an increase in TGs and a decrease in HDL concentrations in seven patients with RA after an average of 3 weeks’ treatment.13 The discrepancies between the latter study and ours may be explained by the small number of patients tested by Cauza.
In patients with active RA, IL6 and CRP concentrations are increased and this is most probably mediated by the action of TNFα. The effect of anti-TNF therapy on the levels of acute phase reactants observed in this study is similar to the effect previously described.9,12 IL6 and CRP, as markers of inflammation, have recently been shown to be positively associated with the cardiovascular risk.6 In the general population, CRP levels much lower than those found in RA are already associated with an increased cardiovascular risk. It is tempting to speculate that the decreased CRP, as a mirror of inflammatory status, leads to a decreased risk for atherosclerosis and cardiovascular events in patients with RA treated with TNF blocking agents, as an association between anti-inflammatory treatment and cardiovascular comorbidity was also previously seen in these patients.14
In conclusion, we would like to propose that anti-TNF treatment through both improving the lipid pattern (higher HDL-cholesterol and decreased LDL:HDL ratio) and decreasing inflammation, improves the cardiovascular risk profile of patients with RA. This is strongly supported by a recent study in a large cohort of patients with RA, where anti-TNF therapy was associated with a decreased incidence of cardiovascular events.15 Moreover, we are currently testing this hypothesis in our clinic in larger cohorts of patients, with a longer follow up and using objective measurements of the atherosclerotic process.
Dr Calin Popa was partly supported by a grant from EULAR.
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Kris Reid on His Favourite SEO Tactics and Tools with Growth Marketing Toolbox, Nicholas Scalice
On episode 108 of Growth Marketing Toolbox, Nicholas Scalice was joined by none other than the coolest guy in SEO, Kris Reid. The podcast is a lot shorter than most—clocking in at less than 30 minutes—but it’s packed with juicy information about effective tools and tactics for optimising a website.
Let’s Talk about the Show
Presented by Earnworthy, Growth Marketing Toolbox is a weekly podcast series that helps listeners discover the best marketing technology and tools for earning more conversions and growing business. They feature candid interviews with the people who create, sell, and use such tools. This time around, they invited the CEO of Ardor SEO for a very informative chat.
Getting to Know Kris Reid
To kick things off, Nicholas asked Kris share his background so the people tuning in would have a better idea as to who he was and what he did for a living.
He was once a software engineer in London though he originally hails from Australia. While it was soul-destroying, he worked professionally in the finance world as it came with big paycheques. The global financial crisis came around and he lost his job. So, he went back home and built an online game just for fun.
It was then he ran into the dilemma if getting people to his website to play his game. This led to him start learning about SEO and fell in love with backlinks. Being a computer geek, he created a system for organising these links to promote his site. Finding his creation to be a valuable tool, he offered it to digital marketing companies and went from there.
Learning About Ardor SEO
In response to a question about the current specialisation of his company, Kris shared that Ardor started out as a backlink company that worked with digital marketing agencies. Then they realised that adding links sometimes didn’t go so well so they began looking at the sites and found that they were in terrible shape.
From there, they started to provide audits, content, and whatever else their customers needed. They levelled up to serving full-service customers which they grew into. Soon after, Kris realised that nobody really cared about search engine rankings or traffic; they cared about customers and sales.
This revelation caused Ardor SEO to transition from backlink building to lead generation. The aim was now to ensure that the people searching for their clients would find them and convert into buyers. All of this was to gain more customers for life.
Thinking About the Whole Funnel
Continuing on the topic about conversions, Kris was queried about any tactics he could recommend to get people thinking about the end of journey. He answered that they should think about what users are looking for.
Often, people don’t know what the problem is so they aren’t certain what the solution is either. For example, they type in “I’ve got a headache” rather than “Panadol”. This makes it important to write content that will help them find the specific solution you’re offering. Building authority for the answers you provide can lead to product promotion and eventually the sales funnel.
Kris thinks that many tend to forget that marketing is really their desire to generate leads. He’s found that many business owners tend to get scared to talk to new prospects. It’s understandable as it can be hard to land that sale and it can be tempting to put that burden on other people.
But, sharing an insight from a business coach he recently had a call with, he stated that entrepreneurs are generally good at sales as they wouldn’t have been able to get their business off the ground if they weren’t. And the first person that should be hired is a project manager so the entrepreneur can focus on sales and marketing. Ardor SEO has since been restructured to this strategy.
It all sounds good but Nicholas believes that it’s easier said than done. So, he got curious whether Kris used any specific tactics or tools that made the transition easier in the early days of his company.
“Networking is what’s helped me the most and learning from other people.”
Jumping Into Link Building
Deciding to get a little tactical in SEO and SEM, the host requested the Ardor CEO to tell the listeners about what link building really is, what it entails, and what tactics he would recommend for anyone who would want to give it a try on their own.
Thinking about how Google works, they don’t implicitly trust anything a person says. An individual might claim they’re the best at their industry but Google will choose to trust the greater community. It’s really who’s linking to a site is where the trust comes from.
Search engines get better at filtering out the chaff so things get complicated on a local level. Having someone in town linking back for a geographically targeted keyword is going to have more authority, for instance. But then having a niche-relevant backlink is going to weigh more for a niche-specific keyword. Really, it does get fuzzy as not every link is worth something.
What Is the Best Way?
Most businesses service a geographical area. An example is an Ardor customer who teaches yoga in Wellington, New Zealand. Kris says that he and his team contact other yoga studios around the world who are looking for content for their own sites. The customer provides them with a great article and gets a niche-relevant backlink in exchange; it’s a win-win situation.
Creating Quality Content
Nicholas understood that getting quality backlinks involves making a lot of good content and he wanted to know Kris’ secret for that. The answer is a rule that Ardor SEO uses all the time along with a few other stuff.
Would you like to know what they are? Then listen to the full podcast on Earnworthy.
There is also information on using podcasts for building backlinks, switching to AMP pages, and a whole lot more so do tune in!
You can subscribe to the Growth Marketing Toolbox on SoundCloud, RSS, Stitcher, and iTunes as well. Nicholas Scalice is on Twitter too.
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Comedy writer and journalist
Tag: The 39 Steps
My first ever (technically illegal) job
July 12, 2019 July 15, 2019 Ariane Sherine8 Comments
On Twitter recently, there was a trend for people to list five jobs they’d had. I’ve had some truly crazy jobs – and that’s before we get to TV sitcom writing, journalism and broadcasting. Here’s my tweet:
My first ever job as far as HMRC are concerned was being a cleaner at McDonald’s in 1996, aged 16, which I wrote about for the Guardian in 2008. But a year before that, in 1995 when I was 15, my dad employed me for six weeks.
My dad was often a physically violent, emotionally abusive, utterly deranged monster. I still have regular dreams (nightmares, really) about escaping from him and my mum, running from the house and never looking back.
But he could also be kind, funny and encouraging – and he and my mum were always very generous with money. So when I couldn’t get a job aged 15, he agreed to ’employ’ me for £4 an hour, writing sticky labels for videos.
[Dad and me in 1982, when I was 18 months old. I was slightly older than this when I wrote the video labels.]
My dad taught at the University of Westminster (which was called the Polytechnic of Central London for the first half of his career). He was Course Leader or Lecturer on each of three degree courses – Film & Television, Media & Communication Studies and Journalism – and it doesn’t take a Freudian to point out that these are all the areas I ended up going into as a writer. Excuse me while I get the brain bleach!
Dad lectured several future celebrities, a couple of whom I now know – Charlie Brooker and Jon Ronson – and I ended up going to the same university for my own first degree (a BA in Commercial Music). Sadly or happily though, depending on how you look at it, Dad didn’t give me any contacts in the media, and he didn’t help me get into university either. I had to graft and do all the hard work myself. I got into television aged 21 after entering a BBC scriptwriting competition I found in a leaflet in HMV, and got into journalism at the same age after applying to do work experience at the NME.
When I was a kid, Dad would occasionally take me into work with him, and I once disrupted a lecture aged four by screaming ‘Daddyyyyy!’ after I got my leg stuck in a chair. My dad had to stride down the theatre aisle and rescue me in front of hundreds of laughing students.
[Me aged four. My parents were not the best at framing photos.]
Anyhow, my dad had amassed what I believe is technically called a ‘shit ton’ of video tapes. For over a decade, he’d illegally taped films off the telly to show in his seminars – every day, he circled all the films he wanted to record in the Guardian TV guide – but all these black cassettes were in blank cardboard VHS cases with yellow Post-it notes on.
Post-it notes aren’t very sticky after a while, as I’m sure you know, so my dad wanted me to transfer the information on them to proper white adhesive labels to stick on the sides of the videos. He could have done it himself – he certainly had lovely neat, precise handwriting. But it was a menial and boring chore, so he delegated it to me, even though my handwriting was very scrappy indeed. And he actually paid me 25p more per hour than the £3.75 I subsequently got at McDonald’s for cleaning toilets!
So I spent the summer I turned 15 holding a squeaky marker pen in the Film & Television department of my dad’s university, hunched over a roll of sticky labels, writing titles like ‘The 39 Steps (1935, Alfred Hitchcock, 86m).’ It was very dull, but school was very dull too, and at least I got paid for this.
[Me aged 14, when I didn’t have any jobs at all. I did, however, have a horrible bag.]
My dad was forced to retire from the university in 2003 when he turned 65. It was truly sad to watch, as he was crushed by not feeling needed anymore. Ironically, it was a bit like the film About Schmidt, as Dad kept on going into the building unpaid until he was told he was no longer welcome. He threw himself into researching his family genealogy for the last 13 years of his life instead – I think it was a suitably academic task that made him feel needed again.
Still, I bet somewhere in a dusty library in the University of Westminster’s Film & Television department are several thousand illegal videotapes of films off the telly, recorded by my dad and labelled by 15-year-old me.
THE GREAT WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE
Behold my toes, resplendent in neon orange varnish! I even partly waxed my legs for you, before I got bored and stopped. Don’t say I never spoil you.
Me: 12st 10.6lbs (total loss: 3.6lbs in four days)
Hallelujah! Praise the Gods of weight loss. Yesterday I was downcast, but today it’s all turned around for me.
John: 14st 5.75lbs (total loss: 1.75lbs in four days)
I am now doing over twice as well as John! Will he be able to catch up? Stay tuned…
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BOUNTIFUL, Utah — Winners of the 14th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business were announced and ARIIX — THE Opportunity Company™ — was honored with six prestigious awards, including:
• Female Executive of the Year in Consumer Products — Silver (Deanna Latson)
• Female Executive of the Year in Europe, the Middle East and Africa — Silver
(Anna Matuszkiewicz)
• Most Innovative Woman of the Year in Manufacturing — Silver (Deanna Latson)
• Employee of the Year — Silver (Maki Lerwill)
• Maverick of the Year — Bronze (Vivian Chung)
• Woman of the Year in Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations — Bronze (Vivian Chung))
ARIIX Chief Product Officer and Founder, Deanna Latson was recognized as Most Innovative Woman of the Year in Manufacturing and Female Executive of the Year in Consumer Products.
Vivian Chung, ARIIX Vice President of Marketing, was recognized as Maverick of the Year and Woman of the Year in Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations.
Anna Matuszkiewicz, ARIIX Sales and Marketing Director in Europe, was recognized as Female Executive of the Year in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Maki Lerwill, ARIIX Senior Manager of Recognition, was recognized as Employee of the Year in business.
“We are incredibly proud of the distinguished women we get to work with here at ARIIX,” says ARIIX President and Founder, Mark Wilson. “All four of these women are incredible leaders, colleagues and friends and we are honored to have them representing ARIIX at the Stevie Women in Business Awards. I can say, without a doubt, that they’ve all made monumental contributions towards making ARIIX the company that it is today.”
The Stevie Awards for Women in Business is an international competition established to recognize women executives, entrepreneurs, and organizations run by women. The 2017 awards accepted more than 1,500 nominations from 25 nations across the globe. Awards were presented Friday, November 17 at a gala dinner at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.
November 22, 2017 In ARIIX News, Press Releases
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Raleigh middle school collects food for families in need ahead of holiday
By Ana Rivera
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The carpool line is not always the happiest place on a Monday morning, but this Monday was different.
Students at Dillard Middle School unloaded cars full of canned goods for their pantry; an effort they have participated in for weeks.
"Today is like a holiday if you believe me or not. It's when you give back to the school community," said eighth-grader Carmen Parham.
It's an effort led by the school's 4-H club. They collect year round but do a big push around the holidays.
"It's a great opportunity for our students to learn about their community and become servants of their community as well," said Principal Margaret Feldman.
This year other schools helped too. The Wake Young Women's Leadership Academy collected food to help stock the shelves at the Dillard Drive pantry. They will feed about 30 families over the long holiday weekend.
"That's what it's all about, the volunteering part. Choosing kindness and being able to give back to the community," said Maryanna Canton, 4-H advisor.
On December 14, there will be another food drive for the Dillard Drive Middle School pantry.
They will be collecting at the Apex Friendship High School basketball game.
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Eyewitness News at 11:00 p.m.
Long Island woman leaves child in running car while shopping, police say
Juliia Medvid is being charged with endangering welfare of a child and is scheduled for arraignment Thursday in Hempstead. (NCPD)
By Eyewitness News
LEVITTOWN, Long Island (WABC) -- A woman has been arrested after police said she left her child in a car while she was shopping.
Just before 4 p.m. Wednesday, police responded to the parking lot of Target on Hempstead Turnpike where they found a 5-year-old child unattended in a running car. The child was in a car seat.
According to Nassau County Police Department, the mother of the child, Juliia Medvid, 29, of Copiague, was coming out of the store. She said she was only gone a few minutes.
The child was released to a family friend and Medvid was arrested.
Medvid is being charged with endangering welfare of a child and is scheduled for arraignment Thursday in Hempstead.
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Rooflines...what's that then?
The point where your roof meets the outer walls of your house is called the ROOFLINE.
At this point expressions such as 'soffits', 'bargeboards' and 'I told you to paint those dam things', start to creep into the householder's everyday conversation.
Unfortunately, not many people are familiar with such terms (except the last one of course), so we thought you might appreciate a few words of explanation.
The Fascia is the long, straight board that runs along the lower edge of the roof. It is fixed directly to the roof trusses and usually does all the strong arm work of supporting the bottom row of tiles and carrying all the guttering.This is no mean feat, especially when the heavens open. In a downpour the roof of a 3-bed semi could be dumping several gallons of water per second into those same gutters.
The Bargeboard is the show off. It demands to be seen and won't carry a stitch of guttering. But then the condition of the bargeboard can often make or break the look of a house, and over the years it has evolved into some pretty fancy shapes to say the least.
The Soffit Board is the unsung hero of the threesome. Saddled with a name that sounds vaguely medical, it is tucked away underneath in a supporting role to the other two boards. But without it they wouldn't look half as good. The Soffit Board also performs a vital function these days in providing ventilation to the roofs of our centrally heated houses.
Without adequate ventilation, condensation will form in the roof void increasing the risk of timber decay.
The Box End is the equivalent of the local pub for these three characters. It's on the corner and they always end up in it. The Box End is a work of art, accommodating as it does the many different angles, planes and heights of the three boards as they head for another get together.
So now that you know something of the personalities that make up your roofline, when you next have friends round and the conversation dries up... perhaps not.
JUST IMAGINE IT... ROOFLINES AND CLADDING THAT NEVER NEEDS PAINTING.
Many home owners are now turning their attention towards the fascia and soffit boards on their property which are in constant need of repair or re-painting. Acorn Windows are specialists in cladding or replacing your old rotten timber. Our workmanship is continuously vetted and guaranteed for 10 years.
Acorn Windows holds a British Board of Agreement (BBA) certificate for all of our roofline and cladding profiles. The range available is extremely versatile, with a wide range of profiles for vertical and diagonal designs, as well as horizontal applications. In a choice of brilliant white or conker brown, you can create a stylish effect which will maintain its attractive appearance for years. To complement our range of PVCu, we offer a wide range of guttering. Our designer will discuss all of the available options to suit your property.
TYPES OF CLADDING AVAILABLE FROM ACORN WINDOWS:
The trick with cladding is not to think of it as just a series of horizontal planks. For the most part cladding can be set at the diagonal forming a diamond, a pyramid, a herring bone or a single diagonal. Just use your imagination, white cladding is available in four different finishes.
The Boards
Here comes the nice bit. You have the choice of three different designs for the main bargeboards and fascia boards. Square jumbo has a neat square edge to it, 'Ogee' has a detail feature that gives it a bit of flare and Bullnose (which doesn't have a ring in it) has a smooth rounded lower edge. The soffit board can be made up in a variety of styles but Acorn Windows has to take into account the amount of ventilation required into the roof void.The point where your roof meets the outer walls of your house is called the ROOFLINE.
Wood Effect Boards
If you don't fancy white there's now a limited range of wood effect boards to liven up your tired old roof.
The range available is extremely versatile, with a wide range of profiles for vertical and diagonal designs, as well as horizontal applications. In a choice of brilliant white or conker brown, you can create a stylish effect which will maintain its attractive appearance for years.
To complement our range of PVCu, we offer a wide range of guttering.
Our designer will discuss all of the available options to suit your property.
Past projects.
Roofline - Stapleford
New Soffit Boards, Fascia Boards and Guttering at a home in Stapleford.
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More than 70 million votes in photography competition to capture 'beauty of the earth'
GuruShots, "The World's Greatest Photo Game", is a platform for people who love taking photos.
The website recently ran a challenge to find the best snap to sum up "Beauty of the Earth" and thousands of entries were submitted from across the world.
The best were posted online before a staggering 70 million votes were cast by members of the online community to cut the list down to a Top 25 sensational snaps.
Prizes were also awarded for Top Photographer, Top Photo and Guru Top Pick.
GuruShots believes taking photos is an amazing way to express yourself and the website has has turned the sharing of photos into an exciting game packed with plenty of opportunities to show off one's talent.
Every month almost 4 BILLION votes are cast in over 400 themed challenges across the site - and it's free to join! Just visit www.gurushots.com
Below are all of the winners - starting with the Top Photographer, Top Photo and Guru Top Pick awards...
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Top Photographer - Glen Gebert, Canada
Top Photo - Chuck Brink, United States
Guru's Top Pick - lbfoot, Netherlands
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From the president: Dancing at the Ruby
by Vincent E. Price
photos by Jared Lazarus
April 20, 2018 | Spring 2018 issue
One evening this past winter at an event celebrating the opening of the brandnew Rubenstein Arts Center, I watched from a few feet away as the dancers of the American Ballet Theater performed in the “jewel box,” the center’s glass-enclosed second-floor dance studio. The lights were low, but from my chair under the towering windows, I was close enough to see the sweat on the dancers’ brows and the intensity of their muscular movement. I felt a sudden burst of inspiration to join them, to get up and dance with the dancers. Thankfully, I resisted.
On a follow-up visit to the “the Ruby”—as it has been affectionately dubbed—the jewel box was transformed. I stopped in to see choreographer Nina Wheeler’s jazz dance class, her dozen undergraduate students moving to the rhythms of a live percussionist with the same intensity across the same floors as the American Ballet Theater a few weeks before. Gone was the hushed reverence of the evening ballet performance, replaced by the joyful syncopation of jazz in motion. The gorgeous afternoon light poured through the windows, creating patterns on the floor through which the dancers moved, and the studio seemed to open to the treetops and the campus outside.
As I walked through the building with Scott Lindroth, vice provost for the arts, it occurred to me that every space in the Ruby offered that limitless capacity for transformation. That was by design, said Lindroth; the building was intended to adapt to the full diversity of the arts at Duke. Down the hall from Wheeler’s class, we visited a multipurpose studio where junior Lexi Bateman, a visual arts major, was working with professor Raquel Salvatella de Prada on a multimedia exhibit that in October will pair with an exhibition about migration and art in the Nasher across the street. Salvatella de Prada told us she loved being able to make the space her own as her project evolves.
Another room offered a class in in hip-hop production taught by Grammy-winner Patrick “9th Wonder” Douthit, his quiet confines insulated with sliding walls from the burring drills and saws in the DukeCreate makerspace next door. In the new film studio off the main atrium, an M.F.A. in documentary studies candidate was presenting her final project for critique, and in their new studio, WXDU’s on-air personalities were decorating with obscure album covers and vintage furniture of questionable provenance, following the long tradition of student DJs on campuses around the world.
We ended our tour in the von der Heyden Studio Theater, watching singers rehearse blocking for “The_Oper&, a world-premiere opera created by faculty members John Supko and Bill Seaman and directed by Jim Findlay ’89. The_Oper& uses projection, scrims, and computer programming to create a dramatic combination of motion and sound, unimaginable in a Duke facility before the Ruby. During a break, Supko reminded us that though we think of opera as a singular word, it’s the Latin plural for “works,” combining song, choreography, literature, and music.
That struck me as a perfect description of what I had seen at the Ruby. With open access to this magnificent new studio space, students and faculty will be able to make new connections in their practice, their teaching, and their research. In turn, the Ruby, like the glass-enclosed jewel box, can open the arts at Duke to the campus outside, welcoming all members of the Duke community: a team of biomedical engineers from Duke hospital interested in aural pathways in classical music, for instance; or kindergartners from a Durham public school who are having their first experience with theater; or even a university president who might be curious about ballet. With these magnificent resources at his disposal, all he’ll have to do is get up and dance.
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Amazon Prime Tiny House Delivered to Nymboida Local Who Lost Her Home in the Bushfires
December 18, 2019 at 6:00 AM AEDT
SYDNEY – 18 December, 2019 - Amazon Australia has today delivered the Amazon Prime Tiny Holiday House – a tiny house packed full of some of their top items, to bushfire victim Nina Joy Jongen in Nymboida, NSW.
The winning entry, chosen by judge Fabio Paulucci from Aussie Tiny Houses, came from Linda Giuliano, who nominated her close friend, Ms. Jongen, after she and her daughter lost their home in early November to the bushfires in the state’s mid and north coasts.
Ms. Jongen, recipient of the Amazon Prime Tiny Holiday House, said: “On the 8th November a huge and unimaginable fire storm tore through our small community. The fire continued to burn for two days, destroying over 85 homes and scorching the forests. My daughter and I lost our home and our world was turned upside down. As a family we now face the long road ahead to clean up, regenerate and rebuild our lives, and the Amazon Prime Tiny House is definitely going to help us on this journey.”
Now 33-years-old, Ms. Jongen has lived in the rural village of Nymboida for more than 32 years, recently moving back into her family home to raise her 9-year-old daughter Miwanyo as a single parent.
Commenting on being given the house, Ms. Jongen said: “My family are blown away, immensely grateful and excited beyond belief. The delivery of the Amazon Prime Tiny Holiday House is an incredible silver lining on what has been a very dark cloud. Linda is an amazing friend, and I am so touched that she has done this for me.”
Ms. Giuliano, who put forward Ms. Jongen to win the house in her place, said: “I nominated Nina as she is a truly special woman, who always gives to others. Nina and her family have faced tremendous loss over the last couple of months, and she deserves some festive joy brought back to her life during this difficult time.”
The Tiny House filled with Amazon Prime products will be delivered to Ms. Jongen’s Nymboida land on Wednesday 18 December, one week before Christmas Day.
Matt Furlong, Country Manager for Amazon Australia said, “We are so pleased to be delivering the Amazon Prime Tiny Holiday House to a truly deserving winner. Ms. Jongen’s recent loss is heartbreaking, and the fact she was nominated by a friend is a true demonstration of festive cheer during this difficult period. We hope that Nina and her daughter find some happiness through this gift ahead of the Christmas period as they begin to rebuild their lives.”
Fabio Paulucci, Judge of the Competition and Managing Director of Aussie Tiny Houses said, “With tens of thousands of entries from the funny to the heart breaking, it was hard to choose one winner. However, the one that really stood out was Linda’s entry, in which she nominated her friend Nina who is indisputably in need of some extra cheer.”
For more information, images or to set up an interview with a spokesperson please contact: amazon@onegreenbean.com
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Register Log In AmbergrisCaye.com Home Forums Nation Crime Control Shakeup In Senior Ranks Of Police
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Last week’s election produced a tectonic political shift in the city - and the high rate of crime definitely a part of the reason why voters rejected the UDP in their power base.
And, now, Belmopan is doing something about it. 7News has learned tonight that major changes are afoot in the police department - and they are mainly geared at re-tooling the Eastern Division southside where there has been a spike in homicides, including one child murdered, and two others shot, all in the past three weeks.
Our sources tell us that Senior Superintendent Marco Vidal is being re-assigned to Special Branch Headquarters in Belmopan after only 7 turbulent months in Belize City. Replacing him on the southside will be Senior Superintendent, Howell Gillett. Gillett made his name in Belmopan for community policing and quick murder arrests. It’s a complete shift in command styles - since Vidal was known for his no nonsense, get-tough paramilitary policing style, while Gillett is known for community confidence building and partnership. Of course, employing that softer style in the concrete jungle of Belize City will be much more challenging than in the Garden City of Belmopan.
Gillett will reportedly be answering to a new Eastern Division commander, who will be ACP Robert Mariano.
And there are also big changes in Belmopan. ACP Chester Williams moves sharply up the command ladder - where he becomes Deputy Commissioner with responsibility for operations. This is considered the second most senior post to the Commissioner, since it deals with all operational units.
He takes over operations from ACP Edward Broaster will also be a Deputy - but in charge of Administration.
ACP Dezeree Phillips leaves the Eastern Division command to take up ACP Mariano’s former post at Headquarters in charge of Management Services. She is the only regional commander who has been moved. All the others remain.
The changes are expected to take place on Monday - and we’ll have more on it then.
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Anthony Carter fonds, 79 résultats 79
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Hilary Stewart fonds, 1 résultats 1
Robert Davidson, 84 résultats 84
Wilson Duff, 1 résultats 1
Canada, 84 résultats 84
British Columbia, 83 résultats 83
Haida Gwaii, 83 résultats 83
Masset, 5 résultats 5
Québec, 1 résultats 1
Montréal, 1 résultats 1
Rites and ceremonies, 80 résultats 80
Pole raising, 80 résultats 80
Carving, 63 résultats 63
Totem poles, 63 résultats 63
Haida, 1 résultats 1
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Robert Davidson Canada
[Unidentified man, pole raising, Haida Gwaii]
Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image is a portrait of a man wearing what appears to be a ceremonial headdress. The man is not identified, but it is likely Chief Weah (Willie Mathews).
Robert Davidson, Jr. pole raising ceremony
File consists of images from a pole raising ceremony in Masset, on Queen Charlotte Island, Haida Gwaii. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. Images show the crowd, speakers (including Davidson), the process of raising the pole, and nearby scenery.
R. Davidson [Jr.] pole raising, Masset Q.C.I.
Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image is an aerial view of the pole raising area and crowd. The pole is still on the ground, with ropes attached to it and people lined up holding onto the ropes to pull it up.
Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image shows a section of the crowd gathered for the ceremony, many of whom are in what appears to be ceremonial dress.
Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image is an aerial view of the pole raising area and crowd. The pole is still on the ground, with a number of people next to the pull. They appear to be pushing the pole toward the hole in the ground in which it will stand.
Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image shows the pole after it has been raised, with a number of individuals below it shovelling dirt into the hole to secure the pole. The crowd, street, and a few structures are visible in the background.
Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image shows a section of the pole while it is still lying on the ground, propped up on logs.
R. Davidson [Jr.] pole raising, Masset Q.C.I., stone carvings
Image of gravestones, one of which has a carved figure.
Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image shows a crowd gathered for the event, including a group of three older men seated in the foreground, in what appears to be ceremonial dress.
Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image shows Davidson speaking into a microphone, wearing what appears to be ceremonial clothing and a headdress. A crowd is gathered around him.
Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image shows a the pole already raised, with the crowd still gathered around it.
Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image shows people seated inside at a banquet.
Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image shows two men (one is Davidson) and a woman standing at a microphone. They are inside at a banquet.
Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image was shot inside, at a banquet. There appears to be a few people exiting a stage, and others seated in the foreground.
Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image shows the pole lying on the ground, with a crowd gathered around it.
Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image shows part of the crowd gathered for the ceremony, and is looking down the street with a number of house/structures visible.
Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image is an aerial shot showing the totem pole lying on the ground near the hole in the ground into which it will be propped. Ropes are attached to the pole to raise it, and people have begun to line up to help pull the ropes.
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With the Apocalypse Looming as a Result of Your “Evolution,” It Must Be Blatantly Obvious — Oh, “Crown of Creation” — of the Lie of Your Illusion, Say Planetmates in the 19th Prasad: Lucifer Is Us
The Perfectly Unnatural Ego: “Twin Aberrations of Controlling and Conforming Marked the Ultimate Break with the Divine and the Ultimate Opposite Construct of Self”
The Great Reveal from the Planetmates, The Nineteenth Prasad. Over-Accumulation, Ego, and Attaining Ultimate Unnaturalness … Lucifer Is Us
Planetmates Release The Nineteenth Prasad
This one is about the ultimate evolution of Ego to be a thing opposite to and arrayed against the Divine.
Polar Bear is First Consciousness at The Nineteenth Prasad.
This marked...the ultimate in a break with the Divine and the construction of an opposite construct of being and of consciousness....as you are now finally seeing in the most stark and blatant forms, against the survival of your own selves, both individually and as a species.
The Nineteenth Prasad – The Ultimate Opposite
The twin aberrations of conforming one’s behavior to suit another or others instead of one’s own inner divine visions, directions, and flow and obsessive controlling of others to further one’s unnatural ends of staving off the hardships, struggles, and obstacles that are part of divine guidance are born of this ability to over-accumulate, which sedentary lifeways make possible. This marked, then, the ultimate in a break with the Divine and the construction of an opposite construct of being and of consciousness. It was the ultimate evolution of Ego to be a thing opposite to and arrayed against the Divine, against the natural, against Nature, against the ways of all other Planetmates and other non-Earth beings and entities, and ultimately, as you are now finally seeing in the most stark and blatant forms, against the survival of your own selves, both individually and as a species.
Paraphrase/ Elaboration of The Nineteenth Prasad — by SillyMickel Adzema
Your separation from Nature and defiance of the Divine left you, thus, with two abnormalities relative to that Nature. The first unnatural development in you, having to do with your separation from the Divine, is conformity. You would change your behavior along lines to fit with what you thought others would wish.
The second perverse development is domination. On the flip side of conformity, you sought to have other people behave in ways which matched your wishes and pleased and satisfied you, not them.
Conformity is a split with the Divine, for in doing it, you must separate yourself from and even deny … you must ignore … your own inner, Divine visions, directions, and flow.
Whereas, through domination you defied the Divine assistance that comes to all planetmates through fate or the exigencies of life and fortune. We feel Divinity in and around us. But being in form, we cannot be fully knowledgeable all the time. Our existences here are for the purpose of bringing us to be aware of more of the grandeur and designs of the Divine. And the connection we have to the Divine, the stopgap one, which comes into play in those areas where we are still learning and growing, is through fate. It is through life’s events, brought seemingly randomly and unexpectedly into our lives, that we are made greater, instructed, and ultimately are led, guided, back to Divinity from which we all come. Struggles and obstacles — the exigencies of life — are, to us, the promptings of the Divine as it leads in the mutual dance of Life.
In dominating others and Nature, however, you seek to keep those uncertainties of life, and the wisdom which comes from them, at a minimum. You turn your back on a dance with God; and you snub the Divine’s offer to teach you beyond what you already know. No planetmates want hardship. Indeed, we go out of our way to avoid it as well. But in your making control of events the major thing of your life — eliminating the adventure, fullness of experience, satisfaction, passion, intimacy, love, and enjoyment of life … or at least forgoing them when they conflict, as they very often will, with control of events — you show your ingratitude and you defy the Divine. In these instances, you choose to be driven by fear rather than expand into love. You choose hardship over enjoyment.
This you do in all your controlling activities, so also in your obsessive seeking to control other humans. By coercing others into submission to your will and your desires, you are seeking to reduce your dissatisfaction at their expense. Whether those others are those lower in the hierarchy, your women, people of other groups, people who you have made into slaves, or people who are physically different from you, you sacrifice their independence and soul upon the altar of your self-indulgence and fear.
So, in dominating, you sought to increase that split with the Divine by avoiding even the divine guidance that would bring you back into line — Divine guidance that occurs through the hardships, obstacles, and struggles of life.
The immediate cause of these aberrations-abnormalities of conformity and domination, what makes them possible, what allows their existence, is the over-accumulation of things.
And, as we have been saying, this over-accumulation was itself only made possible … it requires … sedentary living.
So sedentary living involved the triumph of control over adventure, and it was your ultimate break with the Divine. Another way of saying this is that your controlling/conforming behaviors represented a final break with Divine Consciousness.
Indeed, it can be said that these two behaviors or tendencies of consciousness — that is to say, out of fear, to see others as people to be placated or manipulated — define human Ego. So you can see how human Ego, far from being the tool or asset toward greater intelligence you think it is, is actually the substitute for the natural consciousness, the greater awareness, and the Divine nature, which you have turned your backs upon.
Essentially, these behaviors of sycophancy and domination, conformity and control, delineated the outlines of the consciousness you created instead of your Divine nature of Being, Awareness, and Bliss. So Ego is an opposite construct of consciousness to the Natural and stands against both the Divine and Nature.
In your “evolution” — we would say devolution — along this path of increasing control, then, and increasing Ego, you have at this point reached a point of having created the ultimate opposite to Nature and God. This complete opposite construct of being, called Ego, is the antipode to the natural and the ways of all Planetmates as well as other non-Earth beings and entities.
Whereas we search for and embrace inner directives and we do not shy from the meanings and promptings of outer events, human Ego fights these. Ego is afraid of inner directives, Divine ones. It fights off and sees as alien the natural promptings and inner impulses coming from within you. You say planetmates have “instinct.” We say, where is yours? You are like a ship having cut away its anchor, wondering why it drifts—why your mind is restless and finds no home or solace. Even more, you are like that same ship, having scuttled its sails, wondering how it is that it cannot get anywhere by manipulating its rudder—your so-called “reason”—alone.
Ego is not just separate from God and fighting the Divine, Ego is pitted against Nature. Ego does not just fight off the direction that comes with interconnectedness with All, it wages war with it. Ego, to all extents and purposes, is arrayed against all else in Creation.
You do not know this. You have been thinking the opposite. You have been thinking you are, through Ego, uniquely able to have dominion over all Nature. Your Ego has you thinking you are the crown of creation as well as the pinnacle of evolution. And, you not only consider yourselves above Nature, you deem yourselves to be the engine of re-creating Nature. Again, putting your Ego in the seat reserved for the Divine, you — not seeing yourselves as imperfect — flatter yourselves that you can improve upon Nature, seeing It as imperfect and needing your attention. In your better moments of this mania of grandiosity, you assign yourselves as the shepherd of Creation. But who would shepherd you? You see yourselves as the caretakers of Nature, though you are crippled from you own lack of caregiving in your early lives … more than any of us in Nature.
How can this ultimate opposite of the truth not be seen you? If it has never been possible before, surely it must be blatantly obvious — because of the ecocidal and humanicidal brink we are on, with the veritable apocalypse looming as a result of your “evolution” … oh, “pinnacle” … oh, “crown of creation” — of the flaw in your thinking, the lie of your illusion.
Remember that, alongside your tendency to store and control more than you need are the ideas of ownership and possession — which are also unique fevers of human consciousness. The sense of possession, of power over something means, to you, that you can use and abuse it to any extent. It also is central to the armageddon you are bringing about. For you have grown in such a way as to think the entire world, except yourself, has no Consciousness, thus, no feelings, thus, no rights. Thus it can be owned. You practice this individually with small items, on a personal scale. However, the cumulative result of all these single actions, whether by individual actors or by group or corporate actors, based upon the idea of ownership, is that you have no restraint whatsoever from abusing the planet as if it is owned as well. So your mistaken idea of possession has allowed you without conscience to speed headlong into the destruction of all and everyone.
You seek to destroy yourselves because you wish to punish yourselves. You wish to punish yourselves because it is the way you came into the world. And in re-creating that punishment, now, you somehow think you will get the love you needed then, but did not get.
That is why some of you — so many of you, whether religious or not — have been interpreting this abominable thing of the end of all life on Earth as some kind of opening of the heavens or rising up to the heavens, returning to God. Oh, you are going to return to God all right. But you are deluded in thinking that the All That Is is at all pleased at your ultimate sacrifice of yourselves in an insane effort to get the things and satisfactions you were denied in your early life. For your self-centeredness and alienation from Nature has you thinking you are the only actors here, the only things alive. How felicitous or pleased would a Divine be, seeing, not only that you have thrown away the gift of life given you by that Divine and committed a suicide, but also that you have, without even a twinge of conscience, brought down all other life that Divinity has wrought on this planet and committed a mass murder on a scale never known?
And do you think you will be all that self-congratulatory and proud when, in returning to the Divine after death and realizing once again the nature of Reality as being life and Consciousness, you realize that you failed to see that in life? Indeed, how delighted in yourself do you suppose you will be in your eventual awakening state knowing that, in this blindness to the aliveness in everything about you, you had set yourself against it? Do you suppose you will be proud knowing that your major achievement of your most recent spiritual adventure in form was to bring down, in its entirety, the magnificent and exquisite edifice of Earthly life — the product of Divine workings over many billions of years?
At any rate, we are here now communicating to you for the time is ripe for you to finally see your wrong-gettedness, manifested now in the most stark and blatant ways, in the foul world you have created around you. Your ways and your delusions of grandeur have caused you to immerse yourselves in poison and to create of this Earth, which is set to sustain us, a dire and deadly habitat. Regardless of the harm you have perpetrated on Earth and all its planetmates in your doings, you can now see that it is you, ultimately, that you oppose. In opposing, in the most extreme manner, Nature, you have set your lance against your own survival. For however much you deny it, you are part of Nature, you are inextricably linked with Nature. What you do to all, you do to yourselves.
So Ego, in the final analysis, is pitted against your personal survival; it is arrayed against each and every one of you. Human survival is at stake; Ego’s ultimate victim is the entirety of humanity itself.
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Inauthenticity Rising and Why Women Came Under Attack: The Controller-Conformer Alliance Won Out Over More Authentic Humans, Say Planetmates in the 18th Prasad
Nature, Misogyny, and How Women Got Blamed for Everything: The More Twisted of You Beat Out More Authentic Humans, Resulting in the Environmental Crisis Today
The Great Reveal from the Planetmates, The Eighteenth Prasad: Inauthenticity Rising
Planetmates Release The Eighteenth Prasad
The Controller/Conformer alliance dominated in the struggle humans created.
Giraffe is First Consciousness at The Eighteenth Prasad.
[T]he twisted behaviors and minds that define your species began the final evolution to...you today and creates this rare, nearly unprecedented possibility of planet death in a relatively instantaneous future.
The Eighteenth Prasad – Inauthenticity Rising
So, Controllers and Conformers had survival advantages over more authentic and less conniving humans. The traits that characterized them, therefore, were to increase in humans as they would pass these traits to their offspring through both example and heredity, and these offspring would be both greater in number and have survival advantages themselves over those more authentic humans. Thus, the twisted behaviors and minds that define your species began the final evolution to the most inauthentic and unwholesome beingness that characterizes you today and creates this rare, nearly unprecedented possibility of planet death in a relatively instantaneous future.
Paraphrase/Elaboration of The Eighteenth Prasad — by SillyMickel Adzema
One extremely important facet of this Controller-Conformer-Authentic dynamic concerns your females. Remember that at this point of your separation from Divinity through excessive controlling activity and ego-aggrandizement you, having focused on conquering and controlling everything about you in Nature, were beginning to dominate and control each other in the same way. You focused on Small Accumulators, especially the Authentics among them, but a huge part of that group were your females. So your women became targets for all aspects of this controlling mania — domination, denigration of character, diminution of personhood, coercion, attack, corralling, enslavement, abuse, murder, and so on.
Now, why your females would be singled out might not be apparent initially. You would think that they would be as likely to be Controllers as your males. Some, indeed, were Controllers, though not many. For there is something that sets women apart in this entire dynamic, making them less likely to become Controllers, more likely to be Authentic, and to be special targets for attack and controlling by the Controller-Conformers.
What sets women apart is their special connection with Nature and birth. Keep in mind that all of this controlling has its roots in birth trauma and infancy deprivation. Keep in mind also that all of this is about controlling all aspects of the natural world. Quite simply, because your females figured so prominently in both the birth trauma as well as the infancy trauma, they would unconsciously be blamed for it all. In attacking women, both women and men would act out their early pain. They would transfer their intensive efforts to beat back the residues, inside themselves, of their painful pasts, onto the outside and would beat back the symbol of that pain — women.
Humans are the only misogynistic species, because humans are the only species with excessive birth and infancy trauma. Among all of Nature, the female of the species prevails — that is to say, is central, more important, and usually dominates, if there is any inequality of genders. However, in humans, at birth, you experience a struggle with the female body to be born, more so than any other species. You would continue that struggle with, beating back at, and attack upon the female body later in life. After birth and in early infancy, you were left wanting in having your needs sufficiently satisfied. In particular, you craved nursing, feeding, and attentiveness from your mothers. Since you could not help be at least somewhat dissatisfied with what you received — even the best mothers cannot respond perfectly, like Nature and biology can — you would for the rest of your life first think of your females as being the source of your dissatisfaction. Women would be scapegoated for all human ills.
It was not women’s fault, of course, that they would be associated with these traumas. You would call it being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Indeed, if justice and reason ruled emotions, women would have been rewarded and appreciated for their roles in taking on these difficult times and tasks in your life. They, after all, suffered severely during birth, just as you did as a neonate. They, though not perfectly, worked hard to fill your needs after birth. So, they are like the doctor who might get blamed for the disease, the hospital that might be targeted as being the cause of death since so much of it occurs there, the fireman who might get blamed for the fire … heck, there’s always one when he’s around, coincidence? … or the police officer responding to the crime who might get accused of it — because he was there. Simply through association, and quite unfairly, women would be targeted as the source of all your ills. You would associate women with eating an apple that would end the earthly paradise, with a jar which when opened released all evil into the world. Amazingly, but understandably, you would create images of the female vagina as ringed with voracious teeth — a perfect depiction of the pain you felt when you first came through that doorway into the world.
So, women, first and foremost, after Nature itself, would be attacked and corralled in your controlling mania as it began being directed now even at yourselves.
But there was another reason why women would come under attack. Being associated with those times of pain was the driving force behind your targeting women for enslavement and abuse. But also, those very fundamental aspects of being female — giving birth and nurturing infants — are the very connections with Nature that you can never deny. You can and did try to separate yourself from all aspects of Nature, to set yourself apart and above. But in the activities of birth, sex, and infancy, you are most clearly part of Nature — down here on Earth with the rest of us planetmates. You may not acknowledge it, but you cannot but know it.
So, females, in being primary participants in birth and infancy, have a connection with Nature that is harder for them to deny; and it is a connection that your males would be aware of as well. In being connected to Nature, your females would be more likely to be like those Authentics — that is, more interested in emotional, relational, and spiritual, rather than in power and controlling pursuits. Burdened with giving birth and having a greater role in parenting, they would be more likely to be Small Accumulators, too. So, they would be singled out for excessive coercion and demands for conformity by Controllers for those reasons — that is, being more akin to Authentics and more likely a Small Accumulator.
But in the fact that men would know that women have a special connection to Nature, your females would be lumped in with Nature as another thing to control. Indeed, since sex is the major aspect of adult life that men experience as being related to Nature and to be unable to be controlled — at least, not with a lot of difficulty, for the sex act requires loss of control, as does loving in any form — and men would associate sex with women, that would be another reason women would be controlled. For in controlling women, men could, again, work to deny their connection with and dependence on Nature.
Now, these special characteristics of women and the extra coercion that would be brought to bear upon them because of those characteristics would split women along two lines of behavior. These would be sets of behaviors, but also, and for the most part, they would be ways that both women and men would come to see women. One set of behaviors and perceptions of women would be the Conforming ones. In these behaviors and attitudes women would succumb to the coercions and become obedient. They would become as sycophantic as can be. They would adopt the perceptions of themselves as being less than human because of their association with Nature. They would go along with what was being demanded of them and would become docile, subservient, “domesticated” — just like the “animals” that were owned. Indeed they would go along with being viewed as possessions and things and would become self-hating and obsequious to the values of power, control, and masculinity.
The other set of behaviors and perceptions are what might be called Authentic. In this choice, women would not concede personhood. They would not want men or others controlling their freedom, bodies, sexuality, relationships. They might, for the sake of their relations with their children, ape all the mannerisms of conformity and submission when necessary, but they would resent it. They really were still closer to their natural selves and to Nature and could not or would not deny it, regardless the pressures to conform and the punishments for non-conformance. Women would know their power, however secretively. On the other hand, men would perceive this assertion of the natural in women as the gravest offence and affront to all their efforts at controlling and dominating. So men’s view of these women had them being lumped in with all their other distorted views of Nature: by men, women were, like Nature, seen as wild, uncontrollable, bestial, animalistic, uncontrolled. They were associated with those forces in Nature that resisted domination and murder, too, as, like Nature’s planetmates who did so, they were considered vicious and unforgiving — furious and Furies.
Thus, there was a polarity evident in women’s feelings and in the perception of them in society: One matches up with the Conformers and was the pull of obedience, for the women, and the perception of their docility, by others. The other was in resonance with the Authentics — and all the natural and beneficent forces of the Divine — and resulted in women’s desire to be free, noble, and self-determining, like humans in general once were. And this was perceived, especially by men, as rebellion, license, viciousness, and evil (the opposite of live) — which is exactly the opposite of what it was, for the Authentic urge was life-affirming and felicitous, loving as well as free.
This is how your females became the most important and obvious expression of the Controller-Conformer-Authentic dynamic. In it you can see all the elements of persuasion, coercion, obedience, sycophancy, rebellion, jealousy, and humiliation that were at play in all of your, human’s, efforts at extending your controlling insanity into the realms of humans, too, beginning with the most natural of you.
All of these pressures toward conformity and sycophancy in humans could not help but make for the dominance of Controller-Conformer numbers, and thus traits, in your populations. Remember, that conformity and controlling behaviors were aligned not only in their ends but within the person. For every conformer is a wannabe controller. And every conformer would be rewarded for their obedience by getting to be controlling in some other area of their life. In fact, the pressure on women to be conforming was so great because it was the place where conforming men, if nowhere else in society, were given free rein as controllers. Just as in the societal hierarchies that developed out of this Controller-Conformer dynamic it would have those on one level sucking up to those above while being rewarded with sycophantic behavior from those below them, so also conforming behavior for all men would be rewarded with sycophantic behavior by women, who would be everywhere at the bottom of all hierarchies.
Of course, women would seek reward for their conformity, too. People or planetmates lower on the totem pole could always be invented. Women could participate vicariously in their husband’s rewards of obedience from those below him; they could derive it from other women, under certain circumstances; they could wield it in their relations with their children, and often did, which is a whole other issue important enough to be discussed on its own (See The 22nd Prasad); and if nothing else there were always the planetmates and Nature that would be bent into service to satisfy these unwholly, unnatural “needs” (actually, desires) to be deferred to and to scapegoat others for one’s own circumstances.
If human females chose to accept none of these outlets for their resentment and they insisted on being Authentic and living along the lines of Nature, they suffered. And many of your women did just that.
In being connected to Nature through birth and nurturing, through parenting and family relationships, they would be ever reminded of those values of Nature and of their natural ways. Values of intimacy, love, full experience of life, and felicity would make those of power and domination seem pale by comparison.
So, just like compassionate planetmates who took on lives of service to suffering humanity, a great many of your women did, too. They suffered for being Authentic. Because of this, your females are always and everywhere more likely to suffer from unhappiness, depression, anxiety. Indeed, women actually are more like planetmates, they are more like “animals”; but this is meant in the most salutary way: that your females are closer to Divinity, to natural life, and more likely to take on suffering rather than participate in the power and punishment games.
Still, though slumbering in the hearts of many women and some unusual men — the Authentics — natural and authentic traits would wane as being characteristics of humans. For, of course, those of you who accumulated more and controlled others allied with their conforming, sycophantic underlings would be able to win out in the struggle over resources over those more authentic and less conniving of you. For these traits of unnaturalness do provide a temporary edge in the competition you created for yourselves. You created unreal struggles, and imaginary achievements and defeats, out of your crazed and fearful brains; and the ones who went along most with those unnatural pursuits and forged personalities to fit it could not help but dominate in those contests. Essentially, because of these ruthless traits the more twisted of you would be able to win out more often in the struggle for survival over more authentic humans.
These ways succeeding, controlling and conformity traits would ascend as traits in your population. For, not only would these dominating and subservient traits be passed along to your children through heredity, but also through nurture and example. Your children could not help but be lured from their pulls toward natural ways, which they, by Nature, experience more strongly as they are younger and more recently removed from Divinity. Your offspring with such traits would end up being great in number and your population would increasingly see and produce such inauthentic, more twisted humans.
In this way, your evolution to the depths of depraved Nature that we observe in you today was brought about. This was the final fall in your devolution from wholesome beingness to the twisted and inauthentic state you find yourselves in today — a state so unwholesome as actually to be capable of bringing down all life on this planet, along with your own, in as short a time as just an instant.
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The Family Investment – Over time, humans saw some minimal benefit in keeping newborns alive – The 24th Prasad from the Planetmates
Ambivalence Regarding Children
Planetmates Release The Twenty-Fourth Prasad
Care-giving was tainted and minimal, and it fostered traits reflective of the emotional deprivations of the adults.
Arctic Grey Wolf is First Consciousness at The Twenty-Fourth Prasad.
However confused the grown Humans, over time they came to understand that for their own survival there is benefit to the investment in these dying, desperate prematures.
The Twenty-Fourth Prasad – Children As Investments
So all care-giving was tainted with this early deprivation and self-centeredness of the care-givers and so, while it did not serve the newborns needs for perfect nurturing, it allowed for some, at least, minimal nurturing for survival. Meanwhile, it acted on the newborns so that such traits that were even dimly reflective of the satisfaction of the fully growns’ own early deprivations were selected for in newborns. This period of ambivalence over newborns and what to do with them characterized your species for a very long period, relatively, and your species remained a small and insignificant part of all Earth planetmates because of this. This only began to change when you began your sedentary-accumulative-conforming ways. So, however confused the grown Humans, over time they came to understand—and it’s to be noted that in some types of cultures it took a great deal of time to get to this understanding—that there is benefit to the investment in these dying, desperate prematures, for their survival. (to be continued)
Paraphrase/ Elaboration/ Abstract of “The Twenty-Fourth Prasad” — by SillyMickel Adzema
Your children were hurt by this early inattentiveness to their needs. All parenting was suffused with the emotional deprivation and resulting twisted consciousness of your fully growns. However far from ideal nurturing and what is possible in Nature, such care-giving was sufficient, barely, for species survival.
But such a corruption of nurturing continued to infuse and mold the personalities of your children in unnatural ways. More and more, it pushed toward characteristics that mirrored the darker impulses of your adults; it manifested the repressed undersides of fully growns, which was comprised of early unmet needs and corrupted desires.
So there was ambivalence in the desire for children. Your species swayed back and forth about what to do with them—between the poles of infanticide and abandonment on one side and acceptance and nurture on the other—for the longest period of your fully human existence. It follows that humans did not thrive during this period. You survived, barely; but your numbers were not large compared to other species and your species and its strange proclivities did not matter much in the grand scheme of things. You were no great harm and caused no widespread suffering to the many outside of yourselves.
But as your species turned its back on its nomadic roots and, blinded by an unnatural fever, pursued a circumscribed and strenuous sedentary lifeway, this stasis in your numbers began to change. You began to see some benefit in having offspring. You perceived survival advantages in family status and larger broods of children.
Of course, for most of this time the greater majority of you still did not come to the appreciation of the family burden, still there was ever-growing understanding of such as worthy of investment. And this changing view correlated predominantly with sedentary lifestyles and accumulating/conforming ways.
To clarify, your crazed non-sedentary forebears still were ambivalent about children and perceived families as a burden in relation to their overblown perception of the struggle to survive. Alongside this, in the world of Nature, there was neither a disinclination for offspring nor an overinvestment in them. Bonding and affection with Nature’s young rose from the correct, biologically constituted, appreciation of the offspring, and this more individually so. Nature’s parents do not view their children through a dark, crazed veil of dry and thirsty deprivation nor a floral, milky gleam of vain and pathetic estimation. In contrast to both of these, agrarian anchors and accumulating, conniving modes fostered appreciation of increases of population, specifically, families, as beneficial in the struggle for survival. It follows that attention and energy would be put into these extra beings, seen increasingly as resources in the struggle against the monstrously over-apprehended fear of death.
The upshot is that in your ever-increasing sedentary numbers, children were considered advantageous against that imagined encroaching darkness you carried. So the life of your otherwise doomed, helpless newborns was valued more often than not. You desperate suffering half-borns would increase your numbers as a defense against your personal demise.
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Instinct: Enlightening Illumination
April 12, 2018 Douglas Bankston
Above: Working on location in New York are, from left, 1st AC John Reeves, cinematographer Joe Collins, operator Edgar Colón and 1st AC Bobby Mancuso. Photo at top of page by Jeff Neumann /CBS.
Cinematographer Joe Collins offers clues on how he depicts the inner workings of a genius mind in this inventive crime drama.
Unit photography by Francisco Roman & Jeff Neumann, courtesy of CBS
Dr. Dylan Reinhart enjoys his life these days as a renowned professor and author in criminal behavior analysis. But when NYPD detective Lizzie Needham calls on him to assist in a serial murder investigation, the former CIA operative can't resist an opportunity to get his investigative juices flowing again in the CBS mid-season series Instinct, starring Alan Cumming and Bojana Novakovic.
The show is based on the James Patterson book Murder Games. Creator Michael Rauch wanted his longtime Royal Pains series cinematographer Joe Collins to shoot the pilot episode. Collins, however, was tied up, so Jimmy Lindsey, ASC (Revolution, Limitless, From Dusk Till Dawn) filled in admirably. When Instinct was picked up to series, Collins was free to shoot the balance of the 12-episode season starting in July of 2017.
As cerebral Dr. Dylan Reinhart and NYPD detective Lizzie Needham, Alan Cumming and Bojana Novakovic play unlikely colleagues in crime fighting.
After the pilot, the show executives wanted to make some tweaks to the visuals, including adding more camera movement, decreasing depth of field, adding some warmth to the lighting and highlighting Dr. Reinhart's problem-solving mental gymnastics. That last one left Collins wondering: “How do you film the cognitive process?”
“He's able to take a ton of facts, process them and come up with a solution — you know, put all the pieces of the puzzle together,” Collins says. The show creatives were inspired by how Sherlock, the BBC series starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the famed sleuth, addressed the same issue, and Collins turned to Panavision New York for assistance with the technical aspect of visualizing Reinhart's thought process.
Seeking his own solution, Collins tested the new large-format 8K Panavision Millennium DXL with Primo 70 spherical prime lenses. It was the only DXL body Panavision had at the time that wasn't spoken for. After the proof of concept was presented to CBS — including visuals, on-set data management, and the high-data workflow by Technicolor-PostWorks NY — the network gave the go ahead to shoot at 8K and 6K resolutions.
Novakovic, co-star Naveen Andrews and Cumming.
Explains Collins, “Because we were establishing a new way of visually piecing together thought, and because we wanted to allow the producers and CBS the most leeway in post, should they decide that the scripted way of Dylan solving a crime didn't work, they needed room to adjust after the fact. This meant that if Dylan remembered a clue as scripted, and we shot only that, if it was decided later that there was a better clue or the storyline changed, then we were stuck with only what was shot. So, to ensure the most freedom for all, we knew we had to shoot 8K for these moments and allow post the ability to isolate multiple parts of a single frame should changes arise. We also wanted these pieces to stand out from the rest of the show visually, and we opted to use an anamorphic adapter on the lenses and added a Schneider Blue True-Streak filter to all ‘Dylan Pops,’ as they were called. We also shot these pieces at 48 frames per second to slow the moment down and/or to allow ramping. The last piece was a lighting cue to signal the transition into Dylan’s mind, and for that we used a Jo-Leko, which would flare the lens as the rest of the lighting would dim around him.”
Collins scopes out a composition.
For gaffer Pat Fontana, those lighting cues were challenging. “I feel that the most difficult lighting setups were when we utilized the 800-watt Jo-Leko to try and flare the camera lens for those special show elements,” he says. “A Jo-Leko is the combination of two lights — the reflector housing of an 800-watt K-5600 Joker HMI is removed and with an adapter the backing is attached to an ETC Source Four, which is normally a tungsten unit. Lekos have many lens barrels that have different beam widths that can be easily swapped out from the Leko body. The lens systems create a sharp falloff in lumens outside of the beam edge, much like a spotlight.
“We would use the 19-degree lens for our flare purposes,” Fontana adds. “Because we shot on spherical lenses and not true anamorphic, the camera department attached an anamorphic adaptor, that, like a Polarizer, needed to be orientated in the proper fashion so that the flare would be horizontal in the frame. We would place the Jo-Leko on a stand and rake the camera lens with the attached anamorphic adaptor to achieve the artificial flare. It was challenging to achieve the exact look desired because we needed to move the light around the frame to find the sweet spot of the adaptor. It was sometimes problematic because we also were trying to keep the equipment out of frame to a certain extent. When the gag worked, it looked superb and the effort paid off.”
Prepping to shoot double coverage on the rooftop of the Manhattan Municipal Building, located at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, Collins (in pink shorts) blocks out angles with stand-ins. In the scene, Dr. Reinhart has tracked a backpack bomber to the rooftop, where he confronts him in the climactic scene of the episode, directed by Gus Makris. To photograph the bomber jumping off the rooftop, Collins says, “stunts had laid out a large landing pad on the terrace two floors down and our actor started the leap, and then a stunt performer made the actual jump. We also combined some plates of the skyline and Brooklyn Bridge that our VFX company, The Molecule, composited together to alter the actual skyline on the rooftop.”
These “Dylan Pops” were shot at 8K (8192 x 4320) resolution with a RedCode compression of 8:1 and utilized a 46.3mm image circle when rendered at the lens’ wide-open aperture of T2. The DXL is built upon RED Digital Cinema’s Monstro sensor but employs Panavision/Light’s custom color science.
The rest of the show was shot at 6K (6144 x 3160) resolution with a RedCode compression of 7:1 and utilizing a 34.53 image circle — slightly larger than a Super 35mm aperture. Because only one DXL was available, B and C cameras were Red Weapon bodies with Dragon 6K sensors, to maintain visual similarity among all three cameras. The Red Weapons also were the ideal form factor for Steadicam use.
Collins adds: “Another reason we chose to shoot in 6K and 8K was that early on we were playing with the idea of having graphics, crime scene images, specially modified excerpts from scenes and flashbacks from Dylan's past, all swirling around him as he processed the clues. Shooting in this large scale allowed post a lot of freedom to play with this concept and lots of options for material to pull from. In the end, CBS opted to dial this back a bit, but by having this large amount of [image] data, we enabled them to fully explore all their options.”
As DIT Jeff Hagerman notes, “Our footage was shot in RedLogFilm color space, on top of which we applied a custom de-log LUT, and from there, any color decisions were made on a scene-by-scene basis using ASC CDLs through Pomfort LiveGrade Pro and Blackmagic Design DaVinci color-grading applications. Images were viewed on Flanders Scientific DM250 OLED monitors through Fujifilm IS-mini LUT boxes.”
Collins and his team set up a bizarre scene for the episode "Live," directed by Ed Ornelas, in which a deranged film student kidnaps a classmate and plants to murder him while live streaming the crime.
Another reason Collins went large format was to provide the show creators the shallow depth of field inherent to that format. “While testing, I had Panavision de-tune the Primo 70 lenses to Level 3 Noir, a kind of softening but without lowering the contrast; I still had rich, dark blacks,” he says. “It was hard on the focus pullers, but John Reeves and Eric Robinson did an amazing job of keeping things in focus.” Collins had two full sets of Primo 70 large-format primes on hand to serve the three camera packages, which were operated by John MacDonald, Edgar Colón and Ted Chu.
More camera movement was introduced into the visual language, such as pushing in toward subjects or dollying across a room to find a character. “Even when things were stationary, like people seated at a desk, there always was just a subtle left to right to left movement, usually with something in the foreground,” says Collins. “It fits with the investigative style of the story as we constantly trying to figure out the crime with them.”
Between the pilot and the second episode, two locations were added to the show: Dr. Reinhart’s New York apartment and the police precinct, both created on stage by production designer Ray Kluga.
The lighting plot for the precinct set. Diagram courtesy of gaffer Pat Fontana.
Says Collins, “The premise of the precinct set was that it was new construction, an independent addition attached to a much older NYPD building by a long, tall atrium, the cover of which was a ceiling of 10 or 12 large glass skylights. The idea was to contrast the older-style NYPD with the newer, state-of-the-art NYPD of 2018. The old building was aged, weathered stone and copper-lit by tungsten sources. The new building was glass, metal, tile and chrome, with LED and fluorescent lights, computer screens and monitors.”
In the modern police precinct set, featuring reflections and mixed color temperatures. Photo by Jeff Neumann / CBS
The bullpen office area for the detectives was sandwiched between two hallways. One hallway was that tall, 16'-high atrium-type hallway. The opposite hallway had a large glass window array that was 20' wide and was backed by a Rosco soft drop. Fontana describes the setup in detail: “We utilized these two opposing hallway set elements to motivate our lighting in the entire precinct. The atrium hallway had Ultrabounce material stretched over the entire length of it at the pipe grid level. We employed 24 Studio Force hybrid LED lights to illuminate the bounce, which allowed us to dial in any color temperature we desired between 3200°K and 5600°K, to suit the time of day in the scene. These LED lights were rigged behind the set walls of the hall and just below the top of the wall so that the wall would act as a natural bottom cut for the fixtures, which kept any raw spill from contaminating the hallway. This bounce gave us a general soft ambiance that would pour into the bullpen. For hard light in the atrium hallway, we employed nine Arri T12 Fresnels, powered by an ETC Sensor dimming rack, and mounted them on a fixed-height track so that we could slide the fixtures left or right, parallel to the bullpen, to change the angle of the light to achieve a certain key or backlight angle with the lighting. During the initial build, my preference was to utilize Mole Richardson 10K LEDs so that we could dial in any color temperature; however, the units were still too new at the time of installation and wouldn’t be available in the numbers we needed. We settled on conventional Arri T12 Fresnels and attached half-blue color correction and half-white 250 diffusion to each fixture in the atrium hallway.”
“After the first day or two shooting in the precinct,” adds Collins, “We realized that the set looked best during day time to feel as if lit by daylight coming through the windows on either side of the precinct. We pushed deep into the interior with big sources that Pat mentioned, which were rigged above the exterior of the set. We used the practical lights as accents in the foreground and background, kill or dim the overheads, and enhance the sunlight feel with 5Ks or 10Ks skipping off white mat on the floor of the interior. We wanted to feel the light fall off as you got deeper into the set, but sunlight, highlights, floor bounce, and reflections were emphasized everywhere and they keyed the scenes. The atrium was tricky, but we the blue T12s rigged overhead and separated with cutters from the grips made a believable single source of daylight over the skylights. In general, the daylight from the exterior was always one quarter to half blue compared to the slightly warmer practical set lights. Ray had designed a woven metal sheet grid for our interior ceiling, with rows of modern hanging fluorescent fixtures lighting the precinct. Above the ‘see-through’ metal grid were long girders that we lit with tungsten ‘jelly jars’. Ray provided sconces and hanging fixtures to light the hallways, and the offices were lit by overhead fluorescents and a combination of floor and table lamps.”
Fontana turned his attention to the hallway on the opposite side of the bullpen, the one with the expanse of windows backed by the Rosco soft drop. “We called the area outside these hallway windows the ‘yard’,” Fontana says. “It was a 20' by 20' area, and directly above the open space in the yard was a 12' by 20' blue bounce, which was rigged with one side abutting the wall above the windows of the hallway. This was attached directly to the pipe grid and was surrounded on the remaining three sides with a total of six Arri T5 Fresnels, two per side, all powered by an ETC Sensor dimming rack. By using a blue bounce, we did not need to attach color correction gel to the lights to achieve our cool, ambient source.
“Also in the yard,” he continues, “we utilized three Arri T12 Fresnels, powered by an ETC Sensor dimming rack, which were mounted on a track that was affixed to box truss suspended by chain hoists and positioned between the drop and the windows, all parallel to each other. The chain hoists allowed key grip Matt Staples to fly the lights in for focusing which expedited the lighting process. These were slid left or right as needed so they could be used as either a key light or backlight. These lights were also treated with half-blue gels and half-white 250 diffusion.
“The Rosco soft drop was a day/night drop. When lit from the front, it gave the appearance of a daytime shot, yet when lit from behind, it appeared like a nighttime shot. The front/day side was lit with 15 Studio Force hybrid LEDs that were arranged parallel to the drop — we had eight units on the stage floor uplighting the drop and seven units rigged to the pipe grid downlighting the drop, all in a raking fashion approximately 5' away from the drop. We set these lights to 4500°K at 55% intensity for day work and 3200°K for the night look but at a much reduced level of intensity. Because soft drops are manufactured with fabric, unlike a traditional vinyl drop, they cannot be lit from directly behind or the lighting fixtures will be seen through the material. To light the drop from behind for nighttime, we employed 16 Chroma Q Colorforce 72 LED RGBA lights, also arranged parallel to the drop with seven units uplighting from the stage floor and nine units rigged from the pipe grid downlighting. Due to the type of lens in these lights, they were a foot off the drop. We only used the amber emitters — the ‘A’ in RGBA — which lent a gritty sodium feel to the cityscape, rounded out by the subtle tungsten front wash of the Studio Forces.”
The center of the activity, the bullpen, was lit with 50 4' T8 3200°K fluorescent tubes, placed in 4', two-tube modern-looking fixture housings provided by the set decorators. “Our original plan,” says Fontana, “was to place Quasar Science 4' T8 3200°K LED tubes in the fixtures; however, the manufacturer could not supply that amount of bulbs. The T8 size was a new item for them, and they did not have production lines up and running in time for our delivery deadline.
“Our shop electrician, Rich Cohen, worked tirelessly to revamp the fixture housings so that they had a high-frequency, dimmable electronic ballast that we powered from an ETC Sensor dimming rack. This gave us the capability of a 60-percent dimming curve with the fluorescents. Because we shot at 60 frames per second on occasion, this was a necessity with the fluorescents. Each fixture had its own isolated dimming circuit, which gave us a great amount of control of the overhead lighting.
“While shooting in the bullpen,” Fontana says, “any units that were directly overhead of actors were turned off, and more flattering light was added on the ground. We mostly utilized Arri Skypanel S60s and S30s for ground use, and generally pushed them through 4' x 4' diffusion frames outfitted with a Light Tools soft crate to control the light. We patched these into the dimmer board via flush-mount DMX ports that were placed next to practical outlets, duplex-style, throughout the precinct set. The bridge connecting each outlet in the duplex was separated, which allowed us to feed the top outlet of the duplex with non-dimmable power and the bottom outlet of the duplex with dimmable power from an ETC Sensor dimming rack. If the flush-mount DMX ports were photographed in a scene, they would appear as if they were a data port of some sort for the precinct and would not look out of place. This gave our talented dimmer board operator, Jeremy Specce, full control of all the multi-parameter properties of the Skypanels. This system allowed us to make on-the-fly intensity or color-temperature changes during rehearsals or while recording without having to keep a technician next to every light to affect the change. For nighttime scenes, we utilized Photoflex HalfDomes with 1K tungsten bulbs. This lent a rich, warm look to the actors. These also were powered by an ETC Sensor dimming rack by plugging directly into the dimmed outlet of any duplex on set.
“In order to augment the soft ambient light that would pour in from the two hallways, we would use Arri T5 Fresnels and 750-watt Lekos as skip bounces on the floor, aimed at white rubber mats that the grip crew would lay out for the lights. We also would cast Leko beams across sets and bounce the light into walls where we couldn’t fit a light. This would give a nice, soft glow to the target area. All aspects of set lighting were patched into the dimmer board, which made any intensity changes, or color temperature, if applicable, a breeze.
“A conference room bordered the third side of the bullpen. Inside the room was a large half-moon window with opaque panes of glass, which was built right up against the fire lane of the stage. In order to create a soft ambiance, Matt Staples mounted a bleached muslin rag on the perimeter stage wall, into which we bounced four Arri T5 Fresnels — also powered by an ETC Sensor dimming rack — that were rigged above the conference room. These were not treated with any gel or diffusion. For direct light, we positioned two Arri T12 Fresnels powered by an ETC Sensor dimming rack from a fixed track to allow us to slide the lights left or right to change the angle of the light pushing through the windows. These lights did not receive any gel treatment either. The bounced Arri T5s were a necessity or else the glass would have appeared to be very dark without it, even though there were T12s punching directly through the window. Glass must have either a diffusion attached to the back side of the pane or a material that bounces an appreciable amount of light back to the glass so that an ambient glow is picked up by the camera to give the window glass presence.
“Opposite the conference room, on the fourth side of the bullpen, were two offices. Each room had four fluorescent fixtures in them, which our shop electrician rewired to accept 2' dimmable Quasar Science T8 3200 LEDs. The bulb manufacturer was able to produce the small amount of 2' bulbs that we required, and we made the decision to use these in the offices because they had a better dimming capability than the fluorescents. Each fixture had its own isolated dimming circuit.”
Collins chimes in: “For night in the precinct, we went with a warmer, more tungsten feel with our lighting. We knocked the levels way back all around, and all the interior lighting on the actors was motivated by the practicals on set. We kept a mix of cool, white, green, and warm practicals in the background and foreground, but the actors were primarily warm tungsten.”
And the cinematographer adds, “One of the funny things we had to deal with was that we didn't have an exterior precinct location established when the set was built. We had to find a way to make the set look like it could ambiguously fit into anywhere between a ground floor to a sixth-floor location. We finally settled on the new Cooper Hewitt Design School in the East Village as our exterior, half way through our first episode!”
The lighting plot for Dr. Dylan Reinhart's apartment. Diagram courtesy of gaffer Pat Fontana.
The other new set, depicting Dr. Reinhart’s apartment, actually was established in the pilot episode. For the series, production designer Ray Kluga built an exact replica of the real location interior — a ground-level converted 19th century carriage house — on stage. All windows were considered to be exposed to the sun and street exterior. “Ray installed many beautiful vintage practical lights, lamps, sconces, and chandeliers, which were featured extensively,” says Collins. “We took the approach that, during the daytime, we always were dominated by strong, warm sunlight coming through the windows of the set. We added warm bounce light to lift levels or to wrap the actors faces, but the windows were the dominant source. For nighttime, we used the practical lighting as motivation.”
This image from the show’s pilot — which was shot by Jimmy Lindsey, ASC — demonstrates the daylight look for the apartment, which was then replicated on stage for the series, largely motivated by strong window illumination.
“A courtyard in the middle of the apartment set employed a similar Ultrabounce to the one in the precinct atrium hallway. We utilized two Studio Force hybrid LEDs and bounced them into the Ultrabounce that was rigged to the pipe grid above the courtyard.
“All other windows in the apartment had curtains and sheers, which again did not require a backdrop. For these windows we pushed around several Arri T12 Fresnels and Arri T5 Fresnels, all powered by an ETC Sensor dimming rack. During night scenes, any Arri Fresnels that illuminated windows — and this goes for every set — were generally operated between 15% to 20% intensity. This gave just a hint of light to the window for the camera to be able to read and also rendered a sodium vapor color quality.”
Adding to the detail, Collins says, “For the nighttime interior, we would use the practical lighting as motivation and would push HalfDomes through diffusion or LiteMat 1 or LiteMat 2 through diffusion for the actors. We also would rig HalfDomes around the set ceiling to give us warm edge light or backlight. Occasionally, we'd bounce a Source 4 Leko into a Booklight of unbleached muslin and full-grid diffusion. This was a beautiful set but a little dark in places, and Ray added some practicals after our first time shooting there to pull it all together. The patio needed to feel as if sun could reach in, so we rigged a T12 and positioned it based on where the camera was looking. At night, we had a string of Edison bulbs motivating the exterior patio lighting.”
Cumming and co-star Daniel Ings on the apartment set in nighttime lighting mode.
Overall visually, the creators wanted New York to feel somewhat surreal. “It was an elevated sense of reality, if you will,” Collins notes. “We saturated the color so that everything had a pop to it.”
Colorist John Crowley at Technicolor-PostWorks NY handled the color grading through Filmlight's Baselight system, performing the finish in 1920 x 1080 resolution 23.98fps ProRes 444 Log with a final output format of 1080i 59.94fps XDCAM MXF for television delivery. Effects house The Molecule in New York performed the visual-effects work with the 8K- and 6K-originated material, and the effects artists were very appreciative of the extra resolution to work with.
In addition, Crowley added a grain effect to the finished images, which “added a really nice layer to the visuals,” says Collins.
“This was a great learning curve to be able to shoot in 8K with 70mm primes,” adds the cinematographer. “It was a great new way to see things, and it allowed CBS and the creatives the most freedom to tell the story. I would love to shoot everything in this format going forward!”
Bundled up against the cold, Collins preps his next take.
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The Code debate begins
Jack Craver Uncategorized April 2, 2019 April 2, 2019 2 Minutes
Adler’s unsuccessful attempt to create a “team” mentality around CodeNEXT
On Wednesday evening, Greg Casar and Delia Garza kicked off the debate over the future of Austin’s land development code with a joint post on the City Council message board. In it, they provided responses to the five questions City Manager Spencer Cronk said he wants feedback on before city staff can begin drafting a new code.
You may recall, Cronk made his questions multi-choice, each with three potential answers. The first question was whether Council wanted to (a) adopt a new code but delay implementation of a new zoning map, (b) adopt a new code & zoning map or (c) just make a few changes to the existing code.
On the other four questions –– housing capacity, parking, compatibility, missing middle housing –– Cronk presented the following options:
A. Maintain the status quo
B. Whatever was proposed in version 3 of CodeNEXT
C. Something even more ambitious
In response to four out of the five questions, Casar & Garza picked the most ambitious option. There’s no point in sharing the response to each question, because each one pretty much said the same thing: we need to reduce regulations that inhibit housing in the urban core and encourage sprawl. This response pretty much sums up their argument:
The land development code should be rewritten and remapped as soon as possible. We need a code that allows us to be flexible and creative when addressing the diverse needs of our growing population. Concrete code and map changes should be made in 2019 to make the city more affordable, transit-friendly, and environmentally sustainable. We recognize that all the work that needs to be completed on our code cannot all be done and perfected in a single year. Therefore, for major changes to be made in 2019, the Manager and Council should prioritize “all types of homes for all kinds of people in all parts of town” (our Strategic Housing Blueprint goals) and a development pattern that supports 50/50 Transportation Mode Share by 2039.
The one issue that the two did not pick Option C on was compatibility standards. They restated their focus on putting in place whatever regulations will allow the city to meet its housing goals, but suggested they were open to debate on whether the result should be closer to Option B or Option C.
I think the caution on compatibility makes sense. Whereas minimum parking requirements and single-family zoning are inherently regressive, reasonable compatibility standards could be a part of a code that facilitates multi-family housing and transit-supportive density. The problem with the current standards is that it’s one-size-fits-all: if there’s a single-family home within 200 ft of your project, you can’t go higher than 50 ft, period.
What’s interesting is that so far Casar & Garza are the only two to provide answers to Cronk’s questions. I expected the anti-density CMs to be reluctant to answer the questions, given that it somewhat forces them to admit they prefer that they support the status quo. But I’m a little surprised that we still haven’t from the three other density-friendly CMs: Renteria, Harper-Madison and Flannigan.
Eventually, however, the others are going to have to take a position. It will be interesting to see what happens…
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This happened when I was a teenager, living on the outskirts of a mid-western town with my uncle and his wife.
Everything was boring back then and there was nothing to do for a girl who was home schooled after her parents passed away.
My Uncle and Aunt were great, as they often left me alone to get wasted.
Updated 10/1/2019 – Funny when I think of it now, because I sometimes broke into their stash and smoked a blunt here and there, to pass the time.
What I wasn’t expecting were the fights that started up after I turned fifteen.
My Uncle started wailing on my Aunt but she was a big woman and she gave the same back.
They blamed each other about the weed always disappearing and for the life of me I didn’t know why they never suspected me, but I kept my mouth shut.
After a particularly brutal fight one night, I woke up and saw that my Uncle wasn’t home.
My Aunt shrugged and said that he finally left her.
From then on it was awesome, even though I missed him.
My Aunt and I cooked together, shopped together and really got to know each other.
She even let me move into the abandoned trailer they had at the back of the property, so I could “have friends over” – according to my Aunt.
I didn’t have any friends, so I was kinda pissed with that statement, but still – it was great to have a place of my own at such a young age.
The thing was, I could never get used to the smell.
My Aunt said that it was probably because raccoons or possums nested there until she cleaned it up.
After two weeks it got to be too much.
I told her that the smell shouldn’t be building up – that it should’ve been going away by then.
She shrugged and told me to use air fresheners, which only made the stench stronger – in my opinion.
That was when the nightmares started, where my Uncle appeared at the foot of my bed.
I’d wake up screaming but the next night, the same nightmare returned.
In each one, my Uncle was pointing downwards and had blood dripping from the neck down.
When I told my Aunt, she froze for a second, but then she shook it off and said I was just experiencing separation anxiety.
What happened next still chills my flesh.
I was playing with the next door neighbor’s dog, who came from a mile away to have me throw a ball for him.
The ball rolled under the trailer and the dog went under – through a hole.
He soon came out without the ball and yelping like he’d been hit with something.
I crawled under and saw the ball next to something wrapped in a tarp.
Stupid me – I pulled at it.
My Uncle’s face appeared under the flap – frozen in a terrified gasp with his milky-blue eyes wide open and speckled with blood.
His neck was gaping and I couldn’t stop screaming.
I backed out and raced after the dog.
When I got to my neighbor’s house and told him what happened, a cruel smile spread across his ugly face.
He told me that he and my Aunt knew that I was the one taking the weed, but it was the perfect opportunity to get rid of my Uncle.
I swore I’d keep the secret to myself but I’m waiting for them to pass on before I tell the cops.
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These past few months, my grieving process for the venerable 41-year-old soap All My Children, which ends its televised run today, has been slow. My fury, my sadness, my sense of loss, has been simmering. Not to sound dismissive, or minimize the impact of this travesty, but after the cancellation of Guiding Light and As the World Turns, I just didn’t have it in me to rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Unless you count the zillion times a day, every day, five days a week, I had to watch commercials for The Chew. Because if you count that, then a zillion times a day, every day, five days a week, I’ve felt like throwing something at my TV screen… and I’m far from the only person who’s had that knee-jerk reaction.
Look, I don’t begrudge a network its replacement programming. You gotta what you gotta do. You can’t have static for an hour — though, as far as I’m concerned, that’s exactly what ABC is putting on in place of AMC. What I take issue with is that soap fans have had to sit through a three-hour bloc peppered with ads for The Chew every day for months. It’s been relentless! It’s like bringing the hot new girlfriend to your wife’s funeral… heck, it’s like bringing the new girlfriend into the ICU when your wife is still trying to rally! Even today viewers aren’t being spared. Why?
Does someone somewhere really think soap viewers are going to respond positively to tips about small shrimp and dish towels when all they want is a little more time with their soap? Advertise it in primetime and on cable and on the Internet all you want, but don’t kick soap fans where they live when they’re already down! And where are the “Tune in for the last week of AMC” commercials? If we had an equal amount of those maybe the constant barrage of The Chew commercials wouldn’t be so bad. But it’s like The Chew exists in a vacuum: “Lalalala, check out our new show that’s not replacing a beloved veteran TV show, wheeee!” To me, that just doesn’t make sense, and it comes off as needlessly clueless and insensitive.
AMC is a show that dealt with abortion, the Vietnam War, interracial marriage, LGBT rights and countless other ground-breaking, heartfelt issues. Whether or not it finds new life on the Internet, its life on our televisions is experiencing closure today. Couldn’t the show’s fans have a little closure, too… without being Chew-ed up and swallowed?
September 23, 2011 September 23, 2011 Malageneral rambling, tv talksoaps: amc, tv talk
4 thoughts on “The Stew: Bringing AMC Fans’ Anger To a Boil”
Dawn D
Amen Mala been watching ABC soaps since 1969. The last 3+ yrs of GH has been painful. I’m blacking out this wk and next. Love Steve and Becky but not Kemo
Elizabeth Kerri Mahon
I wanted to vomit yesterday when I was watching AMC and I saw all the ads for the chew. It reminded me of the commercials touting the return of the ‘real’ Greenlee when Sabine Singh was still appearing on AMC. Talk about having a sensitivity chip missing. Brian Frons makes Brad Pitt look like a cuddly Care Bear.
Today, they actually played a commercial for The Chew OVER THE CLOSING CREDITS. It’s so appalling I don’t even have words for it. Let AMC go out with dignity, don’t dance on the grave in red high heels!
I couldn’t agree more. They just keep thinking they can force feed this and we will follow. Where is Disney/ABC head honcho? Time for Frons to get his butt fired!
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Happy 50th birthday PGF!
By norseman, March 8, 2017 in Patterson-Gimlin Film
SweatyYeti 2,105
Sésquac
2 hours ago, Squatchy McSquatch said:
Celebrating 50 years without a Bigfoot is sad, imo
The PGF should have been replicated with a body by now, no need for costumes, but hey,
Hey, check it out.....Crowlogic's arbitrary "50 Year time limit' rides again!
norseman 3,585
BFF Donor
15 hours ago, Squatchy McSquatch said:
That's just my opinion
I agree that we should as a community be more aggressive in obtaining a specimen.
But maybe there are none left to collect? Maybe we are looking at one of the last of its kind?
With no specimen and no smoking gun suit? The mystery could remain so for the rest of eternity.
33 minutes ago, norseman said:
If the PGF is a legit Bigfoot film, Norse.....that may well be it's ultimate fate....a film which is never satisfactorily Proven to be legit, or a hoax, to the majority of the general public.
'Hard, undeniable Proof' would be much easier to obtain if the film were a hoax......than it would be if the film is legit.
MIB 2,100
You could be right, they could all be gone. I haven't seen one in 3 years now. I assume the tracks I found last summer were only from last spring, they're not likely 3 years old.
Dunno ... it is what it is. I'm in this for the long haul. I don't have any arbitrary dates when, based on lack of scientific acceptance, I'm going to turn scoftic. There is no "give up", there's only "go on."
Backdoc 676
2 hours ago, SweatyYeti said:
Any even remotely reasonable person would have to understand the brilliance in this statement. A hoax leaves clues. Real clues. Just watch X Creatures and look what a man walking in an ape suit really looks like when walking on a creek bed:
See at 5:45 or so:
23 hours ago, Backdoc said:
Thanks for the positive comment, Backdoc.
The reasoning I was using, is that in the case of a 'hoax film'....there is the suit used, the actor inside it, the maker of the suit...and the person/s who planned/shot the film. Any one of those people could come forward, and admit/confess to the hoax...or the suit could be brought forward, to show that the film was a hoax.
But in the case of a legit Bigfoot film....the only tangible, physical evidence which could prove the film is legit, would be the filmed subject....(which is typically "long gone, and hard to find", shortly after being filmed.)
There is also the physical analysis of the filmed subject...but many people are reluctant to accept positive results, when it comes to this particular subject.
Edited March 23, 2017 by SweatyYeti
I suspect using modern suit guys and modern materials a suit guy could make a similar look to what we see in the PGF to some extent using Today's materials. ( The problem for the man in the suit is trying to walk like that. It would be easier to briefly mimic an ape and " walk" like one. If the suit is good enough we might buy it is an ape. )
I really doubt the same suit guys of today could do a good enough McGuyver act on making a suit out of 1967 era materials looking near or like the PGF. Materials of today, I think they come close to some extent. Materials of 1967, I really doubt it.
salubrious 917
On 3/22/2017 at 0:16 PM, MIB said:
I'm pretty sure they're still around. I had an experience on top of the Elk Pass in BC last summer that really would be hard to explain any other way.
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He-Ro – The Most Powerful Wizard in the Universe (1987/2019)
Posted on May 16, 2019 October 31, 2019 by Adam in Heroic Warriors, Powers of Grayskull
He-Ro was the protagonist from the partially-realized Powers of Grayskull spinoff line. I say partially realized because three dinosaurs (Tyrantisaurus, Bionatops, Turbodactyl) were released under the Powers of Grayskull label, although no standard-sized figures were. The giants Tytus and Megator would have had that label as well had they been released in the US as planned, however their limited European release in 1988 omitted the POG logo. He-Ro appeared in Mattel’s 1987 dealer catalog, but was not released until 2019, under the Super7 label.
He-Ro originates with some concept art by Alan Tyler, created in October of 1985. The 2019 release actually includes a booklet outlining the character’s history, and includes a number of concept art pieces. It’s quite a nicely put together history of the figure, co-written by Emiliano Santalucia and James Eatock, and compiled by The Power and the Honor Foundation:
I would encourage everyone to pick up the 2019 Super7 He-Ro figure if you’re able to – the figure itself is very well done, and it’s worth it even just for the booklet. In the meantime, I’ll report on some points of the history they outline in their research.
He-Ro began as a series of drawings by Alan Tyler, under the name Lord Grayskull. The earliest version has kind of a rugged, heavily-armored look, but Tyler experimented will many different ideas, including giving the character a gnarly, dwarfish appearance. The images below come from the booklet:
Eventually the look evolved into something a bit more toned down, while remaining quite ornate. He-Ro was given golden armor and boots, and a red cape. The “G” symbol stayed on his costume for some time, eventually being replaced with a stylized H for He-Ro. However, the G symbol, especially the design in the third image below, does show up on the costume of the giant Tytus:
The Preternian giant Tytus, with Lord Grayskull’s symbol on his chest.
The final design is a cross between the red caped concept and the version with the silver gauntlets, below.
He-Ro cross sell artwork, showing the finalized figure design. Source: Dark Horse/The Power and the Honor Foundation
Grayskull was actually trademarked on June 23, 1986. This is most likely relating to the figure and not to Castle Grayskull, as the later was trademarked years earlier. “Powers of Grayskull” was trademarked on September 22 of the same year.
A prototype for the figure was shown in Mattel’s 1987 dealer catalog, indicating that Mattel was indeed planning to release the figure. However, tanking sales caused the plug to be pulled on He-Ro.
Mattel put together a Powers of Grayskull licensing kit, which included an illustration of the character by Errol McCarthy and a lengthy backstory for He-Ro:
From the style guide:
He-Ro
Name: Gray
Identity: Secret Ancestor of He-Man and She-Ra
Real Name: He-Ro, Alter Ego of Gray
Role: First recipient of The Powers of Grayskull and original leader of heroic forces in prehistoric Eternia against the evil Dino Reptilian Kingdom.
Power: As well as possessing the fabulous strength of He-Man, He-Ro has another power uniquely his own. It is the power of natural magic; an ability to magically influence elements of nature. He-Ro draws his power from the Book of Transformation.
Character Profile: Reared under the tutelage of his mentor, ELDOR, and the tribal chieftess, Sharella, Gray was one day mysteriously drawn to a nearby cave. There, in darkness and in light, he was invested with the newly evolved powers that would change his his life and alter the course of history in Eternia. The exact details of what transpired in that cave have remained secret, but Eldor has made cryptic allusions…references to the boy’s mysterious past, to an amazing legacy… and an awesome task which Gray accomplished that day in the cave. By placing one hand on his heart, flexing the other arm into a muscle and incanting, “Magic and strength…tempered by heart!” Gray causes an amazing transformation to occur, becoming the He-Ro of Grayskull and announcing, “I stand for Peace!”
Weapons: He-Ro channels his energy through a marvelous staff which can direct a magic ray to specific parts of the environment, causing the likes of inanimate rocks, rivers, and trees to respond to his commands.
Note: With powers of this scope, it might seem ludicrous to suggest anyway in which He-Ro could be less powerful than He-Man. But He-Man does have one power He-Ro lacks: the power of wisdom and maturity. He-Ro is younger and still learning to use his powers.
So essentially He-Ro is similar to He-Man in strength, with added earth magic powers, but he doesn’t have the wisdom and maturity of He-Man. His alter ego, Gray, is depicted in the card art for Eldor:
There are a couple of surviving Mattel documents that seem to point toward some preliminary ideas that lead to the creation of the Powers of Grayskull concept. The concept included a range/paladin character with a bond with nature as well as a sage character – these seem to be early incarnations of He-Ro and Eldor. A giant is even included, which seems to point to Tytus.
Image courtesy of Jukka Issakainen
He-Ro only appears once in any of the original MOTU minicomics, and it’s in a single scene, in shadow. The Powers of Grayskull: The Legend Begins! was meant to introduce the Powers of Grayskull storyline. In the story, He-Man and the Sorceress go back to Preternian times, and are unknowingly followed by Skeletor. Skeletor teams up with King Hiss, at which point He-Man (in disguise) is obliged to interfere. However, in the middle of the battle, He-Ro steps in and returns everyone to their proper time.
He-Ro’s magical staff is based on earlier concept art.
He-Ro appears in a number of pieces of artwork by Errol McCarthy, including the cardback art he did for He-Ro and Eldor, as well as artwork for licensed products:
He-Man and He-Ro with Turbosaurus, which would evolve into Gigantisaur
He-Ro also appears on the packaging artwork for Turbodactyl, Megator and Tytus:
Artwork by William George
Artwork was also produced internally at Mattel illustrating the world of Preternia. This scene mirrors some of the plot of The Powers of Grayskull minicomic:
Image source: Dark Horse/The Power and the Honor Foundation
A poster by Emiliano Santalucia called “Age Of Preternia” will shortly be released by Mad Duck Posters, which depicts He-Ro, Eldor, Sharella (the tribal chieftess mentioned in He-Ro’s backstory) and Keldor (Skeletor before he was transformed into his current form):
Mad Duck also put out a poster by Rob Ayotte called “Ancients”, which features He-Ro, Tytus, Megator, King and Queen Grayskull (from the 200x continuity), Rattlor, Snake Face, and other Preternia characters.
Super7 Figure
Super7 announced in 2017 that they would be releasing 5.5″ scale figures based on the original 1987 He-Ro and Eldor prototypes. The figures were recreations of the originals, sculpted by the Four Horsemen, Prototypes were revealed prior to their release. Initially He-Ro was to have painted metallic gold armor and boots, although the final version was released with gold vac metal boots and chest armor, following the look of the original Mattel design.
The figure was released in a reproduction package and card that closely followed the look of what would have been released in 1987:
As noted in the illustrations above, He-Ro was to have a magical staff that would pop open upon pressing down on the green gem. That feature was replicated in the Super7 release. This was worked out by the Power and Honor Foundation team by reverse-engineering the design based on the surviving card art.
However, the 1987 figure was also going to have a button on its back that would have caused its right arm to swing forward. That was omitted from the 2019 release, I assume due to cost or lack of sufficient design information. It does, however, have the typical spring waist feature.
The original figure also would have come with (presumably) part 2 of the Powers of Grayskull minicomic series. Since that has not been located, the previously mentioned booklet explaining the figure’s origins was included instead.
The Super7 figure, overall, looks very close to the vintage prototype. The facial expression is a bit more intense, and the detail on the hair is a bit more sharp. There are a few other differences, like a narrower face and neck, slightly longer legs, slightly differently shaped shoulders, and a smaller pelvis piece. But most of these these are almost imperceptible, and probably unavoidable without access to the original sculpture.
Super7 He-Ro and Eldor
Vintage prototype
Comparison photo put together by Tokyonever. Vintage on left, 2019 release on right.
Regarding the design of the figure, He-Ro is a certainly an eye-catching figure with his shiny gold costume and red cape. If I had been polled by Mattel at the time of the character’s development, I probably would have pushed them to make the ancestor of He-Man look a bit more rough and barbaric-looking (and indeed that was done with the 200x King Grayskull character). But then again by the late 80s the classic sword and sorcery craze had largely faded away, and I’m sure vac metal was a big selling point on toy shelves.
Regardless of all that, I’m delighted that Super7 put this long-awaited figure in the hands of fans. I very much hope that either Super7 or Mattel gives us more concept and prototype figures in the 5.5″ scale in the future. This is a fantastic way for collectors of the original vintage line to expand their collection.
He-Ro in Action
Øyvind Meisfjord has kindly contributed the following images and video of He-Ro in action:
He-Ro atop Turbodactyl, who has captured King Hiss
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15 thoughts on “He-Ro – The Most Powerful Wizard in the Universe (1987/2019)”
WhakoJacko says:
Gray, Keldor, and Sharella next please Super 7! Great article. I was looking for more info on He-Ro so this was perfect timing. I hope you do Eldor soon.
Thanks WJ! Yes, I’ll be doing one on Eldor next
DarkAlex1978 says:
The figure is good and I like the design if taken out of its supposed context. What I don’t like is the character itself: as strong as He-Man AND a very powerful mage? Is the kind of unbalanced OP character that in the RPG circles is frowned about and actively discouraged XD
I like the look but as you pointed up is too much clean, polished and futuristic for the context where they intended to insert him.
Is interesting to see these prototypes and scrapped ideas finally takes form.
Matthew L. Martin says:
He-Ro has more raw power, but He-Man has wisdom and experience, as the Style Guide notes. Still, I never liked the idea of him being ‘as strong as He-Man’–strong, sure, but magic should be his chief focus.
The futuristic look works for me when you consider that this is the same era as Central Tower, the cybernetic dinosaurs, and the old technology found in Castle Grayskull.
Yeah, but “lacking wisdom and experience” is not enough as limitation (and a very overused one) compared to the pros he has. It looks like just the easiest flaw they could gave him.
Being only a powerful mage it would be enough in my opinion and for a more interesting character, since he would have to use magic in a creative way to solve problems instead of using strenght like He-Man.
And presenting the replacer of a beloved enstablished main character with “The new one can do the same things but is also better than your hero” kind of approach, is not the best way to win the hearts of kids XD
That’s a cool figure. It’s nice to see him in the proportions of the original line. The pamphlet alone seems worth the purchase price!
That shadowy figure from the mini-comic held such promise, I’m not sure the planned design lived up to it. Maybe if it had come out in the planned year, it would have.
He-Ro’s story does seem pat, and in line with every pop culture trope then til now. I thought She-Ra retrofitted nicely in MOTU continuity, but the powers being part of a bloodline, a destiny, is eye rolling to me. Batman’s father… was ALSO Batman! Why can’t a hero just be worthy, in their own right?
“Why can’t a hero just be worthy, in their own right?” I agree. The lineage thing is pretty popular in fiction, but the truth is that it worked well only with few characters because properly executed (like the Phantom) and the hero does not look like he got the “job” because nepotism, so to speak XD
pjgathergood says:
He-Ro’s an okay-ish concept, but I really kinda wish they had gone with the more rugged, ‘ranger’ type look of some of the earlier concept drawings. I don’t mind Eternia’s past being a rich and magical place (and let us not forget that, in many versions of the canon, even in the earliest mini-comics, Eternia was a once-advanced planet hat was recovering from a terrible war that had wiped civilisations out but left behind remnants of advanced machinery and weapons), but the final vision of He-Ro they went with was probably a bit too futuristic for my personal tastes of what this prequel line could have been. Great concept, not so sure about the execution. (Also, He-Ro’s staff accessory looked way too big and clunky, especially to go on what was intended to be a major character). Nice that he is finally being offered in vintage style, but more of a curiosity for me, and something that I would have liked to have seen taken in a different direction back in those original concept days.
Greg Hamilton says:
He-Ro also appeared in a European released sticker set as well as on the package design for a Powers of Grayskull Knitting Pattern set of all things.
Staff doesn’t close.
andy parting says:
Is there any evidence that a Keldor figure was planned for the POG line? Brian Flynn mentioned that they had recently discovered prototypes for 4 unmade MOTU characters. It would be interesting to see if they relate to either the POG line or MOTU line, and if Keldor is among them.
I don’t know for sure. I think it’s certainly possible based on his mention in the Search For Keldor, but I don’t have any information that would confirm it.
Manic Man says:
Never liked the somewhat stupid idea of Keldor.. having him as someone that finding him would lead to the defeat of Skeletor would have worked far better then “Oh, if they find out I was really a guy called Keldor before then it’ll be the end of it” silly bit.. I think later versions made it worse saying it was the king’s brother or something else overly cliché and silly.. yeah.. I really have a preference for early toy based He-man.. from what I know, we have no idea what ‘Keldor’ in POG would have even looked like.. that’s kinda just some ‘fan art’ method of taking a modern version and shoehorning it.. oh well
one of these days, I really must write down some of my ideas for how I think things would be a bit better, and closer to some of the earlier ideas but fan fiction is ten a penny.. Keldor would work well as Skeletor’s Father, who banished him down the Well in the first place.. Using Mark Taylors idea.. that might in fact help the whole ‘will being my end bit’..
Ben Lane says:
I remember reading that mini-comic years ago, and then wondering if Keldor + Skeletor might be one and the same. Probably the last MOTU mini comic I read for over two decades, though I acquired a good 10-12 via an online auction in the last few years.
I think I would’ve been turned way from a wizard concept back in the late 80’s as I traditionally preferred fighter-type characters but I can appreciate the world-building concepts of POG and He-Ro. I remember by about ’88 the local department store in my area Maxi Mart (a Walmart/Target style store, which was massive in scale) barely had any MOTU on the shelves – just a half-dozen or so figures and no vehicles to speak of. GI JOE was killing the market then and the 3.75″ scale was dominating.
I do admit to loving the POG card designs… is it me or does it remind of the old glow in the dark Warriors ring???
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WATERWORLD [Extended version,TV Cut]
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There is a scene of sexual threat when a woman is forced to defend herself after a man attempts to have sex with her
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Day: 2014.06.28
A Contrast
In many ways I was not yet a grownup—still childish in love and in work, a renter and sometime student with not even a car title in my name. But with the license, and the gun, came a host of new grownup worries. First: Who do you shoot, and when?
Among reflections on the recent shootings that have devatated communities across the country, Adam Weinstein’s column for Gawker is a must-read. There is, truly, more there than one can justly quote, from―
Back when the licenses were still a new thing and the required instructional classes weren’t a joke, my dad’s class was run through a host of scenarios: You’re broken down on a dirt road in the middle of the night. A black dude in a Cutty pulls up behind you, gets out, comes out with a tire-iron. What do you do? Half my dad’s class said to shoot the black man.
―to―
When my son was born, all of my questions suddenly had a very basic answer. I would love for him to grow up as I did, enjoying shooting but understanding that every gun is loaded and you never touch one without an adult and you don’t point it at anything you don’t intend to shoot. But more than that, I’d love to believe that he’ll have no mischievous accidents, no suicidal depressions or homicidal rages, no moments of weakness or fits of pique or questions that can be answered by the pull of a trigger. As with all the other scenarios in which I’m the good guy with the gun, I can never be sure. I carry my permit, as I always have. But now all my guns live with my father.
―and beyond. Just read it.
† † †
Meanwhile, there is also the tale of S. 1290, the “Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act of 2013”.
Laura Bassett explains the situation for Huffington Post:
The National Rifle Association is fighting proposed federal legislation that would prohibit those convicted of stalking and of domestic violence against dating partners from buying guns, according to a letter obtained by The Huffington Post.
Federal law already bars persons convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence from purchasing firearms. S. 1290, introduced by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), would add convicted stalkers to that group of offenders and would expand the current definition of those convicted of domestic violence against “intimate partners” to include those who harmed dating partners.
Aides from two different senators’ offices confirm that the NRA sent a letter to lawmakers describing Klobuchar’s legislation as “a bill to turn disputes between family members and social acquaintances into lifetime firearm prohibitions.” The nation’s largest gun lobby wrote that it “strongly opposes” the bill because the measure “manipulates emotionally compelling issues such as ‘domestic violence’ and ‘stalking’ simply to cast as wide a net as possible for federal firearm prohibitions.”
The NRA’s letter imagines a “single shoving match” between two gay men as an example of how the domestic violence legislation could be misused. “Under S. 1290, for example, two men of equal size, strength, and economic status joined by a civil union or merely engaged (or formerly engaged) in an intimate ‘social relationship,’ could be subject to this prohibition for conviction of simple ‘assault’ arising from a single shoving match,” the letter says.
The NRA also argues in the letter that “stalking” is too broad of a term to indicate any danger to women. “‘Stalking’ offenses do not necessarily include violent or even threatening behavior,” the letter claims. “Under federal law, for example, stalking includes ‘a course of conduct’ that never involves any personal contact whatsoever, occurs wholly through the mail, online media, or telephone service, is undertaken with the intent to ‘harass’ and would be reasonably expected to cause (even if it doesn’t succeed in causing) ‘substantial emotional distress’ to another person.”
The letter adds that the federal stalking law on the books is “so broadly written that some constitutional scholars even claim it could reach speech protected under the First Amendment.”
Because, well, stalkers need guns, too.
Posted in Congress, Conservative, Crime, Culture, Democrats, Family, Feminism, Health, Justice, Law, LGBTQ, Politics, US Senate and tagged 113th Congress, Adam Weinstein, Amy Klobuchar, Brian M. Rosenthal, concealed-carry, domestic violence, Erika Schultz, firearm violence, Gawker, gun rights, gun safety, Hawaii, intimate partner, Isla Vista, Justin Mayo, Laura Bassett, mass shooting, Maya Shwayder, Mazie Hirono, Minnesota, misdemeanor, National Rifle Association, non-cohabitating, non-marital, NRA, Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act of 2013, responsible gun owner, responsible gun ownership, S. 1290, same-sex, Seattle Times, Second Amendment, stalking, The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, United States Code, USC Title 18 on 2014.06.28 by bd. Leave a comment
A Reminder: Beltway Scandal IRS Edition
Bearing in mind that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, or any number of other proverbs suggesting at once the merit of and annoyance caused by speaking out, and recalling that in normal cases the question is not so much liberal or conservative news media bias as it is a preference toward advert revenues, one might not be surprised, then, to learn how much of the bluster and noise coming from Congress is actually nothing more than hot, rancid vapor.
Or perhaps that is the wrong way to express it; even those who presume the national political discourse so broken as to hold themselves aloof generally also presuppose a tremendous amount of putrid hot air in the Beltway chatter.
Still, though, something seems amiss. It is one thing for pundits and bloggers to argue about the editorial points of a story, but the number of times some find themselves wondering about the alleged factual coverage is itself striking. Consider Steve Benen’s note on the Scandal of the Week:
It started with an Associated Press headline that wasn’t true: “Emails: IRS Official Sought Audit of GOP Senator.” From there, conservative and mainstream media outlets went berserk on Wednesday, reporting that former IRS official Lois Lerner tried to audit Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) as part of some kind of partisan vendetta.
“Lerner Asked IRS to Audit Republican Senator,” one headline read. “Lerner Set IRS Sights on Sen. Grassley,” said another. A third abandoned subtlety altogether: “Lois Lerner’s Threats To Investigate Grassley Should Terrify You.”
All of this, it turns out, wasn’t true. The reality is unambiguous: “[Grassley] wasn’t ‘targeted’ at all. Instead, Lerner asked a colleague if it made sense to examine whether an outside group had made Grassley an inappropriate offer. Her colleague dismissed the idea, and that was the end of it.”
At least in theory, reporters, Republican officials, and conservative activists who ran with this story on Wednesday had a decision to make: they could either correct their mistake or pretend they hadn’t made the mistake.
Of course, this is the IRS “scandal,” which naturally led conservatives to choose Door #3: keep repeating the inaccuracy as if it were true.
But it is also important to remember that in reporting these merry tales of politics, it is not the journalists’ job to actually consider whether the facts they are reporting are true†. As such, it is occasionally worth a moment to actually pause and sniff the excrement, tally up the morbid score, and figure out just where the political discourse actually is compared to reality.
† As the estimable Jim Lehrer once expressed, “I would never do that. That’s not my function to do that.” Or, as Rob Corddry explained nearly a decade ago: “Listen buddy: not my job to stand between the people talking to me and the people listening to me.”
Benen, Steve. “Repeating a falsehood doesn’t make it true”. msnbc. 27 June 2014.
Cox Barrett, Liz. “Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism”. Columbia Journalism Review. 2 June 2006
Corddry Rob and Jon Stewart. “Kerry Controversy”. The Daily Show. 23 August 2004.
Posted in Congress, Conservative, Ethics, History, Journalism, People, Politics, Republicans, US House of Representatives, US Senate, White House and tagged audit, bad journalism, Chuck Grassley, Columbia Journalism Review, fake scandal, Internal Revenue Service, IRS, IRS scandal, Jon Stewart, journalistic duty, Liz Cox Barrett, Lois Lerner, MSNBC, Rob Corddry, Steve Benen, The Daily Show on 2014.06.28 by bd. Leave a comment
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Close your corporate website and move to Facebook?
Earlier this week the Swedish arm of international advertising agency Grey decided to shut down their corporate website (and blog) and move their site over to a Facebook page. Idiot move or genius?
Maintaining a website: Boring and awkward?
According to David Schweiler, Digital director at Grey in an article on Resumé, the big advantage of moving to Facebook is that “[you] don’t have to update your regular website anymore, which is both boring and awkward”.
On their website there is a screenshot of a Facebook status update saying that they have moved to Facebook because “We want be where people already are.” and then say that 2.5 million Swedes are already there.
Generally if you have an existing website, then I wouldn’t recommend that you delete it overnight and switch over almost entirely to Facebook. There’s a number of reasons why that’s a silly thing to do – one of which is that it rips the heart out of your search engine profile, leaving customers searching and finding nothing, or at best a page not found.
…But nothing much to lose
In Grey Stockholm’s case, they really didn’t have much to lose. Their old regular site was totally built in flash. It was almost certainly difficult for them to maintain and update. Probably also difficult to measure and assess the success of the site in fulfilling its goals.
As a result of being a (poorly constructed) flash-based site, their entire profile in Google consists of 7 pages, most of which is scrap that shouldn’t really be indexed, but has been picked up and included by Google.
From one walled-garden to another
So by moving their website to Facebook they have effectively moved from one walled garden (Flash) to another walled garden (Facebook). Yes, it’s going to be easier for them to publish updates. Yes, potentially they are going to bring themselves closer to their customers than the site did – but that’s more of a reflection on their (old) site rather than websites at large.
What this series of events in the development of their web presence shows is the agency’s lack of understanding of how the web actually works. A lack of understanding of search engines. A lack of understanding of task-based surfing behaviour. A lack of understanding of some basic web standards and techniques. Sadly this is all too common for traditional advertising agencies.
Facebook is no substitute
Grey may be saying that they’ve moved their site to Facebook, but there are certainly numerous tasks and situations where a well thought through and effective “regular” website would be perfect. Situations where a Facebook page is no substitute.
In the hours since Resume published their article they have doubled their number of Facebook fans from 77 to 154. So, perhaps one goal has been reached.
A Swedish take on Grey’s move to Facebook by Magnus Nilsson can be read here: Flytta från webben till sociala medier och blotta ditt nederlag and another one here by Thord Daniel Hedengren: Reklambyrå stänger sin sajt och flyttar till Facebook.
Update: 20110328
Grey Stockholm recently merged with Ogilvy Stockholm to form a new agency called Ingo. In connection with this merger Grey renamed their Facebook page from greystockholm to ingo.
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Trying To Muzzle Mueller
It’s pretty obvious what’s going on here.
Justice Department officials have communicated to Robert Mueller that the department expects him to limit his congressional testimony this week to the public findings of his 448-page report, according to one current and one former U.S. official familiar with the preparations.
In extensive discussions since the former special counsel was subpoenaed on June 25 to testify, department officials have emphasized that they consider any evidence he gathered throughout the course of his investigation to be “presumptively privileged” and shielded from public disclosure.
The Justice Department is “taking the position that anything outside the written pages of the report are things about which presidential privilege hasn’t been waived,” the former U.S. official said.
The White House and the Justice Department, however, have signaled they don’t intend to place lawyers in the room during Mueller’s highly anticipated testimony before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees on Wednesday.
Without a presence at the hearing, administration officials would have little recourse to prevent Mueller from going off-script and revealing details of his investigation that the White House considers off-limits. They are poised instead to rely on Mueller to self-police his remarks, indicating that they are confident the former special counsel will stick to carefully planned comments that mirror the already disclosed findings of his investigation.
Not that Mr. Mueller has been a blabbermouth anyway, this ham-handed attempt by the White House to limit the testimony of a witness is rather telling in itself: what do they think he’s going to talk about other than what’s in the report?
There are two points to ponder here. First, as Josh Marshall notes, it’s outrageous that the DOJ is trying to limit the investigation by a co-equal branch of government.
Barr is saying, on no credible legal basis, that Congress has no right to know anything about an investigation of the President – one which concluded with a report that basically invited an impeachment inquiry – other than what was released in the public report.
Second, if as the Trump people and his thumbs claim there’s no there there, why are they making such a big stink about keeping Mr. Mueller from testifying? Let him talk and show the world that there’s nothing to all the hoopla and it’s all fake news. Trying to silence or limit him only makes it more likely that there’s something to hide.
Categories: Mueller Time
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On July 23, 2019 at 10:56 am
Faithful Correspondent spoke:
nocorruptionnocollusion yammer yammer. Barr puts a tape across Mueller’s mouth after having rehired him into the Justice department in order to do just that. Talk about CORRUPTION.
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Editorial Calendars and Public Relations
What is an Editorial Calendar?
Editorial calendars are used by content publishers to plan and organize their content. The main purpose of an editorial calendar is to control the publication of content so that it meets the needs and interests of the publisher’s audience and advertisers. Publishers generally make a portion of their editorial calendar publicly available.
A formal editorial calendar will include items such as the media outlet (if it’s a bigger publisher), story ideas, authors, style specifications, and a content production calendar. The publicly available editorial calendar will specify the upcoming themes, features, and publication dates of future issues. This information is often included in the media kit that publishers provide to advertisers, and can generally be found on the publisher’s website.
So what do editorial calendars have to do with public relations?
While they are geared primarily toward advertisers, editorial calendars are also used by writers to pitch story ideas and public relations professionals to place stories for their clients. Because the publication’s upcoming feature topics are publicized in advance of their publication date, editorial calendars provide an excellent opportunity for writers, PR professionals, and business owners to conduct media outreach in a tailored and timely way. Provided there is a match between your background expertise or story idea and the editorial topic, your media pitches are more likely to be successful, because the publication is already actively seeking sources and story ideas on that topic.
There are many advantages to using editorial calendars as part of your PR and media outreach strategy:
For one, understanding the media outlet’s upcoming feature topics allow you to tailor your pitch to the editor or reporter’s needs much more effectively, and can build the foundation for a future relationship. Reporters will know and appreciate that you’ve done your homework and can offer them value on future stories they’ll be working on.
Also, most editorial calendars include the publication’s audience and circulation, making it easy to identify and reach your own target market.
Finally, editorial calendars can help you organize your media outreach schedule, so that you are pitching opportunities year-round.
Interested in more tips or have a question? Feel free to reach out to us @bitesizepr!
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A Comprehensive Guide to the Book Adaptations Coming to Various Screens in 2020
Emily Wenstrom 12-31-19
Books have always made for great movies, because hey, a good story is a good story. Gone with the Wind, anyone? James Bond? Jurassic Park? But of late, as new networks like Netflix scramble for an edge in winning viewers’ loyalty, old pros in the game like HBO hustle to prove they’re still king of the game, and major film moguls hunt for the next hot franchise or Oscar winner, it seems like everyone is looking for the best book adaptations.
Which means we’re not only living in the second golden age for television—it’s also a freaking fantastic time to be a reader (and maybe an even better time to be an author? One can dream.)
Among the biggest book adaptations news of 2019, Leigh Bardugo’s megahit Six of Crows was picked up for adaptation by Netflix (date TBD, probably not 2020), Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty has a new adaptation in the works for another thriller, and of course, everyone is on the hunt to discover the next Game of Thrones. Apparently it won’t be a spinoff show, after all.
But these are only a few rumblings among a long list of projects coming in the next year, with even more plans already firm for 2021.
That said, one area where Hollywood’s not so golden is in its diversity, which is glaringly missing from this list. There’s still a lot of work to be done both in publishing and adapting works by people from marginalized communities.
Here is a list of all the book adaptations coming to all the various screens you watch in 2020.
January Book Adaptations
Detective Ralph Anderson’s investigation into a young boy’s gruesome murder reveals supernatural forces at work. HBO will bring it to life in a 10-part series.
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
This whimsical dive back into the good veterinarian focuses on the second book of Lofting’s series, where a new assistant joins Dolittle’s adventures. Titled simply “Dolittle,” the film is promised to be absolutely stuffed full of celebrity sightings and features Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Holland, a duo that has already proven their comedy chemistry together in the Marvelverse.
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Two oddly quiet children get a new governess, who slowly begins to discover a secret the family and the house are hiding in this horror film.
The Rhythm Section by Mark Burnell
A woman joins a covert operation in pursuit of the men who killed her family in a desperate attempt for understanding and justice. Starring Blake Lively and produced by the team that brings us the Bond films, I’m excited for this female representation in a high-action revenge role that so often is left to the testosterone.
February Book Adaptations
Birds of Prey by Jordan B. Gorfinkel and Chuck Dixon
This classic superheroine-only team will hit the big screen with a story that features Harley Quinn (played by Margot Robbie again!) as she breaks up with the Joker and joins Black Canary, Huntress, and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord. Though Gorfinkel and Dixon were the original creators of the series, shout out to Gail Simone, who brought the girl gang back to DC’s lineup in 2010.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
The second film in this series will be called “Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway.” With a stellar cast including Margot Robbie, Daily Ridley, and Rose Byrne, I don’t see how this could be anything but fun.
The Kingsman by Mark Millar, Matthew Vaughn, and Dave Gibbons
The Kingsman film franchise, inspired by the Marvel comics series, continues this Valentine’s Day with a prequel focused on the original creation of the secret agency.
To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
Yes, To All the Boys I Loved Before has a sequel, and Lana Condor and Noah Centino will be back for Netflix’s adaptation. Lucky for us, Han’s series has a third book, too—so get reading now and keep your fingers crossed.
Bloodshot by created by Kevin VanHook, Don Perlin, and Bob Layton
This fresh superhero tale from Valiant Comics in the early 1990s is sure to make for some fun big screen action with Vin Diesel at the helm. One of Rotten Tomatoes most highly anticipated movies for the coming year.
Emma by Jane Austen
Good news, it’s time to re-adapt Jane Austen again. (Is it ever not time to re-adapt Jane Austen?) Going from the film’s trailers, this remake of her sharpest comedy will stay true to the text while placing an emphasis on the plentiful quirks of character within the cast. It’s hard to go wrong.
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
This survival adventure story from London’s own experiences will feature Harrison Ford and Karen Gillen in a classic adventure of man (and dog) versus nature through the Alaskan Klondike.
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
Elizabeth Moss will star in this film about a woman who escapes an abusive relationship only to have her past pursue her in this classic horror tale. This film will be part of the Universal Pictures classic monsters cinematic universe.
April Book Adaptations
The New Mutants by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod
Following a set of teens who have just discovered they possess strange supernatural abilities, this Marvel film brings to life an X-Men comic from the 1980s in an effort to reset the franchise with a new cast and gritty new tone. Rising stars Maisie Williams and Charlie Heaton are among the cast.
Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love by Matthew Logelin
In a true story from Logelin’s memoir, when Matt’s wife Liz dies just after giving birth to their daughter, Matt must find a way to hold onto his wife’s memory while adjusting to a new reality he isn’t prepared for with a new baby. The adaptation will be titled Fatherhood and will star Kevin Hart, Paul Reiser, and Alfre Woodard.
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
April 15 (France)
This new adaptation of the classic children’s tale will star Dixie Egerickx as Mary Lennox and feature Colin Firth, which seems like too perfect a fit.
May Book Adaptations
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The film adaptation, titled The Personal History of David Copperfield, already debuted at the Toronto Film Festival. Dev Patel stars as the namesake character, along with other big-name talent including Gwendoline Christie, Hugh Laurie, and Tilda Swinton.
The Good Shepherd by C.S. Forester
Not to be confused with the film from 2006, this movie will be titled Greyhound. It will however, also star Tom Hanks in a story that taps into the history of World War II, this time on an American war ship that becomes surrounded by German U-boats.
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
You may remember the massive buzz around this book upon its release in 2018 amidst a swell of feminist thrillers and some comments of “haven’t I read that plot before?” Nevertheless, it will now hit the big screen. Starring Amy Adams, it promises to satisfy for fans of Rear Window and The Girl on the Train.
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
This fun story about a boy billionaire and criminal mastermind should make for good cinema. In this first take of the eight-part book series, Artemis plots to rob the fairies within their hidden realm.
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
May TBD
Dates on this one are vague, but there’s a lot of hype for the HBO Max movie based on this historical young adult series featuring bisexual Monty and his scandalous adventures in the 18th century.
August Book Adaptations
The Reincarnationist Papers by D. Eric Maikranz
In a film adaptation titled Infinite, this story features a secret society of near-immortals, and their efforts across multiple reincarnations to change the course of history. The film will star Chris Evans.
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate and Patricia Castelao
This children’s story features a gorilla living at the Big Top Mall and Video Arcade. When a baby elephant joins him and his gorilla friends, Ivan must make sure it’s a change for the better. The film will feature an A-list cast including Angelina Jolie, Helen Mirren, and Sam Rockwell as Ivan.
Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke
Another children’s story adaptation for late summer, this animated film will go on an adventure with a young dragon and an orphaned boy seeking the Rim of Heaven.
September Book Adaptations
Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
In another major role for Michael B. Jordan in 2020, this high-action political thriller follows a former Navy SEAL and CIA agent as he chases down the drug lord who murdered his girlfriend.
October Book Adaptations
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh alongside Wonder Woman herself (Gal Gadot), this film ought to be a as good a time as murder can be. In this follow-up to the Hercule Poirot mystery Murder on the Orient Express, this time the detective must work while vacationing on the Nile when a young heiress is found dead.
The Witches by Roald Dahl
I hadn’t heard about this one before researching this article, but it’s now one my most anticipated films for next year. With a top-notch cast featuring Anne Hathaway and Octavia Spencer and Dahl’s infamous topsy-turvy characters, this is sure to be a good time.
December Book Adaptations
Dune by Frank Herbert
The science fiction classic series from the 1980s and ’90s will come to life in this film featuring Zendaya, Dave Bautista, and Jason Mamoa. True to the sprawling epic of Herbert’s original, this is the first in a two-part series.
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
An adventure mystery laced with romance from the Wild West Coast of New Zealand’s Gold Rush in the 19th century. Winner of the Man Booker Prize. A limited series from BBC.
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
Based on Jiles’s National Book Award finalist, this story follows widower and veteran Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, who earns his keep while wandering from town to town by telling epic stories of the world’s history to locals in the wake of the Civil War. Starring Tom Hanks.
A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig
December TBD
This popular origin story for Father Christmas is sure to be as much a holiday hit on the big screen as it has been as a children’s book.
TBD Book Adaptations
Netflix is sure to continue it streak of young adult book adaptations with this one, starring Elle Fanning and Justice Smith as two teens who cross paths when they inadvertently plan the same suicide, and wrestle with the scars of their pasts together.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
You may remember this science fiction classic as one of a handful dystopian novels that rose to the top of sales lists shortly after Trump became president. USA Network will bring its tightly controlled society to life in a limited series.
The Bridgerton Series by Julia Quinn
Quinn’s eight Bridgerton novels each features a different one of the eight children of the Viscount Bridgerton. Regency romance isn’t usually my cup of tea, but with Julie Andrews at the lead, even I might have to tune in for this limited series Netflix adaptation from Shonda Rhimes and Scandal writer Chris Van Dusen.
Chaos Walking by Patrick Ness
A young adult coming of age adventure told amidst the backdrop of a planet on the verge of war and a world in which silence is something to flee from.
Cherry by Nico Walker
An addicted veteran suffering from PTSD turns to robbing banks to get out of debt.
China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
This sequel to Crazy Rich Asians promises to bring back everything fans loved about the first film (and books). It’s expected to drop in 2020 but may be pushed back further.
Dear Zoe by Philip Beard
A teen girl writes a series of letters to her dead sister in this film directed by Jenica Bergere.
The Devil All The Time by Donald Ray Pollock
Described as country noir, this Netflix thriller will dip into the gritty and disturbed against the backdrop of wartime trauma. Features Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Bill Skargard, Mia Wasikowska, and more, promising “a nefarious cast of characters.”
The Dig by John Preston
Inspired by the Sutton Hoo dig, this puts a peculiar treasure hunt against the backdrop of World War II. The Netflix adaptation will star Lily James, Ralph Fiennes, and Carey Mulligan.
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
In a miniseries titled The Watch, BBC America will bring to life a small corner of Terry Pratchett’s renowned satirical fantasy series Discworld. It will focus on a group of misfit cops in the Ankh-Morpork City Watch with paltry resources and not much more jurisdiction.
Enola Holmes by Nancy Springer
This adventurous series features Sherlock Holmes’s younger sister Enola, and recent announcements cast Millie Bobby Brown as the lead character, so this film is sure to be a lot of fun.
The Falcon & The Winter Soldier, Marvel
Disney+ will bring these Marvelverse heroes to a miniseries later this year, putting the spotlight on two less-featured but beloved heroes, Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes, into the spotlight, focused on their experiences as Captain America. There is no specific comic that pairs up this particular duo, but there has been speculation about where the series might draw inspiration.
Fear Street by R.L. Stine
The first film in a planned trilogy built around Stine’s classic series is expected to release in 2020, in quick succession. In the first, a murder unsettles the teens of a small town in Ohio.
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks Dalton
Netflix will strike again with this science fiction thriller about a scientist trapped in the Arctic. Directed by George Cooney and starring Felicity Jones.
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
Middle-aged Dominick struggles with his relationship to his schizophrenic twin brother and attempts to get him released from an asylum. HBO’s limited series will star Mark Ruffalo along with a stellar supporting cast.
I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Another New Year’s Day movie release from Netflix. A couple’s road trip takes a terrifying detour into their inner psyches, and feedback from readers of the book is that this one is mega dark and mega weird.
Invincible by Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley and Cory Walker
From the author of The Walking Dead, this animated series from Amazon will focus on the teen son of the superhero Omni-Man.
Jupiter’s Legacy by Mark Millar
The children of the world’s first superheroes struggle to live up to their parents’ heroic legacy in this television series from Netflix.
The Kissing Booth 2: Going the Distance by Beth Reekles
The first adaptation from Reekles’s young adult romance series was a hit for Netflix, so it’s no surprise it’s coming back to adapt the next book in the series.
Last Looks by Howard Michael Gould
A disgraced detective’s reclusive life in the woods is interrupted when he’s recruited to solve the murder of a TV star’s wife. The film will be titled Waldo.
Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington will star in this limited series from Hulu. Ng’s highly acclaimed novel turns everything upside down for the Richardsons when an enigmatic new family moves into the neighborhood.
Made for Love by Alissa Nutting
A limited series from HBO Max brings a darkly comical story of divorce and revenge to live with Cristin Milloti and Ray Romano.
Marry Me by Bobby Crosby
A pop star marries a random man from the crowd after her rock star fiancé ditches her at the altar. Adapted from Crosby’s graphic novel for film and starring Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson.
Marvel’s What If?, Marvel
This anthology series from Disney+ is expected to delve into alternate world possibilities within the Marvelverse, such as if Peggy Carter had taken the supersoldier serum instead of Steve Rogers. Should be a wild ride.
Minamata by W. Eugene Smith and Aileen M. Smith
This film will follow the true story of an American photojournalist as he documents the Minimata disease scandal in the 1970s. Starring Johnny Depp.
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
The Big Little Lies author teams up with Nicole Kidman again to bring another of her bestselling thrillers to television, this time with Hulu. True to its title, nine people are connected with they arrive for a very unusual heath retreat.
In a classic case of “opposites attract,” this story follows a couple who couldn’t have less in common over a course of five years. Coming to Hulu in a 12-part series.
Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland
Grace isn’t a teen boy’s typical dream girl, but when she ends up editing the school paper with Henry, he falls head over heels. This sharp and heartbreaking young adult romance stars will be titled Chemical Hearts.
Netflix is trying its hand at a modern take on a Hitchcock classic, based on the same haunting gothic novel as its predecessor.
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
This will be the first glimpse into Netflix’s foray into Bardugo’s Grishaverse, ahead of a second deal to adapt her megahit Six of Crows. In this Russian-inspired young adult fantasy, Alina’s unleashed powers leads her into the mysterious world of the Darkling.
Yes, there was already a movie adaptation of this one, Love, Simon, but now it comes to the small screen too, under the same title, thanks to Disney+.
The Stand by Stephen King
Following a plague apocalypse, two leaders emerge, and with them, two very different approaches to what it means for humanity to survive. The battle that follows may not just be for man’s survival, but its spirit. The cast for the CBS All Access limited series is a knockout, featuring Whoopi Goldberg, James Marsden, Nat Wolff, Marilyn Manson, and Alexander Skarsgard.
Stargirl by Geoff Johns and Lee Moder
It so happens there are two Stargirl adaptations expected to release in 2020. The first is a DC universe tie-in television series coming to the CW, in which high school student Courtney discovers the cosmos staff her stepfather derived power from as a former superhero sidekick.
The other Stargirl is a film based on Spinelli’s young adult novel that celebrates nonconformity, being picked up by Disney.
There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins
The senior class of Osborne High is getting killed off one by one, but things take an even darker turn when Makani’s loner boyfriend becomes the top suspect. A horror film coming to Netflix, possibly around Halloween.
Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton
This upcoming Netflix series will put a spotlight on the high stakes world of an elite ballet academy, based on the young adult novels co-written by the author of The Belles.
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
After being abandoned by their parents, the four Willoughby children learn to create a modern family of their own. With names like Ricky Gervais, Jane Krakowski, Maya Rudolph, and Martin Short attached to this animated Netflix film, it’s sure to be a fun, quirky watch.
Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra
This timely adaptation will bring to life a world in which everything with a Y chromosome have been killed by a mysterious plague (except one!), leaving women to keep the world running. The FX television show will be titled simply Y.
You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz
A successful therapist’s life is destroyed by a man she thought she knew just before the release of her first book, leading to a cascade of dark revelations. Starring Nicole Kidman, this HBO limited series will be led by Big Little Lies creator David E. Kelly. The adaptation will be titled The Undoing.
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“Not having that seventh game is really a financial burden on an institution.” →
“That kid made his choice, and now he has buyer’s remorse.”
I tell you what – it’s been a long time since I’ve read anything that reeks of as much hypocrisy as this Matt Hayes article about Matthew Thomas, the kid who wants out of his LOI with FSU.
I really do feel for Jimbo Fisher, who’s in a tough spot entirely not of his own making. On the one hand, does he really want a disgruntled soul like Thomas hanging around his program? It’s hard to see right now how he makes a positive contribution in Tallahassee this season.
But on the other, Fisher’s peers are closing ranks, and just in the way you might expect.
… Here’s something else Fisher has become: the test case for his coaching fraternity.
“I told him, if he lets (Thomas) go free, precedent is set and everything changes,” said one BCS coach.
… I’ve spoken to three different BCS coaches who have reached out to Fisher and advised him to play it strictly by the book. In other words, if Thomas wants to leave, he can leave—but not without paying the NCAA penalty of sitting out a season of eligibility.
Tough guys. I wonder if one of the coaches who “reached out” to Fisher was Todd Graham. Now there’s somebody who’s paid the price for serially jumping ship.
It’s not the attitude that a confused 18-year old should be held to a higher standard for doing the same thing that a grown-ass man who has access to legal representation does that gets me. It’s that these selfish bastards expect us to share their attitude about it. But at least they got Hayes to cheerlead for them.
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93 responses to ““That kid made his choice, and now he has buyer’s remorse.””
BeardDawg
“This rule is all about—and I know this is hard for some of you to believe—the academic welfare of the student.
Succeeding at college is hard enough for a majority of students. Succeeding while changing schools, adjusting to a new environment and maintaining academic progress—all while being a full-time football player—is next to impossible. A year away from football improves the percentages. ”
See Senator, it’s about the kids. And Hayes goes on to list all the reasons in the kids favor, and merely brushes them off. Guy seems like kind of a prick to me.
AlphaDawg
I can see some of the logic of this if the kid was on campus attending classes, but he hasn’t stepped on campus yet, hasn’t taken a class yet and wishes to leave.
A step further: NCAA ,as part of the Penn St fiasco, voluntarily lifted the LOI from players who may have changed their mind about ole PSU after the scandal.
Wasn’t Kiffen and USC eager to pitch in and help those guys also?
Geology 1001 with a sponsored tutor is an uphill grind already — and then doing it with a new tutor on a new campus?!? Outrageous! NCAA, protect these men from such a fate!
Stat_gal
According that Hayes logic ALL freshman college football players should sit out a year of eligibility due to the overwhelming adjustment going off to college can be. New town, new school, new friends, new tutors, new cafeteria food, new girls everywhere… Oh yeah and let’s not forget ‘maintaining academic progress’. What hard year that must be for those boys!
“new girls everywhere…”
That line of reasoning does not hold water at GT.
Force the kid to honor his LOI and keep him around with his attitude…one of three things will happen…the kid will become toxic and you will end up dismissing him anyway.(bad for everyone involved)…Or he will see the light, make some friends at FSU, maybe get a girlfriend, learn to love the life, and have great accomplishments on the field (everybody wins)….or he will settle somewhere in the middle of those two extremes and will never greatly benefit nor damage the program (most likely). A good policy is to let him go to any school not on your schedule.. That seems fair to me.
Let’s look at this from the opposite side. You know how bad it has become now–kids committing, then decommitting, then committing to another school, then decommitting again–do you really want that to go on after signing day? How is a coach supposed to manage his roster if he doesn’t know whom or how many he has signed?
I get Fisher’s predicament here and can certainly sympathize.
Just don’t try to insist that coaches occupy some higher moral ground here, because that’s bullshit.
Does that include Richt in your mind?
Mr. Sanchez
In mine, yes. If Richt wanted to up and coach FSU or Miami, or a major school with an opening, he could. Just because he doesn’t use the option available to him, doesn’t mean he doesn’t have those options, and that the kids shouldn’t be allowed similar freedom of movement and choice.
Hell, in the kids’ case of “buyer’s remorse”, see Glen Mason backing out on Georgia after accepting, Bobby Cremins backing out on South Carolina, Gregg Marshall backing out on College of Charleston, among several other examples of a coach taking a job and then changing their mind a short time after accepting.
Richt has a record of working with the student athletes to make sure their life isn’t trashed either by the athlete or the school (re: Grant to Ark after student council wouldn’t admit him, etc) concerning their wanting or required to leave. The question concerned coaches occupying a higher moral ground. I consider that Richt has and will continue to do so.
Ah, gotcha. I just don’t equate not being an asshole when you could be one, as the same as having some sort of “moral high ground”.
“gotcha” back. Thought Bluto was referring to all coaches in his cynicism-validating inclusiveness. Plus, I’m still trying to pull effusive comments from him concerning Richt. Not getting them either.
The most successful college recruiters are able to identify the family member/friend/close relationship w/ the greatest amount of influence on the recruit. Successful recruiters then attempt to win over that influential person. Generally, this is a recipe (or at least an ingredient) for success on signing day.
Am I to believe that Jimbo wasn’t actively trying to sell Thomas’s mom on FSU, knowing that if it came down to it, Mom would pressure Thomas to choose FSU? If a program tries to manipulate a kid indirectly through parental influence, I don’t think the program should be surprised if the kid’s heart is not fully in it on signing day.
My point is that Jimbo is somewhat culpable here, also. By exploiting indirect parental influence/pressure, he gave rise to his predicament.
Pure speculation on your part.
Momma’s priorities may have been purely geographic in nature. FSU was the only school in his final mix that was in state.
It’s speculation to the extent that I was not privy to any conversations or sales pitches b/w Fisher and Mom, and they weren’t reported on (at least not widespread) in the media. Based on this lack of knowledge, I’ll concede that we don’t know that Fisher engaged in this sort of recruiting tactic; as a corollary, though, we don’t know that he didn’t engage in this sort of recruiting tactic. In other words, it is also speculation to say that Jimbo is in a “tough spot entirely not of his own making.”
Realistically, is any kid going to go to a school that the parent(s) hate? If you are a coach you have to recruit the parent(s), too.
Yes. There is nothing wrong w/ recruiting the parents; it is a piss poor recruiter that doesn’t try to win over the parents. However, where it appears that a kid was hot-boxed into choosing a school, or that a parent exerccised undue influence, recognize that your recruiting strategy gave rise to the situation. Use your discretion to release a kid in that situation.
Thomas told Tom Loy of 247Sports:”I have the best relationship with coach Fisher at Florida State. The rest of my family feels great about him too. Coach Jimbo is a good guy and I can really trust him. I am looking forward to playing for him.”
http://caneswarning.com/2013/02/06/recruiting-update-denver-kirkland-matthew-thomas-snub-miami/
However, expert intelligence analysts feel the “Coach Jimbo is a good guy” statement was made under duress noting that the ball cap askance to the right in the direction of an upstanding Mother is a sign an international distress. Results still pending on Morse Code interpretation of Matthew’s blinks during press conference.
The fact that he dumped Miami on Signing Day with an excuse that they(Miami) weren’t holding up their end of the scholarship leaves one to speculate that he doen’t know where he exactly wants to go and has been influenced again to change his mind at FSU (Kiffin?). Either way, this kid is vacillating such that he demonstrates he has no mind or info on his own to decide. He will be received with suspicion no matter where he goes.
You can’t trust his verbal promise and you can’t trust his LOI that he signed. What can you trust?
The Wetumpka Tea Party. A targeted member of the Dunciad of Confederates which issued a press release welcoming Matthew as “another fine outstanding young man who fought the tyranny of the federal government.”
Ah. Know them well, however, their football covered rattler means they support FAMU. Think they know he is at the other school in that town? They also use the FAMU cheer, “Strike!, Rattlers, Strike!; Put the venom in’em”. IRS = Insider Republican Suckups.
That last paragraph is pure gold.
I would be upset if CMR or UGA did something like this, but thankfully there are countless examples of CMR doing the 100% right thing by helping a kid get to someplace where he can be happy.
Let the kid out of his LOI. He sits a year and what’s done is done. Everyone comes out clean.
Only one problem- if you release him from his LOI, he’s eligible to play immediately.
I don’t believe that is the case.
My understand is that if they release him he still has to sit a year and lose a year of eligibility.
What that means exactly, I dont know. I think that if we were to transfer to UGA and FSU released him he would sit for 2013 and then have 4 years to play 3 seasons.
I am pretty sure he can’t play in 2013 for anyone other than FSU.
“What happens if I change my mind and I do not want to attend the institution with which I sign and want to attend another National Letter of Intent institution?
If you do not attend the institution with which you signed or if you do not satisfy the terms of the National Letter of Intent Program, the basic penalty is you lose two years of eligibility at the next National Letter of Intent institution and you must sit two years in residence at that school.
Can the Basic Penalty which calls for a loss of two years of eligibility and requires that I sit two years in residence at the next National Letter of Intent Institution be reduced?
Yes. The Basic Penalty under the National Letter of Intent agreement can be reduced by entering into a Release Request Form with the signing institution. By entering into a Release Request Form, the institution and the student-athlete mutually agree to release each other from any commitment and liability to each other as a result of signing a National Letter of Intent. Pursuant to the Release Request Form, you may not represent a second National Letter of Intent institution in any sport during the first year of residence there and you will be charged with a loss of one season of competition in all sports. ”
http://www.varsityedge.com/nei/varsity.nsf/main/national+letter+of+intent
How is a coach supposed to manage his roster if he doesn’t know whom or how many he has signed?
These coaches get paid many millions of dollars each year to figure this out. They can deal with a little uncertainty. I don’t give a monkey’s penis if their jobs get harder because wildly-underpaid kids get a little leverage against them. In fact, I’d like to see totally free transfer for any player with a 2.5 or higher GPA.
I agree with this, though I’d remove the GPA requirement. Too likely to be abused by a vindictive school. If a a kid wants to transfer to another school, and that school will take them and has a scholarship, they should be able to do that whenever they want.
The entire process, from schools offering “scholarships” to high school kids on through the way scholarships are counted and managed through college probably needs to be completely scrapped. It’s just a mess right now.
Yeah, but how would UGA fans feel with athletes looking over their shoulders after the signing period and saying, “Gee, the grass just got greener over there. They have needs for new starters that wasn’t there during the process and I can play right away.” ? Any change of mind applies to all sports, not just football. Is that what any fans want? Never knowing whether the new fits will stay together would increase my glaucoma stress to diabetes territory. How would it affect each of you?
I could live with it. We don’t mind when guys buried on the depth chart who make it to their senior year bail to try to play one year somewhere. If a superstar got fed up and wanted to go play for UF, that’s his prerogative. Outside of football, kids transfer schools all the time. You don’t have to sit out of a year of classes if you feel that Washington and Lee is a little to small and you want to transfer to the University of Tennessee.
As long as the powers that be keep insisting these are students who just happen to be participating in a little extra-curricular activity a couple weekends a year then they should treat them as such. If it’s a billion dollar business then step up and pay the participants. You can’t have it both ways.
Never knowing whether the new fits will stay together would increase my glaucoma stress to diabetes territory. How would it affect each of you?
I think it would be more exciting.
One tweak would be to allow schools that offered 4-year non-revocable GIA scholarships to enforce transfer restrictions, while not allowing year-to-year schools any restrictions. That would be a nice way of coaxing schools to do something they should have been doing for the past 40 years.
But the rules are set up a certain way, so coaches (and other athletes who may have had some regrets) have learned to operate in this system.
You may not give a monkey’s penis if their jobs get harder, but I personally don’t want CMR and the rest of our staff dealing with a revolving door of athletes, PLUS having our current players constantly being head-hunted by other schools…the recruiting dance would be never-ending. And it’s not just the coaches’ lives that become more complicated and confusing, it’s everybody who plays, works in, and watches CFB. It’s a little cavalier to simply shrug off a decision to make somebody ELSE’s work harder….
I don’t know how deep FSU is at LB, but you’ve got to figure when they signed Thomas they eased up on their efforts to sign more kids at that position.
What’s the big deal with making him sit a year? People respond to incentives, even seventeen year old kids. And it cuts both ways – if we think it’s important for schools to honor their commitments to these kids and not push them out the door when they don’t pan out, isn’t it fair to ask the kids to honor their commitments, too?
However, isn’t it interesting that it took a five-star kid to ignite everybody’s opinions on this. GTP notwithstanding, we don’t hear much about the “academic uncertainty” facing Saban’s kids who get pushed out the door, do we?
Better for the kids, slightly harder on coaches* and fans? I’ll take that trade 6 days a week and twice on Sunday.
*It’s a zero sum game for both, of course. UGA backups might be targeted by G-State, etc., but G-State stars might be targeted by UGA’s coaches. It would work itself out.like free agency in baseball.
Cos- Re: 3rd para, “….eased up on their efforts to sign more kids…”. He had changed his mind about Miami on Signing Day. They were the ones who had eased up for as long as he had given a verbal. FSU got an extra “gimme” that day and it shouldn’t have affected them for any time. He also said that he was going to wait longer to sign and Mom convinced him he had to sign that day. FSU was still close to home so he obeyed his Mom on Signing Day.
I’m with the Senator on this one. The kid hasn’t made it to school yet. These very same coaches who insist he toe the line will tear up their signed, multi-year contract the nanosecond a better opportunity comes along. No one seems to be bothered by that. But when a seventeen year old kid changes his mind before he ever enrolls, now that’s different. Right? Um, not so much.
The schools and coaches all have the right to amend a contract to include penalties for early termination…they can also refuse to sign it, or take action in court if someone breaches their agreement. Frankly, the kids have the right to refuse to sign a LOI or anything else, too.
The kids are at a disadvantage, of course, but the schools and coaches have nobody to blame but themselves if they don’t have the contract – and the safeguards – they wanted.
I doubt Todd Graham, head coach at ASU, was one of the coaches who reached out to him.
Matt Hayes will never have to buy a coach a drink again*
*(Offer applies during Happy Hour, 2-for-1’s and Ladies Drink Free nights only)
wnc dawg
Think Glen Mason (or Billy Donovan, Bobbie Cremins, etc) would want the kid to “honor” his word and stick to his commitment?
mdcgtp
The intellectual dishonesty of coaches “weighing in” telling Jimbo to adhere to the letter of the law is silly to me. They almost certainly don’t have all the facts. Thus, they have clearly placed precedent over circumstance.
On the other hand, I can’t help but agree that this is a REALLY REALLY (did I mention REALLY) tricky situation for all the reasons that folks have mentioned. Quite frankly, I am not exactly sure what I think the best outcome is. There certainly is the risk of setting a precedent where every kid who wants to change his mind can now do so. If Thomas made a clear and compelling case that he did make his decision in haste due to undue pressure from his mother and really wanted to do otherwise, I tend to think the circumstances are not simply a change of heart. Rather, it was acting under duress. I have NO IDEA how one could distinguish between the truth and a convenient lie in that situation. That is why it is so
The bottom line for me is that it reinforces the point that recruiting continues to grow in its complexity and time commitment for coaches, and I believe over the long haul that that is bad for the game. Certainly, an early signing period would eliminate the decommitment phenomenon, but its not going to legislate intelligent decision making. It won’t shield prospects from being influenced by family and friends or other programs with ulterior motives. Otherwise, this is a situation with few, if any, clear answers.
Some kids get addicted to being chased and wanted. While I completely agree about the double standard at work in the reasoning in the article, someone has to shut this down at some point fpr his own good. But it should be the parents, not a policy.
Rules are rules. I wish my Son was offered a full ride somewhere, anywhere. Rest assured he would be there and like it.
+1. It’s not like he signed up for the army, he’s getting to go play football at FSU. There’s a beach and plenty of pretty girls there – if it’s truly a horrible place, taking a year off is a tiny, tiny penalty. Plenty of regular students have to take time off to WORK.
The minimum age for enlistment in the United States Military is 17 (with parental consent). There are no do overs allowed after signing. My bride had a college picked out for my youngest son. It wasn’t Georgia. He is at Georgia. His decision. I guess in some way every kid that signs a LOI will know that it not a signature on a piece of notebook paper. It carries some responsibility regardless of how a coach might view it.
The military isn’t a good comparison. 3% to 5% of the kids who step off the bus on those yellow foot prints at Parris Island don’t make it out of forming, another 3% to 5% of those that do make it to a platoon do not graduate bootcamp. 20 years ago I started bootcamp with 46 other recruits 3 didn’t graduate with me and to my knowledge never finished booth camp. They are given a general discharge and sent home, hell I think after a short time its not even on thier record anymore, it simply goes away like they never enlisted, its not worth the Corps time or money to try and make them adjust. Just like its not worth it for FSU to drag this out, try to talk him into staying or release the kid and move on. I’d want UGA to the same thing.
I didn’t know that. I guess the Corp running them off is like Saban moving them off the team huh? But they don’t get to leave if they don’t feel like being in the Corp do they? When there was a draft in the 60’s no one was washing out were there?
I think alot of the changes to how recruits are viewed came after moving to an all volunteer force. Plus there is that unspoken 10% rule. 20% are your preformers, they are the ones you promote and groom to be leaders, 70% are the worker bees, who assimilate and contribute they’re just not leaders and are replaced every 4 to 8 years, and then there is the bottom 10% who simply don’t belong(personality, intelligence, failure to adapt, etc.). (BTW ‘failure to adapt’ is actaully the reason listed for seperation for a bunch of these kids) Its easier and cheaper to weed those out in bootcamp than to do it later down the road after more training and money has been spent on them. I’ve actually read somewhere that corporations use the 20/70/10 model when evaluating workforces, i’m sure there is some corp name or book written somewhere to explain the logic.
AS for as just ‘wanting to leave’, in a sense yes. Once you arrive on the island you are sent to a forming platoon, this could last anywhere from 3 to 7 days before you are assigned to an actual platoon. You are asked numorous times during this phase whether or not you want to be there, the DI’s here are actaully evaluating the recruits to find the problem kids. If you want to leave all you have to do is tell them you smoked weed and wish to go home. After requesting to go home they may put them into the ‘Shitbag’ platoon’ the DI’s will try and talk you out of leaveing, but ultimately if you wanna go you will be released.
Once you have completed bootcamp and have been assigned to your MOS school or to your unit, you cannot simply say you want out of the Corp, its just in the early stages of Bootcamp.
By Georgia We Did It
@Cosmicdawg – hope you didn’t study geography at UGA, Tallahassee is not on the water.
Yep, those kids have to drive all of about an hour to put their toes in salt water. Another 30 mins should get them to St George Island in one direction and PCB in a more westerly direction. Poor kids, they don’t have a beach right by their dorm..
If you can put aside the intentionally provocative language and the notion that coaches are operating on some sort of a moral high ground, I have no problem with the spirit of the column. Nor do I have a problem with the spirit of the rule. When you boil it all down, the kid made a choice. It was the wrong one, but he has options. If he wants to go elsewhere, he is free to do so next year. I assure you he will have no shortage of scholarship offers.
In short, I’m with the Mayor on this one. The recruiting process is enough of a circus already. Releasing this kid would set a very bad precedent.
There is no moral high ground with this issue, on either side. Everyone defending the student athletes are feeling smug because they think they are protecting children. Come on, they are 18/19 years of age when they sign the commitment letter and usually have 2-3 years to make the decision. Time to begin your college education, you are an adult, not a teeneager any longer. When you make a commitment in life you will be judged by how you stand by that. And don’t be surprised if there are penalties when you compromise on the commitment you made….that could be your marriage vows, your student loan, your newly born child, or the school you chose to accept a valuable scholarship offer.
I will not defend the coaches, schools, or NCAA either. Having coaches who leave before their contracts are up should incur a penalty too. A year, or more, for leaving early is fair with me. I could support them being unable to work at another school until the contract expires, or the students they recruited are out of eligibility. I commented a year or so ago about how a “contract” didn’t mean anything any longer in this country and was told I was naive. It may be good for attorneys to have everything in upheaval so their services are required but I am old school enough to think lacking the character to honor your commitments leads to bad consequences. I also know many here don’t let “consequences” and would rather chant about how we should sing together and “just get along”.
Let’s face it, having “committed” players able to switch teams at will, without consequence, after NSD faxes are in would be chaotic. And allowing coaches to change schools should also be “controlled” so that a comparable cooling off period is mandated before they can work at other colleges. But strict adherence and integrity can go a long way to making things better.
“without consequences” simply isn’t true. There is a penalty to pay for breaking the contract. People break contracts all the time. It isnt a sign of some entitled groupthink or any other non-sense. It is someone making a decision for what is best for them.
Everyone defending the student athletes are feeling smug because they think they are protecting children. Come on, they are 18/19 years of age when they sign the commitment letter and usually have 2-3 years to make the decision.
Come on yourself, Mac. Many of them haven’t reached legal age, which is why, as in Thomas’ case, Mama gets involved.
I’d feel less sympathetic if they had proper representation before they signed. But of course that sort of thing is frowned upon by the schools and coaches.
At 18 years old you can vote, pay taxes, purchase tobacco products, purchase lotto tickets, and serve in the military and carry automatic weapons, but you can’t sign a letter of intent to go play sports at the college of your choosing…….Only in America!!
Not only that, they’ve got the freedom to do so without the benefit of
A mature prefrontal cortex, “the area of sober second thought,” is vital not only to deciding whether to enlist, but also to choices made under the stress of deployment and the terrors of combat. But the prefrontal cortex, “important for controlling impulses, is among the last brain regions to mature,” according to Giedd, and doesn’t reach “adult dimensions until the early 20s.”
http://www.alternet.org/story/51889/pentagon's_teen_recruiting_methods_would_make_tobacco_companies_proud
Does it say anything about the prefrontal cortex never reaching adult dimensions? I have a couple of siblings who would like to know. Does it say anything about other people’s pcs not ever growing up with the people around them?
Or have a sip of liquor. You become much more responsible for that in 3 years.
Or “Smoke’em if you got’em.”. Oops! That’s illegal also.
Senator, then you have information I don’t. Every story I have seen said Thomas signed the LOI, I sw nothing about it being his mother. All I saw was that she influenced/coerced him to FSU before he was sure. Enough with coddling him, it isn’t like he is getting sentenced to a state pen for 3-5 years. I would bet 98% of decisions on which college to attend doesn’t involve representation, and this shouldn’t require it either, imo.
Signing a LOI shouldn’t involve representation? Why, exactly?
I would ask you the same question. As an a attorney I can understand your support for more people using legal services, and there are certainly times when that is prudent, but deciding what school to play a game for in return for a full scholarship just isn’t that complex. I know people who frequently use an attorney for very simple things, and other people who see a therapist often just to help them through what others do routinely. Different strokes I know, I prefer being more independent and taking responsibility on my own. Not saying it should be illegal, but it is just something few feel the need for….and I agree with that.
This has nothing to do with what I do for a living.
It’s the last time in a student athlete’s life he or she has any leverage or control over his or her career (until professional free agency, if the kid is so lucky). That’s a pretty major decision, IMHO. So, yeah, I think a little professional advice would be in order.
Tell me something, Mac – you think the LOI was drafted without legal input?
The NCAA uses lawyers, the schools use lawyers, the coaches use lawyers. I guess they all should be more responsible on their own, hunh…
I don’t want to interrupt a rant, but if a coach who has a buyout bails out for another school and pays his buyout, he didn’t break his contract. He simply followed the rules both sides agreed to follow if he wanted to leave. Same thing with a school who fires a guy before the term of his contract expires. As long as they pay him for the remaining years, they didn’t break the contract, either; they followed the terms.
now, coaches who commit to a school (Cremins, Marshall, etc) and then change their mind and go someplace else? That’s different. But, a coach who pays his buyout and leaves is following the terms of his contract, not breaking it.
wonder if Tubberille made the call to Jimbo, he might plan on coaching at FSU in a yr. and wants the kid there.
If the kid changed his mind before he reported to campus, then he should pay a one year penalty. He shouldn’t lose two years by having to report to FSU, losing one year, then transfer and lose another. But I don’t think he should get an outright release either.
Now, had Jimbo left (fired or new job), I think any players on his team that he signed should be offered a release immediately to play anywhere without penalty. That’s where I think the rules need to be altered, and it might give coaches and administrations alike pause when they decide to go job/coach hopping.
While you might discourage some schools from firings, you’d basically be encouraging people like Graham and Kiffen to jump more often. If they can convince their prospective new employer that they can bring that stud QB or RB with them, they’re even more valuable.
Do you remember who Donnan brought with him when he left Marshal for UGa? They both played in the NFL. I think one got a super bowl ring.
Jermaine Wiggins was the TE, Olandis Gary the RB.
Connor, you would also encourage shitheads like Kiffin to tamper with the player.
That’s my point. A lot of people are in favor of allowing kids to transfer with impunity if the coach leaves, but that by itself is just another version of the current problem. If you concede that there are circumstances in which it should be allowable for football players to transfer to other schools without penalty, then you should simply allow them to transfer without penalty. Period.
I guess I don’t really understand the whole precedent thing. If the kid has to sit out a year and losses a year of eligibility even if he is released from the LOI, then isn’t that a sufficient deterrent to avoid this being done in mass? I would think these kids would value a year of eligibility pretty highly and that seems to be sufficient penalty for breaking the LOI. The school could also put some stipulations on where he could attend as part of the terms of the release if they so desired. Seems like much ado about nothing to me.
Joe, I was thinking the same thing. Furthermore, because the school always has the final say-so, it doesn’t really set a dangerous precedent, if it sets any precedent at all.
On top of the 1-year deterrent that Joe pointed out, as well as the release stipulations, schools still have the absolute right NOT to grant releases from LOIs in the future. That means that programs can look at each future situation on a case-by-case basis and ferret out the ones in which the school’s release policy is being abused. For now, this is a rare situation. If it starts to become more common-place in the future, programs can simply refuse to grant the release.
Joe…If he is granted the release to another NLI school, he is eligible immediately. He can choose not to enroll at FSU, but then he is bound by transfer rules, which mandate that he must sit out a season from competition.
He also does not have to be granted his release by FSU. If an appeals board believes that he should be allowed to “void” his LOI, he is free to sign anywhere without penalty. Of course, that begs the question, what standards need to be satisfied to get the committee to void the LOI?
I guess the question is how strong a “paper trail” does he have to prove his case. If one could find emails between Mother and Son where he OPENLY expressed his desire to wait, and she “forced” him to make a decision and sign before he was ready, he might argue that his ability to make his own decision was impaired by her…much like JHC’s decision to sign with UGA was held up by his grandfather. I guess if one were looking for precedent, is there any case where a kid could not get a parent/guardian to sign a LOI? what happens? again, it would seem to be contingent on Thomas proving convincingly that he was forced to act against his will. I would be surprised if he has that paper trail, and I am not sure the committee would simply believe the mother and son’s testimony…even if they were consistent!
How about this as a precedent–QB has a dad who solicits $180K from a school “without the knowledge of the player” (wink, wink). Since the father was acting on his own the player is not bound by the actions of the father. How is that really any different from the mother forcing the son to sign somewhere against his will if that can be documented? Not done by the free will of the player.
I’d be fine with a release if Junior wasn’t invoked. Basically, anything he is up to should be banned and fought tooth and nail. I have no doubt he is in on this and asshats like him would be culturing post signing day recruits all the time.
Convince me Junior is not up to no good and ill side with you.
I remembered the Sean Higgins case from 25 years ago. I wonder what the burden of proof is for Thomas in terms of “under duress”
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19870311&id=-9Q0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=6G0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3332,2779841
Would this situation be different if the guy wanted out to attend UF? I say yes. The kid signed a contract and his guardian approved. This country MUST honor contracts or we’re toast.
LOI’s: For the good of the children
This is certainly ripe for an intrepid young blogger or reporter to drop a FOIA request on FSU for Jimbo’s FSU emails and call log after the news broke about Matthew Thomas. It sure would be interesting to see which coaches gave old Jimbo a call shortly thereafter and whether or not there has been email chatter on it.
Good idea except for the fact that Jimbo is an acorn spawned under the Little Nickie coaching tree. With those genetics, Jimbo has not only a right, but a duty, not to comply with quaint FOIA requests. Besides in Florida, you take care of that stuff on a device not readily accessible to the so-called public. That’s how our Governor does it.
Yeah, but that applies to voting rights, something his freedom lovin’ Tea Party stands behind him on.
How’s the recall going?
No recall. In fact, as bad as Rick is, his opportunity is nowhere to be as bad as the Florida legislature. He’ll probably be able to buy himself another term because he looks reasonable compared to them. And, of course, there’s no opposition party, which makes it easier to be reinstalled.
I’ve received info that a recall might be effective with new blood in the Fl Dem Party and that a drive is well underway. Could you look out your window and tell me when things begin to happen? I’ll have to make trip plans again. Or is someone trying to get mo’ money from me?
I wish everyone would please stop pretending that this relationship between student-athlete and school is simply a black and white one of honoring contracts. Have any of you ever once signed a significant contract where you weren’t afforded the right to counsel beforehand if you so desired? The fundamental difference here is that kids signing these LOI’s don’t have that right at all. I’m sorry, but it’s just lazy thinking to come to the conclusion that America’s going to hell if schools start letting kids exit their LOI’s before they ever enroll in school.
We will all be standing in the school house doors of Division III facilities
I always knew Jim Delaney was secretly masquerading around these parts. 😉
Big Jim’s 4-Corner Offense tentacles are Nationwide
You both are a couple of mean (and funny) muthers.
@ auditdawg – he didn’t have to sign the LOI and yes, he can have an attorney tell him that or he can do 5 mins worth of research on the internet. I’ve never been recruited nor played a sport in college, but I know the LOI is a one-sided contract. I also have the ability (and so does my 6 yr old BTW) of looking up info on the internet and educating myself about the process.
Any 5 star kid that signs an LOI is a dumbass in my opinion because any school will take him regardless. A 2 or 3 star might want to sign the LOI.
As long as he leaves FSU and comes to UGA I don’t really care if he loses a year. It’d be nice for him to have that year, but whatever; just get his butt up to Athens.
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Interpreter proxy versus healthcare interpreter for administration of patient surveys following arthroplasty: a pilot study
Daniel Xue ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-8473-47621,
Timothy Churches1,2,3,
Elizabeth Armstrong4,5,
Rajat Mittal1,2,3,
Justine Maree Naylor1,2,3 &
Ian Andrew Harris1,2,3
Clinical quality registries and other systems that conduct routine post-discharge surveillance of patient outcomes following surgery may have difficulty surveying patients who have limited proficiency in the language of the healthcare provider. Interpreter proxies (family and carers) are often used due to limited access to certified healthcare interpreters (due to cost or availability). The aim of this study was to assess the reliability of engaging interpreter proxies compared with certified healthcare interpreters for the administration of patient-reported health-related surveys for people with limited English proficiency (LEP).
People with LEP and due for a routine 6-month telephone follow-up post knee or hip arthroplasty were invited to participate. Participants were randomly allocated to having their first interview with an interpreter proxy or a certified healthcare interpreter followed by the second (crossover) interview within 2 weeks (range: 4 to 12 days) after the first interview using the alternative method. Agreement between the two methods was assessed using quadratic weighted Cohen’s kappa, intraclass correlation and concordance correlation co-efficient where appropriate for EQ-5D health domains, total Oxford hip and knee scores, patient satisfaction, operation success, readmission, reoperation, and post-surgical complication responses. The mean of the differences between the same data items collected by each of the two methods was also calculated.
Eighty five participants (96%) completed the study. There was substantial to excellent inter-rater agreement (kappa = 0.69–0.87 and ICCs above 0.74) for all but one measure. The mean differences between family proxy and healthcare interpreter scores for each participant were small, ranging from 0.01 (score range of 1–5) to 0.72 (score range of 0–100).
These results suggest that using interpreter proxies is a reliable alternative to certified healthcare interpreters in conducting patient-reported health surveys, potentially making this process easier and cost effective for researchers and registries.
Hip and knee arthroplasties are common surgical procedures and patients are commonly surveyed post-operatively to ascertain their health outcomes after treatment. A major challenge to the collection of such data is inclusion of people with limited or no language proficiency in the language of the healthcare provider or the surveyor. For those with limited English proficiency (LEP), for example, their satisfaction with healthcare may be lower, and they may have a greater risk of serious medical events [1]. In an Australian study, non-English speaking status was a predictor of lower postoperative International Knee Society scores and more severe self-reported pain following knee arthroplasty [2]. These observations suggest it is imperative that LEP patients have their health outcomes included in surveillance programs if the outcomes are to reflect the entire population.
For many outcome measurement programs, patients are surveyed by telephone. The costs of professional interpreter services [3] and logistical difficulties of finding multi-lingual staff to administer questionnaires in the patients’ native languages means that family or carers (who speak the requisite language) are often used as interpreters (termed as interpreter proxies). However, the reliability of using interpreter proxies in this setting has not been compared to the use of professional interpreters.
The aim of the study is to determine whether, in patients with LEP, the use of interpreter proxies provides adequately reliable survey results compared to using certified healthcare interpreters, which are considered the ‘gold standard’.
We used a randomised crossover study design to compare survey outcomes between two groups: surveys conducted using interpreter proxies (family members and carers), and those conducted using certified healthcare interpreters.
The study setting was within the Arthroplasty Clinical Outcomes Registry National (ACORN), a clinical quality registry that collects health data on patients undergoing elective hip or knee arthroplasty surgery in multiple hospitals. Post-operative data collection is conducted 6 months post-surgery by telephone and approximately 12% of participants have LEP.
The participants included in this study were ACORN patients who were due for their 6-month follow-up call between March and September 2015. Inclusion criteria were: having identified themselves as requiring an interpreter and/or having LEP preoperatively, cognitive capacity to understand the follow-up questions, fluency in a language for which a healthcare interpreter is available from the South West Sydney Interpreter Services, and also having access to a family or friend proxy who is able to interpret between English and their desired language.
English proficiency was ascertained in the pre-admissions clinic through a sensitive set of questions [4]. Patients were asked how well do you speak English? Those who answered very well were deemed English proficient while those who answered well or not well were asked a second question: In what language do you prefer your medical care? Those nominating ‘English’ as their preferred language, were classified as English-proficient. Those nominating another language or who were unable to answer the first question were classified as having LEP and were included in the screening process for this study.
Patients with LEP who met the above criteria were sequentially ordered according to when their interviews were due and were contacted by telephone. If patients provided verbal consent with the assistance of the healthcare interpreter or interpreter proxy, they were randomly allocated to having their first interview via an interpreter proxy or via a certified healthcare interpreter. The randomisation was carried out according to a computer-generated sequence prepared before the commencement of the study and concealed in sequentially numbered envelopes containing allocation details. The envelopes were opened immediately after the patient provided consent.
The first interview was conducted within 1 month either side of the 6 month post-operative date as per routine follow up. We considered the condition to be stable at 6 months. This was followed by the second interview within 2 weeks of the first interview using the alternative method. The interview questions were asked in English by the research officer and questions and responses were translated to and from the appropriate language by the interpreter proxy or certified healthcare interpreter. Interviews with certified interpreters were made with the assistance of the call centre manager at the Sydney South West Local Health District Language Services who connected the research officer, interpreter and patient in a 3-way conference call. Interviews with interpreter proxies were performed in a 2-way telephone call with the research officer on one end and the proxy translating the interview questions and responses to and from the patient on the other end.
The questions asked were the standard 6-month follow-up questions for all patients in the ACORN registry for determining patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) as shown below:
Satisfaction: “How would you describe the results of your operation” (a 5-point Likert scale - ‘excellent’-1, ‘very good’-2, ‘good’-3, ‘fair’-4, ‘poor’-5).
Success: “Overall, how are the problems with your knee/hip now compared to before your operation” (a 5-point Likert scale - ‘much better’-1, ‘a little better’-2, ‘about the same’-3, ‘a little worse’-4, and ‘much worse’-5).
Complications: “Have you experienced any complications after the operation since being discharged from hospital”; a standard list of common complications was read out.
Readmission: “Were you admitted to hospital again since leaving hospital after the knee/hip replacement?” answered as yes or no.
Reoperation: “Have you had another operation on the same joint that was operated on?” answered as yes or no.
Patient-reported health status using the EuroQoL EQ-5D-5 L and EQ-VAS questionnaires [5] (English version): The EQ-5D-5 L rates the patient’s mobility, personal care, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression levels in separate 5-point Likert scales, in which for each category a score of ‘1’ represents the best outcome and a score of ‘5’ the worst. The EQ-VAS rates the patient’s overall health along a visual scale from zero to 100 where zero refers to the worst health and 100 the best health. The English version of the questionnaires were used and read out by the interpreter and interpreter proxies in the patient’s desired language.
Joint-specific patient-reported pain and function was assessed using the Oxford Hip Score (OHS) and Oxford Knee Score (OKS) (English version). This is a 12-question survey using a Likert scale (0–4) which asks about the patient’s perceived difficulty or pain with performing everyday movements and tasks. The summary score minimum is 0 and the maximum score of 48 denotes the best outcome [6, 7]. English versions of the Oxford scores were used and read out by the interpreters and interpreter proxies in the patient’s desired language.
Two extra questions were asked to determine the number of years the patient and interpreter proxy had spent living in Australia: “in what year did you (and interpreter proxy) first arrive in Australia to live here for one year or more?” These questions correspond with those asked in the 2011 Australian Census of Population and Housing [8].
Our convenience sample exceeded the minimum sample size of 50 patients required to detect an ICC of 0.50 with 90% power and 5% significance. Ordinal data were analysed using quadratic weighted Cohen’s kappa coefficients, intraclass coefficients (ICC) measuring absolute agreement and Lin’s concordance correlation coefficient (CCC) for each outcome measure to assess the magnitude of agreement between interpreter proxy and healthcare interpreter. In addition, a Wilcoxon paired ranked sum test was performed on each measure to assess the statistical significance of the differences obtained between the two methods of interview administration. Nominal data measures were analysed with an unweighted Cohen’s kappa coefficient. The EQ-VAS was treated as continuous data and was analysed using ICC and CCC.
The differences in scores from the two methods were also determined for the EQ-5D, EQ-VAS, and Oxford scores and visualised through Bland-Altman plots [9]. From this a mean was calculated to evaluate for potential bias. The degree of bias is revealed by the mean differences and 95% Limits of Agreement plotted to indicate the range where 95% of the differences lie. All data analysis was performed using R open-source statistical software version 3.2 [10]. Figures were generated using R Studio version 0.99.
The outcomes assessed were the levels of agreement between the two methods of language interpreting as determined by Cohen’s kappa coefficients, Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and Concordance correlation coefficient (CCC) statistics where appropriate. The Cohen’s kappa coefficients were interpreted in accordance with guidelines put forward by Landis and Koch [11]. Coefficients between 0.21 and 0.40 were considered to show fair agreement, scores between 0.41 and 0.60 moderate agreement, scores between 0.61 and 0.80 substantial agreement, and scores above 0.80 almost perfect agreement.
One hundred twenty-five of the patients due for follow up calls between March 2015 and September 2015 were screened and as LEP and invited to participate. Out of these, 89 patients provided consent and were given a random allocation of call order (n = 46, interpreter proxy first; n = 43, health care interpreter first). The 36 exclusions were due to not having an interpreter proxy available for translation, speaking a language for which there was no healthcare interpreter available, or if the patient was not contactable for either interview method. Four patients out of the 89 (two from each arm) withdrew from the study after consent was obtained and completion of the first interview. Eighty-five patients successfully received both methods of follow-up calls and were included in the data analysis. Figure 1 summarises the flow of patients throughout the study. Descriptive demographics were similar in both arms of the study and are displayed in Table 1 and the languages used are presented in Table 2.
Patient flow diagram. 125 patients were identified as LEP between March 2015 and September 2015. Of these 89 were consented and randomly allocated to a call order. 46 were allocated to having the first call performed with an interpreter proxy while 43 were allocated to a healthcare interpreter first. 4 patients withdrew from the study after randomisation resulting in 85 patients being included in the final data analysis. Int Proxy: Refers to family or carers of patients acting as interpreters, HC Int: Certified healthcare interpreters
Table 1: Demographic profile of the study population
Table 2 Languages utilised in this study
Agreement between methods of interview was at least substantial (agreement score > 0.60) for all outcomes except for the anxiety/depression section of EQ-5D which scored 0.57 as shown in Table 3. The remainder of the kappa scores ranged from 0.66 to 1, ICCs ranged from 0.66 to 0.87 and CCCs from 0.66 to 0.87. The CCC Plots for each domain of the EQ-5D are depicted in Table 2. Perfect agreement was seen in re-admission and re-operation responses and almost perfect agreement was seen in the Oxford score responses (kappa and ICC = 0.87, CCC = 0.86). Agreement for different sections of the EQ-5D varied considerably with scores from 0.57 anxiety/depression to 0.81 for mobility. The CCC Plots for each domain of the EQ-5D are depicted in Fig. 2. Patients who underwent hip arthroplasty consistently demonstrated a higher level of agreement when compared with knee arthroplasty patients.
Table 3 Agreement scores of patient reported outcome measures
CCC plots of the separate components of EQ-5D-5L with the score from proxy interviewer plotted against healthcare interpreter: a mobility (CCC=0.81), b personal care CCC=0.66), c usual activities CCC=0.68), d pain/discomfort CCC=0.69), and (e) anxiety/depression CCC=0.57). A fitted linear regression (solid) is compared with a 45° line (dotted) through the origin for each plot
The CCC plots for the EQ VAS and Oxford scores (Figs. 3 and 4 respectively) show the scale and location shifts for the CCC analyses are minimal with the scale shifts ranging from 0.89 to 1.16 and location shifts from − 0.05 to − 0.02.
CCC plot of the EQ-VAS score (CCC=0.78)
CCC plot of the Oxford hip/knee score (CCC=0.86). Data from both the hip and knee questionnaires have been analysed together
The Bland-Altman plots (Figs. 5 and 6) show that relative to the total score range for each measure, the limits of agreement are narrower for the Oxford score compared with EQ-VAS. Overall the mean difference is very small (up to 1.1% of total score for the Oxford) indicating negligible bias when all subjects are considered.
Bland-Altman plot of the EQ-VAS score. The mean of both measurements is plotted against the difference between measurements (proxy interviewer score minus healthcare interpreter score). Mean difference = 0.72 with 95% limits of agreement -22.7 to 24.1
Bland-Altman plot of the Oxford hip/knee score. Mean difference = 0.13 (1.1% of total score) with 95% limits of agreement -6.46 to 6.72
The Wilcoxon rank sum tests indicated that the differences between mean scores from either method of interview were not statistically significant. When results were stratified according the interview order, the differences between mean scores remained insignificant except for the EQ-VAS mean difference where if the first call was made with a healthcare interpreter this resulted in a slightly higher score (Table 4).
Table 4: Mean differences stratified by interview order
The high level of agreement overall between interpreter proxies and healthcare interpreters found in this study suggests that utilising carers or family members to interpret is adequately reliable for capture of patient-reported outcomes after arthroplasty.
Healthcare interpreters have been noted to deliver a higher standard of interpreting quality with fewer translation errors when compared with non-certified ad hoc interpreters [12]. As such, the healthcare interpreters should be adept at clarifying any confusion over the meaning of certain words in the questionnaire and also clearly relay how the patient’s recovery profile is represented by the responses given.
The perfect agreement (kappa = 1) between the responses regarding readmission and reoperation was expected assuming that the question was accurately asked by both types of interpreters as these are significant events for the patient. Agreement for determining complication was lower (kappa = 0.69), a discrepancy which may have been due to uncertainty over the exact nature of a complication, which was defined as requiring active management but not readmission or reoperation.
The results showed that patients who had a hip arthroplasty recorded higher levels of agreement for all outcomes apart from complication, despite the only differences in questioning being the three joint-specific items in the Oxford questionnaires. This may have been due to the fact that patients who undergo knee operations experience greater day-to-day variability in their pain and function levels (possibly even dependent on weather conditions), which would account for the lower agreement levels in the EQ-5D which assesses daily situation compared with the Oxford scores which assess the most recent 4 week period.
Similar 95% limits of agreement have also been seen in test-retest studies of reliability indicating that the differences seen between methods in this study may be explained by the normal week-to-week variation of responses to the survey questions, which may also incorporate true health changes between surveys [13]. While patient recovery following arthroplasty largely plateaus after 6 months, the 1 month window either side of the 6 month date which we allowed for conducting interviews may have confounded the test-retest reliability.
However, once the entire sample population is considered, the overall bias or the mean difference on the Bland-Altman plots is consistently very small. With results stratified to interview order, there was no statistically significant difference in the mean scores except for marginal differences in the EQ-VAS score. This indicates that patients were not continuing to improve in the time between interviews. This suggests that the methods are similar when comparing groups of patients but that differences are seen at the level of the individual patient. However, as stated above, we consider this to be reflective of the reliability of the survey questions rather than due to the method of data collection.
A limitation of the study was the inability to assess the effect that individual languages may have on the level of agreement. This was due to an insufficient sample size and the large number of languages, which did not allow analysis of individual languages. While languages could potentially be grouped into geographical regions of origin, these classifications do not necessarily reflect cultural diversity and the effects this may have on patient reported outcomes. The study was limited to patients who had undergone arthroplasty surgery and these findings may not be generalisable to other settings, particularly were socially sensitive topics may be discussed which may limit the accuracy of proxy interpreters.
Another limitation is that we used English versions of the validated surveys and not those specific to the language of the patient being interviewed. Due to this, variation in the linguistic skills of proxy interpreters may have affected the accuracy of results. This approach, necessitated by a lack of availability of all required languages for each survey at the time of the study, reflected the pragmatic approach used by this registry that removes the need to restrict participation based on survey availability.
The benefits of professional interpreters to the patient in a clinical setting are well recognised, with the literature agreeing that patient satisfaction and quality of care is greatest when hospital-trained interpreters and telephone interpreters are utilised [14,15,16]. However, the inconvenience and cost of using healthcare interpreters is a barrier to participation in data collection.
These results suggest that using interpreter proxies is a reliable, efficient and likely cost-effective alternative to using healthcare interpreters when conducting telephone surveys of patient-reported outcomes after health interventions. Despite differences seen at the individual level, when the entire cohort is considered, there is an insignificant difference between the two methods of interview.
The datasets analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
ACORN:
Arthroplasty Clinical Outcomes Registry National
CCC:
Concordance correlation coefficient
ICC:
Intraclass correlation coefficient
Kappa:
Quadratic Weighted Cohen’s Kappa
LEP:
Limited English proficiency
OHS:
Oxford Hip Score
OKS:
Oxford Knee Score
PROMs:
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The authors wish to thank Katina Varelis, Nitin Sharma, Zareena Azimullah and the interpreter service of the Sydney South West Local Health District Language Services for organizing interpreter calls throughout the project.
Funding for the engagement of certified healthcare interpreters of Sydney South West Local Health District Language Services was provided by internal institutional funds of the Whitlam Orthopaedic Research Centre. No additional funding was provided for the design of the study, collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript for this study.
South Western Sydney Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Australia, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, NSW, 2170, Australia
Daniel Xue
, Timothy Churches
, Rajat Mittal
, Justine Maree Naylor
& Ian Andrew Harris
Whitlam Orthopaedic Research Centre, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, 1 Campbell St, Liverpool, NSW, 2170, Australia
Timothy Churches
South Western Sydney Local Health District, Elizabeth St, Liverpool, NSW, Australia
Falls, Balance and Injury Centre, Neuroscience Research Australia, 139 Barker St, Randwick, NSW, 2031, Australia
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Australia, Kensington, NSW, 2033, Australia
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EA, JMN and IAH conceived and designed the study. EA submitted the study protocol for ethics approval. DX, TC, EA and RM contributed to data collection. DX and TC performed the data analysis with input from JMN and IAH. DX, TC and IAH prepared the manuscript. All authors read, reviewed and approved the manuscript.
Correspondence to Daniel Xue.
The study was approved by Hunter New England Human Research Ethics Committee and all procedures performed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the 1964 Helsinki declaration.
Informed consent was obtained verbally from all individuals included in the study with the assistance of certified interpreters or carers and family members. A verbal consent form approved by Hunter New England Human Research Ethics Committee was read out and completed for each participant enrolled in the study.
Xue, D., Churches, T., Armstrong, E. et al. Interpreter proxy versus healthcare interpreter for administration of patient surveys following arthroplasty: a pilot study. BMC Med Res Methodol 19, 206 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-019-0854-1
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Costumes Sketches Prada for The Great Gatsby
Have you watched the trailer of The Great Gatsby? The movie directed by Baz Luhrmann is predicted to be one of the good movies this year. Starred by Leonardo DiCaprio, Joel Edgerton, and Carrey Mulligan, the movie performs not only the geniuses of the director, the good plot, and the quality of the actors and actress but also other elements that can be separated in the movie production, which is the costume. Costume is one element if a movie that can build characteristics of the actors and actress playing in it. The awesome costume designs for The Great Gatsby have been released by Prada. At least four sketches illustrating the aristocratic 1920s style have been revealed last January. The designer herself, Miuccia Prada, released the collections to British Vogue.
The Great Gatsby is an adoption of a novel with the same title written by an American author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel as well as the movie has a setting of Long Island in October, 1922.
image by Prada
In the movie, therefore, the costume presents what people wore in that era. The four Prada costumes sketches revealed in British Vogue are the costumes of Carey Mulligan. She, in the movie, plays as Daisy Buchanan, a beautiful girl that once had a romantic relationship with Jay Gatsby (starred by Leonardo DiCaprio), but finally got married to a rich husband. Jay Gatsby is also described as a millionaire who often throws extravagant parties. Lavish aristocratic life is depicted here and therefore the costume also shows this style.
The four Prada costume sketches of Carey Mulligan include one sketch of a ball-gown and three daily outfits. The ball-gown dress features high low hemline with sleeveless tank bodice in a sweetheart neckline. The gown creates a feminine and sensational look. The bodice is partly embroidered with heavy sparkling beads to add glamour. The second sketch is an informal dress featuring low-cut back. The hemline of the dress ends at knee. The dress is paired with a beret made of high-end velvet material. The third sketch is a more formal knee-length dress in low collar V-neck. The collar is made of velvet. Meanwhile the dress is made of fully sparkling heavy-beading materials for a sophisticated feel. The last sketch is another knee-length dress featuring surplice neckline and a wide band on the waist.
Miuccia and Baz agree to combine modern and classic in the sketches. Still, the modern touches will not ruin the classical and historical value of the design. The costume design of The Great Gatsby (2013), therefore, is a little bit different from the previous movie that was filmed at 1974 in which the costumes were purely classics. While the attire of female leads Carey Mulligan who play Daisy Buchanan will display Prada and Martin’s spectacular collection, starring as male lead Tobey McGuire and Leonardo DiCaprio will showcase Brooks Brother’s design. If you are curious about the movie predominantly on the costumes, just wait for the movie premiere that is scheduled on May 10, 2013 in the USA.
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Jalapa Jar wants to replace your bagel with breakfast tacos
By Megan McGibney
Jalapa Jar is just one of the many small food businesses in Brooklyn with big dreams. Their ambitions, though, extend beyond simply building a salsa empire. They want to change the way New Yorkers eat breakfast, and supplant the staid bagel with spicy breakfast tacos.
“We can’t knock the New York staple,” says owner Tommy Byrnes. “But we hope to convert New Yorkers from the bagel.”
Jalapa Jar’s new shop at 384 Schermerhorn Street, near Atlantic Terminal and the Barclays Center, opened on Oct. 2 and it’s the perfect location to turn commuters on to a breakfast with a lot more flavor than your standard issue everything bagel or bacon-egg-and-cheese.
Photo: Megan McGibney
This new combination grocery and restaurant–or grocerant as Byrnes calls it–is open from 7:30am to 11pm, and sells not just breakfast tacos, but taco bowls, salads, chips, salsa and queso, as well as salsa by the jar and other Brooklyn-made treats, a much larger selection than their first location in the Clark Street subway station in Brooklyn Heights. It’s technically a pop-up, since the building they’re in is slated for development in 2019, but that’s long enough to get used to treating yourself to bacon, egg, potato and salsa-filled tortillas in the morning.
If you’re not familiar, speaking in the broadest of terms, since the matter of breakfast tacos, their ideal ingredients and origins is one that can get a person kicked out of Texas, these tacos come served on your choice of corn or flour tortillas, and are usually filled with some combination of eggs, potatoes, and bacon, chorizo or other meat. Jalapa Jar makes a bacon, egg and mashed potato taco, topped with your choice of cheese and one of their salsas, and there is also a chorizo version, as well as several vegetarian options. They serve lunch and dinner tacos, as well.
Jalapa Jar started small, back in 2006, when Joel Nearing, one of Byrnes’ long-time friends from Texas, developed a salsa recipe while in culinary school that he tried out on family, friends and colleagues to rave reviews. Byrnes was so convinced that Nearing’s salsa was a winner that he and his cousin Steve Smith decided to join forces with the chef, and find a wider audience for it. They made a splash on the salsa scene by setting up a pop-up shop just outside the Austin Hot Sauce Festival in 2015, and the positive response encouraged them to keep moving forward.
“We then got lucky, and got into Smorgasburg,” Byrnes says. “We parlayed what we did at the salsa festival into a Brooklyn version. We’re developing new fans of the salsa.”
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Declan Spring is with New Directions, one of the most venerable publishers of experimental writing in English, where he serves as Senior Editor. The press was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin, and began by publishing anthologies of modernist writers such as Wallace Stevens, Delmore Schwartz, Dylan Thomas, and James Agee, among others. Soon after releasing its first anthology, however, New Directions also began publishing novels, plays, and poetry collections. Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams were New Directions authors at a time when they had difficulty getting their work published elsewhere.
Since then, the press has produced books by a long list of canonical modernists, as well as a backlist of works by more traditional writers such as E.M. Forster, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Evelyn Waugh. It also has published several foreign writers in translation, often in bilingual editions.
The New Directions roster includes Nobel Prize laureates and winners of the Pulitzer, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Despite the relatively small size of the press, its influence on modernist literary culture has been enormous.
I interviewed Spring by email in early 2010. This interview is part of a larger project that aims to identify some of the stressors which currently affect literary publishers, and, hopefully identify avenues publishers might consider as they cope with a recessionary economy, technological change, and changing reading habits.
Finn Harvor (Rail): Literature is in trouble—that is, more trouble than usual. Why do you think this is? The increasing prevalence of TV? The distractions of increasingly narcotic subcultures such as video games? 9/11? The market crash of 2008? Or is talk of the “death of literature” simple exaggeration?
Declan Spring: There is still a huge audience for literature and a large market for books. However, I do think the Internet is having a damaging effect on reading. Your average college-educated adult who might have read a book in the evening to relax is now spending much of that time emailing friends and surfing the web. There is a growing expectation that art and information is “downloadable” and storable on computers and computer-friendly devices and this, I think, threatens the marketability of books. Book reviews are in decline since people are more and more looking for information on the web and booksellers are having to compete with online bookstores such as Amazon.
Rail: Reports of declines in book sales have become widespread. How bad are the declines? And do you think they are only a cyclical phenomenon, or do they represent a permanent, negative change for print book sales?
Spring: I would say that overall they do represent a permanent, negative change for print book sales. Much of the decline is related to the economy, but it can, in part, be blamed on other forces. Luckily, New Directions publishes lasting literature with an audience of devoted book buyers and college students who are required to adopt the texts in their college courses. We saw a huge dip in sales (related to huge returns from the chain bookstores) in the first half of 2009. Then sales picked up and returned to a much more healthy state at the end of the summer.
Rail: What area of book publishing is suffering most? More specifically, are novel sales suffering more than other kinds of books?
Spring: I wouldn’t know. I do know that basic literary fiction is suffering. Agents I talk to say that publishers just aren’t buying fiction anymore and they have to come up with new ways to stay in business.
Rail: Are the declines linked to woes in the brick-and-mortar retail sector—for example, bankrupt/near-bankrupt independents and teetering chains like America’s Borders—or are troubles in the retail trade the result, not the cause, of declining book sales?
Spring: I would say it’s hard to say which, but the woes of the retail sector are certainly related to some of the causes I stated above.
Rail: Are online retailers like Amazon taking over so much market share that they are driving brick-and-mortar bookstores out of business? Or does Amazon, with its discounts, simply create more book sales for itself, and are the brick-and-mortar stores suffering from their own structural deficiencies?
Spring: I don’t think you can blame the structural deficiencies of the independent stores. We’ve seen incredible agility and resources being mobilized at the very resilient independent bookstores which have survived so long against such odds. People are getting more and more used to getting what they want quickly and not having to travel to a retailer for their merchandise. I’ve always thought that visiting a bookstore isn’t only an opportunity to buy books, but to browse and learn about authors. Bookstores, especially independent ones, are sources for the dissemination of art and knowledge. They serve a valuable function in society, but unfortunately, our society is changing and people have less and less time for browsing in a bookstore.
Rail: The publishing industry suffers from retailers’ ability to return unsold books. In the current environment, is reversing this policy possible?
Spring: The notion of returns is pretty entrenched as far as I know. Every so often publishers discuss possibilities of addressing this Depression-era practice, but now—in the midst of a recession—I think everyone feels this wouldn’t be the time to try.
Rail: In your opinion, do e-books—with their lack of printing costs and ease of distribution—represent a golden opportunity for publishers to reverse the trend of declining sales?
Spring: This remains to be seen. It’s extremely important that publishers are entitled to e-book rights. They’re the ones that took the risk and went through the effort of publishing the book and any e-book threatens to undermine the print sales. So it is very important the publishers tie up e-book rights—paying a fair split to their authors—and have a strategy for making e-books available.
Rail: Or are e-books—with their vulnerability to piracy and untested popularity with the bulk of the reading public—overrated?
Spring: I don’t think they’re overrated. The reading devices right now haven’t caught on as dramatically as they eventually will. Once there is a device comparable to the iPod in music that everyone has in their homes and carries around with them, print books will be in trouble. That’s my opinion.
Rail: Does the Google settlement, which allows Google to scan books as it wishes, represent a form of piracy? Or, as Google argues, will its planned scanning of the world’s books strengthen book sales and reading culture?
Spring: It represents a form of piracy in that they went ahead and just started doing it without a collaborative plan. The settlement is a compromise. Where I think it really represents a form of piracy are those “orphaned books” where the rights holder hasn’t stepped forward.
Rail: Is the Kindle model of fixed prices for e-books but a relatively piracy-free sales/distribution system (and, sometimes, sound profits for publishers) one that you are happy with? Or does it lend Amazon too much control over pricing?
Spring: The $9.99 low price offered for most e-books will certainly undermine print book sales at a higher price. That was Tina Brown’s gripe at BEA (BookExpo America), although it now looks like that fixed price is something that’s definitely going to change.
Rail: Is the “agency model” of, for example, Apple’s iBooks better?
Spring: I’d say it’s a more viable model.
Rail: How much potential do e-book sales directly from a publisher’s own site have?
Spring: That’s not something we’ve considered at this point, but we haven’t ruled it out.
Rail: Do you think the e-book, being a digital form, will eventually evolve into a new form of narrative, incorporating audio and visual elements?
Spring: It certainly has that potential, but I think literature is inherently basically text oriented, rather than primarily visually oriented. Great writers like Laurence Sterne and W. G. Sebald have experimented using visual elements and it will always be interesting to witness books with these elements incorporated. Many years ago, people had high hopes for the CD-ROM thinking it would be able to offer additional visual and audio elements providing context for literary texts. This was an intriguing idea that never really took off, but it would be interesting to see if this can work again with e-books.
Rail: Will a movement toward e-books drive a separate-but-linked movement toward audio-books, more than exists now?
Spring: I think we’re already seeing that starting to happen with the success of audible.com. As far as I know, that’s a pretty successful venture.
Rail: Are book trailers a valuable marketing tool or a waste of money and time?
Spring: I know they’ve proven successful with books like that novel The Average American Male. We haven’t really tried it ourselves, although we do some web marketing using videos of readings and performances by our authors.
Rail: In South Korea, books incorporating pictures and text are massively popular. In North America, graphic novel sales remain comparatively healthy. Will the print book move more and more in the direction of an objet d’art, appealing to book buyers as much with images as text?
Spring: I don’t think the popularity of graphic novels necessarily has anything to do with the demise of print books. I think it’s more about rising interest in this genre.
Rail: Prizes and awards are playing an increasing role in determining an author’s career-trajectory. In short, winning a major literary prize can win a writer a large audience overnight (not to mention, considerable fame and financial remuneration). But, as British critic Jason Cowley has observed, what is lost is the ability for readers to think in a critically complex fashion.
Spring: I don’t think you can argue that literary prizes are bad for literature, that they don’t enable readers to think critically for themselves. If anything, they increase readership which increases general awareness and appreciation for good books. Some prizes are more “mainstream” than others. For instance, some of the Pulitzer Prize winners I’ve read seem pretty mediocre, while I’ve always thought the Nobel is the stamp of approval that a writer is world-class. Interestingly, while we’re always happy when our authors win big awards like the National Book Award or the Nobel, it always means you have to over-print. For an experimental author, a big award can sometimes mean that you receive huge orders that need to be filled, then you receive a ton of returns.
Rail: Literary publishing has always been a marriage of art and commerce. But in recent years, the Cult of the Deal has become more influential, with agents demanding larger advances and marketing people paying especially close attention to sales figures. Is the “art” side of the business being pushed out?
Spring: The ever more corporate nature of the book trade has had a negative impact on the ability of small and large presses to publish and market important writers. New Directions has always published, and continues to publish works of high literary quality and that’s our first and foremost consideration. While we always need to consider things from a financial standpoint—we are a for-profit business—we have always emphasized the “art side” first.
Rail: Many major publishers now refuse to accept “unsolicited” work; that is, they will not even consider work unless it is agented. Is this a sound policy from the point of view of finding the best new literary voices? Isn’t there a chance good writing will be squeezed out?
Spring: In my almost 20 years working for New Directions, I think we’ve discovered three writers in the unsolicited pile—John Keene, Peter Dale Scott, and a writer named James Munves. I can understand why major publishers refuse to accept unsolicited manuscripts. The “slush pile” creates much work, and you’ll really find that the best authors come recommended from other authors or publisher friends, or you read about them in journals or magazines.
Rail: Alternatively, for small presses that do accept unsolicited work, is the problem that the majors are squeezing the small houses at the distribution/retail marketing end? In other words, even when good writers get published by small houses, do they have a fair chance of winning an audience? Or are the major houses introducing an overly corporate, overly aggressive mentality to the book trade?
Spring: There are some cases where small publishers have had great success. I’m thinking of, most recently, Europa Editions’ success with the Hedgehog book (The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery). Interestingly, some really great small presses are distributed by the big guys. I do believe that the chains systematically favor the larger, more commercial presses. But even they have special deals and incentives in which small presses can participate.
Rail: Are agents too powerful? If so, in what ways? Or are they a largely beneficial and necessary element of contemporary publishing?
Spring: It depends who you’re talking about. New Directions is lucky to have longstanding relationships with agents who represent the estates of some of the great authors of the 20th century, people like Georges Borchardt, who understand our parameters and appreciate our efforts. The ones who are in it for the money, the power, and the prestige are the ones that are more difficult to deal with.
Rail: Does America have too many publishers? Or too few?
Spring: I don’t think you can have too many publishers.
Rail: And what role can traditional, venerable institutions such as libraries and English departments play in reversing the decline in sales of literary fiction?
Spring: If, like New Directions, you take a long-term view, not always aiming for a tremendous initial sale but for a steady backlist sale over time, college departments and libraries are some of your targets. ND is distributed by W.W. Norton and one of the reasons this has been such a fruitful relationship is because Norton has a major college focus. We do a lot to market our books in language and literature departments. If a book is adopted by a professor, you can count on 30 copies being adopted every semester. That adds up over the breadth of your list and gives it relevance and lasting literary value.
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Chris Collins: Disabled?
Why is Erie County Executive Chris Collins parking his appropriately named Buick “Enclave” in a handicapped spot before a parade in which he marched (at the front) last weekend? Has the county’s CEO suddenly become afflicted with some crippling disability that affects his mobility?
Chris Collins: It's his county, it's his handicapped spot!
UPDATE: For some reason, some of you need MORE PROOF AND MORE ANGLES AND WHATNOT.
MOAR ANGLEZ!
EVEN MOAR!
(All images can be clicked to be enlarged and determine whether they’re real or ZOMG FAKED!)
As to the picture itself, my tipster informs me that these photos were taken before the Akron/Newstead parade. The only other vehicles in that entire lot were in the parade. Everyone else was told to park somewhere off the parade route. His Royal Highness the Prince of Spaulding parked in this handicapped spot about 50 feet from the parade start.
Tags: arrogant, Chris Collins, erie county, obnoxious, politics, shame, WNY
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109 Responses to “Chris Collins: Disabled?”
Brian Wood July 6, 2011 at 12:33 pm #
Hey, the rich and entitled are entitled. We can pound salt and limp.
This Guy July 6, 2011 at 12:42 pm #
Does having a Napoleon complex get you a handicapped parking tag?
Black Rock Lifer July 6, 2011 at 12:44 pm #
His disability is ignorance and arrogance, surely such an affliction deserves a parking permit and our empathy.
Derek J. Punaro July 6, 2011 at 12:55 pm #
See, this is where you undo a lot of good opinion pieces that have some validity to them. The handicap spots are there for ease of access to the school. The school itself wasn’t being used, the parking lot was (the school likely wasn’t even open). So it doesn’t matter where he was parked. In fact, from the photo, it looks like he’s parked further away from the staging area than other cars. Are there more photos?
Alan Bedenko July 6, 2011 at 1:11 pm #
It looks, in fact, like he’s parked further away from the staging area than other cars, and that there are loads of non-handicapped parking spaces actually closer to that staging area.
Which would result in the only rational explanation for him parking there – that he’s a fucking asshole.
Black Rock Lifer July 6, 2011 at 1:02 pm #
@Derek- It is illegal to park in a handicapped parking space at anytime unless you are a permit holder.
Rob July 6, 2011 at 1:03 pm #
And if the other spots filled up (not unlikely) and a handicapped person (with the required tag) wanted to park in the lot in order to attend the parade? Too bad for him/her I guess.
mark July 6, 2011 at 1:05 pm #
Grant Loomis said this photo is fake. I thought I’d heard everything until the apologist explanation why it’s ok to park in a spot reserved or crippled people.
Christopher Smith July 6, 2011 at 1:14 pm #
Shorter Derek Punaro: “Laws are for the little people!”
Chris Sasiadek July 6, 2011 at 1:15 pm #
Nice mini-van.
Kevin J. July 6, 2011 at 1:24 pm #
My wife Val has a handicapped parking permit/mirror hanger, so I am not only offended, I am infuriated and insulted by this pathetic act by Collins.
Derek – Really? Handicapped parking is not only there for the use of handicapped people with the proper parking permit because of distance, it is because they provide extra space for people needing to unload their wheelchairs and walkers using ramps, or just their arms and legs. Val uses a cane most of the time, but she has a walker she uses a decent amount of the time, and if there were people parked next to her in a regular lot because a space like this was taken by someone without a handicap, she would have one hell of a time getting the walker out of her car.
The handicapped parking spots are also placed near curb cuts so people in wheelchairs and using walkers can navigate the curb without additional difficulty.
The photo appears to have been taken at the Court Street School, where there is plenty of regular parking barely steps away from this handicapped spot.
Derek J. Punaro July 6, 2011 at 1:25 pm #
Sorry, not going to get worked up over this. You could say if he was smarter he wouldn’t be caught in such a position by an partisan with a camera looking for just such an opportunity, but the school parking lot was the staging area for the parade. From past experience marching from that exact spot, it’s likely the lot was closed except for parade participants. Show us other photos for context. Wider angle shot of the whole parking lot? Who was the photographer? Are they on a plane to Florida today?
Brian B July 6, 2011 at 1:29 pm #
There probably wasn’t enough parking spots and would have to park off site or use the handicapped site. Unfortunately, if a handicapped person were to need to be in the staging area, they would be out of luck.
@Derek- As I stated above, its about ignorance and arrogance, if you don’t see it your just not looking.
Chris Charvella July 6, 2011 at 1:31 pm #
Didn’t Dennis Leary write a song about this sort of behavior.
I hope you and Mr. Collins never have to get worked up over this like I am, Derek. And it doesn’t matter if this was only for parade participants; there were handicapped participants in the Cheektowaga Independence Day parade I marched in in Cheektowaga Monday, including a woman in a wheelchair in the unit directly behind mine, as well as several veterans in the parade. They need, deserve and qualify to park there, not Mr. Collins.
“[I]t’s likely the lot was closed except for parade participants.”
So?? What if a handicapped parade participant needed that spot? Also, comment #5.
I see someone is saying the photo is faked. Is there any evidence it wasn’t (like an eyewitness)?
John July 6, 2011 at 1:36 pm #
Later that day… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgedBRXw7fY
Greta Kelly July 6, 2011 at 1:38 pm #
This is what happens when Collins decides to venture outside the locked gates of Spaulding Lake and locked doors of the 16th floor of the Rath Building. His true nature is on full display for all to see. So, in the course of just a few hours he was able to disrespect our veterans and well as those with disabilities. Give it a couple more hours and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we started to hear reports he made sexist comments to some unsuspecting woman in red, white & blue short shorts…with promises to share his stolen spot at the beginning of a parade in exchange for a lap dance!
Most of you are missing the point. It’s not that I’m insensitive to people with disabilities or the laws surrounding parking, it’s that the parking lot is not being used for it’s normal purpose. The handicap spaces are where they are due to proximity to the school, not the proximity to the parade route. Perhaps handicapped people were allowed to park in a spot closer to where they needed to be in the parade?
Also, I don’t believe the photo was taken at the Lancaster parade. There are no houses that close to the Court Street school parking lot, and the Exif data on the photo says it was taken at 4:29pm, long after Collins would have been done with the Lancaster parade if he started walking the route before the parade started at 2pm. So where was this photo taken?
@Derek, from the update:
Aside from the fact that, as a non-handicapped person, Chris Collins has absolutely no business whatsoever using a handicapped spot under any circumstances, in any way, at any time, regardless of whether the school or lot were “open”, he clearly set himself apart and used a different set of rules at the Akron/Newstead parade than just about everyone else there.
He is, therefore, a fucking asshole.
Jeremy July 6, 2011 at 2:01 pm #
Democratic operatives obviously waited until he parked his car and walked away, then painted part of a handicapped logo under it.
I didn’t think it was faked, I just noted that Grant Loomis apparently claimed it was. It would be easy to PhotoShop such a picture wouldn’t it? But per the Update Alan’s tipster said he/she took it at the Akron/Newstead parade, so OK.
Still not buying DJP’s claim that a handicapped parking space is fair game if the closest building to it is closed but whatever.
If CE-3 is an Enclave, what’s CE-1 – a Canyonero?
From the DMV:
Reserved parking for people with disabilities ensures safe and equal access to goods and services, access which most of us take for granted. This publication explains the rules that businesses and all drivers should observe about reserved parking spaces. It also presents information on how to obtain license plates and parking permits that allow individuals with severe disabilities to use specially-marked parking spots.
Reserved parking for people with disabilities is a legal requirement, not just a courtesy. You can help support the law by parking in reserved spaces only if you have a permit or plates for people with disabilities, and only when the person who received the permit or plates is actually in the vehicle. Please avoid parking in the access aisle or striped area next to a reserved parking space – it is not a parking zone. This special area is needed for access by people who use wheelchairs and specially-equipped vehicles.
It is important to respect each other. Please, be parking considerate.
New York State V&TL 1203-b:
2. It shall be a violation for any person to stop, stand or park a vehicle in any area designated as a place for handicapped parking unless the vehicle bears a permit issued under section one thousand two hundred three-a or a registration issued under section four hundred four-a of this chapter and such vehicle is being used for the transportation of a severely disabled or handicapped person. This subdivision shall not apply to a violation of section twelve hundred three-c of this chapter.
Lisa Owen July 6, 2011 at 2:30 pm #
I was there and saw Collins and his car parked. There were spots that were not handicapped that were a little farther away. He didn’t need to park there. No one else did except for him and one handicapped car. He thinks he special and the rules don’t apply to him. He’s got to go- he’s doing nothing for the people of Erie County.
I’ll note that this EXIF viewer superimposes the GPS coordinates of the image onto Google Maps. I think the result speaks for itself.
Thanks for posting the additional info, Alan. I’m familiar with the Lancaster parade and the Court Street school staging area, in which I would stand by my argument – the lot is small and not used for public parking, and the staging area is along the long driveway in which the handicapped spots are actually far away from much of. I’m not familiar with Akron/Newstead’s parade or how theirs works or where people are told to park. If the spots were being used/reserved for handicapped people, then he absolutely should have been following the rules and not playing a trump card of his own making (as we would expect of any politician).
Handicapped spots, as set forth in the statutes I posted, are always reserved only for people with acceptable placards and permission – whether they are being used or not.
Carmen Bartolotta July 6, 2011 at 3:15 pm #
Running government like a business. The big boss always gets the closest parking spot because he runs the show, while the rest of you are nothing but cogs in the machine. This is not surprising at all, which is sad in itself. First he disrespects veterans and firefighters in Lancaster, now he dumps on the handicapped in Akron. This is not a man who should be representing the great citizens of Erie County.
Warrey July 6, 2011 at 3:17 pm #
Is the Irish Curse considered a disability?
Off the point a bit, but is anyone else creeped out by the easy availability of .exif data?
On the point: People who park in these spaces who aren’t handicapped are self-absorbed assholes. The logic here dictates that Collins is a self-absorbed asshole.
@30 – Oh come on, there are probably 20 VTL sections that are “violated” during the course of any parade or special event. Are you going to ticket the giant slide operator during a town carnival if it’s set up in a parking lot across handicap spaces? Lot closed = rules suspended.
Obviously, the lot wasn’t closed.
grant loomis didn’t say the photo was fake- I SAID grant loomis said the photo was fake! I mean, that’s what he’d likely say when confronted with the pics. Why would the photog be called a partisan for taking the picture? maybe they were rightfully pissed off to see the arrogant bastard deprive a handicapped person a parking place?
MJC July 6, 2011 at 3:35 pm #
Is there anyone here that would even take a chance and park there? Especially when it is obvious that there are several indisputably legal spots about ten feet away?
I wouldn’t park in a school handicapped spot at 4 in the morning on Christmas Day.
I’m glad we’re focusing our attention on matters important to WNY. Today’s obviously a slow news day.
@MJC you’re absolutely right. I think the fact that a guy like Collins, who should be concerned with appearances at all times, would park in a handicap space speaks directly to his arrogance.
AidentheCat July 6, 2011 at 4:19 pm #
I was in the Newstead parade. I was there when everyone around the beginning of the parade was talking about Collins car in the handicapped spot. I also know that several people took pictures of it. I, like everyone else, parked my car where I was told to, off the parade route. Actually, I parked it at the end of the route and walked back to the beginning so I wouldn’t have to backtrack and our group could get right in and head to the next stop.
I’ll bet that after the investigation is completed we’ll find that it was Byron Brown’s son who parked Collins’ vehicle illegally.
Cindy July 6, 2011 at 7:36 pm #
Where are the Akron police when you need them?
The Village of Akron police chief and 13 part-time officers issued 115 parking summonses in 2010, according to their statistics on their web site through, ahem, http://www.erie.gov.
Mr. F.N. Magoo July 6, 2011 at 8:44 pm #
One of the reasons people who don’t deserve it give for parking illegally in handicapped spaces is that it affords their vehicle greater distance from cars parking adjacent to it. So just like the morons that park across two spaces to protect their paint, perhaps Collins parked this way to spare his Enclave contact with the common people.
Mike in Buffalo July 6, 2011 at 9:57 pm #
He may be an imbecile, but he is our imbecile!
King Kong July 6, 2011 at 10:13 pm #
What a dumb thing to do. I worked on a race during the last cycle, we always had our candidate dropped off and picked up at the staging ground, it avoids having his car take up valuable space from other people and it avoids P.R. fiascoes like this one.
Mike In WNY July 7, 2011 at 12:26 am #
This post is beyond really stupid. It appears that regardless of where Collins parked, there was absolutely no chance a handicapped person would have had access to the spot at that time. The point of the blog post is moot.
Alan Bedenko July 7, 2011 at 6:02 am #
Calling a post based on what “appears”, without knowing – and after I had updated the post with more detail about where non-handicapped marchers in the parade were supposed to park, is what’s “beyond really stupid”.
Christopher Smith July 7, 2011 at 1:18 am #
No, Mike, it isn’t moot. I know you libertarians think the Disability Act is a big joke and a horrible violation of your natural rights under Ayn Rand, but Collins’ behavior demonstrates ignorance (at best) and arrogance (at worst). Either way, it was a dumb thing to do and says more about Collins as a person than any TV commercial will.
Charles July 7, 2011 at 6:49 am #
Ok. So we already knew that CC is an arrogant SOB, and this little tidbit reaffirms the already known known. True, it is a bit petty, but THAT is exactly the niche that blogs such as this fill in the political reportage spectrum. So I will be the last to criticize BP for exposing the continuum of CC’s arrogance. It fills in well with the Buff News piece on CC’s arrogant tendencies.
That said, these little items will not defeat CC in November. Ultimately, it is not what will persuade voters to pull the lever for MP. Voters don’t necessarily punish arrogance if the SOB is perceived to be doing the job he was elected to do.
MP must both expose real CC shortcomings (how about the poor state of heavily traveled county roads such as Colvin Blvd in my hometown of Tonawanda?) and offer realistic solutions to those problems, such as actually using hoarded stimulus moneys to repair crumbling infrastructure and provide jobs to local workers.
Joe Genco July 7, 2011 at 6:56 am #
Punaro is right, but you folks sure have fun getting worked up. If you represented the County Executive’s core constituency, he would be in trouble. You don’t. You better come with some better game if you intend to get Poloncarz elected. Excellent idea, King Kong, but no one but Collins drives Collins.
Never thought I knew people who would knowingly defend able-bodied people arrogantly and illegally parking in handicapped parking. I guess I do. Shame on me.
I’ll never tolerate another Republican lecture about “character” and its importance in contemporary politics again.
Rob July 7, 2011 at 8:06 am #
Of all the bullshit excuses for Collins in this thread my favorite is “Lot closed = rules suspended”. That’s right, the lot was closed. Collins had his car helicopter-dropped like in that Lexus commercial.
RaChaCha July 7, 2011 at 8:20 am #
This guy is so pompous, next thing you know he’ll be naming a town after himself or something.
Mike In WNY July 7, 2011 at 8:40 am #
Alan, you haven’t provided any information that substantiates that a handicapped person was denied handicapped parking because of the location of Collins’ vehicle. The photo shows at least 4 more handicapped parking spaces, 2 of which are clearly vacant. You have not demonstrated any harm to any individual, only extremely weak speculation.
Perhaps you should have prefaced your remarks with a disclaimer that you are a rabid supporter of Mark Polancarz. At least make a case for him on the merits instead of trashing his opponent with BS. Your blog post is about as credible as elements of the Corwin campaign, which you rightfully and virulently derided.
Alan, you haven’t provided any information that substantiates that a handicapped person was denied handicapped parking because of the location of Collins’ vehicle.
I don’t need to. The statute doesn’t say “able-bodied people may not park in handicapped spots, unless of course there are loads of available spots and not enough cripples to use them.” The statute is quite unequivocal and parking there is forbidden at all times, by anyone not properly displaying a placard. I’m seriously at a loss as to why that’s difficult for people to comprehend. (Of course, that’s because it’s not difficult for them to comprehend, it’s just that they are willing to excuse and make apologies for anything and everything Chris Collins does).
The photo shows at least 4 more handicapped parking spaces, 2 of which are clearly vacant. You have not demonstrated any harm to any individual, only extremely weak speculation.
The statute doesn’t say “able-bodied people may not park in handicapped spots, unless of course there are loads of available spots and not enough cripples to use them.”
Perhaps you should have prefaced your remarks with a disclaimer that you are a rabid supporter of Mark Polancarz.
I don’t know any Mark Polancarz. I do know Mark Poloncarz, the comptroller of Erie County, whom I obviously do support. I will not and do not have to “preface” any “remarks” with disclaimers for your benefit. Setting that aside, of course, whether I support Mark Poloncarz or not doesn’t negate the fact that Chris Collins is an arrogant motherfucker who knowingly parks his able-bodied fucking ass in spots reserved for the handicapped.
At least make a case for him on the merits instead of trashing his opponent with BS. Your blog post is about as credible as elements of the Corwin campaign, which you rightfully and virulently derided.
And, as usual, no one gives a shit what the serial failures of the Ostrowskiite faction of WNY’s political world think about anything, as ably shown by the results for Mssrs. DiPietro and Davis.
If you think it’s ok for an able-bodied person to park in a spot reserved for the handicapped – regardless of the location or circumstances (which have been established here to indicate that Collins’ parking choice was deliberately made to minimize the distance he would have to walk to the parade staging area) – then you’ve knowingly separated yourself from normal, civilized society.
Black Rock Lifer July 7, 2011 at 8:54 am #
@Mike- So by your logic I can park in a handicapped parking space anytime as long as there are more available for those with the legal right to park there. Maybe you should test your theory and see if the police accept your premise.
Harry Hood July 7, 2011 at 9:21 am #
I can’t believe the lengths people will go to defend this arrogant Jackwagon. Great peice BP – its says alot about CC’s lack of character.
King Kong July 7, 2011 at 9:48 am #
Unless I am mistaken, that Enclave is a government vehicle. I understand that he is allowed to use it for campaign purposes, but if he is as serious as he says he is about respecting taxpayer dollars, than why not use his own car when he’s campaigning? Also, let me get this straight, Collins uses a government vehicle, to park his car on a handicapped space i.e. breaking the law. Nice. Even if it isnt a government car, the County freaking Executive should be more astute about following the law as to not delibrately break it. Unbelievable.
Joe – A campaign staffer, volunteer or family member could have done the drop off/pick up, would have been very easy and would have saved him the aggravation of having another highly read Pundit post tearing him to shreds. You cannot cure stupiid.
djzrt July 7, 2011 at 10:10 am #
So he was wrong for parking there! But imo this is a useless expenditure of time and energy. Just like the conservatives that are expending resources on whether the president’s birt certificate is real! WHO CARES? If the people that waste their energy on these kinds of issues would set about to solve the REAL problems in this country, we would all be better off!
Alan Bedenko July 7, 2011 at 10:16 am #
Clearly, @djzrt doesn’t read this site all that often.
Greg July 7, 2011 at 10:15 am #
The guy is a dick, but come on, no one was harmed by this. I can’t stand “letter of the law” behavior. I’m sure no one on here has ever driven over 55mph on the Kensington.
How do you know no one was harmed by this?
How do you know someone was?
It doesn’t matter whether someone was. What matters is the fact that an able-bodied person used a handicapped spot. Those spots are reserved for people with severe disabilities, and just because there’s a free one available doesn’t mean the able-bodied get to use it. Ever. Under any circumstances. No excuses, no exceptions.
And it’s quite obviously not like speeding down the 33 because the purpose of speed limits is to maintain a reasonable traffic flow and promote safety. The purpose of handicapped spots is to ensure that people with severe disabilities have (a) enough room to get in and out of their vehicles; and (b) don’t have to be burdened with a long walk from that vehicle to wherever they’re going. You’ve had several commenters who were there, as well as my update to the post, explain where parade marchers were supposed to park. “The handicapped spots at the school” wasn’t one of the choices.
Chris Collins called Shelly Silver the anti-Christ.
Chris Collins invited Laura Montante Zaepfel to give him a lap dance at the State of the State.
Chris Collins bullied parade organizers into letting him march in the parade in front of the flag and veterans and firefighters, under the idiotic explanation that he takes up a lot of time whilst marching.
Chris Collins parks his vehicle in spots marked for handicapped citizens.
Chris Collins raised your taxes.
Chris Collins has gone out of his way to affect services that benefit the poor, but does nothing to change services that benefit his natural constituency (e.g., golfers).
Sounds like a great & honorable guy. Let’s keep re-electing him.
Harry Hood July 7, 2011 at 10:55 am #
I say this is not a useless exercise – it demonstrates the type of person CC is – one who could give a shit about following the rules that everyone else have to abide by. I’ve seen people park in handicapped spots at the supermarket, etc. and have called the police. I think nothing is more detestable than seeing a non-handicapped person park in a handicapped spot just to save some time. The fact that it’s the CEO of the County blows my mind. He’s an arrogant SOB who will not get my vote come November. Whether someone was “harmed” or whether the lot was closed misses the point.
Bills Fan July 7, 2011 at 11:03 am #
This is an amazing display over someone parking in a handicapped spot at a place that was closed down. Wow.
Chalk Bills Fan as another person touting Chris Collins’ God-given right to say “fuck you” to the disabled.
Chris Charvella July 7, 2011 at 11:50 am #
Seems to me if this was just a negligible thing there wouldn’t be so much debate between people here defending Collins and people defending the law.
In my years of being employed, the best bosses I’ve had were the detail guys. Not micro-managers, but people who will tell you to your face that if you don’t do the little things right (especially when no one is watching you) then you can’t expect to earn any respect.
e.g. If you don’t bother to shine your boots, why should I let you run a shift?
That’s what I see here. Collins is a guy who doesn’t give a damn about the little things. As a matter of fact, he seemingly scoffs at the little things like parking where you’re supposed to and letting the flag proceed you in an Independence Day parade. The little things add up and the sum is character, plain and simple.
Peter G July 7, 2011 at 12:35 pm #
Since military people are never disabled during combat, it’s not like any of them would ever need to utilize a handicapped-parking space at a parade in which military veterans are marching and participating. This is clearly why CC parked there. He used his “Six Sigma Blackbelt” to figure it out. We are all dumb-fucks and he is a super-genius. HAIL CAESAR!! THIS IS MY COUNTY!!
Dave Staba July 7, 2011 at 12:52 pm #
The apologists couldn’t be more wrong. This is exactly the kind of thing that gets politicians beaten. Most voters don’t know, or especially care, whether Collins is doing ‘a good job,’ whatever that means. They want to feel good about the person they’re voting for, or at least less bad than they feel about the other guy. And symbolic moments like this are more about emotion than logic. Spalding Lake may be an affluent base, but it isn’t a numerically large one. Collins won last time because enough non-rich people got all giddy about the ‘run government like a business’ nonsense (and because the Democrats couldn’t have run a weaker candidate if Collins himself had chosen one). A lot of those same voters will respond at least as eagerly to “Chris Collins thinks he’s better than you,” a campaign theme with enough evidence for a lengthy series of Poloncarz ads.
Christi D July 7, 2011 at 1:10 pm #
This man thinks he’s entitled to do what he likes regardless of the law.
I believe he should be ticketed and apologize at the very least.
Can’t wait until he is voted out.
Melania July 7, 2011 at 1:43 pm #
Um…eve if the time says 4:29pm…not sure that would jive with teh shadow created by teh vehicle…maybe the pic was uploaded at 4:29pm or the camera timer is off. (I know mine is..and I can’t seem to figure it out). BUT the shadows would indicate the phoo was taken sometime right aroudn mid day since the shadow is almost directy overhead with teh vehicle…perhaps more evidence that the photo was taken midday, when th parade woudl have been ongoing. just a thought
Tony Fracasso July 7, 2011 at 2:26 pm #
“Alan Bedenko wrote:
It doesn’t matter whether someone was. What matters is the fact that an able-bodied person used a handicapped spot. Those spots are reserved for people with severe disabilities, and just because there’s a free one available doesn’t mean the able-bodied get to use it. Ever. Under any circumstances. No excuses, no exceptions. ”
I gotta say it. I have never seen anyone’s head so far up the democratic donkeys ass.
So Alan? Why didn’t you call the police and demand the car towed?
Because, Tony, I didn’t take the picture.
You are just as at fault as he was. Why didn’t you call the police and demand the car towed? You just took some photos and walked away…
When then the “tipster” walked… either way… the whole thread is stupid.
Why should we vote for marc p. That is what you should be focusing on.
This thread isn’t about “why we should vote for Marc Poloncarz.”
This thread is about the fact that Chris Collins is that non-handicapped asshole who parks in the handicapped spot.
And make no mistake, Tony – if I was there and I saw it, I would have called the cops, and I would have stood there and waited for his sorry ass to get back into that car and asked him why the fuck he was parking in a handicapped spot, and my video camera on my phone would have been rolling.
The whole thread is “stupid” if you think there’s nothing wrong with people who aren’t disabled parking in handicapped spots. There’s a load of people in this thread who agree with that sentiment. I don’t. In fact, I think they’re assholes, too.
Melania at #73 – You’re right! Furthermore, the letters on the license plate looked kerned!
And enter the amateur detectives. Tell me Melania, what is the exact angle of the sun in relation to Newstead, NY at 4:29pm on the 4th of July in a non-Leap Year? Do you work at NASA or are you just a wizard?
Greg July 7, 2011 at 3:05 pm #
I may be just as much of an asshole as Collins, because I don’t always blindly follow the law. If there’s not a single goddamn car anywhere in a lot and you park in a handicapped spot, it truly is a victimless crime. It simply doesn’t matter. No one is affected.
Set the law aside for a moment. (Yeah, I know, I know.) There is no proof that anyone was harmed by his parking there. In fact, the emptiness off to the side seems to indicate no one was. The default position is that no one was harmed. So, my take, it’s victimless, and no big deal. He may be an asshole, but you’d be just as much of an asshole for calling the cops for something like that.
If someone were actually harmed by his action, sure, yeah, call the cops. Who the fuck does he think he is taking a spot away from a disabled person?
It’s all about context.
Off to go smoke some weed. Oh, wait —
This Guy July 7, 2011 at 3:15 pm #
Kramer: I got news for you: handicapped people, they don’t even want to park there! They wanna be treated just like anybody else! That’s why, those spaces are always empty.
George: He’s right! It’s the same thing with the feminists. You know, they want everything to be equal, everything! But when the check comes, where are they?
King Kong July 7, 2011 at 3:19 pm #
Greg – You and your buddies are just proving the point that Collins nor you think that Collins needs to follow the law. Yes, it’s true that people break unjust and dumb laws, but I would hope that most reasonable people would understand that a handicapped parking space is reserved for handicapped people, i.e. the need for a permit. This was either a stunning display of arrogance on his park or a stunning display of stupidity on his campaigns part, or both.
FWIW I am no big fan of Mark Poloncarz. Alan and Chris Charvella know my identity, they respect my wish to remain anonymous as it fits within the rules of this site but without telling you who I am they will tell you that I am no ‘rabid’ Poloncarz supporter, I was hoping that Dennis Gabryszak would enter the race actually. Collins made a bad move and it backfired, talk about a bad news week.
*part
Collins to his staff : “We can never allow this to happen again. Who here has a crippled grandparent I can swipe a hang tag from?”
@ King Kong — no I’m not. As I said, in a full lot, tow his ass away. In this context, not so much.
Let’s not pretend the world is so black and white. (Otherwise we’d all be Rebmann.)
Greg – You’re right, the world is not black and white, I have long made the argument with Pundit and with Chris that the people that they find ‘detestable’ aren’t what they think of them as because I find at times that they try to discuss politics in absolutes. That being said, parking in a handicapped spot when you are not handicapped regardless of lot status is a jerk move. The law defines it and it is defined for good reason, so someone who is handicapped can have immediate access to a building, any building, should they need medical care. This was not a ‘dumb’ law, this is something that was well thought out and has a needed purpose. Also, the fact that there hasn’t been so much as an apology from Collins or even an agreement that he was wrong really is not serving him well.
regardless of lot status
We just disagree. Peace.
Mike In WNY July 7, 2011 at 6:21 pm #
Victimless “crimes” exist for government revenue enhancement.
Mr.F.N. Magoo July 7, 2011 at 7:28 pm #
So until someone else needs the spot, its not a crime? That’s one of the stupidest goddamned excuses I’ve ever heard. “The apartment was empty, your honor. I should be able to live there until and unless someone wants to pay rent for it.”
Until someone determines that handicapped people actually had access to the spot, it remains a victimless crime. If that is proven, then I will agree that parking there was deplorable and merited some form of punishment.
You make my point. If Collins can park in a handicapped space so long as no one needs it, I can live in your rental property until someone needs it.
Magoo and Mike – No one had the Corvette at the local Chevy dealer so I can take it until someone buys it. Until then, as long as I don’t damage it, no harm done. It is a ‘victimless crime’ after all.
The King and Mike – If I pee in your iced tea, unless you find out I did it, its a victimless crime.
Chuck Culhane July 7, 2011 at 8:34 pm #
Absolutely not surprising. He should be made to scrape pigeon caca off every military statue in the city. And then deported.
Jaquandor July 7, 2011 at 8:49 pm #
I think all drunk drivers should, when pulled over, maintain that to that point they’ve been committing a “victimless crime”. After all, they have no victims until they hit somebody! What a stupid argument. Well, that’s wrong, actually — it’s not even an argument. It’s just the knee-jerk “Whatever the government wants must be bad, boogah boogah!” crap that the libertarian-in-residence posts in each and every comments thread here, no matter what Alan’s actual post is about.
As far as Collins’s parking goes, I’d almost buy the “If the parking lot’s closed, it’s OK” notion, except…if the lot is closed, then he pretty much has his pick of the entire lot to park in, right? So why use the disabled spaces? He wants to walk in a parade, but he doesn’t want to walk an extra twenty or thirty feet?
Mr. Effin Magoo, does it make you feel good to erroneously paraphrase what I said? I didn’t making any claims about no one else needing the spot, I questioned whether or not it was available. There is a huge difference between the two.
I might as well address the obtuse apartment and corvette analogies too. They don’t apply. Both of those analogies involve the violation of someone’s property rights and qualify as a “real” crime.
pjf-usrt July 7, 2011 at 9:31 pm #
Out of curiosity I’ll ask the following: 1. Did photographed vehicle have a handicapped tag on the rearview mirror?(Note that no photo angle above shows that) 2. Was Collins with someone who may have needed such a spot? I realize what the answer to these questions probably are. But there’s a lot of flawed analogies and theories in the comments here, so I just added mine.
al l July 7, 2011 at 9:52 pm #
Let Collins park in Fire Lanes too. If there isnt a fire, then its fine. Maybe he could ride Metro rail without a ticket. After all, the train was running anyway. He’s not hurting anyone. Maybe can go in an out door or into a restricted area of the Niagara Falls base. You know what, let him move in to a closed library. I mean, they are just sitting there.
Rules are for Commie hippie pinkos and their law and order agendas.
Alan Bedenko July 7, 2011 at 10:03 pm #
disguested havenot July 8, 2011 at 12:23 am #
all of you who are defending this asshole must be ‘Friends for Collins” phonebankers. He’s a arrogant self centered dick. His way or the highway which has cost us county tax payers hundreds of thousands of dollars. I guess that doesn’t mean that much to you King Collins ass kissers. Drink some more of his kool-aid.Breaking the law is breaking the law, plain and simple.I’m getting sick and tired of his bullying tactics. He can buy the Legislature but he can’t buy my vote.
Bbill July 8, 2011 at 8:13 am #
It’s hard to see how anyone with even the tiniest sense of right and wrong can possibly defend such titanic colossal douchebaggery. You have to be part of his fiefdom to defend this degree of indefensible.
Greg July 8, 2011 at 8:36 am #
What the fuck, people? I can’t stand Collins. But don’t cast me out as part of his fiefdom because I am willing and able to think for myself. Right and wrong are not black and white. Rather, there are many shades of gray.
And, oh yeah, I agree with Mike (what is the world coming to?) — all your analogies are the suck.
And don’t any one of you ever drive 56 mph on the 33 again. Breaking the law _is_ breaking the law.
Yes, but when I drive 56 MPH on the 33, I’m not preventing anyone else from driving 56 on the 33. Also, I’m not legally entitled to drive 56 on the 33 because I have applied for & received special permission to do so.
IOW, it’s your analogy, and Mike’s, that is “the suck”.
Ronald K July 8, 2011 at 9:33 am #
Perhaps his ‘disability’ is having Joe Illuzzi embedded in his rectum?
Starbuck July 8, 2011 at 11:34 am #
It doesn’t affect illegality but regarding whether it was arrogant-assholeness, can we be totally sure it was deliberate rather than an oversight?
The top photo shows three spaces to the left each have a handicap parking sign on a post at a driver’s eye level. It doesn’t look like the space he parked in has that sign in front of it as the others do in that row.
The space does have a big yellow (not blue) marker on the surface. He should’ve seen and obeyed it, so he broke the law and deserved a ticket.
If in bright sun, in a hurry to arrive at the parade, is it possible he saw the three sign posts to the left as he drove up, and to the right saw a space without that sign, then from the elevated minivan didn’t notice the yellow surface marking?
Once even Starbuck when in a hurry accidentally parked in a very poorly (worse than this one) marked handicap spot. I received a very expensive ticket which I didn’t contest because there was a marking although it wasn’t obvious at all.
Just saying it’s a possibility.
Ben July 20, 2011 at 1:11 pm #
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In his work Meteorologica (III.2, 371b33-372a3), Aristote wrote:
Not more than two rainbows occur at the same time. Of two such simultaneous rainbows each is three-coloured, the colours being the same in each and equal in number, but (i) dimmer in the outer bow and (ii) placed in the reverse order.
On 31 August 2010 Zagreb saw some drammatic weather, including heavy nimbostratus clouds which started to tear apart on the western horizon at the sunset. Here are two photographs I made from the window of my study, facing east, which verify Aristotle’s points (i) and(ii). I became aware of these two facts only after reading the quoted passage.
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Unchanging heavens
It is well-know that the Aristotelian conception of the universe, adopted with some adaptations in the Middle Ages, divided the universe in two essentially different parts: the sublunar world of the four elements with their natural places – thus forming the layers of earth, water, air and fire – and the supralunar world of the fifth element, aither. The four elements have different natural motions (earth and water naturally go down, fire and air up), and objects made of them in various mixtures undergo all forms of change, including generation and destruction. The fifth element’s natural motion is circular, and objects made of it – the celestial spheres and stars attached to them – undergo only one sort of change, and that is change of place, or more precisely circular locomotion. Because they are made of the fifth element, the heavens and the stars are completely unchangeable.
In De caelo I.3, 270b12-16, Aristotle wrote: “Throughout all past time, according to the records handed down from generation to generation, nothing is observed to have changed either in the whole of the outermost heaven <viz. the sphere of the fixed stars> or in any of its proper parts.”
Simplicius (6th century AD) comments on this sentence that, according to his knowledge, astronomical records of the Egyptians go back 630.000 years, of and the Babylonians 1.440.000 years. This is surely a gross overstatement, but their records were certainly older than the Greeks’ for several hundred years. “In all that time since the records have been passed on,” writes Simplicius, “there is no mention of anything being different in the heavens than today, either concerning (i) the number of stars, or (ii) their sizes, or (iii) their colours, or (iv) their regular motions” (117.27-30 Heiberg)
Ad (i): The exact number of stars has been proverbial in antiquity as beyond human cognition. In fact, however, there are only some six thousand stars visible to the naked eye in a typical dark night.
One way for the number of stars to change, of course, would be if a new star appears in the sky. It is well-know that Tycho Brahe observed a new star in November 1572 (SN 1572) and he described it in his 1573 treatise De stella nova. He argued that it showed no daily parallax against the background of the fixed stars, which means that it cannot be a sublunar phenomenon. Tycho concluded that the traditional view of the heavens as unchangeable cannot be correct. This observation was instrumental in overthrowing the traditional view in early modern age.
Before Tycho, we have records of two more new star observations in the West, both made by Islamic astronomers: in 1054 (SN 1054) and in 1006 (SN 1006). Weren’t there any observable supernovas in antiquity? The earliest positively recorded supernova was in 185 AD (SN 185), viewed by Chinese astronomers in the southern sky. Other than that, we have a report that Hipparchus, the greatest observational astronomer of antiquity, saw a “new star” in 134 BC. Pliny wrote in his monumental work Natural History, Book II.95: “Hipparchus before-mentioned, who can never be sufficiently praised, no one having done more to prove that man is related to the stars and that our souls are a part of heaven, detected a new star that came into existence during his lifetime; the movement of this star in its line of radiance led him to wonder whether this was a frequent occurrence, whether the stars that we think to be fixed are also in motion; and consequently he did a bold thing, that would be reprehensible even for God – he dared to schedule the stars for posterity, and tick off the heavenly bodies by name in a list, devising machinery by means of which to indicate their several positions and magnitudes, in order that from that time onward it might be possible easily to discern not only whether stars perish and are born, but whether some are in transit and in motion, and also whether they increase and decrease in magnitude.” However, the stella nova observed by Hipparchus seems to have been a comet, given that Hipparchus mentions its proper motion, and comets were deemed to be sublunar phenomena in Aristotle’s theory (cf. J. K. Fotheringham). This explains Simplicius’ confident claim that there has been no record of change in the number of stars. In any case, much like Charles Messier eighteen hundred years later, with his catalogue of nebulae not to be confused with comets, Hipparchus made a star atlas so that any new stars or proper motions of stars can be more easily detected.
Ad (ii): The size (megethos) of stars must refer to their brightness. And what is truly striking is that ancient and medieval astronomers failed to observe variable stars, that is stars of changing brightness. There are tens of stars in the northern sky whose variations are easily detectable with the naked eye. Of course, one needs to know where to look, but more importantly – one needs to be open to the idea that variations are possible, and that seems to be something that ancient and medieval astronomers lacked. Even if they did observe a variation in brightness, they would probably dismiss it as a result of atmoshperic changes. This is a nice example of theory not only guiding observation, but also obstructing it.
Ad (iii): The ancients were well aware of different colours of stars and planets, but there is no record – to my knowledge – that they ever observed variation in their colour. However, it would be extremely difficult to observe such a variation without a spectrograph.
Ad (iv): Famously, Hipparchus discovered the precession of the equinoxes, the slow movement of the equinoctial points from east to west among the stars along the ecliptic, which we know today is due to the wobble of the Earth’s axis. Would that not be a counterexample to Simplicius’ claim that there has been no record of any change in the regular motion of stars? Perhaps not, if the precession of the equinoxes can be explained as another regular motion. However, this could only be a regular motion of the sphere of the fixed stars, and I am not aware that anyone in antiquity entertained the idea that the sphere of the fixed stars undergoes any other than the diurnal motion.
Perhaps someone can help me with this. (1) How did ancient astronomers and philosophers explain the precession of the equinoxes? (2) How come that Simplicius could affirm point (iv) in the light of Hipparchus’ discovery of the precession? Needless to say, other comments are most welcome.
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Rohingya crisis: The maternity ward that feels like an ER
In the makeshift refugee settlements in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, many Rohingya women give birth in their tents, with little access to medical care. Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has set-up a new maternity ward in Kutupalong, which will be able to withstand the extreme weather the area can experience. Natasha Lewer blogs for us…
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A dazed woman sits on a green bed. She looks as if she has just run a marathon, but with none of the euphoria. She has just given birth to a 4.1-kg boy (around nine pounds) – a record weight for this delivery room. A midwife places the newborn baby in her arms and she puts the child to her breast.
“In other countries where I’ve worked with MSF, women in the maternity ward visit with those in neighbouring beds, but not so much here,” says Yvette, who manages activities in the maternity ward in MSF’s Kutupalong hospital, just across the road from the entrance to what is now the biggest refugee encampment in the world.
The periphery of the Kutupalong refugee settlement, photographed in April 2018. Photo: Pablo Tosco/Angular
“Here they keep to themselves, cover their heads or faces with scarves and are unusually quiet.”
This young woman is in the minority in opting to give birth at hospital, as it is thought that about four in five Rohingya women in Kutupalong currently give birth at home.
“I’m a big fan of home deliveries,” says Yvette, who comes from the American northwest, “but in this case, conditions at home are not ideal.”
Home for most of the refugees in Kutupalong, as well as the other makeshift camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar region, is a loosely woven bamboo hut with an earth floor and a roof of tarpaulin or ragged polythene. Water has to be hauled from the nearest pump, and the communal latrines are often overflowing.
“It’s not a nice place to live, let alone to labour and deliver in,” says Yvette.
Complicated deliveries
For those women delivering at home, options are limited if something goes wrong.
At night the camps are unlit and the steep, narrow paths are slippery underfoot. Precarious bridges pass high across swamps and muddy streams. With few roads in the congested camps, an ambulance ride involves perching on a plastic chair strapped to two bamboo poles carried on the shoulders of two wiry youths.
Women with complications in labour usually stay where they are at night.
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“By the next day, often they are in really rough shape,” says Yvette, “or they may bleed at home for days and then arrive at the clinic with sepsis.”
“We also receive women after long labours at home when the delivery of the baby has become obstructed,” says Yvette.
This can result from women taking synthetic oxytocin to induce or speed up labour at home. Readily available within the camps, oxytocin can backfire when taken in the wrong doses, causing life-threatening maternal complications, foetal death or fistulas.
Uncomplicated births are the exception in Kutupalong hospital, rather than the rule.
“It’s rare that we see a normal delivery here,” says Yvette. “Generally I only see critical cases – this feels more like an emergency room than a normal delivery room.”
Three of Yvette’s team of midwives, including Roksana, work exclusively with survivors of sexual violence.
Roksana oversees a team of 50 Rohingya volunteers – mostly young women in their late teens – who go from house to house in the camps, letting girls and women know that medical and psychological assistance is available for sexual violence survivors.
A phone hotline set up by MSF also provides information about where to go for help.
The stigma associated with sexual violence means that survivors run the risk of rejection by the community if their experiences are made public. For protection, they are given a confidential password and a card with a special symbol to identify themselves to MSF’s medical staff.
“When the influx started, lots of people came to us saying: ‘I was raped by the military or Rakhine people – what can I do?’” says Roksana.
Almost nine months after the latest violence in Myanmar, rape survivors are still coming forward.
“They still come every day,” says Roksana.
“Often they don’t want to share their stories at first, and I have to encourage them to talk. I give them psychological first aid. I tell them: ‘It’s not your fault, don’t be afraid, we’re here to help you.’”
The help on offer includes mental health support, medical assistance and referrals to specialist agencies, where necessary.
Organisations offering specialised services play an important role in helping women and girls who are pregnant from rape find a safe and secret place to spend the last months before giving birth at MSF’s hospital.
If the mother is unable or unwilling to keep the baby, she may also need help finding foster parents.
Other rape survivors choose to terminate their pregnancies out of desperation – often unsafely and at risk to their lives. Medication to induce abortions is easy to get hold of in the camps, but usually without instructions for its use.
“Used in the right way, these drugs are the safest option,” says Yvette.
“Used in the wrong way, they pose risks of heavy blood loss and severe infection. We’ve seen maternal deaths following unsafe abortion practices.”
The old maternity ward in Kutupalong, crowded with beds and divided by rickety bamboo partitions, offered little privacy for women and girls in such desperate circumstances.
But MSF’s brand-new maternity centre next door, with private rooms for rape survivors, allows them the dignity of being cared for in confidence, without being overheard or identified.
The new maternity centre, sturdily built of concrete, metal and bricks, will also be able to stand up to extreme weather – an important consideration in a region lashed by monsoon rains and cyclones. It is part of an ambitious plan to reconstruct MSF’s entire hospital in response to the medical needs of both the refugees and the local community.
Born into an uncertain future
Two days later, after 14 weeks of frenzied construction, the new maternity ward is ready.
The paint is fresh, the floor tiles gleam, the air conditioner in the delivery room hums. The midwives have decorated the wards with paper flowers and balloons; dressed in spotless pink shalwar kameezes, they hand round cakes and sweets to the gathered hospital staff.
I am keen to talk to one of the expectant or new mothers, looking disorientated in the bright space. But I hold back.
Statistically, of the 10 beds currently occupied, five women are here because of medical emergencies – eclampsia, post-partum haemorrhage, sepsis. Four women are here because they were raped. Just one of these 10 women is likely to have a normal delivery.
Even if I do chance upon a contented mother who is prepared to share her story, how can I ask about her hopes for her child?
A mother and young child in Kutupalong refugee camp. Photo: Sara Creta/MSF
Since last year, the births of Rohingya babies in Bangladesh have not been registered. The Rohingya children born here will have no birth certificates, no refugee status, no citizens’ rights. They will have no formal education and no employment opportunities. Their freedom of movement will end at the checkpoint just north of the camps. And with the persecution of the Rohingya continuing in Myanmar, they will have no chance to return home.
In these circumstances, how can I possibly ask about their future?
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The History of WAN
John Dickey
Very good expensive WANs have moved from rock solid service on point-to-point leased circuits that carried real regulatory weight and consequences for reliability to less reliable packet switch technologies with QoS but with substantially weaker SLAs and consequences for failure to meet the SLA. IPSec/SSL VPNs over broadband are good for some data users but the broadband connections they use at remote offices are via providers and networks that have issues with network availability, are frequently oversubscribed, and have unpredictable performance for latency, loss, and jitter. These networks are not reliable enough on their own for most business quality voice and mission critical data needs.
The availability and the amount of bandwidth of broadband have continued expand while the cost per bit continues to be lower. Network applications and users have continued to evolve to be more forgiving of less “than a pin drop” quality service but are ever more demanding for more bandwidth. And they want their access to the internet and the cloud on their own terms with their own devices but on your constrained WAN budget.
The IT team is held accountable to the company and the users for its own SLA. In the end, providing for reliable, cost effective WAN services to the enterprise and end users and has shifted from the service provider’s problem to the enterprise IT team themselves. The burden has grown and the odds are less in your favor. How can we change those odds so the enterprise has a higher probable solution for success while still containing costs and improving user access to ever more bandwidth?
Expensive, deterministic technology evolves to redundant, inexpensive, highly probabilistic technology
A pendulum consistently swings in the world of technology evolution. Technology typically starts in its first generation as a highly engineered, expensive, deterministic solution. Soon, as the market place evolves with greater competition, the need for cost reductions pushes the pendulum to a much more inexpensive solution that is less deterministic and more probabilistic in nature. The initial low cost solution is frequently too unreliable for many mission critical uses and so the market is driven to improve the odds. As the market continues to mature, the technology is enhanced to swing back (retrograde) to at a higher probabilistic solution where the likelihood of failure is less but the economic cost still at a reasonable.
When we use the term deterministic, the meaning is that the outcome of the technology’s use is predestined prior to its use. There is little to no variability or chance that it will work differently than its predetermined outcome. When we use the term probabilistic technology, the meaning is that the outcome is not entirely determined prior to its use. There exists some chance that the technology may not perform well and the outcome is only really determined by empirically observing its actual use (heuristic). Low probabilistic technology is a relative measure that there exists a substantial chance the technology may not perform well enough for its needed typical use. Higher probabilistic technology is relative measure where the typical use of the technology has a very high chance of being satisfactory to most typical use cases.
Why, you may be wondering, would anybody not want to use deterministic technology at all times? The simple answer is: Because probabilistic technology is almost always very much less expensive and therefore more plentiful than expensive deterministic technology. When a probabilistic cheap alternative is developed it is able to be utilized by more consumers resulting in a rapidly expanding market. The probabilistic technology is cheap but the chance of it performing reliably enough is too low for many use cases that evolved in the more deterministic time prior. By utilizing techniques, such as redundancies and greater optimizing for the intended typical use cases, the chances of successful outcomes with the probabilistic technology may be enhanced to be more acceptable for the greater market. This improvement in the probability of success does come at some additional incremental costs but the cost is significantly less than the prior available deterministic alternative.
Let’s look at a few non networking historical examples:
Mainframes were/are expensive. Today they can cost from a hundred thousand dollars to millions of dollars per unit. Because of the expense and the criticality of their function to the users they were/are highly engineered for up time and deterministic outcomes. Down time is measured in seconds per year.
With the arrival of the microprocessor based personal computer the client/server world was born. PCs, even in the first generation, were relatively cheap at a few thousand dollars each. Many companies moved to use the PC platforms as cheap alternatives to expensive mainframes. Soon it became evident that an off the shelf PC acting as a server was not up to the task for most enterprise users. Typical PCs running server software were not reliable enough for mission critical use. They were cheap but they failed far too often. So enhancements were made to increase the redundancies and robustness within the server, at some higher incremental cost, to increase probability of solution being reliable. To cite a few, redundant array of inexpensive hard drives (RAID) were introduced, redundant power supplies, battery backup systems were added, the central processors, buses and memories (ECC) were improved for reliability. These enhancements came at some additional costs but, even with these additions, the costs of the higher probabilistic servers were substantially less than the prior mainframe deterministic equivalent. Mainframes still exist and are used for many of our everyday mission critical needs but the microprocessor servers are a permanent player in the marketplace.
Another example is computer memories. In the 1980s, the race was on to increase the speed of all computer memories. The reason was that the CPU speeds had advanced beyond the rate that the memories could feed them data. The CPUs were stalling waiting for the memories to provide data to process. Memories were pushing the limits of physics and budgets. This resulted in very expensive Static RAM (SRAM) technology. Having 10 nanosecond access SRAMs was a very deterministic approach to computer processing but it came at great expense. The cost per unit of SRAM is a thousand or more times per unit as compared to Dynamic RAM (DRAM). The dedicated SRAMs worked very well and were deterministic. It was possible to do mathematical static modeling of algorithms and pre determine the performance but the costs were exorbitant and prohibitive for anything but very special use cases.
The cheaper probabilistic approach was to implement a CPU cache. Cache methods apply a limited amount of SRAMs as fast access fetch storage over top of much cheaper and slower DRAM. That said, processor caches are not deterministic. There are some algorithms, for example memory scans, that run worse in a CPU with memory caches than if the CPU had no caches at all, but for typical use cases, caches provide a decent high probability that the data the CPU needs will be there when it is required without stalling the CPU for long durations. Larger caches further increase the probability of data being ready in Cache with fewer CPU stalls as a result. First implementations of cache on Intel computers used separate external SRAMs to the CPU. Later the cache was integrated into the CPU to minimize I/O bus width and latency. When cache misses where considered still too costly, a second tier of cache was added. This L2 cache was typically bigger than the L1 cache but provided a second level of probabilistic tech that reduced potential for misses for the L1 and L2. L2 caches also reduced the consequence of missing the L1 cache, since the memory requests could be frequently served from the lower latency L2 cache as compared to the much slower DRAM. For many processors, the L2 cache was eventually added into the CPU die as well.
So the pattern applies again. Deterministic costly technology is replaced with cheaper intelligent probabilistic technology using redundancy and optimization techniques.
The same pattern can be seen with DASDs to NAS Appliances, TCP/IP networks over SNA, Web browsing over 3270/VT100 terminals, Virtual Machines over dedicated servers, cloud over data centers, quality of digital mobile phones over analog mobile phones, WAN optimization over local site file servers, remote desktop (RDI) over local PCs, and many more instances.
Interesting, maybe, but what does this have to do with my WANs?
The evolution of private WANs: LANs and WANs converge
Plain, old, slow, regulated, expensive but quality WAN service
In the mid to late 1970s and 1980s, enterprises created wide area networks with interconnecting sets of dedicated leased circuits using T1s and later T3s. These Time Division Multiplex (TDM) point to point leased circuits were originally developed for digital voice (telecom) but served reasonably well for data communication (datacom). The circuits were deterministic but expensive per bit. The payloads were fixed and cells were the rule since the bandwidth was low and large frames could potentially cause substantial voice blocking and jitter. What we now refer to as plain old telephone service (POTS) provided by phone switch telephone network providers (PSTN) is remembered for its high quality voice and data services over long distances. For example, Sprint marketed the quality of their long distance voice service with the ability to audibly hear a pin drop over long distances phone calls. The quality of the network was supported end to end. If you sent a packet into the network at one side, it was coming out the other side with extremely high confidence. You paid for a TDM time slot in the network and you got it if you needed to use it. On the other hand if you did not need to use the network, you paid for it anyway. “Use it or lose it” was the arrangement. This and others factors resulted in the networks being reliable but, by today’s standards, relatively expensive.
Enterprise shift from deterministic, hierarchical, centralized mainframe systems to decentralize, fast, inexpensive probabilistic LAN networks
Meanwhile at the enterprise, in the 1980s- 1990s the enterprise data centers were evolving away from hub and spoke mainframe centric datacom networks toward local area networks (LANs) which utilized common shared network infrastructure with much higher speeds and much lower cost per bit. The economy of collectively using shared resources started driving a new generation of applications and data movement models such as client server and peer to peer. Technologies such as CDMA, Ethernet, LAN hubs, and LAN switches demonstrated that, for most uses, probabilistic LAN technology was good enough for many enterprises’ needs in terms of quality and the cost were low enough where they could afford to provide it to more user and for more diverse uses.
CoS/QoS improves probability, but more bandwidth is easier
Local area network technologies were enhanced to make them relatively higher probabilistic. Methods such as token passing, priority queue (PQ) tagging and non-blocking layer 2 switches were developed. For many enterprises, most local area networks issues of low quality service on the network could be dealt with the simple approach of just adding more bandwidth to eliminate congestion points. In the 1990s, it was common for LAN technology to grow in capacity by 10 times every few years. Local area networks were able to increase in speed more rapidly, as compared to wide area networks, because the shorter distances permitted the use of cheaper high speed copper technologies that are not viable over the longer haul wide area networks.
LAN economics and WAN worlds converge, WANs become more probabilistic
In the 90s and early 2000s, the worlds of enterprise telecom wide areas networks and datacom local area networks started to converge with the emergence of CLEC and the ending of the days of regulation. The change was accelerated by the wide adoption of the Internet Protocol (IPv4) as the de facto standard for all networks LAN or WAN for OSI layer 3 and up over alternatives such as SNA, IPX, OSI, and other alternatives. New packet switched WAN technologies were developed, such as ATM, SMDS, Frame Relay, and eventually MPLS that were friendlier to variable packet sizes and higher speed with less cost per bit but are probabilistic as compared to the deterministic leased circuit services used prior.
The capacity of the service providers access points greatly increased by the adoption of fiber service within provider’s infrastructure. These speed improvements were brought to some enterprises customer premises where customers could gain access to OC3 (155 Mbps), OC12 (633 Mbps) and OC24 (2.4 Gbps) but the cost of these services to the enterprises was very high as compared to the equivalent speed improvements in available to LAN. The availability of these high speed optical circuits was limited to a small set of geographic locations. At the remote offices the WANs stayed slow and expensive.
But at least they have Service Level Agreements…Or did they?
(Note to the international reader: In this section we refered to historical patterns as they pertain to the United States market. Many of these same patterns may have or may not have happened in other national markets. The trends notes are relevant to the overall evolution of networking and the underlying approach to technology.)
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Mnangagwa's military changes fuel fears of internal strife
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PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)'s daring manoeuvres to change and redeploy critical personnel and commanders in strategic military units in a major shake-up has triggered fears of purges among troops that staged the 2017 coup and facilitated his dramatic rise to power, it emerged this week.
Informed security sources say Mnangagwa's move is designed and calculated to contain and diminish his ambitious co-deputy retired Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) commander
General Constantino Chiwenga's influence in the military and politics.
Although Chiwenga is ailing, he remains a force to reckon with in Zimbabwean politics, given his role in Mnangagwa's ouster of former president Robert Mugabe who turned 95 yesterday.
Photos of Mugabe with his family released on social media yesterday showed him looking elderly and frail.
Sources say since coming to power, Mnangagwa has been thinking about how to neutralise Chiwenga and his military machine that toppled Mugabe to reduce the risk of another coup.
Chiwenga has been in India of late for medical reasons, although he is expected back home anytime, or has returned. Close family members indicated he was back or on his way home, but no official confirmation could be obtained.
Presidential spokesman George Charamba yesterday said he would only comment on the issue today. Upon his return, Chiwenga will fly into the redeployments storm within the security forces.
Last month while Mnangagwa was visiting Russia and former Soviet republics in Eastern Europe amid a blizzard of violent social protests and a bloody military backlash, the country was abuzz with stories and reports of an imminent coup. Mnangagwa's allies publicly spoke about a plot against him, with some hinting on impeachment intrigue.
As a result of the volatile political and military dynamics in the current state of flux, Mnangagwa had to quickly but carefully manoeuvre to take steps to checkmate
Chiwenga, coup-proof his regime and consolidate power.
Information obtained by the Zimbabwe Independent from security sources shows apart from making bold changes in the military command element, Mnangagwa also moved to redeploy personnel in the Presidential Guard and Mechanised Brigade where senior commanders and troops were shifted or removed.
The two brigades played a key role in the coup which catapulted Mnangagwa to power in November 2017.
Senior commanders retired on Monday pending diplomatic reassignments include Major-General Anselem Sanyatwe, who was commander of the Presidential Guard; former Zimbabwe
National Army (ZNA) chief-of-staff (administration) Douglas Nyikayaramba, chief-of-staff responsible for service personnel and logistics, Major-General Martin Chedondo, and Air Vice-Marshal Sheba Shumbayawonda.
Sources told the Independent this week that besides the four commanders, there have been further massive movements, particularly in the Presidential Guard.
The Presidential Guard is an elite force which is more politically oriented as it protects the head of state. It ranks among other elite forces such as the commando and parachute regiments and the special air services. But unlike the other brigades, it is specially trained to fight in built-up areas and its soldiers receive special training in urban warfare as a reaction force.
The brigade, specifically in charge of securing Mnangagwa, state installations and Harare's central business district, has two battalions: One Presidential Guard Infantry
Battalion at Josiah Magama Tongogara Barracks (formerly KGVI Barracks) and Two Presidential Guard Infantry Battalion located in Dzivaresekwa suburb in Harare.
Before the coup, the One Presidential Guard, also responsible for securing State House, was under the command of Colonel Never Jones Makuyana, while the Dzivaresekwa battalion was commanded by Colonel Samson Murombo.
Mnangagwa has since ringed in changes in the unit, removing Makuyana and replacing him with Murombo. Makuyana was initially re-assigned to be Mnangagwa's aide-de-camp before being shifted again recently. Air Force of Zimbabwe personnel has been deployed to be part of Mnangagwa's close security unit instead of the "yellow berets".
According to the sources, Mnangagwa recently promoted Regis Mangezi from the rank of lieutenant-colonel to colonel before reassigning him to be in charge of the Dzivaresekwa battalion.
Sources said there was great disquiet among top commanders when Murombo, upon assuming his new role, made the unprecedented decision of moving his entire battalion from Dzivaresekwa to Tongogara barracks.
Sources said senior commanders raised the red flag over the massive and unusual move thinking it was his personal decision.
They, however, later discovered that he did so on the orders of Mnangagwa, ZDF commander-in-chief.
As if these moves were not alarming enough, the sources said, there came manoeuvres around Mnangagwa when Makuyana was two weeks ago removed as presidential aide-de-camp
alongside Colonel Solomon Siziba and Colonel Kampira.
They were replaced by Air Force of Zimbabwe officers who have been seen providing Mnangagwa's close security at public events in recent days.
Sources further said Sanyatwe will be replaced as the overall Presidential Guard commander by Brigadier-General Fidelis Mhonda, who has until now been in charge of the 2 Brigade in Harare. It was not immediately clear who will fill the 2 Brigade vacancy.
In addition to the massive movements in the Presidential Guard, there have also been changes in the Mechanised Brigade, an army unit in charge of the national armoury.
Military insiders and analysts see the changes as part of Mnangagwa's strategy to put Chiwenga into checkmate, consolidate power and coup-proof himself. It also raises the spectre of further militarisation of politics by flooding the diplomatic service with military staff instead of security sector reforms to limit military influence in civilian affairs and improve civil-military relations.
A senior security officer told the Independent that Mnangagwa was in a dilemma over how to handle Chiwenga and his military allies.
"The central problem facing Mnangagwa and the Chiwenga-military alliance is that, on one hand, the president is trying to consolidate power at the expense of Chiwenga and his military allies, while Chiwenga and the army would want to deter such opportunistic behaviour by threatening a reaction behind-the-scenes," the officer said.
"Mnangagwa had to first consider and decide whether to take any action that would shift the balance of power in his favour. The Chiwenga-military alliance in turn would then decide whether to launch a reaction or retreat.
"The president's actions will be effective in curtailing the military's power if the army retreats in response to his manoeuvres. Crucially, the power relations between Mnangagwa and the Chiwenga-military alliance will in turn define the likely outcome of the ongoing brinkmanship.
"What I'm saying is Mnangagwa's actions will diminish the military's ability to successfully react or organise a coup (which is coup-proofing). More fundamentally, the balance of power between the Mnangagwa and Chiwenga will determine how this ends. A decrease in the possibility of a successful coup resulting from Mnangagwa's changes will increase his leverage, while reducing Chiwenga's influence and prospects."
Mnangagwa is fighting a deadly turf war with Chiwenga, who was ZDF commander from 2004 up to the time of the 2017 coup.
Chiwenga and his military allies who are now being purged executed the coup after Mnangagwa was fired by Mugabe. Mnangagwa fled to Pretoria, South Africa, at the time for
refugee.
As first reported by the Independent, Mnangagwa and Chiwenga are involved in a political war of attrition amid dangerous brinkmanship rocking local politics.
The chaotic Zanu-PF primaries before the 2018 general election, the defeat of Mnangagwa's key allies in the general elections, the Bulawayo grenade explosion and the bloody post-election violence — including the turmoil and killings last month — are said to have become a deadly cocktail fuelling tensions between the two coup protagonists.
Before the elections, Mnangagwa publicly spoke about an inside plot to impeach him after the polls. During the campaigns, Mnangagwa and Chiwenga appeared like rivals instead of allies, insiders said.
Mnangagwa also spoke about an attempted assassination after the Bulawayo explosion before the elections which killed two security aides and injured many. He did not say who was behind the attack.
Although Mnangagwa might have some newfound authority following his disputed narrow election victory last July which gave him the people's mandate, Chiwenga remains a thorn in the flesh for the president who has tried to downplay their rivalry by recently saying in public there was no problem between them.
Insiders say initially the coup deal was that Mnangagwa would come in as a civilian face of government and serve one term, leaving power to Chiwenga.
However, Mnangagwa's repeated talk of two terms is said to have widened the rift between the two. There were also differences on the transitional arrangement, critical appointments, business deals, the direction of the administration and now purges, especially in cabinet and the security sector, sources say
"What you should ask is under what conditions do political leaders adopt coup-proofing strategies? They don't just take such moves for no reason," the senior officer said.
"It is well-known in military circles and there is a broad consensus that political leaders who face a high risk of a coup tend to intervene in the military to coup-proof the regime.
So what is happening now is not unusual; yet it is telling and revealing. Mnangagwa is doing what he has got to do, but don't overlook the possibility that his actions might trigger a reaction."
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$55 Billion of PE Funds Available for Investment on Palico
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Palico's Online Marketplace Revolutionizes Private Equity Fundraising
The value of investable funds on Palico has grown nearly threefold in a year to $55 billion. The four-year-old startup has fundamentally altered how private equity managers raise money and the way investors shop for opportunities.
November 17, 2016 – Using cutting edge algorithms that match the investment priorities of investors with appropriate funds, Palico has changed the way private equity capital is raised.
From desktops and smart devices, some 1,500 accredited investors, or approximately 50 percent of the world’s active limited partners, now use Palico’s marketplace to find new private equity funds. Private equity fund managers understand the compelling proposition of instantly reaching an unprecedented number of accredited investors through the net: Over the last year, the total value of investable fund opportunities on Palico has grown to $55 billion from $19 billion.
“Given private equity’s expansion across asset classes and regions over the last decade, it’s no longer possible to navigate PE only through existing personal relationships, or simply via the old face-to-face meeting process,” says Antoine Drean, founder and chief executive of Palico. “There’s an acute need in this diverse fundraising environment for more efficient connections. That’s why Palico’s innovative online marketplace is capturing an ever larger share of private equity fundraising, fundamentally altering how investors and managers interact.”
In addition to its rapidly expanding fundraising opportunities, Palico’s new Secondaries Match platform, though only launched on September 20, already lists private equity fund stakes worth over $100 million. Using the same type of sophisticated algorithms as Palico’s primary marketplace, Secondaries Match offers radically simplified matching for buyers and sellers that can be used with or without the aid of intermediaries such as placement agents and gatekeepers.
ABOUT PALICO - Palico is the first global online marketplace for the private equity fund community. There are currently over $55 billion in investable opportunities on Palico, covering primaries, secondaries, and co-investments. Since establishing itself as a fintech pioneer in 2012, 35,000 professionals representing Limited Partners, General Partners, and Service Providers in more than 140 countries have joined Palico. Accredited LPs and GPs from around the world interact and exchange restricted private placement information in Palico’s secure marketplace, all with the goal of concluding transactions. Every member has access to Palico’s growing assortment of PE tools for refining investment hypotheses, analyzing opportunities, and finding new leads. Whether members connect over first-time funds, funds facing final close, co-investments or secondaries, Palico makes it easier to transact. Investors can join Palico at www.palico.com.
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Catastrophe Gets 2 Season Renewal for Amazon; Lucille Ball Comedy Festival Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Amazon announced it has greenlit two additional seasons of the critically-acclaimed comedy series, Catastrophe. Written by and starring Rob Delaney (Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.) and Sharon Horgan (Pulling), Catastrophe, produced by Avalon Television, with co-producers Birdbath Productions and Merman, is a comedy following an Irish woman and an American man who, after making a bloody mess as they struggled to fall in love in London, have embarked on a series of best-attempts to clear it up and generally do the right thing. The highly anticipated third season of Catastrophe is scheduled to premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in the US in 2017, and the fourth season is expected to premiere in 2018.
The entire first and second seasons of Catastrophe are now available on Prime Video. In the second season of the show, the stakes are higher as we rejoin the now married Sharon and Rob who are struggling to stay in love-and lust-while taking their trademark mayhem into parenthood. A monstrous family (Carrie Fisher, Star Wars) and crazy friends (Ashley Jensen, Ugly Betty), also seem hell-bent on ensuring that whatever new life-journey Rob and Sharon embark on will be anything but simple. With times having changed for our turbulent lovers, and with their new arrival back home; at the start of the season we rejoin the chaos as they decide on an ill-considered party to get the introductions complete in one hit. Unfortunately for Sharon, the gathering coincides with a visit from Rob's eBay obsessed (and "card-carrying sadist") mom, a disturbing revelation about her father's health and an unfortunate incident with the family dog.
National Comedy Center, Inc., the cultural institution developing the first national visitor experience dedicated entirely to the celebration of comedy, celebrates the 25th anniversary of its annual Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, August 4–7, in Lucille Ball's hometown of Jamestown, NY. The Center broke ground last year for its forthcoming museum of comedy, which will celebrate the art form's past, present and future in all its forms. Headlining this year's festival is Daily Show host Trevor Noah, the "king of the rant" Lewis Black, and one of this country's premier comedians, Brian Regan. Festival highlights also include a discussion with the Farrelly Brothers and the critically-acclaimed Story Pirates kids-comedy troupe. Additional tribute programming planned include a roundtable discussion with daughters Kitty Bruce, Rain Pryor and Kelly Carlin, of the comedy legends Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and George Carlin.
The festival features more than 50 events at a dozen venues throughout Jamestown including three late night showcases, a Stand-Up Showcase free to members of the military past and present, and a special exhibition in honor of the 65th anniversary of I Love Lucy. Tickets can be purchased at www.lucycomedyfest.com or by calling the festival box office at 716.484.0800. Lewis Black first came to the festival in 1991 and returns with his iconic 'comedic yelling and finger pointing' act on August 4, Trevor Noah will perform his acclaimed stand-up act on August 5, and coming off making history as the first comedian to perform a live Comedy Central special broadcast from Radio City Music Hall, Brian Regan will perform on August 6. Kliph Nesteroff, author of The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy, will moderate a discussion with the Farrelly Brothers. Additionally, Bobby and Peter Farrelly will be bringing the iconic Mutt Cuts van from Dumb and Dumber to this year's annual festival, which will then be incorporated into the future exhibit experience at the National Comedy Center.
The National Comedy Center, a non-profit cultural institution, recently announced the acquisition of the George Carlin Archives for its collection. The Center is a $50 million project funded by public-private partnership and to date has been awarded more than $3.5 million from New York State, Empire State Development and I Love NY™. Design of the immersive, interactive visitor experience has been provided by renowned creative firm Jack Rouse Associates and interactive specialist Local Projects, who was recently awarded a Cannes International Creativity award for its work on the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The National Comedy Center, Inc. embodies Lucille Ball's vision for her hometown of Jamestown to become a destination for the celebration of all of the comedic arts. The organization operates the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum, and for the last 25 years has produced the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival where performers included Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, Joan Rivers, Ray Romano, Ellen DeGeneres, Bob Newhart, Paula Poundstone, The Smothers Brothers and 100 plus other comedic artists.
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Live Poll: Reliable Rustic Robby at 63
Robby the Robot Born July 1st 1955 (63 Years Old) has had an interesting life in pictures. As a well recognized prop, his longevity as an actor has covered six decades. He has worked with Hollywood's "A" List Actors such as Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Lawford, Bob Denver, Anne Francis, Peter Falk, & Lynda Carter just to name a few. The consummate professional he was, Robby did all his own stunts, and never used stand ins. Thought he was stood in a lot! This probably lead to his Multiple Personality disorder! Of the 3 choices, what do you believe lies ahead for our Rustic Robot?
Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/45lvSVpsJgM/
As you can see here, Robbie is going over his lines with co-star Anne Francis on the set of Forbidden Planet (1956)
If this whole thing does not make you smile, there is no hope left.
Ed Jones (XLIX)
Stephen N Russell
#3: better sensors, backpack arm, toolkit, multi lingual voice mode, 3D scanning, IR,Night Vision & carries 800 ft of rope/cable & piton gun & has AI
SNR a revamped Poll with a 4th choice based off your suggestion
Old Robots never die.... they just fade away....and get "Upgrades" (MacArthur kinda)
I'd go for a built in Boba Fett EE-3 Carbine Rifle Blaster
Oh, he better not walk like C3PO
Breumaster
27 acting credits is a good score for a robot. :) I like it.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1119475/?ref_=nv_sr_1
And he probably Is not as wooden as the late Jack Webb in delivering lines either.
His Starmeter is up this week!
+1853 Spots
Not bad for an actor of his age. (63)
Hey Girls, and the recently divorced, Robbies' still a Bachelor, AND a Virgin!!!!
Note to Robbie....Dude ya need a Facebook Page!
Or hows this: Robbie Redesign Contest,: Have CG artists update Robbie, Fan made Robbie models,
Robbie in a robotics contest, Robbie does cameo in some TV show, Build Robbie Kit?
So much Fun & use off the shelf Tech to cut costs. nationwide contest.
The Bachelor; Robot Edition... TV
Predator vs. Robbie.... Movie
Terminator 1/2 a Prequel..... Movie
Robnado.... TV Movie Sci Fi Network
Star Robbie II.. Attack of the Clunes! (You know the Doc Guy!)
Robbie Hood.. Prince of Vader Movie
Robbie and Barbie action figures
Nikolay Yeriomin (Mykola Yeromin), Champion
Ah, I just love when props, characters and abstract entities have their own IMDb pages due to being credited. The first name I ever added on IMDb was a case like that (uncredited listing was added by someone later and is... odd, I don't know what to make of it) and I often has cases like that in my own production. Perhaps most noticeable is this eldritch abomination which is in some way mentioned in most of my productions (at times credited) and works as a good luck charm.
So ??
Keep as is
How about Fred the cockatoo from The Beretta TV program. He just turned 100 years old.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/lifestyle/people/sdut-escaped-carlsbad-cockatoo-has-long-history...
Who knew a cockatoo could live to 100? Fred celebrates his centenary with a letter from The Queen
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2817452/The-flying-centenarian-Fred-cockatoo-receives-letter...
The real Question Will he get Knighted?
How about Alan Smithee (I) The Writer/Director/Producer that never was!
Oh, I know that guy well! He is actually playing a recurring role of shapeshifting interdimensional monster in my web-series! And if the guy looks suspiciously like me in some shots well, what can I say, he's a shapeshifter IRL. He even portrayed a plant in Nettle and a literal door in Night of the Living Doors!
Jokes aside, the reason why he is credited for portraying Split Second in "The Bucket" is because it is usually mixed footage of several actors from the main cast on top of me. ;)
How about Dogs and Birds.
Robbie The Robot Starmeter watch...
Up 5082 this week!!! Almost a 3200 shift in one day!
Lets get him in the Top 5000
This is clever, lol.
Aw Shucks
I like the title quite a bit but it is long, which could be problematic for a few reasons. I'd suggest a briefer version:
Fun Face-Off: Robbie The Robot at 63
(Since there are only three choices, it qualifies as a face-off and having that in the title frames and orders the poll a bit.)
A Fun Poll: Robbie the Robot. Facing Early Retirement at 63!
That's good! Would you mind changing "Poll" to "Face-Off?"
Reliable Rustic Robby at 63
Re-did the whole enchilada!!! Take a Peek
I Love You All This Much!
lapoubelle
Your list says has has when it should only say has
and his IMDB page says Robby
I can't believe nobody including me noticed till now!
Robbie is his twin sister!
Has has, has been fixed
Really thanks for both.
Havin fun is what I do best!
As you know, I do think this is a fun one. :)
May I suggest a few edits to the intro? ('In bold below.)
Robby the Robot, born July 1st 1955 (63 Years Old), has had an interesting life in pictures. As a well recognized prop, his longevity as an actor has covered six decades. His first movie was Forbidden Planet (1956). His most recent is 2005's Gavin's Pipe Dream. Of the selections below, which is your favorite?
This should help it to go live: for example, questions with an actual question mark are preferred.
As I said above, I like how you changed the title. It's creative and clever. It might still be too long but I'll look into it and let you know if it's long enough to be a problem. If you don't hear from me, Dan, Jess, or Peter about the title, assume it's fine. I would request changing "Fun Poll" to "Fun Face-Off," though, and besides, "Fun Face-Off" is alliterative, which I think fits the spirit of this poll. :)
Re-Wrote it (Revamped completely) and made it a face off. What do you think?
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls029929703/
Rubyfruit, I changed it around. Whaddya think?
Fun Face Off. Robby the Robot. Facing Early Retirement at 63! by jonzcliff | created - 5 days ago | updated - 5 seconds ago | Public
Robby the Robot Born July 1st 1955 (63 Years Old) has had an interesting life in pictures. As a well recognized prop, his longevity as an actor has covered six decades. His first movie was, Forbidden Planet (1956). His most recent is 2005's Gavin's Pipe Dream. This Poll has three choices. Read the choice selections below. What your favorite path for Robby? After voting, please discuss here.
Also put 3 Question marks in the 3 choices
Thanks for the suggestions!
Dr. Evil.........
“We get the warhead and we hold the world ransom for.... One million Question Marks.”
Need Input.....Would you all think this would be better as a face off?
Anyone please chime in...Thanks
HAVE CONVERTED to a Face Off Poll
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls029929703/ There is a link in the old link page for a redirect
by jonzcliff
| created - 42 minutes ago | updated - 7 minutes ago | Public
Robby the Robot Born July 1st 1955 (63 Years Old) has had an interesting life in pictures. As a well recognized prop, his longevity as an actor has covered six decades. He has worked with Hollywood's "A" List Actors such as Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Lawford, Bob Denver, Anne Francis, Peter Falk, & Lynda Carter just to name a few. The consummate professional he was, Robby did all his own stunts, and never used stand ins. Thought he was stood in a lot! This probably lead to his Multiple Personality disorder! Of the 3 choices, what do you believe lies ahead for our Rustic Robot? After voting, please discuss here.
Face-off is good!
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Temp.
Hi Dan I Modified a Poll to a face off could you look at it and see If there is anything you need to do to it. Or should I Start a new thread? Advise please. Thanks.
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/poll-suggestion-a-fun-poll-robbie-the-robot-to-be-or-not-to-...
Note: This conversation was created from a reply on: Live Poll: Actor Who Could Never Break Free of Their Iconic Role.
CliffJ,
Please do not post unrelated information to a thread. This makes reviewing poll suggestions more difficult.
Is there a better way to get your attention or would rubyfruit been able to do the list update too. she has been giving input and has made several comments on this. I could have told her. Or is this something you deal with alone? Thanks. Cheers.
Only Peter and I edit posts related to polls.
Please post such requests in the relevant thread. They will be addressed as time permits.
...Ah, a skeleton crew, all too typical of IMDb.
Don't turn your head away from me! That was a really good Poll!!
I updated your original post to reflect the new list, new title and new intro and question.
When I get a chance, I will review the content for your three choices.
Sorry I bothered you on another post. You usually stop by for your 2 cents. You must be really busy!! Cheers
Have added a 4th.
You have some typos:
This probably lead to his Multiple Personality disorder.
#1: It ended badly!
#4: Unfortunately he currently has an off switch.
Sorry for my disorderly conduct. I currently have fixed all the badly formatted issues and typos.
Thanks for catching them.
You didn't fix currently. And also, the period after disorder.
Weird, the period is there, but the fix on the currently did not take!
Re-check it please. Make sure Robby has not sent me a virus!
Seriously, thanks for checking Jessica.
I see all three edits.
I still love this one and it seems almost ready, now that the title is shorter. (It's too bad longer titles don't work well for a few reasons because I really liked a couple of your earlier titles. Longer titles don't fit well, though, and apparently can cause technical problems.) Would you mind making just a few more little edits to the intro.? ('In bold below.Where I added punctuation that's hard to see, I bolded the characters around them, as well.)
Robby the Robot, born July 1st 1955 (63 Years Old), has had an interesting life in pictures. As a well recognized prop, his longevity as an actor has covered six decades. He has worked with Hollywood's "A" List Actors such as Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Lawford, Bob Denver, Anne Francis, Peter Falk, and Lynda Carter, just to name a few. The consummate professional he was, Robby did all his own stunts, and never used stand ins. Although he was stood in a lot! This probably lead to his Multiple Personality disorder. Of the 4 choices, what do you believe lies ahead for our Rustic Robot?
By the way, I really like the intro.: it's funny, informative, and well-written. This poll is so clever and unique. Bravo.
I think I can I think I can ....Little Loco Motive
Loco is me!!!
Me is a thankin you for a you liken my worken! Jar Jar Cliff...
Seriously Thanks
Put in the and instead of &
On my computer the bold does not show.
I moved to the LA area 11 months ago.
Know where to start. Just gotta get the courage to DO IT. I'm Robby's age too. As they say you are never too old. George Carlin and Robin Williams are in me.
Just gotta let the world see it..LOL
Let me know if I missed something.
TheMovieSmith
Not even a Wash and Wax. A trip to the local car wash? A dust buster for Christmas?
Congratulations, CliffJ!
Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/45lvSVpsJgM/
Bravo, Cliff! (and Robby, lol)
Check this out would you please and tell me your thoughts?
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/fun-poll-suggestion-i-want-it-my-way-mr-executive-lihoswfwtm...
I found this AT&T Commercial With K.I.T.T. Rosie the Robot and W.O.P.R. with Robby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEp6ca9Ppks
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Carl Jung on “Zeus” – Anthology
Date: October 23, 2019Author: Mr. Purrington
Naturally a new meaning does not come ready-made out of the unconscious, like Pallas Athene springing fully armed from the head of Zeus; a living effect is achieved only when the products of the unconscious are brought into serious relationship with the conscious mind. ~Carl Jung, CW 4, Para 760
Brünhilde is a sort of “split-off” from Wotan, part of his personality, just as Pallas Athene was an emanation of Zeus. She is, as it were, Wotan’s emissary or agent, and therefore corresponds to the angel of Yahweh, to the “eye of Ahura” or Vohu Manah, God’s good thought in Persian legend, or to the Babylonian Nabu, the word of fate, or to Hermes, the messenger of the gods, whom the philosophers equated with Reason and Logos. ~Carl Jung, CW 5, Para 560
This fact, in my opinion, points without doubt to Mary, who, a virgin by nature, conceived through the pneuma, like a vulture. Furthermore, according to Horapollo, the vulture also symbolizes Athene, who sprang, unbegotten, directly from the head of Zeus, was a virgin, and knew only spiritual motherhood. All this is really an allusion to Mary and the rebirth motif. Carl Jung, CW 9.1, Para 95
These ideas of magic stones are found not only in Australia and Melanesia but also in India and Burma, and in Europe itself. For example, the madness of Orestes was cured by a stone in Laconia. Zeus found respite from the sorrows of love by sitting on a stone in Leukadia. In India, a young man will tread upon a stone in order to obtain firmness of character, and a bride will do the same to ensure her own faithfulness. According to Saxo Grammaticus, the electors of the king stood on stones in order to give their vote permanence. The green stone of Arran was used both for healing and for taking oaths on ~Carl Jung, CW 13 ¶ 129
Triads occur as early as the treatise of Zosimos (Concerning the Art). Martial calls Hermes omnia solus et ter unus (All and Thrice One). In Monakris (Arcadia), a three-headed Hermes was worshipped, and in Gaul there was a three-headed Mercurius. This Gallic god was also a psychopomp. The triadic character is an attribute of the gods of the underworld, as for instance the three-bodied Typhon, three-bodied and three-faced Hecate, and the “ancestors” with their serpent bodies. According to Cicero, these latter are the three sons of Zeus the King, the rex antiquissimus. They are called the “forefathers” and are wind-gods; obviously by the same logic the Hopi Indians believe that snakes are at the same time flashes of lightning auguring rain. Khunrath calls Mercurius triunus and ternarius. Mylius represents him as a three-headed snake. The “Aquarium sapientum” says that he is a “triune, universal essence which is named Jehovah. He is divine and at the same time human” ~Carl Jung, CW 13 Para 270
The gods have become diseases; Zeus no longer rules Olympus but rather the solar plexus and produces curious specimens for the doctor’s consulting room” ~Carl Jung; CW 13; §54.
Your one-sided spiritual tendency is probably meant, for anyone whose stature requires the size of a continent is not so very far away from Father Heaven (Zeus). ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. I, Pages 52-53
Mind you, I didn’t say “there is a God.” I said: “I don’t need to believe in God, I know.” Which does not mean I do know a certain God (Zeus, Yahweh, Allah, the Trinitarian God, etc.) but rather: I do know that I am obviously confronted with a factor unknown in itself, which I call “God” in consensu omnium (quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus creditur). ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 525.
He [Jung] pointed out that Zeus himself was said to have killed Aesculapius by a thunderbolt because he had brought back patients from death. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 200
Zeus was director of Olympus, but he was responsible to the great board of directors of the world, the moira, an invisible influence, the “Faceless Corporation” of Olympus, so even Zeus could not do what he wanted. ~Carl Jung, Zarathustra Seminar, Page 917.
Dr. Jung asked me what gods the Parthenon housed, and I said ‘Athene.’ He said that Athene was the anima of Zeus – she represented the wisdom of Zeus. She was his thought that took form. ~Katy Reid, Jung My Mother and I, Page 130
With my eyes still closed, I pictured the Stone’s mandala face very clearly in my mind. Hermes, with Mercury on his tunic, was between the Sun and the Moon and four other planetary symbols, making seven archetypal images. I knew that I must look on them with great care and be constantly aware that their message for me, a woman, is different from what they symbolize for Jung, a man. It was also possible that some of these symbols wouldn’t speak to me at all. Collectively, they are “The Sacred Seven of the Heavenly Bodies,” the inspiration for countless myths and gods that man has worshipped as a close family. In my research I had found an even more interesting fact: All these gods have in some way been worshipped as, or connected with, stones. Kronos-Saturn was fated to be overcome by Zeus-Jupiter he was tricked into swallowing a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes that he thought was his son. Zeus-Jupiter was worshipped in the form of a stone that was used in the taking of oaths, as we use the Bible. Aphrodite-Venus was worshipped in the form of a dorm or a conical stone, either black or white in color, showing the negative and positive sides of her nature. Ares-Mars was knocked down by a stone thrown by Athena-Minerva during the battle of the gods. Hermes-Mercury was also worshipped as a herm, a carved stone placed on roads to protect the traveler. The Sun-god, Mithra, was born from a stone and the earliest representation of the moon in the form of a cone. ~Maud Oakes, The Stone Speaks, 91-92
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Prototypes and production
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When we do front-end development at Clearleft, we’re usually delivering production code, often in the form of a component library. That means our priorities are performance, accessibility, robustness, and other markers of quality when it comes to web development.
But every so often, we use the materials of front-end development—HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—to produce something that isn’t intended for production. I’m talking about prototyping.
There are plenty of non-code prototyping tools out there, and our designers often reach for them to communicate subtleties like motion design. But when it comes to testing a prototype with real users, it’s hard to beat the flexibility of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Load it up in a browser and away you go.
We do a lot of design sprints, where time is of the essence. The prototype we produce on the penultimate day of the sprint definitely won’t be production quality, but it will be good enough to test.
What’s interesting is that—when it comes to prototyping—our usual front-end priorities can and should go out the window. The priority now is speed. If that means sacrificing semantics or performance, then so be it. If I’m building a prototype and I find myself thinking “now, what’s the right class name for this component?”, then I know I’m in the wrong mindset. That question might be valid for production code, but it’s a waste of time for prototypes.
So these two kinds of work require very different attitudes. For production work, quality is key. For prototyping, making something quickly is what matters.
Whereas I would think long and hard about the performance impacts of third-party libraries and frameworks on a public project, I won’t give it a second thought when it comes to a prototype. Throw all the JavaScript frameworks and CSS libraries you want at it (although I would argue that in-browser technologies like CSS Grid have made CSS libraries like Bootstrap less necessary, even for prototyping).
Alternating between production projects and prototyping projects can be quite fun, if a little disorienting. It’s almost like I have to flip a switch in my brain to change tracks.
When a prototype is successful, works great, and tests well, there’s a real temptation to use the prototype code as the basis for the final product. Don’t do this! I’ve made that mistake in the past and it always ends badly. I ended up spending far more time trying to wrangle prototype code to a production level than if I had just started from a clean slate.
Build prototypes to test ideas, designs, interactions, and interfaces …and then throw the code away. The value of a prototype is in answering questions and testing hypotheses. Don’t fall for the sunk cost fallacy when it’s time to switch over into production mode.
Of course it should go without saying that you should never, ever release prototype code into production.
More and more live sites seem to be built with a prototyping mindset. Weighty JavaScript frameworks are used regardless of appropriateness. Accessibility, if it’s even considered at all, is relegated to an afterthought. Fragile architectures are employed that rely on first loading and then executing JavaScript in order to render basic content. Developer experience is prioritised over user experience.
Heydon recently highlighted an article that offered this tip for aspiring web developers:
As for HTML, there’s not much to learn right away and you can kind of learn as you go, but before making your first templates, know the difference between in-line elements like span and how they differ from block ones like div.
That’s perfectly reasonable advice …if you’re building a prototype. But if you’re building something for public consumption, you have a duty of care to the end users.
This was originally posted on my own site.
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Woman Who Accused Nelly Of Rape Dropped Her Case – The Rapper Wants An Apology
Todd Malm Oct 14, 2017 4:36 PM PDT
Source: Billboard.com
Nelly may be off the hook, as the 21-year-old girl who accused him of raping her is pulling out of the case against him because she doesn’t want to stand up in court. According to her attorney, Karen Koehler, the woman in question wants to put a stop to the investigation because the pressure is too enormous.
Karen said, “we do not live in a society where a 21-year-old college student can feel safe enough to pursue criminal charges against a celebrity.” The woman’s attorney added that people are already sending her hate mail and death threats, so she can’t proceed due to the stress.
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According to Karen, her client never wanted his money or fame despite the allegations from the fans defending Nelly. In reference to other prolific sexual assault cases concerning public figures, her statement concluded by stating maybe one day it won’t take thirty different women to indict men on sexual assault charges.
As you may already know, Nelly found himself in hot water when police arrested him on Saturday, October 7th, when a woman called the authorities alleging that Nelly had raped her.
However, Nelly and his lawyer vehemently denied the accusations and said they would work to clear his name. The rapper’s attorney, Scott Rosenblum, said that the allegations were exposed as a lie after a thorough investigation.
Additionally, he stated that the accusation harmed Nelly’s physical and mental wellbeing. He added that Nelly wants a public apology for the charge and will possibly consider filing a defamation and libel lawsuit against her.
The news comes after the explosive Harvey Weinstein scandal where allegations of sexual harassment spanning thirty tears came to the surface. Women such as Rose McGowan, Asia Argento, and Gwyneth Paltrow have all accused the man of egregious crimes.
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Volume 95 Issue 28 | p. 40 | Newscripts
Issue Date: July 10, 2017
A pair of seed-sized problems
By Jessica Marshall
Department: Newscripts
Keywords: Newscripts, Food science, poppy seeds, morphine, tick, meat allergy, galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose
Seedy poppy dealings
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Poppy problem: Lower-morphine poppy seeds could avoid drug test shenanigans.
It’s a not-so-mythical urban myth that eating poppy seeds in your food can result in a positive drug test for opioids. U.K. TV personality Angela Rippon recently proved the point by eating poppy seed baked goods over a few days and then taking a drug test that resulted in a positive result for poppy-derived drugs. So when the website FoodNavigator.com reported last month that a British food supply company, Fuerst Day Lawson (FDL), will soon market a low-morphine blend of poppy seeds with morphine levels less than 20 ppm, much lower than the 900 ppm the company claims are in its competitors’ poppy seeds, the news was widely re-reported in other outlets.
It’s unclear if this is a new idea or a return to old practices, however. According to Dirk Lachenmeier of the Chemical & Veterinary Investigation Agency Karlsruhe, a German government agency akin to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, cheap poppy seeds with a much higher morphine content entered the European market in the past decade—poppy seeds that were a residual product from pharmaceutical morphine production.
FDL told FoodNavigator.com that the new product is a blend of high-morphine seeds and more expensive, lower-morphine seeds from Eastern Europe.
Tucked away in pods at the end of poppy flower stalks, poppy seeds, in fact, have almost no morphine. The morphine runs through the poppy plant’s latex—the milky sap of the plant. But the fluid contaminates the seeds during the automatic harvesting and processing of the plants. Plants grown for morphine have higher levels of the drug in their sap than those cultivated for food; therefore they result in more-contaminated seeds.
Poppies grown for their seeds—to top pastries and bagels, for instance—are often grown in Eastern Europe or Turkey and have lower levels of morphine than those from Australia, for example, Lachenmeier says. In some places these crops are processed by hand, resulting in even lower morphine levels because latex contamination of seeds is reduced. And he notes that those concerned about morphine in their poppy seeds can wash them and remove most of the opiates.
For those thinking they might try to feel morphine’s effects through the consumption of poppy seeds: Don’t. Doctors recently reported a fatal ingestion of poppy seeds—almost 900 g of seeds resulted in a “cast-like” obstruction of the colon. Yet the blood morphine level of the woman on autopsy remained under 10 ng/mL, much less than the level associated with morphine intoxication (J. Forensic Sci. 2017, DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.13562).
Tick tock: Lone star ticks can spell the end of meat for dinner.
Meat lovers meet the lone star tick
Meanwhile, here’s another way that a poppy-seed-sized organism can mess with your bloodstream: Wired reports that the lone star tick is spreading an allergy to red meat.
In 2015, researchers led by University of Virginia immunologist Thomas A. E. Platts-Mills finally linked a mysterious observed increase in allergies to beef, lamb, and pork to ticks. And it was the cancer drug cetuximab (Erbitux) that helped lead them to it (J. Allergy Clin. Immunol. 2015, DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2014.12.1947).
Patients taking the cancer drug who lived in the southeastern U.S., where lone star ticks are prevalent, were 10 times as likely as patients elsewhere to have itchiness and other allergy symptoms after receiving the drug. Sleuthing ultimately led the researchers to the allergenic molecule: galactose-α-1,3-galactose. It’s a component of the cancer drug’s complex monoclonal antibody structure. It’s also present in red meat, allergies to which were on the rise, particularly among outdoorsy types in the southeastern U.S.
What researchers can’t yet say is what it is about the lone star tick’s bite that provokes an allergic reaction to α-gal, as it’s known. But, Wired notes, it’s the only known allergy that doesn’t seem to require any genetic predisposition—everyone seems equally susceptible to the tick’s allergy-provoking bite. And now the ticks are on the move. They’ve been reported as far afield as Minnesota and New Hampshire.
It seems possible this is the most dreaded tick-borne illness of all: The Newscripts gang wagers that there are people out there who would rather risk Lyme disease than soldier forward with no future prospects of a burger.
Jessica Marshall wrote this week’s column. Please send comments and suggestions to newscripts@acs.org.
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Encounter with extraordinary women owing to International Women's Day 2017/05/09 15:56 Owing to the International Women's Day, Casa Asia organises an encounter with women from different origins to get to know about their untypical careers, their vision on women's situation based on their personal experience with an intergenerational and intercultural perspective.We interviewed Komal Naz, intercultural mediator of Pakistani origin, graduated in Humanities. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/051/326/original/dona_day_WEB.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/51326.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Interview with Manuel Montobbio, author of "Ideas Chinas" 2017/04/19 17:35 On the occasion of the presentation of the book Ideas chinas. El ascenso global de China y la Teoría de las Relaciones Internacionales we interviewed its author, Manuel Montobbio, Diplomat and PhD in Political Sciences with extensive multidisciplinary training. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/050/942/original/entrevista_montobbio_9_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/50942.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Bonds between China and Europe are being intensified due to the greater participation of the Asian country in global economy. Chinese investment in Europe and the number of European companies that well in China are growing despite difficulties.
During the conference "Doing Business with China: Negotiation and Intercultural Communication" we interviewed Zhang Ying to share with us her insights.
Interview about the TTP with Tomomi Kozaki 2017/03/16 18:39
The recent changes in the White House with the election of Donald Trump leave many political, economic and diplomatic issues hanging on an international level. For 2 consecutive days we will analyse the consequences of this new stage in the Pacific, with special emphasis placed on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
During the conference "Challenges in the Pacific before the new political and economic situation of the region" we interviewed Dr. Tomomi Kozaki so he could share with us his vision about the current situation.
Asia Europe Media Connectivity: Collaborating on Digital Journalism 2017/03/08 16:17 The international seminar "Asia Europe Media Connectivity: Collaborating on Digital Journalism," which met from 4 to 6 October to journalists and editors of media from both continents, concluded with the Madrid Declaration of 2016 and launched a Network Media Asia and Europe. This seminar was organized by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), Casa Asia and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and collaboration with the Elcano Royal Institute. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/050/414/original/CasaAsiaDec_1.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/50414.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Interview with Masaya Ishikawa, Researcher and Graphic Designer 2017/03/07 16:03
Casa Asia and the General Consulate of Japan in Barcelona held a lecture where the graphic designer Masaya Ishikawa, member of the creative Japanese group Euphrates and coauthor of the awarded Japanese TV series PithagoraSwitch, explained how he uses research to develop new graphic and design solutions.
Project “Learning. Connected families” 2017/02/17 11:44
This school year, Casa Àsia and the Directorate of Citizens and Immigration' Rights of the Barcelona City Council have carried out the project "Learning. Connected families" in some schools. This project consists of forming linguistic couples of young volunteers who teach an adult or young member of their family who wants to learn.
Interview with James W. Heisig, specialist in oriental philosophy 2017/02/02 15:38 Due to the recent publication of "Japanese philosophy in its texts", a key book to understand the philosophical culture of a country like Japan, Casa Asia and Editorial Herder organised a lecture. On the occasion of this event, we interviewed James W. Heisig, emeritus researcher of the Nanzan Institute of Religion and Culture in Nagoya (Japan) and author of the book "Philosophers of the Nothing". /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/049/934/original/Filosofia_Oriental_Web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/49934.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Interview with Ashish Kothari, funding Member of Kalpavrish, Indian Environmental Group 2016/11/23 10:27 Current economic development is affecting ecological sustainability and there are more and more voices that call out for alternative development models. Teacher Ashish Kothari approached different initiatives that can offer a sustainable and equitable future. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/050/402/original/Kalpavrish_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/50402.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Interview with Yuli Mumpuni Widarso, Ambassador of Indonesia (ASEAN) 2016/11/21 18:47 ASEAN Committee in Madrid (ACM) and Casa Asia jointly organise with Caixabank, Foment del Treball, Foro de Marcas Renombradas and Antonio Viñal & Co. Abogados a meeting with the ambassadors and high representatives of Southeast Asian embassies in Spain to analyse the business potential of the ASEAN region, one of the most dynamic areas of the world.
Casa Asia Film Festival 2016 2016/10/25 18:30 Casa Asia Film Festival, the Asian Film Festival in Barcelona, which reaches its 4th edition this year, will be held between the 4th and 13th of November in two different venues in the city and will screen around 80 films from 20 different Asian countries. The contest will be mostly held in Girona Cinema, but a part of the programme will be shown at CaixaForum. Extending screening venues is one of the novelties of the festival.
Training "in house" for companies and professionals 2016/10/07 09:37
Casa Asia offers a new training adapted service for companies and professionals that need to do business with and in Asia and the Pacific, the most dynamic market and the area of greatest influence and global economic growth. Therefore, there are more and more companies that add Asian markets in their internationalization strategies. Casa Asia's Department of Economy and Business, through its network of experts, organises these courses to provide knowledge, tools and resources so companies that want to approach the main Asian markets have more possibilities for success.
More information at: https://www.casaasia.eu/economia/servicios
Entrevista con Dr. Sui Khar, Myanmar 2016/09/08 16:57
During the visit of a Myanmar delegation for details on the Spanish transition to Casa Asia, we interviewed Dr. Sui Khar, the chief negotiator of the Chin National Front ( CNF ) with the government of Myanmar for bilateral agreements and secretary of JMC, Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Comitee.
Poemes que ens apropen, 2016 2016/09/07 19:42 Within the context of Casa Asia's project "Poemas que nos acercan" two exhibitions and poem readings of 2016 edition have been carried out, which this year are taken place in the neighbourhoods of San Antoni and Av. Gaudí de Barcelona. A way of "creating neighbourhood" among different social sectors and cultures.
Shodo Performance by Sachiyo Kaneko with Mireia Zantop and Pavel Amilcar 2016/05/10 19:22 Sachiyo Kaneko, a resident of Jiwar Japanese artist, musician Pavel Amilcar (Dyvina Misteria) and the artist Mireia Zantop conducted a performance of creative shodô large format with musical accompaniment of violin and percussion. An artistic and cultural mix open to all audiences that came alive la plaça del Diamant in Barcelona.
Casa Asia, the Department of Citizen Rights and the Deparment of Immigration of Barcelona City Council, together with a Xixa Teatre present the performances and intercultural debates of the previous editions of the Intercultural Forum Theatre Classroom with the purpose to discuss issues regarding stereotypes, rumours and intercultural coexistence in the city.
Entrevista a Juzhong Zhuang (ADB) 2016/04/19 19:01 Interview with Deputy Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), el Dr. Juzhong Zhuang, during the presentation of the financial report "Asian Development Outlook 2016" (ADO), published annually by the multilateral financial institution based in Manila. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/046/574/original/zhuang_juzhong_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/46574.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Interview with Masood Khalili 2016/02/23 12:37 Interview with Masood Khalili, philologist, poet and diplomat, following the recent publication of his book with Alianza Editorial: "Whispers of war". /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/045/680/original/massod_khalili_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/45680.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Breakfast with Ambassador Australia - Executive Forum 2015/11/25 16:50 Australia's ambassador in Spain, Doña Virginia Greville attended the breakfast briefing organized by Executive Forum and Navantia. During his speech, Greville has referred to the economic stability of his country and has encouraged Spanish companies to bet on investing in Australia. The Director General of the Casa Asia, Ramon Mª Moreno, has welcomed the ambassador to the audience with special emphasis on "the excellent bilateral relations" between Spain and Australia today, desatacando that the latter occupies a position key in the Asia-Pacific.
Casa Asia Film Week 2015 2015/11/04 13:04 Approaching a new edition of the Casa Asia Film Week (CAFW), the festival with the best Asian cinema of the last years of the hand Cinemes Girona and Casa Asia. The event will take place from 11 to 15 November and will be shown in the halls of the c / Girona, 175 of Barcelona a total of 52 films from 20 Asian countries. The main objective of the festival is to offer a contemporary portrait of Asian societies of the 21st century.
"Asia, un mundo en trasnformación politca y social", curso Red de Casas en la UIMP 2015/10/16 12:41 La Red de Casas del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y Cooperación organizan el curso 'Un vistazo al mundo de hoy y el posicionamiento de España. Un análisis desde la Red de Casas, que se lleva a cabo en la Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, en Santander, del 31 de agosto al 4 de septiembre. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/044/462/original/20150908uimp_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/44462.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Casa Asia recibe el Premio ACCA 2014 para un proyecto expositivo itinerante de videoarte 2015/03/30 13:45
Literary Gathering between the East and the West 2015/01/22 09:49 Owing to the Liber Fair of Barcelona, Casa Asia, in collaboration with People’s Literature Publishing House and the Literary Agency Sapere Critico, organised a gathering between Ge Fei and Yan Geling. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/041/187/original/encuentro-web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/41187.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Interview wit David Loy, writer 2014/12/09 15:40 David Loy is teacher of Ethics, Religion and Society at University of Bunkyo, Japan. He has been Zen practitioner for more than 20 years until he became a teacher. He is author of many articles and of the books Nonduality, The Great Awakening and Money, Sex, War and Karma. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/040/882/original/david_loy_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/40882.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Entrevista a Kevin Latham, profesor y experto en turismo chino 2014/12/03 17:25 Interview with Dr. Kevin Latham, Professor at the School of Oriental and Africa Studies (University of London) and author of How the rise of Chinese Tourism will Change the Face of the European Travel Industry during the Course “Chinese Outbound Tourism: New challenges for European Tourism” /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/040/819/original/kevin_latham_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/40819.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Casa Asia Film Week (2th edition) 2014/11/03 11:45
Casa Asia Film Week (CAFW) returns to Barcelona. From the 12th to the 16th of November Cinemes Girona will host this contest with the best Asian cinema of the latest years. More than 40 films, mostly unknown, will allow to get to know the current cinema that is distributed outside commercial circuits and, at the same time, to make a realistic portray of the Asian societies of the 21st century.
Cultural Tour: "India in BCN" 2014/10/29 16:53 Casa Asia and CultRuta offer an indian cultural route in Barcelona to make known the history of Indian immigration in Barcelona and how this community contributes nowdays to the richness that having a diverse city involves. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/040/321/original/ruta_india.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/40321.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Entrevista a Bernie Villegas, economista filipino 2014/10/09 16:14 After the financial crisis of 2008, the Philippines has become one of the most dynamic Asian economies. During the years 2012 and 2013 the growth rates were 6.8 and 7.2% respectively, which turns it into one of the countries that offer better prospects for foreign companies.
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Exhibition: "The Tree and The Shade" by Ricard Chiang 2014/10/08 16:34 Interview with Ricard Chiang, author of the exhibition "The Tree and The Shade" for Centro Cultural de China en Madrid together with Casa Asia and Institut d’Estudis Baleàrics. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/040/072/original/Exposicion_de_Ricard_Chiang_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/40072.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Aula Teatro Forum Intercultural 2014/09/29 13:52 Casa Asia, the Direction of Immigration of the Barcelona City Council and La Xixa Teatre organized twice in a year a forum theater with workshop situations, intercultural coexistence that provide food for thought and help to break the rumors and stereotypes about immigration.
Asia Festival 2014 2014/07/24 12:58 Mercè Festival in Barcelona will count on shows from Asia thanks to Asia Festival once again, which holds its 13th edition. From the 18th to the 24th of September, the Festival will offer a programme for all kind of public, with proposals that reflect diversity and dynamism of the Asian artistic scenario with contemporary and traditional musical proposals and of stage arts. Write it down in your diary and have a look at the programme atwww.festivalasia.es Are you going to miss it? /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/039/406/original/WebSpotFA2014.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/39406.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Exhibition “A Japanese Garden: Topographies of Void”, by Esther Pizarro 2014/07/17 12:37 Casa Asia presents the exhibition project by the artist Esther Pizarro and curated by Menene Gras Balaguer, consisting of the creation of a Japanese garden, understood as a copy of natural landscape and the construction of a cultural identity. This project brings together the expression of a milennial tradition represented in the figure of a "Japanese Garden" and its validity in the work of architects and landscapists that have adopted as a role their aesthetic ideology, such as Tadao Ando, Isamo Noguchi, Toyo Ito, Kengo Kuma and Shigeru Ban.
Project "Poems that bring us Together" at Barri Fort Pienc de Barcelona 2014/07/17 10:37
Casa Asia's Bamboo School, l'Eixample City Council, Traders' Association Eix Fort Pienc and Fort Pienc Library have organized this project that through poetry has brought children, teachers and traders of the neighbourhood together in March and April 2014, enjoying poetry, building the neighbourhood and contributing to improve social cohesion.
Interview with the chinese writer Mai Jia 2014/07/08 11:32 Mai Jia (Jiang Benhu's alias) was born in 1964 in Fuyang. His time at the Fine Arts Academy of the People's Liberation Army highlighted his literary talent and gave him propaganda tasks. With the publication of El Don, his first novel, in 2002, he achieved immediate success with 600.000 sold copies and 17 editions, and won the most important literary awards in his country. He is currently one of the most successful writers in China.
Interview with Samhita Arni 2014/07/01 10:48
The Indian Europe Foundation for New Dialogues (FIND) and Casa Asia organised an encounter with the Indian writer Samhita Arni to discuss literature in modern India. When she was eight, Samhita Arni started writing and illustrating her first book, The Mahabharata - A Child’s View, which was on to be published in seven languages editions and sold 50,000 copies worldwide. This time she is presenting her latest novel, The missing queen, a speculative-fiction mythological thriller, that has been published by Penguin (Viking) and Zubaan.
Official Presentation: “Guide for the establishment of Chinese Companies in Catalonia-Barcelona” 2014/06/26 16:10 Invest in Catalonia and Barcelona City Council, in collaboration with Casa Asia, have made this guide that doesn't only give relevant information to Chinese companies that would like to be established in Barcelona-Catalonia, it also allows us to define our position within this changing economic environment.
Interview with Pawan Agarwal, Adviser of Education and Culture (Government of India) 2014/06/04 11:59 Pawan Agarwal interview during a visit to Casa Asia of a group of Indian education experts during the panel "Education and cities'' under the Indian III Leaders Program organized by the Spain-India Council Foundation, which sought know the objective reality of university education in Catalonia, as well as establishing relationships and links between academic institutions of both delegations. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/038/431/original/20140530LideresIndios_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/38431.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Interview with the indian writer Siddarth Shanghvi 2014/05/30 14:03 The Indian Europe Foundation for New Dialogues (FIND) and Casa Asia organise an encounter with the Indian writer Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi to discuss literature in modern India. Specifically, we will analyse how sex and gender issues are approached in a changing society such as the Indian.
Hong Kong Film Week 2014/05/20 17:38 During the nineth edition of the Hong Kong Film Week in Barcelona, a selection of 6 titles will be screened. Casa Asia, Cinemes Girona and the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office of Brussels collaborate to continue with this series that offers the most representative film production of the latest Hong Kong cinema, made by directors such as Heiward Mak-Hei Yan, Jin Wong, Adam Wong, Longman Leung or Vincent Chui, among others.
Interview with Iranian artist Mojé Assefjah 2014/04/17 13:18
Interview with Iranian artist Mojé Assefjah about his solo exhibition at the Gallery + R of Barcelona, in which Casa Asia collaborates .
More about the exhibition aquí
Zhuang Juzhong, Economist Deputy Head of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) 2014/04/15 12:38 Interview with the Economist Deputy Head of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Dr. Zhuang Juzhong, in the context of the presentation of the financial report "Asian Development Outlook" (ADO 2014) in Casa Asia (Barcelona).
Jung Chang, author of de Empress Dowager Cixi 2014/04/10 18:53
Casa Asia has interviewed Jung Chang, author of the acclaimed novel Wild Swans, after writing his new book Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China, a recently published book about the life of Empress realizes that not only his political brilliance, but also moves the reader to the corners of his splendid Summer Palace and the harem of the Forbidden City in Beijing.
Ramón María Moreno discusses elections in India 2014/04/09 10:07 Ramón María Moreno, director general of Casa Asia, answers key questions about the general elections in India, the world's largest democracy, on issues such as political stability, corruption, the economy and the challenges that faces the country during this century.
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Casa Asia and Matador Madrid at Theatre Night 2014 2014/04/03 10:28
Scenarios of what's beautiful and sad: Japanese Garden as text and landscape. This multidisciplinary proposal evolved around the fact that Japanese gardens can be considered the equivalent to a haiku in three dimensions, without stopping being a space of knowledge and representation of an archetypical world.
Asian Film Series: “New Korean Cinema” 2014/03/19 11:14 Casa Asia and Girona Cinemas present, in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Centre of Madrid, the new Korean film series, which will be held between the 22nd of March and the 10th of May at Girona Cinemas. This display rescues eight films produced between 2002 and 2013 that stand out for their antropological value as they are symbols of their cultural identity.
Concert: “Hannaneh (حنانه), a Persian Musical Journey” 2014/03/04 13:23 Casa Asia, together with the Cultural Department of the Embassy of Iran and RBA Foundation, organized a concert of traditional Persian music with the band Hannaneh (حنانه), from Teheran. The Iranian group Hannaneh is made up of 5 musicians and it was created in 1991 by the composer Kamran Hemmatpour. They have been awarded with many prizes as a group and as individual musicians, among which we highlight the first award of the Mouludí Festival and of the Festival of San Lorenzo in Milan and the award to the Band of the Year in 1997 in Teheran. Individually we highlight the award to the Best Percussionist at the Taiwan Festival in 2012 for Mahdi Ayoughi Pourtafti and the first award of the Fajr Music Festival in Iran for Hasan Khodaeinia. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/036/697/original/VTS_02_1.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/36697.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
"Mundo. Una geografía poética", por Manuel Montobbio 2014/01/29 15:47 In his book "Mundo. Una geografía poética" Manuel Montobbio gathers much of his poetry, ordained as a geography. His poems draw a vital route where travels and experiences for Asian cities and landscapes are also included. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/036/085/original/montobbio_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/36085.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Interview with Naomi Chakwin (ADB) 2013/12/11 10:53 Dr. Naomi Chakwin, high representative of the Asian Development Bank in Europe, offered as part of the Economic Council of Casa Asia, a talk on trends and prospects for economic growth in the countries of Asia-Pacific. The Asian Development Bank is the largest multilateral Asian financial institution composed of a total of 67 member countries, including Spain.
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Book Launch: "El lugar más feliz del mundo", by David Jiménez 2013/12/05 16:04 Highlighted as the "Spanish Kapuscinski", David Jiménez gathers in this book the definitive manual on reporting journalism, an exceptional radiography on the human condition and a life history of 15 years searching for a destination that is often closer than expected.
Asia Festival 2013 2013/10/22 11:16 The Asia Festival 2013 took place from 20 to 24 September and was held in traditional and scenarios, such as Espai Francesca Bonnemaison or Ateneu Barcelonès, to which were added new locations, such as the outdoor stage of the Passeig San Joan, CaixaFòrum or Montjuïc Castle.
Lecture: “E-Commerce and Online Marketing in China” 2013/06/18 13:09 Casa Asia organized the last 5th of June, in association with Spain China Council Foundation, a session about "E-Commerce and Online Marketing in China" in Madrid and Barcelona to discuss the characteristics of the ecosytem that makes up the Chinese electronic market and how to identify the principal barriers that Spanish companies come across when they want to sell in China online. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/032/905/original/E-Marketing_WEB.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/32905.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
2013 Meeting of Asian Studies 2013/06/11 11:47 Casa Asia held the 2013 Meeting of Asian Studies, where more than thirty experts and scholars of Asian studies in Spain were brought together, as well as government representatives within the field of education. The meeting aims to provide a platform to debate issues affecting Asian studies in Spain, to present new degrees and to get to know about the progress made and the challenges that may exist in their implementation. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/032/788/original/estudis_asiatics_2_WEB.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/32788.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
III International Congress on Asian Tourism 2013/05/31 10:04 With the purpose to identify measures that the Spanish tourist sector must adopt as a receiving market, key issues have been approached such as the positioning of our destinations in Asian markets, connectivity with Asia, Asian customer service or the purchasing power of Asian tourists, among others. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/032/587/original/post_congres_def_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/32587.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Barcelona Kathak Project 2013/04/22 13:09 For the first time in Barcelona and Spain, you can enjoy a show directed by a master of international fame as Fasih ur Rehman, National Dance Award Tamgha E Imtiaz from Pakistan. The show is performed by local artists and dancers, accompanied by Sajid Ali, Pakistani renowned professional dancer.
III International Congress on Asian Tourism 2013/03/19 16:29 The International Congress on Asian Tourism holds its third edition under the title: Asia, the Great Outbound Market and New Technologies as Promotion and Loyalty Building Tools. The congress, which is structured in five roundtables, two plenary sessions and an opening lecture, will analyze the current situation and future perspectives of Asian markets as a tourist outbound and how new information and communication technologies must be used in order to attract Asian tourism. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/031/747/original/congres_def_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/31747.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Interview with Luis Monreal, General Manager of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture 2013/03/11 17:06 Interview with Luis Monreal, General Manager of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, on the occasion of the exhibition "Historic Cities" and the inaugural conference in which he participated. In collaboration with Agency Support Architecture Barcelona (AAAB). /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/031/573/original/Luis_Monreal_versio_n_final_WEB.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/31573.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Interview with Xulio Rios author of 'China pide paso. De Hu Jintao a Xi Jinping' 2013/03/06 11:03 After the XVIII Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, the new direction of China is crucial worldwide. Hu Jintao's decade (2002-2012) in front of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) laid the groundwork for change that ventures crucial to confirm the emergence of China and its viability as a separate project in the global order. On the occasion of the publication of the book China pide paso. De Hu Jintao a Xi Jinping, which will analyze the unknowns of the decade that begins after the accession to power of Xi Jinping, web interviewed the author. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/031/516/original/Wulio_Ri_os_WEB.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/31516.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Interview with Sherman Ong, filmmaker 2013/03/01 13:42
Interview with Sherman Ong, filmmaker from Malaysia who lives in Singapore and has vast experience in the field of visual arts, photography, video and film, and has received several international awards. Casa Asia has organised a film series of his work.
Concert "Unit Asia" 2013/02/06 16:26
Unit Asia, Asia Fusion Jazz is Asia's current jazz band. Their fusion not only concerns their mixture of musical genres (jazz, pop or rock), but also the diversity in the band's roots, as it is formed by three musicians from Japan, one from Malaysia and one from Thailand.
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Happy Chinese New Year! 2013/02/05 10:22
The Chinese New Year is the most important holiday in China and is celebrated by more than 1,300 million people worldwide. In Spain, Chinese communities living in different cities will participate in the festivities which begin on February 10, 2013 (the year 4711).
Interview with Zong Wa, Member of CEAIE 2013/01/25 14:02 Interview with Zong Wa, Deputy General Director of the China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE). CEAIE is the largest international education agency of China. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/030/868/original/Educaci_n_China_WEB.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/30868.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Interview with Ivan Tselichtchev, author of the book China versus the West 2013/01/11 13:18 Ivan Tselichtchev is teacher at the Niigata University of Management, Japan. Graduate by the University of Moscow, in 1979 he became part of the main think tank of Russia, the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. In 1983 he achieved his PhD. He is author of five books, co-author of many other and he has published more than 200 articles about international and Asian economy.
Interview with Zhang Yingying, co-author of "No más cuentos chinos" 2012/12/21 14:49 No más cuentos chinos, written by Zhang Yingying and Ignacio Olivares, collected the ten most popular topics on Chinese culture and economy in an attempt to avoid misunderstandings and deepen the knowledge of its corporate culture. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/030/561/original/cuentos_chinos.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/30561.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Josep Manel Brañas, specialist in Korea 2012/12/20 18:41 Interview with Josep Manel Brañas, emeritus Professor of the Department of Applied Economics of the University Autonomous of Barcelona (UAB) and specialist in Korea
ASEAN DAY: "ASEAN, the New Border for the International Expansion of Companies" 2012/12/14 13:11
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was founded on the 8th of August 1967 with the purpose to turn the region into a stable and prosperous area and with an equitable and sustainable economic development. This conference made the current development of the economy of ASEAN countries known, as well as the opportunities offered by the region for Spanish companies.
Interview with Adiyatwidi Adiwoso Asmady, Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia in Spain 2012/11/30 09:24 Interview with Adiyatwidi Adiwoso Asmady, Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia in Spain, owing to the Conference "Indonesia: Consolidated Democracy and Engine of Economic Growth in Asia"
Interview with Andrew Wilder, expert in Afghanistan (USIP) 2012/11/22 18:16 Interview with Andrew Wilder, director of the Afghanistan and Pakistan Programmes of the United States Institute of Peace, that focus on the Afghan political transition process, which has to be developed, in collaboration with the international community, in order to grant the background of credible elections to elect a legitimate government that provides peace and stability.
III Meeting of Asian and Spanish Women: Globalization and local realities 2012/11/20 16:45 Last November 19th and 20th the Third Meeting of Asian and Spanish Women was held, organized by Casa Asia. The subject of "Change and modernization of enterprises in a global world: Spain and Asia” was addressed in various sessions focused on the support and promotion of talent and entrepreneurial spirit of creative women that have started business projects with an international projection.
Exhibition: “Synchronising Threads and Rhizome”, by Chiharu Shiota 2012/10/31 11:35
Casa Asia presents the first exhibition by Chiharu Shiota (Osaka, 1972) in Barcelona, with a proposal regarding several installations, drawings and videos, which are integrated in a unique project at its headquarters.
Song: The Belle grove Affair by Tom Fahy
Creative Commons. Noncomercial value
Interview with Manuel Montobbio, author of the book "Tiempo diplomático" 2012/10/24 14:30 Entrevista with Manuel Montobbio, diplomat and author of the book Tiempo Diplomático. As if it were a journey, this work invites to experience a diplomatic destination in its different stages and it offers an approach to the tasks of a diplomat and to diplomats through his professional life. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/029/444/original/entrevista_montobbio.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/29444.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
EMeeting with the Writer and Journalist Maha Akhtar 2012/10/17 16:13 Maha Akhtar worked for 15 years in a «CBS News» and currently collaborates with Departures, Food and Wine and Travel & Leisure and with The New York Times. At the age of 42 she he discovered that she was the granddaughter of the Maharajah of Kapurtala and of his Spanish wife, the singer and dancer from Málaga Anita Delgado. She decided to write two works based on her story: The Maharani's Hidden Granddaughter, first and The Lost Princess, later. She has just published Honey and Almonds, her first novel.
Interview with Dr. C. Raja Mohan 2012/10/10 12:42 In this interview C. Raja Mohan analyses the recent evolution of the Indian relations with the United States, China, Europe, Russia and Japan, as well as the importance of the "non-aligned" principle. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/028/961/original/Entrevista_Raja_Mohan.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/28961.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
11th edition of Asia Festival 2012/10/01 11:35 Once again, the public from Barcelona had the chance to enjoy the different artistic disciplines from the Asian continent for free at the 11th edition of the Asia Festival, between the 21st and the 24th of September 2012.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs meets with business people with interests in Asia 2012/09/20 13:09 The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, José Manuel García-Margallo chaired the 1st Business Encounter about Economic Relations with Asia-Pacific last 19th of September in Casa Asia, in support of the companies that have interests and investment projects in the region.
Asia Festival 2012 2012/09/14 09:20 For four days, from the 21st to the 24th of September, Barcelona becomes a space of intercultural dialogue and of meeting with Asia, in a celebration that is within the Mercè Festival and BAM with several artistics from the Asian continent. Plaça de la Catedral, plaça dels Àngels, plaça Joan Coromines, Centre de Cultura de Dones Francesca Bonnemaison, Ateneu Barcelonès, Casa Asia and the Sala Teatre of CCCB will be the main stages of this edition.
Roundtable "China and Europe: When Politics and Economy are entangled" 2012/07/19 11:37 Nowadays Europe cannot be thought in abstract, but immersed in international relations that affect its dynamics and goals in various fields. The external view on Europe has also changed since the end of the Cold War when Europe, when it was viewed with optimism as a role model, until today, which is the focus of much criticism.
Session: "Labour Market and Job Opportunities in China and India" 2012/07/17 10:56 At this session, the people responsible for prestigious business schools attached to the annual scholarship programme La Caixa-Casa Asia, and some of their MBA graduates inform us of the tendencies of the labour market and the most demanded labour profiles in China and India.
Session: "Investment Opportunities in Australia" 2012/07/16 11:12
The purpose of this conference was to identify the main investment oppotunities offered by Australia; to explain the conditions of the entrance process, financing formulas, possible tenders and other key legal, administrative and fiscal aspects for the investment of Spanish companies, as well as to present the strategic plan of New South Wales regarding infrastructures.
Interview with Stephen Siu Yu Lau, architect 2012/06/29 11:12 Interview with Stephen Siu Yu Lau, architect by the University of Hong Kong (HKU, 1979) and Master by the London University (1981). Director of the Faculty of Architecture HKU, directs the PhD Programme since 2005 and since 2000 he is Honorary Director of the Centre of Architecture Studies and Urban Design of China and Hong Kong. Expert in environment and sustainability: design of green buildings, low emission of carbon and sustainable cities; output and assessment; urban regeneration and cultural sustainability. Since 2010 he is supervisor of OMA Asia. He actively takes part in national and international investigation programmes.
Event: "Sufism, the Interior Dimension of Islam" 2012/06/20 16:23 Owing to the publication of the book Sufisme (Fragmenta, 2012) and the CD Ushâq. Música sufí (2012), Casa Asia, the Institute of Sufi Studies of Barcelona and Fragmenta Editorial organized this event that compiled musical activities, as well as a roundtable that maked the basic concepts of Sufism known.
Roundtable: "Dialogue among the Chefs Carme Ruscalleda and Sanjeev Kapoor" 2012/06/20 09:50
Is there a universal language in the kitchen? How much information does gastronomy give us of a place? Is it possible to have a good biriyani in Barcelona, or are the environmental factors –often intangible– inherent in a specific cuisine (cultural, climatic, biological, etc.) determinant in the flavour and experience of every meal? Which are the current tendencies of haute cuisine? Is there a gastronomic tourism?
Encounter "Asian Communities: Immigration, Sport and Social Cohesion" 2012/06/07 16:25 Within the framework of the programme of Asian Communities and in collaboration with GRITIM of the University Pompeu Fabra, Casa Asia presented this encounter where, through personal experiences of several members of Asian communities, the role of sport as a tool for social cohesion was analysed.
Lecture "The Political Transition in Burma/Myanmar: Great Challenges, Great Opportunities" 2012/05/29 14:45
For a year and a half, Burma/Myanmar has been the scenario of a process of political opening that has awakened hop among the Burmese population. However, even if the progress has been clear, there are still doubts about the final result of this new orientation and about the real changes the current government, inheritor of the former military junta, is prepared to make.
Lecture: "The Japanese Garden" 2012/05/22 19:00 Masatoshi Takebe, one of the best known landscape gardeners of Japan, gave a lecture at Casa Asia about Japanese gardens, owing to the celebration of the fifth anniversary of the creation of plaça de l'Arbre of Riudoms, work by the architect who is also Japanese, Hiroya Tanaka.
Interview with Jean-François Huchet 2012/05/17 18:28
Interview with Jean-François Huchet, Professor of Economics at the School of Chinese Studies, about the new leading team that will succeed Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao in the party elections in Autumn 2012, and possible changes in the content of the economic and political programme.
Presentation of the Ramuni Paniker Trust Foundation 2012/05/10 16:12 Ramuni Paniker Trust is a non-profit-making foundation that, on the one hand, supports students from economically needy families from South India so they can be trained in professional and superior education and, on the other hand, collaborates in the promotion and economic aid to initiatives of cultural, artistic, educational and research activities that favour a better mutual knowledge among people from South India and Spain.
Ramuni Paniker Trust Foundation 2012/05/02 19:35
The Ramuni Paniker Trust Foundation, named after the philosopher's father and thinker Raimon Panikkar, is a non-profit-making foundation that aims to become a dialogue space to promote an exchange network between people, groups and institutions of south India and Spain. To carry it out, it includes a scholarship programme for students of economically needy families from south India so they can be trained professionally and receive high education.
Lecture "Health and Migration: perspectives from Asia and Europe" 2012/04/25 11:19 Which initiatives and policies currently exist with regard to this issue in Asia and Europe? And what are the difficulties faced by migrants with regard to access to public health? Which areas need more action and research for cooperation between Asia and Europe? These and other questions were addressed in this public talk organized by Casa Asia and the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF).
Exhibition: "Leaves swim" by Shimabuku 2012/04/18 19:06
Interview with the artist Shimabuku in Casa Asia owing to his visit to Barcelona for the opening of the exhibition "Leaves swim", which includes his last works, in the gallery NoguerasBlanchard.
Japan, one year later 2012/04/12 18:19
Casa Asia, with the support of the Japan Foundation, organised a special activity programme owing to the first anniversary of the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that devastated the Northeastern coast of Japan on the 11th of March 2011.
Study Presentation: "El papel de España en los lazos económicos entre Asia y Latinoamérica. Grandes empresas, pymes y la ciudad de Barcelona como puentes entre las dos zonas" 2012/04/03 11:08 Casa Asia and the INSEAD Business School in collaboration with the Barcelona City Council, Garrigues and the University Pompeu Fabra, present this study of business cases. The purpose of this study is to contribute that in difficult situations in the local environment, Spanish companies are able to be placed among the main emergent areas that have become the salvation of many Western companies.
Lecture "Mother India: A Trip to the Deepest Part of India" 2012/03/28 17:35 How do tribes from Orissa defend their rights before multinationals? What story does a temple dancer (devadasi) from Mumbai tell us? How does an onyrical love story from Varanasi develop? And how to rifles roar in Cashmere? At this lecture we will travel to the deepest and most sensual part of India, where thousands of people struggle for their dignity and freedom.
¡Happy Nowruz! 2012/03/20 09:57
On the 20th of March 2012 the new year is celebrated in many countries of the western region of Asia. Persian origin, Nowruz is celebrated by more than 400 million people from Central Asia, great part of the Southern Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey and the Chinese region of Xinjiang. The main purpose of the celebration is to welcome spring with a renovation will, cleaning and harmony among people. This feeling is very strong and during the wars a ceasefire was organised to celebrate Nowruz with a banquet.
Casa Asia, with the support of the Japan Foundation, organises a special activity programme owing to the first anniversary of the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that devastated the Northeastern coast of Japan on the 11th of March 2011. Among programmed activities an international symposium for journalists and IT professionals, roundtables, a family session and a documentary series will be held. All the information at: www.casaasia.es/conjapon
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New Urban Cultures, 2011 2012/02/28 11:53
Casa Asia presented in New Delhi the programme "New Urban Cultures ", after the successful editions held in Tokyo (2009) and Seoul (2010). This edition, organised by Casa Asia jointly with the Ministry of Culture and in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes, was made up of tendencies and different characters and strengthened the relations between Indian and Spanish well known artists and creators. It was also a way to display the gastronomy, fashion, videogames, sport, music, design and cinema currently made in Spain.
Institutional Video of Casa Asia 2012/02/24 12:34 Institutional video of Casa Asia with some of its main activities. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/002/963/original/2012_02_24_Corporatiu_2012_WEB.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/2963.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Lecture: "Shitala's Dream: Journey to the World of Religions" 2012/02/22 18:39 What is there behind the Buddha cult? What level does the Shaman reach? Why do ancient myths, archetypes, symbols and rites last? What is there behind veils or certain food taboos? What is religion? Where is religion going? These are some of the questions Agustín Pániker will raise at a lecture where we will get to know about practices and meanings of religious phenomenon from all over the world and of Asian traditions particularly.
Poetry Recital and Bengali Music: "The Waterwall" 2012/02/15 17:37 Through this recital of contemporary Bengali poetry and of musical pieces written and composed by Rabindranath Tagore we will deepen into the culture and society of Bengala. The poems, recited in Spanish and Bengali, belong to the publicationLa pared de agua. Antología de poesía bengalí contemporánea (Olifante editions), which gathers a selection of the best poems of 41 Bengali poets.
Exhibition "Citystories and Global Cities" 2012/02/13 10:11
This exhibition brings together works designed by artists, writers, filmmakers and journalists with a speech on the diasporic and multicultural city, the difficult conditions of life of its inhabitants and the rapid changes experienced in the past two decades because of its rapid economic and population growth.
Forum Theatre Session 2012/02/06 11:03 Within the social drama course developed in collaboration with The Xixa Theatre for the last two months, the Forum Theatre session will end with this intercultural initiative led by young people from different backgrounds.
Interview with Michael Denison, Director of Research at Control Risks 2012/02/02 16:19
Central Asia has acquired international relevance in the last two decades due to the richness of natural and energetic resources of its land.
Countries such as China or India establish strategies to manage to consolidate certain resources in order to maintain some economic growth rates that challenge the global crisis.
In this interview, Michael Denison, Director of Research at Control Risks (London), approaches the international situation of the region, its relationship with Spain and its economic future.
Casa Asia Award 2011 2012/02/02 13:34
Casa Asia Award 2011 was granted to the NGO Sisters in Islam for its strong commitment to promoting the rights of women in the Muslim world. The award was presented by the Government's former Vice President Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, in a ceremony hosted by the journalist Rosa Maria Calaf and the General Director of Casa Asia, Juan Jose Herrera de la Muela.
Asia Festival 2011 2012/01/31 12:24
The festival has counted around 17.000 people at the 2011 edition. Generally, a public of all ages interested in discovering the richness and diversity of Asian cultures has shown great interest in their participation in all of the performances and activities. After 10 years of life, the festival has remained faithful in its purpose of approaching citizens the cultural and artistic diversity, as well as the lifestyle of Asian countries. For this, it has been consolidated as a unique platform in all the country devoted to contemporary and traditional stage arts of the region of Asia and the Pacific.
Conference: "Chinese Views of the EU: Disaggregating Chinese Perceptions of the EU and the Implications for the EU’s China Policy" 2012/01/30 12:51 As China grows in global power and influence, it is critically important for the European Union to forge aclose and cooperative relationship with it. Equally China needs good relations with the EU, which forms itslargest single market. At times of financial crisis, both sides need each other even more. The EU andChina are committed to what they call a comprehensive strategic partnership but EU-China ties have notalways been smooth. Too often, Chinese and Europeans misunderstand each other.
Interview with Adrien Fauve - Current Affairs: Kazakhstan 2012/01/27 13:07
On the 16th of December 2011 the city of Zhanaozen, southeast Kazakhstan, was the scenario of confrontations between the police and workers of the oil sector that were in a demonstration to demand an improvement of their work and salary conditions. The demonstrations had been going on for months but the information did not reach national and international media until the confrontation with the police began. This is the first time in 10 years that this kind of incident occurs in Kazakhstan. The researcher at SciencesPo (Paris) Adrien Fauve has closely followed the events of Zhanaozen and answers about the reach of the riots.
III Asia Geek: Digital Life and Urban Trends in China, Japan, India and Korea 2012/01/26 16:33 Emergent technologies mostly come from Asia. Sophisticated versions of geminoids come from Japan. India surprises us with the cheapest tablets in the world. Phenomenon such as Weibo –the Chinese twitter- is very successful among its more than 500 million surfers and in Korea they already work on specific experiences of prototypes of intelligent or ubiquitous cities. They are examples of the infinity of tendencies that the digital life recreates in some of the main Asia metropolis, such as Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul or Bangalore- which was explored in the 3rd edition of Asia Geek by Asian technology, tendencies and digital life experts. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/022/381/original/20112610asia_geek.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/22381.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
The East-West Dialogue discusses a New Global Governance Agenda 2012/01/16 17:19 Casa Asia and the Barcelona City Council have organised the East-West Dialogue once again. After eight years of intense debates regarding conflicts, challenges and objectives established by international relations and people's rights, this edition is structured around the reflection about the role governance should have analysing its meaning and its strategic role in economy, finantial crisis, globalisation, social movements and the international governance system. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/021/973/original/DI_LOGO_2011_5_min_WEB.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/21973.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Interview with Professor C. C. Chan "Electric Vehicles and Intelligent Networks: Development Perspectives in Asia" 2012/01/12 11:44 The lack of sustainable mobility, especially in large cities, is one of the main environmental problems administrations have to face. The car sector is turning to electric cars as a solution before the environmental challenge and as the key of the economic recovery of the sector. Certain Asian countries, led by China, Japan and South Korea, plan to become leaders in the technological development and commercial establishment of electric cars, for which measures of urban adaptation and strong incentives are carried out for their marketing. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/021/844/original/2011_11__professor_WEB.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/21844.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Meeting with writer Qiu Xiaolong. The China of the Chief Inspector Chen Cao 2011/12/21 11:44 As part of the series "Dialogues on Asian Black Novels and Detective Fiction", Casa Asia and Confucius Institute Foundation in Barcelona organises the meeting with the poet and translator of into Chinese of American classics. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/021/372/original/2011_11_14_Escriptor_Qui_Xiaolong_WEB.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/21372.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
"Japan Beyond 03/11: Challenges and opportunities for the reinvention of Japanese corporations" 2011/12/15 11:39 The events that hit Japan on March the 11th have shown the strict interdependence of world’s economies in aspects as fundamental as the damage to supply chains or energy-related policies. At the same time, the seriousness of those events represents a stimulus for business leaders to debate how to transform the crisis into an opportunity for improvement and innovation. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/021/126/original/2011_11_15_22M_s_enll_22_Jap_WEB.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/21126.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Interview Zhang Yiwu (University of Pekin) 2011/12/01 16:45 The purpose of the session «It’s China Time» is the spreading of the latest tendencies that, since the Olympic Games of 2008 and the Universal Exhibition of 2010, have changed cities of China such as Beijing and Shanghai in two of the main large cities of the planet. From here tendencies that go all around the world can be found, thanks to the international spreading they affect the urban networks of other cities creating new landscapes, new metaphors and new urban cultures. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/020/818/original/Zhang_Yiwu.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/20818.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
The Second Meeting of Asian and Spanish Women raises new challenges for gender equality focused on migration 2011/11/28 13:58 The Second Meeting of Asian and Spanish Women, organized by the Asian and Spanish Women's Network, approached the diversity of Asia, a key continent shaping the world of the XXI century, and the impetus of its women. The Meeting addressed the challenges of equality in Asia from various perspectives: the challenges of entering the labour market, the struggle against gender violence, creating policies against inequality and social exclusion, the demand for women's public presence, and others. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/020/614/original/trobada_dones_WEB.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/20614.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Documentary “Las barreras” 2011/11/28 12:42 140,000 asian women live in Spain, asian immigrant women who have lived in the emigration process vulnerabilities: Muslim feminists seeking equality without renouncing their faith, asian women defending their access to productive economy or asian women caregivers living in Europe that have become the breadwinner of the family, with the consequent social stigma in their local cultures. This is the video that was projected during the act of the Second Meeting of Asian and Spanish Women. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/020/608/original/V_MINUTO_CASA_ASIA_WEB.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/20608.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Casa Asia supports the commemoration of International Day for the elimination of gender violence on November 25 2011/11/25 13:08 At the recent Meeting of Asian and Spanish Women celebrada el passat November 7 at Casa Àsia, there was a discussion entitled "The economic and social impact of gender violence in the local and migrant" moderated by Toni Marin, director of the program "Matí a 4 bandes" on Radio 4, during which Bandana Rana, regional coordinator of South Asia gender Equality Campaign (Nepal), and Miguel Lorente, Government Delegate for the violence, noted "The commitment to eliminate gender violence is increasing: through a growing and active commitment." /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/020/587/original/2011_11_25_G_nere_WEB.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/20587.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Book launch: "Com espigues de blat amb vents de l'est" 2011/11/24 19:02 The volume that is presented, Com espigues de blat amb vents del’est, would like to be a short approach to the poetry made in two of the main languages of the Asian subcontinent: Hindi and English. Sameer Ramal, expert of the literatures currently produced in India and Catalonia, has made the selection and translation of the poems from Hindi into Catalan; Dolors Udina has approached us the poems in English. The work's result is this book: only a sample, but enough to stand out the high poetic level of this refined country. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/020/572/original/espigues_def.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/20572.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Asian Stories in family 2011/11/16 17:08 The audience that attended the 25th of September into the Asia Festival participated in a workshop to create animated shorts, by Animaldia. As a group, individual or family, this workshop invited to recreate several stories in the context of the conference "One day in Asia." /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/020/277/original/festival_asia2_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/20277.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Opening of the 2011-2012 school year of the Bamboo School 2011/11/11 09:54 The Bamboo School, intercultural and inclusive educational programme of Casa Asia, begins its eighth year and has carried out more than 4000 workshops with a participation of 700 educational centres with more than 10000 children and young people. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/020/010/original/2011_11_08_escola_bamb_inauguraci_WEB.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/20010.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
II Meeting of Asian and Spanish Women 2011/11/04 09:06 Maria José Juanes, Coordinator of the Asian and Spanish Women Network of Casa Asia and Judith Astelarra, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona discussed in this conversation / debate the challenges women face in the 21st Century and the points at common between Spanish and Asian women. Do not miss the II Meeting of Asian and Women next Monday, November 7! More information: http://www.casaasia.es/encuentromujeres/ /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/019/611/original/2011_11_03_dones_asi_tiques-espanyoles_angl_s_YT.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/19611.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Exhibition "Japan: Kingdom of Characters" 2011/11/02 09:40 In the latest years, the Japanese manga and anime culture has awakened interest all around the world. Casa Asia and the Japan Foundation, joining this phenomenon, have organised «Japan: Kingdom of Characters», a travelling exhibition that identifies the characters of manga and anime with one of the main aspects of this culture. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/019/515/original/2011_10_28_Jap_-_mascotes_WEB.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/19515.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
8th East-West Dialogue: Open registrations 2011/10/21 09:49 Casa Asia and the Barcelona City Council once again host the East-West Dialogue. This eighth edition is devoted to reflecting on the current situation of the world, the role played by institutions and political leaders and the rules of the game where a government system is established in a moment of economic crisis and political and social opposition. Consult the complete programme and register at www.casaasia.es/dialogue We are waiting for you! /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/019/174/original/Di_logo_2011prova_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/19174.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Lecture "PostFukushima Japan: Learnt Lessons and Recovery Perspectives" 2011/10/07 11:51 Six months after the tragedy the Japanese people went through, Dr. Takatoshi Ito will offer a lecture about the impact of this crisis, the current challenges the government must face, Japanese companies and society, and the possible future scenarios. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/018/499/original/2011_09_27_Takatoshi_Ito_WEB.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/18499.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Asia Festival 2011: Street Action on the Ramblas of Barcelona Pe'z group 2011/09/22 13:04 Acting on the Rambla in Barcelona Pe'z fusion jazz band: The Samurai Jazz Band. http://www.festivalasia.es /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/017/850/original/PE_zweb.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/17850.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Turan en el Festival Asia 2011 2011/09/19 18:47 Check out one of the songs Turan played during the Asia Festival! The band Turan was created in 2008 on the initiative of the Kurmangazy Kazakhstan National Music School. An original event that recreates the sound of ancient instruments in order to find new ways of performing folk music through a contemporary staging. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/017/682/original/turan_Fest.Asia_.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/17682.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
FESTIVAL ASIA 2011 (PROMO) 2011/09/03 14:42 The Asia Festival has reached its tenth year and will celebrate with a wide range of high quality productions from abroad and the presence of the Asian communities in Catalonia. From 16th to 25th September, Barcelona will again become a showcase for the cultural richness and diversity of Asia. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/017/109/original/PROMO_FESTIVAL_ASIA_2011_DEFINITU.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/17109.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
VI Spain-China Forum 2011/07/20 15:13 Women and their incorporation into managing work positions as a symbol of economic active was the main topic approached by the Sectorial Committee of Gender Equality within the 6th Spain-China Forum, organised by the Spain-China Board Foundation, in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, the Barcelona City Council and Casa Asia through the Network of Spanish and Asian Women. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/016/107/original/2011_07_04_F_rum_Espany_D14.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/16107.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
The Asia Festival turns to Central Asia on the tenth anniversary 2011/07/19 10:08 On its 10th anniversary, from the 16th to the 25th of September, the festival organised by Casa Asia will turn its look to Central Asia and show the diversity of Asian cultures through a multidisciplinary programme for all the public and made up of 30 proposals: from shows from different countries such as China, Japan, India, Mongolia and Kazakhstan, to artistic initiatives of Asian communities resident in Barcelona and Catalonia. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/015/999/original/Festival_Asia_2011.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/15999.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Kabaddi competition 2011/07/01 11:13 First kabaddi competition in Barcelona organized by Chardi Kala Kabaddi Club. Kabaddi is a sport practiced in several countries in South Asia. Its origins go back to a very old game played in the traditional harvest festival of Punjab. It is a strategy sport where each team sends a "raider" to catch players in the penalty area using speed and fighting skills. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/015/115/original/Torneig_de_Kabaddi.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/15115.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Lecture: "Security in East Asia and Japan-EU relations" 2011/06/28 11:16 At this lecture we will learn about the challenges regarding security established by East Asia, existing policies and their importance in relations between Japan and the European Union by Narushige Michishita. The influence of the alliance of Japan with the United States, as well as the Japanese relationships with South Korea and China in this field, will complete the visio of the topic. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/014/962/original/2011_05_11_La_seguridad_en_Asia_Oriental_y_las_relaciones_Jap_n-UE.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/14962.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Conference "Hong Kong: Business Opportunities and Access to the Chinese Market" 2011/06/28 10:33 Hong Kong is one of the main doors to Mainland China for international companies and is considered by The Economist magazine as one of the 5 best places in the world to do business. Its status as a Special Administrative Region confers Hong Kong a series of legal and economic advantages that Spanish companies should take into account when designing their strategy for China and Asia in general. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/014/929/original/2011_05_24_Jornada_Hong_Kong_-_oportunidades_de_negocio_y_formas_de_acceso_a_China.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/14929.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Lecture "Current Non Violent Movements: Gandhi's Legacy" 2011/06/22 10:51 The Iranian philosopher and intellectual, Ramin Jahanbegloo, will approach non violence as a means to build the foundations of a new cosmopolitics in a period when humanity is confronting religious fundamentalism, racial, ethnic prejudices and national interest conflicts. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/014/743/original/2011_06_15_Ramin_Jahanbegloo.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/14743.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Casa Asia Film Week 2011/06/21 09:50 From the 24th of May the tickets will be put on sale of the new contest of Asian cinema of Barcelona: Casa Asia Film Week. The festival will be held between the 6th and the 8th of June at Casa Asia Headquarters (with free activities and screenings) and between the 9th and 12th at Girona Cinemas, and will present a varied cinematographic programme, with a total of 30 films, 11 of which compete at the official section. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/014/662/original/CAFW_noticia.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/14662.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Literary Evening: "Pasión por Murakami" 2011/06/06 12:57 Owing to the publication in Catalan of the novel 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami, we will organize a literary evening for all the fans of the Japanese writer, recently awarded with the XXIII Premi Internacional Catalunya. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/014/200/original/2011_05_17_Pasion_por_Murakami.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/14200.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Exhibition: "Move on Asia" 2011/06/06 11:06 «Move on Asia» is a project that covers a decade of Asian videoart, between 2001 and 2010, from Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and Vietnam. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/014/191/original/2011_05_12_expo-moveonasia.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/14191.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Concert of Shib Das Chakraborty 2011/06/06 10:47 Indian classical music is one of the most original and defining cultural aspects of this millennial country. Very rich in concepts and unequalled in rhythmic and melodic nuances, Indian music, based on a modal system, is very different to what we are used to in the West, where harmony has traditionally been the central core. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/014/179/original/2011_05_16_Concierto_de_Shib_Das_Chakraborty.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/14179.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Casa Asia Film Week 2011/05/31 10:59 From the 24th of May the tickets will be put on sale of the new contest of Asian cinema of Barcelona: Casa Asia Film Week. The festival will be held between the 6th and the 8th of June at Casa Asia Headquarters (with free activities and screenings) and between the 9th and 12th at Girona Cinemas, and will present a varied cinematographic programme, with a total of 30 films, 11 of which compete at the official section. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/013/966/original/PROMO_FINAL_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/13966.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Asia Geek: “I’m not Japanese… but I love Manga!” 2011/05/24 10:00 In order to display the power and good situation of comics and manga made by Spanish creators, this new Asia Geek encounter, brings together some of the main illustrators of the current panorama. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/013/501/original/2011_04_07__I_m_not_Japanese_but_I_love_Manga_.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/13501.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Concert: "An Evening of Philippine Songs" 2011/05/23 09:55 Philippines is a country with a mixture of cultures that reflects its historical past at the same time it has originated a very peculiar identity. The great diversity of its folkloric music shows the richness of the influence of Spanish and oriental rhythms. With this concert, we propose a musical journey that will help us know more about these Asian islands. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/013/405/original/2011_05_11_Una_noche_de_canciones_filipinas.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/13405.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Lecture: "Gitanidad: An Indian way of seeing the world?" 2011/05/20 09:41 Sergio Rodríguez, author of the book Gitanidad, will present at this lecture a new thesis about what being a gypsy actually means. The lecturer states that the gypsy people have an Indian way of standing in the world that turnes them into a fragment of the East in middle of the West. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/013/360/original/2011_05_10_Gitanidad.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/13360.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Asia Geek: "Think geek, think big!" 2011/05/19 10:20 This new session of Asia Geek offers the story in first person of a young Dídak Lee, son of Chinese immigrants, who thanks to his attraction for technology and his enterprising spirit, achieves his dream of becoming part of Barça. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/013/341/original/Think_geek_think_big.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/13341.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Lecture: “Getting the City Back to the People” 2011/05/18 13:20 A lecture by the Indian architect Debashish Nayak and the Director of CHETNA (Centre for Health Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness) Indu Capoor, where they will talk about sustainable development and cultural heritage of the historical city of Ahmedabad. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/013/299/original/2011_04_29_Getting_the_City_Back_to_the_People.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/13299.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
InfoAsia 2011/05/16 17:26 /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/013/137/original/infoasia-Apple_ProRes_422_HQ_.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/13137.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Roundtable: "Keys for Excellence in 21st Century China" 2011/05/13 11:44 Innovation will be one of the main growing factors of China during the next decades. Within the field of science, education, companies or culture we already have many examples of this process of transformation from an economy of low work costs towards an economy of knowledge based on innovation. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/013/050/original/2011_05_04_Claves_para_la_excelencia_en_la_China_del_siglo_XXI_mp4.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/13050.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Busan-Barcelona-Busan 2011/05/13 10:57 Why Busan in Barcelona? In 1983, both cities signed a twinning agreement by virtue of the analogies between them. 28 years later, the Deputy Mayor of Busan, Baek Seung Taek, realiza una visita a Barcelona con la intención de prolongar este acuerdo con la presentación de Busan al público. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/013/047/original/2011_04_29_Busan-Barcelona-Busanweb3.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/13047.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Lecture: "Professional Opportunities in Asia" 2011/05/04 18:11 The economic stagnation situation of western powers, together with the progressive relocation of multinational companies towards other more competitive regions, make the qualified employment demand in the Asian continent to have progressively increase in the last years. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/012/732/original/Sequence_1-Apple_ProRes_422.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/12732.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Lecture: "The Akha at the crossroads" 2011/04/27 16:50 At this lecture, we will get to know about the current situation, lifestyles and future challenges of the Akha: an ethnic minority that lives between the north of Thailand, Burma, Laos and south China that despite its cultural richness is among the most unprivileged and marginated groups of society. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/012/324/original/Akha-Apple_ProRes_422.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/12324.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
2011 Nouruz Festival 2011/03/30 19:56 Casa Asia, together with the embassies of the countries of the region and the cultural associations of Central Asia, would like to make one of the most ancient festivals known, as well as to offer the display of the cultural diversity of Asia. Known as Nooruz, Navruz, Nauryz, Navroj... depending on where it is celebrated, it is a Persian origin New Year festival that coincides with the Spring equinox. Its roots can be found in the countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) and great part of the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey and Chinese Xinjiang. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/011/127/original/nouruz-Apple_ProRes_422_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/11127.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Presentation of the Study: "Analysis of the Potential of the Ports of the Spanish Mediterranean as China's entrance to Europe" 2011/03/29 09:54 Presentation of the study about the ports of the Mediterranean edited by Casa Asia, in collaboration with the Port of Barcelona, given by Jacinto Soler, one of the two authors of the study. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/010/932/original/estudi_ports-Apple_ProRes_422_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/10932.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Asia Geek "Mobile Asia: Art, Culture and Mobile Society" 2011/03/24 10:05 The unstoppable development of intelligent telephones and last generation tablets, joined to more and more sophisticated applications, allow to sense the outline of a future mobile society. Mobile telephones have a growing importance in society and they are added as an active agent, in processes of artistic creation, like in the new channels of dissemination throughout the globe. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/010/482/original/asia_movil-Apple_ProRes_422_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/10482.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Interview with Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom) and writer. 2011/03/17 10:10 Owing to the publication of Mi visión del islam occidental (Kairós, 2010), its author, the intellectual Tariq Ramadan, will offers us in this lecture his reflections and opinions regarding Islam in the West, as well as the challenges and opportunities he analyses. Professor Ramadan will approach issues such as women in Islam, the concept of “multiple identities”, the relation between religion and culture, European Islam, immigration, participation and “post-integration”. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/010/029/original/Entrevista_Tariq_Ramadan-web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/10029.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Special Report: Earthquake in Japan: Interview with Amadeo Jensana 2011/03/16 14:00 Special Report: Earthquake in Japan. Amadeo Jensana, Director of Economic Programmes and Cooperation of Casa Asia, analyses the situation of Japan after the earthquake. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/010/008/original/terremoto_japon_ajensana.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/10008.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Entrevista a Rafael Bueno, Director of Politics and Society of Casa Asia 2011/03/09 10:52 Interview with Rafael Bueno, Director of Politics and Society of Casa Asia, where he will approach different aspects regarding North Korea within the framework of the lecture "Future perspectives in North Korea". /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/009/552/original/Entrevista_Rafael_Bueno_OK_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/9552.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Hong Kong Film Festival in Barcelona 2011/02/24 18:29 Casa Asia, the Film Library of Catalonia and the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office of Brussels present the 6th edition of the Hong Kong Film Festival, which will include the screening of 12 long films. Out of these, seven belong to the most outstanding productions of 2009, and the rest are part of a retrospective of action films (1984-2007), which makes up one of the most representative genres of Hong Kong films. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/009/165/original/hongkong_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/9165.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Book launch: "El secret del meu turbant" 2011/02/21 17:34 El secret del meu turbant tells Nadia Ghulam's true story, an Afghan girl who when she was only eight suffered serious injuries because of a bomb. When she left the hospital two years later, the Taliban regime settled in Afghanistan and she made a radical decision to support her ill parents and little sisters: To supplant her brother, killed in the civil war. The book, written by Nadia Ghulam and the journalist Agnès Rotger, won the 43rd Prudenci Bertrana Award. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/008/856/original/El_secret_del_meu_turbant-Apple_ProRes_422.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/8856.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Asia Geek: "Digital China", by Isaac Mao 2011/02/16 11:50 Isaac Mao is a philosopher of “Sharism”, a social businessman, blogger, software architect and researcher in social teaching and technology. Currently, he is Director of the Social Brain Foundation (successor of the programme CNBlog co-founded by Mao), manager of the Tor Project, adviser of the Global Voices Online and executive adviser of many Internet, Web 2.0 and new media companies. He is also director of the Shanghai Youth Development Foundation. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/008/646/original/Entrevista_Isaac_Mao-web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/8646.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Diálogos sobre Nuevas Culturas Urbanas 2011/02/16 11:41 In the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Spain and Korea, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, represented by the Spanish Embassy in Korea, the Korea Foundation and Casa Asia have developed the cultural program “Spain. New Urban Cultures”. All the information is in the website: www.casaasia.es/culturasurbanas/eng/index.html /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/009/354/original/Korea_2010_Def_XDcam.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/9354.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Celebration of the Chinese New Year in Barcelona 2011/02/15 11:41 Barcelona held from the 3rd to the 6th of February the Chinese New Year. The Moll de la Fusta hosted this important festival for the Chinese people for a few days, where attendants could enjoy their gastronomy, culture and tradition. Casa Asia presented in its stand an activity programme for all the public regarding the Chinese culture and language, in collaboration with the Institut Confuci Foundation of Barcelona. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/008/517/original/any_nou_xines_Copy-web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/8517.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Lecture: "Islam is not what you think" 2011/02/07 17:42 Currently, Islam is a topic about which a lot is said and read, but what is true is that it is still unknown. Owing to the publication of Islam is not what you think (Kairós, 2010), its author, Abdelmumin Aya, will tell us in this lecture how Islam has been explained throughout time, from the first dictionaries of Christian missionaries to current Arabic expression. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/008/025/original/El_Islam_no_es_lo_que_crees-Apple_ProRes_422_HQ_.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/8025.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Interview with Nadia Ghulam 2011/02/07 09:55 Interview with the writer of the book "El secret del meu turbant", that tells Nadia Ghulam's true story, an Afghan girl who when she was only eight suffered serious injuries because of a bomb. When she left the hospital two years later, the Taliban regime settled in Afghanistan and she made a radical decision to support her ill parents and little sisters: To supplant her brother, killed in the civil war. The book, written by Nadia Ghulam and the journalist Agnès Rotger, won the 43rd Prudenci Bertrana Award. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/007/959/original/entrevista_Subt_BONA_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/7959.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Interview with Brahma Chellaney, Teacher of Strategic Studies at the Centre of Political Research in New Delhi 2011/02/02 14:08 Interview with Brahma Chellaney, within the framework of the Lecture: "India as a Major Actor in the Emerging Global Order", where he approaches the situation of the country's geo-strategic, social and economic issues. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/007/695/original/chellaney_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/7695.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Documentary screening: "Los ojos de Ariana" 2011/01/27 10:25 Casa Asia presents the documentary Los ojos de Ariana by Ricardo Macián, within the framework of the exhibition devoted to Afghanistan, which will be open to the public until March 2011. This documentary is added to the stories that have built up the exhibition project based on The imaginary return by the writer Atiq Rahimi. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/007/416/original/ojos_ariana_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/7416.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
International Conference: "Water and Development in Asia" 2011/01/27 09:43 The conference will aim to become a discussion forum about the management of hydric resources in Asia from a political, economic and social perspective and it will include the participation of internationally famous experts in sustainable urban management, of representatives of multilateral organizations devoted to international cooperation for development and of high representatives of several Asian cities. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/007/413/original/agua_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/7413.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Interview with Arjun Thapan, Special adviser regarding infrastructures and water of the President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) 2011/01/26 09:52 Interview with Arjun Thapan, Special adviser regarding infrastructures and water of the President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) at the conference Water and Development in Asia. The conference will aim to become a discussion forum about the management of hydric resources in Asia from a political, economic and social perspective and it will include the participation of internationally famous experts in sustainable urban management, of representatives of multilateral organizations devoted to international cooperation for development and of high representatives of several Asian cities. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/007/353/original/entrevista_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/7353.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Lecture "Indonesia: Business Opportunities" 2011/01/17 09:48 Thanks to the sustainability of the public finances of Indonesia, the strength of its business results, the low dependence on foreign supply and the economic policies addressed to attracting foreign investment, this country is consolidated as one of the most attractive economices and with the highest potential of Southeast Asia. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/007/008/original/indonesia_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/7008.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Roundtable "Second generation stories: The experience of children of Asian immigrants in our country" 2011/01/13 21:09 This event is organised within the framework of the Programme of Communities of Casa Asia and it includes the participation of the professor and researcher Rosa Aparicio, and of five young people from different countries and exponents of this Asian second generation in Barcelona. Rosa Aparicio is PhD in Politics and Sociology, teacher and researcher of the University Institute of Studies of Migrations at the University Pontificia Comillas and of the Institute Ortega y Gasset. She is also director of the magazine Migraciones and co-author of the study ILSEG (Longitudinal Investigation of Second Generation). /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/006/996/original/2010_12_14_Segona_Generacio.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/6996.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Roundtable: "Another Afghanistan" 2011/01/13 17:25 The freelance photographer Guillermo Cervera and the journalist of La Vanugardia Plàcid Garcia-Planas have a very different perspective about Afghanistan. Where some people see marines, attacks, politicians, burqas and stereotypes, they see transvestites, boxers, thugs, skaters and kytes. They are some of the few western journalists who work in Kandahar –the spiritual capital of the Talibans– travelling alone, without being enlisted in any western army. They are only enlisted in the Afghan army. Why? “Because it is the army of the Afghans –they say–. Because everyone dislikes them. Because we should –we would desperately want to– give them the responsability of security in Afghanistan, so we can leave the country”. Guillermo and Plàcid will explain their experience in the streets of Kabul and the paths of Badgis, around the Taliban valley of Mashali Kamar, the Taliban valley of Arghandab and the markets of Kandahar. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/006/993/original/2010_12_02_Otro_Afganistan.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/6993.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Performance: "Saju", by Sooyoung Lee 2010/12/23 11:07 Casa Asia, in collaboration with Hangar and SAS Geumcheon, presents the performance of the Korean artist Sooyoung Lee, who ends her stay in Barcelona with the presentation of a project in process that she will carry out at our headquarters. The proposal consists of installing an “Office of Good Fortune”, where the artist can predict the future to all those who would like to take part in the project. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/006/772/original/performance_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/6772.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Lecture “Elections of last 7th of November: A new future for Myanmar/Burma?” 2010/12/22 17:27 The elections of last 7th of November, the first since 1990, make a turn in the politics of the Military Junta that rules Myanmar/Burma. Despite everything, the electoral system designed by the regime offers few doubts about the desire of soldiers to guarantee a new political reality depending on interests. The absence of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy in elections has complete the uncertainty of the future of a political opposition which is divided and weakened, in a country where political, economic and social problemas are built up. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/006/767/original/2010_11_17_Birmania.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/6767.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Meeting with the Philippine writer Miguel Syjuco 2010/12/22 14:07 Ilustrado, won the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Palanca Awards, the most famous award of Philippines' arts. Acclaimed by the critics –«giddy and ambicious» (Publishers Weekly), «impressive, convincing from the beginning to the end. Its author, unlike Crispin, might win the Nobel Prize» (The Guardian)–, Ilustrado is a dazzling work that surprises, moves and amuses, while it introduces readers with sense of humour and lucidity in the reality of an archipelago relegated «to isolation and exoticism», which after the reading of this novel places itself in the centre of the best contemporary literature. The journalist Antonio Lozano and the writer Horacio Castellanos Mora talk to the author. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/006/739/original/ilustrado_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/6739.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Exhibition Afghanistan 2010/12/20 13:40 This exhibition project displays the work of photographers that explore a country in a conflict with an uncertain solution for the last thirty years. The authors of the images have stayed in Kabul, Kandahar, Mazar-e Sarif, Herat, Jalalabad and Kunduz, among other cities, in search for the unrepeated moment they have captured until it becomes history. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/006/592/original/expo_afganistan_bo_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/6592.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Asia Festival 2010 2010/12/16 10:56 The purpose of the Asia Festival is to approach the Asian culture to Catalonia. With the growing collaboration of Asian communities established in our country, the Festival is held every year since 2002 and it offers traditional and avant-garde shows from different Asian countries. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/006/535/original/Festival_Asia_2010_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/6535.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Stereotypes and Prejudices of current Iran 2010/12/02 17:51 «Young people at the edge of a swimming pool, who use Internet with the same skills as Hafez's poetry; women with xador, who go on a pilgrimage to the sacred city of Mashad and there they appreciate a successful divorce to Imam Reza; a Mullah who goes to the opposition and gives lessons of Humanity... This is how Iran works and its fascinating theatre, where everyone has different roles in several scenarios, but only one language, tarouf, a sophisticated form of hypocrisy and courtesy, according to which ‘welcome to by house’ is ‘walk on my eyes’.» (Fragment of Serge Michel's book Marche sur mesyeux. Portrait de l’Iran aujourd’hui). /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/006/193/original/2010_11_10_Estereotipos_Iran.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/6193.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
The six candidates to the elections of the Parliament of Catalonia at Casa Asia 2010/11/26 14:35 Casa Asia has offered its headquarters to Televisión Española in order to interview the six candidates of the political parties with representation in the Parlament of Catalonia. The morning program “Los desayunos de TVE” has interviewed every one of the six candidates to the Presidency of the Generalitat of Catalonia throughout the week. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/005/869/original/eleccions_catalanes.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/5869.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
VII East-West Dialogue (2010) 2010/11/22 20:23 Within the framework of the 15th anniversary of the Beijing Conference and the 10th anniversary of UN Resolution 1325, Casa Asia in its firm commitment to gender equality, empowerment of women, the Millenium Development Goals and Peace, focuses the 7th East-West Dialogue on Gender Equality and Development. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/005/413/original/Dialogo2010.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/5413.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Casa Asia renews its website 2010/11/18 10:00 Casa Asia website makeover and introduces a new design today is more in line with the latest technological advances and current trends can be found on the web 2.0. A renewal form and substance with the aim of providing better service and greater citizen participation. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/004/726/original/DEFINITIVA_final1.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/4726.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Casa Asia Award 2010 2010/11/02 19:00 Casa Asia Award 2010, on its seventh edition, was given ex aequo to the International Project Dunhuang (China) and to the Philippine Senator Edgardo J. Angara. The jury decided to award, on the one hand, the project Dunhuang for its task of recovery, preservation and display of information and images of the manuscripts, paintings and fabrics found in the Chinese city Dunhuang and the Silk Route, by means of Internet and of the promotion of educational programmes and research. On the other hand, the jury also awarded the Philippine Senator Angara, for his committment with the strengthening of the relations between Spain and the Philippines. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/005/785/original/premio_CA_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/5785.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Exhibition: "Beijing Time / La hora de China" 2010/10/30 19:45 The time in Beijing is the time in China according to the time zones of the country, but this «time» is also the clear sign of the appearance of China as a great world power. This exhibition project, curated by Fang Zhennig and Menene Gras, Director of Culture and Exhibitions of Casa Asia, brings together the recent work of 17 Chinese artists based in Beijing. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/630/original/2009_12_17_beijing_time_Expo.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/630.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Chinese community in Barcelon 2010/10/30 19:40 Documentary "Jo Visc a Barcelona" about the Chinese community in Barcelona created by Casa Asia. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/570/original/comunidad_china_bcn.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/570.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
1st Twitt-Asia Meeting 2010/10/29 19:00 The 1st Twitt-Asia Meeting, promoted from the programme 'Asia Geek' of Casa Asia and right before the Manga Room, will gather well known experts of the nano-blogosphere to analyse the Twitter phenomenon. Moreover, we include Antonio Delgado, blogger and co-organiser of the 1st Twitt-Tokyo', which will share the experience of the meeting in Tokyo and will introduce the topic of social networks in Asia. Next, Hèctor García (Kirai), writer, blogger and head engineer of Twitter-Japan, will approach the world of Internet in Japan, about his everyday work in Twitter; about how Twitter is used by the Japanese and about its intensive use in Japan, where it is already one of the 10 sites of Internet most used in the country. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/005/198/original/twittasia_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/5198.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
School of Bamboo, Madrid 2010/10/27 18:42 School of Bamboo, intercultural education project of Casa Asia was born in 2003-2004 with the aim of bringing the Asian and Pacific region to the school population. Our educational proposal has three general objectives: · Show the wealth of social, cultural and artistic heritage of Asia. · Make born and raised on the students interest in this continent and its people, as well as learn about the cultures of origin of their colleagues from Asia. · Living cultural diversity as positive and enriching. · Educate in intercultural skills. Our range of activities is aimed at students in nursery, primary, secondary, special education, adult education and informal education. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/004/519/original/Escuela_de_bambu_madrid.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/4519.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Iberoamerican Observatory of Asia-Pacific 2010/10/21 18:33 Casa Asia programme whose main objective is to facilitate understanding of Asia-Pacific Latin American nations, especially in the economic, business and academia. Has become the main tool to disseminate virtual information and analysis on the ever-growing Asia-Latin American ties through the web www.iberoasia.org, which is updated daily, and its bimonthly newsletters. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/004/032/original/20090623economias_emergentes.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/4032.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Official Opening of the Confucius Institute of Barcelona 2010/10/18 12:19 Casa Asia Headquarters hosted last Thursday 15th of April the official opening of the Confucius Institute of Barcelona (ICB). The starting up of ICB, which aims at spreading the teaching of the Chinese language and culture in Catalonia, is the result of the agreement between the Main Headquarters of the Confucius Institute (Hanban) of China, the University Autonomous of Barcelona, the University of Barcelona and Casa Asia. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/003/366/original/2010_10_15_Confucio_institute.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/3366.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Interview with Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai film director 2010/10/07 12:54 Interview with Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai film director, winner of the Gold Palme d'Or of 2010 and winner of the Critic Award of the 43rd edition of the Sitges Festival for the film "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives". The Casa Asia award was for Cold Fish, film by the Japanese director Sion Sono. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/005/123/original/entrevista_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/5123.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
PLAN presenta el nuevo informe "Por ser niñas" 2010/09/20 19:00 PLAN has presented in Casa Asia its fourth report 'For Being A Girl' with the support of the film director Isabel Coixet and journalist Rosa Maria Calaf. In the event also participated PLAN gender expert, Edward Abbey, the girl and lecturer in PLAN Bangladesh, Rami Samapti Roy, and the Director of Casa Asia, Jesus Sanz. PLAN study shows how girls in big cities suffer more violence and are most vulnerable children by the simple fact of being women and children. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/005/288/original/porserninas_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/5288.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Lecture: "I live in Barcelona, and you?" 2010/08/07 19:45 The series «So far, so close: Asian communities in Spain» aims at making the reality of Asian immigration known in Spain and to create a public platform of intercultural encounter and debate in society with Asian communities that live in Spain. The first session of this series will approach the Chinese community in Barcelona. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/627/original/2010_03_18_vivo_barcelona.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/627.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Exhibition "Micrographies: The world through a mobile" 2010/08/07 19:45 /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/636/original/2009_11_03_micrografias.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/636.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
China Spain meeting of students 2010 2010/08/07 19:45 /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/639/original/2010_02_12_encuentro_estudiantes_china__espana.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/639.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Climate Change and Renewable Energies in Asia and Africa 2010/08/07 19:44 Casa Asia and Casa África, in collaboration with the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, the Obra Social Fundación "la Caixa", QuEST, ACS Foundation and Técnicas Reunidas, are organising the «International Conference on Climate Change and Renewable Energies in Asia and Africa» to be held on 26 and 27 November at the CaixaForum, Madrid. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/615/original/2010_01_22_pachauri.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/615.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Exhibition: "Map of the sounds of Tokyo" 2010/08/07 19:44 Casa Asia displays the photographs of the film "Map of the sounds of Tokyo" with the purpose to support the recent incursion of Isabel Coixet in the Japanese culture. The fixed image crystallizes into the key moments of the film allowing an exploration of different aesthetic registers. David Coll contributes in these large-format 15 photographs a vision that completes the selection of notes, texts, fragments and audio of the film made by Isabel Coixet. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/621/original/2009_12_22_mapas_sonidos_tokio.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/621.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Curso de teatro de sombras chinas 2010/08/07 19:44 Shadow theatre is born in Asia, between myths and legends. Always within the framework of the ritual and ceremony, as a link between what's sacred and profane, between gods and human beings through characters initiated in their knowledge. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/612/original/2010_03_03_sombras_chinas_madrid.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/612.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Lecture: "Indigenous Women in Cambodia" 2010/08/07 19:44 At this conference we will get to know the needs and challenges of indigenous Cambodian women, the project that Psicólogos sin Fronteras ONGD develops to improve their psycho-social wellbeing, as well as the results of the study they have carried out with the AECID financement about their situation regarding the Millenium Goals of UNO: gender equality, maternal health and children mortality. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/624/original/2009_08_09_mujeres_indigenas_camboya.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/624.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Lecture "Thailand in Crisis: Is there a way out?" 2010/08/07 19:44 In this lecture the political crisis in Thailand, which has been prolongued for almost five years will be analysed. There social and political vindications will be converged with a struggle for power. This situation and uncertainties that are projected in the perspective of succession of the crown complicate the forecast of future scenarios. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/618/original/2010_06_21_tailandia_crisis.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/618.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
VI East-West Dialogue 2 (2009) 2010/08/07 19:43 ince 2004, the East-West Dialogue annually brings together a group of policy makers, including former heads of state and government, pre-eminent scholars, representatives of key non-governmental organizations and of civil society from the East and the West working together for a common cause, to examine today's most pressing global, regional and local challenges, exchange best practices and engage themselves to support action-oriented policies. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/609/original/2009_11_10_VI_DIALOGO_ORIENTE_OCCIDENTE_Parte_2_2.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/609.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Book launch: "Un liberal a la Xina" 2010/08/07 19:43 From a Catalan perspective, the book approaches the Chinese politics and the areas of Asia with important Chinese presence. The author, former President of the youth of the European Liberal Democrat Party, has had many interviews in the last years with political leaders, diplomats, academics and journalists. The work describes and reflects on the past, the present and the future of political relations in this part of the world. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/603/original/2010_06_28_un_liberal_xina.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/603.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
VI East-West Dialogue (2009) 2010/08/07 19:42 Since 2004, the East-West Dialogue annually brings together a group of policy makers, including former heads of state and government, pre-eminent scholars, representatives of key non-governmental organizations and of civil society from the East and the West working together for a common cause, to examine today's most pressing global, regional and local challenges, exchange best practices and engage themselves to support action-oriented policies. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/591/original/2009_11_10_VI_dialogo_oriente_occidente2.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/591.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
2009 Casa Asia Award 2010/08/07 19:42 Casa Asia Award 2009, in its sixth edition, has been awarded ex aequo to EFE Agency and the Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe. The jury has decided to award, on the one hand, EFE Agency for its vast professional trajectory, vocation for service and information task that its correspondents have developed in the region of Asia Pacific since 1963, and, on its behalf, to Miguel F. Rovira, Dean and current delegate of EFE in Manila, responsible for information in Southeast Asia, with more than 20 years of experience. On the other hand, the jury has also awarded the Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe, author of the opera and suite for orchestra Quirós, based on the topic of the Spanish navigator Pedro Fernández Quirós, for integrating in his brilliant musical career the approach among cultures and to highlight historical bonds between Spain and the Pacific. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/597/original/2009_12_11_premio_Casa_Asia_2009.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/597.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Exhibition "Textile Art of Thailand: Cultural Identity and Heritage" 2010/08/07 19:42 Casa Asia and the Siam Society present a collection of textile art of Thailand that display the precious cultural heritage of this country and the relation of this heritage with national identity. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/585/original/2009_10_23_telas_tailandia.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/585.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Encounter with Chinese writers: "Trip to Xibanya, Chinese writers account Spain" 2010/08/07 19:42 Casa Asia hosts the Chinese writers that make up the project of the State Society for International Exhibitions (SEEI) 'Trip to Xibanya, Chinese writers account Spain'. SEEI has invited a group of Chinese writers to go around Spain in October with the purpose to write a travel book about our country. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/588/original/2009_10_11_escritores_chinos_espana.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/588.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Lecture "The changing order of castes in India: From the system to the structure" 2010/08/07 19:42 The Indian sociologist, Dipankar Gupta, internationally known for his innovative investigations about the structure and social change in India will offer us a critical and new vision of the caste system in India. In his last publications, The Caged Phoenix: Can India Fly?, he dismantles some of the myths about the new India and its so-called success history. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/594/original/2010_06_22_india_castas.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/594.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Puppet show "TRUST", by Soshiro Matsubara 2010/08/07 19:42 Casa Asia presents the puppet show TRUST, where a narrator builds the story of six characters that dialogue among themselves. He has given life to these puppets he handles and gives voice to, as if it was miniature theatre. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/600/original/2010_03_25_trust_marionetas.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/600.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Lecture: "Challenges for the Consolidation of Democracy in Indonesia" 2010/08/07 19:41 A decade ago Indonesia suffered a severe multi-dimensional crisis of political instability, poverty and social desintegration. Currently, after a series of institutional transformations, the country has become one of the most vigorous democracies of the region and in the third biggest democracy of the world. Indonesia is, in addition, an example of compatibility between democracy and Islam. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/582/original/2009_11_17_democracia_indonesia.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/582.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
5th Spain - Philippines Forum (2010) 2010/08/07 19:41 Next 22nd and 23rd of February Barcelona hosted the 5th edition of the Spain - Philippines Forum, organised by Casa Asia and the Santiago Foundation, in collaboration with the Barcelona City Council, the Catalonian Government (Generalitat) and the embassies of Philippines in Spain and Spain in the Philippines and thanks to the sponsorship of AECID. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/573/original/2010_02_22_tribuna_espana_filipinas_2010.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/573.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Lecture: "The path towards democracy in Pakistan" 2010/08/07 19:41 Violence in the last years in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan has reinforced the perception of being a frustrated State, hiding a hopeful phenomenon: The fruition of a Pakistani democracy, reflected for example in the adoption of the Parliament of important constitutional reforms. The lecturer, expert in international politics and security, will go through the path that the process of democratization is taking in this country. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/576/original/2010_05_06_democracia_en_pakistan.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/576.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Orient Summer School 2010/08/07 19:41 Study conference and intercultural debate between young Asian and Westerners held in the island Mallorca. The aim of the programme is to provide a space for shared living where participants can debate current issues which affect young people as citizens of a globalised and interdependent world. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/579/original/escuela_de_orient_2009.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/579.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Encounter with Xinran Xue: "Generación Mao" 2010/08/07 19:40 Within the framework of encounters with Asian writers, and on the occasion of the publication in Spanish of "Generación Mao" (Emecé 2009), Casa Asia hosts in Madrid and in Barcelona the Chinese journalist and writer Xinran Xue. This valuable and innovatory book, without precedents in the history of our civilization, gives voice to a silent generation and tells the secret story of 20th century China. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/567/original/2009_09_15_xin_ran_mao.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/567.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Launch of the book "Six Suspects" 2010/08/07 19:40 Casa Asia and the publishing house Anagrama launched the book Six suspects dby Vikas Swarup. Author who already wrote the novel Slumdog Millionaire, based on the Oscar winning film with the same name. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/561/original/2010_05_17_conferencia_6_sospechosos.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/561.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Asian Film Series "Word in movement: Cinema and Literature in Asia" 2010/08/07 19:40 The controversy of literature, conceived as art, and cinema, qualified as show goes back to the origins of cinema. Somehow, these two disciplines have the same purpose: To tell stories and one of their basic elements are the same for both: Words. This series suggests a tour around Asian films based on great novels, or those whose content talks about the literary universe. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/564/original/2010_02_26_ciclo_animaspace.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/564.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
30th Peace Award for Ramin Jahanbegloo 2010/08/07 19:39 Since 1984, the Association for the United Nations in Spain, with the support of the Barcelona County Council, grants the Peace Award to a personality or institution highlighted for its task in favour of human rights and fundamental freedoms, the defence of the peace solution of conflicts and the promotion of the peace culture. In this 30th edition, Ramin Jahanbegloo (Teheran, 1961), philosopher, writer, and outstanding member of the Iranian intellectual movement has been awarded. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/552/original/2010_03_02_XXX_premio_paz.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/552.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
I Lecture Series: "'Asia Geek. Digital Life and Urban Tendencies in Japan, China and Korea" 2010/08/07 19:39 Casa Asia programmes its first lecture series that would like to consolidate a space where experts of reference in cyberculture and Asia, such as Kirai (Héctor García), Carolina Miyata, Simón Lee, Manel Ollé, Josep Coll or Kahlo (Marta Castro), will explain in first person the avant-garde tendencies and other manifestations associated to digital life. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/555/original/2009_09_07_asia_geek.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/555.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Asia Festival 2010/08/07 19:38 /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/549/original/festival_asia_resum.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/549.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Lecture "The Path of the Sword: The Spirit of the Samurai" 2010/08/07 19:38 The Japan Foundation, in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan in Spain and Casa Asia, offers a lecture about Kendo given by Masami Matsunaga, Vice President of the International Federation of Kendo and of the National Japanese Federation of Kendo, who will talk about the history, forms and etiquettes of this sport practice, as well as its values in its educational and spiritual perspective. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/540/original/2010_01_25_kendo_conferencia.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/540.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Party of the Bangla Language 2010 2010/08/07 19:37 /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/000/537/original/2010_02_20_lengua_bangla.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/537.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Lecture: "Kyrgyzstan 2010" 2010/08/07 12:45 Within the framework of activities of the Observatory of Central Asia, Casa Asia organises the lecture "Kyrgyzstan 2010". The purpose is to make Kyrgyzstan known and the nature of the conflict that is currently destabilizing not only the country, but all the Central Asian region. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/013/399/original/Kirguistan.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/13399.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
School of Bamboo, Barcelona 2010/06/01 11:00 The School of Bamboo, the intercultural education project of Casa Asia was born in 2003-2004 with the purpose to approach the Asian continent and the region of the Pacific to the school population. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/005/364/original/escola_bambu_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/5364.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
Exhibition "North Korea: The Weight of History" 2010/04/26 10:00 The history of this nation since its foundation in 1948, with the proclamation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, after the surrender of Japan coinciding with the end of the Second World War in 1945, and division of the country into North and South with the creation of two independent governments, is a history lesson that is worth remembering to understand the present. The aim of this exhibition is to raise public awareness of the evolution of this country, since 1954, following the cessation of hostilities, which erupted in June 1950 between the North and the South and whose result did not take place until three years later. The "weight" of history in this case refers to information provided by the facts and events connected with the 20th Century, useful to understand the conditions of the local context in the global scene that characterizes the society of information. The visual display, through graphic images, photography and audio, will allow the audience to be familiar with the present of an isolated country in the international system, but whose history should be shown in order to access the knowledge of its current reality. The exhibition will include unpublished documentary material in Spain in order to expand the informative and didactic contents of the project. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/005/201/original/expocorea_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/5201.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
II International Congress on Asian Tourism 2010/03/22 11:32 Summary of the conferences on 8 February. This day covered topics such as the experience in the hotel industry, experiences in the destinations, the role of new technologies and finally the challenges and future vision of tourism. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/010/329/original/congres_turismo_dia8_web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/10329.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
II International Congress on Asian Tourism 2010/03/22 10:30 Summary of conferences on 7 February. This day covered topics such as Asian tourism in the world and Europe, the MICE tourism, luxury tourism and shopping and sports tourism. /swf/player.swf?videourl=/media/asset_publics/resources/000/010/281/original/congres_turisme_dia7-web.mp4&fotourl=/keyframes/10281.jpg&barcolor=99C1FD&streaming=true
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Casa Asia moves to the building of the CNMC
Chinese New Year at Barcelona
Conference “The Philippines and ASEAN: A New Business Opportunity for Foreign Companies in Asia”
Exhibition “A Japanese Garden: Topographies of Void”
Casa Asia joins Bookcrossing owing to the Diada of Sant Jordi
Presentation: “The Philippines and Spain, Development Commitment for the Population affected by Natural Disasters”
Debate Conference: "1986-2014. Spain in Europe"
The Foreign Minister inaugurates the exhibition "Spain in Europe" and chaired a working lunch with business in Casa Asia
Chinese leaders from turism sector visit Casa Asia
A representation of the Indian Women's Press Corp and Indian economist Tushar Pandey, visiting Casa Asia
Yotaru Hatamura session at Casa Asia
The Economic Council of Casa Asia held its annual meeting and setting its roadmap for 2014
Meeting "Bangladesh: prospects and business opportunities"
Conference "Science, technology and innovation policy in Japan: lessons and good practices"
Presentation of the book: "El lugar más feliz del mundo", of David Jiménez
Presentation of the book: "Mi viaje al Norte", Lancy Dodem
Conference "The current situation in Australia and its future prospects"
La Caixa-Casa Asia grant
Barcelona Coral Asia's concert in Palau de la Generalitat
New Casa Asia Headquarters
Prueba galeria sin publicar (eng)
Exhibition: "The Afghan Passage"
New Urban Cultures 2011 - Delhi (India)
8th East-West Dialogue: For a New Global Governance Agenda
Solidarity Day: "One thousand cranes for Japan, Barcelona"
Solidarity Day: "One thousand cranes for Japan, Madrid"
Lecture: "My Vision of Western Islam"
Lecture: "India as a Major Actor in the Emerging Global Order"
Exhibition: "Afghanistan"
7th East-West Dialogue
Asian Communities
Casa Asia moves to the building of the CNMC 2018/10/23 12:14
Àsia a la Mercè 2015/09/10 17:23 We invite you to participate in shows from Asia that will take place in the Festival of Barcelona thanks to the City Council, el Mercat de les Flors, Graner, el Centre Cultural Coreà, la Fundació Japó, la Fundació ASEF, l’Ambaixada de Tailàndia i CaixaForum.
Chinese New Year at Barcelona 2015/02/23 17:54 On Saturday 21st of February the parade brought together more than a thousand people from 36 Chinese and Catalan organisation, from Barcelona, and from Santa Coloma, Badalona and Girona, and ended with music and dance performances on a stage located at Arco de Triumfo, end of the parade.
Conference “The Philippines and ASEAN: A New Business Opportunity for Foreign Companies in Asia” 2014/10/16 17:44 Bernardo Villegas, Doctor in Economy by Harvard University and Vice President of the University of Asia and the Pacific of Manila (the Philippines), and Jose Maria Cervera, International director at the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, took place, last October 1st, in a business encounter at Casa Asia to analyse business opportunities that ASEAN and specifically the Philippines represent for foreign companies in Asia.
Conference at Casa Asia about the business opportunities in Philippines and ASEAN, on October 1st
Jose Maria Cervera, Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, during the conference
Bernardo Villegas thinks that China, India and ASEAN countries will lead the 21st century
Bernardo Villegas answers questions during the conference
Exhibition “A Japanese Garden: Topographies of Void” 2014/07/04 12:53 Casa Asia presents the exhibition project by the artist Esther Pizarro and curated by Menene Gras Balaguer, consisting of the creation of a Japanese garden, understood as a copy of natural landscape and the construction of a cultural identity. This project brings together the expression of a milennial tradition represented in the figure of a "Japanese Garden" and its validity in the work of architects and landscapists that have adopted as a role their aesthetic ideology, such as Tadao Ando, Isamo Noguchi, Toyo Ito, Kengo Kuma and Shigeru Ban.
A Japanese garden, treated as a replication of the natural landscape and as a construction of a cultural identity
A walk for the senses and the reflection
The expression of an ancient tradition
A representation of the world, a microcosm where a lack of scale occurs
A sea of salt, which is kept "when the water disappears"
A space for meditation in communion with nature
Casa Asia joins Bookcrossing owing to the Diada of Sant Jordi 2014/04/23 13:52 On the 23rd of April, Casa Asia’s Media Library invites you to celebrate Sant Jordi and International Book’s Day by making available for every user a great deal of different titles listed in the Bookcrossing initiative.
Bookcrossing inside Sant Pau's Inclosure
Medialibrary of Casa Asia liberated books for the Bookcrossing on Sant Jordi celebration
Copies of Bookcrossing are distributed through the Medialibrary’s new facilities, located in the San Manuel Pavilion.
In total, there will be more than thirty books to be picked up and freed all around Casa Asia, Barcelona, and the world.
Casa Asia entry in Book day and Sant Jordi's day
Bookcrossing in Casa Asia Medialibrary
Music in the open access to San Manuel Pavilon for Sant Jordi day and the book day
Presentation: “The Philippines and Spain, Development Commitment for the Population affected by Natural Disasters” 2014/03/28 13:53 At this session the results of the agreement "Support to Sustainable Human Development and Struggle against Poverty in Bicol Communities affected by Durian Typhoon and Mindanao Island through the Improvement of the Productive Farming Sector, Strengthening of School Community and Access to Drinking Water" will be presented. This project is financed by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID) and carried out between 2008 and 2014.
Opening session by Ramón M. Moreno, Director General of Casa Asia; Jordi Puig, Honorary Consul General of the Philippines in Barcelona; and Rafael Rodríguez-Ponga, President of the Foundation Humanism and Democracy (H+D)
Assistants at the presentation, minutes before the start
Beginning of the presentation
Intervention of Ramón M. Moreno, Director General of Casa Asia
Jordi Puig, Honorary Consul General of the Philippines in Barcelona
Intervention of Rafael Rodríguez-Ponga, President of the Foundation Humanism and Democracy (H+D)
Start of the intervention about the experience and Trajectory of H+D in the Philippines
Intervention of Maribel Alañón, Director General of H+D
Beatriz Herranz, H+D Technician in charge of the Agreement, presents the results of the work carried out by H+D and Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) in the Philippines since 2008 after Durian Typhoon in Bicol and Mindanao Island
Debate Conference: "1986-2014. Spain in Europe" 2014/03/27 13:56 Owing to the elections to the European Parliament next 25th of May, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and Casa Asia organise the debate conference "1986-2014. Spain in Europe", which will be held on Tuesday 25th of March at the Administration Pavilion of Sant Pau's Modernist Venue.
Debate "1986-2014. Spain in Europe"
Participants in the debate
Moderator of the debate, Teresa Carreras; President of the Association of European Journalists of Catalonia
Participants during the debate
Teresa Freixes, Professor of Constitutional Law at University Autonomous of Barcelona and Jean Monnet ad personam Professor
Gregorio Garzón Clariana, Professor of Public International Law of University Autonomous of Barcelona and Jean Monnet ad personam Professor of European Union Law
Francesc Granell, Professor of International Economic Organization of the Faculty of Economy and Business of University of Barcelona
Fernando Guirao, Jean Monnet ad personam Professor of History of the European Integration at University Pompeu Fabra
Cloncluding speech of Iñigo Méndez de Vigo, State Secretary for the European Union
Intervention of Iñigo Méndez de Vigo, State Secretary for the European Union.
Iñigo Méndez de Vigo, State Secretary for the European Union, cloncludes the discussion day
The Foreign Minister inaugurates the exhibition "Spain in Europe" and chaired a working lunch with business in Casa Asia 2014/03/13 17:32 Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, José Manuel García-Margallo, opens on Thursday March 13 the informative exhibition "Spain in Europe from 1986 to 2014" on the occasion of the forthcoming elections to the European Parliament, and participate in a working lunch with representatives of leading Asian multinational companies based in Barcelona, as well as Spanish interests in Asia.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, José Manuel García- Margallo, entering the headquarters of Casa Asia
Speech of Ramon Maria Moreno, CEO of Casa Asia
Intervention Ramon Maria Moreno, CEO of Casa Asia Opening address of " Spain in Europe 1986-2014 " exhibition
Opening address of " Spain in Europe 1986-2014 " exhibition Statement by Inigo Mendez de Vigo, Secretary of State for the European Union
García-Margallo Minister during his speech
Attending the opening ceremony personalities, before tarting his visit to the exhibitions
Attending the opening ceremony personalities, moments before starting his visit to the exhibition Minister García- Margallo during exposure
Ínigo Méndez de Vigo and García-Margallo visiting the exhibition "Spain in Europe 1986-2014"
People attending the opening ceremony of " Spain in Europe 1986-2014 ", headed by García-Margallo, visit the exhibition
Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida attends to the event
García-Margallo and the group of entrepreneurs, posing for the group picture just before starting the working lunch
Chinese leaders from turism sector visit Casa Asia 2014/03/07 12:55 Under the Chinese Future Leaders program, the week 23 to 28 June staged a fall agenda between Madrid and Barcelona where participants of the Seventh Edition of this program. They had the opportunity to come into direct contact with the Spanish culture, making them aware of such relevant practical elements of our tourism and gastronomy, design, fashion, architecture and wine tourism.
A representation of the Indian Women's Press Corp and Indian economist Tushar Pandey, visiting Casa Asia 2014/03/06 13:43 The delegation of Indian Women's, nonprofit organization with nearly 600 reputable professional print, broadcast and new media Indians, visited the headquarters of Casa Asia. In this meeting with local agencies responsible for tourism promotion, in order to show the potential of Barcelona and Catalonia as a tourist destination for Indian visitors was held.
Yotaru Hatamura session at Casa Asia 2014/03/06 13:25 On 29 October, Yotaro Hatamura, president of the Commission of Inquiry into accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant, delivered at the headquarters of Casa Asia a session in which he spoke about the lessons learned from the accident in strategic planning and risk prevention. The event was organized by Casa Asia and the Japan Foundation.
The Economic Council of Casa Asia held its annual meeting and setting its roadmap for 2014 2014/03/06 13:17 On Monday 25 November the annual meeting of the Economic Council of Casa Asia was held. This council, which is composed of thirty representatives of the business sector and institutions that foster economic relations between Asia and Spain, aimed to raise the lines of future action in the field of economic programs organized by the institution.
Meeting "Bangladesh: prospects and business opportunities" 2014/03/05 13:51 Under the International Classroom program, CEI International Affairs, the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, in collaboration with Casa Asia organized this meeting on the benefits, facilities and investment opportunities in Bangladesh, know the most dynamic professional fields and the most dynamic sectors in the region.
Conference "Science, technology and innovation policy in Japan: lessons and good practices" 2014/03/05 13:41 Japan is one of the most advanced countries in the field of science and technology, both for the investment spent on research and the excellence of its centers, universities and companies. In this lecture, Dr. Aizawa, one of the foremost experts on Japanese science and technology policy in your country, explain the main keys to a country to become and remain a scientific and technological power globally.
Presentation of the book: "El lugar más feliz del mundo", of David Jiménez 2014/03/05 13:27 David Jimenez comes back to literary reports, which has became his books "Hijos del monzón" in an international success and we moved with his chronicles a world of paradise lost, forgotten wars, heroes and unlikely places marked by the extremes of the human condition, the its lights and shadows. This was the presentation of his book "El lugar más feliz del mundo".
Presentation of the book: "Mi viaje al Norte", Lancy Dodem 2014/03/05 12:55 Introducing the work of Lancy Dodem "Mi viaje al Norte" in the Magna room in the Casa de Convalecencia (Modernist Campus Sant Pau, Barcelona).
Concert: “Hannaneh (حنانه), a Persian Musical Journey” 2014/03/04 13:31 Casa Asia, together with the Cultural Department of the Embassy of Iran and RBA Foundation, presented a concert of traditional Persian music with the band Hannaneh (حنانه), from Teheran, which took place the 14th of February at the Auditorium of the RBA Foundation.
Conference "The current situation in Australia and its future prospects" 2014/03/05 12:27 As part of the "economic diplomacy meetings on Asia", CEI International Affairs, Chamber of Commerce, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and Casa Asia, jointly organized this conference on the benefits, facilities and opportunities investment in Australia, you will also get to know the professions most dynamic and vibrant sectors of the country.
La Caixa-Casa Asia grant 2014/03/03 12:53 Once more year, Casa Asia and the "la Caixa" Foundation call for applications open seven grants for postgraduate studies at universities or higher education institutions in the Asia-Pacific region. For the first time, this program is extended from three to six countries: Australia, South Korea, India, Japan, Singapore and China.
Barcelona Coral Asia's concert in Palau de la Generalitat 2014/03/03 12:13 On Tuesday December 17 of 2013, Barcelona Coral Asia, a project of Casa Asia with the city of Barcelona, made a concert for International Migrants Day in the Palau de la Generalitat.
Barcelona Coral Asia during the concert at the Palau de la Generalitat
Barcelona Coral Asia extents its music in the Palau de la Generalitat
Carles Josep Comalada directs the Barcelona Coral Asia
Barcelona Coral Asia defines itself as a participating intercultural project encounter through song
Members of the Barcelona Coral Asia during the concert in thel Palau de la Generalitat
Barcelona Coral Asia is an example of the multicultural diversity and social cohesion in Barcelona's city
The group born as aintercultural meeting space for youth from diverse backgrounds through song and music
The concert, which included three Asian, China, Philippines, Iran and Catalan songs , gathered a large and enthusiastic audience
New Casa Asia Headquarters 2014/02/20 13:01 Since last July of 2013, Casa Asia Headquarters has moved to the premises of its new social headquarters: Sant Manuel Pavilion, located within Sant Pau’s Modernist Venue in Barcelona, Spain. The institution is relocated in this new space where it carry out its activities and programmes and it will leave the Palace Baró de Quadras, where it has been established during the last ten years.
Overview of the Historic Site of Sant Pau
Opening of the Venue with the President of Generalitat, Artur Mas, and the Vice-President of the European Commission, Viviane Reding, among others
First visits to San Manuel Pavilion
Casa Asia's Reception in San Manuel Pavilion
Administration's pavilion entrance of the historical site of Sant Pau's Hospital
New Casa Asia Headquarters' hall
Sant Manuel Pavilion, Casa Asia headquarters
Entrace to Sant Manuel Pavillion
Detail of the sculpture which welcomes at the main entrance of San Manuel Pavilion
Sant Pau’s Modernist Venue
Common zones of the rooms and Casa Asia's Media Library
Casa Asia's Media Library users
Detail of one of the windows in Sant Manuel Pavillion
Casa Asia conferences' room
One of the meeting rooms of the new headquarters
Casa Asia Tagore's room
Reading room of Casa Asia's Media Library
Stone, brick and ceramics are the predominant building materials in San Manuel Pavilion
Chinese New Year at Barcelona 2014/02/03 14:10 The Chinese New Year is the most important festivity in China and it is celebrated by more than 1300 million people, together with the China Diaspora, which involves 50 million people all over the world. In Spain, Chinese communities resident in different cities also take part in the celebrations that begin on the 31st of January 2014, when the Year of the Horse or Green Horse begins, which will be 4712.
IV Encuentro de Mujeres Asiáticas y Españolas 2013/12/10 17:41 The 4th Meeting of Asian and Spanish Women has been held the 29th of November under the title “Advancing in Equality: Tourism Opportunities in Spain and Southeast Asia” with the purpose to approach opportunities and challenges that an economic sector with special value for Southeast Asia and Spain such as tourism offers women. This meeting will bring together around thirty outstanding experts from international and governmental organisms (European Union, UN Women, Asian Development Bank, etc), NGO, business women and professionals of the tourist sector.
New Casa Asia Headquarters 2013/10/08 11:51 Since last July, Casa Asia Headquarters has moved to the premises of its new social headquarters: Sant Manuel Pavilion, located within Sant Pau’s Modernist Venue.
Sant Manuel Pavilion
Detail of a tower building designed by architect Lluis Domenech i Montaner
Detail of the facade of Sant Manuel Pavilion
Detail of the entrance to Sant Manuel Pavilion
Main Facade of the Sant Manuel Pavilion
Prueba galeria sin publicar (eng) 2011/03/18 15:00 Esto es una prueba. (eng)
De izquierda a derecha:Francina Vila Valls,Ana Maiques, Surbhi Sharma y Maria Socorro
Exhibition: "The Afghan Passage" 2012/11/21 18:24 At this exhibition of eight paintings, we will approach the current situation of Afghan women, without forgetting that there is a silent majority that vindicates their condition. Denied women with no face that, however, can be saved by the hope for a better world while there are conditions in order to be accepted.
Exhibition "Citystories and Global Cities" 2012/02/02 17:09 This exhibition brings together works designed by artists, writers, filmmakers and journalists with a speech on the diasporic and multicultural city, the difficult conditions of life of its inhabitants and the rapid changes experienced in the past two decades because of its rapid economic and population growth.
Celebration of the Chinese New Year in Barcelona 2012/02/01 10:05 Barcelona held from 27th, 28th and 29th of January the Chinese New Year. Moll de la Fusta was again the scene of important festival for Chinese people. This year the Chinese New Year is dedicated to the Dragon, a highly revered symbol of the Chinese calendar and a synonymous of happiness, vitality and success. This is one of the most important festivals for more than 1,300 million people worldwide.
2012 poster
Casa Asia stand
New Urban Cultures 2011 - Delhi (India) 2011/12/22 18:30 Casa Asia presented in New Delhi the program "New Urban Cultures" after the successful editions held in Tokyo (2009) and Seoul (2010). This edition, organized jointly with the Ministry of Culture and the collaboration of the Instituto Cervantes, facilitated the meeting of disparate characters trends and strengthened relationships between artists and Indian artists and prestigious Spanish. It was also a showcase to raise awareness in India, food, fashion, video games, sports, music, design and film today are made in Spain.
Opening: Oscar Pujol, director Cervantes Institute (Delhi)
Dialogue on fashion and design: Ritu Kumar, Agatha Ruiz de la Prada and Sethi Jivi
Dialogue videogames: Vishal Gondal, Ivan F.Lobo and Xavier Carrillo
Dialogue on Cinema: Mike Hostench, Kike Maíllo and Raj Kumar Gupta
Opening Exhibition: Posters Agatha Ruiz de la Prada
Fuel Fandango Concert
Performance by Sunny Singh
DJ Ale Performance
8th East-West Dialogue: For a New Global Governance Agenda 2011/11/14 17:10 8th East-West Dialogue placed emphasis on the role played by youth, a veritable engine of change in many parts of the world, and women at this moment of change, from a perspective of leadership and political participation and their important role in themes such as the eradication of poverty, conflict resolution and sustainable development.
Elena Pisonero y Braemar Mathi, durante la sesión «Gobernanza, economía y globalización»
Saló de Cent, Ayuntamiento de Barcelona
III Asia Geek: Digital Life and Urban Trends in China, Japan, India and Korea 2011/11/11 12:17 Asia Geek showed the inexhaustible wealth of digital lifestyle trends that recreates some of the major Asian cities like Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul or Bangalore, and explored -by the hand of Asian experts- on technology, trends, culture and digital lifestyle.
Public at IED Madrid
Sang Hoon Lee, Korean industrial designer
Jesus León, blogger
Amit Agarwal, Indian blogger
Morinosuke Kawaguchi, expert in Japanese subculture
Festival Àsia 2011 2011/09/27 12:40 La desena edició del Festival Àsia ha finalitzat amb gran èxit de públic registrant aforament complet en tots els espectacles programats en ple cor de Barcelona: Biblioteca de Catalunya, plaça Reial, MACBA, CCCB, plaça dels Àngels i plaça Joan Coromines. Entre el divendres 16 i el diumenge 25 de setembre el Festival Àsia ha reunit a Barcelona a destacats artistes asiàtics, en el seu compromís por donar a conèixer Àsia en tota la seva varietat de color, so i cultura.
Point of information about Asia
Information about activities
Advice on Asia
Solidarity Day: "One thousand cranes for Japan, Barcelona" 2011/03/29 13:40 Galería de fotos de la jornada solidaria del sábado 26 de marzo en Barcelona en apoyo a las víctimas causadas por el terremoto y posterior tsunami que tuvo lugar el pasado 11 de marzo en la costa nororiental japonesa. Con esta jornada, que tuvo como lema "Mil grullas para Japón", se pretendía crear un lugar de encuentro para que la ciudadanía participase y mostrase su solidaridad con el pueblo nipón.
Solidarity Day: "One thousand cranes for Japan, Madrid" 2011/03/28 13:24 Galería de fotos de la jornada solidaria del sábado 26 de marzo en Madrid en apoyo a las víctimas causadas por el terremoto y posterior tsunami que tuvo lugar el pasado 11 de marzo en la costa nororiental japonesa. Con esta jornada, que tuvo como lema "Mil grullas para Japón", se pretendía crear un lugar de encuentro para que la ciudadanía participase y mostrase su solidaridad con el pueblo nipón.
Presentation of the Study: "Analysis of the Potential of the Ports of the Spanish Mediterranean as China's entrance to Europe" 2011/03/24 11:47 Presentation of the study about the ports of the Mediterranean edited by Casa Asia, in collaboration with the Port of Barcelona, given by Jacinto Soler, one of the two authors of the study.
Lecture: "My Vision of Western Islam" 2011/03/22 11:23 Owing to the publication of Mi visión del islam occidental (Kairós, 2010), its author, the intellectual Tariq Ramadan, will offers us in this lecture his reflections and opinions regarding Islam in the West, as well as the challenges and opportunities he analyses. Professor Ramadan will approach issues such as women in Islam, the concept of “multiple identities”, the relation between religion and culture, European Islam, immigration, participation and “post-integration”.
8 de marzo, Día Internacional de las Mujeres 2011/03/16 12:46 Galería de fotos de las actividades celebradas el día 8 de marzo con motivo del Día Internacional de las Mujeres, gracias a la Red de Mujeres Asiáticas y Españolas. Las actividades constaron de: "Danza en Libertad", un documental sobre la lucha de un grupo de mujeres «intocables» de la India por su dignidad; "Ellas, filipinas", un segundo documental sobre la vida de las inmigrantes filipinas en Hong-Kong; y "Diálogos sonoros e Interculturalidad", un concierto en el que la música clásica convive con la música anime, interpretado por una violinista y una pianista japonesas.
Homenaje a Raimon Panikker 2011/03/15 12:53 Galería de fotos del homenaje al filósofo Raimon Panikker, celebrado el día 24 de febrero en el Saló de Cent del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, en reconocimiento a su trayectoria y relevancia intelectual. El homenaje, conducido por la periodista Helena García Melero, contó con expertos en su obra y personas cercanas como Xavier Melloni, Jordi Pigem, Amador Vega, Joseph Prabhu y Milena Carrara. El acto incluyó una actuación musical del maestro Jordi Savall y Montserrat Figueras y de los intérpretes de cítara y violín Bhakti Das y Griselda Cos.
Asia Geek: "Digital China", by Isaac Mao 2011/02/16 11:57 Isaac Mao is a philosopher of “Sharism”, a social businessman, bloggerun empresari social, blogger, software architect and researcher in social teaching and technology. Currently, he is Director of the Social Brain Foundation (successor of the programme CNBlog co-founded by Mao), manager of the Tor Project, adviser of the Global Voices Online and executive adviser of many Internet, Web 2.0 and new media companies. He is also director of the Shanghai Youth Development Foundation.
Celebration of the Chinese New Year in Barcelona 2011/02/07 11:55 Barcelona will hold from the 3rd to the 6th of February the Chinese New Year. The Moll de la Fusta will host this important festival for the Chinese people for a few days, where attendants can enjoy their gastronomy, culture and tradition. Casa Asia will present in its stand an activity programme for all the public regarding the Chinese culture and language, in collaboration with the Institut Confuci Foundation of Barcelona.
Lecture: "India as a Major Actor in the Emerging Global Order" 2011/02/02 17:37 Owing to the visit to Spain of the teacher Brahma Chellaney, internationally considered one of the main political intellectuals of India, Casa Asia, in collaboration with the Ramón Areces Foundation, organises the first lecture of the India Series which will be devoted to the consolidation of India as an international power.
International Conference: "Water and Development in Asia" 2011/01/18 09:48 The conference will aim to become a discussion forum about the management of hydric resources in Asia from a political, economic and social perspective and it will include the participation of internationally famous experts in sustainable urban management, of representatives of multilateral organizations devoted to international cooperation for development and of high representatives of several Asian cities.
Exhibition: "Afghanistan" 2010/12/03 10:27 This exhibition project displays the work of photographers that explore a country in a conflict with an uncertain solution for the last thirty years. The authors of the images have stayed in Kabul, Kandahar, Mazar-e Sarif, Herat, Jalalabad and Kunduz, among other cities, in search for the unrepeated moment they have captured until it becomes history.
The six candidates to the elections of the Parliament of Catalonia at Casa Asia 2010/11/26 12:24 The six candidates of the six political parties with representation at the Parliament of Catalonia who attend the elections of next Sunday, 28th of November, will take place from next Monday 22nd of November to Friday, 26th of November, in the morning programme “Los desayunos de TVE”. Each of the six candidates to the Presidency of the Generalitat of Catalonia will be interviewed from the main studio of TVE in Madrid and connected to Casa Asia Headquarters in Barcelona. The space where the set for interviews has been installed is the viewing point where Casa Asia's Record Library is, with a view to Avenida Diagonal and the Palau de les Punxes.
7th East-West Dialogue 2010/11/25 11:37 Within the framework of the 15th anniversary of the Beijing Conference and the 10th anniversary of UN Resolution 1325, Casa Asia in its firm commitment to gender equality, empowerment of women, the Millenium Development Goals and Peace, focuses the 7th East-West Dialogue on Gender Equality and Development.
Casa Asia Award 2010 2010/11/08 12:16 Casa Asia Award 2010, on its seventh edition, was given ex aequo to the International Project Dunhuang (China) and to the Philippine Senator Edgardo J. Angara. The jury decided to award, on the one hand, the project Dunhuang for its task of recovery, preservation and display of information and images of the manuscripts, paintings and fabrics found in the Chinese city Dunhuang and the Silk Route, by means of Internet and of the promotion of educational programmes and research. On the other hand, the jury also awarded the Philippine Senator Angara, for his committment with the strengthening of the relations between Spain and the Philippines.
Lecture: "History and Treasures of the Silk Route" 2010/11/05 13:38 Susan Whitfield is the director of a very ambitious project: The International Project of Dunhuang (PID, http://idp.bl.uk ), which aims at placing the images and information found in the caves of Mogao, in Dunhuang (People's Republic of China), at everyone's disposal, which is one of the key summons in order to understand the history of the ancient Silk Route.
Susan Whitfield, director of the International Project of Dunhuang
Honor Book Signature
China-Iberoamerica Dialogue: Partners in a New World Order?
Gurcharan Das, an Indian author and consultant
Fan Gang, Director of the National Economic Research Institute and President of the China Reform Foundation
Wang Jinzhen, vice president of CCPIT
Board of REDEALAP in Casa de América
Presentation "Global Latinas. Latin America's emerging multinationals"
Pankaj Ghemawat, IESE professor
Seminar: "New World Scenario and New Stars: Brazil, China, India and Mexico"
Event "China and India in Iberoamerica: Economic Complementarity?"
Enrique Iglesias, Iberoamerican Secretary General
GovernAsia Annual Conference 2010: Water and development in Asia
Asian Communities 2010/10/15 12:55 In front of the increase of Asian immigration and the growing diversity in society, Casa Asia has created a new line of work about Asian communities resident in Spain. Among other programmes, Casa Asia offers a virtual space to make the reality of Asian immigration in Spain known and to promote the encounter, dialogue, exchange of information and intercultural debate in society with Asian communities resident in Spain.
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East-West Dialogue 2010/10/14 18:46 Since 2004, the East-West Dialogue annually brings together a group of policy makers, including former heads of state and government, pre-eminent scholars, representatives of key non-governmental organizations and of civil society from the East and the West working together for a common cause, to examine today's most pressing global, regional and local challenges, exchange best practices and engage themselves to support action-oriented policies.
Ratna Osman and Zainah Anwar, Sisters in Islam
International Dunhuang Project and Philippine Senator Edgardo Angara, Casa Asia Award winners 2010
Peter Sculthorpe, australian composer
Rosa M. Calaf, journalist
Rashida Bee, Chingari Trust NGO
Ahmed Rashid, Pakistani journalist and writer
Miguel F. Rovira, journalist
Asiatic dance
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Casa Asia hosted the presentation of the novel "Fukushima Mon Amour. Chronicle of a trip to the end of the world" (Kalias). We chat with its author, Pablo M. Díez, correspondent of the newspaper ABC in Asia, about his work and about the current situation of the area affected by the tsunami and subsequent nuclear alarm on the Japanese coast in 2011.
El mundo desde las casas - Asia Innova project arrives in Madrid and Valencia
On November 20th, 21st and 22nd, Casa Asia has managed to bring together the most important Smart Cities in Asia through the Asia Innova project, related to cooperation and technological innovation. Madrid and Valencia can provide new solutions. We speak with Guillermo Martínez Taberner, head of the Department of Economy and Business of Casa Asia.
El mundo desde las Casas - What China will emerge after the XIX Congress of the Communist Party?
Casa Asia addresses the XIX Congress of the Communist Party, an important appointment for the political life and the State that is celebrated every five years. How does Xi Jinping face his leadership? Mario Esteban gives us the keys, Senior Analyst of the Elcano Royal Institute.
The Casa Asia Mediatheque, a multimedia information center on Asia-Pacific with library, video library, and sound library, focuses on Chinese literature with a series of literary literary gatherings, in which works such as The Four Books by Yan Lianke are analyzed. , Changes, Nobel Literature Mo Yan and ¡Vivir !, Yu Hua. For September, they have a new circuit. Oihana Montilla, the director of Casa Asia's Meditaeca, tells us about it.
El mundo des de las casas - Network against xenophobia and intolerance
El mundo desde las Casas - Asian woman breaks stereotypes
El mundo desde las Casas - Bamboo, asian culture school
El mundo desde las Casas - Chinese New year
El mundo desde las casas - Judo management
El Mundo de las Casas - Tasting sake
El Mundo de las Casas - "Protocol and Business Culture in Iran"
El Mundo desde las Casas - The World at 2050
El Mundo desde las Casas - Afghan Books Night
El Mundo desde las Casas - Asia growth slows
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You’ve also got to love the nice clean design of this game. Played against a black velvet-looking backdrop, Da Vinci Diamonds’ highest-paying symbols are portraits by the master: The instantly-recognizable Mona Lisa is here of course, as are the “Portrait of a Musician” and another perhaps based on “Lady with Ermine,” but with the central figure ermine-less. The slots game’s logo is the wild and pays 5,000x the payline bet when five hit on an active payline.
Gems and jewels done up in sumptuous colors comprise the low-paying end of the symbol set in this slots game, proving that casino software designers need not dumb down gameplay for slots aficionados with the same old boring playing-card symbols to create a successful slots game.
Finally, the popularity of Dan Brown’s “Da Vinci Code” books/films in the mid-2000s certainly boosted this slot’s initial popularity noticeably as well – though this game contains no trace of Tom Hanks or even Otm Shank.
How do you play the Da Vinci Diamonds slot game?
Da Vinci Diamonds is a 5-reel, 20-payline slots game. Wagering is done as usual and as in most online slots, Da Vinci Diamonds includes the autoplay feature.
Landing three of the BONUS symbols on a single spin triggers the free spins bonus round; this begins with six free spins and a whole new symbol set. Not only does the lucky Da Vinci Diamonds player get the half-dozen free games, he/she gets higher-paying wins.
And once in the bonus round, the BONUS/scatter symbol can retrigger the spins to a healthy degree. For three bonus symbols landed, the player wins 2 to 4 additional free spins; for four, win 4, 6, 8, or 10 free spins; and for the max five on a single spin, the player bags 6, 8, 10, 12 or 15 free spins more!
What are the sequels to Da Vinci Diamonds?
Five years after the launch of Da Vinci Diamonds came Da Vinci Diamonds Dual Play, quite an interesting new twist on an already innovative game. “Da Vinci Codex” is a slot from a different software creator that lacks much of the punch of the Diamonds series and seems to be a superficial cash grab based on fond memories of Dan Brown’s work…
Anything else you can tell us?
Yes. “Malfunction voids all pays and plays.” We love that little disclaimer which usually appears in some form within a given slots game’s instructions. (In fairness, it’s probably because we’ve never experience a malfunction voiding anything…) This particular turn of the phrase is damn near poetic!
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Bob McDonnell, Just Go to Jail
By Adele
Virginia’s former Republican governor Bob McDonnell reminds me of a cat who hates going to the vet (that is, all cats), flailing his arms and legs to keep the justice system from cramming him into his carrier.
In January, McDonnell was sentenced to serve two years in prison on 11 felony corruption convictions for accepting six-figure largesse from a sleazy businessman who fostered a questionable relationship with McDonnell’s wife. Bob has remained free on bond pending appeal.
So far, Bob’s attempts to overturn the convictions, get a new trial, yada, yada, yada, have been rejected.
If Bob had simply accepted his punishment, he’d be about one-third through his sentence by now — and richer by months of wasted attorneys’ fees.
Bob’s latest pitch for a rehearing was unanimously rejected by Virginia’s 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this week. Now he vows to take it to the Supreme Court.
What sticks in my craw is McDonnell’s inability to complete a thought, a habit he shares with many Republicans on many issues, but that’s for another post.
To give just one example, he responded to his latest appeal rejection by saying…
“In my 38 years of public service to my country and the commonwealth, I have never misused my office nor ever promised anyone anything in exchange for money.”
Failing to finish with…
“No, instead I took cash, trips, and merchandise valued at $167,000 from a virtual stranger and gave him nothing in return. This behavior has been well-documented; it’s usually called stealing and punished with jail time. I’m pursuing these appeals to avoid paying for my crimes.”
McDonnell’s lawyers summed up the bigger issue with this gem…
“The facts of this case and the court ruling have serious negative consequences for nearly every public official in America. We will not cease our legal fight until Gov. McDonnell is fully vindicated.”
The “serious negative consequences” are that politicians will have to stop being crooks, seeking office only for personal enrichment.
Instead of fighting to keep corruption in government, if Bob McDonnell really had a shred of integrity, he’d stop kvetching and do his jail time — and thank God every day he only got two years.
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Someone, Please, Explain “Debate” to Fox
UVA’s political wonk Larry Sabato theorized to Rachel Maddow, and I paraphrase, that the Republican National Committee wants fewer than 17 candidates, but doesn’t have the cojones to dissuade anybody, so it’s letting Fox’s asinine debates do the job.
To get the “right” top 10 candidates, a number Fox pulled out of its ass, Fox probably cherry-picked the polls it used to get Chris Christie and John Kasich included.
I watched the 7 rejects in the 5 p.m. session (including Ricks Perry and Santorum), and no way was it a “debate.” The moderators simply lobbed cues to each candidate to regurgitate stump speech chunks. They didn’t face off at all.
Carly Fiorina gave the only noteworthy performance. Or, as mod Megyn Kelly later said, Carly “unleashed a can.”
You can’t not compare Carly to Sarah Palin’s witless garblings, and Carly was a veritable Demosthenes. Had she not run Hewlett Packard so deeply into a ditch that they gave her $40 million to get permanently lost, you might think she had a shot.
Lindsey Graham provided comic relief with his Donald Trump imitation, trying to evoke terror by claiming ISIS is invading the U.S. any minute now.
You had to feel sorry for them all.
The main event began at 8:50, as if Fox has never scheduled TV programming before. The moderators explained, “Since viewers think it starts at 9, we’ll wait,” and then wasted 10 minutes on inane banter.
Speaking of moderators, they were that nonentity Chris Wallace, over-processed Megyn Kelly, and Eddie Munster.
They marched the candidates on stage into a lineup and then ordered them to applaud the audience. In confusion, a few half-heartedly did.
Once behind the podiums, it was “Face the Mods” again. Gratuitous attempts at actual debate consisted of throwing one candidate’s cracks about another candidate back in the wisecracking candidate’s face and asking if he still believed them to be true.
Rand Paul proved feisty, bless his curls, and got into one good little tangle with Chris Christie that almost got ugly.
Donald Trump was dickish as always, but basically well-behaved. I don’t think he called anybody weak or stupid to their face. However, Megyn, as sternly as a vacuous but bitchy blonde can, reminded him that he’s called women “fat pigs” and “dogs” before.
Like Palin, I guess Megyn prefers her men to show their misogyny through legislation, not name-calling.
They tried to get Trump on the ropes for being friends with the Clintons and formerly having some liberal positions. He blew them off, claiming his ideas have “evolved, just like Reagan’s.”
And we saw lots of the usual mean Fox-baiting to elicit hatred of immigrants, gays, and the Fox-generated delusion that U.S. Christians are being persecuted.
But the candidates largely stuck to the high road. Jeb Bush was so reasonable, he came off as the only Bush who probably ever should have run for office.
John Kasich shined as a kind and moderate voice of reason.
Ben Carson got in some zingers and complained about not being given enough time, to which Megyn purred that she fully intended to personally give him more time, so much more time.
And then didn’t.
I learned Ted Cruz is Canadian. So, Republicans are good with Cruz for president even though he was born in another country to a U.S. citizen. But Obama, who was born in a U.S. state (Hawaii) also to a U.S. citizen, is NOT an American.
How do they keep all that crazy straight? Oh, right. They don’t even try.
Will this Fox farce be enough to sink some candidates? Only time will tell.
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Donald Trump, the GOP’s Face – and Hairball
By Cole
Last week, the Quinnipiac poll showed Donald Trump ahead of the GOP pack by 7 points. He polled at 20%, with his next closest rival, Scott Walker, at 13%.
This week, CBS’ poll put Trump in the lead with 24%, followed by Jeb Bush at 13%.
When Trump calls Mexican criminals and rapists, conservatives are eating it up, now that their bigotry toward blacks became un-PC since the Charleston massacre and weekly unjustifiable shootings by white police officers.
And then the Supreme Court took away another target of their hatred by legalizing same-sex marriage across the board. What to do, what to do?
Thank God for Trump. He came along and told them who it’s OK to hate now.
Trump, who has never held office, insults and belittles his fellow contenders, many duly elected senators and governors. Trump calls them weak and stupid, and the Republicans who love it ELECTED these politicians Trump now disses.
There’s no such thing as hypocrisy in the GOP playbook.
In the CBS poll, 79% of Republican voters think Trump isn’t afraid to speak his mind, the highest by far of any candidate.
True, Donald Trump will fill anyone’s ears with the mental diarrhea that continually dribbles from his pie hole. He and Rush Limp Paw have that in common.
If there’s one good thing to say about Trump, it’s that he can self-finance his campaign, if he does it. He won’t owe hand jobs to any fat cats, as his fan-boy Ted Cruz would after his PAC raked in $15 million from just two brothers in Texas, Farris and Dan Wilks.
Most of the others, on both sides, are just as bad. Campaigning has become so outrageously expensive, it’s next to impossible NOT to sell your soul.
The most unfortunate thing about Donald Trump is not his arrogance and egotism. It’s that his obnoxious persona probably masks a very little man. He bullies and retaliates against anyone who dares to criticize him to divert attention from what a pathetic, empty shell he really is.
He claims he’d make Mexico pay to construct our wall along the border. He’ll have Mexicans loving him for creating jobs. He knows how to wipe ISIS out of existence. He can bring China, Putin, and the rest of the world to heel.
All these big promises from a man who can’t face hair loss, even though he’s got plenty of company with men his age and there’s absolutely no shame in it.
Trump would rather have comedians ritually savage him every day of his life than let the world see the real him.
Bernie Sanders doesn’t give a rat’s ass about age or baldness, and he draws crowds that could eat Trump’s audiences for breakfast.
Denial is the real tragedy of Donald Trump. If he presented himself with authentic honesty, balding, straight-talking, and financially self-sustaining, he wouldn’t need to play the bully and might have a shot at being the next president.
But as long as he keeps that matted hairball glued to the top of his head, he’s a buffoon whose poll numbers must only reflect his pure entertainment value because, surely, even Republicans can’t be that dumb.
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Registration for the 2nd Half of the season begins October 16th!
Ottawa Colts Curling
Three New Teams, Three New Finalists
Lordele Greenyer
Our 4th bonspiel of the season took place the past weekend, January 12 – 13, at the Buckingham Curling Club. We like to start by thanking the club for their gracious hospitality and participation. This bonspiel saw by far and away the best fan support we’ve had to date!
It was an incredibly full day of curling on Saturday, with action starting at 9:00am and going until shortly after 8:00pm. Though the day was long, it was full of fun and great curling. The morning draw saw Team Gallinger (North Grenville) emerge victorious over Team Hampton (Lancaster), and Team Crawford (Metcalfe) defeat Team Fleck (Ottawa). In the midday draw Team Périard (Buckingham) won over Team Jones (Ottawa), and Team LeBlanc (Buckingham) defeat Team O’Reilly (Manotick).
A-Side action continued with Crawford taking the victory over Gallinger to move into the A-Side finals in convincing style. LeBlanc also earned an entry into the A-Side finals with a win over Périard in a 3 point game. Fleck earned an entry into the B-Side finals in an extra end over Hampton, while Team Jones picked up the other B-Side entry in a well played game against O’Reilly to round out Saturday’s curling.
Sunday saw only two games, both finals, which were played at 1:00pm. In the B-Side final Fleck got out to a 4 point lead against Jones in the third end, but Jones came back quickly with a score of 3 followed by a steal of 3 taking a 2 point lead into the sixth end. Fleck came back to tie the game in the eight forcing an extra, but in the end it was Team Jones that came out victorious at their first spiel on the Series. Congratulations!
The A-Side final featured LeBlanc and Crawford, both of whom were making their first Series appearances of the season as well. These two teams went head to head in a seesaw battle from start to finish. Exchanging ends of 1 and 2 points throughout the entire game, this one came down to the final stone in the eight end. Team Crawford would come up just a little light on their final draw making Team LeBlanc our A-Side winners. Very well done!
The action in these two finals has left us very excited for our next spiel at the RA Centre the weekend of February 2 – 3. Only one spot remains, so don’t miss out! Head over to our registration section before that spot is gone.
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PA Chamber to Hold Webinar on Federal Tax Reform
September 30, 2017 /in Newsroom, Public Policy /by Fred Gaffney
Since last year’s election and the new executive administration and legislators took their offices in January, one issue that has been discussed but hasn’t necessarily been at the forefront of the daily news is federal tax reform. That issue will likely be front and center soon, as congressional leaders have said they will be taking up the issue soon, and it is also one that when resolved, will likely have an impact on all businesses large and small.
With that in mind, the PA Chamber of Business & Industry will hold a webinar about what businesses should do in preparation for the expected changes to the federal tax code in the next year. The webinar will be held on Friday, Oct. 20, from 11 am – noon. Visit the PA Chamber page for more information or to register. Also, below is the full description of the event (via the PA Chamber).
The Potential Impact of Federal Tax Reform Proposals on Businesses— between the broad outline of the Trump administration tax reform plan and the House Republicans’ “Blueprint” business tax plan, sweeping changes are being discussed for federal tax reform that could have a significant impact on companies, as well as individuals. Indications are that some federal tax reform will become law in late 2017 or early 2018.
While the final outcome is uncertain, businesses should consider taking immediate measures to best position themselves for anticipated changes to the tax code. It’s important not to wait for the legislative process because many opportunities must be implemented, or require significant planning, before tax reform becomes effective. Business decisions made now have a long-term economic impact that could change under tax reform.
The objective of this webinar is to help companies understand the federal tax reform initiatives by providing strategies on what they should be doing now to plan for these reforms. The presentation will be delivered by leading tax professionals from the Stevens & Lee/Griffin platform, including Scott Balestrier, former senior income tax partner at E&Y, KMPG, and Anderson; Jay Wagner, a noted estate tax lawyer; and Joe Harenza, Chairman of Stevens & Lee/ Griffin and CEO of Griffin Financial Group, one of the largest investment banks in the Northeast headquartered outside of NYC. They will discuss:
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Five Steps To A Winning Animation Pitch :: PWP #2
The Paper Wings Podcast continues!
We’re excited to post our first story episode: 5 STEPS TO A WINNING ANIMATION PITCH.
What does it take to make a successful animation pitch?
What is a pitch bible, and what should it include?
What should you really be thinking about when pitching an animated series?
In this episode Chris gives insider tips on how to successfully navigate the process creating a winning animation pitch.
Listen to hear more details about the contest that will kick off the Paper Wings launch! A chance to win one of three Intuos4 Tablets from WACOM, the contest sponsor!
http://media.blubrry.com/chrisoatley/artcast.s3.amazonaws.com/PWP02_WinningPitch.mp3
[ download the mp3 ]
Chris Oatley’s Guide To Creating An Animation Pitch
How To Create An Animation Pitch Bible That Sells Itself (Includes the lecture by Heather Kenyon)
Animation Development: From Pitch to Production by David B. Levy
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What’s your favorite scene “that says it all” about a character? Comment below!
Lora Innes says
I can start! One of my favorite character introductions of all time is Thorne & Fone Bone’s cute meet in Jeff Smith’s BONE. Fone Bone just had his head flambéed by the dragon, and comes over a hill to see an adorable (but sexy) girl soaking her legs in a hot spring.
Everything about his body language is timid as he makes his way down the snowy hill to join her in the hot spring.
Panel 1:
Thorne: Hello.
Thorne is still smiling. Fone Bone is frozen.
The same, but Thorne’s smile begins to drop and a squiggly, glowing heart floats floats up from Fone Bone’s head.
Thorne tries to create a conversation.
Thorne: Um… Are you new around here?
Fone Bone blurts out: FONE BONE! What’s Yours?!
Everything we need to know about Thorne & Fone Bone is established in that one page. I love it!
Although I’ve been loving ‘The Social Network’ a lot lately as revealed in the podcast episode, one of my all-time favorite scenes that ‘Says It All’ about the character(s) is the famous diner scene with Al Pacino and Robert Deniro in HEAT:
“There’s a flip side to that coin. What if you got me boxed in and I gotta put you down?
‘Cause no matter what, you will not get in my way.
But now that we been face to face, I would not feel good about that. But I won’t hesitate. Not for one second.”
Albone says
Heat was all around a great movie, and that scene in particular was fantastic.
Traivon Artis says
So, does a animation pitch has to be typed on Microsoft Word, or written by hand on paper?
I’m kind of a BSG mark these days so bias and all, I submit this scene. It’s the first real sense we get of Col Tigh and Starbuck. It’s a little on the nose, but we find out instantly what’s going on with both of ’em and that they’re both not very pleasant people.
TIGH (derisive)
“Starbuck”. Now there’s a call sign. Starbuck. How’d you get that nickname, anyway? Never did hear the full story.
(takes a drink)
Was it before you got thrown in the brig as a cadet for drunk and disorderly or after?
KARA: After.
TIGH: After. That’s right, it was after.
(tosses in chips)
Thirty and thirty more.
KARA (casual): How’s the wife?
The room goes deathly silent. Glances between the other pilots. Tigh freezes for a beat. She’s definitely touched a sensitive and dangerous nerve.
TIGH (even): Just fine.
Talk to her lately?
TIGH
Bet’s to you, Lieutenant.
No rank at the table, Colonel. Tradition and all that.
(lights a cigar)
So. Another thirty to me. Well, I think I’ll just have to bring this lovely evening to a close.
(turns over cards)
Dominion.
Tigh’s drops his hand. Kara begins raking in the chips.
That’s five hands in a row.
No one’s that lucky, Thrace.
Luck has nothing to do with it.
Now it’s ugly. Kara meets his eyes.
You have something to say, say it.
A tense beat, then a sudden erruption of violence as Tigh KNOCKS the table over. Kara’s on her feet, gets in the first shot — and CONNECTS with Tigh’s face. He staggers back, but the other pilots swoop in and are hauling the dazed Tigh out of here before anything else can happen. Kara watches him go with a smirk, then bends down to scoop up her winnings.
That’s one of my favorite scenes! And what an amazing relationship. Their very first scene together in Season One is incredible too.
SWS says
A book I’d like to recommend is “Creating Animated Cartoons with Character” by Joe Murray, creator of Rocko’s Modern Life, Camp Lazlo and recent founder of KaboingTV.com (which I’m very excited about!). I’m not much of a reader, but this is a great resource for the whole process of doing an animated project. There isn’t a lot of content specific to pitches, but there is a lot of emphasis put on character development that’s pretty relevant to this episode, as well as advice and interviews with some really successful creators in the industry.
I loved the movie Kick-Ass, not as much for the main character, but for Big Daddy and Hit Girl. The scene in which they’re introduced says everything about the fantastic characters they are and their unique relationship as father/daughter.
Instead of trying to describe it, I’ll have you watch it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZUBW-9JjOo
Lee Wiley says
Thank you so much you guys, for yet another very informative episode! Even though there was much to do with animation, I felt like that there was a lot there to help pitch the idea of a new ongoing serial comic! Also, felt like this would be a good approach to helping find a writer on a comic project, I feel that writing is my weakness, especially with dialogue, so I’m always interested in trying to get some writer collaboration to make my weakness strong. Anywho, keep the podcast comin’
Wow, Lee. I love the idea of an artist creating a “pitch bible” to recruit a writer for their project. Good luck, and keep us posted on your progress!
oats says
I agree. That’s exactly the kind of thing I hope will happen here at Paper Wings!
Doc says
Thanks for another great episode, guys. Wanted to mention that Jay Chuppe is the creator of Red Mullet and I am just the fortunate one who put the pitch bible together. You can check out more about Red Mullet on the Facebook Fanpage: http://www.facebook.com/RedMulletTheMovie
Also, I own a copy of Animation Development and found it to be an awesome read and invaluable resource for the preparation process, specifically chapters 2-3.
Awesome, Doc. Thanks for the clarification and for the review of the Levy book. And THANK YOU for the permission to use your pitch bible as our sample.
Eddy Crosby says
hi Lora and Chris,
another excellent informative episode. The pitch bible was very useful.
On radio this morning there was an interview with Richard Walter head of screenwriting at UCLA (he’s on a lecture tours of Australia)
He made a similar point to the one made in the podcast. Everyone has an idea for a movie but that’s not the most important thing. He gave the example of the movie The kings Speech. On paper the idea for that movie is pretty lame but it’s taking that slim idea and building all the elements of story, incident, character, dialogue to create a satisfying work.
you can listen to it here.
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2011/03/bst_20110330_0618.mp3
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/
Thanks! We appreciate everyone contributing their own favorite resources! I hope they’re useful to everyone else.
Frank M Hansen says
Great podcast and website. Love how you outlined the podcast and summed up the discussion at the end. This is so helpful because your information is such great stuff it is nice to have it presented in a way that is easier to absorb.
That was one of our goals. I’m glad it’s been helpful so far.
Chibi Janine says
Hi there. Thank you for taking the time and making the effort to create a wonderful and informative podcast.
I am commenting to tell you about a book I have read that covers the process of making a pitch. It is the The Avatar the last airbender, the art of the animated series. I am recommending this book as it charts the artist as they came up with the concept for the show, the challenges of pitching their idea and then to the processes involved to making their ideas into the wonderful animated adventure which it is. The book is also full of superb artwork from the show.
Thanks for the recommendation! I know I for one will look into it. I love that show, I’m sure the artwork and ideas behind it are just as inspiring.
Chad (@poweredbysteam) says
Thanks for the great episode!
I’m a web/graphic designer and illustrator, and I’ve been researching pitch bibles because I want to do a ‘fake’ one to combine both of these skills and also mess around and experiment with worldbuilding, so I’ve been devouring resources on the subject (including Eddy’s aforementioned Avatar: The Last Airbender book and watching the Heather Kenyon video a few times over). This ep provided yet more invaluable advice on this path.
Keep up the great work on the podcast! It’s been extremely inspiring, and every interaction (blog post or episode) leaves me wanting to learn more and do more.
Hey, Chad! We’re so glad to hear this kind of feedback. We hope that Paper Wings gets real, practical information into folks hands. We want it to be the kind of resource we wish we had had!
Joe Peragino says
Hey Lora and Chris,
What an excellent and informative episode! I actually made my first pitch last week and wished I had caught this before going in. I think that the pitch went well but listening to this podcast beforehand would have set my mind at ease. Keep up the great work and thanks so much for sharing.
Thanks for the great episode. Very helpful tips!
I am trying to download the Bible pitch sample but it seems that the link is no longer available.
Is there any way to get a copy of it by email? Please!
Try the right-click instead of direct-click. The file is there and accessible. Just tried it myself!
Thanks, Rina!
Jason Love says
Does it help in anyway to have an animated webseries of the project before pitching? Someone once said that is a bad idea because the networks like to make changes and if it already exists online, then they feel they can’t make the changes they want. Of course if something already has a huge following I imagine networks won’t turn it down.
Wondering your thoughts.
Jason Love
I wonder how the Pitch Bible would apply onto advertising a final product?
Take, for example, the Rise of the Guardians:
The movie’s great! I adored it, but only after I was severely harassed by friends to finally sit down and watch it!
Jack Frost, the central point of the movie, was described as a “typical rebel without a cause”. This, coupled with his looks and fanfare reaction on the internet, killed my initial interest in the film–and the film itself is SOO brilliant!
Santa as a crazy Russian mobster?! I felt like I was five again!
I honestly think the failure here was in the advertisement.
So questions for you: How much of the Pitch Bible goes into the advertisement? How different is advertisement to a Pitch Bible? How could advertisement in a case like this be improved?
Oscar Baldwin says
I’m looking for a writer to collaborate with on a pitch bible and potentially a pilot episode that I’ll make.
Hello Oscar Baldwin,
I am a writer without a specific project to work on. If the position is still available I would love to maybe work with you on your series.
Oz Durose says
Quick question on this. You say in your last point that your idea is something to be sold rather than to develop. I have a few ideas, but as a an animator, it’s something I would like to develop and work on if it got accepted. How would one get to the position of being in charge of developing and idea, or is it best to just create new ideas?
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Who Looks Foolish, Alamo Heroes or Us?
Published: Monday, March 24, 2008
During this week back in 1836, the Alamo fell. For more than 13 days, 186 brave and determined patriots withstood Santa Anna's seasoned army of over 4,000 troops. To a man, the defenders of that mission fort knew they would never leave those ramparts alive. They had several opportunities to leave and live. Yet, they chose to fight and die. How foolish they must look to this generation of spoiled Americans.
It is difficult to recall that stouthearted men such as Davy Crockett (a nationally known frontiersman and former Congressman), Will Travis (only 23 years old with a little baby at home), and Jim Bowie (a wealthy landowner with properties on both sides of the Rio Grande) really existed. These were real men with real dreams and real desires. Real blood flowed through their veins. They loved their families and enjoyed life as much as any of us. There was something different about them, however. They possessed a commitment to liberty that transcended personal safety and comfort.
Liberty is an easy word to say, but it is a hard word to live up to. Freedom has little to do with financial gain or personal pleasure. Accompanying Freedom is her constant and unattractive companion, Responsibility. Neither is she an only child. Patriotism and Morality are her sisters. They are inseparable; destroy one and all will die.
Early in the siege, Travis wrote these words to the people of Texas: "Fellow Citizens & Compatriots: I am besieged by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna. . . . The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise the garrison are to be put to the sword . . . I have answered the demand with a cannon shot & our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat. . . . VICTORY OR DEATH! P.S. The Lord is on our side. . . ."
As you read those words, remember that Travis and the others did not have the A.C.L.U., P.E.T.A., People for the un-American Way, and the National Education Association telling them how intolerant and narrow-minded their notions of honor and patriotism were. A hostile media did not constantly castigate them as a bunch of wild-eyed extremists. As school children, they were not taught that their forefathers were nothing more than racist jerks.
The brave men at the Alamo labored under the belief that America (and Texas) really was "the land of the free and the home of the brave." They believed God was on their side and that the freedom of future generations depended on their courage and resolve. They further believed their posterity would remember their sacrifice as an act of love and devotion. It all looks pale now.
By today's standards, the gallant men of the Alamo appear rather foolish. After all, they had no chance of winning--none. However, the call for pragmatism and practicality was never sounded. Instead, they answered the clarion call, "Victory or death!"
Please try to remember the heroes of the Alamo as you watch our gutless political and religious leaders surrender to compromise and political correctness. Try to recall the time in this country when ordinary men and women had the courage of their convictions and were willing to sacrifice their lives for freedom and independence.
One thing is certain: those courageous champions at the Alamo did not die for a political party or for some "lesser of two evils" mantra. They fought and died for a principle, and that principle was liberty and independence. So did the men at Lexington and Concord. That is our heritage.
Today, however, our national leaders are in the process of turning America over to the very forces that the Alamo defenders gave their lives resisting. On second thought, do they look foolish, or do we?
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Q&A With Head Cidermaker of America’s Best Selling Cider
Posted October 21, 2015 .
Ryan Burk joined Angry Orchard in the Fall of this year. Previously with Michigan’s Virtue Cider, Burk will head up cider making duties at Angry Orchard’s new experimental orchard-cidery-visitor center in Walden, New York. Ryan joined the juggernaut of the American cider world. Angry Orchard controls just over 50% of all cider sales in the United States and produces 6 million cases of cider annually. Ryan was kind enough to take some time to answer questions about his own background as well as give is view on the state of the cider industry and Angry Orchard’s place in that industry
Q. What is your cider background and what brought you to Angry Orchard?
I grew up in Williamson, NY – A small town located in one of the most apple-rich regions in the US. Williamson was also one of the last hold outs from prohibition, finally legalizing the sale of alcohol in 2004. Even though alcohol was banned until recently, there was still a rich heritage of cider making in the region. That’s where I started to build my foundation of cider knowledge.
Before professional cider making, I went to college in NYC and then moved to Chicago for law school. The impressive craft beer and homebrewing scene in Chicago plus my cider background had me thinking that maybe I was pursuing the wrong profession. I ended up putting law school on hold to start helping out a then start-up, Virtue Cider. It all really snowballed (in a good way) from there – I received a certificate from the Siebel Institute in Chicago and went forward as a professional cider maker.
Now, I’ve made my way back to my home state to lead innovation efforts and small batch experimentation for Angry Orchard at a new R&D facility on a historic 60–acre orchard in the Hudson Valley.
Q. Can you comment on the apparent dearth of cider apples in the U.S. and any thoughts you have on the future of the supply of Cider Apples?
Temperance, and then Prohibition dealt a serious blow to hard cider production, and orchards began shifting production entirely to culinary apples out of necessity. Even today, many years later, bittersweet apples are hard to find here in the U.S. Most cider apples today are found in Europe (places like France, where we source our bittersweet apples for a couple of our ciders, including our Cider House Collection, Crisp Apple and the new Stone Dry). In fact, I just recently returned from meeting with growers in northern Italy to see this year’s harvest and I’m heading to France later this month to meet with the folks who grow the bittersweet apples we use in some of our ciders.
At our orchard in Walden, NY, we have plans to plant traditional cider apples, and we’re especially interested to see what varieties work well in our region of New York. We’ll start by planting two acres of bittersweet apples this spring, and plan to add to that amount in 2017 and beyond.
In terms of the future of overall cider apple supply, unfortunately it’s a slow process. More and more people are getting cider apples in the ground here but it takes anywhere from 3 to 10 years from initial planting, to grafting, to producing fruit. So as cider’s popularity continues to grow in the U.S. and demand for apples/juice increases, many American cider makers, us included for some of our ciders, are turning towards more creative options, like using the apples already in the ground in the U.S., while the bittersweets continue to grow and mature.
Q. The rate of increase in sales in the tracked cider category will be lower in 2015 as will the rate of increase in sales at Angry Orchard. Any thoughts on why?
It’s tough to say. Admittedly, my expertise is in cider making not sales. From a cider maker’s perspective, we’ve seen drinkers’ palates expand and mature over time, especially in the past 5 years as the cider category has grown nearly 500%. Drinkers are interested in trying new things and that’s great for cider. Needless to say it is a pivotal time to be a cider maker in the U.S., and I feel fortunate to be part of it.
Q. The Angry Orchard “Traditional Dry” has very discernible residual sugar despite being labeled “dry”. Can you tell me the percent of RS in the Traditional and new Stone Dry ciders?
Stone Dry, the newest – and driest – addition to our Core Collection of ciders is just under 1% RS. Drinkers are continuing to explore the full range of what hard cider can be and many are finding they enjoy a cider that is less sweet and more complex, much like Angry Orchard Stone Dry. So as cider continues to experience a renaissance, we’re committed to innovation to help grow awareness among drinkers and encourage them to try a variety of cider styles.As for Traditional Dry, we’re not currently making that style, but it had 1.5% RS.
Q. I have been somewhat critical of Angry Orchard’s approach to cider, suggesting that many of the ciders are far from “craft” and that they often appear to be hyper-sweet apple juice with alcohol. What’s the better way for me to understand the character of Angry Orchard ciders and your approach to making cider?
There’s a lot of care that goes into our ingredient selection process – from sourcing our apples to selecting the right varieties for the flavor profiles we’re aiming for – and we’ve traveled the world to find the highest quality ingredients.
I’d love to taste Crisp Apple, our most popular cider, with you, because really the best way to describe it is to be drinking at the same time! For me, the most important thing about cider is the apple expression, and to me this cider is a perfect representation, much like biting into a crisp, ripe, fresh apple. We achieve that by blending culinary apples from Italy and bittersweet apples from the Normandy and Brittany regions of France. Blending these two types of apples gives the cider a nice balance between sweet and dry. You’ll also get complexity and tannins from the bittersweet apples in the cider. So while it may initially read “sweet,” there’s so much more to it.
At the end of the day, given our experience, we want to create ciders for cider enthusiasts as well as drinkers who are exploring cider for the first time and I think we have a good range of options. So, we’ll make something less challenging like Green Apple which is, you’re right, slightly more sweet and tart, versus something like Stone Dry or our Cider House Collection, which definitely have more complexity. Our goal is to make a cider for everyone to bring more folks into the category and help it grow for all.
Our Orchard home in Walden, NY will be a great way to continue our tradition of experimentation and innovation. There, I’ll lead R&D efforts, and I’m really excited to play around with new recipes, ingredients and techniques, and to push the boundaries of barrel aging and wild fermentation. As you know, the terroir – the combination of factors like soil, climate, sunlight – of the orchard where apples grow is unique to cider making the same way a vineyard is to winemaking, so we’re really excited to explore this at our Orchard beginning with this year’s harvest.
Q. What ciders outside the Angry Orchard family inspire you?
The first ciders I had were made by friends and family in NY and they were always pretty dry; usually left in a barrel to ferment until they were “ready.” The first cider that really got me thinking about what was possible was Tom Oliver’s Herefordshire Dry Cider. The bittersweet character was off the charts, the balance of tannin/acid was excellent. I could taste the farm itself. The intensity and complexity of this cider is what opened my eyes to everything that cider can be. After eight years and many batches of my own cider later, one of the most important bits of knowledge I’ve learned from some of the early ciders I tried is, after apple selection, blending and balance are the most important things in cider making. A cider can be sweet, as long as it’s balanced by acid and tannins.
Q. If I took a stroll through the Angry Orchard in ten years, what would I see?
As I mentioned before, we have big plans to plant bittersweet apple varieties and expand the fruit we have available on-site for cider making. So in ten years, you’ll likely see an increase in those types of trees and fruits.
Currently our new R&D cider house is just getting started, and the idea of what it will look like in 10 years is exciting in many ways. We also have plans to convert an old stone cooler – which already exists on the property and is built into the side of a hill for natural cooling – to a barrel room, where I’ll have the opportunity to play around with aging and other variables, from apples to yeast and barrel types. We hope as cider grows, more and more people will be interested in exploring new styles and cider made with interesting ingredients, much like the exploration we’ve seen with craft beer in the past 30 years.
Five years ago, hardly anyone accurately predicted what cider would eventually grow to be today. I can tell you that in the UK cider is about 15% of the beer market, and here only 1%. It’s difficult to predict what cider will look like in 2025, but I can’t wait to be there to find out. Maybe we can sit down and enjoy a 10-year Walden Orchard vintage when the time comes!
3 Responses to “Q&A With Head Cidermaker of America’s Best Selling Cider”
Ed MCGRATH October 21st, 2015
You are giving too much attention to this commercial cider that uses concentrated apple juice and chemicals!
Kate October 21st, 2015
This is really interesting info. I agree though, Angry Orchard doesn’t need more attention. It seems like they are trying to make themselves seem more like a craft cidery than the commercial cidery they are. I’ve also noticed this with Woodchuck (the whole real cider from a real place campaign). Seems like they may be feeling threatened by consumers better educating themselves on what they are drinking. I’m not anti commercial cider, but I’m definitely pro craft cider.
Mike October 22nd, 2015
I agree. I started with Woodchuck and Angry Orchard, and have moved on to drier ciders, like Original Sin, Griffin Cider’s Burleyman, and Cidergeist, from Cincinnati.
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Hum, is a 1991 Hindi action crime film directed by Mukul S. Anand. It stars Amitabh Bachchan, Rajnikanth, Govinda, Kimi Katkar, Deepa Sahi, Shilpa Shirodkar, Danny Denzongpa, Anupam Kher and Kader Khan. This was the most successful film for the famous super star, Bachchan in the early ’90s before he announced his temporary retirement (for five years) immediately after its release. He also won the Filmfare Best Actor Award for it in 1992. The film was fourth highest grossing hindi film of 1991 at the box office and was a blockbuster hit. Mukul S. Anand had considered and discussed a potential scene for this movie with Rajinikanth, where Amitabh Bachchan’s character would help Govinda get a seat in the Police Academy. Anand discarded the scene, because he did not find it suitable. But Rajinikanth felt the scene had the potential to develop into a script for a possible feature film, which resulted into 1995 movie Baashha.
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How one woman’s final act of generosity transformed her family’s beloved farm into a future county park
Over the years, many have wondered about the narrow road that disappears behind a locked iron gate near Charles Towne Landing. Well, last September, its identity was finally revealed when the Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission (CCPRC) announced plans to turn the place—known as Ashem Farm—into a county park. The tale of this once-private paradise goes back centuries. And Emily Ravenel Farrow, who died April 26, 2011 at the age of 96, is its true heroine.
Only creeks and marshes separate the 55-acre Ashem Farm from Charles Towne Landing, where Charleston was founded in 1670. The CCPRC’s new parcel was once part of a larger tract owned by the related Legare and Ravenel families. While the Legares ran an egg farm at present-day Charles Towne Landing, the Ravenels grew vegetables and soybeans on their verdant expanse, where Emily was born in 1915. There, she rode horses and in the lean years of the Depression and after, Miss Em, as she became known, founded and taught at St. Andrew’s Parish Riding Academy. Over the decades, many came to visit and ride, including etcher and painter Alfred Hutty.
In 1947, Emily married the dashing John Ashby Farrow. By contracting their names, they christened “Ashem,” which served as a second home to their city residence, the William Gibbes House at 64 South Battery. They raised their adopted sons (including recent mayoral candidate David Farrow) going back and forth from town to “country.” From 1950 until 1961, Emily served on Historic Charleston Foundation’s board, donating hundreds of decorative arts items from her and her husband’s private holdings. Before Ashby died in 1984, he and Emily had decided to sell their downtown home. Fearing a new owner would convert the mansion into condominiums, they sold it—at a much lower price—to Historic Charleston Foundation (HCF), protecting it with conservation easements. Emily moved to Ashem full-time, where she continued to see friends, including Alicia Rhett, the Charleston actress who played India Wilkes in Gone with the Wind.
By then, the city had grown up all around Miss Em’s farm. The pressure to sell was great, but she was not interested. Instead, she granted a conservation easement to HCF, ensuring that the property wouldn’t be developed, and willed her family’s beloved acreage to the Lowcountry Open Land Trust (LOLT). Preventing the land’s development caused its dollar value to drop, and so an appraisal made it affordable to the CCPRC, a move endorsed by Emily in her final years. The LOLT could use the proceeds from Ashem’s sale to assure more local land conservation—one of those rare win/win propositions that leaves everyone the richer.
Now the CCPRC is beginning a master planning process to include archeological surveys and public input on how to best utilize the woodlands, fields, and marshlands; Old Towne Creek; and the three homes the Farrows left behind. At some point, the gates will open and down the road we will go—into the heart of our history, the heart of our city, and the heart of Emily Ravenel Farrow.
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“The Irish Conflict” and the Experiences of Female ex Combatants In the Irish Republican Army: Power, Resistance and Subjectivity
Wahidin, Azrini; Powell, Jason (Emerald, 2017-09-01)
Purpose: The fundamental purpose of this article is to critically explore the importance of the experiences of female former combatants during the Irish Conflict, colloquially know as ‘The Troubles’ and outline key moments of resistance for female political prisoners during their time at Armagh jail. The paper will situate the analysis within a Foucauldian framework drawing on theoretical tools for understanding power, resistance and subjectivity to contextualise and capture rich narratives and experiences. What makes a Foucauldian analysis of former female combatants of the Conflict so inspiring, is how the animation and location of problems of knowledge as ‘pieces’ of the larger contest between The State, institutions of power and its penal subjects (ex female combatants as prisoners). The paper has demonstrated that the body exists through and in culture, the product of signs and meanings, of discourse and practices. Design/methodology/approach: This is primarily qualitative methodology underpinned by Foucauldian theory. There were 28 women and 20 men interviewed in the course of this research came from across Ireland, some came from cities and others came from rural areas. Some had spent time in prisons in the UK and others served time in the Republic of Ireland or in the North of Ireland. Many prisoners experienced being on the run and all experienced levels of brutality at the hands of the State. Ethical approval was granted from the Queens University Research Committee. Findings: This paper only examines the experiences of female ex-combatants and their narratives of imprisonment. What this article clearly shows through the narratives of the women is the gendered nature of imprisonment and the role of power, resilience and resistance whilst in prison in Northern Ireland. The voices in this paper disturb and interrupt the silence surrounding the experiences of women political prisoners, who are a hidden population, whilst in prison. Research limitations/implications: In terms of research impact, this qualitative research is on the first of its kind to explore both the experiential and discursive narratives of female ex-combatants of the Irish Conflict. The impact and reach of the research illustrates how confinement revealed rich theoretical insights, drawing from Foucauldian theory, to examine the dialectical interplay between power and the subjective mobilisation of resistance practices of ex-combatants in prison in Northern Ireland. The wider point of prison policy and practice not meeting basic human rights or enhancing the quality of life of such prisoners reveals some of the dystopian features of current prison policy and lack of gender sensitivity to female combatants. Practical implications: It is by prioritising the voices of the women combatants in this article that it not only enables their re-positioning at the centre of the struggle, but also moves away methodologically from the more typical sole emphasis on structural conditions and political processes. Instead, prioritising the voices of the women combatants places the production of subjectivities and agencies at the centre, and explores their dialectical relationship to objective conditions and practical constraints. Originality/value: This article is one of the first to explore the importance of the experiences of female former combatants during the Northern Irish conflict with specific reference to their experience of imprisonment. The aim of this significant article is to situate our critical analysis grounded in Foucauldian theory drawing on theoretical tools of power, resistance and subjectivity in order to make sense of women's experiences of conflict and imprisonment in Ireland. It is suggested that power and resistance need to be re-appropriated in order to examine such unique gendered experiences that have been hidden in mainstream criminological accounts of the Irish Conflict.
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Review: Hair (Broadway in Chicago – Oriental Theatre)
Posted on March 11, 2011 by Scotty Zacher
Competent ‘Hair’ revels in its own kitsch
Broadway in Chicago presents
Book/Lyrics by Gerome Ragni & James Rado
Music by Galt MacDermot
Directed by Diane Paulus
at the Oriental Theatre, 24 W. Randolph (map)
through March 20 | tickets: $27-$90 | more info
Reviewed by Dan Jakes
If the pre-show announcement–which asks that you please turn on your heart and to please turn off your cell phone–isn’t a clear indication, there’s plenty of proverbial winking in director Diane Paulus’ Hair. From the restrained band volume to the affable, mostly miles-from-the-danger-line interactions between actors and audience, we’re assured from the beginning that the night’s show is going to be professional, going to be groovy, and going to be safe.
Safety, of course, was not what made Gerome Ragni and James Rado’s rock-musical about a tribe of hippies significant. It defied modern standards of decency, blazed new theatrical territory and was written and performed in the chaotic epicenter of the same cultural revolution it advocated.
Today, young, accomplished, svelte actors teeter on some house seats, take a few trips down the aisles, dry hump for effect, and stand naked for the requisite nude scene.
But let’s face it. Entertainment value aside, The Man acquisitioned Hair a long time ago. It’s unclear when, but the changeover presumably took place some time after religious groups stopped picketing outside of performances and some time before it began running in theaters named after multi-billion dollar car companies.
During this revival, I thought about what, if any, our contemporary equivalent to the monument Hair was in its heyday for intrepidity and relevance. It’s certainly nothing that can be described in the same genre (in the grand scheme of art and provocation, rock-musicals are now, by more honest billing, lite-rock-musicals). I won’t pretend to romanticize living in the late 1960’s–one, I would not yet exist as a fetus for another two decades and two, it was a notoriously violent era of persecution, uncertainty, hate, and abused authority–but I can appreciate the time’s profound art and its ability to have instigated change.
Yet the national conflicts Ragni and Rado wrote about are still (in some cases, eerily) recognizable. Our current generation is witness to an aggressively protested war, sex as a talking point for political candidates, old white men tossing around the word “communist” to rebuke lefties, and mainstream efforts to legalize marijuana. Then is it fair to wonder if, for all its critical acclaim, this latest resurgence of Hair missed an opportunity to be more than a technically laudable send-up to a counter-cultural artifact?
It’s telling that during opening night’s post-curtain-call “Be-In,” where the tribe welcomes the audience onstage to dance through a reprise, the cast really had to coax people to budge. Some inevitably jumped up, but most smiled good-naturedly while inconspicuously grabbing their coats and eying the exits.
Some rapport never got established.
And some did. As Berger, Steel Burkhardt has the most opportunity to break down the fourth-wall and create a sense of community. He doesn’t as often as I‘d have liked, but his allocated moments for addressing the audience are the most entertaining, substantive parts of the show. Taking a gentle stab at an over-zealous laugher is funny–allowing another to stuff single dollar bills down his suede fringe loincloth is funny and opens up the risk and fun of watching anything-goes action. The rest of Hair could benefit from this sense of happening and authenticity.
Vocally, the ensemble is consistent, and fits well within the folk-rock style Galt MacDermot’s compositions call for. Appropriately cast, these kids look and sound like the embodiment of young idealism and acceptance. At times, they’re sublime.
Billing a show as a revival carries a certain weight, implication and spirit. I’m not confident this latest production lives up to these. But as a fully-produced tribute, it’s at least a good trip.
Hair continues through March 20th, with performances Tuesday at 7:30, Wednesday 2 and 7:30pm, Thursday 7:30pm, Friday 8pm, Saturday 2 and 8pm, and Sunday 2pm. Tickets are $27 and $90, and can be bought at www.broadwayinchicago.com.
Filed under: 2011 Reviews, Broadway in Chicago, Dan Jakes, Ford Center for the Perfoming Arts, Musical, National Tours, Oriental Theatre (Ford) | Tagged: Alison Guinn, Allison Guinn, Arbender Robinson, Broadway in Chicago, Cailan Rose, Caren Lyn Tackett, Dan Jakes, Darius Nichols, Diane Paulus, Emily Afton, Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Galt MacDermot, Gerard Kelly, Gerome Ragni, Hair the Musical, Jame Rado, Jen Sese, Joan Marcus, John Moauro, Josh Lamon, Kacie Sheik, Kaitlin Kiyan, Karole Armitage, Kevin Adams, Lee Zarett, Lee Zarrett, Lulu Fall, Marshal Kennedy Carolan, Matt DeAngelis, Michael McDonald, Mike Evariste, Nicholas Belton, Nkrumah Gatling, Oriental Theatre, Paris Remillard, Phyre Hawkins, Sara Ruzicka, Scott Pask, Shaleah Adkisson, Steel Burkhardt | 1 Comment »
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Re: Dems block 'born alive' bill
Dems block 'born alive' bill
@Snoopy48 wrote:
This bill was simply a means for the Republicans to fire up their lofo base. It adds nothing to existing law.
This. The 2002 law by almost an identical name already requires doctors to provide care to any infant born alive after a failed abortion.
The new bill criminalizes the failure to do so. Doctors would be criminally liable if they don’t.
So if you care about the baby, don’t worry, the baby has been protected since 2002 ,even though there are ZERO known cases of this ever happening. ZERO.
The bill was meant to stir stir up the base, and that it did.
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@Olderscout66 wrote:
What the GOPer bill does NOT do is provide an inflation protected $233,000 trust fund to support the child until their 18th birthday.
That little jewel will fall on the unfortuante family of any fetus gestated for more than 22 weeks, that being the current "survival date", and that will decrease as Fundie MDs devote more billions to "save" a fetus.
You want to force a woman to bare a child, pony up the money to RAISE that child. Otherwise it's a crule and unusual punishment for the "crime" of failing to prevent conception.
But with GOPers its all about punishing poor women who have sex - none of their anti-woman nonsense effects a "woman of means". Just like all the rest of their legislation, it only punishes the poor for being poor by keeping them poor.
So, what if the conditions you describe, don't exist before the 22 gestation week? What if serious conditions crop up after the human being is 22 weeks of gestation or more? Father or mother lose their source of income, the family falls on hard times. What if, these crop up when the child is 2 weeks? Should that child be at risk?
The dems keep extending the deadline. How about the other end of the spectrum-a parent(s) suffering from dementia, lose their mobility, or independence. Should the scapel be plunged into their neck or brain?
@easyed598 wrote:
The Feminists liberals say the Government shouldn`t tell a woman what to do with her body. Makes you wonder when a baby that is borned not part of her body anymore. The Democrats keep giving republicans gift after gift for the 2020 election.
The new goddess of the left- AOC, going a step further. She questions (due to all the serious problems she perceives the earth's population facing), whether any should even consider having children. Let's hope ALL her followers, and libs, listen and opt to not produce any young.
Down the road, this will sove the abortion issue, as well as 99% of our countries problems.
easyed598
Snoopy wrote-This bill was simply a means for the Republicans to fire up their lofo base. It adds nothing to existing law.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------You are probably right but there are so many crazy ideas coming out of the NEW Democrat party that some have to be taken serious ,especially those coming from the DEM`s hero OAC.
Here is something for the Democrats to think about---
Racist Margaret Sanger Founded Planned Parenthood, 50 Years Later More Black Babies Aborted Than Bor...
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Olderscout wrote-But with GOPers its all about punishing poor women who have sex - none of their anti-woman nonsense effects a "woman of means". Just like all the rest of their legislation, it only punishes the poor for being poor by keeping them poor.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Oh Gosh We nasty Republicans just want to keep poor women from having sex just because she might get pregnant. How about women of means who just want to have sex that don`t want children? Doesn`t that punish them too? Of course not - the rich simply go to where the misogynistic laws of Republicans do not apply - been doing it for generations. As for mom having made the right choice, I was planned and welcomed, and that last part, which applies to most of us, is what makes the difference. The entire mime about Progressives' mothers having "made a choice" is total nonsense because it ignores all those who have had much better lives because their mother made the OTHER "right choice".
Republicans wish to deny women who do NOT welcome another mouth to feed the opportunity to make life better for herself and the rest of her family that is already here. They cannot do that to rich women, never have, never will. But they CAN do it to poor women, and that's all that matters to them. IF forcing a woman to bare a child she cannot support destroys the lives of other children and the woman, that's okay by the GOPers who only seek to keep the poor poor by making the rich richer.
nctarheel wrote-I am so amazed, day after day, that people will attack Roe vs. Wade from every direction thinkable and yet when it comes to capital punishment, they are silent.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I am so amazed that people attack capital punishment as cruel but when they defend the unborn (and now born)abortion it isn`t a problem. The difference is that one is killing the guilty and the other is killing the innocent.
Only 3 Democrat Senators Vote for Bill Protecting Babies Born Alive After Abortion
nctarheel
Since we are basically talking about BOTCHED PROCEDURES..........
I am so amazed, day after day, that people will attack Roe vs. Wade from every direction thinkable and yet when it comes to capital punishment, they are silent.
To me, if you are against KILLING OF ANY KIND, that would be an acceptable philosophy but RIGHT TO LIFERS are generally supporters of the following:
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/some-examples-post-furman-botched-executions
Olderscout wrote-But with GOPers its all about punishing poor women who have sex - none of their anti-woman nonsense effects a "woman of means". Just like all the rest of their legislation, it only punishes the poor for being poor by keeping them poor.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Oh Gosh We nasty Republicans just want to keep poor women from having sex just because she might get pregnant. How about women of means who just want to have sex that don`t want children? Doesn`t that punish them too? Weak argument OS. Isn`t it astonishing that ProChoice people who support abortion ,partial birth abortion and now post birth abortion have already been born and glad their mother made the right choice.
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Ultrasonic medical device maker receives declination letter from the DOJ
Misonix, Inc. reported in an August 16, 2019 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had received a declination letter from the US Department of Justice regarding the DOJ’s investigation of potential Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations. Misonix had previously disclosed that the DOJ and the SEC were investigating Misonix’s use of a third-party distributor in China. Misonix said that in 2016 it had voluntarily self-disclosed to the DOJ and the SEC the findings from Misonix’s investigation of this third-party. Misonix previously disclosed that in June 2019 the SEC informed Misonix that it had declined to take any enforcement action with respect to this matter.
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San Jose • London • New York
March 5–6, 2018: Training
March 6–8, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
Improving user-merchant propensity modeling using neural collaborative filtering and wide and deep models on Spark BigDL at scale
Sergey Ermolin (Intel), Suqiang Song (Mastercard)
5:10pm–5:50pm Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Big data and data science in the cloud, Data science and machine learning
Location: LL21 B
Data systems architects, project managers, and solutions architects
A basic understanding of neural networks and machine learning
Learn how to use neural collaborative filtering and wide and deep models on BigDL to predict a user’s probability of shopping at a particular offer merchant during a campaign period
Constructing marketing campaigns, targeting them to specific retail customers, and evaluating campaign effectiveness is a perennial problem for merchants and data processors. One of the key parameters of such campaigns is a user’s propensity to shop at a specific merchant in the future. A traditional machine learning methods of solving the aforementioned problem can be broken down into four steps:
Determine if a user shopped at the offer merchant during the training period (a binary label)
Generate a set of features based on user’s shopping behavior before the training period
Create a model (e.g., regression) to fit the label to each user-merchant (offer) pair using the set of features
Use the regression model to predict future shopper-merchant behavior
This traditional approach requires extensive feature engineering and user-behavior analysis during a model’s creation and tuning. As such, it often involves creating handcrafted features and demands an intimate knowledge of the dataset.
Sergey Ermolin and Suqiang Song demonstrate how to use Spark BigDL wide and deep and neural collaborative filtering (NCF) algorithms to predict a user’s probability of shopping at a particular offer merchant during a campaign period. Along the way, they compare the deep learning results with those obtained by MLlib’s alternating least squares (ALS) approach. The proposed approaches reduce feature engineering workload and perform better than traditional feature-based ALS as measured by precision and recall metrics. However, these convolutional networks require significantly larger computational resources than traditional approaches, hence the logical requirement for a distributed compute infrastructure such as Apache Spark and a scalable deep learning framework such as BigDL.
Sergey and Suqiang share work based on a real-life dataset that covers 12 months of data, between 1 and 10 million distinct qualified consumers, between 2 and 20 billion distinct known transactions, and between 50 and 200 target merchants (offers or campaigns) for benchmarks. Using this dataset as an example, they offer a detailed overview of the merchant-user relationship, share an in-depth outline of the deep learning algorithms they used, and discuss compute resources required.
Sergey Ermolin
Sergey Ermolin is a software solutions architect for deep learning, Spark analytics, and big data technologies at Intel. A Silicon Valley veteran with a passion for machine learning and artificial intelligence, Sergey has been interested in neural networks since 1996, when he used them to predict aging behavior of quartz crystals and cesium atomic clocks made by Hewlett-Packard. Sergey holds an MSEE and a certificate in mining massive datasets from Stanford and BS degrees in both physics and mechanical engineering from California State University, Sacramento.
Suqiang Song
Suqiang Song is director and chapter leader at Mastercard, where directly oversees a team embedded within the data engineering and AI tribe. Suqiang blends deep business and technical expertise with a passion for coaching people, helping them grow and develop in their area of expertise and ensuring alignment on the “how” of the work they perform in squads.
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Home Flash The Pirate Bay was recently down for over a week due to...
The Pirate Bay was recently down for over a week due to a DDoS attack
It seems like the prolonged downtime and technical difficulties faced by The Pirate Bay over the past several weeks were due to a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against the widely-popular torrent website by malicious actors.
For those unaware, The Pirate Bay was down for more than a week with most visitors displayed a Cloudflare error mentioning that a “bad gateway” is causing problems, while others served with a “database maintenance” message prompting users to check back in 10 minutes.
Though the site’s moderators did not reveal any details regarding the Pirate Bay downtime, a reputable source with a direct link with the operators told Torrent Freak that the recent Pirate Bay downtime issues “were likely caused by malicious actors who DDoSed the site’s search engine with specially crafted search queries.”
The attacker(s) flooded The Pirate Bay with “searches that break the Sphinx search daemon,” effectively crashing the torrent download website, making site visitors unable to download magnet links or torrent files.
Sphinx is an open source full-text search engine, and The Pirate Bay reportedly used an older version of the software.
According to the source, The Pirate Bay has since updated Sphinx to the newer version of the software, which has resolved the crash issues, though the free torrent download site is still returning errors in some regions.
Due to the high volume of malicious search queries, it wasn’t possible to log the errors and send a bug report, which complicated matters.
It is still not clear who targeted The Pirate Bay and what was the motive of attackers behind it. The staffer or moderators have not yet spoken anything about the incident.
The Pirate Bay is one of the most popular and most visited file-sharing websites predominantly used to share copyrighted material free of charge, allowing users to download software, movies, music, and TV shows for free.
The Pirate Bay is usually in the news for copyright infringement by movie studios, music producers, and software creators, due to which many ISPs across several countries block the free torrent download website.
However, users can still access The Pirate Bay using piratebay proxies or a secure VPN service. But, it should be noted that piratebay proxies would not help much to maintain anonymity, and also, many of these sites and mirrors include malicious copycats.
The Hacker News always advises its readers to avoid illegal ways to download movies for free. Instead, it would be best if you use free movie streaming sites or Netflix, like streaming services to watch your favorite movies online.
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(director: John Glen; screenwriters: Richard Maibaum/Michael G. Wilson/from the short stories by Ian Fleming; cinematographer: Alan Hume; editor: John Grover; music: Bill Conti; cast: Roger Moore (James Bond , Carole Bouquet (Melina Havelock), Topol (Colombo), Lynn-Holly Johnson (Bibi), Julian Glover (Aristotle Kristatos), Cassandra Harris (Lisl), Jill Bennett (Brink), Michael Gothard (Emil Locque), John Wyman (Erich Kriegler), Jack Hedley (Sir Timothy Havelock), Toby Robins (Iona Havelock), Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Geoffrey Keen (Minister of Defence), Walter Gotell (General Anatol Gogol), John Moreno (Luigi Ferrara), James Villiers (Bill Tanner), Charles Dance (Claus), Paul Angelis (Karageorge); Runtime: 123; MPAA Rating: PG-13; producer: Albert R. Broccoli; United Artists; 1981-UK)
“It’s the only Bond film where M didn’t appear.”
The title song is sung by Sheena Easton. It’s the only Bond film where M didn’t appear, as Bernard Lee died in pre-production and was not replaced. For Your Eyes Only ditches its usual expensive sets and high-tech gadgetry and supervillain, and replaces it with stunts, its usual muddled plot line and clunky dialogue. It also has a much too old and flabby Roger Moore as a campy Bond chasing young girls in bikinis who could be his daughter (the old man doesn’t score until the film’s half-way mark, which is hardly keeping up with the Bond tradition). This is Moore’s last time playing Bond.
John Glen (“Octopussy”/”A View to a Kill”/”The Living Daylights”) moves into the director’s seat after being the second-unit director and editor but can’t do much with this myopic Bond except keep it scenic as it jumps around the globe with visually appealing scenes from skiing in northern Italy to scuba diving on Greece’s Aegean Sea. Writers Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson never get a handle on the material, as they rely instead on the usual action sequences to make up for some of the missing formulic ingredients.
The British spy ship St George, equipped with the ATAC communications device (transmits the “fire” order to missile-carrying British submarines), accidently trips a mine while in the Ionian Sea and both the British and Russian seek the valued device. Marine archaeologist Sir Timothy Havelock has been hired by the Brits to search the wreckage, but he and his wife are murdered by helicopter pilot Hector Gonzales, a Cuban hitman, as his pretty daughter Melina (Carole Bouquet) watches aboard the family yacht.
The British Chief of Staff puts Bond (Roger Moore) on the case and he quickly locates Gonzales at a Madrid country club being handsomely paid for his services by a ruthless looking thug and then is killed by an arrow fired by Melina from a crossbow. The two then must make a daring escape in her VW while chased by gunmen in faster cars and who are better armed. Back in London, Bond ID’s the payer as Emile Leopold Locque, a Belgian enforcer last seen in Cortina, northern Italy. Bond ventures there and his agent contact Luigi Ferrara (John Moreno) introduces him to a Greek underworld figure named Ari Kristatos (Julian Glover), who could be helpful in putting the finger on Emile. Kristatos tells Bond that Emile works for rival, Colombo (Topol). Melina arrives in Cortina after lured there by a fake telegram from Bond, and 007 has to save her life from an assassination attempt by motorcyclists. Then Bond is attacked on the slopes by Erich Kriegler (John Wyman), an East German biathlon champion, and a bunch of Emile’s thugs. Bond escapes after killing many of Emile’s henchmen, and heads next for Corfu. There Kristatos points out Colombo (Topol) to him as the one he should assassinate. When another attempt on his life is made, Bond is saved by Colombo’s men who take him to the smuggler’s hideout. With the help of Colombo, Bond tracks Emile down in an Albanian factory and executes him.
Bond and Melina return to the St. George and locate the ATAC, but Kristatos steals it from them and after his unsuccessful attempt to kill them flees with the device to a monastery atop a steep mountain in St Cyril. It’s a mountain fortress known to Colombo, who used it during the war when he teamed with Kristatos as a resistance fighter. Kristatos is waiting there with Kriegler to sell the device to the Russian General Gogol. But Bond, Melina and Colombo’s men manage to kill the villains and Bond throws the ATAC over the mountain before the Reds can get their grubby hands on it and calls that detente.
REVIEWED ON 2/17/2009 GRADE: C+ https://dennisschwartzreviews.com/
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Written by Stephen Fabes on October 19, 2016 . Posted in Europe, Featured, New journeys, Recent, Travel Stories
To discover what motivated this journey, read part one. For the journey itself, read on…
I like running, but not in the way some people like running. In the days before I set off on an unplanned run through the UK, footage appeared on social media and TV news of the two Brownlee brothers at the end of a triathlon so gruelling that just pondering it saps calories. In the video, one of the brothers pauses, reels on the spot, staggers, looks about as close to cardiac arrest as it’s possible to look without being attached to a defibrillator, and then his brother appears, throws his arm over his brother’s shoulder and aides him in an ungainly stumble, reminiscent of a three-legged race, towards the finish line where he swoons into pain, physical oblivion and post-traumatic stress disorder. This is a psychological aberration. People are sectioned for less.
But I do get the draw of pain and punishment. To some extent, far removed from the Brownlee’s limit of endurance, I enjoy exertion. I thought this as I began my run from my Mum’s house in Oxford, an unplanned jaunt to no destination, with no time-frame, route or objectives. I felt the light-headed buzz of breathlessness, the gush of endorphins. I passed a sign advertising a coming fun run. Fun. That was for wimps. This would be the unfunnest, unfunniest, most funless run of my life. But if I got really tired I’d stop and have a cup of tea in Subway.
With Ordinance Survey maps on my phone, my route was planned only as far as the screen or two allowed, and when I got to the edge of this known zone I’d have another look ahead, replan, run and repeat. That way I’d capture the spontaneous spirit of adventure I needed, and I’d have no idea where my unprimed legs would take me. But to avoid a soul-crushing epiphany that I’d been running circles around somewhere dreary, say, Northampton, I decided that I needed a vague course, and since more of the country lay up the map than in any other direction, this is the way I would head.
As it turned out, September is a sublime month for distance running in the UK. Not too cold, not too hot, 12 hours of daylight and that loamy scent of autumn on the wind. Even better: every hedgerow is speckled in blackberries. Their ubiquity is amazing once you get your eye in, and this meant I could carry less food, pausing hourly for childish, messy-faced plundering.
At first I felt a huge weight of relief in not having a goal, not mapping my route or counting miles. I had nothing to lose, failure wasn’t an option, not through determination, but because I refused to define success. I was relieved too that I hadn’t told anyone I was going… if I was home in half a day, there would be no face to save.
I knew the first bit… spritely now, I verily cantered through Hampton Poyle, rounded the green at Bletchingdon, my pace holding out to upper Heyford. This was the countryside of real ale festivals and vicarages, of fierce and pointless protests to new housing developments, of village ponds and duck crossings and particular women who looked a little like Theresa May.
I hadn’t done any training. My legs started to get sore, but I realised there was a simile: new saddles are sore too. Maybe my legs were behaving like a new saddle, and like a new saddle, I’d just have to break them in. Unfortunately, there is a tried and tested way to ‘break in’ legs, and it’s called training. And ideally, you should do some before running 40 miles a day. But I decided not to allow myself to complain about the predictable muscle aches, as long as I didn’t suffer the lancing pain of a buggered knee or ankle, in other words, unless I underwent Massive Leg Failure.
You notice more on foot than on bike. I jogged up to Parish council notice boards, which I wouldn’t have bothered to explore had I been cycling. They were stuck with twee and endearingly parochial announcements. In Plumpton it was hedgehog watch. There were the minutes of the type of meetings that would have been no less detailed if you recorded the timeline in hours. There was a band playing in one church hall called Holy Moly and the Crackers. I felt a sudden urge to join the Green Valley quilters, and get in some hardcore quilting.
The temptation to plan, which is a habit so embedded in my life, was enormous. I found myself thinking maybe I’ll run to Leicester, or Derby, and then No! And I’d try to clear my head, put myself on a new, foreign setting, feel the release of a truly aimless adventure. I only discovered I’d crossed county lines when the signs on the bins told me I was in Northamptonshire. On my OS map Fartington popped up. This was excellent, a suitably scatological place to have dinner. So imagine my disappointment when I came to the signpost pronouncing it Farthington. In the pub, it wasn’t long until the bar staff began asking questions. What was I up to? (not sure) Where was I going? (dunno) Where will you sleep? (some woods?) Word spread and I quickly gained celebrity. ‘He’s gonna sleep in the woods!’ I heard from the other side of the bar. Then the barmaid edged over to me ‘Hey, are you from that show Hunted?’
That night I found woodland and settled into my bivy bag, moonlight dappled the leaf litter, as brilliant as road markings. I had no clue how many miles I’d run, it didn’t matter. Unfortunately, my feet remembered quite clearly the next day. My soles felt bruised. I started the day in a limping trot, amusing the rare early morning motorists. The pain was excruciating, which of course is a warning sign, your body’s way of telling you to run through it until you break something.
I checked the next screen on my map and gasped. Leicester. It loomed, like the Battlestar Galactica. Fuck. I’d have to run around it. So I began edging west for a time, cutting through bridleways where I could. For most of the day the pain in my ankles especially was dramatic, I was getting sure I wouldn’t last much longer. Things took an even more baleful twist in Primethorpe, which seemed a prime place for something very bad to happen. This is because Primethorpe is populated overwhelmingly by people on remand for throwing kittens into reservoirs. Cautiously I slowed to ask directions from a burly character, etched by tattoos. The fact that he managed to offer half decent directions was a nice surprise, considering he was six pints and two ecstasy tablets deep into his Sunday morning.
My OS maps began to become littered with ovoid blemishes, a scribble of contour lines suggested they were granite quarries. I veered around a couple and then met Rugby at twilight, which meant trouble finding a rough sleeping spot. I prowled unsuitable bits of waste ground for too long, grass too high, thicketed by nettles, the kind of place you’d be unsurprised to uncover the mutilated corpse of a hitch-hiker. Eventually I settled on the fringe of a field as traffic thrummed beside me.
The next morning by feet remained a pair of spiteful and painful protrusions. But by lunch time, we were friends again. Miraculously, the pain had begun to settle. They had realized the futility of their protest. Which was good, because I could survive for only so long on blackberries and ibuprofen.
In Desford I ordered a sandwich in pub, and earned a sideways glance from a guy at the bar. ‘Come far?’ ‘Oxford!’ I chirped, hoping for kudos. Unfortunately for me, Nicky was an ultra-marathon athlete, fresh from the Marathon des Sables, which means running through places hotter and sandier than Desford. Nicky invited me back to his house for a cup of tea with his wife and trampolining kids, and made it clear that if I needed any additional kit, it was mine. I thanked him for his generosity, cadged a few snacks and set off again, to fuck knows where.
I gained some altitude, almost unknowingly, and found myself running through the enchanting sounding Charnwood Forest which broke into a barren rocky upland, where I fought my way through fern and brambles to reach an outcrop of rocks and gazed over a spread of fields: Nottinghamshire to the north east, Derbyshire ahead and Leicestershire behind me.
Scotland famously has ‘the right to roam’. England has this too, but it does mean ignoring the ‘Private Property’ and ‘No Entry’ signs and enduring the occasional mauling by a rabid farm dog. Villages came and went, often announced by their church spire, sticking up amid distant green hills. Pheasants were surprisingly rampant in this part of the world and I passed youths trekking their little socks off on Duke of Edinburgh expeditions.
In Belton I stopped in the Queens Head for a Sunday roast, there was a gentle flow of banter from barstaff, and taciturn men sitting around pints, ‘socialising’. I’d run so far now the accents had changed, which was satisfying. That night it rained, which is bad news for the bivy-dweller. Next day I set off again, my legs were less painful now, more adjusted, but I had developed an interesting sensation at the back of my ankle: it was as if I were being lashed intermittently with an elastic band. After checking my shoe laces were well fastened, I realised this was in fact my inflamed Achilles tendon. This confirmed, more than the of rollcall of counties, that I had run quite far.
I crossed the river Trent and into my fifth English county, Derbyshire, and the town of Shardow where I indulged my habit of pub dinner followed by breaking into a farmers field and setting out my bivy bag for a 4th night and a heavy sleep. There was something dystopian about the following morning: the silhouetted towers of the Radcliffe power station guffed steam into a magenta dawn. I ran on, into Stanley Common, Brexit heartlands. St George Cross flags everywhere and presumably people who says things like ‘there’s too many of ‘em’ and ‘I ain’t racist, but they ain’t like us are they? They’re different.’
And then I saw it… Smalley Green, a village just a few miles away. I knew then I had found a destination, because it was the ultimate non-destination. Somewhere small in name, size and significance. An apt end to a run unplanned from the outset, befitting that travellers cliché about the importance of the journey. It was that moment in Forest Gump when he slows and realises, for no apparent reason, that his journey is at an end, and it ends as spontaneously as it began.
Problem was: Smalley Green didn’t have much. Scattered homes, a green warehouse and a dog photographing business called Zoe’s Paws. Not even a signpost. But Smalley Village up the hill had one (I needed a photo), and it had bus stops. That would do.
I sat at the bus stop, on one of those benches formed of two metal bars, which must have been designed by a man with no concept of comfort and possibly without an actual arse and any experience of sitting. But as I took the weight off, it felt luxurious. I’d made it! To Smalley Green! Just like I always dreamed I… well, maybe not.
As I sat on a train darting back to Oxford, I’d knew that I’d achieved my only goal which was to embrace unpredictability, that mysterious substance so often leached from life in the city. I hate it when people say that everything happens for a reason, not just because they’re almost certainly wrong, but because of how boring life would be if it did. How much more exciting to know that literally anything could befall you, at any time, good or bad, outrageous or trivial. That’s amazing.
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Love it! That’s being spontaneous to a T – or should that be an S?!
Man, my calves started burning just reading this, Stephen! However massive congratulations… The Brownlee brothers would certainly approve!
Nice read, thank you. Once you have done it, it never quite leaves you?
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Wow. So wonderful. Your blog is full of happiness, joy and love. Thanks for sharing.
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History Is Served
The Lost (and Found) Classic Cocktail of San Francisco
The legend of Pisco punch did not die with its creator, Duncan Nicol.
via Flickr/Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores Peru
By: April White
It was not yet midnight on the evening of Monday, June 30, 1919 when the last Pisco punch was passed across the mahogany bar at the Bank Exchange. The saloon had stood on the southeast corner of Washington and Montgomery streets in San Francisco since the Gold Rush. It had withstood the 1906 earthquake and emerged unscathed from the fires that ravaged the city in its aftermath, but the Bank Exchange would not survive prohibition.
The 18th Amendment, which had been ratified five months earlier, would not go into effect until 1920, but the Wartime Prohibition Act would become the law of the land that night at 12:01. That act, signed after the armistice, restricted the sale of all drinks with more than 2.75 percent alcohol. Few knew what was in the Bank Exchange’s famous Pisco punch, but it was definitely over the limit. One regular likened the cocktail to the scimitar of Harroun, with an edge so fine that “after a slash a man walked on unaware that his head had been severed from his body until his knees gave way and he fell to the ground dead.”
Over protests from the patrons gathered for a final hurrah, longtime proprietor Duncan Nicol locked the doors of the Bank Exchange at 10:30 that night. Nicol’s establishment was known a gentleman’s saloon, the type of environment so genteel that sons could bring their mothers for an elixir. Nicol was determined that would not change in last few, frantic moments before the cocktail shakers were silenced on “Thirsty First.” Andrew Volstead, the Minnesota representative who was the public face of prohibition, had won, but he could not have Nicol’s reputation or his Pisco punch recipe. “Mr. Volstead can’t take the secret from me,” Nicol declared.
Many people had tried to learn the secret of Pisco punch in the 50 years Nicol stood in his white coat behind the bar at the Bank Exchange. There were stories of bribery, espionage, and even an attempt by a rival saloon to recruit a scientist to recreate the cocktail. The Los Angeles Times, in a preemptive obituary for the Bank Exchange written in early 1919, warned that the drink would never be replicated; it was “a febrifuge of rare and mythical ingredients, which has delighted and flabbergasted thirsty San Franciscans since the old days. And no one can make it except the aging genius Duncan Nicol.” Rudyard Kipling had hazarded a similar guess at the recipe in an 1889 travelogue. “It is compounded of the shavings of cherubs’ wings, the glory of a tropical dawn, the red clouds of sunset, and fragments of lost epics by dead masters,” he concluded.
The recipe was anyone’s guess, and the guesses ranged from absinthe to hashish to cocaine.
Pisco punch was, imbibers seemed to agree, a mix of Pisco, an unaged grape brandy carried to the port of San Francisco on ships from Peru and Chile, and pineapple, newly abundant in San Francisco in the second half of the 1800s as trade increased with the Kingdom of Hawaii. And it was stirred, “delicately and without haste,” one reporter recalled. Beyond that, the recipe was anyone’s guess, and the guesses ranged from absinthe to hashish to cocaine. Nicol died in 1926 at the age of 72 “without revealing to anyone the secret of making the punch,” the Associated Press reported the next day.
But the legend of Pisco punch did not die with Nicol. When prohibition was lifted in 1933, a brisk and cutthroat trade in bottled Pisco punch emerged, each claiming to be the original concoction. And the drink has enjoyed periodic resurgences of popularity in San Francisco in the decades since, depending on the availability of Pisco. Today, interpretations of the classic—made with Lillet Rouge or lime or even strawberry—can again be found on the city’s trendiest bar menus.
There was, however, one man who maintained that the first recipe for Pisco punch was never truly lost. Instead, it sat for decades in a filing cabinet at a venerable San Francisco law firm. In 1964, the author William Bronson was asked to organize the papers of elderly lawyer A. Crawford Greene, who planned to write a memoir. Among the letters was a 1941 exchange between Greene and a Portland, Oregon, lawyer named Henry Corbett. “I have two bottles of Pisco brandy that I bought before Duncan Nicol died and I am tired of having them in the cellar and want to drink them up,” Corbett wrote. “I can’t drink them up unless I know the recipe.”
It is clear from the correspondence that Greene had not been forthcoming with the closely guarded secret in previous letters, but on May 1, 1941, he acquiesced, enclosing the Pisco punch recipe he acquired from John Lannes, the very man who took over the Bank Exchange from Nicols at the dawn of prohibition. Lannes ran it as a dry tavern, serving soft drinks for less than a year before shuttering it completely.
The secret Bronson discovered in those long-lost letters was gum syrup, a common pre-prohibition ingredient made from sugar, water, and gum arabic, the dried and reconstituted sap of the acacia tree. Known more for its velvety texture than its taste, gum syrup smoothed the often-rough edges of 19th-century Pisco.
Lannes’ Pisco Punch Recipe
Take a fresh pineapple. Cut it in squares about 1/2 by 1 1/2 inches. Put these squares of fresh pineapple in a bowl of gum syrup to soak overnight. That serves the double purpose of flavoring the gum syrup with the pineapple and soaking the pineapple, both of which are sued afterwards in the Pisco Punch.
In the morning, mix in a big bowl the following:
1/2 pint (8 oz.) of the gum syrup, pineapple flavored as above
1 pint (16 oz.) distilled water
3/4 pine (10 oz.) lemon juice
1 bottle (24 oz.) Peruvian Pisco brandy
Serve very cold but be careful not to keep the ice in too long because of dilution. Use 3 or 4 oz. punch glasses. Put one of the above squares of pineapple in each glass. Lemon juice or gum syrup may be added to taste.
Lannes’ recipe was meant for a party, not for serving one person across the bar, but “when the recipe is followed,” Greene wrote, “[t]he result tastes exactly as it did in the days of the old Bank Exchange.”
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Andrew Volstead: PROHIBITION'S PUBLIC FACE
By: Rae Katherine Eighmey
Minnesota History, Vol. 63, No. 8 (Winter 2013-14), pp. 312-323
CONTESTING PISCO: CHILE, PERU, AND THE POLITICS OF TRADE
By: JERRY T. MITCHELL and WILLIAM C. TERRY
Geographical Review, Vol. 101, No. 4 (October 2011), pp. 518-535
American Geographical Society
Secrets of Pisco Punch Revealed
By: William Bronson
California Historical Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Fall, 1973), pp. 229-240
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How to watch Coachella 2019 from home
by: Josh Hymo Apr 9, 2019
Coachella 2019 is just around the corner, and for those who couldn’t make the trek out to Indio, technology is here to save the day.
Fans can watch their preferred performances on Coachella’s YouTube channel, which indicates that 46 artists have been confirmed for live-stream coverage (and counting). These artists include Dillon Francis, Gorgon City, J Balvin, Wiz Khalifa, and more. While this is its ninth year in a row offering a live stream, it’s the first year that the festival will broadcast both weekends.
Also, viewers will see original content including artist interviews, mini-docs, and, according to USA Today, exclusives from Childish Gambino (who will be premiering his Guava Island film featuring Rihanna), and Kanye West doing a Sunday Service performance on April 21.
See the full Coachella 2019 lineup here.
Tune in 💻 👀 Both weekends are streaming live on https://t.co/gW7w2kc8pG. All you know and love on the Weekend 1 Live Stream & introducing Weekend 2 Coachella Curated – three days of original content, full Yuma Tent sets, performances and more. pic.twitter.com/CuB25eEY4o
— Coachella (@coachella) April 3, 2019
Photo credit: John Davisson
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Building Your Own Literary Community
Yi Shun Lai, nonfiction editor of The Tahoma Literary Review, offers three tips for playing a greater role in the wider literary community:
We built Tahoma Literary Review because we want to ensure the publication of great writing in a way that’s monetarily satisfying to the writer, but we also built it because we wanted to play a part in our greater literary community.
What does “literary community” mean, anyway? Strictly defined, it means all writers, readers, and editors, but we like to think of it with a special emphasis on what you can do to improve the community. Our emphasis is on the latter of the two words.
In short, she advises writers to read, comment, and buy. There is a bonus fourth tip, too, as she explains in the article: meet.
(I was touched to be named among the blogs they like to read.)
Also: you should definitely check out the journal’s week-long, daily conversation on diversity in writing and publishing, which is starting today.
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Billy Gene
How To Create A Winning Product in Today’s Competitive Market
Revolutionizing How Businesses Gain Customers and Scale Up with Digital Marketing
With Billy Gene, CEO of Billy Gene is Marketing
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When you can solve a problem for someone, or you can teach them something they didn't know before, think about how much trust, admiration, and how much you want to work with that person, right? That's the whole game.
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In this podcast, Billy talks about his early love for video which made him stand out in high school. Since then, he has learned many tips and tricks for creating amazing video ads that can bring in a better return than real estate.
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Billy’s mission is to revolutionize the education system so that students are no longer investing thousands of dollars into an education that leaves them deep in debt and without a skill set. So Billy Gene Is Marketing created the School of GENEIUS online social media marketing program to help people acquire customers and scale up their business.
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Episode 1162: The Tribulations
March 10, 2019 December 1970, Sam Hallindicating, justice, logical explanation, point of view, time travel, worst actorDanny Horn
“Counselor, I do not need you to tell me the laws of this state that I am honor-bound to withhold!”
A death, a dream, a Trask yelling witchcraft — yep, just another episode of Dark Shadows.
Today, Trask finds Quentin kneeling over a dead body, just like he did in episode 1156, a little over a week ago. Then Gerard casts a spell that sends Daphne a sexy dream, just like episodes 1146, 1151 and 1158. And Desmond says that the evidence against Quentin is circumstantial, just like he did yesterday and the day before, and for all I know he’s going to say it again tomorrow, and every day for the rest of our lives.
Man, I wish something would happen today that we haven’t seen recently, and I’m sure I will never regret making that wish.
Oh, I regret it already; I just knew that I would. You know how it is, you let your guard down for one moment and along comes The Worst Actor Who Ever Appeared on Dark Shadows.
I would have sworn we’d left Addison Powell for good back in May 1968, when Dark Shadows figured out that they’d gotten hold of the wrong mad scientist. Powell played Dr. Eric Lang for five unforgettable weeks in spring ’68, when he cured Barnabas of his vampire curse, built his own Frankenstein and then dictated an audio message that followed us around for way longer than it needed to.
Addison Powell moved through Dark Shadows like a shark through an antiques store, shouting and grandstanding and taking pauses in all the wrong places. He mugged furiously, constantly pushing his front side toward the camera so we could see the stupid expression on his stupid face. In his worst moment, he actually said “Let me think,” and then put his fingers up to his forehead to indicate that he was currently in the process of thinking. He was awful.
After more than a month of his nonsense, la belle sorcière Angelique finally killed him using a self-made man of her own. Lang was supposed to carry an anti-witch talisman around with him, but he put it down somewhere and forgot where it was like a dope, and she stuck a pin in a clay doll and he died of a broken heart, unmourned and unloved.
But he had a parting gift before he left the stage, a tape recording recorded on a tape recorder that wasn’t actually recording.
“Julia,” he said, “if you do the experiment again… if both Barnabas and my creation live — if they both live — Barnabas will be free and healthy, as long as Adam lives. Adam will drain Barnabas’ affliction from him, but will not suffer from the disease itself, if he lives. But if Adam dies, Barnabas will be as he was before.”
If you don’t remember what that was about, then don’t worry about it; apparently it worked out fine. They did both live, as it happens, and Barnabas wasn’t as he was, until he traveled back in time, and then he was as he was all over again. Some people will do anything for attention.
But that’s not important. The important thing is what happened to Lang’s body — or rather, what didn’t happen, because it wasn’t there.
You see, after the tape recording, Lang laid his head gently down on his desk, indicating that he was dead. Julia checked his pulse and found that he didn’t have one, which was just typical. She called Barnabas on the phone and told him that Lang was dead, but when Barnabas got there, the body was gone.
They didn’t bury it, or call the police or anything; it just wasn’t there anymore. Addison Powell couldn’t even lie down and play dead. So Barnabas and Julia just went on with the story, as if the corpse evaporated somehow, and that was that. Personally, I think they were just happy to be rid of him.
And then here he is, two and a half years later and a hundred and thirty years ago, calling himself Judge Wiley. He’s got a robe on and his hair is combed differently, but I’d recognize Eric Lang anywhere. Nobody else talks like that.
“Mr. COLLINS!” he shouts, like always. “I have inVESTigated the CHARGES AGAINST you in this CASE. Very CAREFULLY. Now, you will NOTICE I have not ASKED the prosecutor. To be PRESENT here.”
He’s talking to Quentin and Desmond, who are here because Quentin got arrested for murder and nobody will let him leave. They’re doing their best to keep up.
“The reason I DID THAT,” the judge continues, “was there was NO REASON for it. I see NO CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE. POINTING! To a LINK! Between MR. COLLINS. And the MURDER. Of MR. DREW.”
He takes a breath, and peers at Quentin. If I didn’t know better, I’d swear he was trying to act.
“I HEREBY DISMISS ALL CHARGES,” he bellows. “The CASE will not COME TO TRIAL.” Then he bangs the gavel on his desk a couple times. There’s nothing you can teach Dr. Judge Wiley about making noise.
Naturally, the boys are excited. “I can’t believe I’m free,” Quentin smiles.
“Mr. COLLINS,” the judge grimaces. “You are not — COMPLETELY FREE. As yet.”
He turns to the door. “Mr. TRASK,” he hollers. “You may ENTER if you please.”
And in walks the prosecutor, who was waiting right outside the door with a stack of depositions. Apparently this is one of those surprise Candid Camera inquests where they play hilarious pranks on the defendant.
Desmond objects, but Lang just bangs his gavel and says, “Silence in the COURT. I have NOT given the COUNSELOR permission to SPEAK.”
Then he leans forward, and yells right up in Desmond’s face.
“I am going to PERUSE. These DOCUMENTS IN MY CHAMBER. COURT is adjourned until three o’clock.” And then a couple more gavel bangs.
Desmond asks him to explain, but Eric Lang doesn’t have time to explain things to other characters. “I need EXPLAIN NOTHING until I have PERUSED THESE DOCUMENTS. Counselor.” And then he ankles for the door, docs in hand.
Now, I know you’re going to say that this isn’t Eric Lang, it’s just Addison Powell playing a different character, but I don’t buy it. Anyone who believes in a just and loving God knows there can’t possibly be two of these in the same universe. Besides, I can prove it.
Because Eric Lang wasn’t the first time we’d seen Addison Powell on the show. Three months earlier in January 1968, we first encountered him in episode 404, under the alias “Judge Matigan”. This is what is known as the original 404 error.
At the time, girl governess Victoria Winters was the one on trial, in the year 1796. She was accused of witchcraft by Reverend Trask, and when a Trask cries witch, you call in Addison Powell. He wasn’t very helpful with her, either.
“All right,” he yelled, from the other side of a table. “First of all, Trask CONTENDS that you’ve been plotting against the Collins family. Do you have ANY reason for WANTING to HARM ANY member of the COLLINS FAMILY.” She said she didn’t.
“All right,” he continued. “In fact, SINCE. BEFORE, your arrival, in COLLINWOOD. Did you have ACQUAINTANCE with any MEMBER of the Collins family.” She said no.
“All right,” he nodded. “Now, Trask BASES, bases MOST of his charges against you. On the fact that your ARRIVAL. In Collinwood. Was under very mysterious circumstances.”
See what I mean? Clearly the same guy. All he needs is a stack of documents to peruse.
So the question is, how did Eric Lang turn into two previous judges? If Wiley and Matigan live — if they both live — then something must have brought them here, and it sure wasn’t a law school scholarship.
“Mr. Collins, I am NOT CONSIDERING holding your client,” he explains. “I HAVE NO CHOICE! But to hold him.”
He looks down at the script page on his desk, and then shouts at Desmond. “Under the POWER!” he begins, and then looks down at the paper again.
Now, this sequence is a little complicated, because Lang can only say about three words of this speech before squinting at the script again. Here’s how it goes.
Looking up: Under the POWER!
Looking down: Vested in me, according to
Up: the LAW of
Down: this state. Number ONE HUNDRED and
Up: nineteen, DATED!
Down: Twenty-third of April, 1696.
Desmond objects that Maine wasn’t a state then, and Wiley bangs his gavel a couple more times. “Counselor,” he says — BANG! BANG! — “I do not NEED YOU to TELL ME the LAWS of this STATE that I am HONOR-BOUND TO WITHHOLD!”
Now he’s tapping with his fingers on the desk. “The articles of our STATEHOOD SPECIFY” — tap! — “that we keep those LAWS ENGENDERED” — tap tap tap — “UPON” — tap — “US” — tap — “WHEN WE WERE A PART (tap!) of the ROY (tap!) AL COL (tap!) ONY of MASS (tap!) ACHU (tap!) SETTS. THEREFORE.”
Now he’s really into it. “In ACCORDANCE with Law one-nineteen, dated TWENTY-THREE APRIL, sixteen-ninety-SIX, a citizen can be CHARGED with WITCHCRAFT!” — finger point! — “If there are DEPOSITIONS.”
“From SIX! CITIZENS” — and he holds up two fingers, just when he says SIX! I have no idea why. When Addison Powell is in full flow, you can’t control him; you just wind him up and watch him run.
“CLAIMING! From PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. ACTS of WITCHCRAFT. And NAMING. The PERPETRATOR OF SAID EVIL.”
He takes a breath. “THEREFORE! QUENTIN COLLINS! I HEREBY! BY THE POWER INVESTED IN ME! CHARGE YOU WITH THE INFAMOUS PRACTICES! Of WITCHCRAFT!“
“I ORDER YOU TO BE HELD! WITHOUT BAIL or BOND! In the COUNTY JAIL!”
“UNTIL SUCH TIME as you COME to TRIAL! Under a SPECIAL TRIBUNAL of three judges! CHOSEN SPECIFICALLY ACCORDING to this law.” Tap tap tap.
“Upon COMPLETION of your trial! IF YOU ARE FOUND GUILTY!”
“Your PUNISHMENT will be DEATH!”
“In the MANNER PRESCRIBED BY THE LAW. BEHEADED!” BANG! BANG!
So where does Lang be headed, is the question. I think it’s obvious at this point what really happened here.
No? Okay, I’ll walk you through it. Eric Lang was a bad doctor and a worse actor, but even he could tell when he wasn’t wanted.
He was only on the show for one day when somebody tried to strangle his head with his own medical equipment, and things just got worse from there. He had nightmares about doors and he kept forgetting where he put his talisman, and all because of the infamous practices of witchcraft.
So yeah, he had a voodoo heart attack and apparently died — but then Adam drained his affliction from him, and did not suffer from the disease itself! How do you think Lang knew what would happen if Barnabas and Adam both lived? He’d already done the experiment on himself, prophylactically.
And that’s why his body was gone, when Barnabas and Julia came back into the room. He wasn’t really dead, he just scooted out the back door, running off to find someplace where there weren’t any witches.
Of course, once Barnabas and Julia ran the experiment again, then both Barnabas and Dr. Lang’s creation lived — then they both lived — and Lang was tied like a boat anchor to his own creation and to a supernatural time traveller, who then hopped around the space-time vortex from 1968 to 1796, back to 1968, and then to 1897, 1796 again, 1969, Parallel Time, 1995, 1970 and now 1840, Lang holding for dear life onto Barnabas’ coattails as he swung back and forth from one century to another, not to mention the weird spring of 1970 that he spent on film, in upstate New York.
And the whole time, he’s thinking to himself, Fine, at LEAST! I’m staying a STEP ahead. Of the WITCHCRAFT! That keeps TRYING to kill ME.
But everywhere he lands, guess what he finds! That’s right, the INFAMOUS PRACTICES of WITCHCRAFT. It’s everywhere! First Cassandra, and then Angelique, and Nicholas, and Parallel Angelique, and Hannah, and Judah, and Miranda, and Valerie, and now Quentin, apparently. He can’t rest for a minute, even in the grave he was never buried in.
So yeah, he ends up in the witch trial business. What else would you expect? He’s got to at least try to figure out who’s innocent and who’s guilty, so he can avoid another talisman screw-up.
And Adam was no help, by the way; they ended up rooming together for a few months when they were both thrust haphazardly into 1897, and all Adam wanted to do was stare in the mirror and feel sorry for himself. He wouldn’t even peruse documents.
So here he is at last, smack in the middle of 1840 all dressed up in judge drag, with three angry men staring at him and expecting him to figure out who’s a witch and who isn’t, and after all this time, who even knows?
If they both LIVE, he thinks to himself, sullenly. Did WE both live? Is THIS! what you call living?
Tomorrow: Love in the Afternoon.
Here’s another in my series of weird talks about old-time entertainment curiosities: The Thingmaker and the Burning of the American Child, which is about dangerous toys of the 1960s, and what happened to change the way Americans think about children and danger. If you like this blog, then you’ll probably like the talk, and you may even recognize a few jokes from old blog posts. If you like it, you should also check out my other talks: The Mickey Mouse Watch and a History of Things in General, and First a Bird, Then a Plane: the Natural Selection of Superman.
In the teaser, Mildred’s “body” is clearly just her costume, laid out on the floor. When Quentin is surprised and moves his hand, the costume shifts position.
Desmond bobbles a line: “You can not be accused of murder because a woman was found lying dead in the, here, or because Randall Drew, you were kneeling beside him!”
Desmond tells Quentin, “You cannot be tried for witchcraft in this day and age, not since 1696! It isn’t legal!” Obviously, he’s forgetting about Vicki, who was executed in either 1796 or 1797, depending on when someone remembers it.
In act 3, why is Trask hiding behind the drawing room door, all alone in a house where he doesn’t live?
Once again, Daphne goes to sleep with all of her clothes on.
There’s a little edit skip while Daphne’s coming downstairs during her dream; she basically leaps straight into Gerard’s mouth.
In the dream, Gerard tells Daphne, “You want to marry me, I can tell. As I want to marry you. I can think of no other life together.”
Desmond takes a break in the middle of his objection to the judge: “This is a court of law, your honor! A man may not be — [two second break] — indicted for being a witch under the law in the year 1840!”
Desmond tells the judge, “He wants to know by what considering are you holding him?”
Gerard tells Trask, “I think it would be best if I just remain in the dark shadows,” which is adorable. This is probably not the only time that somebody said “dark shadows” on the show, but I can’t think of where I’d go to find that out.
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Count Catofi says:
About 1968, I asked Santa Claus for a Thingmaker by Mattel toys. Thank you, Santa, for a really cool toy!
It was the model called “Creepy Crawlers.” It came with metal molds to make an assortment of lizards, spiders, and various other insects. (Just don’t touch the hot plate surface. Also, don’t touch the hot metal mold until after you have immersed it in the tray of water for about a minute to cool it down.)
Then about 15 years later, I spotted several old bottles of various colors of “Plastigoop” on a shelf in our attic. The stuff was stored for so many years that the liquid goop had separated into 2 layers – like oil and vinegar will separate.
I wondered if the heating element and goop might still work … So I shook the bottles vigorously, dripped some of the goop into a mold, and fired up the old hot plate to see what would happen …
The old heating element heated up immediately when I plugged it into the electric outlet … The goop started to change color slightly as the liquid goop solidified … Amazingly the unit still produced soft plastic insects just like old times again!
But then scratching my head, I wondered: Now what should I do with all these newly minted lizards and spiders?
I had a Fright Factory, my brother had Fighting Men; additionally our home had Incredible Edibles and a Strange Change toy, which left nifty grid burn scars if you didn’t use the tongs. And I don’t think any of the devices were used in a well ventilated area — only in the unventilated basement, where my brother and I also built all our plastic model kits. With toluene based glue. (In retrospect, were my parents trying to send a message?)
John E wrote, “… additionally our home had … a Strange Change toy. …”
Below is an original, spooky, 30-second TV commercial by Mattel Toys for its “Strange Change Time Machine.”
This toy also did get pretty hot. I’d say it came out about a year or two after the Thingmaker. But note how Strange Change Time Machine’s heating unit is now covered by a clear plastic dome probably to reduce the burn risk. If I recall, the SCTM never got quite so hot as a Thingmaker hotplate would but, yeah, you still needed to use the blue tongs to take out the hot plastic dinosaur! Overall though, I would think that SCTM was lower risk for burns than the uncovered Thingmaker hot plate which came with every set of Creepy Crawlers, Fright Factory, Fun Flowers, Fighting Men, or Creeple People, etc.
Be sure to enjoy the eerie narration sure to appeal to any young fans of DS who may be watching:
Dark Shadows also references itself in one of the 1966 episodes. In episode 46, Vicki walks into the drawing room looking for one of David’s drawings which she set aside. Roger is there and he tells her it’s on the table by the sofa. Relieved, Vicki comments on how David would kill her if she lost that drawing. Roger replies, “My son might kill you even if you didn’t,” given how David had only recently tampered with Roger’s brakes so that he was almost killed when his car went off the road down the hill from Collinwood.
This reference is particularly noteworthy because it’s said in direct relation to Collinwood itself. Vicki gets Roger to take a look at David’s drawing, which is of Collinwood, and Roger observes: “Collinwood, with all its dark shadows. He’s captured it, alright.”
I knew I’d just read it on your blog, and Roger said it, but I wasn’t able to look it up quickly enough.
Doesn’t someone say it in an intro narration (doesn’t really count as ‘on the show’)?
Not sure about the opening narration, though in the early days with Victoria Winters doing the narration there are plenty of references to “shadows” and “darkness” and sometimes even in the same sentence, but I can’t recall offhand if they are ever used together to reference the show. I think it would count as “on the show” because that’s how each episode begins, and often the introductory narration extends well into the opening scene.
I read that Dan Curtis stopped using Vicki as narrator after he had to pay her for episodes she didn’t even appear in — it cost less for an actor that was in the installment to narrate. (IMDb Trivia)
That’s right. It was weird after that decision was made when we’d hear Vicki doing the narration periodically, but no longer in first person.
Didn’t David Henesy and Denise Nickerson sell sandwiches to the cast and crew that they cooked up on a hotplate there in the studio?
Wonder if Dan asked for his cut of their profits.
Victoria Winters in her opening narration for episode 65:
“My name is Victoria Winters. Another touch of blackness has been added to the dark shadows that fill the halls of Collinwood. A shocking death has brought the past alive, carrying to the doors of the great mansion on Widows’ Hill.”
zimazing says:
Hi! First post (finally)! Love this blog! Love how you hate Addison too, Danny. Been admiring for a long time, and I have learned so much! (Gushing padawan wannabe) Thank you!
Addison Powell must have studied at the Really Loud Actors Studio.
Hey, he doesn’t get on my nerves half as bad as Judge Judy.
He was probably classmates with Roger Davis.
David Edelstein says:
I commented last night and saw that it was posted but it disappeared into the dark shadows.
Yeah, I posted the post wrong and I had to delete it and do it again. Sorry, I didn’t realize there was collateral damage.
Great presentation, Danny; informative and entertaining.
I wonder if future generations will be equally appalled by the 2010s over how Big Pharma and Monsanto have been allowed to join forces and respectively sicken and poison the population through junk meds and a tainted food supply.
It’s great that kids are safe from hot plates and uranium kits; at least they can grow up to acquire neurological diseases and dementia through long-term exposure to GMOs and other insidious chemicals.
What happened to all the car commercials? People used to like just driving around and eating.
Pharma ad: “May cause heart failure…” No kidding, you mean it’s about as useful as arsenic?
Here’s a joke I read somewhere:
Q: What do you call an American supermarket without GMOs?
A: Empty.
There will be much for future generations to be appalled about from this era (providing any future generations make it). There may only be GMOs to eat once climate change becomes more pronounced, and most freshwater sources become salty because of rising sea levels.
Oh, of course – we’ll be fine here in the USA behind our big, beautiful wall.
We’re back in a global cooling trend once again — since 2016. A year or two before then, I read somewhere that sunspot activity had peaked by 2012, and that a more inactive period of solar dimming would follow. As soon as I read that, I knew we’d be back at global cooling like in the 1960s and 1970s. In fact, I remember news programs from the 70s where scientists were going on record predicting that we’d find ourselves in the midst of a new Ice Age in our lifetimes. All they do is project the present moment, like things will keep moving in only one direction unless, We, the Stewards of the Earth, step in to save the universe from Ourselves.
That’s another thing future generations will laugh about — how people in the 2000s and 2010s built this virtual religious belief system out of Global Warming/Climate Change, and even made it big business to the point of passing huge government spending bills dedicated to such an imaginary issue, never stopping to realize that just like planet earth, the sun too has its seasons, and right now it’s settling into “solar winter”.
We always think the end of the world is just around the corner. Remember the threat of nuclear war? Nobody talks about that anymore. Nearly 8 decades since the atomic bomb, and now nobody even gives it a thought. People today have far more important things to talk about, like “toxic masculinity” and “white privilege” and all these stupid home-made videos that go “bacterial”.
Myself, I’m much happier just forgetting about these first two misbegotten decades of the twenty-worst century, and keeping a more “Dark Shadows” state of mind; it’s better to just look in on Collinsport and see how normal people live and function.
Sincerely hope that you’re correct. My version doesn’t sound fun; but neither of us will likely be here to say to the other, “Tol’ya so!” ⚰⚰
Tell you what — if you’re right, you get to haunt my descendants.
I’m right, I get to haunt yours. 👻
Most likely we’ll just be hanging out in a recreation of the Blue Whale set drinking toast after toast to a journey well traveled.
Unless you’d prefer the drawing room with the magic drinks cabinet. Nah, no jukebox, just that crummy little AM radio. The Blue Whale it is!
LutherstadtWittenberg says:
You say everything is cyclical, so this century is just a retread of the Thirty Years’ War or the Inquisition?
The only certainty in life is change. Great lyrics, a great song. Thanks, Priz!
Well, nobody can blame you for wishing, Danny – just remember to be more specific next time.
“Mad” Addie (or “Howlin'” Powell) DOES make a change from the holding pattern the writers seem to be running — and at least we don’t have Roger Davis standing there in the background waiting to get his hands on Quentin!
And we didn’t have to hear the tape again.
And Daphne isn’t having the Dream Curse.
And since it’s only 1840 Barnabas still has years to rethink his options and NOT hypnotize Istvan into needlessly walking off a cliff (and perhaps hypnotize him do something else? I digress.)
Craig Slocum might have returned for another lap around the track, this time as Noah’s grandfather Clifford Gifford, as whiny witness to Quentin’s misdeeds.
Sabrina Stuart as Other Gaoler’s Wife could have come in with a breakfast tray, and on seeing Quentin bending over Liz Eis’ costume (which BTW, WTF! Couldn’t they even borrow a dummy from Ohrbachs? Did they think we wouldn’t NOTICE it was just clothes, or should we just guess that Quentin was so hungry he ate her? Again I digress.) she could have dropped the tray, put one hand on either side of her head, and let fly with a super fake scream.
Counting our blessings and moving on…
Judge Wiley, if I understand it, has just DROPPED the CHARges aGAINst Quentin and he’s FrEe To GO; so this new charge of witchcraft is different than the last charge of witchcraft, or did Trask’s brilliant legal mind wait until Quentin was cleared before bringing the sorcery suit?
Maybe Desmond can get the sentence reduced from beheading to being crushed under millstones until proven innocent. (Honor bound to withhold, indeed.)
I know when he came on the screen that this was the face you made.
We all did.
One of the Parallel Time Christines says:
Don’t forget Sabrina’s terrible, semisentient wig.
I figured she could use the grey ‘witch’ wig for that period 1840s look, maybe have it done up with ringlets. Couldn’t look any worse than that roadkill Samantha has on.
Ooh, maybe a badger or a raccoon!
Michael E says:
At one point, I Petofi has Beth proceed with the I Ching through one of the phantom doors, and asks her what she sees: “Shadows–just–SHADOWS!” She cries in distress. Ptofi, via Thayer David at his plummiest, intones “I am Interested in the Meaning of Shadows”–and the world waits for GIFFs to be invented . . .
That sounds more like Babylon 5.
Big Finish will be releasing Bloodline next month, available in installments or preorder of the series.
Here’s (hoping) a link to the info…
https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/dark-shadows-bloodline2
That’s exciting, now I have to listen to the first series to remember what the hell was going on in it.
Laramie Dean says:
Does his performance as the voice of the Ghost of Jeremiah count as a first appearance? I mean, he was kinda loud then too (but I always enjoyed THAT performance; sounds nothing at all like Anthony George, but I was okay with that). “You will LEARN what it IS to BE one of the LIVING … DEAD!” dirt dirt dirt …
That first screen capture sure looks like hand shadow puppetry.
Now, THAT would be a cost cutting measure.
Benj says:
Danny – i really appreciated your youtube lecture, especially toward the end when you talked about conspiracies. I want to use this in my communication classes when we are focused on the use of facts and identifying conspiracy theories.
Tony Redman says:
FYI through March 21, 2019, Big Finish has many of their Dark Shadows audiobooks on sale for just $5.31 each. Details are on their website http://www.bigfinish.com. And when you buy the CDs, almost every one of them comes with a free .mp3 of the story too!
Just thought I’d pass that along to anybody (like me) who’s just getting started on the audiobooks.
The story of Addison Powell: from Massachusetts to Vermont, he apparently could never get too far from Collinsport, Maine. An interesting life:
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/burlingtonfreepress/obituary.aspx?n=addison-powell&pid=146572298
Article proving “parallel time” does, in fact, exist — it even uses photons (sunlight) as proof further leading one to believe in a possible correlation with vampirism.
https://www.livescience.com/65029-dueling-reality-photons.html
Now if I can only find the door in my house that I can open and see my life playing out in the alternate universes. I just know that in one of them I decided not to move to California and remained in Alabama. That would be interesting to see…if not scary.
I think the one at my house is the one to the cookware closet – the pots and pans keep moving around in there!
In one of mine, I stayed in Denmark and became a countess!
The article just points to us being in a simulation.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-03-03
I’m real though. Maybe everyone here is real because Dark Shadows fandom draws in real people and the NPCs are drawn to the Kardashians and other similar nonsense “reality shows”. They are the simulation version of bug zappers … all that supposed REALITY is attractive to fakey human bots. 🙂
Coda says:
Danny, I put it to YOU, SIR, that the real 404 error is skulking in the back of the scene there. Addy seems to inspire you to write such entertaining material, which may possibly hint that he has considerable entertainment value; can you say as much for the other guy?
Danny’s torment is a gift to us all.
JoeyTrom says:
Addison Powell and David Selby starred in a movie called “Dr. Franken”, which is very similiar to the Adam story.
And (on the good side) this is the LAST appearance of Addison Powell on Dark Shadows.
I cannot stress that enough.
I can: LAST. APPEARANCE.
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September 11, 2019 December 1970, Sam Halldecline and fall, gerardspeak, gunplay, kaiju, nerf, sherry, shipping, thwartedDanny Horn
“We cannot love at will, any more than we could prevent our love.”
Oh, it was such a good idea at the time.
When Dark Shadows went to 1795, the show discovered that they could shake up the soap by traveling back into the past, using the existing cast but dressing them up in old-time costumes, and giving them new names and storylines. It was a spectacular way to move forward, interrupting a story that didn’t have anywhere to go, and breathing new life into the premise. While they were in the past, they figured out that you could have more than one monster on the show at the same time, and once they came back to the present, they started piling them up in heaps.
Problem is, they’re now doing time travel for the fourth time, and it turns out giving everybody a new character name every six months doesn’t automatically refresh the show; you also need to think up some new storylines. In fact, traveling to another time means that it’s possible to rehash the same plot points with a freshly neuralyzed set of family members, and there’s nobody around to say, wait a minute, this already happened, fifty-seven years from now.
Well, live and learn, I suppose, although on this show, it’s more like live and die and come back to life and then learn the same stuff over again.
So we find ourselves in the abridged version of The Thwarted Vampire Hunt storyline from 1897, which occupied five weeks worth of episodes back in fall 1969 and takes maybe two episodes this time. Yesterday — was it only yesterday? it feels like two months ago — possessed pirate Gerard Stiles and his ward, Lamar Trask, smashed their way through the wall in the basement of the house of eccentric millionaire Barnabas Collins and found the skeleton of Lamar’s dad, which proved that Barnabas is a vampire, which he is, even if that didn’t actually prove it.
Now, Gerard has returned to the house with a shootin’ iron loaded with silver, prepared to take the “un” out of the undead. He knows that Barnabas is sleeping in a box in the secret vault behind the bookcase, and he’s planning to make a withdrawal.
And then he’s there, impossibly: Barnabas Collins, awake in the afternoon. “Gerard!” he crows. “Looking for a book?”
It’s always a delicious moment, thwarting someone, and Barnabas knows exactly how to play it. He’s weaseled his way out of his vampire curse somehow, made an offering to some dark deity who watches over imperiled predators, and he’s snatched away Gerard’s moment of triumph, and now he’s rubbing it in by being unflappable and urbane, the hound.
“You’re standing right before me,” Gerard gasps, “in broad daylight!”
Barnabas affects a puzzled look. “Why do you think there’s anything unusual about that?”
“You know what’s unusual,” Gerard scowls. “Vampirism!” He thinks he’s still in the Hammer horror movie, and he’s the one holding the hammer; it hasn’t sunk in that they switched channels while he wasn’t looking.
“Vampirism?” Barnabas boggles. “Well, what on Earth makes you think that I’m a vampire?” He hasn’t offered Gerard a glass of sherry yet, but it’s hovering in the air.
“You know my answer to that, Barnabas,” Gerard growls, entering the final stage of the thwarting process.
“Well, as far as I understand it,” Barnabas chirrups, “vampires cannot survive during the daytime. And isn’t it also true that vampires’ images cannot be reflected in mirrors?” He takes a step toward Gerard, and smiles. “Would you like me to stand in front of a mirror for you?”
And this was going to be such a fun day for Gerard, too. He’s been possessed by a warlock from 1692, it’s taking forever to get his best friend executed, and this is the only thing he had to look forward to.
Cornered, Gerard takes refuge in his favorite pastime, which is garbling his lines. “So it’s obviously that you’ve had assistance from someone,” he says, “and if I find out –”
Barnabas smirks; he’s been waiting for this cue. “Of course I’ve had assistance!” he says, brightly. “I’ve been fortunate enough to have someone nearby, offering a kind hand.”
And then there’s that little bomp-bomp surprise music cue, as Angelique enters the room, completing the loop.
She’s freed Barnabas from his curse somehow, probably by sewing together a bunch of dead people, hooking them up to machinery and electronically transferring part of Barnabas’ elan vital into some half-formed mockery of a man, then letting it loose to prowl the night, to everyone’s lasting detriment. Or maybe she just waved a wand and clicked her heels together three times; the chronicles don’t specify.
“Did you want me, darling?” she says, and then she gives the guest a smile. “Why, Gerard!” she cries. “How nice to see you. Well, won’t you sit down?”
He won’t.
“Well, what about a glass of sherry? Although it is a bit early –”
So they swarm in, surrounding him, the last great kaiju convention, and the weird thing is that this isn’t a Gerard plot point.
The bomp-bomp surprise cue only works if Gerard understands that Angelique is a witch, and she’s the one who helped Barnabas escape. Drat, I hadn’t thought of that, he should be saying to himself, to make this a truly satisfying scene. But he doesn’t know that this is Angelique; he thinks that her name is Valerie. He’s kind of aware that she’s a witch, because he knows that she was casting a spell to discover who’s possessed by Judah, and he’s kind of aware that she looks a lot like Miranda from the 1690s, but they haven’t really made a point of it. Two weeks ago, he had a brief scene with her where they talked about Judah Zachery’s journal, but then Daphne interrupted them and Angelique left the room, and Gerard didn’t give Angelique another thought.
In yesterday’s episode, Gerard and Trask were in the basement speculating about Barnabas’ vampire past, but it was Trask who figured out that there was a witch named Angelique who was married to Barnabas, and like I said, Gerard doesn’t even know that this is Angelique.
Except that he does. “Your composure is beautiful!” he spits, at the enemy he doesn’t know that he has. “Enjoy it while you can, because I swear that this wonderful little gathering won’t be going on for long!”
It’s a Count Petofi scene, really, circa 865. This is a plot point from a time when everybody knows who everybody is, because they extended the storyline a few extra months and they’ve run out of aliases. In the parallel universe of this scene, Gerard sees Angelique walk in, and he instantly appreciates, as we do, the bittersweet irony of the scenario. And, in that cloud-cuckoo otherworld of story logic where this scene apparently takes place, Barnabas, Julia and Angelique are fully aware that they’ve foiled their arch-enemy, instead of — as things really are, on ABC-TV’s Dark Shadows — just confused one of Quentin’s friends.
And the weird thing is, I’m not sure whether Gordon and Sam can even remember at this point which character knows who’s a time-traveling witch and who isn’t. They don’t sweat the small stuff in late-stage Dark Shadows.
Gerard exits, and then it’s time for some fantastic but entirely unearned fanservice for all the Barnabas and Angelique shippers.
“Angelique,” Barnabas begins, “when I came to you for help, I knew you would want something in return. You didn’t tell me, then. Tell me now what you expect.”
“I expect nothing!” she announces, determined as always to surprise everyone she talks to. “For once in my life, there is no price.” And she sticks to that story, all the way through a withering burst of skepticism from Julia. Angelique loves Barnabas, apparently, with a true and unselfish love that only makes sense if she remembers the last two years of storylines, which they’ve specifically made clear that she doesn’t.
This iteration of Angelique comes direct from 1795, having spent the last forty-five years drifting in circles and waiting for Barnabas to wake up. She didn’t follow Vicki to the twentieth century, she doesn’t know about Adam or Roger or Dr. Lang. She didn’t bite Joe Haskell, she didn’t fight a phoenix, and she didn’t marry Sky Rumson. She doesn’t remember any of the experiences that would lead her to this tender reawakening of simple, unselfish love.
Except she does. “Barnabas, I don’t expect you to believe me,” she says, “not after all we’ve been through. I have only myself to blame. Only myself.”
“Angelique, you are extraordinary,” he sighs. “I’ve seen you play this scene before, many times, but I have to confess that I’ve never been so convinced.” I agree with him, it’s a good scene, and it’s nice to have a little reminder that Dark Shadows can put a couple together that I care about. But it’s hard to shake the feeling that this was dropped from a passing helicopter, stolen from a storyline that I wish we’d been watching, instead of whatever actually happened over the last month.
He shakes his head. “Spare me the charade,” he says. “You do not love me, Angelique! You only want power over me.”
“Well, then, why would I lift your curse?” she says, the big blue eyes doing their stuff. “You’re free of me now. I have no hold over you. Barnabas, I did want you for myself, but rather than see you dead, I would see you free of my power — and free of me.”
And he is free now, free of conflict and complications and storyline requirements. If Barnabas isn’t a vampire, then Lamar Trask has no hold over him, and the Roxanne story is over. If Angelique isn’t threatening him, then he has no romantic story thread, either. And as he and Julia demonstrated yesterday, he has no idea that Gerard is possessed by Judah Zachery, so he doesn’t have a lot to offer there either. They have nerfed him completely.
If he’s not in danger from Gerard and Trask, and Julia’s not in danger from Angelique, then I think the only thing that Barnabas specifically cares about is Quentin’s witchcraft trial. Maybe that’s why they want him in daytime scenes, so he can show up at the courtroom and defend Quentin. Oh, dark lord, I think they’re planning to turn Barnabas into Peter Bradford.
“I believe you, Angelique,” he says. “I cannot say that I love you, but — I understand your love, for the first time since you came here from Martinique.”
“Does that make any difference?”
Barnabas looks thoughtful, and pained. “I don’t know,” he says. And it does make a difference, eventually, but they’re not going to put a lot of time into it. I’m afraid, just like in the last post, that I have another episode-guide gut punch to deliver, namely: we don’t see Barnabas and Angelique in the same room together for another six weeks. They both stay on the show and participate in the current storylines, but they don’t have an episode together until well into January, at which point it’s entirely too late.
This really has been a wonderful little gathering, getting Barnabas and Angelique and Julia and Gerard all in the same room together, a last little assortment of interesting scenes. Enjoy it while you can, as Gerard said, because it won’t be going on for long.
Tomorrow: This Place Is Not a Place of Honor.
When Julia opened the door at the end of yesterday’s episode, Gerard said, “Well, Julia, that’s some — some answer. Did I frighten you?” In the recap today, he says, “Well, that’s some frightening welcome, Julia. What’s the matter, did I frighten you?” I wonder what the actual line was supposed to be.
Gerard tells Barnabas, “So, it’s obviously that you’ve had assistance from someone.”
I cleaned up the quote in the post, but what Gerard really says to Angelique is, “Your composure is beautiful! Take it while you can. Enjoy it while you can, because I swear this wonderful little gathering won’t be going on for long!”
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The scene in today’s episode where Barnabas surprises Gerard by appearing during the day seems kind of like a rehash of that scene from House of Dark Shadows, when Professor Stokes shows up with the intention of destroying Barnabas and then is shocked almost to the point of speechlessness to see Barnabas in the light of day, with Barnabas regarding Stokes with the same casual tone of bemusement over the accusations of vampirism as he does with Jurardah here in this episode.
This episode is the second to last where Barnabas and Julia share a scene together, the last one of course being the farewell from this time band in 29 episodes time, episode 1198. It’s kind of sobering to be seeing these Lasts.
Heh, I recognize the reference from the title of the next entry, so I’m curious to see how that’ll tie in.
Doesn’t this kinda take the air out of Angelique’s beautiful balloon too? The main point of having her around was her crazy idea of ‘punishment as love’ where Barnabas was concerned, and that’s gone along with the curse.
And if lifting the curse was such a breeze, why couldn’t she do that in 1795? Or was it something that she picked up in the intervening 45 years, while she was making her annual pilgrimages to make sure the curse was still in force and Barnie was chained up? Ah, l’amour, toujours l’amour!
It must have been something she picked up through the years. Apparently she had been absent at witch school the day they taught how to remove a vampire curse. She must have gone to summer school sometime before 1840.
JoeyT says:
In 1897 it took her a month to cure him with Julia’s injections after being a witch almost 150 years! In Leviathan, she’s actually horrified Jeb turned him into a vampire again. They could have easily continued the character development here but chose to stop it and continue from a plot point three years ago.
I consider this to be “The Sugar Episode”.
ps As always, totally worth the wait, Danny.
Ubiquitous says:
Welcome back, Danny!
So in “Dark Shadows – the Musical” is this where they sing “Love Stinks”…
Tess Collins says:
Love you, Danny!
And on my above thoughts, doesn’t this ruin Angie going forward, too? What’s the point of 1897 Angelique, or Cassandra, or Vampelique either? Here we’re worried about Edith…
Percys Owner says:
This is where the show really starts to fall apart for me. Angelique POISONED his sister to get Barnabas to marry her. Her curse KILLED his sister and his mother. HE ended up murdering perfectly innocent women because of the curse. Not to mention the whole “love of his life, lets keep trying to turn people into her” Josette fixation, who Angelique really pushed to suicide. I can accept that he fixated on Josette because he was stuck in a box for close to 200 years and she was what he thought about, so the whole “love of his life thing” wasn’t true, but COME ON! Angelique wrecks havoc on his life and everyone he “loves” and her releasing him from the curse suddenly makes everything hunky dory?
I will admit that Parker and Frid had the most chemistry of all of Frid’s pairings. I understand why they wanted to get them reconciled, but it violates every bit of backstory. Plus, she tried to reverse the curse when she first put it on and failed. NOW, suddenly she can do it? This part of DS makes me crazy.
Crazy? Did someone mention crazy?
You can choose a theory that suits you I suppose. It’s possible that if they’re doubling back on their own timelines that they’re actually un making their own memories.
I like to think that time travelers have their own personal timeline and then there’s the timeline and the rest of us experience. So for the person who’s time hopping no matter how many branches they take they retain memories of everything and perceive it more or less linearly just like we perceive regular time. If that were the case then Barnabas and Angelique remembered everything but maybe in this “present” time they had been through a lot more individual and joint time branching than we, the audience, knew about. I can only imagine what a person would do confronted with all these contradictory experiences. Personally I think I would just shove them in a mental drawer and go on with the present.
The writers were still aiming this at a younger audience, right? This has the feel of a rather juvenile wrap it up and make it a happy ending sort of plot line. Or maybe it’s just the romantic 70’s housewife who wanted to see that sort of thing. It’s a soap opera, they could always become enemies again.
The writers were also giving a conclusion to everyone and even the whole time band, which is a rarity given soap operas rarely go in for series finale type conclusions where everyone gets written out. Barnabas was leaving soon with no sign of coming back and the reconciliation wound up being bittersweet anyway.
Dark Shadows is interesting, at least in my experience, for adopting a more seasonal approach to the storylines as opposed to the usual model once 1795 kicked in, very few overlapping storylines and only one familiar character crossing over. There are storylines that occur within this, but all end by the time Vicki returns to the present day. You can tell when a time travel storyline is ending by the storylines suddenly reaching a conclusion and the body count suddenly rising.
Exactly right – Angelique deserved a reckoning befitting her crimes. Too bad the writers didn’t have little Sarah’s ghost pop into the room while Angelique was batting her big blue lamps at Barnabas. Bet that would have snapped him back to reality.
So glad you’re still writing!
It takes real grit to stick out the death rattle that is the late stage Dark Shadows, let alone write about it. It’s a nice accompaniment to the experience of being a fan of this crazy damn show. It’s almost like a confirmation that the whole ride wasn’t just some bizarre fever dream.
So nice to see a new entry! Hope all is well, Mr. Horn!
Thank you, I love you all too. There have been circumstances keeping me away from writing blog posts for a while, but we are still heading for 1245, and there are more posts coming up. The reports of my death are mildly exaggerated. Thanks for hanging in.
If you’re not going to give up, then neither will I.
“Speak. I am bound to hear.”
Dan Campbell says:
Thanks, Dan. Maybe when the CW version continues from the Bramwell storyline or the Zachary storyline, this & the Nicholas Blair guide will be the place to go, for filling in past details.
It’s too bad the CW waited till now, to approach a Dark Shadows continuation. If it was already in motion, they could use the CW’s Infinite Crisis storyline, to merge together all of the contradictory characters in DS, into one Angelque and Barnabas and Julia etc., with the memories of all of their alternate timelines.
During 1968 and onward, as the show was gaining higher and higher viewership… is it possible there were viewers NOT aware there was a Sarah Collins?
Seems unfathomable, given the syndication package of the 1970s-1980s mostly consisted of the 1967-early 1968 episodes, including the 1795 storyline. Sarah is very prominent and familiar to us “syndication repeat” viewers – however, her last and effective appearance aired at the time January 1968. Was she ever reference again, or did she go quietly into that good night (or that good upstairs), as did Chuck Cunningham or Judy Winslow?
Crazy as it sounds, and with the exception of faithful original viewers from 1966/1967 onward, there may have been many late comers to the show, later 1968 onward, who had no memory of Sarah, or what Angelique had done to her? This may explain (vaguely) how a Barnabas/Angelique reconciliation – however brief – could originally be considered acceptable this late in the series?
Then again, explanations and Collinsport pretty much cancel each other out.
And, none of this really excuses what Angelique did to Josette, something recent viewers would remember. Luring and tormenting her atop Widow’s Hill. That is just plain rude.
Yeah. I know that Josette isn’t a beloved character on this site, but what Angelique did was terrible. Not quite as bad as Barnabas not telling her what he was turning her into, but still terrible. I know way back when, someone said that Josette killed herself because Angelique showed her that she wouldn’t be pretty anymore. I saw it as Angelique showed her turning into a bloodthirsty monster who would kill people that made her kill herself rather than be with Barnabas. He was the one that turned her away when he saw her face after he brought her back.
In any case, I have little sympathy for Angelique and really disliked that the whole redemption arc involved Barnabas deciding that he did love her.
I thought they had already done when she helped them fight the Leviathans.
I didn’t hate that Angelique was redeemed, I hated that once she was, Barnabas decided he loved her. Angelique was pretty abusive, although that wasn’t something that was even thought about back in those days, so Barnabas going back into the situation seems really awful to me. I didn’t mind her finding love with Sky. I could accept a friendlyish relationship with Barney, but having him deciding he always loved her was a bridge too far, for me.
Sarah is mentioned once in a scene with Vicky and Carolyn not too long after 1795 ended. At least she kept her word she would never appear to anyone ever again.
Angelique did mention her at the beginning of 1840 when Julia was pretending to be his sister and she says “I know you had only one sister, and her name was Sarah”. Barnabas then said “I will never forget you were responsible for her death”.
Thank you Joey. Surprised they even mentioned Sarah, after such a long absence, but glad they did.
Made the direction they took with Barnabas and Angelique all the more baffling.
Michaeld certainly says:
So I’m really the only one who bought the redemption of Angelique? At least, back in the day? Ah, well. My insane crush on Lara Parker might just possibly have had something to so with it . . .
But I have to admit that it made a kind of sense to me. Angelique was the constant, as Barnabas’s hopeless crushes on this-or-that young auburn-haired or brunette girl came and went, the actresses drifting out of the show and out of my memory. (And Barnabas was no angel, folks–even before he became a vampire he shot at his uncle with full intent to kill–and once he had his vampiric powers, he didn’t let a lot of conscience get in his way.) And the Parker-Frid chemistry was a real thing. And no other Angelique ever captured Parker’s pathos in the role. To me, after so much experience together and apart, their weary and wary turning to each other reminded me of Hugh Wheeler’s line in A Little Night Music (which premiered only two years after DS closed)–“Finally, rest, after so many years of muddle.”
(And by the way, Barnabas was doing defensive memory when he accused Angelique of killing Sarah–she did threaten Sarah’s health, and that’s reprehensible, but Sarah died from running from vampire Barnabas–that was deflection.)
I expect no agreement. I remain Team Angie.
I will note that when Angelique cast the curse, she didn’t say “you will become a monster” she said, “anyone who loves you will die” which is why Barnabas and I blame him for Sarah’s death.
I think this is an agree to disagree situation. I like Angelique, I just can’t get behind Barnabas deciding he loved her, if for no other reason than if he had decided that earlier a TON of deaths would have been avoided. After all, she originally didn’t want to marry him, just be his mistress.
Yes, and further – Love doesn’t always make logical sense. We can ignore our own families because of some transgression against us. But if they suddenly pass away, we cry as if we lost someone valuable.
The way I’ve always thought of the Angelique character, is she’s the same as any other woman who has been scorned – except that she wields the corruptive influence of magical powers.
If she DIDN’T have those resources, then maybe she would do some initial damage out of jealousy, and eventually move on. But with those powers, there are fewer consequences, and it becom
… it beomes irresistible to punish your enemies, or those you blame for your failures.
We’ll see if the new CW series, respects this redemption or ignores it, much like Lara’s novels.
Jason X. (@JasonXHowe) says:
I don’t like most of 1840, but I like Barnabas and Angélique making amends – even if it doesn’t make any sense.
But that’s because I hated that this Angélique – unlike every previous RT incarnation – was a blanked version from the past.
Glad to have a new entry.
Glenn Johnson-Barnes says:
Just chiming in, I’ve been rewatching the 1795 storyline nightly on Decades, and no way do I see these 2 as “romantic” at all. Sexual chemistry sure..that’s what got him in trouble in the first place. I’m actually in the minority I believe, as someone who liked the Barnabas/josette pairing, and would have like to have seen him end up with some version of Josette. The two had a genuine fondness it seems for each other, imho
I’m a big Barnabas & Josette fan, too. KLS and JF convinced me that B. & J. truly loved each other. That’s why Barnabas was so hell bent on finding her again – their love never died!
I too am a Barnabas & Josette fan.
Jonathan Frid, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Nancy Barrett, Lara Parker… among the long term actors, through various eras and story lines, each had their own very unique chemistry, and each character (characters) would at one time or another claim some sort of close or reciprocal relationship with Barnabas.
Among other details, was amazed to discover the story of Josette atop Widow’s Hill was written and performed not once, but twice. Both versions mostly utilizing the same dialogue/back-and-forth between Josette and Angelique’s voice-over. The growing majority of original viewers probably never saw the early February 1968 version, but more than likely did experience (and never forgot) the November 1969 version! Both versions still insanely effective, and as throughout the series, done with minimum special effects, on a minimum budget. As far as broadcasting and story telling goes, there is a lesson in there, somewhere.
Nonchalance says:
A Christmas Shadow
Having suffered through the abysmal, lackadaisical, even soporific 1935 film of Scrooge, ‘starring’ Seymour Hicks, I knew that somewhere, in some Parallel Time, there was this much better production.
Barnabas Collins as Ebeneezer Scrooge
Willie Loomis as Bob Cratchit
Roger Collins as the Ghost of Jacob Marley
Joe Haskell as Scrooge’s Nephew
Victoria Winters as Mrs. Nephew
Thayer David as Fezziwig
Elizabeth Stoddard as Mrs. Fezziwig
Carolyn Stoddard as Mrs. Cratchit
David Collins as Tiny Tim
Maggie Evans as Scrooge’s Former Girlfriend Whose Name No One Remembers
Mrs. Johnson as Mrs. Dilber, Scrooge’s housekeeper
Peter Bradford, Jeb Hawkes, Chris Jennings, and Substitute Burke Devlin, as assorted players
Dr. Woodard as a very testy Ghost of Christmas Past
Sam Evans as a befuddled Ghost of Christmas Present
Julia Hoffman as a terrifying Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
that’s fabulous, Nonchalance!
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Dark Karate Comedy ‘The Art Of Self-Defense’ Hits At Bleecker Street
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Bleecker Street has acquired worldwide distribution rights The Art Of Self-Defense, a dark comedy set in the world of karate starring Jesse Eisenberg, Imogen Poots and Alessandro Nivola. Riley Stearns wrote and is directing the pic, which begins shooting today in Kentucky.
The film centers on Casey (Eisenberg), who is attacked at random on the street
and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei (Nivola) in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence and hypermasculinity and a woman (Poots) fighting for her place in it. Casey undertakes a journey, both frightening and darkly funny, that will place him in the sights of his enigmatic new mentor.
The End Cue pic is produced by Andrew Kortschak, Cody Ryder, Stephanie Whonsetler and Walter Kortschak. Bleecker Street CEO Andrew Karpen is an executive producer.
Bleecker Street is prepping its premiere of Andy Serkis’ Breathe tonight at the Toronto Film Festival.
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Monbiot vs. Greenpeace: Reflections For Decarbonising SA
Written by Ben Heard, Founder and Executive Director, Bright New WorldPosted on August 21, 2011 September 5, 2011 119 Comments
A few weeks ago, one of my favourite writers and thinkers, journalist George Monbiot, shaped up in the pro-nuclear corner in a debate with none other than Greenpeace, perhaps the world’s pre-eminent environmental organisation.
In this post I provide a review of the debate and the key points raised by the speakers. The post will run in two parts, in the order of the speakers. Part one will cover Monbiot and Roger Levitt, part two will cover Malcolm Grimston and Doug Parr.
True to my purpose of developing a successful regional model for achieving decarbonisation, I apply some of the key points of the discussions to the specific challenge faced in South Australia. I hope the approach is instructive, useful, and somewhat generalisable to other regions. You will enjoy this post most if you have watched the debate or watch along as you read
I’ll start with the opening speaker, George Monbiot himself.
If you are unfamiliar with Monbiot, I hope the video of this debate give you an idea of why I admire his work so much. What a blistering and uncompromising 7 minutes. My immediate reflection here is that Monbiot embodied a concerning phenomenon I am seeing more and more often: Those environmentalists who are prepared to see nuclear power deployed are the only ones that hold themselves, without compromise, to a realistic appraisal of the climate crisis. They are the ones for whom the penny seems to have dropped regarding the actual consequences of rise in temperature of two degrees or more and, even worse, the truly frightening increase in the likelihood of this occurring. The others, well… I moaned to my wife the other day that the quickest way to solve the climate crisis was to just mention nuclear power, because the second you do the crisis seems to disappear altogether!!!
"Nuclear power? What climate crisis?" Shiny, happy environmentalists
Well, bugger that, I’m with George. I’m not going to artificially downgrade my rating of the problem just because I don’t like the solution. Until observations indicate that we have more time, not less, with which to act, Decarbonise SA will continue aiming to help people actually understand and accept the reality of what our best scientific endeavours are telling us: that this century may be the last in which we inhabit a hospitable planet unless we get serious and decarbonise rapidly, starting now.
He also raises the very sound point about the overall increased demand for electricity in particular, as we seek to displace fossil fuels from things like transport. This is wholly relevant here. We are hugely car dependent in South Australia. This year I have provided consultation feedback on a low-emissions vehicles strategy, which is seeking to foster a supportive environment for uptake of electric vehicles (and other low-emission options, whatever they may be).
Nissan Leaf fully electric vehicle. I can’t wait, but I would rather not run it on coal
Over the same period that we installed the most wind energy in the country (i.e. from 2003) our emissions from electricity fell, but remain at over 8 million tCO2-e per year. That’s far higher than the 6.5 million tCO2-e that we emitted in 1990. So how are we supposed to also provide additional clean electricity for transport and actually get emissions rapidly moving the right direction without nuclear? When the wind isn’t blowing, it will be gas or coal that charges these cars. [An important edit has been made to this paragraph. In the course of researching part two of this post, I finally found the information to tell me in detail the electricity emissions in SA year to year from 2000 to 2011, covering the period of wind installation. Previously, I only had figures from the National Greenhouse Accounts comparing 1990 to 2010, which showed a huge increase. The introduction of wind has driven a reduction in total emissions from the electricity sector which is good news. This will be covered in detail in an upcoming post]
The only answers are monstrous and very expensive over-build of current renewable technologies to cover all of these loads, or a dramatic acceleration in the timeframe of something like hot dry rock geothermal. Now, if I was one of those selectively-deluded environmentalists who can turn the climate crisis either on or off depending on the conversation, those options might seem reasonable strategies. But I’m not, so they don’t.
Monbiot makes the harsh call that in energy “small is useless”. Well, South Australia is instructive in that regard. With only 1.65 million people, by March 2011 we had installed nearly the same amount of rooftop solar PV (19.8 MW) as NSW (21 MW), despite NSW having more than 7 million people. That took 14,700 home solar PV systems, with an average size of 1.35 kW (all figures from Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency). As you can see in the figure below, it has been an absolute explosion of activity in the last few years with a dramatic peak and collapse. This matches in a very straightforward way the retreat of Federal subsidies, and then various State governments trying to extricate themselves from feed-in tarrifs that they have concluded they cannot afford. So we know that if you subsidise solar PV to the point where it is a true no-brainer, Australians will respond, South Australians in particular. Australian governments will also respond, by killing the subsidies because the response was bigger than budgeted for…
So, we have had a red hot go at the “small” in South Australia. Has it been useless? Well, lets interrogate the figures a little more closely to find out. Firstly, with around 500,000 households in Adelaide (ABS says 465,000 in 2006) the explosion you see above, with a disproportionate share in SA, has meant a penetration of solar PV to around 3% of Adelaide households. Virtually all of that has happened over a period of 3 years, which is not bad I suppose. But clearly there is a long way to go. At that pace, which seems to have been generally regarded as breakneck, it would of course take 100 years to get one on every roof.
Clearly, as you see from the collapse of installations in the figure above, the underlying cost of the systems still has a long way to fall before a return to the “no-brainer” conditions that might deliver this 1% per year rate of installation. Anecdotally cost of this technology certainly is falling, so we should get there soon but we are not there yet.
Has it been good value? Consistent with the purpose of this blog we should compare to nuclear. Let’s assume an average cost of $7,500 per kW installed (MMA in their May 2010 report to the Australian Government assume $7,000 for 2010 and 3% price drop per year, so I think $7,500 for the last 3 or so years is about right). That would mean we have collectively dropped nearly $150 million so far for our 19.8 MW. Furthermore MMA suggest a capacity factor of not greater than 20% for solar PV. That’s for rooftop PV, but as we have seen in a previous post, even here in sunny Australia, the biggest and best solar has to offer remains a very, very expensive way of getting our power.
Global median price of nuclear is US$4,100 per kW installed. It can deliver at >90% capacity factor, but if replacing coal in our peaky grid would deliver at around 60%. I don’t want to labour the point unnecessarily but nuclear simply kills solar on the cost numbers. I absolutely get the appeal of solar PV; it sits quietly on the roof and generates, what’s not to like? But I am inclined to echo Monbiot when he says that if you are a PV supporter, “…don’t say a word to me about the cost of nuclear power”. It has, to date, been a very expensive decarbonising exercise.
So is small useless??? I feel I have backed myself into something of a corner. No it isn’t; I truly believe that everything helps, including all renewables deployed in a sensible way. However if we want to decarbonise rapidly, then the evidence from South Australia to date suggests that small, decentralised, intermittant energy solutions cannot be the central plank of the strategy. I think PV has unduly caputured our imaginations for a little too long, and it is time we thought bigger. Try this…
Between 1990 and 2010, South Australia’s emissions from electricity grew nearly 40% to 9.1 million tons per annum. This covers the period of solar PV explosion, and the installation of over half of Australia’s wind generation capacity. I lack the data from around 2000 to give the picture more accurately. All we can say is that in the absence of these things the growth in emissions would have been even more grotesque than 40%.
If, at the same time as we started building wind (2003), we had built 500MW of nuclear power, by now we could have closed the Northern and Playford Power Stations, and be saving 5.37 million tons of greenhouse gas per year, over half our total from electricity. So if we want to decarbonise rapidly, small may not exactly be useless, but big is beautiful.
Ok, that’s enough from George. On to Roger Levitt, Independent Energy Consultant and first of the antis. For those of you who never knew the old, anti-nuclear Ben, Roger’s 7 minutes embodies some of it. It’s that view of the world that says “if only everyone would just…(insert great sustainability idea here) we wouldn’t even need it”.
I don’t have a particular problem with any of Roger’s proposed “solutions”. To the contrary, they all sound like smashing ideas for making England, and Australia, a more liveable place in all sorts of great ways. The benefits in social capital and other environmental issues like air pollution are all profound in this world view. Similarly, I don’t have much argument with many of the underlying drivers Roger identifies, and the moral bankruptcy that is evident in much of the way our economy functions that Roger is keen to point out. These things do, indeed, help to keep us locked on an unsustainable trajectory and need to be challenged.
However, Roger’s ideas basically embody 1) effective planning and design 2) More simplistic, frugal living. I am quite at a loss to understand how the pursuit of investment in zero-carbon nuclear undermines them. Unless of course the likes of Roger view climate change as the lever that might finally make all this happen at scale. To this possibility I make two brief responses:
It isn’t working. Neither effective planning and design nor frugal and simplistic living has experienced a supercharged acceleration on the back of climate change concerns. How much longer are we expected to wait?
What if it works as well and as rapidly as we might ever possibly achieve, and fails to do the job? Is it worth the risk?
I’m going to run a bit of a visioning exercise for Adelaide to illustrate my concerns. For those not familiar with my home town:
It’s old by Australian standards, founded in 1836
About 1 million people and (very slowly) growing especially to the north and south
Small CBD/downtown area. Large area of very low density suburbs. Lots of ¼ acre blocks
Some ok public transport, but basically very car dependent. Nice and flat for bikes but pretty crappy system of lanes
CBD/downtown is ringed by a huge and beautiful area of preserved parklands
Our main arterial roads through the suburbs basically serve as a car-focussed catchment system to get people in and out of the CBD/downtown area. They have some nice shopping areas, but they are not liveable high streets in the best English mold or even that I enjoyed while living in Melbourne.
Adelaide looking east toward Mt Lofty Ranges. The parklands are clearly visible. The worst of the sprawl is off-shot, at the far northern and southern boundaries
Now, it is actually a smashing place to live, which is why I’m here. But it illustrates many of the sustainability concerns Roger is getting at. He and I are not the only ones who see it; there are a great many ideas and proposals to try to improve this situation. Here are some of the biggies:
Development of the Bowden Village: A high density, inner urban revitalisation of a crumby old industrial area. This actually looks like being a brilliant example of sustainable planning and design (disclosure: My wife and I own one of the original cottages down there, so I am hardly a disinterested observer). Hopefully it will be emulated elsewhere
Expansion/reintroduction of trams/ light rail. Our sole remaining tram line was recently extended from a no-mans-land stop at Victoria Square through the true heart of our CBD and down the political/hotel strip of North Terrace and on to Bowden to serve the new Village. Brilliant stuff. There are lots of ideas about what next: a city loop; taking a line to the University precinct at the other end of North Tce; taking a line up King William Rd to North Adelaide and beyond. I would love to see the lot of it.
The terminus of the new tram extension at Bowden/ Hindmarsh. Adelaide Entertainment Centre in the background
Medium density build along arterial strips like Unley, Goodwood and Prospect Rds, and around the parkland borders to create a New York Central Park effect. Again, brilliant. Put the people close to the infrastructure. Make it walkable, bikeable, make public transport a no-brainer.
Moving new houses from compulsory 5 to 6 star energy rating. Nice
So, now let’s look ahead over a timeframe of, say, 20 years and assume all of the above is implemented, successfully at large scale and has the desired results. For the sake of argument let’s blue sky a few more commonly discussed ideas and pretend they happen too:
A major investment in the bicycle network
Doubling the frequency of our buses
Accelerating some of the existing Government programs for auditing large energy consuming businesses and funding certain capital investments to reduce consumption.
Some sort of system of energy efficiency audit and upgrade at point of sale for existing houses
Upgrading our woefully inefficient streetlighting (a big ticket item that I will cover in detail in a future post)
Right. I trust you agree that the sum total of these ideas this would represent a massive sustainability drive by Government. What would be the likely impact on our greenhouse gas emissions from electricity?
At best, a modest decrease, but probably an increase. Why? Because much of what you see there is predicated on higher densities in areas that, ultimately, only comprise quite a small fraction of the city. Given that we don’t really go for forced evictions from the suburbs in this part of the world, what we are talking about is a growing population. I’m ok with that, and before you kill me, consider this. An area of a million square kilometres with only 1.65 million people clearly has role in accepting more people until the globe can get population growth under control. We need to plan to minimise certain local impacts, but there is not much point claiming sustainability under a fortress mentality when the global atmospheric commons is going to pot.
The other suggestions you see above cannot be delivered instantly, far from it. For them to have an appreciable impact will be a generational initiative. Take, for example, the major conundrum of our existing inefficient housing stock. No doubt there is plenty of low hanging fruit there as Roger discusses. But in Australia we have seen the tragic results of a program to insulate rooves being rolled out more quickly that proper governance can accommodate; dodgy operators moved in and people actually lost their lives. Streetlights should be more straightforward but there are serious institutional barriers that need to be broken down. So the upshot is that while the changes outlined above would doubtless deliver greater services and some reduction in GHG per unit energy consumed in our economy, we need to remember that:
a) The growth that underpins much of it all adds to the greenhouse bottom line.
b) The incremental nature of the rest of it can simply only go so far, so fast
We would achieve in the next 20 years what we have achieved in the last: a growing greenhouse gas bottom line from electricity. That seems to be the thing that mysteriously eludes those in power when crafting climate change strategies: the bottom line is the metric that matters most.
So let’s do all of the above. The city will be a cooler, more happening, more exciting, more liveable place, and there is the potential for some of the inhabitants to lead relatively more sustainable lives than is typical of a western city. But I see no reason to pair this with a delusion that it gets us off the hook regarding investments in zero-carbon baseload, starting immediately. Because, to quote Roger himself as he reflects on the challenge of reducing transport energy:
” ..to flip our vicious circle into the virtuous one…we’ll need to give both the shops a hefty shove back into town, and the shoppers a hefty shove back on to the buses; neither of which they will want to do, and neither or which will be sensible or useful unless the other also happens.”
Well, quite. Is this type of vision impossible? No. Desirable? Yes. Worth staking the atmosphere on? Noooooooooooooooooooooo.
Ok, I’ve done Roger to death. For part two of the post, I will review Malcolm Grimston, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London and, of course, Doug Parr, Chief Scientist for Greenpeace. Stay tuned.
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Karl-Friedrich Lenz says:
It is a common problem for feed-in tariffs to pay more than necessary because of rapidly falling solar prices, leading to much more solar installations than planned for. The 7.4 gigawatt new capacity installed last year in Germany was definitely more than expected.
The answer of canceling the program altogether might not be the best ever. There are smarter alternatives.
You can put a cap on the program, like the early 100.000 roof program in Germany.
You can have automatic adjustments every half years.
The best answer is to double up the programs, never mind the costs. Those are still a bargain compared to the costs of runaway global meltdown.
That is especially true if you indulge in the luxury of rejecting nuclear energy for reasons of irrational fear.
The solar situation has been very, very messy in Australia. Some interesting ideas there. The cap is something that they have done, and people have charged, en masse, to be one of those that get in under it!!!
Podargus says:
South Australia – an area of one million square kilometres with “only” 1.65 million people.
I shouldn’t have to point out that well over 50% of that area is so arid that it would qualify as desert.On that basis alone SA is already overpopulated as far as long term sustainability is concerned,as is Australia as a whole.
The fact is that every extra head of population,no matter what clever technology is used,adds to the stress on our already overstressed environment.This doesn’t just apply to energy and the resulting pollution.Consider food,water and social problems directly related to overcrowding.I also point out that there are other species,plant and animal, (besides humans) living in SA and they deserve some living space as well.
Population growth in SA will degrade the liveability which you apparently value but not above all else,apparently.
Its true that, for now, I value climate stability above all else in environmental matters since it really trumps any other designs we might have on species preservation and the like. That doesn’t mean nothing else matters in decision making and it doesn’t mean liquidating other natural capital to solve the climate problem is ok. It’s why I love nuclear so much because it treads so lightly on the earth in every way for what it gives us in return.
I don’t want to see in any way the denuding of the Mt Lofty Ranges for houses or continuation of the absurd low-density expansion to the south of Adelaide, which seems on track to make the drive to the Fleurieau Peninsula one long suburb.
But Adelaide is so insanely low density that we could with relative ease accomodate a great many more people. Surely, in a world that is still growing, we have some obligation to do just that? With adequate planning this would lead to no loss and in fact and great enhancement, in my opinion, of the quality of life here. For the people that is…
For the other species? It would, without doubt, increase pressure. I accept this as I see little other option, and again I would like to see people reside in the clearly developed sections of Adelaide to minimise that pressure. We are also still remediating a lot of crap legacy design that actually is delivering some significant environmental returns. For example, treatment of our sewage and containment of our stormwater is restoring some health to our Gulf. Our natural birth rate is negative. In other parts of the world it is still explosively high. They need to bring it down and we need to share the load in the meantime, otherwise it is simply other eco-systems, elsewhere in the world, that suffer and die, and we all lose in the end. At least, that’s the world according to Ben. There are a great many Adelaidians who prefer closed doors and closed minds, and enjoy the distance we maintain between ourselves and the rest of the world’s problems. I don’t really see much future in that.
An interesting figure to contrast with 3% of homes with 1.35 kw PV would be the percentage and average size of air conditioners. I suspect it may be something like 70% and 2 kw. If SA can expect 45C temps most summers the mismatch will increase, noting that the ~900 MW of nameplate windpower is lucky to produce 80 MW in hot spells. Another looming energy need is desalination when the water supply again falls low. While the dam levels can be attributed to local rainfall the good flows in the River Murray are due in large part to tropical cyclones way up in Queensland. .
There’s also the vexing question of finding 700 MW for the Olympic Dam expansion. Leigh Creek coal and Cooper Basin gas are in their twilight years. By normal standards SA has good uptake of both wind and solar yet it’s clearly not enough.
Vexing in a world where small modular reactors cannot be considered, at the very least.
Mark Duffett says:
In your run-down of factors affecting SA’s likely future emissions profile and electricity demand, you could also have mentioned the impending electrification of Adelaide’s heavy rail passenger network (http://www.infrastructure.sa.gov.au/electrification), migrating from diesel. It’s absolutely a Good Thing for several reasons not least of which are the environmental ones, but the bottom line remains that it’s one more thing adding to SA electricity consumption. Moreover, peak demand from the rail commuter network will be at times when the sun either isn’t shining or is doing so only weakly.
One more thing to get Adelaidians to think about, thanks Mark. You are right, that will be upward pressure on electricity emissions unless we replace coal with nuclear.
Not to mention the Port Stanvac desalination plant, which will add another 500 GWh of demand annually. I understand this will supposedly come from nominally renewable sources, though you can bet that production won’t be dynamically adjusted to match renewables generation rates, so it’ll often be sucking fossil energy from the grid along with everything else.
Just by the way, that Adelaide needs a desalination plant at all does tend to support Podargus’ position that SA has already overshot its carrying capacity. Even though increased population density as per your vision would probably result in lower per capita consumption as more backyard gardens are built over, it’s hard to see Adelaide’s water use coming back to a sustainable level without either reducing its population, or some pretty massive re-engineering.
@ Mark Duffet, For sure. Adelaide has always had a pretty precarious position with regard to water security, being dependent on a river and being right at the very end of it. In this shifting climate, it is unsuprising that we have been one of the early places to feel the pressure. But far from the only: Perth, Melbourne, Sydney… same thing, SE QLD are all geared up but the broken drought has put it of being required. Is it sustainable? Well, how are we to apply that amorphous word to this particular situation? The ocean will not run dry. The energy needs to be clean, it currently isn’t. The ocean environment impacts are hopefully confined. To SA’s credit we do have some reasonable claim to leadership in the stormwater and water recycling stakes and that continues to develop. I have to return to the theme that we are one world and we are in this together. Of all the places in the world I have visited, which is not everywhere but a few, I know of nowhere that is better placed for more people, WITH SENSISBLE SUSTAINABILITY PLANNING, than Adelaide. You will note that that’s a relative concept; we live in a world that is beyond carrying capacity everywhere we turn. To me, Adelaide’s future as a more densly populated city is the best contribution we can make to a troubling global situation.
Ben, I should declare an interest; IMHO the ‘nowhere better placed for more people’ mantle clearly belongs with Tasmania ;). However, I take your point that with sufficient clean energy there is nothing intrinsically wrong with desal per se.
Note I wasn’t just thinking about stormwater recycling with my reference to ‘massive re-engineering’. I also had in mind installations such as the 20,000L rainwater tank in my dad’s suburban backyard (the ‘massive’ in this instance coming from the fact that you need lots of them to make a significant difference).
Careful what you wish for mate, a couple more degrees of warming and you will be putting up fences to keep the rest of us out!
Ben Heard Director
ben.heard@thinkclimateconsulting.com.au M- 0411 808 202 W- http://www.thinkclimateconsulting.com.au
Indeed. While there are some aspects of Adelaide that I miss dearly (SANFL, beautifully flat for cycling, a rail network…), always at the back of my mind is one of Barry Brook’s very early BNC posts (I think; can’t find it now) in which he pointed out that, as a first approximation, each degree of global equates to a poleward shift of well over a hundred kilometres in climate bands. Which means that within my lifetime, Adelaide could have the climate that Leigh Creek had when I was born.
Deckermann says:
To add another limit to the expansion of Adelaide. Goyder’s Line is a very important factor in the secuirty of this State’s agriculture industry.
Here is a wiki link to its article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goyder's_Line
There is a map in it’s article that shows the extent of farmable land in SA. It’s not as far North as I thought it was. Add in climate Change and that line is set to shift.
I saw this debate, and it was rather good. Monboit is a fantastic consise speaker. Maybe bringing him into SA for a discussion once things get rolling with the Decarbonise SA movement. A 62-8 in favour of supporting Nuclear in the Climate Change context for thsi deabte is very overwhelming. Including the mans questions at the end who was making that strenious link between Nuclear Power and deaths.
There is a great lecture Barry arranged with Peter Hayman of SARDI, talking about Goyder’s line, and how climate change is pressuring it’s move, but the remarkable technological adapatability of Australian farmers provides a counterveiling pressure. It’s a really instructive look at how we cope. Will seek the link, believe it’s publicly available.
The dinosaurs shifted polewards in hot times so they started the trend. We need a new country the size of France in the Southern Ocean at Lat 60S. Unfortunately I think Adelaide is doomed to become a large retirement village for post WW2 immigrants. It will get by on Federal programs like electric cars (whether people buy them or not) and military contracts based on 20th century thinking. With luck ETSA won’t put radio controllers on the aircons in those retirement homes.
The advice to talented footballers who lose at gambling is stick to what you’re good at. Same goes for SA which is uranium central. Perhaps Adelaide is already too big for its nearby resources. My idea of an energy park at Ceduna (with NP, desal, enrichment and extensions) could lighten population pressure on the capitol. Make aircon free for residents.
In the event that I take DSA down the satirical path, I will know where to turn…
Christine Brook says:
I just watched the debate and was staggered to discover that the speakers against the motion were so full of waffle and so short on reality. The Greenpeace representative made it clear (if we didn’t already know) that their main concern was to ban nuclear power not to mitigate climate change catastrophe. Fortunately the audience did not feel the same and the motion that nuclear energy should/must be used was won 63 to 9.
So glad I am not the only one who had that incredulous response to the speakers against the motion. Without giving too much away you will enjoy part two of the post where I pretty much unload on Doug Parr for much the reasons you have said.
Forget making a contribution to the global situation,Ben.We have more than enough problems on our hands here.Stay at home,mind your own business.That way we just might lead by example.
And tell me,what is so enticing about more people beyond a certain viable population?
It’s quality,not quantity,that matters.
“That way we just might lead by example.” If they follow the example of Adelaide’s woeful population density then God help us all.
I think I am in furious agreement with you there. But the reality of population growth is that, barring collapse, it will resolve slowly over the course of a couple of generations, not rapidly, so there is a reality to accomodate. I think the quality comes in bringing people a little closer together than Adelaide does right now. So that you get community, people using the local parks, passive surveillance, independent stores that can serve a local market, that sort of thing. It is those qualities that Adelaide lacks at the moment in it’s general “quality of life” set up. That being the case, I think we can make Adelaide an even better city while giving a home to people who need it, do it well within the bounds of the city as it is currently laid out, and give them a clean, zero carbon power supply with which to live their lives. I think that is the right balance of caring for our local environment while contributing to pressing moral, human concerns that are trans-boundary and environmental concerns like climate change that are characterised by a commons. That, to me, sounds like an example worth following that might squeeze us through the sustainability funnel this century.
Indeed,the McMansion on the McBlock in the McBurb is just one of many development problems.Not only do these sort of developments cause a great deal of environmental damage initially they are not sustainable because of their energy requirements for transportation seeing as how there is never any attempt to include electrified rail or light rail in the base infrastructure.
Our dependence on oil is just one of the looming crises in Australia.
The fact is that these burb creations are being driven by developers who are motivated solely by greed.They have the ear of governments,local state and federal,who are exclusively growth oriented.
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the growth meme is going to fail.Whether it fails in a relatively managed and orderly fashion or in a catastrophic collapse is largely up to us,as citizens at a national level.The reason I say national level is because events in Australia are within our capacity to manage if we put our minds to it, are willing to make hard decisions and subsume our own personal interests to the national interest.
Whereas events outside Australia are well beyond our control and the best we can do is to make well meaning noises in international forums.How well this works is evident in all the meaningless yapping that goes on at the likes of Copenhagen.I am not knocking foreign aid per se however it must be directed exclusively to increasing the well being of the common people in environmentally friendly ways and it MUST be tied to effective birth control measures.
On population,again,I get rather tired of well meaning people who are divorced from reality (you have a female Greens Senator in SA who is notorious for this behaviour) advocating an increased intake of so called “refugees”. Some of these people may be trying to escape political persecution but most of them are just economically motivated migrants,legal or otherwise.
Only a blind fool would think that this people movement is going to stabilize or reduce.Given all the pressures apparent in the global scene it will increase to monumental proportions.
It is just not possible for Australia to accept even a tiny and meaningless proportion of this flood without catastrophic damage to our own nation.We have a duty to protect our own,first,foremost and always.
Hard times are coming.Hard decisions must be made.Shut the door.
Cutting population growth is no mysetery, it is basically a side effect of economic development. We can accelerate that side effect by placing extra focus on the education, development and empowerment of women which includes, as you say, access to birth control. Iran, at 1.9 births per woman, achieved in just over one generation, is an excellent example of the power of focussing on women.
We then diverge on this subject and I doubt we will come back together. To imagine that Australians in our gross and profligate use of energy and resources and our endless whinging about cost of living have some right to turn our back on the truly poor in this world is beyond me. More to the point, over a long enough time frame it’s deluded. If the rest of the world goes down, it takes us with it.
I am sympathetic to the complexities of the movement of people around the world that you allude to; I agree that the situation is not black and white. But there is more than enough clearly evident need in the refugee system to give us a moral obligation, in my opinion, to take people. BUT I regard this as rather futile in the long run if we do not re-double efforts at development focussed aid to remove the root causes of why people are displaced. That’s an area of complexity that I shan’t dwell on now.
“We have a duty to protect our own,first,foremost and always”. My family has only met the definition of “our own” for perhaps 120 years. Plenty of my friends for less than that. Not long in the story of the world, and the story is far from finished.
Marion Brook says:
The only time in the whole debate that Roger Levitt really became energised was when he was arguing that the reason we should not pursue nuclear power was because (he believed) it’s deployment would proceed at the expense of renewables. In other words he was worrying that one zero carbon energy source might out compete another zero carbon energy source!
It was at this point that I realised, as you did Ben, that this was not a man who was seeking to reduce CO2 emissions. He later made his position more explicit when he admitted to being a strong supporter of fossil fuel plants with CHP. I’d call his position – Anything but nuclear, the climate be damned.
Zvyozdochka (@Zvyozdochka) says:
In an Australian context, it’s laughable to think we can “decarbonise rapidly” by pursing nuclear power. The Switkowski report extremely optimistically proposed running NPP in 10 years.
Your homework is to do it more quickly without nuclear. Let me know how you go.
Not really a challenge. Retired fossil (or new) MW are provided with renewable MW plus efficiency (with gas backup for the moment, until EGS/HDR geothermal is ready).
Glib much? Must do better.
Why? Surely you’re not objecting to the statement that you can replace every MW of carbon intensive coal with dramatically less intensive renewable plus backup?
If I build a 50MW PV system with diesel backup am I using more or less fossil fuel than a 50MW diesel-only system?
Taking your example, apart from the fundamental engineering drawback of now having two nominal 50 MW systems instead of one, if you want to keep cranking out 50 MW you need to be running your fossil backup for upwards of 75% of the time. Moreover, the embodied emissions of PV as a proportion of energy delivered are not insignificant (http://www.parliament.uk/documents/post/postpn268.pdf). All up, I don’t think this does amount to ‘dramatically less’ emissions, and certainly not ‘decarbonisation’.
And even with some exceedingly generous allowances for efficiency, you’d still need many hundreds of similar systems to power the country. In 10 years? Uh-uh.
Uh huh… yeah… listen I have never made it explicit through any kind of comments policy but if you browse the site you will notice that the default culture is to actually think things through around here, both with my posts and the comments that follow. Questions, challenges, explorations are thoroughly, warmly welcomed. Half-baked ideas telling me why I am wrong, not so much.
Your premise: 10 years at very best for nuclear. Your alternative: renewables, efficiency (problematic but we’ll leave that for now) and wait until EGS/HDR geothermal “is ready”. Care to put some rational on how you actually reckon you will beat your own deadline with those technologies? You may want to start with the post “Renewable Reality Checks…” for an update on how that HDR geothermal is going at the moment.
“….you will notice that the default culture is to actually think things through around here, both with my posts and the comments that follow.”
Patronising much? You don’t know anything about me (yet).
You can’t argue that it’s not POSSIBLE to replace every retired MW with renewables plus backup, because clearly you CAN design such a system.
The question you’re wishing to get to is COST, yes?
Of course it’s possible, but so what? We are looking to decarbonise not recarbonise.
Ok, here’s a do-over of this interaction. Zvyozdochka this entire blog is predicated on the fact that, once a trenchent opponent of nuclear power, I expended not inconsiderable time and effort exploring the prospects of rapid decarbonisation with renewables and energy efficiency only in order to meet the incredible chanllenge presented by climate change. I came to a series of dead ends, not because it ‘s what I wanted to find but because it can’t be done. Now, the purpose of this blog is to get something positive done, not to flap my gums, so I regret being unduly dismissive. However if you have a browse you will find over 50 posts, 4 radio interviews, an original animated video, a plan for the state in two parts, a decision making tree for energy, a powerpoint presentation on my journey from a nuclear opponent to nuclear proponent., about 5 published articles and a detailed bio and vision statement for the site both of which outline the fundamental problems I uncovered with the renewables/efficiency only approach. Perhaps you might appreciate that I took rather a dim view of having the premise of the site described as “laughable”, backed up by the alternative of “renewable plus efficiency then wait for geothermal” . But I should have made a better response.
Cost, while critical, is far from the only problem I (and a great many others) see with the fundamental approach you have proposed. The others, in brief, are 1) Reliability. Whatever it is has to deliver for every one of the 8760 hours per year 2) Location of resource. Renewables are located far from both centres of demand and transmission infrastructure 3) Speed and scaling. It is simply not the case that massive volumes of renewables can be deployed as rapidly as the decarbonisation demands 4) Intermittancy. It demands either fossil back up or massive (and again very costly) overbuild to accomodate 5) Zero-carbon. I am not interested in half measures like high efficiency gas while we wait for HDR geothermal, or renewables with loads of fossil back up. If we build it, our system will demand we suck every last bit of use from it before we replace it, and that will be 50 years at least whether geothermal is ready or not.
I seriously recommend John Morgan’s checklist for energy plan post over at Brave New Climate, which can be found under the Thinking Critically About Sutainable Energy series (TCASE).
Against that all is nuclear, which ticks every single box except social and political acceptance, which are exactly the challenges I am working to overcome. My extensively researched opinion is that nuclear is very much the most rapid route to full decarbonisation of our electricity supply. Respectful challenges to that premise are very warmly welcomed for discussion here at the site, for that is what it’s for. I hope you keep coming back..
Re Decarbonise SA on August 23,2011 at 10:23 AM –
Australia has been occupied by humans for at least 40,000 years.The Aborigines,who numbered in the thousands,caused a lot of damage by the indiscriminate use of fire.This is still happening in areas of Northern Australia where they have control of the land.
From the European invasion 200 years ago humans in Australia have been numbered in the millions and the damage has been massive and continuing.This is an aspect of exponential growth.
The anthropocentric mindset,aka as greed and selfishness,has been the driver of this rape of the land.However,of late,the latte section of the rentier class has been claiming morality as a justification for continuing the present insane level of immigration.As many of this subset pretend adherance to environmental principles I think that they are not only guilty of profound stupidity but also hypocrisy.
As always,hypocrisy is the last refuge of the scoundrel
Getting personal there and it is not really appreciated. I think my position is quite well explained and justified. It differs from yours though we agree on so much of the natue of the challenges we face
. If your solution is “shut the door” ok, stand by it. I take a different view. You can label it latte-set hypocrisy if you like, or you can explore the concept that there are different ways of viewing and addressing global challenges. Up to you but if you want to get nastier than the above then please just take a breather.
@ Marion Brook
“We are looking to decarbonise not recarbonise.” Eh? What is this, some kind of catch-phrase?
20% of SA’s electricity was generated from Wind (SASDO 10/11 http://www.aemo.com.au/planning/SASDO2011/documents/findings.pdf). Is that decarbonised energy or not?
@ Mark Duffett
“the embodied emissions of PV as a proportion of energy delivered are not insignificant”
If I have 1000kW/h from PV vs 1000kW/h from fossil fuel which emissions are significant? My point is, the question of g/CO2/KWh makes sense only in relation to an alternative as in the displacement/abatement of CO2..
Your UK Parliament link was unhelpful. I prefer the more detailed LCA work of U-Mich’s own 33kW PV system; http://css.snre.umich.edu/css_doc/CSS05-09.pdf (A little dated, based on inefficient PV in a low solar insolation region). Total energy payback ~5.5 years, ~957g CO2 eq/kWh abated.
Oh, and fully recyclable materials plus, if Sunpower do as they propose, PVs will generate electricity to generate PVs (~85% of primary energy is used creating silicon wafers).
@ Ben Heard
Thank you for your detailed answer. I see the journey you have been on. I don’t accept Nuclear as either a rapid or cost-effective alternative, especially for Australia.
“I expended not inconsiderable time and effort exploring the prospects of rapid decarbonisation with….energy efficiency only (to come) to a series of dead ends”
I find your efficiency comment somewhat hard to fathom. A very recent paper from the American Association of Energy Efficiency (Elliot, Gold, Hayes 2011) suggested some 20,000MW of efficiency available before 2025 in the 1.8-3.6c/kWh LCoE range in Pennsylvania alone as just ONE example. (Pennsylvania has the oldest coal plant due for replacement – decommission and implement efficiency).
My own experience with a number of clients and their CHP projects is a ~60% reduction in carbon intensity with payback periods as low as 5 years. My employer’s order-book is FULL of projects awaiting review/audit for the next 3 years. There is not a more effective g CO2 eq/$ decarbonisation strategy.
“1) Reliability. Whatever it is has to deliver for every one of the 8760 hours per year”
I don’t believe any pragmatic renewable proponent is proposing an unreliable system. I’m not sure why this statement is necessary. Besides that, it moves into dangerous territory for proponents of NPPs, because you are necessarily suggesting an overbuild of NPPs to cater for one or more plant(s) being off line.
In SA peak generation required was 3433MW. Are you seriously suggesting 4 (four) 1000MW NPPs can be built in 10 years at anything like the g CO2 eq/$ that efficiency/CHP and wind/PV/NG CCGT provides?
“2) Location of resource. Renewables are located far from both centres of demand and transmission infrastructure”
Some investment is required in interconnect and transmission for any new source of MWs, which in “debate” is often left to the LCoE values comparisons rather than trying to horrify people with one-time transmission costs.
For example; If I build a 120MW CSP/storage with multi-stage CCGT backup plant outside of Kalgoorlie (where there is a 118MW open cycle peaking gas plant on the main interconnect system) is that far away from transmission? No. Could I build a few plants to 2000MW at low transmission cost? Yes.
“3) Speed and scaling. It is simply not the case that massive volumes of renewables can be deployed as rapidly as the decarbonisation demands”
How long has it taken SA to reach 20% wind power contribution (SASOD above)? No-time at all.
This argument has been proven as rubbish. Wind, PV and even CSP projects are put up in no time at all. The 50MW PV/diesel project I mentioned will be completed in 14 months. You could order of magnitude (x10) the project and have it done in 2.5 years (with CCGT not diesel).
“4) Intermittancy. It demands either fossil back up or massive (and again very costly) overbuild to accomodate”
NPPs will require gas peaking equipment, or a massive overbuild beyond “base load”. In an intermittent network, the gas backup use maybe a different, and mostly predictable, pattern of use to that of peaking-only. The learning/design goal would be to all-but eliminate gas backup use. Sure, a NG backup would have to be overbuilt, but cost of equipment is very very cheap even in a situation where it sits around doing mostly nothing, which would be the goal of a highly diverse renewable system.
Geothermal could then replace the NG backup, in time.
BTW, did you know that Indonesia just gave loan approvals to fast track ~2,000MW of geothermal in 4 years, with plans to make that 10,000MW via the same loan apporval process? That’s more real MWs than their current NPP projects at a far lower cost. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/08/24/government-guarantees-geothermal-projects.html
“5) Zero-carbon”
From a pragmatic point-of-view, you will not see plant as recently build as Collie Power Station (http://www.verveenergy.com.au/mainContent/powerStations/Collie.html for example, the most recent Australia unit I’m aware of) retired earlier than 40 years. This is a distressing fact of life.
Retiring that equipment early has a significant cost, replacing new MWs demand with renewables and massive efficiency efforts might just ensure no new ones are built and the oldest ones retired sooner at the least cost (esp efficiency efforts).
BTW, one of the projects on our books is to work out ways to make some (much?) of the existing base load fossil fuel the peaking/backup equipment required so the investment is not lost.
“nuclear, which ticks every single box except social and political acceptance”
You left out the ugly duckling; cost.
“We are looking to decarbonise not recarbonise.” Eh? What is this, some kind of catch-phrase? </blockquote?
Well, it wasn't intentional at the time – it just seemed to roll off the keyboard – but you're right, it does make a very good catch phrase. It underlines the fact that 'replacing' a 500 MWe coal fired power plant with intermittent renewables and a new 500 MWe fossil fuel 'back-up' plant (like gas) is simply locking us into a new carbon emitting power plant for another 40 years. Replacing one obscenely polluting CO2 emitter with a lesser but still dangerously high CO2 emitter may reduce our emissions some, but not enough to stop climate change.
And isn't CC what this is all about?
One has to agree that, as a minimum, we need to be shutting down coal-fired stations and replacing them with non-carbon alternatives. Preventing new fossil fuel builds or preventing some new FF builds is a woefully inadequate half measure that can only lead to continued climate change. During the last ten years no FF plants have been closed in SA, however four FF plants have either come on-line or been substantially expanded (at least three of these are gas plants), with another gas generator just recently approved . Wind and gas may have slowed the rate at which SA’s emissions have grown but they have not lead to a reduction in emissions and, obviously, are not replacing FF’s (see link for numbers https://decarbonisesa.com/2011/05/16/let%E2%80%99s-get-this-party-started-decarbonising-sa-part-1/ ) For comparison, in ten years France replaced almost all it’s FF plants with 34 NPP’s. Surely if France can build 34 NPP’s in ten years SA can build 3.
We must not accept one fossil fuel as an alternative for another or as a back-up for clean wind and solar. Wind and solar are zero carbon – they deserve a zero carbon back-up. Nuclear power is the only possible baseload alternative for South Australians right now.
Please. If you care about the world we are creating, do not support new fossil fuel plants, in any form, with any amount of efficiency, where a non-carbon alternative is
available. Gas, coal and oil plants are simply too dangerous and too damaging to
contemplate.
I’ll end with a question. With what would you replace a 500 MWe coal fired power plant?
Damn, stuffed up the blockquote. Sorry. You can see where it was meant to end…
I see your form of idealism and compare it to mine; I’d like to see fossil fuel switched off tomorrow and replaced with renewables. You’d like to see fossil fuel switched off tomorrow and replaced with nuclear.
We both know the practical/pragmatic reality is that much of the existing infrastructure (massive $$$ already spent) will continue while one or other is ramped, can we agree on that?
“SA can build 3”
Of what size? How would you handle the peaking/backup requirements? (SA peak ~ 3400MW)
“With what would you replace a 500 MWe coal fired power plant?”
I would use massive efficiency efforts, geographically- and technically- diverse (wind, home PV, industrial-scale PV, CSP/storage, hydro, wave/tidal etc) renewables. I would then back it up with variations of on-demand combustion fuelled systems, but ultimately geothermal.
One need change nothing about the current system except replace the current coal and gas base and intermediate load with nuclear, which performs in much the same manner. Of 9.1 million tCO2-e that is SA’s emissions from electricity, 8.7 million of that came from baseload. In the short term, there is really no point squabbling over that gas backup that does the peaking, our GHG problem is essentially a baseload one, and the wind is chiming in nicely with it’s zero carbon power when the wind is good enough to blow with penetration that is not so high that it has become unmanageable. The system can remain otherwise unchanged.
Now that, by comparison, is very, very complex, incredibly expensive, hinges on one tech that is experiencing real difficulties in even acquiring funding to continue the exploration of the resource, another tech (CSP with storage) that has only recently provided anything resembling reliable power at one location in the world and is massively expensive and resource intensive. Were this ever to be achieved, it certaintly would not be rapid.
No, I didn’t mean I wanted some vague, sweeping list of every alternative tech and energy conservation strategy in existence. I wanted to know, in megawatts installed, how much wind you would have to build. Would you account for it’s low capacity factor and build 1500 MWe? More? Less? Would it be dispersed? How much hydro would be available? Where would it come from? Spread across each home, how much PV would be needed? How would one ensure it got built? In other words, I was asking for actual, concrete numbers. For example, Since the capacity factor of a nuclear power plant is similar to or better than a coal plant I could, quite simply, replace the 500 MWe baseload coal fired power plant with a 500MWe nuclear power plant and in so doing, I would reduce the CO2 emissions previously attributable to the coal plant, to zero.
So please, once again, with numbers, how would you replace a 500 MWe coal fired power plant with a zero carbon alternative? Also, can your strategy be repeated for the next plant and and the next and so on?
“I was asking for actual, concrete numbers.”
Fine. What does your NPP cost? Who is the builder? What is the build time? How is it going off-line handled? Nothing mythical, so that’s probably GEN III+. Concrete numbers remember.
BTW, Marion, you never responded as to whether you thought the 20% of SA’s energy delivered via WIND was real or not? That’s 20% of kWh, not name-plate capacity and it’s also without really trying, in around 8 years and they’re adding MORE of it, quickly too.
You seem to think these are difficult questions to answer. I think that is probably because you’ve never attempted to answer them concerning your own suggested suite of technologies/strategies. I think this, because in order to cost something you first have to know exactly what you want to buy and how much of it you need. This is the question I was asking you to answer. If you can tell us how much of which technologies you wish to build then providing a cost estimate will be a relatively simple exercise.
(A clarification: When I asked for ‘concrete’ numbers I meant that numbers are concrete – as opposed to adjectives or phrases like ‘some’ or ‘lots of’, which are rather slippery. I would be happy enough with ballpark numerical estimates)
For example I have chosen to replace the coal plant with an equivalent sized NPP, so now I know I need to find someone who constructs NPP’s for international clients – the South Koreans say – and then I can look at how much their most recent builds are costing – $5 billion per 1400 MWe plant – and derive an estimate – about $2 billion for 500 MWe plant (although probably a bit more since we would be losing some the the efficiencies of scale there. Still – ballpark).
Now it’s your turn. What zero carbon technologies/strategies would you suggest to replace a 500 MWe coal-fired plant. If you can answer this, I’ll find the builder and do the cost estimates for you.
I’ll read the report this weekend. I’m not anti-wind though, I just think we need nuclear power as well. I think I’ll find it encouraging.
Note however, the 20% has not replaced a single coal plant or prevented new FF plants being built. Obviously wind alone is not enough. I think we’d both agree on that.
“the 20% has not replaced a single coal plant or prevented new FF plants being built.”
Isn’t that another way of saying “wind did nothing” “it was a waste of time”???
The 20% contribution certainly prevented that demand being provided by something else. How is that statement not correct?
What I’d like to find out, and no data seems to be published, is what % of the wind capacity had to be dumped and how frequently. What I’m suggesting there is; say for example there is a further 20% of annual kWh that is dumped. (At times the incidence of wind and demand are in the wrong directions; high winds, low demand, but we can’t displace the “baseload”). If you subtracted the “baseload” coal and replaced that with fast acting CCGT gas, you would have a much further net reduction of emissions, because you could then use the further wind contribution.
If you look at system with baseload concept for long enough, you realise the whole idea of baseload is actually part of the problem.
“$5 billion per 1400 MWe plant – and derive an estimate – about $2 billion for 500 MWe plant”
Scaling a plant in the manner you suggest isn’t going to bring the price down in the way you would want, but OK.
Also, where is this from? I mean are you using a DoE LCoE for example? Is it easier if we do? Or manufacturer claims? If it’s manufacturer claims, I have a quote on my desk from Areva (you know those guys??) for ~13.5c/kWh LCoE CLFR CSP w/storage.
Zvyozdochka asks:
Also, where is this from?
Yeah, the numbers were from memory, still, I was close. The link below provides the correct figures. The reactors are being built by Korea Electric Power Co. (KEPCO) who won the contract to build NPP’s for the United Arab Emirates.
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/UAE_nuclear_power_inf123.html
In December 2009 ENEC announced that it had selected a bid from the KEPCO-led consortium* for four APR-1400 reactors, to be built at one site. The value of the contract for the construction, commissioning and fuel loads for four units is about US$20.4 billion, with a high percentage of the contract being offered under a fixed-price arrangement. The consortium also expects to earn another $20 billion by jointly operating the reactors for 60 years. In March 2010 KEPCO awarded a $5.59 billion construction contract to Hyundai and Samsung for the first plants.
Zvyozdochka August 27, 2011 at 9:39 am
You said it, not me! But no, I think it’ll show wind has managed to meet some of the growth in demand. After all imports have dropped and perhaps without it even more FF plants would have been built or expanded this decade.
If you subtracted the “baseload” coal and replaced that with fast acting CCGT gas, you would have a much further net reduction of emissions, because you could then use the further wind contribution.
You would have gas baseload for the next 40 plus years – and here we’ve come full circle…
Perhaps this link will work:
https://decarbonisesa.com/2011/08/21/monbiot-vs-greenpeace-reflections-for-decarbonising-sa/#comment-820
Actually, make that 5 (five!!) 1000MW NPPs for 3433MW coverage without fossil fuel backup of any sort. 4000MW plus one. (Or 8 500MW plants). What did Ziggy say??
David Monahan-Newton says:
We’ve been building wind turbines since 2003, it really has made no difference. That is almost 8 years now. From what I recall the rate of growth in wind turbine installation has been the highest in SA?
Not to mention the the massive flux in solar systems on houses over the recent years (peaking in 2008/2009 i think), this was pretty much dealt with in one of the recent posts here or on BNC.
It has CLEARLY been demonstrated over the last decade that renewables are not going to happen on the scale that it needs to happen.
Regarding the Skitkowski prediction of various NPPs, i believe we can but the error down to political and social stigma rather than it actually being a viable/feasible solution.
There is a two sided story to SA’s wind that I wil tell soon. In a nutshell, it demonstrates both postive impacts, but also serious limitations for stretching to deeper penetrations. Stay tuned for the post.
“We’ve been building wind turbines since 2003, it really has made no difference.”
You appear to be claiming that the 20% of SA’s energy that was generated by wind (ie real GWh, not share of nameplate capability) was wasted.
The SASDO report appears to indicate gross MtCO2-e from generation have declined ~20% in 5 years (with approximately 2% pa growth in consumption). Keep going.
Hmmm, what ~20% figure does that correlate with?
Ah, I do love a bit of smug, keeps the threads interesting!
I’m a bit busy at the moment to go you point by point, but as I mentioned before you could read around the site to get my more detailed take on a lot of these issues.
Vis a vis wind, you will find that I have carefully and very deliberately maintained support for judicious use of renewables as part of a decarbonising strategy.
You are dead right, the SA wind story is one of pretty quickly achieving 20% and a consequent drop in GHG. Overall it’s a good advert for pretty significant penetration of wind/renewables and the result so far is fully consistent with the goal of Decarbonise SA.
But that’s far from the full story. It still leaves us with a balance of 8-9 million tco2e, much higher than it was 20 years ago. Clearly, there is a problem. It is very wrong to imagine that from here we can just promptly roll on to ever higher penetrations 30, 40, 50% up to full decarbonisation with renewables at anything like a pace that could be described as responsive to climate change. Following part 2 of the debate I will be posting on this in some detail.
That’s OK, I can sense a white flag when I see one. 🙂
LOL! We have not yet begun to fight!
Ben,as this conversation has been getting increasingly heated on your part,I deliberately framed my last comment in general terms in order to give you a chance for a honourable exit.
However,you have elected to take it personally. As the prosecutor said to the judge, “Your honour,in the light of the testimony of the previous witness,I rest my case”.
By the way,Sustainable Population Australia – http://www.population.org.au – and the Stable Population Party of Australia – http://www.populationparty.com – both have branches in South Australia.I encourage you to visit these websites.Who knows,if you investigate further you may even find that some of the people in these organizations are receptive to the idea of nuclear power.
No worries, thanks for the links and suggestions which are great ones, and I’ll see you next time.
I think you’d be surprised how many ‘arty’ people are receptive to nuclear. Perhaps they realise it takes an affluent economy to support orchestras and public galleries. The intransigents are Greenpeace types who have assumed the role of dour ecological puritans. They don’t seem to have actually asked people if they are prepared to accept less of everything.
A question to dry geothermal enthusiasts; if the Earth’s interior heat comes from radioactive decay how come this is OK but not controlled fission on the surface? Note some wells are bringing radon gas to the surface.
“They don’t seem to have actually asked people if they are prepared to accept less of everything.”
Yes they have; by definition people prepared to tackle AGW are necessarily not prepared to leave the planet in worse shape, meaning changes to “business-as-usual”.
There’s no reason to believe we cannot make our way-of-life much more sustainable.
“if the Earth’s interior heat comes from radioactive decay how come this is OK but not controlled fission on the surface?”
Probably for the same reason I don’t concern myself about the Sun or RTGs (unless someone cracks it open).
With regards Radon; http://www.pir.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0013/113341/090107_web.pdf & found everywhere (to varying degress obviously), even in Natural Gas http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/csem.asp?csem=8&po=5
If 1.65m people use 3400 MW peak that’s 2061w apiece at some point. At least the Coober Pedy miners have the decency to live in caves and not use the aircon. The good people of SA (I was one myself) may have every intention of frugal energy use but they’re not quite there yet.
I think extending the Moomba-Adelaide natgas pipe to Queensland coal seam gas will happen before nukes then somebody will complain about less gas for east coast export. It’s hard to see a new coal mine in SA or indeed any of the dozens of other mines unless the State gets a new power source. Keep hoping for unprecedented frugal energy use and geothermal.
“Keep hoping for unprecedented frugal energy use and geothermal.”
We shouldn’t have to hope for it, but the same sort of political gutlessness that results in a poor response to AGW exists at all levels of government unfortunately.
For example, I would;
1. Immediately require every new building/home to be near-as-damn-it Passivhaus.
2. Immediately require every new house/being-purchased-private-home to have; insulation, solar hot water and PV installed (pays for itself over the course of a 15 year home-loan, ongoing payback from PV/insulation).
3. For industry; ban the installation of open fired boilers, must be CHP instead (pays for itself in ~5.5years).
4. A program of loans to re-fit open fired boilers with CHP (pays for itself).
5. A program of building and street lighting re-fit to LED systems (pays for itself).
6. Ban on new fossil-fueled MWs (apart from renewable backup).
7. Hybridisation of trucking (the Hino/TNT program has been extremely succesful with restrictions on engine power and acceleration.
8. Light rail.
9. More freight from road-to-rail (pays for itself – but timeframes are huge).
10. Implement acceleration restrictions on vehicles above 2t. Large 4wds to be speed restricted; if you have a Landcruiser you may drive at 85% of posted speed (helps road trauma too, discourages purchase).
The g-CO2-e ambatement cost effectiveness of efficiency is not in dispute is it? Energy efficiency is also economically expansive as the sunk cost of fuel purchase is returned in circulation.
All basically sound or indeed very good ideas, and overall I would like to see deep penetration of most of that. I’m just not interested I relying upon it when the climate is at stake. I will never, ever stand in the way of these ideas. Why not extend the same attitude to the proven solution of nuclear?
“I will never, ever stand in the way of these ideas. Why not extend the same attitude to the proven solution of nuclear?”
Because efficiency has two benefits; abatement and liberating spending into the economy away from the sunk cost of fuel. Nuclear has one (and likely electricity market only).
Yes but mate, the primary goal is rapid decarbonisation to preserve a stable climate. At least, that’s the goal of this site. I also do not see how the two fail to co-exist. Efficiency makes meeting my goal cheaper and faster, I love it.
In abatement terms, in the Australian market, right now, if I had funds available for an NPP or efficiency roll outs, I would spend it on efficiency immediately every time.
You could GIVE everyone in Sydney/Melbourne a solar hot water system where you can retire every single electric HWS and close Hazelwood for ~20% the cost of an NPP*. The money NOT spent on electric bills (in effect, the direct revenue of Hazelwood) becomes discretionary spending again. I’d spend the rest on PV (at the same time as Solar-HWS) and be many many MWs ahead.
* Back-of-the-envelope stuff after a few Little Creatures Pale Ales.
(I’ll see if I can firm that up – someone round here has those numbers).
At this end the Friday debate is proudly sponsored by Coopers. Await numbers with interest.
Ah, Coopers. Good company. I was involved in this, many years ago now;
http://www.energy.wa.gov.au/cproot/2272/2/Case%20Study%20Coopers.pdf
“One need change nothing about the current system except replace the current coal and gas base and intermediate load with nuclear”
So in other words, you ARE prepared to allow a particular pattern of gas use; yours suppliments the intermediates/peaks, mine suppliments the troughs (renewable shortfall). We’d be arguing about the QUANTUM of gas use, yes?
(I have already conceeded that for the purposes of system design, you would need to backup every MW of renewable with standby plant; the trick is to limit/eliminate it’s USE).
“very complex, incredibly expensive, hinges on one tech that is experiencing real difficulties in even acquiring funding to continue the exploration of the resource, another tech (CSP with storage) that has only recently provided anything resembling reliable power at one location in the world and is massively expensive and resource intensive”
They sound like sweeping statements to me, of the kind that yourself (and BNC) I’m sure would be keen to avoid.
Complex, yes, but certainly possible to model, cost and design.
I dispute your CSP comments; it’s incredibly simple tech, extremely well unstood, lacking nothing but scale (changing) and will-power (changing). I’d take a bet, that it would be possible to build 1500MW of CSP w/storage (~CF 70%, yes plus backup) faster than a 1000MW NPP in Australia today if the starting gun were fired tomorrow.
Can I confirm your “difficulties acquiring funding” comment refers to EGS/HDR?
Limiting, eliminating its use means you still need to pay for it to sit there an do little or preferably nothing. Someone will have paid to build it and will require a return. So basing a system around the idea that every single MW requires back up is a really really bad idea. Super expensive and extra time consuming.
If you design it properly, the “extra” equipment doesn’t actually need to sit around much. The units appear onsite with CSP.
For example; if I have a CSP w/storage plant, the power block can be multi-shaft CCGT in extra units or larger ratings.
In the example of 100MW CSP field might have 250MW of turbines, which is not a large % of captial cost, even if 6x 25MW units sit there doing next-to-nothing sometimes. Sometimes they’d be backing up wind (for example) and but re-heating the storage at the same time.
(Take a look at the common equipment costs that appear on LCoE summaries).
Both quantum of use and cost of overall system as per previous comment, the latter of which goes straight to the chance of it ever happening. With a goal of zero emissions, I see a 95% result from replacing the baseload as rather a good start. So indeed I am not major concerned about the current GHG contribution of the peaking gas that runs a few days per year.
So in other words you’d leave the same patterns of fossil fuel intermediate/peaking use that exist now with nuclear? I just want to be clear on that.
What I’m suggesting to you is that if you add up the per annum gas use for peaking vs the likely per annum gas use for shortfall (in a renewable system), our modelling shows them to be pretty similar as a first-of-a-kind build-out. The DIFFERENCE with a renewable model, is that with more knowledge, better distribution of sites/interconnects, the aim would be to ELIMINATE the shortfalls.
Why are you comparing “per annum gas use for peaking vs the likely per annum gas use for shortfall (in a renewable system)”? Won’t your putative ‘renewable system’ need gas for peaking AS WELL AS for shortfalls?
A renewable system has to be sized to the peak.
If it meant the most rapid path to decarbonisation, which it does, yes that’s right. But I would also like a more efficient, less peaky and volatile system overall, preferably with flattening or falling demand growth thanks to ideas like you have laid out. But nuclear does not preclude this outcome.
Possible to model, cost and design??? DSA is looking for a strategy with a clear ability to deliver, fast. This is not a hypothetical puzzle we need to crack using only certain solutions, its an urgent problem that needs all solutions deployed as their respective advantages and disadvantages dictate.
Absolutely, of course. My employer is doing planning work/modelling on a CSP w/storage system for outside Kalgoorlie right now. It would be a “kit” plant that can be expanded to 2000MW (nameplate w/NG backup).
Need you to tell me what EGS is, but yes refers to HDR. Refer post called renewable reality checks and the comments thread for discussion of thus.
EGS = Enhanced/Engineered Geothermal Systems = HDR (same thing).
Money for EGS/HDR is so bad, the unique drill rig that one company was using had to be sold! They have test wells producing steam now. There is not a massive technology problem.
It’s totally deplorable and inexcusible.
What is inexcusable? Did not follow, sorry.
EGS/HDR in Australia starving for funds. The Germans have cracked it (or frack’d it) but again we lag behind.
The Germans have ‘cracked’ (ha, good one) EGS/HDR? Yes, they have (AFAIK still) the only ‘commercial’ EGS/HDR plants in the world (I say ‘commercial’ in quotes because they’re heavily subsidised and, as you may be alluding, they’ve just ramped the feed-in tariff up still further). As such, they’re clearly world leaders in this technology. But despite having commenced over seven years ago, their EGS operations are still only generating megawatts in single figures. Despite the undeniably huge potential, plainly there are serious issues with scaling up. Presumably this is why the Germans have admitted they’ll have to build something like 20 GW of new fossil generating capacity as they crash out of nuclear. Despite also massively increasing their renewables investment (in geothermal as well as wind and solar), even they can’t see them being anything like adequate. That’s the proof of the pudding, right there.
I think perhaps you misunderstand the goal of the German Landau (and similar French Soultz) plant in terms of sizing. Both concepts are to develop a rapidly deployable kit-like EGS plant and dot them around the place.
I’ve been lucky enough to go to the Landau plant, and it is mostly definitely producing power commercially (yes, they have a FITS for it, but it’s not very generous). They’re making money and proving up their concept. It should be a kit of equipment about the size of 5x 20-foot containers for ~10MW. Cheap too.
I believe that most of Adelaide’s existing housing stock cannot achieve interior thermal comfort in 45C weather without compressive air conditioning. This is borne out by peak summer electrical demand which dwarfs the output from rooftop PV, The options would seem to be some combination of rebuilding the houses to a higher standard, putting 2.5kw of PV on 90% of houses (not 1.35 kw on 3% of houses) or increasing Adelaide’s centralised generation in summer. In money terms I suspect we are talking hundreds of billions, tens of billions and simple billions respectively.
Alternatively the frail elderly could ‘man up’ and learn to cope with 45C temps. That’s until geothermal comes along to power those mothballed air conditioners. While we’re waiting we could also consider some other form of low carbon energy that can replace SA’s summer electricity imports.
Please telephone your local councilman, state rep and federal member to demand efficiency (like I outlined above) be instituted tomorrow. Tell your friends to do it as well. Last time I was in Adelaide, it seemed to me maybe one out four houses had solar hot water. (There is even a low interest low program in SA for Solar-HWS – they probably pay for themselves).
In the meantime; the answer to your question is staring you in the face and you’re so close, you even mention it. What is the price paid to generators for the peak kWh you mention in SA, or what do you think the cost of those summer peak kWhs is to system?
“low interest LOAN program” (Sorry – probably obvious).
John Newlands, you are correct that Adelaide’s existing housing stock is largely dependent on air conditioning to be livable in extreme summer conditions.This applies right across Australia with the exception of the South Island where you are.Then again,winter in your part of the world can be a trifle trying.
In the past,our ancestors learned how to build abodes which did a fair job of moderating inside temperatures without expensive air conditioning and without even basic technology like insulation.
In the pursuit of the almighty dollar we appear to have lost those techniques.This is apparent by the vast stretches of brick veneer monstrosities built to a universal method regardless of the climate.Whether that climate is tropical,subtropical or temperate continental it is always the same box.
Even the basics like orientation of the dwelling to the North and provision of adequate eaves appropriate to the latitude have been ignored.
This needs to change by the imposition of proper building and design codes but that still leaves the problem of the existing housing stock.Unfortunately,air conditioning,energy hungry as it is,appears to be the only solution.I doubt if a wider application of small domestic solar generators will do much for the problem.It will certainly destabilize the grid.
OK, here’s what I would do. I’m not as familiar with SA’s grid as I could be. I don’t have the information I would need to refine this on best locations, or if they’re available. It’s also extremely rough. I’m doing MORE than simply replacing base load, and I tell you why at the end.
Here’s a broad concept outline, let me know if you think it’s interesting and I will refine performance numbers, locations and try to get to the bottom of costs.
Plant;
1. Replace Northern 520MW coal with 630MW of CSP with storage (~70% CF).
2. Replace Quarantine 210MW open cycle gas peaker with 250MW of Wind.
3. Replace Dry Creek 156MW open cycle gas peaker with 175MW of tracking/concentrating PV.
4. Have Natural Gas firing equiv capability to drive 520MW (as backup) at CSP plant using same power block as driven by CSP field(s).
5. Add 210MW + 156MW of backup turbine capability to the CSP plant, with exhaust heat into CSP storage exchangers (proxy for combined cycle).
Design Goals;
1. The combination of plant directly replaces the MWs of fossil fuel closed. If modelling is similar to WA, fossil fuel use reduced to around 11% of original (with more tuning available).
2. As opposed to replacing base load for base load (ie coal for NPP), this design should have an overall reduction in natural gas use (the NPP would still need the open cycle gas plant for peaking).
3. The correlation of peak PV output and peak demand is typically ~90%.
4. CSP plant with storage is generation and demand dispatch-able moment by moment (interesting result from that discussed below*).
5. Lower winter performance from CSP likely matches lower winter demand patterns (this is the hard bit for the moment).
6. Use of natural gas firing also reheats storage (for night demand) which would be because CSP is under performing, which is likely forecast into the next day also.
7. Construction in 4 years.
8. Protection from energy price inflation for consumers of this electricity.
Problems;
1. Ownership – to get the greatest abatement effect, the plants must be run in a co-operative manner, not for revenue as a priority (eg, if CSP output is reduced because wind can contribute, no CSP revenue concern should be involved in the decision).
2. Location – I don’t know enough about SA, I can take some guesses based on insolation and gas pipelines.
3. Contracts for gas – given the design goal is to use as little as possible (none in fact for large periods of time), gas supply contracts are difficult negotiations. This is the road block we have right now for the WA projects we’re working up (it’s one of the reasons our PV w/diesel plant uses diesel instead unfortunately).
4. Sticker shock – yes, the upfront capital cost will be high.
~19.5c kWh for CSP w/storage plus extra turbines (Areva CLFR). Wind ~14c kWh (Hallet 4). PV ~22c/kWh (Blythe).
To dramatically bring down the cost of CSP, we work the site costs over 99 years. A good CSP site, is a good CSP site into the future. Foundations/preparations built can be re-used for many many iterations of plant.
* CSP dispatch
One of the outcomes of the modelling we have been doing when a CSP w/storage plant is present is the ability to utilise larger variable contributions from other sources.
For example; one of the objections to greater penetrations of wind is often the mythical “grid destabilisation” argument. One part being that sometimes there is TOO MUCH wind contribution and that it has to be dumped.
With a CSP w/storage plant present, it’s energy collection can be diverted to storage OR use of storage slowed to allow the the greater contribution from wind when available.
With the current wind forecasting models, there is strong ability to optimise CSP thermal storage or drain periods. In other words, a CSP w/storage plant can follow load AND generation.
@Zvyozdochka https://decarbonisesa.com/2011/08/21/monbiot-vs-greenpeace-reflections-for-decarbonising-sa/#comment-1080
Where is the performance data that demonstrates a 70% capacity factor (CF) for concentrating solar power (CSP) with storage? The highest capacity factor I’ve seen for a CSP with storage is the Andasol-1-3 in spain with 7.5 hrs storage and a 41% CF. (E.g. see: http://theenergycollective.com/willem-post/46824/impact-csp-and-pv-solar-feed-tariffs-spain
Under the heading: Description of an Operating 50 MW CSP Plant With Storage in Southern Spain)
What kind of storage do you envisage? 7.5 hrs might just get us through a summers night but not a winter one and even in summer if the next day is at all overcast we would be stuffed. This is not a replacement.
<i.4. Have Natural Gas firing equiv capability to drive 520MW (as backup) at CSP plant using same power block as driven by CSP field(s).
Ah. O.K. So that is how you will do it. You’re replacing the hugely polluting baseload Northern 520MW coal plant with another 520MW slightly less polluting FF plant which will remain operational for forty years. The CSP plant will take off some more emissions but you must be aware that it will not eliminate them. If maximum emission reduction is the goal then nuclear power is better. Replace Northern with a 520MW nuclear power plant and reduce CO2 emissionions from electricity generation to zero.
Onshore wind has a capacity factor of about 30%. When the wind isn’t blowing, or is blowing too little, there will be be insufficient power. The wind does not follow demand and will not always be blowing when peak demand occurs. We could not close Quarantine once this/these wind plants were built. This is not a replacement.
What would happen in winter, particulary during the after-work peak around 5-6 o’clock when the sun is setting? Dry Creek gas plant would need to remain operational in order to cover for the winter/cloudy-day PV shortfall. This is not a replacement.
I don’t entirely understand how this would help with the limited storage currently demonstrated for CSP. What kind of storage are you expecting to use?
But what I really don’t understand is, if you’d “like to see fossil fuel switched off tomorrow and replaced with renewables”, why do you support such a large portion of gas – 520 MW installed capacity is well over half the installed capacity of the system you are trying to replace? You can be sure, if we build it, we will use it, so why build it? It makes me wonder, what is your higher priority, being anti-nuclear or solving climate change?
“Where is the performance data that demonstrates a 70% capacity factor (CF) for concentrating solar power (CSP) with storage?”
The data is from Areva Renewable (high temperature versions of the Ausra CLFR CSP) for a current project we have been modelling. Are Areva an untrustworthy company?
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/video/tech-tour-kimberlina-solar-power-plant
I recommend the video as it gives a good overview of the simplicity of the product, the highly modular plant which is designed to be transported, with minimal site foundations (which we propose to reuse into the future).
“What kind of storage do you envisage?”
14 hrs and ~20% larger field for Kalgoorlie (similar latitude to good insolation parts of SA, probably doesn’t need the field increase in SA however). Kalgoorlie also has a major natural gas supply pipe already and major transmission lines. The storage is oversized partly because it is also intended to accept waste heat from gas turbine operation.
“This is not replacement. …… The CSP plant will take off some more emissions but you must be aware that it will not eliminate them.”
Absolutely, I am aware. I have not claimed one-for-one replacement for this design element.
“Replace Northern with a 520MW nuclear power plant and reduce CO2 emissionions from electricity generation to zero.”
As one-for-one replacement, yes I accept that. A one-for-one nuclear-for-coal DOES NOT address the peak demand use of gas. That is the reason we go on with the other parts of our plan.
“Onshore wind has a capacity factor of about 30%.”
I’m using the SASDOS report (and DoE) figure of ~35% (similar to WA anyway).
“We could not close Quarantine once this/these wind plants were built. This is not a replacement.”
Again, I do not claim replacement via this one design element. It’s an integrated system.
“What would happen in winter, particulary during the after-work peak around 5-6 o’clock when the sun is setting?”
I might ask the same question in summer with your nuclear replacement of Northern? How much gas is being used to facilitate the peak? In your model, you use exactly the same amount of gas over the course of a year. You have peaks to deal with, I have shortfalls.
Looking at the energy demand patterns over the course of a year, the daily drops in demand (very roughly) match the solar plant drops in performance. There is a high correlation of load to temperature. The question is to “fill” the shortfalls, and then to reduce the occurrence of those shortfalls.
We would use the Amonix tracking concentrating PV which have excellent cloudy performance. We have a project being installed in India (and shortly in WA).
“Add 210MW + 156MW of backup turbine capability to the CSP plant, with exhaust heat into CSP storage exchangers (proxy for combined cycle).
I don’t entirely understand how this would help with the limited storage currently demonstrated for CSP.”
The 210MW + 156MW gas plant isn’t utilising the storage, it uses gas directly during shortfall or backup. When it absolutely must run the reject/waste heat is used to top up the storage because that also largely coincides with periods of lower CSP/CPV performance.
On the modelling we have done (admittedly for a WA project – this is very similar, but scaled up obviously); our system 630MW CSP, plus 250MW Wind, plus 175MW CPV results in 11%-15% of the fossil use of Northern (520MW coal) plus Quarantine (210MW gas) plus Dry Creek (156MW gas).
“But what I really don’t understand is, if you’d “like to see fossil fuel switched off tomorrow and replaced with renewables”, why do you support such a large portion of gas – 520 MW installed capacity is well over half the installed capacity of the system you are trying to replace?”
My ideals and the reality (like yours) clash. You can’t get an NPP and I can’t get to 100% renewable (without geothermal) and in the meantime we have fossil fuelled system to de-construct. So I don’t let the “perfect” be the enemy of the good; 11%-15% of the previous emissions for retiring 520MW+210MW+156MW capability is pretty damn good, plus MORE flexible or extensive use of previously lost peak wind contribution.
With more and more tuning (knowledge of the required balancing), it’s possible such a system might hardly use the gas equipment, but that is the aim. The cheap gas turbine equipment will be just sitting around mostly. We’ve been investigating moving the OCGT (and then being modified) to the CSP site to leverage some of the money that will necessarily be paid out to owners/operators of these plants to close them early. Sources likes interconnects, hydro/pumped-storage, geothermal, biochar, biogas from sewerage/rubbish streams, wave, tidal etc further reduce the need for gas backup/use.
We could start tomorrow with support from the ACF, The Greens probably even the LNP. Just like an NPP however, someone is going to get an awful sticker shock and someone still needs to break up the long-run fossil-based energy supply contracts. All projects can construct in parallel with the CSP plant taking the longest at 4.2 years (Areva via local fabrication). First power could commence as early as spring 2013 (CPV component).
For our client’s project, we’ve used 10 years worth of insolation and wind data in 30 minute intervals to model how much fossil fuel would be replaced. Needless to say this doesn’t directly translate to SA and our plant sizes are smaller for the moment using existing wind facilities they own. We’ve had detailed modelling from Alstom for turbine fuel consumption and emissions performance, plus input for thermal optimisation/flows.
We’re aiming for ~20c/kWh LCoE which is not where we want to be just yet, as it’s still on the way down although we have contracts in place for the power, most of the financing is done. These plant will be going ahead. The CPV part has been given the go ahead.
What LCoE price do you have for your scaled down NPP? I calculate around the same (granting the scaling assumption).
Of course, the components of all our plant are fully recyclable. I’d like to understand how you propose to cost decommissioning/waste storage.
(Apologies to all concerned, Ben especially). Over and out.
Accepted. Come again.
Does it make any sense? Unleash the critique, Marion too if able. We’d love to see it. 🙂
Please don’t take it personally after so much work put into your comment. Very suddenly trying to buy a new house, nightmare, not much brain to spare right now. Hope you can wait.
No worries. Good luck over there.
I’m sorry it took so long to answer you. I’m afraid I’m not really the argumentative type and ongoing, polarised debates just frustrate me. This will be my last post on this subject.
The 5 MWe CSP in that video does not have 14hrs storage and there was no mention of a 70% capacity factor. Until you can come up with some data to support your claim I can only assume such a unit has not yet been built or tested.
This is how I see your plan. You’ve retained the original peaking gas plants, swapped the old coal plant for a new gas plant and created a newer, longer lasting 886 MWe of fossil fueled system in place of the original, middle aged, 886 MWe fossil fueled system. This is clearly re-carbonisation. Next to this you then suggest we build a 1055 MWe renewable system which has as it’s main component two technologies (CSP with a capacity factor of 70% and 14hrs storage – presumably molten salt) which you are unable to show has ever been demonstrated. How can you ask us to gamble our future on unproven technologies? This is not a mature, considered response to the dangers of climate change, it’s wishful thinking.
I recommend this piece by Ben Heard. It proposes an actual, zero emissions, replacement strategy for about 80% SA’s of FF plants, eliminating more than 90% of it’s CO2 emissions from electricity. Certainly the last 10% of emissions from the peaking plants can be reduced further with renewables, though probably not eliminated without a cost effective, long range, storage option.
https://decarbonisesa.com/2011/05/16/let%E2%80%99s-get-this-party-started-decarbonising-sa-part-1/
So SA’s fossil fuel generation is 78% for baseload. The three largest emitters (Northern, Playford and Torrens Island) contribute 7 million of the 9 million tCO2-e of greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation. This drives home an important message for me. Politically and socially we have a challenge. Technically though, decarbonising SA is not that hard. Three decisive infrastructure commitments and the job on electricity is nearly 80% done.
I’d be happy to try to address other parts, but I guess it is getting a bit circular, but for the moment;
“you ask us to gamble our future on unproven technologies”
Our client is looking at this as a commercial operation, not gambling anything. They will be paid a price to deliver power which includes a payment for them to contractually deliver.
They have no concerns about the maturity of the technology as it’s so very simple. It isn’t nuclear engineering, it’s hot water engineering; we’re ordering components off the shelf for the most part. I think the most difficult question is the longevity of the plant; for want of a better description I guess we’re taking a “risk” there.
“Certainly the last 10% of emissions from the peaking plants can be reduced further with renewables, though probably not eliminated without a cost effective, long range, storage option.”
Which is the whole point I make in defense of our plan. We model our design down to 11%-15% of previous fossil fuelled 886MW emissions, with more scope to tune it down further.
Put both on the table today in WA and which one will go ahead? I know the answer;
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-30/nuclear-energy-ruled-out-in-wa/2862140
O.K. I’ll bite.
I don’t believe a CSP with 14hrs storage could have an annual capacity factor of 70%. Even in summer 9 hrs of the storage would be used up over-night – in winter it would be more like 12hrs. Within two to five hours of a single cloudy day you’ve got no electricity generation, no storage to draw on and no ability to recharge storage for the following evening/cloudy days. Days of cloud are not unusual, even in summer there are clouds in the sky. I am very sceptical about your claims, which is why I asked for some concrete data.
But unproven tech aside. What you are saying when you propose this doubled up system (with 85% redundancy?! That really is a little naïve.) is that there will be times when absolutely none of the 1055 MWe renewable system will be available and that during those times we must rely solely on fossil fuels. Why fall back on fossil fuels when it’s just not necessary! If we replace SA baseload with nuclear power then when the renewables are not available during peak periods, 80% of our electricity can continue to be provided by zero emission power plants. When renewables are not available during low demand periods 100% of our electricity can continue to be provided by zero emission power plants.
Using my above plan – replacing base and intermediate load with nuclear power and using renewables to cut the last 10% of emissions – then if we deployed wind, solar PV and your CSP with 14hrs storage and 70% CF as you suggest, then by your own calculations, emissions from my plan would be reduced to 1.5% – 1.1% of the original system. For all intents and purposes that is a zero emissions electricity plan.
Realistically though, if we wanted to cut the last 10% of emissions we would probably want to build enough nuclear plants to cover peak load and then use the redundant energy for off peak desalination and charging electric vehicles. Now we are well on our way to full decarbonisation!
Right now, we can’t put either plan on the table. Yours is… in development? And thus not yet available (if ever), while mine is available but banned.
The anti-nuclear position exists, in part, because dishonest folk, such as yourself, continue to mislead the public into believing baseload renewables are available right now at commercial scale. They are not, therefore, nuclear power is necessary.
You still need to show me a pilot plant that demonstrates a CSP with 14hrs storage and 70% CF.
Why is my comment awaiting moderation? Do you have a limit on links?
Damn, always the way, I forgot to add;
One of things we have been looking at is the opportunity to move/re-use some of the varied open-cycle equipment. Is it possible/economical to move Quarantine/Dry Creek’s equipment to the CSP site? It would make the capital lower and possibly make greater use of the early closure funds.
Lastly, this has been one of pieces of advice to Government; stop giving contractual certainty to private operators of new fossil fuel plant. It’s one of the largest road blocks to deconstructing the grid as it stands. For example; I’m aware of a 100MW plant that is planned where 70% of the output is contracted for 25 years. It’s criminal.
That’s why we say that Government should get back in the power generation business.
“During the last ten years no FF plants have been closed in SA, however four FF plants have either come on-line or been substantially expanded (at least three of these are gas plants), with another gas generator just recently approved . Wind and gas may have slowed the rate at which SA’s (generation) emissions have grown but they have not lead to a reduction in emissions…”
Your statement is false, unless I’m hopelessly misreading the SASDOS report, gross Mt-CO2-e in SA have declined ~20% in 5 years even with ~2% growth in demand. That’s a pretty good effort.
How much have power prices risen for you guys?
Last one.(Haha).
An Australian NPP would result in a greater flow on funds overseas (ie Samsung). An Australian renewable program (esp low-tech CSP) would result in relatively higher retained Australian spending. CSP is highly likely to be economically more expansive than nuclear.
Not sure about that. While currency draining at first an Australian NPP could be the start of something big, to quote the song. Completing just one nuke would be a step along the learning ladder. I’d couple it with dedicated desalination and leave adjoining space for new industries such as uranium enrichment. Like a magnet all kinds of support industries would move nearby from housing, schools and restaurants to maybe even aquaculture. The lowest paid workers will drive Mercs. Urban greenies can look on in horror.
However if it takes 10 years for the first NPP that is too long for the panic merchants. We’ll probably be back in El Nino weather patterns by 2014 and the economy will be lacklustre. I suspect we’ll probably do nothing except film TV ads on how great geothermal will be someday. Meanwhile we can watch Spain and the US throw big bucks at CSP and wonder if they’ll ever get it right.
Wheelbarrow@Wheelbarrow,35 comments on this thread.
It appears you are a man of few words,you just like to say them a lot.
Such a pity that you are making little sense either.
No worries Sparky. (Make this 36).
I guess I’m lucky that in my work I’m actually doing stuff that results in carbon reduction while these guys are sitting around dreaming about Nuclear Power in Australia (still going nowhere really fast).
Good of you to voluntarily ride out on the same moral high horse you rode in on, with a bit of snide immaturity as a goodbye.
All the best with your work though, which sounds like a great contribution.
I’m quite comfortable with a lot of comments from individuals, provided relevance and courtesy are maintained. I haven’t been able to read everything from Zy in detail but it looks like that basic criteria were being met, even it it was a little repetitive, until that unfortunate last post. Considering he had a debate going on three fronts, not surprised his comments mounted up.
Frustration is understood but please refrain from the snark in future
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Well “dishonest” is a bit rough…..
Technical questions to one side for the moment, perhaps you could comment on our methodology;
1. We started with a 10 year chart of 30-min demand for WA.
2. We used the WA Office of Energy demand forecasts and remapped the above data as if it were 2011-2020 demand.
3. We created an imaginary CSP w/storage plant and tested various 30-min insolation peak to minimum performance scenarios. These were Case A, B and C which varied on field size and storage config.
4. The various CSP energy 30-min contribution curves were then subtracted from the demand.
5. We subtracted the contribution of wind, and proposed wind using 10 years of 30-min supply data.
6. We subtracted the contribution of solar PV and proposed solar PV using 10 years worth of 30-min insolation data for north-north-east of Geraldton.
7. The remaining shortfalls are the likely gas-based fossil contribution and already include cloudy days.
8. We re-ran scenarios shifting the daily demand patterns forward/back 24-48hrs and insolation forward/back 24-48hrs to create demand/supply mismatches.
Once it was obvious the basic approach results in extremely infrequent use of the gas, we then further refined the case with likely improved thermal efficiency available running the OCGT gas equipment into the storage system (like CCGT).
There is further refinement available via “supply shifting” CSP use when MORE wind contribution was available. For example; on occasions in late afternoon mid winter, wind is operating at a very high contribution. We configured the CSP system output to drop at those periods, leaving the storage heat or slowing it’s depletion and allowing more offset of fossil fuel use at periods for the next day.
The result was around 9% of fossil fuel use with the MOST expensive CSP field layout. The least expensive CSP field layout but more storage resulted in around 11% at a huge cost reduction.
Our latest task is to solve the question of what is the ideal relative size combination of CSP, PV and wind for WA.
3. We created an imaginary CSP w/storage plant…
Here is an interesting quote from a report on CSP in India:
CSP technology is conceptually simple and appealing. It is also relatively easy to build basic prototypes. The risks include that the growing interest in the field attracts new players at all levels, who may be naive in their approach and overly optimistic of the actual performance they will achieve. The level of effort and investment required to make a safe, high performance prototype compared to a basic amateur level one is immense. Similar increased orders of magnitude of effort are required to make the subsequent steps of first demonstration, first commercial plant and finally proven technology. The final goal of bankable proven technology usually takes investments in the billions of dollars and effort over decades. This is well known to those players who are operating commercial plants and rarely fully appreciated by new entrants. New entrants can be very vocal in promoting their ideas and lobbying government for
support. Risks associated with new entrants need to be considered and carefully managed.” http://www.solarpaces.org/Library/docs/CSP_in_India_Final_Compressed.pdf Section 6.7, pages 88-89.
I put it to you that this applies to your “imaginary” CSP with 14 hrs storage. Since it is not even at the prototype stage, we are, at best, looking at “effort over decades” to move this from an ‘idea’ to being an established alternative to fossil fuel generation.
Don’t get me wrong, I would love to see this particular idea come to fruition, but you must acknowledge that it is neither a presently available alternative nor is it likely to become one any time soon. Without this piece of technology your plan is little more than a gas plan.
I was a contributor to that report (not an author).
I maintain that the scepticism of CSP (hot-water-engineering) is over blown, there is plenty of performance data and operating experience and I was disappointed to see that overly cautionary paragraph.
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Brutalism: The Word Itself and What We Mean When We Say It
Posted: 20 November 2011 | Author: michaelabrahamson | Filed under: Architecture, Brutalism, Events, Lectures |10 Comments
Record of a Pecha Kucha-style presentation at Architecture + (Kent State), Friday November 18th, 2011
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The word “Brutalism” has lost its meaning. At present, it equates to: large buildings, sometimes of concrete, constructed sometime between World War II and the end of the 1970s. The sheer number of projects this describes is staggering, and many of the architects responsible for them in fact despised the term. We need to relearn the story of this pervasive locution.
Once upon a time, Brutalism referred only to “The New Brutalism,” a snide phrase coined by Alison and Peter Smithson to describe their unbuilt project for a townhouse in the SoHo neighborhood of London. For the Smithsons, “New Brutalism” was initially interchangeable with what they called “the warehouse aesthetic,” which sought to capture the raw quality of materials. As Peter Smithson pointed out in a late interview:
“Brutalism is not concerned with the material as such but rather the quality of the material, that is with the question: what can it do? And by analogy: there is a way of handling gold in Brutalist manner and it does not mean rough and cheap, it means: what is its raw quality?” [Peter Smithson: Conversations with Students, Princeton Architectural Press, 2004]
This raw quality, the treatment of materials “as found,” came to define the aesthetic proclivities of the group seen here, composed of the Smithsons, photographer Nigel Henderson, and the sculptor Edouardo Paolozzi. Eventually this group formed a part of The Independent Group, which is credited with launching Pop Art. For them, Brutalism was not a style but something else, hence:
“Brutalism tries to face up to a mass-production society, and drag a rough poetry out of the confused and powerful forces which are at work. Up to now Brutalism has been discussed stylistically, whereas its essence is ethical.” [Alison & Peter Smithson, “The New Brutalism,” Architectural Design (April 1957)]
Immediately recognized as radical and transformative, “The New Brutalism,” was the subject of much debate. In fact, a series of think pieces had appeared in journals before the Smithsons managed to complete their first building, the Hunstanton Secondary School seen here.
One of brutalism’s strongest early supporters was historian and critic Reyner Banham. In 1955 he published an essay summarizing the defining characteristics of this new style as follows:
“1, Formal legibility of plan; 2, clear exhibition of structure, and 3, valuation of materials for their inherent qualities ‘as found.’”
Banham found this simple list inadequate, so he added:
“In the last resort what characterizes the New Brutalism in architecture […] is precisely its brutality, its je-m’en-foutisme, its bloody-mindedness.” [Banham, “The New Brutalism,” Architectural Review (December 1955)]
Banham later published what he purported to be the definitive statement on The New Brutalism, comprising an international selection of buildings. His contention was that the interplay of ethics and aesthetics defined production and reception of brutalism.
The trouble is, Banham excluded most of the buildings we now regard as brutalist. No Paul Rudolph, no Marcel Breuer, no Boston City Hall, and only one early project by Louis Kahn. And for the record, the Smithsons shunned Banham’s book, accusing him of co-opting their ideas to serve his own agenda.
Surely, the binary put forward by Banham is much too blunt and exclusionary. In order to rethink the word brutalism itself, it may be useful to return to the dictionary. Let’s look at the definitions of the parts in question. I’ve made a few redactions for the sake of brevity:
savagely violent: a brutal murder
punishingly hard or uncomfortable: the brutal winter wind
without any attempt to disguise unpleasantness: the brutal honesty of his observations
denoting an action or its result: baptism
denoting a state or quality: barbarism
denoting a system, principle or ideological movement: feminism
denoting a basis for prejudice or discrimination: racism
denoting a peculiarity in language: colloquialism
denoting a pathological condition: alcoholism
[Oxford American Dictionary, 2007 Edition]
If we cut and paste a bit we might come up with something satisfactory:
“brutalism”: A state or quality of principled but pathological hardness or discomfort, without any attempt to disguise its unpleasantness.
A bit convoluted, but you get the point. Using this makeshift definition, the word itself might be reframed to describe a particular attitude about building, best described by Banham’s “bloody-mindedness.” Unlike the historically loaded word style, the idea of an attitude might effective at drawing together the diverse group of architectures to which we affix the word in question.
Universally recognizable by its severe, abstract geometries and the monolithic use of concrete, block and brick – this attitude called brutalism became a consensus approach to monumentalizing modern architecture.
If this story of Brutalism is indeed about consensus, our primary question should be: what made this uncompromising, imposing, and frankly quite impractical attitude so seductive?
The story of Paul Rudolph’s Art & Architecture building at Yale University might be instructive. Commissioned when Rudolph was appointed dean at the Yale School of Architecture, the completed building is overflowing with quotations and citations of the history of architecture.
Like Wright’s Larkin Administration Building, Rudolph wanted his work at Yale to have a sense of permanence, a built-in history, monumental enough to rival Roman ruins. In spite of his erudition, Rudolph’s building is most often remembered as the site of a mysterious arson.
The oft-cited myth is that a disgruntled architecture student, fed up with the building’s presence in his life, set fire to his desk in protest. True or not, this myth makes discussion of the building’s architectural merit or lack of merit extremely difficult. When we talk about Rudolph, we have to talk about the fire.
I’m tempted to cite Bernard Tschumi’s “Advertisements for Architecture,” in particular two sentiments expressed here, below the photographs:
On the left, “Architecture is defined by the actions it witnesses as much as by the enclosure of its walls.” And on the right, “Architecture only survives where it negates the form that society expects of it.” Through his actions, the arsonist responsible for Yale’s fire altered the narrative of Rudolph’s building and of brutalism in general, but might the story someday change?
While no mysterious event clouds our view of the Hunstanton School, the overwhelming personal narrative constructed by Alison + Peter Smithson certainly does. Known for talking big and building little, the Smithsons were never as successful as their books would have you believe.
Their largest project, Robin Hood Gardens council housing in London, is one of the worst failures of urban renewal during the brutalist moment. Its foundering hurt their reputations, and larger commissions never came their way. Unlike Rudolph, however, the Smithsons regained their stature by changing their attitude. Their work in the 1970s traced a shift away from the unhomely airs of brutalism toward a sophisticated engagement with Postmodernism, and a more open embrace of history.
The story of brutalism reminds us that once upon a time, there was disciplinary consensus. In retrospect, this consensus appears a peculiar convergence between ethics and aesthetics, during which truth in materials and the question of monumentality dominated the discipline no matter one’s ideological bent, a time when do-gooders and designers held certain goals in common. Successful or not, the results of this peculiar convergence are all around us, reminders that we could all use an attitude adjustment.
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Doctor Casino says:
An excellent starting-point for making sense of the recent Brutalist Revival. (I remain convinced, btw, that we are in the age of Team Twenty-Ten, for reasons that combine demographic bubbling and successive father-killings within the discipline.) Definitely, the terminology needs to get pinned down a little bit; at the same time, I’d like to see it critiqued more. For one thing, the figure of the Brutalist architect that emerges has this old-school Randian masculinity to it: the principled, bloody-minded ascetic, willing to suffer (and make others suffer) hardness and discomfort for the Greater Goal. I wonder how accurate that is, particularly when you bring in people like Hertzberger who really thought (rightly or wrongly) that they were giving people the chance to impress themselves and their lives on the architecture. Comfort (and the small niceties of social etiquette) were at the center of projects that – if we *were* categorizing in terms of style – seem just as Brutalist as all the others.
Another way of putting it: if Brutalism was an attitude more than a style, how do we figure out who shared that attitude? (I think the unanimous disciplinary consensus you suggest is a little implausible.) If it was an attitude that included, as one of its features, the embrace of certain stylistic tics, we’re back at square one of defining what those were, in the face of the term being used to describe countless things that look nothing like each other…
michaelabrahamson says:
The attitude I’m trying to describe is about truth/honesty in materials, and an interest in the question of monumentality (not stating pro or con). I agree with you that the notion of unanimity within the discipline is implausible, but I’m taking some liberties to construct a clean narrative like the Smithsons did in their writing. If you look at their work over the course of twenty or so years (1950-1970), it’s inconsistent as hell. But through their narrative agility they were able to tell their story several different ways in different books. My favorite is of their books is Without Rhetoric, which comes closest to outlining an attitudinal definition of brutalism, citing everything from Mies to Kahn all the way to vernacular building.
I admit the definition I constructed in the middle is a bit heavy handed, and I hope this doesn’t read like I’m in favor of some Roarkian archetype. The point I was trying to make was about the Smithsons changing their attitude and rethinking their narrative. I think it’s about storytelling as much as it’s about brutalism.
And Team Twenty Ten? Count me in.
doctorcasino says:
“not stating pro or con” – – I like this. Defining it more in the questions to be asked or the issues on which one had to take a stance – – to carry on Modernism in the 50s and 60s required you to puzzle out the paired questions of monumentality and history, and maybe also figure out what architecture’s relationship was to the ginormous new super-institutions of the postwar period… it gets a bit circular and hazy as a definition, to the point where it’s just refusing the dilemma, but I can sort of imagine a discussion around “The Brutalist Period” as opposed to “Brutalism,” if that makes sense.
A definition based on questions also, I think, makes it easier to stretch the category and consider people “changing their attitude and rethinking their narrative.” This is all pre-coffee though.
A huge point of interest for me is the whole “why now” thing with the revival, your blog. It can’t just be generational (although I insist that’s part of it) – Flickr, for example, is rife with people a good bit older than us, oohing and aahing and exchanging long words of appreciation concerning the work of figures who would have been scarily unfashionable a few years ago.
New Abstraction-ists is what we came up with for Post-Post Modernism (stupid in the first place we all living in the ‘modern age’). Like TTT though.
As an older student (late forties) and having grown up with the utopian Brutalist style my only comment is the social engineering of local councils, poor construction (my father was a site manager on these projects, all price work with little or no supervision) and poor maintenance are the reasons for most of the failures. Could they have worked in more enlightened time? Well the gentrification of the Barbican shows its about peoples adoption of buildings. Its not the building, but the attitudes of the people who reside there. Treat people like shit and expect a building to change their attitude? I think not. So i will always blame the Client (being local government) more than the Architects in this case.
Personally sick to death of narrative, context, i want things to work.
“Brutal” is derived from “beton brut”, French for “raw concrete”. But it would seem the Smithsons were having a bit of word fun with the term.
Webb says:
yep. Surprised this was not raised in the article
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[…] included) off to Google for a definition. I found this site that seems to explain Brutalism well: https://criticundertheinfluence.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/brutalism-the-word-itself-and-what-we-mean-w… [Note from Pam, here is my story on Brutalist […]
stourleyk says:
The fifth definition of brutalism ought not be struck out. Colloquialism- as in the warehouses the Smithsons referenced and as in free of rhetoric, blunt.
Chris Parlett says:
Great work, thank you. In researching the architecture of my home town I was surprised by the ‘Brutalist’ term and you explained it brilliantly.
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