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EIB proposes to ditch funding fossil fuels
The world’s biggest public bank, the European Investment Bank (EIB), has proposed to ditch funding fossil fuel projects.
The EIB published on Friday 26 July its draft energy lending policy, which proposes a major switch in its lending policy, in reaction to climate crisis. If this policy draft is accepted by EU finance ministers in September, this would be a significant step forward in the campaign for a fossil free Europe.
The danger and the injustice of summer energy poverty
As temperature gages hit 40°C across Europe this week, terrifying heatwaves are becoming the new normal. But we are not all equal in the face of extreme weather, writes climate justice campaigner Clemence Hutin.
Last summer, a shocking heatwave seemed to dry up and set alight our continent before our eyes. This year we see this terrifying pattern repeating.
Declaration - we all have a right to energy
At the Right to Energy Forum, over 100 activists, trade unionists, campaigners, and people from all over Europe came together in Brussels to debate, unite, and demand energy solutions for all. This is their unanimous declaration:
Climate not prioritised enough in EU five year agenda
Heads of state and government have set priorities for EU cooperation over the next five years at a summit in Brussels today – but have not gone far enough in prioritising action on the climate emergency, reacted Friends of the Earth Europe.
Friends of the Earth Europe called for a bold vision and action for transformational change to tackle climate and ecological breakdown and inequality.
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Today’s European Commission analysis of Member States’ draft ten-year plans for climate and energy confirms a big climate fail, according to Friends of the Earth Europe. The EU's 2030 renewables and energy efficiency targets — already insufficient — will be missed if Member States do not improve their plans.
EIB must stop funding fossil fuels - 70 civil society groups
Ahead of a meeting of the EU bank’s Governors in Luxembourg, 70 civil society organisations, think tanks and academics across Europe have called for a fossil-free European Investment Bank (EIB) in a joint statement released today.
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Europe’s prime ministers met today in Sibiu, Romania, for a largely symbolic summit intended to renew commitment on the ‘issues that really matter to people‘.
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As Europe’s prime ministers meet tomorrow in Sibiu, Romania, to shape the future of Europe, the EU’s next five-year priorities and long-term climate goals, Friends of the Earth Europe urges them to grasp the nettle of transformative change.
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On the April 5th 2019, the sun started to shine again in Spain - though the weather forecast predicted rain. The Spanish Government passed new regulations on self-consumption of renewable energy, that could unleash a renewables bloom.
The regulations, contained in a Royal Decree, bring to an end a four-year hiatus during which the country of the sun installed zero new renewable capacity.
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The establishment license of Bu-Ali Sina University was issued in 1973 and the university started its educational activities by admitting 200 students at different levels in 1976. The 250,000 square-meter area of the main campus of the university is located in a 205 acres area. The ratio of professors to students is 1 to 22 in the university. Currently the university hosts foreign students and international (non-Iranian) language learners from different countries who are interested in learning Persian; and hopefully the number of these students and language learners will increase in the not too distant future.
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Bu-Ali Sina University annually admits about 5000 students through national examination at different levels in 310 disciplines. Furthermore, admission of students of exceptional talents in M.A and Ph.D. levels is done without examination. Since … the university also admits researchers in postdoctoral level. In line with the international activities of the university, currently a number of foreign students from different countries of the world are studying in the university. Also Center for Teaching Persian enrolls students with the aim of developing Persian.
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1. A Once and Past Love: Palestine 1947, Israel 1948 A Memoir
This book has to do with the period in which Britain’s mandate in Palestine ended, the state of Israel was born, and the Arab refugee problem originated. Many historians have written on these matters, and many more will do so. I arrived in Haifa, Palestine, on 23 December 1947, and...
special papers series and program of african studies
Isreal History, 20th Century, Great Britain Army Officers, Palestine History, and Biography
Ivor Wilks
2. The Sonoristic Structuralism of Krzysztof Penderecki
Some five years ago, during the first year of my assistantship at the Music Academy in Katowice, I required students to analyse some of Penderecki's early, so-called "sonoristic" pieces. The outcome of that assignment proved unsatisfactory, however, because the students tended to describe Penderecki's pieces as chaotic assemblages of sound...
sonorism and poland
Polish people--Music and Penderecki, Krzysztof, 1933-
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Chris Diaz
3. Laughing and Crying: A Study of the Limits of Human Behavior
First published in German in 1940 and widely recognized as a classic of philosophical anthropology, Laughing and Crying considers this significant pair of types of expressive behavior, considering them both in themselves and in their relation to the fundamental nature of humanity.
Marjorie Grene, James Spencer Churchill, and Helmuth Plessner
4. On Emotional Presentation
First published in German in 1917, On Emotional Presentation investigates the interrelation of emotions, values, and obligation. Alexius Meinong presents a realist theory of values in which values are given in and through emotion but are also ontologically independent of emotion or any subjective attitude. Meinongs first discusses the concept...
Marie-Luise Schubert Kalsi, Alexius Meinong, and J. N. Findlay
5. Sherlock Holmes, Esq., and John H. Watson, M.D.: An Encyclopaedia of Their Affairs
This encyclopedia serves as a guide to the fifty-six stories and four novels that comprise the Sherlock Holmes canon. Arranged alphabetically, Orlando Park provides entries on all manner of people, places, and objects from Arthur Conan Doyles novels and stories, as well as thorough treatments of the traits and opinions...
Orlando Park
6. Nathanael West: An Interpretive Study
This study of the novels of Nathanael West begins with the important threads of Wests life and their relationship to his works. James F. Light gives a detailed analysis of each of Wests novels, investigating in particular the works treatment of social criticism and manipulation of dream and symbol.
James F. Light
7. The Complete Fables of Jean de la Fontaine
This edition of Jean de La Fontaines fables includes an English translation published alongside the French text. Norman Spector adapted the French text from the 1883-85 edition by Henri Rgnier, adding four tales from the 1962 edition by Georges Couton. Spectors translation is in rhymed verse, and remains faithful to...
Jean de la Fontaine and Norman B. Spector
8. Literary Modernism and the Transformation of the Work
Literary Modernism and the Transformation of Work probes the relationship between the aesthetic structures of modernism and its political and philosophical shape. James F. Knapp exploresmodernisms engagement with and reaction to the theories and discourse of scientific management that were reshaping the workplace in the early twentieth century, and in...
James F. Knapp
9. Essays on Music and History in Africa
This classic ethnomusicological survey provides as a valuable guide to African music. The essays review a broad swath of genres and topics, including court songs and music history, musical instruments in different traditions, and the connection between Islam and African music. Contributors are Lois Ann Anderson, John Blacking, Philip J....
Klaus P. Wachsmann
10. Motive and Intention: An Essay in the Appreciation of Action
Motive and Intention is a critique of certain conceptual foundations of the description and judgment of human action. Drawing on sources such as narrative history, Roy Lawrence analyzes examples of such assessments and provides and independent base for appraising familiar and tenacious theoretical presumptions. In so doing he illuminates many...
Roy Lawrence
11. Reflections on Frege's Philosophy
In Reflections on Freges Philosophy, Reinhardt Grossmann investigates the most important themes in the philosophy of Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925): his distinction between objects and functions, his characterization of numbers as nonmental classes, his theory of sense and reference, and his ontology of truth-values. Grossmann examines Freges solutions to...
Reinhardt Grossmann
12. D. H. Lawrence: The Failure and the Triumph of Art
In D. H. Lawrence, Eliseo Vivas examines the aesthetic triumphs and failures of Lawrences major works through a literary device that he coins the constitutive symbol. Understanding how Lawrence uses the constitutive symbol provides new insight into his world views. Vivas covers a wide range of Lawrences work, including Aarons...
Eliseo Vivas
13. This Africa: Novels by West Africans in English and French
This Africa is both a literary history and a survey of the West African novel. Gleason explores seventeen novels in French and eight in English, developing a framework of literary criticism that includes the conqueror, the hero, city life, village life, and personal identity. Authors whose works are studied include...
Judith Illsley Gleason
14. Dark Conceit: The Making of Allegory
Dark Conceit is the first book in English to treat allegory seriously in terms of literary creation and criticism. The study explores the methods and ideas that go into the making of allegory, discusses the misconceptions that have obscured the subject, and surveys the changing concept of allegory. The greater...
Edwin Honig
15. The Sacred Meadows: A Structural Analysis of Religious Symbolism in an East African Town
The Sacred Meadows is an anthropological study of the religion of Lamu, the oldest inhabited town in Kenya, originally settled in 1370, and situated on an island off the Kenyan coast. Abdul Hamid El-Zein discusses the religious impact of Islam and its place in Lamu society. He explores the structure...
Abdul Hamid M. el Zein
16. Printed Writings by George W. Russell: A Bibliography
This bibliography lists the books, paintings, and portraits of the mystic Irish poet George William Russell, best known by his pseudonym, AE. Russell was a late nineteenth-and early twentieth century Irish poet and essayist whose first book of poems, Homeward: Songs by the Way (1894), established him in what was...
17. Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism
Lionel Trilling was one of the twentieth centurys most widely read and influential American literary critics. Mark Krupnick traces Trillings career from the 1920s through the 1970s, following the shifting intellectual and ideological currents in his thought. Krupnick places Trillings criticism and fiction in the context of his New York...
Mark Krupnick
18. Critical Prefaces of the French Renaissance
Critical Prefaces of the French Renaissancecontains nearly 30 prefaces from the works of French poets and dramatists published from 1525 to 1611. Bernard Weinbergs helpful book collects prefaces from the works of satirical poets, as well as dramatists, and provides a short introduction to each preface setting it in its...
Bernard Weinberg
19. For an Ontology of Morals: A Critique of Contemporary Ethical Theory
For an Ontology of Morals: A Critique of Contemporary Ethical Theory assesses contemporary trends in ethical theory, including the deontological tradition dating back to Kant, the teleological tradition of the utilitarians, the analytic movement, and the existentialist-phenomenologist movement. In refuting these trends, Henry B. Veatch argues that moral and ethical...
Henry B. Veatch
20. The Philosophy of Epicurus: Letters, Doctrines, and Parallel Passages from Lucretius
The teachings of Epicurus, whose philosophy focused on the pursuit of happiness, attracted adherents throughout the ancient Mediterranean world and deeply influenced later European thought. The Philosophy of Epicurus contains a long introductory essay on the philosophy of Epicurus and a selection of primary texts. In inGeorge K. Strodach translates...
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Matt Miller (USMMA): Preseason Interview with AugBall expert Glen Miller
Matt Miller (left) walks off with older brother Glen Miller (right) after the
3 point competition at the August U Alumni vs Eagles and Friends game in 2011.
Many of the college basketball teams and players I follow are tipping off their seasons in the next few days. Matt Miller, a former Augusta/GAIS Eagle and current USMMA co-captain, will officially start his senior season November 18th. Here his older brother Glen Miller asks Matt some that give us a view of Miller's approach to his final season, his goals, and his plans after he graduates.
Glen Miller's interview with Matt Miller (Senior, USMMA)
Give us some quick thoughts on how you’re feeling going into your senior season.
Matt: I am excited about this upcoming season. We have a great group of guys who are showing up every day motivated to put in the necessary work for a successful season. This is the most eager I have been to come to practice every day and motivate myself and others to improve in everything we do.
You're only a handful of points shy of passing the 1000 point mark for your time at USMMA…talk about what passing that milestone means to you.
Matt: It will be an honor to join the short list of players to break 1000pts and become one of the leading scorers in school history. I was a little upset that I didn’t break 1000pts last season. I didn’t feel good about my overall performance. However, I am enthusiastic about this year. This season is the first time since freshman year that I have had an off-season to develop. The past two years, I have detached from a ship and gone directly to practice. Often, this was a week into the official start of the season. For the first time, I am feeling good about my game heading into our first game.
Miller scored 953 points at USMMA in his first three seasons.
With the loss of a big time scorer in David Smith, how you will you guys try to fill that void?
Matt: It is always tough to lose one of your leading scorers. Nevertheless, I believe we are going to be a great team this year. Everyone has improved since last year. Also, I believe we will play smarter and have better execution on the offensive and defensive end.
Your team has gone through a bunch of changes going into this season (moving to a different conference and getting a new head coach). Talk a little bit about that.
Regarding the conference change, I am excited about it for a variety of reasons. First, in our previous conference, we were traveling out of the state most weekends and often played double headers. This type of schedule was incredibly tough physically and academically. The new conference is based in the NYC metropolitan area. Additionally, the style of game is something I am more used to playing against from HS. The conference is fast paced and guard based.
Regarding the coaching change, it is not ideal to have four different coaches in 4 years. However, the Interim Head Coach Denis Kazmir and new assistant Nathan Edick have done an excellent job thus far. Practices have been challenging, well organized, and competitive. Everyone is playing with enthusiasm and getting after it. Also, my Co-Team Captain Hunter Jones has done a great job getting the team on board and focused on what we are trying to accomplish this year.
What are your expectations going into this season? For you personally and as a team.
We are going to have a great season. Further, and most importantly, I believe we will continue to improve throughout the year. I think our culture of immediate gratification often only appreciates the final score and not tomorrow’s promise. It isn’t where you start, but it is all about where you end up. I firmly believe that this will be my best season and the team’s most successful season. However, I am looking even past my final year. My Co-Captain and I seek to create a new basketball culture at the academy that puts this program in a position to be successful for years to come.
A "Matt Miller" search in the search bar on the right side
of the screen will take you through many years of Miller
getting buckets on the high school and college levels.
Lastly, tell everyone about your experience at school like USMMA. What are your plans post-graduation?
3+ years ago, I would never have guessed the opportunities and development that this academy would make available to me. Studying in a marine engineering and shipyard management program, enduring a regimental lifestyle, and playing basketball have been the most challenging experiences of my life. However, this is not an experience I would trade for any other college experience. Often the most challenging things we do in life are the most rewarding. According to this, USMMA ranks #2 behind MIT, and ahead of #3 Harvard, in the highest median salaries of graduates.
During my time here, I have worked as an engineering officer in training on three different ships (250ft-1000ft) sailing to 18 different countries on four different continents. After four years, I will have worked for 300+ days and earned 177 academic credits. As a senior, I was appointed the Regimental Honor Board Chairman where I lead a staff of nine people in charge of maintaining standards of integrity as well as developing character and professional ethics at the Academy. Further, I am the president of the KP Investment Club and founder and president of a Fellowship of Christian Athletes club. All of these things have contributed significantly to my development as a person and leader.
Miller organizes and conducts the KP Investment Club every other week
meetings; and he authored this presentation for the year's first meeting.
After graduation, I plan on working as a marine engineer for a U.S. shipping company and taking a reserve commission as an officer in the U.S. Navy.
How much of a bad ass is your older brother Glen Miller? I know he taught you everything you know and you owe him a lot. Share some thoughts on him.
Haha you are my biggest fan, supporter, and a role model. Love ya brother, and I am proud of you.
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Tag Archives: Revolt RV400
Automotive Industry, Battery, Bike, Bike, Driving, Electric Vehicles, India, Indian Automobile Service Industry, Mileage
Going Electric: Vehicles that are worth making the move
India has set a target of electric vehicles making up 30% of new sales of cars and two-wheelers by 2030. But the recent economic slowdown appears to have taken a toll on the electric vehicle plans. But the potential market is still huge, with India being the world’s biggest market for scooters and motorcycles; the next biggest market being China.
With the ever-growing pollution and bad air quality – and not to mention the continuous rise in fuel prices, more and more citizens are thinking about making the move to electric vehicles as they realize that going electric brings with it significant benefits; lower running costs, lower maintenance costs and pollution-free driving.
With manufacturers like Japan’s Suzuki Motors planning to launch an electric scooter in India by 2020, and Indian motorcycle makers Bajaj Motor and TVS Motor are also eyeing electric models, here are some existing models that are popular with consumers.
Okinawa i Praise
The scooter comes with a detachable lithium-ion battery that, according to the company, takes 2-3 hours to charge and gives a range of 160-180km. It is also equipped with features like geo-tagging, GPS, find my scooter, battery health and vehicle status, all of which can be accessed via an app on your Android smartphone.
Colours: Glossy Silver Black, Glossy Golden Black, Red Black
The Revolt RV400 is India’s first AI enabled motorcycle. It’s battery charges from 0-100% in 4.5 hours. In an all-new innovation, Revolt also offers four sounds in the motorcycle, all controlled through the MyRevolt App.
Colours: Rebel Red, Cosmic Black
Ather 450
A Bangalore based startup, Ather Energy launched the Ather 450 electric scooter which promises an acceleration of 0 to 40 kmph in just 3.9 seconds, a top speed of 80 kmph and a range of 55-75 km. According to the company, the 450 was designed from scratch to offer an exhilarating ride and a hassle-free ownership experience. The electric scooter promises some great unique features like a low centre of gravity, mono-shock suspension, front & rear disc brakes and perfect balance and a reverse mode.
Colours: White
ULTRAVIOLETTE F77
Sporting a bold design, the Ultraviolette launched the F77 in three colour variants. The bike is currently on sale only in Bengaluru while online registrations to purchase the motorcycle have opened. Deliveries are slated to commence in October 2020. The F77 is powered by a 25kW electric motor which produces 90Nm, making it the most powerful electric motorcycle currently on sale in India. Ultraviolette has DC fast-charging capability, giving it 50 minutes to charge up to 80% and 90 minutes for a full charge.
Colours: Airstrike, Shadow, Laser
Ather 450electric bikeselectric scooterelectric vehiclesOkinawa i PraiseRevolt RV400ULTRAVIOLETTE F77
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Monthly Archive: November 2016
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by SSPF · Published November 29, 2016 · Last modified February 13, 2017
Bhaichung Bhutia leads SSPF Football Council, hopes NTSN will be a massive revolution
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Detalles para: Functional syndromes as indicators of ecosystem change in temperate grasslands
Functional syndromes as indicators of ecosystem change in temperate grasslands
Colaborador(es): Texeira, Marcos. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA). Laboratorio de Análisis Regional y Teledetección (LART). Buenos Aires, Argentina. CONICET - Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA). Laboratorio de Análisis Regional y Teledetección (LART). Buenos Aires, Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos y Sistemas de Información. Buenos Aires, Argentina | Verón, Santiago R. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos y Sistemas de Información. Buenos Aires, Argentina Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Clima y Agua. Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina | Irisarri, Jorge Gonzalo Nicolás. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA). Laboratorio de Análisis Regional y Teledetección (LART). Buenos Aires, Argentina. CONICET - Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA). Laboratorio de Análisis Regional y Teledetección (LART). Buenos Aires, Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Departamento de Producción Animal. Cátedra de Forrajicultura. Buenos Aires, Argentina | Oyarzabal, Mariano. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos y Sistemas de Información. Buenos Aires, Argentina | Staiano, Luciana. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA). Laboratorio de Análisis Regional y Teledetección (LART). Buenos Aires, Argentina. CONICET - Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA). Laboratorio de Análisis Regional y Teledetección (LART). Buenos Aires, Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos y Sistemas de Información. Buenos Aires, Argentina | Baeza, Santiago. Universidad de la Republica. Facultad de Agronomía. Departamento de Sistemas Ambientales. Montevideo, Uruguay | Paruelo, José María. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA). Laboratorio de Análisis Regional y Teledetección (LART). Buenos Aires, Argentina. CONICET - Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA). Laboratorio de Análisis Regional y Teledetección (LART). Buenos Aires, Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos y Sistemas de Información. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA). Estación Experimental La Estanzuela. Colonia, Uruguay .
ISSN: 1470-160X.Tipo de material: Artículos y capítulos. Recurso electrónico.Tema(s): | ABOVEGROUND NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION (ANPP) | ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONAL SYNDROMES | MODIS | LTDR | PRECIPITATION USE EFFICIENCY (PUE) | PRECIPITATION MARGINAL RESPONSE (PMR) | RIO DE LA PLATA GRASSLANDS | Recursos en línea: Haga clic para acceso en línea | LINK AL EDITOR En: Ecological Indicators vol.96 (2019), p.600-610, grafs., tbls., mapasResumen: The lack of an organizing conceptual framework to address ecosystem changes reduces our capacity to distinguish biophysical from direct human impacts on grassland dynamics. This is particularly important for subhumid temperate grasslands, one of the world’s most threatened biomes. We identified and mapped 4 functional syndromes of grassland change at the wettest end of its worldwide distribution, the Campos in Uruguay. Syndromes were defined by differences in precipitation use efficiency (PUE, ANPP/precipitation), and in precipitation marginal response (PMR, slope of the linear regression between ANPP and precipitation) between two periods (1981–1995 and 2001–2011). Temporal trends in aboveground net primary production (ANPP, obtained by splicing two sources of NDVI, LTDR and MOD13Q1) were also characterized. To rule out the effect of precipitation we analyzed temporal trends of the residuals from the relationship between ANPP and annual precipitation (RESTRENDS). Functional syndromes associated with increases in seasonality or in the abundance of annual vegetation (ΔPMR greater than 0, ΔPUE less than 0, ∼14,000 km2) and vegetation cover loss (ΔPUE less than 0 and ΔPMR less than 0,greater than 5000 km2) were the most abundant. ANPP trends were significantly negative in 3.7% of the area (2475 km2) and only positive in 0.3%. However, RESTRENDS were significant in 11% of the area (greater than 7700 km2), and mostly negative (in ∼7200 km2). Most of these negative trends and residual trends were associated to seasonality increase and vegetation loss syndromes. These patterns were consistent with observed changes in the region. We highlight that this conceptual framework is suitable for describing patterns of change and potential causes. Moreover, it provides policymakers with a novel tool to guide management and conservation policies, pointing to sites where intervention (i.e. conservation, restoration) is needed.
The lack of an organizing conceptual framework to address ecosystem changes reduces our capacity to distinguish biophysical from direct human impacts on grassland dynamics. This is particularly important for subhumid temperate grasslands, one of the world’s most threatened biomes. We identified and mapped 4 functional syndromes of grassland change at the wettest end of its worldwide distribution, the Campos in Uruguay. Syndromes were defined by differences in precipitation use efficiency (PUE, ANPP/precipitation), and in precipitation marginal response (PMR, slope of the linear regression between ANPP and precipitation) between two periods (1981–1995 and 2001–2011). Temporal trends in aboveground net primary production (ANPP, obtained by splicing two sources of NDVI, LTDR and MOD13Q1) were also characterized. To rule out the effect of precipitation we analyzed temporal trends of the residuals from the relationship between ANPP and annual precipitation (RESTRENDS). Functional syndromes associated with increases in seasonality or in the abundance of annual vegetation (ΔPMR greater than 0, ΔPUE less than 0, ∼14,000 km2) and vegetation cover loss (ΔPUE less than 0 and ΔPMR less than 0,greater than 5000 km2) were the most abundant. ANPP trends were significantly negative in 3.7% of the area (2475 km2) and only positive in 0.3%. However, RESTRENDS were significant in 11% of the area (greater than 7700 km2), and mostly negative (in ∼7200 km2). Most of these negative trends and residual trends were associated to seasonality increase and vegetation loss syndromes. These patterns were consistent with observed changes in the region. We highlight that this conceptual framework is suitable for describing patterns of change and potential causes. Moreover, it provides policymakers with a novel tool to guide management and conservation policies, pointing to sites where intervention (i.e. conservation, restoration) is needed.
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Where were internet access crusaders when Facebook stopped Korryn Gaines from streaming cops murdering her?
by Hari Ziyad
Featured, Politics, Race
The internet is already a hellscape of torrid anti-Blackness that routinely prohibits Black folk from accessing digital communication
-@HariZiyad
On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission finally delivered its long-expected and devastating death knell to Obama-era Net Neutrality rules—policies supposedly put in place to ensure the internet remained on a level playing field with access equity. The repeal is likely to further impede the work of digital organizers for social justice and exacerbate economic disparities while allowing the massively rich to make even more money at everyone else’s expense.
The potential horrors of this repeal have been widely bemoaned on the Left. Many activists are even still attempting to marshal energies to encourage Congress to reinstate the rules, a use of resources that is extremely unlikely to have any success given GOP majorities in both the House and Senate. Ask any of these desperate progressives and they are likely to tell you that they fight against such odds because otherwise the internet will never be the same, soothsaying doomsday predictions about how those who need it most will be excluded from the web given the likelihood of having to pay for competitive internet speeds in the future.
But, for some of us, “the same” internet that these hapless souls are struggling so hard to protect was already a hellscape of torrid anti-Blackness, one which routinely prohibited Black people from accessing digital lines of communication in their greatest times of need. And never were the most horrific cases of impediments to Black folk’s internet access met with even a fraction of the uproar the repeal of Net Neutrality garners now.
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On August 1st, 2016, 23-year-old Korryn Gaines was murdered in her Baltimore home by police after they forcibly entered in a professed attempt to serve a warrant for a minor traffic violation. Her five year old son, Kodi, was shot in the raid as she held him in her arms. Occuring at the height of #BlackLivesMatter, the general silence among the Left surrounding the case was revealing enough, but it was Facebook’s involvement in the shooting that continues to haunt me today, a morbid specter of what the whole world will conspire to do when a Black person dares to resist it to the point of violence.
According to the Baltimore Sun, authorities contacted the social media platform to request they deactivate Gaines’ account as she attempted to stream the raid on her home, and Facebook quickly complied. Within moments, she was dead, her baby now with a bullet hole through his tiny arm, and law enforcement’s version of the story—that she was a deranged woman who essentially brought her own death upon herself by not complying—easily became the narrative.
Of course, the practices that allow Black people to be kicked off a private platform like Facebook so that their murder can more efficiently be swept under the rug and those that allow Internet Service Providers to stack the deck in their own favor are different, but to what extent? Those who decry the repeal of Net Neutrality rules have often claimed that one of the more terrifying possibilities is how these actions might silence women and people of color. But when a Black woman who resisted the state was actually silenced online and these same people were nowhere to be found, can we really trust their commitment?
Facebook’s vile treatment of Korryn Gaines is not the only example of how the internet has never been safe for Black people who clash with the state, and our lackluster efforts to protect them. As Janisha Gabriel reminded in a post, “Oakland shut down the internet during Oscar Grant Protests. Twitter refused to trend Troy Davis name the night of his execution. Ads determine what websites you see now based on your browsing history and activist websites are constantly under attack, hacked, throttled, have DDOS attacks, rogue accounts, and have service canceled by their host.”
RELATED: The swift murder of Korryn Gaines, and the slow death of Black Millennials’ political imagination
There has never been an “open internet” for Black people, and the fact that there is far less of a mass who decry this reality than who launch into hysteria for any possible reality to come following the repeal is telling. When the world’s energies are focused on destroying and oppressing Black people, particularly the most marginalized among us, those whom this destruction hasn’t reached yet seem to always be okay with it. Then we wonder why no one ever stops the ball before it begins to roll, as if such contemplation doesn’t render ourselves non-entities with no agency. When will we commit to stopping the ball ourselves?
It’s worth noting that the Net Neutrality rules in question have only been in place since 2015. Though loosely defined principles had much of the same effect, these principles were violated numerous times before the official establishment of these rules, as well as many times after. Which is to say the systems allowing widespread abuses of the public for the benefit of a few are already firmly in place, and have been for centuries.
Our job is not to mitigate the harm caused by these systems, although that can certainly be a strategy. Our focus should always be to undermine these systems completely, and that takes a relentless dedication to combating their abuses especially when they are most likely to harm those with less resources or social protections than us.
After the repeal of the Net Neutrality rules, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg released a statement claiming, “An open internet is critical for new ideas and economic opportunity — and internet providers shouldn’t be able to decide what people can see online or charge more for certain websites.” Police officers out to assassinate young Black mothers shouldn’t be able to decide what people can see either, but here we are, with Sheryl claiming the moral high-ground without ever addressing her hand in the fact that they do—a hand covered in Black blood.
At some point, we have to decide if the ground upon which our morals lie is designed to be a safe place for the Black margins or for white liberals. The comfort with which the latter can assist in the murder of the former and still believably claim to be righteous is the true impediment to access equity. When we answer for our mistreatment of Korryn Gaines the way we want the FCC and greedy ISPs to answer for their mistreatment of everyone else, only then can each person who deserves access to a world without abuse finally log into it.
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com update Welcome to the new Iso-Tones. This is one of my favourite things about binaural beats and isochronic tones: I genuinely feel as if I'm becoming more creative - and having more ideas - every day. register by december 15. We believe Direct Frequency Tones or Monaural Beats in Bilateral Format with Color Noise is the most powerful way to success. Binaural beats are a high tech solution to enter into a quick state deep relaxation so you can fall asleep fast. 2 on a 5-point scale) and more trustworthy (0. In order of lowest frequency to higher, the five brain waves are: Delta, Theta, Alpha, Beta and Gamma. For the purpose of writing Greek text, the two can be font variants of a single character, but θ and ϑ are. I would go with right before going to sleep to get your mind more "in the zone. Wings of Dawn is Jewish music with a Mediterranean twist, with Sephardic roots and contemporary sounds, a music that transports you to a place of deep meditation. The two hemispheres of the brain entrain to this binaural beat rather than the audible tones. This 7 Hz difference is deciphered by the brain as a “third sound”. Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Afon Ether, Garden Valley, Awake, Paradise, The Colour of Dreams, Delta Harmonics - An introduction to Theta Wave Orchestra, The House in the Woods, Strawberry Moon, and 9 more. 5hz delta wave at the hour mark. Designed to bring the brain into a Theta state, subtle pulses or "beats" are created when slightly offset tones are played through headphones. Tone Drops is our latest falling object game, and will sharpen your sense of relative pitch. For now the message board has been deactivated due to problems with spam, but it may be brought back online in the future. There are many CDs with music that uses binaural beats, monaural beats, and isochronic tones to help induce a theta brainwave state during meditation. Theta rhythms are very strong in rodent hippocampi and entorhinal cortex during learning and memory retrieval, and are believed to be vital to the induction of long-term potentiation, a potential cellular mechanism of learning and memory. 4,5 Theta Waves Shamanic State Of Consciousness Tibetan Buddhist Chants, Wakeful dreaming, vivid images Binaural Beats - Isochronic Tones - Monaural Tones 4,9 Hz theta Waves Introspection, Induce relaxation, sleep meditation and deeper sleep , treat insomnia , fall asleep fast Binaural Beats - Isochronic Tones - Monaural Tones. Each of the 16 different tracks where you can listen to 5 minutes samples have deep resonating BASS, or lowest possible frequency. THETA SOUNDS is a collective work of sounds and musical tones that is meant to put into a state of relaxation and possibly deep hypnotic sleep. Can Binaural Beats Really Help Cure Tinnitus? Unless you've been preposterously lucky, at some point in your life you've experienced at least mild tinnitus. It can be done quickly with focus and training but it isn't an easy task for most people. provides light controllers for scheduling on-off cycles on sports parks, ballpark, and tennis courts. Binaural beats therapy is a self-help method that people can use to treat conditions such as anxiety. FREE Theta Waves Music - Stream & Download - Theta Waves Music embedding Binaural Beats, Isochronic Tones, 432 Hz, 528 Hz & other Solfeggio Frequencies. Theta is an ideal state for super learning, storing information in long term memory, re-programming your subconscious mind, dream recall, and self-hypnosis. Deep Sleep Isochronic Tones This deep sleep induction slowly ramps downwards through the frequency bands, culminating with a 1. At its simplest level, an isochronic tone is a tone that is being turned on and off rapidly. Sumatra Mandheling is often described as earthy and intense with an herbal aroma. Ambient Angelic Tones Raise Positive Vibration. wooden institute. Binaural beats offers a novel way of producing these lower tones not through our ears, but directly inside our brain. Binaural beats are a high tech solution to enter into a quick state deep relaxation so you can fall asleep fast. Binaural Beat Frequencies, Theta Waves, and Isochronic Tones have been proven to work, in numerous scientific research studies. com update Welcome to the new Iso-Tones. For now the message board has been deactivated due to problems with spam, but it may be brought back online in the future. New Age ℗ 2018 Earth Vision Music. Simple modern interface allows selecting Binaural Beats from 1 to 50 Hz and a Base Frequency from 20 to 1500 Hz. The trademark sound of the THETA™ amplifier series is over the top gain and sustain with over 160db of gain on tap and incredible tone shaping flexibility. Binaural beats therapy is a self-help method that people can use to treat conditions such as anxiety. As it relates to playing music, pitch is a property of sound that allows us to judge one tone as 'higher' or 'lower' than another. For example, a 90 Hz tone and 95 Hz tone will induce a 5 Hz theta brainwave cycle. Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Theta Waves - Binaural Beats for Mindfulness Meditation and Biofeedback. The cursive form ϑ was retained by Unicode as U+03D1 ϑ "GREEK THETA SYMBOL" ("=script theta"), separate from U+03B8 θ "GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA". As the tone gets louder on the left speaker, the tones of the right speaker gets weaker and vice versa. Children have strong theta brainwaves, which helps to explain their superior ability to learn. I am looking to sync my brainwaves to the theta/gamma state JUST those two states, isolated (not combined with other brainwaves) I know meditation is one way, but I'd like to try using brain-entertainment just as the following three: binaural, monaural, and isochronic. Each of the 16 different tracks where you can listen to 5 minutes samples have deep resonating BASS, or lowest possible frequency. This process is known as ' Brainwave Entrainment ' and can help you overcome many problems like insomnia, stress, tiredness and high blood pressure. Binaural Beats Research October 19, 2018. Theta waves generate the theta rhythm, a neural oscillatory pattern that can be seen on an electroencephalogram (EEG), recorded either from inside the brain or from electrodes attached to the scalp. The cursive form ϑ was retained by Unicode as U+03D1 ϑ "GREEK THETA SYMBOL" ("=script theta"), separate from U+03B8 θ "GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA". So he must think these binaural beats have at least some efficiency. If, in the presence of these tones, you relax and let your mind go, your mind will naturally synchronize with the beat frequency. Read more Listen at low to moderate volume level. Respondents were also more likely to recommend Theta to a friend (0. 2019 Iso-Tones. This can be associated with deep states of meditation, intuitive insights, emotion and mental clarity and well-being, psychic experience, and bliss. ISP Technologies calls the Michael Sweet Theta Pro DSP's speaker-emulated technology "True Speaker" convolution, because you have practically as much control over your tone as if you were miking a real guitar amplifier's speaker. Binaural Beats Side Effects. As it relates to playing music, pitch is a property of sound that allows us to judge one tone as 'higher' or 'lower' than another. 5,5 Hz Theta Waves Isochronic Tones Moves beyond knowledge to knowing (total knowing), shows vision of needed growth and direction, inner guidance and readiness to evolve spiritually, intuition, heat generation, enhance learning. The MS Theta Pro: Killer Tone in one box! I have made dozens of fairly significant Guitar and equipment related purchases in the approximately 4 years that I've been playing -but this is the 1st time that I've felt strongly enough about a particular item to write a review. Oct 18, 2018 · If you haven’t heard the news, SamsungVR went live last month with a new channel powered by the Theta blockchain! SamsungVR’s initial deployment with Theta will stream SLIVER. When each tone is sent to a different ear, there will not be any physical interaction between the waves, yet your brain still creates an interference inside your head: the so-called binaural beat. Check out Complete Must-Have Collection of Isochronic Tones Meditation BrainWaves Alpha Beta Theta Delta Gamma Hz by Complete Brainwave Therapy System on Amazon Music. Entraining our minds with Binaurals is not the same as the ability to naturally dive into deep Theta and Delta meditations through meditation practice. Theta brainwaves are considered extremely relaxing brainwave activity that is commonly associated with sleep and dreaming. - Knoxville Tennessee - Clinton Tennessee - Oak Ridge Tennessee. I am looking to sync my brainwaves to the theta/gamma state JUST those two states, isolated (not combined with other brainwaves) I know meditation is one way, but I'd like to try using brain-entertainment just as the following three: binaural, monaural, and isochronic. tv esports. RICOH THETA, experience the world in 360° Shoot photos and videos of the entire space with a single push of a button. The "hippocampal theta rhythm" is a strong oscillation that can be observed in the hippocampus. The good news is that a chap called Jim Peters has developed and made freely available a binaural tone generator called SBaGen. Research and years of testing have made this process easier using brainwave entrainment meditation where a willing participant can enter a state of deep meditation in less than 10 minutes using technological products. Direct Frequencies And Monaural Beats: Different levels of awareness are present in us. Relax, breath deeply and tune into the rhythm of 6 beats per second. Finally, you can change the background color through your settings: choose among 5 relaxing Theta Wave inspired tones. This represents the process, which works by simultaneously sending a marginally different sound frequency to each ear through headphones. The brain responses to binaural beats remain controversial; therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate theta activity responses to a binaural beat by controlling factors affecting localization, including beat frequency. This game trains the same basic skills as Paddle Tones, but uses a wider range of octaves and instrument sounds. Ear Training and Music Theory for all musicians. Binaural Beats are Not a passing fad, but have been researched for over 170 years. 2019 Iso-Tones. Cool, let's move on. Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Amazon. Binaural beats is a method where two sound waves of different frequencies are introduced into each ear. Download our mobile app now. If for some reason you have a deficit of good, healthy sleep, it could be due to brain waves which are in short supply. Or just the Pre-distort Preamplifier stage's 3-band EQ for sweet tone shaping independent of the high-gain stage, for extra versatility. Jun 22, 2015 · All great. As you master the deeper levels of your mind there is an automatic mastery of life. The isochronic tones are the repetitive beats you hear in the background. 5 - 4 hz) are deep sleep. Brainwave entrainment is a colloquialism for such 'neural entrainment', which is a term used to denote the way in which the aggregate frequency of oscillations produced by the synchronous electrical activity in ensembles of cortical neurons can adjust to synchronize with the periodic vibration of an external stimuli, such as a sustained. Usage of EMDR Mid Theta Waves Isochronic tones Affirm something when listening to these tones. The SWEET THETA PRO DSP has been personalized by Michael Sweet which includes his signature on the top of the pedal plus Michael's tone sculpting. Theta has its benefits of helping improve our intuition, creativity, and makes us feel more natural. For example, if a person is listening to a tone of 300 Hz in one ear, and a tone of 309 Hz frequency in the other ear. Fraternity Vision: Every member will live Beta Theta Pi's values. Get all 17 Theta Wave Orchestra releases available on Bandcamp. Good Vibes deals with stress relief and healing through relaxation music. Wings of Dawn is Jewish music with a Mediterranean twist, with Sephardic roots and contemporary sounds, a music that transports you to a place of deep meditation. All our royalty free brainwave entrainment music productions are all available in very long durations. Stream ad-free with Amazon Music Unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. Finally, you can change the background color through your settings: choose among 5 relaxing Theta Wave inspired tones. As a result, it resonates to a third tone, which is the difference between the two frequencies. This theta waves binaural beats music has the relaxation frequency to put you in a state of calm meditation. 15-Minute Manifestation turns your ordinary set of headphones into an incredible healing tool by harnessing the power of Theta tones. #11 Dreamy Theta Tones, an album by Binaural Beats Isochronic Tones Lab, Binaural Beats Brainwave Entrainment, Binaural Beats Brain Waves Isochronic Tones Brain Wave Entertainment on Spotify We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. Sign up | Theta Music Trainer: Ear Training and Music Theory. register by december 15. The good news is that a chap called Jim Peters has developed and made freely available a binaural tone generator called SBaGen. The mind can be taken to states such as Delta, Theta, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and HyperGamma. This third sound (7Hz) in this case is the Theta state and is what the brain will become entrained to. May 13, 2016 · The role of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep for memory consolidation has been discussed for a long time. Finally, you can change the background color through your settings: choose among 5 relaxing Theta Wave inspired tones. Although most people can use binaural beats with no harmful consequences, certain groups of people who have neurological or cardiac issues. The official website of the Eta Eta Chapter of Beta Theta Pi at Texas Christian University. If you can practice Theta meditation by using binaural beats, monaural beats or isochronic tones you can literally achieve the much sought after Theta waves in a very short time period and enjoy the benefits that come with it. Isochronic white noise is present to enhance the meditation. These 5Hz Theta Waves brainwave entrainment tracks contain isochronic tones. No matter what the addiction, an individual experiences negative consequences as their dependency increases. Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Amazon. Here you'll find all the FREE Samples , Reviews and Research you need to instantly benefit from this exciting, powerful & proven technology. Lose Weight, Stop Smoking, Fight Cancer, Sleep Better, Hypnosis Training. Isochronic Tones vs Binaural Beats. A binaural beat is an auditory illusion perceived when two different pure-tone sine waves , both with frequencies lower than 1500 Hz, with less than a 40 Hz difference between them, are presented to a listener dichotically (one through each ear ). " At that moment you are in Theta. And with its +/-15-volt power supply, you've got an amazing amount of headroom for more dynamic tones with the ISP Technologies Theta Preamp Pedal. Theta activity reflects the dreamlike state between wakefulness and sleep. We believe Direct Frequency Tones or Monaural Beats in Bilateral Format with Color Noise is the most powerful way to success. Fraternity Vision: Every member will live Beta Theta Pi's values. Our minds naturally produce theta waves during deep meditation. 5Hz Isochronic Tones With Metal Crystal Bowls and Rain YouTube; Shamanic Meditation Music, Relaxing Music, Music for. He left the hospital about 2 weeks later and he gave me as a gift a metal Tibetan singing bowl. However many prefer to combine it with music and other audio as they find isochronic tones raw and harsh. Children have strong theta brainwaves, which helps to explain their superior ability to learn. Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Theta Waves - Binaural Beats for Mindfulness Meditation and Biofeedback. HOW TO MANIFEST STEPS TO CLEARING BLOCKS FOR ABUNDANCE Whether or not you are manifesting – you are always manifesting! As humans, we are little manifesting, co-creating machines. Simple modern interface allows selecting Binaural Beats from 1 to 50 Hz and a Base Frequency from 20 to 1500 Hz. Lose Weight, Stop Smoking, Fight Cancer, Sleep Better, Hypnosis Training. One of the most basic pitch skills for a musician is using the voice to match pitch with a given note. Price-wise, the Theta Pro DSP is near the top end of multieffects pedals, and ISP took a minimalist approach to its features, putting the money into tone development, rather than offering lots of different effects types, MIDI, and other options (see "Maker's Insights"). Sound therapies can reduce stress, increase blood circulation, and alleviate symptoms of depression, to name a few. com provides fun, insider tips on binaural beats, isochronic tones and other brain wave entrainment tools, helping you to experience brainwave synchronization, relax and feel awesome on demand. The amplifiers' "Clean" and "Distort" circuits have the same post distort tone shaping. Isochronic Tones-If you are looking for the most effective type of brainwave entrainment, Isochronic Tones are the way to go. Using Brain Wave Entrainment Products. This game trains the same basic skills as Paddle Tones, but uses a wider range of octaves and instrument sounds. theta tones Theta meditate orange 6. Two types of theta rhythm have been described. "Theta Brain Wave Music Guides You Into a State of Deep Relaxation Where True Personal Discovery Occurs!" Dear Friend: If you are looking for a safe, natural means to increase your ability to relax into deep meditation for longer periods of time, you are in the right place. It is said that isochronic tones are very effective in the Theta state, but studies have shown that binaural beats are very effective in terms of hemispheric synchronization, which is said to help with clarity of thought and where creativity and logic are used equally. The official website of the Eta Eta Chapter of Beta Theta Pi at Texas Christian University. Theta State is a very powerful state. 5,5 Hz Theta Waves Isochronic Tones Moves beyond knowledge to knowing (total knowing), shows vision of needed growth and direction, inner guidance and readiness to evolve spiritually, intuition, heat generation, enhance learning. Simple modern interface allows selecting Binaural Beats from 1 to 50 Hz and a Base Frequency from 20 to 1500 Hz. Widely regarded as the most effective tone-based method, isochronic beats produce very strong cortical responses in the brain. HOW TO MANIFEST STEPS TO CLEARING BLOCKS FOR ABUNDANCE Whether or not you are manifesting - you are always manifesting! As humans, we are little manifesting, co-creating machines. Increasing your theta waves develops greater self emotional awareness, advanced creativity and advanced learning. Isochronic white noise is present to enhance the meditation. The theory goes that in trying to reconcile the different beats, the brain syncs to the difference at a frequency of 6Hz, which is within the theta state range. Exclusive discount for Prime members. Theta waves (4 - 8 hz) are the beginning of sleep, while Delta (0. - Knoxville Tennessee - Clinton Tennessee - Oak Ridge Tennessee. It can be done quickly with focus and training but it isn't an easy task for most people. Theta Chamber technology allows for, rapid and complete recovery from depression, anxiety, PTSD, and addiction At Theta Wellness Centers , our scientific approach to brain health combines multiple, cutting-edge technologies to give you the best possible results. Get all 17 Theta Wave Orchestra releases available on Bandcamp. One of the most basic pitch skills for a musician is using the voice to match pitch with a given note. A theta meditation is a state where your brain is producing more synchronous theta brainwaves than alpha waves…the more theta the deeper and more profound the meditation. If for some reason you have a deficit of good, healthy sleep, it could be due to brain waves which are in short supply. Huge tone without the speaker cab. Or if you need soothing sounds to go to sleep and relaxing sounds for sleeping, these theta brainwave tones will help you release stress and anxiety at night before bed. To give you an example, if I play a 100 Hz tone in my left ear, and a 108 Hz tone in my right, the difference is 8 Hz. Theta waves are briefly experienced as we climb out of the depths of delta upon waking, or when falling asleep. A binaural beat is an auditory illusion perceived when two different pure-tone sine waves , both with frequencies lower than 1500 Hz, with less than a 40 Hz difference between them, are presented to a listener dichotically (one through each ear ). Theta Realms is a provider of premium brainwave ' audio entrainment' sound journeys and effective brainwave entrainment applications Using Binaural Beats , I. I had never heard one before. 4,5 Theta Waves Shamanic State Of Consciousness Tibetan Buddhist Chants, Wakeful dreaming, vivid images Binaural Beats - Isochronic Tones - Monaural Tones 4,9 Hz theta Waves Introspection, Induce relaxation, sleep meditation and deeper sleep , treat insomnia , fall asleep fast Binaural Beats - Isochronic Tones - Monaural Tones. Theta State is a very powerful state. This license is non-transferable and not to be shared. Download Free Theta Tones Mp3 Song Mp3. Read more Listen at low to moderate volume level. What are Alpha Waves, Theta Waves, Delta Waves, and Gamma Waves In the past, the most common method of inducing specific brainwave states was through the use of binaural beats. Dec 18, 2012 · This 100% Pure Theta wave was transformed into an Isochronic style binaural beat for the listening pleasure of those who prefer the "Isochronic touch. These tones are the key to getting past the thoughts and feelings that are keeping you unhappy. Lose Weight, Stop Smoking, Fight Cancer, Sleep Better, Hypnosis Training. Whether you would like to know how to start meditating or you just want to meditate better, the theta brainwaves embedded in this deep relaxation music is one of the best ways to meditate. If you live in a somewhat compact listening environment, Triangle's Theta is a perfect quality vs. This effect called "Amplitude Entrainment" tends to excite the thalamus and causes the brain to generate the same brainwave frequency ("frequency following response") as the tone. quantity proposition. The chants and their special tones were believed to impart spiritual blessings when sung in harmony. One specific beat was played in one ear (through stereo headphones) and a different beat was played. Delta Waves — 0-4 Hz: Brainwave Entrainment Benefits. Available with an Apple Music subscription. The theory goes that in trying to reconcile the different beats, the brain syncs to the difference at a frequency of 6Hz, which is within the theta state range. THETA can be attached to feature-specific devices like a GPS module using an OTG cable connector. The basic objective of this study is to investigate the effects of alpha and theta brain waves amplitude increase in occipital area on reducing the severity of symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder and to increase the global functioning level in patients with GAD. Theta has its benefits of helping improve our intuition, creativity, and makes us feel more natural. Brainwave music with isochronic tones. If everything is held. Theta Healing Manifesting Abundance - This course was created to facilitate deep and powerful manifestations by using the creator's tools. The human brain goes through many frequency cycles every day, each frequency producing different effects in the human consciousness. The two hemispheres of the brain entrain to this binaural beat rather than the audible tones. Selective Entrainment of Theta Oscillations in the Dorsal Stream Causally Enhances Auditory Working Memory Performance. 5Hz) — The Light Meditation & Sleeping Wave Theta brain waves are present during deep meditation and light sleep, including the all-important REM dream state. Stress means for many: pressure and tension. 83hz different from each other. Best Isochronic Tones. It was designed to help you deeply relax, sleep and increase your brainwave frequency every hour while you are sleeping to help you enhance your awareness and have lucid dreams. In a few minutes, the brain will perceive a third binaural tone of 9 Hz. Binaural Beats. Finally, you can change the background color through your settings: choose among 5 relaxing Theta Wave inspired tones. A theta meditation is a state where your brain is producing more synchronous theta brainwaves than alpha waves…the more theta the deeper and more profound the meditation. The tones beat consistently at 7Hz (7 times per second) throughout the entire 30-minute track, without any ramps in frequency, either up or down. This is one of my favourite things about binaural beats and isochronic tones: I genuinely feel as if I'm becoming more creative - and having more ideas - every day. You may feel a sense of floating. There are many CDs with music that uses binaural beats, monaural beats, and isochronic tones to help induce a theta brainwave state during meditation. Or just the Pre-distort Preamplifier stage's 3-band EQ for sweet tone shaping independent of the high-gain stage, for extra versatility. 5,5 Hz Theta Waves Isochronic Tones Moves beyond knowledge to knowing (total knowing), shows vision of needed growth and direction, inner guidance and readiness to evolve spiritually, intuition, heat generation, enhance learning. What is learned in theta, get's stored in long term memory. Contained within are four ambient track mixes per level and is only $47 for a 48-hour, 49-track Theta Gateway Genius Pack (delivered online) containing Theta Gateway (theta wave), Serotonin Release (alpha wave), Quantum Epsilon (very low epsilon wave) and a ten-minute alpha. Theta Healing Intuitive Anatomy - This is course is a 15-day course that takes you through the bodies systems and helps you learn how to approach and heal each system. My brainwave entrainment music is available at:. This session contains 30 minutes of 6Hz Theta Isochronic Tones which hold a frequency that is excellent for meditation. They sell very high-quality products at a relatively low price, and they have a huge catalogue of. This study is a quasi. Are you wondering how this can possibly work? Here is a brief explanation… Brainwave Entrainment guides the brain into a specific frequency using computer generated rhythmic pulses of sound. In the online survey, respondents rated the humorous tone of the home-security site Theta as friendlier (0. It is said that isochronic tones are very effective in the Theta state, but studies have shown that binaural beats are very effective in terms of hemispheric synchronization, which is said to help with clarity of thought and where creativity and logic are used equally. If, in the presence of these tones, you relax and let your mind go, your mind will naturally synchronize with the beat frequency. 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This deep Theta brain entrainment session is designed to make it easier to experience a deeper state of meditation, usually only achieved after many years of practice. Isochronic Tones And Binaural Beats For Meditation. The image changes colors throughout the video creating a therapeutic visual effect which is optional. Each front-end pre-amp has gain, bass, mid level, mid sweep and treble which provides amazing pre-distort tone shaping. The two hemispheres of the brain entrain to this binaural beat rather than the audible tones. Pure tones played together interfere with each other when they are close in pitch but not identical. Relaxation Tones Of Delta, Theta, and Alpha There's a reason why people pay to experience the pampering of spa treatments, facials, and soaks in luxuriating bubbles baths…it's to achieve that level of relaxation that stimulates both the body and mind. Oct 18, 2018 · If you haven’t heard the news, SamsungVR went live last month with a new channel powered by the Theta blockchain! SamsungVR’s initial deployment with Theta will stream SLIVER. Participants (n = 29) performed a 30-min visual vigilance task on three different days while listening to pink noise containing simple tones or binaural beats either in the beta range (16 and 24 Hz) or the theta/delta range (1. I ignored the early papers (about half were from the 1960's) because methods and statistics have advanced markedly since then, to the point of their findings bein. Nov 13, 2018 · Theta brainwaves are considered extremely relaxing brainwave activity that is commonly associated with sleep and dreaming. We’ve enhanced each one with brainwave entrainment frequencies, like binaural beats and isochronic tones, so as to encourage certain states of consciousness, from light alpha relaxation, to deep theta, or down deeper still into delta sleep. Sep 30, 2019 · Binaural beats therapy is a self-help method that people can use to treat conditions such as anxiety. Blissful Theta Tones, an album by Theta Sounds on Spotify. With just enough acidity to be noticed, this Sumatran coffee has tones of sweet chocolate and licorice. The specifics about how exactly Brainwave Entrainment works. Stream Theta Tones Deep Meditation / Relaxation by I-Existence and tens of millions of other songs on all your devices with Amazon Music Unlimited. Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Amazon. One specific beat was played in one ear (through stereo headphones) and a different beat was played. Sharpen your musicianship and aural skills through an exploration of sound, pitch, scales, intervals, melody, chords, progressions and rhythm. HOW TO MANIFEST STEPS TO CLEARING BLOCKS FOR ABUNDANCE Whether or not you are manifesting - you are always manifesting! As humans, we are little manifesting, co-creating machines. Ambient Angelic Tones Raise Positive Vibration. Theta Waves Zen Meditation: Binaural Beats & Isochronic Tones Music & Nature Sounds. For example, if a person is listening to a tone of 300 Hz in one ear, and a tone of 309 Hz frequency in the other ear. Therefore, sound and life seems to be intrinsically linked…. The ability to recognize tones within a given key is called 'relative pitch', and is an essential skill for learning to play music by ear. The tones beat consistently at 5Hz (5 times per second) throughout the entire 30-minute track, without any ramps in frequency, either up or down. They are emitted in an amplitude range between 4 and 7hz (also known as Theta Rhythm) and are needed for some types of biofeedback training. Theta Healing Intuitive Anatomy - This is course is a 15-day course that takes you through the bodies systems and helps you learn how to approach and heal each system. For example, if a person is listening to a tone of 300 Hz in one ear, and a tone of 309 Hz frequency in the other ear. Give your body a deep sense of security and safety. The more frequently and regularly you meditate, the easier it becomes and the more you can remain in a creative theta state for longer periods of time, even when you are not meditating. leadership summit. A combination of Isochronic Tones and Binaural Beats at brain wave entrainment frequencies. Heinrich Wilhelm Dove discovered this effect in 1839. Sep 30, 2019 · Binaural beats therapy is a self-help method that people can use to treat conditions such as anxiety. (which just so happens to be the sweet spot for creative theta waves) There just so happens to be a handy chart for which frequency corresponds to which brain wave right here. Theta Healing is a meditative technique conducted while the client and practitioner are in a theta brainwave state - an altered consciousness where brainwaves are slowed to a relaxed mode. Two types of theta rhythm have been described. Binaural Beat Frequencies, Theta Waves, and Isochronic Tones have been proven to work, in numerous scientific research studies. Brainwave entrainment audio designed for open air listening can incorporate both Isochronic Tones and Monaural Beats. Beat Addiction With Beta, Alpha, and Theta Tones Knowing no restrictions concerning age, race, social class or gender, addiction is an extremely widespread issue in today's society. The Theta Meditation State Once you are comfortable operating in the Alpha State, you can progress to Theta Meditation. As the tone gets louder on the left speaker, the tones of the right speaker gets weaker and vice versa. Stream ad-free with Amazon Music Unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. Upgrade your Brain with Brainwave Entrainment Meditation. Huge tone without the speaker cab. driving on a freeway & discovers. Selective Entrainment of Theta Oscillations in the Dorsal Stream Causally Enhances Auditory Working Memory Performance. The brain will compensate for the difference between the two and produce a third tone that will be exactly 7 Hz. This frequency range is normally between 5 and 8 cycles a second. They are emitted in an amplitude range between 4 and 7hz (also known as Theta Rhythm) and are needed for some types of biofeedback training. Emphasis mine - just to show you how powerful just 30 minutes of theta brain waves can be. During the eighties and nineties of the twenties century researchers all over the world concentrated on studies with up to 5,000 patients to prove application possibilities of visual and auditive brainwave entrainment to receive relaxation. A binaural beat is an auditory illusion perceived when two different pure-tone sine waves , both with frequencies lower than 1500 Hz, with less than a 40 Hz difference between them, are presented to a listener dichotically (one through each ear ). In theta, our senses are withdrawn from the external world and focused on signals originating from within. HOW TO MANIFEST STEPS TO CLEARING BLOCKS FOR ABUNDANCE Whether or not you are manifesting - you are always manifesting! As humans, we are little manifesting, co-creating machines. Sleeping Sounds | Tibetan Singing Bowls | With Theta Isochronic Tones The entire track has isochronic tones underpinned that will take you into a Theta level of. In the online survey, respondents rated the humorous tone of the home-security site Theta as friendlier (0. These tones are the key to getting past the thoughts and feelings that are keeping you unhappy. Binaural Beats work by broadcasting two separate frequencies in each ear. The amplifiers' "Clean" and "Distort" circuits have the same post distort tone shaping. The entire range of Alpha and Theta frequencies (between 5-12 Hz) have been tested extensively in several studies. Nov 13, 2018 · Theta brainwaves are considered extremely relaxing brainwave activity that is commonly associated with sleep and dreaming. This is a super deep binaural beat constructed from two sine waves around 40Hz that are a separation of 7. Some studies suggest that listening to different beats in each ear can increase focus and aid. The good news is that a chap called Jim Peters has developed and made freely available a binaural tone generator called SBaGen. Download our mobile app now. Binaural beats, or binaural tones, are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, caused by specific physical stimuli. The frequencies slowly descend down through the theta frequencies, settling at delta after 30-minutes. tv, and VR content! As the VR space continues to grow in years to come, Theta will be at the forefront with innovative ways to share content and be. Nearly ten years later the isochronic tones and their impact to the brainwave activity were detected. And with its +/-15-volt power supply, you've got an amazing amount of headroom for more dynamic tones with the ISP Technologies Theta Preamp Pedal. Stream Theta Tones Deep Meditation / Relaxation by I-Existence and tens of millions of other songs on all your devices with Amazon Music Unlimited. Brain Frequency Chart 2 Each binaural beats brainwave audio is unique in its own right and the effect it has on your mind state will depend on the frequency range embedded within the recording. Upgrade your Brain with Brainwave Entrainment Meditation. For most people, getting into a state of deep meditation is a herculean task. Music Custom Composed by mr Theta for Theta Realms - Theta Realms Brainwave Meditation Music Creates best Lucid Dreaming music to induce Lucid Dreams and extremely powerful Binaural Beats Brainwave Theta Meditation Music and Astral Projection Music to navigate what many call the Astral Plane. The Theta binaural beats are tuned to the phantom tone of 174 Hz, at a rate of 6 Hz. Delta is the state of mind when you're in a deep sleep. The THETA MSX allows the player to create the best tone possible with incredible flexibility. Designed to bring the brain into a Theta state, subtle pulses or "beats" are created when slightly offset tones are played through headphones. MP3 Cutter & Ringtone Maker: Free Ringtones is a perfect mp3 cutter app that can easily trim music, mix music, merge music and cut music. Getting to Know the 5 Frequencies Throughout the day your brain will utilise certain waves to process certain situations. As in humans binaural beats have been found to affect cognitive functioning and mood (Lane et al. Download Theta Waves - Binaural Beats for Mindfulness Meditation and Biofeedback and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The ISP Technologies Theta X DSP is a sure way to achieve the tone you've been striving for. 83hz different from each other. Although most people can use binaural beats with no harmful consequences, certain groups of people who have neurological or cardiac issues. Help your students get up to speed quickly with key music skills Study on your iOS ® device with our app available on the App Store. This frequency range is normally between 5 and 8 cycles a second. The cursive form ϑ was retained by Unicode as U+03D1 ϑ "GREEK THETA SYMBOL" ("=script theta"), separate from U+03B8 θ "GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA". Paddle Tones | Theta Music Trainer: Ear Training and Music Theory. 10 Benefits of Listening to Theta Binaural Beats 1. Ambient Angelic Tones Raise Positive Vibration. They gradually reduce in speed, to help lower your dominant brainwave frequency to a more relaxed mental state. Sumatra Mandheling is often described as earthy and intense with an herbal aroma. The Solfeggio frequencies align you with the rhythms and tones that form the basis of the Universe. For maximum effect use with headphones. Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Amazon. Stream Theta Tones Deep Meditation / Relaxation by I-Existence and tens of millions of other songs on all your devices with Amazon Music Unlimited.
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So, anyway, we were invited over to a friend's place to watch a flick entitled Torso. We went expecting the legendary Italian giallo from 1973, starring the great Suzy Kendall and directed by multi-genre specialist Sergio Martino — trailer directly below — but, no: instead, we were served some Canadian TV movie from 2002 entitled Torso - The Evelyn Dick Story. Our friend has a lot to make up for.
Trailer to
Sergio Martino's Torso (1973):
Not that we knew this Torso here to be a TV movie; indeed, we knew nothing about the movie at all. But what is it about so many TV movies, even well-made ones, that makes them feel like a TV movie even if you don't know it's one? Despite the beautiful classic cars and period clothing, enough of both that a budget must have been present, Torso — The Evelyn Dick Story still felt, looked, smelt like a Movie of the Week. Not that we don't like Movies of the Week; we just tend to like them a bit older, more in the direction of tacky TV GILF like Moon of the Wolf (1972 / full movie) or Bad Ronald (1974 / trailer) or Killdozer! (1974 / trailer) or Wes Craven's hilariously bad Invitation to Hell (1984 / great scene). Torso — The Evelyn Dick Story is just a tad too "good" to truly be our cup of tea.
Torso - The Evelyn Dick Story:
Outside of Canada, the story of Evelyn Dick is pretty much unknown; in terms of true-crime murders, hers are relatively mundane in comparison to, dunno, the Moors Murderers or Dorothea Puente or even Caril Ann Fugate. Nevertheless: a husband murdered and reduced to a torso found in the woods by kids, a dead baby encased in cement in a suitcase, and a by-the-hour goodtime girl who slept with as many men as most men wish they had slept with women — no wonder the case was such a scandal back in '46-47, when Evelyn Dick sat at the dock. In the end, after a retrial, she was found not guilty of the murder of her husband, John Dick, but went to jail for the murder her baby son….
The real Evelyn Dick
As a TV docudrama of the case, Torso — The Evelyn Dick Story is worse than some and better than most. That isn't to say that it isn't well made and interesting, it's just that it is also annoying superficial at times and, as perhaps appropriate to the case, leaves as many questions open as it does semi-answer others. And not just the question of who actually murdered John Dick, a question that [officially, at least] has never truly been answered. In Torso, however, doubt is definitely cast upon the guilt of Evelyn, whether for the murder of her husband or child, as either instigator or perpetrator. In fact, if we are to believe the tale as told in the movie, she was probably innocent of the death she was convicted of: that of her baby son.
As directed by the well-employed TV director Alex Chapple, Torso — The Evelyn Dick Story adds a sheen of neo-noir for much of the film, complete with the hardnosed inspector, Inspector Wood (Callum Keith Rennie), a beautiful but [possibly] heartless killer, Evelyn Dick (Kathleen Robertson), and cheap blasts of stereotypical saxophone music in the background. (The saxophone is such a cliché that it almost induces involuntary laughter whenever it toots.) Wood stays hard-nosed throughout the movie, but Evelyn proves to move beyond her cigarette-enveloped face to become something more than just some fem fatale.
To what extent the movie follows the book it is based on — the last book written by Marjorie Freeman Campbell (1896-1975), likewise entitled Torso – The Evelyn Dick Story — we know not, but as the movie unfolds one definitely gets the impression that Evelyn Dick paid for either the crimes of others, or was the lone scapegoat for crimes committed in cohorts. (The "truth", needless to say, will never be known.) As the titular Evelyn Dick, the Canadian actress Kathleen Robertson (of Nowhere [1997 / trailer], Psycho Beach Party [2000 / trailer] and I Woke Up Early the Day I Died [1998 / opening scene]) is vacuous in a way that is almost aggravating, but on the other hand, as the film progresses her very emptiness does well at reflecting a damaged, slightly brainless girl-woman under the manipulative thumb of parents from hell.
In the end, however, Evelyn remains a cypher. If, indeed, her parents were so manipulatively evil; and if, indeed, she experienced the molestations of her father; and if, indeed, her parents killed her child son unbeknownst to herself; and if, indeed, she so loved her daughter; and if, indeed, her parents literally frame her for the death of her son, what sense loyalty, what sense of debt, what extent of manipulation could be so strong as to make Evelyn watch silently as her mother, Alexandra MacLean (an excellently duplicitous Brenda Fricker), walk free and easy out of the courthouse with Evelyn's daughter, Heather Dick (Hannah Lochner of Dawn of the Dead [2004 / trailer]), without finally opening her mouth?
And it is the discovery of the cement-encased dead son that outs Inspector Wood as possibly a man more interested in his record of success than in uncovering the truth, for the film makes it clear that although all the evidence found during the second search of the house was known not to have been there during the first search — ergo: it was planted, most likely by the parents — he never pursues the "why" and simply lets it paint Evelyn into the corner. Once again, what matters is not that justice gets served correctly, just that it gets served.
Now, decades after the fact, whether or not justice got served or shortchanged is probably irrelevant. And Evelyn, to some extent, was undoubtedly involved in her husband's death. But like all murders, you can take the "facts" and spin them in many different ways, especially so many years after the fact. (Cf.: Alex Jones, flat-worlders, Kavanaugh, and just about any conspiracy theorist you meet.) The spin of Torso - The Evelyn Dick Story is basically that not everyone who should have paid, did. But the movie fails to cast any light upon Evelyn's reasons for her action(s) or inaction(s), from the why of the marriage to the why of her silence.
Torso — The Evelyn Dick Story, a good-looking, tightly acted TV movie that feels like the TV movie it is, displays a convincing if clean sense of time and place, and is populated by a convincing cast with too little to do. Hardly the worst thing you can watch when bored, but a far cry from being exceptional, either as a conveyor of history or as a cinematic experience. You can watch this one with your grandparents.
John Dick (1906–46)
Like Lizzie Borden (19 July 1860 – 1 June 1927) in the US, Evelyn Dick was immortalized in verse in Canada, where children were once wont to sing:
You cut off his legs...
You cut off his arms...
You cut off his head...
How could you Mrs Dick?
Undoubtedly, were the crime one of today, the verse would instead surely be something like:
Tell us, Mrs Dick,
Why didn't you cut off his prick?
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A Systematic Review of Core Outcomes for Hypospadias Surgery
Although the outcome of hypospadias surgery requires careful scrutiny, there is little consensus on what clinical outcome parameters should be considered essential as part of routine clinical practice. To understand the extent of variation in reported outcome measures, Pubmed was searched to identify outcomes in boys with hypospadias published in the English language from 2008 to 2017. Eligibility criteria were met in 268 publications. Outcomes were inconsistently reported and only 9 (13%) were reported in more than 25% of papers. Outcome studies describing younger boys were overrepresented. Urethrocutaneous fistula was reported in about 90% of publications that included boys aged <16 years. Among younger boys meatal stenosis, dehiscence, and urethral strictures were next most frequent. In the older age groups, an increasing frequency of cosmesis, meatal shape/location, and genital skin changes was described. Outcomes reflecting sexual health, erection, and relationship status including paternity were reported in those aged >16 years. The current study identifies the range of parameters that are measured to assess outcome after hypospadias surgery. The results can be used to promote the development of an age-specific core outcome set that can be applied as a standardized assessment tool in future routine clinical settings.
Leunbach, T. L. O'Toole, S. Springer, A. Williamson, P. R. Ahmed, S. F.
Journal: Sex Dev
DOI: 10.1159/000504973
Current Stage: Not Applicable
Disease Category: Other
Disease Name: Hypospadias
Nature of Intervention: Surgery
- Systematic review of outcomes measured in trials
Core Outcomes For Hypospadias Surgery
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February 26, 2015 Christopher Butcher 1 Comment
The distance between North America and Japan is so huge, sometimes. This cover was dropped into my inbox today because I’m on Viz’s press list, and this is a cool-looking book, sure, but the description–it’s an adaptation of Richard III, sorta, by a very talented shoujo manga-ka named Aya Kanno–and the image immediately create a wonderful dissonance.
It’s unabashedly a queer image, two men intertwined, slightly sexual, but I think really it’s more that it’s not afraid to read as a little queer, or a little sexual, than that it’s aggressively either of those things. Shakespeare was all kinds of queer, if you squinted especially, but as a contemporary portrayal this is so wonderfully unique.
Moreover, we just don’t see comic covers like this in North America. We don’t. In our supposedly accepting, permissive society, homosexuality, or queer masculinity, is still so forbidden. This isn’t a strictly queer, or strictly sexual work. This is mainstream comics (in Japan at least), a literary adaptation. Meanwhile an original work with original characters that pushes the boundaries? People freak out. The Walking Dead gay kiss is the most recent example of that.
In Japan, which is nominally considered a ‘repressive’ or ‘restrained’ society, to have an image like this adorn a very popular manga from a highly regarded manga-ka, the latest in her series of work exploring the politics of gender, sex, and sexuality? Totes fine.
Anyway, I love this artwork, I love the idea behind it too. I am frequently glad for manga (and works in translation in general) for reminding me that the world is big and has different ideas in it than I might see every day. I would’ve liked to have compressed this down to 140 characters for Twitter, since it’s not that big a thought, but, here we are.
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Cyberjaya News & Articles : Cyberview In Talks With Developer Partners To Build 500 Houses In Cyberjaya
KUALA LUMPUR, April 17 (Bernama) -- Cyberview Sdn Bhd is in talks with developer partners to develop a residential property with an estimated gross development value of about RM900 million in Cyberjaya.
Managing Director Hafidz Hashim said the project is expected to take off in the fourth quarter of this year as negotiations are still ongoing.
He said the phase one of the project would comprise about 500 units of houses which were specially designed for the middle-income earners.
"We will develop 40 hectares into a residential area and our prime target is the middle-income group," he told reporters after the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Teknopark of Turkey on the sidelines of the 13th Defence Services Asia Exhibition at the Putra World Trade Centre today.
Hafidz however declined to disclose the developer partners'' names and further details on the project.
Cyberview is the landowner mandated to spearhead the development of Cyberjaya dubbed "Malaysia''s Silicon Valley", an ICT and innovation-centric township integral to Malaysia''s Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC Malaysia).
On investment, Hafidz said Cyberview aims to woo close to RM3 billion investments from local and foreign investors this year.
"Last year, we attracted about RM3.2 billion investment, and I believe we can achieve about the same amount this year," he said.
He said Cyberjaya''s physical development has reached about 40 per cent and the company foresees that it would touch 70 per cent over the next three years.
"We are confident because currently foreign multinationals and local companies are showing keen interest to set up their operations such as the global service and delivery centres here," he said.
Currently, about 620 local and foreign companies are operating at Cyberview.
-- Source: BERNAMA @Yahoo! Finance
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Wolverine: Endangered Species
Once roaming across North America, the wolverine is now a rare sight
A wolverine climbs through a non-lethal hair trap, which helps scientists collect wolverine DNA. (Photo: Jason Fisher)
By Conor Mihell
(Map: Chris Brackley/Canadian Geographic)
Legacy effects
Wolverine mortality was a byproduct of wolf poisoning campaigns in the 1960s and 1970s, and trapping throughout their range had similar impacts on populations. “Wolverines are not geared for a quick rebound,” says Jason Fisher, a senior wildlife ecologist in Alberta. The species has a low fertility rate, and young have slim chances of survival because of the wolverine’s marginal existence.
Scientists, such as Fisher and Canmore-based researcher Tony Clevenger, have only recently started studying Alberta’s wolverine population. Clevenger’s work focuses on the effects of the Trans- Canada Highway, which bisects prime habitat in Banff and Yoho national parks. It appears as though roadways delineate individual wolverine territories, says Clevenger, fragmenting and effectively shrinking available habitat. “It’s more of a road avoidance problem than a roadkill problem. They tend to have boundaries on the edge of highways and they don’t cross them.”
Seismic shift
Northern Alberta’s boreal forest is increasingly home to a patchwork of seismic lines for oil and gas exploration. That’s bad news for wolverines, as the animal has been shown to avoid such areas completely. Fisher wonders if such areas provide better habitat for coyotes, a wolverine competitor. Meanwhile, Alberta’s wolverine population tends to stick to rugged, undeveloped alpine zones. Similarly, wolverines occupy the boreal forest of far northwestern Ontario, a vast, roadless area beyond the current limit of forestry operations.
In Alberta’s Willmore Wilderness Area, north of Jasper, Fisher detected 26 wolverines occupying 90 per cent of the area — drastically greater numbers than in the surrounding unprotected lands. This finding supports the importance of establishing corridors between patches of prime habitat to help create a viable wolverine population throughout the Rockies. “You need to look at the big picture,” says Canmore-based researcher Clevenger. “Knowing how wolverines disperse to isolated areas is really important to managing and conserving the species over the long term.”
Trapping records provide the best insights into wolverines’ historical and current distributions — a key first step in their management. The Alberta Trappers Association has partnered with the Alberta Conservation Association to build the province’s wolverine dataset. Trappers are helping biologist Doug Manzer collect wolverine DNA from non-lethal hair traps to assess the population. “Wolverines are not a target species for most trappers,” notes Manzer. They’re “an icon of the Canadian wilderness, and trappers want to see them on the landscape. For all of us, it’s just nice to know they’re there.”
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Share 'Silver, Bronze, Iron, Modern Ages: Start & End Dates'
OK, there's been a lot of debate over these start and stop points for years, but I'm wondering if there's any real consensus on these point nowadays. Silver Age- Most DC fans will point to the first appearance of the Silver Age Flash in (what, Showcase #4?) Most Marvel fans point to the first issue of Fantastic Four in Fall, 1961. For an end date, I hear most fans talk about Marvel issues, of…
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Why Cisco Systems Acquired CloudCherry for CX Help
By: Zeus Kerravala | August 27, 2019
eWEEK NEW PRODUCT ANALYSIS RESOURCE PAGE: CloudCherry provides Cisco customers with a broader view of the customer journey.
With slot machines, getting three cherries typically pays off big. With Cisco Systems’ contact center business, the company needs merely one cloud-delivered cherry to win big by advancing its Cognitive Collaboration vision in its contact center solution.
This week Cisco announced its intention to acquire privately held CloudCherry to bring better customer experience management (CEM) capabilities into the Cisco Webex contact center. Founded in 2014, the Salt Lake City-based organization is one of many Cisco Investment portfolio companies. Cisco has an active investment arm that invests $200 million annually in startups in different stages of growth. Some of the vendors—such as CloudCherry—it brings into its portfolio, and others, such as VeloCloud, are purchased by competitors but provide Cisco with a strong return on its investment.
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CloudCherry Provides Advanced CEM Capabilities
For those not familiar with CloudCherry, the company has an advanced CEM solution that offers tools such as predictive analysis, sentiment analysis, survey capabilities, customer journey mapping and APIs. As customer experience has grown in importance for differentiation in the digital era, CEM has become a top initiative for CxOs. There are a lot of vendors that participate in the broader category of CEM, but CloudCherry’s nearest competitors are companies such as Qualtrix and Satmetrix, which were acquired by SAP and NICE, respectively, so it makes sense that it too would be snapped up.
Customer experience management is a red-hot topic, and Cisco will use CloudCherry to make its contact center solutions smarter. Improving customer experience is obviously broader than just the contact center, but it’s often the starting point for customer interactions. CloudCherry expands the number of unified channels businesses can use to connect with customers.
The scope of even the most advanced contact centers is limited to traditional communications channels such as email, chat, calling, web browsing and social media. CloudCherry adds early- and late-state contact methods such as paid content, direct mail, search, online displays, surveys, loyalty programs and more. This might make CloudCherry resemble a marketing tech platform like Selligent or Adobe, but the difference is that it only provides inbound interactions and not outbound, which is consistent with the way contact centers work.
CloudCherry Complements Cisco Contact Center
Cisco’s current contact center solution addresses purchase and service, while CloudCherry adds awareness, consideration and expansion phases. This gives businesses a much broader view of a customer journey. Without it, the contact center would have no visibility into what customers are doing in those specific phases, increasing the chance of customer frustration.
Predictive Capabilities Come to CEM
In addition to increased visibility and insights, the combination of Cisco and CloudCherry enables businesses to predict what customers will do next and make the experience better through AI-based analytics. Companies are generating massive amounts of data today, and people on their own can’t find insights in the information the way machines can. Cisco’s Cognitive Collaboration strategy is based on using AI to find those key nuggets that create differentiation through proactive and predictive support.
Also, the integration of CloudCherry into contact center creates a single data source that can be analyzed instead of analyzing the silos and then trying to correlate the information after the fact. Experienced data scientists might have been able to do that a few years ago, but not today with large volumes of information being created.
Cisco should have a good understanding of how CloudCherry works because it’s currently a customer. As a company, Cisco has always taken customer satisfaction seriously because it’s one of the bigger components of employee bonuses. During the past few years, it’s shifted from C-Sat (customer satisfaction) to NPS (net promoter score); during a briefing they told me CloudCherry has had a significant impact on raising its NPS score.
Cisco Remains 'Cloud First,' but not 'Cloud Only'
One last point: CloudCherry is a cloud-delivered service hosted in Microsoft Azure. Cisco continues to run the service in Azure and federate it with Webex Contact Center. However, customers of the on-premises or hybrid versions of the Contact Center solution as well as HCS customers will have access to the functionality. This is consistent with Cisco strategy; collaboration GM Amy Chang and other Cisco executives have reiterated that Cisco is “cloud first” but not “cloud only,” giving its customers a choice of deployment models. Also, Cisco fully intends to make the functionality available to other contact center vendors.
The customer experience era has arrived, and CxOs need to think broadly about this topic and make sure that they have a full view of what their customers are doing and saying. Any gaps in the customer journey will lead to frustration and the potential of decreased loyalty.
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Pregnancy at 40 -- How realistic is it?
Why is it that some women wait until they are 40 to begin trying to conceive? Is it that finally their lives have settled down enough to contemplate children as the next step? Are they in a new marriage that they hope will be blessed with parenthood? Is the tick of the biological clock getting louder and louder? Are they feeling out of sync as some of their friends are anticipating grandparenthood? Or, as a recent New York Times article posed, do women who physically look much younger than their age actually believe their 40-year-old eggs are up to the challenge of conceiving a healthy baby?
Certainly there are many reasons and circumstances that cause a woman to try to become pregnant. But waiting until age 40 is risky, no matter what one’s motivation. Particularly worrisome is the belief that it’s just fine to wait until the time “seems right.” I would be the last person to advocate trying for a pregnancy when the timing is all wrong – that’s risky in a different sort of way, as the consequences of adding a new baby to an already stressful life can be devastating for all concerned. But if there is a guiding assumption that becoming pregnant at (or after) 40 is a breeze for a healthy woman, then we need to challenge that assumption.
Let’s start with the information most of us were given in eighth grade health class: females are born with all their eggs, as opposed to males who begin producing sperm at puberty and continue to do so into old age; neither old eggs nor sperm of older men are as healthy as those of younger adults. Defective sperm or eggs can be at the source of infertility, pregnancy loss, or congenital defects in newborns. The most healthy fertile years for women are in their twenties, when their bodies are mature, when their eating habits (hopefully) are healthy, when they can understand what they are reading about good reproductive health, and when they are capable of restricting behaviors known to harm developing fetuses, such as smoking, drinking, or substance use.
So how is it that some women reach their forties assuming that conceiving and carrying a pregnancy to a healthy birth will be a smooth process? Some of these women have forgotten their eighth grade health class lessons and haven’t brushed up in the intervening years; others have never initiated a discussion with their ob-gyns about fertility and the risks of first trying to conceive in their late thirties; and still others, who have done everything to keep their bodies supple and young-looking, believe mistakenly that their bodies contain young and healthy eggs. In fact, their eggs are aging, with higher risks for chromosomal abnormalities, and their hormone levels are progressing closer to those of menopause with each passing year. By the time a woman is 40, most doctors would agree that her chances of getting pregnant each month are approximately 5 percent.
But women are increasingly being influenced by the sensationalist magazines in the grocery store, the Hollywood stars celebrating birthday number 40 with a baby (or multiples) in arms, and the television coverage given to sex-symbol actresses who, at age 40, are embracing new parenthood. No longer are woman and their partners being guided by the factual information about aging eggs and infertility. Or aging eggs and pregnancy loss. Or aging eggs and birth defects. Now only a prolonged inability to conceive or unexpected news from prenatal tests may be what shocks them into conversations with their ob-gyns or propels them to an infertility clinic.
That is when they are likely to learn the news that the Hollywood coverage never revealed: that donor eggs, donor sperm or a surrogate may be necessary for a woman in her 40’s to have a baby. This then becomes a new pathway that some couples decide to pursue. And for couples with determination, energy, patience and a significant amount of money, they may yet be able to bring a baby into their lives. But others may be deterred at the immense disruption that medical, legal and financial efforts will introduce into their relationship, their health and their work lives. For those women and their partners who once believed it was possible to use Hollywood as their guide in matters of fertility, the wake-up call may have come too late. And with more and more domestic and international adoption agencies placing age limit restrictions on prospective parents, the feelings of loss become even more profound.
How can we move beyond this gulf of misinformation and move women and couples more realistically in the direction of planning for parenthood? Clearly it would help if the Hollywood new 40-something parents would come clean and be open about the extraordinary means (including financial) they have pursued to welcome children into their lives. It also would be an important medical contribution if ob-gyns and Planned Parenthood staff would routinely query their patients about whether and when they are thinking about conceiving. And if those same reproductive health care offices had literature about infertility and pregnancy loss on their tables that are too often crowded with parenting magazines, it might lend a bit of balance to the way women view the issues on which their doctors can advise them.
Women have worked far too long for reproductive freedom to be thwarted by an unexpected twist of fate in our late 30’s and early 40’s. We need to talk with our peers, to encourage balanced reading material in ob-gyn waiting rooms, to raise with our sons and daughters the issues we hope they remember from their health classes, to advocate for insurance companies to cover costs associated with infertility, and to remember that reproductive advances come with many costs at many levels that just may be too much for the prospective 40-something parent to afford.
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CAWA secretary, Verity Cripps wins Consumer Protection Award
CAWA would like to congratulate Verity Cripps on her 30 years of voluntary service to consumers in WA. She richly deserves the Rona Okely Consumer Protection Award for 2006.
The article and photograph that follows, appeared immediately after the Awards in the Western Suburbs Weekly, and are reproduced here with the kind permisson of the newspaper and the journalist Pamela Medlen.
Price is right for shoppers’ friend
VERITY Cripps still has the first edition of the Australian Consumers’ Association magazine Choice, which sparked her interest in consumer issues.
The Floreat woman said she got a subscription to the magazine in the early 1960s.
“I liked to know what things cost and how things worked and how effective they were for the household,” Mrs Cripps said.
Her interest in consumerism grew and she became one of the founding members of the Consumers’ Association of Western Australia in 1975.
It was her commitment to the Association that earned her the Rona Okely Consumer Protection Award on Friday night.
Nominated for the award by a friend in CAWA, Mrs Cripps is very humble about her achievements and the way she slipped into the voluntary role.
“In recent years there has been so much legislation but 30 years ago there was not so much interest in consumers,” Mrs Cripp said.
“Consumers didn’t know what to do about it so we were really raising awareness as to their rights.”
“I have always felt that people are rather apathetic and some of that is because they don’t know how to complain,” Mrs Cripps said.
However times have changed and people were more likely to stand up for their rights as consumers now.
“Back then it was different; people were more concerned with the price of milk or a loaf of bread, now it’s more about safety, health issues and building disputes,” she said.
“People have always had these problems but weren’t aware what could be done about them.”
Mrs Cripps said that while many consumer services had been set up over the years, there was still work to be done in the field.
“Most other organisations are funded and we are very small beer compared to them,” she said.
“We are really a watchdog and spend more time making submissions on legislation.”
“I don’t want the organisation to die with me and we have had some good young presidents recently which is good, so I’ll hand over the reins some time,” she said.
Pamela Medlen
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Letter from the Institute
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 April 2010, pp. 7-8
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The Two Expansion Systems in the Atlantic
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It was Charles Boxer who has characterized the struggle between the Portuguese and the Dutch about their respective positions in world trade as the First Global War. In summing up the results at around 1650 Boxer contended that the Portuguese had won in the New World, that the Dutch had won in Asia, while the two countries had reached a stalemate in Africa.
This conclusion is correct only within the political domain. In fighting the Portuguese and the Spanish, the Dutch, together with the British and the French, did not reach economic the limits of their expansion because of Iberian resistance, but because of the general demographic and economic constraints on overseas expansion at the time. These limitations allowed for the creation of two expansion systems, each with its own sphere of influence in the Atlantic. The Iberian system covered the South Atlantic and the Northwest European system the Middle and North Atlantic. Both systems had a similar structure and incorporated European ports providing European and Asian trade goods, trading posts in Africa and plantation areas and settlement colonies in the New World.
The Portuguese and the Dutch in Southern Africa. Some Comparisons
Robert Ross
During the first decade of the Dutch East India Company's existence, it made a number of vain attempts to drive the Portuguese out of their main base in East Africa, Mozambique island. Within a few years, though, the Dutch discovered that they could reach their destinations in the East more quickly by setting a course far to the south of Madagascar. Since they no longer needed to frequent the Mozambique channel, they saw no particular reason to dislodge the Portuguese from its shores. Except for one final Dutch attempt to capture Mozambique island, in 1668, the two imperial powers kept their distance from each other, at least in Africa. The Dutch did not even know the simplest details of the political or economic situation in East Africa, while Portuguese visitors to the Dutch sphere of influence in the Cape Colony were entirely those of transients and traders, particularly in slaves. They were not competitors, and therefore were not attempting to solve the same questions. Nevertheless, the problems with which they were faced on the African mainland were analogous, so that it is possible to make comparisons between their activities.
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J.C. Heesterman
I should preface this paper with a cautionary note. It is not intended to parade as a full-fledged scholarly paper bringing new or little known facts. Nor does it aim at novel theories or interpretations. It does not even have its roots in the fascinating details and problems of Luso-Indian history per se. It only wants to propose a somewhat different, although not overly novel, perspective. This perspective is – not surprisingly – an indological one. My starting point is my concern with India's traditions of empire and imperial expansion. Given this concern, it seems quite logical to turn to the Portuguese as well as to the Dutch experience of and tangles with the tradition and practice of empire they obtained in the world of the Indian Ocean, where the subcontinent has always occupied a predominant position. The exercise is the more interesting since the Portuguese, and after them the Dutch, were each in their own way empire builders in their own right. They had to react to the imperial configurations that were coming about at the time of the Portuguese appearance in the Indian waters and that were being consolidated when the Portuguese were followed by their Dutch rivals. The experience and the reactions of both the Dutch and the Portuguese have something to tell us about India, as well as the other way around.
Mughal India and Central Asia in the Eighteenth Century. An Introduction to a Wider Perspective*
Jos Gommans
During the last two decades our historical ideas about the Mughal Empire have considerably altered. This change of attitude is due to two scholarly tendencies both of which have directed attention away from the Mughal court centres of Delhi and Agra. In an effort to illuminate the processes of Mughal decline, one approach has aimed to stress the emergence of eighteenth-century successor states which grew vigorously independent, but still remained under the sacrosanct umbrella of Mughal authority. Many studies of these new political configurations have seriously questioned the cliché de l'époque of a highly centralized Mughal polity, which now to have been faced with numerous limitations and ‘inner frontiers’. The disenchanting practice of permanent sedition and betrayal could never live up to the expectations of the Mughal ideal of harmony and legitimate obedience. In contrast to this view from below, another approach has tried to enlarge the scale by analysing the various ways in which India was incorporated into the world economy of the Indian Ocean. From this point of view Mughal India became the central part of a dynamic world system with various interactions and interdependencies between often highly urbanized and commercialized states.
The Economic Dynamics of Spanish Colonialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
W.G. Clarence-Smith
The survival of the Spanish empire after the loss of the mainland American colonies is a neglected subject, and no part of it is more neglected than its economic features. General histories of Spain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries rarely touch on overseas matters, although the colonies do occasionally appear centre stage, as in 1868, when the Cuban Creoles rose in rebellion; in 1898, when Spain lost most of her colonies as a result of war with America; in 1921, when the Berber tribes of Northern Morocco defeated the Spanish army; and in 1936, when General Franco and his coconspirators raised the standard of rebellion against the Republic in North Western Africa. But these references are episodic and essentially political, indeed military in nature. There is little structural analysis of what the colonies meant to Spain, least of all in the economic field.
L'historiographie du centenaire de l'Acte de Berlin (1885–1985). Fils conducteurs d'une commémoration*
J.-L. Vellut
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 April 2010, pp. 91-113
Les commémorations se multiplient à plaisir. Mais encore que nos sociétés de la ‘communication’ génèrent à toute occasion des promenades guidées dans le passé, il serait naïf d'y voir pour autant un goût de la connaissance désintéressée ou une aspiration à la vérité. Au contraire, celle-ci est plus souvent malmenée que respectée dans ces manifestations qui visent l'histoire utile’, c'est-à-dire qui pratiquent assidûment le recyclage de l'histoire au profit d'une solidarité de groupe qu'il s'agit de raffermir. Renforcer la cohésion des families idéologiques ou des sensibilites politiques, là est le véritable enjeu des commemorations. Celles-ci constituent done avant tout des terrains d'affrontements. Ceci peut offrir l'occasion d'un approfondissement du savoir, mais là ne se trouve pas le but de l'exercice. Ici e'est la communication qui règne, véritable auberge espagnole où d'authentiques ouvriers de la connaissance se rencontrent aux côtés de discoureurs ou de publicistes au statut plus incertain.
Number-crunchers and Historians: the Economic History of Indonesia. A Review of Some Recent Literature
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Fernão Mendes Pinto, The Travels of Mendes Pinto. Rebecca D. Catz. ed. & tr. Chicago and London (The University of Chicago Press) 1989, xlvi + 663 pp., maps, illus., bibl., index. ISBN 0-226-66951-3.
L. Hovy, Ceylonees Plakkaatboek. Plakkaten en andere wetten uitgevaardigd door het Nederlandse bestuur op Ceylon, 1638–1796. 2 vols. Hilversum (Verloren) 1991, cxlviii + 1014 pp. ISBN 90-6550-341-2. Price: Dfl. 195.
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ITI volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Back matter
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Hizbullah and the Information War
On January 15 the UN's Special Tribunal for Lebanon is scheduled to issue indictments against a number of Hizbullah operatives for the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005. All of Lebanon and much of the region is waiting in suspense that grows with each passing day.
The news that Hizbullah would be fingered by the prosecutors was first made public in July. Since then, Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah has threatened repeatedly to set fire to Lebanon and perhaps Israel if Daniel Bellemare, the chief prosecutor dares to go forward. Given Hizbullah's track record of war, murder and intimidation, no one doubts that the Iranian-proxy force will keep its promise if it comes to that. Almost immediately after Hizbullah was named as the central suspect in Hariri's assassination, Hizbullah's ally Syria began negotiating a deal with Saudi Arabia, which serves as the patron of Lebanon's Sunni community. The goal of these talks is to get Hizbullah off the hook, "in order to preserve stability."
Bellemare made clear this week that he will not be influenced by politics in dispatching his duties to the law. If he is true to his word, then Hizbullah members will certainly be indicted for assassinating Hariri next month.
What this means is that the most attractive option for Hizbullah and its allies right now is to discredit the tribunal. To this end, Hizbullah has repeatedly characterized the UN tribunal as an Israeli and American plot. Syria has insisted that the Lebanese who testified before the tribunal gave false testimony.
While these allegations may have convinced their supporters, both Syria and Hizbullah know that the only effective way to discredit the tribunal is to coerce Hariri's son, Prime Minister Saad Hariri to disavow the tribunal and withdraw Lebanese governmental support for its proceedings.
Although such a move would probably have little impact on the tribunal's ultimate judgment, it might reduce the political impact of the indictments for Hizbullah in Lebanon.
And so according to Ha'aretz, Syrian dictator Bashar Assad and Saudi King Abdullah reached a deal in which Hariri Jr. will disavow the tribunal. In exchange, Hizbullah will agree not to murder him.
Hizbullah has not surprisingly announced its support for the deal. Hariri has given a series of contradictory statements that lend to the sense that he is trying to run down the clock. This week he met with Abdullah in New York where the Saudi despot is undergoing medical treatment. On Wednesday he travelled to Saudi Arabia for further talks.
In the meantime, just to underline its willingness to make good on its threats, last week Hizbullah had its affiliated trade union, the National Union for Labor Syndicates stage a protest against the government. As Hanin Ghadar at the NOW Lebanon news portal noted, in the days leading up to the terror group's coup in May 2008, it had its labor affiliates stage similar protests.
AND THAT brings us to the basic question of why is Hizbullah taking the tribunal so seriously?
What does it care if its members are indicted for murdering Hariri? This is a terror group that has always been perfectly willing to kill in order to get its way. And everyone knows it.
Hizbullah operatives killed Hariri because he was irritating Nasrallah and Assad with all his talk about Lebanese sovereignty. Then they killed parliamentarian after parliamentarian to deny Hariri Jr.'s parliamentary majority the power to form a government or do anything else without Hizbullah agreement. When even that was insufficient to force the government to slavishly do its bidding, Hizbullah carried out its bloody coup in May 2008 in order to take over effective control of the government and the Lebanese army.
So too, after the June 2009 elections, Hizbullah coerced members of Hariri's coalition to change sides and so prevented him from forming a coalition without Hizbullah receiving veto power over all government decisions.
And even if Hizbullah did care about what its fellow Lebanese think of it, the fact is that Hizbullah is not an independent actor. It is an Iranian proxy. And the Iranians have made clear that they do not care what the tribunal does. Iran's supreme dictator Ali Khamenei announced earlier this month that as far as Iran is concerned, the tribunal's judgments are null and void. In his words, "This court is a kangaroo court and every verdict it issues is rejected."
So again, why is Hizbullah so concerned about this tribunal?
Hizbullah is concerned because Hizbullah understands the power of symbols. No, its operatives will probably never be jailed for their crimes. But the tribunal is a symbol. If Bellmare dares to defy Hizbullah, then others might consider doing so.
On the other hand if Hizbullah is able to coerce Hariri to withdraw the Lebanese government's support for the tribunal and disavow its work, it will have demonstrated its strength and authority in a way that will deter others from challenging it.
Hizbullah's response to the specter of the Special Tribunal is not only interesting for what it tells us about prospects for Lebanon's future and for regional stability and peace. Hizbullah's response to the threat that its members will be exposed as Hariri's assassins teaches us interesting lessons about the nature of information warfare.
Information warfare is not simply a question of competing narratives, as it is often characterized in the West. Information war is a form of warfare whose aim is to use words, symbols and images to force people to take real action. These actions can involve everything from war to terrorism to surrender.
In closed societies, information warfare is used to cause people to rally around the side of the group conducting the information operation and to mobilize supporters to act against the chosen enemy. For instance, when its leadership is interested in inspiring terror attacks against Israel, the Palestinian Authority broadcasts around the clock incitement against Israel.
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On May 8, 2001 a group of Palestinians from a village adjacent to the Israeli community of Tekoa in Gush Etzion got their hands on two Jewish children Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran from Tekoa. The two boys were bludgeoned to death with stones. The details of the butchery are unspeakable.
The question is what can make human beings butcher children? How can a person hurt a child the way that their killers hurt them?
The answer is Palestinian television.
In the weeks before the murder, PATV (funded by foreign donors) broadcast doctored footage around the clock of what they claimed were atrocities carried out by Israel. They showed doctored images of mutilated corpses and claimed that Israel had mutilated and abused them. Israel and Jews were so demonized by these false images that after awhile, the Palestinians watching these shows believed that Jews, including Jewish children, were all monsters who must be destroyed and made to pay for their imaginary crimes.
This was an act of information warfare that in the event, led Palestinians to butcher Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran.
As for information warfare aimed at Westerners, here too, the Palestinian Authority, like Hizbullah has a long track record of success. Journalists know that the PA has no compunction about kidnapping, arresting and beating up reporters. They do it to Palestinian reporters routinely. With their sure knowledge, Western reporters who come in to the PA recognize that if they want to be safe, they have to report stories that will make the PA happy.
For instance, after a television crew from Italy's Mediaset network broadcast footage of the PA police-supported lynch mob murdering and dismembering IDF reservists Vadim Nozhitz and Yosef Avrahami in Ramallah in October 2000, Ricardo Cristiani, deputy chief of Italy's RAI television network's Jerusalem bureau published an apology in the PA's newspaper Al Hayat al Jadida.
Among other things, Cristiani wrote, "We [RAI] emphasize to all of you that the events did not happen this way, because we always respect (will continue to respect) the journalistic procedures with the Palestinian Authority for (journalistic) work in Palestine and we are credible in our precise work."
Fearing Palestinian revenge attacks, Mediaset was forced to shut down its offices.
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This week, Swedish and Danish police announced the arrest of four Muslim terrorists who were en route to carrying out a massacre at the Jyllands Posten newspaper. The attack was supposed to avenge the newspaper's publication of cartoons of Muhammed in 2005.
A US diplomatic cable leaked by WikiLeaks and published Monday by Sweden's Aftonbladet newspaper reported that Syria's Assad himself directed the information operation in 2006 that led to rioting against Denmark and Jyllands Posten throughout the Muslim world in 2006. Assad reportedly ordered Syria's Grand Mufti to incite his fellow imams to attack Denmark for publishing the pictures.
The Arab world's response to WikiLeaks shows just how powerful the incitement against Israel and Jews on the Arab psyche is. According to Hazem Saghiyah from the NOW Lebanon news portal, the Arab world was beset by confusion by the leaked US cables because Israel was not exposed as demonic.
As Saghiyeh put it, for Arabs who have come to believe that Israel controls the world through its satanic power, "these documents should have provided the decisive argument" against Israel.
The fact that it is the Arab leadership, rather than Israel that has been exposed as lying and two-faced, makes the Arab world writ large view the WikiLeaks operation as a huge Zionist conspiracy.
WHAT ALL of this shows is that information wars are not just about getting out the facts. Like kinetic warfare, they involve power plays, intimidation and the use of subconscious and visceral manipulation.
Israel has recently awoken to one aspect of information warfare. It has recognized the consequences of years of demonization of Israel in Europe and international organizations. But Israel has yet to awaken to the fact that it is a type of warfare and has to be countered with counter-information warfare.
Obviously this doesn't mean that Israel should begin acting like its enemies. But what it does mean is that Israel must begin using more hard-knuckle techniques to defend itself. It must begin targeting people's emotions as well has their minds.
For instance, when Israel is confronted by threats of lawsuits for acts of self-defense, it responds with defense attorneys. When the US was threatened with lawfare by Belgian courts, then secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld responded by threatening to remove NATO headquarters from Belgium.
When Israel is accused of targeting Palestinian civilians, it responds by attaching legal advisors to combat units. What it should be doing instead is providing film footage of Palestinian children being trained as terrorists and exploited as human shields.
War is a dirty business. Information warfare is a dirty form of war. And if we don't want to lose, we'd better start fighting.
Originally published in The Jerusalem Post.
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The company made the commitment yesterday as it announced its intention to get into the registrar business.
Founder Matthew Price used the announcement to launch a blistering attack on the current registrar market, which he said is charging “crazy” prices and endlessly upselling their customers with unwanted, worthless products. He blogged:
why should registrars charge any markup over what the TLDs charge? That seemed as nutty to us as certificate authorities charging to run a bit of math. When we see a broken market on the Internet we like to do something about it.
we promise to never charge you anything more than the wholesale price each TLD charges. That’s true the first year and it’s true every subsequent year. If you register your domain with Cloudflare Registrar you’ll always pay the wholesale price with no markup.
For instance, Verisign, which administers the .com TLD, currently charges $7.85 per year to register a .com domain. ICANN imposes a $0.18 per year fee on top of that for every domain registered. Today, if you transfer your .com domain to Cloudflare, that’s what we’ll charge you per year: $8.03/year. No markup. All we’re doing is pinging an API, there’s no incremental cost to us, so why should you have to pay more than wholesale?
There are catches, of course.
For starters, the service is not available yet.
Price wrote that Cloudflare will roll it out gradually — for inbound transfers only — to its “most loyal” customers over an unspecified period. Even customers on its cheapest plans will get access to the queue, he wrote.
Eventually, he said, it will be available “more broadly”.
It will be interesting to see if the no-markup pricing could become available to non-customers too, and whether it sticks to its business model when its support lines start ringing and it becomes apparent the business is actually big ole cash vampire.
Cloudflare has been ICANN-accredited for several years, but it’s only been offering registrations to high-value enterprise customers so far.
My records show that it has not much more than 800 domains under management, all in .com, .net, .org and .info.
The announcement was made, perhaps not coincidentally, a couple days after CRM software provider Zoho made headlines when its 40 million customers were taken offline because its former registrar suspended zoho.com over a trivial level of abuse. In response to the screw-up, Zoho transferred the domain to Cloudflare.
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Rubens Kuhl says:
Besides support costs, being a registrar comes with unavoidable liabilities. When their first customer that loses a domain sue them, they might want to take a fresh look at P&L for this service.
shaitaan says:
What about CC processing fees, CC fraud costs and customer service cost? If they don’t account for all that it means they won’t last very long or they’ll be subsidizing it with profits from other parts of their business. If it’s the latter then they’ll have to engage in the upselling too because otherwise there is no point in running this registrar business of their’s.
Steve Gobin says:
People that will register domain name with them or transfer domain names to them should check, once the registration or transfer is completed, if they are (still) listed as the registrant.
Michael D. says:
It will be a loss leader, but the story of “We’re just pinging” could make them one of the largest registrars in the world in a very short time period if executed properly.
Finally! What a good idea. They’ll make money on expired auctions and hosting.
Webmaster says:
Great early find, thanks for sharing.
I wonder how they will manage to take care of the basic support (trouble with transferring a domain name, parking, whois updating, etc…), and obviously there are already some strings attached (you can transfer only domains using Cloudflare, there’s a waiting line, etc…).
Even with that, it’s a great idea, let’s see how well they execute.
Mark Thorpe says:
Hopefully domain registrars will eventually lower domain name registration and renewal fees.
Domainers and end-users are overpaying for domain names. Paying more at some registrars than others.
At some registrars you have to buy a discount plan just to get domain prices the same as other domain registrars.
That is price gouging!
Frank Schilling says:
I hope they are successful because innovation is important for our industry; and anything which makes names more affordable and accessible is good for the free-internet. That said, I agree with the first two commentators. Eventually there needs to be a profit center or strategic angle otherwise why bother. Creating a full-service (fully featured) domain registrar is like building an airline. It requires passion, vision, and has a lot of moving parts that are expensive to maintain. Something, somewhere in that apparatus, has to make the money.
Jan Peeters says:
Of course this has nothing to do with innovation. And we all know that for CF it doesn’t matter whether you are on the “good” side or not. So this is (potentially) a black day for internet security.
This seems rather underhanded considering the close partnerships Cloudflare has with a number of registrars/hosts – which has helped CloudFlare achieve their growth.
While some registrars certainly do have very “healthy” margins others sell for pennies and barely scrape by, over simplifying the costs and processes of operating a domain registrar doesn’t help anyone in the industry and just encourages the race to the bottom and requirement to exploit user data in order to turn a profit.
marcos de flores says:
margins others sell for pennies and barely scrape by, over simplifying the costs and processes of operating a domain registrar doesn’t help anyone in the industry and just encourages the race to the bottom and requirement to exploit user data in order to turn a profit.
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Asked if the Government agreed with the Defence Select Committee report out tomorrow saying that troop levels in Iraq would have to stay at their current levels until at least next year and it’s criticism of post conflict planning the PMS said that we had made it clear that our troop level would remain at its current level until the Iraqi security forces had the capacity to take over. That said we kept troop numbers under constant review. SHE said she had not seen the report and journalists should speak to the MOD about their response to it. In answer to further questions the PMS reiterated that we had always made it clear that troop levels were kept under constant review but the aim was to withdraw troops when it was felt that the Iraqi forces could cope with the situation and that security had improved.
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Jeopardy episode on Palestine question causes uproar
Popular American game show Jeopardy has been plunged into controversy after a contestant was told she had the wrong answer after identifying Jesus’s place of birth, the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, as Palestine.
The incident took place in round one of the game broadcast on Friday, when Katie Needle was given the clue: “Built in the 300s A.D., the Church of the Nativity”, under the category “Where’s that Church?”.
Needle, a retail supervisor, from Brooklyn, answered Palestine, but was told her answer was wrong.
One of the other two contestants, Jack McGuire, then buzzed in with the reply “Israel”, which host Alex Trebek accepted as correct.
Apparently @Jeopardy had a question today on The Church of the Nativity and when the contestant answered “Palestine,” it was deemed incorrect and the next contestant said “Israel” and it was counted as correct. @Jeopardy please explain.
— Deanna ديانا (@deannaothman) January 10, 2020
The Church of Nativity, declared a world heritage site, is located in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, which is internationally-recognised as part of Palestine.
Israel occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the Six-Day War of June 1967, in a move the international community has never recognised.
Christian pilgrims and tourists from across the globe visit Bethlehem throughout the year, specially on occasions like Christmas.
Jeopardy producers were not available for comment at the time of publication.
‘Inexcusable’
The episode was picked up by people on social media, with many criticising the show’s producers and host and demanding that they apologise.
Unacceptable!! Bethlehem is in the Palestinian territories which Israel illegally occupies (Katie Needle got the correct answer and was robbed). @Jeopardy owes an apology for endorsing Israel’s universally-condemned illegal takeover of Palestinian lands.pic.twitter.com/Ym99YziM4k
— Omar Baddar (@OmarBaddar) January 11, 2020
Omar Ghraieb, a Palestinian writer based in Gaza, told Al Jazeera that: “What happened is inexcusable. Jeopardy should apologise and give a clear explanation. This shouldn’t just pass calmly and be forgotten.”
“This [jeopardy incident] just shows how normalised the occupation and cleansing of the Palestinian people from the historical record has become,” Imraan Siddiqi, executive director of Council of American Islamic Relations Arizona chapter, told Al Jazeera.
James Zogby of Zogby Analytics, and an American public opinion pollster, said the incident “an insult to history, reality, the thousands of oppressed Palestinians of Bethlehem”.
This is outrageous. If “Israel” had been the answer, it would have been bad enough. But the fact that she gave “Palestine” as the thought answer and was told it was wrong makes this an outrage and an insult to history, reality, the thousands of oppressed Palestinians of Bethlehem
— James J. Zogby (@jjz1600) January 11, 2020
Zogby recently wrote that: “Suffering under Israeli military occupation since 1967, Bethlehem has slowly been strangled. It has lost most of its land to settlement construction. It is hemmed in by a 30-foot-high concrete wall, stripped of its resources, and denied access to external markets.”
The United Nations says Israeli settlements in Bethlehem and other parts of occupied West Bank are illegal, and has called them a “flagrant violation” of international law.
‘Ahistorical propaganda’
Tamara Nassar, an associate editor at Electronic Intifada, told Al Jazeera that the Jeopardy incident contributes to the “settler-colonial ideal of erasing Palestinians from their own cultural and religious sites – both in consciousness and in physical fact.
“While the audience is fed ahistorical propaganda, Israel often bars Palestinian Christians from Gaza from worshipping at Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, the subject of the Jeopardy question,” Nassar added.
Christians in Gaza who plan to travel to the West Bank for Christmas or Easter have to apply for a temporary single-use permit to Israel from its Coordinator of the Government Activities in the Territories, which often arbitrarily denies many seeking the permit.
“Perhaps nothing resembles this engineered absence from the American public imagination more poetically than the way contestants are bound to form their responses as questions: What is Palestine?” Nassar noted.
Christians celebrate Christmas in Bethlehem
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Productive and reproductive parameters of indigenous chicken in Sandakan Sabah Malaysia
Ivoneca Sibin, (2018) Productive and reproductive parameters of indigenous chicken in Sandakan Sabah Malaysia. Universiti Malaysia Sabah. (Unpublished)
Productive and reproductive performance of boer and katjang goat at FSA farm.pdf
The indigenous chicken is the local chicken breed that are raised in free-range system in the rural area. Animal genetics experts had express their thoughts that these indigenous chickens are best to be conserved for future use in the industry. However, there is a lack of information on the true genetic potential, as well as the productive and reproductive performances of these chickens. The objective of this study is to determine and evaluate the productive and reproductive parameters of indigenous chicken in Sandakan Sabah, Malaysia. Data collection sheets were prepared to collect the information on the productive parameters of the indigenous chicken and the farmer's background. Indigenous chicken were selected randomly from the villages to collect data for egg parameters such as the total chick hatched per set, egg colour, weight and shape. A set of 70 eggs were collected randomly and brought to the FSA Poultry Science Laboratory. 20 eggs were broken for the external and internal egg quality evaluation. 50 eggs were placed in the incubator for incubation period of 21 days with the temperature between 37.2 to 38.8°C, and 50 to 65% of relative humidity. Initial weight of each day old chick (DOC) and the mortality rate were also recorded. From the results, most of the chicken were left under a backyard production and raised traditionally in a free range system although cages and barns were provided. The indigenous chickens do not lay eggs in the barns or nest boxes provided. It laid eggs on any available spot on the yard. The indigenous chicken eggs has whitish shell colour and smaller size, with long or oval shaped eggs. The average egg weight was 44.06 g (±1.11), average yolk weight of 12.85 g (±0.57), average albumin weight of 21.61 g (±0.504) and average shell thickness of 0.17 g (±0.06) with the weight of 4.59 g (±0.12). The fertility rate of the eggs was 84% and the hatchability rate was 52.38%. This were probably caused by many factors such as the genetic factors, vitamin deficiency or diseases infections during the incubation period. The average body weight of DOC is 27.36 g but increased to 172.05 g after s weeks. The total feed intake (g/day/birds) was 6.33 g for 1st week and increased to 29.31 g in 5th week. The FCR recorded was 2.84 which can be considered as high, and the total performance index (PI) for the 5 weeks was 2.33. During the rearing period, the chicken has low growth rate and high mortality rate up to 31.8%. As conclusion, there are no significant difference in between the productive and reproductive parameters of female indigenous chicken as the results collected were still within the range of results from previous research.
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Refugees guaranteed German standard of living
Refugees world wide refuse to stay in Greece, Hungaria, Italy, even Austria. Refugees all want to Germany [8 9], the promised land.
In Germany, the constitutional court [11 3] guarantees Somalis, Kosovars, Syrians the same standard of living as Germans. See also court decision guaranteeing welfare.
The German constitution puts no numerical limit on the number of (true) refugees, politicians like minister De Maiziere in BMI agree. Each asylum applicant has the right to due process and appeals. Even if rejected an asylum seeker has the right to be tolerated and not to be sent back to a dangerous country [Welt].
"Refugee" in German is "Flüchtling", hence this site's name "fluechtling.net".
Germans Welcome Refugees
Germany has the great chance to gain millions of highly qualified refugees from places like Syria, Somalia, and Bosnia. Most are members of Islam, the religion of peace, a welcome enrichment to the bland Christian denominations in Germany. This is the official and self evident credo. It needs no statistical or scientific proof and is protected by press self censorship.
"Refugees Welcome!’ is more than a slogan in Germany"! [10]
Germans who have "irrational fear of refugees" are publicly condemned as right wing extremists and Nazis.
Refugees attracted by Welfare guarantee of German living standards
The German constitutional court has determined that everyone residing in Germany has the same human right to basic German standard of living [1, 2 10]. Refugees are not second class citizens, the Supreme Court determined.
So refugees have a right to get housing, health services and 340 Euro monthly [3]. If they get food, etc. he gets a freely available a stipend of about Euro 140 pocket money for his/her basic cultural needs. Please check original sources for exact numbers before quoting me.
These amounts, often paid many months in advance are an irresistible incentive for people from low income countries. The German monthly stipend corresponds to about the average monthly income (Kosovo, Romania) or to an entire year's average income (Sub-Saharan Africa)
Statistical fact: Over half the population earns substantially less than average income. By definition, half the population earns less than the much lower median income.
'Mama Merkel' Opens the Door to Syrian Refugees as Most Germans Cheer
That generally accepting message is getting out, with some nations, including Hungary, blaming German generosity for enticing more and more refugees to make risky trips from the Middle East, Africa and Asia into Europe. Indeed, the migrants stopped on a train by the Hungarians over the past two days shouted out chants of “Germany, Germany, let us go to Germany. [fiscal times]
The Hungarian leader blamed Germany for the crisis, saying that its open-door policy toward Syrian asylum-seekers was propelling a wave of migrants to undertake dangerous journeys toward Europe’s heart. Germany expects 800,000 asylum-seekers this year, and it has said that it does not plan to turn away Syrians.[Washington Post]
No limit on refugee numbers. 100 Million?
German politicians, even anti-immigrant AfD leader Frauke Petry, make clear that there can be no numerical limit on (true) Asylum seekers in Germany. In other words, it can be 100 Million or more. Millions already are getting ready in Africa.
100 Millionen Flüchtlinge brauchen Schutz bei uns
Grenzen aufmachen, Flüchtlinge in Afrika abholen
Unbegrenzt Flüchtlinge aufnehmen. Abgelehnte dulden.
Islamic Jihad
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday Islam "belongs to Germany", in a clear repudiation of anti-immigration protesters gathering in Dresden and other cities. ...
The conservative chancellor pointed to comments made by former German president Christian Wulff, who said in 2010 that Islam was part of Germany, triggering a fierce debate. [Reuters]
It would be racist, islamophobic and xenophobic to point out Muslim criminal enclaves where police get routinely attacked [Marxloh, 12, pi-net]. Or multi-cultural Malmö Sweden's 22 bomb attacks in 3 years [14].
She was speaking hours before marches by a movement dubbed PEGIDA, or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West, were due to begin in several German cities.
Such demonstrations, launched in Dresden, have been dwarfed by counter-protests. Merkel has said PEGIDA's rallies are organized by people with "hatred in their hearts".
Being in favor of one's country staying as it was is "hatred in the hearts". Violent leftist attacks against Pegida demonstrations, or xenophobic attacks against Germans by foreigners, will rarely be mentioned by our press because this would create prejudice. Thus they are of no great concern to Mrs. Merkel.
Merkel said her government was doing everything it could to ensure migrants were being successfully integrated into German society regardless of their religion.
Nearly two in three of the four million Muslims in Germany are of Turkish origin. Roughly half are German citizens.
But Merkel acknowledged the need for better dialogue between religions, praising Muslims for publicly rejecting the use of violence after the Paris killings and calling Turkey an ally in the fight against terrorism.
'800 Returned Jihadists Ready to Attack in Europe'
“Just wait”: Islamic State says it has smuggled 1000s of jihadis into Europe
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Je voudrais que mon ordi s'arrete le le lundi, mercredi, jeudi et dimanche soir a 23h.(pour me forcer a aller me coucher........) Pouvez vous m'aider à réaliser cette opération, je suppose en passant par 'invite de commande ou en créant un fichier .bat merci d'avance
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Many business books are heavier on jargon than on wisdom, executives often complain. But among this year's titles are some that can sharpen managers' thinking about technology, management and careers. Other simply offer pleasure, as the holiday season gives some respite from meetings and business trips. (wow power leveling)
The exchange of ideas on the Internet, for example, is bound to keep proliferating, which is what makes 'Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything,' by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, worthwhile reading.
The book highlights how traditional collaboration among employees in meeting rooms is fast being superseded by collaboration on a much vaster scale. Thanks to the Internet, masses of people beyond corporate boundaries can exchange thoughts and innovate to produce content, goods and services. Web sites such as Wikipedia, the user-edited online encyclopedia, MySpace and even the Human Genome Project encourage this interaction, which spurs growth.
Some corporate executives still lament the competition this poses to their proprietary marketplace offerings, Wow gold but Mr. Tapscott, a proponent of open sourcing, argues that the more you share, the more you win. He and Mr. Williams outline ways to exploit the power of online collaboration. They describe how companies from Flickr to the more traditional Procter & Gamble have benefited from inviting in ideas from customers and others browsing the Web.
For a trenchant view of business and business advice, take a dip into 'The Halo Effect . . . and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers,' by Phil Rosenzweig. The author, a former manager turned professor, asserts that a great deal of analysis offered by consultants, academics and the media is simplistic and often 'deeply flawed.'
When a company reports that sales and profits are on the rise, for example, people say it has a visionary leader and a brilliant strategy. When performance then falters, they say the leader was myopic and had the wrong strategy. Yet little in the way of leadership and strategy may actually have changed. Sro Gold
The book illustrates this point by delving into good and bad times at big companies such as Cisco and IBM. It identifies nine common business delusions, including 'single explanations' for success or failure, and 'absolute performance.' Because company performance is relative to competition, following one formula can never guarantee results, Mr. Rosenzwieg asserts. Success comes only from doing things better than rivals do them.
'The Halo Effect' is for executives who aren't looking for a quick-fix prescription and who understand that winning depends on knowing one's own company and on executing smart decisions well -- with a little luck mixed in.
Managers who want to be better bosses may turn to 'The Three Signs of a Miserable Job' by Patrick Lencioni, the author's latest management fable, which uses fictional characters to illustrate what should be self-evident: Unhappy employees are those who don't feel valued or listened to, don't know why their job matters to others, or don't know how they are performing. All these problems can be fixed easily, as Mr. Lencioni outlines in his tale. The book is a quick read. Sro Gold
Executives concerned with their own fates should consider 'Firing Back -- How Great Leaders Rebound After Career Disasters,' by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Andrew Ward. Using the accounts of dismissed top executives at companies such as Morgan Stanley, Home Depot and Hewlett-Packard, the authors show why some have been able to move on to new successes by, among other things, seeking help from old allies and acknowledging their failure.
For a colorful take on recovering from a personal and professional fall, read Michael Gates Gill's 'How Starbucks Saved My Life.' It tells of the author's unusual journey after losing a senior advertising job and his marriage in middle age. Lonely and unemployed at 63 years old -- and with no health insurance after being diagnosed with a brain tumor that wasn't malignant but cost him some hearing -- he landed a job at a Starbucks in Manhattan.
Aion kina,His fellow workers and boss are decades younger, mostly African-American and without the Ivy League degree he has from Yale. But rather than feel depressed taking orders for lattes and lugging garbage to the curb, Mr. Gill finds the job becomes a refuge, where he feels valued and makes friends among colleagues and regular customers.
His account of his year behind the counter at Starbucks -- which is slated to become a movie starring Tom Hanks -- is a moving reminder that having a community at work can be more rewarding than a big office or title.
No Christmas Eve column about books would be complete without mentioning some longtime Christmas favorites that are still relevant. 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens, the writer's 1843 tale of boss Ebenezer Scrooge's journey from a life of greed and miserliness to one of charity, still resonates, especially at a time when the super-rich are so exalted. And O. Henry's century-old 'The Gift of the Magi' still reminds us that love is the only gift worth possessing.
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by Joseph M. Kelly
I recently received an e-mail message from a writer who had made the leap from full-time salaried employee with a newspaper to full-time freelance writer. This victim of corporate downsizing felt he had little choice but to try it out. He had read a story I wrote a couple years ago that explained the finer points about the business-to-business trade press. He was inspired to learn more.
His e-mail reminded me about some strategies that you can easily be implement to foster relationships with business editors and turn spotty jobs into a lucrative freelance writing career.
There's no doubt that making the transition to full-time freelance writer is a difficult move. Not only must you discipline yourself to send out queries and hit the telephones daily, but you must also grasp the fact that you are now an independent contractor. That designation comes with a host of accounting and tax implications.
The next realization is that if you don't write, you won't eat very well. Losing a full-time job and venturing into the sporadic waters of the freelance world can be scary, in some cases, horrifying. It will force you to find as much writing work as possible to ward off starvation and poverty.
This particular new freelancer said he was writing some PR for political campaigns and doing minor projects for a few clients in the real estate market. Obviously, his toes are just touching the top of the water. PR writing, in my experience, isn't necessarily as lucrative as establishing a relationship with a few B2B editors. Nothing could be more valuable, except having relationships with consumer magazine editors.
But, let's look at his background -- what can he bring to the party? Essentially, his experience has been hard news and business writing. Those traits are ideal for the scores of B2B magazines out there, some of them seeking those exact skills in a freelancer. I stressed that he try to forge relationships with several business publication editors in different markets to shelter him from the ebbs and flows of the economy. Real estate might be a great sector with which to start.
Writing clips form B2B publications can be extremely useful in pitching other business editors in different markets. I warned, however, that it is not wise to write for more than one publication in a particular market. For example, if you are a freelancer for Electrical Contractor magazine, you shouldn't also write for its closest two competitors. Editors seek talent, but they are sometimes touchy about sharing good talent, especially within the same space. They can't tell you where you can and cannot make a buck, but they can stop handing you assignments, so proceed with caution.
An alternative to saturating a market is to choose a few specialty markets and develop relationships with editors within those areas. For instance, I know dozens of writers who specialize in construction writing. They have been successful by spreading themselves across several areas within the construction market. One writer, who contributes regularly to my publication (electrical), also writes for an underground construction magazine and a heavy construction pub. He is a member of the Construction Writers Association, clearly indicating his propensity toward construction-related material.
It's not a bad idea to focus on construction or another general category, i.e., financial, medical, government, etc. As an editor in the construction market, if I see clips from other construction-related areas, I am much more inclined to take a closer look than if the clips were in general business news or about sports. Familiarity with general terminology, whether construction, financial or another area of the business world, will win points with editors in that general space.
I encouraged this e-mailer to examine, the CWA and similar associations and societies, because they are ideal for networking with B2B editors and writers. There are other associations for different genres of B2B writing, as well. Look into the ones that interest you and make sure you fully utilize their job banks and networking opportunities.
I cannot provide a formula that will guarantee success as a freelance writer. I cannot tell you that success in B2B writing is perfect for you. But, I can provide some advice that has made many freelance writers (and B2B editors) very successful. In many cases, they've become financially secure. By learning from those doing it daily, you, too, can forge a long and prosperous career as a freelancer.
The first assignment is the most important, though. Once you get an assignment from a B2B editor, you have to hit a home run in your first at-bat. That means you must write well, meet or beat the deadline, hit the word count and send a reminder afterward that your services are still available. Be careful to not push too hard, just drop the editor a short e-mail to indicate your willingness to continue a relationship.
A short news story may lead to a feature or profile. Good work will keep you on the freelance roster. Performance will keep your phone ringing.
Copyright © 2002 Joseph M. Kelly
Joseph M. Kelly, who is editor of Electrical Contractor magazine in Bethesda, Md., and a Baltimore, Md.-based freelance writer, has been published in daily and weekly newspapers, national trade magazines, newsletters and online. His work has appeared in The Maryland Coast Dispatch, Hardware Age, Home Improvement Market, LBM Retailer, Garden Supply Retailer, Decorative Products Retailer, Outdoor Power Equipment, Association Publishing, Writing For Money, The Baltimore Press, The Enterprise, Electrical Contractor, AWritersLife.net, Baltimore Chronicle and Sentinel, and several other publications.
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Watch Cardi B, Lil Jon and Steve Carell's Pepsi Super Bowl Ad
It's Pepsi's most iconic trio since Beyoncé, Britney and Pink
We've already seen Chance the Rapper join the Backstreet Boys for Doritos, and Carrie Bradshaw and the Dude give up their signature drinks for Stella Artois, and now Cardi B, Lil Jon and Steve Carell have teamed up to deliver a Super Bowl ad for Pepsi.
It opens with a woman ordering a Coke and the waiter asking, "Is Pepsi okay?" — which triggers a diatribe from a nearby Steve Carell. After insisting that Pepsi is "more than okay," he ups the enthusiasm with a trademark "OKAAAY!" from Lil Jon and an "Okurrrrr" from Cardi B.
The ad will air during Super Bowl LIII, but you can check it out right now down below.
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Burger, fries, no logo
Ben Stott
Jean Jullien
Andrew Rae
Joel Holland
With ‘nothing to show and nothing to say’, Ben Stott’s ‘anti-branding’ helped turn the Byron restaurant chain into a multi-million pound brand.
For the past few years the British hamburger chain Byron, which launched in 2007, has had an approach to identity design that flies in the face of branding fundamentalism, and reflects the more current notion of ‘dynamic identity’.
Yet ‘dynamic’ is not quite correct to describe an identity, steered by designer Ben Stott, for which there’s no logo – and no easily describable ‘house style’. Stott has taken a playful approach to every aspect of a chain in which the most consistent elements appear to be the hamburgers themselves, and the word ‘Byron’.
Beer mat used to promote Byron’s own light golden lager and pale ale, brewed with Camden Town Brewery (see ‘Labelled with love’, Eye 87).
Top: Design and art direction by Ben Stott, Byron Beak Street, London, 2013. Stott says: ‘The letters are based on Turnpike, redrawn to be thinner and wider.’
Such ‘anti-branding’ appears to have worked well for a chain that in six years has grown from a handful of London burger joints to 35 in the UK. Originally backed by Gondola Holdings (owned by private equity firm Cinven), Byron was bought by Hutton Collins Partners in October 2013 in a deal worth £100 million.
The 36th branch is opening at the O2 entertainment complex in London, and there are also Byron restaurants in Cambridge, Liverpool, Manchester, Oxford and in the Bluewater shopping mall (see Eye 34) in Kent.
Under Stott’s art direction, Byron signs can be anything from carefully applied signwriting to deliberately applied ‘bad type’; from distressed stencils to gleaming neon. The interiors and menus feature the exuberant outpourings of contemporary illustrators such as Jean Jullien, Paul Davis, Mr Bingo, Joel Holland and Andrew Rae. Stott is also happy to repurpose clip art and his own snapshots. Furthermore, there’s no custom typeface: type styles vary from typewritten through hand-lettering to vintage typefaces chosen with a sharp, contemporary eye for detail.
Cowcross Street, London, 2013. For the sign, Stott used a ‘deliberately oversized, skinny sans serif, inspired by some East German shop signs’.
Hoxton Square, London, 2011. This sign has since been replaced.
Stott began working with Byron MD Tom Byng soon after making an amicable split from NB (as in Nota Bene) Studio, the company he founded with Nick Finney and Alan Dye more than a decade earlier after stints with Pentagram and Landor. NB’s notable successes included identity design for Tate Members and Insead, the international business school.
He says that when he was approached about designing for the burger chain (through Byron’s ‘head of brand’ Cristina Fedi, formerly at Channel Four), his first thought was: ‘I can’t possibly do it, I haven’t even got a letterhead.’ At the first meeting he found Byng ‘intimidating … but in a good way’, and admired the latter’s obsessive interest in the details of his restaurants, demonstrated by his pride in the ferocious force of the hand dryers in the loos. Shortly after that meeting, Stott had devised a few basic principles that guided his subsequent approach. First, no photographs of the food. ‘You really can’t take a great picture of a hamburger,’ he says. ‘Tom winced every time I showed him one of Byron’s own photographs.’
Second, he decided that Byron’s copywriters should never claim that the food is ‘good’, ‘fresh’ or ‘authentic’. He argues that you don’t need to tell people because they’ll know. Third, the chain’s architects, Michaelis Boyd Associates, were interested in developing an individual style for each restaurant, which opened a path for a more radical graphic approach. Stott: ‘With nothing to say and nothing to show, my approach was to treat each restaurant as if it was the only one.’
Beer mat used to promote Byron’s own light golden lager and pale ale, brewed with Camden Town Brewery (see ‘Labelled with love’), as well as Byron’s craft beer list.
His confidence in tackling the commission in this way was bolstered by his belief that the job would only last four or six months before he moved on to other commitments. Stott’s straightforward restaurant signs, along with the quirky illustrations he commissioned for menus and other ancillary material, soon became the way that Londoners recognised the chain.
As the chain expanded, the ‘no logo’ look became a badge of honour, a tease incorporated into the boards that went up while builders were still refitting the premises. For the hoardings outside the Westbourne Grove branch, Stott suggested they use ‘Bravo Yankee Romeo Oscar November’, the phonetic [Nato] alphabet words to spell ‘Byron’.
Sometimes the approach is less crafted: for one site, the architects told Stott they were looking for ‘1970s cab office’; another branch looks like an old electrical showroom, with graphics to match. Stott collects ‘images of crap signs’, and doesn’t mind playing with pastiche, making the uncool look oddly cool. The Waterloo branch is sited in three interconnecting small shop sites in The Cut. So it has three different signs: the hip anti-brand explains itself at a glance.
Westbourne Grove, London, 2012. Photo by Jon Osborne.
Waterloo, London, April 2012. Ben Stott says: ‘The site was three shopfronts with a traditional 1950s and 60s café feel – the opportunity to make three different fascias was too good to miss!’ Two of the three sites are shown here. Photo by Glenn Dearing.
Inside the restaurants, the cheerful, studied eclecticism continues, in tandem with the magpie instincts of stylist Clare Nash. A typical Byron feedback form is a postcard bearing a Jean Jullien illustration. In one, an outstretched fist clutches a squeezy red bottle and writes ‘Dear Byron’ in ketchup. The verso politely asks: ‘Anything you’d like to add?’ The address cards (in a rare outbreak of consistency) are playing cards with each branch’s details on the backs. The takeaway bags have a touch of 1970s retro, with monochrome clip art illustrations (adapted by Ryan Bartaby in Stott’s studio) showing a push-button wall phone and other resonant images. Colour-in kids’ menus show menageries of anthropomorphised animals, vegetables and balloons by illustrators such as Jullien and Andrew Rae. When the Hoxton branch serves a craft beer such as The Kernel (see ‘Labelled with love’, page 96), the label meshes nicely with the hipster milieu. Byron’s own labels use a script face by Stott, Bartaby and Rose Reeves.
Byron is highly fashionable right now, but Stott doesn’t see a problem with that: ‘We’re not trying to say my designs will be here for ten or fifteen years.’ Stott wound down his commitment to the chain in 2013, passing the anti-branding baton to Charlie Smith and former employee Reeves. He admits that after several years he realised that he had ‘painted himself into a corner’ by having to be so different with each place. There are more challenges on the horizon. However I suspect that many other restaurant chains, and brands in general, will be examining Byron’s success – and Ben Stott’s artfully eclectic methods – with great interest.
Feedback card with illustrations by Jean Jullien, 2012.
John L. Walters, Eye editor, London
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Register Log In MusicPlayerNetwork.com Forums The Keyboard Corner Thanks for the Rhodes Chroma spotlight in the last issue.
Thanks for the Rhodes Chroma spotlight in the last issue. #1235910 09/28/05 02:45 PM
RABid OP
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Many here know that the Rhodes Chroma was my favorite synth. Someday I will replace the one I lost in a fire years ago. I purchased that keyboard without ever seeing or hearing one played. There was no internet at the time and no one I knew had ever seen one. Furthermore, no one in Kentucky had a Rhodes Chroma on display. Nashville was my best bet to see one and that city is 4 hours away.
So why did I buy a Rhodes Chroma without trying one first? Trust in a review in Keyboard Magazine. In truth, after listing all of the features of that keyboard there was not a lot of space left in the review for opinion. The review was basically �here is what it does, it works well and sounds great�. I was heavy into synthesis at the time so once I read the features I had to have that keyboard. I found a small advertisement in the back of the Keyboard Magazine for a large music store in New York City. I called them up and they had a Chroma. The next day I arranged a bank transfer. Back then you did not use credit cards for orders. About two weeks later it arrived on a truck and I was in heaven.
I still have that issue and someday I will have another Rhodes Chroma.
By the way, does anyone know who did the patch programming on the Chroma? It had the best stock patches ever on a keyboard and I have had real difficulty recreating some of them on anything else.
Re: Thanks for the Rhodes Chroma spotlight in the last issue. #1235911 09/28/05 03:57 PM
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I played in an 8 piece horn band. We would often get bored. So...three words:
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Rabid,
All questions Chroma are best directed to the fantastic Chroma website, where there is a forum that includes some very sharp people well versed in its history.
The Rhodes Chroma Site
"I keep wanting to like it's sound, but every demo seems to demonstrate that it has the earth-shaking punch and peerless sonics of the Roland Gaia. " - Tusker
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Columbia River Gorge, US
The Chroma article seems to have been cobbled together from previous things Mark's done...a shame...an important vintage piece, but no new or insightful info...
I bought my Chroma about one year after it first come out. I played one in my favorite music store and was mesmerized by its sound. I had not planned to spend a fortune on a synth, but I guess that was my first serious GAS attack! I bought it right away.
A while later, I also bought an Apple IIe and the Chroma computer interface. No mouse, no graphics... but there was nothing like it back then. Of course, they were going to come up with MIDI... :rolleyes:
I sold it a few years ago, after twenty years of honoured service... I had bad dreams about it for more than an year. Really.
Nowadays, I have big hopes for that TimewARP 2600 (when it's available for PCs). It could fulfil the original promise of a polyphonic, programmable ARP 2600.
Los Angeles,CA,UNITED STATES
robmix
I sold my two Chromas and every once in a while I regret it. It had it's uses but also spent some time in the shop. I got one after I worked with Jeff Bova who is a Chroma nut. Someday I'll pick up another one.
Rob Hoffman
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Someone has a Chroma on Ebay. It has a MIDI interface and all manuals. Looks nice, but bidding is already up to $2000. That's too much for me.
Burlington, Vermont, UNITED ST...
Stephen Fortner
But who is number 1 ? ...
Rob, Primitive in Burbank (1165 W. Magnolia, before you hit the bridge that goes over the 5 to Ikea and stuff) had one in good shape last time I was in. I think they quoted me, like, $1200 for it. Only problem was it didn't have many usable patches. It did include the MIDI interface, though.
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Re: Thanks for the Rhodes Chroma spotlight in the last issue. #1235918 10/06/05 08:03 AM
I think I know where one is for about $1000. Clean and working, I hear. Won't sell mine - I sold almost ALL of my polysynths, but the Chroma stays!
Relax and float downstream...
zephonic
If there's enough potential buyers I'm sure LG Electronics will come with a remake pretty soon...
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A dream vacation at a Mexican beach resort swiftly dissolves into a nightmare for criminologist and foodie Cait Morgan when her significant other, Bud Anderson, is wrongly arrested for the murder of the local florist, a gifted plantswoman. With Bud's freedom, and maybe even his life, at stake, Cait has to fight the clock to work out which member of the small Mexican community might have killed the respected florist, and why.
Albert, Susan Wittig. WIDOW'S TEARS. [CHINA BAYLES #21]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
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Atherton, Nancy. AUNT DIMITY AND THE LOST PRINCE. [AUNT DIMITY]. Penguin, 16.00 tp.
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Atherton, Nancy. AUNT DIMITY AND THE WISHING WELL. Viking, 28.95 hc.
A strapping young Australian named Jack MacBride arrives in Finch to wrap up his late uncle's affairs, and Lori volunteers to help Jack clear out his uncle's overgrown garden. But after Lori laughingly tosses a coin into the garden's old well and makes a wish, she is baffled to find that the wish seems to have come true. Word spreads, and the villagers turn out in droves to make wishes of their own. But as they soon learn, one person's wish is another person's worst nightmare and the village is thrown into chaos.
Atkins, Ace. ROBERT B. PARKER'S WONDERLAND. [SPENSER]. Berkley, 11.99 pb.
Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favour. Until now. A developer is trying to buy up Henry's condo on Revere Beach - with a push from local thugs. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, are on the trail of a mysterious woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and a shady plan to turn a chunk of land north of Boston into a sprawling casino.
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Tyler Wingo, a teenage boy, receives a communication from his father - a soldier supposedly killed in action in Afghanistan. Tyler hires Sean and Michelle, but their investigation quickly leads to deeper, more troubling questions. Could Tyler's father really still be alive? What was his true mission? Could Tyler be the next target?
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Mousy and shy to the point of agoraphobic, Em Moore is the writing half of a celebrity biography team. Her charismatic partner, Teddy, does the interviewing and the public schmoozing. After Teddy dies in a car accident, Em must finish the interviews for their current book - an "autobiography" of renowned and reclusive film director Garrett Malcolm. She finds Malcolm at once friendlier, more intimidating, and much sexier than she had imagined. But Em soon starts hearing whispers of skeletons in the Malcolm family closet. And then the police begin looking into the accident that killed Teddy, and Em's control on her life - tenuous at best - is threatened.
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Buonaguro, Gina & Kirk, Janet. THE WOLVES OF ST. PETER'S. Harper Canada, 13.99 tp [CDN ed].
1508. Francesco is the reluctant houseboy of Michelangelo. He prefers the company of the urbane Raphael and the artistic circle that meets at the home of Imperia, who operates a brothel in the shadow of the Vatican. One morning he sees a golden-haired woman being pulled from the Tiber and recognizes her as one of Imperia's ladies.
Camilleri, Andrea. HUNTING SEASON. Penguin, 17.00 tp.
In 1880s Vigata, a stranger comes to town to open a pharmacy. Fofo turns out to be the son of a man legendary for having a magic garden stocked with plants, fruits, and vegetables that could cure any ailment - a man who was found murdered years ago. Fofo escaped, but now has reappeared looking to make his fortune and soon finds himself mixed up in the dealings of a philandering local marchese set on producing an heir.
Carmack, Amanda. MURDER AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY. [ELIZABETHAN MYSTERY #2]. Obsidian, 8.99 pb.
Making her way among the courtiers vying for the new queen's favour, royal musician Kate Haywood befriends Lady Mary Everly. With her red hair and pale skin, Mary is a beauty who looks strikingly like Queen Elizabeth - which makes her murder all the more chilling. Now Kate must uncover the trail of a killer whose grievance can only be answered with royal blood.
Child, Lee. NEVER GO BACK. [JACK REACHER]. Dell, 11.99 pb.
Former military cop Jack Reacher arrives at the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. He is there to meet - in person - the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner, so far just a warm, intriguing voice on the phone. But it isn't Turner behind the CO's desk. And Reacher is hit with two pieces of shocking news, one with serious criminal consequences, and one too personal to even think about.
Clark, Marcia. KILLER AMBITION. [RACHEL KNIGHT]. Mulholland, 9.00 pb.
It started with the disappearance of the pretty young socialite who's the daughter of big-time producer Russell Antonovich. When the girl turns up murdered, Rachel Knight is pitted against Hollywood's biggest power players as well as her own boss, who is desperate to stay on Hollywood's good side. Along with her fierce and loyal sidekick, Detective Bailey Keller, Rachel uncovers an oily darkness beneath the glittering surface of the Hollywood elite. It began with the commission of Hollywood's most cardinal, and most common, sin - the theft of a groundbreaking idea. And it quickly becomes clear that those who know the truth will kill to keep it secret.
Cook, J. J. DEATH ON EAT STREET. [BISCUIT BOWL FOOD TRUCK #1]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
Struggling restauranteur Zoe Chase bought herself a used food truck, and in no time she's dishing out classic Southern food on the waterfront and streets of downtown Mobile, Alabama. But when the owner of a competing food truck winds up dead inside her rolling restaurant, Zoe need to find the real killer before she gets burned.
Corby, Gary. SACRED GAMES. [NICOLAOS #3]. Soho Crime, 15.95 tp.
It is the Olympics of 460 BC. Nico's best friend, Timodemus, is a competitor in the pankration, the deadly martial art of ancient Greece. Timo is the hot favourite to win. His only serious rival is Arakos from Sparta. When Arakos is found beaten to death, it is obvious Timodemus must be the killer. Who else could have killed the second-best fighter in all Hellas but the very best? The Judges of the Games sentence Timodemus to be executed in four days' time, as soon as the Sacred Games have finished.
Cotterill, Colin. THE AXE FACTOR: A JIMM JUREE MYSTERY. Minotaur, 28.99 hc.
Jimm Juree is assigned to interview a local "farang" (European) writer, a man in his late fifties, originally from England, who writes award-winning crime novels, one Conrad Coralbank. At the same time, several local women have left town without a word to anyone, leaving their possessions behind. These include the local doctor, Dr. Sumlak, who never returned from a conference, and the Thai wife of that "farang" writer, the aforementioned Conrad Coralbank. All of which looks a little suspicious, especially to Jimm's grandfather, an ex-cop, who notices Coralbank's interest in Jimm with a very jaundiced eye.
Crombie, Deborah. TO DWELL IN DARKNESS. Morrow, 31.00 hc.
Recently transferred to the London borough of Camden from Scotland Yard headquarters, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his new murder investigation team are called to a deadly bombing at historic St. Pancras Station. The victim was taking part in an organized protest, yet the other group members swear the young man only meant to set off a smoke bomb. As Kincaid begins to gather the facts, he finds every piece of the puzzle yields an unexpected pattern, including the disappearance of a mysterious bystander.
Crompton, Richard. HOUR OF THE RED GOD: A DETECTIVE MOLLEL NOVEL. St. Martin, 18.50 tp.
In Nairobi's Uhuru Park, the police have recovered the body of a local prostitute: a Maasai woman, brutally murdered. Detective Mollel, himself a former Maasai warrior, is assigned to the case. As Mollel pursues the death of the prostitute, he begins to suspect something far more extensive than an ordinary murder. But are his warrior's instincts - which have never failed him - as true as they feel? Or will all his convictions about the case be turned on their head?
Daheim, Mary. GONE WITH THE WIN: A BED-AND-BREAKFAST MYSTERY. Avon, 9.50 pb.
Judith receives a visit from Ruby Tooms, the world-weary barmaid from Little Bavaria. Her mother was strangled but the killer was never caught. With a reluctant Cousin Renie in tow, Judith ventures into her long-forsaken old neighbourhood, the site of the McMonigles' ill-fated Meat & Mingle Cafe, traipsing from nursing home to nursery garden, from butcher shop and bus stop to beer and betting parlors.
Davidson, Hilary. BLOOD AWAYS TELLS. Forge, 29.99 hc.
Dominique Monahan just wanted to get even with her twotiming, married boyfriend, a washed up boxer stuck in a toxic marriage to a dangerously spoiled socialite. However, an elaborate blackmail scheme soon lands her in the middle of an unexpected kidnapping... and attempted murder. But who is actually out to kill whom? Desmond Edgars, Dominique's big brother, receives a frantic phone call in the middle of the night.
Davidson, Hilary. EVIL IN ALL ITS DISGUISES. Forge, 18.50 tp.
Lily Moore joins a group of travel journalists for an all-expenses-paid press trip to Mexico's famous resort town of Acapulco. When she arrives at the luxurious Hotel Ceron, she finds a resort that's nearly deserted, a staff who waits attentively to serve guests who aren't there, and abandoned construction projects on the grounds. When Lily's fellow journalist, Skye McDermott, suddenly disappears, Lily knows something is terribly wrong.
Deaver, Jeffery. THE KILL ROOM. [LINCOLN RHYME]. Grand Central, 18.00 tp.
It was a "million-dollar bullet," a sniper shot delivered from over a mile away. Its victim was no ordinary mark: he was a United States citizen, targeted by the United States government, and assassinated in the Bahamas.The nation's most renowned investigator and forensics expert, Lincoln Rhyme, is drafted to investigate. While his partner, Amelia Sachs, traces the victim's steps in Manhattan, Rhyme leaves the city to pursue the sniper himself.
Downing, David. MASARYK STATION. [JOHN RUSSELL #6]. Soho Crime, 15.95tp.
Berlin, 1948. John Russell works for both Stalin's NKVD and the newly created CIA, trying his best to cut himself loose from both before his double-agency is discovered by either. He and his Soviet liaison, Shchepkin, seek out one final operation - one piece of intelligence so damning it could silence the wrath of one nation and solicit the protection of the other. It will be the most dangerous task Russell has ever taken on, but one way or the other, it will be his last.
Flynn, Gillian. GONE GIRL. Broadway, 17.00 tp.
North Carthage, Missouri. On the eve of Nick and Amy Dunne's 5th wedding anniversary, Amy disappears. Passages from her diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media - as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents - the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behaviour. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter - but is he really a killer?
French, Nicci. TUESDAY'S GONE: A FRIEDA KLEIN MYSTERY. Penguin, 18.00 tp.
On a routine home visit, a London social worker discovers her psychotic client serving tea to a naked, decomposing corpse. Unable to make sense of the woman's confused ramblings, Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson asks Frieda Klein for help uncovering the dead man's identity. Frieda soon learns that he was a notorious con man - one Robert Poole. But Frieda can't help feeling that Poole was killed to embroil her in the investigation, that her past isn't done with her yet. And if so, is Frieda herself the next victim?
French, Nicci. WAITING FOR WEDNESDAY: A FRIEDA KLEIN MYSTERY. Pamela Dorman, 32.95 hc.
Ruth Lennox, housewife and mother of three, is found dead in a pool of her own blood. The police call in psychotherapist Frieda Klein. A patient's chance remark sends Frieda down a dangerous path that seems to lead to a serial killer who has long escaped detection. Is Frieda getting closer to unraveling either case? Or is she just the victim of her own paranoid, fragile mind?
Grant, Teresa. THE BERKELEY SQUARE AFFAIR. Kensington, 16.95.
Malcolm and Suzanne Rannoch receive a visit from their friend Simon Tanner, who was attacked and robbed of a package he was bringing to them, a manuscript that may be a lost version of Hamlet. But Lord Carfax, head of British intelligence, claims the manuscript conceals the identity of an Englishman who was a Bonapartist spy. And one of the possible suspects is Malcolm's late father.
Graves, Sarah. A BAT IN THE BELFRY: A HOME REPAIR IS HOMICIDE MYSTERY. Bantam, 9.99 pb.
The enormous bell in the belfry of Eastport's All Faith Chapel, silent for decades, suddenly booms forth. Upon inspection of the steeple, the police uncover the body of local teenager Karen Hansen. When the news of Karen's murder spreads and much of the evidence points to Jake Tiptree's likable houseguest, she and her sleuthing partner, Ellie White, get to work.
Gross, Andrew. NO WAY BACK. Harper, 11.99 pb.
Wendy Gould is a happily married suburban mom who, in a moment of weakness, follows an attractive stranger up to his hotel room where a horrifying murder takes place and she's the only witness. Now she's forced to run from rogue federal agents determined to keep her silent, even if it means killing her.
Hamrick, Janice. DEATH RIDES AGAIN. [JOCELYN SHORE MYSTERY #3]. Minotaur, 9.99 pb.
Jocelyn Shore's Thanksgiving stay at her uncle's ranch takes an unexpected turn when she discovers Uncle Kel threatening his son-in-law Eddy with a shotgun. Kel is none too happy about how Eddy has been treating his daughter Ruby June. Eddy's life is spared - but now Ruby June has gone missing. And before there's even time for the police to conduct a full investigation, Jocelyn finds Eddy's body at the bottom of a caliche pit.
Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia. BLOOD NEVER DIES. [SLIDER]. Severn House, 19.95 tp [UK ed].
Bill Slider and his team take one look at the handsome young man found exsanguinated in his bath, and become convinced something isn't quite right. As they try to identify the man - whose personal papers are missing, along with his wallet and keys - it seems that the more they find out about him, the less they really know.
Henry, James. MORNING FROST. Corgi, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
October 5, 1982. It's been one of the worst days of Detective Sergeant Jack Frost's life. He has buried his wife Mary, and must now endure the wake, attended by all of Denton's finest. All, that is, apart from DC Sue Clark, who spends the night pursuing a bogus tip-off, before being summoned to the discovery of a human hand. And things get worse. Local entrepreneur Harry Baskin is shot outside his club, an off-licence is set on fire and a famous painting goes missing. As the week goes on, a cyclist is found dead in suspicious circumstances, and the arsonist strikes again. Frost is on the case, but another disaster - one he is entirely unprepared for - is about to strike.
Herron, Mick. DEAD LIONS. Soho Crime, 14.95 tp.
An old Cold War-era spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts. The despicable, irascible Jackson Lamb is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered. As the agents dig into their fallen comrade's circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient Cold War secrets that seem to lead back to a man named Alexander Popov, who is either a Soviet bogeyman or the most dangerous man in the world. How many more people will have to die to keep those secrets buried?
Hill, Suzette. A LITTLE MURDER. Allison & Busby, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
London, early 1950s. Marcia Beasley of St John's Wood is discovered dead in her home, naked and covered with a coal scuttle. It is a discomfiting matter, not only for the victim's niece Rosy Gilchrist eager to distance herself from her aunt's fate and raffish reputation but to all members of the deceased's social circle. The floral Felix and acidic Cedric, awful Vera, self-enamored artist Clovis Thistlehyde, the amiably inane Fawcett family all, it seems, have secrets to hide and grudges to bear. Reluctantly Rosy is drawn into a mesh of intrigue, encountering those she would prefer to avoid and uncovering facts she would rather not know.
Hirahara, Naomi. MURDER ON BAMBOO LANE. [ELLIE RUSH #1]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
Rookie cop Ellie Rush dreams of becoming a homicide detective, but for now she patrols L.A. by bike. And on the day of the Chinese New Year Parade, trouble could be lurking around any corner.
Holt, Jonathan. THE ABOMINATION. [CARNIVIA #1]. Harper Canada, 10.99 pb [CDN ed].
In Venice a body has washed up from the Grand Canal: a woman, wearing the robes of a Catholic priest -- a desecration known as the Abomination. It is Captain Katerina Tapo's first murder case and it leads her from the streets of Venice to the uninhabited island of Poveglia to an encrypted gossip website holding the city's secret, to an ancient monastery, and finally to an American military base.
Hutton, Ewan. WILD PEOPLE. [GLYN CAPALDI #3]. HarperCollins UK, 24.99 tp [UK ed].
DS Glyn Capaldi is in hospital recuperating from concussion and the after effects of a car crash. His passenger, a young woman he was bringing in for questioning, is dead. He is initially riven with guilt and self-recrimination. Until he starts to question the possibility that it may not have been an accident. But, if not, who had been the target? Had he made an enemy capable of achieving that level of planning and implementation?
Jaffarian, Sue Ann. GHOST OF A GAMBLE. [GHOST OF GRANNY APPLES]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
Spiritual medium Emma Whitecastle and the ghost of Granny Apples head for Sin City, where a former showgirl is haunted by a dead Vegas hoodlum. But when an aging mobster is found dead and the showgirl goes missing, Emma and Granny Apples decide to go all in on finding the killer.
James, Peter. PERFECT MURDER. Pan, 4.99 tp [UK ed].
Victor Smiley and his wife Joan have been married for 20 years, reaches a tipping point when Victor loses his factory job and finally discovers the charges Joan has been adding to his credit card -- wardrobe and makeovers to impress her secret lover. A novella.
Jecks, Michael. TEMPLAR'S ACRE. [KNIGHTS TEMPLAR]. Simon & Schuster (UK), 16.95 tp.
The Holy Land, 1291. A war has been raging across these lands for decades. The forces of the Crusaders have been pushed back again and again by the Muslims, and now just one city remains in Crusader control. That one city stands between the past and the future, and must be defended at all costs. That city is Acre. Into this battle where men will fight to the death to defend their city comes a young boy. Green and scared, he has never seen battle before, but he is on the run from a dark past and has no choice but to stay - and to stay means to fight. That boy is Baldwin de Furnshill.
Kalteis, Dietrich. RIDE THE LIGHTNING: A CRIME NOVEL. ECW, 14.95 tp.
Bounty hunter Karl Morgen goes after Miro Knotts on a skipped bond, finding the dope dealer wrapped around an underaged girl at a rave in Seattle. Dragging Miro in the hard way gets Karl's license revoked, while Miro gets off with a suspended sentence. Finished in Seattle, Karl finds work as a process server in Vancouver. But after Miro ducks a drug sweep by escaping north of the border, he decides to come after Karl, blaming him for the mess his life has turned into. Karl, on the other hand, wouldn't mind another crack at the scumbag who had his license revoked.
Kane, Andrea. STRANGER YOU KNOW. Mira, 8.99 pb [US ed].
College-age girls with long red hair are brutally murdered and posed like victims in a film noir. Each crime scene is eerily similar to the twisted fantasy of a serial offender now serving thirty years to life-a criminal brought to justice with the help of Casey Woods and Forensic Instincts. It becomes clear that each one has been chosen because of a unique connection to Casey-a connection that grows closer and closer to her.
Kava, Alex. STRANDED: A MAGGIE O'DELL NOVEL. Anchor, 9.99 pb.
When FBI special agent Maggie O'Dell and her partner, Tully, discover the remains of a young woman in a highway ditch, the only clue is a map leading them to spot where they'll find the madman's next victim. As the body count rises, Maggie must race against the clock to unmask the monster terrorizing America's highways, even if it means turning to a former foe for help. But as she gets closer to finding the killer, it becomes eerily clear that Maggie may be the ultimate target.
Kellerman, Faye. THE BEAST: A DECKER/LAZARUS NOVEL. Harper, 11.99 pb.
When Hobart Penny is found dead in his apartment, the cops think that his pet cat--an adult female tiger--attacked the reclusive elderly billionaire. But it soon becomes clear that the beast that killed the eccentric inventor is all too human. Digging into the victim's life, Decker and his colleagues, Detectives Marge Dunn and Scott Oliver, discover that Penny was an exceptionally peculiar man with exotic tastes, including kinky sex with call girls. Following a trail of clues that leads from a wildlife sanctuary in the San Bernardino Mountains to the wild nightlife of Las Vegas, the LAPD detectives are left juggling too many suspects and too few answers.
Kerr, Philip. PRAYER. Putnam, 31.00 hc.
When Gil Martin, an agent with the FBI's Domestic Terrorism Unit in Houston, discovers he played a key role in wrongly condemning an innocent man to death row, it shakes his faith - in the system, in himself, and in God - deeply. And now a serial killer terrorizing the morally righteous is found to have religious motivations, upping the case from homicide to domestic terrorism. A number of prominent secular icons die or are injured abruptly and under suspicious circumstances. As Gil investigates both cases, he realizes that there may be a connection - answering his prayers in a terrifying way.
Kerr, Philip. A MAN WITHOUT BREATH. [BERNIE GUNTHER #9]. Penguin, 18.00 tp.
Smolensk, March, 1943. Bernie Gunther is dispatched here from Berlin to investigate a Russian army war atrocity. Somewhere in this enclave of Prussian aristocrats is a cunning and savage killer who has left a trail of bloody victims. This is no psycho case. This is a man with motive enough to kill and skills enough to leave no trace of himself. Bad luck that in this war zone, such skills are two-a-penny. Somehow Bernie must put a face to this killer before he puts an end to Bernie.
Knight, Alanna. MURDERS MOST FOUL: AN INSPECTOR FARO NOVEL. Allison & Busby, 11.99 pb [UK ed].
The body of a prostitute is found in an Edinburgh close with a playing card, nine of diamonds, on the corpse. A few days later a man is attacked in the street, and left badly bruised and battered with the nine of diamonds in his pocket. Faro seizes on the connection and it is not the last calling card. But what is it that links the victims? Beset by hostile superiors and a police-hating public, Faro feels he may never crack this confounding case.
Lackberg, Camilla. BURIED ANGELS. Harpercollins UK, 19.99 tp [UK ed].
Easter, 1974. A family vanishes without a trace from the island of Valo outside of Fjallbacka. The dinner table has been exquisitely set, but everyone except the one year-old daughter Ebba is gone. Years later Ebba returns to the island and the old summer camp where her father ruled a boarding school with an iron hand. She and her husband Marten have decided to renovate the house and open a B&B. They've barely settled in before they are subjected to an attempt of arson. And when they begin to remove the floor boards in the dining room, they find dried blood underneath...
Legault, Stephen. THE GLACIER GALLOWS. [COLE BLACKWATER #4]. Touchwood, 14.95 tp [CDN ed].
Tragedy strikes during an expedition through Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. At the base of a windswept ridge that forms the border between Canada and the United States, Cole Blackwater finds the body of his business partner and former rival Brian Marriott, a bullet hole in his head. Cole's long history of violence and his antagonistic past with the deceased puts him in the spotlight of the murder investigation.
Leon, Donna. BY ITS COVER. [COMMISSARIO GUIDO BRUNETTI]. Atlantic Monthly, 28.50 hc.
One afternoon, Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a frantic call from the director of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolen pages out of several rare books. After a round of questioning, the case seems clear: the culprit must be the man who requested the volumes, an American professor from a Kansas university. The only problem - the man fled the library earlier that day, and after checking his credentials, the American professor doesn't exist.
Lilliefors, James. THE LEVIATHAN EFFECT. Soho Crime, 15.95 tp.
An anonymous hacker is threatening the US government with a new weather technology and a series of natural disasters. Unaware of the crisis in Washington, investigative journalist Jon Mallory stumbles on a list of seven prominent scientists who have been murdered over the past dozen years. When the person who gave him the list disappears herself, Jon realizes he has unwittingly become part of a deadly chain of events and contacts his brother, private intelligence contractor Charles, for help.
Mason, Jamie. THREE GRAVES FULL. Pocket, 9.99 pb.
More than a year ago, mild-mannered Jason Getty killed a man he wished he'd never met. Then he planted the problem a little too close to home. But just as he's learning to live with the undeniable reality of what he's done, police unearth two bodies on his property - neither of which is the one Jason buried. Jason races to stay ahead of the consequences of his crime, and while chaos reigns on his lawn, his sanity unravels, snagged on the agendas of a colourful cast of strangers.
Maxwell, Alyssa. MURDER AT THE BREAKERS. [GILDED NEWPORT MYSTERY]. Kensington, 16.95 tp.
In the first in a new evocative historical mystery series, debut author Alyssa Maxwell captures the glittering world of Newport, Rhode Island in its heyday.
McKinlay, Jenn. SUGAR AND ICED. [CUPCAKE BAKERY #6]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
Melanie and Angie, co-owners of Fairy Tale Cupcakes, are providing treats for the Sweet Tiara beauty pageant. A high-strung judge and a pushy stage mom try to eliminate Mel and Angie's young friend Lupe from the competition, and when the judge turns up dead, Lupe is crowned lead suspect. Now Mel and Angie need to find the real killer before Lupe winds up strutting down the aisle of a prison block.
McMillan, R. J. DARK MOON WALKING. [DAN CONNOR MYSTERY]. Touchwood, 14.95 tp [CDN ed].
Cop Dan Connor retired to the remote islands off the Pacific Northwest Coast 7 years after putting a troubled criminal named Walker behind bars. When a mysterious boat drives Connor from his anchorage and a marine biologist working in the area goes missing, Connor is forced to team up with his former nemesis, Walker. They have little in common and are from very different cultures, but when a life hangs in the balance and a terrorist plot comes into play, their distinct knowledge and skills are the perfect mix.
McPherson, Catriona. DEADLY MEASURE OF BRIMSTONE. [DANDY GILVER]. Hodder, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
Dandy the devoted wife and mother decides it is time to decamp; Dandy the intrepid detective, however, decides to decamp to the scene of a murder she would dearly love to solve.
Mofina, Rick. WHIRLWIND. Mira, 8.99 pb.
A kind stranger helps Jenna Cooper protect her baby boy when a killer tornado rips through a Dallas flea market. But in the aftermath, Jenna can't find her son or the woman who'd been holding him. As the FBI launches an investigation amid the devastation, reporter and single mom Kate Page uncovers troubling clues to the trail of the woman last seen with the baby--clues that reveal a plot more sinister than anybody had imagined.
Mugavero, Liz. A BISCUIT, A CASKET. [PAWSITIVELY ORGANIC #2]. Kensington, 8.99 pb.
Stan is asked to cater a doggy Halloween party, hosted by the Happy Cow Dairy Farm. Farmers Hal and Emmalee Hoffman, having opened up the farm for parties, offer a "haunted" corn maze as an added attraction. When Hal's lifeless body is found in the maze, the police at first suspect his wife, but Stan soon learns the dairy farmer had plenty of enemies.
Palmer, Daniel. STOLEN. Pinnacle, 10.99 pb.
John Bodine's online gaming business is growning and he's planning a family with Ruby Dawes - until Ruby receives a life-changing diagnosis, and their insurance won't cover her treatment. John steals a customer's identity and files a false medical claim. It works perfectly - until the customer contacts them and forces them to commit crimes. If they fail, he will report their fraud. Trapped, their only hope is to outwit a psychopath who has no intention of letting them leave this game alive.
Palmer, Michael. POLITICAL SUICIDE. St. Martin's, 11.99 pb.
Dr. Lou Welcome receives a call from Washington DC physician Dr. Gary McHugh. A patient of McHugh's, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Elias Colston, has been found shot to death in his home - soon after McHugh paid him a visit. Did McHugh kill Colston? He has no recollection of committing a crime because, later that same night, McHugh wrecked his car in an alcoholic stupor. As more facts come to light, Lou has serious doubts about his friend's innocence. But something about McHugh's story still doesn't add up - and soon a shocking truth is revealed.
Perry, Anne. MIDNIGHT AT MARBLE ARCH: A CHARLOTTE AND THOMAS PITT NOVEL. Ballantine, 19.00 tp.
The horrifying rape and apparent suicide of Catherine Quixwood, wife of a wealthy merchant banker, has Pitt stumped. Why did she choose not to accompany her husband to a grand party on the night of her demise? Why dismiss all the servants for the evening and leave the front door unlocked? And what had been her relationship with the young man seen frequently by her side at concerts and art exhibits?
Perry, Anne. DEATH ON BLACKHEATH: A CHARLOTTE AND THOMAS PITT NOVEL. Ballantine, 32.00 hc.
As commander of the Special Branch, Thomas Pitt has the job of keeping Britain safe from spies and traitors. So why he is suddenly ordered to investigate two minor incidents: the blood, hair, and shards of glass discovered outside the home of naval weapons expert Dudley Kynaston, and the simultaneous disappearance of Mrs. Kynaston's beautiful lady's maid?
Purser, Ann. THE BLACKWOODS FARM ENQUIRY. [IVY BEASLEY #5]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
A reclusive widow hires retiree-turned-sleuth Ivy Beasley and her associates at Enquire Within to investigate recent ghostly visitations, but when the ghost is revealed to be flesh and blood, the widow may be in more trouble than Ivy and her team can handle.
Quirk, Matthew. THE 500. Little Brown, 9.00 pb.
Mike Ford grew up in a world of small-stakes con men, learning lessons at his father's knee. His hard-won success in college and law school was his ticket out. As the Davies Group's rising star, he rubs shoulders with "The 500," the elite men and women who really run Washington - and the world. But peddling influence, he soon learns, is familiar work: even with a pedigree, a con is still a con.
Ryan, Sofie. THE WHOLE CAT AND CABOODLE. [SECOND CHANCE CAT MYSTERY #1]. Obsidian, 8.99 pb.
Sarah Grayson is the proprietor of Second Chance, a charming shop in the oceanfront town of North Harbor, Maine, where she sells used items that she has lovingly refurbished and repurposed. But her favourite pet project so far has been adopting a stray cat she has named Elvis. But when Sarah's elderly friend Maddie becomes the prime suspect in a murder, it's up to Sarah and Elvis to clear her friend's name and make sure the real murderer doesn't get a second chance.
Shaw, Catherine. FATAL INHERITANCE. Allison & Busby, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
It is New Year's day, 1900, when the brilliant violinist Sebastian Cavendish is found dead. The last few days of his life are a mystery, but in the final hours of 1899 he wrote a cryptic suicide note mentioning a cursed inheritance, took poison, and died in agony. Vanessa Weatherburn, an established detective and ex-tutor to one of Sebastian's friends, is engaged to investigate the dead man's final movements.
Sigurdardottir, Yrsa. SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME. Hodder, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
A young man with Down's Syndrome has been convicted of burning down his care home and killing five people, but a fellow inmate at his secure psychiatric unit has hired Thora to prove Jakob is innocent. If he didn't do it, who did? And how is the multiple murder connected to the death of Magga, killed in a hit-and-run on her way to babysit?
Sigurdardottir, Yrsa. THE SILENCE AND THE SEA. Hodder, 22.99 tp [UK ed].
A luxury yacht arrives in Reykjavik harbour with nobody on board. What has happened to the crew, and to the family who were on board when it left Lisbon? Thora Gudmundsdottir is hired by the young father's parents to investigate, and is soon drawn deeper into the mystery. What should she make of the rumours saying that the vessel was cursed, especially given that when she boards the yacht she thinks she sees one of the missing twins? Where is Karitas, the glamorous young wife of the yacht's former owner? And whose is the body that has washed up further along the shore?
Simenon, Georges. THE CARTER OF 'LA PROVIDENCE'. [MAIGRET #2]. Penguin, 12.00 tp.
What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have been alive when she got there because the crime had been committed after ten in the evening. But how? And why? And no one had heard a thing! She had not screamed. The two carters had not woken up. If the whip had not been mislaid, it was likely the body might not have been discovered for a couple of weeks or a month, by chance when someone turned over the straw. And other carters passing through would have snored the night away next to a woman's corpse!
Simenon, Georges. THE HANGED MAN OF SAINT-PHOLIEN. Penguin, 12.00 tp.
On a trip to Brussels, Maigret unwittingly causes a man's suicide, but his own remorse is overshadowed by the discovery of the sordid events that drove the desperate man to shoot himself.
Tope, Rebecca. SHADOWS IN THE COTSWOLDS. Allison & Busby, 11.99 pb [UK ed].
When Thea Osbourne agrees to house sit for Oliver Meadows as a favour to her mother, she expects a few days peace and quiet. But as usual, Thea quickly finds herself at the center of a dark mystery when she discovers a dead body in the gardens of the house.
Tremayne, Peter. ATONEMENT OF BLOOD. [FIDELMA]. Headline, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
Winter, 670 AD. King Colgu's feast day is interrupted by a page claiming that he has an important message for the King. Suddenly, the man, shouting 'Remember Liamuin!' stabs King Colgu. Who is Liamuin? It is a female name? Who is behind the assassination attempt? Colgu's lawyer sister, Fidelma of Cashel, and her companion, Brother Eadulf are charged with solving the mystery.
Vargas, Fred. GHOST RIDERS OF ORDEBEC. [COMMISSAIRE ADAMSBERG]. Arrow, 16.99 tp [UK ed].
As the chief of police in Paris's 7th arrondissement, Commissaire Adamsberg has no jurisdiction in Ordebec, a small Normandy town. Yet he cannot ignore a widow's plea. Her daughter Lina has seen a vision of the Ghost Riders with four nefarious men. According to the thousand year old legend, the vision means that the men will soon die a grisly death. When one of them disappears, Adamsberg races to Ordebec, where he becomes entranced by the gorgeous Lina and embroiled in the small town's ancient feud.
Wenger, Christine. A SECOND HELPING OF MURDER. [COMFORT FOOD MYSTERY #2]. Obsidian, 8.99 pb.
Trixie Markowski has a lot on her plate running the Silver Lake Diner and nearby cottages, but before she can say "Order's up!" one of the cottage residents is found dead. Trixie suspects the crime might be linked to an unsolved disappearance in the town's past. But when word gets out that she's on the case, Trixie's in trouble. After all, the murderer won't spare her life just because she makes a killer corned beef sandwich.
Williams, Charles. CONFIDENTIALLY YOURS. Overlook, 15.95 tp (reissue).
John Warren is preparing for an early morning duck hunt when he hears two shotgun blasts. Only later does he learn they were the sound of Dan Roberts's death. That night, a drunk woman calls Warren's house, offering a motive for the crime he didn't commit. Roberts was sleeping with Warren's wife - and he wasn't her only lover. Warren didn't kill Roberts, but as the rumors begin to swirl, he may wish that he had.
Winspear, Jacqueline. LEAVING EVERYTHING MOST LOVED: A MAISIE DOBBS NOVEL. Harper, 19.99 tp.
The year is 1933. Maisie Dobbs is contacted by an Indian gentleman who has come to England in the hopes of finding out who killed his sister two months ago. Scotland Yard failed to make any arrest in the case, and there is reason to believe they failed to conduct a thorough investigation. The case becomes even more challenging when another Indian woman is murdered just hours before a scheduled interview. Meanwhile, unfinished business from a previous case becomes a distraction, as does a new development in Maisie's personal life.
Woods, Stuart. DOING HARD TIME. [STONE BARRINGTON #27]. Signet, 11.99 pb.
Nobody is prouder than Stone Barrington of his son Peter, an accomplished film writer and director who plans to move to California to make pictures for Centurion Studios, along with his best friend Benito Bacchetti and girlfriend Hattie Patrick. But as the trio are driving to their new home in Los Angeles, they unknowingly run into an old enemy of Stone's. And the arrival of Peter and his friends may provide an irresistable opportunity for vengeance.
Woods, Stuart. CARNAL CURIOSITY. [STONE BARRINGTON]. Putnam, 31.00 hc.
When Manhattan's elite are beset by a series of clever crimes, and Stone Barrington is a material witness, he and his former partner Dino Bacchetti find themselves drawn into the world of high-end security and fraud, where insider knowledge and access are limited to a privileged few, and the wealthy are made vulnerable by the very systems meant to keep them safe.
Zouroudi, Anne. LADY OF SORROWS. [SEVEN DEADLY SINS #4]. Little Brown, 28.00 hc.
A painter is found dead at sea off the coast of a remote Greek island. For our enigmatic detective Hermes Diaktoros, the plot can only thicken: the painter's work, an icon of the Virgin long famed for its miraculous powers, has just been uncovered as a fake. But has the painter died of natural causes or by a wrathful hand? What secret is a dishonest gypsy keeping? And what haunts the ancient catacombs beneath the bishop's house?
Adams, Will. CITY OF THE LOST. Harpercollins UK, 10.99 pb [UK ed].
Business intelligence operative Iain Black, having survived the hotel bombing that killed his friend and partner in southern Turkey, vows to find out who was responsible - then make them pay. Historian Karin Visser, who also lost friends in the blast, teams up with Iain to uncover secrets hidden deep within the region's past, from the bloody division of Cyprus all the way back to the Trojan War. Piecing the puzzle together, Iain and Karin discover the shocking conspiracy behind the blast. But now they're running out of time to reveal it - before they're silenced for good.
Atkins, Ace. ROBERT B.PARKER'S CHEAP SHOT. [SPENSER]. Putnam, 31.00 hc.
Kinjo Heywood is one of the New England Patriots' marquee players - a hard-nosed linebacker who has earned his reputation as one of the toughest guys in the league. When off-field violence repeatedly lands Heywood in the news, his agent hires Spenser to find the men he says have been harassing his client. Heywood's troubles seem to be tied to a nightclub shooting two years earlier. But when Heywood's nine-year-old son, Akira, is kidnapped, and ransom demands are given, Spenser puts together his own all-star team of toughs.
Bingham, Harry. LOVE STORY, WITH MURDERS. [FIONA GRIFFITHS]. Orion, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
A human leg is discovered in a woman's freezer, bagged up liked a joint of pork. The search begins for the rest of the corpse, but soon body parts are turning up in kitchens, garages and potting sheds. DC Fiona Griffiths is drawn into a web of obsession, money, deceit, and acute personal danger.
Blake, Heather. GOODBYE WITCH. [WISHCRAFT #4]. Obsidian, 9.99 pb.
As Enchanted Village's resident Wishcrafter, Darcy Merriweather has the power to make other people's wishes come true, but what she really wishes is that she had the power to uncloak the invisible man who's stalking her best friend...
Block, Lawrence. BORDERLINE. Hard Case Crime, 11.95 tp.
On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide - with fatal results. You'll meet MARTY - the professional gambler who rolls the dice on a night with... MEG - the bored divorcee who seeks excitement and finds... LILY - the beautiful hitchhiker lured into a live sex show by... CASSIE - the redhead with her own private agenda... and WEAVER - the madman, the killer with a straight razor in his pocket, on the run from the police and determined to go down swinging!
Brookmyre, Christopher. FLESH WOUNDS. Little Brown UK, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
As PI Jasmine Sharp battles her demons and Detective Superintendent Catherine McLeod chases her ghosts, these two very different detectives will ultimately confront the secrets that have entangled both of their fates since before Jasmine was even born.
Brown, Dan. INFERNO. Anchor, 11.99 pb.
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . . Dante's "Inferno." Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from Dante's dark epic poem, Langdon races to find answers and decide whom to trust . . . before the world is irrevocably altered.
Brown, Nick. AGENT OF ROME: THE FAR SHORE. [AGENT OF ROME #3]. Hodder & Stoughton, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
When the deputy commander of Rome's Imperial Security Service is assassinated on the island of Rhodes, Cassius Corbulo swiftly finds himself embroiled in the investigation. Assisted once more by ex-gladiator bodyguard Indavara and servant Simo, his search for the truth is complicated by the involvement of the dead man's headstrong daughter, Annia. Braving hostile seas, Cassius and his allies follow the assassin's trail south aboard a ship captained by a roguish Carthaginian smuggler and manned by his disparate, dangerous crew.
Carlisle, Kate. COOKBOOK CONSPIRACY. [BIBLIOPHILE #7]. Obsidian, 9.99 pb.
Brooklyn's sister Savannah and her former culinary school classmates all became successful chefs - including Savannah's ex-boyfriend Baxter. When Baxter invites them all to the gala opening of his new restaurant, Savannah asks Brooklyn to restore a rare antique cookbook as a gift for him. On the night of the gala, Baxter is found dead, the cookbook is gone - and Savannah is the suspect du jour. It is up to Brooklyn to clear her sister's name before she winds up slinging hash in a prison cafeteria.
Castle, Richard. DEADLY HEAT. Hyperion, 10.99 pb.
Determined to find justice for her mother, top NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat continues to pursue the elusive former CIA station chief who ordered her execution over a decade ago. For the hunt, Nikki teams once again with her romantic partner, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Jameson Rook. Their quest for the old spy and the motive behind the past murder unearths an alarming terror plot - which is anything but ancient history.
Connelly, Michael. THE GODS OF GUILT. Grand Central, 17.00 tp.
Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow path, he knows he is on the hook for this one. He soon finds out that she was back in LA and back in the life. Far from saving her, Mickey may have been the one who put her in danger. Haunted by the ghosts of his past, Mickey must work tirelessly and bring all his skill to bear on a case that could mean his ultimate redemption or proof of his ultimate guilt.
Connor, John. VANISHING. Orion, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
Twenty years ago, one-year-old Lauren disappeared in the most terrifying way imaginable. Snatched from a creche during a momentary blackout, Lauren was never seen again and to this day her mother still grieves her loss. When ex-policeman Tom Lomax gets a mysterious offer from Sara Eaton, heir to a massive fortune, to fly to her private island, all expenses paid, he cannot help but be intrigued. Sara has received a troubling message and, despite all the privileges in her life, she now has no one to turn to and doesn't know whom she can trust.
Conrad, Hy. MR. MONK GETS ON BOARD. [MR. MONK #17]. Obsidian, 9.99 pb.
This time it's Monk's turn to rock the boat as he deals with choppy waves, obnoxious kids - and murder on a cruise ship.
Dahl, Arne. BAD BLOOD. Vintage Black Lizard, 18.95 tp.
When a Swedish literary critic is found tortured to death in a janitor's closet at Newark International Airport, the police realize that the murderer made off with the victim's ticket and boarded a flight to Stockholm. After he manages to slip through the customs dragnet, Detectives Paul Hjelm and Kerstin Holm of Intercrime's A-Unit take over the investigation. They learn that the method of torture used was not only a highly specialized means of extracting information secretly developed during the Vietnam War - allowing the victim to whisper, but not to scream - but also that it was the modus operandi of an allegedly deceased homicidal maniac known only as the Kentucky Killer.
Deaver, Jeffery. THE SKIN COLLECTOR. [LINCOLN RHYME]. Grand Central, 31.00 hc.
The killer's methods are terrifying. He stalks the basements and underground passageways of New York City. He tattoos his victims' flesh with cryptic messages, using a tattoo gun loaded with poison, resulting in an agonizing, painful death. When a connection is made to the Bone Collector-the serial killer who terrorized New York more than a decade ago-Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are immediately drawn into the case.
DeMille, Nelson. THE PANTHER. Vision, 11.00 pb.
Anti-Terrorist Task Force agent John Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, have been posted overseas to Sana'a, Yemen to work with a small team tracking down a high-ranking Al Qaeda operative known as The Panther. As latecomers to a deadly game, John and Kate don't know the rules, the players, or the score. What they do know is that there is more to their assignment than meets the eye-and that the hunters are about to become the hunted.
Donally, Claire. LAST LICKS. [SUNNY & SHADOW #3]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
When Sunny Coolidge's boss, Oliver, lands in rehab after breaking his leg, and his flirtatious roommate dies unexpectedly in the night, Sunny and her feline sidekick Shadow are deployed to find out who killed the old tomcat.
Dorgan, Byron L & Hagberg, David. GRIDLOCK. Forge, 11.99 pb.
Two Iranian agents hand over one million dollars to a Russian engineer for a thumbdrive. The drive contains a deadly computer virus that could shut down all electrical power in the United States at a keystroke. In rural North Dakota, a lineman is electrocuted, and the local cop sent to investigate is shot to death. As rolling electrical blackouts begin to shut down major US cities, the war for energy domination begins.
Downing, David. JACK OF SPIES. Soho Crime, 27.95 hc.
1913. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman with an uncanny ear for languages, moonlights collecting intelligence for His Majesty's Navy, but British espionage is in its infancy and Jack has nothing but a shoestring budget and the very tenuous protection of a boss in far-away London. He begins to realize his life is at stake when activities in China suddenly escalate from innocent data-gathering and casual strolls along German military concessions to arrest warrants and knife attacks.
Egholm, Elsebeth. THREE DOG NIGHT. [PETER BOUTRUP]. Headline, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
Ex-convict Peter Boutrup moves to remote, rural Denmark to start a new life. But when a young woman goes missing on New Year's Eve and Peter discovers the body of Ramses, an old acquaintance from prison, things start to unravel.
Fairstein, Linda. DEATH ANGEL. [ALEXANDRA COOPER]. Signet, 11.99 pb.
For one killer Central Park is the perfect hunting ground. A young woman has been found dead in a lake in a secluded section of the park. But is she the first victim of a psychopath or a clue to other missing women in years past whose remains have never been found? Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper and Detective Mike Chapman follow a twisting trail of evidence to find the answer.
Ferris, Gordon. GALLOWGLASS. [DOUGLAS BRODIE #4]. Atlantic, 16.00 tp.
After a senior banker was kidnapped Brodie delivered the ransom money on the instructions of the abducted man's wife, but the drop went disastrously wrong. Brodie was coshed in the kidnappers' den. He woke with a gun in his hand next to a dead banker with a bullet in his head. The bullet comes from his own revolver, the banker's wife denies knowing him, and his pockets are stuffed with ransom notes. In an apparent act of desperation, Brodie cheats justice by committing suicide in his cell. Could this be the sordid end for a distinguished ex-copper, decorated soldier and man of parts?
Finder, Joseph. SUSPICION. Dutton, 32.95 hc.
Single father Danny Goodman suddenly finds himself unable to afford the tuition for the private school his teenage daughter adores. Thomas Galvin, one of the wealthiest men in Boston, offers Danny a $50,000 loan. But as soon as the money is wired into his account, the DEA is at his door and Danny is forced into an unthinkably treacherous undercover assignment.
Galbraith, Robert (J. K. Rowling). THE CUCKOO'S CALLING. [CORMORAN STRIKE]. Mulholland, 20.00 tp.
Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man. You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this.
Gibson, Gregory. THE OLD TURK'S LOAD. Mysterious, 16.50 tp.
Angelo DiNoto is a powerful crime lord in 1967, his empire bolstered by importing pure heroin from an old Turkish farmer. But when a five-million-dollar shipment goes missing during the Newark riots, DiNoto isn't the only one willing to turn over every rock - and bust some heads, arms, and legs - to find it.
Goldenbaum, Sally. ANGORA ALIBI. [SEASIDE KNITTERS MYSTERY #7]. Obsidian, 17.00 tp.
First came love, then came marriage, but before Izzy Chambers can welcome her new baby to Sea Harbor, she and her fellow Seaside Knitters have a mystery to solve. An abandoned baby seat is found on the beach and a man dies in a suspicious diving accident.
Gray, Alex. BIRD THAT DID NOT SING. [LORRIMER]. Sphere, 22.99 tp [UK ed].
Detective Lorrimer must protect his city after a terrifying threat in the countdown to the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Security is extra tight, particularly after a mysterious bomb explodes in nearby rural Stirlingshire. But Detective Superintendent Lorimer has other concerns on his mind. One is a beautiful red-haired woman from his past. And, hiding behind false identities, are those who pose a terrible threat not just to the Games but to the very fabric of society.
Grecian, Alex. THE BLACK COUNTRY. [SCOTLAND YARD'S MURDER SQUAD #2]. Berkley, 18.00 tp.
The British Midlands. Inhabitants call it the 'Black Country', and with good reason. When three members of a prominent family disappear - and a human eyeball is discovered in a bird's nest - Scotland Yard Murder Squad is called in. But Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith have stepped in something much more bizarre than they thought.
Haines, Carolyn. SMARTY BONES. [SARAH BOOTH DELANEY #13]. Minotaur, 9.99 pb.
Professor Olive Twist has come to Zinnia, Mississippi to study a mysterious grave wherein lies the Lady in Red, an anonymous but perfectly preserved and stunningly beautiful body. The professor's research links the corpse to a historic scandal with connections to elite Zinnia families. The society ladies of Zinnia call on Sarah Booth Delaney to counter the research, but the truth behind Olive's research is clear as Mississippi mud, and when Sarah Booth discovers a present-day dead body, she knows there's more than just family pride and Southern heritage at stake.
Hart, Carolyn. DEAD, WHITE, AND BLUE. [DEATH ON DEMAND #23]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
When the notoriously flirtatious Shell Hurst disappears during the Fourth of July fireworks display, bookstore owner Annie Darling can't help thinking someone should look for her. Annie and her husband Max are soon following a twisted trail marked by blackmail, betrayal and adultery, winding from the corridors of the island's lovely inn to a pier lashed by pelting rain, to a gathering on the terrace of a country club - where a trap is set for a calculating killer...
Hayder, Mo. WOLF. [JACK CAFFERY #7]. Harper Canada, 22.99 tp [CDN ed].
Oliver Anchor-Ferrers is recovering from heart surgery at his grand country home when his wife discovers something horrifying in the garden, a grisly sight all too reminiscent of the tragedy that traumatized the family fifteen years ago and haunts them still. It's impossible. How could they have let that man out of prison? Meanwhile, detective Jack Caffery resolves to finally discover the true circumstances of his brother's disappearance and demands help from the one person he knows can lead him in the right direction. But that help will come at a price.
Hughes, Mary Ellen. THE PICKLED PIPER. [PICKLED & PRESERVED #1]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
Piper Lamb has decided to pursue her dream of opening Piper's Picklings, her own shop of pickles and preserves in the idyllic small town of Cloverdale. While she is promoting her business at the town fair, things turn sour when a bagpipe player is found floating in Piper's old-fashioned barrel of brine - and the wrong man stands accused of murder.
Iles, Greg. NATCHEZ BURNING. [PENN CAGE NOVELS #4]. Morrow, 21.99 tp.
Penn Cage is determined to save his father, a doctor who has been accused of murdering Viola Turner, the African-American nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the 1960s. Penn's quest for the truth sends him deep into his father's past, where a sexually charged secret lies waiting to tear their family apart. More chilling, this long-buried sin is only a single thread in a conspiracy of greed and murder involving the vicious Double Eagles, an offshoot of the KKK controlled by some of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the state.
Jance, J. A. SECOND WATCH. [J. P. BEAUMONT]. Harper, 11.99 pb.
J. P. Beaumont is finally taking some time off to have knee-replacement surgery. But instead of taking his mind off work, the operation plunges him into one of the most perplexing and mind-blowing mysteries he's ever faced. A series of dreams takes him back to his early days on the force with the Seattle PD, and then even earlier, to his days in Vietnam, reminding him of people and events he hasn't thought about in years. Are they just drug-induced hallucinations? Beaumont isn't so sure. When tugging on those threads from long ago leads to present-day murders, Beau's suspicions are confirmed. Some bodies from the second watch just won't stay buried.
Johnson, Craig. A SERPENT'S TOOTH: A WALT LONGMIRE MYSTERY. Penguin, 17.00 tp.
It's homecoming in Absaroka County, but the football and festivities are interrupted when a homeless boy wanders into town. A Mormon "lost boy," Cord Lynear is searching for his missing mother but clues are scarce. Longmire and his companions, feisty deputy Victoria Moretti and longtime friend Henry Standing Bear, embark on a high plains scavenger hunt in hopes of reuniting mother and son. The trail leads them to an interstate polygamy group that is presiding over a stockpile of weapons and harboring a vicious vendetta.
Koppel, Hans. YOU'RE MINE NOW. Sphere, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
Anna and Lukas have a happy marriage but when, in a moment of madness, Anna has a brief fling with Erik, a man she met at a work conference, she regrets more than just her infidelity. Erik is a disturbed individual who goes to extreme lengths to get Anna's attention, including kidnapping her 10 year old daughter and attacking her mother.
Larsson, Asa. UNTIL THY WRATH BE PAST: A REBECKA MARTINSSON INVESTIGATION. Quercus, 14.99 tp.
Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Kiruna. Joining forces once again with Police Inspector Anna-Maria Mella, Rebecka is drawn into a murder and missing-person investigation that becomes entangled with old rumors of a German supply plane that mysteriously disappeared in 1943. Shame and secrecy shroud the locals' memories of the war, with Sweden's early collaboration with the Nazis still a raw wound. And on the windswept shore of a frozen lake lurks a faceless killer determined to keep the past buried forever beneath half a century's silent ice and snow.
Le Carre, John. A DELICATE TRUTH. Penguin Canada, 18.00 tp [CDN ed].
Gibraltar, 2008. A joint US-UK covert counterterror operation is mounted against a target code-named PUNTER. The Foreign Office's Kit Probyn will be the Minister's eyes and ears on the ground. Toby Bell, the Minister's personal private secretary is left out of the loop. In 2011 a disgraced Special Forces soldier who took part in the operation delivers a message from the dead. The worlds of Toby Bell and Kit Probyn are about to collide.
Lescroart, John. THE KEEPER. Atria, 32.50 hc.
Hal Chase, a guard in the San Francisco County Jail is arrested for the murder of his wife Katie. Abe Glitsky finds other possible suspects for Dismas Hardy, Chase's defense attorney: Patti Orosco - rich, beautiful, dangerous, and Hal's former lover; the still unknown person who had a recent affair with Katie; even Hal's own step-mother Ruth, resentful of Katie's gatekeeping against her grandchildren. And as Glitsky probes further, he learns of an incident at the San Francisco jail, where Hal works - only one of many questionable inmate deaths that have taken place there.
Lovesey, Peter. STONE WIFE. Sphere, 34.99 hc [UK ed].
Just as the bidding gets exciting in a Bath auction house, three armed men stage a hold-up and attempt to steal Lot 129, a medieval carving of the Wife of Bath. The highest bidder, appalled to have the prize snatched away, tries to stop them and is shot dead. The case demands that someone goes undercover. The dangerous mission falls to Sergeant Ingeborg Smith, reverting to her journalist persona to get the confidence of a wealthy local criminal through his pop star girlfriend. And soon, murder makes a reappearance.
Magson, Adrian. DEATH AT THE CLOS DU LAC. Allison & Busby, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
Picardie, France 1964. Midnight at the exclusive and mysterious Spa St Jean des Eaux, near Poissons-les-Marais. A man is standing in the therapy pool. But he's not there for his health - someone has chained him to the bottom and let him to die very, very slowly. Along with the unusual and elaborate method of execution, the dead man has Inspector Lucas Rocco's name and number in his pocket. Patrons at the Clos du Lac refuse to speak and the ministry officials sent from Paris to assist, only attempt to derail Rocco's efforts to find answers.
Mankell, Henning. TREACHEROUS PARADISE. Vintage Canada, 19.95 tp.
Non-mystery. Cold and poverty define Hanna Renstrom's childhood in remote northern Sweden, and in 1905, at 19, she boards a ship for Australia in hope of a better life. But none of her hopes--or fears--prepares her for the life she will lead. After 2 brief marriages, she finds herself a widow twice over, and the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white supremacy rule, where she is isolated within society by her profession and her sex, and, among the bordello's black prostitutes, by her colour.
Marston, Edward. PERIL ON THE ROYAL TRAIN. [RAILWAY DETECTIVE #10]. Allison & Busby, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
1858. The driver and fireman of a goods train are speeding along near the Scottish border. They take a sharp bend and see the track ahead ripped up. With no time to react, the engine veers off the rails and plunges into the lake below, taking the wagons and men with it. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming learn that the sabotage might be the work of a rival company - or perhaps the target is the Queen and Prince Consort, en route to Balmoral.
Masterman, Becky. RAGE AGAINST THE DYING. Penguin Canada, 16.00 tp [CDN ed].
The tranquil life Brigid Quinn builds after being pushed into early retirement is disrupted when a man named Floyd Lynch confesses to the worst unsolved case of Brigid's career - the disappearance and presumed murder of her young protegee, Jessica. Though he knows details never made public, and has offered to lead the cops to Jessica's body in return for a plea bargain, the new FBI agent on the case, Laura Coleman, thinks the confession is fake.
Matthews, Jason. RED SPARROW. Pocket, 11.99 pb.
Russian intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the post-Soviet intelligence jungle. Ordered against her will to become a "Sparrow," a trained seductress, Dominika is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a young CIA officer who handles the Agency's most important Russian mole. As the action careens between Russia, Finland, Greece, Italy, and the United States, Dominika and Nate soon collide in a duel of wills, tradecraft, and - inevitably - forbidden passion that threatens not just their lives but those of others as well.
Maxwell, Edith. A TINE TO LIVE, A TINE TO DIE. [LOCAL FOODS #1]. Kensington, 8.99 pb.
Just when Cam's farm-share is beginning to flourish, murder threatens to spoil her success. The victim is the man she just fired - handyman Mike Montgomery, stabbed to death by a pitchfork.
Mayle, Peter. THE CORSICAN CAPER. Knopf, 26.95 hc.
Billionaire Francis Reboul spies a massive yacht whose passengers seem a little too interested in his coastal estate. The yacht belongs to rapacious Russian tycoon Oleg Vronsky, who, for his own purposes, will stop at nothing to obtain Reboul's villa. It's up to Reboul's friend Sam Levitt to negotiate with an underworld of mercenaries and hit men, not to mention the Corsican mafia, to prevent Reboul from becoming a victim of Vronsky's "Russian diplomacy."
McCarry, Charles. THE SHANGHAI FACTOR. Mysterious, 16.50 tp.
A young, unnamed spy, living in Shanghai, employed by a US Intelligence agency known only as 'HQ', is asked to go undercover as the American ambassador for a massive Chinese multinational conglomerate, and learn the secrets of their powerful CEO Chen Qi, whom HQ believes to be a front man for the nearly uncrackable Chinese Intelligence, known as the Guoanbu. But the spy soon finds that HQ isn't the only one tracking his every move, and that the deadly Guoanbu may be aware of his true identity.
McDermid, Val. NORTHANGER ABBEY. Harper Canada, 19.99 tp [CDN ed].
Non-mystery : Val McDermid's modern re-telling of the classic Northanger Abbey.
McGoran, Jon. DRIFT. Tor, 9.99 pb.
Philadelphia narcotics detective Doyle Carrick is laying low at a house he's inherited in rural Pennsylvania. He is surprised to fall for his neighbour, Nola Watkins, who is under pressure to sell her organic farm to a large, mysterious development company. He's more surprised to see highpowered drug dealers driving the smalltown roads - dealers his bosses don't want to hear about.
McKinlay, Jenn. DEATH OF A MAD HATTER. [HAT SHOP #2]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
Scarlett Parker and Vivian Tremont are at their London hat shop, preparing for an Alice in Wonderland-themed afternoon tea. The tea serves as a fundraiser hosted by the Grisby family, who wants the new children's hospital wing named after their patriarch. When the Grisby heir is poisoned, evidence points to Scarlett and Viv, and the police become curiouser and curiouser about their involvement.
McNeill, Fergus. KNIFE EDGE. [HARLAND]. Hodder, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
Now that Kim's become important to him, Robert Naysmith decides to tell his girlfriend his deadly secret. He wants her to recognize the power he holds. He hopes he won't have to kill her. Detective Inspector Harland hasn't forgotten the serial killer who got away from him. But with nothing to go on, he fears he will never bring him to justice--until he is called to investigate the brutal murder of a woman in her Bristol home. A random attack and a murderer who has carefully covered his tracks--alarm bells start ringing. Then Harland meets Kim, and one last game of life and death is about to begin.
Mitra, Monabi. THE DEAD DON'T CONFESS. Penguin, 16.00 tp.
The dashing grey-eyed policeman, poster boy of the Calcutta Police Station, Inspector Bikram, has landed a case that refuses to solve itself out. Will Bikram be able to expose the murky underbelly of the city's most affluent and influential?
Mogford, Thomas. SIGN OF THE CROSS: A SPIKE SANGUINETTI NOVEL. Bloomsbury, 16.00 tp.
Gibraltar lawyer Spike Sanguinetti must go to Malta where his uncle and aunt are dead after a domestic dispute escalated into a blood-soaked murder-suicide. The more he looks into his relatives' deaths, however, the more he is faced by a troubling question: what could have prompted a mild-mannered art historian to stab his wife to death, then turn the knife upon himself? After reuniting with an ex-girlfriend, Zahra, now working in Malta as a translator, Spike embarks on a dangerous trail that leads all the way from the island's squalid immigrant tent camps to the ornate palazzos of the legendary Knights of St John.
Morrigan, Laura. TIGER'S TALE. [CALL OF THE WILDE #2]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
When a normally mellow tiger at a rescue facility corners a terrified vet, animal behaviourist Grace Wilde needs to use her psychic ability to get to the root of the problem.
Nesbo, Jo. SON. Random House Canada, 29.95 hc [CDN ed].
Sonny is a model prisoner. He listens to the confessions of other inmates at Oslo jail, and absolves them of their sins. Some people even whisper that Sonny is serving time for someone else: that he doesn't just listen, he confesses to their crimes. Dedicated Oslo police Inspector Simon Kefas has just been assigned a new murder investigation and a new partner, all on the same day. Both of them knew Sonny's father. To Sonny he was the man he idolised, to Kirk he was his best friend. Both were devastated when his corruption was revealed. But neither of them knew the truth.
O'Brien, Kevin. TELL ME YOU'RE SORRY. Pinnacle, 10.99 pb.
Stephanie Coburn has barely recovered from her sister's mysterious suicide before her brother-in-law and his new wife are murdered, her face disfigured beyond recognition. Stephanie has never met the bride, has never even seen a clear photograph. But she knew her sister and she knows that something is desperately wrong.
Parra, Nancy J. MURDER GONE A-RYE. [A BAKER'S TREAT #2]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
Toni Holmes is the best gluten free baker in Oiltop, Kansas -- okay, she's the only one - but when her grandmother becomes a murder suspect, she's more concerned with keeping Grandma free.
Patterson, James & Sullivan, Mark. PRIVATE BERLIN. Vision, 11.00 pb.
When Private Berlin's superstar agent Chris Schneider suddenly disappears, he becomes Private Berlin's most dangerous investigation yet. Mattie Engel, another top agent at Private Berlin - and Chris's ex - throws herself headfirst into finding Chris, following leads to the three people Chris was investigating when he vanished: a billionaire suspected of cheating on his wife, a soccer star accused of throwing games, and a nightclub owner with ties to the Russian mob. Any one of them would surely want Chris gone-and one of them is evil enough to want him dead.
Pearson, Ridley. CHOKE POINT. [RISK AGENT #2]. Jove, 11.99 pb.
Private security firm Rutherford Risk's new client has hired him to locate and shut down an Amsterdam-based sweat shop that enslaves girls for labour. Enter import/export enterpreneur John Know, forensic accountant Grace Chu, and a young girl who could provide the key to their investigation - if she wasn't so afraid of the consequences she'd face for helping them.
Price, Cate. A DOLLHOUSE TO DIE FOR. [DEADLY NOTIONS #2]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
Why is an antique dollhouse worth killing for? Vintage notions shop owner Daisy Buchanan is on the case.
Rhodes, Kate. KILLING OF ANGELS. Hodder, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
There's a killer stalking the Square Mile, with a particular interest in the secretive Angel Bank. And in order to find the killer, Alice and Don must dig deep into the toxic heart of the city, where money means more than life, and no one can be counted innocent.
Robertson, Imogen. THEFT OF LIFE. [CROWTHER & WESTERMAN #5]. Headline, 22.99 tp [UK ed].
London 1785. When the body of a West Indies planter is found, suspicion falls upon one of the victim's former slaves, who was found with his watch on the London streets. As Harriet Westerman and Gabriel Crowther begin to investigate, they find the answer is not that simple.
Robinson, Peter. CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION. [BANKS]. McClelland, 19.95 tp [CDN ed].
A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with 5,000 pounds in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence in this isolated spot. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Banks soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with the victim going back to the early '70s at the University of Essex, then a hotbed of political activism.
Roslund, Anders & Hellstrom, Borge. CELL 8. Quercus, 9.99 pb.
When a cheap crooner by the name of John Schwarz, who earns his keep on a ferry between Sweden and Finland, loses his temper with a man harassing women in the crowd and beats him unconscious, Detective Ewert Grens discovers that John Schwarz is not who he says he is, but instead John Meyer Frey - an American citizen from Marcusville, Ohio - a man who died on Death Row the previous year. This mystery initiates the most remarkable criminal investigation of Grens's career.
Ross, Barbara. BOILED OVER. [MAINE CLAMBAKE #2]. Kensington, 8.99 pb.
Any Mainer will tell you that a real clambake needs wood for the fire - so why is there a foot sticking out of the oven? The town wants to pin the murder of the RV park owner on Cabe Sone, a new employee of the Snowden Family Clambake Company - who bolted from the crime scene and disappeared. Julia knows that having another murder associated with her family's business is a recipe for disaster - but who is the killer?
Sandford, John. SILKEN PREY. [PREY #23]. Berkley, 11.99 pb.
A Minnesota political fixer was hired to take down the incumbent U.S. senator with a vicious smear, opening the way for an ambitious heiress. The fixer thinks a little blackmail will increase his payoff. Instead, he gets only a small one - 9 millimeters, to be exact. In the heart. Davenport is investigating the smear when the trail leads to the man's disappearance, then - very troublingly - to the Minneapolis police department, then - most troublingly of all - to a woman who could give Machiavelli lessons.
Sandford, John. FIELD OF PREY. [LUCAS DAVENPORT]. Putnam, 33.00 hc.
15 bodies were found stuffed in a cistern in an abandoned cornfield. And if that wasn't bad enough, when Lucas began to investigate he made some disturbing discoveries of his own. The victims had been killed over a great many years, one every summer. How could this have happened without anybody noticing? Because one thing was for sure: the killer had to live close by. He was probably someone they saw every day....
Seymour, Gerald. CORPORAL'S WIFE. Hodder, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
A small British team, three ex-soldiers and one student dropout who knows the language, are sent into Iran to smuggle out a feisty, independent young woman named Farideh. Her husband is a corporal in the Revolutionary Guard, entrapped by MI6 and held in a safe house in Austria. His job as driver for a top general means he knows the location of nuclear sites and other secrets. But he won't talk unless they will bring out Farideh.
Smith, Wilbur. VICIOUS CIRCLE. [HECTOR CROSS #2]. Macmillan UK, 19.99 tp [UK ed].
When Hector Cross's life is overturned, he immediately recognizes the ruthless hand of an enemy he has faced many times before. A terrorist group has re-emerged - like a deadly scorpion from beneath its rock. Determined to fight back, Hector draws together a team of his most loyal friends from his former life in Cross Bow Security, a company originally contracted to protect his beloved wife, Hazel Bannock, and her company, the Bannock Oil Corp.
Spillane, Mickey & Collins, Max Allan. COMPLEX 90. [MIKE HAMMER]. Titan, 9.99 pb.
Hammer accompanies a conservative politician to Moscow on a fact-finding mission. Arrested and imprisoned by the KGB on a bogus charge, he quickly escapes, creating an international incident by getting into a fire fight with Russian agents. On his stateside return, the government is none too happy with Hammer. Russia is insisting upon his return to stand charges, and various government agencies are following him. A question dogs our hero: why him? Why does Russia want him back, and why was he singled out to accompany the senator to Russia in the first place?
Spillane, Mickey & Collins, Max Allan. KING OF THE WEEDS. [MIKE HAMMER]. Titan, 25.95 hc.
Hammer finds himself up against a clever serial killer targeting only cops. A killer his old friend Captain Pat Chambers had put away many years ago is suddenly freed on new, seemingly indisputable evidence, and Hammer wonders if this seemingly placid, very odd old man might somehow be engineering cop killings that all seem to be either accidental or by natural causes. At the same time Hammer and Velda are dealing with the fallout - some of it mob, some of it federal government - over the $89 billion dollar cache the detective is (rightly) suspected of finding not long ago.
Subramanian, Ravi. BANKERUPT. Penguin, 16.00 tp.
A university is an institution for higher ecucation and research. It can also be a place where academic brilliance leads to overinflated egos, bitter politics and finally, murder.
Thilliez, Franck. SYNDROME E. Penguin, 18.00 tp.
Translated from the French. Detective Lucie Hennebelle and Inspector Franck Sharko investigate a rare and violent film from the 1950s in which are embedded unspeakable heinous subliminal images. As they strip away layers they uncover a darkness that spreads from France to Canada, Egypt to Rwanda, and beyond.
Thompson, Victoria. MURDER IN CHELSEA. [GASLIGHT MYSTERY #15]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
When a mysterious woman claiming to represent the mother of Sarah Brandt's adopted daughter is murdered, Sarah and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy uncover revelations that will not only affect Sarah's future with her daughter, but her future with Malloy...
Thompson, Victoria. MURDER IN MURRAY HILL. [GASLIGHT MYSTERY #16]. Prime Crime, 28.95 hc.
Frank Malloy is assigned to a new case - finding a missing young woman for her worried father, Henry Livingston. It seems the girl had been responding to "lonely hearts" ads in the paper for months before she disappeared. Her father thinks that she's eloped with a deceptive stranger, but Malloy fears the worst, knowing that the grifters who place such ads often do much more than simply abscond with their victims.
Trent, Christine. STOLEN REMAINS. [LADY OF ASHES #2]. Kensington, 16.95 tp.
When her mother falls ill, undertaker Violet and her husband Samuel are summoned back to England from the American West. There she's honoured to undertake the funeral of Anthony Fairmont, the Viscount Raybourn, a close friend of Queen Victoria's - but it's difficult to perform her services when his body disappears. As Scotland Yard searches for his earthly remains, Violet's own investigation takes her from servants' quarters, to the halls of Windsor Castle, to the tombs of ancient Eqypt.
Viets, Elaine. BOARD STIFF. [A DEAD-END JOB #11]. Obsidian, 9.99 pb.
After a tragic paddleboarding mishap, husband and wife PI team Helen Hawthorne and Phil Sagemont hit the beach to find a murderer.
White, Neil. NEXT TO DIE. Sphere, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
Ronnie Bagley is locked up and facing trial for the murder of his girlfriend and baby. Two weeks before he's due in court he suddenly fires his defence team, claiming there's only one lawyer he wants to defend him: Joe Parker. Little does Joe know that Bagley is smarter than anyone has given him credit for, and soon Joe will find himself pitched against his own brother, Sam, in a race to outwit the most terrifying serial killer the city has ever seen.
Alan, Isabella. MURDER SIMPLY STITCHED. [AMISH QUILT SHOP]. Obsidian, 9.99 pb.
When Angie Braddock's closest friend becomes a murder suspect, Angie and the quilting circle set out to patch the clues and stop a killer.
Arlidge, M. J. EENY MEENY. BBC, 16.00 tp.
A young couple wakes disorientated, trapped and without food or water. There's no escape. Instead there's a gun loaded with a single bullet and a mobile phone with charge enough for a single message: when one of you kills the other, the survivor will walk free. Other pairs are soon taken. The victims appear to be selected at random, but the planning is meticulous. Until DI Helen Grace can establish a connection, a twisted killer will remain out of reach.
Billingham, Mark. DYING HOURS. [TOM THORNE]. Sphere, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
A cluster of suicides among the elderly has been dismissed by the police as routine -- but Tom Thorne disagrees. Unfortunately he has stepped out of line once too often and has been demoted to uniform - and his suspicions are ignored by his former colleagues in the Murder Squad.
Bolin, Janet. NIGHT OF THE LIVING THREAD. [THREADVILLE #4]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
Willow, owner of the chic machine embrodery boutique, In Stitches, must follow a trail of glow in the dark thread, delve into ancient Egyptian curses, and creep through a haunted graveyard to unearth a killer - before she becomes the next fashion victim.
Booth, Stephen. ALREADY DEAD. [COOPER AND FRY]. Sphere, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
Derbyshire's CID has discovered a man's body lying in shallow water, but torrential rain has swollen the rivers and flooded the roads, making travel difficult and forensic examination impossible. The fatal events of one damp August night are likely to remain shrouded in mystery if they can't track down a car glimpsed only as a dark outline in the rain by a passer-by.
Boyd, William. SOLO. [JAMES BOND]. Harper Canada, 17.99 tp [CDN ed].
It's 1969, and, having just celebrated his 45th birthday, James Bond is dispatched by M to the troubled West African nation of Zanzarim. He is to quash the rebels threatening the established regime. But Bond soon realizes the situation is far from straightforward, and piece by piece he uncovers a twisting conspiracy that extends further than he ever imagined.
Brackmann, Lisa. HOUR OF THE RAT. Soho Crime, 14.95 tp.
Iraq War vet Ellie McEnroe has a pretty good life in Beijing, representing the work of controversial dissident Chinese artist Zhang Jianli. Even though Zhang's mysterious disappearance of over a year ago has attracted the attention of the Chinese authorities. Even though her Born-Again mother has come for a visit and shows no signs of leaving. But things really get complicated when Ellie's search for an Army buddy's missing brother entangles her in a conspiracy that may or may not involve a sinister biotech company, eco-terrorists, and an art-obsessed Chinese billionaire, and lots of cats.
Brennan, Alison. DEAD HEAT. [LUCY KINCAID NOVELS #8]. St. Martins, 9.99 pb.
Lucy Kincaid joins what is supposed to be a simple sweep of known offenders with outstanding warrants. But when Lucy and her team try to bust two local brothers for jumping bail, she walks into a hotbed of pure evil. Their names are George and Jaime Sanchez. They are charged with murder, drug trafficking, and worse. The brothers have been using their basement as a holding cell for children they kidnapped for the cartels. When George agrees to turn on his brother, he is murdered behind bars.
Campion, Alexander. DEATH OF A CHEF. [CAPUCINE CULINARY MYSTERY #4]. Kensington, 16.95 tp.
Police Judiciaire Commissaire Capucine LeTellier takes a frantic call from Cecile, her best friend. Cecile has just bought a fabulous Louis Vuitton steamer trunk at the Paris Flea Market. She's horrified to find the trunk contains the naked body of a man who seems to have blown his head off. Capucine's restaurant critic husband identifies the body as uber-chef Jean-Louis Brault, who had been rumored to be an inch away from losing his third Michelen star.
Carlisle, Kate. BOOK STOPS HERE. [BIBLIOPHILE #8]. Obsidian, 27.95 hc.
Brooklyn Wainwright is thrilled to be appearing on the hit television show This Old Attic as a rare book expert and appraiser. Her first subject is a valuable first edition of the classic children's story The Secret Garden, owned by a flower vendor named Vera. But soon Vera's ownership is contested by an angry thug, and the show's host is being threatened. And when Vera is found dead, Brooklyn must enlist the help of her securities-expert boyfriend and her cupbake-baking new neighbour to find a clever killer.
Clement, John & Blaize. THE CAT SITTER'S CRADLE. [DIXIE HEMINGWAY MYSTERIES #8]. Minotaur, 9.99 pb.
Not only is Dixie looking after a schnauzer with a nose for trouble - a recent dog walk turned up a baby in a bramble patch! - but she's also just accepted a job minding multi-millionaire oilman Roy Harwick's Siamese cat and his wife's collection of rare tropical fish. And now, you guessed it, a dead body has turned up in the unlikeliest of places. Can Dixie make her way out of this mess and manage to restore paw and order...or will she end up in the doghouse?
Colfer, Eoin. SCREWED. Overlook, 17.95 tp.
When his uneasy truce with long kingpin Irish Mike Madden is threatened by a sudden accidental death, Daniel McEvoy decides it's high time to settle the score and ensure that no one around him - his smarmy plastic surgeon best friend, his chronically alcoholic long-lost aunt, his 40-year-old grandmother or his selectively amnesiac sometime girlfriend - becomes collateral damage.
Connolly, Sheila. RAZING THE DEAD. [MUSEUM MYSTERY #5]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
Between her demanding position as president of the Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society in Philadelphia and her blossoming relationship with FBI agent James Morrison, Nell Pratt has her hands full. But when she discovers a dead body on a historic dairy farm that is being threatened with demolition, Nell will have to dig into the past to solve a murder in the present.
Cooper, Amanda. TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT. [TEAPOT COLLECTOR #1]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
When her Manhattan restaurant goes under, Sophie Taylor retreats to the charming town of Gracious Grove and her grandmother's cozy shop, Auntie Rose's Victorian Tea House. The last thing Sophie expects is a bustling calendar of tea house events, like her old friend Cissy Peterson's upcoming bridal shower. Tensions reach a boiling point when Cissy's fiance's mother dies while sampling scones at a competing tea house. Now, to help her friend, Sophie will have to bag a kiler before the guest list becomes a hit list.
Corleone, Douglas. GOOD AS GONE. St. Martins, 11.99 pb.
Former U.S. Marshal and now private contractor Simon Fisk is given a choice by French police: he can work with them to find a kidnapped 6 year old or he can go to jail for his actions on a past case. Simon sets out in pursuit of the missing child, but her captors did not leave an easy trail, and following it will take Simon through the ritziest nightclubs and the seediest back alleys, into a terrifying world of international intrigue and dark corners of his past he'd rather never face again.
Craven, Michael. DETECTIVE & THE PIPE GIRL. Bourbon Street, 17.99 tp.
Arthur Vonz is one of the most powerful men in Los Angeles, a filmmaker among the ranks of Spielberg, Coppola, and Kubrick. He hires PI John Darvelle to find a young woman named Suzanne Neal, an incandescent beauty who just might be hiding something. What starts as an easy assignment soon has Darvelle plunging deep into the hidden world of Hollywood's elite. A twisting, turning journey puts him face-to-face with the LAPD, a ruthless underground crime operation, and a cold-blooded killer.
Cussler, Clive & Brown, Graham. ZERO HOUR. [NUMA FILES #9]. Berkley, 11.99 pb.
Zero point energy: a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and thus all but unlimited. One scientist thinks he has found a way to tap into it, however. The problem is, his machines also cause great earthquakes, even fissures in tectonic plates. One machine is buried deep underground; the other is submerged in a vast ocean trench. The NUMA team must find and destroy them or soon the world will be on the threshold of a new era of earth tremors and unchecked volcanism.
Davidson, Diane Mott. THE WHOLE ENCHILADA. Avon, 9.99 pb.
Goldy Schulz knows her food is to die for, but she never expects one of her best friends to actually keel over when she's leaving a birthday party Goldy has catered. When a colleague - a woman who resembles Goldy - is stabbed, and Goldy is attacked outside her house, it becomes clear that the popular caterer is the main course on a killer menu.
Davis, Krista. THE DIVA WRAPS IT UP. [DOMESTIC DIVA #8]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
The holidays are Sophie Winston's favourite time of year. But this season there seems to be more mishaps than mistletoe. First Horace Scroggins tumbles from a balcony during his office Christmas party. Then Sophie's neighbour takes a fall from his ladder while decorating his roof with lights. But it's the cookie swap turned fatal encounter that really gets her wondering who's naughty - and who's nice.
Davis, Lindsey. ENEMIES AT HOME. [FLAVIA ALBIA #2]. Hodder, 22.99 tp [UK ed].
When a couple is found dead in their own bedroom and their house burglarized, some of their household slaves know what is about to happen to them - they will be executed unless the culprit is found. They flee to the Temple of Ceres, which by tradition is respected as a haven for refugees. This is where Flavia Albia comes in. The authorities, under pressure from all sides, need a solution. Albia, a private informer just like her father, Marcus Didius Falco, is asked to solve the murders.
Desmet, Christine. HOT FUDGE FRAME-UP. [FUDGE SHOP #2]. Obsidian, 9.99 pb.
After a foodie judge is murdered, the sheriff is wondering if candy shop owner Ava Oosterling fits the mold for a murder suspect.
Disher, Garry. FALLOUT. Soho Crime, 14.95 tp.
Australian jewel thief Wyatt has a bounty of stolen jewels and a yacht. When he discovers that the gems are fakes, he begrudgingly joins forces with Raymond, his estranged nephew and an established criminal himself, to lift some expensive artwork. But it isn't long before things go south, leaving Wyatt with some tough choices. Will the young and eager Raymond prove to be a worthy pupil or is he nothing but dead weight?
Dyer-Seeley, Kate. SCENE OF THE CLIMB. [PACIFIC NORTHWEST MYSTERY #1]. Kensington, 8.99 pb.
Meg Reed bluffs her way into writing for Northwest Extreme magazine, passing herself off to editor-in-chief Grag Dixon as an outdoor adventure enthusiast. Never mind that Meg's idea of sport is climbing onto the couch without spilling her latte. So when she finds herself clawing to the top of Angel's Rest - a two-thousand-foot peak - to cover the latest challenge in a reality TV adventure show, she can't imagine being more terrified. Until she witnesses a body plummet off the side of the cliff. And if the climbing doesn't kill her, a murderer just might.
Ellis, David. LAST ALIBI. [JASON KOLARICH #3]. Prime Crime, 11.99 pb.
Faced with a murder charge and unable to prove his own innocence without breaking his sworn attorney client privilege, Jason Kolarich must hunt for the truth about his mysterious client, a series of brutal killings, and the reason why he's been set up to take the fall.
Ellory, R. J. DEVIL AND THE RIVER. Orion, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
When Sheriff John Gaines is called down to the riverside, it is to supervise the uncovering of a body of a teenage girl. The corpse is perfectly preserved and the girl could have died yesterday. But the locals of Whytesburg, Missisippi are in for a shock. For Nancy Denton - a girl missing for over two decades - has come back to them from the cold embrace of the river bank.
Evanovich, Janet. TOP SECRET TWENTY-ONE: A STEPHANIE PLUM NOVEL. Bantam, 32.00 hc.
This time Stephanie's in deep. To get to the bottom of the mess, she's going to have to keep things "Top Secret."
Freydont, Shelley. INDEPENDENCE SLAY. [CELEBRATION BAY #3]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
Liv Montgomery is swamped coordinating Celebration Bay's Fourth of July festival. But when a Revolutionary War reenactor goes missing and a dead body winds up in his place, she'll need to solve this crime before someone else becomes history...
Furst, Alan. MIDNIGHT IN EUROPE. Random House, 32.00 hc.
Paris, 1937. Cristian Ferrar, a brilliant and handsome Spanish emigre, is a lawyer in the Paris office of a prestigious international law firm. Ferrar is approached by the embassy of the Spanish Republic and asked to help a clandestine agency trying desperately to supply weapons to the Republic's beleaguered army - an effort that puts his life at risk in the battle against fascism. Joining Ferrar in this mission is a group of unlikely men and women: idealists and gangsters, arms traders and aristocrats and spies.
Galbraith, Robert. SILKWORM. [CORMORAN STRIKE NOVEL]. Mulholland, 31.00 hc.
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives - meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced.When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before.
Gibbins, David. PHAROAH. Headline, 10.99 pb [UK ed].
The legacy of the Sun-Pharaoh has disappeared into the sands, but only after the discovery of Tutahkhamun's tomb do people believe the half-crazed man who insists there is a vast lost labyrinth beneath modern Cairo. When Jack Howard and his team hear of the crazed engineer, they dive into the past, to a people who have sworn to guard the greatest secret of all time...
Goodwin, Jason. THE BAKLAVA CLUB. [INVESTIGATOR YASHIM #5]. Sarah Crichton, 30.00 hc.
Three naive Italian liberals, exiled in Istanbul, have bungled their instructions to kill a Polish prince - instead, they've kidnapped him and absconded to an unused farmhouse. Little do they realize that their revolutionary cell has been penetrated by their enemies, who are passing along false orders under the code name La Piuma, the Feather. It falls to Inspector Yashim to unravel all this - he's convinced that the prince is alive and that the Italians have hidden him somewhere.
Grimes, Martha. VERTIGO 42. [RICHARD JURY]. Scribner, 32.00 hc.
Tom Williamson is convinced his wife, Tess, dead from a fall 17 years ago, was murdered. Richard Jury learns that a nine-year-old girl fell to her death five years before Tess at the same country house in Devon where Tess died. The girl had been a guest at a party Tess was giving for six children. Jury seeks out the five surviving party guests, who are now adults, hoping they can shed light on this bizarre coincidence. Meanwhile the bodies begin to pelt from the sky: an elegantly dressed woman falls to her death from the tower of a cottage near the pub where Jury and his cronies are dining one night. Then the dead woman's estranged husband is killed as well.
Hamilton, Steve. LET IT BURN. [ALEX MCKNIGHT NOVELS #10]. Minotaur, 18.50 tp.
Alex McKnight returns to Detroit when he learns that a young man he helped put away - in the one big case that marked the high point of his career - will be getting out of prison. While there, he's reminded of something about that young man's case, a seemingly small piece of the puzzle that he never got to share. It's not something anyone wants to hear, but Alex can't let go of the feeling that they arrested the wrong man. And that the real killer not only got away, but went on to kill again.
Hayder, Mo. POPPET. [JACK CAFFERY]. Harper Canada, 13.99 tp [CDN ed].
After a patient, Isaac, is released into the community from a high security mental health ward, the staff realize that he was connected to a series of unexplained episodes of self-harm amongst the ward's patients, and furthermore that he was released in error. They call on Detective Jack Caffery to investigate, and to track Isaac down before he can kill again. Will the terrifying little effigies Isaac made explain the incidents around the ward, or provide the clue Caffery needs to predict what he's got planned?
Hewson, David. HOUSE OF DOLLS. Pan Macmillan, 19.99 tp [UK ed].
3 years ago Anneliese Vos, 16-year-old daughter of Amsterdam detective, Pieter Vos, disappeared in mysterious circumstances. His desperate search for her failed and resulted in his departure from the police force. Now Laura Bakker, a misfit trainee detective from the provinces, comes to tell him that Katja Prins, daughter of an important local politician, has gone missing in circumstances similar to Anneliese.
Hiaasen, Carl. BAD MONKEY. Grand Central, 17.00 tp.
Andrew Yancy - late of the Miami Police, soon-to-be-late of the Key West Police - has a human arm in his freezer. There's a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, his commander might relieve him of Health Inspector duties, aka Roach Patrol.
Hill, Antonio. THE GOOD SUICIDES. [SALGADO]. Doubleday Canada, 24.95 tp [CDN ed].
Senior staff at Alemany Cosmetics company come home with a secret after a team-building course in a remote country house. Now, they are committing suicide, one by one. Soon, they may all be dead. Each has received a photo from an anonymous source of three dogs hanging dead from a tree near the house. Deciphering the personalities of these high-earning executives and their power structure, Inspector Salgado has his own way of making them speak. But Barcelona is now freezing cold and the city is hunkering against an unusually cold spell. Can Salgado break the ice before it's too late?
Hoag, Tami. THE 9TH GIRL. [KOVAC & LISKA #3]. Signet, 11.99 pb.
On a frigid New Year's Eve in Minneapolis a young woman's brutalized body falls from the trunk of a car into the path of oncoming traffic. Questions as to whether she was alive or dead when she hit the icy pavement result in her macabre nickname, Zombie Doe. Unidentified and unidentifiable, she is the ninth nameless female victim of the year, and homicide detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska are charged with the task of not only finding out who Zombie Doe is, but who in her life hated her enough to destroy her.
Holt, Jonathan. ABDUCTION. [CARNIVIA #2]. Harper Canada, 22.99 tp [CDN ed].
Intelligence analyst Holly Boland is trained to think differently, so when a U.S. army officer's daughter is kidnapped from a military base in Venice, Holly is sure the abductors want more than a ransom. Meanwhile policewoman Captain Kat Tapo has found a webcam feed embedded in the encrypted website Carnivia.com. It shows a terrified teenage girl, hooded and tied to a chair. A strand of text scrolls across the screen: "Sensory deprivation is not torture." The webmaster: Daniele Barbo, creator of Carnivia, has never let the government access his servers. Why would he help Kat and Holly find the missing girl?
Howell, Dorothy. EVENING BAGS AND EXECUTIONS. [HALEY RANDOLPH #6]. Kensington, 8.99 pb.
Fashionista and part-time sleuth Haley Randolph has landed her ticket to ride: a job planning events for big-deal Hollywood clients. She is assigned a hugely complicated Beatles-themed bash. On her way to check out the party's custom yellow submarine cake, Haley finds the baker lying in a pool of blood. And of course the police are eyeing her as a possible murderer. With a long suspect list, Haley will be working at least eight days a week to keep herself out of those awful prison outfits - while tracking down the season's hottest bag: the Enchantress. But the killer may be much closer than she thinks.
Hunter, Stephen. SNIPER'S HONOR: A BOB LEE SWAGGER NOVEL. Simon & Schuster, 34.00 hc.
Bob Lee Swagger joins a journalist in tracking down the legendary Ludmilla "Mili" Petrova, a sniper who was once the most hunted woman on earth, having raised the fury of two of the most powerful leaders on either side of World War II: Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. The more Swagger learns about Mili's last mission, the more he's convinced her disappearance was no accident - but why would the Russian government go to such lengths to erase the existence of one of their own decorated soldiers?
Hyzy, Julie. INAUGURAL PARADE. [WHITE HOUSE CHEF OMNIBUS]. Prime Crime, 19.00 tp.
STATE OF THE ONION, HAIL TO THE CHIEF and EGGSECUTIVE ORDERS in one volume: White House chef Olivia Paras is as skilled at solving mysteries as she is at preparing state dinners.
James, Peter. WANT YOU DEAD. [ROY GRACE]. Macmillan Uk, 19.99 tp [UK ed].
When 30-year old Red Cameron met handsome, charming and rich 35 year old Bryce Laurent through an online dating agency, there was instant attraction. But as their love blossomed, the truth about his past began to emerge, and with it his dark side. Everything he has told Red about himself turns out to be a tissue of lies, and her infatuation with him gradually turns to terror. Within a year, and under police protection, she evicts him from her flat and her life. But far from being over, her nightmare is only just beginning.
Jennings, Maureen. BEWARE THIS BOY. McClelland & Stewart, 19.99 tp [CDN ed].
November, 1940. Tom Tyler, Detective Inspector of the small Shropshire town of Whitchurch, jumps at the opportunity to help out in the nearby city of Birmingham, where an explosion in a munitions factory has killed or badly injured several of the young women who have taken on dangerous work in support of the war effort. At first, it seems more than likely the explosion was an accident, and Tom has only been called in because the forces are stretched thin. But as he talks to the employees of the factory, inner divisions - between the owner and his employees, between unionists and workers who fear communist infiltration - begin to appear.
Johnson, Craig. BY ANY OTHER NAME. [WALT LONGMIRE #10]. Viking, 31.00 hc.
Detective Gerald Holman is dead and Walt's old boss Lucian wants to know what drove his old friend to take his own life. Walt learns that the by-the-book detective might have suppressed evidence concerning three missing women. Digging deeper he discovers an incriminating secret so dark that it threatens to claim other lives even before the sheriff can serve justice -- Wyoming style.
Kallentoft, Mons. THE FIFTH SEASON. Hodder, 22.99 tp [UK ed].
It's early May when a young family out on a forest walk stumble upon a heavily mutliated body. The female corpse is in eerily good condition, and signs of torture are all too visible. Inspector Malin Fors immediately draws parallels between this case and that of Maria Murvall, the young woman who was found raped and brutally beaten in the forest several years ago. Maria has been living as a mute in the local psychiatric hospital ever since the attack, and Malin is haunted by her inability to help her.
Kelly, Diane. PAW ENFORCEMENT. [PAW ENFORCEMENT NOVEL #1]. St. Martin's, 9.99 pb.
Police officer Megan Luz and her loyal K-9 partner Brigit are two Fort Worth cops who are worth their weight in kibble. With Brigit out on the beat, Megan is writing up enough tickets to wallpaper the whole station. But when a bomb goes off at the mall's food court, it's up to Megan and Brigit to start digging - and sniffing - for clues. With the help of dead-sexy bomb-squad expert Seth Rutledge and his own canine partner named Blast, Megan finds herself in a desperate race to collar a killer.
King, Stephen. JOYLAND. Hard Case Crime, 9.99 pb.
Summer, 1973. College student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny in a small-town North Carolina amusement park and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
Laurie, Victoria. DEADLY FORECAST. [PSYCHIC EYE #11]. Obsidian, 9.99 pb.
Abby's wedding day is fast approaching, but she has more to worry about than pre-wedding jitters. When her fiance Dutch is assigned to a local suicide bombing case, Abby fears that this case may be his last. So when another suicide bomber strikes, Abby must race to catch the criminal before it's time to throw the bouquet!
Leather, Stephen. TRUE COLOURS. [SPIDER SHEPHERD #10]. Hodder, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
Asked by a group of ex-colleagues to hunt down a former Taliban tyrant who has claimed UK asylum by assisting the British government, Spider is forced to decide between his sense of justice and his job. For as he struggles to save the life of one man, he's on a path to extinguish another.
Lee, Amanda. THREAD END. [EMBROIDERY #8]. Obisidan, 9.99 pb.
Embroidery shop owner Marcy Singer can't wait to see the new museum exhibit on antique textiles - but her enthusiasm turns to terror when she discovers a dead body behind her store.
Lindsay, Jeff. DEXTER'S FINAL CUT. Vintage Black Lizard, 18.95 tp.
Mega-star Robert Chase is famous for losing himself in his characters. When he and a group of actors descend on the Miami Police Department for "research," Chase becomes fixated on Dexter Morgan, the blood spatter analyst with a sweet tooth for doughnuts and a seemingly average life. To perfect his role, Chase is obsessed with shadowing Dexter's every move and learning what really makes him tick. There is just one tiny problem...
Mark, David. ORIGINAL SKIN. [AECTOR MCAVOY #2]. Plume, 18.00 tp.
A sequence of salacious murders has Detective Sergeant McAvoy on the hunt for a sadistic killer in Yorkshire. At first the man found hanging in his apartment, naked and dead, is thought a suicide. But more bodies begin to surface, and all are connected to the underground erotic scene.
Marks, Howard. SCORE. Vintage UK, 16.99 tp [UK ed].
DS Catrin Price, receiving a series of cryptic messages from an old school friend, tracks him down to an isolated town in the wilds of the Brecon Beacons. There she finds him destroyed by fear for his missing daughter and living in terror of a shadowy figure he refuses to name. The girl is a promising singer, and all Cat has to go on is a haunting video of her performing in a local talent competition. Other girls in the area have been going missing, and when one of them is found dead in an abandoned mine shaft, Cat fears the worst.
McIntosh, D. J. BOOK OF STOLEN TALES. [MESOPOTAMIAN TRILOGY #2]. Penguin Canada, 16.00 tp. CDN ed].
New York art dealer John Madison travels to London to purchase a rare 16th century Italian book of fairy tales. Before he can deliver it to his anonymous client he is robbed by a mysterious man claiming to be the author. Soon the client also goes missing. And before long he will learn that a well-known children's tale contains a necromancer's spell and the truth about an ancient Mesopotamian plague.
Morrell, David. MURDER AS A FINE ART. Mulholland, 18.00 tp.
Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier. The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts." Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives.
Nesbo, Jo. POLICE. Random House Canada, 19.95 tp [CDN ed].
Several police officers are found murdered at the scene of an old and unsolved murder case that they were involved in investigating. The killings are extremely brutal and bestial. The police have no leads. What's more, they're missing their best investigator. A severely wounded man in a coma is kept alive at a hospital in Oslo. The room is guarded by the police and the identity of the patient is kept secret.
Nesbo, Jo. COCKROACHES. [HARRY HOLE #2]. Random House Canada, 19.95 tp [CDN ed].
Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. But it's work, not pleasure. The Norwegian ambassador has been found dead in a seedy motel room, and no witnesses have come forward. The ambassador had close ties to the Norwegian prime minister, and to avoid a scandal Harry is sent there to hush up the case. But he quickly discovers that there is much more going on behind the scenes and very few people willing to talk. When Harry lays hands on some CCTV footage that will help him unravel what happened that night, things only get more complicated. The man who gave him the tape goes missing, and Harry realises that failing to solve a murder case is by no means the only danger in Bangkok.
O'Brien, Charles. DEATH IN SARATOGA SPRINGS. [GILDED AGE MYSTERY #2]. Kensington, 16.95 tp.
New York City, 1894. Captain Jack Crake is a decorated veteran of the Union army and a successful mogul in the meatpacking industry. But this powerful man also has a hidden private life as a predator of young women. Working for attorney Jeremiah Prescott, private investigators Pamela Thompson and former police detective Harry Miller are engaged to search for a maid allegedly abducted by the captain. Before they can find her, Crake is murdered in a hotel in Saratoga Springs. Pamela's ward, Francesca Ricci, working as a chambermaid, is accused of the crime.
Parra, Nancy J. ENGAGED IN MURDER. [PERFECT PROPOSALS #1]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
Event planner Pepper Pomeroy is making the most of her current unemployment by arranging a surprise for her sister, Felicity. Felicity's boyfriend, Warren, plans to propose on a private jet and whisk her away to a romantic getaway. Everything goes according to Pepper's plan until she finds a dead boy in the hangar's ladies' room...
Parris, S. J. TREACHERY. [GIORDANO BRUNO]. Doubleday Canada, 22.95 tp [CDN ed].
Summer, 1585: fear of the impending Armada is mounting. Sir Francis Drake prepares to cross the Atlantic and seize major Spanish ports, diverting Philip's American treasure supplies to Queen Elizabeth. Giordano Bruno, radical philosopher and spy, accompanies his friend Sir Philip Sidney to Plymouth to oversee Drake's departure. But when a ship's captain is brutally murdered, and Drake's life threatened, it becomes clear that someone plans to destroy the expedition before it begins. And when Drake's young wife and her cousin arrive, Bruno and Sidney find themselves thrown into an unexpected rivalry.
Patterson, James & Paetro, Maxine. CONFESSIONS OF A MURDER SUSPECT. Grand Central, 9.00 pb.
On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, their daughter Tandy knows just three things: 1) She was one of the last people to see her parents alive. 2) The suspect list only includes Tandy and her three siblings. 3) She can't trust anyone - maybe not even herself. As Tandy sets out to clear the family name, she finds that digging deeper into her powerful parents' affairs proves to be a disturbing and dangerous game. Who knows what any of the Angels are truly capable of?
Pearson, Ridley. THE RED ROOM. [RISK AGENT #3]. Putnam, 31.00 hc.
John Knox, an expert at surveillance and delicate, international dealings is pressured into accepting a job as an art broker in Istanbul, a melting pot of spies, terrorists, and conflicting interests. Teamed with smart, quick, and fearless Grace Chu, Knox must navigate a murky operation, the only goal of which is to spend five minutes in the proximity of a man they've never met. Why? What can it possibly matter? And why are so many others bound and determined to see it never happens - at any cost?
Phillips, Louise. DOLL'S HOUSE. Hodder, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
Clodagh Hamilton, trying to come to terms with her past visits a hypnotherapist who unleashes disturbing childhood memories of her father's death, and memories of another tragedy come to light. What terrible events took place at the Hamilton house all those years ago? And what connects them to the recent murders in Dublin being investigated by the criminal psychologist Dr. Kate Pearson?
Preston, Douglas J & Child, Lincoln. WHITE FIRE. Grand Central, 11.00 pb.
Special Agent Pendergast arrives at an exclusive Colorado ski resort to rescue his protegee, Corrie Swanson, from serious trouble with the law. His sudden appearance coincides with the first attack of a murderous arsonist who - with brutal precision - begins burning down multimillion-dollar mansions with the families locked inside. After springing Corrie from jail, Pendergast learns she made a discovery while examining the bones of several miners who were killed 150 years earlier by a rogue grizzly bear. Her finding is so astonishing that it, even more than the arsonist, threatens the resort's very existence.
Rankin, Ian. SAINTS OF THE SHADOW BIBLE. [REBUS]. Orion, 15.99 tp [UK ed].
Rebus is back on the force albeit with a demotion and a chip on his shoulder. A 30-year-old case is being reopened and Rebus's team from back then is suspected of foul play. With Malcolm Fox as the investigating officer, are past and present about to collide in a shocking and murderous fashion? And does Rebus have something to hide? His colleagues back then called themselves 'The Saints', and swore a bond on something called 'the Shadow Bible'. But times have changed and the crimes of the past may not stay hidden much longer. Who are the saints and who the sinners? And can one ever become the other?
Reichs, Kathy. BONES OF THE LOST: A TEMPERANCE BRENNAN NOVEL. S&S, 9.99 pb.
When Charlotte police discover the body of a teenage girl along a desolate stretch of two-lane highway, they find inside her purse the ID card of a prominent local businessman, John-Henry Story, who died in a horrific flea market fire months earlier. Meanwhile, the Hand of Fate, in its usual subtle fashion, sends Tempe a clue by dumping a bundle of contraband Peruvian dog mummies onto her desk. Peruvian dog mummies? Had Tempe only had a nose for the implausible, she might have made the connection, made this a short story.
Rollins, James. INNOCENT BLOOD. [THE ORDER OF THE SANGUINES #2]. Harper, 11.99 pb.
An attack outside Stanford University thrusts archaeologist Erin Granger back into the fold of the Sanguines, an ancient Vatican order who seek the answers to a mystery found within the pages of a gospel written in Christ's own blood. As the threat of Armageddon looms, she must join forces with an ancient evil to halt the plans of a man determined to see the world end.
Roy, Lori. UNTIL SHE COMES HOME. Penguin, 18.00 tp.
The ladies of Alder Avenue - Grace, Julia and Malina - struggle to care for one another amidst a city rife with conflict, but life erupts when childlike Elizabeth disappears. A black woman was recently murdered at the factory where their husbands work, and the ladies fear that crime may fortell Elizabeth's fate. When an unmistakable sound rings out, the vicious secrets that bind them all will be revealed.
Sefton, Maggie. CLOSE KNIT KILLER. [KNITTING MYSTERY #11]. Prime Crime, 9.99 pb.
A veteran con man shows up in Fort Connor - and is found dead in his car outside the House of Lambspun. When one of the shop's knitters becomes the prime suspect, Kelly Flynn and her friends will need to focus on sorting through a long list of fleeced suspects to catch the killer.
Smith, Alexander McCall. THE MINOR ADJUSTMENT BEAUTY SALON. [PRECIOUS RAMOTSWE]. Vintage Canada, 19.95 tp.
Mma Ramotswe is asked to help the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, who is having trouble with her business. The salon has suffered some unfortunate events, including mistakenly using face creams that burn the skin. Could someone be trying to put them out of business? Meanwhile on the home front, successful career woman Mma Makutsi is going to have a baby. But in Botswana - a land where family has always been held above all else but which is on the crossroads between old and new - this may be cause for as much controversy as celebration.
Smith, Karen Rose. DEADLY DECOR. [CAPRICE DE LUCA HOME STAGING MYSTERY #2]. Kensington, 8.99 pb.
Caprice is worried about her pregnant sister. Bella's marriage is coming apart like a bad wallpaper job, and to make matters worse she's decided to meet up with Bob Preston, a house painter that Caprice frequently employs. When Bob is found dead in a pool of paint, it is time for Caprice to stage an investigation.
Smith, Tom Rob. THE FARM. Grand Central, 31.00 hc.
Your mother...she's not well, his father tells Daniel over the phone. She's been imagining things - terrible, terrible things. She's had a psychotic breakdown, and been committed to a mental hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad... I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow. Caught between his parents, and unsure of who to believe or trust, Daniel becomes his mother's unwilling judge and jury as she tells him an urgent tale of secrets, of lies, of a crime and a conspiracy that implicates his own father.
Taylor, Brad. WIDOW'S STRIKE. [PIKE LOGAN #4]. Siget, 11.99 pb.
Angered by sanctions placed against its nuclear program, a rogue state is threatening to release a nightmarish biological weapon. Racing against time to prevent a global pandemic, vetern Taskforce operative Pike Logan and his partner Jennifer Cahill follow the trail across Southeast Asia to the United States.
Todd, Charles. A QUESTION OF HONOR: A BESS CRAWFORD MYSTERY. Morrow, 18.50 tp.
Bess Crawford enjoyed a wondrous childhood in India, where her father, a colonel in the British army, was stationed on the Northwest Frontier. But in 1908, Colonel Crawford's regiment discovered it had a murderer in its ranks, an officer who killed five people in India and England yet was never brought to trial. A decade later, tending to the wounded on the battlefields of France during World War I, Bess learns from a dying Indian sergeant that the supposed murderer, Lieutenant Wade, is alive-and serving at the Front. Was he really guilty? And was her father complicit?
Upson, Nicola. DEATH OF LUCY KYTE. [JOSPEHINE TEY]. Bourbon Street, 17.99 tp.
Her estranged godmother's will, in bequeathing Red Barn Cottage to Josephine Tey, stipulates that she must personally claim the house in the Suffolk countryside. Sorting through the artifacts of her godmother's life, Josephine is intrigued by an infamous death committed on the cottage's grounds a century before. Yet this old crime - dubbed the Red Barn murder - still seems to haunt the tight-knit village and its remote inhabitants.
Vachss, Andrew. SHOCKWAVE: AN AFTERSHOCK NOVEL. Pantheon, 32.00 hc.
A body washes up on the beach of a small town on the Oregon coast: the dead man's shaven skull has been torn open, and his upper body is covered with neo-Nazi tattoos. A "walking wounded" schizophrenic is accused of the crime. Mack, the director and sole employee of the local mental-health outreach program, searches for the real killer, pulled deep into the world of hate groups. Dell is forced to share some of his "dark arts" knowledge with Mack. Together they discover the treasonous fog of evil that hovers not just above their town, but above America itself.
Vargas, Fred. DOG WILL HAVE HIS DAY. [THREE EVANGELISTS #2]. Harvill Secker, 22.00 tp [UK ed].
Keeping watch under the windows of the Paris flat belonging to a politician's nephew, Louis Kehlweiler catches sight of something odd on the pavement. A small white object, surrounded by the excrement of local dogs. A piece of bone. Human bone, in fact. The tiny fragment obsesses him so much that he follows the trail to the tiny Breton fishing village of Port-Nicolas. Because someone there owns a pit bull terrier. A dog that would take a bite out of anything. Even the foot of a corpse. But where is the corpse? Or the murderer?
Vine, Barbara. THE CHILD'S CHILD. Doubleday Canada, 16.99 tp [CDN ed].
When their grandmother dies, adult siblings Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling London home. Rather than sell it, they move in together, splitting the numerous bedrooms and studies. The arrangement is unusual, but ideal for the affectionate pair until the day Andrew brings home a new boyfriend, a devilishly handsome novelist named James. When he and Andrew witness their friend's murder outside a London nightclub, James begins to unravel, and what happens next changes the lives of everyone in the house.
Von Schirach, Ferdinand. THE COLLINI CASE. Penguin, 17.00 tp.
Fabrio Collini, an elderly and unassuming man, enters a Berlin hotel and kills a prominent industrialist. Rookie defense lawyer Caspar Leinen is assigned the case - but how he can defend a man who admits to murder yet refuses to say why he did it? When Caspar discovers his own connection to the victim he must confont a personal and professional dilemma.
Walker, Martin. THE DEVIL'S CAVE. [BRUNO #5]. Harper Canada, 13.99 tp [CDN ed].
Satanism has reared its ugly head in St-Denis. A female body bearing the ghastly signs of a black magic ritual has been found on a boat. The search for her identity leads to an elderly aristocrat known as the Red Countess, herself a descendent of the bewitching Madame de Montspan, also known as Athenais, a mistress of Louis XVI and a notorious figure in French history. This the last thing that Bruno needs.
Winspear, Jacqueline. MAISIE DOBBS. Soho Crime, 14.95 tp (reissue).
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Xiaolong Qiu. ENIGMA OF CHINA: AN INSPECTOR CHEN NOVEL. [INSPECTOR CHEN CAO #8]. Minotaur, 18.50 tp
Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is brought in by the Party to sign off on the investigation into the death of Zhou Keng, son of a major party member and head of the Shanghai Housing Development Committee. When a number of his corrupt practices were exposed on the internet Zhou was removed from his position and placed into extra-legal detention, where he apparently hanged himself while under guard. Though the Party wants Chen to sign off on that conclusion, the sequence of events don't quite add up.
Young, Tom. WARRIORS. Berkley, 11.99 pb.
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Deir el-Medina stelae, offering
tables and other fragments from
the Petrie Museum
This page was last updated on February 27th 2017
1. Museum's own labels
2. Museum's web site at www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk
3. Davis, Benedict G.: Genealogies and personality characteristics of the workmen
in the Deir el-Medina community during the Ramesside period. Thesis submitted in
accordance with the requirements of the University of Liverpool for the degree of
Liverpool : University of Liverpool, February 1996.
4. Trope, Betsy Teasley: Excavating Egypt : Great discoveries from the Petrie
Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London
Atlanta : Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, 2005.
4. Friedman, Florence: Meaning of some anthropoid busts from Deir el-Medina
IN : The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 71 (1985), pp. 82-97.
UC14446
From Deir el-Medina
19th dynasty, around 1295-1186 BC
Offering table of Penrennut, "Servant in the Place of
Truth" as the central column of hieroglyphic inscription on
the base of the table states. The inscription is flanked
by 2 columns of incised vegetation motifs, most probably
depicting lotuses. The damaged spout carries remains of
incised depictions of a crude cake on one side and
possibly two leeks on the other side.
Depth: 4.75 cm
Back to Petrie
20th dynasty, about 1160 BC
Offering stela of a person seated to the left of the
offering table. A young male on the right side stands in
the posture of reverence. Above the male and the
offering table there is an inscription, consisting of seven
short vertical columns of hieroglyphs (damaged at the
right), identifying both men as "3h ikr n R'", "the able
spirit of Ra". The seated man is named Djaydjay, the
standing man Khnum-[...]. At the top register there is
a boat of Ra coloured yellow and red. Traces of red,
yellow and blue pigments are surviving on the rest of
the stela.
Probably from Deir el-Medina
20th dynasty (1186-1069 BC)
This is a right-hand part of a framed stele of Kaha.
It shows the deified Amenhotep I (1551-1524 BC)
standing to the left, holding a spear in his left hand.
The two cartouches next to him identify him as
Amenhotep Djeserkare. To his right there is a priest
standing in adoring position. The priest's name is
written in a hieroglyphic inscription above his head.
Offering table of Anakht, "chisel-bearer in
the Place of Truth' (king's tomb craftsman).
Hieroglyphic inscription inscribed around the
edges. Only the right half of the object is in
the museum.
Width: max. 12 cm
Found at Thebes, probably from Deir el-Medina
19th dynasty, 1295-1186 BC)
Height: 7.5 cm
Upper part of a votive stele showing a coiled
cobra with double falcon plume on her head.
The worshipper's name is illegible in the
hieroglyphic inscription, the rest reads "beloved
of the goddess Meretseger".
Possibly from Deir el-Medina
Ramesside Period (1295-1069 BC)
Fragment from a tomb. In the lower left
side of the fragment there is an upper
part of a royal head and face with uraeus
on the forehead. Above the head there is
a cartouche of Ahmes Nefertari, the
queen of Ahmose I (1570-1546 BC), the
mother of Amenhotep I (1551-1524 BC).
Fragment of a stela from the tomb of
Khawey, who had a title "Guardian in
the Place of Truth".
The stela shows a pair of human heads
on the left side and a male head on
the right side. There is a hieroglyphic
inscription around the head on the
The New Kingdom stelae very often show the owner in adoration in front of deities. The position of
honour seems to be the left, so the deities occupy that area, and may be seated, while the owner
stands to their right. Stelae of the 18th dynasty often show only the owner, his wife and his children.
Stelae of the Ramesside period may include other family members.
The upper parts of offering tables were often carved with the loaves, trussed ducks and vessels, so
that the stone-carved images could serve as magical substitutes for the real food offerings. Usually
the hieroglyphic offering formula and/or lists of produce are also present. Sometimes there were
grooves or channels cut into the surface of the table so that liquids such as water, beer or wine could
be poured on to the table.
© Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL
The text and photography Lenka Peacock
Ramesside period, (1069BC-1295BC)
The fragment comes from a tomb wall and
comprises the remains of three horizontal
registers. The background was painted yellow
and also remains of reddish and blue pigments
are visible.
From the Mary Broderick bequest
Top register: leg and foot in a sandal on the left side, before the words "on the west of Thebes" (hr imnt
W3st). Also visible are the remains of the white skirt.
Middle register: "... made by (likely with the meaning: son of) one who is greatly favoured by
...", [...r.n Hsy aA n ...]
[with thanks to Jan Kunst from the Netherlands for the translation and transliteration]
Bottom register: a couple facing to the right, only the heads remain. The man is wearing a cone on his
head, the woman - according to the inscription "his wife" (hmt.f) wears a cone on her head and a blue
lotus on her forehead. Her name is illegible.
Seventy-five examples of small anthropoid, oracular or ancestral busts have been revealed during
excavations at Deir el-Medina. They generally do not bear any inscriptions, but some are inscribed for
specific individuals. Typically small, they measure from 10 to 25 cm in height (there are 2 known bigger
busts, one of which is the bust of Muteminet EA 1198 in the British Museum measuring 51 cm) and are
made of limestone or sandstone. We can assume that most were originally painted as remains of pigment
on some are evident. The gender of the most of the busts is open to question.
The figures are referred to as 'ancestor busts'. It is thought that they were placed in the small shrine
areas which seemed to form part of private homes, and played a part in the private devotions of the
family. Five busts were found in houses at Deir el-Medina, where they could have been placed in wall
niches in the first and second rooms. The wall niches are comparable in size, so this seems probable.
Rather than representing anyone in particular, the busts anonymous nature suggests that they represent
all the ancestors whom the family might wish to commemorate. Another theory is that they represent
"the able spirit" of those, who had been authoritative in life, by inference, the older members of the
community. In troubled times people turned to them for help, i.e. to a parent still remembered, not to an
ancestor of long ago. Some of these must have been older women.
The busts could have been transported from house to tomb or chapel where identification, if desired,
could be supplied by the inscribed stelae, offering tables, or naos-shrine. As the "3h ikr", they carry on
the traditions associated with 3h since the Old Kingdom, especially in the requirement for feeding and i
its function as the 3h-statue resting within the 3ht-shrine (Friedman, p. 97).
The ancestor busts are mentioned in the Book of the Dead under spell 151, "the spell of the head of
mysteries". It reads: " hail to you whose face is kindly...your head will never be taken away".
Similar objects have been found at fourteen other sites from the central Delta to the Third Cataract.
They were found in or near houses as well as in tombs and temples. Whether the context was domestic or
religious we cannot be sure, but it is understood that for the worshiper the ancestor busts conjured up
memories of a deceased relative.
Ancestor bust-shaped amulets occur as jewelry during the New Kingdom.
20th dynasty, (1186BC-1069BC)
Limestone with traces of pigment
The funerary stela belonged to Thutmose. He is
depicted on the left side, seated on a chair and
holding a lotus to his nose. He faces his brother who
stands opposite him and pours a libation with his right
hand. In his left hand he holds a censer. The brother
is named as "the scribe Pairy of the Place of Truth".
They are both likely to be members of the Deir
el-Medina workforce.
At the top of the stela there is a lunette, broken
away on both sides. Wedjat eyes, one now missing,
used to flank the horizon above the inscription.
There are 6 vertical columns of hieroglyphic inscription above the two men. Thutmose is identified as
"3h ikr n R'", "the able spirit of Ra". The akh-spirits were the blessed dead, those who had attained a
seat in the sun-bark of the god Ra.
Their magical powers protected them from the dangers of the afterlife. They could also use them for
or against the dead and the living. To become an akh (plural akhu) one had to know the magic spells,
perform funerary rites and have the gods,
especially Ra, intervene on one's behalf. Over 50 stelae from Deir el-Medina testify to the existence
of household cults devoted to deceased relatives who had become akhu. The spirits could be dangerous if
offended, and the offerings to the akhu were both propitiatory and reverential.
18th dynasty, (1550 BC-1292
BC)
White limestone with traces
of painting (red pectoral and
mentat etc). Originally the
bust would have had a brightly
painted floral collar on the
chest, symbolising rebirth and
the collars offered by the
living at the "Beautiful Feast
of the Valley", when they
visited the tombs of their
ancestors.
The lower corner of the
"oracular bust" is damaged.
Pyramidion of Nebamun
Of the 4 sides of this pyramidion, 3 sides are inscribed. Below is the depiction of a man with intricate
hairstyle shown in the pose of adoration with his arms raised. He wears a pleated kilt. The hieroglyphic
inscription mentions name of Nebamun.
Stela of Irynefer
19th dynasty
From Deir el-Medina, tomb 290
The lower part of this round-topped stela is
missing. The upper part displays remains of a
raised relief of the god Ptah shown from the front.
At the bottom of the right side of the stela there
is a remainder of a depiction of a man with his
arms raised in adoration - his head facing to the
left and his hands survived. The left bottom side
shows remains of a heaped offering table. The rest
of the stela is filled with 5 columns of hieroglyphic
inscription, where the worshipper is identified as
Irynefer, servant in the Place of Truth.
We cannot attribute this offering table to either of the 3 known Penrennuts, who lived at Deir el-Medina
and possessed the title "Servant in the Place of Truth" with certainty. Penrennut (i), who lived in the
village during the reign of Ramesses IV, was married to a lady called Tadehnetemheb. His father was
called Nakhtmin. He appears together with his family on Bankes stela no. 10 - nowadays in the National
Trust, UK collection at Kingston Lacy. On the basis of dating the object to the 19th dynasty by the
museum curators, it could have belonged to the two earlier workmen, Penrennut (iii) and Penrennut (iv), a
cup- bearer, lived at Deir el-Medina during the reign of Ramesses II and Merneptah respectively
(Davies,1996,251-252).
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Circle!
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"He's always the "Old Folkie." Singing for some hopeless cause. Shouting at the mountain top. The wind is his only applause."
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- OCTOBER 14 CHAPIN TRIBUTE: Tom Chapin, the Steve Chapin Band (including Big John Wallace & Howie Fields), Jen Chapin, and other special guests will perform on Long Island to honor Harry, twenty years after his passing. The show is a benefit for Long Island Cares, one of the anti-hunger groups started by Harry. There were $100 tickets for dinner at Sandy Chapin's house before the show, but I believe those are long sold out. The $40 tickets for the show may also be sold out at this point. I believe some $60 tickets are still available. For details: http://www.harrychapin.com/tribute/
- UPCOMING JEN CHAPIN SHOWS: Harry's daughter, Jen Chapin, has several upcoming shows in NY and MA. Check out her website and click on Gigs for details. http://www.jenchapin.com
- VH-1 Behind-the-Music: The VH-1 Behind-the-Music special on Harry aired again this past Friday, after a long hiatus. Keep checking their web site or TV Guide, as they may run it again soon.
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"Oh, if a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died what one man's life could be worth, I wonder what would happen to this world?" -- Harry Chapin, 1942-1981.
Harry's Music
Bottom Line Encore Collection
[Amazon] [iTunes]
Chapin Music
[iTunes]
Cotton Patch Gospel
Dance Band On The Titanic*
Gold Medal Collection
Greatest Stories Live*
Harry Chapin Tribute
Heads & Tales
Last Protest Singer
Legends Of Lost & Found*
Living Room Suite
On The Road To Kingdom Come
Sniper & Other Love Songs
Story of a Life
Verities & Balderdash
* = Highly Recommended
The Latest Release
In 1972, Harry released Sniper & Other Love Songs. Thirty years would pass before the album would ever reach the CD format. Sniper was finally re-released in June, 2002.
Originally given a working title of Sweet City Suite, the album tells the story of various characters one might run into in a city. The album features the original studio versions of Chapin classics "A Better Place to Be" and "Circle." But perhaps more importantly (as those songs are already well-distributed on compilation CDs), the album features seemingly lost Chapin stories, including "And the Baby Never Cries," "Burning Herself," "Barefoot Boy," and "Woman Child."
Sniper is for the seasoned Chapin fan. New fans would do better to check out Greatest Stories Live. But for Chapin fans who have reached the level of the Dance Band on the Titanic album, this is the next step. Slightly over-produced and having a little of the "forced" feel that some of Harry's studio albums possess, this album does not capture the powerfully live Harry Chapin. Nonetheless, it captures Harry's great iconoclastic songwriting--Harry takes the story song to new heights here. But the album works best for those ready for it; don't buy it until you are ready to appreciate it!
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News in Numbers, Jan 30, 2017: Kashmir toll on security forces
January 30, 2017 February 2, 2017 hilnews Leave a comment
What is it? The number of security personnel killed in 2016 in the state of Jammu & Kashmir.
Why is it important? A turmoil-filled year witnessed insurgency among citizens, militant-attacks on army camps, firing from Pakistani military, and avalanches, and resulting in the highest toll since 2008, when 85 of the security forces had died. This year, 15 army men have fallen prey to avalanches and snowfall-related mishaps.
Tell me more: The toll in the state used to be higher in 2005-2007, when it ranged between 122-244.
Rs 5,582.83 crore
What is it? The amount withdrawn between December 7, 2016 and January 11, 2017, from Jan Dhan accounts
Why is it important? The net withdrawal has brought down the total deposits in Jan Dhan accounts to Rs 69,027.17 crore on January 11, 2017. Deposits dropped by 7.5% from roughly a month ago. Post-demonetisation these accounts had a record-high of Rs 74,610 crore in the week ended December 7, 2016, when deposits grew at 63.5%, again, in roughly a month. At work could be the curbs on Jan Dhan account operations from mid-November, such as a deposit limit of Rs 50,000 and withdrawal limit of Rs 10,000.
Tell me more: The number of Jan Dhan accounts, meanwhile, grew at 1.2% between November 9 (255 million) and December 7 (258 million) and 3.3% between December 7 and January 11 (267 million). The number of Aadhar-seeded Jan Dhan accounts are 154 million. TheIT department has also been tracking undisclosed deposit discrepancies in Jan Dhan accounts.
What is it? State-owned telecom operator, BSNL’s loss for the nine months ended December 31, 2016 of FY17.
Why is it important? Even as private telecom players battle it outwith an aggressive newcomer taking hits on their profitability, BSNL is seen paring its losses by 20.1% from Rs 6,121 crore in the same period a year ago. A boost in seasonal income in the fourth quarter is further expected to cut losses, bringing down the full year’s figure. In FY16, losses decreased by 52.9%.
Tell me more: Its service revenue increased by 6% and overall revenue by 7% in the nine months.
What is it? The number of singles titles Roger Federer has won, including the latest 2017 Australian Open.
Why is it important? In the post-1968 Open era in tennis, Federer has the third-highest singles titles, after Jimmy Connors (109) and Ivan Lendl (94) and he is still playing. His 18th Grand Slam win could further his claim to men’s tennis’ ‘greatest of all time’ as he won on Sunday, triumphing over Spanish Rafael Nadal. While Nadal has won more matches against Federer (66%), the latter won the crucial one marking both of their comebacks from injury this year.
Tell me more: Federer, 35, last won a Grand Slam in 2012 and he returned after overcoming a knee injury and sitting out half of last year.
What is it? The number of the premium Audi cars that parent Volkswagen will be recalling in the US.
Why is it important? Volkswagen, emerging from its global scandal of diesel engine emission-result manipulation, is facing yet another recall. Faulty airbag deployment and coolant pumps leading to overheating are two reasons for the move. These were noticed in China and Israel. Earlier this week, Volkswagen’s Porsche announced a global recall of 16,429 cars for problematic fastening screws.
Tell me more: In 2016, the ambitious German parent of brands like Audi, VW and Skoda, Porsche, Lamborghini and Bentley among others, had to recall VW and Audi cars for fuel leaks, besides those with fudged emissions test records of their diesel engines worldwide.
Audi Australian Open avalanche BSNL BSNL loss BSNL profitability BSNL revenue BSNL service revenue demonetisation Federer injury GOAT greatest of all time Indian security forces Indian security personnel Ivan Lendl J&K Jammu & Kashmir Jan Dhan Jan Dhan account deposits Jan Dhan account withdrawals Jimmy Connors Porsche Rafael Nadal Roger Federer singles title telecom players profitability Volkswagen Volkswagen diesel emission scandal Volkswagen faulty airbag Volkswagen recall VW VW faulty airbag VW recall
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ORIGINAL FRENCH ARTICLE: Espoir et doute
Hope and Doubt
Translated Thursday 14 June 2018, by Patrick Apel-Muller
Patrick Apel-Muller’s editorial.
The world is still hesitant to believe it. The Singapore meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un could put an end to a war that killed nearly three million people in three years and is still smouldering under the ashes.
The world is still hesitant to believe it. The Singapore meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un could put an end to a war that killed nearly three million people in three years and is still smouldering under the ashes. The most recent episodes have taken place around the buttons that trigger an atomic war, but for the past sixty-five years the tension has been maintained, imposing American order on the South and locking the North into withdrawal. In Seoul, the election of a new president, concerned about peace, changed the situation. Pyongyang seems ready to weigh its nuclear programme against the loosening of the vise that is plaguing its economy. Washington could no longer risk escalation and a unilateral strike. Donald Trump tries a bet to turn the situation around: appear as the first American president capable of breaking the deadlock.
Whatever the outcome in Singapore, the road ahead will be long. The denuclearization of the peninsula will be long, marked by steps and processes of verification. The temptation to raise bids will remain. It is to be welcomed that China, in the first place, and Russia, in the second place, are more than spectators of this play. These two great powers are already limiting each other’s clashes. Tomorrow, they are likely to accompany North Korea towards another development. Peace can therefore emerge victorious in the process that is under way and demonstration would have universal value in a world where the use of force has too much replaced diplomacy and the treatment of tensions at their roots.
Yet even before the historic handshake, doubt is reborn. Will a vindictive tweet hurt the Korean hope for peace? The recent episode of the G7, which signals the failure of Emmanuel Macron’s "papouille diplomacy", fuels concern.
Patrick Apel-Muller
Editorial Director of l’Humanité
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Harris District Committee
Collection IN2/1 - Harris District Committee, Harris
GB3002 IN2/1
Harris District Committee, Harris
Harris District Committee (1890-1930)
The Local Government Act 1889 established District Committees to fulfil the responsibilities of County Councils at a local level. Harris District Committee therefore administered certain roles on behalf of Inverness-shire County Council head quartered in Inverness. The District Committee was composed of County Councillors for the district and representatives from the Parish of Harris. The Committee was governed by the regulations of Inverness-shire County Council to which it reported periodically. Their main functions were the administration of Roads & Bridges Acts and Public Health (which included housing). They also dealt with various concerns that fell outwith the remit of the Harris Parochial Board (later Harris Parish Council).
The Local Government Act 1929 lead to the abolition of Harris District Committee and Harris Parish Council, their powers being transferred to the new Harris District Council.
Internal transfer from Museum nan Eilean (Accn 2011-13)
Minutes 1917-1934 (Harris District Council from 1930); roads minutes 1890-1918, public health minutes 1890-1918
Arranged into series. Within series, records are arranged chronologically.
Paper volumes
Item level list available in searchroom of Tasglann nan Eilean Siar
GB 3002 RC6/2 Records of Harris District Council 1934-1975 (held by Tasglann nan Eilean Siar)
Harris, Scotland
Harris District Committee (Creator)
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Campaigns /Board of Deputies – only mushy carrots to offer
Board of Deputies – only mushy carrots to offer
Sarah Benton
Tags: BDS, bod
The Board of Deputies argument for opposing BDS follows Robert Cohen’s article.
A Banksy mural in Gaza: “The cat tells the whole world that she is missing joy in her life,” a Palestinian man explains in Banksy’s documentary. “The cat found something to play with. What about our children? What about our children?” Banksy supplied a second explanation on his website. “A local man came up and said ‘Please — what does this mean?’ I explained I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website — but on the internet people only look at pictures of kittens.”
Boycotting from Within – a letter to the President of the Board of Deputies
By Robert Cohen, Micah’s Paradigm Shift
Dear Vivian Wineman
I’m writing as a British Jew wanting to bring a dissenting Jewish perspective to the Board’s fifty page denouncement of peaceful protest in support of human rights.
I very much doubt I will change your mind but I would like others reading this to understand the historical, political and moral flaws in your arguments. I also believe it is vital for the wider Jewish community, and the British public, to see that the Board’s position does not reflect the considered viewpoint of all Jews in this country.
Just before Passover, our annual celebration of freedom and liberation, you published ‘A Better Way than Boycotts’ in which you set out the case against using boycotts, divestments or sanctions as a way to bring a resolution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
While attempting to sound reasonable and balanced, your document frames the debate in a way that deliberately obscures some very basic facts that the British Jewish establishment would do better to acknowledge.
You also take the memory of the Holocaust and perversely use it to delegitimise entirely legal, democratic and peaceful protest.
Meanwhile, your presentation of Israel’s ‘painful compromises’ and ‘generous offers’ in pursuit of peace does not ring true to anyone who cares to read the historical record from both sides.
Your alternative actions to BDS, while worthwhile in themselves, will never sway an Israeli government content to manage rather than resolve the issue. Why should it, while the price it pays for its behaviour, politically and economically, is so minimal?
As a Jew I now feel that the best way to demonstrate my understanding of our Jewish religious heritage and our historical experience is by standing alongside the Palestinian people in their dispute with the State of Israel and in their call for boycott, sanctions and divestment.
In short – and borrowing a description used by Israeli Jews who share my understanding – I am boycotting from within.
In what follows I will explain why.
The missing truth
There is one fundamental fact that you fail to mention anywhere in your document. And without that your claim to bring a balanced, rational and pro-peace viewpoint to the debate becomes highly questionable.
Nowhere across the fifty pages of ‘A Better Way than Boycotts’ do you once acknowledge that Israel continues to perpetrate an illegal occupation of the West Bank (now in its 48th year) or an illegal blockade of Gaza. It’s an omission that demonstrates a bias you are quick to accuse others of holding. But without talking about this simple fact you cannot hope to make sense of the motivations that underpin the BDS campaign.
Pointing out the illegality of Israel’s position is not a leftist or jihadist or antisemitic act. The current status quo is viewed as breaking international law by the British government, the EU, the United States and just about every other country in the world. Is it really unworthy of mention?
You are right that Israel should not take sole blame for all that has happened, but your document paints a picture in which Israel has no blame whatsoever.
Instead you frame the debate as a dispute between Israel and a hostile neighbour.
But this is not the reality. Far from it.
Israel directly or indirectly controls the lives of more than 4 million Palestinians. This is in no way an argument between equals that can be resolved between themselves if only they were left alone to get on with it. This is an asymmetrical conflict where military power, political resources and, most glaringly, civilian casualties are not remotely even. Without this being understood, the case for boycott, divestment and sanctions will not make sense to the general reader. But I think you know this.
The democratic deficit
Contrary to the claim you make about supporters of BDS, I have no wish to deny Israel’s right to exist. Nor would I deny the religious and cultural ties that Jews have to the land or their unbroken presence there.
But none of these strong connections to the land justify the denial of another people’s rights, a people with equal, and in many ways stronger connections to the same land.
It is not the state itself that is illegitimate but its actions and laws certainly are.
On the West Bank Israel operates parallel and discriminatory judicial and policing systems. It applies strikingly different planning and house building regulations. It builds roads that only some people (Jewish Settlers) can use. It controls the movement of some people (Palestinians) but not others (Settlers). You may object to the use of the word ‘apartheid’ but what other label would you care to give it? ‘Security’ perhaps? That appears to be the catch-all justification for any amount of discrimination and oppression.
As for the boycott campaign wanting to force Israel’s hand, you are absolutely right. And for good reason. So far no one else has succeeded in doing this. Not Obama, not Kerry, certainly not Cameron. Plenty of carrots from Western leaders, the encouragement you claim is essential for progress, but never any stick.
You present a picture of on-going peace talks and reconciliation that BDS will jeopardise by encouraging the international community to demonise Israel. But there is no peace process, there is no reconciliation happening. In fact the opposite in taking place. Israel just keeps stealing and building, building and stealing. As John Kerry discovered last year, an Israel that will not even halt Settlement construction for just a few months when establishing good will is paramount is hardly a willing partner for peace.
The two-state solution and other mythsv
You premise your whole position on the broad consensus among, Israelis, Palestinians, Jews in Britain and international governments that a two-state solution is the only fair way forward. I wish I could share your faith in the likelihood of this as an outcome.
After 25 years of diplomatic ‘peace process’ the two-state solution has failed to be delivered. Today it has become very clear to the whole world (but perhaps not to the Board of a Deputies) that the Israeli Prime Minister agrees with two states in theory but never in practice.
And what happens when Settlement building has been so rampant that no amount of ‘land swaps’ will compensate for it or allow the creation of a contiguous and defendable piece of land worthy of being called an autonomous state?
You quote the Israeli politician Yair Lapid, the then Finance Minister, talking in 2014 about the Kerry negotiations: “If this peace process won’t work, we should start again and again… Never, never, never give up.” I would rather cite a more impressive Jewish thinker, Albert Einstein, who said: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”.
You call supporters of BDS well meaning but “extremely naive”. I think that description better fits your position.
There is no two-state peace process. However, there already is an emerging one-state reality. The only question is will it be democratic or, as now, will it not.
Your faith in the two-state solution would carry more conviction if you had once in the last 25 years urged the State of Israel to recognise international law, halt settlement construction and accept that Jerusalem should and could be shared. But you did not.
(Less than) Generous offersv
The truth is, we are no longer looking at two competing national liberation movements. Israel ‘won’ a long time ago. But the victory has always been hollow and year by year it has destroyed the ideal (perhaps contradictory from the start) of a Jewish and democratic state.
Worse still, it has led to the violent death of many thousands of Palestinian civilians, most recently more than 500 children in Gaza last summer. Yet you, the Jewish leadership of Britain, insist on emphasising the need for Israeli, not Palestinian, security. It is a topsy turvy way of seeing the world and not one that I or many other British Jews wish to endorse.
You talk about Israel’s long history of making ‘painful concessions’ and ‘generous offers’ in pursuit of peace. The Palestinians’ ability to negotiate has indeed been flawed but not because of a failure to make significant compromises.
The PLO gave up 78% of its historic claims 25 years ago. Ever since, the Palestinians have struggled to get a just agreement on the remaining 22%. Hamas, despite its ridiculous and antisemitic charter, also recognises the 1967 Israeli borders. All of its negotiating positions have been based on that fundamental stance. While Israel has made peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan (existing sovereign states) it is yet to recognise that the Palestinians have a legitimate right to a state that controls its own borders and airspace or that has contiguous defendable land. You know all of this but again fail to consider it relevant information.
The misuse of the Holocaust and antisemitism
You argue against BDS on the grounds of sensitivity to Jewish history and the likelihood of boycotts becoming antisemitic in nature.
The BDS campaign does not target Jews for being Jews as was the case in Nazi Germany. BDS targets trade with the State of Israel until the state changes its policies and recognises its legal obligations towards the Palestinians. There is all the difference in the world between these two situations.
But if BDS supporters find it difficult to make the distinction between Jews and the State of Israel it’s hardly surprising. Every Israeli Prime Minister enjoys speaking as if they were our international leader. Our communal organisations, like the Board, refuse to offer an ounce of criticism towards Israel and our synagogues offer weekly prayers for the State of Israel and its defence forces. Why wouldn’t BDS campaigners draw the conclusion that Judaism, Jews and Zionism are all one and the same?
Over the last 70 years we have merged our ancient faith with a very modern political nationalist project to the point where most Jews accept the State of Israel as a seamless continuum of all our beliefs and traditions. You have contributed greatly to this situation but have left yourself no room and no words to unscramble it.
However, if BDS actions insult, bully, abuse or physically attack Jews, just because they are Jews, that must be called out, condemned and punished according to the law. But it does not change the merits of bringing pressure on the State of Israel through economic protest.
It does us no good to view our current challenges always through the prism of the Holocaust. For the first time in many centuries Jews have considerable power over another people. Around the world Jews have benefitted and thrived from open and democratic societies. We are no longer an oppressed, vulnerable people. We need to adjust to our new reality and to the responsibilities power and influence brings.
Using our own past suffering to trump the present suffering of another people gets us nowhere. Yet you are willing to use Jewish sensitivities to cancel out support for the Palestinians. It is not a good equation.
I, and a growing number of Jews worldwide, believe that the experience of the Holocaust ought to take us in a very different direction from the one you are choosing for us. And how odd that we thrive in liberal open democracies but you insist in defending the narrow and flawed democracy we have created for ourselves in Israel.
Increasing desperation
Your document gathers together every possible objection to the BDS strategy and stacks up the arguments against it in ways that look increasingly desperate.
Israel brings high-tech advances to Britain
We import important medicines from Israel
Boycotts would harm the Palestinians
Are you seriously suggesting that other makers of medicines and high-tech equipment are unavailable to Britain? As for harming the Palestinians, I suggest you speak to a few to discover if they think BDS is good or bad for them in the long term. I’m confident of the answer you will receive.
You then go on to examine the academic and cultural aspects of the boycott campaign. I’m not going to attempt to counter all of your arguments here except to say that universities are complicit in the in-going occupation in multiple ways through military funded research projects. Meanwhile, Israeli artists who are happy to perform in segregated settlement venues should be shown that this is not considered acceptable.
Your championing of academic freedom might sound admirable if you had not recently expended so much effort to stop an academic conference on Israel taking place at Southampton University. Why does every discussion of Palestinian human rights have to be labelled an anti-Israel hate fest?
Your alternatives to BDS
At the end of the document you make a positive call to support charities and NGOs working to build understanding between Israeli Jews and Palestinians.
I would support this too. Groups such as The Interfaith Encounter Association (IEA) and the Parents Circle are doing excellent and important work and we should highlight them and give them financial help.
However, it is entirely disingenuous to suggest that this alone will be sufficient to change the dynamics of the conflict. While these organisations are doing good, they alone cannot influence the current dynamics of an asymmetrical conflict or the unwillingness of Western leaders to apply the same sanctions they impose on other nations that break international law.
You want to offer individuals, churches, local authorities, trade unions etc a different way of demonstrating their concern for the Palestinians, one that will do less harm to the public’s perception of Israel. But the conflict has not arisen because people need to get to know each better (although that will certainly help long-term reconciliation). The conflict has not arisen because there is insufficient bridge building between communities. The conflict has become one of human rights. Who has them and who does not.
Boycotting from within
Our relationship to the Palestinian people is the greatest issue the Jewish people and Judaism itself face in this century. And we are currently making a spectacular mess of it. Your document is just one more example of that.
What Israel needed most from the Jewish community over the past decades was a critical voice willing to speak privately and publicly about the direction Israel was taking. But instead we provided them with apologists and cheerleaders or at very best complicit silence.
In the past, Palestinian tactics to bring attention to their cause have been rightly condemned. Murder, hijackings and suicide bombings were never legitimate routes to justice.
But BDS is very different. At last there is a movement aimed at bringing awareness and understanding of the plight of the Palestinian people that is non-violent and that can shift the perception that all Palestinians are nothing more than antisemitic terrorists. But still you insist on denying them even this legitimate tactic to bring some balance to the conflict.
The actions of the State of Israel are dividing Jewish families and Jewish communities while making all us more vulnerable to antisemitic attacks. But it is the Palestinians that are suffering far more than any of us.
I have chosen where I wish to stand and have come to my conclusions out of respect for the beliefs and traditions I was raised by and the history of the Jews that I have studied.
I find myself having to boycott from within because so many from my own community have chosen narrow tribal values over simple universal humanity. That can change if we place ourselves on the side of justice and peace that our tradition has always taught are the foundations of our true freedom.
Our own liberation is now only possible in partnership with the Palestinian people. BDS provides that partnership.
Robert Cohen
Micah’s Paradigm Shift
Board launches A Better Way than Boycotts – a document signposting positive engagement in Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Board of Deputies of British Jews
The Board of Deputies has launched A Better Way than Boycotts – a document designed to highlight a more constructive way towards peace than the divisive and counter-productive boycott, divestment and sanctions proposed by some anti-Israel activists.
Polling has consistently shown that the majority of both Israelis and Palestinians favour a two-state solution, a view shared by the UK government, opposition parties and the majority of the British Jewish community. A Better Way than Boycotts shows how the Jewish community and wider UK society can best play their part in encouraging grassroots peace building.
The document also shows how BDS hurts some of the most constructive voices on the Israeli side as well as damaging the employment prospects of tens of thousands of Palestinians who work for Israeli companies.
It argues that rather than BDS, people of goodwill should engage in active peace-making – bringing Israelis and Palestinians together and empowering those in the region who are building bridges between the communities.
The BDS movement also takes aim at the relationship between Israel and the UK, which does little to further peace prospects in the region.
Board vice president Alex Brummer said that there has never been a more crucial time to get this message out: “In the aftermath of Israel’s democratic elections, unique among the countries of the region, I would expect the boycott campaign to gather fresh momentum. It is critically important that political and commercial organisations facing calls for BDS have an accurate narrative of the close cultural, economic and political interests that align Britain and Israel. In particular I would point to the growing importance of British-Israel trade – now up to £3 billion a year and growing exponentially. Any efforts to derail this relationship would be hugely discriminatory and must be resisted as strongly as possible.’
Board vice president Jonathan Arkush added that this was a real step forward in the fight against BDS. “The Board’s Better Way than Boycotts is one of the most significant publications produced by any community concerned to combat the insidious BDS campaign. It will be welcomed and used as a toolkit in fighting the boycotters not just in the UK but internationally. But it’s so much more than that, as it breaks new ground in putting forward the response of direct positive action to improve the lives of all the people living in the region, whether Israelis or Palestinians. Boycotts take the easy path of destroying and dividing. Building and bringing together is not easy, but it has to be the way forward. The Board takes pride in furthering the Jewish imperative of Tikun Olam – making the world a better place.
Should you wish to read A Better Way than Boycotts click here
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A simpler proof of Fermat's Last Theorem?
Via my former student Stijn de Vos, I just heard that Colin McLarty, a professor of philosophy and logician at Case Western Reserve University (who I remember briefly meeting at a conference in Uppsala a few years ago), claims that it should be possible to formulated a much simpler proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, when compared to Wiles' 110-page monster. As is well known, Wiles' proof relies heavily on the theoretical machinery introduced by Grothendieck. Quoting from a Science Daily article:
McLarty calls Grothendieck's work "a toolkit," and showed, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego in January, that only a small portion is needed to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. [...] "Where Grothendieck used strong set theory I've shown he could do with only a fraction of it," McLarty said. "I use finite-order arithmetic, where all sets are built from numbers in just a few steps. You don't need sets of sets of numbers, which Grothendieck used in his toolkit and Andrew Wiles used to prove the theorem in the 90s."
According to the article, Ohio State emeritus Harvey Friedman has described McLarty's result as a "clarifying first step". McLarty retorts:
"Fermat's Last Theorem is just about numbers, so it seems like we ought to be able to prove it by just talking about numbers," McLarty said. "I believe that can be done, but it will require many new insights into numbers. It will be very hard. Harvey sees my work as a preliminary step to that, and I agree it is."
This sounds like a very exciting development, and I for one look forward to seeing where it will go. Any M-Phi'ers around with insider's knowledge on the whole thing? I could not find further info over at McLarty's website.
UPDATE: Here is a relevant article by McLarty, 'What does it take to prove Fermat's Last Theorem?', published in the Bulletin of Symbolic Logic in 2010 (haven't read it yet).
Published by Catarina at 5:23 pm
Richard Heck 12 March 2013 at 16:26
There has been quite a bit of discussion of McLarty's work on the Foundations of Mathematics mailing list, and one could get a really good sense for McLarty's approach and how it developed by looking through the archives.
Catarina 12 March 2013 at 20:09
Thanks for the pointer! I used to keep track of the FOM list, but as of recently I've had little time for it, unfortunately... I'll take a look at the archives.
R.A.D.Piyadasa 22 May 2013 at 13:42
A simple and short analytical proof of Fermat's last theorem on the internet supports Mclarty findings.
http://www.mymathforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=40857
By this do you mean proof of FLT or what? I could find nothing.
In http://www.mymathforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=40857 there's an interesting post under the name "a new approach to fermat's last theorem" sent on May 30th, 2013.
In this thread,check the August 3th post that contains the latest version
R.A.D.Piyadasa 21 July 2013 at 23:53
I think Hervey Friedman grand conjecture and Colin McLarty's prediction simply imply that Fermat's last theorem can be proved using elementary mathematics.I have already developed a simple proof;" A simple proof and short analytical proof of Fermat's last theorem',Canadian journal on computing in Mathematics,Natural Sciences,Engineering and Medicine, Vol.2,No.3,March 2011, p-57-63.
The second proof I have developed is based on the fundamental theorem on Arithmetic, Binomial theorem and the Remainder theorem to be published. In this case no need of Fermat's little theorem even.
Jeffrey Ketland 22 July 2013 at 00:29
Thanks for your comment, R.A.D.
Your alleged "proof" is not a proof.
http://recursed.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/proof-of-fermats-last-theorem.html
I am reading
to see what says about the proof of R.A.D.
Is this Blog is controlled by Jeffery Ketland./ Pl.keep this for a few days even
O.K. I read the blog
In this blog a proof of Fermat's last theorem has been hackneyed. I must emphasize it is not the general proof of R.A.D. It is said that(in the Blog) R.A.D has proved (A Simple and Short Analytical Proof) Fermat's Last Theorem for all exponents. It is seemed that the Prof. who is running the blog did not believe in the beginning that R.A.D had proved the theorem in general.Later he has understood he had done it.'A ample and short analytical proof of Fermat's last theorem has been published' "I rest my case. " R.A.D is an amateur.He did not want to publish his results even.He is saying that second simple proof is O.K.Hello ,Jeffery Ketland first read the blog and R.A.D.s proof carefully.Then comment.Thanks.
R.A.D.Piyadasa 23 August 2013 at 12:42
I am not surprised by your comment,Jeffery.However, you have no right to tell anything wrong regarding my proof.
See :
http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jm/pages/v7i4.html
http://iosrjournals.org/iosr-jm/papers/Vol7-issue4/A0740103.pdf
How to prove the impossibility of such condition?
From where we get the wrong proof proposed by Lame in 1847?
Samuel Bonaya Buya 16 December 2013 at 20:10
There is indeed a simple proof of Fermats last theorem as explained here: http://www.network54.com/Forum/666092/thread/1386755923/last-1386755923/MY+PROOF+OF+FERMAT’S+LAST+THEOREM+AND+MATTERS+ARISING
Samuel Bonaya Buya are you kidding.
R.A.D.Piyadasa 15 February 2014 at 20:13
To Anonymous who has pointed out the blog.
Any one can find numbers that satisfy the condition of FLT(A^n+B^n=C^n).They are numbers but by no means integers. I challenge that no one in the world can not find integers that satisfy the condition of FLT.R,A,D,Piyadasa
Samuel 15 October 2017 at 13:17
http://www.imedpub.com/articles/simple-algebraic-proofs-of-fermats-last-theorem.pdf
I hope the challenge you gave is met in the article above.
There is another explanation of a simple proof of Fermat’s last theorem as follows:
X^p + Y^p ?= Z^p (X,Y,Z are integers, p: any prime >2) (1)
1. Let‘s divide (1) by (Z-X)^p, we shall get:
(X/(Z-X))^p +( Y/(Z-X))^p ?= (Z/(Z-X))^p (2)
2. That means we shall have:
X’^p + Y’^p ?= Z’^p and Z’ = X’+1 , with X’ =(X/(Z-X)), Y’ =(Y/(Z-X)), Z’ =(Z/(Z-X)) (3)
3. From (3), we shall have these equivalent forms (4) and (5):
Y’^p ?= pX’^(p-1) + …+pX’ +1 (4)
Y’^p ?= p(-Z’) ^(p-1) + …+p(-Z’) +1 (5)
4. Similarly, let’s divide (1) by (Z-Y) ^p , we shall get:
(X/(Z-Y)) ^p +( Y/(Z-Y)) ^p ?= (Z/(Z-Y)) ^p (6)
That means we shall have these equivalent forms (7), (8) and (9):
X” ^p + Y” ^p ?= Z” ^p and Z” = Y”+1 , with X” =(X/(Z-Y)), Y” =(Y/(Z-Y)), Z” =(Z/(Z-Y)) (7)
From (7), we shall have:
X” ^p ?= pY”^(p-1) + …+pY” +1 (8)
X”^p ?= p(-Z”)^(p-1) + …+p(-Z”) +1 (9)
Since p is a prime that is greater than 2, p is an odd number. Then, in (4), for an any X’ we should have only one Y’ (that corresponds with X’) as a solution of (1), (3), (4), (5), if X’ could generate any solution of Fermat’s last theorem in (4).
By the equivalence between X’^p + Y’^p ?= Z’^p (3) and X” ^p + Y” ^p ?= Z” ^p (7), we can deduce a result, that for any X” in (8), we should have only one Y” (that corresponds with X’’ ) as a solution of (1),(7),(8),(9), if X” could generate any solution of Fermat’s last theorem.
X” cannot generate any solution of Fermat’s last theorem, because we have illogical mathematical deductions, for examples, as follows:
i) In (8) and (9), if an X”1 could generate any solution of Fermat’s last theorem, there had to be at least two values Y”1 and Y”2 or at most (p-1) values Y”1, Y”2,…, Y”(p-1), that were solutions generated by X”, of Fermat’s last theorem. (Please note the even number (p-1) of pY” ^(p-1)) in (8)). But we already have a condition stated above, that for any X” we should have only one Y” (that corresponds with X”) as a solution of (1),(7),(8),(9), if X” could generate any solution of Fermat’s last theorem.
Fermat’s last theorem is simply proved!
ii. With X^p + Y^p ?= Z^p , if an X”1 could generate any solution of Fermat’s last theorem, there had to be correspondingly one Y” and one Z” that were solutions generated by X”, of Fermat’s last theorem. But let’s look at (8) and (9), we must have Y” = -Z”. This is impossible by further logical reasoning such as, for example:
We should have : X^p + Y” ^p ?= Z” ^p , then X” ^p ?= 2Z” ^p or (X”/Z”) ^p ?= 2. The equal sign, in (X”/Z”) ^p ?= 2, is impossible.
Fermat’s last theorem is simply again proved, with the connection to the concept of (X”/Z”) ^p ?= 2. Is it interesting?
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If you want to no where things are heading for n>2, then n=1 is your point of reference to see where it all started... Here's a simple demonstration that FLT is at least plausible, using some basic trigonometry (or even less than that):
If n=1 the angle between side a and b is 180 degrees; for all values of a and b, all solutions for c are also integers.
If n=2, the angle between side a and b is 90 degrees; for only some values of a and b, c has solutions in integers.
From this the direction in which way things are heading becomes clear:
If n>2, the angle between side a and b must be <90 degrees (which is true); and the logical assumption is also that for none of the values of a and b, c has solutions in integers (which is the infamous FLT)
Note that if n=infinite and a=b=1, c comes infinitely close to being the integer 1, which makes FLT almost false because there's almost one solution for c if n>2.
Saying that FLT is all about numbers is questionable, because based on this approach as shown above, you can argue that it also has something to do with angles: it is clear that for n>2 the cosine law applies. And refraiming the problem can also mean refraising the formula that could ultimately proof FLT. Maybe the end result proofs that the correlation between c and for instance a, is something like (a+1)/a. Then you run quickly out of options for c being an integer, I would say.
PS. Sorry, the correct spelling is of course 'reframing' and 'rephrasing'.
BTW. What distinguishes FLT in the cosine law from a^2+b^2=c^2 is of course -2ab cos gamma, while for n=1 it can be reformulated as a+b=c.
Hey Bert I'm back!! Incidentally Jeffrey's kicked me off his blog cause my simple math's is giving him a headache!!
What is the difference between 14^2-13^2=27, 13^2-12^2=25, 12^2-11^2=23? Why of course 25=5^2 so the middle one is a Primitive Pythagorean Triple. So what are the other two? Well the 'mathmagicians' can't be bothered to tell us so let's call them 'pseudo Pythagorean Triples' where only two legs are integer and one is irrational. The logic for this is that we can put 25 = (25^1/2)^2 = 5^2 and therefore also (27^1/2)^2=27 & (23^1/2)^2=23.
So 14^2=13^2+(27^1/2)^2 & 12^2=11^2+(23^1/2)^2 both of which satisfy Pythagoras's equation. But 27 =3^3 so 14^2=13^2+3^3 which is z^2=y^2+x^n gives z^2-y^2= x^n=(z+y)(z-y) and is just the difference of squares as proved by Euclid, book2,props 5&6. The 'DoS' generates every integer from 1 to infinity and so generates EVERY INTEGER RAISED TO EVERY CONCEIVABLE POWER. When the integer generated is a square we get a 'PPT' and all the rest are therefore 'pseudoPT' by my definition.
As Fermat said 'It is not possible to SEPARATE ... any power greater than the second into two powers with the same exponent ..'. Why did he say that? Because he found that he only ever got the 'DoS' solution z^2-y^2= x^n and he knew and we know that it is impossible to elevate the equality to an all integer solution of exponent n because ... no, not the modern proof ... but the 'Distributive Law of Multiplication' prohibits it.
As I've commented elsewhere before 'you can't push a square peg into a round hole' and likewise for the integers, you can't push a cubic or higher power solution into what is after all a Pythagorean equation. So Pythagoras reigns supreme. 350 years to solve such a trivial problem, I can't get my breath!!
OVVO 6 November 2015 at 17:05
I have to agree with Alastair on the Pythagorean influence. In fact, when you generalize the law of cosines you find Fermat as a special case of right triangles. You can show how the isosceles triangle is a trivial support to FLT due to Pythagoras' constant and how the generalized law of cosines holds for equilateral triangles.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/288757467/Fermat-s-Last-Theorem-as-a-Specific-Case-of-Right-Triangles
What would really be of interest is if you could demonstrate the relationship between right triangles and the elliptical curves Wiles used to simply the proof...
The simplest proof of FLT follows from the Little Theorem. The proof however takes a backseat to an amazing pattern that forms the Yin Yang of mathematics. The simplicity is stunning.
Pythagorean quadruples D²=C²+B²+A² can be generated from (a+b)²= a²+2ab+b² where D=(a+b)² : C= a² : B= 2ab : A= b². But what if the inputs into (a+b)² are themselves squares or more precisely pythagorean triples a²+b²=c². Then you will find we generate 3 related pythagorean quadruples, 2 with all 4 terms positive and the other with 3 positive and 1 negative term. (This later quadruple is WRONGLY NOT classified as a pythagorean quadruple by mathematicians). So for 3²+4²=5² we get: (i) 25² =20²+12²+9² : (ii) 25² =16²+15²+12² (iii) 20² =16²+15²-9² and this applies to every single pythagorean triple.
The Fermat triple is easily shown to algebraically generate the 3 self same quadruples but with the exponent 2 replaced by n but it should be observed that 2 terms in each quadruple are perfect squares since (aⁿ)(aⁿ)=a²ⁿ=(aⁿ)² and therefore all 3 quadruples can be stated as the difference of 2 squares. I have named named them Fermat - Bateman quadruples. Furthermore every square integer and therefore every (aⁿ)² can be expressed as a NEGATIVE pythagorean quadruple whose terms are simple to derive so for example: 20² =16²+13²-5². Taking D² =C²+B²-A² then D-C=4 : B-A=8 : B+A= (D+C)/2. For D odd then B & A are rational with a decimal fraction of 0.5.
Also every integer of the form (4n)² is the sum of 4 adjacent odd integers squared minus 20=4²+2² hence 20² =13²+11²+9²+7²-20 and which includes every (4nⁿ)². Note that the sum of the 2 largest terms which for the example is 13+11=24 and is always 4 more than the total sum. So every term of a Fermat triple if one existed would have a simple solution in terms of squares after squaring once or infinitely many times so as Pierre de Fermat said 350 years ago triples above the second power cannot exist. So for it to be repeatedly stated and dogmatically defended that the tools for him to have proved his theorem did not exist in his day is at the least erroneous and at worst a lie. It is for the reasons given that no quadruples above the 4th power are known simply because they do not and cannot exist. It is worth stating that cubic quadruples also contain infinitely many related trios but none are algebraically of the construction of Fermat-Bateman quadruples. For example: 12³=10³+9³-1³ : 9³=8³+6³+1³ : 12³-10³=9³-1³=8³+6³ therefore 12³=10³+8³+6³ divide by 2³ gives 6³=5³+4³+3³ the smallest all integer cubic quadruple.
olaf vethe 22 January 2018 at 21:34
Is there any activity on this blog now?
I plan to present "How Fermat did it" in a serie of posts on the site WWW.HUBBIT.NO.
But I need some vistors first.
If you are interested, post a message under "Fermats original solution from 1637". Once I see the visitors are many enough, I will start to post.
Why there? Why not in mathematical publishing magazine? Because I am not a professor,and those magazines will not under any circumstances treat the proof seriously. I already experienced that with Springer. But remember, Fermat himself was an amateur, and not very liked among contemporary so called professionals. So if YOU are interested, ..........
I have a question for the statistical test:
If we assume that the event "Fermat really had the proof" is a random variable, what probability measure would you be able to propose for the acceptance of this null hypothesis "Fermat really had the proof":
0.00001, 0.0001, 0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, ..., 0.90, 0.99, 1.0
olaf 20 May 2018 at 22:44
http://fermatslibrary.com/p/56b57e1c
to see (new) method of finding all Pythagorean Triples. This is the first step of how Fermat proved his last theorem
I have written out an informal proof proving FLT on the unit circle. It was motivated by trying to find the simplest geometric solution I could find to an even more fundamental proof developed in "Computable Universe".
It is hard enough to get people to read a proof of P vs NP based on a new non-standard model of set theory much less use a solution of FLT as a example application.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331544505_ComputableUniversePneNP_Preprint2019Mar5
https://www.dropbox.com/s/chcog93jp2h25s8/FermatsLastTheroem_RevH.pdf?dl=0
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Acta Psychologica Sinica 2018, Vol. 50 Issue (4) : 390-399 DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1041.2018.00390
On how conceptual connections influence the category perception effect of colors: Another evidence of connections between language and cognition
ZHANG Jijia1; CHEN Xuqian2; YOU Ning3; WANG Bin1
(1 Department of Psychology, Renmin University of China; The State Ethnic Affairs Commission Key Research, Center for Language, Cultural, and Psychology; Key Research Center for National Psychology and Education, the National Education Development Center of the Ministry of Education, Beijing 100872, China)(2 Center for Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China)(3 Huidong Vocational Middle School, Huidong 516300, China)
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Abstract According to linguistic relevance hypothesis (LRH), people have the ability to categorize the world that they have experienced, influenced by language and culture. Thus, researchers who agree with LRH argued that people with different language organizing experiences should have different world schemas.Some relevant arguments came from research on the relationship between color word and color cognition: color perception should be influenced by the physical properties of the light wave and the biological characteristics of the human eye, and also by language and culture. Although there is no clear boundary among the various visible light–waves from red to violet at the perceptual level, the continuous spectrum is divided into different color regions. In the literature, a “color category perception effect” was proposed that people were more likely to distinguish colors from different colors than those that landed in the same area. However, it has still lacked of discussions on the essential mechanism of this effect. Namely, it is still not clear whether this effect is a perceptual phenomenon or cultural phenomenon (i.e., effects from language application and language labels). Using perceptual task (Experiment 1) and classification tasks containing memory (Experiment 2 and 3), assumption that language application and language labels affect color categorizing was tested in the present study. In Chinese, there are clear and distinct language labels for colors RED, PURPLE, BLUE, and GREEN in Chinese, but intensities of relevance between RED and PURPLE and between BLUE and GREEN are different in everyday expressions (language application): connection of the mental conception (conceptual connection) between RED and PURPLE is much closer than those between BLUE and GREEN. With the boundary colors of the “red–purple” color pair (RGB: 255, 0, 255) and the “blue–green” color pair (RGB: 0, 255, 255) as base points, a vertical demarcation line was drawn on the RGB chromatography. Four color blocks of different lightness saturation levels were randomly selected, upon which two colors on both the left and right sides of the boundary were selected respectively. The distance between two neighboring color blocks (including two neighboring colors that are on either side of the color boundary) is equal on the chromatography. In Experiment 1, three colors that have equal optical range constitute one set of experimental material. Participants were asked to judge as quickly and as accurately as possible whether the left or the right color block looked more similar to the middle one, and to press the corresponding button on a response box. 30 college students from the Han nationality participated in the experiment. In Experiment 2, materials were identical to Experiment 1 and 44 college students from the Han nationality were instructed to remember the colors and to identify as quickly and as accurately as possible whether the following colors belong to the left or to the right of the color pair, and to press the corresponding button on a response box.In Experiment 3, using identical materials, 44 participants were asked to judge as quickly and as accurately as possible whether the left or the right color looked more similar to the standard one, and to press the corresponding button on a response box. Results showed that intensity of conceptual connection effect was not involved in perception task, but in classification tasks and recognition tasks. Conceptual connection, rather than language labels, which might be triggered by comparison, was the main reason that affected performances of classification. According to the present findings, we believe that language labels and conceptual connection are both intermediate in color processing, and coding of colors in memory has a direct function in this process.
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Erdogan has in the last days intensified his rhetoric against Israel as he presents himself as a leader of the entire Islamic world ahead of August 10 elections in Turkey.
But in his latest attack on Israel, he went even further in comments that could endanger attempts for a normalisation in the troubled ties between Israel and Turkey.
"This is not the first time we have been confronted by such situations," Erdogan told a meeting of Islamic scholars in Istanbul to mark the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
Since (the creation of the state of Israel) in 1948 we have been witnessing this attempt at systematic genocide every day and every month.
"But above all we are witnessing this attempt at systematic genocide every Ramadan."
“The Western world remains silent, so does the Islamic world. Because those who lost their lives are Palestinian, you can't hear their voices," Erdogan added.
Erdogan renewed his vehement criticism of the United Nations, which he accused of having no use as well as persuing a hidden agenda.
Erdogan accused other Islamic countries of being indifferent to the fate of the Palestinians, a possible reference to Sunni Gulf Arab states with whom Ankara has prickly ties.
I am asking the Islamic world? Isn't your heart shattered? Forget about the West, If your family does not embrace you, would others do that?
Gaza medical sources say that one Palestinian has been killed in an Israeli air strike on Beit Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip. The fatality is the first since the end of the five-hour ceasefire on Thursday.
Israeli air strikes are continuing on the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera's correspondent said.
The latest death brings the death toll of Palestinian killed in the 10-day offensive to 232.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon have confirmed that they ordered a ground invasion of Gaza.
Below is the press release issued by the Israeli military announcing it's initiation of ground operation in Gaza.
Following ten days of Hamas attacks by land, air and sea, and after repeated rejections of offers to deescalate the situation, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has initiated a ground operation within the Gaza Strip.
The IDF's objective as defined by the Israeli government is to establish a reality in which Israeli residents can live in safety and security without continues indiscriminate error, while striking a significant blow to Hamas' terror infrastructure.
This stage of operation "Protective Edge", led by the IDF's Southern Command, will include close coordination between IDF units including infantry, armored corps, engineer corps, artillery, and intelligence combined with aerial and naval support. This effort will also be supported by the Israeli Security Agency (ISA) and other intelligence organizations.
In the face of Hamas' tactics to leverage civilian casualties in pursuit of its terrorist goals, the IDF will continue in its unprecedented efforts to limit civilian harm.
The IDF will operate resolutely to defend the State of Israel conducting itself with professionalism, a strict moral code of conduct and a deep respect for the sanctity of human life.
Breaking | Israeli tanks enter Gaza Strip after Prime Minister Benjamin ordered a ground invasion of Gaza.
Protest on Salahidin St in East Jerusalem in support of #Gaza as Israeli ground invasion begins http://t.co/9B3382b3io -pic via @yasinsbeih
by Jillian Kestler-D'Amours 7/17/2014 11:16:29 PM
#Ground invasion is getting more and more intense now!
Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz is reporting that the Israeli cabinet approved a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. An anonymous senior official told Ha'aretz that the decision came after an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire proposal fell through.
Diana Buttu, a former legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team, told Al Jazeera that the Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip was inevitable "only because the Israelis wanted it to be inevitable".
"They've been talking about this for some time. There hasn't been any stop to their actions," she said.
Former legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team, Diana Buttu, told Al Jazeera: "I think it's high time that the Palestinian Authority go and sign on to the International Criminal Court and start charging Israel with war crimes. This isn't the first time this has happened."
She added, "They [Israel] shouldn't be allowed to behave like they are above the law, and treat Palestinians like they are beneath it."
AJE's Nicole Johnston in Gaza reporting from Gaza: "From the perspective here, it looks like a limited incursion so far."
Sources near the border told Al Jazeera they have seen Israeli soldiers about only 100-200m inside the borders of Gaza so far. "They have been exchanging fire with Palestinian fighters," Johnston said.
She added that six electricity lines that supply Gaza with power have been cut.
by Jillian Kestler-D'Amours 7/18/2014 12:03:03 AM
AJE's Nicole Johnston in Gaza has reported that between 40-60 rockets have been fired from Gaza since the end of the five-hour truce earlier today.
There has been a significant drop-off in Israeli air attacks, Johnston said, adding that Israeli forces are instead firing artillery shells, while tanks are firing near the border and naval ships are firing on the Gaza coast.
AJE's Nicole Johnston said that there have been reports that in Beit Lahiya - in the northern Gaza Strip - Israel has used "foul smelling, white gas". This gas has "caused a lot of discomfort, choking people", Johnston said.
Reuters reports that Turkish riot police have fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters who pelted the Israeli consulate in Istanbul with stones in protest at Israel's ground offensive on Gaza.
Demonstrators waved Turkish and Palestinian flags, chanted "Murderer Israel, get out
of Palestine," and smashed consulate windows with sticks and rocks.
by AJE Staff 7/18/2014 6:22:51 AM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to speak at 11am local time (8am GMT) about the ground invasion of Gaza.
These are pictures from an Istanbul protest against military action in Gaza that was dispersed by police earlier this morning after protesters pelted the consulate with stones
3 children killed in tank shelling in north #Gaza
Israel said today that it was reducing its diplomatic delegation in Turkey to the "minimum required" after violent pro-Palestinian protests which it linked to Ankara's public criticism of the Jewish state, Reuters reported.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said Turkish police had failed to provide adequate protection for Israel's embassy and its consulate in Istanbul in a "blatant breach of diplomatic regulations" and that envoys' families were being repatriated.
by Rahul Radhakrishnan 7/18/2014 10:15:42 AM
I've seen some truly shocking scenes this morning. A man putting the remains of his two year old son into a shopping bag...
Naming The Casualties In Palestine And Israel
by AJ+ Labs via YouTube
new #Israeli airstrike hit house for Ziadn family, central Gaza strip now
Because it is not possible to deal with the tunnels only from the air, our soldiers are now doing so on the ground.
UNOCHA
@UNOCHA
#Gaza: total number of people in need of shelter assistance due to destruction of or damage to their homes: 96,400 http://t.co/GsOgRthCjc
An Israeli Apache attack helicopter shoots a missile over the Gaza Strip as seen from Israel's border with Gaza.
[Menahem Kahana/AFP]
Along Gaza's eastern border I can hear regular Israeli shells fired from around here into Gaza. #cbc http://t.co/u8jN6q0NbX
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In the French Style
Reviewed by: Jim Hemphill
1963 (April 12, 2016)
Studio(s)
Casanna/Orsay Films/Columbia Pictures/Sony (Twilight Time)
Film/Program Grade: A-
Video Grade: A
Audio Grade: A
Extras Grade: A
www.twilighttimemovies.com
Idiosyncratic and sadly underrated American director Robert Parrish made one of his most interesting – and today, largely forgotten – films in 1963 when he joined forces with his friend Irwin Shaw to create In the French Style. Shaw, then a successful if, by his estimation at least, critically underappreciated novelist and short story writer, adapted two of his own stories and produced (with Parrish) this fascinating oddity that stars Jean Seberg as an American girl adrift in Paris. An artist without much talent, she drifts from man to man until eventually settling down in one of the most peculiarly ambiguous resolutions to any Hollywood studio film. There’s not much plot to speak of, and the movie is oddly bifurcated thanks to Shaw’s decision to jam two of his (unrelated) stories together: the first half mostly focuses on Seberg’s romance with a teenage boy posing as an adult (a woefully miscast Philippe Forquet), while the second follows her encounters with a series of unavailable men – and a painful verbal dressing down at the hands of her brutally honest father (Addison Powell).
The two pieces of continuity that link the two halves are Seberg’s lovely, vulnerable performance and some spectacular black and white cinematography by Jean Renoir stalwart Michel Kelber. This, it must be said, is one of the most stunningly photographed movies of its era, with lush, hazy black and white that’s gorgeously preserved on Twilight Time’s new Blu-ray of the film with flawless contrast and an impeccable presentation of Kelber’s subtleties and tonal range. In Parrish and Kelber’s hands it becomes less a film about incident and plot than mood and feeling; there’s an aching melancholy quality that permeates the picture, anchored by Seberg’s all too personal evocation of a woman in crisis. The fact that the crisis feels somewhat mild by movie standards only makes it all the more poignant; modestly scaled scenes like the one in which Powell’s character tells his daughter that she has no talent are devastating in their quiet impact.
There are less of these scenes in the slightly awkward first half of the movie than the second, but that second half more than justifies multiple viewings, if only for Seberg’s brilliantly written and acted climactic monologue. It and every other facet of the film is expertly analyzed by film historians Lem Dobbs, Julie Kirgo, and Nick Redman on a superb audio commentary featured on this Twilight Time disc; as usual, the label’s house scholars provide a wealth of production history and insight on their narration. In my opinion they’re actually far harder on the movie than it deserves – Dobbs in particular is ruthless in his dissection of the film’s weaknesses. Yet this is part of the fun: wrestling with Dobbs, Kirgo, and Redman’s assertions and weighing them against one’s own. I watched the disc three times – once for the movie, once with commentary, and once just the movie again – and found it richly rewarding each time. An isolated music and effects track and a theatrical trailer complete this release of an essential, ripe for rediscovery treasure.
- Jim Hemphill
1963, Addison Powell, Blu-ray, Blu-ray Disc, Claudine Auger, Columbia Pictures, drama, Fred Zinnemann, In the French Style, Irwin Shaw, Jack Hedley, Jean Seberg, Jim Hemphill, Joseph Kosma, Maurice Teynac, Phillippe Forquet, Robert Parrish, Stanley Baker, The Digital Bits, Twilight Time
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About MAYSB
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Tri-County Youth Services Bureau, Inc.
YMCA Youth & Family Services
Bowie Youth and Family Services, BYFS, was established in 1971 in order to promote positive outcomes for youth, prevent juvenile delinquency, and to help families resolve issues that create tension and conflict. As one of five youth services bureaus in Prince George’s County, our defined service population includes families who have children age 18 and under living in the home who live in Bowie or the surrounding Prince George’s County communities.
BYFS offers a welcoming environment for families in crisis. Services include: family therapy, a variety of educational and therapy groups, community outreach services, mentoring and other school-based programs.
Formal Counseling
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Wendy Wilcox, MS, LCMFT - Director
15901 Excalibur Road Bowie, MD 20716
To get more information about any of the organizations involved in MAYSB, please visit our Bureaus page or Contact the YSB you wish to learn more about.
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Tags: Cibulkova, Flipkens, Ivanovic, Kerber, Kvitova, Li Na, Makarova, Serena, Sharapova, Sony Open, Suarez Navarro, Vandeweghe, Venus
Serena, Sharapova advance to quarterfinals of Sony Open
In a tale of two different matches, expected results as No. 1 Serena Williams and fourth seed Maria Sharapova reached the quarterfinals of the Sony Open on Monday.
Williams dismissed American countrywoman qualifier CoCo Vandeweghe 6-3, 6-1 to reach the elite 8 in Miami for the 13th time in 14 appearances.
After her first two matches in the tournament she showed some rust, Williams cleaned up her game hitting 17 winners to only 11 unforced errors and stopping all six break points she faced.
“I was definitely happier today,” Williams said. “I was really struggling my first two matches, so I just wanted to have a better performance today.”
Next up for Williams will be the No. 5 seed Angelique Kerber, who beat Ekaterina Makarova 6-4, 1-6, 6-3.
“It will be good to play a different opponent,” Williams said. “I feel like I have played the same person three times in a row. It will be nice to play a lefty, someone that just plays different.
“Angelique has been able to beat me in the past, so I have to be really focused and be ready in that match.”
Maris Sharapova had to reset from a first set drubbing to beat Kirsten Flipkens 3-6, 6-4, 6-1.
The Belgium jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first set and Sharapova could only win five points during those four games. In the second set Sharapova jumped out to a 4-0 lead, then Flipkens won 4 out of 5 games, but Sharapova broke serve to take the set 6-4.
“I usually like playing the first match, but I didn’t start off the way I wanted to,” Sharapova said. “Nothing was working.”
Sharapova’s momentum carried over into the final set where she kept her errors low and her aggression high, dropping only one more game.
Final stats for Sharapova- 36 unforced errors, 13 winners and 10 double-faults.
Sharapova will play the woman she lost to in the 2011 Wimbledon finals, No. 8 seed Petra Kvitova in the quarterfinals. Kvitova regrouped to stop Ana Ivanovic 3-6, 6-0, 6-0.
“We haven’t played for a long time, but we have always had interesting, tough matches against each other,” Sharapova said.
Second seed Li Na took apart Carla Suarez-Navarro 6-0, 6-2.
Caroline Wozniacki continued her dominance over US players. For the second match in a row she gives up only 1 game in a 6-0, 6-1 win over Vavara Lepchenko.
In the night session, Dominika Cibulkova held back a fighting Venus Williams 6-1, 5-7, 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals. In a rematch of the recent Australian Open semi Cibulkova will play Agniezska Radwanska.
Karen Pestaina is a contributor in Miami. She writes for various tennis and news outlets and is the Editor-in-Chief of Tennis Panorama News. Follow her on Twittter @TennisNewsTPN.
Tags: Agnieszka Radwanska, Australian Open, Flipkens, Kvitova, Morita, Muguruza, Rybarikova, Serena, Sony Open, Stephens, Venus, Williams, Wozniacki, WTA
Serena Williams Dispatches Morita for a Fourth Round Berth at Sony Open
Despite being tested, five time Sony Open champion Serena Williams posted a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Japan’s Ayumi Morita in the third round in Miami.
This was the second career meeting between these ladies. Earlier this year, in Australia, the two clashed in the third round with Williams comfortably prevailing 6-1, 6-3.
Double faults were Williams undoing her initial service game resulting in the donation of a break. Morita went on to consolidate for 3-0. Soon though, the world number one found her game and rolled off six games in a row to capture the opening set.
The second set, Morita ultimately found a bandage to stop the hemorrhage and terminated Williams’ run at seven consecutive games.
Tags: Azarenka, Federation Cup, Flipkens, Govortsova, Huber, Jovanovski, Krunic, Kustova, Kuznetsova, Kvitova, McHale, Pennetta, Serena, Sharapova, Venus, Vinci, Williams, WTA, Yakimova
The U.S. One Step Closer to Regaining World Group Status
In today’s third rubber, Serena Williams validated the adage that “it’s not how you start, but how you finish that counts”. Williams overcame Belarus’ Anastasia Yakimova 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 to clinch a spot for the United States in the World Group II play-offs.
On Saturday, Australian Open reigning champion Victoria Azarenka withdrew from World Group II competition due to a back injury. With the Worchester Massachusetts fans cheering them on, the Americans led by Serena and Christina McHale banked both ties in straight sets to take a 2-0 edge.
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Tags: Anderson, Bartoli, Chela, Cirstea, Clijsters, Fish, Flipkens, Ivanovic, Kuznetsova, Li, Lisicki, Massu, Mayer, Pennetta, Petrova, Ram, Seppi, Sony Ericsson Open, Sweeting, Venus
2010 Sony Ericsson Open Preview for Thursday March 25
The women take center stage on Day 2 at the 2010 Sony Ericsson Open. Top seed Svetlana Kuznetsova headlines the day session. Other notable names in action include Ana Ivanovic, Nadia Petrova, Flavia Pennetta, Na Li, Sabine Lisicki and Marion Bartoli. Kim Clijsters will take to the court in doubles partnering with fellow countrywoman Kirsten Flipkens. The night session will be headlined by Venus Williams who will face Sorana Cirstea.
On the men’s side, Andreas Seppi, Juan Ignacio Chela, Nicolas Massu, Kevin Anderson and Americans Ryan Sweeting and Rajeev Ram will be in action. In the night session, Mardy Fish will take on Leonardo Mayer.
Here is the complete order of play for Thursday :
E Makarova (RUS) vs [6] A Radwanska (POL) – WTA
[25] A Ivanovic (SRB) vs [Q] P Parmentier (FRA) – WTA
[LL] N Lapentti (ECU) vs P Starace (ITA) – ATP
[1] S Kuznetsova (RUS) vs S Peng (CHN) – WTA
[3] V Williams (USA) vs S Cirstea (ROU) – WTA
M Fish (USA) vs L Mayer (ARG) – ATP
GRANDSTAND start 11:00 am
H Zeballos (ARG) vs A Seppi (ITA) – ATP
P Lorenzi (ITA) vs J Chela (ARG) – ATP
P Petzschner (GER) vs [Q] R Sweeting (USA) – ATP
[Q] M Ilhan (TUR) vs P Cuevas (URU) – ATP
[Q] S Giraldo (COL) vs [LL] M Daniel (BRA) – ATP
COURT 1 start 10:00 am
[WC] P Martic (CRO) vs [18] A Rezai (FRA) – WTA
K Date Krumm (JPN) vs [16] N Petrova (RUS) – WTA
[19] D Hantuchova (SVK) vs P Schnyder (SUI) – WTA
[10] F Pennetta (ITA) vs A Petkovic (GER) – WTA
[3] N Petrova (RUS) / S Stosur (AUS) vs S Errani (ITA) / S Peer (ISR) – WTA
V Hanescu (ROU) vs A Falla (COL) – ATP
E Korolev (KAZ) vs D Sela (ISR) – ATP
[12] Y Wickmayer (BEL) vs I Benesova (CZE) or [Q] E Baltacha (GBR) – WTA
R Ram (USA) vs T de Bakker (NED) – ATP
[WC] Y Wickmayer (BEL) / V Zvonareva (RUS) vs M Niculescu (ROU) / E Vesnina (RUS) – WTA
Y Shvedova (KAZ) vs [23] S Lisicki (GER) – WTA
M Rybarikova (SVK) vs [13] M Bartoli (FRA) – WTA
[WC] K Clijsters (BEL) / K Flipkens (BEL) vs S Borwell (GBR) / R Kops-Jones (USA) – WTA
T Bacsinszky (SUI) or [Q] B Mattek-Sands (USA) vs [8] N Li (CHN) – WTA
A Amanmuradova (UZB) / D Kustova (BLR) vs Y Chan (TPE) / J Zheng (CHN) – WTA
L Lacko (SVK) vs M Berrer (GER) – ATP
F Fognini (ITA) vs [Q] Y Lu (TPE) – ATP
[Q] N Massu (CHI) vs F Serra (FRA) – ATP
R Vinci (ITA) vs [30] A Medina Garrigues (ESP) – WTA
O Govortsova (BLR) / A Kudryavtseva (RUS) vs T Poutchek (BLR) / A Rosolska (POL) – WTA
[31] A Wozniak (CAN) vs P Hercog (SLO) – WTA
[WC] A Molik (AUS) vs [27] A Szavay (HUN) – WTA
[21] A Bondarenko (UKR) vs G Dulko (ARG) – WTA
[5] A Kleybanova (RUS) / F Schiavone (ITA) vs I Benesova (CZE) / B Zahlavova Strycova (CZE) – WTA
P Luczak (AUS) vs O Hernandez (ESP) – ATP
[Q] K Anderson (RSA) vs [Q] R Mello (BRA) – ATP
S Robert (FRA) vs A Beck (GER) – ATP
A Hlavackova (CZE) / L Hradecka (CZE) vs [2] N Llagostera Vives (ESP) / M Martinez Sanchez (ESP) – WTA
K Jans (POL) / V Uhlirova (CZE) vs [7] C Chuang (TPE) / S Hsieh (TPE) – WTA
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MindSports
On the Evolution of Draughts Variants
Column Checkers
Axiom Game System
How I invented games and why not
Balancing protocols in symmetric 2-player games
Draughts Dissected
Evolutionary pressure
Draughts variants
Contact Draughts
Hexagonal variants
On 'inside out' inventing
Organicity in abstract strategy games
Moving forward looking back
I Ching Connexion
I Ching links
'Column Checkers' derives from the method of capture of its oldest representative Bashni, a game related to its derivative Lasca in that it results from introducing a different form of capture in a known framework. In Bashni's case the framework is that of Shashki, the russian 8x8 variant of Draughts. Lasca, invented by the renowned world champion Chess Emanuel Lasker, is basically column checkers based on Anglo-American Checkers rather than on Shashki.
Lasker reduced the size of the board to 7x7, effectively leaving 25 squares to play on. With 2x11 men in the initial position, the board not just looks crammed, it is crammed.
Here are some of the ways a white piece may look in Lasca. By the nature of the capturing mechanism, prisoners will always be under a cap of the opponent's men (or kings), never in between them.
In the above example, the four pieces on the left move and capture as a man, because there's a man on top. The three pieces on the right have a king on top and thus may move and capture as kings.
Left to right we see a single man, a single man with three prisoners, three men with one prisoner, two men and a king with four prisoners, a king, a king with two prisoners and a king with five prisoners, one of them a king.
Barring the boardsize, the only difference between Checkers and Lasca is that in Lasca a jumped man or king, either as a single piece or as the topman or -king of a column, is not removed from play, but taken along as a prisoner under the capturing piece.
The above diagram shows the board and the pieces in initial position. There are two players, black and white. White begins. Players move, and must move, in turn.
The rules mention men and kings. A king is a promoted man. Columns with a man on top will also be called 'a man' and columns with a king on top will also be called 'a king'.
Capture precedes over a non-capturing move. If the player to move has no capture available, he has two options:
Moving a man
Moving a king
A man or a column with a man on top moves diagonally forwards to an adjacent vacant square. If it thus reaches the back rank the top-man is crowned to king and this marks the end of the move.
A king or a column with a king on top moves diagonally forwards or backwards to an adjacent vacant square.
All pieces thus remain on the dark colored squares. From here on 'forwards' or 'backwards' will be understood as 'diagonally'.
Capture precedes over a non-capturing move. If the player to move can make a capture, he must do so.
A man captures an opponent's piece, man or king, by jumping over it, in a forwards direction, to the square immediately beyond, which must be vacant for the capture to take place.
If from this square it can proceed in a similar manner, a jump in the same- or a perpendicular direction, it must do so, and proceed thus till the capture has been fully completed. If the column it controls thus lands on the back rank, the topman is crowned to king and the move ends.
A king captures an opponent's piece, man or king, by jumping over it, in a forwards or backwards direction, to the square immediately beyond, which must be vacant for the capture to take place. If it can proceed in a similar manner, a jump in the same- or a perpendicular direction, it must do so and proceed thus till the capture has been fully completed.
In the course of a capture, a king may visit a square more than once, but there are different opinions on whether it may jump a piece more than once (going roundabout). The mindsports applet doesn't mind, so players have to agree on that point before starting a game.
A player may choose freely between different captures that may be available, regardless of the number or value of the piece(s) taken.
If a player cannot legally move he loses the game. This may come about by losing all pieces or by having all pieces blocked. Draws may occur by 3-fold or mutual agreement. There are some special tournament rules to cover draws.
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More or less to show what's wrong with Lasca.
Lasca © Emanuel Lasker
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Blood Work: An Address to the U.N. General Assembly
by Dan Hoy on Sep.27, 2012
It’s been awhile since I posted on Montevidayo. Since then I’ve left Brooklyn for the mountains and fires of Colorado. Most of my critical and poetic faculties are applied these days to the materials of sustainability (water, fire, sorcery) and inter-species communication (pets, wildlife, aliens). The Earth rules. The Universe blows my mind.
Not that I have forgotten our old nemesis: the World that ruins everything.
Here, for example, are the latest (last?) words of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who plays the role of a kind of sound-biting court jester within the media apparatus:
[from his address to the U.N. General Assembly earlier today:]
I have talked in the past seven years about the current challenges, solutions and prospects of the future world. Today I want to raise and discuss such issues from a different perspective.
Thousands of years has passed since children of Adam (peace be upon Him) started to settle down in various parts of Earth.
Peoples of different colors, tastes, languages, customs and traditions pursued persistently to fulfill their aspirations to build a noble society for a more beautiful life blessed with lasting peace, security and happiness.
Despite all efforts made by righteous people and justice seekers, and the sufferings and pains endured by masses of people in the quest to achieve happiness and victory, the history of mankind, except in rare cases, is marked with unfulfilled dreams and failures.
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Crazy lilies: Reviving Montevidayo
by Johannes Goransson on Sep.26, 2012
After many technological, mental and wardrobe malfunctions and infections, Montevidayo is now as sound and healthy as a 1980s party, and we will “relaunch” the site next week.
With special posts on Bessie Smith, the semen of Roberto Bolano, the true account of Kent Johnson Talking to Frank O’Hara, Confessionalism and Beastiality, The Sorrows of Young Lucas De Lima, and more…
“The pink gladiolus opened up in our house.
But scare it, tell it to go.
That crazy lily is going to kill us.”
– Marosa di Giorgio (trans. Jeannine Marie Pitas)
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A Birkensnake 6 Call for Submissions
by megan milks on Sep.25, 2012
Since there’s been a lull in content, I thought I’d step in to promote a call for submissions (x7). You may have heard of Birkensnake, the great (and now free) fiction journal edited by Joanna Ruocco and Brian Conn. You may have heard of their Birkensnake 6 project, in which the editors selected six (now seven) teams of co-editors to collaborate on a Birkensnake 6 of their design, with all seven issues to be released simultaneously next summer. Most of the calls for submissions have now been posted — take a look.
I’m excited to be involved in this project as an editor, and pleased to have been paired up with Canadian-Serbian writer/teacher/translater/etc Miodrag Kojadinović. We’ve come up with what we hope is a tantalizing CFS for an issue themed Neverending Tales. Here it is – consider submitting!:
NEVERENDING TALES: MEGAN MILKS AND MIODRAG KOJADINOVIC, EDITORS
We seek short fiction for a Birkensnake 6 devoted to endlessness. That is, we seek fiction that doesn’t end — for instance, cyclical and/or recursive stories, narratives formed after fractals or the ouroboros, whatever neverending forms you can come up with; as well as fiction that explores that which has no end — for instance, stories involving outer space, reincarnation, hauntings, the horoscope, a subway system without end, the experience of neverending displacement, Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story, Dino Buzzati’s Seven Messengers, the US War in Iraq, the North Atlantic Garbage Patch … basically anything dealing with the infinite, the immortal, the recurring, the asymptotic, the nomadic, the circuitous, and the moebian.
Send fiction of 8 to 8888 words by March 15, 2013 to our online submissions manager. Feel free to contact us at tales.neverending@gmail.com with questions or for further information.
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David Byrne on Art and Emotions
From Blake Butler’s interview with David Byrne:
VICE: You write early on in How Music Works that “Making music is like constructing a machine whose function is to dredge up emotions in performer and listener alike.” Do you think of yourself as channeling something when you are writing a song?
David Byrne: Well, lots of people use that metaphor that they’re channeling something, or that they’re a conduit and they don’t know where the inspiration comes from and they’re just a pen that writes it down or whatever. That’s pretty common. And yeah, there’s definitely something to it. I guess what I’m also saying is that it is usually presumed that the emotion is something that’s put into a song, that it comes from the person and goes into the song. And there’s probably a lot of truth to that, but I’m saying that just as much as that happens, I think it happens in the exact reverse way, where a person makes a song and the song makes the writer feel emotional. The song brings out the emotions in the writer. You realize that this chord changing and singing this melody and these words, it takes you to a place. As a writer as well as a listener. I mean, we all share that in common. And so the song becomes the thing that does it. It’s not that the writer necessarily channels the emotions or the ideas or whatever and puts them down on paper. What got put down on paper is also a thing that reaches inside the writer or the person listening and brings that stuff out of them.
This seems a really true way of speaking about the way making art feels to me. Not the “emotion” that pre-exist the poem and is then conveyed (as is implicit in the “sincerity” and “accessibility” models of writing), but something more like a feedback loop between the writer and artwork.
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FAMILY POEMTIME WITH CARINA FINN: “INNITIATION” BY JOYELLE MCSWEENEY
by Carina on Sep.12, 2012
Lately I have been reading a lot of poems, at least compared to the number of poems I read immediately after graduating from MFA, which was zero, almost. I felt nauseous from poems in the way that it took me six years to be able to drink Chambord again after losing a drinking game in college involving Chambord, Godiva Liquor, Aristocrat Vodka, and Natty Light.
When I started reading poems again I had to go very close but very far away. I read The Good Morrow several times a day. Donne is important to me because for a long time I was very devoted to his work, and in the midst of this long period of my life was the first summer I ever fell in love, I was living in Oxford and studying metaphysical poetry and spent two hours every morning in the cinematic vintage tub in my hall reading Joyce and smoking miniature cuban cigars out the bathroom window. That same summer I met for the first time a poet my own age outside of the context of a classroom workshop and we spent a lot of time at pubs drinking too many drinks and arguing, and that is the summer I learned how to read poems.
For a long time this summer I didn’t have any books at all except the third Hunger Games book which I lost before I finished. When I got my books back the first book I decided to read was The Commandrine and Other Poems because I have it but I had never read it. I have actually been reading it very slowly for most of the summer because I read it on the bus and now the train to or from work, or sometimes when I am outside smoking a cigarette and not writing a poem.
The lyrics in this book are odd and otherly precisely because they are lyrics; they present themselves as just other poems, just little pieces of form. Like topographic maps, what they do is illusory; if it cannot be intuited it can only be glossed.
What I learned from both Donne and drinking-about-poetry is that for argument to be productive it must first begin and then progress; progress should stop only at the point of surprise, which should exist for the sake of further initiation.
“Innitiation” has an immediate fault – the double-“n,” probably invisible to some readers, the obvious and purposeful error that is not, actually, an error at all, but a sign. The poem assumes immediate intimacy, “strolling on the petite meadow of your ass”. The frat-boy’s coupling of violence and admiration ease the reader into the factory, which makes form. Form sees its own beauty and makes more of itself and gets stuck in its own iterations. It drives itself crazy on purpose with thirst. The lovers that emerge mid-poem are awkward and dour because they are faulty; doubles.
Eventually they realize they’re just doing strange math, making infinite fractals that consume themselves to make more of themselves; it’s bulimic; it’s the way smoke rises in a swirling column from a lit cigarette, cancer; narcissus.
By the time one learns a lesson one is generally just this side of too jaded and reckless to benefit from it.
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11 September 1973 and the Atacama Desert: Human, In-human, non-human temporalities and Nostalgia for the Light
by Joyelle McSweeney on Sep.11, 2012
On this anniversary of the Pinochet coup, I’ve been thinking about Zurita, the Atacama Desert and the recent film, Nostalgia for the Light (which is available on Netflix streaming).
In this lyric documentary, three human endeavors are juxtaposed in the non-human vastness of the Atacama Desert: astronomers studying the Big Bang, archeologists exhuming bodies of 19th century mine workers (whose camps and mining-towns were converted to concentration camps during the Pinochet regime) and Mothers of the Disappeared combing the desert for the minutest possible bone shards which will give clues to the disappearance (and, hopefully, current gravesite) of their loved ones.
This is harrowing stuff. There is no removing yourself from the affect of this film. I found myself wondering: is affect always human? Is it in- or non-human or is it the stuff of humanness? To me it feels non-human. It grips me from the outside like a thing, not a person. It doesn’t want anything but to spread.
I also began thinking about human/inhuman/nonhuman temporal scales. The astronomers see the non-human scale of the universe as a kind of relief from human/political temporalities. The mineralized bone shards in the desert are made up of calcium created in the Big Bang, and these bone shards seem to be in secret non-human communication with both the desert and the stars. But the Mothers want desperately to tug these bits of mineral back into historical human time, to be able to locate and reassemble the bodies of their murdered family members. Their action is clearly heroic, and clearly ultra human in the humanist sense of the word. But it is also powered and fueled and impelled by grief- by affect. The force of grief. These women are in the desert, combing the desert with little spades. Are they superhuman (and therefor, non- or beyond- human?) Or merely human?
Then there’s the archelogist who points out that we are contemporary humans are not even cognizant of the 19th century as part of our human history. He works to exhume the bodies of laborers who built and toiled in the mines and mining towns which were so easily converted to concentration camps by the Pinochet regime. The implicit inhuman and erasing nature of capitalism which converts so easily to the inhumanity of the military regime and perhaps also to our contemporary inhuman forgetting of even recent political history all seem to belong to a register which is inhuman, which to my thinking might be just humanity to the ‘nth’ degree, in its most mendacious form. Meanwhile the ultra or superhumanity of the Mothers counter this inhumanity like the inverted double, yin and yang.
Finally there is the post-humanity of the Disappeared themselves. They are Disappeared, and disappeared, but wink back into presence so easily and yet so dissatisfactorily as photographs, bones, shoes, exposed marrow. What about this shredded post-humanity– minerals plus a spectral mediumicity plus a nothingness- a cipher that will not make an account of itself or be entered into the account books as a final resting place, a final figure?
These competing and paradoxical models of humanity and in humanity and non-humanity and post-humanity with their arcing and oscillating temporal scales are piercing and debilitating and with me today as I navigate the 39th anniversary of 11 September.
"The White Space" of Olivia Cronk's "Skin Horse" and Gunnar Björling's "Where I Know That You"
One of the cliches of contemporary poetry is to talk about “the white space” of the page that surrounds the poem’s words as a kind of “silence.” I thought about this for the first time in forever when I re-read Olivia Cronk’s Skin Horse last night.
In Olivia’s book, there are a lot of poems with “you” erased:
Is there a worm in [blank] wound? When [blank] bring it up to [blank] mouth, it is so natural. It slips so nicely in. It is now
some aways off
in some town
[Note: I put in “[blank]”to show where there’s a blank space, but in the book there are just plain blank spaces.]
I love how the blanked out yous bleed into the linebreaks, so that I get this vertigo of “you” all over the page. Suddenly that “white space” is incredibly loudly “you.” Everywhere. The erased becomes overpowering, hidden behind every part of the page.
It is something similar to what happens in Finland Swedish modernist Gunnar Björling’s erasure-based poems.
From the second section of “Where I know that you” (from 1935!) (for the whole thing go here):
O sure there are,
and every human.
– you
and have a face.
I – and until I lie down
I – that one word
I – that with your features.
Never saw I
as in the morning
Here I have always been amazed at the way “saw” becomes transformed into white space, as if seeing become this act that totally eradicated the possibility of language, as if the I-you relationship has to be represented by “I/you.” But more importantly, how the blank looking then kind of goes all over the page, as in Cronk’s poem, looking looks back at us in some way.
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Campo-sition as Exhumation: On Zurita and Stein
1. What is Purgatory but a zone constantly eating itself, digesting itself, shitting itself out, spreading out, making more of itself, accepting and ejecting material, but never (as a zone) moving closer to God? An in-between place, a non-site. Something which may be transcended, but which does not transcend itself. An im-mediacy. A non-transcendent zone.
2. Inside ‘composition’ is a ‘campo’, a field. Purgatory is a flexing, spasming field, and so is composition. Zurita’s Purgatory, a revolutionary book written in the immediate aftermath of his torture and imprisonment in the first few months of Pinochet’s regime in 1973, is full of grazing animals, dumb animals, saints and chattel ready to be broken down (decomposed) and slaughtered for their useful parts or made to render fluids (including sound), even (especially) in their dreams of power.
Today I dreamed that I was King
they were dressing me in black-and-white spotted pelts
Today I moo with my head about to fall
as the church bells’ mournful clanging
says that milk goes to market
–Purgatory, Zurita.(Anna Deeny, translation)
4. In this field of Purgatory, power spasms between its two poles of the absolute despot and the sovereign victim. One can go clad as the other, one can be slaughtered like the other. The slaughter of the despot happens in the future in a dream that is already over but also always “Today”. The paradox of purgatory’s campo is in its oscillating anachronistic state: immediate/aftermath.
Composition, a decomposition. (continue reading…)
Asking for a Drag Show, or Notes on Mutation in She-Ra, He-Man, Feng Sun Chen, Clarice Lispector, Pedro Almodóvar, and Other Princesses of Power to Come
by Lucas de Lima on Sep.07, 2012
As I haven’t read Paul Legault’s book, I’m using the recent discussion only as a springboard. It’s the concern about the book’s gender politics, specifically, that got me thinking again about my favorite topic of the year—mutation!
In my chapbook Ghostlines, I dress up in drag before mutating into a bird. This happens in “MARIAS,” a poem about the anonymity of that most common Latin American name. Anonymity tends to be brutal—the poem mentions the endless murders of Ciudad Juarez, for instance—and I believe its brutality can lead to a kind of contagious sympathy. Most of us can sympathize with, and have experienced, the plight of the anonymous. When someone is stripped of their name, they are marginal beyond speech, as if deemed too monstrous and unrecognizable to deserve linguistic agency or representation. As writers, we react to this plight in different ways. Some try to speak on behalf of those who are silenced, and critique the conditions that have led to such oppression. Other writers are compelled to transform themselves as well as the world, becoming something entirely unforeseen in the face of marginalization.
I want to say that these writers become bad copies of the monster. To borrow Johannes’ term, they speak in something like an ‘ambient translation’ of the other. Instead of trying to represent the conditions of monstrosity, the writers I’m thinking of proliferate the affects of otherness by making themselves susceptible to all manner of suffering. This is what Kate Schapira calls the ‘dirty energy’ of the potatoesque, that most soil-ridden and torturous aesthetic.
"Asking for IT: A Parapornographic Reading of Emily Dickinson and her Suitors/Translators
I think in her post about Paul Legault, Lara raises some interesting points about Emily Dickinson and the act of translation, the act of homage, the reading act, the writing act. I would like to reach back to my previous post on the “Parapornographic” to read not just Dickinson but also her many suitors, including Legault (and Lara!).
First of all: what set Lara off on considering the violence and gender dynamics was Paul’s statement that ED was “asking for it,” which certainly evokes all kinds of rape-ish associations. On Facebook Paul said he was beign sloppy and even I rejected the association. But I think we should keep it – even if we have to say that Lara (and I, now) are as much “authors” of that statement as Paul.
I want to know: What is Emily Dickison “asking for”? What is this obscenely obscure “IT”?
Paul Legault: Cannibalizing Emily Dickinson
by Lara Glenum on Sep.04, 2012
[Note: I should mention that I’ve moved this post/convo to MV after I originally posted it on my fb page, where there are oodles of interesting responses.]
In an interview at The Measure, Paul Legault discusses his new project, The Emily Dickinson Reader: An English-to-English Translation of Emily Dickinson’s Complete Poems. In the interview, Paul describes Dickinson’s work as “extremely dry comedy—like a taxidermic clown left out in the sun,” which is completely lovely & awesome. Like Paul himself.
This passage troubles me, tho: “Why Emily Dickinson? For any American poet, Emily Dickinson is sort of a monolith… Why Dickinson? I guess she was asking for it.”
I want to read this generously. But. Our one (?) female monolith. Was “asking for it.” For me, this plugs into all kinds of cultural language about the humiliation, violation, & punishment of women.
Help me out. Montevidayans, you know my deep disorientation around these things. How I vomit out alarm bells. And also how fond I am of Paul & want to be a generous (not paranoid) reader.
If this project is supposed to be a performative act of violence, I’m conceptually ok with that in many ways (though I wonder, as ever, about the gender dynamics). But the book appears to be being passed off as homage or zany, occasional humor or contemporary remixing. It’s not exactly being marketed as a fucked-up compulsion to rewrite/erase ED–which would be ultra-fascinating indeed!
Help me wrap my brain around this! I find Paul a very generous & compelling person, poet, and presence in the poetry world, and I suspect there may be a lot of interesting things to unpack around his thinking/feelings around this project. And about translation in general. In particular, I’m thinking of translation as an act of cannibalism (Haraldo de Campos), with all of its radical connotations.
"The Violent Pollution": Carl-Michael Edenborg's Parapornography
The thing about all this talk about hipsters and/or kitsch is that it’s about art: all poetry can be kitsch (and is according to many people) and all poetry-writers can be viewed as hipsters. I’m not interested in pro- or anti-kitsch poetry, or anti-hipster or pro-hipster poetry. I am interested in dealing with kitsch in a way that doesn’t fall back on these binaries but I also don’t want to move beyond them (to some pleasant world of American Hybrid or whatever), I don’t want to remove this trouble, this anxiety that is part of Art; an anxiety about looking, about uselessness, about excess, about Art’s occult powers and its drug-like “influence” that may ruin our identities as good, stable, progressive subjects with agency. As I noted in my last post I want the forms to rub up against each other, to chafe, to spasm. I want that excessive “foreign body lodged in the overall system of art” to continue to friction in the “system,” to turn it into a horror movie, a B-movie, a “phantom pregnancy,” a spasming necropastoral, a “parapornography.”
One genre that is often compared or made synonymous with kitsch is pornography: Like kitsch it’s too much about affect, too much about effects, too immediate, not properly mediated etc. And most of all, it’s got the “frenzy of the visual.” I think maybe porn can be a way of thinking about kitsch. Or vice versa.
Carl-Michael Edenborg
Just yesterday I read Carl Michael Edenborg’s “Manifesto of Parapornography.” I should mention that C-M runs the important Swedish press Vertigo, which publishes de Sade and Apollinaire as well as contemporary writers like Nikanor Teratologen and Dennis Cooper and Samuel Delaney. He was also once a member of the same Surrealist Group of Stockholm that Aase Berg used to be part of). In this manifesto Edenborg argues is a move away from the rhetoric of both “pro-pornography” and “anti-pornography,” the two prevalent stances on pornography in our “post-pornography” society.
Edenborg argues against the system underlying both anti- and pro-pornography:
According to both, pornography is devoted to men’s fantasies of omnipotence, of a limitless access to and power over women, to never having to take no for an answer. Over and over again, it reassures men that they are phallic. Men will not accept that the very fact that they require this reassurement shows that they are already castrated, because that would subvert their pleasure. Women, on the other hand, are expected to react in the opposite way to pornography: with loathing and disgust.
According to Edenborg: While the pro and the anti depend on uncovering/defending a secret/truth/genitals/interiority, parapornography rejects this model and instead creates something that Edenborg compares to “quantum mechanics”: it can “extract endless excitment from the same skin flap” and “the mucous membranes are prismatic.” Instead of exteriority/interiority we get an undulating figure that admits poisons, a necropastoral pornography of the “spasming membrane” (Joyelle’s quote). This is Edenborg’s list of qualities of Parapornography:
Mechanical repetition
The infinity of revealing
The exploded affection theory
The critical will to power
The violent pollution
Protesology and displacement
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If you've stumbled upon this post it probably means you are a Steam user (the massively-popular gaming distribution platform owned by Valve Corporation) and you have one or more games stuck into the dreadful "Download Queued" or "Update Queued" status - even if there are no active downloads. The HDD light is blinking and then the system freezes. 1 hour, 44 minutes ago. the computer I have is a acer aspire x3470 When I restarted the computer after every windows 10 update the computer freezes at 30% have to shut it down with power button. To get updates but allow your security settings to continue blocking potentially harmful ActiveX controls and scripting from other sites, make this site a trusted website:. I am on Windows 10. I have a Windows 7 computer stuck in the dead stage of "Configuring Windows Update" screen the other day for quite a while without getting any chance moving forward. Visual Studio 2017 Update freezes at 82% progress on "Applying GitV2" windows 10. These were the updates where I was stuck. Just like previous versions of Windows, Microsoft releases updates for Windows 10 on a regular basis. I downloaded the update. Microsoft re-released on Tuesday (13/11/2018) the latest Feature update to Windows 10 version 1809, known as "Windows 10 October 2018 Update". It took like 1 hour to jump from 83% to 91% and then it got stuck there for 2 hours. A fast rollout that shows 50 percent adoption in a month doesn't mean it's been smooth for all Windows 10 users. However, some users reported that Disk cleanup hangs at a particular percentage or stuck on Windows Update cleanup. This works in most cases, where the issue is originated due to a system corruption. Installing update 4 of 7…” How to fix Windows 10 upgrade stuck effectively? For Windows 10 update stuck error, there are 3 main reasons, including errors with Windows Update, the. 1 hour, 44 minutes ago. This solution worked for me and I was successfully able to install the 2018-06 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2016 for x64-based Systems (KB4284833) and the Windows Defender update. While the update installs fine on the older versions of Windows 10, it's the version 1803 which is having trouble installing the update. I rolled it back to Windows 8. AdDuplex’s report for January 2018 shows the latest feature update to now be on 74. Windows 10 April 2018 Update: Problems knock users but adoption still soars to 50%. If you note that the download or install freezing at a certain percentage, such as 30%, 55%, 88%, etc. Thank you for this! My HP Elite 8300 CMT was stuck at 8% for hours and it said to not power off or shut down so I waited awhile. At last, What have we Concluded about unable to restart Windows 10? We hope that all the above methods will solve your Problem and help you to get away from Windows 10 Stuck at Restarting Screen. In this post, we are going to elaborate on what can be done to address the Windows 10 April 2018 update (Version 1803) installation getting stuck problem that some users have been complaining about. Windows 10 upgrade stuck at 99% - or 70% or 80%? Posted on July Servicing Stack Update (KB4516655) not showing in windows update. The same problem is typical to RTM version of Windows 10 (RTM version of the Windows Update Agent - 10. Briony Lee. During the process, you will access a blue screen and Windows 10 upgrade gets stuck at a certain point with a prompt like "Keep your PC on until this is done. Microsoft rolls out two Windows 10 feature updates a year. In previous feedback from the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, users with KFR reported an extra, empty copy of Known Folders on their device. Microsoft's next Windows 10 feature update gets a name: the Windows 10 November 2019 Update Oct 10 Microsoft Windows 10 April 2018 Update. 187, but reports say the installer gets stuck at 45 percent, 48 percent, 95 percent, and various other points along the way. Change Windows 10 Update Setting Using Group and Policy Editor. and these steps could possibly save you from a re-install. In this post, we are going to elaborate on what can be done to address the Windows 10 April 2018 update (Version 1803) installation getting stuck problem that some users have been complaining about. There are currently 1,283 updates with 1,479 files in the archive. Most of the time, you will want to use the built-in Windows Update utility in Windows 10 to apply updates or let them roll out on their own. But lots of people are having problems upgrading so we've put together some fixes for you. The update was stuck at 0%. If the percentage appears stuck on a particular number for a long time, the update process may be stuck. If your Windows 10 Creators Update stuck during the installation, or that it refuses to move on but freezes at about 82% or 84%, you're not alone. Any of Microsoft's operating systems could experience freezing issues during Windows updates including Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and others. Wait for Wushowhide to look for all the pending updates on your system. and after some time it’s installed. com > windows 10 update stuck at 82 percent SpywareDr, Jan 19, 2018 #2. For those that could get it installed, the update helped stabilize the beta operating system. iCloud for Windows 7. Microsoft is most likely aware that the Windows 10 update is getting stuck for some users during different points of the upgrade process, although it's unclear if this is due to demand today, or. If your Windows 7 PC is stuck configuring Windows updates, you can use the System Update Readiness Tool to complete the installation. So there really wasn't much push to run VMWare under Windows 10, as people that ran VMWare ran VMWare just. I was using a wireless connection while checking for updates. We recommend setting Windows Update to automatically download and install. Since April 2018, My Windows 10 has been trying to update itself to version 1803 and every single time the update has failed. Can anyone help?! Ybotmallah. This basically means that you have to depend on third party apps. Windows Update stuck Download. Installing update 4 of 7…” How to fix Windows 10 upgrade stuck effectively? For Windows 10 update stuck error, there are 3 main reasons, including errors with Windows Update, the. 1 to 10, Windows Update got stuck checking for updates. It always happened to me to no matter what windows version it was and recently it happened while upgrading to windows 10 too the only solution that worked for me then and now is to remove the memory card and reset the phone using the Volume Down key + Power button after which the upgrade will continue so try doing that and you wont get stuck at rotating gear remember to put back the memory. Then I do the upgrade and it works just fine. I have Windows 7 SP1. When I checked online for a solution every method seemed to suggest that the update was running in the background, whereas with my partner's we cannot get the computer. This statistic shows the operating system market share worldwide on Desktop PCs 2013-2018. Last week, I tried to install Windows 10 Fall Update using the update download avaiable at Windows website). Windows update managemetn tool for windows 10. The best way to do this without lowering your security settings is to make this site a trusted website. And indeed, this operating system does a good job of running updates in the background with little to no attention at all from us. So it took several months to succeed, but finally today (2018-8-19) I got my Windows updated to 1803 and no clean install was needed. If the problems aren't all resolved, try running the troubleshooter again to check for additional errors. On 10/10/2019, we announced 19H2 will be the November 2019 Update (Version 1909) and that Build 18363. Windows 10 April 2018 Update: The best hidden features Many of the changes in the Windows 10 April 2018 Update are promising but remain works in progress. You could always run VMWare on your Windows 10 PC (I certainly didn't have a problem with it!!) -- what you couldn't do is run it at the same time as something else that was using the vt ring. These errors are sent by the Windows setup itself, they are not related to SCCM. So I followed the solution 3, and did the cleaning procedure and reinstalled ACC. Press the button to proceed. The first thing I did to solve the problem was running Windows update troubleshooter and let it repair all the problems it found. xml and pending. Does that mean I have to download and install that rubbish Bing desktop as well? If so, stuff that I'll leave Windows 8 as Windows 8!. Some of the things that I have tried are;. As always, Checking for updates in the Admin console should show the available update, here’s it’s downloading. On internet forums they complain the upgrade process is stuck for hours. By not allowing feature update installation on Windows. This statistic shows the operating system market share worldwide on Desktop PCs 2013-2018. How to Fix Stuck Windows Update. Many people rushed to install the newest version of the operating system on day one and it appears that Windows 10 April 2018 Update download is stuck at a certain percentage. How do you feel when you log in to Windows after a month, see there are updates to install, and try installing them, only for Windows Update to get stuck at zero percent? Why am I talking about Windows updates on a blog dedicated to Linux and Open Source? Because I prefer to dual boot Windows with. Briony Lee. Windows 10 April 2018 Update, the latest one for users on Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system, just dropped earlier this week for 700 million users and a lot of them have already installed it. Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. Windows Update Causing 100% Disk Usage - Get The Fix Here! John Williamson / 3 years ago Since launch, Windows 10 has received a fairly mixed response due to the controversy surrounding data. The HDD light is blinking and then the system freezes. How to fix iPhone battery percentage getting stuck or not updating on iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus Posted by Osas Obaizamomwan on Feb 08, 2016 in How To, iPhone Problems, iPhone Tips and Tricks. Re: April 2018 Update 42 Percent Lock Up I have a client with two of these computers. 187, but reports say the installer gets stuck at 45 percent, 48 percent, 95 percent, and various other points along the way. Press the button to proceed. Simple run the given commands one by one (press the Enter key after each of the command) Simple run the given commands one by one (press the Enter key after each of the command). Fix Windows Update Loop in Windows 8/8. If you note that the download or install freezing at a certain percentage, such as 30%, 55%, 88%, etc. If the problem remains, you can see the two different situations and each one could try the solutions below. So it took several months to succeed, but finally today (2018-8-19) I got my Windows updated to 1803 and no clean install was needed. sometimes it's because of software conflict or a preexisting problem that wasn't visible until the Windows Updates initiated. If this happens to you, take one of these paths of action. This update represents one of the most significant refinements of AncestryDNA’s ethnicity estimates. 2018/08/18. ? Here's how to fix it. By David Nield How To. The 2018 Cost vs Value feature compares average cost for 21 popular remodeling projects in 149 markets with the value those projects retain at resale in 100 U. and after it’s downloaded, you can right click on it and choose Install Update Pack, then monitor the installation via Update Pack Installation Status. But sometimes, things don't quite work the way it was intended. [Fix] Windows 7 Keeps Checking for Updates for Hours - Today in this tutorial, we are going to address one of the most annoying and strange problems present in Windows 7 operating system. Windows 10 upgrade stuck at 92% - posted in Windows 10 Support: Hi I am upgrading from Win 7 64 bit to Window 10 via the upgrade notification in system tray. The site cannot determine which updates apply to your computer or display those updates unless you change your security settings to allow ActiveX controls and active scripting. Unfortunately, I was among the selected ones who were offered the Creators Update this week. Join Thurrott Premium to enjoy our Premium comments. loop where it reboots at 27 percent. Thank you for this! My HP Elite 8300 CMT was stuck at 8% for hours and it said to not power off or shut down so I waited awhile. Microsoft today released a new preview for PCs with 16 bug fixes. Oct 10, 2019 · Windows update stuck checking for updates for hours, its stuck Downloading updates on a specific percentage ( xx%, 20% or 99%) or Windows 10 Update fails to install with Different errors. The best way to do this without lowering your security settings is to make this site a trusted website. 1 hour, 44 minutes ago. Most of the time, you will want to use the built-in Windows Update utility in Windows 10 to apply updates or let them roll out on their own. The latest Windows 10 update, How to fix Windows Update in Windows 10 if it becomes stuck. Apparently, the update gets stuck at 90% while installing and then simply fails. Note that it's not always possible to state with certainty whether a reported driver is responsible for crashing your system or that the root cause is in another module. If the progress of Windows Upgrade Assistant is stuck at 99% for more than four hours, here's something you can try. Ideally, your computer should be downloading and installing Updates silently in the background, allowing you to use your computer without any interruption. So, if your Windows 10 upgrade gets stuck at a specific percentage, here are some solutions that you can use in order to fix the problem. Windows Server Essentials 2016 – Install Stuck at 17% or 39% March 10, 2016 by Robert Pearman 37 Comments This week I had a Skype conversation with a fellow MVP and friend from Brazil, Daniel Santos. Windows 10 version 1803 KB4487017 update installs fine for most users, but if you’re having trouble installing the latest cumulative update through the inbuilt Windows Update system, you can always. The update from Windows 10 build 10041 to the latest version, build 10049, appears to be an annoyance for many users. On internet forums they complain the upgrade process is stuck for hours. More On Forbes. Joined Jan 30, 2018 Messages 2 Reaction score Go to "Settings" > Update and Security > Troubleshoot and select. 1 year ago. Step 4: Now, we have to register all of the Windows Update DLL files on the Windows Registry database. Microsoft rolls out two Windows 10 feature updates a year. On internet forums they complain the upgrade process is stuck for hours. In order to limit the number of issues that. SCCM 2012 - App stuck at downloading 0% I was testing SCCM 2012 Application Management in the lab and there was an issue in the beginning where any app I tried were hanging at 0% downloading. I followed the instructions and had more than 50 MB free on system partition. If you didn’t have an AskWoody account with the same email address, we took your Windows Secrets username and stuck “WS” on the front of it. These errors are sent by the Windows setup itself, they are not related to SCCM. One can also use advanced tools like DISM for attempting. Re: April 2018 Update 42 Percent Lock Up I have a client with two of these computers. If you are stuck running the Windows 10 Upgrade Assistant, this tutorial will provide a workaround. It downloads the pack correctly via the windows 10 update assistant and starts the installation but it always get stuck at 82%. My Windows 10 copy was a genuine one (albeit I didn’t pay for it, since I got it for free in the university program) so, naturally, I was afraid that it would fail to install. Windows 10 Fall's Creators update) For the Windows Update based security hotfixes and hotfixes to install properly, you need to make sure that you have the latest "Servicing Stack Update" for your corresponding O. 1, especially if stuck at 82% on the install. 187, but reports say the installer gets stuck at 45 percent, 48 percent, 95 percent, and various other points along the way. If you've stumbled upon this post it probably means you are a Steam user (the massively-popular gaming distribution platform owned by Valve Corporation) and you have one or more games stuck into the dreadful "Download Queued" or "Update Queued" status - even if there are no active downloads. Turn your wifi on your computer off. On internet forums they complain the upgrade process is stuck for hours. The HDD light is blinking and then the system freezes. Unfortunately, I was among the selected ones who were offered the Creators Update this week. Fix Windows 10 stuck at Preparing Security Options (Solved) July 22, 2018 By karan Microsoft has been improving upon its operating systems with every version the launch and every update they release. Another simple fix for Windows 10 getting stuck at restarting screen is upvoted by a lot of people, it says if your Windows 10 session gets stuck during a system restart, you can try these operations: 1. I have now ok'ed 2018-01 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems (KB4056892) several times, but it. The update from Windows 10 build 10041 to the latest version, build 10049, appears to be an annoyance for many users. It always happened to me to no matter what windows version it was and recently it happened while upgrading to windows 10 too the only solution that worked for me then and now is to remove the memory card and reset the phone using the Volume Down key + Power button after which the upgrade will continue so try doing that and you wont get stuck at rotating gear remember to put back the memory. We may earn a commission for purchases using our links. However, sometimes can get a corrupt update and your computer when rebooted or shut down will get stuck on this dreaded screen:. Anyone have some ideas? Why is Windows 10 Stuck at 54 % and won't continue updating?. If you are installing Windows 10 on a PC running Windows XP or Windows Vista, or if you need to create installation media to install Windows 10 on a different PC, see Using the tool to create installation media (USB flash drive, DVD, or ISO file) to install Windows 10 on a different PC section below. Most of the time, you will want to use the built-in Windows Update utility in Windows 10 to apply updates or let them roll out on their own. Windows 10 Update stuck at 24%, copying files 83%. I had been for 2 days. Also, if this happens. These errors are sent by the Windows setup itself, they are not related to SCCM. When it comes up for air, click Hide Updates. As the name suggested, the tool’s duty is to free up storage space on the hard drive. and start it up again. If you are stuck running the Windows 10 Upgrade Assistant, this tutorial will provide a workaround. When I do a clean install with a iso it installs allright. Just installed Windows on my SSD through the USB installation. Or see Fix Windows Update errors and follow the troubleshooting steps. The HDD light is blinking and then the system freezes. If the progress of Windows Upgrade Assistant is stuck at 99% for more than four hours, here's something you can try. If you run into problems when using Windows Update, start with the following steps: Run the built-in Windows Update troubleshooter to fix common issues. Issue and resolution for those unable to upgrade Windows 8. Then, it was stuck at 35% after I shut it down and tried to boot again. and then it goes all the way to 82 percent and then it freezes and goes back to 1 percent. Now, here I am, well and truly stuck. Is Windows 10 April 2018 Update download or install getting stuck at 25%, 81% etc. Not enough disk space to even update Windows 10 05-17-2018 12:46 PM - edited 05-17-2018 12 Message 82 of 144 744 Flag Post. Windows update usually doesn't take much time in Windows 10 but if it fails to install any individual update then doesn't proceed further and gets stuck. How to Fix Windows Update Stuck at Checking for Updates. In this article we are covering most commonly known Windows 10 Mobile upgrade, installation and usability (user) issues and how to fix them. It can be due to a simple overloaded physical memory. When the device gets stuck, you can’t use the device and this can be very troubling for you. A short quiz will help you decide whether to buy Windows 10 to install on your current PC, or to buy a new Windows 10 PC. 1 hour, 44 minutes ago. In this post, we are going to elaborate on what can be done to address the Windows 10 April 2018 update (Version 1803) installation getting stuck problem that some users have been complaining about. I just googled "install windows 10" and clicked through the links once it was fully updated and to my surprise it worked (this was a 2 day ordeal). If not, then We just recommend reinstalling your Windows 10. If you're experiencing this issue, neither a hard reset nor a soft. If you want to know more about the latest Windows update and what it contains, make sure to take a look at this article, which we update with every new big release of Windows 10. Windows 10 Upgrade stuck at 82%. Some of the things that I have tried are;. But lots of people are having problems upgrading so we've put together some fixes for you. Among the new features in the Windows 10 April 2018 Update is a Timeline feature that will allow. Microsoft released on Monday (30/4/2018) the last big update for Windows 10, known as "Windows 10 April 2018 Update Version 1803". iCloud for Windows 7. In January 2019, the OS market share of the Windows operating system range was at 75 percent. What should be the first thing I do to try and correct this problem?. How to fix Windows 10 Mobile Download Stuck at 0% or certain percentage bug? Then you are in the right place. 2 percent, and the Anniversary Update is. How to fix a stuck Windows 10 update. 1000 to push Windows Updates to Windows 10 version 1703. 0 on November 9, 2004. Now, Microsoft is releasing a series of updates for Windows 10 and users can easily download and install the new build via Windows Update or Windows installer. otherwise, apply each above method one by one. I was using a wireless connection while checking for updates. Part 2: How to Fix Endless Restart Loop during or after Upgrading to Windows 10. These updates provide important security patches and can improve the overall functionality of Windows. Windows update stuck checking for updates for hours, its stuck Downloading updates on a specific percentage ( xx%, 20% or 99%) or Windows 10 Update fails to install with Different errors 0x800f0922, 0x8000ffff, 0x800f0826. Issue and resolution for those unable to upgrade Windows 8. that several Windows 10 users are still stuck in. Stuck at 0-99% when starting up Nox App Player? Here is the fix. This function will allow you to access the. Then I do the upgrade and it works just fine. The update was stuck at 0%. Navigate to Settings > Update & Security > Troubleshoot > Windows Update. As Windows 10 April 2018 Update lands, Microsoft lists old features being cut. Another simple fix for Windows 10 getting stuck at restarting screen is upvoted by a lot of people, it says if your Windows 10 session gets stuck during a system restart, you can try these operations: 1. First, it was stuck at 100% complete for over an hour. 4 percent of Windows 10 machines have been updated to version 1809 with version 1803 (April 2018 Update aka the fastest-adopted version) still controlling over 66. LiveSafe installation hangs at 82%. sometimes it's because of software conflict or a preexisting problem that wasn't visible until the Windows Updates initiated. This solution worked for me and I was successfully able to install the 2018-06 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2016 for x64-based Systems (KB4284833) and the Windows Defender update. Hi, Please do try these troubleshooting steps that may help. In this article we are covering most commonly known Windows 10 Mobile upgrade, installation and usability (user) issues and how to fix them. This works in most cases, where the issue is originated due to a system corruption. I have Windows 7 SP1. On August 2nd, 2016, Windows 10 Anniversary Update, which updates all Windows 10 systems to version 1607, starts rolling out to all users. Unfortunately, I was among the selected ones who were offered the Creators Update this week. We recommend setting Windows Update to automatically download and install. Windows 8 Update is Stuck at Updating. Here's how to install balky Windows 10 cumulative patch KB 3189866 If your Windows 10 Anniversary Update install gets stuck at 95 percent, these steps will fix it without using Internet Explorer.
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Another Visit From Another Her New York
The Face Beneath The Hat
By Chelsea Dreher
Before an unhappy marriage
Before a baby and two lost
Before a holocaust that would
Erase all hope
Ilona had possibilities.
New York had 34th Street
Ilona had her studio
Misplaced people
Tragedy in faded photos
An old woman
Wrapped in a blanket
Holds a piece of cardboard
"Heartbreak-Please Give"
Ilona came to New York from Hungary in the late twenties. As soon as she saw the city from the boat, she wanted to go back to the vineyards and mountains. She lived in Harlem with her brother, Herman and made paper flowers on the Lower East Side for $4 a week. This led to a career as a designer with a business card. Heady stuff for an immigrant single lady. Famous hat makers used her handmade flowers on hats and gowns. She was my mother.
She married, gave up her 34th Street studio and had me. Our little family moved to the Bronx where there were parks. I moved to the Village when I was seventeen.
-- Chelsea Dreher
The superstars of Manatee Springs, Florida - Last December, I visited Manatee Springs State Park, in northwest Florida. I was hoping to see manatees in the wild, which I did, but the real stars of the...
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Wednesday, December 18. 2019
Who wrote under a male pen name ... Posted by Keshav Jain in Biopic , General Knowledge, Novels at 06:01
Who wrote under a male pen name Currer Bell?
If you have read the classic Jane Eyre, which is about a feisty and strong-willed governess, you may be familiar with the name Charlotte Bronte. The author along with her sisters, Emily and Anne, was one of the most important literacy voices of the 19th Century. Last month, the Bronte Society acquired a rare, match-sized book written by Charlotte at the age of 14. One of six “little books” it was created by the author for the tiny toy soldiers, she and her siblings loved playing with.
Charlotte, Emily, Anne and their brother Branwell lived with their vicar father in Haworth, West Yorkshire in England. A young Charlotte had to come to terms with death and loss from an early age as she had lost her mother when she was five and later, her two elder sisters Maria and Elizabeth to tuberculosis. After the death of her two siblings Charlotte took on the role of the elder sister.
School was a nightmare for Charlotte. The Clergy Daughters’ School at Cowan Bridge had a harsh environment, and Charlotte had several bad experiences there. It served as an inspiration for the dark and cold Lowood Institution in Jane Eyre.
A world of their own
Living in a small, remote village, Charlotte and her siblings had only each other for company. But a wooden village and a few toy soldiers were enough to unlock their imagination. They invented entire worlds created entire towns – like ‘the Great Glasstown Confederacy’ – filled with peasants and nobles, where an adventure was always afoot!
Charlotte wrote tiny books recording the detailed histories and adventures of these fictional worlds. The second issue of one such book, called The Young Men’s Magazine, was recently bought by the Bronte Society for a sum of 600,000. The miniature book will be displayed at the Parsonage Museum, built in the Brontes’ old home in Haworth.
As Charlotte and her siblings grew older, their imagination became more colourful. During dinner time, all the siblings would chat about possible storylines and flesh out characters. The adventures made way for romances, secret heroes and scheming villains. Some of these stories, including that of the Duke of Zamorna and the lovely Mina Laury from the imaginary kingdom of Angria, written by Charlotte were later published by Penguin as the Juvenilia of Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte.
Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
Charlotte often worked as a teacher and governess, but did not enjoy it. She went on to study in Brussels at the Peonsionnat Heger, a school for young ladies, where she fell in love with her teacher. However, he did not reciprocate her feelings and Charlotte was heartbroken.
She found solace in writing. Charlotte and her siblings penned several novels and poems using male pen names Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Currer Bell was Charlotte, Emily was Ellis and Anne was Acton. Charlotte even used this pseudonym while writing her most successful novel Jane Eyre. She did not want to reveal her identity as she feared that readers will not take a female author seriously. A famous poet had even told her once that “literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life.”
Though her first novel The Professor was rejected nine times, her second book Jane Eyre was published to huge acclaim in 1847.
However, her siblings didn’t live long enough to see her succeed. All three of them succumbed to tuberculosis between 1848 and 1849. Without her siblings with whom she had shared a close bond, Charlotte felt lost and alone.
Years later she married her father’s friend Arthur Bell Nicholls. They lived together at the Parsonage for a few months before her death. Bronte died at the age of 38 on March 31, 1855.
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Tuesday, December 17. 2019
What is pulp fiction? Posted by Keshav Jain in General Knowledge, Novels at 07:56
What is pulp fiction?
In early 19th century England and US., books or magazines containing sensational serailised stories of crime and romance became very popular among working class men and women. The stories had lurid and colorful illustrations.
Since they cost a penny in England and a dime in the US., they were referred to as penny dreadfuls’ and dime novels’. The books were printed on paper made from very cheap wood pulp and haphazardly cut and bound. Each book had just ten pages but publishers came out with new issues every week.
Though dismissed by educated readers as ‘pulp fiction’, film scriptwriters often found them an inspiration and many jumpstarted their writing careers by contributing stories for these books and magazines.
Penny dreadfuls and dime novels were succeeded by pulp magazines or pulp which were 128 pages long and cost ten cents apiece. Those printed on better quality paper were called glossies or slicks and cost 25 cents each.
Many respected authors wrote for the pulps. The stories had characters like Doc savage, Phantom Detective and The Shadow and were considered forerunners of the superhero comics like superman, Batman and Spiderman.
Saturday, December 14. 2019
Who wrote Anne of Green Gables? Posted by Keshav Jain in Biopic , General Knowledge, Novels at 09:25
Who wrote Anne of Green Gables?
When Lucy Maud Manotgomery wrote her first novel in 1905, it was rejected by almost all publishers she showed it to. Upset, she locked away the manuscript in a hat box. A couple of years later, when she tried to get her book published again, she succeeded. That novel was none other than Anne of Green Gables, which went on to become a children’s classic, recommended for students around the world even today.
This coming-of-age story – about the adventures of a redheaded girl set in the small town of Prince Edward Island – became one of the most popular books of Canada, being translated into about 30 different languages and adapted into several films and television series.
And it all started with a little bit of imagination.
Growing up, author Lucy Maud Montgomery had two imaginary friends, Katie Maurice and Lucy Gray. Katie and Lucy ‘lived’ in an imaginary room behind the bookcase in her grandparents’ house, where she spent her childhood. They were her constant companions and comforted her when she was scared and alone. They also did something more: they sharpened her imagination and fostered her creativity.
Keeping the secret
Montgomery’s father left her in the custody of her grandparents after her mother’s death. When she was nine, Montgomery began writing poetry and keeping a journal. Her poem On Cape LeForce was published by a local newspaper, the Patriot. But her family was not supportive of her writing as they considered it to be a waste of time, especially for a woman. But Montgomery did not give up, instead she continued writing in secret at night by sneaking in candles to her room. When she grew up, she even started working at a post office run by her family so that she could clandestinely send out her work to publishers.
After graduating from college, Montgomery started working as a teacher. Though she did not enjoy it much, teaching gave her extra time to write. She penned hundreds of poems and short stories, but they continued to be rejected by Canadian, British, and American magazines. Finally, she was able to publish her first novel Anne of Green Gables in 1905, which marked the beginning of Montgomery’s successful career as a novelist.
Anne Shirley
Mirroring the author herself, Montgomery’s heroine, Anne Shirley, is an eternal optimist and an unrepentant romantic. Anne fights against all odds to find love, acceptance and her pace in the world. Montgomery’s beautiful descriptions of her hometown peppered with Victorian green-gabled farmhouses as well as its people, immortalised the tiny province of Prince Edward Island. Each year, hundreds of Montgomery’s fans visit the island to see the place she loved so much.
After the Anne series, she wrote a number of successful novels and stories. For her literacy contribution, she became the first Canadian woman to be made a member of the British Royal Society of Arts and was also appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. She died on April 24, 1942. Like Anne, Montgomery was a woman much ahead of her time!
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'White Like Me' author speaking
Educators aren't the only people talking about racism and white privilege. As Superintendent Heath Morrison gears up to get Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools talking about how race shapes academic success, Mecklenburg Ministries is capping up a seven-year "Souls of White Folks" project with a public forum that will launch book studies on "White Like Me."
Author Tim Wise will speak at a lunch event Jan. 17 at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 1000 E. Morehead Street. The event is open to the public, with lunch available for $6; email meckmin@meckmin.org by tomorrow (Jan. 9) to save a spot. Trinity Episcopal School, 750 E. Ninth St., is also hosting a free event with Wise at 7 p.m. Jan. 17; RSVP at this link.
To back up a bit: Mecklenburg Ministries, an interfaith alliance, has been bringing white clergy together for eight-week study groups to talk about how their race and often-unnoticed privilege affect their own spiritual lives and that of their congregations. Some corporate and lay people have also taken part, but religious leaders have been the target audience, says Executive Director Maria Hanlin.
This effort hasn't been as visible as the group's other "Souls of ..." projects, including "Souls of Our Teachers" and "Souls of Our Students." But Wise's talk is designed to bring the discussion into the broader community -- something that meshes well with similar talk in CMS.
I haven't read Wise's book, but Amazon describes it as "a personal examination of the way in which racial privilege shapes the daily lives of white Americans in every realm: employment, education, housing, criminal justice, and elsewhere. ... He explores the ways in which whites can challenge their unjust privileges, and explains in clear and convincing language why it is in the best interest of whites themselves to do so."
At the Mecklenburg Ministries lunch, Wise is scheduled to talk about racial disparities in schools, communities and houses of worship and suggest ways to challenge institutional racism and privilege. "The public is invited to understand the impact of racism on their lives and in our cities, no matter what their skin color, and then work together to dismantle racism in our community," Hanlin said.
This entire series is such an affront to people of all demographics.
And for the record, not all of us Whities are privileged. Most of us are just as oppressed and poor as the rest of the world. And also for the record, we do challenge the unjust system on a daily basis.
And finally, please stop hating on me; my people had nothing to do with enslaving your people.
Any white person who wants to understand racism in Charlotte just has to ride an inner-city CATS bus during the day.
Then tell us how much "privilege" you have.
White guilt "sells" today.
Under the new "Massa" of political correctness.
I have not read this book, but I have been following the discussion. I taught in CMS and Cleveland County Schools for a total of 10 years and I have 2 adopted African American kids. I am white. It is safe to say I have thought a lot about race over the years.
This book seems to contend that Whites have privileges and unwittingly use them to keep other races lower on the scale. It also seems to suggest that if we are aware of the privileges we will stop using them.
I just have a fundamental disagreement with the idea that successful groups need to change how they behave. I think the best evidence for this is the US military. I was in the USMC (long ago) and it was filled with Americans of every imaginable race, with religions I had never heard of and names I (a white Charlotte native) could not pronounce. Kids from Detroit, WV, east LA and Chicago. They were successful I always thought because they had gotten away from their communities of origin. They told me they believed that.
School don't do kids a favor when they set the bar differently than society. The bar of success is the same everywhere. No matter where you begin your attempt to get over it- it remains the same. A great example of this is that at Eastway Middle School all kids who make a 3 on the EOGs are in "honors" classes. At South Charlotte Middle School to be in honors kids must score at or above 95% on the EOG in that subject.
Let's all goosestep to the 12-step program at our local WA.
All you "whiteys" out there repeat after me:
My name is John/Mary and I'm a Whiteaholic...
I do not deserve anything I have because it was stolen from brown people centuries ago who are still powerless in my society.
I know the brown people are powerless because they told me so and made me go to these meetings so that I may be enlightened about their powerlessness and my privilege.
I had no idea what a horrible person I am unconsciously.
If I don't confess to my sins as a white person then my brown-skinned supervisor, mayor or president may fire me from my gubmint job for my racial insensitivity.
So I am at this meeting to be "cured" of my unconscious feelings of white privilege so that I may keep my job and remain in good standing in the "community".
I hope Tim Wise brought up the subject of worshipping a "white" Jesus to all these preacherfolk.
I fully expect to see brown-skinned Jesii and Maries at all the houses of worship next Sunday.
Or I'm telling...
http://www. timwise .org/2000/12/dreaming-of-a-non-white-christmas-santa-jesus-and-the-symbolism-of-racial-supremacy/
kantstanzya said...
"He explores the ways in which whites can challenge their unjust privileges." Wow. Just when I don't think I can be shocked anymore by this nonsense.
This gave me a flashback to college when I attended some black revolutionary rally on campus to see what was going on. Someone like Eldridge Cleaver was speaking and he advocated that blacks rise up and kill as many whites as possible. They needed money to buy guns and ammunition to kill all these whites and so passed around a bucket to the crowd. I was amazed at all the white students dutifully dropping money into the bucket so someone could kill them. That idiocy has stuck with me all these years.
The article doesn't connect this completely nutty viewpoint with the mention of the new Superintendent's initiatives on "race awareness" very well. But if there is ANY connection at all my advise to both white AND black parents is to get their kids out of CMS as fast as possible. Black kids growing up with the yoke of victimization and grievance fastened firmly around their necks is the surest way to doom them to a life of failure.
What exactly are the important questions Heath is trying to get answered in his upcoming "courageous conversations" about race? CMS per-pupil funding already goes disproportionately to high-minority schools.
I suspect that Heath was hired by a newly elected BOE whose majority believes that institutional racism is what's holding society and CMS back. Whether this is true or not is beside the point. Pleasing the BOE is job number one if you want to keep your job as CMS superintendent.
Keep the bosses happy, young man, and you will go far.
I never had a racial bone in my body until I moved here 10 years ago from the west. I always felt the true color line is green, not brown or black. But I am getting there. Whether it is in a store or a parking lot or driving or wherever. I am so exhausted by the Attitude. I have to suppress the impulse to not scream after people that I owe them nothing. My ancestors came from New England and the West Coast. We never owned or profited from the abuse of other people. Very few people have been poorer than the previous 4 generations of my ancestors. My grandmother lost her mom at birth and was raised in foster care until 14. She had a 3rd grade education. Then she became a live in boarder child until she married. She was widowed at 25 with 3 children under 6 and $2 a month from the county and a small garden to raise them on. My mother had a birth defect that caused mild autism. She was a single mom who supported us as a waitress. She had an 8th grade education. She never took a dime of welfare or unemployment. I raised my child as a single parent after it turned out my husband had severe mental problems that got him sent to prison for life. We never took a dime of welfare or unemployment. I have a high school education. My child, through alot of hard work and sacrifice on both our parts, has a college degree, is a teacher and has a boat load of student loans that will never finish being paid on a teacher's salary. My point is that we are still poor by today's standards, but we don't blame anyone else for the hands we were dealt. And we sincerely wish others would stop with the guilt and attitude.
Are you serious?? I have always worked hard for everything I have earned. The only thing holding back non-whites is themselves. My white kids have gone through CMS alongside children of all races. What has set them apart is two parents at home who care. What holds these other kids back is parents who don't. Now that my kids are heading to college, they won't get any assistance because they aren't "minority". Much to poplular belief, just because we are white does not mean we are weatlhy, affluent or privileged.
I agree. A lot of this reminds me of the fable about the "Goose Who Laid the Golden Egg".
Lots of folks seem eager to kill that white goose to get at what's inside producing all that "gold" they think they deserve but aren't getting fast enough.
It also seems to me that the privileged "white" in the US have been pretty good at allowing others to sit at the table of "their" wealth.
Even shills like Tim Wise have to admit that his "Jewish" heritage (as insignificant as it may be)isn't much of a hindrance in today's society.
That's true of many other deviations from the WASP "standard" than was the case even 60 years ago.
Such as being Irish Catholic.
So, society HAS changed.
As I look around I see all kinds of people in positions of power regardless of my "privileged" opinion of their worth due to their skin colors.
I certainly don't think Eastway Middle school is setting a "good" example by having lower standards, if they do what you are saying.
I've seen the effects of this later in life and it isn't pretty once reality catches up to those who've been "privileged" to be held to lower standards in the beginnings of their life.
BTW, anyone wishing to read some lengthy excerpts from his book can find it on Google books...
As time passed, so will RACISM...but yes today we still have it. Education is the great equalizer. So whether you are in a PRIVATE school or Public, just get educated and you will see a better life. It really doesn't matter if you are PURPLE, education will open DOORS.
Name one prosperous and stable non-white majority country.
Japan and South Korea, maybe, but take away US military protection...
China? No freedoms.
Still waiting on an African country...
Just one.
I am tired of all of this so-called "white privilege." I had to WORK my way through college to get my degree. I didn't get any scholarships nor any other treatment based on my race. It was by hard work, sacrifice, and postponing gratification in order to reach a long-term goal.
I sure didn't have any college professors whisper to me "Just come to class every day and I will make sure you get an A" like what I witnessed with BLACK students. I had to do this thing called STUDY.
In my experience as a teacher (no longer, thank God!) in a high minority school in CMS, I and every other teacher treated all of the students fairly. Guess which demographic chose disproportionately to waste time, not do work, act up, be impulsive, and do poorly on tests? Hint: it wasn't the average poor white kid. Those kids suffered from the same poverty as well but they didn't act like a bunch of wild, out of control jack****s.
When so much taxpayer money is allocated towards the ever-underachieving minorities who don't/won't take advantage of it, when does this BS about white privilege end?????
One more thing: go to a remote hollow in West Virginia or elsewhere in rural Appalachia. Find an unemployed former coal miner living in a rusted out trailer - that won't be hard to do. Talk to HIM about white privilege and see where that gets you.
Dr. Morrison, you can have all of the conversations you like concerning race. However, as a teacher, could I PLEASE be allowed to actually spend my time TEACHING??? Would that be too much to ask for?
Also, conversations aside, could you please explain to a moron such as myself how assigning a minimum grade of 50%, regardless of effort or even completion, is going to raise the levels of acheivement of any student, regardless of race? Apparently, we teachers are too clueless of understand the brilliance of that initiative. We are still stuck in that old paradigm of effort=achievement.
What is extremely sad, and I see it here all the time, is that most of you don't realize that the audience you are trying to make a point to, or complain about, DOES NOT READ THIS WEBSITE!
All the negaitve, trashy comments day in and day out complaining about things that you are so mad about, yet you are actually just complaining to other hateful commenters. All those folks you accuse daily from crime to school problems, NEVER read this and are quite oblivious to what you think. Hope I didn't ruin your week!
Ettolrahc said...
What will the observer do when racism is no longer a selling point for them?
When will the Observer do an investigation of how white teachers and staff are treated at majority black schools?
What will they do? Well, they have already restricted comments from being seen on anything except these blog entries. All other stories just show 0 comments. Guess those people really are just complaining and bitching to themselves since the general public no longer can see them.
Exactly how long are we all going to be hit over the head with this type of thing. Meck Ministries and it partner the Community Building Initiative have been promoting this type of "discussion" for years. They specialize in providing excuses and blame, all the while decrying how divided and lacking in trust our community is. Observer editors are usually in lockstep with them--oh those evil racist suburbanites (even as they live amongst them). I wish some civic leader had the guts to say--This is all hogwash. Let's try personal responsibility for a change.
Perhaps is all groups of races would read or attend these meetings all groups would be more educated as to what happens when you are rich black or white or Hispanic..
Kantstanzya,
If you haven't seen it, you should see the Eddie Murphy SNL skit
"Kill the White People".
Your story about the college rally reminded me of that.
I think some people are missing the point. White privilege is something that whites benefit from without even knowing it. The real issue is the powers that be that allow the benefit to take place. Lenders, School system, Hiring Managers, Judges, Law Enforcement etc. These are the ones the bestow the "white privilege" upon whites. Who gets the better mortgage rate? Who gets most of the sales positions? Who gets there car searched when pulled over the most? You blame law enforcement for these tactics. Which kids get labeled as having a "learning disability" the most? You can't blame the couple that applied for a home loan with the same credit and financial background as us but got a better rate for "some reason". You blame the lender. You don't blame the white kid that has the same behavorial/learning issues as the black kid but wasn't labeled as having a learning disability. You blame the teacher. Its a known fact that whites are not percieved as drug users and law breakers, minorities are but the data shows otherwise. Whites are given the benefit of the doubt. That's white privilege at its finest. I think people posting here know exactly what this book is saying. Pretending to not have a clue actually shows the inner guilt.
Your welcome..
You probably have no idea who reads or posts to these comments.
Based on CMS comments about all the "bad press" and negative comments, I suspect that someone in their little hierarchy is somewhat aware of what is being said about them.
But, yes, you're right about how the dissent is being suppressed in other ways, so the effectiveness of all this commentary is highly doubtful.
However, it isn't the first time "power" has tried to suppress change.
Maybe the "other" side has learned a few more tricks by now.
Look around you.
Who are the "hiring managers"?
Who is the mayor?
Who is the police chief?
Who sits on the school boards?
And look at the kind of consultants being hired and listened to by the likes of CMS and other "leaders".
It's not the same old world.
As for whites not being "perceived" as law breakers, that's rubbish.
And if you want crime statistics showing otherwise, the FBI has them.
Even Jesse Jackson knows who to cross the street to avoid in a dark alley at night.
But I guess it's just his "white" privilege that's making him feel so guilty about avoiding groups black males on the streets at night.
And not his knowledge of violent crime statistics.
This is all just a lame attempt to blame whitey for everything possible, even their "unconscious" thoughts and feelings.
Basically for "thought" crimes.
Or even "thought" crimes which haven't even crystallized into consciousness yet.
And that's sinking pretty low.
9:48--I would add--who is the county manager? Who is the chair of the school board?
I think Asians are often given the "benefit of the doubt" as well, but no one is talking about their "yellow privilege".
I wonder why not?
Even though all Asians aren't alike, (Chinese and Japanese and Koreans are very different from Cambodians, Vietnamese and Hmong in their culture and achievements), they all get treated as somewhat the same by "society" at large .
Maybe it has something to do with what they've actually done in our society, though.
You know, their track record.
Or maybe it's the screwed-up explanation Glenn Singleton and other "anti-racists" give.
Namely, that Asians do well because whites "expect" them to.
And use that expectation of good behavior to control them and make them behave.
Yeah, that's it.
Whites Supremacy is so pervasive and powerful that we've actually MADE Asians perform BETTER than we do as a consequence of our white privilege.
Gosh, why didn't it occur to us to do that with everyone else, then?
Why did we only make the Asians better than the whites?
Yet another conundrum for the "anti-racists" to solve for us.
I wonder if Lawanna Mayfield, Harold Cogdell and Vilma Leake will attend.
These three racists/hate mongers attended Louis Farrakhan's recent rally in Charlotte, with Leake sitting on stage with him.
Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam are on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of hate groups, right next to the KKK and Neo-Nazis.
None of these elected officials would denounce what Farrakhan stands for.
Mayfield: Farrakhan ‘doing God’s will’
Mayfield, who in 2011 became the city’s first openly gay or lesbian elected official, was among several other elected officials and politicians at an Oct. 13 Farrakhan speech at Little Rock A.M.E. Zion Church. There, Mayfield sent a message of supposed support for the hate group leader on Twitter.
“Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan at Little Rock AME Zion Church doing God’s will not his own,” Mayfield wrote with an accompanying photograph of Farrakhan at the church’s pulpit.
Mayfield was joined by other local politicians at the Farrakhan event at Little Rock, including Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners Chair Harold Cogdell and Commissioner Vilma Leake. Leake also attended Farrakhan’s Sunday rally at Bojangles Coliseum, where she sat on stage behind Farrakhan, according to The Charlotte Observer.
I lived and worked in China for a year.
I wouldn't say they have "no freedoms", just different freedoms.
I never felt the least bit "unfree" in China.
Can't say the same about Indonesia where I've also worked and lived, though.
Suddenly having the urge to read Grapes of Wrath and then watch a re-run of The Waltons.
My grandparents grew up on rural farms and lived through the Great Depression. They were married Christmas day because the church was already decorated. My grandmother wore a simple handmade dress because she couldn't afford a wedding gown. No honeymoon get-a-way either. My grandparents were married 72 years. When things got better after WW II, my grandfather found a job with the U.S. Postal Service. My grandmother continued working as a school teacher and played the organ at the church where she and my grandfather met, married and were both buried. I suppose they were privileged. They had two children, a vegetable garden and each other.
When they finally retired, they traveled all over the U.S. camping in National Parks. They said this was the best time of their lives - being able to see the United States in a tiny hook-up trailer. I never heard a racist comment come out of either one of their mouths - ever. Once and a while, they'd complain about the Amish digging up the paved roads they had to pay taxes on. Amish buggy wheels leave groves in the road but they don't have to pay taxes to maintain them. When my grandparents eventually moved closer to civilization, they'd occasionally get miffed when Catholic parishioners parked their cars in their Presbyterian church lot across the street - but they always forgave them for doing so.
LOL @ these comments! Get DEFENSIVE much?? The whole premise of the efforts are for the people who have benefited from the centuries of power gained by violence and oppression in this country. You obviously need to either read this book or attend one of these sessions in order to gain an understanding. It's called EMPATHY folks...and from the comments posted here, that's something that's sorely lacking in your culture.
Instead of bashing non-whites, who have nothing to do with the writing of this book, how about pray for those who lack power to make changes in their lives due to finances, education, support systems, emotional or mental illness, etc.
Let's make some effort to have some understanding and humanity in 2013...instead of all the hateful rhetoric.
And this is a major part of the problem.. lack of understanding or willingness to understand.
11:04--Perhaps we're lacking in empathy because we've heard this same old song and dance so many times before. And no matter how many gatherings, programs, books, donations, etc. addressing "the gap" there have been, nothing has changed. It would be worthwhile to note exactly who attends these gatherings--I'll bet is the same small group of people over and over again.
Please explain to me how *I* benefitted from systematic oppression of non-whites? I got into college due to studying, not being given preferential treatment. Please explain how the Asians do so well without excuses? Also, it isn't a matter of being "defensive." We are just sick and tired of the same old blame game.
Please explain why, despite massive amounts of taxpayer money pouring into majority black schools, the results are still abysmal. Please explain why, despite the black community courageously struggling to get their civil rights, their children and grandchildren throw away their opportunities to better themselves?
Not one person with his head screwed on right would argue that minorities were blatantly discriminated against. It is a sad chapter in our history that never should have been. However, I still don't see how I was the beneficiary of oppression. Who did my ancestors oppress? They lived in an area with few, if any black residents who were fairly treated. Excuses excuses excuses.
We need another rally to show that everyone is happy with our schools.
11:04, please tell the unemployed hillbilly in Appalachia how powerful he is and how much he has benefitted from centuries of oppression.
While you're at it, go up north and tell that to the unemployed white factory worker who lost his job to outsourcing. Tell him not to worry since his white male privilege will surely bring him wealth and prosperity.
Anon 11:04....
I'll pray for all races to have the power to succeed, however, I will not for those of ALL races who use the system to do nothing for themselves, which is a sizeable group in this country and has been for decades.
Tell us, at what point can us Whites - in your opinion - cease to "stop feeling guilty" about what was done over the centuries? About 2035 when Whites will be the minority race in this country? So we have to deal with the guilt for another 23 or so years?
Personally, I have no guilt. I live each day treating others as I want to be treated. That's it, no more no less.
George F. Will wrote: "[White guilt is] a form of self-congratulation, where whites initiate "compassionate policies" toward people of color, to showcase their innocence to racism liberals).
Commentator Sunny Hundal, writing for The Guardian, stated that it is "reductionist" to assign political opinions to a collective guilt such as "white guilt" and that few people on the left actually hold the views being ascribed to them by the conservative writers who expound on the concept of "white guilt" and its implications. Hundal concludes: "Not much annoys me more than the stereotype that to be liberal is to be full of guilt. To be socially liberal, in my view, is to be more mindful of compassion and empathy for others."
Good luck with your understanding humanity wish.
Help me understand.... Is black poverty worse than white poverty?
For three years, I lived in one of the most rural and poorest counties in upstate NY. My best friend lived in a shack with a dirt floor. A lot of my classmates lived in dilapidated trailers and one student lived in an unfinished basement with a makeshift roof. Most residences were heated by wood burning stoves. A few classmates lived on farms. Most of my classmates received free lunch tickets - they were blue. I remember. My dad was the school principal/superintendent at the 450 student K-12 school so I always thought we were rich, or, I guess you could say I considered myself privileged.
Since when did poverty become a color contest? Am I missing something?
I wonder how many of these commenters are planning to attend either talk - your eyes might be opened! Some of your comments show clearly you have no idea what white privilege is. I have to admit, neither did I, until our church held a Souls of White Folks series of classes. Being educated and open-minded, and "not racist", I thought I understood racism & white privilege, but I was blind. I hope you'll take the chance and learn something that can help bring our community together. If not Mr. Wise's talks, then by arranging to take the "Souls of White Folks" class. If you aren't willing to do that much, your protestations here don't mean much at all.
The five poorest counties in North Carolina are (by poverty rate):
Robeson (23.8%)
Tyrrell (23.5%)
Halifax (23.2%)
Warren (21.8%)
Edgecombe (21.5%)
Charlotte-Meck (21.2%)
Poorest families: 57% female, no husband.
Why not bring gender into the discussion? Anyone? The poorest people in our state are female. White woman and black women.
While we're at it, how about having a courageous conversation about persistent pay disparity gaps between men and women? Anyone?
Women working full-time earn just 77 cents for every dollar that men earn, contributing to a $431,000 lifetime wage gap, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Seems to me that men are walking around with a lot more privileges- or at least a lot more cash in their wallets - than women.
Among college graduates, women earned 5 percent less than men one year after graduation, and the gap grew to 12 percent among full-time workers a decade after graduation, according to Catherine Hill, director of research at the American Association of University Women, or AAUW.
Soooo.. you don't think for one minute that "some" whites in position of authority or power, use race as a factor when hiring or during college admission, giving loans etc.. Do you really believe that?
Yes, I know whites in hiring positions and college admission offices use race as an affirmative action tool.
My husband used to be a college recruiter for NCNB and Nations Bank. He was given a list of black candidates to interview and was told he better hire a certain percentage of them. He had to meet a minority hiring quota. I also know someone who was a former college admissions officer at a very elite private liberal arts college. She was expected to fill each incoming class with "diverse" students.
So, yes! Whites do use their power in the hiring and college admissions process!
Next....
And the reason affirmative action exist is because........
I will let you fill that in..
Don't be shy now...
Your Welcome...
White Like Me!
I'm Ok, You're an Idiot.
12:17 I DO think that "some" whites in position of authority and power use race as a factor throughout all facets of life. Unfortunately, that is true and if those people were publicly "outed" their authority would be gone as quick as their reputations.
I also think that "some" blacks do the same. Ask white teachers in prodominately black student and black-run schools.
What do the two examples above have in common? Both are examples that there are small-minded people throughout humanity. What is the difference? The white bigot would be the subject of a huge public outrage, fueled by nonstop media coverage. Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton would fly down in their private jets and bully their way to get their faces in front of a camera. The white bigots would publicly appologize and be fired - their lives destroyed.
What about the blacks in power who openly discriminate against whites? Nothing. Will Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton get down here to denounce black racism? ha ha ha
Affirmative Action exists because and one time affirmative action was necessary.
The problem is, there is no expiration date on Affirmative Action so I guess we simply continue on this highly successful path as we did with forced cross-town busing which, we all know, solved all sorts of problems. Just look how far we've come!
You mean to tell me Denise Watts race had NOTHING to do with her being hired as the Project LIFT leader? You mean to tell me a white candidate would have been on the same level playing field for the position?
I have some swamp land for sale in Florida.
Affirmative Action refers to positive steps aimed at increasing the inclusion of historically excluded groups (race, gender, sex) in employment, education and business. Such steps are not designed to offer preferential treatment to, or exclude from participation, any group. To the contrary, Affirmative Action policies are intended to promote access for the traditionally underrepresented through heightened outreach and efforts at inclusion.
12:37 How much do you want for your swamp land? I would rather take my chances with gators than continue to teach in CMS.
"Humanity" has a funny way of abusing power the minute it's attained. Pick up any history book. It's not just about race- it's about gender, it's about religion, it's about sexual orientation, it's about ethnicity (which is not the same as race), it's about intelligence, it's about physical prowess, it's about everything.
Since we've been on the subject of courageous conversations, why so shy using your real name? Is this how we solve things? Hiding behind an alias? Have some courage. People might not like what you have to say and might disagree with you, but so what? I'm OK, You're OK. Right?
If Jimmy the Greek was still alive, he would tell his experience with the "courageous conversation" on race.
Thank you for the 1970's textbook definition of affirmative action. I can't argue with it. I think there was a time and a place for affirmative action practices. I do.
I'm interested in your thoughts on the subject of "underreptesentaion"? What does this mean? Less than 32% of students in CMS are white. Majority white schools, by and large, receive less per-pupil spending than majority black schools - keeping in mind that race and poverty are not mutually exclusive things in CMS.
And please, feel free to use your real name.
I think Bill Cosby could tell us a thing or two about courageous conversations also.
A prominent black woman here in Charlotte, who had been president of a suburban PTA, once told me that "we all know why whites don't want thugs (her word) in their schools and it's not racism. We don't want them there either. But politically I can't say that if I want to maintain my standing in my community."
Should CMS "promote access for underrepresented white students through heightened outreach and efforts at inclusion"?
In 250 words or less... (no high-stakes bubble sheet nonsense).
Ah, yes...
There is a group of middle/upper middle class south Charlotte African-American families who have had conversations with CMS leaders about their specific needs which they don't feel reflect the needs of African-American's in poorer areas of town.
Ann, I remember you writing something about this.
The race-baiting and racial division that is promoted by organizations like this are destroying our country and specifically the black community. If these people really wanted to fix the education and other problems in the black community, they would spend more time trying to eradicate horrible black thug culture, reduce government and welfare dependency and promote marriage and family in the black community. Instead, they blame white people and promote more dependency and left-wing "social justice".
Look what 50 years of this has produced! The results are right in front of our faces! Here's a movie I recommend that I highly recommend that supports my point of view: http://www.runawayslavemovie.com/
You're welcome (grammar by CMS perhaps?)
Women earn 77 cents on the dollar for "comparable" work, not their actual work.
That myth has been around for decades and depends on the definition of "comparable".
Sure, teachers earn less than engineers with similar degrees (comparing a typical "male" to a typical "female" occupation, which is what is typically done), but there's no comparison between the actual jobs.
It's the same trickery, being used by the new anti-racists, though.
Produce a good-sounding sound bite and throw it out as a "fact"...
Missouri said...
How about all of you get off of your high and mighty and get your racial chip off your shoulder and "get with the program"? Public education is the best odds for getting out of pverty.
Pull up your pants, cover your body and act civilized!
Alicia,
The women receiving 77% of what men get in pay is a reference to recent Census information on total pay for men vs. total pay for women in aggregate without looking at specific pay for specific jobs.
It is not a direct comparison of male vs. female salaries for the same job, or even similar, or comparable jobs.
Just for 40 hours "worked" by men vs. 40 hours "worked" by women.
Women make different choices in employment than men.
That has something to do with the pay discrepancies.
This "pay gap" is totally bogus and is typical of the leftist thinking of today that all things should be "equal".
To this way of thinking, everyone working 40 hours a week should earn the same amount of money.
And that is totally ridiculous.
However, even Forbes lets people get away with this stupid comparison...
http://www. forbes .com/sites/jennagoudreau/2012/04/17/today-women-need-to-demand-equal-pay/
"Women working full time, year round in the U.S. earn a median annual salary of $36,931, compared to men’s $47,715. That means American women earn $10,784 less than men each year. "
Well, there's your 77%...
$36931/$47715=.77399
Well, DUH...
That's some pretty deep analysis there.
Maybe it has something to do with the KIND of work they're doing.
But our society has become so STUPID that the 77% "fact" has become "truth".
Anon 11:04.
DEFENSIVE?
Sure, that's just common sense when attacked and bullied in some sort of "group" session.
I've seen this all before from the feminists. I think it is something taken directly from the typical leftist feminazi handbook.
I even unwittingly attended a "group meeting" for a volunteer organization which turned out to be something like these "courageous conversations".
Only it was run by feminists and designed to lay a heavy guilt trip on males for their privilege.
It looked a lot like the same crap to me.
So at least my "consciousness" about my "privilege" for being male has been "raised".
Does that mean that I'm at least half-way enlightened?
Does that count?
The people in support of this groups goals are the ones that need to 'learn something'. They specifically need to understand where political correctness came from and why it was created and unleashed on our country. The article goes into good detail on cultural Marxism/polictical correctness. http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=552
Ann likes to make posts about race like this because she wants lots of people commenting on her blog. This story has virtually nothing to do with the education of children. The community would be better served if Ann would spend more time covering education.
I agree with you that the kind of work women chose impacts their salaries which validates your argument. When we talk about the glass ceiling we often forget to consider the fact that a lot of women simply aren't interested in being a COE of a Fortune 500 company. 90% of school teachers are women. School teachers aren't paid a lot but women still chose to go into this profession. A disproportionate number of men have dangerous and physically high-risk careers - think coal mining. You make a good point that It's important to put wage disparity in context.
Too much Rush this morning? Whatever. Hear me roar.
If you think race is an irrelevant CMS issue, than I can only assume you just arrived off some boat yesterday. Ever heard of something called the Achievement Gap? Forced busing? No Child Left Behind? Teach for America? Perhaps we should start with a refresher course here. BTW, these things are national issues too.
Here's my knee-jerk reaction to the "Souls of Teachers" movement as I prepare to become a licensed elementary school teacher (post-baccalaureate program career change that still honors who I am, what I'm passionate about and what I do best).
The best thing CEO's, faith leaders, hot-shot philanthropists, politicians, lawyers and other "stakeholder" education reformists can do for my soul is to stay the (blank) out of my way and the way of my cohorts and colleagues who just want to teach. I wouldn't come into your place of business and start telling you how to do things. CMS set up 22 task-forces to address critical education issues and not ONE leader - NOT ONE - is a teacher, school administrator, school support staff member or anything else related to education. And being a former school board member does not make you an educational expert. I think a lot of teacher souls are fed-up with being bullied, marginalized and pushed around by others who think they know everything and would never have the courage or guts to get in the tenches and put themselves on front-line of an actual classroom everyday. My soul might benefit from having a lot of "experts" stay out of my business.
There. I said it.
Organizations like Meck Ministries, Community Building Initiatives, and Crossroads Charlotte would be out of business if controversy over race died down. Therefore in order to continue extorting money from corporations and government they need to keep the pot boiling (yes, some of your tax dollars have in the past have gone to CBI, Crossroads, and (I think) Meck Ministries, although county gov. at least is now demanding some accountability before paying up).
Black Women a Minority?
How many "sistas" are working in the downtown halls of CMeS?
I am a white McDonalds worker in Ballantyne. My child goes to Ardrey Kell. She is in classes of almost 40. The statistics say that CMS is spending around $4,000 to educate her per year. If I lived on the Westside of town she would receive more individual instruction and around $12,000 in spending. This is before the $55 million of private funds that are set to kick in.
Why does she not have the same advantages? The only assistance she receives is FRL.
Please explain CMS ?!?
Note that most of these "white-guilting" organizations are led by whites, most often white women. So we have guilt ridden white women (or men) trying to "save" their poor downtrodden black brothers and sisters by telling them how mistreated they are and how few chances they have to succeed because of white racism. How hypocritical! Apparently they don't believe that America's blacks can help themselves. So who's the racist here? Check out the Tuesday Morning Breakfast forum if you want to see some of these folks in action.
Ever wonder why there is always a "lone" white woman in all these black power groups like the Black Panthers and Wilmington 10?
Anon 8:54...
Because not enough of the other students at your daughter's school receive FRL. Only about 9% of the over 2,000 students receive the assistance.
With the FRL designation, she gets her AP/IB test for free if she takes them and can play sports for free.
The most fun and interesting thing to me about this blog is the ability to be able to easily distinguish the difference between a male voice and female voice. Doing so doesn't require a name tip-off.
However, you've been here a while but have remained a mystery. I was surprised Ann thought you might be Wiley although I strongly suspect Wiley's posted here at least once or twice since going incognito, or camo, or whatever he's doing.
Seriously Wiley, you're killing me.
Play sports for free? No, I dont think so. She just doesnt have to pay the $100 participation fee. Do you have any idea of all the other dues and fees these sports program ask from the families!
NO THANKS.She would rather work to save for CPCC.
A fair hypothetical question. Or, is it a rhetorical question?
Last spring, I was invited to attend a documentary film debut at the Mint Museum featuring CMS students. The documentary is entitled; "From the Heart - Transferring Bullying into Caring" and was featured on WTVI. I believe the documentary is being shown at all CMS middle and high schools this year.
Since the subject of feminism has been brought up;
The Jr. League of Charlotte funded the documentary film with the support of North Carolina's first openly gay attorney general - Ann Caulkins. The Junior League leaders all wore the most awesome shoes I have ever seen. We're talking to-die-for shoes (shoe porn at it's absolute finest). On the other hand, lesbian leaders all wore shoes that didn't require a first-aid kit plus two glasses of Chardonnay at lunch. This is what feminism looks like today. For the most part, it's all good.
Bill_Stevens said...
Alicia, I assure you Wiley is not on here incognito or camo.
Well that's a shame.
Bill Diehl was also in attendance at the opening premier of "From the Hear - Transferring Bullying into Caring".
The invitation only film premier at the Mint Museum of this documentary film was certainly - without question - the most interesting assembly of people I've ever experienced in Charlotte. I can't think of a single other Charlotte event that was equally or more enlightening than this.
Alicia--Only Ann Caulkins I am aware of is publisher of the Observer. I've never heard of an Ann Caulkins, Attorney General of NC. Are you just checking to see who's paying attention? This kinda makes all the other information you've put out a bit suspect, doesn't it?
I am not Wiley, as I've said before.
Having said that, I did often agree with what he had to say.
Maybe I've been "unconsciously" filling the Wiley "gap" lately in his absence, though.
Just as I "unconsciously" practice racial and gender superiority everyday.
If I have a particular agenda, though, I guess it would have to be anti-political-correctness.
I see the PC movement as an irrational attempt to make people behave in ways that run counter to their common sense, experience, and observable facts in the real world.
Basically, I am a New Age, touchy-feely counselor's worst nightmare.
I prefer to remain anonymous, of course, because I see that despite my "privileges", my mere existence as an older, less than poor, white male is considered a threat to so many.
All I really want, though, is for people to look at the facts, not a bunch of silly conjecture, when looking for solutions to problems.
Which, despite what some may think, means that I am not a fan of the likes of Rush and Beck.
(Unless you're referring to the musical groups...)
But I will freely admit to being racist, sexist, classist, and just about every other evilist the do-gooders can imagine.
Because to deny this wouldn't matter anyway, as they have "ways to make you talk"...
I do agree with you that things would be better if EVERYONE just stepped back a bit and just let the teachers teach.
That and stop spending so much effort on the ones who apparently do not want to succeed.
I try to "help" my teachers by seeing to it that my child behaves and studies.
And we also send in some free supplies now and then...
Oh, and pay those taxes, too.
Anon 8:54---
That's the penalty you pay for escaping the ghetto and living in the "privileged" world.Maybe if you could get your child to misbehave a lot in class, they could get a "disability" label and receive more personalized attention.
Ardrey Kell probably has a "gap" to fill in their behaviorally disordered statistics.
Wrong Ann. With apologies. Anne Tompkins. US Attorney General Anne Tompkins.
Ann ....kins. Anne ....kins.
Having grown up in the 1960's and 1970's, I think feminism has successfully embraced more diversity of thought (and certainly more diversity of shoes) than affirmative action. The film premier was a feminist gathering. It wasn't promoted as one, but in a way, it really was. The Jr. League and the Amendment One crowd making things happen.
Does racism manifest itself differently between and among genders?
What about sexism? Does sexism exist between heterosexual women and lesbians? What about gay men and straight men? I served on a school leadership team. The Costa Ricans didn't like the El Salvadorians. Neither group liked the Mexicans. The parent from Spain got irked when people assumed she was from South or Central America. Mennonites are considered a distinct ETHNIC group. My grandmother was born and raised Mennonite - on a farm. Therefore, Mr. Wise in NOT "White like Me". Our races are similar but our ethnicities and religious cultures are not.
Cut and paste:
In contemporary society, Mennonites are both an ethnic group and a religious denomination. There is, however, still ambiguity and controversy among Mennonites about this issue, with some insisting that they are simply a religious group while others argue that they form a distinct ethnic group. Increasingly historians and sociologists treat Mennonites as an ethno-religious group.
See, my ancestry is entho-religious. I'm sorry, Mr. Wise, but I'm not just another Episcopalian whose soul needs to be saved.
Alicia, Anne Tompkins (and certainly not Anne Caulkins) is not and never was NC Attorney General. She is, however, U.S. Attorney for Western N. Carolina (nominated by Barak Obama in Dec. 2009 and unanimously approved by the full Senate in April, 2010).
Ann Doss Helms said...
Wow, all these Ann(e) strands get confusing! Just think what it would have been like if Ann Clark had been chosen superintendent.
Alicia, be careful about that stereotyping -- I wear sensible shoes and I'm straight :-)
I own several pairs of hiking boots but still have some old ballet pointe shoes lying around which even the most to-die-for designer stilettos can't hold a candle to in terms of shear physical torture. Straight-feminist, Martha Graham, decided to go radically barefoot. Therefore, it is important to never judge a woman by the contents of her shoe closet.
Well, I certainly learned something today!
Anne Tompkins (not Ann Caulkins, or Anne Clark or Ann Doss Helms) is a U.S. Attorney for Western N. Carolina (nominated by Barak Obama in Dec. 2009 and unanimously approved by the full Senate in April, 2010).
Please tell me I finally got it right?
Apparently there is a LOT of animosity between some feminists and the "transgendered" "community".
I was surprised to see how bitter this gets at times, but there is a lot of bad blood out there.
I guess some women get a bit "defensive" when all it takes is an operation and some hormonal therapy to "transform" someone from their most despised and feared enemy into one of their own.
I guess the same thing would happen if "whites" could take a "black" pill, or vice-versa.
Everyone seems to want to hang on to their "special" claim as the most downtrodden group.
But, hey, as an atheist, I don't even consider my white "soul" as worth a moment's discussion.
Much less a SEVEN YEAR project(?) as the Mecklenburg Ministry has done...
And everyone knows that us atheists are REALLY the most hated minority in the US.
Thank goodness we aren't color-coded.
Thats the problem my family is having. We do not live in the "ghetto" but we have to live off of almost ghetto wages. My daughter does not get the spending or individual attention at school that the ghetto students do. I pay the same taxes but receive 1/3 of the benefits.
Explain why CMS?
I had the opportunity to attend graduate school at Smith College. Back in my day, this might have required artificial insemination in order to have children which hadn't been invented yet so I decided to go elsewhere (since one of my life goals was meeting someone to marry and have children with which I decided might be more difficult to do at Smith). Smith College is one of the most elite woman's colleges in the world but the prevailing culture (during MY 20's) required me to thoughtfully consider my life goals - not just my career goals. The program I applied to at Smith was actually superior to the program I chose elsewhere. Culture and sexual orientation did come into play as I was making my decision.
If there was any animosity between different kinds of feminism (however you chose to define it) at the premier of the documentary I attended at the Mint Museum, I failed to experience it. This is what was so awesome and really cool about the evening. Being a bystander in the middle of the Junior League crowd and the Amendment One crowd. The visual distinctions were obvious and quite apparent (the shoes, oh, the shoes). However, I experienced no distinction between the hearts and souls of the women who were there in an effort to achieve a common goal.
Well, one meeting probably isn't enough to see what's going on among the "sistas".
I just googled the topic and found a lot of controversy.
Try it, you can learn about Angry Birds there, too, if you haven't actually played the game.
I'd suggest googling "trandgender feminism".
I swear there are feminists who are very upset about these unnatural women out there.
You could call them "birthers" in a sense, in that they only consider you a "womyn" if you were "born that way" (Lady Gaga reference, in case you missed it. You can google her, too)
Maybe you were in "polite" company, as they used to say, where such matters weren't discussed in the open.
Keeping the dirty laundry out of sight, you know.
But there is a LOT of dissent between the transsexual/transgenders and natural born female feminists out there.
Here's an article on the Womyns Music Festival which bars the trans from even attending.
I'd say they have some "issues" to resolve...
http://www. alternet .org/story/93826/rethinking_sexism%3A_how_trans_women_challenge_feminism
Sometimes all is not well in liberal-land and some of the worst discrimination can be dished out by the "downtrodden" against those who are just a little different from themselves.
Surely, you've seen this in religion, where the greatest hatred (oh, polite society doesn't call it "hatred", though) is often reserved for those who are just "slightly" different in their theology.
But is there animosity between white transgender/transexual feminists and black transgender/transexual feminists? What about white natural born feminists and black natural born feminists? Are Hispanic transgender/transexual feminists more or less privileged than Hispanic natural born feminists?
"White Natural Born Feminist Like Me!", my new book.
Some days, I really miss Mr. Rogers.
I was once told that part of my problem was a lack of sista' friends. To remedy my problem, I was officially inducted into the black sista'hood (right here in Charlotte). Honest to God. Therefore, I'm an ethno-religous adopted black sista'hood Mennonite.
"White Sista' Like Me!", my second book.
Some days, I really, really miss Mr. Rogers.
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NFC Beast
NFL football with a fondness for the NFC
Posted on October 26, 2019 by Tom
The Giants And Coach / Quarterback Tandems
Bill Parcells and Phil Simms. Tom Coughlin and Eli Manning. Forever written in Giant history as the two greatest coach quarterback tandems in Giant history. There is a link between Hall of Fame head coaches and quarterbacks. According to this 2006 NY Times article by 2006 fifteen coaches of the past 50 years have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. Thirteen of them had a Hall of Fame quarterback. That link continues today with Bill Belichick and Tom Brady. One could also make the case for Mike Tomlin and and Ben Roethlisberger.
Parcells started with a team that had on defense players of Lawrence Taylor, Harry Carson, Leonard Marshall, George Martin, Jim Burt and Terry Kinard. It was loaded on defense. Parcells went 3-12 his first season as Giant head coach. He thought he was going to be fired. He changed quarterbacks the next year from Scott Brunner to Phil Simms. Simms had previously played as starter before Parcells arrived and had a 14-20 record. The Parcells – Simms duo was a fiery relationship between two thick-skinned individuals. Simms took the brunt of Parcells rough coaching style. However Phil would also yell back at the coach in heated conversations. They respected each other.
Parcells encouraged Simms to play aggressive. He once said to Phil – “Hey Simms, if you don’t throw at least two interceptions today, you’re not taking enough chances.” Parcells ran tough practices. He treated practice as the most important part of their careers. Parcells was brutally honest with the players and everyone knew where they stood and what was expected of them. He believed in setting immediate goals and always work each day to be better. The Giants won two Super Bowls with Parcells and Simms. The 1990 season Super Bowl season Simms broke his foot in the fifteenth game and was out for the year. But he helped get them there with an 11-3 record before the injury.
Tom Coughlin and Eli Manning both started the same year in 2004. The Giants had a 6-10 record that year. Coughlin started his Giant career with a solid offensive line containing David Diehl, Shaun O’Hara and Chris Snee. The defense had Michael Strahan and Osi Umenyiora. On offense they had play-makers with Tiki Barber, Jeremy Shockley, Ike Hilliard, Amani Toomer and David Tyree.
The head coach – quarterback relationship of Coughlin and Manning appeared to be quite different than Parcells – Simms. Coughlin came in as a strict disciplinarian with his rules. He softened after those first years. He developed what appeared to be almost a father- son relationship with Eli.
Manning had a tough start to his career. “Those first games I played weren’t real pretty,” Manning said. “He saw I was working and learning from my mistakes. He helped me through those times, always had my back.”
There were only 32 starting quarterbacks since 1979 in their first 16 starts that had 1,000 yards passing with a passer rating of 70 or less, a pass completion percentage of 53% or less and a yards per attempt of 6.5 or less. I picked 1979 as that year or later the league average was higher for all these listed metrics. Both Phil Simms and Eli Manning make the list. There are some other notable quarterbacks that made the list such as Troy Aikman, John Elway and Kerry Collins. But the rest of the list is mostly low tier quarterbacks.
Troy Aikman believes Jimmy Johnson belongs in the Hall Of Fame. Johnson and Aikman started at Dallas the same year and Aikman was 0-11 that first year. Three years later they won two consecutive Super Bowls together. Aikman remembers Johnson for his fearlessness, always playing to win. and his ability to prepare a team during the week in practice.
Jim Fassel was head coach when Kerry Collins started for the Giants. Fassel is generally credited in helping develop John Elway and Kerry Collins into quality quarterbacks. After losing six of their last eight games in 1999 Jim Fassel felt they had too many selfish players on the team. He said to general manager Ernie Accorsi “No matter who we sign, I want them to be good people first.” The next season Fassel and Kerry Collins helped lead the Giants to a Super Bowl appearance against the Baltimore Ravens. The Giants would be totally dominated in the game. Interesting after being fired by the Giants after the 2003 season, Fassel was hired by the Ravens as a senior consultant. “Outside of Bill Walsh, I think Jim Fassel is the best quarterback teacher I know,” Brian Billick said on 2004 as head coach of the Ravens.
Could we see a new good head coach/quarterback duo in Pat Shurmur and Daniel Jones? That is what the Giants organization was planning for when they brought both on board.
Like Fassel, Gettleman and Schurmur have assembled team-oriented players. Schurmur is known as a quarterback whisperer having helped develop Nick Foles, Sam Bradford and Case Keenum. Like Coughlin he is a coach the players like and play hard for. He’s got the quarterback’s back. The team does not appear to be as talented as the teams that Parcells and Coughlin started with. However part of being a great coach is getting the whole team to play at a higher standard. As Fassel used to tell his team – The best team doesn’t always win. The team that plays the best wins. The Giants can make a big step forward with a win this Sunday in Detroit.
A week eight fact:
The Lions are tie with the Falcons and Bengals for longest active streak of opponent passing yards of 200+ yards with six games.
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Talking Sticks
Posted on August 20, 2019 by nick fracaro
Back in the day when we were called hippies, not homeless, I lived with an Apache named Bill Dixon for a summer. We slept nights outside on the ground next to a small river deep enough to swim in. Our days were spent in a couple different bars and restaurants in and around Winslow, Arizona.
Bill made money by drawing portraits of people in his large sketchbook. In the time it took a family or couple to order and eat a meal Bill would sketch a portrait of one or more of them. After they had left the restaurant and were walking back to their car Bill gave them the portrait as a gift. I would watch this commerce as pantomime from inside the restaurant. Bill Dixon’s drawings always translated into the only tangible token we have. From watching the transaction I was usually able to predict the value of the investment. Longer exchanges with smiles and handshakes meant Bill and I would be able to move over to the bar a bit earlier that particular day.
At the bar Bill continued drawing but I became the breadwinner at the backroom pool table. The bar allowed small stakes gambling. For the restaurant and bar owners, Bill Dixon’s sketches and my three-cushion bank shots became almost like added entertainment. Bill and I would catch a ride home to the riverbank at night usually only with enough money for breakfast the next morning.
One night by the river Bill told me his Apache name, the name that was used at his home by his family, his people. He asserted that his name was untranslatable into English. The power of the name was inextricably intertwined within the language. Leaving its native language the name would lose its power and disappear.
Bill also told me the story of his English surname. At the time when his grandfather was a young boy the government had forced all the Apache children into schools whose goal was to assimilate the tribe into the larger culture outside the reservations. Children were instructed to choose both first and last English names. Bill’s grandfather found his surname right there among the items on his school desk. Bill finished this story by holding his portrait sketching tool up in the light of our campfire. A yellow DIXON pencil.
Shortly after this time with Bill Dixon I enrolled in school. I had learned how to shoot pool as a high school dropout and delinquent but I had gotten my GED in the Army and eventually would go through graduate school on the GI bill. During that time in school I became a writer. I wrote longhand on yellow legal pads in pencil, a Dixon pencil. I was accepted into graduate writing programs on the basis of a short story I wrote. “A Cue Stick” is about a teenager in search of his masculinity and identity in a largely predestined world of jail and prison.
Bill never told me why he didn’t live with his family on the reservation. What I do know is that home can be both a refuge and a prison.
The child alone in a cage will try to make it his home. He searches for his mother tongue. She is not there. Was she ever there? But he holds the talking stick right at the border of our humanity and cries out his name in the language of angels.
Re: Hearse
Posted on May 26, 2019 by nick fracaro
If I were a musician or singer I would simply cover the song over and over. But as writer and performer I need to find another entrance into the quintessential secular hymn. A meditation, a rehearsal. Solitary, yet linked, signature actions in one’s life toward the final breath.
WOMB TOMB BOMBoom
Concrete Poem
“You have to pull your stomach up high to turn your solar plexus into a terrorist.” –Hijikata
FULL PERFORMANCE 4/6/2019 at Sideshow by the Seashore, Coney Island USA
3rd Proposal for Ritual Cabaret
Posted on February 26, 2019 by nick fracaro
This is not a pipe bomb
I design a one-of-a-kind t-shirt for a one-off performance that I do once a year. I put an iron-on transfer of Rene Magritte’s famous “This is a not pipe” painting on the front of a white t-shirt. The image of the pipe’s bowl is also really a sewed-on little pocket. A red lettered word is added at the end of the French phrase.
Ceci n’est pas une pipe bomb
The firecracker in the pocket (pipe bowl) has an extended fuse. The end of the fuse is an imaginary cigarette. I hold the make-believe cigarette between two forefingers in V-sign (Peace sign or Victory sign?). I alternately hold the fuse/cigarette in a grotesque lip grip.
I go out among the audience like that, asking each and everyone “You got a light?” There is a definite sense of apprehension in their chuckles and smiles. “Please, someone, give me a light. I am dying here.” Eventually I get a light.
The fuse on the firecracker, my dance, lasts about three minutes. “You have to pull your stomach up high in order to turn your solar plexus into a terrorist.” –Hijikata. The explosion ruins the t-shirt and flesh near tattoo just enough to make it art. The innocent bystanders survive the experience unscathed. Their ticket stub directs them to the Ebay listing where they can bid on the ruined t-shirt, no reserve.
As the old carnie saying goes, “It’s a hard way to make an easy living.”
Self-portrait with Temporary Tattoo & Fading Bruise Near Pipe Bowl
2nd Proposal for Ritual Cabaret
Oedipus Muhfuhkuh
FAKE BLIND MAN, dark sunglasses, naked under clear plastic raincoat and hat, white cane (chalk,light pole), FAKE SEEING EYE DOG (invisible dog bouncing leash).
Walks slowly across stage. FAKE SEEING EYE DOG gets a mind of its own. Bouncing leash is pulling FAKE BLIND MAN or left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing until FAKE BLIND MAN beats FAKE SEEING EYE DOG into submission with his cane and words. ” Muhfuhkuh. Where you going, muhfuhkuh? Where you taking me? Muhfuhkuh. Straighten up and fly right. muhfuhkuh.”
The right hand with cane has slapped the bouncing leash out of the left hand. Is it dead or playing possum? FAKE BLIND MAN is concerned.
—-BLACKIE. You alright? Speak to me, BLACKIE. Speak. Speak. Attaboy. Attaboy. I mean, attagirl. Attagirl. ( FAKE BLIND MAN starts to speak to the audience as BLACKIE at some point. When he takes off his sunglasses, his white blind colored contact lenses obscures his pupils and he transforms into a REAL FAKE BLIND MAN.) The scent of a woman. The scent of an oscar. Oscar Meyer all meat wiener. Nathan’s Famous Actors. Speak. Speak to me, BLACKIE. That’s it. Sit. Sit. Now, beg. Beg. Sit up and beg. Alright now BLACKIE. Show the people at home the trick that has made you famous the world over. Rollover and play dead.
In the darkness only the bouncing leash is seen. It is the only light in the universe. REAL FAKE BLIND MAN is under the bleachers as the bouncing leash slow dances.
—-Attaboy. Attagirl. You’re a star now. More, a constellation. More famous than the Big Dipper or Air Jordan. (REAL FAKE BLIND MAN leading a chorus of the blind cheerleaders.) “Put-her-in. Put-her-in. Put her in that basket rim. Sink her BLACKIE, sinker.” (Bouncing leash disappears. Total darkness again.) That’s it, BLACKIE. Rollover and play dead. It’s just me and you now. If I was an actor or a performer there would be more than just you and me right now. There might be bleachers full of people. Plus millions of other muhfuhkuhs sitting at home on their ass in front of their various boxes live streaming and sucking the muhfuhking life right out of me. But it’s just you and me, BLACKIE. I never signed no muhfuhking contract with no muhfuhking audience. Just because this gun is introduced now doesn’t necessarily mean it has to go off in the third act. This ain’t no stage gun and I ain’t no Al muhfuhking Pacino. I am real. The gun is real. BLACKIE is real. You can’t see, but hopefully you can hear. Speak. Come on BLACKIE. Speak. Maybe they’ll hear and exit stage right before we finish laughing. (BLACK LAUGHTER)
Scene is that cliche of the hostage situation except there are two bodies and only one head,i.e., the perp or the hostage is missing his head. A single gun held to a single head. It would be that cliche of the suicide scene except there are two bodies. Better yet, Siamese Twins joined at the head and one holds the other hostage.
(Voice over the speakers)
—-Put the gun down, Blackie. We got the place surrounded.
The two bodies take a couple of staggering steps. This is no trick. There are two bodies, well, four legs anyway. Voice over speakers, but the head with two bodies is in perfect lip-ync.
—– Fuck you, coppers. If I go, she goes. I mean. (Voice over speakers changes to falsetto
and then back again. Barrel of gun goes from on temple into the mouth. Lip-sync is not quite as perfect now.) Fuck you, coppers. If he goes, I go. Or something like that. You get the picture.
—-Put the cigar down, Freud. We got you surrounded.
( The barrel of the gun goes back to the temple of the head. The head with two bodies speaks now, doesn’t lip-sync. It addresses a scale model of the bleachers that’s on stage. REAL FAKE BLIND MAN must be smoking a cigar under the bleachers because the audience is quite uncomfortable with the smell by now.)
———– Come out from under there, Blackie. (The barrel of the gun goes back and forth between the mouth and temple before it settles on the scale model of the bleachers.) I got you covered.
Much confusion. Much duress. The four legs, the two bodies start to separate. Voice over the speakers “Don’t shoot. I’m coming out.” The barrel of the gun goes back and forth–mouth, temple, scale of bleachers–until the bodies are completely separate and the hostage is clearly now a dwarf. The dwarf walks behind the scale model of the bleachers. Cigar smoke rises. Dwarf peeks over the scale model and laughs. Speakers pick it up and then BLACK LAUGHTER from behind and above the audience. As the audience turns, the barrel of the gun searches the audience for its target.
BLACKOUT Gun report under bleachers.
1st Proposal for Ritual Cabaret
Posted on January 14, 2018 by nick
pubic hair goes public
I begin at the beginning to begin
Writer with no words, just the white page
Artist with no materials, just the blank canvas
Actor without action, just the empty stage
Sharing an intimacy. Writer with reader, Performer with audience, Artist with the public.
Such intimate exposure is a process by which the personal ritual is transformed into a collective ceremony, where the artist is simultaneously both: the scapegoat at the altar of the sacrifice, and the sacred fool who entertains. The Silent Knight.
K is the silent star in the dark sky
K is the holy audience of one within the many
O’ chaste stars. I perform for thee, my loves.
Audience entertained, coaxed to enter into the intimacy of the personal ritual. Until witness is transformed into celebrant. Performance transformed into ceremony. Ritual Cabaret.
My proposal as actor, writer, and artist is to utilize my body as material. One haircut every Shrove Tuesday for 12 years. These are my apostles, messenger and message, transcribed on the canvas, page, stage.
The World’s Only
Posted on March 27, 2017 by nick
I first started hanging with the carnies when Gabriele worked as development director at Coney Island USA in the late ’80’s. John Bradshaw produced the ten-in-one sideshow that worked the summers there. One of John’s performers was Otis Jordan. Otis was billed as “The World’s Only Human Cigarette Factory” As John would say in the bally to the crowd gathering outside the sideshow entrance on the boardwalk, “It’s amazing folks. Watch him roll a cigarette, light the match and then smoke that cigarette using only the lips of his mouth.”
During the off season, John sold Ginsu Knives or similar to that as his day job. He was probably a good salesman, but he thrived on his sideshow carny life more than anything. He loved bringing them in. The over-the-top hyperbole, winking at the crowd even as you emphatically proclaim, “It’s all true, folks!! It’s all real!!” He’d take the “slightly dishonest” buck over the so-called honest one any day.
But this presents an incomplete picture of John Bradshaw*. To some he may have looked more like an exploiter than promoter of Otis Jordan. But even more than just a promoter, he was Otis’s caretaker and close friend, his family away from home.
During the season, Otis lived with John and his family in an apartment they rented in Coney Island. Otis needed someone to take care of him most of the time. He could roll his own cigarette, but there are many things someone without real use of their arms or legs needs help with throughout each day. I’ve seen a video in which an ignorant interviewer asks Otis how he made a living in the off-season. Straight-faced, Otis answered, “I drive a truck.” But in fact, even though Otis had actually outfitted a car he could drive, in the off-season he had no income and was completely dependent on friends and family. By the time Otis reached Coney he was 50-some years old and had been around the sideshow block a few times. In less politically correct times he had been billed simply as “The Frog Boy.”
One late-summer day in 1991, John was carrying his youngest child up West 12th Street toward the Boardwalk when a stray bullet from somewhere pierced the baby’s leg. So after a six season run, “Bradshaw’s Circus of World Curiosities” was finished with Coney Island. A short time later Otis died of kidney failure at family’s home in Georgia.
Without Otis, the Sideshow now had only “self-made freaks” – tattooed men, bearded ladies, sword swallowers, fire eaters, and such. So when in 1994 the NEA withdrew the Sideshow’s grant on grounds that the show was exploitative, no real “freaks of nature” were even working there. The NEA had funded Coney Island USA throughout the days when “The World’s Only Human Cigarette Factory” was one of the acts, so now what it was really doing was redefining art with the help of Jesse Helms and others. This was only one of numerous examples of what was being done in this era of the “NEA Four.” During this same period of time the Coney Island Sideshow had been sent on tour to Europe with money from Phillip Morris, some of the same tobacco money that helped keep our good Senator from North Carolina in power. To contemplate on the tangle of ironies here is to contemplate on the gloriously ridiculous state of Late Capital itself and how art is woven into its fabric.
A theater peer of mine once said we should weigh our need to do theater against the other needs of action in the world. We should judge the necessity of a play about a cure to a disease against the discovery of the serum for that disease. So I think of that necessity that puts Otis on his sideshow stage. And the necessity of the IMAGE of “The Frog Boy” on the sideshow banner that sells his show.
As we all try to do, Otis eked out his dignity in this world. Not the least among the other accomplishments in his life was the one that earned him a living; he could “roll a cigarette, light the match and then smoke that cigarette using only the lips of his mouth.”
The late great Marlboro Man on his billboard was a poser. Otis was the true archetype. The IMAGE of the individual in command of his domain. “The World’s Only Human Cigarette Factory” or “The Frog Boy” was never meant to compete for space on the Lincoln Center’s marquee or buy a billboard along some interstate. This larger-than-life IMAGE was owned and operated by that Ginsu Knife salesman and his friend Otis in the so-short season of their Sideshow Banner.
* John Bradshaw also lived another of his passions in life that few in his sideshow circle knew about. “He was a consummate blues guitarist, schooled by the long-gone legends of the music….Bradshaw’s extraordinary acoustic guitar skills developed during the rich local coffeehouse scene of the 1960s, particularly at the Crossroads, a long-vanished folk and blues venue in the basement of a Franklin Street church. Bradshaw steeped himself in the tradition, seeking out the surviving architects of the music, Son House, Bukka White and Skip James, among others. Bradshaw once brought a Son House record to Son House’s home, Curry recalls, only to find the impoverished musician had no way to play it. So Bradshaw bought him a record player, and remembered the old bluesman listening to his own music and crying.”
Charles Wain and the Seven Dramaturgs
As long as no Stalin breathes down our necks, why not make some art in the service of… an insurrection?
Never mind if it’s “impossible.” What else can we hope to attain but the “impossible”? Should we wait for someone else to reveal our true desires?
If art has died, or the audience has withered away, then we find ourselves free of two dead weights. Potentially, everyone is now some kind of artist — & potentially every audience has regained its innocence, its ability to become the art that it experiences.
Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols (in this case, the images we’ve been “given” by the organizers of this salon — murder, war, famine, & greed).
We might now contemplate aesthetic actions which possess some of the resonance of terrorism (or “cruelty,” as Artaud put it) aimed at the destruction of abstractions rather than people, at liberation rather than power, pleasure rather than profit, joy rather than fear. “Poetic Terrorism.”
Our chosen images have the potency of darkness — but all images are masks, & behind these masks lie energies we can turn toward light & pleasure.
For example, the man who invented aikido was a samurai who became a pacifist & refused to fight for Japanese imperialism. He became a hermit, lived on a mountain sitting under a tree.
One day a former fellow-officer came to visit him & accused him of betrayal, cowardice, etc. The hermit said nothing, but kept on sitting — & the officer fell into a rage, drew his sword, & struck. Spontaneously the unarmed master disarmed the officer & returned his sword. Again & again the officer tried to kill, using every subtle kata in his repertoire — but out of his empty mind the hermit each time invented a new way to disarm him.
The officer of course became his first disciple. Later, they learned how to dodge bullets.
We might contemplate some form of metadrama meant to capture a taste of this performance, which gave rise to a wholly new art, a totally non-violent way of fighting — war without murder, “the sword of life” rather than death.
A conspiracy of artists, anonymous as any mad bombers, but aimed toward an act of gratuitous generosity rather than violence — at the millennium rather than the apocalypse — or rather, aimed at a present moment of aesthetic shock in the service of realization & liberation.
Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.
Is it possible to create a SECRET THEATER in which both artist & audience have completely disappeared — only to re-appear on another plane, where life & art have become the same thing, the pure giving of gifts?
We take Kirkegaard’s “leap of faith,” but absent the old existentialist’s Fear & Trembling & Sickness unto death. Our leap of faith into sorcery & secret theater is more like a wet dream than a nightmare, “awe-full”, not awful.
We name our peerage of this new plane Charles Wain & The Seven Dramaturgs. But no Peer Panel here, please. We prefer, like Jacob, to wrestle with our angels, & if our tussling turns amorous, all the better. Let the games begin. The Seven Dramaturgs show us that the universe wants, more than that, intends to play with us. We can be pawns or partners in this intention of The Seven Dramaturgs.
In Sufiism there is a belief in The Forty Guardians who protect & keep mankind from destroying itself. What’s interesting is, these Guardians are human, but they remain completely unknown & are constantly in flux. Anyone in the world could be one of The Forty at a present moment, including oneself. Of course you would never know if you had been one of The Forty — they remain anonymous even to themselves. That is why Sufiism calls for you to bow your head whenever you meet a stranger — he could be one of The Forty Guardians.
Do we lead or follow The Seven Dramaturgs in their sorcery & secret theater? Ali Baba is merely one of The Forty Thieves — each of The Forty Thieves is Ali Baba. The text does not begin or end here — the pencil is passed like a baton amongst The Seven Dramaturgs. The universe is still being written.
Sick Nick’s Journey to Butoh (performance 3/11/16)
Butoh Fu for The Ghost of Hamlet’s Flesh
Something is rotten in Denmark. Old Hamlet’s putrid flesh decomposes but will not surrender its ghost. Manifold earth would take the decomposing flesh as its own, but the flesh cannot surrender its elemental nature until the usurped monarchy is brought back into the natural order of the universe.
waguri
Old Hamlet rises as a frightful Frankenstein of disparate elements out of the bowels of the putrefied kingdom. As sovereign king on earth he summons all of nature to the place of his murder, the site where the natural order was usurped. At this Orchard of Crime, all flora and fauna begin to misbehave. Half-ripened fruit falls prematurely to the ground, fermenting into a stew of alcohol on which the bionetwork will feed. All of the court and Denmark will become drunk with the poison of the crime, but none so much as the son Hamlet, flesh of the flesh of the disintegrating realm.
Flesh in this usurped kingdom and unnatural world is no longer subservient. Old Hamlet/Claudius are the same flesh and blood. The kingdom is now ruled by the gangrene of this dual King, who is both living and dead. This dead and dying flesh must be amputated, purged and burnt away. The elements Fire, Earth, Air, Water convene to contain this rebellion of unholy flesh.
I am thy father’s spirit, doomed for a time
To walk the night, and all the day
Confined in flaming fire,
Till the foul crimes done in my days of Nature
Are purged and burnt away
But the rebellious flesh will not surrender dominion over earth. The diseased family unit is the unholy trinity at the core of the kingdom. The Father, Son, and Unholy Ghost. Gertred animates not so much the dead king as the dead and dying gangrened flesh of the First Family.
The earth in the Orchard is moist, almost alive in the fermentation of the fallen, decaying fruit. Flesh would differentiate itself from the other elements. Wind/Air is breath. Rain/Water is saliva. Earth amalgamated with muddy flesh of fallen fruit. The moldering rot gathers its body together.
The body of many rises from the ground. The eyes look backward into the hollow head in an attempt to see the tail being pulled from the earth. Wind enters through the anus, swirls in the stomach, up through the throat, but cannot escape the mouth, returning back through the body. Moist humid air enters the mouth to become saliva. This water and air would gather into Fighting Words. This body cannot speak yet but may be able to Spit Nails in its anger.
su-en
Who has better teeth
The blood or the stone
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Lia Kruse: An Outstanding Season
Dylon Niswonger
Written and Media by Dylon Niswonger.
Leadership in action requires more than just talent and the perception that the individual in said leadership position is just better than everyone else. Another misconception that compliments this is that certain individuals are simply blessed with extraordinary abilities. Talents are forged by the common principles of discipline and passion. The leaders worth following on an athletic team put in the time, value their teammates, and ultimately lead by example.
A leading senior on the Greenville University Track and Field Team is Lia Kruse. The success Kruse has had recently has been in virtue of the many miles on miles she has put in this past summer and winter leading up to our current track season. Distance runners by reputation run frequent miles and great lengths, but as a passionate runner, Kruse has built up a level of endurance that has wildly enough produced fifty-plus weekly miles. As the final quarter of her collegiate career progresses, Kruse looks to finish her time here at Greenville University with powerful energy. Her year thus far has been packed with lifetime bests and top-level races.
Kruse competes at Principia. Media by Chelsea Gilles
Kruse’s momentum kick-started during the fall cross country season where she delivered multiple outstanding races. The SLIAC Cross Country Championship was a highly anticipated race for Kruse as well as the rest of the team. The SLIAC championship races come with a great deal of nerves. It is ultimately what many of the athletes of the team spend the season training for. The pressures of this race motivated a 2nd place finish by Kruse. Then on November 11, 2017, Kruse delivered the 8th fastest recorded 6k under the Greenville Women’s Cross Country Team at the NCAA Division III Midwest Region Cross Country Championship with a time of 22:35.
Kruse races the mile at Jim Green Invitational. Media by Dylon Niswonger
As a leading distance runner, Kruse has primarily trained for the one mile and 3000-meter race. She ran the 3K twice during this indoor season, once at the opening meet, and again mid-season. She dropped her 3k time from an 11:10 to a winning time at Monmouth of 10:50. The mile race was a battle for Kruse throughout the indoor season. If you would have asked Kruse to share with you what her primary race was for the indoor season, she would have perhaps said the 3k, but after examining the season, it is clear her focus became the mile. Kruse raced the mile initially with the intention of breaking a time of 5:30. She went on to qualify for the 2018 NCCAA Indoor T&F Championship with a time of 5:24. The competition at NCAA’s was stiff and inspired a 5:23 finish for Kruse. After this performance, 5:20 became the desired time to beat, but Kruse faced disappointment at the Principia invite after putting up a 5:28.
A week later at the Carthage Last Chance Meet, Kruse ran the best mile of her life, picking up 2nd place and an exciting 5:16 finish, ultimately breaking 5:20. This conclusion to her indoor season has been a prime example of what hard work can do. The passion she has for this sport is contagious and her teammates cannot help but cheer and support her.
Brian Patton, the coach of the cross country and track team has expressed pride in her as well by stating, “She finally ‘got it’ over a year ago, and it has shown. She has put in a bunch of work. It has taken a great deal of time and effort, but she has put herself on a different level as far as performance and training. She has taken ownership in her development and in her team, and as a result, she is better, and our team is better.”
Kruse has clearly been intentional about her collegiate running career and has looked to have the best experience running for Greenville that she can. She has inspired athletes on her team through encouragement and by example. She has had a notable grade point average of 3.92 and has recently been helping lead the Bible studies for the women’s track team. She now looks toward the outdoor track season with significant mileage as well significant effort. I encourage spectators to keep an eye on her outdoor season.
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Noah Dir March 9, 2018 At 1:15 pm
Lia Kruse is a great runner filled with passion! Great article!
Al Buckta March 12, 2018 At 7:39 pm
Thanks for your inspiring article on these outstanding achievements by Lia.
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Home Phillips Library Manuscript Finding Aids Aaron W. Berry (1827-1865) Papers
Aaron W. Berry (1827-1865) Papers
SERIES I. Business Correspondence and Receipts
1 1 Letters from Matthew Bartlett and John F. Brooks to Aaron W. Berry. These letters are equally divided between Matthew Bartlett and John F. Brooks, Bartlett's clerk, and are general instructions to Berry. Both discuss business matters, and vessels he should be expecting to arrive in Africa. Brooks usually includes some local news and gossip from Salem. 1859
2 Letters from Matthew Bartlett and John F. Brooks to Aaron W. Berry. With the exception of one note, all the letters in this folder are from either Matthew Bartlett or his clerk, John F. Brooks, to Berry on the West Coast of Africa. Their contents deal with business matters and conditions, particularly the prices realized for outward cargoes and those paid for the returns. Return cargoes were largely palm oil with fillers of gum, ivory or gold dust. Brooks was allowed to ship small private cargoes for his benefit and he frequently begs Berry "to make some money." Bartlett consistently preaches his business philosophy to Berry, i.e., keep down expenses, make quick turnarounds, do not leave any unsettled accounts for a vessel before she sails and do not trust anyone, particularly those you do business with on the African Coast. Brooks occasionally includes some local news and happenings in his letters 1860
3 Letters from Matthew Bartlett and John F. Brooks to Aaron W. Berry. One letter from Berry to Bartlett is included (May 1861). In addition there are notes to Berry from others. problems between the North and South and the subsequent outbreak of the Civil War. These comments focus on politics, business conditions and the problem with Confederate vessels and privateers. Berry returned to Salem in late 1862 and began working for Charles Miller in early 1863 1861-1863
4 Letters from Charles H. Miller to Aaron W. Berry. The content of the letters from Miller to Berry are similar to those of Bartlett and Brooks. He discusses business conditions and in one instance the inflated prices of insurance because of privateer activities related to the Civil War. Miller also occasionally includes some local news and gossip. In one letter (5 May 1863) he mentions the construction of the "Horse Railroad" between Salem and South Danvers (Peabody), which were horse drawn street cars. There are a few letters and notes from others to Berry in this time frame. One is from a W. H. Godfrey, December 1863, (probably a relative of his wife) who is in the Union Army. He mentions the conditions and situation on Folly Island, South Carolina 1863-1865
5 A collection of bills and receipts largely for goods and services on the West Coast of Africa. These include: hospital and medical care for Berry and seamen, food and lodging, gold, palm oil, provisions, water, services rendered, etc. 1860-1863
SERIES II. Ships' Papers
1 6 Brig Vintage:
A blank account book labeled A. W. Berry on the cover and marked Brig Vintage on the inside undated
A cargo account book with no attribution other than a stamp "A. W. Berry" on the first page undated
A cargo book labeled "brig Vintage, October 7, 1850." It contains accounting of cargo loaded and discharged(?) between 7 October 1850 and 13 April 1851 1850-1851
1 7 Bark Isabella:
A customs clearing certificate for the Isabella, A. W. Berry, master bound for the West Coast of Africa 19 Nov 1855
A bill of lading for the Isabella, Aaron. W. Berry, master, describing the cargo and its division, shipped by Robert Brookhouse, et. al. 30 Dec 1856
An invoice for the same cargo, value - $32,829.58 30 Dec 1856
A health certificate for captain and crew for this voyage, same date 30 Dec 1856
Two specification sheets for the oil shooks shipped aboard the Isabella undated
1 8 Bark Catherine:
A letter of instruction to Captain A. W. Berry, master of the Catherine from Robert Brookhouse and William Hunt 13 May 1857
Bill of lading for cargo aboard the Catherine, assigned to Capt. V. F. Debaker 23 Feb. 1858
An unsigned inward foreign manifest for the "Barque Catherine, A. W. Berry, master, from the West Coast of Africa to Salem 27 Sept. 1849
An unattributed and unsigned customs certificate for 20 barrels of sugar undated
Disbursements related to the Catherine while on the African Coast undated
Slop Chest(?) accounts with crew members of the Catherine undated
1 9 Material related to three voyages of the Said Bin Sultan
VOYAGE ONE - December 1859 to August 1860
A letter of instruction from Matthew Bartlett to Captain Thomas Moore, master, as to the prosecution of the voyage undated
Bills of lading for cargoes shipped by Bartlett, John F. Brooks, consigned to Aaron W. Berry undated
Invoices of these goods as well as goods shipped by Nelson Bartlett (Matthew Bartlett's nine year old son) undated
Cargo sales slips undated
Bills of lading for return cargo. R. F. Dodge was master on the return voyage 1859-1860
VOYAGE TWO - November 1860 - May 1861
A letter of instruction from Matthew Bartlett to Captain John Prince, master, as to the prosecution of the voyage undated
Bills of lading for cargoes shipped by Bartlett and John F. Brooks consigned to A. W. Berry undated
Invoices of the above cargoes undated
A letter for Brooks to Berry instructing him regarding the goods in the invoice 1860-1861
VOYAGE THREE - August 1861 - July [1862]
A preliminary cargo list for the "3rd Voyage" undated
A letter of instruction from Brooks regarding his cargo undated
An insurance policy covering the potential commissions of A. W. Berry against "war risk only" undated
A bill and receipt for the premium paid by John F. Brooks in behalf of A. W. Berry 1861-[1862]
1 10 Cargo receipts and accounts for the Said Bin Sultan
A collection of receipts for discharged cargo 25 Oct-2 Nov 1861
Two ledger pages accounting cargo discharged and cargo acquired for the return voyage 26 Oct 1861-21 July 1862
1 11 Brig Robert Wing:
Letter of instruction to Captain Aaron W. Berry, master, from Matthew Bartlett, regarding the prosecution of the voyage 12 July 1859
Bills of lading for the cargo shipped by Matthew Bartlett (13 July 1859) and John F. Brooks (12 July 1859) 1859
Invoices of the above cargoes, which is consigned to Captain Berry 1859
A letter for Brooks attached to the bill of lading and invoice of his private cargo consigned to Berry. He gives Berry instructions concerning disposal and payment, requesting palm oil, gold and ivory for the return and hoe the goods should be marked undated
Bills of lading for the return cargoes of Bartlett and Brooks aboard the Robert Wing, Thomas Moore, master undated
An unsigned copy of a landing debenture certificate for sugar sent by Bartlett to Minnebah, West Coast of Africa aboard the Robert Wing. A blank copy of the certificate form and a copy of a form "Bill of Entry on Imported Goods" undated
A receipt for 30 guilders, in Dutch 25 August 1859
A receipt for £3 anchorage fee, Cape Coast, Africa 1 Sept. 1859
An agreement by nine West Africans to serve as "Canoemen" aboard the Robert Wing and, if needed, the Said Bin Sultan, at $6 per month March 1860
Communication from John Brooks requesting a subscription to The West African Herald undated
Two ledger sheets, marked "Cash Accounts" covering the period Sept. 1859 to May 1861 for the Robert Wing, Said Bin Sultan and the Anglo Saxon 1859-1861
1 12 Brig Anglo Saxon:
A letter of instructions from Matthew Bartlett to Captain Lewis D. D. Voorhees, master of the Anglo Saxon, regarding the prosecution of the voyage 30 June 1860
Bills of lading for cargo shipped by Bartlett (2 copies) and John F. Brooks, consigned to Aaron W. Berry 2 & 3 July 1860
Invoices for the above cargo, Bartlett - $14,489.51, Brooks - $620.49 June 30 & 29, 1860
Invoice for oil shooks shipped aboard the Anglo Saxon undated
Bills of lading for the return cargoes shipped by A. W. Berry and consigned to Matthew Bartlett and John F. Brooks 30 Oct. 1860
Account of the sales of the cargo shipped by Brooks 1860
A receipt for a package of gold dust "for and on account and risk of Captain S. Hill, Salem, Mass US" 29 Oct 1860
1 13 An informal cargo list for the Manchester, stating "Sailed 18th Sept. 1860" undated [1860]
14 Bark D. Godfrey:
A letter of instruction from Matthew Bartlett to Capt. W. E. Hall regarding the voyage. Hall is to connect with Captain Berry, Bartlett's agent in Africa who is also the manager of the Said Bin Sultan 25 Nov. 1861
A letter with cargo invoice to Berry from Bartlett, dated 5 Dec. 1861. He is informed of the sailing of the Godfrey and is instructed to send the Sultan home as soon as Hall arrives 5 Dec. 1861
Invoice of the cargo aboard the Godfrey as received on the Coast of Africa 21 Nov. 1862
1 15 Steam Ship Cleopatra: An invoice for 300oz of gold dust shipped by A. W. Berry, Cape Coast, to A. W. Berry, Liverpool 14 August 1862
16 Several receipts for goods and provisions discharged or loaded aboard the Kedar April-June, 1863
16 A group of accounts for oil, molasses, rum, etc., labeled "Ship Kedar" on the back of one sheet 1863
17 Schooner Black Hawk:
Two letters from Charles Cummings regarding the purchase of a schooner owned by Berry. The first is to Mrs. Berry making an offer of $150. The second acknowledges a letter form Berry and informs him he will buy the boat 1864
1 18 Bark Tidal Wave:
Two bills of lading (may be duplicates)for two packages of gold dust from Aaron W. Berry to Mrs. A. W. Berry shipped aboard the Tidal Wave, J. H. Goldsmith, master 1864
A letter from Captain Goldsmith welcoming Captain Berry back to the African Coast. He informs Berry of business conditions and offers to carry anything he might want to ship home (see above) 24 August 1864
1 19 A small account book labeled "ship Darwin" undated
SERIES III. Personal Papers
1 20 Personal papers and miscellaneous bills and receipts for household goods and services. Included are: bills and receipts for, food, house repairs, furnishings, clothing, a dog license, tax bill, pew tax at the Tabernacle Society of Salem; communications from the Salem Marine Society, Essex Lodge of Masons, and Washington Chapter of Royal Arch Masons; a contract to construct a house on Skerry Street, Salem between Berry and builder Rufus B. Gifford for $2000, executed, 11 July 1859; communications with his stock broker; a recommendation for a domestic by Mrs. Berry; and insurance policy on the Berry's Salem house, transferred to their house in Melrose in June 1864 1860-1869
21 Several issues of The West African Herald, between #67 and #77 31 May 1860-14 January 1861
SERIES IV. Miscellaneous Materials
1 22 Six Seaman's Protection Certificates issued by the U.S. Customs Service. Included is that for Aaron W. Berry, issued 28 April 1854. It states he was 26 years old and had been born in Salem. Additionally there is one for John B. Stout, a black man 1844-1856
23 A receipt for transporting "Sea Baggage from Boston to Salem 1863
23 A bill for one box of tobacco, Boston 1864
23 Reports for the inspection and gauging of rum for Sylvester Bowman by Nathaniel Cleaves & Son, Boston 1859-1861
23 Miscellaneous accounts, mostly unattributed, relating to the outfitting of a vessel for sailing. These include: an extensive inventory of stores and sundries such as provision, supplies, cordage and rigging supplies, paint, tools, etc.; a tabulation of loaded cargo (tobacco, rum, and gun powder), inventory of private cargoes 1857-1858
24 A summons to appear in court to Ambah Fletchwah in a suit for debt "in behalf of A. W. Berry." Issued in Annamoboe, Gold Coast, West Africa. The plaintiff prevailed 18 April 1860
24 Three memoranda for gold bullion deposited in the Philadelphia Mint, by Merritt & Co., Salem, Massachusetts - 1859-1862 1859-1862
24 A printed detailed congressional constituent communication, dated Philadelphia, 30 May 1798, addressed to Major Thurston James, Hanover County, Virginia and signed John Clopton. It outlines the action of Congress aimed at stemming French hostility to American shipping and for preparation for a possible war with France. The actions include funds to complete and man the three frigates under construction and provide for additional smaller naval vessels 30 May 1798
24 A letter from Benjamin Fiortes of Buenos Aires to Secretary of State William L. Marcy requesting government aid against political pressures. The intrigues appear to be associated with a war in Europe 21 August 1854
24 A letter in Portuguese from J. Morgan, Ajuda (West Africa) to C. J. L. Nobre 8 April 1858
Call Number MH 38
Title Aaron W. Berry (1827-1865) Papers
Creator Berry, Aaron W., 1827-1865
Description The Aaron W. Berry Papers consist of business, shipping, and personal papers, and some miscellaneous materials for this Salem, Massachusetts ship master and shipping agent.
Subject Africa, West--Commerce--United States; Folly Island (South Carolina)--Description and travel; United States--Commerce--Africa, West; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Economic aspects; Bartlett, Matthew, d. 1880; Brooks, John F.; Miller, Charles H.; West african herald; African newspapers; African American sailors; Commission merchants--Africa, West; Newspapers; Palm oil; Sailors, Black; Sailors; Ship captains; Shipping--Africa, West; Shipping--Massachusetts--Salem; Ships--Cargo; Ships' papers
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Secrets and Lies: A Review
Secrets and Lies: A Hardboiled Detective Game is a new offering from Daniel Bayn. I've discussed another one of Bayn's games before - the super fun, rules lite, Wushu (also recommended).
I'm a fan of noir and this game has some great genre enforcing rules. To start with, character attributes are labeled: savy, moxie, nerve, guts, and mojo as opposed to more traditional attributes. The way these work is also interesting. As opposed to making roles immediately players take hits to these stats depending on what they're doing. Eventually the character is asked to boil one of these stats which can result in game changing failure.
One problem our group had was that there were five players and this made it too easy to spread hits to attributes out. For a one shot story this made it very easy to pass the boiling of stats.
Speaking of problems, only one player in our group had ever seen a film noir before. Because of this general ignorance of the genre a lot of the tropes went unused, and character types didn't necessarily match the tone. This wasn't a fault of the game, however, we still had a good time playing a more gentle inquisitive game of mobsters.
For GMs I love the gordian knot style of npc relationships. Everyone has something to hide, and this can be exploited by the players to reach whatever conclusion they're after. This is also great for more improvised styled games. Our game involved the players being hired to investigate a blackmailed gangster and turned into an investigation of his death. The answers the players received largely hinged on who they chose to interact with the most and what leads they chose to follow. The style of gameplay S&L promotes is one of the least railroading systems I've encountered.
Overall, I thought this was an innovative and fun genre game. It comes with my strongest recommendation to all fans of mystery, or those just looking to explore creative rules for their games.
I'll try and get another post summing up our session and specific examples of some of the mechanics in action, but I make no promises. I leave for Navy bootcamp in a week so time is a bit precious.
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Addicting Games said...
Secrets & Lies knows exactly what kind of game it is and goes about giving you just that experience without any frills or digressions. It comes out, tells you what you want to hear, and then gets the hell out of the way.
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(video game thread)Just wonderin if...
Postby CezeN » Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:33 pm
Any of you all play Super Smash Bros Brawl.(yes I know there are a lot of adults on here).
If not, what online multiplay games do you play?
Or what games do you play in general?
Re: (game thread)Just wonderin if...
Postby Gravity Defier » Thu Jun 04, 2009 2:00 pm
Any of you all play...(yes I know there are a lot of adults on here).
Adults can and do play video games, too; it's not something restricted to the under-18 crowd.
Postby Mich » Thu Jun 04, 2009 2:08 pm
I got it when it came out, but never play online. It takes forever for a match to load, and then you have two Ikes and a Wolf against you, and only in Final Destination.
I prefer to play with a group of friends. There are about two who are way better than everyone else who cancel each other out, and then the rest of us are human, so we play well with each other. Items on... Smash Ball sometimes... man, good times. Love that game.
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Postby human. » Thu Jun 04, 2009 2:22 pm
Brawl is awesome (go Marth!), but Kingdom Hearts (2) is the best! I mainly play video games for the story and the cut scenes, so yay RPGs! I love the storyline in Kingdom Hearts. Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core has the best cut scenes ever, though.
I used to play Counter Strike (not well) with my tech class, too!
Postby neo-dragon » Thu Jun 04, 2009 2:23 pm
In fact, the latest data concludes that the average gamer age in North America is something like 30. I'm not kidding. Google it, you'll find tons of sources. It make sense considering that those who got hooked on games like Super Mario Bros. back in '85 are all grown up now.
I don't have a Wii though.
Two of my teachers are great examples of that. They're both around thirty (and good friends with each other). Some of their shared interests are Magic: The Gathering, Warcraft, Rock Band, and Disc Golf.
One of them is the computer tech teacher, and he has Left for Dead, Counter Strike, Unreal Tournament and Frozen Throne on the computers in his room for his students to play when they get done with their work, or come in after school.
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Title: I spy with my Fishy Eye
Postby Bean_wannabe » Thu Jun 04, 2009 2:42 pm
I'm a bit of a games nerd, so I have far too many games. I'm most obsessed with VALVe's stuff and the Metroid Series, so my most-played games are probably:
Half-Life 2, ep.1, ep. 2
And yes, I do play SSBB when I want to just waste time, or with friends
'Tis fun
Postby locke » Thu Jun 04, 2009 2:46 pm
Brawl, pssh
I remember seeing commercials for the original smash brothers on Channel One News. That was a great game.
Don't forget the SSB/Duck Hunt combo! With the gun controller!
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Postby Purity Control » Thu Jun 04, 2009 3:46 pm
I'm a Xbox 360 junkie. I play Battlefield and Halo respectively.
Also, has anyone here played "Braid"? That game rocked my world almost as much as Shadow of the Colossus did!
For now all my concentration is focused on inertial control and navigation. Targeting isn't even a consideration - I will be engaging my enemy at arm's length.
Do you possibly mean THIS commercial?
I remember that, too. Man, remember how Donkey Kong was the super-cheap character? And Ness? Now those were the days...
^Peter
Postby ^Peter » Thu Jun 04, 2009 4:16 pm
I like the orginal the best. (I still have an N64 in my room)
The only game I like playing online is Mario Kart.
I just lost the game; you just lost the game.
http://www.losethegame.net/
I know! I'll use my sig as advertisement space for my classmates. http://www.youtube.com/user/Theorem42
Sorry adults for acting like you guys are too good for video games.
Especially since I'll probably be playing video games when I'm an adult, as well.
I play the Kingdom Hearts series as well. Too bad I don't have the console needed for Birth By Sleep and the other one.
Yeah. I'm a vet to the Smash Bros series as well. I have both the Gamecube version and the N64 version.
However, currently I'm pretty much addicted to Brawl, for some reason. I mean, I've had it for more than a year(I think) and I still play it obsessively at times. For example, just today I played both Melee and Brawl at my friends house.
Any of yall, that have wifi, want to play sometime?
Postby LilBee91 » Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:19 pm
O man, I miss the good ol' days.
I just busted out some serious Mario Kart 64 today. It's still amazing.
I don't really like playing Brawl online. Whenever I play Brawl wifi there's major lag.
LilBee91, good ol' days? I still play N64.
Kingdom Hearts rules! My friend and I had a contest, who could beat the game on Proud difficulty first. I won ! Sephiroth was my favorite battle, and I always liked playing as Mickey Mouse. Too bad they'll probably make 3 on PS3. And Birth by Sleep is PSP exclusive . At least I can get the DS one. What's it called again?
Too bad they'll probably make 3 on PS3.
I'm so hoping for this. I got a PS3 solely in hopes of KH3 being on it. I mean, it's a pretty awesome system no matter what! But when I was debating getting one or not, even the chances of KH being available on it sold me... I'm way too into Kingdom Hearts, but it's just about the perfect video game for me. I get really scared in video games... I get into them a lot? The music in Harry Potter 3 plus the dementor scene scared me so much... I haven't played it in over a year. But Kingdom Hearts has the Disney movie characters, while still having a great story and fighting. I also pulled out the PSP about a year ago when I heard there'd be a KH game for it. That's how I found Crisis Core!
I'm borrowing a DS for 358/2 days. I'm a PlayStation girl?
I forgot, what's the name of the new creatures in Birth By Sleep?
Wait, Birth By Sleep doesn't count as KH3?
Another good game series is God of War.
It's good plotwise, gameplay wise, and its basically awesome overall. Any of you all got it?
Btw Halo Fans. Make sure your prepared for the future. =(
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Re: (video game thread)Just wonderin if...
Postby zeroguy » Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:12 pm
Any of you all play Super Smash Bros Brawl.
I tried playing brawl, but I can't stay away from the 64 version.
Man, remember how Donkey Kong was the super-cheap character? And Ness? Now those were the days...
DK, really? Maybe I've just never played anyone good with him, but I never felt that. Ness has his spike, though, and a really good grab; pikachu's was fast, though. I used to, and still do, annoy many a player with kirby and fox.
And yeah, as someone else said, whaddaya mean those were the days? I had people in my apartment playing a few rounds of smash64 in the apartment just last week, and I'm in the middle of playing through Zelda OOT again for the countless time. Soon we'll probably break out the Goldeneye again (after awhile it starts to strain on the eyes, though...)
Proud member of the Canadian Alliance.
dgf hhw
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Postby BonitoDeMadrid » Fri Jun 05, 2009 7:17 am
I have it. The first game is one of my favorite games ever; I wasn't able to complete the second one (too busy with school), so I left it aside for now, but it rocks as well.
Also: Anyone here play Ratchet and Clank? Main reason I'm sorry I don't have a PS3.
Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do!
Who leaves Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
Who robs cavefish of their sight? Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do, we do!
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Postby shadow-petra » Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:05 am
Brawl is awesome (go Marth!)
I beg to differ =P Ike is my man
I like to play a lot of systems, but I don't own any of the new ones (gamecube...sigh). But my floor was filled with VG junkies, so I played with them.
Brawl was a huge hit, and when we got bored with that we played Soul Calibur 4 on 360. They played other games, but those were the two I liked most. I'm REALLy addicted to Soul Calibur, but I can never remember all the combos...
It's not multiplayer, but does anyone play Spore?
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Postby mr_thebrain » Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:37 am
I’m 29 and I love to play video games. I own a Playstation 1, 2, and 3 as well as the original NES super NES and Sega Genesis. Granted the PS1 was opened up and used for parts and really pointless to even list because the PS2 plays all of its games. I primarily use the PS3 now. Love, love, love it!
My dad’s the one that got me hooked on video games actually, back in the days of Atari and Intelevision. We got the original NES system when it came out for over 100 dollars. Never bought many games for it though, really didn’t need to. We had like 4 places to rent from; which was good because when you’re 6 you can’t really afford 40-50 dollar games. Still, most of my time growing up was spent playing Sega Genesis.
So as I said, I’m playing the PS3 primarily now, funny thing though. I just downloaded Final Fantasy 7 to play on it. It seems funny to be playing such an old game on such a new system. The game is as fun now as it was the first time I played it though, and whatever, it's the closest thing to an RPG for that system. This by the way is something that needs to be rectified, and FAST! I grew up playing the original Shining Force games and Uncharted Waters, Gemfire and a handful of others. Yet this genre is lacking in the Next Gen arena. The closest they’ve gotten has been button mashers and first person slashers. Fine, it’s an interesting take on the RPG genre, but where’s the love for the original style? It shouldn’t be that hard to do. I mean the story is the most important thing, then battle, then game play, then graphics. The best thing about Shining Force was its story and its strategy style battles. Surely someone can make a game like that and pretty it up a bit. Hell, I don’t even care so much for the prettying it up bit. Just make it longer. There’s talk on the web about ps3 getting the Uncharted Waters Online game though. Which is good and all, but I have my doubts. It’ll probably only be released in Japan again. That’s ok; I think they could do it better anyway. It looks shoddy the way it is now anyway. Which brings me to my next point: They tried bringing Shining force to PS2 and even gave that game a sequel, but those two games weren’t RPGs so much as button mashers. Perhaps I’m overly nostalgic but I would like to see the Shining Force, Uncharted Waters, and Gemfire franchises brought to the Next Gen systems. New and longer stories, same game play, better graphics. I think they would do really well. The painful fact is that there haven’t been any good RPGs since Final Fantasy 7. Even the Final Fantasy franchise hasn’t been able to beat that one yet. There is hope though. I saw the trailers for FF 13 and 14. They look really good.
On the PS3 I own Iron Man, GRAW2, GTA4 (though I still like San Andreas better so it still gets a lot of play) Assassins Creed, Battlefield: Bad Company, Army of Two, Star Wars Force Unleashed, Shaun White Snowboarding, Tiger Woods 09, Bourne Conspiracy, Lost Via Domus, and Metal Gear Solid 4. Most of them even have decent replay quality. I still play on old school systems too. Admittedly it’s because of the RPG factor. Dragon Warrior on NES, Breath of Fire on PS, Uncharted Waters and Shining Force 1 and 2 on Genesis, and Gemfire on Super NES. My wife has also been playing a lot of the original Mario on NES too.
I used to play a lot of Star Wars Galaxies Online. I LOVED that game. I miss it. Then they did that stupid combat upgrade and changed everything. People no longer had to work to be a Jedi, the combat changed, all the professions changed. It just wasn't fun anymore. I still played for a year or so after the combat upgrade destroyed it but after awhile everyone I knew that played stopped playing... for a lot of reasons. Then I ran out of time to commit to it. Paying for the chance to play no longer made any sense to me. If they made it free I would join up again, no doubt.
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Title: Ganon's Bane
Postby Eddie Pinz » Wed Jun 10, 2009 11:42 am
The painful fact is that there haven’t been any good RPGs since Final Fantasy 7. Even the Final Fantasy franchise hasn’t been able to beat that one yet.
I think that you have to look at this logically. When FF7 came out, it was like nothing else before it. 3 discs, shockingly good graphics (for the time), a million things to do, great story, etc.. This was the game that got so many people hooked on RPGs (including myself, I hated RPGs before this). When you have a game of this magnitude, it is almost impossible to stack up to. But graphics aside, I think FFX comes pretty damn close. FFX has a unique and entertaining story, each party member brings something to the table story wise, good villains and a couple of twists that you don't see coming. But FF7 has the most badass villain (they are never going to be able to beat Sephiroth), the most likable party leader (the FF franchise has failed miserably in this category since Cloud) and one of the biggest twists in story line ever.
*spoiler*
Aries dying. Absolutely did not see it coming and the first and only time a video game story line actually made me sad.
That being said, I don't know if any FF game will ever live up to 7, but 10 is a great game and certainly came close. And although not a typical RPG, I think FFXII is a good game as well.
Postby CezeN » Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:57 pm
I have GTA4 as well. Never really beat it though...and same with San Andreas. Mostly, because my brother would hog the game, since it was his, and like play it, while I watched(with both of the games)...So after watching the game get beat, I kinda lost interest in beating it.
However, I used to have soooooo much fun playing GTA4 online, against random people. I was like a beast at it. In free for alls, people would sometime just like team up on me.
Like, one time it was like no auto aim, and I'd been killing everyone the entire match. Finally, last four minutes, they decide to team up.
I'm just walking along, and then three cars drive out of nowhere, and like try to ram me and shoot at me.
I dodged into the front steps of a nearby building and managed to escape.
I was like Jason Bourne at GTA4 online, when I was in my prime.
Postby ^Peter » Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:38 pm
I do. I like the creation concept Spore gives, but I don't like the gameplay itself as much. Other than that, making creatures is fun.
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Postby Mich » Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:38 pm
I still love VII, but my number one RPG of all time will probably be Tales of Symphonia. It has the most cliches and tropes you can fit into a single game, all of the characters have been done and done to death, the voice acting and dialogue is laughable, my friends and I make fun of it endlessly...
...but if you say a bad thing about it I will hate you for life. There's just something about it. My entire first playthrough I was laughing at all of those problems, but then beat it and realized I was more sad that it was over than for any game in a long time. It's really difficult to explain. I'm sincerely hoping someone else has played it to sympathize with me.
Postby zeroguy » Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:58 pm
The painful fact is that there haven’t been any good RPGs since Final Fantasy 7.
How odd, you seem to have mispelled the number 6.
the most likable party leader (the FF franchise has failed miserably in this category since Cloud)
Cloud? Cloud? The best thing about Cloud was the Buster Sword.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/05/27/
Postby Eddie Pinz » Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:46 am
And who since seven is better than Cloud?? Squall?? Zidane?? Tidus?? Vaan?? Not much of a choice there. Plus, I think you are underrating Cloud.
And after hearing from many people that 6 was so much better than 7, I finally got around to playing it. I must say, that the whole thing was very "meh".
That's pretty much how I feel about Chrono Trigger, although I haven't actually finished it yet. I've played FF 4, 7, 8, 9, and Chrono Trigger. So far 7 is my favourite.
Chrono Trigger is legendary.
Legendary != good.
Just so you know. Myself, I only played a few hours of the game, on an emulator, so you can't blame me for not having good opinions of it. I hate emulators.
It starts off slightly slow.
I haven't played any of the Tales games besides about an hour of Legendia, but my boyfriend is absolutely in love with the series. Seriously. I hear about the games ALL the time. If I remember correctly, Symphonia is also his favorite. (Though he hasn't played Legendia or the new one for the 360.) He's told me a lot about the story, though, and it really sounds like you can lose yourself in it, in a good way. Though the ending seems really sad..
On a side note, I didn't know you could download FFVII on the PS3. That's really awesome! I love the story so much.. even if I haven't played the game..
Emulators are how I played all of the games I listed above except for FF4 which I have on the DS. I love emulators.
Someone should write a novelization of FFVII. The story is one of the main reasons why I enjoy it. The first time I played through it, I would play for hours a day. I just had to know what would happen next. It's like reading a good book.
And who since seven is better than Cloud?? Squall?? Zidane?? Tidus?? Vaan?? Not much of a choice there.
I didn't say anything about the later ones; I've never played them, and I haven't heard much of a reason to.
Plus, I think you are underrating Cloud.
Nearly every character in FF6 I find better than Cloud (I'm not a fan of Locke, but eh...).
I also think I just hate something about 3d graphics in turn-based strategy, for whatever reason. I don't think I've ever played a game that did that that I liked.
[Edit: Yes, Aeris dying was a good story element in FF7, I will certainly give it that. I think the beginning of the World of Ruin in FF6 was more moving to me, but I already knew Aeris was going to die before I started playing, so it's not really a fair comparison.]
And FF6's story is great. The world actually turns to s*** like halfway through. Chrono Trigger is also awesome. I believe FF6, Chrono Trigger, Seiken Densetsu 2 (Secret of Mana), and SD3 are the snes games I've played through the most times; at least for RPGs.
Have there been any newer games in the style of Seiken Densetsu 2/3? I don't think I've seen any, but I don't really keep up.
Postby Eddie Pinz » Fri Jun 12, 2009 6:51 am
My statement said since Cloud, the party leader's have pretty much sucked. So we are talking about two different situations. As for the ones after VII.
VIII - I hated. I got like 4 hours into it and stopped.
IX - Was okay. Story and characters weren't great, but a pretty fun game to play through.
X - I loved. Great game and very visually pleasing. Cool to see voice acting. Loved the story. You really should check this one out.
XII - Takes some getting used battle system. I liked most of the characters. Good story, but I was pretty disappointed with the ending.
(*note: I really wanted to play through all these games again (except VIII), so thanks for that zero)
I like the 3d graphics. I am kind of interested to hear why you don't like them? Or is it that you haven't enjoyed any of the games that use them?
I don't know about 6. Maybe it was because so many people built this game up in my head. Maybe it was because I played 7 first. But I just don't think that it stacks up 7.
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PS3 Review – The Darkness II
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Starbreeze’s 2007 FPS game The Darkness, based on the Top Cow comic series of the same name, was noted for its unorthodox approach to the FPS formula. Developer Digital Extremes has been tasked with developing a follow-up to the unique original in The Darkness II and, while The Darkness II isn’t quite as good as its predecessor, it’s a sequel that’s worth checking out for Darkness fans.
The Darkness II returns to the story of Jackie Estacado, two years after the events of the original Darkness. Jackie is now the Don of his crime family and still mourning the loss of Jenny. He goes out to eat but members of The Brotherhood, a secret society obsessed with obtaining The Darkness, relentlessly assault the restaurant he’s in. Near-death, Jackie is forced to summon The Darkness again and do battle with them. Once more, The Darkness proceeds to play mind games with Jackie concerning an artifact called The Siphon that The Brotherhood has possession of. It tells Jackie that if he doesn’t obtain The Siphon and give it to The Darkness, it will hurt Jenny, who it claims it has obtained and contained.
The story of The Darkness II is pretty good and works well enough for the game, but is nowhere near as dark or involved as the original. Whereas the original Darkness was a story with recurring themes about whether or not Jackie could control The Darkness, Darkness II is much more about whether or not The Darkness can convince Jackie that he’s losing control mentally. The Darkness as a character, though, is surprisingly subdued in the sequel — compared to the original, that is — and rarely directly interjects itself into the events of the game. Other characters generally have less edge, less involvement, and less dialogue than the supporting cast of the original. The plot itself is mostly straightforward and has some moments that will ring familiar and resonate with Darkness fans, but doesn’t offer the same kind of story experience as the original. That’s not to say that the story isn’t entertaining, but again, it just isn’t the same kind of story experience that was seen in The Darkness.
The Darkness II really shines with its core gameplay mechanics, though. Digital Extremes’ invention of quad-wielding is great fun and Jackie can hack, slash, and shoot enemies with relative ease. He can grab enemy shields, use car doors as mobile cover, execute enemies, eat enemy hearts and deploy Darkness powers without missing a step. The control layout may seem overly busy, but it takes about the duration of the tutorial level to get used to quad-wielding, and it’s very easy to handle after that. Jackie also gets a large-sized skill tree (which can have more of its abilities not picked up in one playthrough learned in New Game+) that enables players to pick skills that that they’re comfortable with using to flesh out Jackie the way they want him to be. The Darkness II also consolidates the four specifically-skilled Darklings from the original into a generally useful single Darkling, which eliminates some of the guessing of “Which one(s) do I need to bring with me?” from the original. The Darkness II also improves on the aiming mechanics of the original, which had a tendency to be somewhat inaccurate and a little frustrating.
Vendettas Mode, The Darkness II‘s co-op that supports up to four players online (or available as individual missions offline as well), is great, too. The game features four characters (shotgun-wielding Mossad agent Shoshanna, axe-tossing Jimmy Wilson, voodoo-utilizing witch doctor JP Dumond, and samurai sword-slicing Inugami), each with a Darkness-infused weapon and a sidearm for dual-wielding, in addition to being able to use machine guns or each weapon individually. (They also each have a Darkness power.) They participate in story missions that run parallel to the main game’s story, in which The Brotherhood is trying to obtain the Spear of Destiny for Darkness-related purposes and they’re hired by Jackie’s crime family to try and stop them. While most missions play out the same, each character is interacted with a little differently by story characters on the mission radio, each has their own story, and enemies tend to have different reaction phrases to each of the different characters. The missions are a blast to play with four players, but especially with players who work together, as Darkness II has some light Brink-esque squad benefit mechanics.
However, for as fun as The Darkness II‘s core gameplay is, the game always has the exact same kind of challenge: a flood of enemies. Level after level, in single player or co-op multiplayer, players can expect to face several enemies at the same time, over and over again. Mostly gone are the explorable areas from the previous game, replaced by large-sized levels packed with enemies. Nothing’s wrong with the change, but The Darkness II doesn’t offer any kind of substantial variety with enemy layout, positioning, etc. The Darkness II also is very short and shouldn’t take most players more than a few days to experience everything it has to offer, even with multiplayer included.
Visually, The Darkness II has changed for a graphic novel-style shading, instead of The Darkness‘ regular 3D graphics. The style change-up is solid and works well for the game, making it feel more like a comic book. The bright colors may be a stark contrast from the atmospheric graphics of the original, but they help add a certain visual style to the game.
The Darkness II‘s Limited Edition comes with two bonus abilities: Gourmet Hearts (which adds a little health from eaten hearts) Relic Hunter (which makes it easier to find relics, which grant XP, throughout the game). No outstanding effect can be seen from the abilities, but they certainly don’t hurt to have at Jackie’s disposal. The Darkling gets a Crazy Abdul outfit, which is cool-looking. A poster is included with the game that’s an illustration from Marc Silvestri (the creator of The Darkness comics), which is also very nice. However, arguably the coolest edition for The Darkness fans is the inclusion of a voucher that enables access to a small number of The Darkness comics, including two Witchblade tie-in issues. All are very solid additions that rounded out to make a fairly cool free upgrade from the regular edition.
The Darkness II feels very much like a sequel in transition. Digital Extremes tried to bring back components that made the original Darkness successful, while trying to improve upon the game and add their own voice in as well. The result is a solid success that is fun and very enjoyable, but doesn’t improve drastically on the original. The Darkness II is more focused as an FPS than its predecessor and has improved core mechanics, but doesn’t have much of the dark edge or story experience that was in The Darkness. Darkness fans and gamers looking for a fun FPS alike will still find much to like here, though, as the core gameplay provides nothing less than a crazy and chaotic good time. The Darkness II may be visually different from the previous entry, but it still has plenty of good Darkness moments and gameplay. Also, while the single player and co-op multiplayer may be brief, both are entertaining enough to warrant gamers finding a way to check out the game.
PlayStation LifeStyle’s Final Score
+ Fast, fun, and unique FPS gameplay through quad-wielding
+ Very enjoyable co-op Vendettas Mode
- Very short, constant waves of enemies
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The Slush Girl (Original London Production, 1914)
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I Should Worry (Original London Production, 1913)
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A Day to Go Hunting by Christine Pullein-Thompson
A Day to Go Hunting by Christine Pullein-Thompson Jul 2, 2012 17:28:46 GMT 1
Post by tintin on Jul 2, 2012 17:28:46 GMT 1
This is my favourite piece of horse literature, one of my favourite books ever and, to me, probably THE horse book next to Black Beauty (which really stands in a class of its own).
I will, however, try to review it at least a little bit objectively.
Having read Tan and Tarmac, which does n’t work for me, then this one straight after I can understand why it works so well.
Both books are about the same length (this one 157 pages, T&T 158), but this one is written by a real expert at the craft.
There is a comparatively large cast of characters, but, even without the useful descriptions at the beginning, we are not swamped with them. Each is a clearly drawn realistic individual. Each has their traits revealed slowly, but clearly.
There is only one real incident. A bank of fog comes down on the hunt. What happens in the fog and what it reveals of the riders’ characters is fascinating.
There is a riding accident, hounds run wild and lots of people ride around lost in the fog, but the author constructs a gripping story out of this.
There are no villains, but some people are better than others, and peoples’ deficiencies have consequences. Even the “anti” woman and the young lad who is n’t that keen (preferring TV) who a lesser author could have vilified and caricatured are treated gently and shown as having respectable opinions which suit them. The author is very gently praising responsibility and consideration for others, in a way that is much more effective than any sermonising.It is also great in that problems are seen as best surmounted by the application of reason and co-operation.
There are some great characters in the book (not least the truly dreadful amateur whipper in). The huntsman worried about his job and the over horsed riding school worker are also good. The budding romance between the young lady and the farmer’s son is lovely and very gently done. There is also the best depiction I have ever seen of a man’s love for and pride in his horse – very moving, but not much more than a sentence, but when you can write like this no more is needed.
PLUS - the illustrations actually match the text!
The only thing wrong with this book is it did n’t start a series.I would love to know what happened to them all.
Never fails to make me feel better.
Post by kunuma on Jul 2, 2012 18:10:13 GMT 1
Gymkhana Genius
PONY BOOK MASTERMIND CHAMPION 2015
Post by fizz on Jul 2, 2012 18:41:45 GMT 1
I like it very much too Tintin. i actually found an old school book when I cleared my Mum & Dad's house saying it was my favourite book. Scared me off hunting a bit though as a child.
Post by Claire on Jul 2, 2012 20:03:18 GMT 1
I don't agree with the other 2 voters. I dislike this book, its probably my least favourite CPT after Ponies in the Forest. I have given it a 2 but thats because its not badly written and the characters are brought to life well on the whole. Its mainly the content I don't like. I don't want to get into a whole hunting debate here cos its guaranteed to cause trouble, but I dont like hunting and I always skim over all the hunting parts in any pony books I read, so a book that is nothing but a hunt is not to my taste.
Also I think the book contains a lot of the ingrained, unbending 'its what we do so we must be right' attitudes which have given pony books a bad name. I don't agree with tintin that the anti-hunting woman is treated with any respect - the kids call her 'Miss whats her name anti-hunting' and talk about her chasing them off with broomsticks as if she were a witch, later she is told she 'must be mad' and told she should go to prison for the terrible sin of not wanting hounds on her property and killing her livestock (by a young boy at that!) She is condemned as a nutty old spinster. Even the illustration of her makes her look witch-like and slightly mad. Altho the master does grudgingly give her slight respect this is spoilt by his subsequent visit to her in which he unsurprisingly makes her see 'his' point before he sets off to his 'next disagreeable task' There is no question of him seeing her side. In fact it isn't given credence at all.
Aside from the hunting angle I don't feel there is much of a plot. If it is compared to another CPT book The Horse Sale (IMO possibly her best) which is similarly centred around how a single event affects a number of characters, it seems bitty and poorly structured and rather shallow.
Well thats my opinion anyhow...I'll go and get me coat....
I don’t want to open the hunting debate either. Like religion and politics it is perhaps best left alone.
I have to say though that if you are writing a horse story it offers great advantages. You can put together a wide range of riders and horses of different backgrounds, ages and abilities and expose them to a great variety of situations. There are also a wide range of motivations, very few of which relate to rural pest control.
I’ll admit the “anti” lady is not drawn as a particularly attractive character, but at least the Master meets her at her house (and she is gracious enough to receive him) and then invites her to his home (even though it will upset his wife) to try to settle things so the problem is shown as being amenable to reason. Nowadays both parties would probably rush to their lawyers or the newspapers. In the seventies and eighties the “debate” on hunting was nothing like as civilised on either side, being something of a dialogue of the deaf with most of the participants not being there because they cared for foxes or rural traditions, but because they liked a fight. Also hounds pursuing deer is seen as a catastrophe by both sides (ironically in the unpleasant scene with the old lady and the young boy, both are trying to save the deer).
Although I’m probably on balance from the opposite side of the house on hunting (I'm a bit equivocal) to Claire I don’t like the book because it’s a hunting book. I like the book because of the characters who I find both sympathetic and realistic and I like the way on the whole its co-operative rather than competitive and OK I've always had a little bit of a crush on Tony.
Although I enjoy the Chill Valley Hounds trilogy I don’t find the characters half as appealing (much too disputatious).
Last Edit: Jul 3, 2012 17:15:58 GMT 1 by tintin
I think what gets up my nose a lot rather than the hunting per se is the PTs complete moral certainty that hunting is right, its that awful upper middle/upper class British attitude that thinks there is a certain way to do things and that everyone who disagrees is wrong; similar that the British way is the right way to do things and all foreigners are wrong in everything, etc. Funnily enough the PTs were not so rigid in other areas of riding with their preferance for the more radical/continental form of riding coming through in many of their books (and their foreign experts such as General de Veriac in Radney Riding Club), but in their hunting books/sections they were at their worst and most intolerant and inflexible.
Actually I think I have got a lot less tolerant of hunting in pony books as an adult. I read them as a child with fewer qualms. (Nowadays I prefer KMP or Patricia Leitch's books which have far less hunting in them) But even then I never really liked A Day to Go H so its not all anti-hunt. Even tho the Chill Valley books have a lot of hunting in I would rate them higher due to I think the stories are more coherent and I prefer the characters. I just think 'A Day' is a poor book by the standards of CPT's others as well as not being to my taste. But then again some of the things I like no-one else does! As I've said before on the forum, it would be a bit dull if we all liked the same things and felt the same way about the same books.
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newswire article reposts united states 23.Nov.2003 00:40
An Open Letter to Ralph Nader
author: Greg Bates, Common Dreams
Go Ralph!
Published on Friday, November 21, 2003 by CommonDreams.org
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1121-12.htm
by Greg Bates
Dear Ralph,
I am writing to tell you the obvious: you have to run for president. Let me lay out a few of the issues I am sure you are reviewing.
1. First, consider what happened when you ran in 2000. You changed the political landscape.
a. Along with Winona LaDuke, you and voters made clear that the Democratic Party's strategy of moving to the right-secure in the knowledge those on the left end couldn't go anywhere and would fall in line-was bankrupt. We had an alternative and we went for it.
b. Your run helped elect many Democrats. Exit polls in the 2000 election showed that 25% of Nader voters would have voted for Bush, 38% would have voted for Gore, and the rest wouldn't have voted. Therefore Nader brought more than 1 million new voters into the election. The Party should be grateful for this.
c. You changed the debate. Remember how Gore stole some of your rhetoric? You should view it as an important accomplishment.
d. The spill over extended beyond electoral politics. Your candidacy served as a huge billboard for change in many arenas and helped boost efforts in a variety of non-electoral sectors (e.g. organizing against the war in Iraq).
2. Second, consider what didn't happen in 2000. You didn't help George Bush win. Gore won. Just because the Supreme Court decided to appoint Bush to the Presidency doesn't mean you are responsible for the action of those 5 Justices.
3. Consider what your run in 2000 has already done to the contest in 2004:
a. Would Dean, Kucinich, and even Clark be mouthing the rhetoric they do if you hadn't run? I'll be kind to Kucinich and give him the nod, but as for the rest, I don't think so. They understand how much they need the constituency you helped define in 2000.
b. This effect is much broader than your impact on the candidates. Regardless of how much heat you are taking in the debate over your last run and over the prospects of another one, I am reminded of what this means: people of all stripes understand the left is developing real power. All of the debate about your past and possible future candidacy, painful though I am sure it is, is focused on this question: how should progressives best use their power? That wasn't even a question 6 years ago.
4. Consider the outcome if you don't run:
a. Your help to progressive Democrats that spills over from your run will be diminished. This could be devastating if it means the Republicans retain control of Congress. In this you have a responsibility here no other person can fulfill.
b. Not running sends the wrong message to voters: Our democracy isn't strong enough to support a plurality of candidates running for the highest office in the land. Dissent is only permissible when the Democratic candidate is a shoo-in for office. On the contrary-dissent and organizing are important to carry out especially when the stakes are high.
c. We send the wrong message to the Democratic Party: we will fall in line because we really don't have anywhere else to go-precisely the opposite message you worked so hard to send in 2000.
5. Consider the outcome if you do run:
a. There is a small chance that the Democratic nominee could turn out to be someone of your political stripe, making the same criticisms as you do of the corporate backers of the Democrats, and seriously challenging their choke hold from within. In that case, you might consider stepping aside. But I don't see that candidacy as very likely. However unlikely it is, the rise of such a candidate might be more likely if you did declare initially than if you didn't. A response by the Democrats designed to protect their left flank against you would be a good thing.
b. It is a well-understood political principle that those who articulate the clearest vision of what needs to happen don't always succeed, but they make it more acceptable to work toward those goals. They create a shift in the political spectrum. As you did last time, your run would provide a tremendous boost to 3rd party efforts at the state and local level.
c. Take as examples the legacy of those whose shoulders you stand on. I think of the abolitionists, the suffragettes, the union organizers, those fighting against racism, sexism, etc. They acted in the face of constant criticism that they move too fast, they rock the boat, they make "real change" impossible. But time and again they have proven that the arc of change bends toward those who demand what is right, not what is reasonable.
6. We need to stop debating strategy and get out there.
a. Recall the words of actor Richard Dreyfuss who in 2000 made a last minute speaking tour against your candidacy. He said, we need to send a message to the Democratic Party, but now is not the time because too much is at stake... Excuse me? I beg to differ-the time to send a message is the time when the Party is most likely to listen, during an election, when it can feel the pain of ignoring the message. We cannot let our convictions and our organizing be subject to fickle whims-is the president a nasty guy; did the Democratic candidate say something nice today?
b. Besides, the message isn't directed to the Democratic Party-it's a message of hope to the electorate, the only constituency that really counts.
c. Today's guess might be: Dean could win; let's rally around him. But what if the Party or the nominee stumbles in the next 12 months and there is no alternative to Bush? What happens if both Bush and the Democrats stumble and, had you been running, you would have won? Unforeseen stumbles by presidents and nominees are part of our history and likely to take place this time as well. From Ed Muskie to George McGovern, from Richard Nixon to George Bush Sr., the outcomes of elections have been surprisingly unpredictable.
7. A run for the presidency should communicate:
a. That the Democratic Party is structurally incapable of delivering what the people need, and that the electorate is not going to stand for palliative rhetoric as a substitute for real change. Those who run for president under the Democratic Party ticket are essentially conceding the status quo: corporations decide our fate. We disagree.
b. It should teach people to discern the difference between what the Democrats sometimes say they are offering and what is really needed. If that were all that got accomplished, it would be invaluable.
c. We will stand for nothing less than a REAL political debate regardless of the efforts by the Democratic and Republican controlled Commission on Presidential Debates to limit the spectrum of issues presented to the American people.
8. I think the long term view beyond the election is vital. The real issue is what contribution you make to the forces that are building for change. Are we going to have a society in which a critic of corporate power runs for office every 4 years or not? We need the answer to be yes. Do we need to build toward the day when you or someone like you can be president? Absolutely. Can that be done best by running only when a Democrat is already in office? We know the answer: We can't build an movement that will win the White House by putting forth a candidate every once in a while. We need to persistently field a real alternative at every opportunity.
9. Finally, to those who say the stakes are too high, I would simply agree-at no other time in our history has it been more imperative to have the real McCoy take office. Martin Luther King once articulated why we can't wait. Surely we have less time now. We need you to win.
Greg Bates
gbates@commoncouragepress.com
Common Courage Press
homepage: http://www.commondreams.org
Well what makes Nader so great? 23.Nov.2003 04:08
Brian Smith link
I think Nader is awesome in what he does, but he's never held a public office. I would think Kucinich would be a clear decision, I pretty much view him as just as progressive. If Nader joined now it would just be a mess in my opinion.
How are Bush Sr and Kucinich alike? 23.Nov.2003 08:30
anti deffamatory laws link
Kucinich is like Bush Sr. How? Bush Sr was pro choice but to run for the Republican vote he became a pro lifer. Kucinich became for the democratic party pro choice. It's a religous thing he has said to brush off criticism. Now look what happened to Bush Jr. The consequences of trading in your values are too high. Let my vote be for Ralph. I'm not trading in again...
Ralph, please don't 23.Nov.2003 09:57
GPFX link
Look, the "political landscape" only changes to favor republican candidates when Nader runs. Nader needs to stop feeding his ego with failed presidential bids and start using his party's funds to elect mayors, state representatives and city councilmembers. Build the party from the ground up and it might actually work.
Sure, by the time the Greens have enough votes to make a Green president even remotely viable, Nader may be to old to run, but that is what is called "self sacrafice for the common good." It is either fail or plan long-term; everything else is just ego-fodder.
-GPFX- Voting third party locally where votes count, supporting the opposition fromt runner at the presidential level. No wasted votes here.
not wasting votes 23.Nov.2003 10:35
anti deffamation link
hmmm, your logic:
Two candiates. Hitler and Mussolini. Who should I vote for?
I vote Mussolini becuase at least we will get to string him up.
My logic: A vote for evil is a vote wasted. Period.
bogged down in muckiness 23.Nov.2003 10:38
shop-vac link
Nader voter here, or should I say former Nader voter. I will not support any Nader campaign this time. I want to see a change in the white house, Nader has always been a protest vote, no one in their right mind believed he could/can actually win. I have no misgivings of my Nader vote in 2000, I truely believed there was no choice between the stepford wived demos and the don't have a clue repubs. Of course 20-20 hindsight and all that, we see what a load this bush shit turned out to be, but the election was Gore's to lose and he did. The 2004 election is night and day from the 2000 election. I am not voting for the lesser of two evils when I vote for Dean/Kerry/Clark, I will be voting for advancement of America to the present time as opposed to 1958 where America is now.
I want my MTV! 23.Nov.2003 11:01
american voter link
I don't care if teh Democrats support the murder of Iraqi families in order to protect our troops (from the very Democrats that PUT our troops there), I need to beat Bush! I don't care if all teh Democratic candidates except Kucinich and Sharpton support PRE-EMPTIVE WAR just like the Rethugs, I need to beat Bush! I don't care that the Democraps were just as responsible (in fact lead the way in some cases), for the latest 20 years of legislation that has given unprecedented legal protections to corporations so that we can all be sucked dry and have ZERO recourse, I need to beat Bush! I don't care that Democraps like Gephart - who CO-SPONSORED and CO-WROTE the legislation that allowed Bush to go into Iraq are now saying they're against the war, I need to beat Bush!
Man, you Nader folks are a bitter, 23.Nov.2003 14:37
nope link
hostile bunch. I wouldn't join you people if my life depended on it--if this is what Nader is about, you can have it.
message for nope-- 23.Nov.2003 14:58
umbra link
and precisely what is it that *you* are "about", mr nope?
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/11/275330.shtml
dear nope 23.Nov.2003 15:08
napes link
au contraire! you non nader folks are bitter and hostile. I wouldn't join you folks if my life depended on it- if that is what being a non naderite is what that was about you can have it.
A status quo vote 23.Nov.2003 15:25
is a vote for death link
If you speak of leading this country or administering its policies with out talking serious reform in the realms of government accountablity and the removal of corruption (if you havn't looked into this, do so now) then you have a corpse in your mouth. Vote your conscience! This nation is truly at war and in crisis. I think you can really "imagine" ways of changning this. There are very rational and real alternatives to war, misrepresentation, unemployment and isolationist based "community." Brothers and Sisters (a way of referring to you!) haven't we learned! We can organize! Participate in media, government, and community, because it is participating in you!
Life after Ralph 23.Nov.2003 17:50
Jeff link
I've got a different approach to the issue of whether or not Nader should run for President.
First, there's a big distinction that needs to be made between Green Party members and Naderites. Obviously Greg Bates, the author of the "open letter," is a Naderite. There is not a SINGLE mention of the Green Party in the entire thing. This guy supports Nader's strengths, which involve inspiring legions of people to become involved in political action and bringing up the important issues that the Dems and Republicans try their hardest to ignore. He unfortunately ignores Nader's biggest weakness, which is his lack of conviction for building a vibrant third party movement.
Bates (and Ralph) believe that the solution is to put pressure on the Democrats to reform themselves. They're not about building a new progressive political party; it's actually about trying to "save" the Democratic Party. I've talked with some of Nader's advisors, I know that that's the uppermost thing in their minds. Many of us believe that the Democratic Party is beyond reform, because people have been trying, and failing, to do that for over a century now. America needs a growing third party movement to raise the important issues, keep them in the public's mind and eventually have candidates elected to office to achieve them. The Green Party is the best possibility to achieve that. The only way to make that effort successful is to build a base through local elections, and work toward systemic electoral reforms such as proportional representation, campaign finance reform and instant runoff voting.
Nader has little interest in actually working with the Green Party, and abhors the thought of adopting strategies developed by the Green Party's leaders. He wants to do his own thing in his own way, which often conflicts with Green ideals such as decentralization and eliminating hierarchy. He can rally huge numbers of supporters to campaign on his behalf, but that's about the extent of it. Most of them become involved because of Ralph's "Cult of Personality" and then lose interest in the tedious and lengthy (but incredibly important) process of building a new political movement.
I should qualify this with a couple of statements - I have the utmost respect for Nader's numerous non-political achievements, and became involved with the Green Party because of my respect for him. I also think that the "spoiler" argument about the 2000 election is pure Democratic propaganda and no informed person should take it seriously.
Regardless, the Green Party needs to move beyond Nader for the next election. He should focus on his civic activism instead, which is his greatest strength and accomplishment.
Ralph supports Greens 24.Nov.2003 14:29
Green1 link
I respectfully disagree with Jeff's comments. I have heard Ralph Nader speak many times about supporting the Greens. His two presidential runs in 1996 and 2000 helped to bolster support for the Greens across the country including significantly increasing Green Party membership. If he does not work in exactly the way some Green Party members would like, I think you could say the same for others who are registered Greens. Working together and utilizing all the Green Party values, as stated in the Mission Statement, is something we all strive for, but do not always succeed in doing. If Ralph were to choose to run again, I think this is a subject to cover with him, and at least give him a chance to agree to work in what Jeff or others consider a more cooperative manner. The past is the past. I say let's build from our positions of strength for the future. A Ralph Nader candidacy would garner support from disparate groups from around the country. Right now, however, I believe he is supporting Dennis Kucinich. He will probably make a decision about running after the Democratic primary. The whole issue about Nader being a spoiler has been covered well by Jeff and others who posted here. I absolutely concur that it is the system that is spoiled and what needs to be fixed--even Ralph has said that simply changing who is president will not automatically fix the problem. One of the things he does by running is to highlight how and where the system needs repairing and transformation.
I'd rather rubber bullet myself than 24.Nov.2003 23:37
Green THUMB link
Vote for the democratic party. Doesn't anybody remember the democratic convention in LA were the police beat the shit out of protesters? Or how about when the democrats helped to hush up the problem with choice point and then got Cynthia McKinney out of office for attempting to look into it? Or how about our democratic congressman stopping the fillibuster, or how they voted for this war despite massive protests around the globe? Or how Hillary Clinton was the lawyer for walmart while waqlmart was employing chinese prison labor, Clinton is making welfare cuts, giving walmart corporate welfare to train people, laying them off after several months, and the people relying on our tax dollars for medicare that is being cut. Walmart makes more money than the country of Sweden. THIS IS THE FIRST LADY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!!!
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Title: Somali shilling
Subject: Economy of Somalia, Central Bank of Somalia, Somaliland shilling, Somalia, WikiProject Numismatics/Sandbox/Succession
Collection: 1962 Introductions, Currencies of Somalia
Shilin Soomaali (Somali)
الشلن الصومالي (Arabic)
500 Somali shilling banknote.
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The Somali shilling (sign: Sh.So.; Somali: shilin; Arabic: شلن; Italian: scellino; ISO 4217 code: SOS) is the official currency of Somalia. It is subdivided into 100 senti (Somali, also سنت), cents (English) or centesimi (Italian).
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A 5 Somali shilling banknote, issued in 1987.
The shilling has been the currency of parts of Somalia since 1921, when the East African shilling was introduced to the former British Somaliland protectorate. Following independence in 1960, the somalo of Italian Somaliland and the East African shilling (which were equal in value) were replaced at par in 1962 by the Somali shilling. Names used for the denominations were cent (singular: centesimo; plural: centesimi) and سنت (plural: سنتيمات and سنتيما) together with shilling (singular: scellino; plural: scellini) and شلن.
On 15 December 1962, the Banca Nazionale Somala (National Bank of Somalia) issued notes denominated as 5, 10, 20 and 100 scellini/shillings.[3] In 1975, the Bankiga Qaranka Soomaaliyeed (Somali National Bank) introduced notes for 5, 10, 20 and 100 shilin/shillings. These were followed in 1978 by notes of the same denominations issued by the Bankiga Dhexe Ee Soomaaliya (Central Bank of Somalia). 50 shilin/shillings notes were introduced in 1983, followed by 500 shilin/shillings in 1989 and 1000 shilin/shillings in 1990. Also in 1990 there was an attempt to reform the currency at 100 to 1, with new banknotes of 20 and 50 new shilin prepared for the redenomination.[4]
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[10] 5 Somali shillings/Shilin Soomaali Water buffaloes Banana plantation
[11] 10 Somali shillings/Shilin Soomaali Abdul Aziz mosque, Mogadishu Boat building
[12] 20 Somali shillings/Shilin Soomaali Bankiga Dhexe ee Soomaaliya (Central Bank of Somalia) building, Mogadishu Cattle
[13] 50 Somali shillings/Shilin Soomaali Ruins of Xamar Weyne, Old Mogadishu Watering animals
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[15] 500 Somali shillings/Shilin Soomaali Fishermen Masaagidka Isbaheysiga ("Solidarity" or "Saudi" mosque), Mogadishu
[16] 1000 Somali shillings/Shilin Soomaali Basket weavers Port and waterfront of Mogadishu
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[18] 50 New Somali shillings/N-Shilin Soomaali Weaver Man with children on a donkey
A 10 senti coin, issued in 1976.
In terms of coins, the East African shilling and somalo initially circulated. In 1967, coins were issued in the name of the Somali Republic in denominations of 5, 10 and 50 cents/centesimi and 1 shilling/scellino. In 1976, when the Somali names for the denominations were introduced, coins were issued in the name of the Somali Democratic Republic for 5, 10 and 50 senti and 1 shilling.
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^ Central Bank of Somalia. Accessed on 24 February 2011.
^ Linzmayer, Owen (2012). "Somalia". The Banknote Book. San Francisco, CA: www.BanknoteNews.com.
^ Somalbanca - Currency
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^ Somaliland’s Quest for International Recognition and the HBM-SSC Factor
^ Time for Somaliland to Rethink its Strategy
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^ http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EGUA-7R5P9X/$File/full_report.pdf
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^ "Board of Directors". Central Bank of Somalia. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
Economy of Somalia
The History of British Currency in the Middle East
2000 SOS/USD in June 1991
13,400 SOS/USD in March 2006
14,406 SOS/USD in August 2006[10]
15,000 SOS/USD in February 2007
25,000 SOS/USD in March 2008[11]
35,000 SOS/USD in July 2008[12]
33,300 SOS/USD in February 2010[14]
27,000 SOS/USD in October 2011[14]
19,000 SOS/USD in December 2012[15]
15,000 SOS/USD in May 2013[16]
1,001 SOS/USD in March 2014[9]
725 SOS/USD in December 2014[17]
697.5 SOS/USD in April 2015[18]
Free market rates in Somalia:
Historical exchange rates
With a significant improvement in local security, Somali expatriates began returning to the country for investment opportunities. Coupled with modest foreign investment, the inflow of funds have helped the Somali shilling increase considerably in value. By March 2014, the currency had appreciated by almost 60% against the U.S. dollar over the previous 12 months. The Somali shilling was the strongest among the 175 global currencies traded by Bloomberg, rising close to 50 percentage points higher than the next most robust global currency over the same period.[9]
In the late 2000s, Somalia's newly established Transitional Federal Government revived the defunct Central Bank of Somalia. In terms of financial management, the monetary authority is in the process of assuming the task of both formulating and implementing monetary policy.[8] Owing to a lack of confidence in the Somali shilling, the U.S. dollar is widely accepted as a medium of exchange alongside the Somali shilling. Dollarization notwithstanding, the large issuance of the Somali shilling has increasingly fueled price hikes, especially for low-value transactions. The new central bank of Somalia expects this inflationary environment to come to an end as soon as the Central Bank assumes full control of monetary policy and replaces the presently circulating currency introduced by the private sector.[8]
The Somaliland shilling is the official currency of Somaliland, a self-declared republic that is internationally recognized as an autonomous region of Somalia.[6] The currency is not recognized as legal tender by the international community, and it currently has no official exchange rate. It is regulated by the Bank of Somaliland, the territory's central bank. Although the separatist authorities in Somaliland have attempted to bar usage of the Somali shilling, Somalia's official currency is still the preferred means of exchange for many peoples in the region.[7]
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Harare, Shona language, Robert Mugabe, Zambia, Bulawayo
Italian Somaliland, United Kingdom, Somalia, Dervish State, British Empire
United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden, European Union, Australia
Somalia, Italian East Africa, World War I, Majeerteen Sultanate, British Somaliland
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Honorary Consulate of Romania (Boston, Massachusetts)
Impressions of Boston (2013) – by Octavian Ramulescu
Impressions of a Young Romanian Visitor to Boston
Octavian Ramulescu – 13 yrs-old (Bucharest)
How are Boston and Bucharest different?
In Boston many buildings are made of bricks.
In Bucharest there is much better wi-fi.
In Bucharest people drink and smoke on the street.
In Boston many more people ride bicycles.
In Boston there are more bridges which are beautiful.
In Bucharest there is much more traffic.
In Boston many more immigrants and students.
What did you like most and least?
The air was very clean but the Charles River was very dirty.
What are food specialities in Boston?
I like crab-cakes, cornbread, oyster (first time) and lobster.
What did you like to visit?
The Science Museum because there was so much to see. It was very practical. I like the dinosaur. Old guns. Birds.
Note: Interview by permission of his parents.
Photo by A. Carlsson
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Bear Valley Center
12300 Los Osos Valley Road
San Luis Obispo 2,002 square feet $1.95/SF NNN
Restaurant/Coffee Shop/Retail end cap space fronting onto Los Osos Valley Road near Target, Costco and Home Depot Centers. Excellent Freeway access at a very affordable rent. Available February 2020.
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Rare opportunity to lease a retail space in a high exposure pad building. Located in one of the most convenient locations in the City of San Luis Obispo. Central location, just outside Downtown, provides easy access from all portions of town, with traffic counts of over 30,000 +/- cars per day, the 2nd highest in San Luis Obispo. Space will be delivered in vanilla shall condition with ADA restroom. Personal services and salon uses welcome. Former Verizon store.
888 Monterey Street
San Luis Obispo 4,003-5,293 square feet $3.00/SF NNN
End cap space at the corner of Monterey and Morro Streets. Backs up to the newly completed Hotel San Luis Obispo. Neighboring tenants include H & M, Williams Sonoma, Lululemon, Giuseppe’s, Ross Dress for Less, Beverly Fabrics and many more.
3566 S. Higuera Street
2,500 SF of showroom/warehouse with a retail presence. Includes office/reception area, open floor plan with ADA restroom and 1 rear roll-up door. Good parking. Located in a convenient location off S. Higuera just minutes to the Highway and Downtown.
551 W. Tefft Street
Nipomo 2,000-5,600 square feet $1.30-2.00/SF NNN
Situated in the commercial core, one block from Hwy 101 and Tefft Street off ramps, at Mary Avenue in the nicest, busiest Center in Nipomo. The intersection is shared with Starbucks, Wells Fargo, Vons, CVS and Miner’s Hardware. This space can accommodate 5,600 square feet of retail space with 800 square foot side yard. The space can be demised into smaller units.
Atascadero 1,200-67,760 square feet Inquire
Great Shopping Center in the heart of Atascadero with easy access from Highway 101. K-Mart is vacating and Landlord is remodeling the Center.
Village at Nipomo
555 W. Tefft Street, Suite 2
Nipomo 1,098 square feet $2.47/SF NNN
One block from the Hwy 101 and Tefft Street off ramps, at Mary Avenue. Attractive, new center. Neighbors are Starbucks, Wells Fargo, Vons, CVS and Miner’s Hardware. This space can accomodate retail, offices, medical or many other uses. It can be delivered as is or as a finished shell.
Prefumo Creek Commons
This space is well located between Target and Dick’s Sporting Goods.
NW Corner of El Camino Real & Del Rio
Atascadero 1,000-6,178 square feet Inquire
Prime signalized hard corner location. Easy access from Highway 101 via Del Rio Road off-ramp.
Paso Robles 931 square feet $1.70/SF NNN
This retail building is located in the heart of Downtown Paso Robles with shopping, restaurants and entertainment within the vicinity. This property is on the 600 block of Spring Street and the exposure is as good as it gets. This 931 square foot space is currently an Enterprise Rent-A-Car office and will not last long.
150 Mary Avenue
One block from Hwy 101 and Tefft Street off ramps, at Mary Avenue. Attractive, newer center with affordable rents. Neighbors are Vons, CVS, Miner’s Hardware, Wells Fargo and Taco Bell. Must See!
1349 Monterey Street
BACK ON MARKET! A retail/office space in a recently remodeled center in the up and coming, trendy Upper Monterey Street District. The center has off street parking and is surrounded by restaurants, deli’s, wine bars and retailers. Close to Downtown with easy parking.
End cap retail/showroom space with great visibility off South Higuera. Over 17,000 cars per day travel in front of this suite. Includes storefront and rear loading roll-up door. Perfect for a retail showroom, or an online business with a warehouse requirement who needs a retail presence.
4825-4845 El Camino Real
Atascadero 10,300 square feet $0.95/SF NNN
Large retail showroom/warehouse facility with great presence and visibility in the San Jacinto Center. Prominent suite faces El Camino Real and Highway 101. Space consist of a large retail showroom/warehouse area with reception/office component. Large storefronts and 20’ +/- ceiling heights. Includes rear receiving area with roll-up door and lift. Convenient location just north of Downtown yet right off Highway 101. Perfect for a variety of uses including retail, warehouse/shipping/distribution or office with warehouse.
712 Marsh Street
Located at the entrance to the Downtown core. The exposure is as good as it gets as the location is a high visibility corner, at the intersection of the entrance to Downtown, from the south end of San Luis Obispo and from those entering town from Highway 101. Foot traffic is also strong. Adjacent to new Downtown Hotel Cerra.
The building is literally in new condition with a full restaurant build-out (hood, floor sinks, grease trap, counter, restrooms, etc.)
End cap space fronting onto Los Osos Valley Road near Target, Costco and Home Depot Centers. Excellent Freeway access at a very affordable rent. Available February 2020.
San Luis Obispo 1,250 square feet Inquire
Prime location adjacent to Downtown Centre Cinemas, Starbucks, Barnes and Noble, Sunglass Hut, California Pizza Kitchen and Jamba Juice as well as many others. Great foot traffic location. Existing restaurant fixtures and equipment may be available as well, making this a turn-key restaurant opportunity.
2074 Parker Street
Suites 112 and 115
San Luis Obispo 863-887 square feet $2.00/SF NNN
Ground floor on Parker Street between High and South Streets just east of Higuera Street. Neighboring tenants include Harbor Freight Tools, Nautical Bean Coffee, SLO Movement Arts Center, TD Parker Salon and many more.
Suites E and H
Second story office space at the corner of Monterey and Morro Streets. Backs up to the newly completed Hotel San Luis Obispo. Neighboring tenants include H & M, Williams Sonoma, Lululemon, Giuseppe’s, Ross Dress for Less, Beverly Fabrics and many more.
1005 Court Street
San Luis Obispo 2,000 square feet $2.65/SF Gross
Newer class A office space located in one of Downtown’s most vibrant areas. 3rd floor elevator served space includes 4 offices, bullpen area, reception and kitchenette. Glass offices. High end build out. Separate entrance off Court Street. Downtown office space doesn’t get much better than this.
1026 Chorro Street
Arguably the nicest office space in town! Professional offices located in the heart of Downtown San Luis Obispo. Located caddy corner from the Mission, this office building has recently under gone a full renovation. Very high-end fixtures with no expense spared. Amenities include 11’ ceilings with the original brick walls and hardwood floors. A sophisticated common area, conference room, secure entry with intercom access.
Approximately 1,300 SF office suite. Space includes storefronts and rear access. Layout is an open floor plan with demising wall splitting the suite into two work areas. 14’ ceilings. Good parking. Possible to add a roll-up door for warehouse use. Located in a convenient location off South Higuera, a short distance to Highway 101.
711 Tank Farm Road
Class A professional office suite located in Sycamore Court office building, at one of the main intersections in town. Second floor suite includes two offices and open work area. Very well located and appointed office building, for a tenant seeking a high end professional presence in San Luis Obispo.
225 Prado Road
Suite E1
San Luis Obispo 650 square feet 2.00/SF Gross
Medical or professional office suites. 3rd floor suites provide great natural light and views. Very efficient layouts. Building amenities include lockable storage, elevator, shower and small gym space. Easy freeway access. Perfect for a medical use or a mortgage, architecture, real estate, engineering/construction, or tech office. Available now!
2103 Wisteria Lane
Paso Robles 2,960 square feet $0.95/SF Gross
High exposure corner. Newer warehouse flex space in a popular business park near the Golden Hill/Highway 46 intersection. Building includes 20’ ceilings, 12’ X 12’ roll-up doors and storefronts. Block construction. Space will be in industrial vanilla shell form and include ADA restroom, 3 phase electrical lighting/outlets and a gas ceiling heater. Perfect for wine storage, light manufacturing, or showroom uses, to name a few. Located in same development as Justin Vineyard, IQMS, Wine Direct and San Antonio Winery.
254 Granada Drive
San Luis Obispo 10,905 square feet $1.15/SF NNN
Rare opportunity to lease a larger warehouse distribution suite near the Freeway in San Luis Obispo. Former data center. Block construction, heavy power (2,000 AMPs+), 1 loading dock and one grade level door. Buildings like this rarely come available in the San Luis Obispo marketplace.
2960 South Higuera Street
Newer warehouse space located a short distance from Downtown. Includes three grade level roll-up doors and tall ceiling heights.
High exposure warehouse/showroom space on South Higuera. Located on a main thoroughfare a short distance from the Downtown. Great signage possibility, front and rear roll-ups.
4120 Horizon Lane
San Luis Obispo 1,250 square feet $1,650/Month
Very desirable warehouse space located in South San Luis Obispo. Includes a 12 X 16 roll-up door and ADA restroom. Perfect for a storage or light manufacturing. Great on-site parking. Easy freeway access. Available now.
660 S. Frontage Road
Nipomo 16,800 square feet $0.75/SF NNN
Class A concrete tilt-up industrial/warehouse building. Four 12’ X 14’ grade level roll-up doors. Includes 2,500 square feet of office space. Great on-site parking, and large yard area. Three restrooms. 400 amp, three phase electrical. May be split to 6,000 S.F. and up.
3970 Short Street
Newer warehouse space located in a convenient location behind Trader Joe’s, and close to the Freeway in San Luis Obispo. Includes grade level roll-up and storefront entrance. Block construction. 2,300 +/- SF first floor and 1,000 +/- SF storage mezzanine.
Paso Robles 3,890, 4,180 and 8,070 square feet $0.95/SF Gross
Newer block warehouse flex space in a popular business park near the Golden Hill/Highway 46 intersection. Building includes 20’ ceilings, 12’ X 12’ roll-up doors and storefronts. Block construction. Space will be in industrial vanilla shell form and include ADA restroom, 3 phase electrical lighting/outlets and a gas ceiling heater. Single tenant can occupy entire building, or can be leased as two suites. Perfect for wine storage/supplies, light manufacturing, or showroom uses, to name a few.
3580 Sacramento Drive
San Luis Obispo 3,450 square feet $4,175.00/Month
Sublease open warehouse space with a large roll-up door and one restroom. The building has a common area dock at the end of the building.
1,567 SF suite perfect for Research & Development, showroom or warehouse uses. Includes storefront with an open floor plan, kitchenette and access to common area restrooms. Convenient location, adjacent to Tank Farm Road and the Trader Joe’s Center. Available November 1st.
1220 Kendall Road
San Luis Obispo 14,389 square feet + 1,360 square feet storage mezzanine $1.30/SF NNN
New Class A industrial/warehouse building. You will not find newer more modern industrial/warehouse anywhere else in San Luis Obispo. 30’+ ceiling heights with high pile sprinkler systems in place, which allow extra racking heights, to take advantage of the ceiling height. Two, 10’ X 14’ grade level roll-up doors. Includes 1,360 square feet of office space. Great on-site parking, and yard area.
4330 Santa Fe Road
San Luis Obispo 16,200 square feet $1.00/SF Gross
Industrial/Warehouse space adjacent to San Luis Obispo County Airport. 20’ +/- ceiling heights, as well as loading dock and grade level door. Numerous offices and assembly areas. Concrete tilt-up construction.
San Luis Obispo 9,100 +/- square feet $975,000.00
High Exposure Vacant Parcel
This long sought-after vacant parcel is now available for sale! Located on the hard corner of Monterey Street and California Boulevard, amongst restaurants, offices and retail storefronts and the Downtown end of the Motel District. Close to Cal Poly and the residential areas of Johnson Avenue and Downtown. Excellent Freeway access.
This parcel is zoned CR, unarguably the best zoning with the widest list of commercial uses available including office, retail, hotel, mixed use and residential. Former approvals for multi-story office building. Truly a unique location.
867 Higuera Street
San Luis Obispo 6,850 square feet $5,250,000.00
This retail building is located in the absolute heart of Downtown San Luis Obispo, which is the heart of shopping, restaurants and entertainment in San Luis Obispo County. The property is adjacent to The Downtown Center and Wineman Hotel with neighboring tenants including Athleta, Express, The Apple Store, Starbucks, The Habit, Vans, Downtown Cinemas and numerous restaurants and shops.
Properties on the 800 block of Higuera Street do not come available often. This is an opportunity to own one that is as well positioned as one could hope for and considered “Ground Zero” for Downtown San Luis Obispo real estate.
Nipomo 37,941 square feet $15,350,00.00
The Village at Nipomo offers prospective investors an opportunity to acquire a 37,941 square foot multi-tenant retail complex. Located in Nipomo, California in San Luis Obispo County. The property consists of five parcels and is situated in the retail hub of Nipomo on the corner of Tefft Street and Mary Avenue at Highway 101.
This 100% leased, very attractive Center is far and away the nicest center in the area. The Center is priced for a quick straight forward sale.
Paso Robles 14,216 square feet $4,500,000.00
Class A Multi-Tenant Leased Investment, 100% occupied. Leased building asset in Downtown Paso Robles. Completed in 2010, the building consists of two stories and five office tenants. Iconic design and meticulous construction make this a great opportunity to own a first class asset in the heart of Central Coast Wine Country. Located steps to the Downtown core and park, the building offers first class finishes in a highly visible location at the corner or 15th and Spring Streets. The property offers great diversity in a range of office tenants; with the flexibility to accommodate future retail and restaurant uses. Arguably the highest quality commercial building in Downtown Paso Robles. Rare offering in the San Luis Obispo County marketplace.
This attractive, newer, building is 100% leased. The building houses three tenants, all on Net leases. It’s located in the vibrant Village of Broad Street Center along with Rabobank, Dollar Tree and other restaurants and shops. It’s high exposure location is at the major intersection leading into the Downtown from the continually growing south end of town. This is a great, fully leased investment, in a very strong, desirable location.
1011 Pacific/1310 Osos Street
Professional Office Building. Larger Mid-century modern office building in Downtown San Luis Obispo. One block from the Downtown core. More on-site parking than the majority of Downtown office buildings. Has the flexibility to have multiple tenants. Can be individual offices or bullpen areas. Great natural lighting. Frontage on both Osos and Pacific Streets. Rare opportunity to own an office asset yards from the Downtown core, with significant on-site parking. Possible flagship office building for a company seeking a Downtown presence.
Downtown San Luis Obispo building asset. Split into two suites with highly desirable restaurant bar use as the majority of the building. Across the street from the nearly completed Cerro hotel. Great location on Broad Street with excellent foot traffic and exposure. You will not find a better value in a building in the Downtown core. Ready to be re-positioned and re-tenanted.
1034 Mill Street
Redevelopment/remodel opportunity. Residence located two blocks from the Downtown core, on a larger office zoned parcel, with development potential. Former office, converted to a four bedroom, one bath home. Sits on one of the largest office parcels left near the Downtown core, at 11,300 square feet. Possible to add several more units. Great buy and hold opportunity, with many different options.
Campanile Building
San Luis Obispo 31,310 square feet $6,000,000.00
The Campanile Building retail/service complex offers prospective investors an opportunity to acquire a 31,310 square foot multi-tenant retail/service complex located in San Luis Obispo, California. The property is located at 3566 South Higuera Street, along a major retail thoroughfare in San Luis Obispo. The property is leased to six local tenants. Upgrades to the building exteriors were recently completed, which have enhanced the appeal of this quality property. The Campanile Building benefits from cash flow from a strong tenant base in an ideal San Luis Obispo location. The Campanile Building is situated on a 2.21-acre parcel (net of creek easement). The property includes a showroom/retail presence, as well as a flex/warehouse or service commercial component in the rear of the site. It is located within one-half mile driving distance from the 101 Freeway, with approximately 143 feet of frontage on South Higuera Street, near the intersection of Granada Drive and South Higuera Street which has traffic counts of 17,000 cars per day. There are six tenants at the property, and is 65% occupied. The Campanile Building provides 89 vehicle parking spaces at ratio of 1/352 square feet. Adjacent retail/service property to the north, Tenwise Park, is also available for sale, and both properties can be purchased as a portfolio.
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1310 Roundhouse Street
San Luis Obispo 12,397 square feet Subject to Offer
OFFER DEADLINE OCTOBER 2, 2018. Former San Luis Obispo Sears distribution warehouse, in the San Luis Obispo Railroad District. Ready for reuse or site redevelopment, in an area undergoing transformation. 12,397 square foot warehouse with dock, grade level roll-up door and fenced yard. Site is zoned Commercial Retail, and allows the highest development density in town, on a 28,460 square foot site. A rare opportunity for an infill site located near Downtown with multiple options. Perfect for an owner/user, investor or developer alike.
Prime Downtown professional office condo. High exposure office condo located in the southern portion of Downtown. Convenient location, close to the freeway and walking distance to Downtown core. Newer build-out includes reception area, 6 offices, conference room and kitchenette. Nicely appointed and modern office space. On-site parking. Great signage exposure. Perfect for an office user seeking retail exposure. Owner may carry back a 1st Trust Deed with 25% down at market terms.
Tenwise Park
3536 and 3546 South Higuera Street
Tenwise Park Retail/Service Complex offers prospective investors an opportunity to acquire a fully leased, 25,454 SF multi-tenant retail/service complex located in San Luis Obispo, California. The property is located at 3536 and 3546 South Higuera Street, a major retail thoroughfare in San Luis Obispo. The buildings are of concrete block construction and are 100% leased to six local tenants. Upgrades to the building exteriors were recently completed, which have enhanced the appeal of this quality property. Tenwise Park benefits from stable cash flow and a strong tenant base in an ideal San Luis Obispo location. Tenwise Park includes retail frontage on Higuera Street, as well as an office service commercial component in the rear building. It is located one-half mile driving distance from the 101 Highway, with approximately 252 feet of frontage on South Higuera Street with traffic counts of 17,000 cars per day. Tenwise Park provides approximately 97 vehicle parking spaces at a ratio of 1/262 square feet.
1304 Santa Rosa Street
San Luis Obispo 900 square feet $725,000.00
Stand alone office bungalow steps to the Downtown core. Located in the office zone, which allows both office and residential uses. Current layout is set up as an office, but can easily be converted to residence. Includes two offices, open work area/reception, kitchen, bathroom. Interior updated within the last two years. You will not find a location any closer to Downtown San Luis Obispo with on-site parking. Includes three on-site parking spaces. Buyer to verify all information with City of San Luis Obispo.
3195 McMillan Avenue
This Retail/Service Complex offers prospective investors and owner/users an opportunity to acquire a 14,152 SF high exposure, two building, industrial flex project centrally located in San Luis Obispo. The property is located at 3195 McMillan Avenue, roughly 1.5 miles from Downtown and just off one of the busiest arteries in town (Hwy 227/Broad Street). The two very versatile concrete block buildings are composed of five tenant suites, and allows for many types of uses. The property benefits from a high exposure corner location, which gives great retail presence to industrial/service uses. 3195 McMillan Avenue is located at the intersection of Orcutt Road and McMillan Avenue. Currently there are four tenants in the complex and the property is 82% occupied. There are recent vacancies however in today’s market they should fill in a short period of time. The property provides 36 vehicle parking spaces, one of which is handicapped accessible. The buildings include a combination of storefronts and roll-up doors. The storefronts can be converted to roll-up doors, allowing a wide variety of manufacturing/service uses.
1327 Archer Street
Professional/Service Office Building Rare opportunity to acquire a newer Class A office building in Downtown San Luis Obispo. 8,076 square foot office building is condominiumized and can be demised up to eight office condo suites. Building and tenant improvements were constructed in 2010 by SCI construction, known for quality construction. Very modern and efficient layout includes hard offices and bullpen areas, as well as balcony access. Great on-site parking and easy Downtown and freeway access. One of a kind opportunity to own a modern quality building in Downtown San Luis Obispo. Owner/user opportunity, perfect for a construction, engineering, insurance, real estate or tech office. At $2.00, NNN proforma rent, this building brings a 5.7% return. A fair price for the highest quality available building asset in San Luis Obispo.
Prime San Luis Obispo commercial real estate asset. NNN single tenant investment. Newer building located near Downtown. New lease to national tenant, in sought after retail category.
Professional office building located steps from the downtown core. Recently remodeled, tri-level building with numerous offices.
Fiero I & II Commerce Park
705 and 709 Fiero Lane
San Luis Obispo 28,432 and 29,426 square feet $11,500,000.00
Fiero I & II Commerce Park presents an opportunity to acquire an institutional quality multi-tenant industrial office complex located in San Luis Obispo, California. The property is located at 705 and 709 Fiero Lane, in a popular industrial flex park adjacent to the San Luis Obispo County Airport. The buildings are of concrete tilt-up construction and are 100% leased to five tenants, including FedEx (NYSE: FDX), Apria Healthcare (formerly NYSE: AHG, acquired by Blackstone in 2008), and UL (Underwriters Laboratories: Private company with ~12,000 employees). Upgrades to the building exteriors were recently completed, which have enhanced the appeal of this quality property. Fiero I & II Commerce Park benefits from stable cash flow and a strong tenant base, in an ideal location in San Luis Obispo.
Sycamore Court
This is your chance to own the most prestigious office building in the City of San Luis Obispo. Concrete tilt up building, built in 2005 with high end professional finishes. Great tenant mix with national and local professional office tenants. Spectacular presence at the intersection of Tank Farm Road and Broad Street with 26,000 ADT. The cornerstone to the “new” office submarket in San Luis Obispo. All NNN leases. Building has potential upside with increased rents and charges for common areas. Priced below replacement cost. If you want to own a leased investment on the Central Coast, this is it! Proforma 5.5% capitalization rate.
Higuera Center
San Luis Obispo 40,586 square feet $13,500,000.00
Higuera Center presents an opportunity to acquire a fully leased, institutional quality multi-tenant office building located in San Luis Obispo, California. Located at 100 Cross Street, on the corner of Tank Farm Road and Higuera Street, Higuera Center benefits from a high-profile location and proximity to national retailers, including Starbucks, Trader Joes, and Food-4-Less supermarket. TransUnion Interactive, Inc. (NYSE: TRU), one of the “Big Three” national credit agencies, leases 60% of the building and recently signed a ten-year lease extension commencing January 1, 2016. Upgrades to the building’s exterior and interior were recently completed, which have enhanced the appeal of this Class A office property. Higuera Center benefits from stable cash flow and a strong tenant base, in an ideal location in San Luis Obispo.
phone 805.544.3900 fax 805.544.3922 1301 chorro street
san luis obispo, ca 93401 Cal BRE# 00658662
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By Lindsay Fitzgerald, for the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre
Sue Dewar’s “trial by fire” was a 1995 cartoon of a beaver gnawing on the prosthetic leg of Bloc Québécois leader Lucien Bouchard. The cartoon, published after sovereigntists lost Quebec’s referendum vote, resulted in more than 6,000 death threats against the Toronto Sun editorial cartoonist. In the House of Commons the cartoon was condemned by all parties, while Bloc members sat with her cartoon on their lap as a form of protest.
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Federal Student help permits pupils to focus part-time whilst in university, making profits as an element of their FAFSA honor package.
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MPTF Announces $350 million Campaign
By Judy Temes
The Motion Picture & Television Fund, which three years ago planned to shut its Woodland Hills nursing home, announced Feb, 23 it has raised $238 million toward a $350 million campaign to support the institution.
The announcement was made by DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg and Oscar Nominee George Clooney, who are spearheading the campaign. Katzenberg is the chairman of the MPTF Foundation Committee; Clooney joined the MPTF board about a year ago.
Katzenberg complemented MPTF CEO Bob Beitcher for his work in turning around the long term care facility.
“While others ran for the hills, Bob and his team did the opposite and said ‘No, we’ll pull off the impossible and make this work,’” Katzenberg told the audience at a media breakfast held at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
The money will be used to renovate the Wasserman Campus in Woodland Hills, to support the ongoing work of the fund to take care of industry veterans in their golden years, and to build a cash reserve, which has been severely depleted in recent years. The MPTF incurred an annual deficit of $10 million in recent years.
Clooney said the timing of the campaign could not better. “There are 75,000 industry members…baby boomers getting close to their golden years.” Asked why it was personally important to him to contribute to the effort, Clooney quipped, “Because I’m close to retirement.”
On a more serious note he added,” I’m a big believer in this. I’m a big fan of this community…the beauty of what was created here 90 years ago is that sense of community and the understanding that we are most successful we when take care of people when they cannot take care of themselves.”
Asked how the money will be used, Clooney said, “Hopefully as time goes on, this will be a much different and better facility.”
Katzenberg and Clooney are among a long list of contributors. Others include Tom Cruise, Barry Diller, Steve Bing, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, Michael Lewis and Casey Wasserman.
Beitcher said MPTF is still negotiating with a partner who would lease hospital beds from the fund to establish a long term acute care facility in the San Fernando Valley and this campaign does not effect those negotiations. Earlier this year the fund reversed its decision to close the long term care facility and decided to open 40 beds indefinitely. The fund also announced a partnership with UCLA Health System to operate a 12-bed geriatric psychiatric unit on the site.
Motion Picture and Television Fund to Begin Re-Admitting Industry Members to Woodland Hills Facility
Finance Crunch For Elder Care
Founders of Dreamworks Donate $90 Million to Motion Picture Fund
Motion Picture and Television Fund in Deal to Keep Woodland Hills Nursing Home Open
Retirement Facility Named for Mary Pickford
Motion Picture Television Fund Opens New Center
MPTF: Harry’s Haven for Memory Care
Motion Picture Home Eyes Deal to Fill Empty Beds
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Best Trumpet Players of All Time
205 items ranked
Rated 326 points - posted 10 years ago by mail4gigi in category Music.
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Maurice Andre'
He has been seated by his peers as the greatest classical player to date.
994 points - added 10 years ago by mail4gigi - 25 comments
very good trumpet player probably the best
Added 1 year ago by guest, 1 point
Adolf "Bud" Herseth, the legendary principal trumpet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, had this to say about Maurice Andre: "Well, let's face it, Andre is - - he's it in terms of solo playing. The guy sounds fabulous, that's all -- that's all I can say! I have nothing but the greatest admiration for the man's playing - - - fabulous!"
Added 3 years ago by guest, 16 points
He was the greatest trumpet player of all. He had the most beautiful sound the best technique and a perfect rhythm. He was the trumpet and no one could and can match him. A friendly and professional musician who lived for music. Perhaps the greatest musician ever.
Maurice André had a natural tone outside the instrument, clear simple and bright. A brilliant technician. His Michael Haydn concert, movement I is just fantastic. Watching him play was a pleasure - it looked so simple, never used force.
Added 3 years ago by guest, 9 points
Maurice Andre was the greatest classical trumpet player who ever lived and one of the greatest musicians in history. Every professional classical trumpet player in the world today has been influenced and impacted by his incredible accomplishments. His playing was in a class by itself! He left behind a tremendous legacy of recordings that all trumpet players can learn from.
To the dude that commented ( Sloppy Tone ) didn't you hear that drugs are bad for you :)
To truly appreciate the greatness and genius of Maurice Andre, you need to listen to his recordings. His recordings of original trumpet concerti from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, and arrangements of numerous baroque and classical concerti written originally for flute, oboe, and violin were definitive. He set the standard for Bach trumpet playing in recordings of the great Bach choral works by Munchinger and Richter. Many of Maurice Andre's recordings have recently been reissued. The great Erato recordings are in a four volume series titled the "Maurice Andre Edition". Many of the great EMI recordings are in the "Eternel Maurice Andre" collection. Decca -London has issued the "Maurice Andre 101" collection. Every trumpet player, from a beginner to the principal trumpet of a world class symphony orchestra, can learn something about the art of trumpet playing by listening to the recordings of the Maestro!
A simple man with a huge talent.
He was an absolutely wonderful trumpet player. He set the Golden Standard for classical trumpet playing. He gave each note he played purpose and beauty.
al hirt should b #1
Andre was the absolute master of the trumpet. No other trumpeter has ever combined effortless technique, tonal beauty, and supreme musicianship like he did. On his hundreds of recordings, and in thousands of performances throughout the world he literally sang through his trumpet and created music of indescribable beauty. He was a trumpeter's trumpet player and is universally acknowledged by the world's professional trumpet players as the greatest trumpet player of all time.
In my opinion the best one
Maurice Andre was the greatest classical trumpet player who ever lived, and one of the greatest classical musicians in history. His incredible and effortless technique, beautiful and unmistakable sound, and suberb musicianship created a new and unique style of trumpet playing that has inspired generations of trumpet players throughout the world. Andre greatly expanded the baroque, classical, and modern repertoire of music available for the trumpet, and is single-handedly responsible for making the trumpet a respected solo instrument in the concert halls of the world. His exquisite playing set a standard for all time, for all trumpet players, and for all musicians to aspire to.
Maurice Andre is a legend! In his prime, he set a standard of excellence for trumpet playing that will stand for all time. If you are not familiar with his playing, he made over 300 recordings. Check out which recordings are still available on Amazon.com. All trumpet players should listen and learn from the greatest trumpeter of all time!!
I just moved Maurice Andre from #6 to #5. He definitely deserves to be in the top 5, whereas Armstrong and Fresu don't even come close.
Added 6 years ago by guest, -1 points
He makes playing the trumpet sound easy and effortless. Listen to his recordings while reading the music - you will be even more astounded at his flawless execution. He is a master, perhaps THE master.
NO. 7??? #7?? Sigh... All styles considered, he still is the top. Here, he barely made it over Herb Alpert. ...... And now I have to do math? (You'll see.)
The ranking of Maurice Andre at #7 is ridiculous! If all of the professional classical trumpet players in the world voted, Andre, the greatest trumpeter who ever lived, would be number 1 by a wide margin!
absurd to have him this low on the list. Who rated this?
Flawless tone
very gifted. Truely amazing sound.
loves his wine
he is one of the greatest of all times. best classical player known to man!!!! lol
In a class by himself.
Added 9 years ago by guest, 1 point
Malcolm Mcnab
Greatest studio musician ever. If you've seen a movie or watched a television program, you have heard him play.
583 points - added 9 years ago by guest - 8 comments
If you have gone to the movies in the last 40 years and noticed the fantastic trumpet playing on the soundtracks, you have heard the legendary trumpet virtuoso, Malcolm McNab. He has been the principal trumpet of choice in the studio symphony orchestras selected by all of the great Hollywood composers such as John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Danny Elfman, James Horner, Elmer Bernstein, Hans Zimmer, etc. This wonderful musician has mastered all of the musical styles required in the movies, and he is also one of the greatest classical trumpeters of all time.
Added 1 year ago by guest, 11 points
Malcolm McNab's recording of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto is the greatest display of classical trumpet artistry ever recorded. McNab's unbelievable technical skills, beautiful tone, and wonderful lyrical musicianship combine to create a stunning interpretation of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece. McNab has taken the classical trumpet recording legacies of Maurice Andre, Wynton Marsalis, Hakan Hardenberger, and others to a new level. His playing is an inspiration to all trumpet players, and shows what level of artistry the trumpet is capable of. If you haven't yet heard the recording, excerpts have been posted on YouTube.
Added 1 year ago by guest, 6 points
In an interview, Malcolm McNab stated that as a young trumpet player he idolized Maurice Andre, and studied all of his recordings. Well, McNab developed into one of the greatest, if not the greatest, trumpet players in the world. The extraordinary trumpet artistry demonstrated in McNab's recording of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto was clearly inspired by Andre. The great French Master would be proud of McNab's accomplishments!
Malcolm McNab, while not well known to the general public, is a legend in Hollywood and among professional trumpet players throughout the world. He could easily play as the principal trumpet in any of the world's great symphony orchestras. His incredible classical trumpet playing skills rank him with the all time greats at the top of this list.
Malcolm McNab, the greatest Hollywood studio trumpet player of all time, was actually classically trained by the legendary William Vacchiano of the New York Philharmonic. In McNab's recording of the transcription of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, he demonstrates an absolutely astounding classical trumpet technique. This man is one of the greatest trumpet masters of all time. He is in the same echelon as Maurice Andre and Wynton Marsalis for classical trumpet playing. It is too bad that he has not made more classical trumpet recordings!
The studio trumpet king. He doesn't get to practice his music and must get "right" in very few takes. If you have see great movies you have heard Malcolm! He must please the composer!
Takes playing to a different level. NOT Maynard.
Anyone who can interpret violin music on a trumpet has my admiration.
Bud Herseth
Principal Trumpet for the Chicago Symphony for many years. He established himself as one of the great symphany orchestra players of all time.
552 points - added 10 years ago by mail4gigi - 7 comments
Bud's sound, his agility, were jaw-droppingly great. No recording could do him justice. He carried the Chicago Symphony to greatness as much as any conductor. When he played the Hummel Trumpet Concerto at the Mostly Mozart Festival in NYC in the '70s, an audience most of which had never heard of him wouldn't let him off the stage. So, he encored the last movement.
People must not be listening to CSO's recordings. Bud started laying everything down with a better sound and with the utmost of musicianship in the late 40's IN THE 40's!! And he played into a new century and when you listen to him play it makes you proud to be a trumpet player. Soft, loud, sensitive, blasting, piccolo, b-flat. He is all over it. He is the model of modern trumpet players. He was the first and the best. He can even play out of tune better than anyone.
The comment under me was given by mr. 'nobody's as good as bobby shew'.
Added 6 years ago by mikespike, 2 points
Great player. Have to disagree with the comment below about him being responsible for the "big" sound in orchestral players. The LA studios had ex-philharmonic guys in them in the 40s-70s, These guys were monsters, and had big sound when they played with the LA Phil or other orchestras. Not to take anything away from Mr, Herseth, who was one of the best ever. (Said to say I never saw him live.)
RIP Mr. Herseth. You were a great man, and a great player. One of my heroes.
Herseth is solely responisble for how symphonic trumpet players sound today. It was after a car accident years ago that he started using a large mouthpiece and got that big sound that orchestral players have to this day.
All was well until that Chris Martin dude showed up.
Incredible player both classically and in jazz, superb innovator and promoter of music.
541 points - added 10 years ago by guest - 23 comments
Phenominal technician but his jazz Improvisational style is often beyond the grasp of many listeners...When he does his take-offs on jazz "standards" you usually can't recognize the songs because he's so far "out there" that he looses the Melody... This intentional my man, it's called creativity, and it takes a level of sophisticated musicianship to understand where he is taking you and how to get back on your own
It's senseless to have a discussion with someone that uses the word horrible when describing a what? 10 time Grammy award winner, and might I add Classical and Jazz. Until I hear someone remotely close to what Wynton spits out of that horn, sleep well fellas, the brother is in a class of his own
Overrated. Sloppy tone imo
Added 4 years ago by guest, -10 points
What?!? Wynton is classically trained and knowledgeable but he has no soul or feeling. He's like a trained parrot or robot. Miles and his peers wouldn't play with him for that exact reason. He never played an original note in his life. If you call him innovative, I'll assume you've either never heard him play or never heard anyone else play, one of the two. Lee Morgan and Thad Jones, both deserving of the top 10-ish are giants compared to Wynton's Johnny come lately imitator approach to emotion he never himself experience.
Gosh. Wynton is so incredibly good. I think that he just might be the single greatest musician of all time.
Ross Tompkins played a recording of Wynton rehearsing for the Tonight Show...way back when.....it was horrible! Otherwise, time's been on his side!
Oh, and he also basically saved jazz single-handedly from going into a rock direction. Just sayin'.
The guy under me doesn't know what he's talking about. Bobby Shew doesn't play in recording studios, either. Or Clifford, or Mitchell. His music is 'out there' because he needs a challenge, and all the greats know it, too. Honestly- Wynton's the greatest player ever. If you think otherwise, listen to his Caravan recording on 'Standard time, vol. 1'. If you don't think he can't play high, listen to The Magic Hour. If you know how to listen to solos then you'd understand the genius of what he's doing.
A fine player and excellent at marketing himself. He's the best player people many people have heard of. There are guys in the studios in NY, LA, and other cities who can play circles around Wynton. When you hear great jazz or classical music performed for movie or TV show, or backup for most music recordings, it's a studio guy (or gal). With all due respect, he's not close to the best. fwiw, I don't find his jazz all that listenable. I'll take Bobby Shew, Cifford Brown, Blue Mitchell, or many others over Wynton every time.
Wynton is the greatest Ever! There is nothing you can do about it!
It's Maurice Andre. But I would agree with you if you were talking about classical trumpet players. However, Wynton Marsalis is both
He must be in the top three: 1.Moris André. 2.Wynton Marsalis. 3.Sergei Nakariakov.
Very underrated at #5. How many players on this list are the best in two separate styles of music? Most only specialize on one field. Not to mention he is the greatest ambassador for the dying art of Dixieland jazz.
Underranked at #5
He is the best ever because of his mastery of both the classical AND jazz genres. He should top the list. He is in a league of his own! Enough said already!
He should be in the top ten on this list...
Added 8 years ago by roots2rock, -2 points
He belongs in the top ten on this list...
Ya, #1 should be a three-way, Wynton, Allen Vizzutti and Maynard...
Phenominal technician but his jazz Improvisational style is often beyond the grasp of many listeners...When he does his take-offs on jazz "standards" you usually can't recognize the songs because he's so far "out there" that he looses the Melody...
he has the best sound of any trumpet player
Added 10 years ago by frostywhipcream, -2 points
Maurice Murphy
Maurice Murphy was the greatest British symphony orchestra trumpet player of the 20th Century. He was the Principal Trumpet of the BBC Philharmonic from 1961-1976 and the Principal Trumpet of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1977 to 2007. In addition to being a magnificent classical symphony orchestra player, he was the Principal Trumpet on many of the greatest Hollywood soundtracks, including Star Wars, Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Batman, etc.
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Louis Armstrong was the greatest jazz musician of all time; he invented the jazz trumpet, it all comes from him; just listen to West End Blues, that says it all.
He looks like he is a nice sweet man with an amazing talent on playing a trumpet
One of the best a bit overrated though
Pop's is still the best....
Added 6 years ago by frankieman, 7 points
One of the people I would like to have known. RIP POPS.
He's alright
louis armstrong was pretty good
Louis and I share the same name but he is a way better trumpet player than I am. he made jazz what it is today
Louis was a living legend..he was such a great influence in the world of music. He was a great communicator of the art. People around the world know his voice and music.We will be dust someday,but the world will still remember the name Louis Armstrong.
Added 7 years ago by frankieman, 11 points
Louis is fantastic, but anyway is the best, sorry... His tecnic of trumpet is anthing versus other trumpet players how: Moris André, the father of the trumpetists players (search him playing the Carnival of Vencice), Wynton Marsalis, Hakan Handerberger, Sergei Nakariakov ,Tine Thing Helseth and more...
Number 8?? Louis Armstrong is one of my major influences! My only one for trumpet :) I have to say though. All of these trumpet players are amazing :)
If you know ANYTHING about the trumpet you know it begins here!
Louis WAS the guy. he literally took the world of jazz and said 'this is how you swing.' his power was and is unmatched. also the best improvisor of all time being a musical genius. to not see him at the #1 spot makes this whole list void. no one better than Satchmo
But Louis ignited the spark, he was extremely imaginative and have you ever tried to play "Cornet Chop Suey"? It is very difficult. Louis style is unmistakable, anytime I hear that punchy sound, I know it's him. That is hard to be said of many players. I think that is mastery, when one's musical identity is so saturated through the sound of his/her instrument, that with just one note, you know who it is, even if you can't see them.
You know just because a trumpet player is famous doesn't mean he is the best... Louis is amazing, but not in the top ten... leave that spot for the people who mastered trumpet. Louis was famous because of the era and the style he proformed at, his voice helped too.
He redefined the art of Trumpet playing...
he was a great and generous trumpteer
Bernard Adelstein
I believe the former Cleveland Orchestra principal (under George Szell and Lorin Maazel) was the greatest orchestral trumpeter, ever. I like him better than Bud Herseth and Maurice Andre. Adelstein was also the principal trumpet for Minneapolis under Antal Dorati. If you listen to the Minneapolis/Dorati and Cleveland/Maazel performances of the Mussorgsky/Ravel "Pictures", you'll notice it's the same trumpeter opening the piece.
429 points - added 6 years ago by guest - 1 comment
The Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell was considered to be the best orchestra in the world. . The brass section of this orchestra led by Bernard Adelstein, principal trumpet, and Myron Bloom, Principal Horn was incredible and set a standard of orchestral performance for the ages! Bernard Adelstein was truly the greatest orchestral trumpet player ever- even better than Bud Herseth!
Began as a phenom as a teen. Became one of the great Jazz trumpeters.
who can hit a tripple G then D when i hear "Primal Scream" that is heaven too listen too ; when i can play it! then you will understand why Maynard is The Best ; how about "Pagliacci" Live ; mark colby on saxxx is beyound understanding ; fasinateting ; Maynard is number 1!
Added 8 months ago by guest, 0 points
Best player as in most skilled? Maynard. He may not be the best in terms of music produced, but some of his solos really showed off his mind-boggling talent, unrivaled by anyone.
Each trumpeter has his or her own unique qualities. Ferguson hit high notes with such clarity I don't know of others with this ability. So far as over all technique, Andre Maurice had no equal. His tonguing is mind boggling. I thought Rafael Mendez was fast. He was but no where near the tonal clarity of Maurice. Marsalis deserves his accolades but he' not even in the top twenty of world class trumpeters. Armstrong, Hart, Davis were good but not in the class of classical musicians. They are popular but. I'll leave it at that.
Maynard inspired generations of players. Best bands, best soloist, and visited so many HS. His tone was the most beautiful, singing, soaring sound.
Not sure why this is a contest. People that claim he lacked versatility are ignorant to his full body of recorded work. Classical, bebop, contemporary jazz...he did it all. Topping it off was his love for teaching and doing all he could to ensure the next generation(s) of musicians had music programs to allow them to flourish. I miss him so much!
Umm simply the best!
I took my boys to see him over the course of 14 years and he spanned the generations. One of the most inspiring things was the quality of the soloists in his bands. A big band can never be truly great if you aren't enthralled by it's individual solos, and he truly had them. He was the leader in bringing jazz to schools and I've met alumni who said the best years of their playing was in his band. He shared his gift.
He's always the best...for me
Should be Number 1, no one and I mean no one even compares to Maynard.
Maynard could do it, and did it ALL! Listen to him 'toe to toe' with Clifford and Clark Terry, live, on 'Dinah Jams' The fact is, he fit right in with two of the all-time greatest players, and he shines!
By Far one of the greatest should be 4th
Of course he was great. However, he was not one of the best all-around players. He was the best at what he did - being a front man scream player for a big band. Also an excellent jazz player and had the best high notes ever. He crossed into pop effortlessly and was very successful.
He was one of the best players ever, way better than Wayne Bergeron. My favorite player ever.
A boring player. No soul.
Maynard was influencial no doubt. He started the high note craze of the modeern era and set the tome, good or bad depending on your opinion, for lead trumpet. But all he really was good at was playing high. He had poor tone and was a lousy improviser. He read well thought from what i heard.
By far the most influential trumpet player of all time. A man who crossed so many musical genres like no trumpet player ever dared. The driving force,chemistry,and improvisational skill of his bands were nothing less than amazing. Of all the great horn players I've seen in my life time ,not one was as exciting as seeing and hearing Maynard perform!
82.....82 WOW that is nuts, Somewhere in the top 10 to 15
Not even close! These rankings are absurd!
The best of the best, showing his amazing range and bright tone, he is an idol for trumpet players years later
Maynard's dexterity is impressive to say the least.
Added 9 years ago by andante, 1 point
STILL one of the ALL-TIME Trumpet greats. Though some may only know his Big Band and Jazz playing, he played it ALL...His playing was instrumental in influencing generations of trumpet players and he had a generous and outgoing personality...His musical talent was phenominal and anyone who ever accused him of being a "show-off" for his playing in the extreme upper register is either an idiot or jealous.
379 points - added 10 years ago by guest - 5 comments
Absolutely insane tone. Like the purest, hand-down most consistent of any classical trumpeter, period.
I got to meet him at the University of Alabama!! He was one of the judges of Ellsworth Smith Solo Competition. Very nice man!
Phil Smith has announced that he will retire from the New York Philharmonic at the end of the 2013-2014 season. He will go down in history as the Michael Jordan of the orchestral trumpet. He is absolutely amazing.
Phil Smith is the greatest trumpet player to ever live
One of the greatest if not the greatest ever. Exceptional tone.
I'm new to trumpet playing. I think Dizzy's style is very reflective of his personality. It's joyfull, it's moody, it's so ...."REAL" I remember the first time I listened to him was on a record called "have trumpet will excite" and on some of his solos I would just burst into shouts and screams....he would do these huge leaps, these mega cool runs...aw man, sooo sweet. So full of surprises, and oh! so so swingin'
One of the best !
I think that most of the time, we underestimate Dizzy. What remains of him in our memory are his monstrous cheeks when he plays, but I think we all have forgotten that Dizzy wasn't Dizzy because of the cheeks, IT WAS HIS STYLE. HIS ABILITY TO SOLO. He was much more advanced than many players today.
i love his face when he plays
He could FLY around the horn...Amazing set of fingers and fantastic flexibility and articulation even at extreme speeds...While known for his combo and small group playing you really need to hear him playing "larger pieces" like "The Afro Suite" (4 movement suite) and "Gillespiana" ( 5 part suite) and other longer pieces written for him by Lalo Schifrin (such as "The Legend of Atlantis" and "The Empire" in 5/4 meter)...
Rolf Smedvig
Rolf Smedvig was a student of the great French trumpeter, Maurice Andre. He was appointed as the youngest Principal Trumpet of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in its history. His magnificent virtuoso trumpet playing is displayed on many recordings of the Empire Brass, which he founded. He also made some wonderful solo albums for Telarc. He was truly one of the greatest trumpet players of all time!
Rolf is in the top 10. He was superb in technique and heart
if you think Smedvig is this low on the list, you don't know trumpet palying.
Saw him in the early 80's in Merrillville, Indiana and turned his back to us all night. He was way over-rated. On his albums it was the other greats that made them sell.
Dude.... what's with trumpet players. I have a theory that our instrument is so challenging that few trumpet players ever get around to studying music (as opposed to pure technique). In my humble opinion, anyone who puts Miles under the top 3 doesn't prioritize music making.
oh my goodness! I can't believe that the guy who commented 2 under me said that miles isn't in the same league as bobby shew! Other way around, buddy.
The guy who commented under me seems to really like bobby shew. You idiot! Wynton and Miles are in a totally different league than Bobby Shew! Clearly, you think your trumpet IQ is like 150, but its probably closer to, oh... 60.
Great innovator and improviser. As an all around player, not so great. Huge influence on jazz, but compared to Bobby Shew, Wayne Bergeron, etc., not in the same league.
I love a lot of the music miles played. He was a trend setter and he got the best out of the talented young musicians that he brought into his band. He was a great improvisor, but as a trumpet player, he did not have the technique that others on this list have. He didn't have the range, and he cracked notes.
Let's be clear, if we're talking stricly about artistic ability and contribution, Miles makes every list. if we're talking about techical ability, he's not even close. Never was - before or after heroin.
Check out "All Blues" by Miles and you will think you are in heaven!! It's 11 minutes & 32 seconds of pure Jazz bliss by one of the best bands at the time.
Added 8 years ago by roots2rock, 0 points
Was phenominal in his early and mid years...It is a shame what heroin did to him in his later years. He could still play but his improvisation became trite, his sound thin, and his once great stylistic abiliity became shallow...For reallyGREAT Miles, check out his "Porgy and Bess" and other fantastic arrangements written for him by Gil Evans...
Thomas Berar
Very good player. Played in orchestras and solos. Very nice sound
320 points - added 6 years ago by guest - 13 comments
Thomas is literally the best trumpet player ever, he plays in church and sounds absolutely amazing.
Added 11 months ago by guest, 0 points
Beast!
THE BEST PLAYER NO LIE
Dude you suck get a life
This guy thinks he's buff bug he's a little skinny wimp that can only play trumpet to save his life. He is good at absolutely nothing else and should shut up
Best trumpet player I have ever heard!
Yea! He is the BEST!
hes gud
Thomas Berar has some of the best musical ears that I have ever seen. His skills on trumpet are better than Ronaldo doing his Ronaldo Chop. Even better than Messi's dribbling. He even plays better than when Neymar dives. He can save a solo better than Casillas. He manages his solos better than Anchelotti. Nuff said.
Dude I'm this guys cousin. He plays his butt off.
are u kidding. The best highschool player i have ever heard
YES! Very good player -Johnny
i love this guy
haha this is a joke
I had never heard of this guy until I came across this poll. I looked him up on YouTube to see for myself, and I have to say that in my opinion, he sounds quite nice and mellow - quite relaxing to listen to. I really don't know how he got to the top of this list though. Nice playing, but nowhere near the best of all time.
Why is Miles #15 with 48 points? Can we just revisit the man and his music and witness a phenomenon who stepped outside the realm of norm, experimented with electricity, took insurmountable musical risk, played what he wanted, never tap dance for anyone and oh! ******* Brew…
Doc Serverinsen was once asked who he belived was the greatest living player....he said Phil Driscoll.
For mastering multiple styles you have to rank them Arturo, Al, Wynton then Doc; but any list of greatest trumpets which does not start with Louis is simply silly. Armstrong set the stage for all multi-talented trumpeters and defined the era of the jazz trumpet.
Who besides Wynton has mastered both genres (classical and jazz)? No contest!
This guy is horrible compared to alison balsom...look her up
Fresu’s style is reminiscent of arguably the greatest trumpet player in jazz history: Miles Davis. Fresu was born in Sardinia, Italy, but that did not deter him from absorbing the best of American jazz. Influenced by the 1950s work of trumpet icons Miles Davis and Chet Baker, Fresu has developed a sophisticated style, employing the perfect combination of fantastic skill and exquisite emotion. What separates Fresu from the pack is his ability to combine a reverence for the past with an inquisitive orientation that drives his playing into the future.
i did not hijacked,i just invited italians to vote for italian players.i know americans are better players but this way some of you will have a look on youtube to se other players from around the world paolo is a good player maybe not top 10 in history but top 3 today.
I don't even think Paolo would say he is better than a lot of the other players on here. He has a nice sound but isn't an innovator by any means.
Added 8 years ago by Trump, -2 points
I am a trumpet master, a god among these others!
Added 8 years ago by Paolo Fresu, -11 points
Can't swing!
Some Italian has hijacked these rankings!!! Yeah Paolo and these other Italians are better than Pops, Diz and Brownie... right.
the best player in the world today from sardinia italy
Rafael Mendez
Rafael's unmatched technical skills coupled with his egoless desire to make beautiful music make him my choice for best trumpet player of all time.
Outstanding sound,immaculate execution and formidable flexibility and range along with his mastery of circular breathing.
played with Ozzies Band in 1955. He was rated best in the world..
Raphael should be ranked #1 along with Doc Severinsen.
By far the best. Technically speaking, no one compares
Right on. He had no equal. however: as long as he did not play jazz. Not his thing. Otherwise Phenominal. Knew him & saw him in person several times. we Miss you rafael.
I would also say he is the best of the best
Yes! just listen to his Moto Perpetuo
Wayne Bergeron
Probably the best studio trumpet player alive today.
Honest to god, he's just an all-around better player than Maynard. He's got just about the same range, but much more clarity, agility, and resonance.
Wayne Bergeron stands alone in the world of lead trumpet playing. If anyone disagree's they obviously havent seen him live
Wayne is the most accurate and in tune player. Even Maynard said he was the most muscial. I can truthfully say that hearing way is a musical experience you will never forget.
Maynard Ferguson was a much better player than Wayne Bergeron. He is good though.
um, are you kidding me? Clearly, you don't know what you are talking about! Don't get me wrong, he's a phenomenal lead player, one of the best out there today, but I can list at least 4 LEAD players who are better than him- Jon Faddis, Doc severensein, Maynard Furgeson, and Bill Chase. and that's just lead players.
wayne bergeron has to be the worlds greatest trumpeter of his generation, he is bloody insane. anyone who says otherwise has no idea what they're talking about.
yes, bergeron is good, but certainly not worthy of even the top 100, let alone 3rd PLACE, are you kidding me?
wayne bergeron is a beast
Those videos make me laugh!
One of the most effortless players ever. Wayne is very exciting to listen and has phenomenal range and control.
Arturo Sanduval
The amazing fact about Arturo being self taught with no formal musical training, is that he has mastered the horn in ways only a few can match. The ability not only to hit notes out of the natural scale but to actually play these notes as music and not just a high pitch sound is amazing. Many can hit a triple high "C" , but a quadruple "G" is unheard off. I've not heard any other horn player carry a melody staying in such high octaves. He is number ONE in my book.
Added 11 months ago by dartain, 3 points
Arturo is the best in the world right now !!!!!!!!🎺🎺🎺🎺
Arturo Sandoval is to jazz dexterity what Maurice Andre is to classical excellence. Both are the absolute best in tone quality and performance precision.
Arturo is the best and all you guys who don't think that are even latin jazz listeners or just plain good music
Haha yes! at the beginning of the day he was #27, now he is down to # 30!
nice to see Arturo plummeting downward in the rankings :). Three years ago, he was #3. Thank goodness He is losing stock.
Who makes this list?? It's very unacured
Arturo is the most overrated player ever. He can play high- SO WHAT? Jon Faddis could absolutely destroy Sandoval in any competition, as could many other 'high-playing' jazz trumpeters. All arturo does in solos is he plays high and goes up and down chromatically. He's overrated.
I love Arturo
arturo is the trumpet genius!! he must rank number 1 !
LOL that Arturo is below Dizzie. Dizzie produced a lot of popular tunes, but Arturo could always play circles around him and everybody knew that.
Sandoval is the proper spelling
Added 9 years ago by andante, 4 points
This guy (sanduval) is the best. I would listen to him some before you vote for anyone else. Oh, and Maurice Andre' is the best for classical. How did Vizzutti make #1? Even Clifford brown blows him away, and I don't think Clifford is on this list. Best entertainer and best sound goes to Satchmo....and every serious trumpet player agrees with this. What a Phenom.
His achievements without formal training are astounding.
Added 9 years ago by dartain, -7 points
Once you hear Arturo's "Mam-Bop" cut...You have to ask yourself, is this horn virtuoso from this world. He is amazing, awe-inspiring.
Added 9 years ago by dartain, 1 point
Doc Serverinsen
Great player, great personality.
Saw Doc in 73-74 at Western Illinois University. What a great night. He was at his best.
Obviusly the list was made with the wrong criteria. Talent and technique-wise, doc should be at least top 10 if not top 5. Style of music is irrelevant.
Maybe not the greatest at one particular style of music, but as far as all-around, Doc is my number one.
should be in the top 20
Added 8 years ago by rubengarcia, 3 points
Great jackets
Began as an amazing young player, even today remains at the top of his game.
Added 10 years ago by mail4gigi, 2 points
He was a stellar trumpet player/big red dog.
Ok. I'll admit it. I'm a serious trumpet player and I absolutely hate Clifford. I know I'm alone, and I'm ok with it. To me, all those fast 8th note runs are the opposite of how you are supposed to play. It's not even mature technique, never mind style.
Brownie , Lee Morgan, Woody Shaw all deserve better
he should be first
the best i have ever heard he had the sweetest sounds
The greatest of all time.
Funny. Brown was not great from a techical point of view. He was a great improviser but if he couldn't play loud, he couldn't play at all.
Having Brownie down here and Maynard and Arturo way up there? What are ya high?
Being one of the greatest if not THE greatest jazz musicians, he should not be this low in a list of trumpet players
WHAT???? why if brownie all the way down here???? :( Had the warmest sounds i've EVER heard, its like listening to melted chocolate...
Perhaps the best Flugelhorn player of all time. Probably second to Maurice Andre in Classical Trumpet Repertoire; just my opinion. Listens to jazz in his spare time. I believe he is at least in the same ball park as Rafael Mendez, Phil Smith, and Paolo Fresu. Unbelievable control of his sound, which by the way is completely unique. Amazing player!!!
Please people! Rank this guy higher!! He should be #1
although he is amazing, he is not an innovator. He plays almost EXACTLY the same as two other Russians, who were both just as good as he is.
I think Sergei should be in the top 5 living trumpet players and for all time, at LEAST in the top 20. Unbelievable sound and intonation; can play anythingsomeone gives him
Famed as the "Paganini of the trumpet" He is the best! No one can be compared to him. I found this out after seeing his documentary "No more wunderkind" and listening to his recording of Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso!
This is ridiculous Sergei should at least be in the top 5 and if you disagree then you should listen to his album "No Limit." Who else can easily circular breathe through technical passages other than Nakariakov. Also he was a child prodigy that played better than most people on this list.
Alan Vizzutti
While Alan Vizzutti is probably one of the most talented technical players in the world I can easily list 20 or so people who surpass him in tone.
Yes, it's Allen, and right now he's unsurpassed as far as I know. Hearing him play his own Rising Sun Concerto is a revelation of tone and technique.
Vizzuti is not the best. Not even top 25 greatest of all time, for that matter.
Added 6 years ago by mikespike, -2 points
It's Allen, and he is definitely the best. People always heavily favor jazz players (even to the point of completely neglecting orchestral players). But if you look at the whole picture, no one can match Vizzutti's technical ability, beautiful tone, huge range, style, personality, etc. Complete package.
Vizzutti could be listed number one, if we are strictly talking technical ability. His double and triple tonguing through multiple octaves is unbelievable. Great tone, range, accuracy, circular breathing and he can play anything, from baroque, classical,popular and jazz, and he does it effortlessly. Only knock I heard against hi is he plays with a very noticeable pivot when he plays in the upper register. Who cares if he hits those notes so well and has the flexibility to hit a fat low note right after a double C.
Allen Vizzutti is a GOD at playing trumpet, his Carnival of Venus is absolutely AMAZING!
It should be Allen. And this guy is very talented!
Allen and Maurice are both exceptional players, I would have to go with Allen Vizzutti just inching ahead of Maurice.
You mean ALLEN Vizzutti?
Vizzutti's ability to articulate with such accuracy and range can only be interpreted as being a master virtuoso.
Added 9 years ago by dartain, 3 points
Thomas Stevens
Thomas Stevens was the Principal Trumpet of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra from 1972 to 2000. He was one of the greatest orchestral trumpeters of all time. In addition to being a world renowned trumpet virtuoso and recording artist, he was a very distinguished trumpet teacher and music educator.
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Phenomenal cat!! His chops were like rubber, and he could play any thing in bop or jazz. Not sure where he should be, but definitely play technique-wise above Herb Alpert.
When it comes to sheer playing ability, Hubbard has the technical facility to hang with the best. He's probably lower on the list do to the fact that he might be lesser known, but his melodic vocabulary is incredible. He should be top ten in my opinion.
Very underrated talent by the jazz establishment. One of the all time great jazz composers and improviser as one heck of a trumpet player.
Listen to this guy and move him up. He is favorite of a LOT of jazz trumpet greats. Very tallented and innovative. Beautiful sound.
He was creative, innovative and he could express his feelings with trumpet!
Harry James was the most technically proficient and versatile trumpet virtuoso of all time. He was the greatest lead player, big band soloist and Jazz improvisor of all big band trumpeters, and his style evolved from early Louis Armstrong inspired solos to BeBop in the '40's and after. His tone was the most recognizable of any trumpet star and no one caressed a ballad better than Harry.
Harry James was best known for his virtuosity and his beautiful singing style ,but he was very underrated as a jazzer- his solos with the Benny Goodman band are absolutely fabulous. far better than anyone else at that period
Harry James was The best, period. I have been playing successfully For over 50 years. I have studied them all. They Are all good, but Harry was GREAT! He Was born to play....
Did you ever here the story of when Harry James and Roy Eldridge played at the same show? Eldridge was specifically told before they went on that no one wanted to hear him embarrass the famous (and white) Harry James.
He should be #1...Listen to "trumpet concerto harry james" on youtube and see. Since he"s from the 30s & 40s, few present day people have hear him (or of him.
Yes, you always new it was Harry James playing, just like a bach Trumpet :) I love all the greats, but I must say, Harry is one of my favourites!
Nobody - NOBODY else ever evoked a sweet mellow mood from a trumpet. Harry James can be easily recognised when the music calls for long emotional passages - he is unique in this regard. 68
Harry James was the most technically proficient of any trumpet player the United States produced. He was an all star lead trumpet at 19 and lead his own band at 23. His peers said there was nothing he could not play. He had a photographic mind and only had to read an arrangement once and knew it forever. He was a powerful Jazz improviser as well as a style trendsetter. His gorgeious sound was recognizable over any other trumpet star. He should be ranked #1.
In his prime he had the sweetest tone, cleanest style, and best ad lib jazz technique ever..........#13......NO WAY.
Harry James was the overall finest trumpet player of all time. He was technically proficient and had the most beautiful sound of any trumpet player before and after him up to today.
There was Harry James...and then there is everybody else!! And where is Conrad Gozzo on this list?
Could play anything....better than Louie and Wynton combined
great chops...range.. style...
was smooth and powerful.
he should be in top 10 to 15
Håkan Hardenberger
“Håkan Hardenberger, the cleanest, subtlest trumpet player on earth.” The Times Håkan Hardenberger is the greatest trumpet soloist today. Alongside his phenomenal performances of the classical repertory, he is also held in high regard as a pioneer of many significant and virtuosic new trumpet works.
Beautiful sound. It is clear and claims resonance.
Can't believe Mr. Hardenberger is not among the top 10.....
definately someone worth listening to.
Flawless technique, amazing lipslurs, easily played higher register
Her tone is fantastic and it's really inspiring to see another girl playing trumpet, and she deserves to be placed higher on a list full of men...
Alison's Bach recordings touch me deeply. Her expression is subtle and emotional. She has a sublime quality similar to Maurice André.
Beautiful and talented. One of the most flawless players I personally have heard in a long time, and I'm a trumpet major in college.
Here he goes again, that darn Bobby Shew lover. Honestly, what is up with you? Just because you see a player perform live doesn't mean that they are the greatest of all time!
Has to be considered one of the best ever. Great studio player. Great lead player. Great jazz player. Innovator with the very cool sounding Shewhorn. I got to watch Toshiko's band rehearse "Son of Road Time." Watching Bobby site read that (whole band, actually) I knew I was never going to be close to that good. On top of his playing, he is the nicest, most gracious guy you could ever meet. Friendly and classy all the way around.
....you thought wrong.
i thought bobby shew was a t-bone player
There is no such thing as 'the greatest' or 'best ever' be it trumpet players or any other, personal preference & bias append. No, the ears have it - audience's. As such, I'll add Herb Alpert to this very subjective list of fine players.
I'll take Herb's playing anytime and anywhere. Some of his music is not my taste per se, but he is underestimated and underappreciated in my opinion. No one stays in business and is recognized for over 60 years without talent.
Brings back memories of the glorious 60s when Herb and TJ Band were cranking out winner after winter
Great producer. Mediocre player. Surrounded himself with great players. (He showed up at John Clyman's house looking to improve in the 80s. Funny story about that.)
herb alpert is great
Herb Alpert is not a good trumpet player. He was a master at promoting himself and becasme popular. But not a good player.
Herb Albert was a third chair trumpet palyer in the USC marching band in the 1950"s. I had his old helmut in 1972. HJ
Herb the nerd! Richest trumpet player of all time! Lousy player!!!
I can't say who is greatest, but the first comment here is true, Herb Alpert is the most commercially successful trumpeter of all time. I mean if you look at dollars in the bank. He is a very, very wealthy man.
I love Herb, but he does not come close to being on the all time list.
No one lasts almost 50 years without talent. Give Herb his due. And give him credit for having an amazing ear for recognizing talent as well.
Give me a break. Herb wouldn't have made his band if he had to try out.
Herb Alpert had a unique sound and talent. Being the best technically does not necessarily make you the best. Once you get to a given technical level it is style that takes over. Herb Alpert had the style.
Ok, above comment, so not true. There are a lot more successful...and if you like his sound, try Sanduval. Not that I would even compare the two....but both have a latin feel to thie music.
Herb Alpert is clearly the most commercially successful trumpeter of all time by far. He also has a unique sound and style. He is (thankfully) a great musician rather than a great technician. We trumpeters can learn much from that!
Added 9 years ago by PhilipMann, 7 points
Thomas Reiner
Incredible piccolo trumpet player, great sound! Definetly one of the best!
He is......brilliant! Never heard someone playing baroque music on piccolo trumpet like him.Great!
He is offering an inexhaustible feast for the ears. What afine player.
Andreas Carlier
He is a young trumpet player . he plays in many orchestra s .
154 points - added 6 years ago by trumpetandreas - 6 comments
This isn't supposed to be based on potential... Having him ranked between Adolph Herseth and Phil Smith while a teenager is inexcusable.
you played a very good exam... :)
Added 6 years ago by matthiasIB, -3 points
Added 6 years ago by marnix123, -1 points
he is very well
Added 6 years ago by rene79, 0 points
jhe has a nice sound as well as B flat as C
Added 6 years ago by jan134679, 0 points
he has a nice sound, he's really talented!
Added 6 years ago by roeland98, 0 points
Andrea Giuffredi
This trumpeter is absolutely remarkable.
Great Pedal tones for sure. Also very good dark sound. Too bad most people have never heard of him.
This dude should be at least in the top ten! He is amazing! Just listening to him i get chills he is so good.
Possibly better than all the rest.
Alessi Vacchiano
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Clark Lambert
Technical phenom since teens and a very underrated jazz great.
He even lifts, bro.
His improvisational skills make your heart and soul have a self tingling sensation while making your mind wonder how it is possible to create such beautiful music on the dime.
great player of the skin flute i hear!
The first great homosexual trumpet player.
Fun fact : Clark Lambert began his incredibly successful musical career playing the flute. The more you know.
Has a six pack.
Incredible range and a bright and sizzling tone.
Beautiful tone and solgoing virtuoso.
Added 6 years ago by tttrrrompet, 3 points
what can I say? One of the most passionate players. In my opinion he lived what he played
His sound makes me cry, his playing is actually everything I try to emulate with my music
Give me a break, this man makes me cry every time I listen
I couldn't believe I had to scroll down this far to find Chet Baker. Good lord.
Probably one of the most talented players Ever. He was still great even after his teeth were Knocked out. He came back and played Some of his very best. Number 31...I think not. He should be in the top 5.
Anyone who doesn't have Chet Baker in the top 10 obviously doesn't understand the definition of best....sigh
like what he does not sure how i found him though i need to listen to more trumpet players
So your saying he lived like Miles;)
John Wilbraham
John Wilbraham was one of the world's greatest classical trumpet players. A student of trumpet legend, Maurice Andre, he helped introduce the use of the Piccolo Trumpet in England. He was the Principal Trumpet of the Royal Philharmonic, Philharmonia, and BBC Symphony Orchestras, as well as the English Chamber Orchestra and Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. He made several brilliant solo recordings during his career.
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and you sucks in comparison with this guy
this guy sucks compared to alison balsom...
Claudio Roditi
Roditi is wonderful player. He has amazing tone and liquid, lyrical interpretation,.... buuut!!... He is NOT Italian!!! Claudio was born and raised in Brazil.
Now THERE'S an Iitalian who can play- he sounds more like Clifford than anyone else, and is an absolute monster. certainly one of the best jazz players alive, probably top 15.
Timofei Dokshizer
Expressive tonal quality and musicality. And the technique to compete with anyone. P.S. I could not spell his name correctly because the system says "Banned words in name..."!!!!!!! Amazing.
Tine Thing Helseth
Every so often a player comes along with a tone quality that just melts your heart. This is one such artist. Beautiful, passionate, and articulate interpretations of trumpet standards.
Her 'attack' is unbelievable and precise. For anyone to play for the first time as a soloist twice in one set of Proms at the age of 26 must be unusual. She is the Emma Kirkby of the trumpet.
She's an excellent player with a characteristic voice.
What a sound!!Clean and articulate! Beautiful
Giant thing loves Tine Thing!!!
Phil Driscoll
Unique sound, exceptional tonal quality and projection in the high register
I'm completely biased, but Phil and Doc should have been rated WAY higher...ESPECIALLY based on talent and technical skill. LOVE Phil! Patterned my own style after his (and Doc and Maynard, but mostly Phil).
i love his style of playing
Amazing horn but has delved into great vocals. Great improvisation, great range.
Dude. Phil Driscoll is for sure one of the best all time players. Have you ever heard is fingering?
Phil Driscoll seems underrated, very talented trumpeter that bellows out from bottom to top. Great trumpeter, not known enough.
Uh, have you not heard his tonguing or fingering? He's probably the best technical player ever. And certainly the most creative.
What's the deal with white players and the playing high.
He's got some great chops and even a better voice. But limited vocabulary and shouldn't be ranked this high! If this was a "who can play the highest" or tone competition, I could see him up a little higher. Maybe.
Phil should have been among the top ten. His high register is simply captivating.
Another one of those phenominal trumpet players that all to few people really know about...Big, pure sound from the bottom to the extreme top of the horn...
He is the best
I kept going down the list and FINALLY found AL! Actually everyone on this list deserves to be there and ranking is subjective, but for me, Al was the king!
Actually Harry James played Flight of the Bumble Bee
One of my favorites, easily in the top 5 of all time.
Look in the dictionary for the word "embouchure", and you will find a picture of Al Hirt playing his horn!
Added 3 years ago by Sarge, 0 points
No other trumpet player ever tried to play the Flight of the Bumblebee. He is the best. Period....
Al Hirt had incredible sound, was a master technician and was funny as hell. To rank this trumpet player outside the top ten in history would be a shame.
My high school bandleader played trombone on a Nashville session with Al Hirt in '67 or '68. All the top brass musicians in town were on the session. They were absolutely bowled over by his technique and tone.
Top 3 without a doubt in my book.
al hirt... for me is a headache medicine.
OMG - Al Hirt has to be in the top five. He was extremely versatile, classically trained and could read music - something some of those ranked higher could not do.
If you haven't heard Al do Holiday For Trumpet, or Swing Low Sweet Chariot with Billy May and the Horn a Plenty Orchestra, then you are missing a very important element in your Brass Education. His version of Carnival of Venice performed at Carnegy Hall shouldn't be missed either. Listen to the above and then give an educated opinion.
Al Hirt... 30?... YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! Listen to the theme from the Green Hornet and tell me that again! from an old trumpet player
Al Hurtin' when he played legit stuff.
Al "he's the best" Hirt to be exact
what about lee morgan?
only one of the best if not the best to ever pick up the instrument, THINK ABOUT IT!!!
34? Pick up Tom Cat, and play Exotique and Twice Around, and tell me that the world has ever known 33 better trumpeters. Top 5 ever, at worst
Underrated is an understatement. His technique is amazing and my personal favorite jazz trumpet player of all time.
really really good jazz player of bop era.. I think he would have been higher but his career sadly shortened .. shot at 33.
his solo on Moanin' is one of my favorite solos.
Lee Morgan and Wynton are the only two players in history to be able to play at the highest level in both jazz and classical playing.
yes i agree completely, and clifford brown the same. these two men are in my top 10 all time.
sorry but no-one can come even close to his mastery of trumpet
James Morrison is amongst the best of the best. He does it all and extremely well. Many of the players rated above James are not qualified tp carry his horn. Arturo Sandoval and Al Vizzutti are in the same league.(best of the best)
Arturo, Vizzutti and James Morrison are the three best trumpeters that I know of today. There is no denying that Wynton, is a marvelous player, but although I really liked his classical playing, he lost me as a fan with his jazz. He sings praises of Louis and Miles but he is missing that kind of soul in his own playing. There have been many wonderful players in the past like Ferguson, Brisbois, Chase, Cat, Maurice Andres, Bud Herseth, Mendez, Biederbeck and Hirt, but they're gone, just like Clark, Bellsted, Rogers, Krill, and and W.Smith were gone in their hay day. Arturo, Vizzutti and Morrison do it all and do it extremely well, and although this list has many great players those three are number 1 in my book.
james should be number 1
Love this guy on the trumpet and trombone.
Enrico Rava
David Krauss
Principle metropolitan opera orchestra
Kraussmeister!!!
He's a nice boy.
hands down, most beautiful sound
Raymond Mase
He is one of the 'heavy hitters' of the classical world. He plays for the American Brass Quintet. He is also a founding member of the Summit Brass and principal trumpeter of the New York City Ballet Orchestra. Mr. Mase can be heard on well over one hundred recordings, including as soloist on the Albany, Deutsche Grammophon, Summit, Koch, Cambria, Troy, MHS, and Furious Artisans labels. In addition to his performing and teaching, Mr. Mase is Chair of the Brass Department at The Juilliard School, a member of the Aspen Music School faculty,and has served on the Board of Directors of Chamber Music America.
94 points - added 6 years ago by guest - 1 comment
He is one of my favorites!
Barry Hillam
he's good.
94 points - added 6 years ago by guest - 4 comments
An amazing all around player and also a great teacher.
He is very good, when it comes time to the technical music
yes, I'd have to say that Barry is one of the best teachers. impeckable sense of tuning, has one of the best trumpet collections of anybody out there.
he is definately one of the best teachers on the planet... one of the great geniuses in his playing as well.
Innovative, unique, versatile
84 points - added 10 years ago by ggsherwood - 8 comments
The brass version of Kenny G - gag!
He grew up a few years before me in my home town. We have common friends. I have no problem with him as a problem or person but I do have a problem with him being in the top 40 players ever.
Botti's music touches my soul, it's as if his trumpet is expressing my deepest most profound aspirations & longings. My emotions light up & my heart soars. I'm going to see him on Mother's Day & I may have to be restrained from throwing myself at him on stage lol! Fantasy aside I never grow tired of Chris. He's just got it all: talent, pizzazz, personality, he's handsome, humble & he jams w/ Bocelli, Streisand. Sting, Sinatra, Paula Cole, YoYo Ma, Renee Olsted & on & on he plays w/ the best of the best. Grazie Dio per Chris Botti he is a rare & precious gift to be enjoyed!
He has one of the best sounds on trumpet I've ever heard. Love his style. I got to see him live; it was amazing!
Incredible. he made me feel like I was "there".
but hes one of the best and better than you plus hes an amazing person, ive had the honor to talk to him on the phone as a part of morehead state universitys summer arts academy, hes good friends with the professor of trumpet there, so ive had the honor of talking to him and hes given me a new trumpet outlook, i love him to death!
His playing needs mo stank!
Very pretty sound, but not very exciting. Nothing "wrong" with what he does but he somewhat like vanilla ice cream in a world of Baskin-Robbins.
Michael Sachs
Michael Sachs, the distinguished Principal Trumpet of the Cleveland Orchestra since 1988, is one of the greatest trumpet players in the world. He is also a noted trumpet educator and author.
79 points - added 5 months ago by guest -
andy marchese
if you have to ask
78 points - added 8 years ago by guest - 11 comments
Still teaching private students at age 96!! (Plus, he likes to brag that he still has all of his own teeth!)
Added 11 months ago by guest, 1 point
Phenominal, rich, thick sound combined with fantastic range. No "mosquito" high notes from Marchese. Played with Jack Teagarden, Sinatra, Sammy Davis and others. Listen to his "Hora Staccato" with Frankie Masters Band. Amazing. Taught his own trumpet technique for years.
Coach Marchese inspired thousands of students to love music and should easily be in the top 10. He has one of the smoothest trumpets I have ever heard and is still playing into his 90's. He is one of those musicians you could listen to for hours. And...he's really a great guy.
Added 4 years ago by Timmers, 5 points
Although I was not one of Andy Marchese's students he inspired in me a love of Music and the appreciation of a truly talented musician
Andy "Coach" Marchese is a one-in-a-million trumpet player, band director and jazz performer. He should rank in the top 20 for sure. Great all around musician!
Doc Severenson was once asked by Johnny Carson who he thought was the best trumpet player in the US, and Doc said Andy Marchese. This man was my mentor, and he DID play the Flight of the Bumblebee! The man is a master trumpeter! Hands down!
Litmus test of a true jazz master is how many students he or she has inspired. Andy Marchese taught thousands and thousands of kids, from elementary schools through doctorates, to love and share music throughout their lives. Even in his 90's, that cat can still blow that horn! Give 'em hell, Coach!
Began playing as a young boy in Florida and was working gigs at age 10. Still working gigs at almost 93 years old! His students traveled from all around the world to match in his final parade at the high school where he taught
Started playing in New Orleans Jazz district at age ten! Nobody plays Dixieland Jazz better!
Still performing at age 93! Fantastic teacher and incredible performer!
The best player bar none....but more importantly great and inspirational teacher of music to budding musicians....a great role model
Bix Biederbach
76 points - added 10 years ago by mail4gigi - 3 comments
This guy should be near the top. Even Satchmo gave him his props.
Beiderbecke. Bix Beiderbecke was his name. Short-lived trumpeter and cornetist played in Chicago of the late 1920's. Check out his recording "In a Mist" or tracks with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra.
Bieder'BACH'? Is he the last decedent of JS Bach?
Amazing Trumpet player whose tone quality is incredible and just melts your heart!
This guy is truly talented. Not number 1 but definitely top 10!
he thinks hes good, but cant play high to save his life. ;)
Actually, I took a tuner to one of his concerts and he plays perfectly well in tune. There is this Aaron k. kid that is jealous of his skills and it is hilarious to watch him trying to bring Clemente down!
I also say he plays flat. Maybe that's his thing but it doesn't sound good.
I heard this guy play last week!! It is like heaven opens up when he starts to play! Truly amazing technique and tone quality!
It takes more than playing consistently flat to melt my heart... no thanks!
WHO?????
somebody is a hopeless romantic/liar
Bill Chase
awesome range and power with unequaled technique
69 points - added 10 years ago by guest - 8 comments
Got this way wrong, should be top 5
Bill Chase and Maynard Ferguson should be so closer together. Obviously they recognized Maynard's skills, but Bill was just flat out awesome too....
agreed, it's a travesty that bill chase is placed so low and the same goes for doc severenson. how he placed so low is beyond me. Obviously someone who thought his only body of work was the "tonight show" both men deserve top 5 status in my opinion and I'm sorry...but herp alpert made this list?
Sadly it appears that Bill Chase has been forgotten by the passage of time. Do a little research and you will agree he should be in the top five at least.
I can't believe Bill was so far down the list. About 44 people ahead of him on the list know Bill was better.... I was a big fan....loved the Pure Music LP....Just when they had an accessible "voice" to reach a wider audience....the band's leader died along with several other members. Tragic to say the least. Such a loss.
Bill definitely NUMBER ONE. His compadres in the "Power Wall of Brass": Ted Piercefield, Alan Ware and Jerry Van Blair should also be high on this list.
I appears that you have not heard Bill Chase! If you had, he would be number one on this list!!! His trumpet made the angels cry!!!!!!
Loved hearing Bill play in his group "Chase". Also really liked hearing him play lead for Woody Herman's band.
Clark Terry
He could talk to you with his trumpet or fluegelhorn
Heard Clark in the late 60's- early 70's when he soloed with our college band at the U of Northern Iowa. Clark could make the trumpet talk, caress, and sing. Miles knew what he was talking about Clark's playing. He should be way up there.
47!? Ask Wynton Marsalis about Clark Terry. He will tell you he was the most influential player in his life. Miles Davis said Clark was his first idol. He wanted to play like Clark. Clark Terry was so great, Duke Ellington wrote songs just to feature him. He MADE Quincy Jones. He had better tone than Dizzy, but was just as fast. He was far far better than this ranking would show. Below Chris Botti? Come on.
53? no way, much higher
Flavio Boltro
Not even in the best 1000 around today. Just listen to him.
Wait holy crap, how is Phil this far down... Hands down the best classical trumpet player after Herseth.
if you don't have phil smith in your top 3 best trumpet players, you have no taste in music.
William Vacchiano
William Vacchiano was the Principal Trumpet of the New York Philharmonic for over 30 years. He was a legendary performer and helped make the New York Philharmonic one of the world's greatest symphony orchestras under Leonard Bernstein. He was also the greatest trumpet teacher in history during his long tenure as a Professor of Trumpet at the Juilliard Music School. Many of the world's greatest professional trumpet players were his students including Malcolm McNab, Wynton Marsalis, Philip Smith, and many many more.
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BUNNY BERIGAN
Amazing growl trumpet played with soul. Most soulful player i have ever heard.
Great player, should probably be rated higher. His "I can't Get Started" a top 5 al time American recording.
His "I Can't Get Started" one of the great recordings of all time.
He poured all of his heart and soul into his music and if you really listen to his playing, he was a genius. should be in the top 20
When I listen to his music I realize what a powerful musician he was. He also played solo's in a risky way.
Louis Armstrong's favorite trumpet player because Bunny played his trumpet with heart and soul.
Bunny was a living Legend in his day. He wasn't much of a band leader, but he loved the music he played. It's unfortunate that alcohol took his life so early. Listen to his solos with Benny Goodman, and Tommy Dorsey and you will realize what a great musician he was.
Chuck Mangione was one of the last popular in the eyes of the public instrumentalists and there is a strong reason why... His tone was great and the music that he made was fantastic. His technique while never really showcased was exceptional as well but unlike the others on this list he knew that the majority of culture wouldn't like things way too fast to keep up with or shrilly high. In my opinion he is easily top 20.
Wow guys. Before killing Chuck don't forget he played with Art Blakey. He was for real.
Nice cream of wheat sound.
A fine pop artist and decent flugelhorn player. One of the best trumpet players? Absolutely no evidence for this whatsoever. This seem to be more of a "who I've heard of" contest. Saying CM is one of the best trumpet players is like saying Celine Dion is the best singer.
Wow! Great? No. He composed some popular music for a couple of decades and he can improvise his butt off, but as a player he is not even close to great. Sorry.
Chuck Mangione is the best trumpet or flugelhorn ever to play! He has a style that is smooth and exeptional. I am yet to hear a player who truely is better.
Chuck Mangione really is that great, and any excellent flugelhorn player would think so. Chuck's music and flugelhorn playing is exceptional.
Beautiful sound and had a style that the average person loved to listen to..His music was rhythmically alive and pulled you along with it...His playing and his hip charts/arrangements made playing the Flugelhorn a "cool thing" to do again for a new generation of trumpet players.
not really that great
Niklas Eklund
Easily top 10 today.
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Matthias Carlier
he is a trumpet player - he plays in several orchestra his two brothers are Andreas and Leander Carlier
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Leander Carlier
he is a young trumpet player - he plays in several orchestra he is the brother of Andreas Carlier
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Neal Hillam
played taps at the 70th commemoration of Pearl Harbor. in high school.
Neal has the best tonal concept I've heard from a young trumpet player since the turn of the century.
he can play a c scale with just his upper lip and his tongue
roy hargrove
newer guy that has great technical skills.
49 points - added 9 years ago by guest -
Chuck Arnold
can play soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo high its ridiculous. Has played with maynard ferguson, wynton marsalis, ray charles, and many more. :)
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Woody Shaw
43 points - added 10 years ago by guest - 1 comment
Woody Shaw at #58 again deserves better
'Little Jazz' was the world's greatest, superceding Louis and influencing Diz and all of Be Bop!
This is a joke right-One of the greatwst
Vince DiMartino
One of the best. Performs, and hangs with Doc, Allen Vizzuti, etc.
Yes - Vince is awesome. I had the privilege to study with him for a week at Interlochen Center for the Arts. he was by far one of the best trumpet players amd teachers I've experienced!
Adam Rapa
he IS the lead player. was playing lead book with professional bands when he was 16! no, he doesn't have the highest range or cleanest articulations, but he has that in your face sounds while at the same time being able to put you to sleep with his ballads. Amazing trumpet player, not top ten, but definetly worthy to be on this list
Sounds sharp on YouTube!!!
Rick Baptist
39 points - added 10 years ago by mail4gigi - 1 comment
The nicest,kndest,and very professional and diplomatic with others.Great,Player,All Around,His Own Man,played in Las Vegas when he was doing lead workat every hotel.I was starting out with the Russ Morgan Orchestra. To me one of the most successful trumpeters ever and a step up guy. Michael-Chicago
Jerry Hey
Jerry Hey is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, horn arranger, string arranger, orchestrator and session musician who has played on hundreds of commercial recordings, including 'Thriller'. He is known as the Seawind trumpeter and arranger who plays with Gary Grant, Larry Williams and Bill Reichenbach Jr..
Amazing arranger and trumpet player. Kept Gary Grant out front where he should be for decades.
Eric Miyashiro
Wonderful tone, hits high notes with ease, he and Wayne Bergeron together are the bomb!
Eric is ice man - perfection even in upper register. Listen to him in the Maynard tribute band. Never seen it look so easy. I would put him in the top 20 for sure.
Michael C. Lewis
Soulful and creative
Chuck Findley
Chuck would play for hours an octave up not missing while others doubled him down cacking away. THE most amazing studio player for modern work, period.
Chuck Findley is a rediculous trumpeter and studio musician! He's a world class player and a solid and fearless lead player with surprising range and power. He's also an excellent jazz player. Chuck can play anything!
Dramatically underrated player. Check out his recordings with Bobby Shew.
ruben simeo
at 9 years old he can play like allen vizzuti
better than all trumpet players, but people are just jealous..
Truly Talented!!
Added 8 years ago by trumpetbeast777, 1 point
Yeah right...
Randy Brecker
I went to Indiana University with Randy. My roommate played trombone with him. He was phenomanol then and still is in his 70's!
totally agree with you men, this guy is total beast like is brother, and a great composer. Listen to ''Some skunk funk''
Added 6 years ago by snazzycat, 1 point
He is the best player ever holy crap guys look him up come on.
I studied with Cat briefly before he passed away. A very nice man. His power above double C was awesome. He was also a very under rated jazz improvisor as well.
YES!!!...The things he did with Ellington are STILL Legend....
Ryan Kisor
many people sound like somebody else...but not this guy...King Kisor is one of the most unique players alive...his music is one of the most genuine ive ever heard of...was with him at a couple of gigs...great techniques too...simply, simply amazing...
Ryan came from a little town in NW Iowa. His dad was a tremendous band director. Ryan's chops are deep, that's why he plays in Wynton's band. WOW!!
He has the most beautiful sound with flawless technique. He wins every audition he takes. He is Chicago's principal player. What more should I say?
29 points - added 10 years ago by stiitwok1 - 4 comments
Actually Chris was asked to go to Chicago, but turned it down to stay in Atl for a few years with his teacher larry black. Christ, in my humblest opinion, is the best player in the country right now
So overrated. Real players know he's nothing special. I wouldn't even break if he was crossing the street in front of me!
this guy plays a flugal horn
he clearly does not win every audition, it took him three tries to get into the CSO
Thomas Rolfs
Principle trumpet of Boston Symphony Orchestra
Classical genius
Features twice in this list, getting a bit of a split vote...
Incredible player.
David Hickman
Amazing sound and technique.
One of the great classical players from Wichita State along with John Aley
Matthias Hofs
First Trumpet in German Brass
Jens lindemann
How is it no one mentioned him
wait how is this guy at least in the top 50.
Agreed. Certainly one of the best soloists in the world currently performing. Outstanding trumpeter.
Chris Gekker
Manny Laureano
Principal Trumpet for the Minnesota Orchestra
Derek Watkins
fantastic Trumpet-Player since 30 Years
Derek played the lead in all of the James Bond movies and was well remembered for his great work with world famous bandleader James Last. Derek can be seen on Youtube in Orange Blossom Special in Miami, Florida on Ocean Drive, South Beach with James Last - beautiful scenery and music!
Lynn Nicholson
One of the best upper registers ever. Clean playing
Lynn Nicholson's high chops are outrageous! He's accurate, consistent and strong.
Power horn for sure.
Great and innovator...
The most dynamic pure trumpeter ever. Extreme control over the horn and an exceptional improvisor. I met him once and saw him live. He was very generous with his advice and had more raw power than anybody I've ever heard! Should be in the top 15 all time.
Brian MacDonald
Roger Ingram
Highest range I've ever heard aside from Maynard Ferguson. Saw him live yesterday, got his book autographed.
Roger is in my opinion the finest jazz lead trumpeter of the 90s and 2000s. That, and he's a spectacular human being.
Dave Douglas
Eddie Calvert
Cherry Pink and Apple blossom white, no more to say
'The Man With Golden Trumpet" His O Mein Papa won him a gold disc--first ever for a musician, i believe! Had a number of great hits: "Mystery Street"& "Midnight" are great solos with his unique sound.
Nicholas Angel
So sexy!
This guy is amazing!
Thad Jones
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Did I miss something?! I mean , I came here thinking that Miller is in the top 5 and all I will need to do is give a vote on the guy, but to think that he actually did not make it on the list?!!!!!!?!!??! INEXCUSABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!X-/
It seems that this is largely the quality of the comments and rankings in this whole exercise. Too many people don't know what they are talking about.
News flash: Glenn Miller, while an amazing band leader and arranger, not to mention a tragic story, was a TROMBONIST not a TRUMPETER. Sorry.
Greatest showman of all time reached notes on the trumpet that few in the world could.
His live albums have been played in my home for over 58 years. One of the best in the business.
He should be number one on this list! He is the greatest.
Hans Gansch
If Hans Gansch isn´t in that list ... Then I would definitely recommend to you to listen to a few songs from him.
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Posted on May 14, 2004 by Skid in Needs Reviewed, Uncategorized // 0 Comments
REMARKS BY KISS BASSIST ANGER AUSTRALIANS:
MELBOURNE, Australia – Kiss bassist Gene Simmons has sparked outrage in Australia with comments seen as attacking Islam.
“This is a vile culture and if you think for a second that it’s willing to just live in the sands of God’s armpit you’ve got another thing coming,” Simmons said during an interview on Melbourne’s 3AW radio Thursday. “They want to come and live right where you live and they think that you’re evil.”
The Western world was under threat from extremists and a culture that treated women worse than dogs, he claimed in a segment of the interview that touched on the war in Iraq.
“You can send your dog to school to learn tricks, sit, beg, do all that stuff — none of the women have that advantage,” the 54-year-old said.
Angry Muslims flooded the radio station with calls, furious over Simmons’ comments.
Susan Carland, Australian Muslim of the Year, rejected what she saw as Simmons’ stereotype of Muslim women. She has two university degrees, she said, and “I certainly do not walk behind my husband.”
“Mixing the entertainment world with the political and religious world is a minefield,” said Yasser Soliman, the chairman of Victoria state’s Islamic Council.
“I think it would be good for overseas speakers and commentators to be given some sort of advice in regards to our vilification laws here,” Soliman said. “They leave and go back to where they arrived from, but they leave behind a big mess that we have to live with.”
Chrissie Camp, who is in charge of publicity for Kiss’ Australian tour, said Simmons was unavailable for comment Friday.
The band was due to perform in Melbourne on Friday night and Saturday before shows in Sydney and Brisbane.
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Prophet Rael
Raelian Seminar
God doesn't exist. Apostatize in all consciousness !
Baptism, essentially a Christian practice, is a ritual originally initiated by conviction, then by tradition. Nowadays, it is usually done by tradition. In most cases, the person who was baptised never had a say in the baptism. More often than not, the choice was decided by a third party (parents). Consent was not required and the act consequently was imposed.
Too little ! Too late !
You have certainly seen the Church reacting recently to the many scandals it is the subject of. Accusations of pedophilia, rape or abortion of nuns, or financial scandals, there seems to be no end to it, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Oh, yes those American cardinals sure looked beautiful parading in front of their pope! What other purpose could this pomp have served other than to protect the image of the priests and bishops?
What about the victims? Not a word. Compensation, maybe? Nothing!
If the thinking of the Catholic Church was right, its words would also be right and so would its actions. However, it is not.
In the face of betrayal by the Church that claims to be the guardian of moral values and the truth, the faithful have been lied to.
There is only one solution: deny this pompous religion.
Get yourself de-baptised to no longer be associated with these reprehensible acts:
APOSTATIZE*
Given that they baptized you at your birth without your consent, which betrays the message of Jesus who himself baptized only adults, ** by apostatizing today, you are restoring the truth and putting an end to this betrayal.
Given that Pope John-Paul II and his bishops abandoned the idea of imposing sanctions on the Church’s priests who were guilty of the crimes of pedophilia, rape or abortion of nuns, we suggest all those who condemn these crimes should apostatize. So apostasy will replace the sanctions.
The catholic church: A real barrier for the awakening of African people.
- To the attention of the people of Africa and of African descent and those who suffered spiritual colonization by Christianity
Given that you wish to dissociate yourself from a Church of which you disapprove, apostasy is therefore entirely justified *.
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Becoming a Choosing Wisely Canada Hospital
12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST
A number of hospitals across Canada have taken significant steps to eliminate unnecessary tests and treatments and in the process, have become Choosing Wisely Canada Hospitals. Find out how your hospital can be part of this movement.
De/Implement: CWC Implementation Research Webinar Series | Health Care Providers are People Too: Applying Behavioural Approaches to Target Choosing Wisely Canada Recommendations
This webinar will provide an overview of how contemporary behavioural theories and frameworks can aid with the development of Choosing Wisely Canada de-implementation initiatives. Join us on Wednesday, January 15 at 12:00 p.m. (ET) for this webinar presented by Dr. Andrea Patey, a Senior Research Associate at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and Assistant Professor (adjunct) in the Faculty of Medicine, Queen’s University.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Knowledge to Action: Why we Need Quality Improvement in the Emergency Department
Emergency Departments (EDs) are often the highest volume area of a hospital, in part due to their provision of care for patients 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. With increasingly large patient volumes and growing pressure to manage patients as efficiently as possible, comes the potential for overuse of tests and treatments. Join emergency physicians Drs. Lucas Chartier and Shawn Dowling on Wednesday, January 8 at 12 p.m. (ET), as they discuss the synergy of quality improvement and Choosing Wisely in the ED, including compelling cases and examples. The goals of the webinar are to have attendees reflect on their work and how they can incorporate these ideas locally.
De/Implement: CWC Implementation Research Webinar Series | Appropriate Prescribing: The MedSafer Study for Safer Prescribing in Older Hospitalized Adults
Many older adults are often prescribed multiple medications for different health conditions. While some of these medications are necessary, polypharmacy and inappropriate medication use can be harmful and result in poor outcomes in older adults.
This webinar will provide an overview of the usage of polypharmacy and deprescribing within Canada. Join us on Wednesday December 18, 2019 at 12:00 p.m. (ET) for this webinar presented by Dr. Emily McDonald, an attending physician at the McGill University Health Centre, and an Assistant Professor at McGill University.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Building Quality Improvement Capacity to Enable Choosing Wisely Implementation
It is widely recognized that implementing Choosing Wisely recommendations is a necessary next step to achieving system-level improvements in health care. However, a lack of capacity among health professions can be a key challenge in driving successful implementation efforts to reduce unnecessary use of health care resources. On Wednesday, December 4th Dr. Brian Wong, Associate Professor and Director of Continuing Education and Quality Improvement in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, will be joining us to describe innovative strategies aimed at building capacity through training and education across the learning continuum.
De/Implement: CWC Implementation Research Webinar Series | Measuring Low-Value Care in Canada
Canadian low-value care experts, Dr. Sacha Bhatia and Mr. Zachary Bouck discuss their lessons learned from the measurement and evaluation of Choosing Wisely Canada recommendations; benchmarking unnecessary ordering practices and creating indicators in both acute and primary care settings that have been adopted locally and nationally.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Double Down on Antimicrobial Stewardship: Practical Ways to Use Antibiotics Wisely to Manage Respiratory and Urinary Tract Infection in Community Practice
The Using Antibiotics Wisely campaign has leveraged antimicrobial stewardship efforts to reduce unnecessary antibiotics for the two most inappropriately treated conditions: respiratory tract infections (RTI) in primary care and urinary tract infections (UTI) in long-term care. Join Drs. Jerome Leis and Andrea Moser on Wednesday, November 13 for a review of practical tips on how to use antibiotics judiciously in the management of these conditions, based on practice change recommendations developed by healthcare professional across the country.
Choosing Wisely Canada: Your Questions Answered
Choosing Wisely Canada is hosting a one-hour webinar for patients and the public to learn more about the campaign. The webinar will be presented by Choosing Wisely Canada's Dr. Wendy Levinson, Chair and Todd Sikorski and Amy Ma, Patient and Public Advisors.
The College of Family Physicians of Canada: Family Medicine Forum 2019
Oct 30, 7:00am PST - Nov 2, 7:00pm PST
Taking place at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Family Medicine Forum is an annual conference for family physicians, hosted by the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
2019 Choosing Wisely with Academic Detailing Conference
Oct 25, 8:30am AST - Oct 27, 12:00pm AST
Hosted by Choosing Wisely NS, the 2019 Choosing Wisely with Academic Detailing Conference is a one and a half day small group event designed to engage audiences in case based, inter-professional informed discussions.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Addressing Patient Requests for Unnecessary Test and Treatments: The Art of Conversation
Best evidence suggests the patient you are seeing right now doesn’t need imaging for their low back pain. The patient thinks imaging will help his recovery like it did for his neighbor. There are other patients in the waiting room and you’re already behind. What do you do? Can you communicate the message that imaging is not needed, build trust, and stay on time?
Practising Wisely | Reducing Unnecessary Testing and Treatment
9:00am EST - 4:00pm EST
Hosted by the Ontario College of Family Physicians, Practising Wisely will focus on reducing over-prescribing, over-imaging, over-screening and over-monitoring.
Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario: 2019 Conference
Sep 19, 8:00am EST - Sep 20, 6:00pm EST
Taking place at the Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto, Ontario, AFHTO's 'Health System Integration Built on the Foundation of Team-Based Primary Health Care' features many relevant Choosing Wisely themes including patient and family-centred care, and comprehensive team-based care.
De/Implement: CWC Implementation Research Webinar Series | It Ain’t (Just) What You Do, it’s (Also) The Way That You Do It: An Introduction to Implementation Science
To provide evidence-based treatments and reduce unnecessary care, identifying what needs to change is only half the battle – figuring out how to change is the next step. In this webinar, Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw, Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Transfer and Uptake and Senior Scientist at the Centre for Implementation Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, will introduce us to implementation science and discuss how we implement change using models, theories and frameworks using case study examples.
This webinar is the first in a series on Implementation Science. Future webinar topics include barriers assessments, process and outcome evaluations and work in progress discussions from others who are currently implementing CWC recommendations.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Is QI as easy as Pii? Harnessing Quality Improvement in Family Medicine
12:00pm ET - 1:00pm ET
The College of Family Physicians of Canada’s (CFPC) newly launched Practice Improvement Initiative (Pii) harnesses quality improvement (QI) approaches, practice-level data, and research to enable family physicians, family medicine residents, and the teams they work in to undertake QI. Pii aims to leverage, scale-up, and share existing QI resources and create new ones where there are gaps. On Wednesday, September 4th, we will be joined by Dr. José Pereira, Director of Research in Academic Family Medicine, CFPC to hear more about the Pii program as well as explore how family physicians could earn Mainpro+ credits for implementing quality improvement in their practices.
Choosing Wisely Talks | What the Doctor Ordered: Improving the Use and Value of Laboratory Testing
In February 2019, The C.D. Howe Institute released a commentary titled What the Doctor Ordered: Improving the Use and Value of Laboratory Testing, stressing the distinct opportunity for quality improvement around laboratory testing in Canada. The article, co-authored by Dr. Christopher Naugler and Rosalie Wyonch, further details the importance of prioritizing patient outcomes when it comes to lab testing, addressing variation, as well as reducing inappropriate testing and limiting unnecessary cost to the system. Join us on Thursday June 6th, to hear from Dr. Christopher Naugler, Department Head and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Calgary.
ASPIRE Workshop
May 28, 8:00am EST - May 31, 6:00pm EST
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, along with the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, will be offering an ASPIRE workshop May 28 - 31, 2019, in Ottawa, Ontario.
Improve your skills in teaching patient safety and quality improvement.
Choosing Wisely Canada National Meeting 2019
Taking place in Montreal, Quebec at the Centre Mont-Royal, Choosing Wisely Canada's National Meeting is an opportunity for clinicians, patients and system leaders to come together to discuss, engage, and network on topics related to reducing unnecessary tests and treatments.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Choosing Wisely: Changing the Conversation in Residency
Residency is a critical period for physicians to gain as much experience as possible as they prepare for independent practice. Behaviours, including resource stewardship, are developed in residency and continue throughout careers. Join us Thursday May 2 to hear from Dr. Chris Hillis, a hematologist at McMaster University and Postgraduate Medical Education Specialist at Choosing Wisely Canada, and Dr. Chandandeep Bal, a PGY 1 resident at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
Diving into Overuse in Hospitals | Organizational Leadership & Promoting Culture Change
The Ontario Hospital Association, in partnership with Choosing Wisely Canada and Health Quality Ontario, will be hosting a three-part webinar series to support Ontario hospitals that may be looking to start, or advance, their local Choosing Wisely efforts. The third webinar of the series, Diving into Overuse in Hospitals: Organizational Leadership & Culture Change, will be held on Thursday April 18th at 12 p.m. ET.
For this webinar we will be joined by two hospitals taking the ultimate plunge, integrating Choosing Wisely into their hospital’s culture and demonstrating transformative leadership, as described in Level 3 of the Starter Kit : North York General Hospital and Bluewater Health.
How to Talk About Unnecessary Tests and Treatments
6:30pm AST - 8:30pm AST
Taking place in Halifax Nova Scotia, Choosing Wisely Nova Scotia is hosting a public discussion for patients and providers to talk about unnecessary tests and treatments, and to explain why these conversations are important.
Choosing Wisely Talks | How ‘The Rock’ Chipped Away at Routine Biochemical Testing in the Community: Eastern Health’s Success Story
In 2015 data showed that urea, LDH, AST, CK, ferritin, and uric acid were being ordered in high volumes by family physicians in Eastern Health (EH), the largest health authority in Newfoundland and Labrador. Partnering with Quality of Care NL, EH was able to reduce these six tests by 20-70% in just two years by implementing a range of interventions. Tune in to Choosing Wisely Talks Thursday April 4 at 12 ET to learn more about EH’s experience significantly reducing potentially unnecessary biochemical testing and the importance of high leverage interventions as well as academic detailing.
Diving into Overuse in Hospitals | Using Quality Improvement to Drive Change
The Ontario Hospital Association, in partnership with Choosing Wisely Canada and Health Quality Ontario, will be hosting a three-part webinar series to support Ontario hospitals that may be looking to start, or advance, their local Choosing Wisely efforts. The second webinar of the series, Diving into Overuse in Hospitals: Using Quality Improvement to Drive Change, will be held on Thursday, March 28th at 12 p.m. ET.
For this webinar, we will be joined by two hospitals that have experience in implementing Choosing Wisely recommendations using quality improvement (QI) methods and frameworks outlined in Level 2 of the Starter Kit: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Hôpital Montfort.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Nurses’ Valuable Role in Developing and Implementing Choosing Wisely Canada Recommendations
Nurses make up 48% of all health-care professionals in Canada and play a major role as leaders and advocates in reducing overuse of unnecessary tests, treatments and interventions. They are ideally placed to engage in conversations about appropriate care with patients. Join us on Thursday, March 7, to hear from the Canadian Nurses Association on how it has partnered with Choosing Wisely Canada to develop nurse-led Choosing Wisely Canada lists in collaboration with nursing specialties.
Diving into Overuse in Hospitals | 5 Quick Wins to Get Started
The Ontario Hospital Association, in partnership with Choosing Wisely Canada and Health Quality Ontario, will be hosting a three-part webinar series to support Ontario hospitals that may be looking to start, or advance, their local Choosing Wisely efforts. The first webinar of the series, Diving into Overuse in Hospitals: 5 Quick Wins to Get Started, will be held on Wednesday, February 13th at 12 p.m. ET.
For this webinar, we will be joined by two hospitals that have demonstrated leadership in implementing the quick wins described in Level 1 of the Starter Kit : St. Michael’s Hospital and Trillium Health Partners.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Facilitating the Spread of Healthcare Improvement : Experience from the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement (CFHI) & Provincial Partner Organizations
CFHI is working closely with organizations and provinces in Canada to improve patient care through quality improvement, taking us from ‘the land of pilot projects’ to the land of spread and scale. For February’s Choosing Wisely Talks we will be joined by CFHI to learn how they support healthcare organizations adapt, implement, spread and measure improvements with organizations in New Brunswick and Quebec.
Diving into Overuse in Hospitals | Campaign Launch
Diving into Overuse in Hospitals is a new campaign that aims to reduce unnecessary tests and treatments in hospital settings. The goal is to encourage hospitals across Canada to join the global Choosing Wisely movement by making changes, small or large, to reduce overuse. Join the launch webinar January 31st at 12pm ET to learn more!
Choosing Wisely Talks | Overdiagnosis and overuse in Québec : what we know and what we can do
For the first time ever, and to kick off the 2019 series, Choosing Wisely talks will be in French and speak to the experience of clinicians and organizations engaging in the Choisir avec soin campaign in Quebec. Dr. Rene Wittmer, a Montreal based family physician as well as a facilitator and member of the scientific committee for the CFPC and Practicing Wisely, will be joining us for January’s webinar.
Choosing Wisely Talks | What Health Care can Learn from the NBA: The Importance of Data in Improving Performance
In 2010 the NBA adopted data and analytics to optimize player performance. Not surprisingly, this improved the accuracy of players’ shots, made them shoot to their best abilities, and brought transparency to scores. If this is what data did for basketball imagine what it can do for health care! For December's CW Talks we will be joined by Dr. Sacha Bhatia. Dr. Bhatia will explore how data can improve physician and team performance and discuss current barriers to transformative data analytics in healthcare through a Choosing Wisely context.
Nov 14, 9:00am EST - Nov 17, 5:00pm EST
Taking place at Metro Convention Centre in Toronto, Family Medicine Forum is an annual conference for family physicians, hosted by the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Choosing Wisely Canada will have a booth at this year's forum to share primary care resources related to the campaign.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Using Antibiotics Wisely: How to navigate cold and flu season
‘Tis the season! Join us Thursday November 1st from 12pm-1pm ET to hear how the Using Antibiotics Wisely campaign has progressed since last year’s Antibiotic Awareness Week. Participants can look forward to Dr. Guylene Theriault, Choosing Wisely Canada Primary Care Co-Lead, speaking about practice changes the Working Group has put together and showcasing selected clinical tools that match to each syndrome helping front line clinicians choose wisely when it comes to antibiotic prescriptions for upper respiratory infections.
Oct 24, 9:00am EST - Oct 25, 9:00am EST
Taking place at the Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto, Ontario, AFHTO's 'Relationship Design with Starfield in Mind' features many relevant Choosing Wisely themes including scale and spread of programs, and the future of regional approach to health care. This year's AFHTO conference focuses on the importance of primary health care and investing in interprofessional team-based care for better patient care in Ontario.
Health Quality Ontario: Health Quality Transformation 2018
Taking place at the Metro Convention Centre in Toronto, Health Quality Transformation focuses on putting quality into action with themes focused on improvement, measurement, and fostering a culture of quality in health care. Choosing Wisely Canada will have a booth a this year's conference to share and discuss new campaign resources.
Canadian Society of Internal Medicine: 2018 Annual Meeting
Oct 10, 9:00am EST - Oct 13, 5:00pm EST
Taking place in the Banff Centre in Alberta, CSIM's Annual Meeting brings together clinicians, educators, researchers and trainees in internal medicine. This year's conference features a workshop on implementing a Choosing Wisely recommendation on safe opioid prescribing.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Choosing Wisely Spread: What It Takes and What We’ve Learned
Over the past two years, five hospitals and six family health teams in Ontario have worked jointly on a groundbreaking initiative to implement and spread the Choosing Wisely recommendations across their sites. They have achieved significant reductions in overuse across more than 10 clinical areas, but have also encountered a number of challenges along the way. Join us for retrospective on the project, ARTIC-Choosing Wisely: An Idea Worth Spreading. The webinar will be delivered by the project leads of this initiative at North York General Hospital.
Ontario College of Family Physicians: Practising Wisely
Sep 27, 9:00am EST - Oct 3, 4:00pm EST
Ontario College of Family Physicians' Practising Wisely workshops focus on reducing overuse using the latest evidence and tools. Upcoming workshops are available in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Pharmacists Embracing the Principles of Choosing Wisely
Did you know The Canadian Pharmacists Association has a list of 'Six Things Pharmacists and Patients Should Question'? For September's webinar we'll hear from Dr. Shelita Dattani, Director of Practice Development and Knowledge Translation, and Dr. Phil Emberley, Director of Practice Advancement and Research, about why it was imperative the CPhA join the campaign as well as to hear about how pharmacists can incorporate Choosing Wisely concepts in practice.
The Excellence in Quality Improvement Certificate Program (EQUIP) 2018-2019
Jul 25, 8:00am EST - May 10, 5:00pm EST
The EQUIP program’s enriched content and deeper dive into QI methodologies should make projects more likely to succeed, and will pre pare participants to maximize their project’s impact and receive academic recognition for their work.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Using Data to Drive Change: Audit and Feedback Best Practices
When health care providers have a solid understanding of their performance and ordering patterns in comparison to their peers, it can help drive change and improve health outcomes for all. For June’s Choosing Wisely Talks, presented by the Canadian Medical Association, we will be joined by data driven quality improvement expert, Dr. Noah Ivers - Scientist and Family Physician at Women’s College Hospital, Toronto.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Choosing Wisely in Northern Rural and Remote Communities
There are many unique challenges and opportunities for tackling overuse in rural and remote communities. For May’s Choosing Wisely Talks we will be joined by Drs. Sarah Cook and David Pontin, from the Northwest Territories, to discuss the implementation of Choosing Wisely Canada recommendations within the realities of northern and rural Canada.
Taking place at the Globe and Mail Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Choosing Wisely Canada's National Meeting is an opportunity for clinicians, patients and system leaders to come together to discuss, engage, and network on topics related to reducing unnecessary care. Registration and call for abstracts are now open!
Choosing Wisely Talks | De-implementing Wisely: Using Implementation Science to improve uptake of Choosing Wisely Recommendations
To reduce unnecessary or harmful care, identifying what needs to change is only half the battle - figuring out how to change is the next step. Join Choosing Wisely Canada and Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw, Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Transfer and Uptake and Senior Scientist at the Centre for Implementation Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, where he will guide participants through the science of implementation and how these methods can be used locally to improve de-implementation of unnecessary care at your institution.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Opioid Wisely: A New Campaign from Choosing Wisely Canada
On March 1st, the Opioid Wisely campaign launches with the release of 7 new specialty-specific opioid recommendations. In addition to the opioid recommendations already published, this brings the total number of Choosing Wisely Canada opioid related recommendations to 14. Tune in to see the new recommendations and accompanying patient resources. Joining us will be Dr. David Juurlink, one of Canada’s leading experts on appropriate opioid prescribing, discussing how clinicians can prescribe opioids more safely, as well as some of the barriers to practice change.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Mastering the Art & Science of Communicating Evidence with Patients
Sometimes patients don’t fully understand the risks and benefits of treatment options, and sometimes clinicians don’t either! This lack of understanding often leads to overuse. Join us and our Primary Care Co-Lead, Dr. Kimberly Wintemute, for February's Choosing Wisely Talks where will discuss what the literature says clinicians could be doing better in terms of communication with patients - and what tools exist to help them get there.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Choosing Wisely: We’ve told patients to ask us, but what do WE need to ask ourselves?
Choosing Wisely Canada encourages patients to ask clinicians 4 questions about tests and treatments they think might be unnecessary. But what questions should clinicians ask themselves? Join us and Dr. Sam Campbell on January 4th for a webinar on 5 questions clinicians should ask themselves to ensure that they are ordering the right test and what results they can expect.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Beyond the Mask: Implementing Choosing Wisely Recommendations in Anesthesiology
For December's Choosing Wisely Talks we will hear from Dr. Chris Harle, Chair of Ontario Anesthesiologist on how they developed their Beyond The Mask Choosing Wisely Implementation Guide, and how it could be scaled nationally.
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and Canadian Patient Safety Institute ASPIRE Workshop
Nov 28, 9:00am EST - Dec 1, 5:00pm EST
Taking place in Ottawa, Ontario, the ASPIRE program is a national faculty development certificate program dedicated to advancing the teaching and education of patient safety, quality improvement and resource stewardship.
Practising Wisely Day
Hosted by the Ontario College of Family Physicians at the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto, Practising Wisely will focus on reducing over-prescribing, over-imaging, over-screening and over-monitoring.
Lab Utilization Symposium
Hosted by St. Michael's Hospital, at the Chesnut Conference Centre in Toronto, Lab Utilization Symposium will focus on strategies for improving best practices in lab medicine.
College of Family Physicians of Canada Family Medicine Forum 2017
Nov 8, 9:00am EST - Nov 11, 5:00pm EST
Taking place at Palais des congrès de Montréal, Québec, Family Medicine Forum is an annual conference for family physicians, hosted by the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Antibiotic Wisely: Sharing Proven Strategies to Reduce Unnecessary Antibiotic Use
Just in time for Antibiotic Awareness Week, Dr. Jerome Leis, Physician Lead of Antimicrobial Stewardship and Medical Director of Infection Prevention & Control at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, will share with Choosing Wisely Talks participants interventions proven to be effective in reducing unnecessary antibiotic use across different healthcare settings.
Taking place at the Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto, Ontario, AFHTO's 'Improving Care Together' focuses on optimizing use of resources and reducing unnecessary treatments. The program will highlight how to make the most of opportunities and minimize challenges, both locally and regionally, to improve health, health care, and value for the people of Ontario.
Choosing Wisely Talks | How Small Changes Make a Big Difference: Alberta & Manitoba Vitamin D Testing Case Studies
For October's webinar tune in to hear from Dr. Christopher Naugler, Choosing Wisely Alberta, and Ms. Sarah Kirby, Choosing Wisely Manitoba, about how their respective provinces saw 91.4% and 86% reductions in vitamin D testing, as well as how the strategies they used might be applied to other types of routine testing.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Back to School: Students & Trainees Choosing Wisely
For our season premiere, and back to school special, Choosing Wisely Talks we will be joined by Dr. Neil Kalra, Dr. Chris Hillis, and Karen Born, PhD to learn how residents and trainees are implementing the campaign in specialties such as radiology or through local quality improvement projects.
Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017: Towards Responsible Global Solutions
Aug 17, 9:00am EST - Aug 19, 5:00pm EST
Hosted by the Québec Medical Association at the Québec City Convention Centre, Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 will be the first bilingual conference on overuse and too much medicine.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Overutilization in Lab Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities
Dr. Michelle Sholzberg, Dr. Lisa Hicks, and Dr. Julie Gilmour reviewed pervasive patterns of overutilization and discussed strategies to address this phenomenon without negatively impacting care.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Behavioural Sciences 101: How Behavioural Insights Can Help Reduce Unnecessary Care
Meera Paleja will discusses how Behavioural Insights have provided alternative approaches to tackling behaviour change challenges in the healthcare domain, and how this approach may be useful in achieving Choosing Wisely’s goals.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Taking Action on Overuse Framework and Change Package for Reducing Low-Value Care
Dr. Michael Parchman, Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute and the Director of the MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation, explained how the Taking Action on Overuse framework and change package can be used as a roadmap for engaging care teams in reducing unnecessary care and making efforts last.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Advancing Patient Engagement Through Information Design
Dr. Shawn Dowling and Ms. Heather Hair, from Alberta’s Emergency Strategic Clinical Network (ESCN), informed participants about their infographic-based patient implementation strategy on CT scans for MTBI.
9:00am MST - 5:00pm MST
The 2017 Choosing Wisely Canada National Meeting was held on Monday, February 27, 2017 in Calgary, Alberta, hosted by Choosing Wisely Alberta.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Say Yes to Less: Making it Easier to Choosing Wisely at SickKids, Toronto
Dr. Jeremy Friedman of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, addressed the importance of Choosing Wisely in pediatric practice, and discussed SickKids’ own Choosing Wisely ‘top 5’ list.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Deprescribing in Primary Care
Dr. Kimberly Wintemute, Ms. Emelyn Barlett, and Ms. Kate Walsh of Toronto focused on deprescribing in primary care.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Choosing Wisely Canada Holiday Special: A Year in Review & Snapshot of What’s to Come
Choosing Wisely Canada co-founders, Dr. Wendy Levinson, Chair, and Tai Huynh, Campaign Director, highlighted the collective progress of the Choosing Wisely Canada community in 2016.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Hone Your Skills: Are You An Effective Deprescriber? Tackling sedative-hypnotic drugs in older adults
Dr. Cara Tannenbaum, the Principal Investigator of the EMPOWER trial, shared the evidence-based benzodiazepine deprescribing tool she created for community-dwelling seniors.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Choosing Wisely and Patient-Centredness: Mutually Exclusive? A Primary Care Perspective
Dr. Anthony Train, Calgary, and Dr. Kimberly Wintemute, Toronto, focused on four common clinical scenarios in family medicine that illustrated the tension family docs face when they need to say no to patient requests for low-value care.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Tackling Overuse in Hospitals, Sinai Health System, Toronto
Dr. Christine Soong, from Sinai Health System (SHS), Toronto, presented their hospital-based Choosing Wisely interventions to reduce overuse.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Lose the Tube: Reducing Inappropriate Catheter Use at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto
Dr. Jerome Leis, Infectious Diseases specialist and general internist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, discussed his work on reducing inappropriate catheter use at Sunnybrook.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Canadian Institute for Health Information: Pan-Canadian Indicators of Overuse
Leads from the Canadian Institute for Health Information discussed three Choosing Wisely Canada recommendations that are being measured across multiple regions: mammography screening, antipsychotic use for insomnia in kids and preoperative testing in low risk surgery.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Kaiser Permanente of Georgia’s Choosing Wisely Regional Implementation
Dr. Scott Pugel, Kaiser Permanente Georgia, discussed their evidence-based care initiatives.
On Wednesday, March 30th, 2016 Choosing Wisely Canada held its Inaugural National Meeting at the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon in the Toronto Reference Library.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Choosing Wisely at Fletcher Allen Health, University of Vermont
Dr. Justin Stinnett-Donnelly presented the grassroots Choosing Wisely approach he and Dr. Virginia Hood’s led at Fletcher Allen Health Care, University of Vermont.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Appropriate Use of Antipsychotics in Long Term Care, Seniors Health Strategic Clinical Network of Alberta Health Services
Mollie Cole, Manager of Seniors Health Strategic Clinical Network, Alberta Health Services, presented on behalf of the Appropriate Use of Antipsychotics (AUA) Toolkit Working Group.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Making Choosing Wisely Bloody Easy! Nova Scotia Health Authority & Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto
Dr. Irene Sadek, from Nova Scotia Health Authority, and Dr. Yulia Lin, from Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, presented local efforts to improve the quality of transfusion practice such as single vs. double unit transfusion, and hemoglobin thresholds.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Choosing Wisely Canada’s 2015 Year in Review
Choosing Wisely Canada core team members presented the new and exciting initiatives underway in 2015.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Choosing Wisely at St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto
Dr. Lisa Hicks, hematologist and Choosing Wisely physician lead at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto presented their newest implementation projects.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Choosing Wisely Manitoba, Diagnostic Services Manitoba & George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation
Dr. Eric Bohm and Jim Slater, Diagnostic Services Manitoba & George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation, presented on pre-operative testing audit & feedback trials that were conducted in Manitoba and their communications toolkit for physicians and other healthcare providers.
Choosing Wisely Talks | North York General Hospital Choosing Wisely Implementation, Toronto
Dr. Donna McRitchie, Vice President of Medical and Academic Affairs, and Mark Fam, Program Director of Strategy and Diagnostics, explained how North York General Hospital reduced test ordering by 40% in the Emergency Department.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Choosing Wisely Canada Measurement Overview
Dr. Sacha Bhatia, Choosing Wisely Canada’s Evaluation Lead, focused on measurement presented initiatives underway in several different provinces.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Choosing Wisely Alberta & Partnerships for Implementation
Medical leaders from across Alberta shared their experiences in implementing Choosing Wisely Canada recommendations and partnering for success.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Choosing Wisely at the University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Christopher Moriates, Co-chair, Costs of Care/ABIM Foundation Teaching Value & Choosing Wisely Challenge, discussed the Choosing Wisely implementation experience at UCSF.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Overview of Implementation Approaches: Canadian & US Experience to Date
Tai Huynh, Choosing Wisely Canada’s Campaign Director, reflected on the various ways in which organizations in Canada and the United States are implementing Choosing Wisely recommendations.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Reducing Clinical Variation at Sutter Health, Sacramento, California
Dr. Michael van Duren, Vice President of Variation Reduction at Sutter Health in California, discussed their experience with using data in conversations with physicians, and practice patterns as they relate to the overuse of certain tests, treatments or procedures.
Choosing Wisely Talks | Nova Scotia Health Authority, Vancouver Coastal Health & Providence Health Care
Geoff Wilson, Director of Patient and Public Engagement at Nova Scotia Health Authority (formerly Capital Health), presented their patient and public focused communications plan for January – April 2015.
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Senate Moderates Criticize Trump For Mocking Kavanaugh Accuser
According to Reuters, three moderate Republicans, pivotal in determining whether the Senate confirms U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, criticized President Donald Trump for mocking a woman who has accused the judge of sexual assault. Senators Jeff Flake, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski were among the lawmakers who objected to Trump’s comments regarding Christine Blasey Ford. Trump mocked Ford's testimony for not recalling certain details about the, such as the precise date or location of the alleged assault. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~3/KygRl96Djss/senate-moderates-criticize-trump-for-mocking-kavanaugh-accuser-idUSKCN1MD0DG http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com
Rep. Duncan Hunter Indicted On Campaign Finance Fraud Charges
Duncan Hunter and his wife Margaret have been indicted for using campaign funds for personal expenses and trying to cover them up. The five-count indi ...
Iran Says Israel, U.S. Will Be Targeted If U.S. Attacks
Reuters reports A senior Iranian cleric warned Washington on Wednesday that if it attacked Iran, the United States and allied Israel would be targeted ...
Illegal immigrant Charged With Murder Of Mollie Tibbitts
(Reuters) - A 24-year-old man described as an illegal immigrant from Mexico was charged with murder on Tuesday after he led detectives to the body of ...
Fire Chief Claims Verizon Throttling Of Fire Department Was Safety Threat
According to testimony and documents by a Santa Clara California fire chief, throttling of a fire departments internet speeds per a lower priced Veriz ...
Iran Releases New Jet, Says U.S. Doesn't Dare Attack
Today a ceremony broadcast by state TV included the fly-past of a new home-made fighter jet called Kowsar, which is capable of carrying various weapon ...
Fox News Slammed For Manafort, Cohen Coferage
Tuesday was a bad day for President Trump. His close advisor, Paul Manafort, was convicted of eight felonies. His lawyer, Michael Cohen, admitted to t ...
U.S. Republican Representative Hunter Indicted
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter, a Republican of California, was indicted on charges that he and his wife used hundreds of .. ...
Netflix Orders Season 2 of 'The End Of The F***ing World'
The dedicated fans that were left unsatisfied by the series ending of "The End of the F***ing World" are in luck. ComicBook.com reports that Netflix h ...
Plane With Rapper Post Malone On it Lands With Blown Tires
(Reuters) - A private jet carrying rapper Post Malone landed safely at a New York airport after two of its tires blew out during takeoff on Tuesday, a ...
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Burnout Paradise Remastered set for mid-March release
Photo: EA
Electronic Arts has made the decision to release a remastered version of one of it's most popular racing games of all time - Burnout Paradise.
The Criterion game has been fully remastered, and upgraded to offer 4k resolution and 60 frames per second - so you can smash the same billboards and nail the same super jumps in ultra smooth and crisp high-definition.
The remastered edition of the game includes all 8 add on packs from the original, including Big Surf Island, Cops and Robbers, and even the Toy Cars pack.
Burnout Paradise Remastered is available for pre-order now on Xbox One and Playstation 4, and is set to release on March 16th, so is only just around the corner.
You can watch the trailer right here:
Take us down to the Paradise City…Burnout Paradise Remastered arrives on March 16 pic.twitter.com/HkA8LcZtLe
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Solar Sail News
LightSail has deployed
The Planetary Society's LightSail spacecraft successfully deployed its solar sail. The link includes instructions on how to view the spacecraft using the N2YO service. The deployment comes after the mission struggled with a software glitched caused a communications loss and battery problems. Also see the Planetary Society's press release. Congratulations, LightSail team! --Ben (talk) 17:47, 7 June 2015 (EDT)
(Sun, 07 Jun 2015 17:47:33 -0400)
LightSail Team Prepares for Sail Deployment
The LightSail team is preparing to run the deployment test of the solar sail on Wednesday June 3rd, 2015. Deployment will be executed manually, and is happening shortly after the team resumed communications with the LightSail spacecraft. There was an 8 day communications blackout due to a glitch in the software. --Ben (talk) 14:19, 1 June 2015 (EDT)
(Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:19:50 -0400)
StarTalk Cosmic Queries: LightSail with Bill Nye
Bill Nye answers questions about solar sails and LightSail on the April 19th, 2015, episode of StarTalk Radio. --Ben (talk) 14:04, 1 May 2015 (EDT)
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LightSail Readiness Tests Prepare Team for Mission Operations
The Planetary Society's LightSail mission is undergoing tests to make sure the spacecraft is ready for operations when it launches. LightSail is scheduled to launch no sooner than May 20th 2015, on an Atlas V rocket with the Air Force's X-37B reusable spaceplane. --Ben (talk) 13:48, 25 April 2015 (EDT)
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Project Dragonfly on Kickstarter
Project Dragonfly is a proposal to launch a swarm of small solar sails to the stars using lasers. They have launched a Kickstarter fundraising campaign for the preliminary engineering design by international student teams. --Ben (talk)
Dreaming Up the Future of Interstellar Travel
Science Friday interviews Les Johnson about the future of interstellar travel. --Ben (talk) 13:02, 25 April 2015 (EDT)
NASA Nixes Sunjammer Mission, Cites Integration, Schedule Risk
Space News reports on the cancellation of NASA's solar sail demonstration mission (Sunjammer). Fair winds, LightSail. --Ben (talk) 20:33, 18 October 2014 (EDT)
(Sun, 19 Oct 2014 09:51:52 -0400)
LightSail updates July 7, 2014
The Planetary Society's LightSail solar sail cubesat mission has posted some recent updates, including a major announcement. LightSail is Ready for Launch! Join Us as the Countdown Begins. Live webcast and major announcement Wednesday July 9th, 2014 LightSail update: Of booms and pretty pictures, July 1, 2014 LightSail update: Three steps forward, one step back, June 18, 2014 --Ben (talk) 18:41, 7 July 2014 (EDT) Updates: LightSail is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy in April of 2016. The Planetary Society blog post about the LightSail launch. LightSail-A may fly in May of 2015 in a LEO test before flying LightSail-B high enough to sail in April 2016. LightSail-B will fly with the Prox-1 nanosatellite mission which will image LightSail. --Ben (talk) 22:38, 9 July 2014 (EDT)
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Solar sail news roundup for October 3, 2013
It's been awhile since I posted on news in the world of solar sailing, so here's a list of stories that have come out in the past several months. Sunjammer The Sunjammer project successfully tested deployment of a sail quadrant at a L·Garde facility in Tustin, CA, on September 30th, 2013. This is one boom and one sail out of four that will make up the flight sail. Students from the Palm Middle School Science, Technology, and Mathematics (STEM) program visited L'Garde and watched the deployment test. News Coverage Universe Today: Huge Solar Sail Portion Unfurls In Crucial Ground Test Satnews: L'Garde Inc., Space Services Holdings + NASA - Sunjamming For Power (Technology-Sail) NBC News, September 23, 2013: Solar sail ships seen as best bet now to get us to interstellar space. Discussion with physicist and novelist Dr. Gregory Benford on interstellar travel. Project Forward of Icarus Interstellar continues the study of beamed sail propulsion to other stars. Infographic on interstellar sailing IKAROS The IKAROS sailcraft is still alive and orbiting the sun with occasional radio beacon contacts with the ground. English translation of IKAROS blog posts: IKAROS Daily Report - August 29th, 2013 IKAROS Daily Report - August 22nd, 2013 The CubeSail project and UltraSail concept of UIUC and CU Aerospace were featured in NASA Tech Briefs on September 1st, 2013: UltraSail CubeSat Solar Sail Flight Experiment. The Third International Symposium on Solar Sailing was held on June 11-13th, 2013, at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. --Ben (talk) 14:30, 3 October 2013 (EDT)
(Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:30:24 -0400)
NASA to Launch World's Largest Solar Sail in 2014
NASA to Launch World's Largest Solar Sail in 2014 by Leonard David of Space.com goes in depth on the Sunjammer mission. --Ben (talk) 20:19, 25 February 2013 (EST)
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Home English Articles Reminding the Real Emergency
Reminding the Real Emergency
“The National Herald, founded by Jawaharlal Nehru, supported the Emergency throughout, and cautiously removed the quote ‘Freedom is in peril, defend it with all your might’ from its masthead.” ― Coomi Kapoor, The Emergency: A Personal History, Penguin, 2016
The National Emergency proclaimed on June 25, 1975 by the then Prime Minister Smt Indira Gandhi by a Presidential Ordinance is often referred to as the ‘Darkest period of Democracy in Bharat’. It is a right time to revisit the most horrific phase in democracy of Bharat on its anniversary.
Recently, many politicians and some media persons hurled allegation of ‘creating Emergency like situation’, against the present dispensation. The heir of dynastic politics, Rahul Gandhi while launching the commemorative edition of National Herald went on to say that ‘this Government is forcing everyone into silence, but National Herald has a spirit—a very strong spirit and it will not be silenced’, forgetting the fact that the same National Herald had silently supported the Emergency and is now caught into the allegations of financial irregularities, thanks to the family appropriation.
It is also necessary to remind the real horrors of Emergency for media persons and especially youngsters who are active on digital platforms and may not be able to connect with the draconian period. This may create the impression that any investigation by Government agencies against a media house or a company pertaining to financial irregularity or speaking against anti-national
sloganeering or against the people, who stand for terrorism and terrorists, is known as Emergency.
So in the late hours of June 25, 1975, with the advice of Smt Gandhi, the then President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, promulgated National Emergency under Article 352 of the Constitution, under the pretext of “the security of India is threatened by internal disturbance”. The real reason was the conviction of Smt Gandhi in the Allahabad High Court on June 12, 1975, in a case related to electoral malpractices. Even before the Ordinance was accepted by the Cabinet and Emergency was declared formally,—on the night of June 25-26, 1975—police arrested all major Opposition leaders, including Jaiprakash Narayan. Civil liberties were suspended, and amendments were brought in that threatened to alter the basic character of the Constitution and draconian laws like MISA were strengthened. More than eight democratically elected State governments led by non-Congress parties were toppled on a single day (April 29, 1977).
What happened on the media front was more gruesome. Strict censorship was imposed on the Press and any form of protest against Emergency by newspapers (editors) was curbed through the means of financial restrictions or brutal force. Most of the newspapers, including Organiser Weekly, came to a standstill because the Government had cut-off their electricity supplies to make them “fall in line”. Several foreign correspondents were removed and accreditation of more than 40 reporters was withdrawn. Radio and Doordarshan, having a complete monopoly of the State, were used as propaganda machinery. If all this was not sufficient, four private news agencies were forced to merge in a single entity, to make the news monitoring job easier.
Even social and patriotic organisations like the RSS was banned and thousands of Swayamesevaks were arrested. Though many fought through satyagraha and underground methods, some went missing, some families are still not able to come out of the trauma of this deadly assault on democracy.
If this was the real Emergency then what is it that we are experiencing today? The reality is, the spill-over effect of Emergency remained even after the 21—month period of uncivil rule was over. Controlling media through advertisement policies or plundering Government resources for personal interests, became a norm. This was also used to establish certain narratives about Bharat and our national identity. Terms like ‘secularism’ and ‘human rights’ were wrongly established to justify communal acts of vote-bank politics and to protect violent, anti-national activities. With the arrival of social media, all this is under scanner. It is not the Government or its agencies, but common people active on digital platforms, now popularly known as trolls, are questioning this status-quo. The political change at the Centre is also part of this changing narrative which is not acceptable to many.
It is true that ‘the price of freedom is eternal vigilance’, at the same time we should keep in mind that every piece of rope is not a snake. More importantly such hallucination may lead us to lose the sight of the real snake, that is why this reminder.
@PrafullaKetkar
Courtesy: Organiser
National Herald
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Looking Back on the November 10th Chapter Meeting
Another rainy nite in VA, but the Harmonizer spirits were high coming off the fantastic show on Sunday with Pride of Baltimore.
The usual scene was unfolding as men arrived to be early for the 7 pm start time. Sales were fairly strong of White House ornaments, Entertainment books and scrip cards for holiday purchases or gifts prior to the meeting.
After the warm up period, Director Joe praised and thanked the chorus and its many leaders for the hard work in making the show a huge success. He was impressed with the in-tune singing. He was glad the webcast reached out and delivered our product far and wide around the world.
The show was at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the U of MD College Park campus. A nice facility for singing and for watching! Theme of the show was “Take It From The Top” and included three songs sung by both the Harmonizers and Pride of Baltimore Sweet Adeline chorus. For the record, the songs were “All I Ask of You,” “Scarborough Fair,” and “Singing in Harmony.” About 160 singers were on the risers.
Guest quartet was MAXX FACTOR who recently achieved medalist status at the SAI convention. MC for the show was our own Rick Taylor.
Kudos to Brad Jones who did tons of tasks to make it a success and was the “believer” that it was a possibility. Ken Rub was officially producer. A quick run down of folks who did jobs to make it a success: JP for song board; K12 for chorus manager for both groups; TJ for visual cues; B Minnick for ticket sales for afterglow; Scott for sound; Mike K for webcast; Dean Martin for podcasts; K White for afterglow mc; Blair for truck and riser crew leadership; Dixie for lights; Scipio for marketing; FRIENDS for sales in lobby; a long list of soloists; CAMERON STATION for singing their new songs on the show.
Then it was on to work for the next big task in our calendar – the Holiday shows. Joe had his assistant directors work on the songs they will direct that weekend. (YeEd noted that we have so many new guys and guests on the risers we gotta put together more holiday music notebooks.)
After a healthy time for holiday show songs, Joe introduced us to our new contest ballad. He used some new techniques to do this. First we all read and talked about the meaning of the lyrics. Then we listened to a version of the song done by Frank Sinatra. Then we all sang the melody. Then since we were all fired up, Joe played the tag of the arrangement as sung by a demo tape. WOW. Song is “I Get Along Without You Just Like I Should.”
Joe turned things over to operations vp Klostermeyer who announced birthdays include the 234th for the Corps. Secretary Buechler presented a 6-year membership card to Ken Henderson, who is new to our chapter. Ken got the usual packet of neat things including the Harmo history book. [Last week, YeEd missed reporting that Josh Roots was given his 3-year renewal, and that Bill Clark and Neil Bibens, who are not living in this area, have renewed also.
K12 also brought out a huge pile of lost and found things from the show -- funny to see guys reclaim uniform parts and personal things.
Dan O’Brien welcomed Drew Dias back and then invited 12 guests up front for introduction. The group included some former members, guys from other chapters in our district and from afar, several first time guests, and a couple new applicants. As is our tradition, we sang our welcome song to them, directed by Will Cox. While we sing, the president, director and Dan shake each guest’s hand.
During the break, there were lots of goodies to go with the coffee – left overs from the goodies brought to the weekend show for the chorus dressing room and coordinated by one of our guests, Grant Leber.
YeEd also noted that the FRIENDS group was at Durant for one of their meetings. And he heard that Carl Kauffmann will be in Philly this weekend representing us on the BHS “fam” trip that lets each competing chorus send a rep to go to the site of the convention to check out housing options, practices spaces, the contest site, restaurants and transportation challenges. Craig Kuyawa is co-chair for Philly.
Ken Rub, our show vp, invited everyone to come sing on the Armed Forces daytime show at a local elementary school. (It turned out to be another great day and it was fun for the guys to sing for the students and many military vets present. Several of our guys were in uniform too for the event.)
Jeremy Knobel is heading up the Holiday Show and he asked five things from the men of the chapter: (1) sell tickets; (2) volunteer to help on Fri. morning the 4th; (3a) wrap two large boxes, like you buy reams of paper in, with shiny wrapping paper; (3b) bring four dozen good quality homemade or bakery holiday cookies with you; (4) contribute items of value for the silent auction – give them to Phil Ferguson; (5) get your costume ready to be an elf or toy.
President Brad acknowledged a generous gift from Shirley Bolstad to the chapter. And then Brad presented You Make A Difference pins to all the members of the FRIENDS group for their always-willing support of the chapter.
After the meeting portion of the nite, Joe had everyone get into a quartet push out line up for two holiday songs. Then he sent everyone to sectionals in other parts of the building to work on “There Will Always Be A Place on the Risers for You.” That work prompted a Moment In Harmo History about how that song came to be written by Bob Bates and arranged by John Hohl and sung at many important moments in the life of the chapter.
Joe and his musical team also had the singers work on the new “Chipmunk” song.
We adjourned a few minutes early, stashed the risers under the stage and prepared to head over to the afterglow. As usual there were quartets around the hall trying things and helping new guys get ready for their auditions.
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