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“My Heart Pedals Shut”: On Distance, Desire, and Lyric Address in Recent Poetry by Women
Kristina Marie Darling
Books Discussed:
The Sad Epistles by Emma Bolden (Chicago, IL: Dancing Girl Press, 2008)
Desiring Map by Megan Kaminski (Atlanta, GA: Coconut Books, 2013)
In much of contemporary experimental writing, there is a tendency to valorize fragmented approaches to the lyric, to praise the disintegration of voice. This approach is filled with risks, among them a troubling lack of clarity in the terms of address. More often than not, the intimacy that is at stake between characters in a poem, the inevitably intriguing relationship between the “I” and the “you,” remains poorly articulated. We are left with the mere promise of plot, a gesture toward persona and voice, the luminous fragments of so many plausible narratives.
With that said, Emma Bolden’s The Sad Epistles and Megan Kaminski’s Desiring Map are rare exceptions to this disconcerting trend in recent poetry. These writers offer innovative variations on traditional lyric address that are as carefully considered as they are contemplative, reminding us that the precision with which the “you” is defined does not foreclose artistic or imaginative possibility.
Though presenting us with clearly delineated rhetorical situations, a multiplicity is still housed within each seemingly simple manifestation of the love object. This expertly orchestrated complexity is brought to bear on incisive discussions of love, loss, and longing. In each of these finely crafted collections, the “you” becomes an accumulation—of memories, of dreams, of experiences—and each utterance of the unadorned pronoun gestures toward the very impossibility of signification. Bolden and Kaminski engage a rich tradition of lyric address while at the same time interrogating it, each poem a reflection on the philosophical problems inherent in its own making.
Throughout The Sad Epistles, Bolden’s language orbits around an alluringly absent center. “I’m flayed, a waiting,” she explains. The “you” is known to the reader only through the speaker’s desire, a longing housed within every darkened “hallway,” the room she inhabits “hung” with “ghosts.” Presented as a series of epistolary fragments that document a long-distance relationship, the poems in this chapbook offer a syntax shattered by an unfulfilled wish. “People are liars. // Petals are fingernails. // I am liar for saying so,” Bolden writes. These rhythmically obstructive pauses, and the declarative structure of every sentence, convey the power that the love object wields over the speaker. Stammering and uncertain, she is rendered nearly speechless in his absence.
As the chapbook unfolds, we pass through the ruination he has left behind—“a soot bird,” “a sooty porch rail”—and gradually discern what is at stake in this exchange of letters: He may bear the speaker into a more vibrant linguistic landscape, or pull her out of language entirely. In Black Sun, Julia Kristeva describes mourning as “loss of speech.” Words no longer cohere when placed side by side, and the meaning that was once found there becomes an impossibility. The Sad Epistles enacts this idea through its fragmented form, its resistance to narrative, and its eschewing of musicality in the conventional sense. Consider this passage,
Your jaw is an opening I like too much, the back of you heel one I sing to.
If I were an egg I’d peel myself.
If I were an egg I’d strip
To talk being the most difficult
To scalpel my own To flay
Bolden unequivocally asserts the difficulty of constructing a narrative edifice around loss. Indeed, “To talk” is always “the most difficult”. Lyric fragments become a metaphor for the speaker’s inability to make meaning from a “scalpel,” an “egg,” the outline of a beloved “jaw.” The sentences themselves often remain unpunctuated, visibly incomplete, and phrased in the conditional. We see that definitive assertion has become yet another impossibility. As Bolden skillfully articulates “an absence, a world,” the intervening presence that would provide unity, cohesion, and stability never once appears.
Throughout this collection, lyric address is provocatively emptied of narrative. The end result is more real, and more true, than a story ever could be. Rather than recounting to the love object those things that he would more than likely remember (“a strong tooth’s gash,” “florid school portrait smiles”), he is shown, piece by piece, how he has unmade the world.
With that in mind, The Sad Epistles reads as an exploration of desire, power, and disempowerment, the “you” becoming a locus for this loss of voice and agency. As Bolden herself writes, “This is not simple to say.”
Megan Kaminski’s Desiring Map offers a “you” that is an accumulation of “river,” “cloud,” and “grass.” Yet the “clumps of hills” and “streaming / fields” rarely offer a glimpse of what is already familiar to the love object. Kaminski shows us that to convey desire in language is to create an intricately imagined landscape. The speaker’s longing takes shape as a “soft drift” across “the country,” “whisps of cold breath” exhaled by someone three cities away. Line by line, she attempts to show the love object a vast expanse, the “rooftops and horizons,” he has opened up within her psyche. As the book unfolds, love is revealed as a seemingly endless topography, rich with sound, echo, and music.
Much like Bolden’s artful fragmentation, Kaminski’s beautiful sonic flourishes read as an extension of content. The music of the poems offers a compelling metaphor for the sublime qualities of the “you.” Additionally, Kaminski’s mellifluous cadences read as an invitation, a beckoning to the “you” across a widening expanse. “Who can rattle off five addictives / let darkness creep from south,” Kaminski writes. Through song, the speaker implores. The assonance in these particular lines (consider the “a” in “can,” “rattle,” “addictives,” the “o” in “off” and “Who”) also calls our attention to language as an embodied experience. If spoken aloud, the words become almost tangible, a “ginger gin fizz” in one’s mouth. With that in mind, Kaminski draws a clear parallel between language and desire. She calls our attention to the ways that longing, like language, is a bodily experience, a starting ache.
As in Bolden’s chapbook, the work of representation is necessitated, and made possible, by distance. The speaker is charged with conveying a loss of beauty, radiance, and possibility in the beloved’s absence. Indeed, sublime experience in this collection is almost always past, residing in that “cornflower boundary” the speaker has already traversed. We are borne through memory if only to create music from it,
Purple blossoms bedeck arms
spread down neighborhood trees
I wander in solitude spend hours
calculating the sum of things
Lyric address and its ensuing music becomes a way of traversing distance, closing the gap between self and other, bringing a distant and inaccessible “you” into closer proximity. Here the “you” is asked to imagine the light, fragrance, and memory that permeate the speaker’s surroundings. This intricately imagined landscape, like many others in the book, becomes a kind of shared consciousness, a point of continuity between the always distant “I” and “you,” a luminous fiction into which the reader, too, is invited.
Kristina Marie Darling is the author of over twenty books of poetry, most recently DARK HORSE (C&R Press, 2017). Her awards include two Yaddo residencies, a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, and multiple residencies at the American Academy in Rome, as well as grants from the Whiting Foundation and Harvard University’s Kittredge Fund. Her poems and essays appear in The Gettysburg Review, Agni, New American Writing, The Iowa Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Mid-American Review, and elsewhere. Her work has also been featured on the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog and the Academy of American Poets’ website, Poets.org. She is Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Quarterly and Grants Specialist at Black Ocean.
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Through Wyatt's Eyes
365 of the first days of my life.
Both Mommy and Daddy thought it was really important that we go vote together, so we walked down as one unifed unit to the polling booth on Valencia and waited in line to do something that's distinctly American. Mommy told me how important it is to have my voice be heard. I do that when I want my binky. But I think she means that I have the ability to make a difference in a country, and it's my duty to do so.
Got it, Mommy. Will do in eighteen years.
For the record, I'm an Obama guy. I like his ears. And his voice comforts me.
Anyways, ten hours later, when my guy won (that would make my record 1-0), we watched as the new President-elect made his acceptance speech. Daddy and Mommy were so proud to be Americans. They hung on his every word. And as I rested on Daddy's chest, I gripped harder with each sentence.
It was cool seeing my parents react like that about something that didn't immediately involve me.
But, after listening to them talk about what just happened and after reading over Daddy's shoulder as he updated his own blog, I realized something that really touches me (and something I'll never forget or try to exploit): that everything that happens in their lives is always about me.
If I could have voted for them as my parents, I would have.
Click me to see more of me
My Life By Month
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Travels in Music
A Podcast That Shares Stories About Music From Around The World
Ep. 18: I’m Your Man: Sylvie Simmons on Montreal, Making Music, and the Life of Leonard Cohen
By Zachary Stockill
The Canadian singer-songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen has written some of the most eloquent, powerful, and important popular songs of the past half century.
Although many members of the younger generation are only familiar with his modern day hymn “Hallelujah,” that’s really just skimming the surface of Cohen’s brilliance. For the man who wrote “Hallelujah” has also given us “Suzanne,” “So Long, Marianne,” “Anthem,” “Closing Time,” “If It Be Your Will,” and several dozen other songs that musicians will still be covering in twenty, fifty, one hundred years time.
Leonard Cohen is, arguably, my country’s greatest living songwriter—and an artist deserving of a thoughtful, eloquent, and comprehensive biography. Thankfully, my guest today has provided music fans with just that.
Sylvie Simmons is a longtime rock critic and music writer whose 2012 biography of Cohen, I’m Your Man, was the rare hotly anticipated music biography that lived up to the hype.
Written over several years with the support, if not the official endorsement of its subject, I’m Your Man is an engrossing and moving read, inspiring to Cohen fans as well as anyone who does anything creative for a living. Leonard Cohen’s 80-plus years on this planet have been fascinating, occasionally tumultuous, and complex, and his biographer—herself a longtime fan—has honoured and celebrated Cohen’s life with her book.
In today’s episode of Travels in Music, Sylvie Simmons and I discuss her personal encounters with Cohen, what his music has meant to her and so many others, Cohen’s reputation as a ladies man, salacious Canadian journalism, and much more.
I was privileged for her to join me, and I hope you enjoy sitting in on my conversation with the author of I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen, Ms. Sylvie Simmons.
Also available via Stitcher Radio
Mentioned in this episode:
I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons (Amazon)
“Suzanne” by Leonard Cohen (Amazon / iTunes)
The Best of Leonard Cohen (Amazon / iTunes)
Sylvie Simmons performing “Famous Blue Raincoat” (YouTube)
Tom Waits interviewed by Sylvie Simmons
“You Are In My Arms” by Sylvie Simmons (Amazon / iTunes)
“Closing Time (Live)” by Leonard Cohen (Amazon / iTunes)
Learn more about Sylvie Simmons at:
Her personal website
Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: leonard cohen, montreal, sylvie simmons
B-side: An Update On the Future of Travels in Music
Ep. 21: As Time Goes By: In Defense of Harry Nilsson’s “A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night”
Ep. 20: Escape Is At Hand: Joshua Kloke on Canada’s Favourite Rock Band, the Tragically Hip
Copyright 2016 Travels in Music
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Six-run third inning leads Pilots past Pios, 8-3
Submitted by: Leslie Ohmann, Newark Pilots
NEWARK, N.Y. – The Newark Pilots downed the West Division-leading Elmira Pioneers by a final of 8-3 on Senator Mike Nozzolio Night at Colburn Park on Wednesday.
With the victory, the Pilots (16-25) remain two games out of the third and final playoff spot in the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League’s (PGCBL) West Division. Utica (18-23) sits in third place while Adirondack (16-24) maintains a half-game advantage for fourth.
Newark batted around in the six-run third inning to turn a 1-0 deficit into a lead it would never relinquish. Nick Wegmann (Binghamton) walked to lead off the inning and scored the tying run on a Blake Valley (San Francisco) sac fly. Two batters later, Cody Wiktorski (St. John Fisher) singled to load the bases. Mark Martin (Le Moyne) drove in a run with an RBI single, followed by an RBI groundout by Willy Yahn (Connecticut). Wiktorski and Martin both touched home on an error by Elmira third baseman Keegan Maronpot (Wake Forest). Will Gorman (RIT) plated the sixth run with a double to center field.
The Pilots tacked on runs in the fourth and seventh innings. Their eighth and final run of the night came after Mark Martin slugged a one-out triple to the gap in right center. He scored in the ensuing at-bat on a Yahn base hit.
Jacob Wloczewski (Newark Pilots)
Photo by: Paul Dewa
Despite walking the bases loaded in the fifth inning, Newark starter Jacob Wloczewski (Binghamton) ended the frame unscathed by fanning Dalton Hoiles (Shippensburg) before inducing a fly out by Brian Barefoot (Louisiana-Monroe) for the final out.
Wloczewski (2-2) earned the win after giving up just one run on four hits and six walks in five innings of work. He lowered his team-leading ERA to 1.97 in his seventh start of the season.
Tristan Widra (Samford) was handed the loss after allowing seven runs (four earned) on seven hits in four innings. Widra (3-2) was forced into action as a last-minute substitution when scheduled starter Nate Matheson (Old Dominion) was scratched from the lineup.
Looking for the improbable comeback, Elmira scored twice in the top of the ninth. Josh Lovelady (Mississippi State) plated Maronpot with an RBI single. Hoiles would earn an easy RBI with a bases-loaded walk two batters later.
Vinny Martin (Iona) was called upon to get the final two outs of the game. He did so by fanning both Barefoot and Jordan Bishop (Siena).
Gorman, Mark Martin and Wiktorski each finished with two hits for Newark. Elmira’s Mike Korchak (Bucknell) not only led his club with two hits in three at-bats, but he also tossed a perfect inning of relief in the sixth.
The Newark Pilots and Elmira Pioneers are back on Thursday, July 22 at 7:05 p.m. to conclude the two-game series at Colburn Park.
baseball, newark, sports
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1978 Weirton Daily Times Obituaries
Last Name First Name Age Place of death Date in paper
Abel Rev. George Prentiss 73 Steubenville, OH 02/09/78
Adamo Robert L. 35 Weirton, WV 06/05/78
Adams Emma J. 83 Steubenville, OH 11/21/78
Adams Eula F. 71 Weirton, WV 04/17/78
Adams Nelson A. 81 Wheeling, WV 01/16/78
Adams Rev. Thomas S. 80 Steubenville, OH 05/01/78
Adkins Gene 49 Weirton, WV 01/03/78
Adyniec Alfred A. 60 Steubenville, OH 01/04/78
Afek Walter F. 55 Steubenville, OH 02/20/78
Agnes Sr. Robert James 58 Tampa, FL 08/12/78
Ahrns Elden 83 Weirton, WV 02/18/78
Ahrns Grover L. 92 Bowling Green, KY 08/29/78
Allen Alfred 59 Steubenville, OH 05/25/78
Allen Hershel H. 75 Washington, PA 05/25/78
Allen Donald Charles 60 Rochester, PA 09/26/78
Allen Mabel M. 70 Washington, PA 08/08/78
Allison Alice J. 88 Chester, WV 06/02/78
Allison Carl Richmond 80 Steubenville, OH 07/12/78
Allison Charlotte 74 Steubenville, OH 09/26/78
Allison Edith Mae 54 Weirton, WV 02/13/78
Allison Grace V. 64 Weirton, WV 10/30/78
Allison Mary B. 78 East Liverpool, OH 07/01/78
Alstadt George H. 71 Weirton, WV 05/13/78
Anderson Alfred William 76 Steubenville, OH 08/21/78
Anderson Carol Lynn 69 New Cumberland, WV 01/26/78
Anderson Helen Jane 64 Steubenville, OH 06/14/78
Anderson Isaac E. 68 Steubenville, OH 02/20/78
Anderson Mathilde Julian Martin 73 Weirton, WV 08/03/78
Anderson Robert T. 48 Forest Hills, NY 04/03/78
Anderson Robert T. 73 Burgettstown, PA 09/12/78
Anderson Stella E. 72 Steubenville, OH 08/04/78
Anderson William Howard 64 Tampa, FL 05/05/78
Anderson Woodrow W. 65 Pittsburgh, PA 06/23/78
Anderson Nina 84 Weirton, WV 08/21/78
Anderson Sr. Raymond E. 80 East Liverpool, OH 08/16/78
Andrews Ada Belle Crow 81 Steubenville, OH 03/06/78
Andrews John M. 74 Weirton, WV 08/10/78
Andrews Russell E. 66 Homeworth, OH 07/18/78
Andrews W. Howard 73 Steubenville, OH 06/05/78
Antalis Stasia Kiriazoglou 78 Bellaire, OH 03/14/78
Antill Raymond 82 Lancaster, OH 12/08/78
Antol Helen A. 62 Steubenville, OH 10/02/78
Antonucci Diodato A. 93 Steubenville, OH 11/06/78
Anzalone Ross S. 66 Pylas de Tijuana, Mexico 09/02/78
Armistead Genova (Dutch) 59 Steubenville, OH 04/24/78
Armistead Hal 61 Follansbee, WV 08/25/78
Armstrong Richard 57 Tampa, FL 04/26/78
Arnett Elpha Mae 75 Weirton, WV 08/03/78
Arnold James S. 89 Weirton, WV 05/15/78
Ashbrook Warden C. 66 Lawrenceburg, IN 03/14/78
Aspiotis Malvina 74 Steubenville, OH 04/05/78
Atkins Sadie Lee 65 Steubenville, OH 10/14/78
Augustine Anna (Agostini) 91 Weirton, WV 02/09/78
Ault Lester C. 67 Cleveland, OH 02/21/78
Austin Robert 76 Weirton, WV 08/28/78
Backel Edward John 60 Weirton, WV 07/19/78
Baczewski Stephen Thomas 74 Steubenville, OH 06/28/78
Badal Steven
Columbus, OH 03/20/78
Baker Christopher Alan 8 Steubenville, OH 06/29/78
Baker Florence V. (Conchel) 70 Weirton, WV 10/03/78
Baker Loren H. 65 Steubenville, OH 01/23/78
Baker Mary Margaret (Clark) 58 Beallsville, PA 08/31/78
Baker Michael Paul infant Wheeling, WV 12/21/78
Baker Ward 80 Follansbee, WV 02/28/78
Baldwin Robert 82 North Lima, OH 01/24/78
Bane Edwin T. 72 St. Petersburg, FL 02/17/78
Baratie Steve 64 Lakewood, CA 01/17/78
Barbati Angelina 76 Weirton, WV 08/12/78
Barcus Adolf Eugene 50 Beckley, WV 10/06/78
Barnes John R. 68 Eaglewood, CA 04/04/78
Barnett Florence Mae 57 Wheeling, WV 06/05/78
Barnhart Lawrence 65 Pittsburgh, PA 11/10/78
Barrett Sarah A. 82 Steubenville, OH 11/08/78
Barrett Sr. Joseph J. 73 Steubenville, OH 12/07/78
Barron Anna 68 St. James City, FL 05/17/78
Bartley Dorothy 69 Wheeling, WV 06/09/78
Barton Alma
Steubenville, OH 01/28/78
Barton Elsie 72 Fort Wayne, IN 06/13/78
Bates George G. 75 Mt. Lebanon, PA 02/27/78
Batinich Thomas Anthony 46 Washington, PA 05/08/78
Bauman Charles L. 78 Steubenville, OH 10/14/78
Beagle Lester 68 Weirton, WV 10/23/78
Beard John E. 56 Cadiz, OH 05/31/78
Beattie Regina G. 88 Weirton, WV 09/28/78
Beck Minnie M. 95 Wheeling, WV 06/10/78
Bee Hiley R. 62 Steubenville, OH 05/30/78
Beisner Clara 73 Wellsburg, WV 04/10/78
Belich Beth Ann 9 Pittsburgh, PA 05/13/78
Bell Edward Robert
Bell Sr. Joseph A. 82 Steubenville, OH 09/13/78
Bellas Desbina 58 Pittsburgh, PA 06/10/78
Beltrame Mary Margaret 61 Weirton, WV 03/09/78
Bennett Clifford D. 63 Steubenville, OH 08/04/78
Bennett David Jefferson 43 Steubenville, OH 07/17/78
Bennett Nellie M. 62 Steubenville, OH 01/30/78
Bennett Wilmer G. 59 Weirton, WV 01/10/78
Berescik Michael E. 63 Pittsburgh, PA 07/20/78
Berghoff Alexander J. 72 Dallas, WV 06/30/78
Berlenge Joseph P. 72 Weirton, WV 10/30/78
Bernardi Assunta 71 Weirton, WV 10/12/78
Bertwell Alberta Ellen 79 Steubenville, OH 07/22/78
Beynon William 72 Weirton, WV 06/13/78
Biela Valentine 63 Hayward, CA 05/27/78
Biggio Edward Leo 84 Steubenville, OH 03/01/78
Biggs Oma Lee 76 Beech Bottom, WV 11/10/78
Billcheck John 84 Weirton, WV 12/16/78
Billcheck Joseph 72 Weirton, WV 12/18/78
Billie Andrew C. 67 Steubenville, OH 05/08/78
Bioux Alma Margaret 84 Steubenville, OH 08/01/78
Birrell William 82 Steubenville, OH 09/18/78
Bish Frances Elizabeth 45 Morgantown, WV 09/05/78
Blackburn Jr. Thomas James 69 Steubenville, OH 08/21/78
Blake Benton 87 Weston, WV 01/04/78
Blankenship George Frederick
Blankenship Howard W. 69 Weirton, WV 06/26/78
Blay Louis Victor 63 Steubenville, OH 05/20/78
Bodnar Mary 82 Beech Bottom, WV 01/19/78
Bogarad Mildred 73 Weirton, WV 07/17/78
Boggia Vincent James 57 Steubenville, OH 11/01/78
Bokulich Anna M. 76 Steubenville, OH 10/16/78
Bone Oliver T. 80 Steubenville, OH 10/10/78
Bonitatibus Anna 83 Steubenville, OH 06/12/78
Bopp Edmund 86 Steubenville, OH 05/17/78
Borkowski Frances 67 Steubenville, OH 10/11/78
Bowen Corbely P. Cory 63 Wheeling, WV 11/06/78
Bowers Elizabeth M. 92 Steubenville, OH 05/17/78
Bowman Sr. John J. 78 Steubenville, OH 01/09/78
Boyce Geraldine 77 Steubenville, OH 11/13/78
Boyd A. Margaret 80 Steubenville, OH 12/09/78
Boyd Harry E. 76 Steubenville, OH 04/19/78
Boyd Ralph 55 East Liverpool, OH 11/02/78
Bracaglia Mary Elizabeth 58 Steubenville, OH 10/10/78
Bradley George R. (Abe) 86 Wellsburg, WV 10/30/78
Bradley Paul J. 65 Steubenville, OH 02/21/78
Brainard Leroy 76 Steubenville, OH 10/30/78
Brancazio Angela 84 Weirton, WV 07/22/78
Brandau Mildred F. 75 Weston, WV 02/23/78
Brandon Betty 67 Columbus, OH 04/06/78
Brandon William L. 65 Weirton, WV 08/03/78
Brandt Ruth E. 76 Steubenville, OH 12/16/78
Brashear Iva G. 96 Steubenville, OH 04/13/78
Braun Clarence 90 Fayetteville, FL 03/27/78
Braun Melba O. 64 Steubenville, OH 10/24/78
Brayton John Albert 79 Steubenville, OH 06/05/78
Breen Patrick Michael 78 Steubenville, OH 01/17/78
Brewer Alonzo E. 70 East Liverpool, OH 03/09/78
Brickhouse Romie 54 Pittsburgh, PA 11/29/78
Bridges Robert 70 Steubenville, OH 02/25/78
Briscoe Florence M. 71 Weirton, WV 03/24/78
Britton Catherine Virginia 63 Wheeling, WV 01/24/78
Brocksmith William H. 74 Lehigh Acres, FL 10/25/78
Broftman Elmer Robert 57 St. Clairsville, OH 07/05/78
Brohard Donald C. 68 Lore City, OH 12/07/78
Brookover Viola Addis 86 New Martinsville, WV 09/09/78
Brostman Elmer Robert 57 St. Clairsville, OH 07/06/78
Brothers Kathryn 59 Steubenville, OH 07/24/78
Browand Nellie (Botteicher) 89 Las Vegas, NV 12/14/78
Brown James Victor 72 Steubenville, OH 01/24/78
Brown Philip 48 Steubenville, OH 02/09/78
Brown Frank L. 69 Weirton, WV 09/20/78
Buchanan Victor 24 Fort Ord, CA 11/30/78
Buksa Frances 70 Weirton, WV 08/12/78
Burdette Linnie M. 79 Weirton, WV 02/08/78
Burdette Jr. Harry 55 Pittsburgh, PA 08/31/78
Burgess James R. 51 Garrettsville, OH 02/22/78
Burke Dorothy L. 69 Pittsburgh, PA 07/18/78
Burke Wallace E.
Burnell Gladys R. 58 Steubenville, OH 04/03/78
Burnett Evelyn Louise 53 Wheeling, WV 08/19/78
Burnetta Joseph J. 88 Wheeling, WV 07/29/78
Burnley Alma Mitchell 79 Steubenville, OH 05/09/78
Burrell Stella 53 Weirton, WV 05/01/78
Burrier Harry Archer 62 Pittsburgh, PA 05/12/78
Burskey Michael F. Samuel 66 Steubenville, OH 05/30/78
Butler Earl 61 Steubenville, OH 03/25/78
Butler Helena 83 Wheeling, WV 05/30/78
Butler Mabel Pyle Fix 44 Steubenville, OH 01/16/78
Butler Mary Ann 89 Reader, WV 12/28/78
Butti Frank 80 Wheeling, WV 08/24/78
Butto Olga 83 Weirton, WV 11/07/78
Buxton George W. 64 Independence, PA 08/12/78
Bynum William O. 68 Wellsburg, WV 01/09/78
Calderwood John A. 76 Beech Bottom, WV 10/25/78
Calderwood Sr. Richard W. 50 Steubenville, OH 03/25/78
Caldwell Thomas W. 76 Woodbridge, VA 05/27/78
Calvert Tish P. 83 Steubenville, OH 07/31/78
Campa Bibiana 82 Langeloth, PA 12/02/78
Campbell Charles R. 81 Cincinnati, OH 10/21/78
Campbell Emma (Graw) 86 Beech Bottom, WV 01/23/78
Campbell George E. 74 Brilliant, OH 11/06/78
Campbell Grace Irene 66 Akron, OH 12/09/78
Campbell Martha L. 80 Steubenville, OH 09/21/78
Campbell Norman Edward 48 Wheeling, WV 09/02/78
Campbell William 79 Steubenville, OH 01/10/78
Canaday Effie 91 Steubenville, OH 02/03/78
Canella Terrance 24 Steubenville, OH 09/05/78
Carder Fred 68 Steubenville, OH 01/24/78
Carducci Agatha 81 Steubenville, OH 07/15/78
Carey Sr. Alexander P. 79 Wheeling, WV 01/24/78
Carlucci Clara (DiNofrio) 81 Steubenville, OH 12/08/78
Carson Delia D. 88 Steubenville, OH 10/07/78
Carson Leah K. 69 Weirton, WV 07/27/78
Carter Elsie Viola 49 Weirton, WV 07/24/78
Cartledge Charles Q. (Punque) 85 Steubenville, OH 11/13/78
Case Leota 76 Steubenville, OH 08/02/78
Cassella Joseph 41 Charleston, WV 05/17/78
Cassiadoro Angelo 53 Lakewood, CA 02/13/78
Castellucci Gerald 65 Weirton, WV 10/05/78
Castner Edna M. 91 Steubenville, OH 03/21/78
Catlett Wanda 47 Weirton, WV 12/14/78
Cavalle Ruth Virginia Hoffman
Catonsville, MD 03/15/78
Cawthon Thomas L. 52 Weirton, WV 10/02/78
Cawthorn Dana infant twin Bittsburg, Germany 08/01/78
Cawthorn Rene infant twin Bittsburg, Germany 08/01/78
Cebula John Stanley 63 Weirton, WV 02/15/78
Ceran Dorothy 50 Weston, WV 10/09/78
Cervi Flora 73 Weirton, WV 03/21/78
Chamberlain Laura Bell 68 Weirton, WV 07/24/78
Chambers Sherald E. 73 East Liverpool, OH 12/15/78
Chavis Audrey H. 75 Wellsburg, WV 06/24/78
Chew Hilda Amick
Chilenski Mary Bernice 92 Steubenville, OH 07/03/78
Chilensky Margaret Magdalene 77 Steubenville, OH 05/22/78
Choka Bernice 65 Steubenville, OH 10/31/78
Christ Thomas Michael 32 Steubenville, OH 05/09/78
Christner Grace Evelyn 63 Weirton, WV 07/13/78
Churchman Lelia 80 Weirton, WV 10/18/78
Ciabattari Sylvia 79 Pittsburgh, PA 08/22/78
Ciarrocchi Luigi (Cherocci) 86 Weirton, WV 07/10/78
Cimina Rosa Angelo 77 Steubenville, OH 04/28/78
Ciotczyk Joseph 75 Weirton, WV 04/13/78
Cipoletti Carlene 48 Wheeling, WV 02/07/78
Cipoletti Dr. James F. 34 Washington, PA 06/08/78
Clancey Anna 66 Weirton, WV 09/12/78
Claprood Sr. Richard L. 81 Steubenville, OH 06/27/78
Clark William Arden 69 Weirton, WV 04/07/78
Clause Cynthia Jean 21 Baldwin Park, CA 08/19/78
Clifford Mildred Woody 71 East Liverpool, OH 11/20/78
Cline Forrest Cleve 83 Steubenville, OH 03/30/78
Cline Mary Jean 48 Steubenville, OH 11/29/78
Coakes Elizabeth 84 Steubenville, OH 03/16/78
Coburn Betty Gay 50 Steubenville, OH 10/16/78
Coccia Rose 67 Weirton, WV 10/09/78
Cochran Clarence H. 42 Steubenville, OH 10/28/78
Coldebella Victor 82 Steubenville, OH 03/15/78
Cole Charles L. 72 Wellsburg, WV 01/31/78
Cole Wayne H. 66 Steubenville, OH 07/17/78
Coleman Beth Ann 1 mo. East Liverpool, OH 07/01/78
Coleman Elizabeth E. 85 Steubenville, OH 03/16/78
Collins Edna E. 64 Weirton, WV 05/08/78
Collins James 67 Steubenville, OH 11/09/78
Combs Pamela Dudley 23 Pittsburgh, PA 03/21/78
Conkel Helen (Hudock) 79 Wheeling, WV 08/02/78
Conley Richard C. 63 Steubenville, OH 05/05/78
Conners Mary Margaret 70 Bellaire, OH 09/02/78
Conroy Raymond E. 60 Steubenville, OH 03/03/78
Conway Jacob J. 74 Steubenville, OH 08/28/78
Cook Marie 70 Wellsburg, WV 02/11/78
Copley General W. 68 Steubenville, OH 06/09/78
Cornish Howard S. 77 Wheeling, WV 10/21/78
Coronis Pelagia (Pauline) 87 Weirton, WV 09/15/78
Costantini Filomena 93 Porte Alegre, Brazil 10/12/78
Couch George K. 80 Beech Bottom, WV 08/11/78
Cowey David Lee 37 Chester, WV 04/24/78
Cox Lyle Jennings 65 Pittsburgh, PA 07/27/78
Cox Morgan 62 Burgettstown, PA 01/24/78
Craft Duane D. 53 Steubenville, OH 01/24/78
Crawford Clarence 88 Orrville, OH 04/05/78
Criner Maggie L. (Cook) 88 Wilsie, WV 09/15/78
Critser William H. 59 Steubenville, OH 11/06/78
Cronin Woodrow C. 65 Weirton, WV 06/27/78
Crosier William M. 55 Steubenville, OH 08/28/78
Crum Blair Regis 83 Steubenville, OH 02/06/78
Crum Nellie M. 77 Weirton, WV 01/25/78
Cullen Edna J. 80 East Liverpool, OH 05/23/78
Cullen George W. 70 Steubenville, OH 07/10/78
Culver Mary Hineline 78 Pittsburgh, PA 04/03/78
Cumberledge Ruby M. 74 Weirton, WV 07/31/78
Cummins Sr. James M. 73 Steubenville, OH 01/09/78
Cunningham Anna Loyer 93 Steubenville, OH 05/16/78
Curenton Jr. John W. 45 Weirton, WV 08/10/78
Cusick William J. 94 Steubenville, OH 10/12/78
Damm Cora 78 Weirton, WV 02/25/78
Daniels Virginia McKinnney 47 Steubenville, OH 04/11/78
D'Anniballe Sr. Arthur 80 Steubenville, OH 10/06/78
Dasta Frank 65 Weirton, WV 04/11/78
Daugherty Helen 50 Weirton, WV 01/02/78
Daugherty Paul 70 Weirton, WV 12/26/78
Davis Bert (Divich)
Meadville, PA 11/09/78
Davis Dorothy S. 67 Steubenville, OH 11/08/78
Davis John E. 49 Steubenville, OH 07/12/78
Davis Lillian H. 97 Weirton, WV 04/15/78
Davison Joseph 85 Steubenville, OH 03/03/78
Day Duane L. 56 Columbus, OH 02/02/78
Day Maude 91 Wheeling, WV 07/25/78
Day Ruth 86 Steubenville, OH 03/02/78
Dayton Glenn 63 Steubenville, OH 12/21/78
Dean Foster Price 54 Weirton, WV 03/18/78
Deavers H. Dan 51 Inverness, FL 02/17/78
DeBee Sr. Robert J. 66 Chester, WV 09/22/78
DeFrank Samuel 79 Steubenville, OH 06/26/78
Delamater Robert Griffin 78 Weirton, WV 02/14/78
Delekta Michael 89 East Liverpool, OH 06/12/78
DeLong Iva M. 69 Steubenville, OH 03/14/78
DeMatteis Domenic 62 Weirton, WV 02/09/78
DeMattia Victor 92 Steubenville, OH 12/02/78
Dennis Everett 70 Steubenville, OH 08/12/78
Dennis Joseph 85 Bryan, OH 11/04/78
Dennis Lester A. 64 Weirton, WV 10/25/78
Derby Allen 67 Weirton, WV 05/24/78
Derby Willis M. 83 Glen Dale, WV 04/22/78
DeRose Angeline 83 Weirton, WV 01/10/78
DeSantis Julia 89 Steubenville, OH 11/10/78
DeSanto Frank 85 Weirton, WV 09/06/78
DeStefano Edoardo 77 Steubenville, OH 06/06/78
DiBattista Lucian 89 Weirton, WV 12/16/78
DiBenedetto Paul David 75 Steubenville, OH 07/24/78
DiCarlo Dominic 84 Steubenville, OH 12/09/78
Dickey Emmitt 71 Pittsburgh, PA 01/25/78
DiCocco Antonio 67 Pittsburgh, PA 11/07/78
DiGiorgio Donato 61 Pittsburgh, PA 06/28/78
Diller Edgar 46 Steubenville, OH 08/15/78
DiPino Patricia R. 47 Steubenville, OH 08/14/78
Diven Jess R. 74 East Liverpool, OH 09/09/78
Divich Bert 90 Weirton, WV 01/05/78
DiVittorio Armand J. 68 Pittsburgh, PA 05/22/78
Donovan Arthur B. C. 52 East Liverpool, OH 04/24/78
Dorsch Rose Anna Weiblinger 92 Wheeling, WV 07/17/78
Dorsey Hilda Marie 45 Steubenville, OH 01/31/78
Dougherty Frederick (Ted) 64 Steubenville, OH 09/05/78
Douglas Fred 65 East Liverpool, OH 02/11/78
Douglas Gussie
Wellsburg, WV 04/11/78
Douglas Hazel B. Heath 74 Newell, WV 04/12/78
Drummond Okey Lee 76 Weirton, WV 08/19/78
Duffy Geneva Hall 60 Greensburg, PA 03/10/78
Duffy Joan S.
East Liverpool, OH 07/05/78
Dunham Delia Goddard 69 Morgantown, WV 03/16/78
Dunham Grover C. 58 New Martinsville, WV 10/13/78
Dunham Vivie Cabel 53 Wylieville, WV 05/22/78
Dunlany Oaky Ivan 57 Clarksburg, WV 11/06/78
Dunlap David Larry
Chester, WV 12/23/78
Durko Joseph 65 Melbourne, FL 01/04/78
Durst Betty Jane 57 Follansbee, WV 11/16/78
Duruttya Veronica 81 Weirton, WV 02/11/78
Dustolfo Rose Molinaro 61 Steubenville, OH 02/09/78
Eafrati Gilbert J. 64 Pittsburgh, PA 07/24/78
Earnhart Alice M. 68 Chester, WV 06/06/78
Eastham Austin Francis 34 New Cumberland, WV 10/02/78
Eastham Mary J. 74 Steubenville, OH 01/07/78
Eberle Rev. F. S.
Houston, PA 02/13/78
Eddy Estella M. 74 New Martinsville, WV 02/25/78
Eddy Hazel May 71 Weirton, WV 12/16/78
Edgar Delores Jean 49 Steubenville, OH 01/16/78
Edmond Lloyd D. 75 Baltimore, MD 09/19/78
Edwards Roy A. 78 Steubenville, OH 03/01/78
Ekey J. Wayne 69 Steubenville, OH 07/12/78
Elias Margaret (Zoltani) 73 Canton, OH 05/30/78
Elish Mary Magdeline 50 Steubenville, OH 12/08/78
Elliott Bert 70 Massillon, OH 07/18/78
Elliott Bessie 76 Wheeling, WV 09/26/78
Elliott Walter L. 81 East Liverpool, OH 12/30/78
Ellis Sr. Basil O. 83 Wheeling, WV 04/28/78
Ellison George 74 Washington, DC 03/24/78
Elswick Walter H. 81 Steubenville, OH 07/26/78
Emery Robert M. 38 Steubenville, OH 07/19/78
Ensell Rose Elizabeth 57 Steubenville, OH 04/06/78
Ernest Robert R. 34 Charleston, WV 11/16/78
Erxleben Charles W. 82 Weirton, WV 11/24/78
Evans Clifton 74 Steubenville, OH 08/28/78
Evans Daniel 62 Weirton, WV 07/10/78
Evans Henderson 78 Steubenville, OH 12/28/78
Evans Reese L. 85 Steubenville, OH 06/14/78
Ewing Mary C. 80 Pittsburgh, PA 07/24/78
Ewusiak Sr. Carl 70 Steubenville, OH 02/17/78
Faccinto Maria 93 Steubenville, OH 05/08/78
Fahey Mildred K. 66 Weirton, WV 04/28/78
Fairbanks Frank Frederick 62 Steubenville, OH 01/18/78
Fall Arthur M. 79 Bridgeville, PA 11/16/78
Farley Orval 63 Wheeling, WV 05/16/78
Farmer John (Jack) 65 Kansas City, MO 04/18/78
Farran Elias H. 75 Weirton, WV 08/14/78
Farrar Paul 75 Cambridge, OH 01/24/78
Faulkner Burkley 55 Pittsburgh, PA 04/20/78
Faulkner Erin Elizabeth 6 mo. Weirton, WV 08/02/78
Fazio Mary 68 Weirton, WV 10/21/78
Ferguson Wilbert G. 69 Steubenville, OH 01/09/78
Ferguson Jr. William Putnam 58 Weirton, WV 01/26/78
Ferrari Alfred M. 54 Steubenville, OH 12/13/78
Fetty Helen A. 58 Pittsburgh, PA 11/03/78
Feutz Hazel 73 Weirton, WV 02/14/78
Fields Timothy Phipps 13 Steubenville, OH 09/27/78
Finelli Anthony B. 59 Weirton, WV 04/26/78
Finley Clarabelle 76 Steubenville, OH 01/04/78
Finnegan Marie Elizabeth 74 Glen Dale, WV 02/01/78
Finsley Leslie (Walter) 73 Wheeling, WV 08/24/78
Fisher Madeline M. 67 Steubenville, OH 01/25/78
Fisher Paul R. 56 Weirton, WV 02/06/78
Fitzpatrick Albert 85 Wheeling, WV 08/17/78
Fleming Eddie C. 74 Weirton, WV 06/23/78
Fleming Melvin W. 64 Steubenville, OH 05/27/78
Florio Anthony 80 Steubenville, OH 03/09/78
Flowers Irene K. 67 East Liverpool, OH 08/03/78
Fluharty Lawrence A. 55 Pittsburgh, PA 10/27/78
Folio Anna Mae 38 Wheeling, WV 11/24/78
Foltz Louise 60 Wheeling, WV 04/27/78
Forker Christine 78 Steubenville, OH 06/20/78
Forsythe Thomas 89 Steubenville, OH 04/08/78
Forys John Walter 61 Weirton, WV 04/29/78
Fossett Gregory Walter infant Wheeling, WV 10/23/78
Fox Floyd 82 Grantsville, WV 09/13/78
Frances Elmer C. 59 Steubenville, OH 01/16/78
Franckhauser Agnes M. 74 Steubenville, OH 03/20/78
Frangos Stavros Michael 62 Weirton, WV 03/13/78
Frantz Judith Ann 39 Pittsburgh, PA 03/27/78
Fratto Carmella 71 Steubenville, OH 07/29/78
Fray Irene E. 84 Steubenville, OH 06/16/78
Frayer James William 47 New Orleans, LA 12/06/78
Freeland Harvey N. (Pat)
Weirton, WV 09/07/78
Freeman Earnest Arch 69 Yuma, AZ 04/12/78
French Eleanor 73 Dover, OH 12/26/78
Frolow Stella 92 Beech Bottom, WV 06/13/78
Fullem Mildred 73 Weirton, WV 01/06/78
Fullum Delbert Pat 67 Weirton, WV 12/07/78
Fulmer Elizabeth
Tryon, NC 11/06/78
Fulton Grover C. 92 Washington, PA 04/04/78
Funari Ida Bertolotti 71 Washington, PA 02/07/78
Gabbie Erida 71 Weirton, WV 10/27/78
Gabriele Giuseppina (Josephine) 77 Steubenville, OH 03/13/78
Galownia Frank J. 48 Steubenville, OH 12/06/78
Garcia Jose 82 Washington, PA 02/07/78
Gardner Edward Glenn 39 Steubenville, OH 09/07/78
Gargala Frank Joseph 73 Steubenville, OH 01/03/78
Garrison Ruth 71 Pittsburgh, PA 03/06/78
Gasper Evelyn 69 Steubenville, OH 03/22/78
Gaughan Sr. John J. 75 Steubenville, OH 08/28/78
Gaytko Mary 64 Steubenville, OH 10/31/78
Gefeller Elizabeth H. 81 Steubenville, OH 12/07/78
Gentile John Gilbert 67 Pittsburgh, PA 01/06/78
Ghanem Mary Asfour 74 Weirton, WV 02/27/78
Ghinda Aurella 69 Weirton, WV 01/13/78
Gianfrancesco Mary L. 70 Langeloth, PA 04/01/78
Giannone Peter Paul M. 71 Steubenville, OH 10/25/78
Gibas Anthony 67 Weirton, WV 05/30/78
Gibbs Arthur James 57 Pittsburgh, PA 08/11/78
Gibson Beatrice M. 83 Steubenville, OH 02/20/78
Gibson Gerald Marlon 22 Pittsburgh, PA 09/06/78
Giesey Joseph Anthony 85 Steubenville, OH 05/16/78
Gilbert Charles S. 68 Clarksburg, WV 12/06/78
Giles Debra J. 21 Fort Gordon, GA 06/23/78
Gilliam Coleman L. 90 Weirton, WV 11/21/78
Gilliam Marion P. 41 Fairmont, WV 01/19/78
Gilliam Morris 69 Weirton, WV 07/20/78
Gilligan Agnes 71 Steubenville, OH 11/28/78
Gilliland Mary Elizabeth 89 Oakdale, PA 06/28/78
Ginier Paule 76 Pittsburgh, PA 11/09/78
Glatzer Anthony Joseph 25 Poughkeepsi, NY 10/31/78
Glover Calvin C. 40 M.I.A. Vietnam 07/10/78
Glover Clovis J. 69 Pittsburgh, PA 12/26/78
Glover William H. 59 East Liverpool, OH 07/01/78
Glover Charles Edward 67 Steubenville, OH 09/20/78
Goddard Charles 78 Follansbee, WV 10/25/78
Goettel Jr. Charles E. 58 Steubenville, OH 07/17/78
Goode Harry V. 51 Morgantown, WV 11/20/78
Goodin Alice Webb 79 Largo, FL 05/05/78
Gorby Andrew C. 67 Steubenville, OH 04/18/78
Gordon Robert A. 82 Wheeling, WV 02/22/78
Grafe Helen M. 88 Steubenville, OH 07/03/78
Grago Delmar E. 57 Pittsburgh, PA 04/11/78
Graham Mildred (Hobbs) 68 Weirton, WV 01/26/78
Graham Raymond Walter 69 Steubenville, OH 08/08/78
Graul Howard Mark 82 Houston, TX 03/09/78
Gray Calvin Issac 70 Wheeling, WV 03/29/78
Gray John S. 81 Steubenville, OH 08/03/78
Greathouse Dallas Lee 60 New Martinsville, WV 08/30/78
Greaver Cora E. 81 Cadiz, OH 10/09/78
Green Arlie H. (Bill) 67 Steubenville, OH 11/11/78
Green Donald 69 Steubenville, OH 05/05/78
Green Winifred S. 62 Weirton, WV 02/13/78
Greenwood Catherine 72 East Liverpool, OH 06/15/78
Griffin R. I. (Bob) 88 Canton, OH 09/19/78
Griffith Ward 70 Martins Ferry, OH 08/30/78
Griffo Mary Jane
Hollywood, FL 07/13/78
Grimes Deveda Jane 59 Steubenville, OH 04/22/78
Grimes Harold 66 New Cumberland, WV 10/25/78
Grimm Leona Mae 78 Chester, WV 10/05/78
Grumet Samuel W. 78 Miami, FL 05/09/78
Guess Joseph Roy 78 Follansbee, WV 08/02/78
Gunion Otha (Odie)
Gunkel Adeline F. 72 Steubenville, OH 05/04/78
Haines Jeffery A. 17 mo. Weirton, WV 10/30/78
Hair Mary Margarite 72 Weirton, WV 12/21/78
Hale Ronald G. 66 Erie, PA 02/14/78
Hall Charles H. 66 Akron, OH 03/06/78
Hall Robert L. 47 Cleveland, OH 09/21/78
Hall William E. 73 Weirton, WV 05/22/78
Haloszka Walter V. 62 Wheeling, WV 04/07/78
Halulko Michael 62 Burgettstown, PA 04/25/78
Hamilton Ward
Lewisville, OH 07/29/78
Hammond Freeman L. 76 Wheeling, WV 12/29/78
Hanle John Homer 39 Clear Creek Canyon, CO 08/14/78
Hanlon Michael L. 6 Wheeling, WV 12/23/78
Hansley John Edward 12 Weirton, WV 10/21/78
Harda Sophia 80 Cadiz, OH 03/25/78
Harman Dr. William 59 Chillicothe, OH 09/26/78
Harper Frank P. 73 Steubenville, OH 08/30/78
Harrell Johnnie 57 Follansbee, WV 05/17/78
Harris Laura O. 101 Weirton, WV 11/17/78
Harris Virginia Rebecca 93 Wellsburg, WV 12/11/78
Harrison Lewis Rex 54 Steubenville, OH 03/17/78
Harter Iris M. 69 Cherry Hill, NJ 08/30/78
Haway Jr. John 67 Steubenville, OH 11/25/78
Hawken Eileen Rosalee 57 Weirton, WV 10/23/78
Hawkins Denzil Ray 75 Morgantown, WV 10/18/78
Hawley Stella Mae 72 Weirton, WV 12/11/78
Hayes Opal Irene 70 Philippi, WV 04/27/78
Haysler Jr. Thomas Edward 57 Pittsburgh, PA 04/29/78
Heath Thelma Marcella 66 Weirton, WV 08/09/78
Heid Helen G. 83 Weirton, WV 12/08/78
Heiniger Jean 52 Martins Ferry, OH 09/12/78
Helmick Ellen E. 79 Weirton, WV 02/06/78
Henderson Gladys 74 Scio, OH 01/28/78
Henderson Harry H. 73 Steubenville, OH 01/19/78
Henrich Jr. Andrew 72 Steubenville, OH 01/09/78
Henry Rebecca F. 93 Wheeling, WV 01/09/78
Henry Agnes O'Hara 78 Steubenville, OH 09/25/78
Hensler Mathias (Matthew) 63 Wellsburg, WV 08/28/78
Henthorn Troy Lee infant Wheeling, WV 02/09/78
Herdman Roy E. 91 Steubenville, OH 03/06/78
Hereth Margaret M. McClellan 94 Indianapolis, IN 12/16/78
Heron Eleanor E. 46 New Orleans, LA 10/24/78
Herrick Mary Rada 78 Steubenville, OH 07/31/78
Herron Rowena M. 74 Weirton, WV 02/08/78
Hess Alva L. 78 Malvern, PA 06/23/78
Hesse Catherine R. 80 Steubenville, OH 12/12/78
Hewitt Joseph Michael 3 mo. New Cumberland, WV 09/15/78
Higgs Irwin Lee 63 Steubenville, OH 06/23/78
High Halford (Pat) 84 Glen Dale, WV 09/11/78
Hiles David D. 89 Wellsburg, WV 10/02/78
Hill Anna Bell 68 Weirton, WV 05/24/78
Hill Earl Leroy 90 Maumee, OH 07/22/78
Hill Evelyn Ruth 87 Weirton, WV 12/04/78
Hill Sara Margaret 89 Steubenville, OH 12/30/78
Hinchee Margaret Caniff 74 Inverness, FL 03/27/78
Hindman Ada J. 94 Marion, IN 01/03/78
Hipkiss Paul 63 Bellaire, OH 07/05/78
Hitt Maria 71 Steubenville, OH 09/25/78
Hleba Alex (Helba) 95 Weirton, WV 01/09/78
Hobson Donald Louis 55 Steubenville, OH 07/15/78
Hobson William 69 Steubenville, OH 08/25/78
Hocker Thelma F. 71 Steubenville, OH 06/09/78
Hogue Michael Clebith 31 Steubenville, OH 08/03/78
Holcomb Mary O. 74 East Liverpool, OH 03/15/78
Holroyd Raymond D. 78 Steubenville, OH 03/10/78
Hood Thelma M.
Hoover Anna N. 72 Steubenville, OH 08/22/78
Hoover Nell (Chambers) 79 Webster Springs, WV 01/21/78
Hopkins Joseph S. 49 Steubenville, OH 08/31/78
Hornick Artie B. 74 Weirton, WV 09/25/78
Horvath Andrew Louis 70 Clearwater, FL 05/18/78
House Leota M. 90 Weirton, WV 04/03/78
Howard Blanche
McConnellsburg, PA 01/30/78
Howell Homer S. 86 Sistersville, WV 10/02/78
Howell Kenneth E. 62 Weirton, WV 04/22/78
Hoy Luther W. 65 Pittsburgh, PA 07/24/78
Hrancho Jr. George Joseph 53 Martins Ferry, OH 03/15/78
Hreso Andrew 82 Steubenville, OH 10/02/78
Hubbard Pearl M. 71 Wheeling, WV 02/03/78
Huff Jr. John S. 55 Belleview, WA 06/13/78
Huffman Bernice 85 Waynesburg, PA 04/14/78
Huggins George T. 73 Oakdale, PA 04/07/78
Hughes Catherine Gertrude
Hughes Margaret Alice 83 Weirton, WV 08/28/78
Hukill John E. 68 Steubenville, OH 09/05/78
Humphrey Geneva 65 Wheeling, WV 05/11/78
Humphrey Genevieve 73 Providence, RI 12/07/78
Hunter Carl N. 76 Wheeling, WV 05/31/78
Hutchison William L. 67 Parkersburg, WV 07/05/78
Hvizdak Jr. Michael 61 Weirton, WV 01/03/78
Iafolla Pasquale (DeFallo) 92 Steubenville, OH 12/06/78
Ice Eva E. 88 Wheat Ridge, CO 07/08/78
Ieropol Mabel Potts 87 Steubenville, OH 08/09/78
Ingold Gertrude Shingler 83 Steubenville, OH 03/25/78
Irish Charles B. 65 Steubenville, OH 01/09/78
Irwin Mary K. (Elkins) 83 Steubenville, OH 01/31/78
Isinghood Harry Hillman 73 Wellsburg, WV 12/08/78
Isinghood Robert 66 Miami, FL 12/01/78
Jackson James F. 65 Sebring, FL 08/15/78
Jacobs Christine Thompson 73 Wellsburg, WV 07/05/78
JaFarce Zahar
James Ethel G. 71 Steubenville, OH 11/21/78
James Gerald W. 70 Steubenville, OH 11/02/78
Javersak Sr. Matthew
Canton, OH 05/06/78
Jenkins Delmar
Follansbee, WV 01/13/78
Jenkins E. Merle 67 Steubenville, OH 05/25/78
Jeter Daniel Jerome Lee
Jeter Essie Mills 80 Steubenville, OH 10/02/78
Jezerski Josephine M. 73 Pittsburgh, PA 10/05/78
John Daniel E. 51 East Liverpool, OH 06/23/78
Johnson Amy L. infant birth Weirton, WV 11/10/78
Johnston Marie 73 Steubenville, OH 11/25/78
Johnston Myna E. 88 Wheeling, WV 02/09/78
Johnston William Wade 80 Steubenville, OH 03/10/78
Jollymore Michael James 31 Baltimore, MD 02/23/78
Jones Ella G. 86 Steubenville, OH 04/06/78
Jones Hazel 93 East Liverpool, OH 12/11/78
Jones Helen L. 77 Weirton, WV 05/30/78
Jones Mary
Beech Bottom, WV 05/09/78
Jones Mary Anne 88 Dayton, OH 11/30/78
Jones Victor Charles 79 Jeannette, PA 02/06/78
Jordan John J. 61 Steubenville, OH 06/23/78
Jordan Vernon Dale 55 Pittsburgh, PA 04/18/78
Jordan Jeremiah 2 days Pittsburgh, PA 11/04/78
Joyce Maurice 70 Steubenville, OH 01/28/78
Kalish Catherine 86 Steubenville, OH 04/21/78
Kaminski Ziggy 44 Weirton, WV 02/06/78
Kaplun Julia 69 Weirton, WV 09/25/78
Karnish Joseph
Holiday, FL 10/16/78
Karnofel Michael 94 Sandusky, OH 03/14/78
Kaufman Harry 77 Steubenville, OH 07/06/78
Kearney Rev. Dr. Albert F. 68 Indiana, PA 04/21/78
Keeley Lilhan Altmeyer 63 Clarksburg, WV 06/16/78
Keenan Lulu E. 81 Morgantown, WV 01/18/78
Kell Hazel 79 East Liverpool, OH 01/03/78
Keller Paul L. 58 Steubenville, OH 03/06/78
Kelley Allen A. 57 Wheeling, WV 05/06/78
Kelley Marie 77 Steubenville, OH 07/01/78
Kelly James F. 73 Weirton, WV 08/15/78
Kendo Rose Mary 67 Wheeling, WV 07/03/78
Kennedy Beulah B. 60 Cambridge, OH 07/29/78
Kennedy Della F.
Mannington, WV 04/25/78
Kessel Sr. Kenneth K. 69 Steubenville, OH 02/17/78
Kester Alice Lenora 39 Laurenberg, NC 03/24/78
Kildow Charles W. 80 Steubenville, OH 07/19/78
King William Lavern 18 Steubenville, OH 08/05/78
King Jr. Ullainee 80 Chico, CA 09/16/78
Kirk Hannah Naumann 60 Florence, SC 12/14/78
Kirk Eleanor L. 88 Springfield, OH 10/30/78
Kirk Mary P. 89 Weirton, WV 09/30/78
Kirkbride June Louise 52 Steubenville, OH 07/20/78
Kirkpatrick Samuel Everett 74 Knob Fork, WV 03/07/78
Kittle Douglas R. 32 Columbus, OH 07/05/78
Klakos Adolf Otto 68 Weirton, WV 10/06/78
Klash Helen E. 78 Steubenville, OH 06/22/78
Klein Anna 82 Weirton, WV 12/05/78
Klimansky Marjorie
Carmel, IN 01/12/78
Klingensmith Martha 75 Wheeling, WV 01/02/78
Klonowski Anthony A. 60 Steubenville, OH 05/22/78
Knauss Berlin Edgar 77 Phoenix, AZ 02/16/78
Kobylarz John 84 Weirton, WV 01/20/78
Kocher L. Russell 80 Wheeling, WV 06/07/78
Kois Frank 58 Weirton, WV 03/21/78
Kolodziej Sophia 83 Weirton, WV 07/24/78
Kology Anthony P. 59 Midland, PA 12/08/78
Kondik Regina Marie 62 Weirton, WV 06/15/78
Kondrapick Rev. Theodore
Syracuse, NY 12/28/78
Konicki Sr. Stephen A. 71 Largo, FL 10/21/78
Koper Sophie 59 Weirton, WV 02/27/78
Koren Steve 71 Wheeling, WV 12/22/78
Koski Raymond 66 Steubenville, OH 05/22/78
Kotur Mary 63 Steubenville, OH 01/11/78
Kovach Jr. John J. 52 Steubenville, OH 05/09/78
Krystynak Edwin L. 67 Chillicothe, OH 09/12/78
Kucan Anna 86 Weirton, WV 09/08/78
Kucic Katherine 86 Washington, PA 11/08/78
Kuhn Margie 53 Steubenville, OH 02/01/78
Kulbacki Frank A. 80 Weirton, WV 04/19/78
Kulbacki Gladys (Jeskiewicz) 88 Weirton, WV 02/20/78
Kusma Jr. Andrew 67 Steubenville, OH 01/25/78
Kyluck Anna 84 Washington, PA 01/31/78
La Rosa Renee Lynn 12 Pittsburgh, PA 04/17/78
Labi Catherine 93 Pittsburgh, PA 09/07/78
Lada Samuel 69 Steubenville, OH 01/23/78
Lamberti Joseph Martin 56 Cleveland, OH 11/04/78
Lambing Dell Maxwell 77 Steubenville, OH 01/25/78
Lashhorn Mark E.
Lassan Albert 76 Weirton, WV 12/07/78
Latkiewicz Charlotte Alience 66 Wellsburg, WV 07/22/78
Lauck Robert E. Lee 83 Wellsburg, WV 10/17/78
Lawson Albert D. 76 Steubenville, OH 01/23/78
Lawson Kimberly S. 18 Weirton, WV 06/19/78
Lawson Mary Alice 75 Washington, PA 12/12/78
Lawther William H. 89 Steubenville, OH 01/23/78
Lawyer Russell M. 59 Weirton, WV 03/21/78
Lazear Anna C. 70 Steubenville, OH 07/18/78
Leach Pauline (Yoho) 61 Bradenton, FL 02/14/78
Leavitt Bernadine 49 Phoenix, AZ 12/14/78
Lees Caroline C. 63 Wellsburg, WV 11/30/78
Leitch Professor Dr. Andrew 92 Wheeling, WV 01/17/78
Lelanchon John E. 81 Wellsburg, WV 02/08/78
Lemasters Elisha 81 Steubenville, OH 01/03/78
Lemmon Leslie M. 60 Steubenville, OH 04/12/78
Leno Mary 79 Wellsburg, WV 05/23/78
Leon Abraham P. 51 Steubenville, OH 12/19/78
Leontaris Christ 89 Weirton, WV 07/10/78
Leotsakos Ari Blavos 64 Baltimore, MD 08/17/78
Lese Carol Ann 30 Weirton, WV 02/10/78
Lesko Mihail (Michael) 94 Steubenville, OH 07/17/78
Lettieri Sophia 66 Fontana, CA 02/10/78
Lewis Charles Wilton 71 Glen Dale, WV 01/21/78
Lewis Albert K. 73 Steubenville, OH 05/12/78
Lewis Lyle A. 62 Glen Dale, WV 04/18/78
Licata Charles J. 68 Weirton, WV 04/25/78
Lightner Paul A. 50 East Liverpool, OH 08/11/78
Lilly Levi Lee 63 Weirton, WV 06/29/78
Linger Cleo Linger
Linn Paul S. 58 Steubenville, OH 03/16/78
Lipinski Edward B. 62 Weirton, WV 03/09/78
Lipscomb Harry H. 89 Bristol, WV 02/01/78
Little Myrtle 78 Steubenville, OH 02/04/78
Little Thurman 72 St. Marys, WV 12/01/78
Livingston Margaret K. 86 Steubenville, OH 07/05/78
Lodge Harry E. 87 Steubenville, OH 03/03/78
Loew Julius 66 Wheeling, WV 07/21/78
Lofland Horatio C. 66 Pittsburgh, PA 01/02/78
Long Robert Lee 73 Weirton, WV 05/22/78
Long James A. 85 Torrance, CA 08/11/78
Lorello Edith L. 61 Reno, NV 10/09/78
Lotzgeselle Anna 88 Hot Springs, AR 05/15/78
Lovrich Rade 84 Steubenville, OH 04/13/78
Lowe Effie 88 Cannonsburg, PA 12/12/78
Lucci Donata Maria 78 Steubenville, OH 06/24/78
Lyons Clyde W. 73 Chester, WV 06/06/78
Lyons James E. 51 East Liverpool, OH 02/21/78
Machak Michael S. 68 Pittsburgh, PA 03/21/78
Maeillo Pasquale 72 Lincoln Park, MI 02/28/78
Maestro Naomi 55 Steubenville, OH 06/06/78
Magnone William 63 Buffalo, NY 04/03/78
Mahan Roy W. 62 Wheeling, WV 01/24/78
Mainenti Luigia Zullo 88 Costa Mesa, CA 09/13/78
Malbasa Michael Katich (Milos) 84 Weirton, WV 03/09/78
Mallas Angelo 43 Pittsburgh, PA 07/05/78
Malone W. Raymond 64 Parsons, WV 05/01/78
Manfred Rose 75 Steubenville, OH 10/09/78
Margafen Mary Margaret 75 Steubenville, OH 10/19/78
Maricevic Katica 77 Steubenville, OH 08/14/78
Marosi Margaret 76 Weirton, WV 01/14/78
Marosi Raymond P. 79 Weirton, WV 11/06/78
Marsh Thomas W. 69 Wheeling, WV 01/02/78
Martin Harold R.
Martin Michael Alan infant Pittsburgh, PA 09/12/78
Martinette Alexander S. 75 Weirton, WV 01/11/78
Marzullo Jessie 56 Miami, FL 03/16/78
Mastrantoni Julio D. 17 Buffalo, NY 02/10/78
Matthews Helen 59 Steubenville, OH 12/26/78
Matuch Margaret A. 48 Weirton, WV 02/01/78
Mawhinney Charles Henry 68 Washington, PA 02/02/78
Mayers Eska E. 88 Steubenville, OH 02/06/78
McBee Ethel Mae 80 Chester, WV 03/30/78
McBride Charles 72 Miami, FL 11/13/78
McBurney G. Donald 74 Pittsburgh, PA 06/28/78
McBurney Lanell 66 Steubenville, OH 10/02/78
McCarrick Christopher 4 Plum Boro, PA 01/24/78
McCarroll Emma M. 66 Steubenville, OH 01/02/78
McCauley Arawana 60 Pittsburgh, PA 03/20/78
McCollough Ralph Wayne 66 Columbus, OH 05/30/78
McConnell Helen Long 64 Largo, FL 09/27/78
McCoy Lillian A. 81 Steubenville, OH 12/27/78
McCreight Dwylia 89 Wellsburg, WV 09/14/78
McCurdy Mildred Lahoma 61 Pittsburgh, PA 05/09/78
McDonald Helen Marie 62 Pittsburgh, PA 07/31/78
McDonald Mary 60 Hollywood, CA 07/17/78
McDonald Nettie B. 77 Hundred, WV 02/23/78
McDonald Rose Dalma 58 Steubenville, OH 10/16/78
McDonough John J. 83 Weirton, WV 10/28/78
McElroy Mary Barthold 81 Steubenville, OH 08/14/78
McElwain Charles E. 90 Steubenville, OH 12/27/78
McEntire Ossie 50 Kilgore, OH 09/25/78
McFadden George 76 Steubenville, OH 10/25/78
McFann Kenneth E. 66 Steubenville, OH 02/20/78
McFeely Harry H. 74 Steubenville, OH 02/16/78
McGee Annie Lewis 79 Steubenville, OH 03/01/78
McGinnis Clyde 87 New Orleans, LA 11/07/78
McGough Alice W. 90 Largo, FL 11/24/78
McGrew Beverly R. 50 Wheeling, WV 04/17/78
McHaffie William Gail 86 East Liverpool, OH 06/29/78
McIntosh Elvira Strong 73 Weirton, WV 04/26/78
McIntosh Helen B. 86 Steubenville, OH 01/18/78
McIntyre Helen E. Riddle 60 Treasure Island, FL 04/15/78
McIvor Edith Reynolds 46 Steubenville, OH 01/11/78
McKenzie Margaret Mumper 84 Wellsburg, WV 02/01/78
McKnight Earl Frederick 66 Shippingport, PA 09/22/78
McLaughlin Heather 5 days Pittsburgh, PA 03/28/78
McNally Laura 70 Beech Bottom, WV 08/29/78
McNeely George 74 Millersburg, OH 02/23/78
McNicholas Nellie 83 Weirton, WV 03/01/78
McQuillian Jessie Woneta 47 Wheeling, WV 04/14/78
McQuiston Sr. Robert S. 57 Steubenville, OH 06/16/78
Meader Mona Louise 42 Steubenville, OH 11/22/78
Meaffey John E. 85 Weirton, WV 05/03/78
Mecannic Robert 43 Steubenville, OH 02/23/78
Meder Betty Jones
Cadiz, OH 01/12/78
Mehalik Peter 55 Pittsburgh, PA 09/13/78
Melcher Richard Lloyd 79 Pittsburgh, PA 09/18/78
Meloy Cecil 61 Avella, PA 01/19/78
Menas Stella 84 Pittsburgh, PA 10/09/78
Menendez Manuel 81 Asturias, Spain 09/20/78
Mercer Herbert 64 East Liverpool, OH 08/21/78
Meredith Ada L. 62 Wheeling, WV 08/04/78
Meredith Terrence (Ted) 60 Steubenville, OH 11/22/78
Merkel Sr. William Clarence 52 Wheeling, WV 03/29/78
Mervis Sina 68 Chicago, IL 11/28/78
Metsch James 86 East Liverpool, OH 12/29/78
Miceli Joseph Peter 70 Weirton, WV 11/08/78
Michael Noah Lloyd 98 Weirton, WV 01/06/78
Mickey Frank Anthony 77 Steubenville, OH 01/30/78
Miller Anna Jaspers 91 Columbus, OH 02/17/78
Miller Henry J. 77 Port Charlotte, FL 04/10/78
Miller Joseph N. 84 Steubenville, OH 05/31/78
Miller Percy Albert 67 Wheeling, WV 01/28/78
Miller Richard J. 33 Steubenville, OH 04/06/78
Miller Frederick P. 88 Steubenville, OH 10/12/78
Miller Stella G. 72 Weirton, WV 09/22/78
Miller Sr. Paul Edward 44 San Jose, CA 03/21/78
Millich Michael 71 Weirton, WV 12/01/78
Mills Mary Clara 77 Steubenville, OH 08/01/78
Minges John Emery 75 Steubenville, OH 08/16/78
Mininni Christina 84 Steubenville, OH 09/29/78
Minnis Herbert Taylor 68 Carey, NC 12/09/78
Minor Howard H. 72 Winter Haven, FL 03/22/78
Mirasola Josephine 93 Beech Bottom, WV 02/27/78
Mitchell Harry R. 59 Follansbee, WV 01/17/78
Mithcell Doris 69 Steubenville, OH 07/21/78
Mizener Ruth K. 62 Steubenville, OH 01/25/78
Moffat R. J. 56 Steubenville, OH 04/25/78
Mohorovski Michael (Mohoroski) 75 Weirton, WV 12/07/78
Monaco Helen L. 57 Pittsburgh, PA 10/16/78
Moneypenny Roy L. 74 Weirton, WV 05/17/78
Monger Mildred Beryl
Wheeling, WV 05/26/78
Monigold Mark Anthony 22 mo. Pittsburgh, PA 02/28/78
Montgomery Orsyl C. 80 Steubenville, OH 11/30/78
Monti Jennie 76 Steubenville, OH 04/10/78
Mooney Edward 81 Steubenville, OH 08/21/78
Moore Lawrence L. 82 Nashville, TN 05/04/78
Moore Mabel 75 Canton, OH 05/01/78
Moore Shannon 83 Clearwater, FL 11/09/78
Moore William R. 52 Steubenville, OH 03/28/78
Moran Laura 88 Steubenville, OH 09/23/78
Morgan Dorothea (Mavrigiannis) 89 Weirton, WV 05/27/78
Morgan Edna Guthrie 60 Pittsburgh, PA 11/03/78
Morgan Esther Wright 57 Toronto, OH 03/28/78
Morgan Marie Lazear 85 Wellsburg, WV 06/13/78
Morgan Martha Whitehouse 96 Columbus, OH 09/25/78
Morgan Ingram D. 65 Jacksonburg, WV 10/10/78
Morris Kermit 61 Steubenville, OH 02/13/78
Morris Mabel Louise 69 Steubenville, OH 11/29/78
Morris Teanika Lashawn infant Pittsburgh, PA 02/23/78
Morris Walter John 64 Wheeling, WV 06/20/78
Morrison Claude J. 54 Steubenville, OH 02/22/78
Morrow Robert I. 71 Pittsburgh, PA 10/02/78
Morrow Robert L. 28 Steubenville, OH 08/22/78
Mossor Etta H. 79 Wellsburg, WV 01/30/78
Mossor George D. 76 Wheeling, WV 03/11/78
Mourat Dr. Constantine (Gust) 56 Akron, OH 07/06/78
Mowry Frank Kirk 18 Buffalo, NY 04/04/78
Moyers William M. 56 New Philadelphia, OH 09/25/78
Mozena Kendall R. 71 Martins Ferry, OH 04/13/78
Mozena Louis 77 Mount Pleasant, PA 01/06/78
Mozingo Charles 83 West Liberty, WV 02/25/78
Mrenak Nancy L. 22 Pittsburgh, PA 11/09/78
Muldrew Bertha G. 93 Steubenville, OH 05/15/78
Mulholland Joseph P. 65 Steubenville, OH 01/23/78
Mumbello Thelma Grace 72 Steubenville, OH 03/28/78
Murphy Marian Louise 69 Weirton, WV 10/14/78
Mushet Isabella 78 Wheeling, WV 05/26/78
Muskgrove (Spencer) Baby Boy infant Weirton, WV 08/17/78
Nach Max 86 Atlanta, GA 10/31/78
Nagy Mary 69 Weirton, WV 06/20/78
Narrigan Ora M. 81 Washington, PA 01/14/78
Neeley Clair W. 89 Weirton, WV 01/14/78
Neikam Lynn Astorino 62 New York City, NY 05/18/78
Nelson Margaret B. 86 Steubenville, OH 01/20/78
Neuman Alice (Bush) 89 Wheeling, WV 01/12/78
Neville Lawrence W. 61 Steubenville, OH 07/25/78
Nevlis William A. 78 Steubenville, OH 06/02/78
Nichols Gladys L. 68 Wheeling, WV 12/18/78
Nichols Hattie A. 69 Weirton, WV 05/08/78
Nichols Paul E. 75 Weirton, WV 09/07/78
Nicholson George William 81 Wellsburg, WV 11/04/78
Nicholson Rev. John R. 56 San Diego, CA 05/30/78
Nicola George J. 57 Burgettstown, PA 10/04/78
Nightengale Elizabeth K. 77 Weirton, WV 12/14/78
Ninerell Dominic 72 Fontana, CA 11/06/78
Nixon Mildred Katherine 64 Weirton, WV 03/09/78
Noble Patricia J. 31 Steubenville, OH 01/19/78
Noel Ruth Lucille 60 Pittsburgh, PA 10/16/78
Norten John Harry 55 Wheeling, WV 12/15/78
Northcraft Louis H. 79 Weirton, WV 08/31/78
Nutt Hazel 72 Harrisville, WV 12/08/78
O'Dell Callie Emma 84 Weirton, WV 11/29/78
Oliver Billy D. 40 East Liverpool, OH 03/15/78
Oliver Jennie 76 Weirton, WV 12/04/78
Olszewski Josephine 80 Weirton, WV 06/28/78
Olszewski Thomas 59 Pittsburgh, PA 07/08/78
O'Neill Hazel Wilson
Ortenville, MI 10/13/78
Orend John C. 81 Martins Ferry, OH 03/04/78
Ormsby Darrel M. 84 Steubenville, OH 05/09/78
Orsini Lawrence W. 70 Steubenville, OH 04/17/78
Orum James Edward 74 Wheeling, WV 06/26/78
Ostrander Sr. Donald E. 45 Wheeling, WV 04/15/78
Owens Helen Dorothy 70 Steubenville, OH 01/03/78
Paboucek Rose 71 Weirton, WV 04/20/78
Paisley Crystal Dawn infant Steubenville, OH 09/07/78
Palavis Steve 80 Bellaire, OH 10/07/78
Paluch Catherine 85 Weirton, WV 03/21/78
Palumbo Domenico 77 Steubenville, OH 03/11/78
Panei Nicolina Camilli 89 Butler, PA 08/16/78
Pappas Alex G. 79 Weirton, WV 02/17/78
Pappas Tony 51 Tampa, FL 01/31/78
Parianos Panagiota (Paris) 77 Greece 01/14/78
Parker Stanley Ray 60 Weirton, WV 02/17/78
Parker Helen Florence 86 Steubenville, OH 09/09/78
Parnell Lorana 67 Pittsburgh, PA 04/05/78
Parrish Sr. Charles 55 Steubenville, OH 12/14/78
Parsons Richard 61 Weirton, WV 06/19/78
Pasco Luke J.
Washington, PA 05/23/78
Pastoric Helena 79 Weirton, WV 08/22/78
Pasvanis Yacouvos G. 81 Steubenville, OH 06/12/78
Patrick Elizabeth 69 Pittsburgh, PA 01/16/78
Patrizio Anna 80 Weirton, WV 04/26/78
Patton Frances Parkinson 92 Steubenville, OH 02/09/78
Patton V. Mae 93 Sydney, OH 02/11/78
Pauley Freda 54 Weirton, WV 03/09/78
Pavel Mary 81 Weirton, WV 02/01/78
Pavlica John 70 Steubenville, OH 07/10/78
Peacock Helen Park 63 Pittsburgh, PA 03/31/78
Pearce Bessie 86 Steubenville, OH 12/05/78
Pearce Opal M. 64 Weirton, WV 07/06/78
Pellegrino Demenica 77 Jacksonville, FL 02/13/78
Pellegrino James V. 84 Jacksonville, FL 04/11/78
Pelter John William 72 Steubenville, OH 10/23/78
Perrotti Vincent J. 64 Steubenville, OH 05/27/78
Perry Josephine Pinchem 50 Martins Ferry, OH 08/07/78
Persinger James Albert 72 Steubenville, OH 11/20/78
Pertko Michael 74 Wellsburg, WV 11/21/78
Peters Angelo 81 Steubenville, OH 10/14/78
Peters Anna Mae 70 Steubenville, OH 03/14/78
Peters Dorothy E. 65 East Liverpool, OH 03/31/78
Peterson Louise A. 88 Weirton, WV 10/26/78
Petricca Anita (Anna) 68 Weirton, WV 10/09/78
Petrick Martha J. (Nettie) 75 Weirton, WV 06/26/78
Phelan Mae 70 Euclid, OH 02/11/78
Phillips Agnes 92 Weirton, WV 05/08/78
Phillips Anna Callahan 70 Steubenville, OH 04/29/78
Phillips Lily Mae (Roupe) 82 Cumberland, MD 01/30/78
Phillips Robert 54 Pittsburgh, PA 06/28/78
Phillips William R. Kelley 76 Glen Dale, WV 04/12/78
Phillipson Frederick 85 Steubenville, OH 10/25/78
Pijanowski Louis (Tijanowski) 84 Youngstown, OH 02/16/78
Piles Roy 67 Steubenville, OH 12/02/78
Pillar Anna M. 61 Weirton, WV 06/01/78
Pinciaro Daniel S. 69 Steubenville, OH 07/03/78
Pipinos Irene 23 La Jolla, CA 03/21/78
Pitcock Wayne H. 61 New Cumberland, WV 09/26/78
Pittinger Charles L. 61 Weirton, WV 01/28/78
Platt Lillian Elaine 37 Wheeling, WV 06/14/78
Plesa Michael 83 Weirton, WV 06/23/78
Plisko William 81 Ripley, WV 04/03/78
Poindexter Dr. Eugene C. 90 Steubenville, OH 07/06/78
Popa Mary 66 Steubenville, OH 04/18/78
Porter Henrietta Banfield 65 Steubenville, OH 03/03/78
Porter Jr. Peter
Long Beach, CA 01/21/78
Posey Mary Welling 90 Steubenville, OH 11/20/78
Postlethwait Charles E. 59 Weirton, WV 06/09/78
Potter Jay Moore 67 Wheeling, WV 01/16/78
Poulain Robert W. 54 Morgantown, WV 04/17/78
Povich Manda 91 Weirton, WV 05/25/78
Powell Elizabeth Bess (Elliott) 87 Steubenville, OH 03/02/78
Powell John A. 66 Weirton, WV 05/12/78
Powell Wanna 62 Clarksburg, WV 05/08/78
Powell Winifred 45 Wheeling, WV 08/21/78
Prado Leona H. 77 Oakdale, PA 01/24/78
Prager Baby Boy birth Weirton, WV 07/21/78
Pratt Arlie Clayton 75 Steubenville, OH 10/09/78
Prell Symra Joyce 31 Minneapolis, MN 03/22/78
Price Frederick Charles
Price Mary Catherine 55 Pittsburgh, PA 05/30/78
Price Tennessee J. 78 Bellaire, OH 05/25/78
Provenzano Gaetano 65 Pittsburgh, PA 02/09/78
Pugh Florence E. 72 East Liverpool, OH 08/31/78
Pulice Michele 86 Weirton, WV 10/20/78
Pustovarh Stanley W. 63 Steubenville, OH 02/11/78
Pyle Robert S. 61 Washington, PA 12/18/78
Pyles Broughn Hudson 50 Warren, OH 06/21/78
Quinn Earl 79 Midland, PA 09/30/78
Rabinovitz Goldie 83 Weirton, WV 01/10/78
Rake Dora E. 85 Steubenville, OH 02/07/78
Ralston Janet Louise (daughter) 14 Clear Creek Canyon, CO 08/16/78
Ralston Roseann Lee (mother) 32 Clear Creek Canyon, CO 08/16/78
Ralston William (son) 9 Clear Creek Canyon, CO 08/16/78
Ralston William O. (father) 38 Clear Creek Canyon, CO 08/16/78
Rapp Floyd O. 74 Steubenville, OH 10/24/78
Ravotto Pete 65 Weirton, WV 10/25/78
Rawson Donald 39 Bakersfield, CA 07/18/78
Rayl Wayne Francis 78 Wheeling, WV 03/23/78
Rector Commodore C. 79 Chester, WV 08/25/78
Reda Frank David 62 Steubenville, OH 09/29/78
Reed Winifred Murray 73 Weirton, WV 02/01/78
Reeves Lloyd Emery 64 Steubenville, OH 02/27/78
Reeves Marian (Allen) 70 Steubenville, OH 01/10/78
Rencsok Katie M. 92 Hampton, VA 07/28/78
Reynolds Esther M. 67 Weirton, WV 03/20/78
Reynolds W. Arnold 63 Weirton, WV 06/26/78
Rhodes Charles R. 64 Steubenville, OH 01/16/78
Richards Alice 81 Chester, WV 04/19/78
Richards Edward E. 60 East Liverpool, OH 05/16/78
Richards James Marshall 61 Grantsville, WV 05/15/78
Richards Robert M.
Pittsburgh, PA 05/08/78
Richmond Mary E. 96 New Martinsville, WV 08/03/78
Riddle Kenneth E. 72 Marietta, OH 01/03/78
Ridgely Hettie Agnew 95 Beech Bottom, WV 01/30/78
Riffee Mildred 65 Steubenville, OH 08/07/78
Rinehart Dewey C. 75 Butler, PA 03/15/78
Ripley Nettie 88 East Liverpool, OH 11/20/78
Riska Sr. William S. 55 Weirton, WV 09/28/78
Ritchie John R. 62 Weirton, WV 05/27/78
Riter Pearl (Pyles) 64 Weirton, WV 01/09/78
Robertson Elizabeth M. 53 Steubenville, OH 07/06/78
Robertson Pearl M. 78 Wheeling, WV 12/28/78
Robinson Bertha 87 Steubenville, OH 07/18/78
Robinson Floyd H. 65 East Liverpool, OH 01/02/78
Robinson Millie Bertha 86 Newell, WV 08/18/78
Robinson Nan R. 84 Steubenville, OH 01/10/78
Robinson Paul L. 71 Steubenville, OH 07/24/78
Robison John 64 Sierra Madre, CA 02/22/78
Rocchio Albert Frank 65 Steubenville, OH 08/30/78
Rocchio John (Joseph) 60 Steubenville, OH 10/13/78
Rocini Lenora 53 Steubenville, OH 08/29/78
Rock Sr. Robert J. 54 Toronto, OH 05/03/78
Rodewig Laura A. 75 Wheeling, WV 08/30/78
Rodgers Rudolph 87 Weirton, WV 09/20/78
Roe James M. 86 Minerva, OH 06/14/78
Roeder Charles E. 51 Wheeling, WV 11/27/78
Rogers Issac Louis 58 Steubenville, OH 05/13/78
Rogers Sr. George F. 77 Steubenville, OH 07/01/78
Romagnoli Albert P. 63 Wheeling, WV 05/18/78
Rose William Clyde 61 Steubenville, OH 10/18/78
Rosenlieb Viola B. 94 New Matamoras, OH 04/25/78
Rosohac Michael 58 Steubenville, OH 10/11/78
Ross Carl Dale 50 Weirton, WV 02/10/78
Roth Carol A. 38 Wheeling, WV 05/10/78
Roupe Okey C. (Grace) 75 Weirton, WV 04/17/78
Rouse Inez 77 Beech Bottom, WV 07/13/78
Rumics Geraldine (Thomas) 73 Weirton, WV 11/18/78
Rumics Joseph A. 68 Weirton, WV 07/17/78
Rusky Sr. Frank 75 Martins Ferry, OH 06/02/78
Ruszkowski Edward 57 Weirton, WV 09/08/78
Ryan Kathleen Hazel 82 Steubenville, OH 07/03/78
Sadler Derek Paul infant Wheeling, WV 07/10/78
Salerno John Lewis 65 Weirton, WV 11/08/78
Salonica Anna Mae 52 Steubenville, OH 05/18/78
Salter Jr. Walter 55 Pittsburgh, PA 03/21/78
Sanders Thurman O. 72 Bellaire, OH 09/30/78
Sandreth Charles Andrew infant Morgantown, WV 05/15/78
Sandreth Walter T. 64 Wheeling, WV 10/11/78
Santagelo Florina 59 Steubenville, OH 04/26/78
Sarraino Philip 72 Charleroi, PA 02/20/78
Satkowski Sr. Matthew S. 62 Weirton, WV 12/09/78
Sayre William 57 Dayton, OH 07/24/78
Scarford Anthony P. 68 Weirton, WV 04/07/78
Schanck Marion Helen 77 Kailua, HI 11/22/78
Schevlin Ethel M. 79 East Liverpool, OH 04/27/78
Schneider Ina Close 70 Steubenville, OH 08/16/78
Schultz George J. 87 Steubenville, OH 08/09/78
Schwarten Jr. Joseph F.
Cleveland, OH 04/17/78
Schwartz Anna M. 92 Beech Bottom, WV 09/18/78
Schweiss Jr. Joseph P. 39 San Antonio, TX 05/15/78
Schwertfeger L. V. 57 Follansbee, WV 12/16/78
Scott Anna C. 81 Burgettstown, PA 08/31/78
Scott Arthur Craig 84 Steubenville, OH 05/27/78
Search James Robert 37 Steubenville, OH 01/07/78
Sellitti Domenica 84 Weirton, WV 02/23/78
Sentipal Michael 70 Burgettstown, PA 05/11/78
Serra Joseph 79 Weirton, WV 02/02/78
Servais Elizabeth L. 85 Steubenville, OH 06/26/78
Shackleford Roger Lee 31 Steubenville, OH 05/15/78
Shaffer Sr. Charles 61 Steubenville, OH 09/18/78
Shakley Edgar Daniel 78 Levittown, PA 12/19/78
Shanley Thomas Andrew 76 Dover, OH 04/03/78
Shaw Benton Keepers 59 York, PA 03/30/78
Shaw Dora (Doris) 60 Wheeling, WV 08/25/78
Shekas Victor Paul 55 Steubenville, OH 05/01/78
Shepherd Paul 69 Steubenville, OH 05/01/78
Shepherd Sr. George Miladin 79 Steubenville, OH 01/26/78
Shiel William P. 86 Washington, PA 01/04/78
Shields Harry L.
Sholtis Michael 73 Weirton, WV 07/27/78
Shreve Grace E. 64 New Martinsville, WV 10/07/78
Shreve Mary M. 60 New Martinsville, WV 05/26/78
Shreve William Arvel 71 Weirton, WV 01/13/78
Shuble Hannah 90 Washington, PA 11/08/78
Shuma Jr. Michael 70 Weirton, WV 08/04/78
Shuman Marguerite Lucille 44 Ellenboro, WV 08/28/78
Shuman William Cleveland 68 East Liverpool, OH 01/10/78
Shute Alice R. 65 Pittsburgh, PA 09/29/78
Sierawski George A. 53 Pittsburgh, PA 12/19/78
Simera Catherine 84 Steubenville, OH 11/27/78
Simmons Carl R. 76 Weirton, WV 02/01/78
Simmons D. Edward 74 Follansbee, WV 08/10/78
Simon Louise 63 Venice, FL 03/14/78
Simonetti Mary Rose 23 Wheeling, WV 02/07/78
Sims Albert V. 57 Steubenville, OH 10/20/78
Sims Harley 78 Wheeling, WV 07/13/78
Sims Hazel G. 83 Aliquippa, PA 08/09/78
Skiles Margaret Kelley Orr 76 Wheeling, WV 10/04/78
Skinner Lillian Audrey Berdine 43 Wheeling, WV 06/13/78
Skinner Raymond 74 Steubenville, OH 02/10/78
Slater Herbert A. 63 Steubenville, OH 02/21/78
Slay Eula 83 Caldwell, OH 05/16/78
Slee Willard E. 70 Pittsburgh, PA 03/14/78
Sliwinski Theodore W. 65 Steubenville, OH 12/11/78
Slusarek Paul M. 60 Brookeville, PA 09/16/78
Smith Anna 74 Weirton, WV 02/07/78
Smith Bertha Schaefer 87 Steubenville, OH 07/08/78
Smith Charles A. 63 Sistersville, WV 01/02/78
Smith Cylde E. 80 Wheeling, WV 02/13/78
Smith Doris L.
Smith Elaine Marie 43 East Liverpool, OH 01/11/78
Smith Frank M. 69 Wellsburg, WV 01/18/78
Smith George M. 75 Steubenville, OH 10/30/78
Smith Gerald E. 18 Steubenville, OH 10/28/78
Smith Harry H. 89 Chicago, IL 11/01/78
Smith Isabel 78 Steubenville, OH 04/19/78
Smith O. Blanche 69 Steubenville, OH 03/23/08
Smith William H. 66 Weirton, WV 06/03/78
Smolewski Vincent L. 54 Weirton, WV 01/14/78
Smurthwaite Audrey H. 86 Steubenville, OH 03/21/78
Smurthwaite Lillian Mable 65 Weirton, WV 07/20/78
Snyder Alexander M. 54 Steubenville, OH 12/08/78
Snyder Robert P. 64 Steubenville, OH 05/13/78
Soiffon Devere E. 69 Weirton, WV 12/29/78
Solomon Michael
Granada Hills, CA 03/20/78
Somerfield Sr. Joseph 77 Sacramento, CA 03/18/78
Somon John 69 Wheeling, WV 05/05/78
Spangler Caroline M. 89 Brilliant, OH 09/08/78
Spanovich Bessie 43 Weirton, WV 11/03/78
Spear Earl 52 Steubenville, OH 09/30/78
Spear Markus 34 Wheeling, WV 09/21/78
Speicher Dale 60 Steubenville, OH 11/29/78
Speicher Walter Nicholas 85 Wellsburg, WV 06/03/78
Spencer Claudia A. 88 New Martinsville, WV 02/18/78
Spencer Russell Phillip 73 Weirton, WV 11/07/78
Sperringer William R. 62 Leechburg, PA 10/05/78
Sprando Gene 60 Washington, PA 11/21/78
Sprowls Clara M. 78 Weirton, WV 01/20/78
Stackhouse Eugene O. 74 Chester, WV 08/29/78
Steiner Gertrude 87 Wheeling, WV 02/06/78
Stepanovich Sophie 63 Steubenville, OH 05/09/78
Stephens Angela 68 Dayton, OH 09/16/78
Stephenson Harry Edward 75 New Cumberland, WV 11/24/78
Sterling Margaret C. 82 Cambridge, OH 07/01/78
Steubenvoll Dorothy Maebelle 63 Weirton, WV 12/04/78
Stevens George (Stergou) 78 Weirton, WV 01/26/78
Stevens Robert 67 Steubenville, OH 05/27/78
Stewart Urania Berlie 45 Weirton, WV 10/20/78
Stillian Patsy 66 Steubenville, OH 01/16/78
Stipanovich Milan N. 60 Weirton, WV 12/18/78
Stock Laurence Oliver 65 Steubenville, OH 11/06/78
Stocks Charles H. 88 Steubenville, OH 07/08/78
Stojak Stanley Frank 52 Weirton, WV 12/27/78
Stone Addie Kinney 62 Pittsburgh, PA 04/11/78
Stone Leonard 57 Steubenville, OH 01/28/78
Straight Louis Alden 54 Akron, OH 05/18/78
Streho Joel
Stroud Annetta 68 Steubenville, OH 10/20/78
Stroud Gertrude 78 Steubenville, OH 10/14/78
Sullivan John A. 78 South Hills, Pittsburgh, PA 10/24/78
Sultie Henwig 84 Eldersville, PA 02/21/78
Summers Charles (Ted) 68 Weirton, WV 07/28/78
Summers Jack 81 Weirton, WV 06/15/78
Sutherin Thelma B. 78 Weirton, WV 06/07/78
Swain Mary Martha 73 East Liverpool, OH 03/11/78
Swart Mildred R. 63 West Alexander, PA 02/18/78
Swart Donald 60 West Alexander, PA 05/05/78
Sweeney Lulu E. Landmyer 80 Wheeling, WV 02/20/78
Sweeney Jr. Daniel A. 56 Steubenville, OH 08/10/78
Swickard M. Ethel 94 Steubenville, OH 01/12/78
Swogger Waldo 69 Steubenville, OH 05/01/78
Szerbaty Anna Jasko 53 Wheeling, WV 02/15/78
Tacy Woodrow Wilson 65 Clearwater, FL 01/25/78
Taglione Vincent R. 37 Steubenville, OH 10/17/78
Tarquinio Anthony 76 Wheeling, WV 08/19/78
Tarquinio Philip 84 Wheeling, WV 12/13/78
Tate Dewey Carson 69 Weirton, WV 12/26/78
Tate Grover C. 85 Clarksburg, WV 01/03/78
Taylor Alice Marie 57 Pittsburgh, PA 10/14/78
Taylor Amy Jo infant Pittsburgh, PA 11/16/78
Taylor Charles Herbert 53 Weirton, WV 11/09/78
Taylor James H. 74 Weirton, WV 07/17/78
Taylor Joan E. 46 Steubenville, OH 02/04/78
Taylor Samuel Ellis 73 Danville, KY 09/18/78
Taylor Allen 77 Steubenville, OH 12/16/78
Tedreau Jr. Roy King 49 Steubenville, OH 04/03/78
Teeters Jr. Charles William 45 Miami, FL 12/19/78
Tegano Joseph B. 83 Steubenville, OH 08/17/78
Telvock John 61 Weirton, WV 08/14/78
Tempest Ida E. 76 Steubenville, OH 02/06/78
Tennant Glennie O. 76 Alma, WV 07/28/78
Tennant Sally E. 80 Fairmont, WV 05/22/78
Tharp Katharina 49 Steubenville, OH 07/28/78
Thomas Corles C. 78 Weirton, WV 08/14/78
Thompson Ernest M. 78 Steubenville, OH 06/05/78
Thompson Frederick J. 60 Steubenville, OH 09/21/78
Thompson Jeanne E. 54 Steubenville, OH 02/06/78
Thompson Kathleen Kell 72 Weirton, WV 10/28/78
Thompson Lowell 51 Steubenville, OH 07/06/78
Thompson Margaret S. 59 Steubenville, OH 10/16/78
Thompson Raymond F. (Jack) 75 Wheeling, WV 11/16/78
Thorman Charles Albert 70 Alhambra, CA 07/08/78
Thornburg Grace Olive 67 Washington, PA 04/15/78
Threnhauser Francis (Trenie) 53 Steubenville, OH 03/17/78
Tice Eula Mae 57 Steubenville, OH 01/20/78
Timberlake Sr. Richard H. 85 Steubenville, OH 06/10/78
Tingler Paul E. 69 Weirton, WV 12/08/78
Tomei Primina (Lena) 80 Weirton, WV 05/01/78
Topping Elsie 92 Steubenville, OH 12/28/78
Trabucco Jennie 78 Steubenville, OH 11/30/78
Trader Andrew Lee 6 wks. Weirton, WV 04/19/78
Trew William Gillilan 75 Steubenville, OH 06/02/78
Troia Rose Irene 84 Steubenville, OH 08/16/78
Tronti Albert John 56 Carson City, NV 06/28/78
Troutman Earl E. 76 Steubenville, OH 01/06/78
Truax Jesse Logan 84 Weirton, WV 07/31/78
Truver Laurence W. 80 Hyattsville, MD 01/20/78
Tulek Steve 86 Wadsworth, OH 02/22/78
Tunacik Elizabeth P. 59 Weirton, WV 04/10/78
Turner Dorothy Lee 46 Steubenville, OH 03/30/78
Turner Helen Martin 79 Hundred, WV 06/06/78
Turner Ruby 71 Steubenville, OH 01/24/78
Tyson William Thomas 82 Wheeling, WV 03/14/78
Underwood Martha A. (Verda) 91 Clarksburg, WV 06/22/78
Urban Catherine 71 Steubenville, OH 07/05/78
Utt Doyle W. (Thomas) 45 Weirton, WV 04/19/78
Utzler Paul A. 72 Casselberry, FL 09/07/78
Valenti Rose 82 Washington, PA 11/07/78
Van Camp Ralph 69 Wheeling, WV 01/12/78
Van Smith Robert 47 Pittsburgh, PA 09/15/78
Vargo Virginia Lee 52 Steubenville, OH 04/29/78
Varner Robert E. Lee 46 Wheeling, WV 07/12/78
Vatrella Frank 82 Steubenville, OH 06/26/78
Vaughn John B. 72 Steubenville, OH 11/21/78
Vaughn Leona E. Walker 79 Largo, FL 04/07/78
Veal Oscar Lee 75 Steubenville, OH 11/01/78
Veltri Domenica 91 Weirton, WV 11/17/78
Ventresca Julia T. 28 Steubenville, OH 05/08/78
Verona Bernice Victoria 65 Weirton, WV 09/29/78
Veydt Bertie E. 74 McDonald, PA 08/17/78
Vincent Helen 66 Steubenville, OH 11/29/78
Virden William Ralph 75 New Manchester, WV 10/30/78
Virtue Mary Thelma 73 Cadiz, OH 06/17/78
Virtue Norma Lee (Anderson) 51 Steubenville, OH 01/21/78
Vitale Vincenzo 84 Steubenville, OH 01/16/78
Vogle Harry V. 75 Weirton, WV 08/12/78
Vohar George 64 Steubenville, OH 02/01/78
Vonderau Genevieve E. Jane 82 Steubenville, OH 01/02/78
Vujaklya Bozo 64 Wheeling, WV 12/15/78
Wade Madonna 72 New Martinsville, WV 03/14/78
Waderker Beatrice E.
Waggle Ronald Everett 37 Morgantown, WV 05/26/78
Waggoner Emma G. 83 Steubenville, OH 10/16/78
Wala Anna T. 87 Steubenville, OH 08/24/78
Walaszczk John 82 Weirton, WV 07/03/78
Walden T. H. 85 Elsberry, MO 11/27/78
Walker Donald K. 66 Steubenville, OH 04/06/78
Walker James A. 70 Weirton, WV 02/06/78
Walker Samuel D. 87 Weirton, WV 06/06/78
Walko Susan 94 Weirton, WV 01/02/78
Walters Howard L. 58 Weirton, WV 10/07/78
Walton James C. 82 East Liverpool, OH 06/05/78
Walton Janet Sue 34 Steubenville, OH 03/07/78
Waltz Lester 78 Hollywood, FL 01/12/78
Ward Anna Mary 71 Steubenville, OH 11/20/78
Ware Thais Lydia 61 Elizabethtown, KY 01/02/78
Wargo Elizabeth 63 Irvine, CA 01/14/78
Warner Julia C. 65 Pensacola, FL 04/17/78
Warner Ruby K. 75 Steubenville, OH 11/25/78
Watkins Ralph 64 Steubenville, OH 03/16/78
Watson Harry 27 Geneva, OH 07/18/78
Watson Jack W. 62 Bridgeport, WV 10/16/78
Watts Joyce Ann 37 Steubenville, OH 10/03/78
Waugh James Leroy 57 Follansbee, WV 06/03/78
Waugh Janet T. 87 Beech Bottom, WV 01/30/78
Webster Peter C. 34 North Tonawanda, NY 05/03/78
Weeda James G. 70 Follansbee, WV 11/04/78
Weigand Matilda 73 Bellaire, OH 07/20/78
Weld William Raymond 70 Steubenville, OH 05/01/78
Wells Florence 69 Steubenville, OH 01/26/78
Wells Robert N. 68 Steubenville, OH 07/28/78
Wentz Othella F. 61 Oakdale, PA 11/30/78
Weser Lessie Strickling 76 Wheeling, WV 11/03/78
West Alma R. 62 Weston, WV 07/17/78
West Eileen Ann Long (Wife)
West Harry Melton (Husband)
Westlake Beulah 76 Steubenville, OH 03/20/78
Wharton Myrtle L. 79 New Martinsville, WV 05/02/78
Wharton Normgene 50 Pittsburgh, PA 05/01/78
White Geraldine 60 Weirton, WV 02/17/78
White Charles Edgar 65 Weirton, WV 06/12/78
White Creed 83 Beech Bottom, WV 05/17/78
White Deoman 7 Steubenville, OH 06/29/78
White Dorman R. 54 Steubenville, OH 05/01/78
Whitman Farrell D. 85 Steubenville, OH 11/13/78
Wildman Hazel E. 77 Parkersburg, WV 02/23/78
Wililemer Evelyn Underwood 63 Wheeling, WV 05/20/78
Williams Ethel I. 57 Steubenville, OH 03/20/78
Williams John M. 88 Steubenville, OH 01/30/78
Williams Norma Ruth 47 Weirton, WV 05/18/78
Williams Pearl Mae 80 Pittsburgh, PA 04/18/78
Williams Ralph Porter 69 Steubenville, OH 07/12/78
Williams Warren B. 64 Steubenville, OH 04/01/78
Williams William Luther 77 Chester, WV 09/27/78
Williams Elizabeth Frances 87 Weirton, WV 01/17/78
Williams Anna May 75 Weirton, WV 09/12/78
Williamson Clarence A. 80 Weirton, WV 06/24/78
Williamson Elizabeth 85 Weirton, WV 01/02/78
Wilson Jeremiah 22 Steubenville, OH 01/12/78
Wilson Clarence W. (Jack) 54 Steubenville, OH 10/23/78
Wilson Edna L. 81 Weirton, WV 07/18/78
Wilson Elinora 65 Weirton, WV 06/29/78
Wilson George W. 62 Wellsburg, WV 05/13/78
Wilson M. Virginia 67 Steubenville, OH 06/17/78
Wilson Minnie 82 Steubenville, OH 06/05/78
Wilson Samuel 86 Steubenville, OH 06/05/78
Winn Sue (Simmons) 71 Steubenville, OH 11/18/78
Winski Garnett Noris 86 Wheeling, WV 05/08/78
Winter Catherine 90 Wheeling, WV 01/13/78
Winters Ethel C. 89 Beech Bottom, WV 12/27/78
Wisniewski Arthur
Wisniewski Stefania 81 Los Gatos, CA 06/20/78
Wolfe Edward 52 Steubenville, OH 01/25/78
Wolfe Irma Ruth 79 East Liverpool, OH 02/25/78
Wolpert Marie Kathrine 88 St. Joseph, MO 08/01/78
Wood Sr. Leonard B.
Woolery Edna 76 Seabring, OH 11/16/78
Wounaris William 84 Weirton, WV 02/23/78
Wright Harold A. 78 New Martinsville, WV 10/11/78
Wright Kathleen 57 Fairmont, WV 08/29/78
Wright Lester C.
Parkersburg, WV 01/17/78
Wright Martha Ann 99 Weirton, WV 01/23/78
Wright Jr. Frank L. 18 Pittsburgh, PA 12/18/78
Wroniak Joseph C. 56 Weirton, WV 06/14/78
Wyatt Mary Lou 46 Weirton, WV 08/26/78
Wylie Helen B. 79 Carrolton, OH 07/01/78
Yamber Albert 82 Follansbee, WV 10/13/78
Yandrich John 55 Steubenville, OH 07/20/78
Yazebac Sr. Alexander 64 Pittsburgh, PA 04/18/78
Yerkey Stella 81 Sistersville, WV 02/15/78
Yost Robert M. 73 Steubenville, OH 11/02/78
Young James C. 77 Steubenville, OH 01/31/78
Young James T. 63 Steubenville, OH 01/23/78
Young John
Anaheim, CA 04/14/78
Young Jr. William 39 Pittsburgh, PA 11/04/78
Zabek Walter A. 66 Weirton, WV 07/27/78
Zane Florence E. 96 Steubenville, OH 03/17/78
Zaremba Michael 87 Weirton, WV 07/20/78
Zatezalo John 63 Weirton, WV 04/06/78
Zavadskas Rev. Fr. Basil 64 Steubenville, OH 11/27/78
Zeigler Charles W. 78 West Union, WV 11/02/78
Zelenko John
Zembry Joseph 67 Steubenville, OH 06/07/78
Zende Carl Louis 71 Parkersburg, WV 07/10/78
Ziklo Johon 65 Steubenville, OH 06/13/78
Zinno Beatrice 66 Steubenville, OH 01/03/78
Zubreski Mary 60 Steubenville, OH 09/14/78
Zurbuch Katherine A. 72 Steubenville, OH 12/14/78
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Ngola Kingdom: Motorcycle (mis)adventures in south-west Angola
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Quote from: KiLRoy on October 03, 2013, 06:36:44 am
Do you think his appeal is necessarily limited to the ladies, or do you think like a true, small Hellenic god, he can transient the physical boundaries of the sexes?
Does the female form make him uncomfortable....
Having been raised in a circus theres not much that makes me uncomfortable sir - be it man or beast - if its under 3ft ill have at it - even if it be burglary..
Who needs toes
mooo!
Excuse me Midge - did I mention im very short...
Cowgirls ride full throttle
MaxThePanda
Bike: Vespa (all models)
As in 'Even more Panda'. Also likes sharks.
It's been a bit longwinded, so in case you'd forgotten, we had been chased out of the Bicuar National Park, and were skirting down past this big green blob, on what should have been a national arterial route.
Actually, it was more like your local motocross track, which had been attacked by a psychotic midget with deep seated mother issues driving a front end loader, then dumped with a hindenerg-size load of soft sand and left for a few months in the rainy season of the Philippines for grass to grow on it. Superb! We were having the ride of our lives.
I've said that before on this trip, haven't I? But seriously, it was stupendously good riding. I think I spent half the day riding out of dongas on my back wheel - love that little orange thing - and the rest behind Midget, watching him fishtail through soft sand with the panache of Ari Vatanen on his day off. It was warm, the countryside was beautiful and the people friendly.
We got lost occasionally, and even got invited to ride across someone's mielie field
and signs of the still-recent war abounded
Very occasionally, the track would open up to a smooth road, but those moments were far and few between.
At one point I passed this barricaded village:
It was the only village I saw like that on the whole trip. Fear of elephants from the nearby park? I just don't know, but it was some handy woodwork all the same.
And still more motos with their curious packing techniques. I think this one was to soften up the still-alive chickens for dinner:
Late afternoon we then stopped off at a small village for fuel and a beer and Camel amused himself by trying to capture a goat for dinner.
But even though he said 'Do you know who I am?" the goats simply insisted he'd need a tray - which obviously he didn't have DUH! - and wandered off to chew on someone's dinner.
http://www.youtube.com/v/Sv5iEK-IEzw
Well, it must have been around 4.30 when we set off for our last hour of riding, and I honestly can't remember if someone actually mentioned taking it easy... but if they didn't, it's going to be a mantra for first and last hours on every bike trip I'm involved with from here to Kingdom Come.
Despite the long day in the saddle and the intense riding, I didn't feel tired, and was still loving it. I was bringing up the rear, with Camel out front, when my petrol light came on.
Actually, the petrol light proves I've got things a little mixed up, because we did stop at the goat place for petrol, but I must have done another 200km or so before my light came on... so the goats were probably much earlier. But either way, it seemed to me a good idea at the time to ride up to Mike and warn him about my petrol situation - and probably also suggest we stopped for the night.
I think when I cast my mind back properly, there had been the small LOST incident as well.
I was in front and there was a particularly stylish moto rider giving it welly in front of me. Some of these guys can really ride, despite the abject state of the machinery and the very limited suspension at their disposal. I was having a laugh following him through the tracks, holes and washouts, but when I decided to finally give it some gas and catch him up to show my appreciation. It was then that I realised that we'd just turned off the track and were going through a little village.
I carried on, but now the track was completely different. More like a foot path, swooping around trees and between fields. I could see on the GPS that I was only a couple of km away from the road, and vaguely heading in the same direction, so decided to push on. The problem was that I really didn't know if my amigos had followed me, carried on, or stopped and waited. I gave it some, in the hope of getting back to the road ahead of them, and when I eventually did - 20 minutes later - carefully scanned for tyre tracks in case they were ahead. Couldn't see anything, and the fellow who came walking past seemed to think he hadn't seen any bikes - but such was the state of the linguistic gap between us, that could have meant anything.
I waited, and waited.... and waited. Eventually a KTM rolled into view, and a forlorn looking Camel pulled up. He'd lost the Midget. Well, clearly he'd been at the back so the Midge wasn't behind him, and I'd waited so long I'd obviously been well ahead of them... so the Midge must have followed me. We decided I'd wait and the Camel would retrace my steps in the hope of finding the little fella.
You wouldn't think you could lose each other in the Angolan bush, but at this point I was a little afraid that had happened. Common sense said it was unlikely, but it's amazing how much we take for granted the notion that we can get hold of each other whenever we need to.
No LOST for us today, though, and the Camel dutifully reappeared ten minutes later with a gleeful looking Midget in tow - looking as delighted as I'd been by the magnificent riding served up by our little detour.
So that's right - it puts us a few hours later than I'd thought - or our stop with the goats was actually a few hours earlier.
But anyway, back to the present. I was bringing up the rear and running out of gas. Perhaps it was because of the LOST incident earlier (without the hot actresses or tropical beach, sadly) but my lizzard brain told me I needed to stop the Camel in case I did run out, and I set off in hot pursuit. What a stupid idea.
Maybe this shouldn't be a drawn out tale. I went past Midge and was doing about 80-100kph chasing my brother. That doesn't sound like a lot, and the road surface WAS much better than it had been earlier. On the straights I saw him, and I guess I just decided to gas it and stop him sooner rather than later. Well, the rest, as they say, is history.
I came around a sharpish bend in the road, and in front of me was a sequence of at least three MAN-size (and I mean the truck, not twice-Midget) potholes. The first thought that went through my brain was "oh-oh!" I got through the first one fine, but took a bit of air and hit the middle of the second one with my fork and shock completely compressed.
What happened next was immediately preceeded by my second thought, which was "Oh SHIT!" and there was no time for a third thought, because the combination of over-compressed 690 suspension, less-than-Coma levels of skill and the lip of the second pothole conspired to high side the bike and send me and the ground racing towards each other at faster than light speed.
Often when thinking about accidents in the abstract, we imagine what might happen, how we might respond and how we can improve our chances - things like tuck and roll, or going limp, or falling left etc. etc. The reality is quite different. It's very, very fast. Faster even than reflexes. I remember my brain thinking, but it was in no connection whatsoever to what my body was doing, or what was happening around me.
I was lucky, very lucky. I slid down the gravel, and my bike slid down the gravel and hit a tree. It's quite amazing how much dust an accident like this makes. You know those pictures of a space shuttle taking off? It felt like that much dust. But when it cleared, I saw my bike lying half in a bush, and my body lying in the middle of the road, with the stuffing knocked out of it.
I seemed to be at least a little ok. I tried to stand up, buckled, and sat down again.
The Midge arrived on the scene, and pulled up, a worried look on his face. He helped me up, and then screwed up his face like a five year old biting on the chilli that their mother warned them not to, at the sight of my leg. My long-serving Richa pants had been ripped open across the thigh, unfortunately just below and behind the padding, and so had my leg.
It's at times like this that one discovers how well thought out one's medical kit is. We had no disinfectant and no dressings. Oops. We did have a LOT, and when I say a LOT, I mean enough for a camel - a real camel - of painkillers, so I immediately swallowed a fistful. We also had fifteen different kinds of antibiotics, many of which I was to experiment with over the coming days.
After ten minutes the Camel returned, took in the state of affairs and decided we should stop for the night. Not an entirely unreasonable assumption. Somehow, and I know not how, my KTM seemed sort of ok. The forks had twisted a little in their clamps, and the luggage rack on my left side had bent out badly and potentially damaged the subframe, but other than that it seemed ok. Those Austrians know a thing or two about building bikes tough. It seems it went down hard on the left and slid down the road, with all the impact and abrasion taken on the left pannier and left hand guard, leaving the rest of the bike almost untouched. Truly amazing.
Hoping we weren't in for a landmine surprise, but not really caring at that point, I hobbled off the road and down the bank, where we set up camp, washed the wound as best we could, bandaged it, and hoped for the best.
Travels through God’s own motorcycle country
Racing Panda's Road to Amageza!
Orange Desert Sky
Ja, ja - en toe??
Pics of the wounded steed?
Brilliant by the way!
Quote from: Hammerhead on October 04, 2013, 12:59:32 pm
How bout some video?
http://www.youtube.com/v/0BiAXU06RzM
« Last Edit: October 04, 2013, 03:56:00 pm by MaxThePanda »
Quote from: MaxThePanda on October 04, 2013, 03:55:27 pm
it say private......as in http://www.private.com/
Oops. Sautéd.
Shangali
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Shangali Out with my Friends - Dirt, Dust & Gravel ..
We woke up in our roadside campsite in what we hoped was to be our last morning in Angola.
The previous evening's accident had tipped the scales towards the "All good things come to an end!" direction. But first there was some celebrating to. It was this big fella's 38th birthday,
Cake and candles were in short supply, so we redirected our party fervour to the idea of several very cold bottles of champagne in Opuwo Lodge that evening. I was feeling sore, but the horse tranquilisers were doing their job, and I had a look at the state of the bike, wondering how it was going to hold up to the day's riding. Turned out I was in much worse a state than the machine.
A little battle-scarred for sure, but it looked like we wouldn't have to set it on fire and abandon it in a shallow roadside grave in Angola. We packed, I gingerly mounted my steed and set off. It was immediately clear that my right wrist was pretty painful. Now something curious came to pass, which I believe is the subject of one of Hipócrates' laws. Otherwise known as the hammer to the big toe theory. Simply put - you think your wrist is sore? Just pass me my hammer and I'll make you forget all about the pain.
My wrist was broken, and as I sit here typing six weeks after the event, it is clearly the injury that is going to trouble me by far the most going forward. But I swear I forgot about it completely for ten days. The bad roastie on my leg turned out to be a massive 20x20cm haematoma - the skin tissue layer pulled off the muscle - which was only a day away from becoming badly infected. In the resulting fever and operation that followed in South Africa, I forgot all about my wrist until the pain from my leg subsided. How utterly bizarre.
Apparently the 100km of dirt from our rough camp to the town of Xandongo was spellbindingly amazing. Ask the Midget. I remember nothing of it, except for a constant struggle to keep my speed up to 40kph and the ride as smooth as possible.
There are some pictures of baobabs on my camera, but I think I must have taken them the day before because I certainly wasn't stopping for pictures today.
Every corrugation was like a needle spike into my leg, and by the time we hit tar I assured my riding companions that there was no way I was riding any more dirt between here and Opuwo, and any thoughts we'd had of taking the shortcut back through Ruacana could be forgotten.
So Oshikango it was, although as you can see from the map, it was going to be a long day riding in circles to get anywhere near where we were heading.
The terrain opened up again, and there was evidence all around us of the war that had ravaged the countryside.
I regret not having taken loads of pictures, but I was in no state to think of it, and this burnt out troop carrier will have to serve as the sole reminder of the tanks and military vehicles which still frame the main national road to Namibia.
I don't know why they haven't been cleared away. You'd think the scrap would be worth a lot. Maybe it's an important national reminder not to allow the country to descend into war again. Perhaps there's so much bad juju attached to the relics that nobody wants to touch them. I don't know, but it makes for a macabre but bizarre and interesting experience driving past all of them. Sadly we didn't get as far west on this trip as we'd planned, because I believe there are many more closer to Cuito. That will have to remain for another trip.
The road to the border was largely uneventful - a couple hundred km's of flat tar. Unlike Ruacana, a sleepy hamlet with five bored policemen that sees one or two vehicles a day, Oshikango is a bustling border town. We met our first unpleasant Angolans... the pushy money touts who are a feature of just about every main border crossing in Africa. But we got through without too much hitch and on the Namibian side immediately began looking for somewhere to find lunch.
It was 3pm, we were finally out of Angola. But this day was very, very far from over....
Mr Zog
Well fuck me, I'm a
Bike: Honda XL500S
Without the gutter my mind would be homeless...
Between the video and the description, it looks like you were manning up magnificently though...
Good war-stories to pull the chicks at Café Caprice
Young enough to know I can, old enough to know I shouldn't, stupid enough to do it anyway.
MechanicalCamel
2 humps are better than 1
And then, just like that, we were through that awful border post. It took about a week to get ourselves into Angola , and then in the blink of an eye, we were out again. We were one man short, one short man, one man wounded, and one man hungry, but we were back in Namibia. The fat lady wasn't yodelling however, and the circus was most certainly not yet over.
The thing with border towns is that they're universally shitty. In the Wild West, the Frontier Towns had allure and charm and an exciting, dangerous feel to them. Border towns just have a dirty, dangerous feel to them. All the downside with none of the upside - like an ugly bird who’s also a bad lover. We needed money, food, petrol and to high-tail it outta there as fast as we could. But we're not very good at high tailing it outta anywhere very fast so we sat down for a nice big meal to celebrate our grand achievement.
Max located what must be the only place to get a decent bite in that nasty little hovel and we sat down to watch me eat. Which I did with gusto and not just cause it was my birthday right. When you've been eating biltong-chicken and brown onion soup stew out of unwashed pots, it doesn't take much to titillate the taste buds. We then started our last full-blown blither-fest of the trip as we tried to pry ourselves away from food, fill up the bikes, and go find Tom.
We poured over a map and couldn’t find a route other than the dirt road that goes back to Ruacana. You might have picked up that Max had a slight scratch on his left buttock. Despite taking due caution by swabbing it carefully with mercurochrome and applying a Donald Duck plaster, he wasn’t keen to take on corrugated roads. We asked everyone within shouting distance from our table but it didn’t look like there were any alternatives. So that was that, time to fly. Max went to the pharmacy, I went for gas, Midget got lost, Max found a different route, Midget found gas, I got lost, Max found gas, then we lost each other. It was hot, we were tired, Max's pending amputation was causing a bit of stress, and fuses were a little short. We deliberated about the route a bit and then decided to take a chance on a road less travelled that a gypsy had drawn in the dirt with a chicken bone. To top it off, when we found our way out of town we were stuck in rush hour traffic with the sun slap bang in front of us (why does a border post have rush hour?). The Midget, having mastered sand, rocks, bowls and single track, was having a hell of a time (blessed are the Greeks) with this traffic. It's easy to forget that the wee man has only ridden on a car-infested road for a grand total of 4 hours in his extraordinary biking career. He had snow blindness, donkeys, unskilled Namibian drivers and 2 impatient brothers to deal with and was having none of it:
"I'm not going one step further until I get a foot massage…!" he protested (one would thinketh, too much).
"…by a graceful Himba woman", he added, demanding, "I want fruit, baskets of the stuff. Preferably exotic - east coast."
He wasn’t stopping now, "and while you're about it, some local musicians to calm my shattered nerves."
His words sprinkled the air, mixed with diesel fumes and fell many miles from the helmet-encased ears of the Midget-Drivers, who were some kms up the road by now. Resigning himself to death by tar, he closed his eyes and soldiered on until the road was quiet again because it was dark and everyone had gone home. Now I’m sure that every one of you, good readers, knows that it's a bad idea to be on the road after dark in faraway towns in Africa. You’ll also know by now that we’re big fans of bad ideas, so we belted into the magical sunset like the rugged cowboys we aspire to be. It was time to find Tom.
It was fantastic for a while. Gorgeous wide open Namibian scenery flashing by, orange, pink, red, midnight blue sky fading to black, three amigos with a righteous sense of achievement. The levels of contentment were high; this was an amazing way to end an unbelievable trip. I recall thinking “if we make it back alive, this will be the Most Magical Birthday Ever.” It was the alive part that was starting to look a little shaky.
In a fitting tribute to our cavalier approach to navigation, we were trying to get back to Opuwa on a route that we weren't entirely sure existed. Max had met a German gypsy fellow in the pharmacy who assured him there was a new tar road that linked Oshakati with the intersection on the Ruacana road where we had charmed our way through the police stop many pages earlier. If it existed, we were on like Donkey Kong, if it didn’t, we were in for a mighty detour that would definitely have involved running out of petrol. Germans are known to be extremely precise (especially when welding), so, as all hint of daylight exited stage right we spanked all our money on red, and bee-lined for the unknown. Game on!
At about 10pm we stopped on the side of the road to regroup, by which time we were decidedly hysterical. Not in a “wow, Eddie Izzard is soooooo funny” kinda way, more in a “I’m a pig and I love the smell of bacon and here comes the famer with a rifle” kinda way. We had been riding since 6:30am so fatigue levels were off the charts. Fortunately there was no danger of us falling asleep cause that’s not possible when you’re confronted by a breeze with a wind-chill factor of -25C. It was colder than I’ve ever been in my life, and believe you me I’ve inhabited some frigid spaces in my time (relationships aren’t my strong point). We had already stopped once to put warm clothes on but this was now a full-scale assault on frostbite. Max set about cutting holes in the heels of his dirty socks to stick his thumb through so he could wear them like mittens. I was cutting holes in my beanie so I could wear it over my helmet like a safety-conscious bank robber. The Midget wasn’t cutting anything.
He stood some way back, unblinking.
"Zip me up", he said.
"Dood, that's not going to work," I replied.
The Midget had taken his enormous (even for a normal-sized man) sleeping bag, wrapped it around his belly and was trying to contain it inside his bike jacket. It was like Santa trying to get into Chris Froome’s time trail suit.
“I don’t think that’s going to work”, I (foolishly) said again.
"ZIP ME UP!!!" he bellowed, with a downright vicious snarl. The Midget doesn’t give instructions very often but I know better than to argue when he does.
I couldn’t get the 2 sides of the zip close enough so I lay him on his side and then sat on him, squashing the front of the jacket shut. I had trapped his arms underneath me so I had to reach between my legs to zip the jacket up, but my fingers were so numb it was like doing open-heart surgery with braai tongs. I had accidentally placed my boot on the Midget’s head during the compression exercise so all I could hear from him was a muffled warbling. All this while Max was in the background, cackling like a hyena, flashing the Smith & Wesson about like he was holding a puffadder. Things were looking dangerously unhinged and I feared for anyone who stopped to observe.
And still, STILL, we weren’t home….
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P.K.
EPIC....brilliant report, brilliant ride.
Now get your ass behind a keyboard and put us out of our misery!!
goingnowherequickly
Are you home yet...
Masters of Suspension
loving this RR, what happened next??
This is epic stuff, stuff that deserves to go to to the Roll of Honor Section.
They're all too busy schnaffling up cocktails at Cafe Caprice and perving the hot 21 year olds. Or welding up luggage racks
waaahahahahahaha
« Last Edit: October 09, 2013, 07:08:55 am by BlueBull2007 »
funky_munky
This is one epic tale of adventure.
Quote from: MechanicalCamel on October 02, 2013, 06:45:29 pm
So, as Max says, we’re sitting in the middle of this sweet little village, waiting for a short guy on a mule to show up. The spirits were high cause the riding was really, really good.
“This is the best riding I have ever done,” I exclaimed to Max, for the 10th consecutive day. “I’d love to be back at Café Caprice so I could celebrate with a cocktail.”
After a bit, the Midge came bouncing down the track on a buttercup-coloured pogo stick and then stopped, about 200m away. We looked. We waited. Midge hopped off Buttercup, circled it a few times, scratched his tiny little chin, and then waved for help.
I sauntered over, thinking he needed some assistance tying the tattered remains of his bags together (at this point they looked like an ancient windsock). But things were sadly not so superficial.
“Ooooooh sheeeeiiit”, said I.
“What you mean?”, said the Midget, knowing exactly what I meant.
“Dood, I’m sorry to say this, but I think this is the end of the road for you. Buttercup has finally rolled over. She needs to be shot.”
After the previous night’s fall the Midget thought his pro-surfing career was over, and now this! It was too much and his bottom lip began to quiver.
The DR was sitting on the ground like a fat Sumo wrestler; back wheel tucked tight up against the wheel arch and bags resting on the ground. The rear shock had snapped and with so little time left there was not much we could do. I imparted all this news with learned, if compassionate tones. What a sad, sad day. A catastrophe, a calamity, a twagedy of biblical proportions.
Buttercup was clearly in pain so I set about creating a screen so we could shoot her with dignity. That horse deserved it. Sadly we didn’t have a gun so I readied myself to bludgeon her to death with a tyre iron. Our plans to smuggle high calibre rifles over the border were thwarted by Max’s lady. Had this not been the case, I would have emptied a merciful round into Buttercup’s guts, then and there. Weaponry absent, I resorted to that which is mightier than the sword, and composed an ode.
ODE TO BUTTERCUP
Oh Buttercup, you trooper
You have been a sensation. Simply super.
Your style and grace is ace.
You have weathered soft sand like a camel (but lets not get carried away).
You have traversed rocks like a dung beetle.
You have followed the single track like a note does a line.
And now your time has come to have your brains beaten out with a tyre iron.
May you rest well in the AfterLife (it’s horrible stuff).
The cry of a distant vulture broke my trance and I suddenly had the bright idea of inspecting the damage. So we lay the bike down and I looked, and we lay it the other way and I inspected, and bugger me if I couldn’t find anything broken. The shock looked fine, the linkage looked fine, the swingarm looked fine. Everything seemed fine except my fatalistic prognosis and the position of that rear wheel. WTF?
By this time, the panda had waddled over. He casually assessed the situation, shooed away the circling vultures and pointed at the rack, about which so much has been said. Now, in the interests of world peace and general civility, let me be clear that I am in no way condemning the (expert-welder and remote-sidestand-switch-fixer) creator of said racks. These racks were, however, very nearly the cause of a very small man not completing a very big adventure. There wasn’t enough clearance for the rear wheel and the wheel nut had got caught inside the rack, trapped like a shetland pony under Kobus Wiese. (Dear Lord please tell me he’s not on this forum?) A bit of levering with a stick rammed between wheel and rack and PING – out popped the wheel.
This was clearly the happiest sound the Midget has heard since his wife said yes (to the bike trip, not marriage). He immediately took off all his clothes and ran around in circles with his hands in the air, squealing with delight. Max narrowly escaped injury in the ensuing stampede (we’ve mentioned that the Midget is not remotely in proportion).
Now, believe me when I say I haven’t hammed this story up one little bit.
Restored to her former glory, and having (almost literally) dodged a bullet, Buttercup whinnied over to some nearby shade to be attended to. We dialled in the pre-load (again), maxed out the damping, and removed the rear bumper component on the expertly welded rack. We still had to bend the racks out further away from the wheel so we lay the DR flat on the ground stood on the bottom piece while Midget used his famous snatch technique to rip the top piece further away from the wheel. This was easy for him because he held the national weightlifting record in the snatch discipline in the early 90’s (narrowly missing out on the clean and jerk to Stringfellow Hawk).
And with that, we were off again! Right after a drink…
My apologies but I clearly slept through the Midget's pre carrier rack design briefing where he stated that he intends to roll the bike across parts of Angola on the carrier rack rather than on the wheels.
It looks as if the relentless series of impacts of our planet against the poor Suzuki eventually bent the rack inwards enough to finally allow it to grab the rear axle nut as it happened to travel past and lock it in a position which must have made the bike resemble a dog with worms dragging its backside on the ground.
A good measure can probably also be blamed on the soft luggage which at this stage was hanging in cable tie and duct tape reinforced tatters and did not fulfil its role as impact softening protective layer between luggage rack and planet any more leaving mother earth scarred and scratched on various occasions.
Now it has to be understood that every commercially available carrier rack would have ended up as an entangled and torn mess of metal scraps in a compulsory "lost bits catcher" drag net towed behind the bike no later than by reaching Iona.
My masterpiece of engineering did not only withstand the repeated impacts of approximately 6000000000000000000000 tons of planet earth, no it even was able to catch and hold the Donkeys hind leg in a near fully compressed state after all this abuse.
Again every commercially available rack would probably not have achieved this feat even whilst still brand new.
All warranty claims on the mentioned carrier rack are refuted based on the following reasons:
The warranty has to be validated by the delivery of at least two cases of appropriately chilled Windhoek Draught to my premises.
The claim has to be submitted by the delivery of at least another two cases of appropriately chilled Windhoek Draught to my premises.
Castle is not acceptable as a substitute due to my ancestry. Luke warm Zamaleks definitely also aren't.
After consideration of all the drinks the claim would have been declined based on:
The rack was rattle can sprayed in a politically correct shade of black.
It did actually not break. According to the fine print of the warranty which can be found in the mouldy file behind the spare toilet cistern in my workshop only actual breakage caused by the impact of a cone of soft serve soft serve side first is covered
The slight deformation could have been fixed by simply bending it back into shape by using a car jack. Do Angolans have punctures? Do they use bodybuilders to heave the cars clear of the ground to change tires?
I actually mentioned this and in particular the possibility that the bent carrier might catch the rear axle nut as well as the fixing method of spreading the bent carrier with a car jack in the post carrier rack manufacture briefing but the Midget must have slept through this section
Would have saved him the snatch exercise
Even a 600 pound blacksmiths anvil thrown across the Angolan landscape in the same manner as the Suzuki would have been shattered to pieces before the rack bent enough to engage the rear suspension.
The carrier rack probably prevented the Suzuki from simply breaking in half from being thrown around all the time by considerable reinforcing it. I will gladly accept the earlier mentioned two cases of ice cold Windhoek Draught as gratification - to be delivered to my premises
Haha. Now that's the spirit. I personally advised the Midge to just remove his entire DR subframe and use the rack instead.
I did get a certain satisfaction in seeing the rear wheel spring free, but either way it wasn't a disaster... he could have just used the rack as a sled and the rear wheel as a paddle to keep moving him forward. God knows that with his motorcycling skills he wouldn't have noticed much difference.
Roll cage, skids, broken KTM carrier, truly multifunctional!
nice one guys!
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THE FANTASTIC FOUR (Now with Shitty)
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Re: THE FANTASTIC FOUR (Now w/ Trailer)
Josh Trank possibly on 4chan discussing Fantastic 4, Fox, and Matthew Vaughn.
by Ribbons on Fri May 29, 2015 8:36 pm
TheButcher wrote: Josh Trank possibly on 4chan discussing Fantastic 4, Fox, and Matthew Vaughn.
If this is legit, then um... wow.
"I'm high enough to not give a fuck."
by TheButcher on Thu Jun 04, 2015 1:06 am
'Fantastic Four's' message for comic fans who hate the new cast
Director Josh Trank on 'Fantastic Four' casting controversy: 'I knew it was going to get ugly'
by so sorry on Fri Jun 12, 2015 11:30 am
Re: THE FANTASTIC FOUR 2?
by TheButcher on Mon Jul 06, 2015 9:19 pm
Apparently Fox Wants Bryan Singer To Direct FANTASTIC FOUR 2 En Route To X-MEN Crossover
Could we see Bryan Singer shepard Fox's cinematic universe? That's the word on the geek-street anyway. A new report claims the plan is for Singer to take over from Josh Trank on Fantastic Four 2, and then helm that X-Men/FF crossover we've been hearing so many rumors about...
by TheButcher on Wed Aug 05, 2015 11:07 pm
Miles Teller Rips Esquire Over Cover Story’s ‘Dickishness’ Characterization
“I don’t think there’s anything cool or entertaining about being a dick or an asshole. Very misrepresenting,” the “Fantastic Four” actor tweets
Re: THE FANTASTIC FOUR (Now w/ Reviews)
FANTASTIC FOUR Review: It’s Clobberin’ Time
The latest FF movie is way better than you expect.
Fantastic Four’s Behind-the-Scenes Drama: Fights, Reshoots, and a Disastrous Press Tour
Yes, the superhero blockbuster is a terribly mediocre film, but it was also Von Doomed from the start, plagued by vicious rumors, a licensing battle with Marvel, and reshoots.
Re: THE FANTASTIC FOUR (Now w/ Review)
by TheButcher on Thu Aug 06, 2015 3:09 am
Film Review: ‘Fantastic Four’
BRIAN LOWRY wrote: Joining Spider-Man in the annals of dizzyingly rapid reboots, Fox’s second stab at “Fantastic Four” comes just eight years after the first try and its sequel, which didn’t set the bar inordinately high. Yet if this latest version, with a significantly younger cast (one’s tempted to call it “Fantastic Four High”), clears that threshold, it’s just barely, drawing from a different source to reimagine the quartet’s origins without conspicuously improving them. All told, the movie feels like a protracted teaser for a more exciting follow-up that, depending on whether audiences warm to this relatively low-key approach, might never happen.
Review: Powerfully mediocre 'Fantastic Four' is neither disaster nor success
Moriarty wrote: Neither the disaster the fanboy nation seems to be itching to attack nor a significant improvement over the Tim Story movies, "Fantastic Four" seems doomed to please no one. If this were simply a science-fiction film about original characters, it would be a moderate pleasure that can't quite connect all the dots or pay off the various ideas it introduces. As an adaptation of the comic, it seems to miss nearly everything that seems exciting about "Fantastic Four" as a filmmaking opportunity, and it will only serve to reinforce the idea that these characters don't work in a movie.
/film:
‘Fantastic Four’ Early Buzz: First Reviews Are Mostly Negative [Update]
by TheButcher on Thu Aug 06, 2015 8:30 pm
Why did 'Fantastic Four' exclude Sue Storm from its moment of glory?
Turns Out The Fantastic Four And X-Men Movies Are In Different Universes
James Whitbrook wrote: Speaking to the New York Daily News, producers Simon Kinberg and Hutch Parker clarified that actually, the movies weren’t connected at all—and they actually take place in parallel universes to each other:
They exist in parallel universes. The Fantastic 4 live in a world without mutants. And the X-Men live in a world without the Fantastic 4.
Crossing them over would be challenging, but we sure would love to see all those actors together, the way we had them on stage at [San Diego] Comic Con.
by Ribbons on Fri Aug 07, 2015 12:21 am
Re: THE FANTASTIC 4% (Now w/ Trailer)
by TheButcher on Fri Aug 07, 2015 12:33 am
THR:
'Fantastic Four' Director Josh Trank Blames Studio For Poor Reviews
Director tweeted he had a "fantastic" version of the film a year ago that would have recieved great reviews that will now never be seen.
I saw this movie.
Are they on Krypton?
Walking out of the theater was like walking out of a funeral.
Kids were crying in the hall.
People were stunned.
One kid asked for Stan Lee.
Everybody in that screening now has a bond:
We survived the Fantastic Four reboot!
by Ribbons on Fri Aug 07, 2015 4:46 pm
by TheButcher on Fri Aug 07, 2015 8:45 pm
‘Fantastic Four’ Bombing at the Friday Box Office
Marianne Zumberge wrote: “Fantastic Four” is struggling to find its footing at the box office this weekend, suggesting that not even superheroes are immune to poor reviews.
Early estimates show the 20th Century Fox release struggling to hit $30 million for the weekend, which is well below the anticipated mid-$40 million mark. Should the estimates keep plummeting, the opening could prove disastrous for the studio, which spent $120 million on the pic.
Thursday night previews for “Fantastic Four” pulled in a lukewarm $2.7 million at 2,900 locations.
The last major superhero release to premiere under $35 million was Sony’s “The Green Hornet” in 2011 ($33.5 million).
Hollywood Can’t Seem to Crack Marvel’s ‘Fantastic Four’
Brian Lowry wrote: For years, the Fantastic Four immodestly bore the title “The World’s Greatest Comic Magazine.” Introduced in 1961, the title ushered in the age of Marvel Comics, inaugurating the creative explosion of writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, which has been compared in musical terms to John Lennon and Paul McCartney during the Beatles’ heyday.
All of that makes the rather tortured history of the franchise on screen, especially given the current ascent of comicbook blockbusters, all the more perplexing – most recently with Fox’s reboot “Fantastic Four,” which comes eight years after its last live-action effort, a sequel subtitled “Rise of the Silver Surfer.”
Not only has the project been bludgeoned by critics, but the director, Josh Trank, responded by implying that the studio, Twentieth Century Fox, was responsible for its failings. Whatever the underlying truth, for comicbook fans it raises the specter of the bad old days, when studios abused comics by refusing to take the source material seriously.
Trank on being told his vision for the FF was bad:
You're right it's my vision, lets be 100% honest here, it is my vision Fox hired me to do my vision and to make sure they get a quality film and they're getting both; since day one people have created rumors and lies about me and my film going from found footage to me tearing up that house. Was I distant? Yeah. I was, if you were on the set of a huge film with Mathew Vaughn and half of Fox breathing down your neck to deliver a film on a specific date and to rush through everything you'd do everything possible. Yeah, I wanted to extend the boundries; FX supervisor got OTOY to do some good quality work which looked great in the dailies but not what I wanted. Look okay, here's what I'm trying to say if you want your fantastic four, if you want the real first family, if you want Doom ruler of Latveria, if you want Frank and Val Richards if you want the power cosmic or even the bombastic bagman then yeah my story isn't for you but at the end of the day they still exist in your heart and in your mind and in the pages of marvel comics I was hired to write and direct a film and to make it what I thought would be a new way to do it and so I decided instead of playing it safe to go all out to go scifi space and body horror because thats been done so few times. You can tell any story with these characters and some are light hearted and some are dark but honestly since issue one when they fought the mole man Reed Richards and Co were afraid of being freaks afraid of what to do in life and completely unsure of how to deal with it and I loved that aspect the people who have powers but are completely afraid; these are early days for the four they're not even the four yet and they never call themselves that but they for sure are the first family just a different one; this is Earth-Fox not Earth-616.
studly MAN ON BATMAN #090: JOSH TRANK, PART 3
Aug 4, 2015 - In the studly Cave this week: Kevin and Josh Trank delve deep into finding the heart of the new Fantastic Four, in theaters August 7th. Part 3 of 4.
by Ribbons on Sat Aug 08, 2015 10:20 pm
TheButcher wrote:
honestly I swear if this shit ends up anywhere I'm gonna kill you people but I'm high enough to not give a fuck.
The words they'll put on the tombstone of Josh Trank's career
by so sorry on Mon Aug 10, 2015 9:11 am
There's some funny stuff in that link...that dude was definitely on something.
Re: THE FANTASTIC FOUR (Now w/ sequels?)
by TheButcher on Tue Aug 11, 2015 8:27 pm
It Sounds Like Fox Are Forging Ahead With That FANTASTIC FOUR Sequel
According to a new report, Fox are intent on making that 2017 sequel a reality
Here's the strangest footnote to the entire Josh Trank/'Fantastic Four' story
AS THE REPORTING AROUND THIS WEEKEND'S MEGA-FLOP POINTS FINGERS, WE TRY TO SORT OUT WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED
FANTASTIC FOUR: Josh Trank Lawyers Up As Shocking Details About His On Set Behaviour Emerge
Telling actors when to blink? Hiding in a tent during shooting? Defacing photos of the family who owned the house he allegedly wrecked? These are just some of the insane new revelations which have surfaced in regards to Josh Trank's behaviour on the set of Fantastic Four... -
More Details Surrounding ‘Fantastic Four’ Troubles Surface
Drew Goddard may have been brought in to try and put together the film's new ending.
by TheButcher on Tue Aug 18, 2015 11:07 am
Bart & Fleming: Lessons Of Summer; Should Mad Max, Terminator Genisys, Spy And Fantastic Four Live On?
FLEMING: wrote: If the movie is broken, do not release it until you fix it, as hard as that is. If that means sacking the director and pulling it off the release calendar, do it. These films cost too much money and look at what Fox is left with. A big writeoff, and a tarnished intellectual property in Marvel’s wonderful Fantastic Four universe—I feel confident that done properly, depicting the battle between Silver Surfer and Galactus is far more cool and epic than Ant-Man or another iteration of Spider-Man. I don’t know how the rights work, but Sub-Mariner crossed over into the Fantastic Four world in the 1960s, and is far more interesting than DC’s Aquaman if you ask me. Fox has options on four terrific young actors in Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell that the studio now might not be able to use. I don’t think this movie deserved the blanket condemnation it got, and it is remarkable how quickly that built when Trank turned on it. I don’t see Fox giving the rights back to Marvel, as has been suggested, not when they could stoke the embers with a TV series or make a good movie with some real imagination that maybe places the focus on an ancillary character. Beg Bryan Singer to take it over; his first X-Men was probably the best example of how to tell a great story and lay the foundation for an enduring franchise. The first Captain America was okay, but it was far from hip until Joe and Anthony Russo got hold of it and turned the sequel into a towering success and Captain America into a rock star. You look at the first Wolverine film and it was roundly panned. And yet, all the characters introduced from Wolverine to Deadpool and Gambit will live on in other superhero movies. Just as is the case in the comics, it’s very hard to kill a superhero, even in Hollywood. But they came very close here.
AXEL-IN-CHARGE: Duos New & Old, with "Deadpool/Cable" and "Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur"
Albert Ching wrote: Before we get to fan questions, the big entertainment news of the past week has been the "Fantastic Four" movie -- obviously that's a 20th Century Fox production Marvel didn't have direct involvement in -- emerging as a critical and financial disappointment upon release. I'm curious as to how this might affect the way the Fantastic Four are viewed internally at Marvel. I imagine there are three outcomes: This will make Marvel less likely to unveil a new "Fantastic Four" series, due to the notion it's a tainted property; it'll make Marvel more likely, because they want to prove to the world it's a viable concept and how to do it; or not affected at all, and that plans will just continue the way they were.
Alonso:
Not affected at all. We have our plan. Whether the movie was a hit or a failure was irrelevant to us. We've got great stories to tell in the coming year, and "Secret Wars" sets the stage for them.
TheButcher wrote: THR:
What Was FANTASTIC FOUR Like Before Simon Kinberg?
A look at an early draft of the movie.
DEVIN FARACI wrote: Before Simon Kinberg came on as producer and to rewrite the film, Fantastic Four was a totally different beast. It took its early cues from the Ultimate Fantastic Four, but by the end of the script the movie was all about big, brash Stan Lee and Jack Kirby action. It’s the kind of script that you could imagine Marvel Studios making.
by TheButcher on Mon Aug 24, 2015 11:59 pm
Max Landis Details More Of His FANTASTIC FOUR...Trilogy
Max Landis goes in-depth on Josh Trank - they haven't spoken since Chronicle (2012), on his version of Doctor Doom - 'He and Reed are best friends' and his failed sequel plans for Chronicle 2 - 'It's very dark. It's one of my better scripts.'
by Ribbons on Tue Aug 25, 2015 1:36 am
Between Max Landis and Josh Trank, it's hard to tell who's the bigger douche
by TheBaxter on Tue Aug 25, 2015 9:23 am
Ribbons wrote: Between Max Landis and Josh Trank, it's hard to tell who's the bigger douche
LANDIS VS. TRANK: WHOEVER WINS, WE DOUCHE
TheBaxter
Carlos Danger
Re: THE FANTASTIC FOUR (Now with Shitty)
by TheButcher on Mon Sep 14, 2015 10:49 am
Simon Kinberg Confirms Fox Is Still Working On 'Fantastic Four' Sequel
by Ribbons on Tue Sep 22, 2015 1:48 pm
I saw Fantastic Four and while it's not *quite* as disastrous as the negative reviews and bad publicity make it out to be, yeah, it's pretty bad.
You can tell that nobody knew what movie they were trying to make. Certain elements feel crammed-in, and re-writes and re-shoots clumsily stitched together. There's plenty of humor in the film, but none of it is funny. After a while it starts to be embarrassing. Dr. Doom's evil plan makes no sense. The biggest set piece takes place on a pile of rocks. I could go on.
The two scenes in the movie that really work involve the "body horror" that Trank talked up during production. I have no idea what a whole movie full of that would have looked like, and maybe that wouldn't have worked either, but at least those scenes weren't boring, which is more than I can say for the rest of it.
by so sorry on Tue Sep 22, 2015 2:03 pm
Ribbons wrote: The two scenes in the movie that really work involve the "body horror" that Trank talked up during production. I have no idea what a whole movie full of that would have looked like, and maybe that wouldn't have worked either, but at least those scenes weren't boring, which is more than I can say for the rest of it.
Explain.
by Ribbons on Wed Sep 23, 2015 12:11 pm
There's a scene right after the Four's powers manifest, before they learn how to control or manage them, and it's portrayed as scary and awful. The Human Torch is on fire and they can't put it out, Reed's limbs are all stretched out and he can't move his arms or legs, the Thing is stuck in a chunk of rocks, etc. Later on there's a scene where Doom is recovered from the Negative Zone (or Planet X or whatever they call it here) and you see the extent of the damage done to his body by severe burns, among other things. He enacts a bit of revenge by going on a rampage through the Baxter Building, literally exploding people's heads a la Scanners. I thought these scenes were pretty effective. They definitely shocked me and got my attention in a way that the rest of the movie didn't.
by TheButcher on Fri Oct 09, 2015 2:00 am
'Martian' Producer Simon Kinberg on 'Fantastic Four' Woes, Jennifer Lawrence's Uncertain 'X-Men' Future and 'Star Wars' Secrets
The founder of Genre Films also discusses how Ridley Scott wasn't the first choice to the direct 'Martian' and whether he'd work with director Josh Trank again.
Tatiana Siegel wrote:
What do you say to the criticism that you're spread too thin and it impacted Fantastic Four?
I was there every day on set of Fan Four, as I am on anything that I'm the writer and the producer of. Some movies work out and some don't. In my experience, there's not a direct correlation between the process and the product, meaning, I've been on some really hard movies, like Mr. & Mrs. Smith, where we shot a lot of reshoots that were very difficult days, as extensively reported — and in some places, accurately reported. So, I read stories about troubled movies and then I go see the movies and I'm like, "Wow, that movie turned out to be a great movie." There's a lot of crazy-talented writers, directors, actors who are difficult, and their films turn out great. And then there's some people who are lovely, wonderful human beings and the process is a joy, and the movie is flat. I don't subscribe to the idea that a happy process makes a happy product or an unhappy process makes a broken product. Also, the actual number of movies I'm working on is probably less than the average producer who has a deal at a studio.
What really went wrong with Fantastic Four?
I haven't really done a full diagnosis. It was a hard movie to make, but I've made a lot of hard movies. I do think that there is a great Fantastic Four movie with that cast. But there's so many different elements that need to come together perfectly. It's like a collaboration between all these strangers. And if there's a few things that don't go right, it's hard to recover from. I went straight from that into Apocalypse. I haven't had a lot of time to decompress. I'm obviously disappointed with the way it turned out.
Trank tweeted that his version of the movie was better than the one released. Did it hurt box office?
Honestly, I have no idea. I've had other movies not work before. For whatever reason, that movie not working became very public — and that was hard because you put a lot of time and effort and love into everything you do, and I really love a lot of people on that film and felt really close to the actors. Those are the guys whose faces are on the poster and are the most exposed. I hope we get to make more movies with them. But it was disappointing.
Would you work with Trank again?
In the right context? Sure.
Has there been talk about bringing in Marvel to revive Fantastic Four like Sony did for Spider-Man?
Not to my knowledge.
by TheButcher on Thu Oct 15, 2015 10:53 pm
UPDATE: Fox Denies Fantastic Four Marvel Rumors
Fox has responded to the report that Fantastic Four's rights are returning to Marvel - it's "completely untrue" the studio says...
by TheButcher on Sat Nov 07, 2015 11:25 pm
Toby Kebbell Talks FANTASTIC FOUR Failure; "The Fans Aren't Wrong"
Fantastic Four star Toby Kebbell talks here for the first time about his experience playing Doctor Doom, weighing in on the way fans reacted to the reboot and dropping some interesting remarks about the behind the scenes issues which plagued the Josh Trank helmed release...
"I was disappointed, but the fans aren't wrong. The fans want what they want to see and if they don't get satisfaction, they let you know. I appreciate that as a performer. My job is to come in and perform as best I can, and hopefully be directed in that path, and I felt like I was. I felt like the film was going to go well. It didn't turn out that the fans felt that way, so their reaction is honest, I can only appreciate honesty."
"I don't know if I learned anything from Doom apart from perhaps when I see something I don't agree with, to voice that immediately. I think it's important. As an actor, you're conscious that your career is at stake with each job, especially on these larger productions. A film like that comes out, and I'm being sent maybe four scripts in a week, and those scripts go to zero when it doesn't come out successful, so that actively affects my career. I think it's vitally important that if there's a problem on set, that it's voiced and we solve it there and I think that collaboration is very important. Not to say that didn't happen on set, but the collaboration is vital and if we don't do that, then we suffer."
What Toby Kebbell Learned from Fantastic Four
Shocker!
'Fantastic Four 2' in Doubt After It Is Mysteriously Removed from Schedule
by Fried Gold on Thu Dec 24, 2015 5:57 pm
I just watched this. I'm not sure if anything was changed for the DVD, but this film is by no means the all-out "worst film ever" travesty it was made out to be.
Simon Kinberg Wants ‘Fantastic Four’ Sequel to Be “Brighter” and Feature the Same Cast
He admits, “We didn't make a good movie.”
MATT GOLDBERG wrote: Speaking to Den of Geek, Kinberg admits:
“We didn’t make a good movie,” Kinberg said, “and the world voted, and I think they probably voted correctly. And you can’t make a good movie every time out – not everybody does. We actually have a pretty good batting average, all things considered. But I think we made many mistakes when we made that movie – mistakes that we learned from and we wouldn’t repeat.”
So what’s the key difference between the original and a proposed sequel? Kinberg explains:
“We’ll try to be truer to the essence of the tone of Fantastic Four, which is completely – well, not completely, but largely – distinct from the X-Men, which is brighter, funner, more optimistic tone. I think we tried to make a darker Fantastic Four movie, which seemed like a radical idea but we were kind of messing with the DNA of the actual comic instead of trusting the DNA of the comic.”
Also, when it comes to a sequel, he would want to bring back the core cast:
“We want to make another Fantastic Four movie. We love that cast – I mean if I were to say to you now Michael B Jordan and Miles Teller, and Kate [Mara] and Jamie [Bell] are great actors – we love that cast. I love the comic, I mean I love it almost as much as X-Men.”
So what exactly are the chances of winning Fox over to the possibility of a Fantastic Four movie done right?
“We’re working really hard on figuring that out,” he said. “Nothing would make me happier than the world embracing a Fantastic Four movie.”
EXCLUSIVE: Talking 'X-MEN: APOCALYPSE,' 'STAR WARS' and More with Simon Kinberg
Kellvin Chavez wrote: LRM:
Okay. What's up with Fantastic Four? ... And, Will Marvel ever consider helping out or getting involved with a Fox project just like they did with Sony?
Simon Kinberg:
We haven't had any discussions with Marvel about them getting involved on any of the movies at Fox, as far as I know, and we, meaning me and Fox and Hutch Parker, who's producer too, have been talking a lot about what to do next with FANTASTIC FOUR. It's a super, super, super high priority for all of us, and for me personally, it's a super high priority because it really bums me out that we disappointed the fans and that we didn't make a great movie last time out. I think we learned a lot of lessons from that experience and lessons that we could bring to the next one and hopefully make a movie that is worthy of the title.
by TheButcher on Tue Jun 07, 2016 5:50 pm
‘Fantastic Four’: Toby Kebbell Says There’s a Great, “Darker” Cut We’ll Never See
FANT4STIC
‘Fantastic Four’ Screenwriter Jeremy Slater Reveals Details about His Original Draft
If the studio had followed Slater’s script, we would have gotten a very different ‘Fantastic Four’.
MATT GOLDBERG wrote: Slater says he liked the stuff with “lots of humor, lots of heart, lots of spectacle,” while Trank preferred something “grounded, gritty, and as realistic as possible.” And while these events basically take up the entirety of Trank’s movie with a rushed third act climax, Slater’s draft had a lot more material that was far more faithful to the comics:
In addition to Annihilus and the Negative Zone, we had Doctor Doom declaring war against the civilized world, the Mole Man unleashing a 60 foot genetically-engineered monster in downtown Manhattan, a commando raid on the Baxter Foundation, a Saving Private Ryan-style finale pitting our heroes against an army of Doombots in war-torn Latveria, and a post-credit teaser featuring Galactus and the Silver Surfer destroying an entire planet. We had monsters and aliens and Fantasticars and a cute spherical H.E.R.B.I.E. robot that was basically BB-8 two years before BB-8 ever existed. And if you think all of that sounds great…well, yeah, we did, too. The problem was, it would have also been massively, MASSIVELY expensive.
For his part, Slater doesn’t hold any ill will towards Trank or the studio, and he understands the studio economics at play:
“Would you spend $300 million on a Fantastic Four film?” he asked. “Particularly after the previous two films left a fairly bad taste in audiences’ mouths? … It’s understandable that everyone involved would take steps to minimize their risk as much as possible. Unfortunately, those steps probably compromised the film to a fatal degree.”
Re: Fant4stic The Grim & Gritty Fantastic Four Reboot
by TheButcher on Sat Feb 25, 2017 8:45 am
Producer Simon Kinberg on Plans for a ‘Fantastic Four’ Sequel
To put it mildly, the Fantastic Four reboot did not pan out.
MATT GOLDBERG wrote: Steve Weintraub recently spoke to writer-producer Simon Kinberg for Logan and asked if there’s any chance of seeing an alternate cut of Fantastic Four:
SIMON KINBERG: I don’t know the answer to that in terms of whether or not fans will ever see it. I think B-roll is probably the place where they will see it. And for us, it’s in the past in the sense of lessons learned and we would love to make another Fantastic Four movie. We really believe in that cast, and I think the lessons that we learned would help us make a more consistent movie than we did the first time.
That leads to the question of whether or not Fox has to keep making Fantastic Four movies in order to hold on to the rights. Kinberg replied:
KINBERG: I have no idea. I think the truth is we would not make another Fantastic Four movie until it was ready to be made. One of the lessons we learned on that movie is that we want to make sure we get it 100% right, because we will not get another chance with the fans.
To be blunt, while the reboot does have a talented cast, I think audiences don’t want to keep seeing Fantastic Four movies in the vein of a gritty, realistic take of teenagers who get superpowers. While I appreciate Kinberg’s desire to make sure they get a sequel right, I’m willing to bet that the next time we see a Fantastic Four movie, it will be with a different cast and a completely different approach.
Re: 'Phase4stic'!! The Grim & Gritty Phase Four Reboot
by TheButcher on Sat Apr 22, 2017 10:17 am
AICN:
Marvel’s Kevin Feige: There May Not Be A 'Phase4stic'!!
by TheButcher on Fri Jun 30, 2017 1:13 pm
Collider JUNE 30, 2017:
20th Century Fox Sets Release Dates for 6 Mystery Marvel Movies
ADAM CHITWOOD wrote:
We’ll also likely see Fantastic Four come back in some form, because in order to keep its license and prevent the characters from reverting to Marvel Studios, Fox has to make some sort of Fantastic Four movie relatively soon.
The dates are as follows:
June 7, 2019: Fantastic Four Origins: Reed Richards & Ben Grimm
November 22, 2019: Fantastic Four Origins: Sue & Johnny Storm
March 13, 2020: Fantastic Four Origins: Doctor Doom
June 26, 2020: Fantastic Four Origins: Franklin & Valeria Richards
October 2, 2020: Fantastic Four Origins: The Silver Surfer
March 5, 2021:Fantastic Four Origins: Galactus
by Fievel on Fri Jun 30, 2017 1:52 pm
Fox needs to cut out of the Fantastic Four game.
Cut a deal with Marvel and wash their hands of the property.
I know those proposed films are a joke, but just the simple fact that they are planning on revisiting the property again is just pathetic.
by Peven on Fri Jun 30, 2017 3:33 pm
Fievel wrote: Fox needs to cut out of the Fantastic Four game.
the best thing for all involved. work out an agreement where FOX gets a cut of profits but give 100% creative control and distribution to Disney/Marvel. then work them in to the MCU after the dust settles from the next couple Avengers movies. that would be "phase 4" at that point, right?
Re: Fantastic Four Origins: Doctor Doom
by TheButcher on Fri Jul 21, 2017 4:56 am
THR JULY 20, 2017:
Noah Hawley Developing Movie About 'Fantastic Four' Villain Doctor Doom for Fox
Aaron Couch, Josh Wigler & Borys Kit wrote:
The 'Legion' creator made the announcement at the show's Comic-Con panel.
Fox has been eyeing ways to revive the Fantastic Four franchise for the big screen, and Legion creator Noah Hawley made one of those ways public Thursday at San Diego Comic-Con.
At the end of his panel for FX's Legion, Hawley teased that he is developing a movie for Fox that fans may be interested in.
"Two words," he said. "Doctor. Doom."
Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Hawley is developing a feature project centering around one of Marvel Comics' most recognizable villains with an eye to direct.
The character is the chief antagonist of Marvel's Fantastic Four, the superteam created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby to which Fox has the movie rights.
The Fantastic Four has had a somewhat troubled big-screen history. Tim Story directed the 2005 film Fantastic Four and the 2007 sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. While they were commercially successful, they were not quite embraced by fans. A 2015 reboot directed by Josh Trank was a critical and commercial bomb so damaging that it led to Trank being fired from a Star Wars spinoff.
Fox has been looking to reboot and reimagine the franchise after the lackluster performance of the 2015 outing, and another Fantastic Four movie would just not do, so the studio is looking at various angles. There are rumors that Seth Grahame-Smith is working on a Fantastic Four spinoff featuring Franklin Richards, the son of Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Girl.
Victor Von Doom (aka Doctor Doom) is a scientific genius and totalitarian ruler of the fictional country of Latveria. He wears a metal mask to hide his disfigured face and rules his land with an iron fist. Julian McMahon played Doctor Doom in the first two films, while Toby Kebbell portrayed the character in the 2015 version.
The announcement came at the tail end of the first-ever Comic-Con panel for FX's X-Men drama Legion, which will return for its second season next year. Hawley also recently wrapped the third season of FX anthology Fargo, with the future of that franchise hinging on the prolific showrunner coming up with an idea for another cycle.
by TheButcher on Fri Aug 04, 2017 7:51 am
Mads Mikkelsen Interested in Solo Doctor Doom Movie
by Fievel on Fri Aug 04, 2017 11:28 am
Noah Hawley......plus Mads? I'd watch that!
Never underestimate Noah Hawley, but I'm a little bit Doctor Doom'd out at this point. I'd love to see a Silver Surfer standalone picture, but maybe that's just me.
Ribbons wrote: Never underestimate Noah Hawley, but I'm a little bit Doctor Doom'd out at this point. I'd love to see a Silver Surfer standalone picture, but maybe that's just me.
that's just you
by Ribbons on Wed Aug 16, 2017 12:53 pm
Peven wrote:
Ribbons wrote: I'd love to see a Silver Surfer standalone picture, but maybe that's just me.
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Ontario Appeal Court overturns sex assault acquittal, says judge relied on rape myths
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TORONTO – Ontario‘s top court has overturned the acquittal of a man accused of groping his neighbours’ breasts and genitals on two occasions, saying the trial judge relied on “impermissible” stereotypes and myths in assessing the complainant’s evidence.
In a unanimous decision released last week, the Court of Appeal for Ontario ordered a new trial for Richard Lacombe in connection with the April 2015 incidents.
The court says the trial judge identified credibility and reliability as the only issues in the case, and listed a number of “significant” factors that affected his assessment of the complainant.
It says those factors, including the complainant’s clothing at the time and the fact that she did not immediately report the incidents, were based on “long-discredited myths and stereotypes about sexual assault complainants,” which is an error in law.
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The court says the verdict would not necessarily have been the same without that error and, as such, a new trial is warranted.
It further says a lower court that previously reviewed, and upheld, the verdict was wrong to find that, because the judge had not spelled out his assumptions, no legal error had been made.
“The very problem with this type of reasoning is that it is insidious. It masquerades as ‘common sense’,” Justice Sarah E. Pepall wrote for the three-judge appeal panel.
“It is evident from a review of the trial judge’s reasons that impermissible stereotypical sexual and myth-based reasoning was utilized in his assessment of the complainant’s credibility and reliability and underpinned his analysis of reasonable doubt.”
Lacombe was charged with two counts of sexual assault in relation to two encounters with the complainant at the building in which they lived, an assisted care reside for adults with disabilities.
At trial, the complainant said that on two consecutive nights, Lacombe knocked on her room door and invited her to go out for a cigarette on the fire escape.
On the first night, the complainant said she was dressed in a pyjama top and bottom with no bra and underwear. She said Lacombe soon began to touch and pinch her breasts and though she told him to stop multiple times, he laughed and continued.
She said he then put his hand in her pants and rubbed her genitals. The complainant testified Lacombe also French kissed her, and she kissed him back because he had ignored her previous objections and she was scared he would hit her. She told no one about the incident, telling the court she was terrified.
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On the second night, the complainant said she wore different pyjamas, again with no bra or underwear on, and the events played out largely in the same manner. At one point, however, Lacombe asked her to touch his genitals, and got angry when she refused.
Days later, the complainant told her boyfriend and a friend about the incidents and they encouraged her to call police, she said.
Lacombe, meanwhile, said it was the complainant who knocked on his door the first night and lifted up her shirt asking that he touch her breasts. He told the court she began to get undressed but he stopped her and they went outside for a smoke. Once outside, he said the complainant asked to see his genitals.
He said he gave her a peck on the lips in the hallway the next evening, but denied ever touching her genitals or French kissing her on either occasion.
The trial judge noted there were inconsistencies in Lacombe’s testimony, which at times clashed with the statement he had given police, but not enough to reject his evidence.
When weighing the complainant’s account, however, the trial judge laid out a number of factors that he deemed significant, but “not determinative.”
These included the fact that the complainant did not immediately leave after Lacombe allegedly touched her breasts or genitals, that she French kissed him, that she did not immediately report the incidents and that she accepted a second invitation from him.
The judge also pointed to the complainant’s clothes, noting she “presented herself to Richard Lacombe dressed in a loose fitting pyjama top with no bra and underwear, engaging with a man that she really did not know well at all.”
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The appeal court noted the stereotypical assumption that if a woman is not dressed modestly she is consenting “no longer finds a place in Canadian law.”
And the myth that a sexual assault complainant is less credible if they do not immediately file a report is equally unacceptable, the court said in its ruling. “Delayed reporting, standing alone, does not assist in evaluating whether an account alleging a consensual encounter is true or raises a reasonable doubt,” it said.
Nor is there any rule as to how sexual assault complainants are apt to behave, it said. “The trial judge’s reference to the fact that the complainant remained reflects that he was comparing her conduct to conduct he expected of a sexual assault complainant without giving any consideration to her evidence of fear,” the court wrote.
Because the judge’s assessment played an important role in determining whether he believed Lacombe and was left with a reasonable doubt, “it is not possible to divorce the trial judge’s acquittal of the respondent from his flawed reasoning,” the appeal court said.
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Pressing Questions: Is Golden State Just Ready For It To Be Over?
by Patrick Culligan
Golden State Warriors at Los Angeles Clippers, Game 3, Thursday, 10:30 PM ET, TNT
The Playoffs are upon us, and things are developing fast. Blink — or fall asleep, as the case may be for us East Coasters — and the reality on the ground could look very different by the next morning. To that end, your humble columnist will be activating Playoff Mode, at times eschewing some of the usual long-form deep dives in favor of quicker topical hits to keep things fresh.
The playoffs are designed to answer the questions we’ve been asking all season, but along the way, they tend to raise new ones we hadn’t even considered, or that run contrary to the conventional wisdom. And after what transpired Monday night at Oracle Arena, oh boy, do the two-time defending champs have some questions swirling around them. Look, the Warriors ultimately aren’t going to lose a first-round series to the 8th-seed Clippers, and we’ll get to some of the more focused questions about this team as we go. But after blowing a 31-point lead in lackadaisical fashion at home to a team with no superstars, the big picture question has to be asked: do the Warriors feel any urgency to keep this dynasty alive? Or deep down, in ways they would never in a million years admit to, do they just want it to be over?
This is a tricky topic to discuss without coming off as nothing more than a contrarian or a hot take artist, which is not my aim here. The conventional wisdom asserts a team with four superstars in their primes has a permanently propped open window of contention and can go on winning indefinitely. The thinking goes, when the chips are down, their talent and experience levels will inevitably carry them through the adversity and we’ll all feel foolish for doubting a team so great. After all, it’s just one first round game against an inferior opponent, and when the real teams come calling, Golden State will flip the switch and crank up the intensity, right? Right?
This line of thinking can be very tempting because there is no way to refute it in the moment, but it’s only true until it isn’t. Winning can be a very powerful cologne, masking a lot of stinky things happening beneath the surface. Even with another no. 1 seed under their belt and the no. 1 rated offense in the league, there are warning signs the Warriors’ ship is taking on water, and Golden State’s collapse in Game 2 is as good a catalyst as any to examine them a bit further and see if they portend anything for the rest of the playoffs and beyond.
Naturally, it all starts with Kevin Durant. Set to make his second league-altering free agency decision this summer (you may recall the first one was met with some, let’s say, consternation), the NBA has probably never had a more contradictory superstar. Prickly and inscrutable, KD seeks to cultivate an image of the basketball cyborg who only cares about improving his game and winning, yet he bristles at every minor slight he perceives from fans and media. His entire career has been an exercise in getting out from under the immense shadow of LeBron James, yet he has followed the King’s blueprint for success, both on-court and off, at nearly every turn. He understands all too well how little loyalty is worth in this business, then joins Steph Curry’s team and spends three years being disappointed no one is embracing him in the way they do Steph.
Durant is well within his rights to sign one-year deals and maintain maximum professional flexibility, but it should come as no surprise when the conscious decision to perpetually look out for Number One causes tension in a team setting. It’s been a running theme this season, from the shouting match with Draymond Green on the bench back in November, to his reading reporters the riot act in an attempt to throw them off the scent of his courtship of the Knicks, to the surreptitious “two max slots” conversation he had with Kyrie Irving at All-Star Weekend. The rumors he has one foot out the door persist because the evidence keeps pointing to it, and once the playoffs roll around, it becomes nigh impossible not to correlate any slippage in performance to the prevailing narrative. [Speaking of the inescapability of LeBron, should Golden State flame out in Round Two versus Houston, it will be a matter of nanoseconds before the comparisons to the 2010 Cavs begin.]
If KD does indeed have his sights set on taking his prodigious talents elsewhere this summer, he faces a conundrum over the next two months. No reigning Finals MVP has ever changed teams. It’s literally never happened. [Yes, I know Steph or Klay could conceivably end up the MVP if the Warriors win again, but the overall perception of the move would not demonstrably change.] How can a guy who is supposedly all about winning claim three straight titles, then immediately be like, “OK peace, I’m gonna go play for this organizational trash fire over here in New York”? It simply doesn’t compute. On the flip side, if Golden State falls short this year and he bolts, while he’ll still get dragged for the perception he runs from his failures — in the eyes of many, no matter what he does, he’ll never escape from the original sin of 2016 — in a weird way his image comes out cleaner on the other side. [It’s counterintuitive, but many people would be so happy for the toppling of the Warriors’ dynasty they’d give KD a pass — if not outright credit — for his role in it.] Would you count on a guy with these potentially competing motivations — even one as historically great and proven under pressure as Durant — to exhibit laser-like focus in the crucible of a key playoff moment?
Beyond Durant’s wandering eye, there are other signs Golden State’s edifice of invincibility is beginning to crack. The Warriors got a combined 29 additional games this season from the Big Four of Durant, Curry, Thompson, and Green relative to last season, yet their win total dropped from 58 to 57. [Not terribly surprising, but their win total has decreased each year since the all-time high water mark of 73 in 2015-16.] While their offense remains on another planet, the defense quietly dropped all the way to 13th this season, the lowest rating they’ve had during the dynastic run. Draymond remains an elite defender when properly engaged, even as his offensive impact and overall dynamism as a player have waned. Team defense is a function of talent and effort, of course, but also of connectedness, and this season is the first time we’ve seen the connective tissue of this group begin to weaken. Perhaps the embarrassing Game 2 collapse and the loss of Boogie Cousins will galvanize the team and put a chip on its collective shoulder, but having to spin these negatives into positives for a team with so much talent and pedigree isn’t exactly a great sign.
[Quick aside: there is an argument to be made losing Boogie amounts to addition by subtraction. I don’t entirely subscribe to it, but it has some merit. Golden State took a one-year flier on an All-Star recovering from a torn Achilles’, and realistically, anything they got out of him was going to be gravy. But even a fully healthy version of Boogie — which we never got to see this season and obviously never will now — was still going to have some diminishing returns in conjunction with the rest of this roster. The things he does well are mostly things they already have covered or simply don’t need, and the areas where he has historically struggled line up neatly with the areas where the Warriors needed bolstering. It was always going to be an odd fit. Why would Steve Kerr redirect any part of the their offensive game plan towards Boogie’s bully-ball post-ups and face-ups when the existing scheme works better anyway? A big who can create space by setting hard screens and diving to the rim has as much or more positive impact on the offensive ecosystem as the more “skilled” Boogie, and without giving as much back on defense. Nothing else matters if they don’t get past Houston, and that was never going to be the series for Cousins anyway. He would have gotten pick-and-rolled and iso’d right off the floor, so it may be a happy side effect for Kerr to shift those minutes to Kevon Looney and Andrew Bogut (or the Hamptons Five, ugh) right off the bat and skip all the sloppy foreplay. It’s strange to think “more Kevon Looney” could be the actual solution to any basketball-related problem, but here we are. The flip side is, while the cost may be low against Houston, depth is already an area where this year’s Warriors struggle. Despite how this dynasty has occasionally made it look, winning championships is hard, and most title teams end up needing all their weapons at some point along the way. We’d never be able to prove the negative, but should the Dubs fall short, the absence of Cousins could end up as a big “what if.” And look, none of this is meant as a slight to Boogie. All indications are, despite the reputation which precedes him, he has done a great job trying to fit in with this team, and everyone around the organization seems to like and support him. Everything that’s transpired over the last two seasons has been devastating for him, both competitively and financially. I feel for the guy. For Warriors’ fans, the hope would be his loss acts as both a rallying cry and a shortcut to unlocking the most potent lineup combinations in the later rounds. In any case, tough break, big fella.]
Source: Jeff Chiu/Associated Press
With or without Cousins, the road to the threepeat was never going to be easy. Even if they should emerge victorious in the war to come with Houston — sorry, Jazz fans, but it’s time to face facts — and dispatch whichever squad comes out of the JV side of the West bracket in the Conference Finals, there’s a good chance Golden State will end up staring down what is essentially a doppelganger of their 2014-15 championship team: the Milwaukee Bucks.
Stay with me. The 2013-14 Warriors were a slightly better version of the 2017-18 Bucks. They won seven more regular season games and advanced one round further in the playoffs, but overall, they were nobody’s idea of a serious contender. After the season, Golden State replaced their head coach, a former point guard, with a Gregg Popovich acolyte who installed a modernized scheme and optimized the rotation, while the front office made some shrewd personnel moves around the fringes of the roster to bolster the existing core. The results were stunning: sixteen additional regular season wins in ’14-’15, the no. 1 seed in the conference, top-five ratings on both sides of the ball, a barrage of three-pointers, a first-time MVP winner, and an NBA title almost no one saw coming until a few months before it happened.
Remind you of anyone?
It would be poetic for this Milwaukee team to be the one to dethrone the Warriors. While many people would perceive the “upset” as shocking in the moment, a few years down the road we would likely just see it as the natural progression of each team’s competitive cycle. Another Golden State victory parade may seem inevitable now, but I assure you it is not. As fans, we tend to assume windows of contention will remain open forever, even as virtually every piece of evidence from modern NBA history contradicts this view. Everything ends badly, otherwise it wouldn’t end. If things end badly for KD and the Warriors this spring, don’t say nobody could have seen it coming.
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No. 1 pump house
Installations within the first pump station on western australia’s golden pipeline treats the existing building as the ground for interpreting the history of the goldfields water scheme.
This is an article from the Architecture Australia archives and may use outdated formatting
REVIEW WILLIAM TAYLOR
No 1 Pump Station, Munadring Weir, by George Temple-Poole, shortly after completion in 1903.
Stage 1 of the new musuem development, an installation in the entry passageway between the boiler room and the pump house tracing the path of the pipeline.
The proposed interpretative machine will occupy the volumetric space that formally housed the “C” pump. Image Exhibition services and Mulloway Studio.
ON 2 SEPTEMBER 1996, an event occurred at the weir at Mundaring in the hills above Perth that hasn’t happened since – the dam overflowed for the first time in fourteen years. It was an event noted by the press, having been anticipated following an unusually wet winter, and the dam site with its park-like setting was packed with scores of the curious, amateur photographers and relieved lawn reticulators. More recently, Mulloway Studio Architects have given the public another reason to visit Mundaring. In consultation with Paul Kloeden, Exhibition Services, Spellbound Interpretation of Melbourne and Scitech, the Adelaide-based designers have implemented the first stage of a plan commissioned by the National Trust of Australia to transform the pump station, museum and natural environs around the dam site into an interpretive centre explaining the history and significance of the Goldfields Water Scheme.
The installation of a new museum in the adjoining pump and boiler houses prefigures extensions to the existing structure itself, the construction of a visitor’s centre, educational facilities, tourist amenities, café and shop. These are designed to emphasize the visitor’s movement through the dam precinct in anticipation of a longer journey along the pipeline itself in an effort to encourage tourism in regional Western Australia.
Mundaring is the site of the first of eight steam-driven pump stations that form part of a vast technological apparatus. Planned in 1895 and fully operable by 1903, the station supplied the initial force to 23 million litres of water, carrying it each day through a network of reservoirs, storage tanks and steel pipes to the mining towns of Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie 560 kilometres away. The Goldfields scheme was by far the largest and most visionary of its kind undertaken in Australia until the construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme half a century later. The pipeline linked not only Perth with Kalgoorlie, but connected the entire region with industrial and economic developments occurring worldwide at the time.
Ten years after its decommissioning in 1964, the No. 1 Pump Station at Mundaring became the C. Y. O’Connor Museum. Its exhibits told the story of the Goldfields scheme, commemorated the contribution of its chief engineer, and extolled the vision of then State Premier Sir John Forrest. On announcing the project, Forrest proclaimed that, “Future generations will bless us for our farseeing patriotism; and it will be said of us, as Isaiah said of old, ‘They made a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert’.” Since then, the pipeline has been much enlarged through local mythmaking and stories of derring-do.
In a move characteristic of our times, the current refurbishment of the pump station and its museum has produced a design that directs the visitor’s attention beyond a period of heroic engineering towards the broader context of Australian history, environmental awareness and human ecology. The O’Connor Museum celebrated the arrival of “rivers in the desert” with extensive and, by modern standards, overly crowded and humdrum displays. Its rebirth in the current work was initiated by the careful restoration of the building fabric designed by George Temple-Poole by National Trust architect Phil Bennett. Conservation work was carried out concurrently with the development of the new museum plan. Both aimed at producing a building that was legible and, significantly, one understood as a place of human labour.
In defining what this means, the design team was encouraged by the Trust, and its project manager Anne Brake, in their representation of the No. 1 Pump Station as an “artefact”. This is a familiar leitmotiv for architects, which is commonly expressed in restoration work. It coincides with attempts to respond meaningfully to the accretions that adhere to buildings over time – no less so sites of industrial archaeology. The redesign of the pump station interior was begun by clearing out the existing displays as efforts were made to present the machinery as free-standing objects within the large brick shell of the structure. Likewise, consideration was given to the various openings left in walls by the removal of fittings and to views outdoors, the intention being to emphasise the “foreign” character of the structure in the landscape. Inside, visitors are meant to occupy a space of enterprise emptied of the tangle of pipes and hissing valves, steam and sweat – the building becomes a lovingly restored, though ultimately thin, cover, like the cowling on an antique engine.
Unlike the engineers and stoke men of O’Connor’s era, today’s occupants are burdened with the labour of interpretation. Light and soundscapes replace the glow and roar of furnaces to create an introspective, almost church-like, space. Visitors are offered the difficult task of making sense of a story that is less easily understood through late nineteenth-century standards of patriotism and noble works of industry.
Rather, displays are meant to tell a multifaceted and incomplete story. Given the longterm impact of the scheme on native landscapes, one could reasonably question whether it should be commemorated at all. This is one possible conclusion drawn from displays in the boiler house where visitors are told of the vast timber resources consumed in the station’s furnaces and then offered a view of the partially regenerated landscape outside.
Of the three pumps originally occupying the pump house, only one remains and stands as a museum piece. Fortunately, the great expense required to make the equipment operational (and entertaining – an all too easy move for curators of industrial museums) has left its quiet dignity intact and required the designers to find other ways of capitalizing on our nostalgia for a time when machines actually did things rather than simply break. The foundations of the second and third pumps are incorporated into the installation in very specific ways and provide opportunities to use a range of interpretive techniques and multi-media. The absence of “B” pump creates “the void” over which visitors can reflect upon or call up for themselves, on computer terminals stories, historic photographs and oral histories and attempt to suggest the ghosts of people associated with the Goldfields scheme. The volume of space formally occupied by “C” pump is supplied with another, much larger interpretive installation or “machine” that details the history of the pipeline itself. These various techniques and media call to mind efforts aimed at encouraging an “interactive” experience in contemporary museums. These range from the National Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, which relies on biography to encourage a form of viewer-identification, to the Museum of Sydney with its cabinets of curious artefacts that invite the visitor to explore – in a sense, to invent – the past along with curators.
Between the boiler and pump houses, and forming the main entrance into the station, is a monumental corridor contained within existing masonry walls. An illuminated line is made in the raised metal floor reproducing the path of the pipeline and directing the viewer’s attention to an “altar” formed by a standpipe at the end of the corridor. This may remind one of that ubiquitous water feature of so many Perth suburban yards – the reticulation head severed by an aberrant land mower – though the designers intend a more literal reference to a now-iconic period photograph of Premier Forrest turning on the tap at Kalgoorlie.
Whatever vision Forrest might have had for the Goldfields Water Scheme, it was not intended simply to transform the desert into an oasis, but to water the mines and smelters that were – and remain – the economic engine of Western Australia. As each segment of the pipeline was completed and its capacity became apparent, thoughts on how to use this now-abundant resource for other purposes grew. Today, the authorities responsible for our water supplies no longer openly encourage its use as they once did in pipeline towns from Northam to Kalgoorlie, but rather its conservation.
It would be nice if the architecture of a museum alone could facilitate the kind of open-ended storytelling sought in the design of the No. 1 Pump Station. Here, considerable effort is given to present the complex reality of the Goldfields scheme and not to obscure it with “a romantic falsity.” But as Anthony Coupe and Paul Kloeden intimate, this is more than likely impossible. Desires for what any museum plan might call a “seamless interpretive experience” affords the integration of many, often irreconcilable programmatic requirements and the necessities of management, safety and especially, profitability. The viewer is inevitably “positioned” in some way as regards the interpretive displays. Still, this project is largely successful in fulfilling what most curators and their sponsors hope for these days: to encourage visitors to think as well as to be entertained.
DR WILLIAM TAYLOR IS A SENIOR LECTURER IN ARCHITECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
Project Credits
NO1 PUMP STATION, MUNDARING WEIR
Stage 1 Mulloway Studio, Paul Kloeden, Exhibition Services, Spellbound Interpretation, Scitech. Stage 2 Mulloway Studio, Paul Kloeden, Exhibition Services. Client National Trust of Australia (WA), Golden Pipeline.
Published online: 1 Sep 2003
Architecture Australia, September 2003
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5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Seventy Two
Many writers sell their souls to the Devil but in doing so they become editors.
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5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Seventy One
Torn between science and religion Stan worried that he worsened global warming every time he touched himself.
The first few minutes of DOCTOR WHO: THE END OF TIME!!!
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(Recommended Reads) "Alice" by Dana Larose
The woman crashed into Marvin Schultz's life at around eight on a Tuesday. He'd been in the bathroom, yanking out nose hairs with tweezers; nose hairs were the thing he hated most about being in his thirties. He tolerated not being able to touch his toes anymore. Was merely wistful when he realized he had no business whatsoever ogling university girls. But there was something so insulting in how his body was beginning to show signs of wearing out. Hair in new places. Useless places. What was the point the nose hair? It made him doubt evolution: what possible survival advantage could there be for a thirty-six year old to grow nose hair?
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The blog SUGAR AND SPICE never fails get my pulse a quickening...
I mean this picture of Diana Rigg is fantastic!
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He drags on the cigarette and lets the smoke out through his nostrils in a gray-blue plume. It clashes with the red vinyl of the stools, chairs and pocked countertop. A lump of adobe which used to be a pile of donuts fossilizes under a glass cover at the L-turn. A waitress is smacking her gum and flipping through pages of a bright magazine with tattered corners and a permanent crease in the center.
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Invest in a great sound system was the best advice I ever got when I became a long hauler. I don't know how truckers who prefer silence get by on the amount of sleep we live on without "It's raining men" blasting in their cabs in the wee hours of the morning.
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Francis Hogan of MY SUPA LIFE recommended Ben Chamberlain's THE PRINCESS AND THE GIANT.
I stopped by to peruse it and soon found myself a fan and I am eagerly awaiting the newest installment...
Take a look at this artwork...
Amazing isn't it?
Go and check out Ben Chamberlain's THE PRINCESS AND THE GIANT now!
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My Supa Life
The Nick Of Time (and other abrasions): Pretty In Pink
The Nick Of Time
(and other Abrasions)
Al Bruno III
Lorelei was almost thirteen years old, her bodyguard in his forties and they both knew they would never have another opportunity like this again...
The labyrinthian hallways and parapets of the Unified Abbey of the Greater Eastern Council of Mystagogues had once again erupted into chaos and bloodshed. Most of the Apprentices of the Seventh Circle had barricaded themselves in the auxiliary cloisters and were refusing to release their hostages until the amendment to the charter revising the requirements for the submission of peer reviewed dissertations was retroactively revoked.
They had already immolated four members of the cleaning staff to prove the seriousness of their intent.
Growing up in this building that was not quite a fortress and not quite a cathedral Lorelei had seen such conflicts before but mother had always been near enough and lucky enough to keep her daughter out of harms way.
That was before her mother had ascended to in the ranks- before she had become a Dean of the Fourth Circle of Greater Eastern Council. A parting gift from her mentor Cloantza Murdac. These new responsibilities had taken her far from her daughter, sometimes for weeks at a time.
Her room was high up in the southern transept and from her window she could see the Subdeans clashing with the rebelling faction of the Adepts; the Adepts had youth and numbers on their side but the Subdeans summoned tongues of flame that screamed and moved like living things.
Lorelei watched it all trying to catch of glimpse of her mother and whispering the forbidden names of the ordinary incantations she saw flash across the courtyard.
“You should come away from there,” Thane said. Her bodyguard was sitting by the door and picking at fingernails with his elaborate knife, “Never know what’s going to hit the glass.”
“If you say so,” she turned around to look at him, his broad shoulders and pale eyes; she was as hopelessly and humiliatingly in love with as only a twelve year old girl could be.
Did he even notice she had begin dressing up for him in her girliest clothes? The yellow and white number she wore now was a gift she had vowed would stay in her closet forever.
He glanced absent mindedly her way, “I do say so, leave them to their nonsense, maybe the Monarch-lovers will get themselves wiped out for good this time.”
There was a muffled boom outside but Lorelei kept watching him, self-consciously crossing her arms over her chest. It seemed like every day they got a little bigger and she didn’t know whether to be humiliated or proud.
Puberty had hit her like a freight train leaving her moody and uncertain and sore. Her chest had swollen up like a teenage boy’s dream while the lower half of her body had become a tangle of uncomfortable desires and biological aches. She felt sexy, she felt ugly and worst of all she felt like if the man in the room with her didn’t take her in his arms she would go mad.
Whatever would Mother think?
“Do you...” Lorelei felt the question come blundering out, “...have a girlfriend?”
Thane laughed a little, “Going to ask me out?”
Lorelei felt her cheeks reddening, “Just asking.”
“You and your mother keep me too busy for that.”
That was more than true, it seemed like most of the members of the Greater Eastern Council were trying to kill each other be it out of rivalries or spite or grudges going back a generation or two. Thanks to her unorthodox entry into the ranks of the Mystagogues Mother seemed to have invited more than her share of assassins and Lorelei frequently found herself a target by proxy.
That was where Thane came in, he was well versed in guile and brutality, in weapons and incantations. He had saved Lorelei’s life two times that she knew about but Mother had insinuated there had been more than that.
As if she didn’t love him enough.
She asked, “Don’t you get lonely?”
He paused thoughtfully, almost giving up one of his rare smiles to her but then turning his attention back to his knife and his nails again, “I’m content.”
It had only been a few weeks ago that she had started to feel a fluttering inside her whenever she saw him, it got stronger whenever he passed close to her or said her name. Now that she was alone with him it was almost unbearable. Did he even suspect that she had lain in the bed in the corner of the room and imagined him until her hands were fluttering here and there over her body like birds?
Oh Goddess... she thought, how can he not know?
It was too much, she turned back to the window to the burning courtyard, to the thick smoke spiraling up into the impossible sky that twisted and turned above the Abbey. She wondered numbly if any of the blackened bodies down there belonged to anyone she knew.
Thane sighed with exasperation, “I told you to stay away from the window.”
“I... I can’t...” she said.
The chair scraped on the floor as he stood, “What’s wrong?”
“I’m scared.”
He signed heavily, she heard his footsteps approaching, “Hush now.”
“How long will we be here?” When he put his arm on her shoulder she began to tremble
“Hush now,” his grip on her shoulder was firm and reassuring, She felt his other hands slowly tracing its way up and over her hips.
Her breath caught in her throat. She pursed her lips. She had never felt more scared in her life, or more beautiful. It was almost too late when she realized the knife was still in his hand.
Lorelei started and tried to pull away but the grip on her shoulder had moved to her throat.
“Hush now.”
She had to put both her hands on his thick wrist to keep the blade point from her heart. The blood was roaring in her ears. She choked, already the edges of her vision were starting to dim. Lorelei realized bitterly that his embrace was just as powerful has she had imagined.
The knifepoint edged closer, she realized she would be dead in moments. She risked letting go with one hand and reaching back to claw at his face. her pinky nail caught the edge of something soft, something that popped.
Thane cried out and she pulled away feeling the blade slip against her side cutting cloth and skin but the wound was glancing.
Now he was cursing, coming at her again but Lorelei was ready. She spoke the forbidden name of an almost lost incantation and the bedroom mirror shattered. The shining slivers flew at her attacker like a swarm of insects.
Thane never reached her.
Lorelei knelt at the corner of her bed feeling tired and sick, feeling the ache of the wound throbbing on her side.
Her bodyguard’s blood and her own had stained her dress the color of pale roses. She wondered with the first of her tears who he had betrayed them to. Wu-Han? The Lunt family? Did it matter?
No, all that mattered was that she would never forget the day she lost her innocence to her handsome bodyguard Thane.
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5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Seventy
His affair with the girl from Macy's began as entertainment but quickly moved in to domestics.
5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Sixty Nine
The serial killer worked in a discount store and only killed people born under the sign of the fish- he was always slashing Pisces.
5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Sixty Eight
By the time he worked up the nerve to share his feelings with her, she was already sharing her feelings with someone else.
5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Sixty Seven
One after the other the grateful school children hugged cyborg hero Rusty Johnson, later he realized one had stolen his wallet.
5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Sixty Six
Cyborg hero Rusty Johnson caught the alien sausage factory as it began to collapse on the school bus, suddenly he got an itch.
5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Sixty Five
Brazloe tried to intimidate his enemies into leaving by tasering himself, once he lost control of his bowels they did.
5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Sixty Four
Jeff's journey brought him to a town where conflicts were still solved the 1980's way – with contests of skill and breakdancing.
5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Sixty Three
For every successful adventurer like Indiana Jones there is a tragedy like the case of Dysentery Smith.
5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Sixty Two
Karl prided himself on his perfect recall and pornographic memory and that isn't a misprint.
5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Sixty One
Stan found he got more respect around the office if he began every conversation with the term “Foolish mortal!”
5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Sixty
Erato quickly learned that, goddess or not, fighting super villains, in her toga was a recipe for disaster... and nudity.
5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Fifty Nine
There was no comfort for him, not even in sleep because the darkness behind his eyelids seemed too much like death.
5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Fifty Eight
The ninjas had him cornered in an onion field and Fuego just knew it was all going to end in tears.
And since I am posting kick ass trailers today here is the trailer for KICK ASS
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More superhero madness with the trailer for WAPAKMAN!
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INK - You Have GOT to see this movie!
Thanks to the miracle of NETFLIX ON DEMAND I got a chance to see this film and I was blown away.
These are the kinds of films that should be getting noticed instead of the Roland Emmerich CGI strokefests that seem to dominate the multiplexes these days.
INK is original, haunting, moving and creepy. It creates a world, a mythology and a cast of characters in a little over 90 minutes with moxie, heart and very restrained use of special effects.
See this film.
It's worth seeing.
And I think that INK would make a good double feature with the movie RE-CYCLE
Both films will surprise you, they will fill you with wonder and dread.
In The Shadow Of His Nemesis chapter thirty eight
In The Shadow Of His Nemesis
Chapter Thirty Eight
BY AL BRUNO III
Saturday November 16th 1996
Once they were alone in her room they abandoned all pretense of chaste conversation. The door slammed to a close and Isobel’s lips were on his lips, his chin, his neck. His hands found their place on her hips moving in gentle circles. She practically tore the shirt from his back and kissed her way down to his chest where she nibbled and teased until she was rewarded with a groan.
A trail of kisses led her back to his mouth. His hands cupped the curves of her ass and pulled her close. They embraced for a while, Galen naked from the waist down and Isobel dressed in oversized jeans and a flannel shirt. He took her hand and led her to the bed. They hadn’t bothered with candles, there hadn’t been time, but he found her bed easily. He laid her down and began to undress her, pausing to kiss each part of her that was revealed. Isobel’s closed her eyes feeling as though she was losing herself, tumbling end over end. His hands roamed everywhere- her face, the curve of her belly, and lower still. His touch stayed there a while, his caresses gentle and insistent until she was shuddering.
He stood then, his hands moving to the clasp of his jeans.
“No.” she pushed them away, “Let me.”
Now it was her turn, she pulled him down onto the soft bed and slipped his pants down his legs and over his feet. Her eyes were used enough to the dark now that she could see his cock standing at attention; she stoked the length of it with her free hand as she kissed her way along his thighs. Soon enough her lips found where her hand had been.
She had done this for Nick but always more out of a sense of resignation or obligation. Not this time, this time she was lost to the thought of pleasuring him, of making him forget every woman in his past, to make him utterly hers.
What she lacked in expertise she made up for with enthusiasm and she was grinning like a lunatic when he begged her to stop.
Not that there was any stopping her now. He was flat on his back and she was determined to keep him there. She straddled him, letting his hands find her breasts as she poised herself above him. When the very tip of him was nudging against her she paused staring down at his expectant eyes.
He’s a mystery. Isobel thought, He isn’t even human.
Then she lowered herself down the length of him, shivering at the sensation of it. She paused again, trying to catch her breath, feeling him start to slowly move beneath her. She arched her back, letting him see her, letting his hands and lips trace circles across her breasts.
Time stopped having any meaning. Thought was impossible. He clutched at her hips, urging her to move faster and faster until she was crying his name and he was gasping.
When other women told her it was possible to feel this way she had laughed into the back of her hand, Isobel had only known sexual pleasure as a furtive and conditional thing.
Not now. Not here. Oh no.
There was a final flurry of motion and Galen grunted fiercely with pleasure. Their pace slowed. Isobel slumped forward covering her skin with his. They were both trying to catch their breath. Isobel could feel him growing soft in her but she wasn’t quite ready to let him go yet.
“I love you,” she said.
There was a smile in his voice, “You do don’t you?”
“Yes.”
”Aren’t you afraid?”
“Yes but I still love you.”
“It couldn’t have been at first sight.”
“Well, you cleaned up nice.”
They both laughed remembering that morning in the bathroom. For her it almost seemed like that was someone else’s life now. She was in a different world now; didn’t that mean she was becoming a different Isobel?
Galen shifted so they were lying side to side and he propped his head up on one arm. “I can’t promise you much of a life. I can’t even promise to keep you safe. I’m no hero.”
“I don’t need you to be a hero,” she said, “I just need you. We can take care of each other.”
“There is so much you don’t know yet…”
Isobel nodded in agreement then got out of the bed. She rummaged around in the night stand knowing he was staring at her backside and glorying in it. Matches found, she lit a candle and let its light fill the room. She stood across the room from him, careless in her nudity.
“Stand up,” she said.
Galen did as he was ordered, grinning all the while.
“Now...” Isobel fought to keep her voice even, “... show me.”
“Show me what you are. Hao said it was called the Metamorphosis…”
“The Metastasis,” he said quietly, “we call it the Metastasis.”
“I want to see it, I want to see you.”
“Ok but don’t be afraid,” he said.
A shudder went through Galen’s body. It was so sudden that it was almost a blur. Was it the muscles shifting beneath his skin or just an illusion of the candlelight? Isobel couldn’t be sure. His features seemed to thicken, his face becoming brutish and unrecognizable. Dark, rust-colored hair bled across his body, spreading until she couldn’t see the skin she had been kissing just a short while ago.
The final transformation from two legged man to four legged beast was as simple as a change in posture. As he knelt his legs contracted while arms lengthened. Where there had once been a yet wiry physique there was now a predatory shape. The changes came faster as though a beast had been sketched over the man and now all that was left were the small details. His neck bulged and widened- all the better to support the broad skull and blunted snout it had to support. Cruel-looking teeth filled the gaps that had been created in the gum line. The fingers of each hand melded into a trio of thick, clawed digits.
Isobel couldn’t breathe, she couldn’t move. Her bravery was gone and she felt very vulnerable and very naked.
The beast that Galen had become-
-or perhaps it was the beast Galen had always been-
gazed expectantly at her with eyes the color of the moon.
“Don’t be afraid,” He moved towards her, his voice was a rumble. “It’s still me.”
He had no tail, the realization made her feel queasy. Was there supposed to be one? If there had been a tail would it be wagging? Isobel reached out, running her fingers through his smooth pelt, “What are you?”
“I am Vlodek born of the Great She-Wolf and Phelan the Hunter, born of blade and tooth.”
Isobel was sure that any moment she would wake up from the madness of this dream, but it was all real.
Was this what she had pledged her heart to?
If he was some kind of a monster what did that make her?
Galen moved closer to her, “Don’t be afraid. Please don’t.”
“This doesn’t change anything,” Isobel said and in the span of a few breaths the man had transposed the beast, “I said I love you.”
Hand in hand they returned to the bed, Galen only pausing long enough to blow out the candle.
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5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Fifty Seven
It wasn't until Karl placed a personal ad looking for a girl with a 'nice rack' that he learned how many dominatrixes were in town.
5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Fifty Six
All good things must come to an end which is why Billy's accordion recital seemed to go on forever.
5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Fifty Five
Very few have mastered the art of making erotic potholders, even fewer will admit to it in polite company.
5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Fifty Four
Thane was not afraid of combat because death meant nothing to him and he was not afraid of magic because he had no imagination.
(Recommended Reads) "Atheist's Grief" by Kate Sherrod
I'm sorry, I'm a skeptic, don't believe
My friend is "out there" somewhere. He's just gone.
Not waiting in a next life to receive
Me or his other friends when we've "moved on."
An afterimage burned within my heart
Still glows and will do so for long years yet
As ever happens when one does depart,
Those left behind must strive to not forget
The lost one. If they do, there's nothing left
But ashes blown before the wind. That's all.
I wish I could think otherwise, bereft
As I am now. 'Twould be nice, but I call
Myself out for pretending. Mac's just dead
And all that's left's his voice inside my head.
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5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Fifty Three
Costumes with sculpted rubber and latex muscles might be all the rage but Captain Hero still did sit ups every morning.
5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Fifty Two
Amazing Ed explained to the kids that superheroes hid their identities to protect their loved ones, just like strippers.
5 Second Fiction Six Hundred and Fifty One
Rex struggled to recall the name of the girl he had almost gotten the third base with but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.
Bless Me Father For I Have Shilled
Can you believe Thanksgiving is rushing up on us so fast?
Well anyway here is your regularly scheduled groveling for money... you know my hair implants aren't going to buy themselves!
tales of lost gods and fragile transformations
This collection of 13 stories transports you to a world where both dreams and monsters lurk in the shadows, where love and forgotten rituals fight for control of the human heart, and where the madness of eternity can be glimpsed in a single segmented eye.
This anthology collects some of the best stories from Al Bruno III's website and includes the novellas 'Chad's Oracles', 'Fully Vested' and 'The Mask Collector', available for the first time anywhere.
IN THE MIDNIGHT OF HIS HEART
a novel of horror and obsession
To all outward appearances John Sig is just an old man living a quietly in an empty old house. His one pleasure is when he heads down to the local diner and visits with his favorite waitress Angie. When Angie disappears, John sets out to find her. For an ordinary old man that might seem like a foolish idea but John Sig isn't human, he's a monster living in the shadow of a nightmare thirty -five years old.
In The Pit
This is the comic book I wrote, that sadly it never made it past the first issue. Too bad I had envisioned a fantastic tale of serial killers, Canadian pro wrestlers and exploding toilets. Still though I think you might enjoying reading the first issue, it is still available as a PDF file. There are also some preview pages at the sight below.
Order away and weep for what might have been.
Some of my best work is available from the fine folks at Eden Studios. My contribution to their game lines has been mainly in the area of fiction. The rules and setting information was written by other very capable folks like Richard Dakan, CJ Carella, Jack Emmert, George Vasilakos and M. Alexander Jurkat. Believe me, they did all the hard work. If you are a fan of role-playing games or a fan of zombie movies then the books below are going to be right up your alley.
ALL FLESH MUST BE EATEN main rulebook
Enter the dark world of survival horror. The Dead walk among us. This role-playing game allows you to play in a world infested by the walking dead. The main rulebook includes rules for character creation, combat and everything else you need to play in a world of survival horror. Also detailed are the multiple campaign settings so you can customize the type of "deadworld" you wish to explore.232 pages.Hardcover.Cover Art by Christopher Shy.
Click here for ordering information
ZOMBIE MASTER SCREEN
A must-have reference for All Flesh Must Be Eaten, the Zombie Master's Screen is filled with charts and tables. From fear to weapons to outcomes, every reference that a prepared Zombie Master needs is packed onto a four-panel screen. The flip side of the screen scares and delights the players with full-color zombie images.
The Screen is packed with a 48-page booklet, including a ready-to-run adventure introducing the Cast Member to the horrors of a zombie plague, and pregenerated characters with complete bios, statistics and resource information.
Cover Art by Christopher Shy and George Vasilakos.
ENTER THE ZOMBIE
Written by Richard DakanThe first supplement to All Flesh Must Be Eaten opens whole new vistas for a walking dead campaign. This tome brings together the thrills of Hong Kong action films and the excitement of flesh-craving horror. The match of these two genres may not have seemed obvious at first, but the pleasures that arise from it are undeniable. After all, zombies and Hong Kong style action make a perfect fit. What better match is there for a relentless series of lightning kicks and a hurricane of bullets than a target that can’t die? The pulse-pounding danger just never stops. Besides, what martial arts master worth his salt doesn't ache for the ability to use his own intestines as a deadly whip? For the undead, no problem!Softcover.Cover Art by Christopher Shy.
TERRA PRIMATE
Written by Al Bruno III, CJ Carella, David F. Chapman, Patrick SweenyBased on the original concept by George Vasilakos and Ross IsaacsEdited by M. Alexander Jurkat, David F. ChapmanCover art by Jeff ReitzInterior Art by Storn Cook, Thomas Denmark, Talon Dunning, DW Gross, Jon Hodgson, Chris Keefe, Jason Millet, Matt Morrow, James Powers, Gregory Price, George Vasilakos
From the creators of All Flesh Must Be Eaten, similar in style but this time . . . with apes! Terra Primate has no specific setting. The only constant is the concept of intelligent apes. Planet of the Apes is a movie about intelligent apes, but then again so is Congo. As long as the characters are interacting with intelligent apes -- or are intelligent apes themselves! -- the game could be set in the pulp era of adventure, on a post-apocalyptic Earth, on a faraway alien planet, or downtown on Main Street.
The main rulebook includes rules for character creation, combat and everything else you need to play in a world where man is the missing link! Also detailed are the multiple campaign settings so you can customize the type of "Apeworld" you wish to explore.
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(Recommended Reads) "The Hatching" by Maria Protopapadaki-Smith
Rothbert Spires, current Scholar of the Court, put on his ceremonial robes and strode to the workroom. After ten years of believing those cursed birds had become extinct, he now found himself having to perfom a Tallid reading; if the reading turned out to be a bad one, it was very likely he would be beheaded before the day was out.
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The limits of Latin
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There’s an argument that comes up occasionally that, in addition to being worth studying for the sheer education of it, Latin and Greek have utilitarian side benefits — it gives pupils skills and understanding that can be used in a variety of other subjects.
This argument is a frequent refrain of Boris Johnson:
Hard as it may be to believe, one of the things that gives privately-educated children the edge is their knowledge of Latin. I don’t just mean in the obvious senses — their grasp of basic grammar and syntax, their understanding of the ways in which our world is underpinned by the classical world, their ability to read Latin inscriptions. I mean there is actually a substantial body of evidence that children who study Latin outperform their peers when it comes to reading, reading comprehension and vocabulary, as well as higher order thinking such as computation, concepts and problem solving.
The first thing to understand is the role of confirmation bias. Johnson is an excellent example of a man who became successful, rather enjoyed Latin and is keen to draw a connection between the two. There’s nothing really wrong with that — but we need to be wary when people start talking about ‘evidence’ that the thing they like also happens to be empirically good for you.
So what is the actual evidence on Latin?
Very roughly, there are mixed results in a few areas and some definite negatives that undermine the claims that Latin is education pixie dust.
The first thing to investigate is if Latin can really do work on skills that seem outside its domain. Haag and Stern (2003) have published two studies on the subject. In the first they found no evidence that it helps out with maths or verbal and non-verbal reasoning skills — there was no difference between German students who were taught English or Latin as their foreign language. In 2003 they published another study showing “no significance differences (all ps > .20) in deductive and inductive reasoning or text comprehension” when comparing students with no Latin, two years of Latin, and four years of Latin.
So un-encouraging there, but what about language skills? Johnson talks about Latin being a “giant universal spanner for other languages”, and this kind of argument is common, Llewelyn Morgan argues that the language skills built learning Latin have wide applications:
A child who has been introduced to Latin has the tools and (just as importantly) the confidence and interest to take on other languages. And we are not just talking about the Romance languages that derive from Latin. German is not a Romance language, but it is, like Latin, an ‘inflected’ language, and the difference between der, den and das is self-explanatory when a child has already played ‘declension cricket’ with bellum or mensa.
This turns out to have more basis in fact. Indeed in Haag and Stern’s 2003 study the group of German-speakers with four years Latin exposure were better able to “detect grammar mistakes in a German text and construction of complex sentences by combining shorter ones” than those who studied it for 2 years or not at all.
Here is the obvious question that raises: If A makes B easier but A also takes time and effort, can that time be spent directly on B and get better results? How much Latin do we really need? Can we dump all that history and culture stuff and get the same benefit?
The answer seems to be yes — Holmes and Keffer (1995) found that a simple six week period using a computer program to teach Latin and Greek words and roots could boost the mean score of students sitting the American SAT exam by 40 points. This kind of result is why classicists should be a bit careful promoting the practical benefits, what the study is actually saying is you can get substantial benefits by carving the Classics curriculum up for parts and incorporating a shallow version of it into the English curriculum.
In fact a 1970s study of a Latin program in US elementary schools found that both Latin and modern languages courses were increasing English vocabulary and comprehension compared to students doing neither. Interestingly the Latin students had only been studying for one year while the foreign language students had four (Masciantonio, 1977, 378). This either implies that language instruction quickly has diminishing returns or that Latin was just that much better — either way showing a shallow take on Classics would probably give most bang for buck.
Reinforcing that the Latin education with the most spillover benefit would probably look quite different to how it’s usually conceived, Masciantonio argued from a review of a studies on the impact of Latin instruction that “it is not the traditional grammar-translation approach that has yielded the positive results indicated in this article; rather it is programs that involve radical reform of both curriculum content and instructional strategies” often making “extension of the English verbal functioning a specific goal” (Masciantonio, 1977, 382).
If you’re looking at it from a utilitarian point of view it’s not enough to show that learning Latin is a good use of time to accomplish other tasks, you have to ask if it’s the best possible use of time. Hagg and Stern found that students studying Latin rather than French were disadvantaged in learning Spanish — with the French group being notably superior in vocabulary and use of grammar rules. Deploying the “universal spanner” of Latin was in fact causing students to make mistakes due to superficial similarities between Spanish and Latin words. For a companion to learning a modern romance language the best answer seems to be to learn another one at the same time. For all the talk of Latin and Greek as ‘root’ languages there are significance differences between their structure and modern languages. After all, the mantra that Latin has a lot to tell us about our own language led to generations of pedants who would rather we torture words than split infinitives.
So if you want to learn the most effective way to incorporate Latin and Greek into English education, there’s a lot of stuff out there — it’s less clear this works as an argument for Classics education as it stands.
Latin Supremacy in Latin Advocacy
The idea that Latin gives unique benefits is also used as part of an argument that we live in a fair society — so the arguments being deployed need to be looked at more closely.
Latin education in the UK is tied up with historical elitism in the education system — Morgan argues that modern Classics education has moved past this:
Note here that no one, at least no one who knows what they’re talking about, is calling Latin ‘exclusive’ or ‘elitist’ anymore. Latin is classless. Our local experience, in a Latin Teaching Scheme run out of the Oxford Classics Faculty in collaboration with local state schools, is of a subject school children find entirely accessible, and enjoyable: the drop-out rate for sessions that take place on a Saturday is surprisingly low, and the demand growing.
This seems fair enough, it’s hard to argue that any particular subject is inherently elitist— and making that learning available to more certainly can’t be. However if you read between the lines in Latin advocacy you can see an old world trying to justify its existence. Dr Peter Jones says in support of Classics For All:
“[W]e know that those who have studied the ancient languages are never, in fact, short of job-offers. A top asset-manager recently told me that his firm always employed classicists: they sold more. If Richard Dawkins is right, that is because ‘what Classics has always done is just teach people how to think.”
To be fair to Jones that’s an aside from his argument, but if you join that small point up with Johnson’s comment about Latin being the real cause of the success of the privately educated you can see the same argument at work. “Latin leads to success” is a reflexive self-justification that the extreme successes of some classicists is more substantial than just passing a cultural shibboleth. If Latin really provides skills then a society where Latin-speakers prosper is meritocratic, not elitist. On the other hand, if there’s no evidence that Latin is giving benefits that can’t be picked up in other ways we might have to ask awkward questions about where the elite come from.
Behind the idea that Latin improves proficiency in other areas lurks the older idea that Classics is true education, of which all other areas are inferior imitators. It is bedrock, fundamental, “the Maths of the Humanities”. Some defences treat classicists almost as the guardian of the Old Ways who will save us from the nasty, modern, English-hating English teachers. The think tank Parliament Street states this more plainly than most:
In the past at traditional schools it was not uncommon for children to have the same teacher for English and Latin in their early years, and there is much to be said for this, given the apparent reluctance of so many English teachers to teach their own language.
So mixed in with Latin advocacy is a effort to defend the educational structures and outcomes of the past — but alongside that you’ll find enthusiastic former students and current teachers. These people have a good-hearted enthusiasm of something they love and a desire to pass that on to the next generation. What could possibly be wrong with that?
The thing to remember everything thinks that the thing that formed them is special and that other people would benefit if they had more of it in their lives - be it Latin, Dance or Ice Hockey. If the utilitarian argument falls apart Classics has to compete with the multitude of other life changing opportunities available.
So yes, Latin should be compulsory. But so should programming. And drama. And Mandarin. They should learn special relativity in the morning and engineering in the afternoon so they can invent more hours in the day to learn all the things that are absolutely required to understanding the world.
In the event they can’t pull this off, we might have to accept that people leave school hopelessly ignorant of many wonderful things.
Haag, Ludwig, and Elsbeth Stern (2003). “In Search of the Benefits of Learning Latin.” Journal of Educational Psychology 95, no. 1 : 174–78. doi:10.1037/0022–0663.95.1.174.
Holmes, C Thomas, and Ronald L Keffer (1995). “Computerized and on Greek Verbal Method Words : Scores to Teach Latin Effect.” English Today 89, no. 1 : 47–50.
Masciantonio, R. (1977), Tangible Benefits of the Study of Latin: A Review of Research. Foreign Language Annals, 10: 375–382. doi: 10.1111/j.1944–9720.1977.tb02999.x
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The Conspicuous Temperature Gradient of Finicky US Consumers
By Jeffrey P. Snider|2015-11-11T10:30:23-05:00November 11th, 2015|Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|
Janet Yellen and orthodox economists claim that the economy can only be gaining, and that word is taken, on faith, as if some updated, modern gold standard for meaning. No matter the contrary in actual evidence and observation, the “word” remains as if diktat were the only employ. It has produced some very strange dichotomies, particularly of late, where those within that economic cage are struggling mightily and obviously to find some kind of consistency with it all. It has led to an Orwellian deployment of qualifications and words quite contrary to their established meaning.
For one, apparently the American economy cannot withstand anything but the fattest, meatiest part of the Bell Curve for temperature. Anything outside of a narrow range in weather (which, if you are paying attention, is what weather actually is) and somehow economists and their media parrots become disenthralled and unhinged. We all know about the constant appeal, three winters in a row, of cold and snow and vortices of some blusterous nature, but now warm weather has been assigned the same depressive instincts. I wish I were making this up, for it does not suggest anything good about the economy nor the state of the commentary class that still clings to Yellen’s desperate narrative no matter how much and how deeply actual observation moves sharply against it all.
As expected, balmy October days failed to inspire people to shop for winter coats, but the retail sales results were even a little worse than forecast. The Thomson Reuters Same Store Sales Index actual result for October 2015 showed no change, missing its final estimate of a 0.3% gain. Excluding drug stores, the SSS Index registered a -0.2% comp for October, missing its 0.1% final estimate.
It’s important to note that these results are not final, as the Gap will report October SSS on Nov. 9. However, 75% of retailers missed estimates, hit by lower gasoline prices, the effect of a strong U.S. dollar and the warmer-than-usual weather. [emphasis added]
A negative same store sales index register is recession, but Yellen has declared that all “transitory” so the people at Reuters are left making a mockery of their own work. Worse, Thompson Reuters just over a week ago, in projecting the alarming re-appearance of negative retail figures in its own index, even stated that a negative was consistent with recession:
During the first recession, in 2001, the index dipped below the 3% healthy mark and remained within the 0% – 3.0% range. Then, the SSS Index recuperated nicely afterwards and consumer spending remained within the 2% to 5% monthly growth during 2002 – 2007, for the most part. Subsequently, the index dropped to its lowest level ever during the Great Recession (Dec 2007 – June 2009). Since, then the index has fluctuated as consumer behavior has changed since the Great Recession. The index also started to dip into negative levels similar to the Great Recession. [emphasis added]
You can see the logical strain just in the progression of that paragraph, where once low and negative results were recession but now as if “consumer behavior has changed since the Great Recession” can address the recurrence. The Yellen/economist narrative can only be registered as something like a cult, for it makes otherwise quite sensible people doubt their very own observations and conclusions. Again, Thompson Reuters SSSI clearly shows something very much amiss, both in recent context and historically so.
If it walks like recession, quacks like recession, it must be…weather? If that inappropriate assignment were left to just this one outlet and facet of 2015’s “unexpected” seriousness, then this would not be noteworthy; it would rather be dismissed as an agency with an agenda. But it is endemic. In almost every story about the sudden and sharp departure of consumer spending, especially as noticed by the state of manufacturing, there is weather but always jobs, employment and falling gas prices as if those factors were somehow to be magically applied in every way they have not so far. That is, instead, just the Yellen intrusion of how the economy is “supposed” to be operating even though, again, it clearly has not in a stretch that dates now well more than a year.
What is left, then, is to over-emphasize any small monthly variation as if it were gigantic and exclusively meaningful. This has been the constant tactic with regard to Chinese figures, but has now found itself being used pretty much consistently. For example, Gallup’s daily spending tracking poll hit $92 in October, which was a few dollars better than September. As Gallup points out, that is actually the seasonal trend as October spending has been about $4 or $5 more than September in every year going back to 2008 except two. From that, however, Gallup is projecting the possibility of a “robust” Christmas season.
Other Gallup research shows that Americans are planning to spend more this year on Christmas presents than in recent years, suggesting that the October uptick could be another indicator of robust retail spending as 2015 draws to a close.
As you can plainly see from Gallup’s own data, the word “robust” holds no place in what is shaping up for 2015 – and, in fact, has not applied since 2012. From the chart below, the slowdown in 2012 is unmistakable as is the further dip in 2015 which features a noticeable absence of even 2013’s and 2014’s upward peaks. The recovery is nowhere to be found in the figures so it is applied instead in misleading and often duplicitous commentary.
With the Census Bureau’s retail sales report for October looming, I very much doubt as if there will be a huge upward surge that will match the rhetoric and excuses. By all complete sense of scrutiny, it is obvious that “something” is wrong with consumer spending and retail in 2015 as even a departure from what has been wrong since 2012. But because Janet Yellen and the official gatekeepers of the economic narrative refuse to accept that as interpretation (which is their one, true constant feature) the media strains to define the gap as something other than what it is.
In the real economy, unswayed by such nonsense, the figment is revealed in continuous and deepening production and transportation cuts further imperiled by what is becoming an epic inventory story. Not a single element of that is consistent with what dominates economic discussion as an ongoing recovery, but is quite comfortable with all prior recession experience.
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About Allied Authors
Members (Past and Present)
A Bibliography
Bill Binder
Jack Byrne
Mark J. Engels
John D. Haefele
Nathan Hopp
Alexia Lamont
Maureen Mertens
Hannah Morrissey
Thomas P. Ramirez
Christopher Whitmore
David Michael Williams
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Tom Ramirez
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A sequel is born: Children of the Saviour
By Allied Authors
Friday the 13th brought nothing but good luck for a certain member of Allied Authors.
Christopher Whitmore published his second novel, Children of The Saviour, on Sept. 13, 2019. The book is a sequel to 2017’s Saviour, a post-apocalyptic fantasy adventure.
The back-cover blurb captures where Children of The Saviour picks up and hints at new territory ahead:
“A year after the events of SAVIOUR, Miracle Ashe returns home to find her sister and friends entangled in a perilous skein of intrigue: a glorious angel, wrapped in tendrils of living flame has unexpectedly arrived in the city. He proclaims that he is the son and heir of The Saviour himself.
“Miracle isn’t convinced.
“Her journey to discover the truth behind this angel of fire reunites her with old friends and ends up introducing her to astonishing, forgotten corners of the world. However, enemies familiar and new await her, both at home and across the sea.”
Whitmore’s published works combine complex religious themes, thrilling action, and a generous measure of comedy to keep readers turning pages and craving the next installment in the series. The Fond du Lac native joined Allied Authors of Wisconsin in 2017, shortly after the release of his debut novel.
Both Saviour and Children of The Saviour are available in paperback and as e-books on Amazon.com.
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Learn more about Christopher Whitmore
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Soul Sleep Cycle comes to mind-bending conclusion
David Michael Williams’ psychological rollercoaster of a book series reached terminal velocity when If Dreams Can Die launched earlier this month.
The 360-page paperback or e-book depicts the final confrontation between a death-defying cult and the CIA-sanctioned dream drifters determined to protect the collective unconscious. If Dreams Can Die reveals important information about Annette Young, a mysterious figure from the first two books and the alleged villain of the series.
“Annette has devoted her life as well as her afterlife to reconnecting with her departed family, even if it means destroying the dreamscape,” Williams said. “Although she has committed reprehensible crimes for her cause, she still sees herself as a hero.”
If Dreams Can Die ties together the intertwining storylines of If Souls Can Sleep and If Sin Dwells Deep, both published in 2018.
“Characters who were enemies in the first two novels must join forces to stop Annette,” Williams said. “But how do you defeat someone who is already dead?”
As with its predecessors, If Dreams Can Die contains elements of several literary genres, including science fiction, fantasy, paranormal and suspense. The Soul Sleep Cycle could also be categorized as dreampunk, a subgenre that raises the question “What is real?”
“I set out to write something I’d never read before, something unique and admittedly experimental,” the Wisconsin author said.
Williams’ indie publishing company, One Million Words, published If Dreams Can Die on May 21. Both the paperback and e-book will be available at Amazon.com.
In addition to The Soul Sleep Cycle, Williams is the author of The Renegade Chronicles, a sword-and-sorcery fantasy trilogy comprised of Rebels and Fools, Heroes and Liars, and Martyrs and Monsters. He is a 1999 graduate of UW-Fond du Lac and a 2001 graduate of UW-Milwaukee, where he studied creative writing. He joined the Allied Authors of Wisconsin in 2005.
Learn more about the author and his fiction at david-michael-williams.com.
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AAW members to present at UntitledTown
Three Allied Authors of Wisconsin spec-fic writers will share their experiences and expertise at an upcoming book festival.
Mark J. Engels, Christopher Whitmore and David Michael Williams will participate in panels and a workshop at UntitledTown, an annual literary event that promotes all aspects of book culture. The festival will be held April 25 to 28 throughout downtown Green Bay, Wis.
Most of the events, including readings, book signings and presentations, are free and open to the public. Here are the events featuring AAW members:
Fantasy & Sci-fi World-Building Workshop
Williams will lead a workshop that focuses on the essential elements for creating a fully realized world and offer tips for successfully integrating those details into one’s story.
4 – 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 26, in Think Tank C of the Brown County Library (Central Branch), 515 Pine St.
Writing & Publishing Sci-fi / Paranormal / Fantasy Fiction
Engels, Whitmore and Williams — along with three other Wisconsin authors — will share their trials, passion for the craft, the horrors of publishing and more during this panel.
12 – 1 p.m. Saturday, April 27, in the Waterford Room of St. Brendan’s Inn, 234 S. Washington St.
Writing Mysteries & Thrillers
At this panel, Engels and a handful of other Wisconsin writers will talk about the craft of writing in the mystery and thriller genres.
4 – 5 p.m. Saturday, April 27, in Breakout Room 5A of the KI Convention Center, 333 Main St.
For more details about the festival, including the full schedule of events, visit https://2019.untitledtown.org.
Who knows Solar Pons?
In 1953—with tongue firmly in cheek—editor Anthony Boucher provided readers of Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction the lowdown on August Derleth:
Mr. August Derleth is the literary agent in this country for such writers as Stephen Grendon, H. Russell Wakefield and Lyndon Parker, M. D. Dr. Parker is the Boswell of that modern master of the science of deduction, Mr. Solar Pons, the famed consulting detective of 7B Praed Street, London. Mr. Derleth has marketed three volumes of the Doctor’s accounts of his friend’s triumphs: In Re: Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Solar Pons and Three Problems for Solar Pons (all published by Mycroft & Moran)—a criminously delightful trio that any reader will, as Vincent Starrett say, “accept with enthusiasm.”
Boucher was himself a well-known critic and mystery writer. Starrett had become a leading authority on the world-famous literary detective, Sherlock Holmes. And Derleth was Wisconsin’s most prolific regional writer and publisher.
What resonated with readers, however, was the inference here—and in the new story “The Adventure of the Snitch in Time” (recalled with the help of science fiction writer Mack Reynolds)—that Solar Pons is Sherlock Holmes, just as Dr. Parker is Sherlock’s sidekick Dr. Watson . . .
Adding nuanced meaning to a question Derleth asked when publishing the Pons collections of stories under his own M&M imprint:
“Do You Know Solar Pons?”
If this doesn’t ring the bell, go back and read my earlier post on this site: The Mystery of the Milwaukee – Chicago – Sauk City Connection
Then you will know why Solar Pons—as does Sherlock Holmes—has his own legion of fans who seek out the Derleth detective’s earliest appearances in the American wood-pulp magazines of the 1920s and 30s . . .
And collect Derleth’s M&M books, known as the Pontine canon—collect even the publishing ephemera associated with those books.
Literary people know all about ephemera—in this case, almost anything related to a press, or imprint, items with a limited lifespan not offered for sale to the public. Advertising. Giveaways. Those that do the collecting are the diehard fans, and usually it is the paper items they collect.
As for Pontine ephemera, check out what my partner Don Herron posted only a few years ago: http://www.donherron.com/rediscovered-further-pontine-ephemera/ Don concluded his blog by noticing, “Yeah, I guess the ephemera collecting game is once more afoot…”
And so it was.
In fact, it had been afoot for a long time.
Way back in 1985, Mycroft & Moran and Arkham House collector—the House being Derleth’s more famous publishing imprint specializing in supernatural fiction—Phillip T. Mays and bookseller-publisher Roy A. Squires issued a little chapbook bibliography, The Phil Mays Collection of Arkham House Ephemerae: A Descriptive Listing.
Combining the two imprints made sense, because Derleth usually included M&M within Arkham’s more famous Stock Lists and bulletins. Almost immediately the little items listed in Squires-Mays began to sky-rocket in price, a large contingent of Arkham or Derleth collectors wanting to find and add each and every one to their collections.
A difficult task to complete with so many of the pieces genuinely rare—with little or no knowledge of the quantities originally printed, or how many now survive.
Mays included two advertising pieces Derleth used to promote only M&M titles: the first a postcard that announced “— a new Mycroft & Moran book, coming December 12, 1952 . . . Three Problems for Solar Pons”; and then a brochure that blared, “Coming Late in 1955! The Return of Solar Pons.”
At this point you might ask why these ephemera pieces are important . . .
To which I would respond by asking, “How well do you know Solar Pons?
That’s because I’ve sampled the little treasures of interesting information one can find buried in the ephemera. For example, from—and only from—the Mays find could I deduce the true story behind the small and unusual Three Problems book—unusually small compared to earlier collections in that it contained only three of the detective’s adventures.
Yes, a little digging turns up the fact that Derleth published this book in the 50’s when small publishers were struggling for sales against changing tastes and the rising costs of doing business following World War II—who wouldn’t think Derleth wasn’t merely responding to these operational realities?
The ephemera pieces suggest otherwise—a motive perhaps historically significant . . .
The very moment Derleth decided he would mirror in pastiche the entire Sherlock Holmes canon produced by Arthur Conan Doyle, who had once brought the Holmes canon to a temporary end, interrupting it after chronicling twenty-six adventures.
Derleth introduces Three Problems sadly, proclaiming that “These are quite possibly the last Solar Pons pastiches I shall write,” for reasons he blamed on new activity within the Doyle estate…
Three brought the total of Pons adventures in print to exactly 26.
Coincidence? Perhaps there was a coded message in the utterance Derleth is known to have begun making: “I think Doyle had, and so Derleth must also have”. . .
A message of intent which explains how the meaningful title for the next volume of Pons chronicles series was decided; mimicking that of Doyle’s third Holmes collection, it would be The Return of Solar Pons.
None of this is to say that Derleth, a cagey publisher with excellent business sense, didn’t make at least one adjustment to cope with a softened market: he trimmed his initial order of Three Problems, estimated (if we believe the colophon) to have been 2,000 books, down to 990—probably the exact number of patrons who had routinely purchased the earlier collections.
We learn as well from the M&M ephemera Mays listed another tantalizing, behind-the-scenes, bit of data. How otherwise would we know that the collection Derleth planned to follow The Return had, for a short while, The Problems of Solar Pons as its working title? Only from the ephemera do we learn this, a “lost title” apparently undreamed of by Sheldon Jeffery–or else it would’ve been with the others he included under that heading in The Arkham House Companion (1989), a reference book covering every AH and M&M title published, or merely considered.
Perhaps so that it wouldn’t be confused with Three Problems, the already announced Problems of Solar Pons was retitled The Reminiscences of Solar Pons prior to publication.
The Mays listing of Derleth’s AH and M&M ephemera gave completists a great start for finding the game, but new finds made it evident almost immediately that his collection had not been complete.
Finally, about sixteen or seventeen years later, my friend Don Herron jumped in. He wanted to refine the Mays list—compile a new one that would be up-to-date, definitive, and otherwise as useful as it possibly could be.
On the sidelines, I agreed to help.
It would be Don’s list, but I supplied every new item I could reasonably, authoritatively, corroborate the existence of, even if not all of the needed information was at my disposal.
One of these was another strictly M&M piece, which the reputable New York bookseller Lloyd Currey listed in an old catalog—it was a variation of the Mays “Do You Know Solar Pons.”
All I had for the description was an excerpt from the actual piece, a quotation used in the piece that Currey used to promote it:
“If you liked Sherlock Holmes, you will not want to miss Solar Pons, The Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street. . . .” In Re: Sherlock Holmes, The Adventures of Solar Pons, The Memoirs of Solar Pons, The Return of Solar Pons, The Reminiscences of Solar Pons. Includes two pages devoted to offset reviews of the Pons saga from various sources – Starrett in his Books Alive column, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, etc. “Under the imprint of Mycroft & Moran. Order without delay from your bookseller or Arkham House: Publishers. . . .”
It was enough for us to include it in the new list. And today, validating our decision, I located one, and now own the actual piece.
“Arkham House Ephemera: The Classic Years” by Don Herron was published in 2002, in Firsts: The Book Collector’s Magazine.
Since then, however, Don & I both are aware there is game still afoot. But not even he knows about the two additional brochures I found, which raise the “Do You Know Solar Pons” series to a total of four.
For Derlethians and Sherlockians—especially for Arkham House completists—here is my updated list of the ephemera Derleth devoted exclusively to Mycroft & Moran:
1952: POSTCARD.
Arkham House Announces.
“— a new Mycroft & Moran book, coming December 12, 1952. . . Three Problems for Solar Pons. . . .”
“The Memoirs of Solar Pons: A Unicorn Selection—Coming Next Month.” Unicorn Mystery News V3n12 (c. 1953): 10-11.
1954: LETTER w/M&M letterhead.
“Solar Pons joins me in wishing all friends of his as well as the Master, his best on the occasion of the Master’s Centenary!”
Signed by August Derleth, “Sebastian Moran” and “Mycroft Holmes.”
1955: BROCHURE.
“Coming Late in 1955! The Return of Solar Pons.”
1961-63: BROCHURE.
“If you liked Sherlock Holmes, you will not want to miss … The Reminiscences of Solar Pons.”
1965: LETTER w/Deerstalker (M&M) letterhead.
Dear Reviewer:
“The Casebook of Solar Pons brings to 56 the total number of Pontine tales in print — the precise number of the Sherlock Holmes stories in short length.”
“If you liked Sherlock Holmes, you will not want to miss … The Casebook of Solar Pons.”
c. 1966: BROCHURE.
About Solar Pons.
A 57th story, The Adventure of the Orient Express, was published (1965) in chapbook form … The Candlelight Press also published in 1965 Praed Street Papers.”
1971: CABINET CARD w/Roy Hunt illustration of Solar Pons & Dr. Lyndon Parker.
“All thanks for your order … We expect to publish [Chronicles] in October.”
Is the foregoing all the game there is to find that is exclusively Mycroft & Moran ephemera?
Maybe, if we recall that announcements for the first two books in the Pons series—In Re: Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Solar Pons—were adequately covered in Arkham House pieces, and that those published after 1967—Mr. Fairlie’s Final Journey, The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians and A Praed Street Dossier—were announced in Derleth’s house-magazine, The Arkham Collector.
Maybe, but the likelihood is there’s more game afoot . . .
John D. Haefele submitted this article.
© John D. Haefele. All rights reserved.
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Soul Sleep sequel takes dreamscape to new depths
Williams’ genre-bending book series returns this month
Even good girls have secrets…
If Sin Dwells Deep, the second installment in David Michael Williams’ speculative fiction series, tells the story of Allison, a straight-laced woman who transforms into a rebellious goddess when she dreams.
“Allison is living a double life,” the Fond du Lac author said. “She thinks having a fling in the dreamscape is harmless fun until a sadistic predator learns her true identity and she must deal with the real-world consequences.”
The 380-page paperback and e-book delves deeper into the hidden world of dream drifters, people who possess the power to invade the minds of others. If Sin Dwells Deep also sheds light on the war between gifted government agents and those who would use their abilities to corrupt life, death and the afterlife—a conflict only hinted at in the first book.
As with its predecessor, If Souls Can Sleep, the new novel contains elements of science fiction, fantasy, suspense, metafiction and more.
“It’s a wonderfully weird mashup,” Williams said. “I took a risk by doing something different. Given the positive reception of the first book, I’m thrilled to report that readers apparently appreciate the strangeness.”
Although If Sin Dwells Deep is the second book in The Soul Sleep Cycle, it is not a typical sequel.
“Book Two is a parallel novel, which means the plot runs concurrently with that of Book One. It’s another side of the story. The two books are interconnected yet independent,” Williams said.
“Which means readers can enjoy If Sin Dwells Deep without having read If Souls Can Sleep,” he added.
Williams’ indie publishing company, One Million Words, will publish If Sin Dwells Deep in paperback on Oct. 2. The e-book is currently available through the Kindle Store.
To celebrate the release of If Sin Dwells Deep, Williams will sell and sign copies of the book from 5 to 9 p.m. on Nov. 2 at Gallery & Frame Shop, 94 S. Main St., Fond du Lac, as part of Fond du Lac Gallery Night.
The third installment in The Soul Sleep Cycle, If Dreams Can Die, is slated for publication in spring 2019.
In addition to The Soul Sleep Cycle, Williams is the author of The Renegade Chronicles, a fantasy trilogy comprised of Rebels and Fools, Heroes and Liars, and Martyrs and Monsters. He joined the Allied Authors of Wisconsin in 2005 and the Wisconsin Writers Association in 2018.
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Allied Authors say a sad farewell to Fern Ramirez
The Allied Authors of Wisconsin lost a longtime member and close friend on July 19, 2018, when Fern Ramirez passed away at age 91.
A onetime teacher, Fern married Tom Ramirez in 1947. The two joined AAW in 1956 after being invited to a meeting by the late Beverly Butler Olson, a childhood playmate. Fern valued being a part of AAW and counted it as a privilege to have known Larry Sternig, Ann Powers Schwartz and Harry Schwartz, Don Emerson, Aubrey Young and many others during her rich tenure.
An avid, attentive reader, Fern always provided constructive feedback on members’ manuscripts.
“In the group, Fern’s comments were eagerly sought, well thought out and highly beneficial. Fortunately, her discerning eye, attention to detail and sharp wit were always tempered by a kind, gentle heart,” Jack Byrne recalled.
“An extraordinary lady, Fern was loved, and she shall be missed.”
Fern also went above and beyond with her assistance, including proofing one AAW member’s trilogy.
“Dear friend, fellow Allied Author, proofreader — Fern was all of these things and more to me,” David Michael Williams reflected. “While she will be greatly missed, I know she is now in a place where there is no pain or suffering — indeed, only joy — and look forward to reuniting with her again when my time comes.”
Fern’s various teaching positions ranged from first grade through high school and also included leading classes at a women’s correction facility. Her writing consists of short news articles and op-ed pieces. She also wrote a series of Sunday school stories with lesson plans and tinkered with a children’s novel, Bay’s Story.
Read the full obituary.
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Book-themed bike rack memorializes Ramirez’s memoir
Photo provided by the Fond du Lac Public Library
A longtime member of the Allied Authors was recently honored with an engraving on an unconventional monument.
Thomas P. Ramirez is one of six Wisconsin writers whose name appears on a new bicycle rack outside of the Fond du Lac Public Library. He is featured for his memoir, That Wonderful Mexican Band, published in 2017.
The book-themed rack was introduced as part of recent improvements to the library. When two standard bike racks had to be removed to accommodate a driveway redesign, library staff elected to replace them with a unique option that celebrates Fond du Lac writers from across the years and from a variety of genres.
The following works are represented on the rack (with abbreviated titles to fit the space):
Foot of the Lake: An Early History of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin by Cindy Barden
Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly
Fond du Lac: A Gift of the Glacier by Michael Mentzer
That Wonderful Mexican Band: A Memoir of The Great Depression by Thomas P. Ramirez
Extraordinary People: Understanding Savant Syndrome by Darold Treffert
Secrets of the Ledge: Pictorial Report of Archaeological Findings on the Niagara Escarpment in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin by Dwight Weiser
The inclusion of That Wonderful Band is appropriate not only because the memoir so vividly captures Fond du Lac during The Great Depression, but because Ramirez specifically cites the Fond du Lac Public Library as one of his favorite childhood destinations.
Ramirez, 92, is also the author of 150 paperbacks and dozens of published short stories—including three popular Phoenix Force novels in the 1980s—making him among the state’s most prolific authors. He joined the Allied Authors in 1955.
AAW member releases Great Depression memoir
Thomas P. Ramirez’s biography
Thomas P. Ramirez’s bibliography
Who are the Allied Authors of Wisconsin?
The Allied Authors are published authors, up-and-comers, an agent, current and former journalists, nonfiction writers and avid readers who eagerly help one another become better fiction writers.
We are passionate about the craft and are committed to one another's success — true allies on the road to publication.
Tracing our roots back to the Milwaukee Fictioneers (1931) and the Allied Authors of Milwaukee (1937), we are among the oldest professional writing groups in the state.
AAW History and Affiliates
August Derleth Society
Christopher Whitmore, author
David Michael Williams, author
Mark J. Engels, author
Sternig & Byrne Literary Agency
Wisconsin Writers Association
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The Church a Training Ground
While parents are primarily responsible for training children, God also gave the church an essential role in spiritual education. Unfortunately most parents have let the church take it over completely, and the church has failed to equip their children and parents with a real understanding of how to know, defend, and share their faith.
The Church and Culture
When the church rejects the Bible’s authority in one area, should Christians be surprised that society does not take the Bible’s other teachings seriously? Why should anyone live by God’s Word if it is merely a flawed book that cannot be trusted?
Church in Decline?
It is unlikely that a single explanation accounts fully for the decline of mainline Protestant churches in the U.S., given that some other mainline churches remain strong. Nonetheless, compromise has not succeeded in drawing seekers to the church, contrary to what compromising Christians often claim.
NYC Schools Kick Out Churches
Thousands of churches all over the country rent—that is, pay money for—space in public schools on Sundays. But now, in New York City, that will change. Perhaps NYC’s Department of Education and judicial powers should look more closely at the Founding Fathers and the clear precedent they set for acceptable use of public buildings.
News About Church
National Heritage Group Warns Canada Will Lose 9,000 Churches
March 25, 2019 from Ken Ham’s Blog
Many UK churches have been forced to close their doors. And now a national heritage group in Canada is warning that the same thing is happening there.
Articles About Church
“Chicken Little” and the Dying Church
Most people in Christianity know that the church in America is dying. But is this all an old wives' tale?
Playing the Harlot in Our Scientific Age?
July 31, 2019 from Answers Magazine
The Bible uses strong language to describe any form of compromise with worldly thinking. And it doesn’t just apply to the ancient Israelites.
What Really Separates Us?
March 1, 2019 from Answers Magazine
One of the most divisive issues in our churches is “race,” right?
Magazine Department Article
What Happened to Western Civilization?
Jan. 1, 2019 from Answers Magazine
As we look around at the shambles of Western civilization, a question seems to be on everyone’s mind: What happened?
The Old Testament Still Matters
Oct. 7, 2018 from Answers Magazine
One reason young adults are leaving the church is that they don’t understand the Old Testament. What can we do to help them?
A Staggering Opportunity for AiG
Sept. 13, 2018 from Letter from Ken
Gospel Reset deals with the topic of how we can more effectively evangelize a secularized culture. It also clearly presents the gospel, founded in Genesis.
Pastors, Teach the Truth and Expose Error
Pastors, we must be personally devoted to the reliable Word of God, so that we can teach the truth and expose error.
How to Seek Unity in the Midst of Division
July 1, 2018 from Answers Magazine
Christ’s prayer for unity seems like an impossible dream. What can Christians do to promote unity with believers who disagree on basic doctrines?
A Call Back to Truth
June 7, 2018 from Answers Magazine
Dr. John MacArthur, a popular evangelical writer and pastor, expressed his deep concern about the Emerging Church during a visit to the Creation Museum.
Helping Our Children to Love the Church
How can concerned parents help their children love the church and carry the saving gospel to future generations?
How to Find a Good Church
Searching for a local church to join can be difficult, frustrating, and overwhelming, but God helps us to walk according to his will (Romans 12:2).
Talking to Your Pastor About Christmas Fallacies
Imagine being in a church meeting and your pastor just said something that didn’t seem quite right according to the Scripture. What kind of error was it?
A New Reformation for a Post-Truth Church
It’s time for a new reformation. We need to symbolically nail our theses to church doors and call the church back to her foundation—the Word of God.
The Forgotten Reformer—Ulrich Zwingli
Due to Ulrich Zwingli’s death early in the Reformation, he seems to have been forgotten or relegated to passing mentions in books covering this time period.
Chronological teaching is a proven way to address biblical illiteracy. The author of this article taught Bible history in public schools for 13 years.
Time for a New Reformation
Sept. 1, 2017 from Answers Magazine
Martin Luther called the church back to the bible’s authority 500 years ago. New attacks in our scientific age demand a new reformation.
The Reformation’s Renewed Relevance
Times have changed over the last 500 years, but some basic challenges never change.
What If My Pastor Avoids Genesis?
So few pastors are preaching on Genesis. Before we can help, we need to understand what might be holding a pastor back.
The Relevance of the Reformation
The Reformation reshaped the religion and politics of Europe centuries ago. But the Reformation carries a vital message—a warning—for the modern Christian.
The Reformation of the 16th Century
The Reformers of the sixteenth century believed the only path to lasting reformation was the Word of God.
God’s Word: The Authority Over Us
Churches have offered many different solutions to combat this growing exodus. One popular so-called solution is to water down the authority of God’s Word.
Sunday School Syndrome
May 9, 2017 from Already Gone
Sunday school is actually more likely to be detrimental to the spiritual and moral health of our children.
We can now identify the real answers as well as the causes affecting young people who leave the church.
Funding Darwin in the Church
May 1, 2017 from Answers Magazine
If you think evolution is unrelated to church work, some very rich people disagree. They’re spending millions to make the church an evolution-friendly place.
Reformation or Revival?
Does the church in our Western world need a revival or a reformation?
New Study: Liberal Theology Doesn’t Save Shrinking Congregations
A new study suggests liberal congregations are still shrinking, while conservative congregations are growing.
How to Prevent Losing Another Generation
Jan. 29, 2017 from Answers Magazine
Polls show that the twentysomethings sitting next to you in the pews may not embrace your faith. What happened to them?
The High Call of Taking Action
Oct. 8, 2016 from Already Compromised
Compromise has infiltrated Christian institutions, creating possibly a dangerous situation in colleges and universities that appeared to be our allies.
Pew Research: Why Young People Are Leaving Christianity
It comes as no surprise to anyone keeping a finger on the pulse of our culture that a dramatically high number of young people are leaving the church.
Millennials Are Becoming Skeptics Over Old Testament Law
Barna reports that “more than two-thirds of skeptics have attended Christian churches in the past—most for an extended period of time.”
An Interview with Dr. Woodrow Kroll—Bible Literacy Begins in Genesis
Dr. Woodrow Kroll promotes Bible literacy and trains pastors around the world.
Oct. 30, 2015 from Already Gone
What is the number-one perception of the Christian church today? No matter how you slice it, it always comes down to one word—hypocrisy.
Surprised, Shocked, and Saddened over Statistics on Twenty-Somethings
Oct. 12, 2015 from Answers Update
Aren’t you as deeply troubled and tremendously burdened as I am when you read these sad statistics about the millennials who attend our churches?
The Short Road to Irrelevance
The problem we are studying, of course, is that 60 percent of the students who grow up in the Church have lost that connection.
The Early Church on Creation
Aug. 20, 2015 from Answers Magazine
What did the early church believe about creation? In its first 16 centuries the church held to a young earth.
How the 20s Are Changing America
July 27, 2015 from Letter from Ken
When you consider the 20 somethings (ages 20–29), you get a glimpse of what the “new America” will be if this culture continues on the same downward spiral.
The Church—Training Ground for Truth
Church isn’t just a place to make friends, have fun, and learn helpful Bible principles. It’s a training ground for the battle of life.
Yes, We Are Losing the Millennials
A Pew Research Center report, “America’s Changing Religious Landscape,” shows Christianity declining in America, which AiG has warned the church of for years.
State of the Church in America
How does the American church’s drift away from the authority of Scripture reflect in the culture’s morality?
Giving a “Certain Sound” Regarding Genesis
June 24, 2013 from Letter from Ken
The church is not giving a certain sound. But we should present what God has clearly revealed to us in His written revelation, beginning with Genesis.
NYC Schools Evict Churches
Feb. 25, 2012 from News to Know
NYC schools evict churches.
Going, Going . . . Gone
Feb. 19, 2012 from Answers Magazine
More and more young people are walking out the church doors and not looking back. Why are they leaving?
Teach Effectively
April 1, 2011 from Answers Magazine
Whether you are a pastor in the pulpit or a parent leading family devotions, you want your listeners to be engaged and revived by the truth.
Fallacies of the Modern Church Part 3
What is the correlation between worship in the Temple and the church gathering?
Are our church buildings the same as the Temple of the old covenant?
Is the sale of Christian resources at services, or at any meeting in a church, prohibited by John 2 or any other Scripture?
Calling for Reformation
Nov. 16, 2010 from Answers Update
Many things changed between 1977 to 2010, but the authority of God’s Word shouldn’t be in that list.
The Evolutionary Belief System
Several times during our session of the annual conference of the United Methodist Church I heard the following phrase spoken quite passionately: “I believe in evolution!”
The Slow Collapse of Mainline Protestant Churches in the US
A Methodist church whose congregation once numbered more than 10,000 members has fallen to under 400 today—a decline reflecting the slow collapse of mainline Protestant churches in the U.S.
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Survey says 'I do:' Fayetteville holiday proposal during game of Family Feud captures hearts
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- A Christmas family gathering turned into a marriage proposal that went viral.
Fayetteville couple Joshua Powell and Kiana Myrick shared a heartfelt holiday moment in a video that people around the country have seen. The video showed Powell asking Myrick questions in a makeshift game of Family Feud.
With Myrick facing away from him, Powell asked her a series of wedding-related questions like "name a day a woman always dreams about" and "name something a woman wears all white to." Finally, he said, "How would you finish this -- will you marry me?" Myrick said, "Yes, I will," and laughed without realizing that he was actually serious.
Powell then said, "Might as well make it official, right?" before getting down on one knee.
Powell's mother posted the video to Facebook, where it now has more than 21,000 shares.
The couple had been together since high school, come 2021, the two will be known as the #powercouple.
"It's everything, hands down. Definitely won't forget, best gift ever," said Myrick.
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<a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/18546943"><strong>Relapse</strong></a> (1608 words) by <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/users/CourageFights"><strong>CourageFights</strong></a><br />Chapters: 1/1<br />Fandom: <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/The%20Avengers%20(Marvel%20Movies)">The Avengers (Marvel Movies)</a><br />Rating: Teen And Up Audiences<br />Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply<br />Relationships: James "Rhodey" Rhodes & Tony Stark<br />Characters: Tony Stark, James "Rhodey" Rhodes<br />Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Loss, hints at depression<br />Summary: <p>Tony is drunk. Rhodey is there to try and pick him back up...</p>
The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
James "Rhodey" Rhodes & Tony Stark
hints at depression
CourageFights
Tony is drunk. Rhodey is there to try and pick him back up...
(See the end of the work for notes.)
Tony Stark was not a good man. He knew this. He’d never say so out loud. He’d also never refute it and never had. But damn it, he tried. He tried to be better. Better than the man he was yesterday. It was never enough though. He always, always, came up short.
There was a loud pitched rush of air that made the billionaire twitch. A sigh. “Tony…” The way that his name was spoken with a resigned air of sadness made Stark’s stomach twist in a nauseating way that had nothing to do with the alcohol sloshing around in his otherwise empty stomach. He was both on high alert and outside himself.
Every nerve in his body seemed to be on fire, yet he couldn’t find the control to move his head up from the cool counter, as he felt the air shift. The other person in the room was moving forward. He could hear the sound of boots on the floor. Feel the vibrations of their steps on the hard tile floor. The waves of sound trembling through his barstool up his body and meeting the ripples that trailed up the bar colliding in the miniature quakes of his glass. The glass quietly clinking from the shivering ice. Loose from the oceans of bourbon… or maybe it was scotch… he hadn’t really been paying all that much attention. Desperate to drown out his thoughts and, uhg, feelings.
A solid hand fell on his shoulder and the warmth of it cracked the wall around his heart and made his eyes burn. He made a chest driven sound of greeting in response that lacked any real words. Refusing to move. Lest he give his vulnerabilities away. “You can’t keep doin’ this to yourself.” The words were heartfelt and Tony knew what they were saying was true. Or wanted them to be true.
If he didn’t do this… he would have no other way to escape. No other way to forget. No other way to punish himself. That’s what this was. Punishment. He deserved it. Because he had failed. Again.
“Why not?” He grunted in the indignation that he didn’t know when to punish himself. Pulling back from the bar. Finally moving his unless limbs- just not in the way he wanted to. Never in the way he wanted to. The sound of folding fabric and the sent of sweat and a recognizable bar soap solidified the presence beside him and he blinked. The world tilting slightly as he turned his head to squint at his longtime friend. “Rhodey…?”
The other man pointedly ignored the crack in Tony’s voice and grinned. “You just noticed?”
“N-no.” Tony rubbed his face. It wasn’t a total lie. He knew he recognized the voice and the feel of the man- it just hadn’t registered. “You’re not supposed to be here.”
“Where would I be Tony?"
“I don’t know.” He felt his shoulders drop as he tipped back his glass. Letting his tongue push back on the ball of ice as he tried to take in the last of the liquor. The cup clinked sharply on the countertop as his hand dropped. “Out soldier-ing somewhere. Being a man among men- fighting the good fight.” Somehow Tony was on his feet his arms flailing slightly.
“You say that like it’s a bad thing.” Tony spun and the world tilted only slightly. Rhodey’s frown shaking in his blurred vision.
“Bad? Bad. No. Not bad.” Tony stumbled forward putting a finger to Rhodey’s chest. “You, my man are a good. Like- like…” Tony fumbled. He wasn’t sure what Rhodey was good like. He was Rhodey. He was always by his side even when Tony didn’t deserve it. Especially when Tony didn’t deserve it. He found the counter again somehow. His forehead resting against the cool surface. It was trying to lure him in- make him complacent. He shoved away from it. “Not today!” He felt himself mumble.
Hands were on his shoulders as the world tipped dangerously. “I was worried about you.”
Tony blinked up at the ceiling feeling the contorted confusion pulling strangely at the skin of his face. Then it hit him why he was confused. “You’s worried about me?”
There was a huff from his friend as he was guided away from the bar and Tony didn’t have the strength to fight it. “This is one hell of a relapse man.” Rhodey said softly. “Make’s me miss the good old days when you drank every night and slept with anything in a skirt.”
“Not!” Stark held up a finger in protest. “Anything- I had a list of do no- do not- don’t’s.”
“Like what?” There seemed to be some amused tone in Rhodey’s voice that settled something tense in Toney that he hadn’t realized was wound up.
Tony blinked at his friend forgetting why he was asking him anything. “Like what?” He asked in question. “Like, like what? What like? I don’t…”
Suddenly he felt himself being coaxed down. The soft plush of couch seeming to swallow him up. “Take it easy Tony. Honestly, I’m surprised you’re this coherent- and that you haven’t puked on my shoe’s yet.”
A bark of a laugh left Tony in a jump. The self-made noise catching him off guard. Blurred swirling memories of long ago where he’d done just that dancing in his head. “Good times…” He felt acid rise in his throat but somehow managed to swallow it down. “Still might.” He confessed.
Another sigh. “I’ll see if I can’t put something together for you to eat.” Plastic touched his knuckles and Tony became aware of the open water bottle being offered to him. “Drink some water for now- slowly. I’ll be right back.”
Tony took the bottle in shaking hands and managed to take a tentative sip. Rhodes squeezed his shoulder giving him a tight smile before he walked away. Tony slumped back into the cushions and winced as lights flashed in his memory’s eye. The sound of cutting wind and metal hitting metal, hitting stone, and flesh hitting flesh.
Tony jerked, water splashing from the open bottle. “I thought…”
“Hum?” Rhodes' voice came from the other room. “You say something, Tony?”
Something warm hit his hand and Tony frowned at the slightly off splash of water on his skin. “Ha-have you heard from-“ another warm drop. Water splashing from his hand. Tears.
God. He was crying now. A shuttering breath and tightly closed eyes do nothing to hold back the frustration.
Years of holding back. Not letting himself lose to his emotions. Not being able to lose to his emotions and now he couldn’t stop. This realization only shattered his composure and his hand flew to his mouth shaking as he tried to hold it all in. “Oh, gosh!” The sound of Rhodey moving around quickly reached his ears- something scraping against the floor. “If you’re going to puke- Tony?”
The sob that left him was like a damn breaking. Panicking at his loss of control Tony’s heart began to race in a painful manner and he was curling into himself his shortening breath being the only thing keeping him from screaming. They were gone. Gone. He was still here somehow but they were gone. He wasn’t breathing now.
“Shit.” Rhodey said. “Shit, shit, shit.”
“I failed.” Tony sobbed.
Rohdey was quiet for a long time and Tony slumped slightly. It was only a matter of time before his friend came to his senses and just left Tony to rot. “Tony.” The man’s voice was soft and careful. “There was nothing more you could have done.”
“Are you sure? Maybe we gave up too easy… maybe there was something…” Tony looked up and wished he hadn’t. The pained look of pity and loss on Rohdey's face was like hot iron in his chest.
Tony laughed even though he didn’t feel like laughing. “You know the last thing he said to me?”
“Fucking sorry.” He wiped the wetness from his eye’s feeling his chest heave as he stared blankly at his palm. “Like it was his fault he was dying. The dust. The dust was all over me and I wanted to wipe it off- I almost did- but it was all that was left of him.”
“Jesus…” Rohdey settled in the couches next to Tony with a heavy drop. His mechanical legs clicking just slightly. There was a dull silence between them. Where one man waited for some kind of deserved judgment and the other just tried to breathe. “You know I didn’t see anyone get dusted.” Rohdey said. “It was hard to understand why so many people were gone… even after everyone explained it to me… I just… couldn’t. It didn’t… doesn’t feel real… even now… after all this time.” He sighed. “Sometimes I feel like they’ll just… walk through the front door… like nothing ever happened… you know?”
Tony didn’t say anything. He felt a small bit of vitriol that wanted to snap at his friend and say ‘lucky you’ but it died before he could even muster the strength to consider it. Tony didn’t wonder if the others would walk through the front door. He knew they were dust.
“I just… feel like there was more we could have done.” Tony whispered.
Rhodey sighed. “I know. I know… but there wasn’t… there isn’t. We… we have to move on.”
And that was the crux of it wasn’t it… Tony snorted staring across the room at the melting ice in his glass. All was lost and still they had to find a way to move on. Tony just wasn’t sure he could.
I haven’t seen End Game (obviously) but I was thinking about some of the relapses into alcoholism that Tony has in the comics and I was thinking about how in the MCU it seem’s he’s cut drinking like a fish to just drinking every now and then… but then I remembered Infinity War and thought… what if Tony make’s it back to Earth, and they don’t manage to bring everyone back? So… this was born… and sorry? It’s not going to be anything more than what it is… Just an exploration into a broken heart… but only just barely…. because I couldn’t bring myself to explore more. Like what has happened with Pepper. Or the other surviving Avengers… The state of the world or anything else really.
Let me know what you think please and thank you!
KiTTzu, Snowysnowgirl123, 9VaniaStein9, Ciara_in_cotton_socks, Emerald2020, FavouriteFightingFrenchwoman, Kanelore, Plane_Lord, AwkwardGenZKid, and AshleyMarie84 as well as 7 guests left kudos on this work! (collapse)
Kanelore Sun 21 Apr 2019 02:26PM EDT
When I started to read this I thought this was pre-Ironman but then I realized this is after Infinity war, hehe. This fic is really great!
CourageFights Sun 21 Apr 2019 03:17PM EDT
Thank you. ^_^
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9VaniaStein9 Fri 12 Jul 2019 04:51PM EDT
This is very good!
In the part where Rhodey is talking about how he didn't see anyone get dusted, it says Sam said. I just thought you should know.
And I want to know more about the state of the world canonically. It was a mess, but how did it get to that point exactly? (I'm trying not to spoil.)
CourageFights Fri 12 Jul 2019 08:15PM EDT
Thank you. Fixed.
At the time of writing this I hadn't seen Endgame. I have now... I had a bit different ideas on how things might have gone... maybe I might explore it later...
9VaniaStein9 Sat 13 Jul 2019 06:27AM EDT
Those poor babies.
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Field Artillery Association & Ammo Piss Pot
Source: Copied from a Story called “Fiddler’s Green” attributed to the United States Field Artillery Association and adapted to fit the other guardians of peace, United States Air Force Ammo Troops.
(Submitted by Mike Roylance)
We Ammo folks are indeed a very privileged group. In addition to the protection of our Patron Saint, St Barbara, during life, we can look forward to our own special heaven after the sounding of Taps. I refer, of course, to Ammo Alley.
Down through the ages, all purveyors of the fire and members of the ancient profession of Bomb Builders better known as Munitions Maintenance Specialist aka Ammo Troops have discussed this special place in the hereafter, where someday each of us will be privileged to roam. There are as many tales of the Alley as there are of old Ammo Chiefs. The stories are rich with the smell of gunpowder and campfires and flavored with a taste of jungle juice.
Imagine, if you will, a starry night in southwestern Kuwait just after the first Gulf War. Nestled in the shadows of the hangers is a line of loaded trailers staged for the night. As the campfires dim and the flasks of rum and lemon empty, the conversation turns to life in the hereafter. A rugged, old Ammo Chief making his rounds is surprised to learn that all present have not heard of the special destiny of departed Ammo Troops. As the young Ammo pups listen intently, he shares with them the legend of Ammo Alley.
It is generally conceded, he explains, that the souls of the departed eventually end up in heaven or hell. Heaven lies about six miles down the dusty road to eternity, and Ammo Troops get there by turning left at the first crossroad. From this same junction, hell is about eight or nine miles straight ahead. The road’s easy to identify, it’s the one paved with good intentions. A little way down the road to hell, there is a sign pointing to a trail that runs off to the right of the main road. It reads Ammo Alley, Ammo Troops Only.
When Ammo Troops die, their souls are assembled in the munitions storage area where they are turned in to Munitions Supply (FK) to be accounted for. As precious as a silver bullet some are then reissued as new ammo troops at tech school. Others linger in storage igloos until eventually they are told to load their belongings on to a trailer and point their Bob Tail down that long road to eternity and move out at the respected speed of 25mph.
Like most crusty old airmen, they face the call to eternal damnation and pass by the turnoff to heaven. But unlike the others, Ammo Troops are met by a road guard at the next turnoff, the one and only road to Ammo Alley.
The road to hell, which lies beyond, is crowded with Load Toads, Security Police, Red Horse and other maintenance types from all AFSC’s, not to mention the droves of soldiers, sailors and Marines (of course non-Ammo types). But at this point, Ammo Troops bid farewell to their old comrades and those of other branches and services, and wheel their tractors down the trail to the Alley.
The Alley nestles in a large valley spotted with trees and crossed with many cool streams. One can see many earth covered igloos, revetments and several large magazines in the center. Laughter can be heard from afar. At the entrance are several long convoy lines waiting to enter and be unloaded. Those trucks will wait forever as there will be no Frag built tonight.
There is a representative of the MAJCOM Ammo Chiefs on hand to scan the rolls of orders and to attest to the fact that all who are seeking entrance are true Ammo Troops and have attained at least a 3-level. Once certified true Ammo Troops they are met with open arms and immediately given a generous bowl of that immortal nectar jungle juice.
Ammo Alley is a unique place. It is believed to be the only heaven claimed by a professional group as exclusively its own. (Even the Security Police, who didn’t choose Ammo for a career can only claim to guard the gates of someone else’s heaven.)
The Alley is a gathering place of rugged professional airmen. Their claim to fame is that they served their squadrons well and each other selflessly while on earth. The souls of all departed Ammo Troops are camped here, gathered in comradeship. In the center of their countless tents and campfires is an old BX package store where liquor and beer is free.
There are NCO Clubs with dance halls and live music. Credit is good; no questions asked, no club cards needed. There is always a glass, a friend and a song. At any hour of the day or night, one can hear old NCO’s singing Ammo Road and everyone yelling IYAAYAS. Duty consists of full-time R&R. There isn’t even a standby roster. Everything is strictly non-regulation. The chow is plentiful and good, and there is no waiting in line. The main pastimes are dancing, drinking and singing all day, dancing, drinking and singing all night. The Alley flows with beer, rum, whiskey and pleasures known only to a few on earth. The Chiefs, NCOs, and Crew Daddys down through the last ammo pup, all are here. Many are even reunited with sweethearts of their youth.
Periodically, an Ammo Troop feels a compulsion to continue down the road to hell. He bids farewell to his comrades, ties down his gear, fills his canteen, makes adjustments to the placards on his tractor and departs for the main road, turning south toward hell. He was not forced to leave the Alley, but felt he must of his own accord and guilt. But don’t despair! Not a single Ammo Troop has ever made it all the way to hell. His canteen of jungle juice would be emptied long before he made it, and he’d return to the Alley for a refill never again to leave.
The legend of Ammo Alley has been aptly summarized in a brief poem:
Halfway down the trail to hell,
In a shady meandering lane,
Are the souls of many Ammo Troops
Camped in a beautiful valley.
And this eternal resting place
Is known as Ammo Alley.
Though others must go down the trail
To seek a warmer scene,
No Ammo Troop ever goes to hell,
Ere he’s emptied his canteen.
And so returns to drink again,
With friends who never tell.
The campfires die out, and the troops doze off to sleep, knowing Ammo Alley awaits them and all their bomb building brethren in the life hereafter.
This, then, is the story of Ammo Alley. There are many versions. This one is representative of them all, compiled from available written and verbal accounts. Of course, occasionally stories circulate to the effect that the Alley is shared with Weapons Loaders, Security Police, etc. Don’t you believe it! Only the NCO’s and airmen of the noblest arm, the Ammo Flight, could continue to enjoy the comradeship and spirit of their most honored and traditional branch after death. Just as in life, where not all are privileged to be Ammo, so too, after death may only these privileged few enjoy the rewards of a special heaven that is uniquely their own.
So fellow BB Stackers, as we march and begin our road into the 242nd year of service to our nation, we can proceed with confidence. Protected by Saint Barbara, we need fear nothing. And even if we should collide with the rocks of temptation or bog down in the quagmire of sin, remember: your comrades will be waiting by the campfire in a peaceful meadow in the middle of Ammo Alley.
One thought on “AMMO Alley”
George A Palmer says:
I am an old Ammo troop. 1964- 1985 served 3 tours in Vietnam (Danang, PhuCat and Thailand (Korat) Also served 9 years in korea (Osan, Kunsan and Taegu) with TDYs at Guam and Okinawa. Plus a year at Yokota Japan. Retired in 1985 at George AFB Calif. Currently living in El Paso Texas
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Tags: DC, DC Comics, DCU, entertainment, Hugh Jackman, Logan, marvel, marvel comics, marvel studios, MCU, media, movies, X Men, xmen
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For as much money as the X Men movie franchise has netted over the last two decades, one would think they would have a better reputation and wouldn’t be in need of saving. But that is exactly where the franchise found itself heading into Logan this past spring.
Logan recently had its home release, coming out on Blu Ray, digital download, etc. I saw it in the theater and absolutely loved it from the opening blood bath, to the bloodier climax, to the era ending book end as the credits rolled.
The movie got lots of press and lots of positive reviews that were both well-earned in my opinion. One thing that I didn’t see get much coverage was the fact that the movie was not a take on the Old Man Logan graphic novel but was rather a classic “What If” or alternate version/universe comic book. My personal favorite series of alternate universe comic books were the Marvel vs DC crossover comics from the mid 90s.
Logan was a critical and commercial smash hit. Something the X Men franchise desperately needed. One has to wonder if the movie’s success will bring about more alternate universe comic book movies going forward. What other franchise(s) could benefit from abandoning their current story arc/ timeline and making a stand a lone film with the same characters but in a completely different story arc?
Doing this would immediately eliminate the need to constantly remake origin story movies as has been seen ad nauseum in the Superman, Spiderman, Batman, and X Men movie franchises. That alone makes this concept worth moving forward on. It would certainly draw in more fans that are often scarred away from seeing comic book movies over the dread of having to sit through yet another origin story.
Alternate universe films would spice things up and could resurrect dead franchises. The Fantastic Four immediately comes to mind. Why not just abandon another reboot and just make a film where they are in space dealing with Galactus? A dormant franchise like Blade could benefit from this as well. Whether Wesley Snipes returns or the role is recast, forget retelling the birth of Blade, just drop the audience into Blade doing work. Put the origin story in the trailer or as a mini film on YouTube and let the movie be balls to the wall from open to close.
More comic book movies can be made using alternate universes, just like is done with comic books. How many timeline versions of Batman, Captain America, The Avengers, and Green Lantern are currently in circulation? Alternate universes would allow stand alone Iron Man, Cyborg, Hulk, Green Lantern, X Men, etc movies to be made while Avengers and Justice League movies are being made. Why does only one actor/actress have to play Tony Stark or Diana Prince?
Would this over saturate the market? I ask you, how many comic book movies actually come out each year? Compared to horror movies, rom coms, and CGI animated kids movies?
Fox has essentially started moving forward on this concept over the past three years. Days of Futures Past and Old Man Logan are two of the better alternate universe comic book series’ in history. Marvel is balancing standalone franchises with each individual member of The Avengers between each super film. Tying the individual films into the overall Marvel Cinematic Universe story arc is both an entertaining and financially successful archetype.
With the financial backing of Disney, and such a vast amount of profit earned, Marvel can financially and creatively afford to take the risk of releasing alternate universe movies concurrently. DC might have to wait a few years to reestablish their credibility with the movie going public. Though the wild success of Wonder Woman might allow them to start earlier if they want.
Something tells me this is inevitable with the way the entertainment/ media industry is evolving. Netflix and The CW having their own comic book worlds of secondary characters is likely just a long-term test for the A listers to have; high budget super hero, slow burn narrative, action adventure, television shows in the spirit of Game of Thrones.
The tipping/saturation point for comic book movies and tv shows has not come close to being reached. The numbers don’t lie. People wont go see any comic book movie if it is poorly made and receives more reviews. However, one need only look at the highest grossing movies for each year over the past decade to see that there is a vast, loyal, paying audience for comic book movies. Having comic book characters played by different actors and actresses in alternate universes, made and released concurrently is the next logical step for the genre.
#EverySimpsonsEver Showed Me the Show’s Second Golden Age
Posted: September 2, 2014 in Meat Me @ Camera 4
Tags: adult cartoon, animation, binge watching, cartoon, entertainment, FOX, fx, fxx, marathon, simpsons, sitcom, television, The Simpsons, the simpsons movie, tv
552 episodes spread out over 25 years is an achievement almost beyond description in the entertainment world/business. The Simpsons can claim to be the greatest cartoon and greatest sitcom of all time. I grew up in an era and media market where the show had syndicated reruns airing two to three times a day, five days a week. I can quote more episodes, word for word, than any human being should.
The show’s universally agreed upon “prime” is between 1993 and 1998. Those are the years when every episode of every season was a home run let alone a hit. Starting in 1999 the show, in my opinion became more hit than miss. The rise of South Park and Family Guy, along with stagnation saw the consistency steadily decline during the first half of the 00s.
The Simpsons Movie came out in 2007 and was an adult, comedy, cartoon tour de force. It was everytIhing a fan of the franchise could have wanted or hoped for from a movie that at the time was 20 years in the making. I was told that the seasons that aired after the movie were akin to the show’s prime years from those I knew who never stopped watching the show during its lean years.
The Every Simpsons Ever marathon on FXX was an opportunity to rediscover classics of the golden years and discover new classics of recent years. 552 episodes airing 24 hours a day for 12 consecutive days, what a concept. The marathon was used to promote the upstart FXX network itself, the FXNow streaming content app, the new season of The Simpsons, and The Simpsons-Family Guy crossover episodes that both debut at the end of the month.
I partook in some binge watching during the marathon. The highlights for me where;
Getting to see my two favorite episodes of all time
Tree House of Horror V (Season 6, Episode 6)
You Only Move Twice (Season 8, Episode 2)
Discovering the show’s second golden age
The seasons that have come after the movie, especially season’s 19 and 20, contained a quantity of quality episodes that stand up to the show’s prime in the mid 1990s. After losing its way from 1999-2005, the show truly found its mojo again. Some of the things the show changed after the movie came out are;
Improving the animation
Embellishing the opening and closing credits
Recalibrating the levels of pop culture vs political parody/satire
Spotlighting and increasing the relevance of all secondary characters
I am still surprised as I type, just how great the show became again. If you were a fan of the show for any stretch of time, the recent seasons are worth going out of your way to see. Considering FXX will be airing the show five days a week, with a four-hour block on Sundays, it won’t be the toughest task in the world to do.
The Simpsons is at it’s best when it hits the full range of emotions in a given episode. The show in its prime years of the 90s knew what buttons to press with which characters to make their audience laugh, cry, get happy, and/or upset. They truly found that stride again in the five seasons since the movie came out in 2007. Truly a second golden age as there were not just a couple, but rather a couple of dozen episodes that stand up to the best of the best from the mid 90s.
My only complaint is that the marathon aired during the last week of summer rather than in the middle of winter. I’m sure myself and the millions of others who partook in the marathon of marathons would have preferred seeing snow and ice outside as opposed to sunny skies and mid 70s.
#GuardiansoftheGalaxy Keeps #Marvel Moving Forward
Posted: August 11, 2014 in Meat Me @ Camera 4
Tags: anarchyjc, anarchyroll, comic book movies, comic books, comics, disney, entertainment, film, guardians of the galaxy, howard the duck, marvel, marvel studios, movie, review
Holy Howard the Duck was Guardians of Galaxy a good comic book movie!
The first time I heard of Guardians of the Galaxy was when the trailer debuted online earlier this year.
This film is yet another example that Marvel Studios does way more right than wrong and that all Marvel intellectual properties should be developed for the silver screen by Marvel and NOT third-party like Sony (Spiderman) or 2oth Century Fox (X-Men).
I saw the movie with a friend who owns all but two issues of Guardians ever printed. He informed me that the film was as true to the source material as any comic book movie that has come before it. That is another reason why Marvel Studios needs to make all Marvel movies. It is important that comic book movies be very close to their source material, more so than novels. Why?
My friend @TheFantom says it all the time and it’s truer each time I hear it; comic books are colorized, fully fleshed out, movie storyboards.
That doesn’t mean each comic book movie needs to be a shot for shot live action version of a comic. Hollywood needs to be able to do its thing and take creative license with the source material. But maybe let’s have one comic book movie that is a live action storyboard and see how it does in the theaters. It can’t do any worse than Ryan Reynolds’ Green Lantern disaster.
Guardians of the Galaxy is the opposite of disappointing. It was everything I want out of a summer blockbuster movie in general, and out of a comic book movie specifically. It had awesome action, great comedy, and intense drama all in the right places of a film that was neither too short or too long.
The opening scene of the movie is intense human drama, the very next scene is a comedic, musical, action scene. That sentence basically sums up Guardians of the Galaxy. The film does a good job at touching upon the full range of human emotions. I think that many women who don’t like comic book movies or big budget action movies would like this film for that very reason; the full range of emotions get their buttons pressed.
So whether you’re a casual movie fan or the human version of Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons, Guardians of the Galaxy will find a way to suck you into the screen and entertain you, regardless of whether you paid the extra fee for 3D. And these days, at these prices, that is all I ask of a movie.
#AmericanHustle & #MonumentsMen #Movie #Reviews
Posted: February 12, 2014 in Meat Me @ Camera 4
Tags: american cinema, blog, blogging, cinema, culture and entertainment, entertainment, film, hollywood, Monuments Men, movie, movie review, movies
I have been thinking about a culture and entertainment blog. I don’t have a logo for it yet, though I do have a name. In the past, not having a logo led to me not writing/blogging which was a mistake. I am trying to not repeat the same mistakes over and over. So, since I have seen two movies in a movie theater two weeks in a row for the first time in around two years, and enjoyed both of them, I feel a blog about them is warranted. Let’s go!
American Hustle (click images to view trailers) has gotten a great deal of praise and Oscar buzz. I found many similarities between this movie and The Monuments Men. Both are based on true stories. Both have all star casts. Both are classic Hollywood cinema pieces. The Monuments Men however has been getting shit on by critics where as American Hustle is all roses.
I enjoyed both movies equally. I was more emotionally moved by The Monuments Men, probably more entertained by American Hustle. As someone who has formally studied film, I just don’t see why one is considered an Oscar front runner and the other is a one or two star POS. Both films are formulaic. Both stand on the shoulders of genre pieces that have come before them and do nothing to reinvent the wheel. Both are almost exclusively dialog based. Both have happy endings. Both are well acted, well produced, and have quality musical scores.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and personal opinion is not to be confused with law of the land. When it comes to pop culture, even very smart, educated, sophisticated people become immature, ignorant, thick headed bitches. This principle is clearly at play here. I enjoyed both movies. Are either the best film made in 2013-2014? Maybe, depends what your fancy is. I have an equal bias between Bill Murray and Bradley Cooper, they’re both on my hero wall. Perhaps the acting in American Hustle is more intense in one on one scenes, but the ensemble piece paradigm is executed very well in Monuments Men.
I personally enjoyed a WWII movie that was low on nausea induced action scenes. I also enjoyed a movie about New York in the 70s that didn’t involve physical mountains of cocaine and heroin being ingested by the main characters. I enjoyed the historical significance of both of the real people/situations each movie is based on. Both are fresh but familiar, a unique spin on classic American movie formulas. Both are worth a watch, neither is worthy of being confused for the messiah of film and neither tries to be that despite what the lovers and haters of each might have you believe.
Neither depends on the theatre experience so enjoy them on a night in when they get to Netflix. I give them both three stars and recommend the critics of each chill the fuck out. They’re movies, not economic inequality, war, or famine. If you have the luxury of being able to go through the processes of watching a movie, be happy, and enjoy either or both of these quality flicks.
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5 Alabama Rig Tips to Put More Fish in the Boat with Tyler Anderson
March 2, 2019 /0 Comments/in Bass, Featured /by Tyler Anderson
Tyler Anderson can attest to the effectiveness of the umbrella rig, especially in the winter months. During the winter months, the bass fishing can be slow and daunting, but an Alabama Rig can change that feeling entirely. So, without further delay, here are 5 Alabama Rig tips from Tyler to help you up your umbrella rig game.
Alabama Rig Tips #1: Use it as a Search Bait
In the wintertime, bass often feed and suspend at various depths. The umbrella rig gives an angler the ability to fish various depths of the water column better than other baits built to fish one particular depth.
“In the wintertime, I know fish are feeding on bait fish. But if I were to throw a crankbait, I’d be tied to that particular depth of water. The umbrella rig allows me to cover a lot of water columns and a lot of water quickly. It’s an excellent search bait to figure out what depth of water the fish are in. Once I get bit, I can throw a hair jig, a crankbait or a lipless to catch more of them but the umbrella rig just allows me to find them a lot faster.”
Alabama Rig Tips #2: Counting it Down
“To target fish at various depths with an umbrella rig, I count the rig down”
If you see fish on your electronics at a certain depth below the boat, you can ‘count’ your umbrella rig down to that depth by throwing it out and letting it sink before you start your retrieve. The rate of fall (ROF) depends on a number of variables including weight of the overall rig, slackness of the line, type and pound-test of the line, resistance of the baits and blades, etc.
A good rule of thumb is 1-foot per second. So if you see fish in an area that are suspended 12-feet below the surface, cast the rig out and count it down 12 seconds. One thing Tyler notes,
“A bass’s eyes are on the top of its head, so they feed up.”
So, when you’re counting a bait down and are unsure of the exact ROF, it’s better to come over the fish than under them.
Alabama Rig Tips #3: Braid Versus Fluorocarbon
There’s a fair amount of debate on whether fluorocarbon is necessary for stealth when throwing an umbrella rig. The initial assessment of the gaudiness of an umbrella rig with its metal wires, swivels, and other accoutrement leads one to believe the fish won’t notice a little braid. But with more and more emphasis on blades to mask the metal arms and even some companies testing out clear arms in place of metal ones, who’s to say fluorocarbon couldn’t help a little in certain situations.
“I throw it on braid the majority of the time because it’s more of a reaction strike to me. But I do get more bites on 25-pound fluorocarbon if the water is gin clear. The water I usually fish in Texas just doesn’t get too clear very often. However, I could see using fluorocarbon more if I fished in a gin clear water more often. ”
Alabama Rig Tips #4: Customize Your Alabama Rig
There’s not really a standard umbrella rig anymore. In the beginning, the actual Alabama Rig had 5 wires, each of which an angler would attach a jig head to and a swimbait would be placed on each jig head. That could still be viewed somewhat as the basic setup. But now, you can find an umbrella rig to meet any rule requirement or desire you have. There are rigs with blades, rigs without blades, rigs with over a dozen baits, rigs with dummy baits with no hooks and the list goes on.
Each angler can build their own go-to rig and develop a little extra confidence knowing that his or her setup isn’t exactly like all the rest.
“I use a YUMbrella Flash Mob Jr with 1/16-ounce jig heads. But if I’m in a tournament situation, especially for the FLW, I can only have 3 hooks. But I still want 5 baits on there, so two of them have to be dummies. I’ll put two swimbaits on the top two wires with screw locks. The middle wire and the bottom two wires will have the jig heads on them and that makes it come through the water better with the weight on the bottom of the rig.”
Tyler also likes to customize his umbrella rig by altering the middle swimbait. He’ll either use the same size bait in a different color or use a little bigger bait on the middle wire.
“I have found that, especially when I do just a slightly different color, the middle one is usually the one that gets bit.”
Tyler also changes the colors of all the swimbaits defending on the water clarity. In clearer water, the more natural color baits work well. The more stained, the more he leans towards chartreuse and white.
Alabama Rig Tips #5: What to Throw Your Alabama Rig On
“I tend to throw it on a fairly long, stiff rod. I have found that as long I don’t slam into them, I can get a much longer cast with a 7-11 than I can with a little shorter rod. And it also puts a lot less strain on my wrist when I’m casting. I could probably make more accurate casts with a shorter rod but when I’m throwing an umbrella rig I’m just paralleling bank.”
You also need a heavy duty reel when lobbing an umbrella rig.
Tyler stresses the importance for the reel to be made out of strong, metal parts and not plastic like a lot of reels are these days. He uses a Lews Pro Ti which is made out of titanium. The rod he uses is a Lews Custom Plus 7-11.
See more winter Alabama Rig tips from Tyler Anderson here:
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Sam Rayburn Bass Fishing – Keys to Finding Success with Matt Becker
February 25, 2019 /0 Comments/in Bass, Featured /by Matt Becker
As we just finished up the second stop of the FLW Tour on Lake Toho in Florida, I wanted to shed some light on my 38th place finish in Texas at Lake Sam Rayburn bass fishing and how I was able to find success over a thousand miles away from home.
Throughout my years of competitive fishing, I’ve had the opportunity to travel and fish new lakes across the country which can be one of the most exciting, but challenging things about this sport – especially when you’re going up against guys like Terry Bolton and Bryan Thrift (as well as many other FLW Tour pros) who have plenty of experience on some of these lakes. Our first stop for 2019, Sam Rayburn, is a legendary fishery and somewhere that I had no experience on going into the event.
Sam Rayburn Bass Fishing – Research and Pre-Practice
One of my biggest keys to success in this event was my tournament pre-practice and research. Before I went to the lake for pre-practice, I did as much online research as possible to find productive areas and sections of the lake. This gave me a basic starting point to look at when I showed up to Rayburn and is something I do when approaching most new bodies of water.
One of the key areas I found is called the Black Forest.
This area is known, especially in the spring, for putting out big limits of bass and being a productive area of the lake. Knowing this, I was able to go into my pre-practice time with a limited section of the lake to dissect and find fish.
During the pre-practice period, I really focused on learning how to run around Sam Rayburn. Rayburn is notorious for being dangerous, especially in the Black Forest area, if you don’t know where you’re going and at normal pool, this would have been key to know when running these areas during the event. Also during my practice, I was looking for areas that could be productive during the tournament.
Knowing that I’d have 13 days off-limits after this practice, I had to keep a somewhat open mind and anticipate what fish would be doing about 2 weeks now, so I focused on finding early pre-spawn areas where fish would position and stage up outside of spawning flats.
My key area that I fished during the event was found during my pre-practice.
Sam Rayburn Bass Fishing – My Key Spot
Going into the tournament itself, I had the one spot from the Black Forest area that I found during my pre-practice. The spot I fished ended up being a very small area – a one-cast sort of deal – where the hydrilla grew up slightly higher than the grass around it.
It was a very specific cast that you had to make on that spot – if you missed 10 feet to the left or right of the hydrilla clump, you wouldn’t get the fish to bite. Every fish was sitting on the edge of this hydrilla patch waiting to ambush the bait swimming through and around the grass.
Sam Rayburn Bass Fishing – Key Baits
I relied on two baits throughout the tournament – a ¾-ounce Z-Man Jack Hammer chatterbait and an Evergreen ZE lipless crankbait, also ¾-ounce. It was important to have that heavier weight during the event because my Sam Rayburn water levels were 9 feet high.
The area that I found in practice in about 6 feet of water was now 15 feet deep, so to stay in contact with the grass, I had to use heavier baits to keep the bait lower in the water column. As you can tell from my lure selection, all of my bites were reaction bites – coming as I popped the baits free from the grass.
The key to both of these lures, regardless of the depth you’re fishing, is deflection or varying the retrieve – I’d get the bait hung briefly in the grass and then snap it free; most of my bites coming right as the bait popped free.
Sam Rayburn Bass Fishing – My Rod and Reel Setup
My overall setup (rod, reel, and line) was important for these techniques. I chose to use a Favorite Emperor Rod, 7’6” Medium Heavy Model because it handled the heavier lipless crankbait and chatterbait easily, allowing me to make really long casts, but the rod still had enough backbone to pull the fish out of the grass if they buried themselves in it after being hooked.
I paired this up with a 6.8:1 reel and 15-pound test fluorocarbon line. The 6.8:1 reel is what I prefer for reaction baits because it helps me slow down a bit when winding the bait and I chose the 15-pound test because the smaller diameter helped me keep the bait deeper.
A rule of thumb when choosing line size – lighter line, or smaller diameter line, will help you fish a bait deeper because it has less drag in the water.
Overall, I consider my first tournament of the season to be a success. Finishing in 38th place got me check in the event, but more importantly gets me some good points to start the season. After a tough Lake Toho event, I’m getting ready to find some giant Georgia bass on Lake Seminole and keep this momentum rolling forward!
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Fishing Intelligence Podcast Ep. 4 | Fishing Motivation With Eric Faucett
October 3, 2018 /in Featured, Podcasts /by Jacob Jesionek
On Episode four of the Fishing Intelligence Podcast, I’m talking with Eric Faucett of the BFLs. He is a tournament angler whom we also fished with on the ANGLR Tour. We started the podcast off by talking about how the bass fishing world has been completely shaken up. For those of you who don’t know, MLF announced it would be launching an 80 person field tournament series and people from BASS have been flocking to the new program. The MLF Bass Pro Tour has been a shakeup in the bass fishing industry!
I get Eric’s opinion on whether this change up is going to be good for the industry or not and either way we looked at it, it was only going to bring more attention to the sport and would eventually be a win win for everyone involved. There will, of course, be hurt feelings one one side more than the other but after this initial sting, all it does is open more positions for more people to complete. After talking about this change up in the sport, we shifted to talking about positivity and motivation in Bass Fishing.
Here’s a solid Lake Fork largemouth I landed during Episode 12 of the ANGLR Tour!
People sometimes will take themselves too seriously in this sport and we both thought that there was too much negativity in the sport. Eric does a lot of motivational, live and recorded talks on his facebook page and we talked about why he does these as well as how he thinks these talks help change people’s perspectives in fishing and life. We finished up by talking about stories from fishing together on the tour and me catching my first fish on a spoon on my first cast. Make sure to check out Eric’s Facebook page at Eric Faucett Fishing!
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Fishing Intelligence Podcast Ep. 2 | Kayak Bass Fishing With Cody Prather
September 18, 2018 /in Featured, Kayak, Podcasts /by Jacob Jesionek
On the second episode of Fishing Intelligence, I am talking with Cody Prather of Yak 4 It. Cody is a kayak fisherman as well as videographer and has mastered the kayak fishing in his home state of Texas. We started off by talking about his recent bass that almost went over the 10 pound mark, weighing in at 9.7 pounds! Just to make the story even better, he caught that 9.7 pounder on a topwater lure which is something that every bass fisherman dreams of.
Cody and I fished together during Episode 13 of the ANGLR Tour on Texas’s famed Sam Rayburn!
After telling me the story of this monster fish, Cody and I got into talking about some of the best gear that one can have with them while kayak fishing. We discussed all of the finer details down to line type and pound test. When you are kayak fishing, you don’t have the option to bring all of the gear you own, so it is important to work on keying into a few different setups that will allow you to throw the best variety of baits possible to get the job done.
OVER 100 KAYAK TIPS FROM THE PROS!
Another topic that we talked about was how kayak fishing forces the fisherman to learn the water better than a guy fishing out of a boat. When in a kayak, you don’t have the ability to pick up the trolling motor and run 15 miles down the lake to the next spot you think will produce. You have typically under 8 miles as a total range to really break down the area that you put in at. This causes the fisherman to hit each section of water and every possible fish holding location instead of just hitting the good looking patches and leaving. We finished up by talking some of Cody’s favorite lures and baits to use in Texas any time of the year. Thanks for listening and be sure to check out my ANGLR Tour episode with Cody!
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The Gulf of Mexico’s Fall Frenzy
September 17, 2018 /0 Comments/in Featured, Saltwater /by Derek Horner
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Episode 15 | Wade Fishing for Speckled Trout and Redfish in Galveston, TX
June 10, 2018 /0 Comments/in ANGLR, Featured, Saltwater, Tour /by Landon Bloomer
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Episode 14 | How to Catch Speckled Trout in Galveston Bay
June 8, 2018 /0 Comments/in ANGLR, Featured, Saltwater, Tour /by Landon Bloomer
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Episode 13 | Sam Rayburn Bass Fishing: Kayak Bass Fishing
June 6, 2018 /0 Comments/in ANGLR, Bass, Featured, Kayak, Tour /by Landon Bloomer
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Episode 12 | The #ANGLRTOUR Takes to Lake Fork Fishing for Bass
June 4, 2018 /0 Comments/in ANGLR, Bass, Featured, Tour /by Landon Bloomer
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Dublin is famous as a city of writers and literature, and the Dublin Writers Museum is an essential visit for anyone who wants to discover, explore, or simply enjoy Dublin’s immense literary heritage.
At the museum, Dublin’s literary celebrities from the past three hundred years are brought to life through their books, letters, portraits and personal items.
Whatever you think you know about Irish literature, you’re sure to find something to astound and delight you at the Dublin Writers Museum. Did you know, for example, that Oscar Wilde was a promising pugilist during his days at Trinity College, and that Samuel Beckett, one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, would also have made a name for himself in the TCD cricket first eleven?
The building, a restored Georgian mansion on Parnell Square, is a treasure in itself. The sumptuous plasterwork in the first floor Gallery of Writers is worth a visit alone.
More info visit: www.writersmuseum.com
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Game Time: August 31, 2018 7:00 pm
Updated: September 1, 2018 9:12 pm
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BANGOR, Maine – Wellesley College (1-0) defeated Husson University (0-1), 3-1, in what was the season opener for both programs in non-conference field hockey action on Friday night at the Dr. John W. Winkin Sports Complex.
HOW IT HAPPENED:
Sarah Timmons opened the scoring at 18:18 of the first half on an assist from Cecie Negron. Wellesley carried the 1-0 lead into the half.
Danielle Brubaker gave Wellesley a 2-0 advantage in the second half, when she beat Husson’s goalkeeper Andrea Shaggy with an unassisted goal at 46:31.
Wellesley held the 2-0 edge until Ryley Newcomb scored her first collegiate goal with 2:41 left on the clock cutting the deficit to 2-1 off an assist from Karen Stemm. However, Timmons responded just under two minutes later, stuffing home a rebound for the 3-1 victory.
THE KEEPERS:
Shaggy made four saves over 70 minutes of play while her counterpart, Wellesley’s Maggie Connelly, posted four saves in the victory.
Wellesley outshot the Eagles, 15-8, and finished with a 9-3 edge in penalty corners. The Eagles late surge helped them finish with a 5-4 advantage in shots on goal.
HISTORICALLY SPEAKING:
With the result, Husson falls to 1-4 in the history of the series with Wellesley College.
The Eagles return to action on Wednesday, September 5th, when they travel to Waterville to face Colby College in a non-conference matchup. The game will begin at 7:00 PM at Bill Alfond Field.
Richmond High School Boys Basketball 58 vs North Yarmouth Academy 49
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Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 7th October, 2013.
A quiet week on the surface but it does seem that Telstra is up to something with all these purchases recently. One has to wonder just how successful it will be and just how these various bits and pieces are to be formed into a coherent offering - or is that not the plan? Hard to know what else could make these purchases actually provide a real return on their cost.
Otherwise we find the new (now rather less new) Government is very, very, very quiet on e-Health!
http://www.centralwesterndaily.com.au/story/1810570/little-interest-in-ehealth-system/?cs=103
Little interest in eHealth system
By By CLARE COLLEY
Oct. 1, 2013, 4 a.m.
ONLY 1178 residents in Orange have signed up for the federal government’s eHealth record system giving them, their doctor, pharmacist and other healthcare providers online access to their health information, despite it being up and running for more than a year.
Since August 12, health department staff have signed up 1100 residents for the optional service at the Orange Medicare Office.
The eHealth record system was rolled out in July 2012 to allow any registered healthcare provider including general practitioners (GP), pharmacists, and allied health professionals to access a patient’s eHealth record.
As a privacy measure, it is up to the individual to choose who can access their information.
“You control what goes into it, and who is allowed to access it,” a health department spokesman said.
https://www.mja.com.au/insight/2013/37/john-wilson-digital-inevitability
John Wilson: Digital inevitability
IT is encouraging that recent research in the MJA and a subsequent news story in MJA InSight have created so much interest in the value (or otherwise) of telehealth.
What should be our priority in pursuing telemedicine — to enhance clinical care, achieve cost–benefit advantage or to meet society’s needs?
There is no doubt that digital solutions do not always have instant acceptance. One prime example is the personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR), which has been contentious more for its promise to deliver than its potential value.
Few will argue that the internet has changed "the way we live, work and play”. There is universal acceptance of digitally recorded, formatted and communicated information in all aspects of life. It is a sequitur that digital electronic health records will achieve acceptance with one format eventually emerging above others to serve medical needs.
http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2013/10/1/technology/telstra-buys-50-stake-fred-it
Telstra buys 50% stake in Fred IT
Supratim Adhikari
Telstra has further bolstered its positioning in the healthcare technology space buying a 50 per cent stake in health technology provider Fred IT Group.
Fred IT provides eHealth solutions (IT services, medical dispensing software) to GPs and pharmacists and Telstra’s Head of Health, Shane Solomon said the investment was part of Telstra’s ongoing focus on building capability in the health sector.
http://www.pharmacynews.com.au/news/latest-news/telstra-health-grabs-slice-of-fred-it
Telstra Health grabs slice of Fred IT
1 October, 2013 Chris Brooker
Telstra Health has announced it is making a “significant investment” in Fred IT Group, in a move welcomed by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia.
The telco’s health arm is “taking a 50 per cent interest in Australia’s leading provider of IT services and dispensing software to pharmacies”, according to a release.
The strategic partnership between Fred and Telstra Health reinforced Fred’s commitment to providing IT innovation and leadership for pharmacy and pharmacy customers long term, the Guild has said.
“The investment will position Fred to continue to invest strongly in e-Health and IT solutions which are vital in improving patient health and safety, creating new ways for community pharmacy to service customers and manage businesses”.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/technology/telstra-takes-stake-in-fred-it/story-e6frgakx-1226730948257
Telstra takes stake in Fred IT
Australian IT
TELSTRA has expanded its focus on the health sector by acquiring a 50 per cent stake in software firm Fred IT Group, which provides IT services and dispensing software to pharmacies.
The undisclosed investment follows Telstra's acquisition of healthcare software company DCA and investments in e-health record player IPHealth and online health appointment booking company Health Engine.
"We are excited by the opportunities this investment presents and we will work with the Fred IT Group to build on the great foundations they have established," Telstra head of health, Shane Solomon, said.
http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/strategy/61727-telstra-finalises-pharmacy-software-company-investment
Telstra finalises pharmacy software company investment
By Peter Dinham
Telstra has finalised its investment in the Fred IT Group, taking a 50% interest in Australia’s leading provider of IT services and dispensing software to pharmacies.
The investment in the Fred group follows Telstra’s acquisition of healthcare software company DCA eHealth Solutions and more recent investments in electronic health record specialist IPHealth and one of Australia’s leading online health appointment booking companies, Health Engine.
Telstra’s Head of Health, Shane Solomon said the investment was part of Telstra’s ongoing focus on building capability in the health sector.
“Community pharmacies play a vital role in providing services and advice to millions of Australians and Fred IT Group is at the leading edge of companies offering eHealth solutions to the community, GPs and pharmacists.
https://www.mja.com.au/insight/2013/37/medical-apps-health-gamble
Medical apps a health gamble
Cate Swannell
NEW guidelines from the Therapeutic Goods Administration and the US Food and Drug Administration will do little to slow the proliferation of medical smartphone applications if the “app” retailers ignore them, say concerned Australian experts.
The sale and use of apps and attachable devices for smartphones by doctors and patients is a “huge grey area” and “fraught with traps”, the AMA’s dermatology spokesman Professor Stephen Lee told MJA InSight.
The AMA is so alarmed at the explosion of medical apps, they have fast-tracked discussions on the issue in time for the November Federal Council meeting, Professor Lee, of the University of Sydney, said.
He said the use of apps, particularly by patients looking for a quick diagnosis or risk assessment, was “fraught with traps”.
http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=c0d021a9-5916-484b-a54d-a9b1d9bdd4b8
Is there a medical app for that? TGA issues guidance on medical software and apps
Corrs Chambers Westgarth
On 13 September 2013, the Therapeutic Goods Association (TGA) published guidance about Australia's regulatory arrangements for medical software and mobile medical 'apps' on its website.
The TGA first undertook to regulate medical software and apps in 2011, after the United States Food and Drug Administration released draft guidelines on the issue. This is the first time that the TGA has published formal regulatory guidance about medical software and medical apps.
WHAT MEDICAL SOFTWARE DOES THE TGA REGULATE?
Medical software is regulated by the TGA as a “medical device” under Chapter 4 of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (Cth) (the Act).
Generally, medical device software that is intended to control a device, or influence the functions of a device will fall into the same classification as that device itself.
http://ehealthspace.org/news/regulation-gaps-medical-apps-under-scrutiny
Regulation gaps for medical apps under scrutiny
Posted Tue, 01/10/2013 - 06:06 by Fran Molloy
Last week, another smartphone-enabled medical device, an asthma wheeze monitor, was launched by Australian medical technology company iSonea Limited, backed with a high-profile ad campaign featuring Australian Olympian Cathy Freeman.
The company claims the digital device is a world-first for monitoring wheeze via smartphone technology, and with an estimated 2.3 million Australians with asthma, it’s likely to be a commercial success.
The user holds the AirSonea device against their throat to record breathing sounds, which the smartphone app then transmits to a cloud-based site for analysis by proprietary wheeze detection algorithms and software – a far simpler process than the peak-flow monitors traditionally used to monitor asthma through forced breathing.
http://www.wentwest.com.au/public/ehealth_records_whats_new.asp
From September the NSW Health Clinical Portal now connects to the National eHealth Record (PCEHR)
If a patient has an eHealth Record a clinician will be able to view their information in the NSW Health Clinical Portal.
This will deliver the benefits of improving information sharing between hospitals, community health, general practitioners (GPs) and consumers – closing the loop between primary and acute patient care.
http://www.healthintersections.com.au/?p=1708
Why healthcare interoperability standards aren’t perfect
Posted on October 2, 2013 by Grahame Grieve
Referring to HL7 and other SDO’s, Tim Cook writes:
“Such consensus groups gather political power from their expertise on healthcare IT standards, but they are seldom aware of all the problems real software companies dealing with real customers are facing. After many months or years, and hundreds or millions of dollars or euros spent, this little group of experts define a data model, a message or a schema, and they want to enforce it on everybody. Your customer gets frustrated, because that seldom matches the way clinical practictioners want their data collected, because the conventional top-down standards are much more concerned about the information needs of central governments or large medical hardware corporations than with the routine clinical documentation, which is the essence of medical decision making that really impacts on patient outcomes.”
This is both true and false. I can’t decide which it’s more of. I’ll confine my comments to HL7, which is where I can speak with some knowledge.
http://www.intersystems.com/press/2013/RioGrandedoSul_print.html
InterSystems Forms Connected Healthcare Partnership with State Government of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil
Electronic Health Record Initiative Covers Municipalities in the 6th Regional Healthcare District of Passo Fundo and Will Benefit Thousands of People by the End of 2014
SYDNEY, Aust. -- September 24, 2013 -- After implementing a project for public healthcare informatics for the Government of the Federal District, which has become a model in Brazil and other countries, InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected care, has extended its Brazilian government relationships with a new implementation of InterSystems TrakCare® , an Internet-based unified healthcare information system, for an electronic health record system for the State Government of Rio Grande do Sul.
Called SIGS (Sistema Integrado de Gestão em Saúde), the implementation covers municipalities in the 6th Regional Healthcare District of Passo Fundo. By providing the municipalities with a complete information technology infrastructure, including world-class software systems and a new data centre, the Government of Rio Grande do Sul plans to modernise the public healthcare network to improve services to the community. The new infrastructure provides access to clinical information stored in TrakCare via a cloud computing platform, allowing healthcare teams including physicians, community health workers, nurses and dentists to share information such as a patient’s medications.
http://www.zdnet.com/why-big-data-has-so-far-failed-medicine-7000021581/
Why big data has so far failed medicine
Summary: How will machine learning help healthcare? Hint: It's not through electronic medical records.
By Audrey Quinn | October 4, 2013 -- 14:55 GMT (00:55 AEST)
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY – Can big data improve human decision-making? That was the question that MIT's Irving Wladawsky-Berger put to a panel of IBM clients at the company's research colloquium on cognitive computing Wednesday. The meat of his discussion focused on Douglas Johnston, a surgeon with the Cleveland Clinic. We'll share their interchange here.
“I think that what's happening now with data science,” said Wladawsky-Berger, “is we can now turn these microscopes on ourselves, systems where the critical components are people, communities, and organizations, and get a level of understanding we didn't have before.”
“In healthcare in general we’ve been applying data science poorly,” admitted Johnston. “We have a medical literature that is contradictory, and we are relying on 100 year old transcription technology for our records. We still have to dig through those records to get the data. I see the results are failing because it's garbage in and garbage out.”
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/disadvantaged-and-disconnected-in-a-digital-divide-20130930-2uoox.html
Disadvantaged and disconnected in a digital divide
Daniella Miletic
Michael Dalli's old black Nokia mobile is ringing, so the 42-year-old excuses himself to answer it. Softly spoken, the wheelchair-bound father of one politely tells the caller he is busy and to ring back in half an hour. Then he apologises for taking the call. ''It's a pre-paid phone and I try not to exceed $50 a year,'' he explains.
To avoid using his credit, he always answers his mobile. He has no voicemail, does not text and saves calls ''just for emergencies''. In the age of smartphones, he also does not have mobile access to the internet. More pressingly, there is no internet connection in his Sunshine West home - he can't afford it.
''It's almost like I have a double disability,'' he said. ''I have multiple sclerosis, I'm confined to a wheelchair, but I feel like my other senses are also being denied because I don't have access to the internet.''
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/strap-on-your-computer-wearable-technology-is-taking-off-20131002-2uqoz.html
Strap on your computer, wearable technology is taking off
Martha Mendoza
The digital domain is creeping off our desktops and onto our bodies, from music players that match your tunes to your heart beat, to mood sweaters that change colour depending on your emotional state – blue for calm, red for angry.
There are vacuum shoes that clean the floor while you walk and fitness bracelets, anklets and necklaces to track your calorie burning.
We're talking about paradigm changing devices, capabilities that people haven't thought of before.
"Everyone agrees the race is just beginning, and I think we're going to see some very, very big leaps in just the next year," said tech entrepreneur Manish Chandra at a wearable technology conference and fashion show in San Francisco Monday that was buzzing with hundreds of developers, engineers and designers.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/528262/adobe_hit_cyber_attack/?fp=16&fpid=1
Adobe hit with cyber attack
Software company says 2.9 million customer details accessed
Hamish Barwick (Computerworld)
Cyber criminals have accessed information about 2.9 million Adobe customers including names, encrypted credit card numbers and expiration dates. The attackers also took customer IDs and encrypted passwords.
According to Adobe CSO Brad Arkin, the cyber criminals did not remove decrypted credit or debit card numbers from its systems.
“We deeply regret that this incident occurred and we’re working with law enforcement to address the incident,” he wrote in a blog post.
The company is resetting customer passwords to prevent unauthorised access to Adobe ID accounts.
Posted by Dr David G More MB PhD at Monday, October 07, 2013
Telstra! Paid a lot of money to buy a large use base scattered over a variety of software applications. So?
Will Telstra try to make them all interoperable, merge them all into one product set, leave them alone and supply more working capex to do what they have always done? The only change so far is that they have a new owner.
With many vendors close to collapse after 7 painful wasted years thanks to NEHTA its not surprising to see them selling out to Telstra. Plenty of others would do the same if it came knocking on their door.
"With many vendors close to collapse after 7 painful wasted years thanks to NEHTA"
How do you see NEHTA/DOHA contributed to this situation?
What did you see them do to cause this?
Anonymous 10/09/2013 01:19:00 PM
Only one possible excuse for the blatant ignorance demonstrated by your questions:
1) This is your very first visit to this BLOG and your very first post ever
Otherwise, spend some time perusing the vast assembled history contained within this BLOG and you will have answers to your very important questions over the past seven years available to you in spades...
It's all present and accounted for here and only requires the slightest bit of motivation and navigation to resolve your admirable curiosity around the ineptitude, incompetence and unconscionable waste of taxpayers' funds exhibited by both DOHA and NEHTA!
All Telstra wants is to own the network and carry the traffic and clip the ticket at each railway station along the route. Obviously it thinks its acquisitions will help it achieve that by making it more attractive to the software end users to utilize Telstra's network through enticement with a special health industry pricing structure designed to lock out its competitors such is the disruptive power of the internet.
Trevor3130 said...
Anyone know anything about Shane Solomon's (who is inextricably linked to Vic's HealthSMART) role at Telstra? Did he really do something useful in Hong Kong that can be transposed to Oz?
I'm still reeling from
"Most health systems of even a modest size have unique transaction-based information systems (IS) that number nearly 100 strong; in academic medical centers, the number often is 400 or more unique ISs."
at http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/experts-offer-health-it-help-new-book
Can Shane be the voice of authority that says "Cease & desist from making more idiosyncratic, hand-crafted MS-Access databases!"?
I'm mystified by you 'innuendon'. What has Hong Kong got to do with what Telstra is doing?
Because the dots aren't too far removed:
http://au.linkedin.com/pub/shane-solomon/37/a74/240
Chief Executive Hong Kong Hospital Authority
February 2006 – October 2010 (4 years 9 months) Hong Kong
Head of Health Telstra Public Company; 10,001+ employees; TLS; Telecommunications industry
April 2013 – Present (7 months)
So what do the dots tell you? Senior Hospital Executive Vic and Hong Kong. Nothing problematic there is there? Or are you concerned about the KPMG experience? All that says to me is that if he needs some consultant grunt he will feed his mates at KPMG. Does that worry you?
"Senior Hospital Executive Vic and Hong Kong. Nothing problematic there is there?"
Can't speak for Hong Kong but the performance of HealthSmart within VIC speaks volumes for itself, and in case you need anymore clarification, what it has said and what the formal inquiries have found is not a good track record of success.
KPMG doesn't worry me in the slightest.
So back to the original question, "Did he really do something useful in Hong Kong that can be transposed to Oz?"
The original question still stands unanswered but your question "What has Hong Kong got to do with what Telstra is doing?" is surely well and truly answered, and if you're still left wondering, the connected dots have Shane Solomon as the lowest common denominator.
Time will tell if Telstra's Health line of business performs and achieves any meaningful results in the healthcare market with Shane Solomon at the helm, regardless of the potential sketchy track record in his wake.
Sure, Shane owned the strategies under which HealthSmart was established. But he went to Hong Kong leaving the implementation of the strategy to others. If the one size fits all strategy was wrong he carries that responsibility but surely you can't hold him responsible for incompetent implementation if he was in HK - can you?.
Are you suggesting that because he is at the help he is running the businesses Telstra has acquired. Surely the managers of those businesses have transferred to Telstra and they are still running them albeit presumably reporting to Shane. Do you have a problem with that?
Despite the problems that seem to be created and imagined other than those otherwise stated, only time will be the true arbiter and objective assessor of Telstra's performance in the Healthcare market with or without Shane Solomon at the helm of the Health line of business.
To reiterate the original and very valid question:
"Did he really do something useful in Hong Kong that can be transposed to Oz?"
Anything to offer in response to this question?
Surely there is no suggestion that anything he did in Hong Kong will be transposed to to Oz. Is there?
Possibly - he's very proud of the Hong Kong system he prevailed over - it works well.
eHealth and connected care in Hong Kong Pulse+IT 11 April 2012
The clinical system (CMS) has largely been designed, developed and implemented in-house at relatively modest cost by international standards. HKHA retains a high degree of expertise in clinical IT, and is currently developing the third generation of the CMS.
Clinical IT outside the public hospital sector, however, is still quite limited.
Development of electronic health record sharing across the entire health sector was one of five streams of healthcare reform proposed by the Hong Kong Government in 2008.
Realisation of this vision commenced with the Public-Private Interface – Electronic Patient Record Sharing Pilot Project (PPI-ePR), which allows authorised healthcare practitioners to access HKHA’s patients’ records with the patients’ consent.
I am not sure why no one has mentioned the late Andre Greyling who was the HKHA CIO from 2002 to 2012.
I suspect he had something to do with the success.
http://cw.com.hk/news/sudden-loss-hospital-authority-cio-mourned-industry
Paul Fitzgerald said...
David, you are correct...Andre was very much part of that success, which was also strongly driven by Dr NT Cheung who is new CIO, having been CMIO for many years. When I was trying to sell Cerner to HKHA a number of years ago, CMS was functionally not as rich, but it was universally used, and was probably the most used (clinically) system in the world at the time. The big difference, I think, is that clinicians were told, "this is how we work here...if you want to work here,you use this system." No opting out for clinicians at all. My understanding is that Shane Solomon was well regarded during his time in HKG. Can't quite see the why all the angst over Telstra buying up some companies. They have been trying to work out for years how to "play" in healthcare. Hopefully they will be more successful than some other big names who have tried and exited Healthcare over the years.
They have been trying to work out for years how to "play" in healthcare. Hopefully they will be more successful than some other big names who have tried and exited
Plenty have come and gone. Telstra has every right to have a go, it is the nation's leading telco.
Let's hope its bureaucratic culture and modus operandi doesn't destroy the companies it has acquired. But even if that does happen new players will come along to fill the holes.
10/14/2013 09:33:00 AM said Telstra has been trying to work out for years how to "play" in healthcare. Let's hope its bureaucratic culture and modus operandi doesn't destroy the companies it has acquired.
In the 2 December story in Pulse+IT Telstra’s Shane Solomon said “While we want to make the connections between these different things – applications, devices, solutions, whatever – we want to keep the entrepreneurship that is in those companies.”
Is it possible to take over control and ownership of a small ehealth company and preserve the entrepreneurship that existed before the takeover?
No. Big corporate cultures smother entrepreneurship; they move too slowly, they are too risk averse, they don't have the passion and fervor. The big mistake Telstra has made is to acquire and takeover reflecting voracious egos.
Now it will probably try to take on lots of people from NEHTA!
The essence of the entrepreneurs drive comes from deep within, an unquestionable belief in oneself to accept the challenge and rise to the top - to solve a complex problem, to build a successful business, to be totally in charge, and to exit the business at the right time with a fistful of dollars leaving it all behind.
I wonder how many people that participate to this blog, have actually scoped, standardised, designed, developed, tested and delivered a solution of any type from scratch?
Me think ... not many...
Knowing the readership better than you can I say that at least some who read here have done it all many times over.
Be careful who you think you are smarter than!
"I wonder how many people that participate to this blog, have actually scoped, standardised, designed, developed, tested and delivered a solution of any type from scratch?"
For any one person to do all that, on their own, the solution would need to be quite small. The relevance of that experience to a large, national system is somewhat tenuous.
However, it is quite likely that more than a few (and I count myself in that group) would have been involved in project teams throughout the whole life cycle from inception to implementation.
Certainly we can say with absolute authority that no one from NEHTA has or is ever likely to under NEHTA management.
People in the private sector have done exactly that, despite NEHTA trying to block them.
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Exclusive: Airbus Preparing To Launch A350-1000ULR
Posted on August 13, 2019 by Alex Macheras
As many of the world’s airlines begin to reap the financial, and environmental rewards of introducing lighter, more fuel-efficient aircraft made up of carbon-fibre composites, such as the Airbus A350 XWB — a relatively low oil price and continuing strong demand from international passengers is helping drive the growth of ultra-long-haul flying.
Airbus, the European manufacturer of the existing A350-900ULR, a variant of flagship A350 XWB that already caters to the ultra-long-haul market, is in final talks with multiple airline customers ahead of a formal launch of the A350-1000ULR, an ultra-long-range variant of the largest member of the A350 XWB family, Aviation Analyst can exclusively reveal.
Airbus’ commitment to building an ultra-long-range ‘family’ follows extensive talks with a variety of airline customers, many of whom have shown interest in potentially ordering, or converting existing A350 orders to an A350-1000ULR that will be able to fly further, and heavier than the existing A350-900ULR — with, crucially: more passengers. The A350-1000ULR will also take on Boeing’s 777X, and Airbus intend to have the aircraft available to airline customers before the 777X is able to gain a significant hold of the extreme end of the long-haul market.
Alan Joyce, the Qantas CEO, put Airbus and Boeing to the test by asking the two manufacturers to develop an aircraft capable of flying for 21-hours, such as between London and Sydney. The Australian flag carrier is considering both the Airbus A350-1000ULR (Ultra Long Range) and the Boeing 777-8, and the decision will be announced in quarter-four of 2019, Joyce recently confirmed. Qantas has already eliminated the prospect of ordering the existing A350-900ULR, citing lower passenger capacity.
Singapore Airlines was the launch customer of the A350-900ULR, which is capable of flying up to 9,700 nautical miles, or around 20 hours non-stop, depending on the onboard seating capacity.
Singapore Airlines operates the aircraft on the world’s longest flights, including between Singapore and New York, which covers a distance of over 8,000nm over the course of approximately 18 hours of flying time. However, the aircraft is configured in a two-class layout, with 67 Business Class seats and 94 Premium Economy seats, — leaving Singapore Airlines vulnerable to the break-even complexities an all-premium flight can present to an airline.
The existing A350-900ULR doesn’t require any additional fuel tanks over the standard A350-900 and instead uses technology to tap into additional space already available in the existing tanks to carry an extra 6,340 gallons of fuel. For the A350-1000ULR, in addition to carrying the extra fuel, increased maximum take-off weight and increased payload capabilities (in order to reduce having to establish costly payload restrictions on routes with proven strong demand such as the ‘Kangaroo route’ to Australia) are crucial.
While Qantas will benefit from a jet the airline can deploy on an ultra-long-haul route, an A350-1000ULR will also equip current A380 operator airlines with an Airbus jet that can go on to replace the superjumbo on high-demand, long-haul routes. Earlier this year, in a conversation with GCEO of Qatar Airways, H.E Mr Akbar Al Baker, Al Baker exclusively told Aviation Analyst: “Airbus has told us that from next year [2020] they will increase the maximum take-off weight of the A350-1000.”
He added, “Once Airbus extends the maximum take-off weight of the A350-1000, this jet will be able to do, with lesser capacity, the same routes as the 777X, including to Australia.” The Qatari carrier will begin phasing out the A380 jets from 2024, Al Baker first revealed to Aviation Analyst.
Just four airlines have taken delivery of the A350-1000 XWB so far: Qatar Airways, Cathay Pacific, British Airways, and Virgin Atlantic. The aircraft boasts a strong dispatch reliability and was described as having “the best entry-into-service we’ve ever experienced on an Airbus jet” by its launch customer, Qatar Airways. “There were no teething problems, which is unusual for a brand new plane,” a Cathay Pacific executive told me, following five months of A350-1000 service at the Hong Kong-based carrier.
Last week, standing in the ‘Club Suite’ Business Class cabin of British Airways’ first A350-1000 XWB, British Airways CEO, Alex Cruz told Aviation Analyst “The main purpose of this aircraft is to substitute exiting aircraft. We want to learn how it works, see the performance across multiple routes, and then take a look and see what options we have.” Cruz added, “I’m sure that deep inside Waterside (British Airways headquarters) someone is thinking about this — but yes, we are very pleased with the flexibility the A350-1000 will offer.” British Airways have 18 A350-1000 jets on order, and will first deploy the jet on routes to the United Arab Emirates, Canada, and India.
Airbus has received nearly one thousand orders for A350 XWB family aircraft, consisting of the A350-900, A350-900ULR, and A350-1000. While the jet is already regarded a commercial success by the manufacturer, Airbus wide-body jet sales have been almost non-existent elsewhere at the company for the A330-800neo, a wide-body jet dubbed as ‘the little sister’ of the A350. The A330-800neo first flew nearly 300 days ago — there are still only two airlines with firm orders: Kuwait Airways and Uganda Airlines.
Airbus’ newly launched, and fast-selling A321XLR — the extra long-range variant of the A321neo — has the potential to slow down A330neo orders due to its extended range. The new jet will allow airlines to operate a lower-cost single-aisle aircraft on longer and less heavily demanded routes, many of which could previously only be served by larger and less efficient wide-body aircraft.
In a conversation with Airbus Chief Commercial Officer, Christian Scherer, he told Aviation Analyst “We are still confident we will sell more of the A330-800neo, especially as airlines begin to look at replacing in-service A330-200s.”
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A bit too much with the exclusively here and there 😉
Adrian peters says:
After many flights on ,Boeing 777, and Airbus, please , please, stop buying Boeing, from a customers perception, comfort and environment,is very important, oh, sorry there, that is of no concern to the airlines, after all we are its customers, and who are they, the airlines, to care about that…….adrianpeters@hotmail.com
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I thought Delta put in a big order for the A330-800neo.
Alex Macheras says:
Delta have ordered the A330-900
Zaf says:
Alan Joyce who in their right mind would won’t to be stuck in the cattle truck section for 21 hrs. I flew from Melb to Doha which took about 14 hrs. I hated it. Never again. You try sitting at the back for 21 hrs, I bet you won’t be so keen to repeat that again. 21hrs you have to be kidding. I think your brain must be flooded with aircraft fumes.
Think again. Many people in their right mind will prefer one single 21hrs direct flight than two 11hrs flights over a period of 2 days.
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Boeing is in a tailspin similar to thw Max 8s that crashed. The 777-9 is now dependent on 2 airlines, guess which ones, they both begin with E. The 737 Max MAY sell for a while IF it is recertified, Boeing has no answer to the A321 juggernaut before 2030, if ever. Boeing is now a on airplane company, the 787.
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Caesareans: Mums’ feedback on the things people say
by Tricia Murray | Feb 22, 2019 | Birth and Baby Academy, Caesarean
In the Caesarean Bundle I discuss many of the common comments and judgements around the way we birth when it’s a caesarean. Often it can be our own judgements too. I know for me, I had always had the opinion that caesareans were for those who were “too posh to push” until it happened to me 10 years ago and I really struggled to overcome that belief.
I’ve complied this post by asking all the women who are involved with the academy (students, social media followers, those in the community group). It’s compiled without judgement and with kindness as I know often it’s the way we view birth as a society rather than as an individual. I know very few people mean any harm, but I also know how hurtful it can be if you’re feeling fragile from birth.
I asked “If you’ve had a caesarean birth – what are people’s reactions? How do they make you feel? What would you like people to say to you?”
I acknowledge this isn’t a proper in depth study qualitative study but I feel it’s fairly representative of some of the more hurtful and challenging comments we get. And I’m fairly sure that I’ve at times made some mistakes too when talking about caesareans – I’m definitely not perfect. I really want to get a conversation going about this though as I believe as humans we need to be much more respectful and kind when discussing births (and so much more too…).
Here’s the replies:
“I’ve had some people say to me “oh I’d never have a c-section.” in a way that makes it sound like I chose the easy way out.” (Sarah)
“I had family tell me “oh that’s great because it’s much safer for all women to have a c-section”. And pretty similar comments from most others…wasn’t very helpful!” (Bridget)
“I had my second c section birth 5 days ago after going through a really traumatic emergency c section under general anesthetic with my first. This was a planned c section and fortunately people who knew my background were incredibly supportive and understood how hard a decision it was to make. I had the odd person make comments – “too posh to push” (of course this person was “joking” 🙄) “oh a planned section, how nice!” “Must be nice to know you’ll not have to go through labour.” On the days where mentally I was struggling, these comments would get to me but generally I realised that it was the people who had a lack of understanding about what a section (and the recovery) actually entails. I had a polar opposite birth experience than my first so I definitely made the right decision for me.” (Beccy)
“I was told “I’m surprised they even let you try for a natural birth” and also how it was the “easier option” when I’d laboured until fully dilated and spent over an hour pushing, it was an emergency and I got an infection afterwards so nothing easy about it!! I would have liked to have been asked how I felt about it and the looks of shock I get when I mention I’d like a natural birth next time aren’t very supportive!” (Ashley)
“I got a lot of people telling me it was ok but asking ‘what happened?’. It made me feel like I’d done something wrong and like I’d failed!! I think it’s also mainly because at the time that’s how I felt. Feel much better about it now though. I have a healthy 3 yo and went on to have a vbac. I’m also overall happy with my first birth and feel like it was a positive experience” (Gillian)
“The surgeon – ‘Look at the size of your feet .. of course you couldn’t do it ! ‘😬 and then had vbac ..bull ****!” (Katy)
“I had a few bad experiences with medical professionals – the first midwife who visited us less than ten hours after I had my son via emergency c-section said “don’t worry dear, next time you can have a normal birth” which made me feel like I had done the whole birth thing wrong, it was so hurtful and I was so exhausted after a two day labour, and frankly was the furthest thing from my thoughts at that time, let alone how I would have that child. A doctor doing the hearing test in the hospital told us that c-section babies are often very reactive to noises and so our son might be more nervous than other children. He was barely 24 hours old and what I heard in that statement was that because I hadn’t managed to birth him vaginally I had failed to set him up as a confident normal child.” (Rosie)
“If you’ve had a c-section, are you even a mum? If you can’t even legitimately give birth to your baby then you’re a s**t mum” (Sarah)
What helped/could have helped?
“Something that made a positive difference was Mars, saying “you’ve got this..no, really, you do!!”
“I guess maybe the medical professionals could try congratulating women in similar situations on their efforts? It would help so much to get some validation rather than sympathy.”
“I mean, all they really needed to say in both cases was “hello, great baby, well done” anything else is sort of irrelevant right?”
“Congratulations – that’s lovely news”
“How are you feeling? Can I help you?”
Society’s view of caesareans
One of the things that really frustrates me is that a caesarean is automatically seen as being an easier birth, an easy way out, something to be judged for failure or it’s automatically a traumatic birth. How society views caesarean is something I’m fascinated about given my own births and how I feel about them.
One of the members in the community group said:
“I wasnt prepared for it, really. Everyone should plan their c section as you plan your birth so you know more about what will happen. I was not prepared for the lack of mobility afterward. I was pleasantly surprised about how quick well organised and comfortable it was. The pain was managed superbly well. I didn’t have any pain at all right up to when the stitch came out. I was totally off my face when I first saw my wee one though. They just shot me chock full of diamorphine and my eyeballs couldn’t get coordinated at all, though that only seemed to last about 5 mins then I felt fine in the recovery room, had a beautiful golden hour with the wee one on my chest, had lovely tea and toast and felt very well taken care of.”
We must be aware that around 1 in 3 births are caesareans. It’s something I feel really passionate about in terms of preparation, education, planning, getting comfortable with. It’s something that I’ve included in the Pregnancy Roadmap which you can get when you download the FREE Resources Bundle. I’m so pleased that anyone that does the Birth Bundle gets the Caesarean Bundle included and vice versa.
If you’ve got any thoughts on this, then do get in touch,
Much love, Tricia xxx
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Ithaca Fantastik Review: A DAY Refreshes The Time-Loop Movie
This isn't GROUNDHOG DAY. It's just A DAY.
By Andrew Todd Nov. 22, 2017
As far as genre riffs go, you can do worse than riffs on Groundhog Day. Time-loop stories are a unique means of putting characters through the wringer, and typically also exercises in precise writing and editing. Within the last month or so alone, we’ve seen a Star Trek episode use the time-loop formula (as many have before), and we’ve seen Happy Death Day successfully marry it to the slasher genre. Now it’s South Korean cinema’s turn, with Cho Sun-ho’s directorial debut A Day.
This particular time-loop falls into the “prevent a catastrophic event” subcategory. Celebrated humanitarian doctor Kim Joon-young (Kim Myung-min) returns home to South Korea from a mission overseas, aiming to catch up with his semi-estranged daughter. But en route to their meeting, Kim bears witness to a horrific car accident - one that claims the life of his daughter. Cue a reset to the start of the day, and the central hook (but not the only one) of the film.
Despite its uninspiring and un-Googlable title, A Day does a number of interesting things with the genre, in keeping with South Korean traditions of twisty narratives and stark tonal shifts. You’ve just got to stick through a tough first act to get there. The first half hour is almost entirely action: Kim goes through numerous loops of the titular day, attempting to prevent his daughter’s death, but we barely learn anything about him, his daughter, or the accident itself. When his numerous failed attempts start to become comical, the movie seems sunk.
But then a couple twists drop - twists that make the audience sit the fuck up and pay attention. Additional characters join the story, informing events that previously seemed like pure happenstance, and upending the time-loop concept entirely. Stylistic flourishes pepper the filmmaking, turning Kim’s daughter’s death into a bizarre, repeated ritual upon which there can be infinite variations. And all the while, Kim gets more and more desperate to solve his mystery. Suddenly, this movie’s gripping as hell.
The more we learn about Kim, the characters around him, and his shameful past that sets the plot into motion, the worse we feel about the situation, in classic South Korean tradition. Any other movie would set up Kim’s backstory in the opening act, but A Day holds its cards to its chest for a surprisingly long time. Once the backstory is revealed - in a plot twist fit for the most melodramatic soap opera - the film transitions from a propulsive mystery-thriller to an emotionally bleak family revenge drama. And with that, we start caring - an hour into the film.
At a brisk 90 minutes, A Day is blissfully short for a South Korean film. That certainly helps when the movie starts off at a sprint and slows down as it plays out. It’s that rare movie that had me starting out on completely the wrong foot - at one point the lack of character depth had me so uninvested I started laughing at the less-than-ideal subtitle localisation - but completely turned me around by the end.
A Day won’t satisfy everyone, and nit-pickers will surely tear into its internal logic. More open-minded audiences, however, will surely appreciate its inventive, emotional, structurally experimental take on the time-loop movie. If only it had a more memorable title.
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Firstly, yes, I am ‘BBC Dad‘ – the guy who got interrupted on BBC news by his kids in March 2017. Here and here are our family statements on that event.
Otherwise, I am a professor of international relations in the Political Science and Diplomacy Department of Pusan National University in Busan, Korea.
PhD, 2005:
Fellowships:
Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies’ Teachers Workshop (Johns Hopkins)
US-Korea NextGen Scholars Program (CSIS, USC, Korea Foundation)
Summer Workshop on Military Operations & Strategy (Columbia)
Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (Syracuse, APSA)
Anti-Terrorism Academic Fellow (Foundation for the Defense of Democracies)
Summer Workshop on Teaching about Terrorism (U. of Oklahoma, DHS)
Popular Publication Outlets:
Economist Intelligence Unit (embargoed)
CNN-GPS
Dong-A Daily
Television Appearances:
Collected here on YouTube
My best topical & regional areas are:
International Relations Theory
In Busan, I teach US foreign policy, Globalization, Post-9/11 Security, basic IR theory, International Organization, and US politics.
My language training includes: German, French, Russian, Latin, Korean, classical Greek
I lived in Europe for 4 years. I have lived in Korea since summer 2008. I have traveled to about 40 different countries, including North Korea.
My wife teaches yoga; we have a daughter and a son. My father is an excellent historian. My mother is a high school English teacher.
In my other life, I would have been a screenwiter, a musician, or a classicist. I enjoy film a lot and write about it infrequently here. I also enjoy classical music very much (Austro-Germans mostly), and I read a lot of course. I find antiquity so fascinating that I took two extra years of grad school just to study Greek and Latin. Reading “Socrates’ Apology” in the original is one of the great achievements of my life. I game sometimes; needless to say, I’m terrible.
Thanks for coming to my site. I hope you like it.
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Matt Nunn on August 5, 2011 at 11:56 am said:
I took your class as an undergrad at OSU…you had us watch Dr. Strangelove…I still remember you almost falling out of your chair from laughter at different points from the movie….You had us write a paper…you once brought me out into the hall and told me that mine sucked, but it couldn’t have been THAT bad since I got an A- in the class..hahaha, in all seriousness, I really enjoyed your class. Had I known you were in Korea when I was there over the 2006 New Years, I would have looked you up….I was teaching English in Japan at that point and the DMZ tour was by far one of the coolest things I have ever done.
Matt Nunn
OSU ’05
Syracuse Law ’13
Robert E Kelly on August 13, 2011 at 10:54 am said:
Well I am glad you liked the class and did pretty well. I still show Dr. Strangelove. It is a great film. Glad to see you found your way into a good grad program.
Robert Hynes on November 30, 2011 at 9:02 am said:
Nice blog. I appreciate it. Keep it up.
Louise on May 21, 2017 at 4:50 pm said:
The puarsches I make are entirely based on these articles.
helene on July 3, 2012 at 8:15 pm said:
great blog – i stumbled upon it after reading “the german-korean unification parallel” for a paper i’m writing on the korea herald’s reporting about unification. i look forward to many more insights from your posts! all the best!
Robert E Kelly on July 3, 2012 at 11:30 pm said:
Glad you like it. Thank you. That KJDA piece is only a most basic sketch. The definitive comparative treatment of German and Korean unification scenarios is still waiting to be written.
Joseph Flatley on March 11, 2017 at 10:53 am said:
Is there a link where we can read the other unification scenarios? I’ve had to deal with this issue and would like to know more and maybe offer other ideas/solutions/scenarios.
plantingpennies on August 16, 2012 at 3:52 pm said:
I have to agree. This is a great blog, I appreciate the depth, insight and humor. It’s nice to read an intelligent/educated blog about Korea without all the usual pop content. Just good reads.
Gwangju, South Korea
M.A. in Literature
Robert E Kelly on August 19, 2012 at 1:53 pm said:
Thank you. I am happy to see you picked up in the disinterest in k-pop 🙂
academic1sight on September 19, 2012 at 8:11 pm said:
Amazing experiences! I think you could be interested in one of my post:
http://academicinsight.it/2012/08/21/global-emerging-voices/
Nice blog by the way! Hope you would like to share some of your experiences in Academic Insight. It’s a Blog including professional’s interviews, university activities, student associations (offering also internships) to enrich CV and personality and to link university and jobs! Over 23.000 views in the first 3 months!
Robert E Kelly on September 20, 2012 at 12:19 pm said:
Well, if you are soliciting me, I will think about. You could repost or link something from my site. You are a law student? Is that correct? And you site is generalist page for graduate students?
academic1sight on September 20, 2012 at 12:29 pm said:
Yes, I’m a law student. My site is both for undergraduates and graduates. Indeed, almost every experience (http://academicinsight.it/find-your-next-experience/) can be attended by both of them.
I’d be really interested to have a Q&A article about other experiences, for another example:
http://academicinsight.it/2012/07/10/summer-school-tochina-eng/
Anonymous on October 17, 2012 at 2:03 am said:
I came across your blog after reading a reply you had to another “scholar” who visited NK. I was an USAF officer stationed in Europe in the late 80s and early 90s. I remember taking the train from West Germany into Berlin. What I remembered of the tour of East Germany was how gray and ugly the landscape. Eventually, we reached the outskirts of West Berlin and it was a kaleidescope of colors in a sea of gray. No wonder the Russians hated our presence in that city. It made a mockery of the workers paradise on a daily basis. From what I understand, East Germany was nothing compared to the drabness that is NK. How anyone can write a cheery article on the last anachronistic Stalinist state is beyond me. Keep up the good work and make sure you don’t fight in the war room. 🙂
Hui-Jen Shiau on October 17, 2012 at 2:05 am said:
Sorry, I must have hit the wrong button, but this is my screenname
Robert E Kelly on October 17, 2012 at 9:45 am said:
I presume you were thinking of my response of Khanna’s puff-piece at CNN? (https://asiansecurityblog.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/pyongyang-isnt-laid-back-leafy-or-what-parag-khanna-didnt-learn-in-nk-5/). I too was pretty schocked and disappointed. Khanna is smart enough to have known better.
Thanks for coming to the site. Glad you liked the writing. b
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Laqueesha on May 23, 2015 at 2:10 pm said:
Just found your blog and I’m hooked. Love it, love it. You’re kind of like B.R. Myers, except with wit and humor! No offense to B.R. Myers, I like him as well.
Robert E Kelly on May 23, 2015 at 2:27 pm said:
How kind of you to say. Thank you. REK
Vi on March 10, 2017 at 11:53 pm said:
Loved the live broadcast with your wife and kids ! You should add your youngest child into your bio here too 🙂
Grace Kim on March 11, 2017 at 12:01 am said:
Came to this site after seeing the BBC viral video with your kids =D looking forward to following your views on the unfolding situation in Korea.
Amanda Kelly on March 11, 2017 at 12:07 am said:
I absolutely loved that interview … And you studied Classics! I just have to start reading your blog now.
Eva Lutz on March 11, 2017 at 12:39 am said:
You might find new ways in handling your children while BBC interviews when checking out http://neufeldinstitute.org.
Ella on March 11, 2017 at 12:50 am said:
Dana on March 11, 2017 at 1:07 am said:
Clearly he was caught off guard. You might find more productive things to do during the day than criticize other people by checking out https://www.forbes.com/sites/gretchenrubin/2011/06/09/7-tips-for-minding-my-own-business/#25c903616a75
Good job using the incident’s popularity to advertise your website here. How about you work on your manners first?
Terri on March 12, 2017 at 3:03 am said:
Ridiculous comment. His manners were fine. Yours, not so much. His video gave me a bigger laugh than I’ve had in more than 5 years. I’ve watched it a dozen times.
Margie on March 12, 2017 at 4:03 am said:
@Terri, I believe the comment from anonymous, above, is to Eva Lutz and her child rearing site, not to the professor.
Terri on March 12, 2017 at 10:28 am said:
Yes, I know. It was meant in response to Eva’s comment, not Anonymous.
Michael Johnston on March 11, 2017 at 7:29 am said:
What is it you teach? How to train children up to be judgemental assholes?
Are you kidding me? He lovingly put his palm out to his daughter to stop her from coming closer. It didn’t harm her (or interrupt her happy trip in to see her dad). Every time he glanced at the bottom of his monitor to see what was happening behind him, you could see the love for his family. I can’t believe you bothered to find this site just to write that. Talk about being a judgmental asshole. Go buy a dictionary so you can at least spell it correctly.
@Terri … Again, look at the thread. This is to Eva Lutz, not the professor!
Thank you for clarifying that to @Terri, Margie. You are a nice person.
FREDRIK ALDEN THORSEN on March 11, 2017 at 11:32 pm said:
I think he handled himself and the kids in a great way. Anyone that has experienced being put on the spot like that publicly can relate to this. You are so nervous, hoping everything will be perfect, and then unexpectedly something like this happens. He kept his composure, smiled, and kept the interview going. I challenge anyone to do this any better in this kind of situation.
The way his kids interact with their dad, really shows how available he is to them, and how much they love him.
Katherine on March 12, 2017 at 1:41 am said:
What a ridiculous comment. He handled his children and the interview beautifully. I, along with the rest of the sane world, was really impressed.
You have got to be kidding me.
You do your “institute” no favours with such a comment. You seem like anything but an expert in children and child rearing.
Fortunately_NOT_eva_lutz on March 12, 2017 at 9:35 am said:
Mrs. Lutz, what a pitiful comment… it symbolizes much of what is wrong with (western) society these days.
Anyone with a bit of common sense would be able to see that this adorable little girl is quite confident, playful and happy; she didn’t seem to have any problem (or fear) approaching her dad.
Instead of pointing your finger at others, focus on your own degraded values.
Caroline Fleming on March 16, 2017 at 1:24 am said:
Oh please.
Please get al ife Ms. Lutz
Please get a life Ms. Lutz
AtiqahLott on March 11, 2017 at 12:52 am said:
It happened for me to found your blog after the viral BBC interview. And so, I am now hooked to it. Looking forward for more writings from you too. Although I do not study anything in regard to International Relation, but it is great to know more about it especially about the Kim Jong Nam’s murder.
Atiqah Lott
B.Ec, University of Malaya,
nancy on March 11, 2017 at 12:59 am said:
I found myself here after the BBC viral video, I just want to say you have an adorable family, this video managed to brighten my day, and I actually learned something about this South Korea situation. 🙂 Kudos to your professionalism.
Mary Grace Kosta (@marygkosta) on March 11, 2017 at 11:18 am said:
I agree with Nancy. I haven’t really paid attention to South Korea as much as I should, and that delightful interview led me to read your twitter comments on the impeachment and watch the full interview. South Korea has certainly shown the world how to truly respect democracy. Thank you for sharing your insight and knowledge.
Guy on March 11, 2017 at 2:51 am said:
I’m with Nancy up there… I saw your interview and the beautiful interruption of “grown up stuff” by your sweet children. In the midst of difficult realities of this messed up world, we all got to be reminded of the precious reasons we all have to, and strive, to deal with the brokenness of this world. That your children felt no pause to come into your office space reveals a lot, I estimate, about you and your family and your relationship with your children. I just wanted to stop by and say thanks for cheering up a Guy in Little Rock, Arkansas.
I’m here after seeing your BBC interview. Anyone with kids who works can completely understand how you must have felt – and it was adorable. The first one – the way she walked in & especially when the second one came in too–and we felt both mortified on your behalf and delighted by just how kids are…hahaha! My husband and I are both working professionals (MDs) & have 3 – and I am positive that this could easily have happened to us as well. Despite being an avid new junkie, I also actually learned about the impeachment from this viral video, so, I think your kids did more good than you could imagine.
Just seeing the video made me laugh so hard. It was awesome. I could see you being annoyed a bit…but it was awesome! Hope you find some encouragement with these messages.
I didn’t see any annoyance at all. Watch him when he glances periodically to the bottom of the screen — there’s nothing but smiles.
Jenna on March 11, 2017 at 4:50 am said:
The BBC video is the cutest and funniest thing I have seen in the long time. We want more !
Anonymous on June 12, 2017 at 9:36 am said:
I loved the video also. It was hilarious. It was the cutest and funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time too. The way Marion danced into the room was hilarious. The whole thing made me laugh so hard.
Meghan on March 11, 2017 at 4:51 am said:
Your family is the best thing ever and you’ve made my day! I hope you’re all high-fiving tonight for lifting thousands of people’s spirits!
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Karli on March 11, 2017 at 5:12 am said:
Saw your interview and it was fabulous. What a wonderful family you have. Your wife is a ninja and I love how your composure was cracking with holding back laughter. True life moment here.
When my husband works from home I have done some run in the room and pull a kid out action myself.
This is real life. I love it.
ellafostermolina on March 11, 2017 at 5:26 am said:
I’ve been reading your blog for a long time now, and have always appreciated it. It was a delight to realize that the viral BBC video was of the scholar who has long informed my view of Asian affairs. Thanks for the information, and thank you, your wife, and your kids for the smiles.
ellafostermolina on March 17, 2017 at 11:03 am said:
Oh, I dearly hope you are a Star Wars fan:
Rob on March 11, 2017 at 6:32 am said:
As a graduate of IR and someone who focused on Asia (particularly China and Korea) during their studies, I instantly fell in love with your family and your blog 🙂
Best regards from Slovakia
Amanda on March 11, 2017 at 7:36 am said:
Echoing the comments of multiple folks… I discovered your blog thanks to the BBC video that included the delightful cameo of your sweet family. Looking forward to reading more of your thoughtful commentary!
Tessa on May 21, 2017 at 2:01 pm said:
I work at a Jazz club in the Crenshaw Los Angeles CA area called Maverick Flat2#8&17;s Jazz Supper & Club. They have tons of beautiful pictures of all the ladies in the Love Machine group. They are truly stunning gorgeous women each one of them. I will dig deeper since I am new to the place and rely any new information or any more music of theirs to your website. I love the music let’s groove on!!!!
Your BBC video was amazing. As a working parent myself, I am thrilled to see more of the juggle on the big screen (even if it wasn’t planned). Cheers to you and your family from sunny Los Angeles!
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Emily LaVigne on March 11, 2017 at 8:24 am said:
As a social media consultant and marketer, I just wanted to say PROPS to you for leveraging your viral video to educate others! My father and I are also lovers of history, especially military history. I’m now following you on social media and will be reading more of your work. It’s a breath of fresh air to find someone in the intellectual sphere who has wit, humor, a balanced outlook, and common sense. Also, as someone who regularly has video conferences for work – I feel your pain of the juggle between kids and career. You handled the situation masterfully!
Kat on March 11, 2017 at 8:44 am said:
Dr Kelly…thank you for your recent BBC interview with your adorable kids as co-host. It really hit home for us as it reminded me of when my husband has court call in appointments from home (he’s an atty, btw) and the our kids start screaming in the background interrupting the court proceedings. Anyway, I think you should do future interviews with your kids in your lap. Everyone in the world would love it, as it demonstrates the reality of parenting and working from home. Kudos to your kids as you may become the most famous poli sci professor in the world now (I love it as I also have a poli sci degree).
Nancy Kromm on March 11, 2017 at 8:46 am said:
Again, like so many others, I discovered this insightful blog after seeing the hilarious “you can’t make this stuff up” clip from the BBC. As Guy has said above, your beautiful family interrupting the “adulting” is a great reminder of the real values of life even as we contemplate the horrors of today’s world. You have cheered many of us today. Hooray to you and your wife for being real and human. You are certainly blessed with a wonderful family.
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Julio on March 11, 2017 at 9:05 am said:
your wife is american or korean?
El Tomas Vargas Cabron on March 11, 2017 at 9:44 am said:
Emily on March 11, 2017 at 1:42 pm said:
Your BBC interview on Friday was, hands down, the best thing I’ve seen in weeks.
Thank you (and your family) for making my day.
From, Emily
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Lindsay K. on March 11, 2017 at 3:19 pm said:
Your kids interrupting that interview gave me the warm fuzzies – I grew up with a stay at home Dad* who had a home office in the days when long distance calls meant he had to speak up to be heard, so he’d warn me beforehand that I needed to be quiet. We still have some of the post-it notes I wrote him while he was on the phone, asking if we could get ice cream or walk the dog when he was done. I now work in the same industry (aviation), with the same amount of passion, and it’s our greatest bond. Maybe your daughter just wanted to listen in and gain some insight 😉
*He gave up the home business to go to work for an airline that my Mom joined him at two years later, then I was hired four years later. He retired in 2013, she’s ready to do the same pretty soon, but I’m keeping the family legacy alive!
Steve Adam on March 11, 2017 at 6:16 pm said:
Your family are awesome. Your wife is the best multi-tasker in the world and has inadvertedly made you the most famous Korean expert in the world
Saang-Yoon on March 11, 2017 at 7:35 pm said:
Hi, I am also one of the folks who was brought to this site by the great clip where your BBC interview had been interrupted by your children. As everyone indicated, I found the clip was more than entertaining. You have lovely family, who made you a world-class star. Of course your scholarship activities should not be diluted by this lovely episode. I am also impressed by your active writings about international politics. I admire prolific writers like you. I came to Busan (your town) about more than two years ago, relocating to Pukyong National University after spending about two decades in the USA. Now I work as a faculty member in fisheries science. If you *might* need information about fisheries management, I would be more than happy to chat with you. Best Wishes.
I watched BBC interview. just want to tell you that dont get stress from what some people said. They are kind of people who just say before think or understand it. I understand it was very important interview to you so you were bit nervous to react well in that situation also your wife as well. Keep it up!
Adrian on March 11, 2017 at 8:30 pm said:
You should do a follow up on that BBC interview. Write about what went through your head and what happened afterwards. Or maybe even do a quick video showing you and your family having a good time and just laughing about what happened. Helps to show that it’s OK that these things happen in life and that not everything should be taken so seriously when it’s on TV – makes you look human.
This is your moment to get lots of traffic.
AGREE!!! BBC needs to do another interview!
DD on March 11, 2017 at 9:43 pm said:
Love kids in the News cast on BBC. You are an instant celebrity. Happened to me in past as well. I know it was frustrating in the moment but everyone loves it. It made my day.
ES on March 12, 2017 at 1:02 am said:
Hello, what a beautiful video on BBC! Even Clarissa Pinkola Estes (author of the bestseller “Women Who Run With the Wolves”) commented with enthusiasm on her Facebook page. Best wishes from Rome (Italy)
JulieeTr on March 12, 2017 at 2:27 am said:
I stumble upon your blog after watching the BBC interview video. Please ignore the negative comments they have nothing better to do. I just wanted to say it was the cutest video ever! Despite the fact that your interview was interrupted, I think it was a nice father family moment that can be remember forever. Your kids are adorable and wife is the best! She came to rescue 🙂 I don’t think anyone could’ve done it better. Best wishes to your family and your career. Please write more I just have to read your blog now.
Amina Fields on March 12, 2017 at 3:05 am said:
I can’t get enough of the interview. I’ve watched it several times and still laugh every time. I came to your blog to get more insight on your response to the viral video. I didn’t find anything but did enjoy your bio. Looking forward to the follow up interview with you and your family.
Dino on March 12, 2017 at 4:27 am said:
A star is born. Prof. Kelly – I am an admirer now 🙂 Kudos to your wife for doing a great job during the BBC interview. Wishing your family all the best, good health, and a great future
Jord on March 12, 2017 at 4:28 am said:
That interview you gave was fantastic, Robert! Things don’t always go the way you planned it to but at least that brought a smile to thousands of people’s faces. You have a great blog too which I’ll probably stay updated on. I’m fascinated by Korea and the politics surrounding the North and South.
Keep it up mate!
Loved the interview, you have a great family and keep up the good work!
Professor Kelly, please don’t be embarrassed. Also please give your wife a standing ovation from me. She was incredibly efficient. I wish I was half as efficient as her. And your kids are adorable!
Maybe this newfound, instant recognition is not what you are used to (I appreciate that as I am also in academia), but please, again, don’t be embarrassed.
Someone from Strasbourg, France.
hijibiji on March 12, 2017 at 6:47 am said:
icossinib on March 12, 2017 at 9:34 am said:
Congrats from the other side of the world. That is how you break in the internet!
gradstudentvancouver on March 12, 2017 at 9:47 am said:
Hope you could come to Vancouver and give a talk on IR soon.
Looking forward to reading your work, Professor Kelly.
Grad student from Vancouver, Canada
rosalie on March 12, 2017 at 10:03 am said:
ur kids are cute haha
Nice job keeping your compositor. I work from home and do Video call all the time. Kids run in on me way too often. Glad it happened. I often travel and work in Asia. I like to keep up with Asia Pacific politics. Glad to have discovered you and your blog. I am looking forward to reading your posts. Best of luck to you and your family 🙂
애들 이뻐요♥♥
Loveskilts on March 12, 2017 at 3:37 pm said:
I was already dying laughing… and then the baby in the walker rounds the corner!!! And then your obviously mortified wife skids in!!! And you keeping your cool anyway 🙂 Thank you so much for that accidentally WONDERFUL bit of tv. 🙂
Eric M. on March 12, 2017 at 6:01 pm said:
Mahalo Nui Loa,
Ohana means family and family means that no one gets left behind. It was cross cultural moment that anyone on the global could appreciate. I hope your work will go viral as well. For our ohana in Hawaii surely want to avoid getting nukes by the crazy North Koreans.
Tim Kuhne on March 12, 2017 at 10:59 pm said:
Love your family. The news should show this more “human” side of all of us. Enjoyed this news cast more than any other I’ve seen in a very long time. Thanks.
rootbeertwins on March 13, 2017 at 2:46 am said:
I also love your family. 🙂 And how you kept your composure and that twinkle of a smile … and your wife running in to save the day! Your daughter’s adorable swagger, the baby in the walker … brilliant. That is real life with little kids right there, though most of us aren’t captured on live TV. 😉
Some from here on March 13, 2017 at 7:01 am said:
The video with the kids are trending on Youtube Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria also. You were the main topic for all vloggers in this region. You have surpassed anything else here…this will be an good memories for your children when they will grow…you have an amazing family also. And don’t take things so seriously.
Chantal Prost on March 13, 2017 at 7:37 am said:
I just caught the video via Facebook, but for those of us who work from home this was the best moment ever. Your kids are so cute and happy and your poor wife is beside herself. Although unintended and initially frustrating, you have made all of us feel good and it is so refreshing to know it happens to the best of us.
Andrew Shen on March 13, 2017 at 9:21 am said:
Good publicity!!! well done, your kinds are so cute, you became recognised world wide.
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Mark Simoneau on March 13, 2017 at 3:39 pm said:
Who didn’t love Jack Kennedy’s picture of him working while John Jr. crawled under his desk? I dare say your wonderful video resonated in much the same way and for the same reasons. Thank you!
Frédéric Sidler on March 13, 2017 at 4:05 pm said:
This is how I discover your excellent website. Keep up your great work. (I also work at home. Skype session are sometimes similar 😉
speechless.. I have been teaching online for years now with 4 little boys…They’re still cute though…..
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Sharron on March 15, 2017 at 2:50 am said:
Funny how I came across such a great blogg…
Of course your famous news moment brought me here.
Your wife is awesome! 😊
You’re awesome and you have a wonderful wife 😊!!
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Susan D. on March 15, 2017 at 7:20 am said:
What a lovely family! Thank you for your insightful knowledge about Korea and also for entertaining us with your beautiful children who adore you and your sweet wife trying to give you space.
Diane Hawley Nagatomo on March 15, 2017 at 7:53 am said:
Of course I have seen the viral video. But I found this site after the Wall Street Journal interview because I was wondering why the author of that article referred to you throughout the entire piece as MR Kelly rather than Dr. or Professor Kelly.
Robert on March 15, 2017 at 7:53 am said:
Proffessor Kelly,
Just know your video to me has raised awareness of the Korean peoples struggle. I will do my best to better understand and educate myself on how we can help.
By the way i really liked your green slippers, it really personifies the human kid and free time struggle!
Best to your success,
Robert David Burns
Emily M on March 15, 2017 at 8:59 am said:
Hi Robert and Jung-a,
I wanted to say thank you for both interviews you did recently with the BBC.
I want you both to be happy with your unintended viral video and the follow up interview.
Firstly, the viral video brought so much joy to the world.
Secondly I think both interviews combined helped the world move a step towards less prejudice. There were some people who assumed Jung-a you were the nanny and that Robert you were a disinterested father. If you re-watch the first video or watch the second video those inaccurate assumptions are quickly contradicted. By giving people a way to (1) react and then recognize their prejudices and (2) see their prejudices are wrong, you have moved everyone a step closer to being more aware of themselves and interpreting the world in a less negative way.
In these times that is so valuable,
Ranjan Santra on March 15, 2017 at 12:49 pm said:
Your BBC interview proves the saying “children are proof that God hasn’t given up on humanity”!
Ryu Cheol on March 15, 2017 at 2:16 pm said:
Thanks for broadening my vocabulary. I just dropped by to say what I felt. Your http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hippity%20hoppity daughter is very adorable.
Got here from watching your interview with BBC. The video really made me laugh. Bless your family.
Bauhinia on March 16, 2017 at 1:48 am said:
It is really a pleasure to discover your blog after watching your BBC interview. As a student majoring in IR (also focusing on East Asian region) in Hong Kong, I find your writings fruitful, informative and intriguing.
Looking forward to your upcoming posts, and sending my best wishes to you, to your beautiful wife and to your two lovely kids!
I watched your BBC interview about 20 times by now. Still laugh so hard every time I watch it. Such a cute family!
elininla on March 16, 2017 at 1:22 pm said:
Dear Dr. Kelly,
At the risk of repeating everyone else’s sentiments… Thanks to you and your beautiful family for this delightful slice of life moment (and follow up interviews). Though unplanned, the unfolding background events during your BBC interview managed to bring moments of pure joy to many of us who viewed it, including my entire family. Most welcome and much needed at the moment.
Another upside is it managed to convey details about the current South Korean political situation to many folks who might not ordinarily have followed this news. So, well done!
Thanks for the laughs and reminding us what really matters in life. And hopefully this moment in the (worldwide) spotlight will provide many future happy memories for all of you!
Warmest wishes to you, your wife and children.
PS: Casting my vote for the “Marion Strut” as a 2017 new word addition to Merriam-Webster dictionary.
ranjini on March 16, 2017 at 4:15 pm said:
what were you doing prior to your phd in ?
Hi Dr. Kelly, sir, you have an absolutely lovely, beautiful and precious family. Two gorgeous, precious little children, and a lovely wife. You seem like a brilliant professor too. This video was fantastic, absolutely wonderful. Please don’t be embarrassed. You have give the world exactly what it needs right now, laughter and joy, which has replaced the anger, hate, and misery which it has had an abundance of lately. Dr. Kelly, sir, thank you, to you and your whole family, thank you so much. Take care of them sir, and yourself. They’re wonderful.
Anon on March 19, 2017 at 2:56 am said:
I think you’re a great father. I love that the children are free to come into your study. Your wife seems lovely too. I hope the media circus will calm down for you now!
Bethany on March 19, 2017 at 7:29 am said:
Your BBC clip brought me so much laughter from the first time I saw it on Twitter a few hours after it happened to the dozens of times I’ve watched and shared it since; balancing work and family life is such a challenge, and at the end of the day we’re all just people making our way through… I have a daughter named Marion, too, and I adore your kiddo’s joy. Keep up the good work of being a successful family man and a successful professional. All the best to all of you!
Blanca on May 21, 2017 at 11:40 am said:
Dear Professor Kelly,
I am a futures trader and I just read your last article about north korea empty threats.
Before all this crisis started I had no idea about this place on earth, but everyday I spend the days thinking of a way to helping the people who lives there. I feel their suffering like mine and really want to help them, if you were so kind of guiding me in the right direction of a few things I can do or donate to this cause. I admire a lot the deep knowledge you have in foreign issues and I read you a lot. Your opinions have helped me in my trading decisions too.
Kind regards, Blanca.
Petek Cunningham on June 12, 2017 at 1:09 am said:
I just want to let you and your wife know how much joy I still get from recalling the adorable viral video of your daughter, son and wife interrupting your interview. To me the video captures parenthood perfectly with all its struggles and laughter. How human, how sweet, how funny. You have a lovely family and are very blessed. Best wishes to you, your wife and beautiful kids.
Petek Cunningham
Steve Yun on August 6, 2017 at 9:53 pm said:
Dear Professor Kelly
My name is Steve Yun and I’m an year 11 student in Australia. In Australia, we have a compulsory subject called Research Project which the students are required to do researching on a specific topic that one has set. Since my cultural background is Korea, I’ve decided to set my topic on Korean reunification. During the research Process, I need an expert opinion on the question “What would it take for Korea’s reunification” and I will be very appreciated if the following dot points can be answered.
1. what are the main value difference of South Koreans and North Koreans?
2. What is the critical disturbance that delays Korean reunification?
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Korean Reunification? and
4. Is Korean reunification possible?
Steve Yun
George on November 7, 2017 at 10:28 am said:
Is the word “corvette” in your article today on the interpreter a typo or am I just off today?
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/implications-open-air-north-korean-nuclear-test
Joe on December 30, 2017 at 2:08 am said:
Before Chevy named their successful sports car, a “Corvette” is a class of small warship. It’s origin is Latin, corbis, which means basket.
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Josi on December 29, 2017 at 12:02 pm said:
Hello Mr Kelly, Jung A Kim Marion and James …
I enjoy studying theology and love the architecture of churches all over the world especially the St Peters Basilica and I’m not even catholic although I’m studying it.
I also very much enjoy reading autobiography. I read your wiki but no mention was made of your age or where you were born or where you lived as a child. I smiled to learn of your Buckeye days as I was born in Cincinnati.
I really loved your interview and gateflate. It made me belly laugh and I really drew joy by the way you and Jung A handled it. You should consider writing your own autobiography as I find being fluent in 6 languages, living abroad and marrying a Korean women a fascinating read.
I also am an interracial family and am very sensitive to other people’s biases and presumptive mindsets just as many made towards your wife about her being your nanny.
Do you ever indulge your reading time in Ellis Peters? What wonderful enjoyment !
I would enjoy being abreast to the current events going on in NK and your spin on them. Is there a way a way I follow you? Sometimes turning on the news is just too much for me to stomach nowadays, if you know what I mean. Thank you for your commitment and tirelessly efforts in keeping nations informed and safe. Oh, and I do love BBC but have not seen you on anytime recently.
I hope you enjoyed your Holiday and had a very Merry Christmas with your family and Happy New Year to you and Jung A Kim, Marion and James. May you prosper and be blessed !
Anyway …. thank you for the belly laugh … and do write your life story.
What a lovely family you have.
Maryjo
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Kerry McGurk on April 10, 2018 at 2:30 pm said:
I am a television producer for Channel 7 in Sydney Australia.
I am hoping to get in contact with you for an interview on The Morning Show when you come to Sydney for the Sydney Writer’s festival.
Please let me know if you are interested.
My phone number is +61422593946 and my email is kmcgurk@seven.com.au.
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Peter on August 19, 2018 at 2:34 am said:
I saw on Fareed Zakahria’s email, he wrote this:
““‘Peace’ in Korea does not require this treaty, nor will the treaty bring a meaningful reduction in tension or spur sudden demobilization on both sides,” Kelly writes. “A cold peace is possible—just as there was between the United States and Soviet Union in the Cold War, but we already have that. A treaty is not necessary for that.”
“By formally recognizing that the war ended in stalemate, the allied side would be effectively recognizing North Korea as an emergent state from the Korean civil war, and, implicitly, its right to exist…””
Well, I think you are probably a guy trapped in antiquated ways of thinking about foreign policy. That somehow, we as Americans are super-humans, and lesser people and states need to run through 20 hoops to have a conversation with us. That we should not talk to our enemies as armed conflict is better. It is elitist, stupid, and not true. But most particularly, I object your 2nd paragraph here because it is absolutely undeniable that the North Korean state does exist, will likely exist for hundreds of years. Why would we not recognize that it exists? It does, has, and will. We may not like it, but your argument that recognizing it exists, just doesn’t make any sense to me.
I’d prefer a response.
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Awesome, legend… you were just amazing and your wife has some great skid control, it’s always fabulous to see a family man being a family man, shows the lighter side of politics x beautiful family x
Luv The Truth4ever on June 14, 2019 at 10:18 am said:
Though your TV blooper was funny, as I watched it repeatedly and laughed hysterically each time. I thanked you for showing the world what it is to be true family man.
Too many of today’s society lacked and forgot the true meaning of family. The BBC interview showed how comfortable your children were with been close to you. Your wife showed a lot of devotion and dedication to her family.
I do not understand the negative comments, as this situation was handled realistically and with class. I wish I had you and your wife as my parents, while growing up as a child.
Thanks for that unplanned moment of sharing your beautiful, yet precious family.
Maureen Rose
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“R-Division, Frontline” is America’s #1 TV show in this Post-Apocalyptic world. Weekly, the show follows different R-Division units on the battlefield as they work to keep America Safe and Re-An free. Jimmy, the videographer for the Outbreak Network, thought this week’s episode would be like every other. He was wrong. Through the lens of his eyes and camera, we see raw, revealed and uncut, that which could be mankind’s last day.
"PROWL" Movie Trailer and Stills
Plot Synopsis: Amber dreams of escaping her small town and persuades her friends to accompany her apartment-hunting in the big city. When their transportation breaks down, Amber and friends gratefully accept a ride in the back of a semi. But when the driver refuses to stop and they discover the cargo is cartons of blood, they panic. Soon panic turns to terror when the truck disgorges into a dark, abandoned warehouse where blood-thirsty creatures learn to hunt human prey, which the friends realize is what they have now become.
Writer: Tim Tori (Hysteria, Trespassers)
Director: Patrik Syversen (Manhunt)
Cast: Bruce Payne (Bernard), Courtney Hope (Amber), Saxon Trainor (Veronica)
'The Vampire Diaries' Ad "Got Wood?"
"Chromeskull: Laid to Rest II" Trailer and Photos
"Laid to Rest" was one of the most impressive and promising horror movies to come out in recent years. I place it with "Hatchet" and "Night of the Demons" 2010 remake, and of coarse "All About Evil". The actors were really into their characters and did not seem forced on me. Mostly though, the killer is iconic. I mean what the fuck was he anyway! A deranged psycho with a chrome fetish and obsession with dead bodies. You can't find a more horrifically perfect combo. Thankfully the wait is almost over because Chromeskull has returned for another round of killing. "Laid to Rest II" trailer is great treat... Thanks to BD dot com for the international trailer of "Chromeskull: Laid to Rest II".
ChromeSkull, the mysterious and relentless killer who hunts down young women and records their grisly demises, all while donning a iconic silver skull mask and a video camera strapped to his shoulder. And while it may have seemed like ChromeSkull was dead at the end of the first Laid to Rest, every horror fan knows that evil never really dies.
New Behind the scenes photos from “Grabbers”
When an island off the coast of Ireland is invaded by bloodsucking monsters, the locals discover that getting drunk is the only way to survive.
Something has washed up on shore in the shot above…
The “Grabbers’ are creatures that supposedly look like the zeros after the 4 in this slate shot…
Set Photos From “The Toxic Avenger 5” movie
The sequel takes place following Citizen Toxie .
Lloyd Kaufman said:
"Unlike Superman, who never seems to age, Toxie gets older with each movie. In THE TOXIC AVENGER PARTs II-IV, he has gotten married and had children. Now he’ll have to deal with his wife’s menopause, his erectile dysfunction—which is a constant erection—and his rebellious kid. We’re on to the next generation, like STAR TREK. We’ll see a little of Toxie’s twins in kindergarten, and then as teenagers. The son is rebellious, while the daughter is ultra-politically correct. We’ll show her going through puberty, which should be the most colorful monthly cycle ever put on film! We want to focus on the father/child relationship, and the generation gap. There is also a villain who wants to rename Tromaville Scheisseville, and FANGORIA and other independent media will be prominently featured!”
Slasher Films to produce "Wake the Dead"
Slash's movie company Slasher Films horror film news released...
Jay Russell is attached to direct Wake the Dead, a contemporary re-imagining of Frankenstein. It is adapted from the graphic novel by Steve Niles, whose work has been turned into such films as 30 Days of Night.
New One Sheet for "Battlefield:Los Angeles"
"Fertile Ground" Trailer From After Dark Originals
Emily and Nate Weaver leave the city for the rural comfort of Nate's ancestral home in New Hampshire. There, isolated and haunted by inexplicable noises and horrifying visions, Emily discovers she's pregnant while Nate is possessed by the homicidal spirit of his forbearers. In a house haunted by past victims, Emily learns that she's the latest target in a murderous tradition.
Photos from “The Disco Exorcist”
The DISCO EXORCIST, a blood-soaked tale of supernatural revenge, sex, black magic, disco dancing, and mountains of cocaine is being produced by Ted Marr, written by Tony Nunes with Guy Benoit from a story by Richard Griffin and directed by Richard Griffin.
The Disco Exorcist makes its premiere at the Cable Car Cinema and Cafe in Providence, Rhode Island, on February 12th at 11pm.
Benjamin Walker is Abe The Fearless Vampire Slayer...
"Fertile Ground" Trailer From After Dark Originals...
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“Demon In The Mist” Update
So I have managed to get halfway through Chapter 8 of "Demon In The Mist". The story has evolved in to much more than a horror story...it has become a saga of shamanism, demons and a clan called ghost walkers all forced into the world of man....
Rickey Russell Writings!
“Monster Brawl” Trailer
Whether you like cult films, horror, b- movies , etc this is a film for the masses. “Monster Brawl” will appeal to everyone I believe – even the little kiddies….
Coming to DVD on June 12, 2012!
Set in the tradition of a Pay-Per-View main event, comes a grotesque and hilarious fight to the death featuring a cast of eight classic combatants in all. Along with their colorful managers, these Monsters compete in visceral bloody combat in the ring to determine the most powerful monster of all time. Monster Brawl stars comedian Dave Foley (Kids in the Hall, Bugs Life, Despicable Me), wrestling icons Jimmy Hart - The Mouth of the South, Kevin Nash, revered MMA referee Herb Dean, Robert Maillet (300, Sherlock Holmes, The Immortals), Art Hindle (Porky's, Black Christmas) and the voice of horror legend and Call of Duty narrator Lance Henriksen (Aliens, Terminator). Monster Brawl is sure to be a cult classic in the making!
“Episode 50” Trailer
Coming out on DVD April 17th this is a reality / found footage supernatural film. It seems like their last case will really be their “last case”!
Focuses on two television crews of paranormal experts: one team of skeptics looking to de-bunk myths about ghosts and another consisting of believers looking to prove their existence. Teaming up for the first time for a special episode, the crews get more then they bargained for when they actually make contact with a spirit of tremendous power and must ban together to stop it before it destroys them all.
New “Iron Sky” Trailer
Prepare for an invasion from mutherfucking Nazi’s!
In 1945 the Nazis went to the Moon. In 2018 they are coming back.
Check out the trailer for “Rage: Midsummer’s Eve”
The Director, Ms. Ricks said: “I am proud to work with professionals of this level to bring this story alive. Rage – Midsummer’s Eve is a film honoring all the great horror features I have seen in my childhood: Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th are all films that I have grown up with and which I secretly watched way before I was supposed to see them. This film is a tribute to all of those films. Originally a pagan holiday Midsummer’s Eve is a huge thing especially in the Nordic countries. To add together a Midsummer’s Festive with its White Nights when the sun never sets, the spells people do at that time of the year and a group of American, English and Finnish people spending their Midsummer’s Eve in one of the most mystical places in the world, the Arctic Circle in Lapland, to me makes a perfect setting for a horror film.”
“Groundhogs Day” meets “Sixth Sense” in “Restless” plot…
This supernatural thriller with a horror edge tells the story of an average man somehow living out the same day over and over again, which inadvertently ends up with the same result…murder! Complete with intrigue, suspense and a surprise twist ending...
My Review Of “Grave Encounters”
When I first sat down to watch this film I was expecting some cheesy knock off with a lazy set up and flimsy story. What I got was a surprisingly intense and well played ghost story with more nightmarish situations than what I got out of “Paranormal Activity”. This to me was a far better found footage story than any other I had seen in a while.
The story starts with skeptical asses taking advantage of the paranormal community by cashing in on the lasted crave for ghost hunting. I started out not liking the characters as they went about practically mocking the whole paranormal genre. Then when the story slowly progresses from jaded media whores straight into awareness of supernatural presence this film just brings you into a nervous posture completely focused on the scene.
The whole thing kept me on edge wondering what to expect. When the deep rumbling sounds took over the shot you knew something was about to happen and then bam. I had more moments were I actually jumped while watching this film than I have had in any other ghost story in a long while.
The actual acting flips back and forth on credibility but for the most part the characters were played with truth and believability. They gave completely to the emotion of the story and made you feel their terror. For me that says a lot about a film. If you relate and belief that actor is the part then you believe the story. This film does that for me. The special effects where top notch. From the hair being pulled away to the evil spirits clinging to the wall were killer. The entity presence visible shots were really intense and dark. Great attention to the special effects were taken serious in this film.
The whole story leading from the point of entering the building down the spiral to insanity and into the bowls of psychiatric hell was fluid and cohesive completely. I found no real wholes in the story or the back story. This is truly a much better paranormal film compared to several others that fought for recognition lately. I totally intend to add this to my collection and enjoy it over and over.
Lance Preston and the crew of "Grave Encounters", a ghost-hunting reality television show, are shooting an episode inside the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where unexplained phenomena has been reported for years. All in the name of good television, they voluntarily lock themselves inside the building for the night and begin a paranormal investigation, capturing everything on camera. They quickly realize that the building is more than just haunted - it is alive - and it has no intention of ever letting them leave. They find themselves lost in a labyrinth maze of endless hallways and corridors, terrorized by the ghosts of the former patients. They soon begin to question their own sanity, slipping deeper and deeper into the depths of madness, ultimately discovering the truth behind the hospital's dark past...and taping what turns out to be their final episode.
Full Trailer For “Thale” online
Second poster and full trailer for Norwegian folklore film “Thale” about a woodland deity that seduces men.
The huldra is “a seductive forest spirit who appears from the front to be a beautiful young woman but who also has a cow’s tale and whose back appears to be like a hollowed out tree, the huldra has been known to offer rewards to those who satisfy them sexually and death to those who fail to do so. They are also prone to stealing human babies.”
Check out two new images from “The Lords Of Salem”
The first has a black haired woman lying in a copper tube with a joint…the second is of Michael Barryman….
The Lords of Salem Synopsis:
“Outcast” On DVD February
A film that I am super excited about comes out on DVD February 21st this year. It is “Outcast” directed by Colm McCarthy and is coming to us courtesy of Bloody Disgusting Selects….
When Mary (Kate Dickie) and her teenage son, Fergal (Niall Bruton), move to yet another new home, it soon becomes clear they live their lives on the run, hiding from someone or something, terrified of being found.
Trying to make new friends or connections wherever they go, Fergal finds himself caught between the affections of his beautiful and feisty neighbor Petronella (Hannah Stanbridge), and his fiercely protective mother, who will stop at nothing to protect her precious son.
Mary has strict rules that govern Fergal’s life without which chaos and terror threaten to ensue.
Their hunter is Cathal (James Nesbitt), a dangerous and terrifying man, intent on tracking down and killing Mary and Fergal. What’s more, he is using a dark form of magic to find them. Mary’s only defense is to use the same ancient form of magic in order to protect her son.
But how long will it be before Cathal manages to outsmart her? When local residents begin to be brutally murdered by an unknown life force, the sense of fear escalates. Is Cathal the beast responsible for the killings? Or is it the beast that he is trying to destroy?
Promo Scene From “Crazy Fat Ethel 2012”
In this first promo scene from Brian Dorton and reel EPIC entertainment’s “Crazy Fat Ethel” we get to experience the awesome determination of Ethel set against the massively powerful lungs of a terrified victim….
This is the remake to the 1975 cult film favorite "Criminally Insane" which was directed by Nick Phillips and starred Priscilla Alden.
After years in a mental institution, Ethel is taken in by her aunt. Many people including the head nurse of the institution and a local detective believe letting Ethel leave that hospital was a HUGE mistake.
“FDR American Badass” Trailer
Probably one of the most iconic movie casts ever join together to bring together one of the funniest and thoroughly enjoyable horror/comedies this decade.
Barry Bostwick plays FDR .Merlin plays Hitler in FDR:American Badass!, alongside genre vets Lin Shaye (as Eleanor Roosevelt), Ray Wise (as MacArthur), William Mapother (Lost), Keri Lynn Pratt (Smallville), Deon Richmond (Hatchet), and, according to IMBd, Kevin Sorbo as Abraham Lincoln.
FDR is bitten by werewolf sent from Nazi Germany which gives him polio. Then they discovery that it is part of a plot by a whole Nazi werewolf army. The American army go kick some Nazi wolf ass with verbal and visual hilarity.
The Demon in “Demon In The Mist”
My demon in the novel “Demon In The Mist” is based on the old Cherokee legends of ‘Kalona Ayeliski similar to ancient eastern European and Hindi vampiric myths it is known as the Raven Mocker…here is the legend and chant used to ward it off…
Kalona Ayeliski. Think of it as the “Angel of Death”. Because of this, the point man in a Cherokee attack was designated the Kalona. It's also known as the Raven Mocker (imitator), the worst of all evil spirits. Though it is sometimes referred to as a witch, that is a European term. The Cherokee call evil spirits that torment the sick Sunnayi Edahi, "the Night Goer." The Night Goers cannot be seen except by certain medicine men. Then they may look like a person, or take the form of an animal. They come to the house at night when a person is sick, stomp on the roof, beat the side of the house, knock him out of bed, and drag him on the floor. They try to hasten death. They want the sick person to die faster and not use up any of his life span so that they can take his unused lifetime and add it to their own.
The most feared is the Kalona Ayeliski that makes the sound of a diving raven when it arrives. All other evil spirits flee when it shows up. It steals the heart of the sick person without leaving a mark and eats it. This adds the number of years to it’s own life. The Kalona is usually invisible. Imagine how terrifying to already be deathly sick and have to worry about all this! The family will summon a medicine man to keep watch and hold it away until the person recovers. It the person dies, the medicine man will keep watch until the person is buried. After burial the heart cannot be taken.
The medicine man drives a sharpened stick into the ground at each corner of the house. Then, about noontime he gets ready the Tsâl-agayû'nlï or "Old Tobacco", with which he fills his pipe, repeating the chant below. He then wraps the pipe in a black cloth. This sacred tobacco is smoked only for this purpose. He then goes out into the forest, and returns just before dark, about which time the sprit will arrive. Lighting his pipe, he goes slowly around the house, puffing the smoke in the direction of every trail by which the sprit might approach. He then goes into the house to wait. When the spirit arrives, the sharpened stick on that side of the house shoots up into the air and comes down like an arrow upon his head. This causes the sprit to die within seven days. Family and friends check near and far for someone who dies within that time, knowing they were the Night Goer.
The chant below against this spirit is from the book of a Cherokee Medicine man named Ayû'ninïs, collected and published in 1891. He calls upon two spirits to help him fight the evil one. They are the Red Man and the Purple Man. Red Man is the spirit of power, triumph, and success. Purple Man brings trouble, vexation and defeat.
Sgë! Uhyûntsâ'yï galûnlti'tla tsûltâ'histï, Hïsgaya Gigage'ï, usïnu'lï di'tsakûnï' denatlûnhi'sani'ga, Uy-igawa'stï duda'ntï. Nûnnâ'hï tatuna'watï. Usïnu'lï duda'ntâ dani'yûnstanilï'.
Sgë! Uhyûntlâ'yï galûnlti'tla tsûltâ'histï, Hïsga'ya Të'halu, hinaw?sü'?ki. Ha-usïnu'lï nâ'gwa di'tsakûnï' denatlûnhisani'ga uy-igawa'stï duda'ntï. Nûnnâ'hï tätuna'wätï. Usïnu'lï duda'ntâ dani'galïstanï'.
Listen! In the Frigid Land you repose, O Red Man, quickly we two have prepared your arrows for the soul of the Imprecator. He has them lying along the path. Quickly we two will take his soul as we go along.
Listen! In the Frigid Land you repose, O Purple Man, Quickly now we two have prepared your arrows for the soul of the Imprecator. He has them lying along the path. Quickly we two will cut his soul in two.
“Memory Lane” Trailer
A 300 u.s. dollar budget film that is comparable to any indie film of a substantially higher ticket.
From Left Films this UK flick is driven with energy emotion and serious melodrama over laid with supernatural amount of “what if”.
After the mysterious death of his girlfriend, Nick attempts suicide but is brought back to life. He discovers he can time travel in the moments between life and death so to find his girlfriend's killer, he just needs to keep killing himself... over and over and over again.
“The Raven” Spreading it’s terror on April 27th 2012
Previously slated for release on March 9th “The Raven” has now been pushed back to April 27th 2012.
Check out the new poster for the film ….
Also if your in the Philadelphia area anytime and what to kill about 35 minutes go to the Edgar Allan Poe museum were he wrote The Raven. It is a cool little run through the house where he penned the macabre tale…I visited in 1996 when I was in Phillie and it was a great little stop.
check out the link here for museum details…
“In this gritty thriller, Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack, Being John Malkovich) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans, Immortals) to hunt down a mad serial killer who’s using Poe’s own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders. Directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta, Ninja Assassin), the film also stars Alice Eve (Sex and the City 2), Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges) and Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Faster). When a mother and daughter are found brutally murdere …”
“Slime City Massacre” Screening in Tampa, FL
If you haven’t seen the any of the new modern classic cult films yet such as “Chillerama, Dear God No, or The Theatre Bizarre” you have yet another chance to see them as well “Slime City Massacre” which will be showing at :
TAMPA PITCHER SHOW THEATER 14416 N. Dale Mabry Hwy., Tampa, FL (813) 963-0578
It all begins THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH, 2012
Hosting this top-notch "Wild Bunch" of cult movies is the "King of the B-Movies" himself, JOEL D. WYNKOOP - with a SPECIAL APPEARANCE by BART BOYLE, the "Cult Movie Curmudgeon"! Prizes! Trivia! Bonus Short Films! A midnight-movie style atmosphere! It's a CULT MOVIE LOVER'S DREAM-COME-TRUE! Don't miss ANY of the BIG CULT MOVIES during the series, which begins its months-long run in February and revs on into March + beyond! Keep checking back to CULT MOVIE MANIA for the complete schedule, pricing information, time/day/date updates, and new movie additions! Tickets must be purchased at box office the evening of screening. Here's the line-up!
SLIME CITY MASSACRE THE THEATRE BIZARRE DEAR GOD NO! H.G. LEWIS'S THE UH-OH! SHOW CHILLERAMA BELLFLOWER FATHER'S DAY (COMING SOON!) BRAINJACKED + FILTHY (COMING SOON!)
7 years after a dirty bomb wipes out NYC's financial district, the US has invaded Canada. An army deserter named Cory and his girlfriend Alexa flee to the ruins of "Slime City" . They discover the elixir and yogurt from the first film (Slime City), and are transformed into murderous Slime Heads. Meanwhile, a greedy developer hires a team of mercenaries to wipe out the homeless population.
“Childish Games” New Poster and Trailer w/Subs
Daniel receives an unexpected, and unwanted, visit from a friend who he hasn’t seen since his childhood. His friend is obsessed with his daughter and insists that Daniel has to meet her. Daniel does his best to get rid of him and tries to forget the incident. That same night his friend commits suicide.
Laura, Daniel’s wife, suggests they go to his friend’s funeral. There they meet his daughter, a little girl, barely seven years old, who since the death of her father has been taken into foster care. Laura convinces all parties that the best thing is for the little girl to go and stay with them.
But the little girl’s presence in the house starts to have an adverse effect on the couple when fears and memories which Daniel thought he had long since buried start to come creeping back inside his head. The same obsessions and fears that took the life of his friend start to take control of Daniel. A growing sense of isolation engulfs Daniel in the house, which until the arrival of the little girl, he had thought belonged to him.
“Inner Demon” To Begin Filming Jan. 30th 2012
In 2009, indie horror filmmaker, Ursula Dabrowsky, completed the first installment of her Demon Trilogy, the psychological horror film, Family Demons.
Teenager Sam Durelle and her younger sister are home alone when a knock at the door leads Sam down the road to terror. Abducted by a serial killer couple, Sam manages to escape and find refuge in a desolate farmhouse, only to discover it is home to a malevolent spirit.
Trapped in the house, Sam is propelled into a struggle for survival, one that will push her to the limits not only physically and emotionally, but spiritually.
Influenced by horror films dubbed the "New French Extremity", Inner Demon aims to be in the vein of thriller/horror standouts High Tension, Buried and Enter the Void. It is a horror film that starts off as an abduction thriller, and then finishes up as a supernatural revenge film.
“Scary Tales” Anthology
Scary Tales is an anthology, the fourth movie in the career of filmmaker, Geno McGahee. This is an X Posse Production.
An anthology, featuring four tales, each with shocks and surprises. In the vein of CREEPSHOW and TALES FROM THE CRYPT, SCARY TALES features distinct tales with great performances by the many talented actors and actresses involved. New additions to the X Posse Crew included a new musician (Greg Kozlowski) doing the score and a CGI expert (Chris Dias) adding a new element to the production and bringing some of the monstrosities to life in a way that will please the audience. SCARY TALES also features the music of Shadowside and The Putrid Flowers. With axe murderers, zombies, cannibals, demons, werewolves, and the devil himself, SCARY TALES brings a little bit of everything, with an estimated release date of mid 2012.
X Posse Production
“The Caretaker” Trailer
This vampire film takes the glam back out of the damned. It goes back to the root belief of the vampire monster that is vicious and uncompromising. Basically putting the horror back into the undead!
Check out the trailer…
“As a wave of vampirism sweeps the world, Annie and Guy, who have taken a road trip in a last-ditch attempt to save their relationship, find themselves part of a discordant group holed up in a decrepit country mansion. In an uneasy pact, the group agrees to protect vampire Ford Grainger during daylight hours. In return, he guarantees their safety from marauding vampires at night. Manipulation, deceit and betrayal within the group threaten the fragile agreement, leading to a terrifying and heart-rending showdown.”
“Visible Scars” Trailer
A girl going through one of those life moments that Lifetime is always presenting us with is ambushed on a getaway into the wilderness by nightmares and her own psychosis…
Check out the trailer of “Visible Scars” directed and written by Richard Turke; starring Tom Sizemore, Jillian Murray, Hannah Hall and Deja Kruetzburg.
“Seventeen years ago, MIKE GILLIS killed a new mother of twin girls and took the babies to a house in the woods, claiming them as his own to appease his wife’s desire for kids. After Mike committed multiple murders over seven years to “protect” the growing girls locked in the basement, even finally killing his wife, one day a fire in the house causes it to collapse on Mike and the twins. In present day, STACY WALKER flees to her uncle’s old secluded cabin in those same woods to escape her abusive boyfriend. Once there, her head begins to clear and she feels free to be with her thoughts. That first night she is haunted by the ghosts of the little girls crying for their mother. Meanwhile, DETECTIVE BLACK is investigating the 17-year-old case of the twins’ disappearance and their mother’s murder. The cold trail suddenly turns warm when the case leads to the same secluded mountainous region where Stacy has escaped. As Stacy is beginning to figure out her life, as well as trying to unravel the mystery of her visions, Stacy’s friends, unaware of her abused past, bring her boyfriend up to see her. Stacy is on the brink of insanity as the twin ghosts keep reappearing. As Black gets closer to the truth, Stacy finds herself in the middle of a murder spree.”
“Fangs Of War”
Someone had to of asked the questions “what do you get when you cross Bram Stoker with WWII Nazi Germany” because the answer is here!…Check out this cool poster for “Fangs Of War”. A killer re vision of Bram Stoker’s Dracula!
The Year Is 1944
The Nazi Supernatural Division has taken Castle Dracula and set up a secret lab there with one purpose and one purpose only: unlock the secret behind the legendary Count Dracula’s immortality.
The Allies however aren’t blind to the Nazi’s ambition, thanks to their man behind enemy lines, OSS agent RM Renfield. But when Renfeld goes dark in Transylvania, it’s up to Lieutenant Jonathan Harker to bring him back, along with the vital “intel” discovered at Castle Dracula.
Begrudgingly, Harker accepts the mission and travels with Dr. John Seward to Romania, where they meet up with members of Harker’s old covert ops team: Texas sharpshooter Quincey Morris and the beautiful and brainy Anna Van Helsing.
Together they plan a daring assault on Castle Dracula, but there’s more than just Nazis waiting for them behind the castle walls. Dracula himself and his blood-lusting Brides have a plan of their own, and they will stop at nothing to see it come to fruition. It will take every ounce of strength and every shred of ingenuity that Harker and his team possess if they’re to survive the night and stop both the Nazis and Dracula from reaching their goals…
A Work In Progress “Demon In The Mist” Report
I managed to stay away from the computer for the entire weekend and focus on my writing. I spent most of my waking time starring at the small screen and weaving my story about a demon unleashed in the mountains of Southeastern Kentucky and the small group of souls fighting for survival with the help of ancient shamanism.
I have managed to get six and a half chapters complete and currently working of the middle of the story tying in the two mico stories into one larger. So far I like what I have done so far and the characters are growing on me. I am finding it is very hard to kill someone you have created this life for even in fiction. On the plus though seeing the characters story completed is so rewarding.
“Ghostquake”
Bringing the supernatural to the natural disaster!…
Currently in pre-production and starring Danny Trejo and MC Gainey.
When an earthquake opens a time capsule, the spirits of five vengeful ghosts are unleashed and it takes the ultimate sacrifice to make them disappear for good.
Labels: horror/sci-fi movie news and trailer
“The Hidden 3D” Promo Shows why some places are better left alone!
Screened in Berlin back in 2011 this horror combines everything terrifying about a building possessed by cruelty and perversion and forces it upon everything Catholically holy until we are left with nightmares of the demented kept hidden. It takes all that visionary horror and throws it at us in 3D.
Watch the promo for trailer for “The Hidden 3D”
When Brian Karter’s mother dies, he is surprised to learn that he has inherited The Sanctuary, home to her controversial experimental addiction treatment center. During a tour of the decrepit building with his friends and a mysterious associate of his mother, it becomes clear that something sinister lies beneath the surface. Despite their misgivings, the group follows a secret passageway underground and comes to a terrible realization: Brian’s mother built a revolutionary machine that cured people of their addictions but, as a side effect, caused those addictions to materialize in the form of mutant children hungry for human flesh, now living in the bowels of the abandoned building. With the mutant children hunting the group as prey, Brian and his friends fight to stay alive against the inconceivable, and soon realize that some things are better left hidden.
From Entertainment One….
“13Eerie”
Currently in production from Entertainment One this horror stars Brendan Fehr, Brendan Fletcher, Katherine Isabelle and is directed by Lowell Dean.
Six ambitious forensic undergrads are pitted against one another on a scientific expedition to a remote island, vying to win an esteemed trainee position with the FBI. Unbeknownst to them, the site was formerly used as an illegal biological testing ground for life-term criminals who were then left for dead. The arrival of the students disturbs the resting place, unleashing a pack of zombie criminal convicts who systematically hunt them down, one by one.
“Groundhogs Day” meets “Sixth Sense” in “Restless”...
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ABSOLUTE GIALLO "FRANCESCA" GETS UK RELEASE
Jinga Films and Matchbox Films are pleased to announce the UK release of Nicolas Onetti's giallo homage FRANCESCA which will be released on Bluray, DVD and VOD from July 3rd 2017.
A psychopath stalks the city cleaning it of "impure and damned souls". Moretti and Succo are the detectives tasked with resolving these "Dantesque" crimes. The secret is eventually revealed by Francesca, a little girl who was abducted 15 years ago, but has now reappeared.
Like Barberian Sound Studio, Amer and The Strange Colour Of Your Bodies Tears, FRANCESCA is an authentic and stylish celebration of the Italian giallo crime thrillers of the 60's and 70's made popular by Mario Bava and Dario Argento.
FRANCESCA - Trailer from Jinga Films on
FRANCESCA received its World premiere at Cannes where it screened in Blood Windows and has since become a genre festival favourite with screenings at FrightFest, Sitges, Fantasporto, Fantaspoa and Morbido.
“The spirit of Giallo is very much alive and kicking in Luciano Onetti’s loving homage to
the classic Italian sub genre”
– Ben Robins, The National Student
"Impressive, creative, nostalgic. Onetti’s recreation of Giallo resurrects 1970’s Italian Horror”
– Kat Hughes, The Hollywood News
“Absolute giallo...a truly spectacular blend
of sleazy saturation, pop art excess and dark desires”
- Matthew Hammond, Movie Ramblings
“Surreal, seductive and violent, a stunning
recreation of 70’s giallo”
– Steve Wright, Britflicks.
“A masterclass for nostalgia-seeking Giallo fans.
You can’t help but wish this was the kind of film
Argento was still making”
– Becky Roberts, Horror Talk.
Tarantino meets Cannon Films In "KARATE KILL" Releasing This July From Dark Cuts!
Tarantino meets Cannon Films in Karate Kill, from acclaimed filmmaker Kurando Mitsutake, on Blu-ray, DVD and VOD July 18.
Featuring a "grimly relentless performance” (Japan Times) from Hayate, with solid support from Iron Fist’s David Sakurai and WWE icon Katarina Leigh Waters, Karate Kill will be available on Blu-ray and DVD - exclusive to Target, Walmart, Best Buy and Amazon – on July 18. VOD will be day and date on iTunes, VHX, Google Play, Fandango, Vudu, Dish, Vubiquity, Comcast, Charter, Cox and Xbox.
A “must see” (Terror Weekend) action masterpiece from the director of Gun Woman and Blind Wolf comes to the U.S. When Karate master Kenji’s (Hayate) young sister (Mana Sakura) is kidnapped by a dangerous cult, and taken to the U.S. he will stop at nothing to find her. Partnered with a mysterious shot-gun toting partner, Kenji must use his mastery of Karate to dismantle the cult members one by one in spectacular and bloody fashion, until he finds his sister.
Dark Cuts releases Karate Kill July 18.
"GREMLIN" Premieres On VOD This July
Emmy Award winning director, Ryan Bellgardt’s (Army of Frankenstein) highly anticipated creature feature Gremlin hits VOD July 11 from Uncork’d Entertainment.
Godzilla meets The Ring in a thrilling, uniquely-scripted horror jaunt that boasts amazing computer-generated effects and from some of the best in the game.
Adam receives a mysterious box from a relative containing a creature that will kill everyone he cares about. The only way to be rid of the curse is to give the box to someone he loves. As the ominous timer on the box counts down to its end, he can only imagine the horrors that await. Does he give the box away to save his family, or unleash a monster upon humanity? He can’t destroy it. He can’t escape it. He can only give it to someone he loves…
Adam Hampton, Kristy K. Boone, Catcher Stair, Katie Burgess, Mike Waugh, and Caleb Milby star in Gremlin, available everywhere on digital 7/11.
New Clip Cuts Deep Ahead of "A Night Of Horror Vol.1" Digital HD Release
Indie film distributor 108 Media Corp has released the first clip of their upcoming genre title, A Night of Horror: Volume 1. Comprised of 10 shorts that premiered at Sydney's A Night of Horror Film Festival, the anthology features the directing talents of Bossi Baker, Nicholas Colla, Daniel Daperis, Carmen Falk, Matthew Goodrich, Evan Randall Green, Justin Harding, Goran Spoljaric, Enzo Tedeschi and Rebecca Thomson.
Whether you're a fan of A Night of Horror, Sydney's iconic genre film festival, or just a fan of the best and bloodiest in new horror cinema, you can't afford to miss this fright-filled anthology. Zombies, demonic entities, self-surgery, cannibalism and more await in the dark corners of this terrifying offering from ten of the most talented filmmakers working in the genre today.
Terror Films Debuts the Official Trailer, Poster and New Clip from "THE DRIFTER"
The Drifter will be making its worldwide debut on Tuesday, June 6th. Also, genre distributor Terror Films has released the official poster, trailer and one more exclusive clip, titled “Listen to me, you little s**t.”
The story follows a uniquely troubled man who finds himself on a downward spiral induced by painful memories of his dark and distant past. Taking refuge from his long days and nights of driving aimlessly on the open highway, he stops off in a small town, where he happens to cross paths with an old acquaintance. This acquaintance becomes dangerously intrigued and determined to discover the skeletons hiding in the drifter’s past.
This marks the feature film debut of director Craig Calamis, which premiered at the 2015 Queens World Film Festival. Here, it won the Audience Award and was nominated for Jury Awards in both: the Best Narrative Feature and Best Director categories. Atlanta Horror Film Festival named it one of the “Top Independent Horror Films of 2015.” Also, it was also nominated for Best Special Effects at the 2014 Scare-A-Con Festival.
As part of their new World Wide digital release model, Terror Films will release the film across multiple digital platforms, in several territories. Territories include: the U.S., Canada, the Middle East, North Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Ireland, the U.K. and Pan-Russia. The film will be available on several video hosting platforms. Platforms include: iTunes, Amazon Instant, Google Play/You Tube, Sony PSN, X-Box, Vudu, Steam, Vimeo On Demand, Roku (Free Flix Tonight, 24 Hour Movie Channel, Free Grindhouse Flix Tonight), I Bleed Indie and Tubi TV. The premiere SVOD platform, iFlix will also be picking up the film, which will help expand the film’s worldwide distribution in the coming months.
New Teaser Trailer For "Fighting The Sky"
A group of young ufologists explore a series of apocalyptic sounds emerging from the sky. For years, all around the world, people have heard and recorded a thundering sound that emits from the sky without any origin or explanation. Even the scientists are stumped, folks, and the strange part is the media is ignoring it. Something is going on, and that something will be explored in Fighting The Sky.”
Directed by Conrad Faraj and written by David Matthew Cummings with Conrad Faraj.
Starring Angela Cole, Roger Conners, Matthew Ward, Nicole Ann Hicks, Alison Headrick, Jinette Faraj, Judith Faraj, Brianna Burke, Bailey Weaver, Logan Roberts, Ed Conrad, Larry Cahill.
"Gun Caliber" Limited Edition Presales Begin
SRS Cinema is excited to bring the fans its first ever Japanese produced release in the hilarious Tokusatsu flick ” Gun Caliber”. The action packed feature was inspired by TV series like “The Power Rangers” and the “Godzilla” movies, yet given a totally tasteless and politically incorrect twist in a super hero lead who’s more interested in getting laid then he is in being a hero. The movie is also the latest title SRS is taking out to film festivals and theaters in advance of a wide release (Following “She Kills” and “Lights Camera Blood!”). In fact, “Gun Caliber” has already made it as a finalist in the FROSTBITE International Film Festival in Colorado and was just accepted into Cinemafantastique 3 in Canada. With another dozen or so submissions ahead watch for news on more showings soon.
Meantime, for fans who can’t wait for the wide release on DVD and VOD (projected for late 2017), SRS has launched a special advance limited editions on Bluray and VHS. Copies are now in stock (with over half sold already) and shipping immediately. Check out this synopsis:
“Get ready to shoot evil in the dick and steal its wallet!
It is the year, 20XX AD. The evil organization known as “Skulldier” is hell-bent on taking over Japan – well, right after they finish their lunch break – with a device known as the “Gen Drive”. But one man stands in their way… Soma Kusanagi. He may be your average, miserable, Smartball Parlor employee in Tokyo’s Old Town, but when evil rears its ugly ass on the Japanese metropolis, he transforms into the gun-slinging superhero GUN CALIBER! He’s a hero who likes his bullets fast and his women even faster… a hero who can beat down evil as if it was his ex-wife!
From the creative Filipino-Canadian mind of indie Tokusatsu director Bueno and his ragtag Tokyo based film group GARAGE HERO, “GUN CALIBER” is a drunk, sexy, euphoric, action packed, Tour-de-Force that’s so hot, you’ll wish your face could melt…”
“Gun Caliber”, based on director Bueno’s hugely popular youtube series, is just as crazy as it sounds – you won’t be disappointed in this one!
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"Ghost Note" Gets VOD DVD Release This August
“Ghost Note" receives distribution through Maxim Media’s Midnight Releasing brand. It will be released August 1, 2017 on VOD and DVD. The film is directed by Troy Hart and stars Alicia Rae Underwood, Justin Alexander Duncan, Kenny Gardner, Allyn Carrell, Earl Browning III, Todd Jenkins, and Kim Foster.
When rebellious teenager Mallory is left behind at her grandmother's house while her parents go to Hawaii, she gets reacquainted with Rodney, the boy next door. She also discovers a dark family secret, hidden away in the attic.
Terror Films Teams Up With iFlix
Genre distributor Terror Films has teamed up with the world’s leading Subscription Video on Demand (SVoD) service, for emerging markets, iflix. This newly formed partnership will allow the distributor to expand their digital reach into multiple territories within iflix’s footprint including: South East Asia, Africa and the Middle East. with future territories to be announced.
The films set to launch under the deal will include a wide variety from the label. They will include: the post apocalyptic film, Antidote, the paranormal thriller Trace, the star-studded anthology Patient Seven; the Blumhouse.com praised, found footage film Hell House LLC, the Halloween house gone wrong teen horror House of Purgatory, the in-depth documentary into the making of Stephen King’s original “Pet Sematary” Unearthed and Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary and the recently released, award winning, female directed horror film Inner Demon. The films were released on May 18th in: Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Myanmar, Brunei, Maldives, Egypt, Iraq, Sudan, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. The release phase into these additional countries will follow in the coming months.
The partnership is part of a strategic move to solidify Terror Films ability to distribute indie horror content to literally every corner of the globe.
To learn more about Terror Films, visit: www.terrorfilms.net
https://www.facebook.com/TerrorFilmsLLC
To learn more about iFlix, visit: https://www.iflix.com
Release Date And Visual Goodies From "Bonejangles"
This July, Wild Eye Releasing lets loose the next iconic movie monster!
While transporting the legendary killer Bonejangles, a group of police break down in a town cursed with monsters, and must release him to survive!
Reggie Bannister, Elissa Dowling, Kelly Misek, Jr., Julia Cavanaugh, Devin Toft, Jamie Scott Gordon, Lawrence Wayne Curry, and Hannah Richter star in a Brett DeJager film, written by Keith Melcher.
Bonejangles stalks VOD July 18.
Trailer Release For "Bear With Us "
Bear with Us is a comedy horror marriage proposal movie set at a cabin in the woods. Just like Jaws. But much funnier. And with a bear instead of a shark.
It's a crazy romp about a guy who attempts to propose to his girlfriend in the most romantic way possible, but his plan starts to fall apart when a ravenous bear stumbles on their charming cabin in the woods.
Bear with Us is a total comedy of errors that takes a humorous look at just how far we'll go to preserve our relationships…
BEAR WITH US | Trailer #1 (2016) - Christy Carlson Romano, Cheyenne Jackson Movie from William J. Stribling on Vimeo.
The Ultimate Guide To The Amazon Warrior
Unleash your inner warrior and celebrate 75 years of Wonder Woman™ with this ultimate must-have guide. Featuring all-new text, this complete compendium showcases comics and key storylines from the very beginning up to the modern day. It’s a need-to-read for fans of the sword-wielding warrior, featuring artwork and analysis that packs a justice-loving punch.
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New Video Interview With Macarena Gomez, Discussing Her Role In "The Black Gloves".
Check out the new video interview with Macarena Gomez, discussing her role in upcoming horror "The Black Gloves".
Spanish horror icon Macarena Gomez tells all about Gothic chiller The Black Gloves
Horror fans will recognise Macarena Gomez from her many iconic performances in the genre, from the mesmerizing sea priestess in Dagon to the deranged shut-in in Shrew's Nest, and the psychotic murderess in Sexy Killer. She is known for her intense and memorable performances, but her role in The Black Gloves might be her most extreme yet. In this Hitchcock-inspired horror, Macarena plays Lorena Velasco, a formidable ballet mistress obsessed with the recovery of her troubled student.
Macarena chats candidly about working with Director Lawrie Brewster and her fellow actors Jamie Scott-Gordon and Alexandra Nicole Hulme, as well as the challenges of performing in English, and what it's like to work on an independent production.
The Black Gloves is the latest offering from Director/Writer team Lawrie Brewster and Sarah Daly. It tells the story of a psychologist obsessed with the disappearance of his young patient, and the menacing owl-headed figure that plagued her nightmares. His investigations lead him to a reclusive ballerina who, just like his patient, is convinced that she is about to die at the hands of this disturbing entity.
The filmmakers have launched a Kickstarter campaign to secure finishing funds for the project. With less than a week to go, there's still time to get involved and help this indie chiller reach its full potential. http://kck.st/2onBRIZ
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"Black Site " Begins Production
AirPick Pictures and Tom Paton Film are proud to announce the start of
production of their forthcoming movie BLACK SITE, a supernatural action best
described as HP Lovecraft meets The Raid, starring Mike Beckingham (brother of Simon Pegg), and directed by Tom Paton ( Redwood, Pandorica).
BLACK SITE is the story of Ren Reid, orphaned as a child when a member of
an ancient race known as The Elder Gods killed her parents. Twenty Years
have passed and a fractured Ren now works for Artemis, an organization
set up to contain and then deport these entities back to where they came
from. When the Elder God responsible for Ren’s childhood tragedy is caught and brought to The Black Site for deportation, Ren must partner with an unlikely ally as the last line of defense against a wave of worshippers hell bent on releasing their deity back into the world. With the facility on lockdown and the enemy closing in, Ren has just hours to avenge her parents and prove once and for all that she is worthy of wearing the Artemis uniform.
Mike Beckingham stars in the movie, as a follow-up to his first collaboration with
Tom Paton, REDWOOD (set for a major release later this year}. Early reactions to that movie have been beyond positive, setting the table for this larger, more ambitious production to introduce audiences to the rich & detailed world
Paton has created in BLACK SITE. (An expansive, potential franchise starter
that spans a wealth of known mythology weaved in amongst something
unexpected}.
Critics say, “Paton’s debut features mark him as the genre name to watch.”
"Frames of Fear" Tunes in Gore and Sleaze for Shot on Video Fans
Brad Twigg has orchestrated an anthology of exploitation and SRS Cinema is excited to bring you a special edition advance release of the movie months ahead of the wide release.
Read on, if you dare:
“The midnight hour has arrived. Turn on your TV, lock your windows, bolt your doors, hold your crucifix close and most importantly, say your prayers… for its time for FRAMES OF FEAR, where our groovy ghoul Festering Frank is waiting to tear the scream from your throat!
Gaze on in horror as your eyes and your sanity are assaulted with 6 horrific tales of madness that will send you screaming for the grave! With bloodcurdling tales of psychotic prowlers, wrathful wrestlers, voracious video games, zany zombies and deadly dummies.
FRAMES OF FEAR is a splattery slice of slaughteriffic shot on video horror! A new, unforgettable classick of camcorder carnage! Experience all of this insanity and more in the horror anthology that will scare the soul right out of you! Watch FRAMES OF FEAR if you dare!”
“Frames of Fear” is currently available in limited edition Bluray (100 units) and VHS (25 units) only. Copies are in stock and ship immediately.
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Director’s Cut of “Other Halves” Now Available on DVD
Other Halves, the horror film about a killer dating app, is now out on DVD in uncensored form, as intended by the filmmakers.
“We’re very excited to have our original vision available for everyone to see,” says co-writer/director Matthew T. Price. “We were disappointed that the film had to be altered for Amazon Prime. Now audiences can watch the movie we set out to create.”
The Other Halves DVD is available on Amazon and Create Space. The DVD is also available on Kunaki for a special discounted price.
In addition to DVDs, Other Halves is invading laptops, cell phones, and internet-connected TVs around the world. Tech-savvy horror fans can stream it now on iTunes, Vudu, Google Play and Amazon Prime.
Other Halves stars Lauren Lakis (Rows, Dr Ken) and Mercedes Manning (Strictly Sexual, Zipper) as programmers who develop a revolutionary new dating app. On the night it’s set to lunch, they discover a bug: the app unleashes the user’s id. They consider shutting the app down, but…
Evil is profitable.
Check out this NSFW clip of Devon (Lauren Lakis) using the app for the first time:
After a successful circuit of horror festivals, including Other Worlds Austin, and Another Hole in the Head, and ZedFest (where it won Best Micro-Budget Feature) Other Halves will now be terrifying general audiences.
Shot on location at a real tech startup, the filmmakers sought authenticity in their depiction of coders in San Francisco. The writers, Matthew T. Price and Kelly Morr, consulted with actual programmers to ensure the dialogue was as realistic as possible.
They also chose to focus on a team of women creating an app, a field that is traditionally dominated by men. The tech industry has been making a conscious effort to foster gender equality, and the creators of Other Halves wanted to reflect that.
The Austin Chronicle calls it “part giallo, part techno-horror, part Cronenberg-style Jekyll and Hyde riff, part acerbic sex comedy, and a wry commentary about the addictive nature of technology.” Shock Till You Drop says it’s “a satirical and techno-savvy film laced with more than just a drizzle of Sci-Fi.” And Dread Central says “Sure, you don’t even have to leave your house anymore, but that doesn’t mean you’re not still taking your life in your hands when dealing with strangers. Case in point: Other Halves.”
Other Halves, from One Oh One Radio Pictures, is the feature film debut for writer/director Matthew T. Price, and writer/producer Kelly Morr. The film is also produced by Curt Chatham, and features Lianna Liew (Truth Or Dare), Sam Schweikert (Hart of Dixie), and Melanie Friedrich (Positive: Some Doors Should Remain Closed). Megan Hui (The Gambler), and Carson Nicely (The Conan O’Brien Show).
You can follow the production on their website, www.OtherHalv.es or on IMDB, as well as on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter (@OtherHalvesFilm), and Instagram (@OtherHalvesFilm).
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Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications. C. Large Integrated HMOs
In order to examine a more typical arrangement, The Lewin Group decided to focus on integrated health maintenance organizations (HMOs) for this study. Consequently, The Lewin Group identified participants based on the following criteria:
Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications. B. Managed Behavioral Health Care Organizations
The criteria used to select three managed behavioral health care organizations (MBHCOs) for this study included:
Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications. A. Pharmaceutical Companies
Pharmaceutical manufacturers were selected based on the following criteria: 1) medium to large size company; and 2) company has current products and products in development in the area of newer atypical antidepressants and/or antipsychotics. As a result, Janssen, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, and GlaxoWellcome (GW) were selected. (1) GW and Eli Lilly
Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications. Appendix B. Interview Strategy
This study focused on identifying and interviewing individuals from a variety of organizations or programs represented by the following perspectives:
Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications. Appendix A. Interview Protocol
The following document displays a generic form of the interview protocol used in this study. Please note that this template was tailored specifically for the type of respondent being interviewed.
Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications. Appendixes
Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications. E. The Changing Role of Managed Care
Resistance to managed care has centered on the restriction of patients' choice of plan and provider; on plans' denial of services or reimbursement; and on plans' continual reduction of provider reimbursement rates. Both Congress and most state legislatures continue to consider Patients' Bill of Rights legislation as a way to ensure some level of q
Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications. D. Mental Health Parity Legislation: Promise and Threat
Debate continues to rage over guaranteed "parity" in insurance benefits for mental health treatment. Generally, insurers and employers resist parity along with all mandates. Advocates promote parity as a matter of equity for people who happen to suffer from a mental rather than physical form of illness, and also argue that such coverage would incr
Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications. C. Three-Tiered Copayment Requirements: Placing Greater Choice in the Hands of Consumers at a Cost
The introduction of three-tiered copayment systems represents a significant shift in how cost-sharing is applied to pharmaceutical benefits. Alongside a general increase in the level of cost-sharing required, these systems give a higher level of choice to the consumer in making pharmacotherapy decisions. Whereas in the past, the only diffe
Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications. B. The Changing Meaning of the Formulary
The formularies used by health care payers is changing from a list of approved drugs that can be reimbursed to a list of preferred drugs that will be reimbursed automatically without question or paperwork. Rarely is reimbursement denied for a non-formulary drug if the consumer or provider is persistent. However, the extent to which this "hassle fa
Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications. A. New Chemical Entities and Generic Competition
The entry of new chemical entities into the psychotherapeutic market in the coming years will profoundly alter the dynamics shaping access to and utilization of these products in much the same way the launch of the current generation of products changed the market within the last decade. It can be expected that these products will be launched with
Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications. Chapter VIII. Future Directions in the Benefits Status of Psychotherapeutic Pharmaceuticals
The present study provides a single snapshot of a landscape that is rapidly changing. Numerous factors are affecting the structure of the health care payment system in the United States and the combination of these will likely result in a vastly different state of access to and utilization of pharmaceuticals in general and psychotherapeutics speci
Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications. Pharmacoeconomic Analyses of Specific Antipsychotic Agents
We reviewed 38 studies that evaluate the pharmacoeconomics of newer antipsychotic medications to a relevant level of rigor. Only a small number of studies are prospective, randomized economic clinical trials conducted either in a naturalistic health care setting or as a "piggy back" to a clinical trial. Many of these studies are retrospective anal
Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications. The Cost of Schizophrenia and Related Illness in the United States
Cost of illness studies on psychotic disorders in the U.S. reveal that patients with schizophrenia consume a disproportionate percentage of national healthcare dollars. It has been reported that although schizophrenia occurs in only 1% of the general population, patients with the disorder consume approximately 2.5% of total U.S. healthcare dollars
Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications. C. The Cost-Effectiveness of Newer Antipsychotic Medications
Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications. Pharmacoeconomic Analyses of Specific Pharmaceutical Agents
The Lewin Group identified 40 studies that evaluate the pharmacoeconomics of newer antidepressant medications to a reliable level of rigor. Twenty-nine studies compare newer antidepressants to older antidepressants; 11 studies compare newer antidepressants to other newer antidepressants. The majority of these studies are retrospective analyses of
Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications. The Cost of Depressive Illness in the United States
Any understanding of the cost-effectiveness of a medical therapy must be based on both the cost of the illness being treated as well as the effectiveness of the therapy. Several cost of illness studies on depressive or affective disorders have been conducted in the US. One estimate placed the cost of affective disorders in 1990 at $30.4 billion, a
Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications. B. The Cost-Effectiveness of Newer Antidepressant Medications
Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications. A. Overview of Pharmacoeconomics
The term "cost-effectiveness" has been broadly applied to several methods of pharmacoeconomic analysis which compare the clinical and/or quality of life outcomes and costs associated with competing pharmacological agents. Measurements used in pharmacoeconomic analyses of the newer psychotropic therapies include cost-of-illness, cost-minimization,
Access and Utilization of New Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications. Chapter VII. Pharmacoeconomics of Newer Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Medications
As health care in the United States has become increasingly cost-conscious, providers are increasingly encouraged not only to consider the outcomes of treatment alternatives, but also to consider and justify costs. Similarly, payers have begun to examine the interaction of cost and effectiveness more carefully. The cost-effectiveness of newer anti
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Spin relaxation of electrons and holes in zinc-blende semiconductors
Z. G. Yu, S. Krishnamurthy, Mark Van Schilfgaarde, Nathan Newman
IAFSE-SEMTE: Materials Science and Engineering
CLAS-NS: Solid State Science, LeRoy Eyring Center for (CSSS)
Knowledge Enterprise Development, Office of (OKED)
We develop a procedure to calculate spin relaxation times of electrons and holes in semiconductors using full band structures. The spin-orbit (SO) interaction is included in the unperturbed Hamiltonian. With the use of spin projection operators, we calculate electron and hole spin relaxation from both Elliott-Yafet and D'yakonov-Perel' mechanisms, and quantitatively explain measurements of GaAs. The predicted relaxation times of GaN are longer for electrons, but shorter for holes. We find that the valence band SO splitting at the zone center is not a good indicator of SO coupling for electrons.
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.71.245312
Hamiltonians
Valence bands
spin-orbit interactions
electron spin
Yu, Z. G., Krishnamurthy, S., Van Schilfgaarde, M., & Newman, N. (2005). Spin relaxation of electrons and holes in zinc-blende semiconductors. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 71(24), [245312]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.71.245312
Spin relaxation of electrons and holes in zinc-blende semiconductors. / Yu, Z. G.; Krishnamurthy, S.; Van Schilfgaarde, Mark; Newman, Nathan.
In: Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 71, No. 24, 245312, 15.06.2005.
Yu, ZG, Krishnamurthy, S, Van Schilfgaarde, M & Newman, N 2005, 'Spin relaxation of electrons and holes in zinc-blende semiconductors', Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, vol. 71, no. 24, 245312. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.71.245312
Yu ZG, Krishnamurthy S, Van Schilfgaarde M, Newman N. Spin relaxation of electrons and holes in zinc-blende semiconductors. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2005 Jun 15;71(24). 245312. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.71.245312
Yu, Z. G. ; Krishnamurthy, S. ; Van Schilfgaarde, Mark ; Newman, Nathan. / Spin relaxation of electrons and holes in zinc-blende semiconductors. In: Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2005 ; Vol. 71, No. 24.
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Terveet Kädet - S/T - MLP grey vinyl
PRE-ORDERS - available at https://blitzrecords.bigcartel.com Released 25th July
350 x grey vinyl
The legendary 1st Terveet Kädet 12-inch from 1983 is a much revered classic in the Finnish hardcore scene, but despite its lauded status it has not since its original release been available in its original form. The Svart reissue presents the mini-album just as it was 31 years ago: black and white covers, 45 RPM, no extra songs or alternate versions. Also features a 12 page booklet with liner notes, photos and clippings.
Terveet Kädet - Musta jumala - LP grey vinyl
The half-studio / half-live LP Black God / Musta jumala was released in Brazil and Germany in 1984 but hasn't been available in its original form in 30 years The Svart reissue presents the album just as it was 30 years ago: black and white covers, no extra track gaps or omissions, no extra songs or alternate versions. Also features a 8 page booklet with liner notes, photos and clippings.
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Meet the Baker: Dawn Butler
To celebrate the start of the Great British Bake Off and the launch of our new cake frame in stores, we got together with creator of the cake frame and gravity-cake extraordinaire, Dawn Butler. Beware of much hunger as you read…
How did you first get into baking?
When I was 17 I got a job in a local bakery in the celebration cake department. It was a 6 week job in my summer break from university. I loved every minute of it, but didn’t return to baking and decorating cakes until I was 30, when I had children and began to make their birthday cakes.
What was the first bake you made?
My eldest son’s first birthday cake was a Finding Nemo themed cake, and was a simple vanilla sponge (still a recipe that I use lots today).
What kind of baking do you love the most and why?
Our family have become a little bored of cake! But they do love my baking, we love to bake at Christmas and make mince pies and Baileys cheesecake. But our favourite has to be a simple biscuit cake – melted butter, chocolate, and syrup with your favourite smashed up biscuits and other treats, all mixed together and pressed into a lined tin and chilled in the fridge. Be warned, it won’t last long – we can usually devour a 6″ cake in one sitting!
What has been your proudest bake?
Am I allowed to have two? I was lucky enough to win a coveted cake award this year, taking home the “best in show cake” at the ICHF cake international show (it’s bigger than winning GBBO). I made a bust of Albert Einstein (all cake and all edible), and not long afterwards I was asked to make a flying helicopter cake for the Queen and Prince William, for an event at the East Anglian Air Ambulance. It was such an honour, and to make a cake fly was such a challenge! But thankfully I managed to pull it off and everyone enjoyed it!
Where do you find your inspiration for bakes?
All sorts of things give me inspiration for baking and decorating, the Einstein cake was about me wanting to try a new technique for making hair look life like (I used rice noodles for this and put each one in by hand with tweezers), and sometimes it’s all about the taste . My family love my biscuit cakes and we often see something in the supermarket (such as a new chocolate or flavour) and we think about how we could incorporate it into a new flavoured biscuit cake! (we made a white chocolate and peanut butter one last week- amazing!)
Describe your baking space to us.
My workshop is full of shelves high to the ceiling, each packed with tools and equipment for different cakes. I have a station to airbrush on, and an areas to photograph my cakes (the worst thing you can do is photograph them in a cluttered kitchen counter, or in their box!) I have a large island in the middle of the space, with drawers at each end, everything has its place, but I always seems to make a complete mess whilst working, using all the space, and every piece of equipment, until I can’t move, and have to tidy it all up again! I can’t smell anything in there but people always tell me how wonderful it smells. They all say it smells like chocolate and vanilla – I do always have a large tub of ganache on the go, and I use chocolate paste a lot in my work.
How did you come about the idea for your cake frame?
Cake frame was a the result of my frustration. I was not keen to put wood and metal in cakes as it’s just not foot safe. I though there had to be an easier, more appropriate way to get structure into cakes, and my lightbulb moment came early one morning. I set about drawing my ideas. I actually did nothing with those drawings for over a year, but once I finally got round to taking them to a plastics manufacturer, we went from the plans to a working product in just 9 months.
Are there any trends or products that you’re really excited for coming up?
I’m really enjoying seeing the crossover between wedding cakes and novelty cakes, with designs like the geode cakes. And I also love that crafting and cakes have blended together. People are using great craft techniques on their cakes, such as scrap booking and wafer paper, and now we’re even seeing adult colouring book free hand styles on cakes too!
I have all sorts of things in the pipeline. I am working with major film companies on licensed cake frame products, and I have other products (completely different to cake frame) on the way too! I’m continuing with my travels too, this year has seen me in America and Europe and in September I’ll be appearing at a large cake show in Mumbai.
Shop Cake Decorating »
August 31, 2016 in Craft Ideas by Hobbycraft
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A Discussion With Teen Actor/Animal Activist Lou Wegner
Dr. Jordan Schaul introduces teen actor Lou Wegner as the newest young crusader and first young celebrity crusader to be featured in Nat Geo. Lou serves as National Youth Ambassador for the American Humane Association. He also hosted Young Hollywood For Humanity at the Hero Dog Awards in Beverly Hills and was named the 2013...
Lou Wegner Trouble With The Curve (Photo by Tina Gill/PR Photos)
Dr. Jordan Schaul introduces teen actor Lou Wegner as the newest young crusader and first young celebrity crusader to be featured in Nat Geo.
Lou serves as National Youth Ambassador for the American Humane Association. He also hosted Young Hollywood For Humanity at the Hero Dog Awards in Beverly Hills and was named the 2013 Pet Hero of The Year by Pet Philanthropy Circle. Lou accepted the honor with Christie Brinkley for their work on behalf of animals.
The 18 yr-old is also the youth spokesperson for ASPCA and Subaru of America, and was named one of the top five celebrity activists along with Bruce Springsteen, Yoko Ono, Ted Danson, and Edward Norton by Care To Make A Difference foundation.
In 2010, Lou founded Kids Against Animal Cruelty (KAAC), an educational foundation for animal rights, rescue and shelter adoption he started at age 14 when he learned millions of animals are put to sleep if not adopted. Today its state chapters run by teens work to lobby against puppy mills, ban shelter gas chambers, save wild Mustangs, and preserve America’s western frontier. He continues lobbying to educate his generation on responsible pet ownership.
Christie and Lou (Photo by Richard Lewin)
One of the world’s fastest growing animal rights groups, KAAC has 50,000+ members, fans and supporters including Alexandria Altman, Denise Richards, Joanna Krupa, Ryan Kavanaugh, Adam West, Betty White, Malese Jow, Shirley Jones, Ken Howard, Elaine Hendrix, Renee Taylor, Stephanie Levy, Natalie Rotman, Eric Lange, Kaileigh Brielle Martin, Wendon Swift, Nicole Cummins, Emily Capehart, Laci Kay, Jessica Harthcock, and Robin Harmon. KAAC partner coalitions are Best Friends Animal Society Los Angeles, American Humane Association, Pet Philanthropy Circle, Subaru of America, ASPCA, Pilots N’ Paws, Humane Society of the United States, Onyx and Breezy Foundation, Mercy For Animals, and Maui Jim Sunglasses.
Lou stars in the fantasy adventure Snow Moon (2014). He appeared in Trouble With the Curve, Doughboy, A Christmas Tree Miracle, Pass The Light, VH-1 Do Something Awards, Modern Family and other film and TV projects. He has been featured in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, ABC News, CNN, MSN.com, Breitbart.com, Miami Herald and his photo with his rescue dogs was the number one Yahoo! Photo of the Day. His public service music video “1Life2Live” continues to raise awareness for animals at overcrowded shelters, and his pop music trio “Blonde” soon debuts “Keep The World Spinning” for saving wild horses.
Lou Wegner Pit Bull (Photo by Valerie King)
When not acting and motivating fellow teens to stand up for change and animal rights, Lou spends time riding horses, long boarding, snowboarding, practicing karate, parkour, fencing, and writing music. He also manages, in between acting roles and charity work, to attend school and produce public service music videos for the animals. He lives with his family and rescue dogs in Burbank, California. Follow him on Facebook and on Twitter @kaac33.
Jordan: You have a remarkable resume as an activist. What prompted you to get involved in advocacy and activism?
Lou: I am fortunate to have parents who were concerned about my mark in the world as a human being so they enrolled me, at the age of three, into the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium’s Summer Youth Program. For eight years, I learned that conservation, preservation, and concerns for the environment were vital. That animals and the land they depended upon were being destroyed. It bothered me deeply that elephants and rhinos were targets, cruelly hunted and killed for their ivory and horns. Next I volunteered for two summers at the Ohio Wildlife Center. It was there at the rehabilitation hospital that I saw cruelty to wildlife first hand.
Coming to Los Angeles, the director of my first film, Be Good to Eddie Lee, asked if I had ever volunteered at an animal shelter. I had not. I was 14, so I volunteered at the Baldwin Park Animal Shelter. Sadly, I quickly discovered that animals were euthanized to make space for the continuous flow of animals coming in. These were family pets, crying as their owners walked away. I was heartbroken. I will never forget. I had to do something. I decided to start Kids Against Animal Cruelty (KAAC) to educate my generation about adopting shelter animals, spay/neuter, and pet responsibility.
Jordan: Tell us a little about the American Humane Association and how you have helped them on their advocacy campaigns?
Lou: American Humane Association has been protecting children, pets and farm animals from abuse and neglect since 1877. They provide grants to local shelters and maintain a nationwide animal disaster response team, among other programs. I was extremely honored to be appointed AHA’s first National Youth Ambassador. As an actor, I am also very interested in working with AHA’s No Animals Were Harmed® Film and TV Unit based in Los Angeles, which helps ensure animals are humanely treated in movies, television shows and commercials.
Lou Wegner Rescue Dogs (Photo by Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press)
Jordan: Congratulations on your awards. Is there one you are most proud of on behalf of your animal work?
I am extremely grateful for all of my awards and the time and consideration of those that nominated me and my organization, including our KAAC state chapter presidents. Besides AHA, I also serve as youth spokesperson for Best Friends Animal Society Los Angeles, Pilots N’ Paws, Subaru of America, ASPCA, The Onyx and Breezy Foundation, and Humane Society of the United States, among others. I am especially proud of being named Pet Philanthropy Circle’s Junior Pet Hero of the Year. They have embraced Kids Against Animal Cruelty and honored me with a seat on their executive board to represent the youth voice. I believe that education of my generation is vital in changing the tide of death for shelter animals, preserving wildlife, and ending animal cruelty for good.
Jordan: Some of our other crusaders have started charities on behalf of endangered species or as companion animal welfarists. They have to budget their time to tend to school work. How did you manage to work, get schooled and get involved with advocacy?
Lou: The advocacy part was easy. I discovered that saving shelter animals was a click of my mouse or an app on my phone to build a global network of friends, fellow advocates and coalition partners. I connected with many thousands and discovered that I could use social media to make a difference. KAAC worked perfectly with school and acting. For example, whether on school break or at an audition, I could check my e-mail or log onto Facebook via my phone to check up on animals in need. Also, I just booked the feature film Snow Moon, with a production company that has totally endorsed KAAC. I think that is so awesome.
Jordan: Is there one message you would like to share with our audience and your fans regarding your non-profit work?
Lou: My passion and dreams are to inspire kindness and compassion to my generation. As kids, it is our responsibility to promote proper stewardship of our planet and all of its inhabitants through awareness, conservation and education. It is through these efforts that we can work together to make a difference for current and future generations.
Jordan Schaul
Dr. Jordan Schaul is a zoologist, conservationist, journalist and animal trainer based in Los Angeles, California. For more of his posts, please visit his National Geographic Society author page. Like his public Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/jordan.schaul) or follow him on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/jordanschaul).
Jordan Carlton Schaul
With training in wildlife ecology, conservation medicine and comparative psychology, Dr. Schaul's contributions to Nat Geo Voices have covered a range of environmental and social topics. He draws particular attention to the plight of imperiled species highlighting issues at the juncture or nexus of sorta situ wildlife conservation and applied animal welfare. Sorta situ conservation practices are comprised of scientific management and stewardship of animal populations ex situ (in captivity / 'in human care') and in situ (free-ranging / 'in nature'). He also has a background in behavior management and training of companion animals and captive wildlife, as well as conservation marketing and digital publicity. Jordan has shared interviews with colleagues and public figures, as well as editorial news content. In addition, he has posted narratives describing his own work, which include the following examples: • Restoration of wood bison to the Interior of Alaska while (While Animal Curator at Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center and courtesy professor at the University of Alaska) • Rehabilitation of orphaned sloth bears exploited for tourists in South Asia (While executive consultant 'in-residence' at the Agra Bear Rescue Center managed by Wildlife SOS) • Censusing small wild cat (e.g. ocelot and margay) populations in the montane cloud forests of Costa Rica for popular publications with 'The Cat Whisperer' Mieshelle Nagelschneider • Evaluating the impact of ecotourism on marine mammal population stability and welfare off the coast of Mexico's Sea of Cortez (With Boston University's marine science program) Jordan was a director on boards of non-profit wildlife conservation organizations serving nations in Africa, North and South America and Southeast Asia. He is also a consultant to a human-wildlife conflict mitigation organization in the Pacific Northwest. Following animal curatorships in Alaska and California, he served as a charter board member of a zoo advocacy and outreach organization and later as its executive director. Jordan was a member of the Communication and Education Commission of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (CEC-IUCN) and the Bear Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (BSG-SSC-IUCN). He has served on the advisory council of the National Wildlife Humane Society and in service to the Bear Taxon Advisory Group of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA Bear TAG). In addition he was an ex officio member of council of the International Association for Bear Research and Management. Contact Email: jordan@jordanschaul.com http://www.facebook.com/jordan.schaul https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanschaul/ www.jordanschaul.com www.bicoastalreputationmanagement.com
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From Mowat and Beyond
Exploring ancestry from Manitoba and beyond.
Marion Harland
School for Housewives
Mowat Pioneers
Mossey River Honour Roll
Mowat School District
Mowat School Attendance
The Dauphin Herald
Today in the Dauphin Herald, WWI
Today in the Dauphin Herald – Dec 20 – 1917
1917 Dec 20 – The Week’s Casualties
Pte. W.R. Watson, Magnet, Man., killed in action. (Robert William Watson, 1891, 424075 ???)
Pte. W. Lee, Dauphin, killed in action. (Wilford Lee, 1897, 100095)
1917 Dec 20 – Fork River
W.R. Snelgrove has sold his farm on the Mossey River and is intending going east for the winter.
E. Hunter and Sid Frost have returned from a trip to Dauphin.
The C.N.R. bridge gang are driving piles for a new bridge over the Fork River at the town.
A pile bridge is being built over Mink Creek at P. Solomon’s. It appears to your correspondent that the time has arrived for the municipality to put in concrete abutments in new bridges it intends erecting.
T.N. Briggs has received word from Walter Clark, who is doing his bit in the trenches, that he is well.
Post office hours on Christmas Day, 10 to 12 a.m.
The train service, if you can dignify by such a name, is to say the least, erratic. The train may arrive, and then again, it may not. But I guess there is nothing to do but grin and bear it.
We wish the herald staff a merry Christmas.
We understand that our Pro-German resident now intends taking a trip south.
1917 Dec 20 – Winnipegosis
The shipping of fish is in full swing. Teams are hauling from every point and the catch seems to be good. Six cars were shipped out on Saturday the 15th, and as many more will likely go on Tuesday.
The memorial service on Sunday was well attended. The names of seven of our noble men who have died at the front were read out. Miss F. Grenon played “Consolation” as a voluntary, and Miss McArthur sang “Rock of Ages” by request.
The Red Cross entertainment of Wednesday, 12th, under the management of Mrs. Paddock’s committee, netted $42.
Owing to the general interest in Red Cross work and the lack of assistants the Presbyterian Sunday school will not give their usual concert. Instead he members of the school will take part in an entertainment, from 3 to 6 o’clock on the afternoon of Monday the 24th. A silver collection will be taken at the door, and a 10c fishpond will be arranged. The tree, of course, will be the chief attraction, and each child will receive a bag of candy.
Mrs. Theodore Johnston wishes to thank all friends and others who, by their presence at the memorial service held in honour of her son, showed their sympathy with her in her sad bereavement.
Pte. Horace Hill, Dauphin, died of wounds. (George Horace Hill, ????, 718071)
Pte. John Hicks, Dauphin, wounded. (???)
Word has been received by his family that Charlie Marcroft, who was reported missing, is now reported killed in action.
The Independent Fish Producers shipped two cars of fish last Saturday. This company will also run a snow plow similar to the Armstrong Trading Company’s to bring down the dish from the north-end of the lake.
The operation of putting up ice is under way, the ice in the river being thick enough now to harvest.
Mr. J.H. McArthur returned last week from the north end of the lake, where he has been in charge of the “Manitou,” which was frozen in at Whisky Jack harbour.
Miss S. Stephenson has given up her position in the Armstrong Trading Co.’s sore, and will be succeeded at the cashier’s desk by Mrs. A.S. Walker.
Mrs. King and Mrs. Kennedy are expected from Dauphin and Ochre River respectively to attend the memorial service of their brother on Sunday, the 16th.
Promptly renew your subscription to the Herald.
Thomas Young has removed his boarding house across the track immediately facing the station, where will be prepared to furnish meals as in the past.
Today in the Dauphin Herald
Today in the Dauphin Herald – Dec 6 – 1917
1917 Dec 6 – Over $400 000 000 Raised
Over $400 000 000 has been raised in the Dominion for the Victory Loan.
Dauphin town and rural municipality guaranteed over $400 000.
1917 Dec 6 – Fork River
Harry Hunter has returned from the hospital at Dauphin.
The “Whale” which appeared in the columns of the Herald last week, re the clerk’s absence, was duly noted here.
A number of prospective settlers from outside points are here looking over the district this week.
The elevators are all full up and no cars in sight.
The deer hunters are returning with poor bags.
1917 Dec 6 – Sifton
On the 23rd a “Hard Times” dance and box social were held at the Wycliffe School house. A large crowd assembled. No linen, jewellery or fashionable clothes were allowed and two constables were kept busy rounding up offenders who were promptly fined by Justice Spearman, assisted by P. Wood was clerk. The auction sale of boxes was very successful, the highest figure realized for a single box being $21. C. Brain, who had the cheapest box knocked down to him at $2.50, was promptly fined $1 for the offence and he paid just as promptly and cheerfully. S. Kitt and other kind helpers supplied the music, the floor being in charge of Mr. H. Woods. Dancing was kept up until 3 a.m. The handsome sum of $153 was realized and sent to the Red Cross.
1917 Dec 6 – Winnipegosis
The hauling of fish will commence in real earnest next week. Everyone is preparing for big business.
Mr. Groff a new stable is about completed and already is filled with teams.
The sad death of little Christine Johnson, seven-year-old daughter of Stoney Johnson occurred this week.
The Red Cross monthly meeting was held as usual in the old school. At this meeting the auxiliary was organized into a branch of the Red Cross Society of Canada, and officers and committee elected. Mr. Ketchison was again made president, and we feel confident he will be a very efficient one.
The weekly entertainment of the Red Cross last week was a great success. A very attractive programme of music, etc., was prepared. A chorus of school children was well received and Mrs. Litwin’s singing of Ukrainian songs, translated into English, was a unique item. A handsome Christmas cake donated by Mrs. Whale netted $17. Tickets were sold for a raffle and Mr. Kristinson was the winner, but very generously put it up for action. Mr. Rod Burrell finally carried it home in triumph having paid $20 for it. The total for the evening was $87.00.
A memorial service for the late “Joe” Johnston, who gave his life in the trenches for us at home, for his country and the cause of liberty, will be held in the Presbyterian Church on Sunday, the 16th. Rev. Mr. Kirkpatrick, of Ochre River, will officiate.
Today in the Dauphin Herald – Oct 25 – 1917
1917 Oct 25 – The Week’s Casualties
Pte. Alfred Kelly, Dauphin, died. (Alfred Louis Kelly, 1881, 461093)
Pte. S.A. Keays, Dauphin, wounded. (Samuel Alfred Keays, 1893, 255859)
Pte. V. Rogers, of Ochre River, wounded. (John Vercor-Rogers, 1885, 216982)
1917 Oct 25 – Awarded Military Medals
The following Dauphin boys have been awarded military medals since the commencement of the war:
Flight Lieut. W.G. Barker. (William George Barker, 1894, 106074)
Gunner. Stewart Widmeyer. (Stuart Robertson Widmeyer, 1895, 151343)
Pte. Batchelor. (???)
Pte. Wm. McLean. (???)
Pte. Percy Lowes. (???)
1917 Oct 25 – Fork River
Fred Cooper arrived home from Dauphin in his new car the other day. Fred, looks imposing sitting at the wheel.
Mr. Timewell has returned from a trip south.
His Grace Archbishop Matheson paid Fork River a visit on Saturday last and held confirmation service.
The snowstorm of Saturday night found considerable grain out in the stook and some potatoes and roots in the ground.
There are three grain buyers on the market new exclusive of the elevator. This should prove satisfactory to all.
Carloads of fat stock are going out on every train. It seems a pity to see so many young heifers being sent out for beef.
The children’s Sunday school service was postponed from Oct. 21 till Oct. 28.
Cohen’s “cordial” is a thing of the past. As Bill Walmsley says “No use trying to establish an industry in this northern end of his country.”
1917 Oct 18 – Births
MUNRO – At Fork River, on Oct. 6th, to Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Munro, twins, both boys.
1917 Oct 18 – Many Fines at Winnipegosis
A number of parties appeared before Magistrate Whale at Winnipegosis on Tuesday at the instance of Inspector Gurton. Seven were fined and one case withdrawn. The fines and costs amounted to $800. One of the parties fined had been doing a thriving business in selling “cordials,” “liniments” and “bunion” cures, all to be taken inwardly.
1917 Oct 18 – Fork River Boys and Girls Club
This fair took place on Friday, Oct. 11th. The conditions were most unfavourable as the weather could not very well have been worse and the settlement being in the middle of the threshing prevented the grownups as well as many of the children from attending and there were numbers of exhibits which the children had no doubt taken great pains with that never appeared at all. The following is the first prize:
Wheat sheaf – 1st, Fred Yager, 2nd, Peter Yepletney.
Twenty pounds threashed wheat – 1st, Peter Yepletney, 2nd, Fred Yager.
Pair of pigs – 1st, Robert Williams.
One pig – Lawrence Shannon.
Half bushel of potatoes – 1st, Nellie Kolikitchka, 2nd, Albert Galcuski, 3rd, Maurice Delcourt, 4th, Peter Yepletney, 5th, Blanche Hunt, 6th, Maurice Delcourt, 7th, Mable Russell, 8th, Peter Zepletney, 9th, Peter Rudkanvitch, 10th, Emilie Strasden.
Trio of white Wyandotts – 1st, Edith Shannon, 2nd, David Nowosad, 3rd, Clara Hunt.
Trio of barred rocks – 1st, Lawrence Rowe, 2nd, Robert Williams.
Trio of buff Orpingtons – 1st, Alice Nowosad, 2nd, Robert Williams.
Trio of white Leghorns – F. Benner.
Trio of black Minorcas – 1st, Jenny Chernowes, 2nd, Metro Yarish.
Trio brown Leghorns – Mike Barcuski.
Sewing, girls over 14 – Alice Nowosad.
Girls under 14 – 1st, Clara Hunt, 2nd, Edith Shannon.
Foal – Joe Shannon.
Loaf of Bread – 1st, Clara Hunt, 2nd, Mable Russell.
Canned peas – 1st, Viola Rowe, 2nd, L. Rowe.
Canned beans – 1st, Karl Shields, 2nd, L. Rowe.
Beast poultry coup (special) – Alice Nowosad.
Crocheting (special) – Emilie Strasden, 2nd, Mary Mazurka.
SCHOOL PRIZE LIST.
Grade 1 – 1st, Adolf Redwasky, 2nd, Stephen Nowosad.
Grade 2 – 1st, Charlie Yager, 2nd, John Wowk.
Grade 3 – 1st, Bernice Rowe, 2nd, Michael Michalina Hilash.
Grade 4 – 1st, John Pick, 2nd, Wasyl Fediuk.
Grade 5 – 1st, Aug. Perwin, 2nd, Dave Nowosad.
Grade 6 – 1st, Peter Zapitlney, 2nd, Erma Delcourt.
Grade 7 – Duncan Robertson.
Grade 8 – 1st, Edith Shannon, 2nd, Clara Hunt.
Map Drawing (war map of the world):
Grade 4 – 1st, Viola Rowe, 2nd, Arthur Jamieson.
Grade 6 – 1st, Dorothy Venables, 2nd, Blanche Hunt.
Scribblers:
Grade 8 – 1st, Clara Hunt, 2nd, Edith Shannon.
Grade 6 – 1st, Erma Delcourt, 2nd, Dorothy Venables.
Grade 5 – 1st, Annie Phillipchuk, 2nd, Evelyn Robertson.
Grade 3 – 1st, Patty Richardson, 2nd, Bernice Rowe.
Grade 2 – 1st, Goldie Shuchett, 2nd, Victor Forster.
Grade 1 – 1st, Danny Wilson, 2nd, Stephen Nowosad.
Paper folding:
Grade 3 and 4 – 1st, Nellie Saloman, 2nd, Joe Masiowski.
Grade 1 – 1st, Agnus Masiowski, 2nd, Teenie Laporawski.
Raffia Collection: 1st, Mowat School, 2nd, Pine View.
Fancy Flowers: first, Mary Muzyaka, second, Jenny Janowski.
Collection of Leaves:
Grade 8 – 1st, Alice Nowosad, 2nd, Clare Hunt
Grade 6 – 1st, Erma Delcourt, 2nd, Blanche Hunt.
Grade 5 – 1st, Annie Phillichuk, 2nd, Dane Nowosad.
Grade 4 – 1st, Sofia Yaroslawky, 2nd, Joe Nowosad.
Grade 3 – Pearl Reid.
Grade 2 – Bernard Hunt.
Collection of woods:
Grade 2 – Earnest Halfinbrak.
Grade 4 – 1st, Albert Janowski, 2nd, Alexander Zaplatney.
Grade 6 – Peter Zaplatney.
School chorus, 1st, Mossey School, 2nd, Janowski.
Mr. and Mrs. Cameron, of Neepawa, are visiting at the home of Mr. Sandy Cameron at Mowat.
The annual S.S. service will be held in All Saints’ Sunday afternoon, Oct. 21st, at 3 o’clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Cameron, of Neepawa, are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nat Little.
Mr. Levins, of Winnipeg, has put in a large pair of scales and is buying wheat for the McLanghlin Co.
Quite a little of the Winnipegosis “cordial” is said to have reached here. It is sure hot stuff.
Renew your subscription to the Herald promptly.
1917 Oct 18 – Winnipegosis
Thanking the people of Winnipegosis for their liberal support and hoping we can make as good a showing in the coming year.
Inspector Gurton was here on Tuesday and Magistrate T.H. Whale disposed of the liquor cases. Seven of the “boys” had to come across with the coin of the realm. The total of the fines and costs amounted to $800.
It was sure hard on “the old man,” who did such a thriving business with his “liniments” and “cordials” and “bunion” cures. The fall business was just beginning to pick up, too.
Magistrate Whale says if the cases keep up he will have to procure a wig and gown.
Most of the fishermen are at the north end of the lake preparing for the winter’s work.
1917 Oct 11 – Week’s Casualties
Pte. Thos. Roy, Ste. Amelie, wounded. (???)
Pte. R.C. Irven, Winnipegosis, wounded. (Russell Clarmont Irven, 1896, 696917)
Pte. L.H. Lacey, Fork River, prisoner of war. (Lorne Henry Lacey, 1897, 1001230)
Pte. L. Tortignon, Ste. Rose, prisoner of war. (???)
Lieut. W.W. Code, Dauphin, has been wounded by shrapnel in left arm and thigh, and was admitted to a hospital in France on the 3rd inst. (William Wellis Code, 1892, 246)
G.A. Warrington, surveyor from the public works dept., Winnipeg, has been here laying out roads for the municipality.
Mr. Wipplewind is here from Montana looking over the land with a view to locating.
The harvest home festival in All Saints’ Church was well attended. Rural Dean Price, of Swan River, was the preacher for the afternoon service. Mr. and Mrs. R. Forster sang a duet during the offertory which was much appreciated. The church was tastefully decorated with flowers and grain.
Ernest Munro, of Brandon, is visiting his sister, Mrs. A. Hunt.
D.F. Wilson, secretary-treasurer, has been appointed on the local exception board under the Military Act.
We regret to learn that Pte. L.H. Lacey is reported to be a prisoner in Germany.
Mr. and Mrs. John Allan, of Grandview, spent the week-end with Mrs. T. Dewsberry.
Much interest is taken in the liquor cases which come up for trial next Tuesday in Winnipegosis.
The Winnipegosis Home Economics Society held is regular monthly meeting on Friday evening, Sept. 21st. The special feature of the evening’s programme was an excellent talk on “Fall Sewing in the Home,” by Mrs. E. Bickle. She also have a very practical demonstration of a neat and cosy outfit for a small school girl. Two pleasing contributions to the programme were a solo my Miss Jarrett and a dainty 10 cent tea served by Mrs. Thomas in aid of the H.E.S. library fund.
On Tuesday, Oct. 2nd, the society held an auction rummage sale in aid of the Red Cross. The people of the town contributed liberally towards the collection of goods and a large crowd of both men and women attended the sale. Miss McMartin acted in the capacity of auctioneer. Bidding was high and spirited, particularly among the ladies. Two of the most gratefully received donations were a beautiful band painted satin pillow given by Mrs. George Spence, and a 7-weeks’ old pig given by Mr. Harold Bradley, and selling for $10.15. Net proceeds of the sale amounted to a considerable sum.
The excitement of late was the liquor cases. Four of the “boys” had to come across with the coin. The balance of the cases come up next Tuesday for hearing. Inspector Gurton, of Dauphin, is prosecuting. Mayor Whale is hearing the cases.
Pte. H.C. Irven, of this town, is reported among the wounded.
Dr. Rogers, of Dauphin, was among the outsiders in town this week.
What about the “informer?”
Today in the Dauphin Herald – Oct 4 – 1917
1917 Oct 4 – Week’s Causalities
Pte. Geo. H. Winters, Dauphin, wounded. (George Henry Winters, 1897, 1000224)
1917 Oct 4 – Fork River
D.F. Wilson has purchased Mr. Williams’ threshing outfit.
Rural Dean Price of Swan River will hold baptismal and holy communion service at Mowat at 11 o’clock in the morning, and in All Saints’, Fork River, at 3 in the afternoon, and Winnipegosis at 7.30 in the evening.
W. King has sold his shorthorn stock bull to T.A. Rothwell, of Melton.
W. Williams has received a new separator.
Several cars of fat cattle go out of here every train. While grain growing is staple with us, there is no doubt but the basis of our advancement will be from stock raising.
The Winnipegosis liquor cases on Tuesday created quite a stir here. The “boys”, we hear, won out.
Rev. A.S. Russell is a visitor to the Peg on church business. He intends taking in charge of this mission for the winter.
Archbishop Matheson intends visiting Fork River and holding confirmation services in All Saints’ sometime this month.
1917 Oct 4 – Winnipegosis
In loving memory of Eva, dearly beloved child of Quarter-Master Sergeant Frank Hechter, now of France, and Minnie Hechter, who died Sept. 1st, 1917:
We miss the gentle child
More than words can ever tell,
But you are happy there above
Where loving angels dwell.
Your tender arms no longer
Embrace us with your love,
But they are now encircling,
God’s eternal dove.
We love thee, darling Eva,
As only God knows how,
But He loved you better
As He has shown us now.
That Divine and Holy Father,
Looked upon this world so grim,
And thought are the world would defile your spirit
He would take you back to Him.
But, oh, how can we forget,
Your face so pure and sweet,
And your eyes that never opened,
But for to love and greet.
We still look up and whisper,
Sweet Eva come back to me,
But you only smile and answer,
“I wait up here for thee”
Inserted by her aunt, Mrs. B.P.
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Then said Elisha, Hear ye the word of the Lord.
The famine in Samaria
Monday Club Sermons.
The emphasis of the teaching of this account of the Samaritan famine should undoubtedly be placed upon the complete fulfilment of the word of God. The prophet specified the time when plenty would reign in the city. He named the price that would rule in the markets for breadstuffs. Elisha, the prophet of the Lord, since he left his twelfth yoke of oxen in the field to follow Elijah, had not watched carefully the prospects for a good crop in the valley of the Jordan. He could not have told the value of the freight arrived in Damascus by the last caravan from Persia. There were no bulletins that he had lately been consulting as to the outlook for a good harvest on the plain of Sharon or in the Nile valley. He had received no private advices of the number of cattle herding on the hills of Bashan. The ships that arrived at Tyre and Sidon with corn from Africa did not report their invoices to the herdsman's son in the beleaguered city. There was no private wire in the house of the man of God, that announced the arrival of rich convoys at the Red Sea ports, and which were now on their way to Samaria. Elisha was alone with the elders. The only messenger that came was one to take his life. Ignorant thus of the world outside, and yet undaunted, the prophet spake in the name of the Lord, telling the price of even the fine flour that only luxury could afford. On the morrow the humble workman could buy the barley for his frugal meal, and the high-born dame the necessaries for a feast. "Tomorrow about this time, shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria."
I. THE FLIGHT OF THE SYRIANS. The besiegers of Samaria did not deliberately gather their equipments and stores and return to their own country. They left everything, and that suddenly. The threatenings that came to them were such as to destroy all thoughts of anything but the safety of their own lives. Thus it was they left literally the spoil. The inhabitants of Samaria, if the enemy had slowly departed, might have gathered grain from other cities. This would have taken time, however, and the quantity that a country could furnish which an army had foraged over would have been small. The Syrians came for a siege, not simply as horsemen to make a wild foray and then retire. They were well equipped. Fine flour, that must else have been brought from far, or slowly ground from the corn, was already on hand for the perishing people. All this preparation, however natural it seems, was of God's planning. When the soldiers of Syria enlisted for a long campaign against Samaria, and the commissary trains gathered luxuries for a permanent encampment, the thing was under the eye of God. Emphasise the miraculous as we will, we must not forget God's provision for all results that seem to us so strange. God has His hand on the springs of all action and the sources of supply. Long before the Syrians began to prepare for the siege of the city, God had laid His trains to oppose them. If we think of God as a Father and Provider for mankind at every step of life, we shall be helped in our faith in Him as one who can work miracles. Faith is not difficult when we daily mount upward on steps of Providence.
II. THE CONDUCT OF THE LEPERS.
1. It was wise. There was only death if they returned within the city. There was one hope. They followed it. On a much greater question than that before the lepers, how many have decided so wisely as these outcasts? The teaching of this world and of men's hearts is that there is no salvation possible unless outside of self and mankind. The lepers seized their opportunity. It proved life for them. The future is not clear to any man, but it offers something real in Jesus Christ. Each of us has more to encourage us to accept Christ than the lepers had to go to the army of Syria. Let a man act on his best convictions instead of sinking down to die. He will find a boon more precious than that which the lepers found.
2. The conduct of the lepers was magnanimous. Men who are outcast from their fellows often feel, when good fortune comes, like retaliating upon those who have neglected or wronged them. A young man who has seen hardship in his early days is often tempted in the beginning of prosperity to show others that he can do without them. This bitter feeling because of neglect on the part of others often becomes a motive for effort towards success. It is ignoble for a man to cherish any of the wrongs he has endured. He ought to try and erase the scars that sorrow and hardship have wrought on his heart. The lepers were mindful of their duty to their fellow-men. They resolved to hasten back with the good tidings. No man, however poor or successful, neglected or exalted, but owes more to the world than he can repay, There is ever an unfailing obligation on every man to do all that lies in his power for the race Christ died to redeem. Learn of the lepers to be magnanimous. They showed they were still men with noble instincts that sorrow and neglect could not crush. There is always a temptation to keep the good to ourselves. We keep back the money, the kind words, the comfort that men need. If it is not done with malicious purpose, it is done in our stolidity, our indifference to others' necessities.
III. THE BLASPHEMING LORD. Over against the hope just held out by the man of God, the courtier places his sneer at all Providence. How many hearts would sink at his words? The widow still hiding her son from death will now conquer her maternal instinct and sustain life on the horrible sacrifice. Those who have been roused to hope will go back to deeper despair. A single day adds multitudes to the victims of the plague or famine. The blood of children, of men, and of women is on the head of the scorner. That the words of the king's favourite had a terrible effect upon the distressed city, we may infer from the manner of his death. When plenty came, the maddened populace trod to the earth the blasphemer and destroyer of hope.
(Monday Club Sermons.)
Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned, answered the man of God.
T. De Witt Talmage, D. D.
Around Samaria is drawn the fiery girth of Assyrian vindictiveness. Siege is laid to the city, and soon famine, most ghastly and horrible, appears. In the modern bombardment of a city, there is a grandeur mingled with the terror. The toss and burst of a bomb-shell kindles the eye of the artist, while the citizens perish. But there is no imagining the desolation of a city approached by an old-time siege, through years of starvation. The judgment-day only can reveal the anguish endured when Hamilcar besieged Utica, and Titus Jerusalem. Alas, for Samaria! What a crowd of hollow-eyed and staggering wretches filled the streets, crying for bread. So great was the scarcity of food that an ass's head was sold for twenty-five dollars. Mothers cooked their children, and fought for the disgusting fragments. And still hunger pinched and drank up the life of the great city and lifted its wolfish howl in the market-place, and shovelled its victims into the grave. In the midst of all this, Elisha, in the name of God, said, "Tomorrow the famine will be gone, and you will get a peck of flour for five shillings." A nobleman, who was the confidential friend of the king, stood by and laughed at the idea. He said, "If a window shutter could be opened in the sky, and a lot of corn pitched out, you might expect it. Hal ha! you silly prophet; you cannot fool me!" The prophet replied to the taunt by saying, "Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof." Before we come to the more cheerful phase of the subject, let us attend the funeral of that scoffer who was trod on in the gates. The obsequies shall be brief, for we have not much respect for him. I knew him well. You all knew him. He was an out-and-out Rationalist. Elisha, at God's command, had prophesied plenty of fine flour on the morrow. "Preposterous!" said the sceptical nobleman. "Where is it to come from? Why, every hole and corner of the city has been ransacked for flour. We have eaten up the horses. There is no prospect that the Assyrians will lift the siege; and yet, Elisha, you insult my common sense, and my reason, by telling me that to-morrow the market will be glutted with bread supplies. Away with your nonsense!" Yet, notwithstanding it seemed unreasonable, the fine flour came; and, because of his unbelief, the Rationalist of Samaria perished. At this point the great battle of Christianity is to be fought. The great foe of Christianity to-day is Rationalism, that comes out from our schools, and universities, and magazines, and newspapers, to scoff at Bible truth, and caricature the old religion of Jesus. It says, "Jesus is not God, for it is impossible to explain how He can be Divine and Human at the same time." The Bible is not inspired, for there are in it things that they don't like. Regeneration is a farce; there is good enough in us, and the only thing is to bring it out. Development is the word — development. What is still more alarming, is that Christian men dare not meet this ridicule. Christian men try to soften the Bible down to suit the sceptics. The sceptics sneer at the dividing of the Red Sea, and the Christian goes to explaining that the wind blew a hurricane from one direction a good while until all the water piled up; and, besides that, it was low water, anyhow, and so the Israelites went through without any trouble. Why not be frank, and say, "I believe the Lord God Almighty came to the brink of the Red Sea, and with His right arm swung back the billows on the right side, and with His left arm swung back the billows on the left side; and the abashed water stood up hundreds of feet high, while through their glassy walls the sea-monsters gazed with affrighted eyes on the passing Israelites?" "Oh," you say, "these Rationalists would laugh at me." Then let them laugh. The Samaritan sceptic laughed at Elisha; but when, under the rush of the people to get their bread, the unbeliever was trampled to death, whose turn was it to laugh then? The moment you begin to explain away the miraculous and supernatural, you surrender the Bible. Compromise nothing! Trim off nothing to please the sceptics. If you cannot stand the jeer of your business friends you are not worthy to be one of Christ's disciples. You can afford to wait. The tide will turn. God's Word will be vindicated; and though it may seem to be against the laws of nature and the rules of reason, to-morrow a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel; and then as the people rush out of the gates to get the bread, alas, for the Rationalist! he will be trodden under foot, and will go down to shame and everlasting contempt. You know that all the nations are famine struck by sin. They are dying for bread. Here comes through the gates a precious supply — not one loaf, but an abundance for all; pardon for all, strength for all, sympathy for all comfort for all! Will you have this bread that came down from heaven and which, if a man eat, he shall never hunger? Glorious gospel! So wide in its provisions. Whosoever! Mark you that God stopped Samaria's famine, not with coarse meal, but, the text says, with fine flour. So the Bread of Life, with which God would appease our hunger, is made of the best material. Jesus was fine in His life, fine in His sympathies, fine in His promises. It means no coarse supply when Jesus offers Himself to the people saying, "I am the Bread of Life." — "Fine flour for a shekel." That day when the gates of Samaria were opened, why did they make such excitement about the flour? Why did they not bring in some figs, or pastry, or fragrant bouquets instead? The people would have run down the bouquets, and thrown away the figs, and trampled upon the pastry in the rush for bread. Effort has been made to feed those spiritually dying with the poesies or rhetoric, and the confectionary of sentimentalism. Our theology has been sweetened and sweetened until it is as sweet as ipecacuanha, and as nauseating to the regenerated soul. What the people need is bread, just as God mixes it — unsweetened, plain, homely, unpretending, yet life-sustaining bread.
(T. De Witt Talmage, D. D.)
Presumptiveness of unbelief
J. Saurin.
What surprises me, what stumbles me, what frightens me, is to see a diminutive creature, a little ray of light glimmering through a few feeble organs, controvert a point with the Supreme Being; oppose the Intelligence that sitteth at the helm of the world; question what He affirms, dispute what He determines, appeal from His decisions, and, even after God has given evidence, reject all doctrines that are beyond his capacity! Enter into thy nothingness, mortal creature! What madness animates thee? How darest thou pretend, thou who art but a point, thou whose essence is but an atom, to measure thyself with the Supreme Being — with Him whom the heaven of heavens could not contain?
(J. Saurin.)
A Divine teacher and a haughty sceptic
Homilist.
Here are two objects not only to be looked at, but to be studied: —
I. A DIVINE TEACHER. Two circumstances connected with this promise will apply to the Gospel.
1. It was a communication exactly suited to the condition of those to whom it was addressed. People were starving, and the one great necessity was food, and here it is promised. Mankind are morally lost, what they want is spiritual restoration, and the Gospel proclaims it.
2. It was a communication made on the authority of the Eternal. "Thus saith the Lord." That the Gospel is a Divine message is a truth too firmly established even to justify debate.
II. A HAUGHTY SCEPTIC. Here is one of the most contemptible of all classes of men, a courtier, a sycophant in relation to his king, a haughty despot in regard to all beneath him. When he heard the prophet's deliverance, he, forsooth, was too great a man, and thought himself, no doubt, too great a philosopher to believe it. It was the man's Self importance that begot his incredulity, and this perhaps is the parent of all scepticism and unbelief.
(Homilist.)
The sin of unbelief
One wise man may deliver a whole city; one good man may be the means of safety to a thousand others. The holy ones are "the salt of the earth," the means of the preservation of the wicked. Without the godly as a conserve, the race would be utterly destroyed. In the city of Samaria there was one righteous man — Elisha, the servant of the Lord. Piety was altogether extinct in the court. The king was a sinner of the blackest dye, his iniquity was glaring and infamous. Jehoram walked in the ways of his father Ahab, and made unto himself false gods. The people of Samaria were fallen like their monarch. In this awful extremity the one holy man was the medium of salvation. The one grain of salt preserved the entire city; the one warrior for God was the means of the deliverance of the whole beleaguered multitude. "To-morrow," would they shout, "to-morrow our hunger shall be over, and we shall feast to the full." However, the lord on whom the king leaned expressed his disbelief. We hear not that any of the common people, the plebeians, ever did so; but an aristocrat did it. Strange it is, that God has seldom chosen the great men of this world. High places and faith in Christ do seldom well agree. This great man said, "Impossible!" and, with an insult to the prophet, he added, "If the Lord should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be." His sin lay in the fact that, after repeated seals of Elisha's ministry, he yet disbelieved the assurances uttered by the prophet on God's behalf. He had, doubtless, seen the marvellous defeat of Moab; he had been startled at tidings of the resurrection of the Shunam-mite's son; he knew that Elisha had revealed Benhadad's secrets and smitten his marauding hosts with blindness; he had seen the bands of Syria decoyed into the heart of Samaria.
I. THE SIN. His sin was unbelief. He doubted the promise of God. In this particular case unbelief took the form of a doubt of the Divine veracity, or a mistrust of God's power. Either he doubted whether God really meant what He said, or whether it was within the range of possibility that God should fulfil His promise. Unbelief hath more phases than the moon, and more colours than the chameleon. Common people say of the devil, that he is seen sometimes in one shape, and sometimes in another. I am sure this is true of Satan's firstborn child — unbelief, for its forms are legion. At one time I see unbelief dressed out as an angel of light. It calls itself humility, and it saith, "I would not be presumptuous; I dare not think that God would pardon me; I am too great a sinner." It is the devil dressed as an angel of light; it is unbelief after all. A fearful form of unbelief is that doubt which keeps men from coming to Christ; which leads the sinner to distrust the ability of Christ to save him, to doubt the willingness of Jesus to accept so great a transgressor. But the most hideous of all is the traitor, in its true colours, blaspheming God, and madly denying His existence. Infidelity, deism, and atdeism are the ripe fruits of this pernicious tree; they are the most terrific eruptions of the volcano of unbelief. Unbelief hath become of full stature, when quitting the mask and laying aside disguise, it profanely stalks the earth, uttering the rebellious cry, "No God," striving in vain to shake the throne of the divinity, by lifting up its arm against Jehovah. I am astonished, and I am sure you will be, when I tell you that there are some strange people in the world who do not believe that unbelief is a sin. Strange people I must call them, because they are sound in their faith in every other respect; only, to make the articles of their creed consistent, as they imagine, they deny that unbelief is sinful.
1. And first the sin of unbelief will appear to be extremely heinous when we remember that it is the parent of every other iniquity. There is no crime which unbelief will not beget. I think that the fall of man is very much owing to it. It was in this point that the devil tempted Eve.
2. Unbelief not only begets, but fosters sin. If man did but believe that the law is holy, that the commandments are holy, just, and good, how he would be shaken over hell's mouth; there would be no sitting, and sleeping in God's house; no careless hearers; no going away and straightway forgetting what manner of men ye are. Oh! once get rid of unbelief, how would every ball from the batteries of the law fall upon the sinner, and the slain of the Lord would be many. Again, how is it that men can hear the wooings of the Cross of Calvary, and yet come not to Christ? What is the reason? Because there is unbelief between you and the Cross. If there were not that thick veil between you and the Saviour's eyes, His looks of love would melt you. But unbelief is the sin which keeps the power of the Gospel from working in the sinner., and it is not till" the Holy Ghost strikes that unbelief out, it is not till the Holy Spirit rends away that infidelity and takes it altogether down, that we can find the sinner.
3. Unbelief disables a man for the performance of any good work. "Whatsoever is not of faith is sin," is a great truth in more senses than one. "Without faith it is impossible to please God." Faith fosters every virtue; unbelief murders every one. Thousands of prayers have been strangled in their infancy by unbelief. Unbelief has been guilty of infanticide; it has murdered many an infant petition; many a song of praise that would have swelled the chorus of the skies has been stifled by an unbelieving murmur; many a noble enterprise conceived in the heart has been blighted ere it could come forth, by unbelief. Many a man would have been a missionary; would have stood and preached his Master's Gospel boldly; but he had unbelief. Once make a giant unbelieving, and he becomes a dwarf.
4. Our next remark is — unbelief has been severely punished. Turn you to the Scriptures, I see a world all fair and beautiful; its mountains laughing in the sun, and the fields rejoicing in the golden light. I see maidens dancing, and young men singing. How fair the vision! But lo! a grave and reverend sire lifts up his hand, and cries, "A flood is coming to deluge the earth-the fountains of the great deep will be broken up, and all things will be covered" See yonder ark. One hundred and twenty years have I toiled with these my hands to build it; flee there, and you are safe." "Aha! old man; away with your empty predictions! Aha! let us be happy while we may! when the flood comes, then we will build an ark; but there is no flood coming; tell that to fools; we believe no such things." See the unbelievers pursue their merry dance. Hark! Unbeliever. Dost thou not hear that rumbling noise? Earth's bowels have begun to move, her rocky ribs are strained by dire convulsions from within; lo! they break with the enormous strain, and forth from between them torrents rush unknown since God concealed them in the bosom of our world. Heaven is split in sunder! it rains. Not drops, but clouds descend. A cataract, like that of old Niagara, rolls from heaven with mighty noise. Both firmaments, both deeps — the deep below and the deep above — do clasp their hands. Now, "unbelievers, where are you now?" There is your last remnant. A man — his wife clasping him round the waist — stands on the last summit that is above the water. See him there! The water is up to his loins even now. Hear his last shriek! He is floating — he is drowned. And as Noah looks from the ark he sees nothing. Nothing! It is a void profound. "Sea monsters whelp and stable in the palaces of kings." All is overthrown, covered, drowned. What hath done it? What brought the flood upon the earth? Unbelief. By faith Noah escaped from the flood. By unbelief the rest were drowned.
5. And now you will observe the heinous nature of unbelief in this — that it is the damning sin. There is one sin for which Christ never died; it is the sin against the Holy Ghost. There is one other sin for which Christ never made atonement. Mention every crime in the calendar of evil, and I will show you persons who have found forgiveness for it. But ask me whether the man who died in unbelief can be saved, and I reply there is no atonement for that man.
II. CONCLUDE WITH THE PUNISHMENT. "Thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof." It is so often with God's own saints. When they are unbelieving, they see the mercy with their eyes, but do not eat it. Now, here is corn in this land of Egypt; but there are some of God's saints who come here on the Sabbath, and say, "I do not know whether the Lord will be with me or not." Some of them say, "Well, the Gospel is preached, but I do not know whether it will be successful." They are always doubting and fearing. Listen to them when they get out. "Well, did you get a good meal this morning?" "Nothing for me." Of course not. Ye could see it with your eyes, but did not eat it, because you had no faith. If you had come up with faith, you would have had a morsel. But, let me apply this chiefly to the unconverted. They often see great works of God done with their eyes, but they do not eat thereof. A crowd of people have come here this morning to see with their eyes, but I doubt whether all of them eat.
( C. H. Spurgeon.)
Faith taunted
J. Parker, D. D.
In this comparatively trifling event we see the end of the whole economy of nature as we know it. Tragical facts have overpowered us, have indeed almost blinded us as to the possibility of spiritual presences being in the universe, and we have said deliverance is impossible, and out of all this chaos God Himself could scarcely bring order. Looking upon the nations of the earth with their moral darkness, their barbarities, idolatries, cruelties, superstitions; observing how men hate one another, and delight in the shedding of blood; studying the whole map and plan of wickedness all but infinite, we have again and again said, though the Lord should open the windows of heaven — though the Lord should come in all His great might, yet surely this chaos could not be brought into order and peace even by the voice of Omnipotence. Looking upon the Cross of Jesus Christ as the medium of the salvation of the world, we have not wondered that men should account it foolishness. There seems to be no proportion between the cause and the effect, the means and the end. To the last, men passing by the cross shall wag their heads, and say to him who expires upon it, If Thou be the king or Saviour of the world, save Thyself, and come down. We are quite aware that the scoffer has an ample ground for mockery, if attention be limited by visible boundaries. It is not surprising that gibers should taunt believers, and that the prophets of Baal should turn round upon the Elijahs of the world, and in their turn enjoy the use of ironical appeal, saying, Cry aloud to your Christ, for he is king of the Jews; cry mightily to his God in heaven, for he has espoused him as his father; pray on still, — perhaps if you are not answered in the morning, you may be answered at night; cry lustily with growing energy to the supposed God of the heavens, and let him come out in reply if he can. We must submit to the taunt for the present. In our impatience we desire a manifest and decisive answer, yet all things proceed calmly as they were from the beginning. But our faith has been sustained by a doctrine corresponding to the prophecy, — namely, the Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness: for a thousand years are in his sight as one day, and one day as a thousand years. We are the victims of miscalculated time. We do not know the meaning of to-day or to-morrow: my soul, wait thou upon God; yea, wait patiently for Him, and comfort thyself with the truth that things are not what they seem: that immediately after human extremity there arises a light in heaven, and that in the midday of despair angels are sent with special messages from God.
(J. Parker, D. D.)
And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate.
The men at the gate
L. A. Banks, D. D.
The city of Samaria was in sad plight. Ben-hadad, the King of Syria, had gathered all his armies together with the determination to conquer Israel and make it a subject province. He brought all his force against Samaria and besieged the capital city. He cut off all their communication with the surrounding country and was slowly starving them to death. Now, while this was going on in the city of Samaria, four lepers, who lived in little shanties outside the gate, and were not allowed to come inside, talked the situation over with one another. They were starving to death and there was not much choice for them. It was certain death if they stayed where they were, and it was probable death if they went anywhere else. So they said to one another, "Why sit we here until we die? If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die." So in the early twilight they rose up and staggered along till they came to the camp of the Syrians. They saw no one as they drew near, no sentinels on guard, and no one about the doors of the tents. It seemed strange to them, and at first they thought everybody was asleep in the tents. Now the secret of this strange occurrence was that through the prayer of Elisha God had interposed to save Israel, and He had caused the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots and a noise of horses until they were sure that a great army was coming to the relief of Israel, and the officers of Ben.hadad, King of Syria, deceived and confused by what they thought they heard, said one to another, "Lo, the King of Israel hath hired against us the-kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us." And they were so sure of it and so demoralised with fear that they arose and fled in the darkness and left their tents just as they were. These old stories are gold mines of spiritual truth where we shall not fail to find wealth if we search with humble and earnest hearts. Let us look at some of these nuggets of spiritual truth suggested to us in this theme.
I. THE MAN WHO FEELS HIS SIN THE KEENEST IS THE MOST LIKELY TO FIND SALVATION. Of all the people of Israel these four leprous men were in the most pitiable condition. Ordinarily, when there was plenty, food was let down over the wall to them; but when food became scarce, it was easy to forget the lepers on the outside. They decided to take their chances because they felt so keenly the extremity of their condition. This illustrates what Jesus meant when He said to certain people in His day that the publicans and the harlots would go into the kingdom of heaven before themselves.
II. INACTION IS OFTEN AS BAD AS POSITIVE WRONG-DOING. See in this case. These four lepers used good logic. They said one to another, "Why sit we here until we die?" They did not need to take poison in order to commit suicide; they did not need to do any violence on themselves in order to bring about death. They were far gone on the way of starvation. They could just stagger about a little. Let them only sit still a day or two more and there would not be any help for them, they would surely die. Their only hope was in immediate action, and if they were to act there was only one way open that had any promise of relief. So they decided to act in the one way open to them that had a chance of relief. I pray God that some of you who are without God and without hope in Christ may learn this great lesson. When you are wrong, when you are failing to do your duty, to sit still is to die. You do not have to do anything more in order to make sure that in the great judgment day you will be shut out of heaven and condemned. No, you have just to sit still to be lost. You do not need to get worse; you do not need that the stream of your evil thoughts or your wicked conduct shall grow wider and deeper and more soiled, as it undoubtedly will if you live longer unrepentant; you need only to sit still just as you are to have the gate of heaven closed before your sorrow-stricken eyes and to hear the awful words of doom from the tender lips of Jesus, "Depart from me, I never knew you." All you have to do is just to sit still, and in the very nature of things death must happen. But if you want to be saved, then you must awake, and arise, and act.
III. SALVATION CAN ONLY COME THROUGH DEFINITE DECISION. These men considered what was open to them and decided that there was just one way that had a ray of hope. It was by no means bright; but, if followed, there was a possibility that it might mean food and life. They made up their minds to take the one chance, and they followed that chance to safety. How much better is the outlook for you when I invite you to forsake your sins and come to the feast of Divine love. You do not have to come following such a forlorn hope as did these poor men.
IV. THE SPIRITUAL FEAST IS ALREADY SPREAD. The lepers found food in abundance in the Syrian tents. The Gospel feast is ready. The invitation is, "Come, for all things are now ready."
(L. A. Banks, D. D.)
Deliverance from death
F. Fox Thomas.
I. THE LEPERS SOUGHT DELIVERANCE FROM DEATH. "Why sit we here until we die?" (vers. 3, 4).
1. They sought deliverance under very solemn feelings. They were perishing of hunger, and so were their friends whom they might never see again. Unless the Syrian granted immediate relief, they would die. The hour was dark and solemn. Solemn too are the feelings of a sinner when fleeing from the city of destruction he cries, "Life, life, eternal life!" He looks at the law, and feels, "I have broken that"; he looks towards heaven, and feels, "I have forfeited that"; he looks towards hell, and feels, "I have deserved that."
2. They sought deliverance in the face of discouragements. They were the subjects of a disease the most repulsive. They had no promise of help. They knew that the Syrian was the avowed foe of Israel. What could have been more discouraging? Had they been sound in health, had they been going to a friend, or had they but one promise of relief, it would have been different. But notwithstanding all, they sought deliverance. Sinner, are your discouragements greater in relation to spiritual life than were those of the lepers in relation to temporal? What are your discouragements? Bring them forward. "I am defiled by sin"; but Jesus can cleanse you. "I am condemned by law"; but Jesus can justify you. "I am outside the fold"; but Jesus is the good Shepherd, and He is come to restore you.
II. THE LEPERS FOUND DELIVERANCE FROM DEATH. "And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver and gold," etc. (ver. 8).
1. They found a more abundant deliverance than they expected. What did they seek? Deliverance from famine. What did they find? Deliverance from famine, nakedness, and poverty. And such a deliverance! How great the surprise of the lepers to find the treasures of an army in their custody! How changed their condition now! Famine was now fled; poverty fled; fear fled; obscurity fled. So with the sinner when he comes for salvation to Jesus; he always finds more than he expected; — more mercy, more peace, more blessedness, and more glory. Bartimeus comes for bodily eyesight; he obtains that, and spiritual sight too. A paralytic is let down through a roof with the hope of receiving power to walk the ways of earth; and not only is that granted, but power also to walk the ways of heaven.
2. These men found a deliverance more divine than they expected (ver. 6). Whether this noise was in the air or in the imagination I know not. Evidently it was God that wrought this wonderful deliverance. Little did the lepers expect a deliverance so divine. So when a sinner is delivered from spiritual death he sees more of God in salvation than even he expected. If a man denies the divinity of the Christian redemption he only proves that he is a stranger to it.
3. These men found deliverance more easily than they expected. They counted on commending themselves to the favour of the Syrian by earnest appeals. They thought that, do what they might, possibly they could not awaken his compassion; they might, after all, be put to death. How great their mistake! Nothing was more necessary but to arise, go forth, and partake of the abundance which kind Providence had provided. When a man trusts in Jesus, he feels astonished that he should ever have made a difficulty of believing. "How strange," he feels, "that I could so long have closed my eyes to the truth." "By grace are ye saved through faith: and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast."
III. THE LEPERS ANNOUNCED DELIVERANCE FROM DEATH. They went and announced the "good tidings" to the king's household, and through that household to the city.
1. They announced deliverance under a sense of duty (ver. 9). They felt that silence would brand them with the charge of heartlessness and expose them to the lightnings of justice. If these men felt it their duty to announce deliverance to a perishing city, how much more should Christians feel this to be their duty as it respects a perishing world?
2. They announced deliverance without delay. Feeling, as they did, that solemnly on them was flung the duty of saving Samaria, and that to delay, even till the sun again reddened the forehead of the eastern sky, was to sacrifice life, they lost no time in heralding "the good tidings." Oh, ye that are at ease in Zion, is it enough that you have been blest with the Bread of Life? Does not Heaven solemnly call on you to announce without delay "the good tidings" to others? " If you tarry till the morning, some mischief will come upon you."
(F. Fox Thomas.)
The dying lepers
C. A. Maginn, M. A.
I. WHAT WAS THE STATE OF THE LEPERS, and what were their reflections? They were in a state of disease and want, perishing with hunger, and afflicted with a loathsome and grievous sickness. And what is our state by nature? The striking language of the prophet Isaiah well describes it: "The whole head is sick." Such are we naturally — we are spiritual lepers; and we have every reason to cry oat, when we view ourselves in the glass of God's Holy Word, and see what we really are, "Unclean, unclean." But these lepers were not merely afflicted with this sore disease, and had no whole part in their body, but they were also perishing with hunger — disease and famine were their portion. Sad state, you may exclaim. But our spiritual state by nature is in no wise better. The wholesome food of God's Word, which is the support and nourishment of the soul, lies untasted by our lips; it is food for which we have no relish or appetite; and yet, if we eat it not, we must languish and die. But herein lies a difference between us and the lepers. They longed for food, but could not get it: we can get it freely, "without money and without price," but we do not long for it. Let us turn next to the reflection of these men — "Why sit we hero until we die?" Oh, would that sinners perishing by spiritual famine would reason thus I — calmly consider their case, and see that if they remain unmoved — seek not for succour and support from Him who is able to save them from death — that death beyond a doubt will overtake them.
II. THE EFFORT OF THESE LEPERS AND THEIR SUCCESS. "Now, therefore, come," said they, "and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians; if they save us alive, we shall live: and if they kill us, we shall but die." They resolved no longer to sit in misery and apathy beneath the comfortless and inhospitable walls of their beleaguered and impoverished city, but to go directly to the enemy's camp, and seek from their country's foes that which their own people could not give. And here, in a measure, is portrayed the course of the awakened sinner. He sees that if he remains as he is, death is certain, that his dwelling is the city of want and destruction. But oh, how different is, the prospect and hope set before him! He is not fleeing to the camp of an enemy, but to the shelter of an Almighty Friend. He need not flee in doubt of welcome, or in fear of death; and though unbelief and sin may cause him to tremble lest he should be rejected, yet if his faith be true, there is no real ground of danger, and he may adopt the language of the prodigal, "I will arise and go to my Father"; and he will find that welcome which a Heavenly Father rejoices to bestow. These lepers had no reason to regret the step they took; they exchanged poverty and famine for wealth and abundance surpassing their utmost conception or desire. Just so it is with sinners who flee from the city of destruction, and "go forth unto Jesus without the camp, bearing His reproach." When once they have made the effort, and advanced to the foot of the cross, and cast the burden of their sins on Him "who bare them in His own body on the tree," how great the change! how wonderful the deliverance! They were sitting like these lepers in darkness and the shadow of death; but, as our blessed Lord Himself declares, they have "passed from death unto life" (John 5:24).
III. THE CONDUCT OF THE LEPERS AND ITS HAPPY RESULTS. Having feasted in abundance, and satisfied themselves with spoil, "then they said one to another, We do not well; this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace; if we tarry till the morning light some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household." So they went and announced the happy and unexpected news which at first appeared too good to be true. And are not far happier results brought about by the knowledge of the Gospel, and from other and higher motives? Selfishness appears to have chiefly dictated the lepers in their discovery. It does not seem that sympathy for their suffering brethren, anxiety to carry relief to those perishing by hunger within the city, urged them so speedily to the work of mercy as the thought that if they tarried till the morning light" some mischief would come upon them. But with the Christian it is altogether different. When he has had the burden of his sins removed, he is anxious to lead others to that Saviour he has found from the purest motives, — a zeal for the glory of God, a desire for the happiness of souls.
(C. A. Maginn, M. A.)
The leprous men as the gate
J. E. Wakerley.
1. Fulfilment of the Divine Word in opposition to human appearances.
2. Illustration of strange instrumentalities which God uses to accomplish His purposes. Here lepers. In Elijah's case, ravens. "No restraint to save by many or few."
3. God's mercies must not be retained in a miserly or selfish spirit.
4. Unbelief will be confounded, while faith will be honoured. The case of these leprous men is, however, analogous to that of certain sinners. They are —
I. IN A POSITION OF PERIL. What was likely to prove a fatal disease: "Until we die."
1. Suffering from famine. Illustrate by Prodigal Son: "I perish with hunger." Soul needs feeding as well as the body: "My soul shall be satisfied," says the Psalmist.,
2. Isolated. from. the city and its supplies. Sin has separated from God the soul's true satisfaction.
3. Pursuing a policy of inaction which rendered them more hopeless: Law of degeneration that is unerring; "Evil men shall wax worse and worse." Nothing so inimical to spiritual interests as inertia. Illustrate by death of Professor Nettleship on Alps — powerless to move.
II. A GLIMMER OF HOPE. (ver. 4). Two ways were closed. One seems open — if it fail there is nothing to lose. The men were brought to this by reflection. Look where you are. Certain ways of deliverance are hedged in.
1. Self cannot save self.
2. By bitter experience many of you have proved the world is vain. Pleasure, riches, passion, have increased famine.
3. Christ may save. He professes to do so. At least He makes great claims. Will you try Him? Our duty is to examine probabilities. In discoveries men have followed this course. So in religion, "Then shall we know if we follow on to know." Look at the circumstantial evidence, it may furnish a clue. You may be like a drowning man with the last chance of life. Hope multiplies the chance.
III. THE UNEXPECTED SATISFACTION (vers. 5, 6, 7), Probable becomes possible, possible becomes actual. "Now none but Christ can satisfy."
1. God's way of deliverance is miraculous. "If He should make windows in heaven."
2. To the venturing soul there are constant surprises of blessing. Faith is a venture, but is honoured. The curtain rises on new scenes; we pass from famine to banquet.
IV. SONGS OF DELIVERANCE (ver. 9).
1. Gratitude prompted.
2. Despised instrumentality used to testify.
3. Testimony begets faith and action.It led the host to verification of the facts announced. Do we well to hold our peace? No. "I'll praise my Maker while I've breath."
(J. E. Wakerley.)
Who found it out
? — The story of four leprous men inserted in the Book of the Kings of Israel: is it not singular? No; it is not singular for the Bible. Ii you were to take out of the Scriptures all the stories that have to do with poor, afflicted men and women, what a very small book the Bible would become, especially if together with the stories you removed all the psalms of the sorrowful, all the promises for the distressed, and all the passages which belong to the children of grief! This Book, indeed, for the most part is made up of the annals of the poor and despised.
I. A great work of god, which was entirely unknown.
1. The siege was raised from around Samaria. Armed men had stood in their places and kept the way, so that none could go in or out; but they are all gone, not one of them is left. Yet in the city of Samaria they thought themselves cooped up, and set their warders on the wall because of fear in the night. They were as free as the harts of the wilderness had they known it: but their ignorance held them in durance vile.
2. The Lord had also defeated all their enemies. They had run for their lives; they had fled because of a noise in their ears as of horses and of chariots. He that could first get across the Jordan, and interpose that stream between him and his supposed pursuers was the happiest man. Without aid from Hittite or Ethiopian, the God of Israel had driven the whole host of Syria like chaff before the wind.
3. God has provided plenty for them. The wretched Samaritans drew the hungerbelt more closely about them, and each man hoped that he might sleep for many an hour, and for-act his bitter pangs; yet within a stone's throw there was more fine flour and barley than they could possibly consume. Was not that a strange thing? A city besieged, and not besieged; girt with enemies, as they thought, and yet not an enemy left; starving, and yet near to a feast! See, what unbelief ,can do. They had been promised plenty right speedily, by God's own prophet; but they did not believe the promise, nor look out for its fulfilment. Had they been upon the watch, they might have seen the unusual movement in the Syrian camp, and noticed the absolute stillness which succeeded it. I know a sad parallel to this. The Lord Jesus Christ has come into the world, and has put away the sin of His people; and yet many of them are complaining that their sin can never be put away. The Lord Jesus Christ has routed all the enemies of His people, and yet they are afraid of innumerable evils. It is said that drowning men catch at straws: would you not have thought that famishing men might have caught at the word of Elisha? I grant you the promise did seem too great to be true: that lord who scoffed at it was not the only one who judged it to be impossible of fulfilment; and yet when men are brought so very low, they are apt to catch at any hope. How hardened was the unbelief which refused Jehovah's word!
II. When you have realised the picture of the city abiding in sorrow. though its deliverance had already come, I want to remark upon A VERY SINGULAR BAND OF DISCOVERERS. A choice quaternion at last found out what the Lord had done, proved it for themselves, and made it known to their fellow-townsmen. Is it not remarkable that these discoverers were lepers? Ah, grace! it is thy wont to dwell in most unlikely places! You would have supposed that surely the king would have gone forth to see, or that yonder great lord who had ridiculed the prophet might have relented, and gone forth to observe. But no; there are last that shall be first, and the Lord in His providence and grace pitched upon lepers to be the discoverers of His marvellous miracle. Even thus the keenest observers of grace are those who have the deepest sense of sin. These men could not hope for a welcome from the Syrians, poor objects that they were, they would be hated as Israelites, and abhorred as lepers; yet they went, and in that camp they found all that they wanted, and much more than they expected. Am I not speaking to some who are saying, "For me to go to Christ would be all in vain: I can suppose His blessing my brother, or my friend, but He never will receive one so altogether unworthy as I am"? I speak to those of you who feel that you have no right to mercy: you are the very men who may come boldly for it; since it is not of right, but altogether of favour. You that have no claim to the mercy of God, you are the very people to come to Him through Jesus Christ; for where there is the least of anything that is good .and meritorious, there there is the most room for generous gifts and gracious pardons.
1. These discoverers of the Lord's work were a people who dared not have joined themselves to God's people. They were not allowed inside the city walls: their wretched hospital was without the gate. How often does it happen that those who are rejected of men are accepted of God!
2. To describe these discoverers yet more fully, they were men who at last were driven to give themselves up. They said, "We will fall unto the Syrians; and if they kill us we shall but die. Blessed m that man who has given himself up, not to the Syrians, but to the Lord!
3. These discoverers I would liken to Columbus, four times repeated; for they found out a new world for Samaria. These four lepers went to the Syrian camp, and saw for themselves: lepers as they were, they came, they saw, they conquered. I think I can see them in the dim twilight, stealing along until they come to the first tent, expecting to be challenged by a picket, and wondering that they are not. They heard no sound of human voice. The horses and mules were heard to stamp, and draw their chains up and down, but their riders were gone, and no noise of human foot was heard. "There are no men about," cried one of them, "nor signs of men! Let us go into this tent." They stepped in. A supper was ready. He who had spread that table will never taste it again. The hungry men needed no persuasion, but immediately began to carve for themselves. They took possession of the spoils of war left on the field. After they had feasted they said, "To whom does this gold and silver belong? The prey belongs to us, for our enemies have left the treasure behind them." They took as many of the valuables as they could carry, then went into another tent: still no living soul was seen. Where lately a host had rioted, not a soldier remained. There was no sound of revelry that night, nor tramp of guard, nor talk around the watch-fire. The lepers tasted more of the forsaken dainties, drained other goblets, and took more gold and silver. "There is more than we shall know what to do with," they said; so they dug a hole, and banked their gains after the Oriental fashion. Who can conceive the delirious joy of those four lepers in the midst of such abundance? Do you see what these men did? First, they went and saw for themselves, and then they took possession for themselves. The whole four of them did not own a penny before, and now they are rich beyond a miser's dream. They have enjoyed the feast, and they are filled to the full. They are fully qualified to go and tell the starving city of their discovery, because they are clear that they have made no mistake. They have satisfied their own hunger, gratified their own desire, and tasted and handled for themselves, and so they can speak as men who know and are sure. He knows the grace of God best who, in all his leprosy and defilement, in all his hunger, and faintness, and weariness, has come to Christ, and fed on the bread of heaven, and drank the water of life, and taken the blessings of the covenants, and made himself rich with hidden treasure. Such a man will speak convincingly, because he will bear a personal witness. The leper, fed and enriched, stands outside the city gate, and calls to the porter, and wakes him up at the dead of night, for he has news worth telling. The experienced believer speaks with the accent of conviction, and therein imitates his Master, who spake with authority. "Why," says the porter, "I used to speak to you over the city wall; are you the leper to whom I said that there was no more food for you? I have thrown you nothing for a week, and thought you were dead — are you the man?" He answers, "I am: I do want your wretched rations now; I am filled, and where I have fed there is enough for you all. Come out, and feast yourselves." "I should not know you!" says the porter. All four join in saying, "No, you would not know us; we are new men since we have been to the camp. Believe the story, and tell it to all in the city, for it is true. There is enough and to spare, if they will but come out and have it."
III. HOW THEY CAME TO MAKE THIS DISCOVERY. These four lepers, how did they come to find out the flight of Syria? First, I suppose, they made the discovery rather than anybody else because the famine was sorest with them. Let but some men feel the burden of sin, and they will never rest till they come to Jesus. John Bunyan says that he once thought hardly of Christ, but at last he came to such a pitch of misery that he felt he must come to Jesus anyhow; and he says that he verily believed that, if the Lord Jesus had stood before him with a drawn sword in His hand, he would have rushed upon the point of His sword rather than stay away from Him. These lepers were driven to go to make the discovery because they felt that they could not be any worse than they were. They said, "If we sit here we shall die; and if the Syrians kill us, we shall but die." That feeling has often driven souls to Christ.
1. These people saw that there was no reason why they should not go, for they said one to the other — "Why sit we here until we die?" They could not find a justification for inaction. They could not say, "We sit here because the king commands us to stop where we are." He promises that He will receive you, and therefore He cries, "Turn ye, turn ye, why will ye die?"
2. These lepers went to the camp of the Syrians because they were shut up to that one course — "If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also." Only one road was open. I am always glad when I am in that condition. If many courses are open to me I may make a mistake; but when I see only one road I know which way to go. It is a blessed thing to be shut up to faith in Christ — to be compelled to look to grace alone.
IV. MAY NOT SOME SAD HEARTS IMITATE THESE LEPERS, and make the same discovery? "I am afraid to believe in Christ," says one, "for my sins, my many sins, prevent me." Look at the lepers, and see how much better the Lord was to them than their fears. It is twilight, and they steal into the camp trembling. One cries, "Softly there, Simeon! Your heavy tread will bring the guard upon us." Eleazar gently whispers to the other, Make no noise. If they sleep, let us not arouse them. They might tread as heavily as they pleased, and talk as loudly as they wished, for there was no man there. Do you know it? If you believe in the Lord Jesus, your sins, which are many, are all forgiven — there is no sin left to accuse you. You are afraid they will ruin you? They have ceased to be: the depths have covered them; there is not one of them left. "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin." Your sins were numbered on the scape-goat's head of old. Jesus bore your sins in His own body on the tree. If you come to Christ, confessing and believing, no sin shall destroy you, for it is blotted out. Perhaps these men feared when they were going into the tent — "A Syrian will meet us at the tent door, and cry, 'Back, what business have you here? Lepers, begone! Back to your dens and die!'" They entered into tent after tent: nobody forbade them: they had the entry of every pavilion. They were also possessors of all they saw. When I came to Christ, I could not believe that I might take the promises; but I did, and nobody said me nay. Perhaps the leper felt some little question when he saw a golden cup, or a silver flagon, or a wellfashioned cruet. What have lepers to do with golden cups? But he overcame his scruples. No law could hinder his sharing the leavings of a runaway enemy. Nobody was there to stop him, and the valuables were set before him, and therefore he took what was provided for him. The lepers grew more and more bold, till they carried off as much of the booty as they were able to hide away. I take up my parable, and without scruple invite you to deal thus with salvation. When I came to Jesus, I hardly dared to appropriate a promise; it looked like stealing.
Never say die
J. M'Neill.
"Why sit we here until we die?" That is a plain question that these poor wretched people put to themselves, and after failing to find an answer, to confirm them in their sitting still, they rose up and went forward, and in doing So there came upon them abundant relief and blessing. I trust the vision I have had concerning some of you, whom I have invited to come to this gospel service, has come to pass. My brother, my sister, I invited you to God's house, and you have come. You have not been in place of worship for a long time, and I am glad to see you here. You have come in here in a sort of despairing mood. You can't say you have come here expecting to be blessed. You have said, something like the leprous men, "Well, well, my life has got more and more weary since I kept, away from the churches and the preachers. Certainly since I became an outcast." (and you cast yourself out) "I have become darker and darker and more and more wretched." And when you got my invitation you said, "Well, I will go once more to the church, for it can't be worse for me." The grand thing is to get done with our sitting still. That is the killing thing — doing nothing. Young and old, rich and poor, let the days and months and years come and go, and sit. still doing nothing for their, souls. The grey hairs, are gathering fast on some of you, and you are not a bit further forward; but a little older, and a little heavier, and a little more damned than you were some time ago. "Why sit we here until we die?" Why, there is power enough in that thought to begin a great revival of church-going and a great revival of salvation all over London, throughout its whole circumference. "Why sit we here until we die?" And no one of the four could get any better answer than that they had sat still long enough. Now the Gospel, the glad tidings coming out of this is, that when the soul begins to awaken out of its benumbed, dumb state of dark despair, and deplores its starving condition; when it says, "It is time I made a shift, for life is slipping away, and my leprosy is not diminishing, my death is getting more deadly every year I live," the true state and condition is realised, and the soul being convinced that there is no hope in sitting still, is determined to arise, to flee for refuge to the only hope in the Gospel. The lepers said, "We will go into the camp of the Syrians." They expected death, but when they came to the camp a wonderful thing had happened. I think I see these four wretched lepers approaching; I see them arrive at the edge of the camp, expecting the challenge of the Syrian guard. But, lo! no guard was there. Everything was most unnaturally quiet, and in they slipped, and as they moved in farther and farther and saw no one, their courage grew, and they realised that they were in a deserted camp, surrounded with food and plenty, the spoils of the departed host. Now, don't you see in this the Gospel story? The sinner, when convinced of his lost, ruined, guilty state, has with this conviction a wrong idea and impression of God and salvation. He has the notion — the mistaken notion — that God is full of anger and wrath, and that in coming to Him he will be destroyed. Just like the lepers, they thought the Syrians would kill them. But, us it turned out to the lepers, instead of finding enemies and death, they found food, and all they needed; so, instead of the sinner being smitten with God's justice, God's mercy is revealed to him; and instead of death, he receives the gift of eternal life. That's the English of it; the Gospel of it. These poor starving leprous men came to the Syrian camp, upon the provision of a hundred thousand men, shall I say? Ear more than that. So come to Christ, and there is more in Him, far more than you and I and a million of us could possibly need. "My grace is sufficient for you." Dear me! Surely the great ocean is big enough for a sprat like you, isn't it? And that "My grace" is sufficient for thee individually. Try — ay, trust! And I am not minimising your sin or mine. But I am magnifying "the grace of God that bringeth salvation unto man."
(J. M'Neill.)
The sinner's only alternative
I. SOME HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE PRESENTED TO YOUR CONSCIENCES. Time was when you were careless about eternal things. That time has passed. You can look back but a few weeks and remember when the Sabbath was to you a day of revelry, when the house of God was utterly neglected, when the Bible was a book which you would not have read if you had not been flogged to it, and when prayer was a duty which you utterly despised. But now your conscience has been somewhat awakened. Though not thoroughly, still partially, roused up, you begin to perceive that the Scripture is true, that we have gone astray like lost sheep, that our iniquities do prevail against us, and that our righteousnesses are filthy rags. Well, now, you perceive that you are in just this particular state, that you have a choice of two things before you; you can sit still, but then you must perish; you can go to Christ, and your fears tell you that you, will perish then. This, however, at any rate, your conscience may say to you, You can but die, whereas if you go not to Christ you must die. Even should you believe in Him, you think you might, after all, perish; but if you do not believe in Him, then there is no hope. Should you repair now to Him in prayer your fears tell you that He may repel you, that He may say: "Get you gone! You that once cursed Me, what right have you to expect My favour? You who have scorned My grace a hundred times, and defied My law, what do you here on your knees seeking My mercy? Begone, thou ungrateful wretch, and perish in thy sins." But still there is this presented to your mind, that if you perish there you do but perish, for it is quite certain that you must perish where you are. You believe — you must believe even if you reject the Word of God, you must believe that God is just. If there be a God, He must punish men for sin. How can there exist a moral government if sin shall go unpunished, if virtue and vice shall bring the same end to men? On the other hand, look at the other side of the alternative. There is, at least, some hope; even your poor, trembling heart admits that there is some hope — that if you seek mercy you may obtain it. I know that there is not only hope, but certainty. Jesus casts out none that come to Him, and He is willing to receive the vilest of the vile. But I put the question now as your unbelief puts it; it is not even to you an absolute certainty that Christ will reject you — is it? It is not quite certain that if you pray to Him He will refuse to hear your prayer. At least, it does not admit of positive proof that if you were to trust the blood of Christ you would perish. Look at the question for a moment in another light. It is certain that if you perish as you now are, you will perish without pity and without mercy. The law under which you are convicted knows nothing about forgiveness. Condemned already because you are under the law, the law provides no sacrifice for sin. But now, do you not feel that even if you could perish after coming to God through Christ, yet you would not perish without having some ray of pity? Would there not be at least this consolation for you — "I did what God counselled me; I did come to Him and ask for mercy; I did plead the precious blood of Christ, and yet He rejected me"; and do you not think that this would be a balm to you? Yet further, you ought to remember that all those who have continued in a state of nature have, without exception, perished.
II. THE COGITATION OF THESE MEN ENDED IN ACTION. I wish the like were true of all of you. How many resolves have been strangled in this house of prayer! How many good thoughts have been murdered in those pews! Look, see, can you not find their blood upon your own skirts? Many a time that tear which betokens the first rising emotion has been wiped away, and the emotion with it. May it not be so to-night, but oh! may God grant that, like the lepers, we may put into action that which we shall think over, and accomplish that which, by the help of God the Holy Spirit, we shall be enabled to resolve upon.
1. Undoubtedly the action of the lepers was bold. Cowardice would have sat still. Cowardice would have said, "Well, it is true we shall perish if we sit here, but still we will not go just yet; we are very hungry, but we may bear it another hour," and thus only an extreme pinch would have driven them out. Now, it seems a very bold thing to you, my unknown but trembling hearer, to think of going to Christ by faith. "Why," say you, "I have not the impudence to do it: look at what I have been."
2. But while these lepers did a bold thing, I pass on to notice that they did it unanimously. It is not said that three of them went, but that the other said, "No, I will not go yet." It does not say that two said, "When we have a more convenient season we will go." It was a mercy for them that they were all hungry, for if they had not been they would not have gone. It was, probably, a great mercy for them that they were all lepers, or else they would not have been decided, and would never have dared to go. What a mercy it is for you, sinner, to know that you are a sinner! No, no; we sow much, but we reap little, compared with what our hearts desire. Where stands there the man or the woman here who intends to sit down and die? Well, if you do choose it, choose it deliberately.
3. Bear with me while I remind you again that the action of the lepers was also instantaneous. They said, "We will go," and at once they went. Many say, " I go, sir," but they go not. We can all of us remember times before our conversion to God when we have been impressed under solemn sermons, and some of you can recollect how you have made haste home, and have gone upstairs, and have shut the door and prayed; but idle conversation dissipated the serious impression. And how many more there are who, while their hearts have been searched under the Word. have said, "Please God to spare me another day, I'll think over those things." But where are you now?
4. How well they were all of them rewarded for what they did. Not one of them perished. They were all saved; not one came back empty-handed; they were all enriched. Nor shall one of you — my life for yours — not one of you seeking mercy through Christ shall be refused it. You shall all be blessed, all adopted, all saved, who are by the Spirit of God led to put your trust in Christ at this welcome moment.
III. These lepers no sooner found what was good for themselves than they STRAIGHTWAY WENT OFF TO TELL IT TO OTHERS. And if you have found Christ, after you are sure you have received Him, and have rejoiced in Him for a little season, and fed upon Him, and enriched yourselves by Him as your hidden treasure, it behoves yon to go and tell to others of His grace, and your joy. This Gospel is not to be stifled.
To sit still is to die
J. M. Sherwood.
Their case seemed hopeless. Yet they rightly judged that to remain inactive — to sit still — was the unwisest thing they could do — left them not one chance of life. The same principle will hold good in every man's history. There are critical periods in his life when his whole future hangs on his personal decision as to his course. Various courses suggest themselves, and he is often in doubt and perplexity which to adopt. But decide he must, and decide he does, for weal or woe, in time and in eternity. To sit still and do nothing in these critical periods is suicidal.
1. It is so in the ordinary business affairs of this life. Thousands are ruined by inactivity — by, lack of incisive, heroic resolution and effort in the crisis of their affairs. They "sit still" till the opportunity to retrieve themselves is lost; till the tide of irresistible fate sets in against them.
2. It is so in the formation of character. There are critical periods when to "sit still" and let things take their course, is to forfeit all self-control, to put yourself, soul and body, at the mercy of evil associates, demoralising principles, and ruinous habits — in a word, to make shipwreck of character.
3. It is so with the awakened sinner. It is the most critical period of his life. Decide now he must the most momentous question that ever trembled on human lips, "What must I do to be saved?" He cannot evade it. He cannot postpone it, without infinite peril.
4. It is so with every sinner living under the Gospel. To "sit still" is certain death. To do nothing, absolutely nothing, in the way of inquiring after truth, repenting of sin, seeking Christ, obeying the Gospel, is to make our "damnation sure"! It is a great mistake which many fall into, that positive hostility and active resistance to the Gospel are necessary to ensure condemnation. The negative position and conduct is amply sufficient. Not to believe — not to accept Christ in the relations offered: not to possess the character and bear the fruit of the Christian life — is to render one's salvation impossible. "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?"
(J. M. Sherwood.)
Sitting still to die
Last night when I was thinking upon this subject, I had a half-waking dream, and I thought I stood along the Hudson River Railway track, and I saw a man sitting on that track. I went up to him, and said: "My friend, don't you know you are in peril? The Chicago express will be along in a few moments." I found he was deaf, and did not hear. I tried to pull him away from that peril, and he resisted me and said: "What do you mean by bothering me. I am doing nothing. Am I disturbing you? I am doing nothing at all. I am just sitting here." At that moment I heard in the distance the thunder of the express train. A moment afterwards I saw the head light of the locomotive flash around the corner. I held fast to the rocks that I might not be caught in the rush of the train. Like the horizontal thunder-bolt it hurled past. When the flagman came, five minutes after, with his lantern, there was not so much as a vestige left to show that a man had perished there. What had the victim been doing there? Nothing at all. He was only sitting still — sitting still to die. So I find men in my audience. I tell them the peril of living without God. They say, "I am not doing anything. I don't lie. I don't swear. I don't steal. I don't break the Sabbath. I am sitting here in my indifference, and what you say has no effect upon my soul at all. I am just sitting here." Meanwhile, the long train of eternal disaster is nearing the crossing, and the bridges groan, and the cinders fly, and the driving wheels speed on, and there is a blinding rush, and, in the twinkling of an eye they "perish from the way, when God's wrath is kindled but a little."
Then they said one to another, We do not well.
Public testimony: A debt to God and man
You are not surprised to find that, when those four lepers outside the gate of Samaria, had made the great discovery that the Syrian camp was deserted, they first satisfied their own hunger and thirst. .End quite right too. Who would do otherwise? It is true that they were bound to go and tell other hungry ones; but they could do that with all the louder voice, and they were the more sure of the truth they had to tell, when they had first refreshed themselves. It might have been a delusion: they were prudent to test their discovery before they told it. Having refreshed and enriched themselves, they bethought them of going to tell the besieged and starving citizens. I would advise every soul that has found Christ to imitate the lepers in this matter. Make sure that you have found the Saviour. Eat and drink of him; enrich yourself with him; and then go and publish the glad tidings. Personal enjoyments of true godliness assist us in our testimony for truth and grace. But the point I desire to bring out is this: if those lepers had stopped in the camp all night, if they had remained lying on the Syrian couches, singing, "Our willing souls would stay in such a place as this"; and if they had never gone at all to their compatriots, shut up and starving within the city walls, their conduct would have been brutal and inhuman. I am afraid that some of my hearers have never yet confessed the work of God in their souls. It should not be a matter of one solemn occasion, but our whole life should be a witness to the power and grace which we have found in Christ.
I. TO HIDE THE DISCOVERY OF DIVINE GRACE WOULD BE WRONG.
1. For, their silence would have been contrary to the Divine purpose in leading them to make the discovery. Why were these four lepers led into the camp that they might ]earn that the Lord of hosts had put the enemy to the rout Why, mainly that they might go back, and tell the rest of their countrymen.
2. Thee people would not only have been false to the Divine purpose, but they would have failed to do well. They said one to another, "We do not well." Did it ever strike some of you that it is a very serious charge to bring against yourselves, "We de not well?" "To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin."
3. Besides this, had those lepers held their tongues, they would actually have been doing evil. Suppose that they had kept their secret for four-and-twenty hours, many hundreds might have died of starvation within the walls of Samaria: had they so perished, would not the lepers have been guilty of their blood?
4. Again, these lepers, if they had held their tongues, would have acted most unseasonably. Note how they put it themselves: they say, "We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace." O, has Jesus washed your sins away, and are you silent about it?
5. One thing more: silence may be dangerous. What said these men? "If we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us." That morning light is very close to some of you. If you tarry till to-morrow morning before you have spoken about Christ, some mischief may come upon you.
II. If we "have made the blessed discovery of Christ's gracious work in routing our enemies, and providing for our needs, and if we have tasted of the fruit of that glorious victory ourselves, WE OUGHT TO MAKE A VERY EXPLICIT AVOWAL OF THAT DISCOVERY. It ought to be confessed very solemnly, and in the way which the Lord himself has appointed.
1. This ought to be done very decidedly, because our Lord requires it.
2. Next, if you have found Christ, the man who was the means of leading you to Christ has a claim upon you that he should know of it.
3. Next I think the church of God has a claim upon all of you who have discovered the great love of Jesus. Come and tell your fellow-Christians. Tell the good news to the King's household. The church of God is often greatly refreshed by the stories of new converts.
4. Besides that, a testimony decided for Christ is due to the world. If a man is a soldier of the cross, and does not show his colours, all his comrades are losers by his want of decision.
III. THIS DECLARATION SHOULD BE CONTINUALLY MADE.
Missionary sermon to young men and women
A. Connell, M. A. , D. D.
On three grounds it is imperative upon us that we should carry that secret as far as we can, and as deep as we can, to hearts of our brother men.
I. ON GROUNDS OF PRINCIPLE. "We do not well"; this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace. It is one of the obvious arguments for foreign missions that brotherhood and generosity, and the prodigality of the Great Message itself, all alike demand the widest proclamation of the Gospel. That is true, and can never be otherwise than true. There is a wealth of joy and of moral quickening in the good news of salvation, which it were an everlasting shame to limit by any miserable parochial barriers. Good news of this character is, in its very nature, expansive — universal. "We do not well," which being interpreted means, we are not acting honestly; we are revelling in sudden and incredible wealth. But it does not belong to us. It belongs to all; it is meant for all. There is no monopoly in the Gospel. Judaism is the historic example of the principle of religious monopoly at work, and Judaism measured swords with Christianity only to receive its deathblow. There are diversities of gifts; there are principles of election and selection at work undoubtedly; there are varieties of opportunity; but there is no diversity, no election, no variety, in regard to the destination of the Gospel. When the crass wails of Judaism fell before the outburst of the river of life the whole world was open to the hurrying stream, and thank God. could never more be severed or shut up from it again There is no hint in all the Divine programme that an Englishman should make a better Christian than a Chinaman, or that wisdom might die with Western civilisation. The broad fact which the gospel bears upon its front, the fact to which Christ witnessed in so many suggestions and assertions, is this: that He comes to seek and to save the lost of all nations, that differences of race count nothing before the boundlessness of His compassion and power, and that nobody on earth can predict — only the great day will declare it — which race or language or colour may rise to the noble pre-eminence of revealing most perfectly the bloom and the fruitage of a divine life. Indeed, we do not well in holding our peace. The spirit of our faith demands that we be not silent, and if we are, do we not repeat in a more subtle, but not less deadly, form the sin of which every worldling is guilty? But there are other grounds on which we ought to have a greater zeal for this work, and I mention secondly —
II. ON GROUNDS OF POLICY. If we tarry till the morning light, our iniquity will find us out. Of course it will. A fine philanthropy may often be stimulated, and not unworthily, by some stirring of the instinct of self-preservation, when their craven deed of the night came to be known — and the morning would make it known inevitably — they would get but short shrift from those who at last came to their own; their wisdom lay in communicating the secret and sharing in the common lot of enrichment and of joy. And it seems to me that here there lies enshrined a warning of the gravest consequence to Christian people and Christian nations to-day. Expansion with concentration is the condition of a vigorous and worthy life. Concentration without expansion means sterility and death.
III. ON GROUNDS OF PERSONAL OBLIGATION TO JESUS CHRIST. The parallel of our text may not carry us quite so far as I would go, yet it carries us a good way. "Let us go now and tell the king's household." There was clearly in the mind of the lepers some thought of loyalty to the king at this great crisis in national history, and for us Christians it is true that supreme above all other considerations, whether principle or policy, it is our personal obligation to Christ to see that His last words are obeyed to the letter. Our King's household is a great company — a multitude that no man can number. They are waiting in every country — among the jungle villages of India, under the sultry southern skies, amid the teeming millions of China among the islands of the sea, waiting to have their heart-hunger appeased by the Word of Life; waiting for the one splendid disclosure that can make the whole world new. And you possess the secret. You do not well nor wisely to hold your peace. Run, cry about for joy in the ear of all nations, Christ is King, and His mercy endureth for ever. Now, when the time comes you will be saved from all mishaps, end from that hand which is worse than any mishap. There will be no sweeter words spoken by the lips of the Master in the great day than these: "Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye did unto Me."
(A. Connell, M. A. , D. D.)
Christian privilege and duty
F. Tucker, B. A.
I. First, THE BLESSEDNESS OF GOSPEL TIMES. It is "a day of good tidings." Mark the goodness of the tidings which the Gospel brings. When these lepers drew year to the porter of the gate of Samaria, there was no doubt it was a gospel which they had to proclaim. Now, instead of famine, there should be abundance; instead of darkness, light; instead of terror, peace; instead of despair, hope. And is not this the very character of the tidings which your ministers bring to you from Sabbath to Sabbath — good tidings of great joy? If, then, Samaria was told that a mighty enemy had been affrighted, and that Samaria need no longer fear, so now I bring you the tidings that Satan, our great enemy, has had a fright. He has heard the approaching footsteps of One stronger than he, and now there is enough and to spare for all hungry and thirsty souls. Let me once more proclaim this Gospel to every one of you. I have good tidings for every soul in this assembly. Guilty spirit, listen! "The Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from all sin.'" Struggling spirit, listen! "If, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life." Bewildered spirit, listen! "All things work together for good to them that love God, and to them that are called according to His purpose." Tired, weary spirit, listen! "I go to prepare a place for you; and if I go I will come again, and receive you to Myself, that where I am ye may be also." These are the tidings I bring to you. Thus much for the goodness of these tidings; a word as to their newness. Why, even at this moment "They are a new tidings to a very large portion of the inhabitants of our world.
II. THE EVIL OF SELFISHLY ENJOYING THESE GOSPEL TIMES. "We do not well," these lepers said to one another; we do not well; "this day is a day of good tidings and we hold our peace." "We do not well"; we show a wart of common benevolence if we simply receive the Gospel and make no effort to diffuse it. There is a close tie between man and man. Reason and Scripture both tell us of a bond of brotherhood which unites me to every other individual of my race. I ought to abound in sympathy, to rejoice with them that rejoice, and to weep with them that weep. The second commandment is not repealed by the Gospel, it is sanctioned, enforced, confirmed — "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." Now just suppose that these lepers had revelled down there at the bottom of the hill among the luxuries of the Syrian camp and sent no tidings into Samaria. Suppose that by some accident one of the Samaritans heard that there were these men revelling, and that there was enough and to spare, and they had sent no tidings into the city: how the selfishness of these men would be cursed! What a howl of indignation would ring through all the streets and homes of Samaria! We do not well, for there is a want of loving obedience in this. We do not well, for we rob ourselves of the highest enjoyment of the Gospel. There is nothing, that appears clearer to those of us who have got into middle age, and are getting on to the end of life, than this. I never can be happy if I simply try to make myself happy. Selfishness always defeats itself.
(F. Tucker, B. A.)
The lepers of Samaria
J. Sherman.
I. THE TIMES IN WHICH WE LIVE. "This day is a day of good tidings." And is it not a day of good tidings? What are the peculiarities of the day in which we are called to live? There are these four peculiarities in it; the first of which I will now mention: — that Jesus Christ has obtained a complete conquest over all our enemies. And this is the great and especial truth which is published in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Moreover, "this is a day of good tidings," because Jesus Christ has procured an ample provision for all our necessities. The spoil is ours; the glory is his, The conquest was made by Himself, and through that conquest all the benefits of salvation are now amply provided and amply presented to our use. But there is another point connected with this good tidings, and that is this that Jesus Christ has led many of us who are present to participate in the provisions of his love. And this makes it "a day of good tidings" to us. The four leprous men exemplify our condition. Like them we were cast out of the congregation of the saints; like them we were loathsome in our own eyes: like them, we were infectious to our neighbours: like them, we were under the ban and curse of God; but, like these leprous men, He filled us with views of our own misery, made us discontented with the state in which we were, raised a spark of hope in our bosoms, that for us there might be hope, and that we might, as we could not be in a worse condition, be better, by application to His mercy and grace. But there is another point connected with the day in which we live — that Jesus Christ has opened channels for the publication of these good tidings to others. This day may be emphatically called, indeed, "a day of good tidings."
I. THE TEXT REPROVES OUR INDIFFERENCE TO THE MISERIES OF OTHERS. "We do not well; this day is a day of good tidings." Certainly, then, "we do not well."
1. For let it be remembered that while this disposition exists in the mind, we dishonour our character. What is our character? If we have believed in Christ, we are the sons of God; we are united to Christ, our Elder Brother, and we are under infinite obligations to his boundless love, inexpressible obligations to His gracious care and love to us. Now, all He asks us, in return for His love to us, is, to love Him in return — not to be ashamed of Him; to establish His kingdom, and to give ourselves up to His service.
2. But we not only dishonour our character, but we disobey Christ's command. Our prayers have been, Lead me into Thy truth, and teach me, for Thou art the God of my salvation: Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?" has been our cry. Now this is His instruction: "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature, beginning at Jerusalem."
III. THE TEXT PRONOUNCES OUR PUNISHMENT IF WE DELAY. "If we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will befall us."
1. If we delay this work our eyes shall see the destruction of our kindred. When our beloved Lord had used all efforts to evangelise Jerusalem, by preaching, by miracles, by residing amongst them, by various conversations, and yet, after all their misery affected His heart; He could not look upon them without tears. Many times He wept in His prayers; but there are two scenes only recorded where He publicly wept; the one was at the grave of Lazarus, His dear friend; and the other was when He looked over Jerusalem, and saw the people perishing — people who had discarded the prophets that had been sent them. Now what should our grief, beloved, be, to see souls brought every hour to the brink of hell, and know that, if they die, they must fall therein, and to reflect that we have used no adequate means to succour and save their souls! There is however, another point to consider.
2. The evil that shall befall us shall be this — our souls shall want the joys of God's salvation.
3. Again: our conduct shall receive the condemnation of Christ. I refer now to the last day. That is so plainly spoken of, that it needs no illustration: "Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to Me."
IV. The text would, in the last place, suggest THE CONDUCT WHICH YOU OUGHT TO ADOPT UNDER PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES. "Let us go," the text says, "and tell the king's household." And, brethren, let us go and carry the Gospel to our poor brethren and sisters in England that are perishing for lack of knowledge. It suggests that we should go and tell of these glad tidings, because success is certain. Success is certain, what though many of your dear missionaries, who toil night and day in the work, have not had extended encouragement of their heart's desire which you could wish — will you give up? Finally, let us furnish, this. gospel to our countrymen, for our opportunities are vanishing. Time is hastening on; health is inconstant; the fashion of the world passeth away. This, this is the only time we can use our strength, and talents, and time, and money.
(J. Sherman.)
The right and the prudent
I. THE RIGHT. The silver and the gold which they had discovered they had hidden away; and now, perhaps, conscience told them it was not right. It is not right for us to conceal the good we have discovered, or to appropriate it entirely to our own use, let us communicate it. The distribution of good is right. Every man should be ready to communicate. The monopoly of material good is a huge wrong, and the crying sin of the age. Monopolies in trade, in land, in power, political and ecclesiastical, must be broken up, the wants of society and the claims of eternal justice demand it. What is truly "glad tidings" to us we should proclaim to others. The rays of joy that fall over our own lives we should not retain, but reflect.
II. THE PRUDENT. If these poor men felt it was right to communicate to others the tidings of the good they had received or not, they certainly felt it was prudent. Not to do the right thing must cause some "mischief," mischief not only to the body, but to the soul as well, to the entire man. There is no true prudence apart from rectitude. What is wrong in moral principle is mischievous in conduct. He who is in the right., however outvoted by his age, is always in the majority, for he has His vote, which carries all material universes and spiritual hierarchies with it. Right is infallible utilitarianism.
Religion to be made known
Burner, in his History of our own Times, quotes Lord Shaftesbury of the seventeenth century as saying: "People differ in their discourses and professions about theological matters, but men of sense are really of one religion." When asked "What is that religion?" the Earl rejoined, "That, men of sense never tell!" This may be the religion of the worldling and cynic, but the religion of the regenerated man cannot but utter itself. Its light shines-it cannot be hid. Life must out. Divine life is irrepressible.
And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken.
God's promise realised and His truth vindicated
We have here an instance of two things —
I. GOD'S PROMISE REALISED. In the first verse of this chapter Elisha had said. "Hear ye the word of the Lord, Thus saith the Lord, To-morrow, about this time, shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel." The morrow had come, and here is the fine flour and the barley selling in the gate of Samaria. Here is the Divine promise fulfilled to the letter. God is ever faithful Who hath promised.
II. GOD'S TRUTH VINDICATED. The haughty courtier said to the prophet yesterday, when he was told that a measure of fine flour would be sold for a shekel, "If the Lord would make windows in heaven, then might this thing be." As if he had said, "Do not presume to impose on me, a man of my intelligence and importance. The intellectual rabble may believe in you, but I cannot." Whereupon the prophet replied, "Thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof." And so it became. Here are the flour and the barley, and there lies dead the haughty sceptic. Truth has ever vindicated itself, and will ever do so. Men's unbelief in facts does not either destroy or weaken facts, the facts remain. Though all the world deny the existence of a God, moral obligation and future retribution, the facts remain.
The people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
The fate of unbelief
W. H. M'Caughey, D. D.
1. We see that God will punish unbelief. There is an impression in the minds of many that the old dispensation was one of works, and that belief or faith in God is a doctrine only of the new. It is, however, the teaching of the entire Bible, and for all time, that in the eye of God the great sin of man is unbelief. The language is clear and unmistakable. "Without faith it is impossible to please Him." He that cometh unto Him must believe that He is, and that He is the rewarder of them that seek Him. He must believe that when the necessities of His kingdom on earth, or the wants and salvation of His people demand it, no laws of nature can stand in the way of His giving relief.
2. We note that this man's final doom was pronounced at least one whole day before his death. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin, and yet there is such a thing as a sin that shall never be forgiven. I believe this is oftener committed by what the world calls moral men than by the desperately wicked. I believe it consists in a deliberate and persistent rejection of God's truth with the heart, while that truth is clearly known with the head. It is a combination of light in the understanding and determined darkness in the will. This man had been privileged to walk with God's servant, but would not walk with God.
3. We note that this man perished in sight of blessing. It is possible to realise truth too late. It has been forcefully said, earth is the only place in God's universe where there is any infidelity. Hell itself is nothing but the truth believed too late. The fabled Tantalus was placed in sight of water and food, yet left to die of thirst and starvation. Dives lifted up his eyes in torment and saw Lazarus in Abraham's bosom, and there is such a thing as rejecting the offers of Jesus and then being compelled to witness the delight of those who are foolish enough to believe God's promises and wise enough to accept them.
(W. H. M'Caughey, D. D.).
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◄ Acts 12:6 ►
On the very night when Herod was about to bring him forward, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards in front of the door were watching over the prison.
And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.
And when Herod was going to bring him forth, that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards before the door kept the prison.
The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.
and when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night was Peter sleeping between two soldiers, having been bound with two chains, guards also before the door were keeping the prison,
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Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And when Herod would have brought him forth - When he was about to bring him to be put to death.
The same night - That is, the night preceding. The intention of Herod was to bring him out as soon as the Passover was over; but during the night which immediately preceded the day in which he intended to bring him to punishment, Peter was rescued.
Peter was sleeping - Here is an instance of remarkable composure, and an illustration of the effects of peace of conscience and of confidence in God. It was doubtless known to Peter what the intention of Herod was. James had just been put to death, and Peter had no reason to expect a better fate. And yet in this state he slept as quietly as if there had been no danger, and it was necessary that he should be roused even by an angel to contemplate his condition and to make his escape. There is nothing that will give quiet rest and gentle sleep so certainly as a conscience void of offence; and in the midst of imminent dangers, he who confides in God may rest securely and calmly. Compare Psalm 3:5; Psalm 4:8.
Between two soldiers - See the notes on Acts 12:4. Peter was bound to the two. His left hand was chained to the right hand of one of the soldiers, and his right hand to the left hand of the other. This was a common mode of securing prisoners among the Romans. See abundant authorities for this quoted in Lardner's Credibility, part 1, chapter 10: section 9, London edition, 1829, vol. i. p. 242, 243, etc.
And the keepers ... - See Acts 12:4. Two soldiers were stationed at the door. We may see now that every possible precaution was used to ensure the safe custody of Peter:
(1) He was in prison.
(2) he was under the charge of sixteen men, who could relieve each other when weary, and thus every security was given that he could not escape by inattention on their part.
(3) he was bound fast between two men. And,
(4) He was further guarded by two others, whose business it was to watch the door of the prison. It is to be remembered, also, that it was death for a Roman soldier to be found sleeping at his post. But God can deliver in spite of all the precautions of people; and it is easy for him to overcome the most cunning devices of his enemies.
Acts 12:6 Parallel Commentaries
'Sober Certainty'
'And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent His angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.'--ACTS xii. 11. Where did Luke get his information of Peter's thoughts in that hour? This verse sounds like first-hand knowledge. Not impossibly John Mark may have been his informant, for we know that both were in Rome together at a later period. In any case, it is clear that, through whatever …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts
Peter's Deliverance from Prison
'Peter therefore was kept in the prison: but prayer was made earnestly of the Church unto God for him.'--ACTS xii. 5 (R.V.) The narrative of Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison is full of little vivid touches which can only have come from himself. The whole tone of it reminds us of the Gospel according to St. Mark, which is in like manner stamped with peculiar minuteness and abundance of detail. One remembers that at a late period in the life of the Apostle Paul, Mark and Luke were together …
Great Preparations for a Great Work
'And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David. 2. And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, 3. Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the Lord his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet. 4. But now the Lord my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary …
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The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the bodyguard had released him from Ramah, when he had taken him bound in chains among all the exiles of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.
So Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer for him was being made fervently by the church to God.
Then the commander came up and took hold of him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains; and he began asking who he was and what he had done.
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Jacob Blessing Joseph's Children
H. M. Villiers, M. A.
And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk…
I. First of all, THE REFERENCE TO JACOB'S FOREFATHERS: he says, "God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk." How various must be the thoughts suggested to all our minds by that same expression — "God, before whom my fathers did walk!" How many of us can say that it was the God of Abraham before whom our fathers did walk? How many must be constrained to say that it was the "god of this world .... before whom their fathers did walk!" It is an awful question which we read in the prophet, "Your fathers, where are they?" How solemnly it recalls the history of our own youth! How solemnly it bids us ask, "Were those we loved in the flesh in Christ, or were they out of Christ? "But I stay not to dwell upon that: it is clear that the feelings which were in the mind of the patriarch were those of joy and gratitude; he knew who was "the God of his fathers"; he knew that their God was his God. In the expression, therefore, "God, before whom my fathers did walk," he doubtless had reference to the sovereign grace of God, which had called Abraham from the midst of an idolatrous nation, to be " the father of the faithful" — to be he in whose "seed all the families of the earth should be blessed." His mind, therefore, was filled with lone to that God who had made Abraham "to differ," and who had so mercifully kept Abraham, even to the end.
II. But, secondly, let us speak of THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT WHICH IS HERE GIVEN OF JACOB'S EXPERIENCE when he says, "the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, the Angel which redeemed me from all evil." He appears here, I think, to refer to God's providential care of him, as well as to the spiritual mercies vouchsafed to him, when he says, "the God who fed me all my life long." For he would refer to His support in his early days at home. He would refer also to the manifest way in which God's presence was vouchsafed to him at the time he was in the family of Laban; and even perhaps now he was referring also to the mysterious manner in which God had been pleased to allow his son — his beloved son Joseph — to be taken from him for a times when he was constrained to exclaim, "All these things are against me." But now, having been taught of God the reason of the Lord's dealings; having seen how good was brought out of evil; having perceived that the Lord had sent Joseph before him, so that he might be the instrument in the Lord's hand of feeding him in the time of want and famine, he says, "the God which fed me all my life long unto this day." But I apprehend that, grateful as the patriarch must have felt for these temporal mercies, his feelings upon this point were very far less intense than they were for those spiritual mercies which God had so graciously vouchsafed to him; for we see him also saying, "the Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads." "The Angel who redeemed." And who was this Angel whose blessing he was invoking? Had it not been the Angel of the covenant, the very expression made use of by the patriarch must have been the language of blasphemy; but, instead of that, we know that it was the Angel of the covenant, even the Lord Jesus Christ Himself; and from that we gather what the nature of those spiritual mercies are to which the patriarch more especially alludes: "The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads."
III. But, thirdly, we must remark upon THE BLESSING WHICH IS INVOKED: the patriarch says, "bless the lads." He doubtless desired that there should be daily food provided for them; he doubtless desired that God's care should constantly watch over them; but there was something far greater than this he desired for them. He desired the full blessings of God's redeeming love, so that he might be able to feel that that Angel which had "redeemed him from all evil" would also redeem those children which were before him, and that they might have all that comfortable experience which he himself enjoyed. And what could be the groundwork of such anticipations existing in the aged patriarch's breast? Think you, he considered that they would merit these blessings at the hands of God, while he disclaimed all merit himself? There were no feelings of this kind in his breast, for he had been taught of God; but he knew what God he had to deal with; he felt that he had to deal with a covenant-keeping God, and he was assured that all those blessings which he besought were covenant mercies in Christ Jesus.
(H. M. Villiers, M. A.)
KJV: And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
WEB: He blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
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Volunteering far beyond the closing ceremony
tags: Experience, Games Makers, Join in UK, London, Olympics, Skills, Spirit of 2012 Trust, Volunteering, Volunteers
Medal-winning athletes wowed the crowds in 2012 but it was the volunteer Games Makers who made the London Olympics truly great. In this guest blog, Phil Madeley explains why he gave his time so willingly for last summer’s showpiece event and how his involvement has continued long after the closing ceremony.
A volunteer is defined as “a person who performs a service willingly and without pay”. Whilst the definition is easy, what is more surprising is how such a person is viewed, especially in connection to London 2012.
Phil Madeley volunteered his time as a Games Maker at the London 2012 Olympics
When I applied for and was accepted as a Games Maker, most people supported me but others questioned my reasoning, not understanding why someone would volunteer unpaid!
My reason for volunteering was simple. Living in London I wanted to support the Olympics in the best way I could and to pay back to the UK for many things that people had done for me.
I was prepared to do any job given to me, but had not expected the range of jobs being offered or the depth of experience among the Games Makers that I met.
My role took me to the print distribution team at the Royal Artillery Barracks and helping at the Paralympic Archery, during which time I met about 100 Games Makers undertaking all sorts of roles.
Although they varied in age and experience, each one was an individual with markedly different backgrounds but all had the same goal – to perform their task to the best of their ability while enjoying themselves.
The Olympics certainly inspired many people both on and off the sports field and this has been well documented. I was inspired, not only by the UK athletes, but the crowds of well wishers, the Games Makers and individuals like Paralympic archer, Matt Stutzman. The summer of 2012 got me interested in volunteering far beyond the closing ceremony on 9 September – but why?
The Olympics created a degree of purpose, a belief in community spirit and a sense of pride both in ourselves and in the way we treat others. It’s those feelings and beliefs that I would like to recapture in furthering my volunteering.
Join In contacted me recently asking if I could use some of my skills to further my volunteering and sports interest, and it took all of one minute to agree! Join In was formed to continue the work of the Olympics and it’s my belief that we can do this as long as we continue to believe in that sense of community and trust.
Philip Madeley is a Games Maker and Join In Trust, Local Leader
The Join In Trust received £1.5m from The Spirit of 2012 Trust to build on the expertise and enthusiasm of the 2012 Games Makers.
A series of initiatives and events starting in July this year, one year on from the London 2012 opening ceremony, will encourage Games Makers, and others, to use the Join In website to identify and match up who needs their help volunteering in local communities across the UK.
Did you volunteer as a Games Maker for the London 2012 Olympics? If so, have you continued to volunteer like Philip has done? Leave your comments below or join the conversation on Twitter @biglotteryfund.
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29 July 2013 6:36 pm
I was prd at para too and loved the whole experience. I just wanted to be a part of 2012, it was truly a once in a lifetime opportunity. wife didnt understand but said ok….then wished she had done it too. since then, not too many jobs but i did the world rowing at eton dorney, another regatta there too, i also volunteered at a tough mudder on behalf of help4heroes, then another and yet one more this year.
hard work? yes. fun? yes, rewarding? oh yes. just applied to help out at volleyball too.
I don’t have a lot of free time so I’m quite selective about the events, but if someone really needs a hand…..I’m in….
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Thanks for your comment on the blog. It’s great to hear that you’ve got so involved in volunteering since you’re time helping during 2012! Long may it continue!
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The outline of my story with donor egg treatment
Laboratory and preimplantation genetic diagnosis
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15.2.2018 Ovumia Fertinova
Our infertility story began back in 2006 when we started trying for a baby. A year later in March 2007 my husband and I made an appointment at the Ava-klinikka, now known as Ovumia Fertinova. This is our shared story, but I’m writing this from my own point of view. As the heading shows, this is only the outline of my story. This outline holds so many things that can’t fit into this space and so much that is impossible to put into words.
We had several treatments using my own eggs. First came the inseminations, then IVF where none of the eggs became fertilised. That was followed by ICSI. There were few eggs and they weren’t very high quality. At some stage, after several unsuccessful treatments, we had a discussion with our doctor about where to go with our treatments. I said straight off that I’m not sure I’ll be able to make the decision to stop and that I hoped the doctor would be honest and tell me directly when there’s no more point in trying to get pregnant using my own eggs. And so it happened that we had a discussion with the doctor treating us that resulted in our decision to try donor eggs.
We went to see a psychologist to talk about it before the first treatment. After that, a donor was found for us and the treatments began. The fresh egg donation treatment cycle didn’t produce the result we wanted, but the first frozen embryo transfer started a pregnancy, which led to the birth of our firstborn, a beautiful boy, in October 2010. Physically, the pregnancy was “easy” and the birth also was quick and without problems. Our second child, a beautiful girl, was born in February 2013. My pregnancy with her began with the first fresh transfer. Both children have the same donor, so they have exactly the same genetic heritage.
All that is easy to write. It tells a very clear story in a very practical form. What happened in my heart in those years was something completely different. It was far from easy and straightforward. The ache of my empty arms, the longing for what had never been. It’s impossible to find words for that.“Pain dies by screaming”, sing the Finnish band Apulanta. It didn’t. You see, there were moments, plenty of them, when I lay on the floor screaming out the hopelessness of my empty womb. The weight of those years was hard to carry, and still is sometimes when I think about it.
I’d like to tell you everything about the darkness I travelled through then, as peer support for those of you who are walking such paths right now, and as my truth for you who are only just taking your first steps. Because it isn’t easy. But I’d also like to tell you about the hope that filled me when we were given the opportunity to try donor eggs. Of the love and joy that flowed to my every cell when I held my babies for the first time. And every single day when I look at my children who are genetically another’s but more my own than I could ever have imagined.
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YA author Rachael Bell-Irving uses pre-marketing to grow following, knowledge and experience for launch
We’ve all heard the saying ‘practice makes perfect’ at one time or another, and book marketing is no exception. So when Tellwell author Rachael Bell-Irving decided she was going to publish her first book – Demons at the Doorstep, she immediately began exploring and experimenting with marketing in preparation for her book’s release.
First, she embellished her online author presence with a Facebook Page and website, and began to establish a voice through social media and a blog. While she knew it was important to be on multiple online platforms, Bell-Irving decided to focus on the tool she felt most comfortable with: Instagram.
She did her due-diligence researching effective hashtags and exploring community spaces like “Bookstagram.” As she began to post content, she started to pick up on some of the nuances. Beyond the importance of imagery, Bell-Irving discovered the value of allowing your personality to come through.
“People like to know who you are behind the scenes and behind the screen,” she says.
Some of her most well-received content on Instagram has been posts of herself – whether they were related to the writing process or not. Even online, the reading community seems to appreciate a personable, humanistic approach to brand awareness.
Another advantage of the pre-marketing process for Bell-Irving was getting a better sense of her genre and her target audience. Prior to exploring the literary community on social media, she didn’t realize her writing is tailored to young adult readers.
Having learned that, she found her approach online shifted to accommodate the interests and habits of YA readers specifically. The most prominent thing she discovered was the strength of the community she had become a part of through her writing. Not only are YA readers and writers extremely interactive with one another, but being genuinely invested is quintessential to building support within the community.
The concept of “being a reader as much as a writer” goes a long way, Bell-Irving explains. So, she started to get back into reading again to really immerse herself with her audience.
Thematic profiles also seem to draw in a consistent audience, especially when it comes to reviews, says Bell-Irving. She’s come across quite a few Instagram accounts often featuring books alongside artisanal coffees. Despite the “unrealistic coffee expectations,” they seem to have become a trademark of the book blogging community, she laughs.
The author’s online engagement also led to her discovery of YA subscription boxes – a themed box featuring a new release and other book-related memorabilia. YA enthusiasts can subscribe to receive a monthly gift box from companies such as OwlCrate, LitJoy Crates or BookCase Club.
“I would certainly feel like I’ve made it if I was featured in one,” says Bell-Irving.
So far, starting early has paid off for the author, not only in a strong online following of avid young adult readers, but more importantly in gaining a better sense of what’s out there and what works to reach her audience.
Bell-Irving describes her pre-marketing efforts as a good warmup to develop consistency for the book release. She’s also found the practice useful for gaining early feedback from those outside her personal network.
Using Wattpad – an online tool for authors to publicly share their writing with a forum of other authors and readers, Bell-Irving released some of the material she’d been working on to gain insights from preliminary readers. Not only was it a confidence builder, but it also paved the way for some early unbiased reviews.
While growing her following, this gave Bell-Irving a chance to further engage her audience. “It’s nice to have a space to direct people to,” she says. “It became a useful tool for sneak peaks.”
Bell-Irving’s biggest piece of advice to her fellow first time authors is to try to plan a few weeks in advance. While it’s important to be flexible in your approach, it’s critical to gain that initial exposure, she explains. And for that, you’ll need at least a skeleton idea of what you’re going to do next, she adds.
“I didn’t have an extensive plan to start, but I knew I didn’t want my book to come out and have people saying ‘Who’s this person?’” says Bell-Irving. “It’s important to give yourself time to take breaks, and to be patient throughout the process, especially when you’re learning.”
With a group of loyal followers waiting for the release of Demons at the Doorstep, Bell-Irving says she’s onto planning her social media countdown. Now that she’s laid the groundwork, she says she’s looking forward to exploring new marketing methods post-release.
Demons at the Doorstep will soon be available online through Amazon, Chapters and Barnes and Noble. For more on the author, visit her website: www.rbellirving.ca.
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Illegal detention and government threats to a free press, just the latest headlines to emerge from the UK in a summer of revelations connected to NSA surveillance. Both revolve around the Guardian newspaper, and both require legal precedent to change in order to prevent Britain further lurching towards the unpleasant label of 21st Century totalitarian democracy.
The nine-hour detention at Heathrow airport of Guardian journalist Glen Greenwald’s partner, David Miranda, exposes the need to revise terrorism legislation in order to defend against the erosion of the very civil liberties it was designed to protect. Using provisions to fight terrorism against something that is not a terrorism issue “brings the whole remit of the laws passed by parliament to address terrorism into disrepute," as former Conservative prisons minister, Crispin Blunt rightly said in the wake of the scandal.
It goes without saying that Miranda was targeted precisely because he is the partner of the lead journalist working with leaked information supplied by former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden. If we are to believe UK authorities had a duty to act on suspicions Miranda was transporting secret data, the inference is that surveillance of private citizens, and those who report on it continues unabated. The message of intimidation was sent loud and clear.
The alternative, that police merely assumed Miranda was acting as a data-mule for his partner, proves his interception was carried out entirely on suspicion of association. In which case, Police unquestionably distorted the application of Schedule 7 of the UK Terrorism Act 2000 under which Miranda was detained.
The only use for Schedule 7 is for the purpose of determining whether a detained person is a terrorist. Under the Act, a terrorist is defined as ‘a person involved in committing, preparing or instigating acts of terrorism.’ David Miranda clearly does not fit the definition. Neither is Glen Greenwald listed on the latest FBI ‘Most Wanted Terrorists’ posting. And neither is journalism, or aiding journalistic activity, detailed on the US State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organisations. UK Foreign Secretary William Hague’s claim that “law-abiding citizens… have nothing to fear” is as feckless as it was unlikely.
Lord Charles Falconer, one of the barristers who helped introduce the original Act, spoke out on the misuse of Schedule 7 in David Miranda’s case in a Guardian editorial published Wednesday. “Publication in the Guardian is not instigating terrorism,” he said.
“Schedule 7 does not contain a power to detain and question journalists simply because the state thinks they should not be able to publish material because of the damage publication might do, or because they do not approve of where the information came from. The state has exceeded its powers in this case. The sooner the courts make this clear, the better.”
Further damage to the fabric of British democracy and its press freedom standing came with simultaneous revelations made by the Guardian over direct government interference in its on-going publication of Snowden’s leaked NSA secrets.
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger’s account of meetings with UK government officials reveals a blatant attempt to silence critical reporting in the UK press via legal mechanisms designed to bury information and control the story. Such behaviour is precisely what the international freedom of expression community campaigns against on a daily basis in the world’s worst countries for human rights abuses. That threats passed into action in the UK undermines confidence in the extent of Britain’s free and open democracy and severely weakens the ability of its press to operate unfettered.
“During one of these meetings,“ says Rusbridger in his editorial from Monday 19th August, “I asked directly whether the government would move to close down the Guardian's reporting through a legal route – by going to court to force the surrender of the material on which we were working. The official confirmed that, in the absence of handover or destruction, this was indeed the government's intention. Prior restraint, near impossible in the US, was now explicitly and imminently on the table in the UK.”
But for his organisation’s American franchise, Rusbridger would have been obliged to permanently jettison the data provided by Edward Snowden. Using pre-publication censorship the UK government has recourse to muzzle the press; by exercising prior restraint it can appeal to the English courts to prevent publication of sensitive information – regardless of whether there is a clear public interest argument.
Clearly there may be limits to disclosures deemed ‘in the public interest’. A voluntary code administered by the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee (DPBAC) operates as an advisory framework in the UK. Established in 1912 between government departments with responsibility for national security and the nation’s media, it provides a means of “preventing the press from publishing information that might be of value to a future enemy.”
The DPBAC uses a system of Defence Advisory (DA)-Notices to “prevent inadvertent public disclosure of information that would compromise UK military and intelligence operations and methods, or put at risk the safety of those involved in such operations, or lead to attacks that would damage the critical national infrastructure and/or endanger lives.” Writing in the Guardian, Simon Jenkins suggests the press – with some notable exceptions - has been “cowed” by the broadening application of the DA-Notice. “In the case of Snowden the D[A]-Notice has been used to warn editors off publishing material potentially embarrassing to politicians and the security services under the spurious claim that it "might give comfort to terrorists."
The government’s intention to apply the law against the Guardian is a stark and worrying reminder of the lengths to which it feels necessary to go to protect itself from further exposure at the hands of the paper’s journalism. That such reporting is unveiling illegality, wrongdoing and abuse of power at the highest levels appears incidental. In a comedy of the absurd, GCHQ officials observed, photographed and recorded notes as the newspaper’s staff descended to the basement of the company’s London headquarters to destroy computer hard drives containing the top-secret information - in the full knowledge that copies existed outside of the country. Writing in Wednesday’s Guardian, Glen Greenwald derided the actions as “incompetently oppressive.”
Threatening to shut down the reporting of a media company, especially in today’s digital age, does nothing but set a dangerous precedent for future attempts to control the press. Even the White House distanced itself from the British government’s destruction of journalistic material, saying it found it “hard to imagine a situation where it would destroy a US media company’s servers.” In the US, journalism has the First Amendment to fall back upon whenever there is an attempt to violate the right to free speech. Britain desperately needs an equivalent piece of legislation if the independence of the press is to be protected and the public’s access to information defended.
Unsurprisingly, the desperate attempts to catch or silence Edward Snowden extend far beyond normal ‘legal’ recourse. For those in power, flouting the rules and being exposed for doing so has had few repercussions aside from stimulating ferocious public debate. Now even that is under threat, and UK democracy is worse off as a result.
The only good to have come from this sorry affair is the spotlight now illuminating Schedule 7, one of the UK’s most opaque anti-terror provisions that, until recently carried no public accountability. Originating from the 2000 Terrorism Act, the sanctioning of extra-judicial detentions is nothing new; data giving us any idea of the outcomes of the use of counter terrorism powers, their application and frequency certainly is - the Home Office included statistics on Schedule 7 for the first time in its statistical bulletin of 13 October 2011. Treading water in a grey area of speculation, where no justice can penetrate and security officials can ignore their own rules has been the unfortunate, hidden reality for unknown thousands of far lesser public figures entering the UK for over a decade. Perhaps Britain can now begin in earnest to dismantle the policies that were designed to keep people safe, yet that are eroding freedoms to an unprecedented level.
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UC engineers excel in MBIE Endeavour Funding
Three UC engineers have been awarded research funding totalling $11.8 million for the next 3-5 years in the latest round of Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment Endeavour Funding, announced by Hon Dr Megan Woods today.
Professors Conan Fee, Shusheng Pang and Mathieu Sellier received funding for research they are leading in the areas of renewable energy and advanced manufacturing.
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Professor Conan Fee, School of Product Design, UC Engineering – 3D printed porous media for process engineering ($9,812,550 funded over five years)
This research project will revolutionise manufacturing processes that have only changed incrementally over the last two centuries. Using advances in 3D print technologies, the research programme will develop ways to create structures of complex solid and fluid channel geometric design to deliver heat and mass exchange more efficiently. Work to date shows that 3D-printed triply periodic minimal surfaces (3D-TPMS) offer significant advantages over existing heat exchanger and porous bed designs, but the knowledge gap between engineering science and computational tools required for the design of 3D-printed structures is preventing implementation in real-world applications, which the research programme will address.
Professor Shusheng Pang, Chemical and Process Engineering – Integrated chemical looping and oxygen uncoupling with advanced biomass gasification, for renewable hydrogen production and carbon dioxide capture ($999,999 funded over three years)
This research will develop a new system that combines advanced technology of biomass steam gasification with the capability of Hot Lime Labs for developing new carbon dioxide sorbents and oxygen carrier materials. This research will develop a new process and materials to produce bio-hydrogen and capture carbon dioxide by using New Zealand wood biomass resources from log harvesting and wood processing. The bio-hydrogen produced could be used as transport fuel, a chemical feedstock for methanol, ammonia and oil refineries. At present 95 per cent of hydrogen used in these industries is produced from fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide captured from this process could be used in plant greenhouses, fertiliser manufacturing and methanol or ethanol production.
Professor Mathieu Sellier, Mechanical Engineering – Development of a multi-axis spin-coating system to coat curved surfaces ($1,000,000 funded over three years)
By developing a system with the capability to spin-coat curved surfaces product developers will have more flexibility in the shapes they can produce. Traditionally, spin coating is achieved by depositing a liquid on the surface and then spinning it off to leave a thin film that will solidify. Non-uniformity of liquid distribution is the biggest challenge to spin-coating curved surfaces. For the first time, Professor Sellier’s Smart Idea will develop optimal flow control algorithms using the theory of Partial Differential Equation and a multi-axis system to achieve uniform distribution of liquid onto a curved surface which will revolutionise the possibilities of product development.
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UC Science and Engineering Precincts Public Open Day
April 4, 2018 klw56
As you may know, UC Science | Te Rāngai Pūtaiao and UC Engineering | Te Rāngai Pūkaha are hosting a UC Science and Engineering Precincts Public Open Day – Monday 16 April, 3-6pm.
This is a community event, for the general public. It is family-friendly, so kids are very welcome! We will have hands on activities and demos, and it’s a chance to see our new state-of-the-art facilities and tour our labs. We will have our Nuts and Bolts Café open and we will be putting on a free sausage sizzle.
For more information, check out our website.
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Record gathering of electric vehicles at UC
April 26, 2017 Puck
All the cars in the photo, except for a few at top right, drive only on electricity.
By Professor Dave Kelly – Biological Sciences.
On Saturday 22 April, a new New Zealand record was set for the number of electric vehicles (EVs) in one place, in the Arts car park at UC.
The record attempt was organised by the Christchurch EV Group, in connection with the Christchurch leg of the Bluff to Cape Reinga EV trip organised by Leading the Charge, a national EV advocacy group.
The previous NZ record of 62 EVs, set in Auckland, was well broken with exactly 100 EVs gathering. That’s about 5% of the national total of EVs, with about 2,200 registered for road use throughout New Zealand as of early April. The number of EVs in the country is rising rapidly with the 2017 total being about double that of a year ago.
As well as the 100 road-legal cars, there were three other electric vehicles, including an electric racing car built and exhibited by the UC Engineering School. UC has been researching into electric vehicles for several decades, with the electronics that control the motor being a key part of any effective road electric vehicle. The use of the Arts car park was supported by UC’s VC Rod Carr, because of this link to UC Engineering and also UC’s commitment to sustainability.
The 100 EVs present included 62 Nissan Leafs, the most common pure electric vehicle in NZ.
For more info on the record attempt and the Christchurch EV group see their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/ChristchurchEVGroup/
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This row is nearly all Leafs with one BMW i3 and one Mitsubishi iMiev.
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JMW Turner: The Blue Rigi
The successful fight for JMW Turner's: The Blue Rigi
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/turnerrigi/default.shtm
I was very pleased to find out this morning from my email box that JMW Turner's The Blue Rigi has been bought by the Tate Gallery. What gave me special pleasure was that I had bought 6 brushstrokes through the special National Art Fund innovative online campaign.
OK my life as an art collector extends into the virtual rather than the real and aside from interesting issues as to whether I've got some virtual art which is tradeable inside Second Life the fact that people had to be charitable at all in order to ensure that this painting stayed within the UK and available for public contemplation is a serious cultural policy issue. There is no way I would have contributed to a Tracy Emin piece or Damien Hurst piece. Amusing? Yes. Intellectually challenging? Possibly but rarely. Overhyped? Yes. Overvalued? Yes. How can we reasonably compare to Turner arguably the very first modernist painter and one who was up on the latest theories of colur (Goethe) and pereception (developing psychological theories) in his day producing valuable paintings which stand the test of cultural time.
In recent years it has become especially trendy amongst fans of 'New' Labour to spend their time in a typically postmodern way of using culture as an instrument of economic and social policy. Forget 'Art for Art's Sake' they sneer, don't be judgemental about content, let populism rule, what the audience think they want is all right just providing we can make money out of it and we can sit around getting audiences to evaluate their experience for the marketing people. This of course ignores issues of ideology and the construction of dominant cultural discourses.
Instrumentalism & Cultural Policy
Well, taken from this entirely instrumentalist perspective which at a theoretical level appears to subsume Walter Benjamin's notion of removing the auratic aspect of Art with a capital A and turn it into an excuse for commerce; paintings of the quality of Turner's Blue Rigi are fundamental to the success of megapolises such as London and New York. You can hardly hear a native English accent in central London in summer and now increasingly all year around. Students and tourists flock to London because it is a cultural capital of the World. those who have considerable cultural capital and wish to invest more in this go to London and its galleries as well as enjoying the signature architecture which is an iconic must for the contemporary global city fighting for the tourist trade, and in the case of London adding value to attract global financiers to work in London. Great art therefore can be seen as underpinning the attraction of London as a place to live and work. A process which has rather neatly been defined as Brandscaping.
Even from the pitiful perspective of 'anything goes' providing it makes money New Labour should have the made the funds available to keep this 'high added value' sort of art without all sorts of quangos having to chase around for funding which is small fry at the national level. The irony is that City councils elsewhere in the country are beginning to sell of their own smaller art treasures because they can't afford to run their education and social care systems.
The January Warwick podcast by Munira Mirza is a welcome antidote to this sort of thinking. Hopefully it marks the beginnings of a change away to a more balanced view of culture than extreme populist postmodernism. this is not the same as saying that the cultural popular should be ignored. There is an issue of definitions as well as issues of quality.
Taxation & Paying for Art
Why these mainly Northern councils have no money when the Chancellor emphasises 10 years of apparently unbroken economic growth is an interesting question. It is also hard to disagree with the Tories when they rail against the levels of taxation. Even they can justifiably note that poorer people are being hit by the tax system, just funding poorer people still.
At risk of slipping into anecdote most of my monthly outgoings are in the form of taxation. As a couple we spend over £120 per week on petrol. Most of this cost is tax in one form or another. Furthermore as my wife is currently a full-time student in receipt of a government loan she is effectively paying twice for her education as a huge proportion of the loan goes on this fuel every term. On top of that the course is materials and equipment heavy which attracts the regressive 17.5% VAT. At the same time I receive no tax relief and currently must commute a long way to work which is in the underpaid Tertiary education sector. We do not even have parity with school-teachers!
Three months of longish distance commuting shows that many people are in similar position . The key point here is not an individual whinge, it is to emphasise the huge tax burden that ordinary people are paying either to get to work or to get an education. Yet at the same time our cultural citizenship is being eroded. Why on earth should I or anybody else have to respond to begging bowl campaigns to maintain or improve an economically / culturally / socially valuable infrastructure in which content (the Art itself is central). Quite obviously I already do this through the disproportinate tax system. It is a benighted cultural policy framework increasingly based upon narrow accountacy discourse which creates this situation.
It is now the case that that the National Lottery which is a 'voluntary' tax on the very poorest who have had little training in probability theory. The fact that the Government has this at all is shameful. The fact that our culture is dependent upon the wheel of fate rather than a properly funded policy framework is despicable. The fact that a large amount of this extremly dubious tax is now being siphoned away from the cause it is promoted for supporting to the Olympic extravaganza is dihonest and exploitative beyond belief. The plain fact is that almost nobody funding the Olympic games through their gambling will be able to afford a seat in the stadium highlights the point.
As taxpayers we are seemingly paying a lot for 'cultural consultants' and a range of parastites positioning themselves around policy honeypots while a cultural drain continues in line with the general opening up of wealth divides in the era of post-neo-liberal cultural-economic policies. They are the real vultures of culture!
The Olympic Games and the funding of it is a 21st century version of Roman gladitorial contests. Wage slaves are funding the pleasures of the rich. As a crumb they can sample the pleasures second hand through the Mass Media. Of course we can buy into the regeneration argument and I'm sure most of the population in the UK feel that the Millenium Dome bonanza was an excellent way of spending vast amounts of money rather than bulding say twenty art galleries the cost of the one in Wasall and some art to put in it! the citizens of Athens would probably agree as they pass the crumbling and unloved Olympic Stadium built for the last Olympics. Interestingly the tourist population is there for the genuine cultural heritage which seems to show that quality will out!
Cultural Citizenship
It is time that we fought for a system of governance which values and promotes notions of cultural citizenship which should have at its heart the accessibility of canonical cultural works - This opens up a can of worms on canons but that is another debate. This needs to be thought of on a global basis just as any other facet of advanced citizenry should be. I want people from all over the world to be able to experience great art. The nature of individual paintings means that people usually have to travel to it unlike music which is more accessible.
I resent being arm-twisted to pay more for what as a state the UK should pay for anyway and what I consider I have more than paid for through my taxes. If I give money or goods it usually goes to Oxfam or global development campaigns and that is how I prefer to keep it.
When it comes to the arts and culture I would also prefer a wider European cultural policy perspective to be developed. Small accession states such as Lithuania inherited quite a good cultural infrastructure in terms of the numbers of galleries and museums and performance spaces. These countries became impoverished through neo-liberal approaches to the break-up of the Soviet Union. Now they should be having more support to rebuild the good aspects of cultural citizenship which were previously available under Soviet rule. Cultural citizenship and a common cultural sense of 'Europeaness' is more likely to succeed in uniting Europe at the level of the quotidian than highly abstract constitutional structures which have little to do with everyday European citizens. In brief culture is far more valuable than just simple accountancy benchmarks. It is where it is hardest to define that perhaps it becomes most valuable in terms of geist.
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Black Friday sale on Avotaynu books
November 20, 2017 DealsAlexander Beider, avotaynuadmin
[Note that this sale is now over]
It’s hard to do Jewish genealogy and not come across the books and other publications of Avotaynu, the long time publisher of books for Jewish family researchers as well as the publisher of their eponymous journal. While many printed publications have been overtaken by the Internet, many are just as useful today as when they were first printed. This is particularly true of the many books on names by Alexander Beider.
Avotaynu tries to estimate the total number of books it will sell to avoid doing re-prints, and as such they end up keeping many books in their warehouse. In order to cut down on their inventory they’re having a Black Friday sale (well, actually November 19-27, so more than a week) on many of their books. Of note, when these books sell out there are no plans to re-print them, so if you’ve been thinking about buying one of these books, this might be your last chance.
Avotaynu Black Friday Sale
The books on sale are Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy, Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names, Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Galicia, A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire: Revised Edition, Jewish Personal Names, A Dictionary of German-Jewish Surnames, Russian-Jewish Given Names: Their Origins and Variants, Where Once We Walked: Revised Edition, A Practical Guide to Jewish Cemeteries, Every Family Has a Story, Biographical Dictionary of Canadian Jewry: 1909–1914. Births, bar mitzvahs, marriages, deaths and other records of Canadian Jewry, Library Resources for German-Jewish Genealogy, Jewish Vital Records, Revision Lists in the Lithuanian Archives, and Eliyahu’s Branches.
See the sale page for the specific discounts which range from 40% to 74% per book.
Note that you need to clock on the Order Now links on the sale page in order to get the discount. If you go to the regular order pages for the books it will charge you full price.
Lastly, I don’t get anything from Avotaynu for promoting this sale. I just like a lot of the books they have on sale, and I want people to know about maybe not being able to get them at a later date. You’re welcome to tell them you heard about the sale on this site, but I don’t benefit from any sales they make.
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3 thoughts on “Black Friday sale on Avotaynu books”
shlomo zytman says:
do u have books printed in hebrew or on chasidus only poland
Are you asking if Avotaynu sells books in Hebrew? I believe all of their books are in English. There’s a complete list of their books on this page: http://www.avotaynu.com/allbooks.htm As for chasidus or Poland, what are you looking for?
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Pathological changes and bacteriological assessments in the urinary tract of pregnant goats experimentally infected with Brucella melitensis
M. Mazlina1,2,
S. Khairani-Bejo2,
H. Hazilawati2,
T. Tiagarahan3,
N. N. Shaqinah1 &
M. Zamri-Saad ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-9013-48831,4
This study was conducted to investigate the pathological changes and distribution of B. melitensis in the urinary tract of pregnant goats following acute experimental infection. Six Jamnapari crossbred does in their third trimester of pregnancy were randomly assigned into two groups; Group 1 was uninfected control and Group 2 was inoculated conjunctival with 0.1 mL of the inoculums containing 109 cfu/mL of live B. melitensis. All does were sacrificed 30 days post-inoculation before the kidney, ureter, urinary bladder, urethra and vaginal swab were collected for isolation of B. melitensis. The same tissue samples were fixed in 10% neutral buffered formalin for hematoxylin and eosin, and immunoperoxidase staining.
None of the goats showed clinical signs or gross lesions. The most consistent histopathology finding was the infiltration of mononuclear cells, chiefly the macrophages with few lymphocytes and occasionally neutrophils in all organs along the urinary tract of the infected goats of Group 2. Other histopathology findings included mild necrosis of the epithelial cells of the renal tubules, congestion and occasional haemorrhages in the various tissues. Kidneys showed the most severe lesions. Immunoperoxidase staining revealed the presence of B. melitensis within the infiltrating macrophages and the epithelium of renal tubules, ureter, urethra and urinary bladder. Most extensive distribution was observed in the urinary bladder. Brucella melitensis was successfully isolated at low concentration (3.4 × 103 cfu/g) in the various organs of the urinary tract and at high concentration (2.4 × 108 cfu/mL) in the vaginal swabs of all infected goats. Although B. melitensis was successfully isolated from the various organs of the urinary tract, it was not isolated from the urine samples that were collected from the urinary bladder at necropsy.
This study demonstrates the presence of low concentrations of B. melitensis in the organs of urinary tract of pregnant does, resulting in mild histopathology lesions. However, B. melitensis was not isolated from the urine that was collected from the urinary bladder.
Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease that causes chronic debilitating disease in humans and major economic losses to livestock farmers [1, 2]. Caprine brucellosis is caused by Brucella melitensis, which has been recognized as the most pathogenic species of the Genus Brucella. It is least host-specific and is associated with most cases of human brucellosis [3]. As an intracellular parasite, the bacterium is able to manipulate the host’s immune system and flourishes within the professional and non-professional phagocytic cells. Thus, it can replicate within these cells since it is protected from the humoral antibodies and antibiotic treatments [4, 5].
In some cases, infected goats and sheep appear healthy with no apparent clinical sign but usually become lifelong carriers that disseminate the disease [6]. Accurate detection followed by successful removal of carriers and infected animals are imperative to reduce the cases of brucellosis [6,7,8].
Brucellosis in animals has always been associated with the disorders of the reproductive and reticulo-endothelial systems [5] causing abortion and enlarged spleen and liver [1, 9, 10] and less frequently affecting the musculo-nervous systems [10, 11]. Brucella-induced urinary tract infection is considered extremely rare in animals and humans [12]. To the best of our knowledge, no comprehensive study was done to assess the lesions in the urinary system of female goats following infection with B. melitensis. Thus, this study was aimed at determining the distribution of B. melitensis and the associated lesions in the urinary tract of does following acute experimental infection with B. melitensis in the third trimester of pregnancy.
Bacterial inoculums
A local strain of B. melitensis that was isolated from an outbreak of caprine brucellosis in Malaysia was used in this study [13]. The isolate was cultured onto Brucella Agar (BBL™, UK) for 4 days at 37 °C and later transferred into Brucella broth (BBL™, UK) and was further incubated at 37 °C for another 4 days in an orbital shaker incubator (YIH-DER LM-510, Taiwan). The bacterial cells were then harvested following a series of washing with sterile PBS (pH 7.4) and centrifugation at 5,000×g, 4 °C for 10 min each cycle. The final pellet was then diluted in sterile PBS to a final bacterial concentration of 109 cells/mL using McFarland’s Standard.
Preparation of hyperimmune serum against Brucella melitensis
The local strain of B. melitensis was grown in 35 mL of Brucella broth (BBL™, UK) in shaking incubator for 4 days at 37 °C. The bacterial concentration in the broth was determined using the standard total plate count method. The cells were re-suspended in sterile PBS to obtain a final concentration of 1 × 109 cfu/mL, were then killed by adding 0.5% formalin and were emulsified with Freund’s complete adjuvant (FCA) (Sigma-Aldrich, US) at 1:1 ratio. One mL of the emulsion was injected subcutaneously into rabbits. Booster doses of the emulsified inoculums, prepared using Freund’s incomplete adjuvant (FIA) (Sigma-Aldrich, US) were injected on days 14 and 21. Finally, the hyperimmune serum was harvested at 28 days post-inoculation. The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of Universiti Putra Malaysia approved this protocol (AUP No: R019/2014).
Animals and management
A total of 6 clinically healthy Jamnapari crossbred does of about 3–4 months pregnant were obtained from a farm with no history of brucellosis. They were subjected to the Rose Bengal Plate test (RBPT) and Complement Fixation test (CFT) to ensure the brucellosis-free status. The goats were then divided equally into 2 groups; the uninfected control (Group 1) and the infected (Group 2) groups. Does of Group 1 were exposed to 100 μL of sterile PBS via the conjunctiva sac. On the other hand, does of Group 2 were similarly exposed to 100 μL of the inoculums containing 109 cfu/mL of live B. melitensis. The infected does were kept entirely in a restricted and isolated housing facility while the control goats were kept separately in a raised house with slatted floor. All does were fed with Napier grass and supplemented with palm kernel cake at the rate of 400 g/animal/day while drinking water was available ad libitum.
Following the infection, the does were monitored twice daily for clinical signs especially abortion before they were euthanized 30 days post-inoculation. All euthanasia were carried out in an isolated area at a government slaughter house using the standard electrical stunning and exsanguinations protocol, where animals were unconscious following the stunning prior to exsanguination. Post-mortem was carried out immediately and the various sections of the urinary tract encompassing the kidneys, ureter, urinary bladder, urethra, urine and vaginal swabs were collected for bacterial isolation and identification, and for histopathology examination and immunoperoxidase staining. At the same time, urine samples were collected from the urinary bladder into a sterile bottle for bacteriological isolation. For comparison, the uterus and vaginal swabs were also collected and subjected to the same process. The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of Universiti Putra Malaysia approved this study (AUP No: R019/2014).
The formalin-fixed samples were processed in tissue processor (Leica TP 1020, Germany) and Tissue Embedding Console System (Leica EG1150) before they were embedded in paraffin wax and sectioned using the rotary microtome (Leica Jung Multicut 2045, Germany) at 4 μm thick. The mounted tissue sections were stained with Harris’ haematoxylin and eosin (HE). The slides were viewed under light microscope (Nikon Eclipse 50i, Japan) installed with Nikon imaging software (NIS-Elements D 3.2, Japan). The histological changes were noted and scored as 0: none, 1: 30% affected, 2: 30–60% affected and 3: > more than 60% affected [3]. All evaluations were duplicated and 5 microscopic fields of each slide were randomly selected for lesion scoring. The scores were reported as the average value of each lesion and average value for overall scoring.
Immunoperoxidase staining
The formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded sections were fixed on Poly-L-Lysine (Sigma- Aldrich, USA) coated microscope slides. Then they were subjected to deparaffinization and rehydration before antigen retrieval was done in citrate buffer for 10 min. Indigenous peroxidase was inactivated using 3% hydrogen peroxide followed by protein block with 5% bovine serum albumin for 15 min. Rabbit hyperimmune serum was used as the primary antibody at 1:100 dilution, incubated overnight at 4 °C. Then, secondary antibody, the goat anti-rabbit IgG (Abnova, Taiwan) diluted to 1:500 was poured and incubated for 30 min at 37 °C. All slides were developed with DAB Chromogen (Dako, USA) and counterstained with Harris’ haematoxylin, dehydrated and mounted. Control sections used normal rabbit serum as primary antibody. The slides were viewed under light microscope (Nikon Eclipse 50i, Japan), which was installed with Nikon imaging software (NIS-Elements D 3.2, Japan). The presence and distribution of IP staining were scored as 0: none, 1: focal, 2: multifocal and 3: diffuse [14]. All evaluations were done in duplicate and 5 microscopic fields were randomly selected for lesion scoring. The scores were recorded as average value of each distribution and intensity.
Bacterial isolation from tissues
The tissue samples were flamed and then placed into sterile zipper plastic bags to minimize contamination. Then, sterile PBS (pH 7.4) was added into the zipper bag at tissue to PBS ratio of 1:2. The samples were then pounded using mortar and pestle. The resultant mixture was used for bacterial culture and extraction of bacterial DNA. The urine samples (4–5 mL) were collected using needle and syringe into a sterile tube and immediately transported to the laboratory. About 10 μL of the tissue mixture and urine sample was cultured onto Brucella agar that was pre-added with Brucella Selective Supplement (Oxoid, England) and incubated at 37 °C for 10 days. Bacterial colonies that appeared small, rounded, smooth and translucent, glistening and bluish were highly suggestive of B. melitensis [11] and were confirmed using PCR. The results were presented as percentage (%) of positive samples over total number of samples.
Bacterial DNA extraction
The bacterial DNA was extracted according to the manufacturer’s recommendations (NucleoSpin® Tissue DNA Purification Kit, Macherey-Nagel, German). The extraction was initiated by adding 75 μL of the processed tissue with 25 μL of Proteinase K solution and 180 μL of lysis buffer (Buffer T1) followed by rigorous vortex before incubation at 56 °C for 3 h to lyse the samples. The mixture was vortexed regularly during the incubation period. Then, 200 μL of Buffer B3 (Lysis buffer) was added, vortexed and incubated at 70 °C for 10 min. This was followed by adding 210 μL of absolute ethanol into the mixture and vortexed. The solution was transferred into tissue columns in collecting tubes and centrifuged for 1 min at 11,000 x g. The flow-through was discarded before the silica gel within the tissue column was washed twice; first by adding 500 μL of Buffer BW followed by centrifugation and later 600 μL of Buffer B5. Then, the mixture was centrifuged at 11,000×g for 2 min to remove residual ethanol. The tissue columns were transferred into 1.5 mL micro-centrifuge tubes and 100 μL of pre-warmed 70 °C of Buffer BE was added and left at room temperature for 1 min. The elution containing highly pure DNA was obtained following centrifugation at 11,000×g for 1 min. The DNA was stored at -20 °C until used.
The bacterial colonies and DNA extracts were used as templates for confirmation of B. melitensis using the forward P1 (5’-CATGCGCTATGTCTGGTTAC-3′) and P2 (5’-AGTGTTTCGGCTCAGAATAATC-3′) primer sequences that amplified the fragment at 252 bp [15]. The PCR was performed in 25 μL reaction mixture that contained 2.5 μL of 10× buffer, 3 mM MgCl2, 400 μM dNTPs, 500 nM of each primer, 1.5 U Taq polymerase (MBI Fermentas, Lithuania) and 1 μL of purified DNA or bacterial colony mixed with 1 μL of DNAzol® reagent (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA). The PCR amplifications were performed in a Master Cycler Pro S (Eppendorf, Germany) in 34 cycles with an initial denaturation at 95 °C for 2 min and denaturation step for 1.15 min at 95 °C. The annealing, extension and final extension phases were set at 57.1 °C for 2 min, 72 °C for 2 min and 73 °C for 5 min, respectively. The PCR products were mixed with 1 μL of loading dye and were electrophoresed through 1% (w/v) agarose gel pre-mixed with RedSafeTM Nucleic Acid Staining solution (INTRON, Korea) in 1× TBE at 80 V (Bio-Rad PowerPacTM Basic, USA) for 45 min. Five μL of 100 bp DNA marker (GeneDireX®, Taiwan) was run simultaneously. The bands were documented using the gel documentation software called GeneSnap®, UK.
Histopathology changes and IP staining
Infected does displayed mild glomerulonephritis with neutrophils, glomerular congestion and mild renal tubular necrosis (Fig. 1a). Haemorrhages and foci of inflammatory reactions were occasionally observed in the interstitium. Immunoperoxidase staining of the kidneys revealed strong to moderate staining (Fig. 1b). Strong reactions were observed in the cytoplasm of the inflammatory cells infiltrating the glomeruli and renal tubules, particularly the distal convoluted and the collecting tubules. Milder immunoreactions were noted in the epithelial cells of the proximal convoluted tubules and occasionally in the lumen of renal tubules. Brucella melitensis was isolated from 3 of the 6 (50%) kidney samples at an average rate of 3.9 × 103 cfu/g of tissue compared to 4 out of 6 (66.7%) kidney samples that were positive PCR (Table 1).
a Moderate congestion of the glomerulus and mild glomerulonephritis with infiltration of mainly neutrophilic cells. H&E, × 200. b Diffuse and moderately strong immunoperoxidase stain reactions in the epithelial cells of the renal tubules and in the cytoplasm of inflammatory cells infiltrating the glomeruli. IHC, × 200
Table 1 Rate of isolation and average concentration of Brucella melitensis in the various organs of the urinary tract of pregnant goats following acute infection
There was also mild inflammation in the ureter (Fig. 2a) with macrophages in the lamina propria and connective tissue stroma. The immunoperoxidase revealed positive staining, particularly within the macrophages and the epithelial cells (Fig. 2b). Again, B. melitensis was successfully isolated from 3 out of 6 (50%) of the ureter samples at the rate of 2.9 × 103 cfu/g of tissue compared to 4 out of 6 (66.7%) of the ureter were positive PCR.
a Mild congestion and ureteritis characterized by infiltration of macrophages in the connective tissue stroma. H&E, × 200. b Positive immunoperoxidase stain reactions in the cytoplasm of the epithelial cells of the ureter and within the infiltrating macrophages. IHC, × 200
All infected does had cystitis, characterised by intense perivascular inflammation with predominantly macrophages (Fig. 3a). The immunoperoxidase staining revealed immunoreactions within the transitional epithelial cells as well as in the cytoplasm of the macrophages (Fig. 3b). The bacterium was isolated from 1 out of 3 (33.3%) bladder samples at the rate of 4.2 × 103 cfu/g of tissue while PCR was 66.7% (Table 1). Similarly, the urethra of all infected does showed massive infiltration of mainly macrophages at the submucosal and perivascular regions (Fig. 4a). The immunoperoxidase stained the transitional epithelial cells and the cytoplasm of macrophages (Fig. 4b). Attempts to isolate B. melitensis from the urethra yielded 2 out of 3 (66.7%) at an average rate of 2.6 × 103 cfu/g of tissue while PCR revealed 100% positive results. In comparison, B. melitensis was isolated from 2 out of 3 (66.7%) vaginal swab samples at a higher concentration of 2.4 × 108 cfu/mL but isolation was unsuccessful from any of the urine sample. The control uninfected goats revealed generally normal histological features with no inflammatory reaction and positive IP staining while B. melitensis was not isolated from any organ.
a Cystitis with macrophages and few lymphocytes in the connective tissue layer of the urinary bladder. H&E, × 200. b Strong golden brown immunoperoxidase staining observed intracellularly in macrophages and in the transitional epithelial cells of the urinary bladder. IP, × 200
a Infiltration of few macrophages at the perivascular area and the submucosa of urethra. H&E, × 100. b Positive light golden brown immunoperoxidase staining observed in the cytoplasm of the macrophages and epithelial cells of the urethra. IP, × 100
Lesions and immunoperoxidase scorings
None of the infected pregnant does of Group 2 exhibited clinical signs following experimental infection. However, 4 kids were eventually delivered weak by the infected does and none survived the first month after birth. Necropsy revealed no obvious gross lesions in the urinary system. Nevertheless, histopathological examinations revealed notable microscopic changes and immunoperoxidase staining in various sections of the urinary tract of the infected goats of Group 2 (Table 2). The average lesion score for kidney was significantly (p < 0.05) higher (score 0.61 ± 0.28) than the urinary bladder (score 0.31 ± 0.15). However, the immunoperoxidase staining was significantly (p < 0.05) higher in the urinary bladder (score 2.01 ± 0.07) than the kidneys (score 1.33 ± 0.13) and gradually but significantly (p < 0.05) decreasing from urinary bladder to the urethra. The uterus of the infected goats showed significantly (p < 0.05) most severe histological lesions but IP distribution score was similar (p > 0.05) to those of urinary bladder (Table 2). None of the control uninfected goats of Group 1 showed clinical signs, gross and histopathological changes, and immunoperoxidase staining.
Table 2 Average histopathology and immunoperoxidase scores (mean ± SE) in the various ogans of the urinary tract of pregnant goats following acute experimental infection with B. melitensis
There is a lack of information describing the pathological lesions and distribution of B. melitensis in the urinary tract of goats. This study revealed that the most common infiltrating inflammatory cell in the organs of urinary tract is the macrophage [16] while B. melitensis was present mostly within the cytoplasm of these macrophages. These are in agreement with earlier studies involving other organs, particularly organs of the reproductive tract [3, 14, 17]. Studies on B. abortus have reported its ability to reside and replicate in the macrophages [18] while hiding from the humoral immune responses and the effects of antibiotic treatments [5]. More importantly, the bacterium manipulates the macrophages by turning them into reluctant factory for massive replication of Brucella [19]. Apart from that, macrophages are unwilling agents of dispersal, responsible for the widespread dissemination of the bacterium [3, 20]. Furthermore, this study has proven that B. melitensis can invade non-phagocytic cells such as the epithelial and fibroblast cells [18, 21].
Brucella melitensis has been detected in the kidneys of West African Dwarf goats where the antigen was found mostly in the epithelium of renal tubules and glomeruli [14]. Similarly, B. ovis was successfully cultured from the kidneys and the urinary bladder of infected stags [15]. However, both reports did not mention the presence of Brucella in the urine. Furthermore, the concentrations of B. melitensis isolated from the various organs of the urinary tract in this study were relatively low compared to the reproductive tract. This might be the reason for the absence of B. melitensis in urine. Furthermore, immunoperoxidase staining revealed positive staining within the macrophages and relatively mild stain in the urinary epithelial cells. Therefore, the low level of B. melitensis within the epithelial cells of urinary tract was not enough to be excreted into the urine although excretion of Brucella in urine of infected animals has been occasionally reported [22]. Similar involvement of human urinary tract in brucellosis has been reported but the involvement is considered rare and almost always occur together with the reproductive system [12, 23].
Immunoperoxidase staining is a tool for detection of B. melitensis in tissues. It is highly specific and capable of showing the distribution of Brucella in affected tissues [3]. Using immunoperoxidase, B. melitensis has been shown to have tropism for the macrophages and the epithelial cells of urinary tract. Furthermore, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been used lately for antigen detection in infected tissues with high specificity and sensitivity [15, 22, 24]. Nevertheless, bacterial isolation is still the irrefutable method to confirm the presence of the pathogen thus, considered the gold standard for diagnosis of brucellosis [10, 24, 25]. Our attempts to isolate B. melitensis from the various organs of the urinary tracts were successful while PCR is deemed useful in detecting nucleic acid fragments of the bacterium [15, 22, 24, 25].
In conclusion, acute infection of pregnant goats by B. melitensis in this study led to mild lesions in the organs of the urinary tract. Low concentrations of B. melitensis were found within the macrophage and epithelial cells. However, it was not isolated from the urine samples that were collected from infected urinary bladder.
Complement fixation test
cfu/g:
Colony-forming unit per gram
cfu/L:
Colony-forming unit per litre
DAB:
3.3′-Diaminobenzidine
DNA:
FCA:
Freund’s complete adjuvant
FIA:
Freund’s incomplete adjuvant
Haematoxylin and eosin
IACUC:
IgG:
Immunoperoxidase
PBS:
PCR:
RBPT:
Rose Bengal Plate Test
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The authors would like to thank Dr. Annas Salleh, Dr. Nur Adza Rina Mohd Nordi, Mrs. Latifah Hanan and Mrs. Jamilah Jahari of the Histopathology Laboratory, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia for their technical assistance.
The FRGS Grant 07–03-11-1026FR of the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia and the Universiti Putra Malaysia IPS Grant 9468500 funded the study.
The datasets during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the first author on reasonable request.
Research Centre for Ruminant Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
M. Mazlina
, N. N. Shaqinah
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Department of Veterinary Pathology & Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
, S. Khairani-Bejo
& H. Hazilawati
Puncak Jalil Veterinary Clinic, Taman Puncak Jalil, 43300 Seri Kembangan, Seri Kembangan, Selangor, Malaysia
T. Tiagarahan
Department of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosis, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, Serdang, Malaysia
M. Zamri-Saad
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MM and NNS collected and analysed data, and drafting of manuscript. SKB and HH designed the experiment and revised manuscript. TT revised the manuscript. MZS designed experiment, analysed data and revised manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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The experiment was approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Universiti Putra Malaysia (IACUC no. R019/2014).
Mazlina, M., Khairani-Bejo, S., Hazilawati, H. et al. Pathological changes and bacteriological assessments in the urinary tract of pregnant goats experimentally infected with Brucella melitensis. BMC Vet Res 14, 203 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-018-1533-x
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Deal with the devil?
Here is our weekly D&D update.
When last we saws are intrepid heroes they had just defeated an evil Kobold chief and were getting ready to explore what was behind the secret door. After resting for the night the players traveled down a long hallway that got progressively colder. At the bottom of the trail the entered a great cavern sparkling with ice crystals. Unfortunately they had stumbled into the lair of the true ruler of the kobolds, a young white dragon named Szartharrax. The dragon got the jump on the heroes. They were able to escape due to a well timed fear prayer from Hesikiah.
Upon returning to town to collect a bounty on the Kobolds the heroes got into an argument with the local lord. He did not want to pay them for killing the kobold’s chief because the dragon was the true leader. After an out-burst by Kane which landed him in the stockade for 4 days, the heroes planned to strike a deal with the dragon to exact revenge against the lord who wronged them.
It was at this point the heroes said fair well to the brave paladin Wil. Upon his departure they gave him a sizable donation to his temple. Blessing them and bidding them farewell he walked off into the sunset. They met up with a new member of the group; a Dragonborn fighter named Serge. Like the rest of the group, Serge came to Fallcrest to seek fortune only to find a lack of work. As word of the heroes’ victory spread, he looked to join up with them to aid his hunt for gold.
Gathering all the gold, silver and copper they could, they descended again to meet with the dragon. They were able to flash the gold and get the dragon’s attention. The dragon showed little interest in the lord but did ask the heroes to go deal with the local porter’s guild leader. It came to the dragon’s attention that he was moving very valuable goods for someone. The dragon wants the heroes to collect the goods for him and deal with any potential threats to his power in the area.
The heroes find the guild leader, a dwarf named Barstomun Strongbeard, drinking in the Lucky Gnome. The heroes confront him and tell him about the dragon’s plot in the hopes to set a trap to betray the dragon and settle the score with the lord. He listens to the heroes with an air of insincerity. The dwarf tries to discover the location of the dragon and when he fails, he orders the heroes a round of drinks and disappears into the back room. Thinking he is saving his friends from a possible poisoning, Kava slams Serge into the heroes table. Using the disturbance as a distraction, Barstomun’s thugs attack. A fantastic bar brawl ensues highlighted with Kane roasting a Halfling by blasting him into a fireplace.
Our heroes then raced off to find the sneaky dwarf who set them up. They found a hidden door inside a giant beer keg and discovered an underground compound. The first room of this compound consisted of many raised platforms over a sandy pit. As our heroes rushed forward they were pepper by arrows shot by a bandit commander and his hobgoblin henchmen. Our heroes made short work of the hobgoblin thugs sent forward to dispatch our heroes but Kane came to know the painful sting of arrow fire shot by the archers. Hesikiah was able to revive him but the mage was overcome once again by a swarm of rats that live in the pit. Serge rushed forward in an attempt to stop the archers. Unfortunately the bandit commander was able to subdue him. Things were looking bleak for our heroes. Their fighter and their mage were both down. But they were not overtaken. Serge, through an act of shear will, was able to pick himself up and surge forward to take down an archer. Using arrow fire and axe swings Kava was able to subdue the other archer. Hesikiah was able to raise Kane. Finally the team came together using spell and steel to vanquish the commander. The rats were content to feed themselves on the bodies of the fallen foe.
Our heroes continue their chase after the evil dwarf. Where will their path lead them next?
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London Capital & Finance
December 15, 2017 January 16, 2019 ~ Brev
Link: All our articles on London Capital and Finance
Update 2.1.19 – London Capital & Finance is under investigation by the FCA. Its bank accounts have been frozen while the investigation continues, along with all payments of interest and capital to investors.
Update 16.1.19: An action group has been set up on Facebook for LCF investors wishing to share information and explore possible action. It can be found at https://www.facebook.com/groups/londoncapitalfinanceaction.
There is a second group for LCF investors which I will not be linking to due to concerns over the way it is being moderated.
We are not in a position to advise investors what to do next, and linking to the action group is not an endorsement of any particular course of action (legal or otherwise) that investors may be invited to follow. Our purpose in linking to the action group is to help investors access information, and reduce the risk of them being targeted by the unscrupulous.
Our original review, which was written on 15 December 2017, follows below. [update ends]
London Capital & Finance offers unregulated corporate bonds paying 3.9%pa for 1 year, 6.5% for 2 years and 8% for 3 years.
Who are London Capital and Finance?
There is no information on the website on who the directors or owners of the company are.
Companies House shows that Michael Thomson is the sole owner and one of the directors.
Other directors are Floris Huisamen, Kevin Maddison and Katherine Simpson at time of writing.
Is London Capital & Finance a safe investment?
This is an unregulated corporate bond and if London Capital and Finance defaults you risk losing 100% of your money.
London Capital & Finance lends your money to UK companies. If these other companies default on their loans from LC&F, LC&F may become unable to pay you your interest and capital.
The London Capital and Finance website confirms that the bond is not covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
The London Capital and Finance website says that “Investors’ funds are secured by a charge over the assets of LC&F and over the assets of borrowing companies”. However, if for whatever reason LC&F is unable to sell the assets your bond is secured on for enough money to cover its obligations, investors still risk losing up to 100% of their money.
A company called “Global Security Trustees Limited” is listed as the Security Trustee. Global Security Trustees Limited is according to Companies House a dormant company with no assets.
Should I invest with London Capital and Finance?
As with any unregulated corporate bond, this investment is only suitable for sophisticated and/or high net worth investors who have a substantial existing portfolio and are prepared to risk 100% loss of their money.
This particular bond is advertised as asset-backed. Before putting any reliance on the security backing the bond, investors should undertake professional due diligence to ensure that a) the security exists b) in the event of default, the security could be easily sold and would raise enough money to cover all investors’ money c) the charge over the security has been properly and legally recorded.
Before investing investors should ask themselves:
How would I feel if the investment defaulted and I lost 100% of my money?
Do I have a sufficiently large investment portfolio that the loss of 100% of this investment would not damage me financially?
Have I conducted sufficient due diligence to ensure the asset-backed security can be relied on?
If you are looking for a “secure” or “guaranteed” investment, you should not invest in unregulated products with a risk of 100% capital loss.
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Finance Nomad says:
I found more information. People seem real https://lcaf.co.uk/about-us
GORDON CLARKE says:
LCF are currently undergoing FCA audit and to date are not accepting any new applications – at least for 8% 3yr bonds – FCA HAVE ORDERED THEM TO TAKE DOWN PUBLICITY INFO RELATING TO THIS PRODUCT BUT WILL NOT STATE WHY – NEITHER WILL THE COMPANY
Cliff Budgen says:
Looks bad. Had no interest payment this quarter and interest due not shown on my account. Once all the festivities over I guess we will learn the horrible truth. Suspect my £46k is gone.
Brev says:
No interest can be expected for the moment as London Capital & Finance’s bank accounts have been frozen and the company has ceased all payments of interest and capital while the FCA investigates.
Whether money has been lost is unknown at this point. The investigation is likely to take some considerable time.
New articles: FCA orders London Capital & Finance to remove all its marketing materials (18 December 2018)
FCA freezes London & Capital Finance’s bank accounts; investors’ interest and capital repayments suspended (31 December 2018)
Karin Hirschorn says:
Very concerned as this is my retirement money. What now?
Nothing can really be done other than to wait for the FCA to conclude its investigation.
Whatever happens after the FCA investigation, this was by its nature an extremely high risk investment with a risk of up to 100% loss and should not have been offered to you if you were not a high net worth or sophisticated investor. And should not have been used for more than 10% of your investable assets (personally I would say 1%).
Robert George Kattenhorn says:
What a worry!! the term of my bond is nearly matured! Iv also invested money with LCF for my parents! not sure how I will explain things to them! Ouch!!.. lets all hope things are resolved and we all get our money back!!
Sally Martin says:
How long is “some considerable time” likely to be? What is the likelihood of us all losing our investment completely? As it doesn’t appear the company has gone broke and it’s assets have been frozen there must be some considerable money in their accounts. I think the lack of communication from them and the FCA is very poor. They must be aware there are very many worried people out there who just want some idea on what next!
How long is “some considerable time” likely to be?
Nobody knows. The wheels of regulators grind slowly. Expect the investigation to take months, at minimum. We will all be happy if I am wrong.
What is the likelihood of us all losing our investment completely? As it doesn’t appear the company has gone broke and it’s assets have been frozen there must be some considerable money in their accounts.
Nobody knows how much money is in LCF’s accounts apart from LCF and possibly FCA investigators (if they’ve got that far). Especially as LCF has used a loophole in UK company law to get out of having to file audited accounts in a timely manner. Investors’ money has been used to invest in other companies and pay fundraising costs so how much LCF currently has is not publicly known.
Jimbo James (@AJAYZEE) says:
I’m sorry to say Sally that I’d work on the basis that your money is gone. Anything you get back will be a bonus. It looks like the money from bonds was lent to other companies run by the directors of LCF not genuine third party borrowers. They also seem to have worked on a convoluted network of companies lending to each other which makes some of the charges on assets likely to be worthless to bondholders. Not good news and I hope I’m wrong but FCA involvement might be to stop others losing money rather than get money back for existing investors. Really frustrating as some of us had reported them to FCA at least a year ago and been told it wasn’t their problem. Very similar bonds are also being offered by other companies with similar levels of risk.
I was also expecting to withdraw my investment at maturity next month. The lack of information for investors from the FCA and LCF is appalling, and it may turn out that our investments have been lost but I would also like to know where Jimbo has found the information that the Directors have been lending to their own companies and not to genuine third party borrowers? I have yet to find any other source to support this assertion.
Something is obviously seriously amiss. However would the FCA allow correspondence to all bond holders stating borrowing companies are still trading and all securities are in place if there was no evidence of this? There is so much speculation presently. I do feel it is wrong there cannot be more transparency.
NWOGaction says:
John R
It’s clear that LC&F were lending to a closely associated company called London Power Corporation and through them to London Oil and Gas and AIM listed Independent Oil and Gas. There was also a link through Global Security Trustees Limited. Try researching these companies in CH and also search engine Robert Mannering Sedgwick plus the Law Society to spot where the FCA enquiry came from.
A simple minded Investor says:
There is a Facebook group called London and capital bonds now set up sharing information
Okay, here we go again. I’m a specialist lawyer, I worked at the Financial Ombudsman Service whilst completing my Master’s and I bring and defend actions by the FCA for businesses, and handle actions for consumers. I qualified as a barrister, but don’t practice as a barrister.
I also act as an investigator for certain companies that are being investigated by the FCA to represent them and/or defend them on occasion. For the FCA to have frozen the bank account in question means there is a significant risk to the funds in question. It is more normal, if the business has been under review for some while, where it is not considered a ‘flight risk’ to implement a V REQ otherwise known as a voluntary requirement.
In those circumstances the FCA will normally ASK the business to voluntarily sign an undertaking that the business will not dispose of any assets and/or any other conditions it seeks to impose and register that notification on the FCA register under exclusions.
In this case there is no such exclusion which means that the FCA has injuncted the business quickly arguably because there is so much risk that it considers, in its inherent jurisdiction, that it MUST do so to prevent new investors getting ‘tainted’ and/or being exposed to unfair and/or unreasonable risk.
I work with a global insolvency practitioner – in my spare time lol – and I know from experience that IF this business is not already in default i.e. trading insolvently, it will be, whether the FCA petitions to wind up the business on grounds of consumer risk or whether an investor such as yourselves who have a payment due petition to bring them down.
Brev has very kindly granted me permissions to post here. I am literally swamped with work – around 600 consumers on a finance scandal, another major issue that is already on this site and I THINK I can help here, although you will need to help me.
The fact that the FCA has frozen the accounts means that there is no risk of future investment but I am speculating that there has been a loss of the other funds i.e. consumer money, whether through Fraud, bad management and/or poor performance. But as this is a low yield bond – and it is from what I’ve read, this is indicative of fraud although I am surmising.
Should anyone want a chat, let me know or ping me an email to jane@jscs.org.uk.
Lastly ,to those of you that may have lost everything – everything IS NOT lost. I have been prevalent in this industry for nearly 12 years and have used every tactic in the book and some new ones I’ve written to secure clients millions in restitution. Please do not give up hope.
Carole Keeble says:
Hi all. I’m having trouble finding the Facebook page that has been set up for this purpose? Can anybody send me a link, or a pointer in the right direction please.
Hi Carole, I’m sure Brev can give you that info if you hit contact at the top of the page.
Actually, someone kindly posted it a moment ago. It’s called: London and capital bonds
That’s some interesting info Jane. I found some details showing the loans that have been alleged to exist where the accounts have been revalued shortly before the loan was made. In 3 years there has been no movement in any of the account values – how is that possible if the loan interest is being paid? Info was on this page
https://damn-lies-and-statistics.blogspot.com/2019/01/london-capital-finance-linked-loans.html
There has been some investigation work done on the accounts of one of the companies that LCF have loaned money to. It looks like they have lent some or all of £5.7 million to a company (CV Resorts) that has never traded and has made no payments to the loans in the last 4 years. Something is seriously amiss which must be part of the reason why the FCA have frozen assets and accounts
https://damn-lies-and-statistics.blogspot.com/2019/01/london-capital-finance-have-loans.html
The Facebook investor group is actually called London Capital and Finance Bondholders.
bluerhythmrboy says:
London Capital Finance – Linked Companies & Loans Update
I’ve seen this article as pointed out by others here (well done ) about the web of companies that seem to be connected to LCF. This is some more detailed information focused on some of those companies.
It was also stated today that the FCA would have to obtain a court order to freeze assets so it’s possible that they have a lot more evidence than has been released so far. Impacting a business without sufficient proof would lead to lots of damage claims so they must be pretty certain something is amiss.
One company that has a charge outstanding to London Capital Finance is LEISURE & TOURISM DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED. This owns shares in WATERSIDE VILLAGES LIMITED. Both are subsidiaries of LONDON POWER MANAGEMENT LIMITED. See more below about that company.
According to the latest accounts up to 31/3/2017 it has secured debts of £41million, presumably to London Capital Finance as that is the only charge on it’s books. The accounts mention that this debt was REPAID by Group Companies after the year end. The latest accounts are overdue so we don’t know who/when this was.
Could this be a way of refinancing the business so that it appears to London Capital Finance that the loan has been paid but in reality it has just been shifted from one company to another? It could mean that the loan is not performing but there has been no default.
London Capital Finance repeatedly claim that none of their loans have ever defaulted. This seems very unlikely when they are lending to high risk borrowers. By this loan movement they can maintain that statement as being technically correct
LEISURE & TOURISM DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09324527Registered 2014
Accounts overdue 30/12/18
Charge to LCF 17/5/16 Outstanding
Secured Debts (LCF £41m) – REPAID by Group companies after 31/3/17. Which company has taken on this debt?
LEISURE & TOURISM DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED loan from London Capital Finance
WATERSIDE VILLAGES LIMITED
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08335648/charges
Charge to LCF 12/5/17, another charge 2016 to TMF trustee
Accounts value £6m
Director – SANDS
The company that owns LEISURE & TOURISM DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED is LONDON POWER MANAGEMENT LIMITED. According to their last accounts from 2015 they owned 10 other companies many of which LCF have loaned money to.
Most worryingly LONDON POWER MANAGEMENT LIMITED (previously London Group Limited) has repeatedly used a loophole to avoid filing accounts with Companies House and is now more than 6 months overdue for filing their 2016 accounts after using the loophole 5 TIMES since 2016. LONDON POWER MANAGEMENT LIMITED has a charge on its accounts from LCF so owes money to London Capital Finance. It also has an outstanding charge to London Support Group.
In addition LONDON POWER MANAGEMENT LIMITED is listed to be struck off by Companies House. This means ownership of all assets moves to the Government.
LONDON POWER MANAGEMENT LIMITED
List of Companies owned by LONDON POWER MANAGEMENT LIMITED
Another company CV Resorts Ltd has a charge from LCF on its accounts which appears to relate to a loan of £5.7m from LCF. However between 2015 and 2017 there was absolutely no movement in any figures in the accounts. How is this possible if the loan is being charged 8% interest?
This is the correct site address at Facebook for LCF Bondholders.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/275619256440215/?ref=group_header
Sally Martin <>
The correspondence is factually correct. The companies are still trading (eg the Oil exploration one) and the security is still in place as charges on the accounts although it may be worth nothing or worth less than the loan. FCA won’t know any of those details until they have investigated. There are certainly companies loaned money that have never traded though and money was being passed through various subsidiaries which would have the effect of hiding its source
This thread on MSE has some more analysis on it https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?p=75293042
HEADS UP: There is an action group under ‘London Capital & Finance – Action Group’
and totally separate from any other pages/groups. This group has managed to secure the services of a Specialist Lawyer, that is willing to give free initial advice to all members, The page is closed and secure: https://www.facebook.com/groups/400375487372850/?ref=group_header
Colin Adams says:
Is the company still functioning, i.e. what about those with existing loans are they still paying those loans off while the company is under investigation?
Who get’s paid off first if the company goes bust the Shareholders or the investors?, the company must have assets even if those assets are in the repayments of the loans
What are those assets?
When will the investors be able to make a claim against those assets if the Company is made insolvent?
When I applied for the bond I was fully aware of the risks involved but having said that, was also fully aware that I would be able to claim my percentage of all sailable goods and assets incurring financial gain from the companies financial activities that would need to be sold off to repay losses. Was I wrong to believe this
No. LCF’s bank accounts have been frozen to protect investors and all payments of capital and interest have been suspended.
Who get’s paid off first if the company goes bust the Shareholders or the investors?
The insolvency administrator. Then preferred creditors (limited claims by HMRC and employees). Then investors, assuming their security is valid and gives them secured creditor status. Then any other creditors. Shareholders come last.
the company must have assets even if those assets are in the repayments of the loans
As LCF has not filed accounts in a timely manner, to all intents and purposes nobody knows apart from LCF. Possibly the FCA if their investigation has gone that far.
Research by others has revealed the identity of some of the companies LCF has loaned money to, with in some cases the amount loaned. But what these loans are worth now is unknown.
No, but it’s clear that you weren’t fully aware of the risks, because there was always a risk that, in the event that LCF ran out of money, it would not have sufficient salable goods and assets to compensate all investors in the event of default. This risk could only have been quantified, putting investors in a sufficiently informed position to know if the return of up to 8% per year was enough for the risk, through a professional due diligence report from experienced corporate finance practitioners. In the same way that before a bank lends you money to buy a house, they will demand a report into the condition of the house and evidence of affordability.
I did some calculations using the figures from the Evening Standard suggesting that LCF were paying Surge Financial up to 25% commission for bonds that they introduced that could mean that up to £50 million of the £200 million money that investors thought was being loaned out never was. It also means that for an investor in a 1 year bond the guaranteed return that LCF would need to obtain would be 41% (33% to get capital back plus 8% interest) in order to be able to return the investor’s capital at the end of the year.
Even worse the money from investors wasn’t received in one hit, different people paid in over a period of weeks or months so money could not be lent immediately. LCF claimed that one bond sold in 7 months. Even if you assume an optimistic 3 months to collect enough money to be able to lend it out to companies that means the 41% return has to be made in only 9 months. If it actually took 6 months to collect enough money to loan out then they’d need a 82% return to be generated to pay back the investors in the last 6 months. It just doesn’t add up
How can your money be safe when up to 25% of your cash has been handed out to a company in commission before it even gets to London Capital & Finance to loan out.
https://damn-lies-and-statistics.blogspot.com/2019/01/london-capital-finance-does-asset.html
You say all bank accounts have been frozen and the company is no longer functioning, so what is happening about the loans LCF have made. Surly those who have taken loans out with LCF must pay back with interest the monies they have borrowed
The money from these loans are an important asset so who is actually managing this side of the investigation for the FCA?
Correct, the money is still due, and the borrowers should still be making their payments as previously agreed. There’s no indication to the contrary on LCF’s announcement to bondholders and borrowers on its website.
That said, in at least one case LCF has loaned money to a dormant company linked to LCF directors whose financial results showed no activity over three years. If a company borrowed money from LCF and wasn’t required to make repayments before then it won’t be making repayments now.
Nobody knows other than those with inside knowledge of the investigation.
I’m not sure that the company is no longer functioning, they’re still taking calls. Their assets are frozen along with bank accounts but it shouldn’t stop any borrowers from paying their interest and repaying loans.
Having said that, at least one borrower with a loan from LCF appears to have made no interest payments or capital repayments over the last 3 years so there may not be much activity for them to manage especially when they only have 11 borrowers.
I contacted the FCA yesterday who confirmed that the bank accounts had been frozen, I was also told that borrowers were continuing to pay off their loans, so, part of the business is still functioning but LCF are not able to manage the ‘build up of funds’ from the loans.
It appears from the person I was talking to that the problem LCF have with the FCA is with regards to the advertising and marketing material they use to sell there financial products. FCA would not say more.
I requested that the FCA give me a reasonable time limit as to when their investigation would come to a close which they refused to do. I pointed out that investors were entitled to monitor their money whoever was managing it for them and the FCA were being unreasonable not to give a reasonable time for investors to be able to evaluate their position with regards to their and LCF’s financial circumstances.
I then made a formal complaint to the FCA with regards to their attitude towards giving a prompt service and refusal to treat my and the other investors of LCF as a serious concern by not sharing with the investors a date when the investigation would be completed.
The reason for making the complaint is because the person I was talking to seemed to think it could take a year or maybe more to complete the investigation. I don’t know about you but that is not acceptable to me, I would therefore ask other investors to also call the FCA and make similar complaints otherwise this could drag on for a very long time
I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news but the FCA investigation WILL take a year or so. This is not the only investment that they are looking at that has gone pear shaped and it is also not the case that the only reason the accounts have been frozen is because they have pulled the marketing literature. They have pulled the marketing literature to ensure that nobody else can be brought into this investment on the basis of what they have clearly established as misleading information. In addition, the FCA is not managing anything except an investigation. The money is still IN THEORY under the power of the business EXCEPT they are not allowed to touch the money and that is because the FCA do not trust them to do so.
I’m an expert in financial services and a specialist lawyer and I’m looking at different ways to take action for investors SHOULD there be an appetite to do so.
ps there is also an action page I believe
I’m sorry Colin but it sounds like you’re blaming FCA for issues that have been created by London Capital. Seeing comments from people who have put their life savings into a scheme where there is a fair chance they could lose all their money is heartbreaking but this is a deliberate action by LCF to trick people. It’s not the fault of the FCA.
Have a look at this diagram showing the linked companies that LCF have lent money to and see if you think that’s a genuine business model. Also bear in mind that up to 25% of your investment may have been paid out in commission so they need to earn even more to recoup that. Add all these together and you can see exactly what the FCA are investigating
https://damn-lies-and-statistics.blogspot.com/2019/01/lcf-linked-borrowers-company-structure.html
Jane: I do not pretend to understand the in’s and outs of what is happening to our money, my interest is in the investors (I am an investor). a year is to long in my opinion that is why I am unhappy with the FCA’s ‘wishy washy’ response to the fate of the investor. From my conversation with a representative from the FCA he more or less said the same as you regarding the length of the investigation ”we have other investigations therefore we are unable to give you a date when the investigations will finish”.
Whether LCF is at fault or not, giving the FCA total freedom to carry out the investigation in it’s own time frame is ludicrous (keeping the investor on tender hooks is absolutely not on as far as I am concerned). In fact not putting the FCA under pressure will simply encourage them to not update us at regular intervals and keep everything hidden, at some stage we are going to have to be told what has happened to our money and whether there is any recourse to scrape some of it back and that should be sooner than later.
In the mean time I have made a complaint as to the FCA with regards to their refusal to provide me with a reasonable time limit for the investigation to end. By the way Jane, I was told the complaints procedure would take up to two months. So, the FCA are not taking me seriously.
One last point. I am not in the least worried who is at fault. it is certainly not the investors fault as to the position we find ourselves in,so saying the FCA are the good guy’s is total rubbish, they get payed to do their job lets make sure they do it.
@Colin: If you’ve read Jimbo’s link to the graph of webbed companies, you’ll have some idea of how much the FCA have to investigate.
And if the FCA’s investigation extends as far as LCF’s linked companies to which investors’ money has been lent, those companies are outside the FCA’s traditional jurisdiction so the investigation may require court applications. The wheels of the court system grind no faster than the FCA’s.
So any reasonable person can understand why this work is likely to take months no matter how hard the FCA works. So it then becomes a question of whether the FCA should provide more information and more regular updates to investors while the investigation goes on.
I can understand why investors want that to happen but it’s not practical. Imagine if the FCA said “February update: Everything looks fine so far but our investigation continues”, and then it turned out the money was gone. Investors would be livid. And imagine if the FCA said “February update: It looks awfully like the money has been disappeared into a web of very suspicious looking linked companies, but our investigation continues”, and then it turned out LCF had legitimate reasons for using this corporate structure and investors’ money was safe. Investors would be livid, and LCF would be livid, and after some political intervention senior heads at the FCA would probably roll.
That’s on top of the risk of compromising the investigation by releasing information to the people they are investigating.
The FCA are not being wishy washy, they’re being tight-lipped.
I have received acknowledgement of my complaint to the FCA but unfortunately have been warned off of showing it to you. Meanwhile the months and the investors money goes out of the window without anyone challenging what they are doing. Emmmmmmm ! what a sensible idea to say nothing?
Perhaps they will prosecute me for letting you know their address
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Information for London Capital and Finance PLC investors
News stories Published: 28/12/2018 Last updated: 28/01/2019
London Capital & Finance PLC (LCF) is the issuer of mini-bonds which it states it uses to make loans to corporate borrowers to provide capital for further investment. The FCA believes there are approximately 14,000 customers invested in its bonds.
Issuing mini-bonds is not a regulated activity, so firms issuing mini-bonds do not need to be authorised by the FCA. However, when an authorised firm approves a promotion for mini-bonds, they must ensure that it is in line with FCA rules that the financial promotion is fair, clear and not misleading. This means, for example, that risks are appropriately communicated. We are investigating LCF on whether there has been a breach of our requirements.
In addition to its investigation into LCF, the FCA has imposed certain requirements on LCF, which LCF agreed to, including:
not (without the prior consent of the FCA) dealing in any way with its assets, including the money held in its banks accounts
ceasing all regulated activity
On 13 December 2018, the FCA announced that it had directed LCF to withdraw all of its existing marketing materials in relation to its Fixed Rate ISA or Bond.
On 17 January 2019, the FCA imposed a Second Supervisory Notice on LCF. LCF is still required to have a prominent statement on its website that the FCA has directed it to withdraw all its existing marketing materials.
The FCA considers that it is appropriate to publicise the fact of its investigation into LCF now, as a result of other public actions taken by the FCA and in anticipation of legitimate queries from investors regarding the firm.
Will I get my investment back?
The FCA’s work in relation to the firm is ongoing, but it is aware that investors are keen to receive details on the progress of this work and the status of the firm. The FCA will publish updates on its website when it is appropriate to do so.
Investors should check the terms of their investments for information about capital repayments.
What action is the FCA taking against LCF?
The FCA directed LCF to withdraw all of its existing marketing materials in relation to its Fixed Rate ISA or Bond.
Following supervisory intervention, the FCA required LCF to cease all regulated activities and not to dispose of any of its assets without prior consent of the FCA.
The FCA is conducting further investigations and continues to work with the firm and relevant external stakeholders to take all appropriate steps.
Why has the FCA taken action against LCF?
We issued a direction to LCF to remove all communications relating to its ‘Fixed Rate ISA or Bond’ because it appeared that its promotions may be misleading for the following reasons:
the LCF Bonds should not have been advertised as investments that could be held in an Innovative Finance ISA because the bonds did not satisfy the relevant conditions for crowdfunding debentures (a qualifying investment) under the Individual Savings Account Regulations 1998. For example, the bonds were not transferable.
there was undue prominence given to the firm’s FCA authorisation despite the bonds not being regulated or having FSCS protection
their past performance warning, which explains that any reference to this should not be considered a guide to future performance of an investment, was insufficiently prominent
there was an unbalanced comparison with cash savings
What is a mini-bond?
A mini-bond is an unlisted debt security, typically issued by small businesses to raise funds.
Mini-bonds can be attractive to investors because of the interest rates on offer. However, prospective investors need to understand the associated risks. Mini-bonds are usually illiquid as they are not easily traded, unlike listed retail bonds, which they are often compared to. They can also be high risk, as the failure rate of small businesses can be high. Additionally, as with other corporate bonds, there is no Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) protection if the issuer fails.
Does LCF need to be authorised?
Firms are required to be authorised by the FCA if they undertake any of the regulated activities listed in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001 (the Order). Authorised firms are subject to a set of overarching principles and rules issued by the FCA. These principles and rules have to be followed when an authorised firm is carrying on regulated activities in the UK. The Order excludes certain activities from its scope.
Issuing mini-bonds does not normally involve the carrying on of a regulated activity. Therefore, LCF did not need to be authorised to issue the mini bonds but did need to be authorised to issue the promotion of the mini bonds.
Will investors be able to get compensation from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme?
Issuing mini bonds is not a regulated activity, just as is typically the case with other corporate bonds. This means investors are unlikely to have access to the FSCS in the event the firm is declared in default, but this would be a matter for the FSCS to determine.
Will investors have a tax liability as the products are not ISA eligible?
Investors holding ISAs with LCF do not need to take any action at this time with respect to their tax position.
ISA managers must administer the ISA scheme in accordance with the ISA legislation. HMRC has a range of powers to tackle non-compliance with the rules, including withdrawing permission to act as an ISA manager, and reclaiming any incorrectly paid tax relief.
Investors can contact HMRC by email at savings.audit@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk.
Will Emm says:
I find it astonishing that nobody has picked up on these bonds being sold as part of the 2016 government initiative to help SME’s and small businesses. The IFISA – Innovative Finance ISA was meant to fill the gap left by unwilling banks to help startups and small businesses, and were launched a in 2016 – a little over 2 years ago.
In November 2016 George Osborne announced government plans to extend their original purpose – P2P lending – to include- quote: “other debt-based securities in IFISAs, in particular bonds and debentures – hoping to make capital more readily available to UK SMEs” unquote.
The matter of added risk was included in these announcements, nevertheless, coming from government made IFISAs all the more credible and attractive with possibility of higher interest rates than the miserly offerings from banks and building societies. It was made clear that they would lose the FSCS safety net, but in the eyes of many looking for interest that at least bettered inflation and had government approval, that loss didn’t seem too much to worry about.
In my view the FCA or relevant watchdog, bears a huge responsibility for allowing such a marked departure from government safety regulation of savings schemes to go without scrutiny, allowing the obvious outcome of ruthless predators to unlawfully describe themselves as IFISA or ISA providers, something that LC&F is now alleged to have done.
I would like to see how others see this perspective and how it should shape the investigation and its outcomes.
I think also there needs a much more transparent method for members of the public to access the kind of knowledge they need when making decisions about investment. There should be a register of some kind setting out who is authorised to do what. Companies have a register, so have charities, VAT members, and even trades have bodies with registers of those qualified to claim membership.
For good example, the Charity Commission website carries a large range of verified data about each charity, its trustees, structure, objectives, financial reports, and much more, open to ready public scrutiny. Surely, for such a vast and hugely important sphere of finance as public savings are, this too should have a resource for the public to go to, secure in the knowledge that its subjects are being policed, regularly and thoroughly.
A postscript to my above message, just found on the Internet, illustrating the sheer effrontery and deception used by LC&F in a sponsored advert placed 12th November 2018. It underlines what I said about the public being asked to fill the financial vacuum left by banks but desperately needed by SMEs and startups.
http://www.campdenfb.com/article/market-insight-alternative-finance-s-place-diversified-portfolio
Okay, The register does exist: it’s just that ordinary consumers do not know about it. The FCA did regulate their conduct but not in the context of obligations to you. And THAT is the biggest problem here.
The action page is dedicated to pulling all affected consumers together with a view to ensuring all discussions are provided with answers and options for action.
This is a tragedy and should have been avoided – now let’s hope we can orchestrates some returns for investors
I assume everyone has received this?
[BrevEdit: Letter to LCF investors re the administration snipped. See here for the full text.]
Well, that’s comforting news Jane – there IS a register but unknown to the needfully uninformed!
Will appreciate your respected advice as to how we affected consumers can ‘get together’ to rescue what crumbs may be left over after the those with higher priorities have taken their share.
join the facebook page – London Capital and Finance Action Group. There are about 300 people there. Brev will warn you, as will I – DO NOT pay any company that says they can claim on your behalf anything. Liquidators are warning against it, the FCA are and so am I. BUT there will come a point that I will be in a position to take an instruction and that is ONLY if i can find access to potential money
The fact that the FCA has intervened, but too late for 14,000 investors, in spite of warnings – many warnings, from a variety of professional sources, some going back years, indicates the FCA aught to be held responsible for a huge number of avoidable losses by their inactivity.
There is a term used by the investment world – ‘quantifiable risk’ – that was apparent about LC&F to those in the know, long, long ago. It should therefore have been even more so to the FCA when involving a government initiative aimed specifically to attract private funding. It should not be left to a largely uninitiated public to assess quantifiable risk when the means is there to provide such critical information.
The FCA’s inertia is little less than shameful. How can they allow organisations to repeatedly defer presenting their accounts by using a simple loophole, not once but several times in succession, without suspicion of something being amiss? But it’s reported they did. How could they allow any organisation to illegally claim ISA status for so long. But they did.
And where does the ASA – Advertising Standards Authority – stand in this awful mess that’s about to ruin countless lives and livelihoods? Not a government body but their work does extend to financial areas, including misrepresentation of facts.
The more one looks at this situation the clearer it becomes that the PBP – the poor bloody people – are yet again being let down by those they depend on to safeguard them.
Now you will understand why I stepped straight into this on here weeks ago because the FCA only act in this manner under certain circumstance. And NOW we have an administrator picked by the directors whose first public statement which backs the business process and seeks to blame the FCA. Sorry! No way! FCA might be slow but they have acted ON EVIDENCE of misdeed at YOUR expense. So to have an administrator that is supposed to be protecting the interests of creditors who has gone ON RECORD to say you were sophisticated etc… they have just detailed my efforts to protect your position to gain entry to the FSCS. As a lawyer I knew this would happen and eh voila. I’m incensed so now I’m going to counter that position publicly and with the press!
I am not sticking up for LCF but from yesterdays radio 4 broad cast with the administrators it seems that the actual running of the company had some order and the broadcast put an optimistic view on returns to the investor being possible
”this is the first week we will no more after we interview the borrowers next week, all 12 of the companies borrowing money from LCF are solvent and we are considering the other assets of LCF we should know more by next week”
Lets not panic
I am very concerned about investors claiming they were not asked to sign a declaration as to what type of investor they are because LCF would not allow me access to the bond unless I did. I put myself down as a restricted investor, I took photo copies of everything I did to purchase my bond because I was awear of the risks. Perhaps people should look back at their paperwork and actually read what they signed up for.
You put to much faith in the FCA Jane. Do you really think the big banks are going to stand by while a little impersonator pays a massive 8% and they only want to give you 1,2% dream on Jane.
To the FCA we are collateral damage no more. The FCA have done their Job but they are not our friends
Who makes the most out of insolvency? the investor or financial and legal professions? I wonder how much the administers fees will claw out of any chance we have of a settlement.
The IP makes the most out of the insolvency and I’ve just been called a leech for insisting that you have the right to have your own representation. As for the FCA they are nearly always too late. I put no extraordinary faith in the FCA nor do I hold out any hope that they will assist per de. But I am, with the support of the group of members I speak to going to continue to challenge any statements made AND I will know in 8 weeks whether they have even considered the strategy I propose to run. If NOT then you guys get a vote
Colin with respect, what faith have I put in the FCA at all? I simply refer to the facts
Like Colin, my application (in my case for 6.5% 2-year IFISA Bonds) was subject to signing LC&F Form which was very comprehensive including a statenent by the investor of his/her financial status.
My decision was based on the risks set out in the form, coupled with the fact that IFISA Bonds had not long previously been introduced by George Osborn (Nov 16) to extend IFISAs from P2P to include loans to SMEs that would be in the form of debenture based bonds and associated risk. That these investments would not be covered by FSCS was made clear.
A copy of the document can be found here, and if a sign-in box appears you should be able to close it top right:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cjgw5irrsn4csuu/L%20C%20%26%20%20F%202%20yr%20IFISA%20Bond%20Terms.pdf?dl=0
Whether or not these or similar terms apply to other LC&F investors is for them to determine.
So far, many fingers have been pointing to misuse of the funds, which is not helping matters or the feelings of those affected. My criticisms about FCA are based on allegations that serious or potentially serious problems with LC&F were known months, even years ago and that IF SO, the FCA could have and should have acted much sooner, at least avoiding a lot of would-be investors getting burned fingers.
In this respect you are unequivocally right! Same scenario for the Connaught Income Fund. CEO whistle blew; FCA fail to respond and then when it did, months later, another massive chunk of money had gone into the fund! I rest my case. My biggest concern now is what is or is not going to be investigated. Your thoughts?
This is problematic. LC&F’s Memorandum of Information/Application is pretty watertight. No case for misrepresentation, except for marketing an ISA that was invalid as such, being non-transferable – one reason taken up – very belatedly – by FCA. Otherwise it demonstrated – on paper but very convincingly – what cautious investors look for – managed risk.
That’s a whole world away from allegations of misuse of the funds invested, also allegations that their strategy for raising funds from borrowers enough to pay their bond interest was seriously flawed, meaning – if proven – either poor management or worse – fraud.
The administrators must first assess overall liquid assets, then deduct fees/costs to leave net assets for distribution to bondholders after higher ranking creditors are first paid their due amounts. Only then will bondholders know their situation eg be repaid x pence per Pound of their investment – if any.
It should not take that long to determine, except that some vital aspects of their financial structure are overseas in Malta and may either be inaccessible or take a long time to access via judicial routes. Malta is in the EU which may help (or not – Brexit??).
The FCA and administrators owe it to the 14,000 investors to make this a priority situation. The credibility of ISAs and IFISAs in particular will be – already is for me and other like-minded investors – to weaken what the government hoped would give much needed support to SMEs and startups. These form a large part of the country’s economy and this investigation couldn’t have come at a worse time, needing a rapid solution, bad as that may be.
PS: Having just looked at the Connaught Income Fund situation, that doesn’t inspire! First investigated in 2015 and still ongoing! Be warned!
https://www.moneymarketing.co.uk/connaught-investors-recieve-redress/
Who will play the Capita Financial Manager’s role for this I wonder? No obvious candidate so perhaps no one will, Will.
Well said Will, I totally agree with you, although my concerns about the FCA extend further than yours. I have decided to call the FCA and the Administrators on a monthly basis to seek a progress report on what is happening. I have also made a formal complaint regarding the FCA.
It is my view that we should not be worrying who is at fault. Like you Will I am trying to look at the reality of the matter and that reality depends on the actual state of the company today along with its material worth. We should disregard the constant reports of doom that are appearing on a daily basis and wait for the administrators report. Having said that, that does not mean we should leave the FCA or Administers to get on with it without hounding them and making them earn their money. Remember you are paying for them to do their job. I am doing my part it is up to others to do theirs.
Like you Colin, I thought the FCA was another government quango, but it is not. It is an independent body paid for by fees taken from financial organisations, but nevertheless has wide-sweeping powers of investigation and enforcement, also of prosecution. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/financial-conduct-authority-uk-fca.asp
They will now be awaiting the outcome of what they had imposed, from the Administrators, and for what it’s worth, here’s a proposed timescale for such events called the 7 Key Stages:
https://www.businessrescueexpert.co.uk/the-administration-process-timeline-uk/
On the face of it our situation appears to be at Stage 6, and the Administratrors should produce their assessment in 11 days. I really don’t think this is likely for LC&F’s web of complex assets and their access rights, for them to be realised in such a short timeframe, and then to decide if it should be wound down, followed by distribution arrangements. The above link is just a guideline but even so, that allows up to a year. As noted in my earlier post, the Connaught situation is exceeding 3 years.
The point is, FCA can do nothing until (as I see it) the Administrators are able to set out the situation. I applaud your efforts but unless FCA has any influence in this respect, the ball is in another court – at least for the time being. Perhaps you can change tack to try to extract a timeframe from them and see what their reaction is? Don’t be surprised if they fail to engage though.
I am no expert in these matters, just learning as I go from Google searches. I am obviously concerned, but thankfully will not be in desperate straits if all goes pear-shaped. I do feel for those more seriousy affected. My time is also taken up with admin work for an overseas charity so not able to take a leading role in this situation, but will be closely watching it.
Sorry, I fundamentally do not agree. It is misleading as we have a regulator who has confirmed this. The loans are not transferable. The prominence of the disclosure is not sufficient for regulatory purposes and neither is it acceptable to identify the right clients by reference to retail clients treated as anything else. It was abjectly misleading for those reasons NOT TO MENTION the fact that there could be additional risk given a small pool of lenders who might have conflicts with the loaning company, who held consumer funds ON TRUST.
PS on behalf of the Connaught Campaign I advised Guto Bebb of the APPG on the fund and gave him the questions that were used to raise a vote of no confidence against the FCA in Commons. The shenanigans there would leave you reeling as well. And that is WITHOUT reference to the fact that I put a strategy to Duff and Phelps in 2014 that would have kept egg off the faces of the then FSA and the administrators and it was buried amidst furies efforts to discredit me. How strange eh?
Colin, my earlier response has not appeared – subject to moderator approval apparently. In brief I said that while I commend your activity, the FCA can’t move on until the Administrators have done their job.
According to one ‘expert’ website I visited on the general subject of calling in administrators, they should be able to do an assessment of assets in 11 days. With LC&F’s complex financial structure extending to Malta I’m not sure if this kind of timeline can be achieved. However it was further noted that once assets are assessed it could still take up to a year to resolve who gets paid what.
The Connaught crash and its 3 year+ timescale to resolve gives a good example of how long it can take, although the FCA was criticized for its delay in bringing the issue (of suspected fraud) to light in the first place. No explanation of why it took (is still taking) to resolve.
Perhaps you can change your stance with the FCA to try to establish if they have a timeline? And by the way, they are not paid by us, but by fees they take from financial organisations who form the core of work they cover.
Sorry. But again why it’s taking so long is simple math. If they issue findings now that indicate fraud they are implicating themselves for failing to act. If they say there was no fraud they make themselves look even worse because they imposed a fine of £55M on Capita after my colleague and I Campaigned for 5 years!
Regarding this situation if you sit back and watch I can predict the outcome but it won’t be welcome which is why I am working with Brev here, journalists and Damn lies and statistics to ensure that you know that we are approaching a situation where you have a vote for a team of your choice.
Q1: If insufficient assets to repay bondholders, could FCA/FSCS be made to redress for shortfall if bonds deemed as sufficiently misleading in terms of security?
Q2: Will all bondholders be treated equally or might it depend on individual circumstances – type of bond, when bought, how marketed?
Q3: This scenario is potentially more than double the losses of Connaught’s 1,200 investors. That’s taken 6 years to resolve. How can this be speeded up – what options do bondholders have to get quicker results eg with ‘team of choice’? How?
Come to the page. That’s exactly what is being debated.
Will and Jane: Like you Will I am learning as I go, in my opinion you seem to be falling into the same trap as Jane as far as the FCA is concerned:
FCA on the ropes: your chance to land a punch
Connaught victims may have seen the House of Commons Adjournment Debate on 12 January. The Chairman of the Connaught All-Party Parliamentary Group, Guto Bebb, and MPs who’ve been following the case made some highly pertinent points and raised crucial questions about this long-running case.
The Minister looked distinctly uncomfortable delivering a response that was clearly drafted by Capita’s pals at the Financial Conduct Authority, which we understand has taken the additional precaution of placing two of its employees on long-term secondment into the Minister’s office in a bid to shield her from any correspondence from the public that might contradict the regulator’s spin.
Guto and Treasury Select Committee member John Mann have delivered another decisive blow this week by calling for a House of Commons debate into whether the FCA is fit for purpose, which will take place on Monday, 1 February.
Scheduled for three hours in the afternoon rather than half an hour in the evening, it is likely to attract a lot more MPs and massively more media coverage. It will focus on three main regulatory failures
Will: Good questions Will, for me neither the FCA or the administers have mentioned fraud, miss selling or anything else at this stage (that may change along the way). If it stays that way the company has amassed £236 million pounds from its clients so, the company and it’s assets needs to amount to over £236 million in order to pay back the clients the money they invested into the company.I believe that getting our money back in full is highly unlikely and the longer the case goes on the less we will get back especially since the financial services are taking out their share for administration first. The question is (as you say) priority of any payout? I think there will be a payout however small.
As far as the FCA/FSCS paying out, I think that is unlikely, you might like to look up items 8 and 9 of the declaration you filled out to obtain the bond which ”indemnified LCF against loss”.
My official complaint with regards to the LCA is about the time scale. I’m afraid others in our situation are not supporting my efforts so, the reply from the CFA is likely to be ;wishy washy’. Still ‘first blood’,
With respect you seem to be ignoring what precipitated their fall: a Vreq. Connaught didn’t even get one, despite the investigation, and the only time they freeze assets is when they have direct experience of very serious misconduct ….
Let’s try to put this complex scenario into perspectve – no holds barred, there’s an awful lot at stake and many, many vulnlerable people likely to be seriously hurt. It may well make the Connaught case look small by comparison – their 1,200 clients against our 14,000. £236m against £110m.
Complaining to or about FCA is all very well but is in itself a long-winded process and end up, months/years later as no more than an upheld complaint with criticisms and recommendations. With due respect, complaints from individuals will be like using a pea-shooter against a sub-automatic, but 14,000 pea-shooters could do a lot of damage, changing peas for ball bearings.
Jane is pointing to a campaign involving herself and others with prior experience of this kind of high profile dog-fighting, and to be effective nothing less, maybe a lot more, will be needed to make any headway. None of us want this dragged out, and expertise with clout has its costs, but more likely to help reimburse more xx pence per pound than letting matters take their own snail-like course.
I will be looking in the direction that Jane – backed by her considerable experience – is pointing.
I’d like to propose another suggestion that nobody has yet come up with but has huge potential – 14,000 potentials in fact, but needs coordinating to get as many of those to do so, and ideally ‘someone’ (sorry, not me) to compose the carefully worded and hard-hitting message needed.
Each to send it to their MP, with strong reference to the painfully long-winded and unacceptable example of the Connaught case. That case eventually went to the Commons Select Committee for grilling – we can’t wait that long and need to get as many MPs not only in the know, but pressed by their constituent(s) for their input. It’s reasonable to suggest that potentially EVERY MP will be contacted.
Thoughts/suggestions???
I can’t put the info here, but we in brief we are going to petition, apply to all MP’s and request an APPG on this scenario. I have to warn tho: we NEED the FCA. They have to sanction what I propose and I propose RSM: I have worked alongside the company for nearly 5 years and whilst they are a business the individual concerned has a lateral brain and welcomes unusual strategies. I did the same thing I always do: tried to get through to the admistrators and got fobbed off SO I am going public . I am going to show you their responses and then at the creditors meeting invite you to vote. That meeting should – if the press managed to raise awareness of this campaign – see members flood to this page so YOUR VOTE DOES COUNT. This is NOT an easy fix. I will work with Smith and Williamson BUT I am going to propose that RSM take joint appointment SO WE KNOW I HAVE ACCESS TO WHAT IS GOING ON. Otherwise you are going to be left in the dark WITH YOUR MONEY AT STAKE! Yes I will be paid BUT if I get paid it’s because the legal argument I bring to the table gets you additional recoveries. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD! And beware any sites that are disparaging me. I am never going to be popular and the only thing they have to throw at this is that I’m in this for the money and I’m a leech etc… and I’m unregistered. I am indeed an unregistered barrister and I am NOT asking anyone for anything. Just support!
Waste of time writing to MPs at this early stage because at the heart of this, as Jane says, is a fraud investigation and due process will need to be well and truly exhausted first. Better to contact Mr Lee and Mr Friedlander, the current owners and directors of Global Security Trustees Limited. A quick glance at Companies House suggests these guys are here to do a Winston Wolf on the alleged crime scene left behind by integrity challenged solicitor Richard Sedgwick and an opaque packet of Maltesers, so best engage with them early. Another much better influencer than your MP to contact are Andrew Hockey and David Peattie of Independent Oil and Gas and London Power Corporation. Get on to them to put pressure on their companies to prepare to return funds received from LC&F that may be the proceeds of crime. They have solid reputations to protect, no least with Mitsubishi and the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency, unlike the Right Honourable Mr Hendry and Mr Hume Kendal, not to mention Mr Thomson himself and Mr Sedgwick, whose reputations appear to me to be beyond repair or worth protecting.
Thanks Jane, for opening up and adding neccessary flesh to present bare bones. You are well informed and your advice should be respected.
I beg to differ with NWOGaction regarding contacting MPs, if only from experience of my MP many years ago. When caring for my wife I claimed the higher Carer Rate but was ignored by DWP. My MP took copy of my letter to the Pensions Minister and within weeks got the higher rate. I have written to his successor on other matters and always got a reply to say (if case warranted) that it had been passed on. MPs ARE paid by us and NEED OUR VOTES so I firmly believe by contacting them personally, with a well-structured message but personalised according to the sender situation, it will have considerable impact. A lot to gain, nothing to lose. Publicity – almost certainly, and widely, once news of it gets out – and that shouldn’t be difficut to leak.
I agree that fraud investigation is a due process and that’s my point, to help reduce the lengthy process it will likely take without ministerial and public pressure combined.
What needs to be aimed for is weight of pressure from as many LC&F victims as possible, and that takes a coordinated and well organised approach. There are two Fb groups, but I have reservations about that organisation’s reputation for security, with members of the public perhaps unwittingly revealing more about themselves than is wise. It still might be the best means for gathering the troops together though.
Also, there are petition organisaions such as Avaaz and Change.org. Avaaz has a vast database of contacts.
There is an army out there, 14,000 or so, that needs mobilising – with an experienced leader to guide them.
So far a relative few are exchanging views and seeking strategies. With all that’s been contributed so far, perhaps some of the wiser heads can collaborate and come up with a strategy that best fits this situation.
It needs to be pointed out that, parallel to our exchanges here there are those of victims who have registed with Facebook (not the Action Group).
You need to be a bondholder to join (id needed of your bond type). There is now a discussion for setting up a Creditors Rights Committee, who “…ensure creditors have a ‘voice’ during the liquidation process. Creditors of an insolvent company often feel ignored in these circumstances, and that they have little influence on the proceedings or outcome.
Forming a committee can address this issue, and help to ensure proper consideration is given to their interests and financial recompense. It brings increased transparency to a potentially complex situation, and its members can provide invaluable help to the liquidator by acting as a ‘sounding board’ for future decisions.”
See this link for explanation: https://www.begbies-traynorgroup.com/articles/closure-options/understanding-creditors-rights-to-form-a-liquidation-committee
Unless Jane is a bondholder that rules her out, but doesn’t exclude what she is also suggesting by way of action.
While not all bondholders may have a Facebook account, there are currently 856 members – quite sizeable and likely to grow. They are debating who should be on this committee, which doesn’t have to be made up of those with the largest bond holdings, although often the case.
If any bondholder reading this has a fb account but has not yet registered, I recommend they do so. If no fb account It might be worth asking if they the group allows a family member with a fb account to act on behalf of their nominated relative by providing the same id needed to join.
I meant to also recommend joining the fb Action Group where there is the opportunity to follow/support Jane’s plan. These two fb resources seem the best means at this point in time to ensure that we all get the best start possible in what’s likely to be a long and complex battle.
I have a serious concern. Another one. The committee to which you refer is often a name only. And I am perfectly acceptable as consumer representatives as an agent by virtue of a proxy. This is my point: by telling you a position those of you without relevant knowledge simply accept what you are told. Instead I intend to ensure that what you are told is RIGHT! Not fallacy, half truth, blurred lines but the whole truth and nothing BUT the truth. It is this stance that makes me unpalatable. HOWEVER what anyone also had to bear in mind is that if I didn’t take my duties seriously – those of professional confidence I would not still be in business.
In short I cannot agree that in the vast majority of cases the committee does you, the lay consumers, any good because relatively small breaches can see you excluded and you have no powers to influence the administrators. Ergo, your own appointed representative should go in and I propose RSM for joint position who will give me the ability to run the argument that I think will lead to additional recoveries for you all
Thank you, once again, Jane, for putting the harsh realities of such situations bluntly from your personal experience. It must seem obvious, as it does to me at least, that independent and fully qualified representatives are better placed and equipped to cope with such high profile and complex finance/legal matters.
We were not to know that you can act by proxy, just one example of how experience pays its own dividends. I hope that others are now, like me, feeling better informed, and be willing to follow this sound advice.
Having said I support Jane, I have now consideraby bettered that judgement by watching her video on the Facebook Action Group page. Around 30 mins long, it is a MUST to see, explaining as she does just about everything you may have wanted to know, and certainly everything you should know, including much more that you didn’t know – and some matters you may wish you would rather not have known – but it’s all there.
If you don’t have a Facebook account DO find someone you can confide in who does have Fb and watch her honest, straight-from-the-horse’s-mouth (sorry Jane) video. It is truly eye-opening.
The link is here but you will need Facebook login AND Action Group acceptance to access it
https://www.facebook.com/jane.sanders.908/videos/10218280563750451/?comment_id=410727246337674
Well said Will. If only people would listen and look at their options but sadly too many don’t seem interested to actively try to help the outcome of this situation.
Anyone thinking that all is fine with the LCF borrowers should look at this list.
https://damn-lies-and-statistics.blogspot.com/2019/02/london-capital-finance-borrowers-loans.html
I have received interest from my bond over the last year with tax deducted by LCF. is anyone else in a similar position?. I wonder if there is any chance of reclaiming that tax since the tax we have paid now reverts back to capital with a loss.
New articles:
London Capital & Finance – what happened and when? (1 Feb)
London Capital & Finance administrators get off to unpromising start (5 Feb)
@ Colin Adams: Interest from a loan note whose issuer then goes into administration is still taxable as interest.
If the loan is written off you can claim that as a capital loss if the loan is not a “qualifying corporate bond”. Capital losses can generally only be used to offset capital gains, not income. I can’t say for certain whether LCF bonds are “qualifying corporate bonds”, however either way, you definitely can’t offset any capital loss that arises against income tax.
New article: London Capital & Finance: Is Smith & Williamson’s softly-softly approach in the interests of investors?
Should we not be keeping an track of the costs of the administrator’s activities and all other outgoings while our money is under administration? Is it not reasonable to request from the auditors a monthly account of every penny spent out of the kitty to employees of LCF, tax and so forth that will have to be paid before even considering offering a payout to the bond holders? I think that is an entirely reasonable request.
Reasonable and mandatory. An account of the administrators’ costs will be included in the initial proposal and every six-monthly update thereafter.
New article: New update from London Capital & Finance administrators – S&W lays bare the risk of bondholders not being repaid in full
New article: RPDigitalservices, former chief promoter of London Capital & Finance, stops promoting unregulated investments
New article: London Capital & Finance: Administrator “optimistic” about recovering not a lot
New article: London Capital & Finance roundup: administrator fears 80% losses, and did the FSCS say that LCF is covered?
New articles: London Capital & Finance on Money Box: the FCA speaks and Blackmore claims returns of 54%
Breaking: Four arrested in connection with London Capital and Finance, Serious Fraud Office wants to talk to bondholders
London Capital & Finance: CEO and founder both arrested, administrator revises expected recovery downwards
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Quiz: What Jane Austen Retelling Should You Read Next?
Abby Hargreaves 05-14-19
This Jane Austen retelling quiz is sponsored by Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that only in an overachieving Indian American family can a genius daughter be considered a black sheep. Dr. Trisha Raje is San Francisco’s most acclaimed neurosurgeon. Up-and-coming chef DJ Caine has known people like Trisha before, people who judge him by his rough beginnings and place pedigree above character. He needs the lucrative job the Rajes offer, but he values his pride too much to indulge Trisha’s arrogance. And then he discovers that she’s the only surgeon who can save his sister’s life. As the two clash, their assumptions crumble like the spun sugar on one of DJ’s stunning desserts. But before a future can be savored there’s a past to be reckoned with… A family trying to build home in a new land. A man who has never felt at home anywhere. And a choice to be made between the two.
With over 200 years post-publication, the bulk of Jane Austen’s catalog has had plenty of time to percolate in the minds of readers and ardent fans. Over the years, many writers have taken the original texts and retold them—either with the same setting and characters but fresh perspectives, with sequels, or with a total update on everything except the basic plot. There are so many out there it can be hard to know where to start. This quiz will help you pick the perfect Jane Austen retelling to read next, whether you like ’em silly, serious, or somewhere in-between.
This quiz focuses on the six main novels of Austen, leaving out the unfinished Sanditon as well as juvenilia including Love and Freindship [sic] and Lady Susan. Your result, then, will be a Jane Austen retelling based on one of the six primary books.
Before you jump into the quiz, here’s a quick refresher if you don’t remember the original plots.
Second child of five daughters, Elizabeth Bennet butts heads with the wealthy Mr. Darcy after he seems to insult her. Her sister’s relationship with Darcy’s good friend, however, continues to put the pair in each other’s presence, and there may be more they don’t realize about each other to discover.
Impoverished and without a father figure to rely on, the Dashwood sisters (Elinor and Marianne) must depend primarily on each other to survive. With a flurry of romances, neither sister can agree on the right approach to love and life—is it better to work with plenty of good sense or to let emotions and sensibility be your guide?
A financial burden to her immediate family at a young age, Fanny Price is at the mercy of extended family when she is sent to live with them. Though she’s opinionated, her mature personality leads her to keep to herself most of the time. When the Crawfords come into her life, Fanny can’t help but be a bit dazzled by Henry Crawford. Fanny’s childhood friend and cousin, Edmund, is similarly dazzled by Mary Crawford—but is either really to be trusted?
At the advice of a family friend, Anne Elliot rejected perhaps her one chance at happiness many years ago. She’s sure that now, at age 27, all prospects of marriage are long dead. When her old suitor, Captain Wentworth, returns however, she wonders if she didn’t make a mistake. But it’s no doubt too late, now, as she focuses on caring for her loved ones.
Young and with a wild imagination, Catherine Morland has never been more excited than when she’s invited to stay at Northanger Abbey. According to her beloved Gothic novels, the Abbey is sure to be haunted. Within a few short weeks, Catherine is creating stories to fit her expectations, no matter how the handsome Henry Tilney might tease her. Is there something truly sinister at Northanger Abbey or has Catherine’s imagination gotten the better of her?
A hobby matchmaker, Emma Woodhouse is wealthy and well-intentioned but perhaps a little oblivious. It’s all fun and games until Emma herself finds herself unexpectedly enamored.
Now that we’ve had that little refresher, let’s go on to the quiz, shall we? Which Jane Austen retelling should you read next?
Which retelling did you get? Do you have a favorite retelling? Tell us in the comments! Then, find out which Jane Austen heroine you are and check out the rest of our Jane Austen feels.
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City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier
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aderyn wood, admiration, adult, aesop, afresh, Agatha Christie, age, aidan r walsh, Air Jaws, aldrea alien, alexa grave, alexander grant, alice in wonderland, alice sabo, Aliens, all my heart, all of my heart, all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us, alliance, allies, almost as if the weight of her years were pressing against me like a great mountain of corpses that would collapse onto me if I so much as looked at her the wrong way.” Gryffyn looked as though he w, alveric, always treated as a servant, amaze, amazed, amazing, Amazon, Amazon UK, amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, amreading, amy mcnulty, ancient evils, and destruction—a voice crafted of darkness and the death of worlds.” Flesh and bone and hearts unknown, and everyone, and has returned bearing tales of creatures called Jagged Ones that claim to be of the Fey and can somehow conceal themselves while standing in the full light of the moon. What they want with Lockie, and I enjoyed answering these questions so much. Many, and it becomes savagely clear that these Jagged Ones and the Dark Wreaker they serve are not only after Lockie and Travers, and the Curse That Walks The Earth. And then there is the foe named Blood Wood, and we’d be none the wiser till it had us by the throat! We can’t see a foot in front of our faces, andrea domanski, anduril, andy peloquin, angel, angels, anglo-saxon, anguish, anne rice, annihilate, annihilation, Anniversary, anorffen, answer the call, antestheria, applause, aragorn, architect, are true. And if there is truth in these outlandish stories, ariadne's thread, arianrhod, arthur, arthur machen, arwen, as Laura phrased it, as were the fiends who allowed themselves to be Hosted.” “But that happened in a wilder age, ashley capes, assumption, asunder, august, Augustin Boroi, aunt betsy, australia, australian, australian shark chorus, authentic, author, Authors, autonomy, autumn, avatar, awestruck, ” Bellows shot in. “You’re not allowed in church!” The Jagged One squinted at him. “Sez who?” “Says God!” Carver tsked. “I thought you Christians welcomed everyone.” “We make exc, ” Carver muttered. “I don’t know how else to explain this, ” Incendiu snarled. “They were all children, ” Roger argued. “Do not make the mistake of thinking present society is so highly advanced that they have forgotten their baser instincts, back from the dead, baggins, bagheera, bait, barber of seville, base motives, battlecry, beach, bear, beautiful, beginning, belkin, bellows, belong, beloved, below, bent, beowulf, best friend, best wishes, betrayal, better angels, beyond, beyond the forest, biased, bide, big, big boys, bill shakes, biologist, bird and baby, birth certificate, birthday, bite, black, black cats, black winged beast, blade and rose, blank wall, blazing, blind, blog, Blog Tour, blogger, bloggers, bloglovin, blogs, blood, blood and ashes, blood suckers, blood will drown the earth. And Roger and his entire family will fulfill the prophecy of fey’s older, blood wood, blood-soaked, bloodshed, bloom, blue prometheus, blue water, blue water white death, blues brothers, boarding school, boat, bombastic, bond, book, book addict, book feature, book giveaway, book nerd, book of mormon, booknerd, books, Books In My Belfry, booksinmybelfry.com, boom, boris kos, born vampire, boromir, Bottomless, boxer, brainstorming, bram stoker, brandon, bravo, brian o'sullivan, bride, brilliant, British, broke, brother, Brother?” the beast mocked. The dragon’s voice paralyzed Roger where he stood. Hearing it sapped his strength, brothers, brothers and sisters, brothers grimm, bruce, bubbly, business, bust, but a winged nightmare attempting to break free of its underground prison? Enlisting the aid of a monster equipped with enough inborn firepower to blast his enemies into oblivion might be as suicidal , but an unholy trinity known as the Bear, but as that interview is quite extensive, but did so sideways. A clear membrane coated its eye, but I could feel her age, but Roger, but when Roger arrives, c. d. gallant-king, c. l. schneider, C. S. Lewis, cable tv, cage, caged, calling, canon, carnifex, caroling, carpet diem, carte blanche, Carver, cat, catharine glen, cathartic, catholic, cats, caverns, cctv, cede, celebration, celts, center stage, chance, changed. The grounds are unkempt, chaos, character classes, characters, Charles Dickens, charpentier, chesterton, chevrefoil, childhood, children, children of light, children of vampires, chilled, chime, china, chivalry, chocolate, chocolate chip, choppy, chris fallowes, chris fallows, chris weston, christened, christians, christina ochs, Christmas, christmas carols, christmas in august, christmas in july, christopher percy, chucked, chumming, church, cianien bloodstone, City of Lights, City of Lights by melika lux, city of lights: the trials and triumphs of ilyse charpentier, clarity, classic, classical, clicking, clues, cnn, coalition, Coffyn, collapse, comedic fantasy, Comedy, comic, comic book, community, composed, conceal, concentration, confessional, confusion, conquest, conservation, constant source of inspiration, Constantinos, constructive criticism, contemporary fantasy, contest, conventional wisdom, conversation, cooked, copies, copyright, coquette, corcitura, Corcitura feature, corpses, corruption, corruption of honor, cottage, count, count orlok, Count Rakmanovich, Count Sergei Rakmanovich, courtly love, coven queen, Cover, cozy, crackbrained, craig a price jr., craig aird, create, creative fiction, creepy, cries blood, crime and punishment, cross fire, cruelty, CS Lewis, curiosity, curse, cut, cutting his teeth, cutwater, cutwater island, d. h. dunn, d. p. prior, d. p. wolliscroft, daft, damned souls, dance hall, dance of romance, dancing in the dust, danger, dangerous, dannese, dark, dark ages, dark fantasy, dark lord, dark night of the soul, dark oak, dark of winter, dark one's mistress, dark side, dark tide, dark water, dark wreaker, darkblade assassin, darkling, darkness, dashing, daughter of atlas, David Copperfield, david gowey, david mullin, david oliver, david p macpherson, dawn of darkness, days of endless night, dead bride, dead shrimps, deadliest, Deadmarsh, Deadmarsh Fey, deadmarshes, deal, dean rencraft, death, death merchants, death of worlds, debbie taylor, deborah kerr, december, decision, dedication, deeds in which village children made sacrifice to an otherworldly beast and were never seen or heard from again, deep, deeper, defeat, demand, demon, demon-haunted, demonic, demons, demons of the deep, denial, depth, depths, derangement, desire to weave stories, desolate, destiny, destruction, details, devastatingly brilliant, devil, devilry, devils, devin madson, devour, devourer of the world, dialogue, dianne bylo, die, dignity, dimensioner's revenge, diminish, Discovery Channel, disover, disposable, distraction, ditty, diva of the paris stage, diver's suit, divine, dk girl, dnf, dogs, doldrums, don't look back, donald trump, doom, dorothy dreyer, Dostoevsky, dostoyevsky, double blinds, Dracula, draculaesque, Dragon, dragon eye, dragon fate, dragon school, dragon shade, dragona rise of the wyverns, dragons, dramatically, dramatis personae, drandeur, dread, dread grandeur, dream, dream-sagas, dreamlike, dreams, dresses, driving force, drowning, druids, dude, dunedain, dungeoneers, dungeons and dragons, dunsany, duology, dwellers, dwellers of darkness, dwellers of darkness children of light, dyrk ashton, e. j. taylor, E. T., eagle and child, earth, Eastern Europe, ebb, ecstatically, eddas, ego, Eiffel Tower, elessar, elevator, elevator pitch, elmo, elvish, email, embellishments, emblematic, emerald dodge, emma stone, emotional, emotions, encourage, end song, enemies, enemy, engand, England, englishman, enlightened, enraptured, enrich, enveloped, envoys, epic, epic fantasy, epistolary, Eric Bradburry, erlkonig, erudite, ET, eternal night, Europe, European, evangeline, everl'aria, everyone, evidence, evie, evil, Excerpt, exhausted, exhilarated, exile, experience, exploitation, exploring, extraordinary, eye of arianrhod, eyes, Facebook, faces in the mist, facilitator, fade, faeries, fair and foul, fairy cakes, fairy tales, faith, fall, fallen, fallen age, fallen empire, fallen kingdom, false bay, family, fangs and fins, fantastic, fantastical, fantasy, fantasy hive, fantasy is escapist, fantasy novels, farewell and adieu, fascinated, fast typist, fate, Fated, fated to die, father, fathomless, Faust, favorite, fearies, fearless, feast, feast in the forest, feature, featured, featured at Jean the Book Nerd’s great site, feedback, feel, feelings, female author, female vampires, female werewolves, female writers, fey, fiction, Film, filming locations, films, Fin de siècle, Find Me, finding dory, finding home, finding nemo, fire's song, fire-breather, firecracker, fireplace, firing, first love, first novel, five, flesh, flesh and blood, flickering, flickering within that gigantic orb… “Why should I not know what he’s really called?” “Tell a man your name and he will have power over you forever, flow, flowers, flying saucer, flying sharks, foe, Folies Bergère, food network, foodtv, foot, for his savagery had no end.” “I’ve seen its other side. I know what lives here, forest, forever, forever grateful, forever love, forever my love, forfeit, forged in flames, forgotten relics, forsaken kingdom, foundation, four novel, fox news, fragile nights, France, Franz Schubert, freaky, free, free reign, free will, freebie, freedom, freeing air, French, french flag, French wine, friday, friends, Friendship, frodo, frodo baggins, frustrating, fudge, full circle, fun, fundamental, Fuseli, fylgja, fyodor, gabriel michaelson, gaja j. kos, game of thrones, gamut, Gandalf, gandalf the grey, gardener, gargantuan, geist, genius, genres, george r. r. martin, german, german lieder, germanic, Germany, ghast, ghost electricity, ghosts, gift, giganitc, giveaway, gk chesterton, glamour of evil, glimpse, gloomy, glories, glorious, glory, gnomic, goal, God, godforsaken, goethe, gollum, good and evil, good gad, good vs evil, gooderads, goodread, Goodreads, Google, goose, goose is cooked, gothic, gothic novel, governess, grabs, Grand Tour, gravitas, great book, great god pan, great white, great white shark, Greece, green flashing like St. Elmo’s fire. All these colors danced not a foot in front of Roger’s face, green with envy, greenery, Gretchen am Spinnrade, grey beard, grey wolves, Greydanus, grim reaper, groaza, gryffyn, guardian spirit, guardians, guides, guillermo del toro, Guinness, gustav mahler, guv, guy fieri, gwendolyn pendraig, h p lovecraft, h. g. wells, had ever been anything to fear. Nearly each summer of his young life had been spent in that manor on the moors, hallmark, hallmark channel, halloween, hamilton, hamlet, hammer, hand-write, handily at hand, hannah sullivan, hansel and gretel, hard work, harmony, harsh, has inexplicably grown and glares at Roger as if he is trying to read the boy’s mind. Roger’s eldest cousin, hasty, hate, haunted, haunting of hill house, havelock, having wild adventures with his cousin, hazard, he finds everything, he was The Bottomless, he who fights, heart, heartache, heartbeat, heartland, heaven, heaven and earth, hell comes to hogtown, help, henry corbin, henry fuseli, henry james, here be dragons, here there be dragons, hermit, hermitlife, hero, hero forged, heroes, heroism, high barrens, high fantasy, high school, higher self, higher selves, highland, hindsight, hinterland, historical fiction, historical romance, History, hobbit, hobbit size, hobbiton, hollow, home, home is behind, hope, hopes, hopes and dreams, horrifying, horror, horror herald, horrorfest, hosted, hosting, hot, Hotmail, house, hues, huge, hugh jackman, hugo vickers, hugo weaving, hugs, human beings, Humor, Hunger Games, hungers of life and all that matters, hunter, hybrid, hybrid vampires, i am death, i am fire, i am fire i am death, I shout, I thought it would be a good idea to share them with you today in a separate post. I hope you enjoy this little glimpse into Deadmarsh Fey. Best wishes, ian gregoire, Ian McCarthy, ian mckellan, ian mckellen, iceland, iconic, idea, ignite, ill tiding, illegal, illegible, ilyse, Ilyse Charpentier, imaginal, imaginal realm, imagination, imbued, impact, impacted, imprisoned, in tune, in which a dashing Englishman woos mademoiselle Charpentier, in-depth, incendiu, incorporate, incredible hulk, indecisive, Indie, infected, infinity, infused, inkling, inklings, inner lives, inorganic, insatiable, insights, inspiration, inspirations, inspired, instill, insurmountable, integrity, intense, interjections, internet, Interview, invite, iron fey, iron reveals, irrevocably, irv, isobel, isobel vickers, Italian, Italy, itinerant writing, ivan turgenev, j. a. alexsoo, j. d. hallowell, j. e. mueller, j. elizabeth vincent, J. R. R. Tolkien, j. r. rasmussen, j. zachary pike, ja andrews, jack, Jack the Ripper, jacob sannox, jagged, jagged ones, JAWS, jawsome, jawsomeness, jc kang, jean, jean booknerd, jean valjean, jeffrey l kohanek, jeffrey russell, jennifer ellison, jeramy goble, jess watkins, jesse teller, jingle bells, jingle sharks, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, john william waterhouse, johnny cash, jon, jordan c robinson, joseph sheridan le fanu, josh erikson, jot, joy, JRR Tolkien, julian, june carter cash, jungle book, Jurassic Park, just keep swimming, justin lee anderson, k bird lincoln, k l ling, k m alexander, kascher's quartet, katniss, kayleigh nicol, keith mcardle, kevin wright, kind, Kindle, kindle giveaway, king arthur, kingshold, Kip, Kipling, kirsten m corby, Knightley, knowing thine enemy, knut hamsun, kurintor nyusi, l. l. mcneil, la la land, La Perle de Paris, la petite coquette, lad, landed, languages, laptop, latest, laura, laura m hughes, lava, lead, lead to the rath and your fate will be shown… cover Deadmarsh. The name struck terror into the hearts of all who heard it. But to Roger Knightley, leave, lee conley, legend, legendarium, legends, legends of elera voices, Leonora, Leonora Bianchetti, lepers, leroy nichols, les miserables, lesser, let off the lead, lethal, letter, liath luacra, library, lie, lieder eines fahrenden gesellen, lies, life, lifeline, light, light dawning, like the greater evil we faced later on, likeminded, lin manuel miranda, lineup, link, Links, lion the witch and the wardrobe, lips, lirazel, list, little dream, lives, Lockie, loggerheads, logistical, London, longing, longing for home, longings, lord byron, lord dunsany, lord of the rings, lords of asylum, lorri moulton, LOTR, lots of tears, Louisa May Alcott, Louvre, Love, love in one act, love of reading, Luc, luck, luminous, lunch, lux, Lux Aeterna, lynn's books, lyrics, m. s. olney, mabinogion, mabus, machen, mad skillz, maddie, made him feel as though his mind had been crushed between slabs of stone. 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Why are you not afraid?” “Because I am the monster lurking in the shadows, notebook, notes, novel, novelist, novels, now, now dresses like a duchess and wears round her neck a strange moonstone given to her by someone known as Master Coffyn, now face-to-fey, nudged, oblivion, obsessed, ocean, odds, of darkness, off his nut, offshore, oil slick, old salt, older, ominous, on borrowed luck, on location, one i love, opaque, opera, or the world.” “There are more things in Heaven and earth…” Uncle Gryffyn muttered. “Now ain’t the time to be quotin’ old Bill Shakes, orange, orconomics, original, orion, orlok, oswald, other worlds, otherness, otherworld, out of nowhere, outlet, overwhelming, Oxford, pages, pale, palming the ace, pan, panic, panther, paper, Paperback, paranoia, paranoid, Paranormal, parc monceau, parents, Paris, Parisian, passionately, path, patrick leclerc, Paul Celan, pdf, peace, Penny Dreadful, penny dreadfuls, pepe the prawn, peppy, perfect day, performance, perilous, perilous realms, personal, perspective, perspicacious, peter jackson, peter quint, petrik leo, pews, phil parker, phil williams, philosopher, phoenix, phoenix descending, phrased, pianist, pict, picture, piece, pilgrimage, pilgrimages, pirates of the caribbean, pistachio, pit, place of slaughter, plausible deniability, play, plethora, plots, plowed, plumbing, poet, poetic edda, poetry, pointy hat, Polidori, politics, pool, pop culture, portraits, possessed, post, powers of music, prayer, pre-raphaelites, precious, preferably, premiered, press, prime time, primetime, professor fertig, project, projects, promo, promotion, prophecy, protagonist, pseudonym, psychological, publication, publicity, publishing, puckie, puddleglum, pumpkin, pun, pure magic, questions, quick-fire, quickfire, Quint, quites, quote, quotes, r. m. mulder, rafflecopter, ragna, random, ranger, rapture, rapturous, raskolnikov, rath, raucous, ravan thrall, raymond st. elmo, readers, reading, real, real name, realm of mindweavers, realms, reaper, recent reads, red sister, reddit, reflection, reflection of yourself, regret, reign, religion, renaissance, research, respect, reveal, revenge, Review, reviews, reward, rex, richard iii, richard lucas, richard writhen, riddled with fear, ring, rivalry, riveting novels of psychological suspense, roaring fire, roasted, robert shaw, robocopter ski patrol, rocks, roger, Roger cannot fathom, Roger discovers that Coffyn has overtaken Lockie. The boy is deceitful, Roger Knightley, Roger Knightley. Evil is evil no matter the century, Roger must find a way to end the battle being waged across worlds before the night of Lockie’s eleventh birthday—two days hence. If he fails, Roger seeks to unravel the tapestry of lies woven round his family’s connection to the death-haunted world of Everl’aria—and the Dark Wreaker who calls it home. The deeper Roger delves into the , rohirrim, roiling emotions, role playing, romance, romance novels set in historic France, Romania, Romanian, romantic fantasy, ronald tibu, room, rosalyn kelly, rosina, rossini, rotsby, round pegs, rove, rudyard kipling, ruination, ruled, rural, rural england, russell cullison, Russia, russian, ryan gosling, s. a. corey, s. c. flynn, s. k. randloph, sacrifice, sacrirfice, sadness, saga, sagas, sagas germanic, sale, salt, samara, samir, samwise gamgee, sanderson, sangue de vita, Sangue di Vita, sarah k. l. wilson, saucer, sauron, sausage, sausage sandwich, savagery, savoir faire, scarper, scary, scary vampires, scene, scene stealer, scenes, schadenfreude, schubert, science-fantasy, scotland, scream, scribd, scrubland, scythe, sea, Sea World, seal, seal island, sean astin, sean cunningham, seared, searing beauty, seasonal, seasonal reads, secret doorways, secrets, seized, selection, self publishing fantasy blog off, self-published fantasy blog off, semicolon, serenaded, Sergei, Sergei Rakmanovich, series, serious, servant of rage, seven hundred years, seventeen, sez, sez who, shadow magic, shadows, sham, shaq, shaquille o'neal, shark, shark attack, shark bite, shark chorus, shark elevator pitch, Shark Week, sharkbait oo-ha-HA!, sharking, sharkland, sharkland forever, Sharks, sharktastic, sheltering, shere khan, shield of kings, shifts, shire, shirley jackson, shiver, shores of the heart, shrieking, siblings, silence, silly, silver-tongued devil, singer, singing, sinisterly, sir frank dicksee, sister, sisters, site, sixteen, skill, skillz, skye, sneaky, snippet, snuffbox, snug, social media, solace lost, soldier, solidified, son, song, songs of insurrection, songs of the wayfarer, sonya m black, soprano, sorcerer's isle, sorcerous rivalry, Sorina Boroi, sorrow, soul, soul render, soul-restoring, soul-searching, soulmate, soulmates, souls, South Africa, space time continuum, special, special meaning, specials, spfbo, spfbo2018, spill, spinning silk, spiritual, spoiler, Spooky, spring, spring-heeled jack, square holes, squirrel, st. elmo's fire, standchen, startle, states, status quo, steal of a deal, steampunk, steer the ship, Stefan, Stefan Belododia, Stefan Ratliff, stephen spielberg, stephenie meyer, steve thomas, steven erikson, steven mckinnon, steven spielberg, stole his will, stone, storm wielder, story, story arcs, story reading, storytelling, storyweaving, stratosphere, struggle, stumbling block, stunning, sub-genres, success, suffered, summer, sunday, supernatural, supernatural thriller, superstition, support, suppressing, surf, surfer, surfer dude, susan hill, Suspense, suzanne rogerson, sviddheim, swathing, sweeney todd, sweet, swimmers, swimming, sydney, Sylvi, symphony of the wind, t j muir, T-Rex, t. cook, t. l. branson, Tags#AmWriting, Tags100, taiwan, Taken, taking care of, talk, talking animals, talking cat, talking cats, tall tales, TAPS, tears, techniques, teeth, temporary derangement, ten, terrifying, terror, that's what I'm tolkien about, the apples of idunn, the bastard from fairyland, the crown of stones, the crushed peak, the darkness within, the dead sagas, the Deadmarsh heir. This year should have been no different, the end begins, the exercise of vital powers, the expanse, the family cat, the fantasy hive, The Fellowship of the Ring, the finder of the lucky devil, the first fear, the forbidden city, the game bird, the great hearts, the great restoration, the greatest showman, the hidden face, the hidden ones, the innocents, the ivy cottage, the king of elfland's daughter, the knight's order, the last whisperer, The Lord of the Rings, the lost sentinel, the manhunters song, The Marriage of Figaro, the Moarteans christened him Groaza. Others called him The Devourer of the World. And to those on Sviddheim, the more he begins to suspect that the tales of dark deeds done in the forest behind Deadmarsh, the most wonderful time of the year, the power of music, the red hourglass, the ring, the rose crown, the sangrook saga, the seeds of dissolution, the servants long gone. Kip, the silver chair, the song of the siren, the stars were right, the tainted crown, the tempest guild, the thousand scars, The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier, the turn of the screw, the very beginning, the white people and other weird stories, the Wolf, theatre, then drew back to reveal hues infinitely more searing than before—so vibrant it was painful for Roger to look into them. Orange pulsating like a lava flow, theophany, these vampires don't sparkle, This selection of quotes will appear in a very personal interview on Friday, thorny, thousand scar, threatening, threats of sky and sea, three decades, three tons, three tons of him, thrilled, Thriller, throat, through a glass darkly, thunder the shadows are stirring, tibu, tidings, tiger lilly, tiller, time machine, timothy c doyle, tiny tim, Tolkien, tollers, Tollers and Jack, tom-tom, tome tender, too. Joining forces with an ally whose true nature remains hidden, top 10, topics, toppled, torched, total fantasy, Toulouse Lautrec, Tour Eiffel, tradition, tragedy, trahaearn, train, trainwreck, trajectory, traumatic, travel, travers, tree stump, trials, tricksy, triggered, trilogy, tristan and isolde, triumph, triumphant, true, true bliss, true love, truest sense, truly belong, trust, truth, truth or darkness, tsked, turn of phrase, Turn of the Screw, TV, Twilight, Twitter, two tons, TY Arthur, type, typing, typist, Tyrian purple, ufo, UK, una voce poco fa, unattainable, uncle silas, unconditional, undead, under everest, under ordshaw, underbelly, unfolded, uninspiring, unique, universal, universal studios, universes, unstoppable, untangled, until the horror within his cousin lashes out, untold, unusual, up for grabs, updates, urban fantasy, uriah heep, USA, valet, vampire fiction, Vampire Hunter, vampire mythology, vampire mythos, vampires, vampiresses, vampiric, vampiric equality, vampiric transformation, vampirism, vamps, vampyre, varney, varney the vampire, varney the vampyre, Vasily Markolovick, venue, verge, verin empire, vickers, victoria, Victorian, victorian age, view of the world, villains, violinist, virgil, vitriol, vivid, vivid imagination, Vladec, Vladec Salei, vocal coach, vocation, voice, volsung saga, vortigern, Vrykolakas, Wales, wanderer, wandering, war, wards and wonders, warmth, warnings and visitations, water's surface, way of the world, we ride the storm, weak-minded, weapon, web site, website, weighing, weirdoes, welsh, welsh mythology, went by many names. When he invaded Everl’aria, Werewolf, werewolf transformation, what of the rumor that it was not an earthquake which rocked the moors surrounding Deadmarsh sixteen years ago, what’s been slumbering for so long.” A hollow pit opened up where Roger’s heart was supposed to be. “How would you know that?” “I woke it up.” He blinked in surprise and was even more st, when the kingdom falls, whiskey and dragon fire, white death, white shark, Whitechapel, who has taken over the teaching of Lockie at a school in Wales called Nethermarrow. And soon after he crosses the threshold of Deadmarsh, who might be the deadliest of them all. 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Melika Dannese Hick has been an author since the age of fourteen and writes dream-sagas that incorporate a variety of different genres, including historical fiction, suspense, thrillers with a supernatural twist, and epic/dark fantasy. She is also a classically trained soprano/violinist/pianist, who holds a BA in Management from Saint Leo University and an MBA in Marketing from Regis University.
If she had not decided to become a writer, Melika would have become a marine biologist, but after countless years spent watching Shark Week, she realized she is very attached to her arms and legs and would rather write sharks into her stories than get up close and personal with those toothy wonders.
Melika and her husband, Julian, make their home in London, with occasional journeys into the Shire. To learn more about Melika, her books, and latest writing projects, please visit booksinmybelfry.com
A Very Personal Interview + Book Giveaway
Posted by Melika Dannese Hick in Author Spotlight, Deadmarsh Fey, Fun Stuff, Giveaway Announcement, Missives, News, Updates
13, 15, 18, 1888, 1890s, 1894, 1975, 19th century, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, 24601, 30th anniversary, 40, 700, 8, a book addict's bookshelves, a fragment of life, a host of ills, a keeper's tale, a less enlightened time, a lot, a warden's purpose, a wizard should know better, a wizard's forge, a woodley, a. m. justice, a. m. rycroft, a. z. anthony, aaron c. cross, aaron hodge, aaron-michael hall, ache, adam watson, adaptations, added bonus, aderyn, aderyn wood, admiration, adult, aesop, afresh, Agatha Christie, age, aidan r walsh, Air Jaws, aldrea alien, alexa grave, alexander grant, alice in wonderland, alice sabo, Aliens, all my heart, all of my heart, all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us, alliance, allies, almost as if the weight of her years were pressing against me like a great mountain of corpses that would collapse onto me if I so much as looked at her the wrong way.” Gryffyn looked as though he w, alveric, always treated as a servant, amaze, amazed, amazing, Amazon, Amazon UK, amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, amreading, amy mcnulty, ancient evils, and destruction—a voice crafted of darkness and the death of worlds.” Flesh and bone and hearts unknown, and everyone, and has returned bearing tales of creatures called Jagged Ones that claim to be of the Fey and can somehow conceal themselves while standing in the full light of the moon. What they want with Lockie, and I enjoyed answering these questions so much. Many, and it becomes savagely clear that these Jagged Ones and the Dark Wreaker they serve are not only after Lockie and Travers, and the Curse That Walks The Earth. And then there is the foe named Blood Wood, and we’d be none the wiser till it had us by the throat! We can’t see a foot in front of our faces, andrea domanski, anduril, andy peloquin, angel, angels, anglo-saxon, anguish, anne rice, annihilate, annihilation, Anniversary, anorffen, answer the call, antestheria, applause, aragorn, architect, are true. And if there is truth in these outlandish stories, ariadne's thread, arianrhod, arthur, arthur machen, arwen, as Laura phrased it, as were the fiends who allowed themselves to be Hosted.” “But that happened in a wilder age, ashley capes, assumption, asunder, august, Augustin Boroi, aunt betsy, australia, australian, australian shark chorus, authentic, author, Authors, autonomy, autumn, awestruck, ” Bellows shot in. “You’re not allowed in church!” The Jagged One squinted at him. “Sez who?” “Says God!” Carver tsked. “I thought you Christians welcomed everyone.” “We make exc, ” Carver muttered. “I don’t know how else to explain this, ” Incendiu snarled. “They were all children, ” Roger argued. “Do not make the mistake of thinking present society is so highly advanced that they have forgotten their baser instincts, back from the dead, baggins, bagheera, bait, barber of seville, base motives, battlecry, beach, bear, beautiful, beginning, belkin, bellows, belong, beloved, below, bent, beowulf, best friend, best wishes, betrayal, better angels, beyond, beyond the forest, biased, bide, big, big boys, bill shakes, biologist, bird and baby, birth certificate, birthday, bite, black, black cats, black winged beast, blade and rose, blank wall, blazing, blind, blog, Blog Tour, blogger, bloggers, bloglovin, blogs, blood, blood and ashes, blood suckers, blood will drown the earth. And Roger and his entire family will fulfill the prophecy of fey’s older, blood wood, blood-soaked, bloodshed, bloom, blue prometheus, blue water, blue water white death, blues brothers, boarding school, boat, bombastic, bond, book, book addict, book feature, book giveaway, book nerd, book of mormon, booknerd, books, Books In My Belfry, booksinmybelfry.com, boom, boris kos, born vampire, boromir, Bottomless, boxer, brainstorming, bram stoker, brandon, bravo, brian o'sullivan, bride, brilliant, British, broke, brother, Brother?” the beast mocked. The dragon’s voice paralyzed Roger where he stood. Hearing it sapped his strength, brothers, brothers and sisters, brothers grimm, bruce, bubbly, business, bust, but a winged nightmare attempting to break free of its underground prison? Enlisting the aid of a monster equipped with enough inborn firepower to blast his enemies into oblivion might be as suicidal , but an unholy trinity known as the Bear, but as that interview is quite extensive, but did so sideways. A clear membrane coated its eye, but I could feel her age, but Roger, but when Roger arrives, c. d. gallant-king, c. l. schneider, C. S. Lewis, cable tv, cage, caged, calling, canon, carnifex, caroling, carpet diem, carte blanche, Carver, cat, catharine glen, cathartic, catholic, cats, caverns, cctv, cede, celebration, celts, center stage, chance, changed. The grounds are unkempt, chaos, character classes, characters, Charles Dickens, charpentier, chesterton, chevrefoil, childhood, children, children of light, children of vampires, chilled, chime, china, chivalry, chocolate, chocolate chip, choppy, chris fallowes, chris fallows, chris weston, christened, christians, christina ochs, Christmas, christmas carols, christmas in august, christmas in july, christopher percy, chucked, chumming, church, cianien bloodstone, City of Lights, City of Lights by melika lux, city of lights: the trials and triumphs of ilyse charpentier, clarity, classic, classical, clicking, clues, cnn, coalition, Coffyn, collapse, comedic fantasy, Comedy, comic, comic book, community, composed, conceal, concentration, confessional, confusion, conquest, conservation, constant source of inspiration, Constantinos, constructive criticism, contemporary fantasy, contest, conventional wisdom, conversation, cooked, copies, copyright, coquette, corcitura, Corcitura feature, corpses, corruption, corruption of honor, cottage, count, count orlok, Count Rakmanovich, Count Sergei Rakmanovich, courtly love, coven queen, Cover, cozy, crackbrained, craig a price jr., craig aird, create, creative fiction, creepy, cries blood, crime and punishment, cross fire, cruelty, CS Lewis, curiosity, curse, cut, cutting his teeth, cutwater, cutwater island, d. h. dunn, d. p. prior, d. p. wolliscroft, daft, damned souls, dance hall, dance of romance, dancing in the dust, danger, dangerous, dannese, dark, dark ages, dark fantasy, dark lord, dark night of the soul, dark oak, dark of winter, dark one's mistress, dark side, dark tide, dark water, dark wreaker, darkblade assassin, darkling, darkness, dashing, daughter of atlas, David Copperfield, david gowey, david mullin, david oliver, david p macpherson, dawn of darkness, days of endless night, dead bride, dead shrimps, deadliest, Deadmarsh, Deadmarsh Fey, deadmarshes, deal, dean rencraft, death, death merchants, death of worlds, debbie taylor, deborah kerr, december, decision, dedication, deeds in which village children made sacrifice to an otherworldly beast and were never seen or heard from again, deep, deeper, defeat, demand, demon, demon-haunted, demonic, demons, demons of the deep, denial, depth, depths, derangement, desire to weave stories, desolate, destiny, destruction, details, devastatingly brilliant, devil, devilry, devils, devin madson, devour, devourer of the world, dialogue, dianne bylo, die, dignity, dimensioner's revenge, diminish, Discovery Channel, disover, disposable, distraction, ditty, diva of the paris stage, diver's suit, divine, dk girl, dnf, dogs, doldrums, don't look back, donald trump, doom, dorothy dreyer, Dostoevsky, dostoyevsky, double blinds, Dracula, draculaesque, Dragon, dragon eye, dragon fate, dragon school, dragon shade, dragona rise of the wyverns, dragons, dramatically, dramatis personae, drandeur, dread, dread grandeur, dream, dream-sagas, dreamlike, dreams, dresses, driving force, drowning, druids, dude, dunedain, dungeoneers, dungeons and dragons, dunsany, duology, dwellers, dwellers of darkness, dwellers of darkness children of light, dyrk ashton, e. j. taylor, E. T., eagle and child, earth, Eastern Europe, ebb, ecstatically, eddas, ego, Eiffel Tower, elessar, elevator, elevator pitch, elmo, elvish, email, embellishments, emblematic, emerald dodge, emma stone, emotional, emotions, encourage, end song, enemies, enemy, engand, England, englishman, enlightened, enraptured, enrich, enveloped, envoys, epic, epic fantasy, epistolary, Eric Bradburry, erlkonig, erudite, ET, eternal night, Europe, European, evangeline, everl'aria, everyone, evidence, evie, evil, Excerpt, exhausted, exhilarated, exile, experience, exploitation, exploring, extraordinary, eye of arianrhod, eyes, Facebook, faces in the mist, facilitator, fade, faeries, fair and foul, fairy cakes, fairy tales, faith, fall, fallen, fallen age, fallen empire, fallen kingdom, false bay, family, fangs and fins, fantastic, fantastical, fantasy, fantasy hive, fantasy is escapist, fantasy novels, farewell and adieu, fascinated, fast typist, fate, Fated, fated to die, father, fathomless, Faust, favorite, fearies, fearless, feast, feast in the forest, feature, featured, featured at Jean the Book Nerd’s great site, feedback, feel, feelings, female author, female vampires, female werewolves, female writers, fey, fiction, Film, filming locations, films, Fin de siècle, Find Me, finding dory, finding home, finding nemo, fire's song, fire-breather, firecracker, fireplace, firing, first love, first novel, five, flesh, flesh and blood, flickering, flickering within that gigantic orb… “Why should I not know what he’s really called?” “Tell a man your name and he will have power over you forever, flow, flowers, flying saucer, flying sharks, foe, Folies Bergère, food network, foodtv, foot, for his savagery had no end.” “I’ve seen its other side. I know what lives here, forest, forever, forever grateful, forever love, forever my love, forfeit, forged in flames, forgotten relics, forsaken kingdom, foundation, four novel, fox news, fragile nights, France, Franz Schubert, freaky, free, free reign, free will, freebie, freedom, freeing air, French, french flag, French wine, friday, friends, Friendship, frodo, frodo baggins, frustrating, fudge, full circle, fun, fundamental, Fuseli, fylgja, fyodor, gabriel michaelson, gaja j. kos, game of thrones, gamut, Gandalf, gandalf the grey, gardener, gargantuan, geist, genius, genres, george r. r. martin, german, german lieder, germanic, Germany, ghast, ghost electricity, ghosts, gift, giganitc, giveaway, gk chesterton, glamour of evil, glimpse, gloomy, glories, glorious, glory, gnomic, goal, God, godforsaken, goethe, gollum, good and evil, good gad, good vs evil, gooderads, goodread, Goodreads, Google, goose, goose is cooked, gothic, gothic novel, governess, grabs, Grand Tour, gravitas, great book, great god pan, great white, great white shark, Greece, green flashing like St. Elmo’s fire. All these colors danced not a foot in front of Roger’s face, green with envy, greenery, Gretchen am Spinnrade, grey beard, grey wolves, Greydanus, grim reaper, groaza, gryffyn, guardian spirit, guardians, guides, guillermo del toro, Guinness, gustav mahler, guv, guy fieri, gwendolyn pendraig, h p lovecraft, h. g. wells, had ever been anything to fear. Nearly each summer of his young life had been spent in that manor on the moors, hallmark, hallmark channel, halloween, hamilton, hamlet, hammer, hand-write, handily at hand, hannah sullivan, hansel and gretel, hard work, harmony, harsh, has inexplicably grown and glares at Roger as if he is trying to read the boy’s mind. Roger’s eldest cousin, hasty, hate, haunted, haunting of hill house, havelock, having wild adventures with his cousin, hazard, he finds everything, he was The Bottomless, he who fights, heart, heartache, heartbeat, heartland, heaven, heaven and earth, hell comes to hogtown, help, henry corbin, henry fuseli, henry james, here be dragons, here there be dragons, hermit, hermitlife, hero, hero forged, heroes, heroism, high barrens, high fantasy, high school, higher self, higher selves, highland, hindsight, hinterland, historical fiction, historical romance, History, hobbit, hobbit size, hobbiton, hollow, home, home is behind, hope, hopes, hopes and dreams, horrifying, horror, horror herald, horrorfest, hosted, hosting, hot, Hotmail, house, hues, huge, hugh jackman, hugo vickers, hugo weaving, hugs, human beings, Humor, Hunger Games, hungers of life and all that matters, hunter, hybrid, hybrid vampires, i am death, i am fire, i am fire i am death, I shout, I thought it would be a good idea to share them with you today in a separate post. I hope you enjoy this little glimpse into Deadmarsh Fey. Best wishes, ian gregoire, Ian McCarthy, ian mckellan, ian mckellen, iceland, iconic, idea, ignite, ill tiding, illegal, illegible, ilyse, Ilyse Charpentier, imaginal, imaginal realm, imagination, imbued, impact, impacted, imprisoned, in tune, in which a dashing Englishman woos mademoiselle Charpentier, in-depth, incendiu, incorporate, incredible hulk, indecisive, Indie, infected, infinity, infused, inkling, inklings, inner lives, inorganic, insatiable, insights, inspiration, inspirations, inspired, instill, insurmountable, integrity, intense, interjections, internet, Interview, invite, iron fey, iron reveals, irrevocably, irv, isobel, isobel vickers, Italian, Italy, itinerant writing, ivan turgenev, j. a. alexsoo, j. d. hallowell, j. e. mueller, j. elizabeth vincent, J. R. R. Tolkien, j. r. rasmussen, j. zachary pike, ja andrews, jack, Jack the Ripper, jacob sannox, jagged, jagged ones, JAWS, jawsome, jawsomeness, jc kang, jean, jean booknerd, jean valjean, jeffrey l kohanek, jeffrey russell, jennifer ellison, jeramy goble, jess watkins, jesse teller, jingle bells, jingle sharks, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, john william waterhouse, johnny cash, jon, jordan c robinson, joseph sheridan le fanu, josh erikson, jot, joy, JRR Tolkien, julian, june carter cash, jungle book, Jurassic Park, just keep swimming, justin lee anderson, k bird lincoln, k l ling, k m alexander, kascher's quartet, katniss, kayleigh nicol, keith mcardle, kevin wright, kind, Kindle, kindle giveaway, king arthur, kingshold, Kip, Kipling, kirsten m corby, Knightley, knowing thine enemy, knut hamsun, kurintor nyusi, l. l. mcneil, la la land, La Perle de Paris, la petite coquette, lad, landed, languages, laptop, latest, laura, laura m hughes, lava, lead, lead to the rath and your fate will be shown… cover Deadmarsh. The name struck terror into the hearts of all who heard it. But to Roger Knightley, leave, lee conley, legend, legendarium, legends, legends of elera voices, Leonora, Leonora Bianchetti, lepers, leroy nichols, les miserables, lesser, let off the lead, lethal, letter, liath luacra, library, lie, lieder eines fahrenden gesellen, lies, life, lifeline, light, light dawning, like the greater evil we faced later on, likeminded, lin manuel miranda, lineup, link, Links, lion the witch and the wardrobe, lips, lirazel, list, little dream, lives, Lockie, loggerheads, logistical, London, longing, longing for home, longings, lord byron, lord dunsany, lord of the rings, lords of asylum, lorri moulton, LOTR, lots of tears, Louisa May Alcott, Louvre, Love, love in one act, love of reading, Luc, luck, luminous, lunch, lux, Lux Aeterna, lynn's books, lyrics, m. s. olney, mabinogion, mabus, machen, mad skillz, maddie, made him feel as though his mind had been crushed between slabs of stone. There was chaos in it, Madelaine Bradburry, madness, magic, magic's betrayal, magician's nephew, magnificent, mahler, main character, majestic, malazan, malevolence, manipulation, Manon Larue, manor, many thanks to the fabulous (and sharktastic!) Laura M. Hughes for giving me this opportunity. I hope you will all enjoy reading about, marble, marianne ratcliffe, marilyn peake, marilyn vix, marine biologist, mark lawrence, marked, mashup, masquerading, master, master coffyn, masterclass, masterpiece, matt heppe, matt larkin, matthew thompson, maul, Maurice Charpentier, maxim, meagan hurst, meager, meaningful, meanings, meant to be, media, meg cowley, megan mackie, melancholy, melika, Melika Dannese Lux, Melika Lux, melokai, membrane, mental angels, merlin, message in a bottle, method, michael baker, michael r baker, michael sliter, middle-earth, mike morris, miles and flora, mimicked, mind, mind behind the mind, mind palace, miraculously, miranda, miranda honfleur, mirror writing, mirroring, moartea, moarteans, modern times, monikers, monocle, monty python, moon, moonlight roses and murder, moonstone, more things in heaven and earth, moria, morlocks, moroda, moss, most wonderful time of the year, mother, motherhood, motivation, mountain, Movies, mr. micawber, mr. murdstone, mug, Music, musical, my beloved, my calling, my dream, my life, my love, mystical, myth, mythology, myths, names, napkins, narnia, nature, nature of evil, nazri noor, nebulous, ned marcus, neither Deadmarsh the house, nerd, net galley, netflix, netgalley, never looked back, new, new interview, new release, New York, new zealand, news, nia rae, nicholas kotar, nicholas malebranche, night, nightmare, nightmarish, ninny, no looking back, no sparkling, nor Deadmarsh the family, norse, norse mythology, north york moors, northleach, norway, Nosferatu, not one foot! Why are you not afraid?” “Because I am the monster lurking in the shadows, notebook, notes, novel, novelist, novels, now, now dresses like a duchess and wears round her neck a strange moonstone given to her by someone known as Master Coffyn, now face-to-fey, nudged, oblivion, obsessed, ocean, odds, of darkness, off his nut, offshore, oil slick, old salt, older, ominous, on borrowed luck, on location, one i love, opaque, opera, or the world.” “There are more things in Heaven and earth…” Uncle Gryffyn muttered. “Now ain’t the time to be quotin’ old Bill Shakes, orange, orconomics, original, orion, orlok, oswald, other worlds, otherness, otherworld, out of nowhere, outlet, overwhelming, Oxford, pages, pale, palming the ace, pan, panic, panther, paper, Paperback, paranoia, paranoid, Paranormal, parc monceau, parents, Paris, Parisian, passionately, path, patrick leclerc, Paul Celan, pdf, peace, Penny Dreadful, penny dreadfuls, pepe the prawn, peppy, perfect day, performance, perilous, perilous realms, personal, perspective, perspicacious, peter jackson, peter quint, petrik leo, pews, phil parker, phil williams, philosopher, phoenix, phoenix descending, phrased, pianist, pict, piece, pilgrimage, pilgrimages, pirates of the caribbean, pistachio, pit, place of slaughter, plausible deniability, play, plethora, plots, plowed, plumbing, poet, poetic edda, poetry, pointy hat, Polidori, politics, pool, pop culture, portraits, possessed, post, powers of music, prayer, pre-raphaelites, precious, preferably, premiered, press, prime time, primetime, professor fertig, project, projects, promo, promotion, prophecy, protagonist, pseudonym, psychological, publication, publicity, publishing, puckie, puddleglum, pumpkin, pun, pure magic, questions, quick-fire, quickfire, Quint, quites, quote, quotes, r. m. mulder, rafflecopter, ragna, random, ranger, rapture, rapturous, raskolnikov, rath, raucous, ravan thrall, raymond st. elmo, readers, reading, real, real name, realm of mindweavers, realms, reaper, recent reads, red sister, reddit, reflection, reflection of yourself, regret, reign, religion, renaissance, research, respect, reveal, revenge, Review, reviews, reward, rex, richard iii, richard lucas, richard writhen, riddled with fear, ring, rivalry, riveting novels of psychological suspense, roaring fire, roasted, robert shaw, robocopter ski patrol, rocks, roger, Roger cannot fathom, Roger discovers that Coffyn has overtaken Lockie. The boy is deceitful, Roger Knightley, Roger Knightley. Evil is evil no matter the century, Roger must find a way to end the battle being waged across worlds before the night of Lockie’s eleventh birthday—two days hence. If he fails, Roger seeks to unravel the tapestry of lies woven round his family’s connection to the death-haunted world of Everl’aria—and the Dark Wreaker who calls it home. The deeper Roger delves into the , rohirrim, roiling emotions, role playing, romance, romance novels set in historic France, Romania, Romanian, romantic fantasy, ronald tibu, room, rosalyn kelly, rosina, rossini, rotsby, round pegs, rove, rudyard kipling, ruination, ruled, rural, rural england, russell cullison, Russia, russian, ryan gosling, s. a. corey, s. c. flynn, s. k. randloph, sacrifice, sacrirfice, sadness, saga, sagas, sagas germanic, sale, salt, samara, samir, samwise gamgee, sanderson, sangue de vita, Sangue di Vita, sarah k. l. wilson, saucer, sauron, sausage, sausage sandwich, savagery, savoir faire, scarper, scary, scary vampires, scene, scene stealer, scenes, schadenfreude, schubert, science-fantasy, scotland, scream, scribd, scrubland, scythe, sea, Sea World, seal, seal island, sean astin, sean cunningham, seared, searing beauty, seasonal, seasonal reads, secret doorways, secrets, seized, selection, self publishing fantasy blog off, self-published fantasy blog off, semicolon, serenaded, Sergei, Sergei Rakmanovich, series, serious, servant of rage, seven hundred years, seventeen, sez, sez who, shadow magic, shadows, sham, shaq, shaquille o'neal, shark, shark attack, shark bite, shark chorus, shark elevator pitch, Shark Week, sharkbait oo-ha-HA!, sharking, sharkland, sharkland forever, Sharks, sharktastic, sheltering, shere khan, shield of kings, shifts, shire, shirley jackson, shiver, shores of the heart, shrieking, siblings, silence, silly, silver-tongued devil, singer, singing, sinisterly, sir frank dicksee, sister, sisters, site, sixteen, skill, skillz, skye, sneaky, snippet, snuffbox, snug, social media, solace lost, soldier, solidified, son, song, songs of insurrection, songs of the wayfarer, sonya m black, soprano, sorcerer's isle, sorcerous rivalry, Sorina Boroi, sorrow, soul, soul render, soul-restoring, soul-searching, soulmate, soulmates, souls, South Africa, space time continuum, special, special meaning, specials, spfbo, spfbo2018, spill, spinning silk, spiritual, spoiler, Spooky, spring, spring-heeled jack, square holes, squirrel, st. elmo's fire, standchen, startle, states, status quo, steal of a deal, steampunk, steer the ship, Stefan, Stefan Belododia, Stefan Ratliff, stephen spielberg, stephenie meyer, steve thomas, steven erikson, steven mckinnon, steven spielberg, stole his will, stone, storm wielder, story, story arcs, story reading, storytelling, storyweaving, stratosphere, struggle, stumbling block, stunning, sub-genres, success, suffered, summer, sunday, supernatural, supernatural thriller, superstition, support, suppressing, surf, surfer, surfer dude, susan hill, Suspense, suzanne rogerson, sviddheim, swathing, sweeney todd, sweet, swimmers, swimming, sydney, Sylvi, symphony of the wind, t j muir, T-Rex, t. cook, t. l. branson, Tags#AmWriting, Tags100, taiwan, Taken, taking care of, talk, talking animals, talking cat, talking cats, tall tales, TAPS, tears, techniques, teeth, temporary derangement, ten, terrifying, terror, that's what I'm tolkien about, the apples of idunn, the bastard from fairyland, the crown of stones, the crushed peak, the darkness within, the dead sagas, the Deadmarsh heir. This year should have been no different, the end begins, the exercise of vital powers, the expanse, the family cat, the fantasy hive, The Fellowship of the Ring, the finder of the lucky devil, the first fear, the forbidden city, the game bird, the great hearts, the great restoration, the greatest showman, the hidden face, the hidden ones, the innocents, the ivy cottage, the king of elfland's daughter, the knight's order, the last whisperer, The Lord of the Rings, the lost sentinel, the manhunters song, The Marriage of Figaro, the Moarteans christened him Groaza. Others called him The Devourer of the World. And to those on Sviddheim, the more he begins to suspect that the tales of dark deeds done in the forest behind Deadmarsh, the most wonderful time of the year, the power of music, the red hourglass, the ring, the rose crown, the sangrook saga, the seeds of dissolution, the servants long gone. Kip, the silver chair, the song of the siren, the stars were right, the tainted crown, the tempest guild, the thousand scars, The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier, the turn of the screw, the very beginning, the white people and other weird stories, the Wolf, theatre, then drew back to reveal hues infinitely more searing than before—so vibrant it was painful for Roger to look into them. Orange pulsating like a lava flow, theophany, these vampires don't sparkle, This selection of quotes will appear in a very personal interview on Friday, thorny, thousand scar, threatening, threats of sky and sea, three decades, three tons, three tons of him, thrilled, Thriller, throat, through a glass darkly, thunder the shadows are stirring, tibu, tidings, tiger lilly, tiller, time machine, timothy c doyle, tiny tim, Tolkien, tollers, Tollers and Jack, tom-tom, tome tender, too. Joining forces with an ally whose true nature remains hidden, top 10, topics, toppled, torched, total fantasy, Toulouse Lautrec, Tour Eiffel, tradition, tragedy, trahaearn, train, trainwreck, trajectory, traumatic, travel, travers, tree stump, trials, tricksy, triggered, trilogy, tristan and isolde, triumph, triumphant, true, true bliss, true love, truest sense, truly belong, trust, truth, truth or darkness, tsked, turn of phrase, Turn of the Screw, TV, Twilight, Twitter, two tons, TY Arthur, type, typing, typist, Tyrian purple, ufo, UK, una voce poco fa, unattainable, uncle silas, unconditional, undead, under everest, under ordshaw, underbelly, unfolded, uninspiring, unique, universal, universal studios, universes, unstoppable, untangled, until the horror within his cousin lashes out, untold, unusual, up for grabs, updates, urban fantasy, uriah heep, USA, valet, vampire fiction, Vampire Hunter, vampire mythology, vampire mythos, vampires, vampiresses, vampiric, vampiric equality, vampiric transformation, vampirism, vamps, vampyre, varney, varney the vampire, varney the vampyre, Vasily Markolovick, venue, verge, verin empire, vickers, victoria, Victorian, victorian age, view of the world, villains, violinist, virgil, vitriol, vivid, vivid imagination, Vladec, Vladec Salei, vocal coach, vocation, voice, volsung saga, vortigern, Vrykolakas, Wales, wanderer, wandering, war, wards and wonders, warmth, warnings and visitations, water's surface, way of the world, we ride the storm, weak-minded, weapon, web site, website, weighing, weirdoes, welsh, welsh mythology, went by many names. When he invaded Everl’aria, Werewolf, werewolf transformation, what of the rumor that it was not an earthquake which rocked the moors surrounding Deadmarsh sixteen years ago, what’s been slumbering for so long.” A hollow pit opened up where Roger’s heart was supposed to be. “How would you know that?” “I woke it up.” He blinked in surprise and was even more st, when the kingdom falls, whiskey and dragon fire, white death, white shark, Whitechapel, who has taken over the teaching of Lockie at a school in Wales called Nethermarrow. And soon after he crosses the threshold of Deadmarsh, who might be the deadliest of them all. 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Today, I’m sharing with you the most intensely personal interview I have ever done. When I was first sent these questions, I never thought answering them would help me make peace with feelings I’d been unconsciously suppressing for many years, but I am so thankful that this was the case. I’ve learned a lot about myself over the last few days because of this, days that have been painful yet necessary for me to heal in many areas of my life and find joy again where before there was nothing but sadness and confusion. And speaking of joy…this interview has given me, truly, for the very first time, a venue to share my feelings with you all about the amazing man, my beloved soulmate, who has changed my life in so many glorious and magnificent ways since we’ve been together. I hope you enjoy not only reading about him, but also about a few important books that have touched my heart, some of my inspirations, including one legendary panther, and many other things, both serious and silly!
I’d like to take a moment to say a special thank you to Jean, of Jean The Book Nerd. You couldn’t have known how these questions would affect me when you sent them along, Jean, but I will be forever grateful that you did, and also for how kind, caring, understanding, and wonderfully generous you’ve been to me throughout this entire process. Thank you so much!!! *hugs*
Additionally, Jean is hosting a giveaway of not only Deadmarsh Fey, but also my supernatural thriller, Corcitura. You can enter for a chance to win a Kindle copy of each novel by clicking here.
And now, without any further delay, onto the interview…
What was the single worst distraction that kept you from writing this book?
It wasn’t a distraction, but taking a wrong storytelling direction kept me from writing Deadmarsh Fey for an entire year. 2013 was spent working on what would become the fourth book in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light (the series Deadmarsh Fey launched), only I didn’t know this at the time, which was why writing this book out of sequence felt very wrong, not to mention terribly frustrating. There were things happening in this novel that I had no explanation for, and an untold history of how this world my characters found themselves imprisoned in had come to be.
When my mind cleared enough for me to be able to envision the trajectory Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light, needed to take, I realized that these stories—begun as prequels to a fantasy series I’d started writing in 2003, a series in which some characters from Deadmarsh Fey were my main adult protagonists—had taken on lives of their own, and were now demanding to be told, and unless I gave in, I’d never be able to understand what had affected the characters in those original books so strongly when they were children, and molded them into the adults they became. And then the Dark Wreaker burst onto the scene, with a horde of devils in his wake, and changed everything.
Even though the experience I underwent in 2013 was incredibly frustrating, I do not regret the time I spent working on that fourth book. What was written in it (and the novel is fully written, though it will alter dramatically when all is said and done) laid the foundation for nearly every myth and legend—even inspiring a number of significant events in Deadmarsh Fey—that I would have never known how to interweave throughout the series if I hadn’t written that fourth book first.
Has reading a book ever changed your life? Which one and why, if yes?
Yes, Crime and Punishment, when I was seventeen. I had always enjoyed reading, but it wasn’t till I lost myself in this masterpiece that it truly became a passion—and opened up avenues I never would have considered traveling down, nor had the courage to do so, till I made the acquaintance of this book. The masterful way Dostoyevsky painted with words astounded me. I was absorbed by the rich psychological portraits he was able to delineate with a few strokes of the pen, and all the force of his imagination. Since then, only this year, in fact, thanks to my beloved, I have been exposed to other writers who remind me of him, most notably Knut Hamsun and, very recently, Ivan Turgenev, both of whom have that same lyrical touch, an equal genius for capturing the essence of a human soul and sketching it into life upon the page. Though the canvasses they painted their visions upon are much smaller, their portraits are no less penetrating and brilliant. And yet, while Crime and Punishment was over 700 pages, I remember wishing it had been longer, and I missed the characters, even Raskolnikov—whom I had intense sympathy for, which just shows how adept at evoking pathos and emotion Dostoyevsky was, getting me to feel compassion for a man who had done such terrible things—when my time with them in 19th century Russia was over. Much like my experience reading David Copperfield five years before, it was as though I’d lived alongside these characters, suffered with them, endured their trials, even felt the panic of the net closing in around one character in particular… My emotions ran the gamut; I was inspired, exhausted yet exhilarated, and found myself with an insatiable longing to create that only writing could fulfill. I don’t believe in coincidences, and know it was no accident I read this book on the heels of a paradigm-shifting moment in my life—and that it proved to be the final push in the right direction I needed.
From a very young age, I’d wanted to be a marine biologist, even though I always seemed to be scribbling down stories on whatever scraps of paper—sometimes napkins and tissues, honestly—were near at hand, and began working on my first novel when I was fourteen. To me, writing has forever been and will forever be a key that unlocks hidden doorways into other worlds, and I felt I was being called to dedicate my life to exploring these universes of the imaginal realm—and making them my own. Yet it wasn’t until the winter of 2001 (a few months before reading Crime and Punishment), as I sat in a darkened theatre, enthralled and enraptured by my first glimpse of Middle-Earth, that light shone onto the path I was meant to take. I owe this illumination to Gandalf and the words of wisdom he spoke to Frodo in the caverns of Moria, when hope was at its lowest ebb:
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
In my heart, in that moment, I knew what I was being asked to decide. And so I made my choice—never looked back.
Tell us your most rewarding experience since being published.
Writing a book is an intense, often quite solitary, endeavor. While you are lost in the creation of it, and especially when the work is done, you can’t help wondering, with a mix of hope and dread, if anyone will love the book as much as you do. Yet once the story has been released into the world, it ceases to be yours alone, and you must, however wrenching it might be, let the characters—and this tale you’ve poured your being into—fend for themselves. As the poet Paul Celan once said, “a poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the—not always greatly hopeful—belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense, too, are under way: they are making toward something.” Should this not be what every writer, whether of poetry or novels, strives for? This concept of the “heartland” affected me deeply when my beloved shared it with me a few months ago, because Celan’s words crystalized what I’d always felt. With each book I have written, but most passionately regarding Deadmarsh Fey, my goal, my wish, has been that my characters, and these realms they populate, would resonate with readers and move them in meaningful ways, hopefully changing them for the better, and making them think differently about their inner lives and the world around them.
And that is why my most rewarding experience since being published has been how people have reacted to Deadmarsh Fey. From these reviews, it is obvious that many readers have understood the book, “gotten” it, as it were, and let themselves be seized by my story. And, what’s more, are incredibly excited to discover what happens next in this saga known as Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light. All this fills me with joy, because it shows that my message in a bottle, for these readers, at least, has washed up on the shores of their hearts and struck a chord within their souls that I hope will reverberate for many long years to come.
In your new book, DEADMARSH FEY, can you tell my Book Nerd community a little about it and why they should read your novel?
Every novel in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light is told in a different voice, written from the perspective of a new protagonist through whose eyes we see the story. In Deadmarsh Fey, the eyes belong to Roger Knightley, ten years old and cousin to Havelock (Lockie), the Deadmarsh heir. Roger is a firecracker, and though but a child, is a well-read one (reared on the mystical and often blood-soaked legends from both sides of his lineage, Welsh and English), which has resulted in his having an extremely vivid imagination. Sometimes, this can be problematic, but it means that Roger hasn’t yet been poisoned against the fantastical, or robbed of his sense of wonder. Since he has no trouble accepting the inexplicable at face value, he is quicker to understand and recognize the dangers the creatures tearing out of the Otherworld and into our own pose to himself and his family than the adults—and those who supposedly have all the answers—surrounding him. He also has a wry bent to his personality, and a stubborn streak, that help and hinder him in various ways as the book progresses. And he’s obsessed with dragons. You’ll have to read the novel to discover if this proves fatal to him, and others, or not.
Regarding the heart of the story, the events in Deadmarsh Fey, though cloaked in the garb of fantasy, are truly about fighting for those you love, and all you hold dear. This is the supreme driving force behind Roger’s actions and those of his friends and allies. It’s not just about survival, or stopping the Dark Wreaker—a nebulous entity who has bedeviled the Deadmarshes for seven hundred years—and his army of Jagged Ones and blood-tied horrors, both fair and foul, from being unleashed upon this earth, but about saving the very souls of those who are most important to you, those you’d sacrifice everything for. And that is something that has appealed to me far longer than I can remember, not only in storyweaving, but in life.
Also, whether we are aware of it or not, each of us has a fundamental longing for “home.” By that, I don’t mean a dwelling, but a deep ache in the heart to find the place we truly belong. When it comes to my writing, my “home” has always been in these Otherworlds I have created—perilous realms infected by a darkness hell-bent on destruction…yet these realms are not hopelessly desolate, but seared with beauty and light, peopled by characters who heed the call to lay everything on the line for a chance(sometimes infinitesimal) to defeat the evil that threatens to annihilate everything they love, for they have realized that their world, though fallen—and not so dissimilar to our own—is worth fighting for. When reading my books, especially Deadmarsh Fey, I hope you lose yourself in these worlds, that you let go and journey along with the characters, grow attached to them, possibly even become them if only for a brief while—seeing in them a reflection of yourself. And if by doing so you discover what your “home” is, then that is reward enough, for it will mean I have made the best use of the time that was given to me.
What was the most surprising thing you learned in creating your characters?
That I had to trust them enough to let them have free reign. They knew better than I did where to take the story…because it was theirs, and they were living it. All my characters were extremely vivid in my imagination when I began writing the book (save for one or two who materialized out of nowhere mid-novel and drastically changed the course of events), but Kip, and especially Carver, presented themselves to me almost fully formed. I didn’t have to do much of anything with those two, besides let them take center stage and steal whatever scene they were in, which Kip did with dignity and gravitas that would have made the ancestral fylgja, guardian spirit of his family, proud—and Carver did with enough demonic savoir faire to make the devil himself turn green with envy.
I know many people might find it hard to believe, or even slightly crazy, that characters an author creates can became separate flesh and blood entities from his/her imagination, but at a certain point, my characters did, demanded to be let off the lead, and I had no choice but to comply. Trying to maneuver events in an inorganic way, forcing things to go in the direction I thought was best, rather than what the story and characters were calling for, would have stalled the book and turned it into something completely different, and much less cohesive—not to mention deadly dull. To a much, much lesser degree, the characters in my last novel, Corcitura, asserted themselves, too, but never had this happened with such immediacy as it did in Deadmarsh Fey, to the point where I feel that I was just the facilitator for this book. Roger and Company were the real storyweavers, and once I realized this, I passed the tiller into their hands, and let them steer the ship where they willed.
Why do you feel you had to tell this story?
There was no way I couldn’t tell this story. Once I made the decision to write Deadmarsh Fey, once my year of confusion had come to an end and I determined the course this saga would take, I was seized. There’s no other way to describe the intensity of emotion that came over me. Not long afterward, once the characters had nudged me out of the way, the book began, essentially, writing itself. I love my first two novels, I always will, but there is something different about Deadmarsh Fey, something unique, that I didn’t experience when writing these earlier books. With this novel, I discovered what I was meant to write—fantasy, or rather, dream-sagas, as my beloved has christened them. There is a quote by J. R. R. Tolkien, who has been a defining force and inspiration not only on my writing, but also in my life, that struck me when I first heard it more than a decade ago, because I agree with him completely: “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory.” I’ve always understood him to mean that fantasy writers craft what we do not to escape our world, but to understand it. By losing myself in my invented universes, worlds that mirror our own in strange and startling and often unsettlingly familiar ways, I feel I have found where I truly belong, finally fulfilling the gnomic wisdom Gandalf spoke to Frodo, and, unknowingly, to me, those several years ago.
What was the most magical thing that happened while creating Roger?
This was an especially hard question for me to answer, and intensely personal. I started out with one response, which I still think is partially valid, but a few days ago, it came to me—quite suddenly, shockingly, and with no small degree of heartache—that Roger and I had a much deeper bond than I’d realized until something of a personal nature happened to me this week that brought painfully intense emotions I’d been unknowingly suppressing rushing to the surface. It wasn’t a pretty picture when this happened, but it was necessary, and cathartic, and gave me tremendous clarity about this character and what he really means to me—and revealed why I had always felt so much love, tenderness, and compassion toward Roger when I was creating him, and do till this day.
To begin with, I originally believed the most magical thing that had happened when I wrote Roger into being was that I became him in so many ways. It was a natural thing to have occurred—and I’m sure many authors feel the same way about their creations—since Roger was my main protagonist. But he always, strangely, felt more like my own flesh and blood than any other character I’d ever created before, and it wasn’t only because Deadmarsh Fey is told in third person, restricted, which means I, perforce, had to see everything through Roger’s eyes—all that was glorious and nightmarish, good and evil, one more often than not masquerading as the other and making it nearly impossible to distinguish friend from foe. Yes, I had to put myself into the shoes of this ten year old English child who was obsessed with dragons. Yes, I had to imagine what his reactions to things literally out of this world would be. And yes, most imperative of all, I had to know him better than I knew myself, and needed to do so in order to make him live and breathe on the page and be real not only to me, but to anyone who ever chose to read his story and journey by his side into the perilous realm he called home.
But it wasn’t until very recently that I realized, with the force of a punch to my heart, just why Roger had always been so dear to me. Without delving into too much detail, for over a decade, I endured a very desolate period of misdiagnoses and wrong information regarding a health issue that has a chance to be fully resolved in the coming weeks, and was told throughout these preceding years that many things I had always dreamed of, many joyous events most women, I imagine, would want to happen in their lives, would not be possible for me to experience. During this extended dark night of the soul, my books became a lifeline, an outlet into which I could pour my heart and being, and never more did I do this than with Deadmarsh Fey…because of Roger, even if the full realization of why wasn’t brought home to me till seventy two hours ago when I finally understood the reason it felt so right for me to have always thought of him as my flesh and blood, although I never phrased it like that to myself till then, nor had I been aware that any name needed to be given to the feelings unconsciously caged within my heart.
After an intense few days of soul-searching, anguish, and tears—lots of tears—I finally understand why Roger is so precious to me, and why I feel so close to him, even still. In him, I saw the son I hoped to have one day, and believed I never would be able to. Revealing this to my beloved (who was with me when the dam holding back my suppressed emotions broke), reflecting upon it, and discussing how it had affected me without my knowledge, until the events of this week triggered clarity of mind, touched him deeply and opened up a way of thinking that made immediate and incredible sense to me, and allowed me to realize that I can now let Roger go. Watching this literary child of mine mature and grow in successive books will be vital for me—and part of the healing process, I suspect—but I understand, now, that while I will always love Roger, and he will forever be in my heart, my love doesn’t have to be confined to just my literary son. One day, it can be given to the real child whose very existence need no longer be a nebulous and unattainable dream.
If you could introduce one of your characters to any character from another book, who would it be and why?
I considered having Roger meet Smaug, but quickly came to my senses. Tolkien’s beast isn’t exactly the nicest of souls (Need I bring up the whole “I am Fire! I am Death!” thing?), and having a dragon-mad child obsessed with conscripting a fire-breather, any fire-breather he could get his hands on, into one insane scheme after another—a child determined not to take no for an answer—would have resulted in Roger being torched into a little pile of ash in two seconds flat.
Then I contemplated initiating a meeting between Roger and Puddleglum from C. S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair (my third favorite Narnia book after The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Magician’s Nephew), but Roger would have gotten fed up with the marsh-wiggles’s doldrummy woe-is-me-ness after about 6.9 minutes.
In the end, I settled on Bagheera of Jungle Book fame, who just so happens to have earned a passing, and incredibly sarcastic, mention from Master Coffyn in Chapter 19 of Deadmarsh Fey. I’ve been fond of Bagheera for most of my life, ever since I first saw the animated Jungle Book when I was a very young child. He’s just so lordly and majestic, wise and, let’s be honest, awesome. Another reason for my admiration is that I love cats, especially black ones, but because I’m slightly allergic to them, I have had to express my affection for these beautiful creatures from a distance by putting them into my novels, hence the reason Kip plays such a huge and pivotal role in Deadmarsh Fey.
And that brings me to why I’d want Roger and Bagheera to meet. Kip definitely has his own distinct personality—he presented himself to me almost fully formed, as I mentioned above, after all—but while I had many inspirations for my cat, this panther was a defining influence on him. Roger and Kip share a tremendous bond—a bond initiated before the events in Deadmarsh Fey take place and solidified as the story progresses—and Roger having a chance to get acquainted with a character I consider to be Kip’s literary older brother would be a visceral reinforcement of what the boy already knows, that even though Kip is, as Roger thinks at one point, a “compact little animal,” the cat, like Bagheera, has a panther’s heart, strong and fierce and fearless, and would never back down from defending those he loves when they are threatened, be it by a Jagged One or Shere Khan, it matters not. And here’s something that didn’t occur to me until this very moment…Mowgli and Roger are the same age, and, though endearing, are each quite a handful—not to mention that there are forces at work that would love nothing more than to see both boys dead—so if Kip went along to this meeting, ye gods would he and Bagheera have loads to commiserate about!
What are some of your current and future projects that you can share with us?
My current project is the sequel to Deadmarsh Fey—set seven years later—and the second novel in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light. Several times in Deadmarsh Fey, I mentioned the Vickers family, particularly Isobel, the youngest daughter, who is Roger’s contemporary and good friend. Near the end of the novel, Isobel’s and her family’s link to the Deadmarshes, and the beings hunting them, is hinted at, and, to a certain extent, revealed to Roger in a shocking way. What he discovers leads directly into book two, Isobel’s story, which takes place on a desolate rock called Cutwater Island. Here there be sharks, and demons of the deep. And a creature whose memory is as fathomless as its desire for revenge.
Once the sequel to Deadmarsh Fey has been completed, I will be working on the next two novels in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light. All the books already have titles, but these are rather sensitive, so I’m holding them in reserve till I announce the publication of each novel.
Have you ever been really freaked out by something on the internet? If so, what?
Oh, good heavens, YES! And fairly recently, too! I blame my beloved. It was entirely his fault! Imagine me pointing an accusatory finger at him right now. To be fair, though, I went along enthusiastically when he suggested we watch scary videos on YouTube. It’s nice to shiver with the one you love, which was the motivation behind this temporary derangement of ours. We started out quite innocently enough with UFO videos, which were more strange and interesting than scary, and ridiculously tame compared to what came next…
After we’d reached marginal utility in the flying saucer department, this video suddenly—and very sinisterly, in hindsight—materialized on the suggested videos sidebar. It was called, “Top 10 Most Shocking and Unexplainable Happenings Ever to Be Caught on Camera!” or some other such bombastic, and impossible-to-resist, title. By that point, feeling a little disappointed that the UFO videos had failed to scar us for life, we were game for anything, and also kind of high on ourselves, I have to admit, for apparently having such nerves of steel. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that our attitude toward the supernatural in that moment could be boiled down to, “Us? Us? Get scared by that? HA!” and so we (stupidly) clicked on this new devilry, to use a turn of phrase coined by Boromir (And we all remember what happened to him…).
To say we made a mistake is the understatement of the millennium. This video, this Ring-esque horrorfest masquerading as CCTV footage, reduced us to quaking little puddling messes, what with its ghosts shrieking out of hotel rooms, its phantom orderlies flashing by in the ER, the spectral girl wearing a blood red dress appearing in the middle of an alley somewhere in Taiwan, a “possessed” woman—who let out primal shrieks every five seconds as if she were being internally roasted alive by a legion of devils—contorting and flailing about in a supermarket aisle; a brace of freaky, seven foot tall men without eyebrows, dressed all in black and bearing an uncanny resemblance to the Blues Brothers, wandering around lobbies…and the pièce de résistance of Fright Night 2018—a skin-shivering, blood-curdling, knee-knocking, absolutely TERRIFYING clip of a girl in an elevator in China, I believe—I have no intention of opening myself up to a second near hysterical fit for accuracy’s sake by rewatching this abominable video—that was so unsettling because she seemed to be gibbering at someone, frightened of someone, arguing with, hunted by, and having a very disturbing conversation with someone…only nobody was there! Gooseflesh is breaking out all over me as I type this! And then the narrator butts in and says, in a calm and totally detached voice, that this girl was discovered dead in a vat a few days later, her clothes neatly folded on the ground, and that this story was the inspiration for the film Dark Water, which, needless to say, my beloved and I have no intention of ever watching. Sleep being elusive for one interminable evening was quite enough, thanks very much. Give us June Carter and Johnny Cash songs, Monty Python sketches, and political videos for our YouTube dates any night of the week. We’ve learned our lesson, and how! *shudders*
If I came to your house and looked in your attic/closet/basement, what’s the one thing that would surprise me the most?
If you looked in my attic, you’d be stunned by the overwhelming plethora of pumpkins and scarecrows and Christmas decorations that are stuffed in there. If you looked in my closet, you’d see a lot of clothes and dresses that I keep forgetting I own. I mean this; over the last few months, I’ve discovered not one, but two rather fetching dresses that I had no memory of ever buying. The tags were even still on them! If you looked in my basement, I’d be really surprised, because I don’t have one…that I know of! What’s it like? Are there Morlocks living down there? Tell me, Jean! I’m sensing the beginnings of a new novel, here…
Most horrifying dream you have ever had?
A seven foot tall E.T. dressed as the Grim Reaper, emerging from my bathroom in the dead of night with murderous intent, scythe in hand. I was about five years old when I had this dream, and E.T. and I didn’t make peace until fairly recently. Now I’m quite fond of the freakish yet adorable little tree stump, but our relationship was a bit strained for several years, to say the least.
Which incident in your life has totally changed the way you think today?
Meeting my beloved has not only changed the way I think about everything—my past, my present, my future, my joys and sorrows, setbacks and triumphs—but has irrevocably changed my life, as well. Loving him, and receiving his love in return, has made me a fuller person—complete—and has led to me knowing myself better than I ever did before. I find it astonishing how in tune we are. Here’s just one of many examples I can share…we have the same crazy and unbelievably random (And I mean RANDOM! I’m thinking of one in particular right now that knocked us both flat by proving just what a couple of complete born-to-be-together weirdoes we truly are) thoughts, and blurt them out at the exact same moment! I have lost count of how often this has happened, but it’s pretty much a daily occurrence, and has been for quite some time.
Being in tune in so many ways has been a hallmark of our relationship since our earliest days. Our very first conversation had sparks shooting off between us when we both revealed a mutual love for the Eddas, everything Germanic and Saga-inspired…and I confessed to him my obsession with JAWS and sharks in general—and he didn’t flinch! He’s exposed me to so many wonderful things, some of my favorites being music—he has fantastic taste—and philosophers, the one impacting me the most to date being Henry Corbin, whose ideas matched up so perfectly with concepts I had been mulling over for thirteen years but never had a name for till my beloved shared this luminous thinker with me. Our oneness of spirit has grown deeper with each passing hour as we’ve shared our lives with each other—all the important things and the silliest ones, too, and been there for each other in the best and worst of times—and we’ve continuously discovered, more and more every day, how beautifully and miraculously our souls, and thoughts, chime in harmony. And it’s uncanny how he knows exactly what articles to send me, because no matter what they’re about (from the sagas to politics, and everything in between), I devour them and find myself forever exclaiming, “Yes! Yes, that’s what I was thinking! This is what I have always believed!” and tapping into a wellspring of inspiration that has long lain dormant, till he shares with me something he knew I’d love, knew would be the spark needed to kindle my thoughts and ignite them into being. This happened just last week, and because of what I read in the essay my beloved sent me, because the thoughts of the writer echoed in my soul and literally roused the Bear hibernating there, a story arc which I’d been struggling with for over a year found resolution, came full circle, and changed the course of one of the books in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light entirely.
Another thing I find absolutely wondrous is how he’s opened my mind to so many things I was very closed off to before, very biased against, in fact, and made me view the world, especially history, differently. Yet he’s also reinforced beliefs I already held, making them stronger and richer and more defined in my heart and soul. He encourages me and I him to become the people he and I were put on this earth to be, which I think is a rare and beautiful aspect of our relationship, and something we are blessed to share. And even in areas where our beliefs diverge—religion, for example, which has never been an issue for us—we still have commonality, because we both have an appreciation and respect for the Divine, and see it at work in our lives. We enrich each other—never tearing down, always building up, for we realize how precious a gift love is, and are very grateful to have found one another at long last. We’re passionate advocates of each other’s writing, too. His background is philosophy, and I am not being biased when I say he’s brilliant, and not just in this field, but in many other areas, as well. Just don’t get him going on Richard III or he’ll recite the entire Shakespearean tragedy from the beginning! My little playful ribbing aside, every time we speak, each moment we’re together, I am continually inspired in every way, and I cannot even begin to tell you how having his unconditional support and love across all areas of my life has changed it, and me, so profoundly.
I’m amazed anew every day by all of this—amazed anew each day by him—and am incredibly, eternally, grateful to have him in my life, to have been blessed with such a glorious soulmate, whom I love with all my heart. He truly is the greatest gift God could have ever given to me.
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This selection of quotes will appear in a very personal interview on Friday, featured at Jean the Book Nerd’s great site, but as that interview is quite extensive, I thought it would be a good idea to share them with you today in a separate post. I hope you enjoy this little glimpse into Deadmarsh Fey.
~Melika
“This beast, like the greater evil we faced later on, went by many names. When he invaded Everl’aria, the Moarteans christened him Groaza. Others called him The Devourer of the World. And to those on Sviddheim, he was The Bottomless, for his savagery had no end.”
“I’ve seen its other side. I know what lives here, what’s been slumbering for so long.”
A hollow pit opened up where Roger’s heart was supposed to be. “How would you know that?”
“I woke it up.”
He blinked in surprise and was even more startled when the dragon mimicked the action, but did so sideways. A clear membrane coated its eye, then drew back to reveal hues infinitely more searing than before—so vibrant it was painful for Roger to look into them. Orange pulsating like a lava flow, yellow glistening brighter than a city made of gold, green flashing like St. Elmo’s fire. All these colors danced not a foot in front of Roger’s face, flickering within that gigantic orb…
“Why should I not know what he’s really called?”
“Tell a man your name and he will have power over you forever,” Carver muttered.
“I don’t know how else to explain this, but I could feel her age, almost as if the weight of her years were pressing against me like a great mountain of corpses that would collapse onto me if I so much as looked at her the wrong way.”
Gryffyn looked as though he were about to have some sort of fit. “It’s far too dark in here for you to be taking this so calmly. Anything could be creeping up on us at this very moment, and we’d be none the wiser till it had us by the throat! We can’t see a foot in front of our faces, not one foot! Why are you not afraid?”
“Because I am the monster lurking in the shadows,” Incendiu snarled.
“They were all children, yes, as were the fiends who allowed themselves to be Hosted.”
“But that happened in a wilder age, a less enlightened time,” Roger argued.
“Do not make the mistake of thinking present society is so highly advanced that they have forgotten their baser instincts, Roger Knightley. Evil is evil no matter the century, or the world.”
“There are more things in Heaven and earth…” Uncle Gryffyn muttered.
“Now ain’t the time to be quotin’ old Bill Shakes, guv,” Bellows shot in.
“You’re not allowed in church!”
The Jagged One squinted at him. “Sez who?”
“Says God!”
Carver tsked. “I thought you Christians welcomed everyone.”
“We make exceptions for demons like you.”
“Will you not bid me welcome, Brother?” the beast mocked. The dragon’s voice paralyzed Roger where he stood. Hearing it sapped his strength, stole his will, made him feel as though his mind had been crushed between slabs of stone. There was chaos in it, and destruction—a voice crafted of darkness and the death of worlds.”
Flesh and bone and hearts unknown, lead to the rath and your fate will be shown…
Deadmarsh. The name struck terror into the hearts of all who heard it. But to Roger Knightley, neither Deadmarsh the house, nor Deadmarsh the family, had ever been anything to fear. Nearly each summer of his young life had been spent in that manor on the moors, having wild adventures with his cousin, Lockie, the Deadmarsh heir. This year should have been no different, but when Roger arrives, he finds everything, and everyone, changed. The grounds are unkempt, the servants long gone. Kip, the family cat, has inexplicably grown and glares at Roger as if he is trying to read the boy’s mind. Roger’s eldest cousin, Travers, always treated as a servant, now dresses like a duchess and wears round her neck a strange moonstone given to her by someone known as Master Coffyn, who has taken over the teaching of Lockie at a school in Wales called Nethermarrow.
And soon after he crosses the threshold of Deadmarsh, Roger discovers that Coffyn has overtaken Lockie. The boy is deceitful, riddled with fear, and has returned bearing tales of creatures called Jagged Ones that claim to be of the Fey and can somehow conceal themselves while standing in the full light of the moon. What they want with Lockie, Roger cannot fathom, until the horror within his cousin lashes out, and it becomes savagely clear that these Jagged Ones and the Dark Wreaker they serve are not only after Lockie and Travers, but Roger, too.
Joining forces with an ally whose true nature remains hidden, Roger seeks to unravel the tapestry of lies woven round his family’s connection to the death-haunted world of Everl’aria—and the Dark Wreaker who calls it home. The deeper Roger delves into the past, the more he begins to suspect that the tales of dark deeds done in the forest behind Deadmarsh, deeds in which village children made sacrifice to an otherworldly beast and were never seen or heard from again, are true. And if there is truth in these outlandish stories, what of the rumor that it was not an earthquake which rocked the moors surrounding Deadmarsh sixteen years ago, but a winged nightmare attempting to break free of its underground prison? Enlisting the aid of a monster equipped with enough inborn firepower to blast his enemies into oblivion might be as suicidal as Roger’s friends insist, yet the boy knows he needs all the help he can get if there is to be any hope of defeating not only the Dark Wreaker and his servants, but an unholy trinity known as the Bear, the Wolf, and the Curse That Walks The Earth.
And then there is the foe named Blood Wood, who might be the deadliest of them all.
Racing against time, Roger must find a way to end the battle being waged across worlds before the night of Lockie’s eleventh birthday—two days hence. If he fails, blood will drown the earth. And Roger and his entire family will fulfill the prophecy of fey’s older, more lethal meaning…
Fated to die.
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It’s been a while since I last posted any updates, but today, I am happy to share with you a new and very in-depth (possibly my most in-depth one to date) interview. Many thanks to author Sonya M. Black for providing me with such insightful questions. I hope you enjoy reading not only my thoughts on writing and other subjects, but also learning more about a few special books that have impacted my life in very different ways. Maybe you’ll be inspired to invite them into your lives and let them work their magic on you, as well.
A dragon lands in front of your Main Character, what would they do?
It just so happens that my main character in Deadmarsh Fey, Roger Knightley, is obsessed with dragons, and has been since he was practically out of the womb, cutting his teeth on his mother’s fanciful stories about them, blazing through the Mabinogion by the time he was six, and venturing onward to further fill his head with even more fantastic legends, his favorite being the one about Merlin and Vortigern and the fortress that had been toppled again and again by the red and white dragons battling in a pool beneath its foundations.
Given all of that, if a flesh and blood dragon landed in front of him, Roger wouldn’t scream or scarper away in fright, but would rather shriek in delight and run forward to hug one of the dragon’s foreclaws, then try to convince the beast to fly him back to Wraxhall, Roger’s boarding school, to equalize the playing field, as it were, by teaching his headmaster a lesson—turning Master Crisp into Master Ash…literally. But once Roger came to his senses, he would do all in his power to enlist the dragon as an ally against the Dark Wreaker of Everl’aria, and the curse this fell being has laid upon Roger’s family. You’ll have to read Deadmarsh Fey to find out if any of this really does happen in the book, or if I’m just letting my imagination rocket upward like a dragon soaring through the night sky, its black wings blotting out the light of the moon.
What literary pilgrimages have you gone on?
It’s not the main focus of my upcoming trip to England, but when I’m there, we’ll be spending a day in Oxford, walking in the footsteps of two authors who have had a significant impact not only on my writing, but upon my life, as well—J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. I expect to be awed the entire time I’m there, and quite emotional, too. Oh, and a visit to the Eagle and Child is also on the agenda! 6,900 pictures of the snug where the Inklings used to meet will be taken, so as not to miss a single angle, of course. I can’t wait!
What is the first book that made you cry?
I’m sure other books got to me before this one did, but the first book I can remember which made me cry was The Turn of the Screw—and that was because it horrified me, my tears bursting forth at the very end when Miles screams, “Peter Quint, you devil!” I didn’t appreciate the ambiguity and brilliance of that line till many years later, so as a child of eight, my reaction was sheer terror. And yet I loved that little novel! I even owned a Classic comic book type edition of it that I read so often the spine broke. It’s my favorite “ghost” story of all time, and a masterful psychological study that I do not think any film adaptation has done justice to yet, although The Innocents comes close to capturing the unsettling “otherness” of Miles and Flora, and the paranoia (or does she have just cause to fear?) of the Governess.
But the first book that truly touched something deep within my heart and made me not only cry, but bawl, was David Copperfield, which I read at the age of twelve. It didn’t matter that one hundred and forty years separated me from David’s world. I identified with him, was outraged by every injustice he suffered—especially the betrayal of those he’d considered close friends—rejoiced with him when he succeeded, and felt like I was living his life alongside him as I devoured the pages of that book. Till this day, I find myself smiling when I remember Aunt Betsy screeching, “Donkeeees!” or how Mr. Micawber was always sure something would turn up. But don’t get me started on Uriah Heep. I have no fond memories of him!
Looking back, I see how the cruelty David endured at the hands of Mr. Murdstone stayed with me and inspired some of Master Coffyn’s qualities in Deadmarsh Fey, especially his penchant for harsh and often violent discipline against children. And now that I think of it, that fey quality of Miles and Flora so hauntingly delineated in The Turn of the Screw found its way into Deadmarsh, too, coloring certain aspects of Lockie’s character, so even though both books made me cry for very different reasons, they both impacted my writing in their own unique ways.
Did you ever consider writing under a pseudonym?
No, never. I’ve always wanted to be known as the author of my novels, not because I have a thirst for fame—I prefer the focus to be on my stories, not me—but because I worked hard on them. The funny thing is, though, that many readers have thought Melika Dannese Lux is a pseudonym, but I can assure you that’s exactly the name printed on my birth certificate.
Do you try more to be original or to deliver to readers what they want?
I think what readers want is originality. We can all be inspired by the fantasy greats, of course, and I freely admit that Tolkien and Lewis are my literary “fathers,” but to be derivative to the point of copying them is not something I’ve ever wanted to do. I’m a little fanatical when it comes to being original, so much so that when I created the name of my main villain and Otherworld in Deadmarsh Fey, I typed both into Google and Amazon to make certain they hadn’t been used before! I understand that, according to conventional wisdom, you should compare your works to those of other fantasy authors to hook readers, or even get an agent. But that’s the problem with conventional wisdom—it’s conventional, stultifying, and only interested in preserving the status quo, leaving no room for the unexpected, and very dismissive of that which it does not understand or cannot fit into a neatly designed mold. Why can’t a fantasy book stand on its own without having to be compared to anything that’s come before? Isn’t that what people really want, to read something unlike anything they’ve ever read? To get lost in a world they can discover and explore for themselves, make their home in, without being encumbered by any preconceived notions? That would be a wondrous thing, I think, and much more gratifying than reading yet another Game of Thrones clone.
How do you balance making demands on the reader with taking care of the reader?
The philosopher Nicholas Malebranche once said, “Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the soul.” Laziness of mind is bad enough, but having an unengaged soul makes attentiveness, and really anything else, impossible. This is why I don’t believe asking my readers to fully invest themselves—mind, heart, and soul—into Deadmarsh Fey is being unduly demanding, since I invested my entire being into writing this book. As the author, I see myself as the facilitator, and it is my job, through my storyweaving, to remind my readers that it is incumbent upon them to take care of themselves. I won’t spoon feed you, neither will I string you along, but you should know at the outset that I will not be your Virgil, guiding you through the darkling night. I want my readers to discover things for themselves in this world I have offered to them, a world in which they can lose themselves entirely—a world it is my greatest hope they will make their own. And to achieve this, attentiveness—concentration—is a must, not because Deadmarsh Fey is some labyrinth you need Ariadne’s Thread to find your way out of, but because giving not only my book, but any book, a cursory reading shows not only a lack of respect for the author, but for the reader’s own self, as well. How can you be moved, touched, inspired, if your only objective is to race through a book to finish it as fast as you can? What chance is there for you to experience wonder if you don’t let the story absorb you, if you cut yourself off from allowing the tale to strike a chord in your soul and make your spirit take flight? The opportunity to connect with something beyond you has been neglected, the moment for discovery, expanding your imagination, and knowing yourself deeper, lost when your overriding ambition is how many pages you can read in a day to reach a quota for the year, or some other such arbitrary marker that robs you of the chance to be seized by wonder. It makes the act of reading no act at all, but a passive disengagement that seems completely pointless—and dreadfully hollow.
With every book I have written, but never more so than with Deadmarsh Fey, my goal has been that my readers become active participants in the experience. If this happens, I believe they will feel as if they are sharing in the recreation of the novel and will be able to capture the essence, the atmosphere, in which the work was first written. By becoming a part of the story, they are truly making it into something new and theirs, which is what I want most of all. I want them to lose themselves in a tale that seems fantastical at first, but the deeper they read, the more engaged they become, they realize that the truths in this book mirror the truths in their own lives, that these characters are not so unlike them, and that they, the readers, will miss these kindred souls after the final page is turned. When total immersion occurs, my readers will see Roger and the other characters not as I do, no longer as I’ve described them, but through their own eyes, the images I’ve created meeting the images my words have birthed in their minds, catching fire, and taking flight, burning like a phoenix across their imaginations and hopefully inspiring them to create unexplored worlds of their own, or at least to never be the same after reading this book because it has touched them in some deep and meaningful way and possibly revealed to them their true “home.” That is my wish for everyone who reads Deadmarsh Fey—that they will be open to receiving what the book has in mind for them, and be changed for the better once their journey with my characters comes to an end.
Do you view writing as a kind of spiritual practice?
When you invent something out of nothing, you are, in a sense, sharing in the act of creation. I’m not trying to be blasphemous or presumptuous by saying that, but I truly feel, and have done so for many years, that writing is as close as I come to touching the divine, to brushing up against the world that shimmers just beyond our own. My beloved says that all true art is a spiritual practice, and I agree with him wholeheartedly, as I do with his christening my work dream-sagas, for that is where my original inspiration for Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light came from—in the chaos of a dream that quite frankly was almost a nightmare, a vision of two young girls, sisters, cowering at the end of a corridor in a small cottage on an fog-encircled island, flattening themselves against the wall and scarcely breathing for fear any sound would alert the gargantuan demonic bear snuffling down the hallway, growing ever nearer, to their presence—the bear that was hungering for their blood.
In many ways, I also view writing as a prayer, a reaching up toward my higher self, my angel, if you will, the self I am meant to be but have been separated from here in my exile upon this earth. It’s a constant striving to make sense out of the thoughts in my head, the inspirations, the “why” of life, and to weave them into a tapestry of light and shadow, of good and evil and the grey areas in between where heroes may doubt their valor but choose to fight on nonetheless, often against seemingly insurmountable odds, because they are dedicated to saving that which they hold dear, their world, the people they love and are willing to lay down their lives to defend. That call to fight for something greater than yourself is also very spiritual at its core, and was a vital thread I wove into the fabric of Deadmarsh Fey in ways I had never done with any other book I had written before. In this novel, in this Otherworld, I feel as though I truly am writing what I dream, both literally and in a deeper sense. I have now found my “home,” at least where writing is concerned, the place where I have finally been able to fulfill the maxim that changed my life many years ago: “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” Sixteen years old, was I, when Gandalf’s wisdom pierced my heart and set me on this trajectory. The journey has been hard, frustrating, and often incredibly lonely, but it has brought me joy, too, never more so than now, and I would not trade the experience for anything in the world, nor, if given the chance to go back and choose differently, would I diverge from this path that was presented to me. I believe in my soul that despite all the obstacles, it was the path I was destined to take…and how things were always meant to be.
I also think that there is something intensely, almost ecstatically, spiritual about being seized by a story, which happened to me when writing Deadmarsh Fey. From a certain point onward, I was no longer in control of this book. My characters quickly and not too subtly disabused me of the notion that I knew what was best, and since I really had no choice in the matter, I let them take over, and Deadmarsh Fey became a much better tale because I got out of my own way. And that is something I would encourage every writer to do, whether you believe our craft is a spiritual practice or not…let your ego go. It is your worst enemy, will shut you down, choke your creativity. You must diminish for inspiration to increase, and only when you do this will your story have the potential to take wing, blaze across the heavens, and transform into something unique and rapturous. Something you and you alone were born to write.
Do you read your book reviews? How do you deal with bad or good ones?
Yes, I do read them. No author likes to receive bad reviews, and at one time, they had a powerfully negative effect on me, but as I’ve gotten older, and grown as a writer, they don’t influence me anymore. I know the value of my work, and nobody’s negative opinion is going to make me doubt it or love it any less, especially people who abandon my book after only reading a fraction of it. Additionally, if somebody is just spewing vitriol, I don’t take it to heart. And if they completely miss the point of the book, I don’t internalize that, either.
I do appreciate good reviews, of course, especially when the reader invests him- or herself into the world I have created—living through my characters, even becoming them for the short while they are in their company—and therefore is able to truly comprehend what I am trying to say instead of simply glossing over details that were not included as filler, words that weren’t written to pad the pages, just to get things over with for whatever reason, as I mentioned above. It’s a very rewarding feeling when a reader “gets” my work, as happened recently with the wonderful Dianne Bylo at Tome Tender. Her review has become my favorite, and the best, of any of my books thus far, not only because it was erudite and well-written, but also because it revealed that Dianne had let herself be seized by Deadmarsh Fey and thereby connected with it in a profound way, which is what I hope the experience will be for everyone who reads this book.
Do you hide any secrets in your books that only a few people will find?
I do, but when it came to Deadmarsh Fey, everything that I hid within its pages was built up and eventually revealed in a rather shocking manner a few chapters from the end of the novel. Even at the eleventh hour—and by that I mean some of the very last scenes of the book—I was still unraveling secrets I had woven throughout the story from the beginning. Nearly all of them found resolution in Deadmarsh Fey, though I did leave a few open ended enough to be explored further in the three successive novels in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light. Each one of these secrets, every arc that was created in Deadmarsh Fey to be spooled out into the other books, however, did have a suitable ending when its furtherance of the plot in this tale had served its purpose. This was a conscious choice, because I despise loose ends, and even though I think that in some cases it is fine to be ambiguous—as with The Turn of the Screw—I believe that ambiguity for its own sake, or as an attempt to be “edgy,” ruins the integrity of a story.
In the sequel to Deadmarsh Fey, which I’m working on now, there is a sort of inside joke for most of the novel, but it is revealed at precisely the moment when it counts most and is quite earthshattering. And yet…when readers get to that point, I have a sense they will most likely feel that if they’d just thought about it a bit more, they would have been able to solve this riddle fairly early on. I’m hoping the reaction will include a fist to the forehead and a dramatic exclamation of, “Good gad! How could I have been so blind?!” I’m incredibly eager to interweave this plot point throughout the novel—palming the ace where I can, scattering false clues, then finally lowering the boom and blowing the lid off this secret when the time is right. I confess to taking a little enjoyment in being tricksy like this when crafting my books. All right, it’s more than a little. It’s a LOT! But it makes things tremendously exciting for me, and I hope this excitement will transfer to everyone who reads my novels, this one especially.
What is your favorite childhood book?
The Ivy Cottage by E. J. Taylor. Even though it was very short, and I first read it at the age of four, I still remember the feeling of warmth with which this book enveloped me—as cozy as a sheltering blanket, as soothing as a mug of hot chocolate enjoyed by a roaring fire. The illustrations were entrancing, and I was completely captivated by the idea of living in a cottage in the woods, or one just on the borders of it. After all these years, this is still my dream.
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I’m so happy to be back at The Fantasy Hive this week, but instead of an interview, one of my most favorite excerpts from Deadmarsh Fey is being featured! Thanks once again go to Laura and the great people at this fantastic site for allowing me to showcase my work.
I hope this excerpt will intrigue and unsettle you, and make you insatiably curious to find out what happens to Roger next!
When wandering through a forest, one expects to see many things. Trees, squirrels, maybe even a bear…
A feast laid out solely for you in the middle of a clearing…
That last one shouldn’t have made the list, you say? Try telling that to Roger Knightley, then, for it is exactly what he stumbled upon while sojourning in the woods behind Deadmarsh.
Here, on this whimsical table, were found treats stuffed to bursting with enough luscious flavors to satisfy the cravings of a boy possessed of a sweet tooth the size of the North York Moors. How could he resist such a temptation? I feel safe in saying most anyone would find it difficult to do so…assuming you could actually seewhat had been set out to entice you. Forgot to mention that small detail. The feast is invisible, unless you look at it through a glass darkly, which, for Roger, means peering through the two halves of a cracked, milky blue moonstone known as The Eye of Arianrhod. Without this, there’d be no hope of piercing the glamour that hangs over such a fey place. But is it a glamour of enchantment?
Or of evil?
I invite you to read on and discover for yourself…
The Feast in the Forest, excerpted from Deadmarsh Fey
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Faces of Summer 2012: Josh
Whilst shooting our special editorial, "12 Faces of Summer 2012", we took the chance to get to know more about each boy. One of these boys was the lovely Josh Weeks from D1, captured here by Cecilie Harris in our Boys by Girls portrait feature, styled by Kristine Kilty.
Read his interview below to find out about his modelling dreams and a little about his writing and music. We were intrigued to find out more about his band and song writing, so look out for our next interview with Josh where he tells us all about these things!
Photography CECILIE HARRIS
Styling KRISTINE KILTY
Styling Assistants ARNDT STOBBA & LUCIE HALLEY
Hair STEPHEN HAMILTON
Make-up FIONA TANNER
Photographic Assistants KAAMILAH NAHABOO & DAVE BIRD
Model JOSH WEEKS (D1)
Josh wears shirt and shorts OLIVER SPENCER, shoes HERRING SHOES, socks TOPMAN.
Name: Josh Weeks
Age: I’m 19
Location: I'm from South Wales.
Are you living in London now?
Well I’m at university in London, but I finished my first year so I’m living back at home for summer, then I’m moving back here in September.
How long have you been modelling?
Well I’ve been at D1 since January. I was with a Welsh agency since last July but they put me forward for D1 around November time, so I’ve got a mother agency in Wales, and then D1’s my London agency.
So how did it begin? Did you get scouted?
I was working in a clothes shop and the company I was working for asked me to do some shoots for their blog online and the photographer, he was doing work experience at the Welsh modelling agency, so he sort of recommended me and then I went to see them and it just kicked off from there.
Josh wears jacket PAUL COSTELLOE, shirt OLIVER SPENCER.
What have your modelling experiences been like so far?
They’ve been good. I love going to castings and meeting lots of different people, working with photographers, so I’m hoping it all continues to go well from here.
What’s your dream modelling job?
I think the Burberry campaign would be my dream modelling job. Thomas Penfound, another model with D1 is doing it at the moment, and I aspire to be able to acheive similar things.
Music. I’m in a band, I play bass guitar and I write the lyrics as well. I’m studying English Literature at university and writing lyrics and poetry is something that interests me on the side of modelling.
3 random facts about yourself?
I used to play football for Wales, so I played for my country a couple of times.
I hate cats. I’ve got three, my parents decided to get them even though I have an allergy to cats.
And also I have two younger brothers called Jack and Joe and my name’s Josh so it gets really confusing having a Josh, Jack and Joe in the house.
Josh wears shirt OLIVER SPENCER.
If you could live during any other period of history, when would you choose?
I think around sort of the 1950’s, the Beat Generation in America. So around Jack Kerouac sort of time when they were travelling across the USA just looking for the American dream. I think that’s kinda cool.
What’s your favourite time of day?
Just before the sun goes down, I’d say. So in summertime, around 9pm. I like having barbeques in my back garden with my family and stuff.
As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
I wanted to be a footballer for quite a while, but then when I didn’t get a professional contract, that’s when I went to university and my passion for writing sort of took off.
So what kind of things do you like writing?
Mainly lyrics. There’s certain lyricists like Richey Edwards and Ian Curtis who I really look up to because they seem to write about things that society are almost scared to write about, so instead of just writing about girls they’re in love with, they write about issues and problems in the world. So, yeah, I don’t think you should be afraid to write about negative things necessarily, because sometimes society need to push to sort out these issues and adjust them.
Have you seen the film about Joy Division?
Control? Yeah, I loved it, it’s really good.
What kind of music does your band play?
Mainly rock music. Yeah, we’re a three-piece, so we try and keep it quite raw and when we record we don’t really like to edit over the top, we try and record it all live to tape. So yeah, I’d probably just say classic rock.
Photos: Cecilie Harris
Words: Kaamilah Nahaboo
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DSW DESIGNER SHOE WAREHOUSE
THE SHOE COMPANY/SHOE WAREHOUSE
CAMUTO GROUP
AFFILIATED BUSINESS GROUP
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Sales Associate Part-Time
Req #: 87846
Location Name: Showcase Mall, Las Vegas
Department: Stores
Designer Brands Inc. is one of North America’s largest designers, producers and retailers of footwear and accessories. The company operates a portfolio of retail concepts in nearly 1,000 locations under the DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse, The Shoe Company, and Shoe Warehouse brands and operates leased locations in the U.S through its Affiliated Business Group. Designer Brands designs and produces footwear and accessories through Camuto Group, a leading manufacturer selling in more than 5,400 doors worldwide. The Camuto Group owns licensing rights for the Jessica Simpson® footwear business, and footwear and handbag licenses for Lucky Brand® and Max Studio®. In partnership with a joint venture with Authentic Brands Group, Designer Brands also owns a stake in Vince Camuto®, Louise et Cie®, Sole Society®, CC Corso Como®, Enzo Angiolini® and others. More information can be found at www.designerbrands.com.
General Summary: Sales Associates provide friendly service by actively seeking out customers to assess their needs and provide assistance. Sales Associates execute the company’s customer service model while always putting the customer before any task. Sales Associates will perform the following functions: customer service, signing up new Rewards members, cashiering, store operations, and merchandising. Sales Associates must demonstrate behaviors that align with the company values of Accountability, Collaboration, Humility and Passion. Sales Associates must comply with all policies and procedures associated with the position, including maintaining at least a 95% attendance record.
Customer Service and Engagement - Greets every customer in the store with a helpful and friendly attitude, reading customer cues to match service level to their expectations. Explains the DSW Rewards program and its benefits, answers questions about merchandise for the customers, and directs customers to appropriate merchandise within the store.
Cashiering and Cash Handling - Rings up customer transactions while following the DSW cash handling policies and register procedures. Counts money, makes change, verifies amount, and issues receipts. Reads and interprets price ticket information, operates a calculator, and enters data via terminal keyboard.
Store Operations - Maintains a clean and organized store. This includes, but is not limited to, picking up trash in the aisles, returning shoes back where they belong according to DSW standards, cleaning the associate break room and restrooms, vacuuming the store, cleaning mirrors, cleaning the front walkway/stoop of the store, and any other housekeeping items deemed necessary.
Merchandising - Unloads merchandise from trucks, places merchandise on the sales floor per DSW standards, completes markdowns, maintains clearance area standards, fills accessories, organizes and maintains the stockroom.
Required Skills and Competencies:
Good written and verbal communications skills
Professionalism, friendliness, and respect
Proficient in use of technology to manage customer transactions either on (e.g., iPad, Tablet, registers)
Operate a calculator
Operate a terminal keyboard
Read and interpret price ticket information
Must have the ability to spend up to 100% of working time standing or walking around the register area, the sales floor, and the storeroom.
Lifting, including the ability to lift up to a maximum 50 pounds on an occasional to frequent basis.
Why Choose A Career with Designer Brands?
Empowering associates and building strong teams poised to disrupt the retail and footwear landscape through positive change is at the core of who we are at Designer Brands.
Invested in helping our associates learn, develop, achieve and grow into strong leaders
Shared commitment to creating a culture fueled by engagement, excitement, optimism and fun
Dedicated to giving back and community involvement
About Designer Brands:
Designer Brands Inc. is one of North America’s largest designers, producers and retailers of footwear and accessories.
Designer Brands Inc. operates a portfolio of retail concepts in nearly 1,000 locations under the DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse, The Shoe Company, and Shoe Warehouse brands and operates leased locations in the U.S through its Affiliated Business Group.
Designer Brands designs and produces footwear and accessories through Camuto Group, a leading manufacturer selling in more than 5,400 doors worldwide.
Nearest Major Market: Las Vegas
Job Segment: Merchandising, Warehouse, Retail Sales, Part Time, Sales, Retail, Manufacturing
Stores Jobs at DSW, STORES, Retail, New Store Jobs, Affiliated Business Group Jobs at DSW
Designer Brands believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunities. We do not discriminate against any protected class including race, color, religion, religious creed, gender, sex, national origin, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (defined as genetic information or impairments related to cancer), ancestry, marital status, family care leave, military and veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or based on any protected category under federal, state, or local laws. Designer Brands also makes reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants and associates with disabilities unless doing so creates an undue hardship, in accordance with all legal requirements. Any applicant requiring a reasonable accommodation during the application process or applicant who requires an accommodation to perform the essential functions of the job should request for accommodations by asking to speak with a Store Manager, District Manager, and Regional Director, or by contacting Human Resources at HR-DSW@dswinc.com. Designer Brands will work with the individual to attempt to identify a reasonable accommodation that will not impose an undue hardship on Designer Brands. For any inquiries related to the hiring process, please reach out to talentacquisition@hr.designerbrands.com. © 2019 Designer Brands Inc. All rights reserved.
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Assorted posters from DeTomaso.
DeTomaso Pantera poster.
Launched in 1971 with a price tag of around $10,000, the Pantera was produced by the de Tomaso company of Italy. Designed by famed stylist Tom Tjaarda, it could accelerate to 60 mph in 5.5 seconds. With its similar mid engine, it was seen as a serious rival to Ferrari; certainly its body styling was a superb piece of motoring sculpture.
In late 1971, Ford began importing hand-built Carrozzeria Vignale bodied Panteras for the American market. A total of 1,007 Panteras reached the USA that year. In all, about 7,260 Panteras were built and even Elvis Presley owned one. Production ceased in the early Nineties although the Pantera's heyday was between. Today, Panteras are extremely sought after exotic Italian cars; they are far cheaper to own and run than Ferraris, Maseratis and Lamborghinis.
(available at Art Of Motoring).
De Tomaso Named after Alejandro de Tomaso. Italy.
DeTomaso Competizione 2000 : 1965 Only one made.
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Incidental detection of asymptomatic pneumothorax resulting in a diagnosis of Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome
Keigo Kobayashi
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Correspondence to Dr Keigo Kobayashi, keigokbys{at}gmail.com
genetic screening / counselling
A 35-year-old Japanese woman visited our hospital with a pneumothorax incidentally detected in a health screening. Chest radiography revealed slight pneumothorax in the right lung. She was asymptomatic, with 99% oxygen saturation in room air, and no history of smoking and no renal tumours or fibrofolliculomas. However, her father and sister also had a pneumothorax.
Although the pneumothorax was small, chest CT was performed, which revealed multiple thin-walled, variable-sized lung cysts with round, oval and irregular shapes, present bilaterally with lower and medial lung predominance (figure 1A,B). The largest cyst in the right lower lobe contacting the heart was seen abutting or including the proximal portion of the pulmonary vein or artery (figure 1A). These findings are common in Birt-Hogg-Dubé (BHD) syndrome.1 Genetic analysis of her blood revealed a c.1285dupC frameshift mutation in the folliculin (FLCN) gene, consistent with a diagnosis of BHD syndrome.
Coronal chest CT images. (A) The largest cyst is seen abutting or including the proximal portion of the pulmonary vein or artery (arrow). (B) The lung cysts show a basal distribution (arrow).
BHD syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant disorder caused by mutation of germline FLCN mapped in the chromosome 17p11.2 region. It is characterised by fibrofolliculomas, early-onset renal cancers and spontaneous pneumothoraxes caused by lung cysts. The risk of pneumothorax is considerable in patients aged 20–40 years. Lung cysts on chest CT have been described in up to 90% of patients, with a corresponding 50-fold greater risk of pneumothorax than that in the normal population.2 3 A causative gene, FLCN and its interacting partners, FNIP1 and FNIP2, cooperatively play important roles in metabolic pathways including AMP-activated protein kinase-mediated energy AMPK-mediated energy sensing, mTORC1-dependent cell proliferations and Ppargc1a-driven mitochondrial oxidation; the dysregulation of these metabolic pathways triggers aberrant kidney cell proliferations and renal tumourigenesis.4 Therefore, early diagnosis is critical for systematic screening for renal cancers, because of its sevenfold higher risk in these patients, which can lead to a poor prognosis,5 and to refer patients for early genetic counselling and personalised follow-up.
In this case, it was important to perform chest CT, which confirmed a diagnosis of BHD syndrome. Hence, we recommend that physicians perform chest CT at the time of pneumothorax examination in patients with a family history of pneumothorax.
Birt-Hogg-Dubé (BHD) syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant disorder and early diagnosis is critical for systematic screening for renal cancers, which can lead to a poor prognosis.
Lung cysts that can lead to spontaneous pneumothoraxes are the characteristic features of BHD syndrome, but may not always be detected by a chest X-ray examination.
We recommend that physicians perform chest CT at the time of pneumothorax examination in patients with a family history of pneumothorax.
Tobino K ,
Gunji Y ,
Kurihara M , et al
. Characteristics of pulmonary cysts in Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome: thin-section CT findings of the chest in 12 patients. Eur J Radiol 2011;77:403–9.doi:10.1016/j.ejrad.2009.09.004
Menko FH ,
van Steensel MA ,
Giraud S , et al
. Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome: diagnosis and management. Lancet Oncol 2009;10:1199–206.doi:10.1016/S1470-2045(09)70188-3
Kunogi M ,
Kurihara M ,
Ikegami TS , et al
. Clinical and genetic spectrum of Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome patients in whom pneumothorax and/or multiple lung cysts are the presenting feature. J Med Genet 2010;47:281–7.doi:10.1136/jmg.2009.070565
Hasumi H ,
Baba M ,
Hasumi Y , et al
. Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome: clinical and molecular aspects of recently identified kidney cancer syndrome. Int J Urol 2016;23:204–10.doi:10.1111/iju.13015
Zbar B ,
Alvord WG ,
Glenn G , et al
. Risk of renal and colonic neoplasms and spontaneous pneumothorax in the Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2002;11:393–400.
Contributors KK drafted the manuscript and was responsible for patient care.
Funding The author has not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
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Save us from our devices
By RUTH MARCUS
Published Thu, Dec 30, 2010
Mr. Speaker, please don't.
Go ahead, if you must, and cut taxes. Slash spending. Repeal health care. I understand. Elections have consequences. But BlackBerrys and iPads and laptops on the House floor? Reconsider, before it's too late.
The current House rules bar the use of a "wireless telephone or personal computer on the floor of the House." The new rules, unveiled last week, add three dangerous words. They prohibit any device "that impairs decorum."
If the Senate is the world's greatest deliberative body, the House is poised to be the world's greatest tweeting one.
A few upfront acknowledgments. First, I'm not one to talk. I have been known to sneak a peak, or 10, at my BlackBerry during meetings. For a time my daughter had my ring tone set to sound like a squawking chicken; when I invariably forgot to switch to vibrate, the phone would commence clucking during meetings. In short, I have done my share of decorum impairing.
Second, let's not get too dreamy about the House floor. John Boehner, the incoming speaker, once passed out campaign checks from tobacco companies there. Worse things have happened on the House floor than a game of Angry Birds -- check it out! -- on the iPad.
Nonetheless, lines have to be drawn and the House floor is not a bad place to draw them. Somehow, it has become acceptable to e-mail away in the midst of meetings.
The larger war may be lost, but not the battle to keep some remaining space in life free of gadgetry and its distractions. I'm not talking Walden Pond -- just a few minutes of living the unplugged-in life. There are places -- dinner table, church, school and, yes, the House floor -- where multitasking is inappropriate, even disrespectful.
It's not that everyone is going to be raptly attentive during every moment in those venues. But it's wrong to facilitate and legitimize the inevitable zoning out, and healthy to have a few minutes of enforced absence from the addictive world of instantaneous communication.
And there is something particularly depressing in the symbolism of the House floor as atomized democracy, with every individual lawmaker cocooned in his or her techno-bubble, more immersed in the virtual world than the real-life chamber.
The new majority presents the change as a matter of updating "antiquated rules," as transition spokesman Brendan Buck told National Journal's Major Garrett. "Prohibiting the use of all electronic devices on the House floor is an obstacle to efficiency," Buck said.
Perhaps, but efficiency is not always the highest good. What about tradition, dignity and that fusty concept, decorum? Justice Antonin Scalia has been reading briefs on his iPad, Justice Elena Kagan on her Kindle, but it would be disconcerting to see them taking the bench with their devices. There is something charming in the Senate as an institution that retains spittoons but bans smartphones. At least in theory: Like teenagers texting under the table at dinner time, senators have been known to ignore the rules. As Michael Shear reported in the New York Times, Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry was immersed in his BlackBerry the other day while his Pennsylvania colleague Arlen Specter delivered a farewell address.
In the House, the incoming majority leader, Virginia Republican Eric Cantor, was caught tapping away on his BlackBerry during the president's address to a joint session of Congress on health care reform. (Cantor said he was reading the presidential text and taking notes.)
But a previous wink does not require a current nod. Mr. Speaker, put down that iPad.
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Dow falls 140 points on signs of new strain in European banking
By TAMARA LUSH AND PALLAVI GOGOI
Stocks weakened Wednesday, ending a five-day advance in the S&P 500 index, as new signs of strain emerged in the European banking system. The euro fell to its lowest level against the dollar in nearly a year and Treasurys rallied.
The Dow Jones industrial average lost nearly 140 points. The S&P is now negative for the year again, after barely turning positive Friday.
The European Central Bank said banks had parked $590.72 billion with it overnight, surpassing the record set only Monday. That means European banks were less willing to take the risk of making short-term loans to each other, opting instead to earn low interest rates from the ECB. The disclosure also hurt the euro, which fell to $1.291, its lowest level against the dollar since January.
The worrying news from the ECB overshadowed two successful auctions of Italian government debt. Italy was able to pay much lower borrowing rates than last month. The strong demand from investors raised hopes that Italy would be able to avoid sinking into a financial crisis, as smaller countries like Greece and Portugal have.
John Merrill, chief investment officer at Tanglewood Wealth Management, said markets would remain vulnerable to flare-ups in Europe's long-running financial crisis until leaders there come up with more convincing solutions for paying down their enormous debt loads and keeping the 17-nation currency union intact.
"We live in a Band-Aid world," Merrill said. "Nobody really is addressing underlying issues."
European leaders agreed at a summit Dec. 9 to forge closer fiscal ties over the long term, but investors are still worried that Greece might default on its debt or be forced to leave the euro bloc. A Greek exit from the currency union would likely cause huge disruptions for the country's economy and losses for European banks that hold Greek government debt. Investors fear that could cascade into another global financial panic, as happened in 2008 following the collapse of the U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 139.94 points, or 1.1 percent, to 12,151.41. Materials and energy companies led the declines. Alcoa Inc. fell 3 percent and Caterpillar Inc. fell 2.4 percent.
With only two more trading days left in the year, markets were thinly populated in a holiday-shortened week. Shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange totaled 2.3 billion, less than half of the usual volume.
The S&P 500 fell 15.79 points, or 1.3 percent, to 1,249.64. The Nasdaq composite declined 35.22 points, or 1.3 percent, to 2,589.98.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 1.93 percent from 2 percent late Tuesday as investors moved money into less risky assets.
The worries over Italy, the euro zone's third-largest economy, were reflected in U.S. bank stocks. Bank of America Corp. fell 3.5 percent, while Regions Financial Corp. fell 2.7 percent.
In other corporate news:
*Sandridge Energy Inc. stock declined 4.4 percent on news that it is selling drilling rights in two states to a Spanish energy company, Repsol YPF.
*Cavium Inc. fell over 1 percent, a day after the chipmaker said its fourth-quarter results will fall below its previous forecast.
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Bullseye Event Group announces official partnership with Indiana University for pre-game experience for season opener vs. Ball State
July 8th, 2019 by Bullseye Event Group
Whether you’re a diehard Indiana football fan, an IU alum, a member of the Varsity Club or you just bleed crimson and cream, the official Indiana University, Alumni, Varsity Club and Fan Pre-Game Tailgate Experience is the place to be before the season opener against in-state rival Ball State.
INDIANAPOLIS, IN — Bullseye Event Group is excited to announce a partnership with Indiana University for the Indiana University, Alumni, Varsity Club and Fan Pre-Game Tailgate Experience before kickoff of the IU vs. Ball State football game at Lucas Oil Stadium on August 31, 2019!
If you are a diehard Indiana football fan and you want the most convenient tailgating experience, you’ll want to check out theIndiana University Official Tailgate. Located at the Bullseye Event Center, directly across the street from Lucas Oil Stadium. All ages welcome with an all-you-can-eat menu with cash premium bar, featuring Bloody Mary’s, bottled beer and top shelf liquor.
“As we continue to expand our events and hospitality offerings, we’re excited about our partnership with Indiana University,” Bullseye Event Group CEO Kyle Kinnett said. “Our prime location with the Bullseye Event Center, right across the street from Lucas Oil Stadium, makes this event the premier place to be before Ball State vs. IU to kick off the college football season, and we’re excited to show Hoosier nation what we have to offer.”
Tailgating doesn’t get better than this when its 85 degrees outside, step inside and enjoy the air conditioned building. Is it 75 degrees and comfortable? No problem, enjoy the outdoor space. Bullseye Event Center (BEC) is equipped with 3 retractable glass garage doors. Two on the front of the building open up to our brand new Trex deck which gives you the ability to sit under the shadows of Lucas Oil Stadium. The third glass garage door opens up to 4000 square feet of indoor / outdoor climate controlled pavilion.
Food Network celebrity chef Aaron May is the head chef and on hand for the Indiana University VIP Tailgate. Touting a brand new menu created exclusively by chef extraordinaire May, classically trained in Paris at the Ecole Ritz Escoffier and a member of the Arizona Culinary Hall of Fame, May has been featured on signature Food Network staples such as Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Guy’s Grocery Games, Guy’s Big Bite and TLC’s Best Food Ever.
The menu will include:
Breakfast Station
Bloody Mary bar with all the Fixins
Taco and Nacho Fiesta
Bourbon BBQ Pulled Pork Sliders
Creamy Cabbage Slaw
Gourmet Cheeseburger Sliders
Twice Cooked Chicken Wing Station
Fudge Brownie Bites
The Indiana University Official Tailgate opens at 9am, three hours before kickoff, and ends just before kickoff for the game. Food service will be available throughout. For tickets and more information, visit bullseyeeventgroup.com.
About Bullseye Event Group
Bullseye Event Group works in an official capacity with multiple NFL teams, NBA Teams and Universities as theofficial eventsandtravelpartner, thehospitalitypartneror tailgate partner. The Indianapolis Colts,New Orleans Saints,Detroit Lions,New Orleans Pelicans,Northwestern University and Indiana University.
Bullseye Event Group has earned a reputation as being an industry leader in event hospitality prior to some of the biggest sporting events in the United States. Best described as “culinary events,” Bullseye’s official VIP events offer the opportunity to both see and be seen by some of the biggest names in the entertainment and sporting industries.
Bullseye Event Group offers fans VIP experiences as a secure, official source of travel, hotel, pre-game parties and game tickets. Bullseye is a direct and dependable source for tickets to the Colts VIP Tailgate presented by Hays + Sons, the Saints VIP Tailgate, Super Bowl 54 Travel Packages, the 2020 Players Tailgate at Super Bowl 54 in Miami, Gate 6 Hospitality at The Masters and more. To learn more about Bullseye Event Group, visit BullseyeEventGroup.com or call 317-800-5820.
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Pictured above: The Siteman Cancer Research Mammogram van, courtesy of the Siteman Cancer Center. Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.
Women age 40 and over can get free mammograms today at the Kirkwood Recreation Center, 111 S. Geyer Road, 63122.
Appointments begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5 and conclude at 2 p.m. Mammograms are available at no cost to women with no health insurance.
The service is provided through a partnership with the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine and Susan G. Komen Missouri and St. Louis County’s Office of Community Empowerment.
“Community Empowerment’s main purpose is to marshal resources where they are needed most,” said County Executive Steve Stenger. “Thanks to Siteman Cancer Center and Washington University’s School of Medicine, cancer screenings will be offered to women who otherwise may not have access to these services.”
Siteman’s mobile mammography van uses equipment that emits the lowest possible radiation dose. Each exam takes about 20 minutes and results are reported to the patient within seven to 10 days.
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A valuation for ASC 805 is an appraisal that determines the fair value of the assets acquired, liabilities assumed and non-controlling interests in the acquiree as part of a business combination.
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In July, 2009, when the Financial Accounting Standards Board launched the Accounting Standards Codification (the FASB ASC), the FASB ASC replaced all previously existing financial accounting standards (other than U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission pronouncements) to become the single source of authoritative nongovernmental U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Going forward, instead of issuing new standards (e.g., SFAS 142), the FASB will issue updates to the FASB ASC.
Who is expected to comply with FASB ASC 805 "Business Combinations" (formerly SFAS 141R)?
Any company with GAAP-based financial statements that is contemplating, or has recently entered into a merger or acquisition is affected by SFAS 141 (now referred to as ASC 805, Business Combinations). In addition, the codification explains the procedures for determining the fair value of goodwill under SFAS 142 ASC 350 "impairment testing".
When did ASC 805 become effective?
The codification became effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2008. ASC 805 applies prospectively to business combinations with an acquisition date on or after the beginning of the first annual reporting period beginning on or after December 15, 2008.
A Fair Value appraisal must comply the standard of fair value as defined in ASC 820:
Fair value is the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date.
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What are some of the little known valuation requirements under ASC 805?
One of the little known changes brought about by ASC 805 deals with accounting for contingent assets/liabilities. These contingent considerations may or may not be paid depending on the resolution of certain future events. Under the old rules of FAS 141, contingencies were not recognized until resolved. Under the new codifications, contingencies are to be measured at fair value on the acquisition date. The pronouncement calls for contingencies to be divided into two categories: contractual and non-contractual. Contractual contingencies (such as a warranty) are measured at their estimated fair value as of the acquisition date. Non-contractual contingencies (e.g. lawsuits), are to be measured at fair value only if it is determined that the liability is more likely than not to exist (i.e. probability > 50%) as of the valuation date.
Another often missed valuation modeling item relates to Transaction Costs. Under the original SFAS 141, transaction costs, such as legal and other acquisition closing costs, were included and capitalized as part of the purchase price. SFAS 141(R) requires that transaction costs be expensed.
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Machinery and equipment utilized in manufacturing. This includes equipment associated with food production, automotive, manufacturing, retail, healthcare and power generation, among others.
Patented technology for a leading manufacturer of water filtration products.
Trademarks, trade names and service marks for a consumer brands company.
Franchise agreements, leasehold interests, owned real estate, equipment, leasehold improvements and many other assets for the 2nd, 6th and 88th largest food franchises in the world.
Customer mailing list containing several million customer names for a 1000+ store retailer.
Customer relationship intangible assets ranging from as few as a single customer account to thousands of customer accounts.
Power purchase agreements and conversion services agreements between energy/power producers and utility purchasers.
Fair value determination associated with leasehold improvements of a portfolio of office buildings.
Real estate valuations of numerous industrial coatings and paint manufacturing facilities in Europe, North America and South America.
Equipment valuation of various plant assets and tooling utilized in the manufacture of OEM automotive parts.
Favorable franchise agreements and foregone franchise fees.
ASC 805 valuation of Employment and non-compete agreements with selling shareholders and other key management.
Bank core deposit intangibles.
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Congratulations Mirani
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We are very proud of Mirani Astawa, one of our graduating students, who has achieved a First in State award for Indonesian Language in her HSC. Mirani travelled to Sydney earlier this week to receive her award from Minister Stokes. Congratulations to Mirani, a quiet achiever and dedicated student who truly deserves this wonderful outcome.
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Europa League: Birkirkara shock Hearts
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Europa League: Hearts shocked by Birkirkara; Hibernian lose on penalties
Hearts of Midlothian players walk off dejected after flaming out of Europa League qualifying. PA Sport Images
Hearts of Midlothain were shocked 2-1 at home by Malta's Birkirkara after a goalless first leg. Christian Bubalovic and Edward Herrera's goals rendered Conor Sammon's reply meaningless.
Kevin O'Connor's first-half goal gave Cork a 1-0 win at home to Swedish side Hacken and secured a 2-1 aggregate win which put them into the third qualifying round of the Europa League.
Aberdeen beat Ventspils 1-0 with Adam Rooney on target, completing a 4-0 aggregate win, but there were defeats for Edinburgh rivals Hibernian.
Hibs beat Brondby 1-0 in their second leg, David Gray's goal levelling the tie at 1-1, but lost 5-3 on penalties as John McGinn's opening effort was saved.
Cliftonville's European involvement ended in Cyprus where AEK Larnaca won 2-0 thanks to goals from Vladimir Boljevic and Joan Tomas to secure a 5-2 aggregate win.
The Belfast side had Caoimhin Bonner sent off after just 11 minutes.
The Welsh Premier League's Connah's Quay exited 3-1 on aggregate after Vojvodina extended their 1-0 first-leg lead with two goals from Dejan Meleg, the second a penalty, and Michael Wilde's response midway through the second half could not spark a fightback.
St Patrick's Athletic's creditable 1-1 draw in Belarus last time out counted for nothing as Dinamo Minsk progressed thanks to Gleb Rassadkin's solitary goal in the Dublin return leg.
For more results from Thursday's Europa League action, click here.
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Morsi trial adjourned - Daily News Egypt
Egypt Morsi trial adjourned
Morsi trial adjourned
Clashes erupt in different areas
Mostafa Salem January 8, 2014 2 Comments
An opponent to the Muslim Brotherhood set fire to a portrait of ousted president Mohamed Morsi during a demonstration outside the police academy where was supposed to take place the second hearing in his murder trial on January 8, 2014 in Cairo.
(AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI)
The second trial session for ousted President Mohamed Morsi and 14 others was postponed to 1 February by the Cairo Criminal Court on Wednesday after Morsi failed to appear in court.
The fifteen are all charged for the presidential palace clashes that occurred on 5 December 2012, which left five dead and 693 injured. The trial is being held at the police academy in the fifth settlement for security reasons.
Morsi was set to be transported from Borg Al-Arab Prison in Alexandria by helicopter but “bad weather” prevented the flight, as per the Ministry of Interior. According to the Borg Al-Arab airport website, all other early morning flights departed on time.
Morsi’s defence team was present, including lawyers Mohamed Al-Damaty and Mohamed Selim Al-Awa.
Several pro-Morsi protesters gathered in front of the court but were detained almost immediately. The Ministry of Interior announced that they have arrested 17 Muslim Brotherhood members outside the courthouse after rioting.Protesters then regrouped in Nasr City where heavy clashes ensued.
Other individuals on trial include Morsi’s office manager Ahmed Abdel Atty, his assistant Ayman Abdel Raouf, former Deputy Chief of Staff Asaad El-Sheikha, Deputy Chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) Essam El-Erian, senior FJP member Mohamed El-Beltagy, conservative preacher Wagdi Ghoneim, and activists Abdel Rahman Ezz, Ahmed Al-Mogheer and Alaa Hamza.Seven of these members are being tried in absentia.
The former president was ousted by the military after nationwide protests on 30 June; he is standing two other trials where he is facing charges of espionage and prison escape.
The Anti-Coup Alliance, a Muslim Brotherhood support group,expressed its concern regarding the safety of Morsi“especially after no visitors were allowed to visit him recently”, saying in a statement that they would hold the regime responsible for any harm that is inflicted upon the “kidnapped president”.
The Anti-Coup Alliance has also said that “Morsi’s harm could cause the nation to enter a state of uncertainty”, before denouncing the “excessive violence inflicted on protesters in Nasr City and calling on protesters to demonstrate today”.
According to state-run Al-Ahram, pro-Morsi protesters set fire to five vehicles, including a Central Security Forces vehicle, in Nasr City after the trial.
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The Killer Cat Pack
“OKAY, OKAY. So hang me. I killed the bird. For pity’s sake, I’m a cat.”
Tuffy the Killer Cat is the original murderous mog – with a sharp tongue, even sharper teeth, and a cunning, cruel nature. If only his silly owner Ellie wasn’t such a soft-hearted sop, the Killer Cat would have the whole world at his mercy. As things are, he’ll have to make do with the neighbourhood mice, birds and, um, rabbits! But what with unexplained deaths among the local pets, vandalised art projects and birthday parties that unleash total chaos, Tuffy’s out to prove that he’s a cat with bite! From celebrated author Anne Fine, these easy-read tales about an evil-tempered mog bristle with killer laughs.
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Award-winning novelist Anne Fine has written more than 50 books for adults and children.
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Esther Enkin is a specialist on journalism ethics. She is the former English Services Ombudsman for CBC/Radio-Canada, Canada’s largest public broadcaster, and immediate past president of the worldwide Organization of News Ombudsmen and Standards Editors (ONO).
As the CBC ombudsman, she undertook nearly 400 reviews of editorial practices in response to audience enquiries, with written findings that considered the journalistic ethics in each instance. Previously, Esther was Executive Editor for CBC News, with responsibility for news standards and their interpretation. She led a comprehensive updating of CBC’s Journalistic Standards and Practices code, including new provisions for digital publishing and social media.
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The X-15, Saturn, and the Finer Points of Bad Behavior
My father introduced me to model airplane kits, and I was hooked. I always enjoyed the fun of learning about the airplanes, selecting the “next one,” working through the pieces of the kit, adding paint and decals, getting my fingers glued together, and finally adding each finished airplane to the growing collection on the shelves above my desk.
One of the last kits I assembled, and the strangest of the lot, was the X-15 rocket plane, a sleek, black experimental needle with stubby wings and a chunky tail. It was a real death trap, basically a seat bolted to the front of a liquid-fueled rocket engine, and the USA’s first successful attempt to fly an airplane to the edge of space and back.
It was an inspiring airplane, the coolest ever to an inquisitive boy growing up during the Cold War and the excitement of the Space Race.
As it happens, that airplane was also the inspiration for an unusual tiki drink, a gin-based concoction known originally as the X-15 Cocktail.
The X-15 cocktail was the creation of J. “Popo” Galsini, reputed to be one of the best tiki bartenders of the 1950s and ’60s. According to Jeff Berry’s Beachbum Berry Remixed , Galsini was working at the Kona Kai in Huntington Beach, California, apparently a favorite watering hole for the Douglas Aircraft engineers who designed the rocket plane. The cocktail was his tribute to their ingenuity.
But in October, 1967, shortly after he introduced the drink, one of the X-15s crashed. Pilot Michael Adams died in the mishap, and Galsini decided to abandon the X-15 name. He renamed his drink the Saturn Cocktail, and it is under that name that the drink won the 1967 International Bartender’s Association World Cocktail Championship.
(I like to think that Galsini chose the name “Saturn” to continue the “man-in-space” motif, this time saluting the Saturn V rocket that propelled the first manned Apollo flight in November, 1967 — three weeks after Adams’ fatal X-15 crash.)
So what is the Saturn Cocktail?
The Saturn is that rare breed, a gin-based tiki drink. Though the rum is displaced, many of the typical tiki ingredients are present—orgeat, falernum, passionfruit syrup, and fresh citrus juice.
Another difference from typical tiki is that the Saturn has a very low alcohol content. Mostly juice, syrups and ice, it contains less than one shot of gin. It’s actually lighter than a gin-and-tonic or Tom Collins—unless you’re counting calories.
The Saturn Cocktail
Berry quotes an Orange County Register interview with Galsini where the bartender, asked what makes a perfect drink, said “I mix them the way I like them, and I guess other people like them, too.”
Here’s the way Galsini liked his Saturn, according to Berry:
Saturn Cocktail
J. “Popo” Galsini, 1967
½ oz fresh lemon juice
½ oz passion fruit syrup
¼ oz falernum
¼ oz orgeat syrup
1¼ oz gin
8 oz (1 cup) crushed ice
Put everything in blender. Blend until smooth. Pour unstrained into a pilsner glass.
The Saturn is not as sweet as the proportion of syrups to citrus would suggest. Instead, it’s light and fresh, and the lemony brightness comes through without an aggessive sour note. I can’t explain that, but I speculate it has to do with the blenderized, “slushy” texture of the drink.
The nose is very light, as you might expect with a thick icy slush filling the glass, but it has just a hint of gin and lemon.
The first taste conveys the brightness of the lemon, then the passionfruit, and finally, just barely, the more earthy, nutty flavors of the falernum and orgeat. The result is fruity, complex, and refreshing. Curiously, the gin seems barely present at all.
Considering the Finer Points of Bad Behavior
Search results for the Saturn invariably turn up Berry’s recipe as repeated here. It’s a credit to his research and Galsini’s skill that it has remained stable.
But that’s not to say that there aren’t variations. As with any tiki drink, it is a fine jumping off place for experiments. Imbibe magazine just published (September–October 2015) an excellent riff on the Saturn by Gregg Jackson and Thor Messer of the Merchant, in Madison, Wisconsin. They call it The Finer Points of Bad Behavior.
Jackson and Messer’s version takes a more “spirited” approach to the Saturn.
Bad Behavior adds in a couple rums — so noticeably missing from Galsini’s model — plus two juices, two kinds of bitters, and a combined honey-passionfruit syrup. Don the Beachcomber would have been proud.
The Finer Points of Bad Behavior
The Merchant’s version also plays with the orgeat syrup. Instead of the traditional almond-based syrup, Jackson and Messer opted for a homemade pistachio orgeat.
Gregg Jackson and Thor Messer, Merchant, Madison WI
1 oz navy-strength gin
¾ oz rhum agricole blanc
½ oz Velvet falernum
¼ oz dark Jamaican rum
½ oz pistachio orgeat
½ oz lime juice
¼ oz lemon juice
½ oz honey-passionfruit syrup (2:1)
2 dashes Bittercube Jamaica #1 bitters (or sub Angostura)
Combine all ingredients and shake with crushed ice. Strain into hurricane glass, and top with more crushed ice. Optionally, garnish with cherry and orchid.
The Finer Points of Bad Behavior is a far more complex drink than Saturn, as you would expect from the numerous additions to the recipe. The flavors are much more earthy, with the grassiness of the rhum agricole, the grassy and floral herbality of the honey, the spices of the bitters, and the classic funk of Jamaican rum.
I made up a batch of pistachio orgeat to test this recipe, but as far as Bad Behavior is concerned, I don’t think it was worth it—the nut flavor seems to be lost entirely under the rum. Arguably, you could jack up the amount of orgeat in the mix, but that would also sweeten the mix. (For what it’s worth, pistachio orgeat on its own is quite delicious; I’m looking for other drinks that might show it to better advantage.)
While the recipe is clearly Saturn-inspired, the earthy, rum-driven flavors would never bring the gin-only original to mind.
Bad Behavior is not a light, summery refresher. I can’t explain it, but something about it reminds me of a good glass of sherry on a winter evening—peculiar for a tiki drink. Maybe that’s where the “bad behavior” starts to creep in. If so, Jackson and Messer certainly have addressed the “finer points.”
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8 thoughts on “The X-15, Saturn, and the Finer Points of Bad Behavior”
Bruce Caple
Douglas, I well remember those models. Also the New Yorker cartoon of the two crones carrying fishing poles approaching the stream and saying….
Good to hear from you, Bruce. I’m thinking back to good times in the old neighborhood.
cyprismilan
This drink looks and sounds amazing!! I can not wait to give it a try! Being a bartender im always looking for yummy drinks to give a try! Thanks so so much!
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Have an amazing night!
I’d say give them both a try. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
K. Muse (@MuseOfDoom)
Oh, the Saturn.. a fine recipe-lesson in the necessity of blending/diluting some cocktails to ensure the sweetness doesn’t win out. Incidentally, I’ve been living in Saturn-variant-land somewhat recently, and I might have just the ticket if you’re looking to expand the use of your pistachio orgeat, sir – provided you don’t mind making a batch (very small, about 1/2 a cup) of specialty Meyer lemon falernum. The cocktail is the Telesto – in retrospect it might be a little booze-heavy at 2 oz – but the earthy richness of the pistachio orgeat fits like a glove with the lightness of the Meyer lemon. http://feu-de-vie.blogspot.com/2015/07/meyer-lemon-falernum-telesto.html
Telesto looks like a tasty item, and I look forward to trying it out Real Soon Now—after I make a batch of your falernum.
And your link reminds me: I forgot to include the pistachio orgeat recipe, I’ll have to correct that today. (It’s very similar to the one you provide at your link.)
Thanks for the note, and recipes!
Uma's healthy bites
Sounds interesting!!!!
Carlos Sempere
Last night I realized… Douglas engineers weren’t working on the X-15; it was a North American Aviation project. I looked into it a little more and Douglas was involved in an earlier, competing project that resulted in helpful insights, but it wasn’t the same. North American had an office half an hour away – I don’t know what bar culture was like back then, but it sounds a little far for them to have been regulars.
So now I wonder if the rename was not only due to the tragic accident, but also due to Galsini finding out that the X-15 wasn’t Douglas’s and changing to a more appropriate name. Douglas did design part of the Saturn V.
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I am the sort of person that prefers time divided up into centuries. All the same, sometimes 1911 seems long ago and a whole world away. Last night, I was lucky enough to encounter Joe Hill before the blues.
The Preacher and the Slave
Long-haired preachers come out every night,
Try to tell you what’s wrong and what’s right;
But when asked how ’bout something to eat
They will answer in voices so sweet
You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay,
You’ll get pie in the sky when you die
The Rebel Girl
There are women of many descriptions
In this queer world, as everyone knows.
Some are living in beautiful mansions,
And are wearing the finest of clothes.
There are blue blooded queens and princesses,
Who have charms made of diamonds and pearl;
But the only and thoroughbred lady
Is the Rebel Girl.
This song was written for Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, an iconic IWW suffragette. It was, of course, to be found in Zinn’s Peoples’ History of America, where I discovered entire generations of rebels and poets. Hill wrote dozens of songs to buck up the roaring revolutionary spirit of the early 1900s, a spirit our age has all but lost to cynicism and the internet- not an altogether bad trade, one could argue, but those are the blues talking. Most of them are uneven-certainly the rest of Rebel Girl is no lyrical wonder. Hill was far more than a songwriter, though, he was a bard in the last generations to have had minstrels proper, before the talkies and television.
The many folk songs he promoted/wrote/gathered were a vital conduit from an oral culture to a recording one, and have survived all the way to the digital century. The Grateful Dead would recycle (and reinterpret for acidheads) one of them in the folk-revival: Casey Jones, the story of a heroic railway engineer who died alone trying to prevent a train crash. They also recorded the traditional ballad Hill would’ve strummed (I’ve included a Johnny Cash version of the ballad at the end of this post). Hill himself has been the muse for many later folk-greats, from Dylan to Baez, and they have made his controversial death the stuff of legend
When encountered with his own mortality, Hill has only this to say-
My body? – Oh. – If I could choose
I would to ashes it reduce
And let the merry breezes blow
My dust to where some flowers grow
Perhaps some fading flower then
Would come to life and bloom again
I wonder, if he had found a Decca Mitford, would we be faced with the unlikely American who out-romillied Romilly? I’ll take a bard over a journalist any day.
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Srijoni June 24, 2010 at 11:50 am #
I somehow realised for the first time yesterday that the oldest great-aunt, who I caught at a multiplex with her daughter-in-law watching Prince of Persia the other day (having neglected to tell her son), was born in 1915. Sometimes those other worlds aren’t so far away after all
chaosbogey June 24, 2010 at 12:06 pm #
My first comment and a full century of views! Joni, it is proving a most exciting day at the blog. Also today I found myself comparing a map of Charlemagne’s empire to one of Constantine’s.
I had to draw them first, but things look up.
And, goodness, a 95-year old subjecting herself to Prince of Persia? Jake Gyllenhaal is a wondrous man.
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Down Syndrome and Dementia: Seizures and Cognitive Decline
Authors: Lott, Ira T.a; b; * | Doran, Erica | Nguyen, Vinh Q.c | Tournay, Annea | Movsesyan, Ninaa | Gillen, Daniel L.c
Affiliations: [a] Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine (UCI), Orange, CA, USA | [b] Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine (UCI), Irvine, CA, USA | [c] Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine (UCI), Irvine, CA, USA
Correspondence: [*] Correspondence to: Ira T. Lott, MD, UC Irvine Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics ZC 4482, 101 The City Dr., Orange, CA 92868, USA. Tel.: +1 (714) 456 5333; Fax: +1 (714) 456 8466; E-mail: itlott@uci.edu.
Abstract: The objective of this study was to determine the association of seizures and cognitive decline in adults with Down syndrome (DS) and Alzheimer's-type dementia. A retrospective data analysis was carried out following a controlled study of antioxidant supplementation for dementia in DS. Observations were made at baseline and every 6 months for 2 years. Seizure history was obtained from study records. The primary outcome measures comprised the performance-based Severe Impairment Battery (SIB) and Brief Praxis Test (BPT). Secondary outcome measures comprised the informant-based Dementia Questionnaire for Mentally Retarded Persons and Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales. Because a large proportion of patients with seizures had such severe cognitive decline as to become untestable on the performance measures, time to “first inability to test” was measured. Adjustments were made for the potentially confounding co-variates of age, gender, APOE4 status, baseline cognitive impairment, years since dementia onset at baseline, and treatment assignment. The estimated odds ratio for the time to “first inability to test” on SIB comparing those with seizures to those without is 11.02 (95% CI: 1.59, 76.27), a ratio that is significantly different from 1 (p = 0.015). Similarly, we estimated an odds ratio of 9.02 (95% CI: 1.90, 42.85) on BPT, a ratio also significantly different than 1 (p = 0.006). Results from a secondary analysis of the informant measures showed significant decline related to seizures. We conclude that there is a strong association of seizures with cognitive decline in demented individuals with DS. Prospective studies exploring this relationship in DS are indicated.
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, dementia, Down syndrome, seizures
Accepted 21 November 2011
Published: 2 March 2012
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Kernel of Truth season 2 episode 2: The future of the Linux Kernel
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US consumers eat a lot of beef. The nation’s beef cattle production industry is a multi-faceted, complex supply chain which makes it an area rich for discussion about information practices, yet vulnerable to problems such as disease and terrorist attack. This research looks at cattle identification and traceability information resources that are accessible to beef cattle producers through two web channels: the state cooperative Extension website and the state Department of Agriculture website. This is a state by state content analysis of all fifty states to look at the topics, types, formats, quality, and interactivity of the available resources. By merging two information frameworks, one with theoretical attention to components of access to information and one with applied attention to government information valuation measures, the research demonstrates an analysis process that connects state cattle producer demographics for comparison with aspects of the available cattle identification and traceability information from that state. This includes visualizing the nation as a whole and comparing state-based similarities and differences, illuminating areas of strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in contextually congruent information for the producer and stakeholder populations.
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Boehm, Reid Isaac, “Dimensions of Access to Traceability Information for US Beef Cattle Producers: Merging Information Frameworks for Assessment and Visualization of State Web-Based Resources in an Effort to Strengthen National Security Connections between Government and Cattle Farming Operations. ” PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 2015. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/3400
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As he left the White Home this morning, he had an exchange with CBS News White Home reporter Paula Reid about Mueller’s remarks. Reid pointed out that Mueller did not exonerate him. “He couldn’t clear you,” she mentioned.
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Reid advised him that Mueller had stated he wouldn’t make that declaration due to the fact that it would be unreasonable.
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Mr. Trump and his White House think about Mueller’s conclusions a vindication of the president, who appeared to tweet — whether deliberately or not– that Russia helped him to get elected, just to stroll back that claim minutes later
Russia, Russia, Russia! That’s all you heard at the start of this Witch Hunt Scam,” the president tweeted Thursday morning. “And now Russia has actually disappeared due to the fact that I had absolutely nothing to do with Russia assisting me to get chosen. It was a criminal activity that didn’t exist. So now the Dems and their partner, the Fake News Media … say he battled back against this counterfeit criminal offense that didn’t exist, this horrendous incorrect allegation, and he should not battle back, he should simply kick back and take it. Could this be Obstruction? No, Mueller didn’t find Blockage either. Presidential Harassment!”
Moments later, the president told press reporters Russia didn’t help him get chosen, and Russia instead helped the opposite– Hillary Clinton.
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Tag: Haali Hadaga
Long before Jagjit Singh was singing a soulful ghazal about the lost childhood of paper boats and even longer before paper boat was a quirky, new-age brand with attractive packaging, Da Ra Bendre was writing a sonnet about the paper boat. Not a run-of-the-mill sonnet, mind you, that merely romanticized the innocence of his childhood days – but rather an image-rich oct-sestet (ಅಷ್ಟಷತ್ಪದಿ) that even now stands out for what Bendre himself described as “the strangeness of the twist imparted [when moving from the octet to the sestet]”.
Given the strangeness of this twist – its ಚಮತ್ಕಾರ (chamatkāra (n): ~ wonder) – and the various interpretations it allows for, I think this a good time to say something about what it means to translate poetry like Bendre’s — poetry that is not just remarkably euphonic but frequently rich in meaning, in suggestion, in allusion, in metaphor, in native imagery.
Like I say in the About section, my translation (or transcreation) has always looked to avoid the trap of “literalness” and offer, instead, the spirit of the original poem. But what if that spirit itself is one of mystery or elusiveness or ambiguity or complexity or all these things at the same time? Does “literalness” gain importance then?
Well, in such a case, I’d say the duty of the translation or transcreation becomes to retain, to the extent possible, the poem’s qualities, with the caveat that it never (deliberately) stretches past the original’s own reach. (An example of stretching past the original’s reach to create a kind of “fusion” is Fitzgerald’s rendering of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat. He is said to have taken so many liberties with the original that his immensely-popular work is often referred to as the Omar-Fitzgerald Rubaiyat. Fitzgerald apparently called his work a “transmogrification”.)
The retention can be effected in different ways: by seeking to understand the poem’s nuances of meaning and suggestion and using that learning to create a translation that is itself nuanced, though perhaps in a different way; or, in the case of a poem that challenges the translator’s understanding, by offering a translation that challenges its reader in equivalent fashion.
This particular poem is one whose “strangeness of twist” I cannot claim to have “fully understood”. Consequently, I have tried to present a translation that retains – as literally as possible – the imagery of the original. After all, like I have said before, my reason for translating a Bendre poem is often my own desire to better understand the poem.
Kannada Poem Recitation:
https://darabendreinenglish.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/haali-hadaga-kannada.mp3
I will set sail these paper boats,
Like one would do in boyish play,
Until the cloud-hid sun shines forth again;
(The scrap of home will be its load.)
Within this mud-watered-unity
That marries the culvert and the lake,
Let the current chart its destiny:
What is a flimsy boat against a crazy rain-and-breeze?
Let the books account the profit and the loss;
What I praised in wonder-dance is here.
The heart, like cloth, crumples and fades,
The breath is dimmed by hunger and by thirst;
Building varied fairied lands, making channels
Flood happily, cutting and sniff-scattering
The jasmine-of-the-skies, and breathing life
Into the pictures of the mind, comes forth
A heaven that has birthed itself.
https://darabendreinenglish.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/paper-boat-english.mp3
Poem Details: From the collection, “ಉಯ್ಯಾಲೆ”, first published in 1938.
Author Madhav AjjampurPosted on September 7, 2019 September 9, 2019 Tags Ambikatanayadatta, Ashtashatpadi, Bendre in English, Da Ra Bendre, Haali Hadaga, Kannada Poetry, Kannada Sonnet, Kannada to English, Kannada to English Translation, Oct-sestet, Paper Boat, Paper Boat (Poem), Poem About Childhood, Some Thoughts on Translation, Sonnet With a Twist, Translated Poetry, Unrhymed Poem, Uyyale, Uyyale CollectionLeave a comment on Paper Boat (ಹಾಳಿ ಹಡಗ)
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Leveling Up: Ensuring Your Tests are Valuable
This article was originally published in PHP|Architect magazine in the March 2016 issue. These articles are all copyright by David Stockton. You may be able to purchase the issue here.
What is Code Coverage?
What Makes a Valuable Test?
Random Input For Tests
Ensuring Tests Are Effective
Enter Humbug
Humbug Mutations
Using Humbug to Improve Your Tests
Writing tests for our code and applications is critical. It gives us a repeatable, reliable way to ensure the code we write does what it should do and doesn’t do what it shouldn’t. Often, code coverage is used as a way to measure how much of a codebase is tested, but it only tells part of the story. More importantly than reaching the fabled 100% code coverage metric, we should be concentrating on building valuable tests.
Code coverage in unit tests is a measurement of which lines of code are executed during a run of tests. If you’ve got Xdebug installed and run your test suite, you have the option of outputting code coverage data in a number of formats, including XML, HTML, or even PHP arrays with each line of each file listed along with whether it was executed or not. In the HTML report, if the line was run, it is colored green and if it was not executed, it has a red/pink background. If your tests run every line of code in your application, you’ll see 100% code coverage. The coverage report will give you numbers and percentages by file, class, and line.
There’s a very important distinction, however, between ensuring that 100% of the lines of code are executed and 100% of the lines of code are tested. Relatively speaking, it’s “easy” to get to 100% code coverage, but it’s very difficult to ensure 100% of the lines of code are tested. In this article we’ll be talking about ensuring that the lines of code that are covered are covered because they’ve been effectively tested.
In my opinion, there are a couple of aspects that make tests valuable. If the test helps ensure that the code does what it should do and doesn’t do what it shouldn’t, then it is valuable. If the test provides a safety net that ensure that refactoring doesn’t break things, then it’s valuable. So our benefits that we’re looking for in the test are that changes to our code that don’t break things should be easier since we’ll know if we’ve goofed and broken things, and changes that do break things should cause test failures so we know when important behavior that we rely on is no longer happening.
Unfortunately, not all tests are valuable. Some tests make it hard to change code for no real good reason. Typically these are tests that get too deep into the implementation of the code under test. Ideally, most of our tests will send input into a method and ensure the output or return value is what is expected. For simple “pure function” tests, this isn’t too hard. But in the real world, we’re going to be testing things that have side-effects, or dependencies, and walking the line between providing valuable assurances and tying ourselves to a specific implementation can be very difficult without making the test fragile or removing any assertions that actually cause the test to actually test something.
Other aspects that make a test valuable is that it must be consistent. What I mean is that if you run the test against the same code over and over, the result should always be the same. If the test fails, it should fail every time it is run until we either change the code or we change the test. Tests that inconsistently pass or fail on subsequent runs are less valuable because they introduce doubt into the process of running the tests. If there is doubt then developers learn to mistrust the tests or ignore build failures. This isn’t to say that all your tests should necessarily use static input. I’m a big fan of using appropriate random inputs in some tests. I know not everyone agrees, so let’s take a look at some examples and reasons.
When following the standard TDD approach to building software, the normal loop is to write a test, run it, see it fail, then write the minimum code to make sure all the tests are passing. What that means is that once you’ve been writing code like this for a bit, you end up with a first test that is trivial, and code that is equally trivial. For instance in the following snippet from a PHPUnit test:
public function testAddCanAddTwoAndTwo()
$this->assertEquals(4, $this->calculator->add(2, 2));
If we’re building a simple calculator using TDD, and this is our first test, then the simplest code that makes it work is something like this:
class Calculator
public function add($x, $y)
At this point, we have a fully functional calculator that correctly works and returns 100% correct results for adding any two numbers as long as the two values we add total to four. However, it fails pretty badly on all the other sets of input. In order to get the next level of being able to add up other values besides those that add to four, we add another test:
public function testAddCanAddTwoAndThree()
$this->assertEquals(5, $this->calculator(3, 2));
With this test in place, the simple return 4; code no longer suffices. But, it doesn’t completely guarantee that the code will be correct though. In fact, the following code will pass these two tests, but it’s actually an even worse calculator adding function:
if ($x == 3) {
Now clearly going from what we had to this is ridiculous, but it illustrates why I do like to use random inputs on occasion, and when I know the inputs will be within an acceptable range. Let’s take a look at the test with random inputs:
public function testTheCalculatorCanAddInputs()
$x = rand(1, 10000000);
$y = rand(1, 10000000);
$this->assertEquals($x + $y, $this->calculator->add($x, $y));
With this code in place, in all likelihood our calculator add method will end up being return $x + $y;. If we know the inputs are going to be integers or numeric values then this method is likely all we’ll need. Of course if we can’t be sure of the incoming values, then we’ll need more tests and more results to be able to ensure the behavior is as expected. Perhaps the calculator needs to throw an exception if it is passed non-numeric strings, or objects, or arrays. Or maybe we need to ensure that we have some expected behavior if the two values add up to something larger than PHP_MAX_INT. Each of these situations would require additional tests.
Now clearly the “add” is trivial and silly, and we’re really duplicating all the work the method does right there in the test. But randomly generated values can also be a good way to ensure that your parameters are being used appropriately. If you’ve build a class that performs a SQL query, perhaps one of your incoming parameters will be an id. By randomizing that id, and then asserting that the mock database object sees that same random value, you’ve pretty close to guaranteed that the incoming id is being sent into the query.
Let’s explore another situation that has a more limited input scope for what would be consider valid and invalid. Suppose we want to build a validator that ensure some incoming value is a string containing between 12 and 16 digits. In order to thoroughly test, we’d want to test that the validator return an invalid response for inputs that are empty or up to eleven characters, as well as an invalid response for inputs over 17 characters. Next we want to ensure that inputs that are between 12 and 16 characters but are not just digits will be invalid.
The following test illustrates is an example of a test with random inputs that will pass most of the time but not always and unfortunately, closely mirrors some real tests I have seen in real project code. These are the types of tests we want to avoid because they cannot be trusted.
public function testStringsWithLettersAreInvalid()
$length = rand(12, 16);
$string = substr(md5(uniqid(), 0, $length);
$this->assertFalse($this->validator->isValid($string));
On the surface, it looks decent. We’re testing a string with the valid length range of 12 to 16, and we’re build the random string from the result of md5 on a random string. The output of md5 is a 32 character string made up of lowercase hexadecimal digits (essentially, 0-9 and a-f). Most of the time, this test will work. However, a problem happens because sometimes, md5 will return a hash that is entirely digits, or even more commonly, the first 12-16 characters could consist of just numbers. Whenever this happens, this test will fail because the resulting string will be counted as valid when the test expects an invalid response. Tests that include random values that do not always fall within the correct or expected domain are bad and should be avoided. What I mean by this is that the test is always expecting to have a generated value that is invalid. However, the code that generates this input will sometimes generate a valid input. So we’ve now violated the domain of inputs by generating an input that crosses the boundary between invalid and valid.
At this point, I’m ready to start talking about the tool and concept that I hinted at last month. The concept is known as mutation testing. If our tests are supposed to let us know when the code is broken, then making certain small logic changes to the code should result in a test failure. If it doesn’t then we can be reasonably certain that our test suite doesn’t adequately test some parts of our code.
Let’s take a look at a simple setter/getter and a test.
public function setFoo($foo)
$this->foo = $foo;
return $this;
public function getFoo()
return $this->foo;
The test for this could look like this:
public testClassCanStoreAFooValue()
$value = uniqid('foo_value_');
$this->thingToTest->setFoo($value);
$this->assertEquals($value, $this->thingToTest->getFoo());
If we were to run this, we’d see that we’ve managed to get 100% code coverage on the setFoo and getFoo methods. However, not all the lines of code are actually tested. There’s nothing in that test that ensures that the setFoo method is providing a fluent interface and there may be code that relies on it. If we removed the return $this line of code from the setter, the test would continue to pass.
In late 2014, Pádraic Brady made the first commits to his mutation testing tool known as Humbug. The tool inspects the tests and code under test and determines a number of changes that can be made. For instance, Humbug will find the return $this; line and change it to return null;. It will then run the unit tests and if nothing fails, it counts that run as an ‘escaped mutant’. If the test fail, then the mutant has been killed and the test was effective.
Installation instructions for Humbug can be found on the Humbug github page1. In order to execute Humbug, you must first have a working (read passing) unit test suite. Humbug will execute it, figuring out what code is covered. It will then run through an determine what mutations are possible. Then one at a time, it will change the code with each mutation for the lines of code that are covered and run the test suite. If running the test suite results in a test failure, a fatal error or a timeout, it considers that the mutation has been detected by the test suite. If the test suite passes, then it considers the mutant as having escaped.
Let’s take a look at how it can work. First of all, you need a project with some sort of PHPUnit test suite. After you install Humbug, you’ll need to generate a configuration file for Humbug. This is done with humbug configure. It will prompt you to enter a few values: the source directories you want to include, any you want to exclude, how long Humbug should wait before saying the test timed out, and where to store the logs, both text and json.
Once that’s in place, you run Humbug with humbug run. Let’s take a look at some code samples to go along with all of this.
Listing 1 is the ValueObject class. For right now, it’s just a simple class that holds some value in a variable named foo. There are a setter and getter for foo, which will be the subject of our tests.
namespace LevelUp;
class ValueObject
private $foo;
* @return mixed|null
* Sets the foo value for the object
* @param mixed $foo
Listing 2 is the test for the ValueObject class. It’s testing that whatever is passed into the setter for foo is what we get back out from the getter. With these two files in place, along with the appropriate autoloading and phpunit.xml config, we have a passing unit test suite with a single test. We have to have a passing unit test suite for Humbug to work.
namespace LevelUpTest;
use LevelUp\ValueObject;
class ValueObjectTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
/** @var ValueObject */
private $valueObject;
$this->valueObject = new ValueObject();
public function testItCanStoreAFoo()
$foo = uniqid('something_');
$this->valueObject->setFoo($foo);
$this->assertEquals($foo, $this->valueObject->getFoo());
Listing 3 shows the result of humbug run. What happens initially upon running Humbug is that it executes your test suite, and looks at all the code that is mentioned in the coverage report. If you’ve enabled phpunit to process all uncovered files from your whitelist, then you’ll potentially see a whole lot of work being done. Humbug looks at the lines of code listed and looks for potential mutations. We’ll talk about what those mutations are shortly. Once it has identified all the mutations it will only run the ones that involve code that is covered. For this example, that’s all of them because there is so little code. The M in the output indicates that the mutation that was generated was not caught by our tests. Humbug also includes a few metrics to let us know how things went. The Mutation Score Indicator (MSI) indicates how many of the mutations are caught or killed. In this example, it’s 0% since they all escaped. Mutation code coverage indicates how much of the codebase is covered by the mutations that are executed. Finally the Covered Code MSI indicates how many of the executed mutants were killed or detected.
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Humbug version 1.0.0-alpha1-18-gd102496
Humbug running test suite to generate logs and code coverage data...
1 [==========================================================] 1 sec
Humbug has completed the initial test run successfully.
Tests: 1 Line Coverage: 100.00%
Humbug is analysing source files...
Mutation Testing is commencing on 2 files...
(.: killed, M: escaped, S: uncovered, E: fatal error, T: timed out)
1 mutations were generated:
0 mutants were killed
0 mutants were not covered by tests
1 covered mutants were not detected
0 fatal errors were encountered
0 time outs were encountered
Mutation Score Indicator (MSI): 0%
Mutation Code Coverage: 100%
Covered Code MSI: 0%
Remember that some mutants will inevitably be harmless (i.e. false positives).
Time: 232 milliseconds Memory: 7.00MB
Humbug results are being logged as JSON to: humbuglog.json
Humbug results are being logged as TEXT to: humbuglog.txt
The log files that are generated are very useful as well. While they don’t show every potential mutation found or even run, it does show any of the mutations that escaped and what the change was. Listing 4 shows the log for our first run with the sample code. Or rather, it shows part of the log. The text from Listing 3 showed what appears on the command line when Humbug is run. That same output also appears in the humbug log but I’ve removed it for inclusion here. Looking at Listing 4, we can find that the mutation that was not detected or killed was to transform the return $this; from our setter to return null;. Since the test didn’t test that the method is fluent, changing the setter to be non-fluent did not induce a test failure, and the mutation was not caught.
1) \Humbug\Mutator\ReturnValue\This
Diff on \LevelUp\ValueObject::setFoo() in /Users/davidstockton/Projects/humbug_demo/src/LevelUp/ValueObject.php:
--- Original
+++ New
@@ @@
- return $this;
+ return null;
Unlike a phpunit run where dots are typically the only good thing and all you want to see, in a Humbug run, it is different. Of course dots are the best, but E and T may be acceptable as well. E indicates that the mutation resulted in a fatal error when the tests were run. A T indicates that the test timed out. This can happen because a mutation could introduce an infinite loop. There are two other letters that may appear. An S indicates that none of the tests covered that line of code (or specifically the mutation). An M means that a mutation was found, the code was changed but the tests still passed. We want to avoid escaped mutants. For our simple value object, we need to add another test or assertion that ensures that the setter is fluent.
We can update the setter test to this:
$result = $this->valueObject->setFoo($foo);
$this->assertSame($this->valueObject, $result);
Now if we run Humbug again, we get a single dot. We also achieve 100% in all of the metrics indicating that we’ve got 100% for traditional code coverage as well coverage that ensures all mutations were caught and killed.
There are a number of code patterns that Humbug looks for to introduce mutations. We’ve already talked about changing a return $this; to return null;. Additionally, Humbug will change + signs to - and vice versa. It will exchange * and /. The modulus operator (%) will become multiplication. Raising to a power with ** will turn into a division operation. It will change += to -= and *= to /=. In bitwise operators, it will exchange & and | and swap the direction of the >> and << bitshift operators.
For logic changes, true and false, && and || are never safe when Humbug is around. It will swap them for the other where they are found. The same goes for and and or. If it finds the not (!) operator, it will simply remove it and see if your tests notice. For inequalities, a strict greater than (>) is transformed to a >=, while a < turns into a <=. The opposite directions also apply. It will change conditionals like == to their negated != versions. The increment (++) and decrement (--) operators will be swapped too.
It will mutate return values as we saw before, but it will swap return true and return false, as well as changing things like return 0 to return 1. In addition, any return (anything); will be changed to (anything); return;. Some literal numbers like 0 and 1 will be changed whenever found. And there are more that fall into these categories that I haven’t listed. In short, Humbug will identify and potentially make a lot of changes to the code you’re testing to see if your tests are really testing that the code does what it should. What this means is, the more code you’re testing, and especially if it falls into any of the above categories or samples, a plethora of mutations can be identified and potentially be executed. While this isn’t slow, it’s definitely not fast. If your code takes perhaps 5 or 10 seconds to run your tests normally, running the mutation tests could take 5 or 10 times longer to execute.
The code I work with most often is a Zend Framework 2 application. Each module has its own test suite separated from all the other test suites. One thing that I found helpful when working with Humbug was to pick a module, run Humbug and then use the output to improve the tests. For a module with no actual tests, I might have an entire block of just S tests indicated there’s no code coverage to start. So I can then pick a class and set about writing tests for the methods in the class. Then I’ll run Humbug again and see how it changes the output. Whatever lines of code I’ve managed to cover with PHPUnit will now change from an S in Humbug to something else. In some cases, I may get lucky and get a dot (.) from the start. In other cases, I may see some escaped mutant, M tests. There may also be some E or T tests as well.
I then concentrate on killing as many mutants as I can. Ideally, I don’t want to stop while there are any M tests left. The log file is very useful because it will show a diff format on the bit of code that changed for each escaped mutant and I can use that to move forward and devise a test that will catch and kill the mutant. In some cases, the best I can do is an E or a T test. Some of the time, I may make an effort to restructure my original code in such a way that I can convert those to a .. After I’ve had enough for the day, I’ll remove my Humbug configs and logs and commit the test and code changes into source control.
I haven’t been automatically running Humbug on the continuous integration servers because I feel it would dramatically increase the run time of the builds and we’re not always going to be paying attention to the Humbug output. Instead, I’d rather focus on improving the tests a bit at a time and then ensuring that the result of those exercises are run automatically by the CI server. That seems to bring the biggest bang for the buck with this type of testing.
Mutation testing with Humbug is a powerful way to ensure that your tests are worthwhile and that they are actually testing your code in a meaningful way. If the tests you have are not actually able to detect bugs when they are introduced then they may be giving you a false sense of security. Even though Humbug is still technically alpha, I’d recommend trying it out on your own code and see how well your tests actually test your code. If you’re not running PHPUnit but do have tests in another framework like PHPSpec, unfortunately, at least for right now, you’re out of luck. There is effort to expand Humbug outside of just PHPUnit, but for now that’s what is there. If you’re interested in reading more on the topic, please check out Pádraic Brady’s blog on the topic. See you next month.
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Feature October 12, 2018 December 10, 2019
It’s a question that’s reverberated through the ages – are we humans, though imperfect, essentially kind, sensible, good-natured creatures? Or deep down are we wired to be bad, blinkered, idle, vain, vengeful and selfish? There are no easy answers and there’s clearly a lot of variation between individuals, but this feature post aims to shine some evidence-based light on the matter. Here in the first part of a two-part feature – and deliberately side-stepping the obviously relevant but controversial and already much-discussed Milgram, Zimbardo and Asch studies – we digest 10 dispiriting findings that reveal the darker and less impressive aspects of human nature:
We view minorities and the vulnerable as less than human
Through history humans have demonstrated a sickening willingness to inflict cruelty on one another. Part of the explanation may be that we have an unfortunate tendency to see certain groups – especially outsiders and vulnerable people perceived as low status – as being less than fully human. One striking example of this “blatant dehumanisation” came from a small brain-scan study that found students exhibited less neural activity associated with thinking about people when they looked at pictures of the homeless or of drug addicts, as compared with higher-status individuals. Many more studies have since demonstrated subtle forms of dehumanisation (in which we attribute fewer mental states to outsiders and minorities) and there have been further demonstrations of blatant dehumanisation – for instance, people who are opposed to Arab immigration or in favour of tougher counter-terrorism policy against Muslim extremists tended to rate Arabs and Muslims as literally less evolved than average. Among other examples, there’s also evidence that young people dehumanise older people; and that men and women alike dehumanise drunk women.
What’s more, the inclination to dehumanise starts early – children as young as five view out-group faces (those belonging to people who live in a different city or who are of a different gender than the child) as less human than in-group faces.
We already experience schadenfreude at the age of four
That last finding is particularly dispiriting since we often look to young children to give us hope for humankind – they are seen as the sweet and innocent ones who have yet to be corrupted by the grievances of adulthood. And yet many other studies show that very small kids are capable of some less-than-appealing adult-like emotions. For instance, a study from 2013 found that even four-year-olds seem to experience modest amounts of Schadenfreude – pleasure at another person’s distress, especially if they perceived the person deserved it (because they’d engaged in a bad deed). A more recent study found that by age six children will pay to watch an antisocial puppet being hit, rather than spending the money on stickers. Oh, and maybe you should forget the idea of children offering you unconditional kindness – by age three, they are already keeping track of whether you are indebted to them.
We believe in Karma – assuming that the downtrodden of the world must deserve their fate
On a related note, so strong is our inherent need to believe in a just world, we seem to have an inbuilt tendency to perceive the vulnerable and suffering as to some extent deserving their fate (an unfortunate flip-side to the Karmic idea, propagated by most religions, that the cosmos rewards those who do good – a belief that emerges in children aged just four). The unfortunate consequences of our just-world beliefs were first demonstrated in now classic research by Melvin Lerner and Carolyn Simmons. In a version of the Milgram set-up, in which a female learner was punished with electric shocks for wrong answers, women participants subsequently rated her as less likeable and admirable when they heard that they would be seeing her suffer again, and especially if they felt powerless to minimise this suffering. Presumably derogating the woman made them feel less bad about her dismal fate. Since then, research has shown our willingness to blame the poor, rape victims, AIDS patients and others for their fate, so as to preserve our belief in a just world. By extension, the same or similar processes are likely responsible for our subconscious rose-tinted view of rich people.
We are blinkered and dogmatic
It’s not just that we are malicious and unforgiving, we humans are worryingly close-minded too. If people were rational and open-minded, then the straightforward way to correct someone’s false beliefs would be to present them with some relevant facts. However a modern classic published in 1967 showed the futility of this approach – participants who believed strongly for or against the death penalty completely ignored facts that undermined their position, actually doubling-down on their initial view. This seems to occur in part because we see opposing facts as undermining our sense of identity. It doesn’t help that many of us are overconfident about how much we understand things, and that when we believe our opinions are superior to others, this deters us from seeking out further relevant knowledge.
We would rather electrocute ourselves than spend time in our own thoughts
Maybe if we spent a little more time in contemplation we would not be so blinkered. Sadly, for many of us, it seems the prospect of spending time in our own thoughts is so anathema we’d actually rather electrocute ourselves. This was demonstrated dramatically in a 2014 study in which 67 per cent of male participants and 25 per cent of female participants opted to give themselves unpleasant electric shocks rather than spend 15 minutes in peaceful contemplation. Although others questioned the interpretation of the results, at least one other study has shown people’s preference for electrocuting themselves over monotony, and another found cross-cultural evidence for people’s greater enjoyment of doing some activity alone rather than merely thinking (also replicated here). The gist of these findings would seem to back up the verdict of the French philosopher Blaise Pascal who stated that “All of man’s troubles come from his inability to sit quietly in a room by himself”.
We are vain and overconfident
Our irrationality and dogmatism might not be so bad were they married with some humility and self-insight, but actually most of us walk about with inflated views of our abilities and qualities, such as our driving skills, intelligence and attractiveness – a phenomenon that’s been dubbed the Lake Wobegon Effect after the fictional town where “all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average”. Ironically, the least skilled among us are the most prone to over-confidence (the so-called Dunning-Kruger effect). This vain self-enhancement seems to be most extreme and irrational in the case of our morality, such as in how principled and fair we think we are. In fact, even jailed criminals think they are kinder, more trustworthy and honest than the average member of the public. Our vanity manifests in other ways too: for instance, researchers believe that our preference for donating to charities that share our initials is a form of “implicit egotism”.
We are moral hypocrites
Not only do we tend to overestimate our own virtuousness, we are also inclined to moral hypocrisy. Findings in this area suggest it may pay to be wary of those who are the quickest and loudest in condemning the moral failings of others – the chances are the moral preacher is as guilty themselves, but of course they happen to take a far lighter view of their own transgressions. In one study to show this––suitably titled “The duality of virtue: Deconstructing the moral hypocrite”––researchers found that people rated the exact same selfish behaviour (giving oneself the quicker and easier of two experimental tasks on offer) as far less fair when perpetuated by others, than by themselves. Similarly, there is a long-studied phenomenon known as actor-observer asymmetry, which in part describes our tendency to attribute other people’s bad deeds, such as our partner’s infidelities, to their characters, while attributing the same deeds performed by ourselves as due to situational influences. These self-serving double-standards could even explain the common feeling that incivility is on the increase – recent research showed how we view the same acts of rudeness far more harshly when they are committed by strangers than by our friends or ourselves.
We are all potential trolls
Unfortunately, as anyone who has found themselves in a spat on Twitter will attest, social media may be magnifying some of the worst aspects of human nature, no doubt in part due to the online disinhibition effect, and the fact that anonymity (easy to achieve online) is known to increase our inclinations for immorality. While research has suggested that people who are prone to everyday sadism (which is a worryingly high proportion of us) are especially inclined to online trolling, a study published last year revealed how being in a bad mood, and being exposed to trolling by others, together double the likelihood of a person engaging in trolling – in fact, these situational factors were a stronger predictor of a person’s trolling behaviour than their individual traits, leading the researchers at Stanford and Cornell to conclude “that ordinary users will also troll when mood and discussion context prompt such behavior”. Of course this implies that initial trolling by a few can cause a snowball of increasing negativity, which is exactly what the researchers found when they studied reader discussion on CNN.com, with the “proportion of flagged posts and proportion of users with flagged posts … rising over time”.
We favour ineffective leaders with psychopathic traits
One way for us to mitigate against our human failings would be if we were inclined to choose leaders with rare virtuousness and skill. Sadly, we seem to have the opposite knack. Consider for a moment President Donald Trump. In seeking to explain his voter appeal, Dan McAdams, a professor of personality psychology, recently concluded that Trump’s overt aggression and insults have a “primal appeal”, and that his “incendiary tweets” are like the “charging displays” of an alpha male chimp, “designed to intimidate”. Trump’s supporters will disagree, but if McAdams’ assessment is true it would fit into a wider pattern – the finding that psychopathic traits are more common than average among leaders. Take a survey of financial leaders in New York that found they scored highly on psychopathic traits but lower than average in emotional intelligence. In fairness, there have been some null and contradictory findings on this topic too, but a meta-analysis (an overview of prior evidence) published this summer concluded there is indeed a modest but significant link between trait psychopathy and leadership emergence, and that this has practical implications – especially since psychopathy also correlates with poorer leadership performance.
We are sexually attracted to people with dark personality traits
To worsen the situation, not only do we elect people with psychopathic traits to become our leaders, evidence suggests that men and women are sexually attracted, at least in the short-term, to people displaying the so-called “dark triad” of traits – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – thus risking further propagating these traits. One study found women’s physical attraction to a man was increased when he was described as having dark traits (as self-interested, manipulative and insensitive) compared with being described in the same way (in terms of his interests and so on), but with reference to the dark traits removed. One theory is that the dark traits successfully communicate “mate quality” in terms of confidence and the willingness to take risks. Does this matter for the future of our species? Perhaps it does – another paper, from 2016, found that those women who were more strongly attracted to narcissistic men’s faces tended to have more children.
Are we doomed? One comforting caveat – most of the dating research relevant to that last item was based on European American samples and may not generalise to other cultures (in fact a study out this year found that among Asian Americans, it was those men and women with more pro-social traits who were more successful at speed dating). But then again, there is a lot more depressing research that I could not fit into this article, such as the studies showing we’re more motivated by envy than admiration, the shocking prevalence of lying (a habit we start at age two), and the manipulativeness of babies – they fake cry you know!
Don’t get too down – these findings say nothing of the success some of our heroes, heroines and saints have had in overcoming their baser instincts. In fact, it is arguably by acknowledging and understanding our shortcomings that we can more successfully overcome them and so cultivate the better angels of our nature. On which note, remember to hang tight for the sequel to this post that will detail 10 findings showcasing the brighter, more uplifting aspects of humankind.
Update, December 2019: After a long wait, we have now published the more cheery sequel to this post. Check it out here: Good At Heart? 10 Psychology Findings That Reveal The Better Side Of Humanity
There’s a fascinating psychological story behind why your favourite film baddies all have a truly evil laugh
By David Robson. The evil laugh provides an unmistakable signal that a character is a sadistic psychopath.
Growth mindset doesn’t only apply to learning – it’s better to encourage your child to help, than to be “a helper”
By Emma Young. Children primed to think of themselves as "helpers" were more discouraged when things didn't go to plan.
61 thoughts on “What Are We Like? 10 Psychology Findings That Reveal The Worst Of Human Nature”
Ld Elon says:
because they’d engaged in a bad deed
Its interesting being as the child doesnt know good nor bad and is thus taught it…Through actions of their enviroment. Normally parents who havent a clue how to behave.
Ian Wardell says:
Surely a child will know good and bad? They will know that causing physical pain to others is bad.
//for many of us, it seems the prospect of spending time in our own thoughts is so anathema we’d actually rather electrocute ourselves. This was demonstrated dramatically in a 2014 study in which 67 per cent of male participants and 25 per cent of female participants opted to give themselves unpleasant electric shocks rather than spend 15 minutes in peaceful contemplation.//
This is not believable. And why on earth would anyone regard spending time in their own thoughts as unpleasant? I have spent a great deal of my life doing precisely this. I wouldn’t have the beliefs I do were it not for thinking things through.
People don’t spend time on “introspection”, their observer “judging” self with honesty. Instead, people judge and project onto others. Allegedly it is what they project that is an issue in themselves they refuse to own and address. It’s a way for the ego to protect itself. “That “bad” is in them, I see it, but it’s not in me, no way!”. Unfortunately, judging and projecting is addictive and becomes a natural thing many people never evolve from.
And why is it that people will not and do not believe an experience they’ve never had? And why too do people think that everyone is or should be just like them? The unseen brain/mind is just as diverse as the faces we are born with. Concentrating on being objective during one’s thinking processes opens the door to conceptualizing and understanding things beyond one’s subjective reasoning based on their own personal experiences. It’s not easy to do and be consistent about it as by natural most of us are emotional creatures under a lot of stress and pressure to live up to societal norms.
A Guest says:
Why would people rather electrocute themselves than spend time on ‘retrospection’? Possibly because they’d prefer a pinprick to being stuck for 15 minutes in some ugly office or cubicle. The devil is in the experimental details, and I’d doubt that the circumstances favored ‘retrospection’. But then this whole article is full of subjective double entendres.
blublub says:
Do you know people with depression, suicidal thoughts, anxiety? For some of them just thinking alone could be the worst horror.
popsyhughes says:
Not many people like to think ,or even know how . That is why we have to have music everywhere we go,and people are glued to their phones. It is also a spiritual truth. Anthony Bloom once said that no one wants to spend even five minutes truly alone with himself. Hard for those of us with contemplative natures to understand for sure!
Karen Rice-Leroux says:
The article is not about you but rather based on studies. It is entirely “believable”. Anecdotal evidence is not science.
negro@gmail.com says:
ha, he got your sorry ass
Alan Colquitt says:
Interesting. Your human nature is getting in your way. “I have no problem with this so others can’t either, it must be wrong.” “Everyone is like me so I can’t be wrong.” See items #4 (“We are blinkered and dogmatic) and #6 (We are vain and overconfident).
//are we humans, though imperfect, essentially kind, sensible, good-natured creatures? Or deep down are we wired to be bad, blinkered, idle, vain, vengeful and selfish?//
Seems to me that a good proportion of us are innately nasty, that is we are born nasty. However, we learn to become actors and many of us behave appropriately even if innately nasty. Some of are born good, but probably less than those that are born bad.
Russell Foote, Ph. D. says:
The above comments about human nature reflect the writer’s belief in a biology-behavior link supported by similar research findings. One would have liked to see a more balanced discussion where evidence of the influence of nurturing on behavior and the resultant personality traits is also presented. Indeed the Nature-Nurture debate jas long been settled. While biological provides the potential for future behavior, nurturing exerts a more direct short and long term effects on individual’s behavioral orientations and subdequent trait development. Whatever the proportion of positive and negatlve traits is a reflection of thevtype of socialization such individuals were exposed to.
imaCracker says:
“Indeed the Nature-Nurture debate jas long been settled.”
Your confirmation bias is showing. You must be a Sociologist. Besides, if you had read the entire article the author promised a counter-point in part two of the series.
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flea says:
although some of the statements are supported by research, it is far from whole picture.. therefore pretty much controversial, one-sided and even wrong..
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court says:
“10 Psychology Findings That Reveal The Worst Of Human Nature”… or 10 opinions of what a modern psychologist dreams humans should aspire to be in a perfect world?
Many of the “worse of human nature” findings listed are perfectly understandable traits – and absolute requirements – for primitive humans to survive as a species in a savage world, and over time evolve into civilized tribes and modern civilization. The “worse finding” that actually amused me the most is “We favour ineffective leaders with psychopathic traits”….then uses an example the modern e-v-i-l one: “Trump’s overt aggression and insults have a “primal appeal”, and that his “incendiary tweets” are like the “charging displays” of an alpha male chimp, “designed to intimidate”. Ahem…. may I remind Ms. Jarrett that every royal family – and every modern nation (including Great Britain and it’s royals) started out with a blood thirsty royal conqueror (leader) that was “overt aggressive” and happily butchered the enemy in “alpha male chimp” displays “designed to (kill) intimidate”.
Perhaps Ms. Jarrett is right. Perhaps her list is the worse of human nature. However, her list IS human nature. I worry when psychologists try to take basic human nature and turn it into an illness to cure.
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Efrain Flores (@efrainsandro) says:
These studies show a part of what could be considered “human nature”, there are positive parts as well. Beyond that, it must be taken into account that the human being is a being anchored in his time and context, that is, a historical being, in that sense, the average people of industrialized countries are described, it is a reality there, not necessarily everywhere and not in all social classes.
J.G. Michael says:
I like how you use ‘human nature’ in the title then have it dawn on you right at the end of the article that a lot of this has to do with socialization. Kind of disqualifies the headline, doesn’t it?
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Cornfed says:
All of these human traits have been recognized and well understood for 10,000 years. Thank goodness we now have academic studies to prove what we already know!
Regarding the opening question: “are we humans, though imperfect, essentially kind, sensible, good-natured creatures?” Almost any parent can tell you: we don’t start out that way. If we did, parenting would only need to be a passive excercise. Instead, with a lot of hard work, guidance and a bit of luck you (probably) will end up with a reasonably nice, somewhat empathetic human being, but one who is nevertheless self interested more than altruistic. Describes most of us, no? Which is just fine. Selfishness is a pretty important survival characteristic as long as it’s tempered with enough empathy to allow for good social cooperation.
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“Deterring”, usually in the form of laws and broken and corrupt justice systems, does nothing to deter those who by nature do not possess the “duality” of two options to choose from, like individuals on the higher side of the psychopathy spectrum. I refer to them as Neanderthals. Long ago they raped homo sapiens. With that we allegedly became more resilient to viruses and such. But in the interim, we got the rape ape, warmonger, torturer and pedophile weaknesses that classify us STILL and forevermore as an unevolved, uncivilised, barbaric race where millions daily suffer all of the above and the majority of comfortable wear their rose-colored glasses because their reality is just fine and think the human race are “Da Bomb”. Awesome, phenomenal, THE BEST. Biggest human illusion and joke EVER.
fumblerooski says:
Do you propose a solution?
Short of future gene editing or extinction? Nope. But extinction would solve all problems for sure. No one has to wish for it. It’s a common occurence to species that can not change or adapt to changing environments. But don’t think there isn’t at least one human out there with the power and resources to make that partially happen. Carefully placed detonators in and around Yellowstone, a supervolcano eruption would block out the sun and cool off the planet and slow down the alleged warming of the planet, with a side of depopulation being a huge plus to some. This is the part where we cut in on a viable possibility with the words conspiracy theory so as to protect our fearful and fragile minds.
Sad that we do seem to be attracted to psychopaths. We’ve heard plenty about the “friend zone” and there seems to be a lot of truth to it.
Ellha says:
…and jet, in opening this Pandora vase of human psychological miseries, one doesn’t forget that we are capable of hope.
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David Scott Lewis says:
Praise be to our future robot overlords. They should be able to do better. Well, maybe not …
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Malcolm Smith says:
All this sounds suspiciously like Original Sin.
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Maria Stavtseva says:
Well, basic survival mechanisms are revealed. The researchers seem to be humanists at least to state these questions to research. However, the overall conclusion is that the only difference between us and animals is that our brains give us more sophisticated ways of self-defence and reproduction. How ironic.
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Any link to “the sequel to this post that will detail 10 findings showcasing the brighter, more uplifting aspects of humankind” avilable?
I haven’t written it yet … I will hopefully find the time soon.
O Society says:
This would be much appreciated. These days the heavy and dark is all around. We could use some sunshine as most days we have to go searching for it.
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Q&A with Rachel Devlin
Rachel Devlin is the author of the new book A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools. She also has written the book Relative Intimacy. She is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University, and she lives in Brooklyn.
Q: In your book, you ask, “Why, then, did so many young women and girls file school desegregation lawsuits and volunteer to desegregate schools?” Why do you think that was the case?
A: There’s the moment in which you volunteer, and then there’s following through. I thought about this for many years. First, you have to have the commitment, to see yourself in a white school and believe that being in a white school has meaning.
Girls believed this pretty much uniformly. Young men saw the desegregation of public spaces, of voting, of pools, of libraries, as important, and there were some young men in the ‘60s who desegregated schools, but as a group, they were less sure this was the next step.
What helped girls and young women to see that was they could imagine themselves in these spaces. You can expect hostility, but it’s a mysterious process. Girls had developed skills for dealing with white people—on the streets where there was a great deal of scrutiny. They were familiar with that.
And there was the [experience] of going to work with their mothers inside white homes. In the mid-century South it was very hard to find anybody who didn’t spend time in a white home.
They watched their mothers being verbally combative in social spaces. There was a long history back to the 19th century of verbal conflict between black women and white women, and a sense of, I can confront this hostility and know how to respond.
The other component is the adults expected them to do this work. They had trained their daughters to be personable and pleasant. Some middle-class girls knew how to act in polite company—a lot of them saw what they were doing as a form of acting. All African Americans knew what to do in a dangerous situation with whites, but with a girl it was a matter of degree.
Q: How did you research this book, and what did you find that especially surprised you?
A: The book project started when I was working on my first book, about white adolescent girls in the 1950s. I wanted to compare the way they were treated in the press with the way black girls were treated in the black press…
I kept finding, when I was looking at desegregation attempts, that all the stories were about girls. I wondered is this an editorial choice, or does it reflect a reality no one’s talked about?
I went to the Library of Congress and spent about a year going through the litigation about schools. After World War II people were very active with pickets, and suits were being filed right and left.
I found in the late 1940s over a dozen desegregation cases filed where parents and daughters, junior high and high school students, were attempting to enroll in white schools, and then were filing lawsuits.
I was surprised that none of these cases had been written about. That’s what got me started. For a while, I thought somebody must have written about this.
The final thing getting the project going was that I called Marguerite Carr, who filed a desegregation lawsuit in D.C. in 1947, and no one had interviewed her. I thought, no one has talked to these women.
Q: In your acknowledgments, you note that cold-calling people for interviews was difficult for you. In general, how did people respond to your questions, and were they usually willing to speak with you about their experiences?
A: Because I was living in New Orleans at the time, and most of the people were living in the South, I offered to go to them. I was reaching out to women who had desegregated, from 1947 to 1965. These were highly successful people, and a lot of them were really busy. Finding time to talk to me was difficult.
They [initially] didn’t know who I was, even though I was a college professor calling from Tulane. Ultimately, these women were very willing to talk. They shared generously; they were very frank.
Interviewing them was the must humbling and astonishing experience of my life. I’d stumble out of their homes and sit in my car trying to absorb [what they’d said]—the violence [they encountered], the sacrifices they made were so profound for young people.
Shockingly few were hostile and hung up on me. One made a date with me and cancelled, saying, I can’t think about this. Overall, most hadn’t been interviewed and wanted to get their story on the record.
Q: How would you describe the legacy of these young women today?
A: I’ve just scratched the surface. I made it a national story on purpose—I wanted to make connections across localities that spoke to gender. All the women I spoke to went on to have very successful careers, as the “first” [to accomplish something].
I would say that many of those who tore down walls in professions had desegregated first in the 1960s. Many desegregated neighborhoods as one of the first black families living in white neighborhoods. These women continued to insist on their place in the broader society.
After these firsts went into these schools, the makeup of the student body has grown—their effect is incalculable. What was seen as impossible to achieve is now seen as central to the mission of the school.
A: My next project is on interracial rape and the adoption of biracial children. Recently Danielle McGuire has rewritten the history of rape in the civil rights era in her book At the Dark End of the Street. McGuire details how black women organized and protested against sexual violence, and how these experiences shaped the civil rights movement.
In the interviews I did for my book, histories of rape came up fairly often, but usually in the context of long held secrets and quiet adoptions.
I will be looking at the painful histories of interracial rape that were often long buried in family histories--only to reemerge when a white family member showed up, or the truth of a child's background suddenly emerged. I will be thinking about how families both keep--and divulge--secrets about sexual violence.
This is difficult stuff and, needless to say, it will take a lot of research, time and thought to think through this kind of evidence.
A: The children who filed desegregation lawsuits with their parents really had a lot of agency. Too often, people think of children as being pawns, and this isn’t the case. Look at the teen activists from Florida—it helps us understand how important their work was. So many did that [work] against the wishes of their parents. Teenagers are historical actors.
It became clear to me that there is a standard way most history professors teach a big survey course—they teach the civil rights movement through charismatic male leaders. I want desegregation to be taught where you see black women’s names.
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Warrior Maven Video: Air Force “Rapid Raptor” program designed to send four F-22s to war in 24 hours
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The Air Force is strengthening its “Rapid Raptor” program designed to fast-track four F-22s to war - anywhere in the world - within 24 hours, on a moments notice, should there be an immediate need for attacks in today’s pressured, fast-moving global threat environment.
The program, in existence for several years, prepares four F-22s with the requisite crew members, C-17 support, fuel, maintenance and weapons necessary to execute a fast-attack “first-strike” ability in remote or austere parts of the world, Air Force officials say.
Readiness for the F-22, senior Air Force officials explain, hinges upon a new software delivery strategy which sees incremental improvements less as “products” for pre-planned, spread apart adjustments -- but rather a steady continuous “pipeline” of upgrades.
“When it comes to software, none of the old rules apply. It is a service and a pipeline today. We have to develop software differently. With the F-22, there has been a shift from a traditional acquisition program into a continuous stream of delivery,” William Roper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Acquisition, Technology & Logistics, told an audience recently at an Air Force Association Symposium.
As part of this “agile acquisition” program focused on software, the Air Force has validated two new weapons for the F-22. This F-22 progress is grounded upon the premise that hardware configurations, air frames, weapons’ racks and sensors - can all be changed with upgrades with software, .
The two new weapons are advanced variants of existing weapons - the AIM-9X air-to-air missile and the AIM 120-D. (To Read Warrior Maven's Story About F-22 Weapons acceleration Click Here)
This faster-paced software-driven strategy is intended to reinforce programs like the “Rapid Raptor” program to ensure that deployed F-22s operate at an optimal level of lethality.
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First strike options are, according to military planners, of particular significance for the F-22 Raptor, given its technical focus on using stealth and air-to-air combat technology to attack heavily defended or “contested” enemy areas.
“If jets, no matter how technically advanced, tactically skilled and strategically sound in the air, can only leap from well-known base to well-known base, their first-strike threat is limited,” an Air Force statement from last year said.
Most air attack contingencies, it seems almost self-evident, are likely to include F-22s as among the first to strike; the aircraft is designed to engage and destroy enemy air threats and also use stealth to destroy enemy air defenses – creating an “air corridor” for other fighters. Although not intended to function as a higher altitude stealth bomber, an F-22 is well suited to a mission objective aimed at destroying enemy aircraft, including fighters, as well as air defenses.
The Raptor is, by design, engineered to fly in tandem with fourth-generation fighters such as an F-15 or F-18, to not only pave the way for further attacks but also to use its longer-range sensors to hand off targets to 4th gen planes for follow-on attacks.
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Rapid Raptor was originally developed by Air Force Pacific Command and has since been expanded to a global sphere by Air Combat Command, service officials said.
“The ACC Rapid Raptor program’s aim is to take the concept, as developed in PACAF, and change it from a theater specific to a worldwide capability.” an Air Combat Command spokeswoman told Warrior Maven in a written statement last year.
As part of the Rapid Raptor concept, ACC F-22s forward deployed to Europe in 2015 and 2016. Using the Rapid Raptor program for Europe is, in many respects, entirely consistent with the Pentagon’s broader European posture; for many years now, DoD and NATO have been positioning deterrence-oriented forces throughout the European continent as well conducting numerous allied “solidarity” or “interoperability” exercises.
Apart from demonstrating force as a counterbalance to Russian posturing, these activities are also part of a decided strategic effort to demonstrate “mobility” and rapid deployability.
Therefore, so while Air Force officials are careful to say the Rapid Raptor, as a concept does, not “target” any specific nation, its utilization in Europe is indeed of great relevance given existing tensions with Russia.
Also, apart from being prepared to conduct major-power, nation state warfare across the globe within 24-hours, the Rapid Raptor program is designed to enable ground attack options in unexpected, remote or “austere” target areas.
Accordingly, should the need to attack emerge suddenly in a particular part of the world, a small continent of F-22s will be able to get there. The point here, it seems clear, is that recent global combat circumstances have further reinforced the importance of the F-22s ground attack or close-air-support ability.
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In recent years, the F-22 conducted a successful ground attack against a Taliban facility in Afghanistan, news reports and officials familiar with the attack said.
To support these kinds of mission options, the F-22 weapons compliment includes ground-specific attack weapons such as Joint Direct Attack Munitions – such as the GBU 32 and GBU 39 -- and the Small Diameter Bomb.
Osborn previously served at the Pentagon as a Highly Qualified Expert with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army - Acquisition, Logistics & Technology. Osborn has also worked as an anchor and on-air military specialist at national TV networks. He also has a Masters Degree in Comparative Literature from Columbia University.
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With a limit number of 22's this will only work if backed up with F-15s, F-18s and a large number of drones. Single engine aircraft are not that good for offensive A2A.
Duanen
This is a pretty modest program ... just 4 F-22s won't do much good anywhere, not even against the apocryphal jihadi in a pickup truck which of course hasn't been the character of our actual enemies for more than a decade (when we now have Houthi rebels launching anti-ship cruise missile salvos at our destroyers, and launching ballistic missile salvos at Saudi Arabia - these are not "our father's jihadis" anymore.
A more realistic objective that would actually make a difference would be to mobilize four squadrons of fighters to anywhere in the world within one week, along with all the necessary logistical support.
That, by the way, is already what our Navy does today with one of our CVN carrier strike groups.
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The story is a bit perplexing...the F-22 should be capable of mid-air refueling which means it should be able to get "to and fro" pretty quickly and without too much fanfare. The concept of moving support elements to support up to four F-22's anywhere in the world within 24 hours seems like something the USAF should have worked out long before now. But there's an underlying sub-text question in all of this...isn't this the same USAF that couldn't organize an accounting process for logistics that eventually had to be scrapped at the taxpayer's expense ( to the tune of a few billion dollars) ? Just asking, because there's this nagging sense of deja vu.
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Noam Chomsky and the Willful Ignorance of 9/11
Posted on November 29, 2013 by Kevin Ryan
In response to a question at the University of Florida recently, Noam Chomsky claimed that there were only “a miniscule number of architects and engineers” who felt that the official account of WTC Building 7 should be treated with skepticism. Chomsky followed-up by saying, “a tiny number—a couple of them—are perfectly serious.”
If signing your name and credentials to a public petition on the subject means being serious, then Noam Chomsky’s tiny number begins at 2,100, not counting scientists and other professionals. Why would Chomsky make such an obvious exaggeration when he has been presented with contradictory facts many times?
I’ve personally had over thirty email exchanges with Chomsky. In those exchanges, he has agreed that it is “conceivable” that explosives might have been used at the WTC. But, he wrote, if that were the case it would have had to be Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden who had made it so.
Of course, it doesn’t matter how many professionals or intellectuals are willing to admit it. The facts remain that the U.S. government’s account for the destruction of the WTC on 9/11 is purely false. There is no science behind the government’s explanation for WTC7 or for the Twin Towers and everyone, including the government, admits that WTC Building 7 experienced free fall on 9/11. There is no explanation for that other than the use of explosives.
The obviously bogus “tiny number” statement from Chomsky is only one of several such absurdities the man uttered in his lecture response. Here are a few of the others.
“[Scientists seeking the truth about 9/11] are not doing what scientists and engineers do when they think they’ve discovered something. What you do, when you think you have discovered something, is you write articles in scientific journals [he admits to “one or two minor articles”], give talks at the professional societies, and go to the Civil Engineering Department at MIT, or Florida or wherever you are, and present your results.”
I’ve copied Chomsky on more than two peer-reviewed scientific articles in mainstream journals that describe evidence for demolition at the WTC. Therefore he knows that this statement is not true. And I’ve given dozens of talks around the U.S. and Canada that focused on the WTC demolition theory, many of which were at universities.
I’ve also pointed out that MIT’s civil engineering professor Eduardo Kausel made elementary mistakes in his public comments about the WTC disaster. Kausel claimed in Scientific American that the WTC towers were “never designed for the the intense jet fuel fires—a key design omission.” Kausel also claimed that jet fuel from the aircraft “softened or melted the structural elements—floor trusses and columns—so that they became like chewing gum.” At the risk of making a Chomsky-like exaggeration, I’ll venture that nearly everyone today knows that these statements are false.
Chomsky went on in an attempt to belittle, and downplay the sacrifices of, people seeking the truth.
“There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the internet who think they know a lot of physics but it doesn’t work like that.”
“Anyone who has any record of, any familiarity, with political activism knows that this is one of the safest things you can do. It’s almost riskless. People take risks far beyond this constantly, including scientists and engineers. I could, have run through, and can run through many examples. Maybe people will laugh at you but that’s about it. It’s almost a riskless position.”
Chomsky knows that I was fired from my job as Site Manager at Underwriters Laboratories for publicly challenging the government’s investigation into the WTC tragedy. He knows that many others have suffered similar responses as well, including Brigham Young University physicist Steven Jones and University of Copenhagen chemist Niels Harrit, who were forced into retirement for speaking out. And although everyone knows that researchers and universities today depend on billions of grant dollars from the government, Chomsky implies that such funding could never be impacted in any way by questioning of the government’s most sensitive political positions.
The “hour on the internet” nonsense is ludicrous, of course, and Chomsky knows it well. Jones and Harrit have better scientific credentials than some MIT professors and we have all spent many years studying the events of 9/11. I’ve spent over a decade, and have contributed to many books and scientific articles, on the subject.
Pandering to the hecklers in the crowd, Chomsky summarized his simplistic (public) position on the events of 9/11.
“However, there’s a much more deeper issue which has been brought up repeatedly and I have yet to hear a response to it. There is just overwhelming evidence that the Bush administration wasn’t involved—very elementary evidence. You don’t have to be a physicist to understand it, you just have to think for a minute. There’s a couple of facts which are uncontroversial:
#1—The Bush Administration desperately wanted to invade Iraq. (He goes on to say that there were good reasons, including that Iraq was “right in the middle if the world’s energy producing region.)
#2—They didn’t blame 9/11 on Iraqis, they blamed it on Saudis—that’s their major ally.
#3—Unless they’re total lunatics, they would have blamed it on Iraqis if they were involved in any way.” He continues to say that “there was no reason to invade Afghanistan” which “has been mostly a waste of time.”
Basically, these three “overwhelming” reasons boil down to one reason—Chomsky assumes that if the Bush Administration was involved it would have immediately blamed Iraq for 9/11. Of course, Bush Administration leaders did immediately blame Iraq for 9/11 and they did so repeatedly. That was one of the two original justifications given by the Bush Administration for invading Iraq.
Moreover, Chomsky most definitely received a response to his “deeper issue” when he received a copy of my new book Another Nineteen several months before his comments. The book gives ample reasons—meaning actual overwhelming evidence—to suspect that Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and nineteen of their colleagues were behind the 9/11 attacks. After writing that he was “glad to learn about the new book,” he sent his mailing address for a free copy. Chomsky acknowledged receiving the book in August and wrote to me that he was “pleased to have a copy of the book, and hope to be able to get to it before too long.”
Therefore, Chomsky has either ignored the response to his one major concern for several months or he knows that his concern is no longer valid. What would make him feign ignorance in such a way? Perhaps it is the fact that he would lose a great deal of face if he were to finally admit that there is much more to the story of 9/11.
Regardless, when a tiny number begins at 2,100 and “just overwhelming evidence” to exonerate the Bush Administration boils down to one bad assumption, we are again reminded of the power that 9/11 holds. When presented with substantial evidence for complicity on the part of corporate and government leaders, the obvious becomes either undeniable or an emotional cue to dissemble.
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Folks can scream “conspiracy theory, conspiracy theory” all they want, but I think a time is going to have to come, and soon, when people begin to recognize that there are many more gatekeepers with hidden agendas in the alternative community than we like to admit, and that some of them may be some of the most trusted people in that community, perhaps even people regarded as pillars. Chomsky’s comments should be seen in that light, I think. They clearly aren’t just the obtuse comments of an eminence grise who has lost the plot, bless his heart. No, they are willfully manipulative and dishonest. I think we need to recognize the deeper implications of this, ugly as they are.
Angela Mailander, Ph.D. says:
I think you’re right. I have reason to believe that Chomsky had his hand in the purposeful dumbing-down process of our educational system back in the late fifties/early sixties. Consider that the way English is taught can raise or lower the mean IQ of a population.
I have always kept in mind that Chomsky was a tenured professor at MIT. Hardly a rebel with or without a cause sort of person. Sly? Cunning? The one book of his I read was not too good and had serious errors–propaganda. If you are going to fit in at a prestige university and acquire some fame and fortune, you will have to have some sincerity about being one of that class. Etc. A member of the ruling class or one of their trusted servants.
I’ve read pretty much all of his books, but that was some time ago, so I don’t remember in which one of them he describes the differences between the way East and West deal with criticism. In the East, he said, you just don’t publish what the elite doesn’t want to hear, but in the West, this situation is more subtle. There are critics who really work for the system while appearing to criticize it. I remember thinking how odd it is that he actually describes himself. Maybe he thought that by writing this, people would naturally think he was himself exempt.
Kevin Herbert says:
Really…whats your evidence for that claim?
In my humble opinion, calling Noam Chomsky an “academic gatekeeper” for his view on this aspect of the 9/11 attacks is not fair. To my knowledge, with the honorable exceptions of the late Howard Zinn and Susan Sontag, he was one of the few U.S. public intellectuals who opposed the military invasion of Iraq. I can’t think of many academics who have criticized the foreign policy of his country as Chomsky has over the last five decades. Some of his latest books, such as “On Anarchism”, and “Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare”, are good examples. How many U.S. intellectuals have acknowledged that every American President since World War II is a war criminal? I don’t agree with him on several issues. But at 86, he’s still shedding light on many domestic and international policies, from the plutocratic nature of the U.S. political system or the struggle of people for economic justice and peace, to the Israel-Palestine conflict or the drone campaign.
And yet Chomsky’s behavior fits precisely the name “willful ignorance.” The other alternative is callous intellectual dishonesty, regardless of his fine past credentials. There exists a huge amount of scientific evidence painstakingly assembled that belies the governmental story. Yet Chomsky not only does not acknowledge it or claim that he hasn’t seen it, but deliberately ridicules those who have done a true investigation–so far–into the events of that awful day. If this isn’t left gate-keeping, what is?
Skip Scott says:
I think that Chomsky is very conscious of his public image, and is afraid to cross over from foreign policy critic into the realm of “conspiracy theorist”. He talks about documented war crimes. I think Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! falls into this same category. They are afraid of ridicule and the negative impact on their legacies as muckrakers. Basically their egos are controlling where they allow their minds to wander.
~~But he already was/is a conspiracy theorist. Which means he is a limited hangout conspiracy theorist. And I think what ‘holds them back’ is their Zionist affiliations, because when you look deep into the 9/11 incident you come face to face with Zionism!
rpsabq2014rpsabq says:
That’s why his strange denial about all things 9/11 is so odd. Usually HE’S the one who’s doing the criticizing! But not on this one. No sir, he stays away from it like a hot potato. And that is why I really can’t respect anything he has to say anymore. It’s easy to criticize what’s popular. But the true thinking mind is willing to criticize the unpopular. He’s not willing to do that. All of his “beefs” are either already backed by thousands of people who already agree with him or are issues that don’t have such deep political & emotional consequences. Anyone with a thinking mind who gives one hour to hear the evidence about 9/11 can see that there is at LEAST a need for an official, proper, forensic investigation like we do for every other catastrophic event. But declaring the culprits of 9/11 without a trial or an investigation all within 24 hours of 3 steel buildings falling down the exact same way is something a child would question. Being unwillingly to acknowledge any of the evidence, to me, is cowardly.
Lew Welge says:
Fully, respectfully agree ur denunciation Is apt (FRAUD I aye)
Bill Willers says:
Bill Moyers is another “trusted” public intellectual who revealed more about himself than probably intended by labeling those in the Truth Movement as liars. Some, including a number of prominent engineers, distributed an open letter to Moyers requesting an apology. No apology has resulted nor has Moyers commented on the letter.
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=21204
sansome2012 says:
Excellent point Paul.
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fremo says:
Whatever way around, Noam Chomsky has failed History and Truth at the gates of 911.
His stupid and vile commentary reveal a thinking that disturbs the deep conscious. He identifies himself by them. He puts the weight back onto ‘outsider’ individual researchers and their bitter discovery of this heinous criminal deception….Confirms to mainstream that ‘911 conspiracy theorists’ exhibit the ‘crippled epistemology’ invented then defined by Sunstein/Vermule in their Naziified ‘Conspiracy Theorist’ paper.
That he has not, or pretends that he has not, recognized the pattern ‘crippled epistemology’ signals; how his commentaries fit that profile not at all arguing AGAINST it but WITH it, leaves little doubt as to who he is and why he has not, or pretends to have not, read the literature.
Vincent Nunes says:
“In those exchanges, he has agreed that it is “conceivable” that explosives might have been used at the WTC. But, he wrote, if that were the case it would have had to be Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden who had made it so.”
Now that he has said this, it’s beholden upon him to explain just how either of these personages performed this act under our very noses.
Of course, he CANNOT.
Peter Wells says:
Chomsky is the master of the throw away line. The hit and run technique. Too bad. His evil twin has taken over.
John Andreini says:
Funny thing is, Chomsky isn’t a physicist either. He doesn’t know anymore about the science or physics of what happened on 9/11 than I do. He is merely picking one group of physicists and engineers to believe over another. I also find it interesting that so many lefties (Rachel Maddow to name one), people who distrust the government on so many levels, want to believe that everything happened just as the government said it did.
You dont need be a physicist to know explosives were involved in the destruction of these buildings. http://ajl.smugmug.com/911/North-Tower-Exploding
The Democrats have been the party that has ‘co-opted’ every major grassroots movement in the last century. The online documentary Lifting The Veil covers this.
Exactly. Like we do not need to be a mechanic to know when a 4 wheel car is trying to run on 3 wheels. Controlled demolition is so blatantly obvious. If it looks like a Duck.,it is likely to be a Duck, we do not need an expert in Zoology to tell us that.
Bruce Bethany says:
Maddow has a great job that affords her fame and money. Stupendously powerful, wealthy organizations own the broadcast outlet on which she appears. It would be unseemly at least, or career suicide at worst to stray from the orthodox catechism
of the 9/11 event. She is hogtied. Period.
I think Rachel “knows”, but wants to keep her very well paid job. She has chosen to stick to “the script”.
Gary Youree says:
i am afraid that the line ends up being drawn at wealth and continued income. The evidence in the debris and the lungs of first responders clearly shows us what our eyes first showed us The implications are just unfathomable. It means that all our corporate news is pure play acting propaganda. The government can do anything to any of us. Those with much to lose, not only for themselves, but their families are going to say what they have to say whether they believe it or not.
What is really happening here is a new breed of humanity, the sociopaths. This branch of homo sapiens is doomed to ultimately win against those who still hold empathy as long as they hold in place the cannibalistic capitalist policies of which ensures there will be no economic counterparts with humanist qualities, and as well they are doomed to compete to the very last man. Facing this and selling out to this can be rationalized as being a realist – a coward but not a sociopath.
Brilliant sad but true
chroniclesofthemusicman says:
I’m extremely surprised at the stance of Mr. Chomsky. From a man who knows all too well of the capacity of governments to lie, this statement seems counter to his own intelligence. But he, too, lives in a bubble to not acknowledge the thousands of impeccable architects and engineers, as well as the multitude of sensible people who have done their research with respect to 9/11 and demand the truth.
Will Rivers says:
He is so old that maybe he has simply lost his ability to consider things that totally exceed the the level of selfishness he thought our Master 1%s are capable of? I know that I will be ridiculed around these circles but IMHO 911 was a mixture of we had it coming Blowback AKA ‘Terrorism’ with a Framing/Entrapment ‘False Flag’. The CIA, DEA, ATF has completely embraced/adopted the concept of trolling (on the street or the internet) for people that they can entice/organize/frame into doing committing a crime can justify their existence/budgets. Cheney could have originated the idea or he could have listened to the brewing ‘Terror Conspiracy’ in a CIA briefing and he spontaneously ejaculated in his pants.. the rest is history.
BTW I will post this link on my FB Wall because I am not afraid of ANY Truth. I would welcome being proven absolutely wrong at any time.
Phil Watson says:
Disappointed but I guess everyone has a price. Bibi’s obviously bought Chumpsky! 🙂
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Thanks for the excellent response to Chomsky’s dishonesty, Kevin. I think you said it all.
I was so annoyed when the moderator cut the discussion off without any chance for a reply and without a word of protest from Chomsky – anyone who knows his history would have expected him to insist on allowing a reply. The guy asking the question was obviously well prepared and would have likely cut Chomsky’s legs out from under him.
I was really seething when Noam blew that BS about engineers who doubted the 9/11 line should just publish something. I mean Chomsky wrote the bible on media filters. I think the problem we all have is that Chomsky’s anti-communism filter is outdated and has been replaced by the Israeli/Zionist filter, and I’m not so sure that’s not what’s at work here. Fortunately, the Web is not filterable – at least not until net neutrality comes to an end, and then filtration will be up and running again for those in control. But Chomsky seems to be hiding behind a philosophy that the truth is determined by the majority of those with PhD’s in the closest related discipline. Only those with advanced degrees are entitled to an opinion. This is a spin on the old saying that a cobbler should not stray too far from his last.
The problem with senility is: how do you know you have it? Someone needs to tell ole’ Noam it’s time to shut up and sit down.
Chomsky must be very much aware that many persons who have spoken out on the issues are no longer drawing a breath. I do not know what pressures have been brought to bear on him, but I suspect he sees no choice in the matter. One might even suspect that his outlandishly exaggerated statements are really a plea for us to see through them and to imagine his mortal plight. No sympathy from me though.
Akareyon says:
I like your thinking. I suspect the same about Professor Zdenek P. Bazant, really. If you look at his “Metaphysics of Progressive Collapse” closely, you will find many instances of him throwing the ball in truther’s laps: he proposes to compare the tower’s collapse with controlled demolitions. He says W[g] was greater than W[p] by a factor of three in Eq. 6 (how did it stay upright then? Or how did it switch from FoS > 2 to FoS = 0.3?). “What matters is neither strength nor stiffness, but energy.” Take away the “crush-up-crush-down” nonsense, and you’ll find his model is genius in its simplicity. It’s a cry for help. Somebody put a gun to his head and told him to throw the weight of his authority into proving how a tower can collapse through itself from top to bottom without explosives, and he did by proposing an “adiabatic process”…
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Congratulations, Kevin! Great article and much needed. Will do my part in reblogging it with full attribution for greater dissemination.
Orangutan. says:
Why We All Should Be Whistleblowers
Margaret Heffernan – The dangers of “willful blindness”
I might not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but couldn’t someone do an experiment where they attempt to melt structural steel using jet fuel. This is either possible or it’s not. If it is not, then the towers were obviously brought down by controlled demolition.
This is known already and jet fuel does not burn at a high enough temperature. Go to AE911Truth and you will find all the scientific material you could want, The NIST report is completely refuted. The site is really very interesting and professionally done.
What is jet fuel? Isn’t it kerosine? If so you can do the test yourself
alexandercockburn says:
Thanks for the video link. I had seen previous videos, but not this one. It’s really loaded with good info.
In the last chapter of one of his books on Language (sorry I don’t have it at hand) Chomsky explains the difference between Eastern and Western censorship. Eastern censorship is simple: if the powers that be don’t like it, it doesn’t get published. In the West, criticism is published, and even encouraged, so long as it remain within certain limits. What those limits are is easy to discern upon examination of his career. Of course, he’s aware that his recent performance in answer to Bob Tuskin’s question contains at least six logical and factual errors. So, Chomsky is describing himself in that chapter: he’s a shill.
And one could make worse accusations. We know that these days many high school graduates cannot read their own diplomas. Chomsky is largely responsible for this, though I cannot prove it. In the late fifties/early sixties, a teaching methodology surfaced, one which would have guaranteed that fourth graders could read and write their native language cogently. Studies indicated this and also showed that if this teaching methodology were practice, the mean IQ of the practicing population would be raised by several points. Several points may not seem like much, but, like a two-inch rise in ocean level, it could have been a quantum leap for humanity. Because it was known what would raise mean IQ, the opposite was implemented in the educational system. And Chomsky was behind it.
Wilful blindness.
That says it.
bluerider says:
Congrats indeed. Even if there were only ONE engineer, challenging the official version, that would be worth listening to him or her. Reminds me of “12 ANGRY MEN”, in which Henri Fonda challenges the judge’s opinion and convinces all other members of the jury. Reminds me of Zola’s “J’accuse” in the L’Aurore newswpaper, which ultimately led to the liberation of the French officer Charles Dreyfus. Reminds me of quite a bunch of Hollywwodian movies,based on the “one against all ” plot….. why wouldn’t it work with the 911 case ? Chomsky is out. Even against his own words and principles.
mikecorbeil says:
Chomsky was said to be friends with Howard Zinn and what I recall reading about him with respect to 9/11 is that he minimally supported the need for a new and real 9/11 investigation. Ever since learning this about Zinn, I’ve wondered what Chomsky would be willing to explicitly say in terms of Zinn’s p.o.v. regarding 9/11. Whenever Chomsky derides work for real and thorough 9/11 truth, he seems to always speak only in general terms, but what would he say if asked what he thinks of his friend Howard Zinn suppporting the need for a new and real investigation, and clearly because he agreed that the 9/11 Commission investigation isn’t satisfactory.
Is Chomsky willing to say that his historian friend is a quack, or is this treatment only reserved for the rest of us?
I could add more, but it isn’t really important, for I don’t think that Chomsky is seriously important. He’s done some good work, but we can say the same thing about many people who flip burgers at McD’s. He, anyone for that matter, can criticize completely nonsensical 9/11 “theories”, such as the one that proposed that no aeroplanes were used for the 9/11 attacks and that, instead, what we were shown were holographic images. Anyone can safely thrash such nonsense. But he isn’t technically qualified for pretending that he can discredit the real 9/11 reseachers/analysts and he should know this, if he truly merited PhD status.
The “Peter Principle” has taken him too far; to a topic area in which he isn’t qualified all while he dreamfully thinks that he is. He should stick to linguistics.
A.Wright says:
@Kevin Ryan
I see that ‘in response to a question at the University of Florida recently ‘ Noam Chomsky expressed his view that he didn’t think 911 was an ‘inside job’ orchestrated by the Bush administration. What this shows is that Noam Chomsky has some common sense. But apparently according to the 911 Truth Movement Mr. Chomsky is a ‘gatekeeper’. This is a ‘gate’ that Mr. Chomsky is constantly being asked to stand in front of by people in the 911 Truth Movement who then point their fingers at him and say ‘Noam Chomsky is a gatekeeper’. Given the vast and easily accessible nature of the internet and the ability of basically anyone to communicate their views in uncountable websites, videos and blogs ,this is like putting a small gate in the middle of the Mojave desert, asking someone to stand in front of it and then accusing them of trying to prevent people crossing the Mojave desert.
Implicit in this is that the ‘gate’ that Mr. Chomsky ‘commands’ is one to some vast corral of sheep ,who hang upon his every word and say ‘Oh Great Noam , please tell us what should we think about 911. We are but poor sheep who can’t think for ourselves have no access to the vast and easily accessible internet and we wait for your guidance.” And outside the corral the Truth People try to communicate with the vast flock of sheep within, but are unable to reach them due to the gatekeeper they have asked to stand in front of the gate.
@Eric
“I wish you would explain what in the fantastic Boys with Box Cutters tale of the official narrative has a shred of ‘common sense.’”
The unsquareable circle of the 911 Truth movement. Trying to sell the idea of a plausible believable plot that people would plausibly not only come up with, but actually take part in, and at the same time telling people how it doesn’t make sense. A real plan to frame people for a faked plan that wouldn’t be credible if it were a real plan. A plan to frame people for a crime they couldn’t commit. The implausible-plausible story. The incredible -credible story. ‘Can’t you see how it makes sense that it was an inside job – since it doesn’t make sense.’
“Nobody is “asking” Chomsky to stand at the Left Gate. He does it willingly.”
He is constantly asked by people in the 911 Truth movement what he thinks of 911 and he tells them. They then publicise his response and post it on the internet and write articles and blogs and comments about what Noam Chomsky thinks about 911 and how he is trying to stop people finding the ‘Truth’ about 911 – by publicising his views about it. They think it is inexplicable that Noam Chomsky disagrees with them. This is only inexplicable to people who think people can’t make up their own minds about something or that they shouldn’t make up their own minds about it.
Common sense? He presents six arguments/facts. Each one of them is either not true of flawed logically. He strikes out six times and you think it’s a home run?
Excellent and very funny.
sorry about the typos I seem to see only AFTER I push the reply button
This illustrates what a powerful hold the Jewish people have on their people. I doubt Chomsky is very religious–but the ethnic grasp of Judaism is extremely powerful. The problem though is that they often end up being quite unethical.
To A. Wright:
1. You are babbling. Perhaps it was my fault asking you to provide an example of a single shred of common sense in the Boys with Boxcutters Tale (BBT).
To discuss the common sense in it is as wrong as criticizing A Thousand and One Nights on its scientific errors. The BBT should rightfully be judged only on its literary merits, which are not negligible. In fact no subsequent productions (The Shoelace Arsonist, the Underwear Bomber, mediocre all) came anywhere near it. Perhaps it is true that every artists has only one book in him. Or perhaps they do not have a common authorship.
It is worth admitting that the BBT created a compelling character in Osama: the very tall diabetic in renal failure who dwelt in a cave that had six stories carved into a mountain, equipped with the most dastardly djins of modern technology from which he commanded NORAD, obtained day-only passwords and knew all the secret anti-terrorist air attack simulation plans to cite only a few.
Animated by a burning hatred against infidels he wished to take epic revenge against them and succeeded, thereupon running from one mountain to another, flowing robes in the wind, he not only escaped the most sophisticated sateite-aided detection attempts of his enemies and avoided capture but produced videos! That alone is a masterful image.
Protean like a true Arab djin, he would change his appearance and even become younger and younger in each video. I rate this an “A.”
Can’t say he same about the Boys with Boxcutters: sloppy character development, glaring errors of what cinematographers call “continuity,” and no charisma. The only element of inspiration–the passport found in the hit ashes — is bot nearly enough to save this hopelessly sub-mediocre script from its deserved contempt. I rate this an “E”
Overall I give the BBT in its totality a “C’ but I suspect I am tilting towards lenience only because I compare it to the much inferior productions that followed.
2. So Chomsky’s lying/prevaricating/dissimulating is the fault of those who ask him questions…. They make him do it, bad conspiracy theorists that they are. Oy!
Paul Daly says:
Thank you I enjoyed that tale, I’m waiting for the sequel
kenjams says:
“the anti-zionist zionists’ catcher in the rye”
Heavy and very thought-provoking. Of course you’re referring to “controlled opposition”.
Another thing, much like the way Greenspan worked, they try to “intellectualize you into submission”.
“He’s so smart, he must know what he’s talking about. Maybe I should rethink these conspiracy theories”, thinks the unsuspecting goy.
Yes, Jet fuel is just a high grade diesel, like kerosene. I have read Paul Craig Roberts and others who talk about the temperature limits of burning jet fuel, and how it falls well short of the temps needed to melt steel. I also look back on the TV footage of the towers coming down, and thinking how unbelievable it was that an airplane flying into them could cause such a thing. And, of course, there’s building 7. It’s amazing to me that more engineers haven’t spoken up. I suppose they fear for their jobs. I also remember the Zupruder film of the JFK assassination, and how they tried to sell the story of the fatal shot coming from behind. Any fool can see that it isn’t so, yet so many folks just gobble up the gov’t lies. The power of the corporate sponsored mass media is astounding. I fear for the future of our species.
@Skip Scott
How many of the Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth have lost their jobs?
I don’t have a number. I’ve heard that an engineer at BYU lost his job immediately after declaring that the twin towers obviously fell due to controlled demolition. I imagine this had a chilling effect on others’ willingness to speak out. Many corporations have bought their way into many top universities and control the purse strings. Freedom of thought now has it’s limits if you wish to remain employed at one of those places. Just as journalists for major TV networks are only allowed to have opinions that fall within a certain spectrum (just ask Amanpoure, Donahue, Rather, Moyers and others), college professors now have to be of a certain mindset to be acceptable at many universities.
NPR had a nice “scientific” bit on why a shot from behind would cause JFK to jerk back and also gave some strange explanation having to do with nerves. Nice stuff for young people! Managed even to work Newton into the mix. Where there is money . . . great cleverness arises.
Researchguy says:
A buddy and I actually did an experiment many years ago in which we fired a rifle at #10 cans of hominy. I forget whether we shot three or four of them. But in one case, the can did fall over towards the rifle. The jet effect is real. But there’s tons of other evidence that rules out the lone gunman theory.
I imagine if you hit the can low, it could fall towards the rifle. However JFK’s head not only went back and to the side; his brains splattered onto the trunk, an obvious exit wound. Plus many heads in the crowd turned towards the sound of the shot. The gov’t has spent 50 years trying to tell me what I didn’t see with my own eyes. Sorry, not working.
lynn bradbury says:
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/HWNAU/RMappVIII.txt chomsky knew about and originally supported all the anti warren commission evidence. but never supported the movement to publicly discredit and redo the investigation. the leading leftists of the day, disappointingly including journalist i.f. stone, all lacked the courage to challenge the official story. more kudos, especially, therefore, to that of kevin ryan, et al. brilliant realm of integrity.
travis122013 says:
Regarding major left journalists uncritical or tacit endorsement of the Warren Commission — the case of Dorothy Kilgallen was probably an object lesson. Her nationally syndicate column was more of a celebrity gossip column until she became obessed with the JFK assassination. She went to New Orleans and began investigating before Jim Garrison. Then she snagged the only private interview with Jack Ruby in his jail cell, and came out announcing that she was going to break the JFK case wide open.
Days or weeks later — I can’t recall — she was found dead in her apartment, attributed to drug/alcohol overdose and “depression.” Her notes from the Ruby interview were never found. Why a journalist breaking the story of his or her career (like Michael Hastings) would suddenly become depressed and suicidal is… Most likely, she was “suicided,” and this suspicion surely had an effect on her fellow journalists. Jim Koethe, a reporter who knew Ruby well, also ended up being murdered.
As for Truman’s l12-22-63 letter being suppressed by most of the media — Operation Mockingbird is likely the answer.
The moral of the story is: tell your friends the journey was a waste of time, that the Jack Ruby involved had little of value to say and that you would never knowingly again waste time on a long shot. But do not over do it and change the subject. Then break the story. In the meantime have some fake notes that say how depressing the journey was and a waste of money. And maybe some anecdotes that Ruby told you which can be fabrications. Put the hot stuff in a safe place. In spite of this some of our best minds held out till the end. How much were they paid and in what currency? Promotions? Cash? Women, wine and song? Just think: a life devoted to falsehoods and betrayals and now on your death bed no one wants to hear your story.
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Well said and I agree. Him and Amy Goodman know what feet not to step on.
Freddy Rocksteady says:
The simple fact that nanothermite was found at ground zero, supports the theory of a conspiracy. the real problem thou it in our ability as citizen to hold the ppl responsible for this attack. and we all must remember that the media was the one to accuse OBL. not the FBI or the CIA.
NC said it doesn’t matter who killed JFK??? Could you give us a source on that, please.
And the reason I’m incredulous is that I have never in all my flea-bitten days heard anyone say it doesn’t matter.
It may not matter (much) if the hit was entirely domestic. For instance, what would it matter if the Mafia took out JFK and RFK because they killed Monroe, viz a viz if Oswald took out JFK because LHO was a wacko? The difference between these two would be zilch as far as history is concerned. Dead is dead.
But — like 9/11 — if the truth crosses international boundaries, the ultimate answer has to matter hugely. Would it matter to history if Castro took out JFK as opposed to, say, Ben-Gurion? Absolutely. Downstream history would be changed forever b/c in one case Cuba would be smoldering and in the other case Israel would be — assuming the truth were made known.
If NC did say it doesn’t matter who killed JFK, he must have been saying it doesn’t matter given the fact that we will never know, in which case I agree, and in which case you’ve taken him out of context.
Would love to have the citation to Chomsky’s comment to verify.
One of the columnists at Veterans Today who has done a great deal of credible research on 9/11 mentioned this in one of his articles–but his name absents me at this time. I also have come across it elsewhere. It seemed at the time quite in keeping with his style of protecting his friends. That is, the Power Elite who have vested interests in the Zionist lobby. The two events, the Assassination and 9/11, appear to have the same Source and to be society changing events which the government refuses to properly investigate. Sorry I can not give you the exact article at this time.
Israel has also been implicated in the Assassination by some researchers at VT. Chomsky is not seen in favorable light at VT currently. Nor is Israel. Most but not all of their articles are good.
Marc Estrin says:
Video of Chomsky’s “who cares” response is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7SPm-HFYLo&list=PLglXJLhx31nov1AuZxEaaGLxsJCVrvDXh&index=3 , record of an informal gathering at the Kossuth Klub in Budapest. Comments begin at about 7 minutes
Wow, Marc. You either have terabyte recall, or you are a magician to come up with that obscure Chomsky rap session. Thank you.
It seems to me he was saying what I suggested above he must have been saying. He clearly says that if JFK was brought down by a jealous husband or the Mafia, who cares? And I agree, only I added a wacko, which goes without saying. Philandering husbands have been targets for as long as there has been marriage and wackos have been pulling triggers for as long as there have been guns. Who cares if it was one or the other? OK, the tabloids, but who else?
But in his Budapest comments, ANC also explicitly said something like if it was a higher-level conspiracy then that might be worth knowing. So he’s not entirely “who cares?”
I agree that all conspiracies are not born equal. In the 9/11 debate I am deeply curious with respect to the engineering issues and what they tell us. But there are some out there who say there were no planes, and others say the actual commercial flights really landed at some closed airport and the passengers were all spirited away — well, you know. No plane hit the Pentagon. And that is not really a plane in the strip mine in PA because some reporter said he could not see any debris.
Lee Harvey wasn’t the only wacko in this world. And it’s the nutter conspiracies that make it hard to separate the 9/11 noise from signal. But I don’t think Chomsky is having this problem — he is attacking the signal: thousands of engineers who are interpreting the evidence on the basis of principles of physics. Chomsky has just gotten too thick or too lazy to try and understand what they’re saying.
Anyone who is a bit bright and has gone to fairly decent high school or is still in one can easily arrive at an intelligent decisions about 9/11 by watching a few very well done videos–Loose Change or the ones at AE911Truth. So, Chomsky is motivated to go against the educated public on this matter for deep political and affiliation reasons. Glenn Greenwald apparently has the same ones as he agrees with Chomsky. No one makes a fool out of himself for no good reason. Chomsky’s reasons in part may be like Bill Clinton’s. No one thinks Bill is ignorant, unintelligent or senile. In ’08 Bill made remarks about Obama being ineligible and only went silent after a best friend in Arkansas was murdered and his daughter was threatened. Chomsky has celebrity status and must toe the line regarding certain matters. So must Bill Clinton and Hilary. On the other hand no one really expects Bill to espouse conspiracy theories. We are a point now where the evidence is so overwhelming regarding the falsity of the Official Report and NIST that to do more would be almost to do less. The fact that to date Obama has not produced any authentic document indicating his place and time of birth is similar. So we have these cold hard facts and not enough citizens or persons in power are interested in pursuing the situations for one reason or another. This is what decadent societies are like. American has gone from Puritan excesses to La Dolce Vita. And presently there is not an America Fellini to brilliantly place it on the screen. I suspect the internet with its abundance of information has brought into sharp focus much that in preceding decades was hidden unless one had lots of connected friends. We can see more now than ever before and it is rather disheartening. Have things gotten worse or do we simply know more? I think a little bit of both.
And then we have the Holocaust. The largest most publicized event of the twentieth century for which there is virtually no hard evidence–just the often contradictory testimony of miserable people hanging around during the Nuremberg trials ( whose standards of evidence were shoddy at best). And later on books written by the so called survivors some of which were never in a concentration camp. And people like the Hungarian writer who doesn’t know Hungarian. And on and on. If life were fair it would be called the Holocaust Conspiracy. Maybe life is fair — but just not people.
Dennis, you make some good points. On this:
“it’s the nutter conspiracies that make it hard to separate the 9/11 noise from signal. ”
my opinion is that the disinformation propagandists have managed to switch the question on us, which we should not allow.
If the my house blows up and a “commission of inquiry” tells me it happened because I had an excessive quantity of French cheese in the house which fermented, leading to an accumulation of gas that exploded when it reached the pilot burner of the stove I will say: “No way! This is a blatant lie! I want an independent investigation.”
Nobody has the right to ask ME to offer alternative explanations.
Planes, no panes, fake landings, all that is a waste of time and it DIVERTS the attention from the justified demand for a proper investigation, not just of the crime but of the “investigation” done by the 9/11 Commission–a crime of concealment.
The architects and engineers have proved it could not have happened as described in the report. We have to keep demanding to know how it happened.
In my opinion the investigation of the investigation as well as the investigation of the events themselves have already been done superbly. All that is left are the trials. But now we see that there is a problem because who will do the arresting, indicting, etc.? The Power Elite is not about to arrest itself. Or have its precious henchman thrown in the clinker. All this points to the inevitable conclusion that we are not being represented so much as repressed. This is not our nation–it is their nation; and if they chose a criminal style, well who are we to interfere? Nothing could be more obvious than that 9/11 was an inside job. It has been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt. And the majority of the guilty are known–and they are not Muslims. Sure we may not know the names of the technicians who rigged the buildings and so on. The small fry. But the big guys might as well wear I conspired to bring about 9/11; and the MSN would regard it as a joke. It would never be taken seriously by the drugged majority of citizens. Who killed Kennedy? Why of course Lee Harvey what’s his name! Is the earth flat? Maybe? Mark Dice has done some hilarious videos where he asked people about al Qaeda putting a place on the moon and should American soldiers have to be spread so thin to deal with that? One man said he had been out of town for a week and was not informed about it. Others were not into politics. Is there any hope?
Eric — with you.
If it were me, I would concentrate 100% on Bldg. #7. It is not complicated by aircraft fuel or impact effects on the frame. It is the clearest case of sabotage out there. If the evidence points to sabotage of #7 beyond reasonable doubt, then Towers 1 & 2 had to be a part of that sabotage b/c nobody would believe it was a coincidence that #7 would just happen to be sabotaged on the same day the airliners hit 1 & 2.
It’s like a serial killer. If there are 10 cases against him that could get him put away for life but you’ve got good DNA evidence on just one, put the other 9 on hold until you get a conviction on the best case. Why waste time/money on them?
And so, I would forget Bldgs 1 and 2 for now. A case that Bldg 7 was brought down is all one needs, and it’s the most straight forward. I would certainly forget all of the way out stuff about no planes at all and hundreds of passengers who didn’t die but just disappeared. That stuff smells like an intentional diversion to make all 9/11 doubts seem dumb. The 9/11 truthers keep getting mixed up with wacko birthers and that’s the kiss of death to the 9/11 mission. Next thing ya’ know ya’ got an Orly Taitz coming in and tuning the whole thing into a media circus.
Greg Burton says:
There is no doubt that Chomsky is a brilliant semanticist. An expert on who understands how public relations works: that it is meant to be a mind control industry. A man who knows that this industry has now grown completely out of control, fabricating completely illusory realities to the masses through the media.
This same media has created a whole artificial realities in the wake of 911…an artificial reality that has generated shadow enemies, illegal wars, the pretext for shredding of our constitutional rights, torture, a police state where most of the crimes that support this structure could only have occurred with the assistance of agent provocateurs, laws passed to de-regulate and make business less transparent, tax cuts that have re-created a hereditary class and the looting of Wall Street and America: hiding the reality of economic disaster and environmental debacles.
It is self-evident to any sentient being that 911, by itself, has been the biggest single false reality created and designed to manipulate public opinion. Yet Chomsky, this “brilliant semanticist”, can’t bring himself to conclude that this signal event of modern history, this terrorist attack, could have been staged, despite the overwhelming evidence indicating such, and that there should be a new and thorough 911 investigation to truly identify who was behind and who benefited from 911; saying only that “911 doesn’t matter” or that “there was an alternative” that confirms the official myth, the Osama bin Laden lie, while maintaining we reacted wrong, completely ignoring the growing evidence of a global oligarchy using false-flag terror and the police state to loot the world. Pffft!
There is something serious awry here with this man. He has been labelled as gifted and a person who has no peer, so it can’t be for lack of intellect. It can only be from Chomsky willfully averring the 9/11 official lie, from the truth that is as plain as the nose on his face: 911 was an inside job; and I for one am now labeling him for what his is: Agent. But an agent for whom?
Hey, Noam. 911 was an inside job.
Jim Hogue says:
You all have said it so well. What I find in Chomsky’s latest statements is that he is not only lying, but he is also speaking gibberish. This, for a linguist, is an interesting step. By the way, I’ll be interviewing Ross Ashcroft of “The Four Horsemen” film on Monday AM at 8:30 EST on http://www.wgdr.org
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Art Lowe says:
Idiocracy at it’s best, tonight’s guest speaker, yes you guessed it, Noam Chomsky telling the world about his new book, I too was once a teenage zombie, and I still am.
Revealing the 9/11 Conspiracy Would Undo the Entire US-Saudi Alliance – Sen. Bob Graham on Reality Asserts Itself: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11116
A series of interviews with Senator Bob Graham who does regard 9/11 as a conspiracy. This seems relevant and one might suppose Chomsky would come up with some far fetched explanation about Graham not liking the Saudis! Still Graham has connections that most do not have and insider knowledge. Keep in mind the new found friendship between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
I think Chomsky and Graham are plowing parallel rows in the same field. In fact I find the Graham shtick so much slicker:
“OK, doubting Thomases who keep harping on conspiracies, run away from the 9/11 Commission Report and come over here to uncle Graham. He has a conspiracy for you, and guess what: it’s what we told you in the first place: the Saudis did it!
This is serious stuff, it could even strain our relationship with the Saudis, I swear. Laughter? What laughter? I don’t hear any laughter. Oh, that guy? That’s Michael Oren. No, he was not eavesdropping, he must have just remembered someting funny.”
Actually this is pretty good coming from a Senator. It is not likely any former Senator would go further. The Federal gov. is the locus of the Ignoble Lie which requires maintenance and military funding. And yes, Saudi Arabia probably did have a financing hand in 9/11 though exactly to what end I do not know. The whole operation could not have been very pricey unless there were lots of persons to bribe which may have been the case. And the nation did loan the US some names and pictures so that there would be the necessary terrorists. But this was flawed as about six of the nineteen turned up alive and well–and where were those videos of the villains? Now my guess is that Graham knows a great deal more than he is revealing and has decided that this angle is the best one for a former Senator. I don’t think we should consider all politicians to have been cut from the same corrupt cloth. His background does not seem to allow for total corruption in the way the Diane Feinstein’s does for example. So I think it best to give him the benefit of the doubt. He has presented a loose corner that can be pulled up in the larger public. That larger public has already condemned anything closer to reality. Remember the earth is flat and the idea you got in school is part of an ongoing conspiracy. The earth is flat. Take a look.
“Guilty demeanor: The private 9/11 emails of Noam Chomsky” by Dr. Kevin Barrett
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/11/05/chomsky-emails/
This is an excellent and amusing article and shows a side of Chomsky that readers here I am sure will appreciate.
“In the spring of 2008, I emailed Noam Chomsky to invite him on my radio show. He agreed, we scheduled a date, and I spread the news.
Then, seemingly out of the blue, he sent me an angry email backing out of the interview. He was furious about an article I had posted at Op-Ed News publicizing our upcoming show. In that article, I quoted William Blum asking “the million dollar question”: Why doesn’t Chomsky think it matters whether or not 9/11 was an inside job? In the article, I said I hoped my upcoming interview with Chomsky might help clarify the issue. (Oddly, at the exact same moment that Chomsky angrily complained to me about the article, Op-Ed News, run by Zionist Rob Kall, took down the article, froze my account, and stopped answering my emails [. . .]”
Predrag says:
Cudos! I liked it! 🙂
After twelve years and almost three months now of being a “conspiracy theorist” when it comes to 9/11–it was a video a few days after the events in which the designer of the Twin Towers said the buildings were built to handle multiple hits (which if you think about it is simply common sense)–I have concluded that too few people care what happened and like Noam are ready to face the next thing that comes along. Well, how about turn their backs on the next thing. So, what can I do but accept the fate of being a very outsider along with the relatively few who do care. I remember when Kevin was fired. That in itself ought to have awaken Congress–but they sleep soundly and evidently with quality ear plugs. Or money causes hard of hearing troubles. So this has been a good education in public psychology. Any of us that thought surely now!, this is bound to have repercussions!, how can this be overlooked?–now we know. Any we have an abundance of history to fall back on when persons lived in totalitarian societies for years upon years. How could the Russians put up with Stalin? Still a great unanswered question. Hitler is a very different matter as is Mao. So now the great question is how can Americans put with this? I think I have the answer. Psych meds and rotten education. Bad food. Dangerous prescriptions. Truly idiotic and primary school level MSM. Prosperity of a sort for decades and consumerism. And then finally we probably all have a way too high estimation of the basic human being. Nonetheless persons like Kevin and folks at AE911Truth and others do send a message to the rest of the world; and that is very good indeed.
Broadside Balladeer says:
Reblogged this on Berkeley Calling and commented:
Noam Chomsky and the Willful Ignorance of 9/11 – Posted on November 29, 2013 by Kevin Ryan in his “Dig Within” Blog. Noam Chomsky recently engaged in a smear campaign against Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth by misrepresenting what their efforts are, what they actually say, and their size. By not availing himself to information about 9/11 that is readily available to everyone these many years after the event, and to Chomsky himself after some 30 correspondences with author-researcher Kevin Ryan, it can only be called “willful ignorance” says former the UL chemist who became a 9/11 whistle-blower. Here is the reaction of Kevin Ryan to the unscientific American professor Chomsky’s latest anti-intellectual rant. In his Florida speech Chomsky claimed not to know the basic laws of physics, saying he would defer on that to people with doctorates. Ryan reveals what Chomsky’s gate-keeper game is all about since he has a long history of dismissing deep political conspiracies since the JFK murder-coup. Kevin Ryan is co-founder of The Journal of 9/11 Studies and has a new book out titled “Another Nineteen: Investigating Legitimate 9/11 Suspects”.
https://digwithin.net/2013/11/29/chomsky/
Oy, “the distorted lenses” of common sense….
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“..it was a video a few days after the events in which the designer of the Twin Towers said the buildings were built to handle multiple hits (which if you think about it is simply common sense)”
“I remember when Kevin was fired. That in itself ought to have awaken Congress..”
If that doesn’t illustrate the distorted lens that people in the 911 truth movement see the world through , I don’t know what does.
So if we refuse to believe that the distorting mirrors in the sinister 9/11 Carnival reflect reality we must be looking at them through “distorting lenses”?!?
Your focus on people’s refusal to believe the Boys with Boxcutters Tale that contradicts all knowledge, experience, track record and indeed common sense does not obfuscate the fact that you refuse to acknowledge its patent absurdity, and the legitimate request for an independent investigation/trial.
The BBT is a Uri Geller show on a huge, criminal scale: the spoons that bend, the towers that crumble in seconds… Johnny Carson used common sense: he replaced Geller’s spoons with ordinary ones and the lie was plain for all to see.
Behind the desperate attempt to silence and denigrate the non-believers of the 9/11 Creo quia absurdum lies the FEAR of of exposure.
I should believe something is plausible because you tell me it’s absurd. Talk about undermining your own argument.
Baffling that you seem to think that pretending to be dense works in your favor
Please remove that last post – bit of a cheap shot.
hybridrogue1 says:
Do you get paid by the word? If so why are you reaching for a pay cut by asking for one of your comments to be removed?
You have become somewhat of a poster-boy for the agitprop industry, advertising personally that it doesn’t really take chops to get the job – just the tenacity to go on against all sanity and reason.
@Hybridrogue1
It was just about not resorting to juvenile ad hominem attacks – you wouldn’t understand.
Oh but Mr Wright,
It is perfectly clear to myself, and I am sure others here on this thread, that your latest remark and come-back is in fact a lame and none too subtle version of ad hominem, put exceedingly clumsily.
Your pretense at expressing the thoughts of a sound mind are ludicrous.
I knew you wouldn’t understand..
How come nobody talks about all the previous terrorist attacks — Saudis probably — that toppled high rises, especially in Las Vegas:
Nix film contradicts Zapruder: More proof of JFK film fakery
by Jim Fetzer (with James Norwood) http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/12/03/nix-film-contradicts-zapruder-more-proof-of-jfk-film-fakery/
The fascinating thing about this article is it parallels almost exactly what is continuing to happen with 9/11 investigations. They,whoever they are, realize that the truth just does not matter. Proof and more proof is harmless against their impregnable position behind MSM. And the fact that we can not do a thing. The courts certainly do not take seriously our “conspiracy” claims. Whether it’s JFK Assassination, Obama’s lack of authentic documentation. or the events of 9/11, the door is closed and locked. Clearly there is no lack of proof but simply a lack of the means of justice.
All efforts are stonewalled.
So a brand new strategy is needed. Ideas? Schemes? This is very similar to a friend who just will not see the truth. And he drives off with a bald tire and goes off the road when it blows out and destroys his car. I suppose we may have to just stand by as America goes off the rails and creates a big catastrophe. After all a nation that hates the truth will have major consequences to deal with at some point. These “conspiracies” of ours all have to do with the Executive Branch and its growing illegal behavior. The Uber-Presidency as one law professor calls it. Congress being largely full of wimps and sleepers can’t quite think IMPEACHMENT. A whole class of the wealthy and powerful can violate the law and never be indicted-and they know that. Corporations anticipate that they will only be fined a small percentage of their fraudulent take and consider that as just one of the expenses. The pharmaceuticals each year kill hundreds of thousands with their poorly tried medication specials and dutifully pay a little fine and go on to more lousy drugs and dishonest claims. Corruption is what we call it; smart business or politics is what they know it as. In America now you can buy anything. Well, anything but Justice. Bankers like Jimmy Damon have purchased island retreats where they and their families can escape to. So the other criminals will locate these hideaways and attack them and steal the loot, kidnap the kids and wife and so on. Really not a very smart idea. The other criminals are pretty bright as well and maybe even brighter having had to elude the police over the years. Survival of the fittest. So it may end up being the legal criminals versus the illegal criminals. Getting very esoteric now.
“If you like your life you can keep it.– Barack Obama
America has not been especially lucky in Presidents. A few have been great or almost great. But the majority have had lack luster characters or worse. Some have been sociopaths, some even psychopaths. I would not be surprised if the current incumbent was of the latter. I doubt if we will ever get a brain scan though. The last three have been habitual users of cocaine. Cocaine may not be the best thing for the brain. Clinton seemed to survive with intelligence. With the other two we have probably not been so fortunate.
Now the President is the nation’s chief law enforcer. Try not to laugh! I realize that is funny myself, but we need to stay serious for a bit yet. Now unless the president take action nothing will happen with respect to 9/11. We saw how the ’70’s re-investigation of the Kennedy Assassination went. It would take a courageous President who felt he could over ride the Power Elite. He would have to have tremendous public backing. He would have to have the charisma of a Hitler and the character of a Gandhi. I am not sure America brings forth such souls. Unfortunately America is bringing forth men and women best suited for the Mafia . . . Really the top people in Washington strike me at least as cartoon characters. Mr. Magoo. Tom of Tom and Jerry. Betty Boop. Porky Pig. Bugs Bunny: What’s up, Barack? Presently it is true, a certain number of Congress Critters are wringing their hands about Obama’s unlawful behavior. They need to stand before a mirror and try saying the I-word. And then gradually speak out the syllables . . . im peach ment. They can focus on the peach part. Peaches are sweet. And juicy. Imp is just going to frighten them. And ment is too vague. Pass that along to your Critters.
Chomsky and the late Alex Cockburn (Counterpunch) both swore fealty to the Warren Commission throughout their careers, blinded by a rigid structuralist ideology — the whole system is rotten so it does’nt matter what puppets are on the throne, or dethroned.
But JFK wasn’t exactly a puppet. As Robert Kennedy, Jr,’s essay in the current issue of Rolling Stone magazine establishes — he was unequivocally pulling out of Vietnam before the shots in Dealey Plaza. Yet the conventional wisdom in our pundit class is “JFK started it all,” and would have escalated just like LBJ.
The “conspiracy theory is nuts” meme was deliberately seeded in the American psyche by CIA Mockingbirds to deflect from suspicion from genuine spook conspiracies — which happens to be their stock in trade. Maybe “Chumsky” is just another Mockingbird.
Dan Quayle might have said it best, although he wasn’t referring to Chomsky at the time:
When he said, “a mind is a terrible thing to loose.”
@Denis and all:
Yes, yes, yes, and yes to:
“A case that Bldg 7 was brought down is all one needs, and it’s the most straight forward. I would certainly forget all of the way out stuff about no planes at all and hundreds of passengers who didn’t die but just disappeared. That stuff smells like an intentional diversion to make all 9/11 doubts seem dumb.”
Building #7 needs to be the focus as indeed it was on the billboard in Times Square this November (“Building #7. Re-think 9/11”). It is part and parcel of the official lie and the simplest to (pardon me) demolish for anybody who is still confused.
What hurts me a lot is that it was possible to fool most Americans for so long. It was possible for Larry Silverstein to say on TV, “so we decided to pull it,” and not cause people to come out with pitchforks.
I know all the justifications: the MSM pumping lies 24/7 from the first moments of the false flag attack, the dumbing down of America for decades, the pressing concerns of daily life in a basket case economy, the well-directed circus of the two parties, gate keepers everywhere, controlled opposition, limited hangout, confusion, etc. But that was too big not to shake us up and make us stop in our tracks, wonder, question, think.
Yes, the tide is turning but excruciatingly slowly. 9/11 was the seminal event of our generation and with enough time passing and it may have the fate of JFK’s assassination: most people don’t buy the Warren Commission Report but they shrug it off as ‘sins of our fathers.” If we allow 9/11 to sink into oblivion the next generation will care a lot less. How many young Americans, for another example, even know about USS Liberty and its cover-up?
The water is simmering, the frog is almost cooked.
I would like to mention here what a breath of fresh air this site has been for me and how much I appreciate John Burns,’ Denis’ and everyone else’s comments.
I hope A. Wright will continue to post also, and perhaps bring a few of his like-minded friends as well. While we may all be familiar with hasbara, it is always informative and occasionally entertaining to have it illustrated by trained specialists.
“Disneyland Paris is currently besieged by unflattering headlines and faltering finances.” — Spiegel OnLine
This apparently innocent story line has inspired me with the idea I was searching for. Animated cartoons about 9/11 which will subtly satirize and ridicule the standard model. With good quality characters. It needs to be hilarious but also studious. Ideally a series that covers everything. Later on the series could be expanded to take in other anomalies of society. Ridiculing the ridiculers.
Thanks, Dr. Angela. Mr. Magoo (for wisdom) and Betty Boop (sex sells) get drawn into an investigation of 9/11 along with Bugs Bunny–What’s up. Barack?
No need to call me Drrr. I only use it on bureaucratic occasions when I don’t want to be treated like a stupid old lady, which I get a lot. I live in a small town crawling with artists and writers and film-makers. I’ll run this by a couple of them. The thing was obvious from the get-go. I didn’t (and still don’t) have a TV, so a friend called and told me what had just happened. The first words out of my mouth were, “Bush wants to go to war.” Then I went to take a look on a neighbor’s TV. I’ve seen planes crash into buildings and bombs fall on them (WWII–yup, that how @#$%ing old I am) and I’ve also seen controlled demolition. There is no way in hell to confuse these things.
You sound a bit like me. No TV. Quick, quicker than me, to grasp the situation. My first impulse was incredulity that a skyscraper was so vulnerable– a few days later the original designer/architect clarified that by stating the buildings could take multiple hits. But no one listened to him. I’m 71. A woman told me today I should do like her and add on 20 years. Says she gets all kinds of compliments.
It would be great if someone of talent took up the idea and really did a great job. Funny to the point where even the confirmed ignorants would find themselves watching for the laughs. It would be using their weapons back on them. T.S. Eliot made the remark that it is the stuff of rather low quality that impresses people most–not the classics. He meant the stuff we take in uncritically like potato chips. Cartoons then and B movies! Incautious remarks made by parents and teachers . . Hence the need for Betty Boop and Mr. Magoo types.
What field did you get a PhD in? Usually a smart person can spot a PhD holder. Bureaucrats are a bad lot as a rule. They have a lot of power in the USA.
The case for an inside job has been done so well it would already pass the “beyond a shadow” test. So that direction has now mostly entertainment value. We need to undermine their confidence in lies by showing them the consequences that befall evil doers. We have lost the scare value of hell so it needs a new birth in these times in some this worldly venue. As an example a Hollywood type film in which a Jimmy Damon and his family flee to an island stronghold only to find their security guards are in league with the illegal criminals. Or in which an expensive stronghold build by some super rich man is finally undermined by an even smarter engineer, That sort of stuff that puts the super rich in a state of nerves and worry. No exit for you guys. I am sure you can think of a dozen good plots. In essence the security counted on turns against them. Maybe this: a Hennings Mankell character–retired genius detective with a touch of psychopath who begins knocking off the famous, super rich and powerful but only after duly warning them to reform. I am trying to think of the right title. Maybe from a classic. His code name could be Odysseus as he was less than admirable but a very clever man and a capable killer.
Now we need luck!!
Two phids–bad career move for a woman, I can tell you that much. The first one was in “Comparative Disciplines” –kinda like epistemology and figuring out that all that knowledge in different fields was basically just guys telling good stories, though I did run into good thinkers and sometimes good hearts too. The second one was just plain English lit.
The reason I saw through the whole thing right away is not just because I’d seen bombs drop and planes crash. I was born in Nazi Germany, and my grandfather told me how the money had come from Wall Street and the on-the-ground machinations had come from the Vatican. Then, my last year of high school, I had a physics teacher who’d been a top scientist at Peenemuende along with Wernher von Braun. My teacher confirmed what my grandfather had told me. Same teacher told me a lot about the Nazis and he also said the whole thing would come home to roost in America by the turn of the century. So I’ve been watching.
I just watched the Corbett Report. Priceless. Thanks. Very good laugh.
Hello Angela,
I just read your comment of, December 6, 2013 at 2:27 am.
I had to wait and get that information about Wall St financing Hitler from Antony Sutton.
It is interesting to read someone who has known such things since childhood.
I had suspicions my whole adult life. From about the time I got into HS, it seemed to me, knowing the prejudices and attitudes of the ‘grown-ups’ around me; parents, friend’s parents, teachers, etc.; that Amerikans weren’t so different than the Nazis I had become familiar with in all those WWII movies I grew up with.
Like you, I am TV free. I carried the last one I owned out to the curb in 1984. Never regretted it.
On 9/11 there was a TV in my house though. I had married and my then-wife had a small portable, which was left in the closet, as I had made it clear there was to be no TV in my presence. I did dig it out of the closet when I got home – and watched the coverage with one eye, while searching the web for info with the other.
So I saw the telecast of the first tower destroyed – I knew then and there that it was impossible for the plane to have had anything to do with that.
Mr Wright has confronted me before about ‘knowing’ it was impossible for the planes having anything to do with the towers exploding to smithereens…that is making up my mind before all the ‘facts’ were in. I believe my own eyes and good judgement. Those buildings did not ‘collapse’ – they blew up.
Anyway…here we are now, at the verge of total rupture. Mostly because people won’t believe their own eyes or think for themselves.
The quote sounds like Father Staempfle talking through the mouth of Hitler in Mein Kampf. As for the Islamofascists, don’t forget that many of them were trained by German Nazis. When the Mujahadeen ran their schools in Pakistan for the Afghan orphans that became the Taliban, the Mujahadeen still had their Nazi handlers with them.
Satirists of the World Unite! You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Cheneys!
James Corbett’s “Everything You Need to Know About 9/11 in 5 Minutes” is along the lines of what’s been suggested, although not animated characters:
http://www.corbettreport.com/911-a-conspiracy-theory/
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Kurt Daims says:
This is a civil internet discussion. How is this happening !!
. . . Mr. Chomski may say some nonsense, but it proves nothing about his motivations. Controlled demolition is obviously the cause of the towers’ collapse, but this doesn’t prove that there was a government conspiracy. As in all the other worthy causes, the goal will require a greater commitment from all of us.
“When Lefties get up in the morning, there will be peace” Kurt Daims (kurtdaims@gmail.com)
What it does prove is that the security firm, Silverstein, and a host of others were coming and going in the buildings without interfering with each other. All things considered they were probably white persons who spoke good English and had access to nano thermite which is not something I have found in local stores. Additionally they had access to top notch skills as it was admittedly a very professional job by a group that wanted to minimize damage to surrounding buildings (which did not I suppose have an asbestos problem). They must also have had the Mayor and Police Commissioners ears and cooperation given the non-investigation that was done and the quick clean up–all things considered. They must also have had good connections to the SEC or whoever found out about and investigated the options on the airline stock . . . which strongly suggests foreknowledge. I could go on but won’t. So it proves a great deal. All I can say is what foresight Silverstein had in getting the insurance he had. Cuo bono? Duh? Bin Laden?
In his book, Slingshot to the Juggernaut, Sander Hicks mentions a little known “defense contractor” that makes BOTH nano-thermite AND anthrax. What an amazing coincidence! He described its name as called Battelle Memorial Institute.
9/11 backfired on its engineers because it woke people up. I couldn’t say what I knew to any American before 9/11. I don’t know though, how long they’ll stay awake. When I was a child, Germans knew they’d just been majorly screwed. By the time I was 18 in 58 it wasn’t just my physics teacher who said that fascism would come home to roost in America, it was a lot of people. And from then on, it wasn’t hard to figure out the M.O. of the powers that be: 1. install an evil dictator somewhere who’ll deregulate the economy so your corporations can go on a feeding frenzy. 2. Sell your evil dictator a war machine at a healthy profit. If he uses it to expand his territory, so much the better. 3. Make profitable war against him while pretending to liberate the people from him. Destroy the country as much as possible. 4. Make more money while rebuilding the country as a market economy.
So right after WWII the German people knew what had just happened to them, but I don’t think they remember now. The U.S. controls school systems world-wide. I’ve taught in China, in India, in Greece, in Germany and in the U.S. I’ve lived in France, though I didn’t teach there.
Times are critical. If enough people world-wide wake up, then the kings and queens are screwed and they know it. The French Revolution scared the living daylights out of them.
The Hegelian Dialectics was “invented” when the “Divine right of Kings” would no longer fly as an excuse for “leadership” (domination). It is true in my opinion that real leadership does require a profound philosophical basis, but Hegel isn’t deep enough. He believed that the fundamental reality of life is conflict (I’m afraid it’s a guy thing). If we believe that, we’re justifying perpetual war. I think that deepest reality of life is balance.
Hegel isn’t ‘My Thing’, it’s ‘Their Thing’. Please do not mistake my analysis for my own philosophy.
Leadership requires ‘Followers’ nothing else. Those who go along to get along…not knowing the consequences of where they are going along to.
I believe in human Liberty: Liberty is not an INVENTION of revolution; Liberty is the DISCOVERY of enlightened reason.
Fe fi fo fum…I smell the blood of an Englishman
Be he living, or be he dead,
I’ll grind his bones to mix my bread
Do you make flat bread or use yeast? You might share the recipe.
Lol…it is a flat bread. Not real tasty, you know British food, but somehow satisfying ne’er the less.
It’s actually an old recipe from Tahiti brought back with the Bounty…if you know anything about the Tahitian’s vengeance ritual; real FLAT bread.
The wrath of God is visiting Great Britain now or is it the UK? Probably for inventing the modern concentration camps. Or letting so many brown skin people die in India at the beginning of WWII.
Churchill’s idea though Roosevelt volunteered to use US ships to carry food from one area to another. Later Churchill decided to let the Germans starve though again Roosevelt wanted to take food there for the children, women and elderly. Churchill excelled Hitler in my opinion during those times. The photos of corpses shown at Nuremberg were typhus victims and those starved when the Royal Air Force bombed the rail lines leading to the various camps. However, the Zionists found a better use for the photos. For some reason the Brits like starving people–remember the Irish with plenty of food except it went to England. Stalin used this idea in the Ukraine and later Mao in China. Hard to comprehend.
And sure enough, the Israelis are using this sterling idea in Gaza. It’s sort of gone viral.
I’ve heard a lot of stories lately about how the German death camps were not real. And I do know that historians can lie through their teeth. I have personally seen no death camps, but in 1946, after we’d been living like stray animals for almost a year while running away from the invading Russians, my grandparents took in a sixteen-year old homeless boy. He was a Jew. He had watched as the Nazis killed his mother and his father, first raping the mother. Then he’d been worked like a slave in a labor camp. The Nazis had figured out that giving such slaves 800 calories a day was cost effective in terms of how much labor you could get out of a body before it starved. Then, when that point had come for the boy, he, and others like him were sent to a death camp. They all knew where they were going. However, during the transport, there was an air raid, and the boy was able to escape. As I said, he was sixteen, skin and bones, and I don’t think he was making up his story.
Thanks for your thoughtful answer. You said a lot, and so I won’t jump to some answer and will give your words careful consideration before I ask some questions.
Mr Burns’ commentary to do with the European Jews is as I have discovered to be so as well.
The ‘6 million’ number goes back as far as the late 1800’s as far as what I have seen in print and photocopies.
Like John, I won’t give any of these leaders a pass. But the west has no lack of blame.
After all, just like Palestine, the US is stolen land; Turtle Island is what the original inhabitants called it.
It is said that, “there can be no justice in a stolen land”.
Recently I came across a study regarding wealthy people and jurors. This should interest all trial attorneys and jury consultants. The study showed that poor people were more genuinely observant of the defendant’s real states of mind and generally more objective and justice oriented than the rich. Should that surprise anyone? The poor were also more interested in reformation than vengeance. Military officers, high office holders, historians and other academics are rarely poor. Yet these are the sources of history books and interviews. Given this study we should not expect a great deal. Thucydides may be the exception or Tacitus. I have read several accounts, one by a soldier who was there, of Eisenhower’s death camp in Germany where a vast number of Germans were pinned up and no one was allowed to give them food or warm clothing. Then there were the Russian soldiers sent back to certain death in Russia by the British and the Cossasks and their families who met a similar fate on their way home. Only when war is presented as humanitarian intervention do these atrocities surprise and shock as they have been the staple of war since civilization first began its perversion of the human being. Raping of women was the accepted reward for hard battles. The fact that the Zionists use nonsense to justify now close to 70 years of theft, murder, etc. just adds to the nauseating reality. Genocide? Of course. But then they suffered so much . . . I guess if you have suffered a lot you can go shoot up children in school, and it is okay if you are an Israeli. There are people whose parent was a very bad man; and who manage to disengage from that behavior and not feel obliged to carry on a family tradition. Anyway if you are ever on a jury or need one, get some homeless people for jurors. You will get more sympathy. But don’t wear a new Brooks Brothers suit–get something that sort of fits at the local thrift store! Oh, and wear white socks. Or else use the Masonic sign and hope for a Mason judge and prosecutor.
Leuren Moret: The whole key to what happened at the World Trade Center is the energy budget. How much energy was necessary to break those building materials into nano-particles? And that could not come from a chemical explosive. And secondly, the data that Dr. Thomas Cahill reported from his air monitoring of the World Trade Center for five months beginning October 5th after 9-11 was…He’s the one that reported high levels of uranium, elevated levels of uranium in the dust that was released from the WTC, the highest concentration of fine particles ever measured in an air sample in the US and the highest concentration of metal ever measured in an air sample in the US. And also he reported deuterium, tritium, and like I said the elevated uranium levels.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/12/06/scientists-insist-iraq-nuked-by-us/
I would direct you Mr Burns, to my rebuttal of the possibility of any nuclear aspect to the destruction of WTC:
http://hybridrogue1.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/disinformation-dew-nuke/
If you would like to comment there, note that the blog is automatically on moderation. Once I approve one of your comments, you will no longer be moderated.
How do we account for all the tritium? And the radioactivity mentioned in this interview with experts? Do read the article posted by me and let me know what you think. I am a mere amateur in the area of nuclear science. My last serous project was in the 9th grade in 1956. Just on paper for school.
I have read that article. It is disinformation. Fetzer doesn’t have the slightest idea what he is talking about. If you would read my arguments against this you will see how this whole thing is a muddle to dismiss the real evidence of chemical explosives used to demolish the WTC buildings.
I am not going through this argument here, I have already done so elsewhere. Also with Fetzer by the way. The guy doesn’t know anything about applied physics, he’s a charlatan.
You may be right, but Fetzer is not presenting himself as a physicist or expert on these matters in the article. What about the two scientists? Then there is the woman scientist whose name eludes me now who has a very different idea from a man in Canada. How do you account though for some of the phenomena? I will read you rebuttal tomorrow as it is late here.
Just read through your Part 1 and assume Part 2 is still in the making. Here was my experience. With each point you made I could imagine another person pointing out a flaw in your reasoning or some other technical bit of info. That is the problem the non scientist has with these refutations. I could simultaneously hear Judy Wood saying something in my third ear! Now if you had handed me a cookie and told me that this was a new recipe of yours, then I could eat the cookie and comment. Hmm. Delicious. Or, why did you put cilantro in the cookie. I am sorry. I do not think I will eat all of it. You see the intricacy of the presentation arrives at a point where there is the potential for other explanations of phenomena. Judy Wood is no dummy.
Neither her account nor the AE911Truth account nor any other I have come across let the bad guys off the hook, So there is no particular motive for Judy or Fetzer or anyone else to disinfo in my opinion. What all the accounts do is point out the absurdity of the NIST analysis and at the point we need Detectives for 911Truth. And grand juries and suitable arresting officers and nice empty jail cells . . .
Just for a moment consider all the trouble that Ptolemy went to to save the appearances with respect to planetary movement with a geocentric concept. Put yourself back there and try your best to sell Ptolemy on the heliocentric idea. It took very brilliant Kepler to finally get it all worked out. Now we may be saddled with a flawed set of ideas from Einstein. Try making a doctoral thesis around something like this and proceed to a job in a fast food restaurant.
You have by the way done a very good job in Part 1. But I can not critique it as I lack the knowledge a top engineer would possess–hopefully. The cookie on the other hand is not a problem. Thanks. Now this one tastes better by far than the one with cilantro.
Thanks. Coffee is good also. French roast is my favorite.
Leuren Moret: And then to add to that…to add to that, New York City is still radioactive after 9-11. And when I started a depleted uranium Geiger counter movement in Hawaii in 2007, the police chief of New York City tried to get a law passed, he panicked because New Yorkers were contacting me and wanted to do a Geiger counter survey in New York City. And he tried to get a law passed in New York City that prohibited citizens from having or using Geiger counters or any air-monitoring instruments. It failed. [same source]
The discussion is about a new type of bomb capable of disintegrating 500 thousand ton buildings in seconds and which may have been used in Lebanon and also Fallujah.
Now I am working on a hypothesis that goes like this: everything, virtually everything in the universe, has feeling or sentience. A. N. Whitehead believed this as do the Buddhists. So when we use technology we pick up on this very subhuman consciousness; and are effected by it. The company you keep. So technology can make humans inhuman without their realizing it. I know this sounds a bit fantastic but how account for the atrocities otherwise? I mean principally the drone use. Or even driving a car there is some depersonalization of pedestrians and bicyclists. It just happens as we merge with the car, the technology made of minerals.
By the way I am sure our host knows Jim Fetzer well, and he is the one conducting this fine interview. Long but fascinating.
I wouldn’t mention Fetzer to Kevin, you might not get the reaction you might expect…
They had a falling out? Sorry to hear that. Weren’t they both at Scholars for 9/11? Well, it happens. I hope Kevin hasn’t been listening then.
Kevin Ryan says:
Fetzer is a disinformation specialist and has been for many years. Unfortunately, the people he scammed in the JFK movement (he tried to discredit the Zapruder film) were not able to get the word out to the 9/11 truth movement quickly enough.This was my last word on his nonsense. http://911truthnews.com/why-robert-parry-is-right-about-911-truth/
“So when we use technology we pick up on this very subhuman consciousness; and are effected by it. The company you keep. So technology can make humans inhuman without their realizing it. I know this sounds a bit fantastic but how account for the atrocities otherwise?”~John Burns
You would likely appreciate the work of, Jacques Ellul – especially his masterpiece:
THE TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY
It has very much to do with your hypothesis. The symbiotic relationship of man and his technologies is addressed in a highly original and profound manner by Ellul.
I recommend this book, and his other works as well.
In my rebuttal to the nuclear hypothesis of WTC, I make the point that nuclear contamination of the ground water in the US {and other nations} is ubiquitous…
This is why finding such contamination is such minor amounts in the aftermath is no proof of a nuclear device.
This study has just been released:
>”The legacy of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy development has left ground water and sediment at dozens of sites across the United States and many more around the world contaminated with uranium.
The uranium is transported through ground water as uranyl (U6+).”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/nuclear-energy-ground-water-and-uranium-bioremediation/5360746
Your information is a perfect example of what I meant in an earlier post. There is always some qualification on every argument and statement. I doubt a single sentence can written or spoken which is one hundred percent true. Give it a try. There is always knower, the knowing and the thing known. Hard to get them all lined up perfectly. Epistemology.
“There is always knower, the knowing and the thing known. Hard to get them all lined up perfectly. Epistemology.”~John Burns
John, If you are finding it “hard to get them all lined up perfectly,” I would suggest that you may be trying too hard. I see the depth of complexity in your commentary. I also see from that, there is slipcraft going on in your ‘states’ or ‘bardos’ – if I may use the term in a somewhat unconventional way.
What I mean by bardos is more like states of being. You are one moment speaking from the time-space-con carne, then you slip into an astral being; and back again, like stepping in and out of ‘worlds’. This is fine when you are aware of it. But at times it seems and unconscious/superconscious state, that when articulated as it is and a swirling blend of contextual metaphor. Which reminds me of avant’ guarde neuro-trans-electonica – a type of modern music that I love.
How do you get all of it lined up to a state of total awareness? It is there already at the center of your being. I have nothing I could say in human language that can lead you to that place. You already know the way there… it is a matter of going.
I can promise that “Thar be no dragons here” … and if you meet one it is your own creation. And if you know that, all you have to do is acknowledge it at the moment of confrontation, and it will vanish like mist.
Paradox divides the whole …
There is only one, which cannot be divided…[1≡∞]
Remember there is a distinction between “believing” and “knowing”.
Interesting observations. You see when I go out of this dualistic mess called the world today, 9/11 and everything else vanishes in the face of big problems like the dogs troubles. Two of his siblings died this autumn and while he (now in his eleventh year) had not seen them for years I believe he has this psychic connection and is feeling a little morose. Today I bought him some Dancing Dog vitamins and minerals for a little lift. What he would like best would be for me to drive endless around as he loves being in the car and barking as cars go by, etc. sniffing the various odors that come in different neighborhoods and protecting the car while I shop. Plus our old cat disappeared and the new cat is still a little shy of snuggling with this big dog–about 90 pounds. There may be some jealousy as well.
But the Akasha is there for anyone who wishes to go there. So it is just a matter of concentrating until awareness has sufficient energy to escape the lower states of mind. I suspect the world’s greatest detectives have connections to the superconscious, and as long as they are ethical keep them available. Which reminds me that I am of an age where I read the Hardy Boy mysteries before they were rewritten in the late ’50’s. Apparently written by a number of authors under the pen name of Frank Dixon. My daughter had nothing but contempt for the rewrite of the Nancy Drew novels which received the same gentrification at the same time. The Hardy Boys are probably gay now; and Nancy is a lesbian. Or is getting an abortion! Ha. Maybe they are all into doing porn even. I do object though to calling Joe and Frank Hardistein!!
I used to be primarily a Yogi but now I also dip into Buddhism and Neoplatonism. I am ready if America ever needs a Philosopher King!
By the way an excellent TV series is the Eagle–Danish and with some great twists. The main character is of course a detective in Copenhagen and has visions. Very well done and great acting. Really inspired directing. The theme music is beautiful. Also the Swedish Wallander–not the ersatz British version. Good luck on you way to the Akasha. Tell the head librarian hello for me.
Objective correlative—–
Eliot used the term exclusively to refer to his claimed artistic mechanism whereby emotion is evoked in the audience:
“ The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an “objective correlative”; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked. ”
It seems to be in deference to this principle that Eliot famously described Hamlet as “most certainly an artistic failure”: Eliot felt that Hamlet’s strong emotions “exceeded the facts” of the play, which is to say they were not supported by an “objective correlative.” He acknowledged that such a circumstance is “something which every person of sensibility has known”; but felt that in trying to represent it dramatically, “Shakespeare tackled a problem which proved too much for him.” –Wikipedia
With a little fiddling here and there I believe this literary term can be used with respect to 9/11 as presented by mainstream media and the Officials including NIST. As a film the Official Presentation would make for a potboiler. From the elves at Wikipedia:A potboiler or pot-boiler is a low-quality novel, play, opera, film, or other creative work whose main purpose was to pay for the creator’s daily expenses—thus the imagery of “boil the pot”,[1] which means “to provide one’s livelihood”.[2] Authors who create potboiler novels or screenplays are sometimes called hack writers or hacks. Novels deemed to be potboilers may also be called pulp fiction, and potboiler films may be called “popcorn movies.”
In other words the true perpetrators of 9/11were hacks. They took on more than they could handle convincingly, and the critics who viewed the showing wrote bad reviews. Nonetheless it was and continues to be a box office success which simply shows what bad taste most people have. The non-culture of America has thus proved its worth to the criminal element. It has really been one potboiler after another. Perhaps the first really notable one was the JFK Assassination which failed to convince many of us. Still the Warren Commission gave it an Emmy!! But the Official Report like the presentation by TV was popcorn commentary on a potboiler false flag.
This is a really brilliant analysis, not only of events such as the assassinations of the sixties and 9/11, but it is also a cogent argument for why the study of literature is necessary for real “literacy” and is not the useless game of trivial pursuits our schools make of it.
And, by the way, I think Eliot was wrong about Hamlet. Eliot went along with the usual assessment of Hamlet, which is that he “thinks too much.” It’s a shallow interpretation and misses the mark entirely.
I agree with you, Angela, about Hamlet and Eliot. Thanks for the kind response.
Yes I agree with both of you.
With Angela in that John’s comment had a lot of nice points and is clear in it’s construction. And both of you about Hamlet, to my mind a incomparable masterpiece..
.. {well maybe comparable to other works by Shakespeare.}
As far is John’s analysis, it is right-on in that it speaks to “story”, as that is what public relations are; narratives. As it is, and as we have seen, there is very little real talent in the official ‘Public Relations Regime’. Even Hollywood {part of this regime} is flooded with hacks. .. and hacks promoting hacks with awards and accolades – very much like the political side of the spectrum, where people like Kissinger and Obama are given the Nobel Peace Prize.
I hope you have both read, ON BULLSHIT, a brilliant exposition on the meaning and validity of the term. That is what I would call this culture; a culture of bullshit.
I would adjust one comment John made, to do with this ‘culture’. It is not that there is none, it is that it is a designed ‘pathological culture’ … a scum grown in a petri dish by Mad Scientists…a B-grade ‘horror film’ from the 50’s.
No flies on Frank…
I can’t wait to read ON BULLSHIT. Yes, American culture seemed off to me even back when I first encountered it at twelve years old. The miracle is that a good percentage escapes from the bullshit somehow. Here’s an example of BS: I got fired from my last teaching job for asking three Chinese girls to do a research paper on the Kennedy Assassination. They didn’t come up with Oswald somehow, and that was enough to get me fired. I knew it would, too–but I did it anyway.
Hamlet stands alone, I think. It’s not that some of the other plays don’t have the same depth, but when I look for something comparable to Hamlet in world literature, what I come up with is the Bhavagad Gita.
Most of us who are attempting to be vigilant and well informed citizens are not practicing or even leisuring scientists. I was a good science student in school, but I lost interest after my teens. My last year at Stanford I needed science hours to graduate so I took calculus physics. I managed to get through well enough without attending the lectures . . . but I was not enthusiastic about most of it. And now I can not even remember how to differentiate or integrate. Or exactly what an Ohm is.
So when disputes break out about the agents used to bring down or dustify the World Trade Center I am not in position to make any judgements. I have enjoyed Judy Wood’s presentation as well as those at AE911Truth. If someone did a good job of presenting the ET’s doing it I would take that in as well. But I have no idea who is right. I don’t think it was an Act of God but I would not argue with a Christian who did. My neighbor had a theory about the weight of paper doing it and office files and so on. Nothing i could say in good humor had any effect on his thinking. And he is remarkably clever at doing electronic things. Nor do I think that 9/11 was due to some as yet unknown natural phenomenon. I am fairly certain that the Muslim terrorists were as surprised as everyone else. But I suspect the Israelis were not. I wonder why?
Anyway the important thing is to locate the villains and bring them to justice. I am sure we can all agree on that.
Most people know enough science or can quickly learn it to realize that the NIST investigation is bogus. I would be embarrassed to be a party to such shoddy work. Still the pay must be good. Or the threats real scary. Beyond that it gets esoteric. The same with the JFK event. Only people who work in the various fields are qualified. Take global warming and climate change. Here we have lots of disputes. I believe the author of The Chilling Stars is right. I read his book. It makes sense but it would never have entered my mind as I do not know that much science. It would never have occurred to me in a thousand years that clouds are connected to cosmic rays. But the battle rages on. Science which was supposed to be objective turns into politics. Money for equipment and so on. And frankly as a religion science has been as disappointing as any belief system. There are few good scientist around. You might like to read THE VIRTUE OF HERSEY by an astronomer, physicist and mathematician who like a number of people faults Einstein and quantum mechanics.
I recall considering the ‘Big Bang’ theory…
In the beginning there was nothing … And then it exploded.
Yea…that’s it
flaxgirl says:
I’m sure I know less science than you do, John, but you don’t really need to know any science to know that 9/11 was an inside job. You just need to use some straightforward information from experts and your own logic and common sense. The interview with Kathy McGrade, metallurgical engineer, in the A&E9/11Truth series, Experts Speak Out, is quite illuminating in this regard. Kathy recounts her experience of consulting a mechanic about a problem with her car. When he advised her on what was wrong she knew he was lying because she’d happened to have a look under the hood herself and knew that what he said couldn’t be true. She figured out somehow what was wrong and fixed it herself using a YouTube video. With regard to the collapse of the buildings at the WTC she says you don’t need to know anything except that when a building is impacted from the side it cannot collapse symmetrically. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6ziLE23Soo. Instead of relying on experts, Kathy urges us to work things out for ourselves. I think it’s sad that her interview has so few views.
I found this tutorial by Richard Gage, the founder of A&E9/11Truth, extremely educative. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVwun_sOT8U.
I think this explains very clearly how WTC-7 could only have come down by controlled demolition and as Graeme MacQueen says, “There is no room in the official story for controlled demolition.”
https://www.quora.com/Can-we-determine-from-the-observable-data-the-cause-of-WTC-7s-collapse-was-controlled-demolition-and-thus-also-conclude-that-9-11-was-an-inside-job/answer/Petra-Liverani
In the wee hours of the night back in the autumn of 2000 when George W. was doing his best to get elected and when it was now up to the Supreme Court to help that along, the Omicron Group was putting the final touches on Project Blond Girl. Walking down the dark hall from the men’s room one could see that it was overcast. It was also very silent in this nondescript building especially on the top floor. The building looked abandoned but wasn’t. It was in the outskirts of a run down town in New Jersey and was used now and then for special projects. The lower floors were rented out to various business concerns that needed a fairly economical place to sell their dreams. Of course in the parking lot there were a dozen highly trained personnel making sure they were not interrupted–but apart from that they looked like a drab group of business men. And they needed George W. to get elected. Gore would want to work in global warming and Blond Girl was already burdened as it was. No, Gore would wreck the plan with his carbon dioxide obsession.
In any case the decision had been made after endless discussions and lectures back in D.C. at the Pentagon. They would use Agents Chartreuse. They would be effective–some thought too effective, but in spite of that they had opted for them because of their almost esoteric nature. None of the men were scientists or engineer but all of them were masterful at getting results. And the results this time would forever banish from their minds any thought of waiting in line at a soup kitchen. Not that the men were poor, but they felt the need for an extra nest egg; and this nest egg would be golden. All the technical stuff would be arranged and carried out by the four Epsilon teams, There was no lack of expertise and no lack of willingness perhaps because they were not citizens or at most were dual citizens. Their one worry was that George W. would get scared or just blurt out with something that would alert the public. But the quack in charge of medical had said he would see that George got some psych meds to ease things along. Then there was Cheney. Would he have a heart attack. They needed a stand in for the possibility. Now they had one. So it was go, go, go. Blond Girl would change the world forever. One of the men had early in his career been a preacher and he could not now resist enjoining the group for a prayer. The prayer over they departed to various places.
The next ten months passed like a dream and Blond Girl moved ahead like a custom made Mercedes. All twelve men according to wives or mistresses as the case might be were reported to be sleeping like babies. Only one, and he was like this, kept having the same dream in which a haggard old woman would grab him by the arm and call him sonny. And then he would be obliged to walk her across the street which seem to take centuries. The last time he had that dream she told him to beware of betrayal. She told him that at some point Blond Girl might be revealed for what it had been and then he might find himself in prison somewhere. After that dream he started using Atavan and going for long aimless walks. He bought a dog but it did not seem to like him so he gave it to his daughter.
[The following 200 pages are encrypted, and I am still not able to get them de-encripted.] There are three rather strange pages after that and then someone has scrawled with a blue ball point pen: the end. I have been told that the encryption is so good and so professional that whatever is in those 200 pages must be very important. How did it come to me? Later.
I have no idea what your last post is, means, or what it is about…???
Well, it is an impressionistic portrait of what might have proceeded 9/11 based on lots of readings, video, a bit of the classics and so on. It is easier to proceed with a picture of what might have been the case than to walk ahead blind. Business men with a project. Vaguely religious and keen on making big bucks. Political goals. A reference to the corruption of both parties. Etc. It might be more accurate than anyone would think. Sometimes fiction is stranger than truth. Graham Greene’s novel’s were frequently that way and very prophetic– e.g. A Quiet Man. The encrypted portion may in fact contain some valuable information. Who knows? We will have to wait and see.
[Once we know for certain as we do now that a great crime has been committed that has led to even greater crimes, something has to be done.]
I once put the phrase “citizen’s arrest” into a search engine and found interesting results. Seems to me this might be a fruitful endeavor.
Please continued to try to decipher the rest, John. It’s pretty good stuff. You are a very talented cryptographer….
I wonder if you have heard of this composer who put the word out and got thousands of persons to sing various parts of a choral composition–of course this used the resource of the Internet. The result was beautiful. This idea could be used to catch the conspirators. The Internet Detective might go viral. Millions of persons looking for the perpetrators and sending in clues. A massive undertaken that would probably unnerve those that planned and executed it. But —- it would require preliminary planning . . . some kind of sophisticated soft ware that could sort through millions of clue and map them. After maybe a billion hits the clues would dove tail in various places. Composed of things overheard. The murmuring heard by clairaudients. The wife or daughter eaten away by fear and guilt about a father who said some things while drunk. You see where this can go. Anonymous help from the whole globe. A man in Pakistan who overheard his boss a few days before 9/11; someone processing a large bank transfer in Saudi Arabia for a very nervous man who made some remarks to himself. Etc.
This would be a good name for the software/algorithm: Claircognizance 911
“Claircognizance is a very useful but unpopular skill. It means “clear knowing.” In short, you have a knowing about things; the only problem is, you never seem to know HOW you know. You just do. It seems to come from nowhere. Some people mistake claircognizance for intuition or gut feelings, but there’s a difference between the two. Intuition is more based on feelings or emotions, whereas claircognizance is focused more on specific bits of knowledge, such as knowing details of a stranger’s relationship situation or knowing deep down that you have lived in another world. Claircognizance usually comes to you from spirit. It’s basically your guides or other higher entities dumping information into your head.”
Homo ludens–man the player. The idea being that in play we can sharpen our skills. This is play in the dark area.
I think Chomsky is a deep cover asset – he is playing a terrible role in regards to ALL the really critical, geo-stategic operations of the Imperial state and it’s mid-Eastern ally. As I stated on facebook – ” Don’t mean to quibble but I wouldn’t say he “JUST blew it” on 911. Consider his stance re the Afghan war where he took a big role in promoting the Mujaheddin – “freedom fighters,” fighting with rusty muskets and farm implements, and supposedly abandon by the West. At the time these terrorists were receiving an estimated $1 billion per year from US, Israel, Saudies – hundreds of terror bases in Pakistan, US Fascist ally, etc. This massive intervention preceded the Soviet intervention, at the behest of the Revolutionary gov’t of Afghanistan. Consider also his role re Yugoslavia – promoting the “Big Lie” of Serb aggression, “rape camps”, “ethnic cleansing”, etc Actually signing on to a full-page ad in NYT calling for US military intervention against Serbia – this resulted in the bombing of Belgrade for 80 days with uranium weapons. Also is role in the cover-up of the assassinations of the 60s – should be taken into account. What he has said about Salvador, Chile, etc – was already quite widely known. Nothing in that was original. All the above leads one to surmise that he has ties in the deep state, perhaps Israel (he was a Zionist youth leader as a young man). Can’t prove that so perhaps I should keep those suspicions to myself. But, his “debates” with Buckley (CIA) and his soft critique of Western imperial policy lead me to believe he is playing the “left” in the Mockingbird game.
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Nobody with any expertise says:
I’m going to add only the following to this thread:
I think Bin Laden did have some knowledge about 9-11.
“The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; the people who are a part of the US system but are dissenting against it. Or those who are working for some other system; persons who want to make the present century as a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity so that their own civilization, nation, country, or ideology can survive.”
Excerpt from Bin Laden interview – The Daily Ummat of Karachi
Joshua Switky says:
Threatening the safety of a whistleblower’s loved ones is a time-dishonored method of coercing compliance and creating an unwilling gatekeeper who will alienate and outrage some better-informed people thus achieving a COINTELPRO divisive effect. Surprised folks don’t get that this is going on.
The rise of the internet over the 90s decade lowered the threshold of the don’t-go-there ‘electric fence’ of retribution since info now spread faster and wider. Previously allowed subversive talk became more critical to suppress. Infowar take backs season. The role of gatekeeper became even more important to create and enforce. You know who qualifies here: Some earnest progressive subversive has a big audience that trusts them…CIA can’t leave that unchecked. The gatekeepers are threatened, warned, then coached – given language and ‘safe harbor’ themes – to help them stay off the ‘electric fence’ with diversions since CIA specializes in psychological operations and has the most vested interest in the ‘success’ of the gatekeeping. Discerning who has been unwillingly coerced and who is a willing sleeper injected into the Left to block…is tricky but not that hard given a little research.
Wish more media watchdogs educated the choir on CIA control of domestic culture.
quidsapio says:
Reblogged this on Quid Sapio and commented:
Chomsky – what happened to you man?
Edward Kerr says:
It’s difficult to determine the motivation of someone like Chomsky as it relates to his seeming blindness to the fact that the official version of 911 has more holes in it than Dick Cheney’s hunting partners face.
When one looks under the microscope there are Zionist fingerprints all over 911. That fact makes Chomsky’s position a bit easier to understand.
Paul Mason says:
The question I would pose to Chomsky would be: There are 2100 registered professional members of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 from all over the world, that is a fact. However there are no members of any opposing professional engineering or architectural group. Doesn’t that mean that the numbers that want a new inquiry is infinitely more than those who oppose one?
Peter Strømberg says:
I would have expected Chomsky to realise that 9/11 was an inside job purely from the rhetoric, without the need for the physics. The reason there are no papers on the twin towers is because NO-ONE was allowed to study the debris. That’s what you really do as an engineer after such an incident (unless you’re trying to hide something). Did Osama Bin Laden hide 130,000 tons of debris after the “collapse”? Don’t get me started on the Pentagon. A blind man can work out that whatever hit, it wasn’t a twin engined aircraft.
the A320 Germanwings crash in the South of France Alpes mountains has left only tiny pieces of debris and a few sizable ones and both engines have been recovered in the same state as AA77 ones : a trunk, no blades, no casings. Then the DNA recovery is almost completed for the 149 passengers. At such speeds, the entire body and wings and tail turn instantly to dust or so. I myself have been “digging the subject” for years, and I still keep the AA77 case on side, due to lack of certitudes. On the contrary, the WTC issue has improved much much more thanks to the ae911T and scholarsfortruth effortts.
A linguistics prof’s opinion on 911 is about as interesting&relevant as a biotech prof’s opinions on contemporary chinese semiotics. His “authority” is a creation of the controlled media, who has chosen him as their voice.
Petra Liverani says:
But as a linguist, I’m curious to know what he thinks “it” refers to when Larry Silverstein says “We’ve had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it. And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse.” The debunkers say it refers to “the operation”. If a linguistic expert witness can say that the “it” must refer to the building then it’s pretty compelling evidence that Silverstein knew it was set up with explosives ergo 9/11 was an inside job. Amazing the power of the pronoun “it” in this context.
lewwelge says:
I Like It, what u wrote.
scottbennett says:
Well done. The military is awakening to the truth, and quite inspired.
Robert Forte says:
In 2003, when i finally agreed the official story was bogus (after reading A New Pearl Harbor), I began to inquire why more people had not been as outraged– as i had become. David Griffin informed me that he had sent a manuscript copy of New Pearl Harbor to Chomsky who refused to read it, although two of his closest friends, Richard Falk and Howard Zinn had lauded it’s importance. So I began a brief correspondence with Chomsky. His first defended his position by asserting that it was “implausible” that the administration would be involved. I suggested that if someone told us on Sept 10 that 19 terrorists who failed flight school would hijack planes and expertly pilot them beyond their engineered capabilities into their targets, evading not only airport security but NORAD, we would consider that “implausible” too. The correspondence degenerated after that. Finally the “most important intellectual of the twentieth century” defended his ignorance and apathy by saying, “even if the administration did it, that would be minor compared to other things they have done.”
I love looking through an article that will make people think.
heavywatergate says:
Chomsky’s arguments (or his “counter-factuals”, rather) are false and bizarre. You did an excellent job showing that, Mr. Ryan.
Here’s another Chomsky tidbit from a private e-mail (that someone else published without his permission) on 9/11 Truth:
“Let’s suppose it turns out that the WTC was destroyed by a controlled demolition. Then who would the finger point to? Osama bin Laden, obviously. After all, related groups came close to blowing up the WTC in 1993, and with a little better planning, would have killed perhaps 10,000 people.”
The above is a very weak inference, and ignores two facts:
a. NIST and other government agencies explicitly rejected a controlled demolition hypothesis in their reports, and simply stated that they found no evidence of CD. This is expected, because NIST knows that controlled demolition is synonymous in the public mind with US government involvement. That indicates a public relations agenda.
If Chomsky’s statement were true, we would expect NIST to explore this hypothesis, as if it were entirely neutral and innocent, devoid of any grave political implications. But no such work was done. Thus, it would be incredibly serendipitous for any finding to both implicate bin Laden and support the CD hypothesis, in particular when CD was almost entirely avoided and opposed by NIST.
The fact that NIST opposed and avoided the subject of controlled demolition, as if it had grave political implications, directly contradicts Chomsky’s (extremely weak inferred) statement.
b. Chomsky’s inference is one out of multiple other possible conclusions.
Now some people claim that Chomsky’s a gatekeeper, which the OP hints at.
I doubt it. He doesn’t actively oppose 9/11 Truth, or new investigations into it. He only comments on 9/11 Truth when specifically asked, usually after his lectures by people with their own agendas. This is also why you’ll see claims that Chomsky is a “gatekeeper” for the Federal Reserve and other such nonsense. Because Libertarians (and others) are prodding him for answers on irrelevant subjects which they prioritize greatly. He wouldn’t comment on 9/11 Truth if he weren’t asked about it.
He states that he doesn’t have an opinion on Building 7, because he can’t have one: he’s not qualified to offer a meaningful judgment. He doesn’t have specialist knowledge in civil-mechanical engineering. These statements are from the same published e-mails. This is a reasonable position to take, and is honestly a refreshing one. Like it or not, you can’t have a meaningful opinion on Building 7 after an hour on the internet.
He asks reasonable questions (not the ones you’ve quoted, but elsewhere) that the Truth movement could answer in order to strengthen their credibility.
Chomsky correctly notes that the movement is plagued by speculation, rumor, hearsay and reliance on amateur opinion. He also notes, in the same published e-mails, that “gatekeeper” and “disinfo” accusations are rampant within. People are allowed to question narratives, of course, but the Truth movement is just plagued with long-debunked myths, and its non-scientific audience and research makes it excessively speculative by nature.
He’s right, unfortunately. No “disinfo agents” or “gate-keepers”. People are simply convinced in their beliefs. This goes for Judy Wood, Steven Jones, Jim Hoffman, etc. and even you and I. There are no agreed-upon standards to evaluate evidence for 9/11 Truth (and UFOs and JFK and Bigfoot…etc). This means that there are no boundaries to delimit meaningful evidence or the realm of discussion. This creates many potential divisions, as people investigate different lines of evidence and create new theories. Of course, if you dispute someone’s theory, you’re a “shill”. The core of the Truth movement itself is unstable. There’s no need to send “disinfo agents” or “gatekeepers” to destabilize it, it does that itself.
I have a rule of thumb when it comes to conspiracies: the more theories there are about a topic, the less likely any of them are true. This is intuitive. Models are meant to describe reality and make predictions. A description of reality must be consistent. If there are several models describing different things on the same phenomenon, how do we know which is the reality? They can’t all be true. There is only one reality to describe.
In general, a choice of models will tend to not vary much in-between them. Large number of models and/or large variance between models for a phenomenon indicates that the evidence is very weak or that no filter for evidence exists.
Chomsky’s public comments on 9/11 Truth is consistent with his private comments on the matter, and I have no reason to believe that he’s “gate keeping”. Yes, some of his comments on 9/11 Truth are stupid and false, but it seems more like an attempt to maintain credibility on a third-rail issue than to “gate keep”.
It’s possible—as you’ve indicated – that Chomsky has a private opinion on 9/11 Truth which differs from his public one. Carl Sagan was similar concerning his beliefs on UFOs.
Perhaps he should speak with Mr Silverstein himself. He could put him straight. Who needs a Physicist?!
thebloodneverdried says:
I’m as distrustful of the US government as anyone, and they may well have had a hand in this. But I suspect that, after the previous (unsuccessful) attack on the Twin Towers in the early 90s, explosives may have been placed within the buildings to ensure that, if they were somehow attacked again, they would collapse vertically, and not sideways onto streets and other buildings which would lead to an even greater loss of life.
Sorry – But you’re just plain LOST. BTW, the 1993 WTC bombing was an FBI operation.
If the buildings had been previously rigged to prevent a sideways collapse, there are some things to consider. First, planes flying into the towers would not have caused any collapse, so there would have been no need to detonate. Since the only thing that could bring down the towers at all would be an explosion, how would they know when to set off their own detonation? It makes no sense. Second, to prevent loss of life, wouldn’t they have waited to evacuate the towers as much as possible before they detonated. Thirdly, if they were rigged with nano-thermite (which can be painted onto surfaces), who supplied the stuff? It is only the military that has access to nano-thermite as far as I know. The elevators were worked on and improved months before 9/11, and I think the elevator shafts would have been an ideal place to work unseen on rigging the towers. I wonder if the same elevator work was done on building 7?
Mike Lowery says:
You can take a child who knows how gravity works and then show them the footage of WTC7 coming down and ask them to explain what’s happening to the building? Tell them to just explain the best they can and to not let any of their thoughts be held back. They’ll answer with some amazing answers and some will be full of young and fresh insight and some will be amazingly fantastical. But none will be as amazingly fantastical as the NIST report’s answer! It is pure rubbish!
Johanne says:
Mr Chomskies reputation is shot , I am afraid – The scales fell from my eyes when he used the expression “nano-thermite , whatever the hell that is” – If you don’t know what it is Mr Chomski then you ought to find out.
Gary M. Weglarz says:
When someone whose reputation which was built on rationality, sound logic and factual argument suddenly morphs into a creepier version of Glen Beck whenever he’s asked a question about the assassination of JFK or 9/11, it would appear time for anyone who can still think for themselves to in fact do so. That Chomsky’s willing to play the fool and sacrifice his reputation for the coverup of these two events speaks volumes about the importance of these events and his true loyalties.
Perfectly said, Gary. Time to expose left “gate-keepers,” some of whom apparently head up major organizations.
I think the answer is pretty simple here. I like Chomsky but I had a hard time fully trusting his judgement due to his views on 9/11. That being said Chomsky walks his talk he goes to the places he talks about and he does try to help I can imagine he has gone many places and done many good deeds. I think his views on 9/11 boil down to his career and him not wanting to lose it or maybe he is very conscious of his image and you know 9/11 will do to that. I have read that Chomsky has promoted himself by posting a self voting sponsorship on his own website for the running as top intellectual. All this should be taken with a grain of salt but it does bother me that he can’t be just a little open like Ron Paul’s view which he doesn’t think it was an inside job but he doesn’t condemn those who do.
I loathe the Noam Chomskys and Ron Pauls of this world more than I do the out and out blatant corporate fascists and that is saying something! At ‘least’ the latter are not the most despicable hypocrites willing to sell their souls (if they have any which they don’t) so as to exist in some dreadful limited hangout. I mean what a sad dismal decrepit existence!!
Editor says:
Chomsky the Liar
https://politicalfilm.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/chomsky-the-liar/
Haven’t checked out link yet, but just to say-best not ask him about the Paris attacks. We KNOW now full well what to expect!
I have a challenge to debate Chomsky. Everyone should spread this post widely:
A Public Challenge to Professor Noam Chomsky:
Debating the September 11th Attack Evidence
https://politicalfilm.wordpress.com/2015/12/01/a-public-challenge-to-professor-noam-chomsky/
As I said to Ralph Nader on The Nation Cruise, our most appropriate and accurate allegory re 9/11 is the Hans Christian Anderson tale “The Emporer’s New Clothes,” and the brilliant crusader for consumer safety agreed which a genuine Peak Experience ( ref. Abraham Maslow) for yours truly.
Lew A. (Lincoln) Welge says:
Indeed, “it” IS compelling evidence and we’ve an abundance of it, the starkest of all being the video of WTC7’s Controlled Demolition which I show to people on my iphone6 pretty routinely now. Thanks for your activism.
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“Very Interestinck” (ref. Artie Johnson dressed as a WWII German soldier around ’69 on the somewhat subversive, but mostly silly “Laugh In.”
I was sad to hear Noam Chomsky’s stance on 9/11. I’ve always, more or less, worshipped him because he seemed to be a thorn in the side of people who have wanted to take advantage of the rest of us. When such an intelligent person disregards such compelling evidence I have to assume that they are either not as intelligent as I once thought, or they are wilfully trying to shut the other persons argument down. I believe Noam Chomsky is an intelligent person. The only thing left for me to believe is that he is wilfully trying to cover up the truth. Or else he has a blind spot on this particular issue. Perhaps some bias which I am unaware of? I know that I am not the only person who has held Noam Chomsky in high regards. His influence on people is very profound. That’s why it is so tragic that he has decided to take the stance on the issue. He has hypnotised so many of his followers into falling in line with his perception. But I am no longer one of those followers. Because of this I now have to re-examine is entire body of work and narrative of history. Though there may be some truth in it, I have to question his intentions in including certain facts and excluding others. But I am glad that I have lost faith in him because I need to wake up and realise that I should never put that much faith in one person.
Chomsky is one of those know it all ego-driven types that unless he’s thought of it first, it’s not important. He knows the truth, he’s not stupid. In fact we should just give him the benefit of the doubt that he’s doing this on purpose so that he can continue to have a career. Even so, it makes him a coward.
Gary Wallin says:
Since I saw in video Chomsky’s unusual and irrational response: (think about it – don’t look at evidence) to the 9/11 conspiracy, I’ve lost a lot of respect for his objectivity and opinions.
Could it be he was personally threatened with reprisals on his family or purposely helping Israel from being fingered and allowing Arabs the blame? Or is his contribution to the cover up “for the better good?” All media and newscasters and Chomsky cover for the government, for the Israeli’s, and the corporations to keep their jobs while avoiding ridicule from those others covering up and from ignoramuses who don’t know or don’t want to know the truth. Is Chomsky a part of the so called “new world order?” The country is in deep do do. Free press is a joke..
Clinton Scott says:
Hi Gary-
I’m not sure if Chomsky is purposely covering for empire. He has attacked them on other grounds all throughout his career. It is curious, however. Another who surprised me was the late Robert Parry. He poo-pooed the 9/11 “truthers” as well. I’ve kept an open mind and followed the investigation here and elsewhere, and I find it hard to believe that there wasn’t a larger conspiracy. Even during the event itself, I was skeptical that buildings that well constructed could collapse perfectly into their own footprint solely due to fire. And of course the lack of video from the Pentagon and Building 7’s free-fall are clinchers.
Consortium News has kept 9/11 truthers from posting in their comment section. During Robert Parry’s time the posts were accepted, but the current comment “moderator” has repeatedly deleted anything with links to 9/11 Architects and Engineers. It happened to me just yesterday. For many, rethinking the events of 9/11 is just “a bridge too far.”
Eric Bischoff says:
Of all of the people to pick a fight with on the topic of 9/11 and who did what, why would you choose Noam Chomsky? That makes no sense.
Chomsky fashioned himself an expert on 9/11 when he put out a book just after the attacks entitled “9-11.” The webpage for the book says “In 9-11, published in November 2001 and arguably the single most influential post-9/11 book on the subject, internationally renowned thinker Noam Chomsky bridged the information gap around the World Trade Center attacks…”. However, when facts that contradicted his narrow viewpoint were presented to Chomsky publicly, he began to lash out at the critical thinkers who approached him with those facts. And he became a case study in falsehood on the subject. His dissembling in this case is about ego death, I think. Much as it is for his die-hard followers.
Thanks for all your work. The two people I’ve been most disappointed in regarding taking an objective look at all things related to 9/11 are Noam Chomsky and the late Robert Parry. I don’t know why, but they both seemed to shut down too soon, and summarily dismissed the possibility of a government backed (either US or Israeli or both) conspiracy without sufficient examination of the evidence. I have done my best to keep an open mind and to keep informed, and Caitlin Johnstone just wrote an essay that mirrors my current position. I think it’s important that we appreciate and acknowledge the great work that Chomsky and Parry have both done, and allow that we all have our flaws.
Parry was a great journalist and unfortunately burned some of his credibility with his indefensible position against 9/11 truth. I wrote something about that here: http://911truthnews.com/why-robert-parry-is-right-about-911-truth/ .
Thanks for the link. Excellent article that I had previously missed.
Seth. Rick says:
And Amy Goodman states in her book that #7 came down because of a “ fuel tank fire” I have no use for these people , anymore.
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How City Hall – and you – can help Seattle win the global war for talent
I spent the weekend in Palo Alto at my 20th business school reunion. My wife and I met in grad school and moved to Seattle not long after, but most classmates chose to stay in the Bay Area. That’s not surprising given the region’s extraordinary economic performance, especially for anyone working in tech.
I visit the Bay Area rarely enough that each visit is a barometer of the shifting mood in the region. Prior visits always led with the positives – the amazing weather, the remarkable economic success and sense of opportunity – with associated negatives (long commutes in heavy traffic, a social culture overly focused on wealth and status) mostly in the background.
This past weekend was the first time those two narratives seemed to flip, even among this remarkably fortunate group. If the GSB Class of ’99 is any indication, the Bay Area has reached an inflection point where the extraordinary advantages of geography and history that made Silicon Valley what it is finally collide with the reality of the region’s near-total failure to invest in its civic infrastructure.
If that last sentence sounds like a non-sequitur, I hope you keep reading, because the time for Seattle to avoid a similar fate is right now.
It’s no exaggeration to say that the Bay Area, and most particularly the City of San Francisco, is choking on its own success. Over the past 10 years, the center of gravity for the region’s world-beating innovation business has shifted up the peninsula. Companies that might once have occupied low-rise office parks down the 101 are now crowding into office towers in San Francisco.
But due to the complete capture of city government by anti-growth NIMBY interests, the city has failed to allow the housing stock to expand to meet this growing demand. As a result, the number of new jobs in the city has expanded eight times faster than the rate of housing growth over the past 10 years.
What happens when blistering job growth collides with persistently anti-growth civic policy? Spiraling rents, massive economic displacement, an exploding homeless population and associated collapse of civic order. It makes a city unlivable for residents, unappealing to visitors, and cruelly unjust to those at the bottom of the income scale.
This change happens slowly at first, then all of a sudden. It’s happening now in San Francisco, and it could easily happen here in Seattle.
A decades-long imbalance in jobs and housing isn’t fixed overnight. It takes years of legislative wrangling to unwind layers of exclusionary zoning rules and building code restrictions erected over decades. It takes years more for the missing housing stock, schools, transportation and parks to be permitted, financed and brought to market.
Today, Seattle is benefitting from two decades of relatively-less-bad civic leadership. We’re adding new workers at one of the fastest rates in the country, and many of those workers are leaving the Bay Area to help drive our local innovation ecosystem.
So everything is good, right? Not if you’re paying attention.
If we’re winning the war for talent over the Bay Area, it has more to do with their failure than it does our success. Our city politics today are too often a standoff between social justice warriors on one extreme and anti-growth NIMBYs on the other. What we need to avoid San Francisco’s fate is long-arc civic leadership, not hot-button grandstanding or passive defense of the status quo.
In fact, effective urban leadership demands policies that satisfy neither of these extremes. The civic investments required to enable long-term prosperity for all are as threatening to the leafy enclaves of white privilege as they are to redistributionists (who sometimes fail to grasp that larger pies offer more slices for sharing).
Whether on housing (HALA), transit (ST3), or the waterfront tunnel (now complete) and park (coming in 2023), Seattle’s most important investments in civic infrastructure have been resisted at every step, often coming to fruition only after decades of legal and political self-sabotage. (We famously rejected Paul Allen’s attempt to give us our own Central Park, not once but twice!).
We have a habit of avoiding San Francisco’s mistakes by the narrowest of margins, and only at the eleventh hour.
This fall, all seven of Seattle’s City Council district seats are up for grabs. The council we elect together will make the choices that shape our future as a city for decades to come. We don’t need to guess what will happen if we fail to embrace a policy of inclusive growth: just pay a visit to San Francisco and see for yourself.
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Kalampattu – floral drawing
I was fascinated with Kalampattu-Kalamezhuthu, a type of floral drawing which originated from antiquity and has a Tantric base. I myself had drawn few Kalams in my younger days while I was in my college on special occasions when I was in the Arts club. But it was not the traditional ritualistic drawing I did, more modern designs. I must say I used modern pigments and it was well appreciated by my artists colleagues.
Then I came to know some family connection so to say. My family name is Kalampattu, an ancient family originated from Arakkuzha some 900 years. My uncle Fr.Francis tells me that there is still some Kalmpattu Mana or illams in that part of the world.
I wonder any spiral of my genes has a link with these ancestors who were masters of this folk art. I have no idea. Is it anything to do with a “silent” artist sleeping in me.
The thoughts haunt me at times.
Let me tell you what Kalampattu is
Kalampattu is a folk art form of northern kerala. The words ‘Kalam’ in Malayalam stands for drawing and ‘Pattu’ means song. The artist uses the floor as his canvas. The Kalam in the Shakti cult denotes a floor painting of the goddess.
Kalamezhuthu pattu is performed as part of the rituals to worship and propitiate goddess like Shakti-Kali .This ritualistic art is a common feature of temples as well as noble households.
Before the form of the goddess is painted, a Chakra in the tantric structure is drawn using two colors, white and yellow made respectively of rice and turmeric flour.
This art form which is over 600 years or more old and is performed by a group of five to fifteen people in temples. The rituals are performed around the kolam -an elaborate picture drawn on the floor, using five colors. The colored powders used for the kalam are prepared from natural products only.
The pigments are extracted from plants – rice flour (white), charcoal powder (black), turmeric powder (yellow), powdered green leaves (green), and a mixture of turmeric powder and lime (red).
It often takes more than two hours to finish a kalam drawing with appealing perfection. Decorations like a canopy of palm fronds, garlands of red hibiscus flowers and thulasi or Ocimum leaves are hung above the kalam.
The figures drawn usually have an expression of anger, and other emotions.
The kalams or drawings are erased at the end of the ritual to the accompaniment of musical instruments like ilathalam, veekkan chenda, kuzhal, kombu and chenda.
Kalamezhuthu artists are generally members of communities like the Kurups, Theyyampadi Nambiars, Theeyadi Nambiars and Theeyadi Unnis. The kalams drawn by these people differ in certain characteristics. The Kalamezhuthu is a forty-day ritualistic festival beginning with the first of Vrischikam (Scorpio) in most Bhagavathy temples in Kerala
The Kalampattu begins with the beginning of the Kalam itself.
The Brahmin priest is assigned the privilege of doing the first special puja of the image before the onset of the Kalampattu.
To mark the end of the ritual of Kalampattu, the figure of Kali is wiped out, starting from the feet upwards, but keeping the breast untouched. The powder used for painting the breasts is then worshipfully collected for distribution as prasadam to the devotees.
The Kalampattu is associated with some ritualistic dances .The dancer is the descendant of a line of ritual dancers, the counterparts of the oracle and the shaman.
As the ritual dancer gets possessed by goddess, his limbs move and he utters uncontrollably. The movements and utterances rise slowly in a crescendo and reach their highest pitch and then abruptly stop. The possession leaves the body and the dancer falls exhausted and unconscious.
The ritual dancer visits the houses of the devotees and receives offerings to the goddess in the form of rice, coconuts which are the symbols of fertility.
The performance in the light of temple torches lasts through the night. The singers are neatly dressed with women wearing their hair on the side of the head. A series of songs (kalampattu) are sung to the accompaniment of nanthuni and elathalam.
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Kvikkjokk (Lule Sámi: Huhttán) is a village in the municipality of Jokkmokk. It is known as trailhead for Padjelantaleden and Kungsleden hiking trails through Laponia, and for the delta of the rivers Gamájåhkå and Darreädno. The area is traditionally Sámi, but mining, and later tourism, has brought in Swedish people.
The Kvikkjokk village, mountains in the background
The Swedish name comes from the old Sámi name of the river Gamájåhkå: Kuoihkajohko ("rapids river"). The Sámi name is from the Swedish "hyttan", a building for metal works.
In 1659 it became known that there was silver in the mountains 50 kilometres (30 mi) away. The site by the river was chosen for melting the silver, with the first batch melt in 1662. The first mine was opened in Kedkevare, later called Silbbatjåhkkå in Sámi (silbba=silver), another five years later in Alkavare (Sámi: Álggávárre). A mining town resulted.
The mining did not become profitable, and when the mines were laid down 1702 only the priest and the sexton remained, with missionaries to the Sámi using Kvikkjokk as base. In 1760 a church was built. Swedish settlers arrived in the 19th century, living from hunting and fishing.
Work with the Kungsleden trail started around 1900, with the first mountain cabins built 1907. The fjällstation of the Swedish tourist association in Kvikkjokk (the older building) was built in 1928.
The bus to Murjek
Kvikkjokk is at the end of the road from Jokkmokk 120 km (75 mi) to the south-east. There are regular bus services from Jokkmokk and from Murjek (180 km) at the Malmbanan railway between Luleå and Narvik.
The town itself is small, use your feet. Feet (or skis) are used also for getting around a much bigger area. Also canoes and bikes are available. There are ferries across the rivers; in winter they can often be crossed by ski.
Kvikkjokk church
The main sights are the church from 1906–1907, the remains of the silver handling infrastructure, and the river delta. There is a lot of primeval forests to see on day trips. On longer hikes both low fells and high fells (alpine mountain) can be reached.
View from the fell station
The main activity is hiking. There are many options for day hikes or overnight trips, and also several options for long-distance hikes through Laponia along marked trails with cabins:
Kungsleden is the most famous hiking trail in Sweden. The leg northward from Kvikkjokk towards Abisko, passing Kebnekaise and Nikkaluokta, is very popular, with cabins at regular intervals, making the hike quite easy. The leg south towards Jäkkvik (on road 95 towards Bodø in Norway), Ammarnäs and Hemavan has fewer hikers and fewer cabins.
Padjelantaleden leads to the lake Akkajaure, with boat transportation to Ritsem and buses from there to Gällivare.
Nordkalottleden has its southern trailheads in Kvikkjokk and Norvegian Sulitjelma, reachable by this route in a week. After the fork at Staddajåkkå, the trail meanders through the Scandinavian mountains to Kautokeino in Norvegian Finnmark.
European long distance trail E1, between Sicily in the south and Nordkapp in the north, can be reached via the other trails.
The main hiking seasons are July–September and March–April, the latter by ski.
Kvikkjokk is a trailhead also for Sarek National Park (part of Laponia). There are no marked trails there, except a short stretch of Kungsleden, and no cabins, but it is a worthwhile destination for experienced hikers.
There is a convenience store at the fell station.
Meals are available at the fell station, at least by advance request.
Kvikkjokk fjällstation
66.95368317.7195381 Kvikkjokk fjällstation, ☏ +46 971 210 22, ✉ info@kvikkjokkfjallstation.se. Late June–late September, late February–late April. Hostel operated by STF. A large mountain station, with convenience store. Canoes and fishing gear rental. Self catering facilities. Breakfast available, lunch and dinner on advance request. (updated Oct 2017)
There are cabins along the trails, suitable also for shorter return hikes. The cabins in Padjelanta have an unlocked part available when otherwise closed off season.
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Senegal’s second EITI Report covering 2014 was launched in October amidst robust public debate calling for more openness about recent natural gas discoveries offshore. The process of implementing the EITI Standard in Senegal has informed recent reforms including publication of oil and gas contracts, establishing an oil and gas strategic policy committee and clarification of license allocation procedures.
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Our project is already a reality regardless of EasyFeedback Token that will be exponentially enhanced with the incorporation of EasyFeedback Token. This is an objective that we intend to achieve in the medium term. Proof of this is that, in this token sales phase, we only use a maximum of 1% of the EFTs that exist. The remaining 99% will be obtained by users thanks to the feedback they send to companies and institutions around the world (Proof of Feedback).
Our goal is to launch the IEO after the Pre-sale phase. We want no hurries in IEO because of the reasons we explain later.
With the pre-sale that we will start on February the 1st we want to raise capital to:
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Currently these are the Exchanges that aloow IEO which we could be interested in: Binance, Kucoin, Huobi Global, XT, Dcoin, Liquid, Probit, Bitmax, BitBay, Shortex, Bitsdaq, IQfinex, Cointiger, Bitforex, BitMart y Coinfield. We haven’t still closed any agreement (except for Tokpie) and we cannot release further information because confidentiality matters.
Until we have closed the private sale, we will not announce any agreement with an Exchange for the realization of the IEO.
Nor will we inform of the many Exchanges that have offered us to carry out the IEO with them and that, for different reasons, we have not considered interesting.
There are also several Exchange that have offered to list us, without performing an IEO, once the pre-sale has been made.
3. Avoid that the Exchange where we launch the IEO has a large amount of EasyFeedback Token in such a way that it can alter the price.
We are working to list EFT in Exchanges to ensure that the project is sustainable in the short, medium and long term. Now, we have found that the fees for launching the IEO in these are very high, even that some gives the possibility to pay in EasyFedback Token. It would be easy to accept this option but it would put in the hands of the exchanges a large amount of token with the consequent risk of centralism and volatility.
Our main objective is not to collect as much as possible in an IEO if this puts the future of our project at risk. We will be in a top 10 international Exchange if the agreement is reasonable. The conditions are still being negotiated, but we must also respect the investors who have already placed their trust in us and thanks to them we are here. We want our EasyFeedback Token to be in the hands of those who trust our project and not those who only want to speculate.
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Our world is overwhelmingly powered by fossil fuels like oil and gas. The result has been: Rising cost of all energy sources due to decreasing availability as coalfields and oil fields become exhausted, dependence on some of the most unstable countries where most of the oil and gas still remains, and last but not least global warming.
As the video at the top of this page explains, what has become clear, is that a revolution in the way that we produce and use all of our energy is long overdue. It is being called the “energy transition”.
At the heart of achieving this energy transition are new energy making methods, which will have to produce energy from renewable sources, such as the wind or the sun’s rays.
Using Germany as an example, the documentary video explains what renewable energy sources consist of, and how they work. In addition, the video showed how the concept of energy transition is being used to move society towards using the new renewable energy technologies, as efficiently as possible.
So, what has been happening in the US?
US Resources Driving the Renewable Energy Resources Transition
A growing number of states are taking the federal government’s lead and applying their own public reward programs as well as perk funds to encourage better renewable resource usage, with the exact same result. Using iformation from a report released by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in the 5 years between 2001 as well as 2006 the commercial demand for renewable resources was raised a thousand-fold over that period.
The lower line is as clear as sunlight, the renewable resource sector which is developing works. “Alternative Energy” really is an alternative! Increasingly, more and more influential people are realising the potential of renewable energy to free the world from fossil fuels forever.
The renewable energy resources of the major US Corporations are now adding to the pace of the transition. General Electric PLC, Whole Foods Market PLC, Safeway Stores, Starbucks Coffee, GM, FedEx, Kinko’s are just a few of the world-leading business that have actually made an active switch to renewable resources.
In the case of numerous companies, this is available in the form of buying renewable resource credit reports to replace their regional energy use. In various other situations, the ventures right into renewable power run deeper, creating their very own biofuels, establishing their own wind farms, and funding studies into yet more innovative ideas for renewable energy projects, and also at the same time creating growth in investment and jobs, right into new renewable energy innovations.
For the Military, the Pentagon has brought in an edict that all branches of the united state armed forces to suppress energy usage by 2 % at all bases as well as centers via pursuit of alternate source of power, including wind and solar powers, and since then there have been further larger reductions.
The President has also been joining in. President Bush’s cattle ranch, the Crawford Ranch, has been outfitted with all the most recent, as well as best, in renewable resource sources as well as the ranch runs totally off-grid.
Resources Driving the Renewable Energy Transition Around the World
The Australian government has actually a specified goal of raising the proportion of its total electrical energy manufacturing that originates from renewable energy sources by 78 % by the year 2010. The United Kingdom’s goals were bit a lot more moderate but admirable, however, shooting for 10 % from only 3.6 %, likewise by the year 2010, and have now been doubled again alongside the whole EU.
In the future will be the technologies used will be different as well!
A creator by the name of Todd Livingstone has a license presently pending on a technology to utilize the energy of the power charge loaded in lightning every flash, which has been estimated at 11 gigawatts each.
A Canadian engineer believes that his Atmospheric Vortex Engine is the means to tame a typhoon cloud (likewise called a tornado). Plus, in the UK, the “Manchester Bobber” is a copyrighted new contraption for taking advantage of the power which can be collected from the backwards and forwards oscillation of waves.
Drifting wind systems have been proposed as as resource for renewable energy. Apparently, this is all about using the power of contrasts in atmospheric pressure between distant cities. Semi-transparent photo-voltaic glass used as home windows and in office buildings, is a new way which has been proposed to provide huge areas of solar panels, satisfying the need for energy. MIT’s so-called “Manhattan Project” is a hotbed for brand-new concepts for, renewable sources of power. Installing tools in motorway off-ramps that harness the power of motor vehicles stopping is another idea. A much simpler one is to generate biomass energy from trees downed in typhoons.
And also if we look further down the horizon, what else can we see? Possibly the next big thing will be Focus Fusion, a modern technology for creating brand-new tiny zero-emission nuclear power plant the size of gas stations. Maybe it will be Blackligh Power, a technology that harnesses power from particles called “hydrinos”. These hydrinos are a smaller size even when compared to atoms of hydrogen. Or, perhaps it’ll be electro-magnetic energy that is at present being peddled, but look like it may be a magic solution – who knows!?.
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Listen to “What Do We Do to Love” by Hallman ft Elwin
Mandy Rogers January 9, 2020
Who would like to listen to a no messing, dance-pop groover that’s boundless of energy and movement? Sweden has it in the way of Gothenburg raised, burgeoning producer (Viktor) Hallman effort “What Do We Do to Love” featuring ELWIN. Just so you are under no illusions, about this one. I was particularly, looking to share a track which is brimming with melody. As soon as I heard this track, I knew I had found what I set out to discover. My, thank you, goes out to Spotify Release Radar playlist, for including the track in my weekly, Friday update.
I feel sure I am not alone in finding the first few days of January, lacking motivation. It’s the short days, dark mornings, days spent under cloud cover and the cooler temperatures of course which make my enthusiasm at having to stay inside, plummet when the weather worsens. I need melodically, upbeat tunes to lift me out of my funk. I realise, white isle tropically flavoured bangers, are kinda looked down upon. Yet I still like to be reminded that summer will eventually arrive. When the need arises, like in January, I cave, into this guilty-pleasure craving to keep, melancholy thoughts from creeping in.
Hallman has been making a name for himself, specifically with these tropically painted, heater tunes. He has over the count of 22 million Spotify streams worth. Not too shabby for someone who is a forklift driver by day, producer by night, is it? Concerning “What Do We Do to Love,” mystery surrounds the collaborator, vocalist, ELWIN. (I cannot find, leads on him anywhere on the internet, and believe me, I HAVE looked.) I really liked the tone in his voice, it has a good splosh of pop sensibility to it. If Avicii were still here, (God rest his soul) he most probably would have snapped him up and plonked him on one of his own dance tracks.
So I say, those of you who are suffering from a case of the January blues, seek yourself some sunshine medicine in Hallman and Elwin’s “What Do We Do to Love.” Go ahead, press the play button and spend the next three minutes on a sunny beach, anywhere in your mind takes you.
Connect with Hallman
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hallmanmusic
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hallmanmusic/
Mandy Rogers
New Music Editor
Mandy has been a massive part of EQ Music ever since it's inception and has been featured in Music Week more than a few times. Mandy is our Music Editor and regularly discovers new artists and talent to be featured on EQ Music. When she's not being a mum, you can usually find Mandy online socializing with emerging musicians and other pop music lovers alike.
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Project acronym Disasters
Project Market Beliefs and Optimal Policy in the Presence of Disasters
Host Institution (HI) LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
Call Details Starting Grant (StG), SH1, ERC-2014-STG
Summary My proposal consists of two strands linked by a common theme--namely a concern for the impact of disasters, in financial markets and more generally--and by a shared methodology. In the first of these strands, I propose to develop ways of using observable asset price data to infer the beliefs of market participants about various quantities that are central to financial economics, including (i) the equity premium; (ii) the forward-looking autocorrelation of the market (i.e., time-series momentum); (iii) the risk premia associated with individual stocks; (iv) the correlation between stocks; and (v) measures of asymmetric risk, such as the forward-looking probability of a significant downward jump in the stock market over some prescribed time period. This work will exploit theoretical techniques that I have developed in previous research, and that allow for the possibility of jumps and disasters in financial markets. I will therefore be able to avoid the unpalatable assumption—which is made, implicitly or explicitly, in much of the finance literature—that uncertainty is driven by conditionally Normally distributed shocks (or, in continuous time, by Brownian motions). The importance of doing so is underscored by the turmoil in financial markets over the last few years. These techniques will also be applied in the second strand of my proposal, which focuses on issues related to catastrophes more generally, including for example climate change; highly contagious viruses on the scale of the influenza pandemic of 1918; or nuclear or bio-terrorism. This project will be joint with Professor Robert S. Pindyck of MIT. The goal is to provide a framework within which policymakers, faced with multiple different types of potential catastrophe, can determine how society’s limited resources should best be used to alleviate the associated risks.
My proposal consists of two strands linked by a common theme--namely a concern for the impact of disasters, in financial markets and more generally--and by a shared methodology. In the first of these strands, I propose to develop ways of using observable asset price data to infer the beliefs of market participants about various quantities that are central to financial economics, including (i) the equity premium; (ii) the forward-looking autocorrelation of the market (i.e., time-series momentum); (iii) the risk premia associated with individual stocks; (iv) the correlation between stocks; and (v) measures of asymmetric risk, such as the forward-looking probability of a significant downward jump in the stock market over some prescribed time period. This work will exploit theoretical techniques that I have developed in previous research, and that allow for the possibility of jumps and disasters in financial markets. I will therefore be able to avoid the unpalatable assumption—which is made, implicitly or explicitly, in much of the finance literature—that uncertainty is driven by conditionally Normally distributed shocks (or, in continuous time, by Brownian motions). The importance of doing so is underscored by the turmoil in financial markets over the last few years. These techniques will also be applied in the second strand of my proposal, which focuses on issues related to catastrophes more generally, including for example climate change; highly contagious viruses on the scale of the influenza pandemic of 1918; or nuclear or bio-terrorism. This project will be joint with Professor Robert S. Pindyck of MIT. The goal is to provide a framework within which policymakers, faced with multiple different types of potential catastrophe, can determine how society’s limited resources should best be used to alleviate the associated risks.
Project acronym DMEA
Project The Dynamics of Migration and Economic Adjustment
Call Details
Summary The research proposed here is concerned with the dynamics of immigrant impacts and the process of economic adaptation in receiving societies. The immigration process is inherently dynamic: many new immigrants return home within a short time; and those that remain undergo a long term series of investments and behavioural changes that gradually alter the way that they interact with the economy of the receiving country. Moreover, in the longer run the presence of immigrants affects the choices of firms over new technology investments, and the choices of native workers over schooling and occupations. Thus simple static frameworks provide an incomplete and even potentially misleading perspective for understanding modern immigration patterns. The point of departure for this proposed research is the recognition that we need to reformulate the analysis of immigrant impacts in a fully dynamic framework, acknowledging the inter-temporal choices of immigrants, firms, and native workers and the ways that these three groups of agents interact over a longer horizon. Our approach involves treating immigration as a dynamic shock, where the dynamics relates to the different agents involved: immigrants, who change their position in the native skill distribution over time as a result of their life-cycle decisions; firms, who react by adjusting their technologies, product mix, and their involvement with institutions and regulatory environment; and native workers, who adjust by changing their career plans. Our work will combine highly innovative theoretical perspectives with state-of-the-art empirical analyses exploiting unique policy experiments and exceptional data sources, merging longitudinal administrative population data with data from firm and individual surveys. This agenda will enable us to construct a comprehensive picture of the adjustment process in response to immigration and open new horizons for future research on the impact of immigration in a dynamic framework.
The research proposed here is concerned with the dynamics of immigrant impacts and the process of economic adaptation in receiving societies. The immigration process is inherently dynamic: many new immigrants return home within a short time; and those that remain undergo a long term series of investments and behavioural changes that gradually alter the way that they interact with the economy of the receiving country. Moreover, in the longer run the presence of immigrants affects the choices of firms over new technology investments, and the choices of native workers over schooling and occupations. Thus simple static frameworks provide an incomplete and even potentially misleading perspective for understanding modern immigration patterns. The point of departure for this proposed research is the recognition that we need to reformulate the analysis of immigrant impacts in a fully dynamic framework, acknowledging the inter-temporal choices of immigrants, firms, and native workers and the ways that these three groups of agents interact over a longer horizon. Our approach involves treating immigration as a dynamic shock, where the dynamics relates to the different agents involved: immigrants, who change their position in the native skill distribution over time as a result of their life-cycle decisions; firms, who react by adjusting their technologies, product mix, and their involvement with institutions and regulatory environment; and native workers, who adjust by changing their career plans. Our work will combine highly innovative theoretical perspectives with state-of-the-art empirical analyses exploiting unique policy experiments and exceptional data sources, merging longitudinal administrative population data with data from firm and individual surveys. This agenda will enable us to construct a comprehensive picture of the adjustment process in response to immigration and open new horizons for future research on the impact of immigration in a dynamic framework.
Project acronym DROPFAT
Project Biogenesis of lipid droplets and lipid homeostasis
Summary Organisms and cells face a myriad of environmental changes with periods of nutrient surplus and shortage. It is therefore not surprising that in all kingdoms of life, cells have evolved the means to store energy and thereby minimize the effects of environmental fluctuations. While the capability for energy storage has obvious advantages, deregulated energy accumulation can also be detrimental and is the hallmark of many diseases such as obesity. In most cells energy is stored as neutral lipids in a dedicated cellular compartment, the lipid droplets (LDs). LDs are found in virtually every eukaryotic cell and play a central role in cellular lipid and energy metabolism. Despite their ubiquitous presence and importance, the physiology of LDs is poorly understood. LDs are composed of a single lipid layer and therefore distinct from all other cellular compartments. How do LDs originate at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and what is the machinery involved? How is the size, number and the storage capacity of the LDs regulated? How are specific proteins and lipids targeted to LDs? Addressing these questions is fundamental for understanding the “life cycle” of LDs and for a global picture of the cellular energy homeostasis. The main goal of this proposal is to reveal the molecular mechanisms controlling neutral lipid dynamics and their storage in LDs. We will focus specifically on the role of the endoplasmic reticulum in the biogenesis of LDs. First, we will identify the ER protein complexes required for LD formation and regulation. Second, we will develop an assay to dissect the targeting of proteins to LDs. Finally, we will develop a cell-free system that recapitulates the biogenesis of LDs in vitro. Altogether, our strategy constitutes a systematic, in-depth analysis of LD dynamics and will lead to significant insight on the mechanisms of cellular energy storage. Our findings will likely offer a better understanding of human pathologies such as obesity and lipodistrophies
Organisms and cells face a myriad of environmental changes with periods of nutrient surplus and shortage. It is therefore not surprising that in all kingdoms of life, cells have evolved the means to store energy and thereby minimize the effects of environmental fluctuations. While the capability for energy storage has obvious advantages, deregulated energy accumulation can also be detrimental and is the hallmark of many diseases such as obesity. In most cells energy is stored as neutral lipids in a dedicated cellular compartment, the lipid droplets (LDs). LDs are found in virtually every eukaryotic cell and play a central role in cellular lipid and energy metabolism. Despite their ubiquitous presence and importance, the physiology of LDs is poorly understood. LDs are composed of a single lipid layer and therefore distinct from all other cellular compartments. How do LDs originate at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and what is the machinery involved? How is the size, number and the storage capacity of the LDs regulated? How are specific proteins and lipids targeted to LDs? Addressing these questions is fundamental for understanding the “life cycle” of LDs and for a global picture of the cellular energy homeostasis. The main goal of this proposal is to reveal the molecular mechanisms controlling neutral lipid dynamics and their storage in LDs. We will focus specifically on the role of the endoplasmic reticulum in the biogenesis of LDs. First, we will identify the ER protein complexes required for LD formation and regulation. Second, we will develop an assay to dissect the targeting of proteins to LDs. Finally, we will develop a cell-free system that recapitulates the biogenesis of LDs in vitro. Altogether, our strategy constitutes a systematic, in-depth analysis of LD dynamics and will lead to significant insight on the mechanisms of cellular energy storage. Our findings will likely offer a better understanding of human pathologies such as obesity and lipodistrophies
Project acronym DrugE3CRLs
Project Probing Druggability of Multisubunit Complexes: E3 Cullin RING Ligases
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE
Summary This proposal is centred on the development and application of chemical tools to probe molecular recognition of multiprotein complexes. Although much effort has been devoted to targeting protein-protein interactions using small molecules, these have focused to date on individual gene products or truncated domains, which however do not reflect the physiological organization and activity of many functional proteins. Few successes have been achieved, yet many of the key physical determinants of druggability of surfaces within native protein complexes have remained elusive. The aim of this project is to shed light upon this problem by chemically interrogating biological systems that rely on several subunits working in concert rather than on single proteins working alone. As model system we will investigate the Cullin RING Ligases (CRLs), the largest superfamily of multisubunit E3 ligases in humans. These enzymatic machines are responsible for the recognition, poly-ubiquitination and targeting of substrate proteins to the proteasome for degradation. Many members of this family have crucial roles in cellular physiology and homeostatis, are implicated in a wide range of diseases and are attractive targets for drug discovery. Two interdependent lines of enquiry will be followed. First, we will screen for and elucidate the binding of small molecular fragments and short peptides to identify new druggable surfaces and interfaces on CRLs and their components. Second, we will exploit the nature of the interactions to develop novel chemical probes of CRLs. As the probes are selected and optimised for binding rather than for a particular functional outcome, diverse mechanisms of action are envisaged beyond conventional disruption of the interaction. The successes of this interdisciplinary research will provide a step change in how we interrogate protein-protein interactions of functional and pathological pathways with impact in many areas of chemical biology and drug discovery.
This proposal is centred on the development and application of chemical tools to probe molecular recognition of multiprotein complexes. Although much effort has been devoted to targeting protein-protein interactions using small molecules, these have focused to date on individual gene products or truncated domains, which however do not reflect the physiological organization and activity of many functional proteins. Few successes have been achieved, yet many of the key physical determinants of druggability of surfaces within native protein complexes have remained elusive. The aim of this project is to shed light upon this problem by chemically interrogating biological systems that rely on several subunits working in concert rather than on single proteins working alone. As model system we will investigate the Cullin RING Ligases (CRLs), the largest superfamily of multisubunit E3 ligases in humans. These enzymatic machines are responsible for the recognition, poly-ubiquitination and targeting of substrate proteins to the proteasome for degradation. Many members of this family have crucial roles in cellular physiology and homeostatis, are implicated in a wide range of diseases and are attractive targets for drug discovery. Two interdependent lines of enquiry will be followed. First, we will screen for and elucidate the binding of small molecular fragments and short peptides to identify new druggable surfaces and interfaces on CRLs and their components. Second, we will exploit the nature of the interactions to develop novel chemical probes of CRLs. As the probes are selected and optimised for binding rather than for a particular functional outcome, diverse mechanisms of action are envisaged beyond conventional disruption of the interaction. The successes of this interdisciplinary research will provide a step change in how we interrogate protein-protein interactions of functional and pathological pathways with impact in many areas of chemical biology and drug discovery.
Project acronym DYNACORP
Project Dynamic Structural Corporate Finance: Linking Theory and Empirical Testing
Host Institution (HI) LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL
Summary There are three components to this project: Theory; Empirical Testing; and Dissemination. All components are linked to the current policy question of how taxes influence debt and systemic risk, and all use novel dynamic structural models. I am unique in explicitly linking such models to empirical testing. Theory: “Learning, Capital Structure and Systemic Risk.” Standard dynamic structural models of financing assume firms know the stochastic process governing cash flow. I will first consider a partial equilibrium model. Here firms are exposed to rare event risk, with the true probability being unknown. Firms learn and update beliefs regarding risk. Relative to standard models, firms are debt conservative and there is leverage persistence. In many cases, firms increase leverage only if they have avoided a negative shock long enough. In order to analyze asset pricing implications, I plan to embed such firms in a general equilibrium setting with a common catastrophic risk having unknown probability. Firms rationally respond to “Great Moderations” by increasing leverage. Recessions are more severe after long tranquil periods due to high debt overhang. A third paper, Re-Examining the Link Between Leverage and Systematic Risk, considers cross sectional asset pricing implications of credit shocks. The standard levered beta formula is erroneous, and the pre-tax cost of capital increases with debt. Together, the models show privately optimal debt is lower than recognized, and that tax breaks for debt reduce welfare. Empirical Testing: “Natural Experiment Policy Evaluation—A Structural Critique.” A common approach to testing whether taxes influence corporate financing and investment decisions is to compare leverage and investment before/after tax changes. I use a structural model as a laboratory to show that lack of a statistically significant change is not sufficient to reject the null that “taxes matter.” I will first consider an economy where the tax rate is a Markov process. Flotation costs on debt and real irreversibility limit the response of financing and investment to changes in shadow prices. More importantly, responses to tax changes are attenuated whenever they are partially anticipated and not permanent. Standard tests violate rational expectations by implicitly assuming tax changes come as surprises, with each new change being viewed as permanent, until the next surprise. My argument implies that standard tax experiments cannot falsify the null that taxes affect behaviour. Further, one cannot generalize elasticities if the policy transition matrix differs. I will propose an alternative Bayesian approach to hypothesis testing. My argument casts doubt on standard interpretations of historical evidence of tax change effects, suggesting true elasticities may be much higher. I will consider extending this argument to settings with endogenous policy choices. “Dissemination. The objective of this phase is to lower entry barriers by making the methodology accessible via a non-technical primer, and by making the models readily available using a user-friendly online platform.
There are three components to this project: Theory; Empirical Testing; and Dissemination. All components are linked to the current policy question of how taxes influence debt and systemic risk, and all use novel dynamic structural models. I am unique in explicitly linking such models to empirical testing. Theory: “Learning, Capital Structure and Systemic Risk.” Standard dynamic structural models of financing assume firms know the stochastic process governing cash flow. I will first consider a partial equilibrium model. Here firms are exposed to rare event risk, with the true probability being unknown. Firms learn and update beliefs regarding risk. Relative to standard models, firms are debt conservative and there is leverage persistence. In many cases, firms increase leverage only if they have avoided a negative shock long enough. In order to analyze asset pricing implications, I plan to embed such firms in a general equilibrium setting with a common catastrophic risk having unknown probability. Firms rationally respond to “Great Moderations” by increasing leverage. Recessions are more severe after long tranquil periods due to high debt overhang. A third paper, Re-Examining the Link Between Leverage and Systematic Risk, considers cross sectional asset pricing implications of credit shocks. The standard levered beta formula is erroneous, and the pre-tax cost of capital increases with debt. Together, the models show privately optimal debt is lower than recognized, and that tax breaks for debt reduce welfare. Empirical Testing: “Natural Experiment Policy Evaluation—A Structural Critique.” A common approach to testing whether taxes influence corporate financing and investment decisions is to compare leverage and investment before/after tax changes. I use a structural model as a laboratory to show that lack of a statistically significant change is not sufficient to reject the null that “taxes matter.” I will first consider an economy where the tax rate is a Markov process. Flotation costs on debt and real irreversibility limit the response of financing and investment to changes in shadow prices. More importantly, responses to tax changes are attenuated whenever they are partially anticipated and not permanent. Standard tests violate rational expectations by implicitly assuming tax changes come as surprises, with each new change being viewed as permanent, until the next surprise. My argument implies that standard tax experiments cannot falsify the null that taxes affect behaviour. Further, one cannot generalize elasticities if the policy transition matrix differs. I will propose an alternative Bayesian approach to hypothesis testing. My argument casts doubt on standard interpretations of historical evidence of tax change effects, suggesting true elasticities may be much higher. I will consider extending this argument to settings with endogenous policy choices. “Dissemination. The objective of this phase is to lower entry barriers by making the methodology accessible via a non-technical primer, and by making the models readily available using a user-friendly online platform.
Project acronym DYNAMICSS
Project Labour market dynamics and optimal policies
Summary From pension reforms to UI extensions, the optimal tax and program design literature is often ill-equipped to provide clear guidance in policy debates on the reform of social insurance and tax-and-benefit systems. The reason is that this literature is mostly focused on static settings, while these programs are inherently dynamic: they specify a schedule of tax and benefits that is time or state dependent and they affect individuals’ decisions throughout their lifetime. DYNAMICSS will offer a simple and general approach to the analysis of optimal dynamic policies that connects to the data. The key idea of DYNAMICSS is to extend the sufficient statistics (SS) approach to dynamic settings and characterize the full time profile, rather than the average generosity, of social insurance and transfer policies. By expressing optimal policy as a function of a limited set of statistics, the SS approach has the advantage of making clear the trade-offs implied in optimal tax or benefit formulae and of tightly integrating the theory and the empirics of optimal policy analysis, to offer robust policy guidance. DYNAMICSS will use unique administrative data and cutting-edge econometric techniques to exploit compelling variations in policy profiles and offer significant contributions to the empirical analysis of dynamic behavioural responses to policies. A central contribution will be to create a unique measure of consumption expenditures based on leveraging complete administrative information on income, transfers and wealth to offer ground-breaking evidence of the effect of social insurance on consumption dynamics. Part I will use and extend the SS framework to analyse the optimal time profile of UI benefits. Part II will develop this approach for analysing the optimal design of retirement pension systems. Part III will address optimal family policies with a focus on understanding the different dynamics of men and women in the labour market, and exploring the role of cultural norm
From pension reforms to UI extensions, the optimal tax and program design literature is often ill-equipped to provide clear guidance in policy debates on the reform of social insurance and tax-and-benefit systems. The reason is that this literature is mostly focused on static settings, while these programs are inherently dynamic: they specify a schedule of tax and benefits that is time or state dependent and they affect individuals’ decisions throughout their lifetime. DYNAMICSS will offer a simple and general approach to the analysis of optimal dynamic policies that connects to the data. The key idea of DYNAMICSS is to extend the sufficient statistics (SS) approach to dynamic settings and characterize the full time profile, rather than the average generosity, of social insurance and transfer policies. By expressing optimal policy as a function of a limited set of statistics, the SS approach has the advantage of making clear the trade-offs implied in optimal tax or benefit formulae and of tightly integrating the theory and the empirics of optimal policy analysis, to offer robust policy guidance. DYNAMICSS will use unique administrative data and cutting-edge econometric techniques to exploit compelling variations in policy profiles and offer significant contributions to the empirical analysis of dynamic behavioural responses to policies. A central contribution will be to create a unique measure of consumption expenditures based on leveraging complete administrative information on income, transfers and wealth to offer ground-breaking evidence of the effect of social insurance on consumption dynamics. Part I will use and extend the SS framework to analyse the optimal time profile of UI benefits. Part II will develop this approach for analysing the optimal design of retirement pension systems. Part III will address optimal family policies with a focus on understanding the different dynamics of men and women in the labour market, and exploring the role of cultural norm
Project acronym DYNEINOME
Project Cytoplasmic Dynein: Mechanisms of Regulation and Novel Interactors
Host Institution (HI) INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR E CELULAR-IBMC
Summary "The megadalton cytoplasmic dynein complex, whose motor subunit is encoded by a single gene, provides the major microtubule minus end-directed motility in cells and is essential for a wide range of processes, ranging from the transport of proteins, RNA, and membrane vesicles to nuclear migration and cell division. To achieve this stunning functional diversity, cytoplasmic dynein is subject to tight regulation by co-factors that modulate localization, interaction with cargo, and motor activity. At present, our knowledge of the underlying mechanisms remains limited. An overarching goal of this proposal is to gain an understanding of how interactions with diverse adaptor proteins regulate dynein function in space and time. We choose the nematode C. elegans as our model system, because it will enable us to study the biology of dynein regulation in the broad context of a metazoan organism. The nematode’s versatile genetic tools, its biochemical tractability, and the powerful molecular replacement technologies available, this makes for a uniquely attractive experimental system to address the mechanisms employed by dynein regulators through a combination of biochemical, proteomic, and cell biological assays. Specifically, we propose to use a biochemical reconstitution approach to obtain a detailed molecular picture of how dynein is targeted to the mitotic kinetochore; we will perform a forward genetic and proteomic screen to expand the so-far limited inventory of metazoan dynein interactors, whose functional characterization will shed light on known dynein-dependent processes and lead to novel unanticipated lines of research into dynein regulation; we will dissect the function and regulation of the most important dynein co-factor, the multi-subunit dynactin complex; and finally we will strive to establish a novel C. elegans model for human neurodegenerative disease, based on pathogenic point mutations in a dynactin subunit."
"The megadalton cytoplasmic dynein complex, whose motor subunit is encoded by a single gene, provides the major microtubule minus end-directed motility in cells and is essential for a wide range of processes, ranging from the transport of proteins, RNA, and membrane vesicles to nuclear migration and cell division. To achieve this stunning functional diversity, cytoplasmic dynein is subject to tight regulation by co-factors that modulate localization, interaction with cargo, and motor activity. At present, our knowledge of the underlying mechanisms remains limited. An overarching goal of this proposal is to gain an understanding of how interactions with diverse adaptor proteins regulate dynein function in space and time. We choose the nematode C. elegans as our model system, because it will enable us to study the biology of dynein regulation in the broad context of a metazoan organism. The nematode’s versatile genetic tools, its biochemical tractability, and the powerful molecular replacement technologies available, this makes for a uniquely attractive experimental system to address the mechanisms employed by dynein regulators through a combination of biochemical, proteomic, and cell biological assays. Specifically, we propose to use a biochemical reconstitution approach to obtain a detailed molecular picture of how dynein is targeted to the mitotic kinetochore; we will perform a forward genetic and proteomic screen to expand the so-far limited inventory of metazoan dynein interactors, whose functional characterization will shed light on known dynein-dependent processes and lead to novel unanticipated lines of research into dynein regulation; we will dissect the function and regulation of the most important dynein co-factor, the multi-subunit dynactin complex; and finally we will strive to establish a novel C. elegans model for human neurodegenerative disease, based on pathogenic point mutations in a dynactin subunit."
Project acronym DYNNET
Project Opinion Dynamics
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
Summary In this project I propose to study opinion dynamics in social networks and groups. In particular, I will ask how opinion dynamics contribute to shape social identity and how, conversely, social identity affects communication. I also ask whether and when social identity is a barrier to communication, when “opinion bubbles” are created and when and how “fake news” can spread. The types of social identity I consider include social class, ethnicity and gender. The project consists of four subprojects. The first subproject [A] focuses on communication between social classes and inequality. The subproject asks how opinion dynamics contribute to diverging experiences, core behaviours and values that go much beyond income inequality. I will first document this divergence by conducting experiments in a representative sample of the UK population via the UK Household panel and then conduct lab experiments to study opinion dynamics and the conditions under which “opinion bubbles” arise in more detail. Subproject [B] focuses on gender bias in committees. A large body of empirical evidence has documented gender biases in decisions, such as hiring, promotion, or performance evaluations. Many of these decisions involve communication and deliberation among committee members. Nevertheless the role of opinion dynamics in committees in creating or amplifying gender bias has not been explored. Subproject [B] aims to fill this gap. Subproject [C] will focus on how perceived uncertainty contributes to the spread of discriminatory attitudes with a particular focus on ethnic discrimination. Subproject [C] will be conducted both using a representative sample of the UK population via the Innovation Panel of Understanding Society, the UK Household panel as well as lab experiments. The last subproject [D] will use lab experiments to study under which conditions opinion dynamics can become vulnerable to “fake news”.
In this project I propose to study opinion dynamics in social networks and groups. In particular, I will ask how opinion dynamics contribute to shape social identity and how, conversely, social identity affects communication. I also ask whether and when social identity is a barrier to communication, when “opinion bubbles” are created and when and how “fake news” can spread. The types of social identity I consider include social class, ethnicity and gender. The project consists of four subprojects. The first subproject [A] focuses on communication between social classes and inequality. The subproject asks how opinion dynamics contribute to diverging experiences, core behaviours and values that go much beyond income inequality. I will first document this divergence by conducting experiments in a representative sample of the UK population via the UK Household panel and then conduct lab experiments to study opinion dynamics and the conditions under which “opinion bubbles” arise in more detail. Subproject [B] focuses on gender bias in committees. A large body of empirical evidence has documented gender biases in decisions, such as hiring, promotion, or performance evaluations. Many of these decisions involve communication and deliberation among committee members. Nevertheless the role of opinion dynamics in committees in creating or amplifying gender bias has not been explored. Subproject [B] aims to fill this gap. Subproject [C] will focus on how perceived uncertainty contributes to the spread of discriminatory attitudes with a particular focus on ethnic discrimination. Subproject [C] will be conducted both using a representative sample of the UK population via the Innovation Panel of Understanding Society, the UK Household panel as well as lab experiments. The last subproject [D] will use lab experiments to study under which conditions opinion dynamics can become vulnerable to “fake news”.
Project acronym EATP
Project Evolutionary Approaches Towards Preferences
Summary A recent psychological and experimental literature on human behavior suggests that standard preferences assumed in economic models are inadequate to explain human choice behaviors in numerous environments. The primary objective of this project is to establish evolutionary foundations for non-standard preferences. Most models in economics take preferences as given and derive the choices induced by these preferences. We intend to do just the opposite. We characterize the choice behavior that would survive evolution and then represent this choice behavior with preferences. That is, we identify the preferences that induce evolutionarily stable choice behavior. We identify each choice behavior with a gene. Hence, the choices an individual makes during her lifetime are determined by her genes, where these are inherited from her parents. A population can be defined as a group of individuals having the same genes. Populations with different genes may grow at different rates. Only those genes that induce the highest possible population growth rate given the physical environment survive evolution. We wish to apply the principle described above to derive implications for time preferences, preference for similarities, preferences for discrimination, preferences for conformity, and other important socio-economic behaviors. The goal of the project is to provide a theoretical guidance for which preferences are admissible and which are not likely to arise.
A recent psychological and experimental literature on human behavior suggests that standard preferences assumed in economic models are inadequate to explain human choice behaviors in numerous environments. The primary objective of this project is to establish evolutionary foundations for non-standard preferences. Most models in economics take preferences as given and derive the choices induced by these preferences. We intend to do just the opposite. We characterize the choice behavior that would survive evolution and then represent this choice behavior with preferences. That is, we identify the preferences that induce evolutionarily stable choice behavior. We identify each choice behavior with a gene. Hence, the choices an individual makes during her lifetime are determined by her genes, where these are inherited from her parents. A population can be defined as a group of individuals having the same genes. Populations with different genes may grow at different rates. Only those genes that induce the highest possible population growth rate given the physical environment survive evolution. We wish to apply the principle described above to derive implications for time preferences, preference for similarities, preferences for discrimination, preferences for conformity, and other important socio-economic behaviors. The goal of the project is to provide a theoretical guidance for which preferences are admissible and which are not likely to arise.
Project acronym ECONENDLIFE
Project The economic evaluation of end of life care
Host Institution (HI) THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
Summary Making choices about the health care that we provide in society is a fundamental and unavoidable issue. Economic evaluation aids this decision-making by supplying information about costs and benefits of different interventions. For end of life care, however, current evaluative frameworks are inadequate because they focus only on health and only on the patient. Amartya Sen’s capability approach offers an alternative and appropriate framework for evaluating end of life care and this programme aims to build on my ground-breaking work in the application of Sen’s approach to measurement within economic evaluation. Six key tasks will be undertaken: (i) defining the ‘end of life’ period using semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders; (ii) assessing the construct validity and sensitivity to change of a descriptive system for evaluating capabilities related to end of life care; (iii) eliciting values for this descriptive system from the general public and patients at the end of life using the best-worst scaling technique; (iv) developing a descriptive system to evaluate the impact on families’ capabilities of end of life care, using in-depth interviews to develop conceptual attributes; (v) conducting exploratory theoretical and methodological work on weighting across measures; and (vi) exploring views of the public and key stakeholders about appropriate decision-rules for end of life care, using a combination of focus groups and in-depth interviews. The work involves frontier research at the interface between health, economics and human development. It will address the significant methodological issues associated with the economic evaluation of end of life care and so advance the state-of-the-art to a point where robust economic evaluation of end of life care is feasible.
Making choices about the health care that we provide in society is a fundamental and unavoidable issue. Economic evaluation aids this decision-making by supplying information about costs and benefits of different interventions. For end of life care, however, current evaluative frameworks are inadequate because they focus only on health and only on the patient. Amartya Sen’s capability approach offers an alternative and appropriate framework for evaluating end of life care and this programme aims to build on my ground-breaking work in the application of Sen’s approach to measurement within economic evaluation. Six key tasks will be undertaken: (i) defining the ‘end of life’ period using semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders; (ii) assessing the construct validity and sensitivity to change of a descriptive system for evaluating capabilities related to end of life care; (iii) eliciting values for this descriptive system from the general public and patients at the end of life using the best-worst scaling technique; (iv) developing a descriptive system to evaluate the impact on families’ capabilities of end of life care, using in-depth interviews to develop conceptual attributes; (v) conducting exploratory theoretical and methodological work on weighting across measures; and (vi) exploring views of the public and key stakeholders about appropriate decision-rules for end of life care, using a combination of focus groups and in-depth interviews. The work involves frontier research at the interface between health, economics and human development. It will address the significant methodological issues associated with the economic evaluation of end of life care and so advance the state-of-the-art to a point where robust economic evaluation of end of life care is feasible.
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Mahmoud Vaezi
Pres. Rouhani to visit Japan next week
Tehran, Dec 11, IRNA - Chief of Staff of Iran's presidential office Mahmoud Vaezi announced that President Hassan Rouhani will travel to Tokyo two weeks from now.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Mahmoud Vaezi recalled that when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to Tehran, he invited the president to go to Tokyo.
"We are planning to attend a meeting in Malaysia as well if all conditions are ready for travelling to Japan," he added.
Vaezi also said that Japan's special envoy was due to come to Tehran which, if coordinated, President Rouhani will hopefully depart for Japan as scheduled.
Responding to a question on whether a message from the United States would be considered during President Rouhani's visit, the Chief of Staff of the presidential office gave a negative response.
"This trip will take place within the context of bilateral visits and meetings between officials in Tehran and Tokyo," Vaezi added.
In response to another question about the stage of the announcement of the financial channel between Iran and Switzerland to exchange humanitarian goods, he answered that negotiations between Iranian and Swiss banks have held talks on medical and humanitarian cooperation, as well as the livelihood goods, but this channel is not set up yet.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Vaezi stated that about the exchange of prisoners between Iran and the United States and its repetition as a model for other issues, de-escalation and the pursuit of hostility have always been one of our core policies and with preserving our principles and interests and national security "we follow our ties with all countries.
The high-ranking official considered humanitarian issues to be different from other issues and stated that it may affect public opinion in both countries when it comes to humanitarian work and exchange of people, but it does not mean that these issues affect other problems to be addressed.
He underlined that Dr. Soleimani is "very valuable to us as a government, both to academics" and to the services he has provided to the country. "We were ready to use our full potential for his release and his return to the country and his family and we did that too."
Vaezi about the support of some EU countries and officials for the recent events in Iran said that the US, the Zionist regime and some countries in the region and some European countries had counted on the events of November, and had made a special program and interviewed and intervened in internal affairs of Iran.
The Chief of Staff of the presidential office went on to say that when the incidents were over, they had to correct their previous remarks, so they resorted to a series of statements that are scattered and have no basis.
He also said about the request of the French President to extradite two French nationals that if any French citizen is in Iran, naturally the President of the country will make his request, but the Iranian judiciary should also do its legal and judicial steps. Whenever the outcome is known, we reflect on the French government.
Vaezi highlighted that the process exchange mechanism is not a new issue and has its own mechanism, stating that prisoner exchange has been carried out many times over the past 40 years and that the route is not closed to any country, but if someone had violated the laws somewhere, the judiciary will pursue the case.
The head of the president's office described the issue of FATF-related bills and the JCPOA as two separate issues, saying that one-month deadline for the JCPOA is relatively long, but things are going on; but about time left for FATF bills with parliament, we are working on this issue and there is a bill under consideration in the Expediency Council that "we hope the Majlis and the Expediency Council will look to in this particular situation for the problem to be resolved".
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Headlines in Iranian English-language dailies on Jan 23
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Pakistani PM tells Trump, war with Iran disastrous
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Europe's position on activating trigger mechanism unconstructive
Zafar satellite to be included in launch program
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Idiosyncratic illnesses
Prevalence of food allergies
Natural history of food allergies
Symptoms and severity
Diagnosis of food allergies
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Idiosyncratic reactions are adverse reactions to foods that occur through unknown mechanisms. As suggested by this definition, idiosyncratic illnesses are poorly understood. In fact, the cause-and-effect relationship implicating the food or food ingredient as the cause of the illness is often quite weak. Many of the adverse reactions associated with food additives including antioxidants (BHA and BHT), artificial colors (tartrazine and sunset yellow), monosodium glutamate (MSG), and others fall into this category but, as noted, the cause-and-effect relationship is often not well established. In some cases, many clinical reports do exist but the vast majority are anecdotal and few have rigorously tested the hypothesis that the specific ingredient is the cause of the illness. With this wide range of substances and the possibility of a number of different mechanisms, a range of symptoms could occur.
Sulfite-Induced Asthma
Sulfites definitely cause idiosyncratic reactions in some consumers through an undefined mechanism associated with the ingestion of sulfites which are common ingredients in foods and medications. The cause-and-effect relationship in this case is quite strong. Asthma is the primary symptom that has been clearly linked to sulfite ingestion in multiple subjects as the result of carefully controlled clinical challenge studies which thus have served to establish the cause-and-effect relationship. Scattered reports exist of other manifestations of sulfite sensitivity including anaphylaxis but the role of sulfites in triggering these other adverse reactions is not well established by controlled clinical challenge trials. Thus, sulfite-induced asthma will be the focus here.
Sources, Properties and Occurrence in Foods
Sulfites are common food additives used in a variety of foods and providing several technical attributes. Several forms of sulfites exist and are allowed for use in foods: sulfur dioxide, sodium metabisulfite, potassium metabisulfite, sodium bisulfite, potassium bisulfite, and sodium sulfite. All of these ingredients serve similar functions in foods because all of them have similar chemistries in foods dependent upon pH. Sulfites can also occur naturally in foods, especially fermented foods, as the result of sulfite formation by yeast. The residual levels of sulfites in foods range from <10 ppm in many food products to >2000 ppm in certain dried fruits. Naturally occurring levels of sulfites are typically quite low, <10 ppm with a few exceptions. Sulfites are added to foods for a variety of purposes including the control of enzymatic and non-enzymatic browning (e.g. potatoes), the prevention of undesirable bacterial growth (e.g. corn wet milling and wine making), the conditioning of doughs (e.g. some frozen dough products), the prevention of oxidation, and the bleaching of selected products (e.g. maraschino cherries and hominy).
The fate of sulfites after their addition to foods is complex. In acidic foods (<pH 4), sulfites can be released from foods into the surrounding atmosphere as SO2 gas. Sulfites are very reactive with a range of food components including carbohydrates, proteins, and others. These reactions can be either reversible or irreversible depending upon the nature of the reaction and existing conditions (pH, etc.). Very little free, unbound sulfite remains in most sulfited foods with a few exceptions such as lettuce.
Prevalence and Severity
Asthma is a relatively common affliction within the population. However, only a small percentage of asthmatics are sulfite-sensitive. Challenge studies indicate that severe asthmatics who rely on steroid-based drugs for the control of their asthma symptoms, are primarily at risk. Severe asthmatics make up only about 20% of the overall asthmatic population. Even among severe asthmatics, the prevalence of sulfite sensitivity is only about 5%. By extrapolating from the challenge study results and knowing the percentage of asthmatics with severe asthma, the number of sulfite-sensitive asthmatics in the U.S. can be estimated at perhaps 150,000.
Sulfites are capable of causing severe reactions in sensitive individuals. The provocation of asthma can be life-threatening in some situations. Deaths have occurred from the ingestion of sulfites by sulfite-sensitive asthmatics, although the number of deaths is rather small.
Management and Thresholds
Sulfite-sensitive asthmatics must avoid the ingestion of sulfites in their diets (and in medications). Fortunately, the presence of sulfites must be declared on the ingredient labels of packaged foods when residual levels exceed 10 ppm (10 mg/kg of food). Also, the use of sulfite is banned from many fresh food products such as lettuce where high residual levels were associated with provocation of particularly severe reactions until this use was prohibited. Sulfite-sensitive asthmatics can tolerate the ingestion of small quantities of sulfites. In controlled clinical challenge trials, the most sensitive individuals react to 5 mg of potassium metabisulfite, equivalent to 3.7 mg of free SO2. Limited challenge studies have been conducted with sulfited foods. But the results of these studies support the hypothesis that sulfite-sensitive asthmatics are more tolerant of sulfites in foods than they are of inorganic sulfites in capsules or other common challenge vehicles. Apparently, the reaction of sulfites with food components serves to lessen the hazard associated with sulfites. FARRP hypothesizes that, if the sulfites are irreversibly bound to various food components, then they are not free to trigger the adverse reaction. The tolerance for sulfited foods appears to vary with the nature of the food suggesting that the form of bound sulfite is likely an important issue. Due to the release of SO2 vapor from acidic beverages, sulfite-sensitive asthmatics may be more sensitive to sulfited beverages than to other forms of sulfite in foods. Sulfite-sensitive asthmatics also appear to be more sensitive to residues of unbound sulfites in foods such as lettuce than they are to sulfited foods that contain bound sulfites such as shrimp and potatoes.
Overall, sulfites pose a considerable risk to sulfite-sensitive asthmatics. While the size of the affected population is comparatively quite small, the reactions can be severe and life-threatening. Sulfite-sensitive asthmatics can tolerate some sulfite in the diets, but the thresholds are low in some individuals. However, the current labeling regulations appear to be sufficient to protect these sensitive consumers. Sulfite-sensitive asthmatics must invoke avoidance diets that exclude most significant sources of sulfite from their diets; they should avoid all packaged foods labeled as containing one of the sulfite ingredients.
Tartrazine (FD&C YELLOW #5)
Tartrazine is an artificial color that has been allowed for use in foods and medications for decades. Tartrazine was first implicated in idiosyncratic reactions in the late 1950's associated with its use in certain medications. Ultimately, the allegations of idiosyncratic reactions occurring to tartrazine prompted the U.S. FDA to require specific labeling of FD&C Yellow #5 even though other artificial colors could be declared under a general heading of "artificial colors".
FARRP would argue that the cause-and-effect relationship between tartrazine and several different idiosyncratic reactions remains unproven. Numerous studies have been conducted on the role of tartrazine in various idiosyncratic reactions but especially in asthma and chronic urticaria. Unfortunately, many of these studies were methodologically flawed making the interpretation of the results quite difficult. First, one must appreciate the difficulties encountered in conducting research on asthma and chronic urticaria (hives). Both asthma and chronic urticaria are chronic illnesses that flare episodically and unpredictably. Medications must be taken continuously in many cases to lessen the frequency and severity of such episodes. In any challenge study conducted on patients with asthma or chronic urticaria, reactions may result from the challenge substance (e.g. tartrazine) or may occur spontaneously simply owing to the unpredictability of the condition. Thus, it is clearly quite important to establish a cause-and-effect relationship through very careful study design. Unfortunately, many investigators were apparently not sufficiently aware of the importance of such design factors.
Tartrazine-Induced Urticaria
Tartrazine has been linked to urticaria (hives). Chronic urticaria is a condition where periodic flares occur often for unexplained reasons. Many such patients must take antihistamines to prevent the frequent occurrence of hives. While many studies seem to confirm the role of tartrazine in chronic urticaria, these studies were badly flawed. Several flaws were identified. In some studies, antihistamine drugs were withheld prior to challenge. Antihistamines are important for the control of chronic urticaria. Without antihistamines, urticarial reactions are likely to flare in these patients regardless of the treatment. On these studies, the placebo was often administered before the tartrazine and thus the study was not truly blinded. Break-through urticaria from the withdrawal of antihistamines is much more likely to occur later in the challenge sequence. Thus, positive reactions were observed with high frequency in these studies, but the reactions are likely to be false positive responses due to the order effect of always administering the placebo before the tartrazine. Several studies involved a double-blind challenge design, but even in these studies there could have been an unreported order effect based upon those patients who received placebo before tartrazine. The percentage of positive responders was lower in the double-blind challenge studies. In all of these double-blind challenge studies, antihistamines were also either withheld or no information was provided on medication status during challenge which again raises the question of break-through urticaria. Several of the studies have other complicating factors. A mixture of colors were used in several studies so that the positive reactions cannot easily be attributed to any one substance. In a single study by Stevenson et al. (1986), a series of patients with chronic urticaria whose history suggested possible tartrazine sensitivity were challenged in blinded fashion. However, in these patients, antihistamines were continued throughout the challenge period. Only 1 of 24 patients developed urticaria on single-blind challenge and this reaction was confirmed by double-blind challenge. A comparatively large challenge dose of 50 mg of tartrazine was used to provoke this response (such doses would rarely be encountered with food ingestion).
The study by Murdoch et al. (18) is somewhat puzzling and deserves further discussion. Murdoch et al. (18) identified 3 patients who reacted to a panel of azo dyes (tartrazine, sunset yellow, amaranth, and carmoisine); 2 of these 3 patients reacted to tartrazine alone in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, in-hospital challenge. Murdoch et al. (18) also documented the release of histamine and its metabolites into plasma and urine during these urticarial flares adding some credibility to a diagnosis of tartrazine-induced urticaria in these two cases. However, medications were withheld from one of these patients during challenge, and no information is presented on the medication status of the other patient. Perhaps, these positive reactions are simply break-through urticaria. Furthermore, one of these patients required rather large provoking doses of tartrazine, either 50 or 150 mg. Murdoch et al. (19) subsequently demonstrated that even normal subjects release histamine into plasma and urine when subjected to such large and unrealistic challenge doses with tartrazine.
Stevenson et al. (1986) concluded that tartrazine can provoke urticaria in an occasional patient. Critics might argue that the continuation of antihistamine therapy during the challenge period would suppress the tartrazine-induced response. Stevenson et al. (1986) posed the relevant question to such critics: "If the reaction to massive exposure to tartrazine is so feeble that regular antihistamines suppress it, of what significance is the regular ingestion of smaller amounts of dietary tartrazine in the pathogenesis of the patient's urticaria?". To the knowledge of FARRP faculty, this single case is the only well documented case of tartrazine-induced urticaria in the entire medical literature.
However, the dispute over the role of tartrazine in chronic urticaria remains. The data presented by Stevenson et al. (1986) seems quite compelling and seems to refute any concerns regarding the role of tartrazine in chronic urticaria.
Tartrazine-Induced Asthma
Studies in the late 1950's also implicated tartrazine as a cause for asthma in some children. The early studies were largely observational and anecdotal. Early studies attempted to link aspirin and tartrazine as cause of asthma but the linkage was never fully documented. While numerous studies have been conducted on tartrazine-induced asthma, methodological flaws existed in many of these studies. Asthmatic patients, especially those with severe asthma, often take a wide variety of medications including theophylline, inhaled and systemic corticosteroids, beta agonists, bronchodilators, cromolyn, and antihistamines. In several studies, medications were withheld leading to concerns that the withdrawal of medications resulted in the asthmatic reactions. This is particularly likely since these studies used single-blind or open challenge designs with the placebo administered before tartrazine.
When some of the medications were continued during the challenge, the frequency of positive responses to tartrazine was almost zero in the few studies that have been conducted using this design. Most of these studies were conducted with double-blind designs. However, aspirin-sensitive asthmatics were used in several of these studies and are known to often have rather unstable lung function. With unstable asthmatics, it can be especially important to intersperse placeboes throughout the challenge period since some unstable asthmatics will develop bronchospasm simply from the exertion of the spirometry tests. This approach was not taken in the studies where a few tartrazine-sensitive asthmatics were apparently identified. In several studies where bronchodilator drugs were continued during challenge and double-blind, placebo-controlled challenges were conducted, only one aspirin-sensitive asthmatic was identified as tartrazine-reactive and the investigators discounted the significance of this single reactor on the basis of highly unstable airways.
Again, a study by Stevenson et al. (1992) is particularly enlightening. Their study involved 43 aspirin-tolerant and 194 aspirin-sensitive asthmatics. Beta agonists, cromolyn, and antihistamines were withheld, but theophylline, bronchodilators, and inhaled and systemic corticosteroids were continued. The studies were conducted with single-blind challenges but all positive responses were confirmed by double-blind challenges. None of their patients reacted to tartrazine at doses up to 50 mg.
The conclusion from these studies is obvious. Tartrazine-induced asthma does not exist. Early studies of tartrazine in asthmatics were flawed and positive reactions were likely the result of unstable airways in chronic, severe asthmatics.
Well-Designed Studies Documenting that Tartrazine Is Highly Unlikely to Cause Asthma or Chronic Uriticaria
Stevenson DD, Simon RA, Lumry WR, Mathison DA. Adverse reactions to tartrazine. J Allergy Clin Immunol 78:182, 1986.
Stevenson DD, Simon RA, Lumry WR, Mathison DA. Pulmonary reactions to tartrazine. Pediatr Allergy Immunol 3:222, 1992.
Vedanathan P, Menson MM, Bell TD, Bergin D. Aspirin and tartrazine oral challenge: incidence of adverse response in chronic childhood asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol 60:8, 1977.
Spector SL, Wangaard CH, Farr RS. Aspirin and concomitant idiosyncrasies in adult asthmatic patients. J Allergy Clin Immunol 64:500, 1979.
Weber RW, Hoffman M, Raine DA, Nelson HS. Incidence of bronchoconstriction due to aspirin, azo dyes, non-azo dyes and preservatives in a population of perennial asthmatics. J Allergy Clin Immunol 64:32, 1979.
Tarlo SM, Broder I. Tartrazine and benzoate challenge and dietary avoidance in chronic asthma. Clin Allergy 12:303, 1982.
Morales MC, Basomba A, Pelaez A, Villalmanzo IG, Campos A. Challenge tests with tartrazine in patients with asthma associated with intolerance to analgesics (ASA-Triad). A comparative study with placebo. Clin Allergy 15:55, 1985.
Erythrosine (FD&C #3)
Erythrosine is an artificial food color (red). Erythrosine has been implicated as a causative factor in idiosyncratic reactions on only a few occasions. All of the clinical studies that have occurred on erythrosine have been seriously flawed due to one of more of several factors: use of a mixture of colorants or additives, enrollment of patients with severe chronic conditions such as chronic urticaria or asthma, withdrawal of critical medications from these patients prior to challenges, administration of placeboes first in all challenges, and failure to intersperse placeboes throughout the challenge. Thus, the cause-and-effect relationship has not been documented for erythrosine in idiosyncratic reactions.
Sunset Yellow (FD&C #6)
Sunset yellow is an artificial color allowed for use in foods and medications. Sunset yellow has been implicated as a causative factor in idiosyncratic reactions on only a few occasions. All of the clinical studies that have occurred on sunset yellow have been seriously flawed due to one of more of several factors: use of a mixture of colorants or additives, enrollment of patients with severe chronic conditions such as chronic urticaria or asthma, withdrawal of critical medications from these patients prior to challenges, administration of placeboes first in all challenges, and failure to intersperse placeboes throughout the challenge. Thus, the cause-and-effect relationship has not been documented for sunset yellow in idiosyncratic reactions.
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“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureucracy”
Another fabulous fact feast on the fasab blog.
Hope there are a few things in here that are new and interesting for you.
Pepsi-Cola was originally called “Brad’s Drink.”
Most supermarkets place their bakery areas near the entrance
because studies have shown that the aroma of fresh-baked goods
makes customers spend more money.
Although most people think that it was a spin-off from the telephone,
the first fax machine was actually invented over 25 years before the telephone.
The Kentucky Derby is also known as the Run for the Roses.
Not all comets are as “regular” as Halley’s Comet.
Astronomers believe that Comet West,
which last visited our neighborhood in 1975-76,
won’t be seen again for another half-million years.
In 1835, John Wilkes Booth’s father Junius
threatened to kill President Andrew Jackson.
Cashews are related to poison ivy.
The fortune cookie was invented in the early 20th century
by Makato Hagiwara, who designed the Japanese Tea Garden
in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
He intended the cookie to be a snack for people walking through the garden.
Bubble gum is pink because when it was invented,
pink was the only food dye on hand.
The first skyjacking occurred in 1931 in the skies above Peru.
Two rebel soldiers forced the pilot of a Fokker F-27 to fly them over Lima
so they could drop propaganda pamphlets onto the city.
Teddy Roosevelt’s first wife and mother
died on the same day in the same house.
The day was Valentine’s Day of 1884.
The “Crows Nest” on a ship
(the basket near the top of the mast)
used to actually contain a crow.
The ships navigator would use one of the birds as a guide in bad weather,
since they invariably flew towards land.
Only 1% of all the readily accessible water on earth is drinkable.
In 1557, European doctors recommended smoking
to combat bad breath and cancer.
In the 1904 Olympics, American gymnast George Eyser
faired quite well, winning six medals
even though his left leg was made of wood.
Al Capone’s brother was a cop.
The Orange River in southern Africa
isn’t named for the fruit or the color;
it’s named for the Dutch royal family
who sent explorers to “discover” the area.
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House
straddles the Canadian and Vermont border.
The actors perform in Canada
while most of the audience sits in the United States.
There is even a painted line running through the building.
The phrase “going commando” originated during the Vietnam War,
a time when American troops spent extended periods of time in hot, humid jungles.
Wearing tight-fitting undergarments reduced ventilation
and increased the risk of fungal infections in the groin area.
Generally, the higher a dog’s cholesterol,
the more likely they are to chase their tail.
Especially if they’re female!
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American and Latin American Politics, Society, and Culture
February 28, 2009 By Fausta
Liveblogging Rush Limbaugh at #CPAC
4:45PM Limbaugh walks in to rousing applause after being introduced by Lisa Di Pasquale as, “My aphrodisiac, Rush Limbaugh.”
Fox is televising the speech on Fox News Channel, “which means ladies & gentlemen, that this is my first ever address to the nation.”
“Larry King goes to heaven …”
4:52 “Let me tell you who we conservatives are. We love people. We see human beings. What we see is potential. We do not look out across the country and we do not see that person with contempt. We see that person can become the best they can be without onerous taxes, too much regulation and too much government. We recognize that we are all individuals.”
“We are endowed with inalienable rights, among them life.”
“We see so much waste, fifty years of the war on poverty. We resist the effort to group up, we are all different. There are no two people with the same outcomes.”
“Someone has to say this. Take a look at all the constituency groups who for the last 50 yrs who have Democrat for their lives. Those lives are still poisoned by those who say, don’t worry, just vote for us.
“I want everyone to succeed. I want every organization that gets in the way to fail.
“I have not needed a teleprompter for anything I’ve said. Our believes are core. We don’t need notes.
“We’re not a minority. The American people may not all vote but more Americans live their lives as conservatives in one degree or another. We need conservative leadership. All we need is the right candidate.
“President Obama is one of the most gifted politicians I’ve ever witnessed. He has extraordinary talents, it just breaks my heart that he does not use these talents and gifts to inspire the American people to be the best they can be.
“The freedom is the ambition, the desire, the passion people have. Why shouldn’t that be rewarded? Why is that now the focus of punishment, the focus of blame?
“The people who have achieved great things, most wealth in this country is entrepeneurial hard work. There is no reason to punish it. Barack Obama has taken 1 oath, and that’s to defend the US Constitutiion. They do not have the rights to take money from the back pockets of producers and give to people like ACORN.”
The audience in the ballroom where Limbaugh is speaking, and in the other large rooms where the speech is being livefed, are enthusiastically listening. The overflow room is standing room only, too.
“Welfare destroys ambition”. Large round of applause.
Von Hayek “for intellectuals, for all liberals, is all about control… We don’t have the money.”
Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Bill Clinton, “the architects of the crisis we’re in…get to sit around and dictate how we pay for it.”
Laughter at “after Obama’s state of the union show.”
Big applause at Joe Biden walking through the train station, commenting on the Indian 7-11. More laughs at “we have to be out of here by six. OK, if you behave.”
“The people who make the money are not the enemy. They’re the people who hire you, who give you a raise, who need you to work for them.”
“Obama forgets the recession of the eighties… because we got out of it with tax cuts.” BIG applause.
“In six weeks of this administration, Pres Obama has proposed more spending since the founding of the nation to his inauguration.” Wows from the audience.
“President Obama, your agenda is not new, it’s not change, and it’s not hope.”
“It is not their task to rebuild this nation”, audience stands up and applauds.
“Everybody seems to go orgasmic over bipartisanship. I checked with Fox, that word is OK. They covered the Lewinsky thing.”
“Where is the compomise of all of this punishment of the achievers? Where is the compromise between good and evil? Should Jesus have cut a different deal?
We’re going to have to talk about principle.”
Several people in the audience are pleased to see me liveblogging and give me their business cards.
5:32PM “Here is the big question, aside from the consitutional, where is the evidence that the people proposing this have succeeded at it before?”
“John Kerry.” Pause. Laughter from the audience.
Limbaugh rips the class envy/class stuggle, crowd is eating it up.
“That’s sick” crowd loves it.
“Conservatism doesn’t need to be redefined. It is forever.”
“When the hell do you ever hear a liberal say the era of FDR is over?” Big applause.
“Conservatism is a set of core principles. .. Beware of those who are making sure liberals like us, the media like us. They are our enemy. They want us to be defeated.”
“The media people” pant pant pant…”the invited Sen. McCain because he happened to be the loudest at criticizing our people… There’s nothing stale about freedom.” People get up & applaud, chanting.
“Obama’s purpose in having dinner with conservative pundits was to annoint those conservatives as his people.”
“You do not know that just the everyday life you live, live your life according to your principles, and you’ll be astounded on how many people you impress. Don’t be afraid to tell them they’re wrong. You owe them the truth about things.”
“We have to stand for what we believe and treat people as adults.” Applause.
“Joe Biden.” Chuckles from the crowd. After the anecdote, “I realize some of you watching on TV never heard liberals made fun of this way. Get used to it.” Whoots & cheers from the audience.
“We [Americans] are a competitive people.”
“We are not going to give up the American dream.” Applause.
“About my comment that I hope Pres. Obama fails.”… “I hope the Cardinals coach failed. I wanted to win.”
“They called General Petraeus a liar before he testified.” Boos. “Mrs Clinton” more boos.
“If his mission is to destroy capitalism. Why would I want that to succeed?” Big applause.
“I want the country to survive.” Standing applause, chanting. “I want the country to survive as we have known it, as we were raised. ”
“I don’t give people the power to offend me.”
“We’re talking about remaining the country we’ve known. It’s never been under assault as it is now. Optimism, confidence, stop thinking that we’re the minority. It is your beliefs, your core principles that liberate you.”
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Methodical optimization of the determination of raw milk proportions in pasteurized milk and reconstituted milk via alkaline phosphatase activity
Schlimme, E.; Thiemann, A.; Wolter, K.; Meisel, H.; Beutler, H.O.
Kieler Milchwirtschaftliche Forschungsberichte 44(3): 239-248
In this paper investigations on the optimization of the determination of raw milk proportions in pasteurized and in reconstituted milk via measurement of alkaline phosphatase activity are described. In this study the optimized method for the determination of the vol. activity of alkaline phosphatase in milk was used for the detection of this enzyme in pasteurized and in reconstituted pasteurized milk, with and without raw milk proportions.
Studies on the detection method of reconstituted milk in raw and pasteurized milk through determination of milk RNase activity. Journal of the Chinese Society of Animal Science 20(1): 103-114, 1991
Activity of alkaline phosphatase in milk and milk products. Part 3: results of a ring test for determination of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) in cheese. Deutsche Milchwirtschaft 46(4): 191-193, 1995
Milk and milk-based drinks. Determination of alkaline phosphatase activity using a fluorimetric method. International IDF Standard ( 155A: 1999): 4 pp., 1999
Milk and milk-based drinks. Determination of alkaline phosphatase activity. Fluorometric method. International IDF Standard (155: 1992 (Provisional)): 3 pp., 1992
Microbiological testing of milk and milk products. Determination of the number of coliform bacteria, spore-formers and moulds, in pasteurized milk, butter and dried milk. Hung. Stand, MSZ 3743-70, 7, 1970
Methods of sampling and tests for pasteurized milk, pasteurized reconstituted milk, ultra heat treated milk and ultra heat treated reconstituted milk. Malaysian Standard (MS 8.20): 33, 1976
Comparative study on the transport of milk as raw milk and as packaged pasteurized milk. I. The lipolysis of raw milk and pasteurized milk. Tiedotteita Communications Maatalouden Tutkimuskeskus, Elintarvikkeiden Tutkimuslaitos ( 2): 14 pp., 1991
Detection of reconstituted milk in raw milk through determination of milk DNase activity. Journal of the Chinese Agricultural Chemical Society 25(3): 332-340, 1987
Residual Alkaline Phosphatase Activity in Pasteurized Milk Heated at Various TemperaturesMeasurement with the Fluorophos and Scharer Rapid Phosphatase Tests. Journal of Food Protection 62(1): 81-85, 1999
Residual alkaline phosphatase activity in pasteurized milk heated at various temperatures--measurement with the fluorophos and Scharer rapid phosphatase tests. Journal of Food Protection 62(1): 81-85, 1999
Use of tri-phenyltetrazolium chloride in the evaluation of milk and dairy products. II. Determination of the titre of pasteurized milk and dried milk. Z. Lebensmittelunters. u. -Forsch, 128: 4, 217-28, 1965
Alkaline phosphatase activity in pasteurized milk: A quantitative comparison of Fluorophos and colourimetric procedures. International Journal of Dairy Technology 62(3): 308-314, 2009
Standardization of methods for the analysis of milk and dairy products in the Netherlands. Introduction and Netherlands standard specification NEN 1392. Determination of the fat content of homogenized milk and milk reconstituted from fat-containing dried milk by the Gerber method. Neth. Milk Dairy J, 13: 1, 73-75, 1959
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(thing) by dabcanboulet Tue Aug 31 2004 at 9:21:51
Salzburg Cathedral (Dom zu Salzburg) is located on the south side of the Salzach River in the old part of Salzburg, Austria. The cathedral dominates this area of Salzburg with its central green dome and two towers, each capped with their own smaller green dome. The cathedral faces west onto Domplatz and is situated between Residenzplatz to the north and Kapitelplatz to the south.
The cathedral is in early Baroque style and the interior of the cathedral pays true homage to the term baroque with heavily ornamented altars, tombs and other fixtures, many of which have brightly coloured paintings of biblical scenes. The ceiling and walls of the cathedral are adorned by dozens and dozens of painted panels depicting yet more biblical scenes. The many windows of the cathedral ensure that interior is well illuminated when the sun and the clouds cooperate.
Dom zu Salzburg is definitely one of the "must see" sights in Salzburg.
Interesting/Important Dates
Construction of the original cathedral began under the direction of Bishop Virgil in 767. On September 24, 774, the cathedral was consecrated to Saint Rupert of Salzburg and Saint Virgil.
The cathedral and much of the surrounding city were destroyed by fire in 1167 (the fire was set by the Counts of Plain, followers of Emperor Friedrick Barbarossa). The catbedral was rebuilt over the course of the next decade by Archbishop Conrad III of Wittelsbach.
The cathedral was damaged by fire on December 11, 1598. Archbishop Wolf Dietrich destroyed the remains of the old cathedral and began to plan a new cathedral on the site. Unfortunately, Wolf Dietrich ended up a prisoner in Hohensalzburg Fortress as a result of a dispute over salt mining rights with Bavaria.
Dietrich's successor, Archbishop Markus Sittikus, commissioned Santino Solari to architect a new cathedral (Solari's tomb in the nearby graveyard is definitely worth seeing). Sittikus died in 1619 so it was left to his successor, Archbishop Paris Lodron, to consecrate the new cathedral on September 25, 1628 during the height of the Thirty Years' War. The new cathedral was the first early Baroque cathedral north of the Alps.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was baptised in the cathedral in 1756.
The cathedral's dome was destroyed during a bombing raid on October 16, 1944. Following repairs to the cathedral, it was reconsecrated in 1959 by Archbishop Andreas Rohracher.
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Frederick Barbarossa Salzburg dome Paris Graf von Lodron
767 Residenzplatz Saint Rupert of Salzburg 1598
Andreas Rohracher Santino Solari Markus Sittikus Wolf Dietrich
Counts of Plain Archbishop Conrad III of Wittelsbach Bishop Virgil Kapitelplatz
Domplatz Salzach River Saint Virgil Dom zu Salzburg
774 Cologne Cathedral 1619 1628
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The Fairbury Jeffs football team traveled to Geneva last Friday to take on the Fillmore Central Panthers. The Jeffs came into the game with a 4-4 record on the season. The Jeffs only allowed the Panthers to score one touchdown throughout the game whereas the Jeffs were able to make seven touchdowns. The Jeffs’ offense made it possible to score 2 touchdowns in the first 3 quarters of the game. Defense held back Fillmore Central only allowing them to score one touchdown in the second quarter. Fillmore missed the field goal kick, leaving the score 28-6 by the end of the first half.
Senior Seth Firmanik led the team in rushing yards. Firmanik had 205 yards and made 3 touchdowns in the game. Zane Grizzle ’22, John Kerwood ’20, Joseph Melcher ’20 and Chance Amundson ’20 each contributed a touchdown to the game on Friday night. Kerwood made his first touchdown of his career when Firmanik tossed the ball to Kerwood, right before being tackled. Kerwood was then able to run the ball in for a touchdown. The final score of the game was 48-6.
“I think that the team played really well on Friday night. We were physical on both sides of the ball and it was a great way to send the seniors off.” sophomore Braden Suey said.
The Jeffs came up short for the playoffs but still had a great season. The Jeffs ended their 2019 season with a record of 5-4. This is the 5th year in a row that the Jeffs football team has had a winning season.
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