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Trademarks on Tap
Start Here | Intro to Trademarks on Tap
You're in the Right Spot (2:03)
About Your Course Creator Christina from The Contract Shop® (5:10)
Disclaimer (2:31)
How to Contact Support (0:58)
Why is it Critical to Master Your Marks? (1:54)
How to Get the Most Out of This Course (4:00)
What Results You Can Expect from This Course (1:46)
Course Overview (2:31)
MODULE 1 | Trademarks 101
What is a Trademark? (3:29)
A Walkthrough + Overview of the Trademark Registration Process (with Timeline) (6:22)
What Names & Designs Cannot Be Registered as a Trademark? (4:54)
The BIG Mistake: Trademarks vs. LLCs and DBAs (3:23)
Trademarks vs. Copyrights... What's the Difference? (2:05)
Wrap Up and Review of Module 1 (3:05)
MODULE 2 | Make Your Mark
What Makes a Great Trademark (3:13)
Don't Make these Name or Design Mistakes (3:54)
How to Create a Strong Name that Stands Out in the Market (5:45)
Examples of Great Names (and Some Not-So-Good Ones Too) (5:39)
The Categories You Sell In (4:47)
How to See if the Name, Phrase or Tagline You Want is Available [SIMPLE SEARCH TUTORIAL] (5:33)
How to See if the Design or Sub-mark You Want is Available (6:46)
How to Do an 'Advanced' Search (6:47)
What to Do if the Name or Design You Want Isn't Available (4:32)
MODULE 3 [LEARN] | Prepping Your App
Step 1: Overview, Gather Your Info (1:31)
Who Owns the Trademark? (2:26)
What Address Will You Use on Your App? (3:44)
How to Fulfill the "Use" Requirement for Any Trademark (5:37)
Step 2: What Do You Sell? Plus, How to Turn that into a Description (8:11)
Step 3: Choose Your "Filing Basis" (2:01)
Step 4: Submitting Your Application with the [DO] Section of this Module (1:07)
MODULE 3 [DO] | Prepping Your App - Live Walkthrough of the Trademark Registration Process
IMPORTANT! READ THIS FIRST!
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Step 2C: How to Apply for a Trademark with a Partner or Partners (0:55)
Step 3: Filling Out Your Contact Info (2:21)
Step 4A: Applying as a WORD Mark (2:47)
Section 4B: Applying for a DESIGN Mark (5:05)
Step 5A: Adding Your Goods & Services by Customizing a Pre-Written Description (10:28)
Step 6: Final Contact Details Check (1:22)
Step 7: Signing Your Application (Declarations) (4:27)
Step 8: Double-Checking Your Application (Validation) (5:10)
Step 8A: Saving Your Application (2:19)
Step 8B: Paying + Submitting Your Application (0:47)
MODULE 4 | Getting Your Name Approved: Coming December 19th
BONUS: Respond to Office Action [Email Template]
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Indian Chai Stories
Welcome to Indian Chai Stories! Here are over a hundred true stories from the world of tea gardens. All our story tellers have lived - and some continue to live - in the 'cha bagan'. Chai stories are always told with great seriousness, even the funny ones. You will find many stories here, some impossible sounding, some scary, some funny and some downright bizarre. No life like the tea life! Happy reading! Cheers to the spirit of Indian tea!
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Our Writers - in Pictures!
The Inimitable Dharmam
by Saaz Aggarwal
I was just 11 when we left the last place where Dharmam and my dad worked together (as they had done for several years), and we never met again. And, even though I had never had much contact with Dharmam myself, the memory of who he was appears to have remained quite vividly. I suppose that’s because my father always held him with such a great degree of respect
I began working on a book based on plantation life in April 2013, first interviewing Uncle Sin (NSV Sinniah), who had started his career as a tea planter in Ceylon before moving to E&A, followed by a few more with other Ooty locals that year. In March 2015, I interviewed Ravindran and Ram Adige in Bangalore, both former E&A employees and colleagues of my father. It was a wonderful session, but the book took a back seat to other projects. So, when Ravindran told me in June 2019 that he had a collection of stories he wanted my help in publishing, I agreed at once and have enjoyed the process of weaving in context and fleshing them out with memories from him and others, including my own.
Working on this book took me back to an idyllic childhood, its pristine air-quality, vistas of sloping valleys of smooth green from the sitting-room windows, brilliant night skies, and a certain formal grandeur and privileged way of living compounding the fundamental isolation of plantation life. The sunsets at Prospect were spectacular: one time, driving towards the fork in the road that led into the estate, the sky ahead was streaked with clouds that carried every colour of the rainbow, the entire spectrum from purple to red, a sight that remains fresh in my mind nearly fifty years later.
Seated: Dharmam (his son Bimal Rajasekhar is standing next to him), Saaz, Situ, Bob and Ravi Savur. from Saaz’s album. High Forest, 1967
Out of the blue I remembered Dharmam, a mechanic at Prospect. I phoned Victor to ask and he said, “Of course I remember him, he was your dad’s favourite!” Victor went on to give me a few examples of Dharmam’s ingenuity:
At Prospect we used motorized power sprayers and to start them, we had to tie a rope around the motor and pull. But it was so cold right around the year that a simple pull never worked. We had to keep pulling, it took a lot of time, a lot of tries and a lot of strength, and they still wouldn’t start. Until Dharmam came up with a brilliant idea: he hooked the rope to a V-belt on one of the machines. When the machine was turned on, its rapid revolution started the sprayer in no time.
From Planting Directory of Southern inDia, UPASI, Coonoor (1956)
As I wrote this down, an image emerged from the deep recesses of my memory: the door to ‘Aladdin’s Cave’, a dark and perhaps windowless restricted-entry room in the Prospect factory, Dharmam’s secret stockroom. When anything needed fixing, Dharmam would retreat into the cave and emerge carrying a piece of scrap or spare or strange-looking tool, and get it working in a jiffy. Victor remembered that he never threw anything away; that he used discarded lorry shock absorbers to make stools to sit on.
My brother and I even had a car, which Dharmam had made using discarded metal sheets, a marvel of technology with a working steering wheel, a discarded lorry horn and discarded bicycle pedals.
Dharmam was a genius and, in different circumstances, could have been an inventor who formed the backbone of a national space mission or corporate R&D department.
His father, PA Charles, had gone to work at Dunsinane Estate, Ceylon, and rose to be teamaker there. After some years he quit to return to the family home in Nagercoil, Tamilnadu, and subsequently worked as teamaker at High Forest and Seaforth. Dharmam, well qualfied and highly skilled, joined High Forest in 1954. These facts I learnt from his son Rajappa. I had made many attempts to locate Dharmam’s children, and it seemed like a miracle to do so just days before this book went to print – particularly because, on that 2016 visit to Prospect, I had been informed (mistakenly, as it turned out) that Dharmam was no more.
Dharmam's family: Rajappa Charles and Bimal Rajasekhar, in cars fabricated by their father. Rajappa grew up to be an engineer, and Bimal is a doctor with a Master’s degree in Public Health from London School of Economics. Their mother Helen was a much beloved teacher in the estate schools. Dharmam retired from Seaforth in 1987 and they continued living there until she retired four years later.
In fact, Dharmam celebrated his ninetieth birthday in April 2019. And in September I learnt from him that it was a rotorvane that took Peter Sausman’s finger. A rotorvane is the machine in which tea leaves are loaded after going through the rollers, forced through a barrel by a screw-type rotating shaft with vanes at its centre. Peter evidently got too close. He lost a finger, but his sense of humour, as Ravindran describes earlier in the book, stayed on.
Visiting Prospect in 2016 I had asked after Hutcha too, and was told that he too was no more. Hutcha was a lorry driver in our time, and of English blood, as I deduced from an email from Denis Mayne in 2015, followed by a conversation with others who knew. Denis now lives in Belfast, and I had come across his post ‘When I was in India’ on a Bangor Aye blog, in which he described his initiation on Prospect, less gentle than Ravindran’s would be a decade later, with a manager who sent him off saying: I’ll see you on Friday. In the mean time you are in charge of four hundred acres of tea and four hundred men. Only one man speaks English and you can’t believe a word he says. Good Luck!
I was delighted to get connected to him through the blog, and through him to Carolyn Hollis; their words and photos have brought parts of this book alive. As for Hutcha’s biological father, you could probably spot him in the photo on the last page, one of the last grand collections of British and Indian tea planters c1958. Most of them are no more.
Chittu is long gone too. One evening at Kodanad in the 1980s, he went off as usual to run around and do dog things, and never came back. “Dog eating panther,” as the butler English of our days described it, not an unusual end for an estate dog, much mourned by all of us, especially my dad, who would now have to ride out to the fields on his own.
Epilogue:
Meet the writer:
Saaz Aggarwal is a contemporary Indian writer whose body of work includes biographies, translations, critical reviews and humour columns. As an artist, she is recognized for her Bombay Clichés, quirky depictions of urban India in a traditional Indian folk style. Her art incorporates a range of media and, like her columns, showcases the incongruities of daily life in India. Her 2012 book, 'Sindh: Stories from a Vanished Homeland', established her as a researcher in Sindh studies. The book is called An Elephant Kissed My Window (and other stories from the tea plantations of South India) and it’s available on https://www.amazon.in/An-elephant-kissed-my-window/dp/938346514X
Is this your first visit here? Welcome to Indian Chai Stories!
Do you have a chai story of your own to share?
Send it to me here, please : indianchaistories@gmail.com.
My name is Gowri Mohanakrishnan and I'm a tea planter's wife. I started this blog because one of the things that I wouldn't want us to lose in a fast changing world is the tea story - a story always told with great seriousness, no matter how funny - always true (always), maybe a tall tale, long, or short, impossible, scary, funny or exciting but never dull.
Happy reading! Cheers to the spirit of Indian Tea!
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Just One Drink
by Indi Khanna
In 1983, working with Warren Tea Limited, I was the Garden Assistant on Dhoedaam Estate in Upper Assam in the Doom Dooma area. Regardless of the age difference and the disparity in our seniority levels, Himmat Singh - many years my senior and a Senior Manager on Tara, another one of the Warren Estates in the district - had become one of my very close friends. One of the many friends whose bungalow we would happily drop in to unannounced.
This being well before not just mobile services, but also any other form of telephony, our normal mode of communication was dependent upon letters delivered to each other via the estate 'mail service' (a messenger who would carry official and unofficial letters and the like between estates); our terrestrial alternative to pigeon mail.
Received a letter one day mid-week from Himmat telling me that his wife Krishna was away on holiday in Jaipur and that since my wife was also away on a jaunt, would I like to drop in that evening for a drink. Never one to refuse a good offer, come the evening I headed off to Tara. It was one of those lovely Assam evenings when nature would routinely open all the sluice gates and send down enough rain to put the Niagara Falls to shame, all the while lighting up the sky with millions of volts of electricity and an equal amount of decibels of thunder. In short, just the sort of conditions which would have made Shakespeare rub his hands in glee and call on the three witches to make their appearance.
Tara Burra Bungalow
Drove into Tara around 2030 Hrs to find Himmat waiting for me in his 'Jalli Kamra', enjoying the lovely weather. Being almost par for the course, the thin spray of rain hanging over one's heads akin to a personal cloud accompanied by the occasional wisp of mist finding its way into the Jalli Kamra was never taken cognisance of.
Settling down, my first statement to Himmat was that I wanted an early evening since I had a very early start (when was it ever not an early start for us?) and needed to get my beauty sleep before facing the formidable Bahadur Singh (my boss) in the morning, and to be well in time for my Kamjari.
Almost knocked the socks off me when Himmat tells me, "We'll have just one drink before khana" and then shouts "Jannu, saab ka aur mera drink lao". In toddles his faithful Jaanu with two VERY large brandy snifters and two bottles of our favoured tipple, Beehive brandy.
Himmat Singh. All pix by author
Quite obviously having been instructed in advance of what he was required to do when faced with this strange order, Jannu very nonchalantly unscrews the tops of the two bottles to break the seal and proceeds to pour the contents into the two snifters. To say I was aghast would be an understatement.
My "Himmat, what the hell is this?" was met by an almost angelic smile and a "Well, it is only ONE drink", following which statement Himmat decided to become stone deaf and took on the majestic appearance of Mount Rushmore!
By 2200 Hrs, one small sip at a time, I had managed to bring the level of the brandy down just below the rim.
"Himmat, can we eat?"
"Don't be silly, we have to finish our one drink!" And then back to being Mount Rushmore.
2400 Hrs
My "Himmat, I need to get back and am bloody hungry", was met by a glare which made me decide to shut my mouth for a mite longer.
0200 Hrs my next request for dinner met the same fate as did the one an hour later.
Finally at 4 in the morning, in total exasperation I was left with no option but to say to Mr Stone Deaf that this was it and that I simply HAD to leave.
And what does my host do, "Jannu, Saab is not finishing his drink so cover his glass and keep it in the fridge for him as he'll be coming back tomorrow to finish it and have his dinner!"
Cold, very hungry and somewhat miserable Mr Khanna drives back to Dhoedaam. Got to my bungalow, wolfed down a packet of biscuits, changed into my shorts and dragged myself to my Kamjari office.
Oh yes, during the day Himmat received a letter from me by way of the terrestrial pigeon post thanking him for his hospitality and the "ONE DRINK"!
Indi Khanna with Xerox
With an industry experience and a tea knowledge base of four and a half decades and counting, I literally live and breathe tea.
Starting my career in 1975 as an Assistant Superintendent with Malayalam Plantations Ltd, rolling up my sleeves by 'dirtying' my hands at the grassroots level and having literally 'grown' in the business, my experiences have matured me into a ‘one of a kind’ unique entity in the industry.
My journey which literally starts from the tea nursery and stretches all the way up to the consumer shelf, is in many ways unique. Regularly roaming the tea world, delving into the most remote areas wherever tea is grown or consumed, constantly interacting with Tea folk, I have always been learning and innovating. The invaluable experiences along this very interesting route have culminated into a unique new venture, a one-of-a-kind specialty tea manufacturing facility unit in the Nilgiris - www.teastudio.info.
My life has been and continues to be blessed.
Thankfully this very interesting Tea journey continues as an ongoing learning experience.
- December 11, 2019 1 comment:
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Characters!
by Rajesh Thomas
Disclaimer: Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is not the result of chance. It is deliberate.
To be a successful planter one must be a concoction of unusual things. Firstly, a love for agriculture and a knack to make things grow. Then have a deep biased love for his garden and its inhabitants. Also be a businessman, legal brain and public relations officer.
Little bit mechanically minded to see the engines in his factory run smoothly and the vehicles keep plying on the dirt tracks. A dash of civil engineering to lay a new road or to build a new building. Become fluent in an alien language. To enjoy long stretches of loneliness, solitude, and boredom. And most important of it all to be balanced to take all his power with a grain of salt.
In spite of all the above, the gardens are full of cranks, oddities, and half-brained fanatics. It takes all sorts of characters to make the world and the world of tea is full of them. Here are a few and you are welcome to add to it.
The Rules Man
The Rules Man – A stickler for rules. He is very rigid, and lives in the shadows of the black and white ink of policies and procedures. In his estate, rules dominate and regulations have only one interpretation. Change is not only avoided and feared by him but also ridiculed and scorned. Very fond of Managers and Assistant managers of similar ilk.
The Disciplinarian – To him discipline is everything. His first love was the army and planting was his alternative option. Tries to run the estate like a regiment. Gets very annoyed if things are not kept in a row or when workers do not walk in a single file.
The Brown Sahib – if you close your eyes and talk to him you would be transported to old blighty. Will be immaculately dressed. He will have a fine collection of jackets and blazers; very fond of ties and cravats. Most conversations will start with “in the good ole days “ Sadly a dying breed.
The Hermit – The hermit is the most elusive of managers. The hermit likes to remain isolated from the rest of the estate and hide behind closed doors in the estate office, which is treated as the sanctum sanctorum of the estate with the access normally controlled by the Section officer or the Office Babu, who act as gatekeepers. Normally a very Senior Manager who has been bypassed for promotion to head office and has a few years to his retirement.
The Spy Master
The Spy Master – A man of intrigue. He plays his cards close to his chest. Has spies all over the estate. Spies mostly will be the estate drivers and watchmen. Each spy will have his regular spot where the manager will meet him on his field rounds. Mainly to keep tabs on the activities of the Assistant Manager and the Senior Staff. But funnily the spymaster will rarely act on the tales carried on to him, as he will rarely have the courage to act on it or have a face to face confrontation. Nowadays his life has been made easier for him after the advent of the mobile phone, he doesn’t have to rely on the bush telegraph, he gets all the gossip straight on his phone before breakfast.
The Henpecked --This manager will be in office till very late in the evening, keeping himself busy with a list of silly tasks for himself and the office staff. While everyone else thinks he is very hardworking, the truth is he is scared to go home. Till a sharp rebuke on the phone from the missus will send him scurrying home.
Can’t take a Decision – Decision-making paralysis is his wont. Can conjure up impossible scenarios before making a decision. Even a making a simple decision stresses him out.
Mister Tough Guy
The Tough Guy - Public school educated, and mostly would have boxed in school. Walks with his chest out and stern face. Workers and Union Leaders are mortally scared of him. Loves a confrontation. Projects the tough guy image at the club bar too. Actually, in most cases, he is a softie at heart.
The Golfer – As he is walking along the rows of tea amidst the pluckers he imagines that he is in the bunker at the fifth hole of the local golf course wielding a sand wedge. The pluckers have seen it all before and turn a blind eye. Common indicators his golf averages fluctuate in correlation to his crop and sale averages. A major variant is a cricketer who practices the forward defense between the withering troughs. A minor variant is the tennis player and the angler.
The Numbers Man
The Numbers Man –To him the world is numbers and spreadsheets are his things. Sits the whole morning in office twisting numbers to prove to Head Office that he is superior to his contemporaries. Specialist in formats. Normally one will find different colors of pens and highlighters on his table, to prove his point on the monthly statements. This type has become more common after the advent of the computer.
The Yes Man – Mostly a talentless manager, whose rise is based upon unquestioning obedience and loyalty to the powers to be. His motto in life is ‘above you God, below you dog'.
The Wiggler – The manager who cannot be pinned down. Any fault is the Assistants Mistake. His daily perspective changes with the flow of the situation. Statements like “I never said that” or “I didn’t mean it like that” are very common, especially when there is a visit by a higher-up.
Changing viewpoints is an everyday occurrence making the rest of the estate unsure of how they should view anything new. Every day is a new day under him.
Epilogue – The inspiration for writing this piece came when I was introduced to a senior army officer at a dinner and when he found out that I was a planter, he had this to say “ I thought I had seen all kinds in the army, till I happened to meet a few planters”.
Rajesh Thomas introduces himself:
"A second generation planter. Born and grew up in the planting districts of Southern India. Started my career in the High Ranges and Annamallais Planting Districts for twelve years. Had a stint in Africa for two years. Since 2009 been planting in the Nilgiris.
Read all of Rajesh's stories at this link: https://teastorytellers.blogspot.com/search/label/J.Rajesh%20Thomas
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- December 04, 2019 7 comments:
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I Have my Licence
Lataguri. Gorumara. These are names you see on travel websites advertising holiday stays in 'resorts' these days. There was a time when the forests were dense and forbidding: dark even during the day. Venk's writing brings that era to life.
by Venk Shenoi
Pic of Venk with the Tata Nano in which her went round India in 2013
Grassmore Tea Estate is spread over 2,000 acres of land and getting around on foot at all hours of the day was not practical. I had my trusted Hind bicycle which gave me four years’ service during my student days in Kharagpur. Pedalling up and down the Mela-tracks was hard work particularly in hot-weather and rain and you were dependent on others for lifts to the Club.
The company offered loans – up to 15,000 rupees for cars and three or four thousand rupees if you got a motor cycle. A Hindusthan cost Rs 11,000 and a Triumph Herald Rs 9,500. I opted for the cheaper option and preferred the freedom of the elements on my face at speed.
My motorcycle, the latest Rajdoot in 1963 (see photo) cost 3,400 rupees and arrived from the agents in Siliguri on the back of a lorry after a month’s wait. The driver gave me basic lessons – start, stop, turning my head looking for oncoming traffic and rudimentary hand signals although I was not sure how I could give hand signals at the same time gripping the throttle on the handle bar. May be the instructor was talking about driving a car.
I got the hang of it in no time. For a while I dashed around the estate tracks falling down occasionally on the slippery slopes crossing the jhoras and burning skin off my left calf on the exhaust pipe. That was really painful. Getting up after a fall and lifting the bike up on the slippery track was a skill I acquired after some practice.
I soon realised I needed a licence to take the bike on the road. The chief Babu in the office arranged to get me a learner’s licence from the District Office in Jalpaiguri in no time and I was on my way to train myself towards getting my first licence. No matter the falls and occasionally dashing against a cow or buffalo trying to cut across my path uninvited.
The day arrived when I had to present myself for the test. Getting up early I started for Jalpaiguri some fifty miles away via Mal and the kacha-roads through Gorumara forest on to Lataguri and Moynaguri to the Eastern banks of the Teesta River which was several miles across in the flood-season. An island which changed its shape with the water level lay in the middle of the river and you had to take two ferries to cross over to Jalpaiguri Town.
The first crossing brought you to the sand banks and the motor cycle wheels sank in the loose sand. So pushing hard with occasional help from those around, I made it at last on hard ground in Jalpaiguri. It had taken nearly four hours including the two hours walking and ferrying across the river. Excited, I managed to find the District Transport Office and presented myself to the chaprasi. It was 1.30 pm and the Licence Babu had gone for lunch.
Hungry, I managed to get some tele-bhaja and chai by the road side and waited for the Babu to arrive. He came at 3.00, and apologising profusely that I had to wait so long. took out his note book and wrote down my name and address and scribbled that this was a provisional motor cycle licence which required formalising within six months after Police checks. Feeling cheated I asked – ‘Thank you Babu, but what about my test?’
‘What test?’ he exclaimed. ‘How did you come here?’
‘On my bike Babu’, I said politely.
‘So that was your test!’ he retorted, somewhat annoyed that I had dared to question his decision.
Never one to give up, I insisted he gave me a proper test according to the Highway Code for which I had been practising for weeks.
‘Achha Paagol!’ he said and we went together to the field behind his office.
He asked me to do four rounds of the field and stop in front of him sharp which I did obediently. He then asked me to look right and then left and turn right and then left and return after two more rounds.
He was in better humour by now and asked me, ‘Are you satisfied with your test?’
‘Yes, Onek Dhonnobad’, I mumbled.
‘So you have passed your test now properly and can ride your motorcycle safely’, he said.
‘Thank you Babu’, I said as he handed me the hand written note which was supposed to be my licence. He also stamped the paper. I had passed my test at last.
It was four o’clock by now and I had to return and cross the ferry across the Teesta and it would be dark soon. The return crossing only took an hour and a half and I was on the Moynaguri side as darkness fell.
The road back through Lataguri and Gorumara was hell on earth as torrential rain hit me in the dark. Millions of insects splattered across my face and glasses as I progressed slowly, hardly seeing the road ahead and trying to keep my balance as I approached the edge of the road. The head light on the Rajdoot was not up to cutting through the rain and cloud of insects as I progressed towards Grassmore. It was a long, long journey.
Yes, I made it at last after three hours ride in blinding rain, soggy and wet.
Yes, that was my real test, and I knew I passed.
Over to Venk: 'Born in Chertala, Travancore (Kerala), grew up in Chertala, Calcutta and Bombay. Can read and write in Bengali (my best Indian language), Malayalam, Hindi and Marathi apart from English, smattering of spoken Czech, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and Konkani (my mother tongue, which I have forgotten for all practical purposes).
Was a Dooars Tea Company Assistant Manager from 1962 – 65, posted at Nagrakata and Grassmore T.E.s.
Went round India on a Tata Nano in 2013.
Member of the Conservative Party, and served two terms as an elected District Councillor in the Forest of Dean Gloucestershire where I live. Apart from travel, visiting museums and archaeological sites, history, radio, photography, vintage fountain pens, concerned about world population explosion and resource limitation leading to extinction of man on earth soon.'
Read all Venk's stories here: https://teastorytellers.blogspot.com/search/label/Venk%20Shenoi
You will meet many storytellers here at Indian Chai Stories, and they are almost all from the world of tea gardens: planters, memsaabs, baby and baba log. Each of our contributors has a really good story to tell - don't lose any time before you start reading them!
Do you have a chai story of your own to share? Send it to me here, please : indianchaistories@gmail.com. My name is Gowri Mohanakrishnan and I'm a tea planter's wife. I started this blog because one of the things that I wouldn't want us to lose in a fast changing world is the tea story - a story always told with great seriousness, no matter how funny - always true (always), maybe a tall tale, long, or short, impossible, scary, funny or exciting but never dull.
You will find yourself transported to another world! Happy reading!
Cheers to the spirit of Indian Tea!
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- November 28, 2019 6 comments:
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Johnny Hodges & I
Here's a story that has nothing to do with tea - but I am sure our readers will enjoy it, because it is a planter's story after all!
by Aloke Mookerjee
Soon after college in Calcutta, I joined the global commodities trading firm Louis Dreyfus, located in Brabourne Road. In India, however, Louis Dreyfus remained a small outfit headed by a Frenchman who resembled Kirk Douglas, or so I thought!
Their main business here was in the domestic trade and export of jute goods – gunny sacks and hessian cloth, which was then popular worldwide as an economical and durable material for bulk packing. While learning the ‘intricacies’ of ‘B’ Twill Bags (with three blue stripes!) and 40”/10oz. hessian cloth, I realised quickly that my work was as dry and unglamorous as the goods Louis Dreyfus was trading in! I decided then that, as a profession, this would not be mine for long. Being barely twenty probably accounted for such definitive views and paved the way for my escape to the Dooars in North Bengal about two years later.
Meanwhile, a regular salary coming in while ‘counting bales’ kept me going rather happily! A friend and I decided to share an apartment we found available on rent. It was tiny but very airy and very bright. We hired some furniture, a small battered fridge and a kerosene cooker. We bought some curtains for the windows and pictures for the walls. I remember the curtains as being rather loud and garish, matching well with our ways then, I guess. We also bought some china plates, cutlery and some cooking utensils. We hired a man servant. This was necessary for while we both loved good food, we were neither inclined nor adequately versed in this esoteric art. As a final and essential touch to the apartment, I set up my precious music system; my father’s old valve radio hooked onto a turntable that played my collection of 12”, 10” & 7” vinyls – all jazz.
Despite the ludicrous (by today’s standards) monthly emoluments and the crushingly dull work schedule (compensated partially by the vivacious Anglo-Indian secretaries spreading their smiles along with a huge wave of scent as they passed by!), life was good. The beer sessions on Saturday afternoons were now more frequent as were the weekend sprees to the famed (and gratefully affordable) Calcutta nightclub ‘Scheherazade’ for Sonny Lobo’s big band jazz sounds! Trincas, Mocambo and Magnolia filled in the other evenings with jazz and the Sunday mornings with their jam sessions.
We had no car but the public transport was reasonably efficient and when occasion demanded, the ubiquitous black and yellow ‘Ambassadors’ with their cheerful ‘Sardarji’ drivers were always available for the feel of being ‘chauffer driven’ to our destination. The distinctive charm of Calcutta had not yet faded.
One such Saturday afternoon was going rather well in our tiny apartment. Beer was flowing with Brubeck thumping (rather loudly) from my LP spinning on the turntable. Despite the absence of Eugene Wright and Joe Morello in this particular concert, ‘Jazz at Oberlin’ remains to be one of my favourites in amongst other Dave Brubeck performances. The high decibel sounds must have penetrated the apartment to reverberate outside with considerable force for suddenly, a loud knock overpowering the din inside, could be heard emanating from the entrance door. Expecting an irate neighbour demanding immediate consideration, I hesitantly opened the door and saw myself facing a white man towering over me. He turned out to be an American of at least 6’6” in height, with two long playing records in his hand.
“Isn’t that Dave Brubeck I hear?” he asked looking down from a great height! “Yes, so it is” I replied. “Well, I have never heard this recital of Brubeck's before. May I come in to listen?”. “Sure, do come in”. Soon, settled in our rather hard straight-backed sofa, he seemed comfortable enough and happy with what he was hearing – evidently for the first time. He then showed me his two LP records. One was Miles Davis’ path breaking ‘Birth of the Cool’ while the other was a Duke Ellington, the name of which I have forgotten.
He introduced himself as Johnny Hodges (not to be confused with the great African American alto saxophonist of many years in Ellington’s band), in the midst of his travels through South East, South and West Asia, primarily with an aim to promote jazz. A few cold beers and more music later, our Johnny Hodges realised full well my love for jazz. A lunch of hot chapatis with a mean mutton curry followed and was greatly relished.
Finally bidding farewell, he came over to me and handed the two records he had been holding on to. “Very happy to do so”, he remarked, adding that the vinyls “would surely remain well cared for in the good hands of a true jazz lover”. That was the first and last time I met our Johnny Hodges.
NB: I had those LPs for many years till my move to Papua New Guinea when I lost all my jazz collection in transit.
My name is Gowri Mohanakrishnan and I'm a tea planter's wife. I started this blog because one of the things that I wouldn't want us to lose in a fast changing world is the tea story - a story always told with great seriousness, no matter how funny - always true (always), maybe a tall tale, long, or short, impossible, scary, funny or exciting but never dull. There are over 120 stories of tea life here, all written by people who have lived in tea gardens.
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Meet the writer: Aloke Mookerjee
Here's what Aloke has to say about himself : 'Long retired from tea, but still active in business. Even after all these years, tea remains to live strongly in my thoughts; they were the best years of my life. Other interests? Always loved Jazz music - still do and have written about this incredible genre. Love vintage airplanes (thus my love for Dakotas!) and cars, and intend to make this my next focus.' Here is the link to all posts by Aloke - Stories by Aloke Mookerjee
Aloke has recently published a book, The Jazz Bug, which is available on Amazon. Read about it here: https://notionpress.com/read/the-jazz-bug?fbclid=IwAR2HjxSU2rY6sq5cX_lzBxJY5oat1i_Z22qKdRRP1Tm77Dqp48B2CAlnGvY
Listen to Dave Brubeck's 'Jazz at Oberlin':
and here's a short piece, just to get a taste of the music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAlVasHbipo
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The Saga of the White Snake
by Simran Sandhu
This one is of me in the maali bari and the tall dahlias I have mentioned
So we had moved from Sagmmotea to Nahorani ... Misa club to Thakurbari club. This was a bigger "chang" bungalow with a much longer, winding drive. It was nestled among mature, very tall trees and had some amazing shrubs some very tall dahlias, cosmos and many other varieties of flowers and come winter, the inevitable "baraf", those multi-coloured little gems edging all the flower beds.
Mesembryanthemums
I had a penchant for lamps ( I still do), a penchant almost bordering on a mania, so I had hanging lamp shades made in all shapes and sizes from a local craftsman ; the lamp shades ranged from being round to a square, a hexagon, an oblong, a rectangle and anything in between They were simply and perfectly woven in bamboo .
The next thing was to find a suitable corner to hang them from.. and of course what better place but my happy place- the " jaali kamra",a lovely square space with ageing floor boards and wooden beams and a (not very new) wire mesh to keep the various creepy-crawlies from creeping inside .
Very soon, a corner of my "jaali kamra "was adorned by the six hanging shades of varying shapes and lengths adding a rather mellow and magical ambiance in the evenings whilst we sat around the round table listening to Queen, Bryan Adams over GT's and Rum and Coke. My mother, on one of her rare visits to us counted 45 lamp shades in our house..!
The Jaali kamra with my mom and dad and the bamboo shade in the background
Hindsight is a wonderful thing and now when my very eco-friendly daughter hears of the 'lampshade saga', she is appalled and gives me a very well deserved dressing down for having wasted so much electricity and being one of the millions of individuals who are instrumental in causing the environment harm.
I cringe, but in my defence, hasten to explain that I needed all these lights to light up the dark nooks and crannies of the huge rambling bungalow with its creaking floor boards,temperamental water taps, stained bath tubs and sometimes leaking roofs .To add more substance to my defence, I also add that these bungalows were more often than not inhabited by bats and lizards and snakes and apparitions in white... more so than humans!
This bungalow was not in the best condition, it was only the first and the last bungalow where I had kept a little "goru"a cow so I had a small “ goru ghar” i.e cow shed made of bamboo in one corner of the “mali bari”!
One of the three chowkidars (that we inherited) was a surly, middle aged chap, one of the very rare workers who supported a sizable belly. He was obviously very well fed and did not get much exercise. He was a man of very few words but over the months since we moved in he began articulating a bit more. I am not sure if was the locally sourced alcohol or the charms of my rather attractive, very slim,always pristine, clad in white mini (maid) who had travelled with us from the previous garden.
I was expecting my first born and prone to cravings and also quite moody (as is expected). In addition to the rather abnormal cravings for the very spicy "Haldiram bhujia" that the young mali Neelambar got packets of from the nearby town of Rangapara (in hordes without the knowledge of my husband), I was also a bit petrified of the dark nights and of being on my own - especially when my husband was in the factory.
Ranjiv with his sister and brother in law
The portly chowkidar had been instructed to stay upstairs in the lampshade “infested” jali kamra as I watched endless videos of the James Bond 007 series over endless cups of "ketli chai" that was constantly replenished, Marie biscuits and spicy Haldiram bhujia almost soaking in the spicy Maggi hot and sweet sauce ( something that I gorge on in times of stress even now twenty four years after ).
One night - and it was a rather stormy one at that - with the eerie sound of the wind amongst the tall trees...the occasional hoot of the owl, the shadow of the bats as they set about on their nocturnal flights, the rustling of the little rats that I knew had a permanent home in the confines of the “faltu karma” and the maybe even the kitchen amongst the grimy aluminium pots (on which no amount of scrubbing had ever worked) the chowkidar knocked on the door, gasping for breath. He stuttered that he had just sighted a “boga saamp” i .e white cobra near the “ goru ghar”.
He was pale and agitated and profusely sweaty. He said the “ boga saamp” is the undisputed lord of the garden and that it was bad luck to disturb / kill it. He had seen it slithering and moving and he was convinced it could easily slither across the garden into the house!!
I became agitated and tense and in incoherently "walkie talkied" my husband about this. Within ten minutes, I heard the sound of his car and his deep authoritative voice questioning the chowkidar.
Out came the big torch and armed with lathis ,the three chowkidars and my husband marched towards the corner of the garden near the lotus pond aiming to get rid of this white snake !
After a while they all came back ... with nothing to report except some very muddy boots and drenched clothing as it has started to rain. Assam and the blighty do have the one thing in common- the big W-vagaries of weather. The portly chowkidar, to his chagrin, got a firing for leading everyone up the garden path ( pun intended ) in the middle of the night!
Of course, by now it was the beginning of dawn and it being a Sunday, my husband without a second thought rounded up his Wilson 2000 and off he went for a round of golf leaving me, the “golf widow” to my own devices .. yet some more tea and biscuits ...sigh!
That evening, just as we were about to set off for the club, this chowkidar ambled up to me and without quite meeting my eye, said, and I quote,
“ ..Memsahib, hum maalom kiya hai .. woh boga saamp nahin thah .. Wo toh aapka mini thah, woh boga saree mein maali bari mien doosra chowkidar ke saath mohabbat banata hei” 🤣
Simply translated, “I have found out that it was your maid in her “white saree” in the throes of an intimate act with the other chowkidar.”
Of course our good man, this chowkidar, in his inebriated state mistook the writhing in the white saree to be that of no less but of the white snake !
Suffice it to say the bungalow was soon bereft of both ..the mini and her amour !!
As for the “ boga saamp” I am certain it still resides somewhere amongst the shrubs in the far corner of the bari !!
1.Chang bungalow-- A house on stilts.
2.Barf Phool - Mesembryanthmemum
3.Jaali Kamra - Deep verandah with mesh windows
4.Goru- Cow
5.Goru Ghar -Cow shed
6.Mali Bari- Garden
7.Ketli chai -Tea in a tea pot
8.Faltu Kamra -Guest room
9.Boga saamp- White snake
10.Walki Talkie - Wireless
11.Chowkidar- Guard
12.Mini -Maid
A Word from Simran:
Hello chai people
I left tea many years ago and life has been a real roller coaster; one that I have learnt from and loved every minute of , but the lush green of the tea bushes and the time spent in the “Jaali Kamra”,my happy place, is as vivid today as it was all those years ago. (Wish I could build one here but not sure if I will get the planning permission from the old fogies of the local county council 😊)
I now live in the “blighty” with my two children and I work for the local government. I paint watercolours occasionally (time permitting ), love reading, antique fairs and long drives in the rolling Peak district. I often surprise all of my British friends when I bake cupcakes and scones , vol-au-vents and stuffed chicken, not to mention serving them in a tea trolley replete with perfectly starched napkins and bone china … a throwback to the "chai" days that I still hold very dear to my heart as I do all the lovely friends and memories made all those years ago.
There are over a hundred stories here, and they are all from the tea gardens! Our storytellers are tea planters and their memsaabs, baby and baba log. Each of our contributors has a really good story to tell - don't lose any time before you start reading them!
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Burra Memsahibs
'Never form your opinion on hearsay, be polite to everyone and keep your circle small.'
by Gumi Malhotra
During my fifteen years in tea, I was ‘under the wing’, so to say, of four Burra Memsahibs.
I came to Kakajan Tea Estate as a diffident newbie and met the Manager’s wife, Mrs Hanwant Singh. Tall and stately, she had an air of authority about her, and I noticed everyone straighten up when she walked in. Her daughter Ritu and I hit it off and shared many gups and giggles and I’d go to the Burra bungalow more to meet Ritu than her mother.
Mrs Singh treated me with the affection and indulgence due to an ignoramus. There are many little incidents I remember of those three months in Kakajan...hand written notes asking the ladies over for coffee, conversations on running a house and gardening, cooking lesson in her kitchen where the famed cook Surjit taught us his light as air chocolate soufflé. She told me once in a mild matter of fact way, 'Never form your opinion on hearsay, be polite to everyone and keep your circle small.'
She epitomizes the spirit of the tea ladies who were “Burra” not only owing to their husband’s position, but in stature and spirit.
In Nahortoli, I remember Afruza Chaudhury being fiercely protective of Imaan, who I brought to the garden as a one month oId baby. I told her once that he broke the only bottle of perfume I possessed and she looked alarmed and said, “ Oh God, I hope he didn’t hurt himself”!!
Later in Damdim, Mrs Meera Pandya, spoiling the boys with her motherly charm.
Roma Singh was by far the most chilled out Bara Mem ever! Always encouraging, never a negative word for anyone. We’d walk in for a chat or a swim anytime and were always welcomed with her signature laugh and a laden tea trolley!
Once after a very late night, about ten of us landed up at the Bara Bungalow at 2 am and asked the chowkidar to wake up the Manager Kuljit Singh, demanding coffee, an unheard impudence in tea! Not only were we not thrown out, we were plied with drinks, coffee and warm lemon tarts!
By the time I found myself living in the Bara kothi, I was a pale imitation of these stellar ladies. I’m much more myself living in a small apartment reminiscing of a way of life long gone.
Meet the writer: Gumi Malhotra
Gumi Malhotra
Hello chai people! Here’s one more attempt to pen down some of the million memories I carry with me. We came away from the gardens twelve years ago with our hearts full ( not so much the pocket) of such nuggets.
We live in Bangalore now and what started as a hobby in the gardens has become my calling. I paint pet portraits. The happiest days spent in tea were in the Jali kamra with my paints, the boys occupied with make believe cars and a steady stream of tea flowing from the kitchen. Cheers!
Do you have a chai story of your own to share? Send it to me here, please : indianchaistories@gmail.com. My name is Gowri Mohanakrishnan and I'm a tea planter's wife. I started this blog because one of the things that I wouldn't want us to lose in a fast changing world is the tea story - a story always told with great seriousness, no matter how funny - always true (always), maybe a tall tale, long, or short, impossible, scary, funny or exciting but never dull. You will find yourself transported to another world!
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Travails of a Proprietary Planter – Part II
by Minoo Avari
My ex-Bombay Burmah colleagues: Late Ricky Muthanna, Subbu (his nephew), Late Nickoo Rawley and Late Dinshah Daruvalla, when we met up in Coorg for a reunion. They are all well known in planting circles in South India.
"You will have to meet the Brake Inspector," the Motor Vehicle Inspector said, pointing to the room across the corridor from his office.
I had waited two hours to meet the Motor Vehicles Inspector at his office in Palani. There was a huge crowd around his desk. When it finally came to my turn, I was told to meet the Brake Inspector! There were snide chuckles from the battery of people who had come, with cash in hand, to have their new vehicles registered. I got up to leave and was shoved aside by a ruffian who had come to have his commercial vehicle inspected. I found out later he was the self-appointed leader for a group of local van owners.
The scene at the Brake Inspector’s office was no better. Thronging with humanity, I couldn’t get anywhere near his desk … but I had the whole day. I waited. At 2:00 pm he got up from his chair and said he was going for lunch. Abruptly everyone left the office with him. There was only one chair for visitors and I immediately occupied it. A peon, busy cleaning the floor, told me that the Inspector would only come back at 3:00 pm and that I should go and have lunch.
Seeing me still sitting there and relenting a mite, he dropped his gruff demeanour and asked me the purpose of my visit. I told him I had a Light Commercial Vehicle and had come for the first fitness test. That interested the peon. “Where is your vehicle?” he enquired.
He accompanied me outside, and I pointed out my double cabin Swaraj Mazda. He looked suitably impressed, before turning back to the empty office where I occupied the chair once again. I asked him what else he did for a living.
The Mazda parked outside the Motor Vehicle Inspector’s office in Palani before the shenanigans began. I was the first to arrive for the inspection & fitness certificate
“I am a government officer so I don’t do anything else but my wife cooks food for many people coming to this office.”
That gave me an idea.
“Does she cook non-vegetarian food?”
He nodded. Taking out fifty rupees, I offered it to him telling him I wanted an entire chicken with gravy wrapped in foil. He took the money and was off in the instant. He returned half-an-hour later with the chicken. It was hot so I put it on the table. Overwhelmed with the fifty rupees I had given him, he asked if he should open the foil, urging me to eat before the chicken turned cold. I told him I wasn’t hungry as yet and would wait till my appetite returned. He frowned but went about his business.
At 3:30 the Inspector returned. He was followed by a horde of people who pushed themselves in front of the chair and began thrusting papers and documents at him. I got up and my chair was taken immediately. Pushing my way to the desk, I sat on it.
This didn’t please the officer. Consternation creased the lines of white, saffron and green, painted across his forehead. Indicating he wanted me off the table, he resorted to a series of clucks, waving his hand dismissively the while.
Instead, I opened the foil and ripped off a leg of chicken from the main body of the bird. Some gravy splattered and, in the immediate silence, the officer looked dumbfounded. Finding his voice, as I began to chew on the chicken, he spluttered in Tamil. I understood every word but pretended I didn’t speak the language. Frustrated he broke into English.
“You cannot sit on table. You cannot eat here.” He said with belligerence.
“I saw you eating bondas and drinking coffee before lunch. You didn’t offer me any and I am hungry. I was the first person to come to the office and have been waiting since 9:30 am!” I retorted with equal ferocity, taking another bite off the dripping chicken leg.
Completely nonplussed he said I could not eat meat in this office. “I am vegetarian and you are eating meat in front of me.” “It’s a free country. You eat what you want and I’ll eat what I want.” I retorted.
At a complete loss for words, amid looks of amusement from the gathering in front of his desk, he said, “Come, I will inspect your vehicle now.”
I said I was not ready, stating I would first finish my lunch. This left him in a state of acute embarrassment and he decided to turn to the next person. All of a sudden, nobody seemed to be in any hurry. They were intently observing someone taking the mickey out of this corrupt department and wanted to witness it to its conclusion. The officer turned and forcibly took a document from someone’s hand. Proceeding to mutter under his breath, he quickly finished with him.
There was a gasp of astonishment from the onlookers. He had not asked for any bribe, which had been going on openly before lunch! Hastily, people started thrusting papers in front of him and he despatched them as quickly. Hanging around outside the office, their business completed, nobody was ready to leave the premises. When I finally finished the entire chicken with a supreme effort, someone whispered, “Thank you sir. Can you please wait until I finish? He is not taking bribe in your presence.”
Stepping out of the office the Brake Inspector demanded to know which vehicle was mine. Nobody had left and there were scores of vehicles still lining the road outside. My one-year old Mazda, just serviced in Coimbatore and gleaming in the evening light, stood right in front of him. A large crowd, waiting gleefully to see what would happen next, surrounded the vehicle.
Not knowing what to do, he gave me the registration documents and got under the vehicle to examine the chassis number. Having verified that, he asked if I had changed the engine. I told him I had.
“What?” he screamed, lying on his back under the vehicle. “What engine have you put?”
“I have put in a Rolls Royce engine,” I replied nonchalantly.
“You cannot change engine without informing this office.”
“I have just changed it and am informing you, in accordance with the rules.” I really had no idea about the rules!v “How is the old engine number and this number the same?”
“I don’t know. You will have to ask Swaraj Mazda and Rolls Royce.”
By this time the Bus drivers Association, the Lorry drivers Association, along with the commercial owners Association, were doing everything possible not to roll on the ground with unbridled laughter. A brigade of private car owners, with their vehicles already certified, were reluctant to leave and a swelling crowd of bystanders was blocking the road by then.
People trying to get to Dindigul from one end and Batlagundu from the other, now left their vehicles in the middle of the thoroughfare on either side. More onlookers joined the crowd and, as though by magic, tea, coffee, sweetmeat and bonda vendors appeared, adding to the carnival atmosphere.
Realising that he wasn’t going to get much joy from delaying the proceedings, the officer got out from under the vehicle. A huge blob of diesel smeared his face. Not amused, he said he would sign the inspection certificate immediately.
“You have to try the vehicle,” I reminded him. “If there is a brake failure or any other mechanical misfunction, you will be liable!”
The view from Khoram Estate
He really wanted to disappear by then. In no mood to argue, he got behind the steering wheel and asked me to get in. Sitting next to him in the passenger seat, I watched him fumble and helpfully instructed him how to start. It was obvious he had never driven anything this size and falteringly moved through the mysterious gap, which suddenly appeared in the midst of what was, perhaps, Palani’s entire population. I insisted he drive for a kilometre, reverse without my help and drive back to the office. He signed the certificate then, instructing me to never come back. He would come to Kodaikanal instead and do the needful. I told him that wouldn’t do. I would be back for the annual inspection. That October he sent me a box of delicious Indian sweets as a gift for the Puja holiday. These are some of the hi-jinks that are a prerogative of a propitiatory planter!
But I am getting ahead of myself. I had already purchased my Estate and named it Khoram, after my in-laws, Behram and Khorshed. Then, the following year, I purchased the prized property, on the opposite side of the river. We named it Avenbi, which are the first two initials of our immediate family, adding those of an aunt and uncle who looked after my wife when she was a schoolgirl in Bombay.
It had been a long, tough road. It was like nothing I had experienced working in the corporate sector. I couldn’t do everything I wanted to at once, and had my work cut out just looking after the four acres in the middle of the estate. Staying on the property without electricity wasn’t the least of it. I couldn’t afford a toilet for two years! Bathing in cold water in a nearby stream, performing my ablutions out in the open, while it was still dark; using a manvetti to dig a daily makeshift commode … needless to say there was no telephone either.
Family outing at the Golf Course in Kodaikanal
The comforts of home in Kodaikanal beckoned. Walking back and forth, to catch the bus at Perumalmalai every three or four days, became routine. Never having learned to cook, my staple diet was Maggi Noodles interspersed with MTR packets of ready-made bisibele bhat (rice), to which I added the company’s other products. Not exactly gourmet meals, it was convenient. All I had to do was add the sealed foil bags to boiling water and wait for a few minutes, before devouring the concoction ravenously.
I worked from ‘can-see-to-can’t-see’ and, at the end of each day, dragged my weary carcass, unenthusiastically, to the nearby stream for a bath in cold mountain water. This got particularly exhilarating if it was raining! Sleeping early, I would get up between eleven and midnight to do a round of the estate, equipped with a torch and shotgun. Waking again to take in the sunrise with a hot cup of tea, I would once again prowl the upper reaches of the estate to chase destructive monkeys away.
At times a few rounds from the shotgun acted as disincentive; when as many as two hundred bonnet monkeys leapt from the trees and raced away, to return roughly a fortnight later. It was an ongoing battle to protect my crops. I often wondered how long I could keep up with this pace. It was a brutal existence but, the pleasure of owning my own property kept me going and I was happy with everything I was able to achieve.
The irrigation tank at the top of the estate, half full. It was an enormous tank and the life blood of the estate. The well that was supposed to always hold water was empty a few months after I purchased the property and led to this huge engineering project.
Help though was around the corner. Out of the blue, Shehzarin got a job with the Kodaikanal International School, which effectively took care of the children’s education. Shortly after, one of my colleagues from the Corporation appeared and spent the night with me. He had been asked by the boss to find out how I was doing. He must have painted a pretty grim picture because, a few days later, one of the company staff rode down on a Jawa motorcycle. He had a letter for me from the Mudis Group engineer.
“This bike is for you for a thousand rupees and is payable when able.” That felt mighty good. I was now mobile. At about that time, several Sri Lankan labour who fled to India, were given land in Pethuparai and the village grew exponentially. They were looking for work and I had plenty to offer by then. One of the older women working in the fields, said she would cook for me. Using a broken-down room adjoining the house, she started producing delicious native meals.
When I thought it couldn’t get any better, Thangamuthu Chettiar, the former owner, arrived at my doorstep. I hadn’t seen him since he sold the property a year and a half ago. Looking around proprietorially; hamming an attempt at pity, he said he would take the oranges on contract.
Offering twenty thousand rupees, as a special concession, he said he would begin the harvest within two weeks and offered a thousand rupees as advance. I didn’t know much about oranges but realised they had benefited from the fertiliser and sprays applied to the coffee. What he didn’t know was, I was still acutely aware that he had thrown a grand party in the village, after selling the property to me. He had made it a point to tell everyone there that I was an idiot to have paid so much.
Our initial agreement for purchase of his estate was seventy-five thousand rupees. By the time I resigned from the Corporation, I came armed with one lakh of rupees – by way of gratuity and provident fund. He made a fuss, insisting on one lakh. There was no way I could give him that much: it was all I had! After dickering for a day or two, he came down to ninety thousand.
Without a job, anxious to get on with my life, I agreed. Now he wanted me to let him have my oranges. I declined. Sighing heavily, he raised his bid to twenty-one thousand and offered a two-thousand-rupee advance. Seeing that he wasn’t making any impression, he went higher and offered an even bigger advance. When I still shook my head, he asked how much I wanted. Not wanting to spare his feelings I said I would let it got for a lakh of rupees. He was taken aback:
“I sold the property for ninety thousand and now you want a lakh only for the oranges!”
When I shook my head in the affirmative, he walked away muttering threats and curses under his breath. Well, I harvested the fruit myself and was surprised at the outcome. I made two lakhs after all expenses were deducted! The coffee plants didn’t yield much that year, though I did get a little over a tonne of parchment from across the river on Avenbi. The pepper vines were still growing and, when they came to bearing, made a huge difference.
At about this time our rutted road came under the rural development scheme. Supervised personally by a few new landowners, who had come into the valley by then, it became a beautifully laid tarmac stretch all the way to the river. With that came the plantation inspector! I was walking down to Khoram when a jeep slowed down. It was going in the same direction and I thought I might be offered a lift. However, the person seated next to the driver, waved him on. I noticed it was a government jeep and found it waiting for me by my estate gate.
“I am the plantation inspector. I request your permission to visit your estate, which I have heard about.”
Naturally, he had every right to visit and I invited him in for a cup of coffee. We walked through the property, from top to bottom, inspecting the backbreaking work in progress on the top section. We had made drains, fifteen feet deep and ten feet wide along the contours, covering the breadth of the property. Over a dozen workers were busily pushing the numerous rocks and boulders into these trenches. At the same time contractors were digging a water storage tank which would gravity feed water to the coffee pulping unit six hundred feet below. Later this would also be used as a swimming pool! “I’m doing this because the bottom section is already planted and we can’t roll these enormous rocks down the hill. They will damage the plantation below.”
He nodded and seemed to appreciate the work being done. After his inspection I walked him to the gate where his jeep was waiting. It was coming toward the lunch hour and I fancied another cup of coffee, when a worker came rushing up to tell me the plantation inspector, standing on the road, was inciting workers to strike and demand more pay. He also told the workman he wanted five hundred rupees from me every month ….
I was already paying more than the government prescribed, and much more than the Planter’s Association of Tamil Nadu had negotiated with the unions. Furious at his double standards, I grabbed my shotgun and rushed to the gate. He was in full flow, telling the workers they weren’t being paid enough and he was going to take action against me. I didn’t say a word but opened the bonnet of his jeep – it gave him pause in the midst of his premeditated oration. Watching intently, his jaw dropped when I removed the radiator cap and flung it into the bushes.
Still fuming I opened his distributor cap and pulled out the rotor. I flung this in a different direction and proceeded to deflate one of the front tyres. Stunned, he offered no protest. When the tyre was almost flat, I straightened from my task and told him to start running. I pointed my gun at him but that seemed to have no impact. He stood frozen and only the sudden quiver of his mouth betrayed his state of anxiety. Firing at the ground between us, the blast had the desired effect.
He turned and started walking quickly up the hill. The workers clapped and laughed and I thought I would provide them some more amusement. Using the second barrel, I fired again, this time a mite nearer his heels and he started running. Chasing him and reloading the while, I let him have both barrels this time. He was off like a jackrabbit, with a turn of speed that would have left Hussain Bolt still kneeling at the starting blocks!
The jeep was towed away the next day. I never did get to see that amazing athlete again, though I was told he was inciting workers on other nearby plantations. That was enough to get us together and it was the start of our Farmer’s Association. It flourishes till today. Under M.S. Francis, who was the founder President, we went on to tackle the toll-gate issue. Peasant farmers had to pay toll to go into town to purchase their daily requirements: it included access to the post office and police station. They had to pay even to fill petrol, as the petrol bunk was on the other side of the tollgate.
Numerous visits to the land record (Taluk) office was another case in point. The government slogan in place at the time was – “Come tomorrow!”
The Coffee Board was another pain. All coffee growers had to collect TP3 forms from the Central Excise office in distant Pannaikadu: without these forms no coffee could be taken out from the estate premises. It was a mandatory exercise, in collaboration with the Coffee Board, to ensure all coffee was necessarily supplied to the Board. To add to our woes, the officer in-charge, at Perumalmalai, was an unmitigated rascal. His only function was to weigh coffee sacks on his rigged weighing scale; deducting three to four kilograms, from each forty-kilogram sack. On top of this payments to growers were staggered. The last of these instalments coming as late as six years after supply.
We were able to take down this odious monopoly imposed by the Coffee Board and it allowed us to sell our coffee to whomever we pleased. I paid for the bike soon enough and went on to buy a Land Rover. When that became insufficient, I attached a second-hand trailer but, when even that no longer sufficed, I purchased the three and a half tonne, double cabin, Swaraj Mazda.
The Mazda had been flown out of Japan as a demonstration vehicle. It was exhibited in Coonoor, over the weeklong seminar of the United Planter’s Association of Southern India, culminating with their Annual General Meeting. A lot of haggling went on but, my late friend, W.P.A.R. Nagarajan, had the last word and I got it for two lakhs. It was the first Light Commercial Vehicle in the country. He insisted on accompanying me back to Kodaikanal in the lorry but, by the time we got to Mettupalyam in the plains, he decided to give his aching backside a break and transferred it to his car which was following.
I managed well enough on my own but it really was like riding a bucking bronco. Equipped with double springs in the rear, with no cargo as ballast, the slightest bump turned the scene into something out of the Wild West. Gritting my teeth, I got her back to Kodaikanal in one piece but wasn’t quite sure if, in the bargain, I wasn’t broken in half! We removed the upper backup springs (all made in Japan) and, with sufficient cargo by way of sandbags, when there was nothing else to transport, it made for a smooth ride.
There was a problem with registration. The Regional Transport Officer had never registered such a vehicle before and was completely flummoxed. Again, as a commercial vehicle, the cost of operating the Mazda would have been prohibitive. I was somehow able to wrestle an endue certificate from the then sub-collector of Dindigul, posted in Kodaikanal, which exempted me from all taxes: I had only to pay one hundred rupees for the fitness certificate each year. It was cheaper than owning a car! She served me well for twelve years and, at the end of which, I got the same amount of money I paid for her.
In the final analysis, the estates taught me to deal with government departments: to drive the lorry hundreds of kilometres to purchase fertiliser and equipment and, to combine these trips with taking produce to market whenever possible. Gruelling as it was, I quickly learned how to do everything myself out of necessity. I understood the need to work alongside the labour, getting to know each and every one of them, including their families and their problems.
For over a quarter of a century, both Khoram and Avenbi taught me to be sensitive and responsible – to never back down, and do the right thing in the face of often intractable odds!
Some more photographs from Minoo Avari's collection:
Late Eric Karumbaya (Engineer on Mudis Group – BBTC) with his late wife Tara and son Naveen along with Rakhyee, Naveen’s wife, during Naveen’s wedding in Coorg. I represented Eric and had to go to Mysore to fetch the wife-to-be attired in complete Coorg attire – known as a Kupsa.
The Mya Palanimalai Farmers Association – Meeting atop the new godown I built on Khoram. Photo of Victor Vigour from Iceland, Peggy Rustomjee and Yours Truly doing the minutes.
The Mya Palanimalai Farmers Association (MPFA) has members from India, the U.S, Iceland, New Zealand and Sri Lanka
Here is the link to Part I of this story - https://teastorytellers.blogspot.com/2019/09/travails-of-would-be-proprietary-planter.html
Meet the Writer: Minoo Avari
Minoo riding bareback in Ging, Darjeeling
In his own words: I was born in Calcutta on November the 26th 1945 though we were a Darjeeling based family. I studied at North Point (St. Josephs College - Darjeeling) and then went on to do my College in St. Xavier's College, Calcutta. I played a lot of tennis at this point, travelling around the country playing in just about all the tournaments then.
Later I joined the tea plantations in Darjeeling and was on Ging and Tukdah Tea Estates till 1970 when I switched companies and joined The Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation. I had got married earlier in the year and my wife and I were posted to Oothu Estate in Tirunelvelli District of Tamil Nadu. Now I lead a retired life - writing, playing tennis and enjoying riding my motorcycle. I am currently the President of the local Farmers Association and also the United Citizens Council of Kodaikanal. I am also a member of the London Tea History Association.
Read more by Minoo Avari here: https://teastorytellers.blogspot.com/search/label/Minoo%20Avari
You will meet many storytellers here, and they are almost all from the world of tea gardens: planters, memsaabs, baby and baba log. Each of our contributors has a really good story to tell - don't lose any time before you start reading them!
My name is Gowri Mohanakrishnan and I'm a tea planter's wife. I started this blog because one of the things that I wouldn't want us to lose in a fast changing world is the tea story - a story always told with great seriousness, no matter how funny - always true( always ), maybe a tall tale, or long, short, impossible, scary, funny or exciting but never dull.
Do you have a chai story of your own to share? Send it to me here, please : indianchaistories@gmail.com.
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If you have never heard of a tea garden, let alone visit one, you've come to the right place! If you are longing to go back to a tea garden, you've come to the right place again!
Our world of tea gardens is unique, and it is full of stories of the kind you'll never hear anywhere else.
I'm a tea planter's wife and my name is Gowri Mohanakrishnan. I started Indian Chai Stories in the form of this blog - in a small way, with the first post going up on March 2, 2018. I wanted to have a sort of virtual 'Jali Kamra' (an airy room overlooking the garden in a tea bungalow), for friends who've lived in tea gardens to drop in and share their stories.
Or so I thought. The response has been overwhelming, and we now have storytellers from seven countries including India!
The writers whose stories you will read here have almost all lived in tea. If you don't belong to that category but have a tea related experience to narrate, you are welcome to share your story as well.Perhaps ours is the last generation of storytellers from this world, but who knows? There's something magical about tea stories: the minute you hear one, you want to tell one of your own!!
If you have one to share, too, please send it to me at - indianchaistories@gmail.com - with any photographs you may wish to add.
If you have come to this blog page for the first time, please keep clicking on the link to 'Older Posts' or see our Blog Archive to guide you to more stories. A list of labels will help you find different writers.
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How to View Saved WiFi Passwords On Android (2017)
by Raja
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Most smartphone users do not remain connected to a single WiFi network throughout the day. In the morning they will be connected to their home network, evening at some coffee shop and rest of the day at their office or some place they visit.
Your smartphones are so smart that they automatically connect to the network you previously connected whenever you are near to it. But they are not smart enough to show you the password of those networks.
The problem with this is that, if the network has a simple password you can easily remember it and use it in case you deleted your network settings or accidentally selected forget the password.
But most people have complicated passwords setup to their network which is a combination of letters, numbers and symbols. It is extremely difficult to remember, especially if you connect to multiple WiFi networks during a day. You can easily view the passwords of the network you are connected to if you have a laptop, but Android phone doesn’t work this way.
Fortunately, there is a simple workaround for this issue and all of you need to view the saved WiFi passwords is a rooted Android device and an app called WiFi Password Viewer (root). The developer has definitely put a lot of hard work on the app than he did on the name.
You can follow the below steps to use the app and view the saved WiFi passwords on your Android phone.
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Easiest Method To View Saved WiFi Passwords On Android (2017)
Note: This method requires a rooted Android smartphone.If you don’t have root access on your device then don’t try.
Step 1: Download and Install the WiFi password viewer app.
WiFi Password Viewer (ROOT)
Developer: SimoneDev
Step 2: Now open the app and then grant it permission for Superuser access. This permission is to allow the app to read the system files where all your WiFi passwords are stored.
Step 3: Now the app will just display you a popup with a warning and announcement. Just click ok on the popup.
Step 4: Now the app will automatically show you all the saved passwords of the WiFi networks you have connected to.
Step 5: You can now use the password you want to connect to a network. If you want to share the password with someone, tap on the corresponding WiFi network from the list and then you can either copy the password or share it directly to any app you want.
That’s it. You have successfully viewed the saved passwords of the WiFi networks you have connected to. So, the next time when you are at your friend’s house, you don’t have to ask them for the password anymore! Share this with your friends to let them know this simple trick.
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Fresh from the Games in Sochi, Olympic Snowboarder Ty Walker was already back in full training mode despite her recent injury during the Games. She came in off the hill to speak to SNOW. I asked her to give me 3 words to describe herself. The first word out of her mouth was “Focused”. At 16 years of age, she is one of the youngest athletes to compete in the Games and make her debut in the new event of Snowboard Slopestyle. She is also one of the younger Red Bull athletes. The next word she gave me was “Outgoing”, which was evident after just a few minutes on the phone with her. I was glad to hear her say “Goofy” since she was only 16. When else in your life do you truly have a license to be goofy?
Ty started riding at 7 years old in Killington, VT. She fell in love immediately and rode every chance she got. Rain, snow, wind, hail, ice, nothing could take away from the joy she experienced snowboarding. The following year she decided to join a program. Okemo said that she wasn’t good enough for their program and turned her away. Killington also said she didn’t have the skills but they were willing to let her join and found coaches that could get her up to the level of the other kids. She quickly “got up to speed” and entered her first competition. The day before the comp, she broke her wrist, thus cutting that season short. Undeterred, one season later, at the ripe age of 9, Ty began competing at the USA SA level. She qualified for Nationals where she told me, “I got my butt whooped”. That experience obviously lit a fire under her as one year later at 10 years old, she won Nationals. She felt like the coolest kid out there even though no one knew her name or who she was. Winning was great, but riding the lift and competing with her snowboard idols like “Sean”, “Kelly”, and “Hannah” was even cooler. She watched the Olympics in Torino on TV and upon seeing Sean White wrapped in the American Flag with his Gold Medal, she decided then that she was going to compete in the Olympics too.
At this point she was basically living on her own; she had a coach, but she strongly states that “he didn’t babysit me”! She’s been doing her homework, cooking (she makes a mean Eggs in the Hole I’ve been told), doing laundry, training, and competing on her own for a few years now. I ask her how she handles all this responsibility and the ups and downs of competing. She tells me that “when she was young (I had to hold back a laugh at this 16 year old talking about her youth) she was only happy if she did well and equated good results with who she was”. “I could see that I was getting in the way of myself and that results didn’t define me”. Again, I had to chuckle since at almost 3 times her age I’m still trying to get out of my own way! Now she tells me, “I take each day as it come. I try to be the best I can be on the day and then move on. It all out of your hands anyway. I love competing, but beyond the comps and the results, I love snowboarding”.
We talk briefly about Sochi and the Olympics. She was injured in practice but still went on to compete and finished 14th. She said it was a bummer not to be 100%, but that she had to enjoy the experience of living her Olympic dream.
I pointed out that even though she is just 16, there are a lot of 7 year olds who will see her as a role model and I asked her what she would want these kids to know. “I want them to know that if they can commit, they can achieve anything”. And so this “Focused”, “Outgoing” and “Goofy” girl clicked off the phone to go back to doing what she loved best, snowboarding.
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Preview: ISWC Semantic Web In-Use track
academia, linked data
This past week we (Achille Fokoue & myself) sent the paper notifications for the 2013 International Semantic Web Conference’s In-Use Track. The track seeks to highlight innovative semantic technologies being applied and deployed in practice. With the selection made by the program committee (Thanks!), I think we have definitely achieved that goal.
So if you’re coming to Sydney (& you should definitely be coming to Sydney) here’s what’s in store. (Papers are listed below.) You’ll see a number of papers where semantic technologies are being deployed in companies to help end users including:
how semantic technologies are helping the BBC expose its archive to its journalists [1];
how OWL and RDF and being combined to give energy saving tips to 300,000 customers at EDF [2];
and how the search result pages in Yahoo! Search are being improved through the use ofknowledge bases [3].
Dealing with streaming data has been a growing research theme in recent years. In the in-use track, we are seeing some of the fruits of that research in particular with respect to monitoring city events. Balduini et al. report on the use of Streaming Linked Data Framework for monitoring the London Olympic Games 2012 and Milano Design Week 2013. (Yes, the semantic web is fashionable) [4]. IBM will present its work on the real-time urban monitoring of Dublin – requiring both scale but also low-latency solutions [5].
Semantic technologies have a long history of being deployed in healthcare and life sciences. We’ll see that again at this year’s conference. We get a progress report on the usage of these technologies in the development of the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) [6]. ICD-11 involves 270 domain experts using the iCAT tool. We see how the intermixing (plain-old) spreadsheets and semantic technologies is enabling systems biology to better share its data [7]. In the life sciences, and in particular in drug discovery, both public and private data are critical, we see how the Open PHACTS project is tackling the problem of intermixing such data [8].
Semantics for Science & Research
Continuing on the science theme, the track will have reports on improving the reliability of scientific workflows [9], how linked data is being leverage to understand the economic impact of R&D in Europe [10]; and how our community is “eating its own dogfood” to enable better scientometric analysis of journals [11]. Lastly, you’ll get a talk on the use of semantic annotations to help crowd source 3D representations of Greek Pottery for cultural heritage (a paper that I just think is so cool – I hope for videos) [12].
Semantic Data Availability
Reasoning relies on the availability of data exposed with its associated semantics. We’ve seen how the Linking Open Data movement helped bootstrap the uptake of Semantic Web technologies. Likewise, the widespread deployment of RDFa and microformats have dramatically increased the amount of data availability. But what’s out there? Bizer et al. give us a report based on analyzing 3 billion web pages. (I expect some awesome charts in this presentation) [13].
Enriching data with semantics has benefits but also comes at a cost. Based on a case study of converting Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s FactPages, we’ll get insight into those trade-offs [14]. Reducing the effort for such conversations and particularly interlinking is a key challenge. The Cross-language Service Retrieve system is tackling this for open government data across multiple languages [15].
Finally, in practice, a key way to “semantize” data is through the use of natural language processing tools. You’ll see how semantic tech is facilitating the reusability and interoperability of NLP tools using NIF 2.0 framework [16].
I hope you’ll agree that this really represents the best from the semantic web community. These 16 papers were selected from 79 submissions. The program committee (for the most part) did a great job both with their reviewers and importantly the discussion. Any many cases it was a hard decision and the PCs ability to discuss and revise their views was crucial in making the final selection. Thanks to the PC, it is a lot of work to do and we definitely asked them to do it in a fairly compact way. Thank you!
A couple of other thoughts, I think decision to institute an abstract submission for the in-use track was a good one and that author rebuttals are more helpful than I thought they would be.
ISWC 2013 is going to be a fantastic conference. I’m looking forward to the location, the sessions and the community. I look forward to seeing you there. There are many ways to participate so check out http://iswc2013.semanticweb.org.
Yves Raimond, Michael Smethurst, Andrew McParland and Christopher Lowis. Using the past to explain the present: interlinking current affairs with archives via the Semantic Web
Pierre Chaussecourte, Birte Glimm, Ian Horrocks, Boris Motik and Laurent Pierre. The Energy Management Adviser at EDF
Roi Blanco, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Peter Mika and Nicolas Torzec. Entity recommendations in Web Search
Marco Balduini, Emanuele Della Valle, Daniele Dell’Aglio, Themis Palpanas, Mikalai Tsytsarau and Cristian Confalonieri. Social listening of City Scale Events using the Streaming Linked Data Framework
Simone Tallevi-Diotallevi, Spyros Kotoulas, Luca Foschini, Freddy Lecue and Antonio Corradi. Real-time Urban Monitoring in Dublin using Semantic and Stream Technologies
Tania Tudorache, Csongor I Nyulas, Natasha F. Noy and Mark Musen. Using Semantic Web in ICD-11: Three Years Down the Road
Katherine Wolstencroft, Stuart Owen, Olga Krebs, Quyen Ngyuen, Jacky. L. Snoep, Wolfgang Mueller and Carole Goble. Semantic Data and Models Sharing in systems Biology: The Just Enough Results Model and the SEEK Platform
Carole Goble, Alasdair J. G. Gray, Lee Harland, Karen Karapetyan, Antonis Loizou, Ivan Mikhailov, Yrjana Rankka, Stefan Senger, Valery Tkachenko, Antony Williams and Egon Willighagen. Incorporating Private and Commercial Data into an Open Linked Data Platform for Drug Discovery
José Manuel Gómez-Pérez, Esteban García-Cuesta, Aleix Garrido and José Enrique Ruiz. When History Matters – Assessing Reliability for the Reuse of Scientific Workflows
Amrapali Zaveri, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Cinzia Daraio and Ricardo Pietrobon. Using Linked Data to evaluate the impact of Research and Development in Europe: a Structural Equation Model
Yingjie Hu, Krzysztof Janowicz, Grant Mckenzie, Kunal Sengupta and Pascal Hitzler. A Linked Data-driven Semantically-enabled Journal Portal for Scientometrics
Chih-Hao Yu, Tudor Groza and Jane Hunter. Reasoning on crowd-sourced semantic annotations to facilitate cataloguing of 3D artefacts in the cultural heritage domain
Christian Bizer, Kai Eckert, Robert Meusel, Hannes Mühleisen, Michael Schuhmacher and Johanna Völker. Deployment of RDFa, Microdata, and Microformats on the Web – A Quantitative Analysis
Martin G. Skjæveland, Espen H. Lian and Ian Horrocks. Publishing the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s FactPages as Semantic Web Data
Fedelucio Narducci, Matteo Palmonari and Giovanni Semeraro. Cross-language Semantic Retrieval and Linking of E-gov Services
Sebastian Hellmann, Jens Lehmann, Sören Auer and Martin Brümmer. Integrating NLP using Linked Data
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Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Identity and security highlights
Mathew Richards
The headline Ignite 2019 identity and security announcements - straight from Orlando.
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past week, you’ll probably have noticed a little event happen last week called Microsoft Ignite.
Held in Orlando, Florida from 4–8 November, Ignite saw over 25,000 delegates gather for all the latest news and announcements across all of Microsoft’s identity and security technologies.
We sent two valiant ThirdSpacers into the fray to soak up all the new updates and features from the hundreds of workshops and sessions.
Dave Guest, our resident Technological Evangelist, and Mat Richards, Head of Mobility and Security, have now returned to British soil. Here are their top takeaways:
Identity and access management (Dave Guest)
I was privileged enough to attend Ignite 2019 in Orlando and picked up a lot of information on what is coming up; new ways of implementing technologies and some new partnerships, too.
The first thing I have learned is that my feet hurt. I have done nearly 120,000 steps going to the event and between sessions. That works out at around 75 miles over the 5 days! Both in terms of distance and content, there’s a lot of ground to cover, but here are my highlights from Ignite:
MFA for all
Whilst there was a plethora of announcements across Azure AD, AD (yes, it is still around), single sign-on, AIP and more, one of the biggest changes is that multi-factor authentication (MFA) is now free for all users of Azure AD.
This is provided via the authenticator app (not SMS or call) and is a big step forward, so now there’s no excuse not to have MFA enabled.
Sensitivity labels in Office apps
The ability to add sensitivity labels is now being made available to the Office apps (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.) across all platforms (Windows, iOS, Mac, Android and Web). These will use the new unified labelling rather than the old AIP labels and will automatically appear as the updates are rolled out across the world.
Single sign-on to internal applications
One of the more significant changes is Azure’s links with companies like F5, Zscaler, Akamai and Citrix to provide single sign-on to internal applications. This is possible through the Azure Application Proxy as it supports Claims and Kerberos, but this new partnership adds NTLM, WS-Fed, and header authentication into the mix. The only potential issue here is around applications that require a form-fill.
Passwordless
A passwordless future appears to be coming ever closer, particularly as Microsoft and other vendors cooperate to deliver secure authentication using FIDO2.
This can be with a USB device (Yubico, for example) or through Windows Hello for Business. Either way, the password is now not the only way to authenticate to the workstation. Support for this on-premises (accessing AD) is coming, too, so it may soon be a case of one key to authenticate them all.
So, my feet still hurt, but these are just a few of the key announcements to come out of the past few days. I’ll be covering these and a lot more in my last quarterly tech update of 2019.
Mobility and security (Mat Richards)
Ignite has come and gone for another year, and there’s an awful lot to unpack, but I’ve picked out some of the key announcements that stood out as significant:
Pre-Ignite security summit
Before Ignite really got going, Microsoft held a cyber security summit as an early event.
The event was kicked off by Microsoft CISO, Bret Arsenault, and was followed by many other speakers, including Alex Stamos (former Chief of Security at Facebook and now Adjunct Professor at Stanford’s Freeman-Spogli Institute), Betsy Cooper (Aspen Tech Policy Hub), Keren Elazari (k3r3n3.com) and Jeremiah Grossman (Bit Discovery and CSS SentinelOne).
There were many topics being discussed, but the key areas for me were all about risk and being able to quantify what this means for different organisations. It’s not always just down to securing your digital assets, but should also focus on physical aspects, including control systems that manage things like power and facilities. There was also a key focus on the threat that insiders pose to our organisations – this was a common theme throughout the week.
Microsoft Endpoint Manager
The standout announcement for me was the introduction of Microsoft Endpoint Manager.
This is a new cloud-based platform/portal that is used to manage both Intune and Configuration Manager.
This new platform enables you to manage both systems from a single intuitive portal across your cloud managed devices and those managed on-premises through Configuration Manager. Both Intune and Configuration Manager come together to now form the new Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) solution.
“Microsoft also announced that any customer that has Configuration Manager today are now fully licensed to use MEM (aka Intune) now!”
It’s a good move from Microsoft, as I think there were technical and architectural challenges that the two technologies presented. Bringing them both together underneath the Microsoft Endpoint Manager umbrella addresses both of these challenges. Microsoft also announced that any customer that has Configuration Manager today is fully licensed to use MEM (aka Intune) now!
In addition, there are new capabilities for mobile device management dealing with advancements with Apple iOS and iPadOS and Android.
For iOS/iPadOS, the ability to manage user enrolment comes to MEM; for Android, Microsoft will be introducing a migration for devices managed through Android Device Admin to Android Enterprise.
The latter also introduces the ability to trigger an e-mail to the end user to guide them through the migration, but will also be useful to help end users when their device drifts into a non-compliant state. Great for reducing the help desk burden that this would present.
Better Bitlocker management
Bitlocker is gaining better management from within MEM and now allows you to rotate keys.
MEM already has the ability to deploy GPO type controls through the deployment of administrative templates, but it will soon have the ability to import your on-premises Active Directory Group Policies and apply them directly into MEM.
Not all policies will be supported, but Microsoft will provide a nice report that highlights those that can’t be imported and and offers recommendations on how to address them. This is all handled in an intuitive and easy to use workflow from within the MEM portal.
Microsoft Threat Protection portal
Microsoft are also making strides in helping organisations deal with the many different security technology portals that are currently in use.
They will be introducing a Microsoft Threat Protection portal that will be your single point to consume and interact with alerts that are generated from the various ATP technologies.
This shouldn’t be confused with Azure Sentinel, though. Sentinel is the top-level consumer of all security related telemetry, not only from Microsoft security controls but also from 3rd party controls.
Sentinel is the overall security incident management layer that folds automation and orchestration into the solution. Sentinel was a huge focus at Ignite. From our perspective, none of this was new, as we’ve been working with Sentinel for many months.
AIP integration with Microsoft Cloud Application Security (MCAS)
Microsoft Cloud Application Security (MCAS) got some love, too, with the introduction of many new insights and protections against the current most common attack vectors.
One of the key detections was the ability to detect suspicious activities on user’s mailboxes, such as unusual forwarding rules and activities against ‘ghost’ folders such as RSS feeds or other un-commonly used folders.
“I think I’m safe in saying that the investment Microsoft is making in the field of security is not slowing down.”
There were further integrations with Azure Identity Protection announced with MCAS. MCAS will also allow you to block unsanctioned apps in your organisation which will leverage the integration with Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (MDATP). This means that when you discover and need to block an app, you can do this right from the MCAS console – it will immediately take effect on your Windows 10 end points.
There are a lot of new capabilities coming to Azure Identity Protection, including the ability to customise risk levels and to determine what things like high risk mean for you. The intelligence and AI being built into Azure Identity Protection is massive. This is a really good thing – identity is such an important area to protect.
To summarise, I think I’m safe in saying that the investment Microsoft is making in the field of security is not slowing down. The pace at which new security innovations are being introduced is fast – we need this as the bad guys aren’t going to slow down!
There were so many announcements being made that it’s impossible to cover them all. We’ll be busy in the coming months delivering webinars and blogs and sharing these developments with you all.
For more on what’s new from Ignite 2019, watch our tech update webinar where Dave Guest will be summing up all the key changes and improvements coming to Azure AD, AIP, MCAS and more.
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Ukraine Seizes Russian Oil Tanker In Confrontational Move
by L Todd Wood July 25, 2019 July 25, 2019 02199
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In a move sure to bring tensions in the region to the boiling point, Ukraine today seized a Russian oil tanker which allegedly had its name changed to avoid recognition of involvement in the violent incident between Ukrainian and Russian ships in the Sea of Azov last year.
Ukraine’s security services said on Thursday they had detained a Russian oil tanker that had blocked in November Ukrainian warships near Crimea, drawing reaction from Russia which vowed ‘consequences’ should Russians aboard the tanker be taken hostage, reported Oilprice.com.
On Thursday, Ukraine’s security service seized Russian tanker Neyma, which Ukraine believes took part in the incident in the Kerch Strait near Crimea in November 2018.
Today, Ukraine said that it believes that the Neyma was the same ship with a changed name that took part in the seizure of the Ukrainian ships in November. The investigation found that the Neyma tanker changed its name to Nika Spirit to conceal its involvement in the “illegal acts and an act of aggression that took place on November 25, 2018,” Ukraine said.
The crew of the Russian tanker detained in the Ukrainian port of Izmail are returning home but the vessel will remain in Ukraine, a spokesperson for the Russian embassy in Kiev told Russian state news agency TASS on Thursday.
“The crew members are heading home but the vessel remains in Izmail,” he noted.The SBU added that a group of investigators and military prosecutors had searched the tanker with court permission, seizing documents, logbooks and radio communication recordings made during the incident. The tanker’s crew were questioned, added TASS.
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The city boasts an abundance of cultural highlights. The Semper Opera House, the Baroque “Zwinger”, the “Frauenkirche” (Church of Our Lady) and the State Art Collections are all famous. Dresden’s museums offer visitors diverse collections and special exhibitions; at the same time, the modern aspects of this vibrant city are embodied in a number of contemporary art galleries, a whole string of small experimental theatres and numerous art house cinemas. On the northern bank of the River Elbe, opposite the historical old town, lies one of Dresden’s most famous districts: the Neustadt (New Town), with its many pubs, bars and restaurants.
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The art treasures in the museums know almost no bounds: Raphael’s “Sistine Madonna” in the Old Masters Picture Gallery can be marvelled at, as can the precious exhibits of the royal treasury, the “Green Vault”. Dresden’s museum landscape is characterised by many more museums, showcasing, among other eras, early history, the Baroque period and the modern age.
Variety is provided by traditional theatre such as theStaatsschauspiel (State Theatre) Dresden, Gottfried Semper’s magnificent Opera House, and also by contemporary arts in all their facets presented at the “Festspielhaus Hellerau” (Hellerau Festival House) and by a wide variety of private stage companies, political revues and puppet theatres.
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Dresden is a city of music. Two orchestras of international standing, the “Sächsische Staatskapelle” (Saxon State Orchestra) and the “Dresdner Philharmonie”, are based here. And it is not only classical music that you will find in Dresden. The city is also well-known among jazz fans throughout the whole of Germany.
Cinema lovers are in for a treat in Dresden. The film nights on the banks of the Elbe are among the most popular open air highlights in the city during the summer months. Regular film series and festivals also feature in the calendar of events.
It is not only the city of Dresden itself that has a lot to offer – the immediate surroundings also provide destinations for pleasurable trips. The Elbe Sandstone Mountains of the “Sächsische Schweiz” (Saxon Switzerland), with their impressive rock formations and castles are especially popular for leisure pursuits such as hiking or climbing.
Pillnitz Castle and its park are among the most beautiful destinations in the region around Dresden, elegantly fusing architecture and nature in the Baroque style.
The hunting lodge, “Fasanenschlösschen” (Little Pheasant Castle), lighthouse, wildlife reserve and many more attractions can be explored in Moritzburg, only a few kilometres away from Dresden.
For nature lovers, we recommend a visit to the Forest Botanical Garden in Tharandt, the Botanical Garden in Dresden, the “Boselgarten” near Meissen or the Botanical Collections in Pirna-Zuschendorf. All four gardens are institutions of Technische Universität Dresden.
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Every year, once a year for the past four years, a collection of musicians gather in town for Jazz Fest and consolidate at the Blue Nile on Frenchmen Street for one night to entertain music loving festival goers with an extended jam session. They do not practice, they do not release albums, but for one night a year they are “Worship My Organ”.
It is an interesting combination of a saxophone (Eric Walton aka Skerik), two Hammond B3 organs (Marco Benevento and Robert Walter), drums (Adam Deitch) and DJ Logic that creates a unique jazzy, funky house type sound. It is nothing like the brass band based jazz I have grown so familiar with in New Orleans, it is closer to the original jazz jams in that you are never quite sure where the next beat is going to take you. Its the sort of sharp sound that breaks through…
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Bowlive V: Night VIII ~ Soulive w/ WOLF! feat. Scott Metzger, Bill Evans, Saunders Sermons, Mark Rivers, The London Souls, Sonya Kitchell and Wyllys @ Brooklyn Bowl (03.22.14)
Soulive: Photograph Courtesy of Calabro Music
Bowlive, Soulive‘s annual musical residency at the Brooklyn Bowl, has reached the conclusion of its fifth year. Eric Krasno, Neal Evans and Alan Evans started Bowlive V with a bang on Thursday, March 6, 2014, and continued to remain on top of their game for the remainder of the run. A musical residency is not an easy task to accomplish. A few years before Bowlive I, Peter Shapiro, the owner of the Brooklyn Bowl, approached Eric Krasno with the idea of holding a musical residency at some new bowling alley/music venue he was opening. At that time, Krasno didn’t see the same vision that Shapiro saw. A residency at a Bowling alley? Yet, here we are; five years later, 50 Bowlive shows deep, with another year to look forward to. Absolutely incredible. A massive congratulations is in order for these three geniuses for such an accomplishment and a massive thank you to Peter Shapiro for producing such a vision.
“When you see something and you don’t know how it’s done, that is what dreams are made of, that is what art is, and that is what inspires someone to be an artist. I can only imagine how many people were inspired by these performances.” -K.D.
“I think night 8 was a perfect encapsulation of Bowlive! Guests nonchalantly coming and going from the stage to sit in, playing a mix of classic Soulive tunes and covers. Like I said after Night 1, Brooklyln Bowl is just 100% Soulive’s home turf and I feel like this run encapsulated it more than anything–many of the shows felt relaxed…Sometimes feeling more like jam sessions with their friends than organized concerts, and I can’t get enough. I always joke that Bowlive is Funk Camp–and despite the hearing loss, and very tired legs, I freaking miss Funk Camp. Bowlive for life! “~ B.M.
Bowlive V Logo
Covering eight sensational nights over the last two weeks, the members of Soulive, with the help of The Shady Horns, delivered a wide array of new musical partnerships and memories built on trust and appreciation of one another. Many times the audience gets to experience the return of Bowlive alum and they are often lucky enough to see debut artists who begin what eventually turns into a longer relationship with the jazz/organ trio. Bowlive V did everything above and more with the help of over 35 amazingly talented guests.
2014 Bowlive V Guest List (alphabetized)
Adam ‘Shmeeans’ Smirnoff (guitarist)
Beau Sasser (organ)
Brandon ‘Taz’ Niederauer (11 year old guitar)
Bill Evans (tenor & Soprano saxophone)
Chris St. Hiliaire (drums/vocals)
Danny Mayer (guitar)
DJ Logic (turntabalist)
DMC (of Run DMC) (rapper)
Eddie Roberts (guitarist)
Eric ‘Benny’ Bloom (trumpet)
Felix Pastorius (bass)
George Porter Jr. (bassist)
James Casey (tenor saxophone/percussion)
Joe Russo (drums)
John Scofield (guitar)
Jon Cleary (keyboards)
Jon Shaw (bass)
Kofi Burbridge (flute/piano)
Marco Benevento (piano)
Mark Rivers (vocalist)
Maurice Brown (trumpet)
Nicki Bluhm (vocalist)
Nigel Hall (vocalist/keys)
Oteil Burbridge Bass)
Questlove (drummer/DJ)
Roosevelt Collier (pedal-steel guitar)
Ryan Zoidis (alto & tenor saxophone)
Saunders Sermons (trombone/vocals)
Scott Metzger (guitar)
Sonya Kitchell (vocals/guitar)
Stu Mahan (bass)
Susan Tedeschi (vocals/guitar)
Talib Kewli (rapper)
Tash Neal (guitar/vocals)
Taylor Floreth (drums)
Warren Haynes (guitarist)
Wyllys (turntabalist)
Special guests saxophonist Bill Evans, trombonist and vocalist Saunders Sermons, vocalist Mark Rivers and Sonya Kitchell, and acclaimed trumpeter Maurice “Mobetta” Brown were on call tonight for a non-stop jam session of epic proportions. It was all about the music tonight, as it is every night. The featured artists came and went from the stage as they pleased. The energy never once seemed to diffuse as the music was so crisp and tight and the friendships and relationships between the artists on stage with Soulive were completely evident. Enjoy the review…
WOLF! featuring Scott Metzger
Scott Metzger: Photo by Mark Dershowitz
For the final night of Bowlive V, WOLF! featuring Scott Metzger opened to an eager audience. WOLF! is a very young band, not in age but in performance mileage, having formed in 2011 with a philosophy of “Time. Tone. Taste. Touch.” The instrumental trio consists of seasoned guitarist Scott Metzger, bassist Jon Shaw, and drummer Taylor Floreth. The guitar playing talent of Metzger was undeniable as he shredded through one jamming rock tune with using a drumstick on the frets, into a finger-picking, foot-stomping song, right on into a psychedelic demolition on stage with the help of Shaw and Floreth. Shaw and Floreth support Metzger equally and match his fierceness, creating a vibrant sound that filled the Brooklyn Bowl. It is wonderful when a trio can fill the space as it is not an easy task. There was even audience participation as Metzger asked the audience if they preferred him to play a “fast or slow song.” The audience preferred fast! The members of WOLF! can be found performing frequently on the New York City music scene and you should check them out any time you can.
“Metzger’s country fried telecaster, finger pickin good!” ~ C.Z.
Set I
Uncle Jr.
Backwards Jack
Brother Soul
Nubian Lady
The first set really gave the audience an idea of how the night would play out. Aside from the first instrumental tune, “Bubble,” played solely by Soulive, every other tune had a guest performing alongside our favorite jazz trio. The Shady Horns, comprised of James Casey and Ryan Zoidis on saxophone and Eric Bloom on trumpet, were brought out on “Uncle Jr.” and continued through “Backwards Jack.” Both horn-heavy songs demonstrated the proficiency and technique of each horn player. Bloom’s mastery of the trumpet has changed dramatically since he began playing with Pretty Lights. His new found knowledge with the effect boards has been exposed throughout the entire Bowlive run. The moxie of James Casey dripped off the stage as he bounced between blowing his saxophone and raging the congas. Finally, Ryan Zoidis, the original founding member of The Shady Horns, continually brought the heat with extended technical solos proving that he is worthy of leadership.
“The Shady Horns added breadth to the solos and depth to the already monstrous sound. Nealzilla is relentless on the clav, while brother Alan drove the grooves and Kraz conjuring fantastic ideas in the eye of the storm.” ~ C.Z.
“They put the acid in acid jazz.” ~ W.S.
Guitarist Scott Metzger, who had just finished his opening set, jumped back on stage for a playful “Brother Soul,” with him and Krasno trading guitar licks. According to JamBase, in 2002, James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, told Metzger that his guitar playing is “Frightening! I swear you play so much guitar it scares me!” That pretty much sums him up. If you were to open up Metzger’s veins, blood wouldn’t pour out, musical notes would.
Bill Evans courtesy of Mark Dershowitz
Special announced guest, saxophonist Bill Evans, joined the stage for the remainder of the set. Evans played the tenor saxophone on Soulive‘s original tune, “Cannonball” and he exemplified a snake charmer with his soprano saxophone on the Dr. Yusef Lateef cover, “Nubian Lady.” “Povo,” a tune off the latest collaborative album, Spark!, between Soulive and Karl Denson, ended the set. Spark! is a tribute to the late Melvin Sparks, an American soul and jazz guitarist who passed away in 2001. Everyone who understands the history of a horn looked up to this musician and still does even postmortem. It was also on “POVO” that the first unannounced surprise guest, Grammy winning trumpet virtuoso Maurice “Mobetta” Brown, came out. As the timbres of horns played around the stage, the audience reacted in kind, hooting and hollering enthusiastic praise.
“Bowlive.. Just what the doctor ordered. These guys never fail to bring it. Their continuous gelling with so many different artists shows that they are some of the highest level of talent out there. As a long time fan of Soulive, I can truly say that every show gets better & better. So thankful to them & the Brooklyn Bowl for bringing us all together.” – J.B.
Wyllys
During the set breaks, turntabalist Wyllys, whose real name is Wade Wilby, spun records of all styles to keep the energy up. The last thing anyone wanted on the last night of Bowlive, on this raging Saturday night, was to have the energy drop. Wyllys is a Bowlive Alum from Bowlive IV and has also hosted Bowlive After-Parties in past years.
Beginning as the Lighting Crew Chief for Umphrey’s McGee, Wyllys eventually made his name in the DJ and Jam Band community for his elevating demeanor while spinning. Every impression the audience gets from Wyllys is that he is doing something fabulous and fun. He always looks like he is having such a wonderful time, dancing and just power grooving to his own set along with the audience. The choices he pulls out are based solely on the reflection of energy he feels from the crowd he is playing to. His in-the-moment choices can range from pop to funk to disco and just like last year, he was the last musician standing as he spun a set after Soulive completed their run. But it’s not over yet….on to Set II.
Set II
El Ron
Tuesday Night Squad
Maybe Grandma’s Hands
When I’m Kissing My Love
Finally, notwithstanding the encore, the last set of Bowlive V was upon us. Wyllys had kept the vibe up and the high expectations from the audience members were now directed towards the stage. Soulive had to bring the jazzy, funky ferocity that would leave a lasting impression in the minds of Bowlive addicts. The trio came out on a blazing “El Ron,” one of their most powerful opening songs and one that allows Eric Krasno to manifest monstrous solos. “Tuesday Night Squad” might be a horn-heavy tune but the rhythm of the piano is crushing. The range of Neal Evan‘s ability is endless. Musical ideas are literally at his fingertips and his excitement is contagious. That being said, it was Ryan Zoidis‘s alto saxophone solo that stole this song away from the rest of the band members on stage.
“Neal Evans might be one of the Great Americans, like up there with the guy who founded the Red Cross or Buzz Aldrin” ~ E.M.
“You could drop Krasno into any indigenous people’s music circle, anywhere in the undiscovered world, and he’d be able to play.” – E.M.
The beautiful Sonya Kitchell was back for a second night and was invited on stage for “Grandma’s Hand’s,” a widely influential Bill Withers tune he wrote about his own grandmother. Kitchell wore a slinky black dress, which was quite a change from her all-white, layered ensemble from the previous night. This change of vibe was enjoyable because the audience was being shown a different side of Kitchell. Her style of singing did not bring the funk last night and now, she was crushing the audience with her soul. During this tune, trombonist and vocalist Saunders Sermons assisted on the harmony, while falling in line with The Shady Horns. Special unannounced guest vocalist Mark Rivers (Tedeschi/Trucks Band) was front and center for Marvin Gaye‘s emotional tune “Inner City Blues.” This portion of the set really gave vocalists time to pull out all the stops. Scatting is improvised vocalization that does not contain lyrics and Rivers proceeded to dominate the audience with a lengthy, incredibly difficult and perfectly pitched scat session that lasted a good six minutes.
“Mark Rivers scatting solo was absolutely stunning. Right now, Esperanza Spaulding is the only young artist who I have felt can hold her own on every note when she attempts this style of vocal improvisation. Ella Fitzgerald made the style famous in my house when I heard my father playing her music. What Rivers accomplished on that stage was nothing short of a male reincarnation of Fitzgerald. Happy to add Mark Rivers to my list of phenomenal scatters. It is so difficult and he made it look effortless.” ~ K.D.
Special guest for the evening, Bill Evans, joined the stage for “When I’m Kissing My Love,” another Bill Withers‘ cover. The stage was now filled with an entirely different horn section. The Shady Horns were now replaced by Saunders Sermons on trombone, Bill Evans on saxophone and Maurice “Mobetta” Brown on trumpet. Mark Rivers was on percussion. All four now backed Soulive for the remainder of the set. Saunders Sermons brought his trombone to the microphone and delivered the second extemporized vocal scatting solo with some trombone blasts accented throughout. It is moments like these that continually define the meaning of what BOWLIVE tries to portray; the sharing of each others talents, putting other artists on the pedestal and in the spotlight. Sonya Kitchell could be seen in line with the horns breaking down the dance moves as she sang along. Let’s not forget the dynamic Evans Brothers duo holding down the rhythm section.
“On the final night, Zoidis kicked the horns in with a blistering alto run that brought the crowd to a frenzy. Later, Benny Bloom brought the chill factor with the hauntingly electronic trumpet solo. Solid tenor solos by James Casey complemented the more eccentric playing of Bill Evans. Maurice Brown silenced the crowd as his sublime trumpet evolved from the primordial to a force that brought Soulive, and the crowd, back in hard. Saunders Sermons added crisp, soulful vocals while the crowd got a bit closer to each other, sexy time at Bowlive.” ~ C.Z.
“Almost shit myself when that cat picked up the trombone!” ~ E.M. referring to Saunders Sermon
At the end of the set, Krasno announced that it was Saunders Sermons‘ birthday and then followed up by letting us know that at midnight, it would also be Alan Evans‘s birthday. A lovely moment was shared between the musicians on stage and the participants on the dance floor. We all sang “Happy Birthday” to Alan as the Brooklyn Bowl staff brought out a birthday cake with candles for him to blow out. What a way to celebrate! Alan had his best friends, fans who adore him and a venue full of people who praised him. But it still wasn’t over.
Encore – 1:30am
Feelin’ Alright
(Another Song)
Ryan Zoidis Fan Club TeeShirt Print Courtesy of Chris Zegers
The guests kept on coming when the members of The London Souls came out for the encore. A few nights earlier, Soulive and The London Souls combined on stage for a raging LondonSoulive set. It was one of the most aggressive, rock-n-roll sets of the run. The audience wasn’t sure if this set had been scheduled all along or if this was a last minute decision based on the success of the LondonSoulive night, but here they were again to close out one of the greatest residencies New York City music lovers will see all year. The Shady Horns joined the guest horns, Alan Evans moved to guitar and vocals while Chris St. Hiliare took over the drum kit and Stu Mahan was back filling in the rhythm on his bass. Eric Krasno and Tash Neal matched each others energy, absolutely melting the faces of the audience with their alternating musical antics. When the Neil Young tune, “Down By The River,” was played, the crowd went wild. The audience, especially the men, were singing along, many at the top of their lungs. This song was an excellent choice for the rocking musicians on stage. Traffic‘s “Feelin’ Alright” kept the power pumping as the solos and individual performances of the musicians on stage just rolled out one by one. The audience continued to sing along on these vintage tunes before going into another “Happy Birthday” for Alan Evans, this time sung by his brothers Neal. It was pure BOWLOVE, yall!
“The greatest musicians in the business are masters of their craft but are humble about it at the same time. I think that is what shines most throughout Bowlive. And never did it shine brighter than when Al Evans gave up his kit to Chris St. Hilarie and the London Souls were brought onstage to close out Bowlive 5. ~ K.G.
That’s a wrap folks! The fifth year of Bowlive is over. I won’t wax poetic about everything I have already covered in the previous wrap-ups but I will leave you with these final thoughts. Bowlive is the ultimate musical residency! It creates opportunities for Soulive to invite all manners of artists on stage for a time and takes them away from their normal environment and obligations. It provides a time of reflection and remembrance for the audience members and a time of presentation, research, and production for the band, musical guests, back line crew, writers and photographers. It also allows each individual artist to explore his or her talent within another musical community; meeting new people, performing and creating new material, and experiencing life in a new location. This residency emphasizes the importance of meaningful and multi-layered musical collaborations and in the end, we are all artists, playing a role in this thing called Bowlive.
“Every year I make too many friends, too many memories, and have way too much fun at Bowlive. Somehow Soulive continually manages to bring out the best people (musicians and fans alike) for two weeks of genre defying sets, all under the amazing intimate roof of the Brooklyn Bowl.” ~ N.G.
“Eric Krasno said the nicest thing last night and called us all family.” ~ A.S.
“The sheer power of Soulive that was on display at the Brooklyn Bowl was an honor to witness. Like a fine wine they get better with age, Soulive kept us dancing and smiling for eight nights!!! I can’t wait for Bowlive Six!” ~ L.H.
“Wow, two days in a row of live music and my soul feels like it’s been on a mini vacation. However, my body is aching from the Funk of Bowlive V.” ~ H.H.
Thank you Peter Shapiro for your brilliant ideas and to the ever appreciative Brooklyn Bowl staff for always taking care of this Tiny Rager and all my Soulive-loving friends, who so graciously provided the quotes for the articles. Thank you so much to Hilary Gleason and Tory Pittarelli of the The Mischief Collective for covering Night 6 for this weary writer who needed a much needed night of relaxation with her family. Thank you to all the folks who donated media like photographers Mark Dershowitz (Headyshots), Greg Horowitz (Creative Solutions Music Promotions), Marc Millman (Marc Millman Photography), Andrew Blackstein (ASB Photography), and Scott Harris (LanguageStrange Photography). Thank you to all who took videos and posted them on Youtube. A giant thanks to the music tapers, who make it possible for everyone else in the world to experience the soundtrack from the best musical run EVER! Finally, thank you to the talented members of Soulive for your never ending energy and love that you poured over us the past eight nights. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Until next year….
To read the previous seven night Reviews, click on the links below:
List of Special Guests and Openers
THURSDAY, MARCH 13 – Special Guests: NIGEL HALL, EDDIE ROBERTS, more TBA
FRIDAY, MARCH 14 – Special Guests: GEORGE PORTER JR. and SPECIAL GUESTS TBA
Opener: LEROY JUSTICE
SATURDAY, MARCH 15 – Special Guests: GEORGE PORTER JR. feat. a special #LONDONSOULIVE joint set
Opener: THE LONDON SOULS
TUESDAY, MARCH 18 – Special Guest: JOHN SCOFIELD
Opener and Special Guest: JON CLEARY
WEDNESAY, MARCH 19 – Special Guests: JOE RUSSO and SUSAN TEDESCHI
Opener & Special Guest: JON CLEARY
THURSDAY, MARCH 20 – Special Guest: DMC (of RUN DMC)
Opener: ALAN EVANS TRIO
FRIDAY, MARCH 21 – Special Guests: MARCO BENEVENTO, ROOSEVELT COLLIER, OTEIL and KOFI BURBRIDGE, FELIX PASTORIUS, and BRANDON NIEDERAUER
Opener: SONYA KITCHELL
SATURDAY, MARCH 22 – Special Guest: BILL EVANS,
Opener: WOLF! Featuring Scott Metzger
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Sonya Kitchell Set
Follow Me In
The seventh night of Bowlive V at the Brooklyn Bowl started off on a more mellow vibe than the previous night openers. Bowlive V has produced rocking sets by The London Souls and Leroy Justice and the wonderful, jazzy Alan Evans Trio but now it was time for a chick flick of musical sorts.
Sonya Kitchell made her Bowlive debut with Jesske Hume on bass, Nate Wood on guitar and the amazing Neal Evans on drums and keyboards. Neal Evans on drums, you say? Yes, drums! When Neal is not playing with Lettuce or Soulive, he holds down the drums for Sonya Kitchell.
“I had a blast rocking the drums last night. Drums were actually my first instrument” ~ Neal Evans
Both Soulive and Sonya Kitchell were signed under Velour Music Group for a while but both have since graduated to new management. This explains their affiliation but there was a larger reason behind choosing Kitchell to open for the last night of Bowlive. Kitchell’s musical resume is filled with gems but she is most noted for touring with Herbie Hancock in 2008 after she helped him on his record River: The Joni Letters.
Neal Evans with Sonya Kitchell by Mark Dershowitz
Sonya Kitchell Setlist
This set was was a defining characteristic of a Bowlive Residency. Was it what everyone wanted? I don’t think. Was it it as jamming as it could have been for a Friday night opener? Not really. However, Soulive enjoys changing up the game, introducing us to their favorite artists, mixing up the genres and giving exposure to the music world in whatever way they can. And please, do not get me wrong, Sonya Kitchell is a beautiful songstress and writer. I remember hearing Kitchell on Pandora about seven years ago singing “Let Me Go,” off her Words Came Back To Me album which was released on my 26th birthday. I bought it the next day. However, I am a lyric-loving female and the audience was filling up with dude after dude.
Kitchell’s band, was dressed all in white, definitely an artistic expression. White, almost as pure as her sweet, hopeful voice. Her set consisted completely of new tunes, some off the new, yet-to-be-released album, some even newer and some not recorded yet. There was a nice treat when Marco Benevento came out and played piano for her tune, “Family,” a beautiful melodic tune. “This Feeling” was truly felt with Sonya Kitchell‘s effervescent vocals, Marco’s twinkling keys and Alan Evan’s consistent drumming.
Overall, Sonya Kitchell is a silent but deadly rager. A little grungy, a little edgy, a lot of sex appeal and her high registry and ethereal voice was captivating. She is soft, yet intense and today, she continues to impress the underground music community stretching those high notes and flipping between genres with every song.
Shaheed
3rd Stone From The Sun –> Lenny
The intensely dedicated members of Soulive, drummer Alan Evans, keyboardist Neal Evans and guitarist Eric Krasno, stomped out an audience favorite, “Shaheed,” to open the first set. It was Friday night at the Brooklyn Bowl and if anyone knew what that meant, it was this trio. They brought the fire. The “Swamp” brought out the Shady Horns and there was just some gnarly, funky, connected vibing happening on stage. It got so deep that Alan Evans, for the second time this week, broke his snare drum.
“No snare drum can contain Alan Evans.” ~ G.F
“Brother Soul” showcased saxophonist Ryan Zoidis, who got a jumping ovation because everyone was already standing and as his solo peaked the crowd could be seen jumping in rhythm to his playing. This was a “GROOVER,” as John Scofield would say. Light Technician Victor Cornette supported the music wonderfully with his light work, uplifting the audience that much more. Next on deck was “Reverb” into “Aladdin.” Sonya Kitchell was on vocals in line with the Shady Horns while Neal musically defined the namesake of the song.
“Reverb is created when a sound is produced in an enclosed space causing a large number of echoes to build up and then slowly decay as the sound is absorbed by the walls and air” ~ Dictionary.com
Jimi Hendrix’s “3rd Stone from the Sun” and Stevie Ray Vaughn’s “Lenny” was next and The Shady Horns exited the stage. This is always an epic pairing of tunes but when you add in a child guitar prodigy, who only turned 11 last week, things get nuts. The amazing Brandon “TAZ” Niederauer made a big name for himself on Jam Cruise this year. Here it was now that this virtuoso guitar player I had heard so much about was going to show off his skills next to one of the best guitarists in the world.
“Everyone pulled out the Fire for night 7. Taz. Wow. Alan and Neal said it perfectly. Music starts in schools and our support needs to go there. Taz is a prime example of pure unadulterated raw talent. Was really humbling to hear him play and shed his soul on all of us. Can’t wait to say “I heard him play when he was 11″ to my kids one day.” ~ A.L.
“My friend Dan said about Taz – “he’s not just playing he is feeling it. He’s just got it” ~ K.G.
“The crowd on the back half of the dance floor all turned to the screen to watch when Taz started playing!” – R. L.
When they broke into Hendrix’s “Manic Depression,” it was slow going but then Taz just took it away. Krasno gestured to the sound guy to turn Taz’s sound up. Measure after measure, Taz just built and built upon himself, delivering his solo so intensely, yet wearing such a stoic expression. Not even a little smile. Totally in his head. Everyone’s jaws were on the ground and there were moments when the audience was just screaming in shock and awe. Taz sounds and acts like a seasoned veteran of the stage and watching him grow up musically is going to be a wonderful experience so keep your eyes peeled.
“This is why we need instruments in school y’all.” ~ Alan Evans passionately spoke into the microphone.
1960’s photo of John Scofield working with Jaco Pastorius
Alan Evans called out for “Felix” and shouts, “Where’s Marco?” The unannounced bassist Felix Pastorius was introduced by Alan and special guest Marco Benevento joined the stage. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better Felix Pastorius shows up to play some cranking bass for us. Felix is a fantastic musician in his own right but it would be foolish not to mention that he is the son of the late virtuoso jazz fusion bass player from Weather Report, Jaco Pastorius. Many members of the audience could be heard talking about the excitement of seeing Jaco’s son play at Bowlive. Felix did not disappoint adding a groovy jazzy bass sound to the Soulive mix.
The Shady Horns were back. The set-list listed Jaco’s soulful “The Chicken” next but they nixed that and went into Billy Cobham‘s “Stratus” instead. Both songs are famous jazz fusion standards but only one made the cut for what turned out to be a psychedelic mash-up of musicians, literally the definition of fusion.
“This was my favorite song of the entire run” ~ T.P.S
Jesus Children of America/Stay
The “In Crowd”
When My Guitar Gently Weeps
Soulful Strut
She’s S0 Heavy
Alan Evans handled the vocals for the Stevie Wonder cover, “Jesus Children of America,” while his feel-good drumming kept the beat. “The Dump” is actually a Lettuce tune off their first album, Outta Here, which really brought the crowd up. However, it was when Marco Benevento came out for “The ‘In’ Crowd,” a song composed in 1964 largely for pianos and horns, when the stage might as well have caught on fire from the heat. Marco laid down a beautiful melody of keys while each member of the horn section soloed starting with James Casey, to Ryan Zoidis and then Eric Bloom. Bloom’s trumpet solo was reminiscent of Dizzy Gillespie and Casey brought it all home. At one point, Alan Evans pointed out that Marco was wearing a Soulive shirt and the crowd cheered.
“Marco has a special relationship with his piano and the audience. The bond is not to be taken lightly. His sensitive side is what makes him talk to the piano and relate to the audience.” ~ H.H
Miami’s acclaimed pedal steel guitarist, Roosevelt Collier from The Lee Boys, was the next guest for the evening. He began by to sitting in on The Beatles’ “Revolution.” It was a special treat for Bowlive fans to see this uniquely talented musician play his equally unique instrument, the lap steel guitar. The Bowl shrieked with the lovely sounds echoing from Rosie’s instrument. Collier was also in town for an Allman Brothers Band after-party gig at B.B. Kings Blues Club in Times Square the following night. There was wonderful playfulness between Neal Evans and Collier. Marco was in his own world crushing so hard. It’s quite possible that Marco gets better with every note he plays. Roosevelt added a fantastic layer of sound with his lap steel-guitar as he and Krasno battled it out in a full on jam session for the ages. Pure hot-sauce.
Soulive added another piece of musical history to the Bowlive run when, with Roosevelt Collier and Marco Benevento’s help, they jammed out their first ever Elton John tune in Bowlive history: “Benny and The Jets!” What a crowd pleaser. Sonya Kitchell was back on vocals, in line with the Shady Horns and then Marco got up from his rig and dangled the microphone over the heads of those in the front row. “Just these guys!” said Marco and the audience joined in on the biggest sing-a-long of the run. The funny man continued to swing the microphone around heads before going back to his keyboards to have a duel with Collier.
The magic continued with “My Guitar Gently Weeps” and “Soulful Strut.” What more is there to say that I haven’t already said. Classic after classic, this group of musicians, all seasoned jamming artists, continued to slay the audience with solo after solo. Jam after jam. Collier and Krasno continued to duel it out on the strings while the Evans brothers held down the rhythm so tightly. Audience members had their hands extended towards the sky as if they were worshiping to their gods. Their Gods of Rock!
For the next tune, it was fun to see Marco opened it up with the famous John Bonham count-in, “We’ve done four already but now we’re steady and then they went: One, Two, Three, Four.” BOOM!!!! The audience was immediately washed away by a rousing rendition of Led Zeppelin’s “The Ocean.” It’s particularly nice to hear this tune performed during Bowlive with Marco because Led Zeppelin doesn’t have a keyboardist in their band, making this arrangement unique.
Encore I
I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
The set was supposed to end there but it was Friday night and Soulive was on fire. So, they pulled out Encore #1 with Beatles’ tune, “I Want You (She’s So Heavy).” Ironically, on this day in 1984, part of Central Park in New York was renamed Strawberry Fields in honor of John Lennon.
Encore II
So Live!
Cash’s Dream
The stage empties for about 60 seconds. At that point, Alan Evans is back on the microphone stating, “We were going to end the set but we have some more surprises y’all, all the way from the Beacon Theatre, Oteil and Kofi Burbridge.” Eric Krasno leans into the microphone with a huge grin and says, “Burbridge Brothers in the building!” Oteil Burbridge has been the bassist for The Allman Brother’s Band since 1997 and his brother, Kofi, has been playing flute and keys for many bands on the jam scene for years as well. Hearing Kofi’s flute in the mix of “So Live!,” “Cash’s Dream,” and “Nubian Lady” was stunning. He fluttered through the songs, bouncing back and forth between the piano and his flute, both instruments he dominates.
Photo Courtesy of Mark Dershowitz
During “Cash’s Dream,” the Shady Horns joined the stage while Oteil Burbridge really let it rip on his bass. Oteil guided the song to a really spacey place. Victor Cornette used the lights to enhance the mood and there it was, the pinnacle of the evening with Ryan Zoidis adding effects to his horn, bringing it that much higher. In the end, it was just one epic extended solo, each musicians playing off each other and feeling the family vibe super hard. People were jumping on their feet with both hands in the air. Just a full on Jam Session between friends and as we danced with our own friends in the audience, it was a great way to end a Friday night. Thank you Soulive, Roosevelt, Marco, Oteil, Kofi, Sonya and all the amazing musicians that made last night another night for the books.
Tonight, the last night of Bowlive V, you will get an array of surprise musicians playing a laundry list of amazing songs. That is just how it goes down on the finale night of a Bowlive run.
Bowlive V: Night VI – Soulive w/ DMC (of Run DMC) and Talib Kewli @ The Brooklyn Bowl (03.20.14)
Posted in Residencies, Show Review on March 21, 2014| 3 Comments »
The wonderful crew at the Mischief Collective, specifically Hilary Gleason and Tory Pittarelli, have been covering Bowlive V along side myself the entire run. Understanding and impressed with their dedication to art and music, I felt them to be the ideal candidates to cover Bowlive: V Night VI, for TinyRager.com and the Soulive and The Brooklyn Bowl blogs. This is only the second out of 46 Bowlive shows I have missed and I felt the hard pull to be at the Bowl but knew the review was in great hands. For a complete review of The Mischief Collective’s Bowlive V run to date, please click here.
Alan Evans Trio Set
They Call Me Velvet
Easy Meat
Ain’t No Tellin’
Going Back to Buffalo
Sunshine of Your Love
Cosmic Hazel Dust
Alan Evans’ Playonbrotha opened Thursday night in epic fashion. Formerly the Alan Evans’ Trio, the group changed their name earlier this week, in part to buck the notion that they are just a jazz trio. In reality, Playonbrotha, skillfully weaves together rock, blues and jazz in a fresh and exciting way. Persevering through a myriad of technical difficulties during their set, Danny Mayer still impressed the audience with his incredibly smooth and improvisational guitar licks. Soulive’s own Alan Evans anchors the trio on drums, which meant he played for nearly four hours last night.
“I don’t know how Alan Evans did it last night, crushing some awesome rock with Playonbrotha before two more dope sets with Soulive. He truly put on a clinic in versatility last night. ~ R.A.
Playonbrotha took the audience on quite a ride last night and undoubtedly converted some new life-long fans. We all know an audience loves a cover, and Beau Sasser did not dissappoint as he skillfully led the trio through bass-heavy hits like Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love”. The trio’s most recent album, Merkaba, was extremely well received and contains two of the songs we heard last night, “They Call Me Velvet” and “Cosmic Hazel Dust”. Building upon this success, Playonbrotha will be releasing a new album later this month and touring with Brooklyn based power-funk group Turkuaz. To see when they will be playing near you, click here. We can’t recommend it enough.
Photo Courtesy of Dani Barbieri
Rudy’s Way
Steppin’
The Blast (Kweli)
State of Grace (Kweli, Abby Thompson)
Get By (Kweli, Abby Thompson, Jennifer Brooks)
It is definitely safe to say that the energy was at its absolute highest thus far in the 8 night run before Talib Kweli or DMC even made their way to the stage. Part of the magic of Bowlive is the element of surprise; no one knew exactly when or how these two hip hop legends would be involved in a Soulive set, but the packed house was ready to find out. Talib was the first guest of the evening alongside Abby Thompson, and the two broke right into “The Blast,” from Talib’s album with Hi-Tek. Talib then introduced “State of Grace,” and the highly anticipated favorite, “Get By,” from his album “Quality,” co-produced by none other than Soulive guitarist, Eric Krasno. After this set, there was no question as to why Talib is considered one of the most respected hip hop artists alive.
Talib’s stage presence and flow can only be matched by that of the legendary Darryl “DMC” McDaniels. DMC took the stage with incredible magnetism, getting the crowd more hyped than we had seen from any of the previous nights. Talib professed to the audience how important their set together was for him because Run DMC is the music he grew up on, and then they busted right into “Peter Piper.” We have never seen a crowd move like this at Brooklyn Bowl. One of the greater moments was when DMC dropped down to his knees in front of Krasno, a move that echoed the sentiments of many of us in the crowd.
We were pleasantly surprised, yet again, when Mike Montali, the lead singer of Hollis Brown joined the stage for “It’s Tricky.” This collaboration was awesome, in part, due to the chemistry between Montali and DMC. The pair recorded a single titled, “The Fly,” at Brooklyn’s Galaxy Smith Studios, which was started by the Mischief Collective’s own Dani Barbieri alongside Dave Brandwein in 2012. You can view the video here.
7 Minutes of Funk (DMC)
Peter Piper (Kweli, DMC)
It’s Tricky (Everyone, Hollis Brown)
Walk This Way (Everyone)
Talib, DMC and Mike Montali brought the excitement levels to an all time high when they launched into Aerosmith’s, “Walk This Way.” Last night proved to us once again how versatile Soulive and The Shady Horns can be. Throughout the run we have seen them master every musical genre imaginable, and we can’t wait to see what they have up their sleeves for us on these last two nights.
Hilary Gleason (Author, Photos)
Tory Pittarelli (Author, Videos)
Dani Barbieri (Photography)
Tonight, Bowlive will be opened by the beautiful songstress Sonya Kitchell and special guest, avant-garde keyboardist Marco Benevento, joins Soulive for another face-melting night of rage.
THURSDAY, MARCH 13 – Special Guest: NIGEL HALL, EDDIE ROBERTS, more TBA
SATURDAY, MARCH 15 – Special Guest: GEORGE PORTER JR. feat. a special #LONDONSOULIVE joint set
FRIDAY, MARCH 21 – Special Guest: MARCO BENEVENTO, OTEIL and KOFI BURBRIDGE, FELIX PASTORIUS, and BRANDON NIEDERAUER
Bowlive V: Night V – Soulive w/ Jon Cleary, Joe Russo and Susan Tedeschi @ The Brooklyn Bowl (03.19.14)
How is everyone’s energy level? Bowlive is a dance party that just will not quit, am I right? The trio has kept the energy up with amazing musical collaborations, secret treats and high energy, powerhouse guests for five nights. And we still have three more to go. For anyone who might be a bit tired from the previous nights, remember, when the music starts, those endorphins drop and the music lifts you back up. Last night’s special guests, Susan Tedeschi, Joe Russo and Jon Cleary, all collaborated to bring us to the highest plane of musical existence that could be reached.
Having been to 44 out of 45 Bowlive shows, I am able to pick out the faces of those of you who are engaging with Soulive every single night. I know that the band sees your face and appreciates your dedication as well. Something I have also noticed during this run, more than others, are the faces of other musicians just hanging in the wings watching and dancing. Last night Reggie Watts and Danny Mayer were on the Bowling ledge. Previous nights, you could see famous NBA players, members of Deep Banana Blackout and bassist Ron Johnson.
I was talking to my friend last night about a residency Soulive did in the early 2000’s. It was a five week run on Tuesday nights at different venues throughout the city with different guests and types of music being played. A funk night. A jazz night. A rock night with Warren [Haynes]. It was really special. Well, I hit all of those shows and we both talked about how the band and I have graduated from a show a week to playing every night with these guests and incorporating all types of music to really make a delicious soul stew.” ~ G.F.
Bowlive Hump Day edition: From the first notes of So Live! last night, my brain refreshed and reminded me why I have such a fondness for this band, these boys can play! ~ M.V.M.
Jon Cleary Set
I Feel So Damn Good I’ll Be Glad When I Get the Blues
Cheating On You
The Crave (an emotionally complex piece.)
I Get The Blues When It Rains
Unknown (Boogie Woogie Tune)
Jon Cleary, opened Bowlive for the second night in a row. Just like the previous night, the dance floor was bulging with New Orleans music fans by 8:30pm. For a man with his level of musical knowledge, I was expecting to see more of his talent unfold on the Brooklyn Bowl stage. However, we were all quite shocked when Cleary performed the same exact set as he had the night prior. Song for song, word for word, story for story. This was wonderful for those who had missed Cleary’s uplifting performance last night, but some of us were looking for more. Don’t get me wrong, the set he put together was upbeat, engaging, and informative, as he described each tune before he played them, dropping bits of knowledge on the songs before performing. This is a trait I wish all musicians would adopt. To learn more about Jon Cleary’s set, please check out yesterday’s review on Tinyrager.com.
Cleary opened again with pretty much the same set as the night before. His piano solos with the band prove why he is a Nola living legend. I particularly enjoyed seeing Cleary watching Neal Evans from the stairs for at least 2-3 songs, obviously blown away by his prowess. ~ R.G.
Eleanor –> I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
76 (Joey)
Up & Out (Joey)
For Granted (Horns)
When You Get Back (Cleary, Mark Rivers)
The ever-powerful members of Soulive, Eric Krasno (guitar), Neal Evans (bass keys/clavinet), and Alan Evans (drums), took to the stage for a fifth night of electric and eclectic music. Following the pattern of the previous nights, Soulive hit the stage as a solo trio for “So Live!” and “DIG.” Both songs are heavy hitting tunes that grab your attention right out the gate. The musical prowess of the trio was thrown from the stage into the ears of the audience, which got everyone grooving.
Once again, Bowlive delivers! Strong, classic Soulive opening reminding us all what we really came for! ~ R.G.
Things got all psychedelic with a Beatles medley, “Eleanor Rigby” and “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” off Soulive’s Rubber Soulive album, released in 2010, during Bowlive I. The arrangements of these Beatles tunes are distinctly Soulive. They perform the songs with the energy of the 70’s and with a deep appreciation of what it means to be able to play these inspirational tunes today. To get an idea of how hard-hitting the boys have been kicking things off, it was during the medley that Alan Evans broke his drum. Not his drum stick, HIS DRUM! The stage hands were on point and if you hadn’t been watching, you might not have ever known something happened. The beat goes on…
After getting down to the classics, it was time to turn our appreciation upon one of the greatest drummers in the jam band community. Joe Russo, the current drummer for Furthur (featuring Phil Lesh and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead), joined the stage for “76” and “Up & Out.” Russo has a laundry list of musical projects that he is involved with. Most notably, Russo makes up one half of the Benevento/Russo Duo (many might know them simply as “The Duo”) and Marco Benevento, his musical better half, will be a special guest this coming Friday.
Not only did Krasno start with “76,” one of my favorite songs but Joe Russo destroys the drum kit like I’ve never seen, specifically on that song before. Watching Krasno quietly show Russo the rhythm of the song just before they got into it, blew me away even more. ~ R.G.
Russo came out with so much force. The audience had already seen one drum broken and we were waiting on another after seeing Russo’s fierce start. Russo plays a giant drum set-up when he is playing for Furthur but his range was not squelched one bit as he beat his way around Alan’s kit. All of the power that is normally spread out amongst his large kit became refined and focused on Alan’s.
The Shady Horns, consisting of Eric Bloom (trumpet), Ryan Zoidis (baritone saxophone) and James Casey (alto saxophone), hit the stage next, with Alan Evans back on the drums, for the horn-heavy, “For Granted.” A fan favorite, this song features tight horn arrangements from long-time Soulive collaborators and friends, Sam Kininger and Ryan Zoidis. Each horn took a solo, showing off their chops and then kicked it right into “Vapor,” which was dominated mainly by Bloom’s trumpet.
For the final song of the set, Jon Cleary was brought out to drop the sound of New Orleans back into the mix for “When You Get Back, We Gonna Cha Cha Cha.” Cleary played this tune during his solo set last night so hearing it will a full band was phenomenal. What a full sound. We were also privileged enough to have a surprise sit-in by Mark Rivers, the harmonious vocalist from the Tedeschi/Trucks Band. It was a fabulous set and for those who had felt even the slightest bit tired, had shaken it off with all the dancing.
Butterfly (Susan)
Tired of My Tears (Mark Rivers)
Break In The Road
It’s So Heavy
Clean Up Woman (Cleary)
“El Ron,” written by Alan Evans and found on the Steady Groovin album, kicked off the second set and the audience straight grooved. This was followed by “Aladdin,” with deep improvisations and extended jams including a cascading brass waterfall within the horn section. Then, just when you thought it couldn’t get more jamming, special guest of the evening, American blues and soul musician, Susan Tedeschi, joined the stage. Man, oh, man! What a treat!
“Eleanor Rigby” was sweet, as was the other Beatles cover that enticed the crowd. Seeing Joe Russo and his ferocity on Alan’s kit was a treat, but my hopes for Susan’s arrival had me wondering when I might see her saunter down the steps from the green room above. Needless to say, my wish was granted three songs into the second set, when she came out for her time to shine with “Butterfly.” ~ M.V.M.
Susan Tedeschi was the second lady of music to grace the Bowlive stage this year. Nickie Bluhm preceded her last week with her folksy voice, but now, it was time for some deep, southern blues and soul. Tedeschi is unparalleled in this department, as far as I am concerned. Her style is based in American roots music, especially electric blues, Southern soul and black gospel. So, when she opened her pipes for her original tune “Butterfly,” those who were not paying attention, stood at attention. Both men and women fixated on her amazing presence. Did I mention that she crushes the guitar also?
“Susan is the direct heir to Bonnie Rait and Muddy Waters.” P.P.
“I can’t give enough love to this woman. Her voice touches my soul. We all have artists who we connect with on a DEEP, personal level and Susan Tedeschi is one of mine. I broke off an engagement in 2009. Susan’s version of the Bob Dylan tune, “Baby, Don’t Think Twice,” was quite literally the song that saved my heart and my head. I was totally prepared to let the tears flow if she sang that tune. Or anything slow for that matter!” ~ K.D.
For those of you who might not know who Susan Tedeschi is, you might know her husband, Derek Trucks, of The Allman Brothers Band. In fact, while Tedeschi was headlining the Brooklyn Bowl last night, Trucks was headlining the Beacon Theater. This husband and wife duo formed the Tedeschi/Trucks Band in 2010 but plan on focusing on this project full-time after the Allman Brothers end their final run at the Beacon this week. Having played with Soulive on numerous occasions, as well as having made her Bowlive debut at Bowlive I, Susan is a veteran in that regard but her band-mate, vocalist Mark Rivers, made his debut last night, coming out for the remainder of the set. “Tired of My Tears,” a Ray Charles tune, was a wonderful showcase of their joint ability to sing and perform together. Tedeschi lead the group on guitar while Krasno kept it reeled in on rhythm for “Break In The Road,” a great sing-along song with Joe Russo back on drums. The slower, blues-based Tedeschi/Trucks Band tune, “It’s So Heavy,” was next, followed by “Misunderstood.” Both of these tunes were “written by Eric Krasno,” said Susan, and the harmonies between she and Mark Rivers continued.
I really loved the “Tired of My Tears,” but the sweetest moment of that set for me was the all star ensemble covering Betty Wright’s “Clean Up Woman,” that in itself, solidified my girl crush for that amazingly talented songstress and one hell of a guitar player, also known as Susan Tedeschi! ~ M.V.M.
The stage was set for an explosive encore as Jon Cleary was brought out again, this time for the Betty Wright tune, “Clean Up Woman.” It should be noted that James Casey also sang the harmonies with Rivers while Joe Russo was seen at the back of the stage beating and shaking all the percussion instruments he could find.
“Last night was amazing. Susan and the boys out on a blues and soul revue. From the moment she walked on stage her ability to sing and play guitar took both the crowd and the band to the highest levels of the run so far. The last coupe of songs with Cleary and Russo really showed just how good Soulive is at allowing their guests to shine while never taking a step backwards.” ~ G.F.
Little By Little (Joey & Tash)
Turn On Your Love Light (Everyone)
Tash Neal, the shredding guitarist for the rock trio The London Souls, surprised the crowd when he came out for the heart breaking tune, “Little By Little.” There were now three crushing guitarists and two raging keyboardists on stage amongst the horns, drums and vocalists. This tune was supposed to be the finale of the night but when it ended, none of the musicians left the stage. Instead, they put their heads together and pulled out an epic, “Turn On Your Love Light,” that beamed out over the entire audience, who beamed back with intense appreciation. “Love Light” is a famous song recorded in 1961 by Bobby Bland but made famous by The Grateful Dead, who adopted it into their catalog in 1966. The Grateful Dead had finally come to Bowlive and the audience responded with such a fury of applause and smiles.
Soulive and there special guests continue to make magic. The shows get better and better.There “Love Light” was shining oh so bright last night! What fun! ~ L.H.
“Is your light shining yet? ARE YOU SHINING YET?” ~ A.S. shouted as she grabbed my hand and thrust it in the air!
Last night was an epic night at Bowlive. Joe Russo brought a level of energy to the drum kit that pumped the band up to full throttle. Susan Tedeschi blew my mind. I am so used to seeing her next to Derek Trucks these days that I forgot what a virtuoso guitarist she is in her own right. She played pretty songs and blues tunes and ripping jamming songs. By the time the night was over and her “Love Light” was shining on all of us. I felt so happy to be a part of it all standing in the Brooklyn Bowl, my temple on earth. So blessed. ~ J.R.
“Love Light” was the proverbial icing on the cake, the cherry on top, the gravy for my mashed potatoes. Whatever you want to call it, that was on fire! My musical cup overfloweth and my Bowlive cherry has been popped proper! So grateful for two amazing nights of music! ~ M.V.M.
Last night was one of those fantastic Bowlive evenings when everything comes together. Various artists from various genres, playing their various instruments and sounding as if they had rehearsed for weeks. Truth be told, they probably rehearsed earlier that day but one of the most beautiful things about our music scene, which incorporates all genres of music, is that the jam is what is most important. Not the money or fame, but the music itself. Bowlive delivers us our favorite band kicked up a notch. Every night they strive to beat out the first. Every night they strive to hit the highest plane of musical magic. Soulive recognizes that the music is the key ingredient to BOWLIVE and they bring out key players in the musical world to deliver that message to our ears. Thank you Soulive!
Tonight, Soulive will change the game completely with conscious rapper, Talib Kewli and Darryl “D.M.C.” Matthews McDaniels, a pioneer of hip hop culture and founding members of the hip hop group Run–D.M.C.
List of Special Guests and Openers (and past night reviews)
THURSDAY MARCH 13 – Special Guest: NIGEL HALL, EDDIE ROBERTS, more TBA
FRIDAY MARCH 14 – Special Guests: GEORGE PORTER JR. & SPECIAL GUESTS TBA
SATURDAY MARCH 15 – Special Guest: GEORGE PORTER JR. feat. a special LONDON SOULIVE joint set
TUESDAY MARCH 18 – Special Guest: JOHN SCOFIELD
WEDNESAY MARCH 19 – w/ Special Guests: JOE RUSSO & SUSAN TEDESCHI
THURSDAY MARCH 20 – w/ Special Guest: DMC (of RUN DMC)
FRIDAY MARCH 21 – w/ Special Guest: MARCO BENEVENTO
SATURDAY MARCH 22 – w/ & BILL EVANS
Bowlive V: Night IV – Soulive feat. Jon Cleary and John Scofield @ The Brooklyn Bowl (03.18.14)
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As the members of Soulive settled in over the years, their Brooklyn Bowl based annual residency, Bowlive, has became as institutional as the music itself. During the first week, the audience was privileged enough to enjoy the musical styling of vocalists Nigel Hall and Nicki Bluhm, turntablist DJ Logic, rocking guitarists Warren Haynes and Eddie Roberts, legendary bassist George Porter, Jr., and house band, The Shady Horns. Full band performances and collaborations by Leroy Justice and The London Souls added to the marvel. Every song sailed down the middle of the stage, rolled by the trio with the consistency of a pro bowler. This consistency, of course, has been the key to Soulive’s longevity.
“When Soulive hit the stage, I was surprised at how they constantly matched the energy from the previous nights. I’m always reminded of the 80’s power trio bands that filled a room with just three musicians and am amazed how these guys do it. A modern day jazz/funk power trio like no other.” ~ R.G.
Commencing with their second week of Bowlive V, Neal Evans, Alan Evans and Eric Krasno have put together another long list of talented musicians to keep us satiated for the remaining five nights. Over the next few evenings our musical senses will be overloaded with the likes of Joe Russo, Susan Tedeschi, Jon Cleary, Bill Evans, Alan Evans Trio, DMC (of Run DMC), Marco Benevento, Sonya Kitchell, and WOLF! Featuring Scott Metzger. You can also count on some surprise guests.
For night IV, Soulive made all the right moves, showering the audience in musical genius, making sure no one would regret coming out on a Tuesday night. With Jon Cleary and John Scofield as the special guests last night, it was the perfect kick-off for the second week. And what a kick-off it was. It was truly stimulating. Soulive and their guests performed one long extended set with Jon Cleary opening to a packed house at 8:30pm.
“Notes from the front line, my first encounter with Bowlive! Thank you Soulive and Brooklyn Bowl for making our first Brooklyn Bowl/Bowlive experience a very memorable one. From the moment we arrived, we were welcomed by the staff and had a great pre-show dinner, followed by the acquisition of the highly coveted John Warner Bowlive poster, which are limited to 15 posters per evening. After seeing some fellow Pittsburghers and Jam Cruisers, we secured our spots on the platform area with a killer view of the stage.” ~ M.M & L.M.
When You Get Back, We Gonna Cha Cha All Night Long
Phone Capture Courtesy By Rob Mishaan
The venue was packed with devoted music fans. This wasn’t your average audience who was there to drink and chat it up with their friends. Almost every eye was fixated on the stage as Jon Cleary opened the night with a solo piano set showcasing his vested studies in the music of New Orleans. Having moved from Kent, England to study the music of New Orleans, Jon Cleary is arguably the best out there right now. A disciple of Professor Long Hair and James Booker, Cleary’s voice is salty-sweet and he is a master of the piano, organ and guitar. You may know him best as a member of Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal‘s bands and his own group, Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen. With his blend of jazz, blues, soul, gospel, and honky-tonk, Cleary epitomizes New Orleans music. His set was evidence of his extreme caliber of musical knowledge.
“Jon Cleary started the night of music off right, as I was immediately intrigued by his silky smooth voice and Deniro-esque looks. His “Big Easy” style was quite a cover for his British heritage. This new musical discovery for me had me Googling his discography this morning to see what else I could find out about this man!” ~ M.M. & L.M.
“Having just booked our trip to Nola for jazziest the night before I could not have asked for a better punctuation. Watching Jon Cleary play keys in such classic New Orleans style blew us away. I could only wonder if Neal Evans was peeking down the stairs to watch this guy.” ~ R.G.
One in 7
For Granted
Nealization
Something’s Got A Hold on Me
Don’t Need No Doctor
Turn It Out
Encore: Get Back
Last night, there wasn’t three sets or even two sets, there was one long extended set which ended promptly at midnight. Soulive, The Shady Horns, Jon Cleary and John Scofield would command the stage with various genres of blues and jazz, filling every second of the evening with prodigious music. The set started out with the members of Soulive performing “Shaheed,” The Beatles‘ tune, “Come Together,” and “One in 7.” During “Come Together,” the audience sang along with heads bobbing and the stage lights flashing, while “One in 7” was played with a delightful intro. It was also during this time that there was some malfunction with Neal’s keyboards. Times like these can break a musical moment but Alan Evans picked up the slack by drumming his heart out while the chords on his brother’s rig were being fixed. When the audience heard the rejuvenation of the bass keys, it was on!
“Upon completion of Jon Cleary‘s set, Soulive took the stage, embracing me with their soul soothing sounds and reminding me that Neal Evans is a true bad-ass! Watching him lay down those bass lines with his left hand as his right hand plays the Hammond chords was literal music to my ears! The Beatles‘ cover “Come Together” got the crowd singing along, but you could see the anxious anticipation for the arrival of John Scofield, who was the special guest of the evening. Having the pleasure of watching such musical prowess and interplay in such close proximity was truly a treat.” ~ M.M.
“For Granted” and “Cannonball” were both played with the help of The Shady Horns. Ryan Zoidis (baritone/alto saxophone), Eric “Benny” Bloom (trumpet) and James Casey (alto saxophone/percussion) always bring a special vibe to the stage when they join Soulive. As much as they is a respected jazz trio, their vested interest in funk runs deep. The audience is blessed to have a horn ensemble in the mix of some of their favorite jazz tunes. “For Granted” was a wonderful showcase for the widely talented Ryan Zoidis, while James Casey absolutely stole the show with his performance on “Cannonball.” Eric Bloom took his liberties with his pedals and effects during his solo, as well. These two songs were meant to showcase The Shady Horns and boy, did they deliver.
“The Shady Horns were dead on, once again. Eric Bloom‘s effects-enhanced solos and James Casey killed it, as always, while Ryan continues to be the mainstay. Gonna get some more rest today so I can get back there tonight with Tedeschi!!!” ~ R.G.
The eyes say so much, and they speak even louder when a musician closes his eyes and is fully immersed in song. This happened to Krasno throughout the remainder of the set. When Scofield came on the stage, Krasno was in a blissed-out state of being, eyes closed, in total focus. “What You See Is What You Get,” a major hit for the Dramatics in 1971, is Scofield’s interpretation of Detroit soul music. The beautiful thing about John Scofield is that even though he covers many old tunes, the arrangements are all his own. “Nealization,” obviously composed by Neal Evans, was a fantastic representation of his talent. Scofield played lead guitar while Krasno played rhythm. The entire crew on stage was grinning from ear to ear while the ax-men played off each other, trading delicious licks on their guitars.
“I have been a fan of John Scofield since the first time I saw him at The Bottom Line in NYC in 1980. I always mark this night as a must go. Even having stayed home from work sick, I got the energy up to get there. I was not disappointed!!! It is so obvious that Kraz uses Sco as a mentor and has used him as one of his many inspirations. As it is equally obvious how Sco is impressed with Kraz. There dueling solos blew the entire audience away. Sco has a way of making his guitar sing.” ~ R.G.
“Can someone explain to me how Neal Evans solos on keys with Soulive while also dropping funky bass? Meanwhile, I can’t even rub my tummy and tap my head at the same time…” ~ K.S.
“Neal Evans is the most underrated bass player in music. His right hand gets so funky, we forget his left is leading us to the promise land.” ~ J.S.
The next two songs were songs off John Scofield‘s latest album release, Piety Street. The Rev. James Cleveland cover, “Something’s Got A Hold On Me,” was first but it was “Motherless Child,” a traditional negro spiritual born out of slavery and sung by Cleary with sharp new harmonies, that grabbed the audience’s attention.
“When I heard “Motherless Child,” I almost didn’t recognize it. I recognized that I was hearing the words of a song I knew but the arrangement was so different from the versions I’d previously heard. I am aging myself by saying this but I remember the first time I ever heard that song. I was just 15 years old. It is the hidden song within Track 11 off the Cracked Rear View album by Hootie and The Blowfish. Y’all remember that? Darius Rucker sings the song in it’s traditional A-Capella style. It was as beautiful to back then as it was now, hearing it in this new style and arrangement. I adore when modern musicians take classic songs and make them their own.” ~ K.D.
“One of my favorite moments of the evening, was when the stage was packed with everyone on the bill, Soulive, The Shady Horns, Scofield and Clearly as they played a tune that featured three part harmonies of Alan Evans, Jon Cleary and Eric “Benny” Bloom. I look forward to finding that show on Archive.org to relive that moment and sing along with them!” ~ M.M.
Then, the jazz/organ trio pulled a new maneuver out of their Bowlive bag of tricks. Jon Cleary and John Scofield remained on stage, while Soulive and The Shady Horns exited. This would be the first time in Bowlive history where the band allowed the stage to be commanded solely by the guests. It was not a coincidence that Jon Cleary and John Scofield were the two guests playing on the bill last night. Cleary is not only renowned for his ability to play the ivories, but he also composes music and went on to write and join John Scofield on the the road singing and playing with Scofield’s Piety Street Band. Needless to say, the combination of the two artists performing their song, “Walk With Me,” was electrifying and unique. Cleary sat back and watched as Scofield took a few measures for himself before joining in the song.
Through great applause, John Scofield leaned into the microphone. Referring to Cleary, he says, “This guy can play a mean piano but did you know he is an amazing guitarist, as well?” With that, Cleary jumped from the keys and moved to guitar while Krasno picked up the bass for “Don’t Need No Doctor.” Scofield continued, “John Mayer used to sing this song, but you should hear Cleary sing this song.” The audience laughed. The horns had left the stage but James Casey remained playing percussion. Casey is an amazing horn player but his talent by way of understanding sounds in percussion has grown exponentially since we saw him last year at Bowlive IV. During the song, Scofield could be seen bouncing around, pointing to the next member on stage he wanted to pull a solo.
“I want to say that my highlight was “What You See Is What You Get,” “Nealization” or “Hottentot,” but honestly I had two highlights. (1) Cleary killing it on guitar with Kraz killing it on Bass, and (2) Scofield directing traffic. Maybe it’s an elder statesman thing, but the respect that guy engenders on stage is impressive. He was absolutely in charge and was clearly enjoying going tit for tat with everyone. I especially loved when [John Scofield] made a point to give Alan some play time, because, give the drummer some! Am I right? All in all, just a beast of a show. I fucking love Bowlive.” ~ B.M.
Jon Cleary‘s turn was up and he retired backstage. The Shady Horns were also held back as Soulive and John Scofield played, “Turn It Out.” This was the time for all the jazz heads to revel in the genre. As much as Soulive likes to give us the funk, jazz is their priority and their growing reputation on this musical path is what has brought them this far. Scofield’s reputation in the Jazz community runs deeper and Krasno’s idolization of Scofield’s style is evident in how Krasno, himself, plays. So you can imagine how equally graceful and intense this part of the set was.
“Seeing two guitar gods trade licks was invigorating, and truly impressive at the same time, as you could see the admiration that Krasno has for Scofield as they both played their hearts out! It was ON, for sure!! “Turn It Out” brought back some great musical memories for me, as I harkened back to a January 2003 Soulive show that took place in an Italian restaurant in the tiny mountain town of Makawao, HI on the island of Maui. It reinforced the fact that we made a great decision to make the trek for our first Bowlive and it’s got me jazzed looking forward to what I’ll get to experience tonight! Thank you Eric, Alan and Neal!! You and your friends bring me musical delight!” ~ M.M.
“We love you madly,” said Scofield, “This one is a groover, called ‘Hottentot,’ so let’s keep dancing.” And dance we did. The venue never emptied out like in previous nights and this was a true testament to the musicianship on stage. Like I mentioned previously, this wasn’t your average audience of bar goers. There were super fans in the audience for each of the artists on stage and they were there in full support all night. Alan Evans was featured on a rousing drum solo during “Hottentot.” He is honestly one of the best jazz drummers around and the audience was overheard speaking on how they were looking forward to the Alan Evans Trio opening for Bowlive on night six.
Everyone was brought back on stage for the single-song encore, “Get Back.” A Beatles‘ tune, it was expertly played by the musicians on stage, having all worshiped the Beatles at some point in their musical careers. The audience was invested as well and sang along with bodies bouncing. It was a perfect ending to a wonderful collaboration of musicians.
Tonight, Jon Cleary will return with special guests jazz saxophonist Bill Evans, acclaimed Brooklyn drummer Joe Russo and southern vocalist and guitarist Susan Tedeschi.
List of Special Guests and Openers:
WEDNESAY MARCH 19 – Special Guests: JOE RUSSO & SUSAN TEDESCHI
THURSDAY MARCH 20 – Special Guest: DMC (of RUN DMC) and TALIB KWELI
FRIDAY MARCH 21 – Special Guest: Marco Benevento, Sonya Kitchell, Roosevelt Collier, Felix Pastorius, Oteil & Kofi Burbridge, and Brandon Niederauer
SATURDAY MARCH 22 – Special Guest: Bill Evans and more TBA
Bowlive V: Night III – Soulive feat. George Porter Jr. and The London Souls #LondonSouLive @ Brooklyn Bowl (03.15.14)
Bowlive V: Night III – Soulive feat. George Porter Jr. and The London Souls #LondonSoulive @ The Brooklyn Bowl (03.15.14)
We are all influenced by something. It’s inevitable. Everything around us is influential, just as we are influential in our own special way to all things in the universe that surround us. It becomes fascinating when you are privileged enough to see your favorite artist, someone who has influenced your life so deeply, become fascinated by amazing another. That is what happened last night. Many times over.
This is a golden age of live music. To be able to hear this caliber of music at small venues with reasonable prices is not something to be taken lightly. Having grown up in the heyday of the Fillmore East, I thought the explosion of good live music would last forever. We had some lean years in between. Appreciate it and support it. ~ R.M.
Soulive has now stomped out three nights of shredding, grooving, bluesy, jazzy goodness with non-stop energy and musical perfection. For other artists looking to see how it’s done, well, this is the band to watch. They are inspirational, to say the least. They invite people who influence them to join them on stage and they subliminally invite us to be inspired.
Over the past two nights, keyboardist Neal Evans, drummer Alan Evans, and guitarist Eric Krasno have enjoyed the musical company of Nigel Hall, DJ Logic, Eddie Roberts, Nicki Bluhm, George Porter, Jr., Warren Haynes, The Shady Horns, and Leroy Justice. And last night, a new term would be coined when the London Souls joined Soulive for what would become a face melting #LondonSoulive set.
Photo Courtesy of Headyshots
London Souls Set
Tash Neal (guitar/vocals), Chris St. Hilaire (drums/vocals) and Stu Mahan (bass) make up one of the sickest trios around right now. These three powerhouse musicians truly grab your attention with their full-on, Rock-N-Rage sets. Tash Neal is the epitome of a person who was meant to be a guitarist, always drenched in sweat minutes into the start of their set from playing with so much force. Stu Mahan’s bass riffs fit so well into the pocket that it might be impossible to ever pull him out. The drumming of Chris St. Hilaire helps drive the force of the other two gnarly beasts.
I think it was Bowlive II or III, but I remember seeing them open for Soulive and there were literally 15 people watching. Look at this now, the place is packed and now they are opening for Tedeschi/Trucks Band. They sounded great then but they sound amazing now. ~ J.M.
Dude, you just getting here? They are CRUSHING IT!!! ~ J.I.
You know what I love about them? They all look absolutely different. ~ S.G.
Tash Neal was in a serious car accident a few years back when a drunk driver t-boned his taxi. No one knew what to expect from recovery, but look at this guy now!!! Are you kidding me? You’d never know anything happened by looking at him but you can HEAR that he plays with the passion of survival every SINGLE time. ~ K.D.
Their sex appeal is undeniable as girls in the audience were totally zoned into the band, screaming like super fans. This was a face-smashing head-banging kind of rock and here it was the girls were more animated then the guys, but only at times. The London Souls released their latest album, Here Come The Girls, on January 8, 2013. Go grab a copy and be enjoy a modern day version of The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Cream.
What really stood out for me is two things with the London Souls. Similar to Soulive, they make an incredibly full sound for only three guys. Sometimes it amazes me there aren’t more people on stage. Even Soulive uses guests and horns, the London Souls have a raw energetic sound. ~ J.M.
I thought they had just a ton of energy right from the start – the London Souls were amazing and made me wonder why I don’t listen to more of them. ~ B.M.
Photo Courtesy of Rob Chapman
Keep On Marchin’ (w/ GPJ)
People Say
No More Okey Doke
Chug A Lugg
Last night, the venue was packed to the brim. There were no special announcements, but I wager that many thought they might get a surprise artist tonight given that Warren Haynes showed up the night before without warning. Regardless of who MIGHT be showing up, we already had the best hitters in the house. Mr. George Porter, Jr., a Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame nominee and bassist for the funk legends, The Meters, was the special guest of the evening and we would see him shortly.
Nobody, I mean nobody lights up a room like George Porter, Jr. but you already knew that ~ J.M.
Soulive and The Shady Horns came out on stage together last night for the first set. Other nights its been just the audience and our favorite jazz/funk trio. They went heavy into “Hat Trick” and James Casey (saxophone) blew out his best solo of the run to date. Neal Evan’s keys on “Aladdin” and Eric Krasno’s guitar solo on “Vapor” was like sonic therapy for the soul.
There were so many audience members commenting on how tired they were due to the previous nights of raging Bowlive V. All that changed when George Porter, Jr. came out. This is where it gets fascinating, when you get to see your favorite artists playing with their musical inspirations. Soulive is a funk/soul/jazz band and George Porter Jr. is a king of kings when it comes to funk bass. Up there with Bootsy Collins and Larry Graham, he is a master of funky bass playing and the respect he is given from the funk community is wonderful.
Having seen him many times, his energy was off the charts this night. His shenanigans and antics were infectious. “Keep On Marchin'” into “People Say,” both Meters originals, were fantastic but there were a few moments when Ryan Zoidis (saxophone) and Porter engaged in a playful back and forth, that had fans jumping off their feet. And when Zoidis completed his killin’ solo, Mr. George Porter, himself, leapt off the ground in recognition, shouting, “Yeah!”
My appreciation of Ryan Zoidis grows each time I hear him live. He has become a monster on sax, from the alto to the big baritone. ~ R.M.
The Shady Horns, Evan Brothers and Krasno were all smiles. They kept the pace up without missing a beat. Porter said, “Here’s something you don’t hear too often,” and with that, they went into “No More Okey Doke,” a stray from the original set list. It was back to the set list for “Chug A Lugg,” when Porter pulled a change up and says, “Sorry y’all, this some Earth, Wind and Fire shit.” Sadly, a song that I couldn’t name. Lastly, they played the Meters classic, “Africa,” where James Casey brought the house down with one of his signature solos.
Set II – 12:20am
Hit It & Quit It
Steady As You Go
Memphis Train
Them Changes
Krasno and the Evans brothers came out with The Shady Horns for the second set but this time The Shady Horns were joined by Mike Tucker, a Berkley-taught tenor saxophonist from Massachusetts. Neal Evans lead the organ-heavy “El Ron,” as Krasno’s fingers flew over his guitar. In fact, I am chalking it up to the audience being tired and possibly drunk, but Krasno ripped such an amazing solo, that he was shouting to himself while up on his toes, and only a handful of people recognized the dope sauce he was throwing in our ears. A slow and passionate “PJs” was next but not before the audience was given a bath in brass. The Shady Horns, consisting of Eric Bloom (trumpet), Ryan Zoidis (baritone and tenor saxophone), James Casey (tenor saxophone) and special guest, Mike Tucker, started popping and honking and blowing their way through measure after measure of uninterupted horn rage.
The highlight last night was the cascading lines of the extended horn section during “El Ron.” What a treat it was to be bathed in a brass waterfall of soulful saxes electrified by the captivating timbre of Eric Bloom’s trumpet. ~ P.S.P.
Night 3, after James Casey killed it at the Leprechaun’s Ball with Eddie Roberts and Nigel Hall, he brought his amazing energy to the Bowl to crush his solos with the Shady Horns and man, he got the crowd going wild. ~ J.G.
The thing about having only missed one out of the 43 Bowlive shows, is that it can be difficult to separate them from one and other. Every night the boys are expected to bring the fire while we hope that they bring the unexpected. For those of us with track records like that, we can be hard to please since we are always looking for the next best Soulive fix. This next collaboration was exactly the fix we were seeking.
The idea to mix The London Souls with Soulive was brilliant. The combination being called “LondonSoulive,” it was just like it sounded. The trios mashed-up, placing Alan in a position to play guitar and sing his way through the rest of the set. Neal Evans was relieved of the bass keys as Stu Mahan stepped up. This was about to become electric.
And the other thing K.D. was quick to point out was during “London Soulive” was that there was only one drum kit and Alan wasn’t on it. With what I’m sure wasn’t that much practice time, Chris St. Hilaire was able to basically be the drummer for Soulive and they didn’t miss a beat. That in itself is a huge compliment to his ability. ~ J.M.
Krasno looks to Tash as a peer who challenges him. As much as Krasno loves playing with the legends who came before him, he becomes a better version of himself when he performs next to Tash. His stance changes, his playing changes, he knows he can’t back down because Tash will shred his face off. For the first time ever, I saw little beads of sweat forming under Krazno’s signature hat. That was the palpable energy that fed the entire rest of the set. Starting with “Lucille,” it was just pure, unadulterated shredding by Krasno and Tash. A jam session of epic proportions.
Tash and Krasno traded guitar licks, as they powered through “Hit It & Quit It,” Steady As You Ready,” and “Memphis Train.” All three songs pinned the two guitar virtuosos against each other, both pulling the best out of each other with each new measure. Then, they began to play the Neil Young classic, “OHIO.” Everyone sounded fantastic, the guitarists, the keys, the drums. However, there were no horns for “OHIO.” It was just pure grungy, rock-n-roll to the extreme. Everyone in the audience was bouncing, literally jumping off their feet to the beat and they didn’t stop.
It was great to see the raw rock and roll energy that the London Souls bring to Bowlive. Ohio was a stand out tune. You could picture Neil Young, the Godfather of Grunge loving the energy that the Souls put into the classic CSNY song. By the time I was done dancing around the lanes to that one I had to take a couch break Those guys really add a great energy to the Soulive mix. ~ J.R.
For me it was all about The Souls in the second set…. loved Chris on the drums freeing up Alan to take to the mic standing. – Tash from Souls is absolutely ridiculous on that guitar…downright mesmerizing rock and roll shredding… and to see him and George porter trading licks and deep grooving… was so good. ~ A.R.
Photo Courtesy of Robert Chapman
Alan was back on the drums for “Them Changes” while Chris St. Hiliare moved to percussion and the Shady Horns returned for the is last tune. It was a dance party and when Eric Bloom snagged his solo, even the band was smiling ear to ear and gave him a huge applause.
Just Kissed My Baby
George Porter, Jr. was brought out for the Encore where he performed an extended version of “Just Kissed My Baby,” with Alan, Neal and Krasno. The London Souls remained also and Porter lead the guys in every direction. He was yelling, and jumping around, so animated. Stu Mahan held his own on the stage next to Porter, beginning to carve out his own deep bass legacy.
My legs were so tired by the end of the night–but you just couldn’t help but dance to “Just Kissed My Baby” ~ B.M.
Porter was appreciating every moment of being on stage with all these talented modern day funk musicians. He appeared not only proud, but spirited, so full of life as he engaged with each artist, walking up to them, cheering them on to do better, to pull something out that would make him holler. It was open season for bass rage as far as I was concerned. They extended “Just Kissed My Baby” with so much force that nothing else would have lived up to it.
And so we have reached the end of the first week of Bowlive V. Similar to the previous years, multiple Bowlive alums, such as George Porter, Jr., The London Souls, Nigel Hall and many more were present to lend their talents to our favorite power trio. Tonight will kick off five more nights of music to revel and dance in with special guests, John Scofield, John Cleary, Joe Russo and Bill Evans, DMC (of Run DMC), Susan Tedeschi, and Marco Benevento. You can expect high-energy, soulful opening acts from John Clearly, Sonya Kitchell, The Alan Evans Trio and finally, WOLF! feat. Scott Metzger.
See you at the Brooklyn Bowl….
Tonight’s Special Guests will be the famous eclectic jazz guitarist, John Scofield and New rleans keyboardist John Cleary. Mr Cleary will also be performing the opening set. Doors open at 6, set beings at 8:30 pm. This will be another face-melting gig so don’t miss out.
THURSDAY MARCH 13 w/ Special Guest: NIGEL HALL
FRIDAY MARCH 14 w/ Special Guests: GEORGE PORTER JR. & SPECIAL GUESTS TBA
SATURDAY MARCH 15 w/ Special Guest: GEORGE PORTER JR. feat. a special LONDON SOULIVE joint set
w/ Special Guest: JOHN SCOFIELD
Opener: & Special Guest: JON CLEARY
WEDNESAY MARCH 19
w/ Special Guests: JOE RUSSO & BILL EVANS & SUSAN TEDESCHI
w/ Special Guest: DMC (of RUN DMC)
w/ Special Guest: MARCO BENEVENTO
SATURDAY MARCH 22
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Luxury Cruises Out of New Orleans
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Three cruise lines embark from New Orleans. (Photo: Sunset on the bayou image by M. Hirani from Fotolia.com )
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Types of Cabins on Cruise Ships
Three cruise lines sail out of New Orleans for journeys to the Caribbean and South America. Each offers upscale accomodations and services to pamper travelers who want to cruise in luxury. Large cabins with private balconies and in-room dining help travelers get away from the crowded decks and dining rooms. With New Orleans as the embarkation port, cruise passengers enjoy the clubs, music, and food that the city offers prior to starting their journey.
The 2,018-passenger Norwegian Spirit offers seven-night cruises from New Orleans with stops in Costa Maya, Belize City, Roatan and Cozumel. Select from one of three types of suites: the Owner’s Suite has 605 square feet of space, more than four times the size of the standard inside cabins. The space contains a living room, private balcony, dining area and separate bedroom with a queen-size bed. The suite's bathroom has a whirlpool tub and separate shower. The bar is stocked with bottled water, soft drinks, liquor, wine and champagne. Butler and concierge services come with the room, and canapes are delivered every afternoon. If you need Internet access and purchase an onboard service plan, you will receive a laptop computer for use in your room. You also get VIP seating at shows. For something slightly less expensive, try the Penthouse Suite or the Deluxe Penthouse suite, which have similar features to the Owner's Suite, but aren't quite as large. Norwegian Cruise Line NCL Corporation Ltd. 7665 Corporate Center Drive Miami, FL 33126 866-234-7350 ncl.com
Royal Caribbean International once again begins service from New Orleans in 2011. The 3,114-passenger Voyager of the Seas will be sailing on seven-night cruises to Cozumel, Grand Cayman and Jamaica. Luxury accommodations include a number of suites, the largest of which is the Royal Suite. This cabin has 1,188 square feet of living space and a 170-square-foot private balcony with a hot tub. The suite has a separate bedroom with a king-size bed, baby grand piano in the living room, whirlpool bathtub and queen-size sofa bed. Enjoy a 42-inch flat screen television with surround sound. Concierge services and access to on-board private lounges come with the room. The ship offers a number of dining options, but luxury cruisers should consider dining at Vini d’Italia. You’ll enjoy a four-course meal of seasonal Italian dishes, each paired with an Italian wine. If you prefer other wines, purchase a wine package with your cruise and enjoy fine wines throughout your journey. The Owner’s Suite, Grand Suite and Junior Suite are additional luxury accommodations on a smaller scale. Families can book the Royal Family Suite, which has two separate bedrooms. Royal Caribbean International Corporate Guest Relations 1050 Caribbean Way Miami, FL 33132 800-256-6649 royalcaribbean.com
Carnival Cruise Lines offers the most variety of cruises from New Orleans with four-, five-, seven- and eight-night cruises to the eastern and western Caribbean. You’ll cruise on either the Ecstasy, Triumph or Conquest vessels. Western Caribbean ports of call include Roatan, Honduras; Cozumel and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico; the Eastern Caribbean ports of call includeKey West, Florida; and Freeport and Nassau in the Bahamas. Consider the Grand Suite with its separate sitting area and large balcony. You also get a walk-in closet and whirlpool bath. The high-thread-count linens offer soft and luxurious bedding, and the towels are made of fine cotton. Regular suites are less expensive, but smaller and not quite so luxurious. Carnival Cruise Lines 3655 NW 87th Ave. Miami, FL 33178 888-227-6482 carnival.com
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The Journey Tribute band featuring Ernie Shepherd also returns for a repeat performance after many festival-goers begged the festival to bring them back, said Caroline Hasty the events and media coordinator for the Town of Fort Mill. “They’ve been the most requested comeback” in festival history!!
"You've got to get yourself to Texas for the State Fair and Rodeo....Charlie Daniels personally requested you open for him".
Doorman Waggoner
Festival Stage Manager
"Seriously brother, I thought I was listening to Steve Perry tonight"
after Trial by Fire opened his show
In 1996, arena rock superstars Journey put the band back together to record their tenth studio album, Trial by Fire. Shortly after the release of this reunion album lead singer and signature voice, Steve Perry injured himself while training for what was to be a high energy road show. With Steve Perry unable to perform, the Trial by Fire tour became "the tour that never happened". Imagine if Steve Perry had never injured himself on that fateful day. What would the Trial by Fire tour look like?
Flash forward to the present. TRIAL BY FIRE is born out of the hearts of five seasoned North Carolina - based musicians who have decided to answer that question. It is their vision to bring that 1996 tour to Journey fans across the country; to embrace the sound and visuals of the Steve Perry era of Journey.
Prepare to let TRIAL BY FIRE take you back to an earlier day when lighters were held high, and you couldn't help but sing along to such powerful choruses as “Don’t Stop Believin’”, “Wheel in the Sky”, “Lights”, "Separate Ways" and "Faithfully"
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The Fairy Queen
By dropping the spoken scenes of the whole semi-opera and highlighting the ear-candy songs, fabulous dance scenes, clever effects and on stage-silliness of Purcell's work Harnoncourt father and son let the audience sit back and enjoy the memorable «masques» en suite. Taken on its own, the colourful series of scenes turns out to be a Baroque version of the «Everyman» play, where in a magical night a young couple encounters the heralds of nature. They remind the young persons of who they are, where they come from and where they are headed. And as you can see: The imagination knows no bounds in the realm of the Fairy Queen.
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The tools of corpus linguistics have made it possible to demonstrate that, far from being a monolithic entity, language consists of a large number of varieties. Several varieties of English have been examined at the CECL. Thus, English for Academic Purposes (EAP) has been considered with a view to identifying a common-core academic vocabulary and describing its phraseological features. Other studies have highlighted the difficulties learners experience when writing academic texts. In this respect, the Centre has been involved in the second edition of the Macmillan English Dictionary, which provides the reader with practical advice to write academic texts. Also, one of the CECL projects aims to develop an electronic dictionary of Academic English coupled with writing aid software.
Business English is another variety that is being studied at the CECL, with special emphasis on the identification and analysis of prefabs found in this type of discourse. We are particularly interested in prefabs from general business English that express essential notions like time, contrast or quantity. The expression of quantification, which appears to be especially important for business English, is the topic of a project that seeks to bring to light the diversity of the "quantification tool box" (nouns, adjectives, adverbs, etc) in English, French and Dutch.
Finally, the new, indigenised varieties of English (World Englishes) are also considered at the CECL. Particularly interesting from our point of view is how the distinctive features of these varieties relate and compare to those of learner English, and how any similarities between the two types of varieties may be explained.
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USM Webinar to benefit Black Power Blueprint – The CIA: The World’s Biggest Drug Dealer
This episode of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement Web Show will expose the history of the CIA’s role in trafficking cocaine into African communities in the United States; how Chairman Omali Yeshitela and the Uhuru Movement exposed this before it was later corroborated by San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb; and how the US “War on Drugs” is a cover for a colonial war against the African population that locks up millions of black men and women in prison to fuel the parasitic capitalist economy.
Join us for this livestreamed event on Tuesday, March 12th at 7pm EST.
White people in solidarity with Black Power and African liberation can join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, and join us for our National Convention “Make America Pay Reparations” this April 13th & 14th in St. Louis, MO. Register at USM2019CONVENTION.EVENTBRITE.COM
Contribute to Black Power Blueprint and learn more at blackpowerblueprint.org.
info@uhurusolidarity.org March 10, 2019
“All Diamonds Are Blood Diamonds” Uhuru Solidarity Movement National Tour, Feb/March 2019!
ALL DIAMONDS ARE BLOOD DIAMONDS: THERE IS NO DIAMOND NOT COVERED WITH THE BLOOD OF AFRICAN PEOPLE!
“All Diamonds Are Blood Diamonds” is the slogan raised by the Uhuru Solidarity Movement in response to the white liberal campaign against “blood” or “conflict” diamonds during the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-backed colonial war in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002.
“All Diamonds are Blood Diamonds” is the theme for the Uhuru Solidarity Movement’s national tour which will take place in February and March of 2019.
The fact is there is no such thing as a diamond from Africa that is not stolen from African people and tainted with African blood shed during the ongoing colonial war against them.
The white liberal struggle against blood diamonds is, in fact, a campaign that benefited a colonial mining giant, DeBeers Diamond cartel.
The Blood Diamonds campaign fought against any diamonds sold on the open market by “rebels” or others in African countries that were not connected to DeBeers Diamonds. The cartel demanded that all diamonds be certified through what is called the Kimberley Process, controlled by DeBeers and named after the Kimberley region where the mines are located.
DeBeers is the mining company founded in the 1880’s by Cecil John Rhodes, the brutal British colonizer whose goal was to take over Africa from the Cape (Cape Town, South Africa) to Cairo (Egypt) for the benefit of British imperialism and all its citizens—the bourgeoisie and workers alike.
British colonizer Rhodes was the architect of South African apartheid modeled on the “Jim Crow” colonial conditions for African people inside the U.S.
A believer in the “Anglo-Saxon master race,” Rhodes stole about one million miles of southern African land for the British and himself personally.
Rhodes was responsible for the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of African people and the enslavement of tens of thousands more in the diamond mines, generating massive wealth that created the parasitic capitalist economic foundation for what is now known as “South Africa.”
According to the U.K. Daily Telegraph article on December 22, 2015, Rhodes’ “establishment of a paramilitary private army, the British South Africa Company’s Police (BSACP) resulted in the systematic murder of approximately 60,000 people; his amendment of the Masters and Servants Act (1890) reintroduced conditions of torture for black laborers; his infamous racist “land grabs” set up a system in which the unlawful and illegitimate acquisition of land through armed force was routine.”
BLOOD DIAMOND CAMPAIGN BENEFITS THE DE BEERS CARTEL
Fast forward to 1991 when neocolonial president Charles Taylor of Liberia was brought to trial and convicted by a special court on April 26, 2012 on charges of murder, rape and pillage of the people of neighboring Sierra Leone.
Employed by the CIA “for years” according to a 2012 article in the Boston Globe, Taylor was also convicted and sentenced to 80 years in prison for planning the 1999 attacks on Kono, Makeni and Freetown, Sierra Leone along with the Sierra Leone rebel group, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF).
The RUF, backed by Taylor and the CIA, waged a coup attempt in 1991 against the then Sierra Leone president, leading to the 11-year bloodshed that murdered 50,000 African people with millions of families forced to flee from their homes in the face of torture, rape and mutilations.
The RUF mutilations included the cutting off of hands of thousands of Africans, a vicious act mimicking the terrorism imposed on the Congo by the Belgian colonizer King Leopold in the early 20th century.
This West African colonial war was a bloody, violent fight over control of the valuable African land of Sierra Leone, where mining accounts for about 80 percent of the colonial economy (of which diamonds are nearly 50 percent) in a country where more than 60 percent of the population lives on less than $1.25 a day in the multi-billion dollar U.S. and European mining industry.
The RUF is said to have gained control of a couple of diamond mines and sold diamonds as mavericks on the open market, much to the dismay of long-time criminal De Beers cartel.
ALL WHITE PEOPLE SIT ON THE PEDESTAL OF SLAVERY AND GENOCIDE
Cecil Rhodes understood well that all white people, including all white workers, sit on the pedestal of the enslavement and colonization of African people as Chairman Omali Yeshitela has shown.
He understood that capitalism is parasitic, born and maintained at the expense of Africans and other colonial subjects.
Rhodes once stated: “I was in the east end of London (a working-class quarter) yesterday and attended a meeting of the unemployed. I listened to the wild speeches, which were just a cry for ‘bread! bread!’ and on my way home I pondered over the scene and I became more than ever convinced of the importance of imperialism…
“My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e., in order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for the goods produced in the factories and mines.
“The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists.”
The African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) is an organization of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) as part of its strategy for nothing short than the total liberation of Africa and African people and the return of its land and minerals as well as the value of its stolen labor.
The main work of APSC, under the leadership of the Party, is to win reparations to the African Revolution from white people inside Europe, the U.S. and around the world.
APSC’s mass organization, the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, continues to raise the slogan, “All diamonds are blood diamonds,” as a stand of white people’s reparations to African people.
You can join many other white people in donating your diamonds to the African Revolution at www.uhurusolidarity.org. or at any upcoming event:
USM, Boston
3:00 – 5:00 pm EST
First Church in Jamaica Plain
6 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Keynote: Yejide Orunmila, President of African National Women’s Organization (ANWO)
Featured: Connor Voss, Northern Coordinator of the African People’s Solidarity Committee
Register at: BloodDiamondsBoston.eventbrite.com
USM, NYC
Solidarity Center @ TBG (Theresa Byrnes Gallery)
616 E 9th St, New York, NY 10009
Featured: Penny Hess, African People’s Solidarity Committee
Register on Eventbrite HERE.
USM, Philly
William Way Center – Philadelphia Room
1315 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107
USM, St. Pete
Akwaaba Hall
1245 18th Ave S, St. Petersburg, FL 33705
Keynote: Akilé Anai, Director of Agitation and Propaganda for the African People’s Socialist Party
Featured: Jesse Nevel, National Chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement
Register at: BloodDiamondsStPete.eventbrite.com
USM, Gainesville
Civic Media Center
433 S Main St, Gainesville, FL 32601
USM, Portland
3:00 – 5:30 pm PDT
Kenton Public Library
8226 North Denver Avenue, Portland OR 97217
Keynote: Israel Fin of the African People’s Socialist Party
USM, Seattle
8201 10th Avenue South, Seattle WA 98108
USM, Oakland
7911 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland CA 94605
Keynote: Bakari Olatunji, member of the African People’s Socialist Party and Uhuru Foods and Market Coordinator
USM, St. Louis
6:30 – 8:30 pm CST
Center for Divine Love – The Empowerment Center
3617 Wyoming St, St. Louis, MO 63116
Keynote: Ticharwa Masimba, African People’s Socialist Party
Featured: KC Mackey, African People’s Solidarity Committee
Register at: https://blooddiamondsSTL.eventbrite.com
USM, Louisville
First Unitarian Church, Library Room
809 S 4th St, Louisville, KY 40203
Register at: https://blooddiamondslouisville.eventbrite.com
Check back for more information and more events on this growing tour!
Your diamonds will be turned over to Black Star Industries, the economic front of the African People’s Socialist Party where they will become part of the economic foundation of a liberated Africa led by the African working class for the benefit of the entire African Nation.
Unity through Reparations!
LIVESTREAM OF: Uhuru Solidarity Movement Webinar: Abrupt Climate Change & Imperialism
Click HERE to view the livestream of this important and informative webinar –
A live discussion on the threat posed by U.S. imperialism to the survival of life on this planet.
Pay reparations tonight at BlackPowerBlueprint.org
Featuring African People’s Solidarity Committee Chair Penny Hess and USM Chair Jesse Nevel.#WhiteSolidarityWithBlackPower
info@uhurusolidarity.org January 8, 2019
Urgent Webinar Hosted by Uhuru Solidarity Movement: Abrupt Climate Change & Imperialism
Abrupt Climate Change & Imperialism
Hosted by the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, don’t miss this urgent web event on the threat posed by U.S. imperialism to the survival of life on this planet – and why the solution is in the struggle of African, Indigenous and colonized people to reclaim control of their resources. White environmentalist capitalism will not solve the problem. Colonial conservationism will not solve it. White scientists, Al Gore, or bans on plastic straws will not solve it. Only the African liberation struggle can do that, and white people who are concerned about the environment must join in solidarity with the anti-colonial movement of the oppressed nations of the world to defeat the imperialist system that arose on the enslavement of African human beings.
Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee, will be our guest speaker. Tune in this Tuesday January 8th at 8pm EST/ 7pm Central/ 5pm Pacific time. This event will be livestreamed from our Facebook page. Click HERE for event on Facebook. Also livestreaming from our YouTube channel!
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USM Webinar: Every iPhone’s Hidden Price: Genocide, Slavery & Colonialism
Every iPhone's Hidden Price: Genocide, Slavery & Colonialism. A live discussion featuring African People's Solidarity Committee Chair Penny Hess and Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair Jesse Nevel.Contribute to the Black Power Blueprint tonight at blackpowerblueprint.org#WhiteSolidarityWithBlackPower
Posted by Uhuru Solidarity Movement on Tuesday, December 11, 2018
We are an organization of white people organizing under the leadership of the African working class.
All white people owe reparations.
We raise white reparations to African people in support of economic development projects like the @black_power_blueprint in St. Louis, MO. Our monthly webinars benefit the Black Power Blueprint and we take on a variety of issues that affect the African community, and discuss how we can end our complicity and what we can do about it. This is material solidarity, not just rhetoric. www.youtube.com/uhurusolidarity
Take a stand against white power and become a member today at www.uhurusolidarity.org
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APSP Chairman Omali Yeshitela with ASI Secretary General Luwezi Kinshasa: Is Paris Burning?
Is Paris Burning? Chairman Omali Yeshitela featuring ASI Secretary General Luwezi Kinshasa on the crisis in France and what it means for the struggle for African people in France, Africa, and around the world.
Posted by Chairman Omali Yeshitela on Saturday, December 8, 2018
Chairman Omali Yeshitela featuring Secretary General of the African Socialist International (ASI) Luwezi Kinshasa, on the crisis in France and what it means for the struggle for African people in France, Africa, and around the world.
info@uhurusolidarity.org December 8, 2018
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Are there any towels, facecloths and tea towels still made in the UK? Made in Britain Towels and Tea Towels
I am trying to find a flannel (facecloth, wash cloth) that is made in England and it is proving much harder than I expected. Are there any flannels or towels still made in England or elsewhere in the UK that you know of please? Is anyone actually weaving, dyeing and finishing towels in the UK now? Sadly it seems to me that there are no longer any towel weaving mills left in the UK.
UK made tea towels are readily available and I would strongly encourage that you buy these British made tea towels in preference to foreign made ones. I list some British tea towels sellers and makers here.
Towels wise though, I can find nothing really.
Chortex make no mention of a UK factory on their website and they confirmed to me (on 31st March 2014) that their towels are no longer manufactured in the UK.
Christy towels are now made in India.
A vintage Christy Made in England floor towel (label detail). Sadly Christy have now moved all production abroad. Photograph by author.
Ashtons were another well known towel maker, with 2 cotton mills in England. Taken over by Courtaulds in 1968 the company now appear to have closed.
A vintage Ashtons Zorbit Princess pure cotton hand towel. Made in the UK. Label detail (front of label). Photograph by author.
A vintage Ashtons Zorbit Princess pure cotton hand towel. Made in the UK. Label detail (rear of label). Photograph by author.
Marks and Spencer used to sell very good quality English made towels. A very few made in the UK items are for sale in Marks and Spencer these days, although that said Marks and Spencer food halls still have lots of great British made foods to choose from. Sadly, since Marks and Spencer decided in 1999 to move all their manufacturing to suppliers abroad, resulting in near devastation amongst British manufacturers particularly in the clothing industry, there are no UK made towels in M&S and few other UK made goods.
A vintage St Michael by Marks and Spencer Made in the UK cotton extra large blue bath sheet (towel). This is a very large towel indeed. Photograph by author 8 September 2017. Label detail.
A vintage St Michael by Marks and Spencer Made in the UK cotton extra large pink bath sheet (towel). Photograph by author 8 September 2017. Label detail.
Tonder and Tonder have a English made soap bar that comes with a facecloth. At the top of their website it says “Made in England”. I was told at one point that the towels Tonder and Tonder sell were made in Turkey not England but they currently (20/11/18) have no towels available and I am told the facecloth that comes with this soap was made in Lancashire by a company no longer in business. Tonder and Tonder have an excellent range of bedlinen, ceramics, tablelinen and accessories that are made in England – http://www.tonderandtonder.co.uk
With Nature Skincare make these muslin face cloths in the UK – http://www.withnatureskincare.co.uk/epages/f5rjwmzwkkar.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/f5rjwmzwkkar/Categories/Facecare/Muslin_Face_Cloths These are also available on Amazon – http://www.amazon.co.uk/WithNature-Skincare-Gentle-Muslin-Cloths/dp/B007JKY2XK
Bamboo Textiles Ltd make bath towels, bath sheets, baby towels, flannels (facecloths), baby robes, wash mits, gym towels, and make-up removal towels in the UK; as well as bed linen and baby bed linen. Many of their products are made in the UK (made in the UK products are labelled as such on their website; other foreign made products do not state county of origin) – http://www.bamboo-textiles.co.uk
Bareskin Beauty say their Bamboo Bath Sheet is made in England. I do not know about the country of origin of their other products but I could not see any indication they were British made from their website – https://www.bareskin-beauty.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=54
Mine! London sell a nice range of off-the-shelf or bespoke small fleece blankets, cotton towels, cotton face clothes (flannels), cotton baby bibs, and fleece scarves. All the items they sell are labelled on their website as being British made. No information about the method or place of production is given. Items are described as hand-made. Their website features the Made in Britain logo – http://www.minelondon.com
Lancashire Textiles in Burnley seem to suggest on their website that all their Pillows, Mattress Protectors, Mattress Toppers, Towels, Home Accessories, Cushions, Pet Bedding, Bed Linens & Baby Bedding are UK made. I have emailed them to check this is the case (I’ve had no response though!) but I suspect it is only their bedding that is made in the UK and not their towels. Items made in Great Britain are clearly flagged with the Made in Britain logo; other products are foreign made. UK made products from Lancashire Textiles include some of their duvets, pillows, shaped pillows (such as v-shaped pillows), anti-allergy pillows, pillow protectors, some mattress protectors, a limited amount of their bedding, the Cavenagh of London ties they sell, some cushions, some cushion inners, some support cushions, their seat pads, some pet bedding, and their bean bags. Look for the Made in Britain logo on the Lancashire Textiles website; they a good range of Britain made products and they have their own mill in Lancashire. Products are available directly from their website – http://www.lancashire-textiles.co.uk
Jane Hamerton towels are personalised in England, but the actual towels themselves are foreign made – http://janehamerton.com
An old Fired Earth floor made in England floor towel, front of label detail. Photograph by author. Sadly this company no longer have their towels made in the UK.
An old Fired Earth floor made in England floor towel, rear of label detail. Photograph by author. Sadly this company no longer have their towels made in the UK.
Stamford Cuemakers Cue Towels are made in England from 100% cotton according to their website. Available on their website and also on eBay. Cue towels are for snooker / pool and are ideal for wiping down your cue when it gets a bit sticky and might be good for the gym too. Their cues and cue cases are also made in England – http://www.stamfordcuemakers.com
Lancashire Towel Co Ltd (aka the East Lancashire Towel Company) clearly label some of their products on their website as British made and it says on their website that they have (it should say had actually) their own mill. The mill is shown on their website as being in Barrowford Lancashire, whereas their address is given as Nelson, Lancashire. According to wikipedia the mill in Barrowford Lancashire is now closed and production has been moved abroad. Stocks are limited and this is because these are old stock being sold off after the factory closure in 2009, as the company has told me. They made towels including bathroom towels, kitchen hand towels, in linen / cotton, and cotton, plus roller towel holders but these days production is sadly in Turkey – http://www.towelcompany.co.uk
Bags of love sell towels that you can have printed with photo but I doubt if the towels themselves are made in the UK. Just printed in the UK.
Fergusons Irish Linen have a factory in Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland. Since 1988 they have been part of Franklin’s who also own Brownlow Textiles Ltd (now just a brand name of Thomas Ferguson & Co. Ltd. ) and John England. Thomas Ferguson & Co. Ltd don’t make country of origin clear on their website but according to Sir Gordon Bennett their tea towels they sell are made in Northern Ireland. As well as tea towels Fergusons also make table linen, bed linen, towels, handkerchiefs, throws and suchlike but it is not clear from their website whether these are British made or made abroad. Franklins is a weaver of badges and labels, supplying the sports, industrial, fashion, career wear and promotional markets, sharing the Fergusons factory in Northern Ireland. No clear information about country of origin is given on the Franklins website. I assume their other factories in Banbridge, Coventry, and Nuneaton have been closed, especially as much production appears to have moved to what Franklins refer to as ‘off-shore manufacturers’ although they do say on their website that “Franklins embroider in our factory in Banbridge” they also talk about outsourcing and overseas suppliers. John England supply fabrics by the metre for the fashion and apparel, curtain, upholstery, theatrical linens, and film productions markets, but again no information is given about country of origin on their website – https://www.fergusonsirishlinen.com – https://www.franklins.co.uk – https://johnengland.com
The Gaddum Group (Gaddum & Gaddum) produce at least some beauty uniforms (their Tempus range) in-house in England and otherwise they add logos to imported clothing and import silks from China. Their towels and robes are foreign made as far as I can gather from their website. Gaddum and Gaddum have a factory in Leek, Staffordshire and manufacture clothing there for others, for example Hugget ladies jackets are made by Gaddum and Gaddum in England – http://www.thegaddumgroup.co.uk
Bard and Brazier towel rails are made in England – http://www.bardbrazier.com
Rutland Radiators heated towel rails are British made – http://www.rutland-radiators.co.uk/bespoke_heated_towel_rails.html
‘The Beach Towel Clip‘ by JDM Designs Ltd is a polypropylene beach accessory that simply pushes into the sand to stop your beach towel blowing away and is British made. The beach towel clips are manufactured at Form mould & tooling in Haverhill Suffolk UK. The beach towel clips are manufactured 100% in the Suffolk, UK. The cartons are manufactured in Glossop, UK, The assembly and distribution of the beach towel clips is done in the North West of England. On their twitter its says “The official account for http://www.thebeachtowelclip.com the multi award winning 100% UK designed & manufactured beach accessory that stops your towel blowing away.” – http://www.thebeachtowelclip.com
The beach towel clip
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Companies that unfairly trade on their so called Britishness. In other words, companies who actively market their British Heritage but actually manufacture abroad.
There’s a tendency amongst many firms to claim British heritage in a way that misleadingly implies manufacture in the UK.
Lonsdale London (boxing) clothing is all foreign made, despite the name and the prevalence of little Union Flags on their products.
Christy Towels emphasise their long British heritage on their website and somehow give the impression of the towels being British made, whereas in fact this Indian owned company now makes all its towels in Gujarat, India having moved its operations there in 2010.
Clarks and Start-rite were both made in the UK, but sadly not anymore. Judging by some of the comments I have had, people think these shoes are still made in the UK when this is not the case. Neither company has gone out of its way to tell customers that their shoes are now foreign made and are more than happy to mis-lead their customers. Start-rite ceased production in the UK in 2003. Clarks ceased production in the UK in 2005.
Boden (clothing) emphasise their “great British style” and somehow give the impression of their items being made in the UK, whereas everything Boden sell is actually foreign made.
Some Charles Tyrwhitt formal shoes are made in England. Regrettably all the other products (shirts, etc.) they sell are foreign made; this despite them using the name Charles Tyrwhitt Jermyn Street London, having a store in Jermyn Street, talking on their website about their British charm and about how Jermyn Street is famous for its craftsmen making shirts.
Hotpoint was a British manufacturer of domestic domestic appliances (white goods). It is now owned by Italian company Indesit (Indesit are now owned by the USA Whirlpool Corporation, since 2014) who have since closed down most Hotpoint UK factories. Hotpoint products are now generally imported, but I understand that some tumble dyers are still made in the UK. I asked Hotpoint / Indesit about this and they were less than forthcoming about where their products are made, but did confirm that some production still takes place in the UK and in Europe. They also stated that they are unable (read unwilling) to tell their customers where a particular product is made. There is a separate Hotpoint company in the USA making similar products but independent from Hotpoint in Europe and these products are not made in the UK.
An old Hotpoint made in Great Britain refrigerator, still in full working order in August 2013. Sadly Hotpoint do not manufacture many of their products in the UK anymore. Photo by author.
Hoover (vacuum cleaners) is another company who have closed all their UK factories. Hoover was an American vacuum cleaner company that started out as an American floor care manufacturer based in North Canton, Ohio. It also established a major base in the United Kingdom and for most of the early-and-mid-20th century it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry, to the point where the “Hoover” brand name became synonymous with vacuum cleaners and vacuuming in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The Hoover Company in the United States was part of the Whirlpool Corporation but sold in 2006 to Techtronic Industries for $107 million. Hoover UK/Europe split from Hoover U.S. in 1993 and was acquired by Candy, a company based in Brugherio, Italy.
Dyson now make all their products abroad too.
Anglepoise (formerly Herbert Terry) used to strike me as a very British brand and they used to manufacture everything in the UK, but sadly no more. Anglepoise now only make the Giant 1227 lamp in the UK. All their other lights are made in China under license. Interestingly new Anglepoise lamps are very expensive to buy, whereas you might expect otherwise now that Anglepoise are cheaply made in China.
An old Anglepoise desk lamp, still in full working order in August 2013. Made in England. Sadly Anglepoise desk lamps are now made in China. Photo by author.
Price’s Patent Candle Company – Is a company I assumed still made their candles in the UK, however all their products are now foreign made. In 2001 Price’s Patent Candle Company filed for administration. An Italian company, Cereria Sgarbi Sp.A., bought the company before, in turn, being bought two years later by SER Wax Industry in the summer of 2003. Production was subsequently moved to Italy. In fairness to Price’s they, unlike many companies, do not attempt to circumvent telling people their products are now Italian made.
Whittard of Chelsea stress their British heritage but as far as I can tell all their teas are packed in Germany. Some of their products do not state the country of origin. They do though sell some British made tea pots and the like in their shops.
Lyle & Scott stress their British (Scottish) heritage, but nearly all their clothing is made abroad in countries such as Romania and Turkey, even their jumpers. Lyle and Scott in fact have two ranges at the moment all made in the UK (Scotland). These are the 140 range celebrating 140 years, and the 1960 range. Hopefully this is a trend that will continue, and they bring all their production back to these shores.
Hunter Boots (Hunter Wellies) are another company deceiving the public who naturally assume they are made in the UK (in Scotland). After all they are an iconic bit of British kit with a long British heritage. Not so. Although at least Hunter, unlike many brands, have the decency to admit making their wellies abroad on the website (unlike many others!). Anyway, Hunter boots (Hunter wellies, Hunter wellingtons) are not made in the UK anymore, the factory having closed in 2008.
As one of the best known stationery brands in the UK, the long established Basildon Bond stress their so called Britishness, but in fact their writing paper and envelopes are now “made in the EU”. In other words their products are NOT made in the UK anymore. Basildon Bond are now part of Hamelin Brands Limited. French company Hamelin Brands (formerly John Dickinson Stationery; formerly Dickinson Robinson Group Ltd DRG) heritage includes other well known originally British brands such as Lion Brand, Basildon Bond, John Dickinson, J Arthur Dixon, Royal Sovereign , Black n’ Red, Cambridge brand, Oxford brand, Challenge, and Summit, but there is no mention of any UK production still happening on their website and production is now in France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Poland.
A vintage Made in Great Britain Challenge Rent Book by John Dickinson. Photograph by author 8 November 2017.
Vintage Basildon Bond by John Dickinson ‘red’ made in the UK writing paper and envelopes. Photograph by author 22 November 2017. View 1. Now owned by French company Hamelin Brands (formerly John Dickinson Stationery; formerly Dickinson Robinson Group Ltd DRG) heritage includes well known originally British brands such as Lion Brand, Basildon Bond, John Dickinson, J Arthur Dixon, Royal Sovereign , Black n’ Red, Cambridge brand, Oxford brand, Challenge, and Summit – all the UK factories have been closed down and all production of these well know ex-British brands is abroad.
Vintage Basildon Bond by John Dickinson ‘red’ made in the UK writing paper and envelopes. Photograph by author 22 November 2017. View 2. Basildon Bond is now foreign made.
Vintage Basildon Bond by John Dickinson ‘blue’ made in Great Britain writing paper and envelopes. Photograph by author 22 November 2017. View 1. Basildon Bond is now foreign made.
Richardson Sheffield is a major supplier of kitchen knives and scissors to the UK market. It is owned by the Dutch Amefa group. Their knives used to be made in England (I have a set of Richardson kitchen knives that were made in England) but production is now in the Far East. The company retains ‘Sheffield’ in its name which is an outright deception of British consumers and should not be allowed.
Mason Cash – These were top quality bowls made in England; sadly now they are made abroad – I asked the company and they responded as follows “Many thanks for your enquiry; please be advise that none of the Mason Cash range are made in the UK.”
Jack Wills Fabulously British Chinese – In fairness Jack Wills do sell a few things that are made in Britain, but not very many. They do for example sell a limited range of British made shoes made for them by NPS. Most of their products appear to be made in China though. Jack Wills actually have the audaciousness to say on their website “Britishness anchors all that we do”.
Barbour – I think there is an assumption among consumers that everything Barbour sell is made in England. Not so. Only their classic waxed jackets are made in England (and a few hats and scarves are made in Scotland). Everything else is made abroad. Even some wax jackets are now made abroad. If there is no made in England label on a Barbour, then it is foreign made.
Belstaff are worse though. Belstaff talk about their proud British heritage, but none of their products are made in England anymore. They do however state the origin of their products on their website (most are made in Italy).
Marks and Spencer – In 1999, Marks & Spencer became the last major high-street retailer to transfer its production overseas, despite sustained pressure from the government to stay in Britain. The company buys 70% to 80% of its clothes from factories in three key “hubs”: Turkey, China, and a hub that includes India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Is it just a coincidence that since M&S moved their manufacturing abroad UK manufacturing has been in decline and M&S themselves have been struggling to survive? I think not! Interestingly autumn/winter 2012 saw the introduction of a small collection of items 100% designed and made in Great Britain, at M&S. See – http://social.marksandspencer.com/fashion-2/made-in-england-menswear/ and autumn 2013 saw the introduction of their Best of British Collection. Interesting moves from Marks and Spencer, a company that was almost single handedly responsible for the demise of British clothing manufacture. Pretty much everything in Marks and Spencer used to be made in the UK but that is certainly not the case now, although Marks and Spencer food halls still have lots of great British made foods to choose from.
A label inside one of my old jackets saying St Michael Made in the UK. Until 1999 pretty much everything in M&S was UK made; now, excepting foods, pretty much everything in M&S is foreign made.
Vintage St Michael made in the UK picture frames. Photograph by author 2 May 2019
Vintage St Michael made in the UK picture frames. Photograph by author 2 May 2019. Box label view
I was looking at gifts in M&S last Thursday (22.11.12) – lots of Chinese tat but I did find these great made in England mugs and the wrapping paper I got in there was made in the UK 🙂
Made in England mug from M&S 22.11.12
Burberry – Burberry do still make their raincoats in the UK (they have 2 factories still in the UK in Castleford where it makes raincoats and a smaller one at Keighley) but Burberry has been shedding British jobs and closing British factories of late. Most of its clothes are made abroad. This article is interesting – http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/16/burberry-china-british-carole-cadwalladr
The Body Shop – Body Shop products were always made or packaged in the UK but lately many of their products seem to be made abroad. Check what you are buying is made in the UK. That said many Body Shop products are still made in the UK. Check the packaging and only buy British made Body Shop products.
Souvenir Shops – Pretty much any souvenir shop in the UK sells tat that is made in China. Now if you go to say Poland and buy a souvenir fridge magnet it will be made in Poland. In the UK it will almost certainly be made in China! When you travel you should buy locally made gifts I think and I would encourage tourists in the UK to do the same. My personal pet hate is anything with a Union Flag on it or anything celebrating events like the Queen’s Golden Jubilee that is made abroad. If it has a Union Flag on it, then it ought to be made in Britain! If it has a picture of the Queen, then it should be made in Britain or the Commonwealth! If you are buying such products, please check they are British made.
WHSmith have a long British heritage but everything I have seen recently in WHSmith has been expensive and made abroad (even some of their books!). WHSmith now no longer label their own brand products with their country of origin which means they are are NOT made in the UK anymore.
Vintage WHSmith made in the UK Correspondence Cards 25 3 1/2″ x 5 1/2″. Photograph by author 22 November 2017.
Vintage WHSmith 50 Sheets A4 Typing Paper. Made in the UK. Photographed by author 20 February 2018. Front view.
Vintage WHSmith 50 Sheets A4 Typing Paper. Made in the UK. Photographed by author 20 February 2018. Rear Made in the UK label view.
Boots the Chemist have a long British history but I note many of their own brand products no longer label the country of origin. For example Boots multivitamins and Boots kitchen soap do not state the country of origin. If their products do not say made in the UK on them we can assume they are made abroad. Some Boots own label products, such as some Boots moisturisers, Boots suntan cream which is made in the UK and their Botanics range some of which is made in the UK, are still labelled with the country of origin and they sell other UK made products such as Rimmel London too some of whose products are UK made. When shopping in Boots check the packaging and only buy British made products. Boots themselves are now an American owned company, Walgreens.
Boots essentials moisturising cream cucumber 100ml. Made in the UK. Photograph by author.
Boots essentials moisturising cream cucumber 100ml. Made in the UK. Photograph by author. Bottom of tub label view.
A vintage Boots the Chemist Paddington Bear hot water cover. I don’t beleive you can get British made hot water bottle covers in Boots these days. Also the hot water bottle itself inside the cover is German made. I do not know of any British made ho water bottles these days. Photograph by author 8 November 2017.
A vintage Boots the Chemist Paddington Bear hot water cover. I don’t beleive you can get British made hot water bottle covers in Boots these days. Also the hot water bottle itself inside the cover is German made. I do not know of any British made ho water bottles these days. Photograph by author 8 November 2017. Label detail.
Alan Paine have now closed the last of their UK factories. On their website they talk about their proud heritage supplying knitwear to Edward VIII, making sweaters during the war for the navy and being worn by George Mallory. No-where do they mention the factory closures and subsequent impact on people’s lives or the fact that all their clothing is now made abroad. Although some Alan Paine knit fabrics come from Z Hinchcliffe and Sons in Yorkshire, Alan Paine knitwear is made abroad, in places such as Madagascar.
Heinz HP Sauce is made in the Netherlands! Don’t think they should be allowed to call it British or for that matter to have the Houses of Parliament on the bottle.
Start-Rite children’s shoes bang on about their British heritage on their website, but since 2003 they have outsourced all their manufacturing to companies in India.
D.C. Thomson and Co annuals have discontinued great comics like the Topper and the Sparky and the only comic books they now sell, the Beano and the Dandy, are now printed in Italy.
Double Two shirts no longer manufactured in the UK. To quote from the companies website:
“In more recent years, production in the UK has become extremely expensive and the Group has gradually moved its production offshore and now manufactures throughout the Far East, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe. Only repairs and alterations are now done at Wakefield, although some garments also have embroidered logos added there.”
At least Double two are honest and open about where they make their shirts on their website, unlike many heritage brands and all credit to them for that.
Wilkinson Sword were a British company, but they no longer make swords and their razors are now made abroad. You can find a brief history of the company here in my article about razors.
Aspinal of London – Despite the name, Aspinal of London products are nearly all foreign made. On their Facebook page they say “Aspinal of London’s covetable contemporary classics are all handcrafted in the finest factories in Europe. Some families of bags and all of the brands stationery and notebooks are made entirely in England, some with English hardware, leather and fabric linings.” Their diaries for example are made in England but most products are foreign made.
Radley London – Again, despite the name, Radley London purses and bags are foreign made.
Links of London jewellery – made in Thailand, despite the name!
Beatrix Potter products – the books (sold by Penguin under the name of Frederick Warne and Co.) are now printed outside of the UK – the pottery by Wedgwood is now made outside the UK – Penguin are spoiling the name of Beatrix Potter’s creation Peter Rabbit by having everything associated with it made abroad. I suspect Beatrix Potter would not approve.
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Cometary Impact 10,950 BC: The Alternative Archaeologists Were Right!
Looks like alternative archeaoligists like Graham Hancock, Velikovsky, DS Allen & JB Delair, David Hatcher Childress etc, can feel vindicated.
Wait for the backlash, or for some institution to claim the glory for themselves.
Ancient stone carvings confirm how comet struck Earth in 10,950BC, sparking the rise of civilisations
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/04/21/ancient-stone-carvings-confirm-comet-struck-earth-10950bc-wiping/
Sarah Knapton, Science Editor
21 April 2017 • 11:25am
Ancient stone carvings confirm that a comet struck the Earth around 11,000BC, a devastating event which wiped out woolly mammoths and sparked the rise of civilisations.
Experts at the University of Edinburgh analysed mysterious symbols carved onto stone pillars at Gobekli Tepe in southern Turkey, to find out if they could be linked to constellations.
The markings suggest that a swarm of comet fragments hit Earth at the exact same time that a mini-ice age struck, changing the entire course of human history.
Scientists have speculated for decades that a comet could be behind the sudden fall in temperature during a period known as the Younger Dryas. But recently the theory appeared to have been debunked by new dating of meteor craters in North America where the comet is thought to have struck.
However, when engineers studied animal carvings made on a pillar – known as the vulture stone – at Gobekli Tepe they discovered that the creatures were actually astronomical symbols which represented constellations and the comet.
The idea had been originally put forward by author Graham Hancock in his book Magicians of the Gods.
<img src=”/content/dam/science/2017/04/21/Replica-of-pillar-43-the-Vulture-Stone-at-Gobekli-Tepe-Sanliurfa-Museum-Turkey-credit-Alistair-Coombs-small_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqImq0gSBkzcH_-jHFXstKOOPHi_e1tpOIk75CAYQiDp0.jpg” alt=”The Vulture Stone, at Gobekli Tepe” width=”187″ height=”300″ class=”responsive-image–fallback”/>
The Vulture Stone, at Gobekli Tepe Credit: Alistair Coombs
Using a computer programme to show where the constellations would have appeared above Turkey thousands of years ago, they were able to pinpoint the comet strike to 10,950BC, the exact time the Younger Dryas begins according to ice core data from Greenland.
The Younger Dryas is viewed as a crucial period for humanity, as it roughly coincides with the emergence of agriculture and the first Neolithic civilisations.
Before the strike, vast areas of wild wheat and barley had allowed nomadic hunters in the Middle East to establish permanent base camps. But the difficult climate conditions following the impact forced communities to come together and work out new ways of maintaining the crops, through watering and selective breeding. Thus farming began, allowing the rise of the first towns.
Edinburgh researchers said the carvings appear to have remained important to the people of Gobekli Tepe for millennia, suggesting that the event and cold climate that followed likely had a very serious impact.
<img src=”/content/dam/science/2017/04/21/Position-of-the-sun-and-stars-on-the-summer-solstice-of-10950-BC-credit-Martin-Sweatman-and-stellarium-small_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqNEaEPVj0ukpq09fI7aH1yBMC7RW9ZfAWIPxLerSbKeU.png” alt=”Position of the sun and stars on the summer solstice of 10,950BC” width=”287″ height=”179″ class=”responsive-image–fallback”/>
Position of the sun and stars on the summer solstice of 10,950BC Credit: Martin Sweatman and Stellarium
Dr Martin Sweatman, of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Engineering, who led the research, said: “I think this research, along with the recent finding of a widespread platinum anomaly across the North American continent virtually seal the case in favour of (a Younger Dryas comet impact).
“Our work serves to reinforce that physical evidence. What is happening here is the process of paradigm change.
“It appears Göbekli Tepe was, among other things, an observatory for monitoring the night sky.
“One of its pillars seems to have served as a memorial to this devastating event – probably the worst day in history since the end of the ice age.”
Gobekli Tepe, is thought to be the world’s oldest temple site, which dates from around 9,000BC, predating Stonehenge by around 6,000 years.
Researchers believe the images were intended as a record of the cataclysmic event, and that a further carving showing a headless man may indicate human disaster and extensive loss of life.
Symbolism on the pillars also indicates that the long-term changes in Earth’s rotational axis was recorded at this time using an early form of writing, and that Gobekli Tepe was an observatory for meteors and comets.
The finding also supports a theory that Earth is likely to experience periods when comet strikes are more likely, owing to the planet’s orbit intersecting orbiting rings of comet fragments in space.
But despite the ancient age of the pillars, Dr Sweatman does not believe it is the earliest example of astronomy in the archaeological record.
“Many paleolithic cave paintings and artefacts with similar animal symbols and other repeated symbols suggest astronomy could be very ancient indeed,” he said.
“If you consider that, according to astronomers, this giant comet probably arrived in the inner solar system some 20 to 30 thousand years ago, and it would have been a very visible and dominant feature of the night sky, it is hard to see how ancient people could have ignored this given the likely consequences.”
The research is published in Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry.
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The Brexit vote wasn’t democracy in action. It was populist ignorance on a grand scale.
Posted by Tom Pride in vindictiveness
elections, EU, Europe, immigration, international
No-one else seems to be saying this, so I will.
Way back in 1988 – when the Thatcher government passed the infamous anti-homosexual law known as Section 28 – a majority of the UK population supported it.
I’m proud to say I was one of the minority who was against it.
Even as late as 2000, polls showed around 52% of the UK population were against the Blair government repealing the law.
And again, despite being in the minority – I was personally never in any doubt that the majority were wrong.
These days, of course, everyone claims they know Section 28 was wrong. David Cameron – a strong supporter of Section 28 at the time it was introduced – has even apologised for it.
So we – the minority who were always against Section 28 – were in the end proven to be right.
That’s why Remain supporters need to get their balls back. Because being in a minority (for the moment) doesn’t make us wrong in the long run.
Politicians are too afraid to speak out against the EU referendum result because they’re scared they’ll be accused of undermining democracy. And sensible journalists are also mostly too afraid to speak out, lest they’re accused of being in a middle-class, out-of-touch establishment bubble – which of course most of them are.
But I’m not a politician or a journalist. So here’s the truth.
The Brexit campaign was riddled with lies. The so-called ‘facts’ used by the Leave campaign were laughably ridiculous fabrications. Leading Leave campaigners dished out false and undeliverable promises like Bullingdon Club bullies dishing out banknotes at a high-class restaurant they’ve just trashed. And the whole Brexit argument itself was based on gross deceptions, sentimental nonsense and misrepresentations.
Their so-called victory – stolen only with lies and illegalities – wasn’t even overwhelming. And it’s just patently revisionist nonsense to say the vote for Brexit was some kind of ‘working class’ rebellion. The most working class parts of the UK – Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Peckham – all voted Remain. And the majority of young people voted Remain too.
Democracy doesn’t mean accepting bad decisions made by a bare majority of uninformed, ignorant voters, lied to and manipulated by a corrupt media. Democracy means fighting for what’s right and to reverse corrupt decisions which will be damaging to the future of our country and our children’s future.
And yes – I know we’re not supposed to call the people who voted Brexit ignorant. I personally know some very genuine, intelligent people who voted Brexit for the best of reasons. But the fact is, they are a tiny minority.
The Brexit vote was mostly the result of an unholy alliance between a dumbed-down, middle-class, aging English electorate fed on a diet of Daily Mail and Express propaganda and lies, Thatcherites, Little Englanders and openly racist arseholes.
So it doesn’t bother me in the least that I’m (currently) in the minority when it comes to Brexit. In fact, I’m proud of it.
Just as I’m proud of that fact that – until just last year – I’d spent all of my life being one of the minority in the UK who were against the death penalty.
And I’m definitely proud to be one of the minority of Brits who doesn’t think Mount Everest is in England.
And I’m proud that I’m not one of the majority of Brits who can’t pinpoint Loch Ness or the Yorkshire Dales on a map.
And I’m proud to be one of the minority of Brits who can at least find their last holiday destination on a map.
Because being in the majority doesn’t automatically make you right.
Especially when the majority were lied to and manipulated.
200 thoughts on “The Brexit vote wasn’t democracy in action. It was populist ignorance on a grand scale.”
agogo22 said:
Reblogged this on msamba.
Mike Paterson said:
The Remain campaign was riddled with lies. The so-called ‘facts’ used by the Remain campaign were laughably ridiculous fabrications. Leading Remain campaigners dished out false prophecies of doom like Bullingdon Club bullies dishing out banknotes at a high-class restaurant they’ve just trashed. And the whole Remain argument itself was based on gross deceptions, sentimental nonsense and misrepresentations.
mili68 said:
Reblogged this on disabledsingleparent.
Ann Hawksley said:
“The Brexit vote was mostly the result of an unholy alliance between a dumbed-down, middle-class, aging English electorate fed on a diet of Daily Mail and Express propaganda, Thatcherite Little Englanders and openly racist arseholes.”
And now the racists have taken this vote as tacit encouragement to spread their vile propaganda and step up the campaign against immigrants. Hate crime reporting has gone through the roof and people are genuinely afraid. We need to be confronting this head on, because unless you are part of the solution you are encouraging the problem. So let me be clear- YOU DO NOT SPEAK IN MY NAME.
Tweeted @melissacade68
Jennifer Lindley said:
This piece is utterly arrogant, ignorant and and insulting nonsense. If I take my own case, and that of my family, friends and the overall majority of members of my work and social circle; before we voted to leave the EU, we carried out a considerable amount of research on the EU and the unelected EC. We were absolutely horrified by what we found. Far worse than we were aware of and indeed anticipated.
Clearly, there were lies and propaganda on both sides but the Remain “camp’s” threat’s and lies far outweighed those of the “Leave” campaign. Let me give you some examples of what a proportion of young people, known to me, believed about the EU. “Our university tutors have explained to us that higher education funding will be drastically cut if we leave the EU, so we need to make sure we register and vote to remain in the EU”. Explanation: actually, the EU doesn’t have any money, so how is that going to work? Or, “We know that before the UK joined the EU, British people weren’t allowed to work, travel or trade with ‘Europe'” … need I go on? Does this compare with your alleged findings that a minority of people in the UK believe that Mount Everest is in England whatever that has to do with anything at all?
Your point about the majority of young people voting to remain in the EU appears to be correct but I would suggest that a) the lies they were told may well have something to do with that decision and b) my understanding is that only approximately 54% actually voted in the referendum anyway. I have seen figures as low as 34%. Your points about what you viciously refer to as the “dumbed down, middle class, aging English electorate fed on a diet of Daily Mail and Express propaganda…” are clearly grossly insulting. However, of far more interest to me, is that you cannot see the ‘writing on the wall’ due to your personal prejudices and self inflicted blindfold. The EU is crumbling before our eyes and will, I am utterly convinced, implode within the next decade. That is why the majority of us who voted to leave did so. We care so much about our children and young people’s future that we want to begin the journey to a wider national outlook in every way, a global trading nation, without all of the federalism and gross corruption of the grossly failing experiment that was the EU.
Incidentally, I also have fervently believed, and campaigned in the past, not to restore the death penalty in the UK but quite what that has to do with anything I know not.
Chris Lovett said:
Perhaps, Mike Paterson, you’d care to tell us which “prophecies of doom” are not turning out to be the truth? From where I sit the vote has been a massive cock up. An unnecessary one, too.
philthyanimal said:
I still scratch my head and ask why the Govt thought the Referendum vote should have been decided by who scores a result better than 50%. For such a fundamental change to the country, it’s neighbours and allies, I would have thought the bar would be set a little higher – say, Leave to win a minimum of 65% of the votes, conditional on (for example) 80% voter turnout. Instead, less than 25% of the population have determined our future, which has been propagated based on lies.
The right to vote may have been “democratic”, but the outcome is not IMHO.
The vote to join the EEC was done on the same basis. The vote to Leave was at a huge disadvantage financially and politically. To have won the vote against the masses of lies and deceit by the EU, the Government and the various figureheads and groups brought in to scare us (Think Obama, Goldman Sachs, IMF) makes me wonder how a big a majority there would have been without that nonsense. I know that several people voted Remain simply because their has not been a war in Western Europe for a while.
Chris Lovett, World War 3, Emergency Budget, decimation of the economy, Back of the queue to negotiate trade deal with the U.S. etc. etc. Perhaps you could highlight any of the prophecies that have come true.
Scottish EAU said:
Reblogged this on Scottish Economic Analysis Unit.
artmanjosephgrech said:
That is what a referendum involves David Cameron’s biggest failure and which is also inherent in the once every five year vote for the House of Commons membership and incidentally is the kind of politics Jeremy Corbyn wants to change. Whatever next general and emotional intelligence tests for MPs and voters. Or perhaps just abolish voting choice as per Stalin Hitler Chairman Mao North Korea and support the efforts of the Turkish leader to do likewise etc”
Stuart Buckingham said:
Unfortunately the only requirements to be able to vote are being a UK citizen, being over 18 and being registered. Having a modicum of common sense and just a scintilla of intelligence is not necessary. Since 28% of voters abstained it was only 37% who voted Brexit – a “clear mandate” according to a Government which dismissed 39% of junior doctors who voted to reject the new contract as “barely a third” and therefore could be ignored. Don’t even get me started on the 0% who voted for Theresa May to be PM!
sdbast said:
Reblogged this on sdbast.
http://europe.newsweek.com/uk-support-death-penalty-falls-below-50-first-time-316869?rm=eu
UKIP HAS A HIGH PROPORTION OF DEATH PENALTY PROPONENTS
I WONDER IF PAEDOPHILES WILL CHANGE THAT IN MORE PEOPLE?
Stuart, we have never ever been able to vote for any Prime Minister.
Reblogged this on Mark Catlin's Blog.
ebolainfo said:
Why have David Cameron and Theresa May not fully investigated allegations of Child abuse? Why are these always botched?
Why was Theresa May so incompetent in controlling migrtion as Home secretary? Why have Cameron, May, Osbourne not ditched the austerity fraud that is private central banking?
Why don’t we have the Bradbury pound?
Why do LabLibCon all keep mum about the legal deceit and fraud that is the TTIP agreement?
Why does the EU consent to this fraud of an agreement that wishes to make nation states subsefrvient to corporate interests?
Why did Ted Heath (child abuser) lie about the goal of the EU? He deceived parliament and successive PMs have consildated orhidden the trajectory of the corrupt superstate that is the EU.
Rejecting the deceits and lies of the EU and hence wanting out of that cesspool in no way means we do not have statist lackeys in the UK to eject.
xraypat said:
Excellent Tom…we must keep bashing on and maybe get a second referendum….or at least persuade MPs & Lords to kick it out.
Thanks for you terrific posts….hope you and yours are well.
Pat 😨
xraypat, do you really want to try to mess with a democratic vote. That would be a ridiculous thing to do and would create massive civil unrest.
Michael said:
The debate about “undemocratic, unelected EU” in a country ruled by the House of Lords is quite ironic.
John harper said:
“Democracy doesn’t mean accepting bad decisions made by a bare majority of uninformed, ignorant, small-minded voters. Democracy means fighting for what’s right and to reverse decisions which will be damaging to the future of our country and our children’s future.”
This little paragraph was pure gold, I’m sorry, but I think first you need to know what democracy actually means before you start changing its definition, here is the definition for you since you probably couldn’t be bothered to look:
“A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.”
I’m sorry mate I don’t see your part of the definition there or am I ignorant and small minded, so therefore I can’t see it? Please tell me, because it’s dam right insulting.
I’ve seen Many articles, journalists and even political figures do this, change the world meaning of a word to suit their arguments. So I’m very surprised that you have also done the same for your ignorant readers and do that they can blissfully evade all the rubbish you are “trying ” to support.
Do us all a favour and just accept the result, so instead of moaning we can work to a workable solution.
philippajanebrown777 said:
Ignorance and bloody APATHY
GringoPeruano said:
“The British people have suffered tremendously since the financial crisis … and it has made people very angry with the establishment – and rightly so.”
“Most of the British press has been unrelentingly Eurosceptic and anti-immigrant for decades.”
“The aftermath of the Brexit vote – the verdict from a derided expert”
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/the-aftermath-of-the-brexit-vote-a-verdict-from-those-of-those-experts-were-not-supposed-to-listen-to/
John Harper, who are you arguing with?
GringoPeruano it is of course utter nonsense. Nothing has changed and we haven’t suffered at all, let alone tremendously…..
tyelko said:
@Jennifer Lindley
“we carried out a considerable amount of research on the EU and the unelected EC.”
That very comment proves you a liar. You did no research, you uncritically parroted nonsense spoon-fed to you by demagogues, feeling vindicated in utter political illiteracy.
Heck, you are galllingly ignorant about the British political system, please don’t tell me you did your homework on the EU. Under the current system, the President of the EU commission has ten times the democratic mandate than the Prime Minister of the UK.
tyelko Jennifer Lindley’s comment does not in anyway prove she is a liar. As you have no way of knowing what she did or did not do (unless you know her), your statements about what she did and did not do simply prove that you are a liar. In addition you have no way of knowing what she thinks of the British political system, so again you are just making it up as you go along.
Quite the contrary, Mike, I can see from her statement that she considers a)the EC unelected and b)that fact remarkable, ignoring the fact that not a single member of the UK government is elected into their specific office and that in fact there is probably no government in Europe which is directly elected into office (not even the Swiss do that). Unlike the UK government, however, the EC requires the explicit confidence of parliament to assume their offices.
The UK prime minister is appointed by the Queen, he/she then picks and chooses whoever she wants – per custom a member of parliament, but it can equally well be an unelected peer, being a member of the House of Lords and thus of parliament. And even members of the Commons were elected into the office of MP and by a tiny constituency, not the electorate at large.
If she had done her homework, she would not have found the notion of an executive not being directly elected by the people in any way remarkable, since it is absolutely standard. The fact that she pointed that fact out demonstrates that she did NOT put in the work but rather parroted tropes.
alice moore said:
“The only two differences between 2012 and 2015 are that: (A) In 2015/6 the Greek economy is ever more frail than it was in 2012, its people closer to the edge of desperation. And (2) In 2012 the troika’s toxic, illogical ‘program’ was being implemented by a government representing the corrupt, oligarchic ancien regime responsible for the crisis. In 2015/6 the troika’s ‘new’ toxic, illogical ‘program’ is being implemented by a government of the Left, thus denying the Greeks the hope that elections could stop the unnecessary pain.”
“That is a recipe for disaster for Greece, Italy, and Spain (collectively, 100 million citizens) and for the EU. It is financial madness – and that ignores the political instability it will cause to force an EU member nation to twist slowly in the wind for 50 years.”
https://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2016/07/31/imf-confessing-to-the-sin-in-order-to-repeat-it/
If you understand what happened to Greece, you`ll understand why a majority voted to LEAVE the EU. Ignorance is not anything to be proud of…
If you understand what happened to Greece, you would not even dream of citing it in relation to the UK. The ignorance is entirely on your part.
Eve Learmont said:
Hello Tom,
Can I please have your permission to post this on fb……. I agree with everything you say but doubt I could have put it quite so eloquently,
Evie poohs
tyelko you are being disingenious. Surely you see that there is a difference between the people electing officials who make laws (e.g. MPs in the House of Commons) and the people electing officials who cannot make laws (e.g. MEPs in the EU parliament) You also have not replied to the main issue which is that you called her a liar whilst lying yourself.
Eve, there is a facebook share button below the article.
David Alcock said:
Yes, I agree with all that Tom says. In fact, I am at a loss really to understand why there is so much antipathy to the EU. It’s kept the peace amongst member states, and we face our own immediate problems with Ireland and Gibraltar, as well as – by withdrawing – possibly encouraging Putin. Spain, Portugal, Greece and Ireland didn’t have to sign up to the Euro, and it was their own fault that they were fiscally irresponsible – by intriducing that discipline, the Irish have retrieved the situation. We will need to take on board EU legislation, but we will no longer be able to influence it – how crazy is that? – look at the environment the chemical and pharmaceutical industries work in for starters. British higher education and research does very well out of EU students and EU grants – where will the shortfall be made up? Many Brits enjoy the right to live in other EU countries – for work or retirement – it’s tragic that these opportunities may be reduced, especially in a global and interconnected world. And so on and so on.
Davis Alcock, you talk about the EU keeping the peace between member states, yet there is no way whatsoever that you could prove that to be the case, indeed it is more likely that globalisation and NATO are far more responsible. I am able to see some merits in membership of the EU, so I am amazed that you cannot see any downsides as there are a lot of them. Why do you say we will need to take on board EU legislation? Surely all we will need to do is comply with their trade requirements just as we have to do currently with every part of the World including the EU. Why on earth do you not think EU students will not come to our Universities in the future? They did before we joined the EEC and they will do after we leave the EU. Many more British expats live in regions of the world other than the EU than live in the EU so I am not sure why you think this will not happen.
Re-establishing our historical trade links with most of the World’s major economies is an outward-looking and positive way to trade in the global inter-connected World. Indeed it is the anachronistic EU trade bloc method that is isolationist and inward-looking.
bjsalba said:
I have to say that I agree with you 100%. The electorate is appallingly ignorant. I have asked a number of Leave voters for the rationale behind their decision. The result has made me weep. The level of ignorance is mind-blowing.
The first person I asked insisted that by leaving the EU we would be able to deport folks like Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza immediately, and Jamie Bolger’s murderers would never have been let out of prison. When I pointed out that these were Justice issues and therefore not EU but ECtHR which was not what he had voted on, he had a hard time understanding the difference. In fact, I’m not sure if he did ever actually grasp it.
Neither he nor any of the others I asked had the faintest clue how the EU works, how what it decides translates into UK law or anything else. When they gave their reasons the descriptions they used were lifted straight from the Leave Campaign and the tabloid press. They talked about “taking our country back” but could not explain what that meant. They spoke of “unelected officials making EU” law but they didn’t know who they were, how many there were of them or how many actually voted on EU law. One said he didn’t like “Paris and Berlin telling us (UK) what to do” but couldn’t explain how they did so.
None could tell me how many MEPs there were or how many UK MEPs there were. I live in Scotland and two, only two, could tell me how many Scottish MEPs there were, and even neither could not tell me which parties were represented. When I said we had a UKIP MEP, one flat out called me a liar.
Some talked about immigrants and the problems associated with it not being controlled, but when questioned further, their understanding of the difference between EU immigrants and refugees from the Mid-East and economic migrants from other parts of the world was sketchy to say the least.
So yes, I agree with you 100%, the Brexit vote wasn’t democracy in action. It was populist ignorance on a grand scale.
bjsalba, there was immense ignorance on both sides, but also very knowledgeable people as well. Many Remain voters I spoke to had zero understanding of how the EU works, how and by whom the rules are made, who their MEPs are etc. This highlights not a lack of democracy but a lack of knowledge about the EU. This is not surprising as the EU is fairly secretive in much of what it does.
Whatever way you look at it, we (collectively) democratically voted in a Conservative government who had made a promise of a simple IN/OUT referendum. The referendum that we collectively voted to hold, was held and everybody had the chance to vote. There was a very large turnout and Leave won with nearly 10% more votes than Remain despite the efforts of project fear and the use of tax-payers money to peddle misinformation about the EU.
If there was anything undemocratic, it was the way in which one side had access to public funds whilst the other had to rely solely on donations.
Lee Firth said:
For the first time in my life my vote has actually counted and all I get from Mr. Pride is to be insulted for not agreeing with his political opinions and voting the ‘wrong’ way. Well, my vote counts just the same as everyone else’s…that’s how a referendum works; maybe should have more of them.
Frances Calder said:
Re Jennifer Lindley – a couple of points. Firstly, the EU does indeed support university studies in the UK through Erasmus, but also through massive funding of research depts and teams, creating international centres of excellence for UK students to access along the way. The effects of Brexit on universities, both in terms of the loss of EU grants, and the mass withdrawal of candidatures for teaching and research posts and undergraduate places from the EU have been fully documented recently – google King’s College, Wales, etc. Secondly, yes, no free movement will not prevent a UK citizen from ever being able to work in the EU, but it will certainly make it as difficult, uncertain, and bureaucratic as it was 40 years ago, subject to the whole old panoply of certificates of good conduct, proof of income, proof of job offer, proof of employability, residence permits, work permits, visits from local police, health checks, proof of vaccination, etc, etc, etc. And proof of language capability. Basically, what you heard from the students was true. They have lost access and choices.
I was and am a Remainer who believes that the EU has to reform. I also believe it will. While Juncker, who doesn’t matter, was still being defiant the night before the ref, there was almost no coverage of Tusk, who, representing the Eur Council, does matter, saying that the rise of the far-right and left had demonstrated across the EU that it had failed to carry citizens with it in its headlong rush to union. And that for the foreseeable future, the whole idea of union had to be regarded as just Utopian. These views were echoed by several other govts. Sarkozy, who may be the next French President, has revived his two-tier EU plan to allow greater autonomy to member states. The UK will not be any part of reform, and should have led it. Instead, the sight of what is happening in the UK, and the absolute and ill-understood chaos of the consequences of Brexit as they begin, has led to soaring support for staying in the EU in countries such as Denmark, traditionally very Eurosceptic, up from 50% to 70%.They want to stay and reform.
I respect the votes of Leavers who understood what they were voting about, and I respect, in a way, the votes of those who knew nothing but what The Sun et al told them. But I have no respect for what seemed to me in parts of the UK I know well, the Midlands and the SE, a near-universal Leave vote amongst educated, literate, Internet-savvy middle-class people who told me they believed we’d left the Court of Human Rights, that Cameron’s concessions would still apply, that EU funding would continue-???-, that trade deals could be struck with individual member states, that China and Co would line up to trade with us ( and the Chinese govt has just said it would take 12 years to negotiate, and they’re pulling out on investing in the meantime),that the City, generating 15% of UK tax revenue will stay (without the banking passport, not a hope), etc,etc,etc. And that now we could sell home-made jam at fetes – we always could.Nor had they considered the NI border, the reaction of Scotland, and the increase in illegal migrants from across the Channel, because there is no reason at all for the French to hold the line for us forever at Calais, and when negotiations get tough, they won’t. So start on a Jungle in Kent.
Finally, on getting to choose the migrants we want – over 90% of fruit and veg in the UK are picked by migrants. There has been a collapse in applications to come. ZDF ran a programme about young doctors and nurses – they no longer want to come and work for the NHS, despite its offering the highest salaries in the EU. The UK is seen as unstable and anti-foreigner, thanks to the xenophobes and racists in the Leave campaign. Leave voters who are horrified at the increased wave of racist harassment since Brexit, have work to do to counter the dreadful image of the UK that has emerged. The people we want no longer want to come. It might be useful to follow EU media before getting too keen on the idea that they need us more than we need them. And be just a little bit humble about what this vote is inflicting on us for at least 20 years.
me said:
Being in the majority means in your in the majority. Pull your neck in and get on with it
Democracy as I understand it is not the dictatorship of the majority, it is protecting the rights of minorities. Well, part of what democracy is. Other parts are separate lawmaking, judicial and executive authorities, elective representatives and so on. For me, the main thing is that it is not dictatorship of the majority. Rather the opposite. But I can totally understand why some people struggle with the concept of democracy, what it is and what it is not.
RobertShepherd said:
The phrase sanctimonious ponce comes to mind.
layanglicana said:
I am a Remainer (old enough to have campaigned for this first time round in 1975). Like a dutiful democrat, I spent the run-up to the referendum persuading everyone I met to vote. The great majority of the young whom I spoke to had not planned to vote until I turned my persuasive charm on them. I was unnerved to find how many of these were going to vote to leave. Gradually, the awful truth dawned on me. I would have done better to discourage everyone, and yet I do feel that previous generations beginning with Magna Carta fought to have a say in the government of our nation, and the least we can do is to exercise that right I think Democracy literally means ‘rule by the people for the people’. A bit late, but the best way of avoiding situations like this in future is the (re?)introduction of civics lessons in school. I think that, although legally Parliament is not obliged to follow the referendum results, parliamentary democracy itself would be threatened were we not to do so.
mr b richards said:
Idiot majority rules.
laurenejsmith said:
Agree with you except for one point……the majority of the electorate did not vote leave. The Leavers are a minority – 37%. Those who wanted change voted, so Leave represents the ceiling on the number backing Leave. Britain as a whole does not back Brexit.
MPs set the referendum as non binding so some voted Leave as a protest against Cameron and some did not vote as it was meant to go Remain and was not binding.
MPs are meant to use the referendum to inform them not to mandate their action.
What is wrong with the politicians!
Mike Paterson
The EU isn’t secretive. It just isn’t in the interests of the Mainstream Media or the Government to inform the populace of how it works or what it does.
Once I started looking, the information was not all that difficult to find.
The majority of the electorate, no, but I wonder when the last time was that an election was won by the majority of the electorate – the majority of those who actually voted is all that is required to form a government. The problem is that no one mentioned before the referendum that it was not binding on parliament. And the great majority of the Brexiters believe that they have been promised that Britain will now leave.
Separately, it is worth pointing out that the result was only as close as it was because of the votes in Scotland and Northern Ireland – just in England the Brexiters had a very comfortable majority.
Strider48 said:
Thank you for labelling me and another 17 million voters as “uninformed, ignorant, small-minded”. Why is it that anyone who disagrees with your opinion is to be denigrated? Just for your information I worked for and with the European Commission for a number of years – so I’m not uninformed, I’m a graduate of Oxford University – so I’m not ignorant, I refuse to denigrate Remain voters – so I’m not small-minded either.
Christopher Blackmore said:
My word, that attracted some knuckle draggers!
Posted it to Google+, because you are right, same as me.
You’re a graduate of Oxford University, but you seem to utterly revile anything you experienced there, since you actively pursue the undermining of its academic standing, the funding of its research and the credibility of its staff.
And you say you’re not small-minded?
tyelko: What happened to Greence? Why and how was it trashed? Why did the IMF apologise? Who wants austerity across Europe? Who makes the decisions in Europe? Why does the ex Finance Minister of Greece call the EU undemocratic.? Explain why I am ignorant. Don`t just say it. Back it up.
Colum McCaffery said:
There are two components to democracy: numbers and deliberation. The latter is often ignored. There are two basic types of citizen: passive and participative. The latter want to be informed and to deliberate; the former want to be led and are not too concerned with the quality of the debate. Those who complain about lies during the Brexit debate miss the point; the lies weren’t addressed to them. This may explain a little better: https://colummccaffery.wordpress.com/2016/07/02/worried-about-simplistic-lies-in-public-debate-consider-the-audience-for-them/
Laurenjsmith and less than a third wanted to stay in. Please do not try to spin things with comments such as a protest vote. We all know it is utter nonsense.
BJSalba, you are having a laugh. If you believe that it is all candid and above board then you are sadly mistaken.
“What happened to Greence? Why and how was it trashed? ”
It was trashed because the Greek governments first forged their financial data to get into the Euro, then abused the leniency of the other Eurozone governments to indulge in debts, keeping sundry people occupied and employed by a bloated public sector and allowing tax dodging to become a public sport. When that construct collapsed during the financial crisis, they could not meet their obligations anymore.
“Why did the IMF apologise?”
Because the savings mandated were too much, too quickly and did not allow for investment into ensuring Greece could maintain a competitive economy. That doesn’t mean the massive reforms especially in the public sector weren’t necessary.
“Who wants austerity across Europe?”
Sundry people. Both affluent AND poor. What you miss is there’s plenty of countries which already underwent harsh reforms, and they, from top to bottom, don’t take kindly someone else wanting to have their cake and eat it, too. And the taxpayer in donor countries want their own governments to be conservative with guarantees and loans, too. It isn’t as easy as “That’s the bogeyman”, I’m afraid.
Not to mention that “austerity across Europe” is a strawman, since austerity in the UK has nothing to do with austerity elsewhere in Europe. It’s a Tory idea unconnected to the EU in any fashion.
“Who makes the decisions in Europe?”
The member nation governments, jointly.
“Why does the ex Finance Minister of Greece call the EU undemocratic.?”
For the same reason as everyone bitches and moans about the EU – it’s much easier than to admit having screwed up oneself. He promised things he could not achieve, that’s of course frustrating, and it’s much more convenient to blame it on someone else than, for example, on his own negotiation style.
Just simply Brilliant well said !
Inbxl said:
Mike Paterson, for anyone who wants to know how the EU works, how and by whom the rules are made, who their MEPs are etc. all they have to do is look at the Europa website, where it is all there, in some detail. Not exactly secretive… The fact is that the level of ignorance of the British public about the EU and how it works is appalling – but not because the information isn’t there, if they could just be bothered to go and educate themselves. Then they might understand that the people actually voting in the laws are their own politicians (via the EU council) and the ELECTED MEPs… The so-called ‘unelected’ EC that everyone keeps banging on about, has no power to do anything except propose and draft legislation, usually at the request of the Member States. This is neither undemocratic nor secretive. The idea of having a referendum and asking the public to decide on something as complicated and multifaceted and also as important (to the whole world, not just to the UK) as EU membership was insane. The fact that people did it in such a state of ignorance is criminal.
John Platt said:
I think you are part of the minority that think they are never wrong. I think that you are arrogant enough to believe that your opinions were correct at the time these designs were made. You need to understand that you have to change things with the will and backing of the people you can’t just decide your right so f**k the rest of the population because they are idiots.
If you think that the EU was perfect then you are the idiot and I an wasting my time explaining to you who the world works.
If you believe the EU was not perfect and you believe that staying in and trying to change it was a good idea them you are not and idiot but deluded enough to think that after we had vote to stay we would have more leverage an when Cameron tried and failed to get the concessions Great Britain had asked for.
I am proud of the fact that I am not a “Thatcherite Little Englander” or a “Racist Arshole” .
I am proud that I vote leave the EU.
I am proud that I still live in a democratic ” Great Britain” where decision are made on the here and now, not 30 years later when society has changed and the majority are in agreement.
I am proud not to be ignorant enough to believe that anyone who does not agree with me is an idiot.
Times change, when the time is right the people will decide. Force decisions on the majority and you have chaos.
You should now just get behind this great county and shout from the roof tops how much we are going to achieve in the global market instead of try to speared doom and gloom hope to prove yourself right.
Be careful you might get what you wish for!!!!!!
Colin Baldy said:
Mike Paterson, there was NO vote to join the EEC. We were taken in by our government in 1973 because they, rightly, saw that we were being left behind by the members of the EEC. Wilson decided to call a referendum for pretty much the same reason as Cameron; to quell rebellious back benchers
Somewhat to his surprise, the result in 1975 was to remain.
We should never forget that we elect our MPs to decide on complicated issues on lights behalf. The public can never be expected to make informed decisions on such complicated issues. If you ran a referendum on hanging, it would be won by the hangers. If you ran a referendum on abolishing income tax, that too would be won by the abolishionists. Neither outcome would be in the best interests of the country and they would illustrate perfectly why referenda, in general, are bad idea. The one on 23rd June was a very bad idea indeed.
I agree if the intention was to remain we should never had a referendum.
To vote to remain would only weaken any chance of changing all of the thing that were wrong with the away.
The only option was to vote leave and hopefully it will initiate the changes needed for the counties that remain.
Perhaps then they will thank Britain for saving the EU and grant us favourable leaving terms…. But I doubt it.
graphicconception said:
It would be interesting to know whether the people who are confused about the locations of Ayres Rock and Mount Everest were the older residents who have lived here all their lives or the younger ones who mainly voted to remain and know where you can buy the best iced skinny flavoured latte.
Without that vital link the article may well just be shooting itself in the foot.
Conservative policy is the same as the global elite`s policy in Europe. Now we can get rid of the Tories, in theory anyway. But locked into Europe it is impossible to get rid of the European elite and their economic policies.
Also please note, we`re still in Europe. There are good reasons to think that Brexit is not going to be allowed to happen. However, Europe is disintegrating.
This is a really good interview between Yanis Faroufakis and Noam Chomsky discussing Greece and the European Union. It does reveal the lack of democracy in Europe and who pulls the economic strings. I`ll leave it here for anybody who wants to broaden their understanding..
I guess you are also the kind of person who tells their doctor to shut the f*ck up and lecture you on what’s wrong with you. Because, after all, whether someone is ignorant or not is not defined by their education and knowledge on an issue, but whether or not they agree with you.
No one said the EU was perfect – that’s just the usual dishonesty we’ve come to be used from from Bexiteers, “proud” to engage in demagogy. But those “faults” cited by you and yours exist primarily in your imagination. And the fact that you fundamentally reject the concept of free speech and want to dictate what opinion people should voice speaks volumes. Your ancestors died to prevent people like you from running the UK, you are proud to spit on those who defended the freedom of your country, inasmuch as they are still alive, and pee on the graves of those who have died.
sackersonwp said:
Lots of ignorance on both sides. But the emoji-style “arguments” (esp. the unwarranted slurs) on Facebook from Remainers were really frighteningly unreasoning. There was so much massive, dumb-brain, home-grown propaganda and deaf-blind aggressive assertion that I began to doubt the desirability of democracy.altogether.
However, if you want very well-informed fact and reason from someone who was recently asked to give evidence to a Select Committee, add this site to your reading list:
http://www.eureferendum.com/default.aspx
sidthemanager said:
I thought someone would have responded to this thread by now 😉 Great work as ever Tom. Re posting on FB
Colin Baldy, you are correct, I meant that the previous generations voted to Remain shortly after we had been taken in to the EEC.
che said:
The remain vote was riddled with lies.
Camoron said brexit would start world war 3 and Osberk said we would all be £3000 worse off !!
Both sides were full of shit, not just the brexit side.
x777 said:
https://theredphoenixapl.org/2010/05/04/on-petty-bourgeois-ideology-social-democracy-to-fascism/
It was such an ill-informed decision. I know in theory a referendum is a very democratic way to make a decision for a country, but when 52% of 70% of the electorate voted to screw things up so badly for the country, based on a campaign of fear-mongering, lies and misinformation, the 48% have every right to be pissed off about this, although if the latest polling research is to be believed, we are now the 55%, since so many people have since indicated they regret their vote.
I assume John Platts is one of those Thatcherite Little Englanders and definitely deluded if he thinks this country is ‘Great’, although it’s about to get a whole lot less great as the economic consequences of Brexit start to hit.
I get really wound up when I read idiots like John Platts write that we should now all get behind Brexit, as if he and the Brexit campaign would have gone away had they lost by a narrow margin. Sorry John Platts, but you laid a huge turd in the bed, don’t expect me to help you clean it up. Have you not been watching the news? It’s no longer predicting what would happen, it’s reporting what is happening, i.e., pound tumbles, volatile stock market, economy shrinking, job losses announced, brain drain already starting, France overtook UK to become 5th largest economy in the world within hours of the vote. You might not like is, but us true patriots are not going to go away and do everything in our power to make sure Brexit doesn’t go through, no matter how much Union Jack flag waving morons such as yourself protest.
Chris, the fear mongering, lies and misinformation came much more from the Remain campaign. You say that I voted to screw things up for you, this is of course utter nonsense. I voted to leave because I believe (after years of thought and diligence on the matter) that we will be better off out of the anachronistic backward-thinking EU. I have seen no such polling, indeed the polling I have seen shows that there would be little or no difference if we were to vote again. As time moves on, more and more Remain lies are being shown for what they were.
Chris, I also am a true patriot and like most other Leave voters, will do everything in my power to make sure hat UKExit does happen. You seem to try to denigrate those of us who disagree with you with foul language and spin. Get over yourself.
judithhaire said:
Reblogged this on Far be it from me –.
Mike, you may well think you are a true patriot, but you are deluded, especially if you are saying the lies came from the Remain campaign, yes the Remain campaign correctly predicted it would shrink our economy and crash the pound, cause market uncertainties, job losses and a brain drain … that is exactly what is happening, to have said otherwise would have been lying … compare this with the £350 million extra a week that the Leave camp said we would have for the NHS, which has since turned out to be complete bullshit, along with hundreds of other lies and misinformation from Brexit.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-referendum-nigel-farage-nhs-350-million-pounds-live-health-service-u-turn-a7102831.html
You are a moron who voted for Brexit, so obviously facts are something you will be big on, however, the fact you have not seen such polling evidence does not mean it does not exist. If another referendum were to be held it looks like Remain would win, because the lies of the Leave camp have been called out. Of course Leave do not want this, because they are chicken and know they wouldn’t win. It’s not often I agree with that ignoramus, Farage, but I’m with him with this when he said shortly before the referendum if the result was 52:48 in remain’s favour, his fight would go on and he would push for a second referendum. I agree with Nigel, it’s too much of an important decision, let’s have a second referendum to be absolutely sure this is what we want as a nation. I don’t want it and I personally know several people who voted to leave or didn’t bother to vote who now wish they voted to stay in the EU having seen the negative fallout from the Leave vote.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-news-second-eu-referendum-leave-voters-regret-bregret-choice-in-millions-a7113336.html
If you sprinkle glitter on a turd, it is still a turd with glitter on it. Brexit will be a disaster for the British economy, even if Thatcherite Little Englanders and openly racist arseholes continue to wrap a Union Jack around the turd and pretend the catastrophic economic consequences of Brexit are not happening.
Facts do not cease to be facts because they are ignored by idiots.
@ Mike Paterson
“You seem to try to denigrate those of us who disagree with you with foul language and spin. ”
Where did I use foul language? Although I agree, when talking about the stupid twats who voted for Brexit it is fucking difficult to refrain from colourful language, however, having reread my previous comments, I couldn’t find any foul language you dopey cunt. .
josie91195 said:
Reblogged this on Look There's a Bear and commented:
I know I haven’t posted in a while, but I read this today and found it to be an eloquent, well-sourced and convincing account of the shambles that was the EU Referendum.
xxx said:
What a sad loser.
It’s called democracy, get over it, you little self exalted Castro wanna be.
You make every effort to prove his point. It’s hilarious when an enemy of free speech compares critics with dictators. If anyone is a Castro wannabe, it’s you Brexiteers who declare that your opinion must not be questioned or criticised. Combined with your hounding foreigners through the streets, you’re about as much about democracy as Comrade Stalin.
Alex McCabe said:
Tom Pride really is a special kind of stupid and seems to confuse his opinion with fact. It was more a case of the working classes of the nation sticking-it to the arrogant, elitist, middle-class snobs of London & the home counties. Democracy is democracy and you can’t sulk when it doesn’t go your way nor can you call for additional referendums until you get the desired result. If you want to lose what shreds of pride & dignity you have left by complaining then by all means carry on but fact of the matter is the people have spoken. The Government/Remain campaign failed to bullshit the nation using our tax money and now we can look towards a more prosperous future with a more globalcentric economy. Most of those who voted to leave did so for very good reasons.
Chris, you need to take a good hard look at yourself in the mirror, Your obnoxious and odious comments reveal your level of intelligence. You are one of those rather stupid people that cannot believe that somebody has a different viewpoint and that they therefore must be a moron. I am glad that I do not know you in the real world.
More people voted to LEAVE than have ever voted for anything, in the entire history of the UK!
Lucy Carmichael said:
You are so full of shit as to be unbelievable. Oh, and “And it definitely doesn’t mean you’re not stupid either” – double-negative. In this case you’re right. You definitely are stupid.
I know. It’s a disgrace. Ignorant people voting. Whatever next? Poor people? The unemployed? Women?
Ken said:
You have to love the whining of the Federasts, you really do. Every day brings in another pathetic screed from yet another loser who really cannot come to terms with the totality of the defeat that we handed out on the 23 June 2016.
Here’s the thing: if you wanna make a socialist omelette then you crack a few capitalist eggs. The biggest egg of them all is the EU and by God we cracked that one good and proper.
Chris – you have used the words deluded moron, racist arsehole. that you then say you have looked through your posts and cannot see any foul language and proceed to spout yet more. I guess you are rather poorly educated for which I can only pity you.
Mike, deluded moron is not a swear word, in your case it is a fact if you think Brexit will make Britain great. Racist arsehole was quoting the author of the article and posted after you wrongly complained I used foul language.
Ken, as if the Brexit crowd would have gone away if they had lost by the smallest of margins. The 48% are not going away, as we care about our country too much, especially now the Brexit campaign has been exposed of one of lies, misinformation and racism wrapped around a Union Jack flag masquerading as patriotism.
We don’t want to lose our European Citizenship and the many benefits that come with it, we don’t want to live in a country governed by bigots, we don’t want the economy of the UK dow be downsized and shrink, we don’t want job losses, we don’t want to leave the EU and it is becoming apparent that many people who did vote to leave the EU regret their vote and now do not want to leave either.
Bwahahaha.
“Make a socialist omelette”. And I have a plot on the moon you might be interested in.
As for “totality of defeat” thanks, Comrade Stalin, the fact that you want to abolish any and all elections from now on is duly noted.
The only one you defeated was yourself, as no one will be punished more by this than those who dupe yourself into being “winners”. There will be howling and gnashing of teeth. Do you seriously believe that MORE money will flow to disenfranchised regions? The EU was the only entity keeping those regions alive.
terry f said:
As a fervent remainer allow me to say this offensive bile makes me ashamed to be in the same camp as you
Mike, I take having my intelligence questioned by a flag waving deluded moron who voted Brexit who still thinks it was a good idea after the disastrous consequences have been widely reported in the news, as a badge of honour.
I have kids and you have voted to screw up their future. I have nothing but contempt for the xenophobic Little Englanders who voted for this idiocy. I’m proud European. I’m proud to be part of the 48% who are going to fight Brexit, which was a campaign of lies promoted by Rupert Murdoch, the Tory Right, and odd balls such as UKIP, the EDL, the BNP and conspiracy theorists like David Icke who claims the world is run by shape shifting lizards.
Andrew Cochrane said:
Like to add some reputable facts and figures and research to your self serving argument, no!, didn’t think so 💩💩💩
Chris, You are an ignorant buffoon. I refuse to attempt to converse with you any more.
Cute, a Brexiteer calling others ignorant buffoons. Project much?
Mike, I wear that as a badge of honour to be called an ignorant buffoon by a flag waving Little Englander moron that thinks Brexit will make Britain great.
Of course, you do not wish to converse with me, as you know you cannot win the argument. The disastrous effects of Brexit are already being felt, even though I cannot see how it can be implemented, as the new Chancellor said he wants to maintain access to the European Single Market and implement Brexit, negotiations of which back into the Single Market cannot be started until two years and one day after Article 50 is implemented, and if anybody seriously believes the three clowns, Bo Jo, Fox and Dumbass Davies will be able to negotiate more favourable access to the Single Market than we already have then they are living in cloud cuckoo land.
Yes of course you don’t want to debate, as once you pull the away the Union Jack that you hide under, there is is no intellectual validity to your argument, or in layman’s terms, you are an arsehole.
telescoper said:
Reblogged this on In the Dark and commented:
I agree 100% with this, and will also continue to campaign for the United Kingdom to remain a full member if the European Union. As the grim economic reality starts to bite, I think many will wake up and stop the madness before it’s too late.
Moonin said:
This whole sordid Brexit mess can easily be fixed. We just need to repeal the original parliamentary Act that gave the vote to the working classes. Then we can do the same with women’s votes and those aged 65 plus. Problem solved! Only hummus eating, elitist, condescending, anti democratic home owners aged between 18-59 should ever be allowed to partake in democratic processes. Quick-someone start a petition!
It’s cute when antidemocratic rabble who can suffer no opinion but their own accuse others of being antidemocratic.
Hint: Just because you are a lazy, irresponsible bum who knows only rights and no obligations doesn’t mean that others take their civic duty of casting their vote responsibly and inform themselves properly as negligently as you.
Having read a large number of these post from both sides of the argument I feel as if I just want to leave Britain altogether. Is it really impossible to discuss something without resorting to abuse?
http://order-order.com/2016/08/04/bank-england-rubbish-osbornes-brexit-fibs/
Er you were saying.
Ken Boon said:
YOU ARE A CUNT!
R6789 said:
‘in the history of voting for anything’ well actually XXX 18million people voted on the xfactor final 2010. The winner was Matt cardle if you’re interested…did he ever release more than 1 song?
Nice try R6789 but 33.6 million voted in the referendum. And yes Matt Cardle released more than 1 song.
Andy Yule said:
You are absolutely correct and many people have said what you say but maybe not loud enough and not in the best places. Looking at some of the replies you have it is quite amazing how these so called Brexiteers firmly state untruths with no fear of correction. I believe that the BBC was particularly guilty during the campaign of not querying errors and untruths from the leave campaign. Of course the Leavers now compound their lying by accusing the BBC of being biased against them. My MP was a strong Remainer but has now been knighted and made leader of the Conservative party: he is now firmly in favour of “making a success of Brexit “. How can we force these politicians to see sense and do what is best for the country (after all they mostly believe remaining is better)? That is the big question .
There is a shameful level of debate here with the issues. No wonder the Labour party is in such disarray. The grass roots does not know a peanut from an acorn.
Greg said:
What a load of tosh!
Chris, there are some remain voters on here that believe in democracy and then there are people like you, who believe if you shout loud enough you will get your own way. Grow up!!!
You claim in your colourful language, that you are not willing to help clean up the mess the leave voters made.
Then you proclaim that you are fearful for your children’s future but you are going to do anything you can to lengthen the economic downturn because you didn’t get your own way. You seem to have forgotten your children’s future very quickly.
You also see the leave/remain argument in a very narrow minded way. You only see the economic argument but not the social argument and I am afraid it was the social argument that your children would need to be procected from.
I voted leave not beleiving the lies that both sides put out to try and frighten us into voting one way or the other and knowing that there would been an economic downturn, which even the most hardened remain voters know will pass as all downturns do.
I voted leave because I did not want my family and your children to see the country rip its self apart because some people believe that we were being asked to integrate to many immigrants to quickly. Yes, some of these people are racists and always have been and to them one immigrant is to many. To others, living in streets were they don’t hear English spoken, were their children are the minority in the classrooms is pushing them to become racist. No everyone is ready to be that multicultural and until they are forcing the issue will only lead to a country filled with race hatred and that will spill over into the streets with part of the population attacking the other part for no reason that the colour of their skin or the language that they speak. It would have got worse and worse until your children would not be safe out on their own and you would find it very frightening walking in some areas of the cities and town. It will not be the fault of one side or the other it will be your fault because you want to force multiculturalism on people who are not ready for it. You have to allow change to happen at a speed the people can cope with.
So I am happy that I voted to allow your children to grow up in a safer more peaceful society . It may not be as wealth for the next few years, but if it’s the money that’s more important to you you are teaching your children the wrong moral values.
Jim c said:
You can use words in many ways to arrive at an answer that suits you. You are obviously a bad loser.
LOL, coz nobody who ever wanted to leave Europe ever shouted much in the last decade or so. The truth is I’ve hardly ever shouted about Brexit, because I didn’t think the country would be so fucking idiotic to vote to leave the EU. I wish I had shouted from every rooftop in the UK at the top of my prior to the referendum “Do not vote to leave the EU, it will destroy the economy of the UK, loose all your privileges of EU Citizenship, the pound will plummet, unemployment will rise and Britain will be international laughing stock and once more the sick man of Europe.”
I am doing something for my children’s future, I’m relocating part of my business to Spain (an EU member) as a direct result of the Brexit vote – http://www.totnes-today.co.uk/article.cfm?id=101722&headline=Jobs%20hope%20dashed%20by%20EU%3FBrexit%20vote§ionIs=news&searchyear=2016
Well done Brexit, forcing me to create jobs for Spanish people instead of in my own country.
This is democracy, where people have differing views and given the outcome of the referendum was so close can you honestly expect those who deeply and profoundly do not want us to leave the European Union to go away and shut up? Therefore we will fight to persuade those who now they realise they were lied to by the Leave camp and have also seen the disastrous economic consequences of Brexit to join us in our crusade to reverse this utterly stupid and ridiculous Brexit vote.
Just had Remain narrowly won, we would still have to put up with the with the likes of Farage continuing the battle and demanding another referendum, so you will have to put up with some of the 48% of the 70% of voted and the million plus who have changed their mind whinging about this stupid Brexit vote and doing everything in our power to stop it going through.
Colin said:
Not once does the author of this article say why, in his opinion, we should stay in the EU. Weird or what.None of the remainer snowflakes seem to have any idea how or what the aims of the EU were or are.
pauline siddons said:
“Democracy doesn’t mean accepting bad decisions made by a bare majority of uninformed, ignorant, small-minded voters”
Sorry, but that’s exactly what it means!
Just in case you did not read my last post, I have directed straight to you. I cannot Beleive if you have read it that you have not given your reasoned answers as to why you prepare your children to face unrest in the streets rather than a few years of economic struggle.
“I voted leave because I did not want my family and your children to see the country rip its self apart because some people believe that we were being asked to integrate to many immigrants to quickly. ”
you’d rather see the country rip itself apart because some people aren’t as blinkered as you are. It’s hilarious when Brexiteers declare Scotland not a part of “this country”.
“To others, living in streets were they don’t hear English spoken, were their children are the minority in the classrooms is pushing them to become racist. No everyone is ready to be that multicultural and until they are forcing the issue will only lead to a country filled with race hatred and that will spill over into the streets with part of the population attacking the other part for no reason that the colour of their skin or the language that they speak. It would have got worse and worse until your children would not be safe out on their own and you would find it very frightening walking in some areas of the cities and town. It will not be the fault of one side or the other it will be your fault because you want to force multiculturalism on people who are not ready for it. You have to allow change to happen at a speed the people can cope with.”
Thanks for confirming Chris’s points. And thanks for confirming you are not just a racist but utterly ignorant about the EU.
But hey, those German scientists working at the Medical Research Council really were criminal scum, right, playing the cancer-curing heros at day while preying on innocent British children at night? And those Swedish engineers at the local car manufacturer, woaah… don’t want to meet them late at night in a pub.
That Romanian nurse is probably experimenting on the children she treats at the local NHS hospital, right? They are all so dangerous for children. After all, they got that educashun thing, and nothing is more dangerous than that…
But teaching them racism and wilful ignorance is of course a valuable moral value?
Jennifer Lindley, just to correct one quite important point – actually around 68% of young people voted in the referendum, not 34% (http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/09/young-people-referendum-turnout-brexit-twice-as-high), so we’re doing them a disservice if we repeat the fake stats that were circulating on social media, and try to use it to prove that they didn’t care.
There are clear correlations between age and how people voted, as well as between level of education and voting results. And John Platt, you might be interested to see that the areas with the highest level of immigrants actually also voted to remain, so I’m not sure that your argument really stacks up either: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/eu-referendum-how-the-results-compare-to-the-uks-educated-old-an/ – might be worth re-examining your own perceptions versus the reality of living in a multi-cultural area.
William beer said:
You are such an egotistical self inflated prick. You don’t like it why don’t you crawl up your own arse and fuck off!!! because without the likes of you maybe the rest of the country can get on with rebuilding something worthwhile for people who believe in British values. And before you bang on about intelligence and negatives and how stupid everyone but you are, it’s your narrow minded bullshit that will suppress the advancement of everyone and not just the pocket lining of the rich. You arsehole.
What “British values” would that be? Sloth and wilfull ignorance? No, it’s not his “narrow minded bullshit” that suppressesd the advancement of everyone, it’s your being a lazy bum who is so narcisstic that you’re not only too lazy to educate yourself, you’re dismissing anyone not as lazy and actually doing their homework.
But yeah, it’s disgusting that putting in the time to learn something pays off, right? Better people like you would get anything you want shoved up your arse without doing anything for it. After all, the concept of responsibilities, obligations and duties is utterly alien to you. All you know is that it’s perfectly natural that you have your cake and eat it, too.
It’s hilarious when the “arsehole” who would even lecture their doctor how to conduct an appendectomy gets all worked up about people declaring him stupid for believing he can lecture people with greater expertise.
I now see why Chris has such bizarre views and immediately jumps to foul and abusive language. Have you been partaking in the raw product of your produce Chris? What a storyline, fervent Remain camapigner says he will take jobs that he hasnt yet created to Europe’
Hi tyelko,
Yes, anyone who is against forcing people to except ideals that they are not ready for is heading for social unrest but I, unlike you, can see the need to move to multiculturalism at a natural rate not one force upon by the EU.
As to me being racist, which is the battle cry of all remain voters if the word immigration is mentioned, nothing could be further from the truth.
My wife is from a mixed cultural marriage, part Irish part Bangladesh, my wife and daughter are of the Muslim faith. My farther in law once told me that he had been in total agreement with Enoch Powell in as much as you cannot rush integration, it has to happen slowly.
So yes I voted leave for the safety of my family and the safety of your family. It does not take much for minor skirmishes to escalate to major conflict and once the touch paper has been lit it is very hard to turn back. It seem Germany hasn’t learnt the lessons from its past, give the people some to blame and they will hate them with a passion that leads to violence.
So you carry on complaining about how the economy downturn is going to hurt your children but if all the hateful, crude and disgusting remarks written on this topic do not show you that your family and this country will be hurt far more by continuing your campaign you are burying you head in the sand.
I am a true multiculturalist, not a racist, and firmly believe in total integration. I don’t believe in towns within towns and cities within cities and this take time to achieve. The EU has its own economic agenda which, like you, it puts above all else.
That’s why we needed to come out of the EU.
Michael Malone said:
We’re never going to leave the EU in reality are we. There’ll never be a government elected in the UK who will throw the country under the bus on the racist whim of a few million uneducated and angry middle-aged failures looking for somebody to blame.
Michael, It is nit throwing the country under the bus. The leave vote is not in any way racist, (although of course racists will use any tactic to further their evil agenda) indeed I suggest that reducing the automatic access of domicile to the mainly caucasian Europeans in favour of greater access to the rest of the world is anti-racist and that to want to remain in a trade bloc that ensures discrimination is the racist thing to do. I would also suggest that there seem to be many millions of undeucated and angry middle-aged failures looking for someone to blame and that you are one of them.
Dids (@Didsthewinegeek) said:
Whilst voting Remain myself your basic arguement is flawed. One cannot make a comparision between Section 28 and the vote on Europe. Section 28 is a moral arguement, Europe a political one. It is tenuous to say that the majority of the electorate were against Section 28 as there was no vote. Majority of Parliament and a majority of society are 2 different things. Therefore your basic arguement is naive to say the least.
Join the long list of remain voters, who are in a minority and argue black is white. You do are chances of remaining in Europe very little good. Infact you damage it.
I don’t think you’ve been paying attention. The commenterati have been churning out nasty, snobbish opinion pieces of exactly this nature ever since the electorate delivered their verdict.
Needless to say, it says more about the writers’ superciliousness than it does about the Leave voting masses.
John Platt I want my children to be in a Britain that is part of Europe. You contradict yourself by saying you want out of Europe because it will be better for the UK then write some tosh that I put the economic agenda first. Well if that means not wanting to see the economy of this country destroyed then yes economic agenda is important, but I also like my right to freedom of movement and travel, free health care, environmental laws on a European level, since pollution doesn’t respect national boundaries. Since I’m not a racist the immigration issue simply doesn’t bother me like it does you and I really not believe immigration is the fault of all our countries woes. In fact, immigrants contribute positively to the economy. You do realise that we take away freedom of movement after Brexit
1) you are screwing things up for your fellow compatriots who might be a little adventurous and want to get off this island from time to time and enjoy living and /or working in another European Country
2) if we want to retain access to the Single Market, we have to accept the freedom of movement. I take it you want to retain access to the European Single Market, the new Chancellor does, please tell me how we can keep access to the Single Market, without losing our right of freedom of work and travel in EU member states, while at the same time not accepting freedom of movement for people to live and work in the UK
Brexiters often talk about the Norway option (EEA), but in Norway they have freedom of movement and a higher proportion of immigrants than UK. Most UK immigrants come from India, which is not in Europe anyway. Some academics have argued that Norway has less sovereignty then other EU member states, since they are subject to EU laws, but have no say in shaping them. Norway also pays more into the EU than it gets back.
I thought Mike Patterson stated he was never going to engage with me again, but as a fervent leave voter, we should not expect him to keep a promise. As a matter of fact, my investors did tell me to move our new company out of the UK as a result of Brexit and I have spent the last few weeks in Spain where we are in the process of creating jobs that would have gone to Britain. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36835566
“Have you been partaking in the raw product of your produce Chris?” – sorry I do not understand your question. We’re producing cosmetics, what has that got to do with anything? Yes I’ve used our soaps, shampoos and creams. Typical Brexit voter, don’t answer the issues at hand and make a stupid comment that is completely irrelevant. I have presented logical and consistent arguments as to why Brexit will be a fucking disaster and all you come back with is pious comments about my occasional usage of swear words (it is 2016) and claim I have bizarre views and swear because of my choice of hand creams, soaps, shampoos and conditioners. Very strange man.
before we voted to leave the EU, we carried out a considerable amount of research on the EU and the unelected EC. We were absolutely horrified by what we found. Far worse than we were aware of and indeed anticipated.
So you were horrified to find out that the 28 heads of the EU Civil Service were not elected? Why? The Commission is actually the Civil Service for the EU. They draft legislation, they can propose legislation but they do not vote on it. That is no different from the British Government system.
What is so horrific about that?
DR CHRIS HENTSCHEL said:
It’s obvious from just a cursory read that the pro-Brexit voters are truly victims of their own propaganda narrative. There are so many examples here, but one typical one is the easily rebutted fib that the Remain campaign claimed the WW3 could follow Brexit. Rather, it was their own propaganda outlets that invented this idea to ridicule the Remain campaign when Cameron mentioned the positive role the EU had made to keeping peace in Europe. He was quite measured in what he said, as is easily verifiable, but reporting this accurately would not have served the propaganda ‘project fear’ narrative. The fact that the EU was awarded the Nobel peace prize with a detailed citation explaining its role in keeping the peace was of course ignored by the Sun, Mail etc. Even the ‘neutral’ BBC never mentioned this rather salient fact.
We don’t make decisions about lesser matters, like where a new runway should be built in London, by allowing a deliberately misinformed public to take a blinkered punt.
Britain and particularly the younger generation deserve better than this.
Bryan Southon said:
I support continued membership of the EU. The issue is how those of us 48% who voted to remain can prevent the process of leaving being initiated. I propose the formation of a pressure group acting alone or in alliance with others to persuade MP’s to exercise their judgement and not be dictated to by the referendum result They should reject any attempt to leave the EU. At the very least there should be a second referendum on the outcome of any negotiations if the leaving process is activated. My reasons for this are given in various posts above; such as It is not in the broad national interest to leave, 28% of voters may have abstained but silence does not mean consenting with the [slim] majority. If you want to stay let your MP know!
xenasrealm said:
Reblogged this on Musings of a passion junkie and commented:
The minority are right far more often than people care to admit – whether that measure is on the scale of a referendum, or an individual. Populism is never a reliable benchmark.
When did Scotland become a working class area…And Manchester and Liverpool have a distorted class perception due to having massive unis full of rich kids.
Ruth, not sure how you can backup your statement that the areas of highest immigration voted remain.
The three towns and cities with the largest percentage of immigrants, Slough, Luton, and of course Birmingham, all voted leave.
Then consider the northern towns such as Bradford, Barnsley, etc all voting leave.
It might be worth while re-examining your statistics and your geography. Or perhaps you should join us thick leave voters who think Everest is in England
John, you might want to reexamine your own statistics and geography. The area with the highest percentage of foreigners by far is still in and around London. Areas such as Ealing with over 40% of foreign-born population voted Remain. Harrow, likewise with almost half the population foreign-born voted Remain – and with an over 9% lead.
Compared to that, Birmingham was basically a tie, the Leave lead was well below 1%.
It might also be worthwhile to consider what kind of immigration we’re talking about. I know people like you blame the Fall of Man on the EU, because Britain, categorically, cannot be responsible for anything and an Englishman is genetically prevented from being at fault, but having your ancestors loot the planet off riches and then blaming it on the EU when the former subjects of the Crown follow the money deserves a special kind of contempt.
The EU has nothing, nothing at all, to do with immigration from Pakistan, and the fact that the Rotherham incident was repeatedly instrumentalised in discussions with Brexiteers underscores just how rampant ignorance on immigration issues is. It’s all an issue of “If it’s bad, it’s the EU’s fault”.
Tyelko, you seem to be tagging me as a racist.
I’m not sure of your credentials to be classed as a multiculturalist but I can assure you I am.
Religion, originally Protestant then Catholic married a Muslim. My wife is Bangladesh/ Irish.
Many British citizens that have been in this country for many years are worried about over immigration. I believe in intergration not suffocation. Countries should not being forced to take immigration that it cannot cope with.
Your true colours seem to be on show in as far as you are picking out people from Pakistan as a problem that is not of the EU making. So who is the racist. Immigration without integration is the problem not what nationality.
The traditional long estabished immigrant areas voted leave. They see the signs of future unrest stating because of over immigration.
John, I said nothing to suggest you were a racist. It seems to me you want to divert attention from the fact that your claims about votes from areas with a lot of immigrants were off.
That is further reinforced by your dishonest suggestion that _I_ suggested that people from Pakistan were a problem when I said nothing of that sort. I pointed out that I’ve seen the Rotherham scandal being brought up time and again when portraying the problems immigration supposedly brings, ignoring that it had nothing to do with the EU.
As such, your comment about “signs of future unrest” is merely the usual trope. You fail to present any justification for such supposed signs being reasons to vote “leave”.
It speaks volumes that you react this vociferously and with a smear campaign to being called out on making wrong statements.
Firstly the 2011 census has Birmingham at 47% of it population “not white British” an increase of 8% in ten years. So I think it depends on where you get your statistics from. So I am certainly not diverting attention away from my claims.
As to you not calling me a racist. The remark “people like you” and then go on about these people not wanting to welcome people from commonwealth, does describe me as a racist.
Your mention of Pakistan and Rotherham and the fact that you are trying to distance the EU from it, says that you believe there is good and bad immigration. That is racist. Where as I believe you can just have to much of a good thing.
As to the unrest, you can aready see it starting throughout Europe. How long do you think these attacks will be allowed to go on before there is retaliation.
Once the retailistuon starts there are “racists” that will not care where you are from you will not be a native of the country that you reside in and therefore be s target.
So I say again I voted leave to protect all immigrants that are now living in this country and may they enjoy it peacefully but if we are force to inigrate to many to quickly you will get a reaction. The EU should have just allowed Britain to restrict immigration and we would have had a remain majority. So if you want to blame anyone for us leaving the Eu blame the EU.
“Firstly the 2011 census has Birmingham at 47% of it population “not white British” an increase of 8% in ten years. ”
That’s something entirely distinct from “immigrants”, John.
No, it doesn’t. Your declaring anyone non-white an immigrant, however, certainly suggests so.
“Your mention of Pakistan and Rotherham and the fact that you are trying to distance the EU from it, says that you believe there is good and bad immigration. That is racist. ”
That’s cute, projecting Brexiteer racism on me. I mentioned Pakistan and Rotherham as an argument against immigration brought up by Brexiteers.
Further demonstration of the ignorance mentioned in the article. The situation in France, much like the one in Britain, has far more to do with the colonial past than recent immigration.
“The EU should have just allowed Britain to restrict immigration and we would have had a remain majority. So if you want to blame anyone for us leaving the Eu blame the EU.”
Yes, as we already established, everything is the EU’s fault. Even the fact that you want to have your cake and eat it, too, enjoying all amenities without any of the responsibilities.
Britain can restrict non-EU immigration as much as it wants, and EU immigration has nothing to do with the “recent unrest”.
You continue to demonstrate that the case for Brexit fundamentally relies on dishonesty.
Hilary Burrage said:
I’m sure some readers have seen this already, but it does tell us more about the general wider opinions of those who wanted to Remain or Leave: https://flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/looking-behind-the-brexit-anger/ . Of course there are some with a liberal world view who wanted Brexit (and vice versa) but despite the protests from Leavers the trends really are there…
Paolo Porsia said:
Reblogged this on Commentaria.
Simon Briggs said:
What has the Brexit vote accomplished?
Enormous and, for the moment irreparable social schism. Oh, and civil war on social media, as displayed by this somewhat pathetic aggressive – defensive interchange
JonP said:
True that being in a majority does not automatically make you right but it makes your views those of the majority. Also right and wrong suggests a black and white answer which is narrow minded. This is typical self righteous thinking that presumes to know why others think the way they do.
Tyelko,
If you accept that all the counties of Europe have a far right racist element, which you do, can you also not see that the logic of your argument is lost on them. They do not care if you are a first generation immigrant or a fourth generation immigrate ….you are an immigrant. When there is a huge influx of immigration it allows these people to generate hate and when some of the immigrates are violent they use this to incite violence. They do not care if you are from the EU or from India or Syria to a racist you are an immigrant.
That is why people who have been settled here for generations have voted to leave the EU. That is why I claim that the areas with the greatest populations of ” non white British” ( immigrants over many generations) voted to leave the EU.
The EU has a great economic plan, whether it is good or bad, is irrelevant if it is put before the safety and stability of the member nations.
Britain is not the only country worried about the social fabric of Europe. Talk is about how Britain should have remained to help change things.
That means that the EU is to blame because if they were ever going to alter their thinking it would have been when Cameron asked for their help before the election.
So as more and more attacks happen throughout Europe, for whatever reason, (the racists won’t care) the tit for tat retaliations will escalate.
I personally do not wont to by attacked because I am white and I do not wont may family attacked because they have an immigrant background.
I as much as I cannot definitely say that the economical downturn will be short lived, you cannot definitely say that our countries will not enter a period of major social unrest.
I personally prefare my family to be poorer and safe, than not poorer and unsafe.
Let’s face it you wouldn’t be any better off if we remained you just maybe wouldn’t be any worse off.
Having said all of this, I am sure that you will go back to blaming it on imperialism, but that won’t change a thing it is the here and now that matters not the past.
Graham Saunders said:
You jumped up sanctimonious little prick. How dare you call the majority of the Brexit voters dumb and ignorant and small minded. You are laying bare your own prejudices by saying that the majority of Brexit voters read the DM or Ecpress. Grow up for gods sake you little child.
Except there’s plenty of evidence for his points.
Ian Mc said:
“In fact, the most working class parts of the UK – Scotland, Liverpool, Manchester – all voted Remain. And the majority of young people voted Remain too.”
Notwithstanding:
I’m bored typing them now, but I wager some of those are part of the ‘most working class areas’ (like whatever that means anyway – the whole of Scotland ‘most working class’)
A Dissident said:
Yes, all the Leave voters were totally ignorant of the Stalinist group think. Book them in to the nearest gulag for some ”re-education.”
It would be entirely sufficient for you to get a normal education instead of engaging in tinfoil hattery and declaring the entirety of UK academia a bunch of corrupt clueless idiots.
“If you accept that all the counties of Europe have a far right racist element, which you do, can you also not see that the logic of your argument is lost on them. ”
And that is an argument why?
So you say because there are antivaxxers, we should stop vaccinating people and let liars like Wakeland run the show? Because there are creationists, we should stop teaching science? After all, you already declared the entirety of UK academia a bunch of idiot morons who got their Nobel prizes through corruption and graft by your vote.
“They do not care if you are a first generation immigrant or a fourth generation immigrate ….you are an immigrant. When there is a huge influx of immigration it allows these people to generate hate and when some of the immigrates are violent they use this to incite violence. They do not care if you are from the EU or from India or Syria to a racist you are an immigrant.”
And of course that’s a valid argument?
Which is irrelevant to the point you wanted to counter, namely the fact that the areas with the highest immigration, i.e. foreign-born inhabitants, those people who actually do know immigrants, voted Remain.
So you failed to counter that point, instead constructing a dishonest strawman, as with pretty much all pro-Brexit arguments.
You demonstrate just how correct the initial point of the blog post is – complete and utter, abject ignorance about how the EU works.
No, the EU has no “great economic plan”. The EU is not a singular planning entity. It is composed of its member nations and it is the member nations which call the shots. That this is done by votes and agreements and not by simply agreeing to whatever your nation wants is not a bug, it’s a feature.
No, it means no such, thing, but thanks for confirming that your main beef with the EU is that it doesn’t jump to the British fiddle 100% of the time and people on the continent simply sign over their sovereignty to little Englanders.
Right, of course, facts are irrelevant, propaganda is the new truth, and attacks supposedly in “retaliation” are immediately justified through libel and propaganda.
You don’t want your family attacked because they have an immigrant background? Like hell you do. You are promoting attacks on them by justifying racist attacks and lending credence to racist propaganda. I’d suggest you think long and hard why xenophobic attacks in the UK increased massively after the Brexit vote. Maybe read your paragraph above and think about what you are saying there.
I can certainly say that the social unrest in the UK has increased, not decreased, after the Brexit vote, and is much more likely to further increase than decrease.
Let’s face it you wouldn’t be any better off if we remained you just maybe wouldn’t be any worse off.2
Let’s just face it, you did jack sh*t to make your family safer, quite the contrary, you made it so that the probability of them being attack is massively higher than before and now are frantically trying to justify that for you, unwittingly even going further down that road by continuing to spread racist propaganda uncritically.
Right, and of course, reasonable analysis is useless waste of time, whereas uncritically parroting the Daily Mail and the Express will contribute to improving the situation.
Just like your Doctor is a useless hack who wasted his time in medical school and all those other academic idiots should never have thought that studying an issue would lead to any superior knowledge. Boris, Gove and Farage all know so much more than the likes of Paul Nurse, Peter Higgs, Stephen Hawking, George Akerlof or Angus Deaton.
Have fun in your dream of Britain in the stone age.
mrmmarsh said:
Great piece, but to be clear the links you’re citing at the end aren’t evidence that most people are ignorant, they’re made up PR ‘studies’ designed to serve as an advert. Most British people don’t actually think Everest is in England, that’s an advert by a dodgy PR company, and ironically just the kind of falsified loss and propaganda you’re criticising in the rest of the piece. I’d suggest you delete those lines, or replace them with ones that are derived from credible sources. But the rest is all good!
(Disclaimer: I lecture about those kind of PR studies for journalism students at a couple of universities)
Wendy Bradley said:
I voted out because I studied the EU, neoliberalism, global economics and politics.
I know Brexit is the best way forward and the attitude of remainers to Brexiteers is akin to the snobbish and arrogant attitude the KKK has to blacks in America – you can’t see the good in anyone who has a differing idea to your own. Poor judgement is a sign of ignorance.
Nice one 🖒
Yes, poor judment is a sign of ignorance. Such as comparing criticism of your opinion with the KKK, when it’s your fellow Brexiteers who are hunting people in the streets of England.
It speaks volumes that you believe the KKK is merely “snobbish and arrogant”. But it’s to be expected from someone actively fostering hate crime.
You claim you have “studied the EU, neoliberalism, global economics and politics” – you are a liar. You don’t even remotely know what studying something looks like and the only snobbish and arrogant attitude here is that of lazy Wendy Bradley who believes to know more about the EU, global economics and politics than all the Nobel laureates of Britain who dedicated their life to having a bleeping idea what they are talking about. You are lazy and arrogant because you believe you can get all the authority with none of the work.
Rudolph Tomossi said:
“It’s not Democracy when I don’t like the result!” Check.
“Everyone who doesn’t agree with me is an ignorant stupid racist, but I’ll concede that 4 or 5 Leavers in the entire nation (I happen to personally know) aren’t so therefore you can’t accuse me of arrogance!” Check.
“I can’t answer difficult challenges to my perception of the EUtopia so they’re all lies!” Check.
This whole article is saturated with sophistry, superiority complex and staggering arrogance. The comment about the vast majority of English people believing Everest is in England only goes to show the level of contempt and dare I say it – racism – the author has for the British.
The expression Fractural Wrongness springs to mind.
I was surprised that you didn’t reply to my last post. Now I no why. You actually agree with me. There is already unrest in the streets.
You can claim it is for this reason or that reason but that doesn’t matter, the fact is because of forced immigration we have attacks undertaken by misguided people name of religion. We have misguided people, who though mistrust and fear, are racist “hunting people in the streets”
You do not have to be an expert to realise that these two facts do not generate peace and integration.
So again I am going to state that the remain voters either do not understand the dangerous path they want to take us down or they just have not even considered the social unrest forced immigration can cause.
If it is neither of these two options then it is quite simply they are putting wealth over social stability.
The EU should hold back on it immigration program until it has educated people on how to live together and that can only happen when you start to except other people’s piont of view.
I do agree that economic problems are going to be caused by leaving the EU and they probable effect me far more than you. On the other hand you seem to be in denial as to the fact that social unrest should be taken into the equation.
That’s why the EU need to educate people with unbiased facts not just the facts that favour their own objectives.
The EU have done a study on the effects of immigration, which was back in 2006. It claimed that there were many gap in the information it had on the effects on the native population. I guess the gaps are now being filled in, a bit to late.
Northern Sentinel (@NSentinel1) said:
Arrogant Elitist pouting that the people do not see his brilliance.
Go suck your thumb, snowflake.
Aww, cute, another Brexiteer with nothing better to do than to demonstrate that the hallmarks of their ilk are being lazy and merely capable of parroting tropes.
It’s hilarious when dropouts like you who consider themselves more knowledgable than Nobel laureates call others “arrogant”.
Coming from someone who considers himself more knowledgable than the entirety of British academia, that’s rich, Project much? Staggering arrogance and superiority complex is rather on the side of hacks like you who believe studying is for sissies and Nobel laureates pure hacks compared to your own glory.
“You can claim it is for this reason or that reason but that doesn’t matter,”
Yes, it very much does matter what triggers it.
“the fact is because of forced immigration we have attacks undertaken by misguided people name of religion.”
False. The fact is that the majority of these attacks had nothing, nothing at all, to do with recent immigration, and the only “force” behind them was the collapse of the French colonial Empire.
” We have misguided people, who though mistrust and fear, are racist “hunting people in the streets” ”
And you have nothing better to do than to justify their actions by supporting their rhetorics and confirming their prejudice.
Or they actually got their facts straight rather than running after cheap tropes.
Right. Let’s accept antivaxxers, creationists, and any other frauds and quacks as just another point of view. Let’s support Neo-Nazis in spreading their propaganda, it’s just another point of view after all. Holocaust denial and all the other good things should be actively promoted.
There is no “immigration program” by the EU. And you are complicit in any attack out there by promoting such disinformation.
“Unbiased facts”? You are hilarious. You have no interest in “unbiased facts”. You have repeatedly spread patently false information.
I guess you are filling them with Neonazi propaganda and feeling all proud about aiding and abetting them in the name of the “safety” of your family.
You still haven’t grasped that it was the Brexit vote, and not “immigration” which triggered the peak in attacks. But hey, all is good as long as you can lie to your wife that you are doing everything to keep her safe while promoting the propaganda of people who would beat her to pulp without blinking.
What on Earth are you talking about, Tyelko? You don’t know me. I don’t consider myself more knowledgeable then the entirety of British academia. I certainly don’t think studying is for sissies and I don’t have grandiose perceptions of my own “Glory”. There is literally nothing in my original post that would give anyone reasonable grounds to reach those conclusions. You’ve drawn those conclusions from your own prejudice. You’ve just pulled those conclusions out of your arse. But then, I guess I must be a “Hack” because I had the audacity to disagree.
But please, tell me more about how I’m projecting – but who am I kidding – I’m guessing I’m just in for insults and name calling now, huh?
“There is literally nothing in my original post that would give anyone reasonable grounds to reach those conclusions. You’ve drawn those conclusions from your own prejudice. You’ve just pulled those conclusions out of your arse. But then, I guess I must be a “Hack” because I had the audacity to disagree.”
No, you’re a hack because you deny even the obvious and believe the world to be flat courtesy of your sheer say-so. Pretty much the entirety of British academy strongly counseled against Brexit as bad for Britain and the British based on economic and public health reasons and bad for British science to boot. And in the latter field, the impact is already manifesting as British researchers are asked by their continental colleagues to recuse themselves from grant applications for EU funds in order to not jeopardize the grants by questions of eligibility. They are also already manifesting by a lower attractivity of British universities and research institutions for foreign talent – and foreign talent is critical for science to function in the modern world.
You’re hack because you believe you know better than the likes of Paul Nurse, Peter Higgs, Stephen Hawking, George Akerlof or Angus Deaton and can dismiss their positions outright.
But yeah, “there is literally nothing in your original post that would give anyone reasonable grounds to reach those conclusions”, aka. “The world is flat, the world is flat, the world is flat!”
One thing is sure Tyeko- you make things up and portray them as fact. This is what hacks do isn’t it?
One thing is sure, Mike – you project a lot from your own conduct onto others.
But at least you’re consistent in that. Just like you are projecting your own ignorance of basic political theory and western democratic practice into alleged shortcomings of the EU and your sloth and ignorance about its workings into an alleged lack of transparency (when all the treaties are freely available online for everyone to see).
But yeah, I am the one who makes things up and portrays them as fact. Thanks for proving my point of the post before. If what you say is true, then indeed you and your ilk consider academia a bunch of raving idiots – because they quite “coincidentally” happen to agree with me.
But yeah, “fact” is what you declare it to be, research is for people with too much time on their hands and too much fantasy.
Sigh. I always love to meet a stranger who knows me better then I know myself.
Tyelko, you’re talking as if the expert advice against Brexit was unanimous or near enough so. It wasn’t.
http://www.economistsforbrexit.co.uk/
Yes, I can find you more expert opinion in favour of Brexit if you would like.
You’re also taking the short term effects of the uncertainty this has caused as irrefutable evidence that we are heading for the economic End Times. The long term prospects may be considerably better – it really is too soon to tell. A political shift this large, no-one really knows with absolute certainty how this will work out long term – no, not even the Leave camp does…
And on the topic of the wonderful EUtopia, I’m going to leave this here…
http://www.statista.com/statistics/266228/youth-unemployment-rate-in-eu-countries/
Perhaps it’s my turn to presume what you’re thinking. “But the EUtopia is perfect! Big Brother loves us! The EUtopia is an economic paradise! We don’t need to worry about things such as rampant youth unemployment on the continent because um…science grants! The world is flat, the world is flat, the world is flat!”
Diana said:
As far as I am aware, MPs have to develop and vote on a bill to leave the EU, just as they had to do when we joined. This may take place before the end of the year. MPs have to vote based on what they believe is best for Britain, and we know that most MPs are in favour of remaining in the EU. The referendum result was advisory, not binding.
In addition, assuming they vote to start the process, the European Union Act 2011 requires another referendum, as the result of any negotiations would be a treaty change. It is possible that the negotiations would achieve a result that would be acceptable to people who originally voted to leave. It would be interesting to see if we could then stay in the EU on that basis, as nobody has ever triggered Article 50 before, and in theory there is no provision for changing our minds once that has been done.
Either way, the slim majority Brexit vote of those who voted in the 23 June referendum does not mean Brexit. What it does mean is uncertainty about the future, many problems now and in the near future, and often abusive debate as illustrated in the exchanges above. I am dismayed that it seems impossible for people to discuss these issues properly and/or do even a modicum of independent un-biased research instead of parroting propaganda.
Even if we do eventually leave, the outcome in the future would not be all bad. The much-maligned “experts” would find a way to make things work, even if it takes a few years to do so and we put back our economic progress by a decade or so. I know of many people who have already lost their jobs or their funding, so let’s hope that whatever happens they will not have to suffer for too long.
Modjadji said:
The most hilarious thing of all is those who claim that not implementing Brexit as a result of the vote would somehow be undemocratic, when in actual fact the complete reverse is true!
Democracy only exists where there is accountability – which is, strangely enough, why we elect politicians to make these massively important decisions.
If it turns out that the shock of the vote leads to a significant downturn in the economy, and, quite likely a recession, then if Parliament votes for it, at least any mp who does so can be booted out of office.
In what way could the people who voted for it be held to account, if we left solely based on the referendum? And that’s before you even get into all the legal issues, such as the impossibility of taking Scotland out of the EU against it’s will whilst it remains part of the UK, due to their devolved government.
It is the job of Parliament (you know, the same parliament that the Brexiters kept telling us should be sovereign!) to decide what is in the best interest of the country.
As has been said, if what the majority of the people wanted had to be brought in regardless of the consequences, up until very recently we would have had the death penalty.
When it becomes clear how dire the state of the economy is at the start of 2017, at the same time that the negotiations are starting, I’d bet a large sum of money that there would be a majority against leaving (and that’s even supposing there is still a majority in favour today, which is far from certain)
For a multitude of reasons, I’m convinced that Brexit will never happen, thank goodness.
I can’t wait for the day when the first fringe politician stands up and says stuff like this (i.e: It was advisory; Parliament has responsibility for all Britons; 37.44% the adult electorate voted leave and most of that was based on nonsense, so are we hell going to leave the EU). That will indicate progress towards the day when there is at-the-very-least a second referendum with an option to remain in the EU, which will obviously lead to healthy Remain vote. Then British History can resume instead of pretty-much ending.
In the mean time, the majority of the population will have to put up with this limbo. A limbo in which there are a vocal number of bitter and angry people (i.e. a minority of Leave voters) who refuse to either see or accept that they’ve cocked-up massively and shout their bitterness and anger on social media. Meanwhile the rest of the Leave voters will be quietly realising just what the facts are and gently merging with Remainers to form a popular group known as “decent people”.
P.S. You can tell who the bitter and angry people are because they will feel the need to respond to articles and posts like this with bitterness and anger, ironically openly identifying themselves as part of the bitter and angry minority by being bitter and angry about the fact that they are bitter and angry. Anyway, the football season’s starting soon so maybe they’ll go back to being bitter and angry about that.
Why did all the remain voters on here bother to vote at all. If you are now so convinced the the vote was worthless you would have been better off abstaining, then you could claim that anyone that didn’t vote leave was in favour of remaining so in effect you actually won the referendum.
As to the legality of the vote, the fact that the Tory government won the election because of the promise of a referendum, which was probably voted for by many in the remain camp gives it that legality.
Anyone on here who did not vote labour in the last election should remember they legalised the referendum . Just because you now don’t like the result you want it to go away.
This was what you voted for!!!!
Peter Clive said:
It all started a long time ago …
http://moflomojo.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-natives.html
mikejpaterson said:
Peter Clive, well done mixing fact with some nice Ndebele to try to make it he whole piece appear to be the truth. Please try harder as to will not fool many people like that.
Andy, it seems that Th vast majority of bitterness posted in this thread is from he Remain voters. Quite why in an article on demicracy, so many are agreeing with the article yet proposing overturning a democratic process is beyond me. The twisting of numbers does not fool anybody, even us racist, bigoted, stupid, uneducated majority who voted leave.
Diana, take a few minutes to think what would happen if the MPs chose not to follow the will of the people. I imagine civil unrest.”, and the resurgence of UKIP and far right parties. Do you think that is a good idea?
Tyke,
Again you are lying. You continue to make things up and suggest that you know things that you cannot possibly know. You are so full of t that the smell it that I can smell you from here.
You are hilarious!
FibbingIsARationalResponse said:
And the prize for proving both sides of the campaign were as bad as each other goes to Tyelko, as well as the original. Do quiet down. Read back the amount of hate and vitriol in your comments and ask yourself how yours is better than the brexit voters. You are giving a remainers a bad name.
I did vote remain but would like to dissociate myself from all this. I accept the EU wasn’t perfect and I don’t like the prospect of ever-rising population levels as a result of unchecked immigration either. There is a dark side to immigration and the half of the British population abandoned without investment or education by our politicians in favour of courting the already-educated rich middle classes of other countries have every right to point that out. As do women everywhere following the Cologne attacks and others throughout Germany at the New Year, which have been largely ignored and dismissed as women’s issues so commonly are. Economically it may even be the better path long term. It is difficult to say as the whole world is discovering what environmentalist have always said, that rampant unchecked capitalism is unsustainable.
The whole referendum has been a disaster in terms of demonstrating the weaknesses of our entirely morally bankrupt London-centred political structure, and dividing the country. It is a disgrace that leading politicians were conducting an exit campaign they had no plans for following through, and a disgrace that a referendum took place with no clear guidelines on how or when to action it. We all know it was offered just as a part of empty political games by an inept leader with nothing else of substance to offer. Given the problems of our crappy political system it was the pnly chance many people will ever be given to express their disenchantment, so no surprises when that happened (incidentally, I don’t know about the others but Manchester city is not now a working class area. Middle class as they come and as a residential area inaccessible to most locals).
We now need to reject the ‘divide and conquer’ techniques that he and his ilk fostered, unite and move forward together. Face the reality of a world with dwindling resources and halting economy and try to find the best solutions for all of our people and negotiate fairly with the rest of the world. No more sniping at each other or we are all doomed. I’ll make an exception for the politicians who’ve got us into this mess: our first task collectively is to address our political weaknesses.
“As do women everywhere following the Cologne attacks and others throughout Germany at the New Year, which have been largely ignored and dismissed as women’s issues so commonly are.”
This is a)bullshit and b)has nothing to do with the EU
Not only have the Cologne attacks not been ignored, in fact, a number of people have been arrested, nor have other “attacks”. That does not mean they are what they are represented as. What YOU ignore, because it is inconvenient for you, is that a massive amount of those other attacks you talk about have been on closer inspection been either blown way out of proportion or made-up entirely to begin with. Even with the Cologne attacks, the only reported case of actual rape involving intercourse turned up to be fabrication. But hey, when a woman reports having become pregnant after a rape in Cologne on New Year’s and later is found to have not even been there and having serially reported rapes in the past that did not hold up to scrutiny, it’s “ignoring and dismissing women’s issues”, not the sad case of a psychologically imbalanced woman.
And it’s an exercise in dishonesty to bemoan supposed ignoring and dismissing of “women’s issues” when the only “women’s issues” one is interested in is those involving foreigners and pickpockets using sexual assault as a diversion tactic become more relevant than a German couple systematically torturing several women to death.
Anyone claiming to be advocating women’s rights in this discussion is a bald-faced liar promoting nothing but women’s rights to be lying, libeling bigots.
It’s hilarious that you accuse others of vitriol and speak of “dark sides” while supporting criminal conduct and literally whitewashing crime.
You continue to project your own dishonesty and fabrication onto others. It’s hilarious that you continue to insist I am lying yet never had anything more than your say-so to establish that, whereas I pointed out false claims of you repeatedly.
You’re a rather pitiful, little Rumpelstiltskin stomping your foot screaming “But I AM right!” without ever being able to produce the slightest bit of evidence to support your bullshit. You rave about legislative initiative, in abject ignorance of the fact that the executive is the chief initiatior of legislation in the UK, in Germany, and in most other countries. And your only reply on being called out on that is “You lie”. You declare that your assessments are right, thereby declaring the assessment of all the experts out there wrong, but your only reaction to being called out on your arrogance is calling other people arrogant and dishonest.
Sorry, but not everyone shares your opinion that wilful ignorance and sloth can be compensated by being that much more insistent on the dishonesty of everyone actually doing their homework.
The only one full of shit here is you, you live off the work of your betters but demand to be more respected than those putting in hard work you refuse to do.
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caz1971 said:
What an odious little man you are. Or woman. I am guessing a man. Ever been diagnosed with narcissism at all? Just curious.
Glenn said:
People in working class areas voted for Brexit because of the flood of foreign nationals taking their jobs. I live in Wales and the working classes have had enough of seeing foreign nationals taking their jobs.
That comment is one of ignorance as you forget most brexiteers were working class and Wales had a bigger vote for Brexit than England..
I am afraid I consider this post of yours to be one of an arsehole to be honest.
Skylar said:
Here is an interesting opinion. https://questionguidance.wordpress.com/2016/08/14/brexit-what-they-voted-for/
Yeah, because there’s so many foreigners living in Wales.
Here’s news to you: If someone who doesn’t speak the language and has no contacts and no resources can take your job, then you probably suck. This has nothing to do with “the working classes” and “foreign nationals taking their jobs”, it has something to do with being duped hook, rope and sinker in having any prospect for jobs taken away from you.
The ignorance is entirely on your part. Areas such as Cardiff voted Remain, as did several on the West Coast. It’s those areas with no jobs to be taken away which voted Leave, thereby ensuring that they chop themselves off any assistance the EU provides for such regions. The claim that Wales had a bigger vote for Brexit than England is ignorance at its best.
I am afraid you’re projecting from yourself to the author of the post.
You’re precisely the kind of ignorant twat the author meant, waffling about immigrants taking away jobs because you are too lazy to verify stuff before parroting the propaganda you have been fed. The percentage of foreign-born in Wales is minuscule, and those areas where it is higher, lo and behold, voted “Remain”.
You are the typical xenophobic dunce who blames everyone but himself for his misery. It’s a pity people like you will run out of scapegoats just as the going gets REALLY tough. You think you have seen joblessness in Wales? You have seen nothing yet. When the EU structural funds dry up. you will sell your children to get some breadcrumbs from Westminster and they will laugh in your face as they line their pockets, happy to have duped you into shooting into your own foot.
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I live in Wales and see youngsters not having jobs because of firms usng agencies and carting in Eastern Europeans to fill vacancies rather than train local youth. Those youngster ALREADY have lost those jobs. So I guess for them Brexit means more chance of getting emplyment.
I am not miserable thank you. I am very optimisitc about Brexit. I am sure that money that is used to fund the corrupt edifice know as the EU will be reallocated to regions around the UK. You just whine because the people of this country voted for Brexit. As for “seling Children” – is that some thing that happens in your area…..or are you just one of the buyers?
Well if I am the kind of twat who makes a prick like you stand to attention then c’est la vie. I live in Wales and I can SEE my Town not changing for the better due to the EU free movement. “Miniscule” is not the way I would describe the number that have arrived in South Wales.
If you are so pro EU move to Europe. This country voted Brexit so deal with it and quit whining about the choice of the electorate.
Right, so according to you, the Torygraph of all papers sweeps immigrants in Wales under the carpet and lies about the true numbers.
“I am sure that money that is used to fund the corrupt edifice know as the EU will be reallocated to regions around the UK. ”
Thanks for confirming my point. You were the dumpster hole of the UK before the UK joined the EU, to believe that the Etonians give you more breadcrumbs than you got in the past demonstrates just how delusional you are. The EU was actually the only one who made sure that money was spent on regions such as Wales. And thanks for demonstrating that your “knowledge” of the EU is limited to parroting the usual ignorant tropes of the “corrupt” EU.
Right, we already established that you know better than anyone else and the Torygraph is talking down the numbers.
a)You have no idea where I live, dunce
b)The choice of the electorate was not to abolish freedom of speech, as much as fascist scum like you would love nothing more than to abolish any elections not giving outcomes you like.
I would wager the “official figures” on immigration and foreign nationals are innaccurate.
Well for a dumpster hole it is very beautiful. Historically we were given the dirty end of the stick but the Welsh Assembly will be vocal about funding, and money that no longer goes to the EU will be used for regional schemes.
I can see the difference in the workplaces of my town and communities. I can see young people struggling to get jobs as employers use foreign workers rather than train local youth. I never read the Torygraph you nincompoop. I just take note of the world in my vicinity unlike limp and liberal Guardian readers like you who live in LaLa land.
a).. I have no idea where you reside – nor do I care. I just hope the underside of that rock you cling to is comfortable.
b) Fascist Scum. Laughable. I do not belong to (nor ever have or ever will) to any political party. As much as you would like to persuade people I march in a black shirt, burning foreign flags and shouting “Zieg Heil” that is not my cup of tea. I just engaged in a government run referendum and voted Brexit and sadly for those who voted Remain a narrow majority voted out. Democracy in action – and it would appear you are the one not liking the electoral outcome.
When you were jettisoned from your mother’s vagina into the world you must have stumbled into the “Forest of Stupidity” and head butted every tree. You have all the personality of Chlamydia.
Try rinsing the bitter taste of an election result you do not like out. Works wonders.
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Or perhaps it was a vote against globalisation. Just a rejection of what the authorities were telling us about how good Europe was when most EU countries have had slow economic growth for years.
“Just a rejection of what the authorities were telling us about how good Europe was when most EU countries have had slow economic growth for years.”
You mean like pretty much the entire industrialized world? In fact, several EU nations had some of the best growth out there for first world nations, but hey, let’s not let that prevent us from blaming the EU for Global Warming, the eradication of the Dodo and while we’re at it, the Fall of Man.
Dave said:
Your opposition to the death penalty appears to be inconsistent with your support of the remain campaign. The standard argument against the death penalty uses the golden rule of ethics. The remain campaign was based on a utilitarian greater good argument. I did not see anyone campaign on the basis of ethics.
The standard economics argument for the greater good is based on utility maximisation without regard for distribution. Without regard for distribution means without caring who is harmed or by how much. This argument does not meet the ethical standards taken for granted in legal rulings.
Remain didn’t make an ethical case. You haven’t made an ethical case in this blog. Remain failed and it’s their fault. You also failed when you wrote this blog and it’s your fault. Insulting half the UK population is not the answer. You should recognise your failure and do something about it. Think about economic distribution and the golden rule of ethics and come up with something better. Create an ethical argument. Your arguments for Europe are like opposing the death penalty because of the economic cost. I don’t see being right for the wrong reason as anything to be proud of.
Given the choice between two unethical campaigns people chose what they thought was the lesser evil. People should have had a better option. If you want to start arguing from the perspective of ethics then the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights would be a good place to start.
” The remain campaign was based on a utilitarian greater good argument. I did not see anyone campaign on the basis of ethics.”
And of course, your personal impression is the unerring ledger of truth.
“Remain didn’t make an ethical case. You haven’t made an ethical case in this blog. Remain failed and it’s their fault. You also failed when you wrote this blog and it’s your fault. ”
Your fault is that you declare the truth unethical and dishonesty ethical.
“Think about economic distribution and the golden rule of ethics and come up with something better. Create an ethical argument. Your arguments for Europe are like opposing the death penalty because of the economic cost. I don’t see being right for the wrong reason as anything to be proud of.”
And pretending to care for ethics and distribution while merely pretending to do so is nothing to be proud of, either. You’re the equivalent of the 350 million pound bus which claimed fake desire to support the NHS with a fake sum of money.
Who was it who invested in structurally poor regions in the UK? Certainly not Westminster. They neglected those regions for half a century and more. It was the EU which ensured that people in those areas had decent roads. It was the EU which funded libraries, community centers and supported expanding broadband connections. Now the people from those regions come crawling to London to beg for replacement of those funds.
That’s cute, given that the Leave campaign is fundamentally opposed to any and all external arbitration of human rights.
If you want to start arguing on ethics, first shove your dishonesty.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/27/merkels–underestimated-migrant-integration-challenge/
If merkels agrees with me perhaps I’m wrong….
But I don’t think so….. See previous!!!!
Here is an ethical standpoint for you: In Democracy the majority voice carries the day.
Deal with it instead of whining like a baby deprived of it’s bottle.
There is nothing ethical about the standpoint that a majority decision abolishes freedom of speech. You are a wee bit like Erdogan for whom democracy is a train from which to hop off as soon as you have reached your destination. Your belief that people should hand in their convictions and not speak their opinion anymore once you got what you wanted is the antithesis of democracy, and you merely underscore that the manhunts triggered by the Brexit votes, the murder of Jo Cox preceding it and the propagandistic lies of the Leave campaign are, contrary to all denials, born of the same spirit. You take your cues straight from the playbook your fathers and grandfathers defended the country against. But then, you already declared them senile, demented idiots already with your vote, given that Britain’s finest were solidly on the side of “Remain”. But people like you take everything for granted, you know no respect, no duty, no obligation, All you know is narcisstic entitlement.
Caroline Anne Lawes said:
Funny you say that, it’s a bit strange to have that viewpoint considering a majority of the Brexit vote was the elderly. I think you might have it around the wrong way. I think the elderly, who had waaaay more to do with our finest back in the day, know how the EU is bad for the UK 🙂
Thanks for demonstrating both my point and the point of the Blog Post – sloth and wilful ignorance are the hallmark of Brexiteers.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/15/dont-abandon-the-europe-that-i-fought-for-and-my-comrades-died-for
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/16/franklin-medhurst-96-war-veteran-pro-eu-letter
But yeah, _I_ have it around the wrong way. Suuuure.
Thanks for making the point better than anyone of the Leave side could have made it: You live in a fantasy land of your own making which has zero to do with the real world but is rather a cartoonistic theme park that is completely and utterly ludicrous to anyone with the diligence or the knowledge to get their facts straight.
“There is nothing ethical about the standpoint that a majority decision abolishes freedom of speech.”
Freedom of speech is one thing but whining like a child is another.
“the murder of Jo Cox preceding it and the propagandistic lies of the Leave campaign ”
The murder of Jo Cox had nothing to do with Brexit. Nutters do what nutters do – bit like your whining in this thread.
As for lies of the leave campaign : All that scaremongering about economic implosion, World War III, and general scaremongering coming out of the remain camp was pervcieved by the public for what it was – sheer bull manure.
You really have the far sightedness of an ostrich with its head rammed up it’s own anus.
Ya know what? I couldn’t give a monkeys what your opinion is of Brexit voters. We got used to the vitriol months ago. It’s why you were so shocked at the result. Leave voters stopped saying they were voting that way because it wasn’t worth the backlash. Wakey wakey people, 52% voted leave. It happened.
And the whole Jo Cox thing, wow. Well, here’s one for you. Did you know a 79 yr old woman was raped by a refugee whilst she was visiting her sisters grave, the day Fireman sam stepped on the Koran?
No I didn’t either. That’s because we & the media were all too busy worrying about a cartoon. And you wonder why people want us to get back some control?
I can post some links too, have a watch of this video http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/08/02/islamic-victims-rights-campaigner-banned-from-facebook-for-islamophobia-urges-people-to-make-a-video-saying-they-cant-arrest-us-all/
Just to settle it once and for all. If you voted remain, you knew the rules, the majority would win. You voted so you agreed to abide by the outcome, otherwise what was the point of you voting at all. Your only problem is you did not win.
If you did not vote at all then you cannot complain now, you had your chance.
If you voted leave then congratulations for have the sense not to be taken in by the doom and gloom spread by the Highly paid experts that where close the the leave campaign
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They’ll just sit around and expect Farage to ride in on his white horse in his Union Jack waistcoat and expect him to sort it all out for them… same as always.
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Paul O'Brien said:
As an Irish person I’m afraid that Brexit will undermine the fragile peace in Ireland. No-one wants a hard border in Ireland but it’s difficult to see how it could be avoided. It will stir up resentment and perhaps a revival of the violence we thought was behind us. However I can understand English concerns about immigration. England is over-populated and Ireland is not. Anyway “the tabloids have spoken.”
Shelagh Corker said:
Comments I previously read on FB suggested that 52% of the turnout were stupid, small-minded, bigoted, dozy, nostalgic foreigner-fearing fuckwits.
Being abusive against those of us that voted to leave is not the answer. We must all roll our sleeves up and get on with it.
It was a 72% turnout – higher than for all general elections this century – and around 8 percentage points more than in the 1975 referendum. Britain was Great then, it will still be Great after we have left.
Those that felt strongly about it turned out to vote, and most of them were Brexiteers. Instead of hurling abuse at those that voted to leave, shouldn’t the disgruntled minority be criticising those Remainers that couldn’t be bothered to vote?
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Artist Spotlight: The Skulx
tonightatdawn July 1, 2015
Written for Tonight At Dawn by @KralTunes
Typically, A seven second video of wailing guitar, pounding drums, and an ear-piercing scream is not worth getting too excited about. However, when those seven seconds are the world’s introduction to the Foxy Shazam/Cadaver Dogs collaboration known as The Skulx, even this minimalist offering is enough to make fans of their respective bands’ (and good music in general) restless with anticipation.
Within their preceding factions, Alex Nauth (Foxy Shazam), Mathew Franklin and Lex Vegas (Cadaver Dogs) have been creating soaring anthems packed with limitless energy and boundless creativity for over a decade. Unifying their unique talents can only make for a truly wild and unpredictable listening experience! The first track, ‘Do What You Do‘ (released last week), is proof of that seemingly exaggerated claim. To further whet those appetites, the debut album (due for release later in 2015) will also sport a slew of guests, including members of Slash & The Conspirators, Bad Rabbits, and Larry & His Flask.
Sadly, little more about the group is known at this time (one could say this Ohio threesome are as elusive as an NBA title in Cleveland).
However, the trio agreed to humor me and answer seven prying questions; one question for each second of their initial video (how clever am I?!)
Read the complete transcript below:
KralTunes: First question…What the hell is a Skulx?!
Alex Nauth: The Skulx isn’t so much a who as it is a where. There are times for everyone where you get “down in the dumps” or “on the skids” and as hard as it may be to recognize when you’re “in the thick of it”, these times can be the most enlightening. Times where you have to pull yourself up, or get out, or move on, these moments force us to make changes and find qualities in ourselves we never knew existed. The Skulx to us stands for that place and the great things that can come from dark times.
KT: For those uninitiated, let’s get to know the band, Alex Trabeck-syle. I’ll walk from podium to podium and ask each band member where they’re from and to reveal some tidbit about themselves. Any interesting factoid will do.
My name is Alex Nauth and I can fart the entire alphabet.
My name is Lex Vegas and I’ve had my mouth on things in (almost) every state.
My name is Mathew Franklin and I’m fully self-actualized.
They appear to be big fans of each others’ faces.
KT: Can fans expect this new album to be an amalgamation of Foxy Shazam and Cadaver Dogs’ style and sound, or will this be an entirely different beast?
AN: The three of us have made tons of music together in the past before we were a part of either of those bands. What’s been amazing about this ride so far is that The Skulx is a culmination of all those bands and friends spanning over 10 years now. It’s our histories, together and separate, along with many friends/musicians from incredible bands we’ve had the honor of playing with that make this upcoming record what it is. It’s something larger than anything we’ve been a part of before.
KT: How did the three of you come to form this group? Was it something you talked about doing for a long time? Spontaneous?
LV: Not so much talked about as supernaturally understood. We all saw the Skulx signal and answered the call.
KT: The trio seems to be big into art (that’s the vibe I get from stalking all your Instagrams, at least). Other than music, what are some mediums the band members dabble in, and can fans see, or expect to see, some of your works publicly?
MF: All of us are extremely creative, it’s never been forced, just flows out like the Nile. I actually have been a painter for years, got some art degrees, and am a tattoo artist. You can see my work all over my social media and ingrained into everything we put out. So yes we are into art. It’s rare to hear a band anymore and not have some visual to put with it. That’s why we say dress for the job you want. We want to melt your face off so expect us all to be in welding masks live.
KT: When can we expect to see the release of this highly anticipated album, and will there be touring in the future?
LV: Album and shows will definitely be happening, if we don’t die trying we’ll keep trying until we die.
AN: And we should probably die around August or September so expect it around then. We’re not cruel though, some music is going to be released in the next coming weeks so everyone knows what they’re getting themselves into.
KT: Finally, both of your bands (Foxy Shazam in particular) are without doubt some of the more ‘vigorously active’ groups in rock and roll (particularly Mr. Nauth). Have any of you sustained notable injuries due to your acrobatics?
AN: Oooooh yeah. I’ll start and say that I’ve had too many to count, black eyes, split lips, and forehead or body chunks taken out by flailing limbs, instruments, or just by letting the demons out on each other on stage. The worst is when I pretty much broke my ankle and had to finish the rest of a tour while half standing with my knee on a stool every night.
LV: I’ve chipped a few fangs on drumsticks and I bleeding constantly but usually its the stage that leaves hurting.
MF: In my case I tend to break my body post show. Whether jumping off balconies or trying to convince a crowd of people I can do a front flip… I always wake up in a pool of blood.
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Artist Spotlight: Fantastic Negrito
tonightatdawn June 24, 2015
Interview written and conducted for Tonight At Dawn by @KralTunes
“No one will be granted such goodness except those who exercise patience and self-restraint, none but persons of the greatest good fortune.” (Quar’an, 41:35)
Xavier Dphrepaulezz, (pronounced dee-FREP-ah-lez) finally earned his good fortune as Fantastic Negrito. And he earned it by exercising a great deal of patience.
In his early 20’s, stardom appeared to be instantaneous for Dphrepaulezz. But he quickly learned the harsh realities of the pop music world; he said, the problem “when these labels get behind certain artists, they have so much juice and move so fast, the artist doesn’t grow into himself. If you dangle all the trappings of success in front of a kid like me, I’m gonna stumble toward it. But success has nothing to do with the real. And what I discovered when success seemed like it was never gonna happen is the real.”
Dphrepaulezz said that his record deal took away his creative control. Soon after his debut album failed, in 2000 he was involved in a major car crash. He was comatose for almost a month and his hand was so severely damaged that he has come to call it “The Claw”. After his recovery, he decided to secede from the music business and rely on his instincts. “I hustled and started random businesses, selling junk, furniture, random shit I found on the internet, and growing weed,” Dphrepaulezz said.
However, soon after his first child was born, Dphrepaulezz renewed his creativity in the form of Fantastic Negrito and made The Claw work for him. He said that he plays music now by “just beating the guitar into submission or banging on the keys with The Claw.”
Dphrepaulezz started to channel himself through a mixture of black roots music, soul, blues and funk. His debut E.P., Fantastic Negrito, is an impressive collection of music that clearly shows stardom quickly latched itself to him so early in life. He was content to play on the streets if need be, but his patience paid off when he won the NPR Tiny Desk Concert contest. These days, he is happily forced to re-release the Fantastic Negrito E.P. with several new tracks, one being a studio cut of “Lost in a Crowd, the song that won him that NPR award contest, thus rocketing him to superstardom.
For Dphrepaulezz, patience bred good fortune.
Here is the complete transcript of our discussion with Fantastic Negrito:
KralTunes: How nerve-wracking was it to perform behind that little makeshift desk in Oakland for NPR, knowing that it could be a make or break moment for your career at that point?
Fantastic Negrito: The struggle and fatigue leading up to that moment was immense. We’d been grinding hard, doing street shows, trying to force the world to hear this music and we’d almost forgotten about the contest. Field, the guy who runs things here in Oakland, pressed me to do the video the last day before the deadline. He was sure we were gonna win the second he saw the take, but I figured it wouldn’t happen. My voice was shot, I was clearly tired. The entire time the contest was unfolding, Field was telling the rest of the team “we got it, we got it.” When we won, I was stunned. But the second the flood came on social after we won, I knew it was gonna be a game changer. It’s still a struggle but it was definitely a turning point in my career. What’s crazy is it happened so fast, I’m gonna have to re-release my EP because I just–one week ago–finished recording the song that won.
KT: Prior to that performance, you quit the music business. If the NPR deal did not pan out, were you willing to persevere, or was this the moment that would decide you musical future?
FN: I’m not a quitter. The things I went through that made me quit back in the day, it was a lot. I’d been crushed internally by “failing” at the record label and crushed literally in that car accident. It took years and years to get back to music but once I was back in, it was all the way. I knew I’d never quit again because I knew I’d never hand my power and creativity over again. That’s what all the street shows were about. At some point I realized, “Fuck it, I can make a living playing on the streets if I have to.” I was committed entirely. The people that inspire me died broke, struggled their whole life…I knew I’d keep playing regardless of any mainstream recognition or success. When I put the EP out, if doesn’t get a single download, it won’t matter because I’m never stopping.
KT: Fast forward a few weeks, performing live once again for NPR, this time knowing that you have won their competition, what was your emotions at that point? What the feeling that you had made it, or now that you have won, did you feel that you had something to prove?
FN: It was and is surreal. Going to DC for that show was like being in an alternate reality questioning whether or not it was happening. As far as having something to prove, yes. Always. I am extremely competitive and my partners nurture and stoke that competitive nature. Every time I perform I feel like I have something to prove. It’s always a battle. Any time I’m opening up for someone, I want to prove my shit is undeniable. I feel zero hostility toward other artists, but I do want to crush whenever I do a show.
KT: Moving from Massachusetts to Oakland in the 1980’s must have been quite the culture shock for a youngster?
FN: Coming from a conservative Muslim household in mostly white Mass to Oakland California on the heels of it being the center of the black power movement–and the dawn of the gangster crack era was like you guys moving from your life now, to an underwater city in the ocean. Oakland isn’t just “any” other black city, it’s OAKLAND. Especially back then. This is the place that bred the Black Panthers, the Hells Angels, the Oakland Raiders…it was buck wild and vibrant with dangerous culture. I got swept up into the tide for better and for worse.
Meet the band.
KT: To quote your own About page;
“By the time he was 20, Negrito had taught himself to play every instrument he could get his hands on”
After your life changing accident, how difficult was it to play any of the instruments you once mastered?
FN: It wrecked me technically. I can’t play. Not like a real player. But my feel is stronger than ever. My playing hand is crippled, I call it “The Claw.” If you’ve seen any of my performance vids, you’ll notice that I’m just beating the guitar into submission or banging on the keys with The Claw. It’s not like it’s random but there are mistakes–and I don’t hide from them. That damage is part of my sound now and if you pay attention, you can catch them on every song on the EP. I have other players of course, but I think it’s important to include my imprint on there as well.
KT: After being signed to a huge record deal so young, was it tempting to abort your instincts and follow the money trail and popular culture?
FN: Yes. I mean, I was in my early 20’s with a bunch of money and a bunch of people telling me how great I was and how rich I was gonna be, so THAT became part of the thing I was pursuing. I never aborted my instincts but I never got to fully identify them either. That’s the problem when these labels get behind certain artists, they have so much juice and move so fast, the artist doesn’t grow into himself. If you dangle all the trappings of success in front of a kid like me, I’m gonna stumble toward it. But success has nothing to do with the real. And what I discovered when success seemed like it was never gonna happen is the real. The real, truth, that’s the only thing that matters. Every word on every song on my EP is real. Fuck success and a hit single.
KT: Your music has a very intimate, earthy soul to it. Was that element always present, or is it a result of the obstacles you faced later in life?
FN: The primary element that guides me now is truth. Truth in my lyrics, truth in my sound. That was not always present because I was a kid when I started. I was imitating the artists I loved, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson. I was finding myself. And before I really knew who I was, everything collapsed. Honestly, this first collection of songs is a journey in me finding that intimate soul you’re talking about.
KT: After quitting the music industry, what was your plan? Did you even have a plan?
FN: No. No plan. I’m a hustler and the son of an immigrant so my inclination is to be an entrepreneur as opposed to getting a 9-5, and that’s what I did when my “career” died. I hustled and started random businesses, selling junk, furniture, random shit I found on the internet, and growing weed.
KT: What can fans expect to hear from you in the near future?
FN: Well, as I said, we’re gonna re-release the EP with two new songs in late July and an album at the end of the year. I think An Honest Man and Lost in a Crowd are the clearest indicator on where I’m going. I think I wanna find a balance in doing songs where I turn myself inside out and put my personal truth out there and songs where I remove myself and tap into other people’s truth and give them a voice. Basically there are two types of songs, songs where you make people feel you and songs where you make people feel like you feel them. Also, beyond delta blues musicians, I’ve been listening to some African stuff and Kendrick Lamar, so…the future will be all of that filter through black roots music–black roots music for everyone.
Fantastic Negrito is scheduled for re-release July 24, 2015.
See FANTASTIC NEGRITO Here:
Jul 23 Rock & Roll Hotel Washington, DC
Jul 25 SummerStage, Central Park New York, NY
Jul 27 Brighton Music Hall Boston, MA
Jul 29 WFPK Waterfront Wednesdays Louisville, KY
Jul 31 Nightfall Concert Series Chattanooga, TN
Aug 01 The High Watt Nashville, TN
Aug 08 Outside Lands San Francisco
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Artist Spotlight: Audios Amigos
tonightatdawn May 26, 2015
Interview conducted by @KralTunes
A band that blends instrumental surf, country, latin, soundtrack and garage music (all while wearing mariachi-inspired attire, no less) can be a tough sell for us rock and roll-leaning individuals, but when that band is AUDIOS AMIGOS, consider this guy sold.
Having released several E.P.s of original material mixed with faithfully covered classics, Audios Amigos is a band that can get your booty shaking one minute, than transport you to the set of ‘A Fistful Of Dollars’ the next (it’s enough to make composer Ennio Morricone well up with pride).
Band members JT Halmfilst and Eric Baldoni were more than gracious enough to put up with my nonsense and answer a few questions. Read along as they reminisce about the origins of their name, the beginnings (sot of) of Red Fang, talk about future projects, and discuss the current state of Portland sports clubs.
KralTunes: First off, GREAT name for a band! Do you ever feel like you guys hit the jackpot in coming up with it before some crappy, NICKLEBACK style band could?
JT Halmfilst: Yeah, I feel like we’re pretty lucky, band names are kinda hard to come by, they’re either taken or terrible or both. I had actually used the name (Audios Amigos) for a one-off benefit show featuring members of Dusty Santamaria & the Singing Knives and Dramady. Months later when we were forming this band, I thought it was too good to remain in obscurity and it fit our m.o. You know, “Sound Friends”. It does unfortunately get misspelled often, which is the price we pay for being so clever.
Eric Baldoni: I was pushing for “JT and the Skankin’ Yankees”, but apparently that last part is already taken. It’s generally a good thing no one listens to me.
KT: Whenever I think of the Pacific Northwest music scene, hard rock bands like Red Fang spring to mind. Is there a Portland surf rock movement the rest of the country all are being deprived of?
JT: There are a great many instrumental bands in and from the Northwest, one of the greatest being The Ventures! Others include Guantanamo Baywatch, Don & the Quixiotes, The Boss Martians, Satan’s Pilgrims, Surf Trio, The Diminished Men. We like to play with an array of bands, mixed bag shows and whatnot. Not even I who happens to love surf/instrumental music wants to hear an entire evening of it! Every once in a while we will share the stage with our surf rock arch rivals, the aforementioned Don & the Quixiotes, but usually prefer to play mixed bag shows, variety being the spice of life and all. Funny you should mention Red Fang, we’ve actually opened for them! Technically
we opened for the comedian Ian Karmel, who was followed by Red Fang. That was great, their fans were really nice to us.
EB: We’d most likely be an anomaly anywhere. Incidentally regarding those Red Fang rock stars, I knew Bryan way back when we both played in “punk” bands in Tucson (late 80s). Not only is he a great guitarist, he also is the original Buckethead. I say this because he once was featured in a performance by the incredibly obscure yet monumental band Slo Deluxe, wearing a metal bucket over his head equipped with a contact microphone into which he was instructed to scream. Come to think of it, that sort of encapsulates his guitar style…so the world owes the existence of Red Fang to Slo Deluxe.
Meet The Guys
KT: I love the moody spaghetti western feel of your music. What drew you all to this sound?
JT: I’ve just always loved cool sounding guitars, 50s & 60s
instrumental, cinematic/soundtrack stuff. The way they made things sound is so evocative and imaginative. In a song without words or singing, you kind of end up making up what it’s about or creating your own imagery. This band is a great opportunity to show our influences by playing songs by them. Joe Meek, The Ventures, Link Wray, Ennio
Morricone, the music of David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti, Davie Allan and the Arrows. There is also South American music from the 60s called Chicha that is similar to cumbia, but played with wah wah pedals and Farfisas that is real fun to play, or try to! This is the first band of this kind for me and I’m happy to finally be playing
these styles that ive loved for so long.
EB: I like everything odd and weird about the Morricone compositions…he used so many strange instruments to create mood. Our influences, inspirations…geez just too many, especially with the internet making available so much old music that otherwise would have been impossible to find. Personally I started out playing in weird punk bands, then a complex short attention span instrumental combo, then some country, then some post rock…recently though mostly I listen to old Latin music, it’s all about the rhythm sections.
KT: Have you been playing together for a while? How did you all meet?
JT: Dan Lowinger (guitar), Eric Baldoni (bass) and Andy Bacon (drums) were all in a band called The Love Lasers with our friend Lana Rebel (Last Of The Juanitas, Juanita Family, Broken Promises). When she moved back to Tucson, the boys wanted to keep something going. I, JT Halmfilst (guitar), jumped at the chance to play with them. We’ve
all been around the block a few times, seen and admired each others bands. It was a pretty quick fit.
KT: You guys are apparently big on 432hz!
For those not aware:
“432hz vibrates/oscillates on the principles of natural harmonic wave propagation and unifies with the properties of light, time, space, matter, gravity and electromagnetism”.
Are you some kind of undercover nerds?? What drew you to this cause?
JT: About 432hz, I heard about it a few years ago and started tuning to it in my band Thee Headliners. We were a guitar and drums duo so the transition was easy. We noticed a different feeling and quality to the sound. Different things vibrated in the room we’d been playing in for years. The difference is subtle and was physically relaxing. I convinced AA to tune this way as well citing that we shouldn’t let the Nazis dictate how we tuned. The tuning is popular in the New Age community so maybe that makes us undercover hippies. It feels good to know that we are in harmony with the vibrations of the universe when we play!
EB: It’s complete hogwash, but we love JT unconditionally so we humor him.
KT: What are your plans for 2015, and please say its more music?
JT: Given everyone’s busy schedules, we are adding to our personnel roster, incorporating Ben Cosloy (Bad Assets, Lord Master) on guitar and Frosty Davis on percussion and additional instrumentation. We hope to have a new t-shirt soon and would like to have an album recorded
within the year.
EB: I try to only plan things about a month in advance. This month we are playing a wedding gig…our first wedding gig ever. More people should hire us to play their wedding, we look pretty pimpin in our best digs. It will really impress your guests and convince them that you are cooler than they are…which is the goal.
KT: Will this band ever tour further east?
JT: Being a two car garage band, touring isn’t an option as of yet, but not out of the question. A van hopefully looms in our future as well. How far east are you? KT: Northern Jersey, so it looks like my options are kinda slim.
EB: Think positive thoughts and it might happen. Hell, you should come out here and see us, why are you people always putting it on us musicians to do all the traveling? You don’t have to haul around piles of antiquated fragile musical equipment (not to mention actual flesh and blood) in vans that generally speaking, are nothing short of unregulated carnival rides in gross need of repair. KT: You sold me…now to convince the wife to travel across the country to see a surf rock band live. I’m liking my chances.
Now for the real reason I wanted to talk to you guys:
KT: In all seriousness, is anyone in the area regarding the PORTLAND TIMBERS serious as a legit sports team??
JT: I did heard the Portland Timbers scored 3 touchdowns before the 5th inning of the sportsball meet.
EB: I tried to get a response to this from our resident sports expert Ben Cosloy…but he seems unwilling to share his opinion, which is quite rare for him…
Stop the presses!! Last minute edition from the Audios Amigos sports desk –
Ben Cosloy: The Timbers are the only other pro sports franchise in PDX. In comparison to the Blazers they are an upstart club that plays its games in the heart of downtown and they have a non corporate vibe, not to mention a mascot with a freaking chain saw cutting wood rounds every time the home team scores. The Timbers are a fair to middling team that wins an inordinate amount of home games due to the raucous fans who in other walks of life stare at their shoes at concerts and drive passively. Also, their timbers Army rooting section is so rowdy and downright foul-mouthed it is not suitable for children under a certain age. Yes, the Timbers are 100% for real. KT: I like this guy!!
See AUDIOS AMIGOS Here:
5/30/2015-The Secret Society Portland, OR
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Artist Spotlight: Sky White, Founder of Wendigo Tea
Question: What does the member of an alternative, glam, post hardcore, hard rock band do to occupy his time when said band decides it’s time to pause?! If you’re Foxy Shazam’s Sky White, you become an importer/exporter in the fine tea biz. I needed a conversation with the ‘Art Vandelay’ of tea.
Frustrated with tea shops and vendors that routinely price gouge their customers, Sky started to buy tea straight from overseas sources. The problem? When ordering tea from exporters overseas, you have to order quantities that are “not suitable for the average private consumer”. Thus, like anyone else would, Sky’s solution was to establish a business. He asserts that Wendigo offers a square deal on tea that “beats the world’s most strict organic standards or complies with EU regulations which have much more strict pesticide control standards than the US”.
Not only does Wendigo Tea offer some of the best tea that I’ve ever tasted, but he is spicing up the centuries old biz by developing a line of fine tea leaves named after world-famous cryptid beings (e.g. Bigfoot and Loch Ness Monster)! Sky White graciously took time to share his love of tea and he company he has created.
Sky White, Founder of Wendigo Tea
KralTunes: What’s the more glamorous lifestyle, hard rocker or tea importer/exporter?
Sky White: I’d have to say tea importing is more glamorous mainly because there is no way to have a pile of rock dudes working hard all day on tour and have it not smell real bad. Also the usual way that people want to show appreciation for musicians they like is buying them a drink… As CEO of Wendigo Tea Co. I get tea sent across the planet packaged in what looks like an ancient scroll from a farmer talking about how this tea has never been on American soil and that his family has been guarding these tea trees for a thousand years.
KT: I am a big fan of tea, (green tea, specifically). I first got into green tea on a trip to Japan several years back (couldn’t stand it at first…the real, unsweetened deal is certainly is an acquired taste). That trip really opened my eyes to the world of green tea and the variety and complexity behind it. When did you realize that tea was your go-to beverage?
SW: I may have a cup of some nice coffee once a month but made a pretty strong transition to tea about 10 years ago. Not sure if it is a coincident or not but that was the same time Foxy started heavily touring.
I’m jealous of your trip to Japan. I have to get so much stuff shipped here to try to find the best available from a region. I tried maybe 100 different high-end Japanese green teas before finding my Wendigo Green Tea. KT: Speaking about the tea, the free stuff they give guests in the hotel rooms is 10X better than any store-bought brand here in the U.S. Just sayin’.
KT: To quote you from your ABOUT page:
Most American tea drinkers LOVE TEA but don’t know that America is the dumping ground of the world’s bad tea. Many store-bought tea bags are filled with ground-up old, bad, or dead bits that fall off of the good tea leaves, then are scented or flavored with fruit or herbs to improve the taste.
Why do you think America is the dumping ground for the worlds bad tea? From my experiences, people do find it arduous to have to seek out quality products and would rather settle for the inexpensive alternative.
SW: There are a ton of reasons that help explain why we have poor taste in tea. One of the biggest is our geography. We happen to be on the exact opposite side of the planet of where most of the world’s tea has always been produced. And until very recently, it had to be heavily oxidized or fermented as to not spoil before it gets here. You just would never do that with a good tea. So there was no way to avoid that bitter taste for generations unless you overpowered it with some sort of scenting or flavoring.
As for modern times, we can get the best tea in the world shipped here in a few days but it for some reason is still appealing to most people to buy really bad tea that has been flavored with flowers, extracts, and chemicals. I can order from China a garbage bag of the stuff that fills your tea bags for a few bucks. But never would because it doesn’t deserve to be anywhere but in that above stated garbage bag.
Wendigo Tea Sampler Art: Matthew Franklin
KT: I notice you regularly use mason jars for drinking tea. Are mason jars the optimal tea drinking vessel, or is it a personal preference?
SW: Yes there are proper size and shape tea cups. But I disagree with all of that so do the opposite. I like my tea to cool quickly so the large amount of glass of a mason jar lets more heat escape so I can get that delicious tea into my body faster. Tea cups are thin and delicate so the liquid stays hot as long as possible.
KT: For me, A good green tea goes a long way. What is the ultimate, most enjoyable tea leaf for your money?
SW: Honestly my Wendigo Green Tea is my favorite tea on the planet right now. I just tried a Japanese green tea that is 10x as expensive as it and don’t think it came anywhere close to being as enjoyable. I love the grassy taste of Japanese green teas but sometimes you get the “kelpy” taste in there too with a fine leaf tea. I enjoy Wendigo Green Tea so much because it has none of the unwanted flavors ( unless you brew it weird) and also has an unusual amount of natural sweetness.
KT: Lets see if you can help me with this one. My local tea shop is run by a great guy, who offers a wide variety of tea leaves. As I was perusing the current tea catalog, I noticed a green tea (Uji Superior Gyokuro) that was priced at over $50 per 100 g. Now I like my green tea, but $50 for a few leaves!?! Im not asking if he is ripping me off or anything, but can tea really be that pricey and worth the money?
SW: I have had that kind of Uji Gyokuro, or at least one very similar, and it was pretty darn good. With tea I always say just go for it and see what it is like.
That example right there is one of the main reasons why I started this company though. I am sure that this tea place has 100 or so teas right? (KT: you would be correct) That makes a lot of shipping costs for the business and with that many to deal with it becomes easier to deal with american wholesale companies rather than import from each specific area. Which will double the cost of tea to the consumer. The business model for a tea shop really works a lot better for carrying many different kinds of relatively cheap teas. Otherwise if your one ridiculously high-grade thing doesn’t sell such as that Gyokuro you might end up eating a multiple thousand dollar loss or be forced to sell it long past when it is at its freshest. I bet I could nearly half that price if I were to get that exact tea just because of the difference in our business models. I only carry very good tea because there are so few people selling it because most business models don’t work well with them. But mine does…
Bigfoot Black Tea Art: Matthew Franklin
KT: As of now, you deal primarily with a small handful of teas. Do you hope to branch out with more of a selection? Any future products/teas coming soon? How do you decide which type of tea leaves to work with? Is it a long process?
SW: I only want to sell something if it is special. I don’t see myself carrying more than a dozen or so teas. The goal is to find, in my opinion, the best of every kind of tea and then a few just super unique or interesting finds along the way. I tend to fall in love with teas that have a natural sweetness and a complex flavor a bit different those of similar styles. I’m about to put in an order for some samples of stuff that I didn’t even know existed and seems like no one on the internet has heard about either…
Nessy Jasmine Tea Art: Matthew Franklin
KT: Now, being a fan of Foxy Shazam, I had to at least ask one question, as I may never have this opportunity again. You probably have been asked countless times, but fuck it..you guys are on a bit of a break at the moment. Is there a future for Foxy Shazam (if the answer is not what I am anticipating, feel free to lie to my face and tell me everything will be alright).
SW: We think so.
KT: Short, sweet, and under 4 syllables. For now, I’ll take it!
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Artist Spotlight: Arms And Sleepers
Max Lewis and Mirza Ramic make up ARMS AND SLEEPERS, the electronic dynamic duo of chill, hip-hop, ambient, post rock, and atmospheric jams (and whatever other categories you think you can lump them into). Since their inception in 2006 (including a near 2 year hiatus), the group has amassed a discography of over 18 different releases. Dedicated might not be a strong enough term to describe their prolific careers up to this point. Albums such as ‘Black Paris 86‘ and ‘Matador’ are beloved by both fans and critics alike for their masterful blending of subtle electronics, hip hop beats and the overall eerie yet beautiful ambiance each album exhibits.
Not only did the band just recently release their newest full length album, ‘Swim Team’, this past fall, they are in the middle of a new Kickstarter campaign that, if successfully funded, will see the release of a flood, a swarm (a gaggle, if you will) of new material throughout 2015.
Currently preparing for a short European tour later this month, Mizra Ramic was kind enough to take the time and answer my rambling questions about the band’s recording process, what fans are in store for at a live performance, and what the future holds for the duo. Luckily, we also got to tackle hard pressing issues such as being stranded in the middle of nowhere and critiquing the Presidents comedic skills.
KralTunes: The name ARMS AND SLEEPERS is an interesting choice. How did you come up with that?
Mirza Ramic: It was definitely a random thought which then gained different meaning for each of us and for others. For me, BitCandy (www.bitcandy.com) best described the meaning: “It represents the ever-present violence fetish of the powerful (‘arms’) and the shameful apathy of those who quietly ignore it (‘the sleepers’).”
KT: Lets go about this question Alex Trabeck-syle. (I will play Alex Trabeck, and you are the Jeopardy contestants. As I walk by each podium, I ask you where your from and to reveal some tidbit about yourself..Give me an interesting factoid about each band member that was currently unknown before today).
MR: Arms and Sleepers is just 2 people. Max Lewis (who was unavailable for this interview) and I started the band in 2006 – maybe an interesting factoid about us is that we didn’t really (or rather at all) like each other in high school. We became friends in college which is when we started playing music together. KT: I have had similar experiences with people from high school. Isn’t it weird how that can happen?
KT: How did you guys come together as a group? Have you been playing together for a while?
MR: Building on the previous answer, we knew each other in high school but started to be friends in college when we discovered we had similar music interests and aspirations. We played in various bands together until we decided to go on our own in 2006. We’ve been focused on Arms and Sleepers ever since.
KT: I read that your live shows offer the audience a ‘cinematic experience’. Can you go into more detail about how you pull this off?
MR: Since our first show, we’ve used visuals that are synced to the live set. We try to put a lot of care into what kind of videos are projected on the screen when performing live, and over the years this has become an important component of the live experience. We tend to use videos from other artists that we’ve collaborated with in the past but also some of our own video work.
KT: Looking through your discography, you two have been quite prolific throughout the years. One could assume that making new music come easy for you two. Is this true, or is the process long and difficult? How do you come up with your ideas? Inspirations?
MR: Definitely not true – creating music is an incredibly difficult process for us, and to make something that we think is worth sharing with others takes incredible amounts of energy out of us. We tend to be very self-critical, so there is a lot of frustration involved when it comes to writing and recording new music. Inspiration comes from many different places – people, cities, personal experiences, literature, films, music. It’s always unpredictable and we never know when our motivation to create something will result in a piece of music that is actually good. It’s a hit or a miss, with a whole lot of misses.
KT: Do you create music other than ambient/trip-hop, or is this the only game in town for you two?
MR: I think “ambient/trip-hop” is a term that was assigned to our music by others – we don’t think of our music as such, and over our 9-year existence and about 18 releases, we’ve had music ranging from electronic to modern-classical to instrumental hip hop. If you take a release such as ‘Nostalgia For The Absolute’ and compare it to our most recent release ‘Swim Team’, it’ll be pretty obvious that those two albums have pretty much nothing in common other than the fact that we created them. We tend to be all over the place when it comes to making music because we get bored easily with one style – this has been great for us because we feel free to explore any direction we want, but sometimes confusing for our listeners because they never know what to expect. KT: Part of the reason I gravitated to your music is this variation that you speak of. I know when I first heard Black Paris 86 years ago, I was blown away by the rapid shifts in sound and expert musicianship. I still feel like this may be your best release yet, although I have to give Swim Team more time to sink in.
KT: Going into making a new record, is there a set plan or goal before entering the studio, or do you let the creativity flow before deciding on a direction?
MR: Lately we’ve been trying to have more of a set plan before embarking on creating a new album. We’ve been very conscious about trying to make a consistent album that has a particular sound and feel to it from start to finish. We’ve struggled with this in the past so it’s been a bit of a challenge for us, but with the most recent album ‘Swim Team’, we were petty happy with how it turned out.
KT: Tell us more about your current KICKSTARTER campaign? I see that you intend to release a boatload of unheard material over the course of the next year. Is this material that you have been sitting on for a while, or all new content? What kind of content can fans expect to hear?
MR: This is our 2nd Kickstarter campaign we’ve done (the last one was in 2010) and we’ve managed to raise almost $7,000 with a few weeks left to go. We have a lot of new material that we want to release and share with our listeners, but of course being a small group, finding the funds to do so can be difficult. The material we’re looking to release is fairly new, with some ideas floating around since 2013. There are two EPs and a remix album for ‘Swim Team’ that we’d like to release this year if we can reach our funding goal of $10,000, and a brand new full-length album to be released in 2016 if we can reach $15,000. Some of the new material is sonically on the same page as our most recent album ‘Swim Team’, other material is a bit reminiscent of our older releases such as ‘From The Inland Sea’, and yet other material is like nothing else we’ve done before. So it’s all over the place, as our music usually tends to be. There are a couple of short audio clips and videos of the new music on our Kickstarter page, as well as info about new releases and available rewards: http://bit.ly/AAS_Kickstarter.
Arms And Sleepers’ latest full length release ‘Swim Team’
KT: I see you have a short European tour coming up. How do you pick some of these tours spots? Some of the stops do not seem like typical tour destinations.
MR: The booking decision-making tends to be quite simple: if there is someone interested in bringing Arms and Sleepers to his/her city and can make it happen logistically and financially, then we’re game. Arms and Sleepers is now just me performing live, with Max only in the studio, so figuring out travel logistics is a bit easier. I tend to be pretty flexible as to where I travel to perform, so whether it’s Belarus or Wales, I’m happy to go there if the various show details make sense. Arms and Sleepers has been touring and playing live since 2006, so I’m pretty accustomed to all kinds of places and situations.
KT: What do some crazy kids like yourselves do on your down time?
MR: Max is pretty busy with academics – he’s finishing his Master’s degree and starting his PhD in philosophy soon so a lot of his time is spent on reading, thinking, and writing. He’s also constantly working on new music and enjoys watching movies. I just finished my Master’s so I’m focusing on music full-time at the moment, but also have deep interests in education and political science. I also tend to watch a lot of movies and as of late, for some reason, a lot of NBA. KT: Super genius musicians!! Excellent
Now for the serious stuff:
KT: Two sisters from Oklahoma and Nebraska missing for nearly two weeks in Michigan survived on Girl Scout cookies and melting snow while stuck in their snow-crippled SUV. If you were stranded from civilization for 2 weeks, could you survive on Girl Scout cookies and snow? What would you need to make the situation as bearable as possible (but only 2 things)?
MR: Girl Scout cookies are great so I think I’d be able to manage that. In terms of two things to make the situation as bearable as possible, I’d say a good book and some super warm clothes. KT: Personally, I couldn’t deal with Girl Scout cookies non stop. Give me some bottles of Seltzer Water (Cranberry Lime if possible) and Great Grains Cranberry Almond Crunch cereal.
KT: Finally, rank these jokes made by President Obama at the recent White House Correspondents Dinner, from worst to best.
Talking about his Gray Hairs: “I look so old John Boehner’s already invited Netanyahu to speak at my funeral.”
MR: I like this one – probably my favorite of the three. KT: That’s my top pick as well.
The 2016 GOP Field: “The Koch brothers think they need to spend a billion dollars to get folks to like one of these people,” Obama said of the potential 2016 Republican presidential candidates. “I raised a lot … but my middle name is Hussein.”
MR: Pretty good, I suppose. KT: Pretty good, almost as good as the first.
The “Bucket” List: Obama said he’s asked, ” ‘Do you have a bucket list?’ I say, well I have something that rhymes with bucket.”
MR: Also pretty good, but the first one is still my favorite. KT: A big fat ‘MEH’ for me. Overall, a decent effort. Normally, I would say “Don’t quit your day job”, but since that won’t be available after 2016, I’ll refrain.
Catch Arms And Sleepers on tour in Europe this month:
May 23 Abstrasension Festival (More Club) Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
May 24 Muzeon Park Moscow, Russian Federation
May 27 Huligan Bar Minsk, Belarus
May 29 whoneedslyrics?! Festival (British Rock Stars) Bratislava, Slovakia
May 30 Kvlt BP Budapest, Hungary
Jun 02 Sugar Factory Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jun 03 Geertruida Haarlem, Netherlands
Jun 04 Bar Rossi Zurich, Switzerland Tickets
Jun 05 Private Show Duisburg, Germany
Jun 06 Neuadd Ogwen Bethesda, United Kingdom
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Artist Spotlight: Wyldlife
tonightatdawn May 8, 2015
Interview conducted by @KralTunes The boys of New York’s WYLDLIFE are in the midst of a personal revival. After being sidelined for close to a year, the band has just released some new material, (It’s Called) Rock ‘n’ Roll, and are gearing up for a major run in the next year. Before heading south to record their new album, vocalist Dave Feldman was awesome enough to talk to me about the highs and lows of the rock and roll life, some of his best (and worst) memories on the road, and some time traveling hijinks. KralTunes: (Typical question I am sure you’ve heard ad nauseam) Do the boys in the band WYLDLIFE actually live up to what the name implies, or are you all simple happy little homemakers when the lights are turned off?
Dave Feldman: Well, I don’t know about a homemaker. We all keep are heads on our shoulders, I’ll say that. We have vices, but we keep them in check. We have paychecks coming in for the most part so we’re not starving. When we’re on the road, we definitely turn into a whole different animal. A party animal, if you will.
KT: Lets get some basics out-of-the-way. How did you guys come together as a group? Have you been playing together for a long time?
DF: Spencer (bass) and Sam (lead guitar, also only guitar) went to college together, as did our old drummer, Russ. I had been playing with Sam in high school so we just wanted to keep it going. Back then, I would go up to Purchase nearly every weekend, practice, play shows, look for some strange, mooch off everybody’s meal cards, and go home. Now we got Stevie in the band on drums, he’s a couple years older but looks maybe 8 years younger. He’s a killer drummer, but he’s also just a really sweet, soft-spoken guy.
KT: You recently returned after a “nearly a year-long hiatus between drummers” with an exciting new 7” vinyl, (It’s Called) Rock ‘n’ Roll. Was it difficult for the band to be on such an extended break for this long? For some bands, such breaks can go either way: (A) Its torture, (B) It was a chance to step back and reflect on our body of work and perhaps make necessary adjustments to future success (sorry for the philosophy) Where do you guys lean, or is there an option C I am not taking into consideration?
DF: Yeah, the last year since Russ left was really hard on everyone. It was so tormenting to want to be playing, wanting to be recording, wanting to tour and to not be able to do it just because I was at the mercy of a terrible situation. And for me, this is all I want to do in life. And for so long I wasn’t sure if it was going to happen again, or if the whole thing was going to disintegrate. I got around to thinking about killing myself, especially around the winter time. That’s not really something I’ve talked about with too many people, but whatever. For about a year, I basically had my terrible day job that I would come home to every day and that was it. That song “Saturday Night” became totally true for me and it was really bad. We had two songs that we recorded in June (that just came out) but we weren’t doing anything with it. I didn’t even like going to shows or seeing my friends bands anymore because it just made me a really bitter and sad person. Anyway, I’m glad I didn’t kill myself because it’s looking good now. The one thing that we were able to do was write a ton of new material, even if it meant we weren’t playing it out, but now we have Stevie on board, we’re recording this album next month and it’s gonna be a ripper. Then I just want to be on tour forever if I can.
KT: The bands image portrayed through your videos and various photos I’ve seen is one of beer swilling ruffians, and does not seem to fit into the current ‘pop-punk’ landscape. (most people think of this 5SOS band when talking about punk rock, for Gods sake)! Do you see yourselves as outliers of the current scene? Are you products of a bygone era?
DF: I think WYLDLIFE may actually be the most outlier-type band right now, only because we are too rough around the edges for a major label (which is fine for me) but we are too slick and good-looking for a Burger Records or Slovenly or Hozac. That kinda sucks because those are my favorite bands right now, Barreracudas, Dinos Boys, Shocked Minds, Dirty Fences, Bad Sports, etc. But I think that huge amount of admiration and appreciation for those bands is most likely not reciprocated from their audiences to us. We’re caught in this fucked place, sonically and visually, but whatever. At the end of the day I just want to drink Bud Lite Lime and make music we like. Our fans will get it, and if some other people get it, that’s cool too.
KT: Songs like “ Cowboys and Slutz” and “The First Time’s The Worst” off of The Time Has Come To Rock & Roll appear to be written from a first person account. Do you pull from real life experiences for the lyrical content of your music?
DF: Yeah of course. The title for Cowboys and Slutz actually came from this Cowboys and Nava-hoes party we went to one time. It sounds fratty as fuck, but I swear to god it was insane. Loose woman dressed as Native Americans, Jesus Christ… The funny thing about both of those songs are that their both about teenage girls. They sound totally different but for “Cowboys” I guess we were going for like an AC/DC or Motley Crue thing, and then “The First Time’s the Worst” was just lyrically going for a song The Raspberries might have written. Those two weren’t about anybody specific, but a lot of our songs are. Mostly ex-girlfriends and knuckleheads I see around the city.
KT: I’m sure you’ve been asked about your favorite spots to play…whats the worst venue you have ever played in? Was the experience so vile that no amount of $$$ would convince you to return?
DF: I won’t name names but people can ask me in person. Hamtramck, MI was fucking terrible. We did a show with The No Tomorrow Boys and at the end of the night they offered us $10 between both of our groups because “they had to pay the light guy.” You can’t even get high for $10 dollars. There was a show in Kansas City that was so fucked, there was just negative energy that night following us. We almost got into two separate fist fights, one with a group of local dickheads, another with a drunk guy in the parking lot who told us “You don’t know how much money I make, you’ll never make 300 dollars a week in your life.” There was also a massive thunder and lightning storm that night. It was awesome. Also there was a spot in Winchester, VA where we didn’t get paid, we ran our own sound, and without any sympathy we’re just like, “also your bar tab is 50 bucks between the four of you” so we Blues Brothers’d the fuck outta there.
KT: Follow up: Are there areas of the country/world that you are super excited to get back to on future tours, and why?
DF: Yeah absolutely. Too many to name. Definitely looking forward to going back to FYWROK. Atlanta, Milwaukee, Chicago, definitely looking forward to playing Denver some time in the future, hit the West Coast. All that good stuff! If anybody wants us to come to your town, get at us!
KT: So body ink seems to be a favorite pastime amongst the boys in the band. Any of you have tattoos that you regret getting years (or the next morning) later?
DF: I mean, I got a Misfits tattoo lasered off. I coulda lived with it, but really I was just bored and could afford something else. Oh well.
KT: If you had to rank your wyldest (see what I did there) touring moments (on stage or off), what would the top 3 be?
DF: There are too many and all quite blurry. In no order: Milwaukee, WI: Picked up, immediately escorted to a strip club called The Cheetah Club in a party bus with all these street punks, then played to a packed house where the cops showed up. That was madness. We Woke up the next day and went on a brewery tour and drunk bowling. Indianapolis, the one time Young Matt stole my sneakers and we wound up at a slip and slide party and drove around in, I swear to Christ, a fucking lawnmower hovercraft, then went back to Brett’s house and watched the Best of Stone Cold WWF VHS tape and ate a pizza that was bigger than my mattress. (You would have been my heroes circa 1999). The first time we played Chicago some guy in his mid to late 20s walked towards me with a knife and said, “Hey! You were at my friends party last weekend weren’t you?” and I said “Uhh… no.” And then his friend in the background shouts, “IT’S NOT HIM!.” That all took about 4 seconds but it was pretty fucked! (You guys have lived a charmed life..that much I am sure of).
KT: What the hell is a “GLUNK ROCKER”?! (apparently, you are) Do you approve of such a term?
DF: I think it’s a conjunction of glam and punk. Yeah I back it. I have been called worse. I think that the New York Dolls and The Soda Pop Kids and The Star Spangles and The Richmond Sluts were kinda glunk rockers in their own right, so I back it.
KT: I try to get some opinions on current events with each interview, so bear with me as we troll through miserable reality for a moment: Baltimore. Freddie Gray. Whats your take on all this crap? Seems like every week theres a new story about abuses in law enforcement that unfortunately results in a dead African-American man. Has there been an actual spike in these events occurring, or is the media simply hyper focusing on such stories? Are they (the media) making it worse? (my answer, YES!) As I write this, they are now stating that his death was self-inflicted while in custody..seems far fetched, but anything is possible I suppose.
DF: None of us are ones to rock the boat politically or socially, so I’ll just say that the footage of the dude nonchalantly throwing a huge rock through a cop car windshield got me so pumped, I had to run laps listening to The Kids just to work off the excitement.
KT: You just released this new 7”. What does the future hold for WYLDLIFE?
DF: We are driving down to Atlanta next week to record the next album. I am so excited for that, I can’t even tell you. Then we got a couple shows around NYC for June, probably fly down to Tulsa for this FYWROK festival. The album will be out hopefully by early fall. Maybe do some touring around then. I would love to put out a Christmas 7” this year too. We’ll have to see. (Excellent!! I look forward to it)!
Most important question of the night…
KT: I like a good time travel hypothetical situation, and this one comes from the podcast TELL EM STEVE DAVE. The one scenario that immediately comes up in conversation is always “If you could go back in time and change one thing, what would it be”?, and the answer almost always is, KILL HITLER. That became the standard answer, and as a result, to make things more interesting, the question evolved into “If you could travel back in time and kill baby Hitler before all of his atrocities, would you do so”? Now, in an attempt to ratchet it up even more, the question has become “You have the opportunity to seduce Mother Hitler prior to his original conception from his actual father, thus sparing the world from his DNA and cruel final solution. (assuming that the child would grow up to be more like one of you, and a lot less like Hitler). Would you be willing to impregnate the future Hitler’s mother to save he future of millions of lives?? Here is a picture of Mother Hitler to help (or hurt) your response… DF: (Off the record, I really appreciate that Mall Rats reference). Is that a brooch made of grapes? (I do believe it is) I think it would be pretty awesome to be like, “Hey Hitler. I fucked your mom.” And God knows I am a motherfucker at heart but nah, she’s beat. I wouldn’t fuck her with yours. (HA! While I do abhor your negligence in avoiding a worldwide suicide, I do believe that my dick should not be deemed ‘in play’ for such shenanigans… Well played).
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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Monocle Stache
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Colorado, home of Red Rocks, legal weed, and one time Sex Change Capital of the World, Trinidad, Colorado (look it up), can now proudly claim ‘mutant blues’ rockers MONOCLE STACHE. The rock newcomers blend retro bluesy rock with the heaviness of stoner rock (fitting for Colorado natives), resulting in their impressive debut E.P., Prairie Fire. I recently talked to David Accomazzo and Josh Minor from the band about their origins, whats next of the group, and other world changing topics.
KralTunes: While MONOCLE STACHE is a pretty sweet name for a band, the jaded northeastern U.S. side of me immediately sees it as something a douchey hipster band from Brooklyn would call themselves (which you are clearly not). How did you guys come up with the name? (IRONY is the only explanation I can come up with, please let it be irony, cause I like the music too much for it not to be!).
David Accomazzo: If we’re hipsters, we’re the Red Fang type, i.e. we drink a lot of beer and don’t give a fuck. (Whew!)
Josh Minor: Yeah, we’ve definitely considered the fact that the name is fairly hipster sounding, but at the end of the day, we just don’t care. It’s stuck with us for a long time. The name originated from a friend of ours who used to play a game called “Monocle Stache.” The game was essentially the game “Nose Goes.” I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of Nose Goes, but someone will say something like, “Who wants to take out the trash?” Someone else will say, “Nose Goes,” and the last person to touch their own nose with their finger loses the game, and has to take out the trash, or whatever the task might be. It’s a stupid fucking game. So with “Monocle Stache,” you have to make a monocle with one hand around your eye, and a stache across your lip with the other. Operates the same way. We just liked the name at the time, thought it would be funny or something… So yeah….Irony. Because, you know, we don’t wear monocles or have proper mustaches, and fuck hipsters. (Yes…fuck hipsters).
DA: We all went to Fairview High School in Boulder, Colorado. Josh and I were in jazz band together starting at age 14, so we came up together as jazz musicians with jazz training. Arj and I started playing rock music as a two-piece called Moon Chug our senior year, and while Josh jammed with us once, it wasn’t until sophomore or junior year in college (~2006) that we started playing together as a three-piece and named ourselves Monocle Stache.
KT: You guys are virtually unknown in this part of the country, so lets go about this interview Alex Trabeck-syle. (I will play Alex Trabeck, and you 3 are the Jeopardy contestants. As I walk by each podium, I ask you where your from and to reveal some tidbit about yourself..Give me an interesting factoid about each band member that was currently unknown before today).
DA: I’m actually no longer in the band, though I played bass on the EP. I moved to Phoenix last year for a job in music journalism.
JM: As David said, he moved to Phoenix right after we had finished recording the EP. We were debating whether to continue the band for a while. One of Arj’s old friends and former bass-playing band-mate, Ryan Inman (we just call him Inman), moved out to Denver over the summer, so he’s been our bass player for the last few months. I (Josh) work professionally as a movie editor. I’ve worked on a couple feature-length documentaries of note: a music documentary called “Muscle Shoals” in 2013 (it’s now on Netflix), and an environmental doc called “Racing Extinction,” which premiered at Sundance in January. Arj is in a couple of other bands in Denver, “Il Cattivo” and “Black Acid Devil.” He plays drums in our band, but plays guitar in those bands. (I didn’t realize I was talking to some serious Renaissance Men)!!
KT: I see that you’ve gotten a lot of attention from the ‘stoner rock’ press with your E.P., but I am not sure if I agree with such a tag. Do you consider yourselves a stoner rock band? (I would consider you more of a bluesy garage style band, but what the hell do I know) What are some of your inspirations?
DA: We’ve tossed around a lot of genre tags over the years. “Stoner rock” is accurate since it describes our influences pretty well. We created the term “mutant blues” to apply to us, but no one besides us knows what that means. As the years have passed, I’ve started to think of us as “stoner blues,” since while the core of Monocle Stache is riff-based rock, the foundation of everything we do is blues. We used to jam all the time; improvisation was how we gelled together as a group and developed such great chemistry together. I love the concept of jamming because rock and roll can feel so rigid at times; it’s a confining structure to work within. The non-verbal communication we developed through hundreds of hours just making shit up together is one of the things I miss the most about being in the band.
KT: Things that caught my attention when I first discovered the band MONOCLE STACHE:
They have a great album cover!
Shit, this is free!?!
Who’s the hottie on the album cover!!!
Was the idea to give this album out for nothing a marketing ploy? If so, has it been successful? ( I guess me talking to you could be viewed as a positive sign). As a follow up, who IS the hottie on the album cover??
DA: Nah, we just didn’t give a fuck. We basically did nothing to promote but put the EP on bandcamp and announce it to our 80 Facebook followers (at the time) and friends, and the fact that the Youtube channels and the blogs picked up on it was an awesome surprise.
JM: So after David moved to Phoenix, during the phase when Arj and I were debating whether to keep the band going, we still had this unfinished EP just sitting on the shelf. I was determined to get the album out despite the fact that we were possibly discontinuing the band. I figured that we had invested a lot of time and effort into the damn thing, it would be a shame not to let it see the light of day. I took it upon myself to do all of the artwork and social media marketing (or lack thereof). The chick on the front is Jean Shrimpton, who was a British swinger-era supermodel from the 1960s. I’m really into retro models – they were much classier back then. Now, I should mention we have absolutely no rights to her image, so yeah…hopefully we don’t get sued. (Your secret is safe with me) Then again, we didn’t charge anything for the EP, so it could be hilarious if we got sued – free advertising, and they could get all $70 or so that we made, ha… But yes, I would consider the EP a success. The reason for giving the album away for free was mostly because we weren’t even sure we’d still be a band, but also we just wanted people to have our music. I wouldn’t want someone turning away from our music just because they had to pay for it. So the money we made is just the frosting on the cake. The real victory is in knowing that our music is out there, and people are digging it. It’s also a great feeling knowing that people wanted to pay something for our music even though it was free – that’s a sign that we’ve got some awesome fans.
KT: Since your from Colorado, someone from the east coast envious of your position must ask…has legal marijuana lived up to every stoners fantasy in the Centennial State?
JM: Legal marijuana has been a great success here, and for the most part, we are all reaping the benefits of it. I grew weed for years, so for us it’s kind of the same. Although, now he lives in Phoenix, so that sucks. The only downfall is that I can’t sell it for a profit anymore – but I’d rather have it be legal and cheap, than illegal and expensive. It’s nice knowing that I can smoke and possess weed, and it’s completely legal – nothing to worry about at all. That’s how it should be.
KT: What can we expect from you douchey hipsters in the near future (please say more music and expansive touring)?
JM: We are going to continue to rock the fuck out – that is for certain. We’ve been jamming a lot with the new bassist, so I’d like to say we are on the verge of taking the Denver rock scene by storm. Of course, it’s always a lot easier said than done. We’d love to go on tour at some point, maybe show NYC some love….we’re going to need some more funding.
KT: Random MONOCLE STACHE QUESTIONS/FACTS
Any pre/post show rituals?
Since you in the valley of craft beers, what are some of your favorites?
(Fill in any information that you would like us to include)
JM: So the reason that the name of our EP is “Prairie Fire” is because we always do a round of prairie fire shots before our shows. A “Prairie Fire” is shitty tequila mixed with Tabasco sauce. Yes, they are as gross as they sound, and they are fucking awesome.
I love beer. So goddamn much. IPAs are my favorite, but I can appreciate almost any great craft beer. I am a huge fan of Odell Brewery in Fort Collins, and of course Avery Brewing here in Boulder is unbeatable. The Maharaja Imperial IPA is where it’s at. (You guys are quickly becoming my new favorite band! I’ll have to check out these recommendations. For me, Founders Brewery out of Michigan is frickin’ untouchable, especially their BREAKFAST STOUT or CENTENNIAL IPA. Of course, Boulevard’s Sixth Glass Belgium is no slouch (Jeez, this became a craft beer circle jerk real fast)!!
Now onto serious business…
KT: I like a good time travel hypothetical situation, and this one comes from the podcast TELL EM STEVE DAVE. The one scenario that immediately comes up in conversation is always “If you could go back in time and change one thing, what would it be”?, and the answer almost always is, KILL HITLER. That became the standard answer, and as a result, to make things more interesting, the question evolved into “If you could travel back in time and kill baby Hitler before all of his atrocities, would you do so”? Now, in an attempt to ratchet it up even more, the question has become “You have the opportunity to seduce Mother Hitler prior to his original conception from his actual father, thus sparing the world from his DNA and cruel final solution. (assuming that the child would grow up to be more like one of you, and a lot less like Hitler). Would you be willing to impregnate the future Hitler’s mother to save he future of millions of lives?? Here is a picture of Mother Hitler to help (or hurt) your response… 
JM: I would have given Hitler’s father a swift kick in the balls the night he fucked Hitler’s mammy. I would have told him, “I’m saving lives.” But seriously, don’t fuck with the past…. (short and sweet)
KT: MAYWEATHER VS. PACQUIAO… has Mayweather been ducking ‘Manny’ all these years? Who do you expect to come out victorious??
DA: Fuck yeah, Mayweather’s been ducking Pacquiao. Manny’s gonna rip him a new one. (You don’t know how right I wish you were about that).
KT: These slang words have apparently disappeared from the American vernacular:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/npr-history-dept/2015/04/23/401681334/7-lost-american-slang-words
What are some current slang words/phrases you hope will be forgotten from the American dialogue in future years?
DA: I’m pretty sure I called someone a dingus within the past year, so I question the veracity of the prompt. (Dingus is a good one. I heard ‘awesome sauce’ for the first time in years the other day…I couldn’t stop laughing).
KT: The BATMAN V. SUPERMAN teaser has been catching a lot of crap lately, but I think its going to be pretty good movie (better than AVENGERS, at least). Thoughts??
DA: Nothing will be better than the Hanna Barbera Birdman cartoon. Nothing. (Can’t really argue with that, well maybe Harvey Birdman; Attorney At Law)
Find Monocle Stache here:
Official Bandcamp page (Again, ITS FREE)!!
Other Spotlight Artists:
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Diplo Is a Dipshit
Filed to:Cultural appropriation
Photo: Brian Ach (Getty Images for YouTube)
I’m disappointed to report that in the year of our Lord, 2018, people are interested in asking Diplo (real name Wesley Pentz) for his thoughts on cultural appropriation in popular music and giving him the opportunity to spew half-formed, incoherent statements on race and privilege when there are so, so, so many better things to do. On Thursday, the Guardian published in an interview with the DJ in which they asked:
At what point is being influenced by something celebratory, and at what point is it cultural pickpocketing?
Diplo’s response was riveting. Just...riveting:
“I might be too tired to answer that in a good way…” he begins, before attempting to anyway. “I don’t…really…fucking care. What kind of music am I supposed to make? Being a white American, you have zero cultural capital, unless you’re doing Appalachian fiddle music or something. I’m just a product of my environment.”
Literally, what? He adds:
“I’m sure the Clash never had people mad at them for co-opting [black music].”
Poor Diplo. Why him?
The interviewer points out that Diplo has a history of saying dumb shit about appropriation, like when he told the New Yorker that “culture is meant to be fused…That’s how culture moves.” Hmm.
Diplo assured the Guardian that traveling to places like Africa is not “business” for him. I assume he means he doesn’t travel to other countries for exploitative, money-grubbing reasons—and I’m sure he would like this answer to satisfy any future inquiries about whether he is a Good Guy or a Bad Guy. I, too, would like people to stop asking him about this, because he’s been given one too many chances and he has done goofed one too many times.
If anyone needs further proof Diplo has zero chance of making any sense when pressed on the race/privilege conversation, please read this final quote from his the interview:
As much as there is a perceived cynicism about his musical mission, Pentz says it’s worth it for the end result. “When it comes to making music, understand that my intentions are always great. I’m there for the music only,” he says. “I have a lot of privilege by being a middle-class white American. So if I had to trade that by being considered exploitative, and people always saying negative things about me…It’s a small price to pay.”
Stop asking the man to explain himself! He doesn’t know how and he can’t. Give him—and me, all of us—a break.
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Nokia hopes to finalise Microsoft partnership within “a couple of months”
by Matt Brian — in Microsoft
Nokia’s partnership with Microsoft, announced last week, will be confirmed and finalised within “in a couple of months” says Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, talking with a group of Finnish journalists.
The deal will see Nokia make Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform its primary operating system, replacing its own MeeGo and Symbian software, as the company targets the North American smartphone market.
Reuters reports:
The deal would be signed “in a couple of months (or) it might take a bit longer,” Chief Executive Stephen Elop said in a meeting with Finnish journalists.
Nokia’s smartphone competitors will be interested to see what the finalised deal represents – given the fact that Nokia has been given exclusive access to the Windows Phone 7 platform – as Microsoft’s OEM partners are restricted from building on top of the operating system.
Microsoft has said that it will make additions to the platform public to remain competitive and deliver innovation. We expect to see some of the first Nokia Windows Phone 7 devices from October.
Read next: Fone for iPhone and iPod Touch offers free VOIP calls and chats with your friends
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Dismantling Obama’s darker legacy.
Posted by Pointman on May 18, 2017 · 52 Comments
If you look at the political headlines lately, the press and TV are really running two stories to the exclusion of all else. The first is Trump firing James Comey as FBI director. It’s a bone they just can’t let go of but most people aren’t too interested. Comey stopped having the trust of the FBI rank and file last year over his refusal to prosecute Hillary, and after most people watched his slippery testimony to congress, he didn’t enjoy their trust either.
If Bill Clinton can fire his head of the FBI, there’s no reason why Trump can’t do the same. At the end of the day as with all senior government posts, there are no jobs for life and you “serve at the pleasure” of your president. Comey was hopelessly compromised by the Obama regime. When you and the people have no trust in the highest law enforcement officer in the land, you fire him. It’s as simple as that. His behaviour since has vindicated that decision.
The Democrats blamed him and the Russians for them losing last year’s election and have been howling for his dismissal ever since. Within twenty-four hours of Trump firing him, they were protesting about his unfair dismissal. Like Steve Bannon said, Trump’s true opposition is the media.
The other story is about Trump divulging military secrets to the Russian foreign secretary. Why on Earth he should do such a thing, the press have yet to share with us. Despite all the five people present at the meeting declaring this to be fake news, the story rages on. Will it dominate the current news cycle? Yes. Will it harm the Trump presidency? No.Why won’t it harm Trump? Because the pattern of the false news is apparent to everyone.
First of all, the lying press invent a story based on the information supplied by always anonymous sources. Then, on the same day, all the rest of the media pick up on the story and run with it as headline news presenting it now as established fact simply because they’re all reporting it. As if on cue, the Democrats become outraged and denounce Trump as being nefarious or incompetent depending on whether he’s being accused of being a traitor or an idiot. Not too far down the line, the story proves to be 100% false, but no retraction is ever made, and anyway by that stage another fake news story has been manufactured and the cycle begins anew.
I’ve said before that Trump doesn’t need the legacy media since he communicates to his voters directly using social media, but what he does need is for their current level of juvenile behaviour to continue, and for two very good reasons.
The first is the same reason he didn’t fire Comey on the first day of his administration; that would have looked petty and vindictive. Instead, he left him hanging out and dangling in the wind for months until he’d thoroughly discredited himself, because the average viewer watching him in the hearings knew he’d bent over backwards to prevent charges being laid at Hillary Clinton’s door that would have left anyone else but her facing serious consequences in a court of law.
In the same way, Trump is not minded to interfere in the media throwing one invented accusation after another at him. What’s actually getting eroded is any residual trust in them, and at some point he’ll carry out his threat of cancelling the daily White House briefings.
Then they’ll have to live on his scraps of press handouts, tweets and his weekly White House briefing to America, plus the usual fake news backed up with the usual fake anonymous sources. That’s his longer term thinking about the media, and they’re certainly cooperating Lemming-like in their own eventual destruction. By the time he eventually pulls the plug on them, few tears will be shed over their effective demise.
The shorter term reason for letting them carry on as they are, is that while they’re busy compulsing on one or two manufactured stories, they’re not reporting at all on what Trump is actually up to, and he’s making so many changes it’s difficult to keep track of them all, but they all share one common denominator; they are all aimed at rolling back the excesses of the Obama regime and restoring respect in the offices and institutions of government that Obama subverted.
Part of that rollback has been in public and to some extent or another has been covered with the usual howls of pain by the media. Because Obama couldn’t get what he wanted done past an elected Congress, he resorted to rule by diktat otherwise known as executive orders. Trump, from his first day in office, and as promised on the campaign trail, signed masses of executive orders to reverse most of Obama’s executive orders. What the Obama regime forgot was that anything enacted using an executive order, can just as easily be struck down by simply signing another executive order.
He appointed a man in charge of the EPA who’s busy cutting it down to a fraction of its size under Obama and rolling back all the regulations that were used to cripple industries such as coal mining and which would never have got past elected representatives of the people. The other very public rollback he did was replacing Obamacare with something more financially viable, and that’s a bullet he could have easily avoided.
The whole scheme was heading for collapse anyway, and in some ways it would have been more politic to let that happen so he could swoop in and fix the problem to popular acclaim, except that the people at the bottom of the economic pile would be badly hurt by it imploding. He has a genuine concern for them. If he has a vulnerability, that’d be it.
Domestically on the jobs front, he stopped the hemorrhaging of jobs to cheaper offshore locations by promising import tariffs on any of their goods being brought into America. On the foreign imports issue, he’s picked a fight with Canada over subsidised timber which should stay safely jammed up in a commercial court for years to come while in the meantime he levies a charge on Canadian lumber. He’s making an example of one exporter to America but no doubt won’t hesitate to make a second one should that become necessary.
By the end of his first term, I can see America out of NAFTA and possibly later the WTO, since its membership in both of them hasn’t been doing it any favours for a long time. Economically, Trump’s priority is America and American workers; it starts there and it ends there.
The other big area he had to address was the shambolic foreign policy mess left behind by Messrs Obama, Clinton and Kerry. With the simple expedient of dropping fifty-nine cruise missiles on Assad’s air force and destroying twenty percent of it, he let the world know that the good old days of any old ragged-assed tinpot dictator thumbing their nose at America were over from the minute Barack Obama dragged his sorry ass out of the White House.
Assad made the mistake of assuming that since he was under Russian protection, Trump wouldn’t give him a slap. Obama would never have done it because he was afraid of Putin who’d humiliated him on several occasions, Trump isn’t.
On the diplomatic front, Obama laid some poison behind mainly directed at Israel. Like a typical left-winger, he’s pro-Islam and anti-Zionist, which is liberal speak for hating Jews. Anti-Semitism seems to be an endemic disease of the liberal Left these days.
In the last days of his presidency he could safely show his true colours and directed Kerry to get Israel into difficulties at the UN as well as immediately funneling $200M of taxpayers’ money to the Palestinians. No doubt whatever was left after the usual off-shore accounts had their cut will be used to kill Israeli civilians. Why any American-Jewish association still contributes a red cent to the Democratic party is beyond me.
Since Trump has at least three Jewish grandchildren and had a reputation of being fair with both Jews and Blacks long before he got into politics, he didn’t have much trouble healing that rift. Perhaps it also explains why he’s moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem? Nice one Obama, the law of unintended consequences strikes again because that’s an implicit recognition that Israel owns that city and is there to stay.
In the interregnum when Trump was president-elect, Obama and the Democrats tried substantially the same poisoning of the well with Russia, but since neither Putin or Trump would fall out over such a childish neo-McCarthyite narrative, it’s since fizzled out of its own accord under a barrage of complete indifference to anyone outside the Washington Beltway or the legacy media.
Apart from those highly visible areas, the rest of Obama’s legacy consists of nothing more than various disconnected odds and ends that beyond having a feel good factor to be spun to massage his over-fed ego, never amounted to anything of note. If they aren’t patently doing some good, Trump will either ditch them or starve them of budget.
However, in my opinion Obama left a darker legacy behind and this is what Trump is addressing under cover of the legacy media massively fixated on gnawing its own hind legs off in a forlorn effort to get him removed from office.
Obama corrupted and brought into disrepute the grand offices of state. He actively encouraged federal bureaucrats like the IRS to suppress political opposition. He manipulated the judicial system by not only installing stooges like AG Lynch in it, but by packing the lower courts with judges of a liberal bias. He suborned the intelligence services to conduct illegal domestic surveillance of political opponents on a scale that I think has yet to become apparent.
He starved the armed services of budget and threw the cop on the beat onto the mercy of savages like BLM who had his tacit support murdering policemen responding to emergency call outs. Instead of the much hoped for bringing together of all the people of America irrespective of their colour, he became the most racially divisive president America has ever had.
In short, the Obama regime did nothing but corrupt and debase the government, judiciary, law enforcement and intelligence services of America and now that damage is being undone by Trump.
He gave little or no support to the police, instead opting for a light-touch approach to law enforcement by encouraging his congressmen to support elections of liberal police chiefs who were quite happy to enforce the law or not, dependent only on who was breaking it. That’s the reason left-wing antifa hooligans could riot in Berkley, attack people indiscriminately and destroy private property while the local police stood by and watched because they’d been ordered to stand down.
To compound his complete disrespect for policemen, he never once denounced their murder by organisations like BLM who actively encouraged luring them into lethal ambushes using phoney emergency calls. His final fuck you to law enforcement was to free over 300 drug dealers using presidential pardons as he left the White House. Obama used presidential pardons on 1,715 occasions, more than the previous 13 presidents combined, with the vast majority of them conferred on drug dealers. Note, drug dealers, not drug addicts. Someone really needs to look into his activities as a “community organiser” in Chicago.
Obama’s more than lax attitude to drug dealers wasn’t anything new to either law enforcement or state attorneys. He had instructed his Attorney General (AG) Eric Holder to relax sentencing on drug related crime by doing things like withholding details of amounts of drugs being carried by the dealer when they’d been arrested, thereby not automatically triggering mandatory minimum sentences.
He made it hard to catch drug dealers, and then when they were tried and found guilty, they did slap on the wrist jail time because of state attorneys constrained by what they could say when it came to sentencing using AG Holder’s new guidelines.
Trump was left with a huge morale problem he’s diligently addressed by doing simple things like never missing a photo opportunity with a bunch of cops, phoning the widows of officers killed in the line of duty, inviting surviving family to party rallies and most recently instituting a police memorial day to acknowledge those killed or injured on the job. The simple things like showing some support and seeing the White House lit up in blue are all part of building up morale again.
He’s still got a way to go on fixing that problem, but at least most policemen now think they’ve got a friend in the Oval Office, rather than an implacable enemy relentlessly determined to undermine all their efforts.
Trump’s AG Jeff Sessions has recently abolished Holder’s guidelines, much to the satisfaction of both law enforcement and prosecuting attorneys, who are battling what’s called the opioid crisis across America and need to put drug dealers away for as long as possible. Obama’s hometown of Chicago is the poster boy for that crisis and also suffers from a huge rise in the attendant number of homicides and shootings that come with a drugs blight on any community.
In any light, Obama bending over backwards to go easy on drug dealers is inexplicable. They rot the heart out of any community. By the way, most of those drugs are coming over the border from Mexico, which is why Trump wants the wall.
That’s not the only bit of tinkering Obama did with the judiciary. In 2013, the Democrats removed using what’s called Reid’s Rule, the filibuster from the process of the president appointing people to both the lower courts and federal positions. Essentially, Obama used it to pack the lower court with judges who were seen to be sympathetic to his liberal views on crime amongst other things. If you thought a whole judiciary couldn’t be politically rigged, think again.
Trump and Sessions have already started counter-packing the judiciary to rebalance it, and with more than a 100 appointments to be filled and more opening up each day, the Democrat’s Reid Rule has come back to haunt them and is now very much working in Trump’s favour.
To underline what eight years of administrative tinkering with the wheels of justice can do, Judge Neil Gorsuch after being newly appointed to the US Supreme Court, looked at the petitions being presented to him by the court’s cert pool of law clerks with an attached recommendation to grant or deny. He very quickly and to his surprise found out they were in too many cases making that recommendation not on points of law but political leaning. He immediately dispensed with the services of the cert pool and hired his own clerks to pre-process the petitions.
The military, after nearly a decade of micro-management from the White House, are just loving the change of working for Trump. Your orders are quite simple, gentlemen – kill ISIS. You need more budget? Yes Mr. President. How much? Probably north of $40B. Here’s $64B extra, go git them.
They knew the change was there from the first week onwards, because they rang the White House late at night to get permission to drone a high value target and expecting the usual hours-long delay while a target of opportunity slid off the radar. After he’d gotten out of bed he raged at them “You’re supposed to be good at killing terrorists, do it, you don’t need my permission every time” and that’s how a new relationship between Washington and the military was struck.
What also came out in last year’s presidential election was that election fraud seems to be a business as usual activity for the DNC. Though this was well known, the undercover filming done by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas of activists doing things like bussing people in from neighbouring states really revealed how widespread it was.
The cynical old aphorism, vote early, vote often and even the dead can join in too, very much reflects the current situation in polling booths across America.
To give you some idea of how endemic this problem is, in Wisconsin the Democrats lost an estimated 300,000 votes in the presidential election when a voter Id law was passed just before it. The conservative foundation Judicial Watch recently put 11 states on warning to clean up their voter registration lists or face a federal lawsuit; they all have counties with more voters on their books than they have residents eligible to vote.
About a week ago, Trump established by executive order a Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity the details of which you can find by clicking the previous link which’ll take you directly to the White House announcement. The days are numbered of America having the most lax voter Id rules in the world, and knowing Trump he’ll chivvy that commission along in order to get something in place by next year’s mid terms. I have a suspicion that this move alone will mark the difference in the Dems doing poorly or catastrophically badly in certain states.
A slower and more grinding part of the rollback is going to be various hearings to shed a light on the darker and menacing activities of the Obama regime. Congressmen with a prosecutor’s background like Trey Gowdy, will be finding out who exactly within the federal IRS bureaucracy ordered yearly oppressive tax audits of political opponents, their families and their businesses. Some careers in government service are going to come to an abrupt and ignoble end.
It’s only a matter of time until a similar process kicks in with regard to the security services which were used to surveil political opponents or anybody they liked without seemingly any justification. Allegations of widespread surveillance on people like Senator Rand Paul and other senators are by now commonplace, with even Judge Scalia of the US Supreme Court harbouring suspicions that their private discussions in chambers were on too many occasions becoming common knowledge in the higher corridors of power.
As you can see, it’s not just Obama’s more public legacy which is being dismantled, but the darker bits of it as well, and none of it being remarked upon by a juvenile press which much prefers to manufacture fake news or make a mountain out of a mole hill story.
Trump goes to a restaurant with family and friends and the press are all over the story, probably by bribing yet another anonymous source. He prefers two scoops of ice cream, with the sly inference that as everyone else around the table only has one, it’s somehow unfair on everyone else except for Mike Pence, who prefers no ice cream on his fresh fruit dessert.
If such displacement activity masquerading as reportage is the best the self-proclaimed newspaper of record can come up with these days, it’s not hard to see why its circulation is plunging.
Over the space of nearly a decade, too many people in the judiciary, law enforcement and federal service got used to the idea that the path to advancement was to serve a liberal agenda in the shape of the Democratic party, rather than the people and the republic they’d sworn to serve. They need to be rooted out and replaced with people of integrity, otherwise all those institutions will increasingly be seen as serving the interests of various elites rather than the common citizen of America.
What Trump is doing is not just dismantling, it’s a necessary rebuilding of respect in national institutions such as offices of state, the courts, the police and the security services. Without first reversing the damage Obama did to the very fibre of the Republic, anything more constructive Trump attempts to do will be constantly sabotaged and undermined by the residual minions of Obama’s dark legacy.
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52 Responses to “Dismantling Obama’s darker legacy.”
mikedevx says:
Hello Sir,Just wanted to say, I’ve read your most recent article, “Dismantling Obama’s Darker Legacy”.I consider it one of the finest pieces you’ve written. It was FANTASTIC! Thank you!~mike
eagledriver50 says:
This is a first for me posting and in reading just some of the articles, your elucidation of the events and happenstance of what “brown stain” did, just confirms all along the Pres. Trump is going to go “The Big Ugly” this week. Tango Yankee on such writing. You and SD would be a treat to listen too if and when and where it occurs.
What the Obama regime forgot was that anything enacted using an executive order, can just as easily be struck down by simply signing another executive order.
I minor disagreement with what has become a weekly outstanding column on your part.
Obama did not forget. But he was counting on the Media to cow any Republican who might be elected, or as is more likely the thought, that Hillary would just add on to the EOs. What he did not anticipate was Trump. An anti-establishment president. Even after Trump won, Obama thought he could control Trump, like almost all the republicans, through the media.
Obama is no less intelligent than the media. But then he is no more intelligent either. And they are both being played by Trump like a harp from hell (attribution to Danny DeVito, as the Penguin).
rapscallion says:
Excellent piece again Pointman. Very instructive, and for those of us who are not on the Left, very uplifting. Trey Gowdy is the sort of politician I like. I know he’s legally trained and was a prosecutor for many years, but he comes across as absolutely straight down the middle, no messing type of man. His guiding light is the law and the constitution, and he will go after you if you break either, regardless of your political leanings. I could listen to him all day long, he has that wonderful southern drawl. To get a measure of the man, just watch this – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0dCTvX0wzs
I’m sure you’ve watched in before though Pointman.
Graeme No.3 says:
Excellent analysis. The Democrats, in and outside the media, are trying to fight last years election. By the mid term elections there will be enough revelations to doom them to minority status.
I think the electoral reforms must utterly terrify the Dems. No wonder they are in hyperdrive with the only thing they (and the press) can think of at the moment – Russia and the non-existent collusion.
A great essay, as we have come to expect here.
Ross P says:
Margaret , I agree with regard voting reforms. But the best thing about it is that it should be one of the easiest issues to make major inroads into.
To have 2 million dead people still on voters rolls is beyond “third world” and should be simple to clean up and to put a procedure in place to ensure it stays up to date.
I find it very hard to believe that in most cases the electronic voting machines are privately owned and often with propriety software –government owner and certified or back to paper.
Voter ID is just common sense.
JohnTyler says:
If I were Putin and could influence the US presidential election, I would have donated $10,000,000 to the Hillary for president campaign, hacked every Trump computer and made all its info public and initiated a destroy Trump propaganda effort “confirming” that Trump was a propagator of child porn.
Because Russia obtains a very large percentage of their revenue by exporting oil and gas. The higher the price of oil and gas, the more revenue goes to Putin and Mother Russia which would allow Putin to engage in all sorts of overseas intrigue, fatten his Swiss bank account and further solidify his hold on power.
As everyone knows, Hillary would have followed the Obama (no) USA energy policy which would have acted to depress US oil/gas production and elevate world oil/gas prices (i.e., very helpful to Russian revenues and to Putin).
Hillary would have also followed the feckless foreign policy of Obama; another story for another day.
On the other hand Trump during the campaign was endlessly touting the need for the USA to become energy independent by increasing US production of oil/gas which would help depress world oil/gas prices. This would hurt Putin and Russia immensely, and of course, Putin/the Russians are very well aware of this.
Putin has/had zero benefit in having Trump as president and would have had much to gain during a Hillary presidency.
The notion (i.e.,the lie, the fabrication, the fraud) that Putin helped Trump is merely a ploy, a scam to demolish the Trump presidency.
Any idiot can see this.
@John Tyler – Politics not only makes strange bedfellows, it is very complex. You are correct that a Hillary presidency would have benefited Russia in this way. But Putin knew that Hillary was unstable and prone to rash decisions. Which is not good for global economics either. Plus she is a Soros toady who is trying to destroy nations in the name of a global governance, which Putin really despises. I think he was equally afraid of those qualities and the oil issue. I do not think he played any part in the elections, but then you will not find any democrat buying into any sanity when it comes to the election.
All countries try to influence elections in all other countries to some degree or another. Obama did everything except stage a reverse Revolutionary war to get Brexit defeated. And he of course did everything short of assassinating Netanyahu to sway the Israeli vote. It is not new nor will it change because the democrats have decided to make an issue of it.
Chris Dickensheets says:
Agree 100% the only thing I would like to add, with your blessing is: Obama did have Gaddafi assassinated which allowed his rather sizable cache of arms to fall into the hands of local ME militias. We have all seen how well that worked out. It impacted the entire ME and many, many nations from third world to first world. It will continue have an impact for more than a decade to come. Not a big fan of Gaddafi but he did keep his little corner of the ME under control for the benefit of the world in general. So in that respect Obama did intentionally provide arms to ISIS and Al Qaida in general. That alone is should have been the lynch pin for Impeachment.
Pointman,
Another great analysis of Trump’s game-play, giving the West dawning hopes that we may yet find a Trump of our own. However, you say; “The days are numbered of America having the most lax voter Id rules in the world …”
Sorry, but surely Australia has to lay claim to that particular ‘gong’. No ID needed to enrol on the register (just tick all the boxes and mail a form picked up at the post office), no ID needed to cast a compulsory vote … and yet there is zero likelihood of electoral reform on our bleak horizons.
We didn’t need a ‘dark’ Obama to pollute the wells in our judiciary, law enforcement, the bureaucracy or the military … our homegrown Liberal/Labor/Green Marxists have collectively achieved that over decades of corruption and cronyism.
The question remains … why has Trump embedded Goldman Sachs apparatchiks so deeply in his Administration? Is it really a case of him inviting them into his tent rather than having them on the outside pissing in? They were key players for Obama, HW Bush and Clinton so how come they are also working for Trump?
“One reason for the coziness could be that Goldman Sachs has been a springboard to high-ranking government positions, and it’s been that way since the Clinton Administration.”
https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-united-states-of-goldman-sachs-2/
“At what point will players like Goldman Sachs have handed so much ammunition to left-wing radicals who cannot tell the difference between crony capitalism and the real thing that they succeed in blowing up Western civilization?”
Is Trump deploying ‘use a thief to catch a thief’ principles? Goldman Sachs were/are the chief architects of Climate Fraud so how will that play out for Trump?
With our Prime Minister Turnbull being one-time General Manager for Goldman Sachs (Aust/NZ) and deeply indebted to GS for settling a multi-million dollar personal law suit against him, we are watching Turnbull increasing our sovereign debt ceiling by hundreds of billions of dollars as he continually proves he’s toeing the Goldman Sachs line in everything he says and does … reversing all PM Abbott’s anti-climate fraud moves … a true puppet performing for his masters.
We watch from the bleachers as Trump’s game-play evolves, and we live in hope.
Remembering our blogging buddy, NoIdea … three years since his untimely passing.
Is it really three years already?
Sadly missed.
NoFixedAddress says:
I appreciate your concern in regards Goldman Sachs but don’t forget that there are some very intelligent folk at that firm.
I doubt our current PM could hold a candle with them.
NFA … You’re right – each week Turnbull reveals himself to be a vacuous shell of a man – a true example of a Useful Idiot; the perfect spoiler, devoid of integrity or initiative who will do ‘whatever it takes’ at the bidding of his masters.
Sadly, some of the world’s most heinous murderers and criminals are “intelligent”. What Trump and the Free World needs are men and women of honour, duty, integrity and principles. Hopefully, by appointing key players who are in the best position to ‘Know your enemy’, Trump can succeed in his endeavours.
hoppers says:
Greetings Blackswan. Agree totally about MT. However some digging reveals what I believe are the real reasons it was felt that TA had to go and FM Bishop seemed so keen on the change.
http://johnhelmer.net/the-obama-shoe-banging-moment-on-the-ukraine-front-dutch-and-australian-troops-were-planning-to-start-war-with-russia-after-mh17-was-shot-down/
G’day Hoppers … well, that’s the first I’ve heard of that reason being Abbott’s downfall. Shades of Howard committing our troops to George Dubbya while the smoke was still rising over the WTC before he ever came home to let Aussies know he’d committed us to war.
Far worse I’d argue, putting our troops on the Russian border with all that implies. If you think back to the election MT did in fact allude to the fact that TA had done this on one occasion, quickly swept under the carpet.
What a breath taking analysis…..probably your best yet. I had to read it twice.
At the end you made the point that a country is defined by the quality of its institutions. Have you read “Why Nations Fail” by Acemoglu and Robinson?
While Trey Gowdy looks impressive in televised hearings he never seems able to be able to close the deal. For example the Benghazi hearings went nowhere in spite of his best efforts.
Sheryl Reynolds says:
The dogs may bark – but our caravan passes on. We will make America great again.
goodoleboy says:
http://www.youngcons.com/vote-fraud-warning-over-7-million-voters-registered-to-vote-in-more-than-one-state2/?ref=FacebookPost&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral
Vote Fraud Warning: Over 7 Million Voters Registered to Vote in More Than One State.
I didn’t ask to take it but I think this a worthy comment.
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May 20, 2017 at 3:43 pm · Reply
I keep thinking what’s going to happen when the truth actually does come out.
So many people from every walk of life will have so much egg on their faces, none of them the ordinary people, but the politicians, the scientists, the educators, and the media who have all pushed this for all its worth.
The ordinary person just believes what they are told, and never take the time to actually understand it, because, well, they can’t, because they don’t have the education, so they just believe what they are told, because they don’t expect ALL of these people to be telling untruths, and colluding together.
All of those ordinary people will be absolutely ropeable, and, I’m afraid, it will take a disaster of some sort for the first truths to start coming out, and then a courageous person to actually make a stand and say that it’s all been wrong.
Then, there will nowhere to hide, and that’s what worries me.
It’s not a case of, hey, it all only started as a practical joke to see how far we could take it. It’s too late for that now.
And every one of those people who have been pushing it will, all of them, be looking for someone else to blame.
This isn’t something that will just fade away. It’ll end in a huge and not very pretty crash of some sort.
We fight small little skirmishes that mean almost nothing, so we’re not going to make any impression.
We just have to wait it out, and that’s the great pity, that our voices are not heard, and even if they are heard, they are immediately discounted.
It won’t be one of us who provides that first insight. It has to be some sort of disaster, because now that it is so huge, there’s too much money to protect, and those making that money will do everything they can to continue what they are doing.
In effect, I think that as much as we do do, it’s all a waste really. We’d like to think we are making an impression, but it’s a lost cause now.
We just have to wait for that looming disaster, and hope we survive.
Even after that, even when we say that we’ve been saying this all along, we’ll become the biggest targets of all, because it was people like us who caused the spigots of all that cash to be turned off.
I know it probably sounds depressing, but it’s too big now and has a life of its own. Us, well we just nibble away at the edges hoping we are making an impression, but the tiny little bites we are taking out of the humungous monster aren’t even noticed.
Tony…don’t look at that way. Look at from the way Pointman does. When you see the cast of characters and the characters are vying for three things, relevancy, power and money. That is all they have. And for that, these people will be remembered for what there were, not for who they were. Which would you want for your epitaph?
Russ Wood says:
Pointy – I really love your essays! But may I ask you to pleeeease give your source for the absolutely incredible (literally – I can’t believe them) numbers of freed drug dealers. I mean, looking at those numbers, I thought this was a NYT piece knocking Trump (again). Hillary I could accept – but was Obama that corrupt also? Again, please remember that unusual claims need unusual confidence. Thanks!
Hi Russ. The article, one of many, that the clemency and pardon numbers come from is –
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-12/sessions-rolls-back-obamas-relaxed-sentencing-guidelines-drug-dealers
I do stack up research sources in preparation for an article, and usually check they can be found by googling a pertinent phrase in it surrounded by quotes.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/17/nevada-sec-state-dmv-instructed-employees-to-register-non-citizens-to-vote/
Nevada Secretary of State : DMV instructed employees to register non-citizens to vote. Trump’s commission on voting irregularities really does have its work cut out.
The soution may be as simple as adopted in one (Indian?) State of a semi-permanent ink stamp on the voter’s right hand (or left if he only had one hand).
The ink wore off in 3-5 days.
@NoFixedAddress. Thank you for the suggestion. Sinclair republished the piece at Catallaxy Files.
http://catallaxyfiles.com/2017/05/21/cross-post-pointman-dismantling-obamas-darker-legacy/
http://circa.com/politics/barack-obamas-team-secretly-disclosed-years-of-illegal-nsa-searches-spying-on-americans
The illegal surveillance scandal gets bigger every time someone looks into it.
Have a read of the link at
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2017/05/02/tips-may-2017/#comment-83578
Hi Ian. That’s a very interesting article with a lot of facts to back it up. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
It overlaps on a leaks piece I’m working on at the moment. In passing, there’s another (Barium?) story doing the rounds in the IC about Trump saying that when he came back from his foreign relations trip, heads of leakers were going to roll and he was talking about criminal charges rather than dismissal apparently.
A lot of people are holding their breath in dread. Interesting times, hey?
Lisa Frank thinks the firing of Comey will help Trump to “Drain the Swamp”:
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-bloggers/3555156/posts
Ray Gaskell says:
I love your writing Pointy, but I can find any evidence to back your assertion that Obama pardoned more people than any recent President. I really want to use this in an argument but I need to be sure of the facts.
Read the comments.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/05/trump_planning_to_trim_get_whitey_bureaucracy.html
The dismantling continues apace.
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/05/30/obama-nearly-doubled-number-juvenile-illegal-aliens-given-amnesty-says-expert/?platform=hootsuite
“During his last year in office, former President Obama nearly doubled the number of juvenile illegal aliens who were given legal status and a pathway to permanent residence.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/30/illegals-in-virginia-registered-vote-in-elections/
“More than 5,500 illegals registered to vote in Virginia in last decade; 1,852 actually cast ballots.”
Just as troubling, the PILF said, was Virginia’s efforts to try to hide the information from the public — a problem foundation President J. Christian Adams said began at the very top, with Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
“At the instruction of Governor McAuliffe’s political appointees, local election officials spent countless resources to prevent this information from spilling into the open,” Mr. Adams said in a statement releasing the report. “From NoVa to Norfolk and all urban and rural points in between, alien voters are casting ballots with practically no legal consequences in response.”
http://www.dailywire.com/news/17275/obama-era-slush-fund-funneling-cash-leftist-groups-amanda-prestigiacomo
“Advocates for big government and progressive power are using the Justice Department to extort money from corporations,” Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch said of the scam. “It’s a shakedown. It’s corrupt, pure and simple.”
On Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions put an end to the corrupt practice once shrouded in secrecy.
“When the federal government settles a case against a corporate wrongdoer, any settlement funds should go first to the victims and then to the American people — not to bankroll third-party special interest groups or the political friends of whoever is in power,” said Sessions in a statement.”
Another Obama slush fund for his political cronies gets closed down.
http://americanlookout.com/while-democrats-obsess-over-russia-trump-has-nominated-11-conservatives-as-federal-judges/
While Democrats Obsess Over Russia, Trump Has Nominated 11 Conservatives As Federal Judges
“Now, while Democrats are still running around with their hair on fire screaming about Russia, President Trump is restoring balance to the judiciary by nominating conservatives to be federal judges.”
Jonathan Frodsham says:
Another fabulous article. He always nails it. Love Pointman.
http://truthfeed.com/trumps-epa-just-ended-obamas-reign-of-terror-against-american-farmers/86119/
While the Russia farce rumbles on, Trump rips out by the roots a regulation that was slowly strangling American farming, and it’s barely reported.
Federal Court Strikes Down Key Piece Of Obama’s Climate Agenda
https://www.youngcons.com/federal-court-strikes-down-key-piece-of-obamas-climate-agenda/
The rollback continues of 8 years of dictatorship by Obama’s bureaucracy.
Even the US Dept of Agriculture has hit the ‘reset’ button ….
“The US Department of Agriculture is advising employees to avoid using the term ‘climate change’ in their work and refer to it as ‘weather extremes’ instead.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4769874/Federal-deparment-told-avoid-using-term-climate-change.html
Trump quietly putting his stamp on the courts.
http://thehill.com/regulation/administration/346248-trump-quietly-putting-his-stamp-on-the-courts
“With five judges confirmed, another 30 pending and 123 seats left to fill, according to one group tracking the numbers, Trump has the opportunity to revamp the judiciary branch and carve out a legacy for himself that could stand the test of time.”
Rememember, these are lifetime appointments.
3 things Trump did this week while you weren’t looking.
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/08/trump-policy-regulation-climate-immigration-000508
Trump is slowly reversing Obama’s damage to the American economy.
Exclusive: EPA to propose repealing Obama’s climate regulation – document.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-epa-carbon-exclusive/exclusive-epa-to-propose-repealing-obamas-climate-regulation-document-idUSKCN1C90BY
Why Is the Obama Administration Trying to Keep 11,000 Documents Sealed?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-is-the-obama-administration-trying-to-keep-11-000-documents-sealed-20160418
Follow the money …
Trump Takes a Wrecking Ball to Two Obama Legacies.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/trump-takes-wrecking-ball-two-obama-legacies-n810061
Ignoring the NBC spin/fake news narrative quoting other fake news outlets as sources, Trump’s destruction of Obama’s meager legacy continues.
OBAMA UNDONE: Trump DESTROYS Barack’s Legacy
http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/obama-undone-trump-destroys-baracks-legacy
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455453/president-trump-undoes-obama-legacy-commonsense-nobama
A very interesting read. It actually has that rarity of these days – some analytical insight.
Kellyanne: ‘Bit by bit, President Trump is undoing the Obama legacy’ and people are thanking him profusely
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/11/04/kellyanne-bit-by-bit-president-trump-is-undoing-the-obama-legacy-and-people-are-thanking-him-profusely-690303
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Tunnel vision? DOT withdraws from Gateway program in blow to $24B project
Federal agency claims it wants to avoid partiality
Jul.July 03, 2017 01:20 PM
Elaine Chao and tracks inside the LIRR storage facility in Hudson Yards (Credit: Alistair Gardiner for The Real Deal)
The federal Department of Transportation is pulling out of the Gateway development corporation’s board, in the latest sign that the Trump administration is losing interest in a $23.9 billion infrastructure project considered vital to New York City and New Jersey.
“It is not DOT’s standard practice to serve in such a capacity on other local transportation projects, and DOT’s Trustee has had to recuse from several board actions already,” the agency’s general counsel wrote in a letter Friday.
The Gateway program seeks to build new train tunnel tracks, bridges and expand Penn Station, in part to avoid a commuting nightmare when one of the two tunnels connecting Manhattan and New Jersey has to be shut down for repairs. The Gateway development corporation was created in 2015, with trustees from Amtrak, the federal government, New York and New Jersey.
The Obama administration pushed the project and promised cheap loans, but the Trump administration appears less keen on backing it. A DOT spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal that resigning from the board was meant to make sure there “is no appearance of prejudice or partiality in favor of these projects ahead of hundreds of other projects nationwide.”
In an April interview with The Real Deal, Amtrak chair Anthony Coscia argued that the Gateway project and the continued possibility of commuting between New York and New Jersey is crucial to New York’s real estate market. “If we took that tunnel out of service completely, for any amount of time — a month, two months, three months — it would be a community Armageddon that I can’t even begin to describe,” he said. “Gateway and the way we manage all of this will play a major role in whether you can sustain real estate values in and around New York City. What’s the value of a building, whether it’s commercial office space, residential, retail, if you can’t generate access to it?” [WSJ] — Konrad Putzier
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Marvel’s Jessica Jones Review
Posted on November 21, 2015 November 21, 2015 Categories All Geek News
Today is the big day, geeks. Today is the premiere of the new Marvel-Netflix series, Jessica Jones, starring Krysten Ritter and David Tennant. I have also finished watching the series and have my complete review here.
This television series is another successful milestone in the widely popular Marvel Cinematic Universe and like most films or televisions shows that connect to it there is diversity in how characters are portrayed. Jessica Jones has proven itself to be the key to a more diverse and interesting way of storytelling. Like Marvel’s Daredevil, this show gives us a glance into a different area of the MCU that we have not seen before and it differs from what we have seen in films like The Avengers and Guardians of The Galaxy. It’s darker, grittier, and exposes heroes when they are at their weakest moments. We’re beginning to see that they are “superheroes” but at the same time they are just average people. There are real consequences for every step that they make.
Jessica Jones is Marvel’s second series to debut on Netflix and it sends Marvelites swinging back into the dark underbelly that they were so familiar with in Daredevil and everything is a lot bleaker than last time we were in Hell’s Kitchen. The series takes a more modern twist on film noir as Jessica tries to solve a case while struggling with a very severe case of PTSD that is a result of her treatment in the past at the hands of Zebediah Kilgrave (David Tennant). The PTSD serves as an excellent plot element that makes this series more brutal and uncompromising. There are no boundaries on how you treat it or where you can take it. What makes this all the more sweeter is how it is throwing in a superb female cast in a bleak and shadowy underworld yet they shine in a way that Marvel hasn’t done before. In my opinion, it’s neck and neck with some of the larger productions that Marvel has done since the Marvel Cinematic Universe launched in 2008. Daredevil was great but Jessica Jones is outstanding!
Jessica Jones stars Krysten Ritter in the title role of Jessica Jones, a failed superhero-turned-private-investigator working in New York City. The series is based on the Alias comic series by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos, the show casts Jessica as the volatile investigator — a role usually filled by classic tough guys like Clint Eastwood. In keeping with the neo-noir tone the series relies on narration and a jazz style theme song that does take a while to catch on to and it can become annoying after one or two viewings. Ritter’s performance does make up for this as she nails the role of being a cynical, alcoholic, and damaged crime fighter with a lot of demons in her closet. She’s not wielding sticks or arrows like certain Marvel crime fighters. She’s armed with raw wit and a low tolerance for certain people but at the same time she’s trying to help people for a little more than just to pay her rent. The complexity and elegance that she exhibits in this capacity really makes it possible for viewers to sympathize with the simmering drama in her life as she juggles her cases and the trauma she faces from a previous encounter with Kilgrave.
Trauma is a critical plot device that wraps around every single character. Sometimes it is subtle and not in full detail. This can be observed during certain scenes with Jessica and Luke Cage that they are both troubled people who have done awful things or lost something that was important to them. Some of these characters and their backstories will be fleshed out in later seasons as time progresses which acts in continuation of the long standing mission of the MCU to provide every fan with different forms of storytelling with intriguing characters whose fates aren’t always known.
Then there’s the benefit of having an awesome villain like Zebediah Kilgrave portrayed by Doctor Who‘s David Tennant. Kilgrave is the centerpiece of Jessica’s past as he consistently torments her and as she states “leaves a trail of broken people behind him.” With a performance like this he does not seem like your typical noir villain but rather a traditional nefarious comic book villain which doesn’t seem to make sense at first but if fans give it some time then it’s tolerable. It is extremely incredible how some would perceive him to be a small time villain when he’s probably the most mysterious, terrifying, and unique villain that exists in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and is a definite joy to watch.
However, the real slam-dunk victory for this series isn’t all of these great story elements but rather in it’s portrayal of female superheroes. Something that is becoming a rising trend in popular culture as we have all seen with Supergirl. These feminine crusaders are multi-dimensional, unstoppable, and in control of the universe that exists around them. I would hope that we see more of this in future comic book based films and television series but only time will tell. That and the stellar ratings that this show has generated alongside Supergirl.
So, what rating would I give Marvel’s Jessica Jones based on everything that I have said in this article? Just check out the grading scale here:
OFFICIAL UYG SCORE: 9.6/10
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Baker mayfield and hue jackson
Posted on 27.10.2018 by Tunobukid
Hue Jackson keeps Baker Mayfield feud alive
Hue Jackson had a baffling answer when asked why Baker Mayfield didn't get more Oklahoma plays
Hue Jackson Says Browns Firing 'Truly, Really About Baker Mayfield'
Hue Jackson addressed his rift with Baker Mayfield, which began after Jackson joined the rival Bengals' staff after being axed by Cleveland last.
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Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield doesn't appear to care about the perception of his back-and-forth with former head coach Hue Jackson. Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland. I'm not looking for anybody's approval. No reason to go into detail about it. We've moved on. There has been plenty of drama between the Oklahoma product and his first NFL coach since the Browns' victory over the Bengals on Sunday. Cabot noted Jackson attempted to hug the quarterback after the game only to be rebuffed for a handshake instead.
Hue Jackson believes the Cleveland Browns fired him as head coach due to the on-field struggles of Baker Mayfield. I think they want to do everything they can to put him in the situation I mean, you got the first pick in the draft�who I think is going to be a franchise quarterback; who's going to be a sensational player�and he's not playing as well. So again, here is the perfect storm to move forward and move on. Jackson ended his tenure in Cleveland with a record that included a winless season. Defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, who's in his second season with the Browns, is taking over for Jackson on an interim basis.
Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield stood by his critique of former head coach Hue Jackson as "fake" on Wednesday and responded to those who questioned his maturity. I've always been that way.
I've always been that way. It's not immature. It's me being exactly who I am every day, being that same guy for our team, and I think that's very important right now. Jackson has not been available to the media since Mayfield said Sunday that he took it personally that Jackson had joined the Cincinnati Bengals ' coaching staff after being fired by the Browns. Cleveland defeated Cincinnati on Sunday. I wasn't gonna have a scholarship. Good try though buddy.
There continue to be ramifications from the Hue Jackson firing in Cleveland, largely thanks to the former Browns coach sticking in the division and moving over to be the Bengals' version of Dwight Schrute. The drama surrounding Jackson's heel turn and the resulting response from Baker Mayfield and other Browns players has kept the story alive. Plus, people want to know how the Browns are good now when they were so terrible before Hue got fired. There's only so much insight into what happened that you can get from "Hard Knocks. And before the game, as Eagle explains, he and Fouts sat down with Jackson for the production meeting and asked him a very pointed question about why the Browns weren't running more concepts from Baker Mayfield's college playbook at Oklahoma.
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Posted on December 4, 2019 by Paul Hellard
Maleficent sequel
Walt Disney’s Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is a crucial project full of deep VFX and incredible CG. There are insanely complex CG actors’ faces produced for the fairies, bringing new kinds of tech online. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is a sequel to the 2014 live-action retelling of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, in Maleficent, starring Angelina Jolie.
The director Joachim Rønning called back Production VFX Supervisor Gary Brozenich, with whom he’d worked on the original. Rønning previously also worked with Brozenich on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The Mill Film crew was headed up by VFX Supervisor Laurent Gillet.
The Mill Film crew created the environments, textures, lighting, and surfaces work for the home of the Dark Fey, a magnificently spikey-looking nest where Maleficent finds herself after falling from her flight.
Mill Film joined the project a few months into post-production, and they immediately got to work on some environments and asset builds for over a dozen sequences, totaling over 320 final shots for the movie.
“One of our first steps was to dive into everything that had already been started, and get up to speed across whatever existing briefs, concept art, and references Gary Brozenich and Joachim Rønning had put together,” explains Laurent Gillet, Mill Film’s VFX Supervisor. “The task then became to establish clear lines of communications among the different facilities sharing assets and overall workload.” This project was shared across two Technicolor brands [MPC and Mill Film], working in four different time zones on three continents. The production teams really had to take the lead on ensuring client notes, reviews, and processes were streamlined and kept everyone working on the same page. “By the end of the show we had become incredibly efficient at it,” Gillet adds.
One of the first environments built by Mill Film was the Fey Island location, where they had several separate areas to build out. The idea behind Fey island was to have different worlds within the same island, so it was a great challenge for the team to create these intersectional environments. “The first environment we saw was the infirmary [the room Maleficent wakes up in after being saved by Connal] which had bright corridors she had to walk through on her way out,” Gillet explains. “We needed to strike this creative balance of being inside a giant bird’s nest, which was made out of pieces of vines, roots, bird spit, etc. It had to appear that light could make its way through the translucent areas of the walls of this corridor. The end result is really cool.”
Mill Film also tackled some big establishing CG shots of the Island, seen from outside. The main Island CG asset was built by their team in Bangalore using Pixologic’s ZBrush, Autodesk’s Maya and Foundry’s Mari. The FX [ocean, waterfall, snow], lighting, DMP enhancements and comp were done in their Montreal facility. “There’s a ton of detail in these shots as we had to establish the sheer scale of the island in very wide-angle shots,” adds Gillet.
Another environment came from the two giant extensions in sequences where the Feys are gathered as a part of this tribal celebration during the pre-fight Borrat speech sequence of the film. The cavernous environments were required to blend with the overall Island’s internal design and atmosphere. The builds themselves followed a classic pattern. “We started by building a rough geometry to set the main volumes, shapes, and openings through the main key shot angles [which covered close to 360 degrees of the set]” explains Gillet. “Our CG team then built it ‘for real’, up to the first pass of shading, and then the DMP team took over to refine things and add all the great details”.
The wedding scene includes several nods to the original Sleeping Beauty animated feature. The creeping white flowery branches are extended magnificently around the background of the set. The Mill Film’s work totaled over 320 shots made up of CG environments, set extensions, FX particle simulations [CG water, magic FX], creature animation and fur dynamics.
THOSE WINGS
There was a lot of focus placed on wings throughout this show. The wings themselves are separate assets that were placed on the back of both actors and the digi-doubles. Actors had blue pads on their backs during principle photography which were showing the team where the CG wings needed to be attached. “The wings were beautifully stylized with strong, long, thick feathers,” explains Gillet. “Some of the feather animation, like having a vibrating reaction to wind, was procedurally embedded in the rig. But their overall animation was classic keyframe work and Joachim knew exactly what he wanted when it came to their key poses.”
On a few occasions, animators didn’t have enough control to get a particular wing shape, so in those situations, the team would go back and conduct a pose from which the technical animators would then work out into their final shapes. “The technology team then re-wrote the feather backend on the internal Mill Film software Furtility to help create the feathers faster and use less memory,” Gillet notes. “That was helpful as it also reduced the load on the tech animation teams, who then didn’t have as many feather fixes to complete.”
A large part of delivering Rønning’s vision for such a fantastical project was through Mill Film’s lighting and comp teams, who were able to help set the mood and tone of certain scenes throughout the project.
The Mill Film crew used references of lava spikes, tundra, and forest to create the rugged interior and exterior terrains of the nest environment. The result is a dark and moody almost cave-like micro-universe, which draws the audience deep into the world of the Fey. “The nest was such a great challenge to work on, as there were both extreme close-ups and wide angles that required us to build a variety of different models and materials,” explains Sergey Kononenko, Mill Film’s CG Supervisor. “We employed a combination of 2D and 3D elements which allowed us to work across any scenario, so it meant we had to actually design what the home of the Dark Fey could look like, even though the cameras never made it there.”
When it comes to working for a team of blockbuster clients, Mill Film’s Producer Marie-Eve Authier and Compositing Supervisor Gaëlle Bossis explain what allowed the team to form the connections it took to deliver Disney-grade work within the studio’s first year of operation: “Gary is one of the best VFX Supervisors I’ve had the pleasure of working with. Both Marie-Eve and I had previously worked together on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, so we were excited to hear we’d be working together again on Maleficent this year. He knows exactly what his director wants, how to express it, is opened to new suggestions and was concise with his notes,” explained Bossis. To Authier, it’s about establishing great communications with the studio’s clients and looking to create longer-term relationships: “It’s great when we get to work with clients like Gary who allow the studios they work with to open up, and create that dialogue and partnership – while keeping things creatively challenging for everyone – that’s exactly what keeps this industry growing.”
Mill Film as a budding new studio, pulled together a diverse crew from all kinds of different backgrounds and life experiences to deliver a Disney-quality product. “That’s a big accomplishment for a studio, especially in its first year,” says Gillet. “Our team quickly came together to forge the same type of working bonds and processes that majorly established studios have established over several years. That’s a feat to be proud of, and we got there because everyone across our team was committed. I’m going to remember the team, the bonds we forged, and the great work we accomplished together on this project.”
Built on the Academy Award-winning legacy of the original Mill Film, co-founded by Ridley Scott and Tony Scott in 1997, the company has been supported by Technicolor’s technology and global infrastructure.
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Thread: Submissions - Release Type (Publisher Type)
So, after thinking/talking about it a bit here's a short proposal:
Remove publisher type entirely. It's not useful as the main goal seems to be to distinguish albums which are made up of (or contain) fan-arranges from those that aren't. It's also a difficult thing to determine at times (as there is no one definition of indie/commercial/etc.)
Add a check box for designating albumｓ as bootlegs.
Split the 'arrange' classification into 'arrange' and 'fan-arrange'.
Arrange (or official-arrange): Arranges endorsed/published by the rights holders (such as this) or arrangements by the original composer (such as this.)
Fan-arrange (or unofficial-arrange): Arranges that aren't endorsed by the rights holders.
This still isn't a perfect solution as there is still some gray area with albums like this where it's unknown whether endorsement from the rights holders was obtained.
Thoughts, feedback, glaring issues?
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Record Cave Dive Leaves Mystery
May 3, 2011—An Australian team, led by National Geographic Society/Waitt Foundation grantee Richard Harris, has made a record-breaking dive in what … more
May 3, 2011—An Australian team, led by National Geographic Society/Waitt Foundation grantee Richard Harris, has made a record-breaking dive in what may be the world's deepest coldwater cave. But the explorers still haven't reached the end of this New Zealand cave, thought to lead to the mysterious source of the Pearse River.
Divers cautiously descend in a dangerous and uncharted underground "river"searching for its mysterious source. On their way, they’ll look for new life forms living deep within the cave…
Nowhere else in the world are sport divers going so deep in such cold waters.
In a remote part of New Zealand’s South Island, the Pearse River emerges out of a mountain beneath a cliff. And after years of exploration and research, its exact origin is still unknown.
The river emerges from a deep underground cave, which might be the deepest coldwater cave in the world.
The cave does not go straight down from the surface entrance, but meanders a bit before taking a mostly sideways path into the mountain.
It’s a challenging environment. The depths found in the cave make diving problematic, and the cave itself is very dark. The current in the river is strong, and the water is just above freezing.
Because of the extreme conditions, divers have been unable to reach the cave’s source. One diver lost his life attempting to explore the main shaft in 1995.
The most recent expedition, funded in part by National Geographic, consists of a a team of six Australian cave divers led by diving physician Richard Harris. Earlier this year, a member of that team accomplished what no previous explorer had: he reached 194 meters in depth, or about 636 feet.
The Resurgence is in a remote location, and getting 5 tons of equipment there requires helicopter delivery. This trip required a nearly 3-week long encampment.
But it takes special diving skills to go so deep, and for so long.
The glacial waters are about 43 degrees Fahrenheit, and divers must swim against the flow. They must also swim at a measured pace, because over exertion can lead to carbon dioxide poisoning, which can lead to death. Because of the great depths at which they’re diving, they must slowly—over a period of hours—return to the surface. Failure to do so could result in decompression sickness, also known as “the bends,” which can be fatal. The cold water alone makes resurfacing safely problematic.
To overcome these obstacles, the team constructed and placed habitats at four depths in the cave. Here, divers can escape the cold water and sit in a trapped bubble of air. They can eat here, and drink, while they wait many hours for dissolved gases to be safely released from their bodies.
Even with these safety measures in place, this kind of diving is still dangerous.
During his record-breaking dive, experienced diver Craig Challen realized his breathing had become erratic.
CRAIG CHALLEN, TECHNICAL DIVER AND CAVE EXPLORER: “I noticed going down, and I just started breathing really heavily. It’s really like a self-perpetuating thing, you know. You try and relax and chill, and you just can’t.”
It’s likely he had just enough time to reach a safer depth, before the carbon dioxide levels could have led to unconsciousness.
CRAIG CHALLEN, TECHNICAL DIVER AND CAVE EXPLORER:“There’s definitely a 200-meter dive there for someone that wants it. (laughs).”
Challen and the team know a record-breaking attempt is not for the faint of heart.
The mystery is part of the reason explorers keep coming back.
Dye tracing, so far, has been inconclusive in finding a source of this river.
Freshwater animals found in the cold aquifer, like this possible new species of amphipod, also offer scientists a unique look into a little understood, and little studied habitat.
The team hopes to return to the Pearse Resurgence for another exploration dive in 2012.
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The Historical past of Textual content Messaging
Textual content messaging is regarded as the quickest and most responsible usually means of conversation. It has gained worldwide recognition and has attracted billions of subscribers. Allow us learn how text messaging was designed.
Textual content messaging or frequently identified as texting is the method of sending short messages normally 160 people from a cell mobile phone. The most current cell telephones are able of sending as much as 20 webpages that contains 160 people of text messages. These messages are frequently identified as SMS, texts or text messages.
Textual content messaging technology employs an SMS gateway in purchase to hook up any cell SMS assistance to an existing instantaneous message assistance, Phrase Huge Net, PDA products, individual personal computers as effectively as to any landline mobile phone.
Some of the products which have Bluetooth products can connect to a cell mobile phone as a modem can also ship SMS through wi-fi networks. SMS have been broadly made use of with both GSM or non GSM devices.
Essentially, text messaging intends to supply a usually means of sending message to one particular human being to an additional no subject where by they are as extended as there is sign coverage from the cell vendors. This assistance is also made use of for automated devices generally for the purpose of paying for generates as effectively as providers for cell mobile phone. Textual content messaging is also broadly made use of in several contests.
In accordance to some firms, the first at any time text message was sent through 1989 by Edward Lantz, a former NASA employee. The text message was sent through a Motorola beeper. The message is made up of numbers browse upside down to browse the message.
On December 3, 1992 in the United Kingdom, the first SMS messaging was made use of in a business sent through a Vodafone GSM community. The SMS message was sent by Neil Papworth with the use of a desktop computer. The SMS includes the word Merry Xmas which was sent to Richard Jarvis from Vodafone through a handset unit product Orbitel 901. For the GSM devices, the first SMS applying a Nokia mobile phone was sent by an engineering pupil, Riku Pihkonen.
At first, text messaging has not been pretty common since it was designed generally to be made use of by the listening to impaired. For the duration of the 1990s only handful of messages were being currently being sent through SMS. But through the year 2000, there have been a gradual improve in the use of text messaging.
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Based on statistics, Finland, Norway and Sweden there are all over 72% of the whole inhabitants are applying text messaging. In Europe and North The us, there are more than eighty five% people of SMS.
Amid the Asian nations around the world, the Philippines have the biggest inhabitants of cell subscribers who employs text messaging as a usually means of conversation. An regular of 20 text messages is currently being sent each day by a subscriber.
Simply because of this, the Philippines have been regarded as the text money of the globe. On 2007 by itself, there are forty two.70 million men and women who are subscribers of cell telephones.Textual content messaging has been pretty common in the Philippines mainly because it has been a low-cost and responsible substitute usually means of conversation.
In accordance to the World wide Messaging Study performed by Nokia, text messaging has been proven to be an addictive action. This has been verified by a review by the University of Queensland which is based in Australia. It has been in comparison to be as addictive as cigarette using tobacco.
Given that text messaging has develop into pretty common all over the globe, the text speaks or text lingo has been adapted as a way to style messages rapidly. Textual content discuss are abbreviations of phrases which tends to stay away from typing the entire word which is time consuming. Yet another rationale is that most cell telephones do not have QUERTY keyboards just like individual personal computers.
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The Three-Digit Hurdle
December 12, 2003 By Adam Raney
It's a problem one VoIP provider says he loses sleep over. The big barrier to widespread Voice over IP acceptance in the United States isn't voice quality or internet latency. Instead, it's three simple digits that every phone user in the country knows well: 9-1-1.
The largest hurdle to widespread Voice over IP acceptance in the United States isn't voice quality or internet latency. Instead, it's three simple digits that every phone user in the country knows well: 9-1-1.
The fundamental question is simple: How does an internet phone user tap into a 9-1-1 system that is designed from the ground up for a landline world?
Unfortunately, there's no simple answer. VoIP providers have yet to come up with an industry-wide standard of how to offer emergency services. And the pressure to come up with an effective plan to address emergency service concerns is mounting.
Last week, during the much-hyped Federal Communication Commission public hearings on VoIP, 9-1-1 was front-and center in the arguments in favor of some form of government regulation of IP telephony.
Today, the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO), a group representing emergency service operators, issued a press release contending that VoIP "will have a serious and negative impact on the provisioning of 911 emergency communications" and demanding "enforceable regulation . . . to ensure that solutions are sufficient to satisfy the public interest."
The lack of adequate 9-1-1 services in the internet phone space even has VoIP operators worried.
"This is the one thing I lose sleep over," said Ravi Sakaria, Chief Executive Officer of VoicePulse, a New Jersey-based VoIP provider. "Companies in our industry have a moral imperative to come up with a workable solution."
Pick up a phone, dial 9-1-1 and the cavalry comes riding in to the rescue. It would seem easy, right?
If anything is clear it is that 9-1-1 services present a mountain of a challenge to VoIP operators. Whether they respond to the challenge effectively could be a major factor to the viability of IP telephony.
9-1-1 in the Old and New World
When a phone user in the standard telephone universe picks up a phone and dials 9-1-1, the call is routed through switches and arrives at a Public Safety Access Point (PSAP) that is closest to the emergency caller.
In most cases, the caller's address pops up on a screen so, even if the caller is unable to communicate, an emergency response team knows where assistance may be needed. Since each land line’s phone number is geographically traceable, the process makes sense and there is usually successful communication between a person in an emergency and the proper PSAP.
That's not necessarily the case with VoIP, which, in using the Internet to originate phone calls, is unrooted and not tied to specific addresses.
Of the major residential VoIP providers today, New Jersey-based Vonage is the only one that offers a 9-1-1-style of emergency service.
"We use consumer information to determine the location of the caller." Louis Holder, executive VP of product development for Vonage, said. "The call is then forwarded to the closest PSAP" based on address information the user provides the company.
Holder admits that the call forwarding service isn't perfect and there is the possibility that information isn't updated or that a caller isn’t at the location listed in their consumer file. Holder said that Vonage is working with the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), a 9-1-1 advocacy group, and Intrado, a company that offers 9-1-1 technological services, towards a solution that will piggy-back VoIP callers directly onto the existing 9-1-1 system.
Last week, the VON Coalition, a trade industry organization backed by a few VoIP providers, including Vonage, struck a non-binding preliminary agreement with NENA to implement industry-wide 9-1-1 or emergency services next year. The agreement calls for an interim emergency services system by May 2004 and for a complete solution by the end of next year.
But in its press release, the APCO called the agreement unacceptable because "it takes a 21 st century technology (IP telephony) and shoves it into a 1960’s method of reporting life-threatening emergencies."
The FCC has hinted that it would step into the debate on VoIP emergency services as it did in 1968, when it implemented the 9-1-1 national emergency service on landline service after years of debating the issue. To the FCC, the use of telephones to respond to emergencies required an industry-wide standard.
With VoIP poised to take off in a big way, the FCC and the industry find themselves in a similar position. And there is plenty of evidence that the FCC's previous "hands-off" position with regards to the internet is likely to be softened in the case of VoIP.
"'Hands off' treatment [of VoIP] could mean we are undercutting the safety of consumers," said FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein during a special FCC hearing on VoIP last week. Adelstein's view was echoed by other commissioners.
This doesn't sit well with some in the industry.
Could Regulation Backfire?
Although committed to offering emergency services to VoicePulse customers, Sakaria doesn't agree with a mandated implementation plan, arguing that it is dangerous on two fronts.
First of all, Sakaria said, forcing 9-1-1 regulation today would stifle an innovative market that has benefited from competition.
"Setting a timeframe of six months is an admirable goal," Sakaria says. "But, It has the effect of creating barriers to innovation and of entry [into VoIP] by smaller players."
Secondly, Sakaria maintains that rushing into a mandated emergency service plan does not guarantee consumers will be any safer.
"A rushed 9-1-1 service will look an awful lot like a speed dial to local police," he said. "It wouldn't be a real 9-1-1 service that connects you directly to the proper PSAP. Is that any more safe? It could be dangerous."
Sakaria says that instead of setting timelines, regulators should let innovators within the industry develop 9-1-1 service solutions. At some point, he believes, a standard that is both effective and popular with consumers would emerge.
"The ultimate solution to emergency service issues should come out of a competitive and open market," Sakaria said.
Other industry leaders believe that regulations mandating an effective emergency service plan on the part of VoIP providers are justified.
"Regulation isn't always bad," said Jeffery Williams, President of Broadvox Direct, a residential VoIP provider with plans to launch later this month. "It keeps irresponsible companies out of the industry and gives a solid foundation to service."
Broadvox Direct plans to offers a 9-1-1 service to 90 percent of its customers in its 28-state coverage area soon after it begins to provide service. But, unlike other independent VoIP providers, Broadvox Direct has a leg up on emergency services: Its parent company, Broadvox, is a traditional phone line carrier with direct access to 9-1-1 service.
Looming in the background of the 9-1-1 morass is the clout big telephone companies like SBC, AT&T and Verizon will soon have on the matter. All have recently gotten into the VoIP game and all have a stake in seeing some sort of regulation of emergency services develop.
The larger companies' standard telephone operations are highly regulated and the current lack of VoIP regulation leaves the Baby Bells pondering how to proceed in unfamiliar unregulated territory.
"It’s time for the commission to tackle public policy," said Dorothy Attwood, SBC's Senior Vice President of Federal Regulatory and Strategy Implementation, following last week's FCC VoIP forum. "There are still concerns about how we are going to manage 9-1-1 questions."
A High-Tech Solution
Regulated or not, 9-1-1 services will come into play for all companies relatively soon. At some point the portability of VoIP phones will become irrelevant and a solution that combines various technologies to pinpoint a caller's location will be available across the industry.
Rick Jones, operations issues director for NENA, says that some form of GPS will most likely be developed.
"We'll be able to generate coordinates for emergency calls," Jones said.
Broadvox Direct's Williams agrees. "9-1-1 call will be handed off to PSAPs that will be able to track the call to within a couple of meters, using GPS and triangulation like cell phones use now," he said.
Adopting a cell phone-like approach to VoIP emergency services, however, will not be totally effective, say some 9-1-1 systems executives.
"With wireless, it's a lot easier," says Monica Marics, Director of Emerging Markets at Intrado, a 9-1-1 systems developer with a number of VoIP providers. "Calls are bouncing off antennas and that allows triangulation. For GPS to work, you have to be in line with a satellite. In some cases GPS will be helpful. At other times, maybe internet service providers will be able to help us [geographically locate] calls."
How will 9-1-1 in VoIP be Different?
While industry leaders differ on how to get to a standard 9-1-1 service, they do agree that 9-1-1 will be completely changed by VoIP – and for the better.
"The eventual solution of 9-1-1 service will be more robust in VoIP compared to traditional telephony," said VoicePulse's Sakaria.
"VoIP offers a tremendous opportunity for the redesign of 9-1-1," said NENA's Jones. "If I'm at the scene of a medical emergency or a hazardous material accident, I will be able to send pictures through a [VoIP] 9-1-1 network."
Vonage's Holder says a VoIP 9-1-1 solution will be able to offer more detailed vital information than current services. "If PSAPs are equipped with IP technology, emergency call centers will be able to receive all kinds of personal information — medical records, phone numbers, addresses, and whether or not the caller owns a gun." Holder said.
"This is just the tip of the iceberg," said Intrado's Marics. "Soon 9-1-1 services could jump to internet chat rooms. 9-1-1 will be the model for extending emergency services to any kind of device that communicates: From phones to your Blackberry email pager."
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Whitgift school open day flyer
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The Awards celebrate and promote the best in local architectural design and acknowledge the important role that high quality design plays in enhancing the distinctive character of Mid Sussex. However, as they have done previously in the West Finals, this loss galvanised the squad to play some excellent indoor hockey and in the next match against Trent they won with excellent performances from Felix Roth, Richard Swan and Alex Chihota. September applications. Concord College are already taking bookings for their English course but an exciting science and mathematics course is also available. Whitgift scored first but the score was soon equalised by Matt Candy with a superb goal. The school now runs as a much more cohesive environment with a more open plan approach to learning. Although rather a long transfer from Heathrow the journey is worth it and students are assured of a warm welcome. A wide selection of photographs will be on show as well as images of the local area.
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Welcome to the Whitgift Admissions Department.
We look forward to welcoming prospective families at our Open Days and Events, which are listed in the. We also hold a series of Open Afternoons during the Autumn term. Open Afternoon are an additional opportunity to visit the school on a working day.
We will be. Open Morning Saturday 24 September from 9am to 1pm (Booking not required). Open Evening Tuesday 11 October from 4pm to 8pm (Booking not.
Set in 50 beautiful acres, Dean Close is a long-standing co-educational day and boarding school for year olds, where visitors regularly comment on the atmosphere, saying how warm and friendly they find it.
Whitgift School have announced that their summer school 10th July to 14th August will also have UK students paired with the International students throughout the course. This area, once left to decay, was substantially refurbished by HMY, instigating the regeneration of the historic centre of Royal Tunbridge Wells.
A planning application is due to be submitted in March UKVI advises customers against making non-refundable travel bookings until after their visa application has been approved so we would not compensate travel costs incurred by customers who did not receive their visa until after their planned arrival date in the UK.
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Kids clothing clip art In the third match against Ipswich, Dean Close made several attempts at goal and the score was tied for the majority of the match. A wide selection of photographs will be on show as well as images of the local area.
The mainly 3 storey boarding house has flexible single, double and small dormitory rooms on the upper 2 floors to suit Seniors and Juniors. The building will also provide family accommodation for the senior house staff and ancillary support and leisure facilities for boarders.
Planning permission has been granted for the substantial remodeling of 3 Eden Road, Tunbridge Wells. An online tracking system is available for customers along with the full complement of added value services.
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Whitgift charters the magnificent Goodwood House, in West Sussex, for a very special Arts Day. Please view the flyer, for further details of everything going on throughout the day. Whitgift will be open as normal today.
Oxford Summer Courses which is based on the famous Oxford University Campus of Sommerville College are now opening a course for 10 to 12 years olds as well as 13 to 15 year olds in addition to those for their traditional older students.
Set in 50 beautiful acres, Dean Close is a long-standing co-educational day and boarding school for year olds, where visitors regularly comment on the atmosphere, saying how warm and friendly they find it. Bolitho School. The Countess, a local girl, was educated at Kent College for girls in Pembury.
Two wheeled automobile names Oxford Summer Courses which is based on the famous Oxford University Campus of Sommerville College are now opening a course for 10 to 12 years olds as well as 13 to 15 year olds in addition to those for their traditional older students.
Works are due to start in mid November with an opening planned for Summer Children worked beside the UK students, enjoyed boarding in the school, learning about the ethos, routines and rules as well as experiencing wearing school uniform. Preparatory School Dean Close Preparatory School is a co-educational day and boarding school for children age 7 — Concord College are already taking bookings for their English course but an exciting science and mathematics course is also available.
HMY were involved in the careful remodelling of the school to bring together the previously separate Infant and Junior Schools. Summer course applications for are already being made!
Whitgift Sport are hosting an open tournament for U13 boy golfers (U13, U11 and U9 Please download the flyer below for further information.
NEWS: Author Visit - Anna PereraThe snow disruption caused our World Book Day author visit to be postponed. We have a new date booked in - Thursday 15 March - same timings as the flyer. Open Days. tours and open events to the public. Fundraising for worthy House.
Trinity. School. Old Palace Nursery and Preparatory School. Whitgift. House.
Whitgift. School. Club when my daughter brought home a flyer from the Carers Information.
Bolitho School. Set in 50 beautiful acres, Dean Close is a long-standing co-educational day and boarding school for year olds, where visitors regularly comment on the atmosphere, saying how warm and friendly they find it.
With pupils, the Preparatory School is small enough to allow everyone to know one another and get fully involved in the life of the School. A wide selection of photographs will be on show as well as images of the local area. The U16 squad played their first game of the day against Ipswich and in a close match Dean Close lost 1.
Whitgift school open day flyer Okay, thank you. IELTS score a reward for hard work. HMY have been commissioned through a competitive design bid process to design a new Workplace Nursery childcare facility for Cisco Systems at their Bedfont Lakes business park.
The popularity of Residential courses from has encouraged students who enjoyed their course to book early for Alena is currently attending All Hallows School Shepton Mallet a school she describes as having a watm and friendly atmosphere "just like home". In the third match against Ipswich, Dean Close made several attempts at goal and the score was tied for the majority of the match.
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The second match for Dean Close was against a very strong Altrincham School and in a very defence dominated game, the boys lost in the dying minutes
Douzilkree
St Clare's Oxford have recently announced dates for and have a great range of courses for youngsters. Big kids and small kids alike had a fantastic time as you can imagine.
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a general Ant Baiting Weekend planned for 6-7 October
Jenny Scott from the Raumati South Residents’ Association says a huge thank-you to all those who have registered to take part in Ant Baiting Weekend, 6-7 October and wishes everyone good luck.
If it is wet, it will take place on the first fine weekend after that.
“More people can still take part. If you have no ants, or very few and are not going to bother about ant-baiting weekend, please reconsider. Lay some borax baits round your boundaries, and check whether they are being taken.
“Great care must be taken with baiting. The two ants we are trying to combat, the brown Argentine and the black White-footed House Ant, are notoriously difficult to exterminate. If they suspect a threat they move, divide and multiply, and multiply and multiply.
“People may not mind those little brown ants under the drive, as long as they stay outside. But within two years, that one small colony may multiply into a super colony which spreads all over the neighbourhood, invades homes and gardens by the millions, destroys the biodiversity of the soil, and even kills baby geckos and birds.. Not everyone can afford pest controllers and expensive baits, year after year. Nor is this good for the environment.
“By all baiting together on the same weekend there will have a better chance of reducing ant numbers, and a better chance of identifying problem areas which will need further attention. Talk to your neighbours.
“Take a careful look at individually owned properties, at vacant properties, at rented properties, at street frontages and park boundaries. Everyone needs to check with the owners of all the properties on their boundaries, and talk about who has got what problems.
“I believe there has been a lot of ant movement in Raumati South over the last two years, because the black White-footed House Ant is being pushed out by the newly arrived Argentine Ant. The only defence the White-foots have against the Argentine is to multiply and multiply and multiply, so more and more people are getting their houses invaded by vast colonies of black ants.
Argentines establish themselves in a property, then spread out in all directions into surrounding properties until they are so numerous and so hungry they start invading houses, and the Black Ants are driven out.
“Both the KCDC and the Paraparaumu-Raumati Community Board have given us grants to run this. We have been responding to people from north of Waikanae to Paekakariki, and sending out information on how individuals can organise their own mini ant-baiting programmes.
“There at two types of eradication methods, home made borax bait or the commercial Vanquish-Pro:
BORAX BAITING
Recipe: 5 grams (1 rounded teaspoon) of borax powder;
250 gr (1 cup) of sugar;
1 litre of boiling water.
Dissolve, cool, and pour onto cotton wool stuffed into the bait stations. Saturate the cotton but don’t leave any unabsorbed liquid, or the ants will drown.-
“Use borax in a liquid solution, at exactly the right strength, and in little screw-top containers with 4 mm holes drilled in the lids to let ants in but keep bees out. These are available for $5.00 for 50 from jennyscott@outlook.co.nz. The aim is not to kill the Argentines, but to keep them alive and feeding, unaware that they are taking a toxin back to the queens. The same dose will kill the black White-footed house ants directly which is great.
“Borax baiting is slow compared with Vanquish-Pro, scatter multiple borax bait stations round the house and section, every 2 metres or so. Leave them for up to 3 months, replenishing if they dry out.
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“The Vanquish-pro we recommend for Argentines comes in 325 gram cartridges, enough for an 1100 square metre section. It was developed in Australia for the Argentine ants, and is very fast. The cartridge has a carbohydrate added to it to attract the White-Foots as well as the Argentines, so care must be taken not to lay it out in the open near active bees.
People may squirt blobs of it into empty borax bait stations as a safeguard, then reuse these containers later for borax baiting.
“Vanquish-Pro, is $64 a cartridge, if ordered through the RSRA — E-mail jennyscott@outlook.co.nz — to find out what is right for you.
Monster Bash on Saturday, 3 November
A fantastic party is promised at the Waikanae Memorial Hall on 3rd November in aid of the Waikanae Scout Group Jamboree fundraising. It is strictly one for the over 18’s, 7 pm until 11.30 pm.
The price of $20 per ticket includes a drink upon entry and nibbles.
Tickets are available to purchase online here or e-mail kitty@waikanaescouts.com with any queries.
Downer NZ ordered by the Disputes Tribunal to pay for repairs to Kapiti motorist’s car following botched road resealing
We’ve mentioned Downer’s shonky practices before.
According to the stuff article it has now been ordered by the Disputes Tribunal to pay $1996.95 for repairs to Karl Pemberton’s car after he drove on a Kāpiti Coast road the company had been resealing.
The company breached its duty of care and was aware of the surfacing problem before the damage occurred, the tribunal found.
the highway and the byway art, Britain, 1966
By Ronald Lampitt who was a magazine illustrator.
Kapiti people naturally relate to this with the ‘Ewy’. The word by is from Old Norse and means a town; as well as a prefix in by-law and by-election, it occurs as a suffix in several Scandinavian and English placenames. A byway is just that; the road through the town; a bypass is the road that avoids the town.
Waikanae house that’s much younger than it looks
This house on the corner of Martin Street and the Main Road looks like it was built a century ago, but is only a few years old. It was built as a replica of a 1912 rural villa. The lot is only 363 m².
‘Waikanae Landscape’ by Peter McIntyre
Perhaps not very representative of Waikanae, but Peter McIntyre (1910-1995) is well-known: he was appointed New Zealand’s official war artist in January 1941 by General Freyberg and he chronicled the activities of 2nd NZEF throughout Europe and North Africa.
With an estimated 158 stock deaths p.a. in NZ, DoC’s proposed independent review of the Waikato 1080 drop that killed 8 cows is rare indeed
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So … “the Department of Conservation (DOC) is taking the extraordinary step of getting an independent review of a 1080 operation in which cows were subsequently killed…” (tvnz) “Extraordinary” alright. In the midst of the growing current NZ-wide distrust of the poison that’s constantly been touted as next to harmless, DoC appears to be in […]
via With an estimated 158 stock deaths pa in NZ, DoC’s proposed independent review of the Waikato 1080 drop that killed 8 cows is rare indeed — Rangitikei Enviromental Health Watch
a gateway or statues for the Transmission Gully ‘Ewy’?
According to this article on the stuff website:-
Māori carvings or a feature gateway could be built on Transmission Gully if the Porirua and Kāpiti mayors get their way.
As work continues on the $630 million expressway, a prime spot for artwork marking the border of Porirua City and the Kāpiti Coast is being decided on.
The Wainui Saddle on the hill above Paekākāriki has been identified as a possible location for the project, Kāpiti Coast mayor K Gurunathan said.
The idea was raised in 2015 for both the Kapiti and Transmission Gully Ewy’s to become a ‘sculptural highway’ as reported in this Joel Maxwell story, but it was ruled out by Mayor Church.
We like the idea and Porirua has some carved Māori sculptures in its town centre, so we went along to take some pics of them, as shown below.
Any one of them in giant size would create attention, although we suspect the ones showing an erect phallus would have a mixed reaction in the bizarre Political Correctness culture that the Kapiti council possesses. 🙂
‘Plum tree at Waikanae’ art, 1952 by Rita Angus
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‘Garden Study’ art by Karl Maughan
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April 27, 2019 • Posted under: In Technicolor, Reviews by Martin Grams
Tags: Anthony Mackie., Benedict Wong, Bradley Cooper, Brie Larson, Chadwick Boseman, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, Danai Gurira, Dave Bautista, Don Cheadle, Elizabeth Olsen, Evangeline Lilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Renner, Joe and Anthony Russo, Jon Favreau, Josh Brolin, Karen Gillan, Mark Ruffalo, Paul Bettany, Paul Rudd, Pom Klementieff, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, The Russo Brothers, Tom Hiddleston, Tom Holland, Zoe Saldana
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Fans who stuck it out for 10 years and 21 movies will find Avengers: Endgame a rewarding climax to what Marvel Studios is now referring to as “The Infinity Saga.” Reunions and farewells are necessary when on-going story arcs are closed, brief revisits to memorable moments in past entries are restaged and for a large number of superheroes, much-needed emotional and psychological closure. If the first film last year focused on infinity, this movie centers on finality. Marvel made the wise decision to hold back all of the gimmicks (often referred to as “spoilers” if revealed before the screening) and the trailers promoting the film – for the most part – gave away only scenes from the first 20 minutes of the movie. Mystery abounds, fans are spending what might be $1 billion globally this weekend to discover how the saga comes to a close.
Whereas Avengers: Infinity War was a light-hearted romp with Olympic-style competition to prevent Thanos from acquiring possession of all six infinity stones, the most powerful elements of the cosmos, then emotionally stabbing us in the back with the villain winning and half of all sentient life in the universe destroyed, Avengers: Endgame accomplishes the exact opposite. Five years after “the Decimation,” also referred to as “the snap,” the world is solemn, bleak and depressing. Not everyone has found a way to move on and the world is not a balanced garden of Eden as Thanos hoped for. Some, such as Hawkeye, who took on the persona of Ronin, found guidance where there is chaos. Others sought counseling. Our heroes got so used to winning all the battles that they forgot how to lose. Our heroes took their ball and went home…
Dark, somewhat depressing at times, the film picks up momentum where a shining beacon of optimism gives our heroes something once again to fight for. The ultimate goal is to return everything – and everyone – back and undo the Decimation. Far too long they awaited an opportunity to go to bat once again and prove they are at the top of their game and hesitate to rush into action until they all agree in unison to be a team. (Twenty minutes into the movie they learn the hard way that rushing to action only leads to failure.) All of which can be gathered from watching the trailers, but to reveal anything more would be providing spoilers. Needless to say, our heroes will prevail even if not in the way they expected.
Like any well-thought plan, the process by which the superheroes maneuver through a web of familiar storylines does not go according to design, only leading to an expected climatic battle sequence against Thanos. Their success, however, comes not from strength in numbers but from their heart. In a cinematic buildup where all roads led to the closing chapter, the real beauty of this three-hour spectacle is not good vs. bad, but rather how a number of iconic superheroes find redemption amidst the chaos. Throughout the pit of despair, the bravest and best of us discover the valuable lesson to be who we are, not who we are expected to be.
There is no post-credits sequence but there are scenes of past Marvel movies during the closing credits to acknowledge the actors and their decade-long participation, closing the chapter on what became an entertaining – and extremely profitable – franchise. We can almost predict the direction of future installments, those grounded such as Spider-Man and Shang-Chi, and the majority exploring cosmic potentials, but one has to wonder as a result of three key scenes in Avengers: Endgame whether or not the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is going to be influenced not by product placement or focus groups, but a political stance.
While both Infinity War and Endgame were scripted and directed back-to-back by the Russo brothers, Endgame comes off like a completely separate movie from the first. Summed up in one sentence, Avengers: Endgame is an entertaining movie, but it is not Infinity War.
Martin Grams Jr. is a Contributing Editor of Second Union: Pop Culture News and Entertainment. Radio host, convention organizer and author of more than 20 books about old time radio and retro television.
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By Katherine Hui on July 27, 2010 in All Countries, Caribbean, Featured, Haiti, Photos
Haiti was devasted in early 2010 by an epic earthquake. Throw in 52 aftershocks and the hurricane season and you’ve got a country in desperate need.
There have been several ideas to emerge to help with the rebuild and aid in Haiti, but this one is one of my favorites. Earthship Biotecture builds dwellings from old tires, styrofoam, bottles and other waste materials.
The brains behind the operation, architect Michael Reynolds, says he intentionally doesn’t use the word ‘house’ because people have preconceived notions about what a house looks like. Instead he calls them Earthships, which are structures built from waste materials in local environments. They are durable and sustainable. Solar and wind energy are used to to generate power and heat and the homes are designed to collect usable water from rain.
Homes made from recycled materials are an excellent all-consuming use of what’s around, especially in places that have lost all infrastructure and have lots of waste about. This idea ticks all the boxes.
(Spotted in the Wall Street Journal)
Katherine Hui
Katherine Hui is currently the Social site editor at Green Thing, a web-based public service in London that inspires people to lead greener lives through creative content.
Before this, she worked as the Development Manager at Social Innovation Camp, an organization that encourages people to use web and mobile-based technology to mobilise social change. She oversaw 300 ideas submission and helped build 20 prototypes – five of which have gone on to get further funding or investment.
Katherine’s came over to the UK form Canada in 2007 for an MSc program at the London School of Economics. Before arriving in London, she managed a small environmental start-up in Vancouver called the Canadian Climate Change Alliance.
Katherine is football mad. She is a loyal supporter of Arsenal FC, plays for Islington Borough Ladies FC and coaches for Gunners in Islington in her spare time. Her second favourite hobby is kite surfing and she can sometimes be found chasing the wind.
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Continued from The Big TED Controversy of 2013, Part 1 (Click here for part 1)
On March 19th, TED opened up two discussions: one for Rupert and another for Graham. It’s not at all clear why there were separate discussions. It was, also, frankly annoying. Cross posting was constant. Both Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock responded in the only way they could, in their respective comment sections. (You can find both responses at the end of this post.) This state of affairs put the speakers in a truly Kafkaesque situation. Both men were accused, but of what? And by whom? Both videos were still deemed to be unscientific, but no reasons why were given. It was not clear who was doing the accusing or what rationale they were employing. As a result, both men challenged TED to a debate.
At this point, it was all that skeptics and the parapsychological community were talking about. I counted at least 25 blogs discussing it and the controversy hadn’t even peaked yet.
On March 30th, TED cancelled the TEDxWestHollywood license it had granted 14 months earlier, with vague charges of pseudoscience. Speakers they singled out were Dr. Larry Dossey, physicist Russell Targ, Marianne Williamson and Rev. Paul Nugent, with Dossey and Targ, the scientists of the bunch, being the primary targets. Both have extensive resumes in frontier science. Larry and Russell both responded (which you can find below).
This was a story that I scooped. I was on TED’s Hancock thread and happened upon Suzanne Taylor, the producer for the West Hollywood event, and she related to me what was going on. She had been reading my blog, liked it, and hoped I would help publicize the story. After this blog post hit the streets, the next couple of days were the busiest my blog has ever seen.
On April 1st, TED issued a statement about West Hollywood in a blog post. Their main sticking point was that this was not allowed:
– talks that use the language of science to present speculative claims as fact
TED didn’t go into any detail about what speculative claims were being made and how these were being presented as fact — and they couldn’t know because they hadn’t seen transcripts of any of the speeches. They were taking action based on what they thought the speakers might say. (See http://www.TEDxWestHollywood.com for the mission statement about the program.) Suzanne and I made numerous attempts to publicize this unconscionable action by TED, and we did have some success with the mainstream press, although not nearly as much as we would have liked. TED compounded its perpetration against TEDxWestHollywood by getting Livestream to cancel the event that had been widely publicized, and nothing came of Suzanne’s attempts to get TED to reimburse the costs she picked up to deliver her program due to lost sponsorship and funding. (You can find Suzanne’s response below.)
On April 2nd, the sagas with both Rupert’s and Graham’s videos came to a close. The videos stayed in an obscure corner of TED, from which they couldn’t be embedded and where TED tried to avoid charges of censorship. Although both videos are now on other sites, they cannot be searched on the TED site. Rupert referred to this as “The Naughty Corner.” A scientific discussion never materialized –TED didn’t accept the invitation to debate Rupert or Graham, and never did give any substantive reasons for the takedown of TEDxWestHollywood. From TED’s message on Hancock’s thread, which is identical on Rupert’s, here’s a pertinent quote:
Finally, let me say that TED is 100% committed to open enquiry, including challenges to orthodox thinking. But we’re also firm believers in appropriate skepticism, or critical thinking. Those two instincts will sometimes conflict, as they did in this case. That’s why we invited this debate. The process hasn’t been perfect. But it has been undertaken in passionate pursuit of these core values.
And my response to this nonsense.
What open enquiry? What critical thinking? Where is the appropriate skepticism? Is it a secret? An endeavor can hardly be called an open enquiry or even a debate if none of the important questions are ever answered. So what are we left with? Nothing much.
In the end, it was a lot of discussion for nothing.
On April 14th, Suzanne went on to present the program without the help of TED. You can find it here. I’m the first speaker, by the way. That’s another story.
On April 18th, a Huffington Post blog article by Deepak Chopra, MD. FACP; Stuart Hameroff, MD; Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D.; Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D.; and Neil Theise, MD took TED to task condemning their new policy of censoring talks that make “angry noisy bloggers who promote militant atheism” uncomfortable.
On April 19th, this Chopra article was enough to goad Chris Anderson into responding with the same poor logic that he had been using all along, as in this quote:
But he or she should expect to face a robust standard of proof before their ideas take hold. And for every Galileo, there are thousands of people who just have bad, unscientific ideas. That’s why in our guidance to the thousands of TEDx organizers around the world, we ask that they steer clear of talks that bear hallmarks of unsubstantiated science.
It’s already been shown that when asked to provide specifics, TED never did, but continued to make the same unsubstantiated claims.
This is really the core of the controversy that took place. When TED removed the videos and the whole TEDxWestHollywood program for what they stated were scientific reasons, they were obliged to deal with scientific thinking. That meant they were required to deal with the evidence wherever it led. They actually should have done their due diligence to find out whether the topics in question had actual science backing them up before taking any action.
TED had made a claim that talks by Rupert, Graham, Larry and Russell were pseudoscience. It was a claim about science and therefore had to be treated as science. If they could not prove that claim (and they couldn’t), they were obliged to withdraw it. This was not about free speech or differences of opinion, but about what was provable.
Rather than back down, TED showed the world the naked truth about what was going on. Those talks and the West Hollywood event contradicted their beliefs and nothing else. The claim of pseudoscience was a lie. Science had nothing to do with it. What they had was belief, and it was so strong that even though they lacked any proof they would not budge from it. The TED (materialist) version of science isn’t science at all. TED claimed to be skeptical but their posture was more like a religion.
I promised this would raise more questions than it would answer. Why didn’t TED have any answers? Why do they talk about science but actually mean beliefs? Why is the claim of pseudoscience a lie? What’s up with skepticism? These are questions I will be covering in my new book. Get on the mailing list to be notified about it. (Click here).
Rupert Sheldrake’s Response:
I appreciate the fact that TED published my response to the accusations leveled against me by their Scientific Board, and also crossed out the Board’s statement on the “Open for discussion” blog. http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/14/open-for-discussion-graham-hancock-and-rupert-sheldrake/
There are no longer any specific points to answer. I am all in favour of debate, but it is not possible to make much progress through short responses to nebulous questions like “Is this an idea worth spreading, or misinformation?”
I would be happy to take part in a public debate with a scientist who disagrees with the issues I raise in my talk. This could take place online, or on Skype. My only condition is that it be conducted fairly, with equal time for both sides to present their arguments, and with an impartial moderator, agreed by both parties.
Therefore I ask Chris Anderson to invite a scientist from TED’s Scientific Board or TED’s Brain Trust to have a real debate with me about my talk, or if none will agree to take part, to do so himself.
Graham Hancock’s Response:
I previously commented that I would not post further on this Blog page because it is so clearly designed to distract public attention from the disastrous way TED has handled their attempt to censor my “War on Consciousness” talk and Rupert Sheldrake’s “Science Delusion” talk.
That in my view is the important point, for it bears on the future of TED itself as a viable platform for “ideas worth spreading”. I am heartened that so many of the 400-plus concerned people who have now posted here (and the 1000-plus who posted on the original Blog page) have refused to fall for TED’s sleight of hand and continued to press the organization to rethink its policy.
Since TED has retracted and struck out all their justifications for the original deletion of my talk from the TEDx Youtube channel (http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/14/open-for-discussion-graham-hancock-and-rupert-sheldrake/) and since they have published my rebuttal, and done the same re Rupert Sheldrake’s talk, I agree with Rupert on a new post he has made on this page (http://www.ted.com/conversations/17189/the_debate_about_rupert_sheldr.html). There are no more specific points surrounding TED’s misguided decision that he and I need to answer. Nor is it possible to make much progress through short responses to nebulous questions like “Is this an idea worth spreading, or misinformation?”
But I now make this one further post, simply to add my voice to Rupert’s and to put on record that I, too, would be happy to take part in a public debate with a scientist who disagrees with the issues I raise in my talk. My only condition is that it be conducted fairly, with equal time for both sides to present their arguments, and with an impartial moderator, agreed by both parties.
Therefore I join Rupert in asking Chris Anderson to invite a scientist from TED’s Scientific Board or TED’s Brain Trust to have a real debate with me about my talk, or if none will agree to take part, to do so himself.
Suzanne Taylor’s Response:
I am writing this after the fact, in August of 2013, as I am attempting to get a reluctant TED to deal with the consequences to me of the cancellation of its license two weeks before our April 14th event. Those two weeks were to be spent honing a program which was fully funded and going to take place in a new, award-winning building that was donated by the City of West Hollywood, which was one of our sponsors. I had been working on this program for 14 months, and thematically it was no different two weeks before its presentation that it had been 14 months earlier when TED approved it. What had changed was TED. It had adopted a caution and conservatism where it started to censor, one way or another, programs that before this it would have approved.
One reprehensible aspect of its cancellation of my license, which required me to pick up all the expenses to present my program after I lost all my sponsorship, is that TED did not actually know what I was going to present. They did not ask to see the talks, but cancelled me based on my description of the program and the topics my heavily credentialed scientists were talking about. Here’s what my deeply dangerous TEDxWestHollywood program was going to deliver:
“More for you is more for me.” Charles Eisenstein
Our event, “Brother, Can You Spare a Paradigm?” will illuminate the urgent need to change our fundamental value system or worldview to one in which humanity pulls together rather than separately. This view would supersede the current worldview where whoever has the most toys wins. The new view is based on what science tells us about a quantum universe, with everything being interconnected and all of us being interdependent. A new science-based vision won’t take hold, though, until people know and understand that there are more humane alternatives available. This is what our presentations will focus on. Our hope is that our presenters will impact the world’s thinking about how we interact as global community. They will demonstrate and propose action on how practical programs and technologies can be implemented in communities everywhere.
I had worked for over a year to present a program dear to my heart. I am focused on our worldview and how it needs to move from being money and greed based to being caring and compassion based. The TED platform was respected enough for me to work without compensation under its aegis (organizers are not allowed to make any money producing TEDx events). And, by TED making my program the only one of 5000 ready-to-go TEDx programs for which they had revoked a license, even if I hadn’t had a passion for what I was delivering and only thought it to be a pleasant program, to preserve my good name I would have had to spend my money to let people see what I had been working on.
Then, TED did one of the most shameful things I could imagine. They went from what they felt was protective toward themselves to aggressively punishing me. When I was under TED’s auspice, I had booked a Livestream broadcast. Getting my program widely seen was why I had devoted over year of my life to producing it, even taking a chance that if I didn’t get sponsorship to cover the expense I’d pay for it myself. But, that Livestream was not to be. Although we were no longer a TED program, TED got my Livestream event removed, so people would not even have a chance to evaluate the efficacy of its concern. I bought a second Livestream without “TED” in the url, but with two days to get the word out we ended up with hundreds instead of thousands of viewers. Why did they do this, inflicting a grave wound on a goodhearted ally, and then going in for a kill?
The world still hasn’t to any great extent been made aware of our program, but I am not finished. I will enlist the aid of the intelligent people who were offended by what TED did to Rupert and Graham to open a new dialogue. Rupert and Graham, who are among my favorite allies, have prospered from the controversy in that many more people now know their work, but with my being out thousands of dollars and very few people having seen my program, I am in a different situation. In the meantime, a couple of very pithy clips were put together from the West Hollywood day – one is 4 minutes and one is 18 minutes – and those pieces start off the whole program that’s on YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/oj8j8e4.
Larry Dossey, M.D. (His talk is here: http://tinyurl.com/lkfwgvy.)
I can add my name to those of Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock as speakers who find themselves in TEDx’s crosshairs. I was scheduled to speak at the TEDx West Hollywood event. But my scientific credibility was questioned by TEDx’s science advisory board in their decision to withdraw support and revoke the license of TEDxWestHollywood.
I’ve lectured at dozens of top-tier medical schools and hospitals all over the U.S. for two decades. Although my colleagues don’t always agree with my points of view, this is the first time my scientific credibility has ever been questioned.
My TEDx talk dealt with the correlations between spirituality, health, and longevity, for which there is immense evidence; and recent experimental findings that point toward a nonlocal view of consciousness for which, again, there is strong and abundant support. In view of our lack of understanding of the origins and destiny of consciousness, and considering the demographics of the TEDx followers, I thought this information would have been of considerable interest.
As a board-certified physician of internal medicine, former chief of staff of a major hospital, author of twelve books and scores of papers on these subjects published in peer-reviewed journals, a recipient of many awards, a frequent lecturer at medical schools and hospitals, and executive editor of the peer-reviewed journal, Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, I’d be interested in knowing from TED where I came up short.
“A clash of doctrines is not a disaster, it is an opportunity,” Whitehead said. It should not be a reason for censorship.
Russell Targ (His talk is here: http://tinyurl.com/lpyv93m.)
In cancelling the license for the TEDx event in West Hollywood, it appears that I was accused of “using the guise of science” to further spooky claims (or some such). People on this blog have asked what I was going to talk about. That’s easily answered. I was co-founder of a 23 year research program investigating psychic abilities at Stanford Research Institute. We were doing research and applications for the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, Air Force and Army Intelligence, NASA, and others. In this $25 million program we used “remote viewing” to find a downed Russian bomber in North Africa, for which President Carter commended us. We found a kidnapped US general in Italy, and the kidnap car that snatched Patricia Hearst. We looked in on the US hostages in Iran, and predicted the immanent release of Richard Queen, who was soon sent to Germany. We described a Russian weapons factory in Siberia, leading to a US congressional investigation about weakness in US security, etc. We published our scientific findings in Nature, The Proc. IEEE, Proc, AAAS, and Proc. American Institute of Physics. I thought a TED audience would find this recently declassified material interesting. And no physics would be harmed in my presentation.
Remote viewing is an ability that many people can easily learn. It is a nonlocal ability, in that its accuracy and reliability are independent of distance. Dean of Engineering Robert Jahn has also published extensively on his experiments at Princeton (Proc. IEEE, Feb 1982). I am not claiming it is quantum anything. It appears to possibly make use of something like Minkowski’s (8 dimensional) complex space/time that he described to Einstein in the 1920s, and is now being re-examined by Roger Penrose. This is not necessarily The answer. But the answer will be some sort similar nonlocal space/time geometry. We taught remote viewing to 6 army intelligence officers in 1979. They then taught a dozen other officers and created an operational army psychic corps at Ft. Meade, which lasted until the end of our program in 1995. You can see two examples of real remote viewing on my website, http://www.espresearch.com. One with Hella Hammid is double blind, live on camera for a 1983 BBC film, “The Case of ESP,” available on Google.
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Talks that use the language of science to present speculative claims as fact….
A completely meaningless and unscientific formula that illustrates how far down the road to the domination of dogmatic institutions we have already come.
So grateful that you posted the talks here…can’t thank you enough!!! 🙂 Blessings to all involved, feeling sad that TED has bought into the mainstream paranoia. ~ As we step even more into the golden age, be prepared for a turn-around, my knowing says it will happen! ~
Jordan Wm. Burrill
I agree; But, in the mean-time – we are witnessing first hand, the bloody, political mess that takes place as a new scientific paradigm is explored, researched, consolidated and gains academic support and public acceptance. This model has been ‘played-out’ for generations. Seems we never learn!
Yes – in deed!
I am so disgusted with TED – I believe that this behavior comes from the usual conservative frame of mind that has always blocked adventurous thinking – it is a human type and they can’t help themselves – when they are ‘in charge’ they will stomp on anything that smacks of ‘different’ because they cannot handle it themselves – too scary – they NEED the world to be all sorted into neat little boxes – just think of everyone you know, I think around 50% of humanity has this streak -and they are terrified of being associated with anything not ‘accepted’ by their peers in case they get ostracized themselves – as they were in school at age 10, so they are as adults !!!
So the answer here is that someone was ‘got at’ by the Conservative side of human nature and he had the power to stomp, so he did !!
Yup, your right! It all comes down to TED’s defensiveness over their ‘blind faith’ in their tiny, little world!
There are several militant atheists connected to TED’s organization, such as: Richard Dawkins; (who believes that giving children religious education is child abuse). And the “Amazing Randy!”; (a stage magician, who thinks only in terms of deception) – I tangled with this poor soul at TED, he is quite obnoxious and nasty (a very defensive person). If these poor folks weren’t so destructive, I could feel sorry for them. But, they do a lot of harm by deceiving people, trying to block funding for legitimate research and pushing to banish all public expression of religious freedom.
You may enjoy reading; “Science and Psychic Phenomena: the Fall of the House of Skeptics” by Chris Carter (w/ a foreword by Rupert Sheldrake – who was censored by TED). He uncovers the inter-connected groups that work together to thwart any non-materialist research and public discourse in the media. It is eye opening and will make you laugh out loud at their paranoid foolishness! A really fun read!
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After this debacle I know longer subscribe to TED.
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With regard to your April 1 entry in which TED bemoans the language of science used to present speculative claims as fact, I have two comments:
1. is not all science speculative subject to continual testing? Science is based on theories not facts.
2. since when has “science” acquired a patent on language and the usage of language?
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The Poppy Line
Step back in time on The Poppy Line
The North Norfolk Railway, affectionately known as The Poppy Line, is a heritage steam railway that runs for over 5 miles between Sheringham and Holt via Weybourne. It offers a spectacular scenic ride along the coast and through the countryside, stopping at delightful Victorian stations where another world awaits. Nostalgia at its finest!
I first saw the Poppy Line train from afar while standing high up on the Gazebo in Sheringham Park. As it chugged through the Norfolk countryside puffing steam into the sky, I was determined there and then to take that same journey. I wanted to sit and stare at the sea from a comfy seat, watch Weybourne Windmill whizz by, and gently rock through rolling countryside, head lolling, resisting the urge to close my eyes and slip into sleep. Trains have that effect on me.
On a sunny day in July, I was ready. I’d booked tickets online (2 x Day Rover Tickets at £13.50 each) and the steam train was scheduled to depart Sheringham Station at 9:55am, the first train of the day. I was feeling rather giddy.
Sheringham is 17 miles from Wells, just half an hour or so on the A149 coast road. There’s a large pay and display car park right next to the North Norfolk Railway making life nice and easy. We arrived with plenty of time to explore the station.
Our first glimpse of the train was not the steam engine itself, but the vintage carriages on Platform 2. Although eager to board, we first crossed the metal bridge over to Platform 1 where, to our surprise, we seemed to step back in time.
It looked like the set of a 1940s film. The ornate ironwork of the platform canopy, the retro signs advertising cigarettes, the old fashioned fire buckets hanging on the walls. Old trunks and suitcases were stacked high on luggage trollies next to large metal milk churns.
The information board had wooden signs hanging by hooks – no newfangled technology here – and shiny cast iron clocks added to the charm. Baskets and barrels full of flowers and glossy green benches lined the platform. Even the guards looked dandy in their smart outfits, with hats, waistcoats and whistles at the ready. It was all utterly delightful!
We popped into the waiting room, peeked into the ticket office, skipped the souvenir shop, and found ourselves in the refreshment room.
Picnickers could choose from carefully wrapped sandwiches, scones and slices of cake. Hungry travellers could enjoy hearty meals. Kids could feast on chocolate and ice cream. I plumped for a hot pasty. Delicious!
We made our way back to Platform 2, past the carriages to the end of the train where we admired the steam engine, an enormous beast snorting black smoke, ready for action.
With bellies full and tickets at the ready, we boarded the train.
The first carriage was laid out much like a normal train, with pairs of seats facing each other and a central aisle, but the next carriage was much more exciting – private compartments on one side with a corridor running down the other, just like the movies. We settled in, examining the wooden-trim sliding doors and retro light switches.
The guard’s whistle blew followed by the train’s whistle, then a rush of steam and we were off, slowly pulling out of the station, the carriage creaking and gently swaying as our journey began. We met Tony the ticket inspector who was friendly and helpful (the railway is almost entirely run by volunteers).
We left our compartment and stood in the corridor, holding onto the wooden handrails to steady ourselves, and watched the world go by through open windows.
We passed a golf course, all green slopes and bunkers, candyfloss clouds in the sky. Weybourne came into view with its famous windmill, the sea in the background, golden fields in the foreground, a combine harvester hard at work.
Just ten minutes into the trip we arrived at Weybourne station, another beautifully restored station brimming with charm and cheer. The restored WCs, ticket office, souvenir shop and refreshment room are all in period style. The bookshop has a selection of railway magazines, framed prints, new and second-hand books displayed on the platform.
The cream and tan colour scheme of the station, including the striped canopy, matches the the Waiting Room building on the opposite side of the tracks, along with the now familiar stacks of suitcases. Weybourne station also houses the restoration sheds and carriage maintenance centre which you pass on arrival.
You can disembark here and visit Weybourne village, just over a mile away. You can also walk to Weybourne beach and follow the Norfolk Coast Path back to Sheringham, or you can walk to Sheringham Park (the National Trust website has route details).
After a couple of minutes in the station, and a few new faces on the train, not to mention one or two four-legged-friends, we were off again, under bridges and past pine trees, on our way to Holt.
Holt is is the third and final station, a well-maintained and very pretty station. Busy too, and we stopped here for 20 minutes while the engine swapped ends ready for the return journey, plenty of time to stretch our legs and explore.
Green station doors and windows matched the shiny green benches and retro lamps, with potted plants aplenty. Red fire buckets hung above dozens of blooming pink hydrangeas.
Facilities include WCs, a shop and buffet selling souvenirs and refreshments, a ticket office, a miniature railway and the William Marriott Museum. William Marriott built the railway in 1887 and ran it until 1924, and is often referred to as The Father of the Midland & Great Northern Railway (M&GN). The museum itself is a replica M&GN goods shed. The goods yard is a treasure trove of old vehicles and restored wagons including a distinctive yellow Colman’s Mustard wagon.
For a few weeks in July and August, a vintage bus service runs between the station and Holt town centre, over a mile away. It’s easy to spot the bright red ex-London Transport Routemaster bus parked near the station.
It was time to board the train and return to Sheringham. There is an optional stop between Holt and Weybourne at Kelling Heath Park, available on request and only on the Sheringham-bound train.
The carriage doors closed, the whistles blew, and the train eased out of the station, taking us back to where our journey began, taking us home, back to the 21st century and back to reality.
North Norfolk Railway
Sheringham Station
NR26 8RA
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Influence of soy fortification on microbial diversity during cassava fermentation and subsequent physicochemical characteristics of garri
Ahaotu, N.N., Anyogu, A., Obioha, P., Aririatu, L., Ibekwe, V., Oranusi, S., Sutherland, P. and Ouoba, L. 2017. Influence of soy fortification on microbial diversity during cassava fermentation and subsequent physicochemical characteristics of garri. Food Microbiology. 66, pp. 165-172. doi:10.1016/j.fm.2017.04.019
Ahaotu, N.N., Anyogu, A., Obioha, P., Aririatu, L., Ibekwe, V., Oranusi, S., Sutherland, P. and Ouoba, L.
This study investigated the influence of the addition of soy products on the microbiology, nutritional and physico-chemical characteristics of garri, a fermented cassava product. Malted soy flour (MSF) and soy protein (SP) were separately added (12% w/w) to cassava mash prior to controlled fermentation, while non-supplemented cassava mash served as a control. Identification of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and aerobic mesophilic bacteria was accomplished by repetitive sequence based (rep)-PCR analysis and 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Physicochemical, nutritional and sensory characterisation of control and soy-fortified garri was performed using conventional methods. rep-PCR allowed differentiation of 142 isolates into 41 groups corresponding to 6 species of LAB and 25 species of aerobic mesophiles. LAB isolates belonged to the genera Lactobacillus, Weissella, Leuconostoc and Lactococcus with Leuconostoc mesenteroides being the dominant species in control and MSF-cassava while Weissella cibaria dominated SP-cassava fermentation. Aerobic mesophiles included Gram positive and negative bacteria such species of the genera Bacillus, Clostridium, Staphylococcus, Serratia, Acinetobacter and Raoultella. Diversity of aerobic mesophiles varied between control, MSF- and SP- cassava mash. Protein content of soy-fortified garri increased from 0.73% to 10.17% and 10.05% in MSF and SP garri respectively with a significant decrease in total cyanide from 26 to 11 ppm.
Results from physicochemical and organoleptic evaluation indicate that supplementation of cassava with soy products prior to fermentation can produce acceptable garri. Soy products can be considered a viable option for protein fortification of garri, a low protein food with the aim of combating malnutrition.
garri; cassava; soy products; fortification; lactic acid bacteria; aerobic mesophiles
66, pp. 165-172
Accepted author manuscript
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doi:10.1016/j.fm.2017.04.019
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Environmental heterogeneity of Staphylococcus species from alkaline fermented foods and associated toxins and antimicrobial resistance genetic elements
Ouoba, L.I.I., Vouidibio-Mbozo, A.B., Anyogu, A., Obioha, P.I., Lingani-Sawadogo, H., Sutherland, J.P., Jespersen, L. and Ghoddusi, H.B. 2019. Environmental heterogeneity of Staphylococcus species from alkaline fermented foods and associated toxins and antimicrobial resistance genetic elements. International Journal of Food Microbiology. 311, p. 108356. doi:10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2019.108356
The Effects of Quorum Sensing Inhibitors on Multispecies Biofilms of the Oral Cavity
Garner, C., Anyogu, A., Kyazze, G. and Keshavarz, T. 2018. The Effects of Quorum Sensing Inhibitors on Multispecies Biofilms of the Oral Cavity . FST Doctoral Conference 2018. University of Westminster 19 Apr 2018
Potential use of electronic noses, electronic tongues and biosensors, as multisensor systems for spoilage examination in foods
Ghasemi-Varnamkhasti, M., Apetrei, C., Lozano, J. and Anyogu, A. 2018. Potential use of electronic noses, electronic tongues and biosensors, as multisensor systems for spoilage examination in foods. Trends in Food Science and Technology. 80, pp. 71-92. doi:10.1016/j.tifs.2018.07.018
Investigation of the diversity and safety of the predominant Bacillus pumilus sensu lato and other Bacillus species involved in the alkaline fermentation of cassava leaves for the production of Ntoba Mbodi
Mbozoa, A.B.V., Kobawilaa, S.C., Anyogu, A., Awamariab, B., Louembea, D., Sutherland, J.P. and Ouoba, L.I.I. 2017. Investigation of the diversity and safety of the predominant Bacillus pumilus sensu lato and other Bacillus species involved in the alkaline fermentation of cassava leaves for the production of Ntoba Mbodi. Food Control. 82, pp. 154-162. doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2017.06.018
Hanseniaspora jakobsenii sp. nov., a yeast isolated from Bandji, a traditional palm wine of Borassus akeassii
Ouoba, L.I.I., Nielsen, D.S., Anyogu, A., Kando, C., Diawara, B., Jespersen, L. and Sutherland, J.P. 2015. Hanseniaspora jakobsenii sp. nov., a yeast isolated from Bandji, a traditional palm wine of Borassus akeassii. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 65, pp. 3576-3579. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.000461
Lysinibacillus louembei sp. nov., a spore-forming bacterium isolated from Ntoba Mbodi, alkaline fermented leaves of cassava from the Republic of the Congo
Ouoba, L.I.I., Mbozo, A.B.V., Thorsen, L., Anyogu, A., Nielsen, D.S., Kobawila, S.C. and Sutherland, J.P. 2015. Lysinibacillus louembei sp. nov., a spore-forming bacterium isolated from Ntoba Mbodi, alkaline fermented leaves of cassava from the Republic of the Congo. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 65, pp. 4256-4262. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.000570
Molecular characterisation and antimicrobial activity of bacteria associated with submerged lactic acid cassava fermentation
Anyogu, A., Awamaria, B., Sutherland, J.P. and Ouoba, L.I.I. 2014. Molecular characterisation and antimicrobial activity of bacteria associated with submerged lactic acid cassava fermentation. Food Control. 39, pp. 119-127. doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2013.11.005
Survival of inoculated Salmonella on the shell of hens' eggs and its potential significance
Botey-Saló, P., Anyogu, A., Varnam, A.H. and Sutherland, J.P. 2012. Survival of inoculated Salmonella on the shell of hens' eggs and its potential significance. Food Control. 28 (2), pp. 463-469. doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2012.05.033
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Category Archives: Neil Gaiman
Rumblings of war too distant: American Gods on TV
Every good reader and writer knows that to build a good story one requires a structure, and often, that structure is the bones of another, older tale. Almost every fantasy series does just this, bringing us into a world whose battle for existence is really just another in an ongoing conflict, only the gaps between them are so large that it feels new for those involved. A Song of Ice and Fire, Lord of the Rings, even Harry Potter, many of them hint at what has come before, and often make it sound as though that battle, the one we just about missed, was actually the more exciting and epic and dark one; too bad we got the watered down present instead.
Neil Gaiman’s work of genius, American Gods, comes at this in a slightly different way. Here, the past, one of bloody glory and sacrifice, literally wages war with the present and future. The old gods, fearing irrelevance in the modern world, go to war against the smug new ones, and a crisis of belief envelopes the United States. ‘This is the only country that doesn’t know what it is,’ the mysterious Mr. Wednesday tells Shadow, our protagonist, at one point. The book was first published in 2001. The TV series debuted this year, but it’s eerily timely, considering everything that’s happening, not just in the US, but many other places in the world.
My relationship with American Gods is one of deep respect, bordering on an almost reverential awe. I think this is Gaiman’s greatest work, and nothing he’s done, before or after, comes close. It’s such an ambitious idea, to distill the soul of an entire country, and pour it into these forms from all over the world, but somehow, he managed it. The sheer audacity of it, to take all these immigrant stories and not just elevate them to the level of the divine, but to actually have the divine take form on your page and give it an almost disturbingly human quality, so the gods piss and fuck and act as ridiculously human–if not more so—than the believers they need so badly—this is soemthing that so few writers do with any grace, let alone the mastery that Gaiman displays. Our myth writers, who sell in the thousands, cannot compare. This, this is myth writing or retelling or casting or whatever you want to call it. It’s making the old new in such a way that you can see it happening, and only marvel at the sheer craft with which its done, like a glass house in which you can see all the beams and rafters, and appreciate the architect’s vision for what it truly is.
Anyway, enough blathering about the book. How did the TV series do? I was nervous, coming to it, which is why I put off viewing it for so long. The book was so cerebral, so intense an experience, that I felt no TV show could do it justice. The avalanche of great reviews calling it the show of the year and whatnot only made that apprehension worse. There’s something about extremely glowing reviews that puts me off; maybe it’s the hipster in me, who refuses to like what the mainstream has dubbed incredible. Not unless I dubbed it incredible first, ya know.
Ricky Whittle as Shadow Moon, lost soul in a lost nation.
So how does the show compare? Some of the key elements are the same: Shadow, a taciturn, brooding, muscular man gets out of jail to find that his wife has died in an accident. He is hired by Mr. Wednesday, a tricky old man who has some sort of grand plan up his sleeve, one which Shadow does not entirely understand. There is a crazy leprechaun named Mad Sweeney. The dead wife comes back to life and follows Shadow around. Gods old and new turn up in Shadow’s path and taunt or tease him, with lethal consequences or not depending on whose side they are on. And the whole is interspersed with flashbacks, stories of side characters, from the past or the present or in between, and how they came to America, bringing with them their beliefs and traditions, and their gods. Now, the gods feel abandoned, their followers turning to newer deities like Technology and Media (played by a totally-enjoying-herself Gillian Anderson), and the incense and sacrifice that once formed the staple of their diets, their very existence, is gone.
The casting is pretty damn good. Ian McShane plays Mr. Wednesday, and he does bring the character’s slippery charm and humour to the fore, but doesn’t let viewers forget that within, something else roils and churns, soething much older and more sinister. Ricky Whittle is broody and beautiful as Shadow, and I really liked Emily Browning as Laura Moon, or ‘dead wife’ as she’s more often called. The show has the added advantage of focusing on Laura more than the book did in some ways, following her journey, which parallels Shadow’s own. Just as Shadow journeys from doubt to belief and back, Laura, a much more nihilistic character, does the same, and Browning plays her clutching at meaning in an understated manner, which perhaps makes it all the more impactful. There also seem to be expanded roles for some of the side characters here, such as Bilquis, a fertility goddess, and Mad Sweeney, who really lingered on the edges in the book, only careening chaotically into the middle of the action now and then. I suppose this is done to pad out the whole season, and leave enough meat for a second, if not third and fourth as well.
Emily Browning as Laura Moon
There are downsides to this padding—and that means that the ‘conflict’ doesn’t really start until well into the season, if then. Some of the episodes are stuffed with too much long drawn out conversation, which works well for a comedy, or more ‘realist’ drama like Mad Men, but here runs the risk of being boring. I could have done with less hijinks with Laura for instance, and more of Mr. Nancy, the form of Anansi the Spider. Or perhaps more of the old gods and their stories, and less of Mr. Wednesday and Shadow conversing? Shadow is never the most entertaining conversationalist, so really, these are one man shows that we could have done without.
Would I recommend it? Let me put it this way: you can live without watching it. It’s stylistically done, yes. Some of the acting is great, yes. But does it string together well as a story? So much that is great about the Gaiman novel is that though it appears a little fragmented, though it takes a while for the shape of the ‘quest’ to come together, and even then it is only a small glimpse of what we must understand as a much larger battle that human minds cannot possibly comprehend, the whole works together. This? It’s a bit draggy in parts, and too incomprehensible in others, and overall, lacks the big picture amazement that say, Game of Thrones or Legion have. Hopefully it’ll be tighter next season.
But if you haven’t already, go read the book. Trust me, that is one thing you will not regret.
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Ryuutama character Sheet
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This sheet is designed to provide a simple playing experience for new and veteran Ryuutama players. Its built-in roll functions allow the players to have a hands-off experience from all of the bonuses and penalties that can potentially apply to rolls from sources such as class, type, topography, status conditions, and daily Condition check.
For more information about Ryuutama and links to the official character sheet, please see the Resources at the bottom of this page.
2 Skill Checks
3.1 Info
3.2 Class
3.3.1 Growth Attributes
3.3.2 Stable Attributes
3.3.3 Dynamic Attributes
3.4 Checks
3.4.1 Optional modifiers
3.4.2 Class Skill Checks
3.4.3 Common Skill Checks
3.4.4 Additional Skill Checks
3.5 Inventory
3.5.1 Currency
3.5.2 Item Capacity
3.5.3 Equipped Weapon & Armor Capacity
3.5.4 Water Capacity
3.5.5 Animal Capacity
3.5.6 Weapons
3.5.7 Shields & Armor
3.5.8 Traveler's Outfit
3.5.10 Containers
3.5.11 Animals
4 Supplemental API Scripts
There are three ways to include the this sheet in your game.
You can start a new game and select it as the character sheet at that time from the Create New Game screen.
For existing games you can add a character sheet from the Game Details page. On the Game Details page there is a Settings drop down with an option for Game Settings. On the Game Settings page you can select it from the drop-down options. Click save and you're ready to roll.
For Pro subscribers who want to add their own custom details to the character sheet, there is the option of selecting Custom from the drop-down options on the game settings page. Copy the code here and paste it in the code box underneath the HTML Layout tab. Then, copy the stylesheet found here and paste it in the code box underneath the CSS Styling tab. You are now free to make any custom modifications to the sheet for your campaign.
Once installed the sheet can be accessed on any character added to the Journal. The middle tab on any character will open the sheet.
Skill Checks
There are many buttons on the sheet to assist in rolling skill checks. Most rolls on the sheet consist of two dice representing one or two of the character's base stats (Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, and Spirit), a derived bonus or penalty (from class, type, topography, etc.), and an explicit bonus or penalty. The result will consist of three numbers separated by plus (+) symbols. The first number is the result of the first die. The second number is the result of the second die. The third number is the total sum of all derived and explicit bonuses and penalties. If the result of the roll was a critical success or fumble, the result will display this as well.
Why doesn't the result show the roll total? At the time of this writing, Roll20 does not support critical calculations with multiple dice. The dice must be treated as separate rolls in order to check their individual values in order to calculate whether a critical success or fumble was attained. Discussions about this can be found here and here.
Are there any exceptions? There are three rolls that do not fit into the above formula. Characters with the healer class have access to a skill that can be used in combat that only uses one die. Damage rolls also only use one die, though the ability to treat a damage check as a critical hit, which doubles the number of damage dice, is available. Initiative, while it is rolled with two dice, is not capable of resulting in a critical success or fumble. All three of these rolls are totaled in their entirety before the result is displayed in the chat window.
The sheet contains five tabs, each of which serve a distinct function for the player and/or the character. Each of the below subsections will go into greater detail about each individual tab's function.
This tab is for tracking meta information about a character. Input fields exist to enter a character's species, age, gender, personal item, party role, image color/appearance, hometown/reason for travel, and additional notes. These all directly reflect fields provided in the official Ryuutama character sheet. Most of these fields influence any character attributes so they are purely at the discretion of the player to fill in. It is worth noting that the notes section is a potential location for a player whom has been tasked with being the Journal Keeper to chronicle events that occur during the game.
The character's choice of species may have mechanical effects that come along with the choice of species. For example, attribute selections may be forced or limited. Mechanics that force or limit character growth are not automatically implemented in the character sheet. When making a new character, make sure to check the source book and supplemental guides to ensure that you are setting up your character's growth attributes correctly!
This tab is for keeping track of character classes and types, weapon masteries, and character abilities.
Class - Every Ryuutama character has a class, and each of the standard Ryuutama character classes is selectable from a dropdown list. It is important that a character class be chosen because many skills are exclusive to certain classes and won't appear under the Checks tab unless the corresponding class has been selected under this tab. Some classes also give static bonuses to certain checks that are automatically factored into rolls made using the Ryuutama character sheet. Under certain conditions defined by the Ryuutama rules a character may have a second class. This class may be chosen using the second class dropdown selection. If the GM allows custom classes not defined by the standard Ryuutama rules, 'Other' may be selected and a free text field is provided to enter the name of the custom class.
Type - Every Ryuutama character also has a type, and each of the Ryuutama types is selectable from a dropdown list. The chosen type can affect modifiers to rolls, the ability to use spells, the number of mastered weapons, and character carrying capacity. Under certain conditions defined by the Ryuutama rules a character may have a second type. This type may be chosen using the second type dropdown selection.
Season - If the chosen type is "Magic", then a season has to be chosen along with it which determines which seasonal spells the character is able to cast.
Mastered weapons - A character may have up to five mastered weapons based on what class(es) and type(s) were chosen for the character. Every character is guaranteed to have mastery over at least one of the six weapon classifications, which are represented by radio buttons on the sheet. Characters with the attack type get to select one additional weapon mastery from the six weapon classifications and characters with the attack type twice get to select two additional weapon masteries. Characters with the Noble class have the "Weapon Grace" class skill get to choose an additional weapon mastery from a subset of the weapon classifications. Characters with the Noble class twice get to choose two additional weapon masteries. If a character chooses a weapon mastery from the Weapon Grace skill that they have already selected as their initial mastery or one of the masteries gained from the attack type, a bonus is conferred to accuracy checks with that weapon. This is further discussed in the Inventory section.
Abilities - This section is an open-ended repeating section that a player can use to track abilities that their character has learned. This includes magic of either the seasonal or sorcery variety, music, or other abilities. Fields are provided to enter ability attributes such as effect, range, and duration.
This tab is for tracking character statistics including growth attributes: experience and level, attributes that generally remain stable in the long term: base strength, dexterity, intelligence, and spirit, maximum hit points and magic points, terrain modifiers, and weather modifiers, and attributes that change often: current hit points, magic points, and fumble points, current attribute values, condition, and injury, poison, sickness, exhaustion, muddled, and shock ratings.
Growth Attributes
Experience - Players are encouraged to track their experience points here. Experience points are not automatically tracked.
Level - It is Roll20 policy not to automatically handle character growth. However, players may manually track their character level here.
Stable Attributes
Base strength, dexterity, intelligence, and spirit - Each attribute may have a value of d4, d6, d8, d10, and d12, corresponding to the dice used by the Ryuutama system.
Maximum hit points and magic points - While most attributes on the sheet are automatically calculated, maximum hit points and magic points are not because initial values for these attributes are based on the initial values for the above attributes and are otherwise decided by assigning points each level. Automatically updating these attributes based on level would be both difficult and would be a potential violation of Roll20's policy on automatically leveling up characters.
Terrain and weather modifiers - Certain conditions allow for characters to apply penalties or bonuses to rolls based on the current topography. These bonuses and penalties are influenced by character level and equipment, though there may be other sources of bonuses and penalties. These bonuses and penalties may be tracked here.
Current hit points - Track character hit points here. The value of current hit points may be negative. If the box containing this attribute value is light red, it signifies that the character is unconscious. If it is dark red, then by standard Ryuutama rules the character is dead. There are documented exceptions in the Ryuutama source book describing why a character might not be dead despite having lost enough hit points to die, so remember that the GM has the final say in a character's life or death status.
Current magic points - Track character magic points here. The value of current magic points cannot go below zero. If the box containing this attribute is light red, it signifies that the character is unconscious.
Fumble points - Fumble points are earned during play and are tracked here. They may be used to enhance rolls and a function exists to enhance rolls using fumble points, but the fumble points will not automatically be deducted from the total on the sheet so the player must remember to do this whenever a point is used. Similarly, fumble points are not automatically awarded.
Current strength, dexterity, intelligence, and spirit - The current values for these attributes are usually the same as their base values. They may be affected by condition and/or conditional status effects such as injury or shock. These attributes are automatically recalculated when there is a change to the base stats, condition, or status effects to the character. The attributes may be manually overridden, but you will have to override them again if an attribute changes that would cause these values to be recalculated.
Condition - This value usually changes once per day in-game but may shift due to events during play. In addition to tracking the character's current condition score, the player may choose an attribute to temporarily raise if the current condition score is at or above ten. This bonus is automatically applied. If the box containing this attribute value is light red, it signifies that the character may be unconscious. If this attribute value equals two due to a daily Condition check, the player suffers a conditional status effect that is not automatically applied (see the rulebook for details about this penalty). If this attribute value is reduced to two or less due to an in-game event, the character is knocked unconscious. If the box is dark red, it signifies that the character is dead by standard Ryuutama rules.
Characters with the Navigator class assigned to one or both classes have an exception to this rule. The character is eligible for the attribute bonus if their condition is equal to nine (or eight if the character has the Navigator class twice). There is a condition related to the character's beverage consumption in which the character will be unable to gain the benefits of having a high condition score. This mechanic is not included in the character sheet because the mechanics for going without food or water are not included in the character sheet either. If your character has the Navigator class and is ineligible for the bonus despite having a high condition score, then the player should change the chosen attribute to receive the bonus to the blank (empty) selection.
Injury, poison, sickness, exhaustion, muddled, and shock - Events throughout play may cause characters to gain points in these conditional status effects. If one or more of these values exceeds the current condition (signified by the box turning red), one or more of the character's current attributes is negatively affected. This penalty is automatically applied.
This tab contains a list of most of the possible checks explicitly listed in the Ryuutama source book and automatic dice rolling buttons for each one. Below you will find descriptions of how rolls are influenced by a variety of factors and which of these factors can be controlled by the player. All rolls are based on current attribute values (not base attribute values). For example, if a character with a base Strength attribute of d8 and a base Spirit attribute of d6 has a condition of 12 and has assigned the "condition >10" bonus to their Spirit attribute to increase their Spirit to a d8, the condition roll, which is based on Strength and Spirit, will be rolled with 2d8, reflecting the current attribute values for Strength and Spirit.
Optional modifiers
These modifiers can be turned on and off at the player's choosing.
Current season - Ryuutama plays out in seasons, so the player has the option of tracking the current season here. This may have mechanical effects if certain conditions are met.
Current terrain - If the player selects a terrain from that list, all rolls will be made under the assumption that the selected terrain is the current terrain for purposes of factoring terrain modifiers into checks. Along with the select box there is a checkbox ("Apply terrain bonuses/penalties") that can be used to tell the sheet whether or not to factor the terrain modifiers into rolls. The player may need to select and unselect this checkbox multiple times throughout play since whether terrain modifiers should be applied to any individual check is up to the GM.
Current weather - If the player selects a weather type from that list, all rolls will be made under the assumption that the selected weather is the current weather for purposes of factoring weather modifiers into checks. Along with the select box there is a checkbox ("Apply weather bonuses/penalties") that can be used to tell the sheet whether or not to factor the weather modifiers into rolls. The player may need to select and unselect this checkbox multiple times throughout play since whether weather modifiers should be applied to any individual check is up to the GM.
Overburden penalties - The number next to this heading is automatically filled with a penalty value equal to the difference between the character's current item capacity and maximum item capacity if the maximum item capacity has been exceeded. A checkbox with the label "Apply overburden penalties" is provided to turn this off. Make sure your GM is alright with this penalty being turned off! There are good reasons for why this penalty would be turned off. For example, a character who is carrying too much may drop items onto the ground before engaging in combat. Rather than removing the items from their list, they can just disable overburden penalties. Another example is if the players decide that one character will track all of the players' items, containers, and animals, resulting in that character being grossly over-capacity. It makes sense to disable overburden penalties in this case.
Apply concentration to next roll - A mechanic exists in Ryuutama in which a check can be enhanced by giving up half of a character's current magic points, rounded up, and/or by expending a fumble point. If either or both of the "Use MP" or "Use fumble point" boxes are checked, then the next check will receive a +1 bonus for each box checked which is automatically factored into the check. Characters with the Technical type assigned to one or both Type slots under the Class tab receive an extra +1 applied to checks made with Concentration applied, which is also automatically factored into the check. The maximum bonus that can be achieved is +4 if both boxes are checked and Technical has been chosen for both of the character's types.
The sheet does not automatically halve magic points or decrement fumble points when checks are made.
If you cannot see the "Use fumble point" checkbox, it is because the "Fumble Points" attribute under the class tab has been assigned a value of 0. This number must be positive in order for this checkbox to appear.
Even though accuracy checks are located under the Inventory tab, concentration will be applied to them if one of the boxes to apply the concentration bonus has been checked.
Class Skill Checks
Each class allows a character to make checks unique to that class. If one or two classes are selected under the Class tab, then those checks unique to that or those classes will appear under the Checks tab.
Characters with the Farmer class have a unique ability called "Side Job" that allows them to choose any one ability that involves a check from any other class and use that ability at a -1 penalty. If the character has the Farmer class a section will appear under the Checks tab to allow them to fill in the details of that ability, including which attributes to apply to the check related to that ability. The -1 penalty to the check is automatically factored into the check when the roll button is clicked.
When a character has chosen the same class for both of their class attributes, then a bonus +1 is applied to all class skill checks. This is automatically factored in when buttons to roll class skill checks are pressed. This can be used to effectively negate the -1 penalty applied to the farmer's aforementioned "Side Job" skill check.
Common Skill Checks
These checks are always visible on the character sheet because they are available to any character regardless of their chosen class(es). All of these checks are potentially influenced by overburden penalties and terrain and weather modifiers, but some have additional static bonuses automatically applied to them when the roll button is clicked depending on the character's chosen species, class(es) and type(s).
Minstrel class: +1 to Travel, Direction, and Camp checks
Merchant class: +1 to Negotiation checks
Farmer class: +1 to Condition checks
Navigator class: +2 to Travel checks
Technical type: +1 to Initiative checks
Koneko Goblin species: +1 to Initiative checks and Condition checks, but only if the current season is set to spring.
The above bonuses apply to each instance of the class or type. For example, if a character has chosen the Merchant class twice, the bonus to Negotiation checks is +2. The exception is the Navigator bonus to travel checks, which increases to +3 if the character has chosen the Navigator class twice. All of these bonuses are automatically factored into the check being rolled when the corresponding roll button is pressed.
Initiative and travel checks can be negatively influenced by armor penalties if the character is wearing armor. These penalties are automatically applied to those checks when their respective roll buttons are pressed. More details about armor penalties can be found under information about the Inventory tab.
Initiative checks have the tracker feature built in to them. If your character is selected when you roll an initiative check, your character will be added to the initiative tracker with an initiative equal to the result of the roll. If your character was already in the initiative tracker, the character's initiative score is changed to the result.
Additional Skill Checks
If the GM calls for a character to roll a check that is not in the list of predefined checks, then fear not! This section can be used to add an unlimited number of additional checks to the character's sheet, provided the player enters the name of the check and the attributes to use when rolling the check into their appropriate input boxes.
This tab is used to track a character's inventory, wallet, equipment, and animals. Fields are also found here that are automatically calculated to help the player determine their maximum item and animal capacities before penalties are incurred and the amount of water the character is capable of holding.
The money that the character is currently carrying in their wallet is recorded here.
Item Capacity
Characters are only capable of carrying so much before they begin to become overburdened. The maximum volume of items the character can carry is automatically calculated as the character's item capacity (also referred to as maximum load). Certain character species, type, and class selections may increase a character's maximum load. These increases are automatically reflected on the character sheet. The current volume of items the character is carrying is automatically calculated as the character's current load. If the current load is greater than the maximum load, the character suffers penalties to all checks made until the load is reduced. It is important to watch this because the character's maximum load is influenced by the character's current Strength attribute. If the character's current Strength has been reduced by adverse effects, the character may also become overburdened!
Equipped Weapon & Armor Capacity
According to the Ryuutama rules, equipped weapons and armor count as size 0 for purposes of determining current item load, but they do still count against a character's maximum equipment load, which is equal to the character's personal item capacity (container and animal capacity benefits not included). A character's equipment load is tracked against this capacity. If the input box for current equipment load has turned red due to equipping too much or due to a reduction in the character's Strength attribute, the character must immediately unequip weapons and armor to get back under the maximum! By the rules, the character cannot take any actions until they have reduced the amount they have equipped, but this mechanic is not directly enforced on the character sheet.
The character's maximum water capacity is automatically calculated based on the sum of the capacities of containers that have been marked as being water containers. This is further detailed below in the Containers subsection. The player is free to track the amount of water they are currently carrying relative to the character's maximum water capacity. In Ryuutama, a character suffers penalties for going without water. These penalties are not automatically applied anywhere on the character sheet. The player will need to apply this penalty using the "Special modifiers" box next to each check under the Checks tab.
Animal Capacity
The character's animal capacity is automatically calculated based on the character's class. All characters can bring one animal on their adventure without any negative consequences, but characters with certain classes are able to bring along extra animals. The character sheet does not represent the negative consequences of bringing more animals than the character can take care of for free because the character sheet does not contain representation for feeding or watering animals. The player will need to keep track of this in their personal notes or otherwise on their own.
This is a repeating section that allows a player to record details about weapons equipped by their character. Below are descriptions of the fields used to record these details.
Classification - Every weapon falls under one of six classifications. Characters can use any weapon, even weapons they have not mastered, but by the Ryuutama rules a reduction of health points occurs whenever an accuracy check is made using a weapon that a character has not mastered. This health point reduction is not automatically applied when the accuracy roll button is pressed. If a character has a weapon mastered and then doubly or triply mastered due to the Weapon Grace class skill, a static +1 or +2 modifier respectively is automatically applied to accuracy checks made by clicking the roll button.
Name - The specific name of the weapon. This will appear in the chat window when the accuracy and damage roll buttons are pressed in order for the GM and other players to identify the weapon the character attacked with.
Effect - If there are any details about the weapon that a player wishes to record, such as the weapon giving a +1 bonus against weasels while it is snowing outside, those details should be recorded here. Note that special weapon effects are not automatically applied anywhere on the character sheet. The "Special Modifiers" input boxes under the Checks tab are ideal locations for the player to record special equipment effects so that they will be applied to rolls.
Durability - Current and maximum weapon durability is recorded here.
Size - Size of the weapon. This adds to the character's current equipped weapon & armor load.
Accuracy - If the player selects which attributes are used to make accuracy checks with the weapon, then the roll button may be used to roll an accuracy check and display the result in the chat window. The number input box is used to include any additional static modifiers to the roll. Modifiers from the "Noble Grace" class skill and overburden penalties, if the player has indicated they should be applied to rolls, are automatically applied without player input.
Damage - If the player selects which attribute is used to make damage checks with the weapon, then the roll button may be used to roll a damage check and display the result in the chat window. The number input box is used to include any additional static modifiers to the roll. Modifiers from the Attack type and overburden penalties, if the player has indicated they should be applied to rolls, are automatically applied without player input.
This is a repeating section under which a player may record information about armor and shields the character currently has equipped. The player can record the individual equipment's name and beneficial effects, its current and maximum durability, its defense points, and the penalty applied to Initiative and Travel checks while the armor is equipped. The sum of the penalties from equipped shields and armor is automatically subtracted from the results of these checks.
Traveler's Outfit
This is a repeating section under which a player may record information about clothes the character is currently wearing. The player can record the individual equipment's name and beneficial effects.
This is a repeating section for detailing the items that the character is carrying, not including currently equipped items.
Name - the name that can be used to identify the item.
Effect - any special effects the item has, what the item is used for, or other notes about the item.
Size - the size of the item. This multiplied by the value of "Ct" is added to the character's current load.
Ct - the number of instances of the item the character is carrying.
Containers are items that are in many cases able to increase a character's item capacity by more than the item's actual size, resulting in a net gain in item capacity. Some containers are meant for carrying water instead of increasing item capacity, and some items can perform either function. This is a repeating section, so any number of containers may be added to the character sheet.
Name - a name by which the container can be identified.
Effect - any special abilities the container has, what the container is carrying, or other notes about the container.
Size - The size of the container. This is added to the character's current load.
Capacity - The capacity of the container. This is added to the character's maximum load. Next to this input is a checkbox indicating that the item is carrying water. If this is checked, then the capacity is added to the character's maximum water capacity instead of the character's maximum item capacity.
This is a repeating section used to detail the animals that your character is bringing with them on their journey.
Name - The name used to identify the animal.
Effect - Abilities that the animal has, what the animal is used for, or other general notes about the animal.
Capacity - If the animal is a pack animal, enter a number into this field and it will be added to the character's maximum carrying capacity.
Supplemental API Scripts
This section is about a feature exclusive to Pro subscribers, or to players in a Game created by a subscriber. If you'd like to use this feature, consider upgrading your account.
These API scripts are meant to supplement the Ryuutama character sheet. See their individual wiki pages for details about their functions.
Ryuutama Token Status Markers
Ryuutama Skill Check Totaler
Original Official Japanese Website
Character Sheets and other Resources
Character Creation Tutorial Video
Purchase the Source Book PDF
Purchase the Physical Source Book + PDF
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Dogar and Kazon
Revision as of 11:26, 3 February 2007 by 165.21.154.15 (talk) (→Kazon)
Dogar and Kazon are the twin gods of death and destruction worshipped by the Ilwrath race. They represent everything that is "evil" (that is, that opposes harmony and order) in the universe. They represent a new development in Ilwrath theology, existing in direct opposition to the pantheon of gods representing virtue and social order that existed in ancient Ilwrath civilizations, whom the Ilwrath now believe Dogar and Kazon to have destroyed. As the Pkunk insinuate, the Dogar and Kazon religion may exist as a cultural reaction against the enforced order and empathy mandated by the old, strict Ilwrath religion, against which the Ilwrath have swung to the other pole.
Specifics about the two gods' nature is nebulous, and they have many appellations:
Dogar
"The Killer in a Black Cloak"
"The Great Destroyer"
"The Bloody-Clawed Murderer"
"The Dark Beast With a Thousand Young"
Kazon
"The Great Deceiver"
"The Malevolent Evil in the Darkness"
"The Unstoppable Monster Who Has No Pity"
"The Hungry Lurker in the Night".
It is not clear whether Dogar and Kazon actually exist; they are certainly not in the class of supernatural beings the Pkunk define as gods, since the Pkunk have never detected them in any capacity in their psychic explorations of the Fourth Astral Plane, where, according to them, divine beings are most likely to be found. Though the Ilwrath once communicated with the two entities through an elite class of priests, they later rebelled against these priests, whom they felt had grown corrupt and insufficiently dedicated to the cause of evil, on the orders of new entities claiming to be Dogar and Kazon and communicating over audio on a well-known Hyperwave channel. It is now known that these communications were falsified, first by the Umgah and later by the Human Captain of the New Alliance of Free Stars, using a specially built Umgah Hyperwave Broadcaster (or possibly the Burvixese Hyperwave Broadcaster).
Dogar and Kazon are portrayed physically as huge, voracious beings with mandibles that consume the victims of Ilwrath ritual sacrifice. Dogar The Black is known for having forty-four eyes that see into the forty-four planes of existence. Common reference is also made to Dogar's distinct, all-seeing green eye which peers into our plane, often identified with the sun of the Ilwrath home planet (known to Humans as Alpha Tauri). Kazon The Unseen, on the other hand, appears to be some sort of gigantic representation of an amorphous organism, described as having forty-four sub-tongues, each with forty-four huge, writhing cilia that allow it to draw in and swallow its prey.
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Top Seven Best Plugins for Creating Tables in WordPress (2020)
Tags – data tables, tables
By Kevin Muldoon
Tables are a fantastic way of presenting information in a way that’s logical and visually appealing. Readers can use them to digest quantitative information and statistics more easily, as they can scan the table for the information that’s relevant to them.
If the classic editor is active on your website, HTML tables can be added to your content by entering the HTML code for your table in the text editor, or by copying and pasting a table into the visual editor.
The introduction of the Gutenberg Table Block means the core version of WordPress now supports table functionality. This is a user-friendly way of integrating tables into your content. However, there are better solutions available for creating tables in WordPress.
In this article, I’ll show you what we at WinningWP consider to be the best WordPress table plugins on the market today.
*The sample CSV files I used to test these WordPress plugins can be downloaded from this page.
1. wpDataTables(FREE/$59-plus)
A popular WordPress plugin, wpDataTables can be used to create responsive tables and charts.
A lite version of the plugin is available on WordPress.org, which helps you to see what’s available in the full version should you be considering upgrading. However, it does live up to its ‘lite’ name by restricting most table creation options and chart functionality.
When you create a table, you’re presented with five options: You can create a table that’s linked to an existing data source; create a table manually; import a table; generate a query to the WordPress database; or generate a query to a MySQL database.
In the free version, you can only create a table by importing a table file in excel, CSV, JSON, XML or serialized PHP array format.
While many features are restricted in the lite version of wpDataTables, I’m impressed by how great the tables look, and by how many configuration and sorting options are available. Each column can be modified to suit your needs.
The paid version, wpDataTables Premium, unlocks many great features, including advanced email and SMS notifications, front-end editable tables, conditional formatting, filtering, and support for foreign key table relations. Data can also be presented in over 40 types of charts.
The full version of wpDataTables is still being sold on CodeCanyon for $299, but the developers now offer their product on their own official website for a more affordable $59 a year. This rises to $109 a year if you need support for three domains and $249 a year for support for an unlimited number of domains.
All licenses offer the same features and come with a 15-day money back guarantee — and there are also a few add-ons available for additional functionality/integrations.
I encourage you to test the free version of wpDataTables to get a full appreciation of how great the tables look and how easily they can be customised.
If you’re looking for more table creation options, and support for charts and advanced features such as conditional logic, you should consider the full version of wpDataTables. It’s now available from only $59, which is fantastic value for money.
2. League Table ($23)
League Table is a responsive table solution that features sortable columns, support for WordPress Multisite and support for multiple languages.
A spreadsheet editor simplifies the process of copying data from spreadsheets into tables or, if you prefer, you can import tables via XML format. Tables can also be backed up in this format.
The number of options available in League Table is impressive. It boasts 105 options per table, 17 options per cell and 13 general options.
You can change table width, colours, fonts and more. Each cell can be customised too. You can adjust fonts and background colours, apply mathematical formulas, add custom HTML code and more.
There are many sorting options too and, if you wish, you can allow users to sort data in tables themselves.
League Table is available on CodeCanyon for only $23. It’s an affordable table solution that’s incredibly versatile, and is a good choice for anyone looking to create tables for sports leagues, financial data tables, pricing tables and more.
3. TablePress (FREE)
With over 800,000 active installations, TablePress is by far the most popular WordPress table solution on the market — and, after using the table plugin for a few minutes, you’ll understand why.
Despite being free to download, TablePress offers dozens of configuration options, custom CSS for styling tables, and the ability to import and export tables in a number of formats. I was able to import a CSV table in seconds, and then rearrange data using drag and drop.
Adjusting data in your table is simple. Once you’ve selected rows and columns, they can be hidden, shown, duplicated, inserted and deleted. Cells can also be combined, and there are buttons for inserting links and images, as well as an advanced editor that gives you more control over your content.
The table options section is located under your table. From here, you can modify table colours, define the table name and enter custom CSS classes. Sorting and pagination options are located here too.
Nineteen plugin extensions are available for TablePress, which extend functionality further. Six extensions are related to front end table behaviour, nine extensions add additional features to the DataTables JavaScript library, three extensions give additional options in the admin area, and the last one allows you to change the table shortcode to avoid conflicts with other WordPress plugins.
Seven of the extensions are marked as premium. Interestingly, rather than charge a set fee, the developer of the plugin, Tobias Bäthge, allows everyone to download premium extensions — all he asks in return is a small donation of around $10.
Some extensions worth checking out are responsive tables (premium), PHP code in table cells, DataTables Buttons (premium) and DataTables Column Filter.
Be sure to check out the extensions page for the full list.
TablePress is a fantastic WordPress table plugin that’s easy to recommend: It’s free to download, simple to use, and supports table imports.
Compared with other WordPress table plugins on the market, TablePress doesn’t offer enough styling options to let you change the look and feel of tables — you have to use CSS. It also lacks some of the advanced features that some premium alternatives offer.
4. Ninja Tables (FREE/$49-plus)
Ninja Tables is a great-looking table solution that features many styling options, and supports the import and export of tables in CSV and JSON format.
In the main plugin options area you can select Symmetric UI, Bootstrap 4 or Bootstrap 3 as the default styling library. From here, you can also select from 13 table colour schemes and define whether table elements, such as borders, titles and descriptions, are displayed.
Ninja Tables excels in styling customisation. The main table design page shows you how your table will look on desktop, tablet and mobile. Most table features can be enabled and disabled at the click of a button, and the changes are shown immediately in the table preview.
You can assign one of the 13 pre-defined colour schemes to the table. Alternatively, you can create your own custom colour scheme using colour pickers. There are lots of pagination and sorting options for your table too, as well as boxes for adding custom CSS and Javascript.
Ninja Tables Pro retails at $49 for a single license, $99 for up to 20 websites and $299 for an unlimited website and lifetime license.
Upgrading unlocks front-end table editing, drag-and-drop table editing, unlimited colour schemes, WooCommerce integration, conditional column filtering, cell combination, advanced sorting options and the ability to connect to Google Sheets.
Ninja Tables is a highly configurable table solution that gives you full control over the look of your tables.
I didn’t find the free version to be restrictive in any way, but you can access many more advanced features by upgrading to Ninja Tables Pro. At only $49, it won’t break the bank.
I recommend trying out Ninja Tables to see for yourself what it can do.
5. Data Tables Generator by Supsystic (FREE/$39)
Data Tables Generator by Supsystic is a versatile table solution that offers dozens of options, letting you make changes to your table and table design, and also see how modifications look on desktop, tablet and mobile.
Multiple responsive modes are available for tables, and you have full control over your table colour scheme and how your tables are structured. CSS styling is available too.
You can enter table data in the editor page, and a visual editor allows you to format text and insert links and images. Additional options, such as diagrams, conditional logic, and collapsible rows, are available in the editor if you upgrade to Data Tables Generator Pro.
I’m impressed by what’s included in the free version of Data Tables Generator, but a number of features are only available in Data Tables Generator Pro. For example, while you can save and clone tables in the free version, you can only import and export tables if you upgrade.
A pro license costs $39 for one website, $69 for five websites and $149 for an unlimited number of websites.
Upgrading also unlocks the diagrams, table history, and source tabs at the top of the main editor. The WooCommerce tab at the end refers to a separate plugin called WooCommerce Product Table that can be integrated with Data Tables Generator.
Nine types of diagrams and charts are available: Area chart, line chart, pie chart, bar chart, column chart, bubble chart, 3D bar chart, 3D donut and pie chart, and 3D pyramid. The table history feature lets you see how front-end editable tables have been modified.
The source feature can be useful too, and can be used to build a table from fields in your WordPress database or an external database.
The main interface of Data Tables Generator by Supsystic looks a little dated. However, the plugin has many useful styling features and its built-in editor simplifies the process of formatting data the way you want.
Upgrading to the pro version makes premium functionality available — including charts and conditional logic. Perhaps more importantly, it also adds the ability to import and export tables.
6. Tablenator ($20)
Tablenator is a user-friendly WordPress table plugin that has support for WP Bakery Page Builder.
In the main plugin settings area, you can define general table settings, format settings, translation settings and the responsive breakpoints for mobile devices. There’s an icon fonts manager too.
Tables can be imported in CSV or TXT format, but can only be exported in TXT format.
All of the table solutions mentioned in this article allow you to customise your table and table data. However, in my opinion, Tablenator has the best table editor.
Its visual editor allows you to easily add new rows and columns, as well as format text, add images and define background colours. Multiple cells can be selected at the same time. For example, you can change the background colour of all table cells by simply selecting all cells before clicking on the background colour button.
It also supports cell formatting for text, numbers, currency, percent, date and time. This helps you to display data the way you want — whether that’s defining the number of decimal points or selecting what date format to use.
Tablenator is available from CodeCanyon for $20.
It’s a great choice if you’re looking to create professional-looking tables with ease. Those of you who are looking for advanced features, such as charts, conditional logic and table creation from databases, should look at an alternative solution.
7. TableGen (FREE)
TableGen is a simple WordPress table plugin that’s free to download.
It supports importing tables via JSON, Zip, CSV, HTML and XLS formats. Tables can also be exported in CSV format.
In the table settings area, you can enable and disable a dozen or so features, including the table width, pagination and column sorting.
The table editor is easy to use, but, if you’re used to more advanced WordPress table plugins, you may find it limiting. There are no styling options, and there’s no way to format cells or insert links or images.
While the plugin is free to download, you may want to consider purchasing the themes plugin extension, which is available from $10. It offers eight table theme designs and gives you additional options for customising your table design — functionality that’s missing from the core plugin.
If you just need a basic table solution, TableGen is worth checking out. The plugin is easy to use and the ability to export tables in CSV format means migrating to another table solution at a later date will be straightforward.
The Gutenberg Table Block isn’t going to win a prize for being the best table solution on the market, but its inclusion in the core version of WordPress makes it a good choice for basic tables.
Rows and columns can be easily added to your table. When you click on a cell, the top editor allows you to format text as bold, italic or as a strikethrough. Links, code and images can also be added.
A few basic colour settings are available too, though customisation is limited.
If you’re trying to modernise your existing tables, you should check out Magic Liquidizer Responsive Table and WP Responsive Table. These free WordPress plugins can make standard HTML tables responsive, so they look good on tablets and other mobile devices.
Another interesting free WordPress plugin to check out is Inline Google Spreadsheet Viewer. This plugin can be used to embed Google spreadsheets, CSV files, MySQL databases, HTML tables charts and more directly into your website.
All you have to do is link to the source using the provided shortcode, and any changes made in the source will be automatically reflected on your website. It’s not the best solution from a customisation point of view, but it’s worth checking out if you’d like to embed tables and spreadsheets that are regularly updated elsewhere by multiple parties.
As you can see, there’s a great selection of table solutions available to WordPress users. Each one has its strengths and weaknesses, so it’s important to test a few solutions to see which one suits your needs best.
Used/using any of the above? Thoughts?
Kevin Muldoon is a professional blogger with a love of travel. He writes regularly about internet marketing on his personal blog and actively talks about technology on YouTube.
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MUHAMAD KHAIROL ANUAR says:
Thanks for the article. All the plugins mentioned focused on admin and table’s UI.
Is there any WP plugins available to site visitor/front-end users to upload excel/CSV file and automatically insert the data into pre-defined WP Database/Table.
Istiak Rayhan says:
Hi Rain,
I am Istiak Rayan, one of the co-founders of WP Table Builder plugin.
Great to know that you are using our plugin and found it awesome.
Please feel free to reach us if you have any suggestions for the plugin.
I am currently using WP Table Builder but unfortunately it doesn’t display on all mobile devices (iPad/Android). Do these works on all platforms? I’ve tried several plugins (requiring more time to rebuild this same page) but none of them are a keeper. I beginning to think there’s no good table plugins.
Imtiaz Rayhan says:
I am Imtiaz Rayhan, I am the lead developer of WP Table Builder. I am really sorry that you faced that issue. Did you post on our support thread on WordPress.org?
If you did, it would be really awesome if you could share a link there so that we can check it out live and hopefully come up with a fix.
Bài Đổi Thưởng says:
in your list miss Ninja table, it is an usefull and very nice design plugin wordpress.
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Home News Redmi K20 Pro Becomes World’s Fastest Phone, Surpassing the OnePlus 7 Pro
Redmi K20 Pro Becomes World’s Fastest Phone, Surpassing the OnePlus 7 Pro
Xiaomi’s Redmi K20 has dethroned OnePlus 7 Pro to be the world’s fastest smartphone. It scored 88,803 points in the AnTuTu benchmark, beating the OnePlus 7 Pro, which had scored 373,953. Managing Director of Xiaomi India, Manu Kumar Jain announced the feather in K20’s cap by tweeting a picture of the phone with a huge caption.
It’s time for K-BOOM!👊
Which is the World’s Fastest Smartphone? #RedmiK20Pro of course! @Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, triple cameras, and so much more. This is what a flagship should be. Can’t wait to launch it in India soon! 😍
Mi fans, have you been keeping count?#Xiaomi pic.twitter.com/fgmA28Gfkn
— Manu Kumar Jain (@manukumarjain) June 17, 2019
Redmi K20 Pro was unveiled in China last month, where Xiaomi revealed that the device will see the light of the day in the month of July. While there aren’t any reviews to prove Redmi K20’s prowess as the fastest smartphone but the specifications had tempted us to know more about it.
The Redmi K20 Pro sports a 6.3 inches Super AMOLED display with a full HD+ panel, protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 5. The display is baseless, thanks to the front camera with the now-ubiquitous pop-up camera mechanism. It runs on Android 9 Pie with MIUI 10 atop. The Redmi K20 Pro is powered by Snapdragon 855 with eight Kryo 485 cores and Adreno 640 GPU. It is available in four variants – 6GB RAM + 64GB storage, 6GB RAM + 128GB storage, 8GB RAM + 128GB storage, and 8GB RAM + 256GB storage.
On the camera side of things, it features a triple rear camera module which consists of a 48MP main sensor which has a Laser and Phase-detection autofocus, a 13MP ultrawide unit (12mm focal length) and an 8MP telephoto camera with 2x optical zoom. The 48MP primary sensor can record videos at 4K 60 frames per second.
To sustain this much power, the Redmi K20 Pro has a 4000mAh battery that supports 27W Quick Charge 4+ fast charging. And there’s the usual dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, 3.5mm audio jack and a USB Type-C port.
According to the Chinese price, the Redmi K20 Pro costs CNY 2,499 (₹25,000) for the basic 6GB + 64GB variant while the maxed out version costs CNY 2,999 (₹INR 30,000). There won’t be much price-difference when it launches here. So, upon the launch we’ll give all the details you need to know about this upcoming smartphone. Stay tuned.
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Students’ skills at their worst level
Australian students’ reading, maths and science skills are at their worst level since international tests began.
Aussie kids are three and a half years behind Chinese students in some areas according to the results.
But Sue Thompson from the Australian Council for Educational Research says it’s not all bad news.
“One of the things that has happened is that a lot of countries have started to improve and we certainly haven’t,” Ms Thompson told 6PR Breakfast.
Steve and Baz asked the 6PR Breakfast listeners what’s not being taught now, that used to be taught in schools.
Click PLAY to hear the full discussion.
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Writer: Tony Bedard
Penciller: Karl Moline
Inker: Jose Marzan Jr.
Colours: HI-FI
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Release Date: August 20th 2014
After last month’s conclusion to the Red Daughter of Krypton story line, comes an all-new 6 part adventure for our resident Argonian. Suffering from the deadly effects of Kryptonite in the Earth’s atmosphere, a by-product of the Government’s attempt to stop a temporarily evil Superman, Kara finds herself befriending a wheelchair bound boy, helping to clear a mess which began towns over, totally unprepared for the drama that is about to take hold.
In such a stark contrast to the previous arc, and understandably so, as Kara is no longer fuelled by the anger subjected upon her by the Red Lanterns, this arc begins in a much calmer way. Tony Bedard writes this issue perfectly, highlighting the fact that it is a separate story line from the previous issues, but effortlessly and effectively using flashbacks to show the demons Kara is now carrying with her, which are sure to influence Supergirl for many issues to come.
These influences are seen straight off the bat. Supergirl is portrayed, not just in the way she acts, but in the way she is expertly drawn by Karl Moline, to be more vulnerable, as if she has been affected by everything that has happened to her and around her. She somewhat resembles a small child, in the way that she is shown to be cautiously choosing her actions, and constantly seeking encouragement and reassurance from those around her. It’s such a different Kara from what I’m used to, especially considering the way in which she first appeared on the scene; in an unforgiving blaze of glory.
The artwork, both by Karl Moline and Jose Marzan Jr, is of an astounding quality. While not giving anything away, the excerpt shown is just a snippet to highlight the attention to detail used throughout this issue. The use of colours further adds to the quality of the artwork presented. It’s so refreshing to see Kara in something other than Red, as in the previous arc, and the Red Lantern issues Kara has graced with her presence.
Overall, this has proven to be an exceptional issue. Supergirl is experiencing more joys of humanity, which is refreshing to see, as the Red Daughter of Krypton story arc seemed to have temporarily stripped her of part of what made her Kara; her compassion. The artwork is instrumental in helping us to see the effect the previous events have had on the young Argonian, while the writing and the story line itself has reinforced why we fell in love with Kara in the first place.
This issue shows that there doesn’t need to be a lot of action for Supergirl to truly shine, which is why this issue has become one of my favourites, and if it’s anything to go by, the rest of this arc is going to be truly exceptional.
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Family files $25 million suit in US Park Police fatal shooting
Posted 6:41 pm, August 3, 2018, by CNN Wire
The family of a man who was fatally shot by U.S. Park Police in November 2017 after a vehicle chase in Fairfax, Virginia, filed a wrongful death lawsuit Friday, seeking $25 million in damages.
The suit against the U.S. government and the still-unnamed Park Police officers who killed Bijan Ghaisar, 25, calls the shooting an “egregious, senseless, and unlawful killing of a young man by two out-of-control law enforcement officers.”
CNN called Park Police for comment on the suit and did not get a response.
Park Police fired nine shots into a Jeep Grand Cherokee that Ghaisar was driving in Fairfax County, Virginia, the night of November 17, 2017. The shooting occurred after Ghaisar, an accountant from McLean, Virginia, stopped his vehicle and as officers approached the car.
Ghaisar was unarmed and was shot multiple times in the head and once in the wrist, according to the suit. He died of his wounds 10 days later.
The suit accuses federal officials of failing to release to Ghaisar’s family or the public any details about the circumstances of the shooting. “Everything about this case, from the chase, to the shooting, to the subsequent treatment of the family has been cruel,” the suit states.
The names of the Park Police officers have not been released. Federal authorities, including the FBI, are investigating the case.
Video account of chase, shooting
In January 2018, police in Fairfax County released dashcam footage of the shooting in a bid for “transparency.” The video, which had not previously been made public, was captured by a Fairfax County police vehicle as a Fairfax officer provided backup to federal police pursuing Ghaisar.
“As a matter of transparency, to all in our community, especially the Ghaisar family, and as the administrative custodian of the video, I am releasing the in-car video of the US Park Police shooting,” Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin Roessler said at the time. No Fairfax County officers discharged their weapons during the incident, Roessler said.
The incident began after another vehicle rear-ended Ghaisar’s Jeep as he drove southbound on the George Washington Memorial Parkway outside Washington, around 7:30 p.m.
According to the collision report obtained by CNN, people in the second vehicle told police that Ghaisar “stopped in the roadway abruptly” before driving away from the scene. The second car suffered front-end damage, the report says, and the driver of that car received a traffic citation.
In Virginia, it’s illegal to leave the scene of a traffic incident where there’s been injury, death, or damage to property.
The suit filed by Ghaisar’s family states there was “negligible” damage and no known injuries in the “minor” accident, so Ghaisar drove away from the scene without exchanging information with the other driver. The driver of the other vehicle called 911, and a short time later a Park Police vehicle began following Ghaisar on the parkway, which is administered by the National Park Service, the suit states.
The Fairfax County police video, about four and a half minutes long, begins shortly before Ghaisar’s Jeep passes the Fairfax County police vehicle, closely followed by Park Police.
During the chase, Ghaisar’s vehicle stops three times, and each time, Park Police approach his vehicle with their weapons drawn. The first two times he stops, Ghaisar then drives away and police give chase again.
At no point in the video do the officers appear to be in danger of being hit by Ghaisar’s vehicle.
Ghaisar’s Jeep stops a third time, and again, the Park Police move towards the driver-side window, aiming their guns. The car inches forward and five gunshots are heard. Four more gunshots can be heard before Ghaisar’s vehicle rolls into a ditch.
The lawsuit states Ghaisar drove away the first two times most likely “out of fear of the overly aggressive officers and their brandished weapons.”
Topics: fairfax, fatal shooting, vehicle chase
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patience and a heavy foot christophe could almost push the kid to the 100 kilometer an hour mark to stop at the braking system features hydraulic prongs race on all 4 wheels if the base model cadet has to go rigid axles on the leaf springs making for a company ride on country roads however get this special variant as an independent front suspension it's tuned quite softly those 20 rounds kurz fast a car really tilts. the demise christof says them like almost 30 s. era vehicles the opel cadet...
classic car expert christophe bauer explained it said that as he got out he says that in the mid 1930 s. opel was riding a wave of success in 1935 when he became the 1st german manufacturer to build over 100000 cars a year that made opel the largest maker of passenger cars in europe however this impressive growth was only possible thanks to f.t. cash injections from american parent company general motors which took the majority stake an opel in 1929 during the great depression back when the german economy starting to pick up the middle class developed its interest in cars so it's. hearing this time opel began using progressive american production methods like assembly lines and modular construction systems in 1035 opel started producing germany's 1st mass production car with a motto cock body the olympia. a slightly more compact version of the olympia's body was used to create the cadet it's simple technology was largely taken from oakland's entry level model the p 4. s. got it big cypress just says a cadet is a military training who often hopes to become an officer but is still far f
classic car expert christophe bauer explained it said that as he got out he says that in the mid 1930 s. opel was riding a wave of success in 1935 when he became the 1st german manufacturer to build over 100000 cars a year that made opel the largest maker of passenger cars in europe however this impressive growth was only possible thanks to f.t. cash injections from american parent company general motors which took the majority stake an opel in 1929 during the great depression back when the...
NBC Bay Area News at 11AM : KNTV : October 14, 2019 11:00am-11:30am PDT
>>> right now at 11:00, christopher columbus defaced. the search on for whoever defaced this statue ahead of the national holiday and the message the vandals left in plain sight. good morning. thank you for joining us, i'm scott mcgrew. >> and i'm laura garcia. some have the day off but some say the famous italian explorer is underserving a national holiday. >> and that is evident in san francisco where the statue was vandalized and has paint all over him still on his shoulders. sharon katsuda is live where locals and tourists are still in shock over what they found. >> reporter: it is beautiful out here just like all weekend but there is a dark close over what is going on with the statue. you could see the red paint at the base of the statue and then when you look up you could still see the red paint, the remnants of it on the christopher columbus statue. we got video of the native americans celebrating indigenous people day by alcatraz and some came up to show disdain for the christopher columbus statue. workers spent the day taking the paint off and at the base including all of t
>>> right now at 11:00, christopher columbus defaced. the search on for whoever defaced this statue ahead of the national holiday and the message the vandals left in plain sight. good morning. thank you for joining us, i'm scott mcgrew. >> and i'm laura garcia. some have the day off but some say the famous italian explorer is underserving a national holiday. >> and that is evident in san francisco where the statue was vandalized and has paint all over him still...
Bloomberg Markets: European Open : BLOOMBERG : October 8, 2019 2:30am-4:00am EDT
see europe continuing to rise. but how far can it go, christophe? a truce or a narrow deal, it's not the same as putting an end to the trade war, is it? we can expect rebounding. the first one is to gain the ground lost in the last week. we could expect a rebound by 5% to 6%. the second part is for the u.d. s. and europe to implement economic policy for 2020. we need a strong stimulus in order to accelerate economic growth, both in the u.s. and in europe. depending on what is discussed in the months to come, it could create further expansion in the markets, and we could expect a bullish market next year. but don't be confused nothing is sure. everything depends on a critical process. europe, by the u.s., but japan, china. this is for me the cornerstone for the 2020 economy, as a continuing of trends in equity markets. so nothing ishe, certain. looking at a great chart, about a potential for global expansion to hit a 10-year low. in terms of global growth, where you see yourself investing -- we withyou like stocks pricing power. where to find stocks with pricing power at this stage? c
see europe continuing to rise. but how far can it go, christophe? a truce or a narrow deal, it's not the same as putting an end to the trade war, is it? we can expect rebounding. the first one is to gain the ground lost in the last week. we could expect a rebound by 5% to 6%. the second part is for the u.d. s. and europe to implement economic policy for 2020. we need a strong stimulus in order to accelerate economic growth, both in the u.s. and in europe. depending on what is discussed in the...
The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell : MSNBCW : October 30, 2019 10:00pm-11:00pm PDT
ukraine. two current state department officials, christopher anderson, and catherine croft, testified in under oath depositions to the impeachment inquiry today. christopher anderson served as the ukraine expert advising former special envoy to ukraine kirk volker. christopher anderson was followed in that job by catherine croft. christopher anderson, according to his opening statement, told house investigators that rudy giuliani prevented the trump administration from strengthening cooperation with ukraine. christopher anderson described a meeting he had with john bolton on the topic of having senior white house officials engage more with ukraine. john bolton identified an obstacle to better engagement with ukraine. he cautioned that mr. giuliani was a key voice with the president on ukraine which could be an obstacle to increased white house engagement. according to catherine croft's opening statement she first learned of the trump white house's plan to hold up ukrainian -- military assistance to ukraine during a july 18th office of budget and management meeting and she listened in
ukraine. two current state department officials, christopher anderson, and catherine croft, testified in under oath depositions to the impeachment inquiry today. christopher anderson served as the ukraine expert advising former special envoy to ukraine kirk volker. christopher anderson was followed in that job by catherine croft. christopher anderson, according to his opening statement, told house investigators that rudy giuliani prevented the trump administration from strengthening...
MSNBC Live With Ali Velshi : MSNBCW : October 8, 2019 12:00pm-1:01pm PDT
about. had you said the title the way christopher wylie intended you to say it, you and i would have a lot of spare time to check up on. >> i don't have a filter. you're rolling the dice with me every day. >> you have a good and well tuned filter. >> sometimes it is delayed as yours might have been. >> i think it is very, very good. nice to see you, friend. >> see you later. >> get off this topic quickly as possible. it is tuesday, october 8th. we consider this interference to be obstruction of the impeachment inquiry. that's what the chairman of the three house committees leading the impeachment inquiry declared today, announcing their intention to subpoena the united states ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland. that decision came after sondland was directed at the very last minute, flew in from brussels, to sit for a joint deposition. he agreed to do it. it was called off. apparent tweets, the president's directive came straight from the white house. there are more questions about the relationship and possible orchestration between trump and sondland. this becomes very i
about. had you said the title the way christopher wylie intended you to say it, you and i would have a lot of spare time to check up on. >> i don't have a filter. you're rolling the dice with me every day. >> you have a good and well tuned filter. >> sometimes it is delayed as yours might have been. >> i think it is very, very good. nice to see you, friend. >> see you later. >> get off this topic quickly as possible. it is tuesday, october 8th. we consider...
Hannity : FOXNEWSW : October 23, 2019 10:00pm-11:00pm PDT
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. also, the author of hillary clinton's dirty russian dossier, christopher steele himself. this is big news tonight. now the walls seem to finally be caving in and we are going to get to the truth. one of these four men, what do they have in common?d they all possess a rage and psychotic hatred for all things donald trump and two, they should all be very, very nervous tonight because u.s. attorney john durham, bill barr, they're pushing to add to the truth. one other good sign that durham and his investigation is gaining serious traction. you have his current colleague at msnbc, that would be area 51. ross dwelley rachel maddow. they're trying to spend the upcoming findings. they know it's going to be bad with a brand-new conspiracy theory. they were peddling conspiracy theories, lies, propaganda, misinformation, day after day, week after week, month after month. went on for years. in other trying to prepare themselves for one the real truth is coming out. let's take a look.g >> it seems like they're going o to use the power of the u.s. justice department to help them make that case th
. also, the author of hillary clinton's dirty russian dossier, christopher steele himself. this is big news tonight. now the walls seem to finally be caving in and we are going to get to the truth. one of these four men, what do they have in common?d they all possess a rage and psychotic hatred for all things donald trump and two, they should all be very, very nervous tonight because u.s. attorney john durham, bill barr, they're pushing to add to the truth. one other good sign that durham and...
Business : DW : October 15, 2019 11:15pm-11:31pm CEST
over a spanish court's ruling that since 9 cattle on independence leaders to prison. christophe was up next to the stick around for that. cut. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language but the 1st word published in the cool. is in germany to learn german why not go with him simple online on your mobile and free shop d w z e learning course nikos for german from a to z. coop. will go to the girl next. to mine of students. with exclusive. see concerning. her a. place to be curious minds. do it yourself networkers. subscribers don't miss out on. a precarious situation with no room for policy mistakes the international monetary fund is sounding the alarm as global economic growth weakens to its lowest level since the financial crisis also coming up companies are reassessing their business in turkey with pressure mounting over the fences in northern syria and bankers back in the headlines the german lender apparently bent the rules as it hired its way to the top in charge. i'm chris colfer welcome to the program. the world economy is facing its weakest growth since the 20
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, san francisco police are trying to find the suspects who vandalized the christopher columbus statue near coit tower. someone splashed red paint on it with graffiti kill all colonizers written on the base. >>> five people are hurt after a driver suspected to be under the influence slammed head on into another car in san francisco. this happened at 8:00 last night at the intersection of divisadero and grove streets. >>> the violence cons to escalate in northern syria as turkey's military operation targeting kurdish allies goes deeper. president trump ordered the withdrawal of all 1,000 u.s. troops out of syria. >>> pg&e has apologized for forr hardships caused by the power outa outages, but says there could be more in the future. >> number five, sunny and mild with temperatures in the 50s and0s today. >>> number six, we have a sigalert in affect on westbound 8, all lanes are blocked near richards with a big rig accident. you're stacked up towards the yolo causeway for a solid 30-minute delay. back to check of this. >>> and number seven, the bigger the better. half moon bay's annual pu
, san francisco police are trying to find the suspects who vandalized the christopher columbus statue near coit tower. someone splashed red paint on it with graffiti kill all colonizers written on the base. >>> five people are hurt after a driver suspected to be under the influence slammed head on into another car in san francisco. this happened at 8:00 last night at the intersection of divisadero and grove streets. >>> the violence cons to escalate in northern syria as...
ABC7 News 11:00PM : KGO : October 19, 2019 11:00pm-12:00am PDT
afraid. >> reporter: it's these crowds and the company keeping christopher jiminez's spirits tie. >> he breaks out into the laugh you just heard. it melts my heart. >> reporter: his mother shelley says christopher and twin sister kayla were born at 26 weeks. at 24, they both have varying disabilities. christopher is terminally ill. he suffers brain damage, cerebral palsy, lung disease, and his vision is worsening. reasons she started on this display and theme in september. >> i'm hoping when that last little part of his eye, vision, is gone, that he can remember the colors and the lights. something that he's always enjoyed. he's always enjoyed bright lights. >> reporter: she says christopher's condition keeps the family inside most days, but this halloween display is bringing out their neighbors. >> it shows the love and heart she has for her son. to do something like this, it's pretty awesome. >> reporter: the display will remain up through halloween. the family will be handing out goodies to the kids every day until then. if you find yourself on vernon avenue in the willow glen neighb
afraid. >> reporter: it's these crowds and the company keeping christopher jiminez's spirits tie. >> he breaks out into the laugh you just heard. it melts my heart. >> reporter: his mother shelley says christopher and twin sister kayla were born at 26 weeks. at 24, they both have varying disabilities. christopher is terminally ill. he suffers brain damage, cerebral palsy, lung disease, and his vision is worsening. reasons she started on this display and theme...
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pence there at the moment negotiating with president richard typo to want to bring in christopher hunter a senior fellow at the atlantic council new joins us live from tampa florida. nice to have you on the program and i want to get a sense from you and others of you i suppose of president trump's position right now he's looking at these hearings he's hearing criticism of him at these hearings from inside and who would work for him and also a criticism from his own side of politics over his handling of the situation with turkey and syria president trump is in a very precarious position right now because of all the different things are going on i think it's worthwhile to highlight some words of john bolton's and use those words to illustrate the threat that he faces to his presidency john bolton serve ery very briefly as national security advisor to president trump and then resigned or was fired depending on your choice of word but john bolton recently was disclosed to have said that he doesn't want to be any part of a quote unquote drug deal that mick mulvaney and gordon someone w
pence there at the moment negotiating with president richard typo to want to bring in christopher hunter a senior fellow at the atlantic council new joins us live from tampa florida. nice to have you on the program and i want to get a sense from you and others of you i suppose of president trump's position right now he's looking at these hearings he's hearing criticism of him at these hearings from inside and who would work for him and also a criticism from his own side of politics over his...
Hyrum Lewis, "There Is a God" : CSPAN2 : October 13, 2019 9:14am-9:46am EDT
[inaudiblatheist? >> guest: . richard dawkins is most notable. sam harris, christopher hitchens has passed on and daniel, a philosopher at tufts university, they call them the four horseman of the atheist apocalypse but their aggressive and angry. the old '80s and of the 20th century was much more live and let live. the idea i can't believe but if you want to believe that your business and is probably good for you and probably good for society. the new atheist will have none of this. they will say i don't believe that i'm going to make sure no one else believes either and i want a crusade to try to destroy effluence faith. part of it is playing off that of the new atheists that i'm not talking at the last days, the latter-day saints. i'm trying to broaden the scope of apologetics. you have a catholic tradition the prospective st. thomas aquinas in which to make philosophical argument for the existence of god. i'm sure if a with these arguments, the argument for design, a whole range things st. then you have a protestant tradition which focuses on the text to remember martin luther t
[inaudiblatheist? >> guest: . richard dawkins is most notable. sam harris, christopher hitchens has passed on and daniel, a philosopher at tufts university, they call them the four horseman of the atheist apocalypse but their aggressive and angry. the old '80s and of the 20th century was much more live and let live. the idea i can't believe but if you want to believe that your business and is probably good for you and probably good for society. the new atheist will have none of...
The Day : DW : October 25, 2019 10:30pm-11:01pm CEST
tonight here at the big table christopher lauer christopher was elected to the berlin parliament back in 2011 is a member of the pirate party a party which at the time was considered a political force of disruption known for its support of more democracy made possible by technology it's good to see you here my health things have changed you write in an article earlier this week in a german newspaper that online voting should be stopped the headline reads which social democrat will vladimir putin vote for do you think the russians would could would try to manipulate a german party's vote is of cause because the s.p.d. made clear in the process of showing off the candidates for the election that not all of them are very happy with the because addition and germany's so maybe if you and friends the i'm not involved in a direction that the. candidates which are like the most incompetent to the square . would still optimum politics bit and you think that's. likely you think that could there's a good chance that something like that can happen when we you have a you have a volt over a co
tonight here at the big table christopher lauer christopher was elected to the berlin parliament back in 2011 is a member of the pirate party a party which at the time was considered a political force of disruption known for its support of more democracy made possible by technology it's good to see you here my health things have changed you write in an article earlier this week in a german newspaper that online voting should be stopped the headline reads which social democrat will vladimir...
Lou Dobbs Tonight : FBC : October 10, 2019 4:00am-5:00am EDT
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caller's" christopher bedford after the break. [ applause ] thank you. it's an honor to tell you that liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. i love you! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ president trump: biden is dropping like a rock. i don't think he's going to make it. he's been caught red-handed. here is a man on tape saying exactly what he's going to do in terms of corruption and he gets away with it. if that ever happened to a republican they would be getting the electric chair right now. lou: his comments cam a few hours after biden joined the radical dimms calling for the impeachment of president trump. joining us, the "daily caller" editor-in-chief, christopher bedford. what is he doing call for impeachment. >> a few days ago he was calling for investigation. just like nancy pelosi who couldn't control her caucus and got impeachment out of the bag. he's look at liz warren and kamala harris, including one gaining on him, elizabeth warren, going to the mat and saying impeachment. he's saying holy smok
caller's" christopher bedford after the break. [ applause ] thank you. it's an honor to tell you that liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. i love you! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ president trump: biden is dropping like a rock. i don't think he's going to make it. he's been caught red-handed. here is a man on tape saying exactly what he's going to do in terms of corruption and he gets away with it....
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KRON 4 News at 4am : KRON : October 14, 2019 4:00am-4:30am PDT
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san francisco police are searching for the person who and allies the statue of christopher columbus said coit tower kron four's to well below has more. >>folks living off of telegraph road to say this christopher columbus statue has been vandalized before but they've never seen it this bad. they say protesters may have point but with so many visitors here this week. this doesn't paint the. from head to toe in red the christopher columbus statue outside coit tower drew some unwanted attention sunday. do like buy and i was just like well, and across the rest her. hundreds made their way to the top of the hill to see the blue angels grace, the skies. a rival couldn't believe the view as really great from up here. unfortunately. >>face the statute just terrible thing to do your job to position admiral and that's and that's a strange worker in this beautiful city that would never have been possible. civilization in our in our country and our armed forces were surrounded by the beauty. and grand juror of the civilization and yet people to justice. well paid. >>the vandalism is believed ha
san francisco police are searching for the person who and allies the statue of christopher columbus said coit tower kron four's to well below has more. >>folks living off of telegraph road to say this christopher columbus statue has been vandalized before but they've never seen it this bad. they say protesters may have point but with so many visitors here this week. this doesn't paint the. from head to toe in red the christopher columbus statue outside coit tower drew some unwanted...
The Rachel Maddow Show : MSNBCW : October 30, 2019 9:00pm-10:00pm PDT
one. this testimony today is from christopher anderson, long time foreign service officer who was brought in to be the top adviser to kurt volker when volker became trump's special on have a to ukraine. for the first time in the testimony today we learned that someone senior at the white house intervened to prevent the issuing of a statement that would condemn russia for what they did just last year, less than a year ago when they rammed into and shot at those ukrainian ships and took all those sailors hostage. that's our ally, right? we supposedly do not recognize russia taking part of ukrainian and calling it russia. we certainly do not recognize russia considering those international waters to be their own. but then they pull this off with one of our allies including taking all the sailors hostage and nothing? the white house intervenes to stop a statement of condemnation? why did that happen? who -- which senior official at the white house did that? we didn't know about that before today. but it's amazing all the stuff that's turning up in this impeachment inquiry. christopher
one. this testimony today is from christopher anderson, long time foreign service officer who was brought in to be the top adviser to kurt volker when volker became trump's special on have a to ukraine. for the first time in the testimony today we learned that someone senior at the white house intervened to prevent the issuing of a statement that would condemn russia for what they did just last year, less than a year ago when they rammed into and shot at those ukrainian ships and took all...
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KTVU Mornings on 2 at 6am : KTVU : October 18, 2019 6:00am-7:00am PDT
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about it is evil if you know why she felt it. >> this is my way of bringing happiness to christopher and his life. and to share it with others in the community. >> shelley gave birth to twins in 1995, born premature at 26 weeks. her son, christopher has been sick his entire life with brain damage, cerebral palsy and now lung disease. at the age of 24, it's trevor mauk. >> you could be fine one minute and then half an hour later we are in the er and he's in respiratory failure. you just never know. >> christopher requires 24-7 care. this family is rarely able to leave their home, not able to travel. >> this is like an annual our animal vacation. where i go all out and you get to celebrate the whole month. >> reporter: christopher is able to touch the props. she made the display in bright colors because christopher is losing his sight. >> we don't know really how much he sees but he seems to really enjoy it. just hearing the sounds and hearing other people laughing about it. >> neighbors say stopped by say they say they love having display brings a neighborhood together. admiring the f
about it is evil if you know why she felt it. >> this is my way of bringing happiness to christopher and his life. and to share it with others in the community. >> shelley gave birth to twins in 1995, born premature at 26 weeks. her son, christopher has been sick his entire life with brain damage, cerebral palsy and now lung disease. at the age of 24, it's trevor mauk. >> you could be fine one minute and then half an hour later we are in the er and he's in respiratory...
NBC Bay Area News at 11 : KNTV : October 13, 2019 11:00pm-12:00am PDT
teams were scraping red paint after the city's statue of christopher columbus just a few blocks away. the graffiti painted at the base of the statue especially disturbing. >> reporter: tonight most of the red participate has been removed after crews spent most of the day power washing and scraping. some rvisitors here were puzzle by the red paint on the bronze statue. >> this is my first time here and i was looking at the statue and trying to put it together. >> reporter: one of the first things they removed was the message scrawled on the base. a neighbor shared these series of pictures that was written. destroy all monuments of genocide and kill off all colonizers. people here to see the air show were startled by the vandalism. >> i saw christopher columbus covered in red participate. i think it's horrible. >> tell me why. >> people should -- yes they have freedom of speech but they shouldn't deface property. >> it's going to be hard to get it off there, but obviously they don't teach you in school but christopher columbus did a bunch of stuff that wasn't the greatest. >> reporter:
teams were scraping red paint after the city's statue of christopher columbus just a few blocks away. the graffiti painted at the base of the statue especially disturbing. >> reporter: tonight most of the red participate has been removed after crews spent most of the day power washing and scraping. some rvisitors here were puzzle by the red paint on the bronze statue. >> this is my first time here and i was looking at the statue and trying to put it together. >> reporter: one...
Jimmy Kimmel Live! : KGO : October 14, 2019 11:35pm-12:37am PDT
christopher columbus. i'm not sure why. first of all, he was working for spain. he wasn't yvoneven working for italy. second, never even got to north america. he was never here. did you know that? the closest he got was the bahamas. he died thinking he went to india and found a trade route to china. he did neither one of those things. this was a guy with three boats and a bad sense of direction. [ laughter ] columbus is basically the 1492 version of the people who write first in the youtube comments section. [ laughter ] but for some reason italians think it's an insult to you are our ancestry to say no to columbus. columbus missed india by 9,000 miles and still decided to call everyone he met indians anyway. [ laughter ] you know, leonardo da vinci invented the helicopter in 1493. he drew a helicopter. why don't we celebrate him? there are 100 -- maybe 500 more deserving italians we could be celebrating. da vinci, marconi, michelangelo. bon jovi. we could have bon jovi day. [ cheers and applause ] we could be celebrating -- dress up on cowboys and on a steel horse we ride. instead we hono
christopher columbus. i'm not sure why. first of all, he was working for spain. he wasn't yvoneven working for italy. second, never even got to north america. he was never here. did you know that? the closest he got was the bahamas. he died thinking he went to india and found a trade route to china. he did neither one of those things. this was a guy with three boats and a bad sense of direction. [ laughter ] columbus is basically the 1492 version of the people who write first in the youtube...
MSNBC Live : MSNBCW : October 5, 2019 3:00am-4:00am PDT
china is just about as bad as what happened with, with ukraine. >> joining me now is christopher dicky, world news editor with the daily beast and msnbc contributor, christopher, good morning. good afternoon. the president's calls to foreign leaders here, the "washington post" says some have left a genuinely horrified, but the ukraine's top prosecutor taking another look at the biden-related case. what does that say to you? >> well, look, i mean i think we've got several things going on with president trump. basically he is trying to re-write history. he wants to get these other foreign leaders, especially ukraine and president zelensky, to cooperate with him, to show that the mueller report was all some kind of fabricated plot against donald j. trump and that the counter-intelligence operations, to prove or to establish what the russians were doing in the u.s. election, all a nefarious effort to discredit him. at the same time this president who is without question the most corrupt president in my lifetime is trying to prove that joe biden is corrupt because he thinks that joe b
china is just about as bad as what happened with, with ukraine. >> joining me now is christopher dicky, world news editor with the daily beast and msnbc contributor, christopher, good morning. good afternoon. the president's calls to foreign leaders here, the "washington post" says some have left a genuinely horrified, but the ukraine's top prosecutor taking another look at the biden-related case. what does that say to you? >> well, look, i mean i think we've got...
NBC Bay Area News : KNTV : October 13, 2019 9:00pm-10:00pm PDT
when we continue. >>> right now, workers spent the day cleaning up the statue of christopher columbus after someone splashed red paint all over it. >>> news at 5:00 starts right now, news at 9:20 i should say starts right now. thanks for joining us. i'm terry mcsweeney. >> thousands of people enjoyed italian heritage day celebrations in little italy. public works teams were busy scraping red paint off the city's statue at christopher columbus a few blocks away. the inscription painted base of the statue was especially disturbing. >> nbc bay area's sergio quintana live at pioneer park near quake tower with the see tails. sergio? >> reporter: terry, tonight the san francisco park rangers are actually out here still keeping an eye on that statue. you can see just right around the collar there of christopher columbus there's still red paint. it was a surprise for people who came out who are to watch the blue ainngels to see it coveredn red paint. crews spent most of the day powpow power washing and scraping. they remove the message scrawled on the base. one person we talked to shared a se
when we continue. >>> right now, workers spent the day cleaning up the statue of christopher columbus after someone splashed red paint all over it. >>> news at 5:00 starts right now, news at 9:20 i should say starts right now. thanks for joining us. i'm terry mcsweeney. >> thousands of people enjoyed italian heritage day celebrations in little italy. public works teams were busy scraping red paint off the city's statue at christopher columbus a few blocks...
it is evil if you know why she built it. >> this is my way of bringing happiness to christopher and his life and to share it with others in the community. >> reporter: shelley gave birth to twins in 1995 born premature at 26 weeks. her son christopher has been sick his entire life with brain damage, cerebral palsy and now lung disease. at the age of 24, he is terminal. >> he can be fine one minute and then half an hour later we are in the er and he is in respiratory failure. you just never know. >> reporter: christopher requires a 24/7 care. the family is rarely able to leave their homes, not able to travel. >> this is like and, our annual vacation where i go all out and we get to celebrate the whole month. >> reporter: christopher is able to touch the props. shelley made the display bright colors. christopher is losing his site. >> we don't really know how much he can see but he seems to really enjoy it, just hearing the sounds and hearing other people laughing about it. >> it's been fun, right? >> reporter: neighbors who stopped by say they love how the display brings the neighbor
it is evil if you know why she built it. >> this is my way of bringing happiness to christopher and his life and to share it with others in the community. >> reporter: shelley gave birth to twins in 1995 born premature at 26 weeks. her son christopher has been sick his entire life with brain damage, cerebral palsy and now lung disease. at the age of 24, he is terminal. >> he can be fine one minute and then half an hour later we are in the er and he is in respiratory...
PBS NewsHour Weekend : KQED : October 26, 2019 5:30pm-6:01pm PDT
music, there are other ways for successful artists to make a living. newshour weekend's christopher booker has the story.♪ ♪ >> reporter: even if you havese nofoot in a record storeye inars, you have invariably heard the music of spoon in commercials... ♪ ...on television... ♪ ...in movies... ♪ ...or maybe evenr uring presidential candidate pete buttigieg's debate w. ♪ few bands have navigated the profound digital disruption of the music industry quite as well as spoon. their story is a testament to the new realities of what itsu means to be ccessfes band. foundein 1993 by singer and songiter britt daniel and drummer jim eno, spoon's story almost stopped as itas stararng; the band was famously droppeby elektra records in 19. t rather than calling it quits, they kept going, recording on their own withoua label. >> once a week, i would call my manager and lawyer and say,"a body want to put out that record?" and they're like, "no. why... why don't you thi about anging the band name or, you know, starting a new band?" and so, it really probably made more sense for us to star
music, there are other ways for successful artists to make a living. newshour weekend's christopher booker has the story.♪ ♪ >> reporter: even if you havese nofoot in a record storeye inars, you have invariably heard the music of spoon in commercials... ♪ ...on television... ♪ ...in movies... ♪ ...or maybe evenr uring presidential candidate pete buttigieg's debate w. ♪ few bands have navigated the profound digital disruption of the music industry quite as well as spoon. their...
Hyrum Lewis, "There Is a God" : CSPAN2 : October 1, 2019 8:50pm-9:22pm EDT
christopher hitchens just passed on and [inaudible] they call them the four horsemen of the easiest apocalypse. they are aggressive and angry. it's much more let's live in i can't believe but if you want to believe that your business and it's probably good for you but the new atheists will have none of this. they will say i don't believe in i will make sure no one else please either and i will crusade to try to distort everyone's faith. and so, part of it is plain the new atheists but i'm not talking about the last days or the latter-day saints. i'm trying to broaden the scope of apologetics so you have catholic tradition going back to st. thomas aquinas in which they make the topical arguments for the existence of god and i'm sure you're familiar with the ontological argument and a whole range of things then you have the protestant tradition which focuses on the text with martin luther taught this idea of solar script torah, the bible is the ultimate authority. they want to go back and look at the text itself and find evidences for belief within the text with eyewitnesses to jesus'
christopher hitchens just passed on and [inaudible] they call them the four horsemen of the easiest apocalypse. they are aggressive and angry. it's much more let's live in i can't believe but if you want to believe that your business and it's probably good for you but the new atheists will have none of this. they will say i don't believe in i will make sure no one else please either and i will crusade to try to distort everyone's faith. and so, part of it is plain the new atheists but i'm not...
italian heritage and christopher klaman assuage to the americas. a growing number of cities and states will observe indigenous peoples day as an alternative to the federally recognized holiday. at issue is columbus notorious treatment of the people that he found living in the places that he discovered. >>> a group over commemorate the 50th anniversary is a native american occupation of alcatraz island with a canoe journey around the island. the news representatives try from all of the west coast to participate. the alcatraz canoe journey starts out it 6 a.m. from aquatic park in tampa cisco. >>> police in san francisco searching for whoever covers the christopher columbus statue withpaint. it happened yesterday. the same day as the italian heritage parade in north beach into the day before the columbus day holiday. the person also wrote kill all colonizers at the base of the statue. investigators are checking video from security cameras in the area. >>> now that pg&e has restored power to two main people the utility is facing criticism over how to handle the massive public safety power
italian heritage and christopher klaman assuage to the americas. a growing number of cities and states will observe indigenous peoples day as an alternative to the federally recognized holiday. at issue is columbus notorious treatment of the people that he found living in the places that he discovered. >>> a group over commemorate the 50th anniversary is a native american occupation of alcatraz island with a canoe journey around the island. the news representatives try from all of the...
Drive it! : DW : October 28, 2019 12:30am-1:01am CET
burglary. for long distance races says christophe handling and the quality and balance of the engine are crucial and that big tail fin as smooth extremely precise power steering this is special is comfortable you know for quite sporty spotted. him in the interior is built for safety too says krista for example with a padded steering wheel and this battle play pool and having dashboard recess knobs and switches are some of the made of clicks about plastic christopher particularly admires the movie and locked up which keeps the doors from popping open on their own in an accident or car tester says mercedes an engineer. and vented the principle of passive safety with his car and visually the car was oriented toward the extremely popular american design with a big panorama windshield and. in front though an understated one in comparison with u.s. cars that think with mercedes the tailfin was not designed for design sake oh no says krista mercedes call this feature the pios de gette or my line of orientation and said can help you parallel park well kuchel aided technology. with the big ta
burglary. for long distance races says christophe handling and the quality and balance of the engine are crucial and that big tail fin as smooth extremely precise power steering this is special is comfortable you know for quite sporty spotted. him in the interior is built for safety too says krista for example with a padded steering wheel and this battle play pool and having dashboard recess knobs and switches are some of the made of clicks about plastic christopher particularly admires the...
The Eleven O'Clock News on KTVU FOX 2 : KTVU : October 17, 2019 11:00pm-11:30pm PDT
labor of love for her dying son. her 24-year-old son christopher has been sick his entire life. with brain damage cerebral palsy and now lung disease. >>> my way of bringing happiness to christopher in his life. and to share it with others in the community. >>> the people who have stopped by the home say the display has brought the entire neighborhood together. they also say they are moved by the family strength in dealing with this very difficult situation. >>> a mother's love. >>> the chief says it easy victory of the broncos in the mile high city. at a huge cost. an update on the knee injury the quarterback patrick mahomes. >>> ♪ hey. hey. you must be steven's phone. now you can take control of your home wifi and get a notification the instant someone new joins your network... only with xfinity xfi. download the xfi app today. >>> as a baseball fan i wish there was a tighter series going on. both the a lcs and the nlcs. the nationals put to rest their situation. it looks like the yankees are ready to go down. at the hands of the talented houston astros. last night rained out. to
labor of love for her dying son. her 24-year-old son christopher has been sick his entire life. with brain damage cerebral palsy and now lung disease. >>> my way of bringing happiness to christopher in his life. and to share it with others in the community. >>> the people who have stopped by the home say the display has brought the entire neighborhood together. they also say they are moved by the family strength in dealing with this very difficult situation. >>> a...
KRON 4 News at 5:30 : KRON : October 3, 2019 5:30pm-6:00pm PDT
spotted scott christopher in a stolen car. >>near the intersection of north but an avenue in guerneville road wednesday afternoon trying to pull him over but he fled and headed toward say nearby mall at one point christopher got out of the car. ran. towards the front of the mall pushing a bystander police were able to catch him and he was booked into sonoma county jail. >>all right time check some other yet we've got clear skies out there right now that's the way it is going to stay all night long we are going to see. well looks like some fantastic weatherhead high pressure taken over we've got the offshore winds that will be settling in the end it's going make for b%autiful friday. weekend is going to be special around the bay area y be the nicest weekend. next years will see high pressure overhead some really warm temperatures all around the bay area tomorrow kind of a transitional they'll see 60's some 70's in the san francisco core numbers, but sunny up toward the coastline just a gentle breeze 65 in burlingame 65 brisbane 60 degrees in foster city 76 in mount view see a
spotted scott christopher in a stolen car. >>near the intersection of north but an avenue in guerneville road wednesday afternoon trying to pull him over but he fled and headed toward say nearby mall at one point christopher got out of the car. ran. towards the front of the mall pushing a bystander police were able to catch him and he was booked into sonoma county jail. >>all right time check some other yet we've got clear skies out there right now that's the way it is...
history says christophe the big tail fin that was the 1st and then in the world made in large numbers with a 4 stroke fuel injection engine it for savings had already been using this highly innovative and extremely efficient technology since the end of the 1950 s. but only in a very expensive small edition exotic model. c. as a thankful. 1954 the legendary super sports car the mercedes benz 300 s.l. became the 1st series produced car with a 4 stroke and a fuel injected engine that meant more power and cleaner exhaust from less fuel. statesman began profiting from the new technology in 1957 the last model of a 300 d. the adenauer had such an fuel injection but these luxury vehicles like the fuel injection point on to 20 and see built for just 2 years were available only in small numbers. once in a 1000000 so mean injection system went under the hood of the top model of the w 111 series in 1959 says chris try to show him what this new development could do mercedes sent a seemingly staid premium sedan onto the toughest racetracks and rally routes in the world. in 1960 reese car driver wagner
history says christophe the big tail fin that was the 1st and then in the world made in large numbers with a 4 stroke fuel injection engine it for savings had already been using this highly innovative and extremely efficient technology since the end of the 1950 s. but only in a very expensive small edition exotic model. c. as a thankful. 1954 the legendary super sports car the mercedes benz 300 s.l. became the 1st series produced car with a 4 stroke and a fuel injected engine that meant more...
KRON 4 News at 10 : KRON : October 13, 2019 10:00pm-11:00pm PDT
the suspect to vandalize the statue of krista koch, christopher columbus at san francisco's coit tower. >>you can see red paint was thrown on to the statue kron four's nobel was there as crewcleaned up that mess. >>folks living off of telegraph road to say this christopher columbus statue has been vandalized before but they've never seen it this bad and they say protesters may have a point but with so many visitors here this week. this doesn't paint thcity and the best of life. >>3rd from head to toe in red paint the christopher columbus statue outside coit tower drew some unwanted attention sunday mind i was just like well, and across the hundreds made their way to the top of the hill to see the blue angels grace, the skies. upon arrival couldn't believe the view as really great from up here. unfortunately. >>face statute just terrible thing to do your job to position admiral that's and that's a strange worker in this beautiful city that would never been possible. civilization in our in our country and armed forces were surrounded by the beauty an and grand juror of the civiliza
the suspect to vandalize the statue of krista koch, christopher columbus at san francisco's coit tower. >>you can see red paint was thrown on to the statue kron four's nobel was there as crewcleaned up that mess. >>folks living off of telegraph road to say this christopher columbus statue has been vandalized before but they've never seen it this bad and they say protesters may have a point but with so many visitors here this week. this doesn't paint thcity and the best of life....
Early Start With Christine Romans and Dave Briggs : CNNW : October 30, 2019 2:00am-3:00am PDT
government had in ukraine policy. >> former special adviser christopher anderson will say form former john bolton cautioned about giuliani influence on u.s./ukraine policy. >> the current special adviser catherine croft will talk about pressure from giuliani's outside government to oust ukraine ambassador marie. croft will say the order came at the direction of the president. >>> house democrats began seth up their formal public impeachment process starting with a committee debate this afternoon. they'll discuss the scope and rules for the next steps in the impeachment inquiry. they'll have to go on the record in an attempt to oust the president. more now from lauren fox on capitol hill. >> well, dave and christine, democrats unveiled their new resolution. basically what it does is sets up the rules for the next steps of the impeachment inquiry. it announces it will have a report they'll send over to the judiciary committee. basically what it does is gives the republicans opportunity to request testimony and documents from individuals. of course, they have to do that with consultation
government had in ukraine policy. >> former special adviser christopher anderson will say form former john bolton cautioned about giuliani influence on u.s./ukraine policy. >> the current special adviser catherine croft will talk about pressure from giuliani's outside government to oust ukraine ambassador marie. croft will say the order came at the direction of the president. >>> house democrats began seth up their formal public impeachment process starting with a...
ABC7 News 11:00PM : KGO : October 13, 2019 11:00pm-11:59pm PDT
christopher columbus statue was vandalized. >>> after wrapping up a beautiful weekend, lots of sunshine. we are tracking a cooler week ahead. we'll have the numbers coming up in the accuweather forecast. >>> governor newsom reviews the toll system. i'm kate lawson in san francisco. what the russian hill neighbors want to do next. abc7 news starts right now. >> now news to build a better bay area from newsom. >> good evening, i'm eric thomas. dion is off tonight. the christ fur columbus statue was vandalized over thease. abc7 news reporter luz pena with why the explorer is seen as a polarizing figure. >> reporte this vie telegraph h. >> we came here for the tower, the view. >> reporter: but many got more than just a view christopher columbus statue standing feet away from the tower was vandalized. red paint covered the face of the controversial colonist. genocide and kill all colonizers. what are your thoughts on being vandalized? >> i think it's a very symbolic action that makes sense given how controversial of a figure columbus is. native americans, he, you know, represents a lot of violen
christopher columbus statue was vandalized. >>> after wrapping up a beautiful weekend, lots of sunshine. we are tracking a cooler week ahead. we'll have the numbers coming up in the accuweather forecast. >>> governor newsom reviews the toll system. i'm kate lawson in san francisco. what the russian hill neighbors want to do next. abc7 news starts right now. >> now news to build a better bay area from newsom. >> good evening, i'm eric thomas. dion is...
Today in the Bay : KNTV : October 14, 2019 6:00am-7:00am PDT
christopher columbus covered in red paint. i think it's horrible. >> on this day, one bay area statue of the famed explorer was defaced. the disturbing message scrolled at its base. you're watching today in the bay. >>> right now at 6:30, a crash leaves five people injured, one of them in custody. we'll tell you what police say the suspect did after the initial crash that lead to more violence. >>> i think it is very concerning. >> a stanford student drugged. we'll have reaction from the community. she says someone put something in a drink at a party this weekend. >>> and a growing fight. how people who live near the san francisco park are responding to the call for more money. today in the bay continues right now. >>> a very good morning to you. thanks so-so much for joining us. >> marcu waston has the day off. kari hall is here taking a look at your forecast. >> and it's a chilly start this morning. we're still about 45 minutes away from sunrise. a look at our camera this morning. ads you get ready to head out, you may run back in for a jacket. 44 degrees through 9:00. rising quickly going
christopher columbus covered in red paint. i think it's horrible. >> on this day, one bay area statue of the famed explorer was defaced. the disturbing message scrolled at its base. you're watching today in the bay. >>> right now at 6:30, a crash leaves five people injured, one of them in custody. we'll tell you what police say the suspect did after the initial crash that lead to more violence. >>> i think it is very concerning. >> a stanford student...
Tucker Carlson Tonight : FOXNEWSW : October 4, 2019 5:00pm-6:01pm PDT
christopher steele who wrote the dossier was a foreign intelligence operative he gathered his material abroad in foreign countries. some of it clearly from foreign government officials. at the time that was absolutely fine with democrats. they weren't embarrassed to say. so clinton campaign staffer brian fallon tweeted this we could give you a million examples. here is his tweet. i deny i didn't know about christopher steele's hiring preelection if i had i would have agreed to go to europe and try to help him. okay. and by the way if foreign interference is such a concern and by the tway should be a concern, then why aren't we more worried about foreign companies sending de facto bribes to the family members of connected politicians? there are a lot of those. we are picking on joe biden's son because he is in the news. it could be a lot of people's sons. trust me. s in the case of biden's son, nobody thinks is he expert on ukrainian energy policy. he got the gig because of his dad who was influence peddling, obviously. in this case that's okay though for some reason to believe. be tota
christopher steele who wrote the dossier was a foreign intelligence operative he gathered his material abroad in foreign countries. some of it clearly from foreign government officials. at the time that was absolutely fine with democrats. they weren't embarrassed to say. so clinton campaign staffer brian fallon tweeted this we could give you a million examples. here is his tweet. i deny i didn't know about christopher steele's hiring preelection if i had i would have agreed to go to europe and...
Tucker Carlson Tonight : FOXNEWSW : October 4, 2019 9:00pm-10:00pm PDT
it. >> the allegations in this christopher steele dossier, you went through the timeline very well a few moments ago, are stunning. >> there are substantial portions of what was in the steele dossier that has checked out. >> based on our reporting and numerous sources, the dossier is in fact far from bogus. >> we're going have to stop calling it the infamous dossier. it's the accurate dossier. it's the damning dossier. it's the dossier that's going to hang around the neck of the trump administration and drag them down. >> oh, the dossier. it was totally fine. in case you've forgotten, you may have, because why would you remember, but christopher steele who wrote the dossier was a foreign intelligence operative. he gathered his material abroad in foreign countries, some of it clearly from foreign government officials. at the time, that was absolutely fine with democrats. they weren't embarrassed to say so. we'll give you millions. here's the tweet. i regret i didn't know about christopher steele's hiring in preelection. if i had, i would have volunteered to go to europe and try to hel
it. >> the allegations in this christopher steele dossier, you went through the timeline very well a few moments ago, are stunning. >> there are substantial portions of what was in the steele dossier that has checked out. >> based on our reporting and numerous sources, the dossier is in fact far from bogus. >> we're going have to stop calling it the infamous dossier. it's the accurate dossier. it's the damning dossier. it's the dossier that's going to hang...
Lou Dobbs Tonight : FBC : October 9, 2019 7:00pm-8:00pm EDT
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Fox and Friends First : FOXNEWSW : October 28, 2019 1:00am-2:00am PDT
christopher costa, appreciate your time this morning. i will begin with you, what does this day mean to you? >> well, it's a day of remembrance when citizens pay homage to first responders, when we look at the current climate we have officers who function in ecosystem, the key to this is we want to bridge the public trust and relationship between the police and the community, this is something that's nonexistent and looking to move to happy medium as well. heather: what does that mean to families? >> it's very important because the civil servants work a lot of shift work in which they don't have the time to see families and everything else, it's very hard in the families of first responders, it's important for the family of first responders to neglect that they're appreciative as well, as well as what their parents are doing. heather: we mentioned the first responders running out to danger, running towards to danger every day, the families don't know if their loved ones will come back, christopher. >> yeah, just like in the military statistics with ptsd, first responders suffer ptsd also. p
christopher costa, appreciate your time this morning. i will begin with you, what does this day mean to you? >> well, it's a day of remembrance when citizens pay homage to first responders, when we look at the current climate we have officers who function in ecosystem, the key to this is we want to bridge the public trust and relationship between the police and the community, this is something that's nonexistent and looking to move to happy medium as well. heather: what does that mean to...
KRON 4 News at 8 : KRON : October 13, 2019 8:00pm-9:00pm PDT
also met with the sight of a vandalized. christopher columbus statue kron four's was there and has the story. >>folks living off of telegraph road to say this christopher columbus statue has been vandalized before but they've never seen it this bad. they say protesters may have a point but with so many visitors here this week. this doesn't paint the city and the best of life. from head to toe in red hayne to the christopher columbus statue outside coit tower drew some unwanted attention sunday. was just like a well and across the rest her hundreds made their way to the top of the hill to see the blue angels grace, the skies. upon arrival couldn't believe the view as really great from up here. unfortunately. >>face statute just terrible thing to do your job to position admiral and that's that's a strange worker in this beautiful city that would never have been possible it not for our civilization in our in our country and our armed forces were surrounded by the beauty and grand juror of the civilization and yet people to justice. openly hated the vandalism is believed have taken place s
also met with the sight of a vandalized. christopher columbus statue kron four's was there and has the story. >>folks living off of telegraph road to say this christopher columbus statue has been vandalized before but they've never seen it this bad. they say protesters may have a point but with so many visitors here this week. this doesn't paint the city and the best of life. from head to toe in red hayne to the christopher columbus statue outside coit tower drew some unwanted attention...
Lou Dobbs Tonight : FBC : October 9, 2019 10:00pm-11:00pm EDT
impeachment. joe biden. what is going on. we take it up with the "daily caller's" christopher bedford after the break. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. i wish i could shake your hand. granted. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ do you want me to go first or do you want to go first, brea? you can go first. audible reintroduced this whole world to me. so many great stories from amazing people. makes me wanna be better. to connect with stories that i'm listening to- that's inspiration. with audible originals, there's something for almost every taste in there. everything you ever wanted to hear. our ability to empathize through these stories can be transformational. it's my own thing that i can do for me. download audible and start listening today. that's why xfinity mobile lets you design your own data. you can share 1, 3, or 10 gigs of data between lines, mix in lines of unlimited, and switch it up at any time. all with millions of secure wifi hotspots and the best lte everywhere else. it's a different kind o
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Fox and Friends First : FOXNEWSW : October 9, 2019 1:00am-2:00am PDT
not receiving a complete education or the fool history on people like christopher columbus and i think what we see is this ongoing push to sort of demonize western civilization and its founders. we see this with the founding fathers. christopher columbus is one of the early examples of someone the left has decided needs to be canceled and he raced from history. heather: we can bring up states that have replaced columbus day with indigenous people day, ten state along with the district of columbia. >> dc voted last night and an emergency declaration, didn't even have a hearing about the measure and interesting the dc city council is choosing to focus on this is an issue when there are many other issues that affect washingtonians in a very real way that they have not yet addressed. >> do you think this is an indication of more to come or will people start standing up and this will not be a movement accuse >> it continues to get more intolerant and fewer and fewer figures in history are safe. we see in dc at george washington university they wish to remove a colonial from campus. th
not receiving a complete education or the fool history on people like christopher columbus and i think what we see is this ongoing push to sort of demonize western civilization and its founders. we see this with the founding fathers. christopher columbus is one of the early examples of someone the left has decided needs to be canceled and he raced from history. heather: we can bring up states that have replaced columbus day with indigenous people day, ten state along with the district of...
NBC Bay Area News at 6 : KNTV : October 14, 2019 6:00pm-6:59pm PDT
, san diego, and san francisco. vandals defacing statues of christopher columbus along with blunt messages. last year san francisco made headlines when it renamed the day indigenous peoples' day i instead of columbus day. melissa colorado is in the city with us. >> reporter: raj, this is a decisive issue. lots of people with different opinions, sometimes in different languages. this is a tourist destination. i just want to show you the red paint is still there. crews are going to have to somehow scrape it off. this is similar to the debate in the south of whether statues of confederate generals should be torn down. but more pressing, how to remove the red paint? >> we h who is san francisco say go to coy tower. >> reporter: coy tower attracts guests from around the world. but on monday morning it was the vandalized christopher columbus statue that stole peoples' attention. over the weekend someone doused the statue with red paint. a public works paint managed to scrape away the gra feety that said destroy all monuments. other statues of christopher columbus in san diego and rhode
, san diego, and san francisco. vandals defacing statues of christopher columbus along with blunt messages. last year san francisco made headlines when it renamed the day indigenous peoples' day i instead of columbus day. melissa colorado is in the city with us. >> reporter: raj, this is a decisive issue. lots of people with different opinions, sometimes in different languages. this is a tourist destination. i just want to show you the red paint is still there. crews are going to have to...
The Ingraham Angle : FOXNEWSW : October 1, 2019 7:00pm-8:00pm PDT
research in that phony dossier. they relied on a british spy, a foreign agent, christopher steele, to compile what they considered to damaging information on donald trump at his campaign. much of it, of course, unverified and ultimately discredited. but that didn't matter to them! >> christopher steele's blossomr says he was involved with russians and the election interference effort to cover it up. >> go back to the christopher steele dossier. how was russia reportedly trying to compromise and cultivate donald trump for years? by offering him lucrative real estate deals. >> first of all, there's the question of whether the tape exist which is brought up in the steele dossier, which is, by the way, looking better and better. >> laura: they pass the allegations to anti-trump interest in the government, from john mccain to the fbi. and sought to open up an investigation of any and all figures near candidate trump. what did someone wants call it? an insurance policy, that's right. fact number two: the democrats used the fbi and the obama doj to peddle the foreign source dossier to the fi
research in that phony dossier. they relied on a british spy, a foreign agent, christopher steele, to compile what they considered to damaging information on donald trump at his campaign. much of it, of course, unverified and ultimately discredited. but that didn't matter to them! >> christopher steele's blossomr says he was involved with russians and the election interference effort to cover it up. >> go back to the christopher steele dossier. how was russia reportedly trying to...
the crowds and the company keeping christopher jimenez's halloween spirits high. >> when the screaming orp laughing goes out he breaks out in the laugh you heard and it just melts my heart. >> his mother says christopher and his sister were born at 28 weeks. nef varying disabilities. christopher termnyly ill many suffering from brain disease and lung decease and rigs worsening. reasons why sheli started on the display and theme in september. ne that he can remember theon is colors and the lights. yed.thing that he has always he always enjoy brit bright lights. >> sme says christopher's conditions keep the family inside the home most days. but in holiday display brings out neighbors. >> it shows the love and heart she has for her son. to do this it's awesome. >> awesome indeed and the display remains up threw halloween. the family will be handing out goodies to the kids every day until then. if you find yourself on vernon avenue in the willow glenn neighborhood look for the clowns. i'm amanda del castillo, abc 7 news. >> worth the trip. all right. >>> no friday night lights at
the crowds and the company keeping christopher jimenez's halloween spirits high. >> when the screaming orp laughing goes out he breaks out in the laugh you heard and it just melts my heart. >> his mother says christopher and his sister were born at 28 weeks. nef varying disabilities. christopher termnyly ill many suffering from brain disease and lung decease and rigs worsening. reasons why sheli started on the display and theme in september. ne that he can remember theon is...
MSNBC Live : MSNBCW : October 19, 2019 3:00am-4:00am PDT
contributor, and christopher, you wrote about this deal. the president seems to be saying here that the kurds were spooked by the prospect of war. does that sound plausible to you? >> not these kurds. these are the same kurds who fought for the city of kabani for five months in 2014, and 2015, and stopped the onslaught of the so-called islamic state. before that, the isis, isis had the mistake of invincibility, because nobody would stand against them. these are the kurds who stood against them. and ultimately, they will wind up standing against turkey, as best they can. >> and christopher, here's what republican senator mitt romney said about this deal. let's take a listen. >> the decision to abandon the kurds violates one of our most sacred duties. it strikes at american honor. what we have done to the kurds will stand as a bloodstain in the annals of american history. was there no chance for diplomacy? are we so weak and so inept diplomatically that turkey forced the hand of the united states of america? turkey? >> and christopher, add to that, this video on twitter showing a russ
contributor, and christopher, you wrote about this deal. the president seems to be saying here that the kurds were spooked by the prospect of war. does that sound plausible to you? >> not these kurds. these are the same kurds who fought for the city of kabani for five months in 2014, and 2015, and stopped the onslaught of the so-called islamic state. before that, the isis, isis had the mistake of invincibility, because nobody would stand against them. these are the kurds who stood...
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20090022233: Particle Ejection and Levitation Technology (PELT)
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Each of the six Apollo landers touched down at unique sites on the lunar surface. Aside from the Apollo 12 landing site located 180 meters from the Surveyor III lander, plume impingement effects on ground hardware during the landings were not a problem. The planned return to the Moon requires numerous landings at the same site. Since the top few centimeters of lunar soil are loosely packed regolith, plume impingement from the lander will eject the granular material at high velocities. A picture...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), ESTIMATES, IMPINGEMENT, PLUMES, ROCKET EXHAUST, LUNAR DUST,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080037560: GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper Performance Specifications and Algorithms
The Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) is a single channel, near-IR imager/optical transient event detector, used to detect, locate and measure total lightning activity over the full-disk. The next generation NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) series will carry a GLM that will provide continuous day and night observations of lightning. The mission objectives for the GLM are to: (1) Provide continuous, full-disk lightning measurements for storm warning and...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (EOS), FUNCTIONAL DESIGN...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080012739: Performance Evaluation of the Prototype Model NEXT Ion Thruster
The performance testing results of the first prototype model NEXT ion engine, PM1, are presented. The NEXT program has developed the next generation ion propulsion system to enhance and enable Discovery, New Frontiers, and Flagship-type NASA missions. The PM1 thruster exhibits operational behavior consistent with its predecessors, the engineering model thrusters, with substantial mass savings, enhanced thermal margins, and design improvements for environmental testing compliance. The dry mass...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), ION ENGINES, PERFORMANCE TESTS, SPECIFIC IMPULSE, ION...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080013257: Effects of Different Lifting Cadences on Ground Reaction Forces during the Squat Exercise
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect of different cadences on the ground reaction force (GRF(sub R)) during the squat exercise. It is known that squats performed with greater acceleration will produce greater inertial forces; however, it is not well understood how different squat cadences affect GRF(sub R). It was hypothesized that faster squat cadences will result in greater peak GRF(sub R). METHODS: Six male subjects (30.8+/-4.4 y, 179.5+/-8.9 cm, 88.8+/-13.3 kg) with...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), PHYSICAL EXERCISE, TRAJECTORIES, LOADS (FORCES), INERTIA,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080010785: The Hydrothermal System at Home Plate in Gusev Crater, Mars: Formation of High Silica Material by Acid-Sulfate Alteration of Basalt
The Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) instrument on the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit measured three targets on or adjacent to Home Plate in Gusev Crater that have unusually high SiO2 concentrations (68% to 91%), unusually low FeO concentrations (1% to 7%, with total Fe as FeO), and unusually high TiO2/FeO ratios (0.2 to 1.2 by weight) [1]. Two targets (Kenosha Comets and Lefty Ganote) are located on high albedo soil (Gertrude Weise) that was exposed by the rover wheels, and one...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS, AMORPHOUS MATERIALS, BASALT, CRATERING,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20090004222: Nanocomposites with high thermoelectric figures of merit
The present invention is generally directed to nanocomposite thermoelectric materials that exhibit enhanced thermoelectric properties. The nanocomposite materials include two or more components, with at least one of the components forming nano-sized structures within the composite material. The components are chosen such that thermal conductivity of the composite is decreased without substantially diminishing the composite's electrical conductivity. Suitable component materials exhibit similar...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), THERMOELECTRICITY, THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS, COMPOSITE...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080041528: Adsorption of Water on Simulated Moon Dust Samples
A lunar regolith simulant dust sample (JSC-1a) supported on a silica wafer (SiO2/Si(111)) has been characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDX), and Auger electron spectroscopy (AES). The adsorption kinetics of water has been studied primarily by thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS) and also by collecting isothermal adsorption transients. The support has been characterized by water TDS. JSC-1a consists mostly of aluminosilicate glass and other...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), ADSORPTION, LUNAR ROCKS, REGOLITH, SILICON DIOXIDE, SCANNING...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080041600: An Initial Investigation of the Effects of Turbulence Models on the Convergence of the RK/Implicit Scheme
A three-stage Runge-Kutta (RK) scheme with multigrid and an implicit preconditioner has been shown to be an effective solver for the fluid dynamic equations. This scheme has been applied to both the compressible and essentially incompressible Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations using the algebraic turbulence model of Baldwin and Lomax (BL). In this paper we focus on the convergence of the RK/implicit scheme when the effects of turbulence are represented by either the...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), TURBULENCE EFFECTS, RUNGE-KUTTA METHOD, COMPUTATIONAL FLUID...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20090001843: Operational Characteristics and Plasma Measurements in a Low-Energy FARAD Thruster
Pulsed inductive plasma accelerators are spacecraft propulsion devices in which energy is stored in a capacitor and then discharged through an inductive coil. The device is electrodeless, inducing a plasma current sheet in propellant located near the face of the coil. The propellant is accelerated and expelled at a high exhaust velocity (order of 10 km/s) through the interaction of the plasma current with an induced magnetic field. The Faraday Accelerator with RF-Assisted Discharge (FARAD)...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), PLASMA ACCELERATORS, SPACECRAFT PROPULSION, ELECTROMAGNETIC...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080018577: Parameter Analysis of Lunar Surface Navigation Utilizing Dilution-of-Precision Methodology With Lunar Orbiters
With the NASA Vision for Space Exploration focusing on the return of astronauts to the Moon and eventually to Mars, architectures for new navigation concepts must be derived and analyzed. One such concept, developed by the Space Communications Architecture Working Group (SCAWG), is to place a constellation of satellites around the Moon. Previously completed analyses examined the performance of multiple satellite constellations and recommended a constellation oriented as a Walker polar 6/2/1...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), SURFACE NAVIGATION, SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS, DILUTION, LUNAR...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20090011862: Broadband Microstrip-to-Coplanar Strip Double-Y Balun
A new version of the double-Y balun, transitioning from an unbalanced microstrip to a balanced coplanar strip (CPS) line, has been designed to feed a complementary spiral antenna with an input impedance of 100 Omega. The new double-Y balun transitions from a microstrip line with truncated ground plane to a CPS line. The balun does not employ CPW lines; hence, CPW bridges are not required at the junction. In addition, the balun does not exhibit CPW parasitic resonances, thereby improving...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), MICROSTRIP TRANSMISSION LINES, PLANAR STRUCTURES,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20090011870: Estimating Hardness from the USDC Tool-Bit Temperature Rise
A method of real-time quantification of the hardness of a rock or similar material involves measurement of the temperature, as a function of time, of the tool bit of an ultrasonic/sonic drill corer (USDC) that is being used to drill into the material. The method is based on the idea that, other things being about equal, the rate of rise of temperature and the maximum temperature reached during drilling increase with the hardness of the drilled material. In this method, the temperature is...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), ROCKS, MATERIALS, HARDNESS, MECHANICAL MEASUREMENT, DRILL...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080036828: In-Situ F2-Region Plasma Density and Temperature Measurements from the International Space Station
The International Space Station orbit provides an ideal platform for in-situ studies of space weather effects on the mid and low latitude F-2 region ionosphere. The Floating Potential Measurement Unit (FPMU) operating on the ISS since Aug 2006. is a suite of plasma instruments: a Floating Potential Probe (FPP), a Plasma Impedance Probe (PIP), a Wide-sweep langmuir Probe (WLP), and a Narrow-sweep Langmuir Probe (NLP). This instrument package provides a new opportunity lor collaborative...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), INSTRUMENT PACKAGES, PLASMA DENSITY, SPACE WEATHER,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080040990: Geologic Mapping along the Arabia Terra Dichotomy Boundary: Mawrth Vallis and Nili Fossae, Mars: Introductory Report
Geologic mapping studies at the 1:1M-scale will be used to characterize geologic processes that have shaped the highlands along the Arabia Terra dichotomy boundary. In particular, this mapping will evaluate the distribution, stratigraphic position, and lateral continuity of compositionally distinct outcrops in Mawrth Vallis and Nili Fossae as identified by spectral instruments currently in orbit. Placing these landscapes, their material units, structural features, and unique compositional...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), DICHOTOMIES, GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS, PLANETARY MAPPING,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080039237: The NASA Ground Network Vision for the Future
This paper will highlight the GN's mission, motivation, and future plans, specifically in relation to the increase of commercialization for routine services and partnership opportunities for routine and unique services with the goal that other agencies can benefit from our approach as they pursue their science and exploration goals.
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), COMMUNICATION NETWORKS, COMMERCIALIZATION, AEROSPACE...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080042310: Near-Real Time Cloud Retrievals from Operational and Research Meteorological Satellites
A set of cloud retrieval algorithms developed for CERES and applied to MODIS data have been adapted to analyze other satellite imager data in near-real time. The cloud products, including single-layer cloud amount, top and base height, optical depth, phase, effective particle size, and liquid and ice water paths, are being retrieved from GOES- 10/11/12, MTSAT-1R, FY-2C, and Meteosat imager data as well as from MODIS. A comprehensive system to normalize the calibrations to MODIS has been...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITES, CLOUDS, DATA ACQUISITION, DATA...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080044899: Radiation Testing, Characterization and Qualification Challenges for Modern Microelectronics and Photonics Devices and Technologies
At GOMAC 2007, we discussed a selection of the challenges for radiation testing of modern semiconductor devices focusing on state-of-the-art memory technologies. This included FLASH non-volatile memories (NVMs) and synchronous dynamic random access memories (SDRAMs). In this presentation, we extend this discussion in device packaging and complexity as well as single event upset (SEU) mechanisms using several technology areas as examples including: system-on-a-chip (SOC) devices and photonic or...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), CHARACTERIZATION, MICROELECTRONICS, PHOTONICS,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20090020603: Algorithm Optimally Orders Forward-Chaining Inference Rules
People typically develop knowledge bases in a somewhat ad hoc manner by incrementally adding rules with no specific organization. This often results in a very inefficient execution of those rules since they are so often order sensitive. This is relevant to tasks like Deep Space Network in that it allows the knowledge base to be incrementally developed and have it automatically ordered for efficiency. Although data flow analysis was first developed for use in compilers for producing optimal code...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), ALGORITHMS, DATA BASES, KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS, INFERENCE,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080032733: A Gyroless Safehold Control Law Using Angular Momentum as an Inertial Reference Vector
A novel safehold control law was developed for the nadir-pointing Vegetation Canopy Lidar (VCL) spacecraft, necessitated by a challenging combination of constraints. The instrument optics did not have a recloseable cover to protect them form potentially catastrophic damage if they were exposed to direct sunlight. The baseline safehold control law relied on a single-string inertial reference unit. A gyroless safehold law was developed to give a degree of robustness to gyro failures. Typical...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), ANGULAR MOMENTUM, CANOPIES (VEGETATION), OPTICAL RADAR,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080048167: Optimization of Angular-Momentum Biases of Reaction Wheels
RBOT [RWA Bias Optimization Tool (wherein RWA signifies Reaction Wheel Assembly )] is a computer program designed for computing angular momentum biases for reaction wheels used for providing spacecraft pointing in various directions as required for scientific observations. RBOT is currently deployed to support the Cassini mission to prevent operation of reaction wheels at unsafely high speeds while minimizing time in undesirable low-speed range, where elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication films in...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), ANGULAR MOMENTUM, BIAS, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, REACTION WHEELS,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20130013130: STRS Compliant FPGA Waveform Development
The Space Telecommunications Radio System (STRS) Architecture Standard describes a standard for NASA space software defined radios (SDRs). It provides a common framework that can be used to develop and operate a space SDR in a reconfigurable and reprogrammable manner. One goal of the STRS Architecture is to promote waveform reuse among multiple software defined radios. Many space domain waveforms are designed to run in the special signal processing (SSP) hardware. However, the STRS Architecture...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), RADIO EQUIPMENT, TELECOMMUNICATION, RADIO COMMUNICATION,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080047199: Method of Cross-Linking Aerogels Using a One-Pot Reaction Scheme
A document discusses a new, simplified method for cross-linking silica and other oxide aerogels, with a polymeric material to increase strength of such materials without adversely affecting porosity or low density. This innovation introduces the polymer precursor into the sol before gelation either as an agent, which co-reacts with the oxide gel, or as soluble polymer precursors, which do not interact with the oxide gel in any way. Subsequent exposure to heat, light, catalyst or other method of...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), AEROGELS, CROSSLINKING, GELATION, OXIDES, POROSITY, SILICON...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20110015710: Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Payload Safety Introduction Briefing
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), GRAVITATION, PAYLOADS, AEROSPACE SAFETY, FERRY SPACECRAFT,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080023077: Development of the Aquarius Antenna Deployment Mechanisms and Spring/Damper Actuator
The Aquarius Instrument s large radar reflector dish needed to be stowed for launch, and then deployed on-orbit. The Deployment Subsystem consisted of a cantilevered boom structure and two single-axis hinge mechanisms to accurately deploy and position the reflector dish relative to the radar feed horns. The cantilevered design demanded high stiffness and accuracy from the deployment mechanism at the root of the boom. A preload-generating end-of-travel latch was also required. To largely...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), ACTUATORS, RADAR REFLECTORS, DEPLOYMENT, DAMPING, LAUNCHING,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080032604: Enhanced Self Tuning On-Board Real-Time Model (eSTORM) for Aircraft Engine Performance Health Tracking
A key technological concept for producing reliable engine diagnostics and prognostics exploits the benefits of fusing sensor data, information, and/or processing algorithms. This report describes the development of a hybrid engine model for a propulsion gas turbine engine, which is the result of fusing two diverse modeling methodologies: a physics-based model approach and an empirical model approach. The report describes the process and methods involved in deriving and implementing a hybrid...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), TURBOFAN ENGINES, AIRCRAFT ENGINES, FAULT DETECTION, GAS...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20130013132: Titanium Dioxide Volatility in High Temperature Water Vapor
Titanium (Ti) containing materials are of high interest to the aerospace industry due to its high temperature capability, strength, and light weight. As with most metals an exterior oxide layer naturally exists in environments that contain oxygen (i.e. air). At high temperatures, water vapor plays a key role in the volatility of materials including oxide surfaces. This study will evaluate cold pressed titanium dioxide (TiO2) powder pellets at a temperature range of 1400 C - 1200 C in water...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), HIGH TEMPERATURE, TITANIUM OXIDES, VOLATILITY, WATER VAPOR,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080047210: Deep-Sea Hydrothermal-Vent Sampler
An apparatus is being developed for sampling water for signs of microbial life in an ocean hydrothermal vent at a depth of as much as 6.5 km. Heretofore, evidence of microbial life in deep-sea hydrothermal vents has been elusive and difficult to validate. Because of the extreme conditions in these environments (high pressures and temperatures often in excess of 300 C), deep-sea hydrothermal- vent samplers must be robust. Because of the presumed low density of biomass of these environments,...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), SUBMARINE HYDROTHERMAL VENTS, PLUMES, MICROORGANISMS,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080040741: Suzaku Observations of Thermal and Non-Thermal X-Ray Emission from the Middle-Aged Supernova Remnant G156.2+5.7
We present results from X-ray analysis of a Galactic middle-aged supernova remnant (SNR) G156.2+5.7 which is bright and largely extended in X-ray wavelengths, showing a clear circular shape (radius approx.50'). Using the Suzaku satellite, we observed this SNR in three pointings; partially covering the northwestern (NW) rim, the eastern (E) rim, and the central portion of this SNR. In the NW rim and the central portion, we confirm that the X-ray spectra consist of soft and hard-tail emission,...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), SUPERNOVA REMNANTS, HIGH ENERGY ELECTRONS, INTERSTELLAR...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20090014739: Comparison of Measured and Block Structured Simulations for the F-16XL Aircraft
This article presents a comparison of the predictions of three RANS codes for flight conditions of the F-16XL aircraft which feature vortical flow. The three codes, ENSOLV, PMB and PAB3D, solve on structured multi-block grids. Flight data for comparison was available in the form of surface pressures, skin friction, boundary layer data and photographs of tufts. The three codes provided predictions which were consistent with expectations based on the turbulence modelling used, which was k- , k-...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), F-16 AIRCRAFT, AERODYNAMIC CONFIGURATIONS, STRUCTURED GRIDS...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20090007714: Evaluation of ARCAM Deposited Ti-6Al-4V
A wide range of Metal Additive Manufacturing (MAM) technologies are becoming available. One of the challenges in using new technologies for aerospace systems is demonstrating that the process and system has the ability to manufacture components that meet the high quality requirements on a statistically significant basis. The widest-used system for small to medium sized components is the ARCAM system manufactured in Gothenburg, Sweden. This system features a 4kW electron-beam gun, and has a...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), ADDITIVES, MANUFACTURING, TITANIUM ALLOYS, VANADIUM ALLOYS,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20090014083: Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle Upper Stage/Upper Stage Engine Element Overview
The Ares I upper stage is an integral part of the Constellation Program transportation system. The upper stage provides guidance, navigation and control (GN and C) for the second stage of ascent flight for the Ares I vehicle. The Saturn-derived J-2X upper stage engine will provide thrust and propulsive impulse for the second stage of ascent flight for the Ares I launch vehicle. Additionally, the upper stage is responsible for the avionics system of the the entire Ares I. This brief presentation...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), ARES 1 UPPER STAGE, CONSTELLATION PROGRAM, AVIONICS, J-2...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080025695: Process for attaching molecular wires and devices to carbon nanotubes and compositions thereof
The present invention is directed towards processes for covalently attaching molecular wires and molecular electronic devices to carbon nanotubes and compositions thereof. Such processes utilize diazonium chemistry to bring about this marriage of wire-like nanotubes with molecular wires and molecular electronic devices.
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), CARBON NANOTUBES, NANOTUBES, WIRE, PATENTS, AZO COMPOUNDS,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20110008460: Ares I Integration Approach
This slide presentation reviews the planned Integration approach for the Ares I Launch vehicle. It includes organization charts, and diagrams showing responsibilities for the various activities of the launch. Included is also a timeline with milestones for the project.
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), ARES 1 LAUNCH VEHICLE, SPACECRAFT LAUNCHING, ASSEMBLING,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20090011859: Dynamic Method for Identifying Collected Sample Mass
G-Sample is designed for sample collection missions to identify the presence and quantity of sample material gathered by spacecraft equipped with end effectors. The software method uses a maximum-likelihood estimator to identify the collected sample's mass based on onboard force-sensor measurements, thruster firings, and a dynamics model of the spacecraft. This makes sample mass identification a computation rather than a process requiring additional hardware. Simulation examples of G-Sample are...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), COMPUTER PROGRAMS, ONBOARD DATA PROCESSING, SAMPLES, WEIGHT...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20090016137: Supplier Management System
Supplier Management System (SMS) allows for a consistent, agency-wide performance rating system for suppliers used by NASA. This version (2.0) combines separate databases into one central database that allows for the sharing of supplier data. Information extracted from the NBS/Oracle database can be used to generate ratings. Also, supplier ratings can now be generated in the areas of cost, product quality, delivery, and audit data. Supplier data can be charted based on real-time user input....
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, SUPPLYING, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, DATA...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080010813: Meteorite Dunite Breccia MIL 03443: A Probable Crustal Cumulate Closely Related to Diogenites from the HED Parent Asteroid
There are numerous types of differentiated meteorites, but most represent either the crusts or cores of their parent asteroids. Ureilites, olivine-pyroxene-graphite rocks, are exceptions; they are mantle restites [1]. Dunite is expected to be a common mantle lithology in differentiated asteroids. In particular, models of the eucrite parent asteroid contain large volumes of dunite mantle [2-4]. Yet dunites are very rare among meteorites, and none are known associated with the howardite, eucrite,...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), DUNITE, METEORITIC COMPOSITION, BASALT, VESTA ASTEROID,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20090022239: Determining Trajectory of Triboelectrically Charged Particles, Using Discrete Element Modeling
The Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Electrostatics and Surface Physics Laboratory is participating in an Innovative Partnership Program (IPP) project with an industry partner to modify a commercial off-the-shelf simulation software product to treat the electrodynamics of particulate systems. Discrete element modeling (DEM) is a numerical technique that can track the dynamics of particle systems. This technique, which was introduced in 1979 for analysis of rock mechanics, was recently refined to...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION, ELECTROSTATICS, CHARGED PARTICLES,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080022419: Power System Trade Studies for the Lunar Surface Access Module
A Lunar Lander Preparatory Study (LLPS) was undertaken for NASA's Lunar Lander Pre-Project in 2006 to explore a wide breadth of conceptual lunar lander designs. Civil servant teams from nearly every NASA center responded with dozens of innovative designs that addressed one or more specific lander technical challenges. Although none of the conceptual lander designs sought to solve every technical design issue, each added significantly to the technical database available to the Lunar Lander...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), LUNAR SURFACE, FUEL CELLS, DESCENT, ASCENT, LUNAR LANDING...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080037988: Broadband Lidar Technique for Precision CO2 Measurement
Presented are preliminary experimental results, sensitivity measurements and discuss our new CO2 lidar system under development. The system is employing an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA), superluminescent light emitting diode (SLED) as a source and our previously developed Fabry-Perot interferometer subsystem as a detector part. Global measurement of carbon dioxide column with the aim of discovering and quantifying unknown sources and sinks has been a high priority for the last decade. The...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), CARBON DIOXIDE, INFRARED RADAR, OPTICAL RADAR, BROADBAND,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20090006537: Interferometric Rayleigh Scattering Measurement System
A method and apparatus for performing simultaneous multi-point measurements of multiple velocity components in a gas flow is described. Pulses of laser light are directed to a measurement region of unseeded gas to produce Rayleigh or Mie scattered light in a plurality of directions. The Rayleigh or Mie scattered light is collected from multiple directions and combined in a single collimated light beam. The Rayleigh or Mie scattered light is then mixed together with a reference laser light...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), GAS FLOW, FLOW VELOCITY, FLOW MEASUREMENT, VELOCITY...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20090002580: 8-Meter UV/Optical Space Telescope at L2
The unprecedented mass/volume capability of an Ares V enables the launch of 8 meter class monolithic space telescopes to the Earth-Sun L2 point. NASA MSFC has determined that a 6 to 8 meter class telescope using a massive high-TRL ground observatory class monolithic primary mirror is feasible. Mature, High-TRL design enables early deployment. Science Instruments, Expendables and Limited Life Components can be replace periodically via Spacecraft Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking.
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), ULTRAVIOLET TELESCOPES, SPACEBORNE TELESCOPES, ARES 5 CARGO...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080039271: Using Sequence Diagrams to Detect Communication Problems Between Systems
Many software systems are evolving complex system of systems (SoS) for which inter-system communication is both mission-critical and error-prone. Such communication problems ideally would be detected before deployment. In a NASA-supported Software Assurance Research Program (SARP) project, we are researching a new approach addressing such problems. In this paper, we show that problems in the communication between two systems can be detected by using sequence diagrams to model the planned...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), COMPUTER PROGRAMS, TELECOMMUNICATION, DEPLOYMENT, SOFTWARE...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080023784: Remote Sensing
Remote sensing is measuring something without touching it. Most methods measure a portion of the electro-magnetic spectrum using energy reflected from or emitted by a material. Moving the instrument away makes it easier to see more at one time. Airplanes are good but satellites are much better. Many things can not be easily measured on the scale of an individual person. Example - measuring all the vegetation growing at one time in even the smallest country. A satellite can see things over large...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), REMOTE SENSING, DIGITAL COMPUTERS, EMITTANCE, EXTRACTION,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20090014792: Binary Colloidal Alloy Test-5: Aspheres
The Binary Colloidal Alloy Test - 5: Aspheres (BCAT-5-Aspheres) experiment photographs initially randomized colloidal samples (tiny nanoscale spheres suspended in liquid) in microgravity to determine their resulting structure over time. BCAT-5-Aspheres will study the properties of concentrated systems of small particles when they are identical, but not spherical in microgravity..
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), ASPHERIC OPTICS, BINARY ALLOYS, COLLOIDS, MICROGRAVITY,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080048151: Simulating the Gradually Deteriorating Performance of an RTG
Degra (now in version 3) is a computer program that simulates the performance of a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) over its lifetime. Degra is provided with a graphical user interface that is used to edit input parameters that describe the initial state of the RTG and the time-varying loads and environment to which it will be exposed. Performance is computed by modeling the flows of heat from the radioactive source and through the thermocouples, also allowing for losses, to...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), RADIOISOTOPE HEAT SOURCES, THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20090011867: Using Composite Materials in a Cryogenic Pump
Several modifications have been made to the design and operation of an extended-shaft cryogenic pump to increase the efficiency of pumping. In general, the efficiency of pumping a cryogenic fluid is limited by thermal losses which is itself caused by pump inefficiency and leakage of heat through the pump structure. A typical cryogenic pump includes a drive shaft and two main concentric static components (an outer pressure containment tube and an intermediate static support tube) made from...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), COMPOSITE MATERIALS, CRYOGENIC EQUIPMENT, PUMPS, PUMPING,...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080025696: Toughened uni-piece, fibrous, reinforced, oxidization-resistant composite
A composite thermal protection structure, for applications such as atmospheric re-entry vehicles, that can withstand temperatures as high as 3600.degree F. The structure includes an exposed surface cap having a specially formulated coating, an insulator base adjacent to the cap with another specially formulated coating, and one or more pins that extend from the cap through the insulator base to tie the cap and base together, through ceramic bonding and mechanical attachment. The cap and...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), COATING, COMPOSITE STRUCTURES, THERMAL PROTECTION, REENTRY...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080032611: Cryogenic Fluid Transfer for Exploration
This paper discusses current plans and issues for exploration that involve the use of cryogenic transfer. The benefits of cryogenic transfer to exploration missions are examined. The current state of the art of transfer technology is reviewed. Mission concepts of operation for exploration are presented, and used to qualitatively discuss the performance benefits of transfer. The paper looks at the challenges faced to implement a cryogenic transfer system and suggest approaches to address them...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), CRYOGENIC FLUIDS, GROUND TESTS, HYDROGEN, CRYOGENICS, MISSION...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20080022426: Compliant Foil Journal Bearing Performance at Alternate Pressures and Temperatures
An experimental test program has been conducted to determine the highly loaded performance of current generation gas foil bearings at alternate pressures and temperatures. Typically foil bearing performance has been reported at temperatures relevant to turbomachinery applications but only at an ambient pressure of one atmosphere. This dearth of data at alternate pressures has motivated the current test program. Two facilities were used in the test program, the ambient pressure rig and the high...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), FOIL BEARINGS, GAS BEARINGS, SHAFTS (MACHINE ELEMENTS),...
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20090027031: Using NASA's Giovanni Web Portal to Access and Visualize Satellite-based Earth Science Data in the Classroom
One of the biggest obstacles for the average Earth science student today is locating and obtaining satellite-based remote sensing data sets in a format that is accessible and optimal for their data analysis needs. At the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES-DISC) alone, on the order of hundreds of Terabytes of data are available for distribution to scientists, students and the general public. The single biggest and time-consuming hurdle for most students when they...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), EARTH SCIENCES, INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, INFORMATION SYSTEMS,...
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The plaintiff in this car accident was a pedestrian injured when he was struck by the driver of a car while lawfully crossing the street. The car driver argued that the victim walked-out into traffic at a busy intersection and therefore was responsible for his own injuries. The injuries included a fractured femur that needed surgery, 3 herniated discs and permanent scarring from the surgery.
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Because the accident happened right around the corner from my Philadelphia personal injury law office, we went to the scene of the car accident and he described to me exactly what happened. It was clear that he had the right-of-way, and that the driver had a red light. There were no witnesses, so it was a ‘he-said/she-said’ scenario.
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Selfish Edna Pontellier of Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Selfish Edna of The Awakening
In Kate Chopin’s, The Awakening, the reader immediately notices the sexual undertones of Mrs. Mallard and Robert’s relationship and the strained relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Mallard. There are always going to be women who do not want the routine “married with children” lifestyle, unfortunately in Edna’s time period that was the primary role of women. Had she been living in today perhaps she would have been without a husband and children, possibly totally devoted to a career in the arts and totally single. Back to her reality though: I believe she is unsure if she wants that one true love (supposedly Robert) or if she just wants anyone who will pay her a little attention and is fun (supposedly Alcee Arobin). Edna wants to be Wild and Free, not saying that there is anything wrong with that, but she needs to recognize it for what it is because she is really fooling herself.
Edna’s husband is looking for the all devoted wife and mother and Edna is looking for anything that’s not conforming. Due to that it really strikes me as being ironic that she and Mrs. Ratignolle would be such good friends. I can’t tell if that is because secretly maybe Edna wish she could be happy with the life she is leading (like Mrs. Ratignolle) or does she want to have her around as a reminder of all she never wants to be.
I found all of her “times of awakening” to be interesting because they usually included hr being very abrupt and uncooperative with her husband. She liked to wander off without him allot and only seemed to really be happy when quietly tucked away somewhere with someone else (not always a man). I found her to also be a bit vain in that she made sure she got something from everyone she allowed into her life but she didn’t really seem to give back. She was so angry with herself and the world that she was subjected to live the life that she was living that she sometimes wanted to make everyone else pay for it.
Her husband and her were apart a lot, so that even if they had been in a good relationship the time apart would have still caused problems “I believe in out of sight out of mind, rather than, absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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” Her problem also had allot to do with the strained relationship between her and her father. This leads me to believe that she had some male dominant issues to get pass. All the males in her life took over and she was to follow behind, this would make anyone unhappy.
To end it all (literally) she kills herself. What was that all about? She wanted to find herself and she is actually taking all that she has found away. She could have ran way, leaving her husband and kids (not that I am condoning that) she could have gotten a divorce (couldn’t she??) .
Edna was extremely SELFISH and UNCARING but I would not have expected much more from her. The suicide was typical of Edna because she always did things in haste and never stopped to think about the consequences. Edna had said at one point in the novel that she would need to evaluate her life and see what type of person she was in (hopes so that she can try to change some of the bad). "One of these days," she said, "I'm going to pull myself together for a while and think--try to determine what character of a woman I am; for, candidly, I don't know. By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex. But some way I can't convince myself that I am. I must think about it."
She never did take the time to ever do that though, and I think that every human being at one time or another needs to sit down and evaluate their lives to see where they have been, where they are now, in hopes to get to where they hope to be. Portales’ says “that Edna wanted an undefined, unexpressed, ineffable life that she cannot articulate or shape...”. This to me shows itself in the flip-flop “love interests” in Robert and the Alcee. If Robert was her one true love then why did Alcee even have to come into play? Because Edna doesn’t know what she wants, THAT”S WHY!!! She is so very sporadic in her affections (with everyone) She is at her wits end with her husband, to the point where she almost has no affection left for him
“And the ladies all declared that Mr. Pontellier was the best husband in the world and Mrs. Pontellier was forced to admit that she knew of none better.”
Then she cries when he leaves for his business trip to New York as if she is losing her “one and true love”:
“She cried when he went away, calling him her dear, good friend, and she was quite certain she would grow lonely before very long and go to join him in New York.”
She is the same way with Robert, Alcee and even her “Beloved Children”, whom speaking of which, she doesn’t think about at all. Where are they going to be now that she has killed herself, no child should have to live without a mom (remember: this death could have been prevented). I also don’t want to hear the bull about death being the way out for the women in her time period “THAT IS RIDICULOUS”, there (in my opinion) is always a different route one can take when they are at their weakest rather than taking their own life. Edna is a selfish, uncaring woman and if her death did anything it was to help get rid of someone who didn’t care about anything or anyone.
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Washington (WAS)
Travel Guide • America • United States of America • Washington
The many faces of the capital
Discover Washington and surroundings
Far from being a sleepy capital, Washington is a lively, chic, and friendly city. For visitors, it holds many surprises.
The capital of the United States, Washington is not only the political, diplomatic, and administrative city that one expects. It is a symbol of the country, a place where democracy is and always has been a constant process. The great figures of American history have left their mark here, starting with George Washington, a local plantation owner who inaugurated the very first government of the young nation and followed by every president since, from Jefferson to Obama by way of Lincoln and Kennedy.
Upon arrival, take time out for a long walking tour to get to know the contours of a city unlike any other in the United States. We are far from the endless boulevards of Los Angeles, far, too, from the skyscrapers and frenetic bustle of New York. Washington is a city with large lawns, shaded streets, and low buildings, as none have been allowed to exceed the height of the Capitol dome.
Your visit to Washington should be done according to your desires. A politics buff? Go to the Capitol, home to Senators and Representatives since 1800, and the Library of Congress, and the Supreme Court. Even if we cannot get inside, make a tour around the White House. Passionate about art? Large museums, with splendid collections, await: the National Gallery, the Phillips Collection, the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Travelling with children? The Spy Museum will keep them occupied, as will the Museum of Air and Space and the American History Museum. On the bank of the Potomac, Washington holds many more surprises. Lose yourself in the narrow streets of Georgetown, the trendiest area of the city. Go to Arlington Cemetery, where John F. Kennedy is buried. Visit the city's colourful restaurants and bars… Washington is nowhere near as austere as people think.
Practical Information about Washington
FESTIVALS, HOLIDAYS AND OTHER ANNUAL EVENTS IN Washington
CLIMATE AND WEATHER IN Washington
Essential phrases
Washington Dulles International Airport
GETTING AROUND Washington
Washington addresses
Colada Shop, Havana in the heart of Washington
bar - rooftop
Discover the National Museum of African American History and Culture
museum - art and culture
Sleep in the elegance of Liaison Capitol Hill
The National Air and Space Museum, head in the cosmos
The Dupont Circle Hotel: solid comfort in beige and white
The Hay-Adams Hotel: overlooking the White House
Sofitel Washington DC Lafayette Square: sophisticated Franco-American atmosphere
The Capitol, seat of US democracy
Rasika: the unforgettable flavours of India
Jaleo: the best tapas in the city
must-go-to
Arlington Cemetery: the final resting place of the fallen
National Gallery of Art: one of the finest art collections in the world
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Privacy report says B.C. medical clinics must do more to protect information
Report makes 16 recommendations including that clinics find funding to comply with privacy policies
Sep. 26, 2019 8:10 a.m.
A privacy audit says medical clinics in British Columbia must do more to protect the sensitive personal information they collect from patients.
The province’s privacy commission looked at 22 medical clinics and found gaps in privacy management, failures to ensure that privacy practices keep up with new technology, and inadequate funds and resources to address privacy issues.
The report makes 16 recommendations including that the clinics find funding to comply with privacy policies and appointing designated privacy officers.
Information and privacy commissioner Michael McEvoy says medical clinics collect sensitive personal information and the report finds many must improve their protection practices.
He says doctors and staff at clinics are legally obligated to abide by privacy legislation, but must also ensure strong privacy programs for their patients.
ALSO READ: Doctor growth in Canada more than doubles population increase over last 5 years
“Medical clinics were chosen for this review for two reasons: the amount and sensitivity of the personal information they collect – some of the most sensitive personal information out there — and the volume of complaints and privacy breach reports my office receives that are related to privacy practices at facilities like these,” McEvoy said in a news release on Wednesday.
“There is no question about the intense demands medical professionals face; however, respecting and protecting patients’ private information is critically important.”
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner is an independent agency that monitors and enforces the province’s access and privacy laws.
Doctor growth in Canada more than doubles population increase over last 5 years
Surrey mother found guilty of killing daughter appealing sentence, conviction
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Ford EDSA Greenhills
29 EDSA Greenhills
Get directions...
Close to return to Dealer locations
Telephone : 02 7 744 2222
The Official Local Ford Dealer
• In 1991, we began as Edison Mobile Hydraulics Inc., a company engaged in producing specialized vehicles such as Aerial Devices, Digger Derricks and Lineman’s Trucks. These trucks were created with the Ford Truck Chassis and were trusted by utility companies such as Meralco, NAPOCOR and PLDT.
• In 1991, That same year, as a result of its continued success, Ford Motor Company USA granted Edison Mobile a Ford Parts and Service franchise for the Philippines.
• In 1992, Edison’s franchise of Ford was expanded to include the Sales of Ford Cars, Trucks and other Ford products.
• In early 1994, Edison Mobile established a Parts and Service facility at 29 EDSA Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila, in order to serve the Ford customers better.
• 1994 saw a rise in demand for Ford vehicles. The business expanded from a purely parts and service operation into automotive retail sales. This same year, the business changed its name from Edison Mobile to American Automotive Center.
• American Automotive Center began the importation, marketing, and retail sales of Complete Build-Up (CBU) Ford Vehicles. This made the Ford vehicles available to the Philippine market, with such vehicles like the Expedition, F-150 truck, Explorer, Ranger, Lynx, Town Car and E-150 Club Wagon.
• In 1996, Ford EDSA Inc. is established making it the First Ford Dealership in the country. During this time it continued to distribute Ford vehicles imported from the USA.
• In 1998, Ford Motor Company opened up its manufacturing plant in Sta. Rosa, Laguna. They also took over the responsibility of importation and marketing of CBU vehicles. Consequently, this allowed Ford EDSA to focus its efforts on retail sales and after-sales service.
• In 2001, Ford EDSA’s outstanding performance was recognized as it was chosen to represent the Philippines at the President’s Circle. This is an elite gathering of one hundred fifty of the most consumer oriented, influential and innovative Ford Dealers from around the globe.
• On October 28, 2012, Ford Cainta opens its doors. This marks the second addition to the group.
• On January 28, 2013, Makati Ford opens along Pasong Tamo marking the return of Ford back to the Makati business district.
• On August 11, 2015, Ford EDSA Greenhills reopens opens its doors following a major renovation and upgrade of its facilities.
• In 1998, Ford Motor Company opened up its manufacturing plant in Sta. Rosa, Laguna. They also took over the responsibility of importation and marketing of CBU vehicles. Consequently, the AAC was renamed Ford EDSA, Inc. The shift in responsibility allowed Ford EDSA to focus its efforts on retail sales and after-sales service.
• In ____, Ford EDSA’s outstanding performance was recognized as it was chosen to represent the Philippines at the President’s Circle. This is an elite gathering of one hundred fifty of the most consumer oriented, influential and innovative Ford Dealers from around the globe.
Ford EDSA, the first dealer of ford in the Philippines is committed to be the industry leader in Customer Satisfaction by offering quality products, efficient and reliable After-Sales Service and professional personnel that embrace honesty and concern for the customers’ wants and needs, thus allowing us to prosper and provide a stable job to our personnel and a reasonable profit to our stock holders.
To be the best Automotive Dealer in the country.
Over its 20 years of doing business, Ford EDSA has received numerous awards for many achievements from retail sales to service.
- See more at: http://makatiford.com/web/about-us/#sthash.iJ8JZ8SI.dpuf
• In early 1994, Edison Mobile established a Parts and Service facility at 29 EDSA Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila, in order to serve the Ford customers better.• 1994 saw a rise in demand for Ford vehicles. The business expanded from a purely parts and service operation into automotive retail sales. This same year, the business changed its name from Edison Mobile to American Automotive Center.
The ECY Group Ford Locations:
FORD CAINTA
MAKATI FORD
Department contact details
Mon-Fri: 09:00 to 17:30
paw.obra@fordedsa.com
Andrea M. De Leon Sales Manager Email
Paulo Obra Showroom Sales Manager Email
Mon-Saturday
Business Hours: 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
dcrc2@fordedsa.com
paw.obra@gmail.com
parts@fordedsa.com
02 744 2222 loc 251
Click to here to book a service
Click here to Book a Test Drive
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Hornbill Lodge Verified Listing
Hornbill Lodge
Hornbill Lodge Hornbill Lodge
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Just the place to take a well earned brake only an hour from Joburg, Pretoria & Sun City. Luxurious bedrooms with en-suite bathroom, pre-selected Dstv channels & own patio in riverside forest. Birds galore, fireflies and stars night. Quiet walks along the 1,5Km river banks. In close proximity to sterfontein world heritage site and many other places of natural and historic interest. Large shady trees, rolling lawns, swimming pools.
These mountains were once called the Kashan mountains but changed to the Magaliesberg named after the Tswana chief Magali who ruled his tribe at the same time white pioneers ventured into this wonderful part of the world with a beauty of its own. In the 1850's and early nineteenth century, early explorers like David Livingstone and William Cornwallis Harris interned this part of the world and made contact with some of the tribes that occupied this area.
Around 1822, Shaka sent his favorite captain, Mzilikazi, to subdue the Sotho tribes in the area. After conquering the Sotho tribes, Mzilikazi decided to break away from Shaka and the Zulu tribe and create his own clan (khumalo or elephant clan). Fearing an attack from Shaka he fled and settled in these regions.
Mzilikazi's impi's left behind them, a path of destruction while consolidating the Matabele nation. Neighboring tribes were living in trees in fear of their lives. After a number of "Boers" trek parties had been slaughtered by Mzilikazi's impi's the Boer trek parties, led by Hendrik Potgieter and Gert Maritz, warded off a series of attacks by the Matabeles and drove them north across the Limpopo River.
Mzilikazi later reestablished his kingdom at Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The Boers settled in the valleys of the Magaliesberg and turned it into some of the most productive farms in South Africa.
The second Anglo-Boer war brought its own pressures to this area. The Boers who were very familiar with the mountains, used secret pathways to cross the mountains and launch guerrilla attacks on the British soldiers.
The English forces built blockhouses to restrict the movement of the Boer commandos. Ruins of these blockhouses are still visible on the top of the mountain. When standing on the crest of the mountain one can understand why lookout points were positioned on these spots, because one can view miles ahead.
Occupation of the Magaliesburg was of great importance to the Boer and English forces, especially routes between Pretoria and Rustenburg that crossed the Magaliesberg Mountains through two alternate routes, Silkaatsnek and Kommandonek. Because of this, many great battles were fought and lives were lost in battles like the battle of Buffelspoort, Nooitgedacht, Olifantsnek etc.
The mountains were a severe testing of military skills and the Magaliesberg war was dominated by the Boer leaders like De la Ray, De Wet, Beyers, Smuts and Kemp who were experts in guerrilla leadership. Although many of the farms lay in ruins after the Second Anglo-Boer war, the natural beauty of the Magaliesberg was unscarred and still breathtaking as always.
After the war, farms were built-up again and were in full production a year or two later and were particularly successful in crops like tobacco and citrus.
Magaliesberg is on the north west boundary of Gauteng, situated where the R24 (to/from Rustenburg and Sun City) meets the R509 (to/from Mmabatho and Botswana). Some of its green roofed buildings date back to the late 1800's, with quaint architecture and interesting character.
While ethnic art and craft prevails, modern influences have introduced modifications and entirely new art forms which can be found at a number of roadside vendors, gift shops and curio outlets in the Village.
The farm on which the Centre is situated was right in the middle of the Boer War action as the British advanced on Pretoria. If you are interested in history, you may want to visit the graves in the southwest of the estate, the uitspan field in the north where early trekker settlers gathered for nagmaal, or gaze at the White Stinkwood and Karee trees under which some locals believe are buried the Kruger millions.
Black Horse Restaurant 3.4 km Super Spar Supermarket 3.8 km
Lanseria Airport (Johannesburg) 38.9 km O.R. Tambo International Airport 71.6 km
In Room Facilities:
Attractions:
Witwatersrand Mountains Mountain 0 km Magalies River River 0 km Magalies Mountains Mountain 10 km Hartbeespoort Dam Lake 35 km
Property Type Bed and Breakfast, Guest House
Conditions Show
Cancellation Policy Strict
I had an awesome experience with my family. Very friendly staff who are willing to go an extra mile to assist when need be. I had an opportunity to meet the Owner and her lovely daughter, who were very welcoming and friendly too. The only think I personally was not happy about was the loud noise from the day visitors. The place was overcrowded for my liking. I think because it was the festive season. Will visit again the facility during the course of the year.
Gareth R.S.A
Hi Everything was wonderfull. Just something to let visitors know that roads are more suitable for a 4x4 but normal vechicles can be used. And that shops are not close by. But everything was perfect had a wonderfull and relaxed time.
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Building the Reserve
Restoring the Prairie
Reserve Management
Wildlife Restoration
Science & Wildlife FAQs
Road and Weather Conditions
Economic Contributions
Wild Sky
Nearby Tribal Communities
Honoring Human History
Impact FAQs
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Swift Fox
Build a Home for Swift Fox
Like many grassland species, the small and charismatic swift fox has been displaced from more than 60 percent of its historic range.
Swift foxes weigh about 5 lbs (smaller than your average house cat) and pose no threat to humans or livestock. Their diet consists largely of small mammals like mice, rabbits, and prairie dogs, as well as insects and plants in the summer months. They are classified in Montana as “vulnerable because of rarity or restricted range and/or other factors.” Today there remains a distribution gap between the population of swift foxes along the Montana-Canada border and that of the core population in Wyoming, South Dakota, and south to New Mexico and Texas.
As a part of our mission to restore native prairie species, American Prairie Reserve is developing plans to request permission from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) to reintroduce swift foxes to our deeded lands. We also are collaborating with Fort Belknap Department of Fish and Wildlife to reintroduce swift foxes on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation.
Swift foxes are native to Montana, but suffered heavily due to habitat loss and poisoning efforts aimed at larger predators. They were believed to be extinct in Montana by 1969. Thanks to reintroduction efforts in Canada, Fort Peck, and the Blackfeet Reservation, there are now a small number of swift foxes in Montana. State records and a camera trapping survey conducted in 2015 by the World Wildlife Fund, Oregon State University and their partners indicate that are no established populations of swift foxes in Blaine, Phillips, or Valley Counties south of the Milk River.
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has the ultimate say in wildlife projects in the state, including this one. If our request moves forwards, we expect there will be a public comment period before a final decision is made by the state’s Fish & Wildlife Commission.
Swift Fox Facts
Download the fact sheet to learn more about Swift Foxes on American Prairie Reserve.
Swift Fox Fact Sheet
Not Yet Yellowstone: Restoring Animals on the Brink
With wildlife populations at historic lows, your support tackles one of the Reserve’s biggest challenges: restoration. Learn about our approach and get a status update on elk, prairie dogs, and swift fox.
Read more about Not Yet Yellowstone: Restoring Animals on the Brink
Exploring for good: How donations drive data collection
“Adventure scientists” explore with a purpose, collecting information about wildlife species that is otherwise out of reach. This spring and summer, they are focused on swift fox, sage grouse, prairie dogs, and more.
Read more about Exploring for good: How donations drive data collection
Prairie Dogs Build Diversity Across the Plains
Black-tailed prairie dogs are helpful homebuilders, gardeners and gourmet meals according to recently published research in Conservation Biology. Read the interview with author Dr. David J. Augustine.
Read more about Prairie Dogs Build Diversity Across the Plains
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Amnesty International Media Awards 2004: Global and Regional Shortlists Announced
The winners will be announced at an evening awards ceremony at BAFTA, London, on Thursday 13 May 2004, to be hosted by writer, columnist and broadcaster Joan Bakewell.
The Global Media shortlisted entries are:
Slaves of the 21st Century, Raphael Gomide, Publication O Dia (Brazil) - Nominated by Rede Social de Justica Direitos Humanos
Meeting Death, Joao Antonio Barros, Publication O Dia (Brazil) - Nominated by Centro de Articulacao de Populacoes Marginalizades
Uzbek Prison Brutality, Galima Bukharbaeva, Published IWPR (Institute for War and Peace Reporting) - Nominated by CPJ (Committee to Protect Journalists)
The Regional Media shortlisted entries are:
Asylum Seeking Children's rights, Lorna Martin, Published in The Herald (Scotland)
Situations Vacant, Lucinda Broadbent/Sonya Rothwell, BBC Scotland
Eye on Wales (James Lee), Rhidian Thomas, BBC Radio Wales
For details of shortlisted entries in other catagories please see: www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=780
The Special Award for Human Rights Journalism Under Threat will be announced on the night with the award presented by Sir Bob Geldof. This recognises a journalist from anywhere in the world who is putting themselves at risk by reporting on the human rights situation in their own country
The Amnesty International UK Media Awards, sponsored by Pci:Live, recognises excellence in human rights reporting and acknowledge the significant contribution made to the UK public’s awareness and understanding of human rights issues.
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AT-101
OWNERS & USERS
DEAN STREET STUDIOS
The 660 and 670 limiters were designed by Rein Narma, who built the first 10 mono units by himself, the first one was made for Rudy Van Gelder a recording engineer specializing in jazz, Rein later built a recording console for him. The second 660 was sold to Olmstead Recording in New York and then the third to Mary Ford and husband Les Paul. Rein worked at Gotham Recording and then formed Gotham Audio Development Corp with others. He built new amplifiers for the Ampex 300 for a new product range for Gotham Audio. It was at that time Les Paul heard of Rein.
Les Paul received a new 8 track from Ampex and found it far worse than the 2 track he had so he called Rein to fix some of the problems with the machine. Gotham Audio finished sometime later due to lack of money, various people wanted ‘out’ so Rein became his own company called Rein Narma Audio Development. He continued to work from home in Bergenfield, New Jersey. Rein gets a call from Sherman Fairchild and joins as Chief Engineer in Westwood NJ. Both limiters were licenced to Fairchild for a $100 per unit. Apparently about thirty or forty were ever made.
Rein designed the limiters to have a greater than 20db headroom on the i/p. The 670 units were in part developed for record cutting with a Lateral and Vertical switch. He left Fairchild and the 670 was discontinued shortly after. Rein worked at Rangertone and later moved to the Ampex Service company, later he worked at General Instrument for the next 20 years.
Recently Rein Narma and Les Paul were reintroduced at the 2007 TEC awards where he accepted an award for inventing this highly regarded compressor. The Fairchild 670 which originally sold for $1,500 is often referred to as the "Holy Grail" of outboard devices for its rarity value (currently about $32,000 on the used market) and usefulness in a wide variety of studio situations. This hand-wired stereo unit is a monster, with 20 vacuum tubes, 11 transformers, including 2 Inductors and another 2 transformers tucked within its 65-pound chassis. All of the wiring in this 1963 working model is hand wired. The unit was re-built, replacing the control i/p, control o/p transformers, capacitors in the power supply section and all of the interstage wiring connected to the matrix switch. The coupling capacitors at the gain reduction stage have also been replaced as have capacitors in the o/p stage including a tube socket.
Fairchild 670 Manual.pdf
Original Fairchild Datasheet.pdf
Interview with Rein Narma.pdf
Visit our Youtube channel where we take a look back at the development of tube technology from the ealrly days of manufacturing and development. The history of this technology is well documented that spans many decades.
Fairchild 670 Serial Number 44!
We would like to send out a warm thanks to Geoff Gray
who kindly sent over this photo of his original unit.
www.farnawaystudios.com
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Someday a driver’s license could be stored in Android (Update: SD 865 support)
Williams Pelegrin / @MultiWilliams
Update, December 4, 2019 (04:10 PM ET): In the original article below, we told you about how future versions of Android should be able to securely store a digital version of your driver’s license. Today, at the Qualcomm Summit, the company revealed that the upcoming Snapdragon 865 chipset will support this future feature.
While this isn’t an outright confirmation that you’ll be able to securely store a digital driver’s license in Android 11, it definitely suggests that’s a possibility.
You can read more about what’s possible with the Snapdragon 865 in our roundup here.
Original article, March 8, 2019 (01:15 PM ET): With digital driver’s licenses seeing wider adoption in the U.S. and other countries, the question becomes how secure can companies tighten down such sensitive information? That’s where Google and its IdentityCredential API come in, according to a commit submitted by senior software engineer Shawn Wilden.
Digging into the commit, XDA-Developers noted that the new IdentityCredential framework could securely store your driver’s license and reveal it either in full or in specific portions. For example, IdentityCredential would only display your name and verified birthdate if you’re buying alcohol or tobacco.
The framework could even display your driver’s license if your phone doesn’t have enough juice to start up. That feature would require specialized low-power hardware, a secure chip, and a new version of Android to work.
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As far as security goes, Google is also taking steps to prevent unauthorized access to your driver’s license. If the phone features specialized security hardware, IdentityCredential would create dynamic authentication codes that make it harder to crack the software. Otherwise, the phone could use remotely-stored authentication keys to show that the information stored on the phone is legitimate.
Interestingly, it sounds as if you’ll be able to store “other standardized identity credentials.” The commit reveals that the support for other forms of identification is still in the works, though you might eventually be able to store passports and more.
Because the commit is brand new, we likely won’t see the IdentityCredential framework in Android until at least Android R. The good news is that you won’t have to rely on a proprietary app to hold your digital driver’s license — the Google Pay app could take care of that.
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[Updated: Is A Keyboard-less Version Coming, Too?] Samsung Galaxy S II For AT&T Leaked - And It's Rocking A Full Slide-Out QWERTY [Pictures]
Update: Since there are a lot of upset AT&T customers out there, a caring tipster decided to drop a photo over at Android Central that suggests AT&T may be getting a keyboard-less version of the GSII as well. With that said, I will express my absolute skepticism about this. There is but a single picture, and we all know how easily photographs can be manipulated. So, before you get too excited, I urge you all to take this at face value until we get more proof.
Boy Genius Report landed some exclusive pictures of AT&T's variant of the Samsung Galaxy S II, and it's going to be the crown jewel of QWERTY lovers across the country with its slide-out physical keyboard:
According to BGR, the GSII still retains a rather thin profile, despite the addition of the keyboard.
When word of this slider leaked out yesterday, it was unclear exactly what it was - but this new set of shots verifies that it is indeed the Galaxy S II:
BGR's tipster also took the liberty of performing some common benchmarks, which yielded some unmatched results.
While there is no word on whether or not the rest of the innards of this monster phone have changed from the European variants, there is one thing for certain: the Galaxy S II is coming to the US, and it's coming soon. We're not entirely sure if it will carry the Galaxy S II moniker or take on a different name entirely (like the Galaxy S/Captivate), but hopefully we'll find out soon.
slide-out keyboard
Toshiba Thrive Rooted, Superuser Permissions Enabled, ClockworkMod Recovery Flashed
Early Press Shots of Upcoming HTC Puccini Leaked
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(Update: Out now) Sword Art Online Alicization Rising Steel is a new RPG from Bandai Namco, now available for pre-reg
Matthew Sholtz
Update 1: 2019/11/20 6:53am PST
Sword Art Online Alicization Rising Steel is officially available on the Play Store
Sword Art Online Alicization Rising Steel is the latest mobile SAO game from Bandai Namco, and it's available on the Play Store for pre-registration. Much like the previous two titles in the mobile series, Alicization Rising Steel is an RPG, and this time around it's based on the Alicization arc of the SAO anime, though exclusive content is also expected.
If you check out the trailer above, you'll notice that much of Sword Art Online Alicization Rising Steel ties into the latest story arc for the anime and light novels. As always, the trailer reveals very little about the expected gameplay, and sadly the Play Store description sheds little light on the subject. Why Bandai Namco feels it's best to hide the gameplay from fans, I don't know, but since this is a mobile game, it's hardly a surprise. Luckily the official website offers a few glimpses into what to expect, such as turn-based battles that revolve around three skills, as well as combos and power moves.
So far we know that the game will include in-app purchases (mentioned in a note on the Play Store listing), though we've yet to learn how high they will range. Judging by the previous two mobile SAO titles, I'd say it's a safe bet to expect a free-to-play release that contains IAPs that range up to $79.99 per item. We also don't know the official release date, but since the title is available on the Play Store for pre-registration, It's probably safe to assume that it will land sometime soon. The official website also offers a way to pre-reg, and if you do so through the site, you may earn a few exclusive rewards.
Another year signals another Sword Art Online mobile game from Bandai Namco. I'd hardly call the pre-registration listing of Alicization Rising Steel a surprise event, but I'm sure there are more than a few fans out there that will want to jump into the RPG as soon as it's available. So if you'd like to receive a notification whenever the game is officially released, make sure to pre-register through the Play Store widget below.
Sword Art Online Alicization Rising Steel
Developer: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.
Update 1: 2019/11/20 6:53am PST by Matthew Sholtz
In September, we learned that a new Sword Art Online game would be coming to the Play Store, though at the time we didn't know when the title would arrive. Well, it would appear that today is the day.
Bandai Namco has officially announced that Sword Art Online Alicization Rising Steel is available on the Play Store starting today. As expected, it's a free-to-play release, which means it contains in-app purchases that range up to $79.99 per item. It's the first strategic turn-based Sword Art Online RPG to be released globally, and of course, it sports anime-style combat that will enable players to control their favorite Sword Art Online characters, and there's even a new character in the mix created exclusively for this game. More or less, players will get to experience the Alicization story arc in brand-new ways thanks to today's release, so if you're eager to jump in, you can grab the install from the Play Store widget above.
SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Rising Steel Launches Today for iOS and Android
Experience the first Strategic Turn-Based Sword Art Online RPG to release globally!
Leading anime video game publisher and developer BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc. today announced the official launch of SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Rising Steel for iOS devices via the Apple App Store and Android devices via Google Play. SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Rising Steel, experience the first Strategic Turn-Based Sword Art Online RPG to release globally!
The worldwide version of the newest SAO mobile game will support the following languages!
- English- French (first SAO mobile game!)
- German (first SAO mobile game!)
- Spanish (first SAO mobile game!)
- Traditional Chinese- Korean
To celebrate today’s launch, BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc. is inviting players to enter a sweepstakes for the chance to win an exclusive SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Rising Steel poster that is not for sale anywhere else. Fans can enter by commenting on the Sweepstakes Campaign post on the SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Rising Steel Facebook fan page here: https://www.facebook.com/SAO.risingsteel
SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Rising Steel’s intuitive anime-style combat enables players to control the SWORD ART ONLINE characters like never before, displaying their unique skills with animations adapted directly from the anime series. In addition to fan-favorite characters like Asuna, Kirito and Alice, SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Rising Steel introduces Eydis Synthesis Ten, a brand-new character created exclusively for the game.
SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Rising Steel gives players the chance to experience the “Alicization” story arc in brand-new ways, showcasing stories from the Sword Art Online anime series fused with original scenarios provided by series creator Reki Kawahara. This exclusive content will drop players into the middle of Sword Art Online’s virtual world, surrounded by characters from the series who are ready to do battle.
For more information about SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Rising Steel, please visit the official Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/SAO.risingsteel.
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Viz Media Starts Replacement Program for Sailor Moon Sailor Stars Anime’s Booklet Errors
Posted by Kreesty | Sep 7, 2019 | News | 0 |
Viz Media announced a replacement solution on August 30 for the booklet errors in the limited edition of the first Sailor Moon Sailor Stars home video release.
Those who purchased the limited edition version with the errors should e-mail “[email protected]” with the subject line “Sailor Moon Replacement.” In the e-mail, buyers should state their full name, phone number, e-mail address, and mailing address for where the replacement booklet should be shipped.
Viz Media previously stated, “The erroneous text is in the romaji provided with the song lyrics. The booklet is the only item affected and the issue does not affect the rest of the Limited Edition set or the Standard BD or DVD releases.”
The set shipped with 17 episodes on June 18. Viz Media’s release marks the first time Sailor Moon Sailor Stars, which is the fifth and final season of the original Sailor Moon television anime series, is getting a home video release in North America.
Similar to Viz Media’s previous Sailor Moon sets, the release has a limited-edition Blu-ray Disc/DVD combo pack, a standard Blu-ray Disc/DVD combo pack, and a standard DVD release. The limited-edition set includes a full-color episode guide inside a collector’s chipboard box.
The anime originally aired for 34 episodes from 1996 to 1997.
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‘Tube Up’ channel claims record 13 million viewers
‘Tube Up’ channel claims record 13 million viewers /economy/news/859851
JEDDAH: Tube Up channel claims to have broken the ratings record with 13 million viewers in less than 300 days, attracting more than 153,000 subscribers at the end of 2015.
The new channel is stated to be “extremely distinguished with its rich contents with a unique blend of humorous programs” tackling vital topics either in social, sport or cultural scopes.
In the first year of its launch, the channel presented three programs, one melodrama, a short film and a report. Today, the channel prides itself as one of the most competitive YouTube channels.
Abdul Majeed Al-Rihaidi, programs manager at Tube Up channel, said: “This new channel is paving the way for young Saudis to present their creative ideas in a different way. Our next plan targets the Saudi and other Arab families where we will exert every single effort to amuse their life and draw a smile on their faces through decent, humorous and enjoyable works. The channel has utilized skillful Saudi and other Arab people to help framing out its programs and episodes with high quality and unique approaches to beat the traditionalism of today’s TV programs. Our programs are based on professionalism and thoughts for modern youth.”
Al-Rihaidi has let the doors open for the talented males and females by offering them an opportunity to participate in the Tube Up channel since it has been specifically launched to express their opinions, reflect their dreams and inject the Arabic content with fresh bloods.
The Tube Up channel has been “primarily recognized” by the Candid Camera program, Haaya Taal, the first one to be presented by the channel.
This program entitled the channel to gain around nine million and half viewers.
On the other hand, Off Side program that was followed by Haaya Taal, has attracted many followers since it is featuring the sport programs in particular with a sense of humor and fun.
The three rounds of this program have reportedly gained 800,000 viewers.
Tube Up has been mainly distinguished by delivering the first-of-its-kind drama, the Hurma, performed by Saudi women. The program is claimed to have received two million viewers.
In its pursuit of delivering assorted varieties of distinctive works, Tube Up has produced a cartoon program called Fadfada delivered by two actors who fell in a harsh dispute, which has been treated in a funniest carton show.
The channel says it counts on the proficiency of the creative painter and the specialized technician crew to achieve high quality sound records and superior moving graphics.
Jeddah’s events also exist in the Tube Up world.
The channel has introduced a special report highlighting in details Jeddah’s International Book Show, but in a comic approach.
Food for thought as Aramco’s Amin Nasser hosts Davos /node/1617151/business-economy
The theme of the reception was “the art of the possible,” aiming to highlight Aramco’s huge investment in energy technology
Among the foreseen events were the release of audited reserves estimates showing Aramco — officially — as the world’s biggest oil company
DAVOS: Rapidly becoming a highlight of the hectic Davos calendar is the Saudi Aramco reception and dinner, held for the past two years now at the InterContinental Hotel on the outskirts of the Alpine resort.
The egg-shaped InterConti is one of the bigger and newer establishments here, very different in style from most of the other traditional Swiss hotels. It exudes corporate power and influence and is a fitting venue for the most valuable company in history to host friends, clients and would-be partners for a few informal hours.
On Wednesday, the hotel was virtually an extension of Riyadh. In addition to the Aramco event, there was also a big presence by the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA), with its slogan “Saudi Arabia: Now Live” in prominent view in the bustling lobby.
The Aramco event — hosted of course by chief executive officer Amin Nasser — was a gathering of some of the most powerful people in the Kingdom, as well as a number of the great-and-good of the energy world and representatives of the global elite.
The Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdul Aziz bin Salman chatted amiably with guests, none the worse for wear from the door-stepping he had got from the Western press earlier in the day, which had caused a storm of disapproval on Saudi domestic media. He had a few words for everyone.
Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of the Saudi Public Investment Fund and chairman of Armco, was in attendance too, enjoying the refreshments and canapes of the gathering.
The theme of the reception — held in the InterConti’s cavernous basement function hall — was “the art of the possible,” aiming to highlight Aramco’s huge investment in energy technology, its big global research and development commitment, and its awareness of climate-change issues. “We are more than just a petrol pump,” was the message.
One neat synergy between traditional Saudi life and modern technology was the story of Mohamed Amanullah, leader of Aramco’s Advanced Research Center, who devised a way of using discarded date seeds — suitably processed — as a filter in the oil-drilling process. “It shows heritage and sustainability in one place,” an Aramco aide explained.
The highlight of the soiree was an address from Nasser, who took the stage to thank guests for making the trek to the InterConti. He noted that Davos 2020 had the highest number ever of Saudi delegates.
“Last year was an exceptional year for Aramco, in a variety of areas; some of them planned, some not predicted,” he told the audience.
Among the foreseen events were the release of audited reserves estimates showing Aramco — officially — as the world’s biggest oil company; the record-breaking bond issue in spring; the finding by scientific experts that the Kingdom had the cleanest crude of any of the oil majors; and, of course, the biggest initial public offering in history last month and market recognition of the fact Aramco is the biggest listed company in the world.
Some unplanned events were also mentioned, notably the attacks on Aramco facilities last September that briefly halted most of the Kingdom’s oil industry, but which was overcome with rapid efficiency. The oil price spike was short lived.
“Our job is to fulfill the global need for affordable energy,” Nasser said, highlighting Aramco’s “responsibility and moral obligation” to help alleviate energy poverty in poorer countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
Nasser finished with a pledge that Aramco’s hi-tech capabilities will be enhanced and expanded for the benefit of the world. “I am confident that we can use technology to remove carbon dioxide emissions and methane from the atmosphere,” he said.
That is a mission worthy of the biggest energy company on the planet and provided food for thought for the rest of the Davos evening.
Topics: Aramco Davos 2020
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Thread: Report: Pensacola Shooting Perpetrated by Middle Eastern Foreign National
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Report: Pensacola Shooting Perpetrated by Middle Eastern Foreign National
Joel Pollak/Breitbart News
The gunman who opened fire at Naval Air Station Pensacola, killing three, is reportedly a foreign national from a Middle Eastern country.
The gunman opened fire Friday morning, killing three innocents and causing numerous others to be transported to the hospital for injuries.
The Associated Press reports that the Pensacola gunman was an aviation student from Saudi Arabia.
NBC News reports that the gunman’s name was Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani.
On December 6, 2019, Breitbart News reported that Naval Air Station Pensacola is a gun-free zone. The station’s firearm policy, as described by Commander, Navy Region Mid-Atlantic, notes:
While federal and state laws differ widely on the subject, regulations pertaining to the registration, transportation, and storage of firearms on Naval Installations in the Mid-Atlantic area of responsibility are clear. According to the instruction, all hands share responsibility for adhering to regulations pertaining to the registration, transportation, and storage of firearms in the AOR.
The policy also points out that “state issued ‘concealed weapons permits’ are not recognized on any Navy installation.”
The firearm policy allows guns to be brought on base after obtaining approval from a commanding officer but notes that such firearms “may only be stored in the installation’s armory.” Moreover, during transport onto the installation, all firearms are to be “unloaded and secured with a trigger lock and ammunition must be carried in the farthest most possible location away from the firearm.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...eign-national/
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But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
WHO VETTED THIS S.O.B.???
NONE OF THEM CAN BE VETTED...NONE, ZERO, NADA!!!
AND WHY ARE WE STILL BRINGING THEM HERE...TO OUR BASES...TRAINING THEM AND TEACHING THEM TO FLY!
SHUT THIS DOWN!!!
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In my opinion, America’s stupidity continues. We have apparently learned nothing and our immigration policies are a disaster that will lead to more terrorists and attacks.
To appease the military complex, the State Department, foreign countries who desire to push their people off on us, the globalists, business, certain religious groups, the refugee resettlement organization money fleecers, illegal alien and immigrant rights groups, America continues its folly to invite, school, work, train potential future killers of our citizens. The next victim may be one of us, a loved one or friend.
“Foxes in the hen house.”
“Wolves in sheep clothing”
9/11 hijackers were ignored and helped by America’s poor immigration vetting and enforcement to turn and kill thousands of our citizens. Radical Muslim/Islam ideology and religion will continue to be the death of fellow Americans. These people should never be invited here to train. They have turned on Americans over there so why give them an invite through the front door.
Add to our problem of a lax legal immigration system, temporary or permanent, the illegal aliens and America hating refugees who are having lots of children and joining organizations in America that are funded in part by George Soros to undermine any “America First” future.
Exactly Georgia Peach.
And LET'S teach these barbarians to FLY so in the future they can use MORE Jumbo Jets to kill us on our own soil.
Let's teach them OUR technology, bring their H1-B visas over here to use OUR technology against us and RIP us off.
THE STUPIDITY OF THESE PROGRAMS, AND OUR OWN GOVERNMENT, ARE ASTOUNDING!
OUR OWN GOVERNMENT, THEIR STUPID BILLS AND PROGRAMS, ARE BANKRUPTING US, ARE KILLING US FOR DECADES, AND RIGHT NOW, TODAY...IN COLD BLOOD!!!
WE OWE THESE FOREIGNERS NOTHING! AND CERTAINLY NOT TRAIN THEM ON OUR BASES TO KILL US!
Suspected shooter at Naval Air Station Pensacola was Saudi national
https://www.alipac.us/f12/shooter-na...tional-376199/
Ron DeSantis: Saudi Arabia Owes a Debt to Victims of Pensacola Naval Shooting
https://www.alipac.us/f12/ron-desant...ooting-376203/
4 dead in shooting incident at Pensacola naval base; suspect was Saudi national, officials say
Four people are dead including the suspect after an active shooting incidentat a naval base in Pensacola, Florida, police said.
The shooter was identified as Mohammed Alshamrani, a Saudi national and member of the country's air force who was in the U.S. for flight training, law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation told ABC News. Investigators are trying to determine whether the shooting was terror-related, the officials said.
Authorities responded to reports of a shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola at 6:51 a.m. on Friday, officials said. ATF and FBI also responded to the scene.
The shooting took place at one of the classroom buildings on the base, officials said. Officers with the Escambia County Sheriff's Office arrived on the scene and fatally shot the suspect after exchanging gunfire.
The ID card of the Pensacola shooter
Three people, including the shooter, were pronounced dead on scene, police said. One victim was taken to the hospital and died from injuries.
Eight others injured in the shooting were transported to Baptist Hospital, police said. The condition of those victims has not been released.
"Walking through the crime scene was like being on the set of a movie," Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan told reporters earlier in the day, adding, "The threat has been negated, our community is secured at this time."
None of the victims have been identified.
In a later interview with ABC News' Eva Pilgrim, Morgan confirmed the suspect used a semi-automatic handgun with an extended magazine.
Morgan described a "war zone," a crime scene that could "days to process."
At the scene, "a tremendous number of rounds fired," he added. "Crime scene was littered with rounds."
Two officers were among those wounded in the shooting. One officer was shot in the leg and is currently in surgery. The second officer was shot in the arm and is undergoing care at the hospital. They are both expected to survive.
They're "doing great," Morgan told ABC News. "Expect one to be released today. The other one will be in the hospital for awhile."
"There's some real heroism today," said Capt. Timothy Kinsella, commanding officer at NAS Pensacola.
"This is a dark day for a very great place," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a press conference Friday afternoon. "It not only strikes at the heart of the community of northwest Florida but throughout the Navy."
The FBI is leading the investigation with local authorities and ATF assisting, officials said. The U.S. Attorney's Office is also involved.
The courtyard and barracks at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., March 7, 2018.
According to two law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation, authorities are urgently focused on two likely possible motives: whether the shooter had religious or ideological reasons; or was there a problem or hostility that developed in the course of the training at Pensacola.
"Base security and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service are currently investigating. The names of the victims will not be released until the next of kin have been notified," the Navy said in a statement.
A handgun was identified as the weapon used by the suspect. Only security forces are allowed to carry weapons on the base, Kinsella said.
The shooter was part of an international training service where officers from partner nations are brought to NAS Pensacola to train, Kinsella said, adding that the suspect was part of the "aviation pipeline."
Heavy police presence can be seen outside Baptist Hospital, after a shooting at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Dec. 6, 2019.
The base is shut down until further notice, according to Kinsella.
Mental health coordinators have been sent to talk to witnesses and the victims' families, DeSantis said. The Department of Children and Family Services has sent a mobile response team to the area.
NAS Pensacola employs more than 16,000 military and 7,400 civilian personnel, according to the base's website. The facility includes the Naval Aviation Schools Command, Naval Air Technical Training Center, Marine Aviation Training Support Group 21 and 23, the Blue Angels, and the headquarters for Naval Education Training Command.
Local law enforcement and officials and NAS Pensacola officials hold a press conference about a shooting that left 4 dead, including the shooter, Dec. 6, 2019.
During his roundtable on small business and red tape reduction accomplishments on Friday, President Donald Trump sent his condolences to families of the "warriors" killed and spoke about his call with the King of Saudi Arabia.
"I can tell you it's a horrible thing that took place and we're getting to the bottom on it," Trump said. "All of the investigators are there now and they're studying it very closely and terrible thing, and our condolences to the families."
....The King said that the Saudi people are greatly angered by the barbaric actions of the shooter, and that this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the Saudi people who love the American people.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2019
The president also echoed what he said in his previous tweet about his call with the King of Saudi Arabia.
"The king said that the Saudi people are greatly angered by the barbaric actions of the shoots and that this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the Saudi people who love the American people so much," Trump said.
The USS John F. Kennedy arriving at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, on March 18, 2004.
This is the second shooting incident on a Navy base in the last week.
A 22-year-old active-duty sailor opened fire on three civilian employees, killing two, before he fatally shot himself at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard near Honolulu on Wednesday, military officials said.
The suspected shooter opened fire on shipyard personnel with his M4 service rifle and then used his M9 service pistol to shoot himself, officials said.
ABC News' Eva Pilgrim, Christina Carrega, Aaron Katersky, Jack Date, Mike Levine and Elizabeth Thomas contributed to this report.
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/active...mpression=true
Last edited by GeorgiaPeach; 12-07-2019 at 12:39 AM.
Report: 6 Saudis Detained After Pensacola Shooting, Including 3 Who Filmed Attack
https://www.alipac.us/f12/report-6-s...attack-376210/
Our rotten government LETS these people infiltrate our country, FORCES us to pay for them to be here, and we pay for the crimes they commit against us.
MORE AMERICAN FAMILIES RIPPED APART FROM FOREIGN CITIZENS THAT COME HERE AND KILL US!
WHERE IS AOC? WHERE IS TAHLIB? WHERE IS PELOSI? WHERE IS SCHUMER? WHERE IS OMAR?
They LET them loose with no tracking in place, NO IDEA, what is in their sicks brains...and here we are folks, more dead American's due to the FAILURE of our own govenment to protect us which is their NUMBER ONE responsiblity.
Not to mention the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of foreigners from all over the world, pouring over our border, raping us, stealing from us, stealing our identities, murdering us, and committing crimes and mowing us down with their cars every damn day!
MIDDLE EASTERN MAN’S PLAN TO BLOW UP SCHOOLS
Eastern Florida State College on lockdown after report of shooting on campus
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Eight die in Israel's Gaza offensive
Seven Palestinians and one Israeli soldier have been killed and 35 others wounded after the Israeli army carried out a massive operation in the northern Gaza Strip.
Palestinians mourning the latest deaths in northern Gaza
Infantry units backed by tanks stormed into Beit Hanoun town overnight, surrounding and blocking access to the hospital and establishing control over the town, medical officials and witnesses said on Wednesday.
Al Jazeera's Palestinian correspondent said the Israeli military has announced the death of an Israeli soldier during the Bait Hanun operation.
Hamas' armed wing said it had killed the Israeli soldier and wounded several others.
Witnesses said that five Palestinian gunmen were killed by the Israeli military including four from Hamas.
The action was aimed at stopping rocket fire, an Israeli military spokesman said, adding that Palestinian fighters had fired 300 rockets from Beit Hanoun into Israel since the start of the year.
Haniya's reaction
Ismail Haniya, the Palestinian prime minister, denounced the the attacks as a "massacre".
Israeli soldiers preparing for
the raid into northern Gaza
He said he hoped the violence would not derail Egyptian-brokered talks trying to arrange a swap of Palestinian prisoners in Israel for the release of the captive soldier.
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, said Israel was waging "all-out war", and called the operation "despicable".
The latest incursion came days after Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, said that Israel could expand its four-month offensive in the coastal strip, which has already left more than 260 Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers dead.
Olmert was quoted as telling MPs in Jerusalem on Monday that the army was "preparing for an even more extensive operation in the Gaza Strip".
Later, six homemade rockets were fired at the Israeli border town of Sderot from northern Gaza. Israeli medical officials said two rockets hit the town, lightly wounding one person.
Saudi initiative
In another development, Amir Peretz, Israel's defence minister, has said a Saudi peace initiative can be a "basis for negotiation", indicating a new possibility to resume talks with the Palestinians after years of stalemate.
Bodies of Palestinians killed in
an Israeli raid on Bait Lahiya
"We could see the Saudi initiative as the basis for negotiation. This does not mean that we are adopting the Saudi initiative, but it can serve as a basis," Peretz told an academic conference at Tel Aviv University on Tuesday night.
The Saudi plan, first proposed in 2002, calls for a comprehensive peace between Israel and the Arab world, based on a complete Israeli withdrawal from lands it captured in the 1967 Middle East war - the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and Golan Heights.
Peretz is the most senior Israeli official to publicly consider it.
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Catching the wave or making waves?
International regulatory reform and enforcement trends continue to drive developments in Asia. Changes in the UK, EU and the U.S. are influential. However, it is clear that increased confidence and economic power in the region are ensuring that local developments have a distinct Asian flavour. That trend looks likely to continue.
PRC regulators have continued their efforts to build a multi-tiered capital market which creates many opportunities: high yield bonds are set to debut on the stock exchanges, closely following their cousins on the inter-bank market; securitisation is coming back to the market; foreign asset managers will gain greater access to the securities market due to a lowered bar on qualification of QFIIs or increased foreign stakes in local securities JVs; and regulation of private funds is on the horizon.
The extraterritorial effect of foreign regulations such as The Dodd-Frank Act has started to gain attention and move up the regulatory agenda. The Shanghai Clearing House is poised to clear IRSs by the end of the year. Client clearing is also being considered. Many ask whether this is just a little too fast. But the experimenting mood is likely to last for the foreseeable future, testing the resources and commitment of (especially) foreign market players in China.
Notwithstanding the slowdown in growth of the PRC economy, we continue to see the rising presence of China in the global financial sector and the perceived appetite of Chinese financial institutions (including most recently China Construction Bank) for investments in “Western” and other regional regulated markets. Doing so is not without risk, given the obvious need for foreign investors to familiarise themselves and act in accordance with local regulatory requirements. Recent regulatory action by the UK Financial Services Authority along these lines clearly demonstrates that there is a potential regulatory and reputational cost for foreign investors, as well as personal cost for their management.
Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, the need to maintain its position as a major international financial centre continues to drive regulatory change. Authorities have sought to increase cooperation with the Mainland on the big economic issues such as harnessing the power of RMB, whilst trying to ensure market infrastructure is “fit for purpose”.
That is being done at various levels, including at macro scale in terms of the establishment of a central clearer for OTC derivatives in line with international expectations. At a no less important level in terms of market infrastructure, there have been moves to clean up the IPO market by the proposed introduction of tighter controls over sponsors, increased market transparency by forcing listed companies to publish price sensitive information as soon as possible on pain of criminal penalty, and the Securities and Futures Commission consulting on electronic trading regulation to take into account the increasing importance of technology in the markets. On top of that, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority has announced that it will interview, where appropriate, prospective directors, chief executives, or other high ranking officers to assess first hand the candidate’s skills, knowledge and understanding of the authorised firm’s business, together with key regulatory and supervisory requirements, including risk management practices, capital adequacy and liquidity.
Indications of a possible overhaul of remuneration and incentive structures within financial institutions, which can incentivise mis-selling, fit snugly within the international pronouncements and developments on these issues.
Similar developments are evident in other major financial centres in Asia, including Singapore, Australia and Japan.
All of this points to a firm commitment on the part of Asian regimes and regulators to participate fully in the global markets and act as a counterbalance to the Old World. Fragmentation of Asia is an impediment to this in terms of creating a single regional voice, but even that is starting to be debated. The rise of jurisdictions such as Vietnam and Myanmar add further weight to this argument.
The key issues as regards the tides and currents of market infrastructure, corporate governance, vigorous policing of the markets and the integration of local requirements into international reforms remain. For market players, the practical difficulties of domestic compliance coupled with factoring in international extra-territorial compliance and competitiveness cannot be underplayed.
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Master Builders Australia urges industry entities to comply with new enterprise agreement code
Nathan Johnson
Master Builders Australia (MBA) are encouraging entities in the building and construction industry to ensure their enterprise agreements comply with new government standards if they wish to tender for federal government building work.
The government’s new Building and Construction Industry Code is effective from 24 April 2014 and will see a change in the code for enterprise agreements.
According to the MBA, all those looking to work on government projects, including head contractors, subcontractors and suppliers, must comply with the changes or “they will not be eligible to tender for Federal Government funded building work.”
MBA also says that new provisions in the code for enterprise agreements means there will be no inclusion of restrictive work practices or discriminatory provisions:
“Master Builders strongly supports the new Code because it will eliminate restrictive work practices that drive up the costs of construction and will strengthen the capacity of all entities in the building industry to ‘say no’ to union stand over tactics.”
Similarly, Minister for Employment Eric Abetz believes the new code will inhibit Unions from intimidating subcontractors into entering enterprise agreements against their will and eliminate what he calls the “closed shop” between the nation’s head contractors and unions.
"Head contractors do sweetheart deals with trade unions which then requires any subcontractor on major projects to sign up to trade union enterprise bargaining agreements," he said in an interview with the ABC.
"There's no logical reason why a head contractor would demand that of the subcontractor other than the pressure that has been brought to bear, and threats and intimidation made, by elements of the trade union movement."
Above: Minister for Employment Eric Abetz believes the new enterprise agreement laws will stop covert dealings between unions and big building contractors. Photo: Andrew Meares
Below: Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) national secretary Dave Noonan says the new code looks a lot like Work Choices. Photo: cfmeu
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) national secretary Dave Noonan disagrees and says the new code looks like an imminent return to Work Choices.
Noonan told the ABC that the proposed changes are designed to enact radical workplace reform, which prime minister Toby Abbott has said he would not do before the election.
"The comments about closed shop are simply rhetoric from Mr Abetz," he said.
"What the Government is saying is that they wish to use their procurement power as a client.
"They wish to coerce other clients in the building industry into demanding that there are key clauses in workplace agreements which replicate important parts of the Work Choices legislation.
“The other parts of this plan are of course their Royal Commission into unions, and the Productivity Commission inquiry into the industrial relations system," he said.
However, Abetz believes the code will indicate to employers that want government work that they "have to abide by certain rules and conditions" which he described as "not onerous".
"Most ethical employers would say there's no difficulty complying with this code," Abetz said.
MBA says that although the code will not be given effect until the passing of the government’s bills to restore the Australian Building and Construction Commission, enterprise agreements must, in the meantime, comply with the Code on the basis that the bills are expected to be passed by the Senate after 1 July 2014.
Entities can seek advice if they have any doubt about their enterprise agreements complying with the Code from www.masterbuilders.com.au.
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Shipping Container Homes You Must See
18th December 2015 27th September 2019
by Ian Mutuli
Shipping container homes and structures are increasingly becoming a thing in our generation thanks to the strength, durability, affordability and sustainability of the recyclable materials. They are almost readily available around the world and even cheaper near the ports. As people continue to venture into this new way of building, I look at some of the projects that have utilized shipping containers so far to create functional and comfortable spaces around the world.
10 Best Shipping Container Homes
1. Grillagh Water House by Patrick Bradley
The Grillagh Water House is a shipping container home designed and owned by Architect Patrick Bradley. Located in Northern Ireland near the town of Maghera, this home’s design was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s The Falling Water. It stands as a sculpture deep in the farming lands while still managing to complement and blend well into the site.
One of the most interesting features of this residential building is the upper level that cantilevers over the lower level as it extends towards its end with a balcony surrounded by steel fins to sunshade the interior. The upper level accommodates an open lounge with breathtaking views beyond the landscape while the lower level has more intimate and private spaces including a bathroom, boot room and bedroom with a sliding door.
2. Puma City by LOT-EK
© Danny Bright
Using 24 shipping containers, the architects designed one of the first truly mobile shipping container homes of this scale for Puma. It’s a stack of three levels of containers which have since been shipped to various destinations internationally. Two full retail spaces cover the lower levels, while the second level houses offices, press are and storage. A bar, lounge and event space with a large terrace occupy the top level.
The building has been designed as an assembly of independent containers which are disassembled and encased in panels to prevent windows from shuttering during shipping. When they arrive at their destination they are assembled back to make this 1,100 square metre building.
3. Container Terminal by Potash Architects
© Lior Avitan
This structure located 40 kilometers south of Tel Aviv in Israel provides building offices, technical facilities and an events space at the Port of Ashdod – one of Israel’s largest cargo ports. Project architect, Sivan Joseph, explained that inspiration was drawn from how containers were stacked in the cargo port and the architects wanted to extend the narrative with a little bit of playfulness to differentiate the project from the surroundings while managing to accentuate the recreational function of the building.
The playful approach taken in this project was to angle one of the containers at 30 degrees and slot a staircase inside for circulation to the upper levels. 4 containers make up the lower levels while 2 more on the upper level accommodate more offices above.
4. OceanScope by AnL Studio
© AnL Studio
Korean firm AnL Studio designed and completed the construction of an observatory deck located in Songdo New City, Incheon, South Korea. The structure which was an initiative of the Mayor of Incheon City utilizes three containers inched at angles of 10, 30 and 50 degrees to create an observatory where visitors go to watch the sunset over one of the largest harbours in Korea.
The Mayor’s initiative looked to find unused containers that would later be used to create public spaces across the city. The nature of the ground level being too low inspired the leaning of the containers at the three angles, visitors can then ascend the stairs inside each container to go up and watch the sunset at higher and numerous viewpoints.
5. The Kennel by CHA:COL
© CHA:COL
Commissioned by K9 Ventures – a venture capitalist firm with special focus on technology companies, this tech incubator located in Palo Alto, California, was designed to encourage startups to leave as fast as possible. According to the architects, CHA:COL, the incubator needed to be used intensively by startups, yet for short periods of time.
The brief required the architects to fit the container inside a warehouse located in the peripherals of Palo Alto. The space was required to be a skeleton of what normal incubators are, to discourage incubated startups from staying longer. The container is supported by external space surrounding it inside the warehouse, which also is as bare-boned as possible.
6. Tony’s Farm by Playze
© Bartosz Kolonko
The owner of the biggest organic farm in Shanghai, China, wanted to transform his farm from a workers’ place to an integrated workers’ and consumers’ zone where a natural lifestyle would be promoted. The activities of the people working in the farm and the visitors were linked through a shipping container homes complex developed by architecture firm Playze.
The building complex accommodates a main reception, lobby, VIP area, new offices and an existing warehouse where fruits and vegetables produced at the farm are packed. Containers were chosen for their affordability, sustainability and strength with local bamboo used for indoor and outdoor flooring.
7. Indian Research Base by Bof Architekten
© Bof Architekten/NCAOR
The location of this project, Antarctica, required for a sustainable building that would also be easy to disassemble. The design solution by the architects, Bof Architekten, was for 134 shipping containers that would define the usable spaces as well as act as the structural system. The extreme conditions in the Antarctic featured low temperatures and very powerful winds necessitating the shipping containers to be clad with an insulated aerodynamic skin consisting of metal panels. The skin was tested and optimized for this purpose.
The lower level houses laboratories, storage, technical space, CHP Unit, a garage and a workshop. The second level has 24 single and double rooms, a kitchen and dining room, library, fitness room, OP room, offices and a lounge while the third level accommodates an air conditioning system and a terrace that can be used for various scientific experiments.
8. Two tree house by Golany Architects
© Yaron Golany
The two tree house is among shipping container homes disguised with prefabrication wherever possible. Located in Jerusalem, Israel, the architects wanted to preserve the existing trees so they integrated the two trees within the perimeter of the house.
Prefabrication of the container was chosen instead of masonry work so that the trees can be preserved. The container features timber cladding, light roof over steel ceiling, stone work, and decks which complement the site. The pine trees sunshade the timber cladding from the harsh sun.
9. Smaller by Jim Poteet
© Chris Cooper
Architect Jim Poteet designed this house for artist Stacey Hill who wanted a garden retreat, playhouse and guesthouse for visiting artists within the artists’ community in San Antonio, Texas, USA. Floor-to-ceiling glass doors and windows were added to the shipping container, including a heating and air-conditioning system, a green roof, a small sink, shower and toilet.
Spray-foam was used between the exterior walls and interior bamboo for insulation to protect the interiors from gaining too much heat hence creating thermal comfort. The whole container home is placed on a base made from recycled telephone poles. The green roof features a number of plants with the overhang at the back planted with cacti.
10. Vissershok Container Classroom by Tsai Design Studio
© Tsai Design Studio
Tsai Design Studio developed this classroom for Vissershok Primary School located in the rolling hills of Durbanville wine valley on the outskirts of Cape Town. The children who school here are from underprivileged communities and farmers living in Du Noon.
The project features learning, growing, playing and gathering areas. The learning area inside the container is sun-shaded by the large roof above it which has also been raised to reduce heat gain. Knowing the difficulty in ventilating shipping container homes, cross ventilation is achieved through a series of colourful windows on either side of the container.
Other Amazing Container Homes
11. Graceville by Todd Miller of Zeigler Build
© Todd Miller
This house in Brisbane features 31 shipping containers spread over three levels with a floor area of 506 square metres. It’s one of the largest shipping container homes in Australia. It has lots of open spaces and quality finishes used to achieve an interesting industrial effect. It’s a four bedroom house all ensuite with garage space for 2 cars and the master bedroom occupying the whole upper level.
Other features include a mezzanine reading room, a pull-out wall bed in the rumpus room, an art study, workshop, gym space, water tank and saltwater pool. Its interiors are so elegant that it sold for more than AUS$1.4m in about one year after it was completed.
12. The Savannah Project by Julio Garcia
© Tessa Blumenberg
Cast in the port city of Savannah, Georgia, this container home by Artist and Designer Julio Garcia features two shipping containers creatively worked to come up with a small but posh home and studio. The container side-walls were cut out and separated by a gap which was filled with a wood-framed floor and shed roof to create an open area that doubles as the living room and is larger than other spaces.
The interior of the house has a contemporary feel and look intentionally designed for by the artist with large windows that bring in daylight. The designer opted not to repaint the shipping containers as a reminder of their industrial past.
13. Kalkin House by Adam Kalkin
© Peter Aaron/OTTO
The house was first designed to be an exhibition space for the Shelburne museum in Vermont. However, today the home is a gallery for contemporary design.
As one of the model shipping container homes, it consists of three shipping containers. The house is located inside a large steel shed that reduces heat gain. Two bedrooms with ensuite washrooms, a study and a kitchen make up the spaces provided by the containers.
14. Railroad Revival by Architect David Fenster
© David Fenster
Through winding roads these shipping containers found their way into a wooded environment and were designed to make a weekend getaway on an 11-acre piece of land in a forest in Santa Cruz Mountains.
The containers were left in their industrial state on the exterior to reduce costs while the interior walls were covered with gypsum board and custom hard-wood floors refinished using apatong plywood. The end product of architect Fenster’s planning is this neat pile of six shipping containers with light-filled glass “spine” running through the centre to create one of the most beautiful shipping container homes in the area.
15. Maison Container by Patrick Partouche
© Manuel Djamdjian
This 3 bedroom home in Lille France consists of 8 shipping containers stacked on top of each other to make a 240 square metre home next to an expansive field. The exterior is painted red while the interiors have white walls with red columns. The roof acts as a sun shading element to prevent the containers from overheating while the tunnel created in the middle is a good incentive for breezes which allows air flow to cool the containers.
Each container has one end totally removed and replaced with large windows for daylighting while the containers doors have remained intact to provide shade, privacy or protection against natural elements. On the lower floor a garage, storage, kitchen, dining and living area with an open floor layout was accommodated. The second floor has three bedrooms, bathrooms and office.
16. Art Studio by Maziar Behrooz Architecture
© Maziar Behrooz
This art studio consists of two shipping containers side by side perched over a 2.7-metre foundation wall/cellar to create two floors. The painting studio is located in the lower level that is accessed via a wide staircase which takes advantage of a high ceiling.
The upper floor provides a more intimate work and sitting area for the client whose house is adjacent to the 84 square metre studio in Amagansett, Long Island, New York.
17. Containers of Hope by Benjamin Garcia Saxe
© Benjamin Garcia Saxe
The architect explored with the Peralta family the possibility of designing an affordable home 20 minutes away from the city of San Jose in a vast piece of land in Costa Rica. The client wanted a place to call home where they could enjoy the natural landscape and be with their horses. The option to use shipping containers to design and build their home was a suggestion from the architect that they willingly accepted because it meant they could be debt free due to the affordability of shipping container homes.
The result is a home built from two containers adjacent to each other providing spectacular views. A roof between the two containers creates a sensation of openness while at the same time providing cross ventilation that is sufficient so they never have to turn their air-conditioning on.
18. Decameron Showroom by Marcio Kogan and Mariana Simas
© Pedro Vannucchi
Decameron furniture store is located in Sao Paulo in a rented commercial space. The client wanted a quick, viable and affordable solution to a showroom that would have ample space to showcase their furniture. The use of containers meant that the structure and systems would be easy to design. The predetermined measurements of the containers also made it easy to stack them onto each other to two stories.
19. Casa Incubo by Maria José Trejos
© Sergio Pucci
The client is a photographer and some of his requirements were a home that can be turned into an office whenever needed and with lots of daylight. The architect, Maria José Trejos, designed a home composed of 8 shipping containers with a central double-volume space and openings at the top for cross-ventilation.
The house which is located in Escazú, San José, Costa Rica, is filled with daylight making it unnecessary to use lighting fixtures. One of the containers was strategically placed at the very top to create a terrace and a porch below it housing a bedroom and studio.
20. Hai d3 Creative Incubator by Ibda Design
© Ibda Design
The complex was designed for the ballooning hub of talent in the Dubai Design District. The architects, Ibda Design, designed the series of structures over a period of 8 months carefully manipulating the shipping containers in order to maintain their industrial form as much as possible. The incubator is designed to host a variety of events including exhibitions, collaborative works and displays in order to encourage the growth of art and design in the Middle East.
Landscaped open spaces in front of every building compliment the industrial nature of the architecture. All structures have ‘wind towers’ that catch high-draft wind and funnel it towards the onsite courtyards hence passively cooling the structures. Full-height windows and high sidelights passively light these shipping container homes.
21. PV14 House by M Gooden Design
© M Gooden Design
14 standard shipping containers were used to come up with this home for architect Matt Mooney who also helped design the house together with local architecture firm M Gooden Design. The home spans two stories with 3 bedrooms, a large open-plan layout living area, 3.5 bathrooms, a kitchen, dining room, 2 car garage and a storage space.
A small penthouse with roof access is accommodated with several covered porches next to the main living areas. A large roof deck also acts as a relaxation space. The home is modern and the steel material of the containers has been left exposed in the interiors to give the interiors some industrial feel.
22. Cove Park by Urban Space Management
© Urban Space Management
Cove Park was developed as a cluster of 6 containers where artists can go to get inspiration for their writing or paintings and drawings in a serene environment situated next to a water feature known as Loch Long.
Each container has a cubicle with ensuite accommodation and sliding doors which lead out to a decked balcony with amazing views of Loch Long. An insulating layer of grass is used to top all the containers in this 50-acre piece of land in the west coast of Scotland.
23. Shipping container house by Studio:HT
© Braden Gunem
Two containers sandwich a taller common space in this project in Nederland, Colorado, USA. The architects, Studio H:T, questioned the need for excessive space and challenged occupants to be efficient with their use of space.
The taller common space in between the two containers provides entry, dining, living, and a loft space above. The whole house is solar-powered and also uses passive cooling, green roofs and pellet stove heating.
24. Low-Tech Texas Container Retreat by Mark T. Wellen
© Mark T. Wellen
This is a low-tech home with each container housing typical home features separately. The first container has storage space, the second houses kitchen amenities while the other three both have a bed and bathroom.
The interior finishes are minimalist with sliding glass doors that allow the occupants to gaze over amazing views in the horizon. The roof of this home in Texas, USA, absorbs some heat to warm the spaces. Cooling happens when wind passes between the container and the corrugated steel.
25. California School Expansion
32 shipping containers were used in the expansion of the California school adding up-to 929 square metres of classroom space. It was the first large eco-friendly shipping container homes project in the region and it consists of four classrooms, several restrooms, a science lab, an art studio, a virtual library, student lounge, an auditorium, and administrative offices.
An auditorium that is two floors high consists of 9 shipping containers. The project has four free standing buildings that took a little under 100 days to build.
26. Israel student village
In about 7 months, and using 36 shipping containers students built this village that gave life to 150 apartments in Sderot, Israel. The shipping container homes interiors were covered in drywall and painted white while the exterior of the containers was left as industrial as it gets.
The project comprises three separate structures. Each apartment is fully self-contained with a functional kitchen, living area, a bathroom and bedroom.
27. Malawi school by Architecture for a Change
© A4AC
An architecture firm known as Architecture for a Change (A4AC) designed this school and community centre in Malawi for use by the less fortunate in the community. The firm which is based in Johannesburg, South Africa, designed the school as an independent entity with a rain water harvesting system and solar power array.
The building which also doubles up as an adult training centre educates children and has two classrooms and a large central courtyard. Some sides of the containers were removed and louvres installed to aid in natural ventilation.
28. Canon City Cabin by Tomecek Studio
© Tomecek Studio
A client that visits the Southern Colorado often wanted a family retreat designed for his family and guests. Architects from Tomecek Studio designed this container home using one standard 12-metre container with 6 other 6-metre shipping containers.
The shipping container ends were structurally reinforced and enclosed with additional walls built on site. The walls have been custom-fitted with high performance glazing. The home has two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a guest quarter.
29. Mobile Dwelling Unit by LOT-EK
© Walker Art Center
This unit made from one shipping container provides its dweller with a ready home no matter the destination. It has been fitted with all the necessary live-and-work features that the dweller may need. The metal walls have been cut and extruded to demarcate major spaces including a work, living and storage space.
When travelling the extruded sub-volumes are pushed back into the container where they interlock to allow standard shipping like a normal container. The interiors and sub-volumes are fabricated entirely out of plywood and plastic coated plywood, including all fixtures and furnishings. Despite the shipping container homes unit being designed for mobile purposes, it could easily be configured for permanent residency.
30. The Beach Box
This shipping container house in the dunes of Amagansett, New York, was built such that 4 shipping containers at the ground level accommodate all four bedrooms. The other two at the top house the kitchen, living and dining room.
The exterior of the containers feature Cyprus siding together with fiber-cement and energy-efficient windows with low-E glazing.
31. Caterpillar House by Sebastián Irarrázaval
© Sergio Pirrone
Architect Sebastián Irarrázaval designed this home for an art collector and his family in Santiago, Chile, from 5 standard 12-metre shipping containers and six 6-metre containers. The presence of the Andes Mountains in this location is felt strongly both visually and physically.
There was need for negotiating the slope while making sure wind runs smoothly through the house to prevent any need for mechanical cooling. The result is one of the best shipping container homes with its ends emerging out from the rocky hills to provide spectacular panoramic views of its surroundings.
32. Container House by José Schreiber Arquitecto
© Ramiro Sosa
Designed as a resting place away from the hustles of the city, this is one of several shipping container homes in San Francisco, Cordoba, Argentina. It is characterized by a high quality environmental context. In an L-shaped layout at the ground floor, the architect managed to accommodate the main entrance, kitchen and pantry in one container with the laundry, bath, fireplace, workshop and warehouse in the other.
The central courtyard-like space created acts as a public space as well as a living room. A blind façade conceals the rooms from the street for privacy reasons. Rooms open to the courtyard and enjoy maximum natural lighting and ventilation through the day. The windows consists of high performance aluminum and double glazing.
33. Upcycle House by Lendager architects
© Jesper Ray
This house makes use of wooden surface to add warmth and elegance to the two shipping containers used to construct it. This single-family home has facades that have been insulated to prevent heat gain. The whole house is made from recycled materials with the shipping containers acting as the home’s main framework.
The house features a large living room connected to a spacious kitchen, a master bedroom, three smaller rooms, bathroom, utility room and a passive cooling chamber. In addition to this the house is also fitted with a large greenhouse adjacent to the kitchen and a large south-facing terrace.
34. Residence and Home office by Building Lab
The client needed an extension of his residence which was also being used as the office. With a successful business, the original residence wasn’t enough and the architects at Building Lab were called to provide a solution. The architects designed a separate home office using shipping containers in order to keep the costs low.
The shipping containers gave the house a new somewhat enclosed courtyard as well due to the layout; making it among the best shipping container homes that achieves an extension so the client can separate his office from his home for better productivity.
35. Temporary Housing for Canada’s Workers by BigSteelBox
BigSteelBox unveiled a series of shipping container homes for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) workers who will live in the houses until the company finishes carrying out new liquid gas projects Northern B.C. Each container has two units that have a bedroom and bathroom. Each unit is fitted with a bed, air conditioning, flat screen TVs, computer workstations and stainless steel appliances.
Floor-to-ceiling windows bring in as much daylight as possible. Containers were favoured for this project due to their sustainability, affordability, strength and increased durability since the liquid natural gas projects may run up-to 2020 according to the Canadian government.
36. Old Lady House by Adam Kalkin
© Adam Kalkin
Three shipping containers wide by two shipping containers tall gives you the main living space in this home which has an immense amount of daylight courtesy of the large expanses of glass incorporated on the containers.
A concrete floor, large glass panes, sliding doors, stainless steel, beams and columns characterize this elegant home with modern finishes. The extremely detailed fanciful interior design makes this one the top shipping container homes around.
37. Claudie Dubreuil’s house
© Claudie Dubreuil
Two metal shipping containers are stacked side by side to form the first level while two more containers are stacked on top of the bottom containers so that the whole arrangement forms a cross shape. She thought shipping container homes are much fun. Together with an engineering firm, NCK, the home was put up in a day in Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, Canada, after two weeks of cutting the metal containers for openings and window placement areas.
The exterior was clad in unstained hemlock spruce because Claudie didn’t want to paint the house every year. The interior walls of the house are painted white. Floors are finished in polished concrete with radiant heating on both levels.
38. APAP OpenSchool by LOT-EK
Built in Anyang, Korea, this building stands as a bold yellow and black landmark in Hakwoon Park just next to the riverbank. Inspired by shipping container homes, eight shipping containers are shifted and cut along a 45 degree angle and combined in a fishbone pattern generating a large arrow-like volume lifted three meters over the landscape. Two containers are angled upward and downward to reach ground and sky.
The container structure is an art school that allows it’s users to be visitors, spectators and actors especially during the APA2010 public art program.
39. Aether Store by Thierry Gaugain
© Thierry Gaugain
An outdoor apparel company called Aether opened its first concept store in San Francisco made of three shipping containers stacked upon each other to form three levels which are accessible by an interior stair.
A cantilevered lounge enclosed by glass on the second level can be seen from the street.
40. Barneveld Noord by NL Architects
© Marcel van der Burg
ProRail, the company in charge of the railway network in Netherlands decided to transform waiting stations to make them feel safer and more supervised, albeit informally. Borrowing from shipping container homes, three containers are suspended in the air to create a roof. One of the containers contains necessary installations for lighting fixtures, while the other has storage space. The third one is opened at the bottom to create a double-volume transparent waiting space.
The fourth container which is flipped upwards forms a tower which contains a wind-vane at the top and a clock. Among the amenities that further improve the project are washrooms, Wi-Fi, floor heating, railway TV and Art.
41. Office Space by Five AM
© Thomas De Bruyne
Printing office Drukta and mailing company Formail both moved into a warehouse with a total floor area of 4,000 square metres in Kortrijk, Belgium. Design studio Five AM was brought in to figure out how the two companies would share the space. 13 containers were used and effectively spaced so that the machines on the work floor were easily accessible by both companies.
Colours of the containers contrast with each other and the warehouse’s concrete creating dynamic images of the two companies. Containers were also made partly visible from outside the warehouse to allow natural light through the windows into the office spaces as well as making the façade distinct and unique.
42. Puma DDSU by LOT-EK
Originally conceived for the 2010 World Cup, this mobile retail unit is an amazing way of how shipping containers can be used to create retail spaces. The architects designed this drive, drop and shop unit from one shipping container with the container able to laterally expand to increase its interior space.
Once transported to wherever it needs to be, it is opened by pulling out the pods on one elongated side of the container to increase interior space, and opening the main entry access on the opposite side.
43. Shipping container homes in Santiago, Chile
A combination of 2 12-metre and 3 6-metre shipping containers begot this shipping container home in the outskirts of Santiago, Chile. The structure was developed as an earthquake-proof and low-cost home and built in a very small time frame.
The home features thermal pane windows, internal coating plasterboard and projected cellulose insulation with the total floor area being about 120 square metres. It stands to be counted amidst large shipping container homes in the area.
44. 12 Container house by Adam Kalkin
© Peter Aaron
This container’s steel contrasts with glass to give this house an outstanding unique look. The open plan compliments an already amazing interior.
12 shipping containers form the interior rooms with each container representing a particular space like the kitchen, bedroom, etc. Large windows cut on the ends of the shipping container homes to fill the bedrooms with natural daylight.
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Ian Mutuli
Ian Mutuli is the Founder and Managing Editor of Archute. He occasionally writes about startups and tech for The Press Farm. He is also a graduate architect from The University of Nairobi, Kenya.
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The Forgiving Kind
Written By: Donna Everhart
Narrated By: Tiffany Morgan
Publisher: Tantor Media
Duration: 12 hours 0 minutes
For twelve-year-old Martha 'Sonny' Creech, there is no place more beautiful than her family's cotton farm. She, her two brothers, and her parents work hard on their land-hoeing, planting, picking-but only Sonny loves the rich, dark earth the way her father does. When a tragic accident claims his life, her stricken family struggles to fend off ruin-until their rich, reclusive neighbor offers to help finance that year's cotton crop.
Sonny is dismayed when her mama accepts Frank Fowler's offer; even more so when Sonny's best friend, Daniel, points out that the man has ulterior motives. Sonny has a talent for divining water-an ability she shared with her father and earns her the hated nickname 'water witch' in school. But uncanny as that skill may be, it won't be enough to offset Mr. Fowler's disturbing influence in her world. Even her bond with Daniel begins to collapse under the weight of Mr. Fowler's bigoted taunts. Though she tries to bury her misgivings for the sake of her mama's happiness, Sonny doesn't need a willow branch to divine that a reckoning is coming, bringing with it heartache, violence-and perhaps, a fitting and surprising measure of justice.
Forgiving Kind
by Donna Everhart
This title is due for release on January 29, 2019.
This title is due for release on January 29, 2019
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Antipodes, Vol. 27, No.1 edited by Nicholas Birns
Reviewed by Susan Lever •
Antipodes, Vol. 27, No.1
edited by Nicholas Birns
AAALS, US$47 p.a., 120 pp, 08935580
No matter what the state of local publishing of Australian literature and criticism, twice a year the loyal members of AAALS continue to produce the readable and enlightening Antipodes. The June 2013 issue includes some splendid poetry by Tom Shapcott, Jan Owen, and Ali Alizadeh, and several less well-known names, and a mix of stories that move beyond fiction in Jeremy Fisher’s memoir of his father’s war experience and Graeme Kinross-Smith recalling his work teaching creative writing. Lucy Neave and John Kinsella contribute engaging, if more conventional, fiction.
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Susan Lever is the author of David Foster: The Satirist of Australia (Cambria Press, 2008) and general editor of Cambria Press’s Australian Literature Series. She has published widely on Australian literary history and contemporary Australian fiction, and is currently conducting interviews with Australian television writers for the Australian Writers’ Foundation Oral History project. She is completing a book on Australian television dramatists. Susan Lever’s interviews with Australian screenwriters are accessible through the National Film and Sound Archive, samples can be found here.
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Aug 7, 2018 Report
Musk plan to privatize Tesla pushes $2.3 billion of debt above conversion price
The move may provide a little debt relief
The move may provide a little debt relief.
Tesla raises $1.2 billion in advance of Model 3 debut
Musk and Co had expected to raise $1 billion.
Tesla sold about $350 million in stock and $850 million in convertible debt to help pay for capital expenditures spurred by new model.
Faraday Future sued for $10m over late payments to supplier
This sounds bad.
Alex Kierstein
May 3, 2016 Green
Tesla gets deadbeat treatment in Norway over late payments
Creditors come knocking, and Tesla's credit rating gets docked.
Tesla Motors Norway sees its credit rating damaged as creditors demand payment.
John Beltz Snyder
Jul 8, 2014 Followup
Spyker settles tax debt, cancels auction of assets
News hit last week that Spyker appeared to be in trouble. Citing an outstanding tax bill, local authorities had apparently seized an array of the company's assets – including racecars, road cars, concept cars and spare parts – and were selling them off in order to pay off the company's debt. It now seems, however, that Spyker is in the clear.
Tesla dropped to 'junk bond' status by S&P
While Tesla Motors' Model S is a piece of pristine, well-designed metal, the company's bonds have now been rated as "junk." But maybe that's better than the other way around. We'll let the investors decide.
Jan 17, 2014 Motorsports
Lotus F1 team $186 million in debt
The Lotus F1 team has fallen on some hard times. Majority-owned by investment firm Genii Capital and having little to do with the British automaker with which it shares its name, the Enstone-based outfit has been widely reported to be in serious financial trouble. The extent of those difficulties were until now unknown, but a new report from Germany's Auto Motor und Sport reveals that
Fisker says A123 is discounting its debt levels
REPORT: Chrysler unlikely to pay back most recent $4.5 billion gov't loan
Repayment of the $4.5 billion life-line in U.S. and Canadian loans that a federal bankruptcy court allowed yesterday is "highly unlikely," according to Ron Manzo, a top company adviser. To Chrysler's bankruptcy legal team, that is not the issue. Urging the court "to let this company live," automaker attorney Corinne Ball said "the survival of Chrysler's business is at stake in these proceedings, as is the fate of hundreds of suppliers and thousands of Chrysler dealers around the country."
Michael Harley
Ford might increase cuts in slow economy
Mark "the Mullet" Fields dropped some small ordinance during an interview with the Wall Street Journal today, saying that if the slow U.S. economy puts the automaker at risk of not meeting its financial goals for the next two years, it may increase the rate at which it will cut costs.
Koenigsegg is in debt, but not circling the drain
There are a number of hurdles to overcome when playing to people's egos, adrenal glands and pocket books. When combing the three into a cohesive, four-wheeled package, the task is even more daunting. Although Koenigsegg has only been in the business for five years, it knows that troubles don't end when a fresh set of keys is handed to a customer and backorders fill the coffer.
Recent Ford bond issues to pay out record returns
From all appearances, Ford Motor Company feels it will need a well-baited hook in order to attract investors to its most recent issue of bonds. As such, the Blue Oval crew is offering $2.5 billion with rates as high as 10.75 percent - a record for the company. Analysts state that this is "an expensive way" for the company to hold onto its $21.2B in cash, even as its prepares for yet another round of downsizing. Ford itself confesses that selling credi
Eric Bryant
FCC lobbied by debt collectors to allow auto-dialing of mobile phones
According to the Washington Post, debt collectors are lobbying the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to again use automated dialers to contact mobile phones of debtors. Previously, collectors could use such technology but were banned back in 2
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This privacy policy describes how ArtSquare, LLC, ("us", "we", or "ArtSquare") collects and uses the personal information you provide on our Web site at artsquare.com and its subdomains (the "Site"). It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information. By using, accessing, or participating in the Site or Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Capitalized terms not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meanings stated in the Terms of Use.
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Daughters of Interracial Parents More Likely Than Sons to Identify as Multiracial
Daughters of interracial parents are more likely than sons to identify as multiracial, and this is especially true for children of black-white couples, according to a new study in the February issue of the American Sociological Review.
Study Finds EITC Bolsters Recipients’ Self-Respect While Helping Them Financially
America's welfare state is quietly evolving from needs-based to an employment-based safety net that rewards working families and fuels dreams of a better life, indicates a new study led by a Michigan State University (MSU) scholar.
The major reason: the little-known Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a $65 billion federal tax-relief program for poor, working families. The program has been expanded dramatically during the past 25 years, while cash welfare has been sharply curtailed.
Study Finds Foreclosures Fueled Racial Segregation in U.S.
Some 9 million American families lost their homes to foreclosure during the late 2000s housing bust, driving many to economic ruin and in search of new residences. Hardest hit were black, Latino, and racially integrated neighborhoods, according to a new Cornell University analysis of the crisis.
Led by demographer Matthew Hall, researchers estimate racial segregation grew between Latinos and whites by nearly 50 percent and between blacks and whites by about 20 percent as whites abandoned and minorities moved into areas most heavily distressed by foreclosures.
Study: Probation for Schools Spurs Transfer Patterns Linked to Family Income
Schools placed on probation due to subpar test scores spurs transfer patterns linked to household income, a study by New York University (NYU) sociologists finds.
Their study of a school accountability program in the Chicago Public Schools reveals that families were responsive to new information about school quality and that those with more financial resources were the most likely to transfer to other schools in the district or to leave the district altogether.
With Racial Segregation Declining Between Neighborhoods, Segregation Now Taking New Form
Recent research has shown that racial segregation in the U.S. is declining between neighborhoods, but a new study indicates that segregation is manifesting itself in other ways — not disappearing.
Jishuku, Altruism, and Expatriate Emotion
When a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit japan in 2011, the effects were felt by over a million expatriates worldwide.
Marrying across Class Lines
Even when married couples think childhood class differences are in the past, those factors shape how each spouse tackles tasks and allocates resources.
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Ballard Spahr | Pennsylvania PUC Judge Rules that Owners and Operators of Natural Gas Gathering Pipelines Are Not Public Utilities
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Pennsylvania PUC Judge Rules that Owners and Operators of Natural Gas Gathering Pipelines Are Not Public Utilities
by Harry Weiss
Midstream pipeline operators looking to use the Commonwealth's power of eminent domain to acquire pipeline easements to link the lucrative gas being extracted from the Marcellus Shale formation with transmission pipelines were dealt a setback through a proposed ruling from a Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) administrative law judge.
The operator, Laser Marcellus Gathering Company LLC (Laser), filed an application with the PUC for a Certificate of Public Convenience to construct and to operate a six-mile natural gas gathering pipeline in Susquehanna County. Laser sought public utility status so that it could acquire easements through eminent domain proceedings from property owners not willing to enter into a private arrangement. Administrative Law Judge Susan Colwell ruled that, because Laser was not offering services to the public for compensation, it could not be regulated as a public utility. Under Pennsylvania law, only public utilities can utilize the Commonwealth's power of eminent domain to condemn and acquire land.
If the decision is confirmed by the Commission, and is not then overturned by the Commonwealth Court through a likely appeal, any midstream operator seeking to construct such a pipeline would have to painstakingly negotiate separate agreements with all the surface landowners along the pipeline's desired route.
For further information on Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale natural gas play, please contact Harry Weiss, at 215.864.8129 or weiss@ballardspahr.com, or any member of Ballard Spahr’s Energy and Project Finance or Environmental practice.
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Facing Change in AV
By Lindsey M. Adler (AV Network) 2015-12-28T14:51:00Z
A stack of random maps has been accumulating on my desk. And by random, I mean informative depictions of the hiking trails around Muir Woods, the lago di garda region of Italy, and the Brooklyn bus routes.
My intention in collecting these was to adorn my walls with them. Often when I search for writing inspiration or just when I need to clear my mind, I like to take a step back and simply stare at the walls in hopes an epiphany might arise. With the maps there, maybe the winding travel routes will somehow lead my brain somewhere new.
The maps also serve as a convenient visual metaphor for a topic that has recurred often in my recent conversations with industry members from across the spectrum of age, geographies, and occupation. They have inspired me with their passionate engagement on the subject of where we’re going next. We’ve been at a crossroads for sometime now, and people have come to accept that and are looking to forge a path forward. Yet the question remains, which way?
I think we’ve been asking that question for a while now. There are plenty of ideas too: managed services, recurring revenue, open platforms, content creation, exceptional experiences. There are pockets of success along all of these. I might argue that there’s a lack of uniformity, and that scares people.
Something else I think scares people is the potential for stumbling blocks. How do you commit to an idea, get all your people behind it, and push forward without any inkling of doubt? I for one spend a lot of time and energy ensuring that I avoid errors, having been rattled so severely by them in the past. It’s never pleasant at the time, yet it is intrinsic in the process of taking risks, creating, innovating, and ultimately, growth and progress. It was an unwitting theme I discovered throughout this issue of SCN, from the speakers at AVEC and the stories of this year’s Hall of Fame class. Success is not achieved without making mistakes.
Despite my fear of being due for a mistake, looking back on the past year as editor of SCN, the magazine is still standing; our online audience continues to grow. I feel good about all of that in a year that’s been filled with unknowns for me. Having lacked any major misstep, opening a new calendar year, I find myself staring at maps. It’s not as simple as plunging into the void—that feels too much like 2015. Instead, I’m ready to strategize, chart a new course, and prepare to face a changing landscape.
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The silent decline of the employer health care market
Reproduced from Kasier Family Foundation; Chart: Axios Visuals
While everyone was laser-focused on the Affordable Care Act for the past decade, the backbone of the American health care system was gradually deteriorating.
Between the lines: Employer insurance has become increasingly unaffordable over the last decade, contributing to today's political debates over surprise medical bills, drug prices and "Medicare for All."
Go deeper: Employer health plans are getting pricier and skimpier
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Four health care questions for a better Democratic debate
Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images
If tonight’s Democratic debate is anything like the earlier ones, it will feature an extended back-and-forth about whether to eliminate private health insurance, and then move on from health care. But there’s a whole lot more that’s also worth asking about.
The big picture: We basically know what the candidates will say about the question of private insurance, because they’ve said it all before. So here are four other questions that might also help illuminate the choice voters face on such a deeply personal, wildly complex topic.
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Medicare for All: Where the Democratic candidates stand
Beto O'Rourke, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Photo: Getty Images
Democratic presidential candidates are laying out plans for expanding health-care coverage, with Medicare for All overpowering the conversation.
The big picture: Most 2020 Democrats say they buy into the concept of universal health care, except they vary on how to achieve it — and on which plan would be more appealing to achieve nationwide support.
Go deeper.ArrowMar 23, 2019 - Politics
Bob Herman
Health care stocks aren't having a great year
The stock prices of major health care companies have not kept pace with the broader market so far in 2019, even though the industry is flush with cash.
The bottom line: Medicare for All and other health care reforms floated by Democratic presidential candidates, as well as higher-than-expected medical costs at health insurance companies, have made investors nervous about the future.
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Alexandra Gestin was born in Guérande, a small medieval town, located on the “Côte d’amour” in the West of France. Destiny would soon take the young Alexandra far away from her native country and her artist-architect grandfather on a number of amazing voyages that gave her, her passion for art. In North Africa, her love for sculpture becomes a passion. In Asia, she is inspired and discovers her first subjects. Today Alexandra is settled in Belgium and it is here that she has found the freedom to explore and develop this passion.
She became interested in the topic of sumo fights after her trip to Tokyo. Sumo wrestlers are indeed an interesting inspiration for sculpture, because of their exuberant, large bodies. In addition to her portrayal of sumo culture, Gestin is also engaged in sculpting figures of children of most diverse origins. Each of her pieces is highly original and sculpted using a mixture of strength and sensitivity.
Every face is a place that has affected my life, says Anna Gavalda. There is that in the works of Alexandra Gestin. For her inspiration, a face, a look or even a photograph. Then with all her energy she starts to work and rework her subject, shaping and moving the clay and argile without stopping. The gesture is beautiful, generous. Her works show a truth, they have style. Her talent is in her contrasts, strength and gentleness, solid but fragile. A wonderful chemistry which is reflected in the work and the personality of Alexandra Gestin.
Gestin’s work has achieved a lot of success not only because of its technical excellence but also because of the artist’s very particular choice of topics. She dedicated her entire inspiration and passion to addressing each and every detail of her favorite topics, which are children and sumo wrestlers. Gestin had many successful solo and group exhibitions and her exquisite, unique sculptures are part of numerous private collections in Europe, USA, Africa, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Hong-Kong, Singapore, and Japan.
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Clava Cairns, Scotland & Grey Cairns of Camster: The Past Speaks
Meg Pier | January 6, 2020 January 4, 2018 | Built Heritage, Scotland
Two Mysterious Bronze Age Sites in Scottish Highlands Inspire Questions & Conjecture
Glimpsed through the midst of a March day, Clava Cairns seemed to me the embodiment of mystery, a shrine to all things occult. Entering the grassy knoll next to the river Nairn where these three Bronze Age cairns stand, the scene before me was awash in shades of grey. The low circular mounds and surrounding upright slabs were constructed in stone the color of ash. Enclosing the expanse were stands of barren trees with silvery bark, their silhouettes swaying against a steely sky.
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A marker commemorates the death of members of the MacGillivrays at Culloden Battlefield, a conflict that forever changed Scotland’s cultural landscape. Photo: Meg Pier
Clava Cairns, Scotland
I had come to Clava Cairns from nearby Culloden Battlefield, five miles outside Inverness. Culloden is a patch of ground known to every Scot as the site of the brief but bloody battle in which Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobean forces were routed by the Duke of Cumberland and the Hanoverian government troops. Fought in 1746 and lasting an hour, this was the last pitched battle on British soil and marked the death knell for the Highland clan system as it then existed.
Across the moor where the carnage took place, small stone markers memorialized the mass graves of the almost 2,000 Highlanders who were killed. One carried the inscription “Here the chief of the MacGillivrays fell.” Others scattered across the soggy field simply bore the names of a clan: Donald, Maclean, Maclaghlan, Mackintosh, among many others.
While Culloden preserves and honors a very specific moment in history, far less is known or understood about the Clava Cairns cemetery complex—including whether we can even be sure that was the purpose of the site. I visited Clava Cairns with my guide Johanna Campbell and her husband Gilbert Summers, a Scottish writer who eloquently articulated the vagaries of these structures that were erected 4,000 years ago.
“We may speculate as to function of these impressive monuments but ultimately, surely they are unknowably ancient?” he asked. “We assume they are memorials to the dead that probably required a society or community capable of working cooperatively. That’s about all that’s certain. Ritual functions? Sacrifices? Communing with ancestors? Praise in stone for successful war leaders or farmers or priests? Visit and speculate…feel free…the people here have no names.”
Pondering the purpose of Clava Cairns is something Dougie Scott has done for more than thirty years. A silversmith who lives in Tain, Easter-Ross, his Celtic jewelry has been inspired by the Book of Kells and the ancient cross slabs created by the Iron Age Pictish people, which are common throughout the northeast of Scotland. In the early 1980s, he became passionate about pre-historic astronomy and rock art. Since then he has been surveying the standing stone alignments and cairns, photographing them in relation to the sun and moon as the planets rise and set.
Views of some of the mysterious standing stones of Clava Cairns cemetery complex. Photo: Meg Pier
Are Prehistoric Stone Alignments of Clava Cairns, Scotland a Way to Communicate with the Gods?
Dougie explained that there are two types of alignment indicated by the stones. The first is a pattern of solar alignments at 45-day intervals known in British and Irish tradition as quarter days, which fall close to the two solstices and two equinoxes. These quarter days have been observed for centuries; each year on these dates servants were hired, and rents were due. The other alignment pattern occurs on four Pagan festivals roughly three months apart: Candlemas (February), Beltane (May), Lammas (August) and Samhain (November).
“If the sun and moon were believed to be gods, perhaps the cremations were only carried out when they rose and set in line with certain standing stones,” he said. “Perhaps after the cremations, the burnt bone would then have been deposited in the chambered cairns to await the coming of the sun or moonlight into the cairns.” Did the winter sunlight or the full moon shining into the cairn mark the final sequence in the burial rites with the remains of the dead being cleared out to make ready for the next burial, leaving only residual amounts of bone and charcoal? This use of ring cairns for cremations throughout the country could be the origin of the tradition of bonfires being lit at the regular divisions of the year up to the present day. “It’s thought from the quantities of quartz found during excavations, laid on the upper surface of the cairns, that its use made them a dazzling white in the sun or moonlight,” Dougie said. “Access into the cairn’s central chambers by the southwest entrance would have meant crawling awkwardly on hands and knees down the sloping passage roofed with flat slabs.”
Dougie said that evidence suggests that the passage and ring cairns had been used for burials and cremations respectively and that while the structures are aligned to the sun and moon, it is likely that the cairns had been used for a religious purpose, rather than an astronomical one.
“If the sun and moon were believed to be gods, perhaps the cremations were only carried out when they rose and set in line with certain standing stones,” he said. “Perhaps after the cremations, the burnt bone would then have been deposited in the chambered cairns to await the coming of the sun or moonlight into the cairns. Did the winter sunlight or the full moon shining into the cairn mark the final sequence in the burial rites with the remains of the dead being cleared out to make ready for the next burial, leaving only residual amounts of bone and charcoal? This use of ring cairns for cremations throughout the country could be the origin of the tradition of bonfires being lit at the regular divisions of the year up to the present day.”
“Recent experiments in covering the northeast passage cairn at midwinter have produced stunning effects, with the whole back wall of the chamber shimmering with red light,” he said. “While there is no surviving folklore about the cairns at Clava, was the entry of the sun into these wombs like cairns believed to be a magical phallus of a sun god impregnating a female earth deity, or was this the time when the spirits of the dead were reborn back into the world?”
The boardwalk leading over the Flow Country bog to the Grey Cairns of Camster. Photo: Meg Pier
“The cairns could have also been used for a number of other functions from interaction with the gods or ancestors, meditation and initiation rites to perhaps the actual act of giving birth,” he continued. “It is likely that the cairns were used as a religious focus for the living and as folklore and archaeology suggests as spirit houses for the dead. While we can only speculate what happened as the light of the sun and moon penetrated into the darkness the cairns, it seems they have only begun to give up their secrets.”
The landscape across Scotland is imbued with ancient secrets. More than 100 miles north of Clava Cairns is a region known as “Flow Country.” This name for the Caithness and Sutherland areas of northeast Scotland comes from a Scots term for an area of flat, wet bog, typically with pools. It is the largest expanse of bog in Europe, covering about 1500 square miles.
Driving down a one-track lane through this wilderness, the damp drizzle accentuated the eeriness of the lonely moor and silence settled over Gilbert, Johanna and me. The melancholy mood evoked by the terrain was heightened by the occasional appearance of the crumbling ruins of homesteads abandoned in The Highland Clearances when the clans were forced off the land in the name of progress.
Cresting one of the rolling hills, I was surprised to see a red car on the roadside, the driver seemingly engaged in a conversation with a sheep and two tiny lambs. The animals had somehow escaped through the fence that lined the road and were separated from the herd fanned out over the moor. Even in this desolate landscape, spring’s cycle of life was in full glory and I laughed with delight at seeing dozens of adorable lambs frolicking. Ahead of us, the farmer used the nose of his car to herd the animals down the road and through a gate to re-join the rest of the flock.
Paying Respects to Neolithic Residents of Grey Cairns of Camster
A little further down the road, we arrived at the home of the farmers we had come to see. Set far back from the road, their stone dwellings were reached by a long boardwalk that stretched out over the thick brown tufts of peat, heather and mosses. Reaching the front door, Gilbert and Johanna got down on their hands and knees to enter. No, we weren’t calling on Bilbo Baggins but paying respects to the Neolithic residents of the Grey Cairns of Camster.
Guide Johanna Campbell emerges from the Grey Cairns of Camster. Photo: Meg Pier
“Before the deep blanket of peat covered Caithness during the Bronze Age, this corner of the British Isles was good farming land,” Dr. Kirsty Owen told me. “These two great mounds were where some of those farmers were laid to rest.”
Dr. Owen is Historic Scotland Cultural Heritage Advisor and an expert on the final resting place of these Neolithic farmers.
“The two Grey Cairns of Camster are among the oldest stone monuments in Scotland,” said Dr. Owen. “They were built over 5,000 years ago. Even before their excavation and restoration by Historic Scotland in the later 20th century they were two of the best preserved burial tombs surviving from the Neolithic period anywhere in Britain. Their location – on a windswept moor in the heart of the Caithness ‘Flow Country’ – probably ensured their survival from the ravages of later farmers.”
“The Grey Cairns of Camster are the most recognisable monuments in Caithness,” she continued. “These cairns provide an insight into the ritual beliefs and practices of people living in northern Scotland about 5750 to 4500 years ago. As is common with Neolithic monuments in Caithness, these burial monuments form part of a group.”
Dr. Owen explained they comprise a reconstructed Neolithic long cairn and about 200 meters to the southeast, a round cairn. The long cairn is about 60 meters long and has two internal chambers, entered from one of its long sides, with forecourts at each end. The round cairn is about 19 meters in diameter and has a single chamber sub-divided into three parts.
Cairns provide insight into the skills and technical expertise of early prehistoric farming communities in northern Scotland. Photo: Meg Pier
“Tombs such as the long cairn tend to located in prominent places on what would have been the edge of the inhabited landscape; domestic activity and settlement were separated from areas and activities involving the dead,” Dr. Owen said. “The interiors of the tombs were used for the burial of human remains, and the forecourts are regarded as having had a ritual function, where activities could have been visible to more people than were able to see what went on in the tombs. However, we cannot determine the precise nature of the burial rites at Camster.”
Dr. Owen said the cairns do provide insight into the skills and technical expertise of early prehistoric farming communities in northern Scotland. She pointed out that their construction involved access to substantial resources of stone and people, and this would have required considerable organization.
I asked Dr. Owen what inspired her to make a career of studying the ancient past.
“I am motivated by a desire to find commonalities in the way in which people make sense of their world, particularly the bits of it which were not readily comprehensible before the scientific endeavour,” she responded. “The study of material culture, the things which people leave behind, is an opportunity to gain an insight into that world and also, if we are very lucky, a window into individual identities, thoughts and desires.”
Whether the focus is an 18th century battlefield, a Bronze age religious center or a Neolithic burial site, the Scottish Highlands offer common ground for all those who seek wonder and connection.
The figure on the left of the cairn gives a sense of the size of the structure. Photo: Meg Pier
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Tag: HYT 51mm Replica
Presenting The New Dark Side With The Hyt Skull Bad Boy 51mm Replica Watch
HYT replica watches may have just unveiled my favorite version yet of its popular Skull replica watch, the HYT Skull Bad Boy. Dressed all in black – literally head to toe – the HYT Skull Bad Boy even features a new black liquid for the time zone indication, quite a deviation from the bright colors we are used to seeing. The replica watch is not due to be officially launched until next month at Baselworld but fortunately we can give you a quick sneak preview now.
At first glance the HYT Skull Bad Boy doesn’t look that dramatically different from the other 3 member of the HYT Skull family, other than the obvious color scheme variations of course. As with any HYT best replica watch that debuts a new colored liquid though, the story is always more complicated than you expect and invariably starts in a chemist’s lab as opposed to a replica watchmaker’s bench.
The HYT Skull Bad Boy Replica is of course no exception. The rather innocuous looking black liquid that traverses a time-indicating course around the skull in the centre of the dial actually took over 12 months to develop. Like the other 4 colors developed by HYT this new black liquid has its own chemical properties, all of which impact on things like viscosity, expansion coefficient and UV resistance. In HYT’s case these things are particularly important to creating a liquid that will reliably behave in the way they want – namely going up and down a tube in a fixed pattern without sticking to the walls.
As cool as the black liquid looks though there is one obvious drawback – it’s impossible to read in the dark. HYT replica watches have been criticised in the past for its pieces not always being the most legible, especially in low light situations, however the brand recently overcame that challenge by developing some pretty clever illumination technology. For the HYT Skull Bad Boy however the choice not to make it legible in the dark was apparently intentional.
“It was a deliberate decision“, explains Vincent Perriard, CEO of HYT. “There were other solutions which would have made the piece visible at night. But if we wanted to play with the darkness inherent to the Skull Bad Boy, we had to go all the way. Night is part of the world of shadows and darkness. Perfectly in tune with the spirit of the skull“.
To be honest I am not sure how people are going to react to that although to be fair lack of legibility at night may not be potential customers main concern. Rather, it might be size. To put it bluntly the HYT Skull Bad Boy is huge, its matte black case made from fully microblasted DLC titanium measuring an eye-watering 51 mm in diameter. On the other hand, who wants to wear a statement piece that doesn’t make a statement on the wrist?
Regardless of the size though my absolute favorite feature of this replica watch has to be the skull, which has been designed to look like its hewn from Damascus steel – a metal more commonly used for knives and Samurai swords. A foundry in the Neuchâtel region created the raw material: multiple layers of steel and carbon are folded in on themselves a total of 256 times before being cast in batches of five skulls at a time, no two of which will ever be identical.
Functionally the HYT Skull Bad Boy operates in pretty much the exactly same manner as its elder siblings. The power reserve indicator still sits in the right eye socket, which gets darker as the piece reaches the end of its 65-hour power reserve, whilst the left eye socket houses the seconds disc. Completing the look is a buffed alligator strap with smatterings of slate grey and, rather unusually, a velcro clasp. Apparently this is so you can fasten it over a motorcycle jacket.
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December 11, 2019 Music, Arts & Culture » Music
Christmas Jug Band's new album
Christmas music for people who hate Christmas music
By Charlie Swanson
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OLD-SCHOOL CHRISTMAS North Bay institution The Christmas Jug Band makes the season that much brighter.
Musician, songwriter and producer Tim Eschliman traces the roots of the Christmas Jug Band back to December, 1977. That’s the date marked on the cassette he holds dear that features a live recording of the ensemble’s earliest holiday gathering, playing on Christmas Eve at the long-gone Old Mill in Mill Valley.
“When we first started doing it, we marketed it as Christmas music for people who hate Christmas music,” Eschliman says. “It’s not Perry Como.”
Of course, the band wasn’t called the Christmas Jug Band back then; they were simply a group of friendly musicians who gathered on Mondays to drink Wild Turkey and play jug band music.
Yet, the project snowballed from that first holiday performance, and more than 40 years later, the band is still an annual tradition that features Eschliman (Commander Cody, Rhythmtown-Jive), Gregory Leroy “Duke” Dewey (Country Joe & the Fish), Austin deLone (Elvis Costello, Boz Scaggs), Ken “Turtle” Vandermarr (Dan Hicks), Paul Rogers (Those Darn Accordions), Blake Richardson, Ken “Snakebite” Jacobs (Kinky Friedman) and special guests performing original holiday-themed tunes, parodies and classic songs that all get the raucous, acoustic jug band treatment.
“One of the jokes about the band is, ‘How do you guys stay together so long?’ Well, we have 50 weeks off a year,” Eschliman laughs. “It’s really a band full of band leaders, but for a week or two we can just have fun as a group and drop the need to be the dictator and just enjoy the crowd.”
The Christmas Jug Band’s annual slate of shows this year also acts as an album-release tour for the group’s new album, Live From the West Pole; their first collection of new material released in a decade. The group recorded the entire album last year at Sweetwater Music Hall, their homebase that Eschliman dubbed the West Pole some years back.
“I just decided we’re going to name Mill Valley ‘The West Pole,’ because it’s the birthplace of this silly thing,” says Eschliman. “No one else has claimed that the West Pole is anywhere, so we’re claiming it .”
The Christmas Jug Band performs on Friday, Dec. 13, at the Big Easy (128 American Alley, Petaluma. 8pm. $15. 707.776.4631) & Sunday and Monday, Dec 15–16, at Sweetwater Music Hall (19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley. Sun, 7pm. $19–$27; Mon, 8pm. $24–$27. 415.388.3850).
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Diehl ’18: Why I will be rooting for the Broncos in the Super Bowl
By Joe Diehl
Baylor Knobloch
Brett Favre and Peyton Manning were the first two NFL jerseys I ever had, even though my favorite teams were the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Minnesota Vikings. Favre could just plain sling the ball; he willed some of his throws to reach his target. Of course, this gun-slinging approach led to more than just a few interceptions. But Favre’s playing style spoke to his personality — someone unafraid to fail and try things that looked improbable. He was so fun to watch because his next throw could be a pick-six, or one of the best touchdown passes you had ever seen.
Manning, on the other hand, played with line-of-scrimmage savvy and deliberate placements of the ball that made him seem like the conductor of his own orchestra. Everything was so planned and flawlessly timed. He would recognize the weakness in the defense in seemingly every play and could audible to the perfect play to exploit these gaps. Maybe his style wasn’t as exciting as Favre’s, but it was certainly still a pleasure to watch. He was destined to ride off into the sunset as a Colt, with several titles on his resume.
Then came the neck surgeries — three in 15 months to be exact. Without Manning, the subpar Colts roster tanked its way to the number-one pick, stumbling into future franchise cornerstone Andrew Luck. These events led Manning to leave Indianapolis feeling incomplete.
His tenure with the Broncos started off strongly. Manning was once again orchestrating a top-notch NFL offense. They went on to win the AFC before getting demolished by a superb Seahawks team in Super Bowl XLVIII. Even in the next season, few doubted his playing ability. This year, things have changed. Everyone knew Manning’s fragile neck would not last forever in the NFL, but the likely end to Manning’s career after this upcoming game has felt sudden to many.
I can’t imagine dealing with what Manning has gone through this past season: the revelation that he can’t feel his fingertips, the fact that he will need hip replacement surgery and Brock Osweiler usurping him due to injury and performance. With all of the courage he’s shown by remaining on the field and leading his team to two playoff victories, Manning has been credited with being a “game manager.”
Sometimes impact transcends playing ability on the field. Is it a coincidence that with Manning fighting to stay on the field, the Broncos’ defense recorded the most hits last weekend on a quarterback this season with 20 against Tom Brady? Don’t get me wrong, the Broncos’ defense has been the team’s superior unit this season. Wade Phillips deserves credit for designing the league’s most dynamic defensive strategies, but Manning will be the emotional force behind the Broncos in this upcoming Super Bowl as they face off against the Panthers.
But it’s the Panthers that have been the more underappreciated team. They have been picked apart for a relatively unimpressive point differential for a team of their stature. Critics have been harsh on their offensive line and wide receivers. Many jokes have been said about Ted Ginn Jr. being the “X” receiver on offense.
I am also divided on likely NFL MVP Cam Newton. On the one hand, he’s a superior dual-threat talent who gives out his touchdown balls to delighted little kids. On the other, he carries himself with an arrogance that borders on disrespectful and displays a self-absorbance level that registers very high on the Kanye scale. When you compare this to the on-field diligence of Manning, it’s hard not to see Newton as a jerk.
Being from Salt Lake City, I am surrounded by Broncos fans, including my brother. Naturally, this has always inclined me to root against the Broncos. Out here, I’m sure many non-Patriots fans can relate. But I am a Peyton Manning fan, and I have too much respect for him on and off the field to root against him here . To me, the Panthers seem like a team of Donald Trumps — cocky and inconsiderate — and even if the other guy isn’t that appealing, the respect level is enough to have a rooting interest. If this is Peyton’s last year, let him go out on top. He’s given the game more than it’s given him, but the balance of the universe will slightly even out if he can go out as a champion.
This article is dedicated to Joe Diehl’s friend and rabid Broncos fan, Charlie Andrews. He hopes for the sake of Charlie’s health that the Broncos win. You can contact him at joe_diehl@brown.edu.
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Asset Attributes
There are two sets of attributes that you can edit for an asset:
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Sample Program Plan
Sample program plan information is provided for sample purposes only. Students should consult with their academic advisor about their individual plan for course registration and completion of program requirements.
Freshman - Fall Semester (16 hours)
MTH 114 Applied Finite Math — 3
ATG 157 Accounting Principles-Financial — 3
BUS 100 Contemporary Business — 3
Core Courses — 3
EHS 120 University Experience — 1
COM 103 Speech — 3
Freshman - Spring Semester (15 hours)
ATG 158 Accounting Principles-Managerial — 3
MIS 173 Info. Sys. Business Apps. — 3
ENG 101 English Composition — 3
Sophomore - Fall Semester (16 hours)
ECO 221 Microeconomics — 3
QM 262 Quantitative Analysis I — 3
MIS 272 Business Analytics Tools and Technology — 3
Core Course — 3
Elective — 3
BUS 220 Career Planning — 1
Sophomore - Spring Semester (15 hours)
MIS 276 Developing Information Systems for E-Commerce — 3
ECO 222 Macroeconomics — 3
MTG 315 Principles of Marketing — 3
MIS 374 or Business Elective — 3
Junior - Fall Semester (15 hours)
MIS 375 Business Systems Analysis and Design — 3
MIS Elective — 3
CS 101 Introduction to Programming — 3
FIN 322 Business Finance — 3
Business Quantitative Skills Course — 3
Junior - Spring Semester (16 hours)
CS 102 Data Structures — 3
BLW 342 Legal Environment of Business — 3
ENG 306 Business Communication — 3
M L 250 Interpersonal Effectiveness — 2
M L 350 Managing Results for Organizations — 2
Senior - Fall Semester (16 hours)
BUS 400 Client Consulting Project — 2
M L 452 Strategic Management in Organizations — 2
Business Electives — 6
Electives — 5
Senior - Spring Semester (15 hours)
MIS 478 Implementing Business Computer Systems — 3
Electives — 12
MIS 173 - Introduction to Business Analytics (3 hours)
Gen. Ed.
Develop spreadsheet applications for analyzing and solving problems. Learn how to gather, store, organize, secure and disseminate data with spreadsheets and databases. Learn how to convert data into information that is beneficial to supporting business decisions. Prerequisite:
MIS 175 - Introduction to Developing Business Applications (3 hours)
Provides an introduction to object-oriented computer programming using VisualBasic.NET. Demonstrates the advantages of using a programming environment to efficiently develop computer programs. Focuses on developing logical approaches to problem solving and implementing programmed solutions to those problems.
MIS 272 - Business Analytics Software and Applications I (3 hours)
Students will learn commonly used data analysis tools and techniques. They will learn how to use and apply software that allows business professionals to gather, store, access, and analyze data to aid in decision making. The course will teach students how to discover and communicate information from data through the use of basic, intermediate, and advanced functions and tools in commonly used spreadsheet and database software. Each student will learn about the visual representation of data, optimization techniques, queries, pivot tables, reporting tools, data storage, and more. Prerequisite: MIS 173 or consent of department chair
MIS 275 - Business Applications Using Visual Basic (3 hours)
Object oriented business application development using Visual Basic. Emphasis on object classes, events and properties, and data structures, controls, and objects. Prerequisite: MIS 175.
MIS 276 - Ecommerce Models and Applications (3 hours)
Understand how different competitive contexts that drive ecommerce business models. Understand the technological infrastructure needed to support ecommerce. Design an ecommerce presence. Understand and interpret ecommerce analytics. Brief introductions to HTML, CSS, and scripting language. Prerequisite:
MIS 289 - Topics in Management Information Systems (1-3 hours)
Topics of special interest in management information systems, which may vary each time the course is offered. Topic and prerequisite stated in current Schedule of Classes. May be repeated under different topics for a maximum of six hours credit. Prerequisite:
MIS 373 - Applied Networking (3 hours)
Gives students an understanding of basic network design concepts and an opportunity to apply them in a business context. Studies the functionality, performance and management of multiple network designs. Application of the theories, design and technologies utilized in modern business data communications networks. Prerequisite: 42 hours
MIS 374 - Database Management and Administration (3 hours)
Introduces the fundamental concepts of database analysis, design, and implementation with emphasis on the relational model. Topics include SQL, data modeling, data normalization, tables, queries, data mining, security, database administration, and backup/recovery. Prerequisite: MIS 272 and 42 hours
MIS 375 - Business Systems Analysis and Design (3 hours)
Core Curr. WI
Information systems in business applications. Emphasis on relationship of information systems planning to overall business goals, policies, plans, management style, and industry condition; analysis, design, and implementation of information systems. Overview of future trends in data management. Prerequisite: MIS 272 and junior standing.
MIS 378 - Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Testing (3 hours)
Provides an introduction to the theory of human factors and process of usability testing. Explores current theory of human factors and human-computer interaction and how they should be applied to designing business systems. Emphasis placed on the scientific approach to systems testing to ensure systems meet usability standards and on the statistical benchmarking these tests provide. This is a non-technical course designed for those interested in managing the development of technical products and evaluating the usability of existing products and processes.
MIS 379 - Information Systems Security (3 hours)
An introduction to the various technical and administrative aspects of information security and assurance. Provides the foundation for understanding the key issues associated with protecting information assets, determining the levels of protection and response to security incidents, and designing a consistent, reasonable information security system, with appropriate intrusion detection and reporting features. Prerequisite: Junior standing.
MIS 383 - Advanced Ethical Hacking (3 hours)
Provides students with hands-on experience with all phases of a security assessment for a live client. Students are responsible for planning the assessment, executing assigned tasks, and reporting results. Prerequisite: MIS 379 or CIS 435 or permission of instructor Corequisite: MIS 373 or CIS 430
MIS 389 - Advanced Topics in Management Information System (1-3 hours)
Advanced topics of special interest in management information systems, which may vary each time the course is offered. Topic and prerequisite stated in current schedule of classes. May be repeated under different topics for a maximum of six hours credit. Prerequisite:
MIS 471 - Business Analytics Software and Applications II (3 hours)
Introduces the concepts of data mining and data management. Students will learn dashboard based software that supports visual, text, unstructured and structured business analytics. They will learn how to use and apply software that allows business professionals to apply statistical techniques in a visual dashboard environment. They will apply this software to common business problems in order to understand how to use these tools in a variety of contexts. Prerequisite: MIS 272
MIS 473 - Business Analytics Software and Applications III (3 hours)
Business intelligence (BI) provides the highest level of information support to aid the manager in the decisionmaking process. This course provides the skills necessary to conceptualize, build, and implement systems utilizing a variety of business analytics software and big data analytics tools available to organizations. Prerequisite: MIS 471
MIS 478 - MIS Capstone Consulting Project (3 hours)
Students provide consulting to clients for projects, such as information systems development, the evaluation and/or implementation of new technology and other technology related business needs. Application of concepts and skills of project management. Prerequisite: MIS 375.
MIS 479 - Topics in Management Information Systems (3 hours)
Topics of special interest which may vary each time course is offered. Topic and prerequisite stated in current Schedule of Classes. May be repeated under different topics for a maximum of six hours credit. Prerequisite: stated in current schedule of classes
MIS 499 - Independent Studies in Management Information Systems (1-3 hours)
Studies undertaken by academically qualified students under the guidance of a faculty member, with the approval of the chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Law. May be repeated under different topics for a maximum of six hours credit. Prerequisite: Stated in current Schedule of Classes
MIS 572 - Information Systems Management (2 hours)
Knowledge and application of information-related resources from a management perspective: identifying information needs, strategic uses of information systems, emerging information technologies, legal issues in information technology, managing information resources effectively. Prerequisite: Foster College of Business Graduate Student or Consent of Associate Dean.
MIS 613 - Advanced Algorithms for Business (3 hours)
Study of advance algorithms focusing on complex data structures and nonlinear systems using chaos and fractal theory for quantitative analysis. Course implements graphical geometry to represent recursion, termination of solution progress, limits, self-similarity and moving target analysis as it applies to business based financial approximations. This course is tailored to the needs of Master of Science in Quantitative Finance (MSQF) and Master of Business Administration (MBA) students. Various programming environments will be used to program solutions. Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor or MIS 275 or CIS 275\x09\x09
MIS 614 - Topics in Advanced Business Technology (3 hours)
Study of advanced topics in business technology. Topics may vary each time course is offered. Topics will be stated in current schedule of classes. May be repeated for a total of 6 credit hours. Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor\x09\x09
Topics of special interest, which may vary each time the course is offered. May be repeated under different topics for a maximum of six (6) hours credit. Topic stated in current Schedule of Classes. Prerequisite: Stated in current Schedule of Classes
MIS 660 - Readings in Management Information Systems (1-6 hours)
Individual readings in Management Information Systems for qualified students, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 credit hours. Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy; consent of instructor and director of graduate programs
MIS 671 - Productivity Software for Managers (3 hours)
The use of packaged software to improve personal productivity in the business environment: spreadsheets, databases, presentation graphics, database retrieval, statistics, word processing, and electronic mail. Problem-solving laboratory exercises using the different software packages.
MIS 673 - Data Communications for Managers (3 hours)
Data communications for supporting management decision making and group coordination: communication technologies, idea generation and group collaboration, data and video conferencing, emerging technologies for communication and coordination. Prerequisite: MIS 672 or consent of director of graduate programs.
Bradley Core Curriculum
The Bradley Core Curriculum exposes all students to the requisite range of knowledge, skills and perspectives that prepares them for further learning and guides them on the path of continued growth to facilitate their success and fulfillment in a changing, complex world. In essence, the Bradley Core Curriculum lays the foundation for a lifetime of intellectual development.
More specifically, the Bradley Core Curriculum advances Lydia Moss Bradley’s intent that the university “furnish its students with the means of living an independent, industrious and useful life,” by equipping them with a common set of attributes, understandings and tools to:
Make connections between thoughts, ideas and people through more emphasis on collaboration, critical thinking, decision-making and inquiry across disciplines and cultures;
Become better communicators with the integrative, reflective and multidisciplinary mindset necessary in today’s global society; and
Embrace the flexibility of a customizable Bradley Experience by pursing the subject areas that best support or complement their individual interests, abilities and future plans.
Core Learning Outcomes
The Bradley Core Curriculum was designed to help students achieve specific Core Learning Outcomes that span all aspects of the program.
Critical and creative thinking. Bradley graduates will think critically, independently and creatively, and will employ evidence-based decision-making to solve problems and build new knowledge.
Effective communication. Bradley graduates will be effective oral, written and non-verbal communicators as well as active readers and listeners.
Multidisciplinary integration. Bradley graduates will approach learning in an integrated manner, connecting knowledge and skills across multiple disciplines.
Practical application. Bradley graduates will apply knowledge and skills from the classroom in real-world situations.
Social awareness. Bradley graduates will understand and act ethically upon their connections to larger communities.
The Bradley Core Curriculum is grounded in a set of fundamental perspectives, Core Values, that lie at the heart of the university's scholarly enterprise.
Curiosity;
Freedom of inquiry and expression;
Belief in the unity of knowledge;
Pursuit of knowledge as its own end;
Dedication and persistence in learning;
Strong work ethic;
Humility and circumspection toward what is known;
Habit of self-reflection;
Integrity;
Flexibility; and
Civility.
Bradley’s management information systems program prepares you to use information technology to provide businesses with valuable information.
The Bradley Advantage
As a Bradley management information systems major in the Foster College of Business, you learn to solve business problems by using technology. Unlike other technology-centered programs, the MIS degree focuses on human aspects and business applications. Courses show you how to apply systems analysis, information security, data networking and database administration to business settings. Like all business majors, you will test your knowledge through a senior capstone project for a local client.
Successful Outcomes
Bradley’s MIS program successfully prepares you to enter the workforce. In recent years, all students found employment within six months of graduation. Those graduates are working as systems analysts, web application developers, network administrators and information security specialists at companies such as Caterpillar, Country Financial, Discover and State Farm Insurance.
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Beauty queens catch beautiful game via Rea Vaya
One of the great success stories to emerge from the 2010 FIFA World Cup has been the Rea Vaya – Johannesburg’s new rapid bus system that whisks fans from points across the city to games at two host stadiums, Soccer City and Ellis Park.
(Miss World finalists with and FIFA’s Danny Jordaan and Jerome Valcke using the Rea Vaya)
FIFA general-secretary, Jerome Valcke, and FIFA Local Organising Committee chief executive, Danny Jordaan, and were among those who took the Rea Vaya bus to Soccer City to see the game between Brazil and the Ivory Coast.
They were also joined by 32 Miss World finalists, who are in South Africa for the duration of World Cup to support their respective teams.
(FIFA general-secretary, Jerome Valcke, and FIFA Local Organising Committee chief executive, Danny Jordaan on board the Rea Vaya)
The mayoral committee member for transport, Rehana Moosajee, and the executive director of Johannesburg’s 2010 Office, Sibongile Mazibuko were at Westgate Station to greet them before the start of the game.
Fast, safe, affordable and reliable, the Rea Vaya BRT has been proving the transport means of choice for football fans. It network features a middle lane for large, hi-tech buses which will transport passengers comfortably and quickly around Johannesburg using specific designated routes, enclosed bus stations along the routes and a hi-tech control centre to ensure a world-class experience.
(FIFA general-secretary, Jerome Valcke, and World Travel Awards president and founder, Graham Cooke)
Hundreds of volunteers are helping out during the tournament, and are on hand to greet and help the fans. Dressed in bright yellow, with the Joburg and FIFA logos emblazoned on their shirts, they are determined to make the experience as smooth as possible for the visitors. They are backed up by the Rea Vaya station ambassadors, dressed in vibrant red jackets.
A pocket-size match day transport guide from the City of Johannesburg and a magazine loaded with information about Rea Vaya are handed out before the fans get their return tickets checked.
(Miss Australia and Miss Germany on the Rea Vaya Joburg)
Buses arrive regularly, long before the match is due to kick off. LCD screens remind spectators to note the station name where they disembark at the stadium.
Smaller feeder buses bring people from the outer areas to the stations on the trunk routes. This extends Rea Vaya’s network to areas far beyond the main trunk routes. Buses are either 75 or 112 capacity vehicles, depending on passenger volumes and operate from about 150 stations, positioned half a kilometre apart. They run every three minutes in peak times and every 10 minutes in off-peak times and operate catch from 5am to midnight.
(World-class transport for world-class football)
The 32 Miss World finalists are supporting Johannesburg Tourism Company as part of the Joburg Rocks campaign, sharing their World Cup experiences in the City of Gold with millions of football fans.
The beauty queens are based in the heart of the action – Melrose Park, one of the designated Johannesburg fan zones. The Joburg Rocks campaign includes a series of events such as the Festival of Africa which embraces African music, dance, food and history.
For further details on Rea Vaya visit www.reavaya.org.za
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Film Review - Micmacs
Throughout his entire career, filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet has been compared to Terry Gilliam, as both men share a love for the absurd and the angular, while nursing an obsession for extravagant details. With the farce “Micmacs,” Jeunet surpasses Gilliam in both design and execution achievements, staging a ripping tale of revenge and oddball relations in a markedly French manner, shaping one the year’s funniest imports, further cementing his reputation as a maestro of unconventional entertainment.
Losing his father to a landmine as a boy, Bazil (Dany Boon) has practically raised himself, finding solace in a video store job in Paris, spending his time ingesting classic films. When a street shootout drills a stray bullet into his brain, Bazil is taken out of commission for months, left with a scar and an amazing sensitivity to the world around him. Now homeless, Bazil is taken in by a group of accommodating junk farmers (including Jeunet stalwart Dominique Pinon), who work clandestinely under a pile of garbage, fixing up the scrap left behind in order to return it to the world. Joining this group of outsiders with specialized skills, Bazil is soon distracted when he comes into contact with the weapons manufacturing company that built both the landmine and the bullet in his brain, compelling the Frenchman to conduct a massive plan of revenge on two top executives, helping to rid the world of killing machines and heal his troubled heart.
It’s been nearly six years since Jeunet last saw the inside of a movie theater, overworking his obsession with fate in the 2004 drama “A Very Long Engagement.” The “Amelie” director typically takes his time between movies, but the extended break seemed uncharacteristic, and “Micmacs” has the appearance of a filmmaker who was more than ready to release his wiggles. A buoyant take on his preferred universe of eccentrics, while soaked in the influences of classic film (cradled by recycled bits of scoring from Max Steiner), “Micmacs” is a colorful puzzle of a picture, twisting through oddity and tomfoolery to form a feature of consistent laughs, yet delicate enough to approach touchy social issues without slashing its pace.
Armed with a full canister of whimsy, Jeunet turns on the high beams for this picture, imagining a community of gifted shut-ins who’ve found no comfort in society, brought into the junk world to assume a brighter purpose. There’s a strong man, a writer, a human calculator, and an amazing contortionist (Julie Ferrier) at Bazil’s disposal, all eager to help their new friend thwart the evil deeds of the executives, one of which ghoulishly collects parts of famous historical figures (e.g. Marilyn Monroe’s tooth, Winston Churchill’s fingernail clippings). “Micmacs” is primarily made up of silly reconnaissance missions and sleuthing, with our hero barely able to stay one step ahead of the enemy, necessitating a group effort to bring down the warmongers.
“Micmacs” has a lovely silent comedy ambiance that puts Jeunet in the mood for slapstick and feats of pure magic. The joy of the picture is found in these bends of reality, which occasionally require the participation of human cannonballs and unbelievably crack timing, while the director keeps matters in a cheeky R-rated realm to swat away any undue sweetness -- one potent distraction requires the services of a local porn star. Just watching Bazil and company in the midst of their schemes is worth the price of admission, displaying Jeunet’s gift for visual precision and his fizzy sense of humor. Matters morph into a cartoon on occasion, but Jeunet keeps the “Micmacs” engine running comfortably smooth for the entire journey.
Enlivened by a vivid, gifted cast (Boon’s a charming lead, but Ferrier steals the film), “Micmacs” heads to many peculiar areas of conflict, supported by a stupendous technical effort from the crew. Yet, as bizarre as the feature is, it retains a heart, demonstrated wonderfully in the final act, as the gang makes one last impression on their trembling targets. Comfortably zany and always striking, “Micmacs” elevates Jeunet to a solid plateau of idiosyncrasy and, unlike Gilliam, proves he’s a director with an ability to control his impulses.
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'Revenge's "Revolution" Was A Shocking, Bloody Mess — Did The Show Just Ensure A Fourth Season?
By Christine DiStasio
It's been a long time since ABC's Revenge really shocked us with an episode. But, on Sunday night, the drama series did just that. We thought things had gotten crazy and violent when Emily got shot in the midseason finale and Victoria and Patrick bludgeoned his father to death. But that was nothing compared to what was to come in Revenge's 10 pm time slot — Emily's new identity seemed like it might save the show, but apparently the series has a lot more going for it than we thought. And all of those things are soaked in blood.
"Revolution" was, to the say the least, a shocker in comparison to other episodes Revenge has aired during its third season. And with only a few episodes left in Season 3, it's clear that the ABC drama is going to get renewed for the fourth run. How do we know? Because Sunday night's episode drummed up so much attention, we weren't even sure where to look or what to question first. So here are the top three biggest moments that have us certain that Revenge will return.
Pascal LaMarchel Is Dead
THIS WAS INSANE. CONRAD IS OUT OF CONTROL. My brain was on overload as this scene unfolded. After Emily caught up with Pascal and Victoria and realized that he was talking to the feds, she confided in Daniel, who then confided in Conrad. This family is really just the worst, but okay. Conrad obviously knew that Pascal would sell him out to keep Victoria safe because he really did love her — so how do we solve that problem in the Hamptons? BY THROWING OUR ENEMIES INTO HELICOPTER PROPELLERS. I'm not even kidding — and even Emily was shocked to see Conrad murder someone in such a gruesome way and then wander around the helipad looking all American Psycho. Emily's clearly got her hands full now.
David Clarke Has Another Revenge-Seeker
Who the hell is this guy and why is he creeping out of his cabin in the woods now? Oh, right, because Revenge only has a handful of episodes left and we're trying to up the suspense and drama. Not only is this guy the ultimate creeper — both because he's a lurker and living in an isolated, serial killer-esque cabin — but he's also got a handful of David Clarke letters and the guy's pinky ring. He's obviously not David Clarke because David Clarke is dead — so who is he? His illegitimate son that Emily doesn't know about? Someone he met in prison? We have no idea, we don't even know his name, but he just kidnapped Charlotte so he's really going to eff things up.
Daniel Is Probably A Sociopath
This guy — what the hell happened to him? Well, other than being tricked into marrying Emily as part of a plot to send his family to jail. Daniel's apparently on an epic rampage and he DGAF about who he hurts in the process — including his dear, old mom. He shuffled over to Conrad's hotel and swapped his mother's secret about Pascal talking to the FBI and then he got this "friend in Interpol" involved. Daniel really loves having a "friend in Interpol." But anyway, when Conrad killed Pascal, and Victoria, obviously distraught, asked Daniel why he'd opened his big mouth when she asked him not to — HE WASN'T EVEN SORRY. He just looked at his mother like she disgusted him for being involved with Pascal and called it a day. Daniel's gone off the deep end, but at least he's not boring anymore.
For the first time since Season 1 we're actually excited about Revenge again. Happy killing, people.
Image: ABC
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Home Car News KTM Freeride 350 Enduro Bike Unveiled– Will It Be Launched In India...
KTM Freeride 350 Enduro Bike Unveiled– Will It Be Launched In India Soon?
KTM has confirmed that it will be launching a new type of dirt bike, also known as Enduro bike, in India with a brand new 350 CC engine. This new engine made for the Indian market will also be launched with the upcoming KTM Duke 350.
The 350 CC Enduro bike is named the KTM Freeride 350. The power unit is capable of producing more power but has been tuned to develop 24 BHP of maximum power only. Since it is a type of dirt bike, it’s body frame is quite solid yet feather light. Despite having a 350 CC engine the bike weighs 99 kg only. The fuel injection system provides just enough power which is never too much.
The bike features a slim and noise reducing double pipe exhaust system which makes it city traffic ready.
image- KTM Freeride 350 CC Enduro Bike
The bike is new model which is yet to be introduced officially at the global level and as per the information available it will be presented at the upcoming EICMA Motorcycle Fair in Milan, Italy in November.
With this new type of bike, which is an advanced version of a typical dirt bike with added headlamps, the company wishes to introduce the thrill of Motocross among the Indian riders who are yet deprived of it.
As mentioned above, the engine of this bike will also be used in the Duke 350 which is supposed to come later in 2012 but interestingly the Duke will have better power and torque figures. We do want to see people getting some Motocross experience here and await the launch of Freeride 350.
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HomeHuntingDeer HuntingPee Dee Wildlife Refuge gives up massive buck
Pee Dee Wildlife Refuge gives up massive buck
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Jared Troublefield poses with the big buck he killed on the Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge on Nov. 14, 2019.
Buck’s rack has impressive mass throughout its length
Jared Troublefield of Stanfield, N.C. killed a buck that had a massive rack in Anson County, N.C on the Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge. The thickness of the antlers contributed to its impressive net green score of 175 5/8 inches. It’s a mainframe 10 with a couple of stickers, and Troublefield had no trail camera photos or any history at all with the buck.
He killed the buck on Nov. 14 in the early afternoon.
“It was really a slow day. I got in the stand around 5:30 a.m., a little bit before dark. I shot the deer at 1:40 p.m, and it was only the second deer I’d seen all day. They were calling for rain that day, so I’d decided to sit until the rain started. And at 1:40, he came slipping down the creek bottom, and I shot him at about 70 yards,” said Troublefield.
He shot the buck with a 6.5 Creedmoor. The gentleman that green scored the buck was shocked at the mass of the deer’s antlers.
“He called me and said the deer had more than six inches (circumference) of mass between his G3s and G4s. I knew it was a good deer when I shot him, but it was much bigger when I got to see it up close,” he said.
Troublefield entered the buck in the hunting section of the CarolinaSportsman.com forum, and titled his post “God’s Gift.” And he feels that is exactly what this deer was for him.
Hunter’s pastor gave him some good advice
“The reason I go on this trip each year is because my uncle and his friend go, and they’re older. So I go to help them. In there, you have to do everything by hand, and it’s tough to do alone,” he said.
This year, the hunting dates fell when Troublefield’s church was having some special activities and services, and he felt bad about missing any of them.
Click the arrow below to hear our podcast on Troublefield’s hunt.
“The Lord gave me a gift. I told my pastor the week before that I didn’t want my uncle down there by himself and get hurt and nobody be there with him. But I need to be at church for this. And he told me if you do what the Lord tells you to do, He’ll bless you. So as soon as I walked up on that deer, those words came to my mind. I knew that’s exactly where it came from,” he said.
Troublefield shot the buck from a Millennium Hang-On stand that he put up the Sunday afternoon before the hunt. He put up the stand in about 20 minutes, and that’s the extent of time he spent on the property this year until the morning of his hunt.
Sutton’s Taxidermy is creating a mount for Troublefield to help him commemorate the hunt. They will also pull the deer’s jawbone to get an age estimate on the animal.
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Bed & Breakfast Seine Maritime
Morgny-la-Pommeraye B&B - Bed and Breakfast - Morgny-la-Pommeraye Holiday Rentals
Clos des Charmes
Etaimpuis le Pière B&B
We live in the middle of the fields at 25 km. from Rouen (capital of Normandy) and 29 km from Dieppe (Albâtre Coast). The Golf Court of Saint Saëns is 10 km away. The Zoo of Clères are nearby and certainly worth a visit. You will find here a serene environment and beautiful surroundings to walk or to discover on the bike.
Le Domaine de l'Abbaye
Saint-Saens B&B
Near the Forest Eawy, 2 km from Saint-Saens golf and 30 km from the sea, your host offers three rooms in a character on a river with fishing possible.
Chambres et Roulottes de Charme Le Clos du Quesnay
Mauquenchy-Forges Les Eaux B&B & Gite
Situated in an old farmhouse dating from the nineteenth century, on four hectares of gardens, at three kilometres from the historical and tourist town called « Forges les Eaux », « le clos du Quesnay », meticulously restored by Jean-François et Sabine for four years, suggests you five rooms : one is for people whose mobility is reduced. They are all classified by “Gîtes de France” with three or four “épis” because of their charm and character. They are luxuriously furnished and decorated. A private room and living room are at the guests’ disposal. You can book for buffets or greedy dishes composed of Norman food. Don’t hesitate to contact us for a few moments’ relaxation.
Le Jardin Brodé
St Martin de Boscherville B&B
At the heart of the village, 200m from the Abbey, Jacqueline & Guy share their fenced flower garden & welcome guests to their 18thC. house. The silence is only broken by bird song. Hearty breakfasts served in a vast beamed room with trad. furniture. Gr.floor dble bedrm (140 cm bed), with priv. lounge area, shower rm & wc. Gite au Jardin label.
Le Brécy Chambres d hotes Rouen
ROUEN-St Martin de Boscherville B&B
Bed and Breakfast Rouen Normandy Le Brécy is an elegant manor located on the Norman abbeys road in Seinevalley. Between park and garden, you will stay in a spacious charming bedroom allying the refinement of yesterday and the current comfort. An elegant familyhouse which reflects the french traditional goodtaste for holidays ! “ “Elsewehre but like at home” ! Peacefull. The generous breakfast is offered in the 18th century dining-room. A beautiful charming guesthouse and a nice address near Giverny, Honfleur. For long stay, an appartement with doublebedroom, livingroom with kitchnett
Manoir Le Clos Bonport
Lery B&B
In the valley of the Seine and Eure, the manor house with its distinctive architecture and its large garden with flowers and trees with pool and tennis, welcomes you for a relaxing stay. Near Giverny, Rouen, Louviers, Evreux, many sightseeing. Watersports, golf courses, hiking trails, a few minutes.
Manoir d'Aulage
Saint Martin l'Hortier B&B
Bed & Breakfast en-suite accommodation in beautiful Normandy in our 18th Century Manor House. Quietly Located 8 minutes north of the A28 motorway from Calais to Rouen, near the old market town of Neufchâtel-en-Bray. We are alongside the new Dieppe to Forges les Eaux traffic-free Greenway (Avenue Verte). Excellent for a leisurely (or strenuous) walk or bike ride, safe from traffic.
Le Neufbosc
Blacqueville B&B
our B & b is mentionned in "le guide du routard 1000 best B & B" since 2010 3 guest rooms in a renovated old normandy farmhouse, in the middle of a park of 1.5 ha, near Rouen and 8 km from the Seine Valley, 35 km from the sea ; in the calm of the Norman countryside, but centrally located for visiting the Seine-Maritime. special prices for stay above 3 nights owner fluent in english
Doudeauville En Vexin B&B
The former charrètrie, located in the park of Prieuré Saint Aubin, offers two independent apartments. At each level, a couple room and a room with 2 single beds, bathroom, separate toilet and kitchenette. Warning: the little beds upstairs are reserved for children under 12 years.
Le Prieure Saint Aubin
Doudeauville-en-Vexin B&B
This Prieuré (XVIII°s) open to you an authentic "family house" with precious furniture, chimney and lovely garden. Two suits for 2 or 3 pers with private bathroom and separated WC. French dinner on evening (on reservation). Gites-de-France-3 épis.
L'Erabliere
Tosny B&B
The Erabliere, guest house by the river Seine in Normandy, is situated into the landscape of the Impressionnists, between Chateau Gaillard and Giverny.We receive all the year, week and week end (closed in January)
Les Clés d'Auriane
Grumesnil B&B & Gite
Guest house in the heart of the Pays de Bray, you will be charmed by its two completely renovated and tastefully decorated and independent lodging for up to four people.
Chateau du Verbosc
Touffreville La Corbeline B&B & Gite
Bed & breakfast, at only 35 Kms from the historical centre of Rouen. A beautifull house furnished with traditional furniture . 5 Bedrooms, from 55 to 60 euros a night for 1 person; 65 to 70 euros a night for 2 pers. Including breakfast. Enjoy the calm and nature of this wonderfull ancient place, surounded by a beautiful park , where to spend enchanting vacations. From 2 nights.
Acquigny B&B & Gite
in a pretty village at the confluence of the Eure and iton and close to the castle of acquigny discover this house with these 5 rooms equipped a kitchenette and a private bathroom.
Les Chambres de l'Abbaye
Saint Germer de Fly B&B
Between Normandy and Picardy, 90 kms from Paris, a property with much character and charm, only 200 meters from a magnificent Roman Abbey.WIFI. Spa. Diner, on reservation les Chambres de l'Abbaye are on the cycle road London Paris
Port Mort B&B
Giverny 18 kms, 10 kms The Andelys, Jacqueline and Gérard you a warm welcome in their modern house in Port-Mort, a village on the Seine. After enjoying the quiet of the night, we will help you start your day with a serving breakfast in the bright dining room or on the terrace when the sun with us. You can: organize your visits by consulting the documentation available, Relax with a game of billiards, petanque, relax in a sun lounger with a good book or magazine, or for athletes play table tennis, take a cardio session.
La Jonquerette
Saint Germain des Essourts B&B
The guesthouse is situated in the heart of the valley of Crevon. Independent studio on 2 levels, it is equipped with a kitchenette and a dining room / living room. capacity: 1 bedroom and 5 single beds (to adapt to possible double beds) and a cot. daily price 50€ for two, breakfast included
Chambre D'Hotes D'Anne
Vieux Manoir B&B
Guest house with 4 guest rooms for a capacity of 10 people. ranking 3 ears with a host of free animals
Manoir de l'As de Trèfle
Isneauville B&B
Featuring free WiFi throughout the property, Manoir de l'As de Trèfle offers accommodation in Isneauville, 7 km from Rouen. Free private parking is available on site. Rooms come with a private bathroom fitted with a bath or shower. Extras include free toiletries and a hair dryer. You can play table tennis at this bed and breakfast, and bike hire is available. Dieppe is 48 km from Manoir de l'As de Trèfle, while Forges-les-Eaux is 31 km away. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 70 km from Manoir de l'As de Trèfle.
Martainville-Épreville B&B
Offering a sun terrace and views of the garden, Sweet Home is situated in Martainville-Épreville in the Upper Normandy Region, 14 km from Rouen. Free WiFi is featured throughout the property and free private parking is available on site. All rooms come with a flat-screen TV. Every room has a private bathroom. Extras include free toiletries and a hairdryer. A continental breakfast can be enjoyed every morning at an extra cost. The area is popular for fishing and hiking. Forges-les-Eaux is 27 km from Sweet Home, while Évreux is 48 km away. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 60 km from Sweet Home.
La Grange D’ Yquebeuf
Yquebeuf B&B
The barn of yquebeuf is an old barn completely restored, you will find a beautiful bed and breakfast with all the necessary comfort for a couple. Maryline and Stéphane will be delighted to welcome you and take care of your needs during your stay. The room has a large double bed, a shower room, a separate toilet, a lounge area, TV, free parking, internet access, the price of breakfasts is included at the price of the room.
Les chambres d'hôtes du domaine du Moulin d'écalles à partir de 35 Euros
Estouteville-Ecalles B&B
3 bedrooms: FAMILY SUITE: The room is very spacious, it has a double bed and a shower room with independent Italian. From 3 people, we open the second guest room is in a row. It has a double bed and a single bed. (Capacity 5 people). ROOM DESIGN RETRO: Located on the ground floor, our retro room with a double bed (160x200), A separate shower room and WC. His mind is design and chic. Capacity is 2 people. ROOM COSY : Located on the ground floor, our retro room with a double bed (160x200). RATE: 1person = 35E / 2 persons = 50 euros per extra person and 10E
Chambre D'Hôtes le Phenix
Saint-Martin-du-Vivier B&B
Situated in Saint-Martin du Vivier, 4.4 km from Rouen, Chambre D'Hôtes le Phenix boasts a terrace and views of the garden. Guests can enjoy the on-site bar. Free private parking is available on site. Each room is equipped with a private bathroom. For your comfort, you will find bathrobes, free toiletries and a hairdryer. Chambre D'Hôtes le Phenix features free WiFi throughout the property. There is a shared lounge at the property. Meals can be prepared upon request and at an extra cost. Forges-les-Eaux is 33 km from Chambre D'Hôtes le Phenix, while Évreux is 50 km away. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 70 km from Chambre D'Hôtes le Phenix.
Les Gites du Robec
Mont Saint Aignan B&B
A 10 minutes drive from the center of Rouen, two independent cottages with a capacity of 7 to 8 people at the entrance of a village, in a residential area, overlooking the woods and surrounded by a large flower garden not closed. The two houses are new and half-timbered, typical of Normandy, they are spacious and offer every comfort.
Le Clos de Louise
Bihorel B&B
Set in Bihorel, Le Clos de Louise offers free WiFi, and guests can enjoy a garden, a shared lounge and a terrace. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. Rouen is 3.5 km from Le Clos de Louise, while Forges-les-Eaux is 40 km away. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 84 km from the accommodation.
A la campagne, au calme
Montérolier B&B
A la campagne, au calme is located in Montérolier and offers a garden, barbecue facilities and a terrace. The bed and breakfast features garden views and is 18 km from Forges-les-Eaux. There is a seating area, a dining area and a kitchen complete with a dishwasher, a microwave and a fridge. A continental breakfast is available daily at the bed and breakfast. Rouen is 30 km from A la campagne, au calme, while Dieppe is 43 km away. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 74 km from the accommodation.
Le Clos Jouvenet
Rouen B&B & Gite
A haven of peace a few minutes from the cathedral and the railway station
CosyRouen Jouvenet
CosyRouen Jouvenet is set in Rouen. It is situated 2.2 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen and features free WiFi plus a 24-hour front desk. This apartment features 1 bedroom, a kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom with a shower. If you would like to discover the area, hiking is possible in the surroundings. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
Appt plein de charme tout équipé à 5mn du centre
Set in Rouen, 2.8 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Appt plein de charme tout équipé à 5mn du centre offers accommodation with a shared lounge, free WiFi and a 24-hour front desk. The property has garden and city views. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 84 km from the apartment.
Offering free WiFi, La Rose is set in a central area of Rouen, just 2.9 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 84 km from the apartment.
Appartement charmant au style normand
Set in the Rouen City Centre of Rouen, within 2.8 km of Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Appartement charmant au style normand offers accommodation with free WiFi. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a bath. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 84 km from the apartment.
Villa La Gloriette
Two guest rooms and a cottage await you in this family property dating from the 19th century, comfortable and refined, charming, sunny, quiet and delicious breakfasts served in the bow window or on the outdoor terrace. Nice amenities - large showers. Ideally located near the city center, easy to park, close to small shops and restaurants. Non-smoking rooms - Access reserved in the garden - no pets allowed.
Appart Coeur de Rouen - Place du Boulingrin
Located in Rouen, 2.1 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Appart Coeur de Rouen - Place du Boulingrin provides accommodation with a shared lounge, free WiFi and a shared kitchen. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
Coeur de Seine
Located in the Rouen City Centre of Rouen, just 2.3 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Coeur de Seine provides city views and free WiFi. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. A bicycle rental service is available at the apartment. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from Coeur de Seine.
Duplex de charme en plein cœur de Rouen.
Situated 2.9 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Duplex de charme en plein cœur de Rouen. Offers accommodation right in the heart of Rouen. The apartment has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 84 km from the apartment.
Welk'Home Armada Loft CHU - Coeur Historique / 4P
Situated in Rouen, 2.5 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Welk'Home Armada Loft CHU - Coeur Historique / 4P features accommodation with a shared lounge, free WiFi and a shared kitchen. The property features garden views. The apartment has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV with cable channels, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. If you would like to discover the area, cycling is possible in the surroundings. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 84 km from the apartment.
La Bastide Jouvenet - Terrasse et Parking
Situated 900 metres from Rouen Train Station, this apartment features a 40m2 terrace with city view. Free private parking is available on site. Located on the first floor, this apartment comes with a kitchen fitted with a dishwasher, an oven and a toaster. A flat-screen TV with cable channels is available. Appart de charme - Terrasse / Parking features free WiFi throughout the property. Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen is 1.1 km from Appart de charme - Terrasse / Parking, while Rouen Kindarena Sports Hall is 2.8 km away. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 73 km from the property.
Appart Coeur de Rouen - La Croix de Pierre
Offering free WiFi, Appart Coeur de Rouen - La Croix de Pierre is situated right in the heart of Rouen, just 3 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The apartment has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchenette with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 84 km from the apartment.
escapade normande
Perriers-sur-Andelle B&B
Situated in Perriers-sur-Andelle, escapade normande provides accommodation with a garden, free WiFi, a shared kitchen, and a shared lounge. The bed and breakfast has garden views and is 49 km from Giverny. The bed and breakfast also features a flat-screen TV, a fully equipped kitchenette with a fridge, a seating area, and 1 bathroom with a bath and a shower. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. A barbecue is available on site and hiking can be enjoyed within close proximity of escapade normande. Rouen is 21 km from the accommodation, while Forges-les-Eaux is 31 km from the property. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille, 68 km from escapade normande, and the property offers a paid airport shuttle service.
Appartement d’architecte
In a prime location in a central area of Rouen, Appartement d’architecte offers garden views and free bikes. The apartment comes with 2 bedrooms, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels and a fully equipped kitchen that provides guests with a dishwasher, a microwave, a washing machine, a fridge and an oven. Guests wishing to travel lightly can make use of towels and linens for an additional supplement. Speaking Arabic, English, Spanish and French at the reception, staff are willing to help at any time of the day. A bicycle rental service is available at the apartment. Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen is 2.1 km from Appartement d’architecte. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille, 85 km from the accommodation, and the property offers a paid airport shuttle service.
Joli F1 près de la gare sncf
Set in Rouen, within 2.1 km of Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Joli F1 près de la gare sncf is an accommodation offering garden views. The apartment is fitted with 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV and a fully equipped kitchen that provides guests with a microwave, a fridge, a washing machine, an oven and a stovetop. Guests wishing to travel lightly can make use of towels and linens for an additional supplement. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 87 km from the apartment.
T2 spacieux et refait à neuf au pied du CHU
Darnétal B&B & Gite
T2 spacieux et refait à neuf au pied du CHU is situated in Darnétal. This property offers access to free WiFi. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV and a fully equipped kitchen that provides guests with a microwave and a fridge. Rouen is 2.3 km from the apartment, while Forges-les-Eaux is 43 km from the property. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 84 km from T2 spacieux et refait à neuf au pied du CHU.
F2 LYONS SAINT MARC
Featuring garden views, F2 LYONS SAINT MARC is set in Rouen, 2.3 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchenette with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a bath. Guests wishing to travel lightly can make use of towels and linens for an additional supplement. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 84 km from the apartment.
Charmant T2 proche gare & centre ville
Charmant T2 proche gare & centre ville offers accommodation in Rouen, 1.2 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The nearest airport is Deauville - Normandie Airport, 69 km from the apartment.
Studio Calme Village Mont Saint Aignan
Mont-Saint-Aignan B&B & Gite
Studio Calme Village Mont Saint Aignan enjoys a location in Mont-Saint-Aignan, just 2.3 km from ESC Rouen Group and 2.5 km from NEOMA Business School. Featuring garden and city views, this apartment also includes free WiFi. The apartment has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. Guests wishing to travel lightly can make use of towels and linens for an additional supplement. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 89 km from the apartment.
CosyRouen Gare
Set in Rouen, CosyRouen Gare offers free WiFi and city views, 2.6 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. All units come with a living room, a seating area with a sofa, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, a fully equipped kitchen with a dining table and a private bathroom with shower. Guests wishing to travel lightly can make use of towels and linens for an additional supplement. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 87 km from the apartment.
Le Cottage de l'Hotel de Ville
Le Cottage de l'Hotel de Ville is located in Rouen, 1.7 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, and provides a patio, garden, and free WiFi. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a bath. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
F3 ORBE SWEET HOME
Offering free WiFi, F3 ORBE SWEET HOME is located in the centre of Rouen, just 1.7 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
ROUEN SWEET HOME 2
Offering free WiFi, ROUEN SWEET HOME 2 is situated right in the centre of Rouen, just 1.7 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The apartment is located on the ground floor and has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV and a fully equipped kitchen that provides guests with a microwave, a fridge, a washing machine, an oven and a stovetop. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
Loft St Antoine
Located in the Rouen City Centre of Rouen, within 2.3 km of Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Loft St Antoine is an accommodation offering city views. Featuring a Blu-ray player, the apartment has a kitchen with a dishwasher, a fridge and an oven, a living room with a seating area and a dining area, 2 bedrooms, and 1 bathroom with a bath and a hot tub. A TV is featured. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 84 km from the apartment.
Grand Studio Déco. Centre Historique de Rouen.
Set in the Rouen City Centre of Rouen, within 2.3 km of Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Grand Studio Déco. Centre Historique de Rouen. Offers accommodation with free WiFi. The apartment is located on the ground floor and is fitted with 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV and a fully equipped kitchenette that provides guests with a microwave and a fridge. Private parking is available at the apartment. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 84 km from Grand Studio Déco. Centre Historique de Rouen..
Coeur de Rouen
Situated in the Rouen City Centre of Rouen, within 1.7 km of Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Coeur de Rouen offers accommodation with free WiFi. The apartment has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV with cable channels, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
Rouen B&B
A few steps from the railway station of Rouen, discover this charming guest house. Two rooms of 30 sqm, with private bathrooms are available to you.
LES OISEAUX (L'HIRONDELLE)
Set in Rouen, LES OISEAUX (L'HIRONDELLE) offers accommodation with free WiFi and flat-screen TV, as well as a garden. Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen is 1.9 km from the apartment. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 87 km from LES OISEAUX (L'HIRONDELLE).
Studio centre ville, 5min à pied gare SNCF
Set 1.5 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Studio centre ville, 5min à pied gare SNCF is situated in Rouen City Centre district of Rouen. The apartment is fitted with 1 bedroom and a fully fitted kitchen with a microwave and a fridge. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
Les Oiseaux du Nid Bleu Rouen Gare
Situated in Rouen, just 2.1 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Les Oiseaux du Nid Bleu Rouen Gare features accommodation with free WiFi. The apartment has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
studio chaleureux proche gare
Located in Rouen, 2.1 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, studio chaleureux proche gare provides accommodation with a shared lounge, free WiFi and a shared kitchen. With garden views, this accommodation features a terrace. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV with cable channels, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
La suite Marilyn avec son parking privé
Offering free WiFi, La suite Marilyn avec son parking privé is situated right in the centre of Rouen, just 1.4 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The apartment has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV with cable channels, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a bath. Guests at the apartment can enjoy a continental breakfast. La suite Marilyn avec son parking privé offers a hot tub. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the accommodation.
Appartement Centre 2 chambres tout confort
Boasting city views, Appartement Centre 2 chambres tout confort is located right in the centre of Rouen. It is situated 1.4 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen and features free WiFi plus a 24-hour front desk. The apartment has 2 bedrooms, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. Guests wishing to travel lightly can make use of towels and linens for an additional supplement. Guests at the apartment can enjoy a continental or a buffet breakfast. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from Appartement Centre 2 chambres tout confort.
Le Paradis Perdu et son parking privé
Featuring a hot tub, Le Paradis Perdu et son parking privé is set in the heart of Rouen. Featuring garden and city views, this apartment also has free WiFi. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a bath. The apartment offers a hot tub. Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen is 1.4 km from Le Paradis Perdu. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the accommodation.
Maison CosyRouen Malatire Gare 6 couchages
Maison CosyRouen Malatire Gare 6 couchages offers accommodation in Rouen, 1.7 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. This apartment is equipped with 2 bedrooms, a satellite flat-screen TV, and a kitchen with a microwave and a fridge. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
Le Rive Droite
Set in Rouen, Le Rive Droite offers accommodation with a balcony and free WiFi. The apartment has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a bath. Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen is 2.3 km from the apartment. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from Le Rive Droite.
Appart 2 chambres, entre gare SNCF et hypercentre
Situated in the Rouen City Centre of Rouen, within 1.4 km of Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Appart 2 chambres, entre gare SNCF et hypercentre offers accommodation with free WiFi. The apartment includes 2 bedrooms, a kitchen with a fridge and an oven, as well as a kettle. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
Lova House
Lova House is located in Rouen, 1.3 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, and provides a balcony, garden, and free WiFi. The property has garden views. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
Les Horthensias
Ideally located to enjoy the Armada of Rouen, in a charning traditional house nearby the forest, easy to visit the area on the impressionist's painters footpaths (Monet, Sisley). 2 persons. Private terrace. Private bathroom. Private toilets. TV. Internet. Parking. Rates : 1 night for 2 persons : 55 € breakfast inclued. 1 week for 2 persons : 350 € breakfast included.
Le Carré Rouennais - Appart'Hôtel Rouen Gare
Le Carré Rouennais - Appart'Hôtel Rouen Gare in Rouen provides accommodation with free WiFi, 1.6 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The apartment features 2 bedrooms, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
Appart Coeur de Rouen - Hôtel de Ville
Located in the Rouen City Centre of Rouen, within 1.4 km of Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Appart Coeur de Rouen - Hôtel de Ville is an accommodation offering city views. It provides free WiFi, a shared lounge and a restaurant. This apartment comes with 1 bedroom, a kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
Cottage Rouennais
Cottage Rouennais offers accommodation in Rouen, 1.1 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen and 300 metres from Rouen Train Station. Free WiFi is featured throughout the property. The apartment features a fully-equipped kitchen with a fridge, a washing machine and a coffee machine. A flat-screen TV with satellite channels is also provided. Rouen Museum is 1 km from Cottage Rouennais, while Rouen Kindarena Sports Hall is 2.1 km from the property. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 74 km from Cottage Rouennais.
La Galerie des Glaces
Offering free WiFi and city views, La Galerie des Glaces provides accommodation located in Rouen, just 1.2 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a bath. Guests at the apartment can enjoy a continental breakfast. At La Galerie des Glaces guests are welcome to take advantage of a hot tub. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the accommodation.
Appart Coeur de Rouen - Place de la Gare
Appart Coeur de Rouen - Place de la Gare offers accommodation in Rouen, 2.4 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. Featuring garden and city views, this apartment also provides guests with free WiFi. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchenette with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. A car rental service is available at the apartment. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from Appart Coeur de Rouen - Place de la Gare.
APPARTEMENT CENTRE HISTORIQUE STANDING
Set in the Rouen City Centre of Rouen, within 1.3 km of Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, APPARTEMENT CENTRE HISTORIQUE STANDING offers accommodation with free WiFi. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
Le Dix-Huit Studio Duplex
Located in the Rouen City Centre district in Rouen, 1.3 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Le Dix-Huit Studio Duplex provides an equipped accommodation with a patio and free WiFi. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. The apartment features a terrace. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from Le Dix-Huit Studio Duplex.
Offering free WiFi and city views, Les beaux arts is an accommodation situated right in the heart of Rouen, just 1.3 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The apartment has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV with cable channels, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. Guests wishing to travel lightly can make use of towels and linens for an additional supplement. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
LE COEUR DU DONJON
Offering free WiFi and city views, LE COEUR DU DONJON is an accommodation set in the heart of Rouen, just 1.2 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The apartment features 3 bedrooms, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
T2 refait à neuf,style industriel,2 min Gare SNCF
Offering free WiFi, T2 refait à neuf, style industriel,2 min Gare SNCF is set in a central area of Rouen, just 1.2 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a bath. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
Studio hypercentre, au calme et rue piétonne -2-
In the Rouen City Centre district of Rouen, close to Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Studio hypercentre, au calme et rue piétonne -2- features free WiFi and a washing machine. The apartment includes 1 bedroom, a kitchen with a fridge and an oven, as well as a kettle. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
In the Rouen City Centre district of Rouen, close to Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Studio hypercentre, au calme et rue piétonne -3- features free WiFi and a washing machine. The apartment is equipped with 1 separate bedroom and includes a kitchen with a fridge, oven and dining area. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
Rouen Quartier St Maclou
Situated in Rouen, Rouen Quartier St Maclou features free WiFi and city views, 1.5 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. Each unit offers a fully equipped kitchen, a flat-screen TV, a living room with a sofa, a private bathroom and a washing machine. A dishwasher, a microwave and fridge are also available, as well as a kettle and a coffee machine. If you would like to discover the area, hiking and fishing are possible in the surroundings. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
Gîte Beffroy
Gîte Beffroy is a self-catering apartment in the heart of Rouen, just 160 metres from Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen. The one-bedroom apartment is set in a cottage with a garden and offers free Wi-Fi. There is a living room with a flat-screen TV and a DVD player and the kitchen is equipped with a microwave, an oven and kitchenware. A washing machine is provided and the bathroom is fitted with a shower and a hairdryer. Free private parking is possible on site and shops and restaurants are found in the surrounding area. The property is 600 metres from the Church of St. Ouen and 750 metres from Rouen Cathedral.
Nuit Zen Rouen
Located in Rouen in the Upper Normandy region, Nuit Zen Rouen features a patio. It is set 1 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen and offers free WiFi plus a 24-hour front desk. The apartment has 3 bedrooms, a flat-screen TV with cable channels, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a bath. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
La Bonbonnière de Salomé
Situated 1 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, La Bonbonnière de Salomé is located in Rouen City Centre district of Rouen. This apartment features 1 bedroom, a kitchenette with a microwave and a fridge, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom with a bath. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
Fiquet de Normanville
Situated right in the centre of Rouen, Fiquet de Normanville features accommodation with city views, just 1.5 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The apartment has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. Guests wishing to travel lightly can make use of towels and linens for an additional supplement. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
Manoir de la Vente de Rouville
Mesnil-Raoul B&B & Gite
A traditional Norman mansion set in a 4000-m² garden, Manoir de la Vente de Rouville offers 2 self-catering cottages. Free parking is provided on site. Accessible by a staircase, the cottages offer a private entrance, a seating area with a sofa, a washing machine and a fully-equipped kitchen. Guests will find coffee and cooking essentials such as oil, salt and pepper. The private bathrooms are complete with a shower, toilet and free toiletries. A baby cot with bed sheets and a baby chair can be provided upon request. Breakfast and dinner are available upon prior reservation and can be served in the apartment or the garden. Restaurants, bakeries and supermarkets can be found within 5 km of the property. Upon reservation and for an extra charge, guests can access the onsite sauna. A 30 to 40-minute sauna package for 2-4 guests is available and includes bathrobes and towels. Manoir de la Vente de Rouville is 18 km from Rouen and its train station.
Le Franquevillette
Boos B&B
Set in Boos in the Upper Normandy region, Le Franquevillette provides accommodation with free WiFi. There is a fully equipped private bathroom with shower and free toiletries. The bed and breakfast offers a terrace. There is a garden at this property and guests can go cycling nearby. Rouen is 13 km from Le Franquevillette, while Forges-les-Eaux is 48 km away. The nearest airport is Rouen - Vallée de Seine, 2.5 km from the property.
Une Chambre Dans L'atelier De R
Une Chambre Dans L'atelier De R is set in the Rouen City Centre district in Rouen, 400 metres from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The room is equipped with a flat-screen TV and features a seating area for your convenience. You will find a kettle in the room. It is also fitted with a private bathroom equipped with a bath. Une Chambre Dans L'atelier De R features free WiFi. A breakfast including hot drinks, crepes and jam can be enjoyed every morning. Honey, bread and fruit are also provided. Rouen University Hospital is 600 metres from Une Chambre Dans L'atelier De R, while Rouen Hospital is 600 metres away. Beauvais Tille Airport is 73 km from the property. A public parking is available, 200 metres away.
le 4B
Set in Rouen, this apartment is 700 metres from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The apartment is a 5-minute walk from Rouen Train Station and 200 metres from the Rouen Museum of Fine Arts. The apartment has a fully equipped kitchenette with a washing machine and a Nespresso coffee machine. There is also a flat-screen TV and free WiFi. Bed linen and towels are provided at Le 4B and other facilities include an ironing service, available for an extra fee. Rouen Hospital is 1.2 km from le 4B, while Rouen Kindarena Sports Hall is 2.1 km away. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 74 km from le 4B.
Offering free WiFi and city views, Les Mille et une Nuits is an accommodation situated right in the heart of Rouen, just 1.4 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The apartment has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a bath. A continental breakfast is available each morning at the apartment. Les Mille et une Nuits offers a hot tub. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the accommodation.
Vue exceptionnelle en plein coeur de Rouen!!
Offering free WiFi and city views, Vue exceptionnelle en plein coeur de Rouen!! is an accommodation situated right in the heart of Rouen, just 1.2 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The apartment features 2 bedrooms, a flat-screen TV and a fully equipped kitchen that provides guests with a fridge, a stovetop, a washing machine and a toaster. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
L'Haussmannien
In the Rouen City Centre district of Rouen, close to Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, L'Haussmannien has free WiFi and a washing machine. The property features city views. Boasting a DVD player, the apartment has a kitchen with a dishwasher, a microwave and a fridge, a living room, a dining area, 1 bedroom, and 1 bathroom with a bath. A flat-screen TV is available. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
Le Bouquet - Appart' Hôtel COSY & MODERNE
Located in Rouen, just 1.7 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Le Bouquet - Appart' Hôtel COSY & MODERNE provides accommodation with free WiFi. This apartment is equipped with 1 bedroom, a kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
Appart Hôtel - Ty Bouquet
Situated in Rouen, just 1.7 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Appart Hôtel - Ty Bouquet features accommodation with free WiFi. This apartment with city views has parquet floors, 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom with a shower and a hair dryer. A flat-screen TV with satellite channels is offered. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 83 km from the apartment.
Ermitage bouquet
Located within 1.7 km of Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen in Rouen, Ermitage bouquet provides accommodation with free WiFi and flat-screen TV. A microwave and fridge are also provided, as well as a kettle and a coffee machine. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
Les Carmes
A 19th-century townhouse located in the historic centre of Rouen, Chambres d'Hôtes les Carmes offers free Wi-Fi throughout, soundproofed accommodation. The rooms at Chambres d'Hôtes les Carmes feature a TV, individual heating and a private bathroom. Chambres d'Hôtes les Carmes is 950 metres from Rouen Train Station, and 40 metres from the cathedral and Fine Arts Museum.
L'écureuil, grand studio au coeur de rouen
L'écureuil, grand studio au coeur de rouen is located in Rouen. It is situated less than 1 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen and features free WiFi plus a 24-hour front desk. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV and a fully equipped kitchenette that provides guests with a microwave, a fridge, a washing machine, a stovetop and a toaster. Guests wishing to travel lightly can make use of towels and linens for an additional supplement. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
BestHomeRouen
Situated within 1.5 km of Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen in the Rouen City Centre of Rouen, BestHomeRouen features accommodation with free WiFi and seating area. All units are fitted with a microwave, fridge, a kettle, a stovetop and coffee machine. There is a private bathroom with bath or shower and a hair dryer in each unit, along with free toiletries. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
Appart Atypique Tout Neuf
Appart Atypique Tout Neuf in Rouen features accommodation with free WiFi, 1.7 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen and 3.2 km from Rouen Kindarena Sports Hall. This apartment has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, a dining area, and a kitchenette with a microwave and a fridge. Guests wishing to travel lightly can make use of towels and linens for an additional supplement. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
Le Saint Nicolas***
Set in the heart of Rouen, Le Saint Nicolas*** offers accommodation with city views, just 1.4 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. Featuring a DVD player, the apartment has a kitchen with a dishwasher, a microwave and a fridge, a living room, a dining area, 1 bedroom, and 2 bathrooms with a shower. A flat-screen TV is featured. Both a bicycle rental service and a car rental service are available at the apartment. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from Le Saint Nicolas***.
Le Carrel Saint Marc
Set within 1.4 km of Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen in the Rouen City Centre of Rouen, Le Carrel Saint Marc offers accommodation with free WiFi and seating area. Some of the units feature a satellite flat-screen TV, a fully equipped kitchen with a microwave, and a private bathroom with a shower and a a hair dryer. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
Suite Vintage Rouen
Suite Vintage Rouen is set in Rouen. It is located 1.5 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen and provides free WiFi plus a 24-hour front desk. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV with cable channels, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and an oven, and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
Appart Coeur de Rouen - La Gare
With city views, Appart Coeur de Rouen - La Gare is set in Rouen and has a restaurant and a shared kitchen. Free WiFi is featured. Each unit comes with a fully equipped kitchen with a microwave, a seating area with a sofa, a flat-screen TV, a washing machine, and a private bathroom with shower and a hair dryer. There is also a fridge, oven and a coffee machine. Guests can also relax in the shared lounge area. Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen is 1.5 km from the apartment. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from Appart Coeur de Rouen - La Gare.
Saint Nicolas ou le bourdon de la Cathédrale
Offering free WiFi and city views, Saint Nicolas ou le bourdon de la Cathédrale is an accommodation located in a central area of Rouen, just 1.5 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. Guests wishing to travel lightly can make use of towels and linens for an additional supplement. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
La petite suite
1.4 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, La petite suite is set in the Rouen City Centre district of Rouen. Featuring garden and city views, this apartment also features free WiFi. The apartment has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. Guests wishing to travel lightly can make use of towels and linens for an additional supplement. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
F2 Rouen Lyons saint marc 408
Situated 700 metres from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, F2 Rouen Lyons saint marc 408 offers accommodation right in the centre of Rouen. Featuring river and city views, this apartment also comes with free WiFi. The apartment has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchenette with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a bath or shower. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
Chesnel
Charming guest house B & B, House D you on the heart of the history of Rouen with its cathedral and Bartholomew Square within walking distance. Quality hotel bed and breakfast!
Appartement Rouen Jeanne d'Arc
Offering free WiFi, Appartement Rouen Jeanne d'Arc is located in the centre of Rouen, just 1.3 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. This apartment is equipped with 1 bedroom, a kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom with a shower. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
"Alchimie", quartier des Antiquaires
Offering a bar and free WiFi, "Alchimie", quartier des Antiquaires is situated in the Rouen City Centre district in Rouen, 1.4 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The apartment has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. Private parking is available at the apartment. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from Alchimie.
Appart Rouen Centre
Situated in Rouen, less than 1 km from the Rouen City Centre and an 18-minute walk from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Appart Rouen Centre features accommodation with amenities like free WiFi and flat-screen TV. Each unit features a microwave, fridge, a kettle, as well as a stovetop and coffee machine. There is a fully equipped private bathroom with shower and a hair dryer. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
Maison hypercentre Rouen tout confort
Set in the Rouen City Centre of Rouen, just 800 metres from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Maison hypercentre Rouen tout confort offers city views and free WiFi. This apartment has 2 bedrooms, a satellite flat-screen TV, a dining area, and a kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave. Guests at the apartment can enjoy a continental breakfast. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from Maison hypercentre Rouen tout confort.
Magnifique appart neuf 80 m2 hyper centre Rouen
Set 800 metres from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Magnifique appart neuf 80 m2 hyper centre Rouen offers accommodation in the heart of Rouen. The apartment is fitted with 2 bedrooms, a flat-screen TV and a fully equipped kitchen that provides guests with a dishwasher, a microwave, a washing machine, a fridge and an oven. Speaking English and French at the reception, staff will be happy to provide guests with practical information on the area. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
La Souche
Situated in the Rouen City Centre of Rouen, within less than 1 km of Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, La Souche offers accommodation with free WiFi. This apartment features 1 bedroom, a kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom with a bath. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
Bel appartement dans le centre historique de Rouen
Set right in the centre of Rouen, Bel appartement dans le centre historique de Rouen offers accommodation with city views, just 800 metres from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The apartment has 2 bedrooms, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. Guests wishing to travel lightly can make use of towels and linens for an additional supplement. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
Appartement T3 ROUEN au calme - CHU - Parking GRATUIT
Bonsecours B&B & Gite
Set in Bonsecours in the Upper Normandy region, Appartement T3 ROUEN au calme - CHU - Parking GRATUIT offers accommodation with free WiFi. Each unit comes with a sofa, a seating area, a flat-screen TV, a well-fitted kitchen with a dining area, and a private bathroom with a hair dryer. There is a shared lounge at this property and guests can go hiking and cycling nearby. Rouen is 3.2 km from the apartment, while Forges-les-Eaux is 45 km from the property. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from Appartement T3 ROUEN au calme - CHU - Parking GRATUIT.
Appartement Le Jeanne-d'Arc
Less than 1 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Appartement Le Jeanne-d'Arc is situated in the Rouen City Centre district of Rouen. The apartment has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a bath. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
Gite Seine
Situated in the Rouen City Centre of Rouen and offering river views, Gite Seine offers accommodation with free WiFi, 1.3 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. Guests have a private balcony. The apartment features 2 bedrooms, a flat-screen TV and a fully equipped kitchen that provides guests with a dishwasher, a microwave, a washing machine, a fridge and an oven. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from the apartment.
L'Echiquier de Normandie
Located in a central area of Rouen, L'Echiquier de Normandie provides accommodation with city views, just 400 metres from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. Guests wishing to travel lightly can make use of towels and linens for an additional supplement. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
L'Espace Privé Rouen
L'espace Prive Rouen offers accommodation in Rouen. The apartment features a spa bath and free WiFi throughout Located on the ground floor, this studio has a seating area complete with a flat-screen TV with cable channels. You will find a fully-equipped kitchen fitted with a coffee machine. The open bathroom is equipped with a double shower, bathrobes and free toiletries. Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen is 750 metres from L'espace Prive Rouen, while Gare Rve Droite Train Station is 900 meters from the property.
La Tour de Jeanne : Hypercentre charme et design
Situated in Rouen, 1.1 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, La Tour de Jeanne: Hypercentre charme et design features accommodation with a shared lounge, free WiFi and a shared kitchen. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels and a fully equipped kitchen that provides guests with a dishwasher, a microwave, a washing machine, a fridge and an oven. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 87 km from the apartment.
Gaylor
400 metres from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Gaylor is situated in the Rouen City Centre district of Rouen. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
Rouen Cathédrale
Situated in Rouen, 1.1 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen, Rouen Cathédrale features accommodation with a shared lounge, free WiFi and a shared kitchen. Featuring a patio with river views, this apartment also includes a cable flat-screen TV, a well-equipped kitchen with a dishwasher, a microwave and a fridge, as well as 1 bathroom with a bath. A sun terrace is available on site and hiking can be enjoyed within close proximity of the apartment. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 85 km from Rouen Cathédrale.
Crevier "La cauchoise"
Crevier "La cauchoise" in Rouen features accommodation with free WiFi, 1.6 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral of Rouen and 2.9 km from Rouen Kindarena Sports Hall. This apartment has 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, and a kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave. The nearest airport is Paris Beauvais-Tille Airport, 86 km from the apartment.
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Review: Silver Leaf Cigar Lounge, Fort Worth, Texas
An elegant cigar lounge right in the heart of Sundance Square
Nov 26, 2019 | By Frank Seltzer
The humidor at Silver Leaf features a wide range of cigar brands, including Ashton, La Flor Dominicana, La Aurora, Liga Privada, My Father, Oliva, Padrón, Rocky Patel and Undercrown.
When you think of Fort Worth, Texas, often cowboys, boots and cattle come to mind. It is where the West begins, but with its upscale urban center of Sundance Square, it is also home to Silver Leaf Cigar Lounge, a sleek and modern place to light up.
When you walk in, you feel like you are walking into a high-end restaurant, and that is by design. Owner Tom Cavinder said that was the look he wanted. He had the idea of a cigar lounge in Fort Worth for years, but even he was a bit taken aback when the Sundance Square developers came to him asking if he wanted to put one in the new building they were erecting. He jumped at the chance and now Silver Leaf has been in business for almost six years.
Manager Jake Kesteloot says there is an implied dress code, but in hot Texas summers patrons wear t-shirts and shorts. At night things get a bit more formal, but Kesteloot says “We are here for everybody. We have longnecks and draft beer, wines, Louis XIII Cognac, Caymus and Faust wines. We have everything from Jim Beam to the Macallan M.”
The humidor also has about what you’d expect with a wide range of cigars, including the popular Padrón core line (starting at $8.50) up to the Padrón 1964 and 1926 lines, which cost up $30. Others are Rocky Patel The Edge at $7.99, Ashton, La Flor Dominicana, La Aurora, Oliva, My Father, Liga Privada and Undercrown.
The Micallef brand is a big seller with eight different vitolas from $9 to $45. The reason for the strong Micallef showing is that Silver Leaf was where owner Al Micallef started his brand and the lounge serves as a de facto office for him. And being a Davidoff White Label account, the entire Davidoff range is available, including the very rare Davidoff Oro Blanco ($500 each).
The lounge also carries a complete line of accessories and lockers for 30 people. But because of its success and a waiting list of about 20, Silver Leaf is adding another 35 personal lockers. Cavinder says about 40 percent of his customers are women. Part of that may be the ventilation.
“My wife hates cigars and smoke. I need her to be able to come here so we paid extra for all this ventilation and filtration. We can turn it up and you won’t smell anything,” Cavinder says. There are even intake vents on the bar so smoke from the ashtrays doesn’t even make it into the air.
Seven televisions are scattered around for watching sports or whatever, but don’t expect a quiet night at Silver Leaf. Thursday through Saturday there is live music and usually the place is packed every night. But parking is never a problem because Silver Leaf validates valet parking in Sundance Square. Not only that but Sundance Square has its own security team that keeps it safe.
Silver Leaf Cigar Lounge
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Open Sunday through Thursday: 10 a.m. to 1 a.m.
Friday and Saturday: 10 a.m. to 2 a.m.
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February 23, 2018 9:54 am Published by Stevie Chippington Leave your thoughts
Interview with Stuart Buckley in October 2017 issue of AutoRetail.
Despite the relative quietness of the automotive retail industry as we head into the heart of Q4, I believe that the opportunities are still out there, but too many are slipping through the net.
Research has shown recently that only around 50% of sales calls coming into a retailer are answered, and of those we believe that only around one in four are adequately dealt with first time around. This leaves a large number of potential customers that are not buying cars from you, and are most likely moving further down their shortlist of cars and buying from the first retailer that answers their call, and gets back to them with the information they want.
A retailer might look at their call records and see that they sold a car to, say, eight out of 10 of the customers that called in asking about a car, and think that they are doing well. However, that figure doesn’t give the full picture. If, as estimates suggest, there were a further 10 calls that never got answered or tracked properly, that is another eight potential sales that never even made it into the net in the first place.
A big issue is that once calls are answered, it looks like they have been dealt with. But in reality answering the phone is only half the battle. Consider how long it takes to have a decent conversation, bearing in mind that a lot of these calls will be coming via a receptionist or an IVR and the initial process of answering the phone will take up a significant amount of time. To then get through to sales and take down the right amount of information to find out what a customer wants takes even more time. Answered call stats are very misleading.
Calltracks is able to identify exactly which page of a website a customer has been looking at when they call in to a retailer, which means we get a good idea as to what the call is about. A recent case study with a client showed that around 20% of calls came from customers who were looking at new or used car pages on a retailer’s website – a sure sign of their intent. Of these calls, as many as 55% were too short to have a decent conversation. These are potentially lost sales opportunities, that we will alert you about in real time.
A recent and exciting new development from Calltracks is giving the dealerships more awareness around those customers that are not getting through, and then resurrecting the leads. The tool, which is the first of a number of new products that will be able to improve sales conversion, can identify the caller’s intent and enable Calltracks to inform the retailer – the sales manager or the dealer principal – if the call doesn’t meet the set criteria.
Real-time alerts then allow the retailer to see where the problems are, and concentrate on the most important thing, which is getting back to the customers as soon as possible, before the lead goes cold. It is important to recognise that the customer has spent days looking at cars, and for them to pick up the phone means they are keen. Someone not getting back to them is really bad.
It is essential to identify a potential lost sale and get back to the customer before they move on to the next retailer on their shortlist. Rather than spending even more money on marketing, isn’t it better to generate more sales from an existing investment? You may as well, as the customer has already called you.
This post was written by Stevie Chippington
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CHADWICK SET FOR FUTSAL DEBUT
Secure a ticket for CUFC pre-season clash against Oxford Lions – 6th Sept
Former Cambridge and Manchester United star Luke Chadwick is set to make his debut for Cambridge United Futsal Club next Sunday against Oxford City Lions, with tickets available to purchase online now!
Last month the club announced an exciting merger with the city’s existing futsal team to form the Cambridge United Futsal Club, which as of next month will compete in the FA National League Midlands Division Two.
Chadwick was revealed as the star signing; having had an involvement with Cambridge United Futsal Schools and Futsal Scholarship Programme this summer, which now offers a direct pathway into the National League side.
Ahead of the start of the new season, an exciting pre-season clash against the Oxford City Lions has been planned on 6th September (KO 12.15pm) at Cambridge University - where the new CUFC side will play all home fixtures - and gives Cambridge United supporters the chance to check out Chadwick and the U’s Futsal team in action against high class opposition.
The Lions will compete in the Super League South for the forthcoming 2015/16 season and are considered to be one of the top Futsal clubs in the country, therefore marking them out as more than worthy opponents for CUFC’s inaugural fixture.
Cambridge United season ticket holders, participants of the summer Futsal schools and those who have signed up to the club’s Futsal Development Centres which begin in September, are able to attend the fixture free of charge.
Full ticket prices for the clash are as follows:
£5 - Adult and Child
Free – Season ticket holder/Summer Futsal School Participant/Futsal Development Centre participant
now to head to the online ticket service. To redeem the free offer, season ticket holders can do so by logging into their accounts and simply securing a ticket, whilst Futsal participants must contact ross.brooks@Cambridge-United.co.uk to receive a promotional code.click hereThose who wish to attend must secure an e-ticket in advance to be presented upon arrival,
Futsal is one of the fastest growing indoor sports in the world and the only form of small-sided football that is officially recognised by both UEFA and FIFA. A five-a-side game with up to nine substitutes permitted, the game is played on a flat indoor pitch with hockey sized goals and a smaller ball with a reduced bounce.
Cambridge United’s full fixture list for the forthcoming National League campaign is available on the following link, with U’s fans urged to head across to the University to support the new side as often as possible this season.
If you are interested in getting involved in Futsal with Cambridge United, please click here to book or email ross.brooks@Cambridge-United.co.uk for more information.
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