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By Elisha Deogracias
Fall Damage has recently announced that its turn-based action strategy game BATALJ is currently in development on PC, with a closed beta available now for those who sign up on the game’s website. The game allows players to versus others in 1v1 battles where the best plans will win on the battlefield.
BATALJ is a fierce online turn-based action strategy game on PC where you face other players in one vs one battles with your own custom-built squad. Skill and smart plays decides who comes out victorious. With several unique mechanics and an action packed art style, BATALJ is a fresh addition to the strategic turn based genre. The title means “Combat” in Swedish, a nod to the Fall Damage founders’ background in AAA First Person Shooters. With three factions, multiple heroes and units you can try out different combinations, discover synergies and explore strategies that fits your playstyle.
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author G. A. De Forest, Christchurch earthquake, Mr Snowden, New Zealand, New Zealand culture, New Zealand foreign policy, spying, US foreign policy
US HEGEMONY vs SATELLITE PEONY
In anthropology, politics on June 25, 2013 at 7:52 am
Granted that Americans have a right to worry whether their own government is spying on them. Hence the whole Snowden ‘whistle-blower’ controversy. Now consider the case of New Zealand, a US satellite that more and more, under a right wing government, seems intent on making peons of its own people. The ruling minority government, with an effective majority of one in the House of Representatives, is about to pass legislation that will allow its US ally (and presumably other ‘friendly’ powers) to spy on New Zealanders via their own spy station situated outside Christchurch. The government, dominated by the National Party, is of course eagerly whipping up a state of paranoia among chronically paranoiac and anxious citizens by warning of imminent acts of internal terrorism. By the end of the week it will be too late to think about which terror is worse: that of the state over its own people that is going to happen, or you might say, freelance internal terrorism that might never happen. New Zealand long ago discounted the remote possibility of aggressive influences coming from outside to this far end of the world. After all, why else would it have let its so-called armed forces be depleted over the past half-century to one SAS company and various peace-keeping units deployed overseas that could not contribute to defending the country?
The tendency of this country to infantilism in the face of Mother Britain for a century and a half and the United States in the past half century has, as some feared, bred a country of sheep only too willing to be led to a slaughter of the spirit by a sequence of cowardly judas goats in charge. Such easy efforts to appease bigger partners internationally come at the real cost of New Zealand taking committed action and assertive measures over its own realistic concerns, of which there are many. To name one, huge systemic gaps and numerous lapses in civil construction and inspection standards responsible for killing and maiming hundreds of people, and irreparably damaging the mental wellbeing of countless thousands of others in just the past two years. Responsible for extending the effects of specific tragedies out to years is the lack of accountability and ducking for cover of government departments, insurance companies and other private corporations and local authorities. The disasters in question are the explosion in the Pike River coalmine that killed 29; the Christchurch earthquake(s) killing hundreds; and the negligent grounding of a cargo ship in the Bay of Plenty that jettisoned oil and hundreds of polluting containers into the sea, left to drift and sink in the absence of any aggressive recovery plan.
The Christchurch earthquake, and after thousands of after shocks there are still tens of thousands homeless and without sufficient means to start again
The Pike River Coal Mine explosion in November 2010 killed 29 miners. At least it was assumed from the first that they were killed. As anxious relatives waited on hopes day after day though expecting the worst, willing volunteer rescuers were prevented from even entering the mine by the police. This is just one instance of the enculturated Kiwi habit of officials hanging back and waiting. Still after two and a half years only robotic surveillance has been allowed, the results suggesting all the victims were not killed outright. In the initial enquiry the company was found guilty of nine “health & safety” violations. But in July 2013 it was revealed that of $90 million in insurance coverage a total of $156,000 has filtered down to be distributed to victims’ families in ‘compensation’. You do the arithmetic. Two weeks later police announced there would be no prosecution of mine owners and management because there was no direct causal link established: New Zealand has no such charge as “corporate manslaughter”.
The basis of the fault lies with New Zealanders’ self-vaunted “No.8 wire spirit”, so-called for the gauge of fencing wire used for all purposes originally by farmers for everything from extracting ear wax to holding a car engine together. This myth involving inherent love of amateurism in all spheres is deeply ingrained in Kiwi culture — admiration of the ad hoc over careful preparation, which is seen derisively as prissy or over-intellectualized. In the Pike River (Westland province) and Christchurch cases numerous instances of unheeded warnings over many years, shoddy design, construction and inspection regimes, and overarching laissez faire management philosophies creating “disasters waiting to happen”, were looked upon with disbelief and downright disgust by Australian and US experts called on to testify to best practices well established overseas for generations if not centuries.
This has been the pattern of civil expectations in New Zealand life for the past thirty years, since the turnaround of the 1984 so-called Labour government to right-wing economics, and growing more emphatic in quantum leaps every time there is National Party government insisting on thousands more job cuts in what are increasingly recognized as essential services. I accuse this government of wantonly risking more lives in the cause of easing their own. This further indenturing of its own citizens to outside interests will strip away any vestige or pretence of independence this country might still cling on to.
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PROGRESSING PAST VOCABULARY: The Three Essential Adjectives in Modern English
In anthropology, art, generational/fashion, Humor, literature, satire on June 11, 2013 at 1:38 pm
In days of yore, say back as far as the 1960s, there were massive tomes called dictionaries. Though it was known that the average person might have a vocabulary of some four thousand words or less, even “simplified” dictionaries would have as many as 65,000 to 75,000 words — so at least 60,000 too many for even the most talkative people. Those compiled by ancient, outdated educational institutions like Oxford and Cambridge Universities dating back to medieval times might include double that number in their more than comprehensive, overgrown volumes that contained the origin of the word, umpteen different meanings and senses, and examples of how these nuanced usages might be utilized in sentences by show-offs.
The language built up steadily, out of hand for over two thousand years, expanding to something with virtually infinite turns and twists. It came to be admired by so-called brainy people throughout the world just for its exquisitely descriptive value, unparalleled logical definition and finnicky grammar that qualified shades of meaning. All this was appreciated by just a few thousand elite around the world out of seven billion. If it had been confined to just one person’s head, like the maths in Archimedes’ this surplus knowledge could have been easily nipped in the bud as his was by his timely assassination by that Roman stud, cut and buff in his form-fitting battle dress making him look so hot.
But those dudes with their jive-ass — sorry — runaway egos painstakingly designed what they grandly called works of art based on this language, using imaginary imagery and tricky devices conjuring poetic beauty from a blank page — that went over the heads of everyone but a few of their own. When everyone knows that a work of art is something you can see in front of you like an awesome multicolored tattoo, mass produced so tried and true, with heaps of symbolic meaning, by a proper tattoo artist, or a nice mosaic coffee table with pretty colors, or hear, like a vocal on American Idol that can spread one syllable across eight notes. It all snowballed and got “stink”, to use a well chosen descriptive catchall in common New Zealand usage. So I say — All the more credit to recent generations who have simplified the language and made it accessible to a great many more people who are now able to be admired for their fluent speech, even their gift of the gab.
Those best at the art of simplification have invented an abbreviated written language too for text messaging, now coming into more general use and far more concise than the spoken word — an outmoded form of communication just begging to be clipped down to manageability. Soon we will all be speaking in grunts and moans, sighs and snorts, hand gesticulations and facial contortions that served our primate forebears so very well. Human communication is said to be 93% nonverbal anyway, so why not take this important lesson from our ancestors?
The biggest corporates, teachers and other cultural leaders are not doing too badly though. If we look at just one part of speech, the descriptive adjective, the necessary vocabulary for anyone speaking English can be boiled down to three words: “awesome”, “not okay” and “inappropriate”. The word awesome is not the awesome that used to be, that is, inspiring awe — a word that has no useful meaning whatever — but more like the “fab” or “groovy” of yesteryear. It is therefore an ideally leveling word that exalts all achievements and accidents of birth alike. Where we might say a man who has developed the ability to smoke a cigarette with his lips and drink an alcoholic beverage through his nose on the same breath is truly awesome, we could also courteously apply the term — though we don’t really mean it — to a steady, admittedly boring researcher with nerdy hornrim glasses (actually a geek to be honest), progressing by inches towards a cancer cure, in order to make him feel good about himself for a moment and caringly bolster his self-esteem with a white lie.
Inappropriate is hardly at all like the inappropriate of before, meaning unsuitable. Inveterate diners used to say, “It is inappropriate to drink red wine with fish, and white wine with red meat.” But to dance a rhumba to a chacha rhythm is no longer inappropriate but creative, original and maybe freaky to those with an extraordinary vocabulary expanded to take in impressive technical jargon according to their specialization on tv shows, cooking, music or dancing. Today inappropriate should be applied only in those situations where a cover-all adjective is needed for “anything I don’t like.” In this way “inappropriate” is a useful conversation stopper and final judgment that precludes all debate on or enquiry about a particular subject that is probably unnecessary in the first place, maybe involving abstract concepts which don’t even exist anymore in everyday life; only in the minds of over-intellectualized dweebs.
“Not okay” is perhaps the most versatile compound adjective, handy for almost every occasion. A bereaved family member interviewed this week about the searing effects on the loved ones of his 15-year-old nephew being punched and kicked to death by two rugby team mates at practice was able to summon up composure enough in his grief at the funeral to say straight from the heart, “Violence is not okay.” The same well-spoken, obviously well-educated Kiwi, probably in a high-flying occupation, in a different circumstance might rightly apply this adjective to a gauchely misapplied dessert sauce on a television cooking show, thoughtlessly dolloped on the plate instead of tastefully and aesthetically drizzled.
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JAK3 gene
Janus kinase 3
The JAK3 gene provides instructions for making a protein that is critical for the normal development and function of the immune system. The JAK3 protein is part of a signaling pathway called the JAK/STAT pathway, which transmits chemical signals from outside the cell to the cell's nucleus. Signals relayed by the JAK3 protein regulate the growth and maturation of certain types of white blood cells (lymphocytes) called T cells and natural killer cells. In addition, JAK3 is important for the normal maturation of another type of lymphocyte called B cells. T cells, B cells, and natural killer cells attack bacteria, viruses, and fungi and help regulate the entire immune system.
JAK3-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency
More than 50 JAK3 gene mutations have been identified in people with JAK3-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), an impairment of the immune system that leads to repeated and persistent infections that can be life-threatening.
Most mutations in the JAK3 gene prevent the production of JAK3 protein or result in a protein that is unstable and quickly broken down. Others lead to production of a protein that cannot perform its function. Without functional JAK3 protein, certain chemical signals are not relayed to the nucleus, impairing lymphocyte growth and development. As a result, individuals with JAK3-deficient SCID have few or no T cells and natural killer cells and a normal number of poorly functioning B cells. The shortage of functional lymphocytes causes people with this condition to be susceptible to infections.
Cytogenetic Location: 19p13.11, which is the short (p) arm of chromosome 19 at position 13.11
Molecular Location: base pairs 17,824,782 to 17,848,071 on chromosome 19 (Homo sapiens Updated Annotation Release 109.20191205, GRCh38.p13) (NCBI)
JAK-3
JAK3_HUMAN
JAKL
Janus kinase 3 (a protein tyrosine kinase, leukocyte)
L-JAK
leukocyte Janus kinase
LJAK
Educational Resources (1 link)
Immunobiology: The Immune System in Health and Disease (fifth edition, 2001): Defects in T-cell Function Result in Severe Combined Immunodeficiencies
Tests of JAK3
OMIM: JANUS KINASE 3
Notarangelo LD, Mella P, Jones A, de Saint Basile G, Savoldi G, Cranston T, Vihinen M, Schumacher RF. Mutations in severe combined immune deficiency (SCID) due to JAK3 deficiency. Hum Mutat. 2001 Oct;18(4):255-63. Review.
O'Shea JJ, Husa M, Li D, Hofmann SR, Watford W, Roberts JL, Buckley RH, Changelian P, Candotti F. Jak3 and the pathogenesis of severe combined immunodeficiency. Mol Immunol. 2004 Jul;41(6-7):727-37. Review.
Pesu M, Candotti F, Husa M, Hofmann SR, Notarangelo LD, O'Shea JJ. Jak3, severe combined immunodeficiency, and a new class of immunosuppressive drugs. Immunol Rev. 2005 Feb;203:127-42. Review.
Vihinen M, Villa A, Mella P, Schumacher RF, Savoldi G, O'Shea JJ, Candotti F, Notarangelo LD. Molecular modeling of the Jak3 kinase domains and structural basis for severe combined immunodeficiency. Clin Immunol. 2000 Aug;96(2):108-18.
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Confirmed: Yahoo Sells Zimbra To VMWare
Joseph Tartakoff Jan 12, 2010 - 7:02 PM CST
It’s official: VMWare is buying Yahoo’s Zimbra e-mail and communications platform, which Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) had put up for sale in late September. No financial terms are being released, although most reports have put the purchase price far below the $350 million Yahoo paid for Zimbra two years ago — a deal whose rationale was questioned from the day it was announced.
Under Yahoo’s ownership, Zimbra’s customer base has grown; the company now claims to serve over 55 million mailboxes, up 86 percent over the last year alone. Yahoo has also incorporated some of Zimbra’s technology into products like Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Calendar. And, indeed, under the terms of the agreement, Yahoo can continue to use Zimbra technology in its communications services.
VMWare’s interest in Zimbra is a bit of a mystery since VMWare focuses on selling virtualization technology; in the release, VMWare offers somewhat of an explanation saying that the purchase furthers its “mission of taking complexity out of the datacenter, desktop, application development and core IT services” and that it will be a “building block in an expanding portfolio of solutions that can be offered as a virtual appliance.”
This is Yahoo’s first major sale under CEO Carol Bartz, who has also put properties like Yahoo Hot Jobs and Yahoo Small Business on the block. Here’s the release.
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Re-Targeter Magnetic Raises $5 Million First Round
David Kaplan Jun 16, 2010 - 1:00 AM CDT
Just when you were wondering what the next big thing in online advertising would be after demand-side platforms, one possible answer is firms that use search data to re-target users for an ad campaign. Magnetic is one company that specializes in re-targeting and has been able to rack up deals with DSPs such as Google’s Invite Media, MediaMath, XA.net and [x+1]. The New York company has also just raised a $5 million first round funding led by Charles River Ventures, Ron Conway and NYC Investment Fund. Previous backers including Founder Collective and IA Capital Partners also participated.
The company will use the proceeds to build out its platform. Two-year-old Magnetic, which was previously known for contextual ad serving as DomDex before changing its name, raised a $1.25 million seed round in March from NYC Seed and IA Capital Partner.
Magnetic is headed by founder Josh Shatkin-Margolis. He spent three years working at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) as director of engineering responsible for data processing within the advertising division, working on the Panama ad system — which some may remember was highly touted by the team under then CEO Terry Semel, but was ultimately explained as one mere step to the creation of the company’s APT display ad management and targeting platform. Before Yahoo, Shatkin-Margolis put in five years at DoubleClick, where he served as principal architect for all banner ad serving technologies.
As a sign that retargeting was becoming more important to advertisers, in March, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) began beta testing a new conversion reporting tool for AdWords called
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Erin June 17, 2010
The company will use the proceeds to build out its platform. Two-year-old Magnetic, which was previously known for contextual ad serving as DomDex before changing its name.
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Taxation of pension payments
Principal information
Private savings for property purchases
Specified personal savings
Mandatory premiums
About Gildi
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One of the best savings methods available
Private pension savings are among the best savings methods available. A wage earner who saves 2–4% in this manner on a monthly basis receives a 2% matching contribution from the employer which is, in fact, a wage increase.
Secure yourself a 2% pay increase
Based on a wage of ISK 350,000, paid-out wages decrease by a little less than ISK 9,000 per month (almost ISK 106,000 per year and a little more than ISK 3.7m over a period of 35 years). Based on a 4% real return, this comes to almost ISK 19m after 35 years. This means that the amount you set aside increases five-fold.
Payments to private pensions are deducted from wages before taxes. Paid-out wages, therefore, decrease a little less than the amount that is deposited into the savings account, as the tax is paid when the savings are withdrawn. In addition, no capital gains tax is paid on the returns.
Matching contribution from employer
No one should miss out on the employer’s matching contribution, given that that the 2% contribution represents a clear pay raise. The employer is responsible for all handling of the payments once the private pension agreement has been finalised.
Increased disposable income in old age
On retiring, disposable income inevitably decreases, making it good to have the private pension savings at hand.
The savings are inheritable
Private pension savings are the personal property of the individual and are fully inheritable by legal heirs and divided according to rules stated in the Inheritance Act.
Flexible arrangements
As of the age of 60, it is possible to withdraw the entire amount at once, receive regular payments or as needed.
Does not reduce certain payments from the government
Private pension savings do not have an impact on old age pensions and income supplements from social security and do not reduce child benefits, interest tax rebates or unemployment benefits.
Support to purchase first apartment
Private pensions savings deposited after 1 July 2014 may be withdrawn and used tax free, provided that certain conditions are fulfilled. Savings from a period of 10 consecutive years may be used for this purpose. The maximum amount, however, is ISK 500,000 per year.
Private savings may be used tax free
Private savings may be paid tax free to reduce the principal of housing loans to 30 June 2019. Those who do not own real property can use their private savings in a comparable manner for pay-outs for property purchases. Such arrangement applies to the savings that have been set aside from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2019.
Support to purchase first residence
Effective for 10 consecutive years and the applicant selects the start date. The measures are threefold.
Private pension savings that have accrued over a particular period may be used for the purchase of a first residence.
Private pension savings may be used for a property loan that is secured with a lien in the first property and which was taken for that purchase.
Private pension savings may be used for the payment of instalments on a unindexed loan and toward reducing the principal of a loan that is secured with a lien in the property.
These measures are tax free.
The maximum amount per year is ISK 500,000 per person, with a maximum 4% from the employee and 2% from the employer.
The contribution of the individual must be at least as high as that of the employer.
The right holder must own at least 30% of the residential property, and there may not be more than two buyers.
The Act entered into force as of 1 July 2014. Private pension savings that have accrued since 1 July 2014, however, may be used for the first-time purchase of a property.
Individuals who bought their first property during the period between 1 July 2014 and 30 June 2017 and who pay private pension savings toward the principal of a loan according to the earlier authorisation can apply for this measure for a first property, but they must send in the application before the end of 2017. The period that has already been utilised is deducted from the consecutive 10-year period.
Applications are to be sent electronically to Directorate of Internal Revenue.
Pay-out due to purchase of real property
Private pension saving may be used to purchase housing for personal use.
This applies to paid premiums for wages earned during the period 1 June 2014 to 30 June 2019.
An individual can set aside a maximum of ISK 500,000 per year. The contribution of a wage earner is 4% but is a maximum of ISK 333,000 per year. The contribution of employer is 2% but is a maximum of ISK 167,000 per year.
Married couples and persons that meet requirements for joint taxation can set aside a maximum of ISK 750,000 per year. The contribution of a wage earner is 4% but is a maximum of ISK 500,000 per year. The contribution of employer is 2% but is a maximum of ISK 250,000 per year.
The condition is set that the person in question did not own real property on 1 July 2014 and until such time as the application for withdrawal is submitted.
Applications are submitted through the website of the Directorate of Inland Revenue once a purchase agreement has been finalised.
Private savings used to pay a deposit on a loan
The loans must be secured with a lien in residential housing for own use.
Applications for the measure are made through the website of the Directorate of Inland Revenue, leidretting.is. The application does not apply retroactively. The private savings are paid toward the loan from the month in which the application is submitted.
An individual can pay a maximum of ISK 500,000 per year. The contribution of a wage earner is 4% but is a maximum of ISK 333,000 per year. The contribution of employer is 2% but is a maximum of ISK 167,000 per year.
Married couples and persons that meet requirements for joint taxation can pay a maximum of ISK 750,000 per year. The contribution of a wage earner is 4% but is a maximum of ISK 333,000 per year. The contribution of employer is 2% but is a maximum of ISK 250,000 per year.
It is possible to deposit some or all of the premium that exceeds 12% (at present 3.5%) into a specified personal savings account.
At Gildi, those who already pay a 15.5% premium can also deposit up to 3.5% into a specified personal savings account.
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The Steven Universe Gems and their Metaphysical Properties
Movies & Television, Random Geekery
cartoon network, Steven Universe
It was midnight and I was in bed thinking about Steven Universe, as one does, and I began to wonder if there was a connection between the Gems in SU and the metaphysical properties of gemstones. I know I’m not the first fan to think of this, in fact, the Steven Universe Wikia lists Gem properties at the bottom of their profiles and makes note of any similarities. However, after digging deeper (he he) I noticed there are more connections than they mentioned.
I’m not very knowledgable in “healing gems” and I don’t necessarily believe/not believe in their powers, but I found the connection between the Gems and their properties fascinating. So fascinating that I wanted to research all of the Gems and their corresponding properties. Are some of these connections reaches? Maybe. But some are too strong to be a coincidence and I’m sure Rebecca Sugar and her team did this on purpose.
There will be Steven Universe spoilers in this post, especially about fusions.
I am not an expert or even very knowledgable in alternative medicine or crystal/gem properties.
The healing crystal meanings and properties are not prescriptions or healthcare information.
The metaphysical properties I’ve listed aren’t comprehensive, I included the properties I found relevant to the character.
The gem research found in this post came from Fire Mountain Gems, Best Crystals, Crystals and Jewelry, Healing Crystals for You, Healing Crystals and Steven Universe Wikia.
Singular Gems
Rose Quartz (Rose and Steven Universe)
Connection: Strong
Rose quartz is associated with all types of love, compassion and self-esteem; you can clearly see these qualities in both Rose and Steven. I also discovered that rose quartz is believed to help people develop strong friendships which made me immediately think of Steven and Connie’s friendship. They fused into Stevonie for Christ sake, friendship doesn’t get much stronger than that!
Rose quartz also carries energies of forgiveness and tolerance, enabling us to see the good in both ourselves and others. Steven embodies these qualities tenfold. He’s always the one to see the good in people, especially when it’s hard for others to see it, as he did with Centipeetle, Lapis Lazuli and Peridot.
The most interesting point I found was that rose quartz is helpful for dream recall and dream work. If you remember in the “Chille Tid” episode, Steven dreamt about Lapis Lazuli and was able to communicate with her in his dream.
Connection: Moderate
Pearl is like a mother-figure to Steven (in addition to Garnet) and the inner glow of pearls is thought to tap nurture love. I also read that Pearls promote loyalty and no one can deny Pearl’s obsessive loyalty to Rose.
The connection with Amethyst is an ironic one. Amethyst is known to be a stone of peace, sobriety and stability; which are words no one would use to describe the character. Amethyst stones are usually associated with the Greek/Roman god Dionysus/Bacchus, god of wine and intoxication. At first thought, this seems to answer why Amethyst is so impulsive and self-indulgent. However, the connection to the wine god is that amethysts actually symbolize sobriety. They were even carved into wine goblets to prevent drunkenness.
Looking at this information from a different angle, these qualities could be what Amethyst is striving for. We know her kindergarten origin is something that brings her shame and sadness. Amethyst is also the youngest of the Crystal Gems which accounts for some of her immaturity. She has a lot of growing to do, literally and figuratively. Perhaps when Amethyst is able to conquer her inner demons and mature a bit, she’ll be able to find some inner peace and stability.
Ruby, Sapphire and Garnet have my favorite connections. Rubies and sapphires are closely related, having corundum as their base mineral. The iron pigment in the corundum makes sapphire blue, while the chrome element in rubies makes them red. The fact the Ruby and Sapphire are the Gems in a relationship is no coincidence.
Ruby is a gemstone of emotion, often associated with passion, strength and anger. We see these traits in Ruby’s emotional temperaments and overall emotional (and angry) attitude. She’s small but mighty, which we see when she shakes her cell and lifts Sapphire. Rubies have also been used to increase passion and romantic love which we see in Ruby’s love for Sapphire.
As you read in Ruby’s section, sapphires and rubies are related. Corundum is their base mineral and the iron pigment in the corundum makes sapphire blue, while the chrome element in rubies makes them red.
Sapphires were thought to dispel evil thoughts and to bring peace and amiability to its wearer, sort of in the same way she (literally) cools down Ruby.
Sapphire is a gemstone associated with intuition, clairvoyance, foreknowledge and wisdom. These are all attributes we see in both Sapphire and Garnet’s “Future Sight” ability.
Another testament to Ruby and Sapphire’s love is that sapphire is known as the stone of new love and commitment and is claimed to be useful in encouraging faithfulness and loyalty. What encourages faithfulness and loyalty more than fusion?
What I found most interesting about the stone lapis lazuli, is that it’s said to help create and maintain a connection between the physical and celestial planes. This instantly made me think of the episode “Mirror Gem” where we first meet Lapis. She was able to communicate to Steven who was in the “physical world” while she was trapped in the mirror.
Lapis lazuli is also known as a protection stone. She’s committed to protecting everyone by staying fused as Malachite in order to prevent Jasper from escaping or gaining control of Malachite.
Peridot the gemstone is associated with good luck, peace, and success. But in the show, Peridot has bad luck, fails often and is violent with the Crystal Gems.
The coolest fact I found about Peridot is that the stone is not only terrestrial, but it has also fallen to Earth from meteorites. Although she’s not the only Gem to pilot a space craft, she’s the predominant Gem in Steven Universe to do so.
Connection: Weak/Unknown
We don’t know much about Jasper except that she has a temper and is prone to violence. The stone is known to bring balance, comfort, relaxation, grounding, protection. None of these seem to match with the character, but perhaps when we learn more about her, we’ll find some similarities.
Gem Fusions
Garnet (Ruby and Sapphire)
The connection between the stone and character are as strong as Ruby and Sapphire’s love. Garnet is known for love, loyalty, stability and commitment which is basically the embodiment of the Gem fusion. Garnets are also gemstones associated with strength, bravery, determination and self-confidence which are all characteristics that fit Garnet’s personality.
It’s also said to bring order to chaos whether internal or external. It’s clear that Sapphire and Ruby balance each others temperaments and the fusion Garnet is a blend of just that. On the external side of that, Garnet is the leader of the Crystal Gems and is the one who typically keeps the group in order. Another cool fact is that Garnet is not a single mineral, but a group containing closely related, isomorphous minerals that form a series with each other, which fits with the fact that she a fusion of two Gems. My favorite connection is that garnet symbolizes a quick return to a separated love. I mean, come on, how sweet is that?!
Opal (Pearl and Amethyst)
Opal is known for sparking intuition, personal power and removes fear. Opal is also a stone of inspiration which enhances imagination and creativity. Because we don’t know much about Opal, it’s difficult to tell what connection there is between the fusion and the stone.
Sugilite (Garnet and Amethyst)
Although all we really know about Sugilite is that she’s a powerful and uncontrollable fusion, there are some interesting correlations I found. Sugilite is associated with the resolution of existential problems, self-awareness, incarnation and identity which could be why she’s always so reluctance to unfuse.
Sugilite is also known to alleviate negative/destructive emotions and improve confidence. It lowers hostility, anger, jealousy and prejudice and gives a sense of freedom. These all seem like polarizing characteristic of Sugilite the character, but perhaps the fact that Sugilite is uncontrollable and impulsive eases those feelings in Garnet and Amethyst; because they can use Sugilite to get those feelings out of their system.
Sardonyx (Garnet and Pearl)
Even though we only just met Sardonyx in the “Cry for Help” episode, there are some similarities I found in the fusion and stone. Sardonyx is known for amplifying charisma, and although Amethyst might not agree, Sardonyx does have strong charisma.
Sardonyx embodies a vibration of happiness, optimism and confidence which we see in her personality in just one episode. The gem also helps to boost your self-control and your level of personal power. The main reason Sardonyx was fused in “Cry for Help” was because Sugilite was uncontrollable and they needed a powerful fusion they could control to destroy the Communication Hub.
Alexandrite (Garnet, Pearl and Amethyst)
The only connection I found was that alexandrite is a stone of courage, allowing one to face change with no fears. Since Alexandrite is a fusion of Garnet, Pearl and Amethyst, I could see it being used in dire circumstances; hence, the courage aspect.
Rainbow Quartz (Rose Quartz and Pearl)
The stone is associated with hope, optimism, communication, meditation and healing. We don’t know much about Rainbow Quartz, she hasn’t even spoken yet, so I can’t find a lot of similarities. However, the healing aspect could be connected to the Rose Quartz part of the fusion.
Malachite (Jasper and Lapis Lazuli)
Malachite has a strong connection in a unique way. It is known as the “stone of transformation” because it helps reveal and heal emotional pain by absorbing the pain into itself. It also tends to draw negative energy and disharmony into itself. Lapis Lazuli fuses with Jasper as a way to control Jasper and protect everyone. We see in the episode “Chille Tid” that she’s constantly fighting to stay fused as Malachite in order to control Jasper. The negative energy and disharmony going on inside of Malachite is clear to the viewers.
Thoughts on the gems and the similarities in their properties, or just wanna gush about your love for Steven Universe? Comment below!
March 20, 2015 by GirlGoneGeekBlog
Dernier Bar: The Geek Bar at the End of the World
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Back in February I spent Valentine’s Day weekend with my boyfriend and parents in Paris, the city of love… and geeks. If you’re a comic book fan, I’m sure you’ve heard of the amazing comics, artists and creators that have came out of France. The city is filled with comic book shops and you may have heard of, Angoulême International Comics Festival, a huge comic con France throws every year. With that being said, it should come to no surprise that in the heart of Paris you’ll find a very geeky (and awesome) bar called, Le Dernier Bar avant la Fin du Monde (The Last Bar Before the End of the World).
I heard about Dernier Bar from Geek-Art.net. I follow their site and remembered that they post about a lot of geeky exhibits in Paris. I emailed them asking if they had a gallery or shop in Paris and, although they don’t, Thomas from Geek-Art was nice enough to recommend I visit Dernier Bar while I’m out there. If it weren’t for Thomas I would have never known about the place!
I went to Dernier Bar on a Saturday night and it was packed, which is saying a lot since it has three floors. I kept saying how cool everything was the entire time… I must have been so annoying. Now it’s your turn to say “OMGSOCOOL” as you check out these photos of Dernier Bar. Needless to say, if you’re in Paris you absolutely have to go.
Steampunkish Top Floor
Lovecraft Corner on the Top Floor
Apologies for the wrinkles.
Space Ship-Themed Bottom Floor
Science Fiction- Themed Basement Floor
Pirate Ship & Game of Thrones-Themed Basement Floor (the other side)
October 28, 2014 by GirlGoneGeekBlog
NYCC 2014: Cosplay Roundup
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Every year I attend New York Comic Con more and more fans cosplay. It’s tough picking favorites but the ones that made me squee the most were Death from East of West and Steven Universe and his mom as Garnet. Oh and here’s my post about my Sailor Moon (aka Sailor Goon), Space Dandy and Spike Spiegel cosplay.
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NYCC 2014: Women of Color in Comics
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I was on a panel at New York Comic Con. I still can’t believe it happened. It has always been a secret dream of mine ever since I did my first panel about Women in Comics last year. Coincidentally enough, the same person who ran my first panel, Regine L. Sawyer, asked me to be on the NYCC panel. So everything has come full circle. I immediately said yes of course because it was the opportunity of a lifetime. But right after I said yes, the nerves hit me. I’m not used to a lot of irl attention because what I do (blog) lives on the Internet. So when I get asked to be on panels I’m always very excited and grateful and extremely nervous. NYCC was the most nervous I’ve ever been. I literally thought I was going to throw up. I tried to calm down by telling myself that it’s just my opinions, there’s no right or wrong answer. I’m not giving a dissertation on metaphysics. I’m talking about what I know, which is comics, women and race.
The panel was called Women of Color in Comics: Race, Gender and the Comic Book Medium. It was moderated by Regine L. Sawyer of Lockett Down Productions and the panelist included artist Alice Meichi Li, comic book artist Alitha Martinez, writer and cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft, cosplayer Geisha Vi, writer Juliana ‘Jewels’ Smith, writer and actor Vanessa Verduga and myself. I didn’t throw up so as far as that goes the panel was a success. But aside from the low bar I set for myself, the panel actually was a huge success. The room was almost filled to capacity, I heard there were over 700 people in attendance.
The description of the panel was, “Diversity. Women in Comics. Both subjects are hot button topics in the comic book industry. However, it isn’t often that both issues collide…” In all of my years attending NYCC, I’ve noticed a lack of people of color focused panels and PoC on panels in general. Despite the fact that NYC is probably the most culturally diverse city on the planet and the NYCC crowd reflects that. As the years went on there were more “The Women of ____” panels, but those panels often lacked women of color. So a panel like ‘Women of Color in Comics’ is something that’s not only necessary but should be regarded as essential.
The very existence of the panel showed two things, the growth of WoC comic fans and creators, but also the need for more representation and accurate representation in comics. Because we all know there’s a lot of misrepresentation of women in comics, but a majority of those women are white. So, we (WoC) are barely in comics to be apart of that misrepresentation. We have not only sexism to fight, but racism as well. This is especially important in regards to science fiction. Sci-fi often depicts worlds that are supposed to be our actual future, and if people of color are not there then they’re writing us out. They wrote us out of the past and now they’re writing us out of the future. I want women and men to understand that equality includes everybody. You can’t ignore the needs of women of color and call it feminism.
The importance of diversity in comics should be an obvious one, but you’d be surprised how many people don’t understand its significance. When a person doesn’t see characters that look like them, they begin to feel like they don’t belong. Young girls of color may stop reading comics because they feel like it isn’t for them, which stops them from becoming creators in the future. It’s cyclical. I do believe it’s important for creators of all backgrounds, straight white men included, to be responsible and make sure their stories are as diverse as their readers and the world. However, I think it’s much more important for people of color to create the stories we want to see. We shouldn’t wait for change we should make it.
The most important takeaway was what we can do to make the comic book industry a more diverse one. Coming from a fan’s perspective there are two things that are essential to promoting change and that’s using your voice and your money. Support diverse mainstream creators and comics and diverse indie creators and comics. The fact that there are so many young women who are reading comics now proves that our voice is bigger. We can affect change in the industry because we’re becoming such a large percentage of it. Use your voice to promote these diverse stories, characters and creators whether it’s in person or online. If you’re a creator, don’t be discouraged by the current climate of the industry. It will be tough to break into mainstream comics as a woman of color, but one of the best ways to make sure change in mainstream comics is to be apart it.
Forty-five minutes flew by and it wasn’t nearly enough time to cover everything about women of color in comics, but it was a start. Although the panel was over, the conversation doesn’t have to end. Blog, tweet, post, talk about these issues to help promote diversity.
Shout out to Mass Appeal, PC Mag (twice) and Flavorwire and Indiewire for covering the Women of Color in Comics panel.
July 2, 2014 by GirlGoneGeekBlog
Geek Girl Brunch Judges the Wasabassco Burlesque Costume Contest
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Ma’at, Techno Babble & Bella Blackheart [Photo by Hyuk E Kim]
The Geek Girl Brunch co-founders we’re asked to judge the Wasabassco Burlesque SUPER! Heroes vs Villains costume contest back in May. After we were done freaking out about how excited we were, we started freaking out about what we were going to wear.
To enter the contest the contestants had to create original characters. So you know what that meant, as judges we just HAD to create our own original characters. We had a very long email thread going between the three of us full of Etsy links and partial back stories. In the end, Bella Blackheart, Techno Babble and Ma’at, The Scribe were born… and cosplayed.
Bella Blackheart
Origin Story: Bella is the daughter of a human woman and Shango, the African god of fire, lightning and thunder. Her mother died giving birth to her and she was raised by her father in the realm of the gods. Her father’s three wives, the goddesses Oshun, Oya and Oba, loathed Bella. She was a living reminder that their husband fell in love with a human woman.
Throughout her childhood, the wives tried to have dangerous “accidents” befall Bella, but her father, Shango, always protected her. After 16 years of living with Bella, the wives could not stand it anymore. One night they tried to kill Bella in her sleep. But, as they discovered, killing the daughter of a god isn’t easy. So instead of losing her life, she lost an eye.
Bella escaped to the mortal world and took up residence in a small ghost town in the American West called Blackheart. Bella lived alone in the town for years, only venturing out to neighboring towns to get supplies and food. One day, a roaming group of assassins came to Blackheart and attempted to take over the town for themselves, but Bella wouldn’t have that. After a fierce battle Bella came out victorious. Impressed with her skills, the surviving assassins asked her to join them. Bella, being tired of the solitary life, accepted their offer. Over time, she became their leader and they became known as The Blackhearts, the most infamous band of assassins in the Americas.
Character Design: It all started with the eyepatch. I knew, whoever my character would eventually become, she would have an eyepatch. Because just like bow ties, eye patches are cool. I wanted her to look badass, mysterious and someone you wouldn’t want to fuck with.
Bella’s overall costume design was inspired by Elle from Kill Bill, Ginny from Pretty Deadly and Death from East of West. I’ve never really been a fan of Westerns, but the comics Pretty Deadly and East of West sparked a love for the genre and the aesthetic.
Rachel as Techno Babble
She’s a doomsprite that works for the super villain The Viral Menace. She travels via viral thought, loves meme culture and has the ability to screw with your tech just enough that it doesn’t work but not enough to look like it is broken.
Yissel as Ma’at, The Scribe
Formerly Egypt’s personification of truth and justice, with scribes of her own. She’s been living among us for centuries in search of her stolen wings. All that she has of them is a single plume with which she writes events into existence, prepared to suffer the cost of her powers.
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Flamecon – NYC’s First LGBTQ Comic Con
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I was beyond excited to attend NYC’s first LGBTQ Comic Con, FlameCon! It took place during Pride Month on June 13th at the fancy Grand Prospect Hall in Brooklyn. Geeks OUT presented the con, which is a NYC based nonprofit dedicated to building a better community for LGBTQ geeks.
True Gender Equality
FlameCon had preferred pronoun stickers for attendees to wear which included “Ask Me” and “Them/Their/They”. They also had gender neutral bathrooms. Just two simple additions to a comic con made the 2,200 attendees feel comfortable and welcome.
The Happiest Con
FlameCon is the happiest comic con I’ve ever attended. This all happened because of one simple, but important word, respect. Attendees felt free to be their geeky selves without fear of harassment because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
There was A LOT of Steven Universe cosplay so I was basically in heaven.
Special Guests & GaymerX
My favorite special guests were Kevin Wada (artist), Cecil Baldwin (Welcome to Night Vale) and Dylan Marron (Welcome to Night Vale) to name a few! GaymerX had a game room and Nintendo and Atari both had booths.
It was pretty hard to not spend all my money, the con was filled with talented creators and vendors. The MC in “Node” by David Rondinelli is basically Sailor Moon if her dad was Batman, so what’s not to love?
I had the chance to meet Hazel Newlevant, editor of “Chainmail Bikini” which is an anthology of comics by and about female gamers. She was super nice and her booth was full of great comics. I picked up her “Poly Glot, Cunning Linguist”. I really loved the honesty and emotional complexity of her short comic.
I couldn’t resist picking up this beautiful Hirsute Heroines postcard set by Hayley Blatte. Just look at the gorgeous purple pit hair!
I’m a big fan of simple black and white art (I blame manga for that). So I knew I couldn’t walk away from Niki Smith’s booth without buying something. “Some Did Rest” was the “depressing” comic as Smith described it. It was inspired by, “the thousands of students killed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, and the impact of a natural disaster on a society with compulsory population control.” It is pretty sad, but also really beautiful.
“Up With The Sun” and “Friends” are Smith’s LGTBQ-friendly erotic comics. “Up With The Sun” is about a polyamorous relationship with a cisgender woman, transgender man and a cisgender man. “Friends” features a threesome with two cisgender men and one cisgender woman. I’ve read smut and ecchi manga before, so it was nice to read a comic where the eroticism of the story is healthy and balanced. You can read and subscribe to “Friends” and “Up with the Sun” on the erotic comic site Filthy Figments. She has more erotic comics as well!
FlameCon plans to have another con next year, hurray! Follow them on Facebook and Twitter for updates. Oh, and stay tuned for another FlameCon blog post about the ‘Secret Identities: Transgender Themes In Geek Culture’ panel I attended.
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Blog Frida: Her Life, Legacy and Struggles
Frida: Her Life, Legacy and Struggles
Frida – self portrait 1940
Book: “Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo”
Author: Hayden Herrera
Publisher: Perennial, 2002
Undoubtedly, some of the best ways to learn about a foreign culture are by reading novels from the local authors, or by studying biographies of its most prominent citizens. And when you think of Mexico – quite a few big names would instantly come to mind, one of them is that of Frida Kahlo.
Frida was a talented Mexican painter who had a very short and tragic life. When she was only 18 years old, she got into a serious bus accident that left her crippled and in severe pains for the rest of her life. She continued to thrive despite her condition, marrying a World-famous Mexican painter, Diego Rivera, who was 20-years her senior and already a big star during his lifetime, and developing her own solid and original talent.
This book, which was made into a movie starring Salma Hayek, is a very good introduction into Frida’s World – her successes and struggles, her married life, her career and travels, her dreams and disillusionments. This small but powerful woman, who in her 47 years of life had seen and experienced more than many will ever know, was in fact a force to be reckoned with. And as a small proof to that, her art was expressive and reflective. Her favorite genre was self-portraits, and she often featured herself with animals and other inanimate objects, that are always up for an interpretation.
In addition to being full with informative details, this book is also featuring numerous private letters of Frida, her husband, her family and friends, as well as some of her personal photos and artwork. By reading this book, you will gain a good level of insight into who this woman really was (the movie is also nice but it only shows a tiny part of a big story).
P.S. This book is a perfect example why you shouldn’t judge one by its cover – yes, using a picture of Salma Hayek on a book about Frida was a wrong and a strange decision on the part of the publisher, yet it’s the inside pages that matter the most.
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One in Nine Email Users Encounter Malware…Are You the ‘One’?
You perhaps didn’t know! One in nine email users had encountered email malware during the first half of 2017, as per the findings of a recent research done by security professionals…
Security firm Symantec, in its latest ISTR special report, Email Threats 2017, reveals this and other findings related to email malware. The report, which discusses mainly the threat landscape where hackers spread malicious threats, BEC (Business Email Compromise) scams etc through email, also states that today users encounter threats that come through email twice as often as any other infection vector.
The Symantec report states- ” Email is by far the most popular method for attackers to spread malicious code. At present, a user is almost twice as likely to encounter malicious code through email than being impacted by an exploit kit. They are many more times as likely to encounter a malicious email than see their devices fall prey to a worm or encounter a malicious banner ad. On average, one out of every nine email users has encountered email malware in the first half of 2017.”
The study also finds that BEC scams too are rampant in the present scenario. Around 8000 businesses have reportedly encountered email attacks based on BEC scams per month. (BEC Scams, also known as CEO Frauds, happen when spoofed emails purporting to be from the CEO or CFO of a company, with the exact names included, would trick some senior staff member- someone from the finance department- or a company attorney, a trusted vendor etc into doing some money transaction via wire transfer).
As regards BEC scams in the first half of 2017, the Symantec report says- “With their heavy reliance on social engineering, and their urgent nature, business email compromise BEC scams are one of the more potent email attacks making the rounds. No longer do such attacks appear to be a rarity either, with approximately 8,000 businesses reporting attacks in a given month. On average a
targeted organization has 5.2 BEC emails sent to them each month.”
A notable finding of the study is that spam rate, which has been on a slow and steady decline since 2011, is now once again on the rise. It would continue to increase during the remaining months of the year. The result is that users would be finding, at an average, 11 more spam emails in their inboxes compared to what they used to get last year. The Symantec report says-“Year on year, we’ve watched the spam rate decline. Beginning in 2011, back when the spam rate was 75 percent, the rate has dropped on an annual basis to the point where it appeared to bottom out at 53 percent for both 2015 and 2016.”. It adds- “While the calendar years for 2015 and 2016 average out to be the same, it appears the spam rate may have actually hit rock bottom in the latter half of 2015. Breaking the spam rate into six-month intervals shows that it has been slowly, but steadily, increasing since that point. For the first half of 2017, this rate has reached 54 percent and all signs point to a continuation of this upward trajectory.”
The inference is- “As of the end of the first half of 2017, this upturn translates into an increase of 11 more spam emails in your inbox each month than a year prior.”
The research found that users working in the manufacturing, retail trade, construction and mining industries encountered 1.5 times more spam emails compared to others, in the first half of 2017. Users in the wholesale trade industry would in fact potentially encounter twice as much spam emails as the average user would.
The cost that a business today incurs, by way of managing spam emails, too gets discussed in the report. Spending 10 minutes per employee per data to manage spam would put the cost at around $4.51 per employee each day. This brings the annual cost for any business to around $1,177.42 for one employee. For 100 employees it becomes $117,741.67 per year, which could be seen as the equivalent of having two full-time employees dedicated to simply managing spam, for any business.
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VIEWPOINT:MARCH FOR FREEDOM OF CHOICE
If you’ve been reading these pages, you’ve heard me ranting on about MLX 249, the proposed amendment to give the Medicines Control Agency (MCA) a broad new range of powers over herbs and vitamins.
Under this new regulation, which the MCA is now seeking to put into effect this summer, the agency would have the right to decide itself, with no consultation or right of appeal, whether a vitamin, a herbal product or an oil is medicinal in nature and so in need of a very costly licence.
Although this proposed legislation was born in Europe as part of a proposed EC directive to regulate dietary supplements, MLX 249 is clearly the most draconian legislation of any EU countries.
The MCA has been quick to deny that this legislation would not clear the shelves of most supplements. “I want to reassure you that the proposals would not change the status of products which are correctly classified now as food supplements,” wrote the Inspection and Enforcement Division of the Borderline Unit of the MCA (the portion of the agency that deals with “borderline” substances like vitamins) to one of the several individuals who have publicly protested this move on April 29.
The big question of course is what do they mean by “correctly classified”? As the Vibrant Health Centre wrote in a press release, “The wording assumes that products currenty classified as food supplements are correctly classified. This is classic spin!”
There is no doubt that this proposal will affect not only herbal products, but also cosmetics and toiletries which contain vitamins, herbal extracts or aromatherapy oils even, conceivably, herbs for cooking.
It’s a virtual certainty that the adoption of MLX 249 will virtually demolish the health supplement and natural medicines industry overnight and put many alternative practitioners out of business. Most worryingly, it is giving the MCA the power to be, in effect, a law unto itself answerable to no one for its decisions, allowed to presume guilt before innocence is proved.
Most sobering of all, it railroads all of us into one method of health care modern medicine, with its checkered and unproven track record. As has been noted by protesters of this move, last year, 20,000 deaths occurred as a direct result of people taking medicines licensed by the MCA. The equivalent figure for food supplements is zero.
Up until now, the government has been steamrolling forward with the threat of passing this into law in spring. We now have a reprieve. It has just been announced that MLX 249 cannot get passed before the summer recess.
That delay has given us time to organise a backlash. A grass roots organisation supported by members of the alternative medicine community, health enthusiasts, and various health food manufacturers and suppliers is organising A Freedom to Choose March on June 20, at 11:45 am from Hyde Park (Cumberland Gate) to Trafalgar Square. To get the press coverage that has so far eluded this issue, the March must be massive. The organisers which include Consumers for Health Choice, the Health Food Manufacturers Association and the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine recommend that you take three friends with you, and have them invite three friends of their own. They are expecting a crowd of at least 15,000 people. There is growing support for this initiative among many important companies, MPs and health authorities.
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First CBD store in Santa Monica opens on Main Street
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Santa Monica’s first CBD retailer is now open on Main Street.
Life Bloom Organics occupies an airy space reminiscent of a yoga studio, with a meditation area in the corner and an amiable wellness expert dressed in flowing linen behind the counter. Behind the tranquil showroom, a dozen people are hard at work developing and marketing a line of high-tech CBD sprays, tablets and topicals.
There are a dizzying variety of CBD products available today. Manufacturers purport that the hemp-derived compound, which isn’t intoxicating, can relieve pain, insomnia, anxiety and depression.
“People have been able to transition from intense sleeping aids to CBD, use it to help with PMS or ease aches and pains so they can stay active,” said Ryan Rocca, who founded Life Bloom Organics in Malibu three years ago.
But because CBD products are not yet subject to federal oversight, consumers typically don’t know what’s in their candy, soap or pills.
That’s not the case with Life Bloom, Rocca said. The company operates its own organic farm and manufacturing lab, tests its products for contaminants and publishes the ingredients in its products.
Rocca said Life Bloom is preparing for the CBD industry of the future — it’s estimated the industry will be worth $20 billion in 2024 — not the burgeoning, unregulated industry that exists today.
“Right now, we’re not legally required to do any of this testing or labeling. We’re going way above and beyond in terms of the time and energy and money we’ve put into it,” said chief marketing officer Rachel Andersson. “When the regulations do catch up, we’ll already be compliant.”
Life Bloom sells five CBD formulas that address different concerns, such as sleeplessness, PMS symptoms and muscle recovery. Each has a unique set of ingredients — the sleep formula contains melatonin and valerian root, while the PMS formula incorporates magnesium and vitamin B6.
Rocca said Life Bloom’s oral sprays are its most popular product. The company’s chemist engineered them to absorb into the body more quickly than other products on the market, he said. They cost $35 to $40, while tablets and topicals cost between $42 and $45.
The store incorporates more than just Life Bloom products, however. Customers can find other types of CBD products from partner brands, participate in wellness classes and shop eco-chic apparel.
Rocca said he thinks combining a focus on wellness and lifestyle with a scientific approach will resonate with the store’s Westside clientele. He added he picked Main Street for the brand’s first brick-and-mortar location because of its surf and skate culture heritage. Life Bloom’s products are popular with outdoor athletes, who use them to improve muscle recovery after workouts, he said.
“This stretch of Main Street is the hidden gateway to that lifestyle,” he said.
But Life Bloom’s products aren’t just for athletes, Andersson said. The company is trying to appeal to a wider variety of consumers than other CBD brands, most of which target a young, affluent, active demographic.
“The over 50 demographic, which is huge, is getting totally ignored,” she said. “But they’re the generation that normalized weed, so they’re really open to CBD. They want it, and they want to learn what the new developments are.”
The brand’s first retail location will allow customers and potential customers to learn about CBD in an interactive way, she said.
“Everyone who works at the store is a trained expert who can answer anybody’s questions,” Andersson said. “We’re excited as that first retailer in Santa Monica to be able to educate people who have been wondering about CBD.”
This article was republished on CBDNewsFeed.com from the original article, First CBD store in Santa Monica opens on Main Street, which was originally published on 2019-08-03 04:00:00 (based on the date that was listed on the original article at the time it was republished). We shared this article on CBDNewsFeed.com because our editorial staff believed that its context was useful and helpful to our readers. If you have any questions regarding this article, please email us at [email protected].
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16 government teachers sacked in Madhya Pradesh, series of protests planned
Indore: State’s teachers association of government schools has called a protest against the termination of 16 teachers and will be holding rallies in every block on December 5. A larger protest would be staged at district level on December 10, and at the state level, association will be staging a protest in Bhopal on December 15.
The teachers have been terminated on the grounds of new 20-50 rule and underperformance. The teachers of schools that turned out poor results (less than 30 per cent of students passing in board exams) were given to chances to pass in an exam and if they failed in both then they were terminated it they had worked for more than 20 years or if they were above 50 years.
“There is a new rule quoting that a teacher would be terminated if they complete 20 years of service or 50 years of age, which is not justified as there is no such rule for any other government employee,” Aarif Anjum, state teachers association president, said.
He explained that this was just a way to torment teachers without giving proper reasoning for such a reason. “Dr Prabhuram Choudhary, minister of school education department, did not perform at par in the evaluation, so how can he decide to terminate teachers,” Anjum questioned.
The previous rule before teacher’s test noted that teachers of high school and higher secondary school delivering less than 30 percent results would be penalised by stopping one increment. “An engineer is not terminated when a bridge breaks, doctors are not fired based on the deteriorating condition of patients, so why teachers are being tormented if a student fails?” Anjum said.
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I-League Churchill Brothers vs Punjab (Minerva FC): Where and when to watch the live streaming
Churchill Brothers starts their I-League campaign today as they host Minerva FC at the Fatorda Stadium, 5:00 PM IST on December 1.
Last season Churchill Brothers had defeated MinervaFC 2-0 at the same venue where the match will be played today. Both teams have tasted league victories with the Goans have been crowned champions twice in 2008/09 and 2012/13 seasons respectivly. The Punjab based club won in 2017/18 season with 35 points, 3 ahead of the second-placed Neroca FC.
The strength of Churchill brothers will be their skipper Willis Plaza who had netted 21 goals for them last season.
"We have a completely new team this season with the exception of Ceesay and me. The preparation is like starting back from the beginning. For now there is nothing special, just building of good communication and understanding with each player," said Plaza in a pre-match press conference.
"We are taking this game very seriously because it is the first game of the season and it will be good to start with a win," he further added.
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274 West End Lane,London,GB,United Kingdom 3 Star Hotel
Great location! Winkles26 on 43 Reviews
Property Location With a stay at 274 Suites in London (Hampstead - Camden Town), you'll be convenient to Everyman Cinemas - Hampstead and Lord's Cricket Ground. This apartment is within close proximity of Burgh House and Hampstead Heath. Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the 7 individually furnished guestrooms, featuring kitchenettes with refrigerators and microwaves. Windows open for fresh air and city views. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary, while 19-inch LCD televisions with digital programming provide entertainment. Conveniences include safes and desks, and housekeeping is provided daily. Business, Other Amenities Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, express check-out, and luggage storage.
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Winkles26 on 19/09/2016 10:57
This hotel is in a great location, but we struggled to find it. When we eventually did the staff were quite helpful. The room was rather on the small side but had a little kitchenette which was handy. The room was clean, outside our window were lots of cigarette buds which was a bit off putting. We kept the blinds shut at all times and didn't open the window but luckily they have great air conditioning. It was about a 5 minute walk from the tube and West Hampstead is a nice area. It had a safe but it didn't work.
Excellent location, awesome price.
Doodvid on 12/09/2016 19:00
Ok...so first things first. This room IS small (think little studio apartment) and the views/shared areas aren't anything to write home, however for a West Hampstead location with easy access to tube links this place cannot be beaten. And to be honest, when you're in London, you rarely spend any time in your accommodation (if you're doing it right).
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LauraUK2016 on 08/03/2016 00:29
The faucets were filthy, the freezer door was broken, the drawer for the dishes was broken, the fan didn't work and the air conditioner leaked water all over the floor. The place is really run down and not worth it.
Comfortable stay for people stay longer than a week
GYildirim on 14/10/2015 09:14
The room is quite large room and there is a little kitchen, fridge, cattle, iron, hair dryer. So I have everything I need. The location is great. Pharmacy, supermarkets, charity shops, all types of food available around it. It is easy to get to the center. Bus 139 starts from in front of the hotel. It takes you directly to oxford street. It is also close to West Hamstead underground and overground stations (5-10 min walk)
Comfortable, simple accomodation
heli0trope on 10/10/2015 19:00
We stayed here for 10 nights in August while waiting to move into our new flat. We chose this studio for two reasons: the location and self-catering ability.
On both fronts this was an excellent choice. It was in the neighbourhood we would soon be renting in - West Hampstead is clean, very picturesque, full of great shops and only 10 minutes on the tube to Baler Street. Further, it is right near 3 small supermarkets which makes it really easy to cook for yourself.
This accomodation was not perfect although we did enjoy our stay. Although the rooms were clean there was some wear and tear in the room and the smoke alarms were set off quite easily from cooking so we had to make sure we opened up the windows when cooking.
The bathroom was quite big although the temperature in the shower was difficult to control. The wifi was free but could be temperamental at times.
The room was quite large compared to comparably priced studios in London which was a pleasant surprise. However, as this is on the Main Street and next to a pub it can get a little noisy on some nights.
Overall this was a good stay and met our requirements in terms of location and self-catering. It's not perfect but good for the price.
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ICT Group nominates Gina van der Werf for appointment to the Supervisory Board
ICT Group N.V. (ICT) today announces the nomination of Mrs. Gina van der Werf for appointment as member of the Supervisory Board of ICT Group. Her nomination made by the Supervisory Board will be on the agenda of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of ICT Group on 9 May 2018. Gina van der Werf is CEO of First Dutch Innovations and has the Dutch nationality. Mr. Jan Sinoo, whose second term ends on 9 May 2018, will not be available for re-election.
Gina van der Werf (46) is CEO of First Dutch Innovations, a multinational company active in the TIC-sector (Testing, Inspection and Certification), Metrology and in Life Sciences. In the past she was Chairman of the Management Board of Priority Telecom NV after corporate positions within the Liberty Global. She also held several Supervisory Board positions within the IT sector and within the Noordelijke Hoge School Leeuwarden (NHL). She holds a degree in Corporate Law and International Organisations from the University of Groningen.
Theo van der Raadt, chairman of the Supervisory Board of ICT Group: “We are very pleased to nominate Gina van der Werf for appointment to the Supervisory Board. With her broad and international management experience and extensive background in the tech sector she will be a valuable addition to our Supervisory Board. I am convinced that ICT Group will benefit from her involvement in developing innovative companies and promoting entrepreneurship. At the same time, I would like to thank Jan Sinoo for his valuable contribution over the past eight years in which ICT made significant steps forward.”
Gina van der Werf will be nominated for appointment for a period of four years until the AGM in 2022. The nomination for appointment will be made under the condition that the general meeting does not make use of its right of recommendation. After her appointment, ICT Group’s Supervisory Board will consist of the following members: Theo van der Raadt (Chairman), Deepak Luthra, Fritz Fröschl and Gina van der Werf. Mrs. van der Werf will become chair of the Remuneration and Appointment committee.
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by Shane McGlaun — Thursday, December 05, 2019, 08:15 AM EDT
Microsoft Reportedly Still Plans Next-Gen Xbox Scarlett Sans Disc Drive
We all know at this point that the next-gen Xbox is in the works, and Microsoft continues to say that the console will be on par with the coming next-gen PlayStation 5. Microsoft says Project Scarlett will set a new bar for console power, speed, and performance. A new report claims that Microsoft is planning at least two versions of the console.
In addition to the standard console, there will reportedly be a second version codenamed Lockhart. Lockhart was thought to have been canceled when Microsoft only announced one Project Scarlett console (Anaconda) in June. Kotaku now reports that the disc-less, digital-only Lockhart console is still in the works.
The real question about the disc-less Lockhart console is how it will be priced. That is a mystery, but what we do know is that Microsoft caught flak for launching the Xbox One S All-digital console with only a slight MSRP discount between it and the normal Xbox One S console. We hope that the lesson means that the disc-less Lockhart console will be significantly cheaper than the Anaconda version.
Rumors claim that Lockhart will have an SSD to reduce load times and promises a faster AMD Ryzen 3000-based CPU. The assumption is that Anaconda will be positioned more like the Xbox One X is today, with Lockhart positioned as the Xbox One S replacement. Reports indicate Anaconda is aiming at supporting 4K resolution and 60 fps with Lockhart supporting 1440p at 60 fps. Microsoft remains mum on any official details stating it doesn't comment on rumors and speculation.
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HomeProPaul Pierce Is Making His Presence Known in Wizards Locker Room
Paul Pierce Is Making His Presence Known in Wizards Locker Room
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Editor’s Note: Washington Wizards players were actually interviewed for this story
In the late stages of his career, there are questions on how well Paul Pierce will play for the Wizards when the team signed him to a two year deal during the off-season.
So far, it looks like the Pierce signing was a good thing for the Wizards. “The Truth” is averaging 13.2 points per game and 5.5 rebounds per game. In the Wizards win over the Milwaukee Bucks, Pierce tallied a double-double, 25 points and 10 rebounds.
The Wizards did not bring Pierce just to be an offensive help, but to be a veteran leader on the team. Pierce has spent a total of 16 seasons in the NBA. He has played in 148 playoffs game and led the Boston Celtics to a championship victory in 2008.
Pierce knows what it takes to win games, especially meaningful ones. He is using the experience he gain during his NBA career to lead a young, but talented Wizards team.
“Paul Pierce has been big for us,” Garrett Temple said. “The way he can score the ball and his leadership has been valuable.”
Wizards point guard John Wall reflected on how well Paul Pierce has helped the team.
“Paul came in talking, being another leader on the team,” Wall said.
One of the thing Pierce teaches the Wizards is the importance of home court advantage. It’s safe to say the team is benefiting from his teaching as the Wizards support a 5-2 at the Verizon Center.
The Wizards chemistry in the locker room and on the court is looking good so far. Pierce has shown the Wizards how important playing together as a team is.
“Paul has taught us how big chemistry is,” Temple said, “He is the guy that will grab people and pull them together and tell them, we are in this together.”
Paul Pierce has played in plenty of big games and had moments when things weren’t going his way. He has shown the Wizards to keep pushing forward even when the team is dealing with adversity.
“Paul teaches us to stay together through tough times even when you are dealing with adversity during the game,” Temple said.
It looks like Pierce has been a huge help for the Wizards to start the season, and the team hopes he can continue his production as the season moves on.
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The Next Steps Towards Enculturation of Psychedelic States
The fifth and final moderated discussion of INSIGHT 2019 will conclude the conference. It will be moderated by Steve Paulson (Executive Producer and Co-Founder of To the Best of Our Knowledge, Wisconsin Public Radio) and will include audience participation. What have we heard from the speakers and debates of INSIGHT 2019?Which controversies were sparked and what insights were developed both for the scientific system and larger society? The focus of the round table will be on concrete steps for the enculturation of psychedelic states into a Western, globalized culture. Which role does our general understanding of consciousness play in this? Is there a special role for mindfulness practices when it comes to finding a responsible place for the psychedelic state in culture? Modern societies differ radically from the traditional groups who use psychedelics in their ritual and healing systems. Today we have a higher degree of individuality, a larger number of worldviews and spiritual systems, as well as a diverting global drug control system that tackles the regulation of several hundred psychoactive substances – a situation never experienced before in the history of humankind. In addition to this, most countries have a developed medical system and the question arises if the psychedelic experience should be integrated or remain alien to these systems. What are the arguments for and against creating a legal space for psychedelics in society? Who should have access and who not? How would a future system of self-exploration and therapy look? Which controversies would it create?The final panel will take time to debate ideas related to the broader future and ethics of the psychedelic state in society.
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A military SUV is crawling along in 1st gear, barely moving through the sands of Coronado Beach. Inside the vehicle, an extremely muscular stone-faced man steers with one hand as he occasionally shouts through an electric bullhorn.
Another dour, athletic hard man sits in the passenger seat. These men are Navy SEAL instructors and this is Hell Week for elite military personnel seeking to become SEALs.
The SUV is driving parallel to a straggler, the very last man in a platoon of soldiers running along the beach. The soldier is panting and moving with the awkwardness of someone on the verge of complete physical collapse. He struggles and stumbles with his attempts to jog through the deep sand. His boots, socks, and pants are waterlogged, making him feel like he has 25-pound weights strapped to both legs. With each agonizing step, he sinks past his ankles in the deep sand.
Despite his exertion, the soldier is freezing—shivering as he runs. The sun is low and the endless seashore breeze is especially intense this chilly morning. The soldier is completely drenched with seawater, sweat, and covered with grimy sand. He’s been subjected to one brutal physical training drill after another since 4 AM.
He lifted rubber boats overhead then ran with them on extended arms. He did sit-ups with logs, and lifted logs overhead for reps. He capsized and almost drowned while paddling a rubber boat from the shore through crashing waves. He completed a two-mile ocean swim and has already run for three miles in the sand. He is parched, starving, freezing—and not yet halfway to the end of this drill. Now, he has fallen 200 yards behind the second slowest member of this elite platoon.
The SUV driver is lean like a whippet with sleeve tattoos, super short hair, a mustache and sleek black sunglasses. With a quick practiced movement, he rips the bullhorn from his lap. His voice cracks the silence like a gunshot as he aims the bullhorn at the running soldier.
“JENKINS! Give it UP! There is no disgrace in being a pussy. Embrace your inner pussy, Jenkins. Quit. There is no shame in quitting. 99% of those that come here quit, Jenkins. Just stop running, jump into the warm vehicle, and have some hot coffee. Chuck, do we have any hot coffee left for Jenkins?”
The hard man in the passenger seat has heard this same question routinely and responds like a robotic thespian. His deep bass voice is loud, practiced, and gruff—he’s an articulate brute.
“Plenty of hot java, Skip! Oh, and look Skip, it’s a whole Subway roast beef sub with extra meat and mayo!”
“Jenkins! We got coffee and Subway and heat!”
The soldier’s slow pace and labored breathing become even slower and more labored as he begins to envision sitting in the back seat of the black SUV. He can almost feel the heater blowing on his face and frozen hands. Maybe he could take off his shoes and socks, then put his wet, shredded, white wrinkled feet in front of a rear heater vent. That would be incredible! He could drink the scalding-hot black coffee between bites of submarine. It would be the most incredible coffee he’d ever had and the most incredible tasting sub he’d ever eaten.
The soldier tasted the imaginary roast beef sub in this elaborate food fantasy. “And you know,” he thought, “A roast beef sub will taste just as good cold. It’s not like a meatball sub, a meatball sub has to be hot. If I could have a hot sub, I would definitely get meatballs on that Italian bread, though meatballs on honey whole wheat bread would also be excellent with provolone and extra hot peppers…”
“JENKINS! QUIT DUDE! Jenkins!!!! Listen to the Little Man inside your head, Jenkins! The Little Man is saying it’s okay to quit—we’ve quit before and we’ll quit again—there is no shame in being a f$#!ing quitter!” LISTEN TO THE LITTLE MAN, JENKINS!”
Jenkins was blasted out of his blissful reverie. He’d been on another planet—an imaginary food fantasy planet, then a piercing 120-decibel bullhorn message from his tormentors snapped him back into Hell Week. Suddenly he was back on the beach, back in the reality of Hell Week. His legs were beyond leaden, and his breathing sounded like an overloaded steam locomotive heading up Pike’s Peak. He wanted to go back to his fantasy food world, but the gossamer strand leading to it was irreparably shattered. Now, the Little Man inside Jenkins’ head went to work, addressing his true inner self.
“What is so bad about quitting? Seriously, do you really think you can get through the rest of the day? They are going to keep this shit up late into the night. And this is only day three. Get real, you need to think about what I’m saying. There is no shame or disgrace in quitting.”
It was all so confusing to Jenkins.
The man in the SUV looked at his passenger and said, “I think we need to check this dude out. He looks ready to nosedive.” In cases where the trainers sense the trainee might be in real danger, usually due to hyperthermia, they will end the tryout—whether the trainee wants to continue or not. The driver shouted through the bullhorn again.
“Jenkins! Stop!”
Jenkins looked over at the stopped SUV. He wasn’t sure what he’d heard was real. The driver motioned him over to the vehicle. The passenger met the exhausted soldier and had him place a heart rate monitor around his chest. Jenkins was panting, sweating, and over-heated but shivering like racehorse ridden hard and put up wet.
“Where is he at?” the driver demanded of the passenger.
Chuck—the passenger—looked at the heart rate monitor, laughed mockingly and said, “121!”
The driver was incredulous. “WHAT! 121?! Oh, this figures… Jenkins, you really should get an Academy Award.”
A soldier who’d been subjected to the same drills and conditions while exhibiting Jenkins’ outward signs of exhaustion should have had a sky-high or abnormally low heart rate. Jenkins had neither. He had a moderately elevated heart rate, one easily achieved with 75% effort on a stationary bike. What is the significance of this physiological contradiction? Outward exhaustion with only moderate internal stimulation can be attributed to a mind/body asynchrony.
Jenkins was far from going into hyperthermia-induced shock, he was plodding along on dead limbs with a barely elevated heart rate. The SEAL instructors had seen this phenomenon before. When the mind and body are in conflict, a man who might be capable of passing BUDs won’t make the cut. When the mind and body are out of sync and at odds, performance deteriorates.
“I need you to end this, Jenkins. I need you to quit. This is just the beginning.”
Jenkins needed no further prodding. He sighed and said, “Roger that. I agree, sir. I quit.”
Both SEAL trainers breathed a sigh of relief. The real Jenkins breathed another sigh of relief, and the Little Man inside of Jenkins’ head who had made it all happen, clapped his little hands gleefully because he had retained control over Jenkins. But it had been a close call. Inside the warm SUV, there really was hot coffee and a Subway sub. Yet somehow Jenkins barely tasted the coffee and wasn’t hungry anymore.
The men who make it through BUDs have their minds and bodies in sync. At some point, a man has to silence the Little Man inside his head. Otherwise, the Little Man babbles on and on and on, expressing nagging suspicions, doubt, weakness, and always providing a continuous, ongoing commentary. The Little Man is an energy drain that shatters confidence while continuously expressing self-doubt. We need to shut that idiot up, but it’s not that easy.
At some point, a man has to realize he doesn’t need this idiot’s commentary or input. It’s just a massive drain and distraction. Besides, who is this Little Man and who elected him Pope? When a man realizes he has been debating with himself, the Little Man’s days are numbered.
Those who successfully silence the Little Man are freed to face excruciating challenges with a singular mind/body connection. There’s no guarantee that they’ll be able to rise to the challenge, but at least they will have their mental-physical synergy. They will be empowered to operate at 105% of their realistic capacity. Whether this amplified capacity is enough to make the grade is another question entirely.
The brain-train SEAL instructor says, “A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.”
Krishnamurti felt that the “cessation of thought was the awakening of intelligence.” No thought, no Little Man. Krishnamurti felt the same as the SEAL instructors about the Little Man inside our head. Krishnamurti was a sort of SEAL instructor for brain-training. He did not suffer fools gladly and posed the rhetorical question, “How do we dissolve the observer, the always-thinking, opinioned inner voice?” Krishnamurti held that as long as the “observer” was active and verbal, our perception of reality—which always takes place in the immediate present—was impossible.
Preoccupation precludes pure perception—the present is a fast-flowing, ever-changing river. Reality rips past like intense rapids, only the enlightened experience reality as a serene and placid lake. Someone engaged in an internal dialogue with an imaginary person (the thinker/observer) can’t simultaneously perceive reality. Reality occurs at a lightning-fast pace. The human brain is incapable of creating an internal, multi-tasking split screen for a simultaneous perception of reality along with a constant internal mental conversation.
Life is not a Reality TV show with you as the star. That’s a false mental construct, an elaborate ego trip. Creating elaborate mental fantasies interferes with the perception of reality. Preoccupied people only glimpse reality in the gaps and spaces between their ceaseless mental chattering. The Little Man creates the intoxicating illusion that he is real, then develops a persona that evolves and tries to dominate you over time.
Imagine a fantasy construct you’ve conjured out of thin air that takes on a life of its own then tries to convince you that he is real, a valuable companion, and a trusted advisor. Though he’s an incredible salesman, his argument is flawed because his universe is finite—limited to your own puny life experience. Since he is you, the Little Man’s advice is worthless. You already know anything he will say.
The rational world of the thinker is mechanical, slow, ponderous, speculative, limited, and decidedly inferior. The ideal mindset is Little Man-free: alert, vibrant, electrified, hypersensitive and not sleepy. This mindset is effortlessly, sublimely silent. It’s not an affected silence, a clever mind-trick, or the conscious mind feigning silence to retain control. We seek a mental silence that’s not imposed or pretend. We want the mind to fall silent because it’s completely engrossed with the task at hand—whatever that might be.
When completely absorbed, the mind falls silent of its own accord. We can “lose ourselves” in a myriad of activities. Someone can “become one” while building an intricate ship-in-a-bottle, or while playing an instrument. They can lose themselves quilting, painting, bowling, playing golf, performing a martial art, or cooking. The thinker falls silent during a peak athletic experience, fly fishing, or surfing. Experiences that can engage us to the point of immersion and oneness are infinite, but uniformly identified by the same effortless silence and concentration. When we are mentally silent, it’s easy to become totally focused and absorbed by the task at hand.
Krishnamurti would claim that while a state of electric quietude is the desired default psychological status, this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t use our left-brained, right-handed, rational side when those unique skills are appropriate. Optimally, every day, we should successfully modulate between both hemispheres of the brain. While one half is in use, the other is resting. By resting our mind one half at a time, we avoid the overheated, un-rested, stressed-out mindset so common today.
How do we attain or access this “effortless silent zone,” without the conscious mind turning it into another clever construction? How do we take the steering wheel away from the fictitious Little Man?
We can’t think our way into mental silence. That would be just another conscious act of will. Willpower is the conscious mind’s ability to force the body to do what it commands. Willpower can be used to impose mental silence, but that type of silence does not cause the transcendental loss of self. The observer will strain so hard to ensure his own silence that the perception of reality—the requisite precursor of transcendent performance—will be impossible.
Willpower is a mental construct, it’s G. Gordon Liddy holding his hand over a cigarette lighter until his flesh burns to impress a dinner date. By definition, every act of willpower is finite. Acts of will must come to an end. A man can only grit his teeth for so long, stick to a diet he hates for so long, or do something he abhors for so long.
The human brain is like any other muscle—it can be “overtrained.” Similar to external muscles which can be harmed by overtraining, a consciousness continually engaged in intense and prolonged internal dialogue, debate, and amplification of real and perceived stresses, can become overheated. An overheated brain is the equivalent of an overtrained muscle.
The solution to a stressed-out overheated, un-rested brain is finding the electric silence associated with tasks that require intuitive creativity. Unlike willpower, which is finite, intuitive creativity is infinite. It runs on solar power or cold-fusion. It’s frictionless and self-regenerating. Once we’re able to access a consistent state of the present, Krishnamurti says we glimpse the consciousness we were intended to have. This is the primal consciousness we lost somewhere along the evolutionary pathway. Zen masters speak of it as “reacquiring Original Mind or Original Nature.”
Elite athletes have peak athletic experiences on a regular basis—that’s a big part of being elite. The super athlete can sync the mind and body by wordlessly psyching themselves up. The athletic elite know that a focused and psyched-up mind improves the quality of individual workouts, causing hypertrophy while mobilizing and oxidizing stored body fat. All physical transformations begin in the mind of the trainee. Nothing fuels enthusiasm like tangible results. When the focused, silent mind is combined with an effective training protocol and a logical nutritional compliment, physical synergy occurs. When this state-of-being takes hold, results will exceed any and all realistic expectations.
Transformative training is addictive. The athlete craves to repeat these peak episodes of super human effort. Elite athletes purposefully subject themselves to brutal training for protracted periods. When body and mind are in sync, the resulting performance produces results. When in “the Zone” we can perform “over our heads”, setting new standards and personal records in every measurable benchmark. The elite athlete will develop an uncanny ability to routinely access a mental zone that significantly improves workout performance.
“Intuition is the rapid, subconscious crosschecking that occurs when the ordinary mind doesn’t intervene.”
-Neil Claremont
Who is running the show when we are at our best? Is the conscious mind—the thinker, observer, the Little Man—responsible for our actions during the rapid-fire action of full-speed, high-level athletics? For example, how can someone mindlessly play third base—reacting fast enough with spontaneous precision to catch a five inch ball traveling at 100 miles an hour?
Does the Little Man supervise our actions as the batter makes contact with the baseball? Once the ball is hit, in less than a second, it will be in the field. The thinking mind doesn’t have time to supervise and say, “Okay, now let’s move eleven feet left on a northeast heading of 163 degrees. No, wait! The baseball just hit a depression on its first hop and bounced, we need a tangential course correction. The new interception point requires you to travel three feet southeast on a 47-degree course. Please begin to open your glove and lower it to a point six inches off the ground.”
Meanwhile the baseball will have flown by three seconds ago like it was shot out of a rifle.
So, who is driving? Who exactly is in charge, guiding the human body to intercept an object traveling over 100 miles per hour and liable to bounce in any direction at the last possible second? In baseball, an experienced 3rd baseman will make this catch nine times out of ten with mindless, practiced ease.
What guides us to move and adjust to return a 150-mph racquetball serve? Who makes all the trajectory and velocity calculations that allow a pro to shoot a basketball through a hoop from forty feet away twenty times in a row without missing? I want to get to know this deaf-mute consciousness that guides and improves my athletic performance.
I know it sure isn’t the Little Man.
We can only access the intuitive, creative state that enables the elite to achieve a transcendental level of performance when we surrender our control to the subconscious, letting it wordlessly guide body, mind and spirit. We do our best work when we apply undivided attention to what is happening—not what is about to happen or what has happened—those are artificial sparkly objects designed to distract us. What’s about to happen is a projection of the future, and what has happened is a reflection of the past. Both are constructs of the Little Man. What is happening should be our primary concern.
Right now, it’s very probable that the Little Man inside your head is saying, “Well that was a stupid-ass blog post. How ridiculous!”
Marty Gallagher, author of The Purposeful Primitive, is an underground legend. Mentored by a Hall-of-Fame strength athlete as a teenager, Marty set his first national record in 1967 as a 17-year old Olympic weightlifter; he set his most recent national record in 2013 as a 63-year old powerlifter. He is a former world powerlifting champion who turned his attention to coaching athletes and devising individualized training templates for the finest strength athletes in the world. Read more about Marty here.
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Green light for growth in Asia USD bonds
Shane White, Senior Production Editor, ANZ bluenotes | March, 2018
Growing demand for USD-denominated bonds in Asia will continue, according to a panel of experts, with the size of the total Asian bond market set to hit $US1 trillion by the end of the year.
Speaking on a panel at ANZ’s 2018 Debt Conference, Jimmy Choi, co-Head of Capital Markets at ANZ said 2017 was a banner year for interest in Asian debt markets.
The Asian USD bond market grow more than 65 per cent in 2017, according to Choi, to $US312 billion. That spend came across a total of 553 transactions, up from just over 400 the year before.
These figures represent “a phenomenal number from a flow and number of deals perspective,” he said.
“We’ve been discussing the rise of Asian liquidly over the past three or four years,” Choi said. “I think we’re at a critical juncture where we want to explore - is it a true alternative funding market for Australia?”
To Arthur Lau, Managing Director at Pinebridge Investments, the answer to Choi’s question is yes.
“The liquidity I believe will stay and continue to grow,” he said. “We can clearly see the liquidity force remains extremely strong. Asian liquidity should remain very constructive to the market.”
Rapidly built-up liquidity has left demand outstripping supply of higher-grade US bonds, with Australia and NZ seen as natural choices for Asian investors seeking access to developed markets.
Lau, also Co-Head Emerging Markets & Fixed Income at Pinebridge, said the total Asia credit market had grown from $US200 billion back in 2009 to now almost $US900 billion.
“We currently expect the Asian bond market hit the $US1 trillion mark likely by the end of this year,” he said. “At the latest, early next year.”
“The liquidity I believe will stay and continue to grow.” Arthur Lau, Managing Director at Pinebridge Investments
Need for better structure
Lau, Managing Director at Pinebridge Investments, said Australia could attract more Asian debt interest with a better-developed structure. Choi agreed.
“Australia bonds are currently all out of index,” Choi said. “There is no index. My view is as you get more critical mass eventually it will be indexed-linked. Someone will have an index.”
“I think from an Asian perspective the level of [interest] will be even higher. If it’s indexed linked it’s much, much easier to buy so it will have way more access and value.”
Lau told the panel Chinese investment flows through the rest of Asia were not about to dry up, despite debate over how long the growth can be maintained.
“[Chinese groups] need to continue to reinvest and recycle,” Lau told. “I think Australia is clearly one big element that helps them fill the gap.”
The insights were delivered on a panel featuring Mirvac Group Treasurer Darren Lake, Sydney Airport Treasurer Michael Momdjian and ANZ Head of Markets Credit Strategy Owen Gallimore.
Why Reg-S Bonds Are Booming Down Under
There’s never been a better time for Australian borrowers to raise funds in Asia’s US dollar RegS bond market. The RegS issuance data in Asia speaks for itself - deal volumes have broken records in 2017, up 67% year-on year to US$257bn by mid-November, and this trend was reinforced by the speakers at our recent ANZ Aussie Day conference in Hong Kong.
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Morning SpoilersIf there’s news about upcoming movies and television you’re not supposed to know, you’ll find it in here.
Clark Gregg discusses the limited future of Agents of SHIELD. There are more rumors about a certain DC hero’s cameo in Shazam! The cast of the Kingsman prequel expands. Plus, what’s to come on Supernatural, Tony Moore’s Motor Girl is heading to Hulu, and the truly wild villains of the Alfred Pennyworth show are revealed. Spoilers get!
As part of a tie-in contest, Orville Redenbacher popcorn’s official website has a banner showcasing some new costumes for certain Avengers, mainly Iron Man, Black Widow, the Hulk, and of course the finally-returned Hawkeye.
Meanwhile, Disney Australia has an official synopsis.
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos’ actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.
Kingsman: The Great Game
The Daily Mail’s Baz Bamigboye reports Gemma Arterton, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Tom Hollander (playing 3 roles, apparently!), Djimon Hounsou, and Alison Steadman have joined the cast of the Kingsman prequel.
Amblin Partners will team with Vertigo Entertainment for a film adaptation of Tony Lunedi’s popular Reddit horror story from /nosleep, The Spire in the Woods. Now titled The Bells, the story concerns a teenage boy investigating the supernatural phenomenon that caused his friend to commit suicide. [Bloody-Disgusting]
Sony Pictures has purchased the film rights to Rob Liefeld’s comic book, Shrink, concerning a psychiatrist who specializes in diagnosing superheroes. [Deadline]
Untitled Supernatural Revenge Thriller
Tigers Are Not Afraid director Issa López has signed on to direct a “supernatural revenge thriller” for Legendary “said to be rooted in Mexican cultural lore.” [THR]
We Got This Covered reports a “body double” for Henry Cavill’s Superman makes a cameo at the end of Shazam! “as part of the payoff to a running joke.”
A Quiet Place 2
According to Production Weekly, A Quiet Place 2 begins filming this summer in upstate New York.
Appearing as a guest on the Now What?! podcast, actress Emily Alyn Lind (who plays Snakebite Andi) laid out the premise of The Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep.
So, basically, it picks up from when Danny – played by Ewan McGregor – is going down the wrong path, a lot like his dad, who’s played by Jack Nicholson in the original movie. He decides when he is younger, right after the Overlook Hotel has been destroyed, that he is going to turn off his powers. This little girl named Abra Stone reaches out to him, and he hasn’t had his powers – his shining – on for twenty something years since he was a little boy. And this little girl Abra Stone reaches out to him somehow and needs his help because she has the most powerful shining out of everyone in the world.
So, she’s reaching out to Danny to try and help her because this cult called the True Knot, which I’m a part of, is trying to capture her because what they do is kill children and eat the shining out of them, and that makes them almost immortal. So they are trying to find her because if they eat her, they will be set for years and years and years and be very healthy. It’s sort of like – the movie is really cool because you have two different storylines going on – you see the whole Aubra-Danny storyline and the True Knot storyline and they’re kind of coming together until the end when they emerge into one.
Fantastic Beasts 3
Speaking with Hey U Guys, actor Dan Fogler stated the reason Fantastic Beasts 3 has been temporarily delayed is due to the sheer enormity of the project compared to the first two.
Yeah, we start in the Fall. The movie is going to be gigantic! The reason we were given is that the movie is bigger than the first two combined. They needed more time to prep and they didn’t want to rush anything so they pushed it back.
Avatar 2-4
In a recent interview with Collider, producer Jon Landau revealed the second, third and fourth Avatar movies will begin filming their respective live-action segments this spring.
We have completed our principal capture on Avatar 2, 3, and part of 4. We’re going to do our live-action filming in New Zealand in the spring of this year.
Elizabeth Banks shared our first look at the new Charlie’s Angels on Twitter.
The Boy II
Bloody-Disgusting has a new screenshot from The Boy II.
Miles undergoes hypnotherapy in a new clip, also from Bloody-Disgusting.
Rachel Skarsten (who played Dinah Lance on the short-lived WB Birds of Prey television series) has joined the cast of the CW’s Batwoman as Alice, “the leader of the Lewis Carroll–inspired Wonderland Gang. Swinging unpredictably between maniacal and charming, Alice has made it her mission to undermine Gotham’s sense of security.” [Deadline]
Clark Gregg recently told Entertainment Tonight about the show’s new future—while also hinting that its renewal for seasons six and seven might actually be its real last:
We had this really wonderful end of season five — the [season finale] episode was even called ‘The End’ — and we had reason to believe that we were done. We’d had these wonderful five seasons and a very tight family, and it was very, very sad. And then they called everyone up and said, we’re actually gonna do two more short, 13-episode seasons, which is really the number we thought we always could do best at.
TV Guide reports Once Upon a Time star Ginnifer Goodwin has been cast in an upcoming episode titled “Point of Origin,” co-starring James Frain and Zabryna Guevara.
Thomas Mitchell Barnet and Asha Bromfield have joined the cast of Locke & Key as Sam Lesser, “a troubled, sensitive young man who longs for a connection and will go to desperate lengths to find one” and Zadie, “a spunky, horror nerd and lone female member of the Savini Squad”, respectively. [Deadline]
The Locke kids also posted a family photo:
Muppets Live Another Day
Once Upon a Time showrunners Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz will team with Josh Gad on a new TV series starring The Muppets for Disney+, according to a post on Splash Report. Allegedly titled Muppets Live Another Day, the series will be set after the events of The Muppets Take Manhattan and concern Kermit and company coming together to solve the mysterious disappearance of Rowlf the Dog.
Terry Moore revealed he’s now writing a television pilot for Hulu based on his comic book series, Motor Girl, concerning a junkyard owner who protects aliens from the government with her 600-pound gorilla, Mike.
Executive producer Danny Cannon revealed Alfred Pennyworth with go up against the grandchildren of Jack the Ripper in a new interview with Deadline.
[The show will feature] archetypal villains and classic villains of British literature; they’re all available to us. Jack the Ripper was [around in the] 1880s, but he has descendants.
In related news, journalists Damian Holbrook and Chris Hayner hyped recently screened footage from the Gotham series finale on Twitter.
The Hashtag Show has word Amazon’s The Dark Tower TV series begins production mid-April in Croatia, and where it will continue to film until late-June.
Roswell flashes back to the dark heart of 2008 in the synopsis for episode six, “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”
In a series of flashbacks to 2008, secrets are uncovered about Rosa’s final day, Isobel’s (Lily Cowles) mysterious blackouts and Alex (Tyler Blackburn) and Michael’s (Michael Vlamis) relationship in high school. Jeanine Mason, Nathan Parsons, Michael Trevino and Trevor St. John also star. Tim Andrew directed the episode written by Eva McKenna & Carina Adly MacKenzie (#106). Original airdate: 2/26/2019.
[Spoiler TV]
A town-wide quarantine threatens to expose the group’s supernatural identities in the synopsis for episode twelve, “There’s a Mummy on Main Street.”
When the urn goes missing, Alaric (Matthew Davis), Hope (Danielle Rose Russell), Josie (Kaylee Bryant), Lizzie (Jenny Boyd), Kaleb (guest star Chris Lee), Dorian (guest star Demetrius Bridges) and Emma (guest star Karen David) hit the road to locate the artifact before the next Malivore creature arrives. Meanwhile, Lizzie takes aim at Hope for all the past spring breaks she’s ruined. Finally, the group bands together when a town-wide quarantine threatens to expose their supernatural identities. Julie Plec directed the episode written by Marguerite MacIntyre & Sherman Payne (#110). Original airdate 2/28/2019.
Earbuds are a potential choking hazard in the latest TV spot.
Finally, Jack (apparently) kills Rowena in the trailer for next week’s episode of Supernatural, “Ouroboros.”
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Jackson Berry is co-founder of Splish, a Y Combinator-backed startup that’s carving out a new niche in the social sharing space. Touted as the next anti-Instagram, Splish is a short-form video sharing app where friends can create and share looping videos and animated photos.
Splish is decidedly about life, friends, and meaningful community; less about follow counts, likes, and glossy perfection. Its videos have a grittier look and feel than your average Instagram feed and more staying power than Snapchat’s ephemeral messaging app.
"The incumbents in the consumer social space fail to build relationships in the same way that humans do in real life. They're generally split into two categories – broadcast and messaging,” says Jackson. “Splish instead functions as an online 'third space,’ giving people a place to build and reinforce their relationships on the internet.”
Splish originally started as a generic creative tool in the augmented reality space. While the early photo and video-focused product was evolving, it still felt uninspired until the team discovered a subset of power users who were using the app in a very specific way. Through user feedback and testing, the team began to design deliberately for this segment of power users to reinforce the features that users valued.
"We've followed a product design process that's balanced our thesis and our users' requests, ensuring that we're building with their values and intentions in mind. It's very similar to a design-thinking or user-centered design methodology, and has proven very impactful on our product iterations," says Jackson. "Splish’s success is the culmination of focusing solely on the things people fanatically love most and cutting the clutter of indifferently-received product features."
Exploring new spaces and experiences is nothing new for Jackson. An Arizona native, Jackson moved to Los Angeles to attend the USC Iovine and Young Academy before setting off on a solo backpacking trip around the world. When he’s not working on his startup, Jackson immerses himself in meditation retreats and creating meditative VR experiences.
Here, Jackson shares his best advice and tips for a successful Y Combinator application.
When did you decide to apply to Y combinator and what was the application process like?
Y Combinator (YC) has been a personal dream of mine since I was 16 years old. Where I grew up, no one was involved in tech. I was the only person at my high school who took computer science, and I taught myself how to make video games and websites via YouTube tutorials. Most of my early schooling in the startup realm came from YC’s forum “Hacker News” and the essays of YC’s founder, Paul Graham. So, naturally, it was my top choice when applying to accelerators, but that didn’t mean getting in was an easy process.
When Splish first applied to YC in Fall 2017, we got one phone interview and were subsequently rejected before the next round. We kept our heads up, continued working, and decided to reapply in Spring 2018. This time we got the interview in Palo Alto. YC interviews are intense ten-minute bouts of ravenous idea debate. Usually teams have one debate, but we were called in for a second because they'd not finalized a decision on our application after the first round.
Describe a typical day at Y Combinator?
Day-to-day life in Y Combinator’s program is exactly what you'd expect – we spend 15+ hours a day heads-down talking to users and building features. We're lucky to work from a living room instead of a garage. To break up the intensity of the long, hard sprints, YC hosts weekly dinners with all the founders of the Summer 2018 batch. We also have small-group office hours with other companies in our space. This small-group time is incredibly impactful as we're able to solve the biggest problems that face our startup with the best mentors, advisors, and founders who understand exactly the position we're in.
Any tips for startups wanting to apply to Y combinator? Is the program worth it?
I used to think that the best way to learn about yourself was by wandering the world, exploring ancient cultures, and reading great books – these are all great options. But, after this summer, I'm convinced the most potent learning experience you can have is sitting in the same chair, hunched over a computer, drinking egregious amounts of coffee, working 15 hours a day on the same problem, with the same people, for three straight months. I don't think it would be possible to condense more leanings about business, tech, people, myself, and life in general into such a short time frame as YC managed to. I would highly recommend applying to any founder. Even if you don’t think you have a chance of getting in, if you want it, you might as well take a shot.
My advice to getting in to YC is this:
Find a great team that you love to work with. Find a problem that you all are uniquely qualified to solve (and would enjoy solving). Work day and night to make your solution a reality. Then learn how to tell your story succinctly and intelligently. If you do all those things, you'll have a good shot at getting in to YC. And if you don't get in to YC, all will still be well because you now have a hardworking team aimed at problem you enjoy solving.
Three top lessons learned so far?
1. Everyone who was successful before you was just as human as you. They had the same doubts, anxieties, stresses. What sets the most successful founders apart is their ability to keep fighting. Formidability trumps talent.
2. Your team is your product. The character of any project you build will inevitably reflect the character of the people who built it. Be sure to choose a team that fits the product and a product that fits the team.
3. You need to learn to scale yourself as much as your company. You need to examine your own deficiencies as much as your product's, and work constantly to improve on them. No one begins this journey anywhere near as impressive as they end it (just google a before and after photo of Jeff Bezos and you'll see what I mean).
Best advice you’ve received?
"Make something people love." This is YC’s mantra and the most important point at the heart of any startup. It doesn’t matter how pretty your design is, how advanced your tech is, or how visionary your mission is – if there isn’t a core group of people who love it, it’s worthless.
Something about you that people might find surprising or unusual?
I’m very interested in philosophy, meditation, and spirituality. I spent part of this spring practicing at a Zazen monastery in Big Sur and will be doing a seven-day silent meditation retreat in the fall. I tend to combine that interest with another passion of mine – video game development. When I'm not working on my startup, my consistent side project is making meditative VR experiences. The most recent was "Gestations," a surrealist VR experience about being born.
I also spent much of last year solo backpacking around the world. I spent two weeks in South East Asia, a month in the Middle East, two months in Europe, and two weeks in Cuba. While traveling I 3D modeled the people and places I encountered and made them in to a computer game.
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During the past two weeks, we fixed a few more things, and now we're finally ready to launch the platform.
There are still some glitches, and there are many things that haven't been implemented yet, but we think we now reached a stage where we should show all this to the public.
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We just added a new FAQ page, featuring quick answers to the most important questions, so that you'll easily understand what we're up to. The page shall be updated from time to time.
Meanwhile, we're preparing the official launch of the platform, this weekend we'll be working on the introduction video as well as on first introduction posts.
The Jamplifier's Manual is now available
Our eBook – aka "The Jamplifier's Manual – How to become a Rock Star in the 21st Century" is now available worldwide for $9.99 on both the Amazon Store (Kindle) and on Apple iBooks.
The next steps will be to fix a few further details on the website, to create an introduction video, and finally to promote the entire platform.
The Jamplifier's Manual Chapter 1 now online in PDF format
Within the past 2 months, I fixed tons of details on the website, and work on the Jamplifier's Manual is now almost complete.
Chapter 1 is now officially online, you may read it directly on the website, or you may download the PDF version.
Within the next two weeks, I will finalize some more stuff, and then the entire Manual will probably go online before the end of June, which means that the entire platform will also be publically released in the second half of the month.
Updates will follow soon...
Today I finally unlocked a whole bunch of features on the platform, so that the official test phase may now begin. There are no users yet, but the signup screen has now been enabled, although I don't think that lots of people will currently find the site as there has been zero promotion so far.
A pre-release version of the Manual's first chapter is also online now, a final version will follow soon.
The entire platform is still quite a mess right now, and I hope I will be able to fix the most important things within the next few weeks.
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Daily Digest 1/9 – Corporate CFOs Say Stock Market Is Overvalued, Texan Wind Power Grows Again
January 9, 2020 by Peak Prosperity
Nearly all corporate CFOs say the economy is going to slow and the stock market is overvalued (Thomas R.)
While CFOs see a downturn, that doesn’t mean they’re foreseeing a worst-case scenario. In fact, expectations for an outright recession fell to 3% in the fourth-quarter survey, down from 15% in the first-quarter 2019 survey. However, 97% say a slowdown already has begun or will start sometime in 2020.
The College Wealth Premium Has Collapsed (tmn)
The college earnings premium has proved durable and considerable overall. White people born in the middle of the century got more of an earnings boost for attending college than white people born in the 1980s—but the boost for both groups was big. (“People” is close-enough shorthand here; the authors use a more technical household comparison.) And black people born in the ’80s got a similar income bump, compared to black people born in the ’40s and ’50s.
Disinformation For Hire: How A New Breed Of PR Firms Is Selling Lies Online (tmn)
Most recently, in late December, Twitter announced it removed more than 5,000 accounts that it said were part of “a significant state-backed information operation” in Saudi Arabia carried out by marketing firm Smaat. The same day, Facebook announced a takedown of hundreds of accounts, pages, and groups that it found were engaged in “foreign and government interference” on behalf of the government of Georgia. It attributed the operation to Panda, an advertising agency in Georgia, and to the country’s ruling party.
The Nasdaq soars past 9,000 for the first time ever, fueled by Amazon’s holiday sales boom (Thomas R.)
Amazon stock jumped as much as 4.2% on Thursday after announcing it enjoyed a “record-breaking” holiday-shopping season. The e-commerce giant said “billions of items were purchased” during the Thanksgiving to Christmas period, along with “tens of millions of Amazon devices” worldwide. More than 5 million new customers started Prime free trials or paid memberships, the company added in a statement.
Facts and Speculations – Next Decade (Thomas R.)
The U.S. financial system transfers wealth from pensions, savings, individuals and businesses to the political and financial elite. Deficit spending, massive debt, consumer price inflation and the Federal Reserve enable wealth transfer.
Samsung shows off bizarre fitness exoskeleton and rolling robot at CES (Thomas R.)
It’s refreshing to see Samsung discuss some of its more futuristic ideas, instead of just outlining a bunch of new TVs and refrigerators like it normally does at CES. But Samsung didn’t really talk about any of this actually coming to market anytime soon. Instead, it just seemed to show off what it’s building in its research labs.
Past Point of No Return –John Rubino (pinecarr)
In closing, Rubino says, “We have entered a new stage which feels like one of the end stages of this process—when governments just give up and don’t even pretend to try and control their finances anymore. Well, we are there. That’s when it will be clear to everybody that is the case, and then your gold goes through the roof. The investment thesis ends with you loading up on precious metals and then riding the inflation and/or monetary reset that has to happen because of past mistakes. The nightmare scenario is if we are already having a financial crisis and then we have a war with China and Russia, it’s unimaginable. I cannot factor that into a scenario for financial asset prices because it is too crazy.”
Americans in China warned over spreading mystery illness (Thomas R.)
In Hong Kong, authorities say 30 people have been hospitalised after returning from Wuhan in recent days and displaying flu-like illnesses but none were confirmed to have contracted the mystery new strain.
Thirteen of them have been discharged, said Hong Kong authorities Tuesday.
Cancer group finds biggest 1-year drop in US death rate (Thomas R.)
Government researchers previously reported a slightly lower drop in the cancer death rate for the same period. But the Cancer Society calculates the death rate differently, and on Wednesday said the decline was larger — and record-setting.
Most lung cancer cases are tied to smoking, and decades of declining smoking rates led to falling rates of lung cancer illnesses and deaths.
Facebook’s deepfakes ban has some obvious workarounds (tmn)
What’s a cheap fake? Something like this video of campaign workers doing a corny dance in support of presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg. In reality, they aren’t campaign workers at all — they’re audience members at an improv show filming a bit for a comedian, who shared it on a Twitter profile he had edited to make it appear as if he worked for Bloomberg. The ruse was exposed relatively quickly, but plenty of people still fell for it.
Toyota plans to build ‘city of the future’ with housing, robots and autonomous vehicles in Japan (Thomas R.)
Akio Toyoda, president of the automaker, described the “Woven City” as a “living laboratory” that will include thousands of residents and will test autonomous vehicles, robotics, personal mobility, smart homes and artificial intelligence in a real-world environment.
Oil plummets to its lows of the day after President Trump says Iran ‘appears to be standing down’ in the Middle East (Thomas R.)
Oil prices spiked early Wednesday following an Iranian missile attack on military bases housing US and Iraqi personnel. The attack was likely retaliation for the US killing last week of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
Texan wind power grows again as huge turbines start spinning (Thomas R.)
Texas is known for its oil production, but it is increasingly a major player in wind energy. According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), the Lone Star State had more than 27 gigawatts of installed wind capacity and 14,198 wind turbines during the third quarter of 2019. The nearest rival in terms of installed capacity, Iowa, had less than half (8.965 GW) of Texas’ installed capacity during the same period. Capacity refers to the maximum amount that installations can theoretically produce.
Trump Moves to Exempt Big Projects From Environmental Review (jdargis)
Environmental groups said the revisions would threaten species and lead to more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The proposed regulations also will relieve federal agencies of having to take climate change into account in environmental reviews.
When wildlife safety turns into fierce political debate (tmn)
Like much of America’s aging infrastructure, the roadbed at Targhee Pass is gradually deteriorating, afflicted by icing, frost heaves and poor drainage. In the fall of 2016, under the National Environmental Policy Act, the Idaho Transportation Department and the Federal Highway Administration began studying how best to remedy the section’s problems — among them wildlife collisions, which accounted for nearly a quarter of Targhee Pass’ crashes (none of them fatal, at least for humans). Swelling tourism would only exacerbate the danger: While just 5,600 vehicles navigated the pass daily in July 2012, the agency forecast summer traffic to reach 9,400 cars a day by 2042.
Why Are So Many Earthquakes Happening in Puerto Rico? (Thomas R.)
Three strong aftershocks, with preliminary estimates of 5.6, 5.2 and 4.5 magnitude, followed Tuesday’s big quake. A bigger aftershock, of 5.8 magnitude, hit at 7:18 a.m. local time. The temblors knocked out power to much of the island, seriously damaging homes and buildings and leaving at least one person dead.
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Montreal hosted a fantastic annual human rights conference this week, which the Jeanne Sauvé Foundation was very pleased to participate in.
Organized by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia University, the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, Amnistie internationale Canada Francophone and the Comité unifié des organisations arméniennes du Québec, the aim of this large-scale event was to discuss and celebrate the role of Montreal in advancing human rights.
The conference brought us around the world with sessions focusing on different regions. Lawyers, journalists, civil society activists, academics, and politicians joined together for an inspiring day of exchange and reflection about the state of human rights around the globe.
In the morning, we were particularly touched by the words of Rebiya Kadeer, former President of the World Uyghur Congress and spiritual leader of the Uyghurs. She spoke of a genocide of Uyghurs in China and called on the international community to take action and condemn the Chinese government. Speaking later in the day, Irwin Cotler, former Canadian Minister of Justice, expressed that the greatest “unspeakable” tragedy with many genocides is that often they are preventable. “We knew, we know, but we do not act!”, he said.
Many people called on democracies needing to come together collectively to gain bargaining power and stand up against widespread human rights abuses. The President of Freedom House, Michael J. Abramowitz, spoke about a general recession in human rights around the world, including in many democratic countries that have traditionally upheld higher standards of civil liberties and freedoms. Attention was drawn in particular at the end of the day to the violence and discrimination anglophones are facing in Cameroon. But, despite this recession, the conference finished on an optimistic note. Kyle Matthews, the Executive Director of MIGS, pointed out that many countries have improved significantly over the last year, such as Ethiopia. He also stressed that it is positive to see so many engaged actors come together to discuss these pressing issues of our time – showing there is concern and people are indeed speaking and acting to promote change.
Thank you very much to all the organizers for this incredible conference. We look forward to next year!
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GM (Temporarily) Laying off 1300 Due to Low Volt Sales
General Motors Co. announced the temporary suspension of Chevrolet Volt production and the layoffs of 1300 employees, as the company is cutting Volt manufacturing to meet lower-than-expected demand for the electric cars.
“Even with sales up in February over January, we are still seeking to align our production with demand,” GM spokesman Chris Lee said. The car company had hoped to sell 45,000 Chevy Volts in America this year, according to the Detrot News, but has only sold about 1,626 over the first two months of 2012.
“GM blamed the lack of sales in January on “exaggerated” media reports and the federal government’s investigation into Volt batteries catching fire, which officially began in November and ended Jan. 21,” the Ann Arbor (Mich.) News reported.
The laid-off employees will be rehired April 23rd, when GM resumes production of the Volt.
via Washington Examiner.
I kinda think the headline should be, “People don’t want a car that starts on fire; Media to blame.”
This is the kind of story that would only appear in a country where the government ran the auto company… oh, wait….
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Penzias, Wilson and some noise
The universe, Part 5
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Penzias and Wilson discovered an unknown microwave signal that turned out to be evidence for the origin of the universe. The story involves inconvenient pigeon droppings and more than a little serendipity. It ends with a Nobel Prize for physics and fame.
In part 4 of the series we saw how the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) provides the earliest visible image of structure in the universe.
This time we're going to follow the curious story of its accidental detection by Penzias and Wilson.
The Holmdel microwave antenna in the image is at Bell Labs in New Jersey and was built in 1959 for early radio experiments with the Echo satellites (reflective balloons in earth orbit).
The horn antenna was being used by Arno Penzias and Bob Wilson in 1964. They were building sensitive, low noise, microwave radio receivers for use with the Echo satellites and had a serious problem with unexplained radio noise. They ruled out several possible causes, including a build-up of pigeon droppings in the horn, but nothing they could think of seemed to reduce the frustrating noise. Eventually they concluded it was not noise, but a genuine signal from an unknown source.
The noise explained - Another physicist, Robert Dicke had been searching for a signal just like the one that had caused Arno and Penzias so much trouble. Dicke had failed in his search but he heard about Penzias and Wilson's results and recognised it as relic light from the early universe, the elusive CMBR! The Penzias and Wilson paper and another by Dicke and three others were published together in July 1965. There's a lot more about this story in the book 'Genesis of the Big Bang' by Ralph A Alpher and Robert Herman who remembered the events well.
This is an interesting example of the way science progresses. Dicke, like George Gamow before him, had predicted the CMBR based on cosmological theory. Now that it had been found, the credibility of the theory was greatly strengthened.
Dicke was soon able to observe the CMBR himself, and later the COBE satellite would observe it in much greater detail, finding small irregularities in temperature. These too had been theoretically predicted.
When experimental results bear out theoretical predictions like this, scientists can be confident the theory is on track and more likely to be reliable.
WMAP, Planck and other instruments have refined the detail still further and strongly support the current Standard Model of Cosmology known as the Lambda-CDM Model..
Penzias and Wilson were awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1978 for their discovery.
Which interests you the most, the science itself or personal stories like this one?
Can you imagine the amount of dedicated effort involved in doing science?
Do you sense the determined search for truth in the hearts of dedicated scientists?
Arno Penzias - Wikipedia
Bell Labs, Holmdel - Wikipedia
Bob Wilson - Wikipedia
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation - Wikipedia
COBE - Wikipedia
ECHO - Wikipedia
Genesis of the Big Bang - Amazon
George Gamow - Wikipedia
Holmdel Microwave Antenna - Wikipedia
Lambda-CDM model - Wikipedia
Planck - Wikipedia
Robert Dicke - Wikipedia
WMAP - Wikipedia
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Posted by The Society of Honor on April 4, 2019 · 245 Comments
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By JoeAm
In the old days, when we received letters and picked up the ringing phone which had a wire attached, and read the newspaper or caught the news on the TV, we lived with simple understandings. One of them was that this is real. The letter is truly from Cousin Sylvia, the phone call is indeed from our friend Bob, the newspaper has real journalists, is not politically biased, and is making decent money (it need not sell its soul), and the television news features a mature man with chiseled face and well-worn eyes that have seen everything, and who speaks only truths.
We knew that the information we received was honest. We could trust it. Furthermore, no government agency was reading our letters or tapping our phone or monitoring what papers and television stations we were watching.
Now we don’t know whom to trust. The State sponsors propaganda. Every politician postures, preens, and pretends and tells us nothing straight up. Journalists are politically aligned. Governments are intent upon spying on us and knowing where we are and what we are doing.
Information blazes past at the speed of electricity. It passes through filters that snoop on us and know our likes and dislikes. The snoops record all those porn site visits, chat room habits, and on-line purchases. Our e-mails are filtered through spy networks and our phones can reveal our position when we Grab a ride across town.
A lot of our news is crafted by political advocates who toss journalism ethics into the trash bin. Trolls present new realities totally detached from truth, sense, or respect.
Our reading spans have grown shorter to keep up with the flood of information.
The social media giant Facebook has been playing loose and fancy with our private information, passing user information to third parties to help them with their targeting of advertising. That ups Facebook’s ad revenue. The ads presented are based on our activity. Buy a computer game, and suddenly more ads for computer games are in our faces. Search for condo information in Manila, and suddenly ads for condos in Manila pop up in our Facebook news feed.
We also know the United States scans all e-mails coming in or going out of the US, filtering them for key-words to help look for terrorists. They filter, find, read, and read more. It has paid big dividends in keeping America safe from terrorists.
We can guess that China is or will be filtering e-mails going in and out of the Mainland, Hong Kong, and perhaps Taiwan. What are they filtering FOR is the question. If not terrorists, will they hunt for critics? Will critics be listed as terrorists as easily as suspects in the Philippines are slapped on a drug list? At some authoritarian honcho’s whim?
We can expect that, soon, there is likely to be an electronic net around the Philippines. And tighter controls on internet access. And electronic nets WITHIN the country.
To secure the State, of course. To secure the State.
Manila will soon have cameras all over the city. It is a “Build Build Build” project. If it follows the Chinese model that it is based on (architects are Chinese), it will soon include facial recognition. This is straight out of movies from 20 years ago, now real.
Nice, too, that we will all have a National ID branded into everything we touch, electronically. Go through that new subway turnstile and the President’s men will be able to know real time right where you are. Fetch a Grab ride, and they will be able to follow you along the way or meet you when you arrive.
We know that journalism in the Philippines is attached to politics rather than ethics and truth. Rappler is the exception, which is why Maria Ressa is being harassed mercilessly. And Facebook and Twitter are so thick with trolls and advocates that almost no one is speaking simple, straight, honest, earnest truths.
As living organisms, our thinking is shaped by a grand paucity of reliable data. We live without privacy or security. We are fed lies and twisted arguments. We can’t trust much of anything we read or watch on the TV. Or hear from our friends who, if they are Duterte fans, are clearly operating as close to lunatic as a person can get without being shipped off to the funny farm.
The word ‘trust’ will likely fade from our vocabulary. Nobody earns it any more. They demand loyalty instead. They can joke about rape and we should laugh and think it doesn’t matter. They can kill and kill again, and we should still trust them be loyal to them, and ignore it because it has nothing to do with us. They can lie to us daily, and we should stop caring about it. Just trust accept that they do it for a good reason, none of it being our concern.
Enough of this, and caring will soon disappear from our vocabulary, too.
We’ll all be soulless zombies, dead to the world around us.
And the zombie masters will do what they want with us.
I expect to resist. I hope you will, too. We should demand compassion. Demand civility. Demand truth. Demand that trust be earned, and loyalty, too. Demand that the values in the Constitution be respected.
This is not a political stance. It is not liberal elitists preaching to the choir, it is a morally responsible position that says taking care of EVERYONE is important. We ought not allow thugs to stack us on some vertical ranking of priority with Chinese on top, Filipino dynasties and oligarchs next, politicians and other powerful sycophants text, and the rest of us at the bottom being obedient.
Obedience to stupidity, cruelty, deceit, and incivility is not why I was put on earth, I think.
Intelligence, compassion, honesty, and decency are much better moral anchor posts if we expect to live together in peace and well-being.
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giancarloangulo says:
I thought you were resting. Happy to see you continuing to fight the good fight joe.
I am, actually. I’ve set aside the demands of writing to a schedule, and pulled back my activity in writing to comments or spending as much time on twitter and facebook. I can write what I feel like, if I feel like it. I’m not really fighting as much as contemplating, and sharing those ideas. I think the Philippines needs a right time and a right moment, or a right person, to jerk itself out of its self-destructive direction. The problem is deeply rooted in the ignorance and self-punishing emotional condition of the masses, and the corrupted Philippine electoral system and self-serving morality of legislators, judges, and others in government. I’m just along for the ride, I think.
LCpl_X (@LCpl_X) says:
I’m just along for the ride, I think.”
I think this is the best way to look at all this, Joe. Just cruising.
It’s not so much “Obedience… stupidity, cruelty, deceit, and incivility” or “Intelligence, compassion, honesty, and decency” or “moral anchor posts” nor “peace and well-being.”
the “paucity” lies in how you frame this blog and the internet in general (socmed especially), and it is that the essence of all this
is that you can touch us, and we can touch you back. Some are touchier than others, but that’s OK.
while on your semi-hiatus, watch Netflix’s “the OA” Part II (skip Part I, if you like it then back track to Part I, but start with Part II).
Is that the prequel to the OC?
In a strange way , you’re right, karl. Well not so much its prequel per se, but its beginning. The superfluousness of the OC is exactly what frames “the OA” Part I (2016). But Part II (2019) is where the writers really spread their wings (pun intended), so start there, IMHO.
Google pdfs of Borges’ “the Garden of Forking Paths” , and watch what Ted Nelson is attempting to get at here (he’s the hypertext guy, but his bigger idea is closer to Borges’ idea, not the click&open links we’re doing now), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqx6li5dbEY
If you like angels you’re gonna like this series, for those interested in quantum physics too, for folks like Joe trying to figure out what all this means it is all that, my interest in this show is more on how it seems to resonate with Gnosticism’s (or what very little we know of it) view of reality, ie. aeons and syzygies.
* p.s. ~ for those who saw “Miss Sloane”, don’t miss “Molly’s Game”. two thumbs up.
in this time of hiatus, there’s so much to catch up on, with films and books. 😉
Enjoy your reading and watching.
Since there is the OA and the OC soon there will be the OB then the trilogy would be complete
Maybe that’s “the OA” Part III (Netflix did greenlight them for 5 more seasons).
I will check them all out after hinging on the D. And Marvel characters that will soon go out of Netflix and be part of their mother studio’s streaming wars I mean services.
popoy says:
Joe I wasn’t even halfway reading I have to stop. The word IMPLODE came to mind instead of the word EXPLODE. Philippines is not alone, Filipinos are not alone. A world war may no longer be necessary between aligned nations.
Revolutions will be redefined as IMPLOSIONS within countries suffering from local tyranny. Implosions will cause the new Sodom and Gomorra of the greedy, bad and ugly. Tyranny cleansing will be the new thing carried through implosion by the dirt poor and the silent majority. The Philippines of may be 2,500 years have not suffered any civil war or real revolutions.
Any country, any nation is NOT a large PRISON or penitentiary where the well fed loud majority are criminals. Any country, any nation the silent majority are NEVER the criminals.
Lahat may bayad. It is only a matter of time and place. Justice as a reckoning is not timeless but could be time bound. As they pray este say, there will be hell to pay for the indescribable bad. And payments doubled, many like to believe will be certainly collected before and after death. To the greedy, bad and ugly: Morir siempre es no descansar to contradict Jose Rizal. In death there is no rest.
Gemino H. Abad says:
Great, Joe! We must, as Maria Ressa says, “hold the line.”
Yes, indeed. Hold it . . . and press it . . .
And not toe it.
Can’t catch up with you, Neph! 🙂
Au contraire, mon ami JoeAm. You got me at “paucity” 🙂
And you did not disappoint ‘coz you came back swinging. You will keep us on our toes and be glad for it! Me, anyway. Thank you.
(PS. One’s gotta read someone who leads with “paucity”)
Hahaha, well, the word was a hook thrown into the water and you were the fish. 🙂
Mais non! But of course, resistance is futile to a classic JoeAm.
The tickler has been delivered. The theme is transgressions against the Eighth Commandment, I hope I can find my notes on this, Joe. Will keep you posted somehow.
I was baited by your mais, I thought it was corn, mais non, it is not.
Pardon my wannabe French, Neph. 🙂 Once in a while I get the itch. (Last Dec, I finally stepped onto French soil: that Eiffel Tower you got to see n believe, you’ll know the real meaning of “heavy metal”; TGV, super fast train new meaning to floating on air; listening to the Benedictine monks chant at Solesmes, heavenly – priceless!)
This morning TGV Munich-Paris I usually see “sleeping” in Munich main station.. here it starts beside a regional train to Ulm..
The German counterpart runs only up to 300 km/h.. these are a few at Frankfurt airport station, collecting and distributing airlune passengers all over the country.
BTW that Gustave Eiffel built or designed the Puente Colgante or Quezon Bridge in Manila turns out to be an urban legend..
Says Filipiknow?
Googled quickly..
Travel is always a revelation.
Didn’t see the French countryside between Paris & LeMans; The sights & sounds of Paris like stepping into a Hollywood movieset; very few underdressed. 🙂
Am now jealous of the train system of the old countries in the modern system. MRR (Manila Rail Road) was run to the ground by ill-maintenance. Enjoying the northbound & southbound branches to Sn Fernando (Ilocos) and the Bicol region are now wishful objects from the past. Even the British legacy of Myanmar are still functioning.
Train systems – regional, national and local – get at lot of people off the roads.
When I first saw the Munich S-Bahn, shown here – in the less modern version but still the same size of trains and platforms, I was telling people in Manila (1995 before MRT was built) get yourselves a LARGE train like that with LARGE platforms. Munich is just below 2 million people, but the trains are 1-3 sets of 3 wagons, over a hundred people can stand and sit per wagon, so you have a THOUSAND people maximum in a full long train – and these trains are full in the mornings and evenings, going to and from the suburbs up to 50 km around the city. And the Spanish boarding system (visible in the video – loading from the middle, unloading on the sides) fascinated me as highly efficient for BIG CROWDS.. (weekend shoppers and tourists in Munich, for example, but the general idea is to get people in and out as quickly as possible – the long waits at the Manila MRT 3 are a proof that the system was designed with way too low capacity and way too little or no thought)
@IBRS,
I know this is dejavu part x
Will this so-calleed faiked experiment, work?
The hybrid train was alsobranded as a failure, but PNR will finally use them.
Your French is impeccable, I guess.
You are lucky to see Eiffel Tower in the French setting. Ten years later all the Jews and French will move out of Paris, just as the Swedes moved out of Malmoe.
Very short visit, Chempo: Notre Dame cathedral, church of Sacre Coeur & a vistaview of the city, a snack at The Louvre and a view of the banks of the Seine; all compliments of a French-speaking Indian lady cabdriver from Madagascar. People-watching on the commuter train from Charles de Gaulle airport to downtown seem to confirm the cosmopolitan/migrant trend you point out; Chinese youth almost ubiquitous. I’m so glad I did the mini-trip in spite of the cold and a gimpy leg.
The hybrid train is a good thing, fortunately no President saying “no we will bay prom da Chayniss”. Local source of wagons is essential as MRT experience shows.
Rehab of the PNR town line was also one of the few good things done in the time of M.
They must speed up the tests on those idle Chayniss trains, if the trains need to be retrofitted they must do it yesterday.If they are compatible, then what are they waiting for?
Who knows when EDSA will have this kind of service, born of native ingenuity?
https://mobile.twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1114218643749883906
Ikaw na lang, I will just ride the habal habal instead.
This Chinese ship is – just off Batangas.
Do Filipinos not see the horizon, just coast – and then care only if it concerns them?
There is a scene in Braveheart where the “primitive” Scots light signal fires along their entire coast to warn of invasion..
Socmed reports on Chinese-only restaurants in Metro Manila stay in socmed, no paper dares.
Are people like paralyzed insects in a web?
My dad told me my FB posts about China are moon shots or suntok sa bwan. I wanted to tell him I caused all the holes in the moon.
I just said all fb posts are suntok sa bwan.
Luvved the reply, Neph. 🙂 The Jesuits beat you to the pockmarks on the moon; 40 they named. But who can beat “suntok sa buwan” expression, an image so precise.
PCG said it is actually from Singapore.
The Marine Traffic site says it carries the Maltese Flag
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:3732620/mmsi:667001405/imo:8669852/vessel:EMERALD
do they change flags daily? now it says Sierra Leone
We sure don’t have paucity of timely, important and well-presented ideas and comments here. Joe, thanks for the new blog article — remarkable, most of the time (99.9 percent, that is).
Ditto to NH’s 99.9 percent, Joe. But to trivialists like me “paucity” automatically zoomed to the Latin adjective “pauci” = few. Sticks like a rose in the forest of words. 🙂
paugie says:
This read like a hugot during a buntong-hininga
But glad to see you back JoeAm. Though I admit I wasn’t worried.
Thank you paugie. Now I have to go run for a dictionary . . . 🙂
there you go in TSoH camp, Joe will build a fire and if threatens to smoulder, TSoH got fire extinguishers to control the size of the campfire.
Is it medically true to be good for the lungs and heart for a bloke to do longer exhales than inhales. Inhale deep in three seconds, exhale slowly in 5 seconds, especially if you’re watching can-can dancers doing the classic exciting.
This might turn the heat again if viewed in full screen
Micha says:
Here is an article that connects antiquity, classical era, and modern civilization on matters of finance, debts, politics, and the economy : The Delphic Oracle As Their Davos
https://michael-hudson.com/2019/04/the-delphic-oracle-as-their-davos/
“We have to restore a balanced economy where the oligarchy is controlled, so as to prevent the financial sector from impoverishing society, imposing austerity and reducing the population to clientage and debt serfdom.”
“What they call a “free market” is an unmixed monolithic, centrally planned financialized economy with freedom for the oligarchy to impoverish the rest of society. That was achieved by landlordism monopolizing the land in feudal Europe, and it is done by finance today.”
The phenom, AOC, is on it in the US with her proposal to tax the rich up to 70 percent. I enjoyed the flashback to the founding fathers in this article.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/ocasio-cortez-aocs-billionaires-taxes-hannity-american-democracy.html
Perhaps this will start a global trend.
I heard her first from Pablo, then I started following news about her.
1. I feel we are in a sort of hiatus, waiting to see how the cookies crumble.
o Here, in the Philippines, waiting for the results of next month’s election.
o There, in the US, waiting for the real revelations from the Muller Report.
o Overall, how the superpower rivalry will go forward.
2. On the first cookie, my mind tells me miracles are not to be expected but my heart continues to hope for the unexpected. For me, the unexpected is that at least 4 of Otso Diretso will make it into the Magic 12.
3. On the second, my mind and heart are in accord that the Muller Report will be devastating for Trump.
4. And as for the third, this will be a long century. Even so, the Philippines will continue on its unmerry way to further Sinicization… especially if the first cookie is a misfortune cookie. We know fortune cookies are not authentic Chinese just as we know the 9-dash line is authentic Chinese in its inauthenticity. Ming Dynasty vases manufactured in the Qing Dynasty. You know what I mean.
5. Yes, it is a hiatus. A pause. But there is no paucity of things to say, no paucity of things to reflect on.
6. I watched “Miss Sloane (2016)” last night, an intelligent film about lobbying, gun control, and corruption. Jessica Chastain with a powerful performance. The box office receipts indicate the film returned a measly $3.5M. Which goes to show just how powerful the NRA lobbying is.
6.1. You know how watching a good film drains the mind of emotional impedimenta? Catharsis. It feels good to be so purged. That clarity of mind that comes with a hiatus.
6.2. A paucity is that sort of emptiness.
Miss Sloan showed here a couple of months ago. Tough lady lobbyist, conniver, going against big money and power. Used the media to seal the deal. Went to jail. No blood. Good movie, agree.
I’ve taken to following AOC on Twitter. She ends her day popping off a few tweets, always moving forward. Republicans hate her. Most democrats adore her, which is why she has blasted into the front of the news. She has charisma, and always a few good sound bites for the press. She sees the big picture and translates it into legislative goals. I think they will run into the mush and reality of a cantankerous, Republican, old man senate. But she may help turn the next elections into a democratic landslide, along with a lot of help from Trump.
Cantankerous. Perfect for the grumpy old men of the GOP. And PDP-Laban.
the moment I outnumber Joe’s FB posts(lifetime) then I will agree that he is on a hiatus.
kidding aside, one time I had a hiatus here, it was one of my darkest moments and I started to see a shrink. It is good that hopefully none of you has to see a shrink, but if your loved ones or close friends tell you to see one, better heed.
I was told to limit my online activities, well I just cut on the porn, but hell no, I will not stop commenting here.
Ahahahaha, well, I run a blog that is BETTER than porn! Best compliment I’ve ever received. Glad you are still here. Anchor in chief.
I just hope my anchor will not break any corals.
Soldier on we will and we will also keep on trucking.
Manila Pagpag says:
Dturd’s persecution of Rappler is despicable.
https://manilapagpag.wordpress.com/
http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2019/4/4/Rodrigo-Duterte-writ-of-habeas-corpus.html
Again he threatened imposition of revolutionary govt and writ of habeas corpus . All because he was pissed of with Senator Drillon’s comment on review of govt contracts ought to be considered with due regards to sanctity of contracts.
I say enough of this threats. Just get it on Mr President. Just do it. If the country has to sink, might as well be earlier than later.
He is drawing more criticism for his rash statements. It seems a downward spiral that can’t last three more years.
Then Robredo becomes president, but Duterte will take it back before that happens.
We could rile and bemoan and condemn the state of affairs in the country as well as the rest of the world but that will not change the dynamics or power structure of the current system. We will only be more aware of our impotence to effect change.
The only way we can reverse this systemic decay is to confront the problem of extreme wealth accumulation by a very small number of extremely greedy plutocrats. Or, to be more precise, confront or reform the economic system which enables such accumulation
There is no other way around it. Confront we must, or we will be seeing more of this hellish descent towards nihilism or bastardization of life and humanity itself.
Demagogues and con men like Duterte and Trump are only symptoms of this decaying system.
To guide us on how we might proceed to effect a system reversal, this 4-part conversation/interview between John Siman and Michael Hudson is a must read :
Part 2 : https://michael-hudson.com/2019/04/mixed-economies-and-monopoly/
Part 3 : https://michael-hudson.com/2019/04/the-dna-of-western-civilization-is-financially-unstable/
Part 4 : https://michael-hudson.com/2019/04/up-in-arms/
caliphman says:
There was a time not long ago when I felt my posts here painted the darkest future for the Philippines. Duterte the mayor and thug was then just a blip on the national radar as TSOH and at Raissa’s site (which I frequented more) concerned itself with with campaigning for Roxas, Binay, or whether Poe had the moral and constitutional right to run for the presidency. So here we are and times have changed and reading Joe’s blog now, that time seems like eons ago. And what was once just foreseen now fills the news. Except when it is manufactured or tightly monitored so it casts Duterte and China in a better ligjt.
Joe is right not to trust the news and even less the Duterte regime. And indeed the Philippines under Duterte seems headed toward its darkest hour. That being the death of its democracy amidst the dying gasps of a constitution enacted to preserve it and to protect the individual rights and liberties of all Filipinos. This senatorial election is more than whether any of the Otso Diretso will prevail. It is whether Filipinos care enough to oppose tyranny, corruption and the dismantling of their nation’s constitutional democracy. It is whether Filipinos as a people care about their freedoms and rights, includiing the right and power to choose their leadership and not let those in power, worse, a dictator take all these from them.
Reliable surveys show that the latter course is what the Filipino people find preferable or acceptable, even if it means giving up the same process by which Duterte came to power and the chance to pick another leader if and when his term expires. This is what I mean by saying that Filipinos act like a country of carabaos, content to wallow in mud and misery. So long as their next meal is assured or special treats handed out by whoever their master is. But it is said, a people deserve the kind of government they choose and if they decide to choose to give up their liberty, freedoms,and their right to choose, is not that democracy in its truest form?
Maybe in a past life I was once or can still be reincarnated a carabao, but for now I seem to treasure what most other Filipinos are willing to discard, a homeland trying to function as a constitutional democracy where laws protect everyone’s rights regardless of the powers that be. And I am not the only one here at TSOH and elsewhere who feels the same. But right now we are but like fish out of water when we advocate for democratic ideals and traditions that are now in the process of being crushed under the heels of a tyrannical and corrupt regime. So if the messages and warnings of a dark era of dictatorship fall mostly on deaf Filipino ears, they still serve as a beacon in the night showing where danger lies and point to the safe harbor for those who still care about living in a democracy.
So if I am labeled an elitist or a liberal because most Filipinos do not share or care about these values and views, then I am proud to be callied either one.
Exceptionally well put. I posted excerpts on my FB page.
High number of reactions, and good discussion on the FB thread:
We Filipinos have an incredible capacity for self-harm.
Self-harm is a psychological disorder defined as inflicting deliberate self-injury without any suicidal intention. It is an individual disorder but, with Filipinos, I see it as a collective disorder.
Specifically, in the political domain, we injure ourselves by choosing candidates who we know are selfish and are not up to the task of governing. Yet we choose them for some superficial reason. Because they are authentic, or popular, or personable. Nevermind that they are liars, thieves, and conmen.
Self-harm is an indication of immaturity. It is a coping mechanism.
The conventional wisdom is that Duterte was elected because people were angry and dissatisfied with the political elite that never delivered on their promises.
Well, Duterte has not delivered on his promises — in fact, he has delivered the opposite — and yet people continue to support him.
So the conventional wisdom may be a myth. There must be another dynamic at play here. Self-harm provides that alternative dynamic.
We have become used to living by clinging to the knife’s blade. We only feel alive when we feel the sharp cold edge resting — threateningly and comfortingly — against our skin.
How lovely it is. Kapit sa patalim.
edgar,
First, “we” is the wrong pronoun to use in your description of our national anomaly. It suggest all Filipinos are complicit in this ill-considered choice.
Second, like caliphman, you also seem to only see the superficial symptoms of our country’s disease. I wouldn’t call pro-admin voters’ choice as deliberate self-harm. By continuing to support Duterte despite his failures and outright lies, they are merely showing their continuing contempt for the old established order.
Micha,
have you considered that DU30 supporters are actually supporting not despite of, but
because they see him as delivering on his promises, ie. crime/violence is down (though maybe state sanctioned violence is up); and the old established order is facing a reckoning.
those 2 promises, whether being accomplished or not in reality (IRL), so long as his supporters think they are (feel it is being accomplished) , that’s the only concern.
anti-DU30 s have to focus on say the Mactan island to Bohol bridge or the railroad system proposed in Mindanao or dams/reservoirs in Luzon being constructed. tangible items that can be brought to bare.
it’s not self-harm, or punishing the old order so much IMHO, although St. Augustine once said that resentment was a poison you swallowed yourself, hoping it’ll kill the one you hate. But from what i see,
DU30 supporters are seeing promises kept, specifically those 2 promises, Micha. Am I right?
Hahaha, you oughta’ be kidding. A fascist state would naturally see crime index going down because it has all the resources for suppression. His promise was to get rid of drug problem in 3 months and in the evening news yesterday drug crimes and violations are still aplenty.
Old established order facing a reckoning? Really? How?
Let me explain,
there ‘s basically two types of DU30 supporters, the guy who works and the guy who doesn’t work.
the guy that works a regular 9-5 comes home, walks by the guys who don’t work just drinking away all day. both resent each other both voted for DU30.
most are guys who work; now since DU30 became president he comes home, either the guys who drink all day and all nite are gone (dead or in jail) or are much more well behaved.
so of course, the guys who work will still gladly support DU30, Micha. I’m not even touching EJKs or other stuff that’s gotten me in trouble here before, just
1. Guys who work
2. Guys who don’t work
As for old established order facing reckonings , rich Chinese tsinoys have been arrested and/or made to leave (or gunned down); Marawi was also a reckoning; the whole narco-politicos hunt is that reckoning (i know, i know , not high enough, but whether mid- or low- it’s the fact that there is some reckoning, the visual of it all),
Micha, the fact that DU30 is president is reckoning (he’s not mestizo, not from a landed family, though still up there, he is an outsider).
Like I said this isn’t about quantifying, its qualitative. it’s all about the regular working dude and what he sees and feels, Micha.
I don’t see a typical Dugyot supporter as mainly concerned with crime as one who have been, for the most part, economically struggling or alienated.
Who are those rich Chinese tsinoys who have been arrested? Manny Pangilinan? Lucio Tan? Henry Sy? Gokongwei?
That should have made headline news. Why have I not heard of it?
Peter Lim off the top of my head, Micha. i remember the video of both talking went viral.
Micha, let me ask you a personal question (you don’t have to answer) do you live in a gated community in the Philippines, are you familiar with sigas and tambays, if so what’s your day-to-day interaction with them , would you say positive, negative or neutral.
My bet is most Filipinos who live in open neighborhoods, where you see guys with no work drinking and singing karaoke all day long (usually they’re belligerent) , are happy of the new status quo, which is
more behaved sigas and tambays.
Hahaha, now you’re really making me laugh so hard corporal. I’m sorry.
Peter Lim is a gangster, a drug lord. He’s not in any consequential manner a member of the old established order.
I have friends who are sigas and tambays. They don’t bother or harass me. More importantly, they are powerless actors in the formulation of national policies which brings us to this pass.
My non-support for Dugyot has less to do with his treatment of the sigas and tambays than on the manner of his governance and policies.
If I remember correctly , Micha. there are two types of rich landed folks over there, rich Chinese tsinoys and Spanish mestizos (and Indians run the 5-6 usury scams). Whether you’re new rich or old, I don’t know if Peter Lim is old or new rich, is less important, it’s your light skin (Chinese or Spanish) and money that signifies old established order.
This is my point, Micha. for the regular Filipino that’s too high-falutin’ a concern, something that ‘s been talked about but never really done by the old established order. Focus on the street level, the dynamics that occurs in the neighborhoods, from that quiet person who sweeps the street at daybreak, to those knuckleheads that keep everyone awake at 3am shouting and fighting,
If everyone else in the Philippines can cultivate the same relationship as you have with their tambays and sigas then there would be no need for a DU30 or a Sara DU30, as Poppa & Momma, Micha. When they’re fighting in the middle of the street at 2am or harassing you for beer money, are you as friendly??? really?
@ Lance
I agree with your point. But I would distinguish guys who work and who has worldviews, and those who work but have no world views.
Lance, the regular guy who works spend 4 hours a day travelling to and from work. They wakes up 5 am, prepare the kids for school, prepare meals including the lunch to pack to work. By the time they reach home it’s 10pm. They have no energy and no time to pander to intellectual or critical issues. Consequently, these folks have no worldviews. It’s pure day to day robotic living. The only issue that they can see affecting them personally up close is what you indicated — the prevailing crimes in their neighbourhood. They don’t care how Duterte does it, but it’s true, the neighbourhood is now quieter. The close their eyes to the fact that those kids may have been slaughtered, some innocently. The neighbourhood seems safe is all that matters. Is it any wonder they love Duterte. Economics, dangers of loss of democratic safeguards — these are matters they do not comprehend nor care.
Fourth Quarter 2018 Social Weather Survey: Families victimized by common crimes rise to 7.6%
“The December 2018 survey found 54% nationwide agreeing with the statement, “In this neighborhood, people are usually afraid to walk in the street at night because it is not safe (Sa lugar na ito, ang mga tao ay karaniwang natatakot maglakad sa kalye sa gabi dahil mapanganib).”
This is 8 points above the 46% in March to September, and the highest since the 54% in December 2016.”
“The neighbourhood seems safe is all that matters.”
EXACTLY, chemp. Thanks!
they could careless if the gov’t goes with MMT or cryptocurrency (no offense Micha, I’m a fan of you and chemp’s MMT talk). But you have to really understand the regular Filipino city block.
“but it’s true, the neighbourhood is now quieter.“
chemp, I would also add that OFWs working hard outside the Philippines are also happy their neighborhood is quieter. OFWs did make up the bulks of DU30 supporters, thus promise kept.
you and Micha are of course correct, Filipinos need to expand their worldviews. But until that neighborhood is quieted, everything else is moot. As a visitor there for a short time, I could totally empathized with Charles Bronson in “Death Wish” ( 1, 2, 3 and 4, but not 5 :- ) ) when I walked city streets/neighborhoods, can you
imagine living there long term? Quiet would be a god-send.
corporal,
A fascist regime is naturally good at imposing rigid discipline or peace and order. Both Hitler and Mussolini have popular, if possibly coerced, support. Regimes like that could only thrive on imposed fear and demagoguery from a charismatic leader.
Does it make for a just and progressive society?
Is that your preferred form of governance?
But it’s not “fascist”. there are no Brown shirts, just barangay nightwatch. Life (from what I gather online) is still pretty much as it was during PNoy, just ‘quieter’ or well behaved.
Does it make for a just and progressive society? of course not.
that’s another discussion, I’m merely offering a different perspective from self-harm and old established order, both found in St. Augustine’s resentment.
But let me throw a chiasmus (or something akin), Was there ever ‘just and progressive society’ in the Philippines? if it smacked people in the face would they recognize it even?
Is that your preferred form of governance? less government is more.
remember I’m libertarian, my preferred form is less to no gov’t. though I’m no anarchist, i pay attention to where my taxes go. and participate. But again, that sort of thinking is already high-falutin’.
just focus on the regular working stiff and his street. that’s all the point I want to make. otherwise I’ll be in trouble again. 😉
Au contrare’, Dugyot’s regime has all the elements of fascism. Demonizing and demagoguery on all fronts, from drug addicts to the Pope. Remember that he also vowed to slaughter more people than Hitler did.
He doesn’t need brownshirts. Blue shirted police and their informants (spies) are more than willing accomplice in his “final solution”.
chemrock: “Lance, the regular guy who works spend 4 hours a day travelling to and from work. They wakes up 5 am, prepare the kids for school, prepare meals including the lunch to pack to work. By the time they reach home it’s 10pm. They have no energy and no time to pander to intellectual or critical issues. Consequently, these folks have no worldviews. It’s pure day to day robotic living.”
Add to that, these people have maximum 6 hours of real sleep if they are lucky.
Most of the factors a regular salaryman in Metro Manila is exposed to degrade intelligence.
One needs proper sleep at least, seeing something else than work and traffic, ideally even some exposure to fresh air, fresh water and nature to have the capability to think deeply. Personally I have experienced how lack of sleep makes you unfit for anything except the stuff you do in a routine way. Fear is also bad for thinking, neurologically it is proven that fear short-circuits thinking to short-term, quick solutions – the Stone Age survival program.
The frustrated nastiness of much Filipino political discourse can have reasons in all of this.
(Thanks chemrock for reminding me of what I do NOT have to go through, fortunately)
In addition people who are malnourished in their formative years will be stunted for life. (not just in height and weight)
https://opinion.inquirer.net/120567/dealing-with-stunting
I was listening to a portion of a TV Patrol News one night, when one was interviewed about his senatorial voting list — whether he has a complete list already. His answer was very interesting:
Hindi pa. Kunti pa lang ang napili ko. Kailangan sa listahan ko yung may malaking tsantsang manalo. [Not yet. I have selected only a few. I require that those in my list will have a good chance of winning.]
I wonder, what part of the voting mass have such mental frame. Not insignificant I would guess. The fellow interviewed may not be typical of the harassed, exhausted worker chemrock described. May be he is one of those with a little more time to spare, if he is not glued to his phone exchanging photos and stories about drinking parties with friends.
If he is betting on sabong [cockfight] that is a rational enough reason. But voting for Senatorial Candidates as if in a cockfight? Voting for Bato instead of Bam Aquino because of winnability?
Self-harm in action.
Among some Filipinos, having voted for “talunan” has a bit of a stigma attached to it. Somewhat like the stigma attached to being wrong about something in the country of “WHEN YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW”.
German superstitutions are a lot more humane. For example it is said here that bad luck in gambling means good luck in love and the other way around. Though what does that say about my long deceased Filipino uncle who was a gambler and had 3 kids by 3 women? Probably in the Philippines, the law is “IF YOU LUCKY, YOU LUCKY!” – it is all or nothing whether it comes to power and success, or gambling and womanizing.
The voter is not asking the right question: Which candidate will best govern?”
The question he is asking is: “Which candidate will win and make me look good because I chose him?”
The voter is seeking to glorify his ego rather than the country: “See how smart I am? I chose the winners!”
In a cockfight, this kind of reasoning is logical and essential. It is a zero-sum game. Either you win or you lose. Sa pula, sa puti.
In a national election, this reasoning — which is the bandwagon mentality — may be self-defeating. An election is a non-zero-sum game, where the collective decisions of the voters may result in aggregate gains or losses that can be less than or more than zero.
If you vote for, say Bong Revilla — and God help you if you do — you may “win” if he wins… but ultimately the country and you lose.
“Self-harm in action.” No, Edgar!
If I were stupid and wore Camp David shirts like Bato does, I would vote for someone like me, because the luck of those who are like us will increase. Fortunately, I am not stupid.
Heh, heh.
Fellas,
or maybe it’s just the gov’t responsiveness. ie. finally, something’s being done. that feeling is worth 10x in spades, and that’s Sara DU30’s jumping off point, hence the importance of countering them vis-a-vis the building project.
Thanks. that’s an interesting link of a survey.
Question (from the site):
On feelings of neighborhood insecurity, the questions are: “Ngayon po, mayroon ako ritong mga statements o pangungusap na maaaring maglarawan sa nararamdaman o naiisip ng mga tao ngayon. Pakisabi po kung kayo ay sumasang-ayon o hindi sumasang-ayon sa mga statements o pangungusap na ito. Pakilagay lang po ang kard na may pangungusap sa naaangkop na lugar sa rating board na ito. (Lubos na sumasang-ayon, Medyo sumasang-ayon, Hindi tiyak kung sumasang-ayon o hindi sumasang-ayon, Medyo hindi sumasang-ayon, o Lubos na hindi sumasang-ayon)
[I have here some statements which may reflect how people feel or think about certain matters at present. Please tell me if you agree or disagree with these statements. You may indicate your answers by placing the card with the statement in the appropriate place on this rating board. (Strongly agree, Somewhat agree, Undecided if agree or disagree, Somewhat disagree, or Strongly disagree)]”.
Fear of burglary: “Sa lugar na ito, ang mga tao ay karaniwang natatakot na baka may mga magnanakaw na makakapasok sa loob ng kanilang tahanan
(In this neighborhood, people are usually afraid that robbers might break into their houses).”
Fear of unsafe streets: “Sa lugar na ito, ang mga tao ay karaniwang natatakot maglakad sa kalye sa gabi dahil mapanganib
(In this neighborhood, people are usually afraid to walk in the street at night because it is not safe).”
Many drug addicts in the area: “Sa lugar na ito, napakarami na ang mga taong na-aadik sa mga ipinagbabawal na gamot
(In this neighborhood there are already very many people addicted to banned drugs).”
IMHO,
if I wasn’t told that the purpose of the survey was to compare administrations, i’d answer with a wider perspective of time.
so the questions should have been as compared to before DU30, etc. like an optometrist, better 1, better 2… or better 3…
if I lived in a lousy neighborhood , i’d probably answer “Strongly agree” to all three questions too. i’m leaning towards faulty questions here. but the rest of the survey is quite interesting…
What’s most interesting though is the green squiggly lines below,
blue and red squigglies go up, but green drastically down??? doesn’t add up.
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2018/12/01/1873314/palace-says-filipinos-now-feel-safer-amid-rise-common-crimes
Malacañang agrees with you, the Crime stats does not.
LCPL_X, there was an SWS poll that asked whether people feel there are less drug addicts now and the answer was YES by many. OK, the poll was Mocha-like in its main question, but maybe fear of crime is often a question of perception, not just objectivity.
The number of addicts cannot have gone down significantly, even if we presume 40K dead that is just one addict per barangay (the country has around 42K barangays) – but what may really have gone down is ADDICTS IN THE STREETS, partly due to the fear factor.
Munich solved a similar problem at the main train station without putting certain people on the suburban train shown below. Nowadays that place is just a suburb with a bad history.
Lots of drunks and probably worse hung around the station in recent years. High fear factor. There was on highly publicized case a few years ago of a 38-year old young man, athletic and all, who got beaten into a coma by the types hanging out in front of Munich station.
I travel a lot and I have seen these people a lot – a lot of them are not just drunk, I think. Then you can add street people have a certain viciousness which compensates for their physical weakness. Probably a 50-year-old street guy, unhinged due to certain substances, is dangerous against a 38-year-old who may be a head taller and go to the gym regulary because he will cross civilized lines. Filipino meth users might be similar (to be continued..)
..one of course the lack of impulse control, second the mixture of overconfidence and unleashed resentment one can ALSO find among Filipino internet trolls. Why that? Because the Philippines is a low self-esteem society and meth touches dopamine receptors and makes people feel temporarily overconfident. Just like being behind an Internet alias can make the usual subservient programming that Filipino culture gives to people irrelevant.
Just like the dangerous drunks that used to be in front of Munich main station, people like that can be scary to regular people coming home or going to work. People pass by the main station when they go home, some even come from far away place like I do.
What was the solution to the issue? Ban public drinking in area around the station from 9 p.m. onwards until the morning. Increase patrols, including a new unarmed group of municipal security people (their vests are stab-resistant and their gloves are stab-proof) that go around the station and the strip-club plus gambling joint area around it.
The folks have moved of course, and regular patrols have “convinced” the hardliners that the rules are here to stay and will be enforced, so the area is MUCH safer now – which is what most commuters care for. Now don’t tell me barangay tanods could not deal with the issue of people outside the entire night in the Philippines? Are they so dangerous and “pasaway” that a few need to be exemplarily killed to scare the rest?
Exactly, Ireneo! I’m not disputing the poll, though I’d prefer actual crime stats, like ones done by police over here then compiled objectively by the FBI. not done by some polling company (with not so well thought out questions).
but that green squiggly line is a dissonance, I don’t know why that would even happen. but yeah it all goes back to perception, which was my initial point with Micha up above.
Your explanation of addicts just going underground, explains why the red and blue squigglies are still going up. So it s a game of hide & go seek. but clean and quiet streets, the feeling of all this, even if we defer to the polling edgar’s presented us as actual picture of reality,
that clean and fresh feeling is worthy of another DU30 in office, no? that’s gov’t responsiveness in action! Or the perception of it.
“Now don’t tell me barangay tanods could not deal with the issue of people outside the entire night in the Philippines? Are they so dangerous and “pasaway” that a few need to be exemplarily killed to scare the rest?”
is the heart of it all, now.
me personally, no. but the fact that so many Filipinos voted DU30 into office, i’m inclined to say the answer for Filipinos is yes. a resounding yes.
why? now that is a totally different discussion.
25 years ago, the terrible Rwanda genocide started. Yeah, how do people get convinced that one group of people is at fault for everything? In Rwanda radio played a major role.
True. But issues of ethnicity and identity are easier to foment, same with South Sudan and North, the Balkans, etc. but when all’s same-same… dynamics are different, IMHO.
Ireneo, at the end of the day, sigas and tambays are guys you grew up with in that street; many times your relatives, that’s why tanods many times find it so difficult to control them, too much affinity & familiarity— can’t be professional with them, objective.
So when someone comes along and does it with so much objectivity, it’s welcomed.
Remember your story of when you first arrived in Germany and threw trash on the ground, and some German reprimanded you for it??? popoy, right below is correct, there is a price to pay, and that is self-policing. participating.
If Filipinos did that, if whenever someone cuts in line or slips P100 pesos for some extra service, if Filipinos reprimanded each other, there would be no need for a DU30 or a Sara DU30.
It’s goes back to the Filipino’s penchant for passive-aggression me thinks, Ireneo. Always non-confrontational, while inside he is seething. thus manifests the likes of DU30, and there will be another one, until
he learns simply to say, “hey, pick up your cigarette butt!”.
It was on the Metro where a lady cop chided Irineo for throwing a wrapper, IIRC.
We chide we say Hoy, Bawal yan huwag kang pasaway, but only two or three times and sometimes only once.
(Hey that is illegal or not allowed, dont be pasaway(stubborn?).
caliphman,
Still getting riled at the symptoms of a decaying system? You’re in for more heartbreak.
It’s the cause of the disease that we need to confront if we expect to make any progress.
How, by emulating whom?
Robin Hood, Gandhi or the Unabomber?
Have you sufficiently considered the cause of our national anomaly?
Inequality will always be there.
I like Gandhi’s take on many things.
We had a discussion before where we agreed(?) that a mixture of capitalism/socialism, etc would be the most ideal.
Here are Gandhi exerpts.
“PHILOSOPHY> THE MIND OF MAHATMA GANDHI > Poverty and Riches
Poverty And Riches
Avoidance of Strife
I cannot picture to myself a time when no man shall be richer than another. But I do picture to myself a time when the rich will spurn to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor and the poor will cease to envy the rich. Even in a most perfect world, we shall fail to avoid inequalities, but we can and must avoid strife and bitterness. (YI, 7-10-1926, p. 348)
I have heard many of our countrymen say that we will gain American wealth, but avoid its methods. I venture to suggest that such an attempt, if it were made, is foredoomed to failure. We cannot be ‘wise, temperate and furious’ in a moment. (SW, pp. 353-4)
Every palace that one sees in India is a demonstration, not of her riches, but of the insolence of power that riches give to the few, who owe them to the miserably requited labours of the millions of the paupers of India. (YI, 28-4-1927, p. 137)
Duty of the rich
The rich should ponder well as to what their duty is today. They who employ mercenaries to guard their wealth may find those very guardians turning on them. The moneyed classes have got to learn how to fight either with arms or with the weapon of non-violence.
For those who wish to follow the latter way, the best and most effective mantra is:[tyen tyakten bhunjithaha] (Enjoy the wealth by renouncing it). Expanded it means: “Earn your cores by all means. But understand that your wealth is not yours; it belongs to the people. Take what you equire for your legitimate needs, and use the remainder for society.”
This truth has hitherto not been acted upon; but, if the moneyed classes do not even act on it in these times of stress, they will remain the slaves of their riches and passions and, consequently, of those who overpower them.
…I see coming the day of the rule of the poor, whether that rule be through force of arms or of non-violence. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory even as the body is transitory. But the power of the spirit is permanent, even as the spirit is everlasting. (H, 1-2-1942, p. 20)
I have no hesitation in endorsing the opinion that generally rich men and, for that matter, most men are not particular as to the way they make money. In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment. We must appeal to the good in human beings and expect response.
Good of All
It is not conducive to the well-being of society that every member uses all his talents, only not for personal aggrandizement but for the good of all? We do not want to produce a dead equality where every person becomes or is rendered incapable of using his ability to the utmost possible extent. Such a society must ultimately perish.
I therefore suggest that my advice, that moneyed men may earn their cores (honestly only, of course) but so as to dedicate them to the service of all, is perfectly sound. [tyen tyakten bhunjithaha] is a mantra based on uncommon knowledge. It is the surest method to evolve a new order of life of universal benefit in the place of the present one where each one lives for himself without regard to what happens to his neighbour. (H, 22-2-1942, p. 49)
Beggary
The grinding poverty and starvation with which our country is afflicted is such that it drives more and more every year into the ranks of the beggars, whose desperate struggle for bread renders them insensible to all feelings of decency and self-respect. And our philanthropists, instead of providing work for them and insisting on their working for bread, give them alms. (A, p. 320)
My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way, and if I had the power, I would stop every Sadavrat where free meals are given. It has degraded the nation and has encouraged laziness, idleness, hypocrisy and even crime. Such misplaced charity adds nothing to the wealth of the country, whether material or spiritual, and gives a false sense of meritoriousness to the donor.
Work, Not Charity
How nice and wise it would be if the donors were to open institutions where they would give meals under healthy, clean surroundings to men and women who would work for them. I personally think that the spinning wheel or any of the processes that cotton has to go through will be an ideal occupation. But if they will not have that, they may choose any other work; only the rule should be, “No labour, no meal.”….
I know that it is easier to fling free meals in the faces of idlers, but much more difficult to organize an institution where honest work has to be done before meals are served. From a pecuniary standpoint, in the initial stages at any rate, the cost of feeding people after taking work from them will be more than the cost of the present free kitchen. But I am convinced that it will be cheaper in the long run, if we do not want to increase in geometrical progression the race of loafers which is fast over-running this land.
(YI, 13-8-1925, p. 282)
To people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages. (YI, 13-10-1921, p. 325)
I must refuse to insult the naked by giving them clothes they do not need, instead of giving them work which they sorely need. I will not commit the sin of becoming their patron but, on learning that I had assisted in impoverishing them, I would give them neither crumbs nor cast off clothing, but the best of my food and clothes and associate myself with them in work. (ibid)
I do feel that, whilst it is bad to encourage begging, I will not send away a beggar without offering him work and food. If he will not work, I should let him go without food. Those who are physically disabled like the halt and the maimed have got to be supported by the State.
There is, however, a lot of fraud going on under cover of pretended blindness or even genuine blindness. So many blind have become rich because of ill-gotten gains. It would be a good thing if they were taken to an asylum, rather than be exposed to his temptation. (H, 11-5-1935, p. 99)
Dependence on Servants
I hold that a man who desires the co-operation of and wishes of co-operate with others should not be dependent on servants. If anyone has to have one at a time of scarcity of servants, he will have to pay what is demanded and accept all other conditions with the result that he will instead of being master, become the servant of his employee. This is good for neither the master nor the servant.
But if what an individual seeks is not slavery, but the co-operation of a fellow-being, he will not only serve himself but also him whose co-operation he needs. Through the extension of this principle, a man’s family will become co-terminus with the world and his attitude towards his fellow-beings will also undergo a corresponding change. There is no other way of reaching the desired consummation. (H, 10-3-1946, p. 40)””
The Unabomber represents the modern day Luddite a technohater, and an industrialization hater.
Robin Hood is Robin Hood. The emulators believe the end justifies the means.
Or they could do an Oliver Queen and tell the Uber Rich: “You have failed this nation”‘
Would he have been able to transform India’s society and get rid of the caste system if he had lived long enough? Up for speculation. No guarantees. Members of India’s oligarchy will definitely resist.
He might have been able to stand up to an imperial power but it’s not clear he’d be able to confront the moneyed class in his country.
Everything is speculation.
The late Prahalad’s bottom of the pyramid (serving the 4Billion poorest)
Does not articulate eliminating the caste system.
Gandhi has accepted that there would always be inequality
Depends which inequality you’re talking about. If it’s wealth inequality, how much inequality can Gandhi accept?
You are right the first time, it would be all speculation.
I knew this would be powerful.
Caliphman’s post that Joe shared.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35650616
The Caste do blockvoting so I guess those in the lowest castes hear a lot of sweet nothings during elections.
The Indian pols weaponized the caste system.
Off topic.
Retired Police and Soldiers urge voters to choose wise lee.
https://www.rappler.com/nation/politics/elections/2019/227543-retired-afp-pnp-officials-urge-voters-choose-honest-inspiring-leaders
That’s a bunch of Filipino heroes in that list.
I agree, Chem..
Was told told to have a socmed break by my dad, I better listen this time.I will still be reading posts and comments.
Karl, take a break. We all need one.
Thanks Edgar.
Off-off-off-topic (yet one can use as visual for black holes & Phil. politics); @ Micha, absolute lights-out situation? 🙂 Everything is a singularity.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/579053/-first-photo-of-black-hole-coming-soon
hehe… me and Micha are Bernie supporters, sonny.
ps… you think they’d see a big bang on the other side of that black hole??? looking forward to that photo. thanks, sonny.
Astronomers have postulated that every galaxy has a black hole in its center so maybe it’s a fairly common cosmological phenomena. Could it be somehow related to, or made up of, dark energy responsible for accelerating universal expansion?
Maybe all black holes will, over time, fuse and become the ultimate singularity.
Is everything in vain? If it is, then life and all of existence is sheer madness.
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
That flesh is heir to: ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
Must give us pause—there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
Th’oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of dispriz’d love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th’unworthy takes,
The undiscovere’d country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
One always finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
here’s a funny meme on Ultra Diffuse Galaxies, thought you’d enjoy, Micha,
look I summarized the statistics debate re: NGC1052-DF2
I wanted to include some other points, incl "maybe GCs (if they are GCs) are bad tracers of DM potential" and ofc "but MOND!!!!!" but it turns out that stats arguments are hard enough to fit into a 5-panel meme already pic.twitter.com/AxbYqopIcD
— Mia de los Reyes (@MiaDoesAstro) April 16, 2018
and if you wanna get technical,
https://www.pietervandokkum.com/ngc1052-df2
I was waiting Sonny’s reaction to Micha.s waxi g poetry and do his oown Shamsperar.
Waxing poetic….Shakespeare
Was pleasantly surprised with Micha’s reply. This particular soliloquy is my favorite from Hamlet. And Micha connecting to the human dilemma of life is Micha’s softer side. I can relate … vividly remembering Laurence Olivier delivery while pondering Hamlet’s suicide jump from the tower of Elsinore. Good catch, Micha.
Donut with partial vanilla glazing. Coffee, anyone?
Thanks to computer scientist Katie Bouman.
Our first black-hole, edgar. I’ll never view Virgo’s palm the same way again,
Einstein never thought a black-hole would be possible, though it was apparent in his calculations,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_field_equations#Solutions
Now we’re looking straight at it. Better than porn.
The story that comes with the picture. Mug toast! Ouch it’s hot!
https://www.rappler.com/science-nature/earth-space/227890-astronomers-unveil-first-photo-black-hole
In the age of Trump-Putin-Xi-KJU, it is gratifying to have a subset of humans — consisting of scientists, computer experts and technicians –undertaking such worldwide cooperative work as the Black Hole Project. Also, we bow yet again to that genius Albert Einstein who inspired such effort.
“The French astronomer Charles Messier discovered M87 in 1781, and catalogued it as a nebulous feature while searching for objects that would otherwise confuse comet hunters. M87 is located about 16.4 million parsecs (53 million light-years) from Earth and is the second-brightest galaxy within the northern Virgo Cluster, having many satellite galaxies. Unlike a disk-shaped spiral galaxy,
M87 has no distinctive dust lanes. Instead, it has an almost featureless, ellipsoidal shape typical of most giant elliptical galaxies, diminishing in luminosity with distance from the center. Forming around one-sixth of its mass, M87’s stars have a nearly spherically symmetric distribution. Their population density decreases with increasing distance from the core. It has an active supermassive black hole at its core, which forms the primary component of an active galactic nucleus.
The black hole was imaged in 2017 by the Event Horizon Telescope, with a final, processed image released on 10 April 2019.” (Wiki)
The picture of a black hole 55 million light-years away and an accompanying article.
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2019/the-day-stephen-hawking-unsettled-his-atheist-peers
” Black holes, it is conjectured, are insatiable cannibals gobbling up everything in their cosmic neighborhood. The late Stephen Hawking is among those who have proposed that black holes are birthing centers for Star Trek phenomena like wormholes, time-tunnels and multiple universes. …”
“… Stephen Hawking was so confident in the theory that he made a bet with a fellow physicist in 1997 that black hole creation would be proven right. Then, in 2004, Hawking made a startling announcement. …”
“… Speaking at an international conference in Dublin, Ireland, Hawking said that he was wrong about his 30-year assertion that material entering a black hole leaves our universe.
Reversing his previous position, Hawking conceded that black holes are not cosmic birthing centers, nor mystical portals to some parallel universe—theories that gained currency through his best-selling book, A Brief History of Time and his later book, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays.
Dr. Hawking said his new calculations debunk what he and others have speculated. In a dream-squashing conclusion Hawking emphasized, “I’m sorry to disappoint science fiction fans, but if [mass and energy] is preserved [as required by the laws of physics] there is no possibility of using black holes to travel to other universes.” …”
Sa itaas, ang daming eche bucheche ng ng katalinuhan at karanasan kaya ang dami at pino hindi ko masakyan. Sabi ng pilosopo: Know thyself, know thy community, KNOW THY COUNTRY; AND IN SMALL LETTERS: know history. Kung ikaw ay educado Sabi ng Lola kong mahaba ang buhay, lahat may bayad ano ba ang ibinayad ng Britanya, Francia, Italia, America, Russia, China, etc. Ano ba ang ibinayad nila, yung kanilang down payment, nagging ayosang buhay nila?. Sa ngayon tignan ang PROSPEROUS Germany, Japan, South Korea, at saka Seguro Vietnam. Ano ba ang ibinayad nila sa kanilang KASAGANAAN ngayon? Ano ba ang ibinayad ng Pinas noong EDSA? Humanga ang mundo sa wala.Yung tulog at himbing sa pancitan hindi bayad yan. Yun puro eche bucheche ng karunungan okay yan maging mitsa sa pag gising sa pagkamulat ng sambayanan.
In the read above
The enormity of eche bucheche written
From plentiful intelligence and experience
So detailed and specific
I can’t wisely comprehend, so I turned
to a philosopher who says: KNOW THYSELF
and I add, know thy country, thy community,
in a small limited way, better know
the history of free and shackled nations.
If you are educated says my old Lola
Everything needs to be paid for;
What have these countries UK, France,
Italy, USA, Russia, China, etc. paid?
What have these nations paid in advance for
The decent lives of their people.
Recent history speaks of dramatic Phoenix
Germany, Japan, South Korea, may be, Vietnam
What have these countries paid for
in return for their present prosperity?
During EDSA, what has Pinas paid for?
To gain the admiration of the
World for nothing? Sleeping does not pay
For those who sleeps in the noodle house?
The eche bucheche of intelligence is OKAY
As wick and fuse to wake up the population.
Habol sa Tagalog:
Kaysa pangat at tuminit nodel
Lugaw at Dinuguan
Okay na tsibug yan
Sa mga natutulog sa pancitan.
Kasi Yan lugaw di pang matagalan
Pero yan ulam na dinuguan
Madugo at malaman mas OK yan
Sa kalayaan sa hirap
at sa gutom pang matagalan.
https://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2019/03/examining-mmt-model-in-detail.html
I’m gonna jump in before Micha does. Lol!
that above is the essence of MMT, i don’t know how it works (Micha will ‘splain) but there is a reason why cops and military see works of art associated with criminality even also in terrorism. You wanna move wealth under the radar and also not have to pay taxes, hide it in arbitrary items such as art,
and move it around like money.
the Rich love to differentiate between tax evasion and tax avoidance. Euphemisms. for rich Filipinos it all translates to real estate in California and Nevada, i’m sure once they get sophisticated you’ll see more art studios and art dealers. if there aren’t already.
A big issue of MMT is that people don’t want to clearly state what it is so that it can be a testable hypothesis.
MMT states that a sovereign government that issues its own currency does not have a monetary constraint in its spending other than inflation.
In that short concise sentence, what is it that do you still not understand?
I don’t understand how the rich can all agree to support an artist or two and coordinate the valuation of this guy’s or that guy’s paintings, art works, but it works.
And i’d imagine Micha will say something like, how does that P1,000 peso bill in your pocket, with 2 guys and 1 girl on the front and some photo of an oyster with pearl in the back, how is value generated???
the first example, a bunch of rich folks come together and agree; the second example, essentially isn’t it the same thing, gian? boil it down. and what’s MMT???
MMT collapses the moment you want to borrow some money. The fundamental model to measure the value of money is gone. There is no short term or long term yield curves anymore. Without that, there is no way to factor in risk and rewards in economic decision making.
Notice no MMT exponent never ever comment on international trade?
“MMT collapses the moment you want to borrow some money.”
Please qualify that sentence because it is too loaded. Who is doing the borrowing? How is MMTgoing to collapse?
Economics and finance are intertwined like Siamese twins. MMT looks only at economics and totally ignores finance. I’m actually totally surprised at Mossler who is a financial trader of sorts to have that confidence in MMT.
I’m no expert in high finance, but just understand the basics. The fundamental requirement of any country’s economy is to have a benchmark for setting the price of money, that is, interest rates. Take away government borrowing and you deny the existential institution that sets interest rates. With no short term and long term yield curves, finance cannot function.
Unless MMT is suggesting that we move away from market driven regime to a centrally planned economy. We all know this did’nt work out well for some countries.
This is the reason I distrust ivory tower academicians.
chempo,
If you had actually been paying attention and reading actual MMT literature you should know by now that setting interest rate is not left entirely to the whims of private market forces or banks, if that is what you mean by “existential institution”.
This is the reason why your critique has no credibility because you are doing it from a position of ignorance.
Pardon my saying this. I can see you are an economist, althogh our views may differ.
But I can see you have absolutely no idea about finance.
Interest rate setting is not about the LIBORs or SIBORs or bank lendings. These all take their cue from something else. Basically its from the yield curves of zero risk assets in the country as determined by certain central bank securities.
Are you sure? Does the dynamics of international trade falsify MMT?
You are right Chem. This is why a lot of the criticism of MMT is from the international trade economists like Krugman.
https://www.businessinsider.com/weekender-the-trouble-with-modern-monetary-theory-mmt-2011-1
Hahaha, Krugman an international trade economist? Where in the world are you getting this?
Please read this William Black response to Krugman’s so-called critique.
Just as I expected, William Black is an ivory tower academician.
Do you have an allergy for ivory tower academics?
This is literally on his Nobel Prize page reproduced below:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2008/krugman/facts/
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008
Born: 28 February 1953, New York, NY, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Prize motivation: “for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.”
Contribution: Integrated the previously disparate research fields into a new, international trade and economic geography.
Prize share: 1/1
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2019/03/four-tells-that-show-krugman-knows-he-cannot-win-an-honest-debate.html
And btw gian, the link you supplied above is from 9 years ago authored by somebody who only calls himself Mercenary Trader.
Why did you say it’s a critique from international trade economist Krugman?
Wrong paste
Can you point us to any authoritative literature with comprehensive literature that presents the full economics models. I can’t find any. At the moment, MMT is just guru-based. Just ideas.
I ask where are the full economic models that we can test in real world environments? Where are the models that can lead to testable predictions? MMT at the moment is not model-based, models that have been robustly tested. How do we test MMT empirically to forecast about macroeconomic aggregates or other quantities.
The answer is, there is hardly any. What you and any other MMT proponent will do is refer our querries to look at some blogs, an online explainer, a video explainer, a tweet, or many many papers written by MMT proponents.
MMT is just guru-based. Let’s get the formal models out, if there are any.
You are clearly being disingenuous here chemp. There are tons of literature in the NEP website alone which will guide you through if you are honestly seeking to understand.
Or maybe you are just lazy to read?
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/
You point me back to William Black and blog articles.
Show me someone who has put formal models out there where the economics fraternity has robustly tested and critiqued them.
You are just lazy to read. All the resources are available to you on that website. Start reading and then come back.
And please stop parroting the Noahpinion strawmanning and non-sequitor. Noah is an obscure orthodox Keynesian who also parrots Krugman. Both are obsessed with their IS-LM model which is now considered flawed “as it cannot explain how tax or spending policies should be formulated with any specificity. This significantly limits its functional appeal. It has very little to say about inflation, rational expectations or international markets. The model also ignores the formation of capital and labor productivity.”
See :
This is a nice setup.
Were are looking for the models so we can find the limits as you stressed in the issue with IS-LM its
“as it cannot explain how tax or spending policies should be formulated with any specificity. This significantly limits its functional appeal. It has very little to say about inflation, rational expectations or international markets.
We want to know what are the things that MMT cannot explain.
All models are flawed but some are useful.
We want to know where MMT is useful as a policy tool.
Micha, thanks for the link. But I still see the same mumbo-jumbo. No fact based models.
Obviously there is difficulty finding some literature with formal models.
Well since you say I’m too lazy to read, let me help out here with a real attempt to explain by Pavlina R. Tcherneva who put out a paper in 2002 where some models were provided. It’s a good attempt at explaining. much much better than a lot of mumbo-jumbos I read elsewhere. It’s a good article, but still can’t convince me. You may not have read this, and the reason is probably because it did’nt get a rave review, which was because what? It’s still not convincing?
https://modernmoneynetwork.org/sites/default/files/biblio/Pavlina_2007.pdf
Are you sure? Does the dynamics of international trade somehow falsify MMT?
gian,
of all the videos i’ve poured over since Micha and chemp’s many discussions on MMT here, i’ve always leaned on this video by Richard Wolff,
hope that helps! 🙂
Prof. Wolff gets it.
Gian is like many non-economists here, is merely trying to understand what MMT is. I myself put as much stock in it any more than I do in bitcoinor other cryptocurrencies as a viable idea or investment. But I have little interest nor time right now to critique or even discuss the theory here. I have done so at times but mostly at economic and financial forums.What I did not care for and found offputting is an attitude that many MMT defenders seem to show when asked to explain their theory.
A friend of mine who runs a financial and investment advise practice commented about this attitude in an article: MMT: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
MMT advocates are often combative and cultish. I’ve greatly enjoyed learning from and interacting with many MMT advocates over the years. Others are, um, more problematic. I critique a lot of things here with the goal of being constructive, but the MMT people have a uniquely combative mentality when confronted with criticism. One of their founders once wrote an entire blog post about me where he started by claiming to have no idea who I was before jumping into a literal 10 paragraph lie about my character as a “neocon.” Anyone who is remotely familiar with my work knows that calling me a “neocon” is laughable and misleading to the point of being embarrassing. But this is the kind of crap you often run into with MMT and I think it’s a major red flag because the theory is so delicately intertwined that weaknesses in it are exposed as potential fatal flaws. I think they all know this and so they have to defend all facets of the theory as though it is airtight even though they know it isn’t. This results in an often hypersensitive type of response that helps no one.
To summarize, there’s a lot of good in MMT and I’ve always maintained that, but it’s foolish to think that MMT is a panacea for a period where people think mainstream economics hasn’t served us well. There is, after all, a lot more right with mainstream econ than most people want to admit and this “burn it all down” mentality is not constructive. That said, I am glad MMT is part of the new narrative, but I do hope they defend that narrative with more empirics and less combativeness.”
I bring this up in case it comes up here or in online discussions elsewhere so it does not detract from learning or presenting whats good or bad about this increasingly mentioned theory.
Thanks for the advice. But no, the “combativeness” does not come from MMT scholars. It’s the old school orthodox economist who are combative because they are threatened by this new unorthodox approach and that their day job and credibility might suffer as a result.
When Charles Darwin and later on, Richard Dawkins, elaborated the theory of evolution they too were met with aggressive and combative attacks from agents of organized religion.
Nowadays, only morons think evolution is just a theory.
Heheheh. Evolution is a little bit of a quantum shift from MMT, Micha. Goodnight and more power to you.
Quantum shift? That’s all you got?
Thanks for disengaging on the point.
I agree w/ chemp, show us the MMT, Micha!!! show us the money or the electronic money!!!
but on chemp’s point re “guru-based”, Christianity was at first guru-based,
also Darwin took so long , only until Wallace was going to publish, that pushed Darwin to published, mainly because he was wary of so many Jesus-nuts pushing back in the mid-1800s. then Darwin became a guru himself, his findings became social Darwinism (totally not what he studied), most who placed Darwin on a guru pedestal didn’t even know how transmutation worked.
as far as I’m concern Darwin is still a theory, so is Christianity, there are better religions than Christianity, but Darwin’s theory is the best we got so far, until maybe if aliens show up tomorrow and say , we’re all just their experiments. then we’d have to come up with new ways of thinking.
My point, just because something is guru-based doesn’t render that thing moot, not just yet. But I do agree that models have to be tested out, that is the scientific approach, though intuition in recent studies also say is just as good or even better.
if MMT is about modern money, let’s see some modern methods applied.
So if something’s guru-based or intuition based, that’s all good. But to squash these MMT meanderings, Micha, you’ll have to inform us of models, of MMT being worked out, tested in the real world, or in some scenario based study—- the military ‘s favorite way of learning and testing.
w/out actual testing of said theory, we’re just clicking on other peoples’ blogs and videos. Show us some graphs now, like edgar did above, pie charts, squiggly lines, spider charts, whatever…
Show us MMT, Micha!!! show us the money!!! or the virtual money if you will.
Glad you asked. The Pentagon had been doing MMT for decades now. That’s the reason why Pentagon budget exceeds the budget of top 10 countries’ military spending combined.
That’s the reason why in the most recent audit, the Pentagon cannot explain where all their excess liquidity is coming from.
Trump’s trillion dollar tax cut for billionaires and mega corporations is also MMT applied for the welfare of the super rich.
See, it’s the Republicans who are most eager practitioners of MMT. Dick Cheney famously said deficits don’t matter. Reagan, Bush, and Trump all ramped up their spending.
Okay, Micha, i’m tracking the commentary on super rich and Republicans, hence the Helmsley quote above. we’re both Bernie supporters after all.
But with DoD are you just surmising some accounting mumbo jumbo involved, rob Peter to pay Paul typa scenario, ie. don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing….
because if you’re equating MMT to accounting shenanigans, then i think you’ve just shot yourself in the foot, Micha. do you see?
Please tell me you’re talking about some actual tests (studies, models) involving the DoD budget that renders MMT kosher, and not the other way around.
The Pentagons budget is gargantuan but nobody is asking how are we gonna pay for it.
That’s MMT in action right there. Get it?
But when it comes to Medicare For All or free college, people are ready to jump with how are we gonna pay for it.
That’s MMT for the MIC and the billionaires, free market austerity for social programs.
You could also add the bailout of Wall Street banks as another example of MMT in action as enunciated by Bernanke himself.
I just want to add that I am with you, though I’m gonna temper my enthusiasm for something new w/ chemp’s and caliphman’s skepticism here.
simple, they get paid the same reason why police and prison guard unions here in California (and i’m sure other states) have unsustainable incremental pay rates, as well as unsustainable pension plans. it’s fear.
I hope AOC gets traction on this. you’ll be happy to hear that MMT is quite the buzzword over here now and folks are excited. to think that I first heard of this from you and RHiro (R.I.P.), with much of my learning of it from you and chemp’s polemics (though chemp is the consummate gentlemen, very Britisher of him) 😉 .
I do hope MMT gets implemented, so we see how it works for reals, and whether or not it is better than other previous means of generating wealth. I do see how the car industry and big banks bailout can be examples of MMT.
Fact-based and faith based are different stuff.
I’m glad you agree MMT needs to be substantiated with formal models. Yes I appreciated theories start off with an idea — guru-based. But for economics, you need to move from ideas to models that exist in real world. It is from modelling that the ideas can be fine-tuned and improved till it is acceptable and workable.
As for Darwinism — the update is that Darwinism has been proven wrong.
As for Christianity — new archeological finds seem to be proving more and more that the Bible is an astounding historical record of 7,000 years of human history.
chemp, I can sleep soundly tonight with that Christianity comment (i do agree that it is historical), but i’d have a tummy ache tomorrow if I don’t first hear of why Darwinism has been proven wrong? if so, what’s the new theory that’s surpassed it? “the Lord God made them all” ? 😉
To prove Darwinism is wrong is to take a creationist view, ie God is real. This discussion will cause Joe to ban us both here.
For a short version which I’m sure Joe can accommodate us here, I’ll just ask these 3 simple questions, and I assume we are talking about atheist evolution:
1. Your hero Richard Dawkins could’nt even name the full title of the book written by Dawkins. Can you?
2. Can someone please explain to me why the hell is the appendix still doing in my body after thousands of years? .
3. Organisms change due to modifications in genetics. The answer lies in epigenitics. Natural selection does not cut it.
1. “The Orange of Species”
You do mean Origin?…but that is a not the full title.
In a debate long ago between Richard Dawkins and a clergy Dawkins came on as the usual atheist proponents, brash and belligerent (it’s very difficult to debate an atheist) he put fort the proposition that people who call themselves acutally don’t even know the names of all the disciples or the various biblical books. At that the clergy asked him what is the full title of Darwin’s book at which Dawkins went er…er…er..
The full title is “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”
…people who call themselves Christians….
Edgar — now this is evolution :
Devolution?
No, carry on, no banning in sight. I’m enjoying the read.
Just throwing the evolution foul-ball into the playing field:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/09/darwin-evolution-crispr-microbiome-bacteria-news/
“Until recently, the central tenets of Darwin’s theory of evolution, from how heredity works to the gradual variation in species, had been regarded as settled and beyond challenge. But as David Quammen, a National Geographic contributing writer, explains in his new book The Tangled Tree, new discoveries in human biology in the last few decades have led scientists to radically alter the story of the origins of life, with powerful implications for our health—and even our very nature.
When National Geographic caught up with the author at his home in Montana, he explained how the discovery of a new “third kingdom” of life changed our understanding of evolution, how so-called kissing bugs can move DNA from one species to another, and why the gene-editing tool CRISPR presents exciting new possibilities, as well as ethical challenges. …”
“… It’s not rewriting the idea of natural selection. Rather, it’s rewriting our understanding of evolution, of which natural selection is still a very important part. There are two phases in classic Darwinian evolution. First, there is the arising of variations from one creature to another or one individual population to another. That was thought to occur incrementally, in very slow stages, by mutations in the genome. Once there are variations among individuals, natural selection, the survival of the fittest, acts upon those variations.
“What is new, and caused New Scientist to run that over-stated and provocative headline, “Darwin Was Wrong,” is that we now understand there is another, hugely significant form of variation. It’s not just incremental mutation, but horizontal gene transfer, bringing entirely new packages of DNA into genomes. …”
thanks for this, sonny. 🙂
Horizontal gene transfer may be the solution.
We keep saying “education education education” — like realtors say “location location location” — but if we can identify the Moral Truth Allele (MTA) in Joe Am’s DNA and replicate it and edit it horizontally into the Filipino DNA, then — voila! — we will have a nation of libertarians in no time.
We have to be careful though. Somebody might decide to extract the Kill All Opposition Allele (KAOA) of Duterte and spread it around.
Then we will be all Frankenstein murderers.
This is supposing that character qualities are inheritable biological sequences that occur in the DNA.
Nice on topic article :
Discussing a recent Nature VS Nurture research.
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/using-nature-to-understand-nurture.html
Sorry — reponding to Edgar, wrongly inserted above.
The horizontal gene transfer Sonny mentioned is the Epigenitics I quoted.
But Eureka — Lance, you just proclaimed the solution for Philippines — Eugenics. I’m sure Joe is too willing to contribute some saliva swaps for his DNA.
Oh, My!
You’re welcome, LC. That short interview was quite “entertaining” in addition to informative.
(Note: the existence of transposons and what they can do is quite scary … inspite of the inimitable way edgar put it. 🙂 )
the Jews thru eugenics have pretty much eradicated Tay Sachs, sonny.
no need to slice and splice (ala Jurassic World) , just regular genetic testing (same way Iceland “eradicated” Mongoloidism) and old school match making.
“Prof. Gideon Bach, who heads the Department of Genetics at Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem, says the eradication of Tay-Sachs can be attributed primarily to the fact that the general public in Israel is advised to carry out, at the expense of the state, genetic tests to diagnose the disease before the birth of the baby. In the event an unborn baby is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, the pregnancy is usually terminated.
Another reason for the eradication of the disease, Bach says, is the work of the ultra-Orthodox association, Dor Yesharim. The association carries out tests on young individuals to check whether they are genetically “suitable.” The results of these tests are passed on to the matchmaker. If there is a risk that a designated couple may give birth to children affected with Tay-Sachs, the matchmaker will report that the match is unsuitable.”
https://www.haaretz.com/1.4706480 (very Spartan)
Match making won’t work in the Philippines, since San Miguel and Tanduay have more a say in procreation over there, but genetic testing may just do the trick edgar proposed above and much cheaper. 😉
pushing 8 billion in world population, with climate change looming, realistically eugenics and Spartan cherry picking of babies (or fetii) will have to be discussed plainly.
edgar: “— but if we can identify the Moral Truth Allele (MTA) in Joe Am’s DNA and replicate it and edit it horizontally into the Filipino DNA, then — voila! — we will have a nation of libertarians in no time.”
the science is actually already here!
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613277/chinese-scientists-have-put-human-brain-genes-in-monkeysand-yes-they-may-be-smarter/
MMT is already trying my patience. Creationism I would take a break here..
Go to the other thread, maybe?
Darwinism proven wrong?
Holy molly, that should be headline news! Completely unsupported. Just stringing sentences.
Why is incompetence and non-accountability so normal in the Philippines?
I say it is the “senyorito” culture. A powerful person in the Philippines lets things be done by others from childhood onwards – maids, drivers, then maybe goons (Digong), secretaries and flunkies of the Bong Go kind.
So Digong signs a law on motorcycle plates and hasn’t read it to the level of detail needed..
giancarlo/chempo,
Have you both bothered to read MMT literature? If so, do you understand what you’ve read?
What is it that you do not understand by this :
A government that issues its own currency does not have a monetary constraint on its spending other than inflation.
Reposting this since you may not have read this yet.
giancarlo,
You seem to be completely buying the Noahpinion hoax and so you are parroting his demand for models.
Economic models like the IS-LM are at best unreliable and inaccurate, so my advice to you is don’t be obsessed with models. Start with the basic understanding :
That’s the functional import of MMT. Understand it and everything else will flow.
I think this is closer to my opinion.
https://www.econlib.org/does-mmt-need-a-mathematical-model-or-greater-self-awareness/
Well, can you state clearly what your opinion is?
If you have any conjecture or statement it must be backed up by facts, experimentations, and or models.
Anything not testable or observable is of little use. It is more of an abstraction.
I believe most people can learn anything if they decide to.
I get the statement you are saying: “A government that issues its own currency does not have a monetary constraint on its spending other than inflation. ”
What are its policy implications?
How can these be tested or observed?
Is the observation or observed phenomenon a valid example of the hypothesis tested.
These are questions out of curiosity.
If MMT cannot prescribe things such as how can this guide policy then it is useless.
Governments will not willfuly try it because it cannot even purport to have the answer for this or does it?
That is why we are looking for models.
Because Deficits only matter depending on inflation is not workable.
How much can one budget?
Can it answer that?
Let’s take the US. The Fed has an inflation target of 2%. What level of spending endangers that 2% either to increase or decrease that inflation?
We are curious because we want to understand the world.
Knowing the sun will rise tomorrow is useless in different places with 4 months of continuous Day or Night
So even the statement the sun will rise tomorrow is useless depending on place.
If you cannot suggest a bounding function for the deficit well MMT should be ignored until they do the work of operationalizing their theory.
This is the disdain with Ivory Tower Academics. The best example of this is Black Sholes Merton model and how they failed when they had their own hedge fund.
https://www.thebalance.com/long-term-capital-crisis-3306240
As Nassim Taleb loves to say having skin in the game showed what your theories are made of. If your model is not good you lose money. Unfortunately in the case of MMT. If the MMT guys get control of the government and fail we all fail. Why risk this?
The MMT people seem to cult like TBH. It’s like nobody really knows anything so any criticism sets them off. Is MMT a religion of some sort?
For one, the useless, energy draining debate on how we’re gonna pay for social programs like Medicare For All can be easily settled.
Well, that’s the trouble with so-called critics like you. You are not paying attention at all. MMT is being applied to the Pentagon budget, the bail out of mega banks in the 2008 crisis, and the trillion dollar tax cuts gifted by the Donald to the billionaire class.
“Is the observation or observed phenomenon a valid example of the hypothesis tested?”
If you’ve been observant of the above, what do you think?
You won’t be able to make use of economic models if it’s staring you in the eyeballs.
I’m not sure you have any idea what you’re talking about.
Your budget is what your economy needs.
“What level of spending endangers that 2% either to increase or decrease that inflation?”
You employ automatic stabilizers, drain adjustment, and interest rate setting.
Well, bad news for you if that’s your position. MMT is already being adopted by Republican operatives and ignoring it at your say so just won’t cut it.
“This is the disdain with Ivory Tower Academics.”
I’m not wasting my time addressing your disdain.
“If the MMT guys get control of the government and fail we all fail.”
Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson took MMT into their own hands in 2008 and they succeeded mightily. Aren’t you going to say thank you?
“Is MMT a religion of some sort?”
Define religion.
Q: “What level of spending endangers that 2% either to increase or decrease that inflation?”
A: You employ automatic stabilizers, drain adjustment, and interest rate setting.
This seems to be getting closer to building something pragmatic, if it is agreed that inflation is the primary problem with MMT. What are automatic stabilizers, and how can they be tested or certified from history? What is drain adjustment? How do you explain interest rate setting to laypeople?
I would add that being snide to people does not make you look more intelligent than them, it just makes you look snide with perhaps more knowledge than them that you are not willing to share, in favor of projecting false superiority.
And don’t bicker with me on the point. I am at a stage of seeking stress relief and if it means blocking people who just can’t discuss things without going personal, ending that particular form of stress is just a click away.
Revisionist history.
Bernanke and Paulson did not practice MMT. Have you even read Bernanke’s Criticisms of the Bank of Japan? Bernanke is a New Keynesian. Please try again but all the BS and trollish behavior you are spouting leaves me to think you know jack shit.
You cant find a credible central bank proponent so you claim one out of thin air. Wait til AOC becomes president and you’ll have your Central Bank Governor or Chief.
Spouting lies to.bolster your case would.not work on well informed people lile.most people.here. cit it out.
This talk about Republicans, Bernake and Pentagon already already practicing MMT is delusional and just trying to normalise MMT, just like International Hijab Day is trying to normalise Islamic lifestyle. If MMT is already being practiced, the national debt would’nt be continuing on its trajectory north.
@chempo
Parts of the gov’t adopting and putting into action MMT principles on selective policies will only get part of the predictive result.
See the NYT article I’ve posted somewhere below about Wall Street bankers embracing MMT.
Thanks for that article. It fits with my view as well, and as long as Micha is just condemning those who won’t buy MMT, he is a living example of one of the flaws stated in the article. There appear to be no teachers who buy into MMT, none who can translate the over-arching jargon into real-world impacts. I’m reminded of Yellows who are angry at the masa but are not able to articulate reasons for voting for capable people in terms that the disenfranchised can relate to.
I actually posted a few years back praising the Philippine government on issuing Peso Denominated bonds. Why because this debt is much easier to manage by the Central Bank, you can inflate away but my little understanding of the matter makes me believe there are a limiter in the top end and a limiter in the bottom end. There are the Zero Lower Bound and German-style/Zimbabwe-style runaway inflation. If MMT cannot effectively prescribe ways to handle these or at least prevent it well as I said earlier MMT is a useless theory that needs to be worked on until useful. I imagine it is like the AI research of Hinton unusable until the computers became more powerful.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608911/is-ai-riding-a-one-trick-pony/
Also, the Philippines again issued Peso Denominated RTBs.
“If MMT cannot effectively prescribe ways to handle these or at least prevent it well as I said earlier MMT is a useless theory that needs to be worked on until useful.”
It’s this kind of loaded statements coming from an ignoramus of the theory that’s not helping the conversation.
Useless as opposed to what? What alternative description of the currently operating monetary system do you have that is useful?
Or one could replace ‘ignoramus of’ with ‘someone unknowledgeable about’, thus switching the burden of solving the problem back to the speaker and removing the angst of insult. If you want people on your side, try teaching them rather than driving them off to be happy with their lack of knowledge about a field of economics evidently rich with unsociable people.
Dodging the question? What can MMT tell me that is new? MMT doesnt own the government spending is constrained by inflation. Central Banks have known this since the use of Fiat currency. I think you cant answer so you evade. Please stop the trollish dodging and answer the question.
Sorry for the being rude and some name calling Micha. Just woke up and haven’t taken my BP meds.
I understand the monopoly banker never runs out of cash. But ‘a technically correct definition is not the same as a relevant and useful argument.’
So what’s your relevant and useful argument?
As stated before … show me the models.
But you are right to ask a valid question. I’m tempted to write a blog on this.We are going too far off topic in Joe’s blog here. But I certainly would like to see a good article from you. Your previous article did not convince me. This is not said in contempt, but it’s a challenge to be able to put forth something that makes sense of MMT. All those ivory tower type conversations I find meaningless.
No, you have not made any coherent argument because you don’t have any. Insisting on models is jumping on the prescriptive part. MMT is largely a description of how the monetary and fiscal function of a sovereign currency issuing government works.
If the articles that have been made available to you did not convince you, then you are beyond convincing and I am not here to convince you. Like evolution, the theory stands whether you like it or not, it does not depend on your opinion or flawed biases.
Economics is not pure science, but it is based on mathematical models. MMT has produced what? Other than the one I referred you to.
Beyond the ideas, it offers mathematical models to relate to real life environment. MMT is divorced from the real world.I would love to see the relationship to real world but all these are un-available.
If economics is not pure science because it has lots of moving externalities and variables then your dogged insistence for a model is flawed as the Keynesian IS-LM model is flawed.
I don’t know much about LS-IM model but it precisely serves my point. If there is a model then all the smart cookies can robust test it with real life data and conclude it’s flawed or it supports the underlying theories.
“MMT is divorced from the real world.I would love to see the relationship to real world but all these are un-available.”
It’s statements like these that give away your position of cluelessness. When Bernanke rolled the bail out of Wall Street banks and corporations, he was doing MMT. One, no borrowing or tax revenue necessary. Two, no shooting up of inflation. And three, economic free fall was arrested.
That’s real world rubber meets the road policy that support MMT study and predictive coherence.
Cluelessness deserves be given clues, otherwise it would be playing piano in the in the dark.
After such enlightenment is given it would.no llonger be your problem.
I am getting sick of this.But don’t worry I’ll take alka-seltzer, an antacid with aspirin.
“When Bernanke rolled the bail out of Wall Street banks and corporations, he was doing MMT. One, no borrowing or tax revenue necessary. Two, no shooting up of inflation. And three, economic free fall was arrested.”
I grant you there was no immediate inflation nor free-falling of the economy. But this serves to fly in your own arguments :
– Where is the upper limits which Gian asked. You need some modelling to tell you this, otherwise it’s simply not acceptable. At least to me, from a managerial point of view.
– So the Fed’s action saved the USA, but it’s such very acts that you so detest, is it not?
And by the way, Bernake’s actions no doubt brought some reprieve. But there is no happy ever after. There is cause and effect. The effects are being played out decades later, which is in current times.
Let me add another component here, Micha’s correct AOC seems to be gaining traction and consensus , and personally the more I read about MMT , i’m reminded by Trump’s
“What have you got to lose?!!!”
let’s view MMT under the light of global climate change, looming economic collapse, time’s up. do we really have time for models??? What have you got to lose?! the world’s about to end as we know it, obviously the current trajectory is wrong,
What have we got to lose?!!! we can tinker with the current engine as we barrel to God knows where, or we can change the engine and hopefully avert something worst. sure false dilemma , false choice… but my point,
let’s add a time element to the discussion. let’s help out our girl AOC.
“No, carry on, no banning in sight. I’m enjoying the read.” — Joe
Okay, so w/ Joe’s guarantee of safe passage , we shall proceed with Evolution (and the Bible, as “an astounding historical record of 7,000 years of human history” i’ll contend here yeah as metaphor and literature maybe but certainly nothing scientific).
And thank you to sonny for sharing that article, i’d not heard of that book (will check it out). 🙂
It took Darwin so long to publish because he was too familiar with the implications of his findings, thus these two quotes preceding the title page:
As to the full title of the book, keep in mind that “races” to Darwin was just another word for “species” or “types”, but the publisher chose to use “races” precisely because of its social implications and his desire to sell books.
But Darwin’s book is mainly about his findings while he was at the Galápagos, social Darwinism and Darwin’s theory are two different things, read the underlined below,
chemp: “I’ll just ask these 3 simple questions, and I assume we are talking about atheist evolution:
1. Your hero Richard Dawkins could’nt even name the full title of the book written by Dawkins. Can you? answered (and I’m no Richard Dawkins fan, I am a fan of both religions and philosophies)
2. Can someone please explain to me why the hell is the appendix still doing in my body after thousands of years? I have no idea, chemp, but two of my buddies who had their appendix taken out, due to infection, healed perfectly; but now both have become prone to diarrhea (90% of the time they have diarrhea, or wet poop).
ep·i·ge·net·ics
/ˌepəjəˈnediks/
noun BIOLOGY
the study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression rather than alteration of the genetic code itself.
“epigenetics has transformed the way we think about genomes”
Sure , chemp , i’m open to epigenetics, but I don’t agree with the notion that epigenetics and natural selection are mutually exclusive concepts.
from sonny‘s article,
“What is new, and caused New Scientist to run that over-stated and provocative headline, “Darwin Was Wrong,” is that we now understand there is another, hugely significant form of variation. It’s not just incremental mutation, but horizontal gene transfer, bringing entirely new packages of DNA into genomes.
One of the axioms in Darwin’s day, natura non facit saltus, which your good Latin training [laughs] will tell you means nature does not make leaps; things happen incrementally. But horizontal gene transfer has revealed that nature does sometimes make leaps, whereby huge lumps of DNA can appear in an individual or population quite suddenly and then natural selection acts on them. That can be a very important mechanism in the evolution of new species.” (italics and bolding mine)
Read the 3rd paragraph of Darwin’s intro, he’s open to other sub-theories in how transmutation works. thus never ruled out other means of transmitting mutations.
OT : Nietzche’s Will to Power was thought out as in opposition to Darwin’s , he called Darwin’s theory Will to Survive (Darwin never called it that, and the two men never interacted). But Nietzsche thought Darwin’s reactive description of how natural selection worked was just wrong, he proposed w/out explaining genes and mutations that nature was more proactive, able to shape its environment and not the other way around as Darwin described.
so IMHO, yours and sonny’s thoughts are more inclined to Nietzsche’s Will to Power, and he was a rabid anti-Christian (though he was a fan of Jesus and John the Baptist and St. Francis, but not St. Paul).
But my question to you , chemp, is how epigenetics or horizontal gene transfer (sonny’s) somehow nullify Darwin’s theory, whilst affirming the Bible as “an astounding historical record of 7,000 years of human history”.
Don’t get me wrong, chemp, the Book of Job (arguably the oldest book in the Bible) reads like a Natural Geographic article, but it’s not scientific, it’s literature.
…and to connect this thread with its parent MMT thread above, if you notice the line of questioning I am now chempo while you are now Micha, chemp. 😉
Lance, don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying epigenetics or horizontal gene transfer nullify Darwinism. Firstly, Darwin’s theory is just that, a theory. It’s not proven science (which Micha seems to think it is in her repartee — “Darwinism proven wrong?Holy molly, that should be headline news! Completely unsupported. Just stringing sentences.”) My reference to this is our growing knowledge of the genome is throwing more light into organism development that points to biological modifications being impacted by horizontal gene transfers and not purely environmental survivalist demands.
On the other hand, I’m saying creationism nullifies Darwin’s theory. In the first place, I’m sure you agree Darwin had a starting point in his evolution idea. So instead of following his theory forward of what comes out from the sea to become us, try to follow backwards from when it started. Darwin had a starting point. I’m sure he did’nt say once upon a time some parts of the periodic table mixed itself into a concoction and it rained and there was lightning which striked the compound and organisms came out of it. Darwin did’nt explain how he breathed live into matter. Nor did he explain how consciousness came about. He simply had a starting point and proceeded from it. In other words, someone did some massive work for him earlier. So my line of thinking is if an argument can prove existence of a Creator, Darwin’s theory becomes questionable. And I did say I’m referring to Darwin’s theory as atheist evolution idea.
“So my line of thinking is if an argument can prove existence of a Creator, Darwin’s theory becomes questionable.”
yeah, I get that, same with my “if aliens show up tomorrow and say , we’re all just their experiments. then we’d have to come up with new ways of thinking”.
“And I did say I’m referring to Darwin’s theory as atheist evolution idea.”
yeah, you did, chemp. thus an escape hatch early on. 🙂
I’ll be back to put in my argument why I believe there is a Creator. Need to put some thought into how to present it. You can hold your question on if there is a Creator who creates a Creator till later.
now, you’re taking Nassim Taleb’s advice (putting some skin in the game 😉 ). I eagerly await, chemp.
Chemmy, this site provides so many flashback topics from my youth eons ago. If its not eccentric niche theories now being resurrected from the dustbin of economics history. Thats how long ago Hick’s IS-LM diagrams came out in Samuelson’s mire than galf century old primers on macroeconomics. I think MMT came out before Hicks but maybe I am just ignorant or moronic or kazy ir all three.The thought of a forthcoming dissertation on Uncaused Causes, Unmoved Mover, etc. will certainly bring back memories of my freshman Thomistic philosophy classes. These topics can certainly be a welcome respite from all the gloomy news coming out of the homeland.
Sorry for the more than typo-ridden text l. I wish WordPress had the same edit features FB has available for rushed posts.
The package of eccentric ideas known as modern monetary theory — for example, that annual deficits are too small, and that the United States can essentially print money to pay off its debt — has been on the receiving end of a remarkable level of vitriol.
But M.M.T., as it’s known, is attracting a conspicuous number of fans in an unexpected place: Wall Street. Money managers, chief executives and business analysts maintain that the approach offers several important and overlooked insights, and far from finding it fanciful or deranged, they are using M.M.T. to build economic forecasts and even trading strategies.
“I don’t look at labels in terms of what’s on the left and the right,” said Jan Hatzius, the chief economist at Goldman Sachs. “I try to look at what makes me have a better chance of getting the forecast right, and I do find some of the ideas useful.”
So does Paul A. McCulley, a former chief economist at the behemoth asset firm Pimco. Ideas like M.M.T. that rub against the grain of conventional economics, he said, have “for all of my career been a very useful framework for analysis.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_Finance_Corporation
Micha, you think they could revamp another form of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and get Wall Street in the MMT game???
from: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/109/text
(3) a Green New Deal must be developed through transparent and inclusive consultation, collaboration, and partnership with frontline and vulnerable communities, labor unions, worker cooperatives, civil society groups, academia, and businesses; and
(4) to achieve the Green New Deal goals and mobilization, a Green New Deal will require the following goals and projects—
(A) providing and leveraging, in a way that ensures that the public receives appropriate ownership stakes and returns on investment, adequate capital (including through community grants, public banks, and other public financing), technical expertise, supporting policies, and other forms of assistance to communities, organizations, Federal, State, and local government agencies, and businesses working on the Green New Deal mobilization;
(B) ensuring that the Federal Government takes into account the complete environmental and social costs and impacts of emissions through—
(i) existing laws;
(ii) new policies and programs; and
(iii) ensuring that frontline and vulnerable communities shall not be adversely affected;
(C) providing resources, training, and high-quality education, including higher education, to all people of the United States, with a focus on frontline and vulnerable communities, so that all people of the United States may be full and equal participants in the Green New Deal mobilization;
(D) making public investments in the research and development of new clean and renewable energy technologies and industries;
(E) directing investments to spur economic development, deepen and diversify industry and business in local and regional economies, and build wealth and community ownership, while prioritizing high-quality job creation and economic, social, and environmental benefits in frontline and vulnerable communities, and deindustrialized communities, that may otherwise struggle with the transition away from greenhouse gas intensive industries;
(F) ensuring the use of democratic and participatory processes that are inclusive of and led by frontline and vulnerable communities and workers to plan, implement, and administer the Green New Deal mobilization at the local level;
(G) ensuring that the Green New Deal mobilization creates high-quality union jobs that pay prevailing wages, hires local workers, offers training and advancement opportunities, and guarantees wage and benefit parity for workers affected by the transition;
(H) guaranteeing a job with a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations, and retirement security to all people of the United States;
(I) strengthening and protecting the right of all workers to organize, unionize, and collectively bargain free of coercion, intimidation, and harassment;
(J) strengthening and enforcing labor, workplace health and safety, antidiscrimination, and wage and hour standards across all employers, industries, and sectors;
(K) enacting and enforcing trade rules, procurement standards, and border adjustments with strong labor and environmental protections—
(i) to stop the transfer of jobs and pollution overseas; and
(ii) to grow domestic manufacturing in the United States;
(L) ensuring that public lands, waters, and oceans are protected and that eminent domain is not abused;
(M) obtaining the free, prior, and informed consent of indigenous peoples for all decisions that affect indigenous peoples and their traditional territories, honoring all treaties and agreements with indigenous peoples, and protecting and enforcing the sovereignty and land rights of indigenous peoples;
(N) ensuring a commercial environment where every businessperson is free from unfair competition and domination by domestic or international monopolies; and
(O) providing all people of the United States with—
(i) high-quality health care;
(ii) affordable, safe, and adequate housing;
(iii) economic security; and
(iv) clean water, clean air, healthy and affordable food, and access to nature.
Thanks for this. We have the tools and resources to get it done. Only thing that gets in the way is politics, dirty destructive interest laden politics.
The funding source will be green bonds.
What Are Green Bonds and How ‘Green’ Is Green?
Trillions of dollars of investment are needed to combat global warming. Enter green bonds, a way for issuers to raise money specifically for environmentally friendly projects — such as renewable energy or clean transport — and to be able to boast about it publicly. Fund managers also like the notes as a way of meeting growing investor demand for sustainable options. The market, which opened slowly more than a decade ago, has boomed in recent years, helping spur development of other socially conscious debt products. Because investors face the challenge of judging whether a note is truly green, regulators are working on standards to help guard against greenwashing, or misleading claims about just how good a friend to the environment an issuer is.
Green bond proceeds can go toward new or existing projects that are meant to have positive environmental or climate effects. Inside that, the range is vast. It covers energy, transport, waste management, building construction, water and land use. Some definitions also include communications and information technology.
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Check This Out: Explorer of the World – Frances England
Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews, Video by kidscangroove
Artist: Frances England
Album: Explorer of the World (official store) | iTunes | Amazon
NOTE: Read through for bonus activities for you and your family inspired by this album. England will be releasing an accompanying activity book (expected May 2016).
“Be an explorer of your world.” These were instructions given to my classmates and me during a recent improv class. Our assignment was to embody our experiences, put ourselves in other people’s shoes.
For example, the next time you eat sushi, imagine being the sushi chef. Embodying that identity brings you closer to the experience of eating sushi, appreciating the texture and taste beyond what you could access as just the consumer. You connect with your imagination and feed your curiosity.
I recalled the impact of this exercise when I first heard Frances England’s new album, Explorer of the World.
Sometimes people look they don’t see. They hear without listening. They miss the beat. And I don’t want to be the one to miss out. The one who’s not looking at the world around. (“Explorer of the World”)
We spend so much of our time in front of screens, digitally connecting with the world, that we forget to really see what’s around us. As my daughter Emily has gotten older and her interests have shifted more to gaming (and the excitement of a new Poseidon dragon being born in her game!), I admit I’ve become less motivated to get outside and just discover with her.
This modern-day state of affairs is partly what inspired England to create Explorer of the World, which urges families to find beauty in the world around us and really dig in.
Children are natural explorers and really the best improv instructors. Their imagination and super curiosity fuels us as parents. We get to break new ground with our kids in the real world. And it does get real. Like that moment when your child is playing with her umbrella in the gusty wind and she turns to you and asks, “What if I threw an umbrella up into space while standing on the sun?”
Those are the precious moments that Explorer of the World characterizes and inspires. In “Little by Little” England sings “I do love you, you appreciate the wonder in everything,” and I feel my heart ache because I want every moment to last while knowing the days are quickly ticking by. England brings such depth of emotion as a mother, the whole hearted and body feeling of loving your children with everything you have, wanting to savor the time you have with them while reassuring them (and yourself) that you will always be there. This is underscored in “My Street” as England sings, “I’ll be there to show, show, show you the way / I’ll be there to warn you about those twists and those turns / I’ll be there to lead you back home, to lead you back.”
What I love about Explorer of the World is the subtle reminder that feeding your curiosity doesn’t mean spending a lot of money or a big, grand outing; the world around us – whether city, country or our own backyard – provides so many little things to see, to understand and to learn. We can find patterns in common sights and familiar places and rhythm in everyday life, whether it’s stopping to listen to a beatboxer or grabbing hold of opportunity and pretending to be a tightrope walker on the shadow of a telephone wire.
A long-time resident of San Francisco, California, England uses the artful city as the backdrop and inspiration for her fourth album. In fact, England spent two years capturing the sights and the sounds of the city by carrying around a handheld recorder and integrating what she recorded into the songs. For Bay Area residents, the bucket drumming that opens “Street Life” is a street performance on Market Street, and ambient noises were recorded on late night walks through North Beach.
England is sensitive to the world. She feels through the things she sees and can so vividly recreate the richness and emotion of an experience. There is this layer of being awake, the exhilaration of seeing what we see when we step outdoors, to bond through our experiences together when we let the sizzle of our surroundings breathe life into us and take us away.
To produce Explorer of the World, England once again teamed up with Grammy award-winning producer Dean Jones. The album was also co-produced with Dave Winer from Justin Roberts and the Not Ready for Naptime Players. The result is a very eclectic composition that mixes electro and acoustic melodies and harmonies with a rhythmic blend of funk and beats. This new dynamic is a very fitting dimension to England’s smooth sound.
So whether we pretend to be a sushi chef, pack up a bag to climb Mt. Everest, make a map of our neighborhood, visit where our parents grew up, or actually fly to another land and step through a new culture, we have the power to experience life together as a family, treasuring every moment little by little. Those are memories that will change us, strengthen bonds, and last far beyond the time Poseidon the dragon was born.
Bonus activity: Be an explorer! Listen closely to England’s lyrics that offer fun suggestions to dive deeper into the adventures right outside your door. Watch for England’s accompanying activity book (expected May 2016).
Neighborhood Map: Make a map of your neighborhood. Draw in the houses. Fill in the trees. What about cars and their colors? Shrubs, animals, fences, mailboxes, kids, sidewalk cracks, neighborhood oddities and fixtures? Go home and draw your version of your neighborhood map and compare to your family members’ map. Discuss the ways you see things in similar and different ways.
Quiet Observation: Take a camera and notebook on a walk. Spend 10-20 minutes walking silently (depending on your children’s ages) and observe the things you pass every day until you find at least three patterns you’ve never noticed before. Look for shapes. Look for color. Talk about the patterns. Take notes. Take photos of the patterns.
Neighborhood History: Find out who has lived on your street the longest. Interview them. What has changed? What’s better? What’s worse?
People Watching: Sit on a bench in a public area or silently walk through your town or city. Listen to the people walking by. What are they saying? Write a story about who they are and where they’re going.
Family Meeting: Arrange a time for a family meeting. Bring a calendar. Have each family member name a place he or she really wants to go this year. Maybe the museum, the waterpark, the train stations, the zoo, camping trip, kayaking, the mountains, the ocean. Decide what’s realistic and write it down (whether it’s today, tomorrow, this year or in the near future).
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Players Are Not Pleased With World Of Warcraft’s New Recruit-A-Friend Program
Ryan F. Mandelbaum
Mike Fahey
Filed to:World of Warcraft
After going on hiatus in June, World of Warcraft’s long-running Recruit-AFriend program will return later this year with cool new mounts, pets, and garb for players who convince others to join the game. The rewards, which include WoW’s first-ever backpack, look wonderful. It’s nearly everything else about the program, including the timing of its return, that has players concerned.
Launched back in 2008, Recruit-A-Friend gives special benefits and rewards to players who invite new players to the game. Along with cosmetic gifts like special mounts and pets, players and their friends earn the ability to teleport to one another from anywhere in the game and earn 50 percent more experience than normal when adventuring together. The teleportation and extra experience are still present in the new system, which Blizzard announced yesterday via a post on the World of Warcraft website.
One new feature of the program is that in addition to accepting brand new players, it will also let you “recruit” returning players, as long as they have not purchased game time in the past two years. Rather than picking in-game item rewards like mounts from a list of available options, players receive equipment or game-time rewards at a rate of one for each month of game time paid for by their recruited friends, as follows.
One Month: Rikki the adorable monkey pet
Two Months: One month of game time
Three Months: Explorer’s Dunetrekker, a two-person camel mount with an awesome face
Four Months: “Renowned Explorer” title
Five Months: Game time
Six Months: Stinging Sands cosmetic weapon enchantment
Seven Months: Renowned Explorer’s Tabard
Eight Months: Game time
Nine Months: Explorer’s Jungle Hopper, a two-person flying mount
Ten Months: Renowned Explorer’s Rucksack, the game’s first backpack
Eleven Months: Game time
Twelve Months: Renowned Explorer’s Attire, completing the adventurer archeologist look
You can get these rewards if one person pays for 12 months of game time, or if 6 people pay for two months each, or any combination thereof. (One player can recruit up to 10 new players.) Once the twelve-month reward is earned, players will receive a free month of game time for every three months their recruited friends pay for.
It doesn’t sound like a bad deal, but a quick scroll through the blog post’s comments reveal several valid concerns from current players.
First off, there are the rewards. They’re this cool set of mounts, pets, and costume pieces tied to the game’s Egyptian-themed Uldum zone. Very Indiana Jones. Making these desirable items exclusive to the Recruit-A-Friend program is diabolical, especially considering one of them is an honest-to-goodness backpack. Players have been clamoring for something other than flimsy cloaks for their characters’ back slots for years. Now there is one, but it’s essentially locked behind a paywall. Worse than a paywall; a make-someone-else-paywall. Bah.
As many players in the World of Warcraft forums point out, these designs would have been better used as rewards for Archeology, one of the game’s cooler, more lore-centric secondary professions. That outfit would be a perfect way to get players to dive deeper into the game’s rich history.
Then there is the timing of the program’s relaunch. Blizzard just launched World of Warcraft Classic, bringing lapsed veterans and curious new players to the game in droves. It’s one of the most exciting reasons to subscribe to World of Warcraft in years. If ever there was a time to recruit players to the game, it was a month ago. All of the new and returning players traipsing through old-school Azeroth right now? It’s too late, they’ve already paid to play. And with World of Warcraft Classic getting so popular, the fact that none of the item rewards are usable in the old-school version of the game makes the idea of ridable camels and monkey friends much less appealing.
Blizzard’s implementing the new Recruit-A-Friend system “in the next few months,” so there’s still time for changes to be made. Perhaps tweaks and modifications can make the feature more attractive. Maybe this first cosmetic backpack is a harbinger of spectacular new back items for all players, regardless of their ability to bring new players to the game. Or maybe it’ll just be a bunch of solo players creating new accounts, paying for 12 months of game time, getting their special gear, and moving on. We’ll see. Maybe we’ll bring friends.
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Malek historic mansion
This large mansion was built with command of malek o-tojar, a great merchant , in bushehr, in Qajar era. during one of his trips to Paris he loved one of his friend’s house , then decided to have the same one in bushehr, so he hired the architecture of the house in Paris and added his own ideas to the site plan and built this beautiful house. This house has four parts : the first one is Pishkhan, an open space in front of the house, the second part is Platform and the third part is facade and entrance , and the last part is the main building in two floors and has painted walls. The first floor was for official meetings and the second floor was for private parties. In addition to the said parts , there were nested gardens that were separated with some rows of walls . each garden has its own erntance to connect to the other parts or out side . each garden had their own Decorations and atmosphere.
Haj Hossein Agha Malek House
The Haj Hossein Agha Malek’s House is a monument that belongs to the Malek National Library and Museum. It is located within the Bazar of Tehran and at the center of Tehran’s old urban complex, halfway between two great religious monuments: the Emam Khomeini Mosque (formerly called the Shah Mosque) and the Jame’ Mosque of Tehran. The Malek House is a quiet place surrounded by a crowded Bazar. It reflects the serenity of its former owner, who lived there for decades. This house was recorded as a National Monument by the National Cultural Heritage of Iran in Dec 7, 1997.
The original building, which Hossein Agha inherited from his father “Mohammad Kazem” was built in the Qajar period, with an extension added in the Pahlavi era. This building first housed the Malek National Library and Museum.
The two parts of the building incorporate architectural elements and decorations from the Qajar and Pahlavi periods, including brick work, tile work, plaster work, wooden decoration, stone carvings, wood carvings, metal works and wallpapers.
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Philippines President Apologizes for Hitler Comments
Posted by Mary Chastain Sunday, October 2, 2016 at 6:30pm | 10/2/2016 - 6:30pm
Why would anyone want to be like Hitler?
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has drawn more criticism from U.S. officials after he made these disturbing comments comparing himself to Hitler:
“Hitler massacred 3 million Jews. Now there is 3 million, what is it, 3 million drug addicts (in the Philippines), there are,” he said in a speech in his hometown of Davao City.
“I’d be happy to slaughter them. At least if Germany had Hitler, the Philippines would have (me). You know my victims, I would like (them) to be all criminals, to finish the problem of my country and save the next generation from perdition.”
But after officials criticized his remarks, Duterte has issued an apology.
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and State Department Mark Toner both criticized the offensive remarks. The Hill reported:
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter called Duterte’s comments “deeply troubling,” though he added that the bilateral relations between the two countries “served the interests of our nations for many years now.”
He also said that he had a productive discussion about “ongoing alliance operations” with Philippines.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner called the comments “troubling” and said words do matter, “especially when they’re from leaders of sovereign nations.” Yet, just like Carter, Toner stressed that the U.S. will continue to work with the Asian country:
He continued, “While there (are) these remarks occasionally being made, at the working level our relationship remains very strong and very vital.”
Toner highlighted security cooperation as one such area that remained strong, comments that followed remarks Thursday by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter describing the two countries’ military relationship as “ironclad.”
Duterte has issued this apology:
“I would like to make it now, here and now, that there was never an intention on my part to derogate the memory of the six million Jews murdered,” he said in a speech at a festival carried live on television.
“The reference to me was, I was supposedly Hitler, who killed many people.”
He added: “I apologize profoundly and deeply to the Jewish community … it was never my intention, but the problem was I was criticized, using Hitler comparing to me.”
Duterte explained that he made the remark because others have already compared him to Hitler due to his violent war on drugs.
Since Duterte took office, officials have killed almost 3,100 suspected drug dealers. Photos from the media have shown these people “often bound hand and foot, shirts soaked in blood, their faces sometimes covered in duct tape, wearing crude signs proclaiming their alleged crimes.”
At least 700 have died during police operations:
“Double your efforts. Triple them, if need be. We will not stop until the last drug lord, the last financier, and the last pusher have surrendered or put behind bars — or below the ground, if they so wish,” Duterte said during his State of the Nation speech on July 25.
Duterte came under fire in early September when he called President Barack Obama a son of a whore after he learned Obama wanted to speak with him about his war on drugs.
Obama canceled his meeting with Duterte and met with South Korean President Park Geun-Hye instead.
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Frank G | October 2, 2016 at 8:39 pm
He’s a demagogic moron. They love him
inspectorudy | October 2, 2016 at 9:30 pm
Does anyone besides me see a present day parallel?
Old0311 | October 2, 2016 at 9:47 pm
He was just trying to say that he is as evil as Hillary, but said it the wrong way.
Ragspierre | October 3, 2016 at 4:37 am
Couple of points…
A lot of the people killed in the drug trade were killed IIRC by other civilians, not “officials”.
The Philippines were a place of refuge for European Jews in the days leading up to WWII, and their then-president went out on a limb to make it happen, as did our ambassador at the time. Even a lowly Army Colonel named Eisenhower play a role.
n.n | October 3, 2016 at 1:57 pm
The institution of class diversity that discriminates between individuals based on the “color of their skin” (e.g. colorful clumps of cells), not the content of their character (e.g. principles).
Abortion rites held in the privacy of chambers to remove unwanted and inconvenient human lives in a final solution.
Planned Parenthood channeling Mengele to carry out clinical cannibalism of disarmed, wholly innocent human lives recoverd from abortion rites.
Progressive wars, social justice adventurism, trial by sodomy and abortion, mass emigration (e.g. refugee crises, illegal immigration, excessive emigration).
“U.S. Officials” doth protest too much.
OnlyRightDissentAllowed | October 3, 2016 at 5:40 pm
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Trump Ending War Games, Signs Vague Agreement With North Korea
Posted by Mary Chastain Tuesday, June 12, 2018 at 9:00am | 6/12/2018 - 9:00am
Trump claims North Korea will start denuclearization right away.
President Trump and Kim Jong Un met at the luxurious Capella Resort on Sentosa island in Singapore and their warm handshake and smiles seem to signal that the days of name-calling and North Korean rocket launching may be over.
“Nice to meet you Mister President,” Kim said as he sat alongside Trump, against a backdrop of North Korean and U.S. flags, beaming more broadly as the U.S. president gave him a thumbs up. Trump said he was sure they would have a “terrific relationship”
With cameras of the world’s press trained on them, Trump and Kim displayed an initial atmosphere of bonhomie.
“I feel really great,” Trump said. “It’s gonna be a great discussion and I think tremendous success. I think it’s gonna be really successful and I think we will have a terrific relationship, I have no doubt.”
Kim replied: “Well, it was not easy to get here. The past has … placed many obstacles in our way but we overcame all of them and we are here today.”
The handshake between Trump and Kim Jong Un marks the first time a sitting US president has met with a North Korean leader. Follow our full coverage at the link. https://t.co/9WfmK1uUfo pic.twitter.com/YG0J7jQOJU
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 12, 2018
Trump and Kim then had a 45-minute private huddle with 2 translators before staging another session with the press.
Moments later, Trump and Kim rejoined senior officials from both nations for a meeting that would get into the nitty-gritty of a possible nuclear disarmament deal.
‘Of course there will be challenges ahead, but I am ready to listen,’ Kim could be heard telling the U.S. president in the group setting, through a translator. ‘We overcame all kinds of skepticism and speculations about this summit, and I believe that this is good for the peace.’
Trump told him, ‘We will solve [this]. We will be successful. And I look forward to working on it with you. It will be done.’
In their very first greeting, Trump set the tone for the talks, sending Kim an outstretched hand and patting the dictator’s right elbow with the other. Neither man smiled during the formal photo, taken on a red carpet in front of alternating American and North Korean flags.
As they turned the corner to head into their first set of talks, however, in an area that Trump may have thought was off camera, the U.S. leader broke into a smile as he exchanged quiet words with Kim and another handshake that lasted several seconds.
A third grip-and-grin followed brief remarks to press inside the portion of their one-on-one meeting that was open to cameras.
After a private one-on-one meeting, Trump and Kim Jong Un sit down with officials from both the U.S. and North Korea https://t.co/Gb1LHVlAqS pic.twitter.com/PJCGZJjnjz
— POLITICO (@politico) June 12, 2018
After four hours, the two leaders met to sign a comprehensive historic agreement. Kim noted that the document was going “to leave the past behind”.
Just In: President Trump and Kim Jung Un sign a document following meeting in Singapore. Kim says they have decided to leave the past behind and sign this historic document. #kelonews pic.twitter.com/D1xpARp1OB
— Hannah Olsen (@KELOHannah) June 12, 2018
The Washington Examiner published the joint statement of Trump and Kim:
1. The United States and the DPRK commit to establish new US-DPRK relations in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity.
2. The United States and DPRK will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.
3. Reaffirming the April 27, 2018 Panmunjom Declaration, the DPRK commits to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula
4. The United States and the DPRK commit to recovering POW/MIA remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified.
However, it appears to have a more symbolic nature than anything else as it does not mention sanctions or to sign a peace treaty in the end. Anthony Ruggiero at the Washington’s Foundation for Defense of Democracies said the deal “looks like a restatement of where we left negotiations more than 10 years ago and not a major step forward.”
The president described the agreement as “very comprehensive,” but it does not offer the details “on how to make the denuclearization process quick, verifiable or irreversible—often stated U.S. goals.” The Wall Street Journal noted that the agreement mirrors the one signed by the two Koreas in their April significant summit: “It didn’t codify Pyongyang’s unilateral moratorium on nuclear and missile tests, or contain any reference to sanctions relief. It made a general pledge to a security guarantee for North Korea but didn’t offer any specifics or make any mention of the status of U.S. military forces in South Korea.”
Media reports claimed that Trump did not speak about human rights during the meeting, but Trump stated that the subject “was discussed relatively briefly compared to denuclearization.”
Trump said that Kim told him “that North Korea is already destroying a major missile engine testing site.” To everyone’s surprise, Trump announced that the U.S. will stop war games with South Korea as he finds it “inappropriate” as the two Koreas “are in the middle of a new agreement aimed at defusing the Korean peninsula.”
Trump said that he trusts the North Korean dictator, but insisted that the U.S. will “have to check him” and that “we’ll check him strongly,” but that Kim “has a plan total and complete.” Trump did not offer any details on that plan, though.
The movie left our ally confused:
“At this moment we need to figure out President Trump’s accurate meaning and intention of this comment,” said the statement from the Blue House. “However, we believe we need to seek various measures how to efficiently move forward the dialogues [as] serious talks are being conducted to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula and establish relationships between North Korea and the United States.”
They say actions speak louder than words and you can usually tell what is really going on by watching a person’s moves like the handshakes as Time described with help from body language expert Traci Brown:
Trump initiated all three handshakes exchanged so far, even though he’s called shaking hands a “barbaric” way to greet someone. Trump’s grip and grins with Kim also notably steered cleared of the death grip yanks he has previously exercised on world leaders, including Japan’s Shinzo Abe and France’s Emmanuel Macron.
“Trump went out of his way to play host. That’s a nice way of showing control over Kim,” says Brown.
There have been many interesting moments, especially for body language watcher.
Touching moment between Trump and Kim.
Excited to see a meeting like this…
They said it would not happen.#TrumpKimSummit pic.twitter.com/IAc3WgVKyv
— Raphael (@ToastersForever) June 12, 2018
You can’t dismiss the height and age advantage that Trump has over the dictator. Brown told Time via email that this “makes ALL the difference in the image” since “[T]owering over his North Korean counterpart confers Trump an immediate, visual upperhand.”
The fact that Trump touched Kim’s arm numerous times helps “signal power and Trump’s desire to look in control of the meeting.”
But we need to remember cultural differences as well. Politico wrote that people on Twitter wrote about awkward eye contact, but there’s a reason for that:
While some viewers used Twitter to talk about awkward eye contact, Pease explained that it was a cultural difference rather than a sign of submission. Differing perspectives spoke volumes of the immense culture gap and differences at play between the nations.
In the West, it is disingenuous not to look someone in the eye, whereas in Korean culture it is polite not to make full eye contact with someone who is elder or superior. Kim displayed the same courtesy to South Korea’s Moon when they met in April.
Surprisingly, my very favorite moment so far came from CNN…whose sole North Korea expert was Dennis Rodman wearing a Make America Great Again hat and dissing Obama.
Dennis Rodman, who struck a personal relationship with Kim Jong Un: “Obama didn’t even give me the time of day. I said, ‘I have something to say from North Korea.’ He just brushed me off.” pic.twitter.com/RRgTdcOm7v
— BNO News (@BNONews) June 12, 2018
Speaking of which, here is the hot souvenir from Singapore.
Make Korea One Again!
The Korean Association in Singapore made a commemorative T-shirt for the much anticipated Trump-Kim Summit.#breaking #SingaporeSummit #TrumpKimSummit #makekoreaoneagain pic.twitter.com/6Y4T7xyhS3
— Chanju Kim (@ChanjuKimNews) June 9, 2018
I would like to conclude by noting it was exactly one year ago that President Trump’s team secured the release of Otto Warmbier, who died shortly after his return due to the massive trauma sustained while being tortured in North Korea. Though we may never know what happened, I would like to think his executioner was among the 200 hard-line North Koreans who died when the nation’s nuclear test mountain collapsed.
I will also hope that the recent removal of other old-time militants will mean that Kim will continue to work toward economic reforms and a healthier governmental model and that this process has now officially begun.
*Leslie Eastman wrote the first draft of this post. Mary Chastain updated with the latest breaking news.
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Close The Fed | June 12, 2018 at 9:09 am
This continues to go in the right direction. With Pompeo, Bolton, et al., North Korea can kiss goodbye the idea that we’ll let them slide on implementation of the terms of denuclearization.
I watched the entire Dennis Rodman interview with Cuomo. Gosh, very informative!! Not only helping with N.K., but also peeling off some more blacks from the left side of the aisle. Love it! And he was honest; commented that he was “naive” about N.K. when he first went, didn’t know anything about it, or anything about Kim, or even what his title was… Very informative interview.
And my ears really perked up when he said Obama blew him off and wouldn’t give him the time of day. Confirms a lot we already knew about Obama: ineffective and not really in tune with the real black community as opposed to the black community rabble rousers.
puhiawa | June 12, 2018 at 12:27 pm
And I thought it interesting that Trump had someone call him up to see what he could share on Kim’s personality and thought.
Of course, at that point Cuomo looked like he was getting sick, so that was a distraction.
One more thing: I didn’t hear anything about asking N.K. to stop the satellites going over the U.S.A. twice a day. He could have small enough nukes in them to drop an EMP attack on us and kill tens of millions. I hope someone on our team remembers to deal with this.
Barry | June 12, 2018 at 10:48 am
“I hope someone on our team remembers to deal with this.”
One, you can be absolutely certain there are no nukes on those satellites.
Two, you can be certain our military has not forgotten anything regarding NK.
Close The Fed | June 12, 2018 at 12:55 pm
Re: Barry:
With all due respect, Norman Schwarzkopf made a concession after we vanquished Iraq in the Kuwait campaign:
:Schwarzkopf said afterward he agreed with Bush’s decision to stop the war rather than drive to Baghdad to capture Saddam, as his mission had been only to oust the Iraqis from Kuwait.
But in a desert tent meeting with vanquished Iraqi generals, he allowed a key concession on Iraq’s use of helicopters, which later backfired by enabling Saddam to crack down more easily on rebellious Shiites and Kurds.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2254000/Norman-Schwarzkopf-dies-General-led-US-troops-Saddam-Gulf-War-passes-away-pneumonia.html
As a lawyer, I know from experience things can be overlooked in negotiations or just forgotten, or unappreciated during negotiations. The military and SOS aren’t perfect.
As far as bombs on satellites, I don’t recall where I have read it, but it is a real concern. The bombs would not have to be sophisticated as long as they were dropped at the appropriate altitude for a wide dispersement of the damaging energy.
Don’t be naive.
Ragspierre | June 12, 2018 at 1:44 pm
Barri (who cannot bring himself to type “Ragspierre”) isn’t naive. He’s a true believer. He CANNOT give place for anything but his cult’s dogma.
Barry | June 12, 2018 at 1:56 pm
That you Nancy?
There is a cult, and you’re a member.
A “cult” of one. Poor old lying cultist nutter.
NK has not shown any capability of placing nuclear devices in orbit.
It is not naive to suggest our military is not going to forget about what capabilities they do have.
Nuclear weapon detonation in the atmosphere is a threat. There are several ways to do this without a satellite, simple ballistic missiles or short flight from a container ship right on our coast are two. Both of those are NK possibilities.
While something might get overlooked, I don’t think it will be the obvious.
Ratbert | June 12, 2018 at 3:17 pm
Give the poor guy a break Barry, didn’t he already inform us that he is a lawyer? You can’t expect him to know anything the least bit technical about the real world.
CTF is OK. You don’t have to be a lawyer to know things get missed occasionally. Any engineer on a project knows this about as well as anyone.
So does the military.
txvet2 | June 12, 2018 at 4:20 pm
I wouldn’t be too hard on Schwartzkopf. Given the fact that his superiors, Bush and Powell, deliberately stopped the destruction of Hussein’s armor, allowing the last of it to escape from the trap so that Iraq would still have the capability to defend itself from Iran, the decision to allow them to keep the helis was entirely reasonable.
Sanddog | June 12, 2018 at 9:35 am
I’m not sure why anyone expected to be given the minutia for every point after just a couple of hours long meeting. All of that will need to be ironed out over the upcoming months. When it comes to proof of their commitment, we need to stop depending on organizations like the IAEA to monitor them. If we don’t have our own people on the ground, we’re just going to get screwed again.
Close The Fed | June 12, 2018 at 1:10 pm
Re: Sanddog:
I hope no one has taken my comments as meaning I thought the EMP/Satellite item should have been included in the initial meeting/document. Not at all. I just hope that when it’s all said and done, it’s covered. I’ve spoken with people who go to meetings about EMP attacks and other preparedness items; the EMP thing would be absolutely catastrophic, and makes me think I should become a prepper.
tom_swift | June 12, 2018 at 1:39 pm
I’ve spoken with people who go to meetings about EMP attacks
Any of them physicists? Aerospace engineers? Nuke weapons designers? You may be speaking with the wrong people.
My comment was to answer the question. I didn’t take yours as demeaning to the POTUS or the military.
EMP is a threat. Just how big a threat is not precisely clear. As an electrical engineer, I find it highly threatening, but there are others that find it less so.
If you wish a good read, read “One Second After” by Forstchen, dealing with the aftermath of a devastating EMP strike.
It’s set in a part of NC I spent a year in early in my life…
MSO | June 12, 2018 at 9:35 am
…and the meeting failed to cure cancer or to stop global climate change…
Edward | June 12, 2018 at 10:09 am
Yeah, but the rise in the oceans was stopped about nine years ago, so there’s that.
Ragspierre | June 12, 2018 at 9:36 am
Trump announced that he will order an end to regular “war games” that the United States conducts with ally South Korea, a reference to annual joint military exercises that are an irritant to North Korea.
Trump called the exercises “very provocative” and “inappropriate” in light of the optimistic opening he sees with North Korea. Ending the exercises would also save money, Trump said.
The United States has conducted such exercises for decades as a symbol of unity with Seoul and previously rejected North Korean complaints as illegitimate. Ending the games would be a significant political benefit for Kim, but Trump insisted he did not give up leverage.
—WaPo
I wonder how the SecDef feels about that…
Tom Servo | June 12, 2018 at 9:53 am
First, it’s a decision that is very easily reversed if North Korea reverts to it’s old ways. Second, it’s something the current accomodationist South Korean government is very likely to welcome. 3rd, it’s actually going to free up a significant amount of money in our defense budget to use elsewhere.
North Korea’s military threat comes from its rockets and its nukes. They haven’t had the military ability to carry an actual ground invasion for decades now. In fact it only worked the first time because China’s PLA went all in for them.
Ragspierre | June 12, 2018 at 10:09 am
First, support your billshit.
Second, support your bullshit.
Third, support your bullshit.
The NORKs have a VERY large and overwhelming advantage in conventional arms. More apparent bullshit from you.
scaulen | June 12, 2018 at 10:40 am
Yup an overwhelming army just like Iraq had. Trained by Russia/China with traditional top down control centers, no training at the unit level on what to do if the attack plan falls apart. Decapitate their military and the rest become wandering ants looking for food. Those ants will also be running into well trained carrier and land based planes that have perfected their technique of destroying ground targets.
georgfelis | June 12, 2018 at 11:15 am
Yeah, don’t underestimate hungry ants. We’re talking about a huge number of hungry soldiers across a huge border foraging for food among the local population, the kind of mixed-targeting solutions that modern warfare has issues with in small areas. Sure, they’d be killed in large numbers wherever they mass, but that hasn’t stopped the ants infiltrating my home.
Worse, a social collapse of NK would send waves of starving civilians south mixed in with the military.
You can’t use explosives to take out the ants, well at least in the North East they frown on that.
The military will be busier fording for food then anything else. Also if the command and control structure breaks down in NOKO the civilians won’t need to give most of their food away. They starve to feed the military and the leaders, if they are no longer being forced to give food away they won’t roam further then the nearest farming community. There is also the neighbor to the North that would gladly cross the border and “help” them.
Tom Servo | June 12, 2018 at 12:11 pm
ants an open ground could be dangerous – but ants on ground where there have been built in underground machine bunkers covering the entire field of fire, bunkers that have been in existence for over 60 years now?
Come on, the English and the French tried that over and over in 1917. We know how that goes. If you first strike the defenses with a tactical nuke, then yes, an army could get through. With Nukes, the norks are dangerous. Without nukes, they’re hopeless.
“The NORKs have a VERY large and overwhelming advantage in conventional arms.”
You’re not really knowledgeable about military hardware. NK only has a single advantage, a first strike upon Seoul. After that, the deluge by the Americans and South Koreans.
None of that matters. The NK’s are not suicidal.
Their nukes are not yielding the advantage they had sought. Their “overwhelming advantage in conventional arms” is non existent in terms of military conquest.
Their people are starving, the prisons are full, even their Army is in trouble.
They cannot survive, the regime cannot survive in the face of sanctions that are also supported by the Chinese that have their own problems with the new American face.
So, they have no choice, make peace, get rid of the nuclear threat to the USA, or perish.
wow – rags combines overwhelming strategic ignorance with his general ignorance of everything else.
The DMZ is generally rough country, all of the potential pass through points have been mined and pretargeted by fixed artillery sites for decades. Passes have been set up with explosives in place to shut down any possiblity of moving troops or tracked vehicles through them, and the Norks do not have paratroop capability, especially not with AA missile batteries on the ground.
the Norks are dangerous because of their Nukes and their missiles. Without those, they are a paper tiger. Have been for decades.
did I need to add that all it takes in the future to put the War Games back on is a single phone call to the American Commander in charge? Wow, that will be so hard, how could it ever possibly happen.
Ragspierre | June 12, 2018 at 12:51 pm
I see a lot of rank opinion. I don’t see ANY support for your 2 and three.
I asked a question regarding what the SecDef thinks about T-rump’s statement. I don’t see any answers or even speculation.
The idea that war gaming with allies is a waste of money and “provocative” isn’t consistent with a sound American defense policy. It’s Left-Progressive dogma. More Sanders than Reagan.
“I don’t see any answers or even speculation.”
Until he speaks, we don’t have an answer.
Speculation is a bit silly. It is the commander in chief’s opinion that natters most.
Your “question”, was meant as some form of persuasion, typical of progs.
What everyone notices is, you are always on the side of Pelosi.
Progs, like Duh Donald, don’t “persuade”. They dictate (see tariffs, illegal).
Anyone who says that I’m with Pelosi is insane, lying like Dirty Barri, or both. Usually you can count on BOTH.
Now, STFU with your mindless personal attack lies, and just deal with issues. This is not about me.
Thin skinned can be added to your list of faults.
Just like Pelosi.
Oh, PAAAAAALESE…!!!
Nobody is as thin-skinned as your Great Goad Cheeto, and you know it and will lie about it!
Defense Secretary James. N. Mattis, however, was “not surprised” by the decision to cancel the drills, said spokeswoman Dana White. “They had spoken on all of these issues well in advance.”
We can put another silly assertion to rest.
Still more lies.
First, there was no “assertion”. I asked a question.
You’re willing to swallow any load the administration shoots.
The South Koreans don’t agree.
Amateurs talk weapons, professionals talk logistics. Just what logistics does North Korea have to support a large mechanized invasion of South Korea? Don’t forget, they have to support the foot-long parasite that every infantryman carries in his stomach. Also what happens when the underfed and undersupplied Norks come across the first supermarket? I very seriously doubt that the South Korean army could lose to the North, you retarded troll.
Now that our military spears are blunted with “very provocative” and “inappropriate” (agreeing with decades of NORK propaganda) voiced by POTUS (not some ambassador), how does Duh Donald or any successor “easily reverse” that message?
Valerie | June 12, 2018 at 10:47 am
Dammit, you were doing so well.
With a phone call. Duh.
Sanddog | June 12, 2018 at 10:34 am
I see it as a non issue. For probably the first time ever, we’ve walked away from talks without getting fleeced. Our troops aren’t going to leave South Korea or Japan so it’s not like the cancellation of this exercise is going to have a major impact. We’ve spent decades isolating them, making demands and ultimately getting screwed. But hey, let’s keep doing the same thing over and over and see if we can get different results (I think there’s a word for that…).
Huh, how could I guess rags would be on here parroting the progs before the paid progs show up to do it?
Part of a pattern I suppose.
The only “pattern” I show is that I retain the ability to think critically instead of giving my cult-leader a tongue-bath every day. That’s a Conservative thing you’ve lost any capacity to comprehend.
“giving my cult-leader a tongue-bath every day”
Seems to me your giving a “tongue-bath” to Pelosi and Schumer right now.
But you’re a lying cultist nutter. You are the person raising (in a deflection and personal attack) the names you mentioned. I’ve never hinted at either.
Ratspierre; a cult of one. How does one make oneself so willfully ignorant? The stupid, it burns!
RITaxpayer | June 12, 2018 at 12:14 pm
Gee, Rags. I just watched Chuck Schemer (D) NY saying the same thing on CSPAN but, that’s his job. How long have YOU been a whining liberal hoping for the worst for our country. You could at least give it 24 hours before hoping for the worst. Your intense hatred for the President of YOUR country isn’t healthy. Open your eyes. He’s winning.
Your post is just a delusional personal attack.
How was anything I said either “hateful” or “hoping for the worst”?
I remarked on words and actions. Facts. Open your eyes. Stop mindlessly attacking people with falsehoods who merely challenge the echo-chamber.
“Facts.”
You’ve given no facts, just opinion.
You are the lefts echo chamber.
Another of your obvious (therefore just stupid) lies.
I’ve quoted POTUS and others. I’ve asked questions. And I’ve stated what I consider irreproachable truisms, such as the above regarding management practices.
RITaxpayer | June 12, 2018 at 3:25 pm
Rags, I owe you an apology. YOU weren’t saying the exact same thing Chuck Schemer (D NY) was saying…you were aping (like an echo chamber) that bastion of journalistic integrity, the Washington Post, that WAS saying the same thing Chuck Schemer was saying. You know, like an echo chamber.
re: glass houses
Open your eyes. Trumps winning and we’re winning because of him.
I used the WaPo quoting Duh Donald as a source…as do LI authors do every week.
Deal with this, which you NEVER heard from anyone BUT me. (And don’t try to lie either to me or about me.)
Daiwa | June 12, 2018 at 10:14 am
I happened to catch some of NBC’s coverage as they arrived and started their private meeting.
Laughed my ass off at how jealous Holt, Mitchell, et al, were of DeNiro. You could smell it. Was a thing of beauty.
That was pretty much as much as I was expecting out of an initial meeting. Of course, they’re all raggin’ on Trump today for not fixing everything immediately.
mailman | June 12, 2018 at 10:20 am
Hardest hit, the leftard libtards!
Its a beginning, a stepping stone…a step in the right direction if you will.
rinardman | June 12, 2018 at 10:25 am
Yeah, but don’t forget, Obama got that Nobel Peace Prize for something he did might have done didn’t even try to do!
American Human | June 12, 2018 at 10:41 am
I don’t consider myself an expert on any of this however, after years (65+) of life and observation of human behavior I believe I understand a bit of what is happening.
1 – Kim wants to be considered a International Leader and so believed (possibly when moved upon by old hard-liners) he could be so by bragging, shooting off missiles, and developing nuclear weapons etc.
2 – For whatever reason, he (possibly) saw the foolishness of continuing to threaten the U.S.
3 – Trump saw this as an opening and started implying that Kim could be considered an International Leader by being friends with the U.S. instead of being an enemy.
4 – It is even possible that The Worm helped with this.
5 – Trump continued push the “We’re not your enemy” line with him and he started to believe.
6 – This all may yet unravel but is sure looks legit at this point.
7 – Many many little steps led to this point. If this comes off, There is no one on earth more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than Trump.
8 – If the Peace Prize is awarded to anyone, it would most likely be Kim, implying that he led Trump to the peace table.
9 – The rest of the Compos Mentis world will understand how this went down.
10 – Chuck Shumer et al will melt, much like the Wicked Witch of the West.
Exiliado | June 12, 2018 at 11:03 am
Kim Jong Un was forced to come to negotiate when his nuclear testing mountain collapsed. He finished sinking the economy into this pet project and now he has NOTHING.
North Korea must be in desperate need for international aid, and that’s what they are likely expecting in return.
“”Kim Jong Un was forced to come to negotiate when his nuclear testing mountain collapsed.””
Unmentioned as far as I know, but possibly relevant, is the likelihood that a significant percentage of his nuclear experts were among the 200 odd killed in the collapse. It’s entirely possible that he no longer possesses even the brainpower necessary to carry on his nuclear program.
c0cac0la | June 12, 2018 at 11:18 am
My guess if the Peace prize is handed out for NK denuclearization, it’ll go to both Kim and Moon. Just Kim alone would look contrived. Both Kim and Moon would make it more symbolic.
There’s no way the Nobel Peace Prize committee would ever include Pres. Trump in the award. It would mean the entire international media establishment eating crow after all the things they’ve written about him. Even though he’s done far more than 0bama to deserve one.
starride | June 12, 2018 at 10:44 am
Rags, yes NK has a very large standing army. but what is not said is that most of them are mal nourished and they only have about 1 rifle for every 4 infantry. Also the majority of NKs is its ability to hit Seoul with artillery.
Truth be known once our advanced tactical capabilities came into play, any war with NK would be very short lived. they just do not have the ability to defend against our technology. Think Iraq. The issue is that without a first strike from the US/SK, NK can do a lot of damage to a heavily populated area before we could respond.
locomotivebreath1901 | June 12, 2018 at 10:47 am
Ok. Fine. Give the NORKS Dennis Rodman, but DO NOT give them $$$!
oldgoat36 | June 12, 2018 at 10:59 am
Watching the face of Chris Cuomo while interviewing Rodman was priceless. He looked like he was constipated and trying to blow a turd the size of Manhattan.
I hope that Rodman is another who will help open the eyes of other blacks to what the Democratic Party really is to them. I think a great campaign ad would be news reports of Obama helping the hopefuls of 2020, and Rodman saying Obama blew him off.
This is a start. Who knows where it will lead, but without talks there will be nothing done. I think Kim has been talked to, China feels the pressures of their support of NK, and Kim has to be feeling the pressures of the sanctions.
I am not really convinced that there will be one Korea again, as the governments of North and South are too vastly different, and I don’t see South Korea agreeing to being under Kim, nor North Korea agreeing to Democracy at this time. There are too many in NorK who owe their wealth and power to Kim Jong Un. They will not like losing power, so they will fan flames of discontent.
Any progress though comes with making some concessions. I believe Trump gave Kim a symbolic concession by suspending the military games with South Korea. Trump’s statement is meant to give Kim a sense of having won something for what he is reported to be willing to give up.
If this goes through, if Kim disarms nuclear weapons and the whole program, this is truly huge, and is something to build on. Sure, NorK has motivations with this, the mountain collapse and the Chinese being two big motivations, but Kim is the mouse that roared. There is a long road to travel, but every journey starts with the first step. The first few steps have been taken.
It is just a first step. Contrast with any set of first steps by anyone in the past 50 years not named Reagan.
Oh, the progs and their enablers went after Reagan as well.
There is a lot we don’t know. We have tons of information on the state of NK internally and the state of mind of its leader. It is not publically disseminated. Trump certainly has the information and acts upon it accordingly. It seems clear that our administration believes that rocketman is ready for a change.
rekorb | June 12, 2018 at 11:03 am
Wanting a good laugh I turned on CNN. Very first thing I heard was holier-than-thou guest saying “Kim played Trump like a fiddle”
Sooo predictable!
Matt_SE | June 12, 2018 at 11:23 am
Yuge.
TheFineReport.com | June 12, 2018 at 11:25 am
Donald Trump is an American genius. Period.
Next press conference, he should state: “I have the resources of the CIA, FBI, NSA and other top intelligence organizations. Despite all those resources, no one here can figure out what barack obama was given the Nobel Prize for.”
Re: Fine’s joke:
Lolololo
TheFineReport.com | June 14, 2018 at 5:58 pm
We just discovered out troll count: 5
Petrushka | June 12, 2018 at 11:42 am
Trump encourages change by manipulating incentives.
That’s really it.
The difference is, he means it when he imposes sanctions.
Mac45 | June 12, 2018 at 11:58 am
People have to remember that this was, essentially, a preliminary meeting, not the usual meeting between leaders after all the details have been hammer out. The agreement was was really an agreement in principle, not a final contract or treaty. Hense, it was “vague”. Most observers are used to a leader taking an active part in such negotiations. I think that it went rather well. We’ll have to see how it develops.
healthguyfsu | June 12, 2018 at 12:01 pm
I bet Iran is thinking oh sh*t right about now.
Bucky Barkingham | June 12, 2018 at 12:21 pm
Aside from reading body language are you also consulting a crystal ball and reading tea leaves? How about perusing chicken innards? LI seems to be going out of its way to throw shade on Trump for this historic meeting with KJU.
Agree. This feat by Trump was nothing short of brilliant.
And rest assured Trump has Mad Dog Mattis in reserve.
As of Tuesday morning, U.S. Forces in Korea are still moving ahead with plans for the annual exercise known as Ulchi Freedom Guardian.
“USFK has received no updated guidance on execution or cessation of training exercises — to include this fall’s schedule Ulchi Freedom Guardian,” U.S. Forces in Korea spokesperson Lt. Col. Jennifer Lovett told Reuters on Tuesday morning. “In coordination with our [South Korean] partners, we will continue with our current military posture until we receive updated guidance.”
—WashTimes
Good managers don’t leave their organizations in a WTF? mode.
“to include this fall’s schedule”
I believe there is a bit of time left. Since the ink is barely dry, and months are ahead, only a prog could use this to question a good start at negotiations with NK.
You should have your own gig on MSNBC. Fit right in. Perhaps an interview with Scarborough.
Just curious, Dirty Barri (no lie too debased to tell), how is that not a deflection and personal attack?
And would a good LEADER/MANAGER keep his flucking mouth from outrunning his consultations with his own (much smarter and more informed) people?
Only a Prog lies like you do.
That’s been his MO from day 1. Pay more attention. We’re winning and YOU’RE winning, whether you like it or not. SHEEEESH!
Calling an ENORMOUS unforced propaganda win AND capitulation for and to our adversaries a “win” is gobsmacking.
Ratspierre, flailing away to no effect at facts, truth, and logic. I had more respect for you when you showed up here every day during the election to promote your muse, Hillary Clinton.
heyjoojoo | June 12, 2018 at 5:25 pm
Fragle Ragittyspear trying to fill a void with fluff, again, still.
The Democrats have come up with a list of “demands” for any NK deal; mind you, not a single one of these demands was included in Obama’s illegal Iran deal. The illegal pact Obama paid billions for with Iran required 30 days notice before any inspections could occur and absolutely no inspections of military sites. I suspect the terms for NK will be a bit stricter than any low bar set by any treasonous Democrat. I don’t believe I’ve every seen a more desperate pack of freaks than the Democrats are today.
Instead of adding your stupid personal attack, why don’t you deal directly and rationally with the several substantial points I’ve raised here?
When your points are relevant, I shall.
They are, and you cannot deal with them.
heyjoojoo | June 12, 2018 at 11:41 pm
Calm down Judith.
I have yet to see anything of real substance.
No, You just can’t mount an argument, Sheila Jackson Lee.
willow | June 12, 2018 at 2:00 pm
Trump is waiting to see if KJU is going to start immediate actions for denuking (IMO). I don’t know what kind of step comes next, but when I watched the summit, Trump said that the beginning of denuclearization was to be immediate, even though the process itself is extensive and will take a long time for completion. He referred to the idea that when denuclearization reaches a certain point, maybe 20 percent, it would be too difficult to turn back. Trump is waiting for the initial step to get the process going.
Tiki | June 12, 2018 at 3:53 pm
Body language.
This passes for analysis now. Experts have no more idea what they’re talking about post-meeting than before it took place. But ink needs to be spilt and quills need breaking. Damn the torpedoes!
We got 1/100th the coverage when Obama’s people failed us in Davos – and not a one of the reports mentioned body language, tarot cards or chicken entrails.
Ya’ll need to get your act together. Try a bit harder maybe. And consult those black cat bones FIRST if words fail ye.
tgrondo | June 12, 2018 at 6:06 pm
Tiki…It’s hard to fill up that 24/7 news cycle…
My favorite: “Breaking News…we’re going to show you the same video we’ve been showing…but now, the video will be analyzed by a dog psychic….”
I’m in negotiations with CNN as we speak…I’ll be recreating the Singapore event using balloon animals…
(very exciting)
https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/31737/ep-558-big-meeting
Ben puts up actualities from Duh Donald. They aren’t “winning”.
LOL, the Ben “nevertrumper” Shapiro show.
No thanks, he’s deranged.
No. It’s you who is deranged. Look up his pod-cast with Jonah Goldberg just last Sunday.
It shows you’re a lying old cultist nutter who doesn’t even know what terms you use mean.
But, aside from you being a stupid bigot, the actualities are worth reviewing.
Favorite word, “stupid”. [facepalm]
Only when it so obviously applies. As here.
Barry | June 13, 2018 at 1:41 am
“aside from you being a stupid bigot”
That’s a good one. Look, a prog is calling me a bigot. Next I’ll be a racist, then perhaps a misogynist. Progs always end up calling people bigots, racists, and misogynists.
Well, Maybe Ben Shapiro is a member of some oddball religion, black, and female, but I didn’t know it.
That ones rich.
I used the word correctly and aptly. You are a bigot. Look it up.
Since the core definition doesn’t apply, and it certainly doesn’t apply with the modifier, it just makes the lawyer using it nothing short of ignorant.
Definition of bigot for English Language Learners
: a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc. : a bigoted person; especially : a person who hates or refuses to accept the members of a particular group (such as a racial or religious group)
And most bigots are stupid. Some by choice…
Definition of nut for English Language Learners
: a person who strongly and unfairly infers that a person that recognizes derangement is a bigot : a nut; especially : a person who is deranged their selves
And most nuts are stupid. Some by choice…
Of course I neither “strongly” nor “unfairly” dislike Shapiro. I just recognize he is deranged. Just as I recognize you are deranged. It is so common it has it’s own name, TDS or Trump Derangement Syndrome.
And by the definition, and your strong and unfair pure raging hatred of Trump, you clearly are a bigot.
Poor old, lying, bigoted cultist nutter.
BTW, a speaker implies. A listener infers.
There are dictionaries on the interwebs.
…and you’ll swallow any load they shoot.
Gotcha. Now you’re calling Mattis a liar as well.
You do service the progs well.
Now you’re telling another lie. But you don’t know anything else but lying.
inspectorudy | June 13, 2018 at 1:07 am
The way I see this event is that Kim is broke and the only buyers he had for his nuke program ar the Iranians. Trump is closing that spigot and he is literally broke. He couldn’t pay for his hotel in Singapore! He fired his top three warmongers and is now trying to figure out how to do this de-nuke program without giving away too much too soon. This first meeting was natural because there is no precedent for any actions or conditions like this in history. Trump is doing a masterful job and the DC crowd hates every minute of it because they are useless. Of course, Trump will bring in the tech people to go into the details, but he is wooing Kim and there is no one on our side better suited for the job! When the leftists stop[ and think about 6 months ago and how both sides were talking nuclear war, Trump has come a LONG way since then!
clayusmcret | June 13, 2018 at 6:50 am
How long do we hold a grudge? To some degree we’ve resumed relations with every country we’ve ever fought….except one – North Korea.
Any offer can be made about exercises, which can also be rapidly rescinded. If I’m not mistaken, the last exercise was during the four weeks in April 2018. The next exercise won’t start for quite some time so we do have time to either confirm or deny North Korea’s actions. Same goes for any discussion about the overall US military force presence. No one is leaving tomorrow. However, doing the same thing since 1953 has gotten us nowhere. NK has offered to return bodies. For folks tracking the process, that will be low hanging fruit. NK either will or they won’t and it won’t be hard to know for sure.
The bottom line is nothing will happen – ever – if we do nothing. Offers have been made based on if we see North Korean offers fulfilled. Unlike the previous 1.4 billion passed on pallets in the middle of the night, nothing has exchanged hands except a good meal. Let’s see what happens now.
willow | June 14, 2018 at 1:49 am
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/14/us-south-korea-and-japan-officials-speak-after-north-korea-summit.html
For the most part, in line with the thinking of the majority of commenters.
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A Hard Look at How We SEE Race #policeshootings
Posted byLara/Trace July 8, 2016 July 8, 2016
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#black lives matter and we want justice and peace ✌❤ so stop shooting us🙅✊ pic.twitter.com/ZIDLGVtAdo
— erica ellis (@lovelyfanta2) July 8, 2016
#Black&Brown lives matter too,clean up your states police dept.,end the thin blue line,shoot to stop Not kill
— @theLadyArcher77 🏹 (@TheLadyArcher77) July 8, 2016
BLOG BONUS: In light of yesterday and the day before and the day before and last year and for many years, and the shootings of black men/women/children by police, it’s time we recognize how racial bias exists around us… Lara Trace
Tao did a great job here: When we know better, we do better… TALK TO YOUR KIDS
“For the first time in history, we’ll be able to see firsthand how police officers make contact with the public and how those interactions unfold in real time,” Eberhardt says. “And we’ll soon be in a position to design interventions that can directly affect the course of those interactions.”
A Hard Look at How We See Race
Jennifer Eberhardt’s research shows subconscious connections in people’s minds between black faces and crime, and how those links may pervert justice; law enforcement officers across the country are taking note. By Sam Scott, from Stanford Magazine
Eberhardt’s research has shown that police—black and white officers alike—are more likely to mistakenly identify black faces as criminal than white faces. Illustration by Jacob Sanders
The first time Jennifer Eberhardt presented her research at a law enforcement conference, she braced for a cold shoulder. How much would streetwise cops care what a social psychology professor had to say about the hidden reaches of racial bias?
Instead, she heard gasps, the loudest after she described an experiment that showed how quickly people link black faces with crime or danger at a subconscious level. In the experiment, students looking at a screen were exposed to a subliminal flurry of black or white faces. The subjects were then asked to identify blurry images as they came into focus frame by frame.
The makeup of the facial prompts had little effect on how quickly people recognized mundane items like staplers or books. But with images of weapons, the difference was stark—subjects who had unknowingly seen black faces needed far fewer frames to identify a gun or a knife than those who had been shown white faces. For a profession dealing in split-second decisions, the implications were powerful.
Lorie Fridell, then head of research for a law enforcement policy group in Washington, D.C., says Eberhardt’s research helped her resolve a nagging paradox. She sensed that law enforcement had a problem with racial profiling. Yet she was certain the vast majority of officers would sincerely recoil at the idea of policing with prejudice.
In 2004, with her reputation yet to be widely established, she organized an unprecedented conference at Stanford on racial bias in policing, bringing together scores of academics from across the country with law enforcement officials from 34 agencies in 13 states.
More than a decade later, Eberhardt is no longer the anonymous academic she was then. A “genius award” from the MacArthur Foundation last year served as perhaps the broadest notice yet that Eberhardt is someone with something vital to say. Yet her signature remains the same: unsettling research revealing the long, pernicious reach of unconscious racial bias, and an unrelenting commitment to share her findings with the outside world.“This is not someone who is just doing work in the ivory tower of a university,” says Chris Magnus, chief of police in Richmond, California, a Bay Area city where a quarter of the population is black. “This is someone who is really out in the trenches working with police departments and the criminal justice system.”Eberhardt’s message is not an easy one to hear, particularly for the many Americans who think racial discrimination is largely a thing of the past, or that they themselves would never treat someone differently because of race, or that racism is somewhere else.In one study capturing how high the stakes are, Eberhardt and her colleagues analyzed two decades’ worth of capital murder cases in Philadelphia involving white victims and black defendants—44 cases in all. The defendants’ photographs were independently rated according to how stereotypically black they appeared.
During a lecture at Stanford in April, while standing under an image of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old who was shot and killed by police in her hometown of Cleveland, Eberhardt made explicit the connection between her research and the events roiling the nation. The recent protests and tumult in response to police killings, she said, are part of the cost of not seeing—the price of our blindness to bias.
Posted byLara/Trace July 8, 2016 July 8, 2016 Posted inBLOG BONUS, In the News, Modern DisastersTags: #blacklivesmatter, Jennifer Eberhardt, law enforcement, Utne Reader
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onnovocks says:
Let me start by apologizing, ..for having a different opinion. Just because the cops have to shoot a black man to get the front page, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen to white people, ..a lot! It seems that in the US, it’s only OK to call it Police brutality when it effects a minority. That irritates me to no end because as long as we ignore the fact that there is an epidemic of police abuse that affects everyone, it will never change. 159 pages of fair reporting, it happens to all of us: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/category/cop-watch/police-brutality-cop-watch/
Police integrity lost: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/249850.pdf
We are the ones in need of a change of attitude, or the cops will do whatever they want. Greetings.
This is how we learn and your comment matters!
I was talking about different research but in the same vein – and how we ALL need to take responsibility. It’s uncomfortable. But what’s happening is unacceptable, and if I”m not part of the solution, I’m part of the problem. I’m willing to do my part. I can’t see another person lost like this.
Roly Andrews says:
Thanks Lara/Trace, its so important to drill down to establish the root cause, police violence, gun laws all seem to me to be just symptoms of something more sinister and deeper. To me, fear is the smoking gun and our leaders, churchmen and soldiers have been peddling it for years!
Yes Roly, yes. We were discussing how Australia doesn’t have the mass shootings as we do here. Fear is definitely a factor. History shows us that fear has created a divided “united” states.
I am sorry – but I just don’t know enough of America to comment – but I have been a few times and have enjoyed it very much. People are very welcoming. I have American friends and they are lovely, but yet it seems so mixed up – it really is a tragedy. I have seen the deprivation, unemployment and the rich getting richer (but more importantly more powerful) I wish there was an easy answer, but in the meantime I hope things get better sooner rather than later.
Updating a collection filled with relics of an ugly past is a difficult task, Adam Hochschild writes. What can we l… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 57 minutes ago
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The real Jason Bourne — take that, Jeremy Renner! — surprised an intimate New York City crowd at the Comedy Cellar’s sister club at the Village Underground tonight during comedian Tom Papa’s taping of Come to Papa. The show, taped for SiriusXM, finds Papa as the host of an old-school radio show — complete with narrator, jazz band and expertly crafted scripted sketches — intercut with stand-up comedy sets. Tonight’s
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Because the grass is always greener, after eight years of the Bush presidency, Bill Clinton is remembered as an exceptionally cool and well-doing president, so it would make sense that some of our biggest celebrities still answer to Slick Willie and scramble to appease the man and his Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division. In this Funny or Die video, watch as Ben Stiller heads a brainstorming session with the likes of
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grants / archive open calls
In 2020, Creative Industries Fund NL and the Mondriaan Fund are once again jointly offering two residency periods in the Japanese ceramics region of Saga. The funds invite designers and artists to submit a proposal by 2 September 2019 at the latest.
Note: this open call has ended.
The residency in Japan offers highly promising artists and designers the leeway to conduct artistic and technical research and to develop their personal work, which must also lead to intensive interaction with the relevant porcelain manufacturers in the region. An important guiding principle for this residency is to learn special techniques within Japan's oldest ceramics industry and employ them in their own work.
The highly particular Arita porcelain is renowned for its superior quality, most notably the hand-painting it involves. The porcelain industry and the tradition of porcelain painting has existed since 1616. Arita is a small town in the Saga prefecture on Kyushu, which is Japan's third largest island.
The Dutch designer duo Scholten & Baijings and Japanese designer Teruhiro Yanagihara are involved with this celebration as artistic directors of the Arita 2016 project. They have established this residency in association with the Mondriaan Fund and Creative Industries Fund NL in order to stimulate crossovers and experimentation, as well as to initiate new collaborations between Dutch artists & designers and Japanese potteries.
Designers Jan Broekstra, Floris Wubben and artists Henri Jacobs and Ruta Butkute de Roo stayed at the Arita residence in 2016. In 2017, artists Susan Kooi and Helen Frik and designers Tijmen Smeulders and Aliki van der Kruis worked there.
In the summer of 2018 designers Bas van Beek, Franciska Meijers and artists Tilmann Meyer-Faje and Isabel Ferrand will stay in Saga for three months. In 2019 designers Dinie Besems and Viktor Hachmang and artists Antye Günther and duo Heringa/Van Kalsbeek went to Japan.
The residency can be applied for only by visual artists (via the Mondriaan Fund) or designers (via Creative Industries Fund NL). For applications by duos or cooperatives, each individual involved must submit a separate application. A duo is understood as two artists or designers who produce work together on a structural basis. Duos (project-specific or longer-term) are regarded as collaborations if they submit a joint plan that leads to a single outcome for the work period. In addition, a duo must be prepared to live and work in a single, somewhat confined space.
The artists/designers are expected to possess some basic knowledge of working with ceramics. There is no need for a concrete project proposal, but a good description of plans and ideas that the applicant wants to execute during the work period.
the work period and financial support
The work periods being offered are:
1 June until 31 August 2020
1 September until 30 November 2020
Your preferred residency period should be indicated in your application. If possible, this preference will be respected.
A sum of €9,500 is available for travel, materials and transportation expenses for each period. The residents should reserve €1,500 to remunerate the potters for their guidance during the work process. The costs of the studio, the living space and support will be paid directly to Arita by the Dutch Embassy in Tokyo.
The proposal can be submitted via the Fund's online application environment. Select the round 'Open Call Residency Arita, Japan 2020'.
final judgment
The available places can only be allocated if the advisory committee's advice with regard to the abovementioned criteria is positive. The committee may apply a prioritization.
For further information about this Open Call, please contact Eva Roolker via e.roolker@stimuleringsfonds.nl or via tel. +31(0)10 436 1600.
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Engine Company #2 was created in 1944.
The original Engine #2 was a 1937 Chevrolet Hose Wagon. This rig had a 500 GPM Darley pump but no water tank. The pump from this unit was re-mounted on the 1949 Chevrolet when it was purchased.
Engine 1 and Engine 2 ran as a two-piece company up until 1965 where one rig carried the water and the other carried the hose.
The second unit for Engine Company #2 was a 1951 Reo/High Welding. This rig had a Barton 500 GPM pump and a 1200 gallon water tank. The Reo served as an engine until 1979 when it was modified as a foam unit and was disposed of in 1986.
The current Engine 2 was purchased in 1978. This rig has a 1500 GPM pump and a 500 gallon water tank with a 40 gallon foam cell. Engine 2 was the first diesel powered vehicle and the first unit with crew seating (jump seats) purchased by Lafayette. This engine was the primary engine until 1991 when it was sent away for a total refurbishment. The refurbishment included a new body and water tank, a 4 door cab enclosure, pump overhaul and reconfigured preconnect beds.
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10 Extraordinary Urban Regenerative Strategies for Public Open Space
By Land8: Landscape Architects Network on April 28, 2016 1 Comment / 4757 views
Article by Rosa di Gregorio Urban regeneration strategies are a very broad and complex topic with endless variations. In this article, we address the issue of urban regeneration applied to residential neighborhoods, in regard to their degradation and marginalization. In talking about urban regeneration, the degraded public space can represent a specimen “to design laboratory”, capable of allowing investigations and experiences aiming to establish a new quality of life in housing, spaces, relationships, environments, and social interactions. The regeneration process of public residential areas can find its solution through a new way to approach open spaces. Today, many of these open spaces can be found in areas that have been abandoned or are incomplete, degraded, or unsafe. Regardless of their situations, if one takes a proactive view, they are definitely convertible and can become an opportunity to start anew. The following 10 design strategies and projects are a significant testimony to urban regeneration.
Urban Regenerative Strategies
10. Diversity Diversity means to design the existing environment so that it is easily recognizable by the citizens, providing in those environments a clear, defined use and function of its places. Doing so requires that each open space be defined in terms of treatment, hierarchy, and readability. An extraordinary example of this is Superkilen Park in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Pedestrian friendly street.
“Creative Commons BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group – SUK – Superkilen Park, Copenhagen, Denmark”. Source Forgemind ArchiMedia, licensed under CC 2.0
9. Remodel Remodeling of a space involves using the existing materials to create something new that redefines the place. This can be seen in a project such as The King’s Cross Pond Club, where the anonymous and underutilized public space of the city center has been redesigned as a playground and pool.
The King’s Cross Pond Club. Photo credit: John Sturrock
8. Relocation To encourage social cohesion, it is sometimes necessary to redesign the heart of a neighborhood from scratch. We call this strategy relocation. This can be achieved by concentrating in the same area spaces accessible to different social groups, providing them with specific and unique features. The Amstelveen project Zonnehuis Care Home by Hosper is a good example of this.
Amstelveen Zonnehuis Care Home. Photo credit: Ferry Streng
7. Infilling Infilling a space is the act of increasing population density through the insertion of new buildings. This strategy can include social housing and community services that attract economic growth, provide a quality lifestyle and offer activities. These are opportunities for social inclusion and urban regeneration. In his article “Turning the House Inside Out: A New Perspective on Residential Development”, LAN’s Nick Shannon talks about the Funen Blok K, by NL Architects in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, as an example of this stratification strategy.
Funen Blok K. Photo credit: Raoul Kramer
6. Deconstruction Deconstruction is a reverse approach to the stratification strategy of infilling. It works by removing building components to create an open space suitable for public use where it did not exist before. An extraordinary example of this strategy — from which arises the whole architecture of the post-modern landscape — is New York City’s Central Park.
Central Park, designed by one of the earliest known landscape architects Fredrick Law Olmstead. Photo credit: shutterstock.com
5. Reconnect Reconnecting a space means to mend the connection between parts of a city previously disconnected by structures and/or infrastructure that have made a real cut into the urban fabric. Looking at this from the urban regeneration point of view can make these obstacles a connecting bridge for the city. An excellent example is the New York City High Line, with all the projects it has inspired.
The Highline is a great example of a planting scheme increasing biodiversity in an urban area; credit: shutterstock.com
4. Reorganize Many urban building interventions are designed and set in place separately from each other and therefore have no communication between one another. As a result, the urban fabric becomes chaotic and messy, creating a need to recover this lost balance. The open space acts as a reorganizing agent, as the example of Tanner Springs Park shows: “An oasis in the city providing an escape from the hustle and bustle of city life,” said writer Rachel Kruse.
Tanner Springs Park. Photo credit: GreenWorks
3. Refer to the Context Every place has its vocation, dictated mostly by the landscape surrounding it. It is wrong to think that every space can adapt to everything. Reading the landscape properly and grasping its peculiarities helps to integrate every project in the context where it’s built (it could be a seaside, riverside, countryside, etc.). A great example is the Zhongshan Shipyard Park, designed by Turenscape.
Industrial frame used to enhance design. Credit: Turenscape
2. Enhance the Landscape Public settlements can establish wider connections with the city and the natural environment around them. These districts can act as filters and portals between the urbanized area and the natural surroundings, because of their semi-suburban location and their gradual density of building volumes. This strategy has been used as a guideline for Parc du Mont Evrin, an outstanding example of a project that enhances its own surrounding landscape.
Landscape-architecture – Mont Evrin Park. Credit: Urbicus
1. Give New Meaning Very often, urban regeneration requires us to reinvent a space because its form and use are no longer suitable. The landscape project can give shape to a new meaning for an old place; it has no connection with the past, but marks the launch of a brighter future. An example of this is Charlotte Garden, by SLA.
Charlotte Garden. Photo credit: Torben Petersen.
Landscape architects face a call to define actions and create projects to restore dignity and meaning to public spaces, to re-create a space that is a meeting place for socialization through daily events, making it recognizable and with a new identity. The public space is therefore a crucial element of the urban scene. For too long, this space has not been considered in modern planning. But as we have seen through these examples, its value has been renewed. The New York City High Line testifies to the reconnection with a city; the Superkilen Park in Copenhagen shows how an urban void can become a meeting place. These are just two of the extraordinary examples of regenerative strategies for public open space. Do you agree that today, as never before, this rethinking of public space is the key to solving the problems of the contemporary city? Is this a way to provide cities with new meanings and possible uses? Go to comments
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October 28, 2010 @ 12:29 pm · Filed by Geoffrey K. Pullum under Lost in translation, Words words words
Language Log has not so far commented on Jason Wire's 20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words from Around the World on the Matador Network. You might expect (since I yield to no Language Log writer in the fierceness of my hatred for things-people-have-no-words-for genre of writing about language) that I would hate it like poison. But in fact I rather liked it. I just want to point out, however, that not a single one of the words shows any of the promised untranslatability.
Here are the words, with their languages of origin, and in each case a translation (derived from what Jason himself supplies in his article):
toska Russian dull ache of the soul stemming from longing or pining
mamihlapinatapei Yagan meaningful look between two people each reluctant to be the initiator
jayus Indonesian joke told so poorly that one cannot help laughing
iktsuarpok Inuit go outside to see if anyone is coming
litost Czech agony and torment sparked by the sudden apperception of one's own misery
kyoikumama Japanese mother who relentlessly pushes her children toward academic achievement
tartle Scots hestitate while introducing someone because you forgot their name
ilunga Tshiluba person who will forgive a first offense and tolerate a second but takes a third offense very seriously
prozvonit Czech call a cellphone once so the other person will call back on their dime
cafuné Brazilian Portuguese tenderly run one's fingers through a person's hair
Schadenfreude German glee at another's misfortune
Torschlusspanik German gate-closing panic as age begins to close off opportunities
wabi-sabi Japanese way of living that peacefully accepts the natural cycle of growth and decay
dépaysement French the feeling of not being in one's own country
tingo Pascuense obtain desired objects from a friend by borrowing them one by one
hyggelig Danish warm, friendly experience with friends
l'appel du vide French that "call of the void" that makes you feel you want to jump when you look down from somewhere up high
ya'aburnee Arabic you bury me (said to someone you would miss so much that you hope you die first)
duende Spanish mysterious power of an artwork to move someone
saudade Portuguese longing for someone or something that you love but have lost
A nice selection of words with complex meanings and interesting potential functions. But what is the notion of untranslatability here? It seems to have been confused with "lack of an exact one-word equivalent".
Who on earth ever argued that translatability only exists when source text words are mapped bijectively to target words, each with exactly the same shade of meaning as the corresponding source word? Does French jeune fille fail to translate English girl, and ne … pas fail to translate not? Does English fall down fail to translate French tomber, and look at fail to translate regarder? What kind of madness is this?
If every translation has to have exactly the same number of words as the original text (and moreover, if each word in the translation has to be the exact equivalent of exactly one in the original), then there are no translations of anything and there never have been and all translators and interpreters are confidence tricksters earning money through false pretenses. But nobody ever seriously suggested any such thing.
Your language may use a phrase where mine uses a single word, and vice versa. We can still come to understand each other perfectly. The list of words is very nice, but the untranslatability claim is self-evidently untrue.
Jason couldn't have meant "untranslatable". He must have meant something else, perhaps something genuinely untranslatable.
gameswithwords said,
October 28, 2010 @ 12:38 pm
I also love people who tell you about an untranslatable word and the follow it up with a translation (Bill Bryson's mind-numbing Mother Tongue was a good example). It makes you wonder if they think about what they're saying or if, as you say, they have a completely different (and nonsensical) definition of "untranslatable."
Leonardo Boiko said,
As a native speaker of Portuguese, I'm always annoyed by the nationalistic claims of "saudade" being some mysterious, lofty untranslatable feeling. As far as I can tell it refers precisely to the same thing as in English sentences like "I miss you" or "I long for my hometown", as well as Japanese 懐かしい, e.g. オープニングテーマが懐かしい. I'm fairly sure all languages must have a way of expressing such a natural emotion.
richard howland-bolton said,
You are of course absolutely right, however at the very least 'jayus' is definitely gonna be added to MY vocab :-)
[(myl) You may change your mind when you learn, from Stevens' and Schmidgall-Tellings' Comprehensive Indonesian-English Dictionary, that jayus actually means "not funny, stupid (of jokes)". One trouble with these lists of neat-o words in other languages is that the quality of the glosses is often low — when the cited words exist at all.]
nemryn said,
You might even say that 'Schadenfreude' translates into English as 'Schadenfreude'.
~flow said,
i actually do not find the claim altogether unreasonable. i mean, how many people could come up with reasonable translations (as opposed to explanations) in their mother tongue? i find it not an easy exercise.
btw 教育まま has a nice analogue in german (that can serve as a real translation), Eislaufmutter. guess that's baseball mother or somesuch in a us-american context. of course, if you use that translation in context, it may turn out completely unsuitable. you may end up with a circumlocution like "ehrgeizige Mutter".
Janine Libbey said,
You hit the nail on the head!: "But what is the notion of untranslatability here? It seems to have been confused with "lack of an exact one-word equivalent".
Boudica said,
I think there is a point to be made when we don't have a one word translation for something in another language. It may mean that the feeling/occurrence in the other culture doesn't happen enough in our culture to warrant a one word name. Such as "prozvonit". What does it say about Czech culture that they have a word for such an action?
Xmun said,
In these days of the global village surely a German suffering from Torschlusspanik would be able to find consolation from a Japanese offering wabi-sabi?
mpg said,
While I'll usually go along with the usual grumbling about the language L not having a single word for concept C, an interesting thought experiment just occurred to me:
What if we did get 20 experts (whatever that means) to pick their favorite 20 untranslatable words from various languages: what language(s) would appear in the lists most frequently?
In the above list, I see Czech, German, Portuguese, Japanese, and French all appearing twice. But it's not a large enough sample yet to be useful.
-mpg,
whose favorite they-don't-have-a-word-for-that-in-language-L is "defenestrate"
DL said,
… I'm fairly sure that Schadenfreude could be translated into the Chinese 幸災樂禍… the only difference is its tendency to be used as a verb instead of a noun, ie, 'feeling/expressing glee at another's misfortune'.
Which means this word, at least, should be 'translatable' even by Jason's standards.
Marcus Lira said,
I'm a native speaker of (Brazilian) Portuguese, and I just want to point out that you don't need to have lost the object of your affection in order to feel saudade(s): it just means "to miss (something or someone)", so it's quite easy to translate it into English – you just have to use a verb instead of a noun. If this counted as "being untranslatable", like you said, I wonder why he didn't add the word "crooked/bent" in Japanese and so on, because it's often said with a verb while we use adjectives both in English and in Portuguese… but it's easy to realise he didn't do it because it doesn't sound nearly as deep. And can you blame him for this? Don't we want to imagine a given culture is so special they have words we can't say because their worldview is not like ours, thus making both groups unique?
I often correct smug Brazilians when they brag about speaking a language with such a meaningful word as "saudade(s)" (no one ever cares about cafuné), so bound to our culture that it can't be said in any other language. Not only is it based on the misconception you mentioned that a noun in one language can't be a verb in another, but another Romance language has a similar noun with the same meaning: "Dor", in Romanian. Ironically, I learnt it when a Romanian girl told me they had a special word in their language that couldn't be translated… and when she did translate, I couldn't help but chuckle.
Nathan said,
@Boudica: Sure, it may mean that, but probably not. Look at the English/French examples in the post. I don't think the existence or not of a single word with a given meaning in a given language is likely to say anything deep and Whorfian about the people who speak it. Spanish has the word paragüero 'umbrella stand'; does that mean umbrellas or their stands are more special to Spanish speakers than to English speakers?
John Cowan said,
No, none of these are untranslatable. The real untranslatable words are things like hottentottententententoonstelling 'Hottentot tent exhibition'. I mean, you can't just replace that word with its English gloss. You'd have to find something in English with similar impact, and where can you find that? Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and ultramicroscopicosilicovolcanoconiosis just don't cut it.
Or you could go with hard, which cannot be translated into German because in a given context you need one of about 40 German adjectives, of which the only one I remember offhand is alkoholisch.
Maria said,
I actually think some words do have a cultural content that makes it hard to translate the feeling they evoke, although it might be relatively simple to describe the literal meaning. Maybe that's what they mean by untranslatable?
One example I've tried to translate in the past is the Argentine "chanta". It's a slang word used for someone who's a little lazy, a little bit of a grifter… I don't know, I haven't really found a good translation yet. And even if I found a short phrase that captured the literal meaning, it fails to convey the fact that it's an archetype in Argentine culture, and that when you call someone "chanta" it has familiar overtones that are very hard to find in calling someone a lazy conman.
I believe when you need to write at the very least a short essay to really convey the original meaning, then you've run into a problem with translation. I'm sure GKP speaks other languages and has sensed that one language is better to express some feelings/ideas than the other. Or do your really think nothing is lost in translation in going from toska to "dull ache of the soul stemming from longing or pining"?
Adam said,
Eh? There's only one Inuit word that's hard to translate?
Nicholas Waller said,
I imagine the "untranslateable words" claim is not so much that the concept is inexplicable (obviously, given the explanatory list), nor that to be translateable every word has to have a one-to-one equivalent, but simply that the foreign word is so succinct and to-the-point that it makes sense to import it as is (like schadenfreude and zeitgeist and detente) rather than come up with a less pithy English replacement term.
(The original list is more a set of definitions than a set of translations. I suppose one could also claim that most (if not all) single English words are "untranslateable" into other single English words, if you take the position that complete synonyms are rare (if not impossible) on account of each word having its own unique sense and heft and colour and history and set of associations – after all, a dictionary is a series of long-winded definitions of words rather than a listing of exact single word replacements.)
fs said,
:/ Lazy Japanese Romanization strikes again… 教育ママ should probably be rendered as "Kyouiku Mama" or "Kyōiku Mama". And it's certainly not a single word.
Charles Gaulke said,
The 'word' "l'appel du vide" is a particularly egregious example, of course, since it LITERALLY translates almost directly to "call of the void", a phrase which is the exact same number of words (and which actually strikes me as more idiomatic in English than French, but I may be wrong there). Including "words" that are really just compressed phrases, as is often done with German, is one thing, but there are freaking spaces in that for crying out loud!
I think one of the reasons these lists so often give at-best-inaccurate glosses is that they base them one how the word is used rather than how it is defined. That is, they're basically slang or shorthand, often specific to a region or generation, and if you looked you could probably find a specific Anglophone region/subculture within which some English word was used in exactly the same sense. Particularly with languages which are less widely spoken, or spoken within a more homogeneous population, it's ridiculous to compare those very specific senses to the dictionary definitions of words in a language spoken all over the world by people of vastly different cultural backgrounds.
All that said, if the gloss of litost is a liberal as the one for jayus, please don't tell me. I like it.
Jonathan said,
About the Czech "prozvonit", modern Hebrew now has a word for it too, I believe: "letsaltek", which is a nice blend of "letsaltsel" and "lenatek", which mean "to call" and "to hang up" respectively.
Tim Leonard said,
Adam said: "There's only one Inuit word that's hard to translate?"
Yeah; the other ones all mean "snow".
mollymooly said,
For starters, "untranslatable" means "un-translate-into-English-able". It seems implausible that a concept should be ineffable in all languages but one.
A subset of the usual suspects on lists of this type are candidates nominated by native speakers of the source language. They want words that symbolise totems which nobody can truly understand unless born and raised in the relevant culture. Any putative translation can thus be dismissed as failing to capture the rich, complex layers of meaning the word evokes for the natives.
@ myl: 'jayus actually means "not funny, stupid (of jokes)"'
Damn now I'll NEVER come up with a one-word description of my successes as a teller of jokes.
BlakeMB said,
Boudica said -> "Such as "prozvonit". What does it say about Czech culture that they have a word for such an action?"
But in Australia, we've been using the word "prank" for that for years, I wouldn't have thought of it as untranslatable. Some places also use the word "sting" and for that matter the word ワン切り (literally, "one hang up") means the same in Japanese.
I guess it might not have a one-word equivalent in American English, but the little tackers in Oceania have got it covered. Unless that word is only common to Australian, Czech and Japanese… what could the link be? Hmmm….
R M Maier said,
Translators are usually very unsatisfactory company for others who are not language people – even to very simple questions of the type, "How d'you say X in [some language]?", they tend to reply with another question: "What's the context?"
In other words, I think the problem about claims of 'untranslatability' is not their truth status, but rather what people think translation is.
If one thinks of translation as an act of transcoding between two languages, there is always the possibility of running into items that run deeper into the background than what any one transcoding algorithm can capture – hence, claims of untranslatability (in particular if there is an expectation of verbs turning up as verbs again, and so on).
But, while I try to imagine what would happen if translation were thought of as a kind of paraphrasing, rather than transcoding – "iktsuarpok" looks like a notion that I'd like to have more easily accessible, I've got to find some way of borrowing that into German…
ambrosen said,
Jonathan, I've also seen an English lexeme for 'prozvonit': 'to missed call'.
As in "Just missed call me before you get in and I'll pick you up from the station.". I find this usage beautiful.
Atario said,
Perhaps the intent of "untranslatability" here is not an absolute, but a magnitude on a scale — something like the ratio of necessary target language words to source language words.
Kaviani said,
Strange that no vulgarity made it to this list. AmE is generally direct and explicit in vulgarity, but most other languages have seemingly odd, often idiomatic expressions that have no particular English equivalent. I get a good laugh while watching the English subtitles of cussing in foreign movies I can understand.
Δμ3κ said,
Yep, the impression that translation equals 1:1 mapping annoys me as well.
>prozvonit Czech call a cellphone once so the other person will call back on their dime
hah, one word translation in greek: "αναπάντητη"
Ben Zimmer said,
For more on the genre of untranslatables, see my 2005 post, "Tingo and other lingo." (Several of the examples here appear to be derived from Adam Jacot De Boinod's The Meaning of Tingo, which in turn cribbed from previous compendia.)
Robert S. Porter said,
The problem I always have with the German examples is that they are compound nouns, which are extremely common. If English were to do so more regularily we could say "Misfortunepleasure" etc.
lynneguist said,
What I want to know: when these lists are written in other languages, which English words make the grade?
John Lawler said,
… like Mark Twain's Generalstaatsverordnetenversammlungen. "Untranslatable" by the standard Geoff mentions.
Oh, and I suppose I had better mention in this context the work of Anna Wierzbicka and Cliff Goddard, who seem to have spent most of the preceding decades discovering, among other things, that no two languages have exactly the same set of monomorphemic emotive descriptors.
Kutsuwamushi said,
I would say "untranslatable" depends on the context. I have on idea what the author of the article meant.
It's relatively easy to translate a word if you're having a discussion about what it means. I could write a paragraph on wabi-sabi, and when I was done you would understand the literal meaning and at least some of the connotations. It might not evoke the same feeling in you, but I could, hypothetically, at least explain what type of feeling it evokes in native speakers.
But if I was writing a novel I would have a much harder time of it. I couldn't just explain the word, because that would wreck the prose; I would have to find an elegant equivalent. There might not be one. In that case, it would be untranslatable–in that context. By that definition a great many words are untranslatable, beginning with some that I'm sure people consider really mundane. (Let's start with colors!.)
It seems to me like these lists of untranslatable words are really just lists of "words in other languages that I think are neat". I think that's fun enough on its own without calling them untranslatable.
@lynneguist: Look at the list in Wierzbicka's English: Meaning and Culture (Oxford 2006). She suggests terms (and concepts) like Being Fair, Being Reasonable, Being Right or Wrong as having extremely complex and non-universal meanings that are difficult for non-English speakers to understand.
[(myl) For some discussion of fair in particular, see here.]
I would take untranslatable, when applied to a word, not to mean that we can't, in the target language, express the idea the word expresses, and not to mean it can't be translated by a single word, but, rather, to mean something in between. Something that you can't express in the other language with a either a single word or simple phrase.
Of course, the context of what one is translating, and whether it works to use a long explanation where the original had a single word, affects how translateable a word is in a practical sense.
STW said,
One of the beauties of English is the ease with which foreign words with unique meanings are simply appropriated. So if we don't have a single word for "anger" or "taboo" we're okay with that and use the words anger or taboo instead.
Since it takes about 25% more words to translate something from English into Spanish there must be a lot of English words without a Spanish equivalent.
bulbul said,
What does it say about Czech culture that they have a word for such an action?"
Czech (and Slovak) culture as a whole? Nothing. It says a lot about those who use that word (like my teenage sister), those who don't (like me), their respective economic situations and the marketing and pricing policies of cell service providers. It might thus provide some insight into Czech (and Slovak) society, but I don't think you'll gain any knowledge of the culture.
BTW, "prozvonit/prezvoniť" can also mean "to give a signal by calling someone's cell phone".
R.M. Maier,
even to very simple questions of the type, "How d'you say X in [some language]?", they tend to reply with another question:
A very simple question? Ha! "What is the meaning of life" is a simple question, because at the very least, there one can always fall back to "42".
Maybe we need another term than "untranslateable" (and that term would then kind of define itself, no?), but what he calling out is that these languages have a word or short idiomatic phrase for a big complex, while English does not. Is it "translated" when the result is 8 or 10 words that mostly worm their way around the concept, that explain the idea but don't encapsulate it?
I propose that "untranslateable" actually is the English word or short idiom for that concept. It's shorthand for "You wouldn't understand, it's a woman/gay/black/Inuit thing. But here, I'll try to explain."
Ian Preston said,
This source gives several related and much less specific meanings for tartle, generally having to do with hesitation but not tied to hesitation in name-recall of the sort mentioned.
VMartin said,
I am a bit surprised to find Czech word "litost" on the list. In Slovak it is very similar "lutost". I was convinced that the word means "pity" or "sorrow" or "feel sorry for" in English. I have also find such translation in my 1.200 page Slovak-English dictionary published by Slovak Academic press. lutost = compassion, pity, sorrow. What's the problem?
Another Czech word on the list is "prozvonit" with this peculiar translation: "call a cellphone once so the other person will call back on their dime."
Actually I think the translation is misleading. In Slovak it is "prezvonit" and it doesn't mean that other person has to call you back. One of our telecom operator has this terminus technikus even on its site:
http://www.orange.sk/web/prevas/cennik/roaming-partners-detail.html?operatorId=602&countryId=13
"Za každý pokus o spojenie hovoru v sieti Telia si operátor účtuje poplatok, ktorý sa rovná 30 sekundovej tarifikácii. Tento poplatok bude účtovaný bez ohľadu na to, či bol hovor vykonaný alebo nie (prezvonenie). "
Prezvonenie just means that somebody call you and you don't pick up the phone. For instatnce I may use this word to say "if everything ok I'll give you a ring at 4 pm." "Prezvonim ta o 4". The communication itself doesn't happen! So if somebody call you at 4 pm, it would be me and everything is ok. It is not necessary you call me back. But our company want to charge the "prezvonenie" from Slovakia to Denmark.
I wonder if the other words on the list are of the same kind.
Rasselas said,
Geoff, the fierceness of your
hatred for things-people-have-no-words-for genre of writing about language
has led you to omit a determiner from the NP headed by the singular count noun genre.
Which leads me to think this NP cries out for a single-word Language Log coinage along the lines of snowclone and eggcorn.
michael farris said,
I generally agree with cricitism of the 'untranslatable' meme, but at certain times, as a sometimes trasnlator I have some sympathy for it. It's true that anything that can be said in one language can be said in any other, but in the real world, there's also an idea that a good translation should be of comparable length.
If a Czech sentence is can be translated (apart from the relevant word):
He was overcome by a feeling of litost.
Hw was overcome by a feeling of agony and torment sparked by the sudden apperception of his misery.
is not good (if that meaning of litost is accurate, by no means a given)
Also Polish has a similar word to prozonit – głuchać (or puścic głuchacza)
derived from the word for 'deaf' (as in 'głuchy telefon' (which refers to a dead line or a call that's picked up too late). Partly it refers to someone calling so the other person won't answer but will then call back (due to vagaries of billing) but it's also used for transmitting all kinds of messages and you can overhear people pre-arranging various kinds of signals all over the place.
Hawke said,
Maybe I'm confused, but to me there's more to translation than simply defining the word in another language.
Try using any of those "translations" into anything more than the simplest of sentences, and it turns out badly.
I'm not so sure about "l'appel du vide" — It seems like it's just the normal problem of idioms being difficult to translate even if the words themselves translate easily.
For words that are hard to translate from English, my political scientist friends have a hard time finding a Spanish word for "enforce".
Luke said,
I think a much more interesting way to explore culturally unique concepts is to look at phrases which may easily be translated, but not-so-easily explained. For example, try explaining "Monday Morning Quarterback" or "Brown Bag Lunch" to someone not already familiar with American culture.
Joyce Melton said,
The prozvonit bit is translated by a one syllable English word: ping. "I'll ping you," has wider application than just cellphones, though, but is easily understood. In the old days of expensive long distance, the phrase was "short ring". "I'll short ring you at eleven but you don't have to call me back." Short rings were also used in the days of party lines as signals to set up meetings that one did not want to discuss on the phone.
@bulbul:
Oops, appears I forgot my irony inverted commas around "simple"? (Oh actually, turns out they should have been around my entire first sentence.)
The notion that questions for "the" context-free meaning of "a word" should be 'easy' belongs, of course, to the field of apparently ineradicable translation myths (which has seen far less educational work than language myths).
It seems to me that some of these, like the Arabic example above, are more idiomatic expressions than 'a word for.'
First, although the Arabic (actually Lebanese Arabic expression) 'ya'aburnee' is by some definitions a word, but it is also a complete a sentence in that it contains morphemes for the subject (3rd person, masc., sing.) + the verb + the direct object (1st person sing.). In addition, the meaning is idiomatic, not literal.
So, we could submit the untranslatable English 'word' — he spilled the beans — and it have to be glossed and explained in most other languages.
Jason said,
Of course some concepts must exist for which a language does not have a single word; it is unreasonable to expect of language evolution that it would provide a single word for every possible theoretical concept that could be described linguistically, but it is reasonable to expect that SOME language might seize upon a concept and name it if it's relevant to the culture.
My favorite concept that lacks a single-word descriptor in English: "a concept that lacks a single-word descriptor."
I still like George Bush's (possibly apocryphal) line: "The French have no word for 'entrepreneur.' "
groki said,
I wonder if a speaker of both Russian and Portuguese would accept toska and saudade as translations of each other.
also, that set of 20 words could be worked into a short story of the romance between two linguists: beginning with mamihlapinatapei; growing from hyggelig and prozvonit to cafuné and ya'aburnee; roller-coastering through litost and ilunga and Torschlusspanik; and finally ending with one facing l'appel du vide and the other contemplating wabi-sabi.
the result could be anywhere from duende to jayus.
mgh said,
This has nothing to do with words vs word phrases. "Whistle," "squeak," "shriek," and "squeal" are all single words that mean "to emit a high-pitched noise" but I would not like to see a translation saying "the child whistled with laughter when his mother squeaked at the shrieking mouse".
"The prozvonit bit is translated by a one syllable English word: ping. "I'll ping you,""
But does anyone say that? I've never heard that (or 'short ring' for that matter).
Kimi said,
Maria: aplicar, as in "aplicar la nueva ley…" or "exigir el cumplimiento" seem to translate enforce just fine.
In Mexican Spanish, prozvonit is "echar una perdida," almost the word for word equivalent of "to missed call" someone.
STW: don't be ridiculous, the reason it takes more words to render an English text into Spanish is because English uses compact noun phrases where Spanish requires prepositional phrases in many contexts, giving you a higher word count in Spanish than in English.
A word I've never been able to find a Spanish equivalent for is compromise; we have the false-cognate "compromiso," but that's a commitment in English.
Getty said,
I think a lot of these could be easily translated as short phrases in the correct context, as long as you make the undoubtedly correct assumption that the translations given here are overly ornate and florid and that the real meanings include but are not necessarily equivalent to these definitions. I can't think of any real way that you wouldn't capture the subtleties of saudade by a succinct and heartfelt, "I so miss her," or tingo by a subtle wink and, "I borrowed his XBox for a while."
I can sympathize more with the idea that terms that are entrenched in culture—the usual examples given for these are samizdat and glasnost and the like—are untranslatable, but if we accept those, I'd posit that it's a short step to also accepting the impenetrable web of inside jokes and secret jargon used by subcultures, professions, or even high school children as equally untranslatable. If my coworkers say they "grok" a concept, is that an untranslatable utterance? If my friends use opaque slang to refer to places or events, does that make them untranslatable? After all, your particular idiolect most likely lacks simple phases that are semantically equivalent. For that matter, if I refer to someone—say, Frank—without explaining who he is first, and you do not know who he is, does that make the word "Frank" untranslatable?
John Baker said,
I seem to recall (possibly from Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor) that it is difficult to find a translation for the adjective "disappointed" in Yiddish. Is this true for other languages?
Michael farris – I just heard someone use "ping" this way a day or two ago, so I assume it's starting to catch on. I didn't ask if he was familiar with the computer use of "ping."
Bobbie said,
Re: Ping and Prezvonit, etc…. In my family, anyone who went on a long trip was supposed to make a person-to-person call asking for my uncle Lawrence when they arrived at their destination, to indicate that they had arrived safely. The person at the other end always refused the call (hence did not have to pay for it), but knew what the call meant. (This was 40 years ago when the operator had to place the call….) I don't remember any word or phrase for this. It was considered a way of "saving money," not as cheating the phone company out of a large fee.
E. said,
@Getty: Members of my family express something similar to "tingo" with the phrase "long-term loan". The implication is that the term may be indefinitely long, to the point where the loaned item can be considered a gift– but in our case the giver generally approves, which I'm not sure is the case with "tingo".
Dominik Lukes said,
The problem with this debate is that it confuses two aspects of 'translatable'. In one sense it suggests a (significant or complete) lack of availability of apprehension to outsiders. And in that sense, the claim is false. Although reports of these equivalencies often come distorted due to bad use of informants, as illustrated by the Czech examples both of which are erroneous in some respect:
1. 'agony and torment' are far too strong for 'lítost' which also doesn't just apply to the self – in fact, I looked up lítost in the Czech national corpus and all of the first 10 examples were easily translatable as 'remorse', 'pity', or 'regret';
2. 'prozvonit' generally does not imply callback to save money but rather a prearranged response to the signal provided by the unanswered ring, like coming to open the door – out of the 10 relevant examples in the Czech oral corpus only 2 did have the meaning of potential call back to save the money (incidentally, in Albania where the practice to ring expecting a call back so the other party pays is common, no such word exists).
However, as an occasional translator from Czech who has had to contend with the translation of many words/phrases similar to those listed, I'd say that they are pretty close to untranslatable if we in any way wish to preserve the coherence, cohesion and connotation of the source text. In other words, language as actually used. Obviously a translation gets created but it is often at best an approximation. The significance of this for our understanding of the nature of language is, I believe, still underestimated and not being helped by the debates over different forms of relativity.
Cosi said,
i wondered whether duende (maghia in greek, methinks) would be there and it is….that is one where i am still looking for an english equivalent, though this description i'd just translate as appeal…duende is much more than that!
but it is true, there is nothing truly untranslatable
tartle – stall (the context should make it clear)
prozvonit – lockruf (there must be an english word for that with the whole hunting tradition…) and most people would say give me a missed call…
schadenfreude has been absorbed into the english language along with blitzkrieg & hinterland
torschlusspanik (after all 3 words, really!) – feeling the clock ticking (a phrasal verb…big difference!)
l'appel de vide (4 words!!!) – vertigo
Jerry Friedman said,
I thought toska meant l'appel du vide, especially when you're standing next to a parapet.
I'd like to point out that Jason Wire specifically said that his translation of hyggelig was inadequate, and that he gave only "the closest definition" of litost, not an adequate definition. So for those two words, his glosses don't contradict his claim that the words are untranslatable.
Like Michael Farris, I've never heard "ping" or "short-ring" or "missed-call". My parents used to ask me to "signal" them by ringing the phone once. (When, for example, I was traveling back to college and they wanted to know I had arrived all right, but it would be late or there seemed no reason to spend money on a phone call.)
@E. I use "on permanent loan", the phrase museums use, but in my case the gift usually wasn't quite voluntary on my part.
@VMartin: Should I conclude that Czech has no word for "technical term"? (Or didn't, till it borrowed a phrase from Latin?) :-)
Mary Kaye said,
"Duende" is a spirit, a spook–at least it gets used that way in English-language stories a lot. (My favorite is Geoffrey Household's _The Adversary_ (US)/_Dance of the Dwarves_ (UK).)
The recent play "Gibralter" asks whether each of the main characters may be a, or the, duende of the other. I think the art sense is at best one of the things the word means.
A word with a wide range of meanings can lead to translation difficulties if the author was using more than one of them at a time, either as a pun or as shades of meaning.
Jonathan D said,
If we allow "untranslatable" to refer to being difficult to translate, rather than the more obvious absolute meaning, and acknowledge that real translation is not simply providing a gloss for a word, then it's pretty obvious that there's something in all this that isn't just about the number of words used to "translate". This isn't the first time I've wondered whether "un-able" is always as absolute as it might seem.
Alex said,
'To prank', meaning to hang up before someone answers the phone, is well established in British English, too. E.g. 'Prank me when you're almost here.'.
Moacir said,
I can add to the "prozvonit" list: in Lithuanian, it's "pamajakinti," from the word "majakas," which is what an intentional missed call is called. I figure it's from the Russian "маяк," which means "signal" (among other things). The Lithuanian State Language Commission recommends using words we would translate as "signal" or "sign" instead of "majakas": http://vlkk.lt/lit/5651 The continued popularity of "majakas" probably indicates the usefulness of a word with as specific a meaning.
"Ping" I hear in tech support circles, and it means something like "ask" and "remind" at the same time, but for usually quick, trivial things. "ping me when you get back to your office about lunch."
Jen said,
"Drop call" is a good English translation for "prozvonit."
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=drop%20call
Weltanschauung said,
I remember how amazed I was when I learned that Polish has no word for "gullible".
Bloix said,
"Temps" in "A la recherche du temps perdu" is untranslatable. "In Search of Lost Time" means something like, I"m trying to make up the 45 minutes I lost because I missed my train." If you don't know the original, the translation is incomprehensible. To my mind, Remembrance of Things Past, although it's a retitling and not a translation, is superior.
Jonathan Mayhew said,
Isn't the problem one of synonymity? In other words, there is not only no word in English for duende, but there is no other word in Spanish for it either! As chance would have it, I am writing a chapter of my book right now on the duende. It really is virtually untranslatable, in the sense that I will need about 12,000 words to explain the concept.
qsi said,
Interesting that Dutch "gezellig" didn't make the list, as this is often cited by Dutch speakers as untranslatable. The Danish "hyggelig" looks suspiciously similar to "gezellig" though…
Craig said,
At my Dutch meetup tonight, we had a brief discussion about gezellig which corresponds to the Danish hyggelig above or the German gemütlich.
I wonder, does every other Germanic language claim a word for friendly coziness that English speakers putatively can't translate?
@Jerry Friedman
Good question. I just wonder if English "technical term" is a brilliant translation of Latin "terminus technicus"?
Maybe Greek "techné" and Latin "terminus" should be added on the list above.
weej said,
I've heard people use "ghost" in the same sense as "prozvonit".
Luis said,
@Mary Kaye
I've always thought that "duende" (in the relevant sense) can be relatively well translated as "groovy" (also in the relevant sense), as in "Dude, this Jimmy Hendrix album is totally groovy".
Additionally, I also like the translation for "bungee jumping" into Spanish: "puenting", from "puente" (bridge).
Samantha said,
"Kyoikumama" sounds like it could be similar to "stage mom" to me.
In my family we also had a way of saving money on a phone call. At the end of a long school day, I would call my parents collect, and when the operator said "Please state your name" I would say, "Momcanyoupickmeupnow." Charges denied.
giri Rao said,
The standard Indian equivalent for "prozvonit" is "missed call": misTkaal ivvu (= "give [me a] missed call" in Telugu). The Wikipedia article says "At least one company in Bangalore is using this "tool" to generate business." (And also that it's called "miskol" in the Phillipines.)
ShadowFox said,
Two minor comments. First, a global one. Geoff comments on the nature of these words as "lack of an exact one-word equivalent". I don't think it too much of a quibble to say that what he likely meant to say is that these words "lack of an exact one-word equivalent in English".
Second, since I know Russian pretty well, I am prepared to give an exact, one-word translation for the Russian word on the list–"toska". The translation is "melancholy"–a quality often attributed to Russians. Of course, melancholy does not imply specifically longing. The authors of the list might be surprised to find out that "toska" makes no such implication either.
Finally, as I said, I know Russian. But I don't really know Czech. Yet, as soon as I saw "prozvonit" and "Czech", I could immediately deduce what the word meant. In fact, some Russian dialectal groups use exactly the same word (spelled in a Cyrillic alphabet, of course) to mean exactly the same thing. This word describes the concept that might be more familiar to Brits than to Americans. Since receiving calls is free on European cell-phone plans, but dialing out is not, there may be situations when one would prefer to receive a call rather than to make one (e.g., being out of minutes). So caller 1 calls caller 2 and lets the phone ring long enough to record the incoming caller ID. Then caller 2 either knowingly (prearranged) or spontaneously dials that number to find out what was the purpose of the call. In Russian, at least, the exact meaning of the word is "to call through", compared to "pozvonit'", which means "to make a call" or just "to call". And the former was specifically invented to describe something differentiated from the latter. Do we have any neologisms of this type? Of course, we do! Consider, for example, the LL familiar use of "eggcorn".
To the list above, one can also add the no-longer-ubiquitously-Japanese umame (or umami–or any of a half-dozen other spelling variants). One suggested translation for the word was "getting suckers to buy your products because they contain some supposedly indescribable flavor". Now, there's a mouthful!
One more thing–of the three words (Danish, German and Dutch) that represent "warm, friendly experience with friends", Google translates two as "cozy" and one as "nice". Clearly all are adjectives. And I can't think of an adjective in English that glosses the same way. But the listing above seems to be for a noun. If that's the case, what's wrong with "comradery" or "camaraderie"? The exact "translation" in AHD4 (on Yahoo!) is "Goodwill and lighthearted rapport between or among friends; comradeship."
Sorry, one more:
Saudade==Nostalgia.
oliverio said,
I remember having seen a Greek word for 'Schadenfreude' in a novel by a Greek author I read in French. I've just retrieved his name with a request for Greek polars on a search engine : Petros Markaris. I forgot to take a note at the time.
@Craig: to my knowledge, Swedish doesn't have an exact equivalent of "hyggelig", at least not one which we would claim to be untranslatable. The Swedish cognate is "hygglig", which perhaps could be rendered as 'decent'. (Han är en hygglig karl = He's a decent fellow. Det var hyggligt! = That was nice of you!)
Swedes tend to talk of the word "lagom" as being untranslatable. It means "just the right amount". Of course, I just gave you a translation, so it's obviously not untranslatable. But the word has connotations that the English equivalent has: Swedes speak of Sweden as "landet lagom" (the 'lagom country'), since we do things in moderation.
A word which I do find difficult to translate, though, is the word "susa". It means 'to make the sound which the wind makes in the forest', and it yields the noun 'sus'. The English dictionary of the Swedish National Encyclopedia proposes "to sigh", which works, but it certainly doesn't have the immediacy of "susa", in the sense that it does not immediately present itself as something that we think of as happening in the forest, while "det susar i skogen" ('the wind is sighing in the trees') would be a fairly common statement in Swedish, at least in poetic language.
outeast said,
I've been tasked explicitly with supplying a one-or-at-most-two-part word translation for prozvonit before for a cell entry in a table forming part of a telecommunications report, and in that context it's pretty much untranslatable! (I can't remember our eventual solution, though I remember no one was happy with it; I and my circle use the two-part verb 'missed call', but as the many suggestions above make clear it's far from universal.)
'sus' = 'susurration', ' susurrus'? Certainly has a nice onomatpoeic ring, anyhoo. Very reminiscent of leaves rustling in the wind. And presumably a shared etymology, tho I can't look it up just now to check.
Jo said,
As a full-time translator, I'd say I run into about ten Italian words on any given workday (not always the same ones, of course) that are just as "untranslatable" as the examples in this list. And I sure don't leave them in Italian, or end up with sentences three times as long as the original. Some never cease to be annoying; with others, a solution that will work 90% of the time in a given context may pop into my head after YEARS of struggling with the same term and seem so obvious I can't believe it never came to me before. So sometimes "untranslatable" just means "something you haven't thought about hard enough".
Kundera definitely played a big role in spreading the idea that "litost" is an untranslatable word.
Matt Heath said,
Saudade==Nostalgia
That's not really right. In most cases it would be safe to replace it with just "longing" and "ter saudades" with "to miss". It's really as general as that.
The "for someone or something that you love but have lost" part is sort of there in some contexts. It's the saudade sung about in fado: fisherman or sailors or migrant workers desperately wanting to be home or there wives desperately wanting them back. "Nostalgia" doesn't really work here either; it's much less gently comforting and more breast beating than "nostalgia".
People often say "saudade" can't be translated because no translation will pick up those connotations. I think that's a pretty low bar for "untranslatable". It must be true of just about any word that there will be some connotations lost in translation.
Julie said,
@David: I have seen the word "sough" used to describe the sound of wind in the trees, and I'm pretty sure I've never seen it in any other context. Can't say I've ever heard anyone say it, though, so I'm not quite sure how I'd pronounce it.
PP said,
Here is something that might be worth looking into: http://www.fredrocha.net/MemeMiner/
Tim Silverman said,
@Julie: I'm pretty sure I've seen "sough" used for the sound of wind in grass, which sounds rather different.
Marion Crane said,
Shadowfox: I don't know about hyggelig, but in Dutch gezellig is also an adjective. The noun is gezelligheid. Camaraderie works pretty well, though that refers mostly to other people, and gezellig and gezelligheid can also describe situations and locations.
Of course, though it is implied in the post, and I don't know about the original article, the list has to be based on source language>English. I'd guess that a list like this using all languages in the world would be empty, even if you interpret 'untranslatable' at its broadest.
@Tim, @ Julie
My dictionary has 'sough' as 'make a rushing, rustling, or murmering sound, as of the wind in trees etc.' (plus the figurative extensions one would expect). So it fits – except that as a very unusual word it seems hardly equivalent to David's 'susa'.
Actually, though, there are tons of words we use routinely to capture the many sounds of the wind in the trees, like 'rush', 'rustle', 'sigh', 'whistle', 'howl', 'murmer', 'moan', 'wail', 'sing', 'whisper', 'hush', and plenty more, giving a plethora of choices depending on the desired sound, atmosphere, and so on. After all, the wind doesn't make just one sound in the trees, does it?
@Julie: Can't say I've ever heard anyone say it …
You can hear it sung here. (First line: "… soughed the yew …")
@Jo
It depends what Milan Kundera feels or imagines using the word. It can be said about every word. Obviously the word "mother" has different deeper meaning not only in different languages but also for different people or – even for brothers.
Sentenes like "My mother was a unique woman" are then untranslatable and uncomprehensible regarding its precise meaning except for the very man who said them.
The second problem is the "context", the word used on this blog very often. As a layman I would say it is not exactly grammatical "context", but the broader phenomenological term "horizon" which makes a background to every word against which it acquires its real meaning.
Jarmila said,
"Litost"="agony, torment"? Why? It means something like "being sorry" ("sorriness" – does the word exist in English? is it used in this sense?). "Je mi ho lito"="I'm sorry for him" "Je mi lito" or "Je mi to lito"="I'm sorry [it happened… etc.]"
@Matt Heath
I'll easily grant you that my translation is not perfect, but that's true for almost any translated word. For one, you've just described a number of different connotations that appear to depend on context–the old bugaboo of automatic translation. Even experienced bilingual speakers may have trouble giving global translation–in many cases, it is simply impossible to describe all nuances of a meaning with a single gloss. The point of a translation, it seems is to provide an area of significant overlap, not a bijection, as Geoff so astutely observed. If a single gloss works 40% of the time and there is no other that works more frequently, that's the one as you will find as a dictionary translation. Another test would be reverse the translation. If it works "pretty well", you've found a good match–and "pretty well" is meant to be as inexact as it sounds. So I am well aware that saudade is not a literal equivalent of nostalgia and hyggelig is not perfectly matched by camaraderie, but both are fairly good dictionary descriptions of what is intended without going too deeply into context. And both will work fairly well as one-word translations in a large number of cases, especially where the context will provide the rest.
PS: Perhaps it's the influence of Russian culture, but I find nothing soft about nostalgia.
PPS: It's interesting that so many words on the list deal with either a kind of sadness or a sense of belonging (or not belonging) or both. Perhaps there is some psychological explanation why many native speakers of any particular language find extra connotation in such words that they find "untranslatable". I just chalk it up to nostalgia. ;-)
putz said,
lagom = Goldilocks, as in Goldilocks planet
enforce = enforzar – when in doubt, use an anglicism. It feels perfectly at home in a Romance language and it's immediately understandable, don't you think? Attested in Mexico for over a century.
Lantzy said,
"Sough", the thing leaves do in the wind, is usually pronounced "suff", /sʌf/, but apparently an alternative, more etymological pronunciation is "sow", /saʊ/. I don't know why the word is so obscure. Perhaps because most of us spend so little time among trees. But it has the advantage of being onomatopoetic, so it will probably never die out completely.
Also, the word "sigh" is commonly applied to that same noise, frequently poetically: "Lo ! a lad where trees are sighing / In the violets' vapor lying".
E said,
@Maria: One example I've tried to translate in the past is the Argentine "chanta". It's a slang word used for someone who's a little lazy, a little bit of a grifter… I don't know, I haven't really found a good translation yet.
Would "moocher" be a fair approximation?
Also, might a chanta engage in tingo?
Mammal said,
@Shadowfox –
From this native Russian speaker's point of view –
while "toska" and "melancholy" overlap, their cores are apart.
"Toska" is more painful. It includes grief and anxiety.
http://www.classes.ru/all-russian/russian-dictionary-Vasmer-term-13722.htm
Darryl Shpak said,
Has the notion of "untranslateability" ever been applied to the alleged N different words for snow that the Inuit have (or similar claims of N words for concept X in language Z)? It seems like a natural fit: If one language has N words and one language has M, where M < N, then the natural followup claim is that the N words have shades of meaning that get lost in translation.
(I just happened across this snowclone two days ago: "the Inuit have 99 distinct words for different types of sea ice". This claim was put forward by a linguist studying dying languages (K. David Harrison), so I'm willing to assume that for a suitable definition of "word", this is actually true: http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/10/21/wanted-lost-languages)
Philip said,
If a word in L1 were untranslatable into L2, wouldn't that mean that the neurophysiology of speakers of L1 would have to be different from that of speakers of L2? To oversimplify: L1 brains would be different than L2 brains.
I'm a layperson, but that seems bizzare to me.
Is there any word in English that represents a concept for which other languages wouldn't have a single word? Like Schadenfreude (to a certain extent, anyway), I hope that we can adopt some of these. Most of these are just incredibly beautiful words….
Ok, I get the "nes pas" and "juene fille", but "girl" and "not" pale in comparison to "you bury me" and "gate closing panic"…
Jim: "Is there any word in English that represents a concept for which other languages wouldn't have a single word?"
How about 'blog?'
Jeff R. said,
Michael Farris: "If a Czech sentence is can be translated (apart from the relevant word):
He was overcome by a feeling of agony and torment sparked by the sudden perception of his misery. "
Even stronger, imagine trying to translate this dialog the rest of the way from Czech:
"How are you feeling?"
"Litost"
Untranslatable becomes shorthand for 'untranslatable in any context where brevity must be relatively preserved'. And dialog is probably a big proportion of the set of things that people are going to want to translate.
Thinking about it more, it seems to me silly to talk about translateability of words, because (in most cases) we don't translate words. We translate phrases and sentences (on up). Like, it doesn't matter that I don't know how to translate "thirsty" into Spanish; I can translate "I'm thirsty" just fine, into a nice two word phrase same as the English. (Tengo sed, literally "I have thirst").
jdash30 said,
Or, as James Merrill wrote:
Lost, is it, buried? One more missing piece?
But nothing's lost. Or else: all is translation.
Aravindhan said,
As a synesthete, I can tell you what is genuinely untranslatable: the way in which a piece of music has colour. I've come up with a private vocabulary to describe it in my journals, but try as I may, I've never been able to explain it to non-synesthetes, and I suspect I never will, simply because it's so different from anything they've ever experienced. Other synesthetes get it, of course – although they see different colours, music still has colour in the same way.
Extending that, I'd hypothesise that as long as a word describes something that is within the realm of things that speakers of another language are capable of feeling or experiencing, it'll be translatable. It may cause difficulties because of the context, but it'll never be unmanageable (e.g., the clever way English language productions of /Hedda Gabler/ deal with Ibsen's use of the distinction between the second person formal ('De') and informal ('du'), which is a key plot point in the original).
Douglas said,
No snark here, but I thought duende was normally translated not as the artwork's power but as the artist's power as submitted or transmitted through the artwork. When Lorca discusses it in his writings, he usually (If I remember correctly) refers to the artist as having duende, and thus, the artwork is sublime, because it transmits this power.
@Outeast: Yes, I can think of lots of words for the wind in the trees or the grass, but that's the only word I know of that never seems to be used to mean anything else.
J. Goard said,
Very interesting comments, with some great examples, but you guys are missing what for me is by far the most striking fact about such lists: they confuse difficulty of translation with emotional evocativeness.
In my view, these aren't even remotely similar phenomena. If you ask me what's really difficult to translate/use/explain between English and Korean, it would be either spatial relationships (many Korean verbs correspond to put on, concerning which please see the fascinating work of Soonja Choi and her collaborators), commonplace objects or their physical parts (many English words correspond to Korean 껍질 kkepcil: 'shell', 'skin', 'bark', 'peel', 'crust'), or temporal relationships (e.g., "one hour later" vs. "one hour from now") . Or, of course, the subject of my own research: the English articles. Emotionally flat concepts, one and all, unlikely to give poets any wet dreams. But difficult obstacles to translation or foreign language acquisition.
What Koreans most often mention as "untranslatable" are really just concepts that evoke the strongest emotions, and play a central role in the (heavily mythologized) popular history, such as han 'grudge', 'regret', 'frustrated desire' or hyo 'duty to one's parents'. These are indeed essential concepts for anyone living in or dealing with Korea, and I have no objection to mentioning them as such. But, frankly, it's ridiculous to think that they represent the greatest differences in how the two languages structure conceptualization of the world.
@Aravindhan: I tell people I see the colors (and shapes) of music in my mind's eye, just where I imagine things, and I can go on from there.
I'd hypothesise that as long as a word describes something that is within the realm of things that speakers of another language are capable of feeling or experiencing, it'll be translatable.
What if the thing isn't an experience that depends on a presumably innate brain structure, such as synesthesia, but something that depends on having grown up in a different culture? I had this experience with a Navaho woman, who spoke English better than Navaho, but there were times when what she was trying to say to me made no sense to me, and she said there was no way to say it in English. What would I have to do to understand things like that? Spend years understanding her culture? Would I then be able to express those ideas in English any better than she could?
I haven't heard many stories like that, so maybe my incomprehension was just something to do with her or me or an incompatibility between us. But that's what literal untranslatability would be like.
@Aravidhan
…deal with Ibsen's use of the distinction between the second person formal ('De') and informal ('du'), which is a key plot point in the original).
That's the point! I would like to know how can be translated this sentence into English:
"Sollen wir uns nicht duzen?"
Especially such very important nuances when beloved woman says for the first time to his lover "Du" instead "Sie"!
The problem is also in dubbing endless USA TV series. Such series are broadcasted often daily and there are many people involved dubbing them. You can get series 87, 92, 104 and 125 and you actually sometimes don't know who is who. In the case of USA series you obtain also table with stars and their relationships who is saying whom "Du – Ty" or "Sie – Vy" (German – Slovak). Such a table might be sometimes quite impressive – especially in series from hospitals.
Another problem is female/male different grammar structures in Slavonic. The sentences like "I came home very tired" might be translated either as "Prišla som domov celá unavená " for woman or "Prišiel som domov celý unavený" for man.
Once I read from Czech linguist Pavel Eisner that he was unable to translate a medieval poem (Spanish?) into Czech because it started "I would love you" and it was not clear from the context who wrote it – woman or man?
@Jerry Friedman: "What if the thing [is] . . . something that depends on having grown up in a different culture?"
It may be more difficult to explain some 'words' to a person from a different culture, but there are also concepts within a culture and language community that are difficult to define. These are definitional issues, not translation.
I often experience this with my fluent, English L2 wife, particularly with AmE. idioms. But, I would have equal difficulty explaining the same expression to an L1 speaker who had never previously heard it.
bryan said,
"Or you could go with hard, which cannot be translated into German because in a given context you need one of about 40 German adjectives, of which the only one I remember offhand is alkoholisch."
Very funny: the only word you could remember is "alcoholic" in German?!
I'm fairly sure that Schadenfreude could be translated into the Chinese 幸災樂禍… the only difference is its tendency to be used as a verb instead of a noun, ie, 'feeling/expressing glee at another's misfortune'.
And I thought German and English were related, and they don't even have an English equivalent of Schadenfreude?! It's mysterious how it could be found in Chinese, as 幸災樂禍 even if the grammar tend to be somewhat different.
The moment I learned of the definition of that word Schadenfreude, I'm like, that's almost the same meaning as "幸災樂禍"! Tried desperately to find the English equivalent of either the Chinese or German term, but never found it.
教育まま = kyoikumama = Japanese mother who relentlessly pushes her children toward academic achievement
教育 = Chinese for "education", まま is the Japanese phonetic equivalent of "mama" mimicking either the English or Chinese word for "mother" by young children, AKA 'mama'. It's a made up term and with this the Japanese made up a term that I think every culture should have: Every parent expects their children to achieve in academic settings. Chinese people expect their children to excel in schools, etc… via Confucian teachings, yet there's no term such as "教育まま/kyoikumama" in Chinese. I do find that strange.
I read a book called "They have a word for that". In it, there's the word "tingo", but Jason forgot one thing:
tingo Pascuense obtain desired objects from a friend by borrowing them one by one
But when said "friend" finds out, then you might not be friends any longer! Then he might ask his friend to go to your house and tingo. Ha ha. After the tingo, you tango!]
Talking about "They have a word for that": Here's another one: attacabottoni [from Italian = "button attacher"/"buttonmaker", verbatim = someone who attaches the buttons to clothing]
attacabottoni:
"Someone who's so bored they keep telling interesting stories which might not be true just to make the listener happy"?
M said,
ambrosen said, I've also seen an English lexeme for 'prozvonit': 'to missed call'.
For me (and other South Africans), this has become "miscall" — the -ed suffix has disappeared, but the mis- prefix has also exerted an influence I think: it's not a proper call, it's a call done badly.
Kevin Iga said,
How about words like these:
There is no word for "the" (English) in Russian.
There is no word for "aux" (French) in English. (as in the grammatical particle)
There is no word for "et" (Hebrew) in English. (as in the accusative case marker)
There is no word for "ga" (Japanese) in English. (as in the nominative case marker)
For that matter, consider "ne… pas" in French. It is translated "not" in English. But what is the English word for "ne"? Or "pas"?
Which is not to say you can't translate a sentence that has these features; just that there is no word, or even constituent, in the translation that corresponds to the original word.
[I'm pretty sure that by this stage no one has any recollection of what I actually wrote. But just in case anyone still cares, let me remind you that I cited ne…pas in making the point that it would be stupid to think that a translation is only a perfect one if it has exactly the same number of words as the original and they are mapped one-to-one by a synonymy relation. Nearly everyone in these comments is still grubbing around for words that don't have English equivalents. But why? My thesis is that it is absurd to demand word-for-word equivalence in translations, and continuing to demand it says nothing about untranslatability at all. I expect, though, that no one will listen; probably the next comment will be someone dredging up an allegedly untranslatable word from Hungarian or something… —GKP]
Jeremy Wheeler said,
There isn't even agreement on what this means in Hungarian, let alone in any other language:
megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért
Army1987 said,
According to my own pet analysis of French negations, pas is the word for "not" (and rien the word for "nothing", and aucun the word for "none", etc.), while ne is just an inflexional clitic of the following finite verb and no more of a word for "not" than the -es in two churches is a word for "several". It's true that a weak pronoun can go between the ne and the verb, but then the Portuguese future tense can be split in the same way.
It must be true of just about any word that there will be some connotations lost in translation.
There are lots of words (e.g. technical terms) which don't really have connotations. Translating English samarium into Italian samario doesn't lose anything at all, I think.
@Kevin Iga: For that matter, consider "ne… pas" in French. It is translated "not" in English. But what is the English word for "ne"? Or "pas"?
I'm not sure if your question is meant seriously or if you're just joking, but here's my answer anyway. The negative word is "ne", corresponding to the English "not". The "pas" was originally the word for "step" (as it still is in positive contexts), and "ne . . . pas" was equivalent to "not a step". We have the same constructions in English, where "not" is followed by a complement. E.g. "I won't go a step more", "I haven't slept a wink/drunk a drop/said a word", etc. French, too, has "ne . . . pas/point/mie/goutte/mot/noix", etc. (copied from my elderly edition of Grevisse, Le bon usage).
That said, "pas" has over the years acquired its own negative force. E.g., "Croyez-vous cette histoire?" ["Do you believe this story?"] answered by "Pas du tout!" ["Not at all!"].
Nathan Myers said,
Maria: Is "ne'er-do-well", for "chanta", too archaic? It seems we have dozens of words of its ilk that might serve, but that you might have trouble choosing among because the source context wasn't specific enough to allow you to select one unambiguously. Isn't this a common problem when translating "cousin" into other languages?
@Mammal–spoken like a true Russian. Note the comment I made earlier about how native speakers feel about their own words [being untranslatable].
Oh, and one more thing–you're going (along with the authors of the original list) for only one gloss. There are multiple and what they have in common is the melancholy and sadness.
The truly untranslatable words are essentially nonce words that make sense only to a particular audience of native speakers. They cannot be translated because they describe something unique. One such word–a particularly famous one–was used in a Russian film with a plot that involved difficulties of a translator. It's Dostoyefskii's coinage of "obliz'iana", which conveys both the similarly sounding meaning of "obez'iana" == monkey/ape and something slithering/slimy that is not present in the original word–and a connotation that would only be available to a reader with a full native command of the language.
Translation is really largely a frequency matching process–parallel glosses in two languages that frequently appear in the same context are usually translated as each other. But throw in a unique word and the frequency count drops to zero. There are no matches in any context because the word simply does not exist. If it's a composite, there is some hope of resurrecting the meaning of the word in some way–in German, it's usually a calque, in other languages it may be a direct borrowing (e.g., schadenfreude). Occasionally, if the construction is idiomatic and does not match the meanings of its constituents, there may be a parallel idiom that uses completely unrelated terminology. But a nonce word cannot be translated at all. There is no underlying structure to build on. Any reasonable attempt would be short of the mark.
I don't know if anyone else noticed, but "l'appel du vide" is pretty much exactly the same as "the call of the void"–both literally and figuratively. And translation cannot mean lack of a one word equivalent when the original phrase isn't one word!
Mark F. said,
As far as I can tell, "prank" meaning "just let it ring once", is not well established in American English, and there's no idiomatic equivalent in my idiolect. Letting it ring once would be a way of pinging someone, but they're not identical concepts. Contra GKP, I think this absence of a word is actually at least marginally informative, since it suggests that Americans don't do the action all that much. If one-ringing someone is something you do often, it's a trivial matter to make up a word for it, so it seems as if the fact that we haven't adopted a word for it tells you something.
boynamedsue said,
While it is true that phrases and words can always be expressed in one language can be expressed in another, the existance of a single word or short expression does reflect an importance attached to said concept by the speech community that uses it, which does not exist for some other speech communities.
An example might be "in the way" for an English person (as in, "Let's move, we're in the way"), which is not easily translated into Spanish… Maybe "impidiendo injustamente las actividades que tienen derecho de llevarse a cabo en este lugar".
Similarly "hangover" can only be translated into Italian as a sentence ("Ho bevuto troppo ieri, i non me sento bene"), reflecting the fact that Italians consider drinking to excess to be shameful.
The presence of these short phrses does have an effect on the culture as it reinforces cultural tendencies and shapes the way people think and feel about given situations. The classic example being the difficulty English learners have in distinguishing between "Tengo sueño" (I'm tired because I haven't slept") and "Estoy cansado" ("I'm tired due to excessive activity "). While both phrases can clearly be differentiated in English, and so are translatable, not only does an English speaker usually fail to distinguish between them when speaking Spanish, they are often unable to physically distinguish between the two sensations when experiencing them, and Anglophone Spanish-learners OFTEN NEED TO be persuaded that there actually is a difference between the two conditions.
Ahayweh said,
@boynamedsue- Firstly, I'm slowly learning Spanish and didn't know about that distinction yet, so thank you. Secondly, native English-speakers often have problems with that, really? It sounds just like the distinction between "sleepy" and "worn out", and I can't imagine any Anglophones I know having trouble with that.
Mark F: ". . . so it seems as if the fact that we haven't adopted a word for it tells you something."
I agree. It doesn't mean that the idea cannot be expressed in another language. But, it may well indicate cultural concerns, interests, etc. Arabian desert residents, as an example, have no need for a bunch of snow words.
I am a monolingual English speaker and I've never had problems distinguishing the feeling of sleep-deprivation from the feeling of being worn out by activity. For that matter, as my previous sentence demonstrates, it's not like English is incapable of making that distinction. Also, I don't know if this is just me, but I'd use the word "exhausted" only to describe being tired because of prolonged activity.
@boynamedsue, here's a further illustration of your (slightly Whorfian) observation about synonyms:
When I was an exchange student in a German Gymnasium (which was not a gymnasium), the physics teacher took class time to remind us of the difference between schwimmen like an animate creature (fish or frog or human swimmer) and schwimmen like a block of wood. In English, you can tell your class the conditions under which an object will float without having to disambiguate "float".
November 1, 2010 @ 1:35 am
The joke about there being no word in Yiddish for 'disappointed' is just that, a joke. The word is antoisht.
November 1, 2010 @ 10:39 am
Jeff R.:
"Even stronger, imagine trying to translate this dialog the rest of the way from Czech:
– How are you feeling?
– Litost"
Hard to imagine. "Litost" is a noun. :-)
Either (better for Czech):
– Co citite?
– Litost
– What do you feel?
– Sorrow
Or (better for English):
– Jak se citite?
– Je mi to lito
– I'm sorry/sad
John Cowan – Thanks for the information that "disappointed" does have a Yiddish equivalent. I'm a little surprised to learn this ("surprised," in this case, referring to my surprise, and not to doubt concerning your post), because a substantial part of the audience for Isaac Asimov's joke, which turned on the absence of a Yiddish equivalent, would have known Yiddish. While jokes can in many cases convey substantive information, I guess this wasn't one of them.
David J. Littleboy said,
"Translators are usually very unsatisfactory company for others who are not language people"
Oh, god, yes. When I'm out with our CEO (a Japanese national) and someone says, "Hey, Dave, how do you say X in English", I'll get to work figuring out a good way to say X that really captures what the bloke wanted to say, preparing a mini-lecture on the various options and how the context affects word choice. Meanwhile, our CEO (who is not fond of, nor even particularly interested in, English) will come up with the primary dictionary gloss pretty much instantly, making the interlocutor happy and me look catatonic. (This actually has happened several times.)
George said,
November 1, 2010 @ 12:07 pm
'Jayus' is possibly related to the Hiberno-English 'Jaysus', which is the appropriate reaction to such a joke.
W. Kiernan said,
Michael Farris:
"If a Czech sentence is can be translated (apart from the relevant word):
Why wouldn't "despair" work?
Michael R said,
Prozvonit is done in Africa. When I was there we called it "flashing" in English.
Eimear Ní Mhéalóid said,
I don't speak Spanish but am tempted to very unseriously proffer the Hiberno-English word "chancer" as a possible translation of "chanta".
While "ping" comes out of tech circles, it has the potential to bridge into non-tech geek circles via Monty Python — "Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping" — coupled with short ping-like noises being common as incoming text message indicators.
So quite literally, sending someone a brief status via text message (I'm here, On my way, etc.) is "ping"-ing them.
Benjamin Slade said,
What about particles more generally? Like Hindi तो or ही? One might offer a (partial) description of where they're used, but I can't think of how one would translate them (even lifting the one word requirement). (German has a number of these too, but I'm less familiar with their usage.)
teucer said,
Seems to me that all the real near-untranslatables are as hard to explain in their native languages as in foreign ones. I mean, I can't give an English translation for "duende" (although I think I mostly get the concept, although only mostly) – but I can't define it any better in Spanish, either.
And I'd be hard-pressed to actually explain what "fairness" really is, even though I'm a native English speaker; it's certainly not the same as "justice." The nearest Spanish equivalent (justo) is probably better regarded as meaning "just" – but that doesn't mean fairness is hard to translate so much as it means it's hard to explain, and in English we avoid explaining it by slapping a label on it and hoping our interlocutors feel the same way about it that we do. They usually don't, but they're generally close enough for meaningful discussion to continue with reference to the mostly-shared notion.
Teresa said,
My favorite "untranslatable" words (into English) are all from science-fiction. Some author has made up a word that humans should not be able to understand properly—but, of course, since the author is human, we usually can. Moreover, since they were specifically selected to be "untranslatable" concepts, they tend to fill in holes that English doesn't have.
"Grok", of course, has been fairly widely accepted, at least by the geek community. But I have yet to run into a decent translation of Cherryh's "man'chi" (rough gloss: the grouping instinct under fire; the urge to follow one's leader under pressure). Despite the fact that it was invented to describe a sensation humans (putatively) cannot feel, I find that the phrase "divided man'chi" is a fairly accurate description of how I feel when I try to explain to my thesis advisor that I have not been able to do something because my undergraduates have an exam this week. I would certainly say that in an academic sense I have man'chi to my advisor/department, and share that man'chi with my fellow graduate students. Does anyone have a succinct English substitution so I can explain to non-academic, non-Cherryh-readers what I feel?
roberto said,
"prozvonit Czech –
call a cellphone once so the other person will call back on their dime"
well, in the philippines, the term we use for this is to "miscall"–an understanding that you do not have sufficient load to sustain a call, and would appreciate the other party to do the calling instead.
Anthony said,
John Baker – Asimov tells the joke, but he then explains that there really is a word for disappointed in Yiddish: entoisht.
Teresa – "grok" = "understand instinctively", or, more volubly, "understand at a deeper level than mere intellectual understanding", as anyone who groks the concept would be able to tell you.
I suspect that many claims of untranslatability are actually claims that without having absorbed the culture that produced the word, one cannot grok the word.
Cherryh's "man'chi" seems like there's be an obvious word, but I don't have a military background (and am not an anthropologist), so I can't produce an English word right away. There's probably a German word shorter than "Schadenfreude" for it, though. The slightly longer explanations in English all seem to be verb phrases, while it sounds like "man'chi" is a noun, which will create some difficulty.
Onki said,
prozvonit = anklingeln in German.
anklingeln does not necessarily imply that you want them to call you back
Would the phrase "safety in numbers" work for man'chi? Or maybe "herd mentality"?
|Agent said,
It has been a while since I have read any of Cherryh's Foreigner books, but I always thought "duty along the chain of command" was a fair translation of "man'chi." The trick, in those books, is that humans can mistake that duty as other emotions, and humans do not instinctively balance man'chi like the atevi do.
zé do rock said,
yeah, portuguese 'saudade' is definitely nothing original; exept for the fact that portuguese reportedly feel it all the time – the great times when the seas belonged to them…
xmun, good one: germans sufring torschlusspanik should hav mor wabi-sabi.
i think german 'fernweh' ("far-woe") has to be translated in other languages with something like 'longing to be in a far place'. but peeple wouldnt think of it that way, i guess most peeple would say 'wen ar my bloody holidays?"
and i wonder if other languages hav a translation for (brazilian?) portuguese 'rebolar'. it meens bouncing with the hips and the ass wen yu walk or dance. usualy only wimmen and (rather extroverted) gays do it.
german 'bierselig' ("beer-souly", but in german the 'souly' meens happy) – joyus after drinking sum beers and uther alcohol.
drahtesel (wire-ass, in the zoological sense…) isnt bad either, but eesily translatable: bicicle.
Mira said,
Kundera's whole "lítost" thing is pretty silly. It can't say much about the Czech soul when "sorriness" is a perfectly good English word, and it has exactly the same meaning.
Piotr said,
A few notes on the Polish equivalents of "prozvonit" – no single word for that, but there are quite a few expressions Polish, the most widespread one (at least from my experience) being "puścić sygnał," which is simply "to send a signal".
Others include "puścić strzałkę (to send an arrow/a pointer), "puścić głuchego" (to send a deaf one, as discussed above, may be related to "głuchy telefon" "deaf telephone," which is our name for Chinese whispers), and "puścić krótkiego" (to send a short one).
I find the arrow one kind of similar to the Australian one discussed by BlakeMB above, "to sting sb" – a sharp object used for "hunting" ones attention, probably "hook" would be also good in English.
I'd say the purpose of "stinging" is not necessarily a part of the meaning of the phrase itself, it is called the same regardless of the caller's intentions, which may be "call me, I can't afford the conversation" or "I arrived safely" or "I'd like to remind you that…" or even "hiya" (kids in middle school are stinging each other all the time, using it as a little token of affection/attention/interest/friendship, it's like poking on facebook).
Regarding the use of "prank" in non-American anglophone countries as a translation of the concept of prozvonit:
Yet again, we're looking at cultures divided by a "common" language. Americans prank call each other too, but it's not the same thing. To prank somebody in America generally implies a mischiveous or malicious intent. The actually events are the same: party 1 calls party 2, not expecting a call back, but the purpose is completely different.
In non-American anglophone countries, I understand pranking as a way of letting somebody know that you've arrived at your destination, or as a benign signal of some sort to the second party. In America, pranking is an immature joke. Americans are more likely to prank somebody that they don't know by calling and either taking on a false personality or simply hanging up and repeating the call-hang up cycle several times. Of course, one may prank their friends as well, but we very rarely use it as an actual signal with any kind of functional meaning.
Francis said,
Wouldn't "tousle" be a decent translation of "cafuné"?
William Steed said,
I haven't seen 'hyggelig' turn up on one of these lists before. We recently came across its Anglo-Saxon cognate here while reading 'The Ruin'. It uses 'hygelic' with pretty much this meaning.
Ethan said,
The notion that "antoisht" (probably better spelled "entoisht") is Yiddish for "disappointed" strikes me as comical. What we see here is an American English phonetic spelling, more or less, of the German word "enttäuscht" ("disappointed"). Now, any attempt to answer the question "What is the Yiddish word for X?" turns ultimately on the question, "What is Yiddish, anyway?" Many relatively hifalutin German words were smuggled into Yiddish texts (and dictionaries) from the 19th century onward by intellectuals who were attempting to create a classier Yiddish than the plain speech of the ordinary people around them. On the other hand, one might argue that every German word is a potential Yiddish word in the same way that every Hebrew (or even Aramaic or Russian or Polish or Hungarian) word is. The basic feature of Yiddish, it seems to me, is that it contains no foreign elements whatsoever — because there is no boundary. In America, where a large number of Yiddish speakers live today, the commonest Yiddish word for "disappointed" is "disappointed."
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My first shopping destination with my brother and sister was our local convenience store to buy milk and to choose with great difficulty penny candy or chips. Now I live almost across the street from a convenience store. Over the years the store has saved me and my neighbours late in the evening when there was no milk for breakfast or scotch tape for a last minute school project. I have come to know the different owners and sometimes I have been fortunate to learn their stories and how they came to this place. One such story is currently being told through the play Kim’s Convenience on stage at Soulpepper Theatre at the Distillery. It is in part the playwright’s story, his parents’ story and the composite story of an immigrant child and his family. Ins Choi, the playwright, states in the introduction, “Kim’s Convenience is my love letter to my parents and to all first generation immigrants who call Canada their home.”
Out of joint with the crowd – our TIFF evening
It’s Saturday night and we are on our way to the TIFF Bell Lightbox. We love seeing movies there – the theatres are all beautifully designed and apart from the Festival in September it’s usually so sparsely attended that it feels like our private club. We arrive at 4:30 for a 4:45 screening of an old French movie, and the line-up is out the door and half a block down the sidewalk. My god, Toronto really is a film town! We’ll never get in. Turns out …
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My research interests focus on the impact of large-scale language testing on instruction, the relationship between classroom assessment and instruction, and the academic and professional acculturation of international and new immigrant students, workers, and professionals to Canada. I received the TOEFL award for outstanding dissertation in second/foreign language testing from Educational Testing Services in 1998, and TESOL Leadership Mentoring Award from TESOL in 2002.
My recent funded research projects include the following:
What’s in a Grade? A Multiple Perspective Validity Study on Grading Policies, Practices, Values, and Consequences (PDF Download)
Liying Cheng (Principal Investigator); Christopher DeLuca (Co-Investigator), Queen’s University.
Funded by SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) ($349,532)
Mapping Language Use and Communication Challenges to the Canadian Language Benchmarks and CELPIP-G within Workplace Contexts for Canadian New Immigrants
Christine Doe (Principal Investigator) Mount Saint Vincent University; Liying Cheng (Co-Investigator), Queen’s University; Scott Roy Douglas, the University of British Columbia
Funded by Paragon Testing Enterprises ($50,000)
Test Preparation: Does It Enhance Test Performance And English Language Proficiency? (PDF Download)
Liying Cheng (Principal Investigator); Hong Wang (Co-Investigator), Mount Saint Vincent University; Lynette May (Co-Investigator), Queensland University of Technology; Shahrzad Saif (Co-Investigator), Université Laval. Research News.
The Role of Testing in Professional Certification for Newly Arrived Foreign-Trained Professionals to Canada (PDF Download)
Liying Cheng (Principal Investigator). Research Summary. Research News 1 and 2.
Funded by CERIS The Ontario Metropolis Centre ($10,845)
Motivation, Test Anxiety and Language Test Performance: An International Investigation (PDF Download)
Liying Cheng (Principal Investigator); Don Klinger (Co-Investigator), Queen’s University; Janna Fox (Co-Investigator), Carleton University; Yan Jin (Co-Investigator), Shanghai Jiaotong University; Jessica Wu (Co-Investigator), The Language Training and Testing Center.
Funded by SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) ($75,000)
Second Language Immersion and Students’ Academic Success (PDF Download)
Liying Cheng (Principal Investigator); John Kirby and Lesly Wade-Woolley (Co-Investigators), Queen’s University; Haiyan Qiang (Co-Investigators), South China Normal University.
An impact study of a high-stakes ESL assessment innovation in Hong Kong secondary schools
Steve Andrews (Principal Investigator), University of Hong Kong, and Liz Hamp-Lyons, Christine Davison, University of Hong Kong, Liying Cheng (Co-Investigators), Queen’s University
Funded by UGC (University Grants Committee) ($176,883 equivalent)
Impact of the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test on Second Language Students (PDF download)
Liying Cheng (Principal Investigator); Janna Fox (Co-investigator), Carleton University, and Don Klinger (Collaborator), Queen’s University. See Research Spotlights.
Funded by SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) ($130,627).
Costs and Benefits: English for Academic Purposes Instruction in Canadian Universities (PDF download)
Janna Fox (Principal Investigator), Carleton University; Liying Cheng (Co-investigator), Queen’s University; and Robert Berman (Co-investigator), University of Alberta.
Developmental Evaluation for Alternative Teacher Accreditation Program for Teachers with International Experience (PDF download)
Liying Cheng (Principal Investigator) with Lyn Shulha, Don Klinger and Bob Wilson (Co-investigators), Assessment and Evaluation Group, Queen’s University.
Funded by The MTCU (Ministry of Training, College and Universities) ($54,000).
An Investigation of ESL/EFL Teachers’ Classroom Assessment Practices (PDF download)
Liying Cheng (Principal Investigator); Todd Rogers (Co-investigator), University of Alberta.
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Yes at 50 shows off musical muscle in first Michigan show; plays Grand Rapids tonight
by Ross Boissoneau
The version of prog-rock’s Yes featuring Steve Howe, Alan White and Geoff Downes stopped at Interlochen Thursday night. Check out the Local Spins review — a preview to Friday’s show at 20 Monroe Live.
Leading the Way: Guitarist Steve Howe, left, on stage with Yes at Interlochen’s Kresge Auditorium on Thursday night. (Photo/Cathy Boissoneau)
A half-century on, Yes carries on.
There have been defections, deaths, even lawsuits, but the current configuration hearkens back to its heyday while striving to remain contemporary.
Michigan Stop: This lineup of Yes is the only one playing the Great Lakes State this summer. (Photo/Cathy Boissoneau)
Thursday’s concert at Interlochen Center for the Arts – a preview to the band’s performance at 20 Monroe Live in Grand Rapids tonight (June 29) – showed Yes has still got power and muscle, though it’s slowed down a bit.
Opening to the familiar walk on music of Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite,” (familiar to Yes fans anyway), the band then launched into “Close to the Edge.” Singer Jon Davison has the range of Jon Anderson, though the timbre is significantly different.
Following the song, guitarist and de facto bandleader Steve Howe announced that longtime drummer Alan White would be joining the group later on before introducing Jay Schellen on drums. “Nine Voices” from 1999’s The Ladder followed, before Davison dedicated “Parallels” to the memory of bassist Chris Squire, the band’s co-founder. His hand-picked replacement, Billy Sherwood, was more than up to the task here and throughout the night, switching back and forth among three different basses.
Admittedly, a murky mix made it difficult to hear Geoff Downes’s keyboards, a problem all night.
HOWE SHINES IN VERSION OF YES SOME MIGHT NOT CONSIDER ‘CLASSIC’
Howe did the bulk of the announcing, a switch from years gone by when vocalist Jon Anderson was front and center, with Squire taking over after Anderson left/was booted (your choice). He seems comfortable in the role, but he’s had 40-plus years to figure it out.
His solo feature included the obligatory “Mood for a Day,” still a melodic masterpiece, before seguing into “Leaves of Green” from “The Ancient.” “Sweet Dreams” and “Heart of the Sunrise” finished the first set.
Guitar Master: Steve Howe once again proved his mettle. (Photo/Cathy Boissoneau)
After intermission, the band returned for “Perpetual Change,” again going back to the early ’70s. Here the vocals suffered from poor intonation, while the instrumental sections included dazzling guitar runs – that’s the 71-year-old Steve Howe, ladies and gentlemen – before devolving into a noisome mess. And still no Alan White.
Sherwood switched to a fretless bass for “Does it Really Happen” from Drama, with just the appropriate amount of crunch. Again, the vocals suffered from both intonation and mix problems.
While it can be tempting to point to the fact this incarnation of Yes is not the so-called classic version, it wasn’t until “Awaken” that flamboyant keyboardist Rick Wakeman was really and truly missed. Downes lacks the precision as well as the cape, and his choices of sounds on this piece was questionable. But finally here was Alan White, with Schellen moving over to percussion. An interlude featuring Davison on keyboard and White on tuned percussion was a highlight.
For the encores, original keyboardist Tony Kaye joined the fray, on “Yours Is No Disgrace” and the obligatory “Roundabout” and “Starship Trooper.” Downes graciously ceded the spotlight to Kaye, who clearly enjoyed being onstage.
Yes was always perceived as a band that combined otherworldly lyrics and vocals with superb instrumental prowess. This version remains as muscular as ever, and Howe has emerged as an honest-to-God guitar hero, as opposed to simply the brilliant guitarist he’s always been.
Still, it’s hard to see it as the magic group its longtime fans may be hankering for. And for those who came aboard with “Owner of a Lonely Heart” and the rest of “90125” and “Big Generator,” sorry, wrong aisle.
For that you’ll have to catch an appearance by the other band celebrating 50 years, Yes featuring ARW, with Anderson, Wakeman and guitarist Trevor Rabin. (That band kicks off a U.S. tour in August, but there are no Michigan stops.)
Tickets for Friday’s 20 Monroe Live show — $49.50-$150 — are available at 20monroelive.com.
PHOTO GALLERY: Yes at Interlochen
Photos by Cathy Boissoneau
Tags: prog-rock
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November 12, 2019 martyn crucefix autobiography, contemporary American poetry, contemporary British poetry, creative writing, New British Poetry, poetry, poetry in performance, poetry workshops, writing A Boat Called Annalise, Brooklyn Bridge, Dannie Abse, Dannie Abse 'The Presence', Federico Garcia Lorca, Gillian Clarke, Jim Neat, Joan Abse, late flowering love, Lynne Hjelmgaard, Mary J. Oliver, New York City, poems of grief, poems of remembrance, Sere, Shearsman Books, The Ring, Torbay Poetry Festival, widowhood
Last night I was at the Poetry Café in Covent Garden for the launch of two new collections from Seren Books. Lynne Hjelmgaard was reading from A Second Whisper and Mary J. Oliver was launching her debut collection, Jim Neat: the Case of a Young Man Down on His Luck. Oliver’s book is a curious, thought-provoking mix of family research and prose/poetic fictions. But I’ve known Hjelmgaard for a few years now as a workshop colleague and as a friend of Dannie Abse and I wanted to gather some thoughts here on her new poems.
In her playfully titled poem, ‘Ode to a Danish Lamp’, Lynne Hjelmgaard constructs a paean to a piece of electrical equipment which ends rhetorically, “Why do you move me so?” Some clues to the answer are scattered through the poem; they lie in comparisons. The lamp is an example of “Nordic metallic cool”, beside which the speaker – “a mere human” – feels humbled. She and the rest of the room, we are told, arrange themselves about the lamp which hence serves as a focal point and even a source of “answers”. It’s as if the lamp is wired up to a clearer, less divided, perhaps purer world:
[. . . ] the charged interior, a territory,
where no country nationality race
or religion has any significance.
In contrast, the human figure is more embedded in a world of time, place and quotidian specificity while the lamp emerges with its “fine, oh so thin aluminium rim” as a denizen of a less troubled realm. The speaker is moved because excluded from such a realm and the majority of the poems in A Second Whisper focus precisely on our more compromised, familiar world, particularly the ‘merely human’ experiences of time, memory and loss.
Without being a particularly philosophical poet, Hjelmgaard writes as someone who is an “expert at loss”. Another less typical poem describes – in great detail – Brooklyn Bridge and the area around it (the poet was born in New York City). She remembers sailing out under the bridge:
Manhattan is a chain with many links,
some are broken, lost and never repair,
but others can be retrieved even at a distance.
For what can shine so brightly at sea
but a city, once loved, left behind?
Hjelmgaard’s focus on links lost or remembered is probably hard-wired into her constitution (these thematic roots usually are) but it has also been provoked by biographical influences. Her 2011 book, The Ring (Shearsman Books) was dedicated to the memory of her Danish husband, Stig – who died in 2006 – and followed an American woman’s travels around Europe, mourning and negotiating that loss. Dannie Abse, among others, praised those poems: “Widowhood allows them to acquire a poignant universality”. Five years later, A Boat Called ‘Annalise’ (Seren Books), was full of more poems of remembrance, evoking the sea journey the newly married couple made out of New York to Europe, via the Caribbean.
There are further poems written to and about her husband in this new book. In ‘As We Silently Agree’, the husband appears to the widow, “in some kind of afterlife”, and is seen busying with a boat’s anchor chain, searching the ship’s log and weather charts. This is perhaps a dream poem:
Our fingers clasp in recognition
as we silently agree:
what does it matter now
if you don’t keep the course?
And ‘Scorpion Hill’ may be another example of dreamwork, the wife this time revisiting a once-shared house in the Caribbean. Its final image is of many moths clustering round “a single light bulb / left on during the night”. These are fine poems of time and sustaining memory – that bulb still burning – in which the past and those lost within it are shown to revisit the survivor.
Hjelmgaard’s treatment of this traditional theme is neither religious nor consolatory in any facile way. The pain of great loss is heartfelt and yet she manages to persuade the reader – it’s less intellectual than that, maybe she draws her readers in to the actual experience – that what lies in the past still retains is power to evoke pleasure and even that the future’s gifts are to be welcomed, even anticipated. In ‘To a Chestnut Tree’, addressing the tree in its autumnal state, the narrator is sure, “There will always be another one. / And another. // Loss can be moved through like a room”. What a magnificent line that last one is. There is a wisdom in it, however modestly it may be presented.
Time takes – but time also provides. Another poem of trees has a fir leaning eventually into a “beloved palm” – though it may take a century or two of slow growth. A lonely tamarisk on a cliff top also has the capacity to “wait until it can drink / from the bay eighty feet below”. Hjelmgaard finds her themes in the smallest incidents. Unpacking a suitcase after a journey, she finds she has brought two extra items home with her. One is a fossil of a snail which seems to represent a determined persistence through time (60 million years perhaps, in this case). The other – a flighty stowaway – is a spider which she finds “already busy / making yourself at home”. The spider evokes an improvisatory optimism, an adaptability, even an adventurousness, which I see as some of the most distinctive elements in the themes of Hjelmgaard’s work.
It’s these qualities to which Gillian Clarke is responding in her comment on A Second Whisper, where she finds in the book “the story of a special late love after bereavement”. In recent years, the British poet who has written most powerfully and movingly about bereavement and the encroachment of the past into the present is Dannie Abse. This is from his poem ‘The Presence’ about the loss of his wife, Joan:
It’s when I’m most myself, most alone
with all the clamour of my senses dumb,
then, in the confusion of Time’s deletion
by Eternity, I welcome you and you return
improbably close, though of course you cannot come.
The opening 14 poems of A Second Whisper explore the loving relationship that sprung up between Hjelmgaard and Dannie Abse after the deaths of Stig and Joan. Her opening prose piece takes us directly into everyday details. The two bereaved poets meet: “And for a time it was the four of us. Though one day, without ceremony, we noted their absence”. Thus set free, the ones still living proceed, though along no clear path, “wherever poetry and Eros chose to take [them]”
Even at their first meeting – on a train journey back from the Torbay Poetry Festival – the presence and absence of time was notable. Minutes were not to be wasted in the presence of the older poet, says the younger narrator. But mysteriously – this is in late October – the waitress at the station café is seen taking away the clock to change the hour. A photograph of the two poets at a reading shows the younger woman “less sure of herself”, while Abse is more comfortable with the attention. But at 85 years old, Abse begins appearing in these poems as more and more in decline. “Aged and dying you grew more tender”, as ‘A Second Whisper’ puts it. In this poem – as in several others – Hjelmgaard is visiting Abse at home.
I knew just how to open your front door quietly.
Its lock a whisper, a second whisper to shut.
This image – absolutely precise in its remembrance, yet also powerfully suggestive – is like the earlier line about walking through loss as through a room. The first whisper has a respectfulness, concerned with quietude, with the sensitivity of the artist, the closeness of death. The second whisper is full of ambivalence: protective perhaps from the noisy, nosey world, wanting to secure the intimacy, wanting to defend the loved one from the inevitable, yet a foreshadowing of that very inevitability.
‘A Thief Is in the House’ has death portrayed as an invader, breathing heavily, thumping up the stairs to the dying figure whose “eyes [are] prepared // for nothingness”. But these poems are not overwhelmed by grief. As if taking a leaf out of Abse’s own poems of mourning and remembrance, Hjelmgaard’s predominant tone is one of recall and revisiting – even of re-visitation. Walking alone on Hampstead Heath, she hears the lost lover chanting a Lorca poem; because one day they sheltered under an awning on Golders Green Road, every time it rains now, “the rain /stops everything / to think of you”. And in an exquisite lyric, ‘Speak to me Again at Dusk’, Hjelmgaard yearns to resume her conversations with the dead poet, yet her tone – which might have been one of pleading and despair – in fact retains a clear appreciation of the lasting value of what has been and a pleasured openness to the present (hear those noisy roosters in a moment!). Such deep-grained attitudes seem to have been a mutual common ground between these two writers and perhaps was one of the constitutive elements in their late-flowering love:
These lines among many lines
are words just for you
and the roosters that speak them
just before dawn.
‘Sis, you gotta let go’: on Mona Arshi’s ‘Dear Big Gods’
May 15, 2019 martyn crucefix contemporary British poetry, creative writing, New British Poetry, poetry, poetry in performance, post-colonial writing, religious poetry, writing definitive knowledge, dream poems, Emily Dickinson, Federico Garcia Lorca, ghazal poetic form, grief poems, Jerome Rothenburg, Liverpool University Press, meditation, memory, Mirror Suite, Mona Arshi, Pavilion Poetry, prayer, Small Hands, spiritual poems, The Mahabharata, the third eye
In a recent launch reading for her second collection, Dear Big Gods (Pavilion Poetry/Liverpool University Press, 2019), Mona Arshi suggested it was a book she wrote only reluctantly. Her first book, Small Hands (2015), had at its centre a number of poems in memory of her brother, Deepak, who died unexpectedly in 2012. On her own admission, these new poems continue to be imbued with this grief and – though poets surely always write the book that needs to be written – there is a sense that the development of the new work has been stalled by such powerful feelings. My 2015 review of Small Hands saw Arshi as “an intriguing writer, potentially a unique voice if she can achieve the right distance between herself and her powerful formative influences”. The influences I had in mind then were literary rather than personal, but I find the lack of distance travelled between the earlier and this more recent work rather disappointing.
In fact, Deepak’s death is the explicit subject on only a few occasions. The poem ‘When your Brother Steps into your Piccadilly, West Bound Train Carriage’ isn’t much longer than its own title but it evokes that familiar sense of (mis-)seeing our dead in a public place. The emotions remain raw, from the accusatory “how-the-fuck-could-you?” to the final “I am sorry, I’m so sorry”. A dream or daydream meeting is also the basis for ‘A Pear from the Afterlife’ in which the brother’s affectionate tone advises, “Sis, you gotta let go / of this idea of definitive knowledge”. ‘Five Year Update’ is by far the most extended of these reflections on the brother’s passing, written in very long raking lines (rotated 45 degrees to stretch vertically on the page). “I hope it’s fine to contact you”, it opens and goes on to recall the moment the news of his death was received (see also ‘Phone Call on a Train Journey’ from Small Hands), remembers their childhood together and the sister’s continuing life: “I’ve gone down one lump not two, I still don’t swim and yes I still can’t / take a photograph”.
As the blurb suggests, these poems are indeed “lyrical and exact exploration[s] of the aftershocks of grief”. But ‘Everywhere’ adopts a little more distance and develops the kind of floating and delicate lyricism that Arshi does so well. The absent brother/uncle is still alluded to: “We tell the children, we should not / look for him. He is everywhere”. As that final phrase suggests, the rawness of the grief is being transmuted into a sense of otherness, beyond the quotidian and material. It’s when Arshi takes her brother’s advice and lets go of “definitive knowledge” that her poems promise so much. ‘Little Prayer’ might be spoken by the dead or the living, left abandoned, but either way it argues a stoical resistance: “I am still here // hunkered down”. In a more conventional mode, ‘The Lilies’ develops the objective correlative of the flowers suffering from blight as an image of a spoliation that hurts and reminds, yet is allowed to persist: “I let them live on / beauty-drained / in their altar beds”.
Like so many first books, Small Hands experimented with various poetical forms. This book also – a bit wilfully – tries out tanka, poems in two columns, right justification, centre justification, ghazals, inter-cut texts, prose poems, a sestina, an Emily Dickinson parody and responses to Lorca and The Mahabharata. They don’t all work equally well and Arshi perhaps senses this in lines like these:
My little bastard verses
tiny polyglot faces
how light you are
how virtually weightless
The irony may be that this sort of form and reach actually does show Arshi at her best. The sequence of tiny poems modelled on Lorca’s ‘Mirror Suite’ (1921-1923) is fascinating. Jerome Rothenburg, discussing Lorca’s poems, describes them as possessing “a coolness & (sometimes) quirkiness, a playfulness of mind & music that I found instantly attractive”. These same qualities – as with Lorca, a version of surrealism, a firm but gentle turning aside from “definitive knowledge” – I enjoy in Arshi’s work as she explores states of the heart and realms of knowledge not ordinarily encountered or encompassed. Dear Big Gods contains other such Lorca-esque sequences such as ‘Autumn Epistles’, ‘Grief Holds a Cup of Tea’ and ‘Let the Parts of the Flower Speak’ and these are far more interesting than the poems drawn from The Mahabharata or the experiments in prose.
Arshi’s continuing love affair with ghazals also seems to me to be an aspect of this same search for a form that holds both the connected and the stand-alone in a creative tension. ‘Ghazal: Darkness’ is very successful with the second line of each couplet returning to the refrain word, “darkness”, while the connective tissue of the poem allows a roaming through woods, soil, mushrooms and a mother’s praise of her daughters. Poems based on – or at least with the qualities of – dreams also stand out. The doctor in ‘Delivery Room’ asks the mother in the midst of her contractions, “Do you prefer the geometric or lyrical approach?” In ‘The Sisters’ the narrator dreams of “all the sisters I never had” and within 10 lines Arshi has expressed complex yearnings about loneliness and protectiveness in relation to siblings and self.
Given the traumatic disruption of her own, it’s no surprise that Arshi’s most frequently visited subject area is family relationships. I’ve referred to several of these poems already and ‘Gloaming’ floats freely through the fears of losing a child, the care of an ageing father, a mother “entering/leaving through a narrow lintel” and the recall of the “thick soup of our childhood”. The soup works well both as literal food stuff and as metaphor for the nourishing, warming milieu of an up-bringing, though the girl who looks up at the end of the poem is already exploring questions of identity. She asks, “where are you from, what country are we in?” Given Arshi’s own background – born to Punjabi Sikh parents in West London – such questions have obvious autobiographical and political relevance, though I sense Arshi herself is also asking questions of a more spiritual nature.
So, in ‘My Third Eye’, the narrator is “more perplexed than annoyed” that her own third eye – the mystical and esoteric belief in a speculative, spiritual perception – has not yet “opened”. The poem’s mode and tone is comic for the most part; there is a childish impatience in the voice, asking “Am I not as worthy as the buffalo, the ferryman, / the cook and the Dalit?”. But in the final lines, the holy man she visits is given more gravitas. He touches the narrator’s head “and with that my eyes suddenly watered, widened and / he sent me on my way as I was forever open open open”. The book also closes with the title poem, ‘Dear Big Gods’, which takes the form of a prayer: “all you have to do / is show yourself”, it pleads. The delicate probing of Arshi’s best poems, their stretching of perception and openness to unusual states of emotion are driven by this sort of spiritual quest. Personal tragedy has no doubt fed this creative drive but – as the poet seems to be aware – such grief is only an aspect of her vision and not the whole of it.
Lorca’s Gypsy Ballad ‘Reyerta’ – a new translation
September 11, 2018 martyn crucefix autobiography, contemporary British poetry, contemporary Swedish poetry, creative writing, Irish poetry, poetry, Spanish poetry, translation, writing ballads, Christy Moore, Federico Garcia Lorca, Gypsy Ballads, metaphor, Omnibus Theatre, Reyerta, Romancero gitano, Romancero sonambulo, The Song of the Wandering Aengus, The Wind Among the Reeds, W B Yeats
This week, at the Omnibus Theatre on Clapham Common, I was invited to deliver a brief, personal talk about Lorca’s poetry, particularly from the perspective of translating it. I have always found his poems difficult to work on – beyond a superficial level – though, as what follows suggests, I hope I have made some headway with it over the years. There are plenty of very poor translations around. I’m posting two blogs on this and including two of my own translations, the first, unpublished as yet, the second appeared a while back in a small magazine. I’ve left my talk pretty much as . . . My translation of ‘Reyerta’ can be found at the end of the posting. I will post on the even more astonishing poem, ‘Romancero sonambulo’, next week.
My personal story with Lorca maybe begins even before I’d read him. When I did come to read him – in a Penguin Modern Poets collection with (quote) plain prose translations – I didn’t get it. Later – as I often calculatingly do with a poet I don’t get – I tried to translate a few poems. To begin with, I didn’t get it then either.
Actually, my problems are genuinely surprising, in retrospect, as I’d long before this responded powerfully to something which I can now see had a strong Lorca quality to it. Let’s go back to the early 1980s. Imagine the beard, the much longer hair. The ignorance . . . A friend of mine loved his Irish folk music. He told me to listen to a song sung by Christy Moore. I say a song – a ballad really.
The song’s voice (a young man) tells us he went to a wood, he cut a branch of hazel, went fishing with it and caught a trout. What drove him was the fire in his head. The scene is vividly conveyed, neat turns of phrase like the white moths and moth-like stars and, as he lights a fire, the trout turns into a girl who calls to him but runs off.
Then the youth’s narrative jumps – the kind of moment that really does take the top of your head off. The voice concludes:
Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done,
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.
I really didn’t know it at the time, but the song’s words are, of course, by W.B. Yeats. It is his poem ‘The Song of Wandering Aengus’, from The Wind Among the Reeds (1899).
But I knew well enough that I found it moving – the yearning of the narrative, the devastating presentation of time passing, the strange images and most of all the mystery that spread itself over the whole like endlessly suggestive moonlight.
And so eventually, in Lorca too, I began to understand three big things – his poetry’s sense of generative mystery, the strange unexpectedness of his images and the boldness – the jump cuts – of his narrative development.
I’m focusing on these things tonight and what better place to start than a lecture he gave. Lorca typically (both self-deprecating and boldly idiosyncratic) calls it rather a talk about something no one has taught him – a lecture about the collection of poems called Gypsy Ballads. He published this best-selling book in 1930 and here he is speaking in October 1935. Of course, within the year he would have been murdered, his body dumped somewhere never to be found.
But in these lecture comments, we catch the man very much alive, I think, plus the poet’s love of outlandish metaphors. He says that lectures, in the traditional sense, tend to “fill the audience’s eyes with the pinpoints where Morpheus hangs his irresistible anemones”. For those of you already nodding off, he means in such talks we often fall asleep. Or at least, the speaker inadvertently fills the hall with “yawns too big for even the mouth of an alligator”.
I have now translated a number of Lorca’s poems and one of the great difficulties is to carry over such metaphorical leaps into English where they risk sounding very silly indeed. Fair enough, the alligator is, on the face of it, obvious enough: its gaping jaws give a good jolt of comic hyperbole to his image. But it’s still surprising in the context of a be-suited, bespectacled lecture hall in Spain. There is an exoticism there on the verge of surrealism and is characteristic of Lorca’s images. This search for novelty in image is clear when he argues later that a real poet must “shoot his arrows at living metaphors and not at the contrived and false ones which surround him”.
The Morpheus image does something else which is typical. Lorca takes up a creaking old mythic figure and with his sustained and vividly specific imagination, a vigorous verb, plus the kind of adjective on which he always liked to turn the volume up to 11, he brings the god of sleep and dreams to modern life: “the pinpoints where Morpheus hangs his irresistible anemones”. This sort of thing really is at the heart of Lorca’s project to take up traditional forms and stories and invest them with a modern vitality. One of his fellow students in his brief time at Columbia University reported that for Lorca, “new metaphors were the core and mainstay of any new poetry [. . .] Lorca’s central idea in writing was to employ phrases which had never been used before [. . .] an attempt to place together two things which had always been considered as belonging to two different worlds, and in that fusion and shock to give them both a new reality”.
This is the root of his belief that by means of poetry “a man more rapidly approaches the cutting edge that the philosopher and the mathematician turn away from in silence”. Never a proper, card-carrying surrealist, we can see why his work was working along that same grain. The well-honed, well-trodden, conventional, empirical/logical grooves of the philosopher or mathematician need a down-right shake up and poetic images easily seize the liberty to do this.
The Gypsy Ballad called ‘Reyerta’ or ‘The Quarrel’ or ‘Fight’ shows a lot of this for me. Lorca’s own comments on the poem suggest his interest in the way groups attack each other for unlikely reasons – a glance, a rose, a love affair centuries old, a man feeling a bug on his cheek. It opens:
Halfway down the gulley,
knives of Albacete,
beautiful with enemy blood
glinting like fish.
Like fish? A surprising image – but perhaps the silver and red (of fish fins; of steel and blood) makes this a vivid visual opening to the poem. But the surprise holds my attention; I can’t dismiss the slipperiness of the fish, the literal and metaphorical slipperiness of knives in a fight, perhaps the speed of movement of fish/fighters.
The images of the next quatrain are vividly expressive but hard to be literal about:
In the crown of an olive,
two old women mourn.
The bull of the brawl
heaves itself up walls.
The women weep but to see them apparently perched in a tree top explains less and reveals more. So – they are far from the quarrel, putting distance between themselves and the ruckus, and where better than an olive tree, symbol of rootedness, domesticity perhaps, a long rural history, the bark’s wrinkles echoing their old weeping faces. Then the quarrel as an utterly non-literal, aggressive bull might seem an obvious image but again Lorca fixes our attention and conjures an independent life for it – as in a bullfighting ring – crashing into walls, even beginning to climb them.
Mysterious black angels float through this poem at various moments. They are partly obvious, ominous, harbingers, though not of salvation but doom. Again, Lorca commits to them, commits details to them which tend to deepen the mystery of their significance: they are “bringing / meltwater, handkerchiefs. / Angels with wings as wide / as these Albacete knives” and, at the conclusion of the poem, they are seen “wheeling / in the air to the west. / Angels with trailing braids / and with hearts of oil”. With hearts of oil? Golden, greasy, liquid, melting, fast-beating, lacking healthy blood, anointing the earth, the good stuff spilling everywhere? Its meaning is a mystery and I suspect one Lorca would not venture to explain himself.
Just one last detail from this great poem. Juan Antonio de Montilla is killed in the fight and – in one of Lorca’s characteristic jump cut edits (more of that in a minute) suddenly (it seems) the “judge and Civil Guard / come through the olive groves”. Somebody – a participant, one of the old women? – gives them an account of events in the form of exactly one of Lorca’s startling metaphors. This may have been a quarrel over a card game, or a girl, like so many others, but Lorca dizzyingly elevates it into an historical, even epic context:
Just as they always do:
four Romans have died
and five Carthaginians.
Here is my translation in full – the original Spanish follows:
Halfway down the gulley
a harsh playing-card light,
silhouettes on sour green,
the infuriated horsemen.
And black angels bringing
meltwater, handkerchiefs.
Angels with wings as wide
as these Albacete knives.
Juan Antonio Montilla
rolling dead down a slope,
his body full of irises,
pomegranate on his brow.
He rides a cross of fire now
down the road to death.
The judge and Civil Guard
come through olive groves.
Slithering blood moans
a serpent’s mute song.
Masters! Civil Guardsmen!
as have five Carthaginians
Evening crazed with figs
and hot rumours falling
faint on the wounded
thighs of the horsemen.
And black angels wheeling
in the air to the west.
Angels with trailing braids
and with hearts of oil.
Reyerta
En la mitad del barranco
las navajas de Albacete,
bellas de sangre contraria,
relucen como los peces.
Una dura luz de naipe
recorta en el agrio verde,
caballos enfurecidos
y perfiles de jinetes.
En la copa de un olivo
lloran dos viejas mujeres.
El toro de la reyerta
se sube por las paredes.
Ángeles negros traían
pañuelos y agua de nieve.
Ángeles con grandes alas
de navajas de Albacete.
Juan Antonio el de Montilla
rueda muerto la pendiente,
su cuerpo lleno de lirios
y una granada en las sienes.
Ahora monta cruz de fuego,
carretera de la muerte.
El juez, con guardia civil,
por los olivares viene.
Sangre resbalada gime
muda canción de serpiente.
Señores guardias civiles:
aquí pasó lo de siempre.
Han muerto cuatro romanos
y cinco cartagineses.
La tarde loca de higueras
y de rumores calientes
cae desmayada en los muslos
heridos de los jinetes.
Y ángeles negros volaban
por el aire del poniente.
Ángeles de largas trenzas
y corazones de aceite.
2018 Forward First Collections Reviewed #4 – Shivanee Ramlochan
August 1, 2018 August 18, 2018 martyn crucefix contemporary British poetry, contemporary Caribbean poetry, creative writing, Gay poetry, poetry, poetry competitions, post-colonial writing, writing Abigail Parry, duenne, Federico Garcia Lorca, Forward First Collections, Forward Poetry prize, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jean Rhys, Kali, Kaveh Akbar, Lilith, Peepal Tree Press, Phoebe Power, Richard Scott, Shivanee Ramlochan, soucouyant, Trinidad, Vahni Capildeo, Virginia Woolf, Wide Sargasso Sea
This is the fourth in the series of reviews I am posting over the summer of the 5 collections chosen for the 2018 Forward Prizes Felix Dennis award for best First Collection. The £5000 prize will be decided on 18th September 2018. Click on this link to access all 5 of my reviews of the 2017 shortlisted books (eventual winner Ocean Vuong), here for my reviews of the 2016 shortlisted books (eventual winner Tiphanie Yanique), here for my reviews of the 2015 shortlisted books (eventual winner Mona Arshi).
The full 2018 shortlist is:
Kaveh Akbar – Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Penguin UK)
Abigail Parry – Jinx (Bloodaxe Books) – click here for my review of this book.
Phoebe Power – Shrines of Upper Austria (Carcanet) – click here for my review of this book.
Shivanee Ramlochan – Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (Peepal Tree Press)
Richard Scott – Soho (Faber & Faber) – click here for my review of this book.
Shivanee Ramlochan’s book is full of rebellions and unexpectedly, simultaneously manages to evoke the unholy trinity of Jean Rhys, Garcia Lorca and Garcia Marquez. But it’s not an easy read with its long lines of free verse transiting rapidly from person to person, place to place, from the demotic to the magical, from material to spiritual and the poems are also liberally peppered with Caribbean and Hindu references and allusions (many of which the likes of myself are going to have to look up). Ramlochan also invents many different characters, not giving all of them distinctively differing modes of speech but, in many ways, the (literally) presiding spirits here are the duenne and the soucouyant.
Soucouyant
The former, in traditional terms, are spirits of children who died before they were baptized, who are fated to roam the forests of Trinidad, practicing their repertoire of dangerous pranks. They are sexless, their feet are turned backwards; they have no faces (though they have small round mouths) and they wear mushroom-shaped straw hats. The soucouyant is a shape-shifting Caribbean folklore character who appears as a reclusive old woman by day, but by night she adopts her true form as a fireball, flying across the sky in search of victims. These are outcasts, liminal figures with strange, threatening powers. Interestingly, Jean Rhys’ Antoinette, in Wide Sargasso Sea, is compared to a soucouyant and Ramlochan has spoken of Rhys’ character, “carrying her arsonist’s candle through the empty, cold halls of her oppressor’s mansion, ready to raze it to the ground”, as an important inspiration.
As with Rhys, the oppressor/Rochester figure represents the status quo, the loaded dice of orthodoxy and patriarchal power, and so – in modern parlance – what Ramlochan is pursuing is the “subversion of the hetero-normative value system”. Accordingly, ‘The Abortionist’s Daughter Declares Her Love’ draws on a grandmother’s experiences as an illegal abortionist, often faced with the disapproval of society (the church especially): “They have called me many things between these aisles”. The facts of gender inequality are made clear because when “men aspire to terrible jobs, we offer them hushed respect”, whereas women doing the same are felt to deserve nothing more than an “acreage of sorrow”. The word “acreage” is picked up on. Its limited nature is explored, ironically, suggesting that even in their degrees of sorrow, the experiences of such marginal women are strictly limited: “Give her enough land to hang herself”.
There is a sequence in the middle of the book which offers a clearer view of Ramlochan’s approach. ‘The Red Thread Cycle’, on the face of it, explores the traumatic consequences of rape. How to articulate the event is one theme and there is a magic-real quality which initially seems to add to the horror: “Don’t say Tunapuna Police Station. / Say you found yourself in the cave of the minotaur”. But this shifts quickly instead to reflect how police and authorities fail to take such a literal description seriously, even blaming the woman herself: “Say / he took something he’ll be punished for taking, not something you’re punished for holding / like a red thread between your thighs”. Other poems trace improvised rituals (real and semi-real) to expiate the crime and trace the passage of years. Some moments suggest the lure of suicide with allusions to Virginia Woolf’s death by water, carrying “pockets of white stones”. Seeing the unpunished rapist at large eventually becomes possible: “Nothing drowns you, when you see him again”. The sequence is a lot less chronological than I am making it sound, but what the woman has been doing over the years is, in a striking phrase, “working to train the flinch out of myself”. This has been achieved partly through art. Ramlochan certainly sees such pain as an essential part of the artist’s apprenticeship, that it will “feed your best verse”, and the sequence ends with her reading poems in public as an act of strength and self-affirmation, marking the psychic death of the aggressor: “applause, hands slapping like something hard and holy / is grating out gold halleluiahs / beneath the proscenium of his grave”.
But such possibly-biographical writing is not really typical of this book. Ramlochan transgresses beyond the confines of the Caribbean status quo by writing about her spirit figures who more easily and boldly express resistance. ‘Duenne Lorca’ seems to be an address to an unbaptised Caribbean Lorca-esque child. Like the Spanish poet, Ramlochan loves colour and a boldness of image almost to excess. The mother recalls how she “damped my dress with your purplish blood and rinsed you in the river, / stained my mouth / with the placenta of your leavings”. She rinses religion from his clothes each week and wishes him well in the forest he must haunt as an outcast but one who achieves freedoms unavailable within really existing society. It’s no surprise that Ramlochan is drawn to write about Lilith too, the Christian religion’s air-brushed female rebel. Even the Virgin Mary gets a poem, her character and role re-written as a jungle-haunting rebel, surviving weeks of deprivation. Eventually, she celebrates the “statues of the men who spoonfed us English [being] ground to glassine”. In this alternative history, the hoped-for liberation brought about by rebellion is successful: “We ate the words for marriage, for sacrament, for lawfully wed”.
The collection opens with ‘A Nursery of Gods for my Half-White Child’ which – apart from sounding like a poem title from heaven to the likes of ACE – challenges the teaching of religion (Ganesh, Kali, Krishna, Saraswati) to children and tries to offer the freedom to invent and self-invent in its place. I think the book would have opened better with ‘All the Dead, All the Living’ which is a much more enjoyable, energetic, colloquial celebration of such freedoms of choice. Set at Jouvay or Carnival, the poem invites all and sundry to “play yourself / or somebody else”. More idealistic wish-fulfilment than serious life-coaching, this is a message of liberation – to play grandmother, mother, all the dead, the living, even a soucouyant – is infectious. In a blurb, Vahni Capildeo notes Ramlochan’s poetry’s resistance to having an “identity” forced upon it and she’s right that the poems wilfully refuse any easy, specific biographical reading. Towards the end of the book, poems are in the voices of gay men. ‘Crossdressing at Divali Nagar’ is a more quiet and tender poem than most in the book, as two boys dress and paint henna patterns on each other.
The final poem has the character Vivek naming his various male lovers after religious festivals (because his father had told him not to make love to “faggots”). Ramlochan’s challenge to orthodoxy is obviously working on several fronts here. Though narrated in the second person, the voice is really Vivek’s and it’s an impressive piece of sensual, tender and funny, ventriloquism. But the book’s last lines are full of the book’s more characteristic serious intent. A “glock” is a pistol and Vivek here seems to make a firm, final choice of his festival-named lover and in doing so manages to challenge patriarchy, religion, family, gender and what we might consider ‘nature’ all in one go:
The day you marry Hanukkah is a glock pointed to your father’s face.
You tell him
I am the queen
the comeuppance
the hard heretic that nature intended.
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Remote Caribbean islands can now get pizza delivered by plane
By Brian Koerber 2015-08-13 20:06:48 UTC
Sometimes, you seriously need a pizza.
Although Amazon is itching to deliver the world goods with drones, there are some places in the world where a drone makes no sense, like the small islands of Saba and St. Eustatius in the Caribbean. But starting this month, they can get pizza delivered, by plane of course.
See also: This pot delivery startup wants to deliver weed with drones
After an April Fools' joke of helicopter pizza delivery left pizza-craving islanders thinking wishfully, a Dominos in the St. Maarten airport has officially teamed up with the airline Winair to offer small, neighboring islands pizza delivered by plane.
Audrey Agard, a manager at the Dominos location, told Mashable that since the service launched earlier this month, it has become quite popular — with several requests per day.
The food service is taking advantage of existing flights already scheduled to the islands. So when a customer calls to order a pizza, they are able to pick an arrival time and the pizza is baked right before departure. Typical fight times range from 15 to 20 minutes, depending on the island and weather conditions.
So what will this cost? As of right now, Agard said the delivery fee will only set customers back $2.75. The only downside that we can see is how jealous plane passengers will be when the delicious pizza smell takes over the plane's cabin.
Unfortunately, for pizza enthusiasts, they'll still have to drive to the airport in order to pickup their pizza from Winair, but that's better than no pizza at all.
Topics: pizza, planes, Travel, Travel & Leisure, Culture
Video: YouTube, Leslie Yip
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Local Greens have branded Maidstone Borough Council as irresponsible, accusing it of ignoring the appaling impacts of air pollution as the council announced its failure to consult properly with the public on the issue. Only three people responded to the consultation on the strategy and the Greens have stated that councillors have shown a complete disinterest in an issue that is killing 130 people each year in Maidstone. The Greens have called for a further consultation and for real measures to be proposed that will reduce pollution.
Gareth Phillips, Green Party campaigner in High Street Ward: "The council's plans to address air pollution are bordering on negilgence. 130 people are killed as a result of air pollution each year in Maidstone yet the council seems to have little interest in even beginning to tackle the problem.
"Their consultation on a strategy has failed. It was hardly surprising that just three people responded when the council has not clearly advertised it to the public. Even the councillors who must have known about the consultation have done nothing to encourage people to respond. It is clear that the council is not interested in people's concerns.
"It may be that they were not keen to get responses from the public as their proposed strategy is woeful. It fails to mention the number of deaths in Maidstone, hiding behind a percentage figure and it chooses to ignore deaths from nitrous oxides altogether. The strategy fails to suggest any real measures either to understand air pollution or to reduce it."
Stuart Jeffery, Secretary of Maidstone Green Party: "Two or three people are dying each week here in Maidstone while the council is happily ignoring its duty to tackle this urgent issue. We need to see concisive action such as live monitoring across the borough that trigger a range of actions to bring pollution levels back down, such as road closures. We need to see a huge public awareness camapign and we need to see real investment in walking, cycling, buses and trains."
https://services.maidstone.gov.uk/meetings/documents/s47548/Draft%20Low%20Emission%20Strategy%20Consultation%20Response.pdf
https://services.maidstone.gov.uk/meetings/documents/s47549/Enc.1%20for%20Draft%20Low%20Emission%20Strategy%20Consultation%20Response.pdf
https://services.maidstone.gov.uk/meetings/documents/s47550/Enc.%202%20for%20Draft%20Low%20Emission%20Strategy%20Consultation%20Response.pdf
Green Party celebrates re-election of Caroline Lucas in Brighton Pavilion
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What is a Majora’s Mask Opera? »
A Majora’s Mask Opera
Hello internet,
The current look of the blog is a temporary solution for a better presentation, but given the sudden boom around my first uploaded demo, I feel I should clarify what this is all about.
On the 28th of November 2011, after a long period of planning, and with the 25th anniversary of Zelda in mind, I started composing and writing an opera of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask.
Now as I’ve said in the first forums I posted about this, I have avoided reducing this to medley form. I develop on every relevant theme, taking them as bases to be grown on and to make a complete and organic work, instead of a patched-up musical track.
I have my original work as examples of what I can do, and I am usually not one to make these kinds of adapted projects, but Zelda is something that has always fascinated me, and Majora’s Mask is the one that always dug deepest.
Now, setting something like this to stage requires some modifications in order to bring out the drama and the message(s) in full and allow for a stable adaptation, instead of the many flaws that arise from taking a game structure into a dramatic set without the necessary reconstruction.
That reconstruction does not change the story’s core concepts at all, but it alters something quite important for those who take refuge on the heroic deed of a single individual (Link).
*prepares for the flame*
I have put enough thought on this (took me a while), and there is a difference people have to understand exists between media.
A book is a book. A movie is a movie. A game is a game. A stage drama/opera is a stage drama/opera.
The intensity of a stage drama comes from the concentration of the attention in a specific character or group of characters and the things that affect them. They can be related to something bigger, obviously, but it still has to restrict itself to a group that is small enough to build up the amount of weight it needs.
The reason a game like Zelda can’t be adapted to stage at 100% in every single aspect is because a game is built as an interactive medium. A game like Zelda lives on diversity and exploration.
I chose Majora’s Mask for a reason: In all of its diversity, Majora’s Mask has the ability to captivate through the personal anguishes of the inhabitants of a dying world. Now, turning it into a never-ending list of equally important woes would be static and unimportant, and here is the key issue: So would turning a mute heroic character into a chore-handler for a world with living, thinking and feeling individuals.
For what I suggest, I ask for understanding from the part of the community in that I am convinced that I can heighten the theatrical power of such a world and what it is experiencing through this simple yet key modification:
Link is absent.
It is a what-if cautionary tale to the world of the audience (like Ikana was to the rest of Termina) telling of Termina’s fate without the intervention of a savior, a Deux Ex Machina in Hylian form.
The core concepts remain the same, as I’ve said. The story revolves around promises, the whole world’s mechanic and sense is exactly the same.
But this little big change allows me to make a humanistic injection of character build-up in the largest and best known side-quest of all Zelda games: Kafei and Anju.
By centering the story on Kafei and Anju, I can make it that Kafei’s quest for the retrieval of the Sun Mask and the fulfillment of his promise comes out of his own accord, his own effort, and provide a fluid narrative of his tracking of Sakon and his treasure. The struggle of a last promise in a world fated to be destroyed.
Don’t think Skull Kid and the mask Salesman will be undermined, on the contrary, I expect the Salesman to be a very important guide to the events in Termina and cross paths with Kafei later on, as he is the one responsible for taking the mask to avoid disaster and then having Skull Kid steal it from him.
As I said above, a game is a game, and a game’s diversity is made for interaction. In an opera, that diversity becomes harmful. It becomes dispersion. My aim is to make a big, serious and most of all effective work out of Majora’s Mask, and you can take my word on the respect I have for canon. So much that instead of modifying or harmfully cutting Link’s diverse actions to adapt the work, I would rather make it keep its sense simply by letting Termina exist nearly unchanged.
Although you could say that this fits into the newly-revealed timeline, in which there are two branches where Link does not go to Termina (I didn’t know that when I started this), I understand and humbly accept all the flaming that might erupt from the anti-official-timeline-canon-centered community. However, I am sure of my abilities to make a bittersweet cautionary tale out of Majora’s Mask for our own world to see. Zelda fans or not. And if it wishes, to compare to our own dangerously decreasing sense of trust and faith in people.
I ask of you the same sort of trust: What concerns me in this project will not disappoint.
Having said this, I am sorry for the long post, but I feel this clarification is necessary for those who weren’t already aware of it.
The opera will be divided into 3 acts, one for each day, and they will obviously not obey to the “one set per act” common rule. It’s the 21st century, we can perfectly well loosen up some things without ditching professionalism. I have taken that into account as I write.
I have recently completed Act I, and am currently at the beginning of Act II. I will post updates as this goes on.
In case you haven’t clicked the link at the top of the post, I leave you with the first demo (details in the description on YouTube). You can find instrumentals from the opera in my channel as well.
P.S: I will soon be opening a Facebook page for the project, so stay sharp.
This entry was posted on March 22, 2012 at 3:39 AM and is filed under Media Updates, Updates with tags bulteau, majora, mask, mbulteau, miguel bulteau, opera, zelda. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
23 Responses to “A Majora’s Mask Opera”
Enmanuel Says:
This is amazing, i ll be looking forward to your work!
thesilentartistblog Says:
I will be keeping a eye on this project! :D Best wishes!
Fã Says:
Parabéns. Eu gosto bastante de Majora’s Mask também e espero muito disto.
Assisti e reassisti seu demo 4 vezes. Mal posso esperar por mais. Parabéns novamente e continue com o bom trabalho. Espero uma aprovação da Nintendo a qualquer momento ;)
A Academia de Amadores de Música parece um lugar fascinante se tem pessoas como você.
Bud Gaines Says:
I have to say, I just watched that demo and read the blog, and even with Link being absent as it was put, this looks to be extremely interesting and entertaining. Majora’s Mask is one of my favorite Zelda’s. Only behind A Link to the Past by a couple of nostalgia and sentimental value. I can’t wait to see how this turns out, best of luck on this and I hope it is well received by the community on here and with the Zelda Community. I really enjoyed the opening demo for this, great job to all people involved in it. Once again, Best of luck on this venture!
-Bud Gaines
kram1032 Says:
Why do you KEEP mentioning the flames?
As far as I’ve seen, next to nobody has “flamed” you for not keeping Link in.
I think, it’s a great idea to do it that way, since
a) it allows for a more interesting story (a hero is missing, ppl have to actually do something about the situation for themselves and potentially fail)
b) Link, as the name implies, is the link between the player and the game. He is necessary for an interactive medium like that.
However, since he is just that connection, most of his story and way of thinking is unknown. It’s up to the player to define that.
For an Opera like that, where you actually need characters that are developed to at least some level, he would be difficult to maintain without seeming “bad”.
I think, by doing so, you’ll have less enraged fans than by including him but doing it terribly wrong (as so many other fan projects before yours did) (that said, as far as I’m aware, most of them weren’t exactly professionals, so many of them did great for what was possible)
I love the demo so much!
It would be awesome if you made a really opera of this!
Moblinarea Says:
So… The moon will not actualy fall, since Link is not there to provoke Skull Kid to make it fall.
Great piece BTW but hmm… Come to think of it, how about you change Viscen to a bass? Since Dotour seems to be a tenoir, and Mutoh a baritone (or am I wrong) Viscen sounds somehow slightly wrong being an alto or a soprano.
DNA Says:
This is absolutely amazing and I applaud your decision to keep Link out. I watched the demo before coming here and that was my first though and I was going to suggest it. I think it will flow much better without Link and it will be an amazing drama story. I hope one day I will be lucky enough to be able to view this amazing project live.
Andrew Roby Says:
I absolutely adore your Idea to adapt Majoras mask to the Stage and as for the absence of Link its not that big a deal Link is the Players “link” to the world of the game and with out a player no Link is needed. Please let me leave you with something I wrote perhaps to inspire you grand Idea further
I just Beat Zelda Majoras Mask “Again” as the credits roll Link sit mounted upon Epona and Takes one last look up to the heavens in these mysterious woods before galloping off towards the light I wonder to myself what is it about this game that keeps me coming back. The land of Termina is a strange one filled with much mystery it’s so like Hyrule yet so different somehow twisted and demented. I often find myself returning to explore every area from The mighty mountains sleeted in snow and ice, The overgrown and wild swamp where all manor of tribalism is practiced, The Great Bay beach A vast and unforgiving ocean containing secrets of the deep, And Ikana canyon Home of the dead and wayward sprits I walk these lands hearing the moans of the forgotten and the tales of blood and battle. I find myself exploring here so often what is it about this place that keeps drawing me back The challenge the people the places creatures culture !?? There’s something about the dark nature of this land I find irresistible. I may never know what it is I’m searching for but one thing is for certain I will continue to wander this land for many years to come each time I return playing the role of the lone wandering swordsmen in green. Termina there’s something in the air both weird and wonderful!
So how will it end? If link isn’t there to “save the day”, does everything fail? Do Anju and Kafei end up being Romeo and Juliet?
Clayton Dunlap Says:
i can’t help but be a little bummed about link not being in the story. other than that, though, this looks like it’s going to be an amazing story to be performed through opera! can’t wait!
DO YOU THINK NINTENDO WILL SUPPORT THIS PROJECT EVEN IF LINK IS ABSENT? i personally love this btw
Celebandùne Gwathelen Says:
Keep it up, dude, it’s gonna be a great opera! Been following you for weeks, I also posted for the Song of Storm poll, but somehow the comment got lost!
mbulteau Says:
It did? What had you said?
Joseph Murse Says:
I had one quick question. At the ending of Demo #1 When the music rises to drown out the endless arguing. I believe I hear Viscen say something about “It’s her job to ensure the ?seperation?/?cooperation? of…” That sounds like it might be a reference to Madame Dotour, who as yet hasn’t been mentioned. From a line that’s not spoken in the demo, which is… “I wonder what Madame Dotour would have to say about this…” or something like that.
Really the question I wanted to ask what is Viscen saying while the music drowns them both out? I can understand some of the beginning and the end but the middle part is very difficult to ascertain.
Sean Michael Hughes Says:
i very much looking forward to this opera, and perhaps buying a score when it comes out so i can learn some kind of baritonish role for fun times down the road :P I am really glad that masterpieces like zelda are finally getting a rendition that glows with its musical strength highlighted. im liking it very much. Best of wishes.
euromix2 Says:
Regarding the absence of Link, why not just explain it away with the audience assuming that role in the opera the same way they do by controlling Link in the game? It’s clever and very fitting. The only reason Link can do what he does is because of his special abilities as the Hero of Time, but without that he is just as vulnerable as any of us to Termina’s tragedy. The audience gets to experience events the same way Link can, but unlike Link, they cannot really interfere in a way that would affect the story as positively as he could since we lack the time travel required to fix anything. Thus the first cycle (where Link was fairly powerless and couldn’t even leave Clock Town properly as Deku Scrub) plays out and the world ends, or however you see fit to end it.
See, Link supposedly being absent easily fits within the narrative of the opera.
I’m afraid I don’t understand your question. There are no explanations needed when someone is simply not there (and remember, the opera is for everyone, acquainted with Zelda or not), and the part about the audience’s role being Link’s is what I mention in this post exactly.
mastermachiavel Says:
This is so awesome! MM revolves around the beauty of music, but evidently it lacks spoken dialogue, so for you to construct an opera where alot of the narrative is sung will be tremendous! Good luck to you!
Reblogged this on sanctum of philosophy and commented:
This looks (and sounds) brilliant!
Faisal J. Says:
Reblogged this on That Dark Alley: Your location for Sleepless Critics and Questing Through The Mediums..
Well, I am a bit sad that there won’t be the original timeline with all the adventures and temples. However, I’m still interested and looking foward to have the opportunity to watch this work of art.
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White Wagtail
(Motacilla alba)
Alternate name(s): "Pied Wagtail", "Water Wagtail"
German name(s): "Bachstelze"
Size: 16.5-19 cm; wing span 25-30 cm
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White Wagtails are one of the larger wagtail species. Their plumage is dimorphic, i.e. males and females are different. Male White Wagtails in breeding plumage have a black crown and nape and a prominent black "bib", which contrast with the white frons and sides of the head. The rest of the front is light-grey. The wing coverts are grey, while the flight feathers are darker grey with light-grey edge lining. The tail is black. Female White Wagtails and males in non-breeding plumage are grey where breeding males are black. The irises of both sexes are black. The bill, legs and feet are grey. Juvenile White Wagtails have duller colours than adults, without a prominent facial mask.
See White Wagtail at Wikipedia .
The overall distribution of this species can be assessed based on sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to the ebird.org website.
The global distribution of the White Wagtail is available HERE .
Altogether, the about 10 currently recognized races of White Wagtails have a wide-spanning range. They occur basically all over Europe and in large parts of Asia, but they are very mobile and vagrant birds have been found farther South, through South-east Asia to Australia. Most of Asia to the North of the Himalaya is summer range; South-east Asia, the Indian subcontinent, all of Arabia and parts of the Middle East are winter range, while in southern/central/western Europe and parts of Korea and Japan White Wagtails can be found all year round.
Nominate race "alba" is found basically all over Europe and in parts of the Middle East and eastern Africa. Some, especially from the northern parts of their range, will migrate to the South in harsh winters.
Race "yarrellii" is present on the British Isles.
Race "alba"
D. Wilczynska reports spotting White Wagtails, nominate race "alba", regularly in various locations in central Poland.
White Wagtails, nominate race "alba", were also spotted by D. Wilczynska in Bergen, Norway, in May 2016.
H. Dahlem-Senger reports spotting White Wagtails, nominate race "alba", at the Grüner Brink, Fehmarn, Germany, in April 2016, and also occasionally in various locations in the Rheingau, Germany.
A White Wagtail, nominate race "alba", was caught, ringed and photographed by S. Cuturilov in Ovcarsko-Kablarski Canyon, near Cacak, Serbia, in October 2017.
M. Eaton found White Wagtails, nominate race "alba", near Oslo airport, Oslo, Norway, in June 2018.
M. Eaton also detected a White Wagtail, nominate race "alba", in Mequinenza, Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, in September 2019.
J. Pires reports spotting White Wagtails, nominate race "alba", regularly in and around Mora, Evora, Portugal.
In the past we used to see White Wagtails, nominate race "alba", regularly along rivers, creeks and streams in various parts of Germany, including e.g. the Eifel, Rheinland-Pfalz.
White Wagtails, nominate race "alba", were also found in Oman.
Race "yarrellii"
M. Eaton reports finding a White Wagtail, race "yarrellii", at Land's End, Cornwall, England, in September 2019.
Frontal view of a male White Wagtail in breeding plumage (photo courtesy of D. Wilczynska)
[Bergen, Norway, May 2016]
Near-frontal view of a male White Wagtail in breeding plumage (photo courtesy of H. Dahlem-Senger)
[Eltville, Hessen, Germany, May 2019]
Near-frontal view of a male White Wagtail in breeding plumage, right, with a juvenile on the left
(photo courtesy of D. Wilczynska)
[Lake Ros, Masurias, Poland, August 2014]
Near-frontal view of a male White Wagtail in breeding plumage (photo courtesy of D. Wilczynska)
[Lake Ros, Masurias, Poland, June 2015]
Near-lateral view of a male White Wagtail in breeding plumage; this is the bird whose calls were recorded on 26 March 2017 (photo courtesy of D. Wilczynska)
[Near Brok, Masovia, Poland, March 2017]
Near-lateral view of a male White Wagtail in breeding plumage (photo courtesy of D. Wilczynska)
Lateral view of a male White Wagtail in breeding plumage on the ground (photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Vilarelhos, Alfandega da Fe, Alto Tras-os-Montes, Norte, Portugal, May 2018]
Lateral view of a male White Wagtail in breeding plumage on the ground (photo courtesy of D. Wilczynska)
[Near Ostrow Mazowiecka, Masovia, Poland, April 2016]
Near-dorsal view of a male White Wagtail, left, leaving behind two juveniles, right, to fight over a wasp
Dorsal view of a male White Wagtail on the ground (photo courtesy of D. Wilczynska)
Male White Wagtail preening (photo courtesy of D. Wilczynska)
Close-up near-lateral view of a female White Wagtail; note the smooth transition from grey to black near the top of the head
(photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Near Oslo airport, Oslo, Norway, June 2018]
Lateral view of a female(?) White Wagtail, left, with a juvenile, right (photo courtesy of D. Wilczynska)
Lateral view of a female White Wagtail (photo courtesy of S. Cuturilov)
[Ovcarsko-Kablarski Canyon, near Cacak, Serbia, October 2017]
Near-dorsal view of a female White Wagtail; note how far the grey extends to the top of the head
Frontal view of a male White Wagtail in non-breeding plumage (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Mequinenza, Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, September 2019]
Near-dorsal view of a male White Wagtail in non-breeding plumage (photo courtesy of D. Wilczynska)
Dorsal view of a White Wagtail in non-breeding plumage (photo courtesy of D. Wilczynska)
Dorsal view of a White Wagtail in non-breeding plumage looking back at the observer (photo courtesy of D. Wilczynska)
Frontal view of a juvenile White Wagtail (photo courtesy of D. Wilczynska)
Near-frontal view of a juvenile White Wagtail (photo courtesy of D. Wilczynska)
Near-frontal view of a resting juvenile White Wagtail (photo courtesy of D. Wilczynska)
Near-lateral view of a juvenile White Wagtail (photo courtesy of D. Wilczynska)
Lateral view of a juvenile White Wagtail; note the buff wash on the ear coverts (photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Mora, Evora, Portugal, May 2018]
This race is also called the "Pied Wagtail".
Lateral view of a male White Wagtail in non-breeding plumage (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Land's End, Cornwall, England, September 2019]
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Thomas Preston
Thomas, son of John and Hannah (née Jones) Preston was born on 9 December 1832 at Woodeaton in Oxfordshire. He arrived in Australia with his family at the age of 11 years in September 1844 aboard the Abberton.
He married Matilda Browne in 1855. They had the following children:
John Henry — born 29 January 1856, married Annie Sophie Roll, died in 1856 at Nhill
Harriett Ann — born 1857, died in 1951
Thomas William — born 1860, died 1937
Matilda Ellen Pargeter — born 1863, died in 1938
Sidney Elizabeth — born 1864, married John Henry George Ellis in 1884 at Geelong West, died 18 July 1924 at Geelong West aged 60, buried in the Methodist section of the Geelong Eastern Cemetery
Walter William — born in 1865, died in 1938
Robert Arthur — born in 1867, married Charlotte Ward Hart in 1897 at Lubeck, Victoria, died in 1957 aged 90 at Kew
Hannah Mary — born 1869, married Frederick Challis in 1922, died on 4 October 1949 in Geelong
Ada Caroline — born in 1871, died in 1956
Ernest Edward — born in 1873, married Edith Adelaide Ackland in 1903, died in 1932 in Geelong
Frederick Herbert — born in 1875, married Florence Searle Drew in 1901 at the Ryrie Street Presbyterian Church, died in 1966 at Geelong
Walter Charles — born in 1878, died on 1 October 1966 at Geelong
When Ada was 5 years of age she went too close to a chaff cutting machine and had the tip of one of her fingers cut off, requiring a visit to the hospital.
On 15 February 1891 a disastrous fire swept Mount Duneed causing damage to many properties. It started at the property of Andrew White, to the south of his house, then swept through the recreation reserve and the cemetery to the Preston home which was totally destroyed. The only possessions the Prestons were left with were the clothes on their backs. Nothing was insured except farm implements for £100. Thomas and Matilda's son Robert replaced everything and took over running the farm.
Thomas died on 31 August 1902 at Mount Duneed aged 69 and was buried in the Methodist section of the Mount Duneed Cemetery. Matilda died on 10 January 1911 aged 72 and was buried with him.
from Geelong Advertiser 16 February 1891
Thomas Preston's farm was on the south side of Mount Duneed Road, between Torquay and Williams Roads
The lichen covered grave of Thomas and Matilda Preston in the Methodist section of the Mount Duneed Cemetery
from Western Champion (Parkes) 4 November 1915
Freshwater Creek Fire Brigade
The brigade was formed on 17 November 1941. Foundation members were:
Gregor McInryre (Captain)
Jim Mann (President)
Claude Grossman (Secretary)
Frank Stones
Eddie Baxter
David Steel
Jack Coombs
Les Anderson
Bert Forster
Bob Stacey
Mount Duneed was part of the Freshwater Creek brigade from 1946 until 1957, when the Mount Duneed brigade was formed. The original office bearers were:
P McCann — president
GA Baker — secretary
RC Baker — captain
C Grimmer
H Burville
JW White
The brigade disbanded in 1966.
A Trail of Destruction
Mr A Ricketts Surveys the ruins of his homestead on the Lower Duneed Road. Photo from The Age 17 January 1944
from The Age 28 February 1944
St Wilfrid's Church of England, the State School and many homes are reported to have been destroyed in one section of the Mount Duneed area. Men engaged in fighting the fire in that area were of the opinion that other homes were lost in other parts of the district.
The homes destroyed were "Charlemont", the property of the late Mr L Sprague; Messrs AT Blyth, A Hartwick, J Alford, Mrs Hill, Mr L Bufton, E Brown, A Ricketts, P Fischer, J Williams, R Kerger, JH Coombs, Mrs R Foster (house occupied by Mr Law, school teacher), Miss Burville, cottage on the property of Mr D Stewart and the cottage on property of Mr F Stone. A shed was destroyed at the home of Mrs Ellis and all outbuildings at the home of Mr J Wohlers, but the post office at Mount Duneed was saved after a strenuous fight. A fence alongside the office was destroyed.
Other residents who suffered losses of hay and other material were Messrs C Seiffert, A Winkler, E Cleary, G Evans and J Blyth. Considerable losses of stock are anticipated.
From the Geelong Advertiser 15 January 1944 and 17 January 1944
Standing amid the ruins of his home at Mount Duneed Mr WT Hill told a very dramatic story of the fire on 15 January 1944.
"The hedge across the road burned so fiercely in the wind that it was a few seconds only before bits of it set fire to my home. A new verandah went so soon that I had only time to take my wife to the middle grass paddock, already burned over. We just got out of the house as the roof was falling in"
From the Newcastle Sun, Saturday 15 January 1944
Ten minutes before his home at 710 Torquay Road, Mount Duneed was demolished, Mr WT Hill placed his wife's jewellery and other valuables in this safe, which was later salvaged.
It was believed the fire started near Waurn Ponds due to a car using a gas producer. (During the war gas producers were fitted on cars to conserve petrol as rationing was in force). A strong northerly wind soon fanned the red terror through Mount Duneed, destroying or damaging everything in its path, finally to be exhausted at the sea. Lack of water and fire equipment not as efficient as today enabled the fire to dictate its own terms.
From the Mount Duneed Primary School Centenary 1878 - 1978
A new house, at 710 Torquay Road, was built to replace the demolished home in 1946 for Walter Thomas Hill who died on 8 January 1954. His wife Jessie Elizabeth Hill died on 14 May 1955 aged 82 years. Their son Leslie Francis (Lel) Hill lived on the property until his death on 28 January 1999.
On 15 January 1944 Mount Duneed suffered devastating losses when a fire swept through the area.
After the fires had burnt themselves out linesmen came to restore telephone lines which were destroyed for a considerable distance on the Geelong-Torquay Road
This photo of the remains of St Wilfrid's Church of England, built in 1863, on the corner of Lower Duneed and Torquay Roads after the fire, was taken by Rev Alexander James Stewart, who was born at "Dooliebeal", on what is now Stewarts Road in 1876. He died in 1961
St Wilfrid's before the fire — used as a school until the state school was built. Established as Bream Creek School No 107 on 1 June 1862, the name was changed to Mount Duneed in 1865.
St Wilfrid's Church was rebuilt in 1944 by the boys of the Geelong Grammar School under the direction of Mr H Kirwood. The architect was Mr L Hinchfeldt
Mount Duneed State School in 1878
Mount Duneed State School in 1922. The trees have grown and the windows on the front of the building have been replaced with larger ones
This photo of the Mount Duneed State School after the fire was taken by Rev Alexander James Stewart
The burnt out skeleton of the Mount Duneed State School stand amid the remains of the 500 trees all of which were burnt in the fierce fires
1891 Bushfire at Mount Duneed
A disastrous fire broke out at Mount Duneed at two o'clock on Sunday afternoon 15th February 1891. It started in Mr Andrew White's property, a few chains south of his residence, and quickly formed itself into a tongue-like leader, with an attendant on either side, increasing in width every minute. It soon left 70 or 80 acres of that gentleman's property black and smoky, besides demolishing half a mile of fencing. On it went, until the mount was enveloped in flames. Driven across the reserve by the fierce hot winds, the cemetery soon fell a prey to the devouring element, scarcely a vestige of the acacia fence surrounding it being left, wooden tombstone railings destroyed and nothing being left but the white marble tombstones that give a weird appearance to the black desolation. The fiery tongues swept on, attacking the dwelling house of Mr Thomas Preston. In a very short time all hope of saving it was lost; stables, stacks, sheds, and a brand new buggy and harness, waggons, drays, pigs, fowls and the two beautiful horses horribly burnt, are a sickening spectacle. Not a particle of the comfortable home is left; no clothes saved but the light garments the family stand in. On it swept, across the road, and Mr Purdie's wine cellar, stored with wheat, was soon lost in the flames; by desperate fighting they were warded from the house. Through Ganley's wattle plantation, down the valley, and up the hill on the opposite side the merciless leader travelled with fearful velocity. Mr Brown's house was right in the way. His wife, paralysed with fear, was dragged from the burning mass. A high hedge close by assisted the flames, and nothing saved from the sheds but a waggon. Over twenty tons of hay was consumed, and fowls lie everywhere about roasted. Nothing is insured, which makes the loss heartrending. Preston is uninsured, all but the implements for £100. Mr Bell's paddocks were saved with difficulty, and the fire swept on for a full mile, licking up fences and everything in its way, the neighbors, by strenuous efforts, kept it from the dwellings of Messrs Trigg and Johnston...
From the Geelong Advertiser Monday 16th February 1891
Mount duneed school
This school began in 1877 and was opened on 11th February 1878. The Geelong Advertiser often reported activities at the school in the nineteenth century. The Mount Duneed Improvement Association (known as Mount Duneed Mutual Improvement Association after 1895) and the Mount Duneed Rifle Club met regularly at the school and concerts were often held. Political addresses to voters were held and it was used for polling booths on election days. Later the Mount Duneed Red Cross met there.
After the jubilee in 1928, there were so few pupils at Mount Duneed and Freshwater Creek schools, the teacher Mr H McGregor held two days at Mount Duneed and three days at Freshwater Creek, alternating every week. Finally in 1939 Mount Duneed closed to re-open after 4 years.
In October 1917 a photographic honour roll containing the photographs of 33 old scholars and three district soldiers of the Mount Duneed school and district was unveiled.
This school was destroyed by fire in January 1944. The fire which started near Waurn Ponds swept over Mount Duneed destroying 14 homesteads, 2 cottages and the Church of England. William Preston, aged 66 who was a farmer was killed in the fire.
When the cemetery was established in Cemetery Road (now called Williams Road), the nearest cemetery was at Mount Moriac (known as Duneed Cemetery). Peter Mansfield in his book "Barwon Cemeteries" states that the first recorded burial at the cemetery was on 23 October, 1864. According to cemetery records there were some early burials, some before the cemetery was gazetted. After extensive research by the Geelong Family History Group established that the earliest burial was of Charles Tylee who was buried on 2 October 1864. Another early death was John Harkness (1864) who was killed on the main road when his vehicle overturned after striking a heap of road metal. Other early settlers buried here are Agnes Mackenzie (1794-1883), the mother of John Mackenzie of "Ghazeepore" and Deborah Brien (1796-1883). The earliest born was John Ford (1787-1870).
Mr. Faraway was the Sexton. A live fence of Acacia Paradoxa (South Australian kangaroo wattle) was planted around the cemetery boundary. This was lost in the disastrous fire in February 1891. Wooden railings around the graves were also destroyed and nothing was left but the white marble tombstones that gave a colourless appearance of black and white. Hitching rails were erected either side of the gate.
The cemetery has many examples of the work of early monumental masons — Nathaniel Brown, Clement Nash, Charles Wilcox and Joseph Smith.
from Geelong Advertiser 13 January 1864
Abercrombie, Blanch (daughter of Andrew Thomson and Mary Anna Abercrombie)
Andrews, Eliza (mother of John Burvill)
Armstrong, David, James William and Edward John Harkness (no headstones)
Bell, John Wilson (son of John Calvert and Frances E Bell)
Bell, Mary Kathleen Alexander (daughter of John Calvert and Frances E Bell)
Blyth, Ewing and Agnes
Brien, Annie
Burvill, John and Mary Ann (mother and father of Walter)
Burville, Walter
Challis, Charles Henry
Doherty, John
Dow, Agnes Lamont
Dow, Robert
Fivash, John (sister of Charlotte Melhuish) and Sarah
Ford (née Tansley), Hester (wife of John)
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Graham, Arthur Ernest and Charlotte Matilda
Harkness, James and Rebecca (son and daughter-in-law of John and Janet)
Harkness, James and Helen (son and daughter-in-law of James and Rebecca)
Harkness, John and Janet
Hill, Leslie Francis (son of Walter and Jessie)
Hill, Walter Thomas and Jessie Elizabeth
Hillard, Dorothy and George
Hogg, Catherine
Hogg, Hanah
Hollingworth, Hannah and Edmund
Hollingworth, John Allen
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Kenyon, Linda May (née Bone), Cyril Gordon and baby
Land, John and Amelia Toogood (née Mitchell)
Lugg, Joseph Paul
Lewis, Harold Clifford (son of William and Ellen)
Lewis, William and Ellen
Melhuish, John Southwood and Elizabeth Fry (née Mitchell)
Melhuish, John Southwood (son of John Southwood) and Charlotte (née Fivash)
Middleton, Jesse Holman and Sarah
Middleton, William Henry and Louisa Harding
Middleton, Albert, Christina and Lillian (children of William and Louisa)
Moon, Rupert Vance
Parker, William and Margaret Helen
Rainford, John, James and Margaret (children of Joseph and Elizabeth)
Rainford, Joseph and Elizabeth
Roulier, Louis and Bridget
Tylee, Charles
Ward, Betsy (Bone, Melhuish, née Kenyon)
Willson, William Hodgkin Grimley
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Abbie Barnum captured four first-place medals to help power Virgin Valley High to the team title at the annual Grant Bushman Invitational track and field meet Friday at Jeff Keel Stadium in Overton.
The senior won both the 100 and 200 meters along with the 100 and 300 hurdles while the 4×100 relay team also finished first as the Lady Bulldogs piled up 134.5 points to outdistance runner-up White Pine of Ely at 114.5. Mojave was third with 89.5 points followed by host Moapa Valley with 87.5 and Boulder City 86.
On the boys’ side, Jaden Dalton won the shot put as the Virgin Valley finished in a tie for fifth place with Boulder City with 54 points.
Barnum ran the 100 meters in 13.05 and followed that up with a win in the 200 meters with a time of 27.02. She won the 100 hurdles with a time of 16.40 and was victorious in the 300 hurdles in a time of 46.75.
Meanwhile the 4×100 relay team of Emily Teerlink, Nikita Eskelsen, Macee Bundy and Emma Barnum finished first with a time of 52.66.
Bernice Fiso was second in the shot put (32-10.5) and fourth in the discus (85-10) while Bundy was fourth in both the 200 meters (28.32) and 400 meters (1:03.39).
Emma Barnum placed third in the high jump (4-08) and fifth in both the 100 hurdles (18.97) and triple jump (31-10). Emma Wilson was third in the pole vault (6-06) while Nikita Eskelsen was third in the long jump (14-09.5).
Sarah Walters finished fourth in the 800 meters (2:45.43) with Elena Andelin taking fifth in the high jump (4-04).
The 4×400 relay team of Alyssa Ponce, Walters, Hailee Thornley and Bundy placed third with a time of 4:37.76 while the 4×200 team of Teerlink, Jada Ingram, Thornley and Bundy finished fourth at 2:02.79. The 4×800 team consisting of Viviana Archuleta-Vega, Ponce, Denisse Jimenez-Iniguez and Walters was fifth in a time of 12:31.03.
Dalton was the only first-place finisher for the boys winning the shot put with a toss of 46-10.5 while teammate Reid Jensen was third at 44-05.5.
Devin Cox placed fourth in both the 110 hurdles (17.12) and triple jump (41-06.5) while Brogan Bingham was fifth in the pole vault (10-06).
The 4×100 relay team consisting of Justin Danh, Christian Martinez, Bingham and Cox placed fourth with a time of 46.12 while the 4×400 team of Martinez, Victor Colmenero, Vicente Pinto and Tyson Wilson was fourth at 3:45.41.
Virgin Valley participated in the 3A South Regional meet Friday and Saturday at Moapa Valley High. The 3A state meet will be May 19-20 at Foothill High School in Henderson.
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While preparing to return to St. Joseph, the men read the story "Wagon Ho" written and printed by Samuel T. Evans about his trip as a naive young Irishman headed west and his experiences and adventure on the trail.
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Bill Mumy, the original Will Robinson, makes a cameo in the new Lost in Space reboot
…and his role is an unexpected twist.
April 13, 2018, 4:26PM By MeTV Staff
There are both things to love and things to nitpick in the new Lost in Space. For starters, the Netflix cover version of the 1960s original, like most modern revivals, goes the "gritty" route. We prefer the wonder and spectacle of Irvin Allen's vision. Covered with metal scales, with a face that holds all the personality of a security camera, the Robot would better belong visually in a Power Rangers movie. (In fact, this new vision comes from two screenwriters who worked on that recent Power Rangers movie.) That being said, the Robot does carry more intrigue and menace in the new one. Elsewhere, Parker Posey chews scenery delightfully, while other actors are… there.
Anyway, an in-depth dive into these ten episodes is not why we're here. We wanted to note that the new Lost in Space does make some clever — and deep — references to the original. The first episode plays out like the 1965 pilot episode, "No Place to Hide." There are elements of John Williams' original theme song in the new opening credits. Don West befriends a chicken (yes, a chicken) he names Debbie, an homage to Debbie the Bloop, the chimp-like creature Don discovered in the old Lost in Space.
Oh, and Will Robinson himself turns up.
Without giving too much away, Bill Mumy makes a cameo at the end of the first episode, in a chaotic scene. He lies injured in a corridor. Someone comes to his aide and sees his name printed on his jacket — Dr. Z. Smith. Yep, Will Robinson is the new Dr. Smith. Of sorts. For a moment. No spoilers. That's him up top in the image.
Mumy turns up again in photographs in later episodes. The season ends on a cliffhanger, so perhaps we can hope for an Angela Cartwright cameo next year?
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College undergoes a rocky transition to Oracle finance system
By SOPHIA MCDERMOTT-HUGHES
Middlebury is optimizing and modernizing its administrative systems with a new finance program called Oracle — the implementation of which has caused many difficulties and inconveniences for Middlebury staff, faculty and students.
This change occurred in collaboration with the Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium (GMHEC), which includes Middlebury, Champlain, and Saint Michael’s colleges. All three institutions are working to improve and reduce costs for common administrative services.
Through an initiative called Project Ensemble, GMHEC plans to implement a new Enterprise Resource System (ERS), a software system designed to integrate each college’s various administrative processes — finance, human resources, advancement and, potentially, student records — into a unified structure. At Middlebury, this new ERS will eventually replace Banner, the computer software the college currently uses. Phase one of Project Ensemble is projected to cost Middlebury $4.6 million, according to Mike Thomas, the vice president for finance and the college’s assistant treasurer.
As part of this effort, the college adopted the information system Oracle Cloud and began using its financial system in April to help track and manage the day-to-day financial transactions of the college.
Instead of running financial operations on-site, Oracle is housed in the cloud, which helps prevent against data loss. Like Banner, it is browser-based, and employees can access it through by signing in to an online portal.
According to Thomas, one benefit of this new system is that the budget office can approve purchases and expense reports from a computer or mobile device.
“Before Oracle, nearly every purchase we made at Middlebury involved a form that a person had to fill out and send to someone to then manually approve. Now, all of that happens through automated workflow,” Thomas said.
The switch has also helped Middlebury take advantage of the GMHEC for technical support, supplier management, accounts payable and more.
However, the change caused significant issues for Middlebury staff, who received minimal — and at times, incorrect — training in the system, according to a staff member who asked to remain anonymous.
“I wish we had gotten real training,” she said. “It felt like our work isn’t important enough to take the time to invest in it. We do an important job and it didn’t get the sort of attention that it needed.”
According to Thomas, Middlebury hired Hitachi Consulting — a firm that had minimal experience with Oracle, a system normally used by for-profit companies — causing significant issues with the roll out. With no people experienced with Oracle on campus, Information Technology Services was forced to learn and troubleshoot on the spot, the anonymous staff member said.
“At the beginning, people weren’t getting paid at all. Several departments, especially around commencement, were having trouble getting speakers paid. People didn’t even want to come to campus … It has hurt a lot of our relationships with people who have done business with the college over the years,” the staff member said.
The switch has also caused issues within the budget office. There were many bugs in the early stages of implementation, which took time and effort to troubleshoot and led to delays in processing payment and difficulties for employees, according to Thomas.
“We realized that we underestimated the required post go-live support from our implementation partners. It was definitely a lesson learned as we look at other modern systems,” Thomas said.
The change has also created extra work and complications for the Student Activities Office (SAO) and student organizations, according to Derek Doucet, the senior associate dean of students.
Most student organizations receive an annual budget of between $400 and $4,000 from the Student Government Association (SGA), which they spend and manage through the SAO. The SGA expects to allocate approximately $1,100,000 this academic year, according to Kenshin Cho ’20, director of the SGA finance committee.
Student organization leaders need to track budgets and expenditures closely, but the Oracle system has limited capabilities in tracking individual transactions. Student organizations also require regular, detailed budget reports, which the program does not provide, according to Doucet.
“The new Oracle system is frustrating as a treasurer that manages a relatively large budget and spends frequently, because we no longer get monthly expense reports with our operating account balance,” said Raechel Zeller ’22, treasurer for the female-identifying club frisbee team.
Pranav Kumar ’20, co-president and treasurer of club tennis, said he worries that he will accidentally exceed his club’s budget and be forced to foot the bill.
“We’ve built alternative systems to help alleviate these problems, but they remain a significant challenge for student org treasurers and have created significant additional work for the student activities team,” Doucet said.
According to Doucet, the transition to Oracle caused many Middlebury businesses to stop accepting charges directly from student organizations. Instead, student leaders increasingly must pay for organization expenses out of pocket and wait for reimbursement from the college, something that many students cannot afford to do.
However, Doucet said that the issues posed by the change has also created opportunities as the SAO explores alternatives. For example, the office is currently piloting a program in which student organization leaders can sign out credit cards, which he believes will be a better system than off-campus charges.
Moving forward, the administration hopes Project Ensemble will continue to improve the financial system and the overall function of Oracle through an “optimization phase,” which will include “a mobile expense app, a supplier portal where our payees can go to update information, and optical character recognition for invoice processing,” according to Thomas.
This spring, Middlebury plans to transfer Human Capital Management to Oracle, a move that was originally planned to take place this fall but was delayed in order to not repeat the mistakes with the financial system.
“Because it was pushed back so much and not rushed like they did with the finance one, people are a little more comfortable,” said the anonymous staff member about the transfer.
“But people are still nervous . . . because it’s our pay and our benefits going through that.”
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DENNIS THE MENACE Oddments
Here's a lot of 1950s-60s nostalgic swag for a single panel cartoon about a nutso kid with ADD!
Johnny C.'s A Hole in the Head blog (one of my favorite blogs) highlights Dennis the Menace Songs, a 75rpm record from Golden Records that sold for 29 cents back in the day. You got 2 songs to listen to: the DTM theme, as well as an ode to his firearms: a song titled simply "Ka-Pow! Ka-Pow! Ka-Pow!"
Related: the Children's Records and More blog has a Dennis the Menace "original TV soundtrack stories" available for download.
Another odd DTM item: "Dennis Takes a Poke at Poison" comic book from the Comics With Problems site There's also scans from "Dennis the Menace returns for Child Abuse and Neglect." The comic was drawn by Al Wiseman, long-time assistant to Hank Ketcham. Illustrator Bill Alger (and a friend that I don't see near often enough) notes this on his Al Wiseman blog.
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Storytelling 101 with ZIP & LI'L BIT's Trade Loeffler
When I first saw the Webcomic series ZIP & LI'L BIT "The Upside Down Me," I was really impressed. "Who is this Trade Loeffler guy who drew all this amazing stuff???" I thought to myself. I fired off a fan e-mail to Trade. And Trade answered back!
Within a couple of emails, we found out we both lived in Brooklyn, and we were just a couple blocks away from each other! So, we started hanging out, having some beers, stopping by Rocketship to say hey to Alex. I miss seeing Trade around the neighborhood since moving away (and Rocketship, and all those pubs), but I can always check out Trade's great work online.
Beginning this fall, he's been doing writing some behind the scenes, informative "how I draw what I draw" background. Trade is a meticulous guy. He was showing me roughs of the current adventure, The Sky Kayak, last winter. Here are some of his insights into the process:
Storytelling 101a
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Storytelling 101d
Thanks for this, Trade! Fascinating reading! And here's hoping it's a matter of time before a major publishing house picks up Zip & Li'l Bit! Sign me up for a limited edition hardcover!
Related: From Pappy's Golden Age Blogzine comes the same sequence of events from the TARZAN origin, three times over; each time, as drawn by a different master comic book artist.
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Snow Snow Snow
Another couple of inches fell last night, which makes it near 2 feet of snow so far this winter. Above is my snow blower eye view of our place in the woods, around 9am this morning, with our long, long driveway half-way blowed. It take about 3-4 passes of the snowblower to clear the driveway; about 10-15 minutes at most.
2008 TREK Merchandise
Save some money for some of these STAR TREK items coming in Spring 2008! Above: the CAPTAIN KIRK"S GUIDE TO WOMEN book, creepy looking "mini-mate" dolls, and an art book of THE SHATNER SHOW, a Calgary gallery art show relating to "The Shat."
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Galactus: Cute or Not?
When I was a kid, I read what's called "The Galactus Trilogy" in a giant size reprint book of the FANTASTIC FOUR. Galactus was a super-bad guy. A name to be feared. The Voldemort of the Marvel Universe!
And now some dang toy company has made a bonehead item: Cute Galactus. It's just wrong wrong wrong.
Outrage and more at Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin blog.
Caldecott/Newbery Award Winner Videos
The New Hampshire Public TV Web site has a video on demand of classic children's picture books for online viewing.
Some of these are short films, mostly produced by the Weston Woods company, of classic children's books like LENTIL or WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. When I was a kid, these are the kinda movies that we watched in class, or maybe saw on Captain Kangaroo. The camera pans over the illustrations, with a narrator reading the text. Nothing fancy. These are charming and I'm enjoying the camera languishing over some beautiful watercolors on TIME OF WONDER by Robert McCloskey, a book I haven't even thought about in a couple of decades.
Jeannie Schulz on SCHULZ AND PEANUTS book
Jeannie Schulz talks to Jeet Heer about her reaction to the SCHULZ AND PEANUTS book by David Michaelis.
"David Michaelis said in an interview that he couldn’t decide if Sparky had been happy his last 25 years. All he had to do was ask. The last two years of Sparky’s life were measurably different from the years leading up to them, as Sparky didn’t always feel well those last two years and the pressures on him from fans and business were a tremendous stress. But the 25 years I knew him he loved to laugh and tease, and did a lot of both."
There are links to more family members' reactions as well.
Michaelis's book, and the PBS American Masters special, for which Michaelis acted as consultant, follow the template that Schulz was a cold man, who felt empty/bitter because he could not show his love. The family has disputed this, as well as many of the factual details in the book, a major Holiday release from Harper Books.
To paraphrase a vice presidential debate: Well, Mr. Michaelis, these people KNEW Schulz. I agree with Mark Evanier, who also picked this up today, when he commented that the author is on thin ice.
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Hot Women of Star Trek TOS
Posted on Flickr by a fellow named Poletti comes The Galactically Hot Women of Star Trek TOS!
Sure, there's no Seven of Nine here, but you do get a sample of some of The Old Show's great line up of ladies of the Federation:
Above: Droxine, Number One, Lt. Helen Noel, Lt. Mira Romaine.
And there's many more at The Galactically Hot Women of Star Trek TOS site. And there's a voting session for you to vote on the hottest.
But -- uh -- Spock's Mom in one of the hotties? Eew. Dude, she deserves a little respect, huh?
But you overlooked my favorite:
Unless I missed it, Zarabeth from ALL OUR YESTERDAYS, needs to be part of this! A crime, Polettti! Please deem fit to add Mariette Hartley's character to the roster. And, if I may be so nerdy hardcore ("nerdcore"), The Companion from METAMORPHOSIS should, technically, be on the list.
Related: Seven & Uhura are 1/25th of AOL's 50 Sexiest Women on TV.
Related: The Women of TOS by Laura Goodwin.
Shatner Not Playing Kirk in New STAR TREK Movie
And here's his reaction:
Rat own, rat own, Jim baby.
Meanwhile, Trekmovie.com reports it ain't over til it's over and maybe he'll be in it.
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Darth Vader's Christmas List
The Bully Says: Comics Oughta Be Fun Blog is always a regular read for me. Recently, Bully gave us Darth Vader's Christmas Amazon.com Wish List. Funny stuff, Bully!
"I feel the Holiday shopping is strong with this one!"
And keep reading for the Amazon.com wishlists for Superman, Popeye, Batman and The Incredible Hulk!
Related: speaking of sci fi icons: Bully has a preview of the new Dr. Who Christmas Special "Voyage of the Damned."
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The Naked Campaign by Steve Brodner & Gail Levin
The New Yorker Web site showcases a bunch of videos with Steve Brodner, drawing the presidential candidates and talks politics. Emmy winner Gail Levin directed the streaming vids.
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New Syd Hoff Web Site
Gag cartoonist, illustrator and children's book auteur Syd Hoff has a shiny new Web site devoted to the man and his many, many works. The site is the result of a lot of hard work by Syd's niece, Carol Edmonston. I've barely had enough time to look at all the terrific, preciously unseen material at this site. Thanks, Carol!
Oh, and she says there will be more to come.
Bookmark now, and visit and revisit during those long winter evenings!
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SCTV - Count Floyd's Scary Little Christmas Promo
Over at Sandra Bell-Lundy's Between Friends Blog, she reviews the new scary movie I AM LEGEND.
I read I AM LEGEND by Richard Matheson and it scared me a lot. And that's just ink on newsprint. Cheap paperback newsprint at that!
I believe in what the host of Monster Chiller Horror Theatre Count Floyd says about scary movies. I can still remember his lame Transylvania accent, "Ooh. We gotta scary movie tonight, kids! Really scaaary -- but too scary."
I've never seen any of the movie versions of I AM LEGEND because I avoid most scary movies (exceptions: THE HAUNTING (1961 version), 28 DAYS LATER (I had to keep stopping the movie to calm down), and SHAWN OF THE DEAD). I'd rather watch something not too scary, thank you very much!
So, here is Count Floyd, and his Christmas Special promo.
I miss SCTV!
Posted by Mike Lynch at 12:45 PM 3 comments
Bill Watterson Documentary
Above: a screen capture from the Dear Mr. Watterson site.
A film is in the works dedicated to Calving & Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson. While Mr. Watterson is not scheduled to participate in this documentary, the movie will be dedicated to him and his influence.
From what I was able to understand, the director will talk with other people (primarily cartoonists?) about C&H. Worth keeping an eye on, but anything could happen at this early stage.
H/t to The Weekly Geek and Editor & Publisher.
Matthew Diffee Interviewed
New Yorker cartoonist, and editor of not just one, but two REJECTION COLLECTION books, Matthew Diffee is interviewed for Print Magazine by Emily Gordon.
Do most New Yorker cartoonists also try to sell elsewhere as well--Playboy, Reader's Digest? Who else buys single-panel cartoons? And what are the advantages and disadvantages of each? What would a Playboy Rejection Collection look like?
There is Playboy, which is, I understand, the next place to go with your stuff if it happens to be Playboy-type stuff…but they don’t pay as much as The New Yorker and I think they buy all rights while The New Yorker only buys first printing rights, and the copyright goes back to the cartoonist after 90 days. That is, if I understand the legalese of my contract properly. Also, cartoons in The New Yorker have a prominent standing, and respect whereas Playboy cartoons are not what you first think of when you think of the magazine. I’m told they have pictures of naked ladies in there.
As far as other mags, I’m not really sure, there may be people who send their rejects other places and some have probably found comfortable places in second-tier markets. Personally, I’m not organized enough for all that and also I never really wanted to be a cartoonist in the general sense, I just wanted to be a New Yorker cartoonist. Before I die though, it might be nice to get a cartoon or two in Cat Fancy.
H/t Comics Reporter.
Labels: Cartooning Business, gag cartoons, rejection
David Gantz 1922-2007
Above: Dave Gantz's National Cartoonists Society page.
Cartoonist David Gantz, a veteran comic book artist andwriter, newspaper strip cartoonist and graphic novelist, who had worked with many greats including Al Jaffee of Mad and Charles Schulz, passed away this morning. There is no further information at this time.
Dave attended the High School of Music & Art, the National Academy of Design and the University of Iowa.
Dave was a golden age comic book artist. His first job, back around 1940, was with Magazine Management, a company that later changed its name to Marvel. Dave drew "Mighty Mouse and "Patsy Walker," among other titles.
He continued as a comic book artist for the next couple of decades, producing mystery, horror and romance comics for Lev Gleason, St. John and Ziff Davis. He's also been credited with drawing the Classic Illustrated version of Huckleberry Finn.
Dave was a syndicated comic strip artist. He had a number of his own strips, notedly "Dudley D," which ran from 1961 to 1964 with the Herald Tribune Syndicate, and "Don Q," a strip that ran from 1975-80, syndicated by the New York Times Features Syndicate. Below is an interview from the JewishPub Web site:
Q: And you had a political cartoon strip for The New York Times.
Dave Gantz: My strip “Don Q” was syndicated by the New York Times Special Features Syndicate and ran from 1975 -1981. In its time, Don Q appeared in over 100 newspapers throughout the world, daily and on Sundays, but it never appeared actually appeared in The New York Times.
Q: Why not?
Dave Gantz: I was told that because The New York Times was distributed nationally, if the strip appeared in the Times it would hamper sales of other papers throughout the country. I remain skeptical about this explanation because I know that The New York Times published a comic strip in 1906 to compete with Pulitzer’s “World.” It was called “Roosevelt’s Bears” and it flopped after 6 months. The publisher, Adolf Ochs, vowed that the Times would never again publish a comic strip. Not even “Don Q.”
David Gantz also created freelance cartoons and illustrations for major publications including Boy's Life and Mad Magazine.
Above: JEWS AND THE GRAPHIC NOVEL by David Gantz; an online illustrated essay on the impact of Jewish creators. Thanks to Steve Bergson's Jewish Comics blog for the link.
David Gantz wrote and illustrated over 75 children's books for Scholastic, Random House, Simon & Schuster and others. In addition to his commercial work, he was a fine artist, working in print making and sculpture. He exhibited in the US and Canada.
He won a 1997 National Cartoonists Society Newspaper Panel Division Award for "Gantz Glances."
He worked with Chaim Potok on his (Dave's) most recent book, JEWS IN AMERICA.
Dave was a member of the National Cartoonists Society Long Island Chapter (the "Berndt Toast Gang"). Berndt Toast Chairman Adrian Sinnott adds:
"David was one of the kindest, intelligent, and creative people I've ever met. An artist, writer, and sculptor. His work included scores of books and whenever you spoke to him he was working on another project. He was a great inspiration to me and countless others. Another great loss."
Above: one of the many terrific samples of his comic strip work from Allan Holtz' Strippers Guide blog here (scroll down a bit).
Labels: American Art, Berndt Toast Gang, Cartooning Business, cartoonists, comic books, comic strips, illustration, National Cartoonists Society, obituary, Reuben Awards
Harvey Pekar Talks About Coventry
Harvey Pekar talks about the Coventry neighborhood in Cleveland Heights, OH, where he lived during the 1970s and 80s in this interview from September 8, 2007.
I lived near there -- in the next suburb over -- in the late 1970s and 80s. I went to school at Shaker Hts. High, where I (of course) drew cartoons for the school paper. When I was 19, I ran the small theatre one summer at Cain Park for its summer festival. I used to watch old movies at the New Mayfield Repertory Theatre in Coventry (where I first saw Chaplin's THE CIRCUS & Hepburn & Tracy in BRINGING UP BABY), managed one of the Arabica coffee shops; not the AraFREAKa one in Coventry, but the AraSHEIKah one in Shaker Square. Yeah, that's what we called them. I met a girl, a very pretty redhead, that I would later marry, on my morning shift at Arabica.
Anyway, on to the video: this is sort of a video slide show, with Harvey off camera. The visuals pan and linger over photos of the area, ala a Ken Burns documentary. Listening to his reminiscences reminded me how much the world has changed since that time. Why go to the used record store -- Record Revolution -- if you can get your stuff off the Web. And usually for free! At one point, some photos from the 1930s are shown over Harvey talking about the 1970s. I don't know why this was done, but it kinda does seem like it was that long ago ... sometimes.
At the very end of the first part linked above (there's a total of 6 parts), he speaks about wanting to do something creative, even though he wasn't an actor and couldn't dance, etc. I admire him for deciding to go into comics and to keep working at it. Who knew that it would be successful?
Keep watching, even thru the end credits that pop up in these segments, since there's more talking and photos. Interesting, if you're a fan of his work -- even more interesting if you're a Clevelander.
Harvey Pekar Talks About Coventry part one
Harvey Pekar Talks About Coventry part two
Harvey Pekar Talks About Coventry part three
Harvey Pekar Talks About Coventry part four
Harvey Pekar Talks About Coventry part five
Harvey Pekar Talks About Coventry part six
Oh, and Tommy's restaurant did have great food!
Labels: comic books, Video
Manga to Help Find Real-Life Killer
Above: Kyoto Seika University manga students in a photo from the KSU Web site.
Kyoto Seika University has a Manga Department, where students learn how to create manga.
KSU had a tragedy in January: one of its students, Daisaku Chiba, was knifed. The Tokyo police have not caught the suspect.
The faculty and students have gotten together and created a 20 page manga book about the boy, his life, and what happened on January 15, 2007, in the hopes of finding the person or persons who stabbed Daisaku Chiba ten times.
Above: the 20 page pamphlet. A thousand copies will be distributed around railway stations in Kyoto and other places.
Some interior detail.
“Chiba-kun met us through manga. Wouldn’t it give us some comfort if we could help arrest the killer with the power of manga?”
Anime News Network has the story.
A big hat tip to Dirk Deppey at Journalista! for the heads up on this.
Labels: education, Manga
Know Your Cow
The week of June 11, 2007, I had the above cartoon in The Chronicle Review. I blogged about it here, and just found out that art -- or, rather, a cartoon -- imitated life. Here's a letter to the editor from the September 7, 2007 Chronicle Review:
Mike Lynch thought he was inventing something funny when he drew a cartoon showing a cow's picture on the side of a milk carton, with the caption "Artisanal Milk" (Letters to the Editor, The Chronicle Review, June 15). But 15 years ago, taking up a restaurant reviewer's recommendation, a colleague and I dined at a restaurant in Edinburgh in which each cheese on the cheese cart came with a photograph, discussed with us by the waiter, of the cow from which the cheese's milk had come.
Who knew? And would the photo of a cud chewing heifer really be helpful in choosing the suitable cheese? Those crazy Scotsman!
Chuck Jones' A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1971)
OK, it's the Holiday season. Let's go watch an Oscar-award-winning adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, executive produced by Chuck Jones with the voice of Alastair Sim as Scrooge! For now, there's only one -- just one place -- to see this: YouTube.
It's not on DVD. Ands that's crummy. This show has some serious pedigree; the guy who brought us THE GRINCH (the cartoon, not the Jim Carrey monster) is the executive producer and it's directed by the animation director of WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT. I remember seeing it in 1971, and once or twice since then -- but only by chance. It's not a holiday TV tradition ala CHARLIE BROWN or those Rankin Bass puppet specials or the MISTER MAGOO special. Go figure!
YouTube's rules means a 28 minute vid has to be sliced up into smaller segments. Here are the links if you have the time to watch.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL Stave One
A CHRISTMAS CAROL Stave Two
A CHRISTMAS CAROL Stave Three
A CHRISTMAS CAROL Stave Four
Thanks to Grant Miehm for reminding me of this special, which I had forgotten about until now!
Labels: animation, Video
Warren Miller Cartoons
"Good morning, Harry Chadwick. This is your id."
Some terrific Warren Miller cartoons here from his 1970 collection PRINCE AND MRS. CHARMING.
Miller was a New Yorker mag mainstay in the 60s and 70s. although he is still around and still producing work, the NYer mag is not buying much these days. These cartoons are a reminder of how good he is.
H/t to Journalista! for the heads up.
EDIT: Oops! I meant to thank Comics Reporter for the heads up. But, hey, Journalista!'s a great site anyhoo.
Caricatures of Cartoonists
The Entrecomics site presents Cartoonists' Self-Caricatures.
Tip of the hat to Dirk Deppey at Journalista!
Valé Paul Rigby | The Godfather of Editorial Cartooning
Via Jason Chatfield comes this tribute video to Paul Rigby as shown at the 23rd Annual Australian Cartoonists' Association Stanley Awards.
Thanks so much, Jason, for making this available to all of us!
Posted by Mike Lynch at 1:53 PM 2 comments
Labels: editorial cartoons, obituary
Mike Lynch Cartoon in December 10, 2007 Wall Street Journal
"Remember to ask about Santa's needs."
Above is the finished cartoon of mine as it appears in today's Wall Street Journal. This is a redraw of a cartoon that I submitted to the Journal a few months ago. I had to redraw it for them because my original was horizontal, whereas their space is square. They asked me to do the redraw. I hate redrawing. Hate it. Just am not interested in redrawing at all and hard to pep myself up to do it. Bored silly, I am. I guess that's why I had to put in the one kid sticking out his tongue (bottom left), which was not in the original version. I wanted to put something fresh in it.
Above is the original; the one I first mailed to them. I drew this in 2003, and I submitted it a couple of times a year to various markets. I don't know what made me draw those really big candy canes on Santa's chair!
I like the sentiment of the mother. Poor Santa! One of the occupational hazards of being him is having to listen to all these dang kids tell him their selfish wants all the time! What about him?!
Related: Richard Thompson talks about redraws at his Cul de Sac blog. You would be a fool not to bookmark Richard's blog! A fool!
Al Scaduto Links
Photo of Al at his drawing board by Whitney Kidder-Alvarez for the Connecticut Post.
Al Scaduto passed away on Friday due to complications from a medical procedure. He was 79.
Chris Mautner at Newsarama has a good rundown of links to remembrances, including the Comics Curmudgeon meta-post, that has .
Editor & Publisher announcement
Al Scaduto's National Cartoonists Society page
King Features bio
Labels: cartoonists, comic strips, obituary
Al Scaduto 1928-2007 (Updated)
Just got word that Al Scaduto passed away yesterday. He was 79. I have no more details at this time.
Al Scaduto was one of the nicest guys ever and I am glad to say he was a friend. He brought his love of singing to every get together of the Berndt Toast Gang, giving us all a chance to hear his lovely voice sing a couple minutes of opera.
He was generous with his time and stories of cartooning. He had been with King Features for over 60 years, soon after graduating from high school. He went from being an assistant, to actively taking over Jimmy Hatlo's feature THEY'LL DO IT EVERY TIME.
Al went to high school with Joe Giella, Sy Barry and Emilio Squeglio -- fellow cartoonists and fellow Berndt Toasters -- and they shared their friendship with all of us.
I will miss him very much, and this is all damn hard to take in.
UPDATED December 9, 2007:
Photo: Al Scaduto sings at a recent Berndt Toast meeting while girlfriend Claire kvells. ("Kvells" being a Yiddish word meaning to rejoice and be prideful.)
"'What I like most about being a cartoonist is starting with a fresh piece of paper and ending up with an idea,' he said. 'You're the writer, the actor and the director. I never thought about retiring. I enjoy what I do.'"
- Al Scaduto, from a February 11, 2007 Connecticut Post interview written by Dirk Perrefort.
A few more notes about Al Scaduto, perhaps the last, great "bigfoot" style cartoonist. A guy who knew Milt Gross, for heaven's sake!
These are all notes I made from the Berndt Toast Gang meetings. The BTG is the nickname for the National Cartoonists Society Long Island chapter. I was chapter chair for about five years.
Back in 2005, Al told the Gang about The School of Industrial Arts reunion. SIA was founded by four young art teachers in 1936, who built desks from old orange crates and plywood. Even though it’s changed its name to the High School of Art and Design and moved from its former Civil War hospital building to a modern building on Second Avenue, it’s still referred to as SIA by those who graduated.
After the graduation ceremony from the High School of Industrial Arts in 1946, Al's father told him he would starve. That same year, Al started at King Features. By 1948, he became a full time assistant for Ben Dunn, but still found time for lots of other work. A multiple winner of the NCS Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for the strip, he’s been soloing on They’ll Do It Every Time since 1989. Not bad for a boy from the Bronx!
OK, we have a number of BT Gang traditions. The group has been meeting in one shape or from since 1966. For instance, every month we ask someone to bring in some samples of their work. Al Scaduto brought in dozens of originals from his years on They’ll Do It Every Time, Sick magazine, Little Iodine and so many, many illustrations. A Certain Major Syndicate surprised Al with a beautiful cake that was inscribed ”Congratulations Al from your Friends at King Features.” Al told us a little about his career. After the graduation ceremony from the High School of Industrial Arts in 1946, his dad told him he would starve. That same year, Al started at King. By 1948, he became a full time assistant for Ben Dunn, but still found time for lots of other work. A multiple winner of the NCS Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for the strip, he’s been soloing on They’ll Do It Every Time since 1989. Not bad for a boy from the Bronx!
Photo: Children's book illustrator and current Chair Adrian Sinnott, Al Scaduto, Mike Lynch from a May 2007 get together.
And another Berndt toast tradition (actually, more of a running gag): Al Scaduto announces that he has brought a guest. This happens every time, and every time, he introduces the fellow sitting at the same table: “Jumpin'” Joe Giella. Then Al tells a disparaging joke at Joe’s expense. This is all forgivable since we all love Joe and the joke is an old joke. On those rare occasions when Al can’t make it, we all worry that there will be no one to introduce Joe.
On April 24, 2006, legendary cartoonist Creig Flessel wrote a letter to me (on real paper, since Creig's not an Internet-kinda guy) about what he's up to
I keep busy doing watercolors and cartoons for local residents and our grandchildren. Tell Al Scaduto (my mentor) that I'm concentrating on my cartooning and he is my god.
Al had this to say in the days after Jay Kennedy's death:
"Many years ago, when I was still working at Bob Dunn's office up at King Features on the 17th floor, Jay Kennedy was assigned the job of Comic Editor. He was always very 'low key' and a true gentlemen, with a tremendous knowledge of comics. I met him several times, either at cartoon conventions or at King Features affairs, as well as at NCS meetings and, of course, at Bunny Hoest's Annual Bash. Talking to him on the phone one day, he praised me by saying, 'Al, you do a handsome feature.' I'll truly miss this gentle man."
Photo: a display of some of Al's originals on a display table at our January 25, 2007 get together
Al was just a very sweet guy. He would call me from time to time, to let me know how much he enjoyed the monthly BT meetings. He would drive from his home in Connecticut, pick up his girlfriend in Tarrytown and then drive out to Huntington, Long Island. When new or wannabe cartoonists would drop in, he would always spend time with them and ask them more questions than they would ask him.
He was an integral part of the Berndt Toast heart, and he will be missed.
Al, we were all kvelling when you were around. We'll miss the cartoons and the music and the man so dearly.
Mark Evanier on Al
Comics Curmudgeon, with a comment from one of Al's daughters.
Posted by Mike Lynch at 10:22 AM 12 comments Links to this post
Labels: Berndt Toast Gang, cartoonists, obituary
Holiday Cards and Shopping
Correspondent Martha White writes that "year-end photocopied brag sheets and e-cards can never replace the original handwritten holiday note" in this article from the Christian Science Monitor, which includes the above card.
"My grandfather, a prolific letter writer – his updated "Letters of E.B. White" goes into paperback this month – managed a personalized, printed card in 1950 with his own verse and a drawing of his dachshund puppy descending steep stairs – a feat that occasionally resulted in a nose dive."
And good ol' Alan Gardner The Daily Cartoonist purveys cartoonist-related sites that have holiday card themes.
Tom Spurgeon serves up a mega-list of cartoon related items that are on the market in his Comics Reporter Holiday Shopping Guide. Not for the weak of wallet! And it's so big that, even after a minute or two with my high-speed cable connection, it's still loading the page.
Big hat tip to dear ol' Dad for the E.B. White link. Thanks Dad!
Related: E.B. White Quotes.
Labels: cartoonists, comic books, comic strips
Bikini Audacity
BETWEEN FRIENDS creator Sandra Bell-Lundy writes about good comic strip writing, a bikini, and its relation to human rights.
In this entry, she honestly talks about the value of writing to please yourself, and what she learned from the late Jay Kennedy. Here's Sandra:
If there's one thing a cartoonist has to learn, it's that you have to write for yourself and that your work is not going to appeal to everyone. When I was working with my editor, Jay Kennedy during the development stage of my cartoon strip, I would fax my ideas to him and he would call me back with a critique of my work. He'd tell me why this strip worked and that one didn't and if he thought a particular strip was very funny. Every so often, I would catch myself writing my strips according to what I thought Jay would find funny. And you know what? ...not once did he tell me that the strip I wrote trying to appeal to his funny bone "was very funny". After a few times, it dawned on me that I should just write what I thought was funny. If someone else found it funny, well...consider it gravy.
It's so hard to be a cartoonist because, despite the fact that there is a skill set that you can learn (learn to draw, learn to write), there is NOT a standard operating procedure to apply. A cartoonist has to offer something unique -- and, harder still, a cartoonist has to self-generate all this.
Related: No Ta-tas or Pee-pees in Children’s Publishing, But Most of All, No Balls? from the Chronicle Books blog by Melissa Manlove. It's about a terrific series of children's books, all ready best sellers in Europe, that were not printed in the US (until Chronicle Books picked them up) due to "American prudishness."
Darren Garnick, of the Nashua Telegraph, writes about the life of "MAD's Maddest Cartoonist" Don Martin.
He talks about the new big 2 volume slipcased Don Martin collection of cartoons. I agree with him that it's a trip down memory lane -- and I also agree that a lot of cartoonists love Martin. So many of were MAD readers. I remember copying his characters when I was a wee lad.
Below is a sidebar from the article, which mentions a site I visit all too little. So here, via Mr. Garnick, are a few of the fantastic Don Martin sound effects as documented in Ed Norris and John Hett’s Don Martin Dictionary:
Ack gak gark! Man having a heart attack.
Blorf breedeet: Gagged man trying to talk.
Clink cloink bzzt: Putting money in Vend-O-Hair machine.
Grunch grunch gashlikt! Sculptor pressing thumbs into man’s head
Snap ploobadoof: Wonder Woman releasing her Amazon brassiere.
Spa-zunch: Superman swatting a fly on Lois’ back.
Spaloosh: Mafia informant dumped in river wearing cement shoes.
Stroinggoink: Olive Oyl falling down a sidewalk grating and being saved by her nose.
Thwak: Tooth being knocked out of mouth with a hockey puck.
Tip-tippity tap: Tadpole tap dancing.
Unklik: Man being released from dungeon wall.
More at the Don Martin Dictionary!
And it should be noted that Don Martin's original Signet paperback books (CAPTAIN KLUTZ, DON MARTIN FALLS 13 STORIES, etc.) are not included, despite the book being touted as a complete collection. I have heard that the book is all ready sold out, so I hope that this other material will be reprinted in 2008!
Labels: cartoonists, Mad Magazine
Little Lulu Exhibit
The sons of LITTLE LULU Creator Marjorie Henderson Buell donated her papers to Harvard last year. LULU paper ephemera will be on display at the Schlesinger Library thru March 29, 2008. More information, including the hours of the exhibit, is here. And, if you go there today, there's a reception this afternoon, between 4 and 6pm.
Here's a detailed list of what the Library has from the press release:
Cartoons and comic strips including eighteen of Buell’s earliest cartoons, among them the very first cartoon she drew before age seven; original “Little Lulu” and “The Boy Friend” sketches; and the entire collection of “Little Lulu” comic strips published from 1935 to 1969, appearing first in the Saturday Evening Post and then in national newspapers.
Personal correspondence with publishers, agents, fans and colleagues. Also included are fan magazines and Buell’s personal notebooks.
Official business documents including original contracts with Rand McNally, Milton Bradley and Paramount Pictures. Also included are royalty statements, licensing agreements and copyrights.
Lulu merchandise and memorabilia including toys, sheet music, children’s books, comic books published in multiple languages and Kleenex advertisements.
What's missing is the name of John Stanley, who, along with Irving Tripp, wrote and drew the bulk of the LULU comic book stories. I don't mean to diminish Ms. Buell's work, but it was Stanley who created the whole world of Lulu. I hope that there's an acknowledgment to his work in the exhibit.
Dark Horse Comics is reprinting the LITTLE LULU comic book series. Their 17th volume is below, with #18 (previewed at their site, click "Next Page >>" at the top right of the cover) coming out next month.
Labels: cartoonists, comic books, comic strips, gag cartoons
Can't blog. Busy snowblowin'!
Glad to report that there has been -- so far -- no loss of life nor limb, as so graphically pictured on the snowblower warning label.
Best Thanksgiving Cartoons
We were around the Thanksgiving table, talking cartoons. The one and only Stephanie Piro invited us over for Thanksgiving dinner with her friends and family. So, if there's more than one cartoonist at the table, then, of course, there is going to be cartoon talk.
"Here are the 4 best Thanksgiving cartoons," I announce, loudly and boorishly, letting everyone know that two of them are mine. "There's the one of the Mayflower sailing toward America with a big sign, 'Contents May Settle' on the back." I drew this up (see above) and then took it out of circulation when I saw that the cartoon had been done all ready! I saw it in an old collection of cartoons later, and I just did not know it had been done before. These things happen!
"And then there's the one of all these turkeys at a party, all wearing those little nametags that say 'Hi, I'm Tom,' 'Hi, I'm Tom,''Hi, I'm Tom.' This is by my pal Mark Anderson.
"And then there's one where a turkey is being X-rayed at the doctor's office and the doctor turkey is pointing to the patient turkey's solar plexus and saying, 'Well, Bob, here's you problem: your internal organs have been shrinkwrapped!'" I drew that one a couple of years ago, and it appeared in, of all things, a higher education journal. And I can't find a copy of the cartoon just now.
"But the best one I've seen," I continued loudly, for tryptophan has zero effect when I'm hepped up on Cartoon Talk,"is Roy Delgado's cartoon from the November 21, 2007 Wall Street Journal."
Roy is, as I've mentioned before, on a one-man mission to sell a cartoon to The New Yorker.
This makes over 19,500 cartoons REJECTED by The New Yorker in my lifetime. If they ever DID buy one, I'd probably have a heart-attack! I can't win either way!
I read his Roy Delgado Blog to check his progress!
Labels: Cartooning Business, cartoonists, gag cartoons
The Great Ham Caper
My wife wrote a poem for Christmas 2006. It's about us and the cats. I thought it was fun, and maybe a bit indulgent. To my delight, Stacy's poem got a lot of kind emails. Hard to believe that since then we've moved and gotten another cat.
For auld lang syne, here it is again:
Words by Stacy Lynch
Pictures by Mike Lynch
’Twas the week before Christmas
When Rufus and Sam
Hatched a devious scheme
To make off with the ham!
The ham that would grace
The holiday table!
Roo was the brains.
Sam, wiry and able.
They devised a plan
Of Goldbergian proportions
With pulleys and weights
And kitty contortions.
And on Christmas day
They’d eat until stuffed
(The very idea
Made their tails slightly puffed!)
’Til then, they’d lay low,
Little angels to see.
But that made us suspicious –
Wouldn’t you be?
So we snooped and we sleuthed
And uncovered their caper -
“The Ham-Stealing Plan”
Diagrammed on a paper!
“No silly cat’s gonna
Steal my roast beast,”
Exclaimed Mike. “Just watch,
I’ll ruin their feast!” So he countered their scheming
With mad plans all his own
And all I could do
Was inwardly groan!
Who’d win this contest
Of wits they were planning?
Would Mike, Roo or Sam -
Be last man or cat standing?
As Christmas day dawned
The four of us waited
For the ham to be served
With breaths that were bated.
But before the main course
Could even be plated
Their plans took a turn.
Some say it was fated...
What happened to stop them
So cold in their tracks?
Why, cat-nip and husb-nip
(in big canvas sacks) Was all that it took
To stop their foul warring.
And they rolled and purred
And drooled on the flooring. And as long as I kept
My fingers and toes
Away from a hubby and two cats
In nip’s throes -
My own Christmas day
Turned out merry and calm;
The ham moist and succulent,
The champagne, a balm.
When they “awoke”,
hostilities abated,
We all ate some ham
And went to bed sated.
And such peace we wish
To you and to yours:
An end to fighting;
An end to wars.
Mike and Stacy and Rufus and Sam
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Subject: RE: BS: obit: Osama Bin Laden ???
From: GUEST,lively
Date: 05 May 11 - 05:41 AM
"...but it seems to me that you 'get off' on having a brutal mass murderer slaughtering innocent people...like it's some twisted fantasy of yours!"
It seems to me that you're so stupid that you're incapable of understanding the very basics of what other people write, and prefer to attribute them with bizzare fantasies of your own creation instead. Must be a lot of fun living in your mind.
Byeee...
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From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
So what prescription do you take?? 'Stupid pills??'
No, I do not believe that the 'ends justify the means'...but it seems to me that you 'get off' on having a brutal mass murderer slaughtering innocent people...like it's some twisted fantasy of yours!
watch the videos, I posted...then you figure a way to
'reason' with the 'inspirational figure head' of the loons, committing those atrocities!
Your ideological, political beliefs are running am-muck over both your experience in life, and common sense!
This asshole declared WAR on non 'believers', and targeted unarmed women children, and any civilians, of our cultures as his targets!...So what do you want us to do?..give him a 'fine' and probation??
..and don't get me wrong, yes, there are things that both our countries do, that I don't like...but that is no excuse to be so willingly as nonsensical as you two idiots!
Would it matter to either one of you, of how many more innocent people might be spared, by knocking this crackpot out?..or does the thought of bombs ripping through populated public centers get you wet? ...so you think you can claim some sort of moral high ground?
The guy should have been taken out a long time ago..any way possible!
From: Keith A of Hertford
Richard, you seem very certain of the law on this.
Are you better informed than all these?
Was the killing of Bin Laden legal?
The use of deadly force against Bin Laden, who was said to be unarmed, is unlikely to be challenged in an American court, but the US has already sought to defend its position on legal grounds.
US Attorney General Eric Holder said the acts taken were "lawful, legitimate and appropriate in every way".
US legal experts point to the fact that the US had declared itself to be in armed conflict with al-Qaeda.
Kenneth Anderson, a fellow in national security and law at the Hoover Institution, told Reuters: "It's lawful for the United States to be going after Bin Laden if for no other reason than he launched an attack against the US."
Other legal experts questioned whether this would stand up under international law.
Targeted killings under US law remains a disputed area.
US executive order 12333, signed by President Ronald Reagan, says: "No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination."
However, the term assassination has never been fully defined and some US legal advisers have sought to argue it does not apply in conflict situations.
State department legal adviser Harold Koh, quoted by Mr Anderson, said in March: "Under domestic law, the use of lawful weapons systems - consistent with the applicable laws of war - for precision targeting of specific high-level belligerent leaders when acting in self-defence or during an armed conflict is not unlawful, and hence does not constitute 'assassination'."
Profs William C Banks and Peter Raven-Hansen, writing in the University of Richmond Law Review, also argue it does not apply to figures such as Bin Laden, nor when the US is "in hostilities such as the Gulf War or war on those responsible for the 11 September attacks".
"The targeted killing of terrorists is therefore not unlawful," they conclude.
Mindful of its need to stress the military nature of the killing and the need to abide by conventions, the US has also said that Bin Laden presented a clear danger to its troops.
CIA director Leon Panetta said: "Obviously, under the rules of engagement, if he had in fact thrown up his hands, surrendered and didn't appear to be representing any kind of threat, then they were to capture him. But they had full authority to kill him."
Another US defence official said: "There were certainly capture contingencies, as there must be."
British law professor Philippe Sands QC, of University College London, says the US can certainly argue that it was entitled to take action to protect its citizens against a deadly enemy.
"Even if the use of deadly force was unlawful, international law recognises that there are exceptional circumstances where necessity precludes wrongfulness, and this will be said to be one of those case," Mr Sands told the BBC.
But Mr Sands says that what Pakistan knew and authorised, and what happened when the commandos confronted Bin Laden, will need to be known before the legal situation of the raid becomes clear.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has called for more information and stressed international law must be respected - but accepted that taking Bin Laden alive was always likely to be difficult.
"Now about allowing foreign troops to violate your national territory - for or against?"
If the nation concerned has no objections, who are you to object on their behalf Jim?
Other means to end this career of carnage have failed.
You all claim to be glad he has gone, but you would have preferred to wait another ten or twenty years for it to be done in a way that you find acceptable.
At what cost?
From: Richard Bridge
I really don't think I need to comment on Fugitive from Sanity. All that he knows is the power of the gun. A perfect example of the anarchy that could result from the breakdown of the rule of law.
"Fuck the method!."
Yes, you've made it clear that you believe 'the means justifies the ends' and I suppose that's fine for you in your own back yard, but other people think that the US with all it's Weapons of Mass Destruction and incessant military meddling in the Middle East for which it is greatly hated, might like to tread a little more cautiously.
Fuck the method!..A mass murderer who was the figure head of more murders was snuffed out..Good riddance!...any method was more humane than his!!!!
"Those are your co-defenders..join up, with them, then!"
There are a group of people on this thread who are willfully misunderstanding and misrepresenting the concerns that other posters are voicing about the METHOD of Bin Laden's assassination.
These are legitimate concerns about the cavalier behaviour of one of the most powerful states in the world.
I don't see anyone weeping over dead terrorists or lining up to join Islamic extremist organisations here. Perhaps reducing the discussion to such false emotive nonsense is a bi-product of watching too much of that infamous Fox News or something.
Watch the videos, and you'll see the 'trial' your side gives!
From: Jim Carroll
Sorry GfI
Not into torture and internment without trial - leave that to you terrorists.
Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll: "Nobody is defending anything - we are wondering who is going to defend us from the defenders."
Well, you should have seen the videos, by now...Those are your co-defenders..join up, with them, then!
From: Stu
Bin Laden's not dead - I've just seen him shopping in Tesco's at Handforth Dean.
"That seems to absolve Bin Laden's bombers from responsibility for the carnage."
No it doesn't Keith - stop wriggling.
The whole mess we are in at present can be traced back directly to the US behaviour in the middle east; original support for Saddam, Gulf War, WMD.... etc. Blair and his cronies involved Britain by sucking up to Bush and sending young men off to die for the Holy Grail that was (or wasn't) weapons of mass destruction.
None of this absolves Bin Laden, or those who will follow him - they are all part of the bloody mess that is the world today.
Now about allowing foreign troops to violate your national territory - for or against?
So far you seem to be happy that the US can send troops wherever they please, without permission, or even consultation; and you have remained silent of the use of torture et al of illegally held suspects... would you please confirm orr deny this.
And about the acts of terror carried out by the US - for or against?
"experts on changing shitty nappies"
You scurried away from the last thread - please don't bring it here - if you have anything to say on this, take it where it belongs.
I have no intention of turning this into yet another dialogue - life's far too short to spend with eejits.
Ebbie:
"they have constructed concentration camps where similar illegally detained 'suspects' are held in inhuman conditions"
Go to Florida and head south for about 90 miles – it's called Guantanamo and everybody knows about it.
Nobody is defending anything - we are wondering who is going to defend us from the defenders.
Here, take a 'look-see'....
THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE DEFENDING!!!!
Download a couple of the videos...then tell me that this bullshit doesn't deserve what is coming to them!
From: Ebbie
Jim Carroll, you say: "for the latter, they have constructed concentration camps where similar illegally detained 'suspects' are held in inhuman conditions (60 odd of them at the last count) for indefinite periods with no access to friends, family or legal assistance."
Do you have firm evidence of these "concentration camps"? Where are they and how is it that you know about them?
From: Taconicus
And meanwhile, I believe Osama bin Laden is still dead. Probably cavorting with his (how many?) virgins right now. Who, if there is justice in the hereafter, probably have teeth in unusual places.
jim, you said,
"Having kids doesn't give anybody a special insight or wisdom - it just makes them experts on changing shitty nappies. "
Both my sons were down in the Underground when the 7/7 bombs went off.
I have to disagree with you.
There were no bombs in Co. Clare were there.
300...of mostly dumb things to say!
Pitying the perpetrators Jim.
You said, "every bomb that went off in London following the phony search for WMDs is down to Pres. Dubya and his poodle Blair."
That seems to absolve Bin Laden's bombers from responsibility for the carnage.
US and British terrorism made them do it, poor dears.
You may be outraged on Pakistan's behalf, but they are not.
They act out the charade of being "concerned", as with the drone strikes, but it is well understood that they are delighted.
They have lost 30 000 dead in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, and receive a billion dollars a year in military aid to resist them.
"Did you get all choked up about that, too, Jim? Or are you old enough to even remember?"
Sorry Don - you're doing a Keith here.
I have expressed no regret whatever that Bin Laden has gone to... wherever fanatical religious terrorists go - good riddance - another thug out of the way.
I am concerned that the US - you know the one - the big guy with the nuclear arsenal - feels it within its remit to invade any country they choose, abduct and imprison suspects and hold them indefinitely without charge or trial, ship them off to be tortured..... and all the other things terrorist countries do.
The world is an unsafe enough place without its most powerful nation acting as though it is in a John Wayne movie.
From: Don Firth
A bit graphically put, GfS, but very much to the point!
Don Firth
From: J-boy
Hey GfS, You can go ahead and leave "Kumbayah" out of it. What did that song ever do to you?
Richard Bridge: "Was it legal? The breakdown of the rule of law is dangerous as is US belief in its own omnipotence."
Gee, you pulled your head out again..probably for some 'fresh air'!
Look, in case you haven't heard this before, (being as you are hiding under 'legal-speak'), 'War is the total breakdown of law'. OBL, chose to make his play OUTSIDE ANY law, that you are holding up, for us to adhere to..not only that, he plays under his OWN rules, with utter contempt for ANY law you are quoting. Do you think 'International Law, and the 'rules of war' apply here????..or is there a breakdown, initiated by OBL, in an attempt to replace your quoted law, with Sharia law..but with himself in charge???? Do you think he should sit cross-legged, holding hands, singing 'Kumbayah', swaying back and forth, like your 'rehabilitation program' for wayward cookie jar thieves??? Hey! wise up! If ANYONE goes flying planes into buildings, killing innocent people all over the world, because he is trying to advance a primitive interpretation, to a cultist 'everybody must die who doesn't believe in Allah religion'..so no law of toleration is due them, I'm sorry....its not like mommy caught you with your fingers in the cookie jar...you go do shit like he's pulled, and you're in the big time!!..Maybe OBL should have thought of your International war rules BEFORE, he declared war on innocent people and started killing them, indiscriminately! Believe it or not, some STUPID things have consequences. If he wants to live outside the law, maybe it was fitting that he died 'outside the law'. HE made that choice!! To stop ANY further plans of his BULLSHIT, was/and is, the decent thing to do...unless YOU can get him into your make-believe world of swaying, glassy-eyed, campfire singers of 'Kumbayah'!!!
Get fuckin' real, and stop making a parody of common sense, or, for that matter, yourself!
Chances are, the directive for the mission was terminate him and gather all intelligence possible, within a certain time limit.
The fucker is DEAD!!! Got it?? Why bitch over the details???
OK, now you can re-insert your head back into that cozy warm place, and blow 'law bubbles' out the opening!
From: Janie
Date: 04 May 11 - 11:40 PM
Ebbie,
fwiw, and maybe not much, prisonplanet is so conspiracy-minded as to make it nearly impossible to separate the facts from the paradigm.
One always has to try to separate the wheat from the chaff, but when 70-90% of the raw material is chaff, it isn't worth my time to separate out the kernels.
Hey. Has anyone else clicked on the link that 'andrew' made? If even half of the information given there is true, the game is over.
From: GUEST,number 6
Maybe Bobad .... but we also don't want legitimate countries of the world running around as loose cannons either .... it could make things even worse for us out there ... bad enough as it is.
From: bobad
Thomas Mulcair has the reputation of being a loose cannon.
gnu .... "The under-leader of the NDP don't know what took place?"
exactly ... that's why he is asking for a full analysis.
"because "that has to do with American law and international law as well."
sounds fair to me.
From: gnu
sIx... ""Mulcair also said the killing requires "a full analysis" on whether it was self-defence or a direct killing..."
It was about as direct as you can get. They came to call with nasty sons-a-bitches in choppers and shot the fucker. The under-leader of the NDP don't know what took place? Then he's a fuckin idiot. How could he say something so stunned-as-me-arse?
One last point here .... I also raise question if the other 3 victims were also armed .... if not, then it would be murder (would it not) or ... were they just collateral damage.
Well, the the party (NDP) that holds the official opposition in Canada is holding off on the applause ... if you read the CBC link I posted .... if not, here's a quote from Thomas Mulcair the deputy leader of the opposition
"Mulcair also said the killing requires "a full analysis" on whether it was self-defence or a direct killing because "that has to do with American law and international law as well."
I think his point is valid, and over the next few days (as the dust of celebration settles down) many decent people will probably raise the same question .... if the NDP had won the election this would be the official stand of the Canadian government .... now I know many Canadian catter's would not and did not vote for Harper or the Liberals ... hmmmm, so who did they vote for .... :-)
"Was it legal?"
Alan Dershowitz says it is:
"The decision to target and kill Osama Bin Laden is being applauded by all decent people. Approval to capture or kill this mass-murdering terrorist leader was given by Presidents Obama and Bush. It was the right decision, both morally and legally."
Don - no bleeding heart here. My concerns are twofold.
Was it legal? The breakdown of the rule of law is dangerous as is US belief in its own omnipotence.
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. If this was legal, so are some at least Islamist attempts to assassinate the president of the USA.
Canadian NDP Deputy Leader has doubts photo's exist
From: andrew e
http://www.prisonplanet.com/top-us-government-insider-bin-laden-died-in-2001-911-a-false-flag.html
From: Donuel
I assume you have seen the pictures of his bloody bedroom floor by his water bed on the third floor.
This should settle the debate over water bedding having anything to do with his capture and killing.
From: Bobert
Yeah, bobad... It might have...
This one is a toughie...
B~
Bobert, I think the fear was that holding him alive would spawn countless kidnappings and beheadings by his rabid followers both as an attempt at ransom and in retaliation.
I'd still rather have him alive and living at Gitmo...
I question why that didn't happen... Yes, I realize that the Repubs have made a domestic trial in a US court near impossible but had I been Obama I would have pushed harder for "alive"...
From: olddude
One thing I am thankful for is no member of the seal team was hurt. That is something at least .. I don't know the current members of that team but they always were the most elite and most dedicated of all the service branch. They are always in harms way and answer the call of duty when ordered. They don't make political decisions, they serve and protect with their lives. Most of the other branches call those guys the archangels, because when you are pinned down or captured , their normal job is to go in and get you out alive. That is what they normally do. This time it wasn't about capture but command gave the order not them.
At the end of World War II in Europe, the architect of mass murder, Adolph Hitler chose to commit suicide rather than face justice. Americans were involved in that operation. And British.
Did you get all choked up about that, too, Jim? Or are you old enough to even remember?
"All weepy over taking out a mass murderer"
Has anybody become weepy Don - seems most of us are having a bit of difficulty telling the difference?
"Of course, the British never dirtied their hands in India...."
Can't speak for Silas but - yes Britain certainly did, and has my full condemnation for having done so.
I don't think they napalmed third world peasants, or attempted to destroy their food sources with Agent Orange - nor did they drive them into their huts and burn them to death, as did your Major Calley - but what they did was no less excusable - The Empire On Which The Sun Never Sets, or The Blood Never Dries - that was how I was brought up to think of the British Empire.
And just as you got your collective arses kicked off the roof of the Saigon Embassy, our country got kicked out of (most of) our former colonies.
Some of us learned our lesson from what our Governments did - now let's hear it from you for waterboarding, or special rendition, or collateral damage, or detention without trial.... or all the other aspects of American civiliasation that puts gas in the tanks of your SUVs.
As with Keith - I won't hold my breath though!!
All weepy over taking out a mass murderer who was undoubtedly in the process of planning more mass murders (indeed, that was his stated intent).
This man was responsible for the deaths of 3,000 plus people some ten years ago. People who got up in the morning and went to work as usual, who shortly thereafter were suddenly confronted with such decisions as having to choose whether to jump out of a fiftieth story window and plunge to their deaths in the street below or stay there and burn to death.
And I seem to recall there was an explosion or two in London undergrounds, plotted by the same man, that killed a lot of people, people who had harmed no one, and who also were only going about their normal day's activities.
The peculiar sentiments of some people here are enough to gag a maggot!
Mosquitos more worthy of mercy than bin Laden: Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama, the leader of Tibetan Buddhism, implied at a talk that the Obama administration's targeted killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was justified.
During a talk at the University of Southern California Tuesday, the Dalai Lama was asked about bin Laden's killing, and whether that could be rationalized in the context of Buddhism's dharma of forgiveness and compassion.
"Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened," he said, according to the LA Times. "If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures."
In the same talk, titled "Secular Ethics, Human Values and Society," the Dalai Lama also said he tries to avoid killing mosquitos when they land on him, "when my mood is good and there is no danger of malaria."
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/04/mosquitos-more-worthy-of-mercy-than-bin-laden-dalai-lama/
"Pity the perpetrator and blame the victim."
I pity nobody here - Where have I expressed pity for anybody - do not put words into my mouth.
They are all a bunch of terrorists, and unlike you, I am not prepared to put the defence of my, or anybody's country in the hands of anybody else - whatever happened to that Union Jack you were waving so vehemently not s long ago - do you think that every country should throw open its borders to any foreign power?
What would your reaction to a bunch of cowboy marines storming through London, or Manchester?
Do you give the right to the US to drop in whenever they feel like taking out somebody in Britain?
I can't help but notice that you avoid commenting on their record on human rights violations and use of torture - that's ok is it?
From: artbrooks
Visualize this scenario:
The US, having ascertained that Osama bin Laden is almost certainly living in a villa a short drive from the capital of Pakistan, presents their ambassador in Washington with a formal note requesting his extradition to face criminal charges in the US. Acting in an extremely expeditious manner for Pakistanis, a constable of the Abbottabad police force arrived at his compound only three weeks later to request his peaceful surrender so that a decision can be made on whether or not the American request will be honored, or if he will be deported to his native Saudi Arabia instead. To the policeman's surprise, he finds the place deserted. Seal Team 6, having been sitting in the SOG ready room at Hurlburt AFB, FL for the past 3 1/2 weeks, goes home. Articles of Impeachment are served on Pres. Obama.
"you got it wrong - Pakistan complained,"
No they did not.
They expressed concern.
As you say, any other country would be outraged, but they are grateful for the help against a mass murderer of their people.
The blame for London's dead lies with the West you say.
Pity the perpetrator and blame the victim.
That is your philosophy.
Right Jim?
Actually, gn-zer... The Pakistani president has an op-ed in today's Washigton Post that says the very same thing...
Some alternative views.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/
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It’s Batman Week on Motion State for several reasons, not least of which is because no self-respecting film criticism consortium would ever be caught dead hosting a Superman Week.
Zack Snyder will be tackling the first installment of the Justice League two-parter following Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and now he’s stated that he also wants to adapt…The Fountainhead? Will Howard Roark be the hero we deserve?
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I have a few favorite Batman moments, but the one that trumps them all occurs in the first Batman animated movie Mask of the Phantasm. The comic books are full of contenders, of course — the iconic “legends can never die!” panel in Jim Aparo’s “Man Behind the Mask”, the more-iconic moment in “Hearts in Darkness” when Batman rises from the grave, or the most-iconic “fiend from hell” moment from “The Demon Lives Again!” (which we talked about in our rundown on Batman Begins). The feature films have some epic moments as well, like the introductory call-to-arms of Batman Returns or the final ascension from the pit in The Dark Knight Rises. But Mask of the Phantasm captures what many of these moments capture — the determination of Bruce Wayne, the -ness of the Bat — in a unique way.
Phantasm, of course, is more than just the best animated Batman movie — it might be the best Batman movie, period. It certainly stands with the live-action iterations of Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan, and getting over the fact that Phantasm happens to be animated (as if that’s a point against it) is just a necessary assumption akin to classing The Incredibles at the top of the list of Best Superhero Films. It’s easy to forget about The Incredibles amid the present torrent of live-action Marvel hero flicks, just as it’s easy to forget that Mask of the Phantasm is without a doubt a better Batman film than at least 6/10 live-action Batfilms. I’ll let you figure out which ones I mean.
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Most of the comic book influences on Batman Begins are fairly evident. Everyone points to Frank Miller’s Year One, the redefining four-part series that put the “Dark” back in Dark Knight, and they’re right to hold that book up as the major influence. Begins relies heavily on Year One for a number of things, not least among them the exploration of the Bruce Wayne/Jim Gordon relationship, the exploration of the Bruce Wayne/Alfred relationship, the Gotham Monorail, the mention of the Joker at the end, the entire character of Flass, the entire sequence where Batman calls a squadron of bats to his aid (a bat-talion, am I right? Guys?) and, of course, the entire bat-flies-through-window genesis of the hero himself.
So Year One is the obvious one. Nolan and David Goyer pilfered little things from other famous Bat-books as well, often just an image or a line of dialogue. Here’s the Scarecrow in Loeb and Sale’s The Long Halloween, another popular arc:
The Long Halloween (1996/97)
Goyer brought this to Nolan and said “I think Katie Holmes and the little kid who will eventually grow up to be Joffrey from Game of Thrones would look really good if we added them in front of the horse here” (paraphrased) and Nolan said “true dat, brah” (not paraphrased) and ran with it:
The red eyes and flames are an admittedly nice touch.
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Tip#978: 47 Movies That Helped People Cope During Their Depression – Buzzfeed.com
It always inspires me to know other people around the world feel as passionate as I do about the uplifting power of movies. Not only does it make me feel part of a vast movie-loving community it also provides me with new film recommendations that I can enjoy and then share in my motivational keynotes and seminars and on this blog!
Ultimately, this is further proof that people have massive resilience resources for mental health and wellness of movies they can access to help them cope and manage depression. This is what I teach in my presentation How To Re-Energize Yourself because a favourite film can be very much like a personalized battery to re-energize you to move forward no matter what problems block your path.
On Buzzfeed.com, staff writer Jamie Jones asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell them the movie that helped them during their depression. Some of their comments were very heartfelt and can also be a source of inspiration for others dealing with depression whether it is situational or clinical. Here are 12 of my favourites from 47 Movies That Helped People Cope During Their Depression...
2. Amélie
“Amélie really helps me through anything. ANYTHING. If you’re upset it helps perk you up, if you feel like a weirdo it makes it not feel like a bad thing…”
3. Silver Linings Playbook
“Watching them work through their problems and accept their faults made me feel like I could make it through okay too. And all the adorable dance scenes got me up out of bed and wanting to be moving and active again.”
5. Lilo and Stitch
“There is literally nothing sad about that movie, it is just love.”
6. Synecdoche, New York
“I think it spoke to my soul about depression and existential crises with such visceral truth that I felt connected to something; I felt like I was not alone with the terrible enormity of my feelings...”
8. Legally Blonde
“Legally Blonde got me through a few rough patches during high school and college. Elle spent the whole movie not fitting in at Harvard, but then ended up with the best deal out of everyone, and that gave me a lot of hope for dealing with my own loneliness…”
11. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
“For whatever reason, the movie I watched a hundred times during the worst of my depression was the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. There’s something so calming about Gene Wilder in that movie.”
12. Cool Runnings
“It’s my happy place – I’m seven again and nothing is wrong with the world.”
16. The Lego Movie
“I’ve been struggling with depression for about five years now. I’ve always felt like I was nobody and I am always going to be a nobody. The message in The Lego Movie gave me hope. I am special. Everybody is special. You can achieve great things. Just hearing that brought me to tears.”
26. The Birdcage
“When I’m depressed, I always end up watching The Birdcage because I know it will make me laugh every time without fail. Plus, the late great Robin Williams stars in it, and any Robin Williams film is magic to my mood.”
27. Almost Famous
“Whenever I’m feeling especially down I take out Almost Famous and I watch that “Tiny Dancer” scene and cry sad and happy tears at the same time, and then everything is a little better.”
31. When Harry Met Sally…
“There’s just something about that movie that whisks me away and helps me feel stronger for some reason. I can’t explain it.”
41. Inside Out
“Seeing that it was okay to be sad and that it was necessary to truly feel alive helped me know that I didn’t have to force myself to be happy all the time. It allowed me to begin to accept myself as I am again.”
See full article for all 47 movies:
47 Movies That Helped People Cope During Their Depression
If you are dealing with situational or clinical depression or just feeling stuck in your life or career be inspired by these comments on the uplifting power of films. Let these comments show you that you are not alone in your problems and that movies have the magical ability to re-energize your thoughts and spirit to keep moving forward. Movies can make you feel less alone in the world.
And if you know someone who is dealing with depression and would feel better from this post then please share it. You could make a huge difference in their life today!
See Emmanuel/Motivatorman's personal list:
Top 10 Inspiring Movies for Managing Depression
Tip#828: Motivatorman’s Top 10 Feel Good Movies
Tip#834: Top 10 Movies for Inspiring Resilience in the Workplace
Tip#200: How To Build Indestructible Optimism - Top 9 Movie Tips
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Tip#977: Remember Your Indestructible Optimism, Part 4 - Me Before You
It takes time to train yourself to develop indestructible optimism so you can successfully face unexpected problems at work or in life. My own training put me to the test recently when I found a black & white stray cat that passed away in the garden of the home I am house sitting for the summer.
I’d never had to deal with a dead animal before and it was shocking at first. Then my optimistic mindset activated and reminded me that this would be a learning experience and everything would be fine. I immediately remembered I had a friend who was an expert on cats so I contacted her. She recommended I call 311 Animal Services which I did after I notified the homeowners. The service told me I needed to bag the cat and then leave in front near the curb for pick up within 48 hours.
Though having to touch this poor dead cat was emotional I focused on accomplishing the task, said a little prayer and bagged it as carefully as I could. I then put a label on the plastic bag for Toronto Animal Services as I was advised. Only thing was, I was worried that raccoons would get into the bag since it was now getting dark. And 48 hours was a long time.
So I did some online research on safe repellents and discovered that mint and Epsom salts were excellent. Thankfully this home and garden had an abundance of both. So I crushed some of the mint leaves inside the 3 sets of plastic bags and spread mint leaves and Epsom salts on top and around the bag. It ended up looking like a little shrine.
Thankfully Animal Services came at 1:40am and I went out to meet the woman who commented on how nice the bag smelled of mint. And no raccoons in sight! In the end I was glad to help give this cat a more loving goodbye. He looked so sad and alone when I first saw him so I was happy I could honor a cat I never knew.
My indestructible optimism got me through this problem and I learned so much about calling 311 Toronto, safe repellents for raccoons and mostly about my own courage, compassion and care for a deceased animal close to home.
A flower for the cat I never knew from the garden it chose for it's final moments.
The romantic drama film, Me Before You, is about cheerful and quirky Louisa Clark (Emilia Clarke) who takes on a job as a caregiver for Will Traynor (Sam Claflin), a wealthy young banker left paralyzed from an accident. There are many life lessons in this engaging drama sprinkled with funny moments. See: movie trailer
Louisa is brimming with positive emotional energy and demonstrates an optimistic mindset when faced with the pessimistic, negativity coming from Will. You can see her radiant personality and positive attitude shine though in all the vibrant, kooky clothes she wears and the joyful expressions on her face. Her passion for life is overflowing in every scene. She is like a battery charged with sunshine for Will to re-energize from!
In return, Louisa finds many silver linings within the conflicts she experiences working and living with Will. She learns more about finding courage to make a better life for herself. Louisa ends up being a wonderful cinematic role model for indestructible optimism!
• Resourcefulness
• Surrender
• Dealing with death
It’s important to note that this film has received a backlash from the disability community on a number of points that could affect your feelings about the film. And yet this is another example to test your own indestructible optimism and focus on the silver lining from this or any other film you are interested in seeing. And just like Louisa you will discover hidden gems of personal learnings within the negatives of a film.
Problems in life or at work can overwhelm you if you let it. That’s why learning to activate indestructible optimism can help you manage any challenge that blocks your path. These challenges are your training! Let cinematic role models show you what optimism looks like and mirror your own strengths and potential. There is always a silver lining to find. Focus on believing in this today!
Tip#593: Remember Your Indestructible Optimism, Part 1 - Argo
Tip#904: Remember Your Indestructible Optimism, Part 2 – Depression - The 33
Tip#974: Remember Your Indestructible Optimism, Part 3 - Ghostbusters 2016
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Tip#976: Great Teamwork Movies, Part 12 – Star Trek Beyond
Kirk: "We got no ship, no crew, how're we going to get out of this one?"
Spock: "We will find hope in the impossible."
The original 1966 Star Trek series was the first TV show to ignite my imagination and inspire my vision for an exciting future! It also showed me what teamwork looked like. I had already moved to Canada from the Philippines as young child and was watching reruns of a show that showed me diversity in a workplace representing Blacks, Asians, Russians, women as equals and alien species. And most importantly I got to see them work together solving problems in each episode!
In the first two reboot Star Trek films of 2009 and 2013 I always felt they were missing the core spirit of the original series (and the four other TV series that followed). I’m very happy to say that on the show’s 50th anniversary, the latest film, Star Trek Beyond, delivers more of the wonder, fun and team spirit I know and loved!
This is in thanks to the vision of director Justin Lin and co-writers Doug Jung and Simon Pegg (who also plays Scotty). They are all fans of the original show so their love and passion is felt throughout the film. They also continue the vision of original show creator Gene Roddenberry for diversity and inclusion with the reveal of a gay character. Crewmember Sulu, played by John Cho, is shown briefly with his daughter and partner (a cameo played by Jung).
Along with some touching emotional moments and exciting special effects I was inspired to see the team spirit and teamwork among these iconic characters. They demonstrated, once again, how effective cooperation was over conflict with one another.
The science fiction action film, Star Trek Beyond, is the third chapter of the alternative timeline movies where the crew of the starship Enterprise must recovery from a surprise attack of an alien commander named Krall (Idris Elba). The returning cast members bring a great sense of adventure and camaraderie thanks to Captain Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), Dr. McCoy (Karl Urban), Scotty (Simon Pegg, Uhura (Zoe Saldana), Sulu (John Cho) and Chekov (Anton Yelchin). See: movie trailer
The loss of their ship is devastating and yet each person demonstrates perseverance, resilience and indestructible optimism. These factors then lead them to creative thinking and resourcefulness as they address each problem one at a time on the alien world they are stranded on.
The main crewmembers each demonstrate how their individual talents and skills are quickly applied to the problem solving discussions. This is especially evident in the third act where the action and challenges escalate to thrilling cinematic levels. The lessons in Star Trek Beyond of leadership, teamwork and diversity all exude the spirit of what has made Star Trek special and inspirational for 50 years!
• Creative Thinking
Original show creator Gene Roddenberry also envisioned our future as one where we lived in the spirit of cooperation and not conflict with one another. This belief is especially highlighted in this film between Krall and Kirk. Krall argues that unity is not humanity’s strength but a weakness and Kirk responses that it is the opposite. In the end it is the film’s message to reaffirm that surviving and overcoming seemingly hopeless situations are always achieved through unity, cooperation, camaraderie and a resilient, optimistic group vision!
I highly recommend finding inspiration in films you enjoy that demonstrate effective teamwork and problem solving. Let the characters you resonate with mirror your inner strengths to be part of a team capable of achieving goals and tasks no matter how difficult they appear. Movies can excite you to see a positive future for you and the people you work with. Start creating that future today!
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Tip#975: Benefits of Box-Office Bombs, Part 4 – Independence Day Resurgence
After the recent thrill of seeing the new Ghostbusters film (see tip#974) I was in the mood for another summer popcorn movie and knew I had to see Independence Day Resurgence on the big screen. Alas the difference between both was that Ghostbusters was much better as a cinematic experience even though both were tapping into nostalgic feelings of their first films.
Independence Day Resurgence was considered a box-office disappointment in North America but did better internationally though I always remain open in my opinion. And with most films I see there were several “golden nuggets” or silver linings I found from this movie. These are the moments I feel a positive emotional charge from whether it’s a specific situation or quote by a character. These meaningful moments are the same benefits you can receive from any film good or bad if you are open to it.
Note: I chose to show the Chinese version of the movie poster because it was much warmer than the North American one!
Independence Day Resurgence (2016)
The science fiction action film, Independence Day Resurgence, is the sequel to the 1996 film, Independence Day, and takes place 20 years later where Earth has developed hybrid alien technology in preparation for more alien attacks. Despite flaws in the film it is still entertaining and showcases some visually stunning sequences and the welcome presence from returning stars Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Judd Hirsch, Brent Spiner, Vivica A. Fox and William Fichtner. See: movie trailer
Yes some of the action scenes were overblown like the enormous size of the alien mothership that’s 3,000 miles (4,830 km) in diameter. And yet it felt great seeing the return of Goldblum, Pullman, Hirsch and Spiner as well as the amazing special effects, spaceships and alien characters. And the moments (golden nuggets) that moved me were the most human messages of the film. It was about how disasters and crisis unite people of all differences and beliefs. And these are important messages especially with the race problems and protests currently happening today.
Former President Whitmore (Bill Pullman) has another powerful speech in this film…
“We always knew they were coming back. But look how far we’ve come. In the last 20 years this planet has been unified in a way that’s unprecedented in human history. That’s sacred. That’s worth fighting for. We convinced an entire generation that this is a battle we can win and they believed us. We can’t let them down. It wasn’t luck last time. It was our resolve.”
Resolve is defined as firm determination to do something and to settle or find a solution to (a problem, dispute, or contentious matter). It is this term and the vision of global unity that I took away from this film. That is the silver lining I hope you take away too should you see the movie.
Each person can have a difference of opinion when it comes to the same film. They may feel so passionate about their opinion that it could lead to fighting over who is right or wrong. My wish and vision is that movies help unify people and focus on the shared values of a cinematic experience. Those are the ultimate benefits of the power of movies for our planet!
Check out this awesome mock news special highlighting the exciting alien hybrid technology and cultural diversity in the film: The War of 1996 | A United World News Special
Tip#664: Benefits of Box Office Bombs, Part 1 – After Earth
Tip#875: Benefits of Box-Office Bombs, Part 2 - Aloha
Tip#949: Benefits of Box-Office Bombs, Part 3 – Gods of Egypt
This is an epic life lesson from an epic evening I recently had about optimism, positive thinking and problem solving! As I learned over the years and now teaching in my speaker topic, How To Activate Indestructible Optimism, the results are so satisfying when you can automatically see the silver lining of any problem you must suddenly face in life and at work.
A group of five friends planned to see the opening night screening of Ghostbusters at 10pm at the Cineplex VIP Cinemas at Yonge and Dundas. We wanted to come and support the all female leads that had been receiving controversial media attention. The tickets were purchased two days in advance and we were all excited as we approached the entrance of the theatre. I was then surprised to find something on the ground and stopped to take a photo of it (more on this later).
We got our printed tickets and proceeded to the VIP theatre where I was in a giddy state because this would be my first time in the renovated VIP section! We met up with two other friends who purchased individual tickets so they had to sit separate from us. All of a sudden, we saw that people were seated in our assigned seats and that’s when we realized our printed tickets were dated for the night before!
This is the moment when a collective mindset of indestructible optimism kicked in among us! It didn’t matter where the ticket error came from because our intention was to solve this problem. Within seconds we notified one of the theatre staff named Kelly-Anne and she said the 10pm VIP screening was sold out but she would see about getting us five seats for the 10:45pm IMAX screening. I immediately told our other two friends already seated to come with us.
With Kelly-Anne of Cineplex VIP Theatres
So as we waited in the VIP lounge, we began looking at other movie options within this Cineplex despite the late timing. Within minutes Kelly-Anne returned with five new tickets for the IMAX screening and would also take care of the other two friends who could now sit with us! On top of this she apologized and provided us each with a Courtesy Ticket to any other regular screening of our choice!
We were all in a state of silly joy as we thanked Kelly-Anne for the outstanding customer service and for saving this belated birthday gift from my friend and colleague Tammy Cunningham! Tammy and I celebrated by singing the Ghostbusters theme as we got our hot buttered popcorn and drinks and settled in for what would be an unexpectedly epic cinematic experience!
The comedy-action film, Ghostbusters, is a reboot of the 1984 film about paranormal enthusiasts forming a team to deal with ghosts in New York City. This highly entertaining reboot captures much of the iconic imagery and joy of the original while creating new situations and lovable characters played by Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones and Chris Hemsworth. See: movie trailer
I was in awe at how enjoyable this reboot was! It was fun, funny and extremely smart with an amazing tone I’m not able to define at the moment. I just know that I’m not wild about 3D films and yet this is a must see in IMAX 3D with the stunning visual effects of ghosts and proton pack blasts literally popping off the screen! Plus McKinnon’s character Jillian Holtzmann and Hemsworth as the world’s worst receptionist are hilarious and scene-stealers! Teamwork was also a fantastic theme that stood out for me.
• Team Spirit & Teamwork
This film has received an enormous amount of backlash since it’s first trailer for having all female leads and I did my best to not be influenced by the constant negative media updates. My optimism was kept activated thanks to a brutally honest, rave review by one of the original Ghostbusters, Bill Murray in an interview on The Jimmy Kimmel Show (see here at 2 minute mark). Though I still questioned his positive attitude because from all the trailers I couldn’t see how good this movie could be. And yet I was very open to the silver lining.
This is what activating indestructible optimism is all about at its core. It’s about believing and seeing a silver lining within a negative situation and trusting that everything will turn out positive. And that’s what happened on this epic evening out at the movies when faced with an unexpected challenge. We remained optimistic and ended up being provided with an even better cinematic experience thanks to the VIP service we were given at Cineplex!
After staying for the post-credit scene we left the cinema past 1 AM feeling energized and in a state of bliss. I then remembered what I found on the floor outside the entrance of the theatre. It was a shiny dime. And as I’ve written before on my movie blog, whenever I find a dime I know it is a heavenly sign that my father’s spirit is with me at that moment (read more). I laughed at how beautifully ironic this dime was since we had just seen a movie about ghosts and spirits! In the back of my mind I wondered if my dad had a hand in making sure this belated birthday gift would turn out grand. Either way it was an epic evening shared with friends!
Activating optimism can take time, training and practice and sometimes it is necessary to reboot your default beliefs and mindset. Be inspired by movies and real-life stories that demonstrate problems being solved thanks to positive attitudes and thinking. Be inspired to build your own indestructible optimism and soon you’ll have your own success stories that will thrill you and excite others who hear it!
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Frankenstein Day of the Beast is Coming to Blu-ray and DVD as Part of a 6 Picture Movie Deal
SGL Entertainment is pleased to announce that they just have signed a 6 picture movie deal with the Legendary Horror Filmmaker Ricardo Islas. As part of the Deal, the first release of many will be FRANKENSTEIN DAY OF THE BEAST to be Unleashed on Blu-ray, DVD and VOD in the US and Canada. The award winning film had previously been released in Germany and Japan but will now be Available in North America via SGL Entertainment along with their partners MVD and Indie Rights.
Watch the Official Frankenstein Day of the Beast Trailer:
In a foggy winter morning, a raft brings a priest to an isolated island. He is getting paid to perform a wedding ritual under very mysterious conditions. The groom is Victor Frankenstein, and the young and beautiful bride is his cousin Elizabeth. Seven armed and dangerous mercenary soldiers have been hired to protect her against something huge that hides in the woods, awaiting for that wedding night to be consummated. Victor is the only one who knows the truth about their enemy. His secret will be paid with the life of his private army, whose men will die one by one, as the creature gets closer to his target: the bride.
STILLS FROM THE MOVIE:
Also included in the deal are two of Ricardo Islas’s latest Films: The Sacrifice and Bachelors Grove as well as three of his classic movies: Night Fangs, To Kill a Killer and Lockout.
For More Info on Frankenstein Day of the Beast Go To:
www.sglmoviestore.com/horror/frankenstein
By sglentertainment • Posted in Uncategorized • Tagged Bachelors Grove, Frankenstein Day of the Beast, Lockout, Night Fangs, Ricardo Islas, SGL Entertainment, The Sacrifice, To Kill a Killer
Ruby Gonzalez And Andrea Winters Appearing At Horror Movie Mayhem
We are pleased to announce that Ruby Gonzalez and Andrea Winters from “Night Fangs” will be making a special appearance at Horror Movie Mayhem. Also appearing is Max Da’Silva from the first feature “The Day Of The Dead”. Our guests will be doing a special meet and greet before and after the films are run. Participants will have the opportunity to have their picture taken with our celebrity guests and then have them autographed. Also, merchandise will be available at Horror Movie Mayhem that will include all kinds of cool horror collectables from John M Vitiritti the FX master along with some of the best hard rock, industrial, gothic and metal CD’s via Dark Star Records and SGL Entertainment. So, make sure to have plenty of money on hand for Horror Movie Mayhem. Proceeds from the sales of this event and merchandise are going to help raise funds for the re-make of “Frankenstein”. This epic new take on the movie will be directed and produced by “Ricardo Islas”. Horror Movie Mayhem: SGL Entertainment and Alpha Studios Present a Night of Horror featuring “Night Fangs” and “The Day Of The Dead”. This double feature will be presented at the Portage Theater in Chicago Illinois. This historic theater can seat up to 1,400 people and has a giant screen that will bring these horror movies to you in a larger than life presentation. From the Master of Terror “Ricardo Islas” comes two of the Most Horrifying Films Ever Made.
Horror Movie Mayhem
The Portage Theater
By sglentertainment • Posted in Movies, Uncategorized, Vampires • Tagged Alpha Studios, Andrea Winters, Dark Star Records, Jeffrey A Swanson, Max Da'Silva, Night Fangs, Portage Theater, Ricardo Islas, Ruby Gonzalez, SGL Entertainment, The Day Of The Dead, Vampires
Drake Mefestta And Ticia Martyr Star In Frankenstein 2011
We are pleased to announce that Drake Mefestta and Ticia Martyr of SGL Entertainment have landed major roles in the 2011 remake of Frankenstein “The Day Of The Beast”. The movie produced and directed by Ricardo Islas of Alpha Studios will have an all new approach to it. In a foggy winter morning, a raft brings a priest to an isolated island. He is getting paid to perform a wedding ritual under very mysterious conditions. The groom is Victor Frankenstein, and the young and beautiful bride is his cousin Elizabeth. Seven armed and dangerous mercenary soldiers have been hired to protect her against something huge that hides in the woods, awaiting for that wedding night to be consummated. Victor is the only one who knows the truth about their enemy. His secret will be paid with the life of his private army, whose men will die one by one, as the creature gets closer to his target: the bride. Old style Hammer type of movie, but action packed ala Predator, this is a take on Frankenstein you have never seen and will never forget.
Drake Mefestta will play the role of Kirk one of the seven mercenary soldiers who will do battle with the beast near the end of the film. And, Ticia Martyr will play Agatha as featured in the famous cabin scene. The lead roles are played by Adam Stephenson as Victor Frankenstein, Michelle Shields as Elizabeth and Tim Krueger as The Monster. Ricardo Islas has six horror movies out including Night Fangs, Lockout and The Day Of The Dead, many of which have been released through Warner Bros.
For more info on Frankenstein 2011 go to: http://www.facebook.com/Frankenstein2011
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Horror Movie Mayhem Featuring “Night Fangs” Along With “The Day Of The Dead”
A Night of Horror featuring “Night Fangs” and “The Day Of The Dead”. This Double Feature will be presented at the Portage Theater in Chicago Illinois. This historic theater can seat up to 1,400 people and has a giant screen that will bring these horror movies to you in a larger than life presentation. From the Master of Terror “Ricardo Islas” comes two of the Most Horrifying Films Ever Made. For more details click on the link below.
By sglentertainment • Posted in Movies • Tagged Alpha Studios, Cyn Dulay, Dark Star Records, Horror Movie Mayhem, Horror Movies, Jeffrey A Swanson, Night Fangs, Portage Theater, Ricardo Islas, SGL Entertainment, The Day Of The Dead, Vampires
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Conservative Catholic Group Accuses Pope Francis Of Promoting Heresy On Divorce
HuffPost September 25, 2017
The pontiff has long faced backlash from conservatives in the church over some of his more progressive teachings. (Photo: ALBERTO PIZZOLI via Getty Images)
A group of conservative Roman Catholics has accused Pope Francis of spreading “heresy” by signaling his openness to letting some divorced and remarried Catholics receive Holy Communion.
In a 25-page letter published online Saturday, nearly 70 Catholic theologians and clergy assert that the pontiff has propagated “heretical propositions” on “marriage, the moral law, and the reception of the sacraments.”
The letter focused primarily on Francis’s 260-page treatise “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”), published last year. In the document, the pontiff called the church to be less strict and more compassionate toward “imperfect” Catholics, including those who have divorced and remarried, saying that “no one can be condemned forever.”
“The pope has advocated the beliefs that obedience to God’s moral law can be impossible or undesirable, and that Catholics should sometimes accept adultery as compatible with being a follower of Christ,” the group said in a release, equating remarriage after divorce to having an affair.
The letter was delivered to the pope at his Santa Marta residence on Aug. 11, according to the release. Francis has not issued a response.
“Pope Francis may be determined not to answer this, but it’s not to say that bishops and cardinals aren’t able to absorb it,” Joseph Shaw, a professor of philosophy at Oxford University and one of the letter’s organizers, told CNN. “We have to press this problem on to people who can ultimately address them.”
Francis has faced pushback before over his teachings on divorce. In February, German Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, who stepped down from heading the Vatican’s doctrine office in July, said he opposed any potential changes to the church’s ban on divorced and remarried Catholics taking Communion.
“No power in heaven or on earth, neither an angel, nor the pope, nor a council, nor a law of the bishops, has the faculty to change it,” he told Il Timone, an Italian Catholic publication, according to the Los Angeles Times.
But it’s unlikely the letter ― signed by some members of a traditionalist group that already broke from the Catholic Church under Pope John Paul II ― will register a significant shift.
“First of all, out of the 200 cardinals and over 5,000 bishops in the church, not one has signed on,” Father James Martin, a Jesuit priest and consultor of the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communication, said in an email to HuffPost.
“What weight should be give this letter? Not much, I would say.”
The priest noted that the letter also flies in the face of the “traditional authority of the pope.”
“There are many people in the church who have set themselves against Pope Francis, but the crashing irony here is that the ‘traditionalists’ that signed this letter are going against the traditional authority of the pope,” Martin said. “They’re also some of the same people who, under John Paul II and Benedict XVI, said that any disagreement with the pope was tantamount to dissent. So that letter is pretty rich in irony.”
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MEDIA RELEASE: Bellville Opens up her Streets to People
Posted on: Wednesday 23 September 2015
Kruskal Avenue and part of Voortrekker Road to become a car-free corridor for residents to explore, use and play on their streets.
Cape Town (September 23, 2015) -On Sunday 4th October 2015, the first ever Open Streets Bellville will take place; creating a car-free corridor on Kruskal Avenue and part of Voortrekker Road for residents and visitors to explore, play on and experience their streets differently.
The Greater Tygerberg Partnership and Open Streets Cape Town have created a partnership to roll out an Open Streets Day in Bellville. The decision to go ahead with organising the day came after two months of carrying out a feasibility assessment that involved engaging with different members of the local community and exploring traffic management options in the area.
October is Transport Month, and everyone is encouraged to use public transport. In addition to trains and minibus taxis, there are already 140 cyclists confirmed to be riding from the centre of Cape Town to the Bellville CBD along Voortrekker Road.
In addition to promoting alternative modes of transport, the programme - which is supported by the City of Cape Town - aims to help connect different communities, support local businesses and expose people to healthy and creative ways of using streets as public space for recreation.
The activities confirmed for the day illustrate the diversity that is possible when communities utilise public space freely and creatively. From local performers and artists, to a reading corner, street soccer, skateboarding and children's games, Open Streets Bellville is most importantly an invitation for citizens to use their imagination and maximise this free Open Streets platform in the spirit of community and spontaneous fun. In addition, the Cape Cobras cricket team will be launching their season with an appearance on the day, to play street cricket with kids as part of their community development activities.
Road closures will take place from 8am to 3pm on the following roads:
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There will be no parking along the route; and the alternative route for the closed section of Voortrekker Road is along Tienie Meyer Bypass, via Landros Street from the Town side and Robert Sobukwe Road from the Stellenbosch side.
About Open Streets Cape Town:
Open Streets Cape Town (OSCT) is a citizen-driven initiative, working to change how streets are used, perceived and experienced. OSCT was founded in 2012 by a group of volunteers committed to a more equitable, integrated, safer and vibrant city. It was registered as a non-profit organisation (NPO) in 2013 and seeks to build shared places that embody respect for all and help bridge the social and spatial divides of Cape Town. OSCT works in partnership with the City of Cape Town
OSCT works to design campaigns that raise citizen awareness, foster public debate about public streets and engage everyone in redesigning and re-working streets. Flagship activities include Open Streets days, the monthly Talking streets series and experimental activities on the street.
'Open Streets' is a 40-year old global movement inspired by Bogota's Ciclovia the largest national recreational programme in Colombia that turns 120km of streets into car-free space across the city every Sunday. More than 400 cities around the world have developed similar programmes and Cape Town is taking the lead in running Open Streets on the African continent.
About The Greater Tygerberg Partnership (GTP)
The GTP was established in 2012 as an economic area partnership, in which the City of Cape Town, the Western Cape Government, four leading national universities, business enterprises, and civil society organisations all play a role. It is registered as a not-for-profit company with a vision is to facilitate the creation and sustained existence of a vibrant, thriving, desirable and value-adding economically prosperous area.
GTP is a firm believer in transit-oriented development, and believes investing in and supporting alternative methods of transport, including cycling and public transport, not only ensures the longer term sustainability of the city, but frees up streets for people. We believe that Bellville, and Voortrekker Road, provide the perfect environment (in terms of existing infrastructure and use) in which to really leverage the opportunity to move from privately owned cars to shared and/or more sustainable methods of transport. The Open Streets event is one way in which to experience what Bellville could be like if we reduced the number of cars, reduced parking requirements for new developments and promoted public transport as alternatives.
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Honda’s Problem: Engine Or Aero Kit?
Honda has made it clear that they would like to be able to make substantial changes to their aero kit before they sign another long-term commitment to the Verizon IndyCar Series. Before I get into my questions, let me get it out that I am a big fan of Honda. I appreciate them sticking with the series as the sole engine provider from 2006 through 2011. Except for a three-year period when I got a deceivingly great deal on a Nissan, I’ve always had at least one Honda in my garage since 1981. I’ve owned my current Honda since 2012.
That being said, I read an article on Racer.com where Honda Performance Development (HPD) race team leader, Allen Miller, told Autosport last week that while acknowledging the deficiencies of Honda’s aero kit this year, a big reason for their poor performance since 2012 was that they spent five years as the sole engine provider to what is now the Verizon IndyCar Series.
When I first read that, I asked myself “Is he joking?” His logic was that with no competition, Honda’s goal was not to make the engine quicker and more powerful – but rather to make it safer and last longer. Once Chevy got back into the game in 2012, the stakes changed. Competition forced Honda’s hand to be quick.
Although the Chevy engine was always perceived to be the quicker of the two, Honda won the 2012 Indianapolis 500 with Dario Franchitti behind the wheel of his No.50 Target DW-12. Chevy did win the championship that season with Ryan Hunter-Reay driving for Andretti Autosport. In 2013, the results were flipped. Tony Kanaan and KV Racing gave Chevy their first Indianapolis 500 win since 2002 and only the second for the bow-tie brand since 1993. Scott Dixon won the championship for Honda just as Chip Ganassi was announcing his switch to Chevy for the 2014 season, indirectly forcing Andretti to switch to Honda.
Again, the tables were turned for 2014. Ryan Hunter-Reay won the Indianapolis 500 for Honda and Will Power gave Chevy the championship. It wasn’t until 2015 that either manufacturer swept both honors. In the age of the aero kits, Chevy took the 2015 Indianapolis 500 with Juan Montoya; and the 2015 Verizon IndyCar championship with Scott Dixon.
One might hear those facts and think that Honda and Chevy were on par with each other for those first three seasons before aero kits came into play. They weren’t. A closer look reveals that in 2012, Honda won a total of four races. One of those just happened to be the Indianapolis 500. Chevy won eleven, almost three times as many races as Honda. Honda was actually considered more of a laughing stock in 2012 than the first part of this past season. The only thing they really had going for them was that they were considerably faster than the Lotus.
The following year, in 2013, was Honda’s best of this era. Honda won nine races, while Chevy won ten. They came close to matching Chevy, but not quite close enough. In 2014, Chevy doubled up Honda, winning twelve races while Honda won only six. If you’re keeping score, over the first three seasons since Chevy came back into the series after being driven out by Honda after 2005; Chevy won thirty-three races to Honda’s nineteen.
Although some considered the 2015 season to be a disaster for Honda, it was their second best season of the DW-12 era. Honda won six races to Chevy’s ten, giving Chevy a 43-25 edge over the four seasons.
So I got to thinking that maybe Mr. Miller was on to something. Was it possible that five years of playing it safe and having no competition adversely affected HPD and their ability to produce a winning engine? Or was it that they couldn’t make the transition from a naturally aspirated V-8 to a turbocharged V-6? Does five years of having no competition make you that complacent?
Then I remembered a key piece of information. When Honda was winning championships, while chasing Chevrolet and Toyota out of the series a decade ago, then in the ensuing years when they were the sole engine supplier – the Honda engine was built by Ilmor Engineering and simply badged as a Honda. Yes, Honda engineers had input on the engine design; but make no mistake – the engine was an Ilmor.
This current version of the Honda engine that has been running since 2012 is designed and built by HPD. Can you guess who builds the Chevy engine? If you guessed Ilmor, you would be correct.
Throughout all of the examinations into whatever inner-workings that might be known of each engine, is it possible that the explanation of why Chevy has better results is as simple as Ilmor knows how to build a better engine?
Ilmor has been doing this for a long time. Mario Illien and Paul Morgan founded Ilmor with the financial backing of Roger Penske in 1983. Rick Mears gave Chevy-Ilmor its first Indianapolis 500 win in 1988. From 1988 through 1994, Ilmor-built engines would power the winning cars to seven straight Indianapolis 500 wins and six CART championships. Mercedes picked up the tab for the Ilmor after Chevy left the sport. When Honda left CART following the 2002 season, they went with Ilmor to build their engines – a relationship that lasted through 2011.
I’m not an engineer, nor do I pretend to know the behind-the-scenes relationships between engine builders and manufacturers who pay to badge an engine. But I can look at results and see that except for the Mercedes era of the late-nineties; Ilmor has a very impressive track-record.
While Honda’s woes for this season have been blamed on their aero kit design, what about 2012-14 when Honda (HPD) compiled a 19-33 record against Chevy (Ilmor)? How many HPD engineers worked closely with Ilmor from 2003-2011, when Ilmor was building engines for Honda?
So, I guess my main question is…are Honda’s problems from its aero kit or its engine? Or do they have problems with both? I don’t know the answer, but I’m assuming it’s much cheaper and easier to change the aero kit design than it is the engine design.
Whatever the case, should IndyCar allow Honda to make the substantial changes to the aero kit they are seeking, while only allowing Chevy to make minor tweaks? IndyCar rule 9.3 is a provision to allow changes for one manufacturer if the on-track disparity is great enough. Is Chevy winning ten races to Honda’s six, great enough. That’s what Honda says and appears to be using as a bargaining chip for a long-term deal to remain in the series.
Honda has been in Indy car racing since 1994. They have been very good for the sport and they have derived a lot of good publicity in those twenty-two seasons. Should IndyCar allow Honda this freedom, while restricting Chevy, another good partner?
I’ll be honest, I don’t have an answer. On one hand, I can understand IndyCar bending over backwards to accommodate a long-term partner like Honda. On the other hand, if you accommodate them, where does it stop? You don’t want any one partner to have so much power that they control the series and alienate the other partners – like Chevy.
If I were the IndyCar czar, I would allow both manufacturers to make substantial changes. But then, why have a rulebook if you’re not going to adhere to it? Of course, I thought it was a stupid rule to begin with. I understand the idea is to cut costs, but I have no problem with spending other people’s money. I’ve always leaned towards improvements and innovation in the name of speed and competition, rather than restricting designs in the name of saving money.
So, for once – I’m torn. I don’t think my choice of allowing both manufacturers to make wholesale changes will be IndyCar’s choice. I think they will either grant Honda’s wish so they will stay, or risk watching them walk if IndyCar says “no”. It’s too bad there is not a legitimate third manufacturer to team up with Cosworth. Then things would really get interesting.
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11 Responses to “Honda’s Problem: Engine Or Aero Kit?”
Bob F. Says:
Very good analysis. Did not realize this either.
I think this one is simple. If you allow Honda to make wholesale changes, you have to allow Chevy the same.
tonelok Says:
Honda deserves a refresh but Chevy, I believe deserves one as well, after all this is competition right? This would be Honda’s big chance to get it right and gain an edge that is if they have been doing their homework. There is also the risk that Chevy could widen their performance gap over Honda. Its only fair and its all in the spirit of competition which is why these two companies are doing this in the first place.
I am partial to Honda as well. I have 4 Hondas : 2 motorcycles, a car and a lawnmower and potentially a weed eater ;-). I also still can’t get the General Motors’ bailout out of my head. Even though the Chevrolet engine is really an Ilmor, it is tough for me not to pull for Honda. After all they did hold the series up during the period when Toyota and Chevy left.
Ron Ford Says:
I think Honda has certainly paid their dues through the years so they should and probably will be accomodated. Honda’s contributions to the series have gone beyond just supplying engines. It is not realistic in my opinion to simply give the engine builders free rein without some sort of spending cap. Engineers in any field always have to work within a budget. Often times the budget dictates the design parameters. One need look no further than the current presidential race to see that having the most money does not always result in the best product.
Bruce Waine Says:
…may not result in he best product….
However, it is great for the economy ! !
Just think of the positive nature of all the money being spent and will be spent by all the ‘candidates’ locally and nationally plus the additional individuals being employed which will help boost the economy…………
pressdog Says:
I’m surprised the rules don’t let them both come up with new designs in the off-season for the following year. IndyCar is in a weak position, big time, and will eventually give in to Honda’s demands. Chevy might not even be all that angry since I doubt they want to supply engines to the full field of Honda bolts. But, if Honda gets what it wants, then Chevy and Firestone may say … “wait a minute” when their contracts come up too.
DZ-groundedeffects Says:
Part of me thinks that if manufacturers want to spend their money to redevelop and update engines or aerokits, let them have at it, but I simply don’t see how the updates don’t come at an additional cost to the teams (prepare yourself for some w(h)ine).
A balanced approach might allow “limited/specified” items for update to all competitors, perhaps something like you are allowed to update either your engine OR your aerokit, but not both.
From my view, this issue actually boils down to three things –
1. Honda flat out got beat in the very competition they asked for and agreed to.
2. Indycar very likely adversely affected Honda (and the Road/Streets/Small Oval competition) by requiring removal of parts to the RC/SC/SO aerokits after St. Pete due to the spectator being struck.
3. Indycar again adversely affected Honda at Indy with the pitching/rolling/airborne issue found with the Chevy and again mandating changes to both Chevy and Honda that appeared only an issue with Chevy’s kit.
Issues 2 and 3 don’t change the fact of issue 1.
Do issues 2 and 3 indicate some remedy of goodwill be allowed to Honda? Maybe, in the best interest of the sport and one of it’s best partners.
The multi-million dollar question is:
“What is, in fact, in the best interest of the sport?”
billytheskink Says:
I think Honda gives up a bit to Chevrolet on both the engine and aero kit sides, but they also have had a weaker lineup of teams and drivers in each of the 4 years using the current car. They have never had more than 1 of the “big 3” teams and have consistently supplied a greater number of one-car teams than Chevrolet. I think this is as big a factor in their gap to Chevrolet as anything.
Balancing the quality of the teams each manufacturer supplies would go as far in closing the gap as anything done under rule 9.3, but it is most definitely not something Indycar can control. I would expect Indycar to come to a compromise between Honda’s desired concessions and the status quo, with Honda getting most of what it wants.
Mark Wick Says:
George, thanks for you research on the subject.
The biggest problem, as I see it, is that IndyCar wrote a rule saying they can change the rules – if they decide to.
It seems both manufacturers built engines and aerokits within the rules. the season started without any significant on track testing of the aerokits and problems surfaces. IndyCar started mandating changes (changing the rules?) and the mess developed.
Given that Honda did better on road/street courses following the mandated wing modifications, maybe that was good for Honda.
We will never know, but it seems Honda really had to make do at Indy after focusing their efforts there.
The bottom line now is, if Honda decides to leave, will there even be an IndyCar series next year? Chevy does not want to support the whole field. Fans wanted differentiation.
Also, until IndyCar decides what to do, and Honda decides what to do, can anybody involved in IndyCar, free-agent drivers, team owners, sponsors, track owners, make any decisions about next season? How long can those decisions be delayed?
Oilpressure Says:
I think Honda has already made it clear they want to be around for the 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500. The bigger and more pressing question is; will they be around beyond that? That’s why I said a long-term commitment, but I should have made that point about next year more clear. Thanks for bringing that up. – GP
manik56 Says:
Once Andretti got things figured out the Honda’s seemed just fine. Does anyone really think if the Honda teams and the Chevy teams swapped places that Penske and Ganassi wouldn’t be two of the best three teams? Andretti let Honda down the first half the year. Plain and simple.
I would like to stuff one of those Ilmor 396 engines that ARCA uses into my tired old Town and Country van. I’m sure Paul Newman would smile on that idea. For whatever reason, Ilmor has produced racing engines of many types including marine and motorcyle engines that are badged by others. I can only conclude that they prefer to work that way. Honda will have their hands full keeping up with Ilmor, but I think they are up to the task. Mr. Honda was a riding mechanic on race cars going back to 1924. If he was still alive I believe he would be delighted in this engine competition.
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Is this the OnePlus Two? New benchmark test reveals Android 5.1, Snapdragon 810 processor
Chinese smartphone brand OnePlus is gearing up to launch the successor to the popular smartphone OnePlus One, dubbed OnePlus Two. According to a ‘leaked’ benchmark test, a new device, which is speculated to be the OnePlus Two, could come with Android 5.1 Lollipop and sport a Snapdragon 810 octa-core processor.
The Geekbench Benchmark test for a device named OnePlus One A2001 was spotted on the site which further revealed that the device also includes a 2777MB RAM which implies that it will come with a 3GB RAM. It will also be powered by a 64-bit 1.55GHz octa-core chipset. The rumoured OnePlus Two has also received a score of 1256 for single-core and 4093 for multi-core.
This news should not come as a surprise as OnePlus CEO Peter Lau earlier this month had hinted at the presence of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor in the upcoming smartphone along with its price, as reported by Gizchina. The device is also rumoured to sport a 5.5-inch QHD display with a 1440 x 2560 pixel resolution.
The company also released its own custom ROM – the OxygenOS – for OnePlus One users. Those interested in flashing the new OS can download the update from OnePlus’s microsite.
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Finally! Instructions for folding an Origami Yoda like the one on the cover!
IMPORTANT: If you’re just looking for a simple Origami Yoda to fold, GO HERE.
The truth is that this Yoda is not folded the same way as the one on the cover of “The Strange Case of Origami Yoda.” However, it looks similar… sometimes.
The great thing about this particular origami Yoda design is that there’s plenty of room to “sculpt” Yoda the way you want to. Of course, the bad thing is that sometimes your sculpture may come out looking a little funny. (Like the one in these instructions, perhaps!
I call this Origami Yoda the Deluxe model. It will be helpful if you have already folded my SIMPLE YODA model and maybe even my WORLD’S EASIEST MODEL.
If you just want to fold a nice Yoda finger puppet without a lot of bother, then I recommend one of the other two. This one is really for the person who’s willing to wrestle with the paper a while.
If that’s you then here it goes…
Begin with a 7 inch X 5 inch piece of paper. If it’s two-colors, then start with the robe color up.
First, fold down at a point 4.25 inches from the bottom. Like this:
Now we’re going to create a series of pleats. A pleat is just a little paper zig-zag made by making two folds close together. It’s the same way we made Yoda’s arms in the simple model.
The placement of these pleats is going to give Yoda his personality. The first one makes his mouth. On the left you can see the two folding lines. On the right … I’m afraid you can’t see much at all, but there is a zig-zag there now running all the way across.
This picture may give you a clearer idea of how a pleat works. In this case fold up and crease, then fold back down on a new line just above the crease. The result is a zig-zag in the paper.
Next we’ll make two seperate pleats very close together to make his eyes. The bottom pleat is just like the one you made a minute ago. The top pleat is an upside-down version of it.
It’s hard to see in those pictures, so here is a side view showing the pleats:
The next pleat should be easy, because it’s the same as from the Simple Yoda, except that we want to keep it much lower down on the body:
Looks like a huge mess doesn’t it? It’s going to get worse.
Now we’re going to make the ears … again, the same way we did in the simple model. First bo folding down both top corners:
And then tucking them inside. The pleats make this a little tricky. Don’t worry; it doesn’t have to be perfect:
Now flip it over and fold both sides in at an angle:
Now fold the ears out:
And now the big moment, fold the head down. Yoda’s mouth is at the very top. Fold it down so that it comes just above the arms…
Now here’s you chance to do some paper sculpting. Use the pleats to create eyes and a mouth. You can also [GENTLY] pull out the top layer of paper from the pleat on the ear to make those more sculptural as well:
Now fold back part of his robe, while letting his arm stick out. If you crease very carefully, it will create little green triangles. This is a delicate operation, but it MAY leave you with a small green hand that you can bend back:
A little tucking and folding at the edges of the robe, should allow Yoda to stand up like this.
I think the eyes are too high on this particular Yoda. The one I was drawing dotted lines on turned out better … except for his teeny hand. I may try to refold that part:
As I said, there’s a lot of room for “sculpting” and sometimes it works out better than others.
Experiment a few times and when you get a good one … send me a picture for this Website!
Good luck … and may the force be with you!
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sf Jacob wrote @ 12 at 4:05 pm
Guys, the guy is saying they gave a good review of toms book. They even said they were giving him an award. Don’t complain about something like that.
Thomas wrote @ 11 at 9:52 pm
Don’t spam the website. We didn’t come here for ads, we came here to view a website (one that actually EARNED the popularity).
Wicket Warrick wrote @ 11 at 9:35 pm
if i were you,spammer, i would just withdraw from this website and go somewhere else.i swear on my life i will never visit your site.
super folder cam wrote @ 13 at 12:16 am
Don’t be a Harvey!
SuperFolder Dark Knight wrote @ 13 at 2:12 pm
I know, seriously, what kind of website is that (I’m not trying to be a Harvey, Gary is the one doing that)
Woah guys, he isn’t spamming just becuase he worte alot, hes complimenting this book, that WE all like, he’s even telling us it might get an award
lorenzo wrote @ 12 at 9:03 pm
Please, if you would want to spam someone, do it somewhere else because this is a ORIGAMI site, to learn AND SEE other’s creations not to spam.
ya so beat it you dumb spammer
if yoda was here he would say “spam do not beat it you must”
That’s what I call not a Harvey
SF Gingka Haganae wrote @ 12 at 10:53 pm
DON’T SPAM AN ORIGAMI WEBSITE!!!!
Yoda skywalker wrote @ 13 at 6:17 pm
(cough)spammer(cough)
Noah McConnell wrote @ 12 at 3:45 pm
*sigh* you guys complained about spamming so much you ended up adding even MORE spam…
Korbin Kutz wrote @ 12 at 5:12 pm
Yoda:Noah McConnell right he is. Complain spam about you do, spam you do too.
SuperFolder BobaFett wrote @ 12 at 5:14 pm
XD your right we shouldn’t complain so much or we’ll spam even more than “THAT” guy at the top of the comments
superfolderjawa wrote @ 13 at 11:19 pm
I agree, just let it go.
zipclark wrote @ 13 at 1:25 am
if you don’t spam, you will get a 5% discount on toast.com!
Just joking. Noah’s right.
dude your spammin thats not cool GET OFFA THIS RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!
nuclearduck13 wrote @ 12 at 5:49 pm
yum yum spam spam
Your a big fat can of spam
obiwan567 wrote @ 12 at 5:43 pm
my yoda:spam do not.another site you must go.
Spamming is not cool,man!!!!! Delete it!!
Spamming is not cool,man!!! Delete it!!!!!
Dablackpaperfox wrote @ 13 at 9:20 am
Not stooky bro your spamming about spamming which is annoying because we’re here to learn Star Wars origami not arguing about spamming on a site
Spamming isn’t cool,dude!!!!!! Delete the comment (or the spam!)
dude, your spamming by complaining about spamming. ):<
Just no more spamming!!!! Period.
kieferettinger@gmail.com wrote @ 12 at 3:22 pm
mother hugger stop.
I just bought the first the first
please dont spam(I have darth paper and fortune wookie
Super Folder Rex wrote @ 12 at 9:32 pm
The spamming and advertising path if you choose,an agent of evil you will become…. Yoda says
Star killer wrote @ 13 at 9:20 pm
Star killer: Don’t spam this site up bro
Luke foldon wrote @ 13 at 11:52 am
Hey! That’s spamming! We don’t allow spammers!
Sf Robby wrote @ 13 at 10:51 pm
You are all complaining about toms book getting a good review And maybe even a reward…
Origami yoda wrote @ 13 at 11:56 am
What Luke Foldon said, I will agree with.
Super-folder Matt is first with Deluxe Model Origami Yoda #starwars « The Strange Case of Origami Yoda wrote @ 10 at 2:08 am
[…] at 2:07 am · Filed under Uncategorized I was worried that the Deluxe Origami Yoda instructions were too hard/confusing, but Matt proves it can be […]
It cant be done tom!!! how about more specific instructions!!! Please?
Sorry, it’s hard to make instructions for hard origami! Wish I could explain it better…
Garret Glover wrote @ 12 at 12:17 am
I have my own version of origami yoda! It’s semi-easy but looks awesome!
Tom what is the name of the vidio that you posted? i could not find it at starwars.com
If you can’t find it at starwars.com, just search for “origami yoda angleberger” on youtube… or go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA4VJbqFQuw
tom i know eaiser way to make darth paper.Its eieser than the book
superfolderjedi bob wrote @ 12 at 8:32 pm
i saw it on youtube and it was cool
jamesb wrote @ 11 at 12:37 am
its so hard
I just need the giftwrap
chase wrote @ 12 at 8:17 pm
omg the book is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…[the snow is blowing like crazy!
hey also maybe make a video of making the hard yoda it’ll probably help people.
george wrote @ 10 at 12:12 pm
I CAN’T EVEN DO THE STINKING ORIGAMI YODA ABOVE I CAN ONLY DO THE FIRST STEP!
mine looked like a mutant tree, i know how you feel.
i killed the mutant tree.
mine looked like ( as Harvey would say) a paperwad.
Kiko Korn wrote @ 11 at 12:07 am
if you do it like me its easy
mei-lynn wrote @ 11 at 9:28 pm
try doing easyer origami and get familier with different folds then try again
i’ve done lots of other origami it was easy for me
JONATHAN wrote @ 10 at 3:23 am
i made some origami yoda deluxses. all mine look mad. WEIRD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
riddleburger wrote @ 10 at 11:51 am
Sounds great, Jonathan! Send me a picture!
Andrew Burnside, age 11 wrote @ 12 at 10:17 pm
Now i made the hand! Mine looks awesome!
tom,there is a easy way.
1. make a ez yoda
2. fold head back up.
3. pleat the top.
4. fold head down.
5.push paper up.
6. fold top down.
it is yoda!
Hunt wrote @ 10 at 6:24 pm
I made one that looks AWESOME!!! The weird thing is, I can’tseem to make another decent one.
so did i it was at sce.
i got the book from the bookfair at my school
michelle wrote @ 11 at 4:24 am
Wich school do you go to?
Spence wrote @ 11 at 2:15 am
so did i!
superfolder eli wrote @ 12 at 4:46 pm
i did too and i go to siuslaw elementry
impossible so hard to make
im not even goin 2 try 2 make it…
Jen wrote @ 10 at 10:49 pm
Lee wrote @ 12 at 12:10 am
i just made 1 and i,m 10.
What a wonderful model! This shows that a professional Origami master made this! I think this model of Yoda can be made from ages 11-15. If your ready to make complex Origami, start off with this model,when you finish this model, it will make you proud!
ha! back off!! im 8 yers old and i made it.
It’s so hard, and i’m 10!!!!!!!!!!
I did it simply and im 9!!!!!(but I can’t do the mouth)
etrfyhgftr wrote @ 11 at 2:15 am
im 8 and made it it takes like 5 times to make them
9 i am made it i did.
Brendan wrote @ 10 at 11:57 pm
HOW IN THE WORLD DO U DO A PLEAT? THEY NEED MORE SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS!!!!!!!!!!! SERIOUSLY, I HONESTLY WANNA BRAG ABOUT MAKING THE COVER YODA!!!
caleb wrote @ 10 at 12:11 am
u r rit we need som nw insrctions
Hey, maybe one of you guys could write up better instructions? Seriously, that would be a huge help. I know several people have folded this Yoda, maybe they can explain it better than I can….
If you do write instructions send them to me and I’ll post them here on the site….
Maybe Kellen could give us some instructions…
Jedi bob wrote @ 12 at 8:52 pm
Tony wrote @ 10 at 7:41 am
Great instructions; I’ll try it out on my own. :)
i bet Dwight had to think hard to make his own origami Yoda.i made it but where did the hand part come in???
Here’s what Harvey says…
“No way is that hand part of the same sheet of paper! I’ve folded enough Origami to know that there’s no way Dwight got a corner to stick out right there. No way!”
i have to go with Harvey. I could not get the arm! my mom could not either!!!
It’s seriously difficult for me to get it to turn out right, too!
KadenV wrote @ 13 at 11:08 pm
you have to squash fold
IMPOSSIBLIE!!! I tried and it turned out terrible
It was pretty hard but I managed 2 do it after some practice
Good job! Send in some pics!
superfolderkeoni wrote @ 11 at 3:31 pm
ya me 2 its no doubt a challenge!!!
I finally got it on my fourth try!!!!!!
i got on my sixth try
this is hard
WATS A PLEAT?!?!? BRENDANS RIGHT THEY NEED MORE SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS HERE!!!!!
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
aidan, yoda wrote @ 10 at 12:09 am
make a video preety hard pleasssssssse
Leo wrote @ 10 at 5:58 pm
i cant get the arm!
The arm is tricky. Not much paper to work with. At least not where you may want it.
Sometimes you have to manhandle it and then go back later to try to make it look nice.
put instructions on youtube so i can SEE how to do it please!!!! i dont get it!?
You guys have just about convinced me. I’ll try to get to work on a video.
Right now I’m busy writing sequel though…
what is the name of the sequel and how far into are you? me and my friend are BIG fans of the book and wanted to know.
The name is still top secret … but I can tell you that it is almost done!
Could there be moe character depth in the 3?
It’s called darth paper strikes back, dummy.
origami han wrote @ 13 at 6:34 pm
andrew! dont be a harvey!
please put a video of the instructions on youtude please!!!!!!!!!
Leo wrote @ 10 at 12:41 pm
I will make a video and post it on youtube over the weekend(if i can figure out how to).I will href here.
Matthew 01 wrote @ 10 at 11:28 pm
everyones right. You should be more specific…. maybe u should make a video on how to make an origami yoda :) Ordid u already make one….
I’ll try to make that happen in January…
it is febuary. plz reply with video link?
Peter wrote @ 10 at 12:17 am
That was a FUNNY BOOK!!!
Thanks, dude! Let’s see a pic of that Yoda you folded! I want to put it on the Website!
Just to put this out there,I’M NOT A GIRL!!!Michelle is my mom’s name!!!!!
Thanks for clearing that up, miss.
I folded one of the best Tom Angleburger styled Origami Yodas’ there is
thanks Tom 4 listening and replying to me :-}. p[.s. could you tell me the name of the video so its easier to find.
Which video? You mean me folding Yoda?
You can see that at StarWars.com…
http://www.starwars.com/kids/read/news02012010/index.html
zekenielson wrote @ 10 at 2:46 pm
hey tom i folded 11 duluxe models of yoda and you guys up there. i have my own spot on this website
opps i made to of the same coments
Certain am I that sequel will have more Dwight… Name of chapter in Next book I know.
Shhhh! I thought that was Top Secret???
Ash wrote @ 10 at 12:20 am
I have got a design on an origami Weedle. The poisonous weed Poke’mon.
Great, Ash! Send in a picture. Maybe pose it next to an Origami Yoda…
rockhopper1999 wrote @ 11 at 12:19 am
weedle is a catterpiller. a poison one. it evolves into kakuna, and kakuna evolves into beedrill.
ARCEUS!
yoda folder wrote @ 10 at 4:29 pm
im making Yoda gift tags for the holidays. All have red robes
karim wrote @ 10 at 6:05 am
i love the book
could you make a movie
I’d LOVE to…. but it’s not up to me. That’s a Hollywood decision…
superfolder me! wrote @ 12 at 1:56 am
Im a perfect description of Tommy. except I’m not in 6th grade :(
Robby wrote @ 12 at 10:08 pm
I’m a perfect Dwight. Only I’m in 7th grade.
Drayke wrote @ 11 at 2:59 am
I have a few decent ones. at first i had trouble with the pleats for the face but the pleat pattern came to me in a dream
I wish I’d have that dream! I still have a lot of trouble getting the pleats right every time.
We’d love to see some pictures of your folds…
Tom I folded 3 and I tried to fold a finger puppet on and it is way to hard to fold deluxe yoda finger puppets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please make a video for finger puppet deluxes!!!!!!
Tom disregard the comment I said earlier the bottom pleat is the hardest part but maybe it will come to me in a dream!
I love this model! Its so simple yet so amazing! Great Job tom!
I already made this yoda it’s easy!
I love this yoda because its so detailed but so easy!
Hey, maybe you should be the one to make a how-to video of it. If you make it and put it on Youtube, I will definitely tell everyone about it here!
that seems inpossible but good luck javier
I wish I could have a Youtube Account but my parents wont let me! If I ever do get a youtube account, my videos would include origami how to videos and lego stop motion animations because I make those also. I do upload those animations to lego.com though!
Can you send me a link to one of your videos? I’d like to see it…
i invented an ez cover yoda and my own 4 fold yoda
hard!!!!!!!! i need a video
To see my video called the delivery go to
http://lego.com. Once your there you will see a button near the top that says create and share. Click on it. Then near the bottom there is a button that says my lego network. click. There at the top of the page you will see a button that says my lego public view. click. at the top of that there is a search for user bar. In that bar type my username witch is Tricksterking2322. Press the arrow next to it. on my page at the bottom it will show my movie the delivery. There is a button that says view in creation lab. Click there. Then by clicking on the little movie camera icon that sits under a picture of two lego guys you can watch my movie! Enjoy Tom!
Hey Javier! On my Lego network I had a friend request for you. I am origamiyodamaster.
Thanks So much! I accepted your friend request also!
Hey Austin, on my page i put You on my best friend module!
I fell happy
Shivam wrote @ 11 at 5:24 pm
Tom awesome stuff with the origami yoda deluxes me and some of my friends are selling them at school post c3po instruction oon please
are you indian. ur name is shivam and i have a sousin named shivam too! indians ROCK!!
I can make a kawahata yoda! did you know that the kawahata yoda is a finger puppet too?
a calm folder wrote @ 11 at 10:41 pm
What’s a kawahata?
Kawahata is the name of the Japanese paper folder (actually a Toyota Engineer) who created the best ever origami Yoda.
its a cat!!! just kiddin its the last name of a chinese or japanese dude who was good at origami
all right all you folders who said it was hard [u know who u are.] when it comes to the head part fold the hed DOWN. if thats the part u need help on there u go!!!
Isaac wrote @ 11 at 9:15 pm
We are wondering where you get, or who manufactures the two-toned origami paper, particularly in those very yoda-y colors.
It’s gift wrap. I found a little more this past Christmas, but I had to look in many stores to find it…
Hey Tom did you see my video? A link and instructions to how to find my video is in an earlier comment here.
Those instructions were harder than Kawahata’s Yoda! :)
a confused folder wrote @ 11 at 3:56 pm
I am stuck on #5&6. Sooooo hard
Please may i have a little help here!!!!!!!
OK, me. Let go of my feelings. Aaaaah…
oooo, i finished! it REALLY DOES look like a stupid, green, paperwad!(this is just comic relief really does look OK)
Great job! Send in a picture. Not many people have finished the Deluxe Yoda!
i have!!!!!
a happy folder wrote @ 11 at 10:01 pm
how do i make the lightsaber?
if anybody knows how, please tell me?
master powell
also,my yoda has pretty good advice…
can u help me get a g-f just kiddin
The light saber on the cover is a special effect. But it wouldn’t be THAT hard to make a lightsaber from a LED and some other scrounged parts. I’m kind of surprised no one has done it yet….
you make a small strip of paper getting thinner as it goes up. then fold up the bottom
a mad folder wrote @ 11 at 10:33 pm
im’ making another yoda and
HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
i mean it looks all crumply and i cant figure out how to make the eyes.
That’s about how it’s supposed to look! Give it another try. The key to the eyes is to squish and bend the paper, not fold it or tear it…
this yoda is so cool! maybe one day you can make a deluxe darth paper!
Thanks! Well, maybe you should try a Deluxe Vader!
Sooooooooooooooo ha rd!
I agree! I made a couple today and it really is hard…
I TOTALLY agree,man.
Lucas wrote @ 11 at 12:47 am
it’s pretty easy once you get the hang of it
Chance wrote @ 11 at 10:21 pm
jaime wrote @ 11 at 11:15 pm
i had so much truble trying to make it, i never fineshed. do you recomend any practices besides the other two yodas listed at the top?
I think it’s very hard. Even when you know how to make it, it is hard to get the pleats in the right place. My advice… fold something else…. Like R2D2 maybe…
Greedo wrote @ 11 at 11:22 pm
What, Tom! Telling them NOT to do this one and do a different one!
Okay, scratch that. The R2-D2 is good.
oh my god i made it on the first try!!!!!!!!!
michelle wrote @ 11 at 12:16 pm
I could’nt do it my second try.
Yay 100th to comment!
I can’t get that hand!
i made yoda exactly from the cover tom imagine the greatest cover yoda ever!
Send me a picture! Sounds awesome!
JOEY, JOEY, JOEY! YOU SHOULD NOT SAY “OH MY GOD!”
Michelle wrote @ 11 at 12:38 am
TeeHee, Joey.
please do not cuss on this web site it is ignorent and i dont think tom likes it…… Do you tom!?!???
That’s true…. no cussing allowed on this site! (except by Soapy the Monkey who only says **%^&$)
i think that soapy dhouldnt even say it!!!!!! monkeys dont talk!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Woohoo! SOAPY MONKEY AND MR. CLEAN!!!!!!!
“**%^&$, I wanted some of those Cheetos®!”
Jordi C wrote @ 11 at 10:53 pm
greedo!!!!!
do u know that represents the D word!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?
Me too,although I don’t really think “Oh my god” is all that bad, and not really cussing either.
some times its praying but other times its like a drunk man cussing out a baby
do ya get me now?????
oh guys i love origami
I FINALLY GOT THE HAND!
andrew r b wrote @ 11 at 1:39 am
it might be a month sending the picture to you so can you put up the address to send you it by mail? :)
Oh by real mail….
That address is:
Publicity Department
what about the zip code
zipcode is 10011. it is already there… no p.o.-box though
tom please send the way to mail the picture to u in the mail?
Get the picture from your camera to your computer.
Start a new email.
Hit the attach button and then look for your picture. Attach it.
Send it.
Some cameras — especially cellphone cameras — can send the photo directly.
Yankees beat the O’s tonite!!!!!!!
Hey, dude, I’m an Orioles fan. (Not that I know anything about baseball…)
Oh , sorry tom!!
Oh , by the way , I sent you instructions for an easy origami yoda in the mail.
Hey Tom! I finally got that hand!
hey tom is the yoda that dwight brings to school the cover yoda because in the book dwight shows him how to make a simpler origami yoda
Yes, the cover Yoda is Dwight’s Yoda. But it was too hard for Tommy and the others to make, so Dwight showed them the simpler version.
Also, I want to know….. Are you Tommy? Your name is Tom, so I figured I would ask.
No, Tommy’s a lot more mellow than I was…
so easy to make and tom can u please answer the question above this one
I made a different version of the Deluxe Yoda. Not only does it ROCK, it’s also my own design!
Send me a picture, dude! It sounds awesome!
I sent you it in a letter.
i did the same
Also,I made a TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENY Yoda that’s like,1/5th the size of a dime.
Hey guys, use the same size of paper in that simpler model of Yoda so that the ears show alot.
Also, to make a simpler pleat. fold the bottom up.(BUT NOT ALL THE WAY!) Then fold down. then fold behind. Then when you fold the head down, there are three parts: Top is head, middle is eyes, and bottom is mouth. Then fold the top of the middle down.(MAKE SURE THERES A LITTLE “LINE SPACE” IN BETWEEN!) And there you go, you’v made a “simpler” Deluxe Yoda.
Also, to make a simpler pleat, fold the bottom up.(BUT NOT ALL THE WAY!)Then fold down. Flip over, then fold his head back. After you fold his robe and fold his head down there are three parts: TOP: HEAD, MIDDLE: EYES, AND BOTTOM: MOUTH. (IF YOU HAVE MADE ONE, IT MAY HELP YOU FIGURE OUT WHERE THE EYES GO.) And thats how to make a simpler pleat.
i made a vid!!! tom i will TRY to send the vid of this orgami yoda by tatooine air mail!!! just kiddin i might upload it to youtube if i get an acount
Dominic and his awesome yoda wrote @ 11 at 11:22 pm
Thanks for the tip Logan!!!! I’ll try it!!
Omgg!! I was making an origami dinosaur with the bird base and got bored, so I starded goofing around with the paper and I accidentally made my own version of an origami dragon!!!
Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.
I feel so isolated!!!
It’s so easy!
i know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wait do you mean Yoda or an origami dragon that dominic was talking about??
Anna wrote @ 11 at 10:32 pm
OMG it was so confusing the first time.
i forgot to make the eyes and the mouth…
i made an awesome lightsafer though!!!
Hey, Tom,
I found a typo in the instructions. Here it is:
Now we’re going to make the ears … again, the same way we did in the simple model. First “bo” folding down both top corners.
“bo” should be “by”
thursday may 26 2011 : i have a baseball game tonight . the last game we played [yesterday ]
i won it
I tried 2 fold it. I got something that looked kinda like Yoda. It looks NOTHING like the cover Yoda but I like mine.
Good! That’s what I like to hear. It doesn’t have to look like mine, as long as it looks like Yoda!
The head is deluxe, the body is from the simple Yoda.
I re-tried and I got it! It looks alot like the cover Yoda!
I brought my best cover Yoda to school and everyone LOVED it!
Hooray!!! You must have cool friends!
mitchel wrote @ 11 at 12:40 am
this 1 took me 4 trys 2 get rite
i wonder how much a lightsaber in star wars would weigh.dont u think
its about 3 ounces!
i just cant get the hand part right
i’m sure you’lle get it mitchel
a lightsaber would weigh 3 ounces.more like 3 pounds
no….. a light saber has to be light enough to swing so it couldnt be 3 pounds
[gaaaassssssssssspppppp] tom what if YOU r van jahnke !!!!!!!!!! and cover yoda is the van janke yoda!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tom anglebergur is van janke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can tell you that this is completely untrue! (And don’t you know how to spell my name yet?)
a lightsaber has to wheigh at least 1 pound because of metal handle thats probably wheighs quite a bit,and think about all the wiring inside of it to make the power cristal beam out of the handle.and also the power crystal probably wheighs a bit to
yeah i agree to that one!
or perhaps 2 pounds its light enought to swing and includes wiring
w7ameson wrote @ 12 at 3:41 am
there in SPACE.
hey tom how did you get the idea of The
Strange Case of Origami Yoda
I think I’ve answered that around here somewhere….
Basically I saw Kawahata’s Yoda online and sicne I love Star Wars and I love origami, it changed my life!
dude its on here somewhere he said that faminka cawatha inspired him
That’s Fumiaki Kawahata
hey guys good news @ walmart i got a dodge ball and there was a bee on my door today so i used the dodge ball to kill it
mitchel wrote @ 11 at 1:02 am
(to joshua benson)plus jedis are very,very,very strong,even without their weapons
tom,who made the origami yoda on the cover of your book
Roxtar wrote @ 11 at 11:40 pm
Is that true?
Or would you rather not say?
well that was a bit anti climatic.
guest124 wrote @ 11 at 12:06 am
@nathan
I’m nine and I made like ten of them.the scale thing should say 9-15
but the hand wasn’t perfect. I kinda just bent back the part of the rope I wanted to be the hand
thedudedude wrote @ 11 at 12:21 am
hey tom what cuss word is **%^&$
You have to remember that Soapy’s a monkey and monkey have different curse words than we do. In Monkey Language, “cravat” is a terrible curse word.
lololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololol
hey tom,do you remember how to make the origami yoda on your cover
dude that IS the cover yoda
not the real one
duhhh but its the same folding
TOM ANGLEBERGER!!!!! I WANT TO MAKE THIS SOOOO BAD BUT INSTRUCTIONS ARE SO HARD DO UNDERSTAND……. IF YOU WOULD BE SO KIND, MAKE A VIDEO
it is not the same folding dummy lala
who are you calling dummy lala barnacle breath!!!!
tom.did you just randomly make your yoda
I’ve been trying to do this for almost a year. 4.25″ should be 4.75 cuz’ it means 4 3\4″.
Make a video, dude. No excuses.
Finally did it! (sorta)
My sister told me to make a PINK Yoda. Yeesh. Girls.
There’s a joke along those lines in Darth Paper!
Kirk Edward Mcdougall wrote @ 11 at 12:15 am
I have a good vesion to make a origami yoda movie. you can make a LEGO the strange case of origami yoda! and for origami yoda on dwight’s ringer on his minifigure you just use a green little lego peace, and for yoda close up just build a yoda out of lego bricks.
That would be awesome!!!!!!
made i has hmm _ _
Adam wrote @ 11 at 3:18 pm
omg, this is pretty much impossible. could you give some more specific instuctions!?!? btw, if they ever make an origami yoda movie, could i play kellen?
dude please dont say that…
finn wrote @ 11 at 6:16 pm
it was not hard for me at all
and if there was a movie I would be a great dwight
callin me barnacle breath.u watch way to much spongebob squarepants
josh with angry bird wrote @ 11 at 1:15 am
dude i dont have cartoons
if there was a movie,i would be a perfect harvey
Yo, if there was a film, I would LOVE to be the voices of OY and DP!!!!!
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Katherine wrote @ 11 at 11:10 pm
Origami Yoda Is a really good book, I can’t wait to get the next one! I wonder when it comes to my library….
james wrote @ 11 at 4:35 pm
I tried to make one and it is sooooooo! hard. I would like a chalinge because all of my freneds have made one of the 2 simple ones but not one this hard.
I tried to make one and it is sooooooo! hard. I would like a chalinge because all of my freneds have made one of the 2 simple ones but can someone plese tell me how to make more of a chalinge than the 2 easy ones but less hard than this one.
is there a video on how to make a deluxe yoda. i cant even get past step 1!!
Eisa wrote @ 11 at 5:11 pm
the first one i made looked pretty good for a first attempt…..I guess
Ace Folder Max wrote @ 11 at 10:22 pm
Yes, there is. But you might have to do some digging……
SuperFolderChewie wrote @ 11 at 12:08 pm
Please make instructons like how you do with the other oragami.
SuperFolderChewie wrote @ 11 at 8:36 pm
You should make these instructions in paper because it would be easy and easier
Ashley Poffenroth wrote @ 11 at 12:10 am
That yoda is very hard… I’m still struggling with it! I will keep trying though. I hope I will get it eventually! Any new contests coming up soon?
super folder chewie. how do you become a superfolder?
Just fold something awesome and email it to me! tom@origamiyoda.com
I couldn’t fold the two pleats close together! Will you explain more?!
MADE IT…..but mine is lefty
when does the hand start?
can you explain it better?
Zachary wrote @ 11 at 1:05 am
I folded one! I made two golden yodas a week ago but I have made failures ever since.
And trust me I make a lot of yodas every day. Also I made one for my friend and she made a simple one and turned it into a jacket. Girls….
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Zachary wrote @ 11 at 11:21 pm
I have mastered it! Took me forever though but they are so good!
gabe wrote @ 11 at 12:06 pm
i just found a way to make a spaceship
Derek wrote @ 11 at 8:51 pm
I got mine right on my first time. It was easy!
I found a way to make a General grievous based on this design. Use Grievous colored paper, do the arm pleat step twice, and don’t do the ears. If you want him before his cybernetic reconstruction, do the arm pleats once, don’t do the ears, and use a dark brown piece of paper.
Diego Mendez wrote @ 11 at 12:42 am
I made one, and it is so cool! I bought both of your books, and they’re really cool.
Hey mr Angleberger!! Me and my freind John could make a video for how to make this yoda!
AWESOME! If you put it on Youtube, I will make a link to it!
SuperFolder Andrew wrote @ 11 at 3:25 am
superfolder heewon wrote @ 11 at 5:12 am
I had a totally horrible time folding this thing! I made an okay one but I can’t make another good one! so hard
DWIGHTTWO! wrote @ 11 at 9:00 pm
I’m sorta like Dwight! But sadly, I don’t think my Origami Yoda can talk, and is saying “AFLAG AND FLAPPY BIRD!” weird enough?
I think I have a Dwight Personality. But my Origami Yoda doesn’t talk, can you fix it?
Try changing the batteries…
nice one tom
im nearly exactly like dwight. i am the weirdest kid at my school.
coby wrote @ 11 at 5:01 pm
I made one!Easy peasy!
Where do the batteries go?
SuperFolder Gabey guy wrote @ 11 at 12:05 am
SuperFolder Gabe is awesome wrote @ 11 at 12:08 am
I LOVE THIS Yoda!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
superfolder rickay wrote @ 12 at 9:35 pm
i like it to
No Luke, I am SuperFolder Gabey guy…….
Patrick McGowan wrote @ 11 at 11:28 pm
Very Well Turned Out it Did Hmm…
SuperFolder Gabe is awesome wrote @ 11 at 12:02 pm
harvey stinks
can you send me some easy instructions on origami yoda.
dude101 wrote @ 11 at 11:11 pm
It was a little challenging the first time. But when I showed it to my friends they all wanted one so I kept making them and it was very easy.
tom, my friend hannah made her own origami yoda desien and gave it to me. how cool is that? this could cwallafy her as a superfolder
Totally, but one of you needs to send it in first!
WARIO!
CJ wrote @ 11 at 10:52 pm
IDK WHY HE WROTE “WARIO!”
it means awesome. i made it on my 12020203948 try (not realy i could not count how many times it toke.)
tedmeister7 wrote @ 11 at 10:28 pm
TOTALLY STOOKY! Thanks alot Tom! these instructions are WAY better then what i couldve made!
P.S:You and all the Superfolders are awesome!{I wish I could be a superfolder…I sent you some Origami pictures with me in them…:{ but I don’t think they are on the site
it’s hard
I have made two but none of them have hands!!!
Josh oliver wrote @ 11 at 8:34 pm
Origami Yoda is awesome!
how come my yoda doesn’t have a hand?
First time I made this, it was a green blob. Now, it looks awesome!
ORIGAMI EPIC wrote @ 11 at 3:05 am
I tried but the pleats didn’t show on the face and there was no hand to fold out. Does anyone know what I did wrong?
wizardzoo2016 wrote @ 11 at 3:59 am
I’m thirteen and i think mine came out very good in the first try. I even made a small lightsaber and cane to go with it.
Skylar wrote @ 11 at 12:53 am
what store has that wrapping paper?
I WATED SOME OF THOSE&%^**$#@ CHEETOS>(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SuperFolder Mayumi wrote @ 11 at 4:33 am
ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:(
this was pretty medium for me…
Jawa : ……………
i forgot the hand part though…..
tristan wrote @ 11 at 2:43 am
i cant figure darth paper out
and then hes like im not kidding i want my @!#$# money
Austin wrote @ 11 at 3:04 am
Ive read Darth Paper and it is one of my favorite books my favorite part is soapy says No prizes for you sucker
“And every year one of them calls me and gets me to buy some kind of @$%& in a collectible can.”
Well, it was something like that…
Hey Tom, I just learned how to make Anakin! I allready have Darth Paper Strikes Back!
Also I just started so I guess Darth Paper is gonna do something notty!
mateoluna wrote @ 11 at 5:04 pm
wow his oragami is so easy imade like 15 in one day i dont kn ow wat the big fuss is about
Tayler wrote @ 11 at 2:13 am
Can you post my instrux for it on here?
jiggedybob’s yoda wrote @ 11 at 6:07 pm
very hard it is, but not impossible
Mathew Paperwadd wrote @ 11 at 11:04 pm
I got it right on the first trie and i used the video on youtube, thats easier than this for me…….. and i don’t know how to put up a pic……… im a guest :'(
mo wrote @ 11 at 5:23 am
that origamiyoda book awsome its a 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000out of 5 stars
Jr. wrote @ 11 at 1:17 am
It is easy to fold the cover yoda you just have to have folded more origami
mathew.english wrote @ 11 at 2:13 am
by super folder Matt I finally made the origami yoda on the cover
Jovanni solano wrote @ 11 at 7:18 pm
can you send me the Darth Vader instructions from the book
it took me along time to make yoda from cover isn’t good but i still try
can you mail me an easier way to make yoda from the cover
Alberto wrote @ 11 at 3:49 am
I got it, but I couldn’t get the hand
cheese wrote @ 11 at 3:47 pm
the yoda up there is hard!!! (i got it, but it was hard)
bitchy face 101 wrote @ 11 at 7:19 am
ur hard
T.S.F Tayler wrote @ 11 at 11:29 pm
INAPROPRIATE NAME
im hard wrote @ 11 at 7:17 am
i memorized it. it’s not that hard once you get the hang of it.
oragamiTyler138 wrote @ 11 at 4:12 pm
I think I know how to make the Yoda JUST like the cover.(NOT this one!)
giadinhvuong@yahoo.com wrote @ 11 at 3:17 am
make a video of it
i like yoda
super folder wrote @ 11 at 10:09 pm
i did it on my third try
my brother doesnt like the origami yoda
good work tom
funny book to
the hand will not show up so i glue it on
on my first one i had the hand
i used origami paper
how do you make the robe for the yoda (so hard)
it was easyer on the video
Kang Jung Han wrote @ 12 at 12:48 am
Hi. Im S.Korean!
isnt the book just awesome?
kops wrote @ 12 at 1:05 am
Daniel Kang wrote @ 12 at 1:05 am
where did you get that paper tom? i went to hobby lobby and there was none there!!!!!!!!!
guess what i got for christmas: THE LEGO MELLINIUM FALCON it has hologame,hyperdrive, cocpit, lukes fighting droid, two quad lazers flick missiles and, remade luke leia and han minis
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! *faints with jealousy*
I’m a huge LEGO fan, just so you know. :P
pokemontrainer4774 wrote @ 12 at 2:46 am
hey tom i hav reely good instructions 4 c3po its reely cool but its 2 sheets instead of 1
Arthur wrote @ 12 at 2:19 am
hi my name is Arthur I am 10 years old. I like origami Yoda and origami
darth paper and others but it is hard and I will try for ever an ever an ever aaaannnnn EVER! ow I made my own
you are my favorite!
from:Arthur
Thanks Arthur! You’ll get them soon and then start making new stuff!
origami han wrote @ 13 at 12:03 pm
hey dude,im really sorry about posting that comment. my annoying brother always is posting mean stuff and i keep having to change my p.c password. please, you and sam, forgive me.
Kurtlan Arnold wrote @ 12 at 2:19 am
hey tom what is the new book cover going to look like?
tom wrote @ 12 at 1:06 pm
I made A perfect one but lost it, man I must have tried over 100 times to make it again!!
awesome but the one one youtube is different
awesome paperwad yoda
james wrote @ 12 at 12:09 pm
the cover yoda is soooooooooooo! hard I don’t know to make it.
When was this posted? You can buy Darth Paper Strikes Back in stores. I think you guys do awesome yodas, because with me, it seems that you and the fans have made all the character I can think of.
Tommy wrote @ 12 at 1:53 am
Man, I cant believe Sara doesn’t like me anymore. any advice?
john wrote @ 12 at 12:00 am
mine failed, i dont even know where the hand even CAME from. im so confused.
the real yoda wrote @ 12 at 11:31 pm
Tom,nice Origami Yoda you have made.
aaron wrote @ 12 at 2:21 am
i made this and im 8 :D
No you did not
sealman wrote @ 12 at 7:08 pm
these instructions arnt the ones you used in the video tutorial
cheese wrote @ 12 at 12:13 pm
pretty easy for me i memorized it
forgot to say i only have yellow paper. i could color it in.
hi tom whats up!!!!!!!!!!!!
coby wrote @ 12 at 10:48 pm
I finely made one with a hand!
I don’t understand the tuck them inside part. I can make ones without that, though.
dis was no problem
Nate Zube wrote @ 12 at 4:35 pm
Can you please make instructions for THE cover yoda?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I mean THE COVER YODA!!! PLEEEEEEAAAAAAAAASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy
tom i need your email adderess if you have one please
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! I finally managed to do it!!! Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any green origami paper, so Yoda’s face is red, but still… It’s AWESOME!!!
Jorge wrote @ 12 at 9:32 pm
I love our books so much Tom. I actually take origami Yoda to school and make people ask him a question! The advice does work. i have tried a lot of times to fold this but haven’t gotten it right. Once I do, I will bring that one to school. Wow I’m a big fan :)
Tomsbooksarestupid wrote @ 12 at 11:00 am
Toms books are the most stupidest things in the world. I HATE THEM. Where the heck did he get his ideas!?!?!? I dont like him. I might as well be a harvey.
Minecraftman Tayler wrote @ 12 at 11:39 pm
So if you don’t like it you came on the site just to be mean. That’s VERY nerdy and harveyish
Super folder Epvjupa wrote @ 13 at 12:33 am
Yeah, you’re just being a bad Harvey, in fact, you’re just being worse than a Harvey. Oh, and here’s an idea for you. Start a Harvey convention. And make a website for that Harvey convention. At least it would give you an excuse to GET OFF THIS WEBSITE!!!!!!
hey Tom could you show me how to fold your Darth Paper.
Man this is so hard.
scriptureboy13 wrote @ 12 at 7:13 pm
Believe or not, soon enough I will be posting some of the origami finger puppets that I made up myself. They are used for my puppet show series called “Wisdom Battles”. It is about these characters named David .M. Cameron the head leader of the ESP (Extine Space Patrol) System, and the Evil General Neo Cortex. Neo Cortex is tring to atempt the final destruction of the ESP Station so that the ESP’s will no longer protecct the universe. So he makes plans at his station the, Despucton Star with his 2nd in command, A-doy (Yoda backwards), an evil creature from the Spiral of Happenings in the in the middle of space where all kind of creature with plenty of “wisdom” live. And since A-doy was from the bottom parts of the spiral, he knows plenty of evil. So the NCS (Neo Cortex Supporter) set out to destoy and inialate the ESP’s. I the midst of this, a creature from the upper part of the Spiral of Happenings comes along and desides to help the ESP’s. Through his knowledge of Good Wisdom, the ESP’s are able to defeat the NCS’s and to keep the universe under control and safety from Neo Cortex’s snares.
Wow how long did it take to write that giant pearagragh.
Super Folder Cris wrote @ 12 at 3:12 am
Really Cool!
Oh and Tom I’m a big fan of yours and I my own deluxe cover darth paper,so does that consider me as an actual super folder?
If you send in a picture of it…
Super Folder Cris wrote @ 12 at 8:41 pm
How do I do that?
josh wug inventor wrote @ 12 at 8:41 pm
ive already sent darth paper pictures so im already a super folder
Once again “how do I send in pictures”!?!?!?
SuperFolderGabe wrote @ 12 at 8:37 pm
Why is this SO (BLEEP) HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Carley wrote @ 12 at 10:58 am
this is really STUPID. I spent all night and i still couldnt get it
I TODALLLY DONT LIKE ORIGAMI YODA
Stop slipping into the dark side!
Ned wrote @ 12 at 9:53 pm
I made 1! but most of the kids at my school want to KILL him! Even my Best friend! Yoda:SITH! sith your friend is.
AND they want Darth paper to rule!
HELP ME TOM!!!
Super Folder Cris wrote @ 12 at 11:14 pm
Same thing Happens To Me!!!!!
Yoda:The age of origami yoda has ended……. Begun the age of the fortune wookie has.
Try using the fortune wookie! NO ONE will suspect it has to do with origami yoda!!!
yeaaa!! foutune wookies are already popular at my school!!!!
folder wrote @ 12 at 11:03 pm
um… could we have more specific instriux?
Someguywholovesyourbooks wrote @ 12 at 11:43 pm
I love your books! LOL :D
Go Angleburger! :D
berger sorry
As long as it’s not booger!
Hi I love my work :D your work of course!
Hello,What,s going on today (June 24 2012)
Look up origami transforming ninja star on you tube.Its a really fun and easy to make!
hey tom where do you get your double side colored paper at
WEEEEEE
Joey 10 wrote @ 12 at 5:19 pm
Tom I made 2 I have a good way to make them my instructions r easy
aaron123 wrote @ 12 at 7:29 pm
i know how to make dwight’s
It can’t be done! I’ve been trying all night and I can’t get it right!
Hey that rymed! {sorry for bad spelling]…
I did it! It took me most of the night, But I did it!!!!!! Awesome design Tom.
I got it in two tries I would have got it in one but I missed a pleat on the hand.
How do you get the paper? I just had to color mine and then fold…
GWBorigami wrote @ 12 at 9:17 pm
it’s really fun! this is my second fold. origami yoda says “try, try again!”
try not! do or do not. There is no try.
Chewbacca wrote @ 12 at 1:29 am
5th grade Dwight super folder wrote @ 12 at 10:35 pm
this…………..is…………….EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
harry wrote @ 12 at 8:10 am
i got lost at step 2 please help=[
Mikiah k. wrote @ 12 at 12:45 am
I love your books. I love the oragami Yoda series. I hope you make more.
Thanks a lot! I will!
mikiah k. wrote @ 12 at 8:57 pm
I cant believe im talking to you
Great to have you on the site, dude!
mikiah k. wrote @ 12 at 10:30 pm
You are my favorite author. you are the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tyler wrote @ 12 at 11:12 pm
Hi I’m TC. I made an awesome deluxe yoda. I also made the kawahata Yoda on my first try and memorized it. I have had 5 years of practice so everything menchoned here is child’s play.
hi TC
Mott5 wrote @ 12 at 7:36 pm
mine ended up good but i ripped it a bit when trying to make his hand
SeanBeast wrote @ 12 at 12:33 pm
this wasnt hard at all, and im nine years old
ESA wrote @ 12 at 10:15 pm
Don’t brag about it, not every one is as perfect as you!
please show how to make the complete darth paper!!!
fart wrote @ 12 at 11:28 pm
Do not get it at all but the thing is that I am 5 years old so I can not it figure it out!!
im reporting you to tom for a bad name
palpatine wrote @ 12 at 6:32 pm
i made the yoda on the cover. it looks exactly like it but i had to draw the face on because im not that good with the pleats. i would like to take a picture of it but i dont have a camera
Chubby Violin wrote @ 12 at 2:43 pm
I made one! Fun!!!
IFEELGOOD! wrote @ 12 at 10:29 pm
YAY! I MADE THE COMPLETE THING!
Noah Mcleod wrote @ 12 at 9:25 pm
Awesome! I made seven of those cover origami Yodas!
o my gosh that looks so hard but last night I made One with no instructions
Antthony wrote @ 12 at 12:32 am
THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mason wilts wrote @ 12 at 3:12 am
UGH i think i accidently put the force in my first awsome one. i left it on the same spot over night and none of my familiy memberes touched it and the next morning its gone. i think i put the force in it so it can run away
Cool. Now there’s an origami yoda running around the US or UK or Eropue. It depends on what country u live in.
Brady wrote @ 12 at 1:36 am
I made a awesome deluxe yoda out of a square piece of paper!
i made my own Origami Yoda and it is awsome!!!!!!!
Dave wrote @ 12 at 11:58 pm
Very cool. I’d like to see it.
and my own Darth maul emperor and alote more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
some one comment please.
i wish i nuw how to fold general greveus
hey tom, i just made it, and it’s pretty good, but i can’t find the part where we made the arm in the fold. Some help please?
also, “it” means the yoda fold on the book one cover
SF luke wrote @ 12 at 10:50 pm
please click here: https://origamiyoda.wordpress.com/2012/11/10/sf-lukes-mace-windu-and-ki-adi-mundi/ (make sure to comment)
Chewy wrote @ 12 at 12:21 am
i did it like it was easy!
I made my own STARWARS collection!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
who are these people and why are they posting things on the internet
The Seer wrote @ 12 at 9:43 pm
Kinda confusing. I modified the steps so it looks sophisticated but really easy.
By the way, your deluxe Yoda looks great, and I love all the Origami Yoda books!!!
you made a good one, Tom!
Jack Fireblade wrote @ 12 at 1:38 am
Harvey’s comment about this: Oh GOD, like we need any more Yodas around here. And seriously? a puppet yoda for everyone? Here’s what mine would say: Stupid this is. Throw away these you must!
Tommy’s Comment: Wait, since when did Harvey have email? And why, of all places, is he commenting on HERE? Anyways, like always, he completely missed the point!
hay tom u shuda unfold the yoda and fold it back up and memorize it.
I messed up and made yoda’s robe instead.
Colton Garrett wrote @ 12 at 8:55 pm
Tom Angleberger so many people are mad at you because of the hard yoda. i made it and i kept on trying.superfolders you are all harveys.now click the red x buuton or lose your rights to write comments here.TOM ANGLEBERGER will delete this page!THIS IS NOT A THREAT,IT”S YOUR RIGHTS!!!!!!!
superfolder carter wrote @ 13 at 4:23 pm
hey colton Harvey, quit being rude to a stooky guy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and not to be a Harvey, but get off this web site coltin!!!!!!!
origami is not about being a harvey,its folding a piece of paper.now stop being a harvey.NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the hard yoda is hard but you cant give up.i made it. now stop giving up!!! I TAKE THE NICK NAME SUPER FOLDER ADVICE GUY
do you agrre tom angleberger that i should take that nick name above
kieferettinger@gmail.com wrote @ 12 at 10:56 pm
really cool i loved doing this. I thought of a couple others but this was the best one yet.so thanks i dont usually comment, but this was epic so i decided to.
super folder andrew wrote @ 12 at 3:13 am
it was so hard making the deluxe yoda!!!mine turned out like yoda in the book!!!:(
This was really cool, but i can not figure out how you get the hand. I made it, and there was no hand. Help?
type294 wrote @ 12 at 11:11 pm
I suggest making one out of a seperate piece of paper then taping it to the place where his hand should be
this folding pattern was all i needed to find out the cover yoda…
Superfolder Sam is Awesome! wrote @ 12 at 1:24 am
I did it! It looks awesome!
Origami yoda: spam he will not if so turned to the dark side he has no more comments for spamming or try to spam the site more he will try
andrew Burnside wrote @ 12 at 12:03 am
Hey Tom! I am an expert at making these now! I can’t send pics because my computer is being stupid.
jonathan756 wrote @ 12 at 8:59 pm
please tell me how to make the hand
SF Tatsuki wrote @ 12 at 12:18 am
It`s simple!(Kind of.)
I made a yoda that looks exactly like the cover yoda. but i lost his arm!
oh yeh and he is all white i didnt have colored paper.
game wrote @ 12 at 10:47 pm
harvey’s comment:
i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right! i was right!
jordon wrote @ 13 at 3:02 am
i finally did it i figured out how to fold the exact cover yoda and tom you were
right it is very hard and it is way different than this one it looks just like yours
Timothy Eckhoff wrote @ 13 at 6:12 pm
Brady wrote @ 13 at 8:00 pm
I made one but the head wouldn’t stay down so I eneded up super gluing it.
jesse wrote @ 13 at 11:51 pm
i did it i did it!it is awsome!
I have an easy yoda. I call it the mixed yoda. First, do a pleat on the top. Then, do that weird rolling thing up to the pleat. Then make easy yoda. PS. I have not calculated the exact size. My estimate is 1 and a half sheet (you will have to sticky tape that together). If you find it does not work, just reply.
Oh and Tom, in The Secret Of The Fortune Wookiee, did Dwight teach the kids at Tippett to fold the deluxe yoda or just the emergency yoda? I mean if you of all people have trouble with it, what chance would a bunch of kids who barely know what origami is have?
Just the emergency Yoda…
josh wug inventor plus pats fan wrote @ 13 at 8:31 pm
Hey guys its me josh… I haven’t been on here in a long time bcuz my computer got a thousand Trojan horses and it got fried so in on my phone now.
matthew wrote @ 13 at 12:48 am
TOM!! MAKE AN ORIGAMI EWOK!!!!!I REALL WANT 2 MAKE 1!!!!
mr.man wrote @ 13 at 3:19 am
Tom please post video instrux
Super-Folder James wrote @ 13 at 10:37 pm
thats really cool instrux
Hey, Tom guess what? I made an origami General Grievous. He is my favorite character!
This is easy once you get used to it and have made it a million times
mr.pinch wrote @ 13 at 5:09 pm
this is confusing. could you please make a video?
gabe wrote @ 13 at 3:15 am
why is the instructions different than the video Tom
Gadget64 wrote @ 13 at 5:39 pm
Dear Mr. Angleberger
I have enjoyed the series very much so far and was wondering if you might be interested in telling me and my friends the way to fold the origami Yoda on the cover of the book. I have also been working on some C3P0 instructoins I would like to share with you as well. Thanks!
SuperFolder Pikachu wrote @ 13 at 9:52 pm
@ the is cover dweights(or however its spelled)yoda, it looks like harveys yoda in the book pictures…
Zachary wrote @ 13 at 7:15 pm
This origami yoda is awesome!!! Please make more origami books, and origami
Bryan wrote @ 13 at 3:17 am
It’s awsome!
Carlos wrote @ 13 at 4:19 am
if people don’t like your site,I think it’s AWSOME!
Hard but cool
Hey,Tom, tell me how to make darth maul
ROBIN LOMAS wrote @ 13 at 2:56 am
I made one. But I can’t seem to ever get the eyes right.
DoomKnight15 wrote @ 13 at 7:45 pm
hey tom i was wondering if you can post up The Empire Strikes Back the movie on this website page for free
-DoomKnight15
Tom I love your books I need to know the star of your next book email me !
crazy bro wrote @ 13 at 11:56 am
i finally made it but in my own desing.
1.make 5 step yoda
2.make zig zag fold at bottom and top of face
3.fold out corner bottom left corner of edge inside yoda to form hand.
i found this a quite satiisfying outcome.
fortune wookiee: MMMRRRRGGGGG!
(I WANNA MAKE THIS!)
bobbbbbbbbb1234 wrote @ 13 at 1:57 am
OK really just try and make it I ddnt no wat to doo but made a weird yooda
general wrote @ 13 at 6:49 pm
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return to read more of your useful info. Thanks for the post.
Jbone45 wrote @ 13 at 9:36 pm
Cool yoda
superstevie12 wrote @ 13 at 1:04 am
this kid took my cover yoda and im like hey give it and hes like I made it and im like it took 2 hours hes like yea right and later he made the 5 FOLD YODAS and said I made them in like 2 seconds I wasragin he took the hardest yoda on the site that I messed up on then took the one I spend ho urs folding neatly that I finaly made it perfect
Samuel wrote @ 13 at 11:05 am
I can’t figure out the ears and the eyes!
Carlos wrote @ 13 at 12:22 am
this yoda is AWSOME!!!!!
DoomKnight15 wrote @ 13 at 12:25 am
hey tom remember how i sent you my picture of my origami yoda? well i couldnt find it on the website IT TOOK FOREVER AND IT STILL ISNT ON! WHATS GOIN ON? how long does it take to get it posted up? plz answer
Could you send it again? Sam and I can’t find it…
Super folder Saxon wrote @ 13 at 10:55 am
Has the jabba book out in stores yet?
SF ninja wrote @ 13 at 1:28 pm
same with my snow trooper… it never came!!!!
SF Ewok wrote @ 13 at 12:50 am
find it or its nt fair
seriously tom it wont b fair
SF Ewok wrote @ 13 at 1:32 am
oops on the 1st comment its supposed to be isnt
I cannot figure this out. Mine came out looking like the simple yoda.
Garrett 150o wrote @ 13 at 5:45 am
Hey Tom can you put me in your next book? Thanks for the instructions. Stooky!
awsome folder wrote @ 13 at 8:29 pm
it is SOOOOOO easy!
and im 6!
Garrett 150o wrote @ 13 at 12:06 am
Tom can you make a millenium falcon with han solo inside? I can.
red wrote @ 13 at 4:58 pm
Bolt!! I made one
no personal info wrote @ 13 at 11:38 pm
SF minecrafter wrote @ 13 at 12:50 am
i just got the book yoda with eye pleats.
its hard!
Yeeeahhh…
I really need one too!
I made one a year ago and now I cant find it!!! And now i cant make it again. Any chance that i can find a video for you folding this Tom?
Rob wrote @ 13 at 1:28 am
nice i folded and memorized
RobL wrote @ 13 at 1:29 am
yep its really easy
origami jedi master yoda wrote @ 13 at 1:46 pm
on youtube there is a slightiy easier yoda
tigerzoom99 wrote @ 13 at 7:42 pm
I have made almost all the origami you made I’ll try this one next and then the storm trooper in the art2d2 book :)
i hate these instructions so freakin hard
origami master wrote @ 13 at 2:57 am
dude i bet u dint evn try
Jr Stoltzfus wrote @ 13 at 2:02 am
Tom I made my own version of akbare it’s really good pleas write back /!————————————-(:-)—- ,,——————————-\1—– lol yoda
marylou wrote @ 13 at 9:36 pm
these r stupid. So freakin’ hard
How do u get origami paper 4 this yoda?
Don’t they sell it at some stores?
tigerzoom wrote @ 13 at 2:10 am
jeftekock8 wrote @ 13 at 2:42 am
kind of hard
mostly because of the pleats
I made That yoda with 1/4 of a sheet of double sided paper it turned out great
epic:)
it’s so hard with the pleats i had to fold a hand and glue it on.
and i wish i was yoda.
OrigamiYoda2001 wrote @ 13 at 8:10 am
Worked!!! Not like it is meant to but I don’t care it’s my yoda and it is my first try so it was good for a first.
SF awesomeness wrote @ 13 at 5:35 pm
It is so cool!!!! Mine looks a bit different , but still cool!!
so hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Dwight Tharp wrote @ 13 at 3:44 pm
It was hard, but I eventually figured it out. Then I created my own method of Origami Yoda.
Finnaly!!! it took me 43 times (literly, i even counted) to make one really good!!!!
mekell05 wrote @ 13 at 6:43 pm
hard.
Well, awesome. Here’s a challenge: Create YOUR OWN way of folding Yoda.
vincenzo wrote @ 13 at 4:49 pm
Dude,you are monsterly plastic dinosaurs to make one
also total rockets
i made now 1,256 of these yodas and tom email me more origami stuff
Emilio Arrieta wrote @ 13 at 1:29 pm
IT ACTUALLY GIVES ADVICE!
SFRockhopper wrote @ 13 at 3:42 pm
I just made one of these!
Unknown person wrote @ 13 at 3:25 pm
juano wrote @ 13 at 6:12 am
how do you submit instructions comment me back if u know how
R2-D2 wrote @ 13 at 3:56 pm
when i do yoda’s eyes it looks like i shot them out
SF DoomKnight15 wrote @ 13 at 1:10 am
neeeevvvveeerrrr mind tom! its on!!
Aydin wrote @ 13 at 3:17 pm
hey guess what i know how to do the cover yoda that tom forgot how to fold
Awsome!!! Can you make origami darth maul somehow?
Murky wrote @ 13 at 4:44 pm
Tommy wrote @ 13 at 4:45 pm
Way cool
Plastic dinosaurs
Frisbee/DarthBane5 wrote @ 13 at 1:12 am
Hey Tom, how do you become a superfolder?
made one it looks boooooooooolt!
I can’t get the hand! How do u do it?Also,how do u become a SF?
judah wrote @ 13 at 9:51 pm
so so so hard to fold
judah wrote @ 13 at 10:05 pm
seriously, mine looks like a peice o’ junk!
im sure youll get it judah!
nutegunray123 wrote @ 13 at 10:20 pm
complex but detailed. I like it.
if anyone is interested, I figured out how to make this into a boss nass.
yes, i got it! it looks grate! (thanks for the inspiration langrybird)
great**
hey tom I made a cool Yoda. Its like this Yoda but I added a few more folds to make him have 2 hands and feet!
I made a yoda that has 2 hands+2 feet!
I figured out harvey’s impossible darth paper
Harvey wrote @ 13 at 3:52 pm
aw nuts…
Awesome guys wrote @ 13 at 3:17 pm
Stooky dude!
cheese wrote @ 13 at 2:05 am
I made my own way of making the cover yoda but I can’t get the hand
I’m the guy who wrote that I figured out harvey’s impossible Darth paperlus I just did the really hard yoda from the cover
Lyle wrote @ 13 at 10:31 pm
I folded one in 3 minutes. it is really easy. and i really like the origami yoda books.
Hey tom my sister just said she hates your books I’m the opposite of her.(note I’m a boy).
By the way tom is there any jabba the puppert on this site? And do you know how to get on the show destroy build destroy I’ve been dying to know?
SFSZ wrote @ 13 at 2:38 pm
i kind of mess up on yoda’s ears…
Jason Holloway wrote @ 13 at 11:53 pm
I FINALLY FOLDED
ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hayden wrote @ 13 at 9:20 pm
harrrrrrrrrrrd!
SF banana wrote @ 13 at 4:06 am
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Tom, please help I made a Darth Yoda and it is torturing me all day everyday. He uses the dark side of the Force against me.And he gave me a papercut with his lightsaber. (Darth yoda’s voice:) destroy you I shall. HaHaHaHaHa. Ow, hey not cool man.Please Tom your my only hope.
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Love Live! is a multimedia project co-developed by ASCII Media Works, Dengeki G’s Magazine, music label Lantis, and animation studio Sunrise. The project tells the story of fictional high school girls who start an idol group in order to save their school from closing down. The series launched in the August 2010 issue of Dengeki G’s Magazine and has gone on to encompass anime adaptations, manga adaptations, music releases, video games, and more. To date, the franchise has received two anime adaptations and a movie directed by Takahiko Kyogoku, written by Jukki Hanada, and produced by studio Sunrise: Love Live! School Idol Project, Love Live! Sunshine!!, and Love Live! The School Idol Movie.
The Love Live! School Idol Project anime is the first in the franchise and its two seasons aired on Tokyo MX, TVA, and BS11 from Jan. 6, 2013 to June 29, 2014. Its story follows main character Honoka and members of the newly formed idol group μ's as they try to save their school, Otonokizaka Academy, from shutting down and follow their dreams of winning the Love Live idol competition and becoming full fledged idols. The anime spans 26 episodes total.
μ's Members:
Honoka Kosaka (CV: Emi Nitta) - The main character of Love Live! School Idol Project. She has a bubbly, cheerful personality and is the leader of μ's.
Kotori Minami (CV: Aya Uchida) - Honoka’s childhood friend who’s a bit airheaded. She is the wardrobe designer and choreographer of μ's.
Eli Ayase (CV: Yoshino Nanjo) - The Otonokizaka Academy student council president who is friends with Nozomi. She excels at sports and academics and is the choreographer of μ's along with Kotori.
Hanayo Koizumi (CV: Yurika Kubo) - A shy and quiet girl with poor self-esteem prior to joining μ's who later becomes president of the Idol Research Club.
Umi Sonoda (CV: Suzuko Mimori) - Honoka’s childhood friend who has expertise in kendo, koto, nagauta, shodo, and nichibu, and is the lyricist of μ's.
Rin Hoshizora (CV: Riho Iida) - A tomboy with an athletic and cheerful personality who is best friends with Hanayo.
Nico Yazawa (CV: Sora Tokui) - An idol superfan and founder of the Idol Research Club. She is the wardrobe designer of μ's along with Kotori. Her catchphrase is “Nico Nico Nii!”
Maki Nishikino (CV: Pile) - A talented singer and pianist, Maki is the main composer and vocal coach of the group.
Nozomi Tojo (CV: Aina Kusuda) - The big sister of the group who is demure with a mischievous side and acts as the group’s spiritual leader. Her hobby is fortune-telling.
The members of μ's are also divided into three mini groups. BiBi is comprised of Eli, Maki, and Nico, and their singles include "Diamond Princess no Yuutsu" and "Cutie Panther." Printemps is comprised of Honoka, Kotori, and Hanayo, and their singles include "Love Marginal" and "Pure Girls Project." The third group, Lily White, is comprised of Umi, Rin, and Nozomi, and their singles include "Shiranai Love*Oshiete Love" and "Binetsu kara Mystery."
The second anime, Love Live! Sunshine!! began airing on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS, BS11, TVA, SBS, TVQ, and TVh on July 2, 2016. It tells a very similar story to Love Live! School Idol Project - girls banding together and forming an idol unit to save their school from closing - but its setting shifts to Uranohoshi Girls' Academy with a new lineup of characters who form the idol group Aqours. Its opening and ending themes are "Aozora Jumping Heart" and "Yume Kataru yori Yume Utao." Thirteen episodes of the anime are planned.
Aqours Members:
Chika Takami (CV: Anju Inami) - The main character of Love Live! Sunshine!! who has a complex about being too ordinary and looks up to μ's which leads her to form a school idol group of her own.
Riko Sakurauchi (CV: Riakko Aida) - A modest, down to earth transfer student and the group’s composer.
Kanan Matsuura (CV: Nanaka Suwa) - Chika’s childhood friend who takes care of her injured grandfather and has a hard time attending class.
Dia Kurosawa (CV: Arisa Komiya) - The Uranohoshi Girls' Academy student council president, Dia is prideful and joins the group after losing a bet to Chika. She is also a diehard fan of μ's.
You Watanabe (CV: Shuka Saito) - Chika’s childhood friend who has an energetic, positive personality. Her catchphrase is “Keep her steady!”
Yoshiko Tsushima (CV: Aika Kobayashi) - Yoshiko joins the group in an attempt to try and overcome her chunibyo. She refers to herself as Yohane, a fallen angel.
Hanamaru Kunikida (CV: Kanako Takatsuki) - A ditzy, talented singer whose family runs a local temple.
Mari Ohara (CV: Aina Suzuki) - A bright go-getter whose favorite music is industrial metal.
Ruby Kurosawa (CV: Ai Furihata) - Dia’s timid crybaby sister who has long dreamed of becoming an idol and has androphobia (the fear of men).
Just like μ's, the members of Aqours are also divided into three mini groups. The first, CYaRon!, is comprised of You, Ruby, and Chika, and their first single is "Genki Zenkai Day! Day! Day!" Azalea is comprised of Dia, Kanan, and Hanamaru and their first single is "Torikoriko Please!!" Yoshiko, Riko and Mari make up the third group, Guilty Kiss, whose first single is "Strawberry Trapper."
Being an idol franchise, there is a main focus on music. A total of 46 singles have been released for Love Live! School Idol Project including the first season opening and ending themes "Bokura wa Ima no Naka de" and "Kitto Seishun ga Kikoeru," the second season opening and ending themes "Sore wa Bokutachi no Kiseki" and "Donna Toki mo Zutto," and μ's final single “Moment Ring.” Other notable μ's singles include "KiRa-KiRa Sensation! / Happy Maker!," "Korekara no Someday / Wonder Zone,” "Susume→Tomorrow / Start:Dash!!," and “Snow Halation.” There have also been 14 original song CDs including those released with the Blu-ray volumes, 20 character albums, and 7 video albums of concerts including μ's final concert “μ's FinalLoveLive! 2016: μ'sic Forever.” Nine singles have also been released for Aquors, the idol group from Love Live! Sunshine!!, including "Kimi no Kokoro wa Kagayaiteru Kai?" and "Koi ni Naritai Aquarium" with their latest being "Yume de Yozora o Terashitai/Mijuku Dreamer," two insert songs used in the anime.
Aside from anime and music, the franchise also spans a wide range of other media. Three manga written by Sakurako Kimino have been published so far by ASCII Media Works in Dengeki G’s Magazine and Dengeki G’s Comic - these include Love Live! School Idol Project, Love Live! Anthology, and Love Live! School Idol Diary. A novel also titled Love Live! School Idol Diary written by Sakurako Kimino that remixes the anime series and is told from the perspective of different μ's members is published by ASCII Media Works and includes 11 volumes to date. Love Live! School Idol Festival, a collectable card and rhythm action game for the iOS and Android, was released by Bushiroad in Japan on April 16, 2013 and worldwide May 11, 2014. The game has since spawned the School Idol Festival Thanksgiving Festival, a competition held yearly in Japan since 2015 looking for the best School Idol Festival player. There have also been three rhythm action video games released on the PS Vita under the title Love Live! School Idol Paradise on Aug. 28, 2014, developed by Dingo Inc. These include: Vol. 1 Printemps, Vol. 2 BiBi, and Vol. 3 Lily White. There is also a board game called Love Live! Board Game: Fan Acquisition, School Idol Great Operation!, and radio web shows that include Love Live! µ's Public Relations Department ~NicoRinPana~ and RADIO Animelo Mix Love Live! ~NozoEri Radio Garden~. Love Live! characters have also appeared in four Bushiroad trading card games: Victory Spark Booster Pack "Baby Princess & Love Live!", Weiss Schwarz Love Live! School Idol Project, Fiveqross, and Love Live! School Idol Collection.
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SpaceX launches 10 satellites from California air base
by John Antczak And Christopher Weber
A SpaceX rocket carried 10 communications satellites into orbit from California on Sunday, two days after the company successfully launched a satellite from Florida.
The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off through low-lying fog at 1:25 p.m. PDT from Vandenberg Air Force Base northwest of Los Angeles. It carried a second batch of new satellites for Iridium Communications, which is replacing its orbiting fleet with a next-generation constellation of satellites.
About 7 minutes after liftoff, the rocket's first-stage booster returned to earth and landed on a floating platform on a ship in the Pacific Ocean, while the rocket's second stage continued to carry the satellites toward orbit.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 on Friday launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida and boosted a communications satellite for Bulgaria into orbit. Its first stage was recovered after landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic.
Billionaire Elon Musk, who founded Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX, believes reusing rocket components will bring down the cost of space launches.
Iridium plans to put in place 75 new satellites for its mobile voice and data communications system by mid-2018, requiring six more launches, all by SpaceX.
The $3 billion effort by the McLean, Virginia, company involves complex procedures to replace 66 operational satellites in use for many years. Some of the new satellites will be so-called on-orbit spares, or older satellites that remain in orbit on standby for use if the newer ones malfunction.
Swapping out and deorbiting some old satellites has already begun, Iridium CEO Matt Desch said in a pre-launch call with reporters.
Several old satellites have been moved into lower orbits to use up their remaining fuel and configure the solar panels for maximum drag so they will re-enter the atmosphere and burn up.
The first re-entry was believed to have occurred on June 11, Desch said.
"It's hard to celebrate something like that, but these satellites have put in almost 20 years of service, and making sure we've cleaned up after ourselves as we deploy our new constellation is a priority," he said.
The new satellites also carry payloads for joint-venture Aerion's space-based, real-time tracking and surveillance of aircraft around the globe, which has implications for efficiency, economy and safety—especially in remote airspace over the oceans.
"This will truly be a revolutionary aspect of air-traffic control," said Aireon CEO Don Thomas.
The technology, which requires aircraft to be equipped with certain equipment, is undergoing testing involving eight of the initial batch of Iridium NEXT satellites.
The Iridium NEXT program also will bring an end to so-called "Iridium flares," which space enthusiasts have observed for years. The new satellites will not create visible flashes of reflected sunlight as they passed overhead.
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Mr. Jeffrey Brody is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Redpoint Ventures. He is focused on investments in technology companies spanning both enterprise and consumer customers. He currently serves on the boards of Beepi, HomeAway (AWAY), MobiTV, Tantalus Systems, Viajanet, Xango and 55social and previously served on the Board of LiquidX and Kodiak Networks. Jeff is also responsible for Redpoint's pioneering investment effort and dedicated early stage venture capital funds in Brazil. Jeff was an Early Investor and Director of Danger (acquired by Microsoft), Fraud Sciences (acquired by eBay), LifeSize Communications (acquired by Logitech), Concur Technologies (CNQR), Loopnet (LOOP), ZING Systems (acquired by Dell), GetThere (GTHR), mySimon (acquired by CNET), NextCard (NXCD), Onebox (acquired by OpenWave), ViaVideo (acquired by Polycom) and Web TV (acquired by Microsoft). Before Redpoint, Jeff was a general partner with Brentwood Venture Capital, a firm he joined in 1994. Prior to Brentwood, Jeff was at Comdisco Ventures and Crosspoint Venture Partners. Early in his career, Jeff co-founded a mobile telecommunications company and worked as a field engineer for Schlumberger in Europe and Africa. Jeff received a B.S. in Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and a M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He serves as Advisory Board Member at Cloudcar. He served as Board Member at Shoes4you.
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What the Chairman Told Tom
Basil Bunting - 1900-1985
Poetry? It's a hobby.
I run model trains.
Mr. Shaw there breeds pigeons.
It's not work. You dont sweat.
Nobody pays for it.
You could advertise soap.
Art, that's opera; or repertory--
The Desert Song.
Nancy was in the chorus.
But to ask for twelve pounds a week--
married, aren't you?--
you've got a nerve.
How could I look a bus conductor
in the face
if I paid you twelve pounds?
Who says it's poetry, anyhow?
My ten year old
can do it and rhyme.
I get three thousand and expenses,
a car, vouchers,
but I'm an accountant.
They do what I tell them,
my company.
Nasty little words, nasty long words,
it's unhealthy.
I want to wash when I meet a poet.
They're Reds, addicts,
all delinquents.
What you write is rot.
Mr. Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher,
he ought to know.
Go and find work.
From Complete Poems by Basil Bunting, published by Bloodaxe Books (2000). Copyright © 1985 by the estate of Basil Bunting. Reprinted by permission of Bloodaxe Books. All rights reserved.
Born March 1, 1900, in Scotswood-on-Tyne, Northumberland, to a family of Quakers, poet Basil Bunting first attended Ackworth School in Yorkshire and Leighton Park School in Berkshire until the age of eighteen. Bunting's Quaker education informed a strong opposition to World War I, and, after high school, Bunting was arrested for being a conscientious objector to the war. For this, he was imprisoned at Wormwood Scrubs and Winchester until 1920.
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CreuseCreuse in Pictures St Moreil and its Environs
St Moreil and its Environs
Our village St Moreil, a haven of calm and tranquillity. Featured in an episode of the France 3 TV series "Un Village Francais".
Route de la Croix Pierre - St Moreil © Brian Moulton 2008
Rue De Puy - St. Moreil
Rue de Puy - St. Moreil 2008 © Brian Moulton
L'eglise de St. Moreil 2008 © Brian Moulton
Re: St. Moreil and it's Environs
by Annik • Tue 22 Oct 2013 22:00
Those are lovely photos. I am not sure if we gave been to St Moreil as it is a long way from Chenerailles. However I have a kind of memory of the name. Do you do things for the Journées du Patrimoine? The church looks beautiful.
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. (Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.)" Groucho Marx
by smilespwp • Wed 23 Oct 2013 10:49
Unfortunately, I don't really get involved with the village's local history groups. Always seem to have things to do and this year, I have been afflicted with back problems.
The village, like many others in the Creuse, is mainly populated with an ageing population, and I always seem to just miss most village events.
I did earlier this year, give some re-creations of old postcards I had produced to the local school's headmaster. Sadly the school closed this summer, due to insufficient numbers to justify it remaining open.
St. Moreil boasts no shops, bars, cafes or restuarants, only a part time post office and I believe that there is a new local history museum next to the church, but I haven't managed to visit it just yet. There is a permanent "Espace Patrimoine" about 50 metres down from the church, with a couple of old sarcophagi and other relics found in the area on display.
Thanks to this forum created by Dave, I am inspired to possibly produce some panoramic views. On the front of our house there is a small balcony, which gives us a view due South across the valley and to the South West a view of part of the village. Sitting there on a warm sunny evening, can hardly be beaten in my view. EDF are currently also removing the electricity supply cables which will only enhance the view, photographically.
Altarcloth Image: Our next door but one neighbours are an elderly Portuguese couple who came to France in the mid 1960's. Manuel (now deceased Nov 2015) was a quarryman, now he tends a couple of plots of land in the village along with his wife, Idalena. From day 1 they have made us welcome and if we have needed any advice, removal of ticks, source of firewood or whatever, one need only ask. Idalena, early this year, finished crocheting the new altar cloth shown on image 2. As basically, an English "townie", acts such as these don't happen much where we live in England, although I think in more rural areas, some of this attitude still remains.
Idalena's Altar Cloth
L'eglise interieur vue
Filming in St. Moreil for "Un Village Francaise" TV series in April 2009, gave the village something different to talk about. You had to be careful when filming was being carried out as we found out when walking down a road which was background to that scene. We were alerted when the director started to shout and gesticulate in a frantic manner. Never did get to see the episode with St. Moreil in (one day I'll get the DVD).
Filming for an episode of "Un Village Francaise" in 2009 - © Brian Moulton
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by smilespwp • Thu 30 Oct 2014 10:16
Part of the view from our 1st floor balcony looking down towards the eglise. Much improved since the power supply and telephone lines were removed and re-sited underground.
by smilespwp • Fri 22 May 2015 10:13
Over the winter (2014-2015), the village works team have been busy creating a fishing lake for use by the public (with a locally purchased permit). An asset in the commune, with a pique-nique area. Apparently, Perch, Carp, Barbel and some Trout from the stream that feeds the lake, have been identified. It will be interesting to see how it develops with maturity. The lake was always there but had become overgrown and fishing was not allowed.
Newly refurbished fishing venue in St Moreil
by Jeanne • Sat 23 May 2015 10:45
Amazing how similar all the villages are in the Creuse. Similar styles of houses; sometimes difficult to discern which village from a pic. Never feel at home south of the N145 though. For me there is a different ambiance in the La Châtre area. Hard to explain but I suppose its a case of where your heart is.
by virtdave • Sat 23 May 2015 12:31
Those in La Creuse Berrichonne do seem to think there are still wolves in the arrondissement of Aubusson. Maybe dragons. Though I've personally not seen either, there are some interesting animal noises in the night, and one evening on returning late, there was a sanglier in our cave....there's currently a herd of cerfs in the woods opposite our place. If I can find the USB cable which connects my camera to my computer, I'll try to post some photos. The pics of St.Moreil are lovely.
virtdave
by Jeanne • Mon 25 May 2015 19:34
There certainly are more deer south of Aubusson. I go down that way for events sometimes and hate driving back at 2 or 3 in the morning through the woods. Always a bit too much wildlife ready to leap in front of the car.
I regard myself as an Anglais Berrichonne. I wish I could win the Lotto and move there. Such a different ambiance for us. Perhaps its because we are not retired LOL.
Re: St Moreil and its Environs
by Chompers • Wed 20 Apr 2016 11:10
St Moreil was the the first village I stayed in when I started looking for a property in Creuse back in 2006. Stayed with the same couple 4/5 times always very friendly. The walks around there are lovely as well, mind you aren't they all in the Creuse. Thanks for stirring some memories.
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A man walks under a billboard advertising Saudi Aramco's IPO, saying in Arabic: "Saudi Aramco, soon on stock exchange" in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia.
This Will Be the Biggest IPO in History
Newser — Bob Cronin
Saudi Aramco's pricing for its initial public offering gives the oil company a valuation that—at $1.7 trillion—falls short of the $2 trillion that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hoped for.
But selling 3 billion shares at $8.53 apiece would still bring in $25.6 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports. That would set a record: Alibaba Group Holding, a Chinese online commerce company, had a $25 billion IPO in 2014.
Demand for Aramco stares is strong, with orders totaling $60 billion placed by Tuesday. That sets up the overallotment option, which would add 450 million shares to the offering and push the grand total raised to nearly $30 billion.
Trading on Saudi Arabia's stock exchange is scheduled to begin Dec. 11.
Despite those figures, one analyst called the IPO a "hollow win" for the state-run company.
Local demand from retail investors was a disappointment, and "the government had to manufacture demand, even from Saudis," she told CNBC. The lower valuation was an effort to attract investors, per the Journal, many of whom still find the Aramco IPO out of line compared with competitors such as Exxon Mobil and Chevron.
Concerns over ongoing government control of Aramco is another factor. "While investors agree that Aramco has superior financial and franchise strength," a Bernstein report said Monday, "weak corporate governance and limited earnings growth are reasons for the discount relative to peers." For example, per the AP, oil production levels are set by the government.
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As wildfires burn through BC, glaciers retreat in Alberta, winters grow shorter in Nunavut, and floods destroy homes in the Maritimes, Canadian politicians continue to fail us. The federal government touts a lacklustre climate plan, all the while purchasing pipelines, protecting big industry, and failing to respect Indigenous rights.
In the face of climate catastrophe, we see young people from across this land coming together, time and again, to work for the just and livable future we know is possible. Powershift: Young and Rising will galvanize a new wave of young leaders to assert a vision beyond fossil fuels- one that honours the leadership that frontline and Indigenous communities have been taking for generations.
From February 14-18, 2019 in Ottawa, on the land of the Algonquin Anishinabe, PowerShift: Young and Rising will convene hundreds of young people from across Turtle Island. This four-day climate convergence will feature workshops, keynote speakers, performances and panel discussions on how we– as a collective movement of young people– can take action to solve the climate crisis.
Be prepared to learn about the history of social movements; how to start a campaign from scratch; how to influence decision makers; and how Canada can transition to a renewable energy economy. We will dig deep into discussions on topics including fracking, pipeline politics, Indigenous sovereignty, divestment, and green jobs. We will learn how to make lasting change through community organizing, direct action, art, storytelling, and using traditional and digital media.
Through workshops and skill-building sessions, we will learn from peers, elders, and experts alike. We will forge the bonds needed to solidify a long-lasting, resolute, and intersectional climate movement.nada can transition to a renewable energy economy. We will dig deep into discussions on topics including fracking, pipeline politics, Indigenous sovereignty, divestment, and green jobs. We will learn how to make lasting change through community organizing, direct action, art, storytelling, and using traditional and digital media.
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Review: Hodgy Beats - Untitled EP
Of the members of the enigmatic Odd Future crew Hodgy Beats always seemed to be the least absurd. He is eccentric, sure, but he is also a student of traditional hip-hop and a believer in the importance of a good soul sample.
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Of the members of the enigmatic Odd Future crew Hodgy Beats always seemed to be the least absurd. He is eccentric, sure, but he is also a student of traditional hip-hop and a believer in the importance of a good soul sample. So, like many a hyped, emerging hip-hop artist before him Hodgy called in a crew of excellent producers (in this case Juicy J, Thelonius Martin, the Alchemist, and Flying Lotus) and threw them together on one record. This was the right and wrong move for a couple of reasons. It was right because the production on the EP is rock solid and it drew in a fan base that otherwise might have passed (not all hip-hop heads care for Hodgy but there are very few that dislike the Alchemist); but it was wrong because it makes clear that Hodgy's craft is not even close to as fully formed as the guys' who laced the beats. Don't get me wrong, the EP is a really fun listen and it does exactly what it set out to do. But it also leaves me thinking about how good Hodgy will be, not how good he is.
All of the tracks on the EP have the mark of their particular producer but, in general, a soulful, stoner-friendly vibe runs throughout. “Bullshittin” is a bass-heavy, trunk-rattling southern beat. Hodgy quickly establishes the themes that he plans to tackle. First and foremost, he wants to make clear how exceptional he is at rapping. A stale subject, to be sure, but rap wouldn't be what it is without a heavy dose of narcissism. The trick is for the arrogance to be wrapped up in lines that are lyrically interesting (whether that be through clever wordplay, varied cadence structure, or obscure metaphors).
With lines like “whats the morning to a 24 hour fitness” and “they wanna fry me like they battered me/ I'm a diamond they can't shatter me”, Hodgy is no slouch. His verses are dense, bouncing rhymes off of one another and packing in the cultural references. Where the rapping sags is in the delivery. A big part of quality rap is the way that the words are spoken. One's tone can be the difference between a vivid and ruthless verse and one thats simply nondescript. It takes time to develop one's voice; and, by no fault of his own, Hodgy's adolescence is his biggest deficiency. I can't help but hear a young Kanye whenever he turns a phrase.
Still, the majority of the EP is fresh and immediately enjoyable. “Samurai” sports a twisted, funky beat courtesy of Stones Throw's Jonti. Hodgy's flow fits nicely alongside the quirky instrumentation. Like “Samurai”, FlyLo's contribution steers clear of the hazy, Curren$y-esque sound that graces the rest of the album. It's a relatively straightforward beat by FlyLo standards but, still, it's clear that Hodgy's cadence isn't meant for even mildly glitchy beats. Blu and Nocando are gifted in that regard. Hodgy would be wise to stick to the slow burners like “Higashi Loves You”.
Considering all the dreck out there it's hard to gripe too much about a hip-hop release with good production (that is largely culled from soul samples) and lyricism that has bursts of real quality. It's a much more even keeled release than one would usually expect from an Odd Future member, and I mean that as a compliment. But still, while the EP may feel mature by Wolf Gang standards, it sounds distinctly underdeveloped in comparison to top-tier hip-hop. That's largely because Hodgy picked a production crew that would, by default, make him sound his age. My advice to Hodgy Beats would be this: he should smoke a ton, keep screaming at shows, and wait for his voice to be able accurately reflect all those menacing thoughts.
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Derrick Henry Travis Kelce Darwin Thompson Mitchell Schwartz Damien Williams Patrick Mahomes II Mecole Hardman Daniel Sorensen Dustin Colquitt Emmanuel Ogbah Darrel Williams Philip Rivers LeSean McCoy John Harbaugh Tyreek Hill Dalvin Cook James Winchester Ryan Kerrigan Andy Reid Martinas Rankin Brandon Carr Sports NFL football Professional football Football
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Chiefs special teams anything but special in Titans debacle
By DAVE SKRETTA - Nov. 11, 2019 01:41 PM EST
Tennessee Titans defensive back Joshua Kalu (46) blocks a 52-yard field goal attempt by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker (7) on the final play of an NFL football game Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. The Titans won 35-32. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The past few offseasons, Chiefs special teams coach Dave Toub has been floated as a potential head coaching candidate, perhaps following in the footsteps of Andy Reid protege John Harbaugh.
The reason is simple: His teams have nearly always been exceptional.
On Sunday, they were downright dreadful.
During a calamitous 35-32 loss to the Tennessee Titans, the Chiefs botched a field-goal attempt that could have made overtime a worst-case scenario. They had another field-goal try blocked when they managed to drive within range in the final seconds for a tying attempt.
Throw in a series of punts fielded inside the 5-yard line, and fumbles and penalties that cost the Chiefs field position, and there's been nothing special about their special teams this season.
"I'll take responsibility for the loss. We were in a position to close it and we didn't get that done," Reid said. "Then we were too sloppy. You come down and play like we did, again, that's the head coach's responsibility. You can't do it like that."
The first botched field goal in the fourth quarter came from miscommunication between long snapper James Winchester and holder Dustin Colquitt. Winchester thought he saw Colquitt looking forward, began to hike the ball and then noticed the holder had looked back again.
"I tried to hold it," he said, "but yeah, it went fast. It was just miscommunication."
The problems didn't end there. Colquitt threw the ball away and was penalized for intentional grounding, giving Tennessee even better field position. The Titans drove downfield for the go-ahead score, forcing the Chiefs to frantically attempt to get back into field-goal range.
They did. Then they had the kick blocked.
"I want to see the replay on that to see how close that was," Reid said. "I thought he was offside when it happened, but it might not have been. But that's what it looked like from the side."
Regardless, the way the special teams performed Sunday looked ugly from all sides.
The poor special teams ruined a triumphant return by Patrick Mahomes, who had missed two games with a dislocated kneecap. He threw for 446 yards and three touchdowns, most of it going to Tyreek Hill, and made a dazzling jump-pass to Mecole Hardman that he turned into a 63-yard score.
"It was amazing, just to see him go out there and come back from a bad injury just like he did," Hill said. "It was amazing to see him out there having fun, playing the game he loves."
After a better effort against the Vikings' Dalvin Cook last week, the Chiefs' defensive line was gutted by the Titans run game once again. Derrick Henry ran for 188 yards and two scores, and his 68-yard touchdown run came while Tennessee was dominating the Chiefs up front.
"It just goes back to the details and everybody being sound," Chiefs safety Daniel Sorensen said.
Tight end Travis Kelce had 75 yards receiving and a score, and he had another touchdown reception called back by a penalty. It was a solid performance by one of the league's best at his position, and it came on the heels of a couple of shaky efforts marked by penalties and drops.
LeSean McCoy took over the No. 1 job at running back earlier this season. But persistent problems with protection, and some fumble issues, caused him to fall out of favor. He wasn't even active against Tennessee as the Chiefs rolled with Damien Williams, Darrel Williams and Darwin Thompson.
"I just thought it was the right thing to do right now," Reid said. "LeSean's not getting any younger so it's important that I manage him the right way as we go."
Defensive end Emmanuel Ogbah tore his right pec and could be out for the season. Offensive lineman Martinas Rankin also could miss the rest of the year after hurting his right knee.
7,894 — That's the number of consecutive snaps right tackle Mitchell Schwartz played over the course of 122 games before a knee injury knocked him out Sunday. The only NFL players with longer games-played streaks are Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers (218), Redskins linebacker Ryan Kerrigan (137) and Ravens cornerback Brandon Carr (184).
"It was 7½ years running," Schwartz said. "Now I'm just normal like everybody else. It is what it is. You do inventory and make sure nothing's going in the wrong direction or drastically wrong, and I've been able to avoid that."
The Chiefs get an extra day to prepare for Monday night's game against the Chargers in Mexico City. Then comes a long-awaited bye and an opportunity to get healthy.
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No Matter What Happens He Will Land On Someone Else’s Feet
Who Made the Criticism?: Dorothy Parker? Blanca Holmes? Vincent Sheean? Sidney Skolsky? Anonymous?
Who Was Being Criticized?: Alan Campbell? Lloyd George? Orson Welles?
Dear Quote Investigator: A person who is tough and adaptable is able to absorb setbacks in life and continue onward. This capability is represented metaphorically by a tumbler who lands upright. I have heard the following joke based on this framework:
Resilient people will always land on their feet.
Opportunists will always land on someone else’s feet.
Apparently, the well-known wit Dorothy Parker delivered a similar line. Would you please explore this topic?
Quote Investigator: Dorothy Parker and her second husband Alan Campbell obtained a divorce in 1947. The 1970 biography “You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker” by John Keats included testimony from one of Parker’s friends about a quip she made shortly after the marriage dissolved. Boldface added to excerpts by QI: 1
“I went to call on her the day the divorce from Alan became final,” Vincent Sheean said. “She was living alone in the Algonquin. The hotel had sent dinner up to her room, filet mignon, and she was sitting up in bed, the dinner uneaten, with no intention of eating, streaming tears.
“Thinking to make her feel better, I said I felt sorry for Alan.
“‘Oh, don’t worry about Alan,’ she said. ‘Alan will always land on somebody’s feet.'”
This remark fits into a family of jokes that has a long history which QI will explore below.
Continue reading No Matter What Happens He Will Land On Someone Else’s Feet
1970, You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker by John Keats, Part 4, Section 1, Quote Page 249, Simon and Schuster, New York. (Verified with hardcopy) ↩
Posted on November 18, 2019 November 20, 2019 Categories Dorothy Parker, Lloyd George, Orson WellesTags Alan Campbell, Blanca Holmes, Dorothy Parker, Lloyd George, Orson Welles, Sidney Skolsky, Vincent Sheean
Now We Sit Through Shakespeare in Order to Recognize the Quotations
Orson Welles? Oscar Wilde? James Aswell? Richard Lederer? Anonymous?
Dear Quote Investigator: The influence of William Shakespeare’s works on the English language has been enormous; consider the following phrases:
To thine own self be true
It was Greek to me
Brevity is the soul of wit
To be, or not to be
Not a mouse stirring
The cultural ubiquity of the Bard’s words inspired the following humorous remark:
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
This statement has been attributed to two very different people who share the same initials: Oscar Wilde and Orson Welles. Would you please explore its provenance?
Quote Investigator: The earliest evidence located by QI was published in 1936 by a syndicated columnist named James Aswell who was based in New York. Several Shakespearean productions were being staged in the city, and one featured the actor John Gielgud. Aswell presented the remark of a “debbie” which was a slang term for “debutante”; he then appended his own comment. Bold face has been added to excerpts: 1 2
A pert debbie, attending the Gielgud interpretation the other night, quipped in the lobby: “But how can anyone listen to all those old saws and ancient wisecracks they’ve been hearing all their lives?” . . . Well, a lot of people go to Shakespeare to recognize the quotations.
In 1945 the tireless anecdote collector Bennett Cerf included a thematic joke in his compilation titled “Laughing Stock”, and Cerf also reprinted the jest in his syndicated newspaper column: 3 4
Guy Williams, of the Omaha World Herald, had his ears pinned back by a nice old lady to whom he had urgently recommended a volume of Shakespeare’s plays. “I can’t understand why you all make such a fuss over that man,” she told him after she had looked over the book. “All he’s done is string together a whole lot of very old, well-known quotations.”
In 1949, Evan Esar published the collection “The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations”, and he assigned an instance of the quip in Aswell’s 1936 column to the prominent auteur Orson Welles: 5
WELLES, Orson, born 1915, American actor, director, and producer of motion pictures, radio, and stage.
Continue reading Now We Sit Through Shakespeare in Order to Recognize the Quotations
1936 October 17, Ballston Spa Daily Journal, My New York by James Aswell, Quote Page 4, Column 2, Ballston Spa, New York. (Old Fulton) ↩
1936 October 19, The Morning Herald, My New York by James Aswell, Quote Page 6, Column 3, Uniontown, Pennsylvania. (Newspapers_com) ↩
1945, Laughing Stock: Over Six-hundred Jokes and Anecdotes of Uncertain Vintage, Edited by Bennett Cerf, Quote Page 130 and 131, Grosset and Dunlap, New York. (Verified with scans; Internet Archive) ↩
1946 March 15, Greensboro Record, Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf, Quote Page 6A, Column 4 and 5, Greensboro, North Carolina. (GenealogyBank) ↩
1949, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, Edited by Evan Esar, Section: Orson Welles, Quote Page 212, Doubleday, Garden City, New York. (Verified on paper in 1989 reprint edition from Dorset Press, New York) ↩
Posted on October 28, 2014 October 29, 2014 Categories Orson Welles, Oscar WildeTags James Aswell, Orson Welles, Oscar Wilde, Richard Lederer
The Enemy of Art Is the Absence of Limitations
Orson Welles? Henry Jaglom? Mildred Pitts Walter? Dom Hofmann? Apocryphal?
Dear Quote Investigator: The brilliant movie director Orson Welles has been credited with a fascinating statement about the construction of artworks in the presence of constraints. When a performer or creator faces a limit such as a tight budget for a production then creative thought and innovative techniques are required. The final work may embody a heightened artistry. Here are two versions of the adage ascribed to Welles :
1) The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
2) The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.
I have not been able to find a good citation for this popular remark. Would you please examine its provenance?
Quote Investigator: The most revealing citation located by QI was published in the 1992 edition of “The Movie Business Book” within a chapter written by the filmmaker Henry Jaglom. An instance of the saying was credited to Orson Welles by Jaglom. Boldface has been added to excerpts: 1
Orson Welles once said to me at lunch, “The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” Economically and creatively that’s the most important advice you can be given. You have limitations; you don’t have $1-million to blow up that bridge, so you have to create something else on film to produce the same effect. Instead of having money to hire hundreds of extras, you have to sneak a cameraman in a wheelchair through the streets of New York City and steal the shot, which gives you a look of much greater reality.
The earliest evidence located by QI appeared a few years prior to 1992 in a magazine dated February 1988. Details are given further below. Yet, the above cite is crucial because QI conjectures that Jaglom was the person responsible for placing the adage into circulation. QI has not located any direct evidence of the statement in the writings of Welles or in an interview with Welles.
Continue reading The Enemy of Art Is the Absence of Limitations
1992, The Movie Business Book, Edited by Jason E. Squire, Second Edition, “The Independent Filmmaker” by Henry Jaglom, Start Page 74, Quote Page 78, Fireside: Simon & Schuster, New York, (Verified with scans) ↩
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Director: Barry Jenkins
Starring: Naomie Harris, Mahershala Ali, Trevante Rhodes
Perhaps one of my biggest regrets of 2016 was not making the time to see Barry Jenkins masterpiece, Moonlight. Unfortunately, it had a very limited release in Ireland where only art-house cinemas were screening during work hours. Thankfully Moonlight was granted a second limited release yesterday.
Barry Jenkins has made this film for cinema lovers. I don’t believe this is a film directed at casual audiences – not because they won’t understand it or lack the knowledge of how to enjoy it – It’s because it would be difficult for them to truly appreciate what a complete package this film is on a technical level. I cannot point out one flaw or blunder this film makes. It simply left me in awe.
Moonlight follows the story of Chiron at three stages of his life; child, teenager, and adult. As a child Chiron, then referred to as ‘Little’, is discovered by drug dealer Juan hiding out in a boarded up crack den. Juan takes ‘Little’ for a meal and then back to meet his partner Theresa. Both Juan and Theresa show ‘Little’ compassion and an understanding he has not availed of thus far. We find out that ‘Little’ is an Identity bestowed onto Chiron by his bullies.
Identity is the biggest theme of the film as each of the three chapters is named after Chiron’s various identities. Juan, who has become a father figure and mentor to ‘Little’, tells him to be his own man and to find his own identity. While Chiron’s homosexuality and neighborhood are major factors in shaping his life, Jenkins never overstates these factors or goes down a path which could have made the film stereotypical or predictable. It’s the identities that Chiron chooses that gives the film its weight, and the final act hits like a ton of bricks as we see a very familiar identity that Chiron has adopted that really broke my heart.
Every performance in Moonlight is a revelation. Each character feels so real that I had to rub my eyes and remind myself that I wasn’t in someone else’s dream. It’s easy to identify great performances but in Moonlight I was transported into this world. Mahershela Ali and Naomie Harris both give career-best performances. The diner scene in the last act is perhaps one of the greatest scenes of pure acting I’ve witnessed in a long time. The raw emotion, seamless dialogue and masterful camerawork placed me right there in the moment hanging onto every word these characters said. It is perhaps what’s not said that resonates the most in Moonlight.
Jenkins’ editing captures the streets of this harsh environment with such blistering colour and beauty – the film almost feels like a fairy tale. Night scenes are shot with a heavy blue saturation that is in line with the film’s theme of changing identities. There is a shot where the camera circles around following one of Chiron’s bullies that captures such a feeling of menace and dread – it’s unnerving. Jenkins utilizes the imagery of water as if it can temporarily cleanse and transport you from the harshness of the world. For a year of amazing cinematography, Moonlight is certainly one of the strongest contenders.
Moonlight is a simple story told in a complex matter that shows how our paths in life are shaped by a plethora of factors and circumstances. Jenkins tells a beautiful but tragic tale and shows a deep understanding of the human condition.
Tags: 2016, Barry Jenkins, Drama, films, Moonlight, movies, Trevante Rhodes
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Council of Arab Ministers for Meteorology Meets
Meteorology, Climate, Aviation, Partnership
Publish Date: 27 April 2018
The second session of the Council of Arab Ministers for Meteorology and Climate Affairs took place on 26 April, with a focus on boosting the effectiveness and capacity of meteorological services. Discussions included aeronautical meteorological services, weather and climate risk management, training and capacity building, the fledgling Arab Climate Outlook Forum, and sand and dust storm warning services.
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Arctic meetings boost meteorological cooperation
Observations, Meteorology
Publish Date: 21 March 2018
Increased meteorological cooperation in the Arctic is one of the focuses of a series of meetings taking place this week in Finland, attended by a top-level WMO delegation.
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Metop-C Polar-Orbiting Weather Satellite launched
Satellite, Forecast, Observations, Meteorology
Publish Date: 7 November 2018
WMO has welcomed the launch of EUMETSAT’s newest weather satellite as a move which will improve access to world-leading weather, water and climate data from polar orbit.
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Celebrating pioneer Indian meteorologist Anna Mani
Publish Date: 23 August 2018
The life and career of Anna Mani, a pioneer Indian physicist and meteorologist, is being celebrated on what would have been her 100 th birthday. Anna Mani at the International...
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Arctic Summer Special Observing Period starts
Observations, Polar, Cryosphere, Meteorology, Forecast, Climate change
Publish Date: 9 July 2018
An Arctic summer special observing period is taking place from 1 July to 30 September as part of the Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP). Extensive extra observations will be carried out at numerous land stations in the Arctic as part of field campaigns and expeditions, and by autonomous instruments. Numerical experimentation and internationally coordinated verification activities will use the additional observations for forecast evaluation and observational impact studies.
Divino Moura of Brazil wins IMO Prize
Meteorology, Climate, Research, Awards
Publish Date: 29 June 2018
The World Meteorological Organization has named Antonio Divino Moura of Brazil as the winner of its top scientific prize for outstanding work in meteorology and climatology and scientific research.
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KMA extends support for sub-seasonal to seasonal project
Partnership, Forecast, Meteorology, Climate
The Korean Meteorological Administration has signed an agreement with the World Meteorological Organization to host the International Coordination Office for the second phase of a project which aims to improve predictions at sub-seasonal to seasonal timescales.
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Haiti’s meteorological and hydrological service opens new building
Disaster risk reduction, Disasters, Hurricanes, Environment, Meteorology
Publish Date: 26 May 2017
Haiti’s National Meteorological and Hydrological Service (UHM) has a new headquarters – an important milestone in the drive to improve weather forecasts and warnings, and build resilience to tropical cyclones, floods and other hazards. The new building was inaugurated at a high-level ceremony on 26 May. It is constructed to withstand earthquakes and hurricanes, enabling operations to continue during extreme events when services are most needed. Solar panels will power daily activities and will provide a back-up against electricity outages.
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Year of Polar Prediction – from research to improved environmental safety
Polar, Cryosphere, Climate change, Climate services, Environment, Disaster risk reduction, Observations, Forecast, Meteorology
A concerted international campaign to improve predictions of weather, climate and ice conditions in the Arctic and Antarctic has been launched to minimize the environmental risks and maximize the opportunities associated with rapid climate change in polar regions and to close the current gaps in polar forecasting capacity. The Year of Polar Prediction takes place from mid-2017 to mid-2019 in order to cover an entire year in both the Arctic and Antarctic and involves the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and a wide array of partners around the...
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New International Cloud Atlas: 19th century tradition, 21st century technology
World Met Day, Meteorology, Clouds, Observations, Forecast
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released its new, long-awaited, digitized International Cloud Atlas – the global reference for observing and identifying clouds, which are an essential part of weather, the climate system and the water cycle. It was released for World Meteorological Day on 23rd March.
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Google Loses Some Of Its Strategic Opacity
scottkarp 26th Feb 2007 on AdSense, Google, Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is all about openness, right? At least that’s the ideology. But as to the BUSINESS of Web 2.0, the most successful money-making machine of the Web 2.0 era, Google AdWords, derives huge strategic advantage from opacity.
Today, Google lost some of that advantage when upstart Quigo forced Google to open the kimono on its contextual ad network or risk losing more high-profile publishers to Quigo’s transparent model.
From a customer perspective, competition is a great thing. Publishers that use AdSense had a good day today. Quigo’s transparent model had a good day, but only because they offered an alternative to Google’s monopoly (and Yahoo’s me-too complicity). But Google, who profited from the opacity that their monopoly enabled, had a bad day today.
I think it’s a good think that Quigo’s transparent model won out. Transparency make me feel good. It feels like the right thing to do. But if I were a Google shareholder (which I’m not), it really wouldn’t make me feel good.
I’m still amazed by the degree to which traditional media companies are assailed on a daily basis for not embracing openness, for not “getting it” (in the Web 2.0 politically correct sense), yet with so little hard evidence of how openness can drive profits and create new scalable business models. I’m not saying it won’t. I’m just staying we’re not there yet.
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Volume: 4 | Issue: 4
Savvy Separator: The Effect of Inlet Geometries on Flow Distribution
Robert Chin, Padden Engineering | 01 August 2015
inlet geometries
inlet design
A basic assumption in separator design is uniform flow. The fluid velocities are assumed to be the flow rate divided by cross-sectional area. In reality, maldistribution and jetting may lead to loss of retention time, foaming, re-entrainment, and high-velocity hot spots on demisting devices causing carry-over.
The real-world examples in this article highlight how some inlet geometries may cause poor flow distribution, which leads to separation problems and loss of separation efficiency.
The three main parts of a separator are the inlet region, gravity separation region, and outlet polishing region (Fig. 1). The inlet region prepares the rest of the vessel for good separation performance by performing bulk separation, mitigating droplet/bubble breakup and foam formation, and straightening out fluid flows (Arnold 2007).
Fig. 1—The main sections of a separator and their functions. Image courtesy of FMC Technologies
The latter is the most important because while designing a separator, a uniform flow is typically assumed in order to calculate a fluid velocity that may be used in a sizing equation. For example, in the gravity section, droplet settling is calculated by using Stokes’ law (Arnold 2007; Bothamley 2013). In the outlet region, the area of a mesh or vane pack demisting device is estimated using a K-factor (Arnold 2007).
A Reverse Elbow Inlet
Fig. 2 shows a horizontal separator with a reverse elbow inlet. Because of piping requirements, the inlet nozzle is placed on the vessel shell. The separator designer, aiming to use as much of the vessel space as possible, installed a reverse elbow to direct the flow toward the head.
Fig. 2—Loss of retention time due to recirculation zones created by reverse elbow inlet flow.
However, depending upon the inlet conditions, loss of retention time may occur. As shown in Fig. 2, the curved vessel head directs the flow downward into the liquid level. The liquid follows the bottom of the vessel, resulting in a recirculation cell. The gas phase also has such a cell.
Foaming and gas entrainment into the liquid are also downsides of the design. A potential solution is to install one or more perforated baffles to redistribute the flow more quickly. A vane inlet to decrease velocities may also improve the flow distribution (Bothamley 2013).
However, elbow inlets are still commonly used in flare knockout drums in which internals of any kind are generally not permitted. Design of flare knockout drums is typically based on a droplet separation of 450 µm. But as previously mentioned, most designers assume uniform plug flow.
Another common error is that designers sometimes forget to calculate the liquid level during high liquid-flow events, which results in liquid going up the flare stack or vent.
A Baffled Inlet
Figs. 3a through 3c show a typically encountered compressor scrubber. The inlet and outlet nozzles are at the same elevation and diagonally opposite to each other. A demisting device such as mesh or vanes is located between the nozzles. A solid baffle surrounds the inlet, directing the flow downward instead of toward the demisting device, which also allows for potential bulk separation.
Fig. 3—a) A scrubber design with a baffled inlet. Multiple separation problems are shown.
CFD flow simulation images of local gas velocity hotspots across the demisting area (b)
and high gas velocities across the liquid surface (c). Images courtesy of FMC Technologies
Figs. 3b and 3c show gas velocity profiles across the demisting device and over the liquid surface, respectively, modeled by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) flow simulation.
Three issues may result from this design. Firstly, the impact of the fluids on the baffle plate may break up the liquid into small drops and cause foam. Secondly, the downward-directed flow may create foam and re-entrainment from the liquid surface (resulting from the high velocities over the liquid surface as shown in Fig. 3c). Thirdly, the resulting swirling gas flow may cause a maldistribution across the demisting device area. Local gas velocity and liquid-loading hot spots will then lead to increased carry-over.
A future article in this series will discuss the revamp of one such designed compressor scrubber. But even with a good inlet design, vertically oriented low pressure drop devices will always suffer from maldistribution over the demisting device. A perforated plate on the back side of the demisting device may correct this issue.
An Unbaffled Inlet
Figs. 4a and 4b show the impact of inlet momentum (rV2, actually inlet energy in this case, where ρ is the bulk fluid density and V is bulk velocity) in a scrubber with a plain inlet nozzle. The fluids flow directly into the vertical vessel heading to the other diametrically opposite side.
Fig. 4a—Simple scrubber with an unbaffled inlet.
Fig. 4b—Effect of inlet momentum (energy) on liquid interface. Images courtesy of FMC Technologies
As shown in Fig. 4b, as inlet momentum increases, the liquid interface becomes increasingly disturbed. Re-entrainment of liquid and bubble formation may occur. Also, this will lead to the liquid level being measured incorrectly if the level sensor is placed near the depressed region of the liquid surface. If an unprotected pressure tap is located opposite of an inlet nozzle as shown, the fluid momentum itself will provide a false reading.
Fig. 5a shows the effect on re-entrainment by a flush nozzle as described earlier compared with a vane-type inlet device (Fig. 5b) that reduces the velocity. Only air is flowing, and the rate was the same in both vessels.
With the flush nozzle, liquid is being dragged up from the liquid surface due to the flow pattern developed from the air impacting and being deflected downward by the vessel wall opposite the inlet nozzle.
With the vane-type inlet, though air is being deflected downward and disturbs the liquid surface, no liquid is being dragged up due to the reduced velocities achieved by the inlet device.
Fig. 5a—The effect of jetting from a flush nozzle in a vertical vessel. Only air is flowing. The liquid seen
on the wall of the vessel is what is dragged up from the liquid surface because of the flow pattern developed
from air impacting and being deflected downward by the vessel wall opposite the nozzle.
Photo courtesy of FMC Technologies
Fig. 5b—The effect of a vane-type inlet device in a vertical vessel. Only air is flowing and at the same
rate as in Fig. 5a. Though the liquid surface is disturbed, no liquid is seen being dragged up
because of the reduced velocities achieved by the inlet device. Photo courtesy of FMC Technologies
Asymmetric Inlet Piping
Figs. 6a and 6b show the effect of inlet piping on flow distribution. The figures are taken from a webinar presentation held by the SPE Separations Technology Technical Section that discussed separation issues arising from inlet-piping effects on flow distribution (Heijckers 2012).
The scrubber is a vertical vessel with a vane-type inlet and a demisting device. The inlet piping is not symmetric with respect to the vertical axis of the vessel. Using CFD flow simulation, liquid can be seen migrating to one side of the inlet vane spreader and pushed up toward the demisting device. The liquid distribution inside the vessel is such that droplet creation, re-entrainment, and foaming may occur.
Fig. 6—The effect of inlet pipe geometry on flow distribution: a) asymmetric inlet piping with two
elbows b) liquid distribution leaving the vane inlet device. Images courtesy of Kranji Solutions
Other Inlet Geometries
Two other encountered inlet geometries are shown in Figs. 7a and 7b. It is left to the reader to contemplate the flow distribution without the aid of CFD or directional arrows.
Fig. 7a shows a dish-shaped plate deflecting the fluids entering from a nozzle located in the head of a horizontal separator. The dish plate was evaluated to create small droplets plus poor flow distribution over the mesh pad despite the straightening vanes.
Fig. 7a—A dish deflector leads to droplet breakup, poor flow distribution, and liquid carry-over.
Fig. 7b shows a vertical scrubber with a half-open downward-facing pipe inlet. The flow stirs up the liquid surface leading to liquid and gas entrainment and foaming. The velocity distribution over the vane pack is poor due to the reversing and swirling gas flow.
Fig. 7b—A downward half-open pipe leads to re-entrainment and poor distribution over the
demisting device. Image courtesy of FMC Technologies
Separation problems resulting from flow maldistribution caused by inlet geometries have been discussed. The examples, using typically encountered vessel inlets, will be useful in troubleshooting or debottlenecking separators. This knowledge may also be applied to the design of separators for new facilities, thus avoiding operational problems after startup.
I would like to thank Ed Grave and Victor van Asperen for their valuable contributions to this article.
Arnold, K.E. ed. 2007. SPE Petroleum Engineering Handbook, Volume III, Facilities and Construction Engineering. Richardson, Texas: SPE.
Bothamley, M. 2013. Qualifying Separation Performance in Gas/Liquid Separators. Oil and Gas Fac 2 (4): 21–29.
Heijckers, C. 2012. Flow Conditioning Impact on Separations, SPE Separations Technology Technical Section webinar, https://webevents.spe.org/products/flow-conditioning-impact-on-separations
Robert Chin is a cofounder and past chair of the SPE Separations Technology Technical Section, past chair of the SPE Gulf Coast Section’s Projects, Facilities, and Construction study group, a member of the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition’s Projects, Facilities, and Construction paper selection committees, and the author of Chapter 3, “Oil and Gas Separators,” in the SPE Petroleum Engineering Handbook, Volume III, Facilities and Construction Engineering. He has more than 30 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry, mainly with Shell. Chin joined Shell in 1981 and advanced research on multiphase flow, leak detection, and separations. He left in 1999 to form a separator design and supply company. He returned to Shell in 2006 and led teams on facilities for enhanced oil recovery and subsea processing research and development. Chin retired from Shell last year. He is a cofounder of Padden Engineering and a consultant in the industry. He may be reached at r.w.chin@sbcglobal.net.
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Romeo y Julieta Cuban Cigars Habanos
Founded in 1873, the Romeo Y Julieta brand once printed over 2,000 cigar bands! The "Romeos" are one of the most well-known and popular of all of the Havana brands.
Over 40 shapes and sizes are produced under this brand, some of which are considered the very best in their size. Romeo y Julieta cigars have won gold medals worldwide for both taste and quality. With so many different sizes and so much pressure on production due to worldwide demand, it is especially impressive that the entire brand continues to be appreciated as one of absolutely top quality.
Of particular repute are the Churchill sizes. As always, a large box (25 or 50) of untubed cigars (there are many tubed versions) is an excellent choice, although Romeo Y Julieta tubed cigars are also among the best available. The brand is also credited with introducing the "Churchill" shaped cigar, in honor of the famed warrior and British Prime Minister. British lore claims that when Prime Minister Churchill would meet with foreign heads of state, he would insert a straightened paperclip through the length of his cigar.
As his cigar ash would grow longer and longer but not fall, it is said that Churchill would unnerve his often-hostile guests, allowing him to gain an upper hand during delicate negotiations. With so many varieties of cigars one cannot describe all the variations of flavors acheived by Romeo Y Julieta, however, a distinct trait of a Romeo Y Julieta cigar could be that it has been able to adapt to the changes in epicurian fashions over the centuries.
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Understand the difference between native ads, sponsored content, display ads and remarketing ads
2 June 2019 20 May 2019
The world of digital advertising is evolving faster than ever before and it can even be challenging for marketing executives to keep up with correct terminology.
One advertising term which is frequently still misunderstood and misused is native advertising.
Copy Blogger ran a survey to establish how familiar businesses were with native advertising. The results revealed there was a great deal of uncertainty and a lack of confidence with the advertising technique:
49% of respondents didn’t know what native advertising was
24% were hardly familiar with it
Another 24% were somewhat familiar
Only 3% were very knowledgeable
This means businesses are failing to utilise native advertising, due to lack of knowledge.
For end users, it can be hard to distinguish native ads from news articles, sponsored content and Google ads, such as display advertising and remarketing ads.
This is understandable because, as most marketing professionals know, it is very difficult to recognise if what you are seeing on a website is a display ad, remarketing ad or native ad. Yet surprisingly, it is not just end users who seem to be confused. Many people within marketing agencies incorrectly use the terms native advertising and sponsored content synonymously.
It is necessary for marketers and businesses to correctly grasp the nuance between different marketing techniques to properly harness their power. Both native advertising and sponsored content are also now entering the publics’ awareness. In late 2015 South Park actually launched a whole episode covering the clever evolution of digital advertising, including sponsored content. Marketers cannot afford to be left behind by their own tech savvy audience and miss the opportunities native advertising and sponsored content present.
According to data collected by Contently, a large proportion of end users cannot tell the difference between a genuine news article and an ad.
For advertisers who are in the know and using native advertising and/or sponsored content effectively, this is very good news. For businesses whose native ad knowledge is lacking, now is the time to become educated and enjoy the benefits of these strategies.
Native ads and sponsored content are similar in many ways and they do overlap. It is therefore easy for the uninitiated to get the terms mixed up, so it is time to look at the specific definitions.
What are native ads
Native ads are any type of advert which has been designed to resemble the style of the publication it sits upon.
Native ads can be created as articles or similar to display ads or even videos. They can embody almost any variety of content style but as long as their goal is to blend seamlessly with the third-party website they are on, they can be considered a native ad.
The one element that makes native ads distinguishable from organic content or news is that by law they must state that they are an ad. Usually this labelling will be very subtle and easily missed.
However, many advertisers are failing to properly label their native ads, which means there are theoretically ads floating around which cannot be distinguished from content or news.
What is sponsored content.
Sponsored content is an article which an advertiser has paid to be placed on a third-party publication site.
Sponsored content is a type of native ad. In fact, the majority of examples you will see of native ads are sponsored content, as it is the most popular format.
Take a look at this highly amusing clip from the comedy show Last Week Tonight. It will walk you through the nature of native ads with some great examples and also explores some of the moral issues of native ads for publishers.
You will note that most of the examples are sponsored content i.e. article format native ads but in the first few seconds the video also shows how even the video itself could be a native ad with some hilarious heavy handed references to product placement:
While native ads would never be as obvious as the fake promotion of Mountain Dew in the video (as they would then fail at being subtle enough to qualify as a native ad) it is still a helpful introduction into native ads.
Core differences between sponsored content and native ads
Sponsored content is a type of native ad but not the only kind, hence the two are not synonyms. While sponsored content is always a native ad, a native ad does not have to be an article. By definition it can be any ad which blends into the environment of the hosting website, so native ads could even resemble display ads in their structure. They could be an image with a call to action, a video or a whole other multitude of media.
While sponsored content clearly fits within the encompassing definition of native advertising, in that it blends into its surroundings, we can make the additional distinction that sponsored content is a kind of content marketing, whereas other forms of native ads might be purely part of your PPC strategy.
The Content Marketing Institute point out that in addition to conflating sponsored content and native advertising, many marketing executives are using the terms sponsored content, native advertising and content marketing interchangeably and as they rightly point out this just isn’t true.
The confusion probably stems from the fact that sponsored content or any content designed to sell a service or product is a large part of content marketing. It is rare or arguably impossible to encounter content truly for content’s sake from a business.
There will always be a promotional agenda, even if it is just brand awareness or to encourage thought around a particular topic for your audience e.g. this sponsored content from Netflix on the New York Times on the subject of female prisoners in preparation for launch of the new series of Orange is the New Black:
Unlike other content marketing, sponsored content must be a paid slot hosted on another publication.
Content marketing involves the creation and distribution of valuable, entertaining and relevant content to attract your target audience.
Other forms of content marketing might take place on the advertiser’s own website or other channels. This would not be sponsored content.
The chart below from Contently clearly explains the relationship between native advertising, sponsored content and branded content (all other forms of content marketing)
If marketers continue to use these terms incorrectly the further the misunderstanding will spread in the industry. Understanding the differences is important as it opens up executives to other forms of native ads that may aid their digital strategies. In digital marketing ignorance is not bliss.
The different types of native ads
If you have previously confused native ads and sponsored content you may be wondering what other forms of native ads you can use. There are actually many different kinds of native ads and more are likely to be developed as the ads continue to evolve to keep pace with intelligent users, who have high demands from the content they absorb.
There are several main varieties of native ads that digital marketers frequently use:
Recommended content engine widgets – You will often see recommend content boxes after reading an article on various publications. These sometimes send you off to another site on the web or keep you onsite with a sponsored article. Taboola and Outbrain often use this format of native ad on third party sites to promote client brands. This is a good method to use for increasing traffic with native ads.
Promoted listing – These are completely different from article based native ads but they still aim to fit seamlessly into the users’ browsing experience. E-commerce websites, affiliate marketers and online marketplaces frequently use the promoted listing style native ad. This aids the promotion of sponsored products that are already listed on the site e.g. Amazon native ads. View the helpful example from Mequoda below.
In-feed units – These are the sponsored content promotions on publisher sites. They try to look like any other article.
Custom native ads – These are native ads that don’t fit one specific platform but can be used across multiple publishers. This may sound like a contradiction when we remember the definition of native ads as blending with their host site but Google’s Double Click specialises in exactly this type of native ad.
For native Google ads with Double Click they define custom native ads as those which have some customisable variables for the advertiser, that will not disrupt the native visual style of the ad.
Google is not the only search engine investing in native ads on their display network as Bing has followed suit with their own native ads for MSN currently in Beta in the USA.
In-ad with native elements – As the name implies in-ads with native elements are not pure native ads. They may not blend with the publisher site quite as well as other native ads but they do have some native qualities to give them an advantage. These native ads are very similar to display ads but are far more contextually relevant to the content on which they are displayed. This may sound reminiscent of programmatic display advertising, however position on publisher sites for in-ads with native elements may not necessarily be bought with programmatic software or a programmatic bidding system.
The example below from Mequoda shows how similar these ads could look to a display ad.
Technically you could even include search ads, such as the Google ads shown at the top of search results, as native ads. They do conform to the definition of blending in with the other results in their environment, however in modern digital marketing when most people discuss native advertising they are referring to ads on third party publisher sites that blend with the rest of the content and are rarely referring to search ads.
Now you understand that, although sponsored content is a subspecies of native ads, the two terms mean quite different things, as sponsored content is merely one of main varieties of native ad formats.
As you can see native ads can go beyond just articles or well camouflaged display ads. They can be purely an image experience or articles or a sophisticated mixture of the two and even offer interactive experiences or rich media experiences. The misunderstanding between sponsored content and native ads likely persists because they are the most popular form of native ad. According to State of Advertising 65% of survey respondents voted sponsored blog posts as their favourite native ad format with 56% voting for sponsored Facebook updates.
Social media is a good example of advertisers using native ads without even realising. Since we call this social media marketing or paid social, advertisers often do not realise these are native ads. When you think about it makes perfect sense because these platforms have always tried to make their ads very similar to non-sponsored posts in appearance.
Native ads vs display ads and remarketing ads
Display ads are normally banner ads showing on third party sites on a CPC basis. Visual Google ads shown on the GDN are examples of display ads:
Remarketing ads for display look very similar to display ads:
The only way to guess the difference is if you have recently been to the website of the advertiser. Remarketing ads use cookies, so that when you visit a website the business can remarket to you later using display ads. The benefit for the advertiser is that you have already shown an interest in their site and so are more likely to buy. A display ad is potentially leading to a website you have never been to or heard of.
As you can see these ads stand out, they look like the banner ads we are accustomed to seeing and more importantly ignoring. Native ads of all formats are designed so that users do not have the instant awareness that the ad is out of place or an obvious assault on the content they are enjoying or an overt sales pitch. Native ads are supposed to be far more tailored and subtle.
Native ads have already proven to be leaps and bounds ahead of display ads when it comes to successful marketing. The infographic below from Sharethrough reveals just how much more effective native ads can be on your target audience.
This does not mean display ads are at their end. Display advertising is very efficient for advertisers as it takes less creative and technical talent and a display campaign can be quickly created within Google AdWords. No messing with Double Click contracts or publisher contracts required.
Should you embrace native ads?
If you are wondering if native advertising is worth the investment, it may interest you to know that Forbes record native ads delivering an increase in brand lift by up to 82%. Native ads with rich media have been shown to increase conversions by up to 60%.
Those are some compelling statistics for advertisers. It is not just advertisers who are falling in love with native ads either, Inc.com reports that 70% of internet users would rather learn about products through content, rather than traditional ads, which shows sponsored content could be used to great effect.
Make sure your native advertising campaigns are high quality
Now that you know the correct terminology you can make informed choices about which native advertising is right for you.
The most important features to bear in mind for successful native advertising are quality, helpfulness, relevance and context. Advertisers need to learn to be careful with both their sponsored content and native ads. The trick is to make the native ads so relevant, useful and not too sales orientated, that users do not know they are experiencing an ad.
When executed poorly, native ads fail because users can too easily see their true purpose and your potential customers don’t like to be tricked.
Easy to spot native ads can be as frustrating to users as display ads. In a perfect world, native ads are the next step in digital marketing intelligence and can create a better experience for users but some advertisers will ruin it for the rest of us. Sadly, some native ads and sponsored content have become more like spammy clickbait than useful knowledge. This can be frequently seen on the recommended content engine widgets on content curation websites.
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Relic Lore · Northern Eden · Wild Cherry Orchard · Wild Cherry Orchard time heals all wounds, right?
time heals all wounds, right? — Wild Cherry Orchard
Clearwater Tarn Pup
Nymphnora Stallion
Age: 1 Year
@Daesamar
Nymphnora dragged her crippled leg behind her as she walked, scraping up the grass and dirt wherever she was. It had been so long ago that she had hurt it. Now, it didn't pain her any more than a normal leg would. But it was still crooked and didn't hold her weight. Running, or even walking on it was out of the question until it got better.
If it ever did. The two of them were both silent, engaging in their thoughts. She knew he was thinking some of the same things as her. What if she was going to be one-quarter lame her whole life? What pack would be altruistic enough to take her in? What would happen to Daes? She knew he wouldn't leave her if he had a choice, but if no one would let her in to their pack... Her best friend was big, and would be a great addition to any pack. The Stallion was just an extra mouth to feed who could provide nothing in return. It would be stupid to stay with her. So, her situation led them to two possibilities. One, where the white-streaked boy stayed loyal and they both slowly starved as he was unable to feed them both. Two, he abandoned her, like a smart wolf, and only she died, full of heartbreak and loneliness. Both possibilities were grim.
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Clearwater Tarn I. Yearling
Daesamar Silverveil
Alignment: Lawful Good
Physique: Large
I. Yearling
The large wolf signed softly to himself as he leads the way through the trees, he hadn’t ever expected his young life to take the turns that it had, things had been rough for the duo throughout the harsh winter. Ever since Nymph had hurt herself things had looked bleak at times, but they pulled through. He wanted to hide behind a mask but his thoughts were drifting in the same direction as the yearlings. What pack would take the two of them in? Logic told him to leave her behind and go off on his own, but he couldn’t, nor would he even if it did mean starvation.
Daesamar paused and glanced over his left shoulder until she caught up, and when she had he leaned down to nudge her cheek before smiling softly “Wanna rest here? I could see about scrounging us up a meal or something.”
(This post was last modified: May 01, 2019, 11:19 PM by Daesamar.)
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You discover a half-eaten deer carcass. +5 Health
"Sure," Nymphnora couldn't keep a note of resentment from her voice. She wanted to keep moving. But her broken leg was burning from scraping against rough pebbles. She wished it would just stop. Heal, whatever. If someone walked up to her and told her they could gnaw it off, she would immediately say 'just do it'. But she couldn't do it herself. Daesamar would never let her, and anyway, the young yearling knew she would lose her nerve.
Her belly rumbled. "Can I go hunting with you?" she asked, strongly suggesting that he let her. She wasn't going to sit around and wait for him to come back. If he didn't take her, she would probably just go anyway.
Nymphnora is currently traveling with Daesamar, and he can join any of her threads!
May 23, 2019, 12:27 AM,
The young adult’s ears perked when his friend spoke, Daesamar’s soft smile turned into a concerned frown that he didn’t try to hide. Of course she’d want to come along. Nymphnora was a strong willed yearling, even if her body was aching, but he couldn’t bring himself to allow it. They both knew that she was a bigger risk when she tried to hunt with him, her crippled leg would be able to be heard before they were ever able to catch sight of any prey.
“Nymph……” He said slowly, trying to figure out how he could say it without hurting her or angering her. “I want you to be able to, but right now it’s not the wisest thing for you to do. The prey will hear you, then we’ll have to spend more energy trying to find something, but if you rest while I go out then I might be able to find something, we could eat and then keep moving.”
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Shaun Wilson
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Emailshaun.wilson@mq.edu.au
Shaun's current research investigates the distributional and ideological conflicts that are reshaping the politics of liberal welfare states.
There are three projects.
The first focuses on union and political campaigns to increase minimum wages across the liberal welfare states. He argues that welfare retrenchment and labour market deregulation has created a new political and policy coalition for predistribution, mainly in the form of living wages. Shaun is also interested in prospects for the political project of full employment as opposed to advancing the basic income project, which tends to accept the decline and further fragmentation of work as inevitable.
The arguments have been presented in a recent article in Social Policy & Administration and will be developed further in a new book called Living Wages with Policy Press, UK in 2019.
The second project with Prof Markus Hadler is the publication of Australian Social Attitudes IV, which focuses on the theme of insecurity and will be available through Sydney University Press in late 2017. In this volume, Shaun has contributed a new analysis of trends in public opinion towards immigration and asylum seekers and relates these trends to the opportunities for right-wing populism in Australia.
A third project involves a renewed consideration of the causes and consequences of very low trust in polarised democracies.
Shaun's Google Scholar page is here.
Shaun teaches an undergraduate unit on social policy (SOC 223) and a postgraduate unit on activist movements and policy making (SOC 825). When he is not working, he is travelling to interesting places to look at birds and wildlife.
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics where Shaun Wilson is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
welfare Social Sciences
social attitude Social Sciences
taxes Social Sciences
welfare state Social Sciences
industrial relations Social Sciences
reform Social Sciences
ARC DP: The experience of precarious housing among international students
Morris, A., Ramia, G. & Wilson, S.
The future of the liberal welfare model: the role of minimum wages in combating inequality
Wilson, S.
WorkChoices and the experience of Australian working life: a qualitative research project
Constituencies for welfare: Public responses to Australia's 'new welfare state'
Wilson, S. & Meagher, G.
Understanding the dynamics of middle class welfare in Australia
2 Conference proceeding contribution
1 Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review
Attitudes to immigration and asylum seekers in Australia: contested territory or an opportunity for right-wing populism?
Wilson, S., 2018, Australian social attitudes IV: the age of insecurity. Wilson, S. & Hadler, M. (eds.). Sydney: Sydney University Press, p. 55-77 23 p. (Public and social policy series).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript/introduction › Research › peer-review
Australian social attitudes IV: the age of insecurity
Wilson, S. (ed.) & Hadler, M. (ed.), 2018, Sydney: Sydney University Press. 213 p. (Public and social policy series)
social attitude
political elite
Introduction: Australia in an age of insecurity
Wilson, S. & Hadler, M., 2018, Australian social attitudes IV: the age of insecurity. Wilson, S. & Hadler, M. (eds.). Sydney: Sydney University Press, p. 1-10 10 p. (Public and social policy series).
Superdiversity, exploitation and migrant workers
Wilson, S., 2018, Critical junctures in mobile capital. Pixley, J. & Flam, H. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 254-267 14 p.
The declining labour share and the return of democratic class conflict in Australia
Wilson, S., 2018, In : Journal of Australian Political Economy. 81, p. 78-94 17 p.
Contact Shaun Wilson
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Professor, Department for Health
Centre for Pain Research
EmailC.Eccleston@bath.ac.uk
1 WEST 5.117
Disengagement from pain: the role of catastrophic thinking about pain
Van Damme, S., Crombez, G. & Eccleston, C., Jan 2004, In : Pain. 107, 1-2, p. 70-76 7 p.
Catastrophization
Distraction from chronic pain during a pain-inducing activity is associated with greater post-activity pain
Goubert, L., Crombez, G., Eccleston, C. & Devulder, J., 2004, In : Pain. 110, 1-2, p. 220-227 8 p.
Fear-conditioned cues of impending pain facilitate attentional engagement
Van Damme, S., Lorenz, J., Eccleston, C., Koster, E. H. W., De Clercq, A. & Crombez, G., 2004, In : Neurophysiologie Clinique - Clinical Neurophysiology. 34, 1, p. 33-39 7 p.
Hypervigilance and attention to pain
Crombez, G., Eccleston, C. & Van Damme, S., 2004, Encyclopaedic Reference of Pain. Schmidt, RF. & Willis, WW. (eds.). Heidleberg: Springer, Vol. 2. p. 919-931 13 p.
Hypervigilance processes in chronic pain
Van Damme, S., Crombez, G., Eccleston, C. & Roelofs, J., 2004, Understanding and treating fear of pain. Asmundsen, G., Vlaeyen, J. & Crombez, G. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press
Hypervigilance to pain in fibromyalgia - The mediating role of pain intensity and catastrophic thinking about pain
Crombez, G., Eccleston, C., Van den Broeck, A., Goubert, L. & Van Houdenhove, B., 2004, In : The Clinical Journal of Pain. 20, 2, p. 98-102 5 p.
Impaired disengagement from threatening cues of impending pain in a crossmodal cueing paradigm
Van Damme, S., Crombez, G., Eccleston, C. & Goubert, L., 2004, In : European Journal of Pain. 8, 3, p. 227-236 10 p.
Interdisciplinary management of adolescent chronic pain: developing the role of the physiotherapist
Eccleston, Z. & Eccleston, C., Jun 2004, In : Physiotherapy. 90, 2, p. 77-81 5 p.
Other psychological approaches: a qualitative investigation of parents' experiences of caring for an adolescent with chronic pain
Jordan, A., Eccleston, C., McCracken, L., Connell, H., Clinch, J., Sourbut, C. & Sleed, M., 1 Apr 2004, In : Journal of Pain. 5, 3, sup, p. 97 1 p.
The anticipation of pain modulates spatial attention: evidence for pain-specificity in high-pain catastrophizers
Van Damme, S., Crombez, G. & Eccleston, C., 2004, In : Pain. 111, 3, p. 392-399 8 p.
The object of fear in chronic pain
Morley, S. & Eccleston, C., 2004, Understanding and treating fear of pain. Asmundsen, G., Vlaeyen, J. & Crombez, G. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press
The role of hypervigilance in the experience of pain
Van Damme, S., Crombez, G., Eccleston, C. & Roelefs, J., 2004, Understanding and treating the fear of pain. Asmundson, G. J. G., Vlaeyen, J. W. S. & Crombez, G. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 71-90 20 p.
Acceptance of pain is an independent predictor of mental well-being in patients with chronic pain: empirical evidence and reappraisal
Viane, I., Crombez, G., Eccleston, C., Poppe, C., Devulder, J., Van Houdenhove, B. & De Corte, W., 2003, In : Pain. 106, 1-2, p. 65-72 8 p.
Pain Clinics
Attentional regulation for adults with chronic pain
Elliot, E. & Eccleston, C., 2003, Clinical Pain Management: Practical applications and procedures.. Breivik, H., Campbell, W. & Eccleston, C. (eds.). London: Arnold
Chronic pain in adolescents: evaluation of a programme of interdisciplinary cognitive behaviour therapy
Eccleston, C., Malleson, P. N., Clinch, J., Connell, H. & Sourbut, C., Oct 2003, In : Archives of Disease in Childhood. 88, 10, p. 881-885 5 p.
Clinical Pain Management, Volume IV: Practical applications and procedures
Breivik, H. (ed.), Campbell, W. (ed.) & Eccleston, C. (ed.), 2003, London: Arnold.
Clinical Pain Management. Volume 1: Acute Pain. Volume 2: Chronic Pain. Volume 3: Cancer Pain. Volume 4: Practical Applications and Procedures.
Rice, A. (ed.), Warfield, C. (ed.), Justins, D. (ed.) & Eccleston, C. (ed.), 2003, Arnold.
Cognitive behaviour therapy for chronic pain in adults
Eccleston, C., Morley, S. & Williams, A., 2003, Clinical Pain Management: Chronic Pain. Jensen, T. S., Wilson, P. R. & Rice, A. S. C. (eds.). London, U. K.: CRC Press
Coping or acceptance: what to do about chronic pain?
McCracken, L. A. & Eccleston, C., 2003, In : Pain. 105, 1-2, p. 197-204 8 p.
How can we learn to live with pain? A Q-methodological analysis of the diverse understandings of acceptance of chronic pain
Risdon, A., Eccleston, C., Crombez, G. & McCracken, L., Jan 2003, In : Social Science and Medicine. 56, 2, p. 375-386 12 p.
Ketamine as adjuvant to opioids for cancer pain. a qualitative systematic review
Bell, R., Eccleston, C. & Kalso, E., Sep 2003, In : Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 26, 3, p. 867-875 9 p.
Intractable Pain
Managing chronic pain in children and adolescents
Eccleston, C. & Malleson, P., 28 Jun 2003, In : BMJ. 326, p. 1408-1409 12 p.
Psychological therapies for the management of chronic and recurrent pain in children and adolescents (Cochrane review)
Eccleston, C., Morley, S., Yorke, L. & Mastroyannopoulou, A., 2003, In : The Cochrane Library. 1
The child version of the pain catastrophizing scale (PCS-C): a preliminary validation
Crombez, G., Bijttebier, P., Eccleston, C., Mascagni, T., Mertens, G., Goubert, L. & Verstraeten, K., Jul 2003, In : Pain. 104, 3, p. 639-646 8 p.
Translating evidence for psychological interventions to manage recurrent and chronic pain in children and adolescents: Three trials.
Eccleston, C., Merlijn, VPBM., Hunfeld, JAM. & Walco, GA., 2003.
Attentional functioning in fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, and musculoskeletal pain patients
Dick, B., Eccleston, C. & Crombez, G., 2002, In : Arthritis & Rheumatism. 47, 6, p. 639-644 6 p.
Chronic pain in adolescents: Evaluation of inter-disciplinary cognitive behaviour therapy
Clinch, J., Eccleston, C., Malleson, P. N. & Connell, H., 2002, In : Arthritis & Rheumatism. 46, 9, p. S313-S313
Exposure to physical movements in low back pain patients: Restricted effects of generalization
Crombez, G., Eccleston, C., Vlaeyen, J. W. S., Vansteenwegen, D., Lysens, R. & Eelen, P., 2002, In : Health Psychology. 21, 6, p. 573-578 6 p.
Multimethod assessment of treatment process in chronic low back pain: comparison of reported pain-related anxiety with directly measured physical capacity
McCracken, L. M., Gross, R. T. & Eccleston, C., 2002, In : Behaviour Research and Therapy. 40, 5, p. 585-594 10 p.
Process Assessment (Health Care)
Retarded disengagement from pain cues: the effects of pain catastrophizing and pain expectancy
Van Damme, S., Crombez, G. & Eccleston, C., Nov 2002, In : Pain. 100, 1-2, p. 111-118 8 p.
Systematic review of randomised controlled trials of psychological therapy for chronic pain in children and adolescents, with a subset meta-analysis of pain relief
Eccleston, C., Morley, S., Williams, A., Yorke, L. & Mastroyannopoulou, K., Sep 2002, In : Pain. 99, 1-2, p. 157-165 9 p.
The effects of catastrophic thinking about pain upon attentional interference by pain: No mediation of negative affectivity in healthy volunteers and in patients with low back pain
Crombez, G., Eccleston, C., Van den Broeck, A., Van Houdenhove, B. & Goubert, L., 2002, In : Pain Research and Management. 7, 1, p. 31-39 9 p.
To express or suppress may be function of others' distress
Crombez, G. & Eccleston, C., 2002, In : Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 25, 4, p. 457-458 2 p.
Chronic musculoskeletal and other idiopathic pain syndromes
Malleson, P. N., Connell, H., Bennett, S. & Eccleston, C., 2001, In : Archives of Diseases in Childhood.. 84, p. 189-192 4 p.
Commentary on 'Ethical and research dilemmas arising from a questionnaire study of psychological morbidity among general practice managers'
Eccleston, C., 2001, In : British Journal of General Practice. 51, 462, p. 34 1 p.
Role of psychology in pain management
Eccleston, C., 2001, In : British Journal of Anaesthesia. 87, 1, p. 144-152 9 p.
Worry and chronic pain patients: A description and analysis of individual differences
Eccleston, C., Crombez, G., Aldrich, S. & Stannard, C., Jun 2001, In : European Journal of Pain. 5, 3, p. 309-318 10 p.
Making sense of everyday pain
Aldrich, S. & Eccleston, C., Jun 2000, In : Social Science and Medicine. 50, 11, p. 1631-1641 11 p.
When the whole is more than the sum of its parts, comments on Treede et al; [Pain 79 (1999) 105-111.]
Eccleston, C. & Crombez, G., Feb 2000, In : Pain. 84, 2-3, p. 442 1 p.
Attention to chronic pain is dependent upon pain-related fear
Crombez, G., Eccleston, C., Baeyens, F., van Houdenhove, B. & van den Broeck, A., Nov 1999, In : Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 47, 5, p. 403-410 8 p.
Pain demands attention: A cognitive-affective model of the interruptive function of pain
Eccleston, C. & Crombez, G., May 1999, In : Psychological Bulletin. 125, 3, p. 356-366 11 p.
1120 Citations (Scopus)
Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of cognitive behaviour therapy and behaviour therapy for chronic pain in adults, excluding headache
Morley, S., Eccleston, C. & Williams, A., Mar 1999, In : Pain. 80, 1-2, p. 1-13 13 p.
Attentional disruption is enhanced by the threat of pain
Crombez, G., Eccleston, C., Baeyens, F. & Eelen, P., Feb 1998, In : Behaviour Research and Therapy. 36, 2, p. 195-204 10 p.
Task Performance and Analysis
When somatic information threatens, catastrophic thinking enhances attentional interference
Crombez, G., Eccleston, C., Baeyens, F. & Eelen, P., Jan 1998, In : Pain. 75, 2-3, p. 187-198 12 p.
Attention and somatic awareness in chronic pain
Eccleston, C., Crombez, G., Aldrich, S. & Stannard, C., Aug 1997, In : Pain. 72, 1-2, p. 209-215 7 p.
Habituation and the interference of pain with task performance
Crombez, G., Eccleston, C., Baeyens, F. & Eelen, P., Apr 1997, In : Pain. 70, 2-3, p. 149-154 6 p.
Patients' and professionals' understandings of the causes of chronic pain: Blame, responsibility and identity protection
Eccleston, C., Williams, A. C. & Rogers, W. S., Sep 1997, In : Social Science and Medicine. 45, 5, p. 699-709 11 p.
Systematic review of outpatient services for chronic pain control
McQuay, H. J., Moore, R. A., Eccleston, C., Morley, S. & Williams, A. C., 1997, In : Health Technology Assessment. 1, 6, p. 1-135 135 p.
The disruptive nature of pain: An experimental investigation
Crombez, G., Eccleston, C., Baeyens, F. & Eelen, P., Nov 1996, In : Behaviour Research and Therapy. 34, 11-12, p. 911-918 8 p.
The effects of cognitive-behavioural therapy in chronic pain
Williams, A., Pither, C., Richardson, P., Nicholas, M., Justins, D., Morley, S., Diamond, A., Linton, S., Vlaeyen, J., Nilges, P. & Eccleston, C., May 1996, In : Pain. 65, 2-3, p. 282-283 2 p.
Contact Christopher Eccleston
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Best of ACO arrives in December, Speedstar anniversary compilation now available
I got an e-mail from CD Japan announcing some interesting releases. First, Sony is releasing a best collection for ACO, titled ACO BEST ~girl’s diary~. It’s a 2-CD set pretty much split between the two eras of her career. If the track listing is any indication, those early years seem to need a bit more padding than her post-absolute ego work. The album arrives on Dec. 19. Did you know ACO has a blog?
Speedstar Records recently celebrated its 15th anniversary with a concert in which artists on its rostered pair off. Cocco and Quruli, of course, brought out Singer Songer, while The Back Horn and Tsuji Ayano teamed up. Now the label has put together a compilation featuring artists who have recorded for the label. Eh? No WINO? I can’t say I’ve been very impressed with Speedstar’s more recent signings, but this site owes a lot of its content to Speestar artists — Cocco, UA, Quruli, Kicell, the Back Horn …
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Revitalize Clinic - 01474 356 284
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Lauren qualified as an Osteopath from the European School of Osteopathy in July 2018 and prior to this has been working as a Sports Massage Therapist. She is also qualified in medical acupuncture which she often uses in conjunction with these treatments.
Lauren has always had a huge interest in sport from a young age and particularly enjoys treating sports people. She was previously a member of Medway and Maidstone athletics club, competing at both club and county level. Lauren also completed the Brighton marathon in 2017. She has now directed her enthusiasm for health and fitness into helping and advising patients to the best of her ability. Her own experience in a sporting background means that Lauren can recognise and understand the importance of being pain free for optimal performance.
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Ten questions with standout Michigan MMA fighter
23-year-old Michigan resident Sarah Goodlaxson is busy training for a key bout in the Total Warrior Combat promotion, slated for Jan. 19 in Lansing, Michigan, but she took a few minutes out from her hectic schedule to answer some questions on Nov. 28 about her upcoming fight. Here’s what she had to say:
Q. Tell me a bit about your upcoming fight.
Goodlaxson: I fight Jen Aniano in a 105-pound bout at Total Warrior Combat 15 on Jan. 19 in Lansing, Michigan.
Q. How do you see the fight going?
Goodlaxson: She’s going to try to get it to the ground, which I don’t care about really. She’s not great on her feet.
Q. So you would say that you definitely have the striking advantage?
Goodlaxson: Immensely.
Q. How has the weight cut been going?
Goodlaxson: I used to walk around at 105 but after I moved to Michigan I gained weight and I cut a good amount now. It’s Jen’s first time at 105, too. She’s fought all the way up at 125, but I don’t think she should be fighting that high being that she is so short.
Q. Female fighters like Ronda Rousey, Bec Hyatt and Miesha Tate are skillset in the cage, but they also use their good looks to advance their careers. What do you think about that?
Goodlaxson: I think it’s great as long as they’re doing it respectfully and tastefully.
Q. How is the local Michigan MMA circuit? Are there a lot of good up-and-coming fighters from there?
Goodlaxson: We have a lot of good fighters but some of the promotions really need to step up their games. I recently went to some fights where it was clear that the intended winners were from certain gyms… it was ridiculous. Bellator is in the area and that’s really great for us. My coach Dom is fighting for them now.
Q. So you’re saying some local fights are rigged?
Goodlaxson: I’m saying it looked that way. If I could get a copy of the fights I bet you’d think the same. Everyone I was with thought the same. There were only a couple fair fights and that something really weird didn’t happen. For instance, a standup for no reason other than the favorite was losing. It literally looked like the ref gave the guy a breather from getting punched.
Q. Tell me a bit about the TWC promotion.
Goodlaxson: TWC is always professional and the guys running it are really nice. They made sure I was fighting someone with a good number of fights so it would be as fair as possible… even though she’s had 14 fights to my 7… it’s still better than me fighting someone that’s 0-1 or something which happens a lot here. And in general, I think. She’s 6-7-1 so… It’s not like she’s 14-0. She is a grinder though… that’s probably her best attribute. She can grind a fight out for 3 rounds if she needs to.
Q. Moving on, are you hoping to go pro and fight for Bellator someday?
Goodlaxson: It would be awesome if Bellator included some fights in the 105lb division but so far that hasn’t happened… They’re an amazing promotion and I’d love to fight for them as well as Invicta.
Q. What do you think about Invicta’s emergence as the premier women’s fight league in the world?
Goodlaxson: Invicta really goes out of their way to make their fighters happy, they even have gift baskets waiting in the rooms when the fighters arrive. They’re a class act.
Q. If you could fight anyone, who would it be?
Goodlaxson: Lisa Ward. Not because I hate her or anything, she’s just the first girl I really watched when I started training because she was 105. More like an “I’ve made it” fight.
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