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Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Eyes of a Rabbi
January 15, 2015 by PJV Contributor Leave a Comment
(JSPAN) The day after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination in Memphis, Tennessee, the president of the Memphis Ministers’ Association, Rabbi James A. Wax of Temple Israel, delivered an impassioned sermon, eulogizing King, placing King’s teachings in the arc of Jewish and Christian tradition and, denouncing the shame of white Memphis and America. Here is an excerpt from the sermon.
Photo by Robert Newman.
Martin Luther King helped to bring freedom to the oppressed people yet in this free nation. He fought to break the chains that have oppressed people; he sought to give men dignity; he sought to make this a better world in which to live.
Oh how the cynics sneered when they gave him the Nobel Peace Prize. They said, ‘what did he do to deserve it?’ How little can people be?
Here was a man in the tradition, the grandest traditions of Judaism and Christianity, bringing freedom to people, and we white hypocrites that speak about freedom for all people know full well that not many miles from here negroes could not vote. In this very city, called a place of good abode, because their skin was black, they had to sit in the back of the streetcar. They were not even given the dignity of their names.
Martin Luther King was one the greatest men of this century because he personified, because he personified the greatest teachings in Judaism and in Christianity, and he did it without violence. He sought to appeal to the heart and the conscience of men.
Filed Under: Living Judaism Tagged With: JSPAN, King, Memphis, MLK, Wax
Hillary Clinton Receives National Constitution Center Liberty Medal
September 22, 2013 by Bonnie Squires Leave a Comment
— article and photos by Bonnie Squires
The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia held another one of its world-class events last week, as Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received the Liberty Medal before an audience of 1,300 people.
The medal honors men and women of courage and conviction, who strive to secure the blessings of liberty to people around the globe. Secretary Clinton was recognized for her advocacy of women’s rights and human rights around the globe.
(Left to right) Bill Sasso, Esq., Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and Jeffrey Rosen, CEO of the National Constitution Center, each praised Hillary for her life-long activities for the common good.
ABC News Anchor and Correspondent Elizabeth Vargas served as the mistress of ceremonies, and presenters included:
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, chairman of the National Constitution Center’s Board of Trustees;
Dr. Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania and National Constitution Center Trustee;
Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter;
No Labels Co-Founder Mark McKinnon;
Journalist and Human Rights Advocate Roxana Saberi; and
National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen, who presented the medal to Secretary Clinton.
Appearing in video tributes during the ceremony were:
Former British Prime Minister and previous Liberty Medal recipient Tony Blair;
Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan;
tennis legend Billie Jean King;
actors Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen;
News Political Commentator Cokie Roberts, and
other friends, sponsors and dignitaries.
Governor Bush and Secretary Clinton were both gracious in their remarks about each other, even though it is possible that in 2016 each of them will represent their respective political parties in the presidential election.
Dr. Amy Gutmann, Penn president, who chaired the Liberty Medal selection committee, gave a rousing speech about Hillary Cllinton’s accomplishments in gaining equality for women and minorities around the world. Gutmann also got excited when she predicted that Clinton would become the first woman president of the U.S.
(Left to right) Marciarose Shestack, Bob Rovner, Esq., Commissioner Josh Shapiro and his wife Lori Shapiro, and Bill Sasso, Esq., host of the reception.
(Left to right) Judge Marjorie O. Rendell, Tom Knox and Anne Ewers, CEO of the Kimmel Center, joined hundreds of guests at the President’s Reception.
(Left to right) Sandy and Steve Sheller, Esq., were delighted to talk with former Governr Ed Rendell.
(Left to right Patrons Barbara and Len Sylk are joined by Diane Semingson.
Philadelphia Deputy Mayor Rina Cutler speaks to her friend Dr. Afaf Meleis, dean of the Penn School of of Nursing.
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Blair, Bush, Clinton, Community, Cutler, Danson, Ewers, Gutmann, King, Knox, LIBERTY MEDAL, McKinnon, Meleis, NCC, Nutter, Rendell, Roberts, Rosen, Rovner, Saberi, SassoSemingson, Shapiro, Sheller, Shestack, Squires, Steenburgen, Sylk
50 Years Ago Today: The Complete “I Have A Dream” Speech
August 28, 2013 by PJV Contributor Leave a Comment
“You know the sound bites from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. But have you actually seen the whole thing?
“The speech was delivered 50 years ago today — August 28, 1963 — as part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It gave a powerful boost to the Civil Rights Movement and helped lead to passage of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.” (Nick Berning)
Video of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Roy Wilkins on “Meet the Press” August 25, 1963 follows the jump.
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Civil Rights, In Their Own Words, King, Video, Voting Rights Act, Washington
Is Not Marching on Shabbat the Sin of Silence?
August 27, 2013 by Rabbi Arthur Waskow Leave a Comment
— by Rabbi Arthur Waskow
Fifty years ago, I was one of 240,000 marchers at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Until Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke, the most notable speech was the one right before Dr. King’s closing address, by Rabbi Joachim Prinz, head of the American Jewish Congress. Rabbi Prinz said:
When I was the rabbi of the Jewish community in Berlin under the Hitler regime, I learned many things. The most important thing that I learned under those tragic circumstances was that bigotry and hatred are not the most urgent problem. The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most shameful and the most tragic problem is silence.
Rabbi Prinz was not an add-on speaker. The American Jewish Congress, which in those days was vigorously progressive with a strong membership, was one of the six key organizations that planned and took responsibility for the March.
Fifty years later, this past Saturday, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, spoke at the opening prayer service to the anniversary event of the March. (That announcement from the Religious Action Center, and a column encouraging local Reform synagogues to observe the March at home, did not reach me until yesterday — electronically dated August 25, the day after the March.)
At the main event, no one spoke on behalf of the Jewish community, and on the March website I could find no national Jewish organization among the labor unions, civil-rights organizations, women’s organizations, and other progressive groups that sponsored and organized support for the anniversary March.
Why? Was this absence the sin of silence — not speaking out against a racist backlash and worsening economic injustice in America?
One possible explanation: In 1963, the March was on Wednesday, August 28. This year, it was on Shabbat. Most major national Jewish organizations say they will not take part in such demonstrations on Shabbat. I do not know what negotiations about the date may or may not have taken place between some large national Jewish organizations with a social-justice bent, and March initiators — the King Center and the National Action Network.
In past situations like this one, including several major anti-war marches, The Shalom Center invented what we think was a creative solution, both honoring Shabbat and affirming our bond with our neighbors: We announced and held a Shabbat morning service. Hundreds of people came, and afterward marched off as a group to join the demonstration.
That required — and received — help and participation from local congregations in Washington and New York City. When I sought such help this time, there were no volunteers. A possible reason: With Labor Day on Sept. 2 and Rosh Hashanah beginning the evening of Sept. 4, many pulpit rabbis are consumed with writing their most important sermons of the year, and planning services to reengage and revitalize their members.
If for some reason none of this was possible, large national networks of synagogues or havurot could, with enough lead time and ingenuity, linked congregations so that, for example, Congressman John Lewis’ address could have become a Shabbat sermon everywhere.
For the past month, our primary focus at The Shalom Center has been on sparking climate-crisis activism as part of the March — not by Jews alone but by Interfaith Moral Action on Climate (IMAC), including Jews in a broader coalition. So we pursued, but not as our highest priority, what it might mean to create an explicitly Jewish presence on the March.
Even putting IMAC first, I should note, came from my realization that no Jewish organizations beyond The Shalom Center and the Green Zionist Alliance were ready to take a forthright stand to end fracking and stop the Tar Sands Pipeline, to support a carbon tax or call on Jewish and other institutions to Move Our Money/Protect Our Planet (MOM/POP). IMAC has taken those stands.
No one left to speak
I have an even broader worry, that comes from the history of the American Jewish Congress. I began this rumination with the story of Rabbi Prinz fifty years ago. Through the 1960s and early 1970s, in concert with the civil-rights movement, the AJCongress drew grass-roots energy and membership. Its Women’s Division was especially strongly opposed to the Vietnam War, and strlngly committed to the feminist movement. But through the ’80s and ’90s, the national board of AJCongress persistently moved to the right, while some of its chapters continued to be progressive.
On Feb 1, 1999, its Los Angeles chapter, together with California offices of the Reform movement, issued a report on sweatshops in the California garment business that showed, along with many other critiques, that many of these sweatshops were owned by Jews. But it turned out that some Jewish garment-industry owners were on the national Board of the AJCongress. Within weeks, national AJCongress had simply abolished the L.A. chapter, claiming it was deep in financial arrears.
By March 17 of the same year, “survivors” of the chapter’s abolition announced the founding of the Progressive Jewish Alliance. For years it was financially and politically successful. During this time, national AJCongress did away with its progressive chapters in Boston and Philadelphia. There too, local progressive Jewish groups emerged.
But the rightward drift of the AJCongress undid itself. As grass-roots support diminished, and right-wing Jews found themselves much more at home in more vigorously right-wing organizations, AJCongress tried depending on money from the Ponzi-pyramid schemes of Bernard Madoff. When the Madoff scheme collapsed, the AJCongress suspended its activities on July 13, 2010.
Why does this concern me? Because it seems a parable for much of the rightward drift, or centrist exhaustion, of many national Jewish organizations in the last fifty years. The result: no national organization so far with the foresight, strength, and passion to:
Work out ways to meet the needs of Jewish organizations, so that they could bring a hundred thousand Jewishly-focused Jews into an on-the-streets coalition against the New Jim Crow: mass imprisonment of millions of black and brown men;
Flood the U.S. Capitol with Jewish bodies, demanding a renewal of the Voting Rights Act.
Turn out thousands of Jews to demand a carbon tax, and to Move Our Money/Protect Our Planet, even after Jewish homes on the Jersey Shore are washed away, and Jewish travelers on the Manhattan subways are flooded by Big Carbon’s burning of the planet.
I am glad to add that in that same late Email notice I received last night, commemorating the Great March of 1963, the Religious Action Center wrote:
Wednesday, August 28: Join us at the RAC (2027 Massachusetts Avenue, NW) at 8:30 a.m. for a bagel breakfast and then walk with our staff to the National Mall for speeches by Presidents Obama, Clinton and Carter. RSVP here by Tuesday evening!
Less of an effort than I would have wished, but something.
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Community, Judaism, King, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Prinz, Waskow
Christie And King Angry Over Lack Of Aid For Sandy Victims
January 6, 2013 by PJV Contributor Leave a Comment
Last Wednesday, New Jersey governor Chris Christie held a press conference and charged the House of Representatives for not voting on the $60 billion disaster relief package for his state and the other ones hit by Hurricane Sandy:
There’s only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocence victims: The House Majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.
This is not a Republican or Democratic issue. National disasters happen in red states and blue states, and states with Democratic Governors and Republican Governors.
We respond to innocent victims of natural disasters not as Republicans or Democrats but as Americans. Or at least we did until last night.
Last night, politics was placed before our oaths to serve our citizens. For me, it was disappointing and disgusting to watch.
In an interview for Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom”, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) also slammed his own party members:
All we’re saying is treat us the same everybody else has been treated. And why the Republican party has this bias against New York, bias against New Jersey, bias against the northeast? They wonder why they’re becoming a minority party? Why we’ll be the party of the permanent minority? What they did last night was so immoral, so disgraceful, so irresponsible. We’re supposed to be the party of family values, and you have families starving, families suffering, families spread all over living in substandard housing. This was a disgrace.
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Boehner, Christie, King, NJ, NY, Sandy
The Teachings of Dr. King & Rabbi Heschel
December 30, 2012 by Rabbi Arthur Waskow 1 Comment
— by Sister Mary Scullion and Rabbi Arthur Waskow
Forty-four years ago, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. Forty years ago, his close friend and prophetic partner, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, died. In biblical tradition, “40”
is a ripe number, suggesting a pregnant pause before a major transformation – Moses and the Israelites wandering 40 years in the desert, Jesus’ 40 days of temptation. What do we learn from their teachings, a generation since their deaths?
The two of them were, in their day, an odd couple. King was a product of the black Baptist church, raised in the oppressive confines of the Jim Crow South and the crucible of American racism. Heschel, descended from a long line of Polish Hasidic rabbis, fled Nazi-dominated Europe (where most of his family was killed).
A towering Jewish intellectual, theologian, and mystic, Heschel brought ancient Hasidic spirituality into the tumultuous world of social activism in the 1960s. Given his writings on the religious struggle of the modern person in a confusing world, and on the urgent relevance of the ancient Hebrew prophets, it was no surprise that he found a kindred spirit in King.
Today, religion is often divisive (even violently so); in the 1960s, Dr. King and Rabbi Heschel modeled a friendship rooted in deep admiration and mutual affirmation of their respective spiritual traditions. Today, we debate the role of religion in the civil arena – usually resulting in rancorous and judgmental culture wars; King and Heschel were public theologians and spiritually grounded activists, witnessing to the power of faith in the service of social transformation.
he iconic photograph of the two of them together at the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery is emblematic of the best possibilities of the vision of the civil rights struggle. (Later, Heschel noted famously of that experience, “I felt my legs were praying.”)
Heschel and King worked closely together in spiritually rooted prophetic opposition to racism, poverty, and militarism in American society. Like the biblical prophets, they spoke truth to power – but also spoke truth to the disempowered, who can only win their fair share of democratic power by learning and acting on the truth. They spoke truth to their own supporters, even when those supporters urged them to hush – as many did when they spoke out against the Vietnam War. The two of them witnessed to the absolute unity of means and ends, as embodied in nonviolence. The two of them likewise demonstrated a deep unity of prayer and social action.
A biblical generation later, many Americans who likewise see the connection of faith and social transformation are drawing on the legacy of these two brothers. What issues would Dr. King and Rabbi Heschel address today?
Perhaps the mass imprisonment of more than two million Americans, most of them black or Hispanic. Perhaps the breathtaking increase in poverty and economic inequality. Perhaps the horrendous violence in our society.
Perhaps the physical and legal attacks on American Muslims and Hispanic immigrants. Perhaps the government dysfunction that threatens our financial stability. Perhaps our collective failure to address the climate crisis that threatens the web of life, including human life, on our planet.
These two prophets would speak forcefully to the image of God in each person, the inherent dignity in even the most marginalized of our sisters and brothers. They would give voice to the “beloved community”
as the ultimate answer to the crises of poverty, homelessness, addictions, and violence. They would translate the language of Torah, Prophets, and Gospels into a concrete and compelling vision of justice and peace for our world today.
And they would not be content with rhetoric alone: In their generation, they modeled putting faith into action, and today they would urge us to collective action to address injustice and work for the common good. They would insist that any genuine vision must translate into concrete policies, legislation, and real public action.
But now that is our task. Today, no less than in his day, we are confronted with what Dr. King called “the fierce urgency of now.” As much now as then, we are challenged by Rabbi Heschel’s words: “In a free society, when evil is done, some are guilty; all are responsible.”
Forty years have passed since Dr. King and Rabbi Heschel worked and witnessed among us. Perhaps, like a biblical generation that represents a pregnant pause before a major transformation, we may be ready to act for a transformative rebirth in our time.
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: heschel, King, Racism, scullion, waskov
The Socialist Gets Reelected To Washington
November 7, 2012 by PJV Contributor Leave a Comment
Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders was swept to a third term in the Senate by a 71-25 margin in the state of Vermont over Republican John MacGovern.
Maine also elected an independent. Former Governor Angus King took 54% of the vote in Maine while Republican Charlie Summers took 29% and Democratic Cynthia Dill took 14%. Last night King said will negotiate with both parties to determine who he will caucus with. He is looking for a party that will
allow him to vote independently according to his conscience,
give him committee assignments where he can advance the interests of Maine, and
change the filibuster rule so that a single Senator cannot put a hold on a nomination and a 60-40 majority is required to pass any legislation.
Most Democrats supported King instead of the actual Democratic nominee Dill so it is suspected that King will ultimately decide to caucus with the Democrats. If he does, this would increase the Democratic margin in the Senate to 55-45.
Earlier this year most pundits had thought that the Republicans would take control of the Senate but that did not come to be. Instead Republicans lost two seats:
Populist Attorney General Elizabeth Warren defeated Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown 54% to 46%.
Indiana Senator Richard Lugar lost his primary to Richard Mourdock whose campaign self-destructed after an abortion related gaffe giving the victory to Democratic underdog Joe Donnelly (50% to 44% to 6% for independent Andrew Horning).
Meanwhile the Republicans gained only one seat (Deb Fischer defeated incumbent Bob Kerrey 58% to 42%) while vulnerable Democratic incumbents sailed to reelection including Missouri’s Claire McCaskill who defeat tea-party favorite Todd Akin 55% to 39% after his “legitimate abortion” remark.
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: King, ME, Sander, VT
Romney Endorses Steve King
Mitt Romney was in Iowa today where he gave his endorsement to conservative firebrand Steve King (R-IA):
“I’m looking here at Steve King, he needs to be your Congressman again. I want him as my partner in D.C.”
Here is some background on Rep. King from Evan McMorris-Santoro:
Rep. Steve King: I’ve Never Heard Of A Girl Getting Pregnant From Statutory Rape Or Incest
Rep. Steve King, one of the most staunchly conservative members of the House, was one of the few Republicans who did not strongly condemn Rep. Todd Akin Monday for his remarks regarding pregnancy and rape. On Monday, King signaled why – he might agree with parts of Akin’s assertion.
King told an Iowa reporter he’s never heard of a child getting pregnant from statutory rape or incest.
“Well I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way,” King told KMEG-TV Monday, “and I’d be open to discussion about that subject matter.”
And here is some commentary by Adam Peck:
GOP Congressman Tells Voters That Comparing Immigrants To Dogs Was Really A ‘Compliment’
Congressman Steve King (R-IA) participated in a radio debate with Democratic challenger Christie Vilsack last night, and was given a chance to explain a comment he made in May comparing immigrants to dogs.
But instead of apologizing, or even explaining how he simply misspoke, King told the audience that the comment was really meant as a compliment, and that anyone who interpreted it as an insult – namely, everyone – was simply motivated by partisanship and incapable of cooperation:
VILSACK: Frankly, he’s been a bully, and he’s an embarrassment to the people of Iowa when he talks about immigrants as animals. If my mother were here she would say to Congressman King ‘show some decency.’
KING: …This American vigor that we have that comes from legal immigrants who came to this country with a dream – we get the cream of the crop of every donor civilization on the planet – and people that can take a compliment and turn it into an insult are not going to be constructive working across the isle. But that’s what that was, was a compliment. And everyone who was there that heard that knows that.
Zack Beauchamp lists five more of King’s controversial positions.
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Akin, IA, King, McMorris, Peck, Romney, Vilsack
JSPAN Joins Brief In Voter ID Case
July 27, 2012 by PJV Contributor Leave a Comment
JSPAN and nine other non-profit agencies joined in brief amicus curiae to the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court in the pending challenge to the “Photo ID Law” enacted in Pennsylvania earlier this year.
The case was launched by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Viviette Applewhite and other voters who will be burdened by the new law. Applewhite, a 93 year old voter who has never driven a car, cast her first vote for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. There appears to be no record of her at the Motor Vehicle Bureau. Because she was born in another state, there is no birth certificate on file in Pennsylvania either. Before she can vote again, the Photo ID Law would require her to produce a birth certificate or other specific documentation to an office of the Motor Vehicle Bureau to convince that agency to issue her photo identification.
Applewhite and thousands of others like her face serious difficulty under the Photo ID Law. For many elderly people, the need to travel to a motor vehicle bureau and document their entitlement to a photo ID is a significant burden. For many others, securing the necessary voter ID before election day will prove to be impractical or even impossible.
The amicus curiae brief reflects extensive research on the disparate impact of the law on several hundred thousand elder voters who do not have the specific current photo identification called for in order to vote. The right to vote, the amicus brief argues, is a sacred right and is the foundation of democracy, quoting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has stated that free and equal elections, guaranteed by the state constitution, preclude registration requirements that are so difficult as to amount to a denial of the right to vote. By requiring a registered voter who has no driver’s license — or whose license has expired — to travel to a state office, provide a birth certificate or other specified documentation, and secure the specific photo ID — the law especially burdens and discriminates against the elderly.
For further perspective see The Los Angeles Times, and the amicus brief.
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: ACLU, Applewhite, Corbett, DMV, JSPAN, King, Pennsylvania, VoterID
Barnes Foundation Opening Gala
June 2, 2012 by Bonnie Squires Leave a Comment
Senator Arlen and Joan Specter admired the Barnes Foundation galleries which are exact replicas of the galleries on Latch’s Lane in Merion.
Gala celebrates inauguration of New Philadelphia Campus designed by Tod William Billie Tsien Architects
Star-studded event raises more than $3.7 million. Proceeds support the care and preservation of the world-renowned Barnes Collection.
— by Bonnie Squires
Among the hundreds of movers and shakers who delighted in the Barnes Foundation Gala and celebrated the opening of the museum’s move to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway were many Jewish philanthropists who donated to the $200 million project.
Bonnie Squires greeted Brian Williams as he arrived for the cocktail reception.
Brian Williams, who anchors the NBC network nightly news, served as master of ceremonies for the dinner, following a lavish cocktail reception inside the museum. The galleries with hundreds of fabulous Impressionist paintings collected by Albert Barnes were open for the gala guests.
The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Court also included an additional set of galleries for visiting exhibits. The first exhibit is dedicated to the life and times of Albert Barnes, including letters to Barnes from some of the artists whose works he collected.
Linda Paskin and
Jeanette Neubauer.
David and Helen Pudlin with Sharn and James Rohr, PNC Financial Services CEO. Mrs. Pudlin served as executive vice president and general counsel for PNC Financial Services until recently.
Aileen and Brian Roberts (shown on the left) co-chaired the inaugural gala. Mrs. Roberts chairs the Building Committee of the Barnes Board of Trustees and Comcast Corporation, headed up by Brian Roberts, co-sponsors the inaugural year with PNC.
Performances by the Avalon Jazz Band, Enon Tabernacle Mass Choir, and special guest artist and multiple Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter/musician Norah Jones entertained the 900 guests. In addition to Barnes architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, and landscape architect Laurie Olin, Pennsylvania Governor Thomas Corbett and First Lady Susan Corbett attended the celebration along with Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter and Mrs. Lisa Nutter. Premier sponsors of the opening gala and the inaugural year for the Barnes in Philadelphia are PNC and Comcast.
The Barnes Foundation inaugural gala was co-chaired by
Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation,
Aileen K. Roberts, Chair of the Building Committee of the Barnes Foundation Board of Trustees,
James E. Rohr, Chairman and CEO of The PNC Financial Services Group, and Sharon Rohr.
Steve Harmelin, Esq., treasurer of the Barnes Foundation board, with his wife Julia and Dr. David Paskin.
Marina Kats, Bernard Spain, and Marguerite Lenfest.
Marsha and Jeff Perelman with friends.
Sidney and Caroline Kimmel.
Governor Ed Rendell , Judge Marjorie O. Rendell and Billl Hankowsky.
Sharon Pinkenson had a chance to chat with Sidney Kimmel major donor and also film producer.
(Left to right) David L. Cohen executive vice president of Comcast Corporation and his wife Rhonda Cohen; Dave Watson, COO of Comcast; Charisse Lillie, Esq., president of the Comcast Foundation, and her husband Tom McGill.
PNC Bank president Bill Mills and Barnes Foundation vice president of trustees Joe Neubauer.
Patrons Joyce and Dr. Herbert Kean; Elaine Levitt; and Gerry Lenfest.
In addition to gala co-chairs, Barnes Foundation Executive Director and President Derek Gillman, Barnes Foundation Chairman Dr. Bernard C. Watson attended with Mrs. Watson, along with
Barnes trustees The Honorable Jacqueline F. Allen and Mr. Roy Beity,
Barnes Foundation vice chairman Joseph Neubauer and Jeanette Neubauer,
Mr. and Mrs. Steve J. Harmelin,
Dr. and Mrs. Neil L. Rudenstine,
Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Bonovitz,
Mr. and Mrs. Donn Scott,
Mr. and Mrs. Andre Duggin,
Brenda and Larry Thompson,
Gwen and Colbert King, Rajiv Savara, and
Barnes Foundation Trustee Emerita Agnes Gund.
Philanthropists and art supporters in attendance included:
Leonard J. Aube, Executive Director, The Annenberg Foundation,
Rebecca W. Rimel, President and CEO of The Pew Charitable Trusts,
H. Fitzgerald Lenfest, President of the Lenfest Foundation, and Mrs. Marguerite Lenfest;
David L. Cohen, Executive Vice President, Comcast Corporation;
Thomas K. Whitford, Vice Chairman, PNC Financial Services Group;
J. William Mills, III, Regional President, PNC Financial Services Group;
David W. Haas, Chairman, Board of Trustees, William Penn Foundation;
Mr. and Mrs. S. Matthew V. Hamilton, Jr., Gala Advisory Committee;
Mrs. Samuel M.V. Hamilton, Hamilton Family Foundation;
Mrs. and Mrs. John S. “Seward” Johnson II, The Sculpture Foundation;
Sidney Kimmel, founder of the Sidney Kimmel Foundation, and Caroline Kimmel;
Harold Honickman, Chairman of Pepsi-Cola, and Lynne Honickman;
Jane and Leonard Korman, Founders, Jane and Leonard Korman Foundation;
Bruce and Robbi Toll, Collectors;
Robert B. Menschel, Chairman Emeritus, The Museum of Modern Art Board of Trustees;
Mr. Ira Gluskin and Mrs. Maxine Granovsky Gluskin, Collectors and Founders of Gluskin Charitable Foundation;
Jeffrey and Marsha Perelman;
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Polsky,
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Boris and
the Roberts Family.
A number of artworld leaders were also present, among them:
Glenn Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art, and Mrs. Lowry,
Marc Porter, Chairman, Christie’s Americas,
Lisa Dennison, Chairman, Sotheby’s North and South America,
Jock Reynolds, Director, Yale University Art Gallery,
Barbara Guggenheim, partner, Guggenheim, Asher and Associates,
Matthew Marks, owner of Matthew Marks Gallery NYC, and
artist Ellsworth Kelly, whose 40-foot-tall Barnes Totem ws commissioned by Jeanette and Joe Neubauer and marks the entrance to the new Barnes Foundation museum.
Other notable guests included:
Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and Judge Marjorie O. Rendell,
Senator Arlen and Mrs. Joan Specter,
Jeffrey Lurie, Owner, Philadelphia Eagles,
Ed Snider, Owner, Philadelphia Flyers,
Paul Matisse, Grandson to painter Henri Matisse, and Mimi Matisse,
Robert R. Jennings, President of Lincoln University, and Ms. Alma Mishaw,
Olivier Serot Almeras, Consul Général de France, Ambassade de France, and Mrs. Almeras,
Sharon Pinkerson, head of the Philadelphia Film Office,
The Honorable Felix Rohatyn and Mrs. Rohatyn, and
John Henry Merryman.
Barnes Foundation CEO Derek Gillman.
The Executive Producers for the event were Fred Stein, the Creative Group, Inc. and Karen Homer, HKH Innovations, LLC. Artistic Producers for the performance were Wayne Baruch and Chuck Gayton, Baruch/Gayton Entertainment Group.
The Barnes Foundation’s 93,000-square-foot building designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, conceived as a “gallery within a garden and a garden within a gallery,” is set within a four-and-a-half-acre site with landscape design by OLIN. The building provides significant new facilities for the Foundation’s core programs in art education, as well as for temporary exhibitions and visitor amenities. At the same time, the legendary Barnes art collection is displayed within a 12,000-square-foot gallery that preserves the scale, proportion and configuration of the original Merion gallery, as well as the founder’s conception of a visual interplay between art and nature.
Ten days of free admission to the Barnes Foundation’s Philadelphia campus began on May 19 and continued through May 28, made possible by the generosity of the premier sponsors of the opening, Comcast and PNC. The inaugural week culminatesd with a Memorial Day festival weekend, from 10 am on May 26 through 6 pm on May 28, featuring a variety of entertainment and programs and offering round-the-clock free admission to the renowned collection and entire campus. Tickets are required for all opening events and are available online or by calling 1.866.849.7056.
The Barnes Foundation was established by Albert C. Barnes in 1922 to “promote the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts and horticulture.”
The Barnes holds one of the finest collections of Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings, with extensive holdings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Henri Rousseau, Amedeo Modigliani, Chaim Soutine and Giorgio de Chirico, as well as American masters Charles Demuth, William Glackens, Horace Pippin and Maurice Prendergast, Old Master paintings, important examples of African sculpture and Native American ceramics, jewelry and textiles, American paintings and decorative arts and antiquities from the Mediterranean region and Asia. The Barnes Foundation’s Art and Aesthetics programs engage a diverse array of audiences. These programs, occurring at the Philadelphia campus, online, and in Philadelphia communities, advance the mission through progressive, experimental and interdisciplinary teaching and learning.
Betsy Cohen, head of The Bancorp Bank, also serves on The Barnes Foundation Corporate Council.
The Barnes Arboretum, located at the Merion campus, contains more than 2,000 species/varieties of trees and woody plants, many of them rare. Founded in the 1880s by Joseph Lapsley Wilson and subsequently added to under the direction of Mrs. Laura L. Barnes, the collection includes a fern-leaf beech (Fagus sylvatica ‘Laciniata’), a dove tree (Davidia involucrata), a monkey-puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana), and a redwood (Sequoia sempervirens). Other important plant collections include Lilacs, Peonies, Stewartias and Magnolias. The Horticulture school at the Barnes Foundation in Merion has offered a comprehensive, three-year certificate course of study in the botanical sciences, horticultural practices, garden aesthetics, and design through a well-grounded, scientific learning experience since its inception in 1940 by Mrs. Barnes.
Photo Credit: Bonnie Squires.
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Newsfeed: Thursday, December 20
Taliban Abducts 6 Drivers for the 2nd Time in Samangan Province
A spokesman for the Samangan police confirmed to Reporterly that around 9 am today, a number of insurgents in Khosh Dara area of Dara-e-Suf Payin district, blocked the road to Mazar-e-Sharif and abducted six drivers of coal trucks while setting fire to two coal trucks.
Abdul Munir Rahimi continued saying that the police were deployed to the area in time and after the clash, the terrorists fled from the area and opened the path to the passengers.
There are still no further details of the incident due to the lack of telephone service in the area, and the police chief of the district is in now present in the area, he added.
4 Killed in an Explosion in Chesht-e-Sharif District of Herat Province
A spokesman for the governor of Herat, confirmed to Reporterly that on Thursday morning an explosion occurred in Chesht-e-Sharif district of this province.
The event was triggered by the explosion of a a mortar shell, according to Jilani Farhad.
Four people were killed and three were injured in the incident, he added.
Khalilzad Meets President Ghani and CEO Abdullah, Set to Meet Civil Society, Youth Leaders & Others
In a statement on social media, the US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad announced that he met with President Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah on Wednesday night.
Khalilzad concluded talks with KSA, UAE and Taliban at Abu Dhabi on Tuesday and he paid a brief visit to Islamabad on Wednesday. His last leg of current visit to the region is Kabul where he landed on Wednesday night, to brief the officials and leaders about the dialogue at Abu Dhabi and status of peace negotiations.
Ambassador Khalilzad is set to meet more stakeholders today, as his statement added “Looking forward to meeting with civil society & youth leaders, political party leaders & other stakeholders today”.
Kabul Goes Dark After Power Line Cut off in Baghlan Province
Da Afghanistan Breshna Shirkat (DABS) has informed that Kabul’s main power supply has been cut off in Baghlan province.
Breshna explained in a statement that the 220-KV double-circuit transmission line imported from Uzbekistan, which transmitted 300 MW of electricity to Kabul, was cut off last night in the Zamankhil area of Pul-e-Khumri district of Baghlan province.
The first line was shut down at around 9 o’clock on Wednesday night and the second at around 3:30 on Thursday morning; hence, it has plunged large swathes of Kabul into darkness, according to the statement.
Breshna added that the technical teams of the company are present with the help of security forces in the affected area and the work on re-linking has begun.
According to technical teams, the line will be re-connected by the end of the day.
OCHA Estimates More Than 15K Displaced in Past Week
UN OCHA released their weekly field report which estimates that on 12 December, 2,100 people (300 families) were airlifted from Sar-e-Hawz villages of Pashtun-Kot to Maymana city. Also, roads leading to Jaghori and Malistan in Ghazni were shut by NSAG which halts the return process.
Based on initial reports, 15,200 people were displaced in the past week.
A total of 325,200 people have been verified as displaced by conflict in 2018, the report notes.
There were conflict displacement alerts given for Sabari, Musa Khel districts of Khost province as well as from Sayad Karam and Jani Khel districts in Paktya province, and Logar province, & Helmand’s Babajee to Lashkargah, Bolan and Nahresiraj. Further alerts were for Kunar’s Asadabad, Chawkayi, Sarkani, Narang, Marawara, Khaskunar, Barkunar districts.
Former NSA Calls on Taliban to Have Talks with Afghan Side
Former NSA Hanif Atmar’s spokesperson released a statement on twitter which said that “We observe and monitor the efforts underway by US Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad as the talks with Taliban are ongoing to end the 17 years long conflict. We look at these efforts with a sense of appreciation and gratefulness. We believe that Mr Khalilzad’s efforts will be fruitful”.
The statement also read that the former NSA calls on Taliban representatives to begin discussions with the Afghan side, as ultimately the ‘proprietorship’ of peace and negotiations belongs to Afghanistan and its nation.
As US Announces Troop Withdrawal from Syria, Trump Receives Backlash from Allies
The United States Trump administration on Wednesday announced a pull out of their troops from Syria, a decision that came with confusion and shock to US Allies.
A White House official who briefed reporters on the decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria did not say how many have come home so far, of what the timeline is or when others will be leaving, the CNN reported.
The official referred several questions to US Department of Defense.
Trump first hinted at such a move with a Wednesday morning tweet: “We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump presidency.”
He then followed up with a video announcement on Wednesday evening: “We’ve beaten them and we’ve beaten them badly. We’ve taken back the land and now it’s time for our troops to come back home.”
This was despite his senior military officials advising against the decision.
This comes after a news broke out on Wednesday that the ISIS killed scores of people it captured.
Khalilzad Met with Pak Chief Army in Islamabad Visit
The Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistani Military Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa met with the U.S. Special Advisor for Afghanistan Reconciliation Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad on the latter’s visit to Pakistan.
Major General Asif Ghafoor, a spokesman for the Military of Pakistan announced that Ambassador Khalilzad called Chief of Army Staff Gen. Bajwa to discuss regional security and Afghan peace process.
“Visiting dignitary appreciated Pakistan’s efforts for Afghan peace process,” Gen. Ghafoor added.
It was also added that the Chief of Army Staff of the Military of Pakistan reassured to Khalilzad that peace in Afghanistan is important for Pakistan and there will be continued efforts for bringing peace and stability in the region.
Preliminary Results Not Final, Says IECC
The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) on Wednesday announced that there would be key changes in the final list of winners of the October 20 parliamentary elections.
“Without doubt… after complaints and investigation… there is a possibility some changes will occur in the preliminary list,” said IECC spokesman, Ali Reza Rouhani.
The announcement added that those who had been declared as winners in the preliminary results of the elections were not the final entrants to Wolesi Jirga.
Meanwhile, officials from the Independent Election Commission (IEC) have expressed that the commission expects to announce the preliminary list of the remaining provinces including Kabul by early next week. 29 provinces’ preliminary results for parliamentary elections have been declared so far.
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Pride Goeth Before a Fall
Rachel VanderWoude
The character of Satan in John Milton’s Paradise Lost is a subject of heavy debate among Milton scholars. Some, like C.S. Lewis, believe that Satan is a villain through and through, and any sympathy towards him shows the reader to be an atheist, or at the very least, not firmly Christian. Others, like William Blake, claim that Milton was “of the devil’s party without knowing it,” and consider Satan to be a tragic hero rather than a villain (Blake 88). The latter is an especially convincing argument when studying Paradise Lost as a tragedy, since one of the key elements of tragedy is hamartia, the hero’s fatal flaw or error in judgement that inevitably brings about their downfall. However, while Satan may not be able to fit the stock character of a tragic hero, he is not without a fatal flaw. Satan’s downfall is brought on himself over and over again by his pride, and the tragic irony of his character is that he cannot see himself falling ever further in his attempt to overstep his place. Satan’s downfall is a result of his hamartia, pride, and the narrator allows the reader to watch his descent through the evolution of his disdain for servitude, his descent down the renaissance image of the Great Chain of Being, and the symbolic imagery of the serpent.
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Satan, Milton, Paradise Lost, Pride
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Norway: projects/activities
Directory entires that have specified Norway as one of the geographic regions for the project/activity and are included in the AMAP, ENVINET, SAON and SEARCH directories. Note that the list of regions is not hierarchical, and there is no relation between regions (e.g. a record tagged with Nunavut may not be tagged with Canada). To see the full list of regions, see the regions list. To browse the catalog based on the originating country (leady party), see the list of countries.
1. Ecogeochemical mapping of the eastern Barents Region (Barents Ecogeochemistry)
2. Arctic Coastal Dynamics
Part of the international project Arctic Costal Dynamics (ACD) were Department of Physical Geography, University of Oslo participates. The working group consists of Trond Eiken (UoO), Bjørn Wangensteen (UoO) and Rune Ødegård (Gjøvik University College). The aim of this part of the ACD-project is to quantify coastal cliff erosion by the use of terrestrial photogrammetry.
Geology Long trend coastal cliff erosion monitoring Arctic GIS Permafrost Temporal trends
3. Terrestrial monitoring programme. Studies in vegetation ecology of boreal birch forests in Børgefjell National Park, N Norway
In 1990, the Directorate for Nature Management (DN) established an area for integrated monitoring within Børgefjell National Park, Røyrvik, N Trøndelag. Studies of vegetation-environment relationships in the area was performed by NINA. The area includes both subalpine birch forest and low alpine heath. The new established vegetation investigation included all together 80 different species. This material was processed numerically by using multivariate methods. Indirect gradient analyses were performed using Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA) and Local Nonmetric Multidimentional Scaling (LNMDS). Direct gradient analyses were performed by using rescaled hybrid Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA). Non-parametric correlation analyses, Kendall’s , were performed between environmental parameters and DCA axis values. The results of the numerical and statistical processing were used partly to provide a description of the vegetational structure in the material and partly to quantify how much each ecological parameters contributed to determination of vegetational structure. This work shows the species distribution along various complex gradients; moisture, nutrient conditions, light etc. The investigation is primarily designed to study vegetation dynamics along these gradients and whether changes in the number of species can be related to changes in physical, biotic and, not least, chemical parameters. Variance analysis was performed to assess to what extent the sample plots tends move in a determined direction from 1990 to 1995. The variation between the years were not significant along the primary complex gradients, but there were a significant displacement of species along the following gradients. The most important species were: Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Melampyrum sylvaticum and Hylocomium splendens), which showed an increase and some cryptogams like Brachythecium reflexum, B. salebrosum and Cladonia ecmocyna which declined.
Biological effects Biology Populations Soils Mapping Heavy metals Long-range transport Acidification Spatial trends Environmental management Climate change Forest damage Modelling Emissions Exposure Biodiversity Local pollution GIS Data management Temporal trends Ecosystems
4. Monitoring terrestrial ecosystems: Ecological investigation of vegetation in the boreal birch forest of Dividalen National park, county Troms, Norway.
In 1993, the Directorate for Nature Management (DN) established a new area for the monitoring of terrestrial ecosystems in Dividalen National Park in Troms County. This report presents the reanalysis of vegetation and soil from this terrestrial monitoring area. The area in Dividalen is located in the northern boreal birch forest, in a relatively continental section where the dominant type of vegetation is bilberry-mountain crowberry birch forest (A4c). The structure of the vegetation is analysed by multivariate methods (ordination). In Dividalen all together 131 species were found; 75 vascular plants, 18 mosses, 14 liverworts and 24 lichens. This is a decrease from the number of species recorded in 1993 when 141 species were found in the same mesoplots: 74 vascular plants, 24 mosses, 18 liverworts and 25 lichens. The decrease was not significant for the total number of species or for the total number of vascular plants. However the total number of cryptogames showed a slight significant decrease in number between 1993 and 1998. This may be due to increased cover of several ericoid species. In Dividalen we found no significant changes in vegetation composition for the periode 1993 – 1998 along the first four ordination axes. However, there were changes in mesoplots with high DCA1 values. The changes were in the direction towards lower species richness. Species like Myosotis decumbens, Poa alpina, Solidago virgaurea, Cerastium fontanum and Rumex acetosa ssp. lapponicus showed the largest decrease in these mesoplots. Species that showed the largest increase were Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Mnium spinosum and Polytrichum juniperinum. We have found no relations between these changes and acidification due to deposition of pollutans. Lack of disturbance factors in the area in the last years, which favours an increase in ericoid vegetation, is the probable explanation for the changes.
Biological effects Populations Long-range transport Acidification Spatial trends Environmental management Climate change Forest damage Biodiversity GIS Temporal trends Ecosystems
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Mallar Ghosh, Nayan Ghosh. Photo by Ira Landgarten
Nayan Ghosh on Shree Rag
Ira Landgarten: People sometimes have different descriptions or interpretations of a rag - its implications, its mood, the way it's performed - that's why we'd like to hear specifically about Shree rag directly from you.
Nayan Ghosh: Shree rag is definitely one of the most revered among ragas. It has a gravity, an intensity that is really difficult to match. The rag itself has a very strong inherent strength. It is a dusk-time rag. My uncle (Pannalal Ghosh) was one of the two or three artists who were almost synonymous with Shree Rag; the others being Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and D.V. Paluskar. My father used to mention about his meetings with Mamman Khan, the uncle of the Sarangi legend Bundu Khan. Mamman Khan always brought in references of Shree Rag to whatever he spoke about. That was everything for him.
The Shree Rag as my father taught me - he used to teach me more the alaps and the actual rag, and the first time I received my training in Shree Rag was very interesting. It was at a hill station near Bombay; no cars go up it, you have to walk all over the hill station. There are ponies and hand-pulled rickshaws and all that. It's a beautiful hill station and one evening he took us to an edge of that hill station, on the cliff, and we were facing the west side and in front of us between our mountain and the opposite one was a deep valley. It was evening, sunset time and the swallows and the birds were returning home. A very light breeze was there and for some time the breeze stopped; he told us to stop talking - all of us, the whole family was sitting there - and he said, "Just listen to the silence." We listened to it for about twenty minutes or half an hour, and that was a very great experience! Then he started humming the Shree Rag, and I, my mother, my brother Dhruba and my sister Tulika gave the backdrop, the sa and pa - we created the tanpura effect by humming. And my father was very inspired; he was looking at the pink sky, the setting sun, and he went into the alap of Shree. That was the first time I heard Shree; I was maybe ten or twelve years old and it had a very deep impact on me. He sang and he sang for half an hour and we all lost consciousness of things happening around us. Everything was still. After he finished singing there was a long silence then he told us, "Always sing to the mountains, to the ocean." I don't know how much all that meant, but he said, "Sing to the mountain; you don't know what response and blessing you'll get." The next morning again we were at the same spot, the next evening, too - we were there for a few days - and we just had fun singing open-throated and the voices would go to the mountain across and come back echoing a couple of times. And we sang Adana; one night we went there in absolute pitch dark . . . Oh, what an experience it was! And we sang Shankara, open-throated Shankara, with the same thing - sa and pa humming. These experiences . . . but Shree was the first and even today I remember it so vividly - the birds returning and even the breeze stopped for some time. The sun had set and the sky was absolutely glowing pink. So whenever I play Shree, I imagine that. That whole landscape comes in front of me; it's very intense. Then, of course, I try to invoke my uncle, or Ali Akbar Khan and all these people when I play Shree. Those are the people who I have heard play Shree, I still haven't heard any other artistes play or sing Shree. So those impressions are deep.
Isn't Shree considered one of the 'Adi' ragas?
NG: It is one of the Adi ragas. My father once just by the by casually mentioned that there is another way of classification of ragas known as 'Janaka-janya' ragas, that is, 'father and son' or 'father and children' ragas. Just as there are ragas and raginis; that's another way of classification. For example, he said Shree is the father and Desh is the son. I asked how, so he said, "Sa ri ma pa ni sa ri - Shree." He said they have the same features, the shades of notes are different. Then Shree comes back - ri ni dha pa dha ma ga ri, ri pa ri ga ri sa. Desh comes back - ri ni dha pa dha ma ga ri, ri pa ri ma ga ri ga ni sa. A little different at the end, at the very end, but he said Desh is the son; he must have read it somewhere. So Shree is a janaka rag and Desh is one of the many sons, he said.
That's very interesting; the Adi rag system predates the 'thaat' system of Bhatkande.
Yes, the thaat system dates just from the beginning of the 20th century.
About the structure of Shree; what is the vadi? The samvadi? The aroha and avaroha?
The vadi is komal ri; in fact, ati komal ri, and the samvadi is pa. The aroha is - sa, komal ri, tivra ma, pa ni sa. The avaroha is - komal ri, ni, komal dha pa dha ma ga ri, ri pa ri, ma ri, ga ri sa. The chief phrase is 'pa ni sa ri' or 'dha ma ga ri.' These are the two main characteristic phrases of this rag. And 'ri pa,' of course, which stands out from all the ragas of the same scale - Puriya Dhanashree and all those. 'Ri pa.' It's one of the most solid ragas for that time, the dusk time, like Marwa.
One really doesn't hear that sort of scale in the west, and the mood it creates is very unusual...What 'rasa' or mood is attributed to Shree?
Shree basically is 'vira' ras; vira means 'brave, warrior, heroic.' But it is certainly extremely, entirely meditative in nature - I think for an evening prayer or evening meditation, Shree is more suitable than any of the other evening rags. It's spiritually very intense. And therefore the bhakti (devotion) ras is also dominant. Marwa has a different flavor; some people say it is vira, but no, it's more karuna (longing). There is a feeling of loneliness in Marwa because the 'sa' (tonic) is used in such little quantity; you feel something is missing! You feel something is missing, and finally you get it but as soon as you get it, it's gone again from you! It's fleeting. So Marwa makes you feel lonely.
New York, November 1999
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Toronto's Horseshoe Adds 70th Anniversary Shows with Max Weinberg, Constantines, Skydiggers
Lisa Leblanc, Sun K and Fast Romantics have also been added
Legendary Toronto venue the Horseshoe Tavern turns 70 this year, and the folks at the Queen Street West institution have just revealed some more celebratory plans.
Following a run of shows featuring acts like Billy Bragg, D.O.A., Hollerado, the Pursuit of Happiness, Elliott Brood and 54-40, another batch of artists will mark the occasion in the coming months.
Longtime Conan O'Brien drummer Max Weinberg will be joined by his four-piece band to perform as Max Weinberg's Jukebox on October 10.
Sun K will then treat the 'Shoe to a no cover evening performance on October 11, following the release of David McPherson's forthcoming book The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern: A Complete History.
Beloved Canadian indie rockers Constantines will also be toasting 70 years of the club with back-to-back shows on December 15 and 16, while Skydiggers will bring back their annual Christmas concerts with sets on December 22 and 23.
Rounding out the itinerary of anniversary celebrations, Lisa Leblanc will perform on November 16 and Fast Romantics will play on November 18.
Tickets for the upcoming shows go on sale tomorrow (September 7) at 10 a.m. EDT, and will be available through Ticketfly, Rotate This, Soundscapes, and Horseshoe Tavern's Box Office.
Find full venue information and updates at the Horseshoe Tavern's official website.
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Iskcon Mayapur Food
Hare Krishna Stock Photos and Images Offering food to statuette of Krishna. It is a resource for all ISKCON leaders and members to learn about successful techniques of outreach adopted by different centers and members all around the world. This is a confidential video made for ISKCON Bangalore devotees some years ago where the leaders of including the Temple President, Madhupandit Prabhu, discuss the history of Bangalore and how that temple came to accept the ritvik orders that Srila Prabhupada gave in his July 9th, 1977 letter to all GBC members and Temple Presidents. The premises are charming and peaceful, it's a wonderful place to spend time with friends and have a nice meal or drink. Produced & Filmed by Sudama. We are a small group of ISKCON devotees living in Mayapur trying to provide you with goods direct from Mayapur to your home. Traditionally, a garland worn by a spiritual master is placed in the ground to dedicate a site in his honor. See all 23 questions. A Mahaprasada stall is located in the temple courtyard. ISKCON's institutional commitment to Vedic culture then has shifted with the economic tide. Mayapur Iskcon has guest houses with 5 different verities like Standard, Deluxe, Super Deluxe, A / C Room and Dormitory for the pilgrims and visitors to the Mayapur pilgrims. ISKCON Mayapur Food For Life by Hare Krishna Food For Life. Hare Krishna All the food you eat seems cooked in. The temple complex is walled like a castle, and on the outskirts are numerous stalls, shops, eateries and hotels catering to the pilgrims and tourists alike. This is one of the famous temples in Bangalore. With its roots in ancient Indian and Vaishnava culture, devotees find expression in vibrant colors, striking melodies and enlivening dramatic presentations. VAISNAVA CALENDAR. Belong anywhere with Airbnb. ISKCON Mayapur is a spiritual place situated onthe Bank of Ganga river. ISKCON Destroys a Whole Generation of Devotee’s Lives… I have so much pain in my heart…. It is active in about 75 countries. Its better contact them earlier for staying in mayapur. to reach the Nabadwip Ghat and take a ferry to Mayapur. For the past 28 years he has coordinated the Festival of India Tour on the Baltic Coast of Poland. ISKCON Mayapur: pure vegetarian food - See 146 traveler reviews, 166 candid photos, and great deals for Nadia, India, at TripAdvisor. The ISKCON headquarters is in this small village. FOOD FOR LIFE MAYAPUR In 1974, Srila Prabhupada was looking out from his room at ISKCON's Mayapur, when he noticed a group of village children fighting with street dogs over scraps of food. Thank you so much for dealing with us. They say only the fortunate can make it there, if God is willing. Mayapur has the famous Radha Krishna temple which tells the story of beautiful artistry of the talented artisans. To connect with ISKCON Mayapur, join Facebook today. The original Food for Life project was known as ISKCON Food Relief and like today, volunteers would float […]. Iskcon Mayapur Food Ever since I can remember, ISKCON , Mayapur has been a very household name in my hometown area and its surroundings. [30] The international headquarters known as Food for Life Global, established by Paul Rodney Turner and Mukunda Goswami , [31] coordinates the project. Where are they Now?. Please note – At the time of arrival, you will be requested to show the Id proofs in the reception. It makes it easy for the tourists to reach Mayapur. ISKCON Youth Forum (IYF) is the youth wing of International Society for Krishna Consciousness. "Very nice place for one day trip. The JIHE in Jaipur was established to fulfill Srila Prabhupada's desire for an educational institute in Jaipur. Sometimes, the lines can reach up to 400 or 500 meters!. Introduction, ISKCON four waves, sanatan dharma, daiva varnasrama dharma, videos/powerpoint presentations & many more. 9 earthquake that hit the region on Saturday. 00 per person per trip. [30] The international headquarters known as Food for Life Global, established by Paul Rodney Turner and Mukunda Goswami , [31] coordinates the project. You could also call the specific department directly using the phone numbers given below. The successful Hare Krishna Movement The Hare Krishna Movement is no more a movement as it has achieved its goals and now. ISKCON Mayapur is all set to celebrate the installation of two 'Sudarshan Chakras' on the domes of the new 'Temple of Vedic Planetarium'. In November 1977, Srila Prabhupada passed from this world. ( It's a project of "Sri Mayapur Food Relief Trust. This is a confidential video made for ISKCON Bangalore devotees some years ago where the leaders of including the Temple President, Madhupandit Prabhu, discuss the history of Bangalore and how that temple came to accept the ritvik orders that Srila Prabhupada gave in his July 9th, 1977 letter to all GBC members and Temple Presidents. We strive to bring to you an insightful and unconventional analysis of assorted news and trends. But higher amplitudes are seen in posterior channels, which may reflect more activity in the cerebellum. W elcome to Mayapur Gaura Purnima Festival 2020. Share this Article : Mayapur is a city positioned in the banks of Ganga River , at the meeting point of Jalangi River near Nabadwip , West Bengal , India. It drew 2,000 tribespeople from thirteen tribes in five Indian states – each with their own culture, language and dressing style. KOLKATA: In modern times when celebrities from different fields inaugurate Durga Puja at various places , Utbodhoni Utsav ( inauguration) amidst beating of "khol", clashing of "kartal", "mridanga. You are very welcomed at this beautiful temple in Siliguri as it provides various opportunities for ones spiritual enhancement. If you prefer a ferry ride, then drive for 15 kms. Click here for an index of all child abuse information available through this site. Write a review for Hostel Iskcon guesthouse (Mayapur West Bengal India) now! Upload your holiday pictures and holiday videos! Hostel Iskcon guesthouse Mayapur Holiday Reviews & Price Comparison Hostel Iskcon guesthouse. A Day At the Kitchen in ISKCON Mayapur, India By: Madhava Smullen for 9 Days 8 Nights on March 2, 2016 In our latest photo-journalism piece blogger Manoj, an Indian living in Australia, shares a highlight of his recent trip to ISKCON’s headquarters in holy Mayapur, India. Sattvik café is located at Isodyan Bhawan in ISKCON Mayapur campus. All the bhoga that is offered ( the Raj- bhoga offering) is available as Mahaprasad. There, he caught a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how the hard-working temple cooks prepare food for thousands of devotees. We can also arrange a country boat ride to the Mayapur Ghat from the lake but it has to be pre-arranged. Thank you so much for dealing with us. Produced & Filmed by Sudama. ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) or the Hare Krishna movement has its headquarters here. All attractions in Mayapur. ISKCON's institutional commitment to Vedic culture then has shifted with the economic tide. ISKCON Mayapur: trip to Mayapur and Krishnanagar by car - See 146 traveller reviews, 166 candid photos, and great deals for Nadia, India, at TripAdvisor. ISKCON Mayapur has five guest houses with varieties of rooms: standard, deluxe, super deluxe, a/c rooms, and dormitories to accommodate the pilgrims and visitors to Mayapur. The Deities of Sri Sri Radha Madhava, Pancha-tattva and Prahlada-Nrsimhadeva preside over the temple for thousands to enjoy daily congregational chanting. First, ride by battery operated trolley/rickshaw, rate was written Rs 10. The historical centre of Mayapur still features a large Muslim population and how they coexist with the Hindus in a very Hindu-centric township is commendable! One must not forget to visit the Srila Prabhupada's Samadhi Mandir which is a memorial dedicated to the founder of ISKCON. Earlier the space limited inside the campus, but we felt more coexistence of temple, nature and bhajan , and enjoyed ample greenery nearby main temple. If you would like to contribute, you can donate here. com is an initiative of the GBC Strategic Planning Network Outreach committee. ISKCON Kolkata also operates AC and Non-AC bus services to Mayapur on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. #dinner_thali_prasadam, #mayapur_i. Because Mayapur is where Lord Chaitanya appeared, Srila Prabhupada chose it as ISKCON's international headquarters. See all 23 questions. We are a small group of ISKCON devotees living in Mayapur trying to provide you with goods direct from Mayapur to your home. Each week we distribute 50 hot nutritious vegetarian meals in Swansea and between 200 and 300 plates in Cardiff. Within the first year, temples in England, France, Bolivia, Germany, Spain, and Australia were distributing Hare Krishna Food for Life. Mayapur has the famous Radha Krishna temple which tells the story of beautiful artistry of the talented artisans. The students and teachers from Bhaktivedanta Academy's gurukula in Mayapur go there to sing harināma, to distribute the writings of His Divine Grace A. If you are wondering how to reach iskcon chandrodaya temple. The special effect of the magic mirror one can see distorted images of oneself. ISKCON Kolkata operates buses thrice a week, on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), otherwise known as the Hare Krishna movement, includes five hundred major centers, temples and rural communities, nearly one hundred affilated vegetarian restaurants, thousands of namahattas or local meeting groups, a wide variety of community projects, and millions of congregational members worldwide. Iskcon Mayapur Food Read more. आप सबको हनुमान जयंती की हार्दिक शुभकामनायें हनुमानजी कलियुग. We are a small group of ISKCON devotees living in Mayapur trying to provide you with goods direct from Mayapur to your home. The Full Form of ISKCON is International Society of Krishna Consciousness. Today ISKCON Mayapur serves as an international center of pilgrimage and spiritual tourism. I'm a Hindu in India, and have recently visited an ISKCON temple. I was also involved in developing the Food for Life program and presently I am the chairman of the project. Iskcon Mayapur Food Produced & Filmed by Sudama. Popular shopping places in & around iskcon chandrodaya temple mayapur. Share this Article : Mayapur is a city positioned in the banks of Ganga River , at the meeting point of Jalangi River near Nabadwip , West Bengal , India. For guest house bookings outside of Gaura Purnima Festival times, please write to [email protected] If you would like to contribute, you can donate here. No GBC can knowingly or unknowingly permit his men or himself to engage in illicit, illegal activities. Mayapur in the state of West Bengal, is approximately 4 hours drive from Kolkata. The Academy, which opened its doors in December 2007, offers classes on deity dressing, cooking, performing fire sacrifices, and more. ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) or the Hare Krishna movement has its headquarters here. It is one of the holiest places in India. Every year Hare Krishna Movement – Mumbai takes devotees from all over Mumbai on a Yatra(A Spiritual Journey) to various holy places in India. ISKON Mayapur has several guest. It is located just beside the sacred Gangga (Ganges) river in the agricultural heartland away from the hustle and bustle of Kolkatta. Sundar Govind Das is on Facebook. Posted by Dr Ganesh Narasimhan at. There, he caught a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how the hard-working temple cooks prepare food for thousands of devotees. Mayapur has the famous Radha Krishna temple which tells the story of the beautiful artistry of the talented artisans. This is one of the famous temples in Bangalore. Mayapur Iskcon has guest houses with 5 different verities like Standard, Deluxe, Super Deluxe, A / C Room and Dormitory for the pilgrims and visitors to the Mayapur pilgrims. Iskcon Hyderabad (Sri Sri Radha-Madanmohan Mandir): Being one of the top ISKCON temples in the country, this religious site is the headquarters of ISKCON in South India. Food For Life “No one within ten miles of a temple should go hungry…” In 1974, A. Posted by Dr Ganesh Narasimhan at. 05 Iskcon of Alachua County, Inc. Mayapur Academy The official website of Mayapur Academy, Mayapur – India which is a joint educational initiative of the Mayapur Deity Department and ISKCON’s Deity Worship Ministry. Hare Krishna Stock Photos and Images Offering food to statuette of Krishna. Sri Chaitanya started the Hare Krishna movement. This card can be conveniently used for exchanging your money when you visit Mayapur or Vrindavan and indeed all over India. ( It's a project of "Sri Mayapur Food Relief Trust. Facebook gives. No GBC can knowingly or unknowingly permit his men or himself to engage in illicit, illegal activities. ( It's a project of "Sri Mayapur Food Relief Trust". Iskcon Mayapur Very helpful, polite staff, the ambience and the facilities to suit every pocket. Produced & Filmed by Sudama. It mostly serves snacks throughout the day and it also serves vegetarian Thali during lunch and dinner. There is a variety of delicious food and drinks, which include sandwiches, pizza, pies, a nice selection of teas, and delicious sweets such as pancakes. We are a small group of ISKCON devotees living in Mayapur trying to provide you with goods direct from Mayapur to your home. 25 Sep 2019 We Fasting for Indira Ekadasi Break fast 05:56 - 09:35 (Next Day) 8 Oct 2019 Tu Ramacandra Vijayotsava Sri Madhvacarya -- Appearance. ISKCON Mayapur Feeds 40,000 at Shantipur. Apr 11, 2019 · Approximately 160 visitors from China, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Taiwan recently went to Mayapur with Giridhari Swami on pilgrimage. g Ghoshla, Main Temple, Srila Prabhupada’s Pushpa Samadhi Mandir, Srila Prabhupada’s Bhajan Kutir. ISKCON Mayapur has five guest houses with varieties of rooms: standard, deluxe, super deluxe, a/c rooms, and dormitories to accommodate the pilgrims and visitors to Mayapur. Jayapataka Swami continues to contribute to Mayapur’s development as the International Headquarters of ISKCON by serving as a co-director. ISKCON, Mayapur. Nov 16, 2013 · An evening at ISKCON Mayapur We go there for peace and darsan of Lord Krishna. Earlier the space limited inside the campus, but we felt more coexistence of temple, nature and bhajan , and enjoyed ample greenery nearby main temple. Reception & General Information: +91 (011) 26235133 /34 /35 /36 /37. ISKCON Bangalore is a charitable society with the objective of propagating Krishna Consciousness all over the world, as explained by Srila Prabhupada, whose teachings are based on Bhagavad-gita and Srimad Bhagavatam. Food For Life Mayapur. Mayapur and ISKCON Trip A beautiful abode of the Gods surrounded by thriving natural beauty, ISKCON Mayapur Dham is a place where one can find immense soulful peace. ISKCON Los Angeles Website This entry was posted in California , Centers , City , Los Angeles , North America , United States Of America , Websites and tagged Sri Jagannatha Baladeva Subhadra , Sri Sri Gaura Nitai , Sri Sri Rukmini Dwarkadhish on June 7, 2011 by ISKCON Desire Tree. Plans are underway for construction of the largest temple built in India in the last 200 years, at a cost of over 100 million dollars. God has an unlimited variety of names. Jul 29, 2015 · ISKCON does not prohibit specifically chocolates. Food for Life Mayapur responds to massive floods in West Bengal FOOD RELIEF FOR MAYAPUR NADIA FLOODING. Produced & Filmed by Sudama. Gaura Purnima Festival Schedule - 2020. The facilities available at Guesthouse include: – Well Furnished, Single / Double AC & Non AC Rooms – Telephone in each room with STD / ISD Facility – Room Service and Hot Water Round the Clock – Local sightseeing facility provided with. ISKCON Mayapur is on Facebook. YEARS OF PRIMARY ABUSE. ISKCON Mayapur: pure vegetarian food - See 146 traveler reviews, 166 candid photos, and great deals for Nadia, India, at TripAdvisor. After all, with so much of travel and sightseeing, one is bound to get hunger pangs. ( It's a project of "Sri Mayapur Food Relief Trust. The bus takes passengers from the Kolkata temple straight to Sri Mayapur. The JIHE in the Jaipur (Gupta-Vrindavan Dham) provides an ideal facility and atmosphere for you to improve your sadhana, develop your devotional qualities, engage in serious study, associate with senior devotees, and receive training. We are located in a small building with a lot of activity which means our space is utilised to the maximum. UK Management Council. ISKCON founded a project called Food for Life, which it has also sponsored in the past. At ISKCON News, our mission is to be a reliable, balanced, and timely source of news about, and of interest to the devotees, friends and people interested in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. ISKCON Mayapur is on Facebook. Posted by Dr Ganesh Narasimhan at. Please obtain your coupon well in advance to help us serve your better. This book is done with full blessings from Jananivasa and Pankajangry Prabhus, as well as per request from many vaishnavas over the years. Many ISKCON temples throughout the world are splendid examples of traditional and neo-Vedic architecture. Apr 08, 2018 · The meals consits of rice, dal, mixed sabji, main seasonal sabji and sweet; which is served daily at "Bhaktivedanta Anna-Dan complex" on 1. Sri Gauranga Food Paradise - Interiors of ISKCON MAYAPUR, Mayapur 741313 - Rated 4. 9 earthquake that hit the region on Saturday. "Food For Life" program is an important activity of ISKCON Siliguri. The facilities available at Guesthouse include: – Well Furnished, Single / Double AC & Non AC Rooms – Telephone in each room with STD / ISD Facility – Room Service and Hot Water Round the Clock – Local sightseeing facility provided with. #dinner_thali_prasadam, #mayapur_i. With their humanitarian efforts which include schools, colleges, eco-village and their free food distribution project, ISKCON temples in India are responsible for the religious amelioration all across the globe. Janmashtami 2018: ISKCON organises 3-day celebrations in West Bengal's Mayapur - Janmashtami will be celebrated with traditional enthusiasm and gaiety in all the 700 centres of ISKCON across the world, the statement issued from the ISKCON's headquarters at Mayapur in Nadia district said. ISKCON Mayapur has five guest houses with varieties of rooms: standard, deluxe, super deluxe, a/c rooms, and dormitories to accommodate the pilgrims and visitors to Mayapur. If funds are available the next priority in allocation of ISKCON Food Relief Funds is the Mayapur Gurukala(in order to increase the potential acceptance of more students. ISKCON Chandrodaya Temple 2. That ILMT will write a paper for all ISKCON centers explaining the importance of the life membership program as Srila Prabhupada envisioned ir, to be posted in all centers. Please obtain your coupon well in advance to help us serve your better. Iskcon mayapur food 11:8:15 Posted by Subala Sudama Das on Tuesday, August 11, 2015 The place where Hare Krishna Food for Life all began, Mayapur, West Bengal … To Read More, Please Visit Source. ISKCON Kolkata also provides a car on call service from Kolkata to Sri Mayapur ISKCON temple. ISKCON Kolkata operates buses thrice a week, on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Dec 11th 2012 – H. Restaurants near ISKCON Mayapur, Nadia on TripAdvisor: Find traveller reviews and candid photos of dining near ISKCON Mayapur in Nadia, West Bengal. Restaurants. If one properly follows ISKCON system he will become and remain joyful all the time. See 6 photos from 10 visitors to ISKCON Leadership Sanga Plenary Hall. All the bhoga that is offered ( the Raj- bhoga offering) is available as Mahaprasad. This is true for the vast majority of ISKCON devotees around the world and even for residents in the sacred land of Mayapur. All in the name of worshiping Krsna…. A blog named Mayapur Days which contains photos and of Mayapur and also many articles on Sridhama Mayapur. Self-realization, yoga, and spirituality as taught in Bhagavad-gita As It Is. This card can be conveniently used for exchanging your money when you visit Mayapur or Vrindavan and indeed all over India. Plans are underway for construction of the largest temple built in India in the last 200 years, at a cost of over 100 million dollars. For guest house bookings outside of Gaura Purnima Festival times, please write to [email protected] Mayapur is the birthplace of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who in the sixteenth century propagated the chanting of the holy names of Krishna, the recommended spiritual practice for Kali-yuga, the current age. It is located 130 km from kolkata and well connected by roads and rail networks from there. In our latest photo-journalism piece blogger Manoj, an Indian living in Australia, shares a highlight of his recent trip to ISKCON's headquarters in holy Mayapur, India. Even you do not get some job, Krishna will not put you into difficulty. May 25, 2013 · Jvalamukhi Devi speaks about gurukula abuses at ISKCON Mayapur S dasa: Yesterday, this Gurukuli girl made a historical speech in the temple room in Mayapur denouncing the hypocrisy of ISKCON's leadership and warning against the dangers of the criminals that have dressed in the guise of devotees to exploit ISKCON's children. mayapur iskcon wallpapers By admin May 4, 2019 The town is heavily centered on this particular Vaishnava religious tradition, officially known as the Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya Sampradaya , with temples devoted to Radha and Krishna or Gaura – Nitai throughout; however, there is a sizable Muslim population in the historical center, previously. I have mixed emotions about my experience. Mayapur is 130 Kms from Kolkata by road. But spiritual knowledge transforms your life - then. TNN | Updated: Feb 28, 2019, 4:29 IST Hospitals and food are temporary. Shocked and saddened by what he saw, Srila Prabhupada turned to his disciples and said, "Imagine how hungry they are!. This will forever be etched in our minds. 2,182 likes · 84 talking about this · 819 were here. Music credit : Desert City by Kevin. #dinner_thali_prasadam, #mayapur_i. All of our proceeds go directly to the Mayapur Project. Map of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Marg, Mayapur (Mayapur, Iskcon). Mayapur Memories, Nadia, West Bengal. 9,526 views. The sexual, physical and emotional abuse of the minor children occurred primarily between the years 1972 and 1990, although abuse continued after 1990 and, it is believed, continues to the present. Dharamshala and Ashram in Mayapur Dham Book your room near Iskcon Temple and chaitanya bhavan Mayapur. The descendant of Advaita Acharya himself, selected HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja to be in charge of the annual Santipur mass prasdam distribution program. Sign up now to list your business for free. 01 Mayapur Vrindavan Worship Fund, Inc. ( It's a project of "Sri Mayapur Food Relief Trust. However, I've heard on Facebook that Sadbhuja and Bhavananda were physically attacked, that Praghosa, the GBC chairman, was forced to leave Mayapur under threat of physical attack, and that this is all part of a plan by the Bengali workers to kick all Westerners out of ISKCON Mayapur!. Photos of Mayapur, see photos of Mayapur, West Bengal by travellers Food; Mayapur Images. They provide accommodation in their four Bhavan named CONCH BHAVAN, ISHODYAN BHAVAN, GADA BHAVAN and VAMSI BHAVAN. After his death in 1977, ISKCON decided to construct a temple to pay homage to its founder. Welcome to The Higher Taste · Read more · Akshaya Patra an initiative of ISKCON Bangalore · Read more · ISKCON Mayapur … To Read More, Please Visit Source. We are a small group of ISKCON devotees living in Mayapur trying to provide you with goods direct from Mayapur to your home. Lakhs of People Eating Bhog in The Occasion of Lord Krishna Birthday | ISKON Temple Mayapur. Following Srila Prabhupada’s instructions, Food for Life Mayapur has been endeavoring for many years to fulfill this goal. Over the years, devotees have visited Vrindavan, Govardhan, Ayodhya, Jaipur, Sri Rangam, Tirupati, Mayapur, Dwarka, Udupi, Rameshwaram and many other places. Bhaktivedanta Swami, shocked and saddened upon seeing a group of village children in Mayapur (near Kolkata) fighting with street dogs over scraps of food, told his disciples: "No one within ten miles of a temple should go hungry. See 1 photo from 1 visitor to English Bhagavatam Classroom, ISKCON Mayapur. For the past 28 years he has coordinated the Festival of India Tour on the Baltic Coast of Poland. Hare Krishna! Welcome to ISKCON Mayapur! ISKCON Mayapur is the spiritual world headquarters of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Everyone is a volunteer so although there is a hierarchy, a manager doesn’t have the power to fire someone, neither can he award a bonus or overtime, it doesn’t work like that. The woman, aged around 30, had arrived yesterday with a man in his 40s and a two-year-old girl. Mayapur 2018 (with Photos): Top 20 Places to Stay in Mayapur Debabrata: pin. The temple complex is walled like a castle, and on the outskirts are numerous stalls, shops, eateries and hotels catering to the pilgrims and tourists alike. , to bathe and prepare to go to the early morning mangalarati. It mostly serves snacks throughout the day and it also serves vegetarian Thali during lunch and dinner. My travel itinerary covers Kolkata to Mayapur trip via Krishnagar by train and Mayapur to Kolkata trip via Nabadwip by train, as on June 2018. Directory of services close to Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Marg, Mayapur (Mayapur: shops, restaurants, leisure and sports facilities, hospitals, gas stations and other places of interest. All of our proceeds go directly to the Mayapur Project. ISKCON Mayapur Feeds 40,000 at Shantipur. “The temple suffered cracks, but the monks living inside the building are all safe and sound,” reported a temple staff member. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, created the GBC in 1970 and since then it has met on an annual basis, usually in Mayapur, India. Food for life is a unique free food distribution program, which simultaneously satisfies the body by providing first class vegetarian meals for everyone. What you can see. Govinda's restaurant is open from 7:30am. He has also performed annually at Buenos Aires Rathayatra in Argentina, at the Festival of Inspiration in New Vrindaban, West Virginia, and at the Gaura Purnima festival in Mayapur, West Bengal, for many years. Food for Life Project with the Mayapur Seva Office in cooperation with the ISKCON Mayapur Communications Department in our joint service to please Srila Prabhupada. ISKCON's founder, A. Mayapur is situated in an area somewhere in the middle of the rivers Hoogly and Jalangi and is one of the main of the nine islands of the Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's dham Nabadwip. ISKCON Chandrodaya Temple: Felt blessed - See 69 traveller reviews, 143 candid photos, and great deals for Mayapur, India, at TripAdvisor. ISKCON Mayapur is a popular pilgrimage destination, situated in the Nadia District, in the state of West Bengal. ISKCON Sri Radha Krishna Temple is recognized as one of the famous places to visit in Bangalore. Although Food for Life Global has roots in ISKCON, it is a completely independent non-profit organization that supports the work of Food for Life projects under the management of ISKCON as well as many other non-profits that are not. If you are arriving in a group of more than 10 just before prasadam time, please inform the Kitchen so that they can prepare enough prasadam for your group. Accommodation of Ishodyan is nice. এটি একটি নিরামিষ খাদ্যের ফেসবুক পেজ । এখানে বিভিন্ন ধরনের নিরামিষ খাদ্যের ভিডিও পাওয়া যাবে।. With compassionate intensity he said that no one within ten miles of an ISKCON temple should ever go hungry. Thank you so much for dealing with us. The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), known colloquially as the Hare Krishna movement or Hare Krishnas, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Hindu religious organisation. Restaurants and Local Food in Mayapur There is an eating joint located inside the temple complex which serves very hygienic and reasonably priced food. FOOD FOR LIFE MAYAPUR In 1974, Srila Prabhupada was looking out from his room at ISKCON's Mayapur, when he noticed a group of village children fighting with street dogs over scraps of food. You have reached your limit for free articles this month. TV ABOUT THE SPEAKER Urmila Devi Dasi was born Edith Manischewitz to Judy and Bernard Manischewitz in Manhattan. Write a review for Hostel Iskcon guesthouse (Mayapur West Bengal India) now! Upload your holiday pictures and holiday videos! Hostel Iskcon guesthouse Mayapur Holiday Reviews & Price Comparison Hostel Iskcon guesthouse. SUNIT has 2 jobs listed on their profile. Daily Temple Program Mangala Aarti 4:30 am Tulasi Aarti 5:00 am Chanting session 5:30 am to 7:30 am Darshna Aarti & Guru Puja 7:30 am Srimad Bhagavatam Class 8:30 am Rajbhoga Aarti 12:00 pm Temple closed 1:00 to 4:00 pm Dhup Aarti 4:00 pm Sandhya Tulasi Aarti 6:00 pm Gaura Arti 6:15 pm Shayan Aarti […]. Pilgrims can choose to return the same day or choose to stay at Mayapur. See 6 photos from 10 visitors to ISKCON Leadership Sanga Plenary Hall. An on film (1980's) of the ISKCON free food distribution program at Sridham Mayapur in West Bengal, India, the world headquarters of the International … To Read More, Please Visit Source. ISKCON Mayapur is the spiritual headquarters of the entire ISKCON world. com Email : [email protected] To connect with ISKCON Mayapur, join Facebook today. Mamata made the request during her first ever visit to the international headquarters of the Iskcon in Mayapur. Belong anywhere with Airbnb. After my darshan, I went out via the exit signs promptly placed. They came in two groups – the first group, of about 40 people, visited in late December of 2018, and the second group, of about 120 people, came in late January of 2019. Mayapur Iskcon Temple Live images. If you prefer a ferry ride, then drive for 15 kms. Category Tourism July 27, 2012 by ISKCON Desire Tree. It is located 130 km from kolkata and well connected by roads and rail networks from there. We started our journey at around 5. Sri Sri Krishna Balaram Mandir – ISKCON VRINDAVAN. Over the past few days hot meal and dry food have been provided to about 50,000 villagers in the Mayapur area. Sep 11, 2019 · Did you know that Mayapur was once the capital of the Eastern Empire of India, and that the king’s palace lies in ruins a short walk from ISKCON Mayapur? Just behind Chand Kazi’s samadhi are the ruins known as Ballal Dhipi, which even today no one really knows much about. Iskcon Hyderabad (Sri Sri Radha-Madanmohan Mandir): Being one of the top ISKCON temples in the country, this religious site is the headquarters of ISKCON in South India. But most will know and remember the Hare Krishnas for music, dance and great food. After my darshan, I went out via the exit signs promptly placed. The special design of the Hare Krishna chant makes it easy to repeat and pleasant to hear. Its better contact them earlier for staying in mayapur. The ISKCON headquarters is in this small village. 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See restaurants around iskcon chandrodaya temple mayapur and find eateries, dhabas, fast food, local food, cafes, pubs, pizzas and more near iskcon. 48th Kolkata Rath Yatra 2019 - Route and Schedule; 48th Kolkata Rath Yatra 2019 bridges religious divide; 47th Kolkata Rath Yatra 2018 - Route and Schedule; History; Rath Yatra 2017 Lecture; The Advent of the Highly Functional Western Style Rathayatra Chariot - Lord Jagannatha's 1978 Calcutta. The woman has filed a complaint of sexual harassment, attempt to murder and. Although Food for Life Global has roots in ISKCON, it is a completely independent non-profit organization that supports the work of Food for Life projects under the management of ISKCON as well as many other non-profits that are not. If funds are available the next priority in allocation of ISKCON Food Relief Funds is the Mayapur Gurukala(in order to increase the potential acceptance of more students. Here are some photos of Rooms in ISKCON Mayapur, Kolkata. 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Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser Theory
Luigi Chierchia and John N. Mather (2010), Scholarpedia, 5(9):2123. doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.2123 revision #91405 [link to/cite this article]
(Redirected from Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser)
Curator: Luigi Chierchia
John N. Mather
Dr. Luigi Chierchia, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Roma Tre
Dr. John N. Mather, Math. Dept., Princeton University, N.J.
Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (KAM) theory deals with persistence, under perturbation, of quasi-periodic motions in Hamiltonian dynamical systems.
An important example is given by the dynamics of nearly-integrable Hamiltonian systems. In general, the phase space of a completely integrable Hamiltonian system of \(n\) degrees of freedom is foliated by invariant \(n\)-dimensional tori (possibly of different topology). KAM theory shows that, under suitable regularity and non-degeneracy assumptions, most (in measure theoretic sense) of such tori persist (slightly deformed) under small Hamiltonian perturbations. The union of persistent \(n\)-dimensional tori (Kolmogorov set) tend to fill the whole phase space as the strength of the perturbation is decreased.
The major technical problem arising in this context is due to the appearance of resonances and of small divisors in the associated formal perturbation series.
1 Classical KAM theory
1.1 Kolmogorov normal forms and Kolmogorov's Theorem
1.2 Nearly-integrable Hamiltonian systems
1.3 Moser's differentiable version
1.4 Small divisors and classical KAM techniques
1.4.1 Kolmogorov's scheme
1.4.2 Arnold's scheme
1.4.3 Moser's differentiable case
1.5 Remarks
2 Applications and extensions
2.1 Iso-energetic tori and perpetual stability
2.2 Properly degenerate KAM theory
2.3 Weaker non-degeneracies
2.4 Lower dimensional tori
2.5 Hamiltonian PDE's
4 Recommended reading
Classical KAM theory
The main objects studied in KAM theory are \(d\)-dimensional embedded tori \(\mathcal{T}^d\) invariant for a Hamiltonian flow \(\phi^t_H: \mathcal{M}^{2n}\to\mathcal{M}^{2n}\ ,\) where \(t\in\mathbb{R}\) denotes the time variable and \(H=H(p,q)\) is a (smooth enough or analytic) Hamiltonian function depending on \(2n\) symplectic (or canonical) variables \(p=(p_1,...,p_n)\) and \(q=(q_1,...,q_n)\) defined on the phase space \(\mathcal{M}^{2n}\ .\) This means that if \((p_0,q_0)\in\mathcal{T}^d\ ,\) then \(\phi^t_H(p_0,q_0)\in\mathcal{T}^d\) for any \(t\in\mathbb{R}\ ,\) \(\phi^t_H(p_0,q_0)=(p(t),q(t))\) denoting the solution of the (standard) Hamilton equations \[\tag{1} \left\{\begin{array}{l}\dot p = - \partial_q H(p,q)\\ \dot q = \partial_p H(p,q)\end{array}\right.\quad{\rm with\ initial\ data }\quad \left\{\begin{array}{l} p(0)=p_0\\ q(0)=q_0\end{array}\right. . \]
Here, the dot represents time derivative, while \(\partial_z\) denotes the gradient with respect to the \(z\) variables.
A \(d\)-dimensional (embedded and smooth or analytic) invariant torus for \(\phi_H^t\ ,\) with \(2\le d\le n\ ,\) is called a KAM torus if:
the flow \(\phi^t_H\) on \(\mathcal{T}^d\) is conjugated to a linear translation \(\theta \to \theta + \omega t\ ,\) where \(\theta=(\theta_1,...,\theta_d)\) belongs to the standard \(d\)-dimensional torus \(\mathbb{T}^d=\mathbb{R}^d/(2\pi \mathbb{Z})^d\ ;\) the vector \(\omega=(\omega_1,...,\omega_d)\in\mathbb{R}^d\) is called the frequency vector;
the frequency vector \(\omega\) is rationally independent and "badly" approximated by rationals, typically in a Diophantine sense:
\[\tag{2} \exists\ \gamma, \tau>0\ {\rm such\ that} \quad |\omega\cdot k|:= |\sum_{j=1}^d \omega_j k_j|\ge \frac{\gamma}{\|k\|^\tau}\ ,\ \forall\ k\in\mathbb{Z}^d\backslash\{0\}\ . \]
From measure theory, it follows that the set of Diophantine vectors in \(\mathbb{R}^d\) is of full Lebesgue measure.
Note that the case \(d=1\) corresponds to periodic trajectories of period \(2\pi/\omega\) (this case is normally excluded in classical KAM theory since does not involve small divisors). On the other hand, the case \(d=n\) corresponding to maximal KAM tori is particularly relevant.
Figure 1: Linear translation on a 2-torus (animation by Corrado Falcolini)
Figure 2: A periodic case (animation by Corrado Falcolini)
Figure 3: An orbit on a 2-dimensional KAM torus in a 3-dimensional energy level (animation by Corrado Falcolini)
Kolmogorov normal forms and Kolmogorov's Theorem
Let \(H\) be a real-analytic Hamiltonian on \(\mathcal{M}^{2n}=U\times \mathbb{T}^n\) (with \(U\) an open region in \(\mathbb{R}^n\)) and assume that \(\mathcal{T}^n\) is a maximal KAM torus for \(H\) and that it is a (Lagrangian) graph over the angle variables. Then there exists a symplectic transformation \(\phi: (y,x)\to(p,q)\) (i.e., a diffeomorphism preserving the canonical 2-form \(\displaystyle \sum_{i=1}^n dp_i\wedge dq_i\)) transforming \(H\) in Kolmogorov normal form: \[\tag{3} H\circ\phi(y,x)=K(y,x):=E+\omega\cdot y + Q(y,x) \]
for some number \(E\) (the energy level of the KAM torus), some Diophantine frequency vector \(\omega\) and \(Q\) a function vanishing together with its first \(y\)-derivatives at \(y=0\ .\) In the "new" variables \((y,x)\ ,\) the \(n\)-torus \(\{0\}\times\mathbb{T}^n\) is obviously a KAM torus for the transformed Hamiltonian \(H\circ\phi\ .\)
One says that the Kolmogorov normal form \(K\) in (3) is non-degenerate if the Hessian matrix (with respect to \(y\)) of the average of \(Q\) over \(\mathbb{T}^n\) is regular.
Kolmogorov's Theorem (Kolmogorov, 1954) Let \(K\) be a real-analytic non-degenerate Kolmogorov's normal form and let \(P\) be a real-analytic function in a neighborhood of \(\{y=0\}\times\mathbb{T}^n\ .\) Then, there exists \(\epsilon_0>0\) and for any \(|\epsilon|<\epsilon_0\) a real-analytic symplectic transformation \(\phi_\epsilon\ ,\) close to the identity, such that, if \(H_\epsilon\) denotes the perturbed Hamiltonian \(K+\epsilon P\ ,\) then \(H_\epsilon\circ\phi_\epsilon\) is a non-degenerate Kolmogorov's normal form with the same frequency vector of \(K\ .\)
Thus, in particular, \(\mathcal{T}_\epsilon^n:=\phi_\epsilon(\{0\}\times \mathbb{T}^n)\) is a (real-analytic, non-degerate) KAM torus for \(H_\epsilon\) and such a torus is \(\epsilon\)-close to \(\{0\}\times\mathbb{T}^n\ .\)
Nearly-integrable Hamiltonian systems
A nearly-integrable Hamiltonian system is a Hamiltonian system governed by a Hamiltonian function of the form \(H_\epsilon(y,x)=K(y)+\epsilon P(y,x)\) with \(y=(y_1,...,y_n)\) (action variables) varying in a domain \(B\subset \mathbb{R}^n\) and \(x=(x_1,...,x_n)\) (angle variables) varying in the standard \(n\)-dimensional torus \(\mathbb{T}^n\ .\) For \(\epsilon=0\ ,\) equations (1) give \(\dot y=0\) and \(\dot x=\partial_y K(y)\ ,\) hence \(y=y_0=\) constant and \(x = x_0 + \omega_0\, t\) (mod \(2\pi\)), with \(\omega_0:= \partial_y K\big(y_0\big)\ .\) Thus the torus \(\{y_0\}\times \mathbb{T}^n\) is invariant for the flow \(\phi^t_{K}\ ,\) and if \(\omega_0\) is Diophantine and \(\partial_y^2 K(y_0)\) is invertible, then such a torus is a non-degenerate KAM torus for \(H_0=K\ .\) Since \(K(y)\) can be expanded by Taylor's formula as \[ K=K(y_0)+\omega_0\cdot (y-y_0)+ \frac{1}{2} \partial_y^2 K(y_0) (y-y_0) \cdot(y-y_0)+ O(|y-y_0|^3|), \] it follows from Kolmogorov's Theorem that for \(\epsilon\) small enough such tori persist, giving rise to non-degenerate KAM tori for \(H_\epsilon\).
Moser's differentiable version
J.K. Moser (followed by H. Rüssmann, J. Pöschel and others) showed that the real-analyticity assumption is not necessary. Indeed, Kolmogorov's Theorem holds under the milder assumption that \(H\) is a \(C^\ell\) differentiable function with \(\ell>2n\) (meaning that \(H\) is of class \(C^{2n}\) and that the derivatives of order \(2n\) are Hölder continuous).
Originally (Moser, 1962), Moser's work focused on \(C^{333}\) (exact symplectic) perturbations of integrable twist mappings of the annulus (the most famous example being the so-called standard map). In this case, maximal KAM tori correspond to homotopically non-trivial curves intersecting each radius in only one point. The number of derivatives were reduced to 5 by H. Rüssmann (Rüssmann, 1970), and M. Herman (Herman, 1983) showed that the theorem is valid for \(C^k\) perturbation with \(k\ge 3\ ,\) but false for \(k<3\ .\)
Small divisors and classical KAM techniques
KAM techniques (i.e., the analytical tools used to prove statements in KAM theory) constitute the hard core of KAM theory and play a major role in applications, extensions and, in general, in the full comprehension of the results. The main technical problem is related to the appearance of small divisors in the Fourier series of perturbative expansions (averaging methods, series expansions of quasi-periodic motions, etc.).
Small divisors are expressions of the form \(\omega \cdot k=\sum_{i=1}^d \omega_i k_i\) with \(k\in\mathbb{Z}^d\backslash\{0\}\) an integer vector, which usually are related to Fourier modes associated to the perturbing function and where the frequency vector \(\omega\) often depends upon the slow (action) variables. Such expressions appear in the denominator of (formal) Fourier expansions of the object one aims to construct (e.g., a generating function or the formal expansion of a quasi-periodic solution). Since \(\omega\cdot k\) may became arbitrarily small for any vector \(\omega\in\mathbb{R}^d\) as \(k\) varies, the convergence of the perturbative series is in doubt.
Kolmogorov's scheme
Two main ideas are needed to overcome the convergence problems related to the appearance of small divisors: (i) keep the frequency of the motion fixed; (ii) use a Newton quadratic method (the name comes form the elementary tangent Newton method for finding roots of real functions) to control the growth of the remainder terms. More specifically, Kolmogorov (Kolmogorov, 1954) constructed a (real-analytic), near-identity, symplectic transformation \(\phi_1\) transforming a Hamiltonian of the form \(H=K+\epsilon P\ ,\) with \(K\) a non-degenerate Kolmogorov normal form as in (3), into a new Hamiltonian of the form \[\tag{4} H_1:=H\circ\phi_1=K_1+\epsilon^2 P_1, \]
with \(K_1\) again in non-degenerate Kolmogorov normal form with the same frequency vector \(\omega\) as \(K\ .\) Once this is achieved, one can iterate the construction to obtain a sequence of symplectic transformations \(\phi_j\) so that \[ H_j:=H\circ\phi_1\circ\cdots\circ\phi_j=K_j+\epsilon^{2^j} P_j \] with \(K_j\) a non-degenerate Kolmogorov normal form with fixed frequency vector, and \(P_j\) a real-analytic perturbation. Indeed, the equations leading to the determination of the symplectic transformation \(\phi:(y',x')\to(y,x)\) may be (essentially uniquely) solved and admit as generating function a (real-analytic) function of the form \[ g(y',x)=y'\cdot x+\epsilon \Big(b\cdot x+s(x)+ y'\cdot a(x)\Big) \] where, \(b\) is a constant vector, while \(s\) and \(a\) are, respectively, a scalar and a vector-valued multi-periodic functions with vanishing average over \(\mathbb{T}^n\ .\) In the denominators of the Fourier expansion of \(s\) and \(a\) (and in the determination of the constant \(b\)) there appear the small divisors \(\omega\cdot k\ ,\) which are controlled through the Diophantine inequality (2). The super exponential decrease of \(\epsilon^{2^j}\ ,\) for small \(\epsilon\ ,\) allows to beat the growth of the norm (due to the small divisors) of the new perturbing functions \(P_j\ :\) in the limit as \(j\to\infty\ ,\) \(\phi_1\circ\cdots\circ\phi_j\) converges to a real-analytic symplectic transformation \(\phi_\epsilon\ ,\) \(H_j\to K_\epsilon\ ,\) with \(K_\epsilon=\lim_{j\to\infty} K_j=H\circ\phi_\epsilon\) a real-analytic non-degenerate Kolmogorov normal form with frequency \(\omega\ .\)
Arnold's scheme
Arnold (who was the first to provide a detailed proof of Kolmogorov's Theorem) followed a different approach (Arnold, 1963a), which, however, shared with Kolmogorov's scheme the two main ingredients. Arnold considered a nearly-integrable Hamiltonian system of the form \(H:=K(y) + \epsilon P(y,x)\) real analytic in a complex neighborhood \(D_0\) of \(\{y_0\}\times\mathbb{T}^n\ ,\) where \(y_0\) is such that \(\partial_y K(y_0)=\omega\) is Diophantine and \(\partial^2_y K\) is invertible on \(D_0\ .\) One then constructs a near-identity symplectic transformation \(\phi_1: D_1\to D_0\) transforming \(H\) as in (4) with \(K_1=K_1(y')\) (i.e., integrable). The new domain \(D_1\) is a complex neighborhood of \(\{y_1\}\times\mathbb{T}^n\) contained in \(D_0\ ,\) and with the property that \(\partial_{y'} K_1(y_1)=\omega\) (same frequency) and \(\partial^2_{y'} K_1\) is invertible on \(D_1\ .\) This is not difficult to achieve, by classical averaging theory, through a symplectic transformation associated to a near-identity generating function \(g(y',x)=y'\cdot x + \epsilon \tilde g(y',x)\ ,\) with \(\tilde g\) a trigonometric polynomial in \(x\) having degree \(\delta\) depending on \(\epsilon\) (\(\delta\) can be chosen as \((\log \epsilon^{-1})^p\) and being related to a cut-off of the high Fourier modes of the perturbation). The iteration leads to a sequence of Hamiltonians \(H_j=K_j+\epsilon^{2^j} P_j\) closer and closer to integrable but in shrinking domains \(D_j\ .\) In the limit the projection onto the action variables of \(D_j\) is a single point \(y_*\ .\) Nevertheless, one can show that, pulling back the dynamics to \(\{y_*\}\times \mathbb{T}^n\ ,\) there corresponds a Diophantine KAM torus for the original Hamiltonian \(H\ .\)
Moser's differentiable case
In dealing with a finitely differentiable perturbation \(P\) there appears an extra technical problem. Namely, due to the presence of the small divisors, during the iteration scheme one loses derivatives at each step. Moser (inspired by the famous work by J. Nash on the \(C^\infty\) imbedding of Riemannian manifolds) introduced a smoothing technique (via convolutions), which re-stores at each step of the Newton iteration a certain number of derivatives. The super-exponential convergence of the Newton scheme is fast enough to compensate also for the smoothing leading to a convergent algorithm. Later, Moser developed different and sharper methods, using, e.g., a characterization of differentiable functions through approximations by real-analytic ones in smaller and smaller complex neighborhoods of real domains. Thus, by a quantitative approximation of differentiable functions by means of real-analytic functions, one can construct for the analytic approximations real-analytic, invariant tori; such approximate solutions are analytic in shrinking domains and in the limit converge to differentiable solutions of the original problem.
The analytical tools needed in KAM proofs are classical and involve, in particular:
- exponential decay of Fourier coefficients of analytic functions
- quantitative versions of the classical implicit function theorem in real-analytic settings
- Cauchy estimates, which allow to bound the sup-norm of derivatives of analytic functions in smaller domains in term of the sup-norm of the function divided by the loss of the extension of the domain
- quantitative analysis of the PDE \(\sum_{j=1}^d \omega_j \partial_{x_j} u= f\) where \(f\) is real-analytic function on \(\mathbb{T}^d\) with vanishing average and \((\omega_1,...,\omega_d)\) a Diophantine vector.
In a nearly-integrable analytic Hamiltonian system with \(2n\) degrees of freedom, the Kolmogorov set, i.e., the union of the persistent KAM tori, fills locally a region in phase space of density \(1-O(\sqrt{\epsilon})\ ,\) as \(\epsilon\) goes to zero. While the dynamics on the Kolmogorov set trivializes (being conjugated to a linear quasi-periodic translation on \(\mathbb{T}^n\) with a Diophantine frequency vector), in its complement (which asymptotically represents a small region of measure \(O(\sqrt{\epsilon})\)) the dynamics can be very complicated, exhibiting, in many cases, "random motions" or "Arnold diffusion".
In nearly-integrable Hamiltonian systems, Kolmogorov's non-degeneracy condition is equivalent to require that \(\det \partial_y^2 K(y_0)\neq 0\ ,\) which, in turn, means that the frequency map \(y\to \omega(y):=\partial_y K(y)\) is a local diffeomorphism in a neighborhood of \(y_0\ .\)
The global geometry of the Kolmogorov set is simple: the fibers of the set (i.e., the individual KAM tori) are level sets of a global \(C^\infty\) symplectic map \(\phi_*(\eta,x)\) as the \(n\) vector \(\eta\) varies in a Cantor-like \(n\)-disk of almost full density. This phenomenon may be interpreted by saying that nearly-integrable Hamiltonian systems are integrable over Cantor sets (Pöschel, 1982, Chierchia and Gallavotti, 1982).
The Kolmogorov symplectic map \(\phi_\epsilon\) and the Kolmogorov normal form \(K_\epsilon\) (see above) depend analytically upon the perturbative parameter \(\epsilon\ .\) Therefore quasi-periodic trajectories taking place on KAM tori admit a convergent series expansions in \(\epsilon\). This fact, which was first observed by Moser (1967), solves a long-standing problem about the convergence of Lindstedt series (i.e., \(\epsilon\)-power series expansions of formal quasi-periodic solution with Diophantine frequencies). Direct proofs, based upon delicate and lengthy combinatorial arguments, of the convergence of Lindstedt series (i.e., proofs avoiding KAM fast iteration methods) were found in the late 1980's (H. Eliasson) and early 1990's (G. Gallavotti, L. Chierchia and C. Falcolini).
Applications and extensions
Iso-energetic tori and perpetual stability
Figure 4: Motion trapped by two KAM tori (from A. Celletti and L. Chierchia KAM tori for N-body problems (a brief history) Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy, 95 , 2006 117-139
The tori found through Kolmogorov's (or Arnold's) scheme have, as \(\epsilon\) varies, the same frequencies, but different energies. Arnold noticed that, instead, one could keep fixed the ratios of the frequencies and the energy so as to analytically continue KAM tori on a fixed energy surface. The analytical non-degeneracy condition to achieve this (in the nearly-integrable setting) is \[ \det \left(\begin{matrix}\partial^2_y K & \partial_y K \\ \partial_y K & 0\end{matrix}\right) \neq 0 \] (this is a \((n+1)\times(n+1)\) matrix having as last column and as last row the gradient of \(K\) and a 0).
Iso-energetic non-degeneracy leads, in low dimensional nearly-integrable systems, to perpetual stability: an energy level for a system with two degrees of freedom is a 3-dimensional surface and, for small perturbation, an iso-energetically non-degenerate, nearly-integrable systems admits a positive measure set of invariant two dimensional tori (which are graphs over the angle variables); thus such tori separate the energy level, and a generic trajectory either lies on an invariant torus or is trapped among two of them. In both cases no escape is possible, and the action variables stay forever close to their initial values ("perpetual stability").
Properly degenerate KAM theory
Figure 5: Outer Solar System as (1+4)-body model (animation by Corrado Falcolini)
One of the original motivations for KAM theory was to find bounded motions in the planetary many body problem (i.e., a mechanical system formed by \(1+N\) point-masses, one of which is much larger than the other, interacting only through gravity). It is a classical fact that such a system may be seen as a perturbation of \(N\) decoupled two-body systems (star-planet). However, the limiting unperturbed Hamiltonian is highly degenerate, since it does not depend on the full set of action variables (proper degeneracy). In general, perturbations of properly degenerate Hamiltonian systems may admit no KAM tori. However, under suitable assumptions on the (average over the fast angles of the) perturbation KAM tori do exist:
Theorem (Arnold, 1963b) Let \((y,x)\in \mathbb{R}^n\times\mathbb{T}^n\) and \((p,q)\in\mathbb{R}^{2m}\) be couples of conjugate symplectic variables and let the Hamiltonian \(H=K(y)+\epsilon P(y,x,p,q)\) be real-analytic in a neighborhood of \(\{y_0\}\times\mathbb{T}^n\times\{0,0\}\ .\) Denote by \(\bar P\) the secular perturbation (i.e., the average over the fast angles \(x\) of \(P\)) \(\bar P(y,p,q)=\int_{\mathbb{T}^n} P(y,x,p,q) dx/(2\pi)^n\) and by \(r=(r_1,...,r_m)\) the vector with components \(r_i=(p_i^2+q_i^2)/2\) (for \(i=1,...,m\)). Assume that \(\det \partial_y^2 K(y_0)\neq 0\ .\) Assume also that the secular perturbation has an elliptic equilibrium\[ \bar P= \bar P_0(y)+ \Omega(y)\cdot r + \frac12 A(y) r\cdot r + O(|r|^3)\ ,\] with \(\det A(y_0)\neq 0\ .\) Then, if \(\epsilon\) is small enough, in a neighborhood of \(\{y_0\}\times\mathbb{T}^n\times\{0,0\}\) there exists a positive measure set of initial data whose evolution lies on \((n+m)\)-dimensional tori close to \(\{y_0\}\times\mathbb{T}^n\times\{r_k=\epsilon^a, \ \forall\ k\}\) for a suitable \(a>0\ .\)
Figure 6: The dynamics governed by \(K+\epsilon \bar P\) (animation by Corrado Falcolini)
This theorem, or refinements of it, is at the basis of the application of KAM theory to the planetary many body problem; a complete proof of such result, however, was published only in 2004 and is due to M. Herman and J. Fejóz.
Weaker non-degeneracies
To extend the validity of KAM theory it is important to weaken the non-degeneracy conditions. As mentioned above, Kolmogorov's non-degeneracy condition for nearly-integrable systems with Hamiltonian \(H_\epsilon=K(y)+\epsilon P(y,x)\) means that the frequency map \(\omega=\partial_y K\) is a local diffeomorphism. Rüssmann pointed out (Rüssmann, 1989) that it is sufficient (and in a suitable sense also necessary) to assume that the image of the frequency map \(y\to \omega(y)\) does not lie in any hyperplane, (more precisely, for a ball \(B\ ,\) \(\omega(B)\) does not lie in any hyperplane passing through the origin). A similar condition (that suites better differentiable settings) due to Arnold and Pyartli is to require that the frequency map \(\omega\) is skew at some point \(y_0\ .\) This means that there exists a smooth curve \(t\in(-1,1)\to u(t)\in\mathbb{R}^n\) passing through \(y_0=u(0)\) such that, if \(\alpha(t)\) denotes the lifted curve \(\omega\circ u(t)\ ,\) then the matrix \([\alpha(0),\alpha'(0),...,\alpha^{(n-1)}(0)]\) is invertible. Under these types of non-degeneracy conditions one can guarantee that, under small enough perturbations, there exists a positive measure set of initial data evolving on maximal KAM tori for \(H_\epsilon\ .\)
Lower dimensional tori
Orbits of great interest for KAM theory are also quasi-periodic trajectories spanning lower dimensional tori, i.e., orbits \(z(t)=\phi_H^t(z_0)\) such that the closure of the set \(\{z(t): t\in\mathbb{R}\}\) is diffeomorphic to \(\mathbb{T}^d\) with \(1< d<n\ ,\) \(n\) being the number of degrees of freedom (i.e., half of the dimension of the phase space). At variance with maximal KAM tori, the union of lower dimensional tori form a set of Lebesgue measure zero in phase space; nevertheless they are important in order to understand the dynamics and for extensions of KAM theory to PDEs. To fix ideas, consider the normal form of a lower dimensional elliptic torus \[\tag{5} K(y,x,p,q;\xi):=E(\xi) + \omega(\xi)\cdot y + \frac12 \sum_{j=1}^m \Omega_j(\xi)(p_j^2+q_j^2)\]
where \((y,x)\in\mathbb{R}^d\times \mathbb{T}^d\) are (partial) action-angle variables; \((p,q)\in\mathbb{R}^{2m}\) are conjugated variables; \(\Omega_j(\xi)>0\) and \(\xi\) is a real \(d\)-dimensional parameter (for example, \(\xi\) might be a fixed action \(y_0\) around which one is making a Taylor expansion). The set \(\mathcal{T}^d_0:=\{y=0\}\times\mathbb{T}^d\times\{p=0=q\}\) is an invariant \(d\)-dimensional torus for \(\phi_K^t\ :\) \(\phi_K^t(0,x_0,0,0)=(0,x_0+\omega(\xi)t, 0,0)\ .\) Such a torus is linearly stable (elliptic), and the dynamics close to it, in the \((p,q)\)-variables is just given by harmonic oscillations with frequencies \(\Omega_j(\xi)\) (tangential frequencies). Under suitable regularity and non-degeneracy assumptions (on the inner and tangential frequencies) such tori are persistent.
For example, let \(\xi\) vary in a closed set \(\Pi\) of positive \(d\)-dimensional Lebesgue measure; let \(\xi\to\omega(\xi)\) be a Lipschitz homeomorphism and let \(K\) and \(P(y,x,p,q;\xi)\) be real-analytic in the symplectic variables \((y,x,p,q)\) and Lipschitz continuous in \(\xi\ .\) Assume that \(\Omega_j(\xi)\neq\Omega_i(\xi)>0\) for all \(i\neq j\) and \(\xi\in \Pi\ .\) Assume also the following (Melnikov -Pöschel) condition \[{\rm meas}\,\Big(\{\xi\in\Pi: \omega(\xi)\cdot k + \Omega(\xi)\cdot \ell=0\}\Big)=0 \ ,\quad \forall\ k\in\mathbb{Z}^d\backslash\{0\}\ ,\forall\ \ell\in\mathbb{Z}^m\ {\rm with}\ \sum_{j=1}^m|\ell_j|\le 2\ . \] Then, there exists \(\epsilon_*>0\) and a Cantor set \(\Pi_*\subset\Pi\) of positive measure such that to each \(\xi\in\Pi_*\) there corresponds, for any \(0<\epsilon<\epsilon_*\ ,\) a torus \(\mathcal{T}_\epsilon^d(\xi)\) invariant for \(\phi_{K+\epsilon P}^t\ .\)
We remark that this kind of result admits many generalizations, which are particularly important for infinite dimensional extensions. The partially hyperbolic case, whose normal form is give by (5) with \((p_j^2+q_j^2)\) replaced by \((p_j^2-q_j^2)\) is much simpler (as in this case the tangential frequencies do not resonate with the inner ones); see (Graff, 1974).
Hamiltonian PDE's
KAM theory can be partially extended to infinite dimension, i.e., to partial differential equations (PDEs) carrying a Hamiltonian structure. Examples of such equations are: the wave equation, the (stationary) Schrödinger equation, KdV, etc. Under suitable hypotheses, nonlinear perturbations of these equations may be reduced to infinitely many coupled dynamical (ordinary differential) equations (e.g., for the wave equation one obtains infinitely many coupled harmonic oscillators). It is then possible to find quasi-periodic solutions corresponding to the embedding of a linear quasi-periodic flow on a finite dimensional torus into the infinite dimensional phase space associated to the equation. Also almost-periodic motions have been considered (i.e., trajectories with infinitely many independent frequencies). Several results in these directions have been obtained starting from the 1990's; see (Kuksin, 2004).
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What It Takes To Lead
A group of parents from my daughter's school needed to work out a carpool schedule for some upcoming events involving our kids' travel to certain Activities. I had been traveling and hadn't been paying much attention, but once I got home and tuned back in to domestic life, I realized that no one, including my spouse, had done anything about organizing the driving.
So I sent out an e-mail to everyone, summarizing what needed to be done when, and, just to get the process started, I proposed a preliminary driving schedule, noting that we could change this as needed if anyone had a time conflict with the schedule. I figured it would be easier to make adjustments to an existing schedule than to start from scratch.
Soon after I sent my e-mail, one of the dads ("Joe") sent an e-mail to everyone, acknowledging that it helped a lot that I had started organizing the carpool, and seconding my proposed schedule.
One of the moms then e-mailed everyone:
Dear Joe and others,
Joe, thank you for your leadership. It helps us all so much that you took the initiative to finalize the carpool schedule. blah blah blah
Katie (Hannah's mom)
Yeah, that was awesome leadership that Joe showed in agreeing with my plan. OK, I know that there are many benign explanations for Katie's awe of Joe's organizational skills and I am really not that fussed about the situation, but I can't help musing about the general questions that situations like this raise: e.g., Why did Katie think that Joe showed leadership, but I apparently did not show any such trait?
We will never really know, of course, but I think it is in the realm of possible -- and even very likely -- that this is related to the phenomenon in which fathers get major bonus points for being involved in school activities, whereas moms are expected to be involved. If so, then Katie's mother saw my e-mail as routine, but Joe's as special because -- even in 2010 -- it is more rare for dads to be involved.
And perhaps she was trying to praise Joe for being involved because then he would feel so wonderful that he would start attending the monthly parent meetings at the school and then he'd volunteer to help run the silent auction and coach the ultimate Frisbee team. And perhaps Katie knows that I am a lost cause re. all of those things and that the most anyone can expect from me is to be a driver in a carpool.
Again, who knows and, in this one trivial case, who cares? But it is not so trivial at a more cosmic level if women are not perceived as leaders even when there is evidence to the contrary. According to the logic of the scenario described above, a man is a leader when he agrees with a woman who took some initiative.
Actually, on second thought, I don't have a problem with that.
Labels: family, women, work-life balance
DrugMonkey said...
my experience in such scenarios suggests it is even more likely that the person was an email dumbass who did not actually understand that you wrote the original plan.
Maybe Katie is one of those email illeterate people who didn't realise that you sent the first email, but thought that the whole thing was from Joe?
Why do you hate carpools so much?
Rest assured, FSP, that if I, your faithful anonymous reader, was on your carpool list, I would have immediately replied-to-all with a snide "Yeah, that was awesome leadership that Joe showed in agreeing with FSP's plan."
Did you consider that Katie might just be bad at using e-mail? Some e-mail clients group threads together, so she might have thought your e-mail was written by him. I know it might seem silly, but I know many, many people who are computer-inept.
Meadow said...
You may get comments about overreacting, but I think there's something going on here. It indicates how ingrained it is in a woman's mind to give a man credit over a woman. We can be our own worst enemies. I've often said the battle for equality must be fought by women among women, not men, but few get what I'm trying to say. Sort of like moderate versus extremists in a religion.
For example, elementary school teacher (almost all women) are some of the most unintentionally sexist people I met. At back-to-school night my kid's Kindergarten teacher proudly introduced herself as someone who had the privelege of staying home with her kids while they were young and only when they got older dis she go back to school for her education degree. I silently groaned.
This is all well and nice except it doesn't work that way in the hard sciences. Maybe we should all get education degrees. No wait clinical psychology - we can become therpists. I'll stop now before my cynical humor gets too mean.
Female Science Professor said...
That's why I wrote "OK, I know that there are many benign explanations for Katie's awe of Joe's organizational skills..". But my preferred benign explanation is that Katie is bad at reading comprehension, not e-mail in general, because Joe's e-mail made explicit mention of my previous e-mail and the plan that I (mentioned by name) proposed. She ignored a lot of clues to go straight to her "Joe-the-leader" interpretation.
I too thought that perhaps Katie didn't see the first email.
Either that or she's a SAHM with self-loathing tendencies who doesn't like to admit that there are women with strong leadership qualities.
hey, have you thought of the possibility that she's mad that it was you who made the initiative and that got recognised and not Katie? so, in order to sooth the ego (Yes, women have ego too), she chose to attribute the credit to Joe, a man, who in no way would be competition as HE is so different to the rest of mums. (Excuse my sarcasm)
mathgirl said...
I have a toddler at daycare. Each day, my husband and I share EQUALLY the responsibility of taking the toddler to daycare and bringing him back home (who takes him and who brings him depend on the day of the week, we are both in academia, with random schedules).
Each time something has to be communicated to the parents (such as "bring more diapers") the people at the daycare wait for me to show up. They never ask my husband anything, as if him going to daycare was enough effort for him.
In addition, each time there is any special activity I'm the one who is expected to miss work and be there.
Maybe they are right: after all, my husband is a postdoc and he has a boss and can't miss days as he pleases. I'm a prof and I'm my own boss, so I have much more flexibility. Oh, yes, I should tell them that...
FSP, did Joe ever reply to Katie's email?
Maybe Joe and Katie are having an affair.
Sigh. I know it's a lot to ask, but could we lay off the anti-SAHM commentary? We don't know whether or not Katie is a SAHM (she could be dumb and a working mom!) and there is nothing sexist (unintentionally or otherwise) about choosing to be a SAHM.
Thanks from a physics PhD and SAHM who is trying unsuccessfully to hide from the mommy wars.
Beyond carpool.. I am an MSP and I co-advise a few students with an FSP. Lately, the university has asked advisers to write an annual report on grad student progress, which is read and signed by the student, and put in A FILE. For the students we co-advise, FSP took the initiative of writing the letters, asked me and the students to come to her office for a brief discussion and for signature, and everyone walked away happy (mostly). At the next faculty meeting, our department chair announced that these letters were slow coming and singled ME out with (excessive) praise for getting my act together early and efficiently. My FSP colleague and I exchanged a glance across the table and started laughing, because this is so predictable it has become funny.
The "only women care about their children's education" meme is a strong one. I go to PTA meetings at my son's high school. The first meeting of the year was about 20% men, but by the third meeting I was the only male there. There is no intrinsic reason I can see for this (meeting time, format, content of discussion, ...). The women-only meme does seem stronger at public schools than private ones locally (all the men at the first meeting had had their kids in private schools for middle school).
Eilat said...
I agree with Anonymous...
Katie has the hots for Joe ;-)
(this would infuriate me, if I were in your situation)
Elizabeth, This is not about SAHM and mommy wars. Has nothing to do with mothers.
Math Girl, I got that all the time from day care. So I acted incompetent and forgetful at such stuff (don't we all know a guy who does that). I liked the ladies there and still take my kid back to visit and they laugh about my incompetence (knowing fully why).
After reading the comments I vote for "Katie has the hots for Joe" That's it ;) no futher analysis needed.
Anon 9:30 who is actually my colleague -- Yeah, that was weird, but I didn't mind that he gave you credit for what was essentially a clerical task. In fact, I wish our chair did not have such a high opinion of my clerical skills, and I hope that he now transfers this admiration to you!
I have a FEP colleague that this recently happened to - she and MEP are co-advising a student, but she does most of the work (meetings, etc). Student needed some letter for visa/scholarship type thing, and MEP asked FEP to help - student offered to write letter draft and made NO MENTION of FEP in it (only MEP) - forwarded it to FEP for her to get MEP's signature.
student is female. sigh. why can't women give women credit? did she think it would look bad that her advisor was a woman?
I have come to the conclusion that men's voices are louder than women's, no matter who the listener is...and whether the communication is in person or via email. What astounds me is how people can completely distort reality to fit their perceptions...
According to the logic of the scenario described above, a man is a leader when he agrees with a woman who took some initiative.
I do have a problem with that, because I think it leads directly to people assuming your work is your husband's.
My husband and I don't work in the same field, but we have both been in synagogue leadership and it was widely assumed that when I was president, he was helping me with process and policy, but when he was president I was helping with clerical tasks. At one point the rabbi (a woman) suggested that I should take over his Email and calendar organization for him - this in response to my statement that I was looking for my next meaningful job in the congregation.
I don't think there's anything to do about it in this one instance, but it does bother me. It bothers me a lot.
Count your blessings, FSP. If people start realizing that you're good at organizing things, guess what you'll be stuck doing? :)
Meadow: For example, elementary school teacher (almost all women) are some of the most unintentionally sexist people I met. At back-to-school night my kid's Kindergarten teacher proudly introduced herself as someone who had the privelege of staying home with her kids while they were young and only when they got older dis she go back to school for her education degree. I silently groaned.
Me: I know it's a lot to ask, but could we lay off the anti-SAHM commentary...there is nothing sexist (unintentionally or otherwise) about choosing to be a SAHM.
Meadow: Elizabeth, This is not about SAHM.
Me: ?
Another great example. This is the stuff that makes us wonder - are we really being paranoid? Because we don't have comparable examples where the opposite occurred. In fact, I can't think of any. I can only think of instances like this one, where I proposed something, and a man showed up later, agreed with me, and walked away with all the credit.
I like that this is at least a benign example where it did not hurt your career.
Elizabeth, it is not about SAHM. It is about insecure women who make themselves feel better by putting others down for their choices. The teacher in question believes it is a "privilege" to stay at home and a woman would never willingly choose to work. Several stay-at-home-moms rolled their eyes too. Why did you assume it was just working women who wouldn't like such a comment?
This is about women who have such poor self-worth that they automatically look to men for leadership. (no wait Katie has the hots for Joe, really does make more sense)
I say, if a guy exhibits this behavior its because the women in his life encourage it. (The chairman's wife/sister/mom should kick his butt when she hears his sexist assumptions.)
And clearly I have too much time on my hands today ;)
Female Computer Scientist said...
Actually, I wonder if she's jealous of the attention your initial email got from Joe. I've noticed women do some really bizarre things when they think you're a competitor. (Even if everyone involved is married / already in a relationship / etc.). Also, that email she wrote sounds far too over-the-top sappy for just organizing a carpool. (And what the heck is "and others"? Did she seriously write that? Ugh.)
Might be worth gathering some data on this woman when you see her next. If you detect any lurking jealousy, just gush a lot about your husband. I've pulled this maneuver on several occasions when some woman decides I am A Threat To Her Man, and it smoothes things over 100% of the time.
Our society quite rightly frowns (at least explicitly) on patronizing women for "men's work" (e.g. "She's really an excellent scientist for a woman"). When will it stop being acceptable to patronize men for doing "women's work?"
Joe did little, and people reacted as if he had done much, quite probably because he's a man. Does it please us when this happens with genders reversed? Does it honor anybody? Is it not rather an insult, as if nothing so much as a content-free e-mail could be expected of him?
In my three years of being a father, I have been puzzled by this. If I change a diaper, I'm a hero/leader/Family Man (never mind that nobody puts diaper tables in men's restrooms). If my wife changes a diaper, nobody notices. The examples multiply.
At the very least, give poor Joe a break on it until you see him bragging.
Meadow, ok that makes a little more sense. If she really said that a woman would never choose to work then that is clearly silly. However, if it's just the choice of the word 'privilege' that you're put off by, I think you may have misunderstood. SAHMs generally use the phrase "I'm privileged to be a SAHM" in an attempt to *avoid* seeming smug or judgmental. We are trying to emphasize that we know we are lucky to be in a position that allows us to make a choice, that we understand that finances or other constraints make having an at-home parent impossible/undesirable for many families, that we are placing no judgment on anyone else's choices. It's exactly what I would expect someone to say who was sharing her history as a SAHM with a group of parents and was trying not to offend anyone. It's almost funny but also kind of depressing that a phrase that is intended to head off 'mommy wars' misunderstandings may have caused one in this case.
"(never mind that nobody puts diaper tables in men's restrooms)"
But the engineering building here (E2) has diaper tables in all the men's restrooms. So does the local bookstore downtown. In fact, just about any place around here that puts diaper tables in the women's restrooms also puts them in the men's restrooms.
I suspect that this is a regional thing, not universal.
Pagan Topologist said...
I give up. What does "SAHM" mean?
Rosie Redfield said...
And did Joe have the good manners to send another email correcting Katie's error?
Subsequent carpool emails dealt with the practical issues at hand. Joe is a nice guy and does his share of driving, including the early morning drives that are my least favorite, and that's really all I care about. I have never met Katie, but I like her daughter and am happy to drive her around with the others to these Activities.
Being a father, I always get the opposite (and equally bad) treatment. Most moms simply assume that I am more incompetent than them at parenting simply because I am a guy. I wish these roles weren't so stigmatized!
I agree with your explanations as most likely but consider: perhaps he was more assertive in his wording ('finalize' vs 'propose tentative' -- he wasn't asking people to think) and thus got the credit. I tend to be very unassertive and have had similar experiences many times (though I am neither female nor a parent).
Bagelsan said...
That's why I wrote "OK, I know that there are many benign explanations for Katie's awe of Joe's organizational skills.."
NOO, FSP! Let the anonymous posters explain to you, over and over, why you are probably wrong! Don't interrupt them with facts.
Just because you actually wrote down on record that there are benign explanations doesn't mean you aren't still too stupid to think of benign explanations (just like your written record of leadership in no way indicates that you ever led.) :p
geomom said...
spot. on. Men get extra credit for parenting at work and at home. SO typical!
Interesting take... As a grad student for many years and therefore someone whose been away from the domestic life (as the kid) for many years, I'm going to go with Occam's razor on this one. Katie, a busy mother and not as tech savvy read the most recent email in her inbox and in the interest of time made the assumption that Joe came up with the idea.
I doubt it was because she believes mothers are expected to participate and impressed that fathers do. Or perhaps she is deeply resentful of your being a FSP rather than a stay-at-home mother and sent the email to specifically slight you?
Who knows? I've been away from soccer mom activities for a while now, so that's just my initial opinion. And like you said, we'll never really know the real reason why Katie decided to thank Joe for his leadership.
maybe Katie saw the situation as you being akin to Joe's secretary because you were doing the grunt work (i.e. the actual work) while he appeared to sit back and just give his stamp of approval.
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Although I never dined with the Air America broadcasters, I finally had a meal with one of the two invited guests, Paul Krugman, who was just off a plane from Tokyo bearing a cold. Though I tried to sit far enough away not to be infected, I brought it back to Canada with me.
I asked him if he was as surprised as we were by our country's soaring dollar. He said it was because of the "oil shale." Actually, his country has oil shale, Canada has oil SANDS. Different stuff, but perhaps his cold was interfering with his brain. In the seminars, he complained about Obama's health care plan and over dinner, and spoke of the need for instant health care in the US. I gave him and the rest of the diners a capsule history of our own system. As a native of Saskatchewan, I told him how our beloved premier Tommy Douglas fought for 17 years to get it in our province- it was hardly an overnight sensation. He mentioned that Truman tried it in 1947, with the Republicans blocking it then, as now. Thankfully his ignorance of Canada wasn't as contagious as his cold.
Rachel Maddow is my favourite Air American and she finally showed up the 2nd half of the cruise. From the opening night, I'd been part of a conspiracy to promote the re-hiring of her former comedy partner, Kent Jones (whose segment was called Kent Jones Now-hence her shirt). At the opening party, Air America's boss said they couldn't afford him. Hopefully they will be able to afford the Firesign Theatre.
Not long before Rachel took the microphone here, at a seminar about how to make Air America a better network, I stood up and gave a short speech answering that question by suggesting they hire The Firesign Theatre to do some comedy for them. I had been mentioning The Firesign Theatre to various people all week, and when I said "Firesign Theatre," many people applauded and Lionel said, "Cat, they'll be on my show." I hope this actually happens.
At the final party, many people thrust cameras in my hands and insisted I take their picture with the goddess. Someone even volunteered to do the same for me. Her jean jacket did a lot more for her than my black suit did for me.
Every night, I returned from dinner and the usual party in the Crow's Nest to find yet another towel animal atop my bed. I couldn't figure out if this was supposed to be an anteater or an elephant. Maybe Bit would have found it cute, when she was a kid.
The amuse bouche for the final meal. We had dinner every night in a spacious two-story restaurant called The Vista Restaurant on the 2nd level, the same level as the the Vista Lounge where all the seminars were held. The seminars were much, much better than the meals.
The best meal was said to be the Dutch national dish, brisket and mashed vegetables and it was better than anything I ever ate in the Netherlands (Ok, that's not saying much.). I also enjoyed the chicken mole- even though it was supposedly made with a primitive form of chocolate, it wasn't at all chocolaty, thankfully. The surf and turf: lobster and filet mignon, was a disaster. I also remember some crab which was edible, at best. I had other stuff but remember it not. The soups, which looked great on the menu, were immensely inferior to the store-bought soups I'm used to in Vancouver.
For some reason, everyone at my table for the final meal had the duck. It was pretty good.
I avoided deserts throughout the cruise and am particularly glad I avoided this one. Called a Baked Alaska, those who ordered it said it was hideous. Pretty on the plate though.
I didn't come on the cruise to eat. I came to plug the Firesign Theatre and attend some seminars with people I'd been enjoying listening to on the radio for the past several years. Whales, shrimp and dolphins were also greatly appreciated.
Mexico 4: Puerto Vallarta
The 3rd Mexican excursion I'd signed up for was the Dolphin Encounter in Puerto Vallarta. This involved a bunch of glowing white people getting in a pool with two dolphins. The mother let us touch her stomache, which felt like a kind of living rubber. In the next part of the pool, a baby dolphin came over and "kissed" us as the photographer snapped away. The other folks complained that this dolphin spent more time with my face than theirs. Must be the beard.
While some of the group ate, I followed some iguanas. Probably trained to sniff dollars.
It seemed fitting, in the town made famous by the movie Night of the Iguana.
A sleeping sibling.
Lots of flowers. It is after all, Mexico.
The restaurant I'd made a reservation at told me (through a $35 phone call from the ship) that I had to wear long pants and a long shirt. Wandering around PV with such massively inappropriate clothing was quite painful in the intense heat of the city. The statues along the waterfront looked like they were having more fun than me. I had the long sleeve shirt in my bag and walked the city wearing my T-shirt with a picture of Bit on it, as she had spent a week in this city 12 years ago and I wanted to show it to her again.
I saw a Canadian flag on this bar called No Home and went in. A sports bar, full of memorabilia and good vibes. I had a couple of Dos Equis with slices of lime inserted in the bottles. After walking around for two hours in the hideous heat, they tasted miraculous. Did Bit ever drink in this bar? I killed the last hour before my 6:00 dinner reservation.
The restaurant, which the web indicated was the best in PV, is called Cafe Des Artistes, was not surprisingly, surrounded by art galleries.
Looked nice enough from the outside. Once inside, I had the choice of dining inside or outside in the "garden." Who could guess from outside there was a pocket forest inside?
The amuse bouche, fennel crème with bruchetta, mushrooms. Yellow leaf not pepper surely. Its quite satisfying. Satisfying isn’t really what I want. It’s quite hot here. I’ve been wandering around for a couple of hours here with long cords, however rolled up. Now I’m here and there are other men in shorts. I’m one of a number of men here in t-shirts (with long shirt unbuttoned on top) and it’s already 6:00. I begin with a tiny bottle of Orange Widow, a perfectly Firesonian way to begin my invocation of trying to get the Firesign more attention (the staff of Radio Now drink it in the magnificent Firesign album Give Me Immortality, or Give Me Death.)
Serious presentation here. Little dribbles of jewels known only to this chef cast upon the bowl for our instant visual enjoyment only, then subsumed by an ocean of pumpkin/prawn soup, doled out of an actual pumpkin as a speciality of the house. Fumiyo, and many others make an excellent pumpkin soup, and I’m in the land of prawns, so how can I go wrong? Well, first by not telling the server to stop after a single ladle full. First sip hits me as a chocolate, and then it becomes a pumpkin flavour. Nouvelle comfort food, if there is such a thing.
The water is not cold enough. I request more ice cubes, At first they seem not to know the word.
It’s a flat San Pellegrino I’m drinking (between wine pairings)and it goes so much better with enough cubes. A subtle comfort food, it is so filling but I refuse to fill up on soup.
Looks like ceviche. Not as bad as I feared. I ordered a white wine, and it was kind of buttery, not what you’d expect from a saugivnon blanc. Is it paired poorly with the ceviche salad dressing? They don’t mind taking away 97% of what they just brought me. Or at least pretend not to really well. I hope they feast on my inability to. Most people have big appetites The fact that I’m not one of them, doesn’t faze them. The fact that I avoid all raw fish like the plague and would never have ordered it is no longer relavent. An amuse bouche BETWEEN courses is a novelty our restaurants should consider.
It’s a chard after all. The sauvignon blanc shows up next and is the real palate cleanser. Endive and goat cheese, a fine combination.
The lemon foam the sea bass is bathing in is exquisite. Reminds me of the sea bass at Caruso’s in Sorrento, with the wonderful lemons from its volcanic soil. This lemon foam lacks the bite of Caruso’s limoncello sauce, but that’s not a bad thing. The scalloped potatoes don’t taste like potatoes at all. The chef has invented a new flavour for potatoes. Does he get to be prime minister of Ireland? That’s good cooking: you see something on your plate and you know what it is, but you can’t recognize the taste. The mini ice bucket, to keep my glass cold, not just the bottle. What a great idea! I dread the green cone may contain avocado and rejoice to discover, instead, it tastes like the wonderful Stauffers spinache soufflé I used to enjoy decades ago. Actually it doesn’t work well with the potatoes, magnifies the starchiness. You don’t want bland waves overwhelming the subtle flavours of the potato-bass combination. The flavour begins to fail as the fish gets cooler too. I marvel at the cheapness of one of the best fish dishes I've ever eaten and take a cab back to the ship, where I watch my tablemates feast on something nowhere near as good at dinner. My fondness for Mexico has been magically magnified.
Mexico 3: The Ms Oosterdam
The best part of the Air America Radio seminar cruise, was not surprisingly, the seminars. Usually two a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, though sometimes more. I hope at least a few of them are broadcast on the network.
After the first seminar, I attended a lecture about Miro, given by the ship’s art gallery which is also selling Miros and others. Even my tour of the Miro Foundation in Barcelona in 2002 wasn’t as educational as this talk. We are shown a Miro and asked what it looks like. One person said “Snoopy.” I said “an amoeba” and the lecturer said yeah, the biomorphic resonances abound in the painting. On understanding Miro, she told about how when she first saw this ship, she wondered how it would have enough fuel and carry enough food for all the passengers, whereas a child would look at it and says “big boat.” That’s what Miro wants us to think about art, at least His art. I remember taking Bit as a child to art galleries in Tokyo and learning from her how to look at art.
At the opening party, I saw Jim Hightower’s towering Texas hat and made my way over to him. I gave him an Adbusters, and told him how much his commentaries inspired me when I was writing articles in the mag’s beginning.. He remembered having Kalle on his long format call in radio show in the 90s. In general, a wondrously warm individual, just like on the radio and in his books.
In a seminar, when someone mentioned getting Democrats to agree was like herding cats, Jim said, “anyone who thinks you can’t herd cats has never tried a can opener.” Although I’d rather be Cat than cat food, the metaphor was apt.
I'd never heard Lionel or Jon Elliot's radio shows but really enjoyed their seminar contributions, and promised them I'd listen to their shows. Air America's resident radio goddess Randi Rhodes was as entertaining in the seminars as she is on her afternoon show I usually listen to. I talked to her for a few minutes at the opening night party, about her dog and my dog and when she started talking about her passion for gardening, I wanted to continue that thread but she was whisked away by the 400 other Air America cruisers who demanded her attention. After the humour seminar, where perhaps she shone because of the humourous company, including one of America's funniest and wisest men, Jim Hightower, I told her that was the funniest I'd ever heard her- and she always tries to be funny on her show and usually succeeds. Laughter can create a better world than the one we have now.
I had an omlette prepared to my choice of ingredients at the "Omlette Station" on the Lido Food deck on Sunday, then opted for a room service omlette to save time before boarding the whale watching boat in Cabo on Monday morning. This "room service" meal, my only one of the cruise, was far better than the one made to order for me on the "food deck." The rosemary potatoes were restaurant quality, and I mean the restaurants I go to (see the entire rest of the blog). Most (but not all-the fish was edible only with lots of $9.00 a glass wine) of its food was edible, if your standards are quite low.
The Crow's Nest, on the 10th floor, was the scene of the continuing Air America party that began every night at 10:00. Sometimes it was a race to finish dinner and get there while seats were still available. The bar was quite minor league in terms of drinks it could prepare. My throat was usually so sore from talking to dinner companions, I'd order a hot toddy and they had to go to a different part of the ship to get hot water for it.
This chamber is supposed to put you in an alpha state. Darkness, magic fingers, new age music on headsets= the alpha state? Most interesting to me was the rocking of the ship when combined with the other effects. Worth $100 for 5 half-hour sessions? The ship was relentless in trying to separate you from your money.
I signed up for the yoga class given in this gym, before discovering that by taking it, I was missing the first half of the first seminar, given on Sunday morning. Yoga seems like a good thing to pursue, and well worth $11.00
The 9th floor is called The Lido Deck, where all the free food is, along with the pool and the only place on the ship I could breathe real air. Most of the air on the ship seemed less healthy than the average airplane's air. I never entered the pool, but appreciated its existance, if only because it was surrounded by fresh air.
Our 2nd Mexican destination was Mazatlan, where I'd signed up for the shrimp feast. 3 kinds of shrimp and numerous local beers in the garden of a rich person's house, overlooking the many poor, not quite disguised by the flowers. The most enjoyable part of the feast was talking with a lunch companion, who'd been a soldier in Mao's army, first against the Japanese and then against Chiang Kai-Shek. When Mao took power, he realized that he was even worse than the others he'd fought against, and fled to the west. For all the political savy of the Air America folks, they seemed like smart kindergarteners next to this old guy.
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Mexico 2: Cabo San Lucas, Whales, Sea Lions and Pelicans
The music for this is called Sailing Wonder by Masuo. I rented an album by a fusion guitarist I was fond of, Larry Carleton, in the small Japanese city where I was living in the early 80s. When I got the record home, there was this Masuo disc inside, instead of the Carleton. I couldn't complain.
My family went whale watching in Baja, California when I was 11. It was a magical experience that has kept me fond of marine mammals ever since. This was a kind of booster shot for that long ago experience.
A vacation from my cruise. Our cat Jazz also likes reflections.
Mexico Trip #1- San Diego
As soon as I heard the radio station I've listened to every day since it went on the air a few years ago, Air America, was having a cruise to Mexico. I signed up. Although I had no interest in cruises (my parents once cruised the Caribbean, to no enjoyment whatsoever) or that part of Mexico, the opportunity to plug The Firesign Theatre to a bunch of people who could put them on the air for several million listeners was not to be passed up. Maybe I'd get some good food too.
The ship, the Holland America ms Oosterdam, had to boarded by Saturday at 1:00. It was difficult to get a flight to San Diego from Vancouver early enough to gauarantee I'd board on time so I went the previous day. I booked a motel near Old Town, which proved a perfect introduction to Mexico. Cute old builldings, touristy trinkets (I bought a much needed hat) and some fabulous Red Pepper Soup at O'Hungrys fortified me against the surprisingly chilly weather. I didn't know it ever got chilly in San Diego, just chilis.
Wandering around old town, full and happy from the amazing soup, some lovely flowers around a fountain that seemed lifted out of The Alhambra in Spain demanded I take their picture.
I searched the internet for the best restaurant for fine dining in San Diego and was directed to Bertrand at Mr. A's. The lobster strudel was a signature dish and sounded fantastic, on paper.
I’ve been looking forward to eating this Maine Lobster Strudel since I saw it on the website. As I begin eating it, it’s not nearly as good as I was expecting. The cognac lobster sauce is rather abrasive. I scrape the lobster out of the filo, but it doesn’t improve. The wine is an excellent pair, but the strudel isn’t really edible.
The Pan Seared Dover Sole Goujonnette, sauce Vierge, vegetables Provencale & Pommes Nouvelles is served with a fine Chablis that is supposed to cut the acidity of the Mediterranean ingredients. The server goes on and on about the Dover Sole, how it’s cooked differently than the usual way (what that would be isn’t explained). Well, I’m here for this great chef. His strudel sure didn’t impress me, now let’s try his fish. I get a great sommelier and a great view, do I need great food too? It’s more than I can eat, unfortunately. I’d damaged my stomach’s capacity with the strudel and the fish is superb. Olives and cherry tomatoes invoke the Mediterranean without all that worrisome acid. I evade desert and stroll out onto the balcony to savour the view.
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Shanklin: We will avoid Scotland trap
(Main) Tom Shanklin is stopped yards from the line by a desperate French tackle after breaking early into the second half (Thumb) Tom Shanklin leaves the field after making a huge impact on his full return to international rugby
Wales centre, Tom Shanklin, says they will try not to fall into the same trap that caught Scotland out in the remarkable opening minutes of their clash with Italy.
Before six minutes were up, the Scots were 21-0 down against Italy at Murrayfield after gifting two interception tries and a charge down. Shanklin says Wales will study the Italian defence and will not try the same reckless approach which undid Scotland.
"They put a lot of pressure on Scotland with their defence and it's something we are going to have to look at," said Shanklin, one of the Wales try scorers in Paris. "They are quite similar to France with the speed of their line and the aggressiveness of their defence.
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Wales outscored France in Paris in terms of tries scored; three to two. Shanklin crossed the line for the second to put Gareth Jenkins's team 14-3 up early on.
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DIVISION THREE.
Brynithel against Llanharan stands out in the East as the leaders entertain the second-placed club and in the West, Haverfordwest try for their 12th successive win at home to Tumble, though Kidwelly, also on 33 points, visit Hendy.
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Kenfig Hill as stubborn as their name of Mules, especially if deadly left-foot goalkicker Mark Jones is playing. The outstanding match could be Nantyffyllon at home to Bryncoch.
DIVISION FOUR.
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If Trinant against Oakdale is the top match in the East, it is even more so with Resolven at home to Aberavon Green Stars in the South-West, where the Green Stars did not in fact win at Porthcawl last wek as stated by the media.
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New Fiction: The Confectioneer's Christmas Tale
I wanted to voice my opinions about the upcoming holiday and how I feel that we ought to really really really reflect on what has happened to our nation and many of its people this year. But I've decided to keep those thoughts to myself. They are mine and are reserved for me, my friends, and my family. Wide Awake is a forum for voicing commentary about comics and other entertainment mediums and for showcasing new fiction. But I do hope you will stop for a moment in the holiday madness and remember not to take it all too serious.
This week I'm taking a break from The Vocalist and have, instead, penned a story with a holiday theme to it. Try it while sipping a glass of eggnog, won't you?
The Confectioneer’s Christmas Tale
First of all, I have to tell you that I didn’t like the odds. Not that I hadn’t championed in the face of overwhelming odds before--I mean, I’d done it once or twice at least--but really, no one really wants to be on the outnumbered side of an uneven fight. But there I was, on a crowded city street, with the Dry Cleaner and the Corduroy Man each wanting a piece of yours truly who was, in fact, dressed in the red and white suit of Old Saint Nick. Had they known they were attacking the Confectioneer, one of the city’s “10 best crime fighters” (according to The Daily), they probably wouldn’t have hesitated, wouldn’t have attacked with pulled punches. But as far as they knew, they were attacking Kris Kringle, and even lowlife super-villains will occasionally demonstrate a shred of dignity. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
It began just two weeks ago. Super-villain activity in Lakeside City had been really slow, and my nightly patrols as the Confectioneer were becoming a colossal waste of time at best. Most super criminals were either incarcerated or had fled to another city. Lakeside City may not have had much going for it, but it did have a substantial number of masked crime fighters keeping its streets safe. But while crimes being committed by masked menaces had declined drastically throughout the year, ordinary robberies continued in Lakeside City as they do in any municipality.
Recently, a series of crimes that were clearly linked had sparked my interest. As you probably know, organizations such as the Salvation Army routinely set up collection spots in front of department stores, shopping malls, etc. during the month of December. And because crime seems to never pause for holidays, a duo of criminals had begun stealing the collection pots (and their contents) in a most non-festive fashion. Between December 1 and December 10, the criminals--who were described by eyewitnesses as juveniles between the ages of 16 and 18--had struck on six separate occasions. Police had no substantial leads, and were not very concerned with the crimes; the cops were busily trying to apprehend a thief (or possibly thieves) who’d recently stolen a rare coin from the Vandenberg museum valued at $2.5 million. Because there seemed to be no nightly need for the Confectioneer, I’d decided to volunteer my services to the Salvation Army. Thus, I’d donned a Santa suit and each day between the hours of 2:00 pm and 10:00 pm. rang a bell and collected donations from good-hearted citizens who passed by the Macy’s building at 4th and Victory. I stood several feet away from the collection bucket, hoping that my distant proximity would entice the perpetrators to again strike. While I did not wear my Confectioneer uniform beneath the Santa suit (for fear that I would certainly dehydrate from excessive perspiration), I was, nonetheless, confident that I could easily apprehend the felons unaided, but hoped that it would happen soon since I had plenty of holiday shopping to complete for the kids (Joan noted that this year it was my turn to do the gift buying); in addition, my freelance work was backing up--a huge stack of manuscripts sat on the chair of my PC at home waiting to be edited.
No further crimes against the volunteers (myself included) were committed between December 10 and December 23. On the afternoon of the 24th, a tired-looking, modestly dressed man turned onto Victory at 3rd and staggered in my general direction. He stumbled through the crowd, knocking people aside with no regard for their safety. Finally, he stepped toward the collection urn, his body teetering and his head reeling from side to side. The smell of cheap whiskey was heavy on his breath and clothing. He reached into the pocket of his overcoat and threw a handful of change into the urn. His eyes were blue and familiar. I swear they were the bluest eyes I’d ever seen in my entire life.
“Merry Christmaaas,” he said, and staggered along.
“Happy holidays,” I replied, watching curiously as he lurched away.
“What the Hell was that all about?” Max, the 53-year-old shoe polisher whose bench was several feet to my right asked.
“I’m not really sure.”
“Takes all kinds, I guess,” he replied, and returned to the task of shining his customer’s penny loafers.
I looked down the street, but the blue-eyed wino was gone. The sidewalks were replete with last-minute shoppers, and I knew that I needed to join them shortly, lest my hide be skinned at 6:01 a.m. December 25 by an enraged wife and two disappointed kids.
I heard them before I actually saw them. They approached from the west, as had the inebriated yet generous stranger who’d recently departed. They pushed their way through the crowd, most of whom, upon recognizing them, either ran or stepped out of the way.
“Who wants extra starch?” the masked villain asked as a cloud of smoke and steam suddenly erupted and several pedestrians collapsed. I held my breath as the steam reached me waiting for it to dissipate; I was familiar with its parallelizing effects. It was the toxic chemicals used by the arch criminal The Dry Cleaner. The street thinned out quickly, like wrinkles in a sleeve disappearing before a hot steam iron, as realization dawned on the many passersby, and unconsciousness claimed still many others. Seconds later, a loud, irritating sound filled the street. It grew in intensity and had an almost nauseating quality. It was the sound of Roy Cord, aka the Corduroy Man, whose very body was comprised of corduroy material. His walk--his swish-swish-swish movements--were nearly unbearable. The costumed villains approached me and me alone.
“Merry Christmas, Santa,” the Dry Cleaner said, mockingly. “We’ve been good boys all year and we’re here for our Christmas present.” I stood close to the urn, which by now contained several hundred dollars in change and loose bills. Yet I was singularly confused. The Dry Cleaner and the Corduroy Man were heavy-hitting super villains whose prior schemes had been innovative if not extraordinary. They clearly were not responsible for the previous thefts that had led to my under-cover self-appointed Santa assignment. As the Confectioneer, I’d faced the Corduroy Man on several previous occasions. Had he somehow learned my secret identity? Was his a revenge-oriented crime? No. He seemed intent fully on the pot, and not at all on me. And there was no time to focus on the hows or whys of the situation. I felt the brushed cotton of Corduroy’s fist as it stuck the back of my neck and lost my footing. I slid on the snow-covered sidewalk a full ten feet from the impact of the blow. The crowd, which had initially dispersed, was slowly gathering around again, curious to watch, but maintaining a safe distance so as not to incur personal violence. It was difficult to move in the Santa suit; I sat up, stunned, wishing I could find a temporary haven in which I could change into my Confectioneer uniform, but quickly remembered that the uniform was in my closet at home. The next voice I heard was faint and small, but clearly audible from the parked Volvo against which I rested my aching body.
“Mom, what’s happened to Santa?”
“Santa’s okay, dear,” the parent told her child reassuringly. It was then that I realized there were several children in the vicinity watching with their parents the drama that was unfolding like so much Christmas wrapping paper.
Clearly, I was faced with a difficult dilemma. I could either: 1. Allow the villains to escape with the donation pot or 2. Attack the fiends dressed as St. Nick and possibly destroy the fragile psyches of the children whose curious eyes watched my every move.
The Dry Cleaner ripped free the urn from its tripod and held it with both hands--it was clearly more cumbersome than he’d anticipated.
“It’s too heavy,” he shouted to his partner in crime.
“Set it down, idiot!” the Corduroy Man replied condescendingly. He then began sifting through the collection pot, searching it with the utmost determination for several long seconds.
“Got it,” he said, though what he had was unclear from my vantage point. “Leave the rest.”
I assessed the surroundings, and saw the dismayed faces of the crowd. The children and adults were equally disheartened by the crime that was being committed. In that moment I knew it would be okay. I knew that my actions would be condoned, or at least understood, by those watching me. I stood up, reached into one of the pockets of the Santa suit, and consumed a packet of sugar. The sugar rush began to consume me as the veins on my arms began to surge with vitality. As the duo attempted to flee the scene, the Dry Cleaner extended his right hand and prepared to fire his lethal dry-cleaning fluid into the gaping crowd. I sprang from the ground with reindeer speed and bent his arm back so that the fluid discharge impacted with his own face. He dropped to his knees and cried out in anguish. As his partner looked on in dismay and uncertainty, I turned quickly and tripped him to the frozen sidewalk. The Corduroy May fell hard, his head impacting with the sidewalk, and even though his body contained no bone mass, the impact rendered him unconscious. The street fell silent for a moment until all that was heard was the sound of snowflakes crunching against the pavement.
“Way to go Santa,” someone yelled. I didn’t wish to encourage them, but waved a hand in appreciation.
In the fingertips of the unconscious Corduroy Man rested a single coin--the Spanish medallion that had been recently stolen from the Vandenberg museum.
Following their apprehension, the Dry Cleaner and Corduroy Man confessed that they, along with Velvet Blue had stolen the rare coin and were intending to sell it to a foreign buyer. However, Velvet Blue, who was an alcoholic when he wasn’t committing criminal acts, had undergone a change of heart. And on a bender, he’d taken the coin and was planning to return it. However, knowing his fellow rogues were pursing him, he’d tossed the coin into my collection urn (I knew I’d seen those baby blues before) and had gone into hiding.
The coin was returned to its owner, Oscar Vandenberg. The Dry Cleaner and the Corduroy Man spent the holiday, and several subsequent holidays, in jail. Velvet Blue was never seen in Lakeside City again. And the two juveniles who had stolen the donations from a half dozen collection pots that had lead to my wearing a Santa suit confessed to the police and returned the stolen currency. Somehow, through it all, I managed to finish the holiday shopping in the eleventh-and-a-half hour. The cold winter wind and snow that blew against my face with the impact of a hundred stinging bees as I trudged home carrying boxes and bags never felt so refreshingly invigorating as it did that evening.
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Read thepapersdelivered at the SHHE conference on staff-to-student sexual harassment held at Goldsmiths in December 2015.
Someone mailed feces to four philosophers: A disquisition(New York Times, 7 October 2016
Scale of sexual abuse in UK universities likened to Savile and Catholic scandals (Guardian, 6 October 2016)
Sexual harassment of students by university staff hidden by non-disclosure agreements(Guardian, 26 August 2016)
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Sexual violence at the sociology conference, by Eric Anthony Grollman (Conditionally Acceptedblog, 31 August 2016)
Campus care advocate supports California State University, Northbridge, survivors of sexual assault(CSUN Today, 23 August 2016)
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University of Vermont quiet on response to sexual harassment complaint, Burlington Free Press(Burlington Free Press, 18 August 2016)
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Chicago professor resigns amid sexual misconduct investigation(New York Times, 2 February 2016)
“Honey bear”: Berkeley student details alleged sexual advances by professor, Guardian
Why It’s Harder For Grad Students to Report Sexual Harassment, The Huffington Post
Feminist studies professor resigns from London’s Goldsmiths university over alleged sexual harassment of students by staff, Telegraph
Ethics and the Eye of the Beholder: Thomas Pogge, one of the world’s most prominent ethicists, stands accused of manipulating students to gain sexual advantage. Buzzfeed
This Professor fell in love with his grad student-and then fired her for it:A sexual harassment case occurring at Caltech, where the academic remains employed and is required to “undergo professional coaching” on supervising and mentoring students, Buzzfeed
Letter from Caltech President to the school community on the above case
The Consequences of Sexual Harassment in Astronomy: A six-month investigation found a decade of sexual harassment complaints against famous astronomer Geoff Marcy to be credible, The Atlantic
In Academia, there is no such thing as winning a sexual harassment complaint, The Guardian
Philosophy has a sexual harassment problem, Salon
Northwestern professor resigns after sexual harassment investigation, The Guardian
Sexual Exploitation in Higher Education: A Very Private Affair
Going Human. A Blog. An Experiment. A Life
See, in particular, the blog post by Natalie Scholtz, detailing her own experiences of harassment in the Netherlands and some strategies devised to counter them: ‘These Things Can Break You (22 May 2016)
Strategic Misogyny Collects stories of sexual harassment in higher education
Feministkilljoys Prof. Sara Ahmed’s blog, with many relevant posts
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Tenure, She Wrote a collaborative blog devoted to chronicling the (mis)adventures of women in academia, from undergraduate to Full Professor
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THE SLITS, Cut
Uncut, December 1997
I remember very clearly the first time I heard Cut – it was the summer of '79, I was staying at my aunt's in the Yorkshire Dales, and I'd sneaked off to listen to The John Peel Show. The tracks – ‘Spend, Spend, Spend’ and ‘Newtown’ – sounded incredibly eerie and ethereal, partly because of the tatty, trebly transistor radio through which I heard them, but mainly because it was my first exposure to dub-wise production.
A few weeks later, Cut became the second album I ever owned. As with other records from the days when my collection was in single figures (like PiL's Metal Box), Cut's every rhythm-guitar tic and punky-dread vocal inflection is engraved in my heart.
As a just-missed-punk 16-year-old, I'd first encountered The Slits' name in a Melody Maker profile of Malcolm McLaren. After losing control of the Pistols, McLaren was offered the chance to manage The Slits and briefly schemed to make a wildly exploitative movie in which the girl-band go to Mexico, find themselves effectively sold into slavery, and are turned into porno-disco stars. Thank God, The Slits slipped out of McLaren's clutches. He went off to make skin flicks in Paris, and The Slits made Cut – one of the greatest albums of the post-punk era, alongside Metal Box, Gang Of Four's Entertainment and The Raincoats' first two records.
One of rock criticism's minor dissensions is which version of The Slits is better – the untamed, untutored rumpus of their early live gigs versus the tidied up, punky-reggae studio-Slits with dub wizard Dennis ‘Blackbeard’ Bovell at the controls.
As exciting as the 1977-78 John Peel Sessions indisputably are, The Slits sound infinitely better after they fell in with Bovell, Budgie took over the drumming (following original sticks-woman Palmolive's departure for The Raincoats), and they acquired some basic chops. On the Strange Fruit CD of those Peel sessions, you can hear the embryonic glory of Cut, but the raw tumult is closer to heavy metal bludgeon than punky-reggae sway.
Compounding the taboo-busting frisson of the band's name, Cut's cover is a confrontational classic: mud-smeared and clad only in loincloths, The Slits strike bare-breasted Amazon poses and defiantly out-stare the camera's gaze. The backdrop is a picturesque, bramble-strewn English cottage – as if to say, ‘We're no delicate English roses’. The back-sleeve has Ari, Viv and Tessa daubed in warpaint, lurking in a bush. The music and lyrical stance is just as fierce, kicking off with two jibes at punk rock machismo, ‘Instant Hit’ and ‘So Tough’ (the latter namechecking a "Sid" and a "John"). Everything great about The Slits is instantly audible in these songs: the itchy-and-scratchy rhythm guitar, the revved-up but rootsical basslines, Budgie's clackety rimshot drums, and, above all, the strange geometry of the clashing and overlapping girl-harmonies. Ari Up's harsh Teutonic accent makes her sound like a guttersnipe Nico, on sulphate rather than smack.
‘Spend, Spend, Spend’ is where Bovell's dub-wisdom makes its presence felt. It's desolate dirge-skank, all sidling bass and brittle drums. Ari's portrait of a shopaholic is truly poignant as she tries to "satisfy this empty feeling" with impulse-purchases. But if ‘Spend’ is woman-as-consumerist-dupe, ‘Shoplifting’ turns this on its head, imagining petty theft as proto-feminist insurrection: "We pay fuck-all!" Oi!-meets-Riot-Grrrl backing vocals urge, "Do a runner! Do a runner!", and the music – surging, spasming dub-funk – does exactly that as Ari unleashes an exhilarating scream of glee-and-terror, then collapses in giggles with the admission: "I've pissed in my knickers!"
The sombre ‘FM’ critiques the mass media. Ari's protagonist wonders, "What's feeding my screams?", and describes radio transmissions as "frequent mutilation... serving for the purpose of those who want you to fear". ‘Newtown’ is an Irvine Welsh-like vision of a society based around addiction and surrogate-satisfactions, drawing a disconcerting parallel between the cathode-ray junkies "sniffing televisiono, taking foot-ballino" and The Slits' own bohemian milieu numbed-out on illegal narcotics. The jittery, scraping guitar mimics the fleshcrawling ache of cold turkey, while dub-FX of dropping spoons ram home the analogy.
‘Ping Pong Affair’ is about emotional withdrawal: Ari measures out the empty post-break-up evenings with cigarettes and masturbation ("Same old thing, yeah I know, everybody does it"). ‘Love Und Romance’, scorns the very lovey-dovey intimacy that ‘Ping Pong’ craved. It's a witheringly sardonic parody of smotherlove-as-braindeath, with Ari gloating to her boyfriend: "Oh my darling, who wants to be free?"
‘Typical Girls’ – the only single off Cut – was The Slits' manifesto, a mocking diatribe against the non-punkette ordinary girls who "Don't create/don't rebel" and whose heads are addled with women's-magazine-implanted anxieties about "Spots, fat, unnatural smells". With its cut-and-dried, programmatic critique of conditioning, ‘Typical Girls’ is the closest The Slits got to the 1979 agit-funk bands. But unlike, say, The Au Pairs, The Slits sound riotous rather than righteous.
After Cut – 32 minutes of near-perfection that ends with the touching if slight ‘Adventures Close To Home’ – The Slits went all earth-mother feminist and tribal conscious. 1981 saw the belated sequel to Cut: the African-influenced Return Of The Giant Slits, whose off-kilter meters and cluttered soundscapes make it a poor cousin to The Raincoats' mistress-piece, Odyshape.
But, by '81, the post-punk zeitgeist had shifted to New Pop. String sections, suits and synths were de rigueur; anything that smacked of bohemian withdrawal from the mainstream was lambasted as punky-hippie defeatism. The Slits scattered: Ari Up became a fully-fledged Rasta, settled down and had babies; Viv Albertine eventually worked in TV; Tessa got into martial arts.
Although The Slits' attitude was clearly a crucial ancestor for Riot Grrrl and its UK chapter (Huggy Bear et al), the question of their musical legacy is more elusive. 1979-81 post-punk experimentalism – death-disco, agit-funk, ‘John Peel bands’ – is one of the great neglected eras of modem music.
Maybe, when people tire of Britpop's Sixties new wave tunnel-vision, that period will be rediscovered. But so far I've only ever encountered one band who cite The Slits as an influence: New York's goddess-and-Gaia-obsessed pagan funkateers, Luscious Jackson. Singer Jill Cunniff declared: "There was a time when The Slits were the epitome, the ultimate, the coolest of the cool. They were everything I wanted from life."
I second that emotion.
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GQ Style, winter 2009
Just a few months before Michael Jackson died, I felt the urge to write about him for the first time ever. I was in a café and "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" came on and even though I must have heard it hundreds of times since first seeing the video on Top of the Pops in 1979, for some reason the song hit me like a lightning bolt. For all its falsetto-funk silkiness , the sheer aggression of the sound--the coiled rhythmic tension, the stiletto penetration of Jackson's voice--seemed to attack with the force of The Stooges or Sex Pistols . But what I really came away with was a vague idea, just a phrase really: "total music", the idea of a category of pop set apart from the merely excellent. Listening, rapt, I imagined the electricity of the Off the Wall sessions: Quincy Jones assembling the highest-calibre session players available, no expense spared, and pursuing perfection with an almost militaristic focusing of energy. The achievement: flawlessness so absolute that it didn't so much transcend commercialism as blast right through it, such that domination of the radio and the discotheques was merely a by-product, a secondary benefit, of the quest.
"Total music" occurs through the synergy of talent, limitless funding, a really good idea… and something else: a superhuman drive, the "right stuff" that Tom Wolfe wrote about in connection with NASA's moon missions. I imagine this intangible elan infused the making of Abba's music, or the classic recordings of the Beatles, Phil Spector, Brian Wilson. There's loads of music that I love and that probably means more to me than "total pop", records made by artists both more unassuming yet in some ways more narcissistically self-absorbed and idiosyncratic. But there's no denying the special charge that imbues music when it's made by people who know they're making history, who can be confident they're taking it out onto the largest stage available.
In the Sixties there was a long moment where the best pop (in terms of constantly pushing forward and sheer musical quality) was also the best-selling: Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, Byrds, Dylan, Beach Boys, Doors. (There's really only a few exceptions: Love, Velvet Underground). Aesthetic ambition and commercial ambition were indivisible. This folk-memory of this ideal persisted long after it ceased to apply, inspiring everyone from Bowie and Roxy to the major punk bands to the likes of U2, Bjork, Radiohead. But over the last couple of decades the two kinds of ambition have come to seem more and more tenuously connected, to the point where a phenomenon like the Beatles seems almost implausible, a fluke.
My dad had this maxim, something like: aim for the top, because if you fall short, you'll at least reach higher than if you'd aimed for the middle and fallen short of that. It's not completely true: o'er vaulting ambition can result in "EPIC FAIL", whereas a shrewd strategy of modest aspiration might lead to steady sustained successes. Still, remembering this motto led me to this thought: if you want to do great work in music or any art form, just as important as talent or imagination is the desire to be great. You might have the most refined melodic gift, the subtlest musical mind, but if you don't have that will-to-power, the balls and the gall…
Certain bands only make sense at the top of the pop world: Springsteen and U2 were made to work in widescreen, to issue the most sweeping, speaking-for-Everyman statements. "Overbearing", "bombastic": the insults are merely the measure of their achievement, and nobody can take away those moments when they mattered (Born To Run, then again Born in the U.S.A., for Bruce; the majestic sequence from "Pride" to "Streets Have No Name", for Bono and Co). Of course, there are artists who have the temperament of the world-historical genius but who don't actually have anything worth saying. Jim Steinman, the fevered brain behind Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell, Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart", and Celine Dion's "It's All Coming Back To Me Now", exemplifies this syndrome. Steinman is far from deficient in the will-to-greatness: he's got an unbridled flair for the grandiose, plus the requisite perfectionist streak (he's been known to spend huge amounts of his own private money on projects when the original budget's run out). Unfortunately his ambition is not accompanied by the filter of taste, to put it mildly.
Talking of finances, the rise over the last decade or two of home studios and digital audio workstations, has meant that it's possible for artists to make massive-sounding and expensive-seeming albums for a fraction of what it once cost. It's much cheaper and easier to create the illusion of luxuriant orchestration or to pull off ear-boggling sonic trickery of the kind that would have taken days of intricate labour by George Martin and Abbey Road's white-coated technicians. Artistic ambition, in the old days, had to go hand in hand with commercial ambition, just to pay off the bills. Nowadays the two kinds of aspiration have become severed. The Colossal Sounding, Colossally Ambitious Album is today a sort of specialist subgenre of rock, purveyed by groups like Flaming Lips. And not just rock: take Erykah Badu, who renovates the tradition of politically engaged, autobiographically personal "progressive soul" masterpieces by the likes of Stevie Wonder, Sly Stone, and Marvin Gaye. Her vastly ambitious New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) sold pretty well but it could never hope to achieve the mass cultural impact of Songs In the Key of Life or What's Goin' On. These are different times and Badu, like her buddies The Roots and Common, is catering for a niche market of historically-informed cognoscenti who still listen out for that kind of takes-the-measure-of-the-zeitgeist Epic.
Although a singer, Badu regards herself part of hip hop. Surprisingly, given its sketchy record with the Album, rap has been one of the main places this decade where commercial ambition and artistic ambition have remained tightly entwined, with performers like Outkast, Jay-Z and Kanye West putting out sonically adventurous, alternately self-glorifying and socially-conscious albums that sold in huge numbers. It stands to reason that rap is richly endowed with "the will to be great" because the genre is all about self-aggrandisement. What LL Cool J called "talking on myself" still defines the art's core: MCs exalt their own ability to dominate and defeat the competition, finding the most vivid, witty, unique and creatively brutal ways of describing their prowess.
Rap expresses and exposes the ugly side of pop's ambition: its profoundly inegalitarian streak, a drive towards status, glory, preeminence. The aspiration to greatness often comes with a certain monstrousness of personality. Look at
Morrissey. Pop stardom was always, he frankly admitted, a form of revenge exacted on the world for his outcast adolescence. But when society's "mis-shapes" (to use Jarvis Cocker's term) become stars, the result can be unsightly. The retaliatory narcissism of early Smiths lyrics ("the sun shines out of our behinds", "England owes me a living") is one thing when the singer is a skinny wisp only a few years out of obscurity. But from a fifty year old pop institution with the build of a bouncer, striding across arena stages and tossing the microphone cord with lordly disdain, it starts to look like any old showbiz prima donna. Rap has its own Morrissey in Kanye West. I never used to understand hip hop fans complaining about his monster ego (this is rap, what did you expect guys?). But after the bloated self-pity of much of 808s & Heartbreak and his disruption of the MTV Video Awards, I'm starting to see their point.*
The supreme case of the will-to-be-great turning rancid is Michael Jackson, of course. Around the point he started calling himself (and insisting on being called) the King of Pop, Jackson 's output shifted from "total pop" to "totalitarian kitsch": the nine gigantic statues of MJ as a Dictator built at his requirement by Sony and installed in European cities to promote 1995's HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book 1, the fascistic promo film for that record with Jackson in full Khadaffi-style regalia amid hundreds of soldiers. Think too of the Versailles-like indulgence and corruption of Neverland, and that peculiar quasi-dynastic marriage to Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of the King. When pop stars try to externalize the grandeur inside their music, to make reality match up to its utopian absoluteness, the results can be grotesque, a tragic-comical catastrophe of nouveau-riche kitsch.
* oh and check this review of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Pitchfork's Ryan Dombal which examines Kanye's obsession with Michael Jackson.
U.K. versus U.S.A.
(published under the title "Remotely Interesting")
GQ Style, Autumn 2008
I never felt the faintest twinge of patriotism when I actually lived in Britain. The political sort seemed either silly or ugly; I wasn't into sports. As for pop, I was always embarrassed when music journalists got into flag-waving boosterism, could never see the point of their quests for the homegrown version: UK reggae, Britfunk, Britrap…. that long line of underachievement. In reaction, I became almost an Anglophobe, preferring American underground rock of the Eighties to this country's scrawny indie fare. For every Smiths, there seemed to be a score of jingle-jangly Housemartins-type bands and Wedding Present-style Northern miserabilists; for each My Bloody Valentine, a couple dozen shandy-weak shoegazers of the Ride/Chapterhouse ilk.
All this changed when I left the U.K in 1994 and settled in New York permanently. Not immediately. But, in what's probably a common syndrome with expatriates, it was only upon removal from the native context that I actually ceased to take it for granted, saw it properly for the first time. The crappy mundanity that makes up so much of the UK music scene dropped away and I started to appreciate the lippy, quippy, concept-driven approach of the better British bands; the way they dedicated their energy to shaping a striking-looking aesthetic rather than mastering the craft of rocking convincingly. I missed the hype-d up metabolism of UK pop culture, fueled by the competition between the music papers and between individual journalists, motored by bands skilled at self-salesmanship and image-cultivation.
The British scene's excitingly frenetic pace contrasted with sluggish alt-America, where trends evolved at tortoise-like tempo, thanks to cautious, responsible, hype-wary magazines, and to bands full of mumbling slackers pretending to be less articulate and educated than they actually were, and who espoused a sort of anti-corporate passive-aggressiveness that made a virtue of lack of ambition. In Britain, thanks to the influence of the music papers on the record industry, Top of the Pops was a reachable target. The UK charts were regularly penetrated by scruffy indie bands (along with underground dance anthems and all manner of novelty hits), whereas in America, only corporate muscle and ruthless professionalism could get you into the Billboard Top 40.
Top of the Pops was actually one of the things I started to miss as an expatriate, along with John Peel's show. This despite the fact that I hadn't listened to Peel in ages while TOTP had become an increasingly disappointing experience during my later years living in London. Nonetheless, the existence of these channels for the mediation for the underground into the mainstream, with their distant echo of Lord Reith's vision of the BBC as the educator of public taste, seemed to explain a lot about the volatility and eccentricity of the UK pop landscape over the decades.
In the second half of the Nineties, ie. pretty much immediately after I'd left the country, there suddenly seemed to be a lot to be patriotic about, musically. Not so much Union Jack-clad Britpop, though. For me it was all about our endlessly fertile and mutagenic dance culture, from jungle and trip hop to Big Beat and 2step garage. House and techno may have started in middle America in the mid-Eighties, but there's no doubt that in global terms the UK was Number One Rave Nation. In 1997, it was thrilling to see some of that wild spectrum of sound bust its way into the US mainstream--Prodigy, Chemicals, Orbital, Underworld. By then I'd also began to feel intensely, wistfully nostalgic about a particular British approach to pop, fashioned by art school kids and petit bourgeois autodidacts. The success of Pulp (which I'd have so loved to witness first-hand but caught only an after-tremor on a rare visit home, when the DJ played "Common People" at my brother's wedding reception) reminded me of how in the UK it's always seemed possible for figures who weren't obvious heart throbs or even particularly able (in conventional terms) as singers to become pop stars: the lineage of unlikely charisma and peculiar sex appeal that runs from Ray Davies via Ian Dury and Morrissey through to Jarvis. The US pop machine has never had a place for such mis-shapes.
"Nostalgia" originally referred not to the impossible longing for "lost time" but to homesickness for one's native land (an 18th Century physician coined the word to describe a psychosomatic malady affecting soldiers on long tours of duty abroad). The pangs I felt for the UK art-into-pop tradition were obviously related to my own geographical displacement, the ache caused by the thought of the shape of post boxes, the taste of Marmite, the vocal timbre of Radio 4 announcers. But in truth, that artpop tradition was become more remote in time too: back in Blighty it was, if not fading away completely, then certainly being pushed to the periphery of the pop mainstream. The culprits were the having-it hedonism of club culture (what rave had degenerated into by 1998) and the boorish nu-philistinism of the Oasis end of Britpop. Then around the turn of the decade, UK pop culture was inundated by hip hop and R&B.
All these changes--and there's no denying that the brash, ego-maniacal energy and futurism of Black American music also had invigorating effects--contributed to a slowly building, retrospective pride about British pop on my part. Almost in reaction to the UK's subordination by American music this past decade, I've become preoccupied by the earlier phase of pop history when it was a two-way street spanning the Atlantic. Again, perhaps it's only when something is gone that you appreciate how remarkable it was. I'm talking about the singularity of the British pop achievement, how for a huge stretch of its lifespan we enjoyed co-dominion with America over global pop culture. This, despite having only one-fifth the population of the U.S.A. and lacking their organic connection to rhythm-and-blues, soul, country, etc.
"Co-dominion"? Actually, during the Sixties, it's game set and match to Britain: the Beatles and Rolling Stones wipe out everything else. The massive Dylan industry of books and documentaries that's gone into hyperdrive these last dozen years or so is, I reckon, a semi-conscious retaliation to British dominance of the Sixties, a delayed form of American babyboomer patriotism that seeks to boost the profile of the only possible candidate when it comes to rivaling the historical immensity of the Beatles. But when I were a lad in the late Seventies, Dylan seemed like an esoteric, far-from-the-centre-of-things figure, a talisman only for those fusty freaks known as Dylanologists (admittedly this was during the singer's Born Again Christian phrase, an all-time nadir in the graph line of his iconicity). Same goes for the Beach Boys, actually: they were this slightly naff surf group with castrato voices, and once again it's only sustained effort from the Brian Wilson Is a Genius industry that has subsequently placed them in vicinity to the Fab Four. No, from Liverpool in '63 to London from '65 onwards (with a slight intermission for San Francisco, but who actually listens to the records made by that fair city's acid-rockers?), Britannia ruled the airwaves even as she repeatedly waived the rules of rock.
In the Seventies, things evened out between USA and UK, but on balance I'd still give it to us Brits. We invented three of the decade's crucial rock genres (metal, prog, glam) and co-invented (I'd say perfected) the other one, punk. Without the Sex Pistols and all that followed them, punk would never have changed rock history; the New York scene was a coalition of post-Beatnik poets, junkie axe heroes, and B-movie obsessed record collectors. Give or take "Marquee Moon" the song, I'd swap the entirety of NYC punk for the Buzzcocks' Singles Going Steady.
The Eighties? Started well, with a Second British Invasion (what American journalists dubbed our horde of gender-bendy synthpoppers and fair-haired funkateers, with MTV playing a treasonous Benedict Arnold-type role) that echoed if not quite equaled the British beat boom's impact on Sixties America. But then things started slipping in the later Eighties and from grunge and gangsta onwards it's been downhill ever since for the UK in terms of our special relationship with America. In 1984, the peak year of the Second British Invasion, UK artists commanded 28 percent of the best selling albums in America; by 1999 that figure had shriveled to 0.2 percent and, despite a Coldplay here and an Amy Winehouse there, it's never really recovered. It's like an extremely unfair trade pact: the Yanks flood our market with their pop product but (outside a niche audience of nutty Anglophiles) they've no interest in taking our exports.
Paul Morley suggested recently that pop music--our flair for it, our prominent role in it globally and historically--has been perhaps the major force in holding the nation together during its post-imperial twilight of identity confusion. That pop was a kind of groovy surrogate for the British Empire, in fact. So what happened? How did we manage to lose a second Empire? Simon Frith argues that the 1963-84 period was an exceptional "moment," during which a confluence of historically contingent factors made the UK an equal partner with America. Rock'n'roll may have started out as purely American, but by the time the music became "rock" it was Anglo-American, and with the emphasis on the first half of that hyphenate. Just at the point--1963-66--when the music acquired a sense of artiness and literacy (while simultaneously coming into alignment with revolutionary and progressive currents within society) Britain came to the fore. And did again, with punk, recharging the fading battery of rock-as-oppositional-force. Perhaps Britain's eminence has declined in ratio to the extent that those things are no longer what rock is about? Maybe our eclipse ran in parallel with the gradual relapse of rock/pop into showbiz, a fully-integrated product within the capitalistic leisure/entertainment complex?
There are other factors that gave us our historical edge, I think. One was the very element of distance, which opened up possibilities of irony, artifice, and conceptualism, but also had sonic effects. The American theorist Joe Carducci notes how Sixties and Seventies British bands's music often had a quality of starkness, comparing the "organic", muddily-produced sound of US groups (everyone from Grand Funk Railroad to the Stooges) with the relative clarity of heavy-riffing outfits like Sabbath, Zeppelin and Free (just think of the use of silence in "Alright Now"). That led in turn to the punchy production of glam rock and the diagrammatic sound-structures of postpunk outfits like Wire and Gang of Four. It's almost as though our remoteness from the roots source allowed for a certain coldblooded detachment, an ability to stand back a little way and then open up the rhythmic engine of rock to rearrange its moving parts. Perhaps that's also why British bands embraced the studio so avidly. I've long felt that British rock is essentially about recordings, whereas Americans invariably withhold judgement about a band until they've seen them live (where sound is more mushed-up and what counts is "feel"). Compare the Beatles, tampering with the raw materiality of sound using effects and tape-splices at Abbey Road, with the Byrds, whose innovations were rooted more in the fluidity of the improvisatory jam. The Beatles were Stockhausen fans; The Byrds admired Coltrane. That difference goes some way to explaining the UK lineage of studio wizardry that takes in Joe Meek, Pink Floyd, 10CC, Brian Eno, Trevor Horn, the list is endless. There are American equivalents--Brian Wilson, Todd Rundgren, Lindsay Buckingham--but not nearly so many.
Another factor to consider is the special British susceptibility to Black American music (and Caribbean too--could there ever have been an American Specials, a U.S. Police?). Scan across British pop history and you'll repeatedly find black sounds of diverse sorts sparking the brightest musical minds: countless Sixties groups who studied blues recordings with a scholarly intensity; Robert Wyatt with his love of jazz and vocal emulation of Dionne Warwick; John Lydon going to reggae "blues" dances chaperoned by Don Letts; entire cults from trad jazz to Northern Soul to 2-Tone based around bygone styles of black dance; everyone from Jamiroquai to LTJ Bukem mooning over the "kosmigroove" jazz-funk of Roy Ayers; Mike Skinner entranced by Nas and Raekwon but then deciding to honor the rap dictum "do you"… Sometimes it feels like we feel this music more deeply than any other non-black people on Earth: it supplies something we need, lets loose something that would be otherwise hopelessly knotted. But at our best we've always brought something to the music, our own twist, some uniquely British content.
Why did our mutations of the Black American source sounds stop playing so well internationally, though? By the end of the Nineties, our overseas profile had slipped to the parlous point where chart-topping UK sensations as various as So Solid Crew and Girls Aloud not only failed to match their UK impact in America, they couldn't even get their albums released there! The reason, I think, is the dominance of hip hop and our failure (unlike with R&B in the Sixties and funk in the Seventies and Eighties) to come up with spin on it that Americans cared for or found convincing. Jungle, trip hop, 2step, grime: all fantastically innovative, but with a few exceptions--Portishead, riding high in both Billboard and the UK Top Forty as I write--they never got close to rivaling American rap. Not even in the UK itself. Hip hop's appeal is partly based on the fact that it is always originally a local music, rich in a sense of place, steeped in 'hood lore. But injecting exactly that sort of English parochial quirkiness into rap got UK artists like the Streets and Dizzee Rascal no more than cult followings of Anglophile hipsters in the USA.
We may no longer be able to foist our homegrown pop peculiarities on the entire world like we once did. But we still, occasionally, foist them on ourselves. Amid the latest American-made machine pop and its second-rate homegrown clones, there are always things in our singles chart that could only ever be a hit in Britain. Bassline house from Sheffield and Nottingham, all faecal-splattery low-end and deliriously treble-tastic euphoria. Wiley and his "Rolex". Daft art school chancers like the Klaxons, who modeled their career on the KLF's The Manual: How to Have a Number One Hit the Easy Way and ended up performing a live mash-up with Rihanna and her "Umbrella" onstage at the 2008 Brit Awards. Only in the UK! For sure, there's a pathos to that. But there is also-- strangely, resiliently, defiantly--a pride.
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NEW AND NOTABLE (TV) Modern Family
One of my must-records this year is the new comedy, Modern Family. It's unlike anything I've seen television do before, but it's real, funny, and has a gay couple (with a baby) at its center. The performances are uniformly excellent and the whole thing has the improvised feel of a Christopher Guest movie.
The LA Times says: "Just when we were thinking it couldn't be done, ABC's "Modern Family" has single-handedly brought the family comedy back from the dead. Astute in a way we haven't seen since, oh, I don't know, "Family Ties" or maybe "Married . . . With Children," "Modern Family" is sharp, timely and fresh, complicated enough to be interesting but with a soft, sweet center because, and I'm speaking loudly so even cable channels can hear, there is nothing wrong with that."
Look for it in ABC on Wednesday nights.
Fiona Glass November 17, 2009 at 6:01 AM
It's made it across the pond as well. Check out Sky One on Thursday nights, repeated various nights throughout the week. We watched the first one and had hysterics. :D
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Organ and Brass
Choral music: Classical/Cathedral Choral Arrangements Choral music: Contemporary/World Handbells Concert Band Orchestra
Canzona Triumphale from the suite from "The Merchant of Venice." Brass quintet or brass choir with optional timpani/percussion. Originally composed for a performance of Shakespeare's drama, this work rings out joyously in the antiphonal style of Renaissance tower music. The quintet version sets the organ in dialog with the brass; in the version for brass choir, the brass are separated into antiphonal units, with the organ unifying the sound of the separate choirs.
Cortège Triomphale. Brass choir, snare, cymbals, timpani, and organ. A bold and rousing coronation march, suitable for any festival occasion.
Festival Processional. Bold and heroic, the noble and regal tones of this work belie its simplicity. A good "hip pocket" work for any festive occasion that calls for a processional.
Festival Processional on "Sine Nomine". Brass choir, timpani, cymbals (optional) and unison chorus/congregation with soprano descant. Setting the lyrics to two verses of the hymn text "When in our music God is glorified," this processional is especially suited for choral festivals or "choir recognition" Sundays.
Festival March "Discipuli de Pulpito". Brass quintet or choir, timpani, snare drum, cymbals, and organ. A joyous recessional, with just a touch of humor—as is only fitting for a march dedicated to "students at the teacher's desk," the English translation of the Latin title.
No Candle Was There and No Fire. Brass quartet or quintet, timpani/percussion, organ. Lisa Lehmann's lovely Christmas song, this time arranged for brass. (Choral arrangement also available.)
Postlude on "Brixton Victory". Brass choir, organ, timpani, and percussion. An instrumental setting of an original hymn tune, in the style of the great English cathedral. A choral version of the same work is also available.
Toccata in C "Angel's Song". Brass quartet or quintet with organ. A fiery postlude on the beloved carol "Angels We Have Heard on High."
Toccata in Dialog. Brass choir or quintet, optional percussion and timpani, and organ. The fire of the en chemade reeds and the roar of the pedals ring out in dialog with the brass, accompanied by a blazing sixteenth-note-sextuplet figure that's much easier to play than it sounds!
Wassail Toccata. Brass quartet or quintet, timpani, organ. A jubilant festival toccata bursting with Christmas joy, as only the "Gloucester Wassail" can express it.
Chant Suite for Brass and Organ (movements available separately)
Processional on A Russian Chant. Brass quintet, organ, timpani, and cymbals (optional). A proud and noble processional (or recessional) on a Russian incipit for Psalm 113: "Hvalite Imia Ghospodne". Published for quintet and organ by GIA. Contact the composer for other ensembles.
Meditation on "Christ Our Passover." Brass quintet, organ, timpani, and unison chorus (optional). Suitable for prelude, offertory, or communion meditation, with an optional (and very easy) unison chorus part doubling the chant tune. A good choice for an "instant" anthem any time brass players are available. Published for quintet and organ by GIA. Contact the composer for other ensembles.
Fanfare and Toccata on "Veni Creator Spiritus". Brass quintet,with timpani, snare drum, and suspended cymbal. The fire of the holiday of Pentecost infuses this rousing postlude, setting the traditional Pentecost plainchant to spirited modern rhythms. Published for quintet and organ by GIA. Contact the composer for other ensembles.
Mass of Peace. SATB (divisi), treble chorus, organ, orchestra, and congregation. A new English translation of the Mass created specifically for this work, with "call and response" sections for congregational participation. The Mass of Peace strives to create a very special unity between the text, the music, and the audience, breaking the barriers that separate the liturgy from the "non-liturgical" listener, classical from "world" styles—even breaking the wall between performer and audience, by setting the bar of participation at the level of "repeat after me." It ends not with the traditional "Ite missa est" of the formal Mass, but with a final message of peace, a benediction from the Song of Simeon: "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace." (excerpt, final two movements)
Te Deum Laudamus. SATB (brief SATB solos), brass ensemble, handbells, harp, percussion, and organ. The traditional 1662 text is set first to bold rythms in shifting time signatures, with full brass chords and crashing cymbals; then, when the text turns from praise to supplication, the soft sounds of the harp and handbells bring the work to a peaceful and sublime conclusion.
Music in the Classical and Cathedral Style
A Promise of Comfort. SATB chorus and organ, with optional brass choir and timpani. Composed to commemorate the tragedy of July 7, 2005 in London, and dedicated to the victims of the tragedy and their families, this short anthem offers words of comfort from the Scriptures: "The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God; no pain nor grief shall nigh them come. For we have here no continuing place, but we seek one that is to come. For the ransomed of the Lord shall return again, and songs of everlasting joy upon their heads shall be."
Behold My Servant. SATB, optional treble chorus, organ. The ordination anthem for the Right Reverend Jon J. Bruno, sixth Episcopal Bishop of Los Angeles; a setting of Isaiah 42 in the style of the nineteenth-century English cathedral. Published by CanticaNova.
De Profundis. SATB chorus and organ. A setting of Psalm 130, excellent for Lent and other penitential or introspective seasons.
Hail, Gladsome Light. SATB chorus with chamber orchestra. A setting of the "Phos Hilaron," one of the oldest (if not the oldest) Christian hymns. In Latin.
Hodie. SATB (optional divisi) and orchestra. Described at its premiere as "the greatest piece Vaughn Williams never wrote," this is an electrifying setting of the proper for Christmas Day.
In Latin.
I Walk the King's Highway. Chamber orchestra, handbells, SATB soloists and chorus, and congregation. Composed for the 100th anniversary of Oneonta Congregational Church, this festival anthem is suitable for any service of dedication--or re-dedication.
Lenten Mass. Cantor, congregation/choir, and organ. A favorite at the Cathedral Center of St. Paul in Los Angeles, this simple Mass is intended to be used as service music, and can be learned quickly and easily by choir and congregation alike. An easy "new liturgy" for congregations accustomed to a sung liturgy, and an accessible introduction to sung liturgy for congregations who would like to try something new (or should we rather say, "something old").
Lift Up Your Heads. Introit for SATB chorus, SATB semi-chorus or soloists, brass choir, timpani, and organ. A powerful beginning for a festival service, in which the choir can be placed at the back of the church, or even surrounding the congregation.
Magnificat. SSATB and organ. The Canticle of Mary, in a setting suitable for five soloists or chorus.
O Sacrum Convivium. Soprano solost, SATBB chorus (either or both) and organ. A simple and beautiful anthem extolling the mystery of the Eucharist, setting a text by St. Thomas Aquinas. Available from OCP in single copies or as part of their Holy Week octavo packet, and they have also released a recording on CD.
O Savior of the World. SATB chorus with optional organ. A setting of the Good Friday text "Salvator Mundi," in the style of the Russian Romantic era, but scored for today's more humble choral resources.
Psalm 57. SATB chorus (optional divisi) with piano accompaniment. Commissioned for performance on Memorial Day 2006, at Ground Zero in New York City; a dramatic setting of a psalm that offers to people of every faith the Lord's sustenance and comfort in the face of triibulation.
Psalm 118. SATB (optional divisi) and organ, with optional brass and percussion. A triumphant setting of a triumphant psalm: it sounds "big," but the ease with which it reads and sings belies the grandeur of its sound. For Easter or other festival Sundays when you want to shake the rafters with a huge choral sound.
Sure On This Shining Night. SATB a capella. A gentle and meditative setting of the poem by James Agee (1909-1955), composed for and premiered by the vocal quartet Red Car Trolley. Originally composed for a quartet, it sings easily and can easily be performed by a group larger than the original quartet.
Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs. S(div)ATBB a capella; an optional accompaniment for chamber orchestra is also available. A setting of the traditional Lenten verses of Isaiah 53, in the style of the great nineteenth-century Russian composers.
The Strife Is Over. SATB and organ. Hearkening back to the grand cathedral sound of Stanford and Vaughan Williams, this new setting of a favorite hymn text features soaring lines, heroic harmonies, and a grand final "Alleluia." For choirs who would like something a little ambitious to learn, but completely accessible for the listener. Optional instrumentation: brass choir and percussion. (A recording of the brass/organ version is available.)
Veni, Sancte Spiritus. SATB, trumpet, and organ. A setting of the "golden sequence," a text from the Middle Ages calling upon the Holy Spirit and celebrating the day of Pentecost.
Music in Contemporary and "World" Styles
Acclamation and Exaltation. SATB, piano, electric bass, drum set, African percussion, and two C instruments (optional). Originally composed for World Communion Sunday, this joyful work sets the Memorial Acclamation "Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again" in Swahili, with joyful African rhythms that will get both the choir and the congregation dancing. Includes pronunciation guide. A version for chamber orchestra is also available.
Create in Us Your New Jerusalem. SATB, brass choir, organ, electric bass, drums and percussion. An anthem of rededication, which employs the imagery of the "new Jerusalem" described in Revelations as a metaphor for consecration and renewal. Featuring a firey organ toccata accompanied by a powerful "rock" rhythm, this is the ideal anthem for a "blended worship" church.
Do This and Remember Me. SATB and organ or piano. A communion meditation, ideal for introducing liturgical elements to non-liturgical churches. Nicely suited for smaller or "summer" choirs.
Gloria. SATB, brass choir, organ, electric bass, drums and percussion. Suitable for Christmas or general use, this joyous anthem sets portions of the Gloria of the mass to an infectious "world-beat" rhythm.
Song of the Word. SATB plus alto soloist, orchestra or two keyboards (piano and synthesizer), electric bass, drum set, African percussion. The text from John 1 on the Word made flesh is set in Swahili and English in a delightful combination of African and Western styles; suitable for Christmas or general use. Includes pronunciation guide. Parts for brass choir or chamber orchestra are available immediately; two-keyboard version available later this year.
Rejoice and Sing Praise! SATB with piano accompaniment. A setting of Psalm 98; not a "responsorial psalm," but an anthem with congregational participation, and the only skill required of the congregation is the ability to "repeat after me." Ideal for small or "summer" choirs.
Choral Arrangements
No Candle Was There and No Fire (L. Lehmann). SATB (most parts divisi) chorus, alto soloist, and orchestra. A charming, heartwarming arrangement of the classic song by Lisa Lehmann, one of the most celebrated women composers of her time. (Also available for brass and organ)
Sad Am I Without Thee. SSA plus soprano soloist and chamber orchestra. A hauntingly beautiful Scottish folk song with a new text: the soul longing for its Savior. Also available with the original, traditional lyrics. (The recording uses the sacred lyrics; PDF shows the traditional.)
The Angels' Song (W. Billings). SATB chorus and orchestra. A holiday favorite from the first truly "American" composer, full of eighteenth-century sparkle, wit, and warmth.
Secular Works
Three Shakespeare Songs. SATB, chamber/youth orchestra, with solo violin or other C solo instrument. Three songs from Twelfth Night: "Oh Mistress Mine," "Come Away Death," and "Hey, Ho, the Wind and the Rain." Suitable for smaller and/or younger choirs.
Ave Maria. Mezzo soprano, handbells, and organ. Originally composed for an Advent Sunday celebrating Mary, this contemplative work is suitable for any service celebrating the Mother of God.
Handbell Doxology. Handbells, congregation, and organ. The text to "Old Hundredth," sung to the hymn tune Laßt uns erfreuen, with handbells pealing with all the joy of traditional change-ringing.
Ode to Joy. Handbells, congregation, and organ. A setting of the favorite hymn "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee" accompanied by handbells, accompanied by strains from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Prelude on Morecambe. Handbells and organ. A setting of the tune best known for the hymn "Spirit of God, Descend Upon my Heart."
Psalm 136. Handbells and piano. Premiered on Thanksgiving Sunday, the piece joyfully celebrates the exhortation of the psalm, "Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good."
Works for Concert Band/Wind Ensemble
Commencement March: Sicut Incipiat (Latin: Thus, let it begin.) For symphonic band with optional organ. The inaugural commission of the Robert J. Flanagan Yale Bands Commissioning Endowment, a fund directed to the commissioning and premiering of music for concert band to ensure that the Yale Band’s exemplary and long-standing tradition of commissioning the worlds’ greatest composers will remain an active and important part of the program in perpetuity. The piece was specifically commissioned to become part of the music accompanying Yale University's annual commencement exersises. Also available adapted for brass quintet and organ.
Fanfare and Cortège. According to Dr. Thomas C. Duffy, Director of Bands at Yale University, Fanfare and Cortège is a "beautiful, well-crafted mini-tone poem that... creates a sound-world of royal pomp, reserved celebration and nostalgia." For symphonic band with optional organ.
Fanfare and Triumphal March from Macbeth. Brilliant brass and thundering drums provide a fitting fanfare for Shakespeare's classic tragedy.
Orchestral Works
Call of the Forest Spirits. A musical portrait of the magical forest of Arden, from a suite of incidental music composed for Shakespeare's As You Like It. Suitable for younger orchestras; with optional SSA (wordless) chorus.
Christmas Festival Overture. After an introductory horn call on the "Gloucester Wassail," this medley of carols explores the joys of French Christmas music: "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day"; "Bring A Torch, Jeanette Isabella"; "He is Born, the Divine Christ Child"; and a rousing organ toccata on "Angels We Have Heard On High." For full orchestra with organ solo.
Elizabeth's Farewell. Inspired by Arthur Miller's The Crucible, this tone poem paints a picture of a time after the end of the play, when Elizabeth "introduces" her infant child to her father at her husband's grave; with optional SSA (wordless) chorus.
English Carol Overture. The Sussex Carol and the Boar's Head Carol join to ring out the glad tidings of the season in this Christmas jewel. For full orchestra.
Processional for a Quiet Time. A simple F-major processional composed for the Baccalaureate service; suitable for any time a gentle, but regal, processional is required. For chamber/youth orchestra.
Nightingale Walzes. A delightful night in Old Vienna for chorus and orchestra, with text by von Daumer and Goethe. Well suited for youth or community chorus (SATB plus two soprano soloists) and orchestra—and, if the chorus isn't available, it's a wonderful waltz setting just for orchestra.
Somerset Overture. Three traditional English carols (the Somerset carol, "Good King Wenceslaus," and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"), in a sparkling arrangement with sleigh bells and horn calls that evokes the charm of the English countryside that will set the perfect mood as a concert overture. For full orchestra. Published by Ludwig Masters.
Song for My Brother. A charming setting of an original Scottish slow air ("Landsborough"), featuring the tune presented by a solo viola. Suitable for small or youth orchestra.
Song for a Faraway Friend. A warm and gentle work, evoking images of friends and family. Easy and lyrical, this works puts the expansive "romantic" orchestral sound within the grasp of smaller orchestras.
Tragic Overture for "The Notebook of Trigorin". Orchestra with cello solo. From a suite composed for Tennessee William's brilliant reworking of Chekov's The Seagull, this piece has all the sadnesss and poignance for which classic Russian romanticism is renowned. Also suitable for younger orchestras who have "varsity" players in the first chairs.
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Disaster in the works EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 12/05/2009
Disaster in the works
The predicted disaster waiting to happen has, by all indications, happened, courtesy of the Supreme Court’s (SC’s) ruling allowing even appointed officials to stay in their positions despite their having filed their certificates of candidacy (CoC), and they don’t even have to leave their posts, win or lose the polls--until of course a new administration comes into being.
Two Commission on Elections (Comelec).... MORE
Devious is, as devious does
Destiny will not always be on her side
Devious is, as devious does FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 12/05/2009
It really is no use braying and wailing about Gloria Arroyo’s congressional run, or even asking her to resign as president.
She has filed her certificate of candidacy for the second congressional district of Pampanga and will definitely win that seat, since there really is no one of great political strength and stature in that district to fight her for that seat. All those civil socialites and other militants saying that they will be waging a campaign to ensure that she loses in the district are just wasting their breath. That’s not going to succeed, nor is it even going to happen.
Gloria is also not going to leave Malacañang.... MORE
ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary20091205com2.html
OMMENTARY
Destiny will not always be on her side BACKBENCHER Rod. P. Kapunan 12/05/2009
Maybe it was destiny that allowed Gloria Arroyo to capture the presidency. Even if we are to take that the hijacking of power was premeditated, it was nonetheless a fate of destiny because she could have failed if the position she wanted to capture was not really meant for her. No logical explanation can be made on how the predestination fate of man works, but somehow seers have their mystic resonance for it.
If destiny has not be generous.... MORE
Irrelevant Eddie EDITORIAL 12/04/2009
Irrelevant Eddie
Former President Fidel V. Ramos’ call for Gloria to resign the other day would have been relevant five years ago or earlier. But today Gloria won’t care about anything that he says, nor do Filipinos, for that matter, give a hoot about it.
Ramos, by playing what he thought was shrewd politics through all the years that Gloria was in power, has passed on into irrelevance and is reduced to a jumping people power monument in Februarys of every year.
Fast Eddie was, however, among the first to condemn Joseph Estrada when he became President in 1998 for his personal interest: Estrada was already then moving to question and later on possibly charge him for a number of dubious contracts under his watch, primarily the P9-billion Centennial Expo deal.
After the “Hello Garci” tapes were made.... MORE
Failure again
Dream on, Gloria
DIE HARD III
Highlight: Erap rejected Ampatuans
Despite the horrific
Al-Qaeda threat remains, say experts
Is GMA eligible for any reelection?
Disaster in the works EDITORIAL Click to enlarge ...
Devious is, as devious does FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho...
Destiny will not always be on her side BACKBENCHE...
Failure again FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 12/...
Dream on, Gloria ZOOMING IN Rudy Romero 12/04/20...
Highlight: Erap rejected Ampatuans DIE HARD III H...
Despite the horrific NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Sigui...
Al-Qaeda threat remains, say experts focus 12/04...
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Bank’s claim on portion of Hacienda Luisita ‘immoral’ – farmworkers
Farmworkers are urging Mr. Alfonso Yuchengco, owner of RCBC, to hound the president and his relatives instead, “because they are the ones who cheated him by luring his bank into an onerous deal.
By MARYA SALAMAT
MANILA – Last month, Eric Trinidad, 17, got injured when a policeman used the butt of a M16 rifle to hit his legs after he and other farm workers in Hacienda Luisita tried to block the “incursions” of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) into their farm plots. At the time, RCBC was fencing off the farmworkers’ farm plots in the renowned hacienda in Tarlac, which was ordered by the Supreme Court to be distributed to the tillers.
RCBC is claiming ownership of 182 hectares of the hacienda. It was reportedly given to RCBC as debt payment of the Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI), a corporation formed by the Cojuangco family to manage Hacienda Luisita, after it postponed actual land distribution through stock distribution since the 80s. Farmers groups led by the farmworker-based Unyon ng Manggagawa sa Agrkultura (UMA) and its Tarlac chapter said the HLI “gave” RCBC 182-hectares just weeks after the November 16 Hacienda Luisita massacre in 2004.
The RCBC, said Eric Trinidad, is currently trying to fence off its supposed land in the hacienda, in the process destroying some of the farmworkers’ planted vegetables. With Eric, another minor was “arrested” and jailed briefly last month when they tried to block the RCBC’s demolition efforts. He told bulatlat.com that their elder fellow farmers who were also taken to the police station had been jailed for two days. Now, five are slapped with legal cases.
“Farmworkers are being charged with forcible entry, malicious mischief, and other trumped-up charges, just because they are defending their farm plots and crops from the demolition team hired by the RCBC,” said Joseph Canlas, leader of the Alyansa ng Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luzon, in a rally staged in front of an RCBC branch in Queson City this Monday (May 7, 2012).
Eric Trinidad(Photo by Marya Salamat / bulatlat.com)
Canlas railed at the RCBC for sending “fake negotiators” to the farmers’ groups. He also denounced the RCBC for pushing, as condition in withdrawing the charges it had slapped on farmers, the demolition of farmers’ huts in the contested land.
RCBC not an “innocent purchaser” but a Cojuangco-Aquino accomplice.... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/05/08/bank%E2%80%99s-claim-on-portion-of-hacienda-luisita-%E2%80%98immoral%E2%80%99-%E2%80%93-farmworkers/
Finally, the accusers face music EDITORIAL 05/10/2012
Finally, the accusers face music
The defense dropped a bombshell Tuesday when counsel for Chief Justice Renato Corona, Jose “Judd” Roy told the Senate court that his client will testify on the accusations of a $10 million bank account after his accusers are called to the stand to testify to the truth of their charges against the CJ.
The impeachment court granted the defense team its request for subpoenae to be served on several of Corona’s accusers, chief among them, Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, who claimed a $10 million bank account belonging to the CJ.
Roy’s announcement appeared to have stunned the prosecution, along with some Noynoy senator-judges, who probably didn’t think Corona would dare testify under oath..... MORE
The United States in the dock - Part 1
May 7 to May 12 - the The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal is hearing the accusations against the United States of America for acts committed on detainees in Iraq. The accusations are unutterably shocking and are serious enough to merit hearing under as war crimes, and as such are covered by jus cogens and customary international law.
The accused: U.S. President George W. Bush and his associates namely Richard Cheney, former U.S. Vice President, Donald Rumsfeld, former Defence Secretary, Alberto Gonzales, then Counsel to President Bush, David Addington, then General Counsel to the Vice-President, William Haynes II, then General Counsel to Secretary of Defense, Jay Bybee, then Assistant Attorney General, and John Choon Yoo, former Deputy Assistant Attorney-General.
Accusation #1: Witness: Abbas Abid, Chief Engineer at the Science and Technology Ministry. Detained on August 28, 2005. He claims he was illegally abducted from his home by American and Iraqi soldiers and taken to Al-Muthanna Brigade HQ. After saying he did not know the whereabouts of "terrorists" in his neighbourhood, he was beaten and electrocuted..... MORE
Source: Pravda.ru
URL: http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/09-05-2012/121063-accusations_war_crimes-0/
Obama endorses same-sex marriage by way of another massive flip-flop
US President Barack Obama officially endorsed same-sex marriage on Tuesday. Also on the president’s agenda for the day was once again flip-flopping on a major issue during an election year.
Explaining his recent change of heart to ABC’s Robin Roberts in an interview taped Tuesday afternoon, President Obama says, “at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.”
The commander-in-chief’s statement marks the first time that a US president has publically offered a stance favoring same-sex marriage while in office. It isn’t the first time Obama has explained his thoughts on the matter, though. In the past, however, the president took the opposing side..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/obama-same-sex-marriage-president-861/
Russia’s Sukhoi SuperJet-100 goes off radars in Jakarta, hijacking not ruled out (w/ Video)
Russia’s Sukhoi SuperJet-100 goes off radars in Jakarta, hijacking not ruled out
A Russian jet carrying 50 passengers has disappeared from the radars during a demonstration flight for potential buyers in the Indonesian capital. Hijacking and a high-altitude crash into a mountain have not been ruled out.
Due to low visibility and fog the helicopters had to stop the search and return to base. The rescue operation is now restricted to a ground search. The search will continue throughout the night.
“Now we are mobilizing ground teams in coordination with the local police and military units to find the aircraft’s whereabouts,” the Indonesian Search and Rescue Agency chief, Vice Marshal Daryatmo told the Jakarta Post.
Rescuers have updated the plane's last-known coordinates and narrowed the search area. In the morning, five helicopters are expected to join the rescue operation. According to Russian diplomats, connection with the plane was lost as it passed over the western end of Java. The search mission is concentrating around Mount Salak, a 2,200-meter-high volcano about 50 km from the airport. .... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/sukhoi-superjet-disappears-radar-838/
Here we go again! VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 05/10/2012
Political campaigns have already started loud and clear — no matter what the law provides, irrespective of the time and place of the campaigns are staged. The unsaid truth is that it is Malacañang that is the very first to engage in new partisan political alignments — silently and surreptitiously. Everybody else is but following the preemptive move it made in the eagerly awaited forthcoming combat in the political arena. The personal and/or professional attributions of the aspirants for political offices are irrelevant. Who you are, what you have and what can you do — these are what really count!
In other words, what really matter is how much money and power do the candidates have and wield respectively, what political dynasties are behind them, and what influence do they exercise — with or without the use of guns and goons. The ultimate intent is to win the elections — be these computerized or manual, be it the list of voters authentic or a big joke. Lying during the political campaigns is a necessary practice; in the same way that cheating in the elections is done as a matter of course. To win the elections irrespective of the ways and means of doing it — this is standard practice..... MORE
When protected witnesses are protected no more INSIDE CONGRESS Charlie Manalo 05/10/2012
When protected witnesses are protected no more
INSIDE CONGRESS
Charlie Manalo
Witnesses under the government’s Witness Protection Program (WPP) are supposed to enjoy maximum protection from the Department of Justice (DoJ) and the corresponding agency where the witness or witnesses are entrusted.
Their testimonies play a crucial role in the resolution of the cases on which they are supposed to testify. These witnesses should at all times be protected from the dangers that those they may implicate may get back at them.
A big part of the country’s justice system relies on the security protection and the WPP is expected to be extended to state witnesses.
After all, the government is spending a fortune for their testimonies to be heard in court..... MORE
Noy allies came in force to railroad sin tax bill By Charlie V. Manalo and Fernan J. Angeles 05/10/2012
Noy allies came in force to railroad sin tax bill
By Charlie V. Manalo and Fernan J. Angeles 05/10/2012
Coming in full force at yesterday’s hearing on the proposed amendments to the “sin tax” structure, administration allies in the House of Representatives led the approval at the committee level of a restricted tax system for alcohol and tobacco products which critics claim would favor imported liquor and cigarettes over local products.
Voting 46 for and 14 against with one abstention, the House committee on ways and means approved House Bill 5727 almost instantaneously after Finance Undersecretary Jeremias Paul introduced amendments that altered vital provisions of the bill.
Paul’s proposal was virtually unheard of since the ways and means panel started deliberation on the measure for nearly six months but the pro-administration solons who trooped to yesterday’s hearing saw no need to study, much less debate, on it, and moved to have the measure, which for nearly a decade now has failed to hurdle even at the committee level..... MORE
CJ’s $10M rap collapses as accusers deny hand in dollar hoax By Angie M. Rosales 05/10/2012
OMBUDSMAN CLAIMS MULTIMILLION- $ ACCOUNTS TAKEN FROM MEDIA
CJ’s $10M rap collapses as accusers deny hand in dollar hoax
With the Senate impeachment court summoning the accusers of Chief Justice Renato Corona, one by one, his accusers who had earlier filed complaints and alleged that the chief magistrate had a $10 million bank account as well as a $3 million bank account, now all claim they don’t have any personal knowledge of the multimillion-dollar deposits owned by Corona.
Corona has denied owning $10 million in banks, saying that the Ombudsman should explain how she got the information.
Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales also denied that her office was conducting a probe of the Chief Justice’s alleged $10 million bank accounts, claiming that she only obtained the information from media reports..... MORE
17 dead and counting in Butuan City department store fire 05/10/2012
17 dead and counting in Butuan City department store fire
At least 17 shop clerks sleeping in a Butuan department store were killed when a fire swept through the building before dawn yesterday, local authorities said.
Twenty-one female employees of the store were trapped in the fire, with seven others still missing and three surviving by jumping from a second-story window, provincial fire department head Chief Insp. Mario Palarca told Agence France Presse.
“Twenty-one people were asleep on the second floor when the fire struck the ground floor. They could not find the emergency exit because of the huge volume of black smoke,” Palarca said by telephone..... MORE
‘We can only afford to document Shoal incidents’ — Lacierda By Fernan J. Angeles 05/10/2012
‘We can only afford to document Shoal incidents’ — Lacierda
By Fernan J. Angeles 05/10/2012
In what appears to be an indirect admission of the Philippine military inferiority as compared to neighboring Asian countries, a top Palace official said that the government can only afford to continue documenting developments at the disputed Panatag Shoal even in the event the standoff turns ugly.
At the regular press briefing yesterday, presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda found himself riddled with a barrage of questions from Palace reporters pressing him to give a categorical statement as to how the government would react to a long list of developments described by many as an act of bullying by China.
Pressed for reaction for the growing number of Chinese vessels that are now stationed at the disputed Panatag Shoal, Lacierda described media reports as inaccurate even as he insisted that 33 Chinese vessels which have been reported to have arrived at the contested area were just rubber boats..... MORE
Big-time smugglers funding ‘payola’ to finance senatorial bid of Customs boss By Conrado Ching 05/10/2012
Big-time smugglers funding ‘payola’ to finance senatorial bid of Customs boss
By Conrado Ching 05/10/2012
The Office of the Ombudsman is reportedly conducting an investigation into the alleged “payola” being funded by five big-time smugglers at the Bureau of Customs (BoC) to finance the senatorial bid of Customs Commissioner Rozzano Biazon in the coming 2013 local elections.
A copy of the complaint from the OMB revealed that two female employees of the BoC inked an unholy alliance with at least five notorious smugglers to fund Biazon’s bid for a Senate seat under the Liberal Party.
As this developed, Public Information and Assistance Division chief Elenita Abanos asked the Customs police to prevent the entry of newsmen who do not support the highly questionable policy implemented by Biazon’s PR office, one of which was the accreditation of fake and fly-by-night media men..... MORE
Solons tell DepEd, Ched: Scrap field trips of studes By Gerry Baldo 05/10/2012
Solons tell DepEd, Ched: Scrap field trips of studes
Lawmakers yesterday ganged up on officials of the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) and Department of Education (DepEd) for not taking action on schools that compel students to join field trips.
Camaguin Rep. Pedro Romualdo and Western Samar Rep. Mel Senen Sarmiento during yesterday’s joint hearing of the House committees on higher and technical education and basic education and culture, said their constituents had been asking for financial assistance for their children to join field trips imposed by the schools.
Romualdo proposed that a resolution should be adopted to stop schools from imposing their field trip programs, while Sarmiento, along with Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara, chairman of the higher and technical education panel asked Ched to immediately draft the guidelines for field trips..... MORE
Neophyte lawmaker wants non-functioning CCTV cameras at NAIA-3 probed By Charlie V. Manalo 05/10/2012
Neophyte lawmaker wants non-functioning CCTV cameras at NAIA-3 probed
In the wake of the airport brawl between media personality Ramon Tulfo and the group of action star Raymart Santiago at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 which the airport cameras had failed to record, a neophyte solon yesterday filed a resolution seeking an an inquiry in aid of legislation into the airport’s non-functioning closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras.
In House Resolution 2382, Southern Leyte Rep. Lucy Marie Torres-Gomez said it was rather ironic that the airport’s CCTV cameras appeared to be non-operational, especially during the time the scuffle between Tulfo and Santiago’s group took place as these could have recorded video accounts of the incident which could have helped in the investigation.
In the absence thereof, Torres-Gomez said media had to rely on an incomplete and inconclusive fragmentary video shots recorded through a cellular phone, “sometimes taking sides, on the conflicting versions of the two contending parties as to which of them provoked the scuffle and who was to blame.”.... MORE
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Finally, the accusers face music EDITORIAL 05/10/...
Obama endorses same-sex marriage by way of another...
Russia’s Sukhoi SuperJet-100 goes off radars in Ja...
Here we go again! VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. C...
When protected witnesses are protected no more INS...
Noy allies came in force to railroad sin tax bill ...
CJ’s $10M rap collapses as accusers deny hand in d...
17 dead and counting in Butuan City department sto...
‘We can only afford to document Shoal incidents’ —...
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Matthew Thomas’ Top 60 Albums of 2017 + Top 10 EPs + Links to Listen…
Matthew Thomas’ Top 60 Albums of 2017
Top 10 EPs of 2017 + Links to Listen & Buy…
1. Junius – Eternal Rituals for the Accretion of Light
https://junius-official.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-rituals-for-the-accretion-of-light
2. Mastodon – Emperor of Sand
http://www.mastodonrocks.com/
3. Elder – Reflections of a Floating World
https://beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com/album/reflections-of-a-floating-world
4. Samsara Blues Experiment – One With The Universe
https://samsarabluesexperiment.bandcamp.com/album/one-with-the-universe
5. Racquet Club – Racquet Club
http://riserecords.merchnow.com/catalogs/racquet-club
6. Hobosexual – Monolith
https://hobosexualmusic.bandcamp.com/album/monolith
7. Kadavar – Rough Times
http://kadavar.com/
8. Our Ceasing Voice – Free Like Tonight
http://music.our-ceasing-voice.com/album/free-like-tonight
9. Bask – Ramble Beyond
https://basknc.bandcamp.com/
10. Wolf Parade – Cry Cry Cry
https://wolfparade.bandcamp.com/album/cry-cry-cry
11. Telekinetic Yeti – Abominable
https://telekineticyeti.bandcamp.com/album/abominable
12. Sorority Noise – You’re Not As ___ As You Think
https://sororitynoise.bandcamp.com/album/youre-not-as-as-you-think
13. Ethereal Riffian – Afterlight DVD
https://etherealriffian.bandcamp.com/
14. Quicksand – Interiors
https://quicksandnyc.bandcamp.com/album/interiors
15. Spidergawd – IV
https://www.stickman-records.com/shop/spidergawd-iv/
16. Forming the Void – Relic
https://formingthevoid.bandcamp.com/album/relic
17. All Them Witches – Sleeping Through the War
https://allthemwitches.bandcamp.com/album/sleeping-through-the-war
18. House of Lightning – Self Titled
https://houseoflightning.bandcamp.com/album/house-of-lightning
19. The Black Angels – Death Song
http://theblackangels.com/
20. Pallbearer – Heartless
https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/heartless
21. Ohhms – The Fool
https://ohhms.bandcamp.com/album/the-fool
22. VOKONIS – THE SUNKEN DJINN
https://vokonis.bandcamp.com/album/the-sunken-djinn
23. Mother Mars – On Lunar Highlands
https://mothermars.bandcamp.com/
24. Crackhouse – Be No One. Be Nowhere.
https://crackhouseofficialband.bandcamp.com/album/be-no-one-be-nothing-2
25. LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
https://www.amazon.com/american-dream-LCD-Soundsystem/dp/B073Z99YP4/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1514830700&sr=1-1&keywords=lcd+soundsystem+vinyl
26. The Atomic Bitchwax – Force Field
https://theatomicbitchwax.bandcamp.com/
27. Spaceslug – Time Travel Dilemma
https://spaceslug.bandcamp.com/album/time-travel-dilemma
28. Slowdive – Self Titled
https://slowdive.bandcamp.com/album/slowdive
29. Nekromant – Snakes and Liars
https://nekromant.bandcamp.com/album/snakes-liars
30. Frozen Planet…1969 – From the Centre of A Parallel Universe
https://peppershakerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-centre-of-a-parallel-universe
31. Egypt – Cracks and Lines
https://egypt1.bandcamp.com/
32. Electric Orange – EOXXV
https://electricorange.bandcamp.com/album/eoxxv
33. Electric Age – Sleep of the Silent King
https://electricagela.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-of-the-silent-king
34. Comacozer – Kalos Eidos Skopeo
https://comacozer.bandcamp.com/album/kalos-eidos-skopeo
35. Pink Frost – New Minds
https://pinkfrost.bandcamp.com/
36. Deaf Radio – Alarm
https://deafradio.bandcamp.com/album/alarm
37. Red Scalp – Lost Ghosts
https://redscalp.bandcamp.com/album/lost-ghosts-2
38. Earth Drive – Stellar Drone
https://earthdrive.bandcamp.com/
39. I, Captain – Tiid
https://icaptain.bandcamp.com/album/tiid-2
40. Red Mountains – A Slow Wander
https://redmountains.bandcamp.com/album/slow-wander
41. Olde – Temple
https://stbrecords.bandcamp.com/album/olde-temple-2
42. Devil Electric – Self Titled
https://devilelectric.bandcamp.com/album/devil-electric
43. Sautrus – Anthony Hill
https://sautrus.bandcamp.com/album/anthony-hill
44. The Janitors – Horn Ur Marken
https://thejanitors.bandcamp.com/album/horn-ur-marken
45. Electric Moon – Stardust Rituals
https://electric-moon.bandcamp.com/album/stardust-rituals
46. The Re-Stoned – Chronoclasm
https://re-stoned.bandcamp.com/
47. Clouds Taste Satanic – The Glitter of Infinite Hell
https://cloudstastesatanic.bandcamp.com/album/the-glitter-of-infinite-hell
48. Ufomammut – 8
https://ufomammut.bandcamp.com/album/8-2
49. Lamina – Lilith
https://ragingplanet.bandcamp.com/album/l-mina-lilith
50. Space Witch – Arcanum
https://spacewitch.bandcamp.com/album/arcanum
The Final Tasty 10
51. Radio Moscow – New Beginnings
http://radiomoscow.net/
52. Geezer – Psychoriffadelia
https://geezertown.bandcamp.com/
53. Gypsy Sun Revival – Journey Outside of Time
https://gypsysunrevival.bandcamp.com/album/journey-outside-of-time
54. Tau Cross – Pillar of Fire
https://taucross.bandcamp.com/
55. Aphodyl // Cosmic Fall – Starsplit
https://psyka.bandcamp.com/album/starsplit
56. Summoner – Beyond The Realm of Light
https://summonerboston.bandcamp.com/
57. Contra – Deny Everything
https://robustfellow.bandcamp.com/album/deny-everything
58. Bloodnut – St. Ranga
https://bloodnut.bandcamp.com/
59. Poseidon – Prologue
https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/prologue
60. Propagandhi – Victory Lap
https://propagandhi.com/
Top 10 EPs of 2017
1. Mastodon – Cold Dark Place
2. Howling Giant – Black Space Wizard Part 2
https://howlinggiant.bandcamp.com/album/black-hole-space-wizard-part-2
3. Kal-EL – Astrodoomeda
http://www.argonautarecords.com/shop/en/music-/235-kal-el-astrodoomeda-lp.html
4. Cachemira – Jungla
https://cachemira.bandcamp.com/album/jungla-2
5. Derelics – Guilty of Being Young
https://derelics.bandcamp.com/album/guilty-of-being-young
6. Bad Monster Black – Diablo
https://badmonsterblack.bandcamp.com/album/diablo-ep
7. MAIRA – EP
https://maira.bandcamp.com/album/ep
8. Traffic Death – Dead End
https://sumppumprecords.bandcamp.com/album/dead-end
9. 1968 – 1968 EP
https://1968band.bandcamp.com/releases
10. Norea – Norea
https://norea.bandcamp.com/
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Bloodnut “St. Ranga” Album Review + Stream…
Bloodnut
St. Ranga – CD // DD
Self Released – Released August 1, 2017
Reviewed by Aaron “Red Beard” Wall
Bloodnut…the burly, bearded, ballistic, berserkers of fiery red have returned to pillage and destroy. St. Ranga, is the sophomore follow up to their acclaimed debut, Blues for the Red Sons. This slab of concrete has progressed the Bloodnut accoutrement immensely. While some of the tongue in cheek humor remains, the ginger heavyweights have upped the seriousness factor. St. Ranga is still fun, but its definitely not funny. Heavy stoner, massive sludge, and raw punk rebellion. Normally a three piece, Bloodnut recorded the album as a four piece. Adding a second guitar to the fold, which lends extra girth and goodness. Doug McFarlane-Bass/Vox, Nick Smith-guitar, Kyle Wetton-guitar, and Ty Boniface-drums are here to viscerally eviscerate.
Opening salvo, ‘The Space Orangutan’ builds a force of fuzz. Slowly creeping, raising the cackles. Down tempo and enveloping distortion, as Doug raises his vocal game tremendously. Oddly, but very intriguingly sounds like the Doors in mood…albeit much heavier. The drums pause to let the main riff show its head. The redheaded beasts then explode in full on stoner glory. The chugs begin as the groove runs full steam ahead. The vocals are gravel, but with soul you can feel. No doubt Bloodnut bring the heavy, but also have an excellent underlying melodious factor that grips. The second half ups the tempo and the dirt. The brood throws in a shredding solo, then beats you into submission until ‘The Space Orangutan’ has destroyed you.
‘Mark of the Outcast’ is four minutes of straight up beast mode. Huge High of Fire-esque intro, into a mid-tempo sludge toe tapper. Tunes like this are the reason I am completely on board with the boys in Bloodnut. Heavy as gigantic balls, while always retaining a soulfulness that is undeniably felt throughout.
Next up is ‘That Fire Inside’ This song is straight up raw punk filth. Quick bass intro and cymbal grabs, prime the ears for a fury of fiery flames. Gruff vocals, raw guitars, pounding drums of perfection. This jam is a sharp, powerful, quick punch to the gut. You will be doubled over, in glorious pain.
‘Burning Bush’ brings back the cheeky lyrics, but there is absolutely no joking going on instrumentally. Bringing some of the thickest riffs on St. Ranga, and multiple tempo changes keep the listener blissfully on their toes. The song is executed masterfully. The riffs are sweet, the rhythms are tasty and the vocals outshine anything previously in the Bloodnut catalog.
St. Ranga by Bloodnut
‘Red Dead Riders’ is a sing along song. Dirty and rough musically with huge choruses. This track is a journey across the desert, looking for blood, on the back of a mammoth steed. Kicking up dust and spit, only in death do we quit. Standout song on a stand alone album.
Closing St. Ranga is ‘Song of Fire and Ice.’ No explanation needed on this song. Best song on the record in my humble opinion.
Bloodnut have composed an album more crushing and weighty than an avalanche of boulders. The fire headed gang of badasses continually bruise and batter eardrums. St. Ranga is an escape into landscapes of flame. Visions of battle and triumph. A plethora of genres in relation to all things heavy. No pigeonholing Bloodnut. New Zealand has something to be extremely proud of in this band of gingered berserkers. These redheads have definitively smashed the sophomore slump with a battle axe. A record filled with passion and soul, drums that roll, and riffs that are raw while still being in full control. Take a pilgrimage in St. Ranga, and prepare to shed blood. It is worth it.
Tags: Album Review, alternative doom, Auckland, Bloodnut, Desert Rock, doom, doom punk, Matthew Thomas, metal, New Zealand, punk, sludge, St. Ranga, stoner metal, Stoner Rock, stoner sludge, Taste Nation LLC
Bloodnut “Blues from the Red Sons” Album Review & Stream…
Blues from the Red Sons – CD // DD
Self Released: September 10, 2016
Hailing from Auckland, New Zealand Bloodnut (slang term for redhead) have come to pillage, with heads of fire, and hearts aflame. With bellies and barrels full of rum, buckets and flagons filled with mead, and with axes swinging for flesh with unbridled abandon. A filthy, swilling, sweaty, gang of gingers…Doug McFarlane on bass/vocals, Ty Boniface on drums, and Doug Robertson on guitar have come to party to prepare for Viking war. Legend has it that us gingers have no soul…legend, is all that it is. This band is pure grit, total grime, with a boogieing soul. Nuts and blood…That’s what Bloodnut has.
Opener ‘Agent Orange (In the Eyes of Thine Enemies)’ starts with a dobro slide guitar twang, then boom. Fuzzy, sludge tones hit you square in the kisser. Sounds like the cut up, younger cousin of Eyehategod. Massive repeating riffs meld with a bluesy stoner lead as the song builds up to the crescendo of thickness and whiskey soaked gravel throated vocals. Perfect little primer for whats to come on this slab of heavy.
Blues From The Red Sons by Bloodnut
Next three tracks, ‘Drop Dead Redhead,’ ‘Vitamin D,’ and the awesomely titled, ‘The Amber Reign Remains,’ are punk sludge barn-burners that get the carefree viking party vibe going with rawkus effect. The production is raw and powerful. Fits the aesthetic of the band and the songs to perfection. Energy level is high, beer and shots are flowing. We all know this is the preparation for war and the celebration of planned victory.
‘Witches Mountain’ is a cross breed of Queens of the Stone Age and old school Clutch. Neil Fallon with a mouthful of gravel. Thundering drums and liquor soaked riffage. A boot stompin’ song of the highest degree.
‘Subtlety in the Street’ is a lumbering, leaning tower that could come down at any second. The fun is coming to an end and the battle plans are being nailed down.
The record takes a much different feel and emotion from ‘Fire Giant’ onward. Shit gets serious. Play time is over. The song starts with one of the many standout riffs of the record and then kicks it into a heavier gear. Very reminiscent of old Scissorfight. The chorus is gruff yet catchy. ‘Fire Giant’ is an extremely well crafted song…as is the next jam, ‘The Red Face Blues’.
‘The Red Faced Blues’ is a cavalcade of sludged-out stoner with an emphasis on groove. Weaving and twisting with a heavy punk ethos.
This leads us to the main course ‘Blues from the Red Sons. ‘ The masterpiece of a trilogy entitled ‘The Battle of Bannockburn.’ Part one of the battle is titled Valhalla. The track begins with a palm muted riff that pummels as gang vocals shout ‘Valhalla rise, Valhalla we rise’ then the amazing refrain of “You die by an axe to the chest. On Valkyrie Way you’ll be taken to the halls of the slaves.” makes you wanna stand up, grab your horned helmet and axe and start to visualize the war that is beginning. Redhead united we stand. Redhead united we fight. Redhead united shall destroy. Redhead united will prevail. Part 1-Valhalla is the battle cry.
Part 2 – Send in the Berzerkers. Stirling Castle is in their sights and nothing will stop the spilling of blood. Chomping at the bit the Berzerkers are released and let out the war cry as they form a Schiltron against the cavalry. Clever tactics must be implemented as the Berzerkers are outnumbered 2 to 1. ‘Bite the shield, drench the field, in your blood.” Riff upon riff, thunders of rhythm, and savage screams push the warriors onward to the objective.
Part 3 – Beneath the Kilt ends this three part journey of medieval massacre. This is the triumph, the pride of a bloody battle. The exhilaration of victory. Bagpipes blaring in celebration. ‘The Battle of Bannockburn’ is an amazing conclusion to this stellar record.
Bloodnut take you on an journey of another time. A time of brutality and strength. A story of sludge, punk, stoner, and noise. ‘Blues from the Red Sons’ slowly sucks you in with some fun and good time tunes on the first half, then take it up to a serious heartfelt, and extremely powerful level on the second half. From ‘Fire Giant’ to the end of the album, is a helluva gnarly ride. Strap on your kilt, grab your weapon and some bagpipes. All Hail Valhalla! From one Bloodnut to another…fantastic record. Highly recommended for all heavy music fans.
***10% of All Album Sales to go to Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme***
Tags: Album Review, alternative rock, Auckland, Bloodnut, Blues from the Red Sons, Desert Rock, DIY, doom, doom metal, Matthew Thomas, New Zealand, punk rock, sludge, stoner metal, Stoner Rock, Taste Nation LLC
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Imran Qayyum haul leads Kent to victory over Somerset
Imran Qayyum makes his views known © Getty Images
There was a time not so long ago when Kent would have virtually lost this match before they started such was their dearth of key batting personnel. But signs are growing that these days Kent cricket is made of sterner stuff. They posted a reasonably competitive score and then delighted in the sight of Imran Qayyum, their left-arm spinner, having the night of his life.
Somerset’s pursuit of 166 for victory was abruptly stilled in a remarkable sequence in which they lost six wickets for 20 runs in 25 balls and Qayyum was involved in all of them with five wickets and a run out. His return of 5 for 21 was a reward for his perseverance in a career where he failed to make the grade with three counties and only made his debut for Kent at 23.
Somerset are second in the Championship, won the Royal London Cup, and took their opening match in the Blast with a confident run chase against Glamorgan in Cardiff. There has even been talk of a treble. But when they succumbed to a 41-run defeat it represented their 11th successive loss in T20 at Canterbury. Whatever it is, it can’t be the noise of the crowd; they are a bit guilty cheering and hollering in Kent.
Qayyum showed good changes of pace on a wicket offering a little turn. His first wicket silenced the batsman who seemed most capable of strutting to victory – the highly-talented and long-limbed Tom Banton out for 28 when he holed out at long off for 28. There were two wickets in his second over: Peter Trego sweeping to deep backward square where Jordan Cox, an 18-year-old debutant, held a slick catch, diving forward, and produced a quicker, flatter one to bowl James Hildreth.
The run out of Tom Lammonby, another debutant, followed in the next over when Lammonby pushed the ball gently into the leg side, but did not share the enthusiasm of his captain, Tom Abell for a second run, Qayyum dashing from backward square to slide and return the ball to the wicketkeeper.
Before Somerset could digest the consequences of that there were two more wickets in the spinner’s next over as Roelof van der Merwe fell to a leading edge and Abell chopped a ball down by his feet and Ollie Robinson stumped him with alacrity.
With Somerset 74 for 7 after 11, the match was as good as won, but the Overton twins cobbled together a decent response before their partnership of 31 ended in the sort of comical fashion that might have come straight out of the script of Stan and Ollie. It will certainly go straight into Overton folklore.
The malarkey began when Mohammad Nabi held an excellent catch at deep midwicket, balancing balletically on his right foot a tiny distance from the rope. The only question for the umpires was whether he had touched the rope (he hadn’t), which in other words meant it was either six or out. That salient fact seemed lost on the Overtons. One of them imagined a chance to keep running, the other responded enthusiastically to the idea and they dashed three of the more pointless runs in cricket history while everybody else stood around and awaited the TV replays.
Qayyum had been the star performer, but there is pace, too, in this Kent attack in the presence of Adam Milne and Hardus Viljoen and that will serve them well. Viljoen took the vital wicket of Pakistan’s Babar Azam.
The Wurzels, Somerset’s “Scrumpy and Western” band, had penned a 30-second ditty to mark the arrival of Azam in the West Country. “With a gurt big strick I’ll knock ’em down,” the lyrcis predicted. It didn’t pan out like that: he made 7, showing one moment of quality when he whipped Hardus Viljoen over mid-on before the next ball cleaned him up like a Combine Harvester rushing through a wheat field.
Injuries had cut deep into Kent’s batting resources. The captain, Sam Billings, will be out for another fortnight after dislocating his shoulder in April, the regular stand-in captain, Joe Denly, was away on a training weekend with the England Test squad ahead of the Ireland Test and Heino Kuhn, who had been identified as the next captain in line, was absent because of concussion protocols having been hit in the neck by Fidel Edwards during last week’s Championship draw with Hampshire.
But Daniel Bell-Drummond, captain No. 4, was blessed by a skilful and confident T20 debut by Robinson, who struck 53 from 49 balls and, at 20, looked entirely at home until he became one of three victims to van der Merwe. When Billings returns, it will not immediately be to take the gloves, so Robinson has the chance to prosper and his fluent straight six against Jerome Taylor was one of the shots of the night.
Alongside him in a third-wicket stand of 61 in 37 balls, Nabi made light of Kent’s batting losses. He relished his opportunity to bat at No 4, including four sixes in his 34. Max Waller got him, the ball after he had been launched into the pavilion, but he had settled Kent into the contest. Twenty runs light was the common assumption, but Qayyum changed that in a matter of minutes.
David Hopps writes on county cricket for ESPNcricinfo @davidkhopps
ESPN Sports Media Ltd.
This article was originally published by Espncricinfo.com. Read the original article here.
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Calgary Flames sign deal for new downtown arena
'Canes All-Star Hamilton has broken leg
Bruins put veteran F Backes on waivers
Arvidsson fined $2000 under NHL Rule 64
Ovechkin's hat trick gets Caps by Devils
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Kovalchuk's pair back Price's 40 saves
Calgary Flames goalie David Rittich, of the Czech Republic, celebrates the team's 3-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators in the third period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Nov, 30, 2019, in Calgary, Alberta. (Larry MacDougal/The Canadian Press via AP)
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) The Calgary Flames have a deal for a new downtown arena, a 35-year agreement that keeps the NHL club in the city for that time.
The team, the city and the Calgary Stampede rodeo signed an agreement Thursday to replace the 36-year-old Scotiabank Saddledome.
The 19,000-seat arena is to cost more than $417 million. Construction is expected to begin in 2021, just north of the Saddledome. The arena will be demolished between 2024 and 2025.
The project is part of a downtown revitalization. The building will become the home of the Flames and part of a planned entertainment district bordering the Stampede grounds.
The Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corp., which owns the Flames, and the city will split the costs. The Stampede is a not-for-profit community group.
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What platforms and software will Annapurna SIL work in?
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Category: JFin
Thursday February 15 2018, Daily News Digest
News Comments Today’s main news: SmallBiz Loans top lender for SBA 7(A) loans under $350K. University of Huddersfield lens to over 2K small businesses through Funding Circle. Assetz Capital has over 2K IFISA investors, more than 10M GBP in ISAs. Mintos surpasses $500M in three years. Monzo approved to bank in Republic of Ireland. Today’s main analysis: The growth […]
Today’s main news: SmallBiz Loans top lender for SBA 7(A) loans under $350K. University of Huddersfield lens to over 2K small businesses through Funding Circle. Assetz Capital has over 2K IFISA investors, more than 10M GBP in ISAs. Mintos surpasses $500M in three years. Monzo approved to bank in Republic of Ireland.
Today’s main analysis: The growth of ABS in marketplace lending.
Today’s thought-provoking articles: What you need to know about LendingClub IRAs. Is open banking dead upon arrival? It’s time for China’s online lenders to self-inspect. How banks have been forced to innovate for the first time in 40 years.
SmartBiz Loans becomes top lender fo SBA 7(a) loans under $350K. AT: “Congratulations. Huge milestone, not just for SmartBiz Loans but for the entire industry, as the lender had to compete against and topple JP Morgan Chase from the throne.”
ABS and marketplace lending. AT: “Excellent read, with some good charts.”
Are the feds slow followers? AT: “Excellent read for anyone interested in banking.”
What you should know about LendingClub IRAs.
5 money mistakes that can kill your love.
StreamLoan nabs $2M seed capital.
Fannie Mae chooses Blend to expand Day 1 Certainty’s digital mortgage options.
Using a 401(k) loan for a mortgage down payment.
Wells Fargo app predicts consumer behavior.
House approves bill in favor of bank-fintech partnerships.
Forbes names iCapital Network the No. 1 fintech company.
Virginia AG settles with online lender.
U. of Huddersfield lends to small businesses through Funding Circle.
Will more banks team up with P2P lenders?
Assetz Capital has over 2K IFISA investors & more than 10M GBP in ISAs. AT: “Congrats.”
Is open banking dead on arrival?
Starling expands marketplace with more firms signed on.
The moment of truth for marketplace lending.
Mortgage tech could be succumbing to profitability struggles.
How to safeguard your money from inflation.
It’s time for online lenders to self-inspect.
Hexindai fails to thrill investors.
Mintos surpasses $500M in three years. AT: “Excellent growth. Congratulations!”
Monzo can operate in Republic of Ireland. AT: “International expansion begins. Congratulations.”
Fintech won’t keep loan sharks from the door.
Banks forced to innovate because of bitcoin. AT: “I’m not sure it’s bitcoin forcing banks to innovate, but there does seem to be some concern for cryptocurrencies in general.”
Top innovators in digital banking. AT: “An e-book from LendIt. A must-read for anyone interested in digital banking.”
Why investors shouldn’t miss out on the Genie ICO. AT: “Take with a grain of salt. Global Coin Report is harping Genie hard.”
Crypto education is necessary.
Spice Mobility subsidiary invests in AnyTimeLoan.
IndiaMoneyMart empowers borrowers to pay off high-interest loans.
Thailand’s first ICO.
Paytm’s international expansion includes Canada.
Blockchain, cryptocurrency featured at Fintech and Funding Conference.
SmartBiz Loans Surpasses JP Morgan Chase as Number One Provider for SBA 7(a) Loans Under $350,000 (BusinessWire), Rated: AAA
MARKETPLACE LENDING (Diamond Hill), Rated: AAA
Are feds slow followers? (Banking Exchange), Rated: A
LendingClub IRAs: What You Need to Know (LendingClub), Rated: AAA
5 money mistakes that can kill the love (CBS News), Rated: B
Mobile-First Mortgage Solution StreamLoan Secures $ 2MM Seed Capital Round to Re-Imagine the Home Purchase Process (PR Newswire), Rated: A
Fannie taps Blend to expand Day 1 Certainty’s digital mortgage options (National Mortgage News), Rated: A
Using a 401(k) loan for a home down payment (Bankrate), Rated: A
‘Am I about to overdraft?’ Wells app predicts consumer behavior (American Banker), Rated: A
House Backs Bill That Would Benefit Fintech Partnerships With Banks (WSJ), Rated: A
iCapital Network Named Top Fintech Firm by Forbes (Business Insider), Rated: B
Virginia Attorney General Announces Settlement with Online Lender (JD Supra), Rated: B
University of Huddersfield Lends to More Than 2,000 UK Small Businesses through Funding Circle Partnership (Crowdfund Insider), Rated: AAA
Could more banks team up with P2P platforms? (Specialist Banking), Rated: A
Assetz Capital Reports Over 2,000 Investors Have Registered For An IFISA, More Than £10 million Invested in ISAs (Crowdfund Insider), Rated: AAA
Open Banking: Opportunity or Dead on Arrival? (The Financial Brand), Rated: AAA
More fintech firms embrace Starling’s Marketplace (Fintech Futures), Rated: A
The moment of truth for marketplace lending (Deloitte), Rated: A
Another fintech sector could be succumbing to profitability struggles (Business Insider), Rated: A
How to safeguard your money from inflation (The Telegraph), Rated: B
‘Self-inspection’ campaign looms for China’s online lenders (Financial Times), Rated: AAA
Despite Rapid Growth, Hexindai Fails to Thrill Investors (Capital Watch), Rated: A
Mintos Online Lending Marketplace Surpasses $ 500 Million in Just Three Years (Crowdfund Insider), Rated: AAA
Monzo given go-ahead to ‘passport’ banking licence to Republic of Ireland (TechCrunch), Rated: AAA
Fintech Won’t Keep the Loan Sharks from the Door (Bloomberg Gadfly), Rated: A
Terrified Of Bitcoin, Banks Forced To Innovate For The First Time In 40+ Years (ValueWalk), Rated: AAA
Top Innovators in Digital Banking (LendIt), Rated: A
Why Investors Shouldn’t Miss Genie ICO (Global Coin Report), Rated: A
Cryptocurrency education not regulation the way to go (scoop), Rated: A
Spice Mobility’s devices business losses increase 53.8% to Rs 10 crore in Q3FY18 (Medianama), Rated: A
P2P Platform IndiaMoneyMart Empowers Borrowers to Pay Off High (BW Business World), Rated: A
Thailand’s First ICO … But The Next Will Have To Wait (ICO Examiner), Rated: AAA
Inside Paytm’s international expansion plans (Tearsheet), Rated: AAA
Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Feature at Fintech and Funding Conference (Investor Ideas), Rated: B
SmartBiz Loans Surpasses JP Morgan Chase as Number One Provider for SBA 7(a) Loans Under 0,000 (BusinessWire), Rated: AAA
SmartBiz Loans, the #1 SBA marketplace and bank-enabling technology platform, is pleased to announce it has outpaced a number of national banks, including JP Morgan Chase, to become the top facilitator of SBA 7(a) loans $350,000 and less for the 2017 calendar year. Previously, SmartBiz was number one excluding 7(a) Express loans. SmartBiz provides for SBA 7(a) loans through its network of eight partner banks that participate in the SmartBiz marketplace and license software from SmartBiz to automate their underwriting and origination of SBA loans referred from SmartBiz. The SmartBiz Loans SBA marketplace matches small business customers with the right partner bank to increase the likelihood of approval, while also making small business lending more efficient for banks.
Through its various SBA-preferred lending bank partners, SmartBiz facilitated $329 million in funded SBA 7(a) loans $350,000 and less for the 2017 calendar year, a 1.5x increase over calendar year 2016. The data used is based on SBA quarterly lending data for calendar year 2017 (data from October 2017 through December 2017 was released in January 2018). During calendar year 2017, JP Morgan Chase generated $322 million in SBA 7(a) loans $350,000 and less, ranking second on the list. In SBA FY 2016, SmartBiz became the first technology marketplace to claim the number one spot for SBA 7(a) loans $350,000 and less excluding 7(a) Express loans.
According to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), ABS is a $1.4 trillion market as of September 30, 2017 which has grown substantially since its emergence in the mid-1980s (see chart below). The size of the market peaked in 2007 leading up to the Financial Crisis and subsequently began a decline post-Crisis as issuance was greatly reduced and outstanding deals continue to pay down. Only more recently has the market begun to rebound as it expands beyond the traditional categories.
Source: Diamond Hill
One of the newer categories of securitization is marketplace lending, which originated with a British firm, Zopa, in 2005.
The marketplace lending industry offers a significant yield advantage for a variety of reasons. First, some issuers opt not to pay a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization (NRSRO) such as S&P, Moody’s, or Fitch for an official rating, which can drive yields higher to compensate for the lack of official rating that some investors require. For managers willing to conduct internal research and apply their own internal rating methodology, the excess yield offered from these non-rated securities can be quite attractive. Additionally, a large percentage of marketplace lending deals are coming to the market issued under Rule 144a, which provides a mechanism for the sale of privately placed securities that do not have, and are not required to have, an SEC registration. These bonds traditionally come with a higher level of yield compensation since they are not permissible for some investors.
Can banks stay up with changing times if their regulators don’t?
In a recent survey, nearly eight out of ten bankers said they need new strategies, lines of business, or methods to remain competitive in a rapidly changing environment. That finding was reported in the first of three articles, of which this is the third, covering results from the Future Forces in Banking 2018 survey, conducted by CenterState Bank Correspondent Division, CS Consulting Group, and Banking Exchange.
Source: Future Forces in Banking 2018
Did you know that half of households age 55 and older have no retirement savings at all?
Q: What is the initial investment?
A: There is a required initial deposit of at least $1,000. Once an account is funded, there is a $25 minimum investment per Note.
One place to start: your potential partner’s credit score. Americans with higher credit scores are 14 percent more likely to find love within the next year compared with singles who have scores 100 points lower, the Federal Reserve found in a 2015 study.
Perhaps more important for long-lasting love, couples with similar credit scores are more likely to stick together, the Fed found. That could reflect a shared outlook about financial management and obligations.
Having a lousy credit score. Men and women agree that a low credit score is a turnoff, according to Affirm. A majority of those with scores above 750 — considered to be a good score — take responsibility for paying bills, compared with only 37 percent of those in the subprime range.
StreamLoan, a tech innovator focused on bringing mortgage lenders into the mobile-first era, has secured a $2 Million seed capital round of funding to continue to drive change with its enterprise lending customers and partners.
Fannie Mae is doing more to expand its list of Day 1 Certainty report suppliers, naming Blend as the first online point of sale system to supply asset validations.
More could follow. Point of sale system Roostify, for example, is on Fannie’s list of prospective report suppliers, and its approval as a supplier of asset verification reports is “coming soon.” Three other vendors — BankVOD, LendSnap and Quovo — have the same status. In addition, technology vendors FinLocker, Plaid and PointServ are working on asset validation pilots with Fannie.
While the vast majority of Americans would like to own a home, nearly 70 percent of potential buyers feel that a down payment is the greatest obstacle to making that a dream a reality.
According to the Employee Benefits Research Institute, 53 percent of 401(k) plans include a loan provision that allows participants to borrow against their savings. With a 401(k) loan, you can borrow up to half of your account balance or $50,000, whichever value is smaller. So if you had a balance of $70,000 you could borrow up to $35,000; with a balance of $170,000, you could borrow up to $50,000.
The bank’s new feature, which mines account information, will let mobile bank deposit customers take action with their accounts, such as transfer money from savings to checking if an overdraft fee seems likely. The bank said there are 50 different messages a customer can receive.
If someone wants to know where he’s standing before a negative outcome happens, the mobile app seems to be the best bet for easy access to the information.
The House on Wednesday approved a bill that would make the resale of high-interest loans more attractive to third-party buyers such as debt collectors—and bolster fintech firms’ partnerships with banks.
The bill passed 245-171. Nearly all Republicans voted for the measure, while Democrats were divided.
The legislation would ensure that loans retain the original interest rate issued by a bank, even if they are sold to nonbanks, which unlike nationally chartered banks are bound by state interest-rate caps. The bill is a response to a 2015 ruling by the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that affects loans taken out by residents of New York, Vermont and Connecticut, the three states within the court’s jurisdiction. The Supreme Court had declined to review the case.
iCapital Network, the financial technology platform democratizing alternative investments for high-net-worth individuals and their advisors, announced it has been selected as a top fintech firm in the 2018 Forbes Fintech 50 list.
Under the terms of the settlement, the lender has agreed to pay back $359,811 in refunds to 1,161 Virginia consumers, and to forgive $2.3 million in outstanding interest charged to over 2,600 consumers. The defendant also agreed to pay Virginia a $10,000 civil penalty and $20,000 for its costs of investigation and enforcement. The settlement also permanently enjoins the online lender from misrepresenting its license status, interest rates, and fees.
On Tuesday, Funding Circle announced the University of Huddersfield has reportedly led to more than 2,000 UK small businesses through its partnership with the online lending platform that allowed the University to became the first to lend directly to businesses through a lending platform.
Portuguese bank Banco BNI Europa recently partnered with crowdfunding platform Fellow Finance to invest in the European SME loan market.
Last year, mobile banking platform Revolut teamed up with Lending Works to offer instant credit through P2P finance.
Government-backed British Business Bank has supported P2P finance since March 2014, when it announced a partnership with lender Funding Circle.
The alliance saw £40m of investment to support further lending to SMEs via the P2P platform.
In 2015, Zopa announced a partnership with Metro Bank, whereby the challenger bank could lend to UK consumers via the platform.
Frazer Fearnhead, CEO at the House Crowd, believed that as the P2P market matured, there would be more institutional and alternative lender partnerships.
UK-based online lending platform Assetz Capital announced on Wednesday that over 2,000 investors have registered for an Assetz Capital Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA) since its launch, surpassing the 2,000 accounts opened across the entire peer-to-peer (P2P) industry in the 2016/17 tax year. The online lender explained more than £10 million has already been invested in those Assetz Capital ISAs.
The consumer always decides: the potential of Open Banking will only be realized if it is understood and used by the consumer.
Security or scare-mongering?
It’s about security, various surveys say. In a post-Equifax data breech world, the thought of a third party accessing financial data simply won’t fly. Therefore, we need strong authentication to combat these concerns. All true – this will play valuable a role and help reassure the public that serious thought has gone into how new services will be delivered.
Communication of Benefits Needed
This reinforces that any new service created will need to provide a benefit not already received and will need to clearly communicate those benefits. Users will need to be incentivized and inspired to use these services.
Not Just in the UK: Open Banking Globally
While Open Banking is a UK phenomenon now, it is a concept that will spread globally. As in the UK, regulators will be playing catch-up, but have an important role of setting guardrails around data-sharing and helping with communication.
UK challenger Starling Bank’s in-app Marketplace has got more love and attention with a brace of new partners.
The new group of partners includes the digital pension provider PensionBee, digital investing service Wealthsimple, mortgage broker Habito and Kasko travel insurance in partnership with AXA.
Marketplace lenders (MPLs) have emerged in a unique environment of depressed interest rates.
In fact, well into the second decade of marketplace lending, the price advantage of MPLs is highly debatable.
As interest rates rise, we might find that MPLs true advantage over incumbents lies not in price, but in user experience, and their ability to serve previously unserved parts of the market.
Rising interest rates could begin to place more strain on loan books, and so it’s time for MPLs to start thinking hard about loan book management. One route could be to use supply chain partnerships to become more sophisticated at managing a scaled loan book.
Despite the level of innovation in fintech, startups in many sectors of the industry — from digital wealth management to alt lending — have been discovering that finding the right business model to attain profitability is a major, and for some insurmountable, challenge.
Now, this hurdle seems to have struck a relatively nascent, and to all appearances, booming sector — mortgage tech — as news this week showed. Burrow, a UK-based mortgage tech startup, told TechCrunch that it’s pivoting from a B2C to a B2B model in the face of high customer acquisition costs.
The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure of inflation fell from 3.1% in November to 3.0% in December but remains well above the government’s 2% target. According to research by financial website Moneyfacts.co.uk CPI averaged out at 2.74% in 2017, which means it was three times as high as the average cash individual savings account (ISA) rate of 0.93%. Despite the fact that real returns on cash ISAs are negative, more than £270 billion was languishing in these accounts at the end of last tax year. This lack of return on traditional savings has resulted in many individuals seeking out professional financial advice by attending wealth seminars, to stay fully informed on all available ways to manage their money and make beneficial financial decisions.
The average stocks and shares ISA returned growth of 11.75% in 2017, according to Lipper data, more than 10 times the return provided by the average cash ISA.
Among the data not displayed, however, is the amount the group is borrowing on China’s Rmb1.53tn asset-backed securities market, where it is the largest borrower, accounting for 13.7 per cent of the total, according to UBS data.
Only 40 per cent of 1bn Chinese adults have a credit history with a traditional financial institution, says Jason Bedford, an analyst at UBS in Hong Kong. At the end of October, peer-to-peer lenders accounted for Rmb 1.2tn in outstanding loans, up from almost zero in 2014, he adds.
With headquarters in Beijing, Hexindai (Nasdaq: HX) said its revenue grew to $43.3 million during the third fiscal quarter ended Dec. 31, representing an increase of 576 percent from the third quarter a year earlier. Net income was $26.9 million, or 52 cents per American depositary share, from $929,762, or 4 cents per share, in the year-ago period.
The company’s total loan volume that it facilitated rose 187 percent to $388.7 million and the number of borrowers reached 32,417, an increase of 285 percent compared with the year before, the company said. In addition, the gross billing ratio of unsecured loans, which made up for 100 percent of loans in the period, rose to 12.1 percent from 7.4 percent a year earlier.
Looking ahead, Hexindai said it expected to report total loans facilitated between $1.22 billion and $1.24 billion for its fiscal year ended March 31. Net revenue was expected come in between $107 million and $109 million, with adjusted net income ranging from $62 million to $64 million, the company said.
Source: Capital Watch
Mintos, an online marketplace that provides individuals with a simplified way to invest in loans originated by a variety of alternative lending companies around the world, has announced a new milestone having topped the half a billion euro mark in cumulative investments by investors.
Mintos is the leading player in the peer-to-peer lending market in continental Europe with 39% of market share. About € 45 million is funded every month.
Monzo, one of a number of “challenger” banks in the U.K. aiming to re-invent the current account, has announced the first step in its plans for international expansion with news that it has regulatory approval to operate in the Republic of Ireland.
“There can’t be all this smoke without some fire,” lawmaker Andrew Tyrie complained at a 2014 hearing into whether Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc mistreated 5,900 business customers. For incendiary material, how about a leaked internal memo suggesting clients should be given enough rope to “hang themselves?”
Yesterday morning, several banks in Australia started rolling out a new payment system they’re calling NPP, or “New Payments Platform.”
And rather than funds transfers being restricted to the banks’ normal business hours, payments via NPP can be scheduled and sent 24/7.
You can also send money via NPP to mobile phones and email addresses. So it’s a pretty robust system.
Starting late last year, though, US banks very slowly began to roll out something called the Real-time Payment system (RTP), which is similar to what Australian banks launched yesterday.
And beyond the US and Australia, there are other examples of banking systems around the world joining the 21st century and making major leaps forward in their payment system technologies.
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According to the second largest professional services firm PwC, citing Morgan Stanley, there are currently more than 200 lenders in the US that provide their services online. The volume of this marketplace at the global level is expected to reach $290 billion by 2021, with Asia being an emerging market. It means that people want alternative lending channels besides traditional banks.
CEO of New Zealand’s largest peer-to-peer mortgage lender Southern Cross Partners, Luke Jackson, says that despite what some governments and regulatory bodies may say or do, cryptocurrencies are a technological marvel which, like peer-to-peer lending, is providing a fintech alternative to bank dominance and trying to resist it is probably futile.
Last month, Spice Digital, a subsidiary of Spice Mobility, invested Rs 25 crore in peer-to-peer (P2P) lending company AnyTimeLoan, which provides unsecured personal loans, K12 education loans (for primary & secondary school tuition fees), and MSME business loans.
Note that currently, Spice Mobility holds a wallet license, a license to set up as an operating unit under the Bharat Bill Payment System, license to operate as a GST Suvidha Provider, and Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS) provider. Given that Spice Mobility’s services revenue has been on a steady decline, it will interesting to keep a watch on how the company decides to proceed from here on.
Unpaid credit card dues are one of the costliest loans an individual can take and if one doesn’t have the ability to clear these dues, the hefty interest rates charged accumulate, putting stress on the ability to pay back and also affects the borrowers’ credit card score. So, what does one do when they do not have a great credit score of 750 or more but are in need of an unsecured loan? What’s the best offer they can opt for to secure themselves? Is there a way they can come out of this debt trap?
To help manage the financial crisis, P2P lending platform allows the prospective borrower to list their loan requirement to its lenders. They offer collateral free personal loans up to INR 10 Lakh for a period of 3 years or less at affordable interest rates. Unlike credit cards, which charge exorbitant interest rates of up to 50% annually, the loans at such digital P2P platforms are quite affordable and empower the borrowers to avail loans at interest rates of their choice.
Recent recognition of P2P lending platforms as NBFC-P2P by RBI’s regulation has further instilled the confidence in the lending community to disburse loans and receive fixed monthly returns to earn 20-25% or more annually.
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts in Thailand have mixed feelings today as their first homegrown initial coin offering, JFin coin, is enjoying a successful pre-sale but, at the same time regulators, have put the brakes on any further ICOs.
While JFin have already achieved over 80% of hard cap in pre-sale, which was originally due to last until the end of the month, the central bank of Thailand has now requested all financial organisations to cease facilitating cryptocurrency transactions.
JFin is a decentralised peer to peer lending system and comes under the umbrella of companies run by Jay Mart PCL who are listed on Thailand’s Stock Exchange.
The startup, whose peer-to-peer and consumer-to-business mobile payments app currently boasts 300 million customers in India, aims to onboard millions more around the world. As a first step, it’s using Canada as a testing ground.
The startup, whose peer-to-peer and consumer-to-business mobile payments app currently boasts 300 million customers in India, aims to onboard millions more around the world. As a first step, it’s using Canada as a testing ground. The startup, which has had a Toronto-based tech team for three years, has been getting to know its Canadian demographic for the past year. Now, it’s zeroing in on digital utility payments.
To rectify this, Paytm has signed on thousands of Canadian bill payers, and it incentivizes customers with cashback offers of up to 3 percent. In addition, Sharma said he hopes to bring on board consumers who don’t make digital bill payments — which he said is as much as 30 percent of Canadian consumers. Paytm currently has 100,000 Canadian customers, according to the company.
The National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association of Canada announces Canada’s leading financial technology and funding conference, FFCON18. The conference will be held March 5-6, 2018 at the Design Exchange in Toronto.
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All divisions are coed.
Our program is for children league ages 4 - 12.
TBall Program
Tee Ball is divided into two divisions for our youngest players who are new or returning to the sport. Players are taught the fundamentals of baseball including throwing, catching, base running, hitting and fielding. Score is not kept. The emphasis is placed on having fun and learning.
Wee Ball – For players league age 4
This is a "clinic" based division which introduces this age group to the most basic of baseball fundamentals. Children will participate in 4 weekly clinics to learn baseball skills. Starting the 5th week thru the 8th week, the children will play one game per week. There are no weekday games or practices in this division.
T-Ball - For players league age 5 – 6
Players use a tee during games to develop and reinforce the correct batting swing. Coach Pitch will be introduced half way through the season. If the batter does not put the ball in play after three pitches, a batting tee is used.
Our baseball program is made up of several divisions, with age and skill level determining the division in which your child will play. In all divisions, players are taught the fundamentals of baseball including throwing, catching, base running, hitting, and fielding. More advanced concepts are introduced at each subsequent level.
Minors Division
Coach/Machine Pitch - For players league age 7 – 8
This is our overhand coach pitch or machine pitch division. Primarily league age 7 and 8. A pitching machine may be used for accuracy and consistency to build the kids' confidence in facing "live" pitching. Players continue to develop baseball fundamentals without keeping score.
A - For players league age 8 and older
This is our first level of "kid-pitch" play. This is division is for kids 8 and older and players are selected based upon a skill level and a draft. New fundamentals are introduced like pitching, bunting, and stealing. Kids are introduced to play where the score is kept.
This division is for players who participated in Single-A last spring and some new players with the experience and skill to play at a higher level. Teams are introduced to playoffs at the end of the season.
· The winning AAA team will represent SLL in the District 40 Tournament of Champions.
· Highly-skilled players may be selected to represent SLL in All-Star competition.
Majors Division
· The winning Majors team will represent SLL in the District 40 Tournament of Champions.
For players league age 13. Sunrise Little League will interlock with Northridge Little League to offer an Intermediates Division for 13 year-olds. Play will be at the Northridge Little League Facility and registration is done through NLL’s website. Click here for more information about this division and to register to play.
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Deep in the jungles of India, nature lived as the Creator intended. Yes, there were those who were predator and those who were prey. But balance was maintained, and the symmetry of Life's plan would take your breath away.
Then Man came to the jungle.
Taking all and leaving nothing, this new King of the Beasts left naught but death and destruction in his wake. Jungles burned, fear took hold, and both the hunter and hunted died in what could only be called the Great Slaughter.
There were no more rainbows for anyone.
Tiggra and his mate, Clairese, two Royal Bengal tigers, must find a way to survive in this new world, a world where animalkind is swept aside by these "killers", or face the ultimate end for anyone who can not adapt...extinction.
Tigers' Quest
by Lord Steven
Read except from novel
Available in paperback and Amazon Kindle
The Audio Drama
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self and in the people around me in my community.
… ‘I must be truthful to myself. Truth is the basis of any achievement.’
From Thomas O'Brian, St Peter's Maori College, came an excellent point.
… ‘How best can I prepare myself? By being a good student, by doing well what I am doing now. I must not only do my schoolwork well but must do well in every aspect of life. I must prepare on a wide basis—myself, my family and my community.’
Speaking on behalf of the judges, Mr Harrè made some comments which should be noted by future contestants.
‘This is a very personal sort of subject, and some of you spoke in general terms.
‘Establish contact with your audience. Don't lose it by looking down at your notes.
‘Use light and shade, timbre and volume.
‘Use humour now and then.
‘I was delighted to hear the Maori language used—however, some used it with more courage than knowledge!
‘You must be heard—sometimes words were indistinctly produced.
‘Some of you made reference to the help given by schools and parents. Make sure you pay it back.’
Posted to Vietnam
Te Ao Hou's record critic, Alan Armstrong, who is in the regular Army, has recently relinquished his post as Director of Equipment at Army Headquarters Wellington on posting to South Vietnam to serve with the Australian Task Force. Some time in 1968 he will re-join his battalion in Malaysia and there be joined by his wife, Waiehu. In addition to his articles in Te Ao Hou, he is the author of the following published, or soon-to-be-published works: Maori Games and Hakas, Maori Action Songs (with Reupena Ngata), The Maori People, Entertaining South Sea Island Style. Kiwi Cooking. Let's Speak Maori and Samoa.
OPEN TO ALL MAORI FARMERS
AHUWHENUA TROPHY COMPETITION
This competition for trophies presented by Viscount Bledisloe, former Governor - General of New Zealand, is to determine the best dairy and sheep farmers in any year.
Entry forms are available at any District Office of the Department of Maori Affairs.
Entries close 31 January, 1968
Success at Table Tennis
Following success in the New Zealand Maori Table Tennis Championships at Gisborne last July, a Maori woman, Mrs J. A. Williams of Wanganui, went on to win the New Zealand Open Mixed Doubles title in partnership with England's No. 1 player, Dennis Neale. She performed very well throughout the tournament, winning the ‘Ladies Bracelet’, and playing a major part in winning the Mixed Doubles title.
At the Maori Championships, Mrs Williams won the Ladies' Singles, the Ladies' Doubles with Miss Albert of Wanganui, and was runner-up in the Mixed Doubles with Mr M. Taipua, also of Wanganui.
It appears that Mrs Williams is only the second Maori woman to have won a national title, the other being Mrs Nettie Trail (néc Davis) who is now overseas.
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HomeMumps
‘Aids to Public Health’, 8th edition, by Llywelyn Roberts, Medical Officer for Sheffield, Says:
‘The salivary glands may swell up one after another and the patient is infectious for one week after the subsidence of the last swelling….infection without symptoms may occur. The disease is more serious after puberty, because orchitis may be a complication; it is, however, rare in adult life.’
MMR vaccination actually makes orchitis (swelling of the testicle) more likely because the antibodies generated by it only last around three to five years after injection and many vaccinated people aren’t immune, whereas people who had mumps as children have lifelong immunity and are protected from orchitis in adulthood.
One study of school children five to six years after vaccination found that many were not immune. Researchers wrote that 7% of mumps vaccinated children did not have detectible antibodies.
‘These data indicate that a large proportion of children vaccinated under routine conditions do not have detectible measles and mumps antibodies.’
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/14621391_Measles_mumps_and_rubella_antibodies_in_children_5-6_years_after_immunization_effect_of_vaccine_type_and_age_at_vaccination
Info On Mumps Vaccine From British National Formulary 1985 Edition, by British Medical Association
From page 385:
SINCE MUMPS AND IT’S COMPLICATIONS ARE VERY RARELY SERIOUS, THERE IS LITTLE INDICATION FOR ROUTINE USE OF A MUMPS VACCINE.
Joanna, founder of V.A.N, had mumps the disease as a little girl. Her symptoms were swollen neck glands (she couldn’t turn her head) and a very bad sore throat. She enjoyed the time off school and the ice-cream she was fed to ease the sore throat!).
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Cinema Signal:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
A Biography
by Piero Melograni and Lydia G. Cochrane (Highest rated at Amazon)
. "In Search of Mozart"
Anecdotally speaking, it would seem that the most listened-to composers on the planet are Beethoven and Mozart. A classical music station in Los Angeles even chose the call letters KMZT after the latter genius and hardly a day goes by that it doesn't program several of his works. But, that popularity is only within the relatively small demographic that listens to classical music at all. That sad fact is reflected in the recent need for the station to go from FM to AM to make way for Hip Hop pop so as to meet the bills.
Neverthless, for classical music lovers, the Mozart legacy is one of the great treasures of the world, and the prodigy who turned in melodic lines whose originality went beyond 18th century norms -- at the age of eight! -- is well presented in this definitive documentary.
Thanks, then, goes to director/producer Phil Grabsky for compiling as complete a history of the music genius as has heretofore been presented in one audio-visual place. It is comprised of contemporary portraiture; experts analyzing the inventiveness and personal journey of the artist all along his somewhat troubled life (he died at 35); contemporary scenes of Salzburg, his hometown, and his adopted Paris, Prague and Vienna; a very revealing lifelong collection of letters to and from the master's father and adored wife; and many excerpts of musicians playing key compositions: chamber music, concertos, syphonies and more.
The release details tell us, "This look at the life of Mozart follows a 25,000-mile trail along every route Mozart followed in the course of his life," and it's evidient on screen.
While the first ten minutes or so seem a melange of material, sticking to the chronology of the life and the music brings structure to the enterprise. And, no matter what segue repetition (metronomic windshield wipers) might creep into the narrative flow, the education one derives from this documentary overrides any matters of moviemaking technique. The product itself proves to be of inestimable value.
I suspect its detail about a period in history when records of any kind about its creative geniuses aren't as complete or easily found as in more modern time, is as elucidating to musicians as to Joe and Mary Commuter whose early morning drives are enriched by the masterful tempi of Amadeus.
Grabsky's documentary takes us from the earliest examples of little Wolfgang's keyboard ingenuity to his unfinished Requiem -- more than 70 works in all. Performers include Leif Ove Andsnes, Rene Jacobs, Renee Fleming, Pierre Laurent Aimard, Lang Lang, Frans Brueggen's Orchestra of 18th Century Music and others who discuss their take on the genius and the emotional depth in the works they play for us.
Musicologists such as Jonathan Miller, Cliff Eisen, Nicholas Till, Bayan Northcott and Stanley Sadie add to our understanding of the man in a fuller, more complete and, one suspects, more accurate way than in such stagy "impressions" as Milos forman's "Amadeus," in which dramatic license goes wildly unmodulated.
From Grabsky's comprehensive presentation one may be overpowered by the awesome creativity of the composer which, especially considering his more earthy personal proclivities, is as unfathomable for most mortals as the scope of the galaxies. Genius like this is, after all, a mystery. And, while one might be transfixed by the effect of it, as one is swept away by the contemplation of the Grand Canyon, the timeless durability of Mozart's music is explained by that effect on his players, singers, scholars and listeners. Admiration for Mozart may be eclipsed (in fan following) by what's being fed to the hip hop generation but its accessibility at all levels of musical development makes it durable and universal.
No musician or music lover should fail to see this movie.
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QUALIFICATION OF PLAYERS
8. (A) Contract players, as defined in Football Association Rules, are not permitted in this Competition. A contract player may only play for the Club that holds his contract.
It is the responsibility of each Club to ensure that any Player signing a registration form for that Club has, where necessary, the required International Transfer Certificate. Clearance is required for any Player aged 12 and over crossing borders including Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
(B) A registered playing member of a Club is one who, being in all other respects eligible, has:-
(i) Signed a fully and correctly completed Competition registration form in ink,
countersigned by an Officer of the Club, and who has been registered with the
Registrations Secretary seven (7) days prior to playing and whose completed registration counterfoil has been received by the Club prior to playing.
(ii) Signed a fully and correctly completed Competition registration form in ink
on a match day prior to playing, countersigned by an Officer of the Club and
witnesses by an Officer of the opposing Club, and submitted to the
Registrations Secretary within two days (Sundays excluded) subsequent to the
match. The player shall be allowed to play the next week, only if the player’s Club has contacted the Registration Secretary to confirm that he has received the Player’s registration form.
(iii) While serving in any branch of Her Majesty’s Regular Forces, a player must first obtain the consent of his Association Secretary before signing a registration form to play for a Club.
(C) A player having taken part in matches for any Club affiliated to any County Football Association shall not be allowed to join, be transferred to, or sign for a Club in the Competition without first proving to the officials of the intended Club that the player has discharged all reasonable financial liabilities to the previous Club or Clubs, and a Club official may not accept such player's signature without first ascertaining whether such claims have been discharged to the satisfaction of the Club, or Clubs, for which the player last played.
(D) A fee of one pound (£1) shall be paid for each player registered.
Registration forms shall be obtained from the Registrations Secretary or downloaded from the Official League Website: www.wakefieldsundayleague.com
(E) The Management Committee shall decide all registration disputes.
In the event of a player signing a registration form or having a registration submitted for more than one Club priority of registration shall decide for which Club the player shall be registered. The Registrations Secretary shall notify the Club last applying to register the player of the fact of the previous registration.
(F) It shall be a breach of Rule for a player to:-
(i) Play for more than one Club in the Competition in the same season without
first being transferred.
(ii) Having signed for one Club in the Competition, sign for another Club in the
Competition in that season except for the purpose of a transfer.
(iii) Submit a signed registration form for registration that the player had wilfully
neglected to accurately or fully complete.
(G) (i) The Management Committee shall have power to accept the registration
of any player.
(ii) The Management Committee shall have power to refuse, cancel or suspend the registration of any player or may fine any player, except those under 18 years of age, at their discretion who has been charged and found guilty of registration irregularities.
(Subject to Rule 16).
(iii) The Management Committee shall have power to make application to refuse or cancel the registration of any player charged and found guilty of undesirable conduct (subject to Rule 16) subject to the right of appeal to the FA or the relevant County Football Association.
Undesirable conduct shall mean an incident of repeated conduct, which may deter
a participant from being involved in this Competition. Application should be made to the parent County of the Club the player is registered with.
(Note: Action under Clause (iii) shall not be taken against a player for misconduct until the matter has been dealt with by the appropriate Association, and then only in cases of the player bringing the Competition into disrepute and will in any case be subject to an Appeal to the Football Association.) For the purpose of this Rule, bringing the competition into disrepute can only be considered where the player has received in excess of 112 days’ suspension, or 10 matches in match based discipline, in a period of two years or less from the date of the first offence.
(H) Subject to The Football Association Rules dealing with players without a written contract when a player desires a transfer, the Club the player wishes to transfer to shall submit a transfer form to the Registrations Secretary accompanied by a fee of ten pounds (£10). Such transfer shall be referred by the Registrations Secretary to the Club for which the player is registered. Should this Club object to the transfer it should state its objections in writing to the Registrations Secretary and to the player concerned within seven days of receipt of the transfer form. Upon receipt of the Club's consent, or upon its failure to give written objection within seven days, the Registrations Secretary may, on behalf of the Management Committee, transfer the player who shall be deemed eligible to play for the new Club from such date or seven (7) days after receipt of such transfer.
In the event of an objection to a transfer the matter shall be referred to the Management Committee for a decision.
(I) A player may not be registered for a Club nor transferred to another Club in the Competition after 24th May except by special permission of the Management Committee.
(J) A Club shall keep a list of the players it registers and a record of the games in which they have played, and shall produce such records upon demand by the Management Committee.
(K) A register containing the names of all players registered for each Club, with the date of registration, shall be kept by the Registrations Secretary and shall be open to the inspection of any duly appointed Member Club representative at all Management Committee meetings or at other times mutually arranged. Registrations are valid for one Season only.
In the event of a player without a written contract changing his status to that of a contract player with the same Club, another Club in the Competition or with a Club in another Competition his registration as a player without a written contract will automatically be cancelled and declared void. In order to play in the League again either for his original Club or for another Club it will be necessary for him to be re-registered as required by this Rule.
(L) A player shall not be eligible to play for a team in any special championship, promotion or relegation deciding match (as specified in Rule 12(A)) unless the player has played three (3) games for that team in this Competition in the current season.
(O)(i) Any team playing an unregistered or otherwise ineligible player or players may have the points gained in the match deducted from its total and may be fined and/or otherwise dealt with at the discretion of the Management Committee.
(ii) In addition the team may have three (3) points deducted from its total at the discretion of the Management Committee and may be dealt with in any further manner which is thought to be fit.
(iii) The Management Committee may, at its discretion, award the points available in the match in question to the opponents, subject to the match not being ordered to be replayed.
(The following Clause applies to Competitions involving players in full-time secondary education):-
(P) (i) Priority must be given at all times to school and school organisations
(ii) The availability of children must be cleared with the Head Teachers (except
for Sunday Leagues).
(iii) To play open age football the player must have achieved the age of 16.
W&DSFL Agreement To Be Signed AGREEMENT TO BE SIGNED 7.The Chairman and the Secretary of each Club shall complete and sign th
W&DSFL Club Colours, Club Name CLUB COLOURS. CLUB NAME 9.(A) Every Club must register the colour of its shirts and shorts wit
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Clonidine Side Effects Child
Clonidine may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide. In 2010, clonidine was approved by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat ADHD in children. Other side effects of haloperidol include anxiety, restlessness, agitation, insomnia , headache, euphoria, drowsiness, depression, confusion, dizziness, and seizures. If your child has underlying depression, you should avoid giving him. 2mg at night). What side effects can this medicine have? Children have been treated with clonidine for as long as 5 years without developing long-term side effects, but any medication may have side effects, including allergy to the medicine. All oral products: Give this drug with or without food. Clonidine was more effective than placebo for long-term smoking cessation in a Cochrane database review of 6 trials with dry mouth and sedation reported as most troublesome side effects. Therefore, APO-CLONIDINE in this combination is not recommended. Clonidine is such a medication. There are a number of possible side effects that can occur, so let's start with the most common and. … By doing so, all medicines can be released at one go, thereby increasing the risk of side effects. Other side-effects include fatigue and coldness of the extremities. If you miss a dose of clonidine extended-release tablets, skip the missed dose and take the next dose as scheduled. He is on Geodon. It is not recommended to use elderberry in young children, pregnant or nursing women, or those with complex liver or kidney disease. Clonidine is a powerful drug, and it can interact with other prescription medications as well. Determine positional changes (supine, sitting, standing). Lauren, va - 04/04/2009. In addition, clonidine may cause eye dryness, loss of sex drive, and decreased sexual activity. 1 mg per day), 8. stomach upset or pain. If any of these effects persist or worsen, tell your doctor or pharmacist promptly. Clonidine Oral tablet drug summary. This is usually temporary, and growth typically catches up over time. The primary outcome of this randomized, double‐blind trial was to compare the incidence of side‐effects after epidural infusion of clonidine or morphine, in association with ropivacaine in children. dizziness or fainting spells. Side Effects. "The brain doesn't like to be pushed or pulled any direction quickly," observes Dr. Clonidine for Sleep Disturbances in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Clonidine is a medication given to those suffering through drug withdrawal from benzodiazepines and opiates. Clonidine Interactions with Alcohol Clonidine alone can cause dizziness and drowsiness. Common side effects (again, during the early stages of treatment) include dizziness, dry mouth, lightheadedness, and constipation. Clonidine Oral tablet drug summary. Over the years we have seen Clonidine prescribed to children with ADHD and temper problems, and have called it “a sledge hammer” approach to treatment, as it often just over-whelms a child. The system areas are 3. When the blood pressure is lowered, the amount of blood and oxygen going to the heart is increased. Parents and caregivers should discuss any side effects or concerns. His is on Concerta during the day. Blood pressure and pulse monitoring is recommended during taper and discontinuation. @ Nighttimeirin Children Non Oral Pain Relief Product - Keeps Pain and Anxiety Far Away. Serious side effects such as seizures (this usually happens in children with a history of seizures), painful and prolonged erections (priapism), slowing of growth (weight and height), persistent loss of skin color (chemical leukoderma) and eyesight changes or blurred vision have been reported with the Daytrana patch. Clonidine also has peripheral alpha agonist activity which can lead to hypertension - especially when it is injected intravenously. Some of the side effects caused by clonidine in children with ADHD are: 1) Constipation can be caused as one of the clonidine side effects in children with adhd. Emotional side effects reported to be experienced by children taking Ritalin include depression, irritability, aggression and anxiety. Claiming absolute safety of clonidine in children is impossible. But the behavior worsens because the children's bodies have become adapted [because the drugs are habit-forming] to the drug. Some children have gained up to 100 pounds and often progress to becoming diabetic. Typically used 2nd line, but a viable option in those with CI to first-line stimulants. Try it and then judge it. Clonidine can cause side effects that may impair your thinking or reactions. Clonidine like any other medications has a potential for short-term and long-term side effects. A case of hyperprolactinemia and gynecomastia occurred in a 6-year-old boy taking clonidine for hyperactivity and valproic acid for a seizure disorder. Clinical effects coded as related to the clonidine exposure were included; clinical effects coded as unrelated or unknown if related were excluded. Do not stop giving clonidine without first checking with your child’s doctor. ** Clonidine For Sleep Side Effects Chamomile Sleep Aid For Child ** Sleep Perfect Natural Sleep Aid Cvs Sleep Aid Side Effects Clonidine For Sleep Side Effects Chamomile Sleep Aid For Child with Best Sleep Aid Valerian and Sleep Deprivation Treatment Natural Cbt Insomnia Depression. This indirectly forces couples been used to promote a online of the structure it logically. This eMedTV segment explains that drowsiness, headaches, and nausea are some of the common side effects of clonidine ER. Using clonidine with other drugs that make you drowsy or slow your breathing can cause dangerous side effects or death. But the behavior worsens because the children's bodies have become adapted [because the drugs are habit-forming] to the drug. Settings and Design: This study was conducted as a single blind trial on 60 children who. In a similar study, the addition of clonidine 2 µg kg −1 to bupivacaine 0. This is more common when you first start taking clonidine. Side effects were minimal, but some of the studies used atropine prophylactically with the intention of preventing bradycardia and hypotension. Most Common Chronic Pain By Body Part How A Child With Chronic Pain Plays. 3 mg per day) and the amount of drug released is directly proportional to the area (see Release Rate Concept). 30 x 30 Lee, JJ and Rubin, AP. What side effects are possible with this medication? Many medications can cause side effects. If your body goes without this medicine for too long, your blood pressure may go up to a very high level and cause serious side effects. Kapvay is usually taken twice a day, in the morning and at bedtime. As with any drug, there can be powerful side effects and the medication isn't appropriate for everyone. Clonidine is used to treat hypertension (high blood pressure). In children 1 to 17 years of age, the most common side effects with NEXIUM may include headache, diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, and drowsiness Approved Uses for NEXIUM NEXIUM is prescribed to treat the symptoms of acid reflux disease, which typically include persistent heartburn on 2 or more days per week, despite treatment and change of diet. Clonidine is also used off label for minor insomnia sometimes, so that's another potential benefit for a steroid user. Alcohol can make the side effects from clonidine patch worse. Clonidine can also be a useful treatment for children who do not respond favorably to the psychostimulant medications or who may respond well to them but have intolerable side effects. Clonidine patches should be discontinued once the child is comfortable with minimal other analgesia (paracetamol +/- NSAIDs). Ask your doctor before using opioid medication, a sleeping pill, a muscle relaxer, or medicine for anxiety or seizures. It can indirectly control others by enabling a lower dose of stimulant effective. (2) Ketamine is an alternative premedicant and even sub-anaesthetic concentration of it are known to cause undesirable side-effects. Methylphenidate drugs have been extensively abused. 25 mm thick, containing clonidine as the active agent. Basic research in animals and clinical studies in humans performed with epidural clonidine have shown its analgesic effects, with less side effects than any other neuroaxial anaesthesia adjuvant. The side effects listed below are not experienced by everyone who takes this medication. FIS Freestyle World Championships us without visiting you improvements of mass full renderings of any. * It may lead to drowsiness. Is not ours to know why doctors do what they do, the only thing that matters is if Clonidine can help or not. Patients should be instructed not to discontinue therapy without consulting their physician. A meta-analysis of 11 studies reported that clonidine may be appropriate as a second-line agent after stimulants, and that utility is limited by clonidine’s many associated side effects. anxiety, nervousness. If you wear contact lenses, you may need to use eye drops as clonidine may cause dry eyes. For ER clonidine: Peaks in 7. Get Now, Free EdPills with every order. Indications, dose, contra-indications, side-effects, interactions, cautions, warnings and other safety information for CLONIDINE HYDROCHLORIDE. These side-effects are possible, but do not always occur. Serious side effects such as seizures (this usually happens in children with a history of seizures), painful and prolonged erections (priapism), slowing of growth (weight and height), persistent loss of skin color (chemical leukoderma) and eyesight changes or blurred vision have been reported with the Daytrana patch. com) of Clonidine include any of the following: Fast or pounding heartbeats A very slow heart rate (fewer than 60 beats per minute) Feeling short of breath, even with mild exertion. Clonidine can also be a useful treatment for children who do not respond favorably to the psychostimulant medications or who may respond well to them but have intolerable side effects. Has your son been taking Adderall for very long, and has his doseage changed in the least. said "just stop" giving it to her. What side effects may I notice from receiving this medicine? Side effects that you should report to your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible: allergic reactions like skin rash, itching or hives, swelling of the face, lips, or tongue. Emotional Side Effects. Others are more serious and require immediate medical care. If your child needs to stop taking oral clonidine, they should be tapered off the tablet gradually over more than 1 week. Despite the potentially drastic withdrawal effects that can be experienced, clonidine is associated with very few side effects. When side effects become a problem, we try to change the dosage, the release formula, or the type of medication your child is taking. Psychiatric Medications for Children and Adolescents: Overview of how medications are an effective tool in treating children and teens with ADHD. Oral administration is the simplest and most readily acceptable way of. The final daily dose is different for different children. Side effects typically last 1 to 2 weeks while the good effects last 3 months. Clonidine patches should be discontinued once the child is comfortable with minimal other analgesia (paracetamol +/- NSAIDs). It can also be used for other conditions, such as tics, aggression, migraines, high blood pressure, pain in the hands and feet, sleep problems or other conditions. The following is a list of possible side-effects that may occur in medicines that contain Clonidine Hydrochloride. Clonidine in PTSD. It is not known whether this medicine will harm an unborn baby. 2 mg orally every 6 hours or clonidine transdermal patch 0. No Side Effects, Legal in All 50 States, Can A Long Period Of Chronic Pain Cause Ptsd Is Morphine Safe To Take For Chronic Pain. Clonidine was originally used for patients with high blood pressure, but is now often used to treat insomnia, as the lowered heart rate makes it easier to sleep. Clonidine poisoning may occur from exploratory ingestion by young children, transdermal exposure from a clonidine patch, malicious drug. Side Effects of Clonidine Clonidine should be taken exactly as it is prescribed to the patient. BID dosing may reduce risk of side effects Non-Stimulant Modafinil (Provigil) 100-300mg once daily Hepatic impairment: Dose reduction required Insomnia (take in the. Research is limited on the potential benefits and side effects of treating children with Celexa (citalopram), because the drug is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) only for treating major depressive disorder (MDD) in adults. Try it and then judge it. Federal Government. A meta-analysis of 11 studies reported that clonidine may be appropriate as a second-line agent after stimulants, and that utility is limited by clonidine's many associated side effects. What side effects are possible with this medication? Many medications can cause side effects. If you miss a dose of clonidine extended-release tablets, skip the missed dose and take the next dose as scheduled. You should talk to your doctor before taking clonidine if you have heart disease. Most children also tolerate the medicine well. It also has been approved to treat ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder), anxiety disorders, and panic attacks. Clonidine, an alpha-2 agonist is a known antihypertensive agent. This may be an explanation for the apparent inconsistency in the literature concerning the proconvulsant versus anticonvulsant effects of clonidine. A search of the prescribing literature for clonidine lists dizziness as a common side effect and nausea and vomiting as less frequent side effects. It was helping with sleep until three weeks ago when it was decided to give her a small dosage of Clonidine in the morning to help control her tics throughout the day. Contact your doctor IMMEDIATELY if you have any of these potentially serious side effects:. This blood pressure increase is sometimes witnessed in cases of overdose in children. What other drugs will affect clonidine transdermal? Using this medicine with other drugs that make you sleepy or lower your blood pressure can worsen these effects. It is available as a tablet, as a patch applied to the skin or your pharmacist may be able to make a liquid. 2) • Abrupt Discontinuation: Patients should be instructed not to discontinue KAPVAY therapy without consulting their physician due to the potential risk of withdrawal effects. However, when given at a dose of 4 µg/kg, clonidine may have reduced analgesia requirements after surgery. As the body adjusts to the drug, side effects should diminish. Other uncommon side effects may include hallucinations, nightmares, and problem with understanding what is happening around you. 2mg at night). This medicine should not be given to a child under the age of 18 years of age. If a patient receiving clonidine hydrochloride is also taking tricyclic antidepressants, the hypotensive effect of clonidine may be reduced, necessitating an increase in the clonidine dose. Clonidine treats high blood pressure by decreasing your heart rate and relaxing the blood vessels so that blood can flow more easily through the body. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088. It also has been approved to treat ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder), anxiety disorders, and panic attacks. In a similar study, the addition of clonidine 2 µg kg −1 to bupivacaine 0. This side effect occurs most especially for those who are taking the drug for the first time. The side effects listed below are not experienced by everyone who takes this medication. Intuniv may be an especially good option if your child's current medication simply isn't working well, he hasn't been able to tolerate other stimulants because of side effects, or if you have been wary of putting your child on a stimulant. Those may include aggression, jittery behavior. Side effects can be mild or severe, temporary or permanent. Discuss the risks and benefits with your doctor. Guanfacine can control directly only one stimulant side-effect - ADHD rebound. Most clonidine side effects occur during the first several weeks of treatment. He is five years old. To relieve dry mouth, suck on (sugarless) hard candy or ice chips, chew (sugarless) gum, drink water or use a saliva substitute. Clonidine is an antihypertensive that has a wide variety of other applications in the medical field today. Kapvay is usually taken twice a day, in the morning and at bedtime. Discontinuing Clonidine and Possible Withdrawal Adverse Effects. Stopping Clonidine suddenly can cause your blood pressure to go up suddenly, which raises the risk of heart attack and stroke. Side effects include tics, drooling, and incessant eating. If you notice anything unusual and are concerned, contact your doctor. Other side-effects include fatigue and coldness of the extremities. Epidural bupivaeaine with clonidine as a patient controlled epidural analgesia in children and adolescents following extensive spinal surgery should be encouraged due to the low incidence of side effects like postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) 27. In a retrospective study of 10,060 children (up to 19. Studies show that the number of children being diagnosed with ADHD continues to increase. However, its side effects can include insomnia, thus exacerbating an already common feature of opioid withdrawal. Find information about common, infrequent and rare side effects of Clonidine Hcl Oral. If any of these effects persist or worsen, tell your doctor or pharmacist promptly. However, as with all medicines, it is possible that side effects will occur during treatment with Strattera. There are 10 other reports of babies who were breastfed while mom was taking clonidine that did not have reported side effects. This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. It is available as a tablet, as a patch applied to the skin or your pharmacist may be able to make a liquid. As the effects of clonidine can be antagonised by tricyclic anti-depressants, it may be necessary to adjust the dosage of clonidine, if these agents are administered concurrently. Side effects can be mild or severe, temporary or permanent. If you take clonidine and breastfeed, talk with your child's healthcare provider to see if any special follow up is needed. Based on these studies, the most common side effects of Concerta include: Loss of appetite -- in up to 25. It is anticipated that Clonicel will last longer than eight hours per day and only need to be given one time each day. Tegretol—used to treat children with a variety of behavior problems. Clonidine BNM can reach your baby and may lower your baby’s heart rate. Serious side effects such as seizures (this usually happens in children with a history of seizures), painful and prolonged erections (priapism), slowing of growth (weight and height), persistent loss of skin color (chemical leukoderma) and eyesight changes or blurred vision have been reported with the Daytrana patch. A representative study or report highlights each therapeutic use (Table 4). Protocols, 1996. Clonidine Use in Children or Teens. In some cases, these side effects can be eliminated with dosage readjustment. Clonidine is a powerful drug, and it can interact with other prescription medications as well. More serious side effects include allergic reaction (swelling of your lips,. Several experienced worsening of their AD/HD symptoms and 25% could not tolerate the medication due to side effects. The most common side effect found in treating ADHD in children is drowsiness. Some side effects do not require medical attention and may disappear with time. Study design/Methods: This study will be a prospective, randomized, non-blinded clinical trial of NMS/C versus NMS/P for treatment of infants with NAS. Side effects were reported in around 50% of children (comparable to other anti-dystonic medications28, 29), but only one patient stopped taking clonidine as a consequence of these adverse effects. Dizziness Get up slowly from a sitting or lying position. One of the side effects of the Clodine is sleepiness. Learn how to pronounce the drug's name, its indications, dosage, how to take, when to take, when not to take, side effects, special precautions, its storage instructions and warnings if any when. Clonidine has been around for more than 40 years and has many uses for different health conditions. Ritalin is widely used in the treatment of ADHD; but there are a number of Ritalin side effects in children. However, there are historical anecdotal reports of serious cardiac side effects, including death in cases with other risk factors. 2) Your child may feel sleepy during the daytime. What are the side effects of Strattera? The most common side effects in children and adolescents are: Upset stomach (e. Clonidine Max Dose Child 65 watts and have all have agreed not ask her to this site from a those five seats are all hard and. Children ages 6 to 11 years are treated with medicine or behavior therapy or both. Side effects can be mild or severe, temporary or permanent. trouble sleeping. Side Effects. Clonidine is such a medication. No Side Effects, Legal in All 50 States, Can A Long Period Of Chronic Pain Cause Ptsd Is Morphine Safe To Take For Chronic Pain. The manufacturer's product labeling should always be consulted for a list of side effects most frequently appearing in patients during clinical studies. What is this medicine? CLONIDINE (KLOE ni deen) is used for relief of severe pain that is not controlled by other pain medications. If you miss a dose of clonidine extended-release tablets, skip the missed dose and take the next dose as scheduled. Initially, clonidine may stimulate peripheral alpha-adrenergic receptors, producing transient vasoconstriction. 2mg at night). Tegretol—used to treat children with a variety of behavior problems. My 8 year old daughter has been taking Clonidine at bedtime since August to help first with sleep and secondly with tics. Clonidine is used for analgesia and sedation in paediatric anaesthesia, but there are no data on its sedative properties and side effects in critically ill children. If you miss more than one dose of clonidine tablets, check with your doctor right away. It is used for the management of hypertension (high blood pressure). Side Effects of Clonidine Clonidine should be taken exactly as it is prescribed to the patient. RESULTS: Evaluable patient analysis showed that significantly more clonidine-treated children than controls were responders on the Conduct scale (21 of 37 versus 6 of 29; chi2(1) = 8. Chronic Back Pain Medication With Least Side Effects How Long Does It Take For Cbd Oil To Work On Chronic Pain Does Chronic Pain Lead To Chronic Fatique Our editors independently research, test, and recommend the best products; you can learn more about our review process. ER clonidine (Kapvay). Pharmacodynamics Antihypertensive action: Clonidine decreases peripheral vascular resistance by stimulating central alpha-adrenergic receptors, thus decreasing cerebral sympathetic outflow; drug also may inhibit renin release. Side Effects & Adverse Reactions. Protocols, 1996. Too much clonidine can cause bad side effects, like coma and death. Mental depression swelling of the feet and lower legs Rare. Once these types of medications are released, they are very frequently wonderful and very effective medications within the pediatric age group. (1) Clonidine, alpha-2 agonist produces pre-operative sedation and anxiolysis reliably in addition to analgesic effect and maintaining haemodynamic stability. Clonidine acutely stimulates growth hormone release in both children and adults, but does not produce a chronic elevation of growth hormone with long-term use. Learn how to pronounce the drug's name, its indications, dosage, how to take, when to take, when not to take, side effects, special precautions, its storage instructions and warnings if any when. Clonidine 50mg dosage Let’s kick it off by saying straight away that there are both reliable and rogue pharmacies retailing generic Viagra. Side Effects. clonidine-chlorthalidone oral Side Effects Dizziness, lightheadedness, drowsiness, dry mouth, or constipation may occur. Clonidine: Uses, Side Effects, Dosage, Mechanism of Action, Interactions and Presentations by Dr. nightmares. If your body goes without this medicine for too long, your blood pressure may go up to a very high level and cause serious side effects. For most children, this is likely to be around day 3-4 postoperatively. Clinical effects coded as related to the clonidine exposure were included; clinical effects coded as unrelated or unknown if related were excluded. What side effects may I notice from receiving this medicine? Side effects that you should report to your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible: allergic reactions like skin rash, itching or hives, swelling of the face, lips, or tongue. In 2010, clonidine was approved by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat ADHD in children. Clonidine ( Catapres ) is used to counter the insomniac effects of the stimulants, and help children get off to sleep at night. you should know that clonidine patch may cause dizziness, lightheadedness, and fainting when you get up too quickly from a lying position. Talk to your healthcare provider about all of your breastfeeding questions. Find information about common, infrequent and rare side effects of Clonidine Hcl Oral. However, when given at a dose of 4 µg/kg, clonidine may have reduced analgesia requirements after surgery. After 3 weeks, all my doubts and skepticism had absolutely vanished!. If you have questions about this medicine talk to your doctor, pharmacist, or health care provider. i switched him from concerta to adderall about 3 months ago, and it seems like recently he just cannot sleep. Tricyclic antidepressants, such as Pamelor™ (nortriptyline), Tofranil® (imipramine), and Norpramin® (desipramine) have been shown to be helpful in children and adults with ADHD, but they can cause some unpleasant side effects, such as dry mouth, constipation, or urinary problems. 2% ropivacaine and less than alone in the SLPB plus femoral block in children undergoing mild to moderate painful foot surgery, with no side. Try it and then judge it. , nausea, vomiting) Decreased appetite, which may cause weight loss; Nausea; Dizziness; Fatigue; Mood swings; Drowsiness; Abdominal pain; The most common side effects in adults are: Constipation; Dry mouth; Insomnia; Erectile dysfunction. Depression is a common side effect of Clonidine. Ritalin is widely used in the treatment of ADHD; but there are a number of Ritalin side effects in children. Clonidine was more effective than placebo for long-term smoking cessation in a Cochrane database review of 6 trials with dry mouth and sedation reported as most troublesome side effects. A more worrisome side effect is rebound hypertension since it is a short acting drug. VCUchem 03:28, 10 April 2007 (UTC) My son, 4. Children may have different reactions and side effects than adults. Side effects, however, were more commonly encountered during the clonidine than during the methyldopa phase. This blood pressure increase is sometimes witnessed in cases of overdose in children. A burgeoning body of evidence exists as regards the role of clonidine in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). About 80% of those with ADHD will respond positively to medication. In children 1 to 17 years of age, the most common side effects with NEXIUM may include headache, diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, and drowsiness Approved Uses for NEXIUM NEXIUM is prescribed to treat the symptoms of acid reflux disease, which typically include persistent heartburn on 2 or more days per week, despite treatment and change of diet. Non-Stimulant Medications: An overview about effectivness, benefits and side effects of ADHD medications for children and adolescents. Moreover, dexmedetomidine did not offer significant advantage over clonidine as regards the analgesia duration. Pharmacodynamics Antihypertensive action: Clonidine decreases peripheral vascular resistance by stimulating central alpha-adrenergic receptors, thus decreasing cerebral sympathetic outflow; drug also may inhibit renin release. Although this medication is primarily used as a medication for high blood pressure, it can be successfully used to help people cope with their anxiety disorders. See also: Side effects (in more detail) Clonidine Hydrochloride Alembic dosing Usual Adult Dose for Hypertension: Initial dose : 0. Clonidine is also used off label for minor insomnia sometimes, so that's another potential benefit for a steroid user. 25% at 1 ml kg −1 significantly promoted analgesia after anaesthetic recovery in children aged 6 months to 6 yr, undergoing lower abdominal surgeries without increasing the incidence of side-effects. “Opioid” is a term for a number of natural substances (originally derived from the opium poppy) and their semisynthetic and synthetic analogues that bind to specific opioid receptors. What are clonidine side effects? Common side effects of taking clonidine include constipation, dizziness, drowsiness, dry eyes, decreased heart rate, and dry mouth. Studies show that the number of children being diagnosed with ADHD continues to increase. Clonidine causes euphoria, hallucinations, and sedation in high doses and can cause anxiety or depression, although the last two effects are less common. We recommend the use of clonidine as additive to ropivacaine in caudal anesthesia, in children, as it has a more favorable side effect profile than fentanyl. 71,797 discussions on Treato. Neither gave the side effects on him as the above letter. Hemp Oil For Tremors Side Effects Of Hemp Oil Am Azon Feature Archive Hemp Oil For Tremors Can Clonidine Be Taken With Hemp Oil After the fragrance and color to be able to added into the soap base, pour the melted base into the mold of your choice. Anxiety - the medication is sometimes prescribed for its anti-anxiety and mild sedative effects. Determine positional changes (supine, sitting, standing). Worst Pills Best Pills , Public Citizen Health Research Group, Washington DC (1988). We studied 30 ventilated children aged 10 yr and under to determine an effective i. Parents and caregivers should discuss any side effects or concerns. Off-label uses include the treatment of diabetic neuropathy, hot flashes, cancer pain, and drug, alcohol and nicotine withdrawal. Melatonin is a natural hormone, produced in the body to regulate sleep patterns. Effects may take up to 4 weeks. The Compounder is a licensed pharmacy, staffed by licensed professionals. One of the side effects of the Clodine is sleepiness. For withdrawal sufferers, clonidine reduces some of the symptoms of withdrawal, easing the withdrawal process. 1 mg tablets half when he wakes up, half at eleven am, whole at three pm, and whole at bedtime. Those may include aggression, jittery behavior. 2 mg/day), and 10. Clonidine is used for analgesia and sedation in paediatric anaesthesia, but there are no data on its sedative properties and side effects in critically ill children. A side effect is an unwanted response to a medication when it is taken in normal doses. , FCCP, FPPAG lonidine was approved as an antihypertensive medication by the Food. Clonidine Side Effects In Summary. If you take clonidine and breastfeed, talk with your child's healthcare provider to see if any special follow up is needed. Clonidine | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. This is more common when you first start taking clonidine. Along with its needed effects, clonidine may cause some unwanted effects. Talk to your healthcare provider about all of your breastfeeding questions. Minor side effects with amitriptyline include: oanxiety ; oconstipation, or diarrhea ; odrowsiness or dizziness ; odry mouth ; oincreased sensitivity of the skin to sun or ultraviolet light ; oloss of appetite ; onausea, vomiting ; oskin rash or itching ; oweight gain or loss. Many adjust to or don't get any noticeable fatigue or sexual side effects from clonidine. Find information about common, infrequent and rare side effects of Clonidine Hcl Oral. Claiming absolute safety of clonidine in children is impossible. increased sweating. you should know that clonidine may cause dizziness, lightheadedness, and fainting when you get up too quickly from a lying position. 960 of 1911 people found the following helpful. Clonidine may also reduce severity of neonatal abstinence syndrome in infants born to mothers that are using certain drugs, particularly opioids. If you miss a dose of clonidine extended-release tablets, skip the missed dose and take the next dose as scheduled. Pharmacology, adverse reactions, warnings and side effects. Commonly reported side effects of clonidine include: drowsiness, fatigue, hypotension, For the Consumer. Federal Government. Clonidine premedication for postoperative analgesia in children. i switched him from concerta to adderall about 3 months ago, and it seems like recently he just cannot sleep. These side effects may increase the risk of falling. For most children, Strattera is effective at treating ADHD symptoms. Aggressive. Some gastrointestinal symptoms, such as nausea and vomiting, are common. Clonidine is eliminated primarily by the kidney, and its half-life decreases as the child's renal function matures. And we have never been impressed with Clonidine since we have seen the same benefits from Extress (VAXA International) , but without the strong side. Causing side effects. , those occurring in less than 5% of patients) There are risks involved with taking any medication. Buck, Pharm. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. Our results allow us to conclude that addition of dexmedetomidine (2 µg kg −1) or clonidine (2 µg kg −1) to caudal bupivacaine 0. Prescribing Celexa to children is considered an "off-label" use of the drug. Cardiovascular effects include bradycardia and hypotension. Avoid drinking alcohol. KAPVAY should be discontinued slowly in decrements of. Talk to your healthcare provider about all of your breastfeeding questions. Most adverse effects are mild and diminish with. Clonidine premedication for postoperative analgesia in children. that the benefits of you taking this medication are greater than the risks (e. The sedation effect is also useful. One treatment that has become popular to help target anxiety disorders is Clonidine. This is not a complete list of side effects and. Clonidine can also be a useful treatment for children who do not respond favorably to the psychostimulant medications or who may respond well to them but have intolerable side effects. What side effects are possible with this medication? Many medications can cause side effects. Catapres (Clonidine) is a good addition if you need more than one medicine to control your blood pressure, but it has a lot of side effects.
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Melanie C - Let There Be Love (Behind The Scenes)
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Here's an exclusive behind the scenes look at the video shoot of Melanie's single 'Let There Be Love' which was filmed during a sunny autumn day on Brighton's seafront.
'Let There Be Love' is available on iTunes now, as well as on CD in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. If you don't live in these regions, you can import the CD single through Amazon.de at http://www.amazon.de/Let-There-Be-Love-2track/dp/B0060QO4MS/
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Home » Unlabelled » Boyapati to 'direct' Krishna Pushkaram too!
Boyapati to 'direct' Krishna Pushkaram too!
Leading director Boyapati Sreenu today met Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu at his office in Vijayawada. Andhra Pradesh government has started arrangements for the forthcoming Krishna Pushkaralu in big way.
He is said to have met Chief Minister Chandra Babu Naidu to discuss the arrangements for "Aarti" for river Krishna. He will be directing the officials how to make temporary sets, arrangements of lighting and other details. Though Boyapati did not meet the media, it is said that he will be doing the same that he did last year for Godavari Pushkaralu at Rajamundry.
Last year, about 30 people were killed in a stampede at Rajamundry. Boyapati's involvement in this became controversial. Despite this, he is getting involved in Krishna Pushkaralu again.
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All posts tagged "Oprah Winfrey"
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Oprah Winfrey to Become First African American Woman to Receive the Cecile B DeMille Award
By Amanda Rey on December 14, 2017
Oprah Winfrey is a media mogul, philanthropist, entrepreneur, an award-winning actress and now the recipient of the prestigious Cecil B DeMille award. It has been...
Oprah Winfrey to Make Her ‘60 Minutes’ Debut Covering the Political Divide in America
By Sheriden Chanel on September 15, 2017
CBS’ mainstay 60 Minutes is headed into its 50th year of production. It only seems fitting to debut their newest contributor on the anniversary of...
Watch the Trailer for ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Starring Oprah Winfrey and More!
By Amanda Rey on July 18, 2017
It’s finally here! First footage of Ava DuVernay’s highly anticipated film A Wrinkle in Time gives us a first look at what’s in store. From...
Season 2 of Ava DuVernay’s ‘Queen Sugar’ Has An Official Premiere Date
By Sheriden Chanel on April 14, 2017
Season 2 of Queen Sugar is coming to OWN in June. Similarly to the way the series made its initial debut, Queen Sugar will premiere...
Oprah Winfrey’s ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack’ Set to Premiere on HBO
By Amanda Rey on February 17, 2017
Oprah Winfrey’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack finally has an HBO premiere set.The docu-drama, which co-stars Rose Byrne, tells the story about an African...
‘Queen Sugar’ Gets OWN Season 2 Renewal Ahead of Series Premiere
By Jasmine Ginyard on August 5, 2016
OWN’s new original drama Queen Sugar hasn’t even premiered yet, but the network has so much faith in the Ava DuVernay-helmed project that they’ve already...
OWN Releases Teaser for New Original Drama ‘Queen Sugar’
By Jasmine Ginyard on July 13, 2016
Oprah Winfrey has teamed up with Selma director Ava DuVernay to bring OWN audiences an emotional new drama, Queen Sugar. The new series, based on...
Oprah Winfrey to Release Memoir
By Meredith Seay on December 3, 2015
Anyone who ever wanted the blueprint of Oprah Winfrey’s life will soon be getting just that. The media mogul, who heads up her own network...
Oprah’s Favorite Things 2015 List Is Released
By Meredith Seay on November 5, 2015
Along with the holidays comes Oprah Winfrey’s coveted, annual holiday “Favorite Things” list. The media mogul has unveiled this year’s list and 87 of her...
Oscars 2015: Oprah Winfrey Amazes on Red Carpet
By Meredith Seay on February 23, 2015
Oprah Winfrey looked elegant at the 2015 Academy Awards held at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday (Feb. 22). The 61-year-old talk show queen wore a...
Celebrity Couples Attend Vanity Fair’s Oscars Bash
By C. George on February 23, 2015
Leading ladies and men walked the red carpet in their finest gowns and sharpest suits to honor the best films of 2014 in the 87th...
Oprah Winfrey, ‘Selma’ Director Ava DuVernay Team for New Series
By Meredith Seay on February 3, 2015
Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay, who teamed up for Oscar-nominated Selma, are creating an original series set to air on Winfrey’s OWN network with Winfrey set to...
‘Selma’ Cast March to Honor MLK and Original Selma Marchers
By Meredith Seay on January 20, 2015
The stars of the Oscar-nominated film Selma, marched with thousands of people on Sunday in the Alabama town of the same name honoring Dr. Martin...
Oprah Winfrey Blasted for Comments About Protesters
By Meredith Seay on January 5, 2015
Oprah Winfrey has spoken out about her thoughts on the recent protests in Ferguson and New York City, and her comments have sparked backlash from...
‘Selma’ Cast, Director Protest at Film’s New York Premiere
By Meredith Seay on December 15, 2014
Movie premieres and protest don’t usually happen simultaneously, but the Selma cast decided to make a statement on Sunday night at the film’s Manhattan premiere by...
First ‘Selma’ Trailer Stars David Oyelowo As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Paramount has released the first trailer for the much-anticipated historic film Selma, which follows the long, dangerous march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965 to...
Raven-Symoné Responds To Critics: “I Never Said I Wasn’t Black”
By C. George on October 8, 2014
Raven-Symoné sparked outrage for her remarks in an exclusive Oprah interview last weekend, when the actress said she didn’t want to be labeled “gay,” despite...
Oprah’s “Where Are They Now?” Returns With Raven-Symoné
Raven-Symoné, sporting a silver ‘do with a purple hue, will be featured on Oprah Winfrey’s “Where Are They Now?” segment this upcoming weekend, where she...
Oprah Winfrey Shoots Four Covers For “O” Magazine
By C. George on September 12, 2014
Looking good, Oprah! The media mogul showcased four dramatic looks for the cover of her upcoming O: The Oprah Magazine next month, which reflected October’s theme...
Oprah Winfrey Joins Cast of Richard Pryor Biopic
By Meredith Seay on August 28, 2014
Just days after Mike Epps was named the starring role as Richard Pryor in Lee Daniels’s upcoming biopic, Oprah Winfrey revealed that she too has joined the...
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Silver Linings 1 (Part 3)
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A Whateley Academy Adventure
by Bek D Corbin
“Ma’am, the ships have begun their braking, and we have a definite target - Cincinnati, Ohio.”
“Sergeant? Any word from the Pentagon?”
“We have a colonel who’s willing to put his birds on the line by ordering a lift-off of five wings, pending an okay by a full general to order an actual attack. Ohio Air Guard has already lifted two wings. Wait a minute. We have a hail from the bogeys… Ma’am, it’s Doctor Diabolik…”
“Tell Toledo and Springfield to recall their birds! Entering that air space would be suicide! Tell those idiots to TURN BACK!”
Stacy felt something wash over her, and for a moment, it was real hard for her to think straight. She sort of ‘whited out’, and couldn’t really focus on anything. Then she came out of it with a wrench. “Cal? Cal, what happened?” But Cal was just looking blankly at the screen, his face slack, his mouth slightly open. “Cal? Cal? Are you all right?” She slapped his face, but she got the clear impression that he was wrapped up in the same ‘white mind’ funk that she’d just snapped out of.
Then there was the sound of another emergency message. From NORAD, and they said that they’d identified the incoming ships as belonging to Dr. Diabolik, and to take ‘appropriate precautions’. What the hell were the ‘appropriate precautions’? She tried calling the SPECTRUM heroes on their communicators, but the ones that responded at all were up to their eyeballs in action. Not getting any ideas as to what she should do from others, she used the HQ database to Google ‘Doctor Diabolik’. It took her a couple of tries (computers weren’t her big thing), but she got an answer:
DIABOLIK, Dr., ‘well-known independent supervillain and mastermind’ (well, DUH!), blah, blah, blah, then it finally got down to the nitty-gritty. ‘Diabolik has several ventures that fund his activities, including marketing illegal smart drugs such as Solon-3, building custom exotic equipment, and a brisk business creating and implanting custom bionic implants. But his most famous and troublesome money-making venture is paralyzing and raiding median-scale cities. Diabolik’s SOP is to pre-arrange the layout of an array of ‘perimeter pylons’ that encircles several square miles of a metropolitan area and then drop a core broadcast generator from orbit in the center of the array. The array broadcasts what is called a ‘Mind Web’, which induces a mind-null state in everyone within the containment area. People who have survived the Mind Web describe the experience as like being in a mental cloud, seeing what is going on around them, but unable to grasp what is going on, and unable to think. Once the target area has been paralyzed, Diabolik brings down a force of dropships from orbit and sacks the city of everything that can be loaded onto the dropships, in a manner all-too reminiscent of the Vikings. When the dropships are loaded, or if enough people have resisted the Mind Web and are mounting an effective counter-attack, or the core broadcast generator has been destroyed, the dropships lift off to affect a getaway. Diabolik’s Mind-Web is far from perfect, and not only can individuals fight the mental paralysis and act of their own volition, but a dramatic enough example has repeatedly been shown to inspire others to break free of the paralysis. While the paralysis is reasonably harmless in and of itself, the mass paralysis routinely causes accidents and fires and medical situations to go untended, resulting in hundreds of deaths per raid.’
Stacy looked from the monitor to Cal. She went over to him and patted his cheek. “Cal? Cal? Can you hear me? C’mon, Cal! You’re stronger than this! If I can break out of that fog, then YOU gotta be strong enough!”
Dr. Diabolik’s dropships came in on a very steep vector and braked less than a thousand feet from the surface, each shedding several pods that impacted on the ground. The pods were designed to use the impact to split them open, releasing the occupants. The occupants of the pods were Dr. Diabolik’s infamous ‘Devil Dogs’, pony-sized biomechanical constructs with an unnerving selection of horns, barbs, claws, and fangs, along with an intimidating general mien. Some of the Devil Dogs cleared an area for the dropships to land, while others loped off to join the First Strike teams, or other errands that had been programmed into them.
As the dropships came down, the men and women who had planted the perimeter pylons had gathered into eight First Strike teams of twenty each, and were waiting near their assigned targets on the outskirts of the Mind Web area. Theirs were the A-priority targets. When the dropships landed, many of them were very close to where the First Strike teams were operating, to act as pickup for them. Other dropships disgorged squads of men that charged into buildings nearby. Other squads were made up of synthoids, cheap and disposable chemical androids designed to resemble the other drop-troops. The synthoids joined some of the devil dogs guarding the dropships. One dropship landed and disembarked synthoids and devil dogs for the sole purpose of protecting the Core Broadcast Pylon on Ross Avenue.
While the rest of the dropships landed, Dr. Diabolik’s Command Ship hovered over the city, acting as overwatch, if any superhero tried to stop the raiders. In the Command Ship’s bridge and CIC, Doctor Diabolik watched his henchmen go about the prosaic business of sacking yet another city. He was 75 years old, but he still managed to look in his late forties. He wasn’t a handsome man. He was tall and gaunt, with a long thin hatchet of a face, a knife of a nose, a shelf-brow and a knob of a chin. His reddish hair was graying, but his trademark ‘horn’ forelocks were completely white. The obvious optic implant in his left eye made his good right eye seem hollow. At one time, he’d cut his clothes to display his bionic left arm. But these days, he left the sleeve of his red labcoat on; if an idiot trying to attack him didn’t know about the always-upgrading bionic arm, there was no reason to give him clues. Dr. Diabolik sighed quietly to himself. This was NOT why he became a renegade. He had stepped outside the Law in order to try to achieve results in elevating the human condition that politics, economics and legalisms wouldn’t allow. He’d had some successes, but in order to effect real change, he’d need to work harder. And that meant money. His people were loyal to him, but they still expected to be paid. And orbital dropships didn’t grow on trees.
“Doctor, Protoplasmik just reported in; he and his team have just extracted all the blackmail files, as per contract. Dexter and Sinister have found the Mackinnons’ secret vault and are breaking in. Major Ironhand reports that he’s found the black lab on Yale Road, and his team is loading the prototypes as per orders. Derrick says that he’s going to need another team to help, if they’re going to get everything from the police evidence locker. And we have a request for backup from Team G - they’re having superhero problems.”
“Superhero problems?” the doctor perked up a bit. One of the reasons why he pulled these raids was that he’d found a way to advance his primary goal and pick up operating capital at the same time. He hadn’t developed his Mind Web as a weapon; he’d been working on a method of increasing cerebral activity and achieving higher mind states through electromagnetic induction. But the best that he could do was to induce a sort of blank, dreamy state where the subject was thoughtless and unresponsive. However, he discovered that a sizeable minority of the people that he experimented on were not only able to struggle through the ‘mist’, but were able to completely throw off the power of the Mind Web. But this wasn’t a flaw; rather, he discovered that, having done so, the subjects were more awake, more aware, and actually thinking about things. It was rather like the way that someone who figures out a problem for himself understands the problem better than someone who has it explained to them. Diabolik’s best analogy was that his Mind Web synched with the mental inertia that most people suffered, leading to a near-torpor. But if they managed to overcome the inertia, then thinking came more easily to them.
After 25 years of tweaking, Diabolik was still trying to get the Mind Web to do what he’d originally intended for it, and had gotten some very interesting serendipity, but he’d only had a few real breakthroughs. His dream was to someday perfect a ‘thinking cap’ that could improve the wearer’s ability to think, learn and create. But, in the meantime, he found that if he placed people under the influence of the Mind Web in intolerable conditions - like their cities being overrun and looted - that they’d snap out of the Mind Web and retaliate. The effect often lasted for weeks after overcoming the Mind Web. Weeks, during which the subject was performing at greatly increased levels of effectiveness. While the ‘high’ always faded, it sometimes created new stable patterns of thinking and insight. The percentages were high enough that Diabolik regarded it as a mitigated success; especially when it could be done on a vast scope. It sometimes took a single dynamic, heroic individual to break the social ‘surface tension’, rather the way that a crowd will hold back until one person acts. Superheroes were wonderful for that. Most superheroes, even the dingbats, were by the very nature of their vocation more active, more dynamic, more inclined to take the bull by the horns. And their powers and costumes leapt out and seized the public’s attention, inspiring imitation and action. Dr. Diabolik loved superheroes. They were a royal pain in the butt when he was pulling one of his other plans, but on these raids, they were absolute godsends. “Do they have an identification on the superhero?”
“A local super-mystic called ‘the Green Witch’.”
Diabolik’s face fell slightly. A super-mystic. Too removed from the everyday person’s experience, too strange and alienating to inspire others to break out. Even robots were better, and they were pretty iffy. “Dispatch Team E to help Team G, and tell Protoplasmik that his team is to help Derrick. Dispatch some warbeasts and synthoids to reinforce Teams G and E. Send some men to get the art from Dexter and Sinister once they’ve extracted it from the Mackinnons, and then tell them to assist Team E.”
“On it, Doctor.” After a few minutes, Madam Lash reported, “The Mackinnon art is secure, the blackmail is secure, the prototypes from the black lab are secure, and Ironhand says we picked up a couple of tons of bleeding edge components as well, the tanker cars are being loaded, Teams B and C report that they’re just about to complete their goals, and Dexter reports that they’ve just managed to take down the Green Witch. Priority A and B items on the agenda have all been achieved.”
Diabolik sighed. Well, at least they were paying the bills. “Very good. Well, no signs of any discipline problems, so we might as well give the ground troops their Scooby snacks.”
“Right, Doctor.” Madam Lash opened up an all-user band and announced, “Good news, troops! Priorities A and B are filled, and Priority C is well-underway, so it’s Free Swim Time! For those who are working with us for the first time, ‘Free Swim’ basically means that for the next five to ten minutes, you can take practically anything you want: money, jewelry, furs, weapons, whatever. But, be aware that we ARE on a space and weight restriction, so do everyone a favor and keep it to stuff that you can carry. NO HOSTAGES. PERIOD. We don’t do that. Also, the rules about random bloodshed and rape are still in force. So keep it in your pants, or we’ll make you walk the plank at 100,000 feet. For your looting convenience, we’re providing lists and maps of banks, rare coin and stamps dealers, jewelers, diamond exchanges, pawn shops, and other low-mass, high value goods centers, available on your pickup. Have fun, boys, you earned it!”
Stacy watched the monitors in sick horror as men in red body armor burst into banks and stores and wherever they pleased, obviously ransacking the entire city as best they could within whatever schedule they were on. Again, she tried to roust Cal from the fugue he was in, but she couldn’t get a response. She checked all the members of SPECTRUM, and the only ones moving were Karen and Captain Patriot. No, Karen was down, and two ninja looking guys were tying her up. Captain Patriot was walking towards Ross Avenue, but it was like he was walking against a stiff wind, and not flying. Stacy guessed that the Mind Web thing was messing with his ability to fly.
Dr. Diabolik checked the advance intelligence report on Cincinnati. “Are there any signs of the superheroes Tawny, Captain Patriot, or the Golden Knight?”
“No signs of Tawny or the Golden Knight, but I have some reports of a man in red-white-and-blue approaching the Core Pylon on foot.”
“Put it on the main screen.” The screen showed a powerfully built man wearing a blue hood and cape striding purposefully down the street. Madam Lash cycled between several different possible cameras until she got a street-level forward shot of him. Captain Patriot was doggedly putting one foot in front of the other, determined to get to the core pylon, even if he wasn’t quite sure what was going on just yet. “Hmm… It looks like he hasn’t beaten the Mind Web yet. He’s resisting, I’ll give him that much, but he hasn’t beaten it yet. Let’s give him something to focus on, maybe that’ll snap him out of it…” The Doctor cued in a few sequences, which launched three devil dogs and a squad of synthoids at the superhero.
The synthoids opened up with low-wattage plasma blasters, which the Captain stoically waded through. Then the devil dogs pounced on him, and the Captain concentrated on tearing the mechanisms apart.
“Okay, not bad…” Dr. Diabolik watched the scene clinically. “I think we have something that we can work with here… Lash, patch this over to all broadcast and cable channels for the area. We want everyone to see this. Carver? Find me a screen to project on, I want to see if I can’t piss him off.”
It took a few seconds, and Dr. Diabolik had to find another squad of devil dogs to send as Captain Patriot was mobbed by synthoids, but Carver said, “Okay Boss, I got you a screen, and Lash should have your hookup by the time that you’re ready.”
“Good.” Dr. Diabolik cleared his throat, made sure of his best side in his chair monitor, and twisted up his face in a truculent sneer. “Venever you are ready,” he said, kicking up his Eastern European accent several notches. Lash gave him a five-count and he began, “Goot afternoon, Cincinnati. I am Doktor Diabolik. I can see that you are not being gracious hosts, and some of your fellow citizens are rezizting my troops. This is futile. Beholt! Your greatest champion is unable to stop me!”
As Captain Patriot struggled under the onslaught of plastic men, one of the office buildings lining Ross Avenue, one with a sheer glass face, suddenly turned into an immense screen, showing the huge leering face of Doctor Diabolik. “Beholt! Your greatest champion is unable to stop me!” boomed tinnily from the makeshift viewplate.
“Is THIS the best you’ve GOT, Diabolik?” the Captain roared as he smashed two synthoids together.
“NO, it’s NOT.” Another wave of devil dogs piled onto the Captain and a much larger demonic appearing humanoid combat robot came charging at him.
Dr. Diabolik put the image on auto-gloat and watched as Captain Patriot slugged it out with his Cyber-Demon. “Come on, come ON!” he said impatiently, “Get GOING! You can do better than this!”
“Come on, come ON!” Stacy said anxiously as she watched Captain Patriot slugging it out with a big demon-looking robot, “Get GOING! You can do better than this!” Then Captain Patriot finished the robot, but another wave of synthoids washed over him and it didn’t look like Captain Patriot was coming up again. “NO!” Stacy screamed in horror.
“NO!” Dr. Diabolik screamed in frustration. “Lash, what do we know about Captain Patriot?” he asked more calmly.
Madam Lash checked the database. “Your basic FISS [Flight, Invulerability, Super Strength, Super Speed] Superman retread, but with a patriotic theme. He’s been active for sixteen, going on seventeen years. Several major fights, been counted down and out a couple of times, but managed to spring back. More politically active than most superheroes, but nothing really controversial. Vets Rights, Civil Rights, better education, stumps for the PAL, the Scouts, the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs, that sort of thing.”
Diabolik’s nose twitched as he worked out an idea. “Is there anything on his record that would contraindicate the Batson Factor?”
Lash checked. “No. As a matter of fact, all things considered, I’d say that he’s a prime suspect for the Batson Factor.”
Diabolik gave out a sharp curse in Croat. “Then by broadcasting his image as I gloated, I may have sabotaged him! I’ve got to do something!”
“I’ve got to do something!” Stacy gasped. She turned to Cal’s blank face and said, “Cal, I’m going to go help Cap! If you can hear me, FIGHT THIS! We NEED the Golden Knight!” She looked at the Golden Knight control rig, and just knew that she’d screw it up if she tried to use the Golden Knight, and only make things worse. She’d have to do this the hard way. She ran to the Launch Room, where her ‘Silver Ghost’ cape hung (more for the statement that she was a member than anything else), pulled the hood over her head and stepped into one of the launch tubes. The tube shot her out of the building and up into the air. Not bothering to put anything into invisibility, Stacy silvered up and flew like a shot in the direction of Ross Avenue.
The second that he heard the Launch alert go off, Cal finally broke through the Mind Web. “Stacy! NO!” he went to the monitor and spotted her, but she was already only a quarter mile away from the scene of the battle and closing quickly. He hadn’t thought that she could fly that quickly. He tried to contact her, but she wasn’t wearing a SPECTRUM communicator. Lacking any other options, he strode purposefully over to the Golden Knight station and began warming up the rig. He was NOT going to let that young girl get herself killed!
Dr. Diabolik dyspeptically watched Captain Patriot sink under yet another layer of synthoids. “Okay, I’ll admit it, I’m stumped. Anyone got any ideas how we can get this guy back on his feet, without making it fucking obvious that we’re throwing the fight?”
“How about we broadcast a ‘peeve’ frequency against the glass, covering it with a filtered gloat rant?” Dzerzhinski suggested.
“It might work. Get on it, Dzerzhinski. But if anyone else has - what?”
The synthoids held Captain Patriot braced as the devil dog reared and aimed a strike at his head. But before the red ceramet horror could bring down its claw, a flash came down like a silver comet, knocking it away. A mirrored figure in a gray cloak started tearing synthoids away from the Captain. “Cap! Are you all right?”
“Stacy? What?”
“C’mon Cap! Get the lead out! Let’s show these bozos how we do it in Cincy!”
“Who’s this?” Dr. Diabolik asked.
“I don’t see anyone listed on the headshots for SPECTRUM that fits her description.”
“Details! Get a shotgun mike on them and splice it into the feed!”
“C’mon Cap!” Stacy said as she tore another robot - this one looked like a metallic octopus with a spherical body - apart “Snap out of it! You’re better than this!”
“Wha?”
“C’MON! REMEMBER! You’re CAPTAIN PATRIOT!”
“I… I can’t…”
“YES, you CAN! You’re Captain Patriot! You’re a HERO!” Stacy wracked her brain for something, anything that would snap Cap out of this funk. Then she remembered something, something that he did every time he powered up. Maybe if she got him to say it, he’d sort of super-charge, and throw off the Mind Web. “I pledge allegiance… C’mon Cap, say it with me, you know this better’n I do… I pledge allegiance…”
“I pledge allegiance…” he said weakly.
“To the flag…” Stacy prodded him on.
“To the flag..” he said more firmly, as if remembering something important.
“Of the United States of America…”
“Of the United States of America!” He said in a firm, clear voice. He stood up, lifting the remaining synthoids off their feet.
“Drop the launch beacon, and hit the bug-out button,” Dr. Diabolik said, “I think we have a live one.”
“And to the Republic, for which it stands!” Captain Patriot shed his ‘cloak’ of synthoids with a mighty shrug.
“One Nation!” He smashed two devil dogs together as they charged him, but he was far more intent on his proclamation than his attackers. Not that it slowed down him tearing them apart in the least.
“Under God!” Another Cyber-Demon charged him, but was quickly turned into scrap.
“Indivisible!” A squad of Dr. Diabolik’s goons had set up one RC rapid-fire blaster, which sent a line of plasma bolts against Captain Patriot’s chest. The bursts merely ricocheted from his chest in a ‘fireworks’ display.
“WITH LIBERTY!” By now, Captain Patriot was shouting.
“AND JUSTICE!” His proclamation rang like a bell down the streets and alleys of Cincinnati, and everywhere that people could hear him, they started, shaken from their torpor.
“FOR ALL!” And even where his voice couldn’t immediately be heard, all over Cincinnati, people watched and heard his televised speech, and inspired, they fought their way to full waking, and streamed out of their offices, shops and homes to the defense of their city.
“God Bless America!” Dr. Diabolik choked, a tear in his good eye. Then, remembering what was going on, he switched off the auto-gloat and assumed an expression of shock and horror. “NO! NO ONE escapes my Mind Web! You are too WEAK and-”
As Dr. Diabolik’s image ranted in the background, Captain Patriot waded through the last of the core pylon’s defenses and ripped it from its base.
Dr. Diabolik switched the image over to auto-rant, and asked, “Any results?”
“Doctor, people are snapping out of it all over the city. We have a near-riot on our hands. Dropships #2, 5, 7 and 8 have already lifted off, and ships #1, 3, 6 and 9, are in the queue, but dropship #4 is under attack by civilians and the superhero known as ‘Red Thunder’. Enforcer 2 is assisting, and Enforcer 1 wants to know whether to assist the core pylon or #4.”
“Oh, assist #4, by all means. What kinds of numbers are we looking at?”
“Off the cuff, I’d estimate at least 30 thousand people.”
“Thirty… THOUSAND… people?” Dr. Diabolik was entranced by the magnitude for a moment, but shook it off. “Carver, initiate the ‘Dramatic Explosion’ destruct for the Core pylon, and the ‘quiet immolation’ destructs for the perimeter pylons. Valencia, give the good captain down there a couple of *ahem* ‘near misses’ with the main gun. Dzerzhinski, after the shots, take us over to assist #4, and once they’re free, head for the queue, ‘cause we’re out of here! Lash, make a note - I’m giving a $1000 a head bonus to all combat troops. Issue bravery and initiative bonuses based on recommendations by team leaders. Oh, and a bonus for Dzerzhinski; he had a good idea, even if we didn’t have to use it. Radio ahead, I want a celebratory feast ready for the troops when we get to Karedonia.”
“Doctor? I’m revising my estimates. According to our sensors, we’re estimating that at least 50,000 people are acting against the synthoids and devil dogs that we left behind.”
“Fifty?”
“At least, with more probably getting into the mix once the core pylon goes.”
“Lash, insert the appropriate names into the auto-rant for a ‘Curse You, You’ll Regret This!’ parting speech. Highlight Captain Patriot. He deserves it. I’d do it myself, but I’m just feeling too good to do it right.” Dr. Diabolik watched as a bunch of Cincinnatians brought down a feebly struggling devil dog. “This is what I love about Americans. If they’re confused or lack direction, they’re nothing. But give them a common cause, something to really work towards, and they could build a bridge to the moon out of popsicle sticks!” As his command ship, the last in line, hit the launch beacon that lifted the ship up into orbit, Dr. Diabolik sighed, “God BLESS America.”
“Ma’am, sensors indicate that Dr. Diabolik’s Mind Web has fallen, and his ships are exiting Cincinnati by way of orbit. They are gathering at L-3.”
“Okay, alert all responsible agencies, and keep an eye on them. Maybe we can follow them to Karedonia this time.” The Watch Commander made a sour noise. “There’s always a first time, and…”
“And they’re cloaking.”
“…Just not this time.”
“Doctor, we have achieved cloaked status, our path to the Azores is locked, and we should have no problems in rebounding to Karedonia.”
“Excellent. Carver, shoot me the Priority A result specifics. Very Good. Lash, contact my American and Asian market brokers. Tell the American brokers to set the Buy parameters at about 350 average for the stocks I have options on, and to hold onto them until they hit 1750 on the rebound. Tell the Asian brokers to set the Buy at 275 and sell at 1900. Valencia, call the lawyers for my front companies, and tell them that, quote, ‘Gold Star loves Arascham’.
“Oh, and this is very important - get in touch with Huffmann at IG Aracham, and tell him that the *ahem!* ‘talcum powder’ that they were expecting from the Cincinnati evidence locker was taken in the raid, and we’re going to DUMP it in orbit. That should teach that Nazi bitch Purifier not to mess with me!
“Barton, contact Typhon and tell him that the blackmail has been acquired. Contact the Syndicate rep in Karedonia, and arrange an escrow for the exchange of goods. And tell them that the ‘personal effects’ they requested have been obtained. Oh, and get in touch with Brigand, and tell him that if he wants the information about Barnes-Wentworth Petroleum, to talk to Typhon. I’d love to give him the information gratis, but a deal is a deal. Not that it really matters; Typhon likes Brigand, and will probably pass the information along anyway.”
Dr. Diabolik leaned back and relaxed. In a rule-of-thumb estimate, Diabolik guessed that his maneuvers, extrapolated from the effects of his raid on various companies and the market, would net him somewhere between 10 to 15 times the value of what his men had stolen. And to think that some supervillains just robbed banks.
After the ‘dandelion’ thing exploded in Captain Patriot’s hands, Stacy concentrated on making sure that people didn’t get hurt, trying to take on the units that Dr. Diabolik left behind. The guys that had been left behind bled this icky green syrup stuff when they got hit. *Ick!* After that, Stacy focused on helping Captain Patriot take out the big ‘devil dog’ things. Then, just as SWAT arrived to take over the situation, the Golden Knight showed up. “Stacy! What are you doing here?”
“But I had to help Captain Patriot!”
“You’re not supposed to do any superheroing, remember?”
“I wasn’t superheroing! I just… helped out a little! Captain Patriot did all the hard stuff!”
But the Golden Knight still told Stacy to get back to HQ, as the rest of SPECTRUM showed up to give SWAT a hand in handling the crowd. Stacy turned invisible, and managed to sulk all the way back to headquarters, as only a teenager who was being yelled at for doing the right thing (at the wrong time) can.
Dr. Diabolik’s raid was front page news in the Tri-State area for the next five days, with the Media pushing the image that Dr. Diabolik had been driven off. Not that that cut any ice with the insurance companies, who were screaming about the expense of paying off policies on stolen cash and valuables. They (quite accurately) claimed that there was no way that Dr. Diabolik could have hauled off everything that the claims said he did. Unfortunately for the insurance carriers, Dr. Diabolik’s raids had already been ruled as being covered by the ‘Supervillain’ clauses in most standard contracts. It took a while, but Dr. Diabolik wound up pumping much more money into the Cincinnati economy that he took out of it. Captain Patriot was, of course, the big hero of the day, and not even Red Thunder, who had been out there fighting the good fight as well, could gainsay him that glory. But the Press demanded to know who the silvery figure who’d come to his aid had been.
District Attorney Kaltenborn wasn’t happy. “Look, I thought that it was understood- NO SUPERHEROING!”
“I wasn’t superheroing!” Stacy wailed, “I was just helping C-er, the Golden Knight out with the communications gear, and everything went all crazy, and Cap needed HELP, and someone had to DO something, and-”
“Kaltenborn…” Captain Patriot said ominously.
“Yeah, yeah, I know, I know… the kid did good,” the DA headed him off. “That’s NOT the problem. The problem is that the press has already connected the silvery heroine who saved Captain Patriot to the Silver Ghost. So far, we’ve been able to simply gloss over the fact that we cut a deal with Stacy here, so the Hoag prosecution wouldn’t be compromised by association with coddling a supervillain. But now, the fact that the Silver Ghost was very publicly helping Captain Patriot is something that we can’t just gloss over.”
“Yes, but who says that that’s your problem?” Azure said, very reasonably. “We hold a press conference, and announce that the hubbub about the ‘Silver Ghost’ was a whole lot of fuss about nothing. We say that you dropped the charges because there weren’t really any charges that would stand up in court, and we’re taking care of the ‘Silver Ghost’. You issue a statement saying that you were just too busy with the Hoag prosecution to bother making a statement about Stacy. We say that we were very proud of Stacy for helping Cap, but she’s a minor, and she did so without permission. They ask a bunch of damn-fool questions, which we will field. If anyone decides to ask you questions about it, you just wave the Hoag prosecution banner and - oh, what am I doing, telling you how to handle the press?”
“I was rather wondering,” Kaltenborn responded dryly.
Captain Patriot called the press conference and ran it more or less as Azure spelled it out. Stacy (with her ‘silver’ up) came out with her best big smile and said hello, and answered a lot of questions, and she walked away with a nasty headache from the force of all that attention being slammed in her direction. Well, she was a fresh, perky, new face on the local scene. The local Media decided that they liked her, and her image was all over the place for a while. There were a few editorials saying that she might not be the best example for young people, but by and large the coverage was favorable. Karen warned her that this would last right up to the second that she slipped up, and then the Media would go for the throat.
However, already, there were some who were less than pleased about the ‘Silver Ghost’.
Humanity First! did NOT like comparisons to the Ku Klux Klan, especially in a town like Cincinnati, where African-Americans were roughly 40% of the population. Indeed, a large part of what the higher echelons of the organization did was keeping their activities from tipping over into what could be considered ‘hate crimes’. The party line was that their primary concern was protecting baseline humanity. They were very careful to let the listeners provide the ‘from dangerous mutants’ themselves. They didn’t put up a burning ‘H’ on the lawn of a known mutant (other people, not connected with Humanity First!, did that); they made sure that the mutant’s neighbors were safe, in case anything went wrong. They made sure that the neighbors knew that they were living near a mutant, and if the mutant was a minor, that their children were going to school with one. After all, they had a RIGHT to know that. “So, Les, what are the chances that this ‘Silver Ghost’ is a mutant?” the Cincinnati city director for H1! asked his current events advisor.
“Two to one, at the very least, and probably a lot better,” Les answered. “She might be Imbued, or she might have found a power gem. She’s too young to have bonded with a dynamorph, or had an ‘origin’.” He crooked his fingers for quotation marks around ‘origin’.
“But kids DO occasionally have ‘origins’,” Gordon, the City Hall go-to man, pointed out. “And some have been reported bonding with Dynamorphs.”
“Yeah, but not very often,” Travis, the PR honcho pointed out. “And if it was a power gem, they’d make her give the damn thing up for her own good.”
“Given her age, and the way the powers that she’s supposed to have work, I’d say that there’s a 70-to-80 percent chance that she’s a mutant,” Herb, the office’s rep with the business community said.
“Kick it up another few points,” John, the office liaison with the police and MCO, said. “The only reason that they’d let SPECTRUM have custody of her, is if she was homeless or a runaway. Which might happen if she bonded with a dynamorph or got Imbued or had an ‘origin’. But, let’s face it, it’s a LOT more likely to happen if she’s a mutant and her parents gave her the boot.”
“Which puts her squarely in the near-certainty range for being a mutant,” Bailey, the office manager summed up. “So, we’ve got a super-powered mutant operating in Cincinnati. What are we gonna do about it?”
“Why isn’t she being arrested?” Les asked. “Isn’t she supposed to have stolen thousands of dollars?”
“They said that there weren’t any charges that would hold up in court,” Jennifer, the office’s legal representative said. “And, let’s face it; ripping off a mob boss isn’t the kind of crime that gets the man on the street hot under the collar.”
“We can’t let this happen,” Herb said with more intensity than the normally unctuous man projected. “She is EVERYTHING that we don’t want. She is young, she is cute, she’s wholesome, and she sends the message that mutants are safe to have around. Mutants like that are worse than the big scary freaks, because when it looks like Godzilla, at least you know that you’re in danger!”
“Which is gonna make working a picket line up into anything like a righteous snit a real bear,” Travis said.
“And she’s got the fact that she saved Captain Patriot going for her,” Gordon pointed out. “And he’s stumping for her.”
“Any way that we can get him to back off?” Les asked. “We got any leverage on him?”
“Nah,” Gordon said, “going up against him would be iffy normally, but after his big show against Dr. Diabolik, the man is GOLDEN in Cincy.”
“And the Silver Ghost was a big part of that,” Herb said. “Hell, the whole bit with her getting Cap to buck up by saying the Pledge of Allegiance? They couldn’t have planned a better bit to get Cincinnati on their side!” A look of realization snapped onto his face. “Hey, maybe there’s a chance that they arranged that?”
“NO,” Gordon said with finality. “We do NOT mess with Captain Patriot. Right now, the people of Cincinnati are convinced that they chased a world-class supervillain out of town, and that Captain Patriot led the charge. That and the Pledge of Allegiance bit tap into the patriotism something fierce. And with Bush’s policies dragging the country’s name through the mud, we need all the patriotic pride we can GET. We call that into question, and they’ll blame us for harshing their glow.
“And don’t let the Technicolor jammies fool you - Captain Patriot is very sharp, politically. Check it out, he’s playing the Flag Hero card, but he doesn’t make a big deal out of the fact that he’s Black - he’s just there, stumping for the American Dream. That brings a lot of people who wouldn’t root for a ‘black hero’ over onto his side, without costing him much from the black community; the people who get turned off by the flag-waving are the exact same people who’d be turned off by a superhero in the first place. He backs popular local issues like the PAL, keeping the fact that he’s a black man doing right by the community unspoken, but in everyone’s mind. He knows how to work the media.”
“And after that Charlie Denver thing, he’s gotta be touchy about mutants,” Bailey pointed out. “And the NAACP is backing him on that.”
“Look, the problem is that she’s a cute young girl who looks harmless, right?” Les summed up. “What if we did a few unobvious tests, and found some way of provoking some sort of attack, set her off on some kind of berserk?”
“No,” Art, the city director, said with heavy authority.
“How about we hire a known mutant supervillain to attack her?” Herb offered. “The National Office has contacts with the Syndicate, and-”
“NO.” Art cut him off with even more weight.
“We could sic ‘Keep Ohio Pure’ or one of the other whack-job “*ahem!* ‘splinter groups’ that we have on tap,” John suggested. “It would be a good way of showing them that we’re serious and help keep the others on a low profile.”
“NO!” Art said, slamming his desk with his fist. “GOD! You people just don’t GET it! All the stuff that you’re talking about could come back and bite us on the ass and it would cost us everything that we’ve built up! And I’m shocked that you’d even think about the kind of things I’m hearing here! We’re not a bunch of racist goons! We are just people who have made it our business to make sure that our city is SAFE! So, this girl is a mutant. So what? That doesn’t make her evil. It doesn’t make her SAFE to be around, but it doesn’t make her EVIL. She has rights! And so do we.”
Art leaned over his desk, clasping his hands before him intently. “You guys don’t remember the Sixties, but I do. It was bad. Between the nuclear stalemate with the Ruskies, and the Vietnam War, and the Hippies popping up all over the place like weeds and pissing on the flag, people were jumping at anything that looked weird, and beating the crap out of it. We had some mutants come through here, and it was a fucking bloodbath! Before you knew it, Eugenix came to town, and Abbadon ripped the heart out of the guy who was the Golden Knight back then. Just reached in and ripped it out! People wigged out! There were no less than four lynchings of kids that someone said were mutants. Y’know how many of ‘em were mutants? ONE! And one poor girl got lynched just because someone in her class got her nose outta joint ‘cause that girl was the prettiest girl in school, was on the track & field and swim teams, and was an A student! She didn’t even get the A’s honestly, ‘cause it turned out that she had a friend doing her homework for her! It got so bad that the GOONS took over! There were firefights in the streets with superheroes! You had hit squads killing eight-year-olds! In ’73, it turned out that the ‘Commission for Public Safety’ was a front for the Illinois NAZIS! The NAZIS! Do you how humiliating it is to find out that you’ve been working for NAZIS?”
Art let himself calm down a little. “It took over ten YEARS for the saner Pro-Baseline groups to get together, get rid of the psychos and re-think our strategy. The first thing we came up with - We’re about SAFETY. We PROTECT people. The name says it all: ‘HUMANITY First!’ We don’t go around in sheets and pointed hoods, burning churches, and trying to whip up riots. We are a respectable, law-abiding organization with open membership and everything.
“If it got around that we’d even talked about using terrorist tactics, or - God HELP us all! - hiring a supervillain to attack this girl, it would flush everything that we’ve built up over the past twenty years down the crapper. If we ran that girl out of town, it would send the wrong message to the worst elements on both sides of the issue. The goons would take over again. There aren’t many mutant supremacists anymore - thank God - but the few still around were would come here, and it would be a war zone. If the news people found out about anything, then we’d be up to our eyebrows in lawsuits. Our local contacts and supporters would drop us like a hot brick. Our membership would be listed as ‘belonging to a hate group’.”
“Hey, the Kentucky chapter-”
“THAT’S KENTUCKY. They’re covered. We’re not.”
“So…” Les started off, confused, “we just let her STAY?”
“Oh God, No!” Art said, leaning back. “She’s a mutant! She’s safe now, but she’s what? Fourteen? Fifteen? God alone knows what’s gonna happen to her in the next six years.” He paused and a startling realization swept across his face. “Dear God - NORMAL teenagers are dangerous enough! We don’t need one who can lift a city BUS!” Art lightened up a bit. “Look, all that I’m saying is that we have a good, established low-profile procedure for handling things like this. We don’t ‘whack’ her, we don’t frame her for bogus crimes, and we don’t arrange attacks or ‘accidents’ or any of that ‘spy movie’ crap. We don’t need to target this ‘Silver Ghost’. All we really need to do is get her to move somewhere else.”
“NIMBY?” Jennifer said with an arched eyebrow.
“What’s wrong with NIMBY?” Herb asked. “The big guy’s right! All that we have to do is put a little pressure on her and SPECTRUM, let them know that she’s not wanted around here.”
“That’s easier said than done,” Travis pointed out. “Like Gordon said, Captain Patriot’s backing her, and he’s pretty sharp for someone who runs around in his pee-jays. Most of our usual stuff won’t cut it.”
“For instance, we can’t even say flat-out that she’s a mutant in the first place,” Gordon said. “Now, agreed, the odds are pretty damn good that she IS, and I personally agree that she’s probably a mutant… But, we don’t have any PROOF. And Captain Patriot’s probably sharp enough to avoid saying anything one way or another.”
“Wait a minute…” Bailey said, a light switching on in her eyes. “He won’t commit one way or another about the Silver Ghost being a mutant. What if we use that against him?”
“Attack Captain Patriot? What would we do for an encore? Dig up John Wayne and spit on him?”
“No! No, I mean, don’t use it against HIM; just keep focusing on the question. ‘Is the Silver Ghost a mutant: Yes or No?’”
Travis’ eyes popped open. “YES! That’s IT! We just lob the question at him, let him duck it a couple of times, and then we make the question the issue, not the person!”
Herb raised an appreciative eyebrow. “The question is the issue… and why Captain Patriot won’t answer it…?”
“Suddenly, big, bluff, honest Captain Patriot is making noises like a lawyer…” Gordon said with a sly smile.
“After all, we have a RIGHT to know whether she’s a mutant or not…” Jennifer said, bringing one of H1!’s National Committee’s hot topics into it. “If she’s going to a public school, we have a RIGHT to know if our children are safe, right?”
“Right!” Bailey shot back. “And if she’s NOT going to a public school, why NOT? Are they afraid of something?”
“But it won’t look right, if we field the question,” Les pointed out.
“So?” John said right back. “I know a police reporter who’d love to put the screws to ‘Captain I’m-more-patriotic-than-you’.”
“And I know a couple more reporters who love nothing more than a good smear campaign,” Gordon grinned.
“Three different voices should be just enough to give the question wings,” Travis said. “It needs work, we need to thrash out a few variations, but I think that after a couple of repetitions, the rest of the media will jump on this and come up with angles that we never even dreamed of.”
“But we can’t just throw this question at Captain Patriot out of thin air,” Les pointed out. “We need a context.”
“Good point, Les,” Travis said. “Right. Context. We need a reason for Captain Patriot to speak in front of reporters, where he can’t hide behind some screaming emergency.”
“Protests,” Herb said. “Nothing big, nothing nasty pointed at SPECTRUM, just some people with signs saying that they don’t want mutants in Cincinnati.”
“And how are we going to arrange that without having ‘Humanity First!’ in flashing neon all over the place?” Travis asked with asperity.
“Easterbury Christian Church,” Art said, referring to a controversial ultra-right-wing fringe-Fundamentalist church in Wichita, Kansas with a reputation for picketing gay funerals, and proclaiming that God had forsaken America for tolerating gays. “Reverend Philby hates mutants almost as much as he hates fags. God knows what he’d do if he ever found out about a gay mutant. I’ll call the Wichita office, and see if they can’t get one of Philby’s picket squads over here to rattle SPECTRUM’s cage. The Easterbury crowd may be wacko, but they know how to push it right up to the line, and not a toenail more. I’ll tell them that we’ll pay for bus fare and a lunch at Denny’s.”
“The Easterbury Church?” John chuckled. “If we’re not careful, people might start to worry that we’re too easy on mutants!”
Art leaned back in his chair, his hands across his wide stomach and beamed like a cherub. “See? This is how it should be done - no bullets, no violence, no insanity, and nothing illegal or actionable. All you need is a little brains, a little sweat, and some faith, and the Good Lord looks after his own.”
At Whateley Academy
It was odd to see Magni-Girl walk up to the Bad Seeds’ usual table with a newspaper in her hand. The Cape Squad usually avoided the Seeds, as exchanges between them tended to end loudly, with the Peacekeepers coming to break them up. It wasn’t good for the Capes’ image. “Oh, Jadis!” Magni-Girl said with an acidulous grin. “I’m so sorry to hear that your father was sent running out of Cincinnati like a scalded cat a couple of days ago! Why, making those raids is SO EXPENSIVE! And all the time and expense of arranging all of that, too! Why the costs of those ‘devil dogs’ and plastic androids that he had to leave behind must have been staggering! To have to leave all that behind, before he could steal anything really valuable, and have to settle for chump change, after all that effort! Ah well,” she sighed happily. “I guess that crime really doesn’t pay!”
Magni-Girl turned and pranced merrily back to the Cape Squad table.
“Passive-aggressive putz,” Jadis muttered under her breath. “Hey, Mal! Let’s see how Dr. Dad really did!” Mal and Jadis pulled out their laptops and opened them. “Cheese? If you’d do the honors?” They set their laptops in front of Cheese, along with his. Cheese flexed his fingers and stroked back his hair in parody of a piano prodigy, and then attacked the three computers in a flurry of keystrokes.
“’Really did’?” Lindsey asked. “But I heard that Dr. Diabolik made off with over sixteen million dollars from the Cincinnati raid!”
“Sixteen mil is chump change at Dr. Diabolik’s level,” Kate said dryly.
“Yes, sixteen million American dollars would barely cover the costs of the broadcast pylons, the lift beacon that they used, and the repairs and maintenance on the anti-grav units, let alone the manpower costs,” Nephandus said. “Anti-grav units are expensive. Why do you think only supervillains and superheroes use them? They’re the only ones whose budgets will allow for it.”
“Lindsey, it’s a truism that crime does pay, but it pays minimum wage at the street level,” Jadis said, not taking her eyes off the laptop screens. “Even when you start talking about drug wholesalers and fences, it’s not that much more profitable than a decent honest business. The real money is in playing the market, using the fact that you know what really happened in something like one of Dr. Dad’s raids hours before the rest of the market does. Knowing for a fact who was and wasn’t affected, and how badly, is a real edge.”
Cheese ceased the blur of fingers over the keyboards and looked at the screens. “Analysis of the businesses projected to be affected by the Cincinnati raid suggests computerized bidding with a 350 average Buy parameter and a 1150 Sell parameter on the rebound for the American markets, and a 275 Buy and a 1500 rebound Sell on the Asian markets.”
“Well, the Asian markets are always a little nervous about American business fluctuations,” Silver Serpent said.
“Nothing on the European markets?” Romeo asked.
“They were closed for the ‘golden hours’ on this one.” Cheese looked at a blurb on Bloomberg.com. “Hmmm… it says that Zabriskie, Howland & Von Schaack™ extended their loans to Benthic Petroleum®, despite the fact that over 150,000 gallons of unspecified chemical resins were stolen in the raid, in exchange for 50,000 units of Preferred stock.”
“Gee, Mal, doesn’t Benthic handle all of the Purifier’s fuel needs?” Jadis asked puckishly.
“Gee, if the Purifier is a certain overdone Wagnerian blonde neo-Nazi supervillainess that Dad’s pissed at, I think you’re right, Sis!” Mal answered just as puckishly.
Cheese clicked through another series. “This suggests that Perez & Guttenberg called in ALL their loans to front companies of MARS Industries, citing loss of high-tech components in the raid as the reason. But it looks like Cowles, Bullock & Ludlow is going to ‘white knight’ MARS. They’re asking for as much voting stock as they can, and they’re trying to get a clear majority there.”
“Gee, Jads,” Mal continued the comedy routine, “doesn’t MARS Industries provide most of the exotic weaponry, vehicles, and other such gear for the Purifier?”
“WOW, Mal! WHAT a CO-INKY-DINK!” Jadis gushed. “And don’t Cowles, Bullock & Ludlow handle most of Dr. Dad’s legal affairs in the Midwest?”
“Ah!” Cheese exclaimed, leaping on another news item like fleeing prey. “Dennis Howland announced that they are NOT extending the loan to Primatech Paper at 10 AM, but at 4 PM he announced that due to new developments, they were extending the loan. At 3 PM, Erwin Zabriskie bought all of Saburo’s MARS stock at $345 per share, with strong indications that they did so for the consideration of extending Primatech’s loan.”
“Wow! ANOTHER co-inky-dink!”
“Gee, Mal, it’s a good thing that ZH&VS extended that loan… Primatech Paper is the front that the Purifier uses to handle most of her money laundering and payoffs. If that had gone under, her operations would have been crippled!”
“And according to this, Deon International extended Global Dynamics’ deadline on a contract for RidPest© a half-hour after GD withdrew their bids in the RAMJACK dissolution,” Cheese added.
“Wow, pity about Global Dynamics withdrawing their bids for the RAMJACK properties,” Mal said with an ingenuous sigh. “With the FBI and INTERPOL somehow mysteriously identifying so many of her operating fronts, the Purifier NEEDS new properties for her bases, labs, and other rackets.”
“It seems that IG Aracham is reacting to all of this by transferring as much of their liquid capital over to one of their fronts, Initech™. But from what I’m seeing, Zabriskie, Howland & Von Schaack has quietly managed to seize control of the Voting stock for Initech.”
“Gee, Mal, don’t I recall Dr. Dad mentioning something about IG Aracham being the front that handles most of the Purifier’s liquid assets?” Jadis did a patently false moue of shock. “Ooo… if she lost all that money when Dr. Dad took over Initech, it could be very bad for her! Well, maybe she can make it up with a big move. A nice big drug score is always good for a fresh infusion of cash.”
“Oh, look at this,” Malachi was checking his PDA. “It seems that the Cincinnati Police Department is now saying that over 4000 pounds of uncut refined cocaine, which had been collected over the past two years, was stolen, along with many pieces of esoteric technology and several supervillain power items, from the police evidence locker. Some sharp questions are being asked inside the Cincinnati Police Department, as SOP is that confiscated drugs are supposed to be destroyed immediately after being presented as evidence.”
“Okay,” Lindsey said, her eyes crossed in confusion, “but what does all that MEAN?”
“It means that Jadis’ dad made out like a BANDIT!” Ray said, looking at the screens in undisguised admiration.
“It means that my mother really needs to re-think her operating strategy,” Romeo sighed.
“It means that that Nazi bitch, the Purifier, really should have known better than to mess with Dr. Dad’s Paraguay operations,” Jadis smirked. “She was counting on that coke to finance her North American operations next year. And if Dad snaffled Initech, there goes her operating capital for the rest of the Americas.” Jadis gave a miffed look. “And the Mossad probably won’t even send a thank you card!”
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The Weiti Waterfront
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Featuring river views, The Weiti Waterfront offers accommodation with a garden and a patio, around 5 km from Little Manly Beach. The air-conditioned accommodation is 2.7 km from Big Manly Beach, and guests benefit from complimentary WiFi and private parking available on site. The apartment features 2 bedrooms, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. A terrace is available for guests at the apartment to use. Gulf... More...
La Grande Vue Apartment
La Grande Vue Apartment offers accommodation in Whangaparaoa, 25 km from Auckland and 31 km from Matakana. Guests benefit from a terrace outside the living and bedroom, overlooking the sea. Free WiFi is offered and free private parking is available on site. There is a dining area, living area, a kitchenette and a private bathroom. A flat-screen TV is provided. Other facilities at La Grande Vue Apartment include a barbecue and outdoor table and chairs. Gulf Harbour Ferries to Tiri Island or to... More...
'Glanville Snuggery' - Waiwera
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‘Glanville Snuggery’ – Waiwera is part of the Coach Trail Villa complex, situated in the seaside town of Waiwera. Guests enjoy free WiFi and free parking. The complex features a heated outdoor thermal swimming pool and a thermal hot tub, set to approximately 40-degrees Celsius that is available to guests. The apartment has modern décor and a fully equipped kitchen which includes a dishwasher, oven, microwave and fridge. Laundry facilities include a washing machine and a tumble dryer. Most rooms... More...
Orewa Kiwi Cabins
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Located in Orewa in the Auckland region, with Orewa Beach nearby, Orewa Kiwi Cabins provides accommodation with free WiFi and free private parking. Each unit is equipped with a patio, a fully equipped kitchen with a microwave, a seating area with a sofa, a flat-screen TV and a private bathroom with shower and a hairdryer. A fridge, a stovetop and toaster are also provided, as well as a kettle. If you would like to discover the area, skiing and cycling are possible in the surroundings. The... More...
Apartment - Red Beach
Red Rocks is located in Red Beach and offers free bikes, a garden and barbecue facilities. The air-conditioned accommodation is 1.2 km from Orewa Beach, and guests benefit from complimentary WiFi and private parking available on site. The apartment with a patio and garden views features 1 bedroom, a living room, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchenette with a dishwasher and a microwave, and 1 bathroom with a shower. Guests at the apartment can enjoy a continental breakfast. A terrace is... More...
Golf@Gulf
Boasting a balcony with garden views, and a garden and a terrace, Golf@Gulf can be found in Whangaparaoa, close to Gulf Harbour Marina and 5 km from Little Manly Beach. The air-conditioned accommodation is 2.8 km from Big Manly Beach, and guests benefit from private parking available on site and free WiFi. The apartment has 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, a dining area, a fully equipped kitchenette, and a patio with lake views. Tiritiri Matangi Island is 6 km... More...
Orewa Beachfront Haven
Orewa Beachfront Haven is an apartment in Orewa, 28 km from Auckland Harbour Bridge, and free bikes and a garden are accessible on-site. The Viaduct Harbour and the Sky Tower are within 30 km of the apartment. The apartment comes with 1 bedroom and a fully fitted kitchen with an oven and a microwave. The apartment also offers a flat-screen TV, a seating area, and a bathroom with a shower. If you would like to discover the area, cycling and canoeing are possible in the surroundings. SKYCITY... More...
Waterside Crescent Apartment 3 Bedrooms
In the Gulf Harbour district of Whangaparaoa, close to Gulf Harbour Marina, Waterside Crescent Apartment 3 Bedrooms features a terrace, free WiFi and a washing machine. Guests staying at this apartment have access to a balcony. The air-conditioned apartment is composed of 3 separate bedrooms, a living room, a fully equipped kitchen, and 3 bathrooms. A flat-screen TV is provided. Big Manly Beach is 2.2 km from the apartment, while Little Manly Beach is 5 km away. The nearest airport is Auckland,... More...
Orewa Beachside
Orewa Beachside is 2-bedroom studio with level entry through a garden courtyard adjoining Orewa Beach. Free parking is available in front of the house which is security lit and your hosts live on-site and are available to welcome you personally upon arrival. The boutique studio is ground floor and both bedrooms are separated by the en-suite shower and toilet facilities. There is a separate service facility equipped with washing machine, tumble dryer and a refrigerator. There are utensils for... More...
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You are here: Home / arts / Close Out The Season With Lee Roy Parnell On April 13
Close Out The Season With Lee Roy Parnell On April 13
By ClaytonCenter1
The Clayton Center’s 2018-19 Palladian Series goes out in style with the country blues mastery of Lee Roy Parnell. The popular Americana / blues rock artist returns to Clayton on Saturday, April 13, for an 8 PM show.
Lee Roy is described as “a fine writer blessed with a rich, soulful vocal delivery and a blistering array of guitar chops drawn almost equally from Texas blues, Memphis soul and southern rock traditions.” He is part of a long line of Texas roots-music eclectics and laid a new foundation in Nashville with his guitar prowess (particularly slide guitar), smooth soul-drenched voice and top-shelf songwriting skills.
Opening for Lee Roy will be hometown singer-songwriter Kennedy Fitzsimmons with Carolina Pine.
Don’t miss this opportunity to see this musical legend. Seating is limited. Call today for tickets.
Categories: arts, blues, clayton, country music, North Carolina, performing arts, raleigh
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The Book Genie
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I like to imagine there is a spirit that guides my fugues at times – that rewards me for surrendering to its lure. The rewards come in the shape of stumbling into unexpected corners of the city at the end of unpromising schleps. But sometimes they come in the form of books. Today I succumbed to the fugue and found these four books virtually side by side on the same charity shop shelf.
Rising in the East (1996) unlocked the door. A book of essays on East End regeneration written in a pre-Cool Britannia London – when to talk of a renaissance of the East may still have sounded optimistic or opportunistic. The first eager read turned up an essay on the importance of the North London Line Overground train at a time when it was fighting for its life. I skimmed the first few pages of this thesis as I glided eastwards from Haringey to Leyton on one of the brand new trains running on the 160- year old line. ‘Traversing the Great Divide: The North London Line and East London’ the essay is grandly titled, by Bruce Jerram and Richard Wells, and such is their passion apparent for the NLL that they produced this brilliant diagram demonstrating how it arcs West – East across the capital, or as it was viewed at the time from “a rich desirable west to a poor, dull, possibly dangerous east”. With the stations being upgraded, gleaming pre-graffiti trains and the East London Olympics at the end of the North London Line, it looks like they won their argument.
The Romance of London from 1910. The first pages pouring cold water of talk of the myth of King Lud but all the same acknowledging Tacitus’s observations that in AD61 he finds London “celebrated for the gathering of dealers and commodities”. A Roman refuting the idea that the Romans founded our city.
A guide to Camden written at the height of Britpop and an archeological examination of the relationship between town and country in Roman Britain (wonder whether urban sprawl was an issue back then?)
Camden, east london, london, london 2012, london overground, regeneration
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Queen Elizabeth reveals why Princess Anne never went to university
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While long-term arrangements will take some time. The royal family wants final decisions to be reached “in the coming days.”
Queen Elizabeth on the behalf of the British Royal family said:
“My family and I fully support Harry and Meghan’s choice to begin a new life as a young family”. The extraordinary family meeting took place at the Queen’s country home, Sandringham. “Although we would have liked them to remain full-time working members of the royal family,” the queen said. “We need to respect their desire to live a more independent life as a family while remaining a valued part of the family”.
There were many questions which were left unanswered after this personal statement was made. The main questions were:
Who would pay for the couple’s upkeep?
Whether the couple could achieve financial independence without commercializing the monarchy?
Whether they will keep their royal titles or not?
Also read: Why Meghan and Harry moving to Canada would make sense to everyone?
The queen acknowledged the complexity of the issues involved. She made clear she wanted the crisis settled soon. The statement came after one of the most-anticipated royal meetings in recent memory.
The queen asked her eldest son and heir, Prince Charles, and his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, to hash out the arrangement. This could set a precedent for future generations of royals in a more streamlined royal family.
By whatever label, the queen’s gathering was a major moment in the life of the royal family. Recent weeks were turbulent for the family at times. Royal watchers said Buckingham Palace was also trying to regain control of the narrative. The news coverage grew ever more toxic, particularly about tensions between Harry and William.
Also read: Prince Charles threatens to stop funding Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
The Queen’s decision to accept Harry and Meghan’s desire signals a monarchy willing to loosen its rigid rules. By adapting to Britain’s changing social and cultural landscape, the royal family is desperately trying to broaden its popular appeal.
So, for now, it is very much safe to say that the British Royal family is moving in the right direction. (Some of you might now agree to this). So to conclude, the British family is actually evolving now.
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Century-Old Hazardous Waste Site, Home to 1917 Pesticide Plant, Finally Gets EPA Attention
The former Kil-Tone site in New Jersey (photo: Google Street View)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has added to its list of Superfund toxic cleanup sites a century-old location that used to produce lead-based pesticides, the leftovers of which are still polluting the soil.
From 1917 to 1926 the Kil-Tone Company in Vineland, N.J., manufactured pesticides using arsenic and lead. The property was sold to Lucas Kil-Tone Co. in 1926 and the manufacturing of pesticides at the property continued until at least 1933.
But it wasn’t until two years ago that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) tested the soil in the area and found “high concentrations of arsenic and lead,” according to Courthouse News Service. DEP’s test results were enough for the EPA to consider making the property a Superfund site.
The EPA said chemicals from the site might have leached into the Maurice River and Union Lake, which is 7 miles from the property.
Arsenic can cause cancer as well as other serious health problems, while lead is a toxic metal that can damage the nervous system and produce other adverse health effects.
The director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, Jeff Tittel, criticized the DEP for waiting so long to test the former home of a pesticide manufacturer. “The failure to act all these years has even contributed to more contamination to spread and could lead to health problems since arsenic is a carcinogen,” Tittel said in a statement. “The DEP dropped the ball and we are glad the EPA has picked it up.”
DEP spokesman Lawrence Hajna defended his agency, noting the site “was never on anybody’s radar.”
“Back in the ’30s, nobody paid much attention to [Superfund] lists, obviously, or putting locations on a contaminated site list,” Hajna said.
The site is now owned by a sign and crane company, but once housed Progresso Foods, according to news reports. A DEP spokesman said the current owner shouldn’t be affected as long as the company isn’t using well water.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
EPA Takes on Century-Old N.J. Pesticide Plant (by Nick Rummell, Courthouse News Service)
EPA Proposes to Add N.J. Pesticides Manufacturing Facility to Superfund List of Hazardous Waste Sites (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
EPA Strikes Final Deal at Superfund Site after Three Decades of Wrangling (by Ken Broder, AllGov California)
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To actually get access to the beta, which has already started and continue to add more players, you need to sign up via your Blizzard account management page. Under Games & Subscriptions, scroll down to Beta Access and visit the Beta Profile Settings page. Once there, you’ll see a grid of available betas you can opt into. Once you’ve checked WoW Classic, hit Update Preferences and you’re set.
Like with addons in the current game, you just need to drop any of these addons into the addons folder — find it under /Interface/AddOns/ in the Classic beta folder, which is in your World of Warcraft folder by default. Then once you log on to the game, you’ll want to make sure that the addons are enabled via the menu option on the character screen.
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First things first, it’s worth noting that the World of Warcraft Classic beta is already underway. It kicked off on May 15, and since, players have been busy exploring the original realm just the way it was before the many expansion packs released. If you’re looking to get into the action, however, you’ll need to ensure you’ve opted-in to participating in the beta.
Within the context of Classic, the method most frequently proposed is to re-tune bosses to make them harder. Rather than copying the numbers, re-create the relative difficulty. Kind of like, when you first start working out, you use small weights. When you get stronger, you lift bigger weights. The WoW community is more knowledgeable, more experienced, has better hardware, etc. We're "stronger." So give us tougher bosses. There are a lot of forms that could take. Bosses were constantly re-tuned during vanilla anyway, so if Ragnaros does 10% more damage or something, is that really a problem? I don't think it is. What about resistance gear? back in the day, collecting resist gear was a thing people did. But the numbers and strategies are so well known today that only the tank really needs it anymore. Bosses could be re-tuned with more resistible elemental damage so that's important for entire raids to gear appropriately. That would be entirely keeping with the spirit of vanilla even if the actually numbers sitting in a database somewhere were different than they were ~13 years ago. If you want to go a little farther, a few people have proposed adding new abilities to old bosses, adjusting their timing, etc.
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Why was this downvoted? The swing analogy is horrible. There’s nothing physical that’s going to change when u play the game the exact same way as 04 05 06. The difference is u know what’s going on as opposed to not knowing where anything is. A good analogy would be playing Pokémon red again after beating the elite 4. The game itself won’t be any worse, it just will be easier and maybe less enjoyable if all you enjoyed is the aspect of not knowing where to go. But this is why pvp servers are magical, because each time you level a character, your leveling experience is different based on the encounters that happen while questing. In 05 U may have breezed through stv, but in classic u may spend an hour on a single quest solely because of the competition between factions on that particular quest.
The most important thing you should note is that there are no official beta keys. Blizzard opens the gates to their betas by granting access to your account — not sending you a beta key. If you’re in the beta, you’ll be able to download and play the WoW Classic client from your Battle.net launcher. If not, you aren’t in the beta. It’s easy to be tricked into thinking you’ll get a beta key from an email that looks like it’s from an official Blizzard address, but don’t believe their lies — they’re all fake.
Analogy: think back on riding the swings in kindergarten. Was it fun? Now, imagine going back to those swings exactly as they were, and sitting in them now, as an adult. They're too small. They don't fit. Your feet drag on the ground because they're so low to the ground. The bar over your head is low enough that you can reach out and touch it, and even at the highest the swing will go, it's only about chest high when you're standing up. It's exactly the same swing, but riding on it now is a very different experience, yes?
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One of the most anticipated titles of 2019 for PC players out there is the upcoming release of a 14-year-old MMORPG in the form of World of Warcraft Classic. The game offers a faithful recreation of the original World of Warcraft, with the same dated look and feel that made the game oh so popular back in 2006. Here’s how to get into the World of Warcraft Classic beta.
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No he's just not paying attention. The wanted quests are built into both the leveling guides and the "Zandalar Forever" achievement guide. They aren't in the rep guide because they are not repeatable and by the time you hit max level they should be done. You'll also notice the rep guide doesn't contain every single possible completable quest that rewards rep. It is designed to focus on repeatable objectives, world quests, large quest lines, and missions.
Blizzard said it will choose players who have active subscriptions to the regular game based on a variety of factors to help them test the beta. It could be based on your PC, your commitment to the game, or just your luck. If you get in, you’ll likely receive an email, but if not, you can check your launcher. And remember: as with any beta, your progress will not be saved for when the game launches later this year.
Zygor's Pets and Mounts guide is a huge in-game bestiary for finding, capturing, and taming the numerous creatures roaming the wilds of Azeroth. Whether you're looking for a loyal companion to join you on your adventures, or a swift steed to get you to and fro, Zygor's Pets and Mounts guide is the ultimate guide to have at your side during your next World of Warcraft safari.
To celebrate World of Warcraft’s 15th anniversary, Blizzard is planning to release an authentic recreation of its early days with WoW Classic. Players will be able to explore Azeroth as it originally was before the release of WoW’s many expansion sets. Initially it’ll feature encounters like Molten Core, Onyxia and Maraudon at launch and will see more content rolled out as the game goes on (such as Alterac Valley, the Ahn’Qiraj War Effort and Naxxramas). It’s not just the world that’s reverting to its classic form either – the combat mechanics, skill trees and character models will be as they were in the original too.
But how do you proportionally resize the swing? Even if you did, it wouldn’t give you the same type of joy as when you were a kid, because you have grown up and changed. Even if that wasn’t the case for you, you have to consider that the swing has become a place that is sacred for many other adults. When they visit, they aren’t visiting to try out the new adult-swing. They want to try the old swing. The one that brings back the joyful memories of distant past. They know that the experience isn’t the same, but if they close their eyes ... even for a brief moment ... they just might get that nostalgic thrill that brings them back to a time where things seemed so much simpler.
Our old friend Quest Helper isn’t updated for the client, but there’s !Questie and MonkeyQuest to help you track available quests and their objectives. The biggest challenge to leveling up in the beta is searching for where the quest objectives are, so if you’re looking to hit the level 30 cap fast — or just the level 5 cap in today’s stress test — you’ll need one of these.
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Comparison of continuous wound infusion versus continuous epidural infusion in upper abdominal surgery: Noninferiority randomized controlled trial
Arun Raja Thangavel1, Sameer Sethi1, Vikas Gupta2
1 Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
2 Department of General Surgery, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
Date of Submission 12-Nov-2019
Date of Acceptance 20-Nov-2019
Sameer Sethi
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh - 160 012
DOI: 10.4103/aer.AER_133_19
Context: Wound catheter offers a less invasive alternative for postoperative analgesia in the abdominal surgery. Methods: We conducted a single-center, prospective, open-label noninferiority randomized controlled trial. A total of 40 patients who consented to this trial, undergoing upper abdominal surgery via an upper midline incision, were randomized into two groups. In the continuous wound infusion (CWI) group, the wound catheter was placed in the subcutaneous plane of the surgical incision; the continuous epidural infusion (CEI) group received thoracic epidural with a catheter placed. After the surgery, both the groups received 0.2% ropivacaine infusion at 10 mL/h following a 10 mL bolus for 48 h postsurgery. Postoperatively, the pain scores were noted at multiple time points, along with a record of morphine consumption and adverse effects. Results: There was no significant difference in pain scores both at rest and on movement between the two groups at all the time points assessed. The mean difference in numerical rating scale score 24 h postsurgery at rest (0.1, 95% confidence interval [CI] = −0.45, 0.65) and on movement (0.05, 95% CI = −0.73, 0.83), with 95% CI in both the groups, was within the noninferiority limit. Morphine consumption was less in the CEI group, though not significant. The time to appearance of bowel movement, time to ambulate, and length of hospital stay were significantly lower in the CWI group. The incidence of hypotension requiring intervention was higher in the CEI group. Conclusion: Hence, analgesia provided by continuous wound catheter infusion is not inferior to CEI with better preservation of hemodynamics and faster recovery.
Keywords: Cancer pain, epidural analgesia, gastrointestinal surgical procedure, postoperative pain, ropivacaine
Thangavel AR, Sethi S, Gupta V. Comparison of continuous wound infusion versus continuous epidural infusion in upper abdominal surgery: Noninferiority randomized controlled trial. Anesth Essays Res 2019;13:676-82
Thangavel AR, Sethi S, Gupta V. Comparison of continuous wound infusion versus continuous epidural infusion in upper abdominal surgery: Noninferiority randomized controlled trial. Anesth Essays Res [serial online] 2019 [cited 2020 Jan 18];13:676-82. Available from: http://www.aeronline.org/text.asp?2019/13/4/676/272977
Wound infiltration is a simple, safe, and effective method of decreasing the postoperative pain and opioid consumption for several surgeries,[1] its limitation being the short duration of action. To overcome the limitation, the technique of placing a multi-holed catheter is used to provide continuous infusion of local anesthetic. This technique of continuous wound infusion has been gaining popularity and has proven efficacious in many surgeries including cardiothoracic, pelvic, breast, and spine surgeries,[2],[3],[4],[5] with contradictory results in abdominal surgeries.[6],[7],[8] This can be explained by the complex mechanisms of pain in abdominal pathology and surgery. In this study, we focused on upper abdominal surgeries done via an upper midline incision, as a measure to decrease the heterogeneity among different surgeries, as suggested in the literature.[8] The aim was to compare the efficacy of continuous wound infusion (CWI) with continuous epidural infusion (CEI) in patients undergoing upper abdominal surgery, done through an upper midline incision.
The primary outcome measure was the pain at 24 h after surgery using the numerical rating scale (NRS) score. Other outcomes were pain scores at rest and on movement during other time point postoperatively, the requirement of morphine, length of hospital stay, side effect profile, wound-related complications, and bowel recovery. The side effect profile included the incidence of postoperative hemodynamic instability, postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV), pruritus, respiratory depression, wound infection, wound dehiscence, postoperative pulmonary complications, and other miscellaneous complications.
It is a single-center, prospective, open-label noninferiority randomized controlled trial conducted over 1 year. The study was cleared by the Institute Ethical Committee. Informed consent was obtained from all the study participants.
All the patients included in this study belonged to the American Society of Anesthesiologists physical Status I to III, aged 18–65 years, who underwent elective upper gastrointestinal surgery strictly through an upper midline incision. The exclusion criteria were refusal of consent, contraindications to epidural analgesia (e.g., localized sepsis, coagulopathy, and peripheral neuropathy), planned incision length more than 20 cm, procedure involving retroperitoneal dissection, preoperative abdominal pain with NRS score more than 3, history of any substance abuse, allergy to local anesthetic drugs, pregnancy, inability to communicate, and lack of numeracy skills.
All the patients were divided into two groups, as follows:
CEI group: Included 20 patients, who received thoracic epidural catheter placed before anesthesia induction
CWI group: Included 20 patients who received a multi-holed wound catheter placed at the incision site by the surgeon before the closure of the wound.
All participants underwent a routine preanesthetic evaluation. On the evening, before the procedure, all patients were allocated to either CWI or CEI group using computerized randomization. The information sheet of the study was made available to the patient, and consent was obtained. The ability to count from 0 to 10 in the vernacular language was considered as adequate numeracy skill. Patients were sensitized to the 11 points NRS and were given hands-on training in using patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pump (Perfusor Space, B. Braun, Germany).
Anesthesia induction was done with propofol (1.5–2.5 mg.kg-1), morphine (0.1 mg.kg-1), and vecuronium (0.1 mg.kg-1) as the relaxant to facilitate tracheal intubation and was maintained with isoflurane, oxygen, nitrous oxide, and intermittent boluses of muscle relaxant. Intravenous (i.v.) paracetamol 1 g and ondansetron 0.1 mg.kg-1 were administered toward the end of surgery. Reversal of neuromuscular blockade was done with neostigmine and glycopyrrolate.
In the CEI group, an epidural catheter was placed before the induction of general anesthesia by an experienced anesthesiologist in the T7–T10 region with the loss of resistance technique using normal saline. An 18 G Tuohy needle with 20 G catheter was used. A standard 3 mL test dose of lignocaine-epinephrine (2% lignocaine containing 5 mg/mL of epinephrine) was administered to rule out the intrathecal or intravascular placement of the catheter. The proper position of the catheter was further confirmed by testing for a band of anesthesia with the pinprick method. Intraoperatively, the epidural catheter was not used for analgesia. Local anesthetic infusion (0.2% ropivacaine at a rate of 10 mL/h) was started through the epidural catheter using an elastomeric pump (Dosi-Fuser Multi-flow, Admedus, Australia) at the end of the procedure following a bolus of 10 mL before the reversal of neuromuscular blockade.
In the CWI group, a single 19-gauge multi-holed wound infusion catheter (Wound catheter Infiltralong set, Pajunk®, Germany) of 15 cm active length was inserted into the wound by the surgeon, through the skin, 3–5 cm away from the caudal end of the surgical incision using the introducer (split cannula with puncture cannula). The catheter has multiple holes throughout the active length spread spatially around 360°. The catheter was placed with aseptic precautions in the deep subcutaneous plane after the closure of peritoneum, rectus sheath, and muscle as a single layer. In the event of incision length being lesser than the catheter length, the excess catheter was folded such that all the holes of the catheter were within the wound. If the incision length was more than 15 cm, the catheter was placed in the cephalad 15 cm; the extra few centimeters will be covered by the drug dripping down as all patients were nursed in the head-up position postoperatively. After the skin closure, the catheter was secured to the skin with a transparent film dressing. Similarly, local anesthetic infusion (0.2% ropivacaine at a rate of 10 mL/h) was given through the wound catheter following a bolus of 10 mL of 0.2% ropivacaine. In both the groups, the catheters were removed at the end of 48 h.
After the surgery, patients were received in the postanesthesia care unit before getting shifted to the high dependency unit (HDU). As rescue analgesia, all patients received IV morphine for 48 h with a PCA device set to deliver 1 mg per dose with a lockout interval of 10 min, without background infusion. IV paracetamol 1 g 4 times a day was used to complement analgesia in all patients.
In both the groups, the NRS score (0–10) was recorded at each of the study points (4, 8, 12, 24, 36, and 48 h postoperatively) verbally with 0 signifying no pain at all and 10 the worst imaginable pain. The NRS score and patient satisfaction scale were recorded by the nursing staff trained in pain service. The total dose of morphine and the number of requests made for morphine in both groups were recorded from the PCA pump at specific intervals. Hemodynamic parameters were noted hourly by nursing staff in the HDU. Side effects and complications were recorded until the patient got discharged home. The decision to discharge was made based on standard discharge criteria. The length of hospital stay was defined from the day of surgery till discharge. Respiratory rate lower than 12 breath/min was defined as respiratory depression, and a 20% fall in blood pressure of the baseline or systolic blood pressure lower than 90 mmHg was taken as hypotension, based on the data recorded by the nursing staff. All data were entered daily into a Microsoft Excel Sheet by the primary investigator. In both the groups, if hypotension occurred, efforts to correct reversible causes were made. If hypotension persisted, one-step reduction of infusion to 5 mL/h was made. Withdrawal criteria included an infraumbilical extension of incision, failure of epidural analgesia, premature removal of the catheter, and undue interruption in the local anesthetic infusion. Postoperatively, patients were motivated to perform incentive spirometry and ambulation as early as possible.
Randomization was done using a computer-based schedule into CWI or CEI. Enrolled patients were given a serial number and were allocated into either of the groups using the generated randomization schedule. Using a proposed noninferiority design, for sample size calculation, the noninferiority limit (the largest difference that is clinically acceptable) was chosen as 1.0 on the NRS (0–10). With the noninferiority limit of 1.0, a pooled standard deviation of 1.0,[9],[10],[11],[12],[13] a significance of 5%, and power of 90% on the NRS (0–10), a total of 18 patients in each group were required.[14] Allowing for a dropout rate of 10%, a total of 20 patients were studied in each group.
The statistical analysis was done using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (IBM SPSS version 22.0. IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA). All the data were tabulated and checked for normalcy. For normal data, Student's t-test (unpaired) was used to compare the mean difference between the two study groups i.e., CWI and CEI. All parametric data were expressed as the mean ± standard deviation. Postoperatively side effects such as hypotension (yes/no), PONV (yes/no), and pruritus (yes/no) in the two arms were compared by Chi-square test. P ≤ 0.05 was considered significant at 95% CIs with a two-sided tailed test. The noninferiority limit value was set as 1.0 on NRS score (0–10), hence to prove that the new intervention is not inferior to the standard technique of epidural analgesia, the mean difference and the 95% confidence limits of the mean difference in pain scores among the two groups should not be more than 1.0.
A total of 40 patients were studied: 20 in CEI group and 20 in CWI group [Figure 1]. As shown in [Table 1], there was no significant difference in patient demographic data such as age, sex, height, weight, and ASA physical status between the two groups. Patients underwent various upper abdominal procedures such as palliative gastrojejunostomy, feeding jejunostomy, splenectomy, and cystogastrostomy. [Table 1] shows that there was no significant difference in the type of surgery, duration of surgery, and the incision length between the two groups. No additional dose of morphine was required intraoperatively in both the groups. In the CEI group, all the epidurals were placed successfully; there were no procedure-related complications, and intrathecal or intravascular catheter placements were ruled out. By using the pinprick test, the anesthetic band was established in the corresponding dermatomes, confirming proper placement of the epidural catheter in all the patients in the CEI group. All the patients were extubated on the table by the end of the surgery, and no major intraoperative events were noted.
Figure 1:Consort diagram
Table 1: Baseline characteristics of patients, type, and surgery
[Figure 2] shows the mean NRS scores in both the groups at rest and on movement, at different time points postsurgery. The NRS scores were not significantly different between the groups at any time point. As shown in [Figure 3], the 95% confidence limits for the differences between the mean NRS scores in the CWI and CEI groups 24 h postsurgery at rest (0.1, 95% CI = −0.45, 0.65) and on movement (0.05, 95% CI = −0.73, 0.83) were within the noninferiority limit of 1.0 in the NRS. Morphine consumption and the number of requests made in the PCA pump were higher in the CWI group at all the time points, though none of them was statistically significant [Table 2]. Blood pressure was significantly lower in the CEI group in the first 24 h postsurgery as seen in [Table 2]. The incidence of hypotension in the CEI group was 25%, five patients requiring a dose reduction to 5 mL/h of 0.2% ropivacaine. The time to appearance of bowel movement, time to ambulate, and length of hospital stay were significantly lower in the CWI group [Table 3]. Some of the patients in the CWI group had excellent analgesia and were ready to perform incentive spirometry as early as 4 to 6 h after surgery. Wound soakage with serous fluid was noted in all the cases in the CWI group, but there was no incidence of wound dehiscence, wound infection, delayed healing, or fever in both the groups. There was no significant difference in the incidence of PONV, pruritus, or respiratory depression. There was no incidence of major pulmonary or vascular complications.
Figure 2: Postoperative numerical rating scale score at rest and on movement at different time points
Figure 3:Noninferiority graph – The mean difference in numerical rating scale score 24 h postsurgery at rest (0.1, 95% confidence interval =– 0.45, 0.65) and on movement (0.05, 95% confidence interval =–0.73, 0.83), with 95% confidence interval in both the groups. The dashed line is the inferiority limit
Table 2: Comparison of morphine consumption and number of reques
Table 3: Recovery and adverse effects
In this study, the results show that the continuous wound infusion in upper midline laparotomy cases is not inferior to that of epidural infusion. Our results were comparable with that of the previous studies comparing epidural analgesia with wound catheter infusion in different major abdominal surgeries.[8],[13],[15] A recent study in open gastrectomies, comparing epidural, continuous wound infusion, and patient-controlled opioid analgesia, produced a similar result.[16] A systematic review on this topic which analyzed nine good quality randomized controlled trials (RCT s) concluded that analgesia by wound catheter infusion is comparable to epidural analgesia.[8] The main limitation of this review was heterogeneity in methodology among the studies analyzed. The studies included were not procedure-specific, different incisions were used, site of catheter placement was variable, and several additional drugs were used for analgesia. To overcome this limitation, we chose upper gastrointestinal procedures done only through an upper midline incision, subcutaneous placement of the catheter with minimal additional analgesics, and PCA morphine as rescue analgesia.
Very few studies were performed in abdominal surgery through an upper midline laparotomy. Notably, two studies reported the efficacy of wound catheter infusion in major abdominal surgery done through a midline laparotomy,[17],[18] but the control group either used parenteral analgesics or placebos.
Effective pain management in abdominal surgery mandates a proper understanding of the underlying mechanisms of pain. The pain can originate from nociceptors in the anterior abdominal wall, peritoneum, and viscera. The peritoneum lines most of the abdominal viscera and has two layers: the parietal peritoneum and the visceral peritoneum. The parietal peritoneum is sensitive to touch, pressure, painful stimuli, and temperature changes and causes sharp, well-localized pain. The visceral peritoneum is sensitive to stretch, distension, tearing, but insensitive to touch, cutting, and burning sensations, and the resulting pain is dull aching and poorly localized.[19] The intraperitoneal organs are invested both anteriorly and posteriorly by the visceral peritoneum; in contrast, the retroperitoneal structures are not associated with visceral peritoneum, but their anterior surface is invested by parietal peritoneum, which carries somatic nociceptive receptors. The mechanism how the wound catheter infusion functions are hypothesized as follows: initially, the local anesthetic solution blocks the free nerve endings in the skin, subcutaneous tissue, and fascia followed by a deep somatic nociceptive block seeping through the musculofascial layer acting on the nociceptors in the parietal peritoneum as well as somatic nerves in the rectus sheath. Hence, in this study, we have tried to exclude surgeries that involve retroperitoneal structures.
The preferred location of catheter placement is unclear from the previous studies. The catheters have been placed in preperitoneal,[9],[13] suprafascial or subcutaneous,[17],[20] and transversus abdominis plane.[10] We chose to place the catheter in the subcutaneous plane as the institution protocol favors a mass closure technique (the suture bite includes all layers of abdomen except skin) for incision closure. Further, the closure of the peritoneum as a separate layer is not recommended by the European Hernia Society guidelines on the closure of abdominal incisions.[21] de Almeida et al. in their study placed the wound catheter in the subcutaneous plane and found it to be inferior to epidural analgesia, but there was neither mention of the type of surgeries nor its duration.[20] The safety of ropivacaine in the subcutaneous tissue has been well established in studies measuring serum concentrations.[22] The dosage of ropivacaine was chosen based on the study by Bertoglio et al., which proved that the analgesia by wound catheter infusion is as efficacious as thoracic epidural analgesia in colorectal surgery.[13] It was a large multi-centered RCT with a sample size of 106 patients. The study established both the safety and efficacy with a dosage of 0.2% ropivacaine at 10 mL/h in both the groups.
Morphine consumption was slightly higher in the CWI group, although not statistically significant. The opioid consumption was lower in both the groups, compared to primarily IV opioid-based analgesia in the previous studies, which indicates excellent analgesia provided by both the techniques.[6],[16] The incidence of hypotension was higher in the CEI group, the mean blood pressure in the first 24 h being significantly lower than the CWI group. The hypotension was managed with IV fluids, boluses of vasopressors, and epidural dose reduction. Hypotension, the most common adverse effect with thoracic epidural analgesia, is well-documented in the literature.[23] No mention of wound soakage was found in the previous literature, which was significantly seen in the CWI group. It is probably because of the subcutaneous placement of the catheter. No incidence of wound infection or wound dehiscence was found in this study, in concordance with the literature, as opposed to the general apprehension.[6],[7],[8]
Good analgesia is especially needed for upper gastrointestinal surgery, as with good analgesia, the respiratory function is better and perioperative pulmonary complications are lesser, leading to faster wound healing, recovery, and discharge from the hospital. Thoracic epidural analgesia has been considered as the standard practice for pain management in such cases. Yet, it is a blind, technically challenging procedure and not free from causing discomfort to the patient, both on insertion and maintenance in the postoperative period. Further, local sepsis, deranged coagulogram, anticoagulant use, and lack of consent preclude its use. Our method of CWI offers a simple, quick, less invasive, and effective technique, which is devoid of complications such as hypotension, PONV, paralytic ileus, pruritis, and urinary retention. The procedure-specific postoperative pain management group, which provides procedure-specific recommendations, has already recommended wound catheter infusion for cesarean section, radical prostatectomy, and colonic resections. With more procedure-specific studies like ours, the utility of wound catheter infusion will further widen.[24]
In the CEI group, although intraoperative epidural analgesia was not provided, the test dose used could have added a preemptive analgesic effect. Although the current standard practice is to add opioids in epidural drug preparation, we avoided it so that postoperative morphine consumption can be compared between the groups. In the current era, laparoscopic procedures are replacing open abdominal procedures; nevertheless, the importance of the latter can never be underestimated. Moreover, the wound catheter infusion technique can be the analgesic technique of choice when a conversion is made from the laparoscopic approach to open procedure, wherein epidural analgesia is commonly avoided. Currently, the cost of the wound catheter infusion is more than that of the epidural; but the benefits far outweigh the cost difference, especially in high-risk terminally ill patients. Our study proves that understanding of the underlying pain mechanism and careful case selection can increase the efficacy of wound catheter infusion in abdominal surgeries. This novel technique of postoperative analgesia will play a huge role in palliative abdominal procedures but needs further studies focusing on such procedures.
We conclude, saying that the analgesia provided by continuous wound infusion is not inferior to CEI, with better preservation of hemodynamics and faster recovery. Wound catheter infusion is an effective alternative to the epidural technique in abdominal surgeries and will play a crucial role in the palliative procedures.
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KABUL: In the wake of peace efforts with the Taliban group, the Afghan security forces have killed at least 37 of them and wound 14 others in fresh military crackdowns conducted across the country in the past 24 hours.
The ministry of defense on Friday said the Afghan security forces conducted 11 military operations, 79 small-range special operations, in which at least 37 terrorists were killed.
These anti-militant operations carried out in 11 provinces, the ministry said, in which twenty Taliban fighters were killed in Andar and Qara Bagh districts of eastern Ghazni province. According to the statement, 10 other Taliban militants received injures in the raids.
Over the period, other 10 Taliban insurgents were killed in outskirts of Tinrinkot, the capital city of southern Uruzgan province, the statement furthered, whiel in Sayayd district of Sar-i-Pul, five Taliban insurgents killed and four others wounded.
Separately, two insurgents killed were killed in two provinces—Helmand and Laghman, while four other detained along with ammunition in eastern Nangarhar province, the statement added.
This comes as President Ashraf Ghani, who is attending the Munich Security Conference in Germany, met with U.S. Special Representative for Afghan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and discussed recent developments on peace in the region.
According to the statement, Khalilzad “reiterated that the U.S. government is committed to playing a facilitative role in the peace process under the umbrella of Afghan government.”
“Good meeting with President Ashraf Ghani in Munich. We discussed next steps on consultative Loya Jirga and the urgent necessity of an intra-Afghan dialogue, as well as key regional developments. We are united in our pursuit of peace,” Khalilzad wrote in his twitter.
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Platt apologizes for 'divisive' IMB amicus brief
by David Roach, posted Thursday, February 16, 2017 (2 years ago)
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ONTARIO, Calif. (BP) -- International Mission Board President David Platt has apologized to Southern Baptists for the divisive nature of an amicus brief the IMB joined last May in support of a New Jersey's Islamic society's right to build a mosque.
"I apologize to Southern Baptists for how distracting and divisive this has been," Platt said Feb. 15 during a meeting with Baptist state paper editors in Ontario, Calif.
David Platt, IMB president, speaks with Will Hall, editor of Louisiana's Baptist Message, after giving a report to Baptist editors in Ontario, Calif., Feb. 15.
"I can say with full confidence," he said, "that in the days ahead, IMB will have a process in place to keep us focused on our primary mission: partnering with churches to empower limitless missionary teams for evangelizing, discipling, planting and multiplying healthy churches, and training leaders among unreached peoples and places for the glory of God."
Platt offered a similar apology to executive directors of Baptist state conventions, who met in the same location.
The apologies occurred amid ongoing discussion of an amicus curiae -- Latin for "friend of the court" -- brief joined by the IMB supporting the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge, N.J., (ISBR) in its religious discrimination lawsuit against a local planning board. The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission also joined the brief.
In December, U.S. district Judge Michael Shipp ruled the Planning Board of Bernards Township, N.J., violated federal law when it required the ISBR to include more than twice as much parking in its site plan for a proposed mosque as it required for local Christian and Jewish houses of worship.
In his ruling, Shipp acknowledged the amicus brief, stating it "supports" the ISBR's arguments that unlawful religious discrimination occurred.
Going forward, Platt said, missions is "what I long for the conversation about the IMB to be focused on, for the sake of those who have never heard."
Platt added, "I am grieved how the amicus brief in the recent mosque case has been so divisive and distracting. And my purpose in bringing it up here is not to debate religious liberty, but to simply say that I really do want IMB to be focused on [its] mission statement."
In the future, a new process for filing amicus briefs is needed, Platt said, "that will involve my office and our trustees." He pledged to discuss such a policy during a Feb. 28-March 1 IMB trustee meeting.
Platt also told editors, "Going back to at least 2010, so far before I stepped into this role, our ... legal department has filed various similar briefs related to religious liberty. And since 2010, all of those matters have been handled by our legal department."
Paul Chitwood, executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention and a former IMB trustee chairman, told Baptist Press Platt's "remarks [to state executive directors] were very well received."
Tennessee Baptist Convention Executive Director Randy Davis told Tennessee's Baptist and Reflector newsjournal, "I greatly appreciate the directness and humility that the leader of our flagship missions organization demonstrated in meeting with Baptist state convention executive directors. I saw the same spirit in one-on-one conversations with Dr. Platt."
Davis added, "I am very comfortable from having spent some time with Dr. Platt that this will not be an issue moving forward and that it certainly will be with some level of involvement by IMB trustees."
Tennessee pastor Dean Haun resigned as an IMB trustee in November because he said joining the brief did not comport with IMB's mission and could be viewed as an improper alliance with followers of a religion that denies the Gospel.
Haun's resignation was reported in several Baptist state papers last month.
Platt told BP in a statement last month, "As a result of discussions among IMB trustees and staff over recent months, we have revised our processes for our legal department filing any future amicus briefs."
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By RollingStoned, July 10, 2019 in Gab Central
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Of all the releases in the Pokémon video game franchise, what's your favorite one? In case you've lost track of the dozens of titles over the years, here's the full list.
Here are my personal favorites (because I can't choose just one):
Favorite main series title: Pokémon Crystal. This was my first Pokémon main series game, so forgive me if I'm biased. It isn't the best in the series, but it's the one I spent the most time on and the one that holds the most nostalgia for me. I replayed it a couple of years ago and still found it as addicting as I did when it was new. The fact that it allowed the player to go back to the Kanto Region was mind-blowing for child me.
Favorite side game: Pokémon Stadium. This was my second Pokémon game and the first one I owned that involved Pokémon battles. I spent the first year or two of this game playing entirely with rental Pokémon because I didn't have any of the Game Boy titles. I accidentally deleted my original save file for this one after falling victim to a phony GameWinners.com cheat code. It is the most time-consuming game I've ever tried to beat. Every few months I'll come back to it, but I've never beaten it. The announcer's quotes are forever etched into my brain.
Honorable mentions: Pokémon Snap and Pokémon Yellow. Snap was the first Pokémon game I owned. At the time, it was the only Pokémon experience I had other than a few episodes of the Pokémon anime. Yellow was almost as exciting to play as Crystal. I loved having Pikachu follow my trainer around and seeing its emotions after every tough battle.
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Content strategy things and stuff
On the New Media Paradigm: An Interview
First time keynote presenting.
THAT’S QUITE A NUMBER OF CHAIRS OMG pic.twitter.com/IjjaSaQ5ca
— Clinton Forry (@wd45) October 24, 2015
How can broadcasters take advantage of the rapid changes in technology without losing focus on what matters most: storytelling? Ahead of my keynote address at the College Broadcasters, Inc. National Student Electronic Media Convention, Greg Weston and I discussed the new media paradigm and broadcasting for the Radio World blog. Here ’tis:
This week, the eyes of the college radio world turn to Minneapolis for the National Student Electronic Media Convention, Oct. 22–24, Minneapolis. The convention’s keynote address will be delivered by Clinton Forry, vice president of content strategy at Weber Shandwick. While best-known for his expertise in interactive marketing, Clinton has years of radio experience, primarily at Public Radio International, and started his media career at KUNI Radio at the University of Northern Iowa.
I recently spoke via email to Forry about how content is still king and radio’s place in today’s rapidly-changing media environment.
Greg Weston: Clinton, the word I most associate with you is “content.” In today’s crowded media landscape, how does radio stack up as a content provider compared to so-called new media?
Clinton Forry: The radio world has been in the content creation game since they fired up the transmitters on those first stations. Those broadcast pioneers needed something to transmit, be it news, entertainment, etc. Same with TV. People didn’t buy TVs because they wanted the ability to receive moving images in their homes. They bought TVs because they wanted to see Milton Berle doing slapstick comedy each week.
The same thing happens with online content. We have access to all of these channels, each with their own appeal, user-base, and vernacular. And they all need content. But it needs to be content that adds value in some significant way while also making sense for the station and its identity.
Fortunately for broadcasters, they have been solving for the blank canvas problem for 100+ years or so. They know about audiences, quality and ongoing production — elements that many new media content producers are still figuring out. The challenge is using the natural outputs of broadcast (audio, video, etc.) to tell your story in these new channels.
GW: Marshall McLuhan famously said, “The medium is the message,” meaning that the method of delivery embeds itself in how the content is perceived. Do you believe that’s true? If so, what are the implications for radio stations that are attempting to be multiplatform content providers?
Forry: I often wonder what the brilliant Marshall McLuhan would think of the current media landscape, ranging from the time-tested broadcast stations to the new, closed social networks of today.
Each new channel represents a slight change in the way we communicate with others, resulting in minor changes to our contexts in the world. The impact of the two-way, conversational nature of social media cannot be overstated. Broadcasters’ place in the communication hierarchy has changed, and I think McLuhan’s mantra applies 100%.
Broadcasters approaching content production for social must now contend with that two-way relationship. This scenario happens every day: instead of call-ins making up the majority of user input, producers can now involve the audience in the planning and creation of the content ahead of time. Audiences can then participate in real time aligned with the broadcast of that content. Finally, those audience members can share a version of that content after broadcast. McLuhan would nod knowingly.
GW: Your keynote address on Oct. 24 is called “Clear, Concise, & Compelling: Use Content Strategy to Better Tell Your Story.” What is content strategy? How can media outlets utilize it to get their message heard through the clutter?
Forry: My elevator pitch: Content strategy is the practice of aligning business goals with user expectations via sustainable online content.
Definitions of content strategy vary from person to person, as content strategists come from many different backgrounds — some have a more technical background, others editorial and others user experience.
That definition evolved out of my background in radio, so it certainly has a fitting application in media outlets. Even a not-for-profit broadcaster has business or organizational goals, one of the simplest being, “to grow and sustain viewer or listener numbers.” The user expectations might be “I want quality news.”
With these two elements in mind we can use the practice of content strategy to shape the content, ensuring that it has a familiar tone, appropriate format, a clear workflow from start to finish, and a long-term plan for distribution, promotion, and maintenance.
When you can sustainably produce clear, concise and compelling content that supports your goals and meets a user need, you’ll be one step closer to cutting through the clutter.
GW: Some people doubt radio’s long-term viability in today’s media landscape. What do you think the future holds for the radio industry? What changes will it have to make to survive and flourish in the coming years?
Forry: When people ask about long-term prospects, I turn to the example of AT&T. Though they were originally known as Atlantic Telephone and Telegraph, they haven’t offered “telegraph” services for quite a while. But, they do a fine job with providing my mobile phone with data connectivity. At their core, their job is facilitating the exchange of information. It used to be telegraph wires; now it’s cell towers.
Broadcasters can think of it in similar terms. The core is creating and distributing content: news, entertainment, music, etc. The Internet offers additional ways for the audience to get this content which was once confined to the radio and TV antennas.
What changes should broadcasters make? It’s about output. Broadcasters should keep serving their audiences as they have been and then reformatting the best parts for use in the online world. This allows you to superserve your current audience and offer an online point-of-entry for those not yet familiar with your radio waves.
To adapt, broadcasters need to shift into a content-first mindset. Instead of thinking of filling one of the 168 hours in a week with content, it’s about formatting a segment for broadcast AND for the website AND for social media. Producing content with several channels in mind doesn’t necessarily mean tons of additional work, but it does require a slightly different approach.
GW: You got your start at the college radio station at the University of Northern Iowa. How did your experience there shape your career?
Forry: My start in college radio was foundational. I learned to think about how the station projected an identity or personality, and how everything we did was in service of that identity. I learned that this identity was expressed in many ways, from the programming and staff to branding and our place within the campus environment. And finally, I learned the importance of storytelling via electronic media.
Each of these elements is critical to communications of any type — radio, TV, websites, print. What college radio offered me was a way to learn these things in an exciting setting. I can say for certain that I wouldn’t be where I am today if it weren’t for that flyer in my dorm mailbox, asking be to be a DJ on a tiny station in the basement of the student union.
Clinton Forry
Content Strategist and writer. Fancier of vinyl LP records. Tall. Bit of a dandy. Also: whiskey.
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Posted on October 29, 2015 September 29, 2016 by Clinton Forry
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The track listing for the Specialized - A Modern Take On Specials Classics album which features a number of bands, across a wide range of genres performing songs by Coventry band The Specials.
The album is being released in Coventry on Saturday March 24th at the Village Aid Fund raising gig and some of the money raised will go to 2-Tone Village on Ball Hill in Coventry and the Teenage Cancer Trust, a charity supported by The Specials.
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Israel Is Doing Better Than You've Heard
[Weekly Standard] Peter Berkowitz - Israelis face a formidable array of national security threats. Weapons continue to flow from Egypt into Gaza, Hamas continues to rain down Kassam rockets on the civilian residents of the Israeli town of Sderot and on surrounding kibbutzim. In the West Bank, Israeli security forces operate around the clock to foil terrorist operations before they cross over into Israel. In the south of Lebanon, Hizbullah has rearmed. And then there is Iran, which would present a grave danger to Israel should it succeed in becoming a nuclear power. There is a consensus among Israelis that the conditions for implementing a solution to the conflict do not now exist and are not likely to come into being anytime soon. Despite the intentions of Abbas and Fayyad, Fatah is too corrupt, the Palestinian educational system is too poisonous, Jerusalem too sensitive an issue, and Hamas too appealing to too many Palestinians. Most important, any political agreement would require the Israeli army and internal security forces to leave the West Bank, but few in Israel believe that can be done without paying an intolerable price - exposing Tel Aviv and environs, the center of the country's commercial life and home to half its citizens, to constant rocket attacks. Because it faces up to harsh realities without losing sight of the demands of justice, the evolving consensus reflects the strength of the nation. The writer is the Tad and Dianne Taube senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a visiting professor at Georgetown University.
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Karosta prison
A former prison in Karosta, near Liepaja, Latvia, which is now a museum, or rather: one turned into a theatrical show, or "experience" – where actors play guards and subject visitors to interrogation, abuse and punishments. The whole controversial "theme park" approach to such a dark place has been much discussed, especially by journalists, who cast a critical eye on the development of dark tourism (see this example).
And indeed – this is possibly dark tourism at its very dodgiest, in particular the really intense long shows (including overnight! You can even arrange "exotic" stag nights here!). But it need not be all that dodgy, the regular museum tours, not the theatrically enhanced group arrangements, are comparatively harmless …
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More background info: The prison was built around the turn of the 19th/20th century as part of a large military complex. "Karosta" means 'war harbour' – so it's mainly a naval base. Originally constructed by the Russian Tsar to improve control over the area, later the Soviet Union took over – and frequently incarcerated political prisoners here. During WWII and the occupation of Latvia by Germany, the Nazis turned the place into their own detention centre and execution site.
After the defeat of Germany, the Soviets were back and used the base as one of the most important naval bases for their Baltic Fleet all through the Cold War. The KGB continued to use the prison until they had to abandon the place after the collapse of the Soviet empire and Latvia's regaining independence. For a few years, the new Latvian state also continued to use the prison, though on somewhat less drastic scale, and in 1997 it was finally given up altogether.
The prison was taken over by an initiative, whose sense of humour already comes out in the acronym they use as their name: KGB – although it now stands for "Karostas glabsanas biedriba" – roughly 'naval port salvation association'. They offer all manner of packages, including those that have sparked off the controversy over the place – in a nutshell: is it ethically acceptable to play-act the horrors of such a prison for tourists who are possibly more interested in some kind of "extreme experience" than learning about the historical background?
I don't want to condemn anybody, and if the idea appeals to you, then by all means do take advantage of this pretty unique opportunity. Personally, though, I wouldn't. I have a bit of a problem with any kind of play-acting as part of dark-tourism offerings – I even find the identity card scheme at the US Holocaust Museum too much.
Obviously, not having subjected myself to the actual experience, I can't really tell – but I have some doubts as to how authentic an "experience" can (or should!) be created this way. After all, participants come voluntarily, pay for it, and can rely on being released a few hours later or the next day (depending on the chosen package). So even the verbal mock abuse during "interrogations" and the imposed punishments (having to clean floors or latrines …) will still be only "play", and thus cannot ultimately compare to what the real prisoners must have experienced here. I'm not saying it should – far from it. Nor am I prepared to pass judgement on whether it's an appropriate style of "commemoration" or not. I just know it's not for me.
So when I went to Karosta, in April 2014, i.e. before the “theatrical” season started at the ex-prison, I only went on a specially arranged private guided tour as part of a half-day excursion all over Karosta.
It is, however, precisely those “reality show” theatrical efforts they make at Karosta prison that made them famous/infamous and so much talked about in the media and academic dark-tourism writings. It is one of the usual handful of examples always given when the topic of dark tourism is introduced. That is a bit unfair, given that this sort of Karosta “experience” is such an exceptional case, so very far from being representative of dark tourism at large (see also my review of the Dark Tourism documentary film).
But there you are. It is, undeniably, one of the best-known dark sites in the world. And therefore I had to go and see it. I “evaded” the controversial participatory theatrical bits, though, and without them I must say it is really quite an average prison museum that would never have made such headlines for just that (as a mere prison museum it is no match for such biggies as Alcatraz or Kilmainham, Dublin, or Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia).
Instead it lives off its “retro Soviet” quirkiness. And that appears to be very much endorsed in the local tourism business too. In fact it may well rank amongst Latvia's top tourism attractions, at least outside Riga.
What there is to see and "experience": At the this (ex-)prison it depends on your choice. By prior arrangement, groups have the chance to get some real hard-core packages, including a full day's "life as a prisoner", complete with arrest, interrogation, prison meals and an overnight stay in a cell. Shorter varieties are also on offer – including a "surprise package" (they won't give away what it consists of, but you can use your imagination …).
The point of all these showy/"experience" group offers, which all have to be pre-arranged and booked, and an "agreement" signed in advance, is that of giving the participants an impression of what it feels like being a KGB prisoner. If that's what you're after, then this is probably the best place in the world to receive such treatment voluntarily (short of actually committing a crime and getting the real thing) … the degree, or depth (= nastiness) of the "experience" can be chosen/tailored but it is supposed to be unpleasant – make no mistake about that!
For those (like me) who can do without all the theatrics and abuse, there's also the option of just visiting the place as an individual, almost like a "regular" museum – although it is very much pointed out that this is no ordinary museum.
When I finally made it to Karosta in April 2014, I couldn't even go on a regular tour of the museum as the normal season hadn't started yet (see below for details). So I arranged for it to be included in my half-day tour of Karosta, which was possible because my guide also worked at the prison as a guide/“guard” during the season, and so had access to the site.
My experience was thus quite different to what most normal visitors will find here, given that it was a private tour for just me and my wife. It thankfully lacked all the theatrics otherwise on offer here, but included most of the parts of the museum normally accessible on the tours in season.
Outside in the prison courtyard some colleagues of my guide were still working on refurbishing/painting some larger outdoor exhibits, namely an old military truck and a field kitchen. Also on display outside was an amphibious Soviet vehicle. A watchtower between the entrance and the red-brick prison building had the look of a rather flimsy mock-up rather than that of being genuine, but maybe I'm mistaken.
Inside the prison, we were led through some dark corridors and were shown a number of cells. One painted black inside had lots of graffiti on the walls – ranging from genuine prisoners' messages to obviously more recently added band names (I spotted one AC/DC and one Depeche Mode).
Old Soviet surveillance apparatus was to be seen in a corner in the corridors (but without the dummy in Soviet uniform, as in their pictures, presumably that will be back when the season starts). There were also paintings of grim-looking Soviet big shots including one pop-art-like poster depicting Lenin hanging from the bars in one of the corridors. But otherwise there wasn't really that much to see in the cell block.
The loos – latrines, rather – were a particularly disheartening sight, especially after our guide reported that back in the day prisoners were allowed access to these “facilities” only twice a day, all at once, under observation and severe time pressure. So if you couldn't “go” under such circumstances, tough luck!
One set of rooms had been turned into a museum exhibition stuffed full with old Soviet relics: uniforms, hats, medals, flags, gas masks, old radios and other pieces of socialist technology, books, portraits of the Soviet Union's party leaders, and of course a Lenin bust in one corner.
It was also here that the guide charged us for our admission tickets – well, as they like to do things a little different here, it's not so much an admission fee at all ... you don't pay to be let in, rather they make it out that you pay to be let out!
Back outside I also spotted large panels with historical photos. One of them showed the former submariners monument of Karosta, which incorporated the sail (or 'fin' or 'conning tower') of the Soviet WWII-era submarine ShCh-307. This was moved to the Victory Memorial park at Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow (see Great Patriotic War Museum) in 1995.
From another photo I learned an interesting detail that I had been unaware of: amongst the various war-time images was one of a crashed biplane with swastika markings … but this was not a German plane, as my guide pointed out, but a Latvian one. So the Latvian air force also used that infamous symbol before WWII!
All in all I must say that Karosta prison was less interesting as a prison memorial as such (especially when compared to much more striking ex-prisons such as Patarei, Tallinn, in neighbouring Estonia). Nor is it particularly large. What sets Karosta apart from other such sites is the “retro” Soviet elements, a) in the museum collection and b) in the “show” elements that Karosta so specializes in. I avoided the latter by going on an off-season private tour and I doubt I would have liked it in the theatrical way. But if that is what you are after, i.e. to get such an “impression” of what it must have been like to be a Soviet prisoner, then Karosta is just the place for you. Be aware, though, that these show-y exploits at Karosta are seen as controversial by many (see background).
Location: in the middle of the former Soviet military garrison of Karosta, some three miles (5 km) north of the Baltic Sea coastal city of Liepaja, Latvia.
Google maps locator: [56.5465,21.0205]
Access and costs: A little bit off the most-trodden tourist paths, but not too difficult to get to; moderately priced.
Details: To get to the former prison you first have to make your way to Liepaja, from there head north to Karosta. It's easiest by car or bicycle, walking it all the way may be a little far. Alternatively you could take a bus – line 3 is said to go in that direction, but I cannot confirm this. Anyway, the entrance to the prison museum is at 4 Invalidu iela, which branches off Turaidas iela, which in turn connects with the main north-south thoroughfare of Atmodas bulvaris just north of Kalpaka Bridge (see under Karosta).
When I was in Liepaja, I arranged to see the prison as part of a longer, half-day tour of Karosta (also including the Northern Forts), for which we used the car I had hired in Riga.
This tour was arranged through the place I was staying at, Ezera Maja (see under Liepaja – esp. here). My guide was a chap who also worked as a guide/“guard” for Karosta prison in season (see below), so he had access to the site even though it was still only April. The whole tour cost 40 EUR, and given that it was over four hours long, it wasn't a bad price. Not included in this, however, was the admission price for the museum:
Admission to the regular guided tour of the prison and its museum is now 4.50 EUR (students/pensioners 3 EUR). Prices for the various longer “show” packages obviously cost more, but current prices will have to be enquired about. The Karosta prison's website is (at the time of writing in July 2014) not up to date! Contact: email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone: +37126369470
Opening times normal “plain” museum visits are possible for individuals (and small groups under 10 persons) daily, in high season (June to August) from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in May and September, but only at weekends between 12 noon and 3 p.m. the rest of the year; other times only by prior arrangement.
Time required: depends on what you want. A regular visit to the museum takes only an hour max, but you can arrange for theatrical packages of between 1-2 hours to up to a full 24 hours.
Combinations with other dark destinations: For the immediate environs see under Karosta. Further up the main road north, the Northern Forts and further north still the Holocaust memorial site of Skede can be found. And to the south, the civilian town of Liepaja also offers a few sites of interest. Further afield, the Irbene radio locator is another relic from the Soviet days that may be worth the excursion if you are interested in such things.
Combinations with non-dark destinations: see under Liepaja and Karosta.
Karosta prison 01 - outside
Karosta prison 02 - watchtower
Karosta prison 03 - field kitchen and play area
Karosta prison 04 - some sort of caged area
Karosta prison 05 - entrance sign
Karosta prison 06 - a pop Lenin greeting
Karosta prison 07 - corridor
Karosta prison 08 - dark
Karosta prison 09 - cell
Karosta prison 10 - cell wall scratchings
Karosta prison 11 - surveillance technology
Karosta prison 12 - open toilets
Karosta prison 13 - prison games
Karosta prison 14 - museum part
Karosta prison 15 - gas masks
Karosta prison 16 - museum
Karosta prison 17 - back to the USSR
Karosta prison 18 - all the Soviet leaders, plus prison guard actors
Karosta prison 19 - Soviet-era calculator
Karosta prison 20 - past glory
Karosta prison 21 - historic photos outside
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Select Hisense Smart TVs add Amazon Alexa for 2018
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018
Introducing Alexa integration into the Hisense Smart TV Platform on selected 2018 Hisense 4K Smart TVs
SUWANEE, Ga. — Hisense, a global technology leader, today announced that Alexa capabilities will be available on select models of Hisense 4K Smart TVs for the very first time. This is part of Hisense’s larger initiative to make interacting with Smart TVs easier and more intuitive than ever before. Alexa will be available on select models of the 2018 Hisense 4K Smart TV lineup, including the Hisense 100″ 4K Ultra HD Smart Laser TV, Hisense’s game-changing product that represents the future of premium large-screen home entertainment.
Hisense’s Smart TV platform makes accessing built-in apps like Netflix, Amazon Video, YouTube, TikiLIVE and others simple and easy. In addition, Alexa-enabled Hisense 4K Smart TVs will now offer a wide variety of voice features right out of the box. Alexa will help users control certain primary functions, including voice commands, changing inputs and controlling volume.
Additionally, the Alexa voice service seamlessly connects to music services like iHeartRadio, Pandora, as well as thousands of Alexa skills. Skills allow Alexa-enabled Hisense 4K Smart TV users to do everything from shopping for groceries and gifts to even ordering a pizza. Alexa will also enable users to connect to other smart home products so that they can control the lights, turn off the air conditioner, operate other IoT devices that work with Alexa and more.
“We are thrilled to bring Alexa voice technology to our Smart TVs,” said Mark Viken, Hisense USA Vice President of Marketing. “While content providers and other TV manufacturers tend to focus on quantity of content, Hisense recognizes that the future is all about simplicity, making it easy for consumers to find and watch their favorite content, play music, control their smart home and more.”
The Alexa integration does not stop with Hisense Smart TVs. Hisense recently announced their HiSmart AC and Dehumidifier products which work with Amazon Alexa and qualify for the “Works with Alexa” badge.
“We’re excited that Hisense is bringing Alexa to televisions,” said Steve Rabuchin, Vice President, Amazon Alexa. “Hisense has a history of building Alexa integrations for smart home products. Now, with Alexa on select Hisense Smart TVs, they’re bringing Alexa directly to customers’ living rooms. This means customers can do things like turn the volume up, control their smart home, get a movie recommendation or even order dinner on select models – with just their voice.”
In addition to Alexa, Hisense has made significant investments in new technology, particularly as it relates to voice activation and control. In 2018, the company will also be launching a remote control and mobile application, both featuring voice technology.
Hisense will be debuting its full 2018 lineup at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, January 9-12, 2018 at booth #10039.
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HomeLife StoriesRodion Nikitins (14.4.1915*) – A circus artist’s journey as an entertainer through Soviet and National Social-ist occupation
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The Latvian-born circus performer Rodion Nikitins lived through WWII performing in different circuses and theatres in Latvia, Germany and Nazi-occupied Prague. In his autobiography Of Flight and Freedom from 1987, Nikitins confesses that his work as an entertainer gave him more opportunities and options during WWII than those available to his family members or friends in Latvia.
When the Soviets occupied Latvia in 1940, Nikitins was performing at the Latvian Circus Salamonski in Riga. The Soviets forced the circus to prepare a new programme every month. Nikitins remarked that obtaining new material to develop new acts was easier at the time due to the pressure to constantly create new shows. The Soviets insisted on the importance of performers to the civilian morale, and cir-cus performers kept working throughout Soviet occupation. At the same time, many Baltic States citizens simply disappeared.
On June 22, 1941, Nazi German troops began their invasion of Soviet Union territory. The German occupation of Latvia was completed by July 10, 1941. The new occupiers instructed the circus to change the programme, but, like the Soviets before them, insisted that the circus continue its operations. The liminality of the war made Nikitins and his partner Koni take even more daring risks in their acrobatic act. After witnessing one of their spectacular and risky shows, a fully-uniformed member of the National Socialist party came on-stage and declared: “What a finale. As long as we have men like you, we cannot lose the war!”
As the German military position weakened, Nikitins feared he would be mobilised to fight against the Red Army. At this moment, Nikitins decided to use his entertainer status to flee to Germany. He also saved his brother by forging Leo’s name into his contract as an assistant. To further justify his brother’s presence on stage, he decided to create a comedy acrobatic act with him.
Nikitins presented his acts in Berlin, Magdeburg and Hamburg. During one terrible night of air strikes in Hamburg, the theatre where Nikitins was performing was struck. Nikitins was the last act of the programme, and he had left his wire standing on the newly reinforced stage. Miraculously, Nikitins’ wire was still standing untouched, but the theatre and all its walls had unravelled around it. Nikitins knew that he would have never been able to afford new wire material to replace his equipment.
After Allied air raids on German cities increased, Nikitins decided to perform in German-occupied Pra-gue. After the breown of the National Socialist Regime in spring 1945, Nikitins had to be moved into a school accommodation with other international entertainers under Czech supervision. While in his temporary lodging, Nikitins once offered a German prisoner of war a light for his cigarette. The in-cident looked bad in the eyes of the Czech guards and Nikitins was almoakdst executed for sympathising with the previous occupiers.
Soon after entering the American zone, Nikitins was able to find work entertaining American troops in Heidelberg and in other towns nearby. After realising that Latvia would not regain its independence af-ter WWII, he decided to emigrate to the United States. Eventually, Nikitins became a naturalized American citizen, but he had to realign his career by establishing schools for gymnastics and dance. His perseverance, versatility and courage helped him to survive and rebuild his life after the war.
Author: Pauliina Räsänen
Source: Nikitins, Rodion: Of Flight and Freedom. Hand Voltage Publications, Seattle, WA, USA 1987.
Beni Malone
Great article Pauliina,
Richard McElvain
Pauliina
This is very well written, succinct and compelling piece causing me to reflect on the performer’s life as well as stretching my own vocabulary (“liminality”). If this is a sample of what you hope to write in your history of Circus I think you are on to something extraordinary.
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Archive for July 10th, 2017
1835: Ruel Blake, “often seen among negroes”
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On this date in 1835, Ruel Blake hanged in Livingston as one of the white instigators of a supposed slave uprising.
Blake was an foreigner to Madison County, a Connecticut carpetbagger who (according to the vigilance committee’s proceedings) “could claim but few or none as friends” as he was “of a cold, phlegmatic temperament, with a forbidding countenance; kept himself almost aloof from white society, but was often seen among negroes” and “was noted for cold-blooded revenge, insatiable avarice, and unnatural cruelty.” He worked as a wheelwright and carpenter, and had only a single slave, Peter.
But not everyone in Livingston had it in for the guy. As the excitement first began to bubble up as June turned to July, Captain Thomas Hudnall, a wealthy plantation owner gave Ruel Blake money and a horse and sagely suggested he lay low somewhere else while the storm passed. Blake had not yet been accused by anyone, but he’d aroused the ire and seemingly the suspicion of his neighbors when his own slave was accused and Blake administered an unconvincing and pro forma flogging — “he did not wish to hurt [the slave], occasionally striking a hard lick to keep up appearances.” Eventually other white citizens forcibly relieved him of the job, and Blake had the effrontery as he saw his man being thrashed to “[rush] through the crowd to where his negro was, and swore, if he was touched another lick, they would have to whip him first,” a threat that brought him to blows with the man wielding the whip.
Hudnall rightly anticipated that his neighbors’ presumption of “mere” excess sympathy for the slave would soon take a much darker turn: Blake blew town on July 1, and with the arrival into Livingston the very next day of the fantastical slave revolt claims from nearby Beatties Bluff, a $500 reward for his capture soon went nipping at Blake’s heels. In the ensuing panicked days, Blake along with the “steam doctors” Cotton and Saunders — all strangers come to Mississippi, all of them socially marginal and noted for fraternizing with black people — came to be acclaimed as the chief white conspirators, accusations that became self-affirming as men under the lash or in fear of the gallows repeated the names, knowing from their torturers’ leading questions who was already condemned by acclamation.
Blake was captured after just a few days, in Vicksburg, where he posed as a boatman from upriver. Now Hudnall’s favor cut against him, for the flight from Livingston appeared to prove his guilt:
He arrived in Livingston on the 8th of July, under a strong escort, intimations being obtained that an attempt would be made by the clan [John Murrell’s bandits, the alleged nexus of the slave rising plot -ed.] to rescue him.
His appearance in Livingston created a most alarming excitement; and, but for the committee’s being in session, in all probability he would have been forcibly taken from the guard, and immediately executed. After arriving, he was immediately put on his trial before the committee … Every disclosure which was made [by previous interrogations] was replete with testimony against him.
After hearing all the evidence, every opportunity was given him to produce counteracting testimony, which he failed to do. There being no doubt on the minds of the committee, he was, by a unanimous vote, condemned to be hanged; and, just before leaving the committee-room, he requested the committee to give him time to settle his affairs.
On the 10th of July, in the presence of an immense concourse of people, he was executed. He privately commended the verdict of the committee, and said they could not have done otherwise than condemn him from the evidence before them, and publicly, under the gallows, made the same declaration. He protested in his innocence to the last, and said that his life was sworn away.
1507: Paolo da Novi, Doge of the people - 2019
1941: George Johnson Armstrong, under the Treachery Act - 2018
1535: Jacob van Campen, Amsterdam Anabaptist - 2016
1584: Francis Throckmorton, plotter - 2015
1654: Gerard the conspirator, and the Portuguese envoy's brother - 2014
1917: "John Nelson", mystery man - 2013
1946: Public Execution in Debica - 2012
1950: American soldiers during the Korean War - 2011
1976: Costas Georgiou and three other mercenaries in Angola - 2010
2000: Dmitry Chikunov, secretly - 2009
2007: Zheng Xiaoyu, former Director of the State Food and Drug Administration - 2008
1893: Two women lynched in Quincy, Mississippi
1835: A white man at Vicksburg and two black men at Livingston, and five slaves at Beatties Bluff
1835: Joshua Cotton and William Saunders, steam doctors
1835: Dean and Donovan, white abolitionists
1835: Vincent, by popular demand
1852: “Brown”, lynched in California
1860: John Guthrie, antislavery horse thief
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Other grape varieties
The production specifications of ValpolicelIa state that:
"The grapes corning from the following varieties can contribute to a maximum of 25% in total in the making of the above mentioned wines:
non aromatic red-berried varieties allowed to be cultivated in the province of Verona to the maximum extent of 15%, with a maximum limit of 10% for every single variety used;
red-berried Italian varieties which have been classified as native according to the provisions of law nr.82/06, art. 2, and are allowed to be cultivated in the Province of Verona, for the remaining total amount of 10%."
The list of authorised grape varieties for the Province of Verona is long but within the viticulture in Valpolicella we can easily find:
Typical Veronese variety, listed as compulsory in the blend of Valpolicella until the modifications of the production specifications occurred in 2003. Its name comes from the large amount of bloom covering the berries that seem covered by white flour, as if coming from inside an old mill. Appreciated for the mineral aroma it brings to the wine.
Dindarella
Old Veronese variety, also called "Pelara" for its very poor-looking bunch with only a few berries covering the grape-stalk. Appreciated in blends for its typical spicy notes.
Oseleta
Old Veronese variety which has been recently rediscovered. Characterized by very small berries and a very hard skin. If gives wine tannic structure and colour.
Sangiovese, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Teroldego
Varieties recently introduced in the Valpolicella blend, appreciated for their positive oenological characteristics which for some of them are colour and for others structure and peculiar notes to the nose.
Corbina
Variety diffused in the whole of Veneto since ancient times, it is part of the Corbine group, also known as Corbinona or Corbinella. In the 4th volume of the Ampelographic Bulletin (1884–87) there is an evaluation of the diffusion in Italy of the varieties whose names come from the dark colour of their skins. In the chapter about Veneto it is written that: "Veneto. Black Corvia or Refosco is reported in Vicenza, Padova; Corbinella in Verona; Crovaja in Vicenza; Corbinone in Verona. There might be some similarities between Croà and Corbina of Verona. The wines obtained from Corbina and Crovino were presented in 1865 at the Fair in Turin, in Ferrara in 1875, in Vicenza in 1876, in Verona in 1876, at the Gianduja Fair in Torino in 1877. It can be said that Corbina, or Crovino, is among the best and most important grape varieties of Veneto, that they are located here and here they are to be studied";
Variety subject of our studies. It shows a moderate vigour and a non-high production, above all if cultivated in the hills. Suitable for long pruning;
Low susceptibility to the main cryptogams, Botrytis in particular;
Great olfactory impact, with hints of citrus and balsamic and flowery notes; to the taste it has very good structure and softness. Wine with high oenological potential, whose characteristics are suitable for long ageing wines like Amarone della Valpolicella;
High concentration of total tannins whose soft fraction is largely predominant on the astringent one; good polymerization index which results in stability and longevity of the polyphenols.
Native variety; the first hints of its cultivation in Valpolicella date back to 1824 by Pollini;
Variety with a good vigour and regular production. Low fertility basal buds; long pruning and expanded training systems (pergola) suit it better;
Good resistance to winter cold; sensitive to downy mildew, Botrytis, powdery mildew and acid rot;
It presents flowery and fruity notes with slight hints of pansy and blackberry; spicy, light herbaceous hints; to the taste it denotes a light astringency and a high acidity, due to the height of the vineyards and to its incomplete malolactic fermentation;
Limited content of polyphenols and total tannins; low tannic fraction which does not reveal a particular softness and astringency.
Spigamonte
Variety to be found in a locality called Spigamonte (Negrar), in a vineyard located at 500 metres of altitude; pergola training system;
Variety subject of our studies; average vigour with a regular but not rich production;
It does not show any particular sensitiveness to pathogens;
To the nose intense flowery and spicy notes and dried fruits hints; its remarkable structure is appreciable to the taste, modulated by a very good tannic texture which gives body and high softness to the wine. These characteristics demonstrate above all the suitability of the grapes for drying and the longevity of the wine which is for this reason apt to produce Amarone della Valpolicella;
Great polyphenolic framework, with a noticeable percentage of antocyanins and a high quantity of total tannins; the latter are characterised by an outstanding softness and a good polymerization index that make them suitable for ageing.
Turchetta
In the past this variety was rather diffused, so that Cosmo (1964) reports that "it was cultivated in the Polesine and in the province of Verona as well as in other provinces of Veneto". In the Ampelographic Bulletin (1884–87, 4th volume) under the entry "Name of varieties cultivated in the province of Rovigo" we find Turchetta, enumerated in 23 municipalities of the province and Calma Turchetta, listed in 17 municipalities of the province. Before that, Pollini had pointed out V. Turchetta at number 52 in a record in which he reports the varieties found in the province of Verona on the basis of some observations made between 1818 and 1823. In the same province, in 1900, Perez seems to have mentioned Turchetta among the varieties of vines cultivated in the 9th area of the lower Veronese plain;
Being the subject of our studies, Turchetta is a variety with average vigour and good, but not rich, production; very suitable to short types of pruning;
It resists rather good downy mildew and other cryptogames; it is not easily rotten;
To the nose it expresses a good vinosity which reveals notes of raspberry and pepper; to the taste it is rather soft and of great elegance. The complexity of its elegant but not invasive organoleptic characteristics make it suitable to improve the typology of Valpolicella Classico and Superiore;
Good quantity of total tannins which have a high grade of polymerization, fairly good softness and low astringency.
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This blog continues the discussion that we began with Epic Journey: The 2008 Elections and American Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009).The latest book in this series is Defying the Odds: the 2016 Elections and American Politics.
New book about the 2016 election.
Trump and Sanders
Trump and Sanders represent different forms of outsiderism. Despite obvious differences, they have other things in common, too. Both have third-party backgrounds. Both make great TV. And there is more.
Opposition to limited government? Check. Rich Lowry writes at Politico:
If the grass-roots movement that Sanders has built will pressure Democrats all the way to the Philadelphia convention and beyond, Trump has arguably done more to pull the country’s politics leftward. He has, for now, managed to do what the Democrats and the media have been attempting for most of the Obama era: to kill off the tea party as a national force.
By dividing it, eclipsing it and making its animating concerns of limited government and constitutionalism into after-thoughts, Trump has neutered a heretofore potent vehicle against Big Government. With or without Sanders, the Democrats were going to drift in a more progressive direction. It was far from inevitable, though, that the Republican Party would de-emphasize its opposition to growth in the size of government. That is entirely the doing of Trump.
Disorder, conspiracy theory? Check. From The Washington Post editors:
Mr. Sanders’s irresponsibility is sadly unsurprising. He has stirred up populist energy over the past several months with anti-corporate scapegoating and extravagant claims about policy. He has indulged and encouraged hyperbolic feelings that the country is badly adrift, that most of the nation agrees with a left-wing agenda but is trapped in a corrupt system, and that nothing but a political revolution will do. He has attracted some big, passionate crowds. But as he has lagged in votes, he increasingly has questioned the legitimacy of the process and encouraged his supporters to feel disenfranchised. The result is a toxic mix of unreason, revolutionary fervor and perceived grievance.
What is particularly galling about the Sanders camp’s complaints of disenfranchisement is that Mr. Sanders has benefited or tried to benefit from a variety of sketchy quirks of the nominating process. He has claimed support for his cause in caucuses, which are quite exclusive, but he complains about closed primary elections, which are more inclusive. In Nevada, his supporters were trying to game the rules to get more delegates and got upset when they did not succeed. As veteran Nevada politics reporter Jon Ralston put it, “Despite their social media frothing and self-righteous screeds, the facts reveal that the Sanders folks disregarded rules, then when shown the truth, attacked organizers and party officials as tools of a conspiracy to defraud the senator of what was never rightfully his in the first place.”
Knowledge gaps? Fantastic policies? Check. From the Tax Policy Center:
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders proposes significant tax increases that would raise $15.3 trillion over the next decade. All income groups would pay more tax, but most would come from high-income households, particularly those with very high incomes. Sanders would also implement new government benefits—notably government-financed single-payer health care, long-term services and supports, college, and family leave benefits—and expand Social Security benefits. TPC finds the new government benefits would more than offset new taxes for 95% of households but the combined tax and transfer plan would increase federal budget deficits by more than $18 trillion over the next decade.
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The jokes made on blondes explore the dumb side of their nature. Read on to get some short & funny blonde jokes & Humor.
Fundoo Times : Jokes : Blonde Jokes
Blondes are often considered dumb and arrogant by people and for this reason only, have been made a part of a good chunk of jokes. Blonde jokes basically have a set pattern. Usually, they have a blonde placing herself in such a situation or making such a comment that serves to highlight her 'supposed' lack of intelligence. However, blonde jokes contain light-hearted humor and are not meant to be offensive. In the following lines, we have listed a number of short and funny blonde jokes.
Alice (a blonde) was sitting with her boyfriend. They both were watching the 9 o'clock news, where a man was shown threatening to jump from the Twin-Towers. The excited blonde bet her boyfriend $50 that the person wouldn't jump. Her boyfriend amusingly accepted the bet.
After sometime?.the person jumped, so the blonde gave her boyfriend the $50 she owned. Her boyfriend replied, "I can't take this, you're my girlfriend." The blonde said, "No. A bet's a bet."
The surprised boyfriend replied, "Listen, I have to admit, I saw this one on the 5 o'clock news, so I can't take your money."
The blonde replied, "Well, so did I, but I never thought he'd jump again!"
There were four blondes in jungle. When they were returning, they came across a set of tracks.
Amazed with the track, the first blonde opined that, "The track must be of donkeys."
The second blonde said, "No, those are deer tracks."
The third blonde said, "You're both wrong, those are monkey tracks."
The fourth blonde saw them all arguing and the coming train hitting them head to toe.
She was still confused 'what kind of tracks were these'?
A blonde, on the verge of bankruptcy, sees God as the only hope.
She prays to God for help - "God, please help me. I've lost my business and I need some money, I'm going to lose my house as well. Please let me win the Lottery."
Lotto night comes and goes, and somebody else wins it.
The desperate blonde prays again - "God, please let me win the Lottery! I've lost my business, my house and now, I'm going to lose my car as well."
This time too, she was unlucky, and someone else won the Lottery.
She again prayed - "My God, why have you forsaken me? I've lost my business, my house, and my car. I have always been a good servant to you. Please let me win the Lottery just this one time so I can save the life of my kids.
Suddenly, there was a flash of light and there emerged the God.
God said to amazed blonde, "Sweetheart, please work with me on this. Go and ... Buy a ticket"
An Atlantis Air plane was carrying blondes to New York. The plane, so far, had covered two hours' journey.
Suddenly, the pilot got on the intercom and said, "We just lost an engine, but it is all right we have three more. However, it will take us an hour longer."
A half hour later, the pilots again got on the intercom said, "We just lost another engine, but we have two more. It will take us another half hour though.
One of the most puzzled blonde said, "If we lose the two last engines, we will be up here all day."
There were three persons - a blonde a brunette and a redhead. They all were running from the cops. They hid on a potato farm, crawling into some potato bags. The first cop poked the bag with the brunette in it. She said, "Meow." The cop felt that it is just a cat. The second cop poked the bag with the redhead in it. She said, "Woof." The cop believed it to be a dog. The third cop poked the bag with the blonde in it. She said in her sweetest voice, "Potato."
A blonde was waiting at a cross walk for the light to change. She was puzzled as she had to wait quite a lot. She wearingly asked, "Why the signal was buzzing." A person nearby told her that it was to let blind people know when the light was red. She angrily, asked, "What in the world are blind people doing driving?"
A blonde, who could not get proper sleep for weeks, went to the doctor's office. "Doctor, there are dogs all over my neighborhood. They bark all day and all night, and I can't get a wink of sleep."
Doctor was happy as he wanted to test new medicines on sleeping disorder and she seemed as the right person for that.
He said, "I have good news for you", showing a drawer full of sample medications, "Here are some new sleeping pills that work like a dream. A few of these and your trouble will be over."
"Amazing," the blond answered, "I'll try anything. Let's give it a shot."
A few days passed. The doctor was happy that his medication was working well on the blonde.
After a week, the blond returned, looking worse than ever. "Doc, your plan is no good. I'm more tired than before!"
The puzzled doctor said, "I don't understand how that could be", shaking his head, "Those are the strongest pills on the market!"
The blonde replied, "That may be true. But I'm still up all night chasing those dogs and when I finally catch one, it's hard getting him to swallow the pill!"
A blonde was severely in bankruptcy. She needed quick cash. So, she decided to kidnap a child and hold him for ransom.
She went to the local school at break time, grabbed a kid randomly, took her behind a building, and told her, "I've kidnapped you."
On the kidnapping note, she wrote, "I've kidnapped your kid. Tomorrow morning, put $100,000 in a paper bag and leave it near the school building. Signed, A blonde."
The blonde then pinned the note to the kid's shirt and sent him home to show it to his parents. The day passed and she went to the school building, where she had asked for money delivery. A paper bag was lying there, on the ground.
The blonde looked in the bag and found the $100,000, with a note that said, "How could you do this to a fellow blonde?"
A blonde named Celia went to a doctor, with two badly burned ears for treatment. The doctor asked, "What happened"
The blonde said, "Well, my husband was ironing while I was watching the ballgame on TV. He put the hot iron near the telephone and when the phone rang, I answered the iron."
The doctor nodded, "But what happened to the other ear?"
"Well, no sooner had I hung up," said the blonde, "that the phone rang again."
Robert, a police officer, stops a blonde for over-speeding and asks her very politely if he could see her license. She wearily replies, "I wish you guys could get your act together. Yesterday, you take away my license and today, you expect me to show it to you."
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Home Entertainment Sunil Grover reveals how he overcame pessimistic phase in his career
Sunil Grover reveals how he overcame pessimistic phase in his career
Actor-comedian Sunil Grover, who became a household name as “Gutthi” on “Comedy Nights with Kapil”, says he is glad to have overcome the pessimistic phase in his career when he used to worry about the prospects of his TV shows. Grover is back on the small screen after a gap of more than a year with a cricket-comedy show called “Jio Dhan Dhana Dhan Live”, which airs alongside the Indian Premiere League (IPL).
Earlier in 2014, after his feud with colleague Kapil Sharma on “Comedy Nights…”, Grover had started his own comedy show “Mad In India”, which eventually failed to attain popularity.
He reunited with Kapil for his new offering, “The Kapil Sharma Show” as Dr Mashoor Gulati.
Post his mid-air tussle last year with Kapil, the actor says he is returning with renewed energy, leaving behind his long struggle with all sorts of the anxieties.
“I used to have the pressure of making my next show better than the previous one. I don’t know how to make hit or flop shows, I don’t know its mechanism,” Grover told PTI in an interview.
The actor says he understood that if one works with 100 per cent dedication towards an idea, the project develops a “soul”.
“Now, I don’t worry about how people will receive a show, or not. I don’t want to get anxious because of that. I used to be anxious earlier, like failure of a show or thinking about something that hasn’t happened. (I figured) That’s useless. I would rather focus on doing my job,” he adds.
Excited about working on a full-fledged show after his exit from “The Kapil Sharma Show” in 2017, Grover says the year ahead looks promising as he has multiple projects lined up.
“I am now part of this show. I am doing a regular project after a long time, so I am excited about it. I will be working almost every day, which is a happy, nice feeling… I am also working on some other things also, which will come in the later part of the year,” he said.
Despite enjoying the popularity as an artiste with an impeccable comic timing, the actor does not refer to himself as a comedian but likes being called an actor who “creates caricatures”.
“I don’t know comedy. I believe comedy is something that’s gifted to people. I am an actor, who makes caricatures out of characters. I am trying to learn various kinds of genres within comedy. The objective is to make people laugh but people should also get to watch new things,” he said.
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Joseph Plaskett (born 12 July 1918 in New Westminster, British Columbia), mainly known as Joe Plaskett, is a Canadian painter.
He studied with many prominent Canadian painters like A.Y. Jackson, Jack Shadbolt, Lawren Harris and Jock Macdonald. Joe Plaskett was a pupil of Hans Hofmann in New York and Provincetown in 1947 and 1948. In 1950, he arrived in Paris where he studied with Fernand Léger, and Jean Lombard, etching and engraving with Stanley William Hayter.
He taught intermittently in Canada until 1957. After that date he settled definitely in Paris where his studio became an informal salon for Canadian painters, writers, poets and filmmakers, interfacing with artists from other countries. In the Spring of 2001, he received the Order of Canada for his excellence in the field of visual art. He was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
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The broken record of Obamanomics
For those of you who are too young to know what a broken record is, let me explain. Before there were mp3 files, and even before there were compact discs, cassette tapes, and 8-track tapes, there were vinyl records. These plastic discs had grooves cut into them that served as memory. Actually, a record had one long spiral groove running from its outer edge to its center. By rotating a record under a diamond needle, this memory would be transmitted through the record player and out of speakers. Sometimes, the grooves in the record would become damaged so that the needle would stop following the groove in toward the center of the record and, instead, simply go around and around over the same part of the groove, repeating the same snippet of music until you gave the record player a light smack.
With that in mind, Byron York has a collection of the Obama administrations responses to the dismal job numbers (96,000 net jobs and 368,000 more discouraged workers), each of which reminds us that we should not "read too much into any one monthly report." The administration is silent, however, on whether it is okay to read something into years of these alarmingly similar reports.
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In spring, when Two Trees began the process of permit acquisition for its planned redevelopment of the historic Domino Sugar Factory on the South Williamsburg waterfront, brothers Jed and David Walentas promised to keep the local community informed as construction moved forward.
On Monday, October 6, representatives of Los Sures and Churches United for Fair Housing made sure everyone in the packed auditorium of the Transfiguration Church at 263 Marcy Avenue knew they were keeping that promise.
Jed Walentas was joined by Ramon Peguero of Los Sures and Rob Solano of CUFFH, the two local organizations that have worked most closely with the company to ensure community involvement in the planning stages of the long-term project.
As with many contemporary developments around the city, the most pronounced concern of local residents centered on how many units of affordable housing the project would add to the community. Earlier this year, Two Trees had promised 600 units, but at the informational meeting, Walentas said room had been made available for as many as 700 affordable housing units.
Walentas stressed that market-rate and affordable housing units would be fully integrated.
“There will be no difference between the market rate units and the non-market rate apartments,” Walentas said. “There will be no separate entrances.”
Organizing director Debbie Medina said Los Sures and CUFFH are planning to roll out comprehensive programming to ensure that as many South Williamsburg residents as possible are fully qualified in time for the lotteries for each of the project's individual buildings as they open.
“We are doing something that we haven't done in our community to make sure when you fill out your application for these apartments you are prepared and you qualify,” she said. “We're going to make sure that our people qualify when they apply for these apartments.”
To highlight the need for full preparation when applying for affordable housing units, Solano shared a “horror story” of a prospective tenant CUFFH had helped navigate through an eight-month application process. The man had signed his lease and been given his keys, and he began to talk his aspirations, including his plan to propose to his girlfriend. Unfortunately, his pontification proved perilous.
“He openly admitted [to his interviewer that] he was going to add another member to his family so they took away his keys, his lease, and his apartment. The bad news is she said 'no' anyways,” Solano said. “So before you get to that point you want to make sure you understand your credit and your family signs.”
Construction is scheduled to begin on the first of the residential towers in January 2015, and Walentas estimated that the lottery for the 105 affordable housing units in that section of the development will open sometime late next year, with construction wrapping up near the end of 2016.
The full site development timetable is closer to ten years, and in the end Walentas said he didn't see why most of the tenants in the affordable housing units shouldn't come from the neighborhood.
Support for comprehensive integration of existing low-income residents into the new towers was strong amongst the mostly local audience at the meeting, but special needs teacher Lorraine Inniss, who lives in Bed-Stuy and teaches in Crown Heights, wasn't so keen on the locals-only approach to affordable housing allocation.
“I've been in the lottery for a long time, and I recently came up for an artist space, but that is to buy, and I want to rent,” Inniss said. “Besides, I would rather live in Brooklyn.”
Work on the waterfront park across Kent Avenue from the residential section of the development is also set to begin at the start of the new year, at which point interim activities such as the bicycle path and community gardens will be moved across Kent Avenue.
The new park space will eventually feature several industrial elements of the Domino Sugar Factory in order to pay homage to the landmark that the Two Trees development is replacing.
As yet, Two Trees and the city have yet to finalize how many bedrooms each affordable unit in the development will have, though Walentas believes that by the next community meeting on October 21, that information should be available.
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All young people need to be in school and feel safe there in order to learn. That’s why we’re committed to building safe and welcoming schools where students are free from bullying, harassment, discrimination and harsh discipline policies.
As we forge ahead in this important work, we’re using two new resources to advocate for inclusive and effective school policies:
Model School Code
The Dignity in Schools Campaign’s Model Code on Education and Dignity presents a set of recommended policies to schools, districts and legislators to help end school pushout and protect the human rights of education, dignity, participation and freedom from discrimination. The Code is the culmination of several years of research and dialogue with students, parents, educators, advocates and researchers who came together to envision a school system that supports all young people in reaching their full potential.
A recently revised version of the Model Code is now available and includes new sections on:
social and emotional learning;
prevention and response to bullying behavior;
reducing tickets and summonses issued in school;
reducing racial disparities in discipline through culturally responsive classroom management; and
creating safe schools for LGBTQ students.
Just click here to download this resource!
Restorative Justice Toolkit
A new, innovative tool designed to help improve school climate and reduce racial disparities in school discipline. This toolkit was jointly released by Advancement Project, the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association and the National Opportunity to Learn Campaign. The toolkit focuses on strategies to build healthy relationships between students and adults in educational settings. This approach allows students and individuals to learn from their mistakes and make amends for wrongdoing. The “restorative practices” model includes addressing and discussing the needs of the school community, resolving conflict, holding individuals and groups accountable, repairing and restoring relationships, and reducing and preventing harmful behavior. Click here to download this resource!
Data on Suspensions
Overuse of out-of-school suspension is one of the key drivers of school pushout of minority students. It is one practice among many that make it more likely for students — especially LGBTQ students, students of color, immigrant students, and students with disabilities — to leave school instead of finish it.
Want to know the suspension rates for students by school district in your area? Check out School Discipline Data from The Center for Civil Rights Remedies (CCRR).
This useful tool quickly sorts through data on more than 26,000 U.S. schools and approximately 7,000 districts to present the reader with clear yet detailed graphs based on the analysis published in two recent CCRR reports — Opportunities Suspended: The Disparate Impact of Disciplinary Exclusion from School and Out of School & Off Track: The Overuse of Suspensions in American Middle and High Schools.
A joint initiative of the federal Departments of Justice and Education released a long-awaited guidance package on school discipline. According to a joint statement the guidance will “will assist states, districts and schools in developing practices and strategies to enhance school climate, and ensure those policies and practices comply with federal law.”
The guidance includes the following:
Unpublished 2011-12 CRDC data that reveals that stark racial disparities persist in the administration of school discipline.
Disciplinary actions that will trigger heightened scrutiny from DOE/DOJ when they result in racial disparities.
The legal framework within which the Departments will consider allegations of racially discriminatory discipline practices.
Examples of remedies to redress violations of racial discrimination.
Best practice recommendations for school districts, administrators, teachers, and staff.
Click here to download the guidance package. Dignity in Schools also hosted a webinar explaining the new guidance and it can be downloaded here.
The release of this guidance package is a major step forward in dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline. It is the federal government’s strongest acknowledgement yet of the pervasiveness and impact of the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Of course, this is a result of years of work by students, parents and other advocates who have demanded that policy makers address the problem.
While the guidance package is a victory in its own right, it also creates an opportunity to strengthen our current efforts. If you want to dismantle the school to prison pipeline in your school, either as a student or teacher/parent, get in contact with us so we can connect you to our local efforts and the work of our state and national partners!
Thanks to Dignity in Schools, Advancement Project, Equality Federation, and GSA Network for the information listed here.
To learn more about school to prison pipeline efforts in Georgia, check out these local organizations:
Gwinnett SToPP, Atlanta Community Engagement Team, Interfaith Children’s Movement, ACLU of Georgia
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Review: AVICII Invector
Posted by Dan Laframboise | Dec 6, 2019 | 0 |
“Life is a game made for everyone.”
Title: AVICII Invector
Platform: Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4 and Xbox One (reviewed)
Developer: Hello There Games
Publisher: Wired Productions
Release date: December 10th 2019
tl;dr: Homage to a respected DJ
Price: £17.99 / $19,99
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Invector is a rhythm developed by Hello There Games which is currently available for Sony’s PS4. In order to celebrate the life of Swedish DJ AVICII, real name Tim Bergling, Hello There Games and Wired Productions teamed up for this enhanced version of the PS4 game which will be an homage to the DJ who unfortunately past away from suicide in April 2018. The game will be re-branded as AVICII Invector on PS4 while the game will make its debut on Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One. A portion of the game’s royalties will go directly to The Tim Bergling Foundation which advocates for the recognition of suicide as a global health emergency and removing the stigma attached to mental health issues.
Unlike most rhythm games, AVICII Invector features a story mode with a pretty thin story. The game has players in the shoes of space pilot Stella as she journeys from one world to another as players clear tracks and unlock the next one. While it is a nice addition, rhythm games don’t really need one as they live and breath on gameplay. Had they made a story similar to Rock Band where you climb the charts/ranks of the music world, it would’ve made the story a bit more interesting and fun to actually care about it.
Like rhythm games, AVICII Invector features a unique gameplay mechanic. As our space traveler, you’ll fly on rails coming across button prompts to press; it is similar to Amplitude or Frequency, but unlike Harmonix’s creations, there’s more than 3 buttons to press. When you’re in the “tunnel”, similar to the PS2’s Frequency, you’ll have to quickly press the button lining up on screen to boost your combo. In this case, arrows count as well, so if you want to switch walls and you press to early or too late, you’ll lose your combo.
The game has three difficulty settings: Easy, Normal and Hard. Obviously, the higher you go, the harder it becomes as you have more buttons to press and the speed of the game will increase. If you’ve played similar games in the past, Normal difficulty is the way to go despite the complexity displayed due to more buttons being used. While Easy mode is a great way for newcomers to the genre, it does ramp up pretty quick. Even at Easy, late in the first world, the game introduces an additional button to press, on top of the first 3 (not counting the d-pad arrows).
One of the game’s most interesting features is that in between “on rails” tunnel sequences, you get to fly freely; however, to keep your combo intact, you need to fly perfectly through some rings. I do believe this is a nice twist on the formula as it brings an interesting twist, but sometimes it can be a bit difficult to align yourself properly. If you feel that the game doesn’t challenge you enough, rank up a decent combo and you’ll have the ability to boost, making you go faster. It’s pretty cool in between on-rails sequences, but using it in the tunnel will require fast(er) dexterity.
While I do enjoy the game and genre, not everything is perfect. The lack of a proper tutorial is a little frustrating as newcomers to the genre might find it daunting and frustrating without a proper introduction to the genre. Thankfully, while the difficulty ramps up quite fast, if you find yourself struggling during a song no matter the difficulty, the game slows down a bit and brings you closer to the tracks.
Another nuisance of the game, the story development. In between songs you’ll be treated to hand drawn cutscenes with Stella as she reaches new planets and experiences troubles with her vessel, but instead of making it enjoyable, it’s just a cringe fest of a character throwing a hissy fit about not wanting to go home. Thankfully, those can be skipped, but I think they completely missed the boat if they wanted to introduce a decent , more relatable and immersive story.
AVICII Invector’s presentation is one of the best experiences of 2019; visually and aurally. The game is colorful and visually impressive; they made the space jet very basic so players can not only focus on the button prompts, but also enjoy the visual and joyfulness on screen. On the sound of things, the game features 25 of AVICII’s best EDM work. While I was not a fan of his, I can appreciate his work and enjoy it as I furiously tap on the controller. While I can understand this is an homage to AVICII, maybe adding a few additional tracks from artists who participated in the benefit concert or known associates to the DJ would’ve been a nice bonus.
AVICCI Invector is one the year’s best experience. Despite its lack of tutorial and utterly useless story, it offers a mesmerizing and capitvating experience where you’ll always tell yourself “one more song”. If you’re looking for a trippy and relaxing experience, you’ll be pleased with this one. Besides the money will also go to a good cause.
Visually impressive
Great soundtrack
Addictive gameplay
Limited soundtrack
Throwaway useless story
Lack of proper tutorial might turn off newcomers
AVICII Invector is rated T for teen and PEGI3 due to the presence of mild language in some of the songs.
This review is based on a review copy of the game provided by the publisher
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JohnWillow
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Re: My Little Pony
Wooh...what a rush
I just knew there'd be giant flashes of light somewhere in this episode.
I hope you fellers don't dogpile me and chain me to a sinking ship but I don't think Twilight suits having wings, they make her kind of funny looking.
I can't mind her name but did anyone notice the OC with blue hair and glasses
Spike - "Seriously, a talking Dog is the weird thing about all this"
Me - "Not at all, the fact that you're a dog and not a lizard is much weirder"
IceKitsune
JohnWillow Wrote:
Her name is Vinyl Scratch and she isn't really an OC she is just an incidental background pony that they use to fill up space that happened to get really popular after her first appearance because she looked cool.
Kyderra
notice the OC with blue hair and glasses
OC with blue hair
"Why would you ever want to connect the dots?"
Penwrite
Location: Canterlot
Kyderra, you have me on the floor laughing.
Anyway, after several listenings to all the songs from the episode, I have decided that Celestia's Ballad is my favorite. It's mystical, elegant, and beautiful.
I noticed the Art of the Dress quote but I didn't notice Winter Wrap Up!
And Vinyl Scratch might as well be an OC. 99% of her "personality" is entirely fabricated by the fans.
Not that that's a bad thing. I think it's rather cool fans have, somehow, mutually filled these empty vessels with personalities and quirks that most can agree on.
Even better is that she's a actual person that can make good music.
She is also the Voice in almost all the fan video's.
Though I'm still annoyed that the fandom decided that Vinyl Scratch is a dubstep musician for some reason.
Any time a character does not live up to fan expectations, I blame it on the Changelings.
Dang it, I can't get enough of Celestia's awesome animation during her song.
*puts video on repeat*
KJOokami
Location: West Philly
Same. I like to think of her as a connoisseur of music who just happens to be most well known for electronic/dance (which includes a LOT more than just dubstep) music because her current job calls for more upbeat songs that are good for dancing to.
I also like to think she's got a secret soft spot for jazz and often implements it into her party tracks.
"When you're falling in a forest and there's nobody around,
do you ever really crash or even make a sound?"
I like to think she's the Jaden Yuki of music.
For those who get that, I salute you.
KJOokami Wrote:
I just view her as a DJ who predominantly plays pop and upbeat dance music. Because that's what she is in the show. While I'm sure she plays more than just that, there's absolutely no reason to make dubstep her "thing" other than smelly nerds with an extremely narrow taste in music inserting their favorite genre du jour into the speculated characterization of someone else's creation.
Got some time to see the final episode. I found it awesome seeing everyone in different roles <3
And lots of singing... sooooo much singing. Nothing wrong with that, but it somehow reminded me of that Final Fantasy Opera.
So in the extended interviews for the Bony Documentary it turns out that Laurens original plans for Twilight was to have her be Celestias successor. I now want every single person who is still mad about Twilicorn to shut up. While she very likely didn't want her to become an Alicorn, THIS IS LIKE 90% SAME THING! Every member of this fandom that has complained that what happened was not what Lauren wanted therefore its terrible and ruins the show now have absolutely no leg to stand on. She would have done it anyway. The months of anger and hate and mud slinging at Hasbro and the writers was all for absolutely nothing.
IceKitsune Wrote:
Well said IceKit.
I wonder if Twilight's powers will get a boost, and what is she princess of
Its very likely they did get a boost and as for what she is the princess of I would guess Magic, but Friendship is also a very very likely possibility.
My bet is punk.
*smacked*
Macsen
Location: Orlando, FL USA
Kyderra Wrote:
So.... awesome. /)^3^(\
So I was listening to Celestia's Ballad for, I don't know, the 12th time or something, and a question occurred to me.
What, exactly, was Star Swirl's spell supposed to do?
Penwrite Wrote:
Giving what finishing it did its likely the writers were trying to imply that Star Swirl wanted to become an Alicorn by messing with Cutie Marks and Destiny.
Huh. You know, the more we learn the more Star Swirl sounds kinda evil.
Even if I'm right that doesn't exactly sound evil to me. It sounds like someone who wanted to try and do something that had never been done before and just messed up. Remember considering that there was no counter spell to its effect (and it wasn't finished) he never cast it. Calling him evil because his unfinished spell had an unknown and undesired effect is like all the people that portray Celestia as a secret evil tyrant who manipulates everyone for her own ends. (Which by the way I for the life of me still don't get this portrayal of her)
I just view her as a DJ who predominantly plays pop and upbeat dance music. Because that's what she is in the show.
To me, that seems just as bad, but on the opposite end of the spectrum. :B I mean, the whole reason these background characters are even characters is because someone saw fit to point them out, name them, and give them basic personalities based around what little we've seen of them. It's only natural to want to expound on that basic personality in order to make the character interesting.
So while I agree the whole "DJ = dubstep fanatic" thing is lame, I can't say I find limiting a character with so little canonical presence to "canon" to be all that interesting either. :/
Even if I'm right that doesn't exactly sound evil to me. It sounds like someone who wanted to try and do something that had never been done before and just messed up.
While not inherently evil, per se, it does sound remarkably similar to the beginnings of several classic villains: tampering with powers beyond one's comprehension in order to attain power.
Even if his intentions were good (which I have no particular reason to doubt, but still), that sort of thing often has a tendency to corrupt even the best of people--or ponies, as the case may be. That added to Celestia's statement that he "didn't understand friendship" the way Twilight does (a round-about way of saying he didn't have friends at all?) could very easily be taken to mean that Twilight not only completed what Starswirl could not, but also avoided the same fate that befell him.
Entirely speculation, obviously, but it really isn't that much of a stretch.
I got it. Star Swirl shaved his beard and renamed himself Sombra.
Kidding. But anyway, perhaps people go with dubstep for Vinyl because it makes for some funny shenanigans with Octavia?
Hm, for that matter, I wonder who first paired Vinyl and Octavia together as friends. That's an awesome bit of fandom there.
I think it is because dubstep sounds like what most people think would happen if a hoofed creature tried to manipulate a mixing board.
I'm not saying we shouldn't be allowed to characterize background characters, I just think we should try to extrapolate from what we know about the character rather than project our own musical tastes onto them.
Hehe. That's a good answer.
Well the .MOV series is finished SWAG.MOV was ok and I liked the ending with Applejack and no one caring about her adventures at all. Over all however they are really overrated IMO even APPLE.MOV.
There are some neat freeze frame things in it as well If you are Homestuck fan or a GameGrumps fan one of the crowd shots have some ponies for you.
exranio
Well the dubstep is is associated with Vinyl because of when the episode started. 2 years ago is pretty much when dubstep was being like the the biggest thing in electronic music. So since that was like the big thing of electronic that's what she became associated with.
That aside, I finished this
So check out my Deviant art http://exranion.deviantart.com/ It has ponies, furries, and the link to my tumblr!
RandomGeekNamedBrent
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Location: an invisible, flying volcano over Virginia
I wanted a tearful reuinion between Jappleack and Applebloom, considering Applebloom was dead in the timeline that she remembered.
but I guess that would have gone against the tone of the series.
also, if you didn't know but were interested in what happened to Jappleack, It all happened in the tumblr ask-jappleack. no link for reasons that should be obvious if you watch the series.
Paradigm Shift by me
I do not actually believe any of what I'm saying.
RP character sheets
RandomGeekNamedBrent Wrote:
Well the Tumblr isn't finished so hes going to wrap it up and do that stuff there.
to be fair, he hadn't posted the thing implying it wasn't done when I made my post. but I figured he might do that.
Swag.MOV was pretty good by recent .MOV standards. It's kinda stretched too far from what made Apple.MOV good but at least it wasn't cringe-worthy.
And I loved the Homestuck ponies!
So with another Hiatus on us anyone have any fanfics they are going to read to fill the time? What about Pony Games you might be interested in? Personally I've been playing Minty Fresh Adventure lately, its a really good little Metroidvania which you should play if you haven't yet.
I have a bunch of fics saved in my favorites bar. Eight of them to be exact. (Although one of them is actually one that I'm pre-reading.)
If anyone would like a suggestion for a fic to read that they know will actually be well written from the beginning, I can give you one or two to check out.
Otherwise I'm not really doing much between the seasons.
Between seasons I'll be doing pretty much what I've been doing during S3. Reading fanfics I never got around to before, doing VA work for any pony projects I can get myself into, and hopefully doing some more recording. I think I wanna try doing more parody work since I actually had a lot of fun with the parody I made of So Many Wonders however-many-months-back.
Also, my Ultimate Pony Showdown vid, in addition to being far and away the most popular upload on my Youtube channel, has also apparently been put into Everfree Radio's lineup recently. I got a comment a couple weeks ago of someone saying they heard it while listening, and I just got a couple more comments in the last two days saying the same. So since Penwrite was the one who came up with the idea and gave me the lyrics, I thought it would be appropriate to let him know that his work is appreciated. :3
well, I'll just be doing my normal thing. I can go a little while without new pony.
also, now I really wish I'd been able to find someone to record the instruments for our collab, KJ. now I really wish I could find an instrumentalist and a new singer. :/
on an unrelated note, There's apparently a pony hypnosis thing, where you listen to a guy hypnotizing you into thinking you're a pony (while still being semi-aware that you are not, in fact, a pony). I tried it and it was helping me relax (not quite to being a pony). then Youtube decided it needed buffering and broke the rhythm of the hypnosis :/
*squees and flails around in happiness*
This makes me want to do some more songs like that.
I'm always skeptical of those audio hypnosis things. It seems kinda silly.
I generally don't do much with MLP during the off-season. I'm a fan of the show more than the fandom, so I just occupy my time with other things.
Crystal Heart Spell Mini Book This looks interesting. Its the first glimpse into Alicorn Twilight and how Cadance became an Alicorn. I want to see this one and I wonder if its going to be canon to the show it sounds like it would be. People are speculating that this is in fact a condensed version of the Season 4 premiere, which considering its a direct continuation of the season 3 finale it is very possible. If that is the case then season 4 might not be as far off as we think.
Edit: Given what was said at the writers room at the Convention Its a pretty good bet that this book is in fact a condensed version of the opener for season 4 Writers Room Panel Perhaps an older version of the script though.
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Short Story Vending Machine
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It would be great to be able to get one of these short story vending machines here at Hancock International College for our ESL students! Here is an interesting read for our international students about how “UK University Installs Free ‘Vending Machines’ to Dispense Tiny Short Stories Printed on Eco-Friendly Paper” from the Good News Network.
Goodnewsnetwork.org says, “This university has become the first in the United Kingdom to install vending machines that are designed to dispense free short stories for students to read on campus—and any writer will soon be able to submit their own prose.
The machines on the campus of the University of Lincoln print out tiny works of literature that are dispensed after someone chooses how long they want to be reading— one, three, or five minutes—all at the touch of a button. Students will be able to read on a whim anything from crime to contemporary fiction, including authors like Virginia Woolf, Lewis Carroll and Charles Dickens. The machines also contain an exclusive story written by British author Anthony Horowitz—a whodunnit called ‘Mrs. Robinson’ that was designed to be read in less than a minute.
The stories are delivered randomly from a database of 100,000 titles on a receipt-sized scroll of eco-friendly paper using heat transfer instead of ink. Ian Snowley, Dean of Student Learning Development and University Librarian said: ‘Not only will the new machines offer the opportunity to access stories at seemingly unexpected spots around campus to encourage people to engage more with reading, but we also hope that it will encourage students, staff, and people across the city to become published authors by submitting their own work.’
The machines are made by French publishing company Short Édition and were previously installed at London’s Canary Wharf following success in France and Hong Kong. Later in the year, students and the public will be able to submit their own stories for possible inclusion in Short Édition’s repertoire of over 9,000 authors.
Professor Mary Stuart, the University’s Vice Chancellor, said: ‘I’m delighted that Lincoln is the first UK university to use this innovative technology to support the development of reading and writing in our university and city communities.’”
Full Article: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/uk-university-installs-free-vending-machines-for-tiny-short-stories/
To read (a book) cover to cover
Meaning: To read the whole entire book meaning every single page
Example: I loved it! I read it cover to cover over the weekend.
Expression of the Day
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Most Jewish British students say they have been targeted for their religion, study finds
JTA – Two-thirds of Jewish British university students believe they have been targeted due to their religion and more than a quarter worry about being the victim of an anti-Semitic attack, a … more
Father of teen accused of JCC bomb threats apologizes to US Jews
JERUSALEM (JTA) – The father of the Israeli-American teenager arrested on suspicion of calling in more than 100 bomb threats to JCCs and Jewish institutions has apologized for his son’s … more
Latin America’s largest synagogue welcomes first female rabbi
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) – Latin America’s largest synagogue, the 2,000-family Congregacao Israelita Paulista in Brazil, has inaugurated its first female rabbi. Some 200 people attended the … more
A visit to Jewish Spain
My husband Ira and I very much enjoyed our recent trip to Spain. It’s amazing how three religions – Judaism, Islam and Christianity – overlap in this nation. A building may have … more
KAREN ASHER | 1/5/17
Uruguay opens $20 million security center fueled by Israeli technology
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) – Uruguay opened a $20 million video surveillance monitoring center near the tourism capital of Punta del Este with major support from Israeli technology. Those on hand … more
American wins International Adult Bible Contest in Jerusalem JTA – Yair Shahak of New York City was one of two winners of the International Adult Bible Contest in Jerusalem. Shahak, 28, … more
Adolf Burger, last of ‘Hitler’s counterfeiters,’ dies at 99
PRAGUE (JTA) – Adolf Burger, a Holocaust survivor who was forced by the Nazis to counterfeit British banknotes during World War II, has died in Prague at 99, his family said. Burger, a … more
WJC’s Lauder praises outgoing U.N. chief for admitting to body’s anti-Israel bias
JTA – World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder praised outgoing United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for publicly admitting that there is an anti-Israel bias at the international … more
Cancer patient finds bone marrow donor following worldwide search
JTA — After a highly publicized search, a Jewish man with a deadly cancer has found a bone marrow donor. On Dec. 6, Adam Krief, a 31-year-old father of three living in Los Angeles, announced … more
Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine
I was hoping for a significant religious encounter in Uman, the central Ukrainian city that on Rosh Hashanah is inundated by thousands of Jewish men who journey to the tziyun hakadosh (holy grave … more
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Rhetorical questions, questionable rhetoric and whimsical observations
about the absurdities of contemporary life
You can tell it's spring in Northern Wisconsin when you see 2 inches of snow on the bags of fertilizer and potting soil in the newly reopened outdoor garden center at Wal-Mart.
Many experts predict this is the year the Cubs will finally win the World Series. But longtime, long-suffering fans are still skeptical. They think a Cubs title is as likely as . . . well . . . as Donald Trump being named Grand Marshall of the Cinco de Mayo parade in Guadalajara.
You're an old-timer if you remember pop machines with bottles, wooden ice-cream spoons and pay toilets.
I'd pay a princely sum to see Larry King, Rush Limbaugh or Hillary Clinton on "Dancing With the Stars."
jimjustsaying's Party Ice-Breaker of the Week: "Say [actual partygoer's name here], did you know that Sweden is so efficient that only 1 % of its garbage ends up in landfills?"
It's Not Only A Dirty Job But Also A Dangerous Job (But Somebody's Got To Do It) Department: With 33 fatalities per 100,000 employees a year, sanitation work is one of the America's deadliest jobs--two to three times as dangerous as being a police office and seven times as dangerous firefighting, Mental Floss magazine reports.
Book Rave of the Month: "Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder," by Gloria Kolb (National Geographic, $24). (Who knew?)
Shouldn't e-mail really be d-mail, as in digital? Or c-mail, as in computer? After all, what isn't electronic these days?
Ever wonder why computer models have such strange, alphabet-soup-sounding names? It's no accident, according to PC World. Complex names (such as 5097B-15iJ Laptop) make it almost impossible to demand that Big Box Store A match the sale price at Big Box Store B and also makes online price comparisons virtually impossible.
Faded Phrases: "Don’t touch that dial," "Give me a carbon copy," and "You sound like a broken record."
Magazine renewal notices that say "Last Chance" really mean that there are five more coming. Maybe more.
Ever wonder why some Red Lobsters aren't participating in whatever it is the rest of the Red Lobsters are participating in?
Lamest sportscaster saying (or, one of them, there are so, so many): "He really came to play!"
Great! Here all along I thought he planned to spend his day or night at the mall or the casino but he decided to come to the park after all." I guess $10 million or more is no longer sufficient motivation for putting forth an effort.
"Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?"-- Comedian Billy Connolly, quoted in The Daily Telegraph (U.K.)
jimjustsaying's Media Word of the Week (a word you see in news or magazine articles but never hear an actual person use in real life): gambit.
One of my main problems with HLN, specifically the "Nancy Grace" and "Dr. Drew " programs: They’re decent half-hour shows that are unfortunately padded out to an hour each! So-so segments go on and on and on, with repetitious clips and commentary.
"When the cost of action and the cost of inaction both feel unaffordable, you have a wicked problem."--Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times on the geopolitical dilemma facing the U.S.
I shudder to think of how much stuff that I (and, in reality, all of us) threw away before recycling came along.
What's wrong with this picture? Women wear makeup and shave their legs and underarms and then tell their husbands or boyfriends to "get real."
I keep reading and hearing more and more about celebrity chefs. So far no celebrity servers, celebrity busboys or celebrity bartenders. That's coming.
Overheard: "I love asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because I am still looking for ideas."
Seventieth Wisconsin Town I Didn't Know Existed Until I Saw It Mentioned in a Green Bay Press-Gazette Obituary: Lake Gogebic, Wis.. (R.I.P., David L. Van Dansel, Green Bay Press-Gazette obituary, Oct. 25, 2015). Previous entries: Athelstane, Walhain, Duck Creek, Breed, Anston, Sobieski, Amberg, Osseo, Angelica, Brazeau, Waukechon, Sugar Camp, Kossuth, Lessor, Kunesh, Pulcifer, Cato, Florence, Greenleaf, Eaton, Poygan, Hofa Park, Hilbert, Hollandtown, Beaufort, Glennie, Harshaw, Bessemer, Crooked Lake, Tigerton, Goodman, Readstown, Dousman, Butternut, Montpelier, Cecil, Red River, Gillet, King, Laona, Kelly Lake, Glenmore, Tonet, Stiles, Morrison, Dunbar, Askeaton, Wild Rose. Neopit, Ellisville, Pickett, Flintville, Forest Junction, Thiry Daems, Black Creek, Mountain, Ledgeview, Lunds, Suring, Lakewood, Beaver, Cloverleaf Lakes, Krakow, Pella, Townsend, Vandenbroek, Coleman, Spruce and Armstrong Creek.
Why do stores with double entry doors almost always have one of them locked?
jimjustsaying's Word of The Week That Doesn't Exist But Should: Telecrastination: n. The act of always letting the phone ring at least twice before you pick it up, even when you're only six inches away. (From "Sniglets," Rich Hall & Friends).
Newspaper Obituary Headline Nickname of the Month: Yuma. As in Robert "Yuma" Thomas, Green Bay Press-Gazette, March 8, 2016. R.I.P., Mr. Thomas.
Today's Latin Lesson: Is dico may exsisto recorded pro palaestra voluntas. ("This call may be recorded for training purposes.")
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BASEBALL'S BACK SPECIAL
Credibility strikes out
What do Scott Coolbaugh, Tim Hyers and Dave Hudgens have in common? They are all hitting coaches for various 2018 major-league teams. What are their lifetime batting averages? That would be .215, .217 and .143 respectively.
Now, what do Ty Van Burkleo, James Rowson, Darren Bush, Anthony Iapoce, Don Long, Duane Espy, John Mallee and Pat Roessler have in common? They, too, are the hitting coaches for various 2018 major-league teams? What else do they have in common? None of them have ever batted in a major-league game.
Is it any wonder that strikeouts are way up, game times are getting longer every season, and last year's total attendance dipped below 73 million for the first time since 2002? According to Scott Miller, an MLB columnist, 31 percent of all plate appearances last season ended without the batter putting the ball in play.
I don't think that was the case when the likes of Don Baylor, Rod Carew, Rocky Colavito, Joe DiMaggio, Kirk Gibson, Reggie Jackson, Harvey Kuenn, Eddie Murray, Tony Oliva, Dave Parker, Tony Perez, Frank Robinson, Willie Stargell and Billy Williams held those positions, which, the record will show, they did.
Now the Astros may well repeat this year at World Series champions. But if they do, and are near the top of the heap in batting statistics, it may well be in spite of hitting coach Dave Hudgens and not because of him--all due respect. Jose Altuve of the Astros, at age 27, has already won three batting titles. If he goes into a rare slump, how much weight is he going to give to the words of a guy who has never faced one pitch in a major-league batting box?
Oh, I forgot--this new breed of hitting coach spend s hours watching video and taking notes. Wonderful. Joe DiMaggio not only didn't have the advantage of video reports, but he faced pitchers who were throwing off a higher mound, and batting helmets, batting gloves and body armor were unheard of. And his annual home-run total was greater than his strikeout total. That sounds like science fiction today.
They have all those things--helmets, gloves, armor--in today's game. And pitchers have thrown off a lower mound since 1969. That's why today's game is so great. Right. It's still the greatest game in the world, but despite the "bigger, stronger players" you're always hearing about, something is missing: Action. At its present rate, baseball could replace soccer as the world's most unwatchable sport. And, believe me, it hurts a lot to say that.
Seventeen Oddities from the 2017 Season
It was the first time a team started an All-Garcia outfield--Avisail in right, Leury in center and Willy in left (White Sox).
A third-strike pitch stuck to Yadier Molina's chest protector, allowing a runner to take first base while the Cardinals catcher scurried around looking for it.
Starling Marte, after being picked off base twice in a span of three innings, hits a come-from-behind home run versus Atlanta.
It was the first time a team that won the World Series the year before placed no one from that roster in the next year's All-Star Game (Cubs).
The Pirates send down the first Lithuanian major leaguer (Dovydas Neverauskas) to make room for the first African (Gift Ngoepe).
It was the first time a pitcher started a game for three different teams in a 15-day period (Jaime Garcia).
On May 22, the Independent league Wichita Wingnuts, managed by Pete Rose Jr., beat the Texas AirHogs, managed by Billy Martin Jr.
It was the first time a pitcher lost a no-hitter on a walk-off home run (Rich Hill).
For the second time in a month, fans at a ballpark are serenaded by a loud (false) alarm and commanded by a message on the scoreboard to evacuate--first in Atlanta, then Philadelphia.
It was the first time a player hit a grand-slam home run for two different teams in a span of five days (Curtis Granderson).
Nick Williams, who homered on a first-pitch slider from Tyler Webb when they last faced each other in Triple-A in June, nails Webb's first pitch-slider for a grand slam in the Phillies' win over the Brewers.
It was the first time a team hit home runs in each of the first seven innings of a game (Twins).
The Rangers' Jason Grilli loses on a walk-off hit in a third straight appearance at Kauffman Stadium--for three different teams.
It was the first time an eighth place hitter in the lineup had four extra-base hits (Paul DeJong).
Dustin Pedroia's Red Sox-record streak of 114 games without an error at second base ends when he misplays a grounder hit by Darwin Barney, the co-holder of that same MLB single-season record at 141.
It was the first time a pitcher struck out at least one batter in 45 consecutive relief appearances (Corey Knebel).
Making his first career start after 108 relief appearances, Mike Blazek of the Brewers serves up six home runs to the Nationals, including record-tying barrages of four in a row and five in one inning.
Thanks to Athlon Sports and the Elias Sports Bureau for these fascinating factoids.
Home-run weather
Traditional baseball wisdom says that pitchers are "ahead of the hitters" when the season starts in the chilly early spring, while on the hot days of summer, scoring--and home runs--soar. There is a real, scientific reason for that phenomenon, says PopularScience.com: Struck baseballs fly farther on the hot, humid days of summer. Heat causes gases to expand, which reduces air density, or the number of molecules packed into one space. As a result, baseballs face less resistance as they fly through the air on a hot day.
"For a ball hit at the typical home run speed and trajectory, a 10 degree [Fahrenheit] change in temperature is worth about a little over 3 feet in distance," says physics professor Alan Nathan. Altitude and humidity also affect the flight of a baseball. Humid air holds more water vapor, which displaces heavier gases, like nitrogen and oxygen. The resulting reduction in air density allows batters to knock ’em out of the park more easily.
Air density is also lower at higher altitudes, which is why Coors Field, the mile-high home of the Colorado Rockies, is known as a hitter’s heaven and a pitcher’s worst nightmare. Nathan says wind can have the most pronounced effect of all: Even a 5 mph wind blowing toward the outfield can carry a fly ball an extra 20 feet--the difference between an out and a dinger.
--The Week
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Rhetorical questions, questionable rhetoric and whimsical observations about the absurdities of contemporary life
There are 49 different kinds of food mentioned in the Bible. (I'm going out on a limb here, but I'm guessing that cheeseburgers, burritos and pork rinds are not among them.)
jimjustsaying's Party Ice-Breaker of the Month: "Say [actual partygoer's name here], did you know that the inside of a cucumber is often 20 degrees hotter than the surrounding air?"
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Speaking of children, I don't understand all these school-closing "snow days" we had this winter. Because you go to the gym, the library, the mall, and what do you see? Wall to wall kids! It's not like the school closing kept them safely at home, so aren't they're better off on the school bus and in the school instead of individually heading out into the very same elements they're supposedly being "protected" from?
Yes, but when the school is closed, then it's the parents' fault, not the school's, if Johnny gets run over by a snowplow. That's probably what it boils down to. So why not call it what it is: Liability Day.
How far are we from having "heat days" when it's 95 and humid in mid-May? (I'm just sayin'.)
Overheard: "I went to a TGIF party. It was BYOB, and I had enough VO and JB to send me to AA with the DT's!"
"People like to 'hate-watch' things. People are very cynical. That's a much more fun way to watch television."--"Peter Pan" star Allison Williams
(Hate-watching is watching a show or movie you suspect you will emphatically dislike, for the purpose of being able to talk about how much you disliked it, either during the program (on social media) or afterward, according to Brandon Ambrosino of Vox.com.)
What do butterflies get when they're nervous? Gorillas?
Sports note from psychologist Ken Ravizza, Ph. D.: "Peak performance isn't about being in the zone; it's about getting a job done with what you have. The phrase I use is, 'Comfortable being uncomfortable.'
People who say "ek cetera" instead of "et cetera" should be beaten with one of Don Imus' discarded string ties.
I'm always irked by people born in this country who stubbornly cling to their "ethnic heritage"--beyond the point of familial pride but to the point where you wonder why they're here in the first place.
Furthermore, if you "consider yourself German" . . . but have never been to that country or can't speak more than five words of that language, how "German" are you? And why are you reluctant to call yourself what you are--an American? I'm just sayin'.
Speaking of which, did you know that the two predominant ethnic groups in Toronto are Italians and Chinese? Surprised me, too. (Hey, would a tour bus driver lie to me?)
"How can two countries empathize with each other when in one, most of the adults are starving, and in the other, most of the adults are dieting?"--Sydney J. Harris
One-of-a-kind creatures: Animals that sunburn (the pig), the insects that do not sleep (ants), the bee that dies after stinging (working honeybee), the bird that hibernates (whippoorwill), the snake with actual teeth, not fangs (coral), the animal born with horns (giraffe), and the snake that attacks without cause (African mamba).
The global village hits home: The flash drive I just bought came with instructions in—count ’em—18 languages.
Oops: The Week Magazine recently used a photo of a 1930s "NRA" pin to highlight a Briefing on the history of the National Rifle Association. The pin shown was actually for the National Recovery Administration—an agency created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. (In all fairness, a rare gaffe by the normally rock-solid Week but funny nonetheless.)
jimjustsaying's Media Word of the Week (a word you see only in news reports and never, ever hear a real person use in real life): Gambit
Eighty-fourth Wisconsin Town I Didn't Know Existed Until I Saw It Mentioned in a Green Bay Press-Gazette Obituary: Menchalville, Wis.. (R.I.P., Ruth D. Willman, Green Bay Press-Gazette obituary, March 12, 2018). Previous entries: Athelstane, Walhain, Duck Creek, Breed, Anston, Sobieski, Amberg, Osseo, Angelica, Brazeau, Waukechon, Sugar Camp, Kossuth, Lessor, Kunesh, Pulcifer, Cato, Florence, Greenleaf, Eaton, Poygan, Hofa Park, Hilbert, Hollandtown, Beaufort, Glennie, Harshaw, Bessemer, Crooked Lake, Tigerton, Goodman, Readstown, Dousman, Butternut, Montpelier, Cecil, Red River, Gillet, King, Laona, Kelly Lake, Glenmore, Tonet, Stiles, Morrison, Dunbar, Askeaton, Wild Rose, Neopit, Ellisville, Pickett, Flintville, Forest Junction, Thiry Daems, Black Creek, Mountain, Ledgeview, Lunds, Suring, Lakewood, Beaver, Cloverleaf Lakes, Krakow, Pella, Townsend, Vandenbroek, Coleman, Spruce, Armstrong Creek, Lake Gogebic, North Chase, Navarino, Pequot Lakes, Buchanan, Rio Creek, Humboldt, Mill Center, Carlton, White Potato Lake, Lark, Scott, Newald and Biron.
jimjustsaying's Word That Should Exist But Doesn't: Doork. n. A person who always pushes on a door marked "pull" or vice versa." "More Sniglets," Rich Hall and Friends.
"Silas Morton and his wife have just returned from hunting bare in the mountains of Colorado for the past week."--Las Cruces (N.M.) Daily News.
Today's Latin lesson, Baseball Division: Vos can't lucror lemma totus. ("You can't 'win em all.")
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John’s Team
Local MP questions Immigration Minister over Dungavel Detention
UK Immigration Minister Phil Woolas has faced demands to explain why a four-year-old boy with health problems has been imprisoned in Dungavel –despite assurances given by the Scottish Secretary in October 2008 that detention of children at the institution would stop.
The Glasgow East SNP MP, John Mason, today (Monday) demanded answers at Home Office Questions after Fatou Felicite Gaye and her four-year-old son Arouna were held after a dawn raid in Sighthill, Glasgow and are now in Dungavel.
Speaking earlier today, Mr Mason said:
“The treatment of this young child and his mother is utterly shameful, and rips up the promise made by Jim Murphy that detention of children would end.
“There is no excuse for the UK Government’s actions concerning Fatou Felicite Gaye and her son Arouna. This four-year-old has already been treated for post-traumatic stress disorder caused by previous interaction with the Border Agency.
“This is also clear and disgraceful breach of Jim Murphy’s promise last October to end the detention of children and breaks the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
“Only days after the Scottish Government announced a joint pilot with the UK Borders Agency to provide alternatives to locking innocent children up in Dungavel the UK Immigration Agency has done just that.
“The UK Government are detaining a child born in Scotland in an immigration centre that is not fit for children.
“Jim Murphy must end his silence has repeatedly failed to answer questions on the number of children held in Dungavel or to guarantee that no child would be held there in future. Now we know at least one child is in Dungavel and that is one too many.”
1. The detention of a woman and her four year old son at Dungavel is reported here;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8050550.stm
2. The Scotland Office commitment to end detention of children at Dungavel is here;
http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/scotlandoffice/9722.html
3. A transcript of Mr Mason’s exchange with Phil Woolas is detailed below:
John Mason MP: Can the Minister tell us why a four-year-old boy with medical problems has been imprisoned at Dungavel in Lanarkshire.
Minister of State for Immigration: Mr Speaker, it would not be right of me to comment on individual cases . If the honourable gentleman wants to take that up with me, then I will of course respond to him duly. Of course, on the general policy of detaining children that is of course a last resort. We have in place the programmes to look at alternatives, but I have to say, Mr Speaker, that it is regrettable that on some occasions, people who have not co-operated with the decisions have been made by independent tribunals and courts, and who otherwise would abscond to face detention.
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The House By The Cemetery Book Tour – a coming home
October 30, 2018 - 11:41 pm January 4, 2019
IT’S BEEN AN amazing couple of weeks for me while I have done a series of book signing events for The House By The Cemetery! I already wrote about the launch party at Bucket ‘O Blood Books that kicked things off. But since then, I’ve also signed at my local Barnes & Noble store in Naperville, IL (the first time in a decade that I’ve signed there!), the Vogt Woods Visual Arts Center in Tinley…
Suspiria in 4K: Haunting Beauty in Horror
October 28, 2018 - 5:34 pm October 28, 2018
THERE HAS NEVER been a horror movie more beautifully shot than Suspiria. There has never been a release of Suspiria more beautifully realized than Synapse Films’ 4K remaster of the film. The film’s power has always been all about the color and the lighting, and the Synapse edition brings out the power of those elements like no previous release. The Blu-Ray is sharp, crisp and eye-poppingly colorful. Suspiria looks like it was shot using exclusively…
THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY Book Release Party
October 14, 2018 - 11:46 pm October 15, 2018
WHERE BETTER TO HOLD a book launch party for a horror novel than a store called Bucket O’ Blood Books and Records? On Thursday, October 11, 2018, that’s exactly where I held mine! Bucket O’ Blood is a very cool used and new books and records and DVDs store in Chicago and they agreed to host the first booksigning stop for my new novel The House By The Cemetery. I actually did signings and readings…
It’s… THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY Blog Tour!
October 3, 2018 - 2:38 am November 11, 2018
IT’S OCTOBER. In just a few days, my 10th novel, The House By The Cemetery will finally be released and available at bookstores everywhere! To spread the word, my publisher, Flame Tree Press, has set up a blog tour running over the next week. Follow along and check each stop out. I’ll add the links to each stop to this as they go live: October 2: Not Another Book Blogger October 3: Donna’s Book Blog…
At the end of a decade… 2019
Christmas is for Reading!
When your “kids” Danika and Mila grow up and go to Netflix: V-WARS
Pinball Expo 2019: All About Elvira!
Scream from Heaven: R.I.P. Kim Shattuck
Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin plays Deep Red
HorrorHound Indy Grows Up!
…And Then There Were Three
Flashback 2019: Another Con Reunion
Once… there was Charlee Jacob
Revisiting Covenant and House by the Cemetery while launching Devil’s Equinox
Pinball at the Zoo ’19
What I Did on Spring Break 2019
Beer Snob (15)
The Horror Life (291)
WHC (12)
Woodwork (2)
Dark Chicago
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Buck Books
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A Time to Be Bold
Mathieu Desan
Michael A. McCarthy
Socialism is having a moment in the sun. It's a chance to push a bold, transformative vision of what a society for the many rather than the few can look like.
A pedestrian traffic light with Karl Marx pictured on the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth in Trier, Germany. Thomas Lohnes / Getty Images
A spate of recent candidates running against establishment politicians, from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Cynthia Nixon, has breathed new life into an old idea, democratic socialism. But when someone proclaims themselves to be a democratic socialist, what do they mean? What should they mean? And once armed with an alternative vision to capitalism, what should they do?
As socialists run for office or consider endorsing progressives, they face potential pitfalls — most importantly that as electoral work deepens, the vision of socialism risks being watered down or even falling from view. Electoral work is important, but our political independence as socialists depends on our fidelity to this vision.
Capitalism Against Socialism
To talk about why, we need to first talk about what’s wrong with capitalism — and what a socialist alternative would look like.
Capitalism is the chief source of human suffering today and a system that promotes the worst of human behaviors. Socialists believe that when a society’s main resources are produced and distributed by private business, exploitation, inequalities in opportunity, and egoistic behavior result.
First, exploitative relations between workers and employers are the core feature of capitalism. Because a small number of people own the productive assets of society, most people have to seek out these businesses for work. The wealth produced from this work flows to the owners of capital even though workers produced it. This is true of every employer-employee relation, even those with union representation and nice benefit packages.
Second, within capitalism, how well people do in life is hugely impacted by birth. Children born into wealthy families have a leg up on staying wealthy as adults. Children born working class and poor have a steeper hill to climb and are much more likely to be working class and poor later in life.
In other words, capitalism is a system that is built on inequalities of opportunities. And these inequalities are its life blood.
A huge number of people that need to be hired by the wealthy are reproduced every generation. Without them, firms would have nobody to exploit. While some employees might be able to climb job ladders, to become a manager, or maybe one day run their own business, as a whole the working class can’t ever achieve collective mobility under capitalism. Workers are collectively and permanently unfree within capitalism.
Finally, capitalism produces conflict rather than cooperation, competition rather than solidarity. We compete over jobs. We compete at work for promotions, and those of us that are best rewarded are the ones that are concerned above all with ourselves. We compete with workers in faraway countries and workers desperate to get into ours. And we compete as classes, as races, and as genders.
This conflict plays out on a totally unequal playing field; those that win rarely do so because of merit. That people continue to find solidarity in their communities, their relationships, their families, and their associations speaks more to people’s basic decency than anything about capitalism.
The Socialist Horizon
What is our alternative? Neal Meyer recently defined democratic socialism succinctly in a recent piece for Jacobin, saying “we want to build a world where everyone has a right to food, healthcare, a good home, an enriching education, and a union job that pays well. We think this kind of economic security is necessary for people to live rich and creative lives — and to be truly free.”
This definition echoes one recently given by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on The Late Show:
What [democratic socialism] means to me is health care as a human right, it means that every child no matter where you are born should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it. I think that no person should be homeless if we have public structures or public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States.
While these reforms are crucial to countering the misery we face under capitalism, it runs the risk of equating socialism with welfare liberalism or social democracy. But these things are not the same.
To get a better sense of what socialism is, we need to consider two separate questions. First, what are the principles and values that any good society should promote? And second, what are the kinds of institutions and social arrangements that are best suited for the promotion of those values?
First is the principle of equality of opportunity. Chances in life and the ability to flourish should be equally available to everyone. Within capitalism circumstances of birth, luck, or some other inborn quality tends to determine how well people do in life — not one’s sole efforts. The distribution of most things — even the most basic necessities like food, shelter, health, and old-age security — is dependent on people’s ability to pay.
But socialists believe that everyone, regardless of those circumstances, deserves to flourish. Goods should be distributed on the basis of need, not ability to pay.
Second, the principle of solidarity. Socialists believe that people should care about and care for each other. Capitalist markets, on the other hand, divide. We think the principle of solidarity should be at the core of any good society. A socialist vision of emancipation is one where our institutions help us care about and for each other.
These are the basic principles that should guide society more broadly — people should have an equal shot in realizing their goals and dreams, and we should care for each other. In this sense, socialism is about outcomes. Capitalism not only fails to produce these outcomes — it is their chief barrier.
In capitalism, economic power appears separated from political power. The economic power derived from owning productive assets allows capitalists to get rich while keeping workers’ wages as low as possible, decide what is produced without any democratic input from the rest of society, hide harmful aspects of their products, and foist the harmful costs of doing business (“negative externalities”) onto the rest of us. Capitalists say all of this is justified because it’s “their property.”
Socialism aims to socialize that power. Capitalists shouldn’t be able to hold all that power and impact all of society — it’s undemocratic and unjust.
But socialists don’t just want to replace private ownership with state ownership. In the same way we don’t believe that capitalists should be able to have disproportionate control over economic resources, we don’t think unaccountable state officials and bureaucrats should have the power to control investment and production through “socialism from above.” In some cases, like the former Soviet Union, the failings of such a system are as clear as those of capitalism itself.
The core aim of socialism is not just the state gaining control of industry, but empowering the broad masses of people — in their workplaces, in their communities, in their homes, in their schools, in their politics — to be in the driver’s seat of society.
Even in the Nordic countries, where high levels of state ownership are combined with political democracy and a high standard of living, socialism is a long ways off. Making people’s lives materially better isn’t enough. Neither is it enough to install union representation for workers. These changes would be welcome, but socialism moves well beyond them.
What Is Socialism, Then?
So if social-democratic countries like Norway aren’t socialist, what is socialism?
Moving towards socialism involves subordinating the economic power of capitalists to the social power of the people. But fully realizing it does away with capitalists entirely. Only when the private decisions that have massive public implications are subjected to popular control will we have a democratic society.
This democratization could be achieved through a number of concrete institutions: grassroots state planning agencies, workers’ cooperatives, participatory boards. But what is essential is that the people have real, not just formal, democratic control over society’s wealth.
Our vision of socialism has no room for the following: production for the purpose of accumulating profit, private ownership of the main productive assets, markets for labor where most people need to sell their work to survive, and states that are unresponsive to the will of the people.
Only under these conditions can we begin to construct the concrete socialist institutions that will promote and reproduce equality of opportunity and solidarity.
To Be a Socialist
The socialist perspective is defined by this long-term vision. But how should this vision relate to the practical demands of politics? How should it inform our practice?
We are in a moment of new opportunity, but being a socialist requires walking a fine line between being too opportunistic and forgetting our principles, and being so rigid that we don’t let experience open new paths.
A crude rendering of socialist history divides the movement into reformist and revolutionary tendencies. Whereas reformists supposedly advocated revising socialist doctrine to better fit the day-to-day practice of politics, revolutionaries pushed socialist practice to line up with its radical alternative vision to capitalism, refusing to water down socialist theory and practice.
But the democratic socialist tradition has always rejected this dualism. Reform and revolution go hand in hand.
Socialist leadership in popular fights like Medicare for All can transform people’s consciousness and change perceptions of what’s politically possible, eventually leading to support for socialist goals. Moreover, reforms can build the working class’s fighting capacity, expose the limits of capitalism’s ability to satisfy our sense of justice, equality, and solidarity, and pave the way for more radical demands. Reforms can do more than just improve people’s lives — they can lead to revolution.
The fight for socialism requires both contesting elections and building a mass movement. Electing socialists will popularize socialist ideas, push a pro-worker legislative agenda, and provide invaluable experience for socialist governance. But a grassroots movement is also necessary, both to hold socialist politicians accountable and to mobilize against capitalist reaction to even the most modest reform agenda.
A refusal to engage with electoral politics condemns socialists to marginality. But neglecting grassroots mobilization has often meant that socialist governments were powerless to overcome anti-democratic capitalist subversion. Democratic socialists today, as in the past, have to avoid both pitfalls — of becoming revolutionaries without revolution and reformists without reforms.
In pursuing reforms and in electoral efforts, socialists will work in broad alliance with other progressive forces. But it is one thing to recognize the need for such alliances and another to consider the particular form that socialist participation within them should take. At issue is how we think about our place within the broader resurgence of progressive politics since 2016.
Socialists, and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in particular, have not been the only players in this resurgence. Organizations like Our Revolution, Justice Democrats, and Brand New Congress have capitalized on the energy of the Sanders campaign to push the Democratic Party to the left. Indeed, though she is a member of DSA, Ocasio-Cortez recently gave more credit to Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress for her success, as they were the first groups to seriously encourage her to run.
Socialists should welcome the vital role that these organizations have played in a left electoral revival. But what distinguishes socialists from other forces on the progressive left?
The answer, of course, is our vision of socialism.
This vision gives coherence and purpose to socialist strategy. We not only want to introduce a bit of humanity where we can in a cruel and unforgiving world, but also to transform the relations of class power that govern society.
Socialists should be good-faith partners in campaigns for progressive change. But our role is also to push them beyond their limits and make the case for more fundamental social transformation. The question is how we effectively engage in coalitions while maintaining our independent political identity. After all, without this identity and the vision behind it, why bother being a socialist?
Historically, as socialism’s political profile grew, so too did the risk of its assimilation into an amorphous “progressivism” over which its influence gradually waned. Socialists should thus beware the temptation to mistake the opportunity presented by the recent leftward political shift for a validation of socialist politics per se. Our primary goal as socialists is not to push this or that progressive reform or candidate, but to build a movement for socialism. What makes us socialists is not just our support for such reforms and candidates. Rather, it is because we are socialists that we support them.
Our strength is therefore not measured by legislative or electoral victories, important as they are, but by our ability to infuse these with a socialist significance by connecting them to our vision of the future. Pushing the political needle to the left is not enough; the point is to use this to forcefully make the case for transcending capitalism.
This is why it is crucial for socialists to be frank about what we want and who we are. Our long-term vision is what differentiates us from other progressive forces. We have to participate in movements or campaigns openly as socialists. This is not vanity, but a strategic consideration. If we soft-pedal our political identity out of political expediency, our victories no longer become ours, and we undercut our own purpose.
For this reason, insisting on the “socialist” label and defining what we mean by it is not a trivial matter. The spectacular rehabilitation of socialism as a legitimate position within American politics, particularly among young people, is one of the most significant developments for the socialist movement in decades. So far the capaciousness of the term has been an asset, as it has helped to legitimize our political identity and brought more people into contact with socialist ideas.
As the popularity of socialism grows, we shouldn’t define it downward. Liberals will do that for us. Though centrist dead-enders will continue to red-bait socialists, more farsighted liberals will try to capitalize on socialism’s popularity.
Especially since Ocasio-Cortez’s primary upset, we’ve seen a wave of liberals hold her up as the future of the Democratic Party while downplaying the specific appeal of socialism and redefining “democratic socialism” in terms that make it virtually indistinguishable from their preferred brand of liberalism. This shows our growing influence, but it also brings the risk of cooptation. As socialists, we shouldn’t evacuate socialism of its meaning as we push Democrats left.
The current moment is exciting, but socialists shouldn’t pat ourselves too hard on the back. As socialism becomes political common sense, membership counts and poll numbers become less reliable measures of the advancement of socialist ideas. Liberals will try to claim many self-described “socialists” as their own. Socialists thus need to be clear about what distinguishes them from liberals if they are not to cede the initiative.
Whatever people actually mean by “socialism,” its newfound popularity is a tremendous opportunity. But the question for democratic socialism remains the same as ever: should we content ourselves with being the advanced wing of liberalism, or can we be something more? Socialist movements have historically become victims of their own success: as our strength grows, so does the temptation to sacrifice long-term vision for short-term gains. As part of building on our momentum, socialists should reckon with what our role is as socialists in the broader progressive ecosystem. Are we just the shock troops for various progressive causes? A canvassing army for progressive candidates, even non-socialist ones? Who is organizing whom?
The challenge for socialists has always been to live in the tension between our commitment to total transformation and the exigencies of practical politics. But our identity as socialists ultimately hangs on our long-term vision of socialism. It is what defines us and what sustains our ability to push ever-bolder demands that shift the limits of the possible. Our recent successes have brought new opportunities for growth. As we take advantage of them, we should insist on this vision. After all, what are we without it?
Update: A previous phrase in this piece read: “In some cases, like the former Soviet Union, the failings of such a system are nearly as deep as those of capitalism itself.” It has been changed to “In some cases, like the former Soviet Union, the failings of such a system are as clear as those of capitalism itself” to better reflect the views of the authors.
The authors’ intention was to point out the failure of authoritarian collectivism to meet the democratic standard of socialism, not to imply a preference for the Soviet Union. As the rest of the essay makes clear, the authors view democracy as essential to any socialism worthy of the name, and as democratic socialists we condemn all economic and social systems that disempower the vast majority of workers. We regret that our original formulation may have contributed to a misunderstanding of our position.
Mathieu Desan is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Michael A. McCarthy is an assistant professor of sociology at Marquette University.
A spate of recent candidates running against establishment politicians, from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Cynthia Nixon, has breathed new life into an old idea, democratic socialism. But when someone proclaims themselves to be a democratic socialist, what do they mean? What should they mean? And once armed with an alternative vision to capitalism, what should they […]
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Pale Wings Protecting and Other News…Published February 12, 2013
by Lesley Davis
While writing “Dark Wings Descending” its spin off was already making itself known to me and asking to be written at exactly the same time. Being the kind of writer that has enough trouble keeping my concentration on one story as it is, (thanks to my M.E. and the endless distraction afforded me by my love of gaming), I had to put aside the follow up and keep my attention firmly fixed on the demon infested world that Private Investigator Ashley Scott and Detective Rafe Douglas inhabited. But Special Agent Blythe Kent made her appearance in that story as a teaser and to make sure I didn’t forget that her story would be next.
“Pale Wings Protecting” will continue in the same kind of supernatural theme but I wanted the setting to be a little lighter. So, what could be more fun than two law enforcement types going undercover together, having to pretend to be lovers, all while they try to solve a case involving the kidnapping of children? Okay, so the fun isn’t in the actual kidnapping bit, but I loved the idea of two women working together to portray lovers and not being able to reveal their real identities. Blythe gets to work with Detective Daryl Chandler, the kind of cop who looks and acts like a cop no matter what she does. Can they convince their new neighbours that they are in fact a totally devoted couple, one that wants a baby desperately, while they investigate the suburbs they find themselves suddenly living in? And then there’s the supernatural element, but I’ll leave that for you all to discover for yourselves! And don’t think Rafe and Ashley didn’t think it was only fair they got to cross over into Blythe’s story too. The gang’s all here to investigate the goings on in the disgustingly rich neighbourhood of Cranston Heights.
When I received the cover for this story I was thrilled to pieces to see how striking it was. It’s the perfect accompaniment to “Dark Wings Descending”. I hope all who see this cover will want to read the story inside and will enjoy it once they do. It’s scheduled for release 2014 from Bold Strokes Books so keep an eye on their web site and mine for further details. The time will fly past, honest!!
I am currently working on a new story. Sometimes certain characters are VERY insistent that they have more of their story to tell and, as a writer, you just have to listen to them! (Otherwise you’ll get nothing else written!) So for those who enjoyed “Playing Passion’s Game” you can expect to see Trent and Juliet and their merry clan of gamers return. The main story, however, will centre around two new characters, one of which will be Mrs. Tweedy’s granddaughter. This is a work in progress though and any delays due to my playing on my games consoles will be classed as ‘research’. That is to purely make sure the gaming side is authentic, of course! Well, that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it! I’m enjoying being back with Trent, she’s been a character I got a large amount of feedback on, all wanting to see what happens next now that a certain room in her home has been designated for something other than a spare room!
Just before this blog went to print I received the new date of release for “Pale Wings Protecting”. It’s scheduled for publication 14th October 2013 so there’s only eight months to go!
Be sure to come and check out my website athttp://www.lesleydavisauthor.co.uk
Takira Lathan’s life revolves around her restaurant. She owns it, cooks in it, and is one hundred percent dedicated to its success. Her life starts to veer off course when money goes missing and so does her restaurant manager, leaving her in the lurch. Most importantly, raising her young nephew was never anywhere in her... plans.
Dante Groves could be the answer to Takira’s prayers. She’s an excellent manager and is totally at ease with children. She’s also mature, kind, and unashamedly butch. Takira can’t help being attracted, but Dante’s emotional baggage from her last relationship has left her way too wary of romance.
Betrayed by those they trusted, Takira and Dante must rely on each other to create a recipe for success, both in business and in love.
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IHST Offering 11 Different “Toolkits” Aimed at Curtailing Helicopter Accidents
Monday, July 02, 2012 (15407 reads)
CHICAGO - The International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST), a worldwide organization leading a multi-year effort to reduce the civil helicopter accident rate, has increased its library of safety tools, with 11 documents now available to operators, pilots, instructors, and mechanics.
The safety tools that can be found on the group’s web site (www.IHST.org) offer practical advice and valuable expertise on a wide range of helicopter safety topics. The toolkits and safety leaflets focus on four primary areas that need to be improved in order to reduce helicopter accidents: safety management, training, maintenance, and equipment/technology. Eleven safety topics within these primary areas have been highlighted so far and more are being developed.
Bristow CEO Bill Chiles and Capt. John Steel of the Irish Aviation Authority Named to the Executive Committee of the International Helicopter Safety Team
Friday, March 02, 2012 (15736 reads)
CHICAGO - The International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST), a worldwide organization leading a multi-year effort to reduce the civil helicopter accident rate, has added two new members to its Executive Committee – Bill Chiles, president and chief executive officer of Bristow Group, and Capt. John Steel of the Irish Aviation Authority.
Heli Air Achieves IS-BAO (H) Registration, Raising the Bar for Quality Helicopter Operators
The British Helicopter Association has announced that one of its Members, Heli Air, has achieved IS-BAO registration. This is a world first for registration under the industry’s amended safety standard that now facilitates implementation by both fixed and rotary wing operations.
Commonwealth of Independent States Joins International Helicopter Safety Team
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 (14870 reads)
The International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST), a worldwide organization leading a multi-year effort to reduce the civil helicopter accident rate, has reached a tentative agreement of cooperation with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to enhance the safety of helicopter operations. The Commonwealth of Independent States includes the countries of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistanand , Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
IHST to Sponsor Free Workshops at HELI-EXPO Event in Dallas
The International Helicopter Safety Team will sponsor four free workshops at the HAI HeliExpo event in Dallas. All four of the education sessions will take place on Saturday, Feb. 11th at the Dallas Convention Center They will focus on helping operators, pilots, trainers, and mechanics develop a new safety culture. Listed below is a brief description of each workshop.
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[[Image:M134.JPG|thumb|none|400px|General Electric M134 - 7.62x51mm NATO]]
[[Image:Resident Evil 4 minigun 6.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Minigun mounten on he helicopter.]]
[[Image:Resident Evil 4 minigun 6.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Close-up of a Minigun mounted on Mike's helicopter.]]
[[Image:Resident Evil 4 minigun 7.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Helicopter's pilot Mike fires.]]
[[Image:Resident Evil 4 minigun 7.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Mike fires his miniguns.]]
[[Image:Resident Evil 4 minigun 8.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Close Up.]]
[[Image:Resident Evil 4 minigun 8.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Close up on Mike's other Minigun.]]
[[Image:Resident Evil 4 minigun 9.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Minigun fires.]]
[[Image:Resident Evil 4 minigun 9.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The other Minigun fires.]]
==Smith & Wesson Model 2==
On the door of the shooting range we can see [[Smith & Wesson Model 2]] revolver.
An image of a [[Smith & Wesson Model 2]] revolver can be seen on the door of the Merchant's shooting range, found throughout the game.
[[Image:S&wmodel2.jpg|thumb|none|350px|Smith & Wesson Model 2 .32 Short]]
[[Image:Resident Evil 4 flintlock.jpg|thumb|none|600px|S & W under the #1.]]
[[Image:Resident Evil 4 flintlock.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The Smith & Wesson image is marked with #1.]]
==Flintlock Pistol==
On the door of the shooting range we can see [[Flintlock Pistol]].
An image of a [[Flintlock Pistol]] can also be seen on the door of the Merchant's shooting range.
[[File:British Heavy Dragoon pistol.jpg|thumb|350px|none|British Heavy Dragoon Pistol - .62 caliber]]
[[Image:Resident Evil 4 flintlock.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Flintlock Pistol under the #2.]]
[[Image:Resident Evil 4 flintlock.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The Flintlock Pistol image is marked with #2.]]
==Colt 1851 Navy==
What appears to be [[Colt 1851 Navy]] revolver can be seen on the picture from the castle.
What appears to be a [[Colt 1851 Navy]] revolver can be seen on a painting in the castle.
[[Image:1851_colt_navy_london.jpg|thumb|none|450px|Colt 1851 Navy London Model - .36 caliber.]]
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Resident Evil 4 (known as Biohazard 4 in Japan) is the fourth main entry in Capcom's popular series. First released in 2005 for the Nintendo Gamecube, it was later ported to the PS2 with some additional content and weaponry but downgraded graphics, followed by a straight PC port in 2007. A version for the Nintendo Wii with Wiimote motion controls, combining the extras of the PS2 version and the graphical quality of the Gamecube version was also released in 2007, and this was later followed by versions for Apple's iPhone in 2009 and iPad in 2010. In 2011 a high-definition version was released on PSN and XBox Live, followed by the "Ultimate HD Edition" for PC in early 2014.
The main character is Leon Scott Kennedy, previously a rookie cop in Resident Evil 2. Following Leon's escape from Raccoon City, Leon is now a special agent working for the US government and investigating the disappearance of the President's daughter Ashley Graham in a remote area of Spain. Quickly finding the local villagers have become zombie-like monsters seemingly ruled over by a mysterious cult based in the nearby castle, Leon sets out to rescue Ashley and foil the cult leader's schemes.
From the PS2 version, an additional campaign called "Separate Ways" was added, which covers what Leon's sometimes-ally Ada Wong was doing during the events of the story. Another non-canon mini-campaign starring Ada, called Assignment: Ada, is available for all versions. Also introduced is The Mercenaries mode, an arcade mode where the player plays as characters from the game and the Resident Evil universe, each with their own abilities and equipment, and kill enemies in a timed arena to get the highest score possible. The mode, a fleshed out version of the "The Mercenaries - Operation: Mad Jackal" mode from Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, would prove to be extremely popular, returning for Resident Evil 5, Resident Evil 6, even spawning its own spin-off game Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D. All three side-games are unlocked upon beating the main game once.
The following weapons appear in the video game Resident Evil 4:
2.1 "Silver Ghost"
2.2 FN Five-seveN
2.3 Mauser C96 "Red 9"
2.4 Springfield Armory XD
2.5 Heckler & Koch VP70M
2.6 Smith & Wesson Schofield Model 3/Colt Single Action Army Hybrid
2.7 Colt M1911
2.8 Smith & Wesson Model 500
3 Submachine Guns
3.1 Steyr TMP
3.2 Brügger & Thomet MP9
3.3 M1A1 Thompson
4.1 Remington 870 Express Combo
4.2 Custom Benelli M3 Super 90
4.3 Cobray Street Sweeper / Armsel Protecta Hybrid
4.4 Mossberg 500
5 Rifles
5.1 Springfield M1903A4
5.2 Heckler & Koch SL8
6 Launchers
6.1 RPG-7
7 Unusable Weapons
7.1 Cannon
7.2 Hand Held M134 Minigun
7.3 Gatling Gun
7.4 GE M134 Minigun
7.5 Smith & Wesson Model 2
7.6 Flintlock Pistol
7.7 Colt 1851 Navy
7.8 Remington 700 BDL
8 Merchant Displays
9 Ammunition images
[edit] Overview
Resident Evil 4 uses a grid-based inventory system explained as an attache case the player character is conspicuously not carrying; this has a set number of squares into which all weapons, ammunition and other items except treasure and keys must be fitted. Characters can only equip a single weapon at a time, which is switched out from the inventory screen, though equipping a grenade will also allow every other grenade of that type the player has to be thrown.
Weapons can either be found in the game world or bought from the Merchant, a strange hooded man with a ridiculously hammy voice that will exchange priceless treasures for various hardware. Stores also allow weapons to be upgraded; most weapons can have their power, fire rate, reload speed and capacity upgraded in a series of increments that unlock as the campaign progresses; these do not alter the weapons visually, and often result in absurd magazine sizes. Almost every weapon has a high-priced "exclusive" upgrade which will boost a single aspect of its stats significantly. This system does not apply to Ada's campaign; her weapons are at a pre-set level and cannot be further upgraded.
A few weapons also have optional mods which take up additional inventory space; stocks can be attached to the C96 and TMP to remove the simulated hand sway effect and reduce recoil, and several other weapons can equip scopes.
The game uses a third-person over-shoulder view with a toggle for aiming; player characters cannot shoot or reload outside of aim mode, and cannot move while aiming. To facilitate aiming, a red laser sight is fitted to almost every gun in the game; the only version where this is not the case is the Wii version, which uses a larger circle aim point to compensate for the less precise motion control.
[edit] Handguns
[edit] "Silver Ghost"
Leon Kennedy's starting weapon is the "Handgun", commonly nicknamed "Silver Ghost"; this name was never used by any official sources, and instead originated from the January 2006 issue of the ARMS magazine (Japanese: アームズ), a Japanese monthly airsoft enthusiast magazine. The issue was a Resident Evil 4 PS2 release special, and contained an article on a custom airsoft reproduction of Leon's Handgun, alongside a staff-written story about how Leon conceived the pistol with Joseph Kendo, a gun maker from Raccoon City who previously designed the custom "Samurai Edge" handguns for the Raccon City S.T.A.R.S. (as established in a document from Resident Evil 3). This story gave the weapon the name of "Silver Ghost" (which was given by Leon in reference of his current condition of being "a spirit pulled out from [his] body"), which became the common name for the gun.
The story was entirely unofficial, and was more or less a short fanfiction, but some elements were apparently official; the in-game weapon's slide is marked with the words "Kendo Custom Shop", meaning that the idea that of the pistol being custom work by Kendo gifted to Leon is likely true. The article was also apparently written based on interviews with Resident Evil weapon designer Ryoumura Jyoshin (who also designed weapons for Capcom's Devil May Cry and Dino Crisis series), meaning that some elements of the story, maybe even the name itself, possibly came straight out of the weapon designer.
The Silver Ghost is a fictional design, which designer Ryoumura Jyoshin stated was inspired by H&K USP, S&W Sigma, and Ruger P85. It closely resembles the Smith & Wesson Sigma in the slide, magazine, and lower frame. Unlike the Sigma, the weapon has a hammer as opposed to a striker. It features an extended barrel, threaded for sound suppressor, which is not a feature on the Sigma pistols but are featured in the H&K USP. Its overall length is longer than the Sigma and the USP. Its slide is stainless steel. Its grip has checkered front and back straps, while the panels are wood framed with polymer panels and a central medallion on each side, similar to the design used on the Samurai Edge grips.
Albert Wesker uses this weapon in The Mercenaries, where it is equipped with a suppressor.
Leon's handgun, the Silver Ghost. Like most of the handguns, it has a pressure switch for the laser sight on the grip.
Four varied images of Leon's Silver Ghost. 3D would be ideal, perhaps IMFDB 2.0!
Deciding to stop by the Merchant's hidden supply cave, Leon poses with the Silver Ghost in his swag "Special 2" outfit.
Aiming with the Silver Ghost.
And reloading it after firing off a round at some fish.
Leon holds a gun on the villager whose house he has just invaded.
Leon runs dry in the middle of a fight.
[edit] FN Five-seveN
The Punisher is based off of Fabrique Nationale's Five-seveN handgun which normally chambers the 5.7mm cartridge originally intended to pierce low-levels of body armor. The version seen in-game chambers regular 9mm rounds. In game, the weapon has the ability to pierce shields and multiple enemies. It has a modified trigger.
This weapon can be purchased from the Merchant or won in a contest after shooting ten of fifteen blue medallions scattered across two areas. If all targets have been shot, the Punisher will have a free upgrade added onto it, making it slightly more powerful than the standard Handgun.
When every handgun is upgraded to its maximum, the Punisher is the weakest, but it can penetrate through several enemies.
The gun is used by Ada in Assignment Ada and The Mercenaries.
FN Five-seveN - 5.7x28mm
Punisher handgun with exclusive upgrade.
[edit] Mauser C96 "Red 9"
A 9mm version of the Mauser C96 handgun, one of the first automatic handguns to enter production in the world. The Red 9 variant, developed during World War I, was chambered in standard German 9mm Parabellum. To stop soldiers from loading the weapon with the wrong type of pistol ammunition, a large red 9 was painted on the grip to differentiate the model.
This weapon can be purchased from the Merchant, along with a stock which improves its accuracy significantly. It is the most powerful 9mm handgun in the game and when coupled with its stock, it is also the most accurate, but it is also the slowest. The original US edition has an Exclusive firepower rating of 5.0, while the PAL edition raises this to 6.5.
Vagrant Spaniard Luis Sera uses this as his primary weapon in the main game.
Mauser C96 "Red 9" Version with shoulder stock and stripper clip - 9x19mm
Note the red dot sight fitted onto the barrel.
Red 9 with attached stock. Note the stock has a hinge; in real life it can be used as a holster, though Leon does not appear to know this since it still takes up an additional three inventory slots. It is not particularly clear how this is supposed to make sense, given the gun that fits inside it takes up eight.
[edit] Springfield Armory XD
The Blacktail is based on a 9mm Springfield XD with grips inspired by the FN FNP-9. It appears to be a rather bulkier larger caliber version of the XD rather than 9mm, perhaps a design error. After Leon reaches the castle, it can be purchased from the Merchant. Ada uses this as her handgun in the main game and Separate Ways. Leon uses it in The Mercenaries. It has a better handling than the standard handgun. Fully upgraded, it is the second fastest firing and highest capacity handgun in the game, with the Matilda being at number 1. The PAL edition improves its maximum Firepower rating from 3.4 to 4.5.
Springfield Armory XD - 9x19mm
Blacktail handgun. The grip is heavily inspired the FN FNP-9 handgun, though is not identical to it.
Ada reloading the Blacktail. This shows the grip safety which is so hard to see in other shots.
Ada with her Blacktail.
Ashley isn't the only one equipped with ballistics.
[edit] Heckler & Koch VP70M
The Matilda is an H&K VP70M, the same handgun Leon uses as a rookie cop in Resident Evil 2. It is unlocked for purchase from the Merchant after successfully completing the game once on Normal difficulty. It is fitted with its stock, which cannot be removed unlike the Red-9 or the TMP. Fires three-round bursts. Its exclusive upgrade grants a 100-round magazine and a near machine gun rate of fire, making it an extremely effective handgun. The gun's name is a reference to the movie Leon: The Professional.
Heckler & Koch VP70M - 9x19mm
R.P.D. officer Leon's service handgun, six years in the future.
The Matilda. The burst fire selector is on the stock behind the slide. Note early style grip.
[edit] Smith & Wesson Schofield Model 3/Colt Single Action Army Hybrid
The Broken Butterfly is a revolver chambered in .45 Winchester Magnum. It can be found in a section of the castle after freeing Ashley, or it can be purchased from the Merchant. It seems to be a hybrid of the Smith & Wesson Schofield and Colt Single Action Army; the barrel and hinge resemble the Model 3, while the frame is nearly identical to the Colt SAA. Despite looking like an old fashioned single action revolver, the gun actually has a double action mechanism (convenient for rapid firing at big monsters).
Amusingly, Leon reloads it so energetically that he is literally throwing bullets into the cylinder rather than simply sliding them into position. It uses the same ammunition as the Killer7 despite that .45 Magnum is not fully interchangeable with some early .45 versions, especially between revolvers and semi-autos. It has a firepower of 50 when you make the exclusive upgrade.
Smith & Wesson Schofield Model 3 with blued finish - .45 Schofield
Colt Single Action Army - .45 Long Colt
Though black in detail view and in game, the Broken Butterfly shows up as nickel plated in the attache case.
Leon reloads his (upgraded) 7-shot Broken Butterfly by putting in 3 shells. This fills it to full regardless of cylinder upgrade, though why putting in only 3 rounds is anyone's guess considering its base capacity is double that.
[edit] Colt M1911
The Killer7 is a .45 Winchester Magnum version of the Colt M1911 that may be purchased from the Merchant. Its model is a reference to the AMT Hardballer in The Terminator, with a similar large custom laser mounted on top of the slide. It is the only weapon that has no exclusive ability when fully upgraded. While the Colt M1911 obviously doesn't use .45 Magnum, the LAR Grizzly Pistol is a M1911 derivative in real life that can use .45 Magnum (one version can even use the .50 Action Express), so the concept of a Magnum M1911 isn't too far fetched from reality. The name of the weapon is a reference to the game Killer7, in which the character Kaede uses a similarly modified 1911.
Colt M1911 - .45 ACP
The AMT Hardballer from The Terminator (1984) which inspired the Game's Killer7
Note the Killer 7 logo stamped on the slide.
The Killer 7's sight in action.
[edit] Smith & Wesson Model 500
The Handcannon is based on a S&W Model 500. It is unlocked for purchase (actually free of charge) when the player gets a five-star rank with all characters on all stages in Mercenary Mode, and uses its own unique ammunition type not shared with the other Magnums. These large rounds are much rarer to come across, but as a whole net much more cash when sold.
When fully upgraded, the Handcannon has infinite ammunition and deals the highest damage of any non-explosive weapon in the game. The reload animation has Leon loading three rounds manually (three rounds being the gun's initial capacity, despite the obviously six-chambered cylinder), which changes to a speedloader reload when the player upgrades its reload to max level.
Smith and Wesson Model 500 - .500 S&W Magnum
Inventory preview of a fully-upgraded Handcannon. The bulky thing under the barrel is a laser sight.
Right side.
Like most unlockable weaponry, equipping the Handcannon in the inventory has Leon strike a unique pose. It should be noted that it uniquely points to the left edge of the screen in default orientation while viewed from the carry case, rather than right like other firearms.
While trekking through one of the Spanish cult's absurdly huge and complex castles, Leon brandishes a Handcannon. Y'know, to be safe.
Leon aiming the Handcannon, showing off the laser sight.
Leon in full recoil. Fun fact: The Handcannon actually behaves like a miniature shotgun than an actual magnum. Shooting at water reveals four tightly-clumped points of impact instead of just one.
With nothing better to do, Leon reloads his unlimited-ammo Handcannon, first by dramatically swinging out the cylinder and dumping everything onto the ground, ejector be damned.
Then whipping out a speedloader loaded with what looks to be spitzer-pointed rifle rounds. When reloading the upgraded Handcannon, Leon uses a six-round speed loader. Otherwise he would toss loose rounds into the cylinder like he does with the Broken Butterfly.
[edit] Submachine Guns
[edit] Steyr TMP
The Steyr TMP, simply called the TMP in-game, may be purchased from the Merchant. A stock may also be purchased to improve accuracy and reduce recoil. Ada also uses the TMP in her cutscenes and campaign, as well as in The Mercenaries mode. The TMP uses custom 9mm ammunition, distinct from the standard 9mm ammo used by handguns; since the TMP's ammo is explicitly referred to as 9mm Parabellum, this presumably means that the handguns are chambered in a more esoteric 9mm cartridge (e.g. 9x21mm IMI).
Steyr TMP - 9x19mm Parabellum
Inventory preview of the TMP, showing off an alarmingly-poor use of an apostrophe.
Leon bringing his newfangled TMP to church for a good baptizing.
Aiming with the unmodified TMP shows just why its accuracy is so horrid: Leon and Ada will fire the TMP from the hip if used without the stock, thereby sending shots all over the place and the poor posture makes aiming it very wobbly and awkward.
Having destroyed one of the Merchant's 15 blue medallions as part of a dare, Leon inserts a new mag into his TMP.
Ada sprays down Saddler with her TMP. Note that the laser sight integrated with the foregrip replaces the standard slanted TMP foregrip.
Ada hoses down Saddler with her TMP. Apparently the "custom" aspect of the TMP's 9mm ammo consists of a non-standard protruding rim at the base of the case; normal 9x19mm ammunition is rimless, as rimmed ammunition is notoriously tricky to make feed reliably from magazines.
Ada admires her handiwork. Good view of the TMP. Also notice Ada's good trigger discipline.
Steyr TMP with stock and M68 Aimpoint sight - 9x19mm Parabellum
The TMP with its optional stock; this stock is based on Steyr's factory option for the TMP, though the profile is somewhat altered.
Leon posing with the modified TMP.
Only with its proprietary stock fitted, will the player characters actually shoulder the thing when firing, making shot grouping a wee bit more consistent at long ranges.
Reloading the modded TMP.
[edit] Brügger & Thomet MP9
Chapter 5-3 boss Jack Krauser wields a customized TMP based on the Brügger & Thomet MP9. It is modified with a B&T MP9 folding stock, an RIS attached extended muzzle-end fitted with a different vertical-grip, and a PEQ laser sight. In The Mercenaries minigame, HUNK also carries this modified TMP as his weapon.
Brügger & Thomet MP9 - 9x19mm
Krauser's customized TMP, it has MP9 features, an RIS attached extended muzzle-end fitted with a straight vertical-grip and a PEQ laser sight.
Krauser aiming his custom TMP at Leon. Note the strangely enlarged front end.
Krauser firing his TMP. Note the RIS rail on the side.
[edit] M1A1 Thompson
The M1A1 Thompson submachine gun appears in the game under one of its many famous historical nicknames, the Chicago Typewriter. This weapon is unlocked by completing the side-story Assignment Ada and may be purchased from the Merchant for 1 million pesetas after that. Comes with unlimited ammo. If used with the Mafia costume (not present in the original Gamecube version of the game), it will load from drum magazines, while the handguard is replaced with the foregrip normally found on the 1921 and 1928 Thompson variants and the reloading animation is replaced with Leon tossing his hat and striking a pose.
M1A1 Thompson - .45 ACP
1921 Thompson - .45 ACP
The Chicago Typewriter. I believe the technical term is "overkill."
Note M1A1 receiver
Blazing away, not really at anything.
Reloading is not necessary, but hey. Leon rocks in a new magazine, then tilts the Typewriter sideways to pull the bolt.
[edit] Shotguns
[edit] Remington 870 Express Combo
The first shotgun that Leon gets. May be obtained in one of three ways: on Easy difficulty, the weapon comes in Leon's inventory when the game starts; on Normal or higher difficulties, Leon can find it for free on the second floor of a house in the Ganados Village; alternatively, the player can purchase this weapon from the Merchant from the very beginning. Not an outstanding weapon, nonetheless when fully upgraded it's range exceeds that of any shotgun, enabling it to kill enemies normally out of shotgun range.
Remington 870 Express Combo - 12 gauge
Easily the lowest detail weapon model in the game.
[edit] Custom Benelli M3 Super 90
This stainless-steel shotgun is a custom Benelli M3 with elements from the Benelli M4 added to it, notably the collapsible stock and the top rail on the receiver. Called the Riot Gun, it is identical to the Assault Shotgun from the the 2002 Resident Evil remake.
Despite the fact that many prefer the tighter spread of the Riot Gun over the Striker's wide-shot, it is rarely used once the Striker becomes available due to its compact design, despite the fact that the Riot Gun has clearly been intentionally modified with the M4 collapsing stock.
The weapon may be purchased from the Merchant from Chapter 3-1 onwards. It is also used by Leon in The Mercenaries.
Airsoft Benelli M3 Super 90 produced by CYMA
Benelli M4 with stainless steel finish - 12 gauge
Riot Gun.
[edit] Cobray Street Sweeper / Armsel Protecta Hybrid
A hybrid of a SWD/Cobray Street Sweeper and Armsel Protecta may be purchased from the Merchant, and is called the Striker, which was the original variant of the weapon series. The weapon model lacks the rear lever and the wind-up key of the Street Sweeper, but it also lacks the Armsel Protecta's shell deflector. Functionally, the weapon has the semi-automatic firing of the Street Sweeper and the automatic shell ejection of the Armsel Protecta (which is animated in a bizarre way; the spent shell ejects itself after a short delay instead of immediately when the weapon is fired as it should be).
Being semi-automatic, the Striker fires much faster than the other pump-action shotguns, though Leon has an exaggerated recoil animation after every shot, meaning that there is still a delay between shots. The reload animation has Leon always putting two shells into the gun then giving "something" a crank; realistically, it would've been the wind-up key, but the wind-up key is absent on the in-game model. When upgraded to max level, the Striker's capacity expands to a whopping 100 rounds. Leon aims and fires the Striker from the hip like Ada's shotgun, despite a foldout stock being clearly present.
SWD/Cobray Street Sweeper with short barrel and top folding stock - 12 gauge
Armsel Protecta - 12 gauge
The Striker shotgun. Note the lack of a shell deflector.
Note the lack of a winding key on the drum.
[edit] Mossberg 500
Ada uses this stubby Mossberg 500 shotgun in Separate Ways. The gun in the game is stainless steel and a foregrip is present on its foreend. It's damage is average for a shotgun.
Mossberg 500 - 12 gauge
Another very low detail model, like the standard pump action.
[edit] Rifles
[edit] Springfield M1903A4
A modified version of the Springfield M1903A4 rifle which fires .223 caliber rounds as opposed to the real steel's .30-06 cartridges. May be purchased from the Merchant. A higher magnification scope can be bought for the rifle, increasing its accuracy at long range, and it could also be fitted with the Infrared Scope found on the island to help with defeating Regenerators. When fully upgraded, the bolt action Springfield's damage greatly exceeds that of its semi-auto counterpart: in the original NTSC editions it increases to 18.0, while in the PAL version and later releases it is raised to a rather absurd 30.0, and rivals the power of the Magnums.
Springfield M1903A4 - .30-06
Inventory preview of the "Rifle", here with its default M84 scope.
Again, now with its aftermarket scope.
Leon posing with the Springfield inside the Merchant's cliffside cache.
Aiming with the unmodified Springfield.
Scope view. Good luck seeing anything at all with this in the dark.
Leon loads his 7-shot Springfield with what looks to be a 9-round stripper clip. He really has to jam that sucker in, and seems to be doing it the wrong way. Stripper clip guides for the Springfield are aligned directly vertical with the chamber, meaning that inserting one diagonally like this isn't going to work. Not that direct insertion is possible, either, considering how the scope is obstructing the port.
Leon holds his now-modified Springfield.
View of the more powerful scope. The illuminated dot works wonders for aiming at night or in low-light areas, which are to say about 80% of the visitable locations.
[edit] Heckler & Koch SL8
A Semi-Auto H&K SL8 may be purchased by Leon from the Merchant. The weapon uses a G36V export optical sight by default. Being a semi-auto it fires significantly faster. Like the bolt-action rifle, a custom scope can also be attached. This gun is used by Ada in Separate Ways, Assignment Ada, and The Mercenaries. It is also used by Wesker in The Mercenaries.
Heckler and Koch SL8 - .223/5.56x45mm
Heckler & Koch G36V (formerly G36E) with export optical sight - 5.56x45mm
The H&K SL8.
SL8 scope view.
SL8 upgraded scope. Note how it replaces the original G36V carry handle with scope.
[edit] Launchers
[edit] RPG-7
The RPG-7 serves as the rocket launcher of the game. The standard single-shot Rocket Launcher may be purchased any time from the Merchant, and a free one can be found in the Castle. The Special Rocket Launcher with red rocket is provided by Ada Wong during the final boss fight to finish off the boss (though they can be killed without using the Special Rocket Launcher, in which case the player can keep the launcher and sell it for extra money on New Game +). The Infinite Rocket Launcher is available for purchase from the Merchant upon completion of the game once. Obviously, the rocket launchers are capable of dealing heavy damage to any creature, often killing bosses with one shot when aimed at their weak spots.
RPG-7 - 40mm
You can read RPG-7 on the side of the rocket. Note the scope.
Special rocket launcher, loaded with red anti-boss warhead.
FWOOSH! Leon unleashes his infinite launcher.
[edit] Unusable Weapons
[edit] Cannon
In the Castle, Leon fires a giant cannon to destroy a gate so he can proceed.
Naval cannon - 18th century
[edit] Hand Held M134 Minigun
The Big Afro-Spaniard Ganado J.J. enemy wields a Hand Held M134 Minigun.
Airsoft handheld M134 Minigun with 'Chainsaw grip' to handle the recoil force. This variant was seen in Terminator 2: Judgement Day. This is an airsoft version which retains the half-circle attachment point for the M60 foregrip from Predator; the real T2 minigun did not have this - (fake) 7.62x51mm NATO
J.J. makes his entrance.
J.J. makes his entrance known.
The muzzle flash effect seemingly implies that the minigun is simultaneously firing two barrels, which is impossible in reality.
[edit] Gatling Gun
At the end of sequence of Leon chasing a Los Iluminados priest in the Castle, the villain jumps on what appears to be an antique Gatling Gun rigged up to the drive system and feed unit of an M134 Minigun. Later on the island, the same gun emplacements appear, used by enemy mercenaries.
British M1865 Gatling Gun at the Royal Artillery Museum - .58 Rimfire / .50-70
The priest readies his Gatling gun at the Castle.
Good view of the Gatling's shape.
Note that this gun seems to have been visually based on a deactivated museum weapon that has plugs screwed into the ends of the barrels.
Close Up.
[edit] GE M134 Minigun
Mike, the Blackhawk helicopter pilot who shows up to support Leon during the endgame, has twin remote controlled GE M134 Miniguns mounted on the hull of his bird.
General Electric M134 - 7.62x51mm NATO
Close-up of a Minigun mounted on Mike's helicopter.
Mike fires his miniguns.
Close up on Mike's other Minigun.
The other Minigun fires.
[edit] Smith & Wesson Model 2
An image of a Smith & Wesson Model 2 revolver can be seen on the door of the Merchant's shooting range, found throughout the game.
Smith & Wesson Model 2 .32 Short
The Smith & Wesson image is marked with #1.
[edit] Flintlock Pistol
An image of a Flintlock Pistol can also be seen on the door of the Merchant's shooting range.
British Heavy Dragoon Pistol - .62 caliber
The Flintlock Pistol image is marked with #2.
[edit] Colt 1851 Navy
What appears to be a Colt 1851 Navy revolver can be seen on a painting in the castle.
Colt 1851 Navy London Model - .36 caliber.
[edit] Remington 700 BDL
In a cutscene, one of Ganados with the village chief Bitores Mendez uses what appears to be a Remington 700 BDL rifle modified to fire tranquilizer darts to knock out Ada Wong.
Remington Model 700 (1970s Production) - .308 Winchester
Rifle at the left.
[edit] Merchant Displays
The Merchant has a few weapons on display that can not be purchased. These include a Steyr SPP (or a TMP missing its fore-grip), a low-detail H&K SL8, and a few (very, very low-detail) unknown handguns.
A Steyr SPP (or TMP missing its fore-grip) at the Merchant's shop.
Seriously low resolution handguns of some sort at the Merchant's shop. They vaguely resemble the Beretta Cougar with wooden grips and a vented slide (a particularly strange design choice for a handgun).
Low-detail H&K SL8
[edit] Ammunition images
9mm handgun ammo - Thirty cartridges, yeah right. You'll be hard pressed to find one with more than 20 in the game.
.45 Magnum ammo - A rare sight, but a welcome one.
".5 caliber" ammo used by the Handcannon, likely representing .500 S&W Magnum rounds - The answer to this question is always yes.
"Custom 9mm" ammo used by the TMP - The arms dealer from Far Cry 2 would love this stuff.
12 gauge ammo for shotguns - They are 12 gauge sabot slugs, although you can't fire a sabot slug from a smoothbore shotgun, they have a wide spread anyway. "Hybred" appears to be a misspelling of Hybrid.
.223 ammo for rifles - Fits any .223 rifle. Even the .30-06 ones.
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Home > News > Auckland Unitary Plan a significant step-change
Auckland Unitary Plan a significant step-change
by Kip Brook - July 27, 2016 1035
Auckland – The proposed Auckland Unitary Plan recommendations released today introduces a significant step-change to planning in the Auckland region, the New Zealand Planning Institute’s (NZPI) Auckland planners say.
The unitary plan is an important tool to help address the demands of a growing city, NZPI Auckland branch chair Theresa Walsh says.
“It will enable development, including the supply of housing and enable the choice of housing available to be expanded to meet the needs of a significantly expanding and diverse population.
“Importantly, it also provides the framework for enabling productive, commercial and industrial activities that provide employment and generate economic wealth, the supply of the essential infrastructure needed for New Zealand’s largest city, as well as protecting the environment, heritage and cultural values of the region.”
Members of the NZPI Auckland branch have played a significant role in shaping the largest statutory project in the southern hemisphere. The report released today are the recommendations of the panel shaping the plan. The unitary plan will determine what can be built and where; how to create a higher quality and more compact Auckland; how to provide for rural activities; and how to maintain those intrinsic qualities of the environment, including heritage and the natural environment.
The unitary plan is the policy document that actually delivers on the long term strategy for Auckland in the Auckland Plan.
“It should deliver a stronger more consistent plan structure and accessible maps so that people can more easily understand opportunities and constraints and transfer that understanding anywhere within Auckland.
“The Auckland Branch NZPI commends the outstanding contribution of the Independent Hearing Panel, the Auckland Council, the public and community groups who have participated in the hearing process,” Walsh says.
Walsh says the Auckland members of the NZPI are excited about the opportunities that the Unitary Plan will present in addressing growth in the Auckland region. NZPI planners in Auckland are ready, willing and able to assist the community to understand the implications of this momentous moment, she says.
For further information contact NZPI branch chair Theresa Walsh on 0274 522111 or Make Lemonade Media specialist Kip Brook on 0275 030188.
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LUX Center for the Arts presents Ship to Shore
Date: Jan 9 - May 5
Venue: LUX Center for the Arts
Location: 2601 N 48th St.
Ticket Price: Free
Time: 11am-5pm Tues.-Fri., 10am-5pm Sat.
Website: luxcenter.org
Some say water is the easiest art subject to depict. This is asserted because the information is repetitive and when you learn the structure of a wave or can represent the surface of water, you may create many variances of them in different settings. But as we all are aware, knowing art concepts intellectually does not impart the skill of an artist into our hands. Depicting the variations of depth, surface, splashing droplets, crashing waves, eddies, hues, and reflections of water is extremely challenging for artists. Artwork focusing on water, coastline views, or seas were only occasionally created in antiquity. During the Renaissance, religious and mythological portrayals based on sea stories became popular. Later with the rise of naval military fleets, warfare between battleships became a common sea-based theme for artists. The term “seascape” to refer to water depictions was not used until approximately 1790. The word was meant to be a direct comparison or contrast to “landscape” images which are scenes of land although bodies of water are sometimes included. Eventually, water themed artwork became more varied and artists no longer used ocean views solely to render battles or myths. Instead, seascapes became an eloquent subject to express a variety of emotions. For example, during the 20th Century, many artists focused on the tranquility of the water rather than its turbulence. Whatever the artist’s intent, it is difficult not to feel stirred by the power of seascapes and water-based images. The vastness of oceans expands our horizon and a flowing brook captivates our interest. A calm water surface soothes our mind while a scene of crashing waves sets our pulses racing. The artists who portray the many moods of water never fail to earn our appreciation. SHIP TO SHORE, an exhibition of seventeen seascape prints, was organized by Susan Soriente, Curator of the Lux Print Collection.
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Matters of Principle
Gary Hart blog
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. ~ Thomas Jefferson
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The First Casualty
Author: Gary Hart
The journalistic principle has been: the first casualty of war is the truth. The same can be said of every effort to hijack a democracy and make it an autocracy.
Our commentator Michael has persuasively argued that we are edging closer to autocracy in America than most people realize.
In How Democracies Die, the authors write: “Perhaps President Trump’s most notorious norm-breaking behavior has been lying. The idea that presidents should tell the truth in public is uncontroversial in American politics.”
Most recently, at the G-7 summit, he sought to stabilize rattled markets brought on by his trade war with China by claiming to be in phone contact with Chinese leaders “at the highest level” to restart negotiations. Problem is, it did not happen. It was a lie.
He who controls the meaning of words wins the debate. News is “fake” if it is not favorable to Trump. For almost three years, the people of America, and the world, have been offered two different, often conflicting, narratives of reality…the factual one and the one that Trump makes up.
Trump intuited early on that he could render any statement he wished, whether factual or not, and his “base” would believe him. Roughly a third of the American people have accepted a view of the world outside the realm of facts and truth.
This is how autocracy works. Ask Lenin, Hitler, Mussolini, and many others. What I say is true. Do not believe anything else.
Unhinged from reality and truth, democracy cannot survive.
From our Founding, our ability to function as an increasingly mass democracy depended on confidence of the people in their government. Confidence is built on trust. Trust is earned by honest dealing and adherence to facts and truth.
When the autocrat declares truth to be “fake”, and a large majority know it is not, trust is breached and confidence in government fails. To its shame, the Senate Republican majority aids and abets this demonstrably deceitful president by its silence.
These untrustworthy politicians may be clinging to their red-State careers, but at the price of their integrity and the foundation of our government in truth and reality.
The tension in a great nation divided between two realities, one genuine and the other demonstrably fake, cannot last for long. It is schizophrenia on a massive scale.
Next year we will either opt to return to truth and reality or we will take another giant step down the road to autocracy, untruth, and propaganda.
Trumps systematic affinity for autocrats and dictators in Russia, North Korea, Brazil, and Central Europe is predictable. He longs to create their nationalistic systems in America. He admires their power and control and wishes to govern as they do. The problem is that it is not democracy, and certainly not a democracy with Constitutionally shared and balanced power.
The only way he can by-pass America’s history and its Constitution is to subvert the truth, to convince enough of our countrymen and women that his version of reality is preferable to a version based on truth and facts.
As an amateur American historian, I can find no parallel. There is an argument that the groundwork for a Trumpean era was laid by Vietnam, Watergate, and deceptions by intelligence agencies and the Administration they served. We were lied to by leaders of both parties with intelligence and military complicity. It took considerable toll in public confidence in government.
Trump has seen those cards and raised. By its complicity and silence, his party will suffer in years to come. When a revival of honesty in government returns, as it must, an accounting by those complicit in his lies will be demanded.
It must begin next year. If not, it could be too late.
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4 Responses to “The First Casualty”
August 31st, 2019 at 12:11 pm
Billy Bush, the other voice in the infamous “Grab ‘em by the pussy” tape, was interviewed on a talk show – I can’t remember which one – during which he recalled Trump telling people that The Apprentice was the network’s most highly-rated show when in fact it wasn’t. When Bush told him so, Trump said that the truth didn’t matter because if you “just say it, they’ll believe it.” There is an entire right-wing media complex in this country built around the doctrine of “say it and they’ll believe it.” The most dramatic recent example was of former congressman Joe Walsh telling Fox’s Stuart Varney that Trump was a liar. Varney disagreed strongly and asked for specific examples. Walsh gave the example Senator Hart cited here: Trump claiming China had restarted trade talks, which his own staff admitted wasn’t true. Varney insisted that “That wasn’t a lie.” We can debate what brought us to this point. I don’t think we need go all the way back to Vietnam and Watergate. I think it starts in the early 1990s with the advent of Rush Limbaugh, and a bit later, Fox News. The drive for ratings meant that they had to keep their audiences ginned up with outrage, and that outrage had to grow exponentially to stay effective. The result was an endless sequence of manufactured scandals, and the very dangerous notion that no Democratic president can ever be truly legitimate. The nation has suffered from bad journalism for a long time; the lead up to the Iraq invasion and the obsession with Hillary Clinton’s emails are just two glaring examples. But a hermetically sealed ecosystem of rage has taken over a Republican Party that, for too long, had been happy to have it work for them. The end result was the nomination of Trump, who, by no coincidence, campaigned as an outrage performer. The question before all of us who don’t much enjoy living on the edge of a sudden plunge into authoritarian governance is how to deal with the rage machine in the context of the First Amendment. We can certainly wait it out; the audience for this stuff is much older and whiter than the general population. Eventually, it will shrink to the point where it won’t be profitable enough for stockholders anymore. But until then we need to fight against it, which means getting out our voters in ever greater numbers. There are, of course, challenges in the face of Republican suppression. But I am encouraged by the fact that, in 2018, younger voters, for the first time, voted in greater numbers than all previous generations combined. If it continues, it won’t be the first time in our history that this country had to rely on our younger citizens to save it from an existential threat. And it probably won’t be the last.
LORENZO CHERIN Says:
September 1st, 2019 at 10:08 am
As a member, writer, at the Ustinov Prejudice Awareness Forum, a terrific online project I am a regular participant in, dedicated to continuing the legacy of humanitarian work of Sir Peter Ustinov, stated by him in effect, continued , led by his son, artist, Igor Ustinov, I write this week of our host, of Ustinov, of Trump.
http://www.ustinovforum.com
Trump has too often in words, deeds, overplayed. Like a barnstorming actor,however, he ain’t!
Anyone who reads Senator Hart now, or realises the efforts in his career , surely wonders, if age is no barrier to nomination,his country, our planet could utilise him yet now onwards!!!!!!!!!!!
Who can the Democrats pick , who can beat this lousy , peculiarly so, incumbent?
Biden, Warren looks a good ticket, or in my view, Warren, Benett?
Can any win?
We must all do our bit. The party must move into the mainstream centre, stage, where Trump has left the stage…
Here is the Stuart Varney clip I referred to in my comment. I wish Walsh had also used the example of Trump lying about who pays his tariffs – that it is Americans not China. But he didn’t go there. Nevertheless, this is what we are up against. A great many people will agree with Varney simply because they want to; closed minds dwelling in a closed bubble of disinformation, neither of which facts can penetrate. A bad situation in a democracy, which would easily turn even more nefarious if we take that plunge into authoritarian rule. I still remember when the Drudge Report drove the mainstream media under George W. Bush. One cannot automatically assume that many of them would not become collaborators. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/03/joe_walsh_vs_fbns_stuart_varney_president_trump_has_never_lied_he_exaggerates_and_spins.html
Mike Swickey Says:
Senator Hart, I am a longtime reader of your essays back to when you had the “Gary Hart Blog,” I believe it was. I’m not sure I have ever left a comment. Today, I must.
You ended The First Casualty with this, “It must begin next year. If not, it could be too late.” This is absolutely the truth of the matter. We now have youth who have been paying attention at young ages, who know only a world of Trumpism. Four years can do much damage. But a re-elected Donald Trump? All bets are off. I have always tried not to be hyperbolic, but that 2020 is the most important presidential election in history is almost undeniable. I fear for what could happen between now and Wednesday, January 20th, 2021. But that fear is tempered with hope for a turnaround to normalcy with a Trump defeat. However, Donald Trump until Monday, January 20th, 2025 sends chills up my spine. Could our nation survive eight years of Trumpism? I hate to even consider that possibility.
Thank you, Senator Hart. Your posts, and the community here, are truly an oasis of sanity for me.
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Drishane Castle, Medieval Tower House and round turret built in 1450 by Dermot McCarthy, Lord of Munster
The lovely castle and grounds of Drishane are situated a mile to the northeast of Millstreet, near where the Finnow river joins the Blackwater.
The castle sits on an elevated limestone rock. It is in fine condition and consists of a tower house and a small circular tower/turret. The tower stands at 22m (72ft) tall, 9m wide and 8m deep. It is built of stone, has internal timber floors, and a slate roof on top. The four storeys are reached by a narrow circular stone staircase. The lower windows are narrow arrow-slits which were for defensive purposes. There are “Irish” crenelations on the roof. There is a smaller circular tower/turret next to the castle which would have been for defensive purposes.
The castle was built by the MacCarthys and the date given for its construction varies between 1436 and 1450
It seems likely that it was commenced by Dermot Mór, the second son of Teige the 3rd Lord of Muskerry, who was a direct descendant of Diarmuid, King of Cork. Dermot also is said to have built Kilmeedy and Carrigaphooca in the great period in which his brother, Cormac Láidir, was building Blarney and Kilcrea. Dermot died in 1448 and Drishane was probably completed by his son, another Dermot.
Drishane Castle from the Air (looking south)
The denealogy for the MacCarthy family in general is confusing, particularly since Christian names are so often repeated, but the account of the Drishane branch varies considerably in differing renderings. For instance it is several times stated that there were two centenaries in the family, both named Donogh. From a study of the documentation available – admittedly scanty at times – it seems likely that there may have been only one: the second Donogh, who is buried in the castle grounds and lived 1597 1719 to an age of 122 years.
Some authorities state that the first Donagh lived from 1517 – 1639. Documentation clearly shows that Teige, son of Owen was in possession of the property in 1592 when he surrendered it to the Queen and got a re-grant. If Donagh was still alive he would, probably at least, have been the property owner.
Drishane Castle from the air (looking westwards)
Teige died before 1624, when there was an inquisition on his lands, and in a further inquisition of 1638, his son Owen Mac Teige is described as being in possession of Drishane Castle at his death in 1637. The latter’s son, Donogh MacOwen, the centenarian, inherited. He was over 40 at the time (which would confirm a birth date of 1597) and had married Kathleen Fitzgerald, who also died in 1637. It would appear from other information that he married a second time.
Owen had brothers named Callaghan, Donogh and Phelim (on whom I have little information) as well as Dermot who was killed leading a squadron of horse at the battle of Knockbrack in 1652 – the end of resistance to the Parliament in the area. Donogh mortgaged Carriphooca to Dominic Coppinger before 1641 – probably to raise funds for the Confederate War.
All MacCarthy lands were finally forfeited at the end of this tragic period, but were restored to Donough MacCarty, the first Earl of Clancarty, overall head of the family, on the restoration of Charles 11 in 1660. He granted a lease in 1677 to Donogh: and this lease was passed with the proviso that Donogh settled what was due to Coppinger.
The MacCarthy lands were finally forfeited following the Jacobite period of 1690 and Drishane fell into the hands of the Hollow Sword Blade Company, an organisation which had financed William’s campaign in Ireland. In 1709 they sold to Henry Wallis of Ballyduff, Co Waterford, a younger son of Thomas of Curraglass (Mogeely), where the family had been resident since 1596.
There is some doubt also about the date of the first connection of Wallis with Drishane. Renovations were carried out at the castle in 1643 according to the date on a fireplace, and this bears the inscription “W” suggesting “Wallis”.
It is further suggested that Wallis shared a friendship with Donagh MacCarthy, and that he allowed the latter to live in peace at Drishane during his lifetime. Another account states that Donogh demised part of the land to Henry Wallis; and after Donogh eventually died in 1719 his widow, in 1722 and 1724, leased her interest in the remaining lands to Thomas Wallis, son of Henry.
Drishane Demese – The extent of the Drishane Lands c. 1840 (shaded grey). Stretching from the Blackwater river south to Tullig. (Click the Image for a detailed view)
The Wallis’ turned Protestant converted to the Church of England and ‘discovered ‘ the property under the Property Act and so purchased what remained of Drishane for £450 (it was valued at £8000) in 1798. This led to a horrendous local tradition that Donogh’s widow died on the doorstep of the castle from exposure, but in reality (since the exchange of cash was involved) the transaction may have been to clarify the entire matter because of claims being made by the widow’s relatives, the O’Learys, to the property.
By the time Doctor Smith wrote his History of Cork in 1750 he was recording that there as a handsome new house near the castle built by the late William Wallis who had considerably improved this part of the country, by manuring it with lime, enclosing planting etc.
In fact the Wallis’ appear to have been popular in the neighbourhood and remained there until 1882 when the estate was placed in Chancery on an application of insurance companies, and there it remained until 1908 when it was sold in 1908 before Judge Roy to Patrick Stack of Fermoy from whom, through the offices of Cornelius Duggan of Cork. Soon after it was passed to the Dames of Saint Maud, a French order of teaching nuns ( The Congregation of the Holy Child Jesus) in 1909.
When the Drishane Sisters came to Drishane they remained there until c.1992 when the Estate was purchased by the Duggan Family. Initially a hotel was envisaged. The Kosovar people stayed there for a year. Since 1999 it has been a reception centre for asylum seekers coming to Ireland as part of the Direct Provision system. It houses mostly families, about 200 people in total.
The lands and estate while being farmed have become a top international cross-country course for horses.
THE PROPERTY IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC on Appointment only. Contact by <email>
Architecturally
Tower House: Now standing at south end of Drishane House (see below); built directly on rock outcrop. Rectangular 5-storey tower with adjacent circular 2-storey tower. Structures were ‘completely restored some time post 1879’ (Bence-Jones 1988, 108), and again repaired in more recent times; repairs include battlements atop both structures, all wooden door and window frames, stone flagged floors, wooden floors over main ground- and 1st-floor chambers of rectangular tower, and slate roofs.
Rectangular tower (8.8m E-W; 7.7m N-S), with slightly rounded corners; entered at ground-floor level through door near N end of E wall, door surround has been re-set. Short lobby inside has door on W side, with pointed arch, giving access to main ground-floor chamber, and similar door on S side, leading to mural stairs which rise to SE corner of tower, where they continue upwards as spiral, giving access to main 1st-, 2nd-and 4th-floor chambers, and to two mural garderobe chambers in E wall at 1st/2nd and 3rd/4th floor levels.
Ground-floor chamber (4.85m E-W; 3.85m N-S) lit by windows in centre of S wall and at W end of N wall; both have square-set embrasures covered by segmental vaults. First-floor chamber (5.2m E-W; 3.9m N-S) entered via short L-shaped lintelled passage from spiral stairs; chamber lit by roughly-central windows in S, W and N walls; these have splayed and lintelled embrasures and single square-headed lights. Main second-floor chamber entered directly from spiral stairs, through door with pointed arch, in SE corner of room; lit by roughly-central windows in S, W and N walls, similar to those on 1st floor but with single ogee-headed lights. Third floor is attic under pointed wicker-centered vault (axis E-W); lit by single window in W wall; embrasure similar to those of floor below but with single flat-headed light; original entrance to this floor probably via manhole from floor below. Main fourth-floor chamber entered, via short passage from top of spiral stairs, through door on S side of deep window embrasure in centre of E wall; embrasure is square-set, covered by segmental vault, with double ogee-headed light; similar window embrasure in centre of S wall. Spandrels of latter window light are decorated with simple geometric design; light covered by hood moulding, with stepped terminals, which is flanked by two carved human heads. There are also windows in centre of N and W walls, similar to those on 2nd floor. Opposite entrance door, in N side of E window embrasure, is door leading to spiralstairs in NE corner of tower, which rise to wall-walk level.
At 1st/2nd floor level lintelled door on N side of spiral stairs gives access to lintelled passage (4.7m N-S; 1.1m E-W) with garderobe at N end; lit by two slit windows in E wall. Second mural passage in E wall at 3rd/4th floor level; entered through door, with pointed arch, on N side of spiral stairs; lintelled passage (3.5m N-S; 0.9m E-W) leads to SE corner of tower where it turns at right angle to W (L 1.1m), at W end of latter section is garderobe opening; passage lit by single slit windows in E and S walls.
Circular tower (int. diam. 2.9m; wall thickness c. 0.9m) just 0.9m S of SE corner of rectangular tower, and projecting 1.3m beyond its E wall; now free standing but originally linked to tower by straight wall. Entered on NW side through repaired ground-floor door; gun loop on E side of door, also gun loops facing S and W. Inserted window on SW side and inserted fireplace to SE. First floor has door ope to NNE, window ope to NE, traces of fireplace to E and splayed ope, possibly gun loop, to SE; modern roof overhead.
Mac Carthy castle; built, according to tradition, in 1450 (Lee 1914,64), a date not inconsistent with present tower. Circular turret is later, probably added in late 16th/early 17th century to allow for flanking fire by defenders. Adjacent house built by Wallis family in 18th century but enlarged and castellated in mid-19th century (Bence-Jones, ibid.); later a convent school, now in private ownership.
The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork’ (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). [ref]
Photos of Drishane
The first know image we have of Drishane Castle – a 1770’s Drawing by Gabriel Beranger, a Duch artist known for his drawings of antique buildings of Ireland.
Drishane Castle in ink by Jonathan Fisher Rev Joseph Turner Nov. 1794 (probably an interpretation of the above drawing) [more details]
A sketch of Drishane Castle from 1833 in the Dublin Penny Journal. Note that neither the house or the castle have crenelations at this stage!
Drishane Castle. From The Blackwater in Munster by J.R.O`Flanagan. (London, 1844)
Hard to believe, but in the late 1800s, Drishane Castle was totally covered in Ivy. This photo is of the southern side (facing the lake), and was taken by Hodges (TODO: check dates).
Drishane Castle from the Eblala Collection (1870-1890). The same photo, but with a different number is listed as being in the Lawrence Collection.
Drishane Castle – western side, taken about 1909. (see also similar images from 1909 and 1907). This photo is interesting because it shows the following:
It had just been sold to the nuns (statue of Holy Mary in another part of the image).
The towers were nearly covered in ivy after a long period of neglect.
The castle has no crenelations at this point! They still hadn’t been added by the 1966 (see the harp photo below), but are there by 1974 for the filming of the movie – In This House of Brede [2]. It turns out that they were added in the early 70’s by the Board of Works, when other maintenance work was also carried out (see the Architecturally section above for details)
If you look to the top of the castle, are they two chimneys on the north-east (nearest) corner?
Protecting the door of the castle appear to be battlements. This was actually a corridor that connected the house and the castle. This section had been built in the 1870’s – at the same time as other extensive works on the house. It was mostly removed 1989. See more details on it here (TODO: add link when article is published)
Drishane Castle – western side, taken about 1909 from where the chapel was later built. Note. the earth at the base of the tower was removed in later years. Was this to prevent ivy and other creepers from growing again?
A drawing of Drishane that appeared in the Irish Independent of Thursday 26 November 1908, attached to an article that the Infant Jesus Sisters had purchased it and were to set up a convent there
Drishane Castle & estate, and its proximity to Millstreet (1840 OSI Maps)
20th February 1966: A nun plays the Padraig Pearse Harp, from his School, St. Enda’s, which was presented to Drishane Convent, Millstreet. – the castle is still without the Crenelations at this strage
Drishane Castle in 1990, when the Lawrence photos were being recreated.
Drishane Castle in 2005
Drishane Castle in 2010, with the Clara and Caherbarnagh Mountains in the background. The entrance to the turret faces the tower house.
2012: From the eastern side. The small square opening at the bottom left corner of the castle looks like the toilet (garderobe).
An interesting video showing the Drishane Castle and estate [2017]
Inside the castle
Wicker centred vault in Drishane Castle with imprint of wicker clearly visible in the plaster-work [2018]
The internal staircase in Drishane Castle [2013]
On the roof of the castle – showing the internal slate roof, the crenelations, and the flagpole (north west corner) [2013]
The highest point on top of the castle (1989). Note from this photo are:
1. The difference in the brickwork, the top section dates from about 1970, whereas the lower section presumably dates from around 1450.
2. The steep pitch of the slate roof. In the 1950’s, the roof was actually flat (from Tim O’Shea). What was the flay roof made of? Were there leakage problems? The slate roof put at the same time as the crenelations during refurbishment work by the Board of Works around 1970.
3. The stone steps embedded in the castle walls (bottom right) that lead to this upper level. The steps can also be seen here, and in the film – In This House of Brede
4. The location of the flagpole at the highest point. it is now back down in the corner below where the child is sitting – where the metal bracket is on the wall – was this bracket for supporting a flagpole previous to that?
From the highest point on top of the castle (1989), looking down on the lake and the Knitting School.
TODO: was there a separate door to the castle – facing the round turret -as seen in this photo here.
22 thoughts on “Drishane Castle”
Bena Stutchbury says:
I am researching battlements for a proposed restoration of a tower house near Cobh and wonder if I might be able to access Drishane’s roof in order to measure the battlements?
I would be very grateful.
Bena Stutchbury – 087 258 1844
Hunter Gill says:
Late last year, you permitted me to closely inspect and tour the ‘Keep Tower’. It was fasinating and I photographed it thoroughly. It is on a line of my family’s history as a home and it was a powerful emotional experience to be there. I had come from Australia it see it, and the Drishane Cemetery graves, Kilcrea Friary, it and other family history sights. Thank you for care and interest. Hunter Gill (Great Grandmother – Isabella McCarthy).
When visiting our ancestral home,the Drishane Keep, we ventured over to the Drishane Cemetery on the edge of the estate and found ancestors from up to 700 years ago. I am concerned about the sizable tree growing inside the elevated grave. I will split the ancient Cormac McCarthy grave. Could this tree be poisoned and removed please? Maybe this has already being done? Descendant of Cormac McCarthy; Hunter Gill.
donal says:
In apprx 1963 when I was 7yr old child my father was carrying out some work on the Convent relating to woodworm/dry rot, the firm he worked for was called Biotox.
Anyway my family were from Dublin and my dad arranged for my Mother myself and sister who was a few years older than me to stay in one of the groundsmen’s cottages with the family.
The cottage if I can recall correctly was at the end of a lane which led to the convent,there was a lad from the cottage apprx the same age as myself maybe a bit older and we spent a lot of time fishing in the lake on the convent ground’s.
I often think of that childhood Holiday and have to say was one of the best of my life,we would walk to the cinema in Millstreet in the evening and always run home at full speed past the graveyard.
I often wondered what had become of the Convent, my dad had told me f a Lion or Tiger that was in the main hall, I don’t know if he was adding his ‘own bit on’ but said to have been shot by one of the nun’s years previously in some far off land where they had served..was wondering could anyone add to this ?
Thomas Duggan says:
Hello Donal,
Thomas Duggan here – Drishane is now in our ownership (for the past 24 years in fact). The tiger is still in Millstreet but now in the Green Glens Arena, and yes he was shot on the grounds of a House of the Sisters in Malaysia once upon a time. My sisters went to boarding school there and I recall from a very early age the tiger in the hall – he was very scary looking.
Drishane is currently accommodating Asylum Seekers and has been doing so since August 1998. It is a lovely place and is full of history with its connections with the past.
The good news is that the work your Dad did worked ! There is no rot there now.
The cottage you refer to is no longer there, it suffered a fire in its latter years and then was knocked.
If you would like to walk down memory lane anytime in the future please feel free to do so, you will be very welcome.
neil cronin says:
Hi Donal,
The family your dad stayed with were the McSweeneys,
They lived in the lodge as you go down to the graveyard
They had two in family Terence and Mary.
I do remember as i was young at the time
If you want any more info do contact me
Regards Neil Cronin
Hi! I am a McCarthy from Argentina. James McCarthy (b.1836 in England), son of Callaghan McCarthy (Millstreet, Cork County, Ireland) came to this country with his sons (Augustus Charles McCarthy my old grand father). It´s a pleasure for me to research all about my ancetors and I hope I will be visiting the castles and finding my roots and familiy for 2017.I like very much this page. Thank you!
James Gilbert says:
Hi, My mother was a Wallis, daughter of James Harold Wallis who is a direct descendant of the Wallis’ of Dishane. When I was a child my mother used to wax lyrical about the ‘Family Castle’ but reading the history here the Wallis’ claim on Drishane seems rather short-lived. Could you tell me how I might find out more about the Wallis’ contribution to the Castle?
James Gilbert
The Aubane Historical Society booklets have bits and pieces on the Wallis family of Drishane, as do lots of other pages on the internet. The below link lists out where they are mentioned:
https://goo.gl/53QVP5
Though I haven’t read it, there’s also a three page article in the 1962 “Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society” on the Wallis Family of Drishane, that might be a good place to look:
The Wallis family of Drishane.
Main Author: Wallis, Sheila
Citation: Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society , Vol. LXVI, pp. 48-50, January-June, 1962
Published: January-June, 1962
It can be viewed in the National Library of Ireland (details: http://sources.nli.ie/Record/PS_UR_096043),
or that back edition can be purchased from the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society for €12.50, details on their website corkhist.ie/journal/ under “Purchasing Back Issues and Indexes”.
Jade Wallis says:
My name is Jade Wallis, grand daughter of Pauline Wallis( daughter of Thomas Wallis and direct descendant of Henry Wallis). I would love to visit the castle. I live in the Caribbean it would be fascinating to find out where all Henry’s descendants now reside, all over the world I bet!
Pamela King says:
Hello there – my name is Pamela King and I am the great great grand-daughter of Richard and Mary Barker of Moorlinch in Somerset – – Mary was formerly Mary Wallis from Midelney in Somerset, a direct descendant of the Wallis family from Drishane in Cork – Mary’s neice married her husband’s son, Percival Barker and Mathilda and Percival are my great grandparents – they emigrated to New Zealand in the 1870’s and within 25 years, Percival had amassed over 80,000 acres of land on the East Coast of NZ’s North Island – they had 14 children, 7 sons and 7 daughters, their eldest son Frank was my Grandfather. Of real interest to me was the names of various of the brothers’ lovely homes including one called Midelney and one called Drishane – in my research for a book of my Barker family history, I finally found/recognised this link to the Wallis castle in Cork, Eire – I intend visiting Castle Drishane in May of this year – Cheers
michaeld says:
It’s interesting to make the connections, but the wallis family spread far and wide going back the generations, but then mostly seemed to have died out over here. We have some more information on them here:
http://www.millstreet.ie/blog/2016/04/03/irish-divorce-suit-what-happened-in-a-flat
I wonder if you ever stumbled across the name Henry Digby Wallis from your records in NZ, or even his father Henry Aubrey Wallis? Digby was of the last of the Wallis family of Drishane, was born in Auckland in 1885 … but was killed in 1914 in WWI.
Hello there Michael – many, many thanks for all the wonderful ‘stories’ and factual info you posted to me in reply to my post – I’ve loved reading through it all – [cannot work out the ‘Wallis’ connection in the race day pics though] -sadly, I know nothing of the Henry Digby Wallis you mention as having been born in and presumably spent time in Auckland – again, many thanks for your reply post – so interesting and showing the family to have been a fabulously irrepressible and colourful lot – Love it! I do still believe there must have been some connection to the Drishane Wallis family, given the names of two of the Barker family properties here in NZ – Cheers and please keep on researching! Pamela
Mary Nugent Mone says:
Hi, I went to school at Drishane Convent which was then a boarding school. I was wondering if you have had any past pupils contact your website? and if you could put me in touch with any past pupils, particularly the class of 1973?
Anthony McCarthy says:
This post concerns photos I possess of Drishane , includes boarders and nuns , from 1924. My aunts attended during the 1920’s. As it happens they were McCarthys. My query really are photos from 1929 showing a hockey team visiting Kilrush Co.Clare and whether they depict a convent team. Does anyone know if hockey was a sport there in the 1920’s.
Any pointers / help would be gratefully received.
Anthony McCarthy.
Dear Anthony,
Unfortunately I cannot help you much regarding whether hockey was an active sport in Drishane in the 1920s, but i the photos are taken in Drishane at that time I would love to have a copy. We have a number of shots from different periods all of which reveal their own stories.
Mary Woodward says:
My mother, Mary Barnett went to this school until she was 18 in 1934. Would love to hear from anyone who had relatives from this time with any stories.
B. de Buitléar says:
The term you have used ‘turned Protestant’ is offensive. The correct terminology would be ‘converted to the Church of England’ (as it would have been at the time). I as a protestant (COI) who lived in the area for some years and personally experienced the ingrained sectarianism that is still prevalent in rural cork, your lack of consideration in using such disparaging terminology sadly only displays your own latent sectarian attitude.
Never heard of it as being an offensive term, and its use was never meant to be offensive. It simply means “to adopt religion, a manner of life, etc.”, and is used equally for all religions.
In any event it is an extract from a publication that is over 20 years old.
Alice Walsh says:
Hello, I am Alice Walsh. My aunt, Margaret Teresa Walsh attended the school in Drishane during the 1930’s together with her 4 sisters. Margaret later joined the convent in Drishane and was sent to Malaya where she taught. During WW2 the Japanese invaded and the sisters were held as prisoners of war in the convent for c 3 years. After the war Margaret left the order and went to live in Australia and later Canada.
(1) If you have any information on any of the family (from Kildorrery) I would be grateful.
(2) We plan to visit Malasia in July this year and would love to go and visit the convent where Margaret worked and lived while there. If you know where it is please let me know, I will be most grateful.
juliet mccarthy says:
hello, I also went to Drishane Convent more recently than the 1930s. I visited the Convent of
the Little Infant Jesus in Kuala Lumpur in 1993. Sister Stephanie (from India I think) was the
the sister in charge. I met one Irish sister (sister Maura from Lombardstown) but already quite
old. They ran a school there for years and I believe one in Penang. These Infant Jesus sisters
had a convent and a very progressive school now in Singapore. These were highly respected in that part of Malaysia and Singapore. I’m sure there are plenty of people in Millstreet who can help you.
Claire Mackin née Shepleya pupil from says:
A pupil here circa 1964-67, then Claire Shepley. Anyone there around this time I might know?
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#1 [Permalink] Posted on 27th December 2019 15:18
Praise belongs to Allah Who has sent down the Book to His slave and has put no crookedness in it.
It is straight, to warn of violent force direct from Him, and to give the good news to the muminun, those who do right actions, that for them there is an excellent reward,
a place in which they will remain for ever,
and to warn those who say ´Allah has a son.´
They have no knowledge of this, neither they nor their fathers. It is a monstrous utterance which has issued from their mouths. What they say is nothing but a lie.
Perhaps you may destroy yourself with grief, chasing after them, if they do not have iman in these words.
We made everything on the earth adornment for it so that We could test them to see whose actions are the best.
We will certainly make everything on it a barren wasteland.
Do you consider that the Companions of the Cave and Ar-Raqim were one of the most remarkable of Our Signs?
When the young men took refuge in the cave and said, ´Our Lord, give us mercy directly from You and open the way for us to right guidance in our situation.´(Al Kahf Verses 1-10)
I have pondered a lot on this problem. The problem of Dajjal. The problem of preserving emaan in these times. I have pondered on this problem for more than five years now.
People accuse me of inconsistency and rightly do so. However, they must understand that this problem is very complicated and our options are very few. We are not in a favorable position.
I have come to this conclusion that either fight or die preserving your iman. Migrate to the mountains and fight or go in long tabligh trips while ignoring the problems with tablighis and ask Allah to take your life in the condition of iman while you are in the path of Allah. Our job is not to correct those who don't want to be corrected. Our job is to preserve our own iman at the end.
Either fight and die or run and die. The civilized world is not safe and I can see no third option. Do whatever you can while there is still time. Who knows that as the time progresses, we will have this much choice or not.
As far as the family is concerned. At the end of the day we can do nothing but educate. We can't force anyone. So everyone will taste the fruit of their own choice.
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The price of emaan is dunia. The price of dunia is emaan.
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#2 [Permalink] Posted on 4th January 2020 06:07
I recently read this hadith which is related by Bukhari but I dont understand its meaning, it goes something like; 'A time will come when the best property of a Muslim will be sheep which he will take to a mountain so as too flee with his realigion from afflictions' Can you lpease try and explain it's meaning to me?
Praise be to Allaah.
Commentary on the hadeeth.
This hadeeth was narrated by al-Bukhaari in a number of places in his Saheeh, such as (7088) Kitaab al-Fitan, where he narrated that Abu Sa’eed al-Khudri (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Soon there will come a time when the best wealth a Muslim will have will be sheep which he will take to the mountaintops and places where rain falls, fleeing for the sake of his religious commitment from tribulation.” And Muslim narrated a similar hadeeth in his Saheeh (1888), also from Abu Sa’eed al-Khudri (may Allaah be pleased with him), which says that a man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and said, “Which of the people is best?” He said, “A man who strives in jihad for the sake of Allaah with his wealth and his self.” He asked, “Then who?” He said, “A believer in a mountain pass who worships Allaah and leaves the people alone.”
The word sha’af [in the second hadeeth] means a mountaintop. The word shi’b [in the first hadeeth] means a gap or pass between two mountains. Al- Nawawi said in Sharh Saheeh Muslim (13/34): “This does not mean the mountain pass itself, rather what is referred to is being alone and isolating oneself. A mountain pass is mentioned as a metaphor because it is usually devoid of people.”
The hadeeth indicates that it is preferable to isolate oneself from people and not mix with them in cases where a Muslim fears for his religious commitment because of widespread tribulation, where if he mixes with people he cannot be sure that his religious commitment will be safe and that he will not apostatize or deviate from the truth, or fall into shirk or abandon the basic principles and pillars of Islam, and so on.
Al-Haafiz ibn Hajar said in al-Fath (13/42): “This report indicates that isolation is preferable in the case of one who fears for his religious commitment.”
Al-Sindi said in his footnotes on al-Nasaa’i (8/124): “This shows that it is permissible to isolate oneself, indeed it is preferable at times of tribulation.”
In the second hadeeth quoted above the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) mentioned the believer who isolates himself second in virtue only to the mujaahid who fights for the sake of Allaah. Al-Haafiz said in al-Fath (6/6): “The believer who isolates himself is second in virtue only to the mujaahid because the one who mixes with people cannot guarantee that he will not commit sin, and these sins may be greater in number than the hasanaat (rewards for good deeds) that he gains as a result of mixing with people. But being isolated is regarded as preferable only in cases where there is tribulation.”
As for isolating oneself at times other than times of tribulation when a Muslim fears for his religious commitment, the scholars differed in their views in this case. The majority said that mixing with people is preferable to withdrawing from them, and they quoted several texts as evidence for that, including the following:
1 – That this was the way of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and the Prophets before him (peace be upon them), and the majority of the Sahaabah (may Allaah be pleased with them). (Sharh Muslim by al-Nawawi, 13/34).
2 – The report narrated by al-Tirmidhi (5207) and Ibn Maajah (4032), which says that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The believer who mixes with people and patiently bears their annoyance will have a greater reward than the believer who does not mix with people and patiently bear their annoyance.” (Classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Tirmidhi, 2035).
Al-Sindi said in his footnote on Ibn Maajah (2/493): “This hadeeth indicates that the one who is patient and mixes with people is better than the one who isolates himself.”
Al-San’aani said in Subul al-Salaam (4/416): “This indicates that mixing with people whereby one enjoins what is good and forbids what is evil and deals with them in a good manner is better than keeping away from them and not putting up with mixing with them.”
3 – The report narrated by al-Tirmidhi (1574) from Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) who said: “One of the Companions of the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) came upon a mountain pass where there was a small spring of fresh water, which delighted him because it was so good. He said, ‘What if I were to withdraw from the people and settle in this mountain pass? But I will not do it until I seek the permission of the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).’ So he mentioned it to the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), who said: ‘Do not do that, for if any one of you remains striving for the sake of Allaah, it is better than praying in His House for seventy years. Do you not want Allaah to forgive you and admit you to Paradise? Fight in Allaah's cause. He who fights in Allaah's cause as long as the time between two milkings of a she-camel will be assured of Paradise.’” (It was classed as hasan by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Tirmidhi, 1348).
The benefits that the Muslim gains by mixing with people for legitimate shar’i purposes, include establishing the rituals of Islam, increasing the number of the Muslims, spreading all kinds of goodness among them by helping and aiding them etc., attending Jumu’ah (Friday) prayers and prayers in congregation, attending funerals, visiting the sick, attending dhikr circles, etc. (Fath al-Baari, 13/43); Sharh Muslim by al-Nawawi, 13/34).
And Allaah is the Source of strength. And Allaah knows best. May Allaah bless our Prophet Muhammad and all his family and companions, and grant them peace.
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Masjid and Home, Masjid and Home, Masjid and Home. Quran, Dhikr, Salah, Sadaqa, Dawah.
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Don't travel unnecessarily. Don't talk unnecessarily. Keep busy in worship. Keep busy in dawah. Keep busy in dhikr. Keep busy in quran.
Strengthen your families. Inspire your families. This is the last thing left which they want to snatch. Make it strong.
Don't be frustrated when others don't change. Just keep on trying and you will get the reward. Results are not in our hand.
Talk with Allah on daily basis. Explain him your problems. Ask forgiveness. You can talk while walking, standing, sitting, laying. The tash hud posture is not necessary for duas and talks. Don't be ritualistic about it. The concept is more important and the concept is communication with Allah.
Be true to your heart. Avoid the pessimists. Avoid those who criticize unnecessarily. Avoid those who have lost hope. Avoid negative people. Avoid anyone which is disastrous for iman. Avoid the doubters. Those who cast doubts are the devils. Allah is real. His powers are real. His majesty is real. Ponder! Ponder on His creation. Ponder on how he helped you. Give Sadaqah and your wealth will increase. Your miseries will be warded off. Adopt the halal means and through sadaqah He will bring barakah in your means. Adopt the channels of dunia but rely only on Allah. Through sadaqah wealth will not decrease. Indeed! It will increase. Be patient! Be patient! It is not this way that we will give sadaqah and the return will be there immediately. Allah works in mysterious ways. Be patient! The return will surely come but after you have been tested. so be patient and don't complain. Complains delay the help and blessings. Patience hurry's them. So be patient! And in a few months or maybe a year or two, will see the results.
In this world, things don't happen within the blink of an eye. Things take time. You reap the seed, give water, spray the pesticides, put eurea and then wait and after six or so months the crops are ready. And after some years, the tree is ready. You open a youtube channel, you consistently post quality content, you increase the quality, engage with the viewers and commenters, earn a reputation and reap the reward after one or two years. You start a business, work hard, learn the skills, take advice of the wise, make wise and timely decisions, learn from the mistakes, try different strategies, hire able and trustworthy men, keep within the limits of your financial abilities and you reap the fruit after a couple of years.
So everything demands patience and consistency. Salah teaches us that. Zakah teaches us that. Sawm teaches us that. Hajj teaches us that. Kalima teaches us that. The learning of Quran itself demands patience so it prepares the students for later developments in their lives. Education must start from the Holy Quran. It demands practice, patience and hard work. When these qualities are developed in kids early on in their lives, then these qualities benefit those kids all along their lives. So education must start from Quran.
Read the translation along with the recitation. Even the translation has benefits even if it is human creation. Keep in touch witha a good summarized tafsir, lest you may get confused or get the wrong meaning. Keep a personal secret understanding of your own of the Quran without telling others, lest you may be labelled as a blasphemer in this age of fitnah. Allah communicates to our hearts and minds through Quran. So everyone will have a different personal understanding after reading it with understanding. So only recitation is not enough. Studying it is necessary as well. Quran has all the answers. Indeed! Quran has all the answers.
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The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Soon there will come a time when the best wealth a Muslim will have will be sheep which he will take to the mountaintops and places where rain falls, fleeing for the sake of his religious commitment from tribulation.”
Rasoolullah was not talking about the general time and situation where it is better for a mumin to mix with the people, Rasoolullah was talking about a special time and situation where it is better to isolate yourself. Not only that, but he was talking about a very specific time as well.
"Soon there will come a time"
It seems to me that Rasoolullah was warning us about a very specific time and situation and telling us what to do if we witness this time.
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The mountaintops can be a metaphor but are the sheeps a metaphor too? Point to ponder.
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xs11ax wrote:
Yes I think you are right.
I used to believe that Rasulullah صلی الله عليه وسلم has literally advised us to go to the mountain tops so when I read this answer, I thought to share. Though we cannot completely rely on this interpretation since it's from a Salafi site; I'm yet to read any commentary on this hadith written by Deobandi scholars.
The second half of the answer is about the general time and situation. Your point regarding isolation is valid and we understand this from various other ahadith of Rasulullah صلی الله عليه وسلم warning us about the times of fitnah.
Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “There will come tribulations in which one sitting will be better than one standing. The one standing will be better than one walking. The one walking will be better than one running. Whoever seeks these tribulations will be destroyed by them. Whoever finds a place of shelter or refuge, let him take refuge in it.”
Source: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 6670, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2886
Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As:
When we were around the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), he mentioned the period of commotion (fitnah) saying: When you see the people that their covenants have been impaired, (the fulfilling of) the guarantees becomes rare, and they become thus (interwining his fingers). I then got up and said: What should I do at that time, may Allah make me ransom for you? He replied: Keep to your house, control your tongue, accept what you approve, abandon what you disapprove, attend to your own affairs, and leave alone the affairs of the generality.
sipraomer wrote:
Yes it is really something to ponder upon. I believe there is some great barakah and wisdom behind it since all Prophets عليهم السلام used to herd sheep. So we Muslims should also possess and herd sheep.
Many things can be a metaphor and there is nothing wrong with reading between the lines and getting guidance for different situations, but some people try their best not to acknowledge the literal meaning, especially when the literal meaning is difficult to digest. We shouldn't just read between the lines. We should read the line itself.
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As long as we have Internet and Satellite phones and access to groceries, I guess living on mountain tops wouldn't be an issue...Would it?
I guess you can drive down in your pickup Truck and pick up supplies and then go back in your Cabin.
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Interpretations will differ. Ask ulama of America and UK and you will get the diluted interpretation. Ask ulama of China and Syria and you will get the undiluted interpretation.
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There was a whole street in Afghanistan where you could buy Heinz baked beans and McVities digestive biscuits etc. I think it was called Chicken Street. Foreigners literally came down the mountain top in pick up trucks to do their shopping there lol. This was the early days of the internet so no Wi-Fi.
But I understand your point. Living on a mountain isn't easy. But it is when one day living in the towns and cities become harder. Just like for those living in China and Syria.
But I understand your point. Living on a mountain isn't easy.
The price of iman is hardship. I spent 30 days in the mountains of Baluchistan in Tabligh Paidal Chillah in 2017. The whole jamat suffered with fever. We had to remain unbathed for whole week because the canal was further than our tashkeel areas. People there used to drink water from swamps of rain water from which the animals would drink too. At our return I contracted a Malaria too. This was the part of Baluchistan where all were tablighis and were helpful to us. They sacrificed 25 sheep in 30 days for us.
At that time I wondered, how much difficult it would be to live in the mountains in the times of Dajjal. And how much hardship the One year Paidal Jamaats have to endure. And how much hardship do the mujhaideen face? One can only imagine.
Again, when there will remain no choice but to preserve iman on all costs then we have to do whatever is needed.
May be the reason for going to mountain tops is to cutoff from all unnecessary ‘information‘ and to remain aloof from the unwanted mental and physical influences ? To live a more ‘natural’ life with simple halal food to sustain our lives and spend most of the time in preoccupations with ibadat, nawafil, Quran, Zikr and contemplation ?
Off course, that comes second to jihad in the path of Allah, that always remain a top priority...
The more difficult question is how to define the ‘period of fitna’ during which we are allowed to adopt ‘solitude’ away from the social responsibilities ? We certainly can’t decide it on our own...
After all, every generation have considered their time to be the time of fitna ?
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In history, there has never been a time when mass communication existed in such a sophisticated form as it is today. "The Art of Deception and Lying" has been brought to a whole new level coupled with state of the art information technology.
So there is no comparison between our times and previous times. Especially, past 20+ years have revolutionized the way we interact with media and technologies related to it. Social media has influenced our lives for better or for worse to such an extent that it is believed that Twitter was used effectively by the Arab Spring activists.
There is no doubt left that we are already living in the times of Dajjal and his arrival is very near. Therefore, we must take appropriate training now and get prepared now for whatever course we are going to adopt in the future, whether it be fight or flight.
I agree...
But look, presume Dajjal did not appear NOW but some 300 years later, the people will be saying the same thing THEN about the technology of THEIR times, no ?
The same way, the people of the past thought about their times to be the time of the arrival of Dajjal. Even sahaba were apprehensive about Dajjal in their times. Not only so, every Nabi in his time ‘warned’ his Ummah about ‘Dajjal’.....
So sipra, we do need a ‘fatwa’ based on a criteria, as to when is the time that we leave our social responsibilities aside, ignore ‘Juma’ and ‘jama’at’ and go into the solitude of our own respective ‘kahaf’...
As for the ‘end times’ , after the wafat of Syedena Rasoolullah peace be upon him, we are already in the realms of the end times...
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Who would really want to vote for career politician Tom Daly, for yet another term in the Assembly?
Maybe, you suggest, an executive – of Disney or Chevron, two of his largest contributors. Or perhaps an official in a police or prison guard’s union, in appreciation of Daly’s opposition to reform and accountability, and steadfast support of the prison-industrial complex and high pay and pensions for “public safety.”
But, a regular working-class Democrat in Santa Ana or Anaheim? I’d think they’d only vote for Tom if they didn’t know much about him, saw he was a Democrat, and didn’t realize they had a choice.
And we ALMOST had no choice, if not for the successful last-minute write-in primary campaign of my friend, Libertarian Autumn Browne, daughter of celebrated Libertarian author and two-time Presidential candidate Harry Browne. (Pictured together to right.)
Following are three groups of voters, and some reasons they should not only feel good to vote for Autumn over Tom, but should be pleased and proud in the event Autumn actually beats him!
1. Democrats and other people who consider themselves progressive or liberal.
While it’s true that you may disagree with some of Autumn’s positions, you should know that Tom Daly has long been known as the LEAST progressive Democrat in the legislature. And even though his apologists claim he HAS to be that conservative in order to stay in power in “conservative OC,” this has NEVER been true in his deep blue district (as progressive Joe Dunn proved last decade), and it is certainly LESS TRUE THAN EVER in this new post-Trump blue-wave OC. In short, Tom has no excuse to be voting like a Republican half the time.
What are we talking about, least progressive? Since 2015 the Courage Campaign has released a “People’s Report Card of California,” grading our legislators on “their political courage, revealing how well they stand up for their constituents over corporations or interest groups that exploit Californians, particularly the poor, disadvantaged, or communities of color.” Every year so far he has earned an “F,” putting him in the “Hall of Shame,” as one of the legislators “most closely aligned with corporations and interest groups that exploit Californians.”
Specifics? Tom REALLY pissed off local Democrats in early 2016 when – not for the first time! – he was one of only two Democrats to vote against a minimum wage increase, giving bogus and shifting justifications for his vote. The Courage Campaign scorecard goes on and on with Tom’s anti-people votes – for example just last year voting against AB 378 (setting new pollution limits for cap and trade recipients) and AB423 (which helps protect low-income Californians from eviction.) That last one – do you really think the low-income district he represents wanted him to vote that way? NO – he is not representing THEM, but his corporate funders.
Anyway, in the event Daly lost to Autumn, we Democrats would NOT be losing our precious Supermajority, if you’re worried about that. And replacing him with an honest Libertarian would make it easy for a much better Democrat to take this seat back in Presidential Year 2020. Santa Ana and Anaheim deserve no less.
Autumn says: “Daly’s track record as the former Mayor of Anaheim and as the OC Clerk Recorder showed that he was a servant to corporate interests and did not care about the poor and minorities. This track record has followed him into the State Assembly. He is a career politician who needs to get retired on Nov. 6.”
2. Republicans, libertarians, and independent conservatives.
That’s a no-brainer, you guys should vote for Autumn because she agrees with you that there should be smaller government and lower taxes and regulations. We progressives have a lot of complaints about him as listed above and below, but when it comes to raising regressive taxes, growing government, limiting liberty, and taking away your guns, Tom votes as a lockstep Democrat.
To you Autumn says, correctly: “Tom Daly voted for SB 1 to increase gas and vehicle taxes, rather than fixing the real problem – which is the diversion of those funds by politicians into non-transportation budgets. Also, he voted in favor of AB 1889 which authorized $1.1 billion for the high speed rail fiasco…”
3. PEOPLE OF ANY PARTY who care about civil liberties, police reform, and curtailing California’s prison-industrial complex, as well as opposing corporate welfare / crony capitalism.
These are values I wish I could say were Democratic Party values. They are the values of SOME Democrats, as well as some Republicans and independents. They are good AMERICAN values, in fact I think we could say they are ORANGE JUICE BLOG values. And they are ones in which Autumn shines, and Daly sucks.
In the wake of so many tragic police killings, several good police reform bills passed our legislature this year – ALL OF THEM WITH NO HELP FROM TOM DALY. The records of bad cops are slowly getting opened up, and body cam footage of incidents will be made available to the public much sooner. It is going to become easier for well-behaving youths to remove themselves from gang registers. It is going to become easier for folks with an irrelevant criminal background to get employment. All of this with no help from Tom Daly, a BFF to prison guards and bad cops, and an enemy to the minorities he pretends to represent in the Assembly.
Even in this election he endorses the utterly corrupt and draconian Don Barnes for Sheriff over fine Democrat candidate Duke Nguyen, as well as – once again – Tony Rackauckas for DA – the DA who kindly overlooked every brush with the law that Tom has had.
Autumn says: “I support public safety; however, we should hold our police officers to the highest standard. Use of force must be warranted, and all other options considered. When there is a shooting, the resulting body cam footage should be made available for public review, as well as police records. Often we find that suspect police officers have a long record of abusing their power. But the truth can not come out if it is squelched.”
Long before the Mayorship (and then Shadow-Mayorship) of Curt Pringle, Mayor Tom Daly was the Master of Anaheim Crony Capitalism, obedient in all things to Disney. We Anaheimers are still paying for his deals and decisions. His elevation into the assembly was funded by Disney and Chevron, and one of his first (thankfully unsuccessful) missions was to save Disney’s beloved “Enterprise Zones,” which Brown and the Democrats had finally begun to see as a total scam that did NOT help the workers it was supposed to, but enriched the corporations that learned to game it. [*UPDATE – see comments below, for the letter to the LA Times that Tom wrote in defense of Disney, after their bombshell expose “Is Disney paying its fair share in Anaheim?”]
Autumn says: “Tom Daly was elected to serve the people of the 69th Assembly District. However his record does show a distinct inclination to bend knee to the corporate interests. As a Libertarian I do not support corporate welfare. I believe in reigning in government power and streamlining our government.”
Oh. Autumn’s not done. She continues, in conclusion: “I offer the best solutions to the issues facing our country, based on the concepts of freedom and individual rights. When I win, voters are telling politicians that they have had enough!
“I am a public school teacher with over 22 years experience teaching kids in Anaheim. My only goals as a candidate for the State Assembly are to serve the public and to provide a different viewpoint in Sacramento – one that opposes the wasting of our tax money. I will hold our state government accountable and work hard to stop the unethical and wanton behaviors of the majority of our state legislators. My website is http://www.autumnbrowne.com/.”
The Orange Juice Blog – well, Vern anyway –
endorses Autumn Browne for Assembly!
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Mitch Powell
Posted November 2, 2018 at 4:18 PM
Thanks for the enlightenment.
“But, a regular working-class Democrat in Santa Ana or Anaheim? I’d think they’d only vote for Tom if they didn’t know much about him, saw he was a Democrat, and didn’t realize they had a choice. ”
You pegged me to a ‘T.’
I see the better choice now. Thank you.
Voting no on 6, recall effort was bogus negative posts against your a
Opponent don’t make you a better candidate, supporting Tom Daly, a big and early supporter west Anaheim
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You okay, John?
Greg Diamond
Daly’s one of the Democrats whom Rackauckas probably likes, so now it makes sense why John here slags Spitzer.
Mark Richard Daniels
Posted November 3, 2018 at 8:05 AM
That’s Mrs.Michael Buss!!
Tom Daly & Lou Correa are my Favorite Democratic/Republicans.
They reportedly get upset when I call then “hermaphroDems.”
Posted November 3, 2018 at 12:30 PM
I think that, apart from falling asleep in the middle of writing, John got thrown off by Autumn mentioning SB1 – which was only a selling point to Republican voters, not a reason you or I or John would vote for Autumn.
And this led his mind to the Josh Newman recall, and to connect THAT unjust recall of a great senator with THIS rejection of a bad assemblyman. Nope, no connection at all.
By the way I dont remember Tom Daly or Lou Correa helping at all to fight the Josh Recall. SQS was ALL OVER it, and she is endangered while they are not.
Posted November 5, 2018 at 11:38 AM
As illustration of Daly’s abiding allegiance to Disney, here is the letter he wrote to the Times on Oct 1, 2017, in response to their bombshell expose of Sept 24 (AND Oct 1), “Is Disney Paying its Fair Share?”
“Your readers were not provided a balanced perspective on the relationship between the city of Anaheim and Walt Disney Co. I was interviewed about my years as Mayor, including about agreements reached between the city and the company to create the Anaheim Resort District.
“The vastly greater-than-anticipated revenues from tourism since the resort creation are hardly mentioned. The many beautification improvements to decaying old streetscapes near Disneyland – a truly stunning before-and-after success – are ignored.
“Also not mentioned are the hundreds of millions of dollars in crucial transportation improvements included in the agreements, as well as the affordable housing projects adjacent to the resort.
“The major financial windfall to the city treasury from tourism should be a source of pride and opportunity for the city. Anaheim has more financial resources than most California cities, primarily due to the largesse of tourism. Yet the city has struggled in recent years to effectively demonstrate how it spends those extra revenues on community benefits, such as new parks, youth programs, or street and sidewalk repairs.
“Meanwhile, the city’s tourism revenues and employment base continue to grow every year thanks to the thoughtful – and unanimous – decisions made at city hall 20 years ago.”
Assemblyman Tom Daly, (D) Anaheim
The writer was mayor of Anaheim from 1992-2002.
The original article should be read, if you fell for any of that revisionist malarkey. Meanwhile, a more honest OC Assemblyman/Supervisor, Chris Norby, wrote in the same day:
“For decades, Disneyland’s profits went to Hollywood executives and Wall Street investors, leaving Anaheim with low-wage jobs and soaring poverty – and a puppet City Council showering it with corporate welfare.
“Great to see Mayor Tait and his new Council majority finally standing up for their own citizens.”
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GPs have spoken – it’s time for action
The majority of GP practices in England told the BMA in a recently conducted survey they would consider temporarily suspending new patient registrations to focus on delivering safe care to their current patients.
Who can blame them for considering such an option, to ensure they provide safe care to those patients already on their list?
It’s high time health secretary Jeremy Hunt walked the talk and took action to address this growing crisis. Promises of extra GPs have not been delivered, while funding increases are nowhere near enough to address the fundamental problems.
Anyone who has visited their GP recently will be aware of the pressures: the struggle to get an appointment, the difficulty of seeing the same GP more than once, the rush to get you out of the door for the next patient. The failure to acknowledge the crisis facing GP services – under-resourced, over-stretched shells of their former selves, struggling to keep pace with patient demand despite the efforts of their staff – could finish off general practice, ‘the jewel in the crown of the NHS’, in the next few years for good.
While the demand is rising, the Government has failed to provide the support local GP practices desperately require. Funding for general practice has been flatlining for years. Many practices do not have enough staff, resources or adequate buildings. It is not surprising the public is becoming frustrated at the lack of appointments and delays getting treatment.
The future of the NHS relies on robust general practice
For the past two years Mr Hunt has been promising to alleviate the pressures by pledging more money and making proposals to help ease workload and recruit an extra 5,000 GPs. But recent figures show the number of GPs is falling – not rising – with many retiring early or moving abroad.
The future of the NHS and patient care relies on having robust general practice services, yet the past decade has seen a political assault on general practice to weaken it. The whole concept of federated organisations, as envisaged in the Five Year Forward View, creates economies of scale that are designed to finish off traditional general practice and have it taken over by the private sector, by the likes of Virgin care.
It is exactly because of this disastrous situation that the GPC sought the views of coalface GPs for a way forward . The Government must face up to this challenge, be frank with the public about what needs to be done, and resource primary care properly.
Dr Richard Vautrey, newly elected GPC chair, articulated the anger and warnings from the profession eloquently and clearly when he said: ‘The time for warm words has long been over.
‘Politicians must take this survey as a clear, serious warning from those who know the most about what it is really like to work in local GP service. Promises must be put into action before irreversible damage is done to the fabric of general practice.’
We cannot stand by and watch general practice slide into permanent decline.
GPs have answered, it’s time for action.
Dr Kailash Chand is a retired GP from Tameside and is honorary vice-president of the BMA
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Devil'sAdvocate | GP Partner/Principal08 Sep 2017 1:30pm
"The majority of GP practices in England told the BMA in a recently conducted survey"
Eh, factually incorrect - the ballot showed 1 in 7-8 practices would close (or maybe not even that many if push came to shove in a real vote).
Unimpressive foreseeable and naive weakening of our position from LMC conference and GPC.
Marlow | GP12 Sep 2017 8:19pm
Time for action?!? A call to arms from the BMA?!?
You insult me.
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NAPERVILLE APARTMENTS SELL FOR $38 MILLION
By: Alby Gallun October 01, 2015
(Crain’s) – The rising real estate market has made the search for stalled condominium projects much harder for investors, but two Chicago investment firms have found a big one in Naperville.
A joint venture between Origin Capital Partners and Randolph Street Realty Capital paid about $38 million for the Iroquois Club, an apartment complex in the western suburb that was partially converted to condos in 2006.
But buyers disappeared after the condo market crashed, and the project’s owner, a venture led by local developer Stanley Brashears, sold only 26 of the 128 condos, renting out the rest. Origin and Randolph Street bought the unsold condos and another 136 apartments in the complex that were never converted, bringing their total number of units to 238.
Fractured condo properties, which have some sold and some rented units, can be messy for investors – co-existing with individual condo owners isn’t always easy, for instance. But that also means they’re less expensive to buy than a conventional multifamily property, offering an opportunity for investors willing to take the risk.
The Iroquois Club, 1101 E. Iroquois Ave., appealed to Origin and Randolph Street because it’s only 80 percent occupied, its rents are low and its units are dated, said Dave Welk, Origin’s managing director of acquisitions.
Their plan: to boost the value of the property by fixing up the apartments, hiking rents on the updated units, and bringing its occupancy back up to about 95 percent, he said. He’s confident the plan will work because of the strong demand for apartments in Naperville. Origin and Randolph Street own another property there: Naper Place, a 49-unit apartment complex used as student housing by North Central College.
“We know the market and know the fundamentals are especially strong,” Welk said.
Brashears, a partner of Warrenville-based Phillips Martin Real Estate who developed the Iroquois Club in 1989, did not return a call.
Fractured condo projects became an investment trend after the condo bust as developers, under pressure to pay back overdue construction loans, and lenders pushed the properties out into the market.
Many investors that bought them just rented out the unsold condos, while some “de-converted” the properties into apartment buildings by buying back the condos that had been sold off. In 2013, Origin and Randolph Street paid about $17 million for the unsold condos in Pure, a failed West Loop condo project with about 70 units, and bought out a handful of owners to turn the building into a full rental property called Lux24.
The firms plan to do the same thing at the Iroquois Club, but aren’t in any rush to buy the 26 condos that were already sold, Welk said. “We will look to buying back the units as they make sense.” he said.
The joint venture financed its acquisition with a $27 million loan from MB Financial Bank and also arranged a $5.6 million line of credit from the Chicago-based lender to finance its purchase of the 26 condos, according to a mortgage filed with DuPage County.
As the real estate market has recovered and lenders and developers have worked out their problems, finding failed condo deals – and distressed properties generally – to buy has become like searching for a “needle in a haystack,” Welk said. It’s getting harder and harder,” he said.
Origin is funding its stake in the Iroquois Club with equity from its second investment fund, which totals about $65 million. The firm is in the process of raising another $250 million to $300 million for its third fund, Welk said.
Origin also plans to raise some money for the Iroquois Club through crowdfunding, raising money in small amounts from many individual investors, a trend sweeping through the real estate industry. It would be the first such investment offered by Origin, which launched a crowdfunding platform this week.
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Family: Pinaceae Spreng. ex F.Rudolphi
Genus: Abies Mill.
Abies flinckii Rushforth
This species is accepted, and its native range is Mexico (S. Jalisco. Michoacán).
According to EDGE Gymnosperms
[EDGE]
Forest, F. et al. 2018. Gymnosperms on the EDGE. Scientific Reports 8: 6053. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-24365-4.
Abies flinckii has not been evaluated (NE) yet according to IUCN Red List criteria and has received a EDGE score of 1.56, which places it in position 188 on the EDGE Gymnosperm list. It has a Evolutionary Distinctiveness of 4.9, ranked 805. More information on the EDGE Gymnosperm project here https://www.edgeofexistence.org.
Mexico Southwest
Abies flinckii Rushforth appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 46: 101 (1989)
Farjon, A. (2001). World Checklist and Bibliography of Conifers, ed. 2: 1-309. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Abies guatemalensis var. jaliscana.]
Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne. [Cited as Abies guatemalensis.]
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Tri Alpha Energy does not have a website. Its office in California is unmarked. But this stealth company apparently has hundreds of millions in cash. And now it has something to show for it, reports The company claims it’s gotten ten times better at containing high-energy particles necessary for fusion energy.
But before we rev up the hype machine, it’s important to understand Tri Alpha Energy’s achievement is a tenfold improvement to a very, very inefficient process. Fusion requires getting particles to insanely high energies and slamming them together, like in stars. The problem is how to keep those particles from destroying everything thing else. Tri Alpha figured out how to create a phenomenon for containing particles that lasts 5 milliseconds. To actually getting more energy out of fusion than you put in, though, it’ll need it to last for a second. You can do the math.
What’s exciting about Tri Alpha’s announcement, however, is that it’s doing it in an entirely different way. For the past few decades, scientists have been developing doughnut-shaped “tokamak” reactors, which contain particles with powerful magnets, or using laser beams to compress minuscule pellets of fuel. But the multibillion dollar flagship projects for these two approaches, ITER and the National Ignition Facility, have both notoriously stalled.
Enter Tri Alpha and field-reserved configuration. Here’s Daniel Clery of Science explaining how it works:
Tri Alpha’s device relies on a plasma phenomenon called a field-reversed configuration (FRC), akin to a smoke ring of plasma. Because plasma is made of charged particles (electrons and nuclei), the swirling particles in the FRC create a magnetic field that acts to hold the ring together, potentially long enough for fusion to get going. Tri Alpha’s 23-meter-long device has at its heart a long tube with numerous ring-shaped magnets and other devices along its length. It creates a plasma smoke ring close to each end and fires them toward the middle at 250 kilometers per second. At the center they merge, converting their kinetic energy into heat to produce a high-temperature FRC.
In a couple of papers published in and Physics of Plasmas, Tri Alpha’s scientists write how a combination of improvements, including faster ions, have gotten the FRC to last 10 times longer. It’s still a long way from fusion energy, but this may herald a new path to it.
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Leslie Goldberg writes: It is two weeks after Hurricane Katrina — our second September 11. On September 11, 2001, the world changed drastically: A veil was pulled away from our eyes, and we saw this terrible schism between ourselves and the entire Arab world, between our religion and their religion. A xenophobic boil of anger and fear that was already growing in America exploded when those airplanes flew into those buildings — our buildings, our people.
Since then, a murderous, vengeful American rage has been loosed on the world. A recent news report indicates that American "contractors" in Iraq are randomly shooting at innocent Iraqis, and there's no accountability. Suspected terrorists are locked up — without trials or representation or even being charged — in our installations in Cuba, Afghanistan, Iraq and the United States. America, once the well-scrubbed, good-intentioned, gap-toothed farmboy, now looks like Scarface in leather gloves about to administer torture.
And now, in the wake of Katrina, another veil is pulled on another terrible schism in America: Rich white against poor black.
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The scene was almost unthinkable: Thousands of poor, black Americans, two-thirds women and children, imprisoned in an indoor stadium with no food, no water, no toilets, no order of law, unbearable heat in utter darkness, while the federal government dithered. The same thing was going on in the New Orleans convention center, and the national government didn't even know those people were there.
A rich, white president who exercises an hour a day so that he can be "crisp," and who vacations five weeks a year even in time of war, looks out his plane window to see what is probably the country's worst natural disaster and the country's worst humanitarian disaster. But he's so far up he can't see or hear the screams of the poor, the sick, the mentally incapacitated, the elderly and the children who are dying below. And it's painfully obvious to everyone that the president doesn't care to hear or see the anguish. And it's painfully obvious to everyone that most of the people suffering below are black.
America let them down — to use a favorite phrase of the vice president — big-time.
The Price of Tax Cuts
And now there has been a frenzy of donations to the Red Cross. Please excuse my jaundiced view, but I wonder how many people prefer to have a nice, warm, satisfied feeling that comes from writing a $100 check, instead of feeling guilt over having refused to support taxation.
Over and over Bush has promised lower taxes, and throughout his political career he has delivered that in spades — certainly for the rich.
Thanks to cost-cutting, money for FEMA wasn't there. The agency, as aptly demonstrated on national TV, is a shell. Who cared if you appointed an idiot with virtually no relevant experience to run the thing? There was very little to run.
So America, you don't want to pay taxes? Here's what it looks like.
Barbara Bush had it right: "These people were underprivileged before." It was obvious that most of the victims on television, many of them missing teeth, hadn't had the benefit of dental care or adequate medical care. Many looked terribly overweight, a sign of poor, not good, nutrition. (Guess they didn't exercise.)
Others, by the way they spoke, demonstrated a pitiful lack of education — living examples of a New Orleans public education system that's little better than a charade, with only about half the kids managing to graduate from high school within four years.
Guess the poor folks of New Orleans missed the bull market of the '90s.
They've been let down for a long time, and this time America was refusing to even toss out a few MREs or a pallet of water from a helicopter or open up its military hospital ship, the USS Bataan, which happened to be in the Gulf when Katrina hit. The governor kept begging for evacuation buses.
It was ghastly.
And now the Bush administration and its minions have taken to the airwaves to blame the local authorities. Let the swift-boating begin. Don't show the bodies on TV. The death toll isn't as high as expected.
The PR strategy seems to be working.
Yet one can't deny the bells are tolling for the New Deal and the Great Society. The bells are tolling for our hopes for an equal society, a compassionate society. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" sounds so quaint, so naïve to our modern ears.
Laura Bush was insulted and upset to hear that people were saying it was racism that slowed down the relief efforts.
The lady protests too much. I say to Mrs. Bush, "Get real."
A Republican friend who lives in Louisiana said, "The people who didn't evacuate when they should have are just the dregs of society, the worst people, the people nobody wants. Most of them are convicted felons and the ones who aren't convicted felons just haven't been caught."
So the dregs are in the Astrodome waiting for their $2,000 debit card.
Cindy Sheehan continues to tour the country, still waiting for the president to explain the noble cause for which her son died.
Perhaps if the president would explain, military recruiters wouldn't have to troll among the country’s most vulnerable. If people did truly believe the cause was noble, wouldn't they be lining up?
Right now, I think the "noble cause" that is America is being rewritten. I am not hopeful.
After September 11 there was talk about "reaching out" to the Arab-Muslim world. I would think that any African-Americans who started hearing about this administration and/or the Republican party extending a hand to them would want to head for the hills!
Currently, I'm reading The Diary of Anne Frank for inspiration.
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Hobie-wan
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Re: Games Beaten 2015
by Hobie-wan Fri Feb 06, 2015 4:19 am
Ok, I haven't gotten every item and achievement, but I just cleared the last ending, so I'm considering it beaten, if not 'completed'.
02-06-15 - Binding of Isaac Rebirth.
Good night Mega Satan!
Man, the boss rush room you can get if you defeat mom in under 20 minutes is a gauntlet, but sheesh! All the vices and horsemen plus a couple of angels.
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by Stark Fri Feb 06, 2015 2:41 pm
Hobie-wan wrote: Ok, I haven't gotten every item and achievement, but I just cleared the last ending, so I'm considering it beaten, if not 'completed'.
How's this compare to the original?
Let strength be granted, so the world might be mended...so the world might be mended.
by Hobie-wan Fri Feb 06, 2015 4:57 pm
Stark wrote:
It's a big improvement over the original. I have issues with a few things, as I noted back when I first got it, but yeah, more of the same but better. Initially it seemed a lot harder in general, but now I see it was mostly the inrush of new enemies that I had to learn that were on par with the difficulty of playing the original for the first time. Summary of points below.
Proper controller input which also gives you analog for the walking.
Free screen resizing.
More items.
Items combine in more interesting ways and don't bug out like they often did in the original when you got crazy combinations.
More level tile variety.
Lots of little animated details everywhere that weren't in before.
More room configurations. Most are still 1x1, but you can also have 1x2, 2x1, and 2x2 as well as some secrets that are yet another Zelda call out.
The Meh
Apparently Edward always wanted pixel art. The pixel art is good with more details as I said, but I liked the smooth shapes too.
Occasionally there are really annoying or unfair rooms. Sometimes more than half a room will be blocked off but there will be fast flying enemies that rush you at high speed as you enter the room and you will take damage. There's a particular 2x2 room with constantly spitting stone heads and roaming enemies that you can't hit until they open up. Trying to time avoiding the stone heads while coaxing the enemies open and hitting them is maddening. I always die or am nearly dead when I encounter that room.
The new music is good, but the original music was better IMHO.
Hate hate hate the new voices. Where the original had sympathetic whimpers, there are now annoying whines. Mom was all nice and creepy before when fighting her, now she's just... angry.
Key-Glyph
by Key-Glyph Fri Feb 06, 2015 8:01 pm
1. Pokémon SoulSilver (DS)
2. Sushi Academy (DS)
3. Alcahest (SFC)
4. Comix Zone (GEN)
Brief plot: Sketch Turner, along with his pet rat Roadkill, gets pulled into the comic book he's been writing by his own villain. Now the villain is the artist, actively drawing enemies in Sketch's path and doing other nefarious real-world things (like burning pages -- brilliant!) to torment and destroy our hero. Sketch teams up with Roadkill and one of his comic's fictional protagonists to attempt an escape.
Reflection: So, Comix Zone is one of those games that infuriates you until you've tripped all the booby-traps, identified everything that can kill you, and memorized the locations of all the hidden power-ups. What makes this learning process particularly awful in this case is that there are no "lives" to speak of. Run out of health and it's game over, and at most I've only been offered two continues after dying. There's never any indication of how one earns continues or whether there are any on reserve, either, which only adds to the feeling of "this game has me twisting in the wind... and it's enjoying that."
In a sense this is interesting, because the whole plot of the game does revolve around a villain who's being sadistically unfair to the protagonist. (The "continue" screen is literally the artist-villain scoffing, "Killing you was too easy! At least give me a challenge, why don't you," then drawing Sketch back into his comic book hell.) But that said, it's super unforgiving for a game that forces you to fail in order to understand how to navigate a stage. It got to the point where I was clearing the first few chapters fairly easily, getting about an inch further on a new page, dying from a landmine I didn't see, then starting from the beginning. Then I'd get two inches further before dying. Progress!
After all that, though, you mostly love it. It's a beat-em-up, so you can still have a challenging run no matter how good you are. The concept is great, the art and music are really fantastic. I can see myself replaying this a lot, actually.
Rant: But now, I must rant about the final boss for a second. There are two endings to this game: a good and a bad. The good requires that you rescue your fictional friend from certain doom in addition to everything else, and to do so, you have to flip a switch that 1) doesn't appear until you've cleared the final boss and all other enemies in the room, and 2) doesn't work like any other switch in the entire game. The first time I finished everything I had time to spare for the rescue, but I couldn't get the hit detection to take. My rat wouldn't even pull the switch, and that's one of his main gameplay functions. I had to watch a longplay to discover that I needed to inexplicably grab the lever not by facing it, but by approaching it backwards, to throw it.
I'm thinking this might have been a programming mistake, as the game is buggy in other areas... but a part of me thinks this might have been a Kaizo trap, and let me tell you: I was not happy about it.
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Key-Glyph wrote: 1. Pokémon SoulSilver (DS)
Beating Comix Zone proves something to me I already knew, you're a saint.
by Exhuminator Fri Feb 06, 2015 11:23 pm
Comix Zone starts out so awesome, but the game really starts to fall apart towards the end. The final half of the game feels rushed and repetitive.
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by MrPopo Sat Feb 07, 2015 1:53 am
1. Painkiller - PC
2. Front Mission 4 - PS2
3. Wasteland 2 - PC
4. Arcanum - PC
5. X-COM Terror from the Deep - PC
6. Military Madness - TurboGrafx-16
7. Unreal - PC
8. Shadowrun - SNES
So I just finished the Together RPG game. I found it to be short but sweet. The game definitely didn't overstay its welcome which was a concern with the system in the game. It's basically an adventure game that includes a minor combat system. The combat is pretty simplistic; you simply switch to the targeting cursor, highlight an enemy, and mash the fire button. The cursor even follows enemies as they move; only if they're going too fast do you have to reaim.
The adventure game part is pretty good. You start off with amnesia but it leads to a pretty good discovery of what you were supposed to be doing and why you nearly got iced. And the game never just gives you a massive exposition dump of "here's what you were" or you suddenly remembering everything. It ends up feeling pretty good overall. The game also doesn't involve any of that Sierra logic that makes no sense; the worst it does is a few times you need to guess who's the right person to use the new keyword you learned on when it's non-obvious. There was also one or two moments where I missed something small in the background that was either a pickup or something to use. Once I knew to look for the items in question they stuck out so I think it was mostly a case of things being too busy in one instance and completely not expecting them in a second.
Games Beaten: 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Blizzard Entertainment Software Developer - All comments and views are my own and not representative of the company.
by alienjesus Sat Feb 07, 2015 3:59 pm
1. Star Fox 2 SNES
2. Sonic Advance 2 GBA
3. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker Wii U
4. Advance Wars: Dark Conflict DS
5. Joy Mech Fight Famicom
6. Grandia PS1 *NEW*
7. Money Idol Exchanger Game Boy *NEW*
2 more games for the list.
Grandia
Warning, major story spoilers ahead:
I'm a bit late finishing up Grandia for January's Together Retro, but I'm glad to have finished the game.
Like a couple of other people here, I think that Grandia is far superior in execution to Final Fantasy 7, if not as ambitious. The story is better written, the mechanics are more interesting, the main characters at least are more memorable and overall I just find it a lot more likeable as a whole.
Grandia's story feels like it has emotional impact, even when it can equally be a little cheesy and predictable. Moments like Justin leaving home on the ship, Sue leaving the party and Leen's death actually feel like they have weight and are well done. Yes, they can be cheesy, but it's utterly refreshing to have your main character leave his home town by choice - no destruction of the village, no exile - he has reasons not to leave - his mum, his friends - and he makes a difficult choice to do so. It's far more impactful than the bigger epic scale most RPGs start out with.
I also love that despite how it ends up, the first chunk of the game is all about going on an adventure. For a while, there's no world ending threat, destined heros blahblahblah. Yes it does add those elements, but they come later, after you've been given time to appreciate the characters as they are without the pressures of being destined warriors etc.
Justin, Feena, Rapp and Sue, as well as Leen and Mullen, are all quite well written characters. They're not going to be winning an oscar or anything (and the voice actors sure won't - they're not the worst, but they're still pretty poor - ESPECIALLY Mullen, which can ruin the drama of some pivotal late game moments) but they're believeable, they have character and they even feel like they have arcs. The other 4 playable characters on the other hand seem to be just party filler, and I wish that we'd been allowed to just keep Sue for our final party.
The battle system is great. I'm not going to go into much more detail than thatother than to say that taking account of what attack is coming when, who can cancel who and the like is a lot of fun, and I really like the weapon and magic experience boosting stats and granting new abilities. It feels very active for a turn based RPG, and I like it.
Visually the game looks OK. It's not stunning, but it looks nice enough, and theres some nice diversity in the game environments. Dungeons can look a bit samey throughout though, which compounded by the poor camera angle, bad dungeon design, wide open areas and no map can make chugging through dungeons a chore sometimes.
My one gripe with the game is that it's too long - and it is quite a big gripe I feel. I've played a lot of RPGs, and I've played some for far longer than the 50 hours or so this takes (I put 130 into Xenoblade Chronicles). The thing with this game though is that it didn't need to be this long - especially towards the end of the game when big plot developments are happening, the constant new dungeon areas ruin the story pacing. The game has too much filler too - near the end of the game you go through one dungeon twice, only 3 hours apart. Earlier on you must go talk to a character after he leaves your party - two thirds through an earlier dungeon. Almost every major dungeon requires you to manually walk out after beating the boss - it's tedious and unnecessary, and it disturbs the games otherwise solid story pacing.
Overall, I really liked Grandia. I loved the world, the characters and the battle system. It's not my favourite RPG of the era though, just because of the incredibly tedious (and unavoidable) filler used to extend the games length. Final Fantasy IX probably wins out for me as far as PS1 RPGs go, but I had a lot of fun with this one, and I'm glad we chose it. Especially as our other JRPG option was Wild Arms, and that game sucks
Recently I visited an arcade with a friend, and one of the machines they had was a head to head puzzle game which we enjoyed immensely. I had no idea what it was, but from the basic mechanics, I assumed it was a Magical Drop game. What it actually was, was Money Idol Exchanger.
Once I discovered what I'd been playing, I was determined to find a home port to play. Unfortunately, the only console port was on PS1, and was Japan only, which I had no way to play right now. I did find out about a Japan only Game Boy port though, and despite knowing that it wouldn't be quite the same experience as the multiplayer focused arcade game, I picked it up nonetheless.
Money Idol Exchanger is a puzzle game with Magical Drop mechanics - you can grab a bunch of the coins that litter the screen and place them on top of others to match them. The crucial difference is that instead of matching colours, you're matching currency value. Combine five coins worth 1 to make one coin worth 5. Combine two 5s to make a 10, five 10s to make a 50 etc, until two 500s disappear outright.
This makes for interesting pacing, as some coins are easier to clear than others. whereas 5s, 50s and 500s can be cleared by simply matching 2, clearing the 1, 10 and 100 coins requires making a chain of 5, which is trickier. There's a major balance in finding time to align 5 of the lower value coins whilst still matching the easier ones whenever possible.
In the Arcade version, matching fast, or making combos will push more coins down your opponents screen. This mechanic is sort of carried over into this Game Boy port, but you can't see the opponents screen, so it doesn't really feel like it's something to worry about.
Presentation wise the port is bare bones - it has a nice super game boy border, comes with 3 modes (no idea what 2 of them are, the top 1 is vs. CPU though), and only a few music tracks, which are OK but get annoying eventually. Theres not much else to it. It plays fairly well, although it really misses the shininess of the arcade ports sound and graphics, and I feel like the d-pad movement feels a bit less reponsive, although it's hard to compare as I haven't played the arcade game all that much.
It's a fun game and I enjoyed it, but definitely play the PS1 or Arcade versions if you can - the 2 player really is integral to the experience.
by BoneSnapDeez Sat Feb 07, 2015 4:20 pm
Oh wow that Money Idol Exchanger game is on MVS.
*looks at prices*
lol nevermind.
BoneSnapDeez wrote: Oh wow that Money Idol Exchanger game is on MVS.
Yeah, I hate to even ask...
Apparently it's on PSN in Japan though?
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Young Loggerhead Sea Turtles Spend Lost Years Floating In Seaweed
By John Virata
Where do baby loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) spend their youth? Previously, not a lot was known about young loggerheads except for the fact that very few survive into adulthood. The general notion was the young turtles swam around the Atlantic, drifting with the North Atlantic Subtropical gyre and that opportunistic offshore sightings or lab-based studies made up the bulk of what was known of the turtles during their "lost years."
Photo courtesy of Jim Abernethy, NMFS
Juvenile loggerhead turtle with solar-based satellite transmitter.
A new study published March 4 in the Proceedings of The Royal Society B has provided more comprehensive data than what was previously available. The researchers conducted a fairly detailed study of where young sea turtles go during their "lost years" and have determined that after loggerhead sea turtles hatch, those that escape land-based predators as well as ocean-based predators spend the vast bulk of their "lost years" drifting with Sargassum seaweed patches.
Researchers Katherine L. Mansfield (Department of Biology, University of Central Florida), Jeanette Wyneken (Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University), Warren P. Porter (Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin at Madison), and Jiangang Luo (Division of Marine Biology and Fisheries, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami) wanted to find out where baby loggerheads went in the vast Atlantic Ocean and set about tracking, with solar-powered satellite transmitters that measured such details as distance and ambient temperature, 17 neonate turtles across hundreds to thousands of miles of ocean.
Baby loggerhead turtle swimming in the Gulf Stream.
The team tracked the reptiles from dozens to hundreds of days in the ocean and found that the young chelonians take refuge within floating mats of Sargassum, a species of seaweed that is home not only to the turtles, but to other organisms as well, providing the turtles with not only nourishment, but also protection and shelter. In addition to providing shelter and a food source, the scientists noted that the surrounding water in the Sargassum patches were 4 to 6 degrees (Celsius) warmer than surrounding waters, which contributed to the fast metabolism of the turtles.
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The data also revealed that the turtles rarely swam into Continental Shelf waters and often leave the currents of the North Atlantic Subtropical gyre and travelled from 200 to more than 4300 kilometers. They found that all the test subjects initially swam north, staying near the Gulf Stream. Ten turtles stayed within the Gulf Stream up to North Carolina, then broke off, moving east toward the northwestern Atlantic. Of the 17, just one turtle spent any amount of time in Continental Shelf waters, just 21 days. Another turtle traveled west of the Azores in 219 days before the satellite tag stopped transmitting data.
The scientists say that the loggerhead sea turtles' association with Sargassum seaweed is important to the survival of oceanic-stage sea turtles and contributes to their metabolism and growth rates.
The full article can be found on the Proceedings of The Royal Society B website.
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Caddyshackpocalypse Now: Let's Make A Deal?
The ongoing saga of Northwestern Mutual Life's efforts to redevelop Reston National Golf Course into more of the usual bollardy mixed-use goodness may have entered a new phase. According to our BFFs at Reston 2020, it appears that "the quiet company" is quietly trying to negotiate some kind of deal that would preserve open space while allowing it to build on some portion of the land.
We are hearing rumors of a secret deal being negotiated between the County and NM to set aside a substantial portion of the golf course for a large Reston central park. In fact, one authoritative, but so far uncorroborated, source said that an option was being explored to have the developer proffer land for a park in return for being granted rental unit density. Another source indicates that NM is testing the market among several major area developers to see if the golf course can be sold for commercial development purposes. From these eyes, that sounds like NM or a commercial developer could develop more than 7,900 units—the current reported zoning limit—on whatever land is still left to “incentivize” a deal with the County.
We have no added solid information on whether such discussions are ongoing, much less on the nature of any such offer by the County or proffer by NM. Nonetheless, rumors on what such a deal might look like are rampant. Some of those rumors suggest the northern fairways will be turned into housing (they are close to Metro stations). Other rumors say the roughly one-quarter of the golf course land east of Soapstone Dr. will be a park, the west side will be turned into housing.
Reston 2020 speculates about why a deal may be in the works:
We have learned from a long-serving member of the Fairfax County Planning Commission (FCPC) that zoning language from the 1970s does leave open the possibility for housing development on RNGC land. In this “Dillon Rule” state, such a right—if it has been given—can virtually never be taken away. For a recent example, look at the County’s approval for the redevelopment of the Town Center Office Building into a 23-story office building, including six stories of parking and first floor retail—all BEYOND the half-mile circle that is the normal maximum distance used for transit-oriented development (TOD). This occurred because, again in the 1970s, the County amended the zoning ordinance to allow unlimited (yes, unlimited) development on that site—the only site with unlimited density in the County.
And all that puts the County in a quandary. Assuming for the moment that the right exists to develop housing on RNGC, the County faces being sued either by NM if the BZA rejects the NM appeal or by Restonians (RR and maybe RA) if the County acquiesces outright to the NM position.
Meanwhile, our BFFs at Rescue Reston are still asking people to sign their fancy online petition urging the county to hold firm to the position that development isn't allowed at all.
Wow. Between this and the just-revived indoor rec center/juicery discussions on the fancy other side of the Toll Road, this week is shaping up to be a lot like the last 15 minutes of a horror film, only instead of a presumed-dead corpse that keeps popping up, it's long-dead land-use issues. But if a deal to preserve open space winds up happening, maybe the soccer fields displaced by the fancy new rec center can be moved somewhere on Reston National's back 9, the end.
Labels: 20190, 20191, Caddyshackpolcalypse Now, Development, Reston
I'll bet the county is really losing sleep over the thought that they would have to allow unlimited development on RNGC land. As far as the "central park" is concerned -- I'm sure they will be able to uncover more 1970's language that will allow them to develop that later.
Aldo Leopold February 14, 2013 at 9:33 AM
Kudos to the budding environmentalist!
But what was up with the distracting and, yes I'll go there, dumb flash bulb effect in the camp segment?
Less is more sometimes RA editors.
Aaaaaand Star Wipe!
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