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About Us[caption id="attachment_772" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="JRDC School - Ethiopia"][/caption] About cafesociety.org Established in 1997, Cafesociety.org is a collaborative group of creative individuals around the world working in the fields of media and education. The main focus of our work in schools and communities is the development of active citizenship and self-expression through training in media skills and literacy. We think digital filmmaking is a magical tool to enhance both learning and teaching. Our school programmes are designed to complement the national curriculum and to offer real tangible learning outcomes that aim to inspire and motivate pupils and teachers. We believe that by learning about the cultures and people of the world we can come to a greater understanding of ourselves. Our hope is that we can provide the spark and skills for the people we work with to use their voices and improve the world. Cafesociety.org have developed projects not only in the UK but in countries as diverse as Ethiopia, the Navajo reservations in the US, the Seychelles and most recently in Sierra Leone. If you would like further info, please use the form below. [CONTACT-FORM]
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Club Notes - 19th December
Jack the Joker
Our ever popular Jack the Joker fundraiser continues this Sunday night in Minnies Bar where the jackpot is €3800 as on Sunday night B. Carroll was drawn out of the drum and chose card number 50 which when turned was not the joker but she did win €50. Bridget and Crow and Kevin Barry won €25 each.
On behalf of all in the club we would like to extend Christmas Greetings to all our members and supporters especially those who have travelled home to our parish to celebrate the season with family. We also send our greetings to the editor and staff of the Dungarvan Leader and the Dungarvan Observer who are a great help to us throughout the year. Nollaig Shona agus Athbhliain faoi Mhaise Daoibh go léir.
Club AGM
Our AGM took place on Friday night last in Ballinroad Hall with a very good crowd in attendance. The first item in the agenda was the Treasure's Report and as normal Packie Hurney presented an excellent set of accounts which that despite the significant costs associated with running the club remains in a healthy financial position. Packie thanked all those who help to raise money for the club as without these hardworking volunteers the club couldn't continue to exist.
Next on the agenda was our Secretary Tomás Kiely's report. This was a thorough review of what was a most successful year for the club. Tomás offered some thoughts on what lies ahead for the club in the years ahead. There was widespread praise for Tomás as he announced he would be stepping down as club secretary due to work commitments in Dublin. Whilst Tomás is a huge loss to the club we are most fortune that Jonathan O’Donovan will be returning as Club Secretary. Our Club Chairman Michael Briggs then addressed the meeting and in a wide-ranging address Michael congratulated all the club teams who had tasted success in the last 12 months, a year that will him down as one of the most successful in the club's history. Michael thanked all those who gave of their time helping the club during the year before going onto outline the work our Development Committee have carried out in the last 12 months. It is hoped that after our club surveys have been returned the Development Committee will then work on devising a development plan for the club.
The following officers were then elected:-
Chairman: Michael Briggs
Vice Chairman: Michael Cosgrave
Secretary: Jonathan O’Donovan
Treasurer: Packie Hurney
Membership Officer: Kevin Tobin
PRO: Neil Moore
Children's Officer: Bríd Slevin
Healthy Club Officer: Eamonn Cashin
Juvenile Chairman: Joe Cleary
County Board Awards
On behalf of all in the club we would like to congratulate our award winners and nominees which were announced at last week's County Convention. Moll Shields was announced as the winner of the Recognition to Culture Award for her work in Scór for many years whilst Daithi Brunnock was announced as the winner of the Under 18 Footballer of the Year.
We have been nominated for Club of the Year with Stephen Enright nominated for Adult Footballer of the Year and Conor Prunty nominated for Adult Hurler of the Year and Michael Kiely is nominated for Young Hurler of the Year. Well done to them all.
Granville Hotel/WLR FM Sports Star Award
On Friday morning last we heard the great news that Michael Kiely was the December winner of this award. Michael was chosen for his display in the County Under 21 Hurling Final, and it is a fantastic honour for Michael, his family and the club.
Club Bingo
Our club bingo continues in the CBS Hall this Sunday night where the jackpot is €450.
On behalf of all in the club we would like to send our sympathies to Ken Walsh on the recent death of his mother Lilly in County Laois.
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County U21 'A' Hurling Champions
Abbeyside / Ballinacourty GAA Club was formed in 1967 as a result of the amalgamation of Abbeyside Hurling and Football Clubs and Ballinacourty Football Club. It is situated within the Parish of Abbeyside, Ballinroad and Garranbane. Located on the eastern side of the River Colligan, it forms the northern and eastern shorelines of Dungarvan Harbour from Abbeyside Church to Ballinacourty Lighthouse
Abbeyside/Ballinacourty GAA Club has been growing at a dramatic pace over the past 10 years with the population of our parish increasing rapidly. We must ensure that we have the best facilities for all our players. We want to ensure that the next generation have the facilities that they need and deserve. We are asking supporters and friends to support this project over the next five years.
Past generations have had their visions for the future of our club. These are our current aims and with these achieved we hope to hand on the club to future generations in the same healthy state it was passed onto us.
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van bokkelen: the loyalest bushie
since i haven't noticed any other hoosier bloggers picking up on the "voter fraud" angle of the us attorney scandal, i suppose i should link to this mclatchy piece that josh marshall & friends have been hyping.
Since 2005, McClatchy Newspapers has found, Bush has appointed at least three U.S. attorneys who had worked in the Justice Department's civil rights division when it was rolling back longstanding voting-rights policies aimed at protecting predominantly poor, minority voters.
Another newly installed U.S. attorney, Tim Griffin in Little Rock, Ark., was accused of participating in efforts to suppress Democratic votes in Florida during the 2004 presidential election while he was a research director for the Republican National Committee. He's denied any wrongdoing.
griffin is also a former aide to karl rove.
The department's civil rights division, for example, supported a Georgia voter identification law that a court later said discriminated against poor, minority voters. It also declined to oppose an unusual Texas redistricting plan that helped expand the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. That plan was partially reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Frank DiMarino, a former federal prosecutor who served six U.S. attorneys in Florida and Georgia during an 18-year Justice Department career, said that too much emphasis on voter fraud investigations "smacks of trying to use prosecutorial power to investigate and potentially indict political enemies."
Several former voting rights lawyers, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of antagonizing the administration, said the division's political appointees reversed the recommendations of career lawyers in key cases and transferred or drove out most of the unit's veteran attorneys.
Bradley Schlozman, who was the civil rights division's deputy chief, agreed in 2005 to reverse the career staff's recommendations to challenge a Georgia law that would have required voters to pay $20 for photo IDs and in some cases travel as far as 30 miles to obtain the ID card.
A federal judge threw out the Georgia law, calling it an unconstitutional, Jim Crow-era poll tax.
In an interview, Schlozman, who was named interim U.S. attorney in Kansas City in November 2005, said he merely affirmed a subordinate's decision to overturn the career staff's recommendations.
schlozman did his part to advance an atrocious voter id law in georgia, and he was rewarded with a job as a us attorney. so what happened to those who didn't toe the party line regarding "voter fraud"?
Bush administration officials have said that no single reason led to the firings of the eight U.S. attorneys. But two of those who were forced to resign said they thought they might have been punished for failing to prosecute Democrats prior to the 2006 congressional elections or for not vigorously pursuing Republican allegations of voter irregularities in Washington state and New Mexico.
Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias of New Mexico has said he thought that "the voter fraud issue was the foundation" for his firing and that complaints about his failure to pursue corruption matters involving Democrats were "the icing on the cake."
John McKay, the ousted U.S. attorney for western Washington state, looked into allegations of voter fraud against Democrats during the hotly contested governor's race in 2004. He said that later, when top Bush aides interviewed him for a federal judgeship, he was asked to respond to criticism of his inquiry in which no charges were brought. He didn't get the judgeship.
so attorneys who didn't indict democrats on trumped-up charges of voter fraud were fired and replaced with party flacks who could get the job done, like griffin and schlozman.
it all makes me wonder what happened behind the scenes before indiana's awful voter id bill got passed.
incidentally, us attorney susan brooks of the southern district of indiana (which includes indianapolis) hasn't indicted anyone for voter fraud, much to the dismay of rabid julia-haters who are convinced that busloads of black voters cruise the city rigging elections for democrats. but we can assume brooks is a "loyal bushie", considering that she's vice chair of the AG's advisory committee.
on the other hand, us attorney joseph van bokkelen, of the northern district of indiana, has been quite busy. not only has lake county had prosecuting voter fraud cases aplenty but also van bokkelen has been indicting democrats by the handful:
If allegations by ousted prosecutors and Democratic congressional leaders are true, and White House officials fired U.S. attorneys for not pursuing corruption cases against Democratic politicians, Joseph Van Bokkelen is a popular man in Washington.
Conventional wisdom in local political circles is that public corruption largely remains constant from year to year, but that indictments for public corruption vary depending on whether the top federal prosecutor in the Northern District was appointed by a Republican or a Democrat.
That suspicion seems to be borne out in recent congressional hearings, in which former U.S. attorneys have said they were pressured by Republican leaders to lay off prosecuting GOP officials, and to time the indictments of Democrats to coincide with elections.
The probe has led to the White House itself, as Bush adviser Karl Rove and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been implicated in the scandal.
Van Bokkelen's wide-ranging corruption probe, Operation Restore Public Integrity, has nabbed more than 50 public officials since he was appointed by Bush in 2001, according to Justice Department statistics. Nearly all were against officials in Democratic strongholds in Lake County, where Republican officeholders are few and far between.
with a record like that, van bokkelen could be the next attorney general once gonzales finally resigns.
update: i spoke too soon! mere seconds after clicking "publish", i find this, courtesy of the indiana law blog:
The White House nominated U.S. Attorney Joseph Van Bokkelen Tuesday to the federal judgeship in Hammond that Rudy Lozano plans to vacate this summer.
Van Bokkelen, the region's top federal prosecutor for the past five years, was among the first round of judicial nominations submitted by President Bush to the new Democratic-led Senate.
The Senate must give its consent before Van Bokkelen can take the post.
"I think we begin a new Congress with a clean slate," said Andy Fisher, spokesman for U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar, R-Ind., who recommended Van Bokkelen for the job. "We'll work very closely with the members of the Judiciary Committee and the Senate members to get the nomination through."
the pattern is clear: van bokkelen was the poster boy for indicting democrats, so he is rewarded with a judicial appointment. i wonder how smoothly his nomination will go through now, in light of recent developments at DoJ. ¶
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This seems to be an issue for Senator Evan Bayh's staff to investigate...
This guy (van bokkelen) needs to be investigated, he has spent over $100,000,000 to lock up 50 democrats, this is how this guy spends our tax dollars, to trump up charges and break the democrats in nw indiana? and now judge? you got to be kidding...
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Care By Volvo subscription program revs up adds models
Tags Enlarge ImageCare By Volvo started with the XC40, but now encompasses five different model lines. Volvo Care By Volvo, the Swedish automaker’s monthly subscription program, has arguably been the only such plan to gain significant traction in America’s new-car marketplace. Now, Volvo is doubling down on the program, announcing expansion details that include more markets and more vehicles for its all-in-one, flat-rate monthly payment plan.Developed as an alternative to traditional vehicle leasing and purchase financing, Care By Volvo hasn’t been without its hiccups and controversies. The novel program has labored to overcome regulatory hurdles while slowly expanding state by state, and the plan has even rankled some members of the company’s dealership body. In fact, the California New Car Dealers Association asked the automaker to stop offering CBV in the Golden State back in 2018, and the California DMV is investigating the program for possible violations. Despite these obstacles, Care By Volvo appears to be meeting with greater consumer interest than any other automaker subscription program, and Volvo is understandably keen to capitalize on that momentum. First offered on select versions of Volvo’s entry-level XC40 crossover last year, the program recently expanded Care By Volvo to include the company’s new S60 sport sedan. Now, CBV is adding 2020 XC60 and XC90 SUV models, along with its V60 Cross Country lifted wagon. Interestingly, despite wide spreads in vehicle prices, there’s very little variation in Care By Volvo monthly pricing. For example, an XC40 T5 AWD in Momentum trim retails from $37,340 delivered, and runs $700 a month through CBV. The XC90 T6 AWD in Momentum trim retails for $57.940 delivered, but only costs $800 in installments — just $100 more per month. In other words, if you’re considering joining the program, bigger might be better from a value perspective.Care By Volvo pricingPer monthXC40 T5 AWD Momentum$700S60 T5 FWD Momentum$700XC40 T5 AWD R-Design$750S60 T6 AWD R-Design$750V60 Cross Country T5 AWD$750XC60 T5 AWD Momentum$750XC90 T6 AWD Momentum$800Care By Volvo involves a two-year agreement, with customers given the option to change to a different vehicle in the program after the first 12 months. When CBV was first announced in late 2017, the program started at $600 a month.At a media ride-and-drive event in Banff, Alberta, Volvo spokesperson Jim Nichols confirmed to Roadshow that “…well over 95% of Care By Volvo subscribers are first to the Volvo brand.” Converting first-time customers and so-called conquest buyers (those who presently own vehicles from other brands) is a difficult and particularly sought-after accomplishment among automakers, making 95% a very impressive statistic. 36 Photos 2020 Volvo XC90 is a slicker, safer Swedish SUV According to Nichols, Care By Volvo is now offered in 49 of 50 US states. New York — notoriously viewed as America’s most problematic auto insurance market for regulatory reasons– remains the lone holdout. The program recently launched in Canada, as well.While Volvo officials Roadshow spoke with declined to estimate how many customers are signing up for Care By Volvo on eligible vehicles, Nichols did offer some context, stating, “I will say the percentage is in single digits.”Volvo has been working to remove bottlenecks in the Care By Volvo signup and vehicle selection process, too. For starters, the CBV app, available on Android and Apple IoS platforms, is now a one-stop shop for both credit and insurance approval. According to Volvo, it’s possible to apply and be approved for a subscription within five minutes. 2019 Volvo S60 review: More competitive than ever Volvo More From Roadshow 2020 Volvo XC90 first drive: An improvement worth subscribing to 1 Roadshow’s long-term 2019 Volvo XC40 after three months 2020 Volvo V60 Cross Country first drive: Small changes make a big impact 53 Photos Comment Share your voice Car Industry Mobile Apps Additionally, Volvo is working with its insurance partner, Liberty Mutual, to reorganize and streamline the plan’s insurance component. At present, individual policies are issued to individual customers, and as a result, it takes 24 to 48 hours for a policy to bind, delaying subsequent vehicle deliveries by a day or more. The automaker is working with Liberty Mutual on a new arrangement where an insurance card can be printed out right at the dealer in order to speed up the transaction. Right now, that process is in place in seven states, with plans calling for nationwide rollout by year’s end.Getting an insurance card doesn’t mean much if there are no vehicles available, of course. “We’re continuing to work with our retail partners on not only the subscription process, but also the delivery process,” says Nichols. At present, Care By Volvo vehicles all come from central stocks held at shipping ports. If you’re near to the ports (Newark, New Jersey and Los Angeles, California), you can probably get a car in 24 hours, but for other markets, it can take days. Volvo is working to change its process so that vehicles can be pulled directly from dealer stock for quicker delivery. Volvo says a vehicle can be applied and subscribed to within five minutes. Volvo Other automakers’ pilot subscription programs have functioned very differently from Volvo’s scheme, including Book By Cadillac, which was halted, only to be rebooted after a cold reception by consumers. The initial program called for hefty $1,800 monthly payments, but allowed users to swap vehicles 18 times per year to suit their needs, from sedans to SUVs. Mercedes-Benz Collection, the German automaker’s subscription plan, has a similar structure, with varying vehicle access by tier, costing between $1,595 and $2,995 a month. While Volvo has not disclosed how many customers have signed on to Care By Volvo, it looks like it will become an increasingly important tool for the automaker going forward. The key to the program’s long-term success may not just be convincing consumers about the merits of the program — it might just be getting more dealers and regulators onboard. Volvo read more
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AL restored oneparty BAKSAL rule
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. File PhotoBangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Friday alleged that the ruling Awami League has depoliticised the country by ‘restoring one-party BAKSAL rule as it did in 1975’, reports UNB.”Now, there’s no politics in the country. Politics is now under the grip of one party,” said BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.He came up with the remarks while exchanging views with local journalists at his house in Thakurgaon.The BNP leader said multiparty democracy was restored by their party founder Ziaur Rahman after Awami League had introduced one-party BAKSAL rule in 1975. “The one-party rule has now been again restored undercover of democracy.”He said their chairperson Khaleda Zia has been subjected to government’s political vengeance as she has been kept in jail by convicting her in ‘false’ cases.Fakhrul alleged that Khaleda is neither getting bail from the court nor proper treatment by the government though she is very sick.He renewed their party’s demand for shifting Khaleda to a specialised private hospital for her proper treatment.The BNP leader said Jatiya Oikya Front is united though two – MPs of Gono Forum, one of its components, took oath violating the alliance’s decision.”Organisational action has been taken against those who have taken oath. We’re united and working for the restoration of democracy. We must move forward together with people,” he said.About the stance of their party and the alliance on the current government, Fakhrul said they think Awami League has been ruling the country illegally by usurping the state power. “There’s no reason to accept such a regime.”He demanded the government immediately hold a fresh national election annulling the results of the 10th parliamentary one. read more
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Search continues as Hurricane Michael toll hits 16
View of the damaged caused by Hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach, Florida, on 12 October 2018. Photo: AFPThe death toll from Hurricane Michael rose to at least 16 on Friday amid fears it would continue to climb as search-and-rescue teams scour the debris of the Florida town that bore the brunt of the monster storm.”Mexico Beach is devastated,” Florida governor Rick Scott said of the town where Michael made landfall as a Category 4 storm on Wednesday.”It’s like a bomb went off,” Scott said as he toured the town of 1,000 people on the Gulf of Mexico. “It’s like a war zone.”Rescue teams were using sniffer dogs in Mexico Beach on Friday in a search for victims who may be buried under the rubble in the debris-strewn community.Brock Long, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), warned that he expected the number of deaths to rise.”I hope we don’t see it climb dramatically but I have reasons to believe we still haven’t got into some of the hardest hit areas,” he said.”What’s happening is search and rescue is trying to get into the rubble to make sure that there’s nobody covered up, trying to assess if there’s additional casualties there,” Long added.Dozens of structures in Mexico Beach — homes, shops and restaurants — were lifted off their foundations by storm surge and 155-mile per hour (250 kph) winds and moved hundreds of feet inland or smashed to bits.”Very few people live to tell what it’s like to experience storm surge,” Long said. “Storm surge causes the most amount of loss of life.”SticksMembers of City Miami Fire Rescue look for victims in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach, Florida, on 12 October 2018. Photo: AFPState officials said Mexico Beach was under mandatory evacuation orders but some residents decided to stay and try to ride out the storm.”You hope that somehow at the last minute a bunch of people got up and left or went somewhere else,” Florida Senator Marco Rubio told CNN.But judging from the number of homes reduced to “sticks,” he said “my sense is they are going to find more victims.”Bob Tenbrunson, a Mexico Beach retiree, rode out the storm at his daughter’s house in nearby Panama City and returned to survey the damage to his home.”I was going to stay here until it turned to a Cat 4,” he said. “So I followed the mandatory evacuation order and left with my wife.”Luckily we did not get a surge,” Tenbrunson said of his home. “I’ve got two trees on the roof and a couple of holes on the roof. I have been trying to patch it up the best I can.”The rest of Mexico Beach did not fare as well, and most of the beachfront homes, restaurants and stores were obliterated by the storm.”I spent my life savings and retirement to stay here so I can’t sell it now,” Tenbrunson said. “I just have to be hopeful that (the town) will be rebuilt and fixed.”Some residents arrived Friday with vans or moving trucks, hoping to recover as many personal effects from their splintered homes as they could.Others came with nothing — as there was nothing left to save.At least four deaths from the storm have been confirmed in Florida, five in Virginia, one in Georgia and three in North Carolina.US media on Friday quoted authorities in Jackson County, Florida, as reporting three deaths there, bringing Michael’s toll to at least 16.The latest two deaths in North Carolina occurred in McDowell County when a car struck a tree that had fallen across a road, officials said.Hundreds of thousands of people remain without electricity in Florida, Georgia and Virginia, and officials say it could be weeks before power is fully restored.Trump to visitA US flag is seen next to a fire department station damaged by Hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach, Florida on 12 October 2018. Photo: AFPPresident Donald Trump said he planned to visit Florida and Georgia.”People have no idea how hard Hurricane Michael has hit the great state of Georgia,” Trump tweeted. “I will be visiting both Florida and Georgia early next week. We are working very hard on every area and every state that was hit — and we are with you!”Michael was the most intense hurricane to strike the Florida Panhandle since record keeping began in 1851.Many of the damaged Florida buildings were not built to withstand a storm above the strength of a Category 3 hurricane on the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale.About 5,000 US servicemen were deployed to help with relief and recovery efforts, the Pentagon said, using 100 helicopters and 1,800 high-water vehicles.Tyndall Air Force Base, home to the F-22 stealth fighter, suffered extensive damage, according to aerial photos of the coastal facility.The base was evacuated ahead of the hurricane and the costly fighter planes were flown to other installations out of the path of the storm. read more
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Houstons Flood Czar Says Harvey Has Brought The City To A Decision
Brandon Formby / The Texas TribuneHouston “flood czar” Stephen Costello in his office on Sept. 12, 2017.When we caught up with Houston’s newly-appointed “flood czar” last year, he told us he had no money and no staff.That’s still largely the case, Stephen Costello told us in an interview on Tuesday at his Houston City Hall office. He now has one paid staff member.In the wake of Hurricane Harvey’s record floods, the city of Houston is poised to receive billions — maybe even tens of billions — of recovery dollars in the coming years that may cover significant improvements to the city’s woefully inadequate drainage system as well as other projects to reduce flooding. And Costello said on Tuesday that he expects to play a key role in deciding how that money will be spent. “Over 60 percent of our infrastructure is beyond its useful life,” he said. “So that’s what we’re dealing with right now.”He said at least some of the money should be used to buy up entire neighborhoods that border bayous and have inadequate flood protection and then to turn those areas into green space. That would be a big change: previous buyout programs have had little success because of inadequate funding and opposition from homeowners who don’t want to move.Costello said repeatedly on Tuesday that the city will have to “get creative” to find the extra money to pay for all the flood control upgrades that are needed in a city where, according to Costello, more than half of the homes that have flooded in recent years weren’t in a designated flood plain. And he added that development rules will have to change to help prevent more damage from flooding. Below is an edited and condensed version of our interview. TT: Last year at a meeting you told residents angry about flooding that ‘I don’t have any money, I don’t have any staff.’ Has that changed?COSTELLO: My former chief of staff when I was a city council member has joined me, back in January. So we’ve doubled our size [laughs]. So that’s a good thing. But we still don’t have money. We interface internally with the departments who do have money for flooding and drainage. And we’re out seeking additional monies whether it’s with federal dollars or state dollars.TT: So your staff has doubled in the last year from one person to two (including you). And you don’t have any extra money in your department. Will Harvey change your role or the scope of your role?Maybe it’ll just make my job a little bigger. I think the real issue is that we need more funding. Everything is all about the dollar. I mean every engineering problem has a solution. And the real question is whether or not the public wants to pay for it. TT: Last year you said you think they are willing to pay if they come to understand the issue and how much it’s going to cost to address it. Has Harvey helped with that?COSTELLO: I don’t know. I’ll be candid with you.I think they’re beginning to recognize that there is a risk that there’s always a possibility of flooding no matter where you are in the city of Houston, whereas I think people that didn’t flood prior to this event have always felt immune from flooding. And I think now they realize that the risk is everywhere. TT: How has Harvey changed the public conversation around flooding?COSTELLO: Usually a flooding event is an isolated event. It doesn’t impact the majority of the community. And they’re usually five or ten years apart. So people forget and they don’t really pay much attention to the need for infrastructure investment. The 2015 [the Memorial Day flood], 2016 [the Tax Day Flood] sort of changed that. The frequency of flooding got a little bit more common. And then we have a regional event like Harvey, so now everybody’s starting to talk about it. So that’s a good thing. It’s a good thing that we’re starting to talk about it. The real issue is: What are we going to do about it and where do we go moving forward?TT: Last year you told us that there needs to be a discussion on development regulations in Houston. Has any progress been made on that front?COSTELLO: We’re going to roll out [a task force] in October. And the mayor is really excited about it. It’s a group of probably a little over 50 people. There will be be a couple of developers, people that are representing some of the trade associations, engineers, landscape architects, bureaucrats like myself, as well as community people.We want a dialogue between all the groups so that the development community can get a better understanding of what the community at large is thinking. And then we can have a frank discussion about these issues and we want to address it.TT: Have you been able to secure any extra money for flood prevention as flood czar?COSTELLO: We created the Stormwater Action Team, going into areas [where] we have known flooding problems and doing whatever maintenance-related type activities that we have to do. The mayor set aside $10 million [from the city’s General Fund] for that. We’ve about exhausted that money. And so we’re in the process of figuring out how we get additional funding. And that was prior to Hurricane Harvey. TT: How much more money do you need for those maintenance projects?We don’t know. Because we’re doing it on an ongoing basis. It could be in the tens of millions. It could be north of a hundred million dollars.TT: It sounds like you came into this job and you said ‘We need more money.’ The county is spending something like $120 million per year on construction and maintenance of flood control projects. How much is the city spending now? How much does it need?COSTELLO: We’re spending over $250 million per year on — we call it ‘street and drainage’ so it’s a combination of drainage and street and the reason why we combine the two is when you get an extreme event, the water travels down the street as well, so it’s part of the drainage system. Several years ago public works had made an estimate that in order to stay ahead of the decaying infrastructure they need about $650 million a year … to spend on their street and drainage program. TT: What I’m hearing you say is that this is a pretty dire situation.COSTELLO: I wouldn’t say it’s a dire situation. I mean, the the problem has existed for a very, very long time. And as a result of this biblical event — [which] is what I call it — it’s come to the forefront now. Our job, my job, is to make sure people don’t forget. I mean that’s why the mayor created this position, is to remind people that we have to keep continuing to invest in drainage infrastructure. And so the real issue is how how big are we going to get? Are we going to be kind of microscopic in terms of doing these piecewise improvements or are we going to go global and figure out area-wide, how do we want to change the way we do drainage and flood control? TT: Separate and apart from the drainage projects that we’ve been really focusing on, you have this task force you mentioned and people talking about development regulations. Do you see a component of this recovery potentially resulting in changing those regulations, strengthening them?COSTELLO: What I see with this event will be looking at areas that are subject to repetitive flooding and figuring out ways to buy them out. I think you’re going to see a pretty aggressive buyout program. The city has never been in the buyout business and (Harris County) flood control has been doing predominantly most of the buyout and their budget is less than $3 million for this year for buyouts, which is a fairly nominal amount of money. Share read more
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All fields: prières
1987-1988. Program of studies
Education--Curricula; Examinations; Outlines; Textbooks; Education, Secondary--Newfoundland and Labrador; Education, Elementary--Newfoundland and Labrador
This new comprehensive revision of the Program of Studies contains the syllabus for all grades, in sections for kindergarten, primary, elementary, intermediate, senior high and French immersion.
Contains the syllabus for all grades, in sections for kindergarten, primary, elementary, intermediate, senior high and French immersion.
Contains the syllabus for all grades, in sections for kindergarten, primary, elementary, intermediate, senior high, French-First-Language and French immersion.
Newspapers--Newfoundland and Labrador; Canadians, French speaking--Newfoundland and Labrador--Periodicals; Journaux français--Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
Le Gaboteur est le seul journal de langue française publié à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador = Le Gaboteur is the only French-language newspaper published in Newfoundland and Labrador. -- Frequency: published monthly, Oct. 1984-Sept. 1986; biweekly, Oct....
Elizabeth Barter tells some tales and then discusses religion and games with her daughters
Conte -- Tale; Chanson -- Song; Religion -- Religion; Jeux -- Games; Histoire orale -- Oral history; Croyances et pratiques -- Beliefs and their practices; Divertissement -- Recreation; Paysage culturel -- Cultural landscape; Récit d'expérience...
Elizabeth Barter raconte la fin d'un conte, puis en raconte une autre. Elle parle des prières et de la religion et des chansons religieuses. Elle fait la conversation avec ses filles un peu, et puis parle ensuite des jeux qu'elle jouait dans sa...
Enseignement religieux : maternelle a 3e annee
Religious Education;
Enseignement religieux - Maternelle a 3e annee
Contains the syllabus for all grades, in sections for kindergarten, primary, elementary, intermediate, senior high, French First Language, French immersion and English Second Language.
Feuilles D'activites Sciences Humaines 8e Annee Explorons notre monde Autres peuples, Autres pays Guide du maitre Partie IV
Histoire de la pêche a la baleine
Whaling--Bibliography; Whaling--History; Whaling--Newfoundland and Labrador
Provides the natural history of the whale species sought by whalers; details the early history of the whaling industry and the whaling techniques used by different nationalities; as well as new techniques in the industry. Newfoundland's role in the...
Dans les brumes du Grand Banc
Adventure stories--Newfoundland and Labrador;Adventure stories--Saint Pierre and Miquelon; Newfoundland and Labrador--Juvenile fiction; Saint Pierre and Miquelon--Juvenile fiction; Smuggling--Juvenile fiction; Seafaring life--Juvenile fiction
Novel about the passengers of a ship which sinks after colliding with another boat in the fog on the Grand Banks, and their adventures after their rescue by a fishing boat from St. Pierre.
World War, 1914-1918--Battlefields; World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Western Front
Meant to be used as a guide to First World War cemeteries, memorials, and battlefields in France and Belgium, this book contains brief descriptions of battles and where they were fought without giving too much technical detail. This not only helps...
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Labrador (N. L.)--Fiction
Three French adventure stories bound together, each with their own title page. All three are Paul Ardent Adventures.
Le Veritable Messager Boiteux de Basle en Suisse
Abrege De L'Histoire General Des Voyages
A Survey Of The Aborginal Populations Of Quebec And Labarador
Labrador et Anticosti
Abrege de l'histoire generale des voyages
Cabot, John, -1498?; Cabot, Sebastian, approximately 1474-1557; Voyages and travels; America -- Discovery and exploration
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Máximo Gómez airport provides the visitors with the opportunity of appreciating the result of a quick development of tourism in Ciego de Ávila.
Three factors have fundamentally favored this projection: the great reservoir of subsoil water, the best-quality crude oil of the island, and the existence of a zone known as Jardines del Rey (King Gardens), a chain of islets of extraordinary beauty still unexploited.
Out of those islets, only two have achieved its development: Cayo Coco and Cayo Guillermo. Third in extension in the Cuban archipelago, Cayo Coco can be accessed by car through a "pedraplén", a road built across the sea. The islet also has an airport for small and medium-sized aircraft. After the arrival, the visitor will be able to appreciate the abundance of the white ibis (known as "coco" bird), species from which the islet takes its name. A great colony of pink flamingos has made Cayo Coco being identified as "flamingo island" too.
Another face of Cayo Coco is that offered by hotels and tourist facilities and its fine-sand beaches. Here architecture is inserted in the natural environment characterized by virgin woods, lagoons, and a rich fauna.
We can not leave unmentioned three main sites worth-visiting in Cayo Coco: La Güira, which reproduces the life of charcoal-makers of the region; Rocarena Restaurant; and La Cueva del Jabalí.
Cayo Guillermo, with its three beaches and its dunes, and the keys Media Luna and Los Felipes constitutes another tourist circuit where the transparency of the waters and the conditions for snorkeling, diving, and platform fishing are a great attraction for tourists.
Quite close to the Jardines del Rey is the town of Morón, where portions of the trocha, expression of Spanish military engineering, are still preserved.
Water sport lovers can visit La Redonda, a lagoon where an international center for trout fishing operates. La Laguna de La Leche, however, is the scenery for traditional water carnivals and Formula T-1 speedboat World Championships.
For hunting there are about 40 zones: Aguachales de Falla, Chicola, Canal La Yana, and Puente Largo are some of them.
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March Madness Music Festival
By ticketblogger | April 5, 2014
Dallas residents and visitors are in for a real treat this weekend. Not only is the city rabid with NCAA Tournament fever, but the March Madness Music Festival kicks off tonight and continues through Sunday. The music festival is held at Reunion Park in downtown Dallas, TX and lineup holds its own against any Super Bowl halftime show artists – And best of all, tickets are free! The lineup includes such performers as Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, The Killers, fun., LL Cool J, Jason Aldean and more.
The event is an all-ages festival, and entry is based on a first come, first served basis until capacity is met. Gate hours are:
Friday: 3:00-10:30 pm
Saturday: 12:00-9:00 pm
Sunday: 2:00-10:30 pm
Food and beverages will be available for purchase. For more information on this event, please refer to the NCAA Festival web page.
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The 26 Next Hobby Lobbys
COVER HER
Half a year since Hobby Lobby won its Supreme Court case, a new wave of companies have won the right to stop paying for female employees’ birth control.
Abby Haglage
Updated Apr. 14, 2017 1:19PM ET / Published Dec. 17, 2014 5:45AM ET
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Six months after Hobby Lobby won an exemption from the Affordable Care Act’s mandated contraceptive coverage, the mainstream population has largely lost interest. In the meantime, 26 companies have followed suit.
These 26 for-profit companies, less than half of the more than 100 entities that are currently challenging the mandatory coverage of birth control, have also won the right to stop paying for their employees’ birth control. Twenty-five more for-profits are on well on their way to doing the same thing.
The Hobby Lobby decision was a game changer—not because it allowed one company to get out of a specific mandate, but because it provided the blueprint for others to do the same.
The entire debate dates back to August 1, 2011, when a provision was added to the Affordable Care Act requiring companies to cover preventive health services for women (as outlined by the Department of Health and Human Services) at no upfront cost. Under a podium that read: “Simply Being a Woman Is No Longer a Pre-existing Condition,” HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius celebrated the decision with a victorious crowd on the day it took effect, exactly one year later.
For companies like Hobby Lobby, with a strong religious foundation in opposition to contraceptive methods, this was the beginning of a big fight—one that most, it seems, will win.
The Oklahoma-city based Hobby Lobby was one of more than 100 companies—both nonprofit and for-profit—to file a lawsuit in federal court challenging the contraceptive mandate, but the craft store’s was by far the biggest. In July, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby, deciding that a closely held company (i.e. corporations in which six or fewer individuals own more than 50 percent of the stock), could opt out of the mandate for religious reasons.
At the time of the July ruling, 82 lawsuits brought by similar entities had been stayed by courts pending the Supreme Court’s ruling on Hobby Lobby. Gretchen Borchelt, senior counsel and director of state reproductive health policy for the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), explained it to The Daily Beast in June. “Other closely held companies now have a license to harm their employees in the name of the company’s religion,” said Borchelt. “If companies qualify, they can use this decision to make the same claim.”
Six months after we spoke, more than two-dozen have successfully qualified, and won the same exemption. This leaves thousands of women at companies across the United States left to pay out of pocket for their birth control. In a Supreme Court brief from NWLC, the average cost of oral contraception for one woman over the course of five years is listed as $2,630. Injectable contraceptives or vaginal rings cost even more, at upwards of $2,700.
Leila Abolfazli, senior counsel for NWLC who is currently covering this issue, says the decisions are having a “real impact” on women nationwide. “Paying out of pocket for some women may be impossible because they don't have the income—or for some, it may be that they can’t afford the right one,” Abolfazli tells The Daily Beast. “It’s a full range of problems.”
On the “Cover Her” helpline, dedicated to assisting women with healthcare coverage, Abolfazli says there has been an influx of calls on this issue. “There’s just this feeling that comes through that it’s really unfair,” she says. “Depending on your employer, you have different rights.”
Even for those who can make ends meet enough to purchase the birth control, the pressure of having to pay out of pocket still has implications. A Guttmacher study) from 2009 found that high costs of contraception lead women to “forego [it] completely, to choose less effective methods, or to use [it] inconsistently or incorrectly.”
While the Hobby Lobby decision may have lost its cultural appeal, it still carries weight in the federal court system. The 26 companies who have followed in the craft store’s footsteps are now under no obligation to pay for their female employee’s birth control. (Oh, but vasectomy candidates and Viagra users, not to worry. They’ve got you covered).
From a car dealership in Missouri to a food packaging company in Kentucky, meet the Obamacare contraception mandates newest enemies:
1. American Pulverizer
Springfield Iron and Metal, LLC, American Pulverizer Company, Hustler Conveyor Company, and City Welding are four Missouri-based companies involved in the business of wholesale scrap metal recycling and manufacturing of related machines.
2. Barron Industries
Michigan-based company that produces metal castings for various industries.
3. Bick Holdings Inc.
A Missouri-based holding company for operating companies.
4. Cherry Creek Mortgage Co.
A Colorado-based full- service residential mortgage banking company.
5. Conestoga Wood Specialties Corporation
A Pennsylvania-based wood cabinet and specialty products manufacturer.
6. Doboszenski & Sons
Minnesota-based company that provides services for excavation, demolition, and street construction and reconstruction.
7. Domino’s Farms Corp.
Michigan-based property management company.
8. Freshway Foods
A fresh produce processor and packer, Freshway Logistics is a for-hire carrier of mainly refrigerated products. The companies are Ohio-based for-profits that serve 23 states.
9. Hart Electric LLC
An Illinois- based manufacturer of electrical components, and H.I. Cable.
10. Johnson Welded Products
Ohio-based manufacturer of reservoirs for air brake systems.
11. Korte & Luitjohan Contractors
An Illinois-based full-service construction contractor.
12. Lindsay, Rappaport and Postel LLC
An Illinois-based law firm that primarily practices in insurance defense, insurance coverage, and appellate work.
13. Midwest Fastener Corp.
A Michigan-based company that supplies fasteners to the hardware store, home center, and industrial markets.
14. MK Chambers Company
Michigan-based supplier of specialty machining.
15. M&N Plastics
Michigan-based supplier of custom injection molding products.
16. O’Brien Industrial Holding
Missouri company engaged in the exploration, mining, processing, manufacturing, and distribution of refractory and ceramic raw materials.
17. The QC Group Inc
A Minnesota-based corporation, owned by Daniel Medford and David DeVowe, which provides quality control services.
18. Randy Reed Buick, Nissan, and Chevrolet
Missouri-based car dealerships.
19. Sioux Chief MFG. Co.,
Missouri Corporation that manufactures plumbing products.
20. SMA LLC.
A Minnesota based agricultural/industrial construction company.
21. Stinson Electric, Inc.
A Minnesota electrical services company.
22. Tonn and Blank Construction
An Indiana construction company.
An Ohio- based corporation that works in the electrical and thermal insulation industry.
24. Zumbiel Packaging
A Kentucky-based manufacturer of paperboard packaging for consumer goods.
25. Encompass Develop, Design & Construct, LLC
A Kentucky-based architect, design and construction service.
26. Hastings
A Minnesota car dealership.
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The Age of Aquarius has finally begun ...
Kebon, Indonesia
As, Norway
Birmingham, England
Pasig, Philippines
Izmit, Turkey
Rangoon, Burma
Roxas, Philippines
Macau, Macao
L'viv, Ukraine
and across the with of Malaysia in cities such as Puchong, Kota Kinabalu, Teluk, Alor Setar, Kuala Terengganu, Petaling Jaya, Kuala Lumpur and Cheras.
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68 Vespian, a gruff-spoken general of humble origins, enters Rome and is named emperor by the Senate.
1620 The Pilgrims land at or near Plymouth Rock.
1708 French forces seize control of the eastern shore of Newfoundland after winning a victory at St. John's.
1790 Samuel Slater opens the first cotton mill in the United States (in Rhode Island).
1862 The U.S. Congress authorizes the Medal of Honor to be awarded to Navy personnel who have distinguished themselves by their gallantry in action.
1866 Indians, led by Red Cloud and Crazy Horse, kill Captain William J. Fetterman and 79 other men who had ventured out from Fort Phil Kearny to cut wood.
1910 Over 2.5 million plague victims are reported in the An-Hul province of China.
1928 President Calvin Coolidge signs the Boulder Dam bill.
1944 German troops surround the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne in Belgium.
1945 General George S. Patton dies at the age of 60 after being injured in a car accident.
1946 An earthquake and tidal wave kill hundreds in Japan.
1963 The Turk minority riots in Cyprus to protest anti-Turkish revisions in the constitution.
1964 Great Britain's House of Commons votes to ban the death penalty.
1965 Four pacifists are indicted in New York for burning draft cards.
1969 American draft evaders gather for a holiday dinner in Montreal, Canada.
1986 500,000 Chinese students gather in Shanghai's People's Square calling for democratic reforms, including freedom of the press.
1988 Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York explodes in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland, an hour after departure. All 259 passengers were killed in the explosion caused by a bomb– hidden inside an audio cassette player — that detonated inside the cargo area when the plane was at an altitude of 31,000 feet. A shower of airplane parts falling from the sky also killed 11 Lockerbie residents.
The repugicans want kudos for working week before Xmas – uh, who doesn’t?
Why does Congress always want kudos for working the hours the rest of us do?
Much like the article last month making a “big deal” about Congress working the week of Thanksgiving – like everyone else in America – the repugican cabal is trying to impress people by letting them know they’re not leaving yet for Xmas.Oh wow, how impressive. Working the week before Xmas. How 99% of you.
The repugicans in Congress spend years messing up the economy with unnecessary wars and irresponsible tax cuts, forcing us into a false deadline to resolve the so-called fiscal cliff that they created, and now suddenly that we’re facing with cleaning up their mess, they’re all “look at how hard we work,” not taking off the entire week before Xmas, which nearly no one in America does.
How the Republicans normally spend the week before Xmas when the rest of America is busy working.
The repugicans and the rest of Congress work a schedule that makes college life sound demanding, but now we’re supposed to be impressed. Whatever. The minimum wage workers who are stuck working on Thanksgiving day, and almost every other day of the year, are probably less impressed. Even folks who work at home, like mme, don’t see as much free time as Congress — so spare me the tough-guy story.
I’m sorry, but it annoys me when I see such an idiotic story pushed out by the political class, and reporters buying it.
House repugicans plan to forge ahead on Thursday with “Plan B,” their “fiscal cliff” fallback plan, but they will not be skipping town after voting on the measures because they still hope for a broader deal with the White House.
“We do not intend to send members home,” repugican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told reporters. “We want to stay here, we want to avoid the fiscal cliff from happening.”
That’s nice, Eric. None of us are taking the week off either. And you don’t see us bragging about it.
This reminds me of kids in school who procrastinate for week, and then want a medal for doing a project at the last minute. Choosing to create a problem, then push it out for years, only means you’re a bit of an idiot, not a hard worker.
The truth be told
Ohio repugican governor signs law weakening gun controls
From the "Some idiots never learn" Department:
Ohio's repugican Governor Johns Kasich on Thursday signed into law a measure that would weaken the state's law on carrying concealed weapons, less than a week after a Connecticut school massacre focused national attention on gun control. The bill would require Ohio residents demonstrate competency with the weapon only once rather than each time the concealed carry permit expires. It also would allow carrying concealed weapons in the parking garage of the State Capitol.
Kasich signed the bill along with 41 others and did not hold a signing ceremony. A press release summarizing his actions put the gun law near the bottom of list of those signed.
Kasich foreshadowed the action earlier in the week, telling reporters he would sign it: "Whatever we do, we don't want to erode the Second Amendment rights of law abiding citizens."
The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives American citizens the right to bear arms.
Democratic state Representative Tracy Maxwell Heard said Kasich should not have signed such a "divisive" bill less than a week after a national tragedy.
"Rather than rushing to sign legislation that weakens our gun laws, we must use this time for a full, inclusive reflection," Maxwell Heard said.
Last Friday, a gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, killing 20 children and six adults before shooting himself.
Michigan's repugican Governor Rick Snyder on Tuesday vetoed a proposed law that would have allowed some gun owners to bring concealed weapons into public places such as schools. Snyder said that the Connecticut shooting had influenced his decision.
Soledad O’Brien takes down himbo Gov. Rick Scott (r-FL) over guns
Florida repugican Governor Rick Scott went on CNN’s Soledad O’Brien’s show today to talk gun control.Dear Lord, what a himbo. I’d never seen Rick Scott before. He’s really dumb. I mean really dumb. But I’ll give him credit. He was called on to discuss the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre, and gun control, and he was handed his three talking points (by the NRA?), and just kept repeating them and repeating them, with the same Stepford look on his face throughout.
Unflappable, certainly. Because there’s nothing inside his head? Most assuredly. I’m surprised we didn’t hear an echo.
And of course, knowing the repugicans, they’ll probably start pushing Scott’s name as president or vp any day now. Nothing gets repugican voters hot like a politician with a deficient IQ.
To her credit, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, once again, calls out her guest on their BS. Still, I’d have liked to see her take one single gun control issue, say background checks, and ask Scott, should we do X on background checks, then if he goes off topic, say, no, I just asked you about background checks, yes or no. He might still demur, but that would have been the final step in showing that the guy is just an idiot.
I wrote out most of the transcript to the video. It’s good evidence of just how bereft of any ideas, or arguments, the pro-gun types really are.
RICK SCOTT: I think the right thing, what we ought to do, is do what you’ve been doing. That’s, respect these families in this community. Second, what I’ve done in this state, is ask every one of our schools to go back and let’s look at our safety precautions And let’s make sure every parent feels comfortable. I talked to families up in Connecticut, and I talk to families around Florida, some of them were very, they really had to think about sending their child to school, so I think that’s the next thing to do. There’ll be plenty of time now to think about, if there’s something we oughta do with, is it mental illness issues we oughta deal with, things like that.
Friendly Soledad.
SOLEDAD O’BRIEN: So what would you support in terms of legislation, if it in fact comes to that. I mean do you believe that there should be stronger gun laws? You’re well-supported by the NRA, and historically they have not supported that, so how far would you be willing to go.
RICK SCOTT: As you know, I support the Second Amendment.
SOLEDAD: Me too.
RICK SCOTT: I believe in the Second Amendment. But look, what I want to focus on right now is the families, make sure our schools are safe, in our state we’re at a 41 year low in our crime rate. But I think whenever anything happens like this, let’s just step back and say ‘what can we improve?’
[Dead silence - Soledad frowns, checks her notes, which is always a bad sign...]
Concerned Soledad.
SOLEDAD: Well, you know, I understand people often say that, in the wake of a tragedy, “Let’s wait.” And I actually think I’ve now covered enough of them that we’ll wait until we bump up against the next tragedy, and there will be one, there’s no doubt about it
[Rick Scott, same Madame Tussaud's look on his face as before.]
Annoyed Soledad.
SOLEDAD: So, I would like to hear from elected officials, what are you willing to change? Your daughter, you talked about her, she’s a teacher. I mean, is your answer, “let’s arm the teachers?” [Soledad goes on to ask if his answer is to not make semi-automatic weapons available, or maybe do something to improve the background checks?] Where does it start, what are you comfortable doing?
RICK SCOTT: I think right now, what we ought to do be doing, is let’s talk about all those issues, and let’s think about what we can do to improve it. But here’s what I think about. One, it’s just like, I’ve been to law enforcement funeral deaths in our state, and your heart goes out to those families, and then afterwards you say, okay, what can we do to improve, in Florida, we’re doing the right things right now. We’re at a 41 year low in our crime rate. But I always want to sit back and say, so what could we do better? And that’s what I want to think about with this.
SOLEDAD: Okay, I think, with all due respect, you’re not going to answer my question…
Incredulous Soledad.
SOLEDAD: ….because, I guess, I just want you to tell me what you’d be comfortable to support, and I get it, it’s going to be part of a conversation, but I think there have been a number of things on the table and I don’t feel like you’re telling me, you know, should people not be able to buy those high-capacity magazines? Some people suggested that. What thing are you willing to say would be a good start, that you would bring to the table in any conversation about gun control?
RICK SCOTT: Well, you know, my approach on things like this is the one, respect the families….
[Watch Soledad's face as Scott repeats himself, saying nothing, for the umpteenth time]
“You are dead to me” Soledad.
RICK SCOTT: … mourn their losses, make sure our schools are safe, and then start the conversation and listen to Floridians. What I do every day is travel the state, almost, pretty much every day, and listen to Floridians and get their ideas, and then come back based on those ideas of what we can improve.
SOLEDAD: Well, I hope all those conversations turn into meaningful legislation somewhere down the road, before I get to go out and cover another tragedy of which we’ve now done a bunch of them.
RICK SCOTT: We don’t want another, we can’t imagine this happening to our families.
Obamacare critic Olive Garden/Red Lobster reports 37% drop in profits
Whether there’s a connection between Olive Garden / Red Lobster parent company, Darden Restaurants, reporting bad numbers and their flip-flopping on Obamacare is hard to say. Customers of those restaurants are certainly middle class people, most of whom know all too well how difficult and expensive healthcare can be, so it’s not unreasonable to think the earlier criticism of Obamacare had some negative impact.
Earlier this month, it was reported that Darden’s CEO was concerned about the bad publicity, but that he was making efforts to provide healthcare to at least some of their employees. Darden did eventually come around.
“Although our workforce historically has been heavily part-time, we have always had a significant number of full-time employees and they are integral to our success,” said Darden chairman and CEO Clarence Otis. “The data we have collected during our test around guest satisfaction and employee engagement has only reinforced this. As we think about healthcare reform, while many of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s rules and regulations have yet to be finalized, we are pleased we know enough at this point to make firm and hopefully reassuring commitments to our full-time employees.”
Was blaming Obamacare real, or just an excuse for missing the numbers? Again, it’s hard to say. Data shows that criticism of Obamacare by CEO’s has hurt the image of companies, though nobody can make a direct link to poor numbers, yet. The ongoing economic crisis could just as easily be responsible for bad performance. Many families still feel financially insecure, and going to restaurants is often an expense that gets cut.
Darden seemed to eventually be doing the right thing by exploring the process of adding healthcare for at least some employees. Was it too little, too late or was the damage already done? Whatever the answer, the public does seem to be in a bad mood lately with CEOs, former CEOs, rich people and companies who are bashing Obamacare, or at least, access to healthcare for employees.
The Huffington Post is suggesting the earlier Obamacare criticism is linked to the drop in sales, but I’m less convinced. The criticism may not have helped, but to blame the unfortunate public statements about Obamacare on such a huge revenue decrease, a 37% profit drop,sounds too easy.
It’s time for businesses to get on board with Obamacare, and quit causing self-inflicted wounds, or the image of self-inflicted wounds on their businesses. Maybe it means a few less dollars at the top, but is that really such a crisis to whine about?
New Orleans schools ban teaching Creationism, reject Texas Creationist "science" textbooks
Score on for the good guys!
The Orleans Parish Public School Board has rejected the Louisiana Science Education Act, which followed Texas's lead by putting Creationism into the state's schools. A Board decision prohibits the teaching of Creationism in science class, and forbids the use of Texas's revisionist, Creationist "science" textbooks.
The policy says: "No history textbook shall be approved which has been adjusted in accordance with the state of Texas revisionist guidelines nor shall any science textbook be approved which presents creationism or intelligent design as science or scientific theories."
It stresses the separation of science and religious teachings:
"No teacher of any discipline of science shall teach any aspect of religious faith as science or in a science class. No teacher of any discipline of science shall teach creationism or intelligent design in classes designated as science classes."
Orleans Parish School Board votes to ban creationism
That the top 3% of small businesses are not job creators
That Great Lakes levels low enough to reveal old shipwrecks
That the Mayans did not predict the apocalypse
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Best Astronomy Images of 2012
Phil Plait at Slate has compiled a best-of list of astronomy images from 2012 that are pretty spectacular. Included is this image of the sun, which depicts an event that occurred on August 31, 2012. An arch of matter was raised by the sun's magnetic field and then erupted, sending hundreds of millions of tons of plasma into space at a speed of 900 miles per second. The size of the arch was 200,000 miles wide; 25 times the size of the Earth.
See the rest of the images at Bad Astronomy.
Well, what do you know!
What the Maya Day of Doom and Stars Wars Have in Common
Tikal, the ruins of Maya temples discovered in the Guatemalan rainforest in 1848, has been a longtime tourist attraction. The number of visitors increased, however, after George Lucas chose the location to film scenes from Star Wars in which the rebels fought the empire on planet Yavin 4.
The site was originally discovered when locals found human skulls with gemstone-studded teeth. Extending for over 200 square miles, Tikal's tall temples are surrounded by dense jungle. Tikal is one of the largest pre-Columbian Maya sites in the world.
In spite of scientists and scholars rejecting the interpretation of the Maya calendar that targets this Friday as the "End of Times," record numbers of visitors are flocking to the ruins this month, according to Reuters.
The Reuters article also disclosed information on the upcoming film in the franchise, Episode VII, to be made by Disney. Apparently, Yavin 4 reappears in the new film, though Reuters cites information from fans that those scenes will be filmed in a studio rather than in Guatemala.
Read the entire Reuters article here.
How humans evolved to explore
Boldly going where nobody's gone before. In a lot of ways, that idea kind of defines our whole species. We travel. We're curious. We poke our noses around the planet to find new places to live. We're compelled to explore places few people would ever actually want to live. We push ourselves into space.
This behavior isn't totally unique. But it is remarkable. So we have to ask, is there a genetic, evolution-driven, cause behind the restlessness of humanity?
At National Geographic, David Dobbs has an amazing long read digging into that idea. The story is fascinating, stretching from Polynesian sailors to Quebecois settlers. And it's very, very good science writing. Dobbs resists the urge to go for easy "here is the gene that does this" answers. Instead, he helps us see the complex web of genetics and culture that influences and encourages certain behaviors at certain times. It's a great read.
Not all of us ache to ride a rocket or sail the infinite sea. Yet as a species we’re curious enough, and intrigued enough by the prospect, to help pay for the trip and cheer at the voyagers’ return. Yes, we explore to find a better place to live or acquire a larger territory or make a fortune. But we also explore simply to discover what’s there.
“No other mammal moves around like we do,” says Svante Pääbo, a director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, where he uses genetics to study human origins. “We jump borders. We push into new territory even when we have resources where we are. Other animals don’t do this. Other humans either. Neanderthals were around hundreds of thousands of years, but they never spread around the world. In just 50,000 years we covered everything. There’s a kind of madness to it. Sailing out into the ocean, you have no idea what’s on the other side. And now we go to Mars. We never stop. Why?”
Why indeed? Pääbo and other scientists pondering this question are themselves explorers, walking new ground. They know that they might have to backtrack and regroup at any time. They know that any notion about why we explore might soon face revision as their young disciplines—anthropology, genetics, developmental neuropsychology—turn up new fundamentals. Yet for those trying to figure out what makes humans tick, our urge to explore is irresistible terrain. What gives rise to this “madness” to explore? What drove us out from Africa and on to the moon and beyond?
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The Soreq Stalactite Cave In Israel
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Like other dripstone caverns, Soreq Cave is teeming with stalactites and natural sculptures formed by hundreds of thousands of years of mineral-rich water drops slowly leaving behind a rock residue.
Ten Spectacular Volcanic Plugs And Natural Monoliths
A volcanic plug, also called a volcanic neck, is a volcanic land-form created when magma hardens within a vent on an active volcano. A natural monolith is a mountain or large rock formation consisting of a single massive stone.
Both types of these geological structures are similar in that they are often steeply rising above the surrounding terrain. The unusual appearance and the buildings which are often located on these structures, amaze visitors and attract them to come back again.
Upping the Cute Factor
Top 25 Zoo-Borns of All Time
Why post an end-of-the-year list when you can post an all-time list? Zooborns celebrated their 2,000th post recently, and bloggers Chris Eastland and Andrew Bleiman are marking the occasion by ranking the cutest baby animals ever featured on the site. Each photograph includes information about the animal and the zoo or sanctuary in which it lives. More
Man bit head off snake so it couldn't bite him
After seeing a brown snake in the front yard of a neighbor's house, Rodney Williams of Glenroi, in New South Wales, Australia, did the unthinkable and picked it up before biting its head off.
He then bit it on the stomach and tail. Mr Williams, who admits he’d had a few drinks before the incident, said he considered it a “learning experience”. “I bit it’s head off first so it couldn’t bite me,” he said. “I’ll probably do it better next time.”
Mr Williams said he’d seen other Koori people kill snakes in a similar way and had always wanted to try it himself. “That’s how you kill a snake, you don’t use a shovel,” he said. “I was born and bred in this street [Adina Crescent] and I’ve never seen a king brown here before but there’s a few red-bellied blacks around.”
Mr Williams said he would tell his four grandchildren what happened but hopes they won’t try it themselves. Orange hospital confirmed a man was examined for a possible snake bite but he wasn’t admitted for treatment. Hours after the encounter Mr Williams said he felt so well he discharged himself from hospital.
Toddler incubated deadly snake eggs in his wardrobe
A toddler has incubated a nest of one of the world's most deadly species of snake - in his bedroom wardrobe. Kyle Cumming, 3, of Townsville, Queensland, Australia, found the snake eggs several weeks ago while playing in his backyard and put them in his wardrobe. On Monday, the boy's mother discovered seven squirming baby snakes inside a takeaway container she had given him after he found the eggs. Eastern brown snakes are second only to the inland taipan as the most venomous snakes on Earth, and are responsible for most lethal snake bites in Australia.
Queensland Museum information officer and snake expert Steve Wilson said despite the age of the snakes, if Kyle had been bitten the result could have been deadly. "Any venomous snake, as soon as it hatches, has all the apparatus to deliver venom because the first thing they have to do is catch and kill prey - it's a perfect replica of an adult snake," he said. "Brown snakes are highly venomous and a baby brown could potentially kill or at least seriously harm a human being - adult or child.
"If he had played around with them, which a little boy would, there's a chance they would have bitten him and there's a real chance that he may have been very seriously harmed or killed by them." Mr Wilson urged the need to instil in children that snakes of any sort are never to be touched."You've got to impress on children to steer clear of any handling of any snakes or snake-like animals, not necessarily to be feared but always treated with a great deal of caution," he said. "For a little kid scooping them out, he's either very lucky that when he picked them up he kept them the right way up or he got them very early in their development when it wasn't too critical."
Kyle's mother Donna Sim said she did not think any more of the eggs until she found the container full of hatchlings. "I was pretty shocked, particularly because I don't like snakes," Ms Sim said. But Ms Sim's discovery could have saved the animals' lives, as if they had remained forgotten in the wardrobe they would have died. "If they hadn't been found they would have been doomed - doomed and entombed," Mr Wilson said. Ms Sim and her son took the container to nearby Billabong sanctuary, where wildlife rangers released the reptiles into the wild.
Gibbon from popular Rhode Island zoo exhibit dies
A white-cheeked gibbon that had been part of one of the most popular exhibits at a Rhode Island zoo for decades has died.
The Roger Williams Park Zoo says Gloria was euthanized Friday after suffering for months with a disease that has symptoms similar to those of Parkinson's.
Gloria was born in 1983 at the Minnesota Zoo and had been at the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence since 1989.
White-cheeked gibbons are apes that are native to rainforests in Southeast Asia. They are classified as a critically endangered species.
Gibbons typically live about 25 to 30 years in the wild and can live more than 40 years in captivity.
The zoo says it made the decision to euthanize Gloria because of a severe decline in her quality of life.
Federal government lists two ice seals as threatened
Two types of ice seals joined polar bears on Friday on the list of species threatened by the loss of sea ice, which scientists say reached record low levels this year due to climate warming. Ringed seals, the main prey of polar bears, and bearded seals in the Arctic Ocean will be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced.
A species is threatened if it's likely to become endangered within the foreseeable future throughout a significant portion of its range.
The listing of the seals came after federal scientists did an extensive review of scientific and commercial data. It has no effect on subsistence hunting by Alaska Natives.
"They concluded that a significant decrease in sea ice is probable later this century, and that these changes will likely cause these seal populations to decline," said Jon Kurland, protected resources director for NOAA Fisheries' Alaska region.
Ringed seals are the only seals that thrive in completely ice-covered Arctic waters. They use stout claws to dig and maintain breathing holes.
When snow covers those holes, females excavate and make snow caves, where they give birth to pups that cannot survive in ice-cold water and are susceptible to freezing until they grow a blubber layer.
Hungry polar bears often catch breeding females or pups by collapsing lairs.
Decreased snowfall, or rain falling on lairs instead of snow, is a threat to seal survival, the agency said.
Bearded seals, named for their thick whiskers, give birth and rear pups on drifting pack ice over shallow water where prey such as crab is abundant. When females give birth, they need ice to last long enough in the spring and early summer to successfully reproduce and molt.
The projected retreat of sea ice from shallow shelves decreases food availability, the listing petition said.
The listing is a major victory in efforts to save the animals because of the additional protections provided under the Endangered Species Act, said Shaye Wolf of the Center for Biological Diversity, who wrote the petition leading to the listing consideration.
"The seals need all the help that they can get," she said by phone from San Francisco.
The development, however, is bittersweet, she said. While the Obama administration has acknowledged the threat, not enough is being done to limit greenhouse gas pollution behind the loss of sea ice, she said.
The NOAA Fisheries decision affects four subspecies of ringed seals around the world. Arctic Ocean seals off Alaska's coast and seals on the Okhotsk and Baltic seas were listed as threatened. A subspecies in Lake Ladoga in northwest Russia was listed as endangered.
The listing covered two subspecies of bearded seals: the Beringia population, which includes Alaska, and bearded seals in the Sea of Okhotsk.
Designation of critical habitat for the seals will be considered later.
The agency said the listing decision will not mean any immediate restrictions on human activities.
It does mean that federal agencies that issue permits or pay for projects that might affect a threatened species must consult with NOAA Fisheries to make sure activities do not jeopardize the animals.
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NEVERMINDS EVOLUTION - SANRIA
Here's another look at the evolution of one of our characters from NEVERMINDS. This time it's Sanria. When we first agreed to work on NEVERMINDS together, Jamie and I both throw out a bunch of ideas. One of which was a kind of psychic superhero team. I wasn't feeling that one, having worked on SENTINELS so long, I wanted to do something different. But Jamie had done a couple of really cool designs, one of which I really, really liked. That was Sanria. At first she kind of looked like an X-Girl (as shown below). Then as we began to develop things, we reworked her a lot and she became this entirely new character. Enjoy the sketches! More soon...
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CHARLES HOLBERT JR SIGNING AT COMIC OASIS
I just got word that the very talented and all around nice guy artist, Charles Holbert Jr, who drew Harlette's story in the SENTINELS Anthology will be doing a signing for the Anthology at the Comic Oasis in Las Vegas. I can't speak highly enough about Charles's art. I really expect him to be a big comic star someday soon and feel lucky to have gotten him involved in the Anthology. If his work in the Anthology isn't enough to convince people of that, just take a look at this print he did for the signing of Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.. It's so freaking sweet. I love it. If you in the Las Vegas area, stop by on July 9th, 2008 and say hello to Charles. Stop by http://comicoasis.com/ to find out more details. Of course, I'm not sure the girls in that pic with Charles will be there. But you never know. :) I hope it goes well, Charles!
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NEVERMINDS EVOLUTION - ALANIS MUNROE
Here are a few sketches by Jamie Fay that show the evolution of our main character from NEVERMINDS, Alanis Munroe. You can see from the beginnning she wasn't as defined as she is now. Then you'll notice that she looks like the daughter from the TV series 24 (Elisha Cuthbert). We scraped that idea and settled on her current look. As for her dress, we were going to define it, but as we worked we though it might be interesting to have her change it a bit each time. You'll see how that's possible in the series. More soon...
HARLETTE BY REY ARZENO
I had the pleasure of meeting Rey Arzeno a while ago through Deviant Art. I really loved his style, so I dropped him a note and then got to meet him at this years NYC Comic Con. Of course, talking to people online and then meeting them in person are two totally different things. Sometimes you hit it off and become friends, sometimes you don't. Luckily for me, lol, Rey is a super cool guy and has become a good friend. Over the last few months we've talked about working together on something and hopefully we'll start soon. (Gotta lots of work to do first!).
I wanted to post this AWESOME pic Rey did of Harlette in her costume from SENTINELS Book 4. How sweet is this? Rey draws incredibly hot women and I love all the detail he put into her costume. I'm really excited that we're going to work on something together and hope everyone will enjoy his art as much as I do. Go check out his gallery at http://arzeno.deviantart.com/ .
Trust me, you'll love his work! Thanks so much for the sketch, Rey.
NEW DRUMFISH FORUMS!
For the last few years we had (and still have) a forum over on Philip Clark's Dreamchilde site. But I thought the time was right to finally get our own forums and create something specific to Drumfish Productions. In the coming year we'll be publishing a few new series and even though we have a ton of threads on the Dreamchilde forum, I think now is the time to do this.
I want to thank Philip for all the help through the years and of course for asking me to be part of the Dreamchilde forum. I really got to know a lot of great people over there and we've had a very loyal following that I really appreciate. I hope this new forum will be as successful as Philip's and just as friendly. I'll still be over there from time to time., but for the most part, this is our new home.
Go check out the site and sign up!
http://www.phpbbplanet.com/drumfish/
SENTINELS GEN 3 - WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
A few posts ago I showed Luciano's sketch for a character named Flake. She would have been a character who joined the 3rd Gen SENTINELS if we had done a series on them. But she wouldn't have been alone. Since a few of you asked what other unseen things I had in my files, I decided to show these sketches done a long time ago. Excuse the art, because they're drawn by me, lol. Usually when I'm creating or writing something, I do little sketches and show them to the artist to try to get my idea across to them.
Flake would have been part of another team of super-powered youngsters, kind of a villain team but with a twist. They were all also related to the villains who were killed in SENTINELS Book 2: Masks. The line-up consisted of:
Flake - The granddaughter of Shiver. Flake had the ability to freeze things.
Pinch - The son of Detonator. Pinch had the ability to affect people's nervous system with a snap of his fingers.
Wreck - The grandson of the Tank. Wreck had the power to turn his body into metal.
Fasttrack - The daughter of Fasttrack. She had the ability to "speed up" herself and anything around her.
Glam - The daughter of Glamora. Spoiled rich girl with the power to alter her appearance.
Growl - The son of Pitbull. Growl had feral abilities, but limited intelligence.
Simone - The daughter of Adlivon. Simone had mystical abilites and a connection to the dead.
Trick-N-Treat - The twin children of Nebulas. Each had the power to make things explode.
Wipeout - Yes, Wipeout. Scarred and depowered after his encounter at the end of SENTINELS Book 4: Hope, Wipeout would have been the leader of the group.
Of course, we (Luciano and I) both decided this wasn't the direction we wanted to take with the 3rd Gen SENTINELS. In addition to both wanting to take a break from the SENTINELS universe, we also though we were doing it, just to do it. I don't think that would have been good for anyone. BUt the characters we created were kind of fun and who knows? Maybe one day one or two of them will show up somewhere.
Hope this look at what might have been is enjoyed!
Wow. It's kind of hard for me to believe that this is my 100th post here on the blog. When I started this I had no idea I had enough ramblings to get to 100. But, here we are. I figured I'd take this post to ask some things and also to let everyone know what Drumfish has planned for the next year.
First, I'm curious as to what people think of the blog here. There aren't too many people posting, but that's okay because I know it's being read. What I want to know is if people are enjoying it. What do and don't you like? More previews? More behind the scene stuff? Less? More sketches? I haven't posted any reviews or plugs in a while. Do you want to see more of those?
I ask because I'm going to be working on setting up a Drumfish website soon. I'm just waiting on the domain name now. But when I do, I want to make it good. So, let me know what you all think.
It seems like I've been talking mostly about SENTINELS on here. That's because it's the only book published by Drumfish so far. But by next year there will be a few more.
First, of course, will be NEVERMINDS by myself and Jamie Fay. I've post a bit on NEVERMINDS and can't wait to get it out there. It seems like we've been working on it forever, but hopefully the wait will be worth it. NEVERMINDS will be published in trade form and in color.
Also in development is CASPIAN CURSES. This will be a scifi/fantasy book by myself and Luciano Vecchio. We put it on the back burning for a while as I worked on NEVERMINDS and other stuff and Luciano worked on his project, CRUEL THING. But we're recently reworked the story and I think it'll really stand out now. It even has a slight connection to SENTINELS. :) I'm not completely sure if Drumfish will be publishing this, as we want to see if another company might be interested. But if they aren't, then it'll have the Drumfish logo on it for sure. CASPIAN CURSES will be published in trade form if Drumfish does it and will be in color.
Now, both of those books have been in my head for a while and work has been being done on them for a long time. But they're not the only projects I have planned.
I'd been thinking for a while about where I want Drumfish to go and what my goals were in the comic industry and after much thought (and a great conversation with Bryan J. Glass) I now know what I want to do. See, I love OGNs and think publishing in that form has been the best thing for me. It kept costs down and looked really professional. But I've been ignoring other forms of publishing. So, next year, with lots of work and a bit of luck, Drumfish will also publish some smaller pamphet sized comics. Some of which are already in development.
The first will be a kind of darker book with art by Teyo, the artist who drew Templar's story in the SENTINELS Anthology. I really love Teyo's work and look forward to working with him. I also think it'll be a book that will surprise people in terms of what I've done before.
For now, that's the only book I can mention, but keep checking here to see what else is in the works. Next year you'll see quite a few new books from Drumfish! Thanks to everyone for all the support and I hope you'll enjoy what comes next!
MORE SKETCHES FROM PHILLY CON
Here are the final two sketches I got while at the Wizard World Philly Con. Surprisingly, they're both of Harlette. It seems that a lot of artists like her. Usually, I let the artist pic who they want to draw, I think you get a better sketch that way, so I have more Harlette sketches than any of the other SENTINELS. I might ask people to do anyone but her for a while so that it gets evened out a little more.
But here are two great sketches. The first is by Rodney Ramos. Rodney is a very cool guy and was one of the first artist I had do anything for me at the con. He wanted to do more to the sketch, but I had to get the book to David Petersen. So, he asked that I bring it back later for him to tweak some things. I unfortunately, forgot. But I think his drawing looks great. I'm really happy with what he did and think the blue around Harlette really brings her out.
The second Harlette sketch is by Patrick Thomas Parnell. Patrick has his own book out called Ultrastar. I bought a copy but haven't had a chance to read it yet. It's about the same size as the SENTINELS Anthology but was $20. I thought that was a little steep, but gave it a try anyway. I really like the sketch Patrick did for me and think he draws a very interesting Harlette. The hair really adds to the feel of the pic. Check out more of Patrick's work on his blog at http://patrickthomasparnell.blogspot.com/ .
WHO IS FLAKE?
Following up on my last post, I thought I show another idea from the 3rd Gen SENTINELS that didn't come to light. Here is Flake, a character who would have and a BIG impact on all the kids. I don't want to say what her storyline would have been, because who knows, maybe I'll use it somehow or somewhere else one day. But, she would have been part of another group and she had very strong ties to the SENTINELS. She's the granddaughter of Shiver who appeared very briefly in SENTINELS Book 2: Masks. I love Luciano's design for her and think she'd have been a really great character. Cute, huh?
SENTINELS GEN 3 OLD PAGES
I realized the other day that I have these awesome pages that Luciano did a long time ago of the 3rd Gen SENTINELS that no one has really seen. Back when we were doing the SENTINELS graphic novels (right after the second trade), we toyed around with the idea of doing an on-going series featuring the 3rd Gen team. I had written about three issues of it and Luciano had drawn six pages (which are posted here). We intended to show it to Image Comics and see if they were interested in publishing it. Sadly, when I met with the guy in charge of Image, he wasn't the nicest person. That's all I'll say about that. But regardless, he didn't like our work and we went back to finishing the SENTINELS series. As we got to the end, it became clearer to us that as much as we loved the 3rd Gen, we really didn't have any specific story in mind for them. With SENTINELS we had a great epic tale and a story that, we felt, had a lot of heart and purpose. We eventually decided against doing the 3rd Gen as a series and most of what we had started ended up making it's way into the SENTINELS Anthology.
But still, I thought it'd be nice to show the pages we had done and see how things had changed. Some of the characters got tweaked a little, but for the most part you know who they are. These pages helped us define them so that when they finally saw print, we knew their personalities pretty well. Probably the biggest change was that their was no daughter for Switchfast and Agent Huggins back then. Psyched was created later and I think she rounded out the group well.
I hope everyone enjoys a look at these pages!
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SENTINELS ON COMICVINE
A while back now, I was shown this awesome site by Keefer Kopco. It's called COMICVINE and is more or less a database for all different kinds of superhero characters. Keefer brought it to my attention because he set up an entire page for SENTINELS! Complete with bios, gallery art and even an entry for Squadron 7. I can't thank Keefer enough for doing this. It's really a huge undertaking and looks great! Check it out at http://www.comicvine.com/sentinels/65-48487/ .
Keefer also did a site full of SENTINELS micros. It's been on our main website for some time. But I thought since I was mentioning COMICVINE, I'd give Keefer more props for the site he had made before. Check out http://www.freewebs.com/the-sentinel-micros/ to see even more micros Keefer has done of the SENTINELS.
Thanks again, Keefer. I really appreciate it!
SENTINELS HEROCLIX BY CHRIS SCHADT
A few weeks ago I posted the super cool Rapture HeroClix that I was given at the Wizard World Philly show. It was done by Chris Schadt and he mentioned that he had done other characters from the series and he would send me some pictures. Well, here we have Electron, Splash, Templar and Firebomb. Awesome, huh? I'm really thankful to Chris for doing these and sharing them with me so I can show them off. Chris says he plans to finish the entire second generation SENTINELS team and will send me more pictures when he does.
Thanks again, Chris. I love them!
CRUSHER BY BRYAN K. TURNER
Crusher get his turn in my sketch book as done by Bryan K. Turner, aka Flash! I have to admit that this pic is one of my favorite I've gotten. Bryan really has a energetic quality to his style. I love the way he poses his characters in such dynamic positions. And as I look at his rendition of Crusher, I can't help but notice that he kind of made his costume look like a Kirby design. I love that. Check out more of Bryan's work at http://www.bturnerdesigns.com/ and his Deviant page at http://sauceboy.deviantart.com/.
MOUSE SENTINELS BY DAVID PETERSEN
I had the honor of meeting David Petersen, the creator of MOUSE GUARD, at the Wizard World Philly Con. Anyone who has read MOUSE GUARD knows that David is an extremely talented guy, but he also happens to be super nice. He was constantly busy talking with fans and other creators and did quite a few commissions while he was there. I consider myself very lucky to have gotten a sketch by him. Originally I was thinking I'd have him do a teamshot for me, but after chatting with him for a while and thinking about his work. I asked him to just draw Templar and Firebomb in their final costume looks. I think it fit with his MOUSE GUARD series about mice knights. What I didn't expect was the detail David put into this sketch. It's really incredible and SENTINELS fans might also notice that David used the CYPRUS vessel as a background to the sketch. How cool is that?
With MICE TEMPLAR and MOUSE GUARD both focusing on rodents, you'd also think that there might be some kind of feud between the creative teams. That's definitely not the case. Both are big fans of the other and so I am. I plan to try to do a review of both books soon. For anyone who hasn't checked them out, you're really missing some great work!
See more of David's work and learn more about MOUSE GUARD at http://www.mouseguard.net/ .
TINY SENTINELS BY ART BALTAZAR & FRANCO AURELIANI
I actually got these sketches at both the NYC Comic Con and the Wizard World Philly Con. At the NYC Con, my table was next to Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani. They were super nice guys and very funny. Art and Franco are the creators of DC Comic's TINY TITANS. The book is aimed at kids, but there are tons of adults who like it too. Art does the artwork on the book and he was doing quick sketches for only a dollar. Crazy, huh? So, I couldn't pass up getting him to draw the 3rd Gen SENTINELS for me. He did them so fast and I think they're great. Lots of energy in them and in color even (crayons). A few friends also got Franco to do sketches for them and I had no idea he was an artist also. I was kicking myself for not getting something by him at NYC. As luck would have it, Art and Franco were at the Philly Con and I had Franco draw the 3rd Gen SENTINELS this time. He did them as a team in my sketch book and for only a dollar each. Gotta love them!
I want to wait a little while to post these since they have the 3rd Gen kids names on the art. But now that the SENTINELS Anthology is out, I can finally share them.
Check out Art and Franco work at http://www.blindwolfstudios.com/ and http://www.artbaltazar.com/ .
SPLASH BY TAKI SOMA
PHILLY CON SKETCHES
SENTINELS COMMISSION 5
PHILIP CLARK SIGNING AT COMIC BUG
WIZARD WORLD PHILLY REPORT
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JAMMU, July 20: Even as the accidents have been rise on the national highway and around 50 persons were killed only last month, the government plan to start night bus service on the Srinagar-Jammu highway has drawn flak from experts who fear that the "service may prove deadly."
As per the government, "For the comfort of commuters, Jammu and Kashmir State Road Transport Corporation (JKSRTC) has decided to start night service from Jammu to Srinagar and vice-versa after 15th August 2019."
The decision was taken during a meeting chaired by Principal Secretary Transport Department Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon. MD JKSRTC, RTO Kashmir, SSP Srinagar, SSP Traffic Srinagar, and other officials were also present in the meeting, said an official spokesman.
But the traffic experts said "Unless the road safety in improved on the highway and the concerned are mode more accountable, such a night service can prove disastrous."
Pleading their point, the experts said it unless the daytime accidents on the highway come down and accountability is put in place such a bus service can prove counterproductive.
The experts said there were no doubts that the SRTC drivers are known for their driving skills but they wouldn't be the only ones driving on the highway.
"There are numerous reports that licenses are given to untrained people who make the travel difficult. Besides also there is a need for through inspection of the whole highway and define the risky spots. Before taking such an action, this entire plan of night service is half baked," the experts said.
The J&K SRTC officials however said there was no such issue that the travel at night may prove risky. "We have highly trained drivers," the official said on the condition of anonymity.
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Quarterbacks in the Draft: Blake Bortles
By Nick Castillo - Updated on March 27, 2014 at 1:26 pm
Before the 2013 college season, Blake Bortles was an unknown commodity. If you search his name on Google, there are more pictures of Bortles’ girlfriend than there are of himself.
NFL Free Agency: Winners and Losers
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It has been over a week since the NFL’s free agency period began and most of the damage has already been done. Did your team fall into our list of winners or losers?
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During his nine year tenure with the Cowboys, Ware had 444 tackles, 117 sacks and 32 forced fumbles.While Ware’s presence will be missed, it was time for both parties to split.
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NBA Contenders vs. Pretenders: Contenders
By Suchith Vuppala - Updated on March 14, 2014 at 10:56 am
In the first segment of a two-part analysis, we take a quick look across the NBA to identify the league's championship contenders.
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By Adam Beard - Updated on March 6, 2014 at 11:54 pm
Depending on how many teams are in your league, how many closers you need and what your scoring settings are, the strategy of picking relievers can vary.
NFL Free Agency Preview: Dallas Cowboys
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As the NFL’s free agency period draws near, the Cowboys have a great opportunity to improve their playoff chances.
Fantasy Baseball Preview: Starting Pitchers
By Adam Beard - Updated on March 4, 2014 at 8:15 pm
This is the deepest position in fantasy baseball, but don’t wait too long to draft a starting pitcher.
Fantasy Baseball Preview: Outfielders
As always, the outfield is strong. Our top ten outfielders will probably be taken within the first three rounds of all fantasy drafts.
Texas Rangers Season Preview
By Mark Roberson - Updated on March 2, 2014 at 9:34 am
Heartbreak and disappointment have been a theme for the Rangers over the past several years. Will that change this year?
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Cousin Jake
Cousin Jake: News
Happy Holidays to all - December 13, 2010
Hiya, folks,
All of us here in COUSIN JAKE want to once again thank all of our Family for your support through the year, and wish all of you a very happy holiday season and very happy new year. We'll be happy to rock out for you next year, too!
Whatta year! - December 9, 2010
THANKS from Dave, Bob and Don to all our Family Members new and old who have supported us for another year! 2010 has been great (and not over yet!!), thanks to everyone coming out and partying with us. We had plenty of parties and a few big venues we blasted away, especially the Inner Harbor (again!) and more than a few times in the north country. Thanks to everyone who came out, everyone who asked us to play, and all our actual families and friends who've been supportive and patient with us. We'll keep on rocking for you, folks, and you should talk to Dave about next year - it will start filling in fast! A happy and peaceful holiday season and a prosperous and joyful new year!
Yee Hah. - November 29, 2010
Hey, there, family, we're rocking as usual, and we love being able to tell you all about it, but as I warned earlier, we've had some non-functional email addresses in our list, and here's the ones that simply croaked altogether. If you recognize this as one of YOURS, you can email us at cousinjake@cousinjake.com and we can update you in our web mail. Here's the stuff what don't work:
artwhitney@yahoo.com
georgedegon1@cox.net
guitarmaniac0964@yahoo.com
jtartaglione@comcast.net
jstaats1@stny.rr.com
kathleen.a.markee@lmco.com
pepsigirl@stny.rr.com
shat57raw@aol.com
Go ahead, spammers! Scoop them ALL! Bwa ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaa!!!! It shall avail you naught! Ain't nobody home!!!
For all our faithful friends and family (literally and figuratively) who still have active email accounts, we'll keep you updated! And good news for those of you following the stories: John Luber has gotten four of his seven stolen guitars back, huzzah! Thanks for watching out for him, folks!! The dirtballs will be caught and prosecuted!
Oh, and Don: don't be embarrassed that you do pop music in your spare time. We won't tell anyone. Um, wait a second... Well, you rock out anyway!!!!!
Another troublesome bit of news - November 16, 2010
Folk, we have another situation that took place just recently to a brother musician. Here is the email I received from Deb Tafel at Bikers United.
From: Deb Tafel [mailto:djt13212@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 10:43 AM
Subject: Notice: stolen guitars
I was asked to share this info with any bands that I may know. Please help if you know anything!!!
John Luber lost 7 instruments. Whether you know John or not, please forward
this to every musician you know. (He presently plays in 2 Kool 4 Skool - rfv)
John Luber had 7 instruments stolen from his studio on his property in
Oswego last evening. There were 4 high end (2 natural, 1 Black and 1 Red
Schecters (strat style) guitars. Very recognizable as not the run of the
mill Schecters. One had a rosewood board., a couple of High end Strats
tobacco sunburst and a custom shop highly figured Jade green Les Paul with a
custom shop label on the back of the head stock... If you see anything that
even looks like it could be something special whether you are in a store or
you see someone playing one, Call John at (315) 529-2475 or the Oswego
county Sheriffs office at (315) 349-3307.
Thanks very much..
Ray Furniss
If your not part of the Groove
You're part of the problem
SO - keep your eyes open and your phone handy, folks. Stealing a player's guitar is like stealing a cowboy's horse - he may not die quick, but it'll be killing him anyway.
Thanks to the Family - November 7, 2010
Folks, we wanted to thank everyone who came out to the charity event at the Locker Room. It was a great time and, thanks to those who took the time to attend, the event raised enough to feed over 200 families a full Thanksgiving dinner with all the fixings. Kudos to everyone who worked hard on planning and running the dinner as a combined effort of several bike clubs and organizations, and helped make this a success, and of course to all who came to party and donate. Thanks, folks. We're glad we could help even if it was last minute.
A PSA from CJ - September 30, 2010
Hiya, family members!
We just want to let you know that we're very grateful for everyone on our mailing list, especially when you come out to hear us play! But there has been an oddity that has popped up from time to time, and that's the email address that fails. So, if you're on our list and hate those witty and hysterically funny emails we've been sending out, just let us know - you don't have to go get another address just because I told the ugly dog joke again. BUT if you change providers, or got bored with ImSoWonderful@wippydoo.argh and decided to change to SoBadassItHurts@deathbystereo.tv, for example, then just remember to let us know here at the website. We'd hate for you to miss out! And yes, Joann, you DO need to clear out the inbox, it's been overloaded for MONTHS!!!
So, just to pretend to be clear: if your email address fails more than four times, we'll have a sad little moment or two and delete it from the mailing list. If you get a new address, PLEASE let us know so we can update you and keep you informed about all the spectacular gigs and goings-on of yer favorite cousin, COUSIN JAKE!!! Thanks, folks!!
HELP NEEDED for Katie Case - September 28, 2010
Family members, we swiped this message off Facebook, where it is rapidly getting distributed throughout the CNY musical community. In case the names don't click for you, this refers to the family of Paul Case, of Case & Davidson fame.
Hi Everone. I'm trying the help spread the word the terrible accident that occurred this past weekend [9/24-26? -rfv] which resulted in severely burning friends of mine, Paul & Julie Case's, daughter Katie. A benefit will take some time to organize to help them defray costs such as money for travel expenses back and forth to the hospital in Boston, gas money, food etc. Both Paul & Julie will be out of work or missing work while the normal household bills continue: electric, fuel oil, etc. If everyone who wanted to help could just send them a check, even $10, it all adds up. And this would be quicker than waiting for a benefit, and more effective right now. Their address is P.O. Box 921, Old Forge NY 13420. Hope you can get this out to some friends. Please help spread the word and pray for their daughter, Katie, and family.
Folks, this sort of tragedy is a terrible time for any family, and it's the more poignant for musicians when it's one of our own. Feel free to investigate but please consider donating, even if just a little. There are rumors of a benefit in the early planning stages, but the Cases are hurting now. Thanks. (Bob)
A TIMELY WARNING - September 21, 2010
Folk:
Just wanted to post this in case you weren't in the original recipient list. This warning is from Deb Tafel of Bikers United as of September 21, 2010:
Subject: EXTERNAL: Bikers Beware: road issue
At the corners of Park Street and Alliance Stadium Pkwy (entrance near train station), there are sandblasting materials on Park Street. This may cause a hazard. We have contacted to company doing the work and they have said they will clean it up, until then if you must use that area, be aware and careful.
Bikers United
*+*+*+*+*+*
Stay safe, kids!!
High Time for more Rockin'! - September 10, 2010
Hey there, Family members! We've been kinda busy but managed to avoid paying attention to the website besides, so we're sorry and are ready to take our spankings, ma'am. But I digress.
We're still here and still rockin' out, folks. Just remember that all the up to date info can be had right here on our calendar pages. and plenty of gossip and videos on our Facebook page - which Dave updates a little more often than I get here to blow the dust off. Come on out and see us - we've got a few more bar gigs than usual so there will be lots of chances to get out and boogie!
The Rock is rollin' - May 31, 2010
Hiya, Family members! Well, this week we're doing the long haul thing from Old Forge to Dresden on Friday & Saturday. We'll be starting the weekend of Bike Week at Thunder In The Forge, and then >
Hope you all feel like taking that gorgeous trip up to Slickers on Friday night and rocking out with us. And keep an eye on the calendar page, folk, because there's new gigs popping up every week! We've got some hot gigs in the works and you'll see them there when they're confirmed. Watch for us at the Inner Harbor!
More gigs - more rockin! - April 19, 2010
Greetings, family! Yer cousin is stacking on the gigs and we'll be rocking all summer for you.This week, 4/24 we'll be performing at the Oneida Lake South Shore Association, a benefit for Dan "Sully" Sullivan, to raise money for his heart surgeryCome on out, it's a great hall and it will be a great time for a good cause. And that's just the first in a long list of upcoming shows, from Rochester to Old Forge to East Pharsalia! (No, really.)We're expecting to perform at the Inner Harbor again this summer, and we hope all you hog riders will be coming out to see us open for Blackfoot!We're going to Thunder in the Forge again this summer, and hope you'll all be making the gorgeous trip thru the Adirondacks.And for those who prefer to do your rocking in the local joints, we had a great time at Beginnings II and we'll be back there again soon. Thanks to all our Family who came out!Yer cousin loves each and every one of you! (I know, that already sounds wrong to me, too.)& Keep an eye on our calendar page, visit often and feel free to leave remarks in the guestbook.
Bob gets another award - April 7, 2010
Yeah, it's not bragging if it's true, folks.
Bob and his coworkers at the day job from Lockheed once again not only rocked out in the Landmark Theater for the 2010 Rockin' the Red Cross, they WON! Defense Mechanism took first place out of thirteen competitors and blew away the judges and the audience alike, walking home with the trophy and an as-yet to be determined gig in the summer. No small credit goes to Bob's singing talent - ONE MORE CONFIRMATION that Cousin Jake will ROCK YOU!
Meantime, our calendar is filling fast. We're booking from April thru August, and September is warming up on the griddle. Keep an eye on our calendar page for all the latest and greatest! We'll have more than a few gigs at bars open to the general public among all those events and long-distance gigs, fear not.
IMMEDIATE HELP NEEDED! - March 2, 2010
EVERYONE - here's a copy of an email sent out Monday night by Deb Tafel of Bikers United. Here's where we see just what the biker community can do!
As I'm sure you have all heard, Andy's Cycle Shop (Tawdy's building) is being torn down. The final word is it is being torn down tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday). They need our help with removing all his stuff before that happens.
Tractor trailers are being brought in, bodies are needed to lift and carry things out of the building. If you can be of assistance, stop down (State Street) anytime tonight or tomorrow they are starting at 7:00/7:30 am.
Anyone with generators and cords, they are very much needed because the power has been cut off.
Go ahead and stare! - March 1, 2010
Yep indeed, we have some new photos on the webpage from the Bikers United Winter Heat event, go ahead and have a look (you'll have to page through the first batch, there's a link). IF ANYONE HAS MORE PICS they'd like to share, not necessarily of us but the goings-on, too, by all means send them to the website. We'll post 'em if we like 'em and we'll give credit where we can!
There's plenty coming up this month, so keep an eye on our calendar page. We'll be playing Mondo's benefit the 21st, Bob is going to strut on the Landmark stage again for the Red Cross Fundraiser the 26th, and then we'll be rockin' some more at Beginning II! Make sure you're there to boogie!
Meantime, keep rockin', everybody, and we'll see you out there!
You like to look... - January 24, 2010
Heh heh heh, so go to our photo page and have a look at the shots from the Nightstalkers' MC party. And if anyone else has fun photos of the goings on, feel free to forward them to cousinjake@a-znet.com and we'll put 'em up (if they're fun enough!).
And don't forget to keep an eye on the calendar, we're adding gigs every week. If there's somewhere you want us to play, tell the folks at the joint to talk to Dave! We'll rock their socks off!
This is becoming a habit... - January 18, 2010
And it's not a good habit - we keep offering apologies! Yes, by Finagle's Law (The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum.) we managed to get our gig at Joe's Runway 28 not only posted on our website but also all three local papers with calendars - the Post, the SNT and Table Hopping - just before the bar closed. Thankfully, this was not our fault; hells, it wasn't even the bar owner's fault. The problem was he didn't own the building. If you've ever rented from a very interesting landlord, you can do the math real quick.
SO - for anyone who planned to stop down and help us rock the joint, thanks and our apologies. For those still hoping, we have more gigs on the way - just have a look at the calendar page!
AND we want to thank everyone at the party Saturday and especially our hosts, the Nightstalkers MC, for having us out at Beginning II for a great time. We're hoping for photos of the party so we can post some on our webpage - say, if YOU took some good shots, email the good stuff to Dave (cousinjake@a-znet.com) and we'll immortalize them on the Interwebs. Doesn't just have to be band photos, all the goings-on could be way cool to put up. At least one of Strings jamming with the band would be very cool to have! Thanks, folk!
AND happy Martin Luther King day to one and all, and remember that rights aren't something you get handed to you, they're something you have to defend.
Big fun at Big Bay - January 11, 2010
Hey there, Family members! Sorry we didn't post our gig for last Saturday night at Big Bay, but it was birthday parties and we weren't told whether or not it was a surprise. So, as the general said when the troops disappeared, we opted for discretion. BUT, thanks for the great time, all you partygoers, we had a terrific time and Bob managed to sing despite his relentlessly goopy lungs. As for all you guys that Dave told to tell him to go to the doctor, bite me. The voice is still there. Any more green tea and the poor schmuck will turn Japanese. :)
But don't forget this coming weekend - check our calendar for TWO - count 'em! - TWO gigs on Friday and Saturday. Clean the cobwebs off the snowshoes and get ready to stomp.
THANK YOU - December 25, 2009
Family, we all in Cousin Jake just want to thank you for another terrific year of playing for you all. We had a heck of a year, covered a lot of distance, and played quite a few big events, including the Taste of Rochester, the Inner Harbor, Budweiser Amphitheater, and Empire Court at the State Fair. Bob won a best vocalist award at the Rockin' the Red Cross event. Our new CD came out this year, FLYING MACHINE, and we've been happy to see lots of interest and sell plenty of copies (and now it's posted on CDBaby for online buyers). Every audience we play is important to us and every show we give it our best. Thanks for coming out and we hope we'll see you again soon (hold January 15th for Joe's Runway 28 in Mattydale)! Remember, if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. Have a groovy new year!
Happy Holidays - December 12, 2009
Hey, there, brethren and cistern! OK, so my terminology is poor, but I just want to thank all my fellow IUE local 320 members for a terrific time at the holiday party, particularly Mike Labulis and Bob Walter for asking us back. We had a great time playing for you and I hope you had at least as much fun as we did. I'm guessing that was the case since we got asked to play an extra set! Not to mention the guy who practically somersaulted on the dance floor (we're sure he did that on purpose!) and everyone who was singing along. And to all our Family members, have a safe and happy holiday season and we'll see you all soon!
Shaking off - November 17, 2009
The chill, that is. Yer Cousin is booking up for the rest of the year and beyond, so keep an eye on our calendar page. Of course, if you need some extra heat in your life, we'll be happy to play for YOU, too - in which case, check the contact page from our list of links for how to call Dave! Give us a yell and we can rock your world!
We're also getting word about a benefit on DEC. 6th at Mac's Bad Art Bar to which we've been invited to play, more as we find out details; and we may just be stopping by Buke's Xmas party to jam, you never can tell... :)
Fall has fell - October 14, 2009
As the alleged poem goes: Spring has sprung, Fall has fell, Winter's here and it's as cold as a witch's thorax in a brass brassiere. Well, it's getting chilly and the hogs are mostly back in the garages, but don't let that make you think we're not playing! Keep us in mind for your Fall equinox dance, your Xmas party, or your any-old-excuse-to-rock-out party. There will be parties, there will be events, there are plenty of watering holes we could be playing at if all you fans go ask the barkeep "Why the !*&^#! aren't you hiring Cousin Jake?!? Have you lost your MIND??!?!"
WE WILL PLAY FOR YOUR PARTY, your birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, engagements, bar mitzvahs, baby showers, hot showers, grand openings, bar openings, bar closings, passing the Bar, NOT passing the bar, happy hours, ecstatic hours, virginity removal, republican party, progressive party, regressive party, permissive party, perceptive party, misperception party, Miss Congeniality, Miss Big Take, attitude removal and/or adjustment, Fridays, Frydays, flydays, satdowndays, Somedays, some other days, fan clubs, fandangoes, and Methodists.
Just call Dave already! We can always use a little support. We'll be out there, and you should be too - we can rock the house all year round!
Good Voodoo! - October 12, 2009
Hey, family members and all the crazies digging the DIRT - we just want to thank Vinnie, Donnie, Frank, Mike, Michelle, Bobco, and everyone who made us feel welcome at Super Dirt Week and the VOODOO LOUNGE, and all the hearty partying going on. What a riot! We had as much fun as ever and special thanks to all the fans thoughtful enough to put a dollar or two in the "hat" when it went around, and bought CD's and shirts. Despite the below 40 weather and the smoke inhalation (no, not the good kind, yah mon) we were rockin' hot as we could. It was a fine time and we look forward already to next year!
Hot off the Press - October 9, 2009
Hey, folks, we got some good lines from Mark Bialczak on his Listen UP blog, go have a looksee: http://blog.syracuse.com/listenup/2009/10/rev_it_up_with_cousin_jake_at.html Thanks, man! We're trying our best to bring it at every show - of course, we're copping out for tonight (Friday) at DIRT week because the weather will be a little too Syracuse-like. So wouldn't you just know we'd get press about it?!?! Vinnie called us and suggested we not get rained out, wait til Saturday and nicer conditions. So we will, but we'll ROCK twice as hard!
Not braggin' if it's true! - September 16, 2009
Greetings, Family members! Here we have the text of a review of our CD, FLYING MACHINE, taken from UpstateLIVE magazine, Vol. 2, Issue 6.
Cousin Jake - Flying Machine
By Greg Jackson
During my meet up with Cousin Jake at IslandFest 2009 before their opening set with Kashmir, guitarist Dave Cook dropped copies of their three CD’s on me. Not having heard them previously, I only had their live performance to go by and that left me with great anticipation to hear how the songs translated to the studio. Cousin Jake lit up the Budweiser Amphitheater that night with their blues/rock originals, and a very interesting combination of covers illustrating their influences and musical tastes. From Robin Trower's "Little Bit Of Sympathy" to Dave’s rendition of [Jimi Hendrix’s] "The Star Spangled Banner/Purple Haze" it's pretty easy to tell the guitar school he attended.
Cousin Jake features the guitar pyrotechnics and vocals of Dave Cook, lead vocals and bass by Bob Volk, and Donny Gillett on drums and vocals. The latter two join(ed) up with Dave in 2006 to round out the three man line-up. Dave, a founding member, has been part of for 16 years. In this style each position had better be pretty strong and Cousin Jake is no exception to this rule. Live, each man takes his turn at the front of the mix. Donny's steady timing rolls along with Bob's rumbling bass lines giving Dave plenty of space to cut his six string prowess loose. Bob's strong vocals and stage presence balance nicely as he urges the crowd to join in and sing along while Dave drives the whole unit with his dynamic runs. Their moniker is "Rock and Roll That Relates"; after listening to 'Flying Machine" live, then on CD, I whole-heartedly agree.
"Flying Machine" is the latest release from the veteran Syracuse band, pre-mastered by Steve Schad at Oak Palace Recording Studio and recorded and mastered at Hertel Recording Studios. The opening track, "Easy Man" sets the tone for the entire CD with Dave's crunching power chords soaring into a quick lead section, then softening behind Bob's vocal intro. This piece leaves you wondering just how easy this man is, especially after Dave’s furious solo section combined with Bob’s reading of the lyric seemingly changing personality from verse to chorus. The rave-up title track I liked better live, like most of the selections here they thrive with the visual energy of Cousin Jake, although Donny's backing vocals really shine in the studio given the proper mix. Track three, "Misery" reveals another of Cousin Jake's influences, down and dirty southern rock reminiscent of a slightly harder Marshall Tucker when Dave cuts the slide loose and Bob's vocal turns to a growl. Number four, "Play Or Die" opens with Dave channeling his internal Trower/Hendrix, both through his lightning licks and soulful vocal. If you need to flex your influences Mr. Cook surely chooses a few right from the top of the all-time list. "Getting Stranger", the fifth cut cuts to the heart of a rock and roll relationship leaving enough room for your imagination to decide if it’s a girl or a bandmate they’re talking about. The dissonant chord structure and thunderous rhythm section twists the concept deeper into dysfunction, definitely my favorite track! “Lay With Me” closes this six song offering showing off Cousin Jake’s softer side. Bob's convincing lyric, Dave’s weeping pedal work and Donny’s tasteful touch put a nice finish on this, the third CD from Cousin Jake.
A great listen from these Syracuse veterans! Definitely a must-have for fans of guitar-driven blues rock and one to keep handy for those classic road trips. Check out Cousin Jake live and pick up a CD or two, you won’t be disappointed!
You can follow the band at www.cousinjake.com or contact them at cousinjake@a-znet.com.
Saturday in Camden, other fun. - September 14, 2009
To quote our last email: Thanks to all the folks who came out in Camden and heard us, and especially to Dave Silliman who is trying to do good for the whole town and provide some fun and food for anyone who is stopping by. REALLY good chicken and amazing burgers, Dave! And some damn fine produce at the farm market, too. There's nothing like a tomato as big as your head.
Keep in touch with us, folks! We encourage everyone who signs the guestbook to leave an email address, and we'll keep you posted with upcoming gigs, band news, gossip and more - but not those bad email jokes ALL YOUR OTHER FRIENDS send you. if we're drunk enough we'll attach a smiley, but that's as bad as it gets. Honest.
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Day 39: Friday October 20
Dilemma day: It’s market day in Lourmarin, when the population triples, the square hums with tourists, farmers, locals, artisans, vendors, and locals, and the rich aromas of spice, lavender, olives, and… is that the smell of boar sausage being grilled? The sky, which was threatening this morning at 7 am has given way to brilliant sunshine….. quoi faire? What to do? This is, after all, my last day here…. You guessed it… the market will win over the books and the laptop, after all it’s over by 1 pm, by which time I’ll have a fresh baguette, a locally grown avocado and some roquette salad, and some of that boar sausage in my panier for lunch. A plus tard!
Day 38: Thursday October 19
Today can be summed up simply:
Books read, or reviewed today: 6.
Articles skimmed, annotated, referenced: 5
Net words of thesis written today:968. ( = loads on the cutting pile, malheureusement)
Notes for next chapter: check.
Potage au courge made and eaten: delicieux!
Steps walked: 13,031 ( a numerical palindrome!)
Cups of tea/coffee: ooh, not quite as many as net words written.
Day 37: Wednesday October 18
The clouds appeared today, for the first time, and the temperature has dropped. The vine leaves on the roof have turned from gold to red, and they flutter in through the open window, along with the wasps in search of something sweet. It feels like the ending of a fruitful season here in Provence; the lavender is close cropped and brown, the only grapes left on the vines are for une vendange tardive ( sweet wine made from grapes allowed to catch the fall frosts), the flax is harvested, sunflowers are long over, and their fields are ploughed over. Geraniums still dot the gold walls with flashes of red, and some late blooming roses, and jasmine, and rosemary still fill the air with perfume,making the most of the October sun. The pace of life in the village slows noticeably too; as the weekend tourists leave, the cafes and souvenir shops pull down their shutters, and a sign on one door tells a tale “La chasse commence! A plus tard.” As for me? I’m chasing words.
Day 36 Tuesday October 17
Without Norman, the sun-lit apartment with a view of the old church clock tower has become a full-time writing studio. Even with the wonders of technology meaning that a good number of my books are all bundled neatly in my Kindle, I still manage to make a spreading mess of paper, pens, post-its, and peripheral devices when I’m writing! The second installment of my thesis went off through the ether to Luther Seminary for comment, feedback and correction today. If anyone tells you writing is a piece of cake, don’t believe them. It’s a bit daunting to know how much is still left to do, but it’s also good to celebrate each stage completed.
Have I already written about the bells? No matter, today, with only three days left here, it seems appropriate. The aforementioned clock tower chimes the hour and half-hour without fail, day and night. A closer look through the zoom lens reveals the ominous words below the clock face: Ora ne te haec hora perdat. Pray that you do not lose (waste) this hour. ……. And in case that’s not enough, the words above the clock face say Horae dum saltant nostras vorant. Hard to translate, but the sense is clear enough… hours danced away, they bite us! Oh, okay then! Back to it!
Day 35 Monday October 16
Norman’s departure day. It’s been bucolic to have spent this time together, balancing the task of thesis writing with the equally important ‘task’ of sabbathing…. taking time to notice the smell of rosemary and olives on the morning breeze, the play of shadow against the wall as the earth spins towards evening, and the French love affair with the rond-point (roundabout). Did you know France has over 30,000 of them, over half the world’s total number, and they like to put odd things in the middle of them… boats, large flags, a mini-watermill, an oversized duck…. really. I think we circumnavigated about 1000 of them en route to the airport. Foolishly, I chose to avoid the ronds-point and take the supposedly faster autoroute back to Lourmarin. God bless the emergency crews, the ambulance drivers, police officers, tow-truck operators, and ordinary citizens , who came to the rescue of the occupants of the 13 car pile up that I was not involved in, but had to drive by slowly, carefully, and prayerfully.
Day 34 Sunday October 15
I tried, I really did! I intended to join followers of the way of Jesus at the Temple Protestant du Lourmarin this morning, but they are without a pastor, and the doors remained firmly shut. (Yes, I’ve already thought “I wonder if they want a supply pastor from Montreal next summer?”)
On a more sombre note, there is a story to the date over the entry to our temporary abode in this town (see photo). During the tumultuous times of the “Wars of Religion” here in France, the village of Lourmarin, along with other villages nearby,was destroyed in 1545 by fire, deliberately set to massacre les Vaudois, ( in English “Waldensians”), because of their ‘protestant’ religion. Some 5000 people were slaughtered in 5 days. Others died of famine, and yet more were imprisoned. Those who managed to escape fled to the hills, hid in caves, some fled the region, and some left France for the New World. Others eventually returned to rebuild their homes and their lives, hence the dating of most of the buildings here to the late 16th century, and later. But faith can be persistent, oui? There remains a pride here that this town rose from its ashes (built now, almost exclusively of stone), and preserves its history of courage in its stones, and plaques to les martyrs du Lourmarin.
It gives me pause, in these troublesome times of our own, when perhaps for the first time in our living history, the degree of polarization between those who call themselves Christian is becoming alarming, even threatening. Because I spent my earlier career as a church historian, I am all too familiar with the number of times certainty of religious conviction has carried with it torches, swords, lynching ropes, guns, pogroms, inquisitions, persecutions and massacres. We cannot say it would never happen again. It already is.
I’ve remained a Christian only by dint of being also a pacifist. For me, there is nothing about the life or teaching of Jesus that condones hatred, or its offspring, violence. Only while I can be part of a community that practises peace, respect, welcome and respect, can I also claim to be a friend of Jesus Christ, and a follower of his Way.
So, perhaps one could say, that although the church was not open this morning, the long-dead preachers of Lourmarin were heard again anyway. May we honour their faith with our own courage to uphold the peace of Christ.Amen.
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Design of Auto Mix Single Stage Anaerobic Digester and Aspen Plus Simulation for Biogas Production
Tenneti, Srinivas (2015) Design of Auto Mix Single Stage Anaerobic Digester and Aspen Plus Simulation for Biogas Production. MTech thesis.
Bio fuels have been considered to be the viable alternatives and the supportive sources for the depleting fossil fuels under the objective of satisfying the energy demand. The work explored the possibility of biogas production in various operational scales. The present work can be categorized into two parts. In the first part, the work has surveyed various digester designs under operation and focused on the mixing and intermittent aeration that are not under light in the regular practice. The digester gas collector configuration that could promote the mixing and intermittent aeration was designed. The setup was run on 20 L scale with an objective of observing the gas production phenomenon. The recommended operational solutions were modified and implemented in the form of a 50 L digester setup to observe the performance improvements in attaining self-buffering capacity and sensitivity to the acidic feed stocks. Further suggested modifications lead to the final design that could promote intermittent aeration and mix the digester constituents without the use of impeller and with minimal or no power consumption depending on the amount of gas produced. An advanced design called compartmental digester design was next presented for the medium to large scale applications which was run on 200 L scale in a semi continuous mode using cow dung as substrate and was tested for the feasibility. The second part of our work focused on simulation of a two stage anaerobic digester configuration for studying the kinetics of hydrolysis, acidogenesis and acetogenesis and methanogenesis in three different reactors. In this study, kitchen waste stream were analysed for biogas production which was compared with the results of NISARGRUNA biogas plant (BARC) for the validation of the model and the model with same kinetics was then used to analyse the gas production from poultry manure
Biogas, microbial culture, mesophilic phase, inoculum and methanogens
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Mishra, S
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What is the function of laser diode?
What function laser diode, laser diode, laser diodes, diode lasers, emptying region, semiconductor junction, direct bandgap, diode injection, light emitting, emitting diode, emission, semiconductors, holes, electrons, photons, difference, doped, type, active, layer, photon, energy
A laser diode (LD), an injection laser diode (ILD) or a laser diode is a semiconductor device similar to a light emitting diode which is created at the junction of the laser diode. [1] laser diodes are the most common types of laser products, with a wide range of uses, including fiber optic communication, barcode readers, laser pointers, CD / DVD / Blu- reading / recording ray, laser printing, laser lighting and light beam.
A laser diode is an electric LED diode. The active region of the laser diode is intrinsic region and vectors (electrons and holes) are pumped into the region by N and P. While the LED laser diode search is initially simple PN, all modern lasers use double-actuation -eterostructure, where vectors and photons they are limited to maximize their chances of recombination and light generation.
Unlike an ordinary diode, the goal for a laser diode is to recombine all carriers in the I region and produce light. Therefore, laser diodes are produced using direct band semiconductors. Laser epitaxial diode structure is grown using one of the crystal growth techniques, usually from a N-doped substrate and augmenting the active doped layer, followed by a dopant-plug contact plating layer.
The thicker active layer consists of quantum wells, which offer a lower threshold and greater efficiency.
The laser diodes form a subset of the broader classification of the p-n junction diodes of semiconductors. The transmission power before the laser diode causes two carrier species – holes and electrons – to be “injected” on opposite sides of the p-n junction emptying region.
The holes are injected by the cap P and electrons in the doped semiconductor n. (An emptying region, without charge carriers, is formed as a result of the electrical potential difference between type n and p semiconductors, regardless of where it is in physical contact). Due to the use of the majority of the diode injection charge, this class of lasers is sometimes referred to as “laser injection” or “laser diode injection” (ILD). Since diode lasers are semiconductor devices, they can also be classified as semiconductor lasers. Or the design distinguishes diode lasers from solid-state lasers.
Another method for powering diode lasers is the use of optical pumps. The optical semiconductor lamp pump using a III-V semiconductor chip as a means of gain, and another laser (often another laser diode) as the source of the pump. OPSL offers numerous advantages over ILD, in particular with regard to wavelength selection and interference of internal electrode structures.
When an electron and a hole are present in the same region, they can recombine or “annihilate” produce a spontaneous emission – that is, the electron can re-occupy the energy state of the hole, emits a photon with an energy equal to the difference between the state original the electron and the hole. (In a conventional semiconductor junction diode, the energy released by the recombination of electrons and holes is removed as phonons, i.e., the vibration of the reservoir, rather than photons).
Spontaneous emission under leaching produces similar properties to LEDs. Spontaneous emission is necessary to initiate laser oscillations, but it is one of many sources of inefficiency once the laser oscillates.
The difference between semiconductor laser photon and semiconductor junction emitting diode semiconductor (not emitting light) is the type of semiconductor used, the physical structure that gives the possibility of emission of the atom and photons. These photon-emitting semiconductors are the so-called “direct bandgap” semiconductors. The properties of silicon and germanium, which are a single semiconductor element, the bandgap do not align properly to allow the emission of photons, and are not considered “direct”.
Other materials, so-called semiconductor compounds crystalline structures identical to those of silicon or germanium, but the use of alternative arrangements of two different atomic species to chess-like type to break the symmetry. The transition between the materials in the alternative model creates the critical property “direct bandgap”.
Gallium phosphide arsenide, gallium antimonide and gallium nitride are all examples of compound semiconductor materials that can be used to create light-emitting diodes.
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Resettling Displaced People in a Coastal Zone Mining Project: Evaluating the Agricultural and Land use Potential of the Proposed Resettlement site-A case of Titanium Mining in Kenya
Resettling Displaced People in a Coastal Zone Mining Project Evaluating the Agricultural and Land use Potential of the Proposed Resettlement site A Case of Titanium Mining in Kenya.pdf (905.1Kb)
Mkuzi, Hemedi
Mwaguni, Saeed
Danda, Kengo
Preparations to mine titanium in Maumba and Noma areas of Msambweni District, Kwale County are in progress, and farmers affected by the project are to be resettled in another area. The displaced people have made it a condition that they should be settled in area where their farming activities are enhanced; and that adequate land is availed for social infrastructure. The identified site for resettlement site lies between latitudes 40 28’ and 40 32’ South, and between longitudes 390 16’ and 390 20’ East, and extends from Kiruku and Mwangwei to Kigombero. It receives an annual rainfall of 1,200-1,400 mm and is therefore suitable for rain-fed agriculture. About 75% of the land is low-lying and 50% of this is prone to flooding. Both communities are worried about the land allocation process, fearing about the quality and size of the land to be allocated to each, and the likely disintegration of existing socio-cultural structures. As good practise in integrated coastal zone management, the proposed resettlement site was evaluated to assess its suitability for crop and livestock production to sustain the livelihoods of the communities. The results of the evaluation show evidence of soil; the nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, and organic carbon contents in the soils were generally low. To reverse the situation, inorganic and organic fertilizers should be used for crop and forage production to encourage build up of nutrient and organic matter levels in the soil. Drainage canals should be reconstructed to control flooding. Due to the low lying topography of the resettlement site, the portion on raised ground should be set aside for the homesteads. And other social infrastructure as demanded is be availed so that the communities continue with their life, despite the displacement.
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Synthetic drugs are chemicals created in laboratories to mimic the effects of other drugs including marijuana, cocaine, meth or LSD. These drugs contain unknown substances which frequently change as producers attempt to evade legal bans. Since the chemicals and concentrations of these drugs change frequently,they are very dangerous as users have now way of knowing what they are really putting into their bodies.
Different Types of Synthetic Drugs
Synthetic drugs often mimic the appearance and the manner of consumption of the drugs they are trying to imitate.
Spice is a synthetic cannabinoid. Originally created to study the effects of THC on the brain, changes to the chemicals involved in making Spice have resulted in unique side effects and dangers.1 Spice usually comes in small, brightly colored packages filled with a green leafy substance and labeled as organic incense or "not for human consumption".2 Some users smoke Spice together with marijuana as it is uniquely addictive. Many users purchase Spice from businesses like head shops and convenience stores which contributes to the misperception that Spice is safe, when in reality it is illegal and dangerous.2
Bath salts fall into a category of illegal drugs known as synthetic cathinones. Chemically these drugs have similarities to meth and ecstasy. These synthetic drugs come as a white or light colored powder and are often sold as bath salts, plant food or jewelry cleaner although they perform none of these functions. These drugs are often targeted to a similar user group as Spice and are packaged attractively for young people.3
"Smiles" and "N-Bomb" are common names for synthetics in the NBOMe series of psychoactive drugs created to produce a high similar to LSD. Some users have died after believing they were consuming LSD when they were really consuming a dangerous and more potent drug.4,5 These drugs are consumed in a similar fashion to LSD, as a liquid, on blotter paper or mixed in food and are popular among young users and in club and festival scenes.6
Synthetic drugs are real drugs with real consequences. Each individual's body can have a different reaction to the abuse, of synthetic drugs so while there are some similarities, not everyone exhibits the same warning signs.
Physical: Some common symptoms of synthetic drug use include a flushed face, increased heart rate and a vacant, dissociative stare often acompanied by a chemical smell.7
Behavioral: Drug users concerned about being discovered may be more secretive than usual and less interested in previously enjoyed hobbies, activities and friendships.7
Psychological: Users under the influence are often easily agitated and some experience violent episodes, endangering themselves and others. Some users have experienced troubling and unexpected hallucinations.7
Since many synthetic drugs are consumed in a simiar manner as more traditional illicit drugs, individuals will often possess similar paraphernalia including bongs, hollowed out cigars and
flavored rolling paper or blotter paper. Parents should be aware of what these substances look like since some of them can also be used by minors to consume tobacco and other illegal substances. The packaging for many synthetic drugs is deceptively friendly and innocent, so it is very important for parents and family to pay attention and speak with their children about the very real dangers of abusing synthetic drugs.
In 2013 poison control centers received over 3,600 calls related to synthetic drug exposure. Through May 2014 alone poison control centers have received over 1,300 calls.8 People acting under the influence of synthetic drugs or attempting to acquire these drugs have been linked with the commission of crimes including operating while intoxicated,9 theft,10 burglary,11 robbery,12 child neglect,13 aggravated assault14 and murder.15
Reported side effects of synthetic drug use include nausea and vomiting, increased heart rate and chest pain, kidney damage or failure, severe aggitation and anxiety, hallucinations and psychotic episodes and death. News agencies and coroners across the country have reported homicides, suicides, accidental overdoses and vehicular manslaughters where individuals were acting under the influence of synthetic drugs.
Synthetic drugs are addictive and some users may require professional intervention. If you are concerned about the warning signs of synthetic drug addiction in the life of someone you know or love, there is help. On the resources page of our website you can find links and information to educate yourself on the warning signs and consequences of synthetic drug use. Additionally there is contact information for facilities in Elkhart County that can assist individuals in reclaiming their lives from the influence of addiction.
1 http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/28/nation/la-na-killer-weed-20110928
2 http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/spice-synthetic-marijuana
3 http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/synthetic-cathinones-bath-salts
4 http://www.livescience.com/23388-designer-drug-smiles-teen-deaths.html
5 http://www.wncn.com/story/23383841/apex-teen-died-after-taking-n-bomb-not-lsd
6 http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Michigan-City-Police-Warn-of-New-LSD-Like-Drug-256279951.html
7 http://ncadd.org/learn-about-drugs/signs-and-symptoms
8 http://www.aapcc.org/alerts/
9 http://www.mynews3.com/content/news/story/Police-Driver-in-tour-bus-accident-said-he-was/3asi4ks-1kyh5ZqTEiDluA.cspx
10 http://articles.mcall.com/2011-04-12/news/mc-poconos-burglary-synthetic-marijua20110412_1_synthetic-marijuana-herbal-incense-burglars
11 http://www.fox8live.com/story/24486474/luling-man
12 http://www.whsv.com/news/headlines/Exxon_Robbery_Tied_To_Bath_Salts_118462874.html
13 http://www.click2houston.com/news/mother-accused-of-passing-out-in-car-with-children/25935966
14 http://www.tricities.com/news/article_5a4e4146-172a-54dd-858e-652621b97e77.html?mode=jqm
15 http://www.freep.com/article/20120503/NEWS03/205030557/Cipriano-plotted-to-kill-his-family-friends-sayhttp://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/synthetic-cathinones-bath-salts
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[www.keralites.net] POTASSIUM DEFICIENCY
POTASSIUM DEFICIENCY
Your body should maintain a certain level of Potassium. This natural chemical in the body helps your cells use and produce energy, according to Medicine Net. If potassium levels in your body drop too low, your cells cannot function properly. When the potassium levels in your blood are lower than normal, it's called hypokalemia, Medline Plus reports.
What does this mean to your body and health?
When potassium levels are too low, your cells don't work properly. This can lead to muscle aches, cramps, weakness and heart palpitations, according to Medicine Net. WebMD recommends watching out for these other symptoms that may indicate that your potassium is too low:
-Tingling or numbness in limbs
-Inability to move arm or leg muscles
-Nausea or vomiting
-Constipation
-Feeling thirsty all the time
-Fainting (low blood pressure)
-Depression
*Note: small drops in your potassium will more likely result in minor symptoms (like cramping, fatigue, and constipation). Larger drops in potassium levels could result in unusual heart rhythms and extreme fatigue, according to Medline Plus. In extreme cases, it could be fatal.
What causes low potassium levels?
Low potassium levels can be caused by some pretty common factors including antibiotics, vomiting or diarrhea, and sweating. Other causes of low potassium include kidney disease, eating disorders and low magnesium levels. Long sessions of exertion (like an intense workout) could temporarily lower your potassium levels too.
What you can do to prevent low potassium naturally.
To raise your potassium naturally, there are plenty of healthy foods you can add to your diet. Try adding these foods after a workout, after a bout of the flu or when you're feeling unusually tired: Avocados, baked potatoes, bananas, carrots, lean beef, milk, oranges, peanut butter, spinach, salmon, beans and bran.
For severe cases, your doctor may prescribe a potassium supplement, according to Medline Plus.
[www.keralites.net] Health Benefits of black Salt
The Health Benefits of Black Salt
Salt is one of those substances that human civilization is built upon, not only for its taste, but also for its health benefits and its ability to preserve food.
The Indian black salt, also known as 'Kala Namak', is a popular variety of Indian volcanic stone salts. It sees extensive use in India, Pakistan and internationally, by those who know its benefits. Its unusual color comes from the presence of tiny amounts of iron and other minerals.
This special salt is found in the Himalayan mountain ranges and has some excellent health benefits that you should know about. In India, black salt is often prescribed for patients with high blood pressure or those who require a low-salt diet. Why? Because black salt is low on sodium, and so doesn't raise the blood pressure like normal salt does. It is also a popular treatment for heartburn and intestinal gas. In short, it provides a boost to the digestive system.
The health benefits of black salt:
1.. A healthy alternative to sea salt
Salt is incredibly common in everyday life. We find it in a huge amount of snacks and dishes. This is usually iodized salt or sea salt. However, an overdose of salt in our daily lives is a common problem that may lead to paralysis, thyroid problems and high blood pressure, to count a few. The two most dangerous chemicals in sea salt are potassium iodate and aluminum silicate. This is why sea salt is banned in some countries. However, black salt is a great alternative to iodized salt, and here are a few of its benefits compared to iodized salt:
- Treats arthritis problems
- Treats paralysis problems
- Lowers high blood pressure
- Deals with impotency issues
2. The therapeutic benefits
According to centuries of tradition, black salt is a 'cooling' salt that is filled with therapeutic benefits. It can be used as a laxative and as a cure for intestinal disorders. It has benefits for eyesight and unlike common salt, does not enhance your sodium intake. Due to its high sulfur content. However, due to its high sulfur content, it can also weaken the digestion in large amounts, and so a balanced use is recommended, no more than you would regular salt.
3. Soft, beautiful looking skin
Another use for black salt is skincare. Instead of chemical peels, special soaps and spas, consider adding black salt to your bath water. It works as an excellent healing agent, especially good for cracked, swollen feet, athlete's foot, warts and sprains. Just sit back and let it heal your pain and relieve your worries while you enjoy a truly refreshing bath. When you come out, your body will feel truly rejuvenated.
Note: If your skin is sensitive to irritation, it's best not to make the water too hot, or you may incur some itchiness.
4. Strong, problem-free hair
If you're one of many who suffer from a receding hairline, you're probably frustrated by all the supplements and tonics that never seem to work. So try something more natural this time. The essential minerals in black salt will boost your hair's natural growth, strengthen it and treat its split ends. If you have dandruff or acute hair loss, I recommend taking black salt with tomato juice at least once a day. Not only will it encourage hair growth, but will also make your hair thicket, with more sheen and luster.
Do try to use this wonderful natural product and see the difference for yourself. Don't forget to shoot us a comment. Stay fit and stay healthy!
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[www.keralites.net] Bridge-man Girish Bharadwaj has constructed around 127 hanging bridges across streams and rivers
Bridge-man Girish Bharadwaj has constructed around 127 hanging bridges across streams and rivers
He has constructed over 91 bridges in Karnataka, 30 in Kerala, 3 each in Andhra and Odisha till date.
Bharadwaj has constructed around 127 hanging bridges across streams and rivers in remotest areas and has helped people living in far-flung areas to enter the mainstream and the mainland.
Girish Bharadwaj, son of B Krishna Bhat and Lakshmiamma began his journey by constructing a 55 meter long bridge near across river Cauvery in Nisargadhama near Kushalanagar. He followed it up with an 87 meter long bridge across river Payaswini in his hometown Sullia and the 290 meter long bride in Hukkeri of Belagavi district,being the longest, constructed in 1998.
Resident of Arambur in Aletty village of Sullia, Girish graduated in mechanical engineering and started his adventurous journey by manufacturing agricultural implements and gobar gas equipment to make life easier for rural folk. Later he shifted towards construction of hanging bridges and never looked back thereafter with his friendly approach to address people's problems in villages marooned by floods during rainy season.
Girish Bhardwaj strongly believed in friendly approach in attaining his goals and took to building bridges in the trouble torn world. Girish recollects a touching moment in his life and feels none should be treated as untouchables based on that incident in 2007. He was asked to construct a hanging bridge in Laknavaram village of Warangal district across a large lake. The entire area was under Naxal dominance that time, and Girish was asked to shelve his plans. Undeterred by the threats, Girish took a decision to go ahead and succeeded in completing the entire project within a short span of four months. Astonished by the 'Sea Change' in the 'living atmosphere', teary-eyed locals including Naxals fell at Girish's feet to express their gratitude. Girish considered it as one of the greatest achievements as he had conquered the hearts of 'armed men considered threat to society' through friendship, love and mutual respect. He had overcome forces that were trying to build walls and stall development. In the end, hostile naxals showed innate urge to enter the mainstream.
Gold medals for excellence
Girish Bhardwaj served in state home guards department for 24 years form 1984-2008. During that period he excelled in providing first aid and in training official and staff of Home guards department. Girish was awarded two Gold medals after he stood first in both the fields.. Later, he underwent training in fire fighting at Delhi and served as the head of fire services division and donned the role of command officer in Sullia.
In his marvelous journey of touching and changing lives, he bagged several awards and appreciations including DK District Rajyothsava Award in 2011.
'Padma Shri' for Social work given by Union Government during 2017 is the latest feather in his glorious cap and Girish attributes success to his 'Ayashilpa' team..(Aya means steel in Sanskrit and Shilpa means art).
https://www.newskarnataka.com/mangalore/bridge-man-girish-bharadwaj-helps-people-crossover-in-lives
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Photo by Dan Sears.
Stephen Marshall with half of a soft-core baseball.
Hardball, but Softer
by Willam C. Nelson
When the umpire shouts “play ball,” chances are it’s a bunch of kids being called to action. Baseball belongs predominantly to the world’s youth, and their safety on the field is a constant concern of officials at Little League Baseball Inc., the world’s largest organized youth-sports program.
When Little League administrators began to consider whether they should encourage the use of face guards and soft-core, reduced-impact “safety balls” to mitigate injuries, they wanted data to back up the idea. “Otherwise,” says Dan Kirby, an official at Little League headquarters in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, “it’s just people making assumptions.”
Enter Carolina’s Injury Prevention Research Center, where affiliated scientists Stephen Marshall and Fred Mueller, with a team of graduate students, conducted the first “epidemiologic” study ever done to test reduced-impact balls and face guards for risk mitigation. In a three-year effort, the researchers contacted all 5,000-plus U.S. leagues, by mail and later by telephone, to identify where the safety devices are used and where they are not. Marshall then overlaid that survey data onto a national database of compensated insurance claims maintained by Little League. Findings, gleaned from an analysis of more than 6.7 million “player-seasons,” show a 23 percent reduced risk of ball-related injury associated with safety balls, and a 35 percent reduced risk of facial injury among players using face guards.
But the study also indicates that safety balls and face guards do not prevent all injuries. Benefits are greatest for younger players, who cannot as skillfully avoid ball impacts as their more experienced counterparts. But thanks to UNC-Chapel Hill researchers, persons urging adoption of safety balls and face guards in their local leagues now have useful ammunition for making their argument.
Willam C. Nelson was formerly a staff contributor for Endeavors.
Stephen Marshall, principal author of the report, is an assistant professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Orthopedics. Principal investigator Professor Fred Mueller chairs the Department of Exercise and Sports Medicine. Coauthors are Jingzhen Yang, a doctoral student of health behavior and health education, and Daniel Kirby, director of risk management for Little League Baseball Inc. Graduate students Jennings Durand, Tim Sabo, and Kevin Hendrik assisted with data collection. Findings were published in the February 5, 2003, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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[CES 2020] Samsung's new foldable phone called 'Bloom' like Lancome compact
Lim Chang-won Reporter(cwlim34@ajunews.com) | Posted : January 10, 2020, 09:37 | Updated : January 10, 2020, 09:37
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LAS VEGAS -- Samsung Electronics's new foldable smartphone will be called "Galaxy Bloom." The design was inspired by the powder compact of Lancome, a French luxury cosmetics brand. Bloom, which targets female customers in their 20s, is the first smartphone to support 8K filming.
On the opening day of CES 2020, Samsung's IM division head Koh Dong-jin met with executives of global mobile telecommunication companies one after another. He introduced four new products that will be unveiled next month. The new products were displayed at Samsung's private booth.
The next-generation smartphone succeeds "Galaxy Fold," which was released in September last year. It became known for the first time as Samsung unveiled its concept through the Samsung Developer Conference. Unlike Galaxy Fold, Galaxy Bloom can be folded up and down around the horizontal axis. Instead of plastic film, the display panel was covered with an ultra-thin glass called UtG. Only 5G Galaxy Fold models have been released in South Korea, but Samsung will release the 4G LTE model of Galaxy Bloom.
Koh met customers and explained that the design motif for Galaxy Bloom was Lancome with its size similar to the Lancome compact powder. When unfolded, it is 7.3 inches and almost half smaller than Galaxy Fold, which is equivalent to a tablet PC.
Through Galaxy Bloom, Samsung plans to actively target female consumers in their 20s who have less used Galaxy smartphones. Bloom is reminiscent of a flower-like spread up and down.
Samsung will change the names of its "S" series flagship lineup. The name of a follow-up to Galaxy S10 will be called Galaxy S20. Since the Galaxy S series was launched in 2010, Samsung has increased the number by one every year. The company introduced the number 20, judging that a new strategy is needed to mark the 2020s.
The Galaxy S20 series will be divided into general, plus and ultra models. Ultra models are equipped with 100x optical zoom and 100 million pixel image sensors to maximizes camera performance. The camera on Galaxy S20's ultra model is called "Hubble," named after the space telescope.
Samsung will open an era of "8K in my hands." All new products can film with 8K resolution for the first time as a smartphone. YouTube will start streaming 8K video. Samsung and Google have already concluded talks. If 8K images can be filmed with smartphones, the lack of content, a chronic problem for 8K TVs, can be resolved and Samsung expects the 8K TV market to expand.
Samsung will hold its Unpack event in San Francisco next month.
Samsung releases rugged smartphone 'Galaxy XCover Pro'
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Saturday 23 Jumâdâ Al-'ûlâ 1441 H - January 18, 2020 G
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The ruling concerning selling food in a country of disbelievers during the month of Ramadan
I work as a tradesman in a fast food restaurant in a country of disbelievers; so is it permissible for me to sell these foods during Ramadan after the prayer of Al-`Asr (afternoon prayer)? Knowing that, among the customers, there are disbelievers and there are Muslims, and may Allah reward you with good.
The answer:
All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. Peace and blessing be upon whom Allah sent as a mercy to the Worlds, upon his Family, his Companions and his Brothers till the Day of Resurrection.
It is not permissible to help someone who must fast the month of Ramadan as a matter of principle, like the Muslims, or someone who must fast it after realizing the condition of Islam, like the disbelievers, in violating the month of Ramadan by eating, as it is a help in sin and transgression, in accordance with Allah’s تعالى saying:
﴿وَتَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْبِرِّ وَالتَّقْوَى وَلاَ تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الإِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِ﴾ [المائدة: 2].
The meaning of the verse:
﴾Help you one another in Al-Birr and At-Taqwa (virtue, righteousness and piety); but do not help one another in sin and transgression.﴿ [Al-Mâ'ida (The Table Spread with Food): 2].
Because disbelievers, according to the most correct opinion, are enjoined to abide by the branches of the Sharia, and that they incur punishment if they die as disbelievers because of abandoning performing the branches of the Sharia and among them fasting. As regards when they are disbelievers, they are enjoined to abide by the branches of the Sharia after the realization of the condition of Islam. Besides, you can see another fatwa in the same topic under the title: “Regarding giving food to a disbeliever in the day of Ramadan”(1).
The perfect knowledge belongs to Allah. Our last prayer is all praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. Peace and blessing be upon our Prophet صلَّى الله عليه وسلَّم, his Family, his Companions and Brothers till the Day of Resurrection.
Algiers, Ramadhân 13th, 1428H.
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Different Programs For Win 1.x
Thread: Different Programs For Win 1.x
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I'm searching for different programs for Win 1.x, like Winword 1.0 or Excel 1.0 or Multiplan 1.0.
GreetZZ 3-R4Z0R
Do you mean the very earliest (almost experimental) versions like Windows 1.0?
I don't think there were any versions of the MS Office programs designed for it. Back then, most software ran in a DOS environment. Windows, didn't really become a viable OS until version 3.1 & 3.11.
IMHO: You'd be better off looking for MSDOS compatable word processors, spreadsheets and the like to run with an ancient version of Windows.
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Just in case I'm mistaken.....
The older versions that I've used (2.0 to 6.0) weren't called "Winword".
You may have better luck if you used "Word for Windows" and/or "Excel for Windows" as search keywords.
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No ice, no problem
Becky Vargo • Jan 8, 2019 at 12:00 PM
bvargo@grandhaventribune.com
More than a dozen fishermen lined Smith’s Bridge on Sunday as the sun rose on another mild early January day, and they were rewarded for their efforts as the perch were eagerly biting.
And that’s a good thing, because there’s no ice fishing going on anywhere in the Tri-Cities area.
The exception is one person who went out on Bruce’s Bayou, said Lakeshore Marine & Tackle owner John Stillson.
“I told him he was walking on thin ice and it wasn’t safe,” Stillson said.
Mild winter temperatures have kept the ice fishermen off the bayous.
“Normally, we’ve been averaging right around Christmas” for safe ice, Stillson said. “You need 2 and a half to 3 inches before it’s safe.”
In addition to warm temperatures, the water level is more than 18 inches higher than normal, which contributes to faster currents.
“This rain doesn’t help, either,” Stillson said Monday.
Instead, when the weather is nice, people have been flocking to the bridges, most notably at Smith’s on West Spring Lake Road in Ferrysburg, Petty’s on Fruitport Road in Spring Lake Township and Stern’s on Green Street in Robinson Township.
When Lake Michigan is calm, fishermen are going out there and catching perch 11- to 13-inches long, Stillson said.
There are always the regulars out there daily on the bridges, but this past weekend’s sunshine brought people out in droves. Stillson said he had about 40 customers Friday and more than that Saturday.
“We actually sold out of minnows this weekend,” he said Monday. “We’ve never sold out of minnows in just a few days.”
The normal go-to bait in the winter is wax worms and spikes, Stillson noted, and there are still plenty of those in stock.
Josh Newell of Muskegon spent several hours fishing off Smith’s Bridge on Sunday with friends Tyler Skok and Shane Hanks. By early afternoon, they were loading up on the keepers and throwing back some small perch and white bass. They appeared to be the most successful group on the bridge.
“We were there about 2-3 hours catching a mix of yellow perch and white perch, one after another,” Newell said. “We ended up with a total of 35 keeper fish.”
Newell said their baits of choice were minnows and wax worms.
According to the National Weather Service, the temperature is expected to drop significantly Wednesday and stay colder for a few days.
“The water is cold enough,” Stillson said. “If we have under 30 degrees every day, within 4-5 days we’ll have 2 and a half to 3 inches of ice. ... Don’t go out until it’s safe.”
Stillson also recommends always going fishing with a buddy and to take a long rope with you.
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FlyingTee announces partner for next wave of locations
December 15, 2017 December 15, 2017 Ken MacLeod
The owners of FlyingTee in Jenks have announced a partnership with ADMI, a company specializing in design and program project management, to help with all phases of the next round of FlyingTee ventures, at least four of which will be announced in the spring of 2018, according to James Vollbrect, co-founder and chief technology officer.
“We are excited to partner with ADMI,” Vollbrecht said. “Allen Moyer has assembled a team with proven design and program/project management talent with decades of experience in retail, hospitality and entertainment development working for industry leading Fortune 100 clients.”
Vollbrecht said ADMI will assist with every phase of building the next generation of FlyingTee. The Jenks location is a three-story “eatertainment” complex with 60 heated and chilled hitting bays in which golfers play a variety of games based on FlyingTee’s proprietary technology based on tracking shots rather than installing chips in the balls.
FlyingTee opened in Jenks in 2016 and more than 400,000 customers have visited. James Vollbrecht and his brother John have made continual tweaks and improvements, most notably going to a single-restaurant concept throughout the three-story structure after originally opening with a different restaurant on each level.
The lessons learned will be implemented at the new locations. Vollbrecht said he could not reveal the locations, he said plans are to build in both mid-size markets such as Tulsa and “NFL markets.” He said plans are to offer franchises and at least one of the next four locations would be a franchise.
According to the press release, ADMI provides a menu of services to assist clients in managing programs and projects. ADMI clients include many industry icon, global Fortune 100 companies in the entertainment, retail and hospitality sectors and the company assists with the rollout of multiple, high tech, concurrent projects with careful management of schedule, budget and quality.
“We’re relying on them to make sure FlyingTee 2.0 is innovative, well-designed and retains our family fun atmosphere like we have in Jenks,” Vollbrecht said.
For more information on FlyingTee including a host of new events coming up in 2018, go to www.flyingteegolf.com
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Quotes \ Authors \ English Authors \ Sydney Smith
Facts about Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith was a famous Clergyman from England, who lived between June 3, 1771 and February 22, 1845. He/she became 73 years old.
Zodiac etc.
He/she is born under the zodiac gemini, who is known for Communication, Indecision, Inquisitive, Intelligent, Changeable. Our collection contains 33 quotes who is written / told by Sydney, under the main topic Marriage.
Here is some other popular authors who lived in the same timeframe: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ward Beecher, H. C. Andersen, Henry W. Longfellow, Berthold Auerbach, Alexandre Dumas, Samuel Smiles, William Ellery Channing, John Stuart Mill, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Dickens, Thomas Huxley, William James, William Hazlitt, Benjamin Disraeli, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, V. Cousin, Alexandre Ledru-Rollin, George Crook
Famous quotes by Sydney Smith (33)
"What you don't know would make a great book"
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"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed"
"To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight"
"Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible"
"Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient"
"No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior"
"Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in"
"Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach"
"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them"
"Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect"
"Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship"
"Live always in the best company when you read"
"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence"
"Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done"
"It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them"
"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can"
"It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue"
"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style"
"I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so"
"I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland"
"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury"
"Heaven never helps the men who will not act"
"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything"
"Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time"
"Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time"
"Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation"
"Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty"
"Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up"
"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737"
"As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen"
"Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due"
"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort"
"A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience"
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Haumoana is a coastal settlement just south of the Tukituki River outlet in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand; it is 10 kilometres east of Hastings. Local facilities include a fire station, parks, community halls, lagoons, wetlands, walking and cycle tracks, the river Tukituki river mouth, a commercial centre (pub, 4Square and takeaways) and some of the best wineries and restaurants in the region. As well as its world famous inland gannet colony, this eclectic small community with a big heart has, in recent decades seen growth in new orchards and a vibrant body of creative and small businesses. Those who live here love the wild beauty of the natural landscape and welcome the growing number of tourists and weekenders who realise there’s something special about this place. There are approxmately 430 houses within the community. The village area is flat and low-lying with hills to the south-west. American and British sealers and whalers frequented the ocean off Te Awanga from the late 1700’s setting up shore camps and interacting with local Maori until the 1850’s, when the Crown purchased land, and European settlers commenced farming. The area has a rich history and from the early days became a ‘community focused’ placed to live.
Where is Haumoana?
Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
What is the population of Haumoana?
2202. 1098 males and 1107 females as at the 2006 census
What does Haumoana translate as?
Strong wind from the sea
How great is Haumoana?
It is nearly first to see the new days sun in the world (just beaten by Gisborne) and it is claimed to have the lowest rates of freezer-burn in the southern hemisphere.
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From HB Today Article A Haumoana father is appealing for the person who stole his children’s handmade go-kart on Monday to return it, no questions asked. Chris Riley said he didn’t care who had taken the cart, which he was selling for $500, he just wanted it back. “Being so distinctive, someone must have seen Read more about Theft of Go-Cart[…]
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MONDAY, May 20, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Many American kids don't don helmets when biking, skateboarding and riding scooters, a troubling new poll finds.
Among more than 1,300 parents surveyed, 18% said their kids never wear helmets while biking, 58% said their kids don't wear helmets while skateboarding, and 61% said their children don't wear helmets when riding scooters, according to the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health at the University of Michigan.
"Helmets are vital to preventing head injuries in case a child falls or is struck by a car," said University of Michigan pediatrician Dr. Gary Freed. "It is very concerning that so many children ride bikes and other non-motorized wheeled vehicles without ever using helmets."
In 2015 alone, more than 426,000 children went to an emergency room with injuries from these activities.
The researchers found that 93% of parents said their children give cars the right of way and 82% said their children stop at stop signs.
But most said their child doesn't use hand signals or walk their bike across crosswalks.
"Our report suggests that families should take more precautions to ensure children are safe, including wearing helmets and understanding safety in the streets," Freed said in a university news release.
Most parents said their child rode their bikes on sidewalks (73%) or in parks or on trails (59%). But 42% said their kids biked on streets without bike lanes, while 11% said their children used bike lanes.
The survey also found that older children were less likely to wear a helmet than younger children. Also, not all families insisted their kids wear a helmet.
Wearing a helmet isn't enough, Freed stressed. The helmet must fit correctly to offer the best protection.
Where allowed, children should bike on the sidewalk, he added. And parents should go along with younger kids. Kids should also be taught biking safety, including slowing down, using a bell or calling out to alert pedestrians.
When biking on the sidewalk, children should stop at intersections and walk the bike across streets. Kids also need to learn to watch out for people getting in and out of parked cars.
"We encourage parents to talk to their children about safety rules and expectations ahead of time to make sure these outdoor activities are both fun and safe," Freed said.
Visit the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for more on bike safety.
SOURCE: University of Michigan, news release, May 20, 2019
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Grand Cru Heist by Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen with Excerpt and Giveaway
Today I have a review, excerpt and giveaway for this lovely short mystery story. Please be sure to check out the other tour stops and then be sure to enter the giveaway where one international winner will get an eBook copy of this title.
A story that is so utterly French, focus on the more important elements of the moment, with an eye for appreciating all of the good and minimizing that which does not bring enjoyment. Luxuriant in its wandering, from scenery to scent, taste and texture of food and wine, this is a story that eschews conventional presentation to put the countryside, the feel and taste of France at its center, and leaving the mystery to slowly unfold, almost forgotten in the need to present the next delight for the senses.
There is, however, a mystery: Benjamin Cooker is a vintner and a critic and the main character in our story. A trip to Paris resulted in some unforeseen situations, mugged and nearly succumbing to his injuries, Benjamin’s wine diaries, the notes of all of the tastings he has ever completed, are gone. He is left to convalesce and heal, and wonder who would need his life’s work so desperately as to steal it.
Needing a change of scene, Cooker removes himself to the Tours region and suddenly there is a murdered girl and rare wines have gone missing: and somehow Cooker believes that the three events are connected.
Now, I will admit that the mystery was rather lost on me through the descriptions of wine and food that are positively mouth-watering, and this may not be a book for the more hard-boiled mystery fan, as the reality of the whodunit is rather obvious, but the prose is rich and vibrant: Anne Trager again has done a wonderful translation of the text, keeping the lush feel of the original. This is a fun story to relax with, uncork a bottle, add some cheese or pears and just enjoy!
Title: Grand Cru Heist
Author: Jean-Pierre Alaux, Noël Balen
Genre: Contemporary Mystery
Published by: Le French Book
Format:eBook
Source: Publisher Via Edelweiss
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After Treachery in Bordeaux, here is another Epicurean whodunit in French wine country. Immerse yourself in French countryside and gourmet attitude with our wine-loving amateur sleuths. This time they gumshoe around the Loire Valley before heading back to Bordeaux.
One winter day in Paris, renowned wine critic Benjamin Cooker’s world gets turned upside down when his car gets highjacked. He loses his treasured tasting notebook and his feeling of safety. To recover, he retreats to the region around Tours, sure that the wine and off-season calm will restore is sense of self. There a flamboyant British dandy, a spectacular blue-eyed blond, a zealous concierge and touchy local police disturb his well-deserved rest. From the Loire Valley to Bordeaux, in between a glass of Vouvray and a bottle of Saint-Émilion, the Winemaker Detective and his assistant Virgile turn PI to solve two murders and very peculiar heist. Who stole those bottles of grand cru classé? Take this Epicurean journey through France to solve the whodunit.
A copy of this title was provided via Publisher Via Edelweiss for purpose of honest review. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own responsibility.
Paris finally returned to its splendor at dusk. Lights from the cruise boats caressed the buildings on the Left Bank. The bridges cast wavering shadows on the waters of the Seine. At the corner of the Rue Dauphine, a few patches of half-melted snow, curiously saved from the passing footsteps, were shining under the streetlights.
Benjamin Cooker had felt deprived of light all day. He awaited this miraculous hour, when everything could be reborn in the fleeting glow of night. As he got older, he had less tolerance for the unchanging leaden sky that covered Paris in winter.
Everything, from the pallid faces of café servers to the hotel concierge’s waxy complexion, the bare trees in the Tuileries Gardens, and the homeless camping out on the subway grates, seemed dull and gray. He had loved this city in his happy-go-lucky days, and now he found it suffocating.
Here, even the snow was hoary, dirty, and reduced to mud in a few hours with the constant comings and goings of the city. He missed peaceful Médoc, and he was impatient to return to his home, Grangebelle, the next day. The vineyards would be superb, all white and wrapped in silence. The cold would be dry and refreshing, and the sky nearly royal blue. He would go for a solitary walk along the Gironde just to hear the snow crunch under his boots. Elisabeth got cold easily and would probably remain in front of the fire in the living room, her hands around a steaming cup of tea.
Benjamin Cooker drove slowly, letting his gloves glide over the steering wheel while he whistled along with a Chopin nocturne on the radio. According to the too-ceremonious radio host, it was Opus 19. He was comfortable, settled into the leather seat of his classic Mercedes 280SL. He turned onto Pont des Arts to get to his hotel, which was near the opera house. The red light was taking forever. He lifted the collar of his Loden and turned up the radio as someone approached the car, flicking his thumb to mimic a lighter. Cooker squinted to get a better look at the man’s face. It was hidden under a hood, but he seemed young, despite his stooped, somewhat misshapen form. Cooker shook his head and waved his hands to indicate that he did not smoke.
The light turned green, but Cooker did not have time to accelerate. His car door opened suddenly, as if it had been ripped off, and cold air rushed in.
“Take that, rich bastard.”
The man pulled out a switchblade. Cooker did not move. Don’t panic. Stay calm. Breathe slowly. Think fast. He felt the tip of the knife on his Adam’s apple and gulped. A second man opened the other door and searched the glove compartment.
“Get rid of him,” he said, unbuckling Cooker’s seat belt.
The hooded man hit Cooker twice in the jaw, grabbed him by the tie, and dragged him to the ground. Then the thug kicked him in the stomach, head, and ribs
—“Take that, asshole.” The taste of blood and thick grit from the pavement burned his lips
—“Your mother’s a bitch.” A final glance, a few notes of Chopin
—“Eat shit, dirtbag!”—and screeching tires. Then nothing.
Open Internationally: one winner will get an eBook copy of this title.
Drawing closes on 10 April at 23.59 EST.
About Jean-Pierre Alaux
The authors of Treachery in Bordeaux, the first in the Winemaker Detective series, are Epicures. Jean-Pierre Alaux is a magazine, radio and television journalist when he is not writing novels in southwestern France. He is a genuine wine and food lover and recently won the Antonin Carême prize for his cookbook La Truffe sur le Soufflé, which he wrote with the chef Alexis Pélissou. He is the grandson of a winemaker and exhibits a real passion for wine and winemaking. For him, there is no greater common denominator than wine. He gets a sparkle in his eye when he talks about the Winemaker Detective series, which he coauthors with Noël Balen.
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About Noël Balen
The authors of Treachery in Bordeaux, the first in the Winemaker Detective series, are Epicures. Coauthor of the Winemaker Detective series, with Jean-Pierre Alaux . Noël lives in Paris, where he shares his time between writing, making records, and lecturing on music. He plays bass, is a music critic and has authored a number of books about musicians in addition to his novel and short-story writing.
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The Department of Youth Affairs and Sports will showcase young Virgin Islands entrepreneurs in the 2015 Youth in Business Exposition on Friday, October 23.
The event is being held under the theme: “Innovate to Grow: Encouraging Youth Entrepreneurship for a Vibrant Economy.”
Acting Director of the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, Mrs. Brenda Lettsome-Tye said the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports in its continued celebration of Caribbean Youth Day will feature young entrepreneurs at the first Youth in Business Exposition.
She said, “We are highlighting young people between the ages of 18 and 30 who have had the vision, inspiration and tenacity to create a business out of their passion. We believe in the abilities of our youth and take this opportunity to not only applaud them, but to showcase their talents and creativity.”
Mrs. Lettsome-Tye said the objective of the exposition is to provide Virgin Islands youth entrepreneurs the opportunity to share the best of their business and service to the community, all the while encouraging the importance of entrepreneurship in the community, especially amongst the youth. She is also urging the community to support the upcoming activity.
The Youth in Business Exposition will include a variety of youth-owned businesses in the construction, apparel and accessories, beauty and cosmetics, and transportation categories.
The event will commence with an opening ceremony with remarks by the Premier and Minister for Finance, Dr. the Honourable D. Orlando Smith, OBE and Minister for Education and Culture, Honourable Myron V. Walwyn. There will be hourly giveaways, entertainment by youth entrepreneurs and a fashion show.
The 2015 Youth in Business Exposition will take place at Noel Lloyd Positive Action Movement Park on Friday, October 23 from noon until 6:00 p.m.
Persons are encouraged to attend and support the 2015 Youth in Business Exposition as the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports continues to cultivate an environment to equip and empower youth in the Virgin Islands through programme development and community partnership.
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Cleaning up in more ways than one!
Vision Tactical has been at the forefront of private security and protection services around Johannesburg since its launch in 2014. With the dawn of a new year, filled with renewed opportunities, Vision Tactical is proud to launch its latest operation – the Green Team!
The Green Team is a vision in execution. Vision Tactical’s way of further enhancing the suburbs it serves. Bringing in a team of passionate individuals to clean up and strive towards litter free surroundings. The operation creates job opportunities for the unemployed and provides these individuals with a sustainable source of income.
“It’s not just about cleaning our public spaces every Mandela Day… we need to make every day a Mandela Day and continuously strive to keep our suburbs clean’, said Yaseen Theba, Director of Vision Tactical. The aim of the Green Team is to build an unpolluted and safe environment, while driving sustainable social change, Theba added.
Look out for the members of the Green Team who are truly dedicated to the preservation of our environment – you will recognise them by their green overalls and friendly smiles! The team is equipped with sufficient tools and gear to effectively clean up the area.
The Green Team initiative has been put into motion as a result of an incredible collaboration with Freeway Toyota, the Nelson Mandela Foundation, ER24, AL’s Hardware among others and is associated with the Lower Houghton Residents Association and the Killarney Residents Association.
Eleanor Huggett, Councillor for Ward 73 has pledged her support for the Green Team, and will engage with themembers & partners of the initiative so that the Green Team can benefit the community at large. Liziwe Ntshinga-Makoro, the director of Region E has also commended the initiative.
“The Nelson Mandela Foundation, is pleased that the Houghton Community is building awareness and making good efforts to keeping a clean and safe community that is caring’, said Yase Godlo, the Manager of Mandela Day and Outreach for The Nelson Mandela Foundation.
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”, said Ridwaan Laher, the CEO of the Freeway Group” We are proud to contribute to the Green Team and challenge other corporates to also pledge their support, he added.
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Company B is a freestyle trio formed in 1986 by Cuban-American producer Ish "Angel" Ledesma (Foxy, Oxo), featuring members Lori L. (Ledesma), Charlotte McKinnon and Susan (Gonzalez) Johnson. Before the group's self-titled album was released, Charlotte McKinnon left and was replaced by Lezlee Livrano. After the group’s self-titled debut album, Susan Johnson left and was replaced by Sheena. For the group's second album, 1989's Gotta Dance, Sheena and Lezlee Livrano both left the group and were replaced by Donna Huntley and Julie Marie (who also was a rotating performer with Exposé).
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Tales from the Flashback: "The Ank Williams Story" by Wayne Kyle Spitzer
Ha! The flu. You should see ‘em: pale and black-eyed as serpents, just lying there in the Rio Grande like zombies.” She leaned toward him over the bar again and he caught a whiff of her fragrance, and there was a stirring in his groin he hadn’t felt since, well, since he couldn’t remember.
“What do you mean, like zombies?”
“I mean like zombies, like men who are dead but still walking, or lying there staring at the ceiling. See, something attacked us only a few weeks after the Flashback … something … new. At first everyone just assumed it was a rogue raptor, because it didn’t have a pack—that was the first thing. But then it started talking, like a parrot, I suppose, saying things like ‘Pig’ and ‘Eggsucker,’” She laughed her contagious laugh. “Can you imagine? A raptor calling you names as it attacked you? Deputies Creebald and Teller put up one hell of a fight, you can be sure, and they did eventually kill it, with Rimshaw’s help, but all of them were wounded in the fight, and the deputies worst of all. After that, things started changing around here. At first it was just Creebald and Teller acting strangely, abusing their power, you might say, telling me not to forget to paint on my mole, or insisting Doc Allen wear that ridiculous little vest. But then Marshal Rimshaw started getting into the act, as well, and before any of us knew it we were living in a kind of police state. Decker was the only one who didn’t pile on, which is funny, because he was the only one not wounded in the fight with the raptor. It all came to a head when Deputy Teller had his way with one of the saloon girls—Molly, was her name—after which there was a full-blown shootout between the Marshal and his deputies—not Decker, he tried to maintain the peace—and the rest of the town.” She unscrewed the cap from a bottle of beer and took a swig, then concealed it behind the bar. “You didn’t see that. Anyway, the town didn’t fair so well, and now there’s a row of graves out by Serpent’s Butte.” She paused, locking her beautiful brown eyes up in his own. “They were good men, Williams. The best I’ve ever known. And now they’re just as dead as that raptor.” She snapped the bar towel in her hands and then wiped the counter. “And that’s why we all talk and dress this way.” She indicated his empty glass. “You want another?”
“Sure,” he said.
She pulled one from the wall and unscrewed its cap, sat it down in front of him.
At last she said, “So what about you? What’s your story? And how did you come to be travelling with an armored dinosaur?”
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Pennsylvanians deserve an open primary
“I don’t want some unaffiliated voter determining the nominee in my political party,” goes the overused and unpersuading assertion for why closed primaries, where voters can only vote for who is in their particular political party, and not across party lines. Independents cannot vote for Republicans or Democrats, only for Independents and so on etc.
Pennsylvania has a closed primary election.
If there is one thing that the two main political parties can agree on, it’s that they do not want to share power with anyone else; certainly not the voters! So many cozy deals between the Democrats and Republicans – dividing up the spoils of elected office – have been revealed over the years (the biggest most recent is the PA Turnpike Commission scandal) that is it any wonder why this happy and very lucrative lovefest between the two political parties is being protected at all costs…
The thing is, both the Republican and the Democrat parties are private organizations. I found this out first hand in 2009 when I ran for congress, against the wishes of the PA Republican Party. I was one of those first-in “Tea Party” candidates who declared after just six months of Obama’s treasonous communism and the GOP’s complacency. Except that neither I nor the other similar grass roots candidates knew that we were in the “Tea Party.” We were just mad as hell at both political parties, neither of which seemed interested in helping us, the working people of America, and were rather devoted to the constellations of money-sucking special interest leeches circling about each of them. Elected officials, party hacks, and party functionaries in both political parties did just fine in that scenario, even if the rest of America was falling apart.
And when we began to push our own GOP, we learned that they were accountable to no one, because they were and remain a private entity.
A couple years ago another independent-minded candidate ran in a Dauphin County Democrat primary, and learned the same lesson from his own party. Nope, no transparency for you, you little peon citizen!
Both political parties answer to absolutely no one in the public, because they are private corporations. They can play all kinds of money games, and rumor whispering games, and endorsement games, and information hiding games, because they can; and no one can do anything about it.
So why are we taxpaying voters footing the enormous annual election bills for these two private entities, so that they can hold on to power and keep us citizens at bay, fending off change and accountability?
Why do the Democrats and the Republicans alone get to determine so many important outcomes in our government, when we taxpayers are the ones who are paying for how these two political parties are elected in the first place, let alone all of the expenditures they feed to themselves and their chums? In other words, we voters pay for everything and are told no, we can get only a small portion of what we should get in return, in terms of determining the political outcomes that affect us.
If the two parties want to remain private, and also want to have closed primaries, then let them pay for all of the election expenses in Pennsylvania. We taxpaying voters owe these two private entities nothing, as they owe us nothing (they tell us).
It is well past time to open up our primaries. That flexibility is the true representation of freedom, the freedom to choose, which is the core of representative government. And in Pennsylvania’s particular case, that freedom to choose is about political parties sharing something with the taxpayers who pay for all of the elections of which the two parties are, so far, the sole beneficiaries. It is not right, it is not good, it is not fair.
Open up and let us in!
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Mueller Report shows Trump colluded
No question about it, the Mueller Report issued yesterday shows without any question that President Trump colluded all right…with Mueller and a totally corrupt political establishment. Trump’s willingness to work with these evil people and play by their evil rules gave them credibility they did not deserve. And I am upset about this.
From the every beginning of this baseless Grand Inquisition-style witch hunt, Trump
gave the Mueller hit team –staffed completely with Clinton Campaigners– every document they sought
allowed White House staff to testify without immunity and without parameters
did not invoke Executive Privilege
did not fire Mueller, or Rod Rosenstein
At the very end of this two-year fiasco that cost $25 million taxpayer dollars, tore apart America, and slandered and bankrupted innocent people, Mueller’s political report says they could find zero evidence of collusion with Russia or of “obstruction of justice.” That is, no crime. And although the Mueller hit team was made of partisan lawyers who still know better, in terms of what the law requires, they still looked at creating fake “obstruction” charges, even though there was no crime that anyone was trying to cover up through obstruction.
Like many Americans, I am upset by all this and what it means.
I am upset that Trump was such a good guy, that he put up with this political Grand Inquisition hit squad to the very end, that he did not simply fire everyone involved in the very beginning and start his presidential term with a clean slate, like every president before him has done.
I am upset that Trump was naive to think that if he played by the rules, even the crooked rules that Mueller went by, and did what was right, he would be treated fairly by what is obviously a partisan effort to damage his reputation and undermine his ability to govern.
I am upset that Trump has not played hard ball with these destroyers of American government and cultural fabric. The fake collusion allegation in the first place, and the illegally funded and so obviously phony Steele “pee dossier,” should have been dispensed with on Day Two of the Trump Administration.
I am upset that Trump has not held his FBI director Wray to a high standard, and has instead allowed Wray to simply coast along, ignoring the obvious criminality of Hillary Clinton, Andrew McCabe, James Comey, Bruce Ohr, Peter Stzrok, Brennan, Clapper, and others who used their official government positions for aggressively partisan political purposes. Every one of these corrupt criminals must be investigated and prosecuted and held accountable for committing the biggest political scandal in American history.
Additionally, the American media establishment must be held concretely accountable for their constant daily drumbeat about the wild speculation that was the entire Mueller effort, as though that speculation and those rumors were worthy of being real journalism. Somehow Americans must directly confront individual fake journalists who prostitute the First Amendment for their partisan purposes, and the owners of FaceBook, Twitter, Google, etc. Shouldn’t we all be protesting at their homes? Confronting them when they are out to dinner at a restaurant? Certainly we should be protesting at their businesses. Bring some rotten eggs, make it a substantive protest to show our dissatisfaction at being lied to by this false profession called journalism.
We must bolster the few honest media outlets that exist, like Breitbart, One America News, and let Fox News know that its precipitous slide toward mainstream bullcrap partisanship will be met with an equal loss of interest by its current audience.
Finally, we must increase our number of citizen reporters, to be like Laura Loomer and Matt Christensen. What they do is actual news analysis and investigation, something the mainstream media no longer does.
The Mueller Inquisition demonstrated exactly what American taxpayers are up against: the overt double-dog-dare-ya use of democratic institutions and processes to achieve non-democratic ends, no matter how damaging to America. These are power hungry tyrannical people, and they must be confronted forcefully. Or we lose our country.
If President Trump does not do the things listed above, and more, to lead our Republic toward freedom and away from a destructive, power hungry Washington political establishment, then I and many others will be really, truly upset with him.
Mafia Mueller’s Illegal Inquisition
Newly made Mafia “don” Robert Mueller continues his Grand Inquisition into innocent Americans in his quest to deflect attention from his own crimes.
Robert Mueller has zero credibility, zero integrity. He belongs in jail.
Mueller is documented to have used his official positions to steer enormous Lockheed-Martin contracts to his friends (James Comey) and himself.
A raft of FBI agent whistleblowers are poised to testify against Mueller. One of their chief complaints is that as FBI chief, he threatened to actually arrest FBI agents who objected to his self-enrichment behavior.
Mueller is one of the biggest criminals in America. And his role as an appointed special prosecutor was made by one of his fellow criminals.
His entire Inquisition is designed to deflect attention from his crimes and the criminal enterprise of his enablers, like the Clintons.
His prosecution of Manafort was political, not legal. The warrant enabling Mueller to investigate people is based on some fake Russia collusion thing, and has nothing to do with any other crimes people may have committed. The US Constitution is clear, as is case law, that a person cannot be convicted with illegal evidence. The government cannot breaak the law to enforce the law; that is official lawlessness. And yet that is all Mueller has against Manafort.
Making predictions is risky, but I am confident that Manafort’s legal appeal will be successful, and he will go free. For the simple reason that the evidence arrayed against him for crimes unrelated to Russia collusion was illegally obtained.
The same stands for Flynn, and Cohen and a bunch of other people who were coerced by arch Mafia criminal Robert Mueller into confessing to things they did not do. So that Mueller can move forward with his political persecution.
The historic Grand Inquisition was famous for torturing people into making false confessions. There is no real difference between what Mueller is doing and what the Inquisitors did to their victims five hundred years ago.
One would like to think that humans have evolved past such naked power grabs, but the Mueller witch hunt disproves that. Greed, ambition, and a lust for power and control over other humans has always driven people to do terrible things, and we are witnessing this happen right before our eyes right now.
Folks, if you like you democracy, then you will have to fight for your democracy. And do not make the mistake of pooh-poohing this, you are indeed in a fight. You did not pick this fight, you do not want this fight, you would rather be peaceful and not fight. But if you do not fight (vote, march, protest, write letters to the editor, post news reports on social media, attend political rallies, and go door-to-door for good candidates), then everything you take for granted is up in the air, up for grabs. Your good economy, your cheap food, your freedoms, your free speech. Everything is in play.
And behind it all is Mafia don Robert Mueller and his friends. If you want America to be run by criminals like Robert Mueller, then sit back, grill hotdogs, drink beer, go to your job, go out to dinner and watch movies, and pretend that you can’t make a difference.
OK, call me a Whig
For those like me who are bothered by the simplistic, almost child-like identity politics of partisan political party identification, there is always the third way out: Independent.
True to its name, being an Independent means that one is much less driven by one-dimensional partisan interests, and much more broadly politically driven, by more philosophical interests.
Oh please, don’t kid yourself that the Democrats and the Republicans today represent philosophical strands of thought on government involvement in the lives of the citizenry. That is a joke.
Both main political parties, Ds and Rs, are each practically wholly-owned subsidiaries of their respective special interest groups. Because I believe in economic freedom, among other things, I am more drawn to the Rs than the Ds, who have now pretty much openly embraced socialism.
Socialism is the opposite of economic freedom, and socialism requires tremendous inroads into personal freedom to achieve its artificial “income equality” outcome. The Ds have completely thrown in with the communists, the socialists, the chaotic ANTIFA, and the 1%-ers like George Soros who fund all the anarchic, violent, anti-America street melees. If you like your doctor, you will not be able to keep your doctor, as the previous ANTIFA president demonstrated, despite his lies to the contrary. There is nothing here with this group or amalgamation of groups for the average American family trying to get by comfortably and live a simple, happy life.
However, there are plenty of Rs who are D-lite. Call them RINOs, GOPe, whatever, they are part of an established, elite political class who have elevated themselves above the broad interests of the citizen taxpayer. Their interests are narrowly economic and even more narrowly financial. Big corporations, the Koch Brothers, US senator Mitch McConnell’s big and financially rewarding ties to the Chinese government, the various guises of the Chamber of Commerce, etc.; all seeking to funnel as much financial gain into as few big pockets as possible. At the cost of Americans’ freedom now and future liberty.
Like the Ds, this GOPe group also tries to manipulate national policy for personal gain, with open borders and no checks on the el-cheapo labor force that comes with a huge cultural and school tax price tag. Obviously the GOPe has little in common with the interest of The People, either, though more economic freedom can be found here than with the Ds. Nevertheless, the GOPe RINOs are not really committed to defending citizen freedom and liberty.
Thus the demand for the Independent identity. The problem with the Independent Party is that it is frozen out of many states, where there is a bi-partisan death grip on electoral process. If there is one thing both Ds and Rs can agree on, it is that they and they two alone must control, if only occasionally share, political power and outcomes for everyone else.
This is why there is so much collusion and bi-partisan deal making in places like Pennsylvania, where our closed Primary artificially limits voter choice. Being an Independent in most places, like Pennsylvania, means one cannot really vote in a meaningful way in the primary election, arguably when votes matter most.
If the Republican Party of the 1860s was the vehicle for the great Abolitionist movement, much of that great spirit is now gone. Obviously. Oh yes, we have the congressional Freedom Caucus, a refreshing group of patriots and individualists. But they are largely outnumbered by the corporatists within their own party.
And never mind that the Ds demand their minorities aka modern-day slaves remain and vote on the Democrat Plantation, just like they did in the old days. And that everyone else fall in line with their autocratic control schemes. Or else.
I do not identify as a Democrat and probably never will again (to do so would be like gleefully standing by the road screaming “Heil Hitler” in 1930s Germany as the latest Democrat Socialist Messiah drove by), so trying to figure them out is a waste of time.
So, I am now reaching and looking farther back in time for a political identity, back to more philosophical times, to when big ideas had relevance to everyday lives. And in that past I find the old British Whig Party actually captures my current philosophical views.
The Whigs of the 1700s-1800s believed in spreading political power and decision-making to the citizenry as broadly as possible.
The Whigs believed in Abolitionism, the movement to abolish slavery. Plenty of economic and financial gain at stake there, so it was a truly principled stand in the meanest sense.
The Whigs believed in a parliamentary monarchy, which was radical at the time. Though the Magna Carta had been written and signed by the British king so many centuries before, its notions of freedom, representative government, and due process for the average citizen only took a few centuries to refine and percolate up and out to the point where the monarch’s absolute grip on power was actually, truly challenged by erstwhile representatives of The People.
That slow progress also involved a couple civil wars that were spiced nicely with religious feuding. Lots of heads rolling in the streets, families burning at the stake…what the Chinese call “exciting times.”
So given they had witnessed the great evil and cruelty carried out in the name of official religious control and power, the Whigs were naturally against the establishment of all religious tests for citizens, and against an official, established state religion. On this score they eventually lost, as Anglicanism is now the official state religion of Britain.
Similarly, Scotland has the Church of Scotland as its official place of worship. Not that either of these churches are very Christian nor pro-Western today. The Whigs correctly viewed official religions as being against the interests of the People, and nowhere is that more evident than in the Church of England’s official anti-West, anti-freedom do-gooder political meddling.
In short, Britain’s Whigs were non-conformists who believed in a third way: diffuse political power, as opposed to centralized power. They promoted economic freedom and individual liberty for all, including for the lowest slave.
British history and people may appear rather blase and boring to today’s casual reader, but rest assured it was nothing of the sort. An overabundance of violent civil wars resulted in the seemingly placid society one enjoyably visits today.
As a result, the Whig party was transcendent for almost two centuries. With its enlightened philosophical views came maximum freedom and opportunity for the greatest number of Britons, ever. Many Whig views found their way into the American Constitution.
Given the anti-citizen Uni-Party political establishment here in America, the weakness of the Independent Party, and my own Constitutionalist views, I am mighty tempted to join the 1700s Whigs. At least they stand for something real and valuable.
And what does it say that in 2018 we must now reach back to the early 1700s Britain to reconnect with our greatest individual rights and needs in 21-st century America?
Did America have a Stzroke?
With his brazenly arrogant personality and his private corruption, FBI agent Peter Stzrok has now made a name for himself in so many ways.
Unbeknownst to the American people, Stzrok started out making a power-abusing political insider name for himself at least in 2015 by disabling a serious criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton. He then went on to try to frame candidate Trump and his political allies, and bury evidence of incredibly illegal activity by staff and leaders at the FBI and DOJ.
Stzrok’s damning emails, text messages and memos leave no question that the man is a corrupt partisan political warrior, using his awesome official law enforcement position to advance a partisan political cause that is contrary to how the American people voted in 2016.
Everything Stzrok has done has been illegal and totally un-American, from the fake search warrants to the wiretaps and domestic spying, to the use of federal law enforcement powers to re-write interview notes that bear no resemblance to what really took place, to colluding with Fusion GPS and the Perkins, Coie law firm, and the Hillary Clinton for President campaign.
This past week Stzrok testified before Congress and provided a view into how distant the Washington, DC insiders have become from the American people. Stzrok’s arrogant, contemptuous, smug lying and dismissive attitude struck everyone as the essence of what has gone wrong in Washington, DC.
Stzrok’s damning testimony increasingly revealed how out of touch he and his FBI and DOJ colleagues are, how insulated and unaccountable to the rule of law they are, and how corrupt the past administration was.
So we must ask, Did America just have a Stzroke?
Is America now paralyzed or disabled by this one criminal FBI agent?
We ask, because everything that American has ever stood for is hanging in mid-air. The rule of law is hanging suspended. If Stzrok gets away with his criminality, then what?
Elected Democrats were actually applauding Stzrok’s testimony real-time, because they are so deeply opposed to those holding the elected majority that they will side with anyone who has done anything, like Stzrok, so long as their own party’s narrow political interests are advanced or protected.
To those who recall their seventh grade civics classes, this is not how America works. The good of the nation always comes first, before political party or person.
It is now unclear if America is still a nation of laws, or if official lawlessness and political willpower are the new standard for running government.
Stzrok is not acting alone. He has many known criminal compatriots in the FBI and DOJ; despite his and their known crimes, he and they still work there; and no legal accountability has been brought to bear on any of them, many of whom actually brazenly continue to act in political ways in what are supposed to be purely professional jobs.
It is as if there are two sets of rules, two legal standards in America now: A lenient standard for one political party allied with the mainstream media, and then another impossible standard for the other party and its political allies. Stzrok is clearly being protected from being held accountable, as was Clinton, Loretta Lynch, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and many others in the past administration.
On the other hand, American military personnel are serving jail time right now for having done a smidgeon of what Stzrok et al did. Trump and everyone around him are being falsely investigated for fake reasons.
Does Stzrok get the last word in, and thereby pound a stake into America’s heart?
When I left the US EPA in DC in 1998, several of my colleagues asked me in disbelief “Josh, are you really willing to give up all this power you have as a federal bureaucrat?”
Folks, public service has never been about amassing personal power. It is supposed to be service to our fellow citizens, who pay all those federal paychecks. Personal politics and private values have no place in those federal jobs (or any other government job, be it township, county, or state level), where decision making must be about the good of the nation.
Unfortunately, like the FBI, the EPA also developed an insular and unaccountable staff culture, where personal politics override science and everything else. I hated it, and I could not in good conscience be a part of that corruption. So I removed myself from it.
I hope America has not just had a Stzroke, and that we are not paralyzed. If the rule of law has been suspended, and there is no accountability, and political willpower to amass political i.e. coercive power overrides everything, then our nation is over. The great experiment has ended, and now it is merely a political slugfest that inevitably becomes an armed slugfest that will eventually determine who ends up holding power.
Santa Fe School Shooting: Liberal Democrats Sacrifice More Kids on Altar of Gun Control
Another school shooting today, in Santa Fe, Texas.
Yes, a good guy with a gun stopped the shooter, and he could have been stopped sooner.
But stopping that shooter (and the next one) would require taking the kinds of concrete, proactive steps necessary to actually protect the students from harm. It is as easy as having police stationed in the school, or armed guards (including armed volunteers), or arming the staff and teachers who want to be armed.
And these options are all too pragmatic, too simple, too real for liberal Democrats, who reject them all. They would rather use this latest blood in the streets to promote their nation-wide civilian disarmament schemes, because what they really want is political domination over every American citizen.
In fact, sacrificing a few school students on the false altar of gun control is one of those unfortunate but necessary “breaking a few eggs to make an omelette” things that liberal Democrats desire, to achieve their political goal.
The more blood, the more emotion, the more fear, the more crisis, the more they can take advantage of people’s emotions and ram through laws that will do nothing to solve the problem, but which will advance liberal Democrat goals of civilian disarmament.
When the ten-year Clinton gun ban sunsetted in 2004, liberal Democrats admitted openly that it had done nothing to lower crime. But they wanted it reinstituted, nonetheless. The high cost of disarming law-abiding Americans won’t do anything to make schools safer, either. So why demand this?
Liberal Democrats want absolute control over you and me, folks, and that is all. They do not want solutions. An armed citizenry is the ultimate block against the Democrat Party’s goal of full control of America; this is the “problem” they are really trying to solve.
If you doubt this, look at this phony, illegal “Russia collusion” thing: It is just “resistance” against the Trump administration by any means necessary – legal, illegal, unethical, immoral. Liberal Democrats reject results of elections they lose. They reject laws they don’t like or don’t write. They enable an unsustainable illegal immigration invasion and illegal sanctuary cities to recruit illegal aliens who they want to convert into loyal voters and artificial political dominion. They use the democratic process to achieve non-democratic results.
After the Parkland shooting, liberal Democrats had meetings, marches, protests. Lots of demands. Lots of brutal demonization of the NRA, of law-abiding gun owners, of gun manufacturers, even of the US Constitution. In all of that activity, they would not address how their liberal Obama-era PROMISE program had caught and released the violent criminal Nikolas Cruz half a dozen times, so that he could finally follow through on his public promises to commit mass murder in his own school.
I am sorry for the parents of the children hurt and killed in Santa Fe, Texas. I am sorry for their parents, and for their teachers and school administrators, and friends. I feel very badly for them, and if they are angry about this, they need only direct their focus on the liberal Democrats and their henchmen (teachers unions) who have blocked all natural, logical, and effective means to preventing these shootings from happening.
Liberal Democrats love political power and gun control more than they love school students. Remember that the next time you vote.
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Boy Scouts, Supreme Court, Mueller Witch Hunt: One Common Thread
In 1973, amidst an earth-shaking cultural civil war, a divided US Supreme Court legislated a patchwork interpretation of the US Constitution to create a heretofore unmentioned “right” to abortion-on-demand.
Irrespective of whether you agree with abortion on demand as a reasonable or moral policy, or you do not, there are three key facts from this incident that are important today.
First, it marked one of the major milestones in an increasingly legislative judiciary, taking for itself the creative duties Constitutionally assigned to the US Congress (House and Senate).
As constituted, the judiciary is simply supposed to render more or less Yes and No holdings on US laws, deciding whether or not they are Constitutional. Those that are not are supposed to be remanded back to lower courts or sent back to the legislature altogether. Our courts are not constituted to come up with their own ideas and substitute them for the ideas brought before them in lawsuits.
Laws and the ideas in them are supposed to begin and end in the Congress.
Second, in its decision, the Court did mental backflips and logical contortions to arrive at its holding, because nowhere in the Constitution or any of the Founding debate documents is or was abortion mentioned; nor was the legal process or thinking that the Court used to reach its conclusion.
Again, as a policy, one can agree or disagree with abortion on demand, but to reach into a top hat and pull out a new and arguably foreign concept, as the Court did, and declare it protected by the Constitution is really legal chicanery. It is not how American government is supposed to work.
Which leads to the third outcome: out of all this brazen behavior in Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court established a political and cultural precedent for illegal legislating and political meddling from the bench.
This behavior evolved the court system into a de facto government unto itself; all three functions – judicial, legislative and executive – housed in just one branch of government.
Housed with just a five-person majority on the Court.
This last result is the most dangerous to democracy, because it tested the American people’s credulity and patience. The outstanding hallmarks of American government are the separation of powers, the rule of law, and the idea that government legitimacy flows from The People, not from the government’s coercive power. To grant just five people absolute power over an entire nation is to throw America out the window.
Like their European Marxist counterparts, modern American liberals (progressives, Communists, ANTIFA, Socialists, Democrats, whatever) focus their efforts on acquiring power, on controlling decision making, on getting government-endorsed results, at whatever cost, in whatever way possible.
So, judicial over-reach is now a major liberal approach to implementing political change, and changing cultural norms for political decision making.
Thus, Roe v. Wade was not as much about abortion as it was about five unelected, unaccountable people wearing black robes making all policy and legislative decisions about all issues for three hundred and fifty million other Americans.
This behavior is as un-American as anything could be. It strikes a subtle but fatal dagger blow to the American heart, demanding fealty to the rule of law while suspending the rule of law. It really is a coup d’etat.
Several years ago the US Supreme Court did the same thing again with gay marriage as it had done with Roe v. Wade. Instead of begging off of that political issue, because marriage has always been a subject of local and state purview, the US Supreme Court took decision making away from the American People. It created a right that no one had ever heard of before, that flew in the face of thousands of years of human behavior, that should have bubbled up from the local level and worked its way through the legislative process to gain traction among a majority of the American People to give it legitimacy, a real organic cultural belief with roots.
But the Court circumvented all that messy representative democracy stuff, and just implemented the policy and cultural goal they wanted.
(And if you care at all what my opinion is about gay marriage, I don’t give a damn. Marry the adult you want to marry. Go ahead, live your life. Gather together a community or quorum or church or whatever imprimatur you think you need and get married under those auspices. But it is a mistake to demand that three hundred and fifty million other people accept your ideas at the price of their liberty).
So now America is undergoing the Mueller “investigation” of supposed Russian tampering and collusion with Donald Trump so he could win the presidency. After two years of looking, not one shred of evidence has been found, and there is tons of evidence of lots of illegal actions by the prior administration.
Nonetheless a highly coercive and obviously political witch hunt has emerged, with arch criminal Robert Mueller leading the charge.
Why is Mueller a criminal? Because he knows his cause is unjust and dangerous to democracy. He knows there is no evidence for the fake cause of his work. He knows that the FISA warrant upon which his work is based was obtained under very fake pretenses (the fake Clinton-created political “dossier” on Trump). He knows that everyone he has charged is totally innocent or innocent of anything having to do with Russian “collusion.”
Mueller withholds from Congressional oversight the investigation-enabling letter written to him by Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, which began this witch hunt.
If Mueller believed in the integrity of his work and his mission, he would happily, willingly share the enabling letter with the American People. Transparency, right?
Mueller’s witch hunt is so utterly brazen because it demands the American People abandon their commitment to the rule of law, and instead swear allegiance to raw political audacity and the aggressive exercise of power.
Mueller’s attack on our democracy is criminal because it is the creation of coercive political power by sheer willpower and desire to rule, without a shred of legitimacy behind it. Robert Mueller is everything that America is not.
So therefore, Robert Mueller is a criminal, and he knows it. Mueller and his allies hope that the American People’s loyalty to even a flawed democratic process overrides their disgust at the blatant misuse of the process and their trust. It is a big gamble.
Last week the Boy Scouts of America formally changed their name to the “Scouts,” formally adding girls to the mix.
Just eight or so people on the BSA board of directors voted for this change. Demand for this change did not come up from the ground, from the grass roots, from the thousands of local Boy Scout troops and the associated moms and dads across America.
Rather, this huge cultural change was forced down upon everyone else by a very small handful of politically and culturally radical people.
They know they cannot persuade the Boy Scouts members to agree with this change, so like the other changes made on abortion, same sex marriage, and political election results, the decision is made “from above” and forced down on everyone else. It is just another coup d’etat foisted upon America by liberals.
While we would normally think of the Boy Scouts and abortion and gay marriage and election results being totally different subjects and areas, they do share one commonality.
Binding them all together is the Democrat Party’s war on democracy, its lust for power, its lust for political control and domination over all others, its wish for the destruction of all established norms and expectations so that their version of cultural change will be implemented. By brute force, if necessary.
(For those who care to know, I used to be a Democrat. Today I am a reluctant member of the Republican Party, and, like George Washington before me, I disdain all political parties as an occasional, temporary necessity.)
And from all this, liberals hope to “fundamentally change America” into a Socialist paradise like Cuba or Venezuela, or even like the failed and dead Soviet Union they revered.
Why? Because liberals do not believe in The People. They believe in power and control, period, and that is the common thread connecting all of these disparate issues and topics they are involved in. It is just now that these decisions and changes are so starkly contrasted with how America was founded.
I, for one, do not accept any of this behavior, nor the coup d’etats being attempted against our government and our culture.
Bullies with Salami Slicers
Matyas Rakosi was “Stalin’s man in Hungary” in the 1930s-1950s.
Although his Hungarian Communist Party and its allied Socialists earned positions in only about 20% of the Hungarian government in the 1930s through election results, despite making their case to the Hungarian people in election after election, the Communists slowly bullied their way into controlling more positions of societal control, like the Hungarian police and the courts.
And yes, they literally bullied their way into these powerful positions by publicly whining, and complaining, and feigning hurt when rejected, with real displays of petulance and foot-stomping, and crying how unfair it was that they could not fully participate in public life, even though their views were repudiated over and over at the ballot box.
They falsely appealed to good people’s sense of fairness, and lied about their true intentions. Slowly they gained traction.
Technically their police and judicial roles were just twenty percent of the government functions, but in reality, they were critical choke and control points, where legal matters met criminal punishment matters, and where people’s careers and lives could summarily end.
Mind you, the people in these police and judicial roles were Communists and Socialists. Thus, due process, human rights, fairness, facts, the rule of law, etc. did not matter to them. What did matter to them was control, absolute iron-fisted control of everything, and especially of the government, but also the things that make a government run well, like citizens’ free speech rights, the right to peaceably assemble, etc.
From those police and judicial roles, the Hungarian Communists and Socialists picked off their political opponents, one by one. By creating fake accusations based on mere hearsay and insinuations, they frog-marched innocent people into court rooms where honest and fair justice was the very last thing anyone could expect to encounter.
[we are seeing the same process play out in Washington, DC, where the security apparatus has been captured, politicized, and used to destroy political opposition]
In those courts, where the falsely accused defendants were frequently unable to defend themselves, and where clearly manufactured “evidence” was presented against them, the Communist judges handed down arbitrary and cruel sentences. Usually it was death by strangulation, but sometimes by firing squad. One way or another, people who had been Hungarian nationalists, patriots, leaders, good men and women all, were criminally ensnared by their political opponents.
One by one by one, political opponents of the Communists were literally eliminated, and the remaining fence-sitters were bullied into silence and acquiescence.
Person by person, office by office, Hungary’s Communists gained control of new parts of Hungary’s government, and one by one they bent those new offices into reaching their goal of complete political and social domination.
Eventually, Hungary went from one of Europe’s oldest, greatest, most creative, most successful nations, to one of darkness, where freedom and liberty were unimaginable. And where the cruelest physical tortures and public humiliations were not only imaginable, they were happening nearly daily across the nation.
What better way to bully a populace than to make public examples of people?
[here in central Pennsylvania we had one notable attempt at public shaming and modern public execution some years ago when the thugs at PennFuture tried to get a local meteorologist fired from his TV weather news job because he refused to publicly bow before their claim of man-made global warming…same old same old!]
From Soviet Russia, uber tyrant Josef Stalin smiled, as his minions in Hungary slowly dismantled a free nation and put it under the control of Soviet Communism. Stalin’s chief architect and implementer of Communism in Hungary was Matyas Rakosi.
Rakosi joked about slowly but surely eliminating his political opponents by “slicing them like salami,” one at a time, until the entire group opposing him was gone.
Exactly this is now happening in America. Right now. Under our feet and in front of our noses.
We don’t call it Communism here, but the Political Correctness now slowly taking over our nation is just as cruel, fascist, and intolerant as any Communist regime in Europe ever was. PC’s minions here in America are just as devoted to getting full control of everything as their European counterparts were just two generations ago.
It is worse in Europe now, where fascism is roaring back to life, reincarnated as PC. Two days ago a British court held a man guilty (of something vague and subjective) and DESTINED FOR JAIL for the awful crime of teaching his cute little dog to do the Hitler salute on YouTube. No lie. Meanwhile, England is disintegrating under the weight of petty crime, which cannot be punished, because the perpetrators are overwhelmingly “protected populations.”
America’s best institutions have been completely captured by PC: The media, the educational system from top to bottom, government, the military, communal institutions, even places like Chautauqua Institution. All turned into weapons, implementing PC and control, and the elimination of political opposition.
Nearly all of these places have routine public humiliations, shaming, and summary “executions” of political misfits. Chautauqua Institution fired one of its best vice presidents because she was too supportive of Israel’s right to exist. Universities routinely fire professors who exhibit any free thought beyond the arbitrary bounds set by PC.
This weekend we will see another Communist public bullying event in Washington, DC.
It is a fake march about nothing, though on the outside this march is against private gun ownership and the NRA. The march is not about the actual facts, actions, processes and programs (like “PROMISE”) that resulted in Nikolas Cruz shooting his fellow Parkland students.
Rather, the march is aimed at falsely accusing and publicly shaming America’s legal gun owners and their chosen private organization, the NRA, of having been complicit in Cruz’s massacre.
When in fact, it is the gun control groups and their political enablers who are the most responsible for that massacre.
We are seeing Rakosi’s old “salami tactics” right here in front of us, playing out again. Trial-by-media, false accusations, public shaming, bullied citizens slowly giving up more and more of their control of their government to tyrants, who really just “mean well.”
We have one political party aggressively acting as the official vehicle for PC, and the other political party pretending to put up a fight, while focused on its pensions, power, secret pay-offs, and crony capitalism.
The question is, will we be complacent and compliant, like the Hungarians, and watch our freedoms be slowly pried away from us by career politicians and unaccountable bureaucrats, under false pretenses?
Or will we fight back?
One way you can fight back is to not stand on the sideline while the salami slices are being made. When you see your neighbor, friend, colleague or fellow activist get picked up and picked off and spirited away for the kangaroo court event, you can and should intervene.
PA Supreme Court Magically Turns Itself into Legislature
In an anticipated 4-3 partisan decision today, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court majority rejected the original and heavily gerrymandered map submitted by the PA Senate Republicans, as well as three heavily gerrymandered maps subsequently submitted in the past week by the PA House Democrats, PA Senate Democrats, and even PA Governor Tom Wolf.
Instead of declaring none of the legislative district maps to be constitutional, because theoretically none of them have met the constitutional tests for compactness and adhering to existing political boundaries, and instead of declaring the governor’s map completely unwelcome because it is not his role to draw voting district maps, the PA Supreme Court has actually drawn its own redistricting map.
No court anywhere has the constitutionally derived role of drawing voting district maps, and no court anywhere can justify doing so. According to the US Constitution, drawing voting district maps is specifically a state legislature role.
I will say that the latest map, drawn by the PA Supreme Court majority, looks better in some ways than the other four maps recently submitted for review. This map is certainly tighter and breaks fewer county lines than the others. In that sense, it is a more reasonable map.
But that is not the question.
The first question is, should Pennsylvania just get on with voting, as we are now running out of time for the primaries, and just use the established map, deficient though it may be?
The second question is, should the US Supreme Court allow the PA Supreme Court to, in effect, turn itself into a legislature, by performing a key function that is specifically relegated only to the state legislature by the US Constitution?
Hopefully, the US Supreme Court will deny the lower court’s power grab, and direct Pennsylvania to go on with the previous voting district map, flawed though it was, the greater interest being in letting voters have a say at all, as opposed to political elites pulling strings to keep themselves in power.
As imperfect as the legislative process is, and as distasteful as the gerrymandering process is, it is what it is, meaning that this is what we’ve got. No court can magically turn itself into another branch of government. So let’s go with the existing map we had six weeks ago, and get on with elections.
Some thoughts on the Alabama special election
Judge Roy Moore has probably lost the special election for the vacant US Senate seat in Alabama by just a couple thousand votes.
What this result means to me, and I think to a lot of others who share my values and way of seeing things, is the following:
Moore’s big “crime” was to be a conservative Christian Constitutionalist who bucked the bipartisan big government UniParty, and who openly challenged US Senate leader Mitch “The Squish” McConnell.
Moore’s unwillingness to go along with the GOP’s careful bipartisan management of America’s slow motion death spiral was a direct challenge and affront to the GOP establishment’s grip on power.
This “crime” made Moore a big target, and all through his tough primary election he faced tens of millions of dollars of negative attack ads by, who else, the GOP establishment, including incredible statements by McConnell (and other Republicans) that he’d prefer a liberal Democrat in that seat over an independent-minded conservative Republican like Moore.
Once into the general election against super leftist Democrat Doug Jones, lo and behold!, allegations of sexual impropriety suddenly emerge against Moore. From forty years ago. Surprise! By a couple women who had actual details and another five who basically said he asked them to date him. The media specializes in these assassinations against Republicans and conservatives, and it is a now predictable cycle.
The Washington Post made it a cause célèbre to beat Moore, if not outright destroy his character, so the unproven, empty allegations were repeated and repeated and repeated as if they were fact. When people outside the establishment media began to dig into these “allegations,” one woman’s claims immediately failed under scrutiny. Her stated facts and timeline changed constantly, the other people in the story said she was lying, that she never worked in the places she said she worked, and so on. She appeared to be a political shill with an axe to grind or a hankering for media attention.
The one other woman actually sounded credible, but the bottom line was when she and Moore were alone, and he busted a move on her, she declined and he then took her right home. The fact that she was fourteen at the time adds a big Ooh Icky Gross factor to normal people today, but forty years ago she was of the age of consent in Alabama. Hey, I’m a Yankee, so don’t ask me about that. Bottom line for Moore was that he was operating inside the boundaries, not outside. With one woman; not five or seven or nine.
Moore faced the combined power of both the Democrat and Republican parties, and their collective interest groups. He faced the combined power of the entire establishment media. He had on his side political activist Steve Bannon and some independent-minded conservatives from around America. Against this incredible wave of hate, lies, false vilification, and tens of millions of dollars of negative attack ads, it is amazing that Moore actually came so close to winning.
The take-away from this election result is that the American People now openly face a bipartisan UniParty that believes in all-powerful big government, increasingly limited individual liberty and freedom, mass illegal immigration and cultural conversion (not cultural assimilation), and the fundamental changing of America from a Constitutional Republic to….some sort of European social democracy.
While the Democrat Party has since Obama’s election openly embraced socialism, communism, and national suicide, the Republican Party has quietly hidden its agenda. Over Obama’s eight year reign of terror, the GOP made all sorts of symbolic gestures, but it never fought him. Moore’s kind of special elections have really tested the GOP, and they have showed their hand: They are Democrat Lite.
For the GOP it is not a question of whether or not America will become a socialist dystopia, but simply when. There is no fight left in the GOP, at least not against socialism and national suicide. Instead, the GOP saves its fight for opposing independents and conservatives who threaten its hold on whatever power it can carve out for itself in its power-sharing arrangement with the Democrats. The GOP party functionaries are like little bureaucrats, ready to move into whatever positions of political and government power are handed to them. The GOP and its functionaries are not patriots, they are not on the side of The People. They are our enemy, not our friend.
So, for me it means more resolve to stand and fight for America, the America as it was envisioned in 1776 and constituted in 1787. Wherever that takes me. I can also easily say this: If I lived in a state with an open primary, I would become a registered Independent. The Republican Party left me, or rather has kicked me and people like me aside. Duly noted.
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It's time for Matchbook Monday. Some real gems of Jackson's past are posted below. Feel free to add your stories or any information about them in the comments section as you enjoy these blasts from the past. Readers can email copies of any old matchbooks to kingfish1935@gmail.com.
First up is a restaurant no one probably remembers although the name is known.
This ad appeared in a 1961 edition of the Clarion-Ledger. Needless to say, it was a sign of the times.
Time to go downtown. Does anyone remember this place?
Many a night of drinking ended at Joker's Tavern.... after closing time at 1:00 AM. It was the Pops of Northeast Jackson.
Finally, here is one from Archestratus Grill in Clinton.
Posted by Kingfish at 2:00 PM
I heard that Joker's was a reliable source of drugs back in the day.
Wow. Advertising for "White" and "Colored" employees. Hard to believe there was a time where this was normal.
Al's Half Shell had a great menu 50 years ago. And back then I wondered how they made a profit in that small dining room.
Never knew about the "other" Crechale's". Jokers was one of those infamous places I never went. Guess I wasn't really sure if it was still around or not, even though I don't live far from it. Archestratus was a place I used to hear ads for on Super Talk (only when I needed entertainment!). Went once near its end, but have no recollection of that Sunday noon visit other than finding out the son of some friends, whom we'd known since birth, worked there though we hadn't seen him in years. Not sure we even ate vs. just visiting with him, then changed our minds. Many fond memories of Al's, but not at that location. Wasn't it on Roach St. (ironic!) around the corner from the Mayflower in the 1970s, then down on Terry Road for a while. Seems like Al's closed/reopened in more places than Roosters!
I remember Al's Half Shell on Lamar Street - seems like it was right around the corner from Hale & Jones, a sporting goods store. Al's had great red beans and rice, served with plenty of onions and big link of spicy sausage. Great po-boys, too. I had many a lunch there in the 1970s.
They later moved out to Terry Road, to a location that later became Angelo's.
Upstairs from Al's Half Shell in that block of Lamar was WRBC Radio.....Rebel Radio. Through the 60s I listened to WRBC and WWUN.......
Al's Half Shell, on Lamar St., between Pearl and Pascagoula Streets, enlarged their dining room into and adjacent building and lost a whole lot of business. He returned to the original size and is quoted as having said "I don't care if the rats run over their shoes, just so they come and eat." Actually, it was a good and clean place, but when he tried to spiff it up, his regular customers didn't like it.
As far as Crechale's on Old Canton Road, the building was recently torn down. It became the King's Inn after Crechale's. Morrison's Cafeteria was just
north in the Woodland Hills Building. I tend to remember the current Crechale's owner's mother, Carolyn (?), running it. Perhaps my memory is not correct?
Crechales, Morrison cafeteria and dr kitchens office were right there. Later came the X-ray room which was straight then gay and Xanadu.
Gibbs and shakeys ( post office now) all were real close by through the ages.
And there was LeFluers.
Old man Paul Crechale was a friend of my Daddy's. When Crechale was the maitre'd at the Rotisserie at 5 Points(?), he would serve my Daddy beer in a teapot on Sundays when it was illegal to serve alcohol on Sunday. I remember as a kid (I am 70 now) going with my parents to eat at Crechale's on Hiway 80. When Daddy was dying of cancer in 1965 Paul Crechale would send him one of his house salads to Daddy at the VA Hospital. The Crechales are good people.
Daddy also loved to go to Al's Half Shell on Lamar Street. I was in high school then and remember the good gumbo he served.
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Yea: 526 I remember Rebel Radio (Soooo non-pc) today, it was up a creepy & tall wood stairway, right above Al's. Someway I new "jocky jim"then&h was real big at the time, along with Colonel Radio too, 1450 as I recall. All of em gone now (no fm's when I was in HS @ Provine)
I wish we had some good history sources on old Jackson radio stations. Speaking of WRBC AM, I think the final studios were in a building that fronted North State St. just above Briarwood. It had to be tough to bang out a living in commercial broadcasting back in those days.
RFBurns said...
Ironically, WRBC-AM became what is now WOAD-AM 1300. The studio and transmitter site was near the corner of State St. and Beasley Rd. A tornado took down the original tower in the mid-late 70's and the operation was moved to the other side of State & Beasley. There is a book written by Bob McRaney called "The History of Radio in Mississippi" that covers the really early days thru the mid 1070's. It's hard to find, but gives an accurate history of early radio in the state. I've heard many of the old time radio guys from WRBC, WWUN, WJQS and WJXN talk about Al's Half Shell.
I still miss Jokers. Ate lunch there about three times a week from about 1992 until they closed. I still find myself thinking "I would like a Jokers turkey sandwich and cup of gumbo." KF, thanks for the memories.
I must have been incorrect about Al's ever being around the corner from The Mayflower on Roach given no one else remembering that. Must have been the original south Lamar location and I'm just confused from age, the passing of time, and downtown looking completely different back then. When it moved to Terry Road, however, it was not in the " location that later became Angelo's". It was closer to the corner of Hwy 80 in a building that later became a soul food restaurant. Angelo's was already there and had been for a long time. (Unless my memory really is that faulty, which I'm doubting less and less these days).
Oh, and I wonder when WRBC moved out on State near Beasley because I remember riding my bike to that location to watch the DJ behind a big "picture window" as a pre-teen in the mid 1960's.
The location at the corner of State and Beasley where the old Sound and Communications building stands was the original location of WJDX, the first radio station in Mississippi. The location of the S&C building and the mini-storage on the corner was a field where two broadcast towers stood with a wire strung between them.
Even more interesting is that the original WJDX building still stands there just to the south of the S&C building. You can see it from State Street. There is an ugly cinder block front that was added to the building some years later, but if you look at the original structure, you can see that it was built to look like the chassis of an old floor-standing console radio. There are three vertical windows on the front that look like the three band tuner windows (old radios would switch between two shortwave bands and the AM band).
That building really is a piece of history and should be preserved before it falls to ruin. I know the guy who owned S&C years ago was planning on restoring it, but I guess that never happened.
was that "Algie Broome" ???
Yep, Algie Broome was one of the the founders/owners of Sound & Communications and, if memory serves, the reason he located S&C next to the old WJDX/WRBC building was that he wanted to restore it, either as a museum or incorporated into part of S&C. Don't know if that S&C building is still in use since they advertise a Flowood address now. Don't know if I should say that Algie "was"... he'd be in his mid-80's now and for all I know could still be active in the business.
Yes, it was Algie Broome. That's a hard name to forget! I had a conversation with him many years ago about the history of the site (that's where I learned all this) and about his plans to restore the old WJDX building, but I guess he wasn't able to pull that restoration off.
I remember he had a bunch of neat old pictures, documents, recordings, etc. from the early days of Mississippi radio in his office there at the S&C building. I specifically recall a photo of a young Eudora Welty reading into a microphone. He also had a painting of what the original tower setup looked like.
And not to steer this too much into a radio conversation, but I remember that just north of that site, about halfway to County Line Road, were the towers for WSLI 930. They had an electric (neon?) sign at the entrance to the transmitter (I guess the studio was there at one time). I think they tore those old towers down in the 1980s or maybe 1990s.
Burke said...
I remember cruising in the late '50s, listening to "Hernando's Hideaway on WRBC. Never saw Suzanne Somers, but I think Pete Costas had a white T-Bird.
I miss Archestratus. The best restaurant Clinton ever had.
Archestratus was nice, but way overpriced, hence the reason it didn't last.
I used to frequent Jokers Tavern in the mid 1980's. It was the place to go to keep drinking after all of the other Jackson bars closed, if you didn't want to drive out to the Reservoir. I never knew how Jokers kept serving the booze until the wee hours of the morning. Did they just ignore the law and no one caught them?
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London Road Post Office
Into the holly hedge this festive season go the post office, ntl, Barclays, all insurance companies and the allotments office at Brighton and Hove Council.
The post office, for obvious reasons, but chiefly for its decision makers' apparent inability to leave their desks. If I knew who to invite, I'd call them down to London Road post office for mince pies and a retro experience because the London Road post office reminds me of Romania when the Wall was still up.
I went on a press trip to Romania in the eighties. We were accompanied by a communist party official at all times. We visited Vlad's castle in Transylvania, some astonishing painted monasteries, saw black robed women in lines in the fields, a beautiful young gypsy woman in a cafe (and heard plenty of stories about Romanian racism) and toured coastal resorts with sixties names like Sputnik. We were taken to a department store where there was nothing on the shelves but crystal bowls.
This is the department store the London Road post office reminds me of. The post office is on the ground floor of an old Co-op, remarkable for its marble staircase, its size (dominating London Road) and always clean, large loos. It used to have a great toy department and handy fabric and haberdashery section. Then it closed but the post office stayed - tucked away in a corner of the vast, empty building with one or two cashiers at the most, not a single chair for the long line of pensioners who queue even out of season for an hour or more to get served.
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Retail sourcing
A girl in the art shop's asking a boy she works with how to make a skirt. He's doing his best - telling her she needs a paper pattern. I guess he might be a fashion student, probably at Brighton. I'm looking for cheap gold and silver paint. It's that time of year. I'm going to decorate my own wrapping paper. But I'm side-tracked now by a bargain bin of reduced beads by the counter and can't resist butting in.
Do you want a skirt with a waistband? No. Do you have a skirt you want to copy? Yes. So I explain. Sister Short would be proud. I explain how she can lay the skirt out on newspaper and draw a pattern. I explain the need to allow for seams, that it's easier to seat a zip at the back than the side and no, she doesn't need to take the original apart - the secret's in ironing, pinning and tacking.
I guess no-one needs to learn to sew now. Clothes are so cheap. But on the news today there are reports workers in Bangladesh earn about 7 pence an hour for making clothes for supermarkets and the British high street. There was a turning point when I realised it was cheaper to buy clothes ready made than fabric and a paper pattern. It wasn't a life affirming epiphany.
So I cheer when I hear of supermarkets' drop in profits. Two moments from my past: for an 80,000 report in 1999 about retail sourcing and merchandising, I had to research case studies - Kingfisher, one-time owner of Woolworths, was one and I wanted Tesco too. I trekked up to London for a meeting with Kingfisher's then chief executive. I'd been allocated 30 minutes, grudgingly. When I got there it had been cut to 15 minutes. The corporate affairs man knew I was coming from Brighton. Couldn't we have done it on the phone? The chief executive spent those 15 minutes avoiding eye contact, fending off questions with ready-made replies and breaking paper clips into ever smaller pieces.
Tesco's corporate affairs man at the time told me I couldn't use them as a case study because I wasn't important enough.
I still wouldn't want to share a meal with most of the individuals I met or talked to in the course of writing that report. I began to loathe the retail industry. There were some good guys. A chief executive who used to work for Oxfam - he had integrity. A couple of the trade unionists I spoke to. Fair Trade campaigners.
Let the others spend a week working in a battery chicken shed, sewing jeans, putting cheap CD players together, breathing fumes at a plastic mouldings factory. And what would they conclude? That retail now is a worthy human endeavour or a shabby waste of human imagination?
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Towards the end of a glorious Sunday I walked with my daughter to the Chattri on the Downs for the opening of the Brighton Sacred Music festival. The event, based on ritual, was conceived by a performing arts duo called Red Earth. All of us who'd made the short trek from a road off the A27, just a mile over the fields, took part in what my daughter called 'a slice of Doris'.
It was so perfectly Brighton, but the best of Brighton - a gentle, quiet, spiritual hour or so with incense, cymbals and temple bells with white flags blowing and shadows stretching. My neighbours, Clare and Pete found it on a walk with their dog, Nyati was there - she'd reminded me about it - Razia was there because she's one of the organisers...
The last time I went to the Chattri was an afternoon scramble with poet Maria Jastrzebska and Atlas literary magazine editor Sudeep Sen, who was in Brighton for a poetry festival. That visit coincided with the opening of the shooting season - guns lined up along the hills in the distance, shots rocked the valley and we watched the beaters' progress nervously. Added to that, the fields were full of jumpy cows with late calves.
The Chattri means umbrella in Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu. Built from marble and granite, it's where 53 Hindu and Sikh soldiers were cremated during the first world war. Their ashes were then scattered in the sea.
On the monument, in Hindi and English there's this inscription: 'To the memory of all the Indian soldiers who gave their lives for their King-Emperor in the Great War, this monument, erected on the site of the funeral pyre where the Hindus and Sikhs who died in hospital at Brighton, passed throught the fire, is in grateful admiration and brotherly affection dedicated.'
Around 12,000 Indian soldiers, wounded on the Western Front, were hospitalised around Brighton, some in the Royal Pavilion.
There's a free event each afternoon at 5 pm all week - each one a ritual opening up of north, south, east and west points. Razia will be there on Tuesday to open up the east.
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Razia Aziz Between Heaven and Earth: songs of love and devotion from India and Pakistan.
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"......categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call literature is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche." Toni Morrison.
Whenever I go to a poetry festival this is the question I revisit. I'm just back from King's Lynn, where the programme was indeed broad both in terms of the styles of the writers participating, their personal aesthetics and their backgrounds. But I've been troubled for a very long time about the notion of who defines writing quality and how it's assessed - and this is another reason for flagging up Morrison's quote.
British poetry is taking its time to acknowledge society's pluralism, even to acknowledge different points of view. And British poetry is defined, all too often, by a small band of intellectuals who are maybe not that inclined to welcome uninvited newcomers. Sometimes I feel like the received version of British poetry is defined by safety, by invitation, by restraint.
One term of abuse, for example, the easy dismissal, that irritates me is domesticity. It's used by both sides. The traditionalists, defining what is a good subject for poetry, twist and turn between rewriting the classics, working class roots, playing with the ideas of dead philosophers...dealing in traditional form, irony and cleverness. For the avant garde, any hint of the personal and by implication the domestic, suggests the dead hand of the everyday and dullness.
But on this battleground of the kitchen floor, there's a deep hypocrisy. Let's look at the domestic. When men write about food they are applauded. When women do, they are dismissed. When men write about love they are only doing what they have always done. Women are accused of sentimentality. When men write about their children they win prizes. When women do they are mawkish.
Few of these intellectuals defining our poetry and its qualities would dare disagree with Morrison's view. Yet when there's an opportunity to listen to work they are unfamiliar with, that is written outside their narrow boundaries - an opportunity presented to them effortlessly, on a china plate even, with cake and tea, do they take it?
Adel Guemar's State of Emergency, Lorna Thorpe's A Ghost in my House, Paul Stubbs' The Icon Maker and Will Stone's Glaciation were four of those opportunities at Kings Lynn. All of them are poets writing outside the expected. You'd probably rather not listen to Guemar's delicately sinister poems borne of Algerian torture and oppression. They reminded me of the attention to detail in Leon Golub's paintings, the gold watch on the wrist of the executioner.
And you might grimace uncomfortably at Lorna Thorpe's uninhibited poems of the body, charting that unknown place between men and women. Paul Stubbs, taking as his starting point the paintings of Francis Bacon, is signalling his intention to unsettle and as he delivers, the crow on the roof joins in. Then there's Will Stone's melancholy, the quiet exploration of that state of mind that is so taboo to those in bed with irony....
I believe the more people who write, publish and offer up their wares, the better. How can there be too much poetry? Those who fear it are those who fear exposure, who fear their views on what is good and bad will be overturned.
Those who cannot listen to the new are dead. If there is a formula for a healthy mind, I'd say a regular blast of whatever you define as the classics and a brisk daily walk through the margins with whoever invites you.
Personally, I'd rather risk wandering through the graveyard slot and be reminded of what unites us all than sleep through the afternoon.
And as a postscript, I want to read poetry that comes from somewhere deeper than esoteric footnotes, I want poetry to be loving, sexy, angry, jealous and passionate, not preening and self-conscious. Give me Neruda, Lorca, Plath, Edna St Vincent Millay at her best.....those who follow in the tradition of the old ghazals describing midnight and all it contains.
I've been writing about a forest the way I normally write about the sea. I thought writing had left me but I'd started a piece before the summer holidays and woke up one morning understanding how I could go back to it. I cannibalised other poems, bits from my notebook and shaped what I'd already written. I felt as if I was hammering metal.
It's a piece based on 20 prints by Jane Fordham, whose work is on the cover of Commandments. Jane showed me the prints, I wrote and showed her some words, changed them and then Jane decided on an order for her images, I wrote again and finally decided I needed an underlying narrative, but not an obvious one, that would bind 20 self-contained three line poems.
A turning point in the process was realising that another poem I wrote while I was working on the prints, a poem I thought was nothing to do with Jane's work, could do some of that binding I needed. Another turning point was showing a rough early draft to some women poets I meet with every month, who liked the very spartan bits and who suggested it could do with a regular form.
It is an amazing challenge working like this. It's an exchange as well as an opening up. It's like someone describing a view and pointing out all the stuff I might have missed. Sharing the excitement of making something new, though, also seems to extend the pleasure. It certainly makes up for the washing machine breaking down on Sunday.
There's an intriquing job on offer at the moment: head of culture and lifestyle. It's for Hull City Council and the accompanying pictures in the ad are of an illuminated old building, an ultra modern one, a djembe drummer and blond girl in a swimming pool. I wouldn't expect, of course, a local authority to be at the cutting edge when it comes to visuals. It would test anyone's skills, but the copy below it reveals why our arts are in trouble.
"As a corporate team player, you will bring your experience and ability as a strategic and inspirational leader, a successful track record of delivering change, and an understanding of the impact of culture on our priorities for the city and its people...."
Wouldn't a year 11 kid be ashamed to have written that? Swap 'culture' for 'drugs', 'public transport', 'cycling', green issues', 'energy', 'the health service', 'recycling', 'policing' or any other issue a local authority might be involved in and it makes no difference.
And how can you be head of lifestyle? As if all those different lifestyles were formed below in a pyramid, somehow arranged hierarchically. And cultures....or cultural practices (? unclear, too), dotted between them. I wonder what the bottom line would be and the top two?
The obvious thing, of course, is to look at the website. And that clarifies the bizarre placing of the word Veredus at the bottom of the ad. Veredus, unsurprisingly, is a consultancy the council's using. It means post-horse (pony express, mule train etc. etc.). And it's part of Capita.
So, it's also no surprise the language of this advert, the job description and person specification are interchangeable. That's how to make money - create a format and sell it hundreds of times just changing the date, place and time.
But back to the job. Perhaps the head of culture and lifestyle should be an expert in, um, culture? A poet or sculptor, a film-maker or song writer, a director, conductor, composer - there's plenty of us around who've clocked up a fair bit of experience. Maybe she could have lived several different lives.....a spot of single parenting, a bit of travelling, a couple of years as a carer, a year or so in tipi valley or in the hills around Carcassonne?
Apparently this is not a priority. The first thing listed under knowledge is "Extensive knowledge of the financial, legal and social environment within which Local Authorities operate." The second is: "In depth financial and commercial awareness, with strong analytical skills and an excellent aptitude for developing innovative solutions to highly complex problems."
Ah, so we're looking for an accountant are we? Well, not an artist. Not a teepee dweller. The sixth and final requisite in the knowledge section is this: "A comprehensive understanding of a wide range of Cultural Services."
Hull, hijacked by consultantspeak. They're not alone - there's barely a public organisation in the country with the courage to speak like its workers.
Shame on you Hull, city of plain talking Philip Larkin, who for all his failings summed up the post-war navel gazing of wealthy, industrialised 20th century cultures with a brilliant two lines and well placed expletive.
Shame on you for not even referring to some of Hull's poetic icons Larkin, Marvell and Dunn.
So I'm proposing the city council might be besieged by applications from some of its cultural icons. Some of us remember the days Micky Mouse worked long hours in Fleet Street.
wwwdrivinghullforward.co.uk is the website where you can download the job details.
It might be a rather cliched image of summer, but at least it contains some colour. Bright wellies and neon bootlaces were some consolation for wading through Somerset mud at our annual visit to the Blackdown Hills and the wonderful Tribe of Doris.
Doris is a summer camp rather than a festival and works you hard if you let it. I chose beginner's African dance this year and the songs of the Orishas. The dance was a fantastic daily workout to prepare me for winter. The singing reminded me, as it always does, that the soul needs sound too.
I have written virtually nothing this summer other than brief notes in my travel journal. I'm still on the post-Commandments plateau and my confidence in the poetry returning is being tested now that I'm back at home. On the cliff path, in the marquee, around the Doris fires and standing in the back line of the samba reggae dance class, it didn't seem to matter. Now it's a test of faith.
The two faces of Cornwall.
There'll be much chattering about English holidays after this summer of tightened purses and rain.
I've just returned from 10 days in a county I have fond childhood memories of, blue with cold from swimming and surfing, still transported by the smell of traditional, thick, vanilla ice-cream and the feel of turf on a cliff.
There weren't many sunny days on this holiday and perhaps too much time to reflect on the nature of English tourism. I was offended by the flags to St George, by the confederate flag, too, flying on our campsite, by the appearance of gollies in the campsite games room grab machine and an aggressive display of them in a Newquay shop window.
How much do you forgive when the coastline gives you so much to dream about?
Walking on the coastal path between Watergate Bay and Mawgan Porth, I chatted with my son about hell and what it might be like. He brought it up and I don't believe in an afterlife, but like him have always been intriqued by the nature of hell. Coincidentally, I'd taken Dante away with me and had just started it (CH Sisson's version). I showed him the diagram of Dante's levels of hell and read bits aloud as the rain pummelled on the tent one evening before he and the other three teens crossed the campsite field to the games room for the night. Yes, Dante was a hit.
But all of us felt uncomfortable with Cornwall's blatant absence of black people, with these gollies - relics of an England I was glad to see the back of when I left Surrey. We felt uncomfortable, too, walking on those tiny roads being buzzed and squeezed into fences and puddles by four wheel drives. I've never seen so many in one place. Everyone wears a wetsuit to go into the water. So much ostentatious wealth.
Last year, in Tintagel, my son saw a golly in a gift shop. He held forth, to an amused audience, about this discovery. The shop assistant didn't understand, or pretended not to, the point he was making.
And then there's the Cornish flag. So reminiscent of the Breton one. It flies among the St George's crosses, too, over the caravan parks and tented villages. Perhaps the golly's face superimposed in one of its corners?
But the kids want to go back next year! They made loads of friends, they hung around and gossiped, they stayed up late and sat at cafe tables, tried surfing and didn't get up till midday. My daughter even said she'd like to live in Cornwall. Its coastline, the deep blue of the sea on a good day, caves, clean sand and stunning coastal path that I wish I'd seen more of, all these elements energise the soul. The sea, of course, can take those gollies and reduce them to rags in no time. And all night, the sea's just fields away, so endlessly inventive.
This is Madosini, a traditional Xhosa musician from the Transkei in South Africa, now based in Cape Town. She came to Brighton last night to say hello - the last time we met was years ago when the children were very little so there were the usual oohs and aaahs to celebrate their growth towards adulthood. Madosini's playing at Womad this weekend, which I can't make, but at the kitchen table after supper, she played for six of us, her voice stretching into the back garden and over the walls, seeping into the last of the light and the dark blue sky. She made sense of the word charisma.
Her visit was like a marker, in a way. It's my son's first proper camping trip alone this weekend, at Womad, with friends and after she'd gone to bed and we were sitting chatting, he said it felt like Christmas Eve. I keep returning to the same sense of awe when I think of what it's like to be a teenager, in the summer, with all that scented time ahead, long evenings and beaches. My daughter's only just finished school and she's still in wonder at the thought of weeks without uniform, packed lunches and registration.
But back to Madosini. She's known in South Africa as the queen of Xhosa music. She's the most accomplished player of the mouth harp and jew's harp, which she was taught by her mother. She also plays the instrument so associated with capoeira, the berimbau, but it originated in southern Africa and there is called the uhadi. Her music's part of an important tradition, linked to ceremony and everyday life and she's sought out for performances and collaborations. She's currently working with some classical violinists but at Womad is performing solo.
Her work's available on the net but Madosini's yet to become rich from it. She's been ripped off and exploited shamelessly at times. Now she's supporting her seven grandchildren, alone.
She's a generous woman. As we listened last night, it was like a gift from her village, moments that more than made up for not being able to make the trek along the M4. Madosini's music has a depth and emotional integrity that's truly rare. She's apparently a great story-teller and I could imagine how she'd so easily sweep an audience away. A solo album, Power to the Women, is on Melt 2000 Blue Room. You can find her on YouTube too.
I have been thinking a lot about the power of the everyday. What Madosini does is start there - with tunes to send a child to sleep, rhythms to wind down to at the end of the day, simple refrains that everyone can repeat. She draws power from the everyday, she makes it special and for that reason I think, she is so important. She has the insight and experience of life to know that it is how we live from moment to moment that determines who we are. She also has the confidence to stay with those traditions and not be deflected. Like Neruda in many ways, in his odes for ordinary things, in his repeated celebration of love and his final questions - that pepper everyone's days.
I walked to the Jack and Jill windmills on Sunday with my daughter. The views from the Downs path leading from Ditchling Beacon are wide and heartening. We walked through a flock of sheep and herd of cows with their calves. At times the sky was a spectacular deep grey but we weren't rained on. Earlier, I'd dug up potatoes and picked more broad beans, my favourite vegetable. The early raspberries haven't come to much but the later ones are looking promising. There are already ripe blackberries, which surprised me and another odd feature of this summer is how advanced the Bramley apples look.
But I've been infinitely more bothered by reports of the video showing Omar Khadr sobbing under interrogation at Guantanamo Bay. As I listened to the Radio 4 news on the way back from my mum's yesterday, to an interview with one of his lawyers and some of the audio from the interrogation, I thought about my own kids, about all I've read by great writers on incarceration, state violence, political dirty tricks and I wondered how this child could have been locked up so young and abused in this way. The lawyer's descriptions of the pre-interrogation treatment (described so callously as the frequent flyer programme) are unlikely to ever leave my mind.
How can Guantanamo exist anyway? I happily boycotted South African goods during apartheid because of state-perpetrated violence. Are we asleep now?
In Brighton, police are allowed to break up groups of teenagers in a park under a little publicised by-law covering more than two people gathering together. It is not applied to large groups of mothers and toddlers who meet there for picnics. It is not applied to informal football matches. It is not even applied to street drinkers. But it is applied to young people.
We are in danger of demonising teenagers to such an extent that they are dehumanised and we forget they are children, still. Have we lost our imaginations to such a degree that we cannot remember how it was to be 14, 15, 16? At 53, sometimes, I struggle to take myself back there...particularly when my own teenagers are being intransigent or irritating. But I can still remember the extremes of those years - the elation, the almost indescribable sense of being alive, and the self-doubt, the fears.
Children should not be locked up. Full stop. And with equal certainty, Guantanamo prison should not exist. We must challenge lazy politicians, we must make connections, we must be vigilant. It is time to do some homework on our rights. Poems From Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak was published by the University of Iowa press last year.
The Virgin of Flames is a novel by Chris Abani set in Los Angeles about a mural artist. On the back cover Walter Mosely suggests Abani has rewritten the American story. Its descriptions are original and vivid and as the title suggests, Abani uses the running metaphor of Catholicism and devotion as a backdrop in a number of ways. This novel puts humanity into the city the way Whitman does but there's a nod to the Girl with a Pearl Earring, I reckon, in its concentration on the artist - lots of details on how Black (the hero) makes his colours....
Black engages me, too, because he incorporates lines of poetry in one of his murals. I first encountered Abani when I picked up his collection of poems, Kalakuta Republic a few years ago and was knocked out by it. The collection is based on his experience as a political prisoner in Nigeria between 1985 and 1991 and isn't easy reading, but essential for anyone concerned about freedom of expression and the consequences of forgetting its importance.
What was a coincidence, though, was watching Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law last night and delighting in its leisurely, witty and humane world view, in Tom Waits, of course, and the way Whitman and Frost, those American giants, were knitted into the narrative. It took my teenage kids, used to snappy, action driven narrative and colour, a while to get into it, but they were entranced too.
Abani aside, I've been thinking about African writing again. I was reminded of Amos Tutuola by a friend and how much I love his slant on narrative, but I've lent his books and I don't think I have anything of his left on my shelves. But I read Andre Brink, for the first time thanks to my local library and plan a return to Nawaal el Sadaawi from Egypt, the wonderful poet Jack Mapanje and Ellen Kuzwayo.
It isn't easy being a writer. For most of us it's fitted in between earning a living and for women, looking after children. For writers in so many other parts of the world, add into that mix, censorship, political violence, domestic violence and few opportunities to be published. Many writers serve their apprenticeships over long, long years without recognition or support. I'm indebted to one of the publishers in this country, Saqi, for introducing me to that collection of Chris Abani's. Buy it. And from Algeria, another important voice is that of Soleiman Adel Guemar, whose collection, State of Emergency, is published by Arc. He'll be at the Kings Lynn Festival in September.
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This is part of a wall painting on show at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum near Goodwood. I was there on Sunday with Fred Pipes and Maude Casey for an event organised by Mark Hewitt - an architectural picnic with music in the museum's unusual Gridshell building. The Gridshell has a roof as rolling as the Downs.
The Sussex Weald is a gentle landscape and just what I needed for a Sunday outing. Just looking over the fields and being outside on a perfect day is a balm but the museum contributed a hamlet of rescued old buildings smelling of woodsmoke, noisy geese and a working mill from Lurgashall producing stoneground flour. We ate Sussex goat's cheese, my home-made apple chutney and tomato mustard I bought on Saturday in Hove from a local producer. The sun shone and sheep slept under the trees. Feverfew, fennel and broad beans filled the cottage gardens.
We remembered paraffin stoves and the three day week when shops opened by candlelight. We talked of how the lifestyles on 'display' at the museum are barely a generation away from our own experience and in many parts of the world, still being followed. What I love about the place is the houses without possessions - as if by being there, you detox yourself for an hour or so of this angrily acquisitive century.
This is the wall of an old market place - saved and rebuilt. It's the size of a large bedroom.
Li Mills runs a choir in Brighton, Jam Tarts. I used to belong but I don't like to be flakey and after a run of non-attendance because of different domestic complications, I asked her to fill my place. I miss it and may be able to get myself back in one day, but in the meantime, Li and I are meeting up to write songs. She has a couple of different song writing musician partners and I've been invited into this loose co-operative to help with the words.
Last night I was round at her place with a bottle of 10 year old Great Wall Chinese red wine! The song we were attempting lyrics for was upbeat and bouncy. It was fun to insinuate the odd edgy lyric, to subvert the good humour. I never wrote lyrics when I played at playing bass in a band. Lyrics were written by the guitarist, my then boyfriend, who was obsessed with Tom Waits. I find it hard to listen to Tom Waits without thinking of him, actually, and a long drive in my old Morris traveller through the fens, when we were summoning up the courage to kiss.
Writing these lyrics is a bit like playing a game. What do we want to say here? Where does the stress fall? How much can you stretch a word? Is this a conversation? Who's talking, who is the singer talking to? When I write poetry, the only landscape is my own, that in my head and how familiar it feels sometimes. I feel as if I go back to the same places endlessly, obsessively looking for something else to pull out of them or inspect within them.
Writing with Li, I am questioned, put on the spot and have to see differently, make words fit into the tunes she's sung with blank vowels and consonants over the tracks someone else has composed. And it fits perfectly into my mood, which is to be stretched. The other project, an artist book with Jane, is also progressing. I'm refining, cutting, pruning the lines I've come up with in response to her amazing prints. The big question is narrative. Is there enough of one embedded in the connections I've made between words?
What started me off on this track, though, was an e mail from a friend I haven't heard from for ages. For some reason it began a trail of thought about domesticity and how little it's valued in the arts. As we were listening to our tracks without words, though, Li played me a Kate Bush song, Washing Machine.
I'm going to blast it from the CD player, unapologetically.
A sacred cow makes the best burger. I've always remembered that graffiti from a toilet door in Portsmouth when I was a student there more than 30 years ago. For some reason this morning I woke up with an incident in my head from a festival last summer. A festival I'll be off to this year, too. I was standing in a queue for hot chocolate and chips with my daughter. It was late and cold. Something made me turn around and the guy behind me said "salaam aleikum." I replied with "hello". He repeated his greeting increasingly aggressively and I repeated my reply initially confused and then it dawned on me what he was doing. It took four repeats for him to give up. I could smell alcohol on his breath and he had a packet of Golden Virginia in his shirt pocket.
I didn't give the traditional Muslim reply for two reasons. Firstly because his greeting was not given in peace, but mostly because I am not religious. I will use it with families I know, to be polite, but something about this man made me very uncomfortable and my instinct proved right - he was chippy and looking for a fight. (Why does that remind me of George Bush and the way he's always used his religion, I wonder?)
How easily they can happen. A friend of my son was down for the weekend from London. He's a teenager and a target for stressed-out city dwellers whether they're his peers or older. He was amazed at how chilled out this seaside town is! It made me re-evaluate the place and last night I went up to the racecourse with my son. We looked east towards Rottingdean, over Whitehawk, so neatly arranged in the dip. We looked west towards Worthing and I realised how self-contained our home is. We could see the Downs behind the city, empty of buildings and lights. The sea was clear and the sky a band of pink and grey with interruptions of darker grey where it was raining.
Where we stood was once an iron age fort. Its position is perfect. We talked about the weekend and him turning 16. As a teenager I loved to walk with my mum. Talking was so much easier with that rhythm going. I guess it was talking about stress, race and religion that jogged my memory of the festival, plus the fact that some of the friends he's met there were down for his birthday. What amazing young people they are - confident, bright, respectful, articulate and sensitive - and they put many adults to shame.
The poem "Lucretian" by Peter Reading is one of my favourites on religion. I've quoted a verse below. This appears in his Collected Poems published by Bloodaxe in 1996. Buy it.
"Religio-magico-malice -
remember the slaughter at Aulis
when innocent Iphigeneia
was sacrificed by her own father,
deluded devout Agamemnon,
who thought that to summon a breeze
which would speed his fleet to Troy
he must first placate bloodthirsty Artemis
with a welter of gore and guts
and the mumbo-jumbo and cleavers
of a pack of murderous priests...
(Remember, also, Khomeini
and Tomas de Torquemada.)
How much idiot evil
gormless theists engender."
Matthew Sweeney read at Sussex University last week and it was a treat. He talks about the 'jag' in his poems that give them such knowing humour and unselfconscious wisdom. He was also selling some tiny one poem booklets, printed traditionally and hand set (with tweezers and magnifying glass!). On from Matthew's early evening reading to Lewes for a meal and back to Brighton for the launch of Brendan Cleary's new book, Some Turbulent Weather. Brendan's reading, too, was amazing - sharp, streetwise and tender.
Both these poets are prolific writers. Brendan is uncompromising in his ambition to write only poetry, to live as the writer of poetry. Matthew's latest book, Black Moon, was shortlisted for the 2007 TS Eliot prize but he's already close to finishing a new one. He read many of these new poems and as he introduced them explained how they'd been written during a series of different residencies throughout Europe.
So this is my point - every writer needs time away from the demands of daily life and ideally some different views. It's always been the case and almost always produces results.
But the concept of 'buying time' to write has fallen by the wayside for many of us, particularly women, who cannot apply for residencies lasting longer than a week or two, who are maybe unable to leave the country, who do not have a specific project or book deal, but want a few days to experiment. The Arts Council grants for artists no longer support time to write without a book deal. Other sources of cash for writers seem incredibly thin on the ground.
I was chatting to a woman recently, another single parent who's a writer. She's had a gap of nearly 20 years since publishing a critically acclaimed novel. Those 20 years have covered bringing up children and single handedly supporting the family. I know how little time there is left over after shopping, washing, cleaning and so on. A woman reviewer (shame on her) once made a snide comment in print about me only being able to work up a sweat cleaning the kitchen floor.
These issues are important. I heard on the news yesterday about the rise in poverty for children and pensioners. Somewhere along the line the discussion about daily life and how we get through it or make it worthwhile, has been hijacked by those with cleaners, gardeners, au pairs and paid dog walkers. Yesterday, too, my daughter asked me what the phrase 'disposable income' meant. Funny how two words can contain such vast differences - from a tenner a week to a grand or so......
I visit MacDonalds rarely. But I've discovered it has wifi and since my own wireless router packed up, my laptop's not had much of an outing. So here I am, pretending to work but scoffing blueberry muffin and drinking black coffee. I haven't the courage to visit the allotment. Most of the purple sprouting broccoli seedlings I had at home have been shorn off at the stem by snails. I planted some beautifully healthy spinach seedlings the other night.....and then it rained.
So this afternoon, instead, I've been tidying up the topiary sculpture in my privet hedge. Appropriately, it's a massive snail. I think it's only right to pay homage to these creatures. I've been wondering if I could bring myself to eat them. But my guts might complain after more than 30 years as a vegetarian.
This MacDonalds is squashed between an aircraft hanger size Tesco and supersized M&S. There's always a bizarre collection of people here. Families out for the evening meal, people like me, just wasting time, and in front of me an elderly man's clearly doing his accounts. He has a calculator, bank statements and what looks like a ledger spread out on the table. The emptiness and echoing out of hours feel is appealing. It feels like we're all in transit, especially when M&S closes and it's just MacDonalds and Tesco.
I'm generally not a fan of late night shopping. This is partly because I've always been a dormouse and late nights send me to sleep. I prefer to go to bed early with a book than stock up on groceries. And since I work at home, a trip to the shops is often a good break from the screen. But recently, my screen break's been walks with a neighbour who has a new puppy - a sweet little springer spaniel.
We do the walk I love the most, the racecourse and beyond. Today the sea was the right colour, a clear blue. I could see the white band by the shore where the chalk stains the water. There were rabbits, magpies, larks and a bird of prey. Plus a helicopter heading for the racetrack that seemed to hover above us for a few seconds as if it was checking us out. On an afternoon like that I want to liberate the tent from the cellar and take off. But this weekend's spoken for. I'm doing a reading for Ware poets in Hertfordshire on Friday night. I was billed as a slam poet but I'm assured they'll be relieved that I'm not.
Maybe I could reinvent myself for the night? But I don't know that I'd have the skill. When I told my son about my billing, he laughed. As a rapper, he's pretty scathing about slam poets. I guess I'd rather be one thing or the other. Slam poets often strike me as being between two places - either comedy or rap. And there probably aren't any over 50 anyway. So I'll be reading from the books, then.
I applaud women who speak out about inequality, especially nowadays. But women who use feminism theoretically and don't have the guts to apply it get a disappointed thumbs down.....I have been through one of my faithless-about-poetry patches and it was fuelled by an email on who might succeed Andrew Motion as poet laureate.
This bandwagon's a bit like any stagecoach crossing a dark wood...those archetypal highwaymen are somehow comforting, aren't they? If you don't let ethics intrude.
Imagine inside this stagecoach are the favourites for laureate. According to the Guardian they are Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage and James Fenton. For what it's worth, I reckon it's between Duffy and Armitage. I think Fenton's a bit too distant. I'd add in John Agard, who truly is a poet of the people, with utterly superb credentials, and Moniza Alvi who's less well known, maybe, but is nevertheless taught in schools (as Agard, Duffy and Armitage are) and writes superb, topical, relevant and truly accessible poetry. And while we're at it, Grace Nichols, another remarkably accessible poet.
The Independent's contribution is to list five other female contenders: Jackie Kay, Wendy Cope, Fleur Adcock, Ruth Padel and Lavinia Greenlaw.
This is where the journey becomes more interesting. The Indy's list is based on a press release that went out earlier this week. I was forwarded it by a fellow poet. At first reading, it makes a valid point - there's a vast number of good women poets in the UK who are ignored when it comes to big prizes. Let's use this occasion to celebrate them. Fantastic. Of course. I'm all for that.
Then the press release - which, incidentally came from the Ledbury Poetry Festival director, Chloe Garner - quotes a few names as contenders. On top of the first batch of contenders she adds some more....Now, these names are good poets but not all would be laureate material by any stretch of the imagination. One of these extras has just two books out, another just three.
I was amazed someone in that position could be naive enough to suggest names with so little experience they'd never be in the running - even if they were men. Apart from anything else, it's handing ammunition to anyone who's inclined to disagree with the fundamentals of equality. When I wrote about equal opportunities in the 80s there was regular discussion about people being set up to fail by liberalism or cynicism. Have we learned nothing?
I could speculate why some of these other names were quoted. I fantasised that maybe this woman director would give a voice to those of us writing in the margins. So I thought I'd look at the Festival line-up and do a head count of men and women appearing there. Given this blazing press release about the "many splendid female poets from all generations" writing in Britain today, I was hoping for ample evidence of us in the programme.
Hmmm. A quick count reveals a rough split of about two thirds to a third. Yeah, the gender represented by the two thirds is the boys. And those splendid women poets from all generations are yet again gagged.
Comments in an email, maybe, to Ledbury, asking for a money-where-your-mouth-is programme for next year?
http://www.poetry-festival.com/
email: press@poetry-festival.com
My basil and coriander have been eaten by snails. I picked four off my mini cucumber plants. My new rocket seedlings, looking so promising, are stumps. I have a sense that I've been here before.
The last time I was at the allotment was Friday afternoon and evening - before the rain. I dread to look at the damage the rain's done. There were many promising rows of lettuce and purple sprouting brocolli. I will look tomorrow sometime.
The state of the world bears no comment. Why can't we stop shopping?
My eye has been twitching for days from reasoning with teenagers about creating a passage between clothes on the floor, endless washing, cleaning, shopping, meetings about work and worrying about money.
Negotiating and juggling are the downsides of liberalism. How easy it must have been back in the day, as they say, when food was seasonal and children obeyed their parents or were beaten.
Now the school's let the GCSE kids out and I have a teenager on roam setting, with revision to do. It's a freelance mother's nightmare. Do the educationists who make these decisions never consider how a lone parent will be affected? At least a few weeks ago I knew he'd be in lessons, with teachers who were being paid to get him through a few exams.
Now, I go to a meeting in London and he's off to the beach because the summer's back again. Can you at least make some notes of what you have to revise? I ask. Write out a revision plan before you go out? Give yourself a schedule of what you're going to do each day?
I come home and the CD player's on an extension lead outside the bathroom. It's the only sign of life, apart from jam on a knife and a lone trainer at the bottom of the stairs.
My other teenager's off to Paris with a friend. She seems to spend her time channel hopping - just back from Monet's garden and this time she'll be right in the centre of my favourite city, a stone's throw from the Louvre and the Marais. It's her friend's birthday treat and the weather forecast's brilliant. I am deeply envious but delighted, too, that she's inherited my love of the place. She's promising to bring me postcards from the Louvre and I'm wondering how I can go back to the city myself, soon...
When she's wandering around the Place des Vosges, I'll be marking, but on Saturday I'm off to a party being given by a wonderful woman, who is one of the brightest and most well read I know - and before that to see Helen Dunmore speak at Charleston festival because the OU, my very part-time employer, is sponsoring some events.
Charleston is always entertaining as an exercise in monied Sussex people watching and eavesdropping on the name droppers sitting behind you on the excruciatingly uncomfortable plastic chairs. I go there with my toes already curling, but it has a lure, nonetheless. It's a museum piece, a reminder of power and snobbery, of what wealth can do for the arts.
I was there last Sunday for a biography event and had a rather delayed realisation that biography is the middle classes tabloid reading, their justification for raking around the bins and dusty cupboards of dead heroes. Which would explain why biography is so popular - it fits perfectly with tell-all misery memoires that pad supermarket shelves and supply quantities of vicarious thrills, voyeurism and judgement......
What the middle classes haven't cottoned onto yet is organics for the brain. When I was writing about retail there was heavy resistance from senior retailers to admit there was an organics movement. I remember the edict coming back from our editorial board - the public's not interested.
Hmm. It was a Canute type statement and we knew they knew it. They were just trying to buy time. But who's making the point about brain food: poetry, translations, the big novels of ideas? Read Moniza Alvi's forthcoming collection of poems, Europa and Barbara Korun's Songs of Earth and Light. Read Neruda,, Auster, Plath, Longley, Popa, Holub....search out the poets.
Here's the dark chocolate, fresh chard, home grown new potatoes, crisp pears and good bread. Here's the rich red wine to keep the heart going.
The caravan bit the dust when my clutch threatened to set fire to Bernard Road, towing it off for a couple of days in Horam. A hill start's a tricky thing with that kind of weight, but trickier still for a novice. The AA man whose breakdown van forced me to stop on the hill directed me through the narrow gap waving away the fumes and laughing but I wasn't convinced I had the energy to become a scourge of the A303 and spent two nights on a deserted campsite with my daughter and her friend, sleeplessly trying to work out a route home that avoided driving uphill. As the sun set on the second night, rather gloriously red, the Downs seemed malevolent between the trees - enough to make me realise I have enough excuses to be anxious without imagining being pulled downhill by an unstoppable mobile home.
So the caravan is back with its original owner, which means it's in our road with a For Sale sign on. I think a trailer is more my scene and would at least make some use of the £200 I spent on having a tow bar fitted to my car. A trailer would take the bits that make camping more comfortable - a table and chairs, the barbeque, and the kids could fit in the car without knees round their necks because the rucksacks are where their feet should be.
I have just finished Martin Amis's Money and it's revived contemporary fiction for me. I wish I could write like that. It has the sweep of all great fiction, wisdom about society and is superbly obsessive, swings beautifully between the US and UK, grandness and grubbiness and should be required reading for anyone with a hankering for Hollywood. I particularly like the way Amis plays with rules - supporting characters are cartoonlike (and why not when the interest is in the self-obsession of the narrator) and pretty undisguised stereotypes, it's constantly self-referential (of course, given the name of the narrator), and it takes great pleasure in uncovering the tricks of storytelling. I'm so pleased I didn't read it before. It's a masculine novel and at one time, I'd have taken offence, I think, and misguidedly.....
It's distracted me, at least, from the nonsense of the pet charity bringing rabies into the country, pathetic do-gooders 'rescuing' dogs from Sri Lanka with all the incumbent costs etc. and nothing about the disgrace of kids without water - oh, all that we know about poverty and the rest of the world, but these dreadful people carry on with their sentimental, self-serving activities. And I am whooping and crowing about the prospective property crash. Let the rich and the speculators come down to our level. In fact, let them become the ice-cream van bouncer that Amis created for John Self when the Hollywood illusion went down in an alley.
When the black cat from up the road stretched into the fuschia outside my front window and started sniffing at a nest, I banged on the window and shouted. The resident blackbird, numerous starlings and blue tits have been almost as busy as me, flying around with straw and hair. The crows keep to their peaks and the great carnivorous seagulls to the rooftops where soon they'll be screaming and yelling all day long, when they're not dive bombing postmen and schoolkids. Yes, those are annual events and seem to mark the start of the silly season.
But spring's sense of promise is an odd one this year and I'm hard pressed to work out what kind of promise is on offer with this combination of snow, rain, cold sunshine and the odd balmy hint of summer. Just looking at bikinis and summer dresses lined up in the shops makes me shiver and unleashes a profound sense of dread and doubt.
I'm on the verge of handing over some cash for a second hand caravan. Yesterday I had a tow bar fitted to my car. So I'm going to become one of those annoying people trundling down the A303 with a queue behind. The major challenge is going to be learning how to reverse it. I have some tuition lined up and am impatient now to get out there and use it. It feels like a dollshouse - everything in its place and secured, everything in miniature. But last summer's rain stopped me camping as much as I wanted. I just can't cram enough into my car with kids and clothes to make camping comfortable when there are stair rods of it. A caravan and tents is ideal - there'll be a retreat and I won't have to break my back bending over the camping gas for fry ups because the caravan has a hob.
I'm hoping I'll be able to give it an outing at least once this holiday before the school summer term starts in earnest, my son enters GCSE season and my quiet time between 8am and 4 pm is invaded.....for some odd reason the schools set the kids free before the exams start, for 'revision' time at home. I can't think of anything more ridiculous and unlikely. I was virtually chained to my desk the summer of O levels. All that remains in my memory is lists of dates, ink stained hands and pages of geography that got me nowhere.
Research is an addiction. A relatively harmless one, unless you literally can't tear yourself away from the screen.
But all the dead ends, spoofs, pompous middle aged American men who set themselves up as chairmen of a one man band, who give themselves ridiculous titles and pose in front of a 1960s desk and pot plant, with expensive teeth and over-groomed hair, all those grimly disappointing places are worth it when you find a good poem.
A few years ago I was poet in residence at Lever Brothers, that became Lever Faberge, that became Unilever. One of my tasks during a relatively long association with the company was to send a weekly poem to people - to provoke thought or entertain.
One week I decided to send a found poem. To me, a found poem is a moment of delight, recognition, surprise that exists in a headline, an idea, a few lines, an overheard conversation, graffiti, a snapshot, a view or something you encounter unexpectedly.
This particular found poem emerged from research I was doing at the time into water. I'd been led to it by an Adbusters magazine (September/October 2001) report on inventions by the Intermediate Technology Design Group. I encountered Adbusters when I used to write about retail and was so desperate to find an alternative to regurgitating press releases about warehouses and distribution networks. Retail is unremittingly bland, despite the desperately glamorous advertising. But that advertising is led by brands, whose spending is obscene.
Adbusters is still virtually a lone voice challenging this criminal waste of cash and squewing of values. Somehow, though, in among the hilarious spoofs, I found a reference to a project in Nepal. The project I REMEMBER finding was called the Dew Line and it was the name given to a water collecting scheme.
Yesterday I found it again. It's even better. It's name's even better, certainly in my mind a few notches up.... this is Fog Collecting. Thick fog in the mountains of Nepal is harvested as clean water, drips from mesh screens into tanks for villagers who have no other fresh water.
It's brilliant. For its concept, for its execution....everything about it. That's what I call new thinking. Oh, and another wonderful example is Helen Storey's disappearing dresses, which have led to an innovation which could really change the world. Both websites are in my links.
There are a couple of other sites I've found too, that resonate steadily and both are collections - one the Rosetta project is a collection of languages and a campaign, too, to preserve what is disappearing as fast as Amazonian forest, the other a collection of traditional wisdom and knowledge mainly from India but with a worldwide remit, the Honey Bee project.
The Billboard liberationists remind me of a postcard of graffiti that I've had since I was a student. This is more than graffiti, this is seriously planned and project managed! Check out the link to Reverend Billy on their site. It all reminds me of those brilliant French anarchists who were around in the sixties and seventies (strings of nostalgia here).
Three days ago I left a deserted sandy beach in Thailand for an 18 hour journey home. The time difference meant I left Mai Khao in Phuket at 8.30 am and arrived back in Brighton at 11 pm. I crossed the Himalayas and was knocked out by their size. I lost count of the number of magnificent rivers, endless straight roads and tracts of untouched land passed below me.
It's the first time I've been away from my kids for two weeks but luxury hotels have e mail and wow, that made a difference, certainly to me, if not to them. The mobile phone, too. My travelling standards were formed in my teens when there was neither. So I still set off on a journey mentally preparing myself for cutting off contact completely with anyone I know, with the saved coins for an emergency phone call tucked away. Of course it's not like that. I rang my daughter from Patong to quiz her about the bag she wanted me to buy her! It felt crazier doing that than walking through the lunatic streets of the resort rampant with consumerism and designer knock offs.
Phuket is a great introduction to Thailand. It's a place of resorts and contrasts. You can't pretend to be other than a tourist because of your appearance. You have to accept dual pricing and that bargaining is a myth, possibly shored up to justify the almost European costs. What I loved about Phuket were the glimpses of everyday Thai life - buffalo in the fields, chickens under baskets by the roadside, the minah birds and geckoes, songbirds in cages outside corrugated iron shacks, coconut milk green curry and spicier red curry, the smell of fish cooking everywhere even though I don't eat it, the long tailed boats in every bay and the thud of the sea.
I arrived to work at a conference on hair. The conference hotel was infused with the scent of frangipani. Staff lit an essential oil burner in my room every night. Breakfast was a buffet of fresh fruit - pomelo, pineapple, mango, papaya and a strange polka dot fruit with pink skin. There were three pools, one of which I tried to swim in every day first thing....when I had it to myself. A short stroll away, Nai Yang beach, one of the island's most laid back and least commercial.
The conference was crazy but there were highlights: meeting the hairdresser Andrew Barton, what a lovely bloke, realising humour is an astonishing survival mechanism, witnessing the self-deception of men who would be leaders but are not, being in the tropics and absorbing the light, seeing fire balloons make brief constellations in the dark, meeting people who know how to have fun, realising I can function after 36 hours without sleep, being given the chance to scuba dive and overcoming the terror of pulling myself into nothingness with a rope.
After the conference I stayed on with Sophia, a young woman I was working with who also wanted to see the island. We went to Surin beach, a bit further south. The hotel was equally luxurious but the resort wasn't as quiet. There was a lot more building work. The beach was beautiful and we tried to do some sightseeing - one day taking a long tailed boat to Coral Island for snorkelling among parrot fish, another day visiting Phuket town and not realising it was a public holiday but on the way back, stopping off at a Golden Buddha and wandering around it in the darkness - so much more moving somehow than in searing sun. We visited Chalong Wat, another Buddhist temple and eventually ended up at a beach bungalow at Mai Khao, north of our starting point.
Mai Khao is in the national park and renowned for being a beach where the turtles lay their eggs every year. But apparently they don't anymore....Mal and Koy who run the campsite/bungalows are an Anglo-Thai couple. Mal's from Norwich, Koy was born in the village inland from the beach. Her grandmother planted the coconut plantation and cashew trees that stretched back to the road. It's years since they've seen turtles - according to Mal they're yet another victim of plastic bags.
All around the island are memorials to the tsunami and houses for dispossessed spirits. Sophia and I both picked up on an undercurrent of melancholy. At Mr Kobi's bar in Nai Yang where we had lunch a couple of times there's a photo of him, fat faced and jolly, before the tsunami. He's thinner, more haggard now, although he laughs and jokes.
Then, hours after we arrived at Mai Khao, we were told a Swedish girl had been murdered in neighbouring bungalows and found in the sea by her friend. She'd walked down the beach, towards the airport and Nai Yang at 10 am and been attacked by a man who'd been spotted with binoculars.
Suddenly we were anxious. Arriving at the bungalows after most of our time in resorts had been enough of a contrast between sheltered pampering and real travelling. Both of us, independently, almost asked the taxi driver to stay. We'd been used to phones, concierges, endless people to order a taxi, walls between us and the world. This place was raw. On the beach among causarina trees and coconut palms.
The murder made reality even more extreme. The beach looked different. The basket of bright flowers I'd noticed there, thinking it was a tsunami memorial, became more poignant and desperate. The beach became a place of police and angry villagers, a crime scene.
It may be possible to travel and stay in resorts, remaining untouched by a place and its people other than on the level of daily greetings. Phuket is the first time in my 53 years I've been in luxury hotels of this kind and I can see the lure. They're utterly relaxing, a wonderful abregation of responsibility - I forgot to mention the massage - and truly a holiday from the daily grind. Our experience at Mai Khao provided the flip side of travelling that reminds us to tune in, as the old hippies used to say. If we hadn't been there, I'd never have woken up to the drum of the sea instead of air conditioning, heard coconuts thud to the ground rather like apples do in my garden in autumn. We might not have noticed the corrugated iron shanty homes and taken Mal and Koy's dog, Wrong Way, for a walk on the beach and passed only a couple of loungers.
And new resorts are being planned for that remaining unspoilt stretch. It's hard to imagine them, but half of Koy's grandmother's plantation has already been cut down for luxury holiday flats and a swimming pool.
Swimming this morning, I was thinking about an event I helped out at yesterday, organised by Creamer and Lloyd. One of the speakers was Dick Mullender, an expert in how to talk to people. Among the many aspects of talking he covered was body language and conversation, the impact of asking questions and how to listen. He spoke, too, about trust and truth. He's an inspiring man and has learned his skills as a negotiator for the police force with people in crisis, when every word and gesture counts.
It led me to think about that old idea of wisdom and how it's manifest. Wisdom, in my mind, is linked with kindness and understanding as well as experience. People I've met whom I feel are wise also have the capacity to digest what they've experienced and find the core. The poet, Michael Longley, has the wisdom of a lifetime of writing and reading. When he was asked to talk about poetry in Limerick last year he said that at the heart of all great poetry is love - love drives a poem into being. It was a delight to listen to him.
I suspect wisdom is a quality that grows at its own pace. The compost it needs is thought and time. I guess this is why the archetype of the wise man is a monk on a mountain, and the wise woman is detached from the world by her age. At some point, though, a lifetime of listening and doing synthesises.
And this is also a time when good conversation comes into its own, when talk can lift and energise you like a mental massage. I have several friends whose company I know will always be sparky, whom I could listen to for hours. Reminds me of Walt Whitman in Song of Myself: "I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen......"
When you're 53 and still living on £21,000 a year, before tax, bringing up teenagers, £5,000 a year away from benefits that might cut your council tax, you wonder about a lifetime of working and why you've done it.
I am earning less now than before I had children, less than when my children were babies. My earning power, it seems, as my experience has grown, has gone down.
Part of the problem is writing poetry. I earn nothing from it. I earn little, too, from most teaching work. The very part-time Open University job pays about the same as cleaning might. Most of my income is from self-employment, which means no holiday pay, sick pay, enhanced pension contributions, no perks, company car or paid time off in lieu.
Added to this, I am crap with money. In these days, when the economy is based on money earning money, this could be an even bigger problem than the poetry. I am no economist, clearly, but from experience of watching people I have realised wealth comes from a combination of elements: inheritance, opportunism, investment, property.
Is anyone out there working? Ah yes, Stuart Rose's underclass outside the M25. Outside the ring dividing us from the superrich, there are builders, plumbers, shelf stackers, cleaners, teachers, mechanics and writers. We know everything costs more, but most of us haven't quite caught up with the shift that's taken place in our collective UK mentality.
It's this: we are not encouraged to produce anything except wealth and profit. Money makes money, celebrity makes money, houses make money, youth makes money. Ripping people off, too, that makes money. Selling bottled water and refusing tap water makes money, telling people they need new brake discs when they don't makes money. Small print and asterisks on adverts make money. Selling shoes that last a month because they're 'not meant to be worn everyday' makes money.
When I started in journalism, pay on the Surrey Advertiser, owned by the Guardian, was dreadful. It was a sign of things to come and I should have paid attention, but I loved to write and I believed in freedom of expression. I was an idealist - we need to debate, to examine, to question.
I have survived as a freelance longer than I ever had a 'proper' job. My output? Hundreds of features on everything from equal pay to school mergers, poll tax to the sale of a circus, a crumbling country house now lived in by pop stars, from racism in Liverpool to children leaving care, land rights and travellers to a holiday in Romania during Communism.
I've interviewed ordinary people about how they do their jobs, some brilliantly, some badly. I helped write a book on design for the lovely Rasshied Din, the only man who's ever taken me to Bond Street. I've written an 80,000 word analysis of how goods are sourced and sold globally and been shocked in the process, but particularly by a man from Tesco, edited a book of writing by Sudanese refugees who wouldn't talk about the new wave of Rackmans, written two plays (unproduced), three novels (two unfinished), four books of poetry, a pamphlet (reprinted) and been in several anthologies.
I've taught, tutored and facilitated people from backgrounds as diverse as international law and banking to crack dealing. Kids with a vocabulary of single syllable words, to the gifted and talented, kids in expensive public schools and failing inner city ones. I've run workshops in luxury hotels and youth centres with slashed plastic chairs.
So I'm wondering, not bitterly, but genuinely......why am I earning less now than before I did even half of that?
A rat in the kitchen, my end of year tax form and paying the tax brought January to an anxious end. In fact, I was so disturbed by the rat that I couldn't even go out the night of my birthday, although a lovely walk along the seafront during the day with Li Mills compensated. And she bought me lunch at Maroccos, when really I should have bought her lunch, she's been such a star helping my son with his Brit School audition.
A couple of years ago at Tribe of Doris (our annual August pilgrimage to the Blackdown Hills) I did a session searching for my spirit animal. It was a rat. I wondered, then, about this creature turning up in my kitchen the day before my birthday and why it affected me so much. I'm not squeamish. I've shared my house with mice before, but it was the speed the rat shot across the kitchen when I was in there, with my daughter, a long dark line, that made me scream and then kept me awake that night. Each time I went to the kitchen I stamped my feet. I really didn't want to see it again. But I was working in the front room just before my walk on my birthday, the kids at school, it was very quiet and I had slippers on....I wandered towards the kitchen and saw it again. Sauntering this time.
Was that the message I needed? Maybe very appropriate - saunter, don't rush. It would be lovely to slow down to a saunter. Winter doesn't seem to allow it. Twice, sometimes three times a week in the mornings now I'm trying to pound the pool, work off some of the anxiety that winter induces. Mostly anxiety about money. Oh that is such a boring obsession. I hear myself, all the time now, turn off lights, don't have a bath, don't waste food, turn down the heating. Something's lost and the calculator switches on in my brain, what's that going to cost? My daughter's shoes, another old chestnut, seem to last under a month before they're growing holes.
Everyone I know agrees that everything's gone up. Price fixing everywhere. We live in a society where competition's the mantra but hollower than a blown egg. Stuart Rose seems to be the only voice of dissent - mouthing off, rightly, about London being the home of the international super rich and the rest of us, outside the M25, watching the wealth gap widening. Forget north south divide....when did we stop talking about haves and have nots? When did it become the role of the chief executive of a multi national company to point out what politicians have forgotten, in their London of four wheel drives, restaurants, taxis, clothes and comfy salaries? Well, good for him. I think we should be applauding M&S and I never thought I'd say that. I like their new ethics and I like the fact that Rose has the confidence to put those complacent politicos to shame.
I'm not alone in my money worries. Most people I know live with a calculator in their mind at the moment. No thoughts but pound signs. Reminds me of Dylan Thomas's letters - jam packed with money stuff.
Would the super rich like to swap for a week? Or my local politician?
Pablo Neruda's The Book of Questions is mind-expanding. I came across it in Borders last year and read it greedily. When I lost it at a school I'd been visiting I felt bereft until a replacement arrived from Amazon. I don't know all of Neruda's work - he wrote so much it's going to take a while - and have already raved about The Captain's Verses. I'm waiting for the postman to deliver his Odes to Common Things but for now I'm back into the questions.
In composing these, Neruda was mining our most primitive drive - curiosity and inventiveness. It's curiosity that's moved us around the world, driven us to dissect, learn, stare, listen and dream ourselves into the inventions and theories that follow. He was also placing himself in the mind of a child and there's probably no more creative state.
When I worked full time as a journalist, questions defined my daily life. I asked questions that I wanted answers to. I was taught, as an indentured trainee, to avoid questions that required only yes or no. As I became more experienced, I learned that the silence following an answer could often lead to an even fuller or truer response. I learned that after asking a question, I had to trust silence and sometimes ask again in a different way.
I hated the foot in the door questions - how do you feel? - that are such blunt intrusions. I also knew we're all nervous about how our answers are used.
When I am writing, I start with questions. I was once told that the poem was not in the question but in the answer I struggled to provide. That's valid. But reading Neruda, I am more aware of how I am full to the brim with questions.
Questions can be awkward. Remember those moments when a child asks a difficult question on a crowded bus, in front of acquaintances? A question that can't be avoided or shuffled off....that may be so intensely personal you want to disappear.
Questions are at the heart of love, equality, freedom of expression and civil liberties. When we turn away from questions, turn them back on the questioner, imprison the questioner, mock her, intimidate her, threaten him or disadvantage him, we betray what makes us human.
Most of the questions in Neruda's book are enough as questions...one can fill a train journey from north to south of France. One is enough for a day. Attempting to answer them all could provide a lifetime's work. He could have written them as aphorisms but he didn't. Why? The aphorism is a statement, entertaining but essentially arrogant.
A question is a distillation of humility and exploration - both qualities that make his work so great.
Poetry's pool of prize money is a limited one - annually, the Forward and TS Eliot awards are the big gains, worth £10,000 and £15,000 respectively. In the absence of significant arts council funding to poets, they are significant. When one book scoops both awards, as Sean O'Brien's The Drowned Book, has just done, there's a good deal of scurrying around and questioning.
O'Brien regularly wins prizes, as does his fellow big hitter, Don Paterson. It seems that once a poet's on that shortlist and prize winning trail there's no stopping them. The massive exposure they receive ensures they are read, that their work is known, that any new work is stamped with the authority that comes with fame and consequently, reputation. Prizes bring jobs, too, more offers of work, commissions, invitations to read and so on.
Those on the shortlists fix their smiles afterwards - the confident and the generous praise the winner's success, the drunk say things they hope won't be repeated, the permanently insecure are confirmed in their insecurity. Those left off the shortlists altogether exchange consoling e mails or postcards.
There were some significant poets on this year's TS Eliot shortlist - notably Edwin Morgan, Matthew Sweeney, Sarah Maguire and Mimi Khalvati. Just one, Alan Gillis, came from a smaller publisher, Gallery. And all the books on the list deserve to be read, to be given time and respect.
But can we hope, too, that those who have made the big league will consider what they can do for poets whose work doesn't make headlines? I don't mean ensuring a smooth path for young successors, appointing newcomers who you believe are deserving - I mean that they will look around and read the books that were born around the same time.
.....Get to know them, as you know your neighbours, bring them together and enjoy their diversity, the new routes they offer, the different ways of using language and metaphor. Read them with the respect you wish your work to be given and be generous, responsible with the power you've been handed......
I was once told a story about a famous poet who was complaining about the number of other poets writing. His listener replied that without all those others around, his status would be meaningless.
We celebrate diversity in plant life, insect life. We speculate about what cures may be waiting to be discovered. I think it's time to take stock, as poets, of the fantastic range of work being published and make it our responsibility to celebrate that range rather than insist there is only one way. Surely we have the imaginations to do that.
Edwin Morgan www.edwinmorgan.com
Matthew Sweeney http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth102
Mimi Khalvati http://www.mimikhalvati.co.uk/
Sarah Maguire http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth02d11k170512627509
Opposite the funeral director's at the bottom of my road the other day I met a woman I know vaguely and because it was so close to the new year we stopped to chat. I asked about her kids and she about mine. On that grim corner, in the late afternoon, the pavements wet, the traffic as always, noisy, she told me the story of a boy who's just dropped out of university, who sits at the dinner table dribbling because he's so stoned, who takes ketamine, methadone, cocaine, anything to lose himself. A boy she imagines will one day be homeless from his inability to care for himself, to care about anything. She told me cocaine's cheaper on the streets than it's ever been, that he can get anything he wants within minutes.
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Meet Our Vendors: SMALL Baking Company
April 17, 2018 By HollywoodFarmersMarket
By Susan Gibson, HFM volunteer
It is always a joy to meet with the vendors who participate in the Hollywood and Lloyd Farmers Markets. Like the local fresh produce, we welcome fresh new faces to the market. Last year we added SMALL Baking Company. Not only new to Hollywood and Lloyd Farmers Markets – the company and the owner, Joanna Strahm, are both new to Portland. But Joanna’s baked goods are tried and truly delicious.
A California native, Joanna grew up loving to bake, and probably knew at an early age that it was going to be her life’s passion. Her first memories go back to three years old, baking with her mom in the kitchen of their Palo Alto home. But it took a journey and time for her creative spirit to reach full bloom in the form of SMALL Baking Company. Joanna specializes in creating small-batch, whole grain baked goods using seasonal, locally sourced ingredients whenever possible. Custom breakfast goodies, desserts, and other sweet treats for special occasions line the menu.
After graduating high school, Joanna left the Bay Area for the infamous party school Chico State University, where she met her husband and earned a bachelor’s degree in Communications. Diplomas in hand and with high hopes they moved to San Francisco – the year 2008. It was a difficult time; the financial markets were in turmoil, companies weren’t hiring, and getting a job, any job was a miracle. So she took what she could find. One of her first jobs was working at a non-profit doing fundraising and development. Then she moved on to Task Rabbit when it was a startup. Joanna is not afraid of taking risks- and the learning from each experience helped to develop her entrepreneurial spirit. These jobs also confirmed something she knew in her heart:- sitting behind a desk was not for her.
Since baking kept calling her name, why not see what she could do to make her dream a reality. Enrolling at the well-known Tante Marie’s Cooking School in San Francisco, she knew that she was filling her soul’s desire. But what career choices are there for a fresh baker? Typically, bakers only have a couple of options: Large production kitchens that serve businesses such as hotels, catering, making pastries for fine dining; or the smaller, more personal bakeries. Joanna soon became an intern in the well-known Tartine Bakery, a destination for locals and tourists in San Francisco. Each day from breakfast to dinner, the bakery is in high gear. On an average day, between 600 and 1200 people are served out of the Guerrero Street storefront, so timid bakers need not apply. It was here she learned just how much she loved the smaller bakeries, serving a regular clientele, tourists, and those on a weekend excursion to San Francisco.
Upon leaving Tante Marie’s, Joanna jumped at the opportunity to work for a local shop, Batter Bakery. As a regular vendor at the Saturday Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, Joanna discovered how much fun working the farmers markets could be. More than just selling the latest baked goods, it was a way to purchase weekly produce, find seasonal inspiration for new recipes, catch up with market customers and neighboring vendors, and enjoy a day of being outside.
Batter Bakery allowed Joanna to develop her skills as a baker, and as an eventual business owner. Packaging cookies was the beginning step, but within two years she was the kitchen manager. As a baker, she learned how to create and scale recipes and even how to fix a botched one. With the owner of Batter Bakery as her mentor, Joanna gained valuable and necessary knowledge on how to find wholesale accounts, create beautiful gift boxes, find suppliers, negotiate contracts, manage inventory, and more.
But San Francisco got too big, and she and her husband were no strangers to the Pacific Northwest. With ‘lots’ of their family in the area, Joanna and her husband moved to Portland in 2016 with the blessings of Batter Bakery. The initial plan was to establish a Portland-based branch of Batter Bakery within a year. But the venture soon proved it would not be profitable. And Joanna was itching to make her own recipes.
The time spent trying to get Batter Bakery set up helped her build crucial relationships with farmers, suppliers, and cafes, which was instrumental in starting her own business. But she had to act fast. Her cafes had already placed orders, and the relationships she had worked hard to build would be lost if she didn’t take action. In her typical “can do” fashion, within four weeks Joanna launched SMALL Baking Company. Orders were filled without missing a beat. Already familiar with attending farmers markets in San Francisco, she contacted several in town and found the Hollywood and Lloyd Farmers Markets.
SMALL Baking Company is a one-woman show. Preparing the batter starts early in the morning followed by hours spent baking – the aromas must be intoxicating. Her days continue with delivering the orders to the cafes, events, and the farmers markets. Her personalized service has helped her business grow, but to continue providing the level of service she enthusiastically gives her customers, she needs to clone herself- or find a couple of people to help her brand become commonplace without losing its character.
Using the freshest, seasonal ingredients, locally sourced whole grains from Green Willow, local butter and eggs, and making small batches of 15 to 18 products on any given week has made her often-whimsical fare unique among Portland bakeries. Using local ingredients is also a way to support other small businesses and vendors. SMALL Baking Company’s menu includes such delights as frosted cookies in fanciful shapes (maybe frosted unicorns for a special occasion ), cupcakes, decorated shortbread, challah, cakes, quiche using locally grown vegetables, sweet and savory scones, and even savory galette. Her personal favorite is the lemon glazed ginger cookie.
Serving six cafes, four local farmers markets (Hollywood, Lloyd, King, and Pioneer Square), and special events like the Portland Night Market doesn’t give time for much rest, but she wouldn’t rather be doing anything else. She loves the farmers markets; they provide a great community where vendors can share stories, successes, and opportunities. Hollywood is her favorite. She loves the market community, the music, and business has been strong. Hollywood Farmers Market is thrilled to have Joanna’s bright smile and her delicious assortment of baked goods available, so stop by and say hi, and take something home with you.
In addition to the cafes and farmers markets, Joanna provides her delicious, gourmet treats for weddings and other special events. To contact SMALL Baking Company directly, send an email to Hello@Smallbaking.co.
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LFA 42: Krantz vs. Kayne - Recap
It was lights, camera action at the Branson Convention Center for Legacy Fighting Alliance 42 on AXSTV.
The Midwest's live music capital of Branson, MO is becoming a favorite stop for the nationally touring LFA, and the local fans were treated to plenty of theatrics including a pair of final round submissions, vicious one-punch KO's, and a back and forth lightweight fight that easily stole the show from the headliners.
Kassius Kayne and Derrick Krantz took main event honors in a classic match-up of striker versus grappler, and in the end, it was Krantz's wrestling that won him the fight on a very odd scorecard from the judges.
Kayne came out strong, connecting with punches and kicks against Krantz who looked eager to take the action to the mat. Krantz threatened the stoppage in the second controlling most of the round from side control and half guard while landing punches and elbows from on top. In the third Kayne went for broke with a flying knee, and an athletic jump to the back of Krantz, who was able to defend and put Kayne to his back. Krantz ended up in his half guard, before eventually gaining the mount, and working for a stoppage. After the final bell, the scorecards were read with Krantz winning a split decision 30-27, 27-30, and 29-28.
The night's co-main event featured Jaleel Willis and Chel Erwin-Davis going at it, and it was all Willis in this one. Willis, out of Memphis, TN, connected with a big knee against the cage to put Erwin-Davis into a heap. Willis followed up, landing undefended strikes to force the stoppage. Willis improves to 9-1 winning two out of his last 3 for LFA and could be working his way into a LFA title shot before too long.
Jamie Nievera picked up a unanimous decision victory over hometown favorite Katy Collins from the Branson Fight Club. Nievera out-grappled Collins to get the edge on the judges' scorecards to take home a victory.
In a featherweight match-up, Teejay Britton took on John Marsh from Roufusport in Milwaukee, WI. From the opening bell, Britton was the aggressor, as Marsh stayed calm and waited for the opportunity. At 1:14 in the first that opportunity came, and Marsh connected with a straight right that landed on the button to put Britton out.
Charles Johnson barely broke a sweat in a first-round stoppage over Andrew Kimzey. Johnson pressured Kimzey into the cage forcing Kimzey to take an ill-advised takedown attempt. Hipping out, Johnson sprawled out of danger and turned up the heat landing a flurry of strikes to a turtled-up Kimzey. Kimzey survived the initial onslaught but never got to his feet, and Johnson continued to land shots from the top forcing referee Mike England to wave things off at 1:41 in round one.
"I've been in a lot of battles so far in my career, so it was good to get in there and get a quick win," Johnson said.
Johnson is now 7-1 as a pro and jumps to the top of the list of unsigned pros fighting out of St. Louis. It puts Johnson at 2-0 in LFA and talks of a possible title bout are starting to circulate.
"We're talking about a title fight between me and Mikail Perez," Johnson said. "I'm going to try and get that in motion. He's a Cuban Olympic wrestler, and the current flyweight champion. I've been talking to LFA, it's not official, but I'm trying to get some steam on it."
Lightweights Lucas Clay and Mike Breeden put on the performance of the night with a gutsy three-round brawl.
Breeden came out firing, connecting with a big overhand right and pushed the action against the cage opening up for Clay to jump on the back of Breeden where he would remain for most of the first round. Breeden defended Clay's submission attempts perfectly and eventually worked his way free. Clay punctuated the round with a spinning back fist that connected.
The second started quickly with both landing heavy punches and trading inside leg kicks. Breeden continued to attack the leg, and it seemed to pay dividends late in the round when a perfectly timed kick forced Clay to take a knee. Breeden connected on a higher percentage of shots in that stretch to even the contest at one round a piece.
With the scorecards tied, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better round as both went for broke.
"I was thinking, I'm a grown man, and he ain't about to push me around like this," Clay said.
Neither could get it to the ground, and both landed frequently. Clay seemed to have the most energy as the round ended and controlled the pace. When the cards read, the judges gave the nod to Clay with a split decision.
"In the end, I was completely satisfied either way," Clay said. "I had come to terms with it. This was a close fight, and I could lose it, but this is exactly what I wanted. I'm not going to have too many of these in my career, but I'm glad I can show people I can have a dogfight and come out on top."
Clay remained undefeated and moved to 4-0.
Leading off the televised main card were light heavyweights Julius Anglickas and Erick Murray Jr.
A quiet first round saw both feeling each other out on the feet, Anglickas scored a late takedown to end the first round on top. Anglickas came out on fire in the second landing a beautiful combination of knees and elbows with Murray Jr pushed up against the cage. Two takedowns scored points with the judges, but never really put Murray in danger. Anglickas was ahead on the scorecards, going into the third, but the cards were not in need as Anglickas got the tap at 2:49 in the third via rear naked choke. Anglickas improved to 3-1 in his LFA debut.
St. Louis' Ty Flores went into hostile waters to face popular local fighter Marco Hutch in a middleweight bout. Hutch was near perfect as an amateur and undefeated as a pro going in, with the majority of those contests taking place in Branson.
Despite Hutch finding success early with his kicks and landing some solid knees from the clinch, Flores slowed things down with his wrestling hitting a pair of takedowns.
"I'm a little bit bruised, but I wasn't stunned at all," Flores said. "I was just kinda hanging out there. I'm a slow starter. I think towards the end there, I kind of rocked him and he went back a bit before I went for the takedown. I kind of wanted to mix it up a bit with the strikes and the wrestling and I think I did that."
Flores spent a good chunk of the first in Hutch's half guard where he worked elbows from the top. In the second, it was more of Flores' top control, working from side control after the takedown, before securing mount, and eventually, the back of Hutch where he finished via rear naked choke at 2:02 in the second. Flores improves to 5-2, winning three straight.
"Feels great," Flores said. "My last loss was after nearly a two-year layoff. I had knee surgery in November, it's just now been six months, and I've had two fights since that. My knee feels fine, I feel good and want to stay active."
In the night's first professional fight, Frank Cortez only needed 16 seconds to even his record at 2-2. Cortez from Dexter, MO landed a beautiful counter punch off a low kick to put Ryan Erickson to the floor, Cortez swarmed in, landed a couple of hammer fists, and the fight was called.
The early prelims featured two amateur bouts and saw Dallen Gettling unleashed his secret weapon, a spinning back fist that flattened his opponent Nate Free late in the third round. Local fight fans may be familiar with Gettling's in-cage work as the full-time announcer for local Branson promotion ShowFIGHT, stays undefeated and improves to 4-0.
Kicking off the prelims, Josee Storts defeated Lesandra Franklin by unanimous decision, 30-27 on all three scorecards. A scheduled bout between Larry Sellers and Dustin Stewart was scratched before bell time.
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About LUZ
Income Report May 2017
May was the big month of my virtual summit, creating a lot of change and rapid growth in Commit Happiness :) And taking a lot of my energy and focus as well…
0. Some notes
CH = Commit Happiness
LHC = Life of a Hippie CEO
1. May Check-in
Revenue: €10.173,-
Virtual summit all access pass: €10.017,- (161 sales)
Inner joy e-course: €77,- (1 sale)
Meditation bundle: €54,- (1 sale)
Affirmation e-course: €25,- (1 sale)
On the pictures I took from eating out each week during April and May, I did not use my revenue, but my revenue minus affiliate payouts, as that makes such a big difference in how much money was actually available to me.
And please note that I didn’t pay out affiliates until June. So about half of my April + May revenue will go to my affiliates, but you don’t see that in my reports until the expenses section of June. Same goes for VAT (about 20% of all my revenue); as I pay it quarterly, I only put in in my income reports once every quarter.
Please be aware of this as it really means a lot of difference in profit with those shiny revenue numbers ;)
Expenses: €1310,15
Deadline funnel (one year): €357
Bookkeeping service: €18,15
Sacred Money Archetypes e-course: €650
Travel expenses: €170
ConvertKit: €75
Hosting, payment system, Amazon AWS: about €40,-
20894 Visits at CH (+12691)
6209 Newsletter CH (+1690)
4903 Subscribers at CH Youtube (+652)
1039 Facebookgroup members CH (+424)
970 Facebook Likes CH (+155)
All this big increases in numbers are because of my virtual summit :)
Important going-ons
So yes, my summit. It was such a big project with so many different feelings, pro’s and cons… that I find it hard to summarize what it was like for me.
I’m very glad I did it, definitely. I made more than €10.000 in revenue (incredible!) and grew my list from 3700 to 6200. And I know from last time that these are quality, engaged and loving people :)
But I must add that I had actually hoped to grow my list to 7000-10.000! Which felt doable considering how many famous affiliates I had.
This 2nd edition felt much more powerful than my first one about half a year ago, for a big part thanks to my connection with the spirit of the summit and my own inner strength journey. I felt more connected to the audience and loved the interaction. And working every evening for 14 days actually was less daunting than I thought it would be.
But it was a lot of work, and especially afterwards I felt like time had flown by just because I never got the time to look back at things. If I’m going to do a next virtual summit I either want to work with a team, or volunteers. Because 3 months of focusing on my summit took it’s toll on the rest of Commit Happiness.
And there was one thing that I found most difficult about the summit: the big majority of speakers that had told me they would promote, didn’t.
This is what happened last time as well, leaving me with quite a lot of disappointment and even resentment at times. But it also showed me I need to work on speaking up for myself. Because every time this happens, I find myself unable to communicate to the speaker how things feel for me and what I would prefer them to do.
Especially this time, as there was no obligation to promote.
But I know now how it feels for me if so many people with big lists end up not promoting while I count on it, so if I’m going to do a next summit I will again make it required to promote. It feels more equal to me, as I give them a lot of visibility to a really large audience. Probably more so than on most summits.
Marketing guru’s are always shouting that it’s unpolite to require people to promote the summit, and it’s the reason why I didn’t ask that this time.
But they can say what they want… I found my truth: I only want speakers who are willing to share the word about my event. My ideal summit is a co-creation and I’m done with being the person who pulls the most weight.
And if I require promotion, I at least feel in my right when I remind speakers to send out their email! I think that’s the most important part, because it felt horrible keeping this to myself. Because it felt like an integrity breach, and because I left myself/my needs in the cold.
It feels so mixed, having a list of 6200 now. It’s such a big difference with pre-summit and they are amazing people, and on the other hand it was SO MUCH work. The most difficult in this felt that I had already done the work, and if the people who promised to mail would have actually done so, I would have easily hit my goal of 7000-10.000 without it taking any extra effort from my side.
I wrote a post about this issue in a virtual summit group, and discovered that quite some people feel the same. One guy wrote me that he just focused on getting amazing, famous speakers for his summit and for the promotion relied on Facebook ads.
“I rather work with something that I can count on,” he said. And he also told me that his ads were way cheaper than the affiliate payouts.
And there it was born: the first tiny crack in my “I can never use FB ads” belief.
I’ve always resisted them. I didn’t think too much about it because until this month I didn’t have the money (and trust in my conversions) to spend on ads, but it was deeper than that. I don’t really like Facebook as an organization and don’t feel comfortable spending money with them.
But I’m opening up to the possibility, and actually expect myself to be experimenting with Facebook ads in a few months to a year.
What if it could be like what I did with the government? I initially didn’t like giving them money either, but now I trust that the intention I send the money with can make the difference. Then that would also work with the money I send Facebook. To that they may become a very conscious, heart-centered and planet protecting company that uses its power in the highest interest of the collective :)
Goal reflection
My focus was to just run the summit, so I wasn’t actively focusing on goals.
Biggest Insights
I wrote to myself: Luz, never forget that your audience wants to know that they are just like you. Maybe less far on the journey, but still on the same journey. They want to know you’ve walked the same path. Show your expertise, and also show your humble, perfectly flawed humanity.
By the end of my summit I was so tired one evening that I didn’t know how to get through the interview of that night. So I decided to drink coffee.
Which I never do.
And one cup was waaay to much because after a few minutes I felt like I was on drugs! A bit freaked out that I had to go live in 20 minutes and I couldn’t talk normal :’D
I managed, forgot about the coffee… but then when I lay in bed that night and looked at the glow in the dark stars on my boyfriends’ ceiling… I felt so ALIVE.
And I accessed a special kind of energy. As if I was the Luz I’m ready to become. A strong, loving and wise business woman & change maker.
I created a Pinterest board where I pinned images that feel like her energy, to grab her and make her more real. I spent until 3 at night collecting everything that she was.
She knows her worth much more than I do. She always feels abundant and gives much more priority to self-care. She follows her intuition and flows with life.
I’m not making her up. It is as if she’s entering me, slowly. And once in a while I have these bursts of inspiration about who she is and how she acts. This is what I wrote in one of them:
“She knows that freedom is the fertile soul of her work and success. Invaluable.
She feels her wholeness. She knows she has something incredibly valuable to give this world, and it has to come from deep inside her. She knows she has to find the willingness to be laughed at, to be ridiculed and judged, because without that she can’t bee free to follow her own path.
She knows that her growth, wellness and freedom go before anything.
With the bigger picture so strong in mind it’s easier to look her fears right in the eye. She knows she has to fight for what really matters. For what her company and the world need: Her. At her best.”
She goes out of her way to take care of herself. Self-care is non-negotiable. Everything to make you feel good sweet Luz.
She doesn’t make decisions, she feels into them. She always, and without guilt or a need to justify herself, chooses what makes me feel good.
Everything she does is EXPANSIVE.
A sight that breaths through her. She is flow because it’s the natural movement of life.
She is like the wind.
She doesn’t think of money as a finite source. She doesnt think ‘If I spend it on this, I cant spend it elsewhere.’ She IS abundance. She can’t not be abundant, it’s just not a frequency she can be. She only needs to breath and money flows to her.
I made €12.000 with my summit all access pass! Now I have to keep saying that a big part of that goes to VAT and affiliates, but still! A first 5-figure launch!! I felt so incredibly abundant during my summit, and so next level :) Gratitude!
This is how we celebrated on the closing evening of the summit:
I grew my list to 6200!! :D
And to be honest, completing the summit felt like a big celebration too! I’ve been working towards this for half a year, and am looking forward to finally NOT thinking about inviting speakers and pitching magazines…
And as you might know, I love celebrating the same thing over and over again!
So my boyfriend and I went to a theme park to celebrate the completion of the summit. As it’s called ‘Europapark’ it is devided in a lot of different European (and fantasy) countries, and our goal was to make a photo in every country.
We also made an entire bucketlist which was really fun :) It included things like the selfie-in-every-country, picking an attraction by blindly pointing on the map, finding a unicorn and buying a silly souvenir. We completed almost all of them!
2. June Intentions
My action-focused goals for this month:
Finish up all things related to the virtual summit
Decide what project I’m going to focus on next
What is the income you want to make this month?
Maybe I should let go of this question, as I’m not planning my income monthly any more. I again reached my yearly goal already haha, so I’m going for a total revenue of €20.000 in 2017 now. And the big big majority of that will come through my launches.
How could you get this number?
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Decoding your runner (a guide for those who love us)
I grew up in Puerto Rico, speaking español. While we all learned English growing up, I became truly bilingual in third grade when my parents placed me in an experimental English-immersion program at the military school I attended.
As a poor and hungry newspaper reporter and copy editor, I translated English documents into Spanish.
When my oldest son was diagnosed as hearing impaired when he was 3, I learned rudimentary American Sign Language in case he lost all of his hearing — a real possibility at the time.
What I’m trying to say is that I have some experience translating between languages and the subtleties that entails.
What does this mean for you, dear non-runner? That I’m about to translate your loved one’s runner-speak into something akin to plain English. To whit:
When your runner says: “Boy, these running shoes sure are worn down. Should I spend $120 to replace them?”
S/he really means: “I’m going shopping and you are not to complain about the cost of these shoes, so help me God.”
What s/he wants to hear: “What did the Runner’s World magazine reviewer say about those? Also appropriate: “Do they have them in your size at the local running store?”
When your runner says: “Boy, my calves are really tight and my feet hurt.”
S/he really means: “I told you I need new shoes!” Also possible: “Be a dear and go grab that foam roller for me, please.”
What s/he wants to hear: “I’ll drive you to the local running store right now.” Also appropriate: “Let me grab your foam roller for you.”
When your runner says: “I could really use a donut.”
S/he really means: “I could really use a donut.” Also possible: “I want a donut but I don’t want to feel guilty about eating it.”
What s/he wants to hear: “You just ran (insert number here) miles! Have a donut!” Also appropriate: “I’ll split one with you.”
When your runner says: “I keep running and the scale hasn’t budged. What gives?”
S/he really means: “Holy cow, I may be out-eating my running.”
What s/he wants to hear: “I’m driving to Target right now to get new batteries. That thing’s obviously not working.”
When your runner says: “Should I sign up for X, Y or Z race?”
S/he really means: “I want to do all three.”
What s/he wants to hear: “Pick the one with the best location and let’s make a weekend out of it.” Also appropriate: “Do all three.”
When your runner says: “I don’t feel like running today.”
S/he really means: “I don’t feel like running today.”
What s/he wants to hear: “Get out there. You’ll regret it if you don’t.” Also appropriate, “Don’t. Sit right there while I go grab the box of donuts from the kitchen.”
And here’s a cheat-sheet:
You’re welcome, runner lovers.
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Sue Nichols
You’re doing a great service to the world! Especially, being misunderstood about the donut issue is always heartbreaking. If you can save even ONE relationship…
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La Chica a.k.a. relationship saver.
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Open Space Gig ~ Dec 10/11, '16 ~ review by Nick the Bookman
Post subject: Open Space Gig ~ Dec 10/11, '16 ~ review by Nick the Bookman
Open Space Gig ~ Dec 10/11, 2016
by Nick the Bookman
Well. Xmas Season is fast approaching and Jim has spared absolutely no expense in putting together a stellar cast of DJs and fun loving party people for another tripped-out excursion upon The Wheels Of Steel. Up at Open Space, natch. I'm delighted to have been invited to partake in this adventure, having missed the last couple of shows because of...other reasons, I guess. Like laziness, sloth, idleness, inability to slip the surly bonds of inertia. Basically the Walk Up The Hill is a mini-Everest expedition. Not made easier by toting a big bag of CDs instead of the ubiquitous USB stick. Anyway, fuck this lame drivel. I've been asked to come up whenever. If I'm early, I can start proceedings off. If I'm later (which is the case) I get a random slot...
The Festivities run from 1630ish, 10/12/2016, to about 0830, 11/12/2016, and there's a splendiferous lineup of talent. Supposed to be 12 DJs performing. And me. Annapurna and Parksie are present. Tamara is there for a while. Caspar is tootling about in his usual exuberant mood. Quiet Tim, who has been hanging out at the back of Cath's Bar for the past few weeks, has made it up the hill. He does sterling work in procuring firewood to keep the barbecue going and warm up the surrounding environment.
I've arrived about 2000 hours and am given a 40 minute slot by Jim to wake people up and pave the way for the Superstar DJs to come. All of whom have checked their egos at the gate. My first surprise comes when Jim tells me that he's changed his CD decks around. They're the same brand that caused "my 'mare" at last year's Secret Island Party. This time I was better able to mix on them without too much hassle. I played some of NixMix 56 and introduced a digital-dub-meets-trance sort of vibe into my set. A popular tune was "Mushrooms" by (?), off a Global Trance compilation from the turn of The Millennium.
I'm followed on the decks by Ryoma, a Japanese DJ based in Macau. First time he's played here and his set is abso-fucking-lutely stunning. Starts off slow like 50's Country and Western twangy sounds and haunted feminine voices. Sort of a Patti Page drops acid and parties sort of vibe. It's a little disconcerting but very well arranged and his set grows thunderously. The mid point of his set is about 6-7 tunes which are global psychedelia at its wackiest and weirdest and wonderfullest. The voices are erupting from all corners of the room. And I'm still mind-blown as to how he's thrown the noises and FX all around the room like that...
Put simply, my analog CD set is a bit blurry. Not super clear sound. Put in visual terms as an example, I'm the tiny black-and-white tv set (about 2 inches wide) in the dashboard of a car. Can't see/hear much, but not bad. All the other DJs then unveil their huge 6-D spacetime, lysergically pulsing riots of colour shows on wall-to-wall panoramic cinema screen size tvs. That was my definition of the difference between me and the others. I don't mind though. I've got some good tunes as well. And I don't feel as I'm being humoured. Every DJ up at Open Space is chuffed to play with his peers and enjoy their musical concoctions. Egos are jettisoned at the door. It's One For All and All For One. And the wide ranging musical choices don't suffer at all.
Casey Anderson follows Ryoma. Casey played after me at the SIP where he set up live synths and drum machines and all manner of exotic noise making devices. I thought he was doing the same again tonight, but he told me later it was a DJ set, not a live instruments set. Two swoonfully blissed out instrumentals kick off his show. Like the most gorgeous parts of Vangelis and/or Giorgio Moroder in a way. Or mellow Kraftwerk. He gets tougher later on and uncorks a stunning tune with a refrain of "this is cocaine speaking". A cautionary tale in which hard-boiled vox seethe and stew. It's one of many highlights...
There's the Javon and Dieter Kunstschafter double-bill road show. Moving into more prog-tribal territory with some downbeat vocals. I like the way he layered a metallic sounding voice repeating "dawn is creaking" through at least three songs-cum-tunes. I was sitting in the right part of the room to hear everything unfolding, but there wasn't enough light to see what I was writing and I appear to have scribbled over my little nacreous pearls of wisdom and insight. Aah, fuck it. It was all enjoyable. The bar is doing good business outside. Tim is turning into Paul Bunyan and hand-dragging tree stumps and branches and other detritus more suitable to a Hollywood Oater back set up to Open Space to feed the fire.
Christian Is Back. He's been away for a while and it's a real pleasure to hear him do his set. He gets to play about three times over the night. He doesn't use Jim's computer CD decks. Preferring to play on the same decks I was using. I didn't realise that. One of his jump cut mixes was outrageously good. Changed the whole tempo and direction of the tune. No clue what the two pieces of music were. Christian later admitted that he's "not a laptop guy" which makes his sonic sorcery even more mind-blowing to hear and appreciate. He's been one of the mainstay stalwarts of HK's Underground music scene for a couple of decades and long may he reign. His sets get progressively darker and menacing. He Feeds My Head with whimsy and wonder and shows me in no uncertain terms how much more I can learn and improve.
I've had a wonderful time hogging the seat in front of the speakers and watching the magic unspool before me. I've also some delightful chats with the gorgeous blondes who are strutting their saucy stuff (almost in my face). They're all dancing up a storm and deserve their own introduction. So, here are Kitty and Freya and Josephine who are enjoying their debut gig at Open Space. Ladies, you all dance divinely and it was a sweet pleasure to chat with you later. And to have our photos taken together. You've got my email address. Please send the shots to me, so I can send them to Jim to accompany this story. And Josephine, extra-special thanks for your lovely comments about me. In Danish, but you translated them for me. I hope you all become fervent fans of the Lamma website and keep in touch.
It's getting quite early in the am. Jim has done a third turn on the decks. He's also played "Mushrooms" by (?). From the end of the third paragraph. But he also treated and fucked up the vocals and made the song sound darker and dirtier. 'grats on that one, old boy. You trumped my performance, but at least we both played the same good song. I finally get bak on the decks a bit before sun up and share a short set with youngster Gavin. Who seems to be the only other one using the computer CD decks tonight. He played some nice moody dark trance of sorts and I layered Halloween synthy goblins and ghoulie vox bites all over it. For about ten minutes or so. At about this time, it's light enough to walk home down the hill and I pack up my bits and bobs and return to Marilena who is still fast asleep. Drop most of my CDs at home. I realise at this point, I've left about ten or so up up the hill. I ask Jim to look out for them. He finds them and returns them all the next day. Happy ending on that. YAY!!
Finally, a personal note if I may. I want to extend blessings and happy thoughts to all my fellow members of The Eleventh Decemberists. There were at least two of us at the party and at least three more I know of, resident on Lamma. I hope we all had fun...
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Egypt: Bloggers Rally Against Sexual Predators
Date posted: February 13, 2009
Tagged with: A New Female Ahmed Shokeir Ana Horra Asser Yasser Bella Cyber Activism Desert Cat Egypt Watchman Egyptian Fe-mail Enas Lotfy Facebook Fantasia's World Global Voices Online Hafsa Hanan El Sherif Ibn Abdel Aziz Jessyz Justice for everyone Late Night Stories Marwa Rakha Mohamed Hamdy New Media Osama Abdel Aal Rape-axe Sexual Harassment Sexual Harassment victims Shaimaa Gamaal Tartashet Afkar Wandering Scarab Zeinobia مراقب مصرى
Asser Yasser is an Egyptian female blogger who recently moved to Mokattam area with her family. Her maid complained of how she got harassed on the street on her way to or from Asser's home. Her 15 year old niece who lives with them complained of the violating words that she gets bombarded with on her way to and from school. And one day Asser made a horrible mistake and decided to walk to a kiosk 200 meters away from home to buy her children some candy. How dare she walk in the street? How dare she leave her car behind? On her blog [AR], Asser narrated how she was violated:
On her way home, some teenagers in parked cars that reeked of hash used cuss words, followed her, tried to grab her, encircled her with their vehicles, and the poor woman and her niece felt trapped. People looked from their balconies and no one lifted a finger to help her. She called the police from her mobile phone as she stood there in utter terror and shortly after officer Mohab came to her rescue. He was almost run down by the fleeing cars. One guy stayed behind and said that he was not involved and that he was only watching from his car. Asser identified him as one of the harassers and they all went to the station to file a formal report.
It got more interesting when the father of the 19-year-old harasser snapped at Asser telling her to pick on someone her age. The father did not see or realize the gravity of what his son did. Now the father, the officers, and many others are begging Asser to drop the charges for the sake of the "poor children's" future. Blogger Enas Lotfy wrote
عزيزتي اسر لا تتنازلي ويجب ان تستمري حتي النهاية لتنالي حقك ولينال الجاني جزاء ما فعله وليعلم اهله انهم فاشلوا في تربية ابنهم ولا تهتمي بالاراء المتخلفه التي تريدك ان تتنازلي وتتراجعي عن موقفك استمري يا عزيزتي وربنا معكي واكيد كلنا معاكي
Dear Asser, Do not give up your right. You have to fight till the end and until the offender gets what he deserves. I want his parents to know that they totally failed in bringing up their son and do not bother with the backward opinions that are trying to force you to back off. We are here for you.
Enas also highlighted other blogs and bloggers that support Asser: Late Night Stories [AR], who told her that she is not the one who will ruin the boy's future as his parents did that long ago. Egypt Watchman [AR], who told her that withdrawing the report is defeat and she should never accept defeat. Osama Abdel Aal [AR], told her to do it for the sake of our mothers and sisters. Mohamed Hamdy [AR], was the first to report the incident and his post was a cry for help addressed to all bloggers. Desert Cat [AR], told her that she has justice on her side. Justice for every one [AR], urged every woman, man and child in Egypt to fight sexual harassment by spreading awareness, changing dark beliefs, and by standing up for their right to a safe secure street. The Presidential Palace [AR], said that we need to stop burying our heads in the sand until we hear another victim scream; we need to finish what we started. Gharam [AR], wondered at the end of her post if one year in prison and a fine of L.E. 200 (less than 50 US$) is enough punishment for a man who terrorized a woman in the street. Fantasia's World [AR], supported Asser and at the end of her post said that even if the harassment victim gave in to pressure and did not go to court, that should not drop the charges. The offender should pay either way. Tartashet Afkar [AR], (random thoughts) also asked Asser to be strong and invited supporters to the Facebook Group created by Mohamed Hamdy Bella [AR], wrote a very angry post accusing the Egyptian society of protecting harassers by giving them the chance to get away with their disgusting acts. Ana Horra [AR], (I am Free) urged bloggers to join hands to make the streets a safe place for us Zeinobia said that those neighbors who did not run to her rescue must remember that their girls and wives can be in the same situation and they will wish that anyone will come to their rescue. Egyptian Fe-mail (me) told her not to give in to pressure for it is our right to walk in the street feeling some sort of security. The harasser and his friends did not think of their futures when they were getting high, when they violated her, or when she begged them to spare someone the age of their mother. Al Nas Wa Al Alam [AR], (People and the World) used an Egyptian proverb to describe what will happen if Asser made peace with her harasser; her silence will invite more harassers and will result in more victims. A New Female [AR], also reported the incident and invited people to another Facebook Group discussing the case and supporting the blogger. Asser's courage inspired Shaimaa Gamaal to share her story:
It has been almost a year on the incident when I was sexually harassed in the safe streets of Cairo. I was out with my cousin when out of no where appeared an old guy, old because I think he is around 50, wearing a suit and looks decent and started showering our ears with dirty sexual comments.
She confronted him:
Every time I remember that moment I get a cold shiver. The guy’s pants were unzipped (imagine the view!) and he was talking dirty. It was scary and I was alone because I left my cousin behind and she was in shock. The crowded streets of Cairo all of a sudden seemed empty and the only sign of help was a speeding car that stopped a 100 meters from where we were. And I started yelling at him. He didn’t move at 1st but when I took a step towards him yelling he started running from me so I started running after him yelling and cursing till he disappeared. I got over that incident and almost forgot it till yesterday when I found [Asser] blogging about a similar incident.
The veil-no-veil argument also kicks in:
There are even people talking about that she deserved it because she isn’t veiled. I am veiled. I don’t wear make up. I don’t wear high heals. I walk like a soldier. I wear a frown to the street and I still got harassed. I didn’t report it because I was never taught to report it … It is always my fault because I was born Egyptian, in a community with a serious identity problem. It is my fault because I am a woman and a genius spread the word the women are just sex toys!
As for Asser, Shaimaa says:
I pray for her to have the peace of mind amidst the pressures around her. I pray for her to get through this tough time. I pray for justice to prevail.
Jessyz wrote a Four Step Solution to Sexual Harassment:
I think I found the perfect solution to sexual offenders harassers in Egypt. This is a Four step solution to solve the problem. Instead of sending them to jail or making them pay a fine I think when someone is convicted they should: 1- Be tattooed on their forehead with a temporary tattoo that stays for 1 month, 3 months, 6 months or 1 year depending on their crime. It should say “Sexual Offender” clearly, this should scare most people off. 2- They should also serve community service time such as cleaning the streets, wearing a printed overall that says “Sexual Offender” all over it in very public areas. 3- A second time offender’s ID should include that they are a sexual offender. 4- If the sexual offender commits a third count, then they should be neutered. Seriously too, I think the offender’s parents should also be convicted of the inability to raise a civilized child. Fear of public humiliation might make offenders and possible offenders rethink their actions.
Wandering Scarab offered another solution and wondered if the Rape-aXe could really work.
We've all heard of chastity belts which originated in the medieval era. They were designed to be impenetrable, though I'm not so sure they were invented with rape victims in mind … A similar device was invented in 2000 by South African Jaap Haumann … A sexual offender would instantly lose a chunk of his member … A more simple yet effective device is the Rape-aXe which was designed by Sonette Ehlers, also South African. Rape-aXe is a two fold device [that] can only be removed surgically, whereby hospital staff alert the authorities. Essentially, it could be very useful in the identification and prosecution of rapists.
She concluded her post saying:
After all, desperate times call for desperate measures.
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EDITORIAL - The Unbearable Ugliness of Wargames
date posted: 04:59 PM Sat Jan 1st, 2000
last revision: 04:59 PM Sat Jan 1st, 2000
By Rick Fehrenbacher
Lately I've been spending a lot of time with my copy of Norm Koger's The Operational Art of War, and I have a lot of nice things to say about it. It's deep, it's fun, it's got a great interface,well, OK, it's just a great game. In any case, I was happily playing along in the spiffy 2D mode, feeling nice and comfortable with the familiar board wargame look of the game, when my son looked over my shoulder and suggested we try the 3D view of the game, "you know, the one where the tanks look like tanks instead of chits of cardboard." Figuring it wouldn't hurt to humor him, I switched over to 3D, and,Great Patton's Ghost!--we were confronted with a sight to freeze one's very soul,that of the ugliness that lies at the heart of wargaming. We witnessed wraith-like infantry, indistinct vehicles, Germans wearing green uniforms, Allies grey. It was like World War II on food poisoning.
"Dad," said my son, "that is one ugly game. Mind if I play a little Freespace?" After politely suggesting that he go buy his own computer, I got to thinking about something that's always puzzled me about wargamers,their unswerving ability to overlook a game's aesthetic shortcomings. Curious, I checked out the Talonsoft discussion board,and though I saw the usual lively discussions of game design issues and bug reports, an admittedly cursory examination revealed not one post that complained about the game's 3D butt-ugliness.
Actually, this came as no great surprise. In my experience, in many-- maybe even most--wargaming circles, it's just not cool to be concerned about graphics. In fact, it's even considered a bit of a virtue to be hostile towards anything that looks too good. Like St. Bernard closing the windows of his carriage so as not to seduced by the beauty of the Alps, wargamers turn a blind eye to games that are merely "eye candy." Case in point,a few years ago, one of the preeminent wargaming magazines published a rant about a certain set of miniatures rules because it was too, well, pretty. It had glossy pages and professionally done color pictures of beautiful miniatures, and these sins called down upon it the wrath of the wargaming gods, whose main concern seemed to be that gamers would buy these rules because they looked so darn nice. Back to the days of hand-cranked mimeographed rule sheets and blurry black and white illustrations and hand-drawn diagrams! Hairshirts all around!
Why this attitude prevails is probably inexplicable, but since I'm the type of guy who has way too much time on his hands, I've come up with a couple of theories. The first is that most wargames are based on a "zero-sum" game model,any gain you make results in an equivalent loss to your opponent. Perhaps this attitude has, in some perverse way, been shifted to the binary of historical accuracy/graphics,if it looks good, it must play ahistorically, and vice versa. (Actually, this "ugly is better" mentality does work sometimes, but only when it comes to pickup trucks, barbers, and dogs.) A really great looking game, therefore, is immediately under suspicion of being "historically unsound." Really great looking wargames are of course few and far between, but the scorn grognards heap upon games like Panzer General II, a beautiful, enjoyable and not immensely realistic game, almost always includes some sneering reference to just how good it looks. If only it were uglier, then maybe those Tigers would behave more realistically! Of course Exhibit A in this attitude's case is RTS games like Starcraft and Total Annihilation, games that are gorgeous but so historically inaccurate that they're set in, like, the future and alternate universes and stuff.
Another theory is that most wargamers began their careers playing the revered but hideous-looking Avalon Hill boardgame classics. I'd still like to know what ironic genius chose the colors for unit counters in those games. Remember playing Afrika Korps and rolling into Tobruk with those pink panzers? Grimly holding on to Bastogne with your powder blue 101st Airborne in Battle of the Bulge? And it took a long time for games to get much prettier,even after SPI took the revolutionary step of printing SS unit counters in black, many of the old, tired graphics conventions remained in place. Maybe ugly games are a proud and important part of our heritage that we just can't bear to leave behind, even in the face of change and common sense,you know, like the Scots and haggis. Or maybe we just wasted a lot of time on something that could have been a lot better, and are too proud to admit it--like, well, the Scots and haggis.
But whatever the origin of wargaming's anti-aesthetic, it is clear that game manufacturers have noticed that we just don't care all that much. In fact, it seems like wargaming graphics are getting worse. Case in point: the early Talonsoft games were a big step forward for wargames graphics,the original Gettysburg was revolutionary and beautiful, and the Battleground series more or less peaked graphically with Waterloo. Since then, though, Talonsoft's graphics have slowly deteriorated,East Front had some cool looking tanks, but the terrain could have used some work, and the infantry units were both difficult to see and and ugly. And now the Operational Art of War,an astonishingly good game with a good-enough 2D view,is graced with a 3D view that looks just awful, not to mention some truly uninspired box art. One last example: Interactive Magic's terrific Great Battles series looked OK when Alexander came out, but the graphics never got much better, and by the time Great Battles of Caesar came out, they were positively dated.
Frankly, I think this lack of interest in graphics is a problem, and a problem because my son wants to play Freespace instead of The Operational Art of War. Everybody else in the gaming industry realizes that graphics not only add to the gaming experience, but also sell games. Petty and venal a consideration as that may be, it's also one that we must take into account. If we want another generation to play wargames, we have to realize that we're competing for their time and money with a glut of computer games that look fabulous. Before you scoff, remember that a lot of present-day grognards got started way back when they thought lining up soldiers in the sandbox just looked really cool. Finally, let me make on thing clear; I'm not suggesting that we "dumb down" wargames; it's not a zero-sum propostion. As wargamers, we can have games that are graphically stunning and intellectually challenging, but not until we start expecting them.
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Little Elm High School Athletics
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LEHS
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OUR MISSION...
The Little Elm Independent School District is committed to excellence in athletics as a part of a larger commitment to education.
The guiding principle behind LEISD’s participation in University Interscholastic League activities is our belief in its educational value for our students. Secondary athletics promotes character traits of high value to personal development and success in later life. These include the drive to take one’s talents to the highest level of performance; embracing the discipline needed to reach high standards; learning to work with others as a team pursuit of a common goal; and adherence to the codes of fairness and respect. We believe that athletics is a PRIVILEGE, not a right, and with that privilege comes certain responsibilities such as integrity, respect, sportsmanship, character, honesty, and pride.
The mission of the athletics program ultimately is that of the Little Elm Independent School District itself: “to engage the mind, to elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with LEISD athletics.”
LITTLE ELM HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC PROGRAMS
Little Elm High School's athletic program competes in UIL Region II, District 9-5A with Frisco ISD - Centennial, Frisco, Heritage, Independence, Liberty, Lone Star, Wakeland, and Lewisville ISD - The Colony high schools. The high school offers the following male (9) and female (9) team and individual sports:
Male Sports Female Sports
Baseball Basketball
Basketball Cross Country
Cross Country Golf
Football Power Lifting
Golf Soccer
Power Lifting Softball
Soccer Tennis
Tennis Track & Field
Track & Field Volleyball
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Great Council
The Great Council of 101, as depicted by Marc Simonetti in The World of Ice & Fire.
A Great Council[1] or great council[2] is a council of Westerosi nobles gathered to resolve contentious issues. In Westerosi history, there have been at least two Great Councils to decide the succession to the Iron Throne, while a third decided the regents of an under-aged king.
The kingsmoot was a similar ceremony held amongst the ironborn, where all longship captains were allowed to cast a vote as to who should be chosen as the new rock king, salt king, or High King of the Iron Islands.[3][4]
1.1 37 AC
1.2 Great Council of 101 AC
1.2.1 Prelude
1.2.2 Outcome
1.2.3 Consequences
1.3 130 AC
2 Recent Events
2.1 A Clash of Kings
2.2 A Feast for Crows
King Aenys I Targaryen considered calling a great council in 37 AC, when four rebels—Harren the Red, Jonos Arryn, Lodos the Twice-Drowned, and the Vulture King—began to harass the Seven Kingdoms and the king could not decide how to handle them. During this proposed gathering, the assembled nobles would have discussed how best to deal with the situations. A council was never called, however, as others acted more swiftly than the king, thereby solving the troubles.[5][2]
Great Council of 101 AC
When King Jaehaerys I Targaryen's son and heir, Prince Aemon, died in 92 AC, Jaehaerys chose Aemon's younger brother, Prince Baelon, as his heir, passing over Aemon's daughter, Princess Rhaenys. The decision caused the Second Quarrel between king and queen.
Prince Baelon died in 101 AC while serving as Hand of the King, and Jaehaerys again needed an heir. Supporters of both Prince Viserys Targaryen, the eldest son of Prince Baelon and his sister-wife, Princess Alyssa, and Laenor Velaryon, the son of Princess Rhaenys, reportedly formed armies. The king summoned from the Citadel his only surviving son, Archmaester Vaegon; whether Jaehaerys offered him the throne, or only wanted advice, is unknown. Vaegon suggested that lords, maesters, and the Faith discuss the candidates in a Great Council. Jaehaerys agreed, promising to accept whatever the council decided.[6]
As the first Great Council,[7] no one knew how many would attend. The Crown wanted room for at least five hundred lords and entourages, so the great castle of Harrenhal was chosen to host. More than a thousand lords came from throughout Westeros, gathering over a half year; some arrived as the council was ending.[6] The nearby town of Harrenton was briefly the fourth-largest settlement of the realm, behind only King's Landing, Oldtown, and Lannisport.[7]
The council met for thirteen days. It discussed and dismissed nine lesser claims, such as from three rival bastards of Princess Saera Targaryen, and an alleged bastard of King Jaehaerys. The two final candidates as heir were Prince Viserys and Laenor Velaryon.[6] Primogeniture favored Laenor, as his mother, Princess Rhaenys, was the daughter of Prince Aemon, who had been the eldest living son of King Jaehaerys. Yet proximity favored Viserys, who, in addition, had been the last Targaryen prince to ride the dragon Balerion, before the Black Dread had died in 94 AC. On the other hand, Laenor had recently acquired a dragon of his own, Seasmoke.[1]
In the end, what mattered most for the many lords in the realm, was that the male line would take precedence over the female line. In addition, Prince Viserys was twenty-four years old, while Laenor was only seven. Yet Laenor had one big advantage over Viserys: he was the son of Lord Corlys Velaryon, the wealthiest man of the Seven Kingdoms. Corlys's fame, reputation and wealth did much to support Laenor's claim. Lord Boremund Baratheon supported Laenor's claim (his sister Jocelyn was Laenor's grandmother),[8] as did Lord Ellard Stark, Lord Blackwood, Lord Bar Emmon and Lord Celtigar,[7] the Dustins of Barrowton, and the Manderlys of White Harbor.[9] They were too few, however. While the maesters never revealed the actual numbers,[7] it was rumored that Prince Viserys had won by a twenty to one vote.[7][9] Amongst those who had spoken in favor of Viserys, was Viserys's younger brother, Prince Daemon Targaryen, who had gone as far as assembling a small army, when it was rumored that Lord Velaryon was readying a fleet to defend the rights of Laenor.[10] Lord Grover Tully[11] and Lord Tymond Lannister also supported Viserys.[12]
Prince Viserys was ultimately chosen by the assembled nobility,[9] and while he was not present for the final deliberations, King Jaehaerys I named Viserys the new Prince of Dragonstone.[7]
According to Archmaester Gyldayn, in the eyes of many, the council of 101 AC established an iron precedent on matters of succession: that the Iron Throne could not pass to a woman, or to a male descendant of a woman.[7]
King Viserys I Targaryen named his daughter, his only surviving child by his first marriage, Princess Rhaenyra, his heir after the death of his second born son, Prince Baelon. After three sons had been born in his second marriage, Viserys was asked about the succession repeatedly, but he chose to ignore the precedents of 101 AC, and Rhaenyra remained his heir. In 109 AC Viserys dismissed Ser Otto Hightower, his Hand of the King, because Otto kept asking the king about the matter.[10][1]
Following the death of Viserys, at the start of the coup for the throne by the greens, Viserys's small council examined the annals of the Great Council. They determined that the houses which had dissented during the Great Council were likely to support the claim of Rhaenyra Targaryen instead of Aegon II Targaryen.[13]
During the Dance of the Dragons, the Iron Throne was contested by Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen and King Aegon II Targaryen. After the fall of King's Landing in 130 AC, Dowager Queen Alicent Hightower suggested assembling a great council to decide which claimant should ascend to the throne. Rhaenyra, however, refused to grant the wish.[14]
King Aegon III Targaryen ascended the throne in 131 AC at the age of eleven at the conclusion of the Dance of the Dragons. It would be five years before the king would be able to rule in his own right, but instead of naming one regent, a council of seven regents was named to rule with the Hand of the King.[15]
During the regency of Aegon III, the original council of seven consisted of Lady Jeyne Arryn, Lord Corlys Velaryon, Lord Roland Westerling, Lord Royce Caron, Lord Manfryd Mooton, Ser Torrhen Manderly, and Grand Maester Munkun. Out of these seven, only Munkun served the entire term (131 AC to 136 AC).[15]
In the aftermath of the Lysene Spring, a gathering of the lords to King's Landing was called in 136 AC to name new members after deaths and resignations. Although not formally called a Great Council according to Gyldayn,[16] Yandel considers it as such.[15] This was the largest gathering of nobles since the Great Council of 101 AC. Most attendees originated from the crownlands, riverlands, stormlands, and the Vale of Arryn, while others included Lannister envoys from the westerlands, Lord Torrhen Manderly, Lord Lyonel Hightower with Lady Samantha Tarly, and a large contingent with Lord Unwin Peake.[16]
The gathering selected Willam Stackspear, Marq Merryweather and Lorent Grandison by lot,[15] while Lord Manderly was chosen as Hand of the King. King Aegon III dismissed the regents and Hand once he reached his sixteen nameday.[15][16]
King Daeron II Targaryen's heir, Prince Baelor, died after a trial of seven in 209 AC,[17] making his eldest son Valarr the heir. However, later that year the Great Spring Sickness killed King Daeron and both of Baelor's sons, Valarr and Matarys.[18][19] This in turn left Daeron's second son, Prince Aerys, to inherit, and he was thus crowned as King Aerys I Targaryen.[18] Aerys left no issue, and upon his death in 221 AC the crown was passed to his youngest brother, who reigned as King Maekar I Targaryen (Aerys's other heirs, Prince Rhaegel and Rhaegel's son, Prince Aelor, had predeceased Aerys). The inheritance was unclear after Maekar's death in the Peake Uprising of 233 AC, so a council was called in King's Landing by Maekar's Hand of the King, Lord Brynden Rivers, to decide who would inherit the Iron Throne.[20]
Maekar's eldest son, Prince Daeron, called "Daeron the Drunken", had died of a sexually transmitted pox prior to 233 AC. Daeron's only issue was Princess Vaella, a feeble-witted, simple girl.[20][21]
Maekar's next son, Prince Aerion, had died in 232 AC, when he drank wildfire in the mistaken belief it would turn him into a dragon.[20][21] Aerion's only issue was an infant son, Prince Maegor, who had been born 232 AC, not long before Aerion's death.[20]
Maekar's third son, Aemon, had taken his maester's vows in 217 AC.[20]
Maekar's youngest son, Prince Aegon Targaryen, had served as a squire of Ser Duncan the Tall in his youth, which had led to some of the lords mistrusting him, as they felt that Aegon's wandering with the hedge knight had left the prince "half a peasant".[20]
The claim of Princess Vaella was immediately dismissed. Only a few spoke up for the claim of Prince Maegor, but his ascension would mean a long regency, and in addition, it was feared that Maegor might have inherited Aerion's madness and cruelty. Thus, Maegor's claim was dismissed as well.
Prince Aegon's claim seemed as the obvious choice, but due to the prince's wanderings in his youth, there were enough lords who hated him, and thus, an effort was made to offer the throne,[20] quietly, to Aemon. Maester Aemon, however, refused the crown.[21]
As the Great Council was debating the matter of succession, a fifth claimant appeared. Aenys Blackfyre, the fifth son of the Pretender Daemon I Blackfyre, had written to King's Landing from Tyrosh when the Great Council had first been announced, hoping to gain the throne with words, as swords had failed his family three times already. The Hand of the King, Lord Brynden Rivers, had offered him safe conduct to Westeros. Upon arrival, however, Aenys was immediately arrested and dragged to the Red Keep, where he was executed. His head was presented to the council to serve as a warning against every lord who might still have sympathies for House Blackfyre.[20]
A majority of the council elected Prince Aegon soon thereafter, leading to the ascension of King Aegon V Targaryen, called "Aegon the Unlikely".[20]
The first act of King Aegon V would be to arrest the man who had gotten him elected. Brynden Rivers was arrested and sentenced to death for breaking the word of the Iron Throne, having arranged the execution of Aenys Blackfyre. Aegon later offered Bloodraven the option of going to the Wall, which Brynden accepted. He travelled to the Wall together with Maester Aemon, serving in the Night's Watch from 233 AC until he disappeared beyond the Wall in 252 AC.[22]
The tourney at Harrenhal as depicted by Paolo Puggioni in The World of Ice & Fire
The announcement of the tourney at Harrenhal by Lord Walter Whent gave reason for suspicion. It was rumored that there had been a "shadow host", who had been providing Walter with the funds to pay the magnificent prizes which were promised. These rumors were widely believed in 281 AC, and are still believed at the present. Whilst a dozen names have been put forward for the identity of this shadow host, Prince Rhaegar Targaryen is the most compelling.[23]
Rhaegar allegedly arranged the tourney by sending Ser Oswell Whent, his friend, and Lord Walter's brother, as a go-between. Providing the gold for prizes, the prince wanted to lure as many lords and knights as possible to Harrenhal to call an informal Great Council. Hoping to address the madness of his father, King Aerys II Targaryen, Rhaegar possibly desired a regency or a forced abdication.[23]
Aerys, warned of these rumors by his master of whisperers, Lord Varys, decided to attend the tourney personally, despite not having left the Red Keep for four years.[23]
Before departing King's Landing during Robert's Rebellion, Prince Rhaegar Targaryen told Ser Jaime Lannister that he intended to call a council to determine what should be done about King Aerys II Targaryen.[24] Rhaegar was slain by Lord Robert Baratheon at the Battle of the Trident, however.[25]
After realizing that King Joffrey I Baratheon is not the biological son of the late King Robert I Baratheon, Catelyn Stark suggests to Renly Baratheon that he, his brother Stannis, and Robb Stark, who have all been crowned during the War of the Five Kings, should set aside their claims and call for a Great Council to determine who should rule. Renly laughs at the suggestion, however.[26]
A kingsmoot is called in late 299 AC by Aeron Greyjoy, a priest of the Drowned God, after the death of Balon Greyjoy, King of the Isles and the North.[3] In early 300 AC, Euron Greyjoy is chosen as the new king by the ironborn assembled at Old Wyk.[27]
Alicent: Let us together summon a great council, as the Old King did in days of old, and lay the matter of succession before the lords of the realm.
Rhaenyra: Do you mistake me for Mushroom? We both know how this council would rule.[14]
—Alicent Hightower and Rhaenyra Targaryen
Catelyn: Let the three of you call for a Great Council, such as the realm has not seen for a hundred years. We will send to Winterfell, so Bran may tell his tale and all men may know the Lannisters for the true usurpers. Let the assembled lords of the Seven Kingdoms choose who shall rule them.
Renly: Tell me, my lady, do direwolves vote on who should lead the pack? The time for talk is done. Now we see who is stronger.[26]
—Catelyn Stark and Renly Baratheon
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Fire & Blood, Heirs of the Dragon - A Question of Succession.
↑ 2.0 2.1 Fire & Blood, The Sons of the Dragon.
↑ 3.0 3.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 1, The Prophet.
↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Iron Islands: Driftwood Crowns.
↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aenys I.
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Fire & Blood, The Heirs of the Dragon - A Question of Succession.
↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Jaehaerys I.
↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Stormlands: House Baratheon.
↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 The Princess and the Queen.
↑ 10.0 10.1 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Viserys I.
↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Riverlands: House Tully.
↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Westerlands: House Lannister Under the Dragons.
↑ Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons - The Blacks and the Greens.
↑ 14.0 14.1 Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons - The Red Dragon and the Gold.
↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III.
↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Fire & Blood, The Lysene Spring and the End of Regency.
↑ The Hedge Knight.
↑ 18.0 18.1 The Sworn Sword.
↑ The Mystery Knight.
↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 20.7 20.8 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Maekar I.
↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 6, Jon I.
↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon V.
↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 The World of Ice & Fire, The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring.
↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 8, Jaime I.
↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 4, Eddard I.
↑ 26.0 26.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 33, Catelyn IV.
↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 19, The Drowned Man.
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Maidstone Rugby: Are you looking for a new club? We run 4 senior sides so can cater for whatever level you play at. So why not join us at the county town's senior rugby club.
New Players: Maidstone Rugby welcomes new players of all ages and abilities, see New Players page for contact information. Free membership for members of HM Forces.
Situations Vacant: Please see the new Club Volunteers page of the website for roles in which the club is looking for volunteers to step forward.
01 Jan 20: SAD NEWS: Alan Spice
The club is saddened by the news that Alan Spice passed away just before Christmas, aged 71, after suffering from dementia for several years. Alan played prop for Maidstone from the late sixties to the mid- seventies, as well as representing Kent. He was keen to tell all that he played on the losing side of three consecutive Kent cup finals, playing for Maidstone in 72/73 and losing to Sidcup. He then spent one season at Sidcup where Maidstone beat them in the 73/74 Kent Cup Final, before coming back to Maidstone and losing to Canterbury in the 74/75 Kent Cup Final.
He worked for Nat West Bank who transferred him to Guernsey where he played for 3 seasons, eventually moving to Sussex and finishing his rugby career there.
His wife Sue said that his heart always remained at Maidstone Rugby Club.
He leaves behind his wife Sue, two daughters and a step daughter plus six grand-children.
There is a celebration of Alan's life at Hastings Crematorium at 3.00pm on the 17th January and afterwards at the Azur on St Leonard's sea front.
28 Nov 19: Club Statement: Director of Rugby
After discussions between the committee and senior players, Richard Weston has been appointed as Head of Playing for the remainder of the season. The decision was agreed as it was felt that bringing in a new face directly in at this juncture would mean too much adjustment with the number of games left to play. Richard is responsible for communications and direction, working alongside the coaching staff. In the past few weeks both the Mustangs and First XV have performed better and hopefully the building continues to that first win of the season for the 1st XV. Richard’s position will be reviewed at the end of the season.
In the background, the club will be casting the net far and wide for a suitable Director of Rugby to come in that will blend with the club’s vision for the next five years. Interviews will be held by a committee & coaching panel throughout the remainder of the season, so that the club has as many options as possible ahead of the new season.
Anyone wishing to apply, should contact the Club Chairman in the first instance.
14 Oct 19: Guinness 6 Nations 2020 Club Tickets UPDATE
The draw for allocating our 6 Nations Away tickets (France, Scotland and Italy) will be made on Friday 29th November 2019 so as to allow the lucky recipients time to book travel and accommodation.
Fully paid up members wishing to be included in the draw should send their request to steve.vincent@hbsv.com stating which match(es) they would like to attend. (Note - max. 2 tickets per person for away fixtures).
18 Aug 19: Shirt No & Matchball Sponsorship 2019-20
Matchball Sponsorship opportunities still remain available for next season's home league and cup fixtures, the first three fixtures in the first half of the season have now been taken up. The remaining fixtures remain available The cost is £50; if you or your company would be interested in being a Matchball Sponsor for one of these fixtures then please contact Bob Hayton or Julian Debnam in the first instance:
21 Sept 19 v Thanet Wdrs = Sold
05 Oct 19 v Hove = Sold
12 Oct 19 v D&B (RFU IC) - Sold
26 Oct 19 v D&B = Sold
23 Nov 19 v Crowborough – Available
14 Dec 19 v Dover – Available
18 Jan 20 v Beccehamians – Available
01 Feb 20 v O Alleynians – Available
22 Feb 20 v Charlton Pk – Available
29 Feb 20 v Haywards Heath – Available
28 Mar 20 v Gravesend – Available
18 Apr 20 v O Colfeians – Available
There are also Shirt No Sponsorship opportunities still available at £150 for the season as follows:
Shirt Nos: 1 (Sold), 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 (Sold), 10, 14, 15, 17 & 18
18 Jul 19: Club Socials
The club socials and lunches plans are currently being worked on by the social committee.
The Pre-Match lunch and Vice Presidents lunch dates have been confirmed with more details to follow. If you are interested in a date, then please contact Bob Beney or Paul Ehrhart to find out how you could take advantage of the full table discount.
Back by popular demand is the Ladies Lunch. After a very successful luncheon last year, we hope for an encore. For the gentlemen, England v Wales will be on in the bar to keep you occupied amongst friends.
The social committee will be meeting up in the next few weeks and there will be more great events for the whole club to enjoy.
Further details will follow, but for all those important dates and details, just check out the Events page here.
23 Nov 18: Sponsorship Role Vacancy
After 14 years long service and an incredible amount of money gained for the club, Bob Hayton will be stepping down as Sponsorship Officer at the end of the season. Over the years Bob has built up a network of relationships that have benefitted the entire club. From shirt sponsors to Mike Tindall & Lawrence Dallaglio visits, his efforts have reaped such reward for the club. With his everyday work load becoming more pressing, coupled with the multiple hats he already wears for the club, he has reluctantly decided to pass one of hits hats on.
The club is obviously looking for a replacement as soon as possible. Bob will be on hand to help transition the existing relationships across to the new incumbents. With the groundwork laid over so many years, maintaining these relationships is key, but should not be to arduous if picked up quickly.
This is not a role that needs to be filled by one person and we do have a couple of volunteers willing to help out. However, the club still desperately needs a lead in which to coordinate the tasks and oversee the role. The club is also looking to offer a commission base for the Sponsorship role as an incentive to any and all volunteers willing to help the club.
If you are interested in coming on board, then please contact Bob Hayton in the first instance.
The only thing left to say is to thank Bob wholeheartedly for his efforts and persistence throughout his tenure, which without, the club could be in a far different place.
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Club Blazers
posted: March 05 2012
If any member is interested in obtaining a club blazer then please contact Bob Hayton, there is currently a list of 13 requesting blazers but the project needs another 6 or 7 subscribers to make another batch of blazers a realistic project. This is a slow time project due to the lead time of 6 weeks to have the material made, and another 6 weeks to tailor the blazers. Sizings are standard ‘off the peg’ (i.e. M&S) sizes (44R, 44L etc) although small alterations such as sleeve length can be made.
Women's Rugby at Maidstone: Training sessions have commenced
posted: January 25 2012
Training Sessions for women and teenage girls have begun at the club on wednesday evenings at 7pm, with an emphasis on fitness and ball-handling skills..
Feel free to turn up and participate or call Charlotte Goodbody on 07554998334 for further details.
Player Safety - Baselayer tights & Adidas boots
posted: November 23 2011
Base Layer Stockings/Tights
Following enquiries from coaches and parents, the RFU have now confirmed that it is permissible under RFU Regulations for young players, up to U18 (and including) age group, to wear base layer stockings or tights in cold weather, in accordance with IRB Regulation 12. This regulation states particular thickness. However, parents can assume that most common brands will comply, although players are permitted to wear them subject to the assessment of the match referee that the items are safe and pose no risk of injury to the wearer or other participants”
Please note that U18s playing in the senior rugby may not wear base layer stockings/tights (we know there are a couple of you out there - so man up!!!)
Please see the photograph (right) of a boot with a single toe stud configuration that is currently available to buy in the shops.
This type of boot is illegal under Law 4.4 (j) and players are not permitted to play with boots with this sole configuration. Please note that any Adidas boots with this configuration have not been designed or sold as a Rugby product and referees have been instructed to prevent players from wearing them.
The 500 Club Draw – If you’re not in it you can’t win it!!!
posted: October 05 2011
The 500 Club draw normally takes place twice a season; once at Christmas and the other at the end of the season. This year tickets are £5 which will enter you for both draws and can be paid for on annual basis by standing order. (Note: those who currently have standing orders will be allocated additional numbers accordingly)
For further information contact Dave Tugwell via the contact page or see the posters in the clubhouse, or click here for further details.
Standing order forms are available from the information dockets on the club notice board and can also be downloaded from the membership page of the website.
Women's Rugby at Maidstone
posted: August 06 2011
After an interval of many years, enthusiasm seems to be emerging for the return of women's and girl's rugby to Maidstone. In response, the club committee has agreed that the addition of a women's section would be a very desirable development for the club and is keen to assess the feasibility of this project.
In the first instance, the Chairman would be very pleased to hear from persons with the knowledge and enthusiasm to assist with taking this project forward, as well of course, as from women and girls who would be interested in getting their hands on a rugby ball in one format or another. Meanwhile, potential players are asked to register their interest with Charlotte "Charley" Goodbody, who many will know from her enthusiastic coaching of the under 5s. Charley can be contacted at charley@maidstonerugby.org.uk or on M: 07554998334
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Shadows of Tender Fury: Letters and Communiques of Subcomandante Marcos
by Subcomandante Marcos
Translated by Frank Bardacke, Leslie López, and the Watsonville California, Human Rights Committee
Introduction by John Ross
Afterword by Frank Bardacke
Since the 1994 uprisings in the Mexican state of Chiapas, the spokesman of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a masked rebel who calls himself Subcomandante Marcos, has become a symbol of revolt in the post-cold war era. Here are the words of Marcos—letters, stories for children, military communiqués, demands, poems, descriptions of colonial exploitation, travelogues, history lessons, spoofs of magic realism, subtle jokes, and inspiring anecdotes—which recast Mexican politics and revived rebel imaginations everywhere. They look backward to the traditions of Indian resistance and the dominant ideals of the Mexican revolution; they look forward to political strategies, styles, and theories that challenge the dominance of capitalism. The wit, anger, irony, and eloquence of these letters and communiqués document how history is being made after “the end of history.”
The Introduction by John Ross situates the Zapatistas in the context of Mexican history and the Afterword by Frank Bardacke discusses their language and politics, as well as their meaning for the U.S. left.
I did not expect such imagination or clarity from a Subcomandante, nor did I expect the fine sense of Humor which enriches his writing. He writes with a fine passion for justice but also with unusual compassion for his adversaries. No boring political rhetoric or pompous academic cant. Subcomandante Marcos uses stories—ancient as well as recent—to reveal the origins of the 1994 Zapatista uprising…. Shadows of Tender Fury is essential reading.
—LESLIE MARMON SILKO
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A History of World Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis
Mexico’s Revolution Then and Now
Why Unions Matter: 10th Anniversary Update
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The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies
About David S. Wyman
About the Wyman Institute
The Wyman Institute In The News
The Abandonment of the Jews
The Jews Should Keep Quiet
Blowing the Whistle on Genocide
Cartoonists Against the Holocaust
The Student Struggle Against the Holocaust
FDR and The Holocaust: A Breach of Faith
A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust
Millions of Jews to Rescue
George McGovern and the bombing of Auschwitz
Video Interview with Josiah E. DuBois, Jr
The Bergson Group, A History in Photographs
The Bergson Group, Leadership
The Bergson Group, We Will Never Die
The Bergson Group, Emergency Conference
The Bergson Group, The Rabbis March
The Bergson Group, Capitol Hill
The Bergson Group, A Flag is Born
The Bergson Group, Voyage of the Ben Hecht
The Day the Rabbis Marched
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The latest in a long tradition of creatively supporting embattled Jews abroad
by Rafael Medoff – July 25, 2014
Some friends of mine recently signed up to receive an alert on their iPhones each time an air-raid siren is sounded somewhere in Israel. The phone flashes red with the name of the town targeted by Hamas rockets. These days, their phones sometimes buzz every few minutes.
One may wonder how this does any good. Americans who receive such alerts can’t do anything about them except worry–how can that help?
In fact, American Jews have a long tradition of devising creative ways to identify with the plight of their fellow Jews overseas. Not just to worry, but to recognize their pain and raise awareness, since raising awareness is the necessary first step toward taking concrete action.
During my research on the 400 rabbis who marched to the White House in 1943 to plead for the rescue of European Jewry, I once had the opportunity to interview the daughter of one of the marchers, Rabbi Baruch David Weitzmann. She shared with me this remarkable anecdote:
“In those days, he had a shul on Strauss Street, in Brownsville, Brooklyn. One thing I remember is that he issued a psak [religious ruling] to the congregation, that because we have to feel the tsa’ar [pain] of the Jews who are being killed in Europe, there can be no festivities, no parties, no music. If somebody wanted to get married, they came to our house, there was a little chuppah, some cake and soda, nothing more. No celebrations, no dancing, just the chuppah and that’s all. He explained to us, you cannot celebrate at a time when other Jews are dying.”
In a similar spirit, the administration at Yeshiva College (later Yeshiva University) during the 1940s suspended public festivities such as the Chag Hasemicha, the celebration of the ordination of the graduating class of rabbinical students.
Three rabbinical students at the Jewish Theological Seminary were thinking along the same lines. In early 1943, Noah Golinkin, Jerome Lipnick, and Moshe “Buddy” Sachs approached the Synagogue Council of America with a detailed proposal intended to confront the ‘business as usual’ attitude in the Jewish community and “to remind ourselves of our obligations to those Jews in Europe who still live.”
Upstart college students don’t usually get a hearing from large, established Jewish organizations. These students did. The Synagogue Council agreed to call upon its member synagogues to undertake a series of steps that would change daily life in the community in order to keep the plight of Europe’s Jews uppermost in everyone’s minds.
Here’s what was recommended:
* Limiting “occasions of amusement.”
* Observing partial fast days on Mondays and Thursdays.
* Draping a black cloth over the ark that holds each synagogue’s Torah scrolls.
* Holding memorial rallies during which congregants would wear black armbands (designed by Golinkin three decades before Vietnam War protesters adopted a similar badge of mourning).
* Adding several sentences about Europe’s Jews to the Grace After Meals. One asked, “How can we enjoy our food while we know that our brothers perish by famine and sword?” Another was actually an appeal for divine assistance to make American Jewry more compassionate:
“Create in us, O God, a new heart responsive to the agony of our people, the suffering remnants of Israel: May we know of no rest ’til we have stretched out our hands to them in help. Father of mercy, create in us a spirit of compassion and loving kindness, to share our bread with the starving and to seek rescue for those who can be saved, that they live because of us.”
The packet of materials that the Synagogue Council of America distributed to rabbis nationwide also included sample letters to send to political and religious leaders, urging the Roosevelt administration to help rescue Jews from the Nazis. For the rabbinical students, religious symbolism and political action went hand in hand.
Soviet Jewry activists took a page from the students’ book 25 years later. Exemplifying a level of creativity sometimes lacking in the older generation of Jewish leadership, the activists initiated such gestures as having an extra place setting, and an empty chair, at the Passover seder. Jews in Detroit launched an “Unlit Menorah” ceremony during Hanukkah. American Jewish boys and girls twinned their bar and bat mitzvah celebrations with those of the children of Jewish refuseniks in the Soviet Union.
One teenage participant in a daily vigil outside the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C. later recalled how her life was changed the day she took part: “My sister and I and a friend of ours took the day off from school and established ourselves [outside the embassy]. We fasted all day; we gave out lealets to passersby; and we spoke to anyone who would listen. I felt that I was a link in an important chain. Someone had stood in my place the day before; someone else would stand there tomorrow.”
From generation to generation, this collective spirit has endured. Whether refraining from public celebrations during the Holocaust, adding a seat at the Passover table for Soviet Jewry, or interrupting daily activity with alerts about the situation in Israel, altering one’s lifestyle–even if just slightly–in order to acknowledge and validate the pain of fellow-Jews has become an integral part of expressing solidarity in times of distress.
Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, in Washington, D.C. (www.WymanInstitute.org)
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WYMAN INSTITUTE AND SMITHSONIAN COLLABORATE ON HISTORY PROJECTS
As part of a new collaborative relationship, Wyman Institute director Rafael Medoff was recently invited to take part in an event at the Smithsonian Institution commemorating the 75th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s order authorizing the mass internment of Japanese-Americans.
Dr. Medoff also spoke as part of a Smithsonian panel at the annual conference of the American Alliance of Museums, held at the America’s Center convention complex, in St. Louis. The panel was called “TransformiveEd: Exploring Difficult Subjects through Comics”; Dr. Medoff discussed the Wyman Institute’s use of comics, cartoons and animation to teach about the Holocaust.
The panel also included Evan Keeling of the Smithsonian, artists Liz Laribee and Jason Rodriguez, and Jenny Robb, director of the Billy Ireland Comic Library and Museum at Ohio State University, which is the largest comic library in the world.
Wyman Comic Wins Silver Medal
The Wyman Institute's comic book, Karski’s Mission: To Stop the Holocaust, has been awarded a Silver Medal in the 21st annual Independent Publisher Awards.
Karski's Mission, which was authored by Wyman Institute director Rafael Medoff and illustrated by renowned comic book artist Dean Motter, was awarded the Silver Medal in the category of "Graphic Novel/Drawn Book – Drama/Documentary category."
Karski's Mission is based on the true story of Jan Karski (1914-2000), a Polish Catholic and member of the Polish Underground during World War II, who risked his life to bring Allied leaders his eyewitness account of the ongoing slaughter of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Karski's Mission, which was co-published by the Wyman Institute and the Jan Karski Educational Foundation, received additional support from Fundacja Edukacyjna Jana Karskiego, the Association of Friends of the Polish History Museum, Sigmund A. Rolat (chairman of the Wyman Institute's board of directors), Carole Bilina, and John McLees. With assistance from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, a Polish-language edition of Karski's Mission is now being used widely in schools in Poland.
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Groovy Convert Milliseconds To Seconds
MIN_VALUE if negative or Long. Minutes and milliseconds are both units that are used to measure time. You also can convert 8000 Milliseconds to other Time (popular) units. Using the syntax from Figure 7, we can now make a SimpleDateFormat that can read the output of Date. we'll convert the milliseconds input value into a TimeSpan TimeSpan timeSpan = TimeSpan. Note that rounding errors may occur, so always check the results. TimeDuration represents time periods expressed in units of hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds. Best Answer: No. This tutorial shows you how to convert Second to Millisecond in Google. You could then create a formatter capable of converting that to a specific format such as HH:MM:SS, HHHH:MM:SS. Convert unix timestamp (seconds) to java (milliseconds). The calculators are coded in JavaScript. Milliseconds can be abbreviated as ms, for example 1 millisecond can be written as 1 ms. Your start date is a DateTime variable is called vFirstDT. 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But no luck, actually I tried somesoni2 suggestion and is not working either, my thoughts are that eval for some reasons I don't reach to figure out is changing the format of the variable. For example: If you have 5000 milliseconds and want to convert it to seconds you will divide by 1000 milliseconds/second which will cancel out the millisecond units and you will be left with 5. e, 1514851200000 into the date in power bi? Regards, Arvind. and I dont mean like. Go to http://google. One millisecond is a standard measurement of time and represents 1/1000 of one second. Hi I have Unix epoch time i. In that case you can convert milliseconds into seconds, try below query (where I've used avg function but you can use anything else). Frame rate unit conversion between frames per second and frames per millisecond, frames per millisecond to frames per second conversion in batch, fps Frames per millisecond conversion chart. 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The divide by 1000 probably turned the integer milliseconds into a decimal seconds, try casting it to int and see what happens: def secs = (int) (now() / 1000) Note I only have a couple of weeks with groovy myself, so don't know all the idiosyncrasies. an unit for measuring the time. Our conversions provide a quick and easy way to convert between Time units. CONVERT DATETIME to TIME and remove seconds and milliseconds - Learn more on the SQLServerCentral forums. I have the problem that I am left with a timestamp that reads like: 00:02:02. Easily convert kilohertz to milliseconds, convert kHz to ms(p). Note that rounding errors may occur, so always check the results. Seconds to Milliseconds. Seventy-three Milliseconds is equivalent to zero point zero seven three Seconds. The calculators are coded in JavaScript. Convert hrs, mins, ms to seconds; MSSQL not showing seconds even after using datetime as the column type; Formatting milliseconds to certain String; Compare datetime in milliseconds; How to convert normal date to Julian date upto milliseconds precision; Converting milliseconds to human amount of time. When I try to test the format by using getDate instead of DateTime column I get right milliseconds. 50 readings of 18:10:48 What I need is to average each second and divide the milliseconds equally for the whole second. Hello, I have the number of seconds since 1/1/1970 - 1275491109 I want to convert that to more readable date. Converting Milliseconds to HH:MM:SS. Best Answer: No. One day is the time it takes for the Earth to complete a single rotation around its axis in relation. Convert date in minute of the week format into millisecond format: 58. Use this page to learn how to convert between microseconds and milliseconds. Convert frequency units. com, and in the search bar, type 'se. 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Type in the amount you want to convert and press the Convert button. DATE or Calendar. ,"1187813802", but when i try to convert into to Java Date as below. There are 1,000 milliseconds in a second. 1 Decisecond: A decisecond is exactly 0. Microsecond is a metric unit of time. 75 for 33 and three quarters, etc. Converting Epoch Seconds to DMYHMS Parsing Dates and Times from Strings sorting 500 random numbers takes 0. TSQL - Converting HH:MM:SS to seconds If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. In this case we have 50,000 milliseconds, so divide 50,000 by 1,000 and we get. Congratulations! You've discovered the importance of units. Definition: A millisecond (symbol: ms) is a unit of time based on the SI (International System of Units) base unit of time, the second, and is equal to one-thousandth of a second. In Excel 2010, how can I convert milliseconds to seconds (ss. The symbol of the second is "ms". 2 seconds and 0. 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Thanks, Jim Andrews. why my refresh takes more than 200 milli seconds on average? Aggregation on nested document always takes 2-3 seconds? Is there a way to convert @timestamp of ES to Unix epoch time in milliseconds? unix timestamp (epoch) in date type; date faceting with milliseconds; Problem with histogram date facet. 3: we can use a set() method to set the values. Therefore 1 millisecond = 0. You can view more details on each measurement unit: millisecond or seconds The SI base unit for time is the second. The time value 120000 ms (millisecond) in words is "one hundred and twenty thousand ms (millisecond)". I have a field in the DB called duration and it is in milliseconds. Converting Milliseconds to HH:MM:SS. Convert Duration, as a decimal in milliseconds, to Days, Hours, Minutes, and Seconds. You can also set the. The method accepts a Map with the following keys: year, month, date, hourOfDay, minute and second. Convert milliseconds into a short day of the week string: 59. 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MILLISECONDS. com, and in the search bar, type 'se. Using TimeDate to filter actions (groovy newbie) method to convert to milliseconds. Convert frequency units. currentTimeMillis() offers precision to the millisecond but its accuracy still depends on the underlying machine. Easily convert hertz to milliseconds, convert Hz to ms(p). You can view more details on each measurement unit: millisecond or seconds The SI base unit for time is the second. Convert milliseconds into a short day of the week string: 59. how to convert seconds to HH:MM format ? 1 Answer. Is there a alternative sleep function that I can use with gcc compiling on Linux?. Can anybody please help. Converting milliseconds to minutes Welcome › Forums › General PowerShell Q&A › Converting milliseconds to minutes This topic contains 13 replies, has 3 voices, and was last updated by. Several date to millisecond calculators, useful when coding countdown timers, cookie expiration settings or other date related scripts. Note that rounding errors may occur, so always check the results. Hi there I have a integer which is milliseconds representing a lap time I would like to convert this to the hh:mm:ss. It is a very convenient and easy tool for those who need to do fast milliseconds to microseconds conversion. First of all just type the seconds (s) value in the text field of the conversion form to start converting s to ms, then select the decimals value and finally hit convert button if auto calculation didn't work. T-SQL: Convert milliseconds into Hour Minutes and Seconds in SQL Server. FromMilliseconds. 39 ms to s) with our Time converter. Pass an amount of milliseconds as an argument when calling the function, and you'll obtain an object with properties d, h, m, and s, with the number of days, hours, minutes, and seconds, respectively. 16300 ms = 16. Note that we should provide the correct Timezone in order to have exact conversions. Okay, thanks, that's kinda what I thought. How many Nanoseconds in 7363 ms. And dates can be converted to a long milliseconds value using getTime. getTime() - StartDate_c. 3 seconds and multiply it by 1000, that will give me 17,300 milliseconds. Time Unit Conversion Calculator. Many other converters available for free. In particular: 1 second squared is not 1 second. Java makes converting an integer to a string easy through one of its internal functions. 45 Milliseconds to Seconds Conversion breakdown and explanation 45 ms to s conversion result above is displayed in three different forms: as a decimal (which could be rounded), in scientific notation (scientific form, standard index form or standard form in the United Kingdom) and as a fraction (exact result). Pass an amount of milliseconds as an argument when calling the function, and you'll obtain an object with properties d, h, m, and s, with the number of days, hours, minutes, and seconds, respectively. We assume you are converting between microsecond and millisecond. One hundred sixty-three Milliseconds is equivalent to zero point one six three Seconds. ) is the name of a unit of time, and is the International System of Units (SI) base unit of time. Milliseconds. 789 milliseconds and I need to convert it to minutes like this: 2'' 23' is there any way to convert this?simple arithmetic will do it. TickCount, it returns an integer containing the total amount of milliseconds that the system has been up since the last restart. Below is a sample example query to full fill same. 001 or 10−3 or 1/1000) of a second. I need to convert order_submit_date into this format yyyy-mm-dd within the if block itself. How many milliseconds are there in a DATE? As the unit of a DATE is a DAY (24 hours, 60 minutes and 60 seconds), if you know how many milliseconds there a in a day, you can write the function. In Python 3 this can be done in 2 steps: Convert timestring to datetime object; Take the newly created datetime object and get its timestamp, whose unit is seconds. Converting Milliseconds to HH:MM:SS. There were some minor things that needed to be done to convert the number used for Unix seconds since epoch to Java/Groovy's milliseconds since epoch. Also, explore tools to convert millisecond or second to other time units or learn more about time conversions. The divide by 1000 probably turned the integer milliseconds into a decimal seconds, try casting it to int and see what happens: def secs = (int) (now() / 1000) Note I only have a couple of weeks with groovy myself, so don’t know all the idiosyncrasies. But no luck, actually I tried somesoni2 suggestion and is not working either, my thoughts are that eval for some reasons I don't reach to figure out is changing the format of the variable. One second is equal to 1,000 milliseconds, so use this simple formula to convert: seconds = milliseconds ÷ 1,000 The time in seconds is equal to the milliseconds divided by 1,000. Seconds to MilliSeconds (s to ms ) : It is a free online seconds to milliseconds (s to ms) time converter. long seconds = TimeUnit. If I were going to write something to do this I think I'd create a class that can be instantiated with milliseconds and then could return milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours. Note that rounding errors may occur, so always check the results. set @Milliseconds = 1051406. I get the current frames position as milliseconds and I want to convert it to minutes and seconds. Convert 110 Milliseconds to Seconds What is 110 milliseconds in seconds? 110 ms to s conversion. Transport client TTL, seconds or milliseconds. Whilst we can't say how long a month is without knowing the year and the name of the month, we know how long a second is independent of the date. I think you should try other functions like avg or sum. currentTimeMillis() method returns the current time in milliseconds. Convert date in milliseconds into minute of the day: 57. The first is I need to know how to convert the timestamp that displays from "Get Date/Time in seconds" to a string format. How Many Milliseconds in a Second? There are 1000 milliseconds in a second. First, there was the obvious need to multiply the Unix number by 1000 to get from seconds to milliseconds. Microsecond is a metric unit of time. I have timestamp data from MySQL database. You can view more details on each measurement unit: milliseconds or seconds The SI base unit for time is the second. A millisecond (from milli- and second; symbol: ms) is a thousandth (0. Now 100 / 60 = 1. There are 86400 seconds in a day, so 86,400,000 milliseconds. getTime() - StartDate_c. Simply select the input unit, enter the value and click "Convert" button. Best Answer Simply calculate the inverse of the frame rate to obtain the duration of time, in seconds, each video frame is generated or displayed. Just follow these steps:- 1. There are a couple of approaches you can take here.
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Wasson ’03 Writes Biography of Entertainment Icon Bob Fosse
by David Low • November 8, 2013
Sam Wasson ’03
Best-selling author Sam Wasson ’03 has published Fosse (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), an authoritative and fascinating biography of the renowned dancer, choreographer, screenwriter, and director Bob Fosse. The only person ever to win Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards in the same year, Fosse was a masterful artist in every entertainment medium he touched, and forever marked Broadway and Hollywood with his iconic style that would influence generations of performing artists.
Biography by Sam Wasson ’03
Wasson reveals the man behind the swaggering sex appeal by exploring Fosse’s reinventions of himself over a career that would result in his work on The Pajama Game, Pippin, Sweet Charity, the film Cabaret, All That Jazz, and the original Broadway production of Chicago. The author researched a wealth of unpublished material and hundreds of sources including friends, enemies, lovers, and collaborators, many of whom have never spoken publicly about Fosse before. He touches on Fosse’s prodigious professional life and also on his close and conflicted relationships with everyone from Liza Minnelli to Ann Reinking to Jessica Lange and Dustin Hoffman.
Wasson captures a man who was never satisfied with his achievements and lived an offstage life full of turmoil. He uncovers the deep wounds that encouraged Fosse’s insatiable appetites for spotlights, women, and life itself.
In her review of Fosse in The New York Times, Janet Maslin writes: “Mr. Wasson is a smart and savvy reporter, and his book abounds with colorful firsthand tales. … Whoever Fosse was and whatever his work meant, Mr. Wasson’s book is required reading for anyone eager to understand his brand of — to use a term that appears here constantly, and can’t be outdone — razzle-dazzle. And to see through his darkness.”
Wasson is also the author of The New York Times best seller Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman and two books published by Wesleyan University Press, A Splurch in the Kisser: The Movies of Blake Edwards and Paul on Mazursky.
David Low
David Low '76 writes about arts and culture for the Wesleyan magazine and Wesleyan Connection. He is associate director of publications in the Office of University Communications. He is also a published fiction writer. E-mail: dlow@wesleyan.edu View all posts by David Low →
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Newsroom / Featured Stories / $100,000 donation from Associated Bank and Brewers Community Foundation to assist home repair in the Milwaukee Area
$100,000 donation from Associated Bank and Brewers Community Foundation to assist home repair in the Milwaukee Area
‘Hits for Homes’ program at Miller Park results in donation to Housing Resources, Inc.
Friday, September 28, 2018 | Milwaukee Brewers
Pictured from left to right: Christopher Piotrowski and Eduardo Herrera-Mier of Associated Bank, Cecilia Gore of Brewers Community Foundation and Mary DeLaat of Milwaukee Brewers.
For the fourth consecutive year, $100,000 was donated to Housing Resources, Inc. (HRI) as a result of the Hits for Homes program at Miller Park, sponsored by Associated Bank and Brewers Community Foundation. Donations to HRI will be used to provide emergency and essential home-repair grants to low-to moderate-income homeowners, revitalizing neighborhoods in the Milwaukee area.
As part of the program, every hit recorded by the Brewers during regular season home games resulted in a $150 donation to HRI, up to a combined total of $100,000.
“We are grateful for the support from Brewers Community Foundation and Associated Bank,” said Trena Bond, executive director, HRI. “Their efforts and donation will allow us to continue to improve the Milwaukee community by supporting homebuyers and preserving equity for future generations.”
Associated Bank has been a long-term commercial banking partner of the Brewers and home of Brewers Checking™ and the official Brewers Credit Card. This partnership includes charitable activities to support the community as well as unique fan engagement activities to share Associated’s team pride.
For more information about Associated Bank and promotions for baseball fans, visit Associated Bank.com/Brewers.
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Bicycles and more on the Bay Bridge
Bicycle access to San Francisco Bay area bridges has been a contentious issue. Caltrans, the state transportation agency, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), and state and local police have been irrationally polarized against bicycle and pedestrian use of major water crossings and other critical transportation links. Jason Meggs, founder of Bike the Bridge! Coalition, is the most vocal leader on the front lines of making the Bay Bridge open to alternatives to the automobile. Here are a few of his writings:
1) a letter requesting that Caltrans provide immediate access for bicycles and pedestrians as required by law,
2) an account of a bicycle ride in September 1998 across the Bay Bridge to support bicycle and rail facilities on the bridge,
3) about Caltrans and MTC closing bike lanes, and reverting them to car lanes.
Letter to Caltrans:
Harry Yahata, Director
Caltrans District 4
Oakland, CA 94623-0660
RE: PERMIT APPLICATION FOR MAXIMUM USE OF THREE BAY AREA BRIDGES
Dear Director Yahata:
I am writing to request that you permit bicycles and pedestrians on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, and the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, immediately. If for some reason you feel that the Department cannot permit bicycles and pedestrians then please explain in detail with supporting documentation. In addition, if for some reason you feel that the Department cannot permit bicycles and pedestrians on any of the above bridges, then please describe under what conditions one or more bicycles and pedestrians may obtain a special permit to use any part of any of the above facilities at any time. I have included the text of the first portion of the code, 23330(b), which apparently requires such an application:
23330. Except where a special permit has been obtained from the Department of Transportation under the provisions of Article 6 (commencing with Section 35780) of Chapter 5 of Division 15, none of the following shall be permitted on any vehicular crossing:
(a) Animals while being led or driven, even though tethered or harnessed.
(b) Bicycles or motorized bicycles, unless the department by signs indicates that either bicycles or motorized bicycles, or both, are permitted upon all or any portion of the vehicular crossing.
Please consider this letter to be an application for maximum use of all of your facilities by nonmotorized travelers. Should you deny this permit, please explain in detail and provide us with all documentation that your decision is based on. This is a request under the Public Records Act for such documentation.
REQUEST FOR FEE WAIVER: The Bike the Bridge! Coalition is a not-for-profit, public interest organization whose mission is to help the Bay Area obtain equal access to all bridges. Consistent with this mission, I therefore request that your Department waive any copying fees. Should your agency decide to charge a fee, I wish to bring to your attention a recent ruling by the California Court of Appeals. In North County Parents Organization v. Department of Education, 28 Cal. Rptr. 2d 359, the court held that 6257 of the CA Government Code, which allows agencies to charge fees covering the "direct cost of duplication," limits those fees to the actual cost of running the copying machine. Agencies may not charge for "ancillary tasks necessarily associated with the retrieval, inspection and handling of the file from which the copy is extracted." The court held that a copying fee of 25 cents per page was an excessive fee under 6257 of the Public Records Act. Consistent with this decision, should your agency decide to charge a copying fee, BCLU would be willing to pay 5 cents per page and will supply audiotapes. Please notify me in advance before incurring any costs in excess of $10. Should your agency elect to withhold this document, please explain under which provisions this is justified as required by CA Government Code 6255.
I look forward to hearing from you within ten days as required by law. (CA Government Code 6256.) Please mail the request to our address on this letterhead. Please call me at (510) xxx-xxxx (pager) if you have any questions about this request.
Jason Meggs
East Bay Coordinator
Bike the Bridge! Coalition
cc: Jose Medina, Honorable Director of Caltrans; Bay Area Toll Authority, MTC and EDAP; BCDC Staff, Commissioners, Alternatives and Design Review Board
[Originals] Printed on 100% post-consumer content, recycled paper.
Account of the September 10, 1998 Bay Bridge bike ride,
calling for train and bicycle access
by Jason Meggs, co-founder, Bike the Bridge! Coalition
Yesterday (September 10, 1998), at approximately 9 a.m., at the tail end of the commute, approximately 20 cyclists mounted the Bay Bridge at the east end. The riders sported brilliant banners and flags and a 50-foot long, 15-foot high, five-bike-long sculpture of a train on a suspension bridge calling for "ACCESS NOW!"
A two-page press release with detailed information regarding the reasons for the protest was widely distributed to approximately 20 media sources, most of whom ignored the information. The top items were: accommodate heavy rail on the new east span; make the new bike path comfortable and permanent; and above all, provide immediate access by restriping the Bay Bridge to have a 7-8 foot bike lane.
The mass media instead chose to falsely report that the riders had blocked traffic for hours. There was precious little mention of the cyclists' call for heavy rail capacity on the bridge, despite the press releases and the large suspended four-piece train banner which floated over the riders.
This false charge by media ignored the following information:
(1) The riders were traveling at approximately the same speed as motor traffic on the bridge when they merged, and were using space on the bridge more efficiently (as a bus or train would);
(2) The riders encountered no prohibitory signs and so were on the bridge legally;
(3) The CHP and CalTrans over-reacted and blocked off the lane behind the riders as well as the lane adjacent to the riders;
(4) Motorists on the bridge showed tremendous (5-1) support for the bicyclists, with many thumbs up, fists in the air, waves, honks, whoops, and other cheers;
(5) The CHP, working with SFPD tactical units and the SF County Sheriff's Department, blockaded the Fremont exit and the Transbay Terminal off-ramp for upwards of half an hour while performing the illegal mass arrest of the riders and some innocent bystanders who had actually been driving an
SUV;
Other information which the mass media ignored:
(a) The MTC has suppressed the voices of many hundreds of groups and individuals calling for a properly-designed, permanent, and complete (shore-to-shore) Bay Bridge path;
(b) The MTC and Caltrans have broken their promise to take action on designing the second half of the bike path as soon as AB 2038 (Migden) was passed;
(c) Bicyclists subsidize all these exclusive and detrimental motorist facilities. Bicyclists helped pay for the bridge, and continue to pay for the "free" tow service, the retrofit, and more through taxes and other sources;
I know that it's hard for bicyclists to see us falsely vilified once again in the corporatist-controlled media, but please bear with the facts and do your best to educate the public that there is another side of the story and that if the mass media had any fairness it would have told it.
It's interesting that KGO-7 (who are infamous for their hateful coverage of the attack on SF Critical Mass by SF Mayor Brown in July 1997) was the only camera allowed near the arrestees, and that the cameraman turned his
camera away from me when I tried to give a statement about getting "three bridges for the price of one." They didn't want our side of the story, just scenes of bicyclists being arrested. Far in the distance, beyond three car lengths of side-by-side police cars, which were a considerable distance from the ramp, was a bank of reporters and camera people (four large cameras were there). Maybe they would have been interested in the real story had they been allowed to get close to the arrestees?
The CHP helped cover up the story by arresting several independent individuals who were taping the riders from an SUV, reportedly arrested because the camera person didn't have press credentials. So another source
of the real story disappeared. And despite the presence of multiple helicopters, which clearly showed traffic moving freely in the other lanes, media used very little helicopter footage of the actual ride (e.g. Channels 4 and 5).
Also, from the reports of people listening to the radio coupled with the riders' experience: despite the fact that the KGO traffic-radio helicopter was waving in a friendly manner to the riders, and was stating that the bikes were riding with traffic in the far right, that there was a lot of motorist support and that traffic was moving around the riders comfortably, the trafffic reporter in the studio--not witnessing the event--insisted on ignoring this information in order to say that the riders were blocking traffic and angering motorists..
Every media story I've heard of so far (except KPFA) played up the "angry motorist" side without discussing the big picture, which is namely:
(a) The bicyclists didn't significantly block traffic (they were traffic);
(b) The everyday backups are a result of poor and/or corrupt planning which encourages sprawl and creates congestion--the exact opposite of what the bicyclists were advocating for (blame MTC/ Caltrans, not the bicyclists);
(c) EVERY DAY is a BART strike for bicyclists.
It's funny, there was a systemwide failure on BART at the time of the ride; the Caltrans bike shuttle was full (14 riders) and had probably bumped riders, the AC Transit bus with a rack was full of bikes. Yet the news media couldn't pick up on the fact that this was the first anniversary of the Bay Bridge ride (September 10th, 1997) on the third day of the infamous BART strike.
Even when the transbay tube was shut down due to smoke later that day, which was a top story (and even as we got in trouble in our packed cell because some moron managed to light a cigarette), the media still failed to look at the big picture of how fallible our transportation system is.
Please write letters to the editors of these papers, call the teevee and radio stations, and complain that they're encouraging yet more intolerance and violence against cyclists (who already get quite enough of that) while falsely reporting on our serious regional transportation crisis.
chronletters@sfgate.com — The San Francisco Chronicle
editor@examiner.com — The San Francisco Examiner
letters@examiner.com — The San Francisco Examiner
letters@sjmercury.com — The San Jose Mercury News
KGOAM810@aol.com — KGO Car Radio
newsroom@kgo-tv.com — KGO Channel 7 television
Keeshak@kgo-tv.com KGO Channel 7 "I-team"
4listens@kron.com — Channel 4 television
tvnews@kpix.com — Channel 5 television
news@team.bayinsider.com — Channel 2 television
letters@sfbg.com — The San Francisco Bay Guardian (has done good reporting)
Ebxpress@aol.com — East Bay Express (prints letters)
letters@sfweekly.com — San Francisco Weekly (prints letters)
Be sure to include your address and phone number. Be sure to write separately to each paper or station.
Also, please call District Attorney Hallinan and ask that the charges be dropped against the bicyclists and that an order be issued for the return of all confiscated bicycles and cameras. Tell him that the CHP has a pattern of false arrest of bicyclists on bridges that is now well documented, and it's time to refuse to cooperate with their abusive tactics:
District Attorney Terrence Hallinan, San Francisco (415) 553-1751
Media known to have misrepresented the story:
KRON-4 (quite bad)
KGO-7 (real bad)
The San Francisco Chronicle (plus really bad hit-piece editorial)
KGO radio (really bad)
KPIX -5
The best reporting heard of yet was KPFA. We expect that the Bay Guardian will do a right-on story. We hope that Free Radio Berkeley will continue to broadcast because we need alternatives to this corrupt mass media. "Bring back Bicycle Liberation Radio on 104.1 FM!"
And until the media gets it right, and until our demands are met, there will certainly be a need for more protests.
Jason Meggs was cited by the MTC Chairman as being principally responsible for convincing him and other Commissioners to vote to include the bicycle/pedestrian path in the bridge project. The truth of the decision is more revealing:
Bicyclists have gotten the short end of the stick for too long. But designing the path to be inhospitable is the last straw, and clearly an attempt to undermine and discredit the bicycle movement. There is no question in my mind that those who head the MTC and CalTrans hate the bicycle movement and are looking for any excuse to take away the path, either now or later—observe the loss of the I-80 HOV lane this week. Remember the taking away of the Dumbarton shoulders for more traffic. Remember the taking away with no notice of the Richmond bridge tow-truck bicycle shuttle, and the curtailing of the over-capacity Bay Bridge bicycle shuttle. Remember the "crackdown" on San Francisco Critical Mass last summer, perfectly timed with the major Bay Bridge bicycle path decisions. Recall the felonies which Bay Bridge biking activists were charged with when they had committed no crime. And recall the threat MTC Assistant Director Bill Hein made upon my person when they lost the battle against the Bay Bridge bike path at BCDC. When they make the path inhospitable, it is so no one will want to use it, so they can play their usual game of claiming that no one bikes so bikes deserve nothing. So they can take our path over for automobile traffic. THEY'RE ALREADY PUBLICLY TALKING ABOUT THIS!
[Jason Meggs, August 13, 1998]
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Person - Sánchez-Albornoz, Claudio (1893-1984)
Sánchez-Albornoz, Claudio (1893-1984)
Sánchez-Albornoz, Claudio (1893-1984)Other forms
Madrid (España) 1893-04-07 - Ávila 1984-07-08
Claudio Sánchez Albornoz was a Spanish historian, archivist, and politician. He is considered one of the most remarkable Spanish historians. He graduated in Philosophy and Letters and got a PhD from the University of Madrid. He was son of Nicolás Sánchez Albornoz y Hurtado (1862‑1941) and Teresa Menduiña Jové, and father of Nicolás, Mari‑Cruz, and Concha Sánchez‑Albornoz Aboín. He was number one in the public examination to the Corps of Archives, Libraries, and Museums, and tenured Professor of Spain's History, in the universities of Barcelona, Valencia, Valladolid and Madrid. In 1926 he joined the Royal Academy of History and was Rector of the Central University in 1932‑34. He also was deputy for Avila between 1931 and 1936, Minister of State in 1933, Vice‑President of the Cortes in 1936, Counselor of Public Instruction between 1931 and 1933, and Ambassador of Spain in Lisbon. After the Spanish Civil War, he went into exile in Argentina and there he was History Professor at the universities of Mendoza and Buenos Aires. Moreover, he founded in Argentina the Institute of Spain's History and the magazine "Cuadernos de Historia de España." From March 1962 until February 1971, he was president of the Government of the Spanish Republic in exile. In 1976, he returned to Spain and settled down in Avila, where he died. He was buried in the cloister of the Cathedral of Ávila.
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Serebrennikov's New Take on 'A Common Story'
By John Freedman
Ira Polyarnaya / Gogol Center“A Common Story” was written by Ivan Goncharov in 1847 and tells of Sasha, a bright young man who goes to the big city to find his fame and fortune.
Ivan Goncharov is not the writer who jumps to mind when you think hip, universal, classic 19th-century Russian prose.
Sure, his novel "Oblomov" is a central brick in the Russian cultural iconostasis. But I suspect that "A Common Story," a novel he wrote in 1847, 12 years before "Oblomov," collects plenty of dust on people's bookshelves. Assuming they own a copy, of course.
By now you're just waiting for the "but," and, without further ado — here it is.
But that was until Kirill Serebrennikov took on the story for a slick new production at the Gogol Center.
Serebrennikov took off the gloves when he wrestled this work down. He completely reset it in modern times, with cell phones and trophy girlfriends and shaved-head crooks. The language is the language we speak, or, at least, hear spoken. The sensibilities, the clothing, the settings, the anxieties, the moral traps are all entirely familiar.
The basic premise is as old as civilization itself — a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed young man from the sticks heads for the big city with grand ideas in his head. And the outcome is no different from what you would expect — life whacks the kid up the side of the head. End of common story.
But no. It's not the end of the story, for the tale of this production is the journey, not the destination. And both Goncharov and Serebrennikov provide us with a gripping tale of good and innocence getting their comeuppance.
It doesn't hurt that the two leads, the two individuals set up to destroy each other as they sort of help each other along, perform brilliantly.
Filipp Avdeyev plays Sasha, a young kid bursting with energy, talent, ambition and ideas. He plays the guitar and writes songs, and when he gets to Moscow, he's going to make it big. How could he possibly fail? Particularly when he has an uncle in the city, rich and connected. This is going to be easy.
Uncle Pyotr is played by Alexei Agranovich with a chilled, calm control that doesn't quite entirely freeze others out. There is a half-percent of life still glistening in his eyes, playing on his gestures. Sure, he's dead to the world — it has turned him into a cliche, a robot that answers to money, power and influence. But there's something left — not enough to save his soul, but enough for us to see his soul was once salvageable.
Ira Polyarnaya / Gogol Center
Alexei Agranovich plays Uncle Pyotr with calm control and glistening eyes.
Serebrennikov, who also designed and wrote the adaptation, puts the characters in a kind of dark, black hole. The stage is barren, forbidding. An occasional metro sign or sweater provide splashes of color, but things here are bleak.
The action usually proceeds deliberately and quietly, like the calm that precedes a storm. But there are explosions, localized and quick. Pyotr, sporting a friendly, but icy, smile asks to play a few chords on Filipp's guitar and the kid is delighted.
Until the elder takes the instrument and angrily smashes it as if he were Pete Townshend.
Does Sasha actually come to love the older woman Yulia (Olga Naumenko) who will buy him fame? Or is that a broken man making a deal with the devil? A bit of both, perhaps, but it comes to no good end.
Pyotr's girlfriend Liza (Yekaterina Steblina) lends her boyfriend a slight air of humanity. But it's not nearly enough to save him, or his kid nephew, whom she tries to take under her wing with no success.
Sasha hangs onto his purity and goodwill longer than one might expect. But when it goes, it's gone fast.
That is what Pyotr has been angling for all along — to snap this kid out of his delusions. And yet, at that moment when he finally sees that he succeeded in his task, he learns he has prepared his own final humiliation as well.
This harsh, relentless tale is buoyed at times by Sasha's joyous warbling with his guitar, and by an onstage pianist (Andrei Polyakov) who provides live accompaniment to developments good and bad.
My hat's off to Serebrennikov, who showed me a Goncharov I had no idea existed. As for Goncharov — my respect. Add "A Common Story" to that long list of great Russian novels.
"A Common Story" (Obyknovennaya Istoria) plays Thurs. and Fri. at 8 p.m. at Gogol Center, located at 8 Ulitsa Kazakova. Metro Kurskaya. Tel. 499-262-9214. gogolcenter.ru. Running time: 3 hours, 30 minutes.
Contact the author at artsreporter@imedia.ru
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Rogozin Rejects Visa Proposal for Kaliningrad
Aug. 13 2002 00:00
President Vladimir Putin's special envoy for dealing with the thorny issue of Kaliningrad met with Lithuanian officials Monday, but rejected their proposal to introduce free, multiple-entry travel documents for residents of the Russian exclave, saying it did not solve the fundamental problem of unrestricted travel for all Russian citizens.
"Preferential treatment for the residents of one region of our country at the expense of the residents of other regions traveling from [one part of] Russia to [another part of] Russia is completely unacceptable," Dmitry Rogozin, head of the State Duma committee on foreign affairs, told Interfax on the eve of his visit to Vilnius.
Travel between the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad and mainland Russia promises to become problematic after the region's neighbors, Poland and Lithuania, join the European Union, which is expected by 2004. As EU entry nears, the two countries have been required to tighten border controls and visa regulations in preparation for joining the Schengen group of nations.
Earlier this month, Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus proposed introducing long-term visas, which could be issued free of charge, to Kaliningrad residents who frequently travel to Lithuania, Interfax reported. Adamkus also suggested providing such frequent travelers with special magnetized cards to be used at border crossings.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis told Rogozin on Monday that Vilnius "is prepared to be flexible insofar as this does not hinder the country's accession to the Schengen agreement," Interfax said.
However, Rogozin argued that, by insisting on Lithuania's adherence to the stringent Schengen visa rules, the EU was "playing the role of the famous Mr. Nyet," a reference to the Western nickname for Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko who became notorious for his intransigence in international negotiations.
"I regard this [Adamkus' proposals] simply as an attempt to call visas something else without changing the fundamental approach," Rogozin was quoted by Interfax as saying.
Rogozin was scheduled to travel to Kaliningrad late Monday.
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Furor Over Mironov Taking Spotlight From Kaliningrad Rally
By Alexander Bratersky
The ongoing war of words between Sergei Mironov, head of the Just Russia quasi-opposition party, and his political opponents from United Russia looks like a diversion from real political problems, particularly last weekend's rally in Kaliningrad, political analysts said Thursday.
The protests, in which more than 10,000 people rallied and many called for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's resignation, took the authorities by surprise, said Mikhail Chesalin, who represents the opposition Patriots Party in the Kaliningrad regional legislature.
After the protest Saturday, he was among a group of local lawmakers invited to meet with Kremlin political gurus, who flew hastily to Kaliningrad to investigate the situation.
“I explained to them that the politics of the ruling party prepared the grounds for such a demonstration,” Chesalin told The Moscow Times.
And just as the Kremlin’s envoys were scrambling to find a strategy to offset the fallout from the protest, the squabble between A Just Russia and United Russia — both of which were conceived by Kremlin spin doctors — erupted in the national media.
Mironov, the soft-spoken speaker of the Federation Council and a longtime ally of Putin, cautiously criticized the 2010 budget prepared by Putin's Cabinet and its anti-crisis measures on state television Monday evening.
Senior officials from United Russia were at his throat the next day, accusing him in very strongly worded statements of betraying the national leader and calling for him to be ousted as head of the upper chamber of the parliament.
A Just Russia responded by blaming United Russia's political monopoly and accusing it of fearing all political dissent.
National newspapers including Nezavisimaya Gazeta suggested Thursday that the quarrel was senseless because Mironov poses no threat to Putin or United Russia, suggesting that the sudden scandal was in fact an attempt to move the media spotlight away from Kaliningrad.
A senior member of the Communist Party, Duma Deputy Sergei Obukhov, told Echo Moskvy radio that "two boys are imitating a fight to get public attention away from the problems that led to the mass protest erupting in the Kaliningrad region."
Meanwhile, the Kremlin seems to have taken the situation there rather seriously, firing Oleg Matveichev, the Kremlin official responsible for domestic politics in northwestern Russia, where the Kaliningrad exclave is located.
A Just Russia stayed away from the protest, and its leaders there made no comments afterward about the protesters or Governor Georgy Boos, a top United Russia official who was also criticized during the rally, Chesalin said.
But the head of the Just Russia faction in the State Duma, Nikolai Levichev, said Boos' administration bore some responsibility for the public display of anger.
“When you have a demonstration of 12,000 people, this is a very threatening sign that the authorities couldn’t establish a dialog with the people," he told The Moscow Times.
Sources close to A Just Russia told The Moscow Times that Mironov was having a difficult time being the leader of an opposition party ahead of regional elections in March while still remaining loyal to Putin.
Several of United Russia's top members have demanded to remove Mironov as speaker, but the current legal procedures prevent any party from doing this.
“He is a very useful man for the Kremlin, who’s role is to balance United Russia,” said Stanislav Belkovsky, an independent political expert, adding that Kremlin strategists still consider A Just Russia a loyal party.
The post of the Federation Council speaker is highly important for Mironov as the party's leader, Belkovsky said. “If he ceases to be chairman of the council, his party will collapse like a house of cards.”
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For a Song: Alabama Getaway
Spotlight on: Lara Michell
For a Song: Roses and Clover
Grace Askew - Until They Lay Me Down to Rest
Let’s Rock!
For a Song: Crocodile Man
Kim Richey - Wreck Your Wheels
Discovered Live
For a Song: Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That B...
Ellis - Right on Time
Where the Night Takes You
For a Song: Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?
Natalie Cole: Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?
I love baseball, so I wanted to offer a song in honor of the beginning of the playoffs. My Mets are watching at home once again this year, and I have to put up with both the Yankees and the Phillies once again. But I still love the game, and the playoffs show it off at its best. (For the record, I’d like to see the Rays and the Reds in the World Series, and it has nothing to do with the letter r.) So I needed the right song. I once posted Steve Goodman’s Dying Cub Fan on Star Maker Machine, and I don’t like to repeat myself. Centerfield and Talkin’ Baseball have been done to death. But I found this, and it’s a good one.
Jackie Robinson is a hero of mine. His great play forced open the barriers to blacks in baseball, but by all accounts, Robinson never let that go to his head. He knew he had done something important, but he always carried himself with grace. It only stands to reason that someone would write a song about it, and by 1949, Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball? was a hit for Count Basie. Natalie Cole recorded her version for Ken Burns’ Baseball, and the Basie version was clearly the model. But Cole channels her inner Betty Boop here, and it really adds something. I haven’t really liked anything I have heard by Natalie Cole before, but this one hit’s the spot. Safe!
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Doctor Who Recap: “The Witch’s Familiar”
The second episode of the new season of Doctor Who aired Saturday night and somehow the unholy alliance struck between Missy and Clara managed to hold across the span of the two-part premiere. Almost. We come upon the two hanging out (Clara more literally than Missy) in the desert of Skaro with a view of the Dalek capital where the Doctor is being held by Davros.
Deciding whether to employ her as an ally or as lunch, Missy tests Clara’s knowledge of the Doctor with a riddle-like quiz similar to the one Madame Vastra gave her when Clara first became the Doctor’s companion. Of course, Clara passes and the two set off to save him, armed with one pointy stick between them.
At first, the Doctor doesn’t appear to require saving. He’s already relieved Davros of his ride and is sipping tea in the company of multiple frustrated Daleks. But things don’t go as he planned.
The great thing about Missy is that she always has a plan. Her current one is to enter the Dalek city through their sewer system, make her way past former Daleks, now rotting yet unkillable sludge, and ultimately use Clara as bait to attract a functioning Dalek whose armour she’ll steal and install Clara into. It’s a pretty solid infiltration strategy. Unfortunately for Clara, becoming a Dalek (again, sort of) isn’t much fun. When she says her name, it comes out “Dalek”, when she says “I love you” it comes out “Exterminate!”
Back in Davros’ company, the Doctor demands to know if Clara is alive but instead of an answer, he’s given a chance to orchestrate the genocide of the entire Dalek race after Davros reveals exactly how he is connected to his creation. Refusing, the Doctor admits that his compassion may one day be his downfall—a statement Davros attempts to make real by engaging the Doctor in a conversation about Gallifrey and congratulating him on restoring his own planet. When he tells the Doctor he’d like to see one more sunrise with his own eyes before he dies, the Doctor offers to help him by using some of his regeneration power to restore Davros’ eyesight.
But this is Davros we’re dealing with, so obviously it’s all been a ruse. As the Doctor’s powers of regeneration are stolen from him and piped across the entire Dalek race, Missy finally comes to the rescue, freeing him—though not before a bit of Time Lord has been injected into every Dalek on Skaro. What Davros didn’t count on, however, was the effect that regeneration would have on every Dalek on Skaro—including the rotting ones in the sewers. “Your sewers are revolting” was perhaps the best double entendre ever uttered in Who history.
All that’s left now is to free Clara from her Dalek cage, recall the TARDIS using his new wearables (those shades!), and leave Skaro behind for good. Only the Doctor doesn’t know that Clara is in a Dalek and she can’t tell him because everything comes out “I am a Dalek!” and “Exterminate!”—exactly the way Missy planned it.
What she didn’t count on though, was the Doctor returning to the battlefield where he first encountered a young Davros to teach him (and the Daleks) a very important word: mercy.
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The Crystal Ball of the NFL
Composed by The Phanatic Staff
The NFL season gets underway tonight where the Three Rivers meet, as defending Super Bowl-champion Pittsburgh begins its defense of the title without quarterback Ben Roethlisberger against the Miami Dolphins.
The 2006 season kicks off with many questions...Will Carson Palmer be fully recovered from a torn ACL? Which team will separate itself in the blood bath that is the NFC East? Is the Deion Branch fiasco a sign that New England's reign as a year-to-year title contender has come to an end?
Answers to those questions and more can be found below as The Phanatic picks division winners, wild-card entries and crowns a Super Bowl champion.
Jared Trexler
1. New England (11-5)
2. Miami (10-6)
3. Buffalo (5-11)
4. New York Jets (3-13)
1. Pittsburgh (11-5)
2. Cincinnati (10-6)
3. Baltimore (9-7)
4. Cleveland (6-10)
1. Indianapolis (12-4)
3. Tennessee (5-11)
4. Houston (4-12)
1. Denver (11-5)
2. San Diego (9-7)
3. Kansas City (9-7)
4. Oakland (3-13)
Wild Cards: Miami, Cincinnati
1st round Playoffs: New England over Cincinnati; Miami over Denver
Divisional Playoffs: Pittsburgh over Miami; New England over Indy
AFCG: Pittsburgh over New England
1. Dallas (11-5)
3. Philadelphia (8-8)
1. Minnesota (9-7)
2. Chicago (8-8)
3. Detroit (6-10)
4. Green Bay (4-12)
1. Carolina (12-4)
2. Atlanta (9-7)
3. Tampa Bay (7-9)
4. New Orleans (5-11)
1. Seattle Seahawks (13-3)
2. Arizona Cardinals (9-7)
3. St. Louis (6-10)
4. San Francisco (4-12)
Wild Cards: Atlanta, NY Giants
1st Round Playoffs: NY Giants over Minnesota; Dallas over Atlanta
Divisional Playoffs: Dallas over Carolina; Seattle over NY Giants
NFCG: Dallas over Seattle
SUPER BOWL: Dallas 24, Pittsburgh 20
Synopsis: The Steelers fall one step short in their quest to repeat. The Cowboys have more weapons on the perimeter and a very similar defense. The game will come down to a short yardage situation late in the game for Pittsburgh, which hands the ball to undersized Willie Parker on 4-and-1 in Cowboys territory. Parker is stacked up at the line...giving Parcells another ring. Both coaches retire after the season -- Parcells back to ESPN and Cowher into retirement for one season before taking over at North Carolina State.
Tim McManus
3. Buffalo (8-8)
4. Cleveland (7-9)
1. San Diego (12-4)
Wild Cards: Miami, Denver
1st round Playoffs: New England over Denver; Indianapolis over Miami
Divisional Playoffs: New England over San Diego; Cincinnati over Indianapolis
AFCG: New England over Cincinnati
1) New York Giants (11-5)
2) Philadelphia (10-6)
3) Dallas (9-7)
4) Washington (7-9)
1) Chicago (11-5)
2) Minnesota (9-7)
3) Detroit (7-9)
4) Green Bay (3-13)
1) Tampa Bay (12-4)
2) Carolina (10-6)
3) Atlanta (10-6)
4) New Orleans (5-11)
1) St. Louis (10-6)
2) Seattle (8-8)
3) Arizona (8-8)
4) San Francisco (6-10)
Wild Cards: Carolina, Philadelphia
1st round Playoffs: Philadelphia over St. Louis; Carolina over Chicago
Divisional Playoffs: Tampa Bay over Carolina; Philadelphia over NY Giants
NFCG: Tampa Bay over Philadelphia
SUPER BOWL: New England 17, Tampa Bay 10
Synopsis: Jon Gruden reminds the world that he is still one of the best coaches in the league, but Bill Belichek proves once again that he is in a class of his own. Tom Brady, fully recovered from a sports hernia that hampered him late last season, puts up a career year and caps it with his fourth Lombardi Trophy.
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Austin, South Bend mark center of college football universe
By Jared Trexler
"Mama said there would be days like this."
This is Nick and Jessica big. Yankees/Red Sox big. Big Brother All-Stars big.
The escalator ride up a perennial college football power's schedule skips a few steps this Saturday. Big Ten stalwarts Ohio State and Penn State invade hostile territory for salivating early-season contests.
And we are talking boyfriend walking into girlfriend's parents' house hostile. Tom Cruise's cross examination of Jack Nicholson hostile. Any clean-air-breathing, JFK-loving, Bruce Springsteen-worshipping liberal within five feet of the White House hostile.
Austin houses the nation's largest student body, a fan base beaming in the afterglow of a national championship and a fierce-looking, real-life mascot.
South Bend is God's sanctuary on Saturday's through December. The Golden Dome and Touchdown Jesus dot the surrounding landscape. Lawn mowers stay in the shed.
By the way, Texas and Notre Dame are pretty good.
And we are talking Kelly Clarkson's post-Idol career good. The combination of tuna fish and relish good (yes, really.) The taste of Samuel Adams after a hard day's work good.
Vince Young may be gone, but the Longhorns still know how to move the ball at will on offense. The two-headed monster of a slim Jamaal Charles and a bruising Selvin Young punish a defensive unit's front seven.
Bring the safety into the box and Limas Sweed -- he of the Velcro hands and track-star speed -- will beat you deep.
Colt McCoy looked comfortable in his first start of the season, finishing 12-of-19 for 178 yards and three touchdowns in the 56-7 romp of North Texas.
The Mean Green D isn't as nasty as Ohio State's unit, but several Buckeyes are still getting their feet wet at the linebacker position after all three starters, including all-world A.J. Hawk, departed Columbus.
Notre Dame struggled offensively in a 14-10 victory in Atlanta against Georgia Tech last Saturday night. Quarterback Brady Quinn danced in the pocket all night long, constantly staring in the face of a zone fire blitz scheme from linebacker Phillip Wheeler and company.
Quinn is blessed, however, with a golden arm to go along with a bright intellect in reading defenses. The Heisman Trophy frontrunner has a pair of talented wideouts in Rhema McKnight and Jeff Samardzija and a consistent running back in Darius Walker.
Both visiting teams will travel with a wealth of talent as well.
Ohio State brings multi-purpose quarterback Troy Smith and long-striding, roadrunner Teddy Ginn into the Saturday night bout in Austin. The Buckeyes also bring the nation's top ranking -- a pretty trivial spot at this time of year.
Penn State is equipped with possibly its deepest receiving corps in head coach Joe Paterno's long, storied history. Derek Williams is a star waiting to happen, lining up anywhere from in the slot to the backfield.
Deon Butler is the burner. Jordan Norwood is the hands. Chris Bell and A.J.Wallace are the freshmen that illustrate Penn State's influx of speed in recent recruiting classes.
Normally, each of these four teams would be playing Hostess Tech this Saturday. After all, one single check mark in the loss column usually sets off a bonfire of national championship tickets at campuses nationwide.
The two marquee matchups this Saturday highlight the ever-present need for a playoff. Teams should not be punished for scheduling these games, but rather applauded.
College basketball rewards tough early-season schedules with an NCAA Tournament-guaranteed RPI. College football says, "Thanks for the thrill. See you in Nashville the week before New Years."
Ohio State at Texas and Penn State at Notre Dame will throw two teams into the national title picture. At least until each suffers a letdown the week after.
It will also throw the losers into the race for the Capital One Bowl. Nothing against the early-morning New Years Day game in Florida, but championship-quality clubs should still be playing for "it all" in late December and early January.
If college football had its way, Joakim Noah and the Florida Gators would have spent the postseason in the Peach Bowl. The Chicago White Sox in the Insight Bowl. The Pittsburgh Steelers in the Meineke Car Care Bowl.
Some of the greatest championship stories in sports would have been denied by a truly evil three-letter word.
BCS.
However, that rant is for another column. This Saturday isn't necessarily about winners and losers, for all four proud programs should be praised for risking championship dreams in the name of memorable gridiron battles.
Highly-touted recruits came to Happy Valley and Columbus to play road games in the heart of Texas and the pinnacle of religion and football. If kids wanted to play Central Arkansas and Northern Arizona they would have attended the local NAIA school down the street.
Yet, there will be a pair of winners and losers when the dust settles Saturday.
The Phanatic will make you wait a few days for those predictions. We have to build drama in the world of sports.
Until the game-by-game breakdowns on Thursday, sit back and look at the bigger picture.
When you were younger, big events kept you up for weeks in anticipation.
Sesame Street Christmas Special big. Saying goodbye to Friends big. Graduations, high-school playoff games and weddings big.
Yet, it always seemed the reality didn't live up to the hype.
Saturday's duo of made-for-TV pigskin classics will feature two Heisman-worthy signal-callers, one Hall-of-Fame head coach and four of the winningest programs in college football history.
Mama said there would be days like this.
Jared Trexler can be reached at jtt128@comcast.net
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From the 700 level: The true 2006 Eagles' season breakdown
By Steven Lienert
Let's look at this rapidly approaching season realistically for a moment, shall we?
There are five wins just sitting out there for the Birds to snatch: at Houston, at San Fran, Green Bay at the Linc, at New Orleans and the Titans at home.
Let's even goes so far as to expect the Birds to drop one of those games. That's still 4-1.
As far as I see it, there are three certain losses sitting out there as well. Jacksonville at home (AFC at home jinx), at Indy and Carolina at home. Let's say they steal one of those. That's 2-1, and 6-2 overall.
Let's give the NFC East the benefit of the doubt and call it a split: 3-3. That still pushes the Eagles' record to 9-5 with the two pivotal game of the season left: Philly at Tampa and the Falcons at the Linc on New Year's Eve.
If the Eagles take both, they're 11-5. If they split, they're 10-6. Both records get them in the playoffs.
If they lose both, however, then we are looking at the ‘Sports Illustrated Theory’: Everybody in the NFC East finishes 9-7 and the Eagles are left on the outside looking in.
So the Lienert Line on this season is 10-6. And another NFC Championship Game appearance.
Beyond that, however, the crystal ball becomes foggy.
Enjoy the ride back to prominence, Eagles' fans.
I know I will.
With all due journalistic integrity remaining intact, of course.
Disagree with Lienert? Is Homer Simpson less of a Homer? Annoy him at stevelienert@hotmail.com
Labels: Eagles, Lienert, NFL
Philadelphia Eagles Preview
Four straight NFC Championship Game appearances are a distant memory in Philadelphia after the Eagles imploded and finished a dismal 6-10 in 2005. Conventional wisdom regarding the collapse placed all the blame on the NFL’s most selfish teammate, Terrell Owens, and his public obsession with destroying his one-time friend and benefactor, quarterback Donovan McNabb. But, there were a number of other things that unraveled in the City of Brotherly Love as well, not the least of which was a series of injuries to key players like McNabb, running back Brian Westbrook, wide receiver Todd Pinkston and kicker David Akers. To once again become competitive in the NFC East, the Eagles invested heavily in both the offensive and defensive lines and head coach Andy Reid feels those upgrades, along with a healthy and stress fee McNabb will be enough to put the Birds back on top in the division.
It's hard to ascertain what bothered McNabb more last year, the litany of injuries he suffered through, which included a painful bruised sternum and a sports hernia that eventually ended his nightmare of a season, or the petulant antics of the NFL’s real-life “Leon”. What can be said is both problems are in the rear view mirror but many questions have arisen concerning McNabb’s ability to lead and whether his own locker room respects a guy that far too many people in the African-American community have ludicrously labeled a “company man.” When McNabb is healthy, the Eagles have gone to the playoffs every season and he was playing spectacularly early last season in spite of the sternum problem, T.O. and Reid's almost comical lack of faith in the running game. Clearly, McNabb is the best quarterback in the division and while he will likely always struggle with accuracy at times, he remains one of the best five signal callers in the game. The stubborn Reid finally learned a valuable lesson after McNabb went down last season and he had to watch Mike McMahon and Koy Detmer. The Eagles have needed a better backup to McNabb for years and they finally got it this offseason when they inked fellow T.O. punching bag, Jeff Garcia. The veteran certainly won’t wow you anymore but he will provide the Eagles with a reliable No. 2 quarterback for the first time in the McNabb era. Reid’s blind spot, Detmer, is also finally history.
The real problem at running back in Philly is Reid himself. The Eagles coach simply loathes the running game and would like to throw the ball more and more. Obviously that philosophy is flawed and it helped destroy McNabb last season because he took big hit after big hit early in the season. The book on Westbrook is that he is a too small to be an every down back but if you look at Tiki Barber in New York or Warrick Dunn in Atlanta, that reasoning seems specious. It would be nice to see the ball in Westbrook’s hands 25-30 times a game to see what he could do but that’s pure fantasy with Reid at the controls. Behind Westbrook, the Eagles will have Ryan Moats and Bruce Perry, a pair of undersized runners who can break a long one if they get outside but they are virtually useless between the tackles. Philadelphia hopes that toughness and inside running ability will be provided from Correll Buckhalter but the former Nebraska star has a knee held together by chicken wire.
WIDE RECEIVERS/TIGHT ENDS
Obviously most of the talk in Philadelphia is about who isn't lining up at wide receiver for the Eagles, Owens. T.O.‘s one-plus year tour with the team was a roller-coaster ride; one spectacular Super Bowl season giving way to a soap opera that destroyed a once-proud franchise in record time. This year, the Birds top receiver was going to be
Reggie Brown, who set an Eagles rookie record with 43 receptions last season. Brown certainly has talent but he sure won‘t scare your average NFL defensive coordinator and it‘s hard to imagine Brown getting the best of a double-team on a consistent basis. The rest of the receiving corps was even less impressive. Pinkston was attempting to return from a torn Achilles' tendon and just wasn't healthy. Greg Lewis was abysmal in 2005 and free-agent signee Jabar Gaffney lacks the speed to be anything more than a slot receiver. The Eagles are trying to sell their fans on a pair of rookies, Jason Avant and Hank Baskett, but expecting significant contributions from them this season is just not fair. The Birds finally dropped the arrogant act last week ans made a deal for Donte' Stallworth, a talented, underachieving former first-round pick in New Orleans. Stallworth has greet speed but average hands. That said, he is a huge upgrade over the alternatives. With Stallworth still learning the offense and the overall lack of talent on the outside, you can bet Reid will develop game plans that have McNabb dumping the ball off to Westbrook and his tight ends. The Birds added Matt Schoebel, a free agent tight end from the Bengals, to complement starter L.J. Smith at tight end and both players are good receivers but struggle in the blocking game. Smith will also need to overcome his propensity for putting the ball on the turf.
The offensive line was Philadelphia‘s Achilles heel on offense last season. Age, injuries and bad technique all contributed to the poor play of the Eagles‘ offensive front in 2005. The bookends, left tackle William (formerly Tra’) Thomas, who is coming off back surgery, and right tackle Jon Runyan, who signed a new deal, are back and should have at least one more competent year in them. Todd Herremans moves inside to guard along with the emerging Shawn Andrews while Jamaal Jackson takes over the pivot full-time after the Eagles failed to land LeCharles Bentley in free agency (ed note: Bentley is out for the season after being injured in Cleveland’s training camp). The big question marks are inside. Andrews is rook solid but Herremans is a natural tackle who must learn how to use his hands better. Jackson just doesn’t look like the type that will ever dominate but he should be an upgrade over the athletically challenged Hank Fraley. A pair of highly regarded rookies, tackle Winston Justice and guard Max Jean-Gilles, will help provide depth. Justice’s development will be watched closely since the age of Thomas and Runyan make an heir apparent necessary.
In Philadelphia, the linebackers get vilified but the lack of a consistent pass rush is what hamstrung Jim Johnson’s defense last season. With that in mind, the defensive line will look dramatically different in 2006. The Eagles signed former Saints pass-rushing star Darren Howard to line up opposite Jevon Kearse at defensive end and for the second consecutive year, the team’s No. 1 draft choice was a defensive tackle, former Florida St. star Brodrick Bunkley. The Eagles hope the additions help Kearse, a former superstar who’s play dipped dramatically last season. With the added help, Kearse must become the playmaker he once was if the Eagles expect to bounce back. Bunkley will join '05 first-round choice Mike Patterson to give the Eagles a pair of young inside players but Bunkley missed 14 training camp practices before finally signing and may have a tough time adjusting. Some critics also feel Bunkley and Patterson are far too similar to excel together meaning the Eagles must find a competent run-stuffer among Darwin Walker, Sam Rayburn and Ed Jasper to field a solid inside rotation. Trent Cole's emergence as a nickel pass rusher will be a key. If Cole gets consistent pressure from the edge, that enables Johnson to move Howard inside on passing downs.
Whether it’s fair or not, many observers feel Reid doesn‘t place a premium on acquiring athletic, play-making linebackers, especially on the outside. Pro-Bowl middle linebacker Jeremiah Trotter is the only player with big-time skills among the linebacking corps. Trotter is a hammer against the run and can blow up plays with the blitz. If he has a weakness, it’s in pass coverage where he lacks the innate feel for the zone and has poor ball skills. Shawn Barber and Matt McCoy will battle for the weak side spot. The fans remember Barber fondly from his first stint in Philly but age and injuries have robbed him of explosiveness and the team would like McCoy, a second-year player to step up. On the strong-side, the most hated Eagle of them all Dhani Jones is back. The former New York Giant had a bad year in 2005 and the fans would love if he was replaced but there are no other options. Rookie Chris Gocong is a good athlete but is a project who will need two to three years to develop.
There is little doubt this is the strength of the Eagles defense despite appearing vulnerable last season. In today’s NFL, the pass rush is the be-all, end-all and the term shutdown corner is an oxymoron. The lack of a significant pass rush was the problem in 2005, forcing good players into impracticable situations. At safety Brian Dawkins may have lost a step and he needs to learn there is no crying in football but he is certainly still one of the top five safeties in the game. People finally figured out that Michael Lewis is awful in pass coverage but I have news for you, most strong safeties are and Lewis is a stud in run support. At cornerback, Sheldon Brown and Lito Sheppard, returning from a season-ending high ankle sprain will be back to give the Eagles one of the best tandems in the league while Roderick Hood is turning into an excellent nickel back.
A groin injury took away one of the Eagles’ best weapons, kicker David Akers, last year. But, Akers seems healthy and ready to go and should regain his spot as one of the top kickers in the game. Philadelphia will also welcome back a healthy punter in Dirk Johnson. Like McNabb, Johnson had his 2005 season derailed by a sports hernia and his replacements were nothing short of inept. While, Johnson is not at Akers’ level amongst punters, he is a solid, consistent guy who should help Philadelphia in the field position game.
After everyone involved embarrassed themselves during the T.O. fiasco, the Eagles just want to return to football and get back to the top of the NFC East but that will not be easy. While Philadelphia made huge strides and addressed holes on both lines, they still look like the least-talented team in the division. They do, however, have the best quarterback in the division and McNabb gives Philadelphia a huge advantage over its division rivals who sport Eli Manning, Drew Bledsoe and Mark Brunell. Reid must cultivate that advantage and stop putting McNabb in unworkable situations. The Eagles can not abandon the running game and allow opposing defenses to pin their ears back and take shots at the franchise. Reid has preached a need to restore balance in his game plans, but we have all heard that before. The coach’s ability to follow through will likely tell the tale in 2006.
-You can reach John McMullen at jmcmullen1@comcast.net or john@phillysportsline.com
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New York Giants Preview
In Gotham, people are already whispering Super Bowl after a season that saw the New York Giants reach 11-5 and break the Philadelphia Eagles’ stranglehold on the NFC East. But, while the Giants are clearly the most talented team in the division, their 23-0 drubbing at the hands of the Carolina Panthers in the playoffs exposed some hard and indisputable facts. The G-Men lack depth on defense, have too many immature skill position players and sport a quarterback that looks as green as ever. So, the Super Bowl talk is probably a little lofty but a second straight division crown should certainly be on the radar.
Intervention time for the people and press of New York -- Eli Manning has been a disappointment to this point and the Giants won despite their signal caller last season -- not because of him. In a league designed to help the quarterback in every way, Manning’s completion percentage hovered around a woeful 53 percent. Average quarterbacks should be in the 58-60 category and the top-tier guys can easily reach 65 percent in a league that looks more and more like the AFL each season. So, it’s not a question of will the real Eli Manning stand up? -- as so many in the national media has opined. Manning is what he is, an inaccurate guy who has been vastly overrated because of his last name. Outside the organization, most thought Manning was on his way to prominence until his late season swoon but inside, the word bust has been mentioned more than once and the Giants are gravely concerned about the rate of his development. Accuracy, poor mechanics and a sloppy work ethic are the key concerns with Peyton’s baby brother. That said, Manning is in no danger of losing his job with the lightly regarded Tim Hasselbeck set to be his backup.
You are not supposed to have a career year at the running back position when you hit age 30 in the NFL. In fact, you are supposed to be entering a quick, downward slide into oblivion. But, Tiki Barber was the Giants’ MVP last season and if it wasn’t for Shaun Alexander, likely the NFL’s MVP. A wonderful all-around player, Barber can do it all, including run between the tackles despite his diminutive size but at 31, you have to think New York would like to limit his touches a little more in 2006, at least early in the season. It’s clear the team would like 6-foot-4, 260-pound Brandon Jacobs to handle the bulk of the short-yardage and goal line work but Jacobs looked tentative and scared as a rookie. In short, nothing like a 260-pound back.
No one will question the Giants talent outside but you can certainly question some of the attitudes, specifically with wide receiver Plaxico Burress and tight end Jeremy Shockey. Both are top level playmakers but tend to sulk when things don’t go their way. And, with Manning’s accuracy problems, a blowup could happen at any time. You can bet Tom Coughlin hopes these guys will grow up and support their young quarterback but maturity has never been a word thrown around when talking about either player. Supporting Burress on the outside will be underrated veteran Amani Toomer, speedster Tim Carter and promising rookie Sinorice Moss. Those names should give the Giants one of the most dangerous receiving corps in the league if Manning can get them the ball.
A couple of years ago this was a disaster area but now it’s an underrated group that keeps improving. When you have a running back that goes for 1,800 yards and an inexperienced quarterback who only hits the turf 28 times, you better start giving some credit to the big uglies up front. The real strength is in the middle where Shaun O’Hara, Chris Snee and David Diehl have developed into one of the best interior lines in the NFL. Snee, particularly, looks like a Pro-Bowl level player. Things aren’t quite as good outside where left tackle Luke Petitgout and right tackle Kareem McKenzie are pedestrian players who get by on technique and guile.
The real strength in New York is on the defensive side of the ball, especially the front seven. In a league where making the opposing quarterback uncomfortable is of prime concern, no one does it better than the Giants who sport the best pair of pass rushing defensive ends in football, Michael Strahan and Osi Umenyiora. Both are elite pass rushers and Strahan is probably still the best two-way end in the game. The Giants also possess outstanding depth outside with Justin Tuck and Mathias Kiwanuka, a pair of great pass-rushing prospects. Inside, things aren’t as pretty. New York’s best interior lineman in 2005 was journeyman Kendrick Clancy and he moved on leaving the team counting on enigmatic former first round pick William Joseph and Fred Robbins inside. It wasn‘t pretty in the preseason opener as both players got pushed around so this will be an area of concern that will be closely monitored. Other options inside include a former undrafted free agent -- Damane Duckett -- and fourth-round draft pick Barry Cofield.
Injuries crippled this talented unit late last season and the lack of depth showed up in the playoffs. Middle linebacker Antonio Pierce is the leader of the New York defense and probably the team’s defensive MVP. A tough, instinctive linebacker with the speed to run sideline-to-sideline, Pierce’s ankle injury late in the season, crippled the Giants' defense but he will be back at 100 percent and sandwiched by a pair of big play outside linebackers, Carlos Emmons and free agent signee LaVar Arrington. Both Emmons and Arrington have had recent injury problems and haven‘t been able to practice much early in the preseason. New York did bring back Brandon Short to provide some veteran depth but he has also been slowed by injuries early in camp.
The Giants didn’t like the way their secondary performed last season and revamped the unit saying goodbye to former starters Will Allen and Brent Alexander. Veteran Sam Madison replaces Allen at the corner opposite Corey Webster. Madison has better ball skills than Allen but is not nearly the player he was in his prime with Miami.. Webster is a promising second-year player who improved dramatically down the stretch last season. Former Baltimore Raven Will Demps replaces Brent Alexander at one safety spot. The Giants feel they stole Demps in free agency but that may be overstating things. Demps does pack a wallop in run support but is so-so in coverage. He will be flanked by another hard-hitter, Gibril Wilson, who regressed a bit last year, especially in pass coverage. Veteran corner R.W. McQuarters and safety prospect James Butler look like the top reserves.
The Giants have a couple veterans who may not possess huge legs but rarely make a key mistake. The ageless Jeff Feagles may be the best directional punter in the game and that’s meaningful when the winds are swirling at the Meadowlands. At kicker Jay Feely received a lot of criticism in his first year with New York and likely cost the Giants a first-round playoff bye with an awful day in Seattle but, overall, he was more than adequate.
TRAINING CAMP BATTLES:
Like most talented teams, the Giants are set at virtually every position with the possible exception of defensive tackle where Joseph and Robbins continue their long history of underachieving. That might open the door for Dockett who lacks their physical ability but is a harder worker and a more consistent run stopper. Also keep an eye on outside linebacker where injures to Arrington, Emmons and Short could open the door for Chase Blackburn.
The Giants are clearly one of the NFC’s most talented teams and another NFC East crown and a return trip to the playoffs should be everyone’s goal but so much hinges on their enigmatic quarterback Eli Manning. The Giants have surrounded the young signal caller with a plethora of offensive weapons and have rebuilt an excellent, albeit underrated line in front of him. Now it’s time for Manning to stop making excuses and started learning from his mistakes. A greater attention to detail and a more structured off the field regimen would do wonders for Manning. He certainly has the arm and physical gifts to be an upper echelon player but he is nothing like his brother, Peyton, above the shoulders. It’s tough to say a season hinges on one player but the Giants have built quite a team and the only thing missing right now is a solid, competent quarterback who can take them to the next level.
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Dallas Cowboys Preview
America's Team is back on the national radar after Jerry Jones brought in the NFL's version of Barnum and Bailey. The circus has set up shop in North Texas in the form of Terrell Owens and all the baggage he brings. And, make no mistake about it -- Bill Parcells is not happy. After last year's 9-7, non-playoff finish, Jones gave Parcells a nice
raise but usurped the coach's authority by bringing in the league's worst teammate. Can it work? Maybe for a year -- but the early returns don't look promising. Owens has made himself a spectacle at camp and Parcells has already grown testy of the constant media attention.
In Drew Bledsoe's first season in Dallas, the former Washington State star connected on over 60 percent of his passes for over 3,600 yards and 23 touchdowns. That's the good...The Bad? Only the wildly erratic Brett Favre threw more interceptions than Bledsoe and his mobility remains fodder for Dane Cook's act. Dallas' offensive line took the brunt of the blame for the 49 sacks Bledsoe suffered but his lack of movement skills along with a penchant for holding the ball far too long were larger culprits. If you don't think so, look at how many times Bledsoe hit the turf in Buffalo. Tony Romo is the backup and Parcells seems enamored with him but in NFL three seasons, Roma has never attempted a pass so any comfort level would have to be tenuous at best.
Julius Jones seems to have the talent to be a top-tier back but the former Notre Dame star has played in just 21 games over two seasons. Parcells has never liked players who don't show up on Sunday and Jones, who has suffered through shoulder, rib and ankle injuries during his short career, must learn to play through pain or the coach will be looking elsewhere very quickly. Former fourth-round pick Marion Barber will backup Jones again. The former Minnesota stalwart ran for 538 yards as a rookie last season and provides a
solid, if not spectacular alternative to Jones. The Cowboys also like Tyson Thompson, who may be the fastest back on the team.
Don't look for enabling here Dallas fans -- Jones understated it when mentioning he was taking a gamble with "Leon", who burned his previous two employers and used a scorched-earth policy when discussing the Pro-Bowl quarterbacks he played with. Unlike most observers, I won't sugarcoat it. Owens is sick and his issues reach far beyond the football field. But, his talents on the field are like a seductress. Jones fell under the spell but Parcells had no desire to see Owens in Dallas. Terrell's training camp antics and disdain of practice (unless the national media is there and he can show off) is already wearing on the old-school Parcells. A blowup is imminent and could come at any time. When it does and Owens begins the destruction of his third organization, you can
bet all Jones' critics will be saying I T.O.ld you so. Interestingly, opposite Owens is a former diva that actually did grow up, Terry Glenn. Owens could learn a lot from Glenn but I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for that to happen. Glenn is still a big-play threat that must be accounted for. Patrick Crayton should be the third receiver and sports impressive speed but has struggled to stay on the field. At tight end Dallas has one of the league's elite receivers in Jason Witten. While not much of a blocker, Witten is a great security blanket for any quarterback. The Cowboys drafted Notre Dame's Anthony Fasano in the second round, in order to possess the threat of a two-tight end set this season.
The Cowboys really missed left tackle Flozell Adams after he went down against the Giants in mid-October. The drop-off from the two-time Pro Bowler to Torrin Tucker was great and the Dallas offense never really recovered. Adams will be back but the Cowboys offensive line must now overcome the loss of future Hall of Fame left guard Larry Allen, the last vestige of the team's '90s glory days. Kyle Kosier is penciled in to replace Allen and that doesn't look like a positive move. Even though Allen's career is winding down, Kosier has been nothing more than a journeyman utility guy to this point. The Cowboys also brought in veteran Jason Fabini to battle with Rob Petitti at right tackle. Petitti, a rookie last season, struggled badly and a healthy Fabini would be an upgrade. Andre Gurode and Al Johnson are on hand to man the pivot. Johnson has better movement skills, but Gurode is stronger and can move a powerful nose tackle with more ease. The wild card of the line is former Pro Bowl guard Marco Rivera. Rivera was one of the best interior lineman in the game before injuries robbed him of effectiveness last season. At 34, it remains to be seen if Rivera can get back to his prior form.
With the impending switch to the 3-4 defensive alignment in 2005, Dallas inked nose tackle Jason Ferguson in free agency and drafted ends Chris Canty and Marcus Spears. While Ferguson struggled, Canty and Spears looked like future stars and perfect fits for the scheme. With a year under his belt in North Texas, the Cowboys hope Ferguson can bounce back and solidify things. Veteran Greg Ellis and highly regarded youngster Jason Hatcher will also be in the rotation outside.
With the 3-4, you can never have enough talented linebackers and Dallas has brought in quite a few reinforcements. Former Jaguar Akin Ayodele and former Titan Rocky Boiman along with rookie Bobby Carpenter were the new faces brought in to join Al Singleton. Bradie James and DeMarcus Ware. James and Ayodele will handle the inside while the Cowboys would like Carpenter and Ware to man the outside slots. Ware looks like he will settle in and be a solid edge rusher for years while Carpenter really played better than the more heralded A.J. Hawk with the Buckeyes so things look set on the outside. Inside
is more of a problem as James and Ayodele look pedestrian.
With Anthony Henry and Terence Newman, the Cowboys are as set as you can be at
the cornerback position. In this era, no corner can really standout, the rules just don't allow it but Henry and Newman both have the ball skills to make a play when the offense makes mistakes and that's all you look for in a corner these days. Veteran Aaron Glenn understands a zone concept and will be back to handle the nickel back slot. Safety Roy Williams is the prototypical Y2K strong safety, a load against the run but a liability in coverage. Keith Davis and Marcus Coleman will compete for the free safety spot but neither player will standout.
Dallas' signing of Mike Vanderjagt solidifies a long-time trouble spot. The Cowboys have never really respected the kicking position and have always went with inexperienced, less talented guys. After a season in which they went through three kickers, Dallas finally jumped and signed a reliable option. The one problem with Vanderjagt is that he can't kickoff and the Cowboys will have to waste a roster spot on a specialist. Punter Mat McBriar was spotty last year but Dallas has no intention of replacing him.
With a plethora of options at the skill positions, Dallas should have a high-powered offense if the offensive line holds up. Fabini needs to return from injury and take over at right tackle while a competent pivot man needs to step up. In what is a much larger story Parcells seems to be running out of patience with Bledsoe’s ability to get rid of the ball and may actually entertain the option of going with Romo.
Parcells may have inked a two-year contract extension through 2007 but that was before Jones ignored him and hitched his wagon to Owens. The Future Hall of Famer is now 65 and has made it clear, even before Owens arrived that everything from this point forward is year by year. With T.O. in town, year by year just turned into one year. The coach is already fed up with Owens' immaturity and constant craving for the spotlight. Win, lose or draw, this will be the Tuna's swan song in Big D. Whether he goes out on a winning note
or not largely depends on how he handles the circus. So far it hasn't been good.
Washington Redskins Preview
Daniel Snyder is the George Steinbrenner of the NFL -- without the success of course. Snyder will do anything -- monetarily -- to put his beloved Redskins at the top of the mountain but it just hasn’t worked to this point. Yes, Joe Gibbs silenced his critics and seemed to be making progress last year when he turned a 6-10 club into a 10-6 playoff team but millions were spent to revamp the roster and the preseason has been an absolute disaster. It‘s starting to look like Snyder just doesn‘t have the patience or savvy to stay the course and let Gibbs develop a consistent winner.
The biggest move Washington made in the offseason was bringing in former Kansas City Chiefs offensive guru Al Saunders to upgrade the passing game. The Redskins did rank 11th in offense last season but lacked consistent big play ability and had trouble scoring against elite defenses. The 36-year old Mark Brunell is the clear No. 1 and was solid, if unspectacular last season throwing for 3,050 yards with 23 touchdowns and only 10 picks. Like most veterans, Brunell gets by on guile and smarts but lacks the arm strength at this stage to really stand out. With Patrick Ramsey gone to New York, the Redskins would like Jason Campbell, a former first-round draft choice from Auburn, to be Brunell‘s caddy. But, there have been quite a few whispers indicating Campbell is just not picking things up. Right now, non-descript veteran Todd Collins is beating Campbell out for the second spot.
You really saw Snyder’s commitment to winning here. When star back Clinton Portis went down with a shoulder injury that really isn’t all that serious, the Redskins went out and brought in T.J. Duckett as insurance while teams desperate for running back help, like division rival Philadelphia, just sat on their hands. Shoulder injuries are always a concern for running backs so it’s nice to have insurance but either way, the Redskins would suffer greatly without Portis, an impact back who ran for a franchise-record 1,516 yards last season. Backup Ladell Betts is a solid player who does everything well but will never wow you. Duckett is a big back that can be a bulldozer between the tackles when motivated but has never really played up to his physical abilities.
WIDE RECEIVERS/H-BACKS
Santana Moss turned into one of the NFL’s elite last season after catching 84 passes for 1,483 yards. Always one of the league’s fastest players, Moss ran better routes and took his job more seriously last year after being traded from the NY Jets. If similarly motivated this season, Moss may be even better since Washington brought in better secondary options. Super Bowl star Antwaan Randle El and former San Francisco 49er Brandon Lloyd are the new imports that will replace players like David Patten and James Thrash.
That’s a huge upgrade and Moss will likely see fewer double teams. At H-Back Chris Cooley is turning into quite a receiving threat and has the versatility to line up at tight end, fullback or in the slot.
This is an underrated unit that is one of the top 10 in the NFL. Left tackle Chris Samuels is the star and a Pro Bowl level player when he concentrates on his technique. On the other side, Jon Jansen is not much of an athlete, especially after an Achilles injury, but he has the kind of nasty streak that coaches love. Inside, center Casey Rabach is solid while right guard Randy Thomas is a dominant run blocker but is coming off a broken leg in the last regular season game of 2005. Left guard Derrick Dockery is the weak link. A talented underachiever, Dockery must step up his play in 2006. Depth is a big concern here. Players like Jim Molinaro and Ikechuku Ndukwe are not NFL caliber linemen.
Gregg Williams is the game’s best defensive coordinator and you can bet, his units will always overachieve. The defensive line has lacked pass-rushing talent in the past but Williams always had the ‘Skins defense near the top nonetheless. This season, Washington brought in Andre Carter to help the pass rush. Carter will team with the emerging Phillip Daniels to provide more quickness on the edge. Inside, tackles Cornelius Griffin and Joe Salave'a are pedestrian players but can stuff the run adequately. Former starter Renaldo Wynn should fit in nicely as a reserve swingman.
When the Redskins released Lavar Arrington, the team lost a very popular player with the fans but the coaches were likely throwing a party. Gibbs and Williams hated Arrington's inability to play within a scheme and were glad to see him go, even if it was to division rival New York. With Arrington history, Marcus Washington becomes the team's dominant personality on defense. Washington may be the best strong-side linebacker in the game and is a force in both phases. Middle linebacker Lemar Marshall was a pleasant surprise after taking over for Antonio Pierce as the starter. While not Pierce, the former undrafted rookie free agent made quite a few plays in 2005. Rookie Roger McIntosh looks like the best option to take over the weak side, If the defensive line can keep blockers off him, McIntosh does have the skills to make a few plays. Until McIntosh is ready to play, veteran Warrick Holdman will hold down the spot. Holdman is not nearly the player he once was in Chicago.
Cornerback Carlos Rogers looks like an emerging star after starting 13 games as a rookie. The one knock on the former Auburn star is that he lacks size and has trouble matching up with the league’s bigger receivers. On the other side is veteran Shawn Springs, a player that still has some gas in the tank. Springs may have lost a step but he makes up for it with a good understanding of the defense. Free safety Sean Taylor is an elite player but his off the field problems are ever looming. The team replaced strong safety Ryan Clark with Adam Archuleta. The former St. Louis Rams starter is great in run support but lost in coverage. The Redskins really lack depth in the secondary, especially at cornerback where Kenny Wright is in line to be the nickel back.
Kicker John Hall is solid when healthy but he has struggled with injuries for the past two seasons. A problem looms at punter where Derrick Frost, who averaged just 40.4 yards per kick last season, is trying to hold off rookie David Lonie. Neither option looks very appealing.
PRESEASON BATTLES
Collins seems to be holding off Campbell at backup quarterback while Holdman is keeping McIntosh and veteran Jeff Posey at bay for the weak side job. With Springs dinged up, Washington may be in the market for another corner since Wright has been a liability in Minnesota, Houston and Jacksonville.
You can never accuse Snyder of not trying and this offseason was no different. He brought in Lloyd from San Francisco and Randle El from Pittsburgh to help Moss. He brought in Carter from the 49ers to fortify the pass rush and Archuleta from the Rams to replace Clark. Perhaps, more importantly the team added Saunders to pilot the offense and kept the league‘s best defensive mind. It all looks good on paper but something is missing. The Redskins have looked awful in the preseason and the new pieces just don’t look like good fits -- making a return trip to the playoffs unlikely. Especially when you consider what went on in the ‘Skins division -- the Giants look more talented, the Eagles have a healthy Donovan McNabb back and the Cowboys added T.O.
You can reach John McMullen at jmcmullen1@comcast.net or john@phillysportsline.com
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Partial-Birth Abortion:
A Crisis in Law and Medicine
by Teresa R Wagner, Esq
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Twenty-six years of legal abortion on demand has clarified at least three things. First, the American abortion lobby has reached the extreme of apparently defending any abortion, no matter how advanced the pregnancy and no matter how developed the child. Second, the legal and medical professions are far more committed to abortion than the American public. Third, the judiciary will oblige abortion advocates no matter what they demand, regardless of the will of the people.
The backdrop for these assertions is the case law on state partial-birth abortion bans. Every month, it seems, we hear that another court has struck down a state's partial-birth abortion statute on the pretext that it is unconstitutional.
Partial-birth abortion is a relatively new abortion method whereby the abortion practitioner delivers the child feet first up to the head, stabs the base of the child's skull to create an opening to suction out the child's brains, and then crushes the head to complete delivery.
Twenty-eight states have passed laws to ban this barbaric abortion method, many in record time and three over governors' vetoes. The House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly in favor of a federal ban, and even typically abortion-sympathetic politicians have recoiled upon learning about it. As Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan remarked, this is "near-infanticide".
The widespread consensus against this repugnant practice has not deterred the abortion lobby from defending it, however. This alone shows how out of step they are with the moral sensibilities of most Americans. Professional abortion litigators (those who challenge the "constitutionality" of abortion laws as a full-time job) have taken approximately 19 of these very popular laws to court, claiming that they violate a woman's "right to choose". How the elimination of one renegade abortion method could do this is a good legal question, but no real obstacle for courts seemingly committed to abortion above all else.
Two bogus claims are made in the challenges to these bans. First, abortion lawyers claim that the wording of the bans is "vague" and cannot be understood by those who perform abortions, with the result that they might stop doing most or all abortions. If only all businesses could be so free of regulation by conveniently claiming they do not understand the laws that apply to them. It's also curious that abortion supporters initially claimed that the targeted procedure was too rare to warrant legislation. Somebody understood the law's meaning then. Finally, the very same lawyers advanced the very same claim against an Ohio law that used completely different language.
The second argument is that these laws would deprive mothers of a safe abortion method and would therefore threaten their health. This too is spurious. Even seasoned abortionists have come forward to denounce the partial-birth abortion method as a threat to a mother's safety.
Nonetheless, almost every court to review these laws has sided with abortion advocates, telling American citizens that we cannot pass laws to protect the life of the human infant, even when the infant is in the very process of birth. Only three decisions out of approximately 19 have upheld state bans.
These decisions constitute a moral crisis within the legal and medical professions. It is one thing to know that abortion is killing; it is quite another to discuss that killing in graphic detail, apparently without compunction. The doctors and judges participating in these cases coolly describe dismembering arms, disarticulating legs, crushing heads and tearing up torsos. One waits in vain for recognition of the crime being committed against these young human beings. If our doctors and lawyers can testify and listen to such brutalities with not a hint of regret, then the moral corruption of these professions is frightening indeed.
These cases should remind all citizens that black robes and white coats do not confer moral authority. (Indeed, it was a doctor and a lawyer in Weimar Germany who laid the foundation for this century's other Holocaust: Alfred Hoche, a psychiatrist, and Karl Binding, a jurist, authored the 1920 pamphlet Permission for the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life, arguing for euthanasia and the elimination of unwanteds.) Rather, the citizenry must assert the sound moral judgment it has displayed regarding this issue and reject the barbarity that the legal and medical elites would foist upon us.
Our task is to see through the legal citations and the medical euphemisms to recognize abortion for what it is: the violent and unjust destruction of human beings.
Teresa R. Wagner, Esq., is an analyst for human rights and life issues at Family Research Council. This article was adapted from The Truth in Black and White, FRC's new booklet on court challenges to state partial-birth legislation.
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Posted on November 14, 2019 by Rachel Swirsky
Zephyr is posing for his princely portrait.
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Posted on August 21, 2019 by Rachel Swirsky
Suzy Q is a character I drew for a role-playing game I was sketching out called Cats and Dogs Living Together. She is a sixteen-year-old Scottish Fold whose thick grey fur makes her look even larger than her twenty pounds. After years of indulgence by a previous owner, she has a constant hankering for table scraps. At her age, she can’t jump higher than a barstool anymore, but she can still get up to high speeds when excited. She is very clever, and very impatient with those who aren’t. She enjoys puzzles, mysteries, and not being pestered.
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Silly Interview with Monica Valentinelli, Who Aspires to Terrify You with Marshmallows
Posted on June 24, 2019 by Rachel Swirsky
(Editor’s Note: This interview has been in the vault. For Monica’s most updated work, visit her at www.booksofm.com.)
Rachel Swirsky: You can write any tie-in on any subject you want. All the normal rules are out the window. If you’re writing Star Trek, you can have Q take over the universe. Whatever you like. What’s the tie-in book you’d write?
Monica Valentinelli: Well, I’ve been staring at this question for five minutes now, and I’m finding it impossible to narrow my options down to one. The book I would absolutely love to write is a Star Wars novel written as a mosaic (Yep, Game of Thrones!). The story for that would be a sordid tale of how different factions (which includes the Sith, Jedi, Witches of Dathomir, Kamino Cloners, Hutts) are all vying to become “the” de facto leaders of the Republic well before the the Old Republic ever existed. I’m talking centuries before the technology was created that allowed pilots to make the jump into hyperspace; here, space travel still exists it’s just a lot slower. For this to work, I wouldn’t kill off the Force-users and make them as rare as they currently are. Instead, I’d go the exact opposite direction. Force-users exist, but nobody believes they have real power, because they pass them off as religious or think their “tricks” are due to scientific or technologic advances. Only, they’re (Force-users) are not gifted due to genetics or midichlorians at all. So, it’s far less about “one family’s legacy” and more about “faction”. Everybody has a stake in controlling the galaxy, and sometimes they forget there’s other, more terrifying threats out there—like the Yuuzahn Vong or an unknown force. I think there’s a lot of politics in Star Wars that sometimes gets missed due to the high-octane action; its iconic setting is a treasure trove for storytelling potential, and I’d love to see (Who knows? Maybe write?) more genre-bending tales set in the universe.
Fantasy and horror are a bit tougher, because I prefer to create my own worlds in those genres; magic and mystery are comfortable wheelhouses for me. Of course, it doesn’t help that some of my fandoms (especially anime, Final Fantasy, and Miyazaki films) I’m way too nervous to touch; I don’t know if you’ve seen Madoka Magica, but I wouldn’t change anything after watching that; it’s perfect just as it is. If we’re going SUPER silly? Ever since Universal announced they were rebooting their universe, I kept thinking about the breakfast cereal. You know, Boo Berry, Franken Berry, Count Chocula, etc.? Yeah, a novel…but instead of scary monsters you get edible marshmallows and the only way to stop them from terrorizing your town is to eat them. Tasty. I have a lot of fun writing the ridiculous, and I don’t get to do that terribly often.
RS: Can you describe how you put a game book, like the Firefly RPG, together?
MV: Sure thing! So, the role I’m elaborating on is called a “developer”. This position requires management and participation in the team-based production of a game (or an entire line) from concept to approvals to print, while balancing the needs and desires of the publisher, license holder, and fans. The logistics of this position will vary widely from license to license and publisher to publisher. The Firefly RPG corebook, for example, was a complex and very involved undertaking for a number of reasons ranging from our focus on the TV show as opposed to the movie, which are two separate licenses, to ensuring that we made a game that Browncoats would be happy with. We encountered a lot of demand for the game after we announced in February 2013 but found there wasn’t enough time to produce a full corebook for our projected launch at GenCon, which took place in August 2013. Since GenCon is a significant show for game releases, we decided to release a preview, instead, so we could incorporate fan feedback for the full corebook.
In general, however, the tasks related to producing a game book happen over many months and might include: designing the production schedule, developing clear outlines and instructions for each book, finding, hiring, and managing other freelance game designers, writers, editors, indexers, artists, and layout artists, managing playtesters, working with sales or marketing partners, sending out contracts, making canon-related decisions and sticking to approval guidelines, etc. In addition to all of this, I feel the biggest responsibility I have as a developer is one of quality control. On each game I develop, I’m involved and participate in every step of production (outlining, writing, editing, layout, proofing, and approvals) to ensure the result is something everyone will love.
RS: You also wrote and designed a dictionary and encyclopedia for Firefly. Can you tell us about those books?
MV: I had a great deal of fun working with my editor at Titan Books to produce Firefly: The Gorramn Shiniest Language Guide and Phrasebook in the ’Verse, which is available on April 12th. We designed this reference book to pull words from the television show scripts and define them, in context, for the benefit of the reader so that they might get a clear idea of what it’s like to live in the ’Verse. Every word chosen was intentional—even the simpler words—to establish what setting bits and pieces of dialogue mirrored our own world exactly as we know them, and to contrast the definitions that are slightly shifted or engineered to fit the world of Firefly. We also added character write-ups for the cast and a huge section featuring Jenny Lynn, the show’s translator, and her work on Firefly.
Following this, I was hired to write the Firefly Encyclopedia. Revisiting the universe, I was able to incorporate the comics to write a narrative retelling of the story thus far, dive into the culture, offer interviews, feature Tony Lee’s work (who was the Chinese translator on both the Firefly and Serenity RPG lines), and provide an analysis of the scripts that included my commentary and information about the story’s inspiration.
Both books are available wherever they are sold. When I was in Seattle recently, I signed some copies of the encyclopedia at the Barnes and Noble, but they’re going fast!
RS: If the characters from Firefly could choose any cake flavors, which flavors would they choose?
MV: Such a fun question! Kaylee might go for strawberry shortcake, and Simon would probably go for a devil’s food—so he could savor what a real chocolate cake tastes like! Let’s see, Book is pretty interesting because he’s a preacher with a mysterious past, so I think a vanilla cake with a surprise filling inside, like raspberry, works out pretty well for his character. Inara is very elegant and sophisticated, so she might prefer something like a ginger peach cake with green tea icing. Mal? I’m guessing he doesn’t care if his cake is fancy provided it has frosting on it. For Jayne, I’d have to go with apple pie. Technically it’s not a cake, but I imagine the smell of apples might remind him of home—even though his mom may not have been able to afford enough apples to bake such a confection. River? Hrmm… That’s a tough one, because depending upon her state of mind she might enjoy a birthday cake she had as a child, or something a bit more colorful like red velvet. That leaves Zoe and Wash. Being the insufferable romantic that I am, I have to go with the top of their wedding cake for both of them.
RS: Tell us about your most recent story.
MV: The story I published most recently is titled “My Name is Cybernetic Model XR389F and I am Beautiful” for Uncanny Magazine. I talked a lot about this story in my interview with Caroline M. Yoachim in that issue. Since the story debuted, I’ve learned a lot about perception and identity. You see, I wasn’t angry when I wrote this story. I simply relayed a specific experience that I, and a lot of other women have, using the lens of science fiction to examine and question it in a fictional context. Not so much “write what I know”, but more “write my truth.” I’m deeply concerned that we laud technological achievements without recognizing our inventions don’t change who we are; they will reflect our biases and core beliefs, because we made them. If we don’t broaden our perspectives now, then how can the future belong to all of us? I suppose that’s the beauty of writing and reading science fiction. There are so many wonderful authors who answer questions like these in their work, to propose a better future.
I also wrote a prequel to “The Dunwich Horror” for an anthology called Sisterhood: Dark Tales and Secret Histories featuring the Woman in White, wrote a tie-in story about cats for the Monarchies of Mau RPG, and have a handful of others that’ll debut this year. Plus, I developed a new fantasy world and wrote a novella to launch a solo game series called “Proving Grounds”. I’m thrilled that a bunch of my stories’ll be out this year. Exciting!
RS: Your cats have unusual names. How did they get them? Can we see some pet pictures, too?
MV: Hah! Well, we have two cats (one ginger polydactal manx with yellow eyes, and a black cat with green eyes). The ginger cat was originally named after the ancient Babylonian god of dreams, and our black kitty for the god of storms. Over time, as their personalities emerged, we wound up with sillier-sounding names to offset those four a.m. wake-up calls and our bewilderment at their addiction to catnip. We nicknamed our ginger cat Lord Lardbottom, because he’s a bit lopsided. Because he doesn’t have a tail, he biffs when he tries to jump up higher than the length of a footstool, and he often sits and pouts when he doesn’t get his way.
Our black cat is a chatterbox, gaping maw, and alarm clock all rolled into one. He has a high-pitched voice, which led us to affectionately refer to him as Captain Whinypants.
Thanks so much for inviting me to be a part of your world, Rachel. If your readers would like to check out me or my work, I invite them to visit www.booksofm.com.
(This interview was posted early for my patrons on Patreon. Thank you!)
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Bunny Chicken
Bunny Chicken is a character I drew for a role-playing game I was sketching out called Cats and Dogs Living Together.
Bunny Chicken is a muscular, black domestic shorthair. He’s five years old, weighs twelve pounds of sheer strength, and is vain about his shining fur and whiskers. He thinks of himself as Alpha, master of all he surveys. He’s genuinely tough, but he’s been tame all his life–deep down, he wouldn’t be cat enough for the mean streets. He’s smart enough to see the benefits of power, but not to worry about consequences.
(originally posted on my patreon)
June 4, 2019 by Rachel Swirsky
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Silly Interview with Jenna Katerin Moran, who knows what Russian servers to hack
Posted on May 16, 2019 by Rachel Swirsky
Here’s me! The outfit is Miranda Harrell’s version of the clothing style for the villains (?) of my RPG, Nobilis: A Game of Sovereign Powers.
Here’s my website! https://afarandasunlessland.wordpress.com/
Rachel Swirsky: You have a PhD in computer science. What made you fall in love with the subject?
Jenna Katerin Moran: We’re one of those rare Tinder success stories! You would not believe how many clunkers I had to date through to get there, though.
(Example: trossulography. Trossulography tried to have like five PhD students just in one city alone without telling any of us about one another … and it probably would have worked fine, too, except we all had to submit to the same journals.)
RS: How does your academic training in computer science affect how you write role playing games?
JKM: There are some really good discussions out there of marketing techniques, cultural trends, and American gamer purchasing habits if you know which Russian servers to hack.
RS: I’m sure you get this question all the time, but I feel like it’s pretty relevant for an audience of people who aren’t all tabletop gamers. How and why did you end up falling into writing table top RPGs?
JKM: So it was like the year 1997? Ish? I don’t know. A little before Y2K, when I would have had to get out of the field of computer science (for, like, obvious reasons) anyway. And I was looking for something good to write because, y’know, it’s not like one can stop the writing, right? I mean, one tries, right, one goes and, like, tries to pursue other careers, or, curls up in one’s closet and wails in despair, or, moves to China and tries to become a foreign pop idol—like, Jenna Starlight Sparkles; whatever—but then one has barely turned around again before discovering that one has just been writing. I mean, y’know? (It is only when one has sighed and given in and accepted that one must be a writer that there is a possibility, er, uh, probability, … near-certainty? Uh, that the words will stop.) But, anyway, so, I was looking for something good to write, and naturally I settled on pornography; only, being a … regrettably … uh, prudish? person, I had to use fairly roundabout and esoteric euphemisms for everything. Long story short, it accidentally came out as an urban fantasy roleplaying game about people with conceptual powers in a world under existential threat from the inhabitants of the beyond. (If you know what I mean, and I think you do.) Only, in fact, despite that parenthetical that I have just shared with you, hardly anybody knew what I meant, or, at least, I think they didn’t? and once it got popular, I was way, way too embarrassed to ever tell anyone. I had thought that, like, 2000-era fanfic would have sensitized people to it? You know, to, uh, roundabout euphemisms? Like, what with, you know, all that, “his melancholy duck quacked down into the shimmering epilimnion of her pond” kind of thing that was, like, the style of the time? but apparently “each player designs a player character (PC for short), one of the protagonists in the story” was just one bridge too far. So now, suddenly, instead of taking my pornography into the bedroom, people were, y’know, propping it up on the coffee table and showing it to their parents and inviting groups of friends and strangers to their houses to talk about it together and I thought suddenly, wait. What if I just did this as a business and wrote for RPGs instead?
RS: Your cat, Kennedy, prefers that you pay attention to her at all times. What do you think is her current inner monologue as you do this interview? (Illustrating with photographs is highly encouraged!)
JKM: I suspect she is wondering if she is sleeping correctly. She is wondering if, perhaps, there is some proper way of sleeping that she was meant to be practicing, but which no one has ever explicitly explained to her, only making allusions to it, talking about “catnaps,” and sleeping awkwardly in her vicinity instead, and leaving her with no recourse but to guess.
Perhaps that is why (she thinks) she is sometimes left alone, to wither and wail in her hopeless misery, while her emotional comfort hominid cavorts beyond the gates with the other cat. Perhaps her failing at proper sleeping is the reason, there—
But if that is why, it is so unfair!
It is not her fault that nobody has taught her how to sleep correctly. It is not her fault that nobody has explained how to get past the top shelf of the bookshelf to the notional higher height that she knows must, logically, exist— for it would not make sense for a mathematical series to carry itself to the top of the bookshelf and then stop— or what the exact rules as to when she may use the two litterboxes that are reserved entirely for her use, that she has access to 24/7, are. It is not her fault that the correct propitiation to the household gods to allow her to go upstairs sans incident has not been made; if the upstairs cat would just tell her what the format of that ritual is supposed to be …
But, enough dwelling on the other cat. Let us return to the puzzle of the litterboxes; as noxious a thing as they may be, still, to her they are more sweet.
It is obvious, she believes, that there must be rules as to their use, because they cannot be used by a single cat, alone. A single cat, alone, entering the litterbox, enters a kind of quantum state— nobody has ever given her a proper explanation of quantum physics, so physicists must forgive her if she gets this wrong— enters a kind of “quantum state” where one may exist, in the outside world, or one may not. Arguably, when one enters into the box, as a fully defined and differentiated entity, one ceases therewith to be. The only anodyne to this noisome quandary is witness: to be witnessed, to have independent affirmation of one’s existence, to have an external force creating continuity from one’s entrance into the box … to one’s exit. But much of the time, this warrant cannot be obtained; no witness can be pressed into service; and the litterboxes, therefore, must lie fallow: the proper rules for this are, as yet, unknown.
Outside the window, in the vaster, greater world, where monsters roam— she knows this; one presses its face against the window, sometimes, at night— there may be entities that know the rules to all such things. Outside the window, one day, if the hominids would only leave the window open at all times as she has asked them to, she may smell and hear as one such beast walks past:
A nebulous, smoke-stack figure in the distance, made of words and bleeding doctrine.
When she sees it, smells it, hears it; when the wind carries to her the shadows of its words— again, if the window has been properly left open—
Then she may, finally, begin to know.
RS: What projects are you currently working on?
JKM: My major project right now is Glitch: A Story of the Not, which is an RPG about surprisingly relatable evil gods who don’t actually know what they’re doing with their lives but are pretty sure that it shouldn’t actually be bringing an end to everything like they had previously thought. I guess the central thesis of the game is something like, “So, there’s an intrinsic universal characteristic of suffering— what do you do?” Only, unlike some RPGs, you can’t then roll for initiative against the intrinsic universal characteristic of suffering, because Glitch uses a cost-based system instead of dice.
Queued up behind that is A Book of Golden Hours, which represents a quixotic effort to break character arcs down into eight basic stories, split that again based on whether the character is getting cooperation, active interference, or neither from the world, and turn the result into twenty-four character classes with powers abstract and high-level enough that each can actually handle the roughly 4% of fictional characters that they wind up representing. It’s not just an RPG supplement, it’s also a unique work of orphic cubist literary criticism!
Then there’s Adventures on the Far Roofs, which is about fighting god-monsters with heroic talking rats at your side up on the rooftops out where the roofs start to blend together until you can’t be sure there are actually any houses underneath. That one’s been written for a long time, but it uses content from A Book of Golden Hours so it can’t come first.
For my patreon consumers I’ve been building a campaign—a set of pre-made characters and stories—for my game, the Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine RPG. I’ve also lately been sharing a mildly updated version of an old cyberpunk setting of mine. Those’ll both be wanting to go into print sometime after they’re done.
Finally, I have a novel—the Night-Bird’s Feather—that’s gone temporarily back into editing at the moment after some new reader feedback. It’s a book of stories about cross-time dream magic and the mental origins of valuation. I’m really excited about it!
Oh, and tonight I was thinking of making soup?
OK, that’s all.
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My life in cats: Kennedy
Posted on July 18, 2018 by Rachel Swirsky
This is Kennedy. She lives with my friend Jenna. Kennedy is quite pretty, and Kennedy is quite aloof. She really likes Jenna. The rest of us are not that interesting. Although, if she is sitting on her scratching post, then she is willing to accept gentle patting, perhaps.
She may have been a rescue from a hoarder’s house, which perhaps explains some of her wariness.
Despite the lack of petting, I realized that Kennedy had decided we were people who belonged to her when my friends fostered another cat. Kennedy became jealous and demanded all the attention. Our attention included.
Kennedy sometimes gets very angry at the downstairs bathroom.
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My life in cats: Europa
For some reason, my friends’ cat Europa has recently decided that Mike and I are people who are supposed to be around. She’s acting much more friendly, and sometimes doing things like rolling around on her back to get my attention. I don’t feed her, so that’s not it.
It’s nice, though.
(By the way, she does not actually want to be petted on the belly when she offers it. Like most cats that aren’t our cats, she becomes all claws.)
My life in cats: Henderson
Presenting Henderson, also called Sweet Lady Henderson, which is a great name for both a cat and a blues singer:
Henderson was stray until recently when she made camp on my friends’ porch. They fed her through the winter, and eventually took her to the vet, where they discovered she was older than they’d thought, and really not suited to go back outside. (Some cats do just fine as fed outdoor cats–she was clearly struggling.)
Mike and I fostered her for a little while. She’s a sweetheart. She wags her tail when she’s happy. I can’t even deal with how cute that is.
She would like to be petted, please. Constantly, if possible.
The vet had to shave her because her fur was a mass of angry tangles. So, she looks a bit like a furless, pathetic goblin. A purring, furless, pathetic goblin with a wagging tail.
She seems to have rustled up a home. If you have to be a stray cat, it’s good to be charming. And since her home is with friends of ours, we still get to enjoy petting the furless goblin (who will eventually be furred) and watching gifs of her wagging her tail.
My life in cats: Aurora
Sometimes I think I should document my life in cats.
My friend’s cat Aurora is a very intelligent, very grand-looking tortoiseshell maine coon. She’s very self-possessed and polite to me–but not overly so, because generally when I’m over, it’s feeding time. And if it’s “time to feed the kitty,” then focusing on anything other than food is not on.
Aurora has some rare behaviors — for instance, she will correct her behavior when my friend reminds her to remember her decorum. When my cats hear us tell them things like “respect boundaries,” they look up with wild eyes, writhe around in a circle, and then bolt across the room.
Many of my friends’ cats are female, where all of ours are male. I don’t know how much there really is a behavioral difference between male and female cats, but it always feels like there is. Ours are energetic, ridiculous goofs. Aurora has this thing called dignity. I’d try to explain what “dignity” was to our cats, but then they’d just look up with wild eyes, writhe around in a circle, and bolt across the room.
That’s a mixing bowl.
Posted on June 7, 2018 by Rachel Swirsky
(That is also a cat.)
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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov, Nikolay Nikiforovitch Siniaev, Gennady Soloviev
In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows the protagonists in the village over a period of a year. The natives, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, keep living their lives according to their own cultural traditions. The expressive pictures are accompanied by original sound bites quoting the villagers.
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Review: Whatever Life Throws at You by Julie Cross
posted at Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 at 8:00 AM | Reviews, Young Adult
I received this book for free from YA Books Central in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Whatever Life Throws at You by Julie Cross
Published by Entangled Teen on October 7, 2014
Genres: Contemporary, Romance
Source: YA Books Central
Life loves a good curveball…
Seventeen-year-old Annie Lucas's life is completely upended the moment her dad returns to the major leagues as the new pitching coach for the Kansas City Royals. Now she's living in Missouri (too cold), attending an all-girls school (no boys), and navigating the strange world of professional sports. But Annie has dreams of her own—most of which involve placing first at every track meet…and one starring the Royals' super-hot rookie pitcher.
But nineteen-year-old Jason Brody is completely, utterly, and totally off-limits. Besides, her dad would kill them both several times over. Not to mention Brody has something of a past, and his fan club is filled with C-cupped models, not smart-mouthed high school “brats” who can run the pants off every player on the team. Annie has enough on her plate without taking their friendship to the next level. The last thing she should be doing is falling in love.
But baseball isn't just a game. It's life. And sometimes, it can break your heart…
Julie Cross hits the feels out of the park with Whatever Life Throws at You. She doesn’t pitch a perfect game, but it was a thrilling one to watch. Sure, she walks a batter in at the end, but it was an awesome game nonetheless. Okay, that’s about all the baseball references that I can manage. Did I sports well? Ahem. Whatever Life Throws at You is a swoony young adult/new adult romance with sportiness and family feels.
For the first 150 pages or so, I wasn’t entirely sure about this book. I was very much unsure about the romance, since Brody was womanizing it up with his new fame. I wasn’t sure if there was any chemistry there either. Well, there was. Damn but Julie Cross can write a good ship. Honestly, I’m surprised that Cross convinced me to ship a nineteen-year-old baseball player with a high school student, but she did.
For one thing, the romance occurs really slowly. Jason Brody and Annie Lucas become friends first. They run together (why anyone would want to run I don’t know), study together, and share secrets. Though there’s a new adult feel to the book, the romance isn’t tawdry, creepy, or hyper dramatic. The sexy scenes aren’t super graphic, but they are fairly plentiful. Until the relationship really takes off, I wasn’t sure, but they have such a great dynamic and treat each other really well. Plus, View Spoiler » I think Cross has a great explanation for why Brody isn’t actually sleeping around. The fact that it’s publicity and he’s so careful not to fuck up this chance makes me respect him a lot. « Hide Spoiler It’s also really great that Annie has her own sport (running) that she’s amazing at and that both her dad and Brody are super supportive.
Even better than the ship perhaps are the family feels. Annie has an amazing relationship with her father, Jim. I love it even more for the things that don’t make their relationship perfect. When Annie gets caught with a fake ID, he yells at her, grounds her, and then comforts her because she begins crying over a boy; That scene really encapsulates the great connection between the two. Dads and daughters fight, but the love is always going to overwhelm anything else. Though more fraught with pain, I also loved the handling of Annie’s relationships with her mother and grandmother.
My favorite secondary character is Savannah, the team’s publicist, and I totally ship her with Annie’s dad. Aside from her, though, the secondary characters didn’t get quite as much development as I prefer. Lenny, for example, doesn’t really change much throughout Whatever Life Throws at You, aside from what’s hinted at in the epilogue.
In fact, I really could have done without that epilogue. While it’s nice to see how well people are doing, it throws a lot of stuff at the reader really quickly. For one thing, I think it’s a bit overly optimistic in terms of baseball: View Spoiler » they win the World Series on top of Brody being rookie of the year? Is that really necessary? And it’s just thrown in as an aside? « Hide Spoiler Plus, even though I do like Brody and Annie together, I could do without all of the marriage talk, considering that she just graduated high school. I really don’t like my YA contemporary novels to end with marriage on the table, but that’s a personal preference.
I’m sad to have to say this, but Whatever Life Throws at You had quite a few editing mistakes. I noted a lot of errors, though I didn’t keep a list. The most egregious one was from page 277 where Lenny says “Emersion is the only true way to truly grasp a foreign language,” when obviously that was meant to be “immersion.”
Whatever Life Throws at You is my third Julie Cross novel, and it’s been the third success. At this point, it’s official that Julie Cross books will be going on my to-read list, particularly if they’re contemporary romances, because she can bring the swoon.
“I see this going one of two ways. Option one — we both spill our past experiences and conclude what I already know, that high school is a very different world than after high school. Or option two — you give me some dignified, noble speech about how you’re afraid of stealing my innocence and you’re willing to walk around with blue balls until, like, forever if that’s what I need.”
He mimics my crossed-arm position and returns my stare. “Or option three — I tell you how I’m very aware of the fact that you suddenly got super uncomfortable, and even though I’m not at all willing to walk around forever with blue balls, I’m also not going to enjoy something that you’re clearly not enjoying.”
By Julie Cross
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TAGGED: 3.5 stars, baseball, family, sports
3 responses to “Review: Whatever Life Throws at You by Julie Cross”
Great review. I loved this book. I think the reason why I enjoyed it and maybe the epilogue so much is because at the time I was reading it, the KC Royals were in the playoffs and going to the World Series. So it was kind it was all real. I haven’t read anything else by this author but you are right, she writes a good story. I had an arc copy so I’m a little sad to hear that all the errors weren’t fixed before the book published.
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Brigid says:
So…I usually don’t like kissy covers. But, cover is just so adorable. And I love it when there’s a relationship between secondary characters, especially if they’re the parents. Provided it’s not just inserted for drama.
I hate it when I have to mention typos/editing mistakes. It bothers me when I read it a lot. I know sometimes a few will slip in, but when there is quite a few that’s the point where it needs to be mentioned.
Dana @ The Nerdy Journalist says:
Julie Cross’s books always make me bubbly and giddy inside. Her contemporary romances are so swoony and adorable.
I know practically nothing about baseball, and I fall asleep when the senior sports editor on my newspaper staff starts talking about the Rays’ prospects for the new season. I was surprised that I genuinely enjoyed all of the baseball details in WLTAY. I’ve never been more invested in a baseball team in my life; it’s only fitting that it was a team of fictional characters in a book. Haha!
I loved the family interaction in WLTAY, especially the interaction between Annie and her grandma. My grandma has dementia, so I could definitely relate to Annie and her dad.
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by pandabearb
La, SQUEAK, La, SQUEEK, honk was the normal sound at Julie's Neohome. Julie clamped her blue Gelert paws over her ears and cringed as she listened to her red Yurble sister practice her clarinet. "Yuck," Julie muttered to herself as she walked up to the room she shared with her sister. She swung the door open and quickly shut it to muffle the noise and save the rest of their family from musical torture.
"Didn't I sound great? I did, didn't I? I knew I had talent in something!" Julie's little sister, Mala, exclaimed happily. Mala dropped her clarinet on the bed and jumped up and down, clapping. "It was a really hard Holiday song, but I played it so well, didn't I?" Mala was oblivious to the fact that she stunk at clarinet playing.
Julie looked at the ceiling and rolled her eyes. "Oh yeah, that was fantastic, Mala. I think you're improving!" she lied. Julie went over to the desk on her side of the room and began pulling books out of her backpack so that she could finish her homework.
Running over, Mala hugged her sister around the shoulders and said happily, "I knew you'd like it! I just knew it!"
Julie gently pulled her sister off of her and said, "Yeah, well, I think you should stop practicing now." Please stop practicing, Julie begged in her mind. "Do your homework," She suggested as she took out her Geometry worksheet and chewed at the end of her pencil, already thinking about the first problem.
Mala shrugged and went back to her bed, picking up her clarinet and replying, "I will, I will. Later, though, because I need to practice my clarinet some more. I just love playing Seasonal music! It's so much fun, don't you agree?"
Hitting herself on the head with her Geometry book, she dropped it down on the desk and said with a pleading look in her eyes, "Can't you please practice later so that I can get some homework done here?"
"Nonsense," Mala told her sister. "Everybody knows that some music helps people study."
"Let me know when you start playing music then," Julie muttered with her head in her hands.
The Yurble picked up the clarinet and began blowing furiously in it, her fingers moving all over, but not sure what to do. The racket was immense, and it could be heard clearly downstairs by Mala and Julie's older brother as if Mala was blowing in his ear herself.
The green Jubjub growled and angrily put down the book he was reading. If only their owner was home, then he could put an end to the disturbance. The Jubjub, Bobby, stomped upstairs and shoved the door open, letting it bang against the wall for emphasis.
"Stop playing, please!" Bobby exclaimed loudly. "I'm trying to read down there!"
"Don't be silly, Bobby," Mala laughed. "My music will calm and relax you so that you can sink into your book and be one with the story," she added as she dropped to her knees and put her arm across her forehead like it was a theatre performance.
"The only thing that your playing will relax is a dying Rock Tree that can't wait to get out of its misery!" Bobby yelled, losing his very short temper.
"Bobby," Julie said warningly. "Calm yourself." Of this eccentric family, Julie was usually the cool and collected one, although it didn't always appear like it. Bobby shrugged and glared at Mala, then walked stiffly back downstairs. Julie addressed Mala, who was looking after Bobby with wide eyes, and said, "Please, Mala. I love you dearly, but could you stop your playing for a while? We all need a break so that we can finish our homework without all this noise going on!"
"So is that what you think my playing is?" Mala asked in a small, tight voice with tears beginning to form in her eyes. "Noise?!?" She stood next to her bed, clutching her beloved instrument tightly, looking pitiful and innocent.
"No, that's not what I meant, Mala," Julie said regretfully, getting up. "I just think that we should all get our homework done first," Julie thought for a moment and then added, "in a quiet atmosphere."
"Fine," Mala replied curtly and slammed her clarinet down on her bed. Walking heavily over to the desk, she jumped into her chair and began working on her own homework.
The air was tense in the sisters' room as they worked the afternoon away. Even Bobby could feel it as he walked into their room to announce that dinner was ready.
Mala looked at Julie with her jaw tight and then stomped out of the room. Shaking her head, Julie followed behind, dragging her feet slightly. She felt bad that she had hurt her sister's feelings, even if it was unintentional. Mala and Julie had always had a tight relationship with one another, being the only girls in the family.
On the table sat Gruel Pizza direct from the Pizzaroo, sliced up Purrples from the Health Food store, and Organic Chia Wort Roots from the family garden. It was a typical meal for this family, no matter how odd it seemed. "I'm famished," The owner said and rubbed his hands together in anticipation. "It was a good day at our store down in Marketplace. I sold quite a few things. I think the Month of Celebration's got everybody in the buying spirit! And in honor of the season and a good day at the shop, I dug up some Organic Chia Wort Roots," He told his family proudly. "How did your day go?"
Bobby looked at Julie, who in turn looked at Mala, who decided to turn her attention to a slice of pizza. The owner noticed the exchange between siblings, and said seriously, "OK, so what happened?"
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Seattle Hotel Association announces 2018 Evening of Hope Gala honorees: Tom and Sue Ellison
Categories: Evening of Hope, Giving Back, Local Interest, news
Tom and Sue Ellison
SEATTLE (Sept. 21, 2017) — The Seattle Hotel Association is thrilled to announce the selection of Tom and Sue Ellison as its 2018 honorees for the upcoming Evening of Hope Gala to be held Feb. 3, 2018, in the Fairmont Olympic Hotel’s historic Spanish Ballroom.
This will be the Seattle Hotel Association’s third year raising money for Mary’s Place, an organization that empowers women, children and families to reclaim their lives by providing shelter, nourishment and hope in a safe community.
The association bestows the honoree designation to families and individuals who take a community leadership role in the Seattle area.
“We feel privileged to have been selected for this very special honor,” Tom Ellison said. “Sue and I applaud the amazing amount of effort Mary’s Place and the Seattle Hotel Association give in time and money to provide resources, services and hope for our fellow neighbors without permanent places to call home.”
“The Seattle Hotel Association, and member hotels, take pride in serving and caring for our guests,” said Amanda Parsons, Seattle Hotel Association’s gala chair. “We wanted to work alongside an organization and program that emulates an unconditional service for others, as well. We truly value our partnership with Mary’s Place. The organization is working in the community every day to help our neighbors in need, with a deep passion and commitment to improving lives.”
Tom and Sue Ellison are longtime residents of the Seattle area, where they raised their two daughters and are proud grandparents to two grandchildren.
Sue has always been the CEO of the family, while Tom is the co-owner and former chairman of the Board of Savers, a privately held international retail chain. Its brands include Savers, Value Village and Unique. Tom and Sue are also the founders of the Ellison Foundation, which allows them to actively support nonprofit organizations, academic institutions and individuals dedicated to empowering the lives of others.
Mary’s Place represents an important example of an organization that fits the Ellison Foundation’s model of supporting strong, well-run nonprofits with a clear mission and programs.
Attend the event
The Evening of Hope Gala’s Star Power Social Hour costs $100 per person and includes entrance to the social hour and silent auction from 5-7 p.m. VIP tickets cost $375 and include the entire evening’s festivities and the post-auction after party. Both ticket tiers are available for purchase by calling 206-236-6167.
About The Seattle Hotel Association
Established in 1986, the Seattle Hotel Association promotes tourism, street safety, industry-related education and reinvesting in the local Seattle community through philanthropy. The objective of the organization is to develop an effective working relationship between hotel member properties; promote the highest standards of the lodging industry among the association’s members; provide legislative and regulatory advocacy on matters pertaining to the lodging and tourism industry and create a favorable climate that promotes the economic well-being of the hospitality industry.
About The Evening of Hope
The Seattle Hotel Association created the Evening of Hope Gala in 1996 to showcase the organization’s effort to make a difference for people in the community. Over the past 20 years, proceeds from this annual event have benefited many local charities by leveraging the collective strength of Seattle member hotels. All proceeds from the gala benefit a selected charity. To date, the association has raised more than $6.1 million.
About Mary’s Place
Mary’s Place empowers women, children, and families to reclaim their lives by providing shelter, nourishment and hope in a safe community. They provide resources for employment, housing and medical care. Mary’s Place operates eight area emergency night shelters, offering families experiencing homelessness a safe place inside and together.
Press release by Allan Aquila & Associates, LLC. 206-948-1997
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About The Seattle Hotel Association’s Evening of Hope
The Seattle Hotel Association created the Evening of Hope Gala in 1996 to showcase the organization’s effort to make a difference for people in our community. In the past decades, proceeds from this event have benefited Lifelong, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Puget Sound Affiliate, Plymouth Housing Group, The Pike Place Market Foundation, the Seattle Police Foundation, and Mary's Place. The Evening of Hope Gala has raised more than $10.29 million for these deserving local charities and the Seattle Hotel Association is proud to continue our service to the community.
All proceeds from the Evening of Hope Gala benefit our selected charity. Through the volunteer effort of the Seattle Hotel Association members and designated charity organizations, the event has grown to be one of the most successful galas in Seattle's history.
Gala Honorees
2020 Tod Leiweke, NHL Seattle & New Arena at Seattle Center
2019 StolenYouth Founders "Women of Wonder"
2018 Tom and Sue Ellison
2017 The Bartell Family
2016 Suzie Burke
2015 Scott & Laurie Oki
2014 Peter & Julie Rose
2013 Jim Sinegal and COSTCO
2012 Gil Kerlikowske & Anna Laszlo
2011 Howard & Sheri Schultz
2010 Tom Douglas & Jackie Cross
2009 H.S. Wright III & Kate Janeway
2008 Jeff & Tricia Raikes
2007 Dan & Cindy Brettler
2006 John & Deanna Oppenheimer
2005 Jerry & Charlene Lee
2004 Gene & Deborah Juarez
2003 Karen & Jamie Moyer
2002 Chap & Eve Alvord
2001 Bill & Mimi Gates
2000 Paul & Pam Schell
1999 Norm & Constance Rice
1998 Carl & Renee Behnke
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2 my wages, and when I cracked it this crowd of beasts came out, and I don t know what to do with them all! Listen to me, my son, said Eisenkopf. If you will promise never to marry I will drive them all back into the nut again. In his trouble Peter would have promised far harder things than this, so he gladly gave the promise Eisenkopf asked for; and at a whistle from the stranger the animals all began crowding into the nut again, nearly tumbling over each other in their haste. When the last foot had got inside, the two halves of the shell shut close. Then Peter put it in his pocket and went on to the house. No sooner had he reached it than he cracked his nut for the second time, and out came the horses, sheep, and oxen again. Indeed Peter thought that there were even more of them than before. The old man could not believe his eyes when he saw the multitudes of horses, oxen and sheep standing before his door. How did you come by all these? he gasped, as soon as he could speak; and the son told him the whole story, and of the promise he had given Eisenkopf. The next day some of the cattle were driven to market and sold, and with the money the old man was able to buy some of the fields and gardens round his house, and in a few months had grown the richest and most prosperous man in the whole village. Everything seemed to turn to gold in his hands, till one day, when he and his son were sitting in the orchard watching their herds of cattle grazing in the meadows, he suddenly said: Peter, my boy, it is time that you were thinking of marrying. But, my dear father, I told you I can never marry, because of the promise I gave to Eisenkopf. Oh, one promises here and promises there, but no one ever thinks of keeping such promises. If Eisenkopf does not like your marrying, he will have to put up with it all the same! Besides, there stands in the stable a grey horse which is saddled night and day; and if Eisenkopf should show his face, you have only got to jump on the horse s back and ride away, and nobody on earth can catch you. When all is safe you will come back again, and we shall live as happily as two fish in the sea. And so it all happened. The young man found a pretty, brown-skinned girl who was willing to have him for a husband, and the whole village came to the wedding feast. The music was at its gayest, and the dance at its merriest, when Eisenkopf looked in at the window. Oh, ho, my brother! what is going on here? It has the air of being a wedding feast. Yet I fancied was I mistaken? that you had given me a promise that you never would marry. But Peter had not waited for the end of this speech. Scarcely had he seen Eisenkopf than he darted like the wind to the stable and flung himself on the horse s back. In another
3 moment he was away over the mountain, with Eisenkopf running fast behind him. On they went through thick forests where the sun never shone, over rivers so wide that it took a whole day to sail across them, up hills whose sides were all of glass; on they went through seven times seven countries till Peter reined in his horse before the house of an old woman. Good day, mother, said he, jumping down and opening the door. Good day, my son, answered she, and what are you doing here, at the world s end? I am flying for my life, mother, flying to the world which is beyond all worlds; for Eisenkopf is at my heels. Come in and rest then, and have some food, for I have a little dog who will begin to howl when Eisenkopf is still seven miles off. So Peter went in and warmed himself and ate and drank, till suddenly the dog began to howl. Quick, my son, quick, you must go, cried the old woman. And the lightning itself was not quicker than Peter. Stop a moment, cried the old woman again, just as he was mounting his horse, take this napkin and this cake, and put them in your bag where you can get hold of them easily. Peter took them and put them into his bag, and waving his thanks for her kindness, he was off like the wind. Round and round he rode, through seven times seven countries, through forests still thicker, and rivers still wider, and mountains still more slippery than the others he had passed, till at length he reached a house where dwelt another old woman. Good day, mother, said he. Good day, my son! What are you seeking here at the world s end? I am flying for my life, mother, flying to the world that is beyond all worlds, for Eisenkopf is at my heels. Come in, my son, and have some food. I have a little dog who will begin to howl when Eisenkopf is still seven miles off; so lie on this bed and rest yourself in peace. Then she went to the kitchen and baked a number of cakes, more than Peter could have eaten in a whole month. He had not finished a quarter of them, when the dog began to howl. Now, my son, you must go, cried the old woman but first put these cakes and this napkin in your bag, where you can easily get at them. So Peter thanked her and was off like the wind. On he rode, through seven times seven countries, till he came to the house of a third old woman, who welcomed him as the others had done. But when the dog howled, and Peter sprang up to go, she said, as she gave him the same gifts for his journey: You have now three cakes and three napkins, for I know that my sisters have each given you one. Listen to me, and do what I tell you. Ride seven days and nights straight before you, and on the
4 Eisenkopf eighth morning you will see a great fire. Strike it three times with the three napkins and it will part in two. Then ride into the opening, and when you are in the middle of the opening, throw the three cakes behind your back with your left hand. Peter thanked her for her counsel, and was careful to do exactly all the old woman had told him. On the eighth morning he reached a fire so large that he could see nothing else on either side, but when he struck it with the napkins it parted, and stood on each hand like a wall. As he rode through the opening he threw the cakes behind him. From each cake there sprang a huge dog, and he gave them the names of World s-weight, Ironstrong, and Quick-ear. They bayed with joy at the sight of him, and as Peter turned to pat them, he beheld Eisenkopf at the edge of the fire, but the opening had closed up behind Peter, and he could not get through. Stop, you promise-breaker, shrieked he; you have slipped through my hands once, but wait till I catch you again! Then he lay down by the fire and watched to see what would happen. When Peter knew that he had nothing more to fear from Eisenkopf, he rode on slowly till he came to a small white house. Here he entered and found himself in a room where a gray-haired woman was spinning and a beautiful girl was sitting in the window combing her golden hair. What brings you here, my son? asked the old woman. I am seeking for a place, mother, answered Peter. Stay with me, then, for I need a servant, said the old woman. With pleasure, mother, replied he. After that Peter s life was a very happy one. He sowed and ploughed all day, except now and then when he took his dogs and went to hunt. And whatever game he brought back
5 the maiden with the golden hair knew how to dress it. One day the old woman had gone to the town to buy some flour, and Peter and the maiden were left alone in the house. They fell into talk, and she asked him where his home was, and how he had managed to come through the fire. Peter then told her the whole story, and of his striking the flames with the three napkins as he had been told to do. The maiden listened attentively and wondered in herself whether what he said was true. So after Peter had gone out to the fields, she crept up to his room and stole the napkins and then set off as fast as she could to the fire by a path she knew of over the hill. At the third blow she gave the flames divided, and Eisenkopf, who had been watching and hoping for a chance of this kind, ran down the opening and stood before her. At this sight the maiden was almost frightened to death, but with a great effort she recovered herself and ran home as fast as her legs would carry her, closely pursued by Eisenkopf. Panting for breath she rushed into the house and fell fainting on the floor; but Eisenkopf entered behind her, and hid himself in the kitchen under the hearth. Not long after, Peter came in and picked up the three napkins which the maiden had dropped on the threshold. He wondered how they got there, for he knew he had left them in his room; but what was his horror when he saw the form of the fainting girl lying where she had dropped, as still and white as if she had been dead. He lifted her up and carried her to her bed, where she soon revived, but she did not tell Peter about Eisenkopf, who had been almost crushed to death under the hearth-stone by the body of World s-weight. The next morning Peter locked up his dogs and went out into the forest alone. Eisenkopf, however, had seen him go, and followed so closely at his heels that Peter had barely time to clamber up a tall tree, where Eisenkopf could not reach him. Come down at once, you gallows bird, he cried. Have you forgotten your promise that you never would marry? Oh, I know it is all up with me, answered Peter, but let me call out three times. You can call a hundred times if you like, returned Eisenkopf, for now I have got you in my power, and you shall pay for what you have done. Iron-strong, World s-weight, Quick-ear, fly to my help! cried Peter; and Quick-ear heard, and said to his brothers: Listen, our master is calling us. You are dreaming, fool, answered World s-weight; why he has not finished his breakfast. And he gave Quick-ear a slap with his paw, for he was young and needed to be taught sense. Iron-strong, World s-weight, Quick-ear, fly to my help! cried Peter again. This time World s-weight heard also, and he said, Ah, now our master is really calling.
6 How silly you are! answered Iron-strong; you know that at this hour he is always eating. And he gave World s-weight a cuff, because he was old enough to know better. Peter sat trembling on the tree dreading lest his dogs had never heard, or else that, having heard, they had refused to come. It was his last chance, so making a mighty effort he shrieked once more: Iron-strong, World s-weight, Quick-ear, fly to my help, or I am a dead man! And Iron-strong heard, and said: Yes, he is certainly calling, we must go at once. And in an instant he had burst open the door, and all three were bounding away in the direction of the voice. When they reached the foot of the tree Peter just said: At him! And in a few minutes there was nothing left of Eisenkopf. As soon as his enemy was dead Peter got down and returned to the house, where he bade farewell to the old woman and her daughter, who gave him a beautiful ring, all set with diamonds. It was really a magic ring, but neither Peter nor the maiden knew that. Peter s heart was heavy as he set out for home. He had ceased to love the wife whom he had left at his wedding feast, and his heart had gone out to the golden-haired girl. However, it was no use thinking of that, so he rode forward steadily. The fire had to be passed through before he had gone very far, and when he came to it, Peter shook the napkins three times in the flames and a passage opened for trim. But then a curious thing happened; the three dogs, who had followed at his heels all the way, now became three cakes again, which Peter put into his bag with the napkins. After that he stopped at the houses of the three old women, and gave each one back her napkin and her cake. Where is my wife? asked Peter, when he reached home. Oh, my dear son, why did you ever leave us? After you had vanished, no one knew where, your poor wife grew more and more wretched, and would neither eat nor drink. Little by little she faded away, and a month ago we laid her in her grave, to hide her sorrows under the earth. At this news Peter began to weep, for he had loved his wife before he went away and had seen the golden-haired maiden. He went sorrowfully about his work for the space of half a year, when, one night, he dreamed that he moved the diamond ring given him by the maiden from his right hand and put it on the wedding finger of the left. The dream was so real that he awoke at once and changed the ring from one hand to the other. And as he did so guess what he saw? Why, the golden-haired girl standing before him. And he sprang up and kissed her, and said: Now you are mine for ever and ever, and when we die we will both be buried in one grave. And so they were.
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Trump confirms China moving troops to Hong Kong border
Scott Gibson | August 14, 2019, 11:24
"The government doesn't forbid Thais from going to Hong Kong because it is their personal right".
Fiji Airways says it is closely monitoring the situation in Hong Kong and assessing its impact on their schedule as chaotic scenes on a second consecutive day of massive anti-government protests have paralysed Hong Kong International Airport.
The flight was on Monday, it said in an emailed statement to Reuters.
Protests began 10 weeks ago in opposition to a bill that would allow the territory to extradite people facing criminal charges to mainland China, but the movement has expanded to include wider calls for democracy.
Sections of the Hong Kong business elite, concerned at Beijing's encroachment on their interests, had initially supported the protests against the extradition bill but are now calling for an end to the protest movement.
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As of 4.30pm on Tuesday, Chek Lap Kok airport had already cancelled all remaining departing flights for a second day.
Tuesday was not the first time that protesters have used violent tactics.
Three videos, in particular, one of an Australian tourist arguing with protesters, another of an expatriate from South Africa upset over the protests, and one of a tourist from Turkey angry protesters at the airport, have been circulating on social media.
President Donald Trump said reports from USA intelligence agencies shows the Chinese government is moving troops to its border with Hong Kong.
Chinese government authorities strongly condemned the protesters Wednesday, describing their actions as having "broken the bottom line of the law, morality and humanity".
State-run media posted videos this week of the People's Armed Police, a paramilitary force specializing in riot control, assembling across the border in Shenzhen. "Everyone should be calm and safe!" he commented. "I hope it works out peacefully, nobody gets hurt, nobody gets killed", he said. US President Donald Trump said in a tweet on Tuesday.
The city's largest airline outlined its "zero tolerance" approach in a memo sent days after Chinese authorities took steps to prevent Cathay workers who participate in protests from flying to mainland China or passing through the country's airspace.
On Monday, as demonstrators shut down Hong Kong's airport, a Chinese official said Hong Kong had reached a "critical moment" and that protesters "have begun to show signs of terrorism". I get reports all day.
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Glossary of Brazilian Terms
A coxinha is literally a type of fried snack, generally filled with chicken, that is common in cafes and bars across Brazil, but especially in São Paulo. It is deliciously unhealthy. It has also, however, become slang for a certain type of uptight conservative seen as being worried about security.
It’s difficult to know for sure how this type of person became associated with the snack, but some (both specialists and laymen) hypothesize that it comes from policemen’s association with the snack.
One well-known superimposition of these two meanings was when the PT mayor of São Paulo, Fernando Haddad, made a tongue-in-cheek complaint on Twitter that he had gone to a popular bar to eat a coxinha, but was instead criticized by one for his well-publicized bike-path project.
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John Butler Trio "Crossroads Rockpalast 2005"
Direto da Austrália para a Alemanha e de lá para o mundo. Palco dos maiores músicos e bandas de todos os tempos.
Até considerado como o ápice hoje devido aos contratos assinados que chegam a ser anuais e shows retransmitidos por um dos maiores canais de tv do mundo.
Aqui está em seu melhor momento este trio que realmente me conquistou em tudo, em mais um trabalho de qualidade (em avi) excelente do meu irmão sem noção, Poucosiso.
Não tem muito o que dizer, só assistir. Rockpalast (Rock Palace) is a German music television show that broadcasts live on German television station Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR).
Rockpalast started in 1974 and continues to this day.
Hundreds of rock and jazz bands have performed on Rockpalast.
Some acts were recorded for broadcast throughout Europe and are available at retail outlets such as Amazon.com, others are featured on YouTube.
From 1977 into the 21st century, once or twice a year the program would schedule all-night marathon shows called "rocknights", which at least up to around 1990 were telecast live across much of Western Europe by the Eurovision and which would go on until 4 a.m. or later.
Rockpalast once sponsored the Bizarre Festival and is involved in several other German rock/underground music festivals. Band:
JOHN BUTLER - vocals & guitar
SHANNON BIRCHALL - bass & backing vocals
MICHAEL BARKER - drums & backing vocals Tracklist:
01 Treat Yo Mama
02 Somethings Gotta Give
03 Pickapart
04 Entrevista
05 what You Want
07 Hello
09 Home Is Where The Heart Is
10 Zebra
Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!
John Butler Trio "April Uprising"
Tem coisas que só acontecem qdo vc está predisposto pra tal.
Qdo abri a nossa alcatéia a idéia era compartilhar experiências, músicas, fazer um ponto de encontro virtual pra poder se bater um papo a hora que desse e pudesse sem compromissos a não ser com a amizade.
Muita agua correu nesse período, uns se foram e outros vieram e hoje muito mais que antes parecendo até que aqui é algum lugar importante,rs
Só que hoje podem até fechar prq consegui o objetivo de juntar amigos e sermos uma família mesmo com os defeitos de uma família; só que vejam o post de hoje.
Uma das novidades do Claúdio de fim de semana e não pude esperar.
Não é o melhor disco deles, mas achei que deveria subir logo, colocar os videos e compartilhar algo novo, ares novos na música e que a torna sempre eterna, isso sim é o combustível de estar aqui e continuar enquanto der.
Valeu Cláudio, bela dica. The John Butler Trio, Australia's biggest contribution to the jam band movement, gets a serious makeover on 2010's April Uprising. Butler dissolved the previous lineup one year before this album's release, hoping to keep things fresh with a change in personnel.
Newcomers Byron Luiters and Nicky Bomba (Butler's brother-in-law) make their debut here, and the band further reinvents itself by sticking closer to the alt-rock camp than ever before, with Butler trading his fingerplucked guitar arpeggios for electric riffs and power chords. He's not entirely done with the genres that fueled his earlier albums -- reggae, folk, pop, and acoustic soul chief among them -- and songs like "Don't Wanna See Your Face" are familiarly funky, with grooves specifically designed for the festival crowds that sustain the John Butler Trio every summer.
Even so, April Uprising signals a change in direction, with a newfound emphasis on rock textures and political lyrics ("Sometimes I do wonder how we do sleep/Serving the dodgy companies we keep") that make the band sound like a flashier, Aussie equivalent of State Radio. ~ Andrew Leahey Audio Mixer: Robin Mai.
Recording information: The Compound, Fremantle, West Australia.
Photographers: Tom Walker; Polly Armstrong.
Arranger: The John Butler Trio. Billboard (p.32) - "[T]he single 'One Way Road' is a tire-swing summer rock cut with a shot of bluegrass and a little bit of California sunshine..."
Uncut (magazine) (p.83) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Butler's usual crunchy guitar shapes are augmented by banjos and tribal rhythms...the slowburn twang of 'Mystery Man' leaves a lasting impression." The John Butler Trio are an eclectic[citation needed] roots and jam band from Australia led by guitarist and vocalist John Butler. They formed in Fremantle in 1998 with Jason McGann on drums and Gavin Shoesmith on bass guitar. By 2009, the trio was Butler with Nicky Bomba on drums and percussion, and Byron Luiters on bass guitar.
The band's second studio album, Three (2001) reached the top 30 in the Australian album charts and achieved platinum sales. The band's subsequent studio albums: Sunrise Over Sea (2004); Grand National (2007); and April Uprising (2010) all debuted at the number one position on the Australian album charts, with all three albums reaching platinum sales status.
Living 2001–2002 (2003), the band's first live album, reached the top ten and also achieved platinum status in Australia. The band's second live album, Live at St. Gallen (2005) also achieved gold record status.
The band's releases since 2002 have been marketed independently by Jarrah Records, which Butler co-owns with West Australian folk band The Waifs and manager of both acts, Philip Stevens. April Uprising
On 30 June 2009 John Butler announced the new bass and drum musicians of the John Butler Trio to be Byron Luiters as the bassist and Nicky Bomba as the drummer and percussionist. Bomba, Butler's brother-in-law, has previously been a member of the John Butler Trio.
The new line-up has spent the last few months in a studio in Fremantle, recording the band's fifth studio album, which was released 26 March 2010.
The album will be called April Uprising, named after Butler's voyage to find his ancestors on SBS Television’s genealogy series, Who Do You Think You Are?.[11][12]
The recording process for the new album has been shared with fans via a special studio sessions page on the band’s website.
The first single from the album, "One Way Road", was released on 4 December 2009. Butler described the song as being
The combination of pretty much most of my musical influences; dancehall, roots & rock. Some how we found a way to bring all these feels in a way that sounds natural and not too contrived or cerebral. I’m really happy with how we captured the vibe of this song.
The band, according to billboard.com, recorded twenty two songs at Butler's home based studio in Fremantle, this was eventually cut down to the fifteen that appear on the album.[14] The album was released in Australia, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and The Netherlands on 26 March 2010, in New Zealand and France on 29 March, in the UK on 5 April, and in the USA / Canada on 6 April.
April Uprising debuted at #1 on the Australian ARIA albums chart on 5 April and whilst the first two singles from the album, "One Way Road" and "Close to You", charted at #15 and #36 on the Australian ARIA singles charts they both reached the top five in the Spins radio airplay charts, the former reaching #1.
On 4 June 2010 John Butler Trio played a show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, which was streamed live to fans around the world at Livestream.
In November 2010, April Uprising, was nominated at the ARIA Awards for 'Best Blues and Roots Album' and 'Best Independent Release'.
April Uprising, the new album from John Butler Trio, is John’s most focused, diverse and accessible album to date. It combines the personal, the political and the musically memorable with skill and passion.
Three (CD - 2001)
Sunrise Over Sea (CD - 2004)
What You Want (CD - 2004)
Grand National (CD - 2007)
April Uprising (CD - 2010)
Line-up Actual
Michael Barker : Bateria, Percussions
Shannon Birchall : Baixo, Vocais Secundários
John Butler : Vocais, Guitarra, Slide Track listing:
1.) Revolution
2.) One Way Road
3.) C’Mon Now
4.) I’d Do Anything
5.) Ragged Mile
6.) Johnny’s Gone
7.) Close To You
8.) Don’t Want to See Your Face
9.) Take Me
10.) Fool For You
11.) To Look Like You
12.) Steal It
13.) Mystery Man
14.) Gonna Be A Long Time
15.) A Star is Born
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I always have been fascinated with radio both in operations and in the technical side. My interest begain in the 1950's when I homebrewed a one transistor radio that my father helped me with in the construction. This one transistor radio was simply a crystal set with one transistor as an audio amplifier to drive the headphones.. In the early 1960's I acquired an amateur radio license. I also built a low power AM broadcast transmitter and displayed my limited talents as an announcer and disc jockey to the neighborhood. I also practiced my mike skills with a borrowed tape recorder. I also used that tape machine to record many hours of Bay Area radio stations in the 1960s.
After graduating from highschool, it was off to City College of San Francisco and focusing on a broadcast engineering career. I spent some time with my voice on the campus' radio station KCSF. I eventually passed the test for the FCC First Class Radio Telephone license.
My first commerical employment in radio was with KSOL-AM in 1966 doing both engineering and announcing. I worked with Sly Stone at that time and this was just before he signed a contract with Columbia (Epic) records when he formed Sly & the Family Stone. I also filled in on the air on other shifts.
From radio I moved to television in 1972 and spent 30 years at KBHK Channel 44 in the engineering department. In 1979, I started volunteering at KPOO as an engineer and did occasional air work. In 2003 I acquired a permentent time slot on Thursdays for my "Jivin' Around" program were I am today.
From left to right, Jim Rigsbee "Grinders Grooveyard" host on KPOO, R&B legend Johnny Otis who has passed away, and Dave Edwards pose in front of the Power House Brewery and Restaurant in Sebastopol California on Saturday morning April 6, 2002. At that time Johnny would host a R&B oldies and interview show on KPFA in Berkeley. Many of these broadcasts were remote events from this brewery in Sonoma County.
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PRGX: Optics on Optix
In our last post, we noted that, as written by the doctor and the prophet over on Spend Matters Pro (membership required) in the PRGX Intro, PRGX is one of a select number of dominant services provider in the niche market for recovery audit services — a market that unlike other procurement services faces tremendous price pressure for its core recovery, statement and related auditing and profit recovery services but also a vendor that has started to remake itself quietly from within.
As a result, as indicated in our last post, PRGX has built the most complete, and in many ways the most advanced, analytics and recovery solution for the retail sector and, in doing so, has built one of the most complete and advanced analytics and recovery solutions for just about any sector that buys and relies on goods. It does this via two platforms, Optix, which has deep Payment, Spend, and Product analytics, and Lavante, which has deep SIM and automated recovery prevention analytics. (We expect they will eventually be merged, but, for now, they are separate.)
As we have covered Lavante multiple times in the past, we’re going to focus on introducing the features of Optix.
Spend Optix
Spend Optix is designed to help an organization get deep insight into their category spend like a typical spend analysis platform for Sourcing and Procurement. Reporting revolves around categories and suppliers. It is also the only PRGX product that today has a built-in report builder, which can build spend reports across pre-defined dimensions and fields. The product is designed to help you understand spend category performance, spend under contract, invoice-vs-supplier insights, item price variance, and commodity cost indices.
This product can also be configured to track all contracts, all meta data of interest, and relate the contracts to the relevant categories and products. This allows a user to drill into a contract from a category, a category from a contract, and create accurate “address spend” reports, as will be described below. The ease of use is not at the level of Lavante SIM, but we expect that will change over time.
Payment Optix
Payment Optix is designed to help an organization get deep insight into their payments and related metrics and, in particular, DPO (days payable outstanding), PO (purchase order) vs. Non-PO spend, deep AP analytics, and risk insights.
The home screen, as with the other OPTIX products, is a dashboard with key metrics and graphs, such as invoices processed by month, DPO, Benford’s law (by invoice amount or value), and related metrics that an organization wants to see on a daily basis. The platform is drill-down report oriented, and the reports are segmented into Invoice Processing, DPO, and Risk Management.
Product Optix
Product Optix is designed to help an organization get deep insight into their product pool, including net margin, equivalent products, and best supplier funding opportunities. Reporting revolves around categories, suppliers, and deals.
The best part is the product detail report which brings up not only detailed product information, but the most complete product margin breakdown report you ever did see. With their extremely strong background in retail, PRGX understands true lifecycle margin calculations as good as anyone and it shines through in their report.
This is just a brief overview of what PRGX can do. For a much deeper dive, see the Pro series (Part I, Part II, and Part III) by the doctor and the prophet over on Spend Matters Pro (membership required) that also dives into strengths and weaknesses and a very detailed SWOT analysis to help you understand where they fit.
This entry was posted in Spend Analysis, Technology on April 17, 2017 by thedoctor.
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Spiel: Boardgames in the UK
My simple notepad about the board and card games I play and gaming in the UK
Wayback When? – September ’93, ’98, ’03, ’08
Wayback When? is a review of the games I was playing five, ten, fifteen and twenty years ago with me highlighting the most memorable titles of each particular month in the vain hope that I might dig out some of them to play again. This month we’re looking at September 1993, 1998, 2003 and 2008.
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September 2008 saw the first outing for Shadow Hunters, a really fun game of hidden identities which is best played with a larger number of players. Great fun and one to dig out when I need a win to take the annual Hall of Fame title. This month, I also played the beautifully produced Lexio, which is a climbing game in the same mould as Tichu and The Great Dalmuti but comes with great chunky Bakelite tiles.
Five years earlier, we got to play I’m The Boss for the first time, a very unforgiving negotiation game. Although I’ve since sold my copy, it’s still a fun game that we ought to dig out from time to time (Nige???)
September 1998 was a good month for three excellent new games played. Basari is an extremely fun simultaneous action and set collection game designed by Reinhard Staupe (and remains his best design to date in my view); Schnappchen Jagd is a tricky Uwe Rosenberg card game that was re-published as Bargain Hunter; and David & Goliath is a fantastic trick taking card game designed by Reinhard Staupe (and remains his best … card game design to date in my view).
Turning to 1993, September only saw me play one new game (to me) of note and that was Labyrinth, the clever tile sliding game where you try to clear a path to the treasure by sliding tiles around the labyrinth.
Author Garry LloydPosted on 4th September 2013 4th September 2013 Categories Snippets
Spielbox #4/2013
And talking of Legends of Andor, it features on the cover of the new issue of Spielbox, which turned up the other day, by virtue of it being named Kennerspiel des Jahres (Enthusiast’s Game of the Year). This issue includes reviews of Rialto, CO2, Le Havre: The Inland Port, Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island and Potato Man (which I definitely need to obtain). It also includes various articles, the most interesting of which explains the relocation of the Essen Fair to Halls 1,2 and 3 during the refurbishment of the Messe. For the collectors out there, this issue also throws in a couple of Messenger cards for Last Will and a Damned card for Bruno Faidutti’s new game, Mascarade.
Author Garry LloydPosted on 3rd September 2013 3rd September 2013 Categories Snippets
Legends of Andor
Unexpectedly, a copy of Legends of Andor is on its way to me. A speculative order from the Foyles website in January, quoting a price of under £25 seemed like a good deal. However, after several months of it still being “On order”, I expected it to have been cancelled. Seems I was wrong.
August 2013 roundup
In August, I managed to play 22 games of 19 different titles, 8 of which were new to me. The new games were Pictomania, Dixit, Hockey sur Table, Sushi Go, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Deck-Building Game, Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island, Trains and Bruges.
I added eleven new titles to the collection which were Hockey sur Table, Hey Waiter, Dungeon Twister: The Card Game, Mascarade, Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island, Sushi Go, Eight Minute Empire, Trains, You Suck, Bruges and a review copy of Stak Bots. My unplayed games list has grown to 31 this month and game of the month was a close call with Bruges being the third Stefan Feld game to take the title this year.
Author Garry LloydPosted on 2nd September 2013 2nd September 2013 Categories Snippets
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Well, we all want to change the world.”
Today is International Worker’s Day remembrance of the Haymarket “Affiar”
So let’s talk about election politics and class warfare, shall we?
I saw a Facebook post from an someone who was livid about this Salon.com article suggesting that liberals might be torn between the lesser of two evils in a Clinton/Trump general election:
Now I am not endorsing this view but you have to understand that Sanders and Trump are two sides of the same rhetorical coin: disruption of the status quo.
Trump and Sanders supporters share a visceral sense of something amiss in the political and economic systems that purportedly represent them.
There are two wings, the left and the right-but in a post-Citizen’s United and corporate media-controlled world, many have come to believe that they belong to the same bird.
I found it strangely unsurprising that Trump appropriated a reporter’s use of the phrase “America First” without apparently grasping the historical significance of this phrase in the context of Nazi appeasement prior to WWII.
Bernie Sanders’ agenda of spending money at home instead of overseas intervention reflects a similar agenda. He wants to spend tax money on education and health care instead of regime change and even has the chutzpah to reject Kissinger and Netanyahu.
What the well-educated and well-healed elites of both the right and left wing don’t understand is that America is an ahistorical and perpetually self-reinventing culture at its best and an ahistorical and fear-based nation at its worst. But you can’t manipulate a people with historically-based propaganda when they don’t know history…
It is harder to sell would be disruption voters that International Bolshevism or nativist Fascism is are clearest and most present dangers when a majority of American’s are feeling that our economy and current way of life is not sustainable, fair, or accountable to the majority of its stakeholders.
Trump and Sanders supports are not pleased about the prospect of having to live three generations under one roof, working 40-hour weeks to have no discretionary pay after rent, student loans, and health insurance.
In the Cold War past, calling someone a communist or a capitalist could get this dodo off the ground but the young and the restless Americans don’t resonate enough with history for them to be moved by the old tunes. It is like trying to play Glenn Miller to a rave for young people or playing Kayne West at a Tea Party fundraiser.
In fact, young Americans are rejecting the brand of capitalism at an alarmingly high rate according to this Washington Post report on a recent Harvard Survey. Another Facebook friend asked today, what is a better name for capitalism?
Continuing with the “flightless bird” theme, even lame duck President Obama said in Argentina in March, 2016 that there was little difference between Marxism and Capitalism:
What a cognitively dissonant thing for the
“leader of the free world” to say!
Allegedly, Communism was about equality and Capitalism was about freedom…
Well, with a million millionaires in “Communist” China and legalized tax evasion and taxpayer “reinsurance” of Capitalist institutions, we have to say that both brands have suffered from problems.
In truth, there has never been a Communist country where some were more equal than others as in Animal Farm.
And there has never been an America where the powerful weren’t just a little more free than others.
The problems with American Capitalism as it currently exists are not dissimilar from state-controlled Communism: non-sustainability and amorality.
Getting people to work for some abstract good rather than personal wealth is a low productive state. My children and I were struck by the learned helplessness of a generation of people we met who lived under the poverty of a state-sponsored Communist in countries like Poland, the Baltic States, and Russia.
But acquiring vast sums of wealth upon the backs of wage slavery is also unsustainable as we are discovering.
You can’t build tree houses from the lumber below. Costco and Chobani are better models for corporate citizenship than Apple and Monsanto.
So what is the rebranding that is needed for young people to fall back in love with Capitalism? I think the problem is not one of branding but of the authenticity of the brand. Capitalism in the US and Communism in the Soviet Union relied too heavily upon a locus of control that was defined by oligarchy.
As documented in the movie, The Big Short, our rewarding of speculation is the tip of a very large and old iceberg of asset class market manipulations, “plunge protection teams”, and unfree markets with the proletariat footing the bill.
From backroom deals to buy land where railroads were to be built, to Social Securuty Trust Fund raids, to S&L Bailouts, to government-sponsered military/pharma/prison/fossil fuel/education-industial complexes, right up until the bank bailouts of 2008.
If we were to allow speculation to have financial repercussions, the system would purge itself and capitalism’s good name and better ideas could be redeemed.
Unfortunately, when you write checks for $14 Trillion to shore of up the banking system that helped created the problem, you haven’t exactly decided to let free markets operate with maximum efficiency.
I suggest that people get away from ‘isms’ and branding and focus on what is needed to flourish. We need the rule of law, a free press and independent judiciary, a middle class, transparent and efficient markets, sustainable growth (and destruction) of industries and bureaucracies, and most of all, cooperation and optimism.
In short, we need the brand American capitalism that the Constitution and Jimmy Stewart sold us on: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness- not disease management, drones and surveillance, and the emptiness of consumer pop culture.
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Osama Bin Laden’s Body Washes Up On Staten Island.
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“I was making mony-gawts (Italian-American dialect for Manicotti) in the kitchen and my husband Lou was working in our giant zucchini garden when I heard my husband scream out,” said Connie Longero of Victory Kill, Staten Island, NY, USA.
“He screams a lot when he’s doing whatever he does with those zucchinis, but this time it was a different scream and I was like, ma-dawn (Italian-American dialect shout-out for the Virgin Mary) — I was pretty freaking worried so I ran out onto the deck my brother-in-law Gino made for us last year as an anniversary present. That freaking deck is only 2 miles from ground zero — maybe even less.”
“The first thing I worried about was that one of my grand-kids fell into the Raritan bay god forbid, but then he said that there was a body washing up on the beach. He said it was Osama Bin Laden. I thought he was jerking me around because you don’t know my husband — he’s a freakin ball buster, but I went outside and sure enough Osama Bin Laden’s body was right on our backyard beach (actually a mud flat).
“I freaked out and called the cops but they told us to just get a pole and push him back in, but we only had a giant goo-goo-tzeel (dialect for zucchini) so we used that.”
It seems that Osama Bin Laden’s body got caught in a rare oceanic current known as the Trans-Egyptian Cornwall and Staten Island Movement or TEC-SIM as it is known by marine biologists.
“We knew that the TEC-SIM has been very active this year,” said Dr. Benjamin Switchy, an expert in ocean currents and tides.
“Our estimates show that Bin Laden’s body traveled at least 13 nautical miles per hour once it was dumped overboard. The current is not visible at the surface and occurs only at a depth of 400 feet. Once the body sank to that level it got caught in the TECSIM current and went on a wild ride. It swirled in the Atlantic off the coast of England and then headed directly towards Staten Island, New York. Once it arrived in the Raritan Bay that laps up onto Staten Island, the water became shallow and the body gently lilted onto the sand — actually only the people in Staten Island call it sand — we call it dirt.”
The body was in remarkable condition and before they pushed it back out into the water with the zucchini, the Longero family posed for a picture with it.
“I had to stand in the water up to my ankles and hold him up a little,” said Lou Longero.
“My kids loved it. God bless America is all I can say. I’m just a little annoyed that the US Army people came and wouldn’t let us keep the pictures, but they stayed for some mony-gawts (manicotti) and meatballs. Then we had coffee with gon-awls (canolis). All in all it was a good day and I feel blessed that I got to kick Bin Laden in the head by the shore outside my back door. It was freaking a gift from god and that kick in the head was my way of telling this jid-rule (Italian dialect for retard) that he got what he deserved.”
Experts expect that the body will drift out to deeper water and again sink into the current.
“It might wash up in Seaside Height’s, New Jersey in a few days until it hits the rapid TEC-SIM current again. If it washes up in Seaside Heights, we ask that all Guidos and people with metal detectors, should keep pushing it back into the water until it catches the out-going currents. Eventually the body will reach the central Atlantic where it will sink once and for all.
“Connie Longero was happy to do her patriotic part when she helped push the body of Bin Laden back into the surf.
“I was happy to see the son of a bitch with a hole in his head. It got me so angry that when I went back into the house to wash the silt off my feet, I made sure my moni-gawts (manicotti) was extra special because this was an extra special day for Staten Island. God bless America for chrissakes is all I can say.”
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What is PCCCI?
The Philippine Cabin Crew Charities, Inc., (PCCCI) is a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registered, non-stock, non-profit charitable organization composed of active and retired Cathay Pacific Airways flight attendants engaged in humanitarian outreach endeavors and other philanthropic activities to help uplift the lives and well-being of underprivileged Filipinos. Through our members, friends, and networks, we have pledged to harness our collective resources and goodwill to make a difference in the lives of our resource-challenged countrymen.
The PCCCI’s beginnings can be traced back to 2005 when a group of Filipina cabin crew working for Cathay Pacific Airways decided to celebrate 20 years of service by "PAYING IT FORWARD". It was a modest and sincere gesture from a privileged group desiring to help and uplift their less fortunate brethren. After all, they were gainfully employed by one of the biggest airlines in the world.
For many years, they conducted outreach activities to individuals and communities who needed some form of assistance or intervention. They did so without fanfare, not seeking publicity or token goodwill. Their charitable initiatives were admittedly a drop in the bucket, so to speak, but they were contented to help out in whatever way they could. Long before CSR programs became trendy, they were already conducting similar activities. However, their group was not formally organized or structured in any way. They did not even have a name.
It was after Typhoon Ondoy (Typhoon Ketsana) hit Asia and especially the Philippines in 2009 that one of their members decided to take their initiatives a notch higher, in order to expand their reach.
Pearl Aurice Palma-Litan is recognized as the founder and the brains behind the formation of the Philippine Cabin Crew Charities, Inc. Leading by example, she inspired among her fellow CX Pinays an indefatigable spirit of charity and goodwill. She taught them – in the words of her fellow PCCCI sisters – "how to give without blinking ‘til it hurts.” The PCCCI, as we know it today, was largely influenced and shaped by her unbridled passion and generosity.
In 2010, PCCCI was officially registered in the Securities and Exchange Commission, engendering within them a higher level of professionalism, accountability, and integrity.
Our vision is to mitigate the plight of the under-privileged Filipinos by harnessing the collective good will and generosity of current and former Cathay Pacific cabin crew members.
Our mission is to become a venue for charitable works for the Cathay Pacific Airways Filipino cabin crew community based in Hongkong, the Philippines and other outports; to mitigate poverty; to give access to education to indigent scholarly youths; and to provide assistance in times of natural and man-made calamities.
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Deputies arrested Eric Efaw at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at 7305 Forest Mere Drive. He was charged with one felony count of video voyeurism.
"Detectives reviewed the images from the camera device that positively identified the suspect," a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office release states. "Detectives discovered that the suspect apparently had the camera on when he walked to his car with the camera and opened his trunk and the film showed his license plate."
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Officers at a Seattle-area police department have found themselves in a flap with some unusual suspects: an angry flock of birds.
Crows have been attacking police in the parking lot of an Everett Police Department precinct station. They've been swooping down and dive-bombing the officers as they walk to and from their cars.
One officer used his siren to try to scare away the crows, but it didn't work. The birds responded by decorating his car with droppings,
Lt. Bob Johns said he recently was flanked by the aggressive birds and "got zinged."
Crows also can recognize people's individual features. And they hold grudges.
"If cops have done something that (the crows) perceive as a threat, they could be keying in on them because they're all wearing the same kind of uniform,"
Man finds $17,021 in cash
Robert Adams craved an ice-cold horchata drink after finishing his sweltering workday, but not having enough money to buy the burrito he also wanted left him with two obvious choices: Stop at the ATM, or find a bag containing cash.
That changed when the Chicago-area man stood at a Chase ATM in Rolling Meadows, looked down and discovered on the sidewalk near a newspaper box a clear plastic bag containing receipts, checks and $17,021 in cash - mostly $20 and $100 bills bound by a rubber band.
The word "Chase" was printed on the bag, so Adams carried it inside the nearby branch.
"I walk up to the teller and say, I think you might have left this outside,' " said Adams, figuring an employee left it behind after restocking the ATM. But employees told him the machine is filled from inside and the money didn't belong to the bank.
Adams then called police, who along with bank officials later determined the money was meant for an ATM in Midlothian and had been under the care of Loomis, an armored truck company. Rolling Meadows police took the money to the station, where it was picked up by a Loomis official.
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Fishermen Family and Frolicks
Summary: Discussion at the Rockcliff ranges between the Terrick docks, Lord Bolland and the first few months of his rule and the up-coming ball at Stonebridge.
Date: 11/Feb/2013
Related Logs: Some references to Coming and Going
Rockcliff Inn, Terrick's Roost
The Rockcliff Inn is one of the better inns within the town and it shows with the well-lit interior and the relative cleanliness to the other locations in Terrick's Roost. The tables are polished with oils and the floor regularly swept. A set of booths towards a darker rear of the Inn's bottom floor, just beneath the staircase, are where whores generally socialize and eye prospects from when not waiting tables. Signs over the undersized bar area advertise prices for ales and wines as well as several different choices of food to be served at the small eating area by the bar or in the main open area in its comfortable seating. A door behind the bar leads to the kitchen and cellar while another near the staircase leads to a private room that would appear to be off-limits to the 'wait staff' except for food and drink service.
Mon Feb 11, 290
The Tavern is full of sailors fishermen at the moment in what could only be described as something close to approaching a formal meeting the chairperson in question of said gathering being none other than Lord Keenan Flashman Terrick. The scent of the sea and fish is overwhelming as is the stale musk of dried and not so dried ale. Booze heavy and disorderly even in their order a debate rages.
"Alright I will have silence people - let us voice our ideas one or at least two at a time!!" Keenan looks at a ledger that he has been writing in, "Okay now blue nosed Bart - what was it you were saying that the docks were in need of…" Aside to himself Keenan says, "If indeed they are ever finished."
Mortimer has so far, had a fairly uneventful day. The market has been busy but not troublesome and whatever turmoil may or may not be going on at the tower seems to be staying there. He needs a word with the barman though, nothing particularly urgent or pressing, just a quick follow up and usually this is a quiet enough time. As soon as he pushes the door open though he realises that today it's not quite so. Recognising most of the folk, and indeed the lord he offers Keenan a quick nod in greeting and a M'Lord" as he then starts to work threading his way through the crowd towards the bar.
"At least four cranes to offload cargo or business is going to go elsewhere," says blue nosed Bart in a coarse seafarers accent.
"Why not six or seven or eight?" Keenan asks noting down the request and taking a drink from his own ale. He also takes a moment to return Mortimer's nod but is mildly distracted at the moment.
It takes Mortimer a few moments to get to the bar and then, given the crowds waiting to be served, a good few moments more to attract the attention of the barman. A few words are muttered back and forth but there's too many waiting for drinks to spare for a longer chat and the man promises he'll make time when it dies down a bit. This not being an urgent matter, there's not a huge amount the deputy can do other than nod reluctantly before going to find himself a seat somewhere out of the way of the sailors.
Keenan finishes up his meeting rather briskly and then heads off to the bar - there are a few orders of business that he has to go through and then an obligatory round of back slapping that he has to tolerate. At least one drinking contest is narrowly avoided - then he finds himself next to Mortimer. "Master Trevelyan," he says by way of greeting, "sailors and whalers - more interesting than tailors?" Keenan states as much as asks - though the phrase appears to be rather rhetorical in character.
With the sailors starting to drift back to work, or some of them at least, Mortimer glances back over to the barman. Still too busy with those that have stayed it seems, but then Keenan arrives next to him and he greets the Terrick with a polite nod, "M'Lord." Casting his glance around the inn he then replies with a faint smile, "Might be on the generous side to call what they catch whales m'Lord, but if you say so."
"I am in a generous mood what can I say." Looking at the sheriff, "And how has the day treated you? You often look tired Deputy Sheriff?" Keenan on the other hand was a relentless bundle of energy - perhaps even maladaptively so. To the point of mania.
"Do I m’Lord? Mortimer answers, one eyebrow rising slightly in surprise. He doesn't feel particularly tired although he certainly doesn't have the same level of energy that seems to be present in Keenan. "I guess there's nothing for it but a quiet night in then." Later, once the day is over that is. "All has been quiet in town so far," he replies, "hopefully it'll stay that way too, although there's talk of a few lightfingered professionals in the area. Passing through on the way to Stonebridge for their ball like as not. Still, we've had no trouble from them so far."
"There will always be petty thieves I suppose. I've always thought our ways of dealing with them too harsh. Branding locks a lot of young folk into the life. Better to manacle them and have them work off several times the value of what they have stolen. No greater deterrent than honest labour. And being stuck in one place against your will for a time." Sipping his ale, "But you're the expert of course."
"It's your Lord Father's law m'Lord, not mine," Mortimer replies with a faint shrug, "I just catch 'em." Nodding in the direction of the remaining sailors he asks, passing the time before he can finish the business he came here to do, "successful meeting? With 'em all in here together I was wondering if we were tempting a brawl. Hardly a week goes by without some allegation of tampering with nets or the like."
"I was just grilling those who know better than myself the local waters for some more information - Seven willing that we ever get the docks finished. It's bad for the region to have the only serious port in Seagard. What happens to trade if that gets destroyed or if we get additional traffic and Seagard can’t handle it. Or if we have another food shortage and need to bring supplies in by sea." Keenan shrugs, "all these things I worry about."
"Shame you weren't here when the Flints were m'Lord" Mortimer answers, a faintly troubled from crossing his features just for a moment. "They were talking about putting a port up in what was Camden land. Abandoned now I hear, what with the plague that struck them." He thinks for a moment longer, then adds, "I know Lord Justin was looking into getting the building started again though, after the Ironborn destroyed the last attempt. If you catch him around I'm sure he'd be happy to share what he has."
"Another abortive plan," Keenan sighs, "Much like our abortive murder investigations and abortive marital engagements…" conceding, "At least you and the other soldiers were able to turn the missing children thing around." After a sip of ale, "You know I often feel as though despite all of his boasts of competency Lord Ser Bolland and my immediate family are all taking a nap in the back of this great big cart called the Roost. Lady Anais having dared to try to steer the cart for a little while is receiving the punishment of being stepped over for all her efforts. Will I share a similar fate to hers I wonder? Or am I too much of a cunt to let that happen to me?"
"I wouldn't call the investigation abortive m'Lord," Mortimer replies, frowning a little at the suggestion, "We caught those responsible." He nods briefly in recognition of the comment about the missing children then has to bite back a reply to the last of Keenan's words. However seemingly informal a conversation there are still things that should not be said. Instead he takes a moment to compose himself again and offers a diplomatic, "I've only met your Lord Father for a few moment's m'Lord, but I trust Lord Mallister's judgement."
"Yes Lord Mallister giving us the right to step over a few dead bodies and declare ourselves better than our predecessors. Funny system that. And even if you disapproved would you tell me? There is as much scandal surrounding our branch of the Terricks - there are merely more of us living. Given time we might catch up to our predecessors and self destruct quite spectacularly. I'm well positioned to enjoy the ride." Keenan was as cheerfully cynical as ever. "What do you think of Anais being stepped over anyway?"
"It's not my place to say m'Lord," is Mortimer's answer, tone and body language making it quiet evident that this is really not a topic of conversations he is comfortable discussing right now. He doesn't look round to see how many ears are listening in, but he reckons he has a fair idea what the main topic of conversation among the sailors will be for the next few days.
"I think you get the message that I think it stinks anyway. The same old nonsense is going on. Too much importance is placed on a dower from the Mallisters which once spent will be gone forever. And mark my words it will be spent on something that is fungible and temporary. And in the end we'll be back to being broke again." All of this is rhetorical as Keenan doesn't expect Mortimer to comment. "So I might as well blow some smoke up the collective arse fo the sailors here and at least pretend that we are going to do something about the docks." He raises his mug to the sailors and they raise theirs back - the last revelation plainly being that even they knew that Keenan could only be half serious about addressing their concerns.
"I'm sure they are grateful for your efforts m'Lord," Mortimer offers as sincerly as he can before glancing to the aforementioned sailors as he does so. With the barman still busy though there doesn't seem to be a chance yet to get his own business done andleave so he attempts to steer the conversation onto topics less likely to get him in trouble. "Will you be attending the ball in Stonebridge?" he asks as he spots the public invitation nailed up behind the bar, "I heard the Captain of the Guard was wondering how many men he'd need to send."
Keenan shrugs, "Perhaps - I could wear my Bravosi hat, the purple one with the broad brim that could protect a small family from a typhoon. "Not sure what mask I'd wear. Do you think the Naylands hate even our branch of the Terricks enough for extra guardsmen to be warranted?"
Mortimer shakes his head slightly "Only enough for safe escort on the roads m'Lord. The loss of Lord Aleister and his Lady Sister from Highfield is reminder enough that they are still not as safe as they once were." Masks and hats he’s has no idea about really, and so he offers nothing more than a simple shrug to those remarks. "I am sure that it will be a fine event though, and I believe that at least Lady Faline was considering attending."
"Ah yes - lady Miranda was lovely - I met her in Highfield. And I am sure that whatever was behind those murders she was an innocent who got embroiled in it all. Such a shame. She had a wonderful voice." Keenan seems wistful, "I doubt I have that many enemies - here on the cape anyway. But I'll consider it if only to chaperone Faline. And meet some of the other hobbldy hoy nobility. Perhaps I should have a Bolland mask made and go as my father?"
"I am sure that your Lady Sister would be glad of your company," Mortimer replies, giving himself more time to think of a response to Keenan's latest mask idea. "I must admit m'Lord that I've no idea how long such a thing would take to make. Like as not the master leatherworker would need time to do such a piece justice."
"I had his face together with a floral hat placed on the prow of my ship till my mother Tressa made me remove it. It is not so complex as you would believe - though I think a lot of people would find it disturbing." Keenan laughs, "Or I could dress up as a wight - although I think Ser Trajan Fenster has that costume pretty much down pat."
Mortimer thinks on that a moment then shrugs slightly, "I'm not sure how many would recognise it as your Lord Father's face m'Lord. I don't believe he had stepped much outside of the tower before Lord Tully's summons." He's certainly only seen the new Lord of the Roost once and that was only a brief encounter. "I've heard Ser Fenster is a distinctive man, people'd likely recognise him."
"Yes indeed then they would know him when they saw him by my mask. I could make his visage famous," Keenan quips about his authoritarian father. "Yes Lord Fenster is distinctive - I can say honestly the only time I would be jealous of him would be at a masque where he would not have to spend any money. Don't tell him I said that though or he may endeavor to make me look just as handsome as he is."
"I won't breathe a word of it m'Lord," Mortimer promises. An easy promise to make given as he has no intentions of getting into conversation with the Fenster anyway. "Surely though he'd need to spend more on a mast, as it'd need to cover more to hide the fact that it was him?" Before the conversation can progress further though the barman appears, apparently with a few moments and so Mortimer turns to Keenan and asks, "if you'll excuse me m'Lord?"
Keenan looks up from his ale with amusement, "Keen to get back to your family? I'll not keep you," the young lord rests his head on the bar.
Mortimer nods briefly to the barman as he answers Keenan, "Work m'Lord, keeping track of the comings and goings of those individuals I mentioned earlier." Having received her permission to depart though he moves along to a quite spot of the bar and spends a few minutes in discussion with the man on the other side and once that conversation is done he's turning and heading for the door once more.
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Review: Take the Trophy and Run by Gail Sattler
November 7, 2012 By Valerie Comer
Amber Weathersby is an unlikely member of the Bloomfield Garden Club. So far, she’s managed to kill pretty much everything she’s tried to grow outside her house. If it weren’t for her best-firend-since-childhood, Stan, who installed an automatic sprinkler and told her never to touch it, there would be no hope of even a patch of green, let alone multi-colored flowers.
Still, Amber is a crafter with a little shop where many of the club members pick up their garden ornaments. Her most famous is Gnorman the Gnome, whose job it is to hold the trophy when the winner of the Spring Fling garden contest is announced. Only this year, Gnorman–and more importantly, that precious trophy–have gone missing.
A note with words cut from the newspaper appears, leading Amber, with Stan hot on her trail, to Gnorman, who’s wearing a new funky costume. The note tells her not to move Gnorman or she’ll never find the trophy. For several weeks Amber and Stan follow these clues around Bloomfield and try to figure out who is behind the gnome-gnapping and where the trophy is.
Stan is stunned to find he’s fallen in love with his very best friend, but what’s holding Amber back? Why is she so panicked out about the annual garden club membership review? And. . .is it possible she’s fallen for him, too, and just won’t admit it?
Take the Trophy and Run is an entertaining romp around the town of Bloomfield. If you enjoy some chuckles with your romantic reading, give this read (and series) a try. It’s hard to pull a new story out of this trope, I think–the one where a man and a woman have been friends forever and don’t see each other as marriage material, and don’t want to ruin the friendship they have established. The author found a new twist or two to pull this tale together.
Bloomfield is a series about a fictional town created by a team of authors contracted by B&H Publishing. I reviewed the series pre-release Waiting for a View by Debby Mayne here.
Gail Sattler lives in British Columbia, Canada, with her husband, 3 sons, 2 dogs, and a lizard named Bub, who is quite cuddly for a reptile, except when he is eating her houseplants. When she’s not writing, Gail plays piano for the worship team at her church, electric bass for a community jazz band, and acoustic double bass for a local orchestra.
I received an e-copy of this novel for review from NetGalley. Opinions, as always, are mine alone.
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Ontario Teacher Disciplined for Criticizing Child Procurement Program
Vatic Note: Do they have election recall in Canada for elected officials who condone commiting of crimes? This is a movement all over the world, notice in Germany and Denmark they are asking that the rules on pedophilia be loosened, and decriminalized. Can you imagine? We pointed out years ago on this blog that satanism was the basis of this New World Order that they want to institute, and no one has said a word about it.
This is starting it with the children by changing our moral compass from one of certain rules that enhance a life, to one of no rules that leaves a child floating, needing direction, and limits set for them. This whole treatment of sex as recreation, rather than something important such as love, marriage, children, etc. was all laid out in the protocols, to do this to our children. It undermines the stability of a society and makes it ripe for occupation by these demonic satanists. That is why they federalized the schools, and allow TSA to fondle our children at the airports. Its even worse in Britain. They are the example we can see if we allow this, since they have been doing this to children for generations.
This is done to deprive children of a meaningful life instead of them experiencing true meaning and importance of certain elements that have supported us as adults. This is part of the Satanic training of our young since this NWO is to be satanically based instead of Christian based. We knew that when these same khazars murdered 63 million Christians after taking over Russia. You can't have a satanic NWO with Christians around to mess it up with their truth telling.
An insider said, back in 2010, that they were basically ready, as satanists, to take over the world. Here, check out the blog we did back then about how they had all the confidence in the world that they were ready and it was going to happen. We will see... here is the blog we did on it. After reading this below, I believe it, since that is exactly the evil level of perversion they are leading our children to. I don't even want to see what this world would be like if they succeed in their demonic evil ways.
http://vaticproject.blogspot.com/2010/09/insider-says-were-entering-age-of-satan.html
http://www.henrymakow.com/index.html
Introducing pre-puberty children to sex is
psychological sexual abuse, leading to
physical abuse. Parents must take vigorous legal action. Teachers must refuse to groom children for pedophiles.
The time has come for civil disobedience.
We've heard about bakeries who refused to bake cakes for gay weddings as a matter of principle. Now we have 75,000 elementary school teachers in Ontario who are forced to act as satanist social engineers and procurers. Their livelihood is at stake. Like Eichmann, will they "obey orders"?
If you were a pedophile, wouldn't you want children to learn the following? (see article)
by Henry Makow Ph.D.
An Ontario teacher has been disciplined after criticizing Ontario's sex ed in social media. Details are withheld because she wishes to remain anonymous. She "fears for her safety."
She writes:
"Thank you for covering the sex-ed topic in such an informative, educational, way. As a public school elementary teacher, I had been trying to do the same by using social media (Twitter, Facebook.) At least until I have been gagged by my own Union and sent to the school board's "Tweet Right" course.
What is happening in schools and particularly the union is terrifying. We are being gradually conditioned to approach children with sex talk via images of gingerbread cookies. Most of us have learned as children to reject candy from strangers. Yet here we are, teachers from the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario about to start using images of candied cookies to have adult chats about sex with children.
It's simply criminal. There ought to be some sort of political/judicial/criminal action to stop this dead in it's tracks.
There is this sort of linguistic/psychological approach gradually implementing the "sex-ed" curriculum. There is an occult quality to the entire thing and disturbing overtones of pedophilia.
I hope you continue your work on this subject. Parents and teachers need to be educated about the sex education program and its genesis. They simply don't know. They need to be informed with the facts about it so they can understand."
SEX ED IS PEDOPHILE'S BEST FRIEND
The sex ed curriculum was designed by a pedophile. Benjamin Levin pleaded guilty to making written child pornography, counseling a person to commit a sexual assault, and possession of child pornography. He also told an undercover police officer he had sex with his own daughters and hoped to have sex with his granddaughters. (VN: that proves these pedophiles have absolutely no room in them to care about the damage they do to their very own children. They are fully narcississtic, and only care about themselves.)
The Ontario Sex Ed Curriculum is designed to groom children for pedophiles, homosexual and otherwise. If you were a pedophile, wouldn't you want children to learn:
Graphic lessons on sexual body parts including "penis", "testicles", "vagina" and "vulva." (age 6)
How to give consent. (age 6 and older)
How gender is a social construct unrelated to anatomy. (Age 8)
That homosexuality is cool. Gay families are normal. (Age 8)
That they should start dating. (Age 9) (VN: is that way they loaded up milk with hormones?)
That masturbation is good. (Age 12)
That vaginal lubrication is useful. (Age 12)
That anal intercourse and fellatio are good ways to avoid pregnancy and stds. (age 13)
That doesn't mention anal sex is 3000% more likely to result in AIDS; that almost 1 out of every 3 actively gay men in Toronto will get AIDS; but says it's OK to keep having sex even if you have AIDS.
That sex is a purely recreational activity whose purpose is pleasure, apart from love or marriage. According to the Coalition for Life, "the words 'love' and 'marriage' never appear once in the sex-education strand of the curriculum. Not a single mention. Does that reveal the mindset of its writers, if not the philosophical underpinnings of the curriculum itself?" (VN: its intentional, its purpose is to destroy the family which is the foundation for a civilized and functioning society and economy.)
GLOBALIST CONSPIRACY
If you didn't believe in a satanist global conspiracy empowered by the Illuminati banking cartel, you should now. The people supporting the Ontario Sex Ed program are globalist proxies like the Communist party, Planned Parenthood, OPHEA (The Ontario Physical & Health Education Association) and "Queer Ontario" which according to their website, promotes bondage, casual sex, sadism/masochism and group sex.
The sex ed agenda is international in scope. A Greek wrote to Ann Diamond recently: "Yesterday I went to a conversation that took place in a primary school and was organized by school teachers and social workers. They invited parents to tell them that it is necessary to put sex ed in kindergarten.
I asked them where they take their instructions from, they said from WHO [World Health Organization]. I talked and I am opposed to all of this, and yes, they were impressed from the things I knew, and they didn't have an answer. It's spreading wild, guys. It's a world agenda."
What passes as spontaneous "social change" is in fact an organized process of satanic possession.
So far only one man has launched a legal action. A Mr. Tourlakis has sued the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) for refusing to give him advance notification of lessons that contradict his religious beliefs. They have also refused to let him to withdraw his children from class. (Point 12)
But all parents and teachers need to challenge this in court. Forcing teachers to sexualize children contravenes the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which guarantees "freedom of conscience and religion." (2a)
Muzzling teachers contravenes the guarantee of "freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication."
Furthermore, the Charter protects Catholic schools who refuse to participate. (29)
I have to ask Ontario parents. Do you love your children? Prove it.
Thomas Carter has found a group that is more militant:
Today at our church in London, ON, a lady was giving out petitions protesting the curriculum put out by Parents Alliance of Ontario. www.parentsalliance.ca
This group is very active and have been behind the protests at Queen's Park. 500 hundred of their members were responsible for shutting down the brain washing session held by Liberal MPPs Bas Balkissoon and Soo Wong.
http://www.parentsalliance.ca/index.php/2015-03-10-03-20-50
The group appears to have been started by Chinese Canadians. They are planning another protest for Tuesday April 13.
http://www.parentsalliance.ca/index.php/2-uncategorised/7-april-14-parental-rights-protest
More updates and info available http://mychildmychoice.ca/
Demonstration:
"WE SAY NO"
TO ONTARIO SEX ED
Join Parents across Ontario who are saying NO to Ontario's new sex ed!
FB GROUPS > My child My choice, Say no to Ontario Sex Ed, PM Stop the dangerous and abusive sex ed in Canada,
PROTESTS: APRIL 14, QUEENS PARK TORONTO, 10am - 12 pm June 5th, PARLIAMENT HILL, OTTAWA, 1pm-3pm
PARENT & STUDENT SRIKE: ACROSS ONTARIO, May 4-11
Stop this dangerous sex ed program imbedded with pedophilic influence (of convicted child predator Ben Levin), which presents confusing theories (introduces 6 genders to young influential minds) opposed to sexual health and education facts, introduces anal sex as an equivalent to vaginal in GRADE 6 when in fact anal sex is illegal in Canada until the age of 18 and is harmful to the body, has high risk association to the aids virus since 'anal fluids' carry highly toxic and infectious bacteria (especially when mixed with semen).
These facts however are missed in this sexual health and education program designed to keep our children 'educated and healthy'. The curriculum introduces consent to minors rather than teaching them according to Canadian Laws that it is a violation for anyone to touch them sexually.
The program encourages masturbation and sexual touching to minors which is a violation of the criminal code of Canada. The Ontario government is threatening parental rights and Canadian freedoms and has disrespected Canadian values.
Stand with us and fight back. All protest will be very loud, but very peaceful. No violence of any kind will be tolerated.
Related-
April 2008- Makow- Pedophilia: The Next Frontier
Wynne's Sex Ed Rooted in Totalitarian Communism (Cabalism)
Ontario Lesbian Premier Grooms Youngsters for Pedophiles The First Child Kathleen Wynne Destroyed
German Documentary- The World Pedophile Agenda (One hour)
In all cultures and all lands, pedophilia has been a capital offense. So the first thing to ask is; what happened? How have the most criminal of sexual perversions become a plank in the political platform in democratic countries? Marx never suggested it. Trotsky only went so far as promoting promiscuity and bisexuality .[1] He corresponded with and met the Fabian Socialist Lord Bertrand Russell in 1921.[2]
The English Lord Russell and the cultural terrorist Trotsky knew that isolated individuals are easily controlled by the State. Both experimented with ways to break up the nuclear family. Trotsky outlawed marriage, decriminalized sodomy, and promoted promiscuity and homosexuality. In 1927, Russell and his wife (at the time) Dora operated a private, experimental school for children up to puberty. The children immersed in sex 'education', and encouraged to experiment on each other, and given hours of opportunity. Russell confirmed that children that have premature 'hands on' sexual experience with other children, whether before puberty or before maturity, will never bond deeply enough to sustain a marriage.
All this goes to the motive of the Globalists' heavy handed support for outright deviant sex programming of children unfortunate enough to have to go to public school.
Now, how are they getting away with forcing this blatant, aggressive sex deviant programming of children into Ontario schools?
I've noticed that parents and the public who should be up in arms aren't doing much, if anything, but reading articles like this.
I've also noticed most don't want to really study the curriculum line by line, because it's repellent to us. But if you really want to get motivate to do some kind action - even if it's only writing letters to editors of your newspapers and posting op ed comments,
this German documentary THIS IS A MUST SEE. It tells you in great detail what's in these programs, where it started, and the powers behind it.
Originators of Early Sexualization
[1] Communist Rules for Bringing About a Revolution (1919): "Corrupt the young. Get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex."
[2] In history books Russell is often called a "liberal anti-Communist" but remember this quote: "I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realisation of Communism in the future."
[3] It was called the Beacon Hill School, and Russell could get away with this because he obtained a Royal Charter. - See more at: http://www.henrymakow.com/index.html#sthash.snzohRup.dpuf
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2014 Apr 20 Doomwolf555
2014 Apr 20 PostFatal
2014 Apr 20 NiuHaka
2014 Apr 19 John
2014 Apr 20 Vermil
2014 Apr 18 veirdo
2014 Apr 19 skyjake
2014 Apr 20 HiPhish
2014 Apr 17 KuriKai
Doomsday 1.14 Released
2014 Apr 16 edited 2014 Apr 20 in News
The stable version 1.14 (build #1201) is now available.
In this release we've focused on several UI improvements, particularly related to client-side multiplayer UI. We have also improved the management of savegames so that you can access them at any time — even from the Home screen when no game is loaded. See the release notes for screenshots and more information about what has changed since the previous stable release.
When you encounter bugs please submit them to the Doomsday Engine Tracker.
Downloads and other links are available on the dengine.net front page.
- Deng Team
KuriKai
2014 Apr 17
Congrats on the very nice release.
HiPhish
I don't think I have yet expressed how much I love this project. Playing Doom, Heretic and Hexen ist nice, but many other projects do that as well. However, what makes Doomsday stand out to me ist how well it is done and how much though is being put into the user experience. By that I mean the pleasant UI, the tutorial, the comprehensive and compact user options... anything that makes it simple for normal people to use Doomsday.
I have a few suggestions though:
- The tutorial panels should have a "back" button next to the "continue" button.
- There should be an option to delete savegames from the home screen.
- There should be an option to copy logs to the clipboard (or at least write where the log file can be found)
On another note, I see that 1.15 is the last step before 2.0 on the roadmap. Is that true or did you just not get write the next steps down yet?
Thanks, we do try to emphasize a high quality experience.
HiPhish wrote:
Good ideas. I added them to the tracker.
I see that 1.15 is the last step before 2.0 on the roadmap
Our most up-to-date roadmap is in the tracker. In practice, the shift to version 2.0 will be very gradual, as our plans are ambitious and cannot really be all implemented in a single step. There will likely still be many 1.x releases as we revise subsystems one by one. For instance, the new UI functionality over the past several stable releases is already fully 2.0 compliant, even though the rest of the graphics is still using the old 1.x implementation.
veirdo
2014 Apr 18 edited 2014 Apr 19
Congrats with the release! A little but major step to modern graphics. The new UI with the tutorial looking great and user-friendly! Also I noticed a very comfortable default key-binding for using items in Hexen\Heretic on "x" key.
The bloom post fx looks great, and working well with the particles, smooths out some issues with line-type particles rendering.
Personally I think it would be great to have a texture mask for models and surfaces to define there the bloom effect IS, because for now some models lose contrast when bloom turned on.
Usual congrats on another step toward Dday 2.0
skyjake wrote:
Thank you for your explanation Do you have an estimate already how many stable releases it will take or is it still too early for that?
Another thing I have been wondering about is whether you would consider supporting similar games from other engines (post 2.0 of course). In particular the Build Engine games; I know the Build Engine is a completely different engine, that's why I'm asking. I know there is eDuke32 for Duke Nukem 3D, but it lacks the great polish Doomsday is offering. For Shadow Warrior there is no proper port at all, and even if there was one it would quickly fall behind eDuke due to less interest in Shadow Warrior than Duke 3D. That's part of what I love about Doomsday's multi-game support: if the core engine gets improved all supported games profit. If Blood could be supported on top of that it would even be icing on the cake And while I'm at it I might also mention Descent 1 & 2, although the DXX-Rebirth Port is quite good already (not Doomsday-level of polish, but way better than eDuke).
If you do a search of this site I believe you will find this has been asked before. At present, unless things have changed I do not think Duke Nukem 3D is planned to be supported. As you say the Build Engine is very different than the Doom Engine.
Are you aware that eDuke32 can also be had in an eDuke64 (although it still may be called eDuke32)?
Are you aware that there are two engines for eDuke32 to run on? The classic Polymost engine and the completely new Polymer engine which has many visual enhancements over the Polymost engine but requires a lot more computer "horsepower" to use.
Lastly Duke Nukem 3D has high resolution graphics too (like DoomsDay) but you have download them and install them separately they do not come with the game download (like DoomsDay).
Do you have an estimate already how many stable releases it will take or is it still too early for that?
Sorry, it is impossible to estimate that, as we don't know how much time we'll have for Doomsday at any given time, and the prioritization of features is always changing.
Another thing I have been wondering about is whether you would consider supporting similar games from other engines (post 2.0 of course).
The situation regarding this hasn't changed. Our ultimate goal with Doomsday is to have it support as many games as possible, however in practice this is limited by the number of people working on the project and what their interests are. For instance, personally I have no motivation to work on, say, Descent, however I find Strife a somewhat interesting possibility.
We have been steering Doomsday 2 into the direction of a more general purpose engine — my hope is that one day also other people can use it as an SDK to support other classic games.
NiuHaka
I LOVE you guys!
My new 3d models look incredible in this new environment. The lighting! What on earth! Words really can't express just how big of a leap this latest version is on the visual side of things, at least with my high poly models. The light that glows off of the 3d surfaces in outdoor areas or next to lighted objects is just... amazing... I almost feel like I'm working on a current gen project.
Thank you for all the hard work.
Bloom is indeed very cool, though Doomsday has always impressively done that with its lighting effects; for instance an Imp (sprite or model) walking past a dynamic light has always been lit in 3D by said light.
Indeed but i'm not talking about dynamic lights. I'm talking about the nice reflective glow/aura that you get now. It's the bloom effect that causes a soft dark aura around dark surfaces and a soft light aura off of light surfaces. It is VERY tasty.
I see, that clarifies it. How feasible would it be for someone else to start adding Duke 3D support now? I do know my way around C and its related languages (Objective-C, C++, Java, C#), and I do have knowledge of various computer science topics (algorithms, data structures, state machines, ...) from classes, but I have never worked on something this big. Maybe the best way to start would be to look for an easy first task; do you have a good idea for a starting point?
NiuHaka wrote:
is this a tease? What high poly models do you mean? if you aren't going to share then why mention it?
PostFatal wrote:
is this a tease? What high poly models do you mean?
Not a tease. Just an appreciation post. I'm talking about my project. Been working on it for a couple of years now but we've recently gone back and started redoing the models with more triangles. Found a way to cheat the .md2 triangle limits.
if you aren't going to share then why mention it?
Because this isn't my thread.
However, I will post some screenshots just to show what i'm talking about with the new lighting. It is just amazing what the engine does visually now. Please excuse the player's pistol which is pointing down. The weapons have all been messed up in the last couple of versions.
Oops! Didn't realize i couldn't use the "
This first is an image just showing the textured model. All lighting is baked in and there is no actual light information in the image.
https://sites.google.com/a/doomascensio ... t-pose.jpg
The next two are screenshots taken from my project using this latest version of the Doomsday Engine with default settings and no post processing. Notice the light auras around the reflected light, most noticeable around the skin. Also in the second image you can see a dark aura coming off of darker parts of the models like the pistol.
https://sites.google.com/a/doomascensio ... te-042.png
As cool as the models are (to me they look great, but I don't personally like the artistic deviations from the sprites appearances that you've always said you were planning to make; I would prefer to use models that are more faithful), you seem to keep going back and revising them; don't get stuck in a cycle.
Doomwolf555
There is an addon with reflections for textures,I hope they will reflection effects ton monsters too like revenent's armor or zombieman's and also reflection for water textures gonna be so cool too(I have tried it but the effect just didn't worked well)
Anyway I hope they can make dynamic shadows for monsters and items that would make doomsday look amazing
I just posted some screenshots about the D3 models:
http://postimg.org/image/qp4t4r5mt/
http://postimg.org/image/ofgi815y5/
Vermil wrote:
... artistic deviations from the sprites appearances that you've always said you were planning to make...
I hope you meant that I've always said i would deviate because I have always said that. Loyalty to the source has always come second to my own personal vision. However, the other monsters seem to have fallen back in line to being much more loyal to the source... Not really sure how that happened lol
you seem to keep going back and revising them; don't get stuck in a cycle.
I've actually only gone through one revision for the models and that was due to a huge increase in performance and the realization that we could cheat the hard .md2 triangle limit. In fact we are no longer limited by triangle count at all. I believe you even commented in a thread i started a year or so ago about getting rid of the limit to the number of sub-models. That was the thread that helped us come to the final decision to revise.
Doomwolf555 wrote:
...reflections...
I'd apply reflections to my models if I could control them per pixel rather than per model. I have some extremely subtle old styled "reflections" on those models in my examples but they are so subtle that it is almost not even worth having in there.
Anyways, I really do love where Doomsday is headed. I just can't even fathom doing my project for any other port.
...I'd apply reflections to my models if I could control them per pixel rather than per model. I have some extremely subtle old styled "reflections" on those models in my examples but they are so subtle that it is almost not even worth having in there.-....
Could you make this arachnotron model?that would help a lot for me to finnish my new addons.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/3djunior/2049260478/
WOAH! That is quite the request hehehe. I fear you know not what you ask of me. I'll send a private message.
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Justice League Awesome
It’s always a little bit disappointing when the Giffen-DeMatteis-Maguire-Hughes-Templeton-Medley-Hefler Justice League is written off as all jokes, no feeling - because you can get so much more out of it than the bwah-ha-ha’s.
There is no denying that it could sometimes be a sublimely goofy comic, but it’s easy to forget that after years of terribly serious Justice League comics (that came to a dead end in Detroit, it was a welcome change of pace to have a few laughs at that time.
Especially when the 60 issues of Justice League/International/America – published between May 1987 and March 1992 – were crafted by creators with impeccable comic timing, an occasionally sublime depiction of exaggerated body language and some terrific banter.
Whether it was Mister Miracle's embarrassment after he came crashing through every floor of the Justice League embassy after assuming the roof could take the weight of the League's transport, or Guy’s adoration of General Glory, or the ongoing humiliations of poor old Blue Beetle, or the infamous 'one punch', or Kooeykooeykooey kurrency, or the skill of the punch-line set-ups that filled almost every issue, there were plenty of chuckles to be found.
But those laughs were more than just light relief - they humanised these four-colour superheroes in new and different ways. If you laughed along with Booster Gold, you ended up genuinely caring for Booster Gold. This version of the Justice League is still loved and enjoyed by many comic readers, and not just because it made them laugh, but because it made them care.
Born out of Legends, another fairly dire mega-crossover, Justice League International quickly found its own feet as a quirky, charming and occasionally dead serious superhero comic somewhere in the late 1980s. Rising from the ruins of the Detroit League, who were all systemically and heartlessly wiped out by mad old Professor Ivo, it brought together a group of DC heroes that managed to seem both entirely random and meticulously planned.
There were the standard old faces like Batman and the Martian Manhunter, some new characters to the League like Blue Beetle (recently arrived from Earth Charlton), Mister Miracle, Guy Gardner and Booster Gold; and a mix of both with the all new-all different Doctor Light & Black Canary, and Captain Marvel.
The series started off as a typically earnest and surprisingly silly late eighties super-comic, with the team taking on nuclear terrorism and the Royal Flush Gang, but under Giffen and DeMatteis' guiding hands, it quickly became something else. 'Moving Day' in issue eight helped set the template for the rest of the series, with the creators - and readers - having just as much fun with an issue focused on the heroes moving into their new headquarters as they would with another supervillan punch-up.
Not that there was any shortage of punching, with even team members often taking a swing at each other, but it was the quiet issues of Justice League, in-between the big battles, that gave the book most of its charm. Things approaching tenderness and genuine feeling could be found here, like the oddly touching sweetness of the Guy/Ice relationship, or moments where good friends were mourned.
But while it was undeniably goofy and arguably moving, it could also be deadly serious, and racked up a horribly high body count for a series remembered mainly for its giggling fits – entire villages of innocent Europeans were wiped out, Despero suddenly became some sort of avatar of homicide and slaughtered a hero’s family, and a street thug corrupted by an Apokalyptic mega-rod murdered dozens of his friends and even more policemen.
All that grimness was made darker by the lightness of other moments, and gave everything some context.
And it wasn’t just a case of goofy or grim, this Justice League worked on a number of interesting levels - some of the Biayalan mind control moments were truly disturbing, and the first Grey Man’s mission to de-saturate the world took an unexpected emotional term when he actually got what he wanted, as Giffen's mad ideas medlded perfectly with DeMatteis' humanism to create something new.
All of this was rendered by a cracking art team, with the usual brilliance of Magurie replaced by the lovely flowing lines of Adam Hughes. Linda Medley did some lovely work in the last couple of years, names like Mike McKone started to pop up, and there were interesting efforts from some slightly unexpected artists like Trevor Von Eeden or Kyle Baker.
This high quality of art is one of the signs of the brilliant work of editor Andy Helfer – the great unsung hero of this particular slice of comic history. As well as picking the right artists for the right story, Helfer also knew how to balance out the light and dark stories, and, most importantly, knew when to cut back on all that fabled dialogue.
His ruthless cutting pruned out a lot of it, and you only have to look at the new efforts by Giffen, DeMatteis and Maguire that came out in ‘03 and ‘05, where the stories started staggering under the weight of their own cleverness, with no editor willing to tell these comic legends that they need to wipe out at least half of their precious dialogue.
Not that it was all perfect in the eighties and very early nineties – A lot of the gags just got too repetitive, the whole General Glory thing was a good one-issue laugh, but not a whole arc of its own; a lot of the gags just got too repetitive; the extension of the comic into those quarterly issues showed that a Mr Nebula story might be bloody funny for 22 pages, but an 80-pager was asking a bit much, and a lot of the gags just got too repetitive.
And some G'Nort - and I ALWAYS love to see G'Nort in a comic - was always a bit too much G'Nort....
But even with all its faults, this Justice League still has its own style that make sit endlessly enjoyable. The DC Universe was an interesting place during these years it ran, where superhero comics were changing into their adolescent phase, and willing to try anything.
By the time Justice League #1 debuted, the DC Universe had got far enough past the Crisis on Infinite Earths to have complexity, without becoming convoluted, while it was also a period where individual point of views from creators actually seemed more important than corporate visions, (a status quo that lasted for at least a couple of years before the monetary-based status quo slotted back into place).
So this was a comic that could have desperate battles to save the world rubbing up against off-kilter appearances by Darkseid (chilling with a cup of tea and a copy of Mein Kamf), or a night out on the town with G’Nort and Kilowog.
The surprising success of this style and tone invariably seeped into the wider DCV universe – this Justice league led the way into Invasion, still one of the most creatively successful crossover events, and the bantering dialogue suddenly appeared in all sorts of DC books.
This kind of bickering banter did feel new and interesting at the time. This style was well established in TV sitcoms, but rarely appeared in superhero comics, and under the right hands, it turned out to be a very neat fit. It might not have been for everyone, especially when comic readers were used to heroes showing their emotions by the way they put their hands on their hips.
The endless banter even got the better of some characters, with both Hawkman and Booster Gold unable to take it any more at different points, the characters speaking for readers who were upset that this wasn’t “their” Justice League, who still longed for the days of posing and gritted teeth, and just weren’t comfortable with an angst-free superhero.
But the great thing about super heroes is that there is plenty of room for all sorts of interpretations, and the Justice League’s mixture of utter seriousness and utter silliness meant that over that five years, anything was possible, including the ability to care about these super people.
This was the most amazing fact about this incarnation of the League - even though he was an insensitive and boorish jerk, you actually liked Guy Gardner, or you cared about Blue Beetle’s waistline, or you wanted Booster come back to the team – where he belonged.
All that affection for that period of the Justice League has been strip-mined away in the years since, blown away for cheap shocks and idiotic reboots, with the most obvious use when Max Lord was revealed a master villain in a black polo shirt, callously gunning down poor ol’ Ted Kord.
Turning Max into a dull supervillian was supposed to be some great, clever twist, but it just made me feel like a fool, because like all the DC superheroes, I actually gave a shit when Max was shot and nearly killed in Breakdowns.
He sure fooled me, and it can’t help but retroactively tarnish the original stories. There have been periodic attempts to rehabilitate the characters that appeared in this Justice League run, and tap into any of that fondness that may still exist in current readers.
Unsurprisingly, the most successful were the (still-flawed) I can’t Believe it’s Not The Justice League and Formerly Known as the Justice League, but any other attempt to integrate these more light-hearted characters into the dark and moaning normal DC universe in the past decade are doomed to failure.
There is no place for a light touch here. (This includes the current New 52 effort by Dan Jurgens, which misses the point of all those original stories with spectacular cluelessness, but which shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, with the same writer leeching most of the fun out of the Justice League as soon as Giffen and DeMatteis were done, nearly 20 years ago.)
I came late to the JLI. Even though I got the first issue when it was brand new, and picked up the random issue every now and again, I didn’t start getting it every month until the last year of the run, and almost all of my collection was collected out of back issue bins.
It took nearly a decade to fill those gaps (and even now, I’m short a couple of issues of the Justice League Europe), and I’ve never been tempted to get rid of any of this issues in the periodic purges of my superhero comics.
Because these Justice League comics still make me laugh, and they still make me care about the characters. Two decades after they first started bwah-ha-ha-ing, these comics have stood the test of time with humour and humanity.
Completely agree about Helfer not getting the praise he's due. As well as The Shadow, he also did the series Batman : Journey into Knight, which vanished without trace but that's a shame; I thought it was pretty much the only Batman book in about ten years, (aside from Gotham Central which doesn't quite count) that I liked enough to keep...
Bob Temuka said...
The Shadow still holds up well, and I'd be interested in reading that Batman comic. I'm not a fan of his efforts on the DC Judge Dredd comic, though. They were well-intentioned, but still horrible.
Adrian Kinnaird said...
It's also one of my all-time favourites.
As you point out, it's often the quiet moments between the mayhem that really made this series so special.
I'm glade I have the four Hardcovers collections DC put out a few years back, I'm just bummed out they stopped it before the Adam Hughes issues.
CitC said...
I loved this version of the JLA and I loved the Max/Ted shooting. I just re-read it and it still holds up for me. Ted was never better than in that issue and it summed up perfectly how he and the rest of his team mates were viewed.
The thing that ruined the Bwa ha ha league for me was the killing of Sue Dibney in Identity Crisis right in the middle of the I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League run (or the other mini - not sure which). If the mini was complete I wouldn't have minded, but I got soured on it.
Still love to read that series - thanks for the great article.
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Bellator MMA’s Bobby Lashley Experiment Hints at Desperation
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When Scott Coker signed on to take over Bellator last month, a part of me was thrilled. As hard as Bjorn Rebney was hoping his tournament format would create stars for his one-time budding promotion, the results have been lackluster at best and the promotion is in dire need of some fresh ideas. The Bellator roster has plenty of talent, and there’s little doubt that guys like Eddie Alvarez and Pat Curran would be right at home in the UFC, but Bellator is still decidedly B-level MMA in the minds of many fight fans. The promotion’s tendency to spotlight former UFC stars as of late has only made the gap between Bellator and its primary competition feel that much wider. With Coker aiming to make “every event feel BIG and special” and dramatically cutting back on tournaments, there was hope that the gap would be able to close a bit over the next year or so. After just a handful of fight announcements, though, we’re not exactly off to a great start.
With the UFC coming to town on the same night as the Bellator card that will kick off the Coker era, it’s clear that the Bellator brass felt the need to give the show some firepower. The UFC came out strong with a lineup including multiple former Strikeforce champions combined with New England favorites like Joe Lauzon. Bellator was going to have to deliver a quality card if it didn’t want to get blown out of the water in ticket sales. After previously announcing a featherweight title headliner between the aforementioned Curran and challenger Patricio Freire, Bellator added well-known fighters Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal and Cheick Kongo to the fight night in Connecticut and pitted them against a couple of former UFC veterans. It’s a smart play by Bellator, and another popular fighter or two on the card could help the promotion hold off the ever-improving UFC lineup. However, it’s Bellator’s decision to add pro-wrestling superstar Bobby Lashley to the card that makes it seem like Bellator’s nearly impossible attempt to gain some ground on the UFC is going nowhere.
To be clear, Lashley isn’t a terrible heavyweight. He’s amassed a 10-2 record over the last five years, and although the regional MMA heavyweight scene features more than enough pushovers to pad a record, Lashley has still earned double-digit wins and has looked good doing so. Still, it’s been pretty clear that the vast majority of promotions have opted to protect Lashley instead of giving him an actual test. When given a slight step up in competition, he’s struggled against even modestly well-known fighters like James Thompson and Chad Griggs.
Luckily for Lashley, he probably won’t be in for too much difficulty when he steps into the cage next. Instead of taking a chance and seeing exactly what Lashley could do against a credible heavyweight, Bellator decided to throw “The Dominator” into the cage against Josh Burns, an 8-7 heavyweight who’s gone winless in four Bellator appearances. It’s the same type of gimme fight that Lashley has been fed the majority of his MMA career, and it’s doing neither Lashley nor Bellator any favors.
At 38 years old, Lashley needs to either be on the fast track to a Bellator title shot or he just needs to get out of the way. Continuing to beat down outmatched opposition while taking a main-card spot from a hungry fighter is inexcusable.
To be completely fair, all of the blame for this decision can’t be placed on Coker and Bellator. The company is still owned by Viacom, and as long as TNA Impact Wrestling is airing on Spike TV, Viacom is going to look to use Bellator and Impact to help promote each other in any way possible. When Lashley showed up on Impact not too long ago, it seemed like his Bellator debut was inevitable, and fight fans could only hope they wouldn’t be insulted by the matchmaking. Instead, Viacom and Bellator decided on protecting their star instead of giving the fans a meaningful fight. Now, Lashley will get to channel his pro-wrestling career in a glorified squash match.
The sad thing is that, no matter what happens, Lashley’s MMA career is likely going to take a beating. His fight with Burns is doing nothing more than giving the media and fans an opportunity to ridicule Lashley’s less-than-stellar resume on Twitter, and even a dominant win is likely going to be met with sarcasm and lackluster enthusiasm. On the other end of the spectrum, a loss may as well signal the end of any title aspirations Lashley may still be holding onto at this point. To top it off, Lashley is currently the TNA champion and a loss on the same channel as Impact can only hurt his reputation as an alpha male in the pro-wrestling world. In the sports entertainment world, appearances often mean everything. For TNA to have its champion legitimately get his butt kicked on cable television (by a guy with a record barely hovering above .500, no less) would definitely be a tough pill to swallow.
If Bellator eventually wants to be at the UFC’s level, the promotion might as well start learning from what its competition did right. Brock Lesnar had been in just one professional MMA fight in his life when he made his UFC debut, but instead of slowly feeding Lesnar wins, UFC President Dana White and company immediately threw the former WWE champion to the wolves and gave him former UFC champ Frank Mir in his first appearance. Lesnar may have ended up losing that fight, but he put on an admirable performance against a fighter with 10 times the amount of experience. Lesnar was on the fast track to MMA superstardom by the time the fight was over.
I’m not saying that Lashley is Lesnar or that he can generate even half the amount of interest as Lesnar did during his MMA career, but wouldn’t have Bellator been better off taking a shot at throwing Lashley a semi-credible opponent and hoping for the best? Bellator doesn’t exactly have a star-studded heavyweight roster, but even giving Lashley a rematch with Thompson, whose recent Bellator appearance provided some highlight moments before, during and after his fight, would have made far more sense than booking Lashley in a throwaway fight with an unknown opponent.
Throwing meaningless fights in the spotlight has been a problem for Bellator for a while now, and it appears that problem may not change during the Coker era. This month’s Bellator 122 main card features a welterweight bout between Karo Parisyan and Phil Baroni, which would be fine in 2005 but is almost laughable in 2014. The fact that the two former UFC stars hold the main-card spot over one of the semifinal fights for the current 205-pound tournament Bellator is holding only adds to the ridiculousness of the situation. Bellator is constantly trying to prove it can be the next face of MMA, but its insistence on using UFC washouts in order to draw interest for its events is only hurting Bellator’s reputation among fight fans. The situation with Lashley is no different, only this time the promotion is using the WWE/TNA’s leftovers in order to try to jump a spot or two in the ratings.
The solution to trying to make Bellator into a legitimate threat to the UFC is incredibly obvious, yet incredibly difficult for Coker and company to accomplish. The fact is, Bellator needs to start finding promising young prospects and giving them the TV time, rather than filling the airwaves with yesterday’s talent and a few sideshow athletes. This needs to be done sooner rather than later, too. It’s going to take new stars for Bellator to end up even in direct competition with the UFC, and those stars aren’t going to have a chance at being made if Coker and company don’t make a concerted effort to get those potential stars some exposure. If we’re being honest, banking on former UFC veterans hasn’t worked all that well anyway.
Bellator needs to try something new in order to stay even remotely relevant over the next few years. If it doesn’t, then that B-level status is going to end up being permanent, and there won’t be a fight fan alive looking to dispute it.
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The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) has confirmed a second case of measles in Michigan for 2018.
This case is unrelated to Michigan’s first case which occurred in March. Both cases were the result of exposure outside of the country, emphasizing the higher risk of measles during international travel and the importance of being protected against the disease by vaccination.
The ill individual arrived on June 12 at approximately 3:45 p.m. at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) at the international arrivals area of the McNamara Terminal and was considered contagious at that time. Health officials are in the process of contacting potentially exposed passengers from the flight.
In addition to the possibility of exposing people at the airport, the ill individual also presented at the following places:
June 12 (5-7 p.m.): Hertz car rental airport shuttle bus
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Individuals who may have been exposed at any of these locations during the listed times should watch for symptoms consistent with measles for 21 days after the possible exposure. If symptoms appear, contact your health care provider promptly. Please direct any questions to your health care provider or your local health department.
Measles is a vaccine-preventable respiratory infection that can result in hospitalization, pneumonia, encephalitis, and death. The illness begins with a high fever, red eyes, cough, runny nose, and is followed by a red, raised body rash starting on the head and face that then spreads to the rest of the body. Measles patients often experience eye pain and sensitivity to light. Cases can be contagious a few days before the rash appears, which increases the possibility of unknowingly exposing others.
“Immunizations are the best way to protect our families and communities from the harmful, sometimes deadly consequences of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles,” said Dr. Eden Wells, chief medical executive with the MDHHS. “If you have questions about a child’s vaccination status or your own vaccination history, talk to your doctor right away to ensure your family has optimal protection.”
Because measles is easily spread, vaccination is the best protection against the disease. Successful prevention and control of measles requires high levels of immunity in all communities.
The measles vaccine is highly effective and very safe. Adults who do not have evidence of immunity against measles should get at least one dose of the vaccine. The first of two routine childhood measles vaccine doses is given at 12 months of age. A second vaccine dose is given before the start of kindergarten.
For international travel, infants as young as 6 months should be vaccinated against measles. Measles vaccine, or other acceptable documentation of immunity to measles, is recommended for all persons travelling internationally.
Measles is a rare disease in the United States as a result of inclusion of the measles vaccine in routine childhood immunization since the 1960s. However, measles continues to be common in other countries.
This year several countries in Europe are reporting significant measles outbreaks, including France, Italy, Germany, England, Romania, and Ukraine, among others. Recent outbreaks have also been reported in Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil.
From 2001 – 2012, the average number of measles cases reported nationally per year was about 60. But in recent years there have been more, which is of great concern to public health authorities. In 2017, there were 118 cases in the U.S. including two cases in Michigan; the majority of people who got measles were not vaccinated.
In an effort to help parents protect their children from serious vaccine-preventable diseases, MDHHS has partnered with the Franny Strong Foundation in launching the I Vaccinate campaign. I Vaccinate provides vaccination facts for parents to make informed decisions about vaccinations. For more information, visit IVaccinate.org.
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On 17 November 2018 The Sick Children’s Trust is joining other leading children’s charities in the global movement to raise awareness of preterm birth and take action on behalf of the 15 million babies born early every year.
The Sick Children’s Trust launches ‘My Christmas Wish’ appeal
No child should wake up on Christmas Day without their family by their side. That’s why charity The Sick Children’s Trust is asking the nation to dig deep to support families with seriously ill children in hospital this Christmas, by donating £30 to keep them together in free ‘Home from Home’ accommodation.
Press releases • Oct 24, 2018 15:29 BST
BGL Group, a leading digital distributor of insurance and household financial services, to support families with children in hospital
Working in partnership with Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Our 'Home from Home' support for families with children being treated in hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Baby Loss Awareness Week 2018
Baby Loss Awareness Week takes place 9 to 15 October. During this time, families from all over the world commemorate the lives of their babies and share memories of the all too brief time they had together.
The Sick Children’s Trust continues to pledge support to Organ Donation Week
Press releases • Sep 03, 2018 00:01 BST
The Sick Children’s Trust has pledged to help save lives by supporting Organ Donation Week, Monday 3 September to Sunday 9 September.
Take part in The Sick Children’s Trust Golf Day and play one of the finest courses in South East England
Press releases • May 02, 2018 12:37 BST
Following last year's sell-out event, The Sick Children's Trust's Golf Day is back this time on Friday 22 June at The Addington Golf Course.
Costercutter Supermarkets Group has raised over £1,000 for The Sick Children's Trust to keep more families with seriously ill children together in free 'Home from Home' accommodation.
The Sick Children's Trust is delighted to have been selected as charity partner for nationwide drainage company, Lanes Group Plc.
Vice Chairman of Global Strategic Advisory for Guy Carpenter joins board of national charity
Press releases • Jan 31, 2018 13:15 GMT
Vice Chairman of Global Strategic Advisory for Guy Carpenter & Company Ltd, Vicky Carter, has joined The Sick Children's trust's board of trustees. Read more about her appointment here.
Ward Hadaway Partner Tim Craig joins board of national charity
Ward Hadaway Partner Tim Craig has joined the board of trustees for national charity The Sick Children’s Trust.
Keyline Colchester helps children’s charity park toy cars
Press releases • Dec 21, 2017 18:30 GMT
The Colchester branch of Keyline was delighted to donate materials to The Sick Children’s Trust to enable the charity to build a shelter for outdoor toys kept at Acorn House.
Howzat! Join cricketing legends to play in the All Out For Cricket in The City event
Press releases • Aug 11, 2017 17:19 BST
Read about All Out For Cricket in The City by Rein4ce PR and how you can join in the fun.
Taylor Wimpey donates £10,000 to The Sick Children’s Trust
Taylor Wimpey has donated £10,000 to The Sick Children's Trust as nominating the charity as charity of the year.
Local man puts on running shoes to raise money for charity
Press releases • Jul 31, 2017 11:00 BST
David Rez, 37, will be taking on this year's Great North Run to fundraise for The Sick Children's Trust.
Ava survives liver transplant to attend school this August
A little girl who underwent a liver transplant at just nine months old is packing her bag, putting on her shoes and heading to school for the first time this August.
Mum tackles Great North Run for twin girls
Mum Michelle will be taking on the Great North Run this September to thank Crawford House for supporting her when her two tiny twins, Maddison and Mila, fought for their lives at the Royal Victoria Infirmary's ICU.
Alan takes a leap of faith for family in sponsored skydive
Alan Booth, Stevenson House Manager, will be facing his fears and joining Dad Gary Jones in a sponsored skydive next month to raise money for The Sick Children's Trust.
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3 arrested in Assam gang rape incident
News AlertREGIONAL
GUWAHATI: Police have arrested three of the five accused involved in gang rape of a young woman Digholjaroni under Doboka Police Station of Hojai district in Assam.
Police sources said that the gruesome incident took place a couple of weeks ago when the victim along with her brother-in-law were returning home after visiting a relative’s house situated at Pub Jaruni village in Doboka area. When the two reached a dense forest area on the way, a group of five miscreants attacked the girl and dragged her into the jungle and raped her. The accused video recorded the whole incident in their mobile phones and threatened the girl and her brother-in-law to keep their mouth shut about the incident else they would make the video viral in the social media.
The victim chose to maintain silence over the incident out of fear and shame. However, on April 22 night the entire video of the gruesome incident was uploaded on social media by the culprits that created sensation in Hojai area.
As soon as the video came to the notice of the parents of the victim, her father immediately lodged an FIR at Doboka Police Station on Tuesday, April 23.
Doboka police investigated the video in detail and identified all the accused. Police have arrested three of the accused who have been identified as Golap Hussain, Sajid Ahmed and Dilwar Hussain of Doboka Lalmati village under Doboka police station.
The two other accused identified as Abdul Motin and Alim Uddin are absconding. The police have also detained the victim’s brother-in-law Faizal Islam after questioning him.
Police however said that although the incident took place a couple of weeks ago, neither the victim nor her brother-in-law spoke about it to their family members.
This led the police to suspect the alleged involvement of Faizal in the entire incident.
Gambusia hatchery to check malaria inaugurated in Baghmara
National De-Worming day launched in Ri Bhoi District
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Thorn in Her Side
Posted by tmikemccurley on 2018-09-30
Posted in: Story Work. Tagged: A.M. Halford, Audra Hart, Elaine Barris, Fiction, Lori, stories, Thorn, Tulsa Immortals, Twin Ravens MC, writing. Leave a Comment
It’s been a while since I posted anything here, and that’s about to change (’cause, y’know, this is a new post and all).
So, here it is: On October 3, the new book drops!
Thorn in Her Side is book #8 in the Tulsa Immortals series. Created by Audra Hart, the TI stories tell the tales of a group battling supernatural threats while hiding in plain sight as the Twin Ravens Motorcycle Club out on the back roads of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Twin Ravens include vampires, witches, shifters, demigods, and even a dragon or two. Each of them fights to protect the world from darkness, but also to find their own little bit of happiness at the same time. Penned by Audra herself, as well as the amazing talents of Elaine Barris, A.M. Halford, and now yours truly!
Zak Thorne is a sorcerer. He’ll gladly tell you he’s not a good one, or that he only knows parlor tricks. If you ask, he will conjure up a tiny flame to light your smoke, or a breeze on a hot day. He’ll even cool off your beer for you, as long as you’ve got a spare one for him. His abilities far outstrip what he will reveal, however, and the smart-assed spellslinger known in the MC as Thorn will soon need them all.
Today is Hallowe’en, and for Thorn, that’s the worst day of the year. It’s the anniversary of the brutal murder of his family, and the memories drive him deeper into the bottom of a bottle to hide from the pain of the past. As if that isn’t bad enough, he wakes up to find out that his one night stand isn’t what she seems, that there are bounties on his head for his past behavior, and that the day is just going to go downhill from there.
Lori Dane is the one bright spot in Thorn’s existence. His best friend since they were old enough to know what best friends were, she’s blossomed into her own kind of power. Lori handles the legal matters that crop up for the Twin Ravens, which is not a small list. When it comes to Thorn, though, she has her hands well and truly full just dealing with his attitude.
When life throws a new set of curves at the pair, they’ll have to come together as never before to escape, and Thorn’s revelations under fire will strike him with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Will he finally figure out what he’s been missing all these years?
Thorn in Her Side is available for pre-order now, and will drop on October 3rd. Get your copy reserved today! Click HERE for the link!
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++NOTE: “Bait” was a story I wrote a long time back as an entry to a superhero fiction contest at Gordie Laughlin’s ‘Heroic Monkey’ site. Took first with it, so it was a good one to throw out there. It was reprinted over at Freedom Fiction (www.freedomfiction.com) about three years ago. I decided to put it here just for posterity’s sake. I hope you enjoy. TMM++
My jacket was smoking. That last shot had come a little too close for comfort. I ducked to the left and rolled across the street, coming up with my back against an alley wall. The wall opposite my position glowed for a second and I jumped and ran down the alley before it could explode. One day I was going to find the Hunter that invented those damned rifles and put my size twelve in his ass.
The voice in my ear made me jump for a second, even as used to it as I had become over the past few months. There’s just something about a quiet voice whispering into your ear while you’re dodging some kind of high-energy discharge weapon that makes you jump.
“Two up, one down. They’ve got phasers.”
It was not the most original name for a weapon, but once the rifles showed up, the name hit the press and in the span of a couple of days it had become common. Of course, with the press now mostly a thing of the past, it was a moot point as to who got the blame for it. On the lucky side, it was pretty rare to run into the things any more. We could put them to good use… if I could get away.
Current location?
“Running like hell down an alley,” I muttered in reply, vaulting over a trash can that was long-since picked clean.
Specifically. It was not a friendly request.
“Northbound from Figueroa somewhere, back behind the old Arby’s, I think.”
Intercept inbound. Link to them on Seventh.
“About time,” I said, skirting around a Dumpster. There was a guy curled up on the other side of it, wrapped in his old fatigue jacket. I cursed aloud as I skidded to a stop. I didn’t have time for this, but I certainly wasn’t abandoning him to the tender mercies of the monsters behind me.
“Come on, pal,” I urged, reaching a hand down to him. “Hunters coming, and they ain’t particular.”
“I got nowhere to go,” he said, looking up at me through glassy eyes. His beard was filthy and unkempt, and he spoke the words with a sense of conviction I had never heard from someone saying they were homeless. I wondered briefly how he had wound up here, in Hunter turf, without being taken. I pushed the question aside and grasped his arm anyway, hoisting him to unsteady feet. He smelled like cheap wine. A lot of it.
“Then you come with me for now. We’ll find you a cookie or something.”
Veil chose that moment to arrive, in his usual manner, erupting into existence from within a lavender-scented cloud of grey smoke. He was side by side with Athena, his head about even with her muscular upper arms. Athena smiled in that dazzling way of hers as she saw me.
“Find yourself a friend, Bait?” she asked. The smile may have been incredible, but there was no emotion at all in the way she termed me ‘Bait’. It was how she saw me.
Who am I kidding? It was who I was. I was of little to no use in a stand-up power fight. I’ve only got the regen to speak of. No strength, no speed, no power blasts, no flight. No offensive capability on a level with any of the known Defenders. I can shoot, though, and Hunters die just like anyone else, if you put enough bullets in them. Cyber had tried to hook me up with some prototype plasma gun or some such right after I started working with the group. At two hundred yards, it hit like a double-barreled shotgun at close range. Looked good at first glance, ‘til you realized it took thirty seconds to recharge and made some God-awful whine while it did so. I figured in thirty seconds I could put one hell of a lot of lead downrange, and I have found the sound of firearms to be psychologically much more comforting than a computerized voice saying, ‘ten seconds to recharge’.
I didn’t bother with a response. I didn’t have to. The two Hunters had entered the alley, and they had the phasers up against their shoulders. Veil gestured and a wall of smoke flared into the space between us and the Hunters. Beams crackled and hissed as they struck the barrier. Luckily, the weapons tend to liberate all their energy on the first thing they hit. Good if you’re behind a smoke wall. Bad if you’re in a crowd of people.
“It won’t last,” Veil said. His voice was calm, but then it always was, when he bothered to speak at all.
“It won’t have to,” Athena said, gripping the Dumpster. She braced herself and heaved, lifting the huge metal box over her head. With a grunt of effort, she threw it over the smoke wall. It crashed to the pavement a second later, accompanied by a yelp of pain.
“That’s got ‘em,” she said happily, bounding past me and my semi-conscious burden. She ran headlong into the now dissipating smoke, passing through it like a swimmer entering water. A scream of horror sounded for a second, then ended abruptly in a choking gurgle. As the smoke cleared, we saw her standing over the downed Hunters. Her foot pinned one to the ground by its furry throat, and she was squeezing the life from the second in a terrifyingly powerful bear hug.
“Three down. Complete,” Veil announced. I knew without looking that he was not speaking to me.
Recall is authorized. Bring any captured weaponry.
“Yeah, ‘cause we figured we’d leave it all laying in the street,” I murmured.
That would be unwise.
“It’s sarcasm, you moron.”
Discontinue it.
“Bite me, Mister Personality.”
“Come on, Evan. Drop it,” Athena ordered, returning to stand near us. She was spattered with blood from the Hunters.
“You can bite me too, Sky Queen,” I said.
“I bite you, you ain’t getting up. You or your new boyfriend.”
I made a cutting motion in the air with my hand. “You may be seven feet tall and blond – which, let’s face it, years ago I would have killed for – but I’m telling you, you keep pushing me and I’ll walk. You can go find your own Hunters. See how that works out for you.”
“We did just fine before you came along,” she defended, sneering down at me. I shrugged with my one unencumbered shoulder and made a show of yawning.
“Yeah? How often can you die, sweetcheeks?” I asked, deliberately turning my back and walking away.
“Thass a weird question,” the old vet I was carrying slurred. “Nobody gets ta die more ‘n once.”
It would have been an odd question back in the day, even for me. Back when life was relatively peaceful, it was probable that nobody would have come up with it. Even back when Doctor Shaitan and his zombie army invaded, there was little actual loss of life (what with the good Doctor being disposed more toward enslaving folks than eating them). Once the Hunters landed, though, all bets were off – as was the whole ‘not eating folks’ arrangement. And God help you if you were one of the ‘powered’ set. I knew Big Blondie wasn’t going to answer me. Even as good as she is at fighting them, she couldn’t play the bait the same way I can.
“Yeah, pal, I know,” I said as Veil created another smoke portal. We stepped in, Athena and Veil coming with us, and the world changed to a kaleidoscope. Everything swirled and twisted, and reality seemed to roll over on itself. I hope someday we’ll run into someone other than Veil that can transport us, but for now, we’re stuck with some kind of dimensional shift that makes you feel like you’re Alice going down the rabbit hole after dropping some acid. Naturally, Ronnie the Rummy barfed down my left sleeve. Woo hoo. Now the jacket’s burned and a drunk puked on it. Oh, yeah. That’ll bring the girls a-running come party time.
Cyber was waiting when we got back to the safehouse. As usual, he was halfway tied into a chair, with drool running out of his mouth like a faucet. His eyes looked vacant, but I guess mine would too if I was mentally linked up with half the surviving computer systems in the city. It was kind of disconcerting when I first met him, but now I expect to see him that way. On the few occasions you get to see him kicked back on a couch or some such, not linked in, that’s when it gets to feel weird. Standing guard over him was the slab of muscle everyone called Block. Not much upstairs, but able to bench-press a truck without breaking a sweat. Playing bodyguard to a super genius tied to a chair was about his speed.
You have a civilian.
Not only does the voice run through your head when you are in the house, but it comes from the speakers that are hidden all over the place. Hidden in every wall, every bookcase full of remote-controlled cars and helicopters and submarines and robots. Where Cyber doesn’t have speakers, he has cameras. Or computers. Or satellite links. Anything that he can join with. If there was still someone sending out electric bills, I would hate to see the one that came with this place.
“Good guess,” I shot back, dragging the old man over to a couch.
I fail to see how bringing him here is wise. The potential for release of information to unspecified parties –
“I don’t care,” I growled. “I’m not leaving him out there for the Hunters.”
His presence constitutes a danger.
“And how safe is the life we live, anyway?”
“We are trying to protect people, Cyber,” Athena added. “I was doing this back before the Hunters arrived, and it wasn’t safe then, either.”
I turned and looked at her over my shoulder, arching an eyebrow. She shrugged and hit me with that smile again.
“I’ll take care of him,” I volunteered. He had already marked my jacket, so why not?
He will be a drain on our resources, you understand. It was a statement, not a question. I turned a baleful eye toward the chair in which he was strapped.
“Yeah, I get it. You don’t want him here. I’ll take him to my place. Just give me a minute.”
“I don’t need nobody to help me,” the man said, his voice slurring.
“I don’t doubt it,” I said, my eyes flicking across the ‘Screaming Eagle’ patch on his shoulder. It was stained with mud and grime, as was the man himself, but I knew what kind of man it took to earn the patch. “Still, I’m taking you there. Get you a hot bath, some decent food, maybe?”
He looked up at me, eyes focusing just long enough for me to see the loss that was in them. I knew that look. I had seen it more than a few times in the past few years. Every now and then, I even saw it when I wasn’t looking in a mirror. It was the vacant, distant expression of a man who has lost everything he held dear.
I wiped the filth from my sleeve in Cyber’s bathroom, trying unsuccessfully to suppress a chuckle at the image of the much-maligned rubber duck that was perched on the soap tray of the bathtub. Whether it belonged to Block or Cyber I neither knew nor wanted to, but it was one of those old touches of home you don’t get much these days. Whichever one of them owned it, chances are it was something they brought with them to the safe house. When we scavenge, we’re usually after more practical items. Food, weapons, clothes, those sorts of things. I checked my wires and the Kevlar plates. Everything was good, or at least as good as it gets.
“Let’s go, buddy,” I said as I stepped back into the living room. I helped him back to his feet and we headed for the door.
“Sure you want to do this?” Athena asked, stepping halfway into my path. I grinned a bit.
“Why? You don’t think he deserves it?”
“Oh, I’m sure he does,” she replied, eyes narrowing at my implication. “I just want to make sure that you’re up for the walk.”
“I can deal,” I told her. “Thanks, though.”
“Welcome. I’ll walk you.”
Great. Yet another statement masquerading as a suggestion.
Exercise caution. Recent video pickups show a marked increase in the probability of Hunter encounters.
“I know,” I said with a nod as I opened the front door. “I’m the one they keep eating, remember?”
Athena tagged along with us as we walked. We must have made a fine sight. A seven foot blonde Amazon, a stumbling filthy drunk, and yours truly (still wearing the stinky burned jacket that kept slapping against the backs of my knees now that we had the wind behind us).
“Where we goin’?” the man asked, his voice pitched low. We had walked until sun had dipped below the horizon and shadows lengthened on the walls of the buildings that surrounded us. Sound seemed amplified, and the sense of it penetrated even the thoughts of the drunken man.
“Safe place. Quiet. No Hunters,” I said, shifting beneath his weight.
“They’re everywhere,” he replied.
“Not at my house.”
“Good. I hate ’em.”
“No arguments here,” Athena butted in. Her head was in constant motion, scanning our surroundings as we moved. I knew the route better than she did, but she was better at spotting them than I was. Finding their ambushes the hard way was more my job. Watching for them in advance? Definitely not my style.
“We had ’em in Hollywood,” the man continued. “Had ’em held. Then they broke through the lines up in Colo – ”
“I know,” I said in a voice scarcely more than a whisper. “I remember.”
“Not my fault,” he mumbled.
“Not at all,” I agreed. Athena looked at me, arching an eyebrow. I shook my head to keep her quiet. My own memories screaming in my head were enough noise at this point. I had finally figured out why the old man seemed so familiar, and it was dredging up images I thought were long since behind me. Hollywood. God, what a nightmare.
I heard a can skitter across the stone of a street. We all fell silent. Athena pointed to herself, then ahead and to my left. I nodded and indicated the right.
“Leave me here,” the man whispered. The look in his eyes had gone from hopelessness and loss to grim determination. I still chuckled a bit.
“I’m the bait, pal. Not you,” I said as Athena took off in a jog. Her feet made so little sound on the pavement that it was hard to believe she was not levitating.
“You got something to live for,” the soldier countered. “I don’t.”
“Two things. One, I’m not worried. I know what’s coming for me. Two, I’m counting on you and men just like you to teach the new generation. Back in the day, we were called heroes. Now, we’re just guerrillas in a war we didn’t want. You and yours, the ones that are left? You can teach us.”
“I can’t teach nobody nothing,” he said.
I leaned in close, holding him against me so that he could not evade. I could smell the stench of him now, see the dirt clogging his pores, taste the layers of sweat and grime that coated his flesh. I breathed my next words into his ear.
“I know who you are, Liberator.”
There was silence for a moment, followed by a voice filled with sorrow.
“Every day,” I countered.
“No!” he said, his voice a whip-crack of anger.
“You want to run away from life? Fine by me. But, like I said, I know who you are, and who you were. You were a Captain once. An Airborne Captain. Maybe sometimes, you should remember that you didn’t just fight mutants. You used to teach people to fight, too. You can do it again. Teach us. Teach them. Help us fight these bastards back. We’re cutting their numbers, but it’s never enough. They get one of us for every ten of their own, and that means they will still win. I don’t care how many people you’ve lost, you don’t get the luxury of coming out here to die.”
“I didn’t -” he began, but was cut off by an animalistic squeal of surprise and agony from ahead and left of us.
“Contact,” I said, lowering him to the ground. I slipped a pistol from the rig under my jacket and extended it toward him. He shook his head, gesturing toward his eyes. I laughed aloud and nodded as I turned and sprinted away. Before the Hunters came, there was no lack of video coverage of Liberator in action. In the war, he was a rallying point. Anyone who had ever seen him in action remembered those sapphire-hued energy beams, and would forever.
I rounded a corner to see Athena going toe-to-toe with a pair of Hunters. She hits with a fist like a freight train, but sometimes it’s difficult to hit a Hunter. They move like weasels on crank, and some folks have been known to say Athena’s punches are a little slow. Of course, it seems no one says that to her. Not after I did, of course, which is how I know how hard she hits. At the moment, though, she seemed to be holding her own with no problems. It was the other three Hunters closing in from above, their slinky forms crawling down the walls of what used to be a Post Office, that left me concerned for her welfare. Happily, none of them had phasers this time. Just claws and a lot of teeth. I grinned maniacally, raising the pistol in my right hand as I drew one with my left. Both of them cracked, three-shot bursts ripping fur and sending a pair of the new arrivals tumbling to the street.
“Blondie ain’t the threat, Rover!” I shouted at the remaining Hunter on the wall. It jinked to the left as I fired, staying barely ahead of a trail of bullet holes. “I am!”
The hissing sound came as no surprise. You hunt enough of these things and you get to the point where you can smell them. I knew there were more of them. I wasn’t certain where they would come from, but I knew they would come. I always bring them out. You could hear that quiet hiss just before they attacked. It’s like an old teakettle just before it makes that loud squeal.
“Go get the old man!” I ordered Athena.
“Take him to Cyber! He can help!”
“Oh, God, Evan! Here they come,” Athena called. She could see behind me. I laughed, a low, demonic sound even to my own ears.
“You should see the look on your face!” I yelled to her as the first of the Hunters hit me from behind and above. Two more came in behind it, and a second later it was like it was raining fur. Claws raked lines through the armor and into my flesh as I screamed. The pistols chattered like angry squirrels, tearing and blasting holes in the furry mass that was landing on all sides of me now. I could smell their musk, its stench overpowering my own blood. I felt rows of teeth biting down and tearing back and forth as the beasts tore and shredded my body. There was nothing but pain now. I could not tell if the pistols were firing. I could not feel them in my grasp any longer. I was kicking and screaming. The taste of my blood was thick in my throat. This is the part of the job I really hate. I tried to gurgle out a command to Athena but only managed to cough up thick gobbets of blood. I didn’t need to speak. She could see them as easily as I could feel them. I gave up calling and fought to relax, to simply accept what was happening. My vision went dark and I welcomed death.
What felt like a thousand years of raw agony later, I saw a blurry image. Blond hair.
“You alive in there?” she asked. Her breath was horrible. Not that I could smell it, but the motion of the air against my mangled flesh brought fresh waves of pain. I tried to blink twice. I could hear my pulse in my ears; feel flesh slithering and knitting together to repair the horrendous damage. This pain is almost as bad as the original. I amend my earlier statement. This is the part I really hate. The coming back part.
Athena had been kind enough to clear my throat once it had shape again. I took in a torturous breath of air and coughed, shrieking at the new and unique ripping sensation that the cough created.
“What happened?” I heard. The voice was deep and raspy. Liberator had followed us, or simply gone toward the sound of the explosion.
“This is what Evan does,” Athena explained. “He dies for the cause. Every day. It’s why he’s good bait. Hunters are carrion-eaters, and they smell the stink of death on him. He’s wired into a heart monitor and strapped with explosives and shrapnel. When his pulse stops, the charges go off. After that, he comes back.”
“That’s horrible,” the old man said. Even with my ears only partially regenerated I could hear the wonder in his voice.
“It…it ain’t…pleasant,” I gasped out.
“Why do you do it? Keep doing it, I mean?”
“Why did you?” Athena countered.
“We need your help,” I croaked. My throat was almost back to normal. I knew I must still look horrible, but at least I could talk.
“I don’t know what I can do to help. I’m just…”
“The best. You’re the best that’s left. There are resistance teams scattered all over the world now,” Athena told him. “The ones of us who were just mutating when the war started. Those of us left after it was over. We need a leader. Someone who can crystallize the movement.”
“And you want a tired old drunk who’s seen too many of his friends die?” he said. The bitterness in his voice was unmistakable.
“We want you,” I said, forcing myself to a kneeling position on the pavement. It would be a few minutes before I was strong enough to stand. “The old you. Be Liberator, or be the Captain you were. Your choice.”
The street filled with the scent of lavender as Veil arrived. “Again?” he asked, looking at me. He had been nice enough to bring me a new jacket and some pants. I nodded, blinking away the minor ache the motion caused.
“You have a reason now, Captain,” I said, slipping the pants over limbs still prickly from the air. “Help us.”
He turned a frosty glare on me for a moment. I met his gaze without looking away. There’s not much left to frighten me with.
“I know you’re tired of seeing people die,” Athena said, her voice a purr. “Help us put an end to it.”
I grinned and he flinched a bit. Apparently my face wasn’t quite back to normal yet. “I’ll be there with you, Sir. I’ll be your bait.”
“Why…” he began, but words failed him.
“Hollywood,” I said simply, turning my body partially away from him. He was left staring at the tattoo on my upper left arm that rebuilds with me every time: A black shield with a white and yellow eagle’s head, and in stencil-style lettering above it, the single word, ‘AIRBORNE’.
“The first time I died.”
November Again!
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So it’s November again. Thanksgiving, the Macy’s Parade, the whole nine. It’s also NaNoWriMo time again, folks, and that means I’m ignoring people and a lot of other shit just so I can get down that elusive 1667 words a day.
Well, this year I did better. I actually clocked past the 50K mark on Thanksgiving day, with a belly full of delicious ham and mashed potatoes and stuffing and pie. The story I’m playing with, currently titled “In Stygian Night”, is coming along nicely. I broke the 54K mark on the 25th, and I intend to keep pushing the words every day just like I hadn’t quite made it to 50,000 yet (No, I am NOT counting this blog entry…).
Last year was a motherfucker. What with Pop dying October 23rd, and the ensuing funeral and the organizing and retrieving of his property, and then the grief and the stupidity that followed, I burned out a couple of days in. A week spent with my brothers helped out a lot with the thoughts and feelings portion of things, but the whole NaNo thing was a bust.
The strange part is, I’ve looked back on it more than once with blame and self-loathing in my heart and mind. I keep thinking to myself that this is when the “real writers” suck it the fuck up and keep putting words down on (digital) paper. When they soldier on, no matter the cost to mental health. I know it’s delusional to keep pushing that mantra on myself but it’s always been there, and it’s there every day that I don’t write, whether it’s because I’m sick, or busy with other things, or just don’t devote the time I should to a project because, let’s face it, I’m a lazy fucker. At least there, I’m right. The times when I feel lazy are the times when I should get off (or technically ON) my ass and write, but as established above, I’m a lazy fucker.
It’s taken me some time to come to terms with the way I’ve looked on the things that happened back then, and to see my part in them as being more of a grief reaction and busy schedule than any lack of desire to write. Well, okay, so some days I really just did NOT want to write anything. At all. Possibly ever again.
Camp NaNoWriMo in April, and again in June, helped me achieve a few things, and let me get some more Z262 fun scribbled down. Those events put me in a better frame of mind, and after the June event, I started looking seriously toward this November’s NaNo. I had fun through October writing charts about my characters and the spaceship they’re on, and the crew of that ship and how everyone was connected and then some basic plot work… And then November came and I started running with it.
It worked. It meshed. It came together the way words should. I’m not saying it’s polished, obviously. Hell, I ain’t even saying it doesn’t suck.
But I’m writing again. Sometimes more than others, but the words are coming.
Barhopping with Jinx
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“Nothing breaks the enemy morale quicker than an armor charge,” the koala said, slurping noisily at the amber spirit in his glass. His paw slipped as he put it back on the table, and the liquid splashed over onto the scarred tabletop. Around him, heads nodded in agreement.
At her own table, Jinx nodded with them and quietly sipped from the drink in her glass, hissing slightly as the alcohol burned the back of her throat. She was watching the others in the bar, but the koala and his friends had made enough noise since arrival that they drew the attention of most everyone present.
Like this is how I wanted to spend an evening, the serval thought. Her eyes, hooded by half-lowered lids, scanned the parts of the crowd she could see. Most of them are here already, though.
“Let ‘em see the bow of a Ravager hop over the hill and they’re shitting their pants,” continued the koala in a slurring voice. He downed the rest of his drink and waved a paw for a refill. A lanky coyote with white rings tattooed on the back of his left paw hefted a bottle that was nearing empty itself. A quick tilt added a measure to the koala’s glass and the ‘yote continued with the other glasses at the table. He raised the bottle overhead and wagged it back and forth until he caught the eye of the waitress. She nodded and ducked behind the bar to retrieve another.
A lean dog stood from the shadows in the rear of the bar and approached the table hosting the koala and his associates. The Doberman’s blue and gray jacket, loose as it was, did little to conceal the heavy pistols beneath his arms. His eyes had a glassy sheen to them, and his lips were peeled back to expose his teeth. When he spoke, his voice had a thick accent that Jinx had been unable to place, and the dialect was troubling, but the tone had the air of someone used to Folk listening to it.
“You Folk to be with Chay’s Brigade, yes?” he asked.
“To Chay!” the koala cried in response, hoisting his glass in another shower of liquor. This one sprayed over a few of his companions and they instinctively jerked back from the alcohol. Two of them did, however, raise their glasses in toast as well.
“Lecton is up. Here it comes,” Jinx muttered as the drunken Doberman stepped forward another pace and leaned his muzzle down toward the koala. Beneath Jinx’s ear, the tiniest of vibrations in her mastoid bone told her that her transmission had been received. In his communications suite, Factum would be coordinating the strike, and she had perfect confidence in the octopus to handle whatever arose. If all else failed, he had a small squad of rocket-bearing troops ready to raze the building and all within it, either at her command or his. There were certain advantages to working for an outfit as well-funded and organized as Lascelle’s. The mastoid implant, for instance — an item she would have killed for back when she was humping iron on one world or another. The instant communication might have kept some of her squadmates alive.
“Chay is piece of shit,” the Doberman declared. His voice echoed in the bar, and conversations stopped all over the room as heads turned to see what was unfolding.
“What did you say?” demanded the big tiger at the end of the table. His arms were covered in spray seal dressings — a souvenir of his most recent injury — but his eyes gleamed with fanaticism as he stood and slammed meaty paws on the synthetic oak tabletop.
“In three,” Jinx said. She looked at the ounce of liquor in her glass with a forlorn sigh. There would be no time to enjoy the taste.
“I say your great leader is shit,” shouted the dog. “Selling his loyalty to enemies of the People!”
“Two.” She wished she had thought to put more failsafes in place, but getting any of the contacts to come together at once had been hard enough. It was all in the hands of the locals and their raid team now. Shedrach wasn’t going to make it in time, but with luck they could pick him up later. She snorted at the thought. Luck.
“Fuck you,” the tiger grunted, pushing back his chair and stepping out from behind the table. The koala was struggling to do likewise, and the other four Folk at the table were beginning to follow their example.
“One,” Jinx said. She shrugged and threw back the shot anyway. As the tiger closed space with the Doberman, she flicked the glass with a practiced wrist. The vid player behind the bar exploded in a crash of glass and sparks as the glass impacted. All eyes flicked that direction, even those of the two soon-to-be combatants.
“Take it,” Jinx said, dropping to the floor. She curled into a ball and covered her sensitive ears with her paws.
The door to the bar crashed open and half a dozen flattened disc shapes sailed through the air. The lucky few who recognized them for what they were had a second to take some form of action, but the vast majority of everyone in the bar was caught unaware as the grenades detonated.
Sun-bright flashes of light seared the eyes even as thunderclaps of sound erupted, the force enough to shatter bottles behind the bar. Dust rained down for the briefest of seconds from the ceiling before the antiquated fire suppression system chattered into life, raining filthy, brackish water onto the stunned bar-goers.
A line of armored Folk drove through the door of the bar in response to the grenades, submachineguns and pistols in their paws. They wore the deep green fatigues with white-lettered black banding on arms and chest common to the local militia. They entered in a staggered line, splitting to either side as they did and setting up defensive positions for their partners. Four of them marched at speed to the Doberman. He was bent at the waist, trying to recover from the concussions of only a couple seconds prior, when they reached his sides. His legs were kicked out from under him and when he hit the floor, two of the militia were on him, cuffing his paws behind his back and hobbling them to his ankles in seconds.
A string of additional enforcers powered through the doors, pairing off to approach others inside the bar as the initial four dragged the Doberman.
Gunshots rang out from the rear of the bar, their reports muffled following the ear-shattering explosions, and the militia crew began to fire in response. In seconds, the room was lit by strobe-like muzzle flashes and screams rent the air. Additional guns fired from within the shadows of the bar, and the militia saw more than one of their own fall.
A hellish volume of fire was directed toward the corner of the bar from which the gunfire had initially erupted, the militia opening up with every weapon they could bring to bear. Magazines were depleted in seconds, and the room became a haze of gunsmoke. The fire suppression system kept up a steady deluge of stinking water.
Jinx sneezed as the burned powder smell tore at her nostrils. Her paws stayed clamped down over her ears as the gunfire began to taper off. Inwardly, she prayed silent prayers to gods she knew held her in no favor. Her eyes were squeezed tight and she lost track of the seconds as she waited.
A boot tapped at her ribs and she looked up into one of the reflective visors of the militia Folk.
“You gonna just lay there all day, Jinx?” she heard. “You’re getting all wet.”
“How did it go?” she asked, accepting his paw and standing. Her balance was off, though whether from the alcohol or from the concussion grenades she could not say. She listed to her left and the room seemed to spin and shake. The officer accepted her weight on him.
“Brannock’s down. Two through the faceplate. Shale is on the truck with a bullet through the knee. Four suspects dead, seven in custody.”
Her breath caught. “Damn it.”
“We got them, Jinxie,” he said.
“No. Brannock. He’s got a pup. Eight, nine months, maybe. Somebody’s gotta tell your Captain. He’s too stupid to realize.”
“Aw, shit,” the cop said. His visor retracted and she could see his face. A calico cat with a nose permanently shifted to the left from too many fights. She recognized him as a riot cop named Tane Felder. The big cat had always reminded her of a heavy weapons troop she had known on Richter’s World before her proximity inevitably led to his shipping out in a bag. Felder had a massive automatic shotgun slung in front of his chest. “I didn’t even think –”
She pushed away from the cat’s grasp, swaying slightly before shaking her head to clear it. Definitely from the concussion, she noted as the room began to tilt once again. His paw shot out and snatched at her collar, catching her a second before she lost her balance completely.
“I’ve got you,” he told her. His arm went around her waist and she allowed the support as he gingerly walked her toward the door. She sneezed a few more times as they moved. The militia on scene had applied cuffs to the paws of everyone present. They could all be questioned later. Jinx and Felder stepped over them with little regard.
The night air was noticeably cooler than that in the bar, and the gallons of sprinkler water that had soaked into Jinx’s clothing didn’t help matters any. She felt an involuntary chill wiggle its way down her spine as they stepped out of the bar and started for the mobile command post. Flashing green and red lights lit the area, reflecting off walls and lending the night a surreal feeling.
“Our main contact in there took one in the neck,” Captain Donnes said as they approached, showing as much concern for Jinx and her condition as Jinx herself had for those present in the bar. “I hope you’ve got enough evidence to deal with these bastards.”
Jinx spat onto the ground, noting idly the pink hue of her saliva. At some point she had bitten her tongue.
“I’m not worried about that right now,” she told the bulldog. “Brannock has –”
“You’d better fucking well get worried about it!” Donnes shouted, glaring at her from within the pressed confines of his immaculate uniform. “This was your scene, and we’ve got to have something to show for it. That’s why we hired you mercenaries.”
“And if you’d done it my way, we wouldn’t have this problem,” she countered, narrowing her eyes. She waved a paw in the direction of the armored van where the prisoners had been deposited.
“Toss a fucking frag in there and call it quits. These aren’t shoplifters.”
Donnes bristled at the implication, slamming a closed paw onto the folding table that had been dragged into place for his use behind his command truck. A sheaf of papers in a pale folder rustled and several pages flew free to flutter to the ground. A second later, the entire folder followed suit, scattering surveillance images and fugitive alerts across the pavement.
“We aren’t some kind of babysitting force here!” Donnes shouted. He stood up tall, his jowls flapping at a level that would make Jinx look up if she deigned to give him that satisfaction.
“No, you aren’t,” she said in a voice like silk. It was totally devoid of emotion, but so smooth it drew attention. “You’re the peacekeeping force here, and I’m telling you that to keep that peace, you don’t want to waste time with trials and media attention for those Folk in that truck. They are professional killers and agitators.”
“We took care of them in there,” Donnes sneered. “They can’t be all that impr –”
“In that bar? Gann’s balls, do you not understand that they came there expecting to find a quiet drink? Holdout pistols and knives, maybe, and even then they brought down two of yours. If they had known you were coming, you wouldn’t have made it past the front door. None of you. Correction: none of us. They would have sliced me, too.”
“I thought you were supposed to be good.”
“I am,” she responded, breathing in a slow, deep breath. The scent of gunsmoke was still thick in her nose, but she relished the fresh air. “Damned good. One on one? Two even. Maybe in a stretch against three of them, I’ll put all my money on me. Near a dozen of them in one place, though?”
She leaned in close and Donnes matched her move, bringing their faces near in anticipation of her next words. When they came, they were icy in tone.
“I’d have traded the concussion grenades for incendiaries.”
“There were civilians in there. Innocents.”
“I never claimed to be nice,” she said. “You hired me and mine to get close to these filthy fucks. Did you think you were getting the puppies from Howler’s camp? They would have drawn you pretty pictures and told you how bad these Folk were. Maybe those idiots from Chay’s?” she continued, hooking a thumb over her shoulder toward the bar, where the militia crew was even now dragging out the mercs taken into custody. The koala was covered in a fine film of his own vomit, and the big leopard tasked with getting him out was holding onto one booted foot rather than touch the sticky wetness.
“The department put out the call,” Donnes defended. “Not me.”
“And they came to my boss, who then asked for me, so Folk like you wouldn’t have to mess up your pretty uniforms. You wanted someone who could handle getting dirty, and that’s me. Kind of a specialty.”
“One can only imagine,” he replied, looking up and down her length. His lips curled as he took in her sodden clothing and disheveled appearance.
“Your dog Brannock has a pup,” she said, noting the way he scanned her. “Got a mate and pup waiting at home for him to come back. Maybe you should think about that instead of how dirty you want me to be.”
“That’s not what I was –”
“Deal with your Folk, Captain,” she said, emphasizing the rank with a hiss of pressure from behind gritted teeth.
She pivoted, pushed past Felder and marched into the night.
<<<END>>>
Jori’s Books
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The back of the book gave a short blurb describing the action to be found within, and Duggan read it in a slow series of words, his thick lips moving along with the syllables.
When Officer Misty Kein finds herself squaring off against the mob’s number one assassin, it will be her wits and not her badge that will be needed.
He grimaced and slid the volume back onto the shelf. Heavy fingers traced the spines of the other books.
“Can I help you find anything?”
The voice was calm and soft, and Duggan pivoted on a heel to see a cassowary female looking at him. Sharp eyes looked out at him from inside the bright blue colored head, tracking from his hideously scarred face to the obscenities carved into his plastron and tattooed on his flesh. He made no effort to cover himself, as he had made none since arriving on Z262. The uniform that marked him as ArCorp Security did nothing to hide some of his worse markings. Her beak separated to a narrow gap and she tilted her head toward the shelf.
“Ummm,” he said, “The uh, the –”
He waved in a vague motion toward the shelves.
“Books?” she prompted. He nodded.
“Yeah. Book. Lissa. Um, she’s my partner. She said to come here,” he stammered.
“Is there anything specific you are looking for?”
He turned away, looking at the rows of books. “Nah,” he finally muttered. He took a step to the bird’s right. “I ain’t…”
She made a show of looking around them before leaning in toward the enormous tortoise. “You’re not a big reader, right?” she asked. He chuckled.
“At least you didn’t say it like I had done something bad.”
“Not everyone is as addicted to the written word as I am,” she said. She swept a thin arm in a gesture that encompassed the entire building. “This is mostly mine.”
“All of these?” Duggan asked, his eyes widening. He looked back and forth at the shelves around him. They stood to just a hand’s span above his head and ran easily a meter wide. The room had dozens of them, all occupied with various books, magazines, and other reading material.
“I am an avid reader.”
She paused then and slapped her own forehead with a palm. “I am so sorry. My manners these days! I’m Jori. Jori Maleen.”
“Duggan,” he replied, automatically extending a massive hand. When she took it, her fingers were dwarfed. His hand was rough and leathery, with heavy calluses and prominent knuckles that were massive humps under the gray-green skin.
“No last name?” she asked. Her head was tilted again, looking at him from a sideways angle. He smiled and released her tiny hand.
“That is my last name,” he said. “I ain’t used my first name in years, except on legal papers.”
”My father was a Marine,” she said. “I’m familiar. He would have introduced himself with his last name first.”
Several seconds passed and he became aware that she was standing still, head remaining cocked ever so slightly to one side as she stared at him. He looked into her eyes. There was no reproach visible there, no hint that she somehow felt less of him since he did not read the way she did. He held the gaze for a moment, noticing for the first time the half-moon of white beneath her left eye. Her beak split in a smile.
“Cron,” he said. “My name is Cron.”
“Lovely to meet you, Cron. Now what kind of book were you looking for?”
He lowered his gaze. “I don’t really know,” he admitted. “I’m just trying to find something to occupy my time between patrols and on my off days, you know? All I read these days are the same six comic books and a couple of old field manuals. Pretty fu… It’s pretty boring,” he said, catching himself before the obscenity slipped out.
“Well, I’m certain there is something here that would catch your fancy,” Jori said. She turned on one thin leg, working her way down an aisle with a bobbing gait. Her sharp extended claws tapped on the floor with a rhythm. After a second, Duggan followed her. He had to turn a bit sideways to fit his bulk between the shelves. The butt of his sidearm bounced off the shelves with every shuffling step.
“Six comic books?” Jori asked, reaching up to the top row. She pulled out plastic containers with various brightly colored covers visible so that he could see them. “I have a few here as well. I don’t know what kind or titles you like best.”
“The ones I have now are mostly action, but I had a subscription to ElectroFox once. That was years back.”
“If you want, you could bring them here, and then others could read them as well,” she told him, pulling down a container. She opened the box.
“War Bear,” she said, reading the label. “Issues one-twenty through one-thirty-three. Got them from Zhen Darri over at the mercantile.”
Duggan did not hesitate to slip a massive hand into a pocket of his utility trousers.
“How much?” he asked around the stump of unlit cigar that occupied the corner of his mouth.
Jori turned to regard him, her head tilting once again.
“How much what?”
“For the comics,” he said. He pulled a wallet from his pocket and fanned it open to display a sheaf of corporate scrip.
A honking sound blew past her beak and she raised her left hand in his direction.
“Have you never been in a library?” she asked. Duggan stood for a moment, looking at his wallet in confusion.
“I don’t… No. I haven’t,” he said. “I mean, I’ve been by here and stuff, but not, like, inside.”
She gently pushed at the wallet, directing it back toward Duggan’s enormous form. Her voice was higher when she spoke, and her smile was back.
“You don’t buy these. You borrow them. You come here and you take a book. When you have read it, you bring it back. We put it back on the shelf for someone else to read, and you can take a different one. That’s why I suggested you bring your own comics here. Let others have the joy of reading them.”
“So I ain’t gotta pay for these?”
“Not at all. Just keep them in good condition and bring them back when you have finished. Then we can find you something new to try. They will be around should you wish to revisit them.”
“That’s… I…I can do that,” he said, hesitating as he thought through the process. “I’ll bring you mine when I come back, if that’s okay.”
“Of course it is,” Jori told him. “I look forward to reading them myself.”
“You wanna read my old comics?”
Her eyes rolled back and she made a noise that bordered on ecstatic. A long shudder rolled down her back and her feathers ruffled.
“Oh, my, yes. Something I have not experienced before? A chance to step outside reality and be part of a story for a while? I am a voracious reader, Cron. Nothing makes me as happy.”
“Well, all right, then,” he said. “As long as you’re not gonna tackle me or start screamin’ that I stole your stuff.”
She made the honking noise again, and he realized it was laughter. Her tiny hand came up to touch his muscular upper arm and she leaned against him as she laughed.
“Trust me,” she said. “You’re fine. Let me get you a bag to carry them in.”
“Oh, now, I can take ‘em like this.”
“Not on your life. I’m going to make sure you get something nice,” Jori said, strutting to a long counter and bending down as she reached behind it. “Tackle you,” she said, bursting into laughter again at the thought.
“What made you decide to do this?” he asked. His gesture at the shelves of books was lost on her, unable as she was to see it.
“You mean the library?”
“Yeah. I mean, you’ve got a job, but if you ain’t sellin’ the books, then you ain’t gettin’ paid. How’s that gonna work?”
Her head popped up and she smiled again at him before ducking below the counter once again. “I had a few dozen crates of books in my home, so I told the recruiters that I wanted to open a library. Let the other colonists have a place of refuge, as it were. As to money? ArCorp actually subsidized the idea. They provided me with additional material and allowed me a substantial purchase amount to add even further.”
She emerged a moment later with a bright blue bag of heavy woven material. Thick rope loops made up handles for the bag. She extended it to Duggan, who took it gingerly between his fingers.
“Next time you come, you’ll have a bag to carry books in,” she said. “From now on, as often as you want.”
He slipped the issues of War Bear into the bag in as cautious a manner as he was able.
“I’ll bring you those others tomorrow,” he said in a solemn tone.
“There’s no rush,” she assured him. “Take your time. Bring them when you return the ones you have. I’ll be here. Well, as long as you come during office hours,” she added.
His lips split into a smile, which took the edge off of his fierce countenance for a moment.
“I’ll do that,” he said. He turned for the door, but Jori was a step ahead of him, her arm flashing up to a shelf and holding out a thin book. Duggan recognized it as the one about the cop and the assassin.
“You were looking at this one?” she asked.
“Uhh, yeah. How did you…”
“You left it sticking out past the others. Lucky guess on my part.”
“Oh. I wasn’t sure if it was… I didn’t…”
“Lots of violence in it,” she said, taking the pressure off of him. “I don’t know if you’re ready to handle that.”
“Jori, I’m –” he began, looking at her for the moment it took for him to realize she had been joking. He chuckled then, a deep rumbling within his chest.
“You got me,” he said.
She winked in reply and tipped the novel into his bag. “I think you should try this one,” she said. “Let me know what you think. It was very nice to meet you, Cron.”
“You too, Jori. I’ll see ya when I come back,” Duggan told her as he stepped out of her shop and into the heat of the early afternoon. His eyes rebelled against the glare of the brilliant yellow sun that hammered down onto the baked ground.
“I look forward to it. Have fun!” she called.
The door closed behind him and Duggan took off down the street, the blue bag swinging in his hand. He waved at a pair of calico-patterned cats in mining outfits, sending a happy grin their way.
When he opened the door to his home, Lissa was there. The mongoose was reclined on his couch, stuffing something crunchy into her mouth and washing it down with one of his beers.
“Where ya been?” she asked, swallowing.
“Book place,” he said. She had known him long enough to catch the excitement in his tone.
“You went? Good on ya!” Lissa said, sitting up. She necked the bottle and swallowed three times before setting it onto his coffee table.
“I did,” he said. He pulled out the comics and the novel, holding them with a gentleness that bordered on reverence. He looked at them for a moment and then up at his partner.
“Jori’s nice,” he said.
“Jori?”
“She works there. Runs the place. Cassowary female.”
“Oh. I never got her name,” Lissa admitted.
“I did. She’s nice,” he repeated. He turned a stare on Lissa, silently daring her to make fun of him. She shook her head, knowing it was what he expected.
“I’m glad.”
“Thanks for telling me where to go.”
She laughed a quick bark of a laugh. “I’m good at telling you where to go,” she said. “Tell you what though: You start reading more than manuals on machine guns, and we’ll be even.”
He held up the novel, displaying the picture of the sleek Shepherd cop pointing a handgun at a duster-clad Doberman.
“I know just where to start.”
The Armor of Gara
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“You made a tank.”
The cheetah’s voice was low, and his words came out in a slow drawl of sound, the lack of speed and intensity giving presence to his surprise at the words he was speaking. Ahead of him, perched on the frame of the vehicle in question, was the Garan Acolyte known as Sister Alice. The lean coyote had her goggles pushed up on her forehead and was clad in a close-fitting jumpsuit with a simple robe thrown over it and belted at the waist.
“More of an armored attack vehicle, really,” she corrected. “Not the best one, of course. I mean, she’s lightweight, to begin with. We couldn’t get the drive train to support much more drag than we put on her. The armor plate is too heavy to allow for much extra power. You’ll notice, here, too, where we put the main gun. It’s not a turret mount. The controls for those would take up more resources than we had to allot. Your driver will have to point the car at the target.”
Sister Alice was excited, and her words were spat at Captain Tarlen VonHogan in rapid streams as she ducked and weaved, climbing across the randomly-painted metal, tapping claws against one system or another on the bulky craft she was showing. Her enthusiasm brought her speech to a speed with which the cheetah was intimately familiar.
“Over here we’ve got space set aside for a mounted machinegun. Or, if you’d prefer, we can add a backblast deflector and set it for rockets.”
“I think the machinegun would be more practical,” he mused. He pointed toward the craft. “You seriously built this from discarded parts?”
Brother Vincent smiled around teeth gone yellow. “She did,” he answered for her. “Been working on it in secret. I wasn’t allowed to tell,” he added with a conspiratorial wink. At the armored vehicle, Alice was still going on.
“She has tires instead of treads, because the only thing with treads was the crawler, and we can’t scrap it. The miners need it. But we used semi-solid tractor tires with articulated axle mounts to give them more freedom, and we added shields over the tires so they’ll be harder to target. I’ve been working on individual drive assemblies for each wheel, to give you true freedom of motion with it, but she still has a standard drive.”
“Ask her a question,” Vincent prompted in a whisper. “She’s dying to tell you what she’s done.”
“What’s the range?” Captain VonHogan asked, gesturing in a vague motion toward the horizon.
“She’ll get about two hours on battery alone, three without stopping if you use the solar extenders. You’ll manage about forty kays per hour, tops. The engine will give you another hour before fueling, and that’s at double the speed of the battery drive. I would suggest you save that for when you need it, and the speed becomes your savior. Running full out with the batteries and the fuel, you’re looking at about two hundred kilometers, give or take a bit.”
“And the armor?”
“We concentrated it to the fore. Double thickness sheet there.”
“You needn’t say we, child,” Brother Vincent called. “This was your devotional.”
Alice bowed from the waist. “Yes, Brother. I also added a partial layer to the underside after your soldier Mag explained that you have been encountering mined areas. The tires will still be vulnerable to explosion damage, but their nature should allow them to function to a certain extent. Enough at least to escape to a less hazardous area for refit,” she said. Her fingers worked in a frenzy, feeding information into a wrist-mounted tablet as she spoke. Every time she recognized something that could become an issue for the security teams, she added it to the list of necessary improvements.
“All told,” she continued, “it should bounce small arms fire with ease and do a decent job against anything shy of a rocket or one of the heavy lasers. Not a true tank, you see.”
“It will be incredible against toothie infantry, though. Where did you find the plate?”
“The steel sheet came from the primary supply for the colony,” she admitted. “Probably not the purpose intended by the corporation, but Gara reminds us that we make do where we must. Reinforcements came from mining stakes, damaged prybars and the like. The window is, well, it is specialty glass.”
“Transparex,” she reported. VonHogan’s eyebrow quirked and his tail rose into the air.
Brother Vincent interrupted. “It was part of the equipment that made it here from the transport ship, but was not assigned to our operational allotment,” he said.
VonHogan nodded and a wry chuckle escaped his mouth. “I see. Kinda like the shotguns that mysteriously managed to make the trip?”
“We believe that Gara added the transparex for us to find,” the aged leopard declared, tilting his head in deference.
“Well, we said with the weapons that as long as they aren’t a problem for us, then we’re fine with them. We’d be hard pressed to say anything about starship glass. How did you cut it, though?”
“Industrial laser from the mine supervisor,” Sister Alice explained. “It took a few days work, and it’s not as pretty as it could be if we spent a few more working with it, but it’s bolted up as best we — I mean I — could get it. Drilling the bolt holes took about half an hour each.”
“I’m impressed,” VonHogan said.
“The transparex won’t break,” she continued. “Even if they hit you with something that takes out the armor, you’re safe behind the window. The bolts themselves will shear away before that breaks.”
“Got it. We should be okay, since we’re not having Jinx drive the tank.”
He could tell by the expressions that his joke fell flat. The Garans probably had not worked with the lanky serval in the way that he and his Folk had. Things tended to go wrong around her, and she believed that she had somehow angered the Gods. Her claim was that the bad luck she experienced was some sort of divine punishment and that one day she would escape it.
“And the gun?” VonHogan asked. His claw made tiny ringing sounds as he tapped on the barrel. It was thicker than his muscled arm, and scarred with dozens of small scrapes. The metal was a matte gray, and any trace of decoration it might once have held had been thoroughly scrubbed away. At its end was a muzzle brake wider than the Captain’s head.
“It’s a wing cannon harvested from the scrapped remains of an Empire Rodentia space fighter,” Alice reported. “It will be horribly loud when fired, I fear. Sadly, most of the craft was damaged to an extent that prevented us from using much of it. It was part of the drop package from the Navy, along with some broken computers and other assorted bits, left for us to make use of as parts.”
“Cleaning out their bays,” VonHogan said with a snort. “Foisting off what they felt was garbage.”
“Gara provides for us in Her own ways.”
“Busted-ass fighters? Computers? Useful stuff like that? I might like to have a look at your spare parts one day, see what can be salvaged,” the cheetah said. He did not miss the gasp of shock that came from Alice, and the disapproving glance from Brother Vincent added to the effect.
“Guessing I said something wrong?” he prompted.
Tapping his staff on the ground, Brother Vincent spoke. “Once She has gifted us with parts, they are for our use. These are religious rites of which you speak. It is not the place of another to ask to view them. To do so is tantamount to questioning Her divine presence among us and the purpose to which She applies us.”
VonHogan noted with interest the manner in which Vincent eyed the knife at the Captain’s belt when he said the word, ‘another’. The blade could mark him as a Gannite, although in the case of the troops stationed on Z262, it could as easily be a simple tool of daily use. The fact that he had so casually overstepped a cultural barrier marked him in an even more certain manner, he knew.
“You demean Her gifts,” Sister Alice whispered. Her voice was little more than a shadow of sound, and she made the sign of the cog with her paw. She stepped down off the side of the armored vehicle. The excitement she had displayed only moments before was gone now, replaced with a wide-eyed sorrowful stare.
“I’ll ask you both to forgive my ignorance,” VonHogan said. He bowed deeply from the waist, exposing the back of his neck to the clerics for several seconds. “I’m a simple soldier, and I’m very much unused to dealing with Folk of faith, no matter the stripe. I have no favor with any of the Gods, nor do I expect they are especially impressed with me.”
Silence reigned for several seconds until Brother Vincent acknowledged the Captain’s gesture with a bow of his own.
“For too long have we all built our own walls to separate one from another,” he said. “Understand, Gara teaches us secrecy and at times She demands it. There are things that we simply cannot do, and we forget how some may not know of these things as we do. You are welcome to come and speak with us to discover the joy of Her teachings, should you wish.”
“I may well do that,” VonHogan said. “In the meantime, I should like to make amends for the offense I have caused you both. Back behind our headquarters building there is a shed full of things we’ve brought back after the failed rat raids. Weapons, equipment, salvaged vehicle parts, a little of everything.”
He slipped a paw into one of the many pockets in the mottled sand-hued uniform he wore, emerging after a moment with a thin coin. A design was etched on one side and the entire thing was covered in a scuffed enamel that spoke volumes about how long he had carried it.
“Show this to whoever is on guard duty and tell them I sent you,” he said. He reached past Brother Vincent, extending the coin to Alice. “I’ll tell them you’re coming. Take whatever you can use. All of it, if you need it. It’s gathering dust in there as it is, and I’d much rather you had a chance to work with it.”
The coyote’s eyes widened at the gesture, and she accepted the coin as if it came from on high.
“Gara provides,” she murmured. A few steps away, Brother Vincent made the same declaration. It was obvious even to VonHogan that the statement was both a mantra and an acceptance of blessing. He had heard the words before when near members of the Garan faith, but had never truly put them together as he did at that moment.
“Thank you for the tank,” VonHogan told Sister Alice. The tips of his fingers touched hers as he released the coin, his claws coming forth just enough to graze her own.
“The vehicle itself is our thanks,” she replied. “It is in the act of creation that we find ourselves closest to Her divinity.”
“Well, miss, you help yourself to what we have and create anything you want.”
“We shall,” Brother Vincent said, stepping closer to the pair. “We are grateful for your generosity.”
“Yes, thank you,” Alice said, shaking her head at the lack of courtesy she had displayed. Brother Vincent’s display was a subtle method of drawing her attention to it. While cloistered, she had spent little time among others, and the aging monk was reminding her that her social skills were underdeveloped.
VonHogan nodded to them both.
“Please, be sure to let me know if there is anything you need to make your creation effort more successful. I’m sure we can find a few things just laying around, here and there.”
“Living proof, Captain,” Brother Vincent said, leaning heavily on his staff.
The robed leopard smiled a wide smile. “Gara provides.”
The Ghost of Shen Qi
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“We’re gonna get caught,” Miranda whispered. “Again.”
“Nah,” Skeeter said. He flicked his hair back from his eyes and peered down the silent corridor to their right. “I heard them say the Marines were on the other side of the ship.”
“Doesn’t that seem odd?”
“Maybe. All I know is we can get out and do something for a change. I’m tired of sitting in the cabin and listening to Dad and Mom argue about what life’s gonna be like when we get to this stupid place.”
“Mine are all happy and planning the new store,” she said. Following along with him, she edged into the corridor and they took off at a jog.
“At least that gives you something to look forward to. Dad’s making this whole thing sound like some horrible ordeal and Mom is telling him how it’s gonna be even worse. Last night I made it really bad, ‘cause I asked them if it was gonna be so bad, why did they sign up for it.”
They paused and looked both ways at a crossing hall before dashing further down the corridor.
“What did they say?”
“Dad said he did it to get away from Mom’s parents, and then Mom said it was because Dad’s a butthole. Then they started fighting and I ran off to my bunk thing.”
“Gara,” Miranda whispered. “That sucks.”
He paused, leaned against a wall, and pulled on the lapels of his long coat, sinking his body further into the leather. The black material created such a contrast with his snow white fur that Miranda could not help but smile.
“I’m used to it,” he said. His tone belied his words, but she accepted the words in the spirit he had delivered them. She placed a paw on his shoulder and looked into his eyes.
“It’ll get better,” she promised.
The fox nodded back at her and they started moving again. A voice from ahead set them on a hard right down an adjoining hall, and a choice between a dark hall and one with a flickering overhead light left them creeping down through the darkness. The journey, Skeeter had reasoned, was where the fun was to be had, and adventure would give them fond memories of the journey. Slinking down darkened hallways while avoiding the random security sweeps of the shipboard Marines was more than enough adventure for the pair.
At least he hoped they could avoid the Marines. Last time had not gone as planned, and had it not been for the ArCorp security representative that had come to their rescue, he had no idea what the musclebound Marine who caught them would have done to them, although his imagination had shown him a great number of nightmarish scenarios.
They traveled the network of corridors for a few more minutes, following the twisting halls and ducking through the iris door into a cargo hold.
As the door closed behind them the overhead lights came to life. White brilliance flooded the area and the cat and fox found themselves squinting in the sudden light. After the dim and occasionally dark hallways, the illumination was blinding and they found themselves standing and blinking in an attempt to ease the stabbing feeling of the bright light.
“Why did the lights all come on?” Miranda asked. She pushed herself closer to the fox as he looked around the area. He leaned into her as well, wrapping an arm over her in a protective gesture.
“I don’t know,” he admitted. “They never did before.”
“Are we in the right place?”
He hesitated a moment, looking about for some form of identifying feature.
“Maybe we came in from the other side,” he said. The quiver in his stomach told him he had made the wrong choice coming in here, but he kept his voice calm and level. He resolved not to let any sign of fear show in front of Miranda.
“Probably,” she said. She took a slow breath. “Let’s look at this side, then.”
They stepped to their left, edging around a stacked rack of equipment crates. The tags on the ends were shiny and colorful in comparison to the drab gray containers. Yellow symbols were used to indicate categories of the crate, large red letters to identify the owners, and lines of black text beneath them. Each tag told the story of the crate contents.
This hold held little more than personal crates, and for that the pair was grateful. They had ventured into one kilometer-long bay early on the trip that had been filled with dozens of the shipping containers that held the contents of the colony to be, with house-sized boxes filled with preserved food, mining equipment, lumber, and more things that they could only guess. The infrastructure of an entire town was carried on this ship, and between Skeeter and Miranda, they had explored at least the exterior crates of most of it. The exploration took hours and they found it all incredibly dull. After that, they spent their days looking for something that might be fun. There were few Folk of their age, and none that wanted to do anything that involved sneaking off behind the backs of the security teams that were responsible for the safety of the colonists, potentially running from or tangling with shipboard Marines, and getting yelled at by the Administrators of the trip.
“What was that?” Skeeter asked aloud, jerking to a halt and doubling back a step. He peered down the alley between two sets of shelves.
“I thought I saw someone.”
“Don’t do that,” Miranda whispered.
“I’m not,” he said, knowing she thought he was playing a trick or trying to scare her. “Go back.”
The two of them sprinted for the door, but it cycled open before they got close and they darted down an alley of crates instead, pressing themselves against the closest boxes to disguise their presence.
“Why are the lights already on?” asked a voice. A second later, it boomed in volume.
“Who’s in here?” the voice demanded.
“Go,” Skeeter said in a low tone, gesturing down the aisle. He and Miranda ran hard, trying their best not to make sound on the metal flooring. They broke left at the first intersection, ran some more, and then shot up through another alley of crates, turning right and then left again as they ran. They could hear multiple sets of booted feet ringing on the floor as someone chased them.
They twisted left as they passed a series of low, wide crates, and ducked down low as they ran, trying to hide themselves behind the equipment. A few more steps and the pair found themselves facing an exit door, just down two more sections. They redoubled their efforts.
A dog clad in a long coat bearing some form of insignia stepped out in front of them. Dull rank pins gleamed on his collar, but Skeeter had no idea what they represented. All he knew was they had been caught for certain. There was something about the dog that terrified Skeeter, a feeling of dread that even overpowered his fear of being caught. His feet skidded on the deck as he tried to backpedal, grabbing at Miranda’s shoulder to help pull her along. His heartbeat became a steady flood of sound in his ears as he realized they were trapped. Moving with a long, slow stride, the dog was now in the section of crates with them, blocking their access to the intersection. He crouched low, shielding Miranda with his own body, and as the dog took another step, Skeeter squinted his eyes. The wall was visible through the Folk that stood before him. Skeeter gasped, feeling a cold sensation grasp at his innards.
The dog opened its mouth and a low, mournful sound drifted from it. Skeeter felt the hairs on the back of his neck rise and a chill ran down his spine at the sound. Miranda whimpered aloud.
“Gann’s balls!” called the voice that had demanded to know who was in the hold. “It’s the ghost! The ghost of Shen Qi!”
“Where?” shouted another voice.
The dog looked down at Skeeter and Miranda as the pair huddled on the plating. His paw raised and he tapped it to his mouth in a gesture calling for silence. Pivoting, he moved from their position and out of the alley. It was only after he left that they realized he made no sound as he walked.
The thunder of booted feet ran down the adjoining alley.
“There! I see him!” shouted the second voice.
“He’s real!” called the next.
The dog stepped in front of the exit door that Skeeter could see and grinned at the two youths, lips rolling back from around long, sharp teeth. Extending an arm toward the door, he passed through it as if it was not there. His body seemed to shimmer as he joined with the metal, and a second later he was just gone.
Two Folk in ship’s security uniforms darted through the door a second later, stopping only long enough to open it. Neither looked at the two juvenile Folk shivering in the floor, so intent were they upon catching their prey.
The door closed behind them and Skeeter and Miranda found themselves alone in the cargo bay. It felt infinitely colder than it had when they arrived, and both of them were overcome with a strong desire to be somewhere else. Anywhere, it seemed, would do, so long as they were out of the cargo bay.
Three minutes of running led them back to the door by which they had entered and then they were running through the corridors of the ship, paw in paw. Doors and intersections flashed by as they worked their way back to the housing area.
They ran straight up to the ocelot wearing the sand camouflage shirt of the ArCorp security team. The trim female glared at their approach.
“Where have you two been?” she demanded.
“We went to the galley,” Miranda said, her voice high and firm. It was not a place that was off limits, and many of the settlers went there for a change of pace from the makeshift eatery set up in their area. “They had cookies.”
“Did you bring me a cookie?” asked the ocelot, mouth wide in a grin.
“I was going to, but Skeeter ate it,” Miranda said, pointing at her friend and making a face.
“Oh, I see! That’s how it is, is it?” she asked. She reached out and ruffled the fox’s carefully-coiffed hair, chuckling at the offended expression on his face.
Minutes later, they were back inside the confines of the section of the ship where the settlers had been based. They were both shaking with a combination of fear and excitement at their experience. They kept moving, hiding from the sight of others until they reached one of their usual places. Perched side by side on a bench in the common area, the two of them took deep breaths of the recycled air. They were still holding paws, and neither seemed in a hurry to stop.
“What was that?” Miranda asked. Her voice was husky now, edged with the fear brought about by her memories of what had occurred.
“Can spaceships be haunted?” Skeeter asked at the same time.
“We could ask Diem.”
After he had rescued the pair from the clutches of the enormous Marine, the leopard named Diem had become a favorite adult of theirs. Still, Skeeter had his doubts.
“And tell him we went to the cargo bay?” he asked.
“No,” she said, flapping a paw. “We just ask if it could happen. I’ll tell him you were telling me a ghost story and trying to scare me.”
“That might work.”
Miranda squeezed his paw. “After that, we go talk to someone from the ship. Tell them we overheard someone talking about a ghost. Play both sides.”
Nodding, he pulled the cat in for a quick hug. They got up and ran from the bench, heading for the lounge to see if Diem was there.
Behind them, a shimmering canine face materialized, pushing free from a bulkhead wall. It looked at the area filled with colonists and grinned before disappearing into the metal once again.
<<END>>
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Lin stared ahead, looking past the dozen or so Folk in front of him and watching the reflections in the glass doors. There were a few more Folk behind him than there had been a half hour ago. His feet reminded him of how long he had been standing in line. He sent a mental grumble their way, reminding them how many hours they had held him up beside a table before. This would be no different.
He drew his phone from within a pocket and scanned the screen again. Nothing new in the last ten minutes. He sighed. Opening the keyboard, he quickly tapped in a message.
–Not coming?
He stared at the screen, willing a response, but nothing came. He wondered if perhaps he had been too forceful in the discussion of the previous afternoon, but she had to know.
The doors opened and he slipped the phone back into his pocket. The crowd filtered in, each taking one of the pamphlets being handed out by a pair of suit-clad Spaniels. He glanced at it, and just as quickly tucked it alongside the phone. Standard indemnity paperwork. Nothing to be surprised about, despite the raised voice of the older calico two bodies behind him. Her shock at the possibility of death or injury was comical. With the frequent terrorist attacks by agents of Empire Rodentia, it was only a matter of time until one was in the wrong place at the right time.
The line shuffled slowly forward as each of the Folk ahead of him spoke to an ArCorp representative. They mumbled answers to questions and presented identification. Lin watched the crowd.
“Hi there,’ said a voice, and Lin tilted his head down to see a raccoon looking up at him from within a tailored blue suit. There was a corporate ID badge hanging around his neck on a lanyard that had his name and photograph displayed. The raccoon came up to Lin’s upper chest, but the smile on his face spoke of easy confidence that the big tiger did not feel.
“I’m Mace Govarr, ArCorp personnel division,” the raccoon said, extending a hand. Lin shook it, dwarfing the small fingers in his paw.
“Lin Waar. It’s nice to meet you,” he said. The words came easily to him, even if the situation was somewhat less familiar.
“Nice to meet you too,” Mace said. “I have a few questions to ask before we know where to send you.”
He tilted his head toward the back of the office, where hallways and cubicle walls could be seen. A tablet filled his hand, drawn from within the suit, and he tapped at a key to open a form.
“What is it you do for a living, if anything?”
“I am a physician,” Lin said. The raccoon grinned as he marked a box on the form.
“We can always use medical professionals,” Mace told him. “Your specialty?”
“General practice. I did trauma work in the militia and drove an ambulance before that.”
“Nice! So you’re militia trained as well?”
“As a medic, yes.”
More boxes clicked on the tablet and Mace reached up to grab at Lin’s sleeve. Pivoting on a heel, the raccoon tugged at the sleeve and urged Lin to follow as they left the crowded lobby behind and made their way through the door into a hall filled with gray cubicle walls. They bypassed them in a rushed series of steps. After a moment they arrived outside a plain door. Mace swung it open and walked inside with no announcements. There were three desks inside, each ugly metal constructs that spoke of time in government service or underprivileged schools.
At the first sat a tall, rangy cheetah who watched their entry with eyes that missed nothing about the new arrivals. Lin didn’t need to check the sleeve patches to know this was a security operative of some sort. It was the dull gray captains’ bars sewn onto the collar that raised his eyebrow.
The second desk had a monkey seated behind it, his dextrous fingers dancing across the keys of a computer whose screen faced away from the door. The white-haired monkey never even looked up as the pair entered the room.
Desk number three was currently unoccupied, but before he could wonder why, Mace was speaking.
“Captain VonHogan, this is Lin Waar. He’s a physician.”
The cheetah nodded, a slow, easy motion. “Why do you want to leave?”
The question was direct and there was no tone behind it at all. It was as if the captain was repeating a question he had asked a hundred times, and as far as Lin knew, he might have. He had anticipated someone asking something close to this, and the answer was right on the tip of his tongue.
“There are worlds out there we’ve never seen,” he said. “I want to be a part of that exploration. I want to help the settlers stay safe and healthy.”
He paused for just a moment and gave a slight tilt of the head as he visibly swallowed.
“I’ll be honest,” he added. “I’m nervous about what’s out there, but I also know that if anything happens, you’ll need someone good at fixing Folk. I am.”
“Are you looking to establish a practice in some hope of becoming rich?”
“I’ve got money,” he answered. Wide shoulders lifted in a slow shrug. “I don’t care.”
“So are you giving it up? I mean, since you don’t care about it.”
“Hadn’t thought about that,” Lin said. His tail twitched behind him, brushing at the door. “If I go to this colony, I won’t need it, right?”
“If you’re accepted to the mission, you’ll become an ArCorp employee and have a salary.”
“Good enough.”
His phone buzzed, vibrating against his breast.
“I’m good with him,” the cheetah announced. At the second desk, the monkey raised a hand and beckoned Lin to approach. Mace patted the tiger on the back and exited the room behind him, returning to the lobby for his next recruit.
As he walked to the desk, Lin pulled the phone and looked at the screen.
–Why are you leaving?
He snorted and dropped it back into his pocket.
“If you need to get that, go ahead,” the captain said.
“Nah. It’s personal, not business.”
The cheetah laughed, a low chuckling sound from deep in his chest, and leaned back in his chair.
“Son, this is where I get to use all that personal interaction training the army gave me. You’re about to — if Xander over there says so — sign on with ArCorp for a five year hitch as a colonist on a planet full of monsters, with the toothies eyeing the place as well because they need the gems same as we do. Personal needs to be taken care of, too.”
Lin clenched his jaw, took a deep breath through his nose and nodded. The phone slid back out and he opened the keyboard.
–You know why. I need to go.
–I can’t. I have a life here.
–Kalli, you’re the only one I want to come with me.
–Mom wouldn’t want this. She wouldn’t want you to leave, to abandon your practice, to run away on some dream.
Another deep breath filled his lungs. His claws clicked on the tiny screen.
–Mom’s dead. Nice try.
–You know what I mean.
–I’m going, Kalli. Please come with me.
–No. I’m not giving up what I have here for some dirty mine thing.
His chest tightened as he read the words. He knew she was attached to things in a way that he wasn’t, but the resistance was more than he expected.
–I’ll call you later.
–Don’t bother. You’ll just make things worse. I love you, Lin, but don’t.
–Look, we can – he began, but another message came up first.
–Enjoy your little trip. Maybe no one will die this time.
He stumbled, his knees going weak under him. VonHogan half-rose from his chair, returning to his seat as Lin waved him off.
“My sister,” Lin said, waving the phone. He shoved it back into his pocket and turned toward the monkey behind the desk. “She doesn’t approve of the trip.”
“Well, if you need –”
“Nah. I’m in. She and I don’t see eye to eye. She brought up something from my past.”
“Looked like something pretty important.”
Lin dragged a paw across his head, ruffling the striped fur there.
“You, uh, said you were in the army.”
“I was.”
“I was trained for the militia. I didn’t care for it, and I still don’t. I was trained to save lives, not take them. To this day, I don’t like guns. I can use them. I just choose not to.”
VonHogan just stared at him, letting the tiger continue his story.
“Couple years ago — Well, I say a couple, but I can give you the exact date if you want it — I was on my honeymoon. A group of squirrels attacked the cafe we were in. During the fight, I wound up holding a pistol that a dead security officer had used. I had to decide whether to shoot the last one of the squirrels, and I hesitated. It was the idea of harming another, even a squirrel. Mika paid the price. He shot her. I killed him for it, Gara forgive me, but he took a piece of me that I’ll never get back. My Mika was the gentlest soul I have ever known, and she’s gone now…and it’s my fault.”
“Toothies take everything,” VonHogan said. “Even your innocence. Make no mistake, that’s what happened then.”
“Innocence,” Lin said with a mocking snort.
“Lemme ask you this; If that happened today, what would you do?”
“I’d like to sit here and tell you I’d blast away at the squirrel. That I’d save the day. But I know myself. If it happened I would probably hesitate again. That’s a life on the other end of the weapon, and I’ve sworn to protect life.”
“That oath means that much?”
“It’s an oath,” Lin said. “I don’t give it up.”
“That’s the kind of thing I want to hear. It sucks that you had to pay for your beliefs the way you did, but I’ll tell you this much: Folk that stand by their duty are the kind of Folk I want around me.”
“Welcome to ArCorp,” the monkey announced.
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The rumbling through the floor brought Jinx out of a sound sleep even before the roaring of the explosion rocked her small home. Like a thunderclap with added bass, the sound cracked two of her windows, the glass blowing inward a frantic heartbeat later as the wave of force struck.
She was out of bed and diving across the floor before the echoes had begun to fade. Her tail twitched back and forth like an angry serpent as she grabbed at the pants she had worn when she saw Emiko yesterday. Shoving her feet into them, she jerked them up over her legs, fighting for a second to get over the thickest part of her thighs. Two snaps and a click later, and the belted garment was in place.
A quick step to the wall, avoiding putting her feet in the glass that now littered the grimy carpet, she jerked her head up to the edge of the window and just as quickly brought it back down. The jumbled images she had seen sorted themselves as she concentrated on making sense of the vision.
The explosion had been a couple blocks away, judging from the smoke and dust in the area. Flames were still licking at trees and a cacophony of distant vehicle alarms began to drift on the air. The sun had barely crested the horizon.
“Been two good months. Guess I shoulda seen it coming,” she whispered to herself, turning away from the window. There was no need to look further yet. The fact that it had been centered where it was meant there was no direct threat to her and she could finish dressing.
It was only then that she noticed the weight of the Ferox in her hand. The heavy pistol had been under her pillow as she slept. Grabbing it before leaving the relative comfort of the shabby bed was a reflex action. She slipped it into the holster that was still attached to the belt on her pants, tucking the metal inside her waistband and pressing the warm grips to her ribs.
The closet yielded a soft green tunic that wrapped over her shoulders and then angled across her torso in an overlapping ‘X’ pattern to button again at the waist. The blouse flared at the hips and dropped another hands’ span in a ruffled effect that served to distract the eye from noticing the butt of the heavy pistol if it happened to be visible through the fabric.
She pulled down the bright orange medical kit from above her kitchen sink and glanced at the contents. A half dozen plastic bandages for minor cuts, alcohol wipes, antiseptic pads, and a small roll of gauze. It had been a part of the house that she had accepted as just being there all along. Now she understood why. The gauze went in a pocket and the remainder of the kit sailed into the garbage can. A drawer yielded a fistful of shirts that with the help of her knife could be made into bandages.
She jammed her feet into her boots and threw open the creaking front door. Careful not to put her full weight on the left side of the broken third step, she dashed from the house and toward the scene.
“Get back inside,” she called out to Ira Morehouse and his wife Anj. “It’s not safe!”
The two poodles had stepped out onto the porch as she approached, curious as to the nature of the explosion. The pointed finger by the sprinting serval was met with a nod and a wave as they turned back toward their broken down home. The windows along the front facing were all shattered and most had been blasted into the building. They would spend the day sweeping and repairing, but both of the Morehouses knew enough to listen to Jinx when she sounded authoritative.
It had been two days after the serval arrived in their neighborhood that Ira was attacked by a trio of young mutts intent on taking the older dog’s briefcase. His initial resistance bought him a beating, and even after he relinquished the case, their sense of being disrespected overrode their greed and they didn’t stop the onslaught of paws. When Jinx stepped in, the first warning any of them had was the crack of bone as she applied a length of metal pipe to the knee of one attacker. As the pup went down with a shriek, she launched into a rapid attack sequence that put the other two mutts down and out within a few seconds. Not a single one of the three escaped without at least one broken bone, and blood painted the sidewalk in quantity.
Showing as much tenderness as she had violence, Jinx helped Ira to his feet and walked him to his house. His briefcase was retrieved and she wiped the spattered blood off it with the sleeve of her own shirt. Only after she was certain that he was all right and ensconced in his house with Anj did Jinx return to the battered mutts.
“My turf now,” she said, pinching the muzzle of the kneecapped one shut so he was forced to listen. “If I see you or these two here again, and I mean ever, I’ll kill you. Prison don’t mean shit to me, pup, not after the places I’ve been. I’ll get free food and a roof over my head. You’ll be telling Gann why you were a disappointment in this life. Got it?”
His head quivering as he tried to hold back tears, the pup nodded. Jinx handed him the bloody pipe she had used on him and his partners.
“You can use it as a crutch,” she said. “Try to hit me with it, though, and your other knee goes too.”
She stood and walked away without a backward glance at the maimed thug. From that day on, she and the Morehouses had maintained a friendly relationship.
That had been two months ago, and inwardly, she marveled at how long it had taken for something bad to happen. She skirted a sedan that had been parked in the street. It had no glass left and the left side looked as though a dozen Folk had gone after it with sledgehammers.
The first injured she found was a calico cat in a t-shirt that advertised some celebrity she did not recognize. The cat was in shock, with his eyes blank and staring as blood ran down his face. She checked his wounds and found them to be multiple small cuts, likely from blown glass, and abandoned him to move deeper toward the scene of the blast. Already the sound of sirens could be heard in the distance.
She moved on for another block, helping an elderly skunk with his cuts and an early morning jogger who had been taken by surprise. Her leg would recover given time, and Jinx left her with a t-shirt wrapped around the chunk of metal buried in her thigh and half of a second shirt pressed to the worst of the shrapnel wounds.
She smelled chemicals and smoke on the wind now. The fires that had erupted in response to the blast had burned inside businesses and residences, and the mingled scents gnawed at the sensitive tissues of her nose. Debris was more common now, and she frequently had to step over or around objects that should not have been where they were. Mailboxes and pieces of trees blocked sidewalks and streets.
She turned left on Flagler street and the epicenter of the blast loomed in her vision. It had been in front of the noodle shop, wiping out the small eatery and the apartment above it. The car that had borne the explosives had left a huge hole in the ground, and very little remained of it. Part of the chassis was embedded in the front of the toy store across from where the noodle shop had been.
“Good thing it was early!” shouted a voice. Jinx looked past the blast scene to see a brown bear headed her way at a waddling run. He was kind of cute, she noted before shutting off that part of her thoughts.
“Yeah,” she agreed, peering into the toy store. The inside was a shambles. The inventory had been blasted across the shop and the overhead sprinklers had activated in response to fire of some kind. Filthy water ran on the floor where it was soaked up by plush dolls that no one would ever play with after today.
“Anything good?” the bear asked as he neared. She arched a brow.
“In the store. Anything good?”
“Blown up toys.” She was unable to keep the distaste from her voice. Sharp eyes looked him over once more. Before he could speak again, she pointed back the way he came.
“You might want to head back that way. Bad things happen to Folk around me, and they get worse when I know they’re here to loot a disaster scene.”
“Hey, I’m just –”
The words cut off, dying in his throat as Jinx slipped the Ferox from its rig. The bore of the pistol looked big enough to step into when it pointed at his face.
“Now,” she said.
He turned to flee, and she could taste his fear on the air. She returned the pistol to its holster and went back to looking for injured.
She was on her knees holding a shirt to the bleeding head of a bus driver when the security forces announced themselves. The leopard had been caught in the blast as he prepped his machine for its first run of the day. Stunned by the attack, he had been thrown into the frame of the bus and split his head open on impact. He was there until the serval had found him slumped against the front tire of his bus. He mumbled as she held him, less than half his words coherent. Blood traces in his ears and nose spoke of the overpressure.
“This cat needs an ambulance,” she said, swiveling her head in a slow arc to make out the tiger that loomed behind her. He had a shotgun in hand and a pistol on his hip, and wore a uniform that was already stained and dirty from what he had seen this morning.
“He’ll get it. What about you?”
“I live back that way,” she said, tilting her head toward her home. “Came to see if I could help.”
“You a medic?”
“Nah. Learned basic aid in the army.”
“Lucky you were here.”
“Trust me, pal. Luck isn’t involved. There’s a reason they call me Jinx.”
“Ah. Bad luck then?”
“More than you could know.”
He handed her a business card. “Well, you’re helping keep him alive,” he told her, nodding toward the leopard she held. “Doesn’t sound so bad to me. Stay here with him. Medical is on the way. Once they get here, start working your way out. Anyone hassles you, show them my card and tell them Vidor said you were ok. I’m moving on.”
Without waiting for questions or comments from her, he was gone, stalking away on powerful legs.
“Thanks,” she said to his back. In her lap, the bus driver moaned and she returned her attention to him.
“We’ll have you out of here before you know it,” she said.
She glanced down at the card. She had left a bloody fingerprint on it already.
“Figures,” she muttered, wiping it on her pants.
Anthill Morning
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Author’s note: The following tales are a composite of a single event, each told from the point of view of their narrative character: A local townie bent on revenge, a corporate employee, and a street thief. Each piece was designed to be a small bite of the environment at hand. The stories are set in the fictional world of Lester Smith’s Dark Conspiracy roleplaying game (Copyright 1991, Game Designers’ Workshop).
The Shooter
He’s ahead of me in the crowd and I ain’t planning to let him get away. That stupid red shirt from last year’s Decline concert marks him good and gives me a point of reference, but on the other hand the weather is not as crappy as usual and so the streets are packed. The sidewalk is like swimming through people, and when I try stepping onto the street itself I damn near get a Zil enema.
Homey’s keeping up a moderate pace. Doesn’t seem to be in a hurry. That makes it easier to follow someone, but to be honest I would just as soon he gets where he’s going. Shooting a man on a city street ain’t big on my list for today.
Witnesses are gonna be a bitch no matter what. Pop a couple caps in some monkey, even here in the upper Anthill, and folks are gonna take notice. The kick will be limiting exposure. If he’ll just go into a store or something, somewhere that limits vision and blocks some of the sound, I’ll splash his head all over the walls and just keep trucking. I kind of hope he goes into some clothing store. Wrap the .45 in a heavy shirt or something, and maybe that will mitigate the sound. Worked for Tyrone What’s-his-name in that spy film last year.
He strolls past the big Asian market thing like he can’t even hear them calling out to him. I snatch up one of those little bottled soda things and toss some aged mama-san a couple wadded notes as payment. I don’t care about any change, even though I hear her call out that I have some coming. I just turn and wink at her while taking a drink. She smiles and pockets the change.
If things go the way they could, I won’t need any money after today. Either I’ll get back the case and be able to sell it for enough to retire, or I’ll get arrested — or I’ll get dead. Either one means about the same thing as far as those bits of scrip go.
He starts cutting eastbound and passes by a Night Shift. I see his eyes reflected in the glass. I’m too close. If he sees me… The .45 feels like a brick in my waistband, but if I have to I’ll drill this asshole right here. He runs a hand back across his hair, slicking it down where the wind is getting to it.
The rain starts. Not sure why it waited this long, but it’s those early showers that just feel good and get you a little wet. The big storms will come later, not that this murdering sack of shit is gonna be around for any of it. That ain’t the kind of wet he’s gonna be. Dude comes into my house and ganks my friends, steals my cargo, and thinks I ain’t coming after him, then he needs to think again.
I stop for a second at a vendor. Let him get a few extra steps. The distance will help. I hadn’t realized I was getting that close until I was looking over his shoulder. A couple bucks later and I’m munching on some kind of meat on a stick. It’s either really shitty myco or it’s fairly tasty mouse. I ain’t asking which. I see him further east, ducking behind the big grocery store. I’m actually glad he didn’t go in there. They’ve got sec men that have good relations with the local badges. That means they remember people who do things like execute their customers. Hell, they’ll probably shoot back, and they actually know what they’re doing. Me, I’m running off what that Devil Bat showed me when he sold the gun to me.
I round the corner and see that he has passed the big game shop. There’s a little space out beside it with some tables and benches and stuff where people used to meet for chess games and romantic talks and such. I can see him making a casual approach. There are half a dozen people there at various tables. I’m throwing out the two Dobies making out, and the dude smoking a cheap cigar while he reads the latest issue of HiTek Dreamz is a no-brainer. It’s the mook in the business suit that looks entirely out of place and I figure that’s his mark. He’s gonna give my case to this nome wannabe? Not today.
As he takes another slow step forward, I make three of my own. My heart is racing faster than my steps. I reach for the metal and it fits my hand like it was made for it. I bring it out of my waistband and look down to make sure the safety thing is off. I cock it with my thumb and make the next few steps his last.
“This is for Shank and Leo,” I say as the gun comes up. He starts to turn and then it’s bucking in my hand. So loud. I can see the empty shell flying up and away as I pull the trigger again. His head is pretty much gone. He’s still falling but I grab the case and rip it out of his hands. It’s already sticky with his blood. So is Suit Boy, and a part of me thinks that’s pretty funny.
I turn and cut back up parallel to Penn in the alley. I keep seeing his head crack open. I’m gonna puke. I know I am, but I can’t yet. Heading north now, putting on speed. The badges will be coming. CorpSec or HardCop, it won’t matter if I get caught. Only difference there will be Corpers putting me down while the real ones do the arrest thing.
There’s a mushhead sitting by the sidewalk at Mackie’s, behind his coin bucket. Looks like he ate half of PharmaTech’s inventory. I can hear the sirens as I kneel down by him. Jesus, he stinks. He turns and mutters something as I shove a pile of scrip in his bucket and tell him some crap about God watching over him. The .45 fits real good under the piled up coat and assorted crap he’s got stacked beside him. I pat him on the head like a puppy and keep moving, though I change to the west now. Two blocks up and no pursuit. Time to change directions.
It’s about two more blocks when the thought of what I did really sinks in. I grab a trash can out beside Taste of Taipei and rip off the cover. The maggots crawling over whatever is in the can make it even easier and the fried mouse comes back up in a rush of cheap Japanese soda and bile. I wipe my mouth and straighten up.
“You did good back there,” I hear. I jump. Whoever they are, they got close without me hearing. I turn to see her, all slick looking and very much at ease here. Nice clothes. Heh. Nice rack. I look back up to see her smile. An eyebrow arches and she glances down at my waist. As I start to look down too, she’s in motion. The foot hits me square in the balls and the world explodes into brilliant swirls of color. I reach for her but she’s already inside my grasp. I can feel the knife then, in and out, in and out. Stabbing me so fast. It doesn’t feel like anything at first but now it’s starting to feel somehow cold and hot at the same time. That obsessive part of me wants to count the times she put it in me but I can’t. Making the thoughts stick is hard.
I can feel her pulling the case. It’s mine. I need it. You can’t have it. Gotta keep hold.
Getting dark. Why is it so dark?
What a filthy place.
How do people even live here?
I dodge a puddle of water that is brimming with scum. That would ruin my shoes.
I passed out of the last Controlled Zone five blocks ago, but this area should be classed as a complete NoGo. I saw actual street gangs. Not the kind on the trid, but real, actual criminal gang members, with knives and bats and stuff. One of them even had a gun. I saw the handle thing sticking out of his pants. The briefing dossier on this area is in serious need of a rewrite.
This had better pay off or I am going to be angry. I can’t believe I had to come here. I deserve so much better than this. It has to be Brantley and his interference. I’ll be filing a complaint as soon as I get back and can get the stench of this place out of my clothes.
I step around a bundle that might well be a used diaper and keep walking. There’s a man in a robe up ahead, waving some kind of book. He sounds like some kind of trid evangelist. As I get near, his eyes light up and he starts talking to me like I’m some kind of long lost family member.
Someone bumps into me and I spin, reaching up to hold onto the thick packet in my breast pocket. Well, she wasn’t attacking me. She looks to be intoxicated or something. It’s a pity. She’s a pretty thing. She lifts her breasts and wiggles them through her soft grey blouse.
“Wanna party?” she mumbles, smiling at me. Why on earth would anyone want to ‘party’ with someone obviously on drugs? Unable to form words to express my level of discomfort and lack of desire to be with her, I point to my wedding band and turn back in time to see the evangelist grinning at the girl. She wanders away singing as he begins to tell me something about my soul. As if I need a lecture on my soul from a man lusting after that drug-addled street girl.
Giving up on the evangelist, I turn away and nearly walk into a gorgeous young girl with bright purple hair. I never thought that facial piercings were all that attractive, but on her, they certainly seem to work. For a moment I am lost in thought, and then I remember why I am here, just in time to catch an angry glare from the hairy man in the leather straps that is her escort. He looks like one of those arena fighters Mildred likes to watch on the trid. Knowing what I’ve seen in this area, he’s probably her pimp. I sigh and move on. It’s for the best. If they knew what I was carrying, they would probably rob me.
I step around the edge of some store selling “smoking accessories”, although what I can see inside there doesn’t have anything to do with decent cigars. There are yet more freaks in there. This place is horrid.
Someone has their music turned up too loud. It’s offensive. No one wants to hear your – it’s in a car? That loud and it’s in a car? How can they drive? If this was home, the security forces would have torn that thing into scrap metal and you dirty people would be – don’t get out! Don’t get out! No no no.
That man just pulled some kind of giant gun from under his jacket and stuck it in the nose of the man on the corner, and then dragged him right into the loud car. They just took that guy right off the corner! No one’s going to stop them. No police, no security force. How do people even live here?
There’s a coffee shop up ahead on my right that doesn’t seem to have too much going on. Maybe I can get something to drink. I wonder what the chances are of them having a caramel macchiato?
I order one and the fat man behind the counter – with a nose ring, of all things – tells me they only have coffee. I get one with as much cream as they will put in it. Powdered cream in what was undoubtedly thrift store coffee. It tastes as bad as it looks but it’s vaguely approaching coffee.
It’s started to rain, and I notice no one is carrying an umbrella. The majority of the people get closer to awnings or doorways, but no one is putting on any protective gear. What are they going to do when the acid hits?
South of the alleged coffee shop, I see my meeting place. Just past a place selling games and cards and little tiny figures, there’s a picnic area — or at least that’s what it looks like. Plastic tables and benches, a random assortment of round tables with loose plastic chairs, and the occasional trash can.
I take up space in a seriously uncomfortable chair. I’m going to get dust all over my suit, but at least I’ll be able to see the seller when he arrives. I figure I will have to burn the suit anyway. After being down in this neighborhood, there is no hope for it. I can smell the stink of a bad cigar on the wind, and when I look, I can see the fat man smoking it. He’s reading some magazine. HiTek Dreamz? Really? Look at you. The closest you’ll get to anything HiTek is right there in your magazine. You’re as likely to end up in my part of town as those two nasty men kissing behind you. Nobody wants to see that! Save it for the bedroom.
He’s three minutes late. Three minutes. I’ve seen men fired for less. When he gets here I’m going to give him a piece of my mind. I do not like being kept waiting. A lack of punctuality shows disrespect for your business partner.
Is that him? That’s a courier case, at least. He’s heading my way. It looks like this is the right guy. Time to remember that stupid code phrase. What was it? I can’t remember. Think. Think. Here he comes. Something about a giraffe.
Who is that? Dear sweet Jesus, he’s got a –
He shot him! He shot him! It’s so loud! I can’t hear anything. Oh God, he just killed him! It’s all over me and I’m gonna be sick and oh my God please don’t kill me!
He can keep the case, just don’t let him kill me please oh please.
He’s running away and I hear the men behind me screaming and running. All I can see is this thing on my table. It’s like some kind of opened fruit. A moment ago this was a human being. Now it’s just –
I lean over and vomit onto the concrete. My hands are shaking and I heave again. My eyes are stinging from the acid going up my nose.
“Well, damn. That’s gonna leave a mark,” I hear. I straighten up. There’s blood and brain on my shirt and I feel my body trying to be sick again. Swallowing, I turn to look.
She’s lovely, even squeezed into whatever that outfit is. I suppose it must be fashionable somewhere. I wish my suit wasn’t ruined. I can at least smile at her. She looks familiar.
“Hey, aren’t you -” I start to ask.
She sticks a hand out and I automatically reach to shake it before I realize she’s holding a knife. The smile hasn’t faded from her mouth, but she’s holding a knife on me!
“Inside right breast pocket, mister. You know what I’m here for. Don’t try to play hero and you’ll be back in your MikeTown haven by sunset. Anything stupid and they’ll find your bloody corpse right here with dead boy.”
As if I’m going to do anything. She’s got a knife. I’m not some trid hero fighter. And just like that, there goes thirty thousand. How am I going to explain what happened here? Money gone and nothing to show for it? God, they’ll fire me.
She’s a ghost now, just a flicker of motion beyond the next building, moving at a full run that I couldn’t keep up with on my best day. I scratch my head and look around. Everyone ran away, but now some people are starting to drift back and peek around the corners of the buildings. Oh no. They’re going to think I did this!
I’m up and moving. Back past the front of the game store, with its inhabitants peering through barred glass at me as I run. My suit is filthy and no one pays me a second glance this time as I fly past them. If they let me keep my job, I’m never coming back here. Not once.
The Booster
“Bring that case and all will be forgiven.”
You know, when you hear that kind of thing, it makes you wonder why you got into this line of work in the first place. When it’s coming at you from the Don, that question is a deafening scream. Most folks don’t get a second chance, but based on my past history, he’s prepared to allow me a shot.
So to make reparations, I’m shadowing this MikeTown idiot through the south side. According to our intel, he’s meeting with the seller this morning. If I follow him, he’ll lead me straight to the case.
Friggin’ tourist. He’s so lost here. You can tell he doesn’t come down from his ivory tower real often. I keep wanting to walk up and escort him to where we’re going just to get past the way he stops and stares at everything. I mean, seriously? What kind of dumbass is gonna give the hairy eyeball to a crew of Ragged Ones? I just hope he doesn’t do anything irreparably stupid before I can get to the case. After that, he’s on his own.
He wanders along with his head up his ass, heading straight for a street preacher. Dude’s all waving his arms and lecturing, but this idiot is gonna walk right into him. I wanna yell at him: Skirt him. Go right. Go right — but it won’t do any good.
And now I’ve gotta go past him while he hears the good word or some shit. Well, at least I can make this a profitable move.
I bump into him as I pass, just so. Two pockets checked and I’m snatching what feels like a bankbook of some type. No heavy wads of scrip. Unless this book has a fortune hidden in about three sheets I’m screwed.
“Sorry, man,” I mumble, taking on the affect of a stoned out Gidget. I let a sleepy smile pass across my face as I see him protectively clutch at the right breast of his immaculate suit. In response I cup both of mine and shake them at him a little. “Wanna party?”
He looks disgusted – which is, I must say, kind of an ego blow – even as the street preacher licks at his lips and grins at me. At least I’m not completely scragged.
As the mark sputters a protest I slide past, stumbling through the steps of some dance that goes with the Queenly Flux tune I start warbling. I slap the ass of an over-pierced drag queen with purple hair as she walks by, escorted by a tatted-up bear in some S&M leather harness crap who gives me a dirty look but doesn’t say anything.
I’m past them now and veering into a shite little bodega. I duck behind a merch rack and wait for Idiot Boy to get away from the preacher. Cursing my luck at picking the place with the most hideous fashion ever, I pluck a t-shirt from a rack and slip it over my head. Great. Alabama Meat Packing. Really? Souvenir shirts from a meat company? Whatever. It’ll keep the mark from recognizing me, I guess. I top it off with a skate beanie and an Adolph Coors – the only water I can see in this place with an honest-to-God factory seal on it. Twenty-seven bucks later, I’m out the door about fifty feet behind Suit Boy…and then ducking in the doorway of a taquiera while he stands open-mouthed and watches a Devil Bat snatch-and-grab. It’s a money hit, what with them actually throwing the guy in their car rather than just whacking him.
I flag the shopkeep and order a taco. The mark is arguing with the counter guy at a coffee shop, so I might as well get a snack. Why in the hell can this asshole not just go to his damned meet? I slip the pinched bankbook out and give it a glance. Not a bankbook after all. Corporate ID pouch. Nice. That’ll bring a few ducats.
It starts to drizzle. Cool drops. Not too thick yet, but as humid as the air is, it’s coming. I want to be through with this before the chem storms hit.
He moves again after a few minutes sipping at an overpriced something in a brown cup and now he’s cutting south toward some kind of game shop. There’s a Korean joint here, too. I’m half tempted to wait in there, but I just know the meet will come and he’ll wind up leaving some other way. I’m not going home without that case. He goes past the game shop to a section with tables and chairs, looks around and takes a seat where he can watch to the west. I slip into the shop itself.
It’s warm and dry in here. Some fuzz-faced dude with a fistful of card decks gives me the once-over. I grin and peel off the Alabama Meat shirt. He drops his cards when I toss the shirt to him. The beanie goes with it. I ruffle my hair back up, but the spikes are a lost cause, thanks to the stupid hat. Beardly McBeardson seems to think it looks good, though. That or my cleavage. Either one works.
I glance out through the window and Suit Boy’s still sitting there, looking around at the people at other tables. I pick up some big box with starships on it and pretend to read the back so I won’t get chucked out.
“You, uh, you play Centauri Command?” asks Beardly. I smile.
“No. Just checking it out. Do you?”
He starts to answer, but the sudden eruption of gunfire outside silences him. I spin and leap out the door, the game box sailing across the room as I do. Suit Boy is sitting with a terrified expression on his face — along with a lot of blood and brain. There’s a dead guy splashed on his table and some dickhead in faded jeans and an oversized FunkFerret t-shirt is ripping off my case. Dead guy is the meet, then. Great.
The FunkFerret guy is bailing and Suit Boy is puking his guts out. Everybody else is running and screaming like they were the ones that took a bullet. I catch a bead on the runner and then wander over to Suit Boy. There’s a .45 casing on the table. That’s something to keep in mind when I find the shooter. He’s got a cannon.
There’s a snick as the switchblade snaps open, and a minute later Suit Boy is passing me his wallet. Yeah. There’s the cash. A quick glance shows it to be probably twenty kay or more in Ford-Revlon scrip. I blow him a kiss and take off, hot on FunkFerret’s track.
He’s fast, and he’s blowing past crowds like someone who just shot a man. No attempt at stealth. That’s either gonna make this easier or one hell of a lot harder. If he attracts security attention, we’re boned. Cutting back behind Hubcap Haven and pushing those stringy legs for all he’s worth. Glad I’ve always been a runner. He won’t get away based on speed or distance alone.
I slow to a gentle walk now as he kneels by a human speed bump in front of a Mackie’s store. Nice chunk of change he’s adding to the boy’s bowl. Back up and moving, but this time he’s at a slower pace. No running now. He seems confident that there is no pursuit. He knows these alleys, though, and that puts him one up on me.
I catch up to him as he’s barfing out beside some Chinese joint. Why is it everybody’s gotta puke around me? These guys are gonna give me a complex.
“You did good back there,” I call out, and he whirls. The case is still dangling from his left hand. Predictably, he scans my body, so I smile and look down like I’m admiring his package. He glances down, too, and when he’s not looking at my eyes I know he won’t see it coming until it’s too late. Snapkick to the jewels, baby. I hit him like I’m punting at the Superbowl.
Before he can move, I’m in close, the switchblade working with me in a series of stabs that are not so much graceful as they are frequent. As fast as I can work the blade I’m tagging him, right through the FunkFerret logo. I can’t let him get to the pistol he had. Blood runs thick and hot over my hand, and his slapping blows are slowing and getting weaker. I grab the case with my left hand and boot him in the guts to break his grip.
He hits the deck and I’m gone.
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As federal workers are now heading back to work, the Episcopal News Service featured another group of Episcopal Church institutions reaching out to furloughed government workers. A number of the Church camps and conference centers opened their doors to offer meals to furloughed federal workers and their families. While workers are returning to work, the deal is temporary and the church groups may need to spring into action again. The previous stories are here and here. President Trump held a citizenship January 20, 2019 swearing-in at the Oval Office of five carefully chosen immigrants to try to indicate he didn't oppose immigrants who entered the U.S. legally. One was an ACNA priest from England.
British Bishop Bell Gets Full Clearance on Charges
The Church of England made a mess of an investigation into charges of sexual abuse against the long-dead and previously much respected bishop, George Bell. The charges surfaced shortly after George Bell was added to The Episcopal Church's Holy Women, Holy Men. Update covered the announcement of a new inquiry, a follow up report showing that the inquiry was terribly flawed and unfair to the dead prelate, the dropping of a police inquiry and now after a second investigation, the Church has cleared the prelate of new charges that arose when people stepped forward after 2015.
Anglican Mission in America Splits Again
Groups that left The Episcopal Church in the late 1970s over women's ordination and prayer book revision experienced their own repeated divisions and withdrawals. The Anglican Mission in America (AMiA), which was formed in 2001 following the rogue consecration of American bishops by bishops from Rwanda and Southeast Asia, seems destined to repeat that history. In 2012, the group split over ties to Rwanda and questions of internal leadership. Update covered the development during that split in several stories including ones here, here, and here. Some AMiA parishes joined ACNA and others stayed independent as AMiA. The AMiA now lists only 19 parishes in 11 states, all in the South and Southwest. There were 20, but David Virtue reports that another parish has split off to form the Anglican Union For The Propagation Of The Gospel: A Confraternity Of Oratories (AUPG). That congregation, Epiphany in Longmont, CO now claims affiliation through a diocese in the Anglican Province of South Sudan. The AUPG incorporated in Florida in November 2018. The incorporation documents lists several clergy. None are now listed in the AMiA web pages, but they also are not yet claiming affiliation with AUPG, just with an African diocese or Anglican Mission International, one of the groups formed in the 2012 split.
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Previously Brunel's whereabouts had been a mystery. com Games Daily Tournament. 00 USD) for the month of June 2016 Lottery promotion which is organized by PUBLISHERS CLEARING HOUSE In conjunction with the MICROSOFT WINDOWS. Said owners do not endorse nor are they affiliated with Publishers Clearing House or its promotions. 00 USD each on THE PCH PROMOTION. Publishers Clearing House Winner Today. The fact-checkers, whose work is more and more important for those who prefer facts over lies, police the line between fact and falsehood on a day-to-day basis, and do a great job. Today, my small contribution is to pass along a very good overview that reflects on one of Trump’s favorite overarching falsehoods. Namely: Trump describes an America in which everything was going down the tubes under Obama, which is why we needed Trump to make America great again. And he claims that this project has come to fruition, with America setting records for prosperity under his leadership and guidance. “Obama bad; Trump good” is pretty much his analysis in all areas and measurement of U.S. activity, especially economically. Even if this were true, it would reflect poorly on Trump’s character, but it has the added problem of being false, a big lie made up of many small ones. Personally, I don’t assume that all economic measurements directly reflect the leadership of whoever occupies the Oval Office, nor am I smart enough to figure out what causes what in the economy. But the idea that presidents get the credit or the blame for the economy during their tenure is a political fact of life. Trump, in his adorable, immodest mendacity, not only claims credit for everything good that happens in the economy, but tells people, literally and specifically, that they have to vote for him even if they hate him, because without his guidance, their 401(k) accounts “will go down the tubes.” That would be offensive even if it were true, but it is utterly false. The stock market has been on a 10-year run of steady gains that began in 2009, the year Barack Obama was inaugurated. But why would anyone care about that? It’s only an unarguable, stubborn fact. Still, speaking of facts, there are so many measurements and indicators of how the economy is doing, that those not committed to an honest investigation can find evidence for whatever they want to believe. Trump and his most committed followers want to believe that everything was terrible under Barack Obama and great under Trump. That’s baloney. Anyone who believes that believes something false. And a series of charts and graphs published Monday in the Washington Post and explained by Economics Correspondent Heather Long provides the data that tells the tale. The details are complicated. Click through to the link above and you’ll learn much. But the overview is pretty simply this: The U.S. economy had a major meltdown in the last year of the George W. Bush presidency. Again, I’m not smart enough to know how much of this was Bush’s “fault.” But he had been in office for six years when the trouble started. So, if it’s ever reasonable to hold a president accountable for the performance of the economy, the timeline is bad for Bush. GDP growth went negative. Job growth fell sharply and then went negative. Median household income shrank. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by more than 5,000 points! U.S. manufacturing output plunged, as did average home values, as did average hourly wages, as did measures of consumer confidence and most other indicators of economic health. (Backup for that is contained in the Post piece I linked to above.) Barack Obama inherited that mess of falling numbers, which continued during his first year in office, 2009, as he put in place policies designed to turn it around. By 2010, Obama’s second year, pretty much all of the negative numbers had turned positive. By the time Obama was up for reelection in 2012, all of them were headed in the right direction, which is certainly among the reasons voters gave him a second term by a solid (not landslide) margin. Basically, all of those good numbers continued throughout the second Obama term. The U.S. GDP, probably the single best measure of how the economy is doing, grew by 2.9 percent in 2015, which was Obama’s seventh year in office and was the best GDP growth number since before the crash of the late Bush years. GDP growth slowed to 1.6 percent in 2016, which may have been among the indicators that supported Trump’s campaign-year argument that everything was going to hell and only he could fix it. During the first year of Trump, GDP growth grew to 2.4 percent, which is decent but not great and anyway, a reasonable person would acknowledge that — to the degree that economic performance is to the credit or blame of the president — the performance in the first year of a new president is a mixture of the old and new policies. In Trump’s second year, 2018, the GDP grew 2.9 percent, equaling Obama’s best year, and so far in 2019, the growth rate has fallen to 2.1 percent, a mediocre number and a decline for which Trump presumably accepts no responsibility and blames either Nancy Pelosi, Ilhan Omar or, if he can swing it, Barack Obama. I suppose it’s natural for a president to want to take credit for everything good that happens on his (or someday her) watch, but not the blame for anything bad. Trump is more blatant about this than most. If we judge by his bad but remarkably steady approval ratings (today, according to the average maintained by 538.com, it’s 41.9 approval/ 53.7 disapproval) the pretty-good economy is not winning him new supporters, nor is his constant exaggeration of his accomplishments costing him many old ones). I already offered it above, but the full Washington Post workup of these numbers, and commentary/explanation by economics correspondent Heather Long, are here. On a related matter, if you care about what used to be called fiscal conservatism, which is the belief that federal debt and deficit matter, here’s a New York Times analysis, based on Congressional Budget Office data, suggesting that the annual budget deficit (that’s the amount the government borrows every year reflecting that amount by which federal spending exceeds revenues) which fell steadily during the Obama years, from a peak of $1.4 trillion at the beginning of the Obama administration, to $585 billion in 2016 (Obama’s last year in office), will be back up to $960 billion this fiscal year, and back over $1 trillion in 2020. (Here’s the New York Times piece detailing those numbers.) Trump is currently floating various tax cuts for the rich and the poor that will presumably worsen those projections, if passed. As the Times piece reported:
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